df '•Wr and Sawar liie« Toteb $5,924 •r iUl«}gh. March 16.—f. C. Mc- OtaalB. State WPA, adminJetra- ” NOTICE ISJr.OOO TOWN OF WILKESBORO. NORTH CAROUNA WATER BONDS Sealed bids will be received «atll 11 o'clock, A. M., Anrll 2, 1940, by the undersigned at its eCflce In the City of Raleigh, N. C., for $32,000 Water Bonds of he Town of Wllkesboro, North Carolina, dated November 1, IMS, maturing annually. May 1, $1,000 1$41 to 1952, $1,500 1953 to 1960 and $2,000 1961 to 1944, all inclusive, without op tion of prior payment. There will be no auction. Denomination $500; coupon bonds not register- able; principal and semi-annual Interest (M and N 1), payable in legal tender at the Bank of North Wilkesboro, North Wilkes- boro. North Carolina; general obligations; unlimited tai, deliv ery at place of purchaser’s choice. Bidders are requested to name the Interest rate or rates, not ex ceeding four per cent, per annum in multiples of one-fourth of one per cent. Each bid may name one rate for part of the bonds (hav ing the earliest maturities), and another rate for the balance, but no bid may name more than two rates, nd each bidder must spec ify in his bid the amount of bonds of each rate. The bonds will be awarded and .sold at the office of the undersigned in Raleigh. North i prove I.atirange streets, $19,600, lUAMtm to cost $$3f|lf0 and to ^To work to 1,638 persons. The Ust Included s $124,997 park project near Albbmarle in; Stanly county. A total,of 149 re lief workers will build a swim ming pool, bathhouse, conces sion building,. playground, grand stand, tennis courts, bridges a^d sidewalks. A total of $160,846 will be spent in building roads in five counties and 729 persons will be given work. Road projects fol low; Avery county, $36,815, 100 workers: Stanly, $39,774, 284 workers: Rowan, $47,663, 216 workers: Alexander, $23,288, 7 4 workers; Martin, $12,886, 55 workers. One project called for the ex penditures of $104,998 and the employment of 106 in erecting new buildings and improving ex isting buildings at the Deep Creek, Burnesvllle, Lilesvllle, Peachland, Polkton and Morven schools in Anson county. Other projects follow: Gran ville. improve Creedmoor streets, $19,846, 41 workers; Wilkes, e.x- tend water and sewer systems at Wilkesboro, $5,924, 25 workers; Pitt, improve street at Fountain, $5,982, 25 workers; Edgecombe, build home economic.s cottage for Tarboro high school, $23,708, 50 workers: Anson, install water and sewer system at Lilesville, $SS,979. 99 workers; Harnett, erect building at Ridgeway school near Lillington, $11,125, 3 2 work'er.s: .Alexander, erect voca tional building at Stony Point High .school. $3,381, 17 worker.s; Northampton, improve streets, .510.069. 32 workers: L.enoir, im- Carolina, to the bidder offering to purchase the bonds at the lowest interest cost to the Town, such cost to be determined )>.v de ducting the total amount of the premium bid from the aggregate amount of interest upon all of the bonds until their respective maturities. -No bid of less than par and accrued interest will be entertained. Each bid must be enclosed in a sealed envelope marked ‘'Pro posal for Bonds." and be accom panied by a certified check upon au incorporated bank or trust company, payable unconditional ly to the order of the State Treasurer of North ('aroiina tt>r $640. The approving opinion of Mass- lich and Mitchell. New York City, will be furnished the purchaser. The right to reject all bids is re.se rved. I.OCAL GOVERNMEsNT COMMISSION. By W. E. Easterling, Secretary of the Commission. 4-8-4t-(M) llllllllllll LIBERTY Tuesday Only Stage and Screen Shows ON STAGE at 2:45—7:15—9:15 A Big Radio Jamboree I IN’ PERSON PINE RIDGE HdlbiDies Featuring Grand Pappy and Ezra • Arabella • ‘The Country Cousin” R.AY and DELL ARKANSAS HOT SHOTS Vaudeville Acts Girls! Fun! Music! it workers; Wake, install sewer and water lines, $22,461, 62' workers, improve N. C. State col lege grounds. $55,080, 91 work ers. build schools at Apex. Mal- laby Cross roads, Fuquay Springs and Clarner, $81,804, 156 work ers. SNACfS “YO TOM EDISON” Giving Mickey Rooney his first portrayal of s real life character, a role in which the boy star has an opportunity to prove that he la a genuine actor, “Young Tom Edison” opens at the Dtberty The atre next Thursday and Friday for an engagement of two days. Not only does this picture pre- .sent Rooney with his first bi ographical role 'but It is the first such role ever given a Juvenile player, despite the fact that many adults have played real-life char acters repeatedly. "Young Tom Edison" also marks the second teaming of Mickey with Virginia Weidler, who scored as his nemesis in "Out West with the Hardys.” She plays his sister in the pres ent picture, a role which Holly wood believes will definitely make her a star. In the two other stel lar roles of the picture. Fay Baln- ter plays Mrs. Edison and George Bancroft, .Air. Edison. Others in the cast are Eugene Pallette, Vic tor Kilian, Bobbie Jordan, J. M. Kerrigan, Lloyd Corrigan, John Kellog. Clem Bevans, Elly Mal- yon and Harry Shannon. The picture also renews a star- director-producer combination of outstanding interest. Directoi Norman Taurog and Producer John W. Considine, Jr., were to gether in those capacities on the sensational "Boys Town,” i n which Mickey was a co-star. The story is an intense human- interest one. complete in itself al though it covers only the boyhood of Thomas A- Edison. Replete with comedy, drama, tears, thrills and adventure, it is basically the story of the triumph of a typical American boy who bad to show his home folks that he was not the numbskull they believed him to be. GlSson ril ^ a™ bers. and kto ndw WU- AnwHincainent haiT 4MSJlayed by Rlwaes-Oeyf Parhl-; of the mayrlags " Jack Hart, of this city, and Mr. Rob ert E. Williams, of Roanoke, Va. The vows were spoken in Moun tain city, Tennessee, on March 9. The bride is a member of a prominent North Wilkesboro fam ily, being a daughter of the late Edward L. and Minnie Ward Hart. At present the bride and groom and at home at 711 Main street in this city and after May 1 will be in Richmond, Va. See ns for your needs in seed potatoes, seed oats, onion sets, lespedeza seed, seed beans, and all kinds of garden seeds. PEAR SON BROTHERS. 2-26-tf FARMERS, be snre to see us for your seeds. We have a com plete stock—seed potatoes, oats, l>ean.s, lespede/4*, etc. PE.AR.SON BROTHERS. 11-36-tf .\OTIt K OF RKS.ALF t)F L.AXD rtuler and hy virtue of an or der of the Superior Court of Wilkes County, the undersigned Commissioner will again offer for sale the land entitled. Wilkes Comity vs. Virginia-Carolina Mica Corporation, said land having been sold on (he 1.5tb day ot March. 1940. at (lie Court House ioor in Wilkesboro, N. C. .An ad vanoe bid liaviim been placed on 'be .same. I shall. tberi''ore, o;i be ilrb day nr 1. 191", 12:00 o'c’e.-k. noon in front of the Court House door in Wiltie'--- boro. N. ('. offer again ibe said and for sale lo the highest bidder for ea-b. Said laud beiiog situated tu Wilkes Coiuity. Klk Townsbip and lying on the w.rers of Elk Creek, containing loo aeres niore or |:-ss, Iteainuing at a iiine. Hula's sou'll eoiTe'r. running iiortli 20 pole.s to a iiine: tlieiice east i:lo lioles lo a locusi; tbence south loo [m!"s to a slake: ibeiice west ’20 |)ot,'s to a -’aki': ilieoce iiorlli so poles lo a slake, in Hula’s line, thence east lo tile lieginning. riiis Ibe iMh day of .Varcli. I :i to. V. ,1. McHCFFIE. 3-25-2t-iAI I Commissioner. Harmonizers On WBIG Saturdays At 1:30 o’clock Pores Knob Club In March Meeting The Pores Knob Home Demon stration clu'W met Tor the March meeting Friday, Mhrch 16, at the home of Mrs. C. M. Ashley. In the absence of the club president, Mrs. Burtle Broyhill, Mrs. J. M. Bentley* vice president, presided over the meeting. The devotional was led toy Mrs. L. P. Bentley, the scripture read ing led up to the Interesting pic ture study of “Christ and Doc tors,” by Hoffman, given by Miss Carmine Broyhill. Then the sec retary's report of the February meeting was read by Mrs. P. M. Lowe. Mrs. L. P. Bentley gave a very interesting report on gardening. A helpful demonstration on fur niture arrangement was given by Miss Harriett McGoogan. .After the business meeting, re freshments remindful of the East er season were served by the hostess, Mrs. C. M. Ashley, and her little daughter, Mary Nell. 16b® tore Conqiany in their show win dow on Ninth street. The Gibson was sold last year toy Rhodes-Day an'd received a splendid reception in the homes of the people ot this section. The 1940 Gibsons alone give the purchaser a six-foot hermeti cally-sealed unit for as low as $99.95, making it one of the most outstanding refrigerator val ues on the market. And be sure to Investigate the Freez'r shelf principle in the Gitoson before you buy any other ^refrigerator, the management ot Rhodes - Day states. The attractive new Gibsons are shown in several models, all popularly priced and they may be purchased on easy terms, too. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Adminis trator of the estate of G. E. An derson, late of Wilkes county, N. C.. this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersign ed, whose address is North Wil kesboro, N. C., duly verified, on or before the 16th day of March, 1941, or this notice will be plead In bar of their right to recover. .AH persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate settlement. This 16th day of March, 1940. JOHNSON SANDERS, Administrator of the estate of G. E. Anderson, dec’d. 4-22-6t-M PEARSON BROTHERS—Head, quarters for, Seeds of all kinds— Potatoes, oats, onion sets, lespe deza, beans, etc. Lowest prices. 2-26-tf T h e Southern Harmonizers, male quartet from North Wilkes- btoro, heard at intervals over ra dio station WBIG Greensboro for the past some time, will in future become a part of tbe regular com mercial program cf tbe station, making their debit' on a regular scbedule Saturday afternoon, March 23, at 1:30 o’clock. The same day and hour wUl have the Harmonizers as a featiiie until their contract is completed. Body Of Man Killed By Train Identified Statesville, March 17. — The body of tbe man killed yesterday by a northbound train on the Cbarlottc - Taylorsville railroad, near Statesville, was identified today as that of Rosroe Conklin Sebastian. 40, of near Slate.sville. employe of tbe Mom'esville Colton mill. Besides bis widow, .Mrs. Fau- liiie Morris .Sebastian, Mr. Sebas- liiiii i.s survived by three sous and three daughters, his parents. Mr. ami .Mrs. W. Z. Sebastian of Wil- ke.sboro, sever, brolbers. and two sisters. Funeral services will be con ducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from t,ie residence. Use the advertising columns of this paper as your shopping guid« Buy Your Spring Hardware Needs At Carlton’s Spring Sale and Save Money You raved over “SARIE & S.ALLEY” Now see the 'I»ine Ridge Hillbillies’ ON THE SCREEN Tuesday only Victims Of Ruthless Men FORGOTTEN GIRLS • with • LOUISE PLATT DONALD WOODS RORERT ARMSTRONG THURSDAY FRIDAY SIMPLY A GREAT STORY .... SIMPLY TOLD Xjuarican Waa The 'AIOkT HARDY OP HIS 'HME Itflliiiiiiiii $1«2 MX net PO" of Dorothy t’er skin ^egul“ event we are P^^ery A New Point of View aqua tints $1.65 Stripes have a way of giving a lift to your spirits — a new point of view. And in these Aqua Tint stripings you’ll find the dash traditionally associated with the best English shirtings. What’s more these Essley shirts are pedigreed, tailored ac cording to Troy district standards... they have the famous Everness Collar that outwears and outlasts the body of shirtl Belk’s Department Store ‘‘North WiIkMbord*9 Shoppin$r Center” , At : .,,'r ‘North Wilkesboro’s Shopping Cen ter’and Be Tops In The Easter Parade "ia Our Second Floor—Women’s and Children’s Ready-To- Wear Department, is all aglow with New Spring Apparel that You’ll Want to Wear This Easter. Beautifully Designed Dresses in Navy and all the Other Glo rious Spring Colors .... $7.95 $9.95 $j4.5o $15.50 / Another Group of Beautiful Spring Dresses at Lower Brack et Prices .... $2-98 $4.95 $5.95 HANDSOME COATS and SUITS TO MAKE YOUR EASTER OUTFIT COMPLETE— In Navy, Black or Gray $7.95 $9.95 $44.50 $40.50 New Easter MILLINERY New Hats Are Arriving Daily —iHighly Styled and Conser vative Models. NEW EASTER HOSIERY “HILL CREST” and “MOJUD” Fine SILK HOSE- ALBA SILK HOSIERY in COLORS that MATCH EVERYTHING NEW.. NEW SPRING FOOTWEAR /“Stylish Steppers” by Ed*eweod, in Sport Type, Col or Combinations of Whites and Brown, White and Black Saddle Oxfords— For Ladies and Girls $2-98 Ladies “Sweetbeart” Pumps—in Patent, White Trimmed in Brown, White and Brown, and Blue - $4.95 New Shipment ‘‘Modem Miss” Oxfords j’ust received —White with Brown Saddle, White Pigskin with Punched Vamp, also Beige with. Punched ^ A gc .Vamp, Goodyear Welt, Arch Support f) * 1^

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