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[lipidm Croiodh in fCoBtl#B«4- from 1^ lMheA 4>acm^ th» ettiaim! I ud WM (|r»d «iKm % nujB- . of timM but withont effect. I Wade reached the river in 'iafetr. I The otkera' came on and ' rar- |resd«^. ' ' 401te rohhera Under the leader- |ahip of Wade nambered elghty- I elz, but dnrlng the seige all had I escaped but four — bill Beck BUI Wood, EiBock Wood and "enrrendered ed'aid an^the been etolea hf the wW)eni’% could be Me«tf(ied Were returned to the pfaftef oWwre. Then the fort lUelf -wht tiled and the peo ple who had bMh rohi^ .and their frlende stood by and watch ed Fort Hhinby dissolve to ashes and smoke. > After the fort had burned to ifi Red Cross 4" PHARMACY Wkeatamin Depot TELEPHONE 98 TENTH STREET Welcomes You To ^i?£,CElEBBATIOMS Thank You, Folks! As we extend our welcome to you to attend the celebraUon, may we also extend our sincere thanks to the thousands who have visited our store since its opening in May, 1937. Our first custo mers are still numbered among our most loyal, proving they like our prices, service and courte ous attention. If by chance you arc not a custo mer, drop in and let’s get acquainted. We’ll show you every consideration possible, and make you feel at home. And our cut-rate drug prices will save you money, too. OUR SPECIALS > F?e(fe&nc Toasters - ; ^ana Topth Paste . - 39c 1 ^trolagar, J! numbers 89c Viilk Magnesia, qt. 39c Cashmere Boquet Lotion 3Sc V-2 Moth Spray with Sprayer 89c Mifflin Alcohol, scented 39c Viking Toilet Tissue, 6 rolls 25 c Nurse Brand Cod Liver Oil, pt. ... $1.00 Johnson and Johnson first-aid Supplies (Adhesives, Bandages, etc.) BABY FOODS OF ALL KINDS Prescription Department You’ir like our prescription service—ibecanse it is complete ind dependable. Quality and accuracy go hand-in-hand. Registered Druggist At All Times Authorized Agency For Nyal Quality Products A Well-Known Line—Built Upon Quality ALWAYS COMPLETE LINE— Helena Rubenstein .... Cosmetics Reliable Patent Medicines, Etc. Insecticides'—Potdtry Supplies Nurse Brand Products KING’S CANDIES Kodak Printing and Developing, Kodak Films, Flashlights, Batteries, Clocks, Magazines, Elec tric Fans, Cigars and Cigarettes. RED CROSS PHARMACY “YOUR SERVICE DRUG STORE” Curb Service Telephone 98 Whemtamin'Vitamin Products Tenth Street North WRhesbere Hi ,04 jCli^MttlKii Hes Manafer - Eachanie Sfawa'.f^M^t^ • tfi p J. G. Chlpman, who was bom and reared tn the extreme ea^- em part of WlUces county, says North WUkesboro is the best town he knows anything about. .He Is part owner and manager of Wilkes Furniture Exchange. the ground a court martial was organized and the four robbers were tried and condemned to be shot at the stake. They were tak en a few paces east of the burned fort and tied to stakes. Revs. William R. Gwaltney and Isaac Oxford, two Baptist ministers, were in the company of citizens, and they both offered prayer for the robbers about to 'be shot at the stake. Wells Linney asked to be allowed to shoot Beck, who confessed that he had shot James Linney in the engagement on the previous Sunday. The signal was given and the detailed men fired Wilkes Furniture Bschkiie^ Is one of the comparatively new busr Inecs firms of North Wilkesboro but has won its piece in the busi ness life of the city and 'has be^ come well eetablished since It was. organised in 1934. J. O. Chipman, A. S. Andrews and W. H. Dickerson were the toimders of the company ahd the present owners are J. 0(. Chlpman and W. M. R'oope. The store is located on Tenth street and cSnlee selected lines of quality furniture at moderate prices. Customers likes the treat ment and service the^ receive at the hands of Mr. Chipman and bis associates and among the customers now are many who were first to patronize the firm when It was opened. ’ Mr. Chlpman was bom and reared on a tarm in the eastern part of Wilkes county. He has highest regard for North Wilkes boro,''saying “It is a good town good people—the beet town Its size I know of anywhere.’’ Mr. Chlpman has a genial per- BonaUty and is sincere In every thing he says. He'is glad to be a part of North Wilkesboro and sincerely hopes that the city will continue to progress and grow. Those who have not made his acquaintance will find him glad to meet them and a visit to the Wilkes Furniture Exchange is al ways welcomed. an iaad to xtmpi OIM^o hia ^ jHavaa-^ IftilU ha had^iMR 't SUkJefiTintir hli^ eoBfideooa to aveatyh^ " wtlMr ;dwpa«y4 wiur :^k^ah .camp on unhappily on’ ^a. smt: w 8)9 ar-f^ the priyjdeg MdhitlMs ;j»m ■ Yd^meniidi •er^aaan^ daHhS ittitfled «B pagao l%|U’8^y-Fridayi CbMide Peanon, yoting nuccfa- ant who recetty opened '« wholesale and retail stote in North Wilkeehoro. His place of businesn is located on Forester Avenue. of Claude Pearson In Business Here Young Merchant Stages A Comeback By Eatablish- ing Store In Tbu City 6i..=u O...V. - some daring robberies mostly in ■ ^pon tre'four robbers tied to the Alexander and Iredell. After the stakes; their bodies riddled with bullets and their souls went back to the God who gave them. , The citizens then searched a- llong the river for Wade but fail ed to find him. Then they dis persed leaving the four robbers hanging to the stakes, and re turned to their homes. Wade told some of his friends in the com munity that he sank himself un der the water and got breath through a reed and stayed con cealed that way until late In the evening; he went up and looked at his comrades hanging to the stakes dead; he Immediately left this country and has not been heard of since. The bodies of the robbers were probably cut down in the evening after they were shot, then they lay about the ruins of Fort Ham by for three days and nights; fin ally the people of the community put them in boxes and hauled them away and buried them. SIMMONS’ GANG OF ROBBERS There was another gang of robbers under the leadership of another renegade Yankee desert er named Simmons. They made headquarters out on the Bnishy mountains. They were as mean and daring In their deviltry as the Fort Hamby gang, and some times the two gangs would raid together. A number of Innocent people were wantonly murdered by this gang for no purpose what ever except to gratify their hellish desire to kill. On one occasion a young man who was rather idiotic was captured by one of the gang who thought he would take him to camp and have all the fun they wanted out of him and then kill him. Tile young man was put In the road before the robber and made to march at his command. As they were marching through ja dark hollow the robber was [sighting at the back of the boy’s 'head and the.opportunity to com mit murder was so tem'Pting that he pulled the trigger and the In nocent man fell dead. About twenty years before the outbreak of the Civil war one morning there was a boy baby found lying on the courthouse .steps. The child’s parents could not be found so a Presbyterian minister named Pervis, who lived on the lot east of the coi'.rtbouse known as the Cowles place, adopt ed the child into bis tome and raised it. Sln^e the boy was found at the courthouse be was named John Wilkee after the county. He grew up to manhood and was a bright young man. He was wont only killed by a member of the Simmons gang. When the Stoneman’s division of the Federal army marched through Wilkes the people hid Fort Hamby gang was broke up the band dissolved' and Simmons left the country. S'TONEMAN’S RAID In April, 1865, a detachment of the Federal army numbering about twenty-ft. ' thousand men marched through Wilkes county burning houses, 'barns, etc., robb ing and plundering everything In sight leaving their trail a howling wilderness. They came to Wilkes by way of Boone where they burred the court house as well as much private property, thence by Patterson’s Factory where they burned the woolen mills located there, thence down the Yadkin into Wilkes. They crossed the Yadkin at Holman’s ford, and the river be ing swollen, it was with difficnlly that they succeeded In croseing; but they crossed in safety to the men and horses but a wagon of ammunition and a cannon were overturned and lost in the river. The cannon and a lot of the am munition was found after the war was over. Here the army was di vided into two sections; one sec tion was put under the command of General Palma while General Stoneman commanded the other section. Palma and his detach ment went on the north side of the Yadkin, and Stoneman’e sec tion on the South side. When the wing of the army un der Stoneman’s command reached Cub Creek It was too high to ford .so he pitched his tent on the hill this side, just east of where W W. Barber now lives, and camped there for several days, during which time his soldiers were plundering and burning. One morning one of his men had en tered and was preparing to set fire to the tithes the Confederates had collected here, which were stored In the old Hall store house just north of the courthouse Just at that moment Calvin J. Cowles stepped In and pursuad- ed the soldier not to burn the building. He argued that the pro visions ought to be distributed mong the poor women and chil dren of the Union men in this county. The soldier told him he would wait until he could run to Stoneman’s camp and see him. This Cowles did at the peril of his life and succeeded in saving the stores and the court house and jail and other buildings as well. Stoneman sent Cowles with a number of soldiers with a mess age to General Palma who was encamped on the opposite side of the river with the other wing of the army. Cowles urged Palma not to burn the factory at Elkin; this request was compiled with and the army soon left the conn Claude Pearson, a young Wilkee county man educated in the school of experience and hard knocks, has staged a comeback by establ'tshing a wholesale and re tail store in North Wilkeeboro and is meeting with a consider able degree of success In bis new venture. Claude, a member of a family known far and wide for ability in the mercantile field, has twice been burned out but comes back strong because he knows how to serve customers with what they want and need at prices they can afford to pay For several years he operated a large country store near Purlear on highway 421. The store burned several months ago. His store, which deals in groc eries, feed, fertilizers and other necessities, is located on Forester Avenue in the building formerly occupied (by Cranbury Poultry company. He sells to both the wholesale and retail trade and *1- though he has been in business here only a few weeks, the yolume of business is steadily increasing. Claude has many friends In Wilkes and adjoining counties whom he' invites to pay his new store a visit at their earliest con venience. He says he is glad to be in bus iness in North Wilkesboro, a pro gressive business center, and hopes to have a part In the con tinued progress of the city. their horses in the woods and ty. They went down the river to Luncheonette—DeLuxe Fountain Service mountains for fear they would be stolen, and it was several days that the people were afraid to entare out. About three days after the raid William Transou ventured up to Wilkesboro to hear the news. Simmons captured him on his way home and intend ed to kill him. He told him if he wanted to pray he would give him moment. Transou fell to his knees and began begging Sim mons not to kill him. One of the Simmons’ associates was touched Elkin, then to Mount Airy and then to Salisbury. The people were left in a deso late condition. Many families were left entirely without provis ions with their houses and barns burned; the men were nearly aH in the army, robbers abundant in the county, and It was with dif ficulty that starvation was avert- MONTFORD SIDNEY STOKES The subject of this sketch was born at “Horne Rouge,’* In by Transou’s pleading and be too Wilkee county on OotiJber the 6tb, begged Simmons to spare him. igio '''- Stmniona flnglly consented to ford re TranMU.’'if" U wotild i^wlrd Itia homes were at. ’ |gj fsac eommum^ He wse the SOB of Mon^- ...^ •mto VIS a JJ. States Naval Academy at Anna'p- olls, where he graduated. Upon his graduation at Annapolis he entered the Navy and served for ten years or more when he re signed and returned to his plan tation to engage in farming. Stokes was appointed Major of the North Carolina Volunteers In the war with Mexico. As an of ficer in the Mexican war he dis played his ability to command troops and proved himself a man of superior courage. He was the soldiers’ favorite officer, and as mark of their love and admira tion for him they presented him a beautiful sword. The sword is now in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. C. N. Hunt. It is mounted in gold and silver and furnishes a handsome appearance. On It are the following inscrip tions: "Presented to .Maj. M. S. Stokes, of the N. C. Col. by the non-commissioned officers and privates under his command in Mexico.” "Major M. S. Stokes, the Sol diers’ Friend.’’ After terms of peace were made with Mexico Stokes returned to his farm in 'Wilkes and was one of the most successful farmers in this section. He raised many fine cattle and often drove them on foot to Philadelphia to market them. On one occasion as he was returning from Philadelphia, where he had been with a drove of cattle, he stopped for a few days with friends in Washington. It was during Andrew Jackson s administration as President and Jackson and Stokes had been school mates at Annapolis. While in Washington Stokes was invited to attend a banquet where the President was to be the guesi oi honor. Stokee was a tall athlete, with long limbs and large hands. He rented a conventional suit for the occasion but It was impoeslble to find a suit that would fit the athletic figure. But he went to the banquet and when tho’re^ep*^ tion was being given Stokes went np to shake the hand of the PrMident. '“Is that yon.. SM Binir—T’r WxtJalihnB Bchsldwt^ tw* old m' 21^!^ livMirt OUTSTANDING ATTRACTIONS FOR 50th ANNIVERSARY WEEK Monday Only SPENCER TRACY Tuesday Only MUSIC! FUN! 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The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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