5,^1940:
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— Greer
EatertUM For Bride
To honor Mla« Margaret Wait-
era, “whoee lecent marriage to
Mr. Oetty Browning baa been an
nounced, Miaa Agnee Greer enter
tained at a delightful dinner par
ty at her home at eight o’cloqfc
Friday evening with covera laid
for the following gueata; Mr and
Mra. Melvin Kennerly, Misaee Sa
die Smlthey, Loulae Pearson,
Messrs. John Tom Howell, George
Fallor, and J. B. Stone and Mr.
and Mrs. Browning.
Idlbwise Qub Members Are
Entertained 'nuirsday Night
Mra. R. T. McNeil and Mrs.
Hoyle Hutchens joined hospitality
in entertaining the members of
the Idlewise club and a few visi
tors at the Hutchens home Thurs
day evening. A dessert course
'preceded the bridge game, which
was played at three tables.
Tables prizes were given in
the game and were won by Miss
Mamie McNeil. Mrs. Cecil Hauss,
ajK Mrs. C. J. Swafford. An ex-
e&nge of books was made during
the evening.
is» Irene Culler Is
{ridge Club Hostess
With Miss Irene Culler as hos
tess the members of the Wilabti
bridge club in Wilke.sboro were
dellghtfull.v entertained at her
home on Thursday evening. Three
tables were arranged for play in
a colorful setting of summer flow
ers. The high and low score a-
wards were won by Miss Helen
Call and Miss Eleanor Smoak.
A salad course was served at
the conclusion of play and on
each plate was a small card bear
ing the following announcement:
■'LucillcvNorman, November 23.
1939. nanville. Va. ’ The bride
was Miss Lucille Culler, a sister
of the hostess, and the groom is
Thomas Edison Norman, of Union
Grove. Mrs. Norman received a
lovely gift from Miss Culler.
Mrs. Jay Jones
Entertains Her Club
( The members of the Wilkes-
■-..horo bridge club and some visi
tors were entertained at a de
lightful club party Thursday eve-
* ning by Mrs. Jay Jones at her
home in Wilkesboro. Mrs. Harry
Pearson won the top score award
in the game which was played at
two tables. A dessert course was
served at the beginning of the
game. Mixed garden flowers made
lovely decorations tor the home.
Mjfc. C aude Kennedy
SKtertains For Bride-Elect
.Mrs. Claude Kennedy enter
tained at a miscellaneous shower
Friday night at her h.'me in
^llkesboro, honoring Miss Nina
pones, bride-elect. Miss Bea God
frey wa.j in charge of ii number
of games and contests. Prizes
were awarded to Miss Nina Jones,
Mrs. George Parlier and Miss
Frances Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy,
ted by her daughter, Louise,
and Francis Kennedy, served
sandwiches, cakes and punch:
Miss Joi.es received a number of
lovely .gifts. Out of town guests
were Mi-s. J. -M. Robertson. Mr.s.
Dick Kimbell. Of Harmony, and
Mrs. Roby Woods, of Lenoir.
Culler-Norman Marriage
Vows Are Announced
Announcements reading as fol
lows have been is.sued in Wil
kesboro: “Mr. and Mrs. John
Elam Culler announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Nancy
Lucille, to Mr. Thomas Edison
Norman on Thursday, the twenty-
third of November, nineteen hun
dred and thirty-nine. Danville,
Virginia.’’ -Mr. Norman is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Norman,
of Union Grove.
SoHal Calendar
The Epiaoopal AnxOiary wlP
me«t TaesdAjt afteniooB at tom
o’clock with' Mra. O. H. Cowles
in Wilkesboro..
The FWendly Circle of the
Wilkesboro MetbodLsli church
wUl' meet vrtth Mra. George
Paidier Tneaday evening at
7:S0 o'clock.
The Woman’s Misaionary So
ciety of the First Baptist
church wUl meet Tnesdbiy eve
ning at 7:30 o’clock at the
church.
The Presbyterian circles are
meeting on Tuesday as follows:
CSrcJe No. 1, will meet at
M.-mtreat, Thursday, August. 8.
Circle No. 3, Mrs. ^Heriry
Landon, 3:30.
Circle No. 3, Mrs. E. G. Fin
ley, 3:.SO.
Circle No. 4, Miss Elizabeth
Finley.
Circle No. 5, Miss Margaret
Faw.
Circle No. 6, Mrs. Bessie
Neeley. The la«rt three circles
meet at their u.sual hours.
The Methodist, circles are
meeting on Tuesday as fol
lows:
The Mary Brame circle will
have a picnic at the cottag'e of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carter on
the Brushy Mountain. Supper
will be .served at 6 o’clock at
which time the husbands of tlie
circle members will be guests
of the circle.
Plmma Horton at the home
of Mrs. T. O. P,erry with Mrs.
T. H. Waller as co-hostess,
3:.«) p. m.
Frsink Smoot at the home of
.tirs. Prank Johnson, 3:30 p.
m.
(Jardner at the home of Mrs.
J. U. .Moore, Jr., with Mrs.
Harry Pearson as co-hostess,
7:4.T.
Franklin at, the home of Mr.
Ivey Moore with Mrs. W. G.
Gabriel as co-hostess, 7:30 p.
ni.
Mrs. John Andrews Is
Honored At Buffet Supper
Mrs. I. J. Broyhiil entertained
at a delightful Uuffet supper at
her home Monday evening hon
oring Mrs. John Andrews, former
ly -Miss .\rlee Broyhiil, of Boom
er. Pastel shades of summer flow
ers were used for decorations
throughout the home.
The guests were invited into
the dining room where they found
their places at a beautifully ap
pointed table. After supper the
guests returned to the living
room where they enjoyed' piano
solos played by Miss Naomi Broy-
hill and Miss Gozelle Andrews.
‘Gone With the Wind’
Earns $12,000,000
The movie “Gone With The
Wind’’ earned a gross of $12,-
403.163 up to June 9, and paid
hack 97 rer cent of Us original
cost of $4,800,000, is the an
nouncement of Asse.-isor John R-
Quinn, at Los .\ngeles.
.Mr. Quinn recited the figures
to the county supervisors, sitting
as a special board of equalization
to determine the valuation of the
negative and 14 color prints of
the production.
The assessor placed the a-
mouiit at $500,375, but Seiznick
International Pictures, Inc., and
Loow’s Inc., producers and dis-
trinitors, respectively, urged that
the valuation be cut to $134,615.
The su'pervisors upheld .Mr.
Quinn's assessment.
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' 8-19
Sanky Gaither Is
Named New Mayor
At the regular meeting of the
board of aldermen of the town
of Harmony, held recently, N.
Sankey Gaither was named mayor
to fill out the unexpired term of
Rev. Ovid Pullen who resigned
the office that he might become
postmaster there.
Rush Destroyers
To Panama Canal
Balboa, C. Z., Aug. 1.—Four
United States destroyers arrived
today to guarfl the Atlantic and
Pacific entrances of the Panama
Canal.
Official sources said the ves
sels had been assigned here “for
further enforcement of neutral
ity regulations.”
The ships will take over certain
duties whose exact nature war
not revealed. The Panama Cana!
in the past has always been pro
tected by detachments of the
United States Army.
Ada. g«t attmflnii nnd
iltod 8t*^ 0(«U
on haa aoBoulloMl ottra
, competitive ezarolnatione for the
man. The mtene ^ thtk htotorlcal belo»., The aalar-
romance U laid fu North Carolina je, giyen are subject to a retlre-
>mtBt the aUrring timee c! thel^t deduction o6 8 i-2 »dr cent.
Regulators. The hero, who lls en^j^ucyoUs nwst be on fUe with
English village youth of tntegrttyj^,,^ Cdnemiasioii’s Washington ot-
and enterarlse, gets Into trouble
by an incident remindful of
Shakespeare’s ‘boyhood. H6 Is
guilty of wouiidinf, one of the
king’s deer in an archery contest.
For the offense he is exiled to
the American colonies. Rosie, his
sweetheart, does him a good fare
well turn in disguising his srehr
ery kit so cleverly that it is
smuggled safely aboard escaping
the ship officer’s eagle eye.
The lad’s skill in archery
stands him in good stead in moye
than, one hair breadth adventure
after be lands at Cape Hatteras,
and is assigned to bard labor on
a plantation near historic Hills
boro town. The lad learns to find
salt petre most necessary in mak
ing gun p«rwder for General
Washington’s Army. He is an eye
witness of the Battle of Ala
mance, 17711.
Governor Tyron holds his last
bTilliant levee at Edenton. Among
the throng of elegant ladies and
gentlemen bowing before the roy
al governor is a princess in dis
guise, a first cousin of King Louis
pev of France. The princess is
really the governor’s prisoner. In
quick strategy the lad and his
master help the .princess to es
cape and serve the Cause of the
Colonies at one daring stroke.
The account of a two weeks
journey from the Carolina Coast
to the Middle Counties Is enliven-
ed'by more than one thing associ
ated with a vanished era. The
road is often beset with wild tur
key, partridges, rice birds, bear
and deer that abound in the bor
dering forests.
The plantation owner leans to
depend upon the lad’s sure bow
and arrow to provide meat for the
household table. He becomes the
trusted messenger between the
mansion near Hillsboro and the
gun powder plant, the location of
which Is a matter of greatest
secrecy.
On one occasion the mistress
ct the mansion is frightened from
flee not' later ''tbaA'*tH*‘.- cloetng
dates npeeihed In each case. Per
two of the examinatlohi two c1«h
lug dates are given, jOr receipt of
aEPlI^Ioi>8—^the first, for appU-
cations received from StatM east
of Colorado; the second, for those
received from Oolorado and
States westward.
‘ Bookbinder, $1.20 an honr.
Government Printing Office;
bookbinder, $10.08 a day. Bureau
of ,Itagravlng an^ Printing; Fw
appplntmVnt in Washington,” D.
-C., only. Applicantsi must have
completed a 4-year njyprentice-
shlp or must have had 4 years
of practical experience in the
hand operations necessary for
binding and finishing books; and
must have had 1 year’s experience
as Journeyman bookbinder. They
must not have passed their fif
tieth birthday. Closing dates are
August 12 and August 15, 1940,^
Explosives engineer, $3,800 a
year; 'principal, $5,600; senior,
$4,600; associate, $3,200; assist
ant, $2,600 a year. Applicants
must have completed a 4-year col
lege cutirse in engineering, and
must have had professional engi
neering experience, part of which
involved the devel-'pment, pro
duction, testing, or utilization of
explosives. Substitution of addi
tional engineering experience
may be made for part of the edu
cation;, and graduate study in
engineering may be substituted
for part of the general engineer
ing experience. Applicants for the
principal grade must not have
passed their sixtieth birthday,
and for the other grades they
must not have passed their fifty-
third birthday. Closing dates are
August 19 and August 22, 1940.
Radio monitoring officer, $3,-
200 a year; assistant radio moni
toring officer, $2,600 a year;
Federal Communications Commls-
rion. Applicants must have had
technical experience in the instal
lation, inspection, testing, or ope
ration with maintenance respon-
[flrtU, maat. not bwro pwwad
.tbatir fifl^-fiait,'birthday.IS
I Fall intoctnation ta
*amlna-
tlena, aniF$^«aMii
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MiT of tr. «.
jit.^asy find-
or atMon-dasa offteA
. MKETINGB , '
y Community planning jnaatittya
is relation to the Land Une. Plan.
«ing program bar* boen Md bh
all tiva eomnumitlea x>f T^na^-
vanUt County, reporta J. A. Ola^'
b«S-tam ayent .*
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NORTH WILKESBORO, N. i
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her evening devotions by the ter-| sibility, of radio transmitters. Ap-
rifylng screech of a great horned plicants must not have passed
owl in the tree under her window, their fifty-fifth birthday. For
The true aim of the lad’s arrow this examination applications
by moonlight sllenceB the owl. will be rated os received u'ntil
Whereupon milady makes the lad , June 30, 1941.
her confidant in matters of state. ] Rad.o operator, $1,620 and
Such a youth who has more j $1,800 a year. For this examina-
than one temptation to profit for j tion applications will be rated as
himself, yet remains unsullied j received; if sufficient eliglhles
and faithful to the right cause, I are obtained, the receipt of ap-
does not go unrewarded. What, which case due notice will be glv-
succesB does he achieve?” When en. Applicants must be able to
In the course of human events’’ I transmit and receive radiotele-
he becomes an honorable and a: graph traffic in International
prosperous man in the Colonies, Morse Code; and, under certain
does he remember Rosie, his
faithful sweetheart far across the
sea and endeavor to see her a-
gain? The answer to these ques
tions make interesting reading
of "Drums Beat In Old Carolina.”
(Published by Winston Co. of
New York.
LETTIE E. CROUCH,
specifications, must possess a
license as radiotelegraph opera
tor, either first or second class,
or an amateur license, or must
have had experience as radiotele
graph operator on board a Gov
ernment ship or at a Government
radio shore station. Applicants
must have reached their twenty-
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THE NEWS THAT'S
TOO BIG FOR THE BILLBOARDS!
This month—on billboards through
out this territory—the Gulf poster
below is on display. Because the
news it tells is important to all
motorists, we have taken this op
portunity to give you the full facts.
New
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Old
New
LJ1
O NE GLANCE AT THIS FOSTER ba>
probably told you that both Good
Gulf and Gulf No-Nox gasolines have
been stepped up. But what the bill
board coiddn’t explain is that this ix
not a symbolic picture but an accurate^
drawn graph!
This chart shows you the relative
boosts in anti-knock value—shows bm
direct comparison, how much these tw®
great fuels have been improved.
more, these improvements are tangihir.
;.. step ups that can make a real difiier-
ence in your car! ^
The step-up in Good CJulf gives it at
extra performance “plus” ... boosts k
so high it now exceeds North Caro-
lina’sspecifications for premium gaso
line. The improvement in Gulf Np-Nox
—which was already knockprooj under
all normal driving conditions—makoi
it tower over its old remarkable high.
And when you consider even the ohi
Gulf No-Nox surpassed North Caro
lina’s specifications for premium fuek
just imagine what this new, power-
padked fuel will do for your car! f'
Better fair tiwse Fu^
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•t t. " yw'j ""•!
A ‘
n>rr “21 Ways to
I nUa Save Money.”
Thu helpful booklet ia
youra for the aakin^ at/
your Caood Gulf deakr’a.^
Get your copy ri|h$f
away, at the sign of
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