5^ .iSsl
Mr. W. M. CeBerry, of Hoff-
JMii,'•N'.'i C.; ia a^ndlns seToral
®«W-fcer» •with his family.
Turjtw and Lyle B. Tur*
net, ot Mayodan mtd Mr. and
Mrs, Miller, of Coleraln, si>ent
Sunday fn th^ Wllkeeboros.
Her. Arery Church and son,
Milton, of Louisville, Ky., spent
the week-end in Wllkeshoro with
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lowe.
Mr. Sam Greer, of Winston-Sal
em, sfpent the week-end with his
mother, Mrs. Octa Greer, at Mo
ravian Falls.
Miss Thelma Laws, of Mora
vian Falls, left this morning for
Oxford where she will teach again
this season in the high school.
Misses Kayt and Ruth Laws,
of Charlotte, spent the week-end
with her mother, Mrs. L. B.
_Laws, at Moravian Falls.
Miss Betty Pearson, of Moravi
an Falls, underwent a tonsoral
operation at the Wilkes Hospital
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Trader and
son. of Asheboro, spent the week
end with Mrs. Trader’s mother.
j4rs. W. R, Hix, at Moravian
'^Is.
raigfKoa Knoio
Mr. and Mrs. JtVB-i OweiUiriiq«cNeIL
aro now oceapy}n«: t)tQi]:^ni|w sum'
raer home oh ‘ the Bruhliy Moun
tains.
!.ow Prices Eye
Miss Mary McNeely, of Moores-
ville, spent ) several hours in
Wllkeshoro Friday with Mrs. J.
W. White.
‘ j
Mrs. J. B. Crouch, of May >dan
and Mrs. Charles Ford of Mont-
. Mr.’J^.,,
citl*en'ot^'»0Mlirf‘|8»a'. WfA'
huslives* tMItpr to cUjt todA*.
.iS-%.^L.4:erlK of taytoi? J.;
vinie, and Mr. and. Mrs. Malodtm ’
Kerley, of Kannapolis spent Snnq^f
day' tylfh Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Mrs.'^M. V. Myersl'who was car- ^ead^ cross ,your eyiw, unHmh'w
rled tp;'t)»e Baptist Hospital in your .donhle-Ull^ you'll be
Wlnston-^&i'em for treatnent last set for ws^ dls^ d)-
Week,"rpinaln8 about the. same, ^
t Before the tediaim had a
chance to start .Uieir'tiadiflf^
rain dance, It rained. . . .
IB! O. rar. of the mayoral election in
Wilkeebpro, has returned to High Springs, 8. C., resulted in a tie,
„„„ Point where she will teach in the they decided Just to go ahead and
Clair, New Jersey, visited Wilkes gchools of that city again this have two mayors. . . . And Neif
. 1. gmith WaiM .MsnnMl mbitlstnA sis
according to reports today.
■ ■ T , - ,
' Miss-Peart Bumgarner; daugh
ter of Mr. LTnyllle Bumgarner,
county friends during the week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Kyle,
S. U. Reynolds, who has Dunham, Ky., visited Mrs. Kyle
Charlotte parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Har-
Mrs
been a patie.it in a
Hospital for weeks, has been re
moved to her home here on
Street.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Har- Myers, Fla., turned' ont to
e- rold, and Mr. Kyle’s mother, Mrs. Georgia, . . ,
B F. A. Kyle, on North Wllkeeboro Lincoln (Nob.) mall men, after
TSa.sSa. 1 1 n WAolr . .  A. i
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Deal and
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Sturdivant
spent several days last week at
a summer cabin on the Yohana-
losse Trail.
Mrs. Arvii Phifer and two
children! Anne and John Charles,
returned home Sunday from Gas
tonia where they have
spending several weeks.
Misses Elaine and Betsy Keith and friends.
Bowman returned to their home
in Marion today after spending
the summer with Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon Kizer.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Douthlt
daughter. Miss Mary Ethel Dou-
thie, and little granddaughter
Jennette, of Macon, Ga.. were
’Ir. and Mrs. R. D. Rountree
of Charleston, S. C., are visiting early recovery.
Mrs. Rountree’s parents, Mr. and '
at Moravian
i .Mrs. B. M. Pardue,
S) I I Kalis.
I Mi.ss Rose Laws, of Moravian
Falls, left this morning for Albe
Mr. Bob McCoy has returned to
the city after spending, most of
the summer at Montreal, N. C.,
and in the Great Smoky Moun-
I- tain National Park. He is the son
Y OU’RE invited to visit
our Prescription De-
[ partment the very next
I time you have o.ie of those
E recious bits of paper to
e “filled.”
Wc want to demonstrate
, to you, by an actual experi
ence, that it costs no more
— maybe a little less — to
have your prescription
compoundeu here, in this
professional atmosphere
where highest ethical
standards are maintained.
Because we make a busi
ness of prescriptions our
volume is larr our over
head low. Give us a trial.
Take your illness troubles to
your doctor: bring your pres
criptions to us. It's the reliable
way to save your health—and
Sg-ve money, too.
I marie to resume her duties as of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCoy, of
teacher
■school.
in
the Alb-cmarle high
HORTON’S
DRUG STORE
Fountain Phone 300
Prescription Dept. Phone 350
ITwo Registered Druggists on du-
^ at all times—C. C. (Charlie)
Reins and Palmer Horton.
Mrs. Sam Price, the former
.Miss Corinne Clements, visited
relatives and friends in the city
for several hours Friday. M.-s.
Price resides in 'Mooresville.
Mr. James Hemphill, who has
been working at Banner Elk this
summer, is h“re on a week’s vis
it with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
E. L, Hemphill, of Wilke.sboro.
Private W. E. Minton, of Fort
Bragg, N. C., spent a few days in
Wilkesboro this week with his
parents, -Mr. and Mrs. Wellborn
■Minton.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Bostian and
son, Brenda, of Winston-Salem,
spent the week-end here with
Mrs. Bostian’s parents, Mr. and
-Mrs. W. C. Moore.
L. B. Dula, Jr., has returned
from a visit with his sister, Mrs.
R. 1. Smith, Jr., near Draper, N.
C. L. B. is the son of Mr. and
L. B. Dula, Sr., of Wilkesboro.
Mr. and M)-s Glenn McGlam-
ery, left Sunday for Georgia
where -Mr. .McGlamery has accept
ed a job with R. J. Foster Con-
.truclion Co.
New Hats
98c and $1.98
v-l J*
Look Like
A Million
But Dress on a Budget
Not even your best friend will
guess how little you paid . . .
when she sees you in a smart Jean
N'edra! Soft draped-effects, clev
er jewelry, lovely rayon fabrics
... all say Fall 1940 Here are
three styles from the marvelous
group that’s just arrived. In black,
green, blue, brown, gp-apewine.
Sizes 12-20.
year.
of
Route 1 last week.
Mrs. H. M. Darlintgton, Mrs
J. I. Myers and Mr. I. M. Myers
of this city, visited Mr. S. G. My
ers in L«nolr. Sunday. We are
sorry to state that the latter is
quite ill again.
days.
Music For Strikers
Jennette, oi Macon, era., oc- Jacksonville (Fla.) factory learn the sources of this ^
here this week visiting relatives provided music for the entertain- plus seed,” Goodman said. “This
- ■ ' ment of its strikers. . . . And Is the planting season for small
.. when a Burlington (Iowa) plant grains and winter cover crops In
Reavis is a patlenr ^ picnic, a lone man who had most of the State, and even in
- ’ —drought
Mrs. L. M
at the Wilkes Hospital. She suf- picketing the place a week areas where the
fered a stroke several days ago ,n„ited along, too. floods did not cai
and was carried to the ^hospital
■Saturday. Friends hope for#an
Thursday of Miss
Parks were: Mrs.
liams, Farmington;
Redmon, Farmington; Mrs. T. H
Nicholson, Knoxville, Tenn.; Mr.
Lawrence Nicholson, Knoxville, a
ter of Albert and Ina Minton
Hendrix, of the Hendrix . com- is .
munity. She died Saturday night, uity,” be added. “Many pert..
Surviving are the father and now make records of their talen
mother and fite brothers and sia- as aiogm, Up
AvailaHe':,^
- - - ’■•'ksAi*®
•r.
New
- -
.... ‘
ToVk.-fltia.«r, ‘
South Wslea Uanned mistletoe aia
a “noxious weed.”
The first two persons who
turned up to register as aliens in
several nnpleasant experiences
with watch dogs, went out armed
with packages of dog food.
Stork stuff;.... A Cumberland
(Md.) man became a father at
74, ... A Bell (Calif.) woman
became a grandmother at 31. . . .
And some triplets ip Elizabeth, N.
J., were bom on three different
drottgll and
.($ North cif
Itet ihas been .
of-«r«ry oci^i
slop ,
ly ithen it .
dry weaHierin^T^
vy rains aii(FHd^
destroyed thonsaiidt;'
food and feed drops?; aiid dtan;^
busbels'df stored Med. He bali^
upon Bxteulon agents to’^report
on' seed surpios'es' in' thdr cottn-
tles.
The survey showed thgt there
are available: 124,836 bushels of
oat seed',' 91,232 ibnsbels 
wheat, 18.600 bushels of barley,
1.000 bushels of rye, 30,000
pounds of crimson clover, 17,000
pounds of Italian rye grass, and
6.000 pounds of vetch.
“Farmers who have lost-a part
of their com ■ and hay crops
should immediately communicate
with their county farm agent and
.'iisisi
t^FSKKdst;.! "
k..deeordinK to Jffoi’nia-
_ ^ , it^bd, about four to.ffye
,p4ndred delegatee are expMfed
be -U attendance at the Con-
'pWSid'' The Commerce Bnreans
ud the Mayor of North Wilkes-
bpR^' have extended an invitation
to the Moose Association to hold
their next Annual Conclave here,
which- 'Will convene about the
same time' next year. Local peo
ple are delighted to have people
from elsewhere, to come and see
what North Wilkesboro and
Wilkes county have to offer.
DAMAGE
‘ .Red spider has done consider
able damage to cotton fields
throughout Northampton county,
a!cording to E. L. Norton, farm,
agent of the N. C. State College
tTte ihdaiilhc at *‘Ati
Ublhdnacnt” vsaa Bot miiaa'l
jaWBuMy because of csi
sbU). hut the teminology sag)
ed a plaat used for militatr'
poses 'Waa iBwelyed). ’ > , ■ ■
Send the collegians badk 'HS
school with boxes and boxes^
RTTEX TWEED-WEAVE
ed SUtlonery. They’ll Ivrite aS)t
often and more interestlnglir dil
this smooth-surfaced paper. AaC
your budget will wear a contssA-
ed smile, ■ . for TWEED-WEAERi
is- on sale for September in DOP-
BLE THE USUAL QUANTUM
. . only 31.00. 200 Sla^
Sheets, or 100 DouWe Sheets, ar
100 Monarch Sheets, and
Envelopes . . . printed with Nsma
and Address or Monogram. Cs»-
ter-Hubbard Publishing Co.
was Invited along, too.
Names in the news';
floods did not cause any-damage.
The It is wise to,have some of these
Peoria (111.) army recruiting of- crops growing to protect and en-
fice drew men named Canada
Germany, England and Prance.
. And two Pasadena (Calif.)
brothers named Kishkunas asked
to change It because it sounded
too much like a sneeze.
Rugged individualist: . . . The
Hillside (S. C.) vote in the state
prohibition referendum wa.s; Dry,
D9; wet 1. •
Department of commerce: . . .
A Salem (Va.) man who wants
to swap an airplane for something
got this offer: A rooster, three
hens, four bantams, four pigeons,
two radios and a set of toys.^
“Hot Foot”
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) national
guard casualty: A soldier who
was given too strenuous a “hot
foot.”
The var this week: ... An
argument on a Greek ship docked
in New '^'ork about the quality of
the chefs coffee ended up with
the summoning of a police squad
car, a police launch, a coast guard,
patrol boat and a riot squad.
Bright sayings division: ... A
little girl who wanted a stamped
envelope asked at the Hartington
(Neb.) post office for “an empty
letter.’’
The futility of It all: ... Just
as B. J. Taming of Lincoln, Kas„
was finishing rebuilding his .barti,
which had bleen blown down by
the wind, the wind blew it down
again.
A Hickory (N. C.) chair fac
tory got a long letter complaining
about a shipment lacking one
piece, ■with the P. S.:
“We’ve just found the missing
piece.”
Home Recordings
Become Popular
Home recordings of the voices
of members of the family will
soon take their place in the fam
ily album along with .photo
graphs, births certificates, and
other precious momentos, Hen
derson Electric Co., local Philco
dealers, predict.
“With home recordings devel
oped now to a professional re
finement,’’ the local dealer said,
“the horizon of its use has widen
ed beyond all dreams. An accur-
this city.
Mrs. R. D. Kyle, of Dunham,
Ky., Mrs. Spencer McGrady, Mrs.
W. D. Elledge, and Mrs. Clyde
Tensley, of North Wilkesboro
Route 1, composed a party visit
ing the World’s Fair in New
York -City last week.
Mrs. Margaret Coffey, son, Carl
Gwyn, and daughter, Blair, re
turned Thursday from a seven
weeks’ visit with Mr. and M*"*-
H V. Wagoner at Bay View,
Michigan. Mrs. Coffey’s brother,
Mr. W. B. Gwyn, went up to Bay
View to accompany them home
after spending a week thee.
Mr. Arthur Lowe, who was
graduated from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill at
the close of the summer school
Thursday, has now returned to
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Lowe, in Wilkesboro,
and has accepted a position as
bookkeeper in the C. A. Lowe and
Sons Store.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Day and
little daughter, Nancy Lee, re
turned to their home at Millers
Creek last week after spending
the summer in Durham. Mr. Day
completed his work at Duke Uni
versity for a master’s degree in
education. He will begin his 8th
year as principal of Millers Creek
school on Monday, September 9.
Mra J. D. Moore and children,
Janet and Virginia, Franklin and
Freddie, have returned to their
home in Oneonta, N. Y., after
spending five weeks with Mrs.
Moore’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Eller, at Purlear, and other
relatives in the county. Mr.
Moore, who is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Moore and a brother
to Mr. Clifford Moore, of the
Straw community, motored to
Wilkes and accompanied them
home. -Mr. Moore spent a week in
he county with relatives and
friends.
Out of town relatives and member of the family would be cording their letters and mailing
friend.s attending the funeral an invaluable addition to the them to personal friends.
family album, which is already
Anne Wil- full of photographs picturing the
Mrs. T. H. family’s growth and development.
It seems logical that with the em
phasis today on sound via radio
n d phonograph, recordings
Win- should be made of the family.
“Particularly appropriate would
be the recording of the progress
Tenn.; Mrs. Flora Raper,
ston-Salein; Misses Buena
Carrie Laxton, Morganton; -- --- ^
and Mrs. L. L. Parks and son,, of the new baby, combining plc-
David of Roaring River; Mr. aaffi ture and sound. Insrtead of past
Mrs. H. E. Parks and Mias Lois Ing the baby’s picture dirprtli
Parks, Roaring River; Mr. R. L. into the album, a goo-
Vannoy, High Shoals; Mrs. Rob- graph and appropriate inscription,
ert Goode, Lincolnton; Mrs. Elsie could be made and cut in clrcu-
Pearsey, High Shoals. lar shape to fit in the center of
the record, where the Identlfica-
UoUghertyKe-Elected appears now In com"'®'--
® cial recordings. Thus, the family
Dr. B. B. Dougherty was re- ^njum would hold a permanent
elected president of Appalachian ^gpord of the growth and matur-
State Teachers College at Boone jjy member of the family
and was empowered to work with picture and sound,
the executive coimmlttee in re- yj,g Henderson Electric Co.
pairing flood damages to the pointed out that with the develop-
power plant, farm and bridges a- j„g„t of the Philco photo-electric
bout the campus. phonograph, the life of any rec-
IX .fVrx* ord, commercial or home-record-
Hendrix Lnild Uies ed. la now increased ten-fold, glv-
Fbineral service was held at ing cdditional impetus to the hob-
Mt. Mon church today for Ruby by of making such home record-
Jean Hendrix, two-year-old daugb- ing as permanent family records.
rich the soil during the winter
months.”
The Extension leader said that
11 varieties of oats, three varie- j
ties of wheat, three of barley,;
and Abruzzl rye are available
Grading Of Tobacco
Will Be Demonstrated
Lloyd T. Weeks, Extension to
bacco specialist of N. C. State
College, has announced plans for
a series of tobacco grading dem
onstrations arranged by county
farm egents of the Extension
Service, and presented with the
assistance of marketing special
ists of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
W. L. Bradsher and J. O.
.'Irmistead of the U. S. D. A. will
give the demonstrations. Weeks
and possibly other specialists
from State College will assist
jiith some of the grading schtwls.,
The schedule announced by
Weeks Is as follows: August 22,
Jones County; August 23, On
slow; August 26, Lenoir; August
26 and 27, Wayne; August 29
and 30, Johnston; August 30,
Carteret.
September 4, Ciraven; Septem-
)>er 4 and 5. Beaufort; Septem
ber 5 and 6, Bertie; September 6,
Hertford; September 9 to 17,
Wilson; September 9, Edge
combe; .September 10 and 11,
Pitt; September 16 and 17, Har
nett; September 18 and 19,
Wake; September 20, Vance;
September 23, Cumberland.
September 24, Moore; Septem
ber 25, Richmond; September
26, Anson; September 30, Frank
lin; October 1, Durham; October
2, Orange; October 3, Rocking
ham; October 4. Guilford; Octob
er 7, 8 and 9, Forsyth; October
10 and 11, Stokes; October 14,
Davidson; October 15 and 16,
Yadkin; October 17, Wilkes; Oc
tober 18, Alexander; and Octo-ber
21, Alamance.
Weeks said that two demon
strations per day will be given in
a county.
%
Re programs or record historic
events broadcast over the radio.
Still others find home recording
-- a delightful way to carry on an
ate record of the voice of each intimate correspondence by re-
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