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- _ * - V _ ^ •V-. ^..1.3 .. .. . _ 1 7 TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD’S PRECIOUS EYESIGHT! It is never too early to begin watching your child ren’s eyesight and protecting it from strain of any kind. Today, better light for better sight is avail able to everyone at the lowest cost in history. 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