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I SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Months 76
Pour Months 60
Ont of the State $2.00 per Year
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of MaiOi 4,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940
NORTH
Back To School
Rev. A. L. Aycock, pastor of North
Wilkesboro Methodist church, suggested
last Sunday that Sunday, September 15, be
“back to church” day.
The vacation season is about over,
schools have started again and it is in
deed fitting that the attention of all be
called to the fatt that they should attend
church services and not forget the ad
monition, “forsake not the assembling of
yourselves together.” 1
No person, not even the cynics, want to I
live in a community which does not have
active churches. If churches mean that
much to a community, and they mean
more, it becomes the duty of every citizen
to support them by attendance and by ma
terial means and efforts.
So to those whose regular church, atten
dance has been disrupted by vacations and
other activities we would suggest that
next Sunday would be a fine time to begin
church attendance.
„
(Baltimore News-Post) '
That off-quoted phrase “butehered to
make a Roman holiday,” has been applied
for centuries to the slaughter of • a coni
paratively small number of gladiators who
slew each other with swords to delight the
Roman populace.
But what of an American holiday ?
During the Labor Day week-end the
American populace contributed 614 fa
talities, 147 more than last year, which
brought delight to no one but gnef to
thousands.
This figure embraced only the numbers
of deaths the Associated Press compiled:
that number will be swelled largely, no
doubt, by the deaths of accident victims
not instantly killed.
Otf these deaths, 325 were due to traffic
accidents and many other victims were
drowned; two of Marlyand’s ten were vic
tims of hit-run drivers.
Ancient Rome probably had no more
cause to blush than modem America for
the costliness of its gala days.
jin. Bettle Npjrphy, who ie
bat 93 yean yoong, Attended
school here, lest Sunday.
; Ahnl Bottle Is a great old soul
and her many friends are glad
sher is aAIe to be 'up and go to
church,
Key; S, I. Watts filled hft regu
lar appointments at Mt. Hermon
and Liledown Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. 'Greer ■were
visitors to Lexington Saturday.
Mr. Glenn Steele, who has been
a patient at Davis Hospital In
T2,:
'inn. Rhli;
' were
,dtoi?l5^Ie«borj6s thi#;=we9K^^^'
.^)^‘-ll^ier, ,of Oharlatte, vMt)> ■
m. ip the home of Hr. and
Johnson Caldwell, Sunday.
Hev, and Mrs. S. I. Watts were
risitors to Taylorsyllle this wert.>;,^
Mr. A. F. Greey and son. At-
well, are still busy w«h their shop
work. They have Just com-pletod
another large truck body. This
one was for the Crysel Brothers
of North Wllkeeboro.
Use the advertising coliltans of
this paDOf shoppmg guide.
WHY A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER?
Theodore Roosevelt was once asked,
during a friendly discussion of relative
value, to name three things which he
consider most essential to his welfare
should he be marooned on an uninhabited
island. His answer was most significant
when he said:
“First, 1 would most desire my family.
Second, my hometown newspaper
Marjorie Main and Wallace Beery form one of the funniest ro
mantic teams since “Min and Bill” as the respective lady black
smith and “bad man” or ”V.'yoming,” which comes to the Liberty
screen for a two day showing. Filmed amid the spectacular Grand
Teton Mountains, the new picture presents an action-packed saga of
the pioneer West.
WHEN A LADY BLACKSMITH
FALLS FOR WALLY BEERY!
Borrowed Comment
town he meets the lady .black
smith, played by Marjorie Main.
Then ensues a romance with side-
Running Into Streets
Accidents of this nature point to a very
real need for education among motorists,
parents, and children, Ronald Hocutt, Di
rector of the Highway Safety Division,
said recently in discussing this type of ac-
“Thirty-three children were killed in
this state last year as a result of running
into the street or road, and it is needless
for me to say how important it is that
something be done to reduce this toll.
“Parents should drill into childrens’
heads the dangers of running into the road
or street, and motorists should be con
stantly alert and prepared to avoid strik
ing children who dart unexpectedly in
front of them. This cannot be stressed
ioo strongly.”
Not since "Min and Bill” has
Third,, Wbllace Beery figured in as com-
] leal a romance as has fallen to
my gun. ^ ^ J,)g jj, "Wyoming,*’ drama of
The fact that his home-town newspaper | pioneer days, filmed on location
came second in importance to his family'at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and,
speaks volumes for that institution* and Monday to the Liberty
Tviw ^ I Theatre. Beery plays a tough u.an
is not altog'otlior strang'c that a porson with ^ turns good, in a pioneer
Roosevelt’s perception of values should
make this choice.
The community newspaper is essential
ly a serial history and biography, combin
ed, of the people and events in the terri
tory which it serves. Through its succeed
ing volumes the community’s progress—
or retrogression—it unconsciously por
trayed. It makes its subscribers problems
its own problems; a sympathetic under
standing exists between publisher and
subscriber which is entirely absent in ur
ban publlcation.s. This spirit of fraternal-
ism extends to closer relationships between
the advertiser in the home-town paper and
those whom the ^vertiser serves. His ap
peal is not So much one of “better bar
gains” and “cut prices” as it is of friend
ship, cemented by years of pleasant and
constructive community association. His
advertisements are a message from one
friend to another.
It is the function of the community
newspaper to direct and to further the cul- a.^ the leader of the lawless eie-
tural, educational and spiritual life of its ment. Little Bohs Wat..;on. who
scored in "On Borrowed Time
Hawk Rescued From
Snake and Later Shot
A large chicken hawk lost his
liberty and reeatned it only to
lose it again in Ashe county one
day last week.
Stuart Grimes, colored and oth
er men w-orking on a farm in the
Mouth of W’ilson section discov
ered a large hawk about which
splitting details, such as his sere-,an equally large black snake was
nading her with his harmonica, entwined.
her activities in helping him es-1 Grimes said that the hawk had
cape from jail, and other droll- | probably attempted to catch the
eries. snake which had proven too much
The picture is a vivid drama of ^ unwound the snake and
pioneer days, in which Beery L,,jn^ing hawk was dead
leads ranchers against raiding bring it ho.me. But a-“
cattle rustlers, and General Cus-jj,g p,g^v]{ took a deep
ter and his Cavalry rout a ranch : ,,j.ggtj, jt took to its v/ings again,
attack by Blackfeet Indians. A- Grj„jgg shot the bird of prey
mid the thrills a love story is ' j,g took to West Jefferson
worked ont between Ann Ruther- jo show and related his unusual
ford and Lee Bowman.
Hundreds of peo.pIe appear, i
The entire company camped in ^
the shatjow of the majestic Teton
THE FLOOD
caught hundreds throughout this section
without FLOOD INSURANCE, and to each
of these we extend our sincere sympathy
for the losses sustained.
THE FLOOD
of renew-al memberships received recently
reminds us that our members do not want
to be caught without being secure in their
benefits should death visit their family.
This is your reminder to see that you are
- fully protected and in good standing in
your Association. Death, like the flood,
may come unexpectedly. Be in position to
rely upon your Association when it does
... by keeping in good standing.
Reins-Sturdivant
Burial Assn.
■ experience.
NOTICE OF SALE
range, known 'as the'* AfpS of
America, to film the picture amid
the grandeurs of the scenery in
the Jackson Lake country.
Leo Carrillo, seen with Bony
in such former hits as "20 Mule
Team’’ and “Viva Villa!’’ enacis
his henchman in the current pic
ture. Paul Kelly plays General
Custer, and Joseph Calleia is seen
The pressure’s on us so we’ve put the pressure on
used cor prices — squeezed them Hot as a pan
cake. Come in and meet the biggest borgoir.* you
ever saw. We’ll make you a deal you can’t refuse.
THE GOOD FRUITS OF
DEMOCRACY
(Charlotte Observer)
The office of education in Wa.shingdon
announces that nearly one fourth of the
population of the United States will go to
school this fall.
Educational system,s will receive 32,-
285,000 students with the largest number
in elementary schools.
Statistics compiled by Federal education
authorities show that:
21.550.000 children will attend elemen
tary schools.
'1,160,000 will go to high school.
1.425.000 boys and girls will attend col
leges and universities.
1.950.000 persons will attend night
school and part-time courses.
50.000 persons will take special trade
training.
75.000 will receive training in nursing.
75,000 will aUenci business colleges.
commun ty, in addition to the dissemina
tion of news. It hold as a sacred obliga
tion the furtherance of all projects design
ed for public benefit, and it opposes with so.” “The Crowd
, j , ... ,, , . . T. ■ j . • numerous other successe.s, filmed
equal determination that which is detn- prjduction.
mental. It is the clearing-house for
opinions expressed by expert and reader,
alike.
The community newspaper occupies a
traditional place in the existence of its
home town parallel in importance to the
school and the church. It is an integia! to local areas and small farms,
part of the realization of pioneering .effort i
to constructive living, the mouth piece of'
an enterprising and progre.ssiv: element ofj
national life. The spirit of neigh’oorliness
is engendered by the femiliarity with
which it treats its family of readers; its
flexible editor al policies permit of the
same renortorial trepiment of the news of
twin calves bom ixi Bill Jones’ cow as is
given to news of world-wide importance.
By close adherence to a policy which is
dictated by a 'philosophy peculiar to rural
society, the community newspaper has
come to be regarded as an indispensable
part of the rural civic plan. Its subscrib
ers enjoy a sense of proprietorship; a
feeling which is shared by the average
home-town publisher. It is the tie which
binds the common interest of John Brown,
who operates the comer store, with that of
Jim White, who maintains a fine herd of
Jerseys on his farm three miles south of
town. By its influence the community
spirit of interdependence is promoted, in
timate news is made available to those far
removed from childhood associations, and
through its sympathetic knowledge of
community affairs it has become a vital
necessity to |all community programs of
progress. »
Your community newspaper needs you
—^you need your community newspaper!—
W. G. Mills, Hanover, Mich.
and Henry Travers round out the
excellent cast. Hichard Thorpe,
director of “The Earl of Chica-
Roars’’ and
I’KOGKAM
The 1911 AAA program pro
vides for maintenance of ade
quate food and fiber supplies and
emphasis on son coiHervaiion
practices particularly applicable
Can You Afford
to be Sick ?
Few of us can afford the
expense and loss of time
that serious illness
entails. Yet rarely do we
take the simple precau
tions to forestall a “sick
spell.” Consider your own
case. If you are not feel
ing quite up to par, don’t
delay or drift along. Go
at once to a trusted’phy
sician. Get his diagnosis.
Be guided by his compe
tent and experienced
counsel. Not only is delay
dangerous, but it usually
results in adding sub
stantially to your bill.
And then—bring bis pre
scription to u8 for accu
rate compounding.
It’s just as important to see
your doctor about little ailments
as big ones (little ones treated
in time save big ones). Yemr
doctor trusts us with Prescrip
tion work wlien that is r^uired
in your treatment. So, bring us
his orders—your Prescription.
North Carolina, 'Wilkes County.
Motor Service Sales Company,
Incorporated, vs. Joel A. Minton.
Under, by virtue of and pursu
ant to the power of sale contained
j„i a .e'-.a n Ju .g. -eiv. .'i iiui’.-
|or C. C. Hayes entered in the a-
bove-entitled cause, appointing
the undersigned Commissioner and
directing the Commissioner to sell
at public auction, the property
horeinafier desev c n.id-" -
si.gned will, therefore, offer for
sale for cash, at public auction, to
the highest bidder, on Monday,
September 30, 1940, at 12:00 o’
clock noon, at the Courthouse door
in Wilkesboro, North Carolina,
the following property, to-wit:
Or- 19"7 Mn'iel Chevrolet, Mo
tor No. T273215, and one 1930
Model Buick, Motor No. 2485304.
Done this the ’30th day of Au
gust, 1940.
LEONARD BROOKS,
o.oR.4t.(T) Commissioner.
Yadkin Valley Motor Co.
Ninth Street
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
k
The Greeneville News-Bulletin says; A
thing that puzzles us is where the taxpay
ers gets all the money the politicians take
away from him.
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