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n HI I tUwtUtwwiil »ii ■'»W.»i ljg|W******^iS> 'TOGrtfe:nlTHEVSTA3ra|WNraiK||;2^&52®|^ A - i ‘3fe»»a#»*sat*K!a?EaiSS‘t®Sfi^ :5’ ^ , -f " .^s3 m\ W’-^’V-J >ATRI^ ITor- mutukl a^ i Ai T^ C-. .;,1-i|«»-.V^'' ^do your buyiiig ilfiJKorth [Wilk^oro, the &itdiii? rhenter of Northwestern North Carolina. % ~.f: 'f:,- --i.' Uf^Y^ :^.:l' U#^iC YOU XXXIV. No. 49 “g^iBhed Mondays &j^d Thnrsday^. NORTH WnjCgg6K22_N»_£;;^THXJ^^£Y^^^T^ rnni ^-c.. tU»v SJ5.--I Ti??YW> •' K Ir I l)i^-r:: New Entertabmeiit Features Are Added For Five-Day.Exposition For Northwestern North Carolina Many Exhibit*, And Mark* Shows, Hell Driver*, Stage Act* With Firework* HORSE SHOW FRIDAY Fair Will Open With School Children’* Day On Tues day, Jieptemher 16th Annual exposition ol the Great NorthTrestern Fair, the big gala event for northwestern North Carolina counties, will open here on Tuesday. September 16, and continue through Saturday, Sep tember 20. Beginning with opening day when school children and teach ers will he admitted through the gates free until four p. m., the fair is confidently expecting pre vious attendance records to be shattered. These expectations are b»sed on months of careful preparation and planning to secure unprece dented attractions for the me days and nights of the fair, V,. A. McNiel. general manager oi the fair. said. Final touches were placed on the fairgrounds thU week in prep aration for the event. orchardiats. poultrymen and the home makers of Wilkes have been preparing exhibits from he best Lrm and orchard crops 1" years fn "The State of Wilkes". Tents win house the exhibits of the sev eral departments. Added Attraction* I jy! J^^he past several days swur^ added attractions in addition o the usual features^ of the expo- “ The II... US •M“> he -SuWa. daredevil acts by his hell dnv e^-- on the race track Thursday afternoon. ‘•Suicide Bob s ac rank high in the ing entertainment ' every conceivable kind oj deviltry which can Ished on wheels. Horse Show PYidaj' Both No. 1 Soldiers !$*SSf=Wl' ute — 1^0 Qot of State r- .' And Estimates School - • VI?. - . '■ ■ ^ , Latest picture of a rccont meet ing of America’s No. 1 soldier. Gen. George Marshall (left), chief of staff of the U. S. army, chatting with the No. 1 soldier of Great Brit ain, Sir John Dill. Plan To Sponsor ^oodlawh Section Loyal Order of Moose Lodge, Appoints Committee To Handle Project To Form Wilkes Unit Of “Save The Children” Object To Enable Children To Attend School; Com mittee Meet* Saturday HOW^S THIS FOR THRllLS, I be accomp- North Wilkesboro Loyal Order of Moose lodge in its last meet ing took steps towards organiz ing a Boy Scout troop in the Woodlawn part of North Wilkes boro. A committee composed of J. E. Walker, chief of police, Wm Wilkes unit of “Save the Chil dren Federation’’ will be formed i in a meeting of a committee Sat urday morning in the office of C. B. Eller, Wilkes superinten dent of schools. Movement for the Institution a Wilkes unit of the Save the Children Federation, an interna tional organization, is headed by Supt. Eller. Prime object of the organiza tion will be to make it possible for all underprivileged children to attend school and the motto will be “Help the People to Help Themselves.’’ The following committee has been named to meet Saturday ■morning, 10:45 o'clock, in the office of Supt. Eller. Mrs. Ber tha Bell, Mrs. Claude Doughton, Mrs. F. C. Foreter, Mrs. W. R. Absher, Mrs. W. W. Barber, Mrs. Minnie Pardue, Mrs. Valeria Belle Foster, Mrs. Maude S. iMlller, Mrs. Mable Smithey, Dwight NlcjiQl^ •ftfarTOTedge. v of the committee. Clothing will be furnished to underprivileged children, -but only on condition that some needed work will be done about the school by the child, a parent, brother, sister or other relative. The opinion was expressed by a spokesmen for the committee that each child wHl derive great er benefit from whatever is giv en if some form of work is ex- j tended in payment. It was em- ' phasized that while the organlza- j tion is a charitable one. that it does not deal in handouts. ■ I ^ -tv Commissioners, City and County School Boards In Joint Meeting Review Conditions, School Needs One ol the many acts of daredeviltrty to be put on on Thursday aftenioon at the Great Northwestern Fair by “Suicide Bob Hayes’ hell drivers” will be the one pictur ed here, Survey of Conditioii* and Need* for Building Faci- litie* Di*cu**ed Wilkes county aboard of com missioners, the county board of education and two members of the North Wilkesboro city char ter school board met on Wednes day to make preliminary plans for a school bnllding program for the county school system and for North Wilkesboro. C. B. Eller, county superin tendent of schools, presented the joint meeting wtih a survey of school building facilities and ap proximate needs. Two architects, Charles C. Benton, of Wilson, and Clarence P. Coffey, of Lenoir, were in structed to make plana and esti mates on cost of needed building facilities for the sdiools of the county .system and North Wilkes boro. Present at, the meeting were Chairman M. F. Absher and Max Foster, of the county hoard of commissioners; Chairman C. O. McNeill, R. R. Church and D. F. means to investigate ways and of sponsoring the troop. A spokesman tor the lodge said today that they believed that a Boy Scout troop for Woodlawn would be of much value in building future clti-enship and that the lodge membership was enthusiastic over the proposal. A resolution was also passed to send the member with the high est record of attendance to the ParishDaySunday St. Paul’s Church Eleven O’Clock Service, Pic- The first horse show ever stag- Duhling. Tam Shoemaker and In North Wilkesboro will be Whittington was appointed at the fair on Friday afternoon ^ 3 O’clock. T. S. (Scott) Ken erly is superintendent of the tlon received from him t^ay, the horse show Ls going to be an outstanding event and -wiH bigger and better than many su.h events which have been held reg ularly at other points for years^ Valuable cash prizes will be given in the following classe.s: ^ best saddle horse ' national Moose convention next best team of mules, ■ , Milwaukee, Wisconsin. , k u i horses or mares, winner of muje y ^ Initiated will be a celebration of the Hid> in the next meeting to he held Communion and sermon by ^he on Tuesday night, September 17. [rector. Reverend B. M. Lac-ev. . final class this this service tbe music will be Heavy Toll Taken Among Hitlftr Armies Moscow.—Red army counter attacks were reported in war dis patches today to have smashed German concentrations with huge casualties in the Ukraine, central, northern and arctic forces. The dispatches reported that: 1. A Russian counterattack broke up new German assaults on the gates of kiev with 30,000 ! enemy casualties in fierce day and night fighting. 2. Hurled th^ Germans back 12 miles on the central front, taking 12 additional villages. The Russians remised Nazi 3. nic Lunch and Service -concentrations "somewhere west lamotor Club Privilege With Free Auto Donated By Organization A# Aid To Safety Pro motion Campaign Here Carolina Motor Club, which is represented locally by J. C. Mc- Diarmid, will give a membership in Carolina Motor club to the person who is awarded the new Ford car free rt the Great North western fair next week, Septem ber 16-20. The Carolina Motor club U of fering the free paemberahip with all its benefits and privileges as an aid to the safety promotion campaign being put on here un- Sergeant Wilkesboro board 4ft education; and Supt. Eller, of the county system. Under the title of “Building Needs for Wilkes County,’’ Supt. Eller presented to the joint meet ing the following information by districts: Wilkesboro — School has 29 teachers. Oakwoods, Arbor and Goshen schools phould be con solidated with Wilkesboro. Pres ent building has 23 classrooms without adequate space for Ifb- oratories. Enrollment, with consolidation of Arbor, Goshen and Oakwoods, would be over 1250. Wilkesboro enrollment last year was 1114. Wilkesboro needs ; outlined ' (Continued on page eight) Real ‘Blackout’ Girls of the first aid detachment of the BCA Co., Camden, N. J., blindfold each other in preparatto* for practice air raid drill daring “blackoat’’ held amid fire mins. A,^sociation Will Conventt With Traphill Church Sept. 26, 27, 28th In Afternoon Special service>i will he beld in St. Paul’s church on next Sun day. Septemltr 14. .At eleven o’clock Sunday mornins: tbr-ie race best lady rider and others. Premiums will be confined to Wilkes entriw but ® | u will be the much of the best horse . : year under direction of A. Jack other parts of the sta e Mount, membership director, who show. Mr. Kenerly « leaving to work In Tennessee, entries and Jio fee is charg wished to express ^n- aay event. cere appreciation for the hospl- Ford Car Pre« tality of North Wilkesboro peo- A new Ford car, which has | pig and that he hopes to return been purchased from Yadkin jjgre in the near future. Valley Motor company and is now j women of Mooee Meet on display there, will be given Women of the Moose held a to someone present sometime dur- meeting, vhlch was well attend ing the fair. jed, and plans were laid for the The Pleasure Trail ; coming year. Committees will he John Marks Shows renu t^ar^vtteTorVwirmii The next meeting will take place The midway with ^ their “mile on September 22. long pleasure trail.’’ Stage Attractions Booked -before the rush this fall for outdoor entertainment, the fair has a program of stage and grandstand acts never before equalled here. A sw-’ll program of eomedy and acrobatic acts f«tnrlng some wonderful talent •will be capped off with a blg- tlme revue. The new grandsUnd TiBW stoge will be perfect set-1 Unr for the attractions. A I and substitutes In Wilkes county Car” act will be an added was announced today from the auction gnpplemenUng the re- office of the county board of ed- . --mm ucation. 1 PlrSwvke EvwT Night . All the drivers and substitutes Frerv night will be a gorgeous attended the bus drivers school imbTv offlreworks. which were, before opening of the school term ^ivLsd and made before ma-'and successfully .j^sed the tests ^rT^re restricted to defense given by the safely division and Ji^ton M munitions. j (Continued on page eight) der the direction of oncentmtlons •somewnerc I of the Dvina River.’ which flows / . , from Estonia J" in order'to get the free mem- the north-central r , bershlp, the person must have a ed attempts of the enemy to cross the nver and recaptured the vil- eligibility for member- lage of Starina. i 4. A Red army force in contin- - uous counterattacks m the Kes-1 Bus Drivers For Schools Listed rendered by St. Paul s vested choir assisted by .?ome of the members of St. James choir, Le noir. . At one o’clock a picnic dinner will be served on the lawn at the home of Mias‘Elizabeth Barber. In the afternoon at 3:30 o’clock the rector will administer in the church the rite of Holy Baptism which service from the Book of Common Prayer was conducted one hundred and five years ago when the Right Reverend Levi Sllliman Ives, second Bishop of Diocese of North Carolina, visit ed the home of James Dodge in Wilkesboro end baptized his three children. This service was held on September 13, 1836. -The friends of the parish are invited to attend the church ser vices next Sunday and brin ___ I lunch and enjoy a social hour All Driver* And Sub.tituto with St. Paul’s congregation at Driver* Attend School; Passed Exams the picnic dinner. Dokies Will Meet List of all school bus drivers • Friday' Evening North Wilke?borb Dokies.club will meet Friday evening, seven o’clock, at- Pine Ridge picnic grounds near Moravian Fals. The Dokies will feed on "Paul Cragan’s luscious hambungers” 'and an Interesting program will be In charge of C. O. Day and L. O. Critcher. teng sector near Lake Topozero, about 100 miles southwest of Kandalashka (on the Arctic Mur mansk sector) recaptured strrt- egic points. (‘London dispatches reported that snow had staretd falling in Finland and that the Germans apparently were start ing a new push towrrd Mur mansk, the great Russian pert In the Arctic.) B. The defenders of Leningrad and Odessa continued to heat back enemy siege troops and to stand firm pgalnst continuous aerial and artillery bombard ment. ship carries accident Insurance and offers many valuable services to motorists. One Nev Case Polio Relied Johnson Child At Lomax On ly New Case During The Past Month Annual session of Stone Moun tain Baptist association, which includes many churches in north western Wilkes, will be held at Traphill church on September 26. 27 and 28. The association will open at 10 a. ni. on S'-otp-nber 26 with sing ing ly Traphill choir and devo tional by Rev. Grant Cothren. The morning sermon will be by Rev. A. B. Hayes, followed by letter* from churches rnd organzations of the association. Rev* J. A. Blevins will deliver the temper ance report as the first 'business on the afternoon program for the first day. Other reports will he as follows: Periodicals, by Rev. A. B. Hayes; Christian education, W. V. Nix; Friday night—Wom- r- .1 r r'--an’s Missionary Union. Mrs. W. Was Father of Grady MUler.^_ Luftman; B, T. U , w. V. Fieldon Miller Is Taken By D^ath and Brothei>In-Law Of R. L. Doughton Fieldon Miller, 81. of Laurel Springs, well known Alleghany county farmer, died yesterday af ternoon at 12:30 o’clock at a Gastonia hospital. He had been in ill health six months and a patient at the hospital two weeks The funeral will be held rt 'Laurel Springs Baptist church Friday at If o’clock. The body win lie In state one hour before the service. Burial will be in the church graveyard. Mr. Miller was a member of North Wilkesboro Streets Decorated One new caae of infantile paralysis was reported In -Wilkes county this week, it was learned today from the crfflco of Dr. A. J. Eller, heaieh officer. The new polio patient Is Mal- VI n a Johnson,' elzht-year-old- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wilkesboro Johnson, of I^omax. The case Streets of North were gaily decorated this week,was diagnosed this week, in preparation for the Great | It was the first new case re- Northwestem Fair, which will’ported since a jj*®" hold a five-day exposition, be- the last of nine cases occ g ^ j oi lwuuu , ■ — — ginning Tnesdey, September 16, is short time was s^or e . Vann and Reese Miller of Laurei TODMCO FsumCfS W&lH6d and continuing through Saturday, i the cases have been In 1 Springs; and Mrs. T. S. Mox-'ey September 20. ^ ^overlSg | Nix. Saturday Session Devotional by Rev. L. E. Spark.3; report on ministerial re lief, by W. ‘M. Pruitt; pastor and church relations, A. C. Yale; hos pitals, C. C. Gam bill; missions, Mrs. J. E. DeJournette; after noon — orphanage, Mrs. Glenn Dancy; special charges; Srbbath schools, John McGrady; report of nominating committee, time, place and preacher committee and finance committee. Sunday Morning Ten a. m„ devotionals; Sunday school discussion ‘by John Mc Grady, Mrs. J. L. Gregory and a prominent Alleghany family ^ _— and hrd been active in comran- others: 11:00, sermon by some- nlty affairs for many years, lie one to be selected -by commlt- was a brother-in-law of Congress- tee. man R- L. Doughton of Laurel | Springs and former Lieutenant, i McGee Reunion R. A. Doughton of i JSp_vernor iparta. Surviving are the widow. I The annual reunion of the Mc- _ who I Gee clan,will be held at Beaver was Miss Betty Doughton prior Creek Baptist church Sunday, to marriage; seven children. Dr. ^ September 21st. There -will be R. C. Miller of Gastonia; Prof, an all-day program. Everybody Grady Miller of North Wilkes-' Is Invited to attend with dinner, boro; John Miller of Culpepper, i and enjoy the day. Va.; Dr. W. J. Miller of Lenoir; ’ The" decorations consist of red, all are apparently | Mrs. Bell Johnson' of Laurel white and‘blue flag* and-welcome]without serious Injury,^i»r. [Springs; Mrs. Betty Blackburn of signs bn streamers across the said. I Traphill; Mrs. Roxle Absher of - ‘ With fall weather near, health ^ . fifflclal*' do not expect any out- or threat of'polio .epidemic. principal streets at many points. The fair here is always herrlded by street decorations In patriotic color*. ■ I Nnrse—I think that patient is regaining congclonsness, Doctor, He Just tried to blow the foam off his medicine. . God gave man two *»d*. One to think with owe . to sit on. Sncces* 1* . determined hy which end he ua* *Mfti.>.Ha^ you win—tail*’^ywii IcSifc's ■ -- . ■- Jolnes of Abshers; two half sis ters. Mrs. Freel Johnson and Mrs. Paul Church of North Wilkesboro, Route 8; and- four half brothers, Horton. Sidney, Fred and Ed Miller, all of Laurel Spring*. Not To Peddle Tobaceo IrtformatloB ha* ‘been received in the local AAA office that lo- ' cal farmers are selling tobaceo on the streets of North Wilkeaboro, which constitutes a direct viola tion of the Tobacco Marketing Control laws. Wayland Jonea^ head of the merketing quota sec tion In Raleigh, advised the lo- , cal 'AAA ottica to notify termers .[ to .dlaoonttmie this prsetlee mediately.