1947
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkeshor*. North Carolina
D. J. GABTBB
Buy Christmas Seals
In Tuberculosis Fight
Over a period of years you have been
asked to purchase Christmas seals. Without
giving the subject much thought you
were informed that the money would be
used to fight tuberculosis.
Three-fourths of the money remains in
the county where it is raised to use against
the spread of tuberculosis.
But as the seals go on sale this year the
subject comes closer home, and we can
see and l^now that the funds raised in
previous years have been used to aid a
miraculous project—re-opening of the
Wilkes Tuberculosis hospital.
Opening and maintenance of a tuberculosis
hospital is no little undertaking. The
county commissioners appropriated a sum
of money toward operation of the county
sanitorium, which is located on a sun-kissed
"slope on the Beautiful county home
farm just outside of this city on highway
268.
A civic minded group of people here
rightfully became alarmed about the tuberculosis
situation in Wilkes county followty^
the war. There were several pa|
^ients'from Wnkes at stati sanitoria, but
there were more who had the disease and
couldn't get in those institutions because
they were full and had long waiting lists.
As a result those patients stayed at
home and members of their families became
infected with tuberculosis. It was
spreading alarmingly.
With the money appropriated by the
county for operation, funds were needed
for remodeling, renovating and furnishing
the buildings. It was fortunate tljat the
county chapter of the Tuberculosis seal
campaign had about $2,000 in accumulated
funds. This money, with contributions
from many groups and individuals, was
used to get the building in shape and to
buy equipment.
As a result, the county has a tuberculosis
hospital that is adequate for the
treatment and care of tuberculosis patients
in the county.
Many of them will be cured, and of
equally great value is the fact that their
relatives and friends will not contract the
disease through them and spread of the
disease will be checked.
This was not all due to the little, decorative
seals bought to place on Christmas
mail, but the seals had a part, and every
purchaser in Wilkes county had some part
in re-opening the county tuberculosis hospital,
which is truly a great humanitarian
effort
When you receive your seals in the mail»
don't overlook the fact that you can help
in a great cause by sending in your remittance.
It does not necessarily have to be
as small as the amount of the seals.
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Holiday Shopping
In North Wilkkesboro
Without fear of successful contradiction
we state that there is no other city of
comparable size in the southeast which
has more to offer the shopper than North
Wilkesboro.
And the merchants of the Wilkesboros
have anticipated heavy demand for the
latter part of 1947 and have prepared to
meet that demand with the best that the
market affords.
Serving a population equal to that of
a large city, the Wilkesboros have become
a commercial center which renders
a service to the public equal to that of
mercantile interests of a city of much
greater population.
Naturally, there will always be some
who go to other places to buy things in
order to have subjects for conversation
around the bridge table but that number
is growing fewer all the time as people
realize it is sensible and practical to buy
here when values are superior or equal
to those offered elsewhere.
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Wealth Is Created
Only By Production
The sure cure for inflation, starvation
and want is production and more production.
The only way that wealth is created
is by production.
Money can be printed and plentiful but
if things are not produced the money becomes
next to worthless.
In the world today food and manufactured
goods are not up to demand. There
is a shortage of food and almost everything
else, because people are not producing.
If America would produce at capacity
next year the nation's wants could be supplied
and there would be enough left
over to feed and provide for starving millions.
But we have grown lax and seek to live
luxuriously without producing the goods
which create wealth and higher standards
of living. This is true on the farm, in the
factory, the offices, the mines and all
other places were production is expected.
We need not so many controls, but more
production all along the line.
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Then there was the fellow who had an
accident when he took his eyes off the
road to read a safety warning.—Greensboro
Daily News.
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• LIFE'S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Route 4
BUILDING A GREAT LIFE
, "Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
tAnd departing leave behind us
\ ^footprints on the sands of time."!'
—Longfellow.
God has made it possible for all men
to build great and sublime lives, especially
in America and the nations of the earth
where we have the Bible, the Christian
religion and the Church of Jesus Christ.
We should not only be very desirous of
building for ourselves a great life, but we
should likewise be interested in helping
others to build great. This brings to us the
responsibility of helping send the Bible
to all people and leading them, as much
as possible, to' Christ for salvation.
We can only build a great life by building
upon a firm and sure foundation, and
this must be upon Bible methods. £hrist
must be' our Savior, our Sanctifier, our
leader and guide along life's pathway.
He must be the Rock of Ages upon which
we build. To leave Him out of life, and
to fail to build upon 'Him, is to build upon
the sinking sand. Men never build
great and sublime lives apart from Christ,
apart from God, apart from the Holy
Ghost.
In building great lives we must use the
material that is sound, genuine, wholesome,
enduring. This must be according to
that which God furnishes us. This material
is amply provided for every honest,
earnest, sincere, prayerful soul. It comes
through God's marvelous grace. There
must be always Divine material out of
which we build if our lives stand the testp
of time and eternity.
No man can build a great life out of
evil, sin and wickedness. He may, in some
instances, become popular with the world,
and even win temporary fame; but this
doesn't make him great. No life is truly
grfeat that isn't fashioned after God's plan,
nor built out of God's material. Evil is only
sinking sand, and when men build upon
it they go down, oftentimes unwept,
unhonored and unsung." i
If we build great we must build upon
Divine love, godliness, purity, holinessfaith,
honesty, truthfulness, kindness,
longsuffering, patience, prayerfulness,
and all that God provides through the
means of grace. The great old patriarchs
and prophets, apostles and disciples, and
godly men and wbmen of all ages have
built upon and out of such material. It
was for them; it is for us. Only out of this
could they build great; only out of this
can we build great. They blessed the
world and we can bless the world.
FALL TALL TALBB—
Fall is the season of the rear
when people group about i(otm
and tell tall tale*. Often the
conversation starts about a real
happening, but branched off lute
all kinds of exaggerations wbieb
become tall talec.
The tallest tale told one year,
according to the Burlington Liar*
Olub, was about the grandfather
clock which had run so long that
the shadow of the pendulum
swinging to and fro wore a hole
in the wall back of the cloek.
Personally, we don't think that
was too good.
For tall tale* we like this one
which was told in the old days
by a Wilkes citizen and ha* been
handed down through several
decades:
"I went for a deer hunt down
'by the creek. I had not gone far
when I spied a buck peeping at
me through the bushes. I drew a
bead and pulled the trigger. My
trusty old rifle snapped for the
first time and the buck trotted
off. You bet I was mad. I threw
my old rifle in the creek and
went home.
"'A year afterwards I chanced
to pass that way. I fished out my
old rifle and put it to my face.
Just then a buck came prancing
along. I took aim and pulled.
Well »sir, my old rifle fired as
clear as it ever did. The buck
fell dead.
"I went on in the direction I
had fired. I came upon a bee tree
that the bullet had entered. The
honey was pouring out. I reached
down for something to stop the
ihole and picked up a rabbit. It
made me so golderned mad that
I flung it down and killed nine
dozen 'padderidges'."
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Chamber Directors
In Meeting Tuesday
Directors of the "Wilkes Chamber
of Commerce in dinner meeting
Tuesday heard many interesting
committee reports which
denote much progress and transacted
a mumtoer ®f business items
for the organization.
President J. B. Williams appointed
a nominating committee
to nominate 12 members, from
whom six will be chosen as directors
for the coming year
There are 18 members of the
board, with six elected each
year. Members will be mailed ballots
on which to vote prior to
the annual meeting in Ja™iaIT
The nominating committee is
composed of W. D. Halfacre Paul
Osborne, L. S. Spainhour, N S.
Forester, W. G. Gabriel and Eugene
Trlvette.
Support the ^ M. C. A
notice of sale
North Carolina, (Wilkes County.
Under and by v)^®of/w-£
of the Superior Court of WUKea
county, made in the special proceeding
entitled Mary ' ^
Royal Harry, Dewey R. Harry m
Lee Royal, Jr., heirs-at-law, tne
same Jin* 31«. P- ^
special proceeding docket of said
Court, the undersigned C0^J®'
sioner will, on the 15th day of December,
1947 at 12 oclock Noon,
at the courthouse door m WilKes
boro, N/C., offer ior sale to Je
highest bidder for cash that certain
tract of land lymg and being
in Reddies River township, Wilkes
county, North Carolina, and more
particularly described as follows,
to-wit: , , « t
Beginning on a post oak, S. 1.
Caudill corner, and running south
2% deg. west with his line ana
Jake Paw's line crossing a small
branch 73 poles to a Spanish oak
in Paw's line; thencft south 76%
deg. east with agreed line between
G .W. Bumgarner and J. W. Martin
58 poles to a poplar m the
hollow; thence 8.70 deg. east with
same 26 8-4 poles to forks of the
branch at the mouth of the spring
branch; thenec north 62 deg. east
with same 88 poles to a black oak;
thence sooth 65 deg. east with the
same 26 poles to a gm*fl red oak
in Alex Bumgarner's line; .thence
north 4 deg. eaat with his line 81
poles to a stone, J. M. Browns
corner; thence north 89 deg. west,
his line, 8 8poles to his corner, also
W. A. Porter's corner, a chestnut;
thence north 79# deg. west
with Porter's line 38% poles to his
corner, a sourwood; thence south
14 deg. weat with his line 37 poles
to his corner, a dogwood; thence
north 76 Mieg. west crossing the
branch just on the south side of
the 48 poles and 19 links to his
corner, a stake; thence north 24%
deg. west with his line and old
road 10 poles; thence north 15#
deg. west with same 12 poles;
thence north 1 deg. west with the
same 4 poles to Porter's corner, a
pine, in S. J. Caudill's line; thence
north 88% deg. west with Caudill's
line 32% poles to the beginning,
containing 60 acres, more or less.
This 14th day of Nov., 1947.
LARRY S. MOORE, 1
12-8-4tM Commissioner
Firm Elections In 1
County On Dec. 9
It wu announced today by
the county committee of the
Wilkes Coumty AAA that the
elections for committeemen and
delegates to the county convention,
who will elect the county
committee, will be held In the 39
AAA precincts In Wilkes county
on the 9th of December. % *
There will he a meeting in each
precinct of the farmers who Intend,
to participate in the 1948
program at the polling places at
9:00 a. m. on December 9 and
at this time the nominations will
be made for the community oommlttea
of each precinct and the
dalagatas, who will attend the
eounty convention that will be
M4 In Wllkeaboro on the following
4ay.
AMMHffM#mMt will be made
iJtoting tin polling places during
the weak of Kprambar U.
Alt farmar# fbould attend the
nomination maattng U possible
and if 9bto to not should
arrange to go to ttw» potto on
that daf (o rot#/
The population of Worth America
mora than doubted in th« 00
years betwaan and 1940.
According to tbo encyclopaedia
Britsnnica, the population of the
continent inoraoaad during this
period from about 78,000,000
to more than 118,000,000,
notice of Service by
PUBLICATION
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
In the Superior Court
Boyd Parller vs.
Marianne Veal Pariier
The defendant, Marianne Veal
Pariier, will take notice that an
action entitled aa above haa been
commenced in the Superior Court
of Wilkes county for the purpose
of the plaintiff obtaining an absolute
divorce from the said defendant
on the grounds of two
years separation; and the said defendant
will further take notice
that she is required to appear at
the office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Wilkes county in
the courthouse in Wilkesboro, N.
C„ within twenty days from the
11th day of December, 1947, and
answer or demur to the complaint
in said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relisj
demanded in said complaint M
This 3rd day of Nor., 1947.
V C. C. HAYES,
Clerk Superior Court
County, N. C.
of Wilkee