North Carolina Newspapers

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER VOL NO XIX NO. I? START MOVE TO STOCK SECTION WITH PURE COWS f. CARLOAD GUERNSEY CALVES RRING SHIPPED TO K!X>X DIKE FARM SALE IN MAY and County oopcrau- With Thurmond Chatham In Ret taring Cattle The first concrete and concert ed effort to stock this section of the state with pure bred cattle has been taken by Mr. Thurmond in conjunction with the mstA Agent, Mr. Taylor and MK Ruohs Pyron, Manager of > ffle Klondike Farm. F. R. Farnham, slate dairy specialist.i is now in Wisconsin, where he is buying a carload of i purebred Guernsey heifer calves and these will be brought to the Klondike Farm where they will be sold during the early part of May. While the North Carolina 1 Extension Department is promot-j ing the work, it is being sponsor ed by Mr. Chatham and the en-! tire project is being promoted ! without profit to anyone. According to County Agent V, 1 C. the calves will be sold ' for just what they cost in Wiscln-' Bin plus the cost of getting them here -and the sale will be for the ' purpose of promoting interest in 1 e.alf club work among the 4-II club boys and girls and to in crease an interest in purebred Guernsey cattle in this section of the state. is pointed out that this be the ideal time for farm (ers to get foundation stock into their herds at reasonable prices as these calves have been picked 'tffrom some of the best herds in 4 he United States. Information felative to the sale will be fur nished by the county agent or Mr. Pyron at Klondike .Farm. ELBOW BROKEN WHEN HIT BY AUTO The seventeen year old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brooks of the Brooks Cross Road section suffered a compound fracture of the elbow when she by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Gregory of Winston-Salem while walking a long the Boone Trail last Satur-j lay afternoon. After an examination at the office of a local physician, the girl was taken to the Wilkes hospital for treatment. The frac ture was so severe that the girl's •lbow protruded several inches from its socket. ADVERTISING INDEX $ The following index of com mercial display advertising is published for the convenience of our readers. Care is exercised in this index, but we as vßme no responsibility in case of , omissions. Professional Cards 2 rinol 2! Chrysler 2 Ray and Gilliam 2 Vi«ks * dftoel Cigarettes 3 Turner Drug Co 5 Rech-Hayes-Boren Inc 5 Carolina Stores S Black Draught 6 Uarris-Burgiss Elect. Co 6 V. C. Chemical Co 6', tu Notice 6 1 .■■lt Ads 7 Brendle and Son 7 Kelvnator 7 i Blkin-Jonesville Bldg Loan ... 8 Hinshaw Cash Hdw. Co 8 Bargon 8 Lyric. Theatre __ 8 Cystex 9 Business Cards 9 (Sold Ribbon Coffee 9 Chevrolet - 9 tohoate and Browne 10 Bank Of Elkin 10 A. A. Boles 10 Standard Service Station 10 Nitrate of Soda 5 Paul Gwyn «j By means of a secret process, tf | English firm i 3 making fur ture from cotton. An advertisement for fountain peas first appeared in 1778. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Late News ;U9» PRISONERS DIE The death toll at the Ohio State Penitentiary where fire trapped 500 prisoners mounted to 320 by Wednesday when fif teen more convicts died from the smoke and flames they enhaled 306 men died In the flames wlfich trapped them in their cells Monday night without a means of escape. It is thought the fire was of incendiary orgin and be gun by prisoners trying to effect an escape. Many of the convicts! went insane when they could not' get out oftheir cells as the flmaes surrounded them. PARK ICR «KTS SKTBACK Although President Hoover is still sticking by him and al thought he has no intention ofi hacking down, there is little like lihood that Judge John J. Par- ker, of Charlotte, will be named to the supreme court because of the judiciary committee of the senate voted against his confirm ation for the high court. Organ ized labor was against him be cause of an alleged "Yellow !Dog" contract case in which he gave a decision and the negroes • were against him because of a statement alleged to have been made by Parker when he was running for governor of North Carolina in 19 20. The issue will come before the open senate next Monday and bitter debates are expected over the nomination, for several days. WOMAN'S CLUB TO SPONSOR BETTER HOMES WEEK WILL BK OBSKRVKI) IN KLK IS FROM APRIL 2H TO MAY » Better Homes Week will be observed by the Woman's Club \pril 28 to May 3. A special fea ture of this observation will be the display of the modern kitch |en at the S. P. U. Co.'s, show [room. This display will be on Wednesday and Thursday after noon and Mi*s Charlotte Moftley of Charlotte will be in charge of the demonstration. In connection with this there will be two fea ture films on Better Homes in addition to the regular show at the Lyric Theatre during the week. The public is cordially in vited to avail themselves the op portunity to see both of these. GET BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE IS ADVICE OF FOLGER MT. AIRY ATTORNEY FLAYS RECKLESSNESS OK MOD ERN SI*ENDINJ Attorney John Folger, of Mont Airy, preached against the present day extravagance of liv ing to the Elkin Kiwanians at the club's regular meeting last Friday night at the Hotel Klkin. The sepaker used the bible freely in his quotations and likened present day livers as the Prodigal Son who went into far land and lived up his substance in riotous living and came back home to live on husks. The speaker flayed those who [borrow instead or working for |inoney and denounced those who have their farms and homes mortgaged and yet live far be yond their means. "We need to get back to the simple life" shouted Mr. Folger He was introduced in an elo quent manner by Judge Harry H. Barker. LOCAL TALENT TO PLAY ON THE AIR The new broadcasting station,' WSJS, at Winston-Salem, will entertain its radio friends witto string music at diferent inter vals. Two of the bands that have been engaged are of local talent. The "Red Fox Chasers" and the "Piedmont Tobacco Pickers," 1 under the dirction of Paul Miles and Paul Lewis of Cherry Lane NEW DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Alston Boles of Jonesville announce the birth of 'l" daughter, Jerry Lee, on April I KLKIN, N. C. THURSDAY APRIL 24, 19080 Wants Jobs for All I ) 111111 v Irllr-. I )*J|I nidi] I.f Ihe U. S. Chamber of- Qonjmejee, who (old leaders of industry they must find a way to keep workers busy the kcar round. LOCAL PARTY IS RECEIVE) BY MRS. HERBERT HOOVER FIRST LADY TALKS WITH XIGHT SCHOOL DKLKtiA TION KIM MM SICK BKD GUESTS AT CAPITAL Place Wreath on Tomb or Un known Soldier and Visit Famous Places Mrs. \V. W. Whitaker, as chair man of the Night School work j here, Mis Clara Bell and Miss Elizabeth Anderson, teachers in , '.he school and W. H. "Slim" , Lewis and Mrs. Sarah Turner, , pupils have returned from Wash- , jlngton and other points where a ] special tour had been arranged ] for their pleasure. TN* local people were received by President Hoover last Thurs- I lay ft the White House and only i by accident saw Mrs. Hoover,, the,l First Lady, who fell on one of ' jthe floors at the White House' ind sprained her back was ly ing on a sofa in her apartment 'and was given a number of arti-j |cles made by the pupils of the. jNorth Carolina Night Schools.' | The party had left the mansioni when Mrs. Hoover had a servant jcall them back and received ' them while lying on her couch. |' The local people report the ' First Lady of the as being very gracious and told them the iVhlte House was theirs and she and the president were occupy-j ing it hut temporarily. The party ] was introduced to the president by Congressman R. L. Doughton., The women were guests at a luncheon given by the Washing ton Woman's club addressed by Congressman Abernethy. of this otate anad later at a luncheon given by Supervisor of Education Alderman, of Washington. Dur ing the stay in Washington the Night School students placed a wreath on the tomb of the Un known Soldier at Arlington. Vis its were made to Arlington, Mt. Vernon and other points of in terest at the capital. The party left from Salisbury on special buses, going by way of Richmond and returning through the Shenendoah Valley, visiting the Natural Bridge and the Endless Cavern 5. Senator Overman furnished the North Carolinians with a guide to the city while they were in Washing ton. FINED FOR PASSING AUTO ON CURVE "We have warned and warned and now we are going to arrest all persona who insist on pass ing other motorists on curves," said lieutenant L, R. Fisher, of this district oftlie state high way i .patrol after he had brought Odell Holcomb before Justice of the Peace Lovelace for passing I hini on a curve between here and; , Brooks Cross Roads. Holcomb . was fined $5.00 andthe costs. J The patrol officer warned that I the law is very plain on the ? curve driving and that 110 one is '.permitted to pass another on a » curve or elevation unless he can . see 500 feet ahead of him. "To (protect the drivers,' 'the lieu tenant sand. "The Btate has r drawn the lines on the road, and t motorists must abide by the I state law which was written for Itlieir protection. SWAN CREEK LAD ENDS LIFE OVER A LOVE AFFAIR GLEN STORKS GOES INTO THE WOODS AND FIRES BUL LET THRU HEART HAD BEEN BROODING LtfHp.su Body Found by Ceph Hudspeth Tuesday Evening, Funeral Today Glen Stokes, twenty year old Hon of Mr. and Mrs. Irvln Stokes ; of the Swuu Creek neighborhood,! ended his life with a 32 calibre revolver, probably sometime! Monday night and the body was found late Tuesday afternoon by Cephus Hudspeth in a woods near| fhe community. The boy had pressed the pistol close to his heart and pulled the trigger, the 1 bullet passing almost ti> rough the body. The shirt which thej lad wore was scorched by the powder marks, It is said yiat the dead boy had a love affair which was sadly terminated and worry over this,l caused him to take his life. The! funeral rites were held Wedne#-' lay. WILKES HAS 3601 ILLITERATES TO LEAD WHOLE STATE Wilkes county has the highest percentage of illiterates in thej state with 3,601 persons regis- , itered as being unable to read write, a survey of the state Uni-j versify Department of Ruralj. Economics reveals. The Wilkes i percentage of illiteracy is 17.1% i , | of the whole population. On the other hand, Surry isj fourth from the bottom, only ; two other counties ranking be tween this county and Wilkes in' the percentages for illiteracy.! They are Yancey and (iraham 1 counties, wjiile Wilson, Stokes,) Burke, Swaim, Caldwell and lScotland counties follow hard upon. j New Hanover has the smallest ;percentage of white illiterates ten years of age or over, the department reported with a per jcentage of 2.9%. In the state at large there are 104.>73 native ■white illiterates and of this number 91.0U4 are from the ru- | ral regions. FINE BASEBALL OVER WEEK-END Chatham won one and lost two baseball games during the Eas er holidays. They took on Ham tonville Saturday and Rave them ' the whipping oftheir lives by piling up a twenty one to six ' score, started in the box for Chatham hut was reliev 'ed by Southard in the fourth ginning who pitched two innings when he was relieved by Parker •to save himself for Monday's igame. Parker held them score ' less for the remainder of the ' game. I: Monday's games were the • most exeiting seen here in some- I time. Roth of them had to be 'carried into extra inlngs to break i the tie. The morning encounter ! went to the eleventh before thtv -tie was broken. Lefty Southardj pitched for Elkin in the morning and should have won his same lie struck out seventeen men and the lilts collected from his offer- I iiiKH were scattered and shoud 1 not have gone for scores but er rors on the pert of his team mates caused hia defeat. Gross did the pitching for the local jboys in the afternoon and while Ihe did not make the strike-out .record for himself that Southard did but he pitched a wonderful game and only allowed one earn led run. The rest of the counts !wer the result of errors on the part of hjs team mates. Elkln 'will play this same team again on Saturday on the local ground. .SCHOOL BOARD MKKTINO The regular monthly meeting of the school hoard, will be held at school butldtng Friday even ing May 2 at 8 P. M. Anyone Interested In the school or its work is cordially invited to the meeting of the school board. E. G. Click Chm. BOB'" 1 Elkin Bank Clearings Reach Highest Peakin History With 6 per cent Gain Over 1929 T 1 NOT JOHN IPOCK ~ j John Ipock, of this city,! i Lakes exception to the state-; | tnent printed in state papers j J hat all Ipocks in the central | jind eastern part of the state' I von Id vote for Simmons. "If all the rest of the world rotes for him, I won't," says ; lie Klkin Mr. ipock in refut ing the statemeut of hfs j mcle who gave out the infor- [ j nation that the Ipock vote Vould be a solid block for'the :ieteran senator. TOBACCO MARKET ASSURED: FIRMS TO SEND BUYERS I Elkin will have a tobacco mar ket. This fact became a reality I last week-end following ft trip by an Elkin committee to the jbig tobacco manufacturing cen ters of the state where assur ances were given that all of them j will send buyers to the Elkin market. Only the export dealers have not yet been seen but it is taken for granted that they will Jsend buyers ljere if the other I concerns .send representatives. : here for the market. | Those making the trip were: ( C. O, Armfield, James Poindex ter. Rev. L. B. Abernethy, Oene Rpainhour and Attorney Marion Allen. The committee is getting in touch with a manager for the warehouse and it is hoped to close up the deal in the next few weeks so that the manager can start to work by personally mak ing a canvass of the farmers of the section and lining them up for the Elkin market. Many of the farmers have ex pressed a desire to see the re turn of the Elkin market where better prices have always pre* vailed than have been obtained when the farmers took their weed crop to markets farther distant. JUNtORS TO GIVE FLAG-BIBLE HERE A Bible presentation, and flag raising at the Elkin High school will he held on Sunday afternoon April 27th at 2 o'clock, by Elkin founcil no. 96 Junior Order United American Mechanics. The following program will be given: Master ceremonies, W. M. Allen: song by audience. Prayer by Pr. L. B. Abernethy, song by school. Presentation of Bible by Hon. Numa R. Reid of Went worth. Accepted in behalf of school by flon. S, O. Maguire. member of school board. Song by school. Presentation of flag !by Hon. J. M. Sharp of Reids ville. Accepted in behalf of school by C. 0. Armfield member of school board. | Baising the flag with song by school benediction by Rev. Whis enhunt. RONDA CLOSING PROGRAM ISSUED J The following s the pirogram for the commencement of the Honda High School, April 26, 1930. 10:30 a. m. County com , mencem,tn, speaker B. B. Dough tery, Applichian Teachers Col lege. Presentation of Flag and Bible. Junior Order of Ronda. April 26. 1930, 8:30 p. m. High ■ School play "The Road to the Icity". April 27, Commencement sermon. Speaker. J. F. Fulgham, Mountain Park Institute. April 1 28, 8:30 p. m. Elementary exer cises, Operette. Cinderella in ! Flowerland Sunbonnet Babjes land Overall Boys. April 29, 10:30 a. m. Class Day* Exercises. April j29 3:30 p. m. Graduating exer cises. Speaker, E. J. Coltrane Presjcdtn N. C. Education Asso- TOWN ANXIOUSLY AWAITS FIGURES ON 1930 CENSUS MRS. NELSON CASTEVKNS SENDS IX RKI>ORT BUT IT HAS NOT YET BEEN CHECKED THOUGHT DOUBLED With .loncsville Enumeration Coupled with Elkin Enumera tion Should be SISGO Although Mrs. Nelson Cast evens, Elkin census taker, has completed her work and sent her | report to the office of Brooks -■oindexter. district census taker at Winston-Salem, that office has not yet completed checking over the Elkin census and hence | would give out no information [Wednesday • evening regarding the local population. In a long , distance telephone communica tion with Mr. Poindexter Wed nesday, he said it would possibly be the last of the week before the Elkin enumeration would be officially tabulated. Much speculation exists as to jvhat the 1930 census will show Elkin but it is generally conced jed that the town will double its 1 1920 figure of 1195 although isome aver th*- town will be in |the 3000 class while others say [the population has far from (doubled itself and will do well :to even reach the 2000 mark. ,j Howevep the combined Elkin- Jonesville Population should be around 3,500 or better. In the last census Jonesville had a pop ulation of 787 and it is agreed that the town across the Yadkin has shown a great increase since the last counting of noses. ; Honda has been officially giv en a census of 334 while Dobson the county seat of Surry has a population of 446 or an increase over its 1920 figures when the population ofthe court house town was 368. Walnut Cove in .Stokes county, hau a big increase over 19 20, having I.OSI persons now as against 651 ten years ago. CATHERINE HARRIS EDITS SCHOOL PAPER Miss Catherine Harris, daugh ter of Mrs. E. E. Harris, was un animously chosen editor of the "Coraddi," literary quarterly of North Carolina College at a meeting Friday evening. Miss Harris takes the place of Miss Peggy Ann Williamson of Ashe vflle. AUSTIN LAD KNOCKED DOWN BY AN AUTO The seven year old son of Bill iWilmoth of the Austin neighbor hood of Wilkes county, was bad jly shaken up when run down and knocked to the pavement by the automobile driven by Clayton Duncan of Roaring River, 011 the Elkin streets Tuesday afternoon. The lad was rushed to the of fice of a local physician where X-Itay pictures showed that no bones were broken. The lad was crossing the street and did not see the approaching automobile. RUDOLPH FOREMAN CATCHES A PIKE Pike have gotten into the wat ers of this section, according to Rudolph Foreman, operator of jthe water plant, who found a 12- inch species of that fish just be low the dam on the creek last Tuesday evening. It is said to be the first time in the history of the local fishing that a pike has been caught and it is thought that may be more in this section which have wandered into these waters from far away streams. 10 PAGES PIHMSHKD WKKKLT *KMW,4S© PASS THRU LOCAL INSTITUTIONS IN LAST THIRTY DAYS FREIGHT AT PEAK Kvtm Trains deeded Last Week Surry Furniture Haw Huge Oi'ilci's oil Hooks With a general pick-up of {business jn Elkin a checkup at the two Elkinbanks shows that last month saw the greatest bank clearings in the history of the town. A comparison of the bank .clearance against the same per ]iod a year ago, when clearings reached a high mark, shows a [6% gain over 19 29 figures. $695 1 4SO was cleared during the past ithirty days as against s*>s9,ooo Ifor the same period a year ago. In actual dollars and cents this shows a greater volume of clear ances of 826,480. At the same time the Southern jßailroad reports that the freight business on this branch is the | highest in years and last week I four extra trains were used to .bring and take away shipments [in this vicinity. J Approximately 590.000 has been paid out this spring for fertilizer by farmers of this sec ! tion, one dealer alone selling thirteen carloads of fertilizer last week. One of the big causes of the 'increased business in Elkin is the Surry Furniture Company, I Elkin's newest industry, which ships out an average of four and fi'-e carloads of bedroom furni- I ture for the national markets each week. /The Surry Furniture Company has already ' fourteen carloads of orders for its pro duct which will keep the plant running at. top speed for the next three weeks and other or ders are pouring in daily. A force of sixty men are on the Ipayroll at the new industry. GENTRY GETS $lO FINE AS RESULT OF LIQUOR CASE Recorders court took up less Tuesday morning hut that time than three minutes in its session was sufficient to Rive Decatur Clentry a fine of $lO and costs for speeding on the streets of Elkin and Steve Alfred got the same fine for drunkeness. Oentry was arrested near his tome here several weeks ago and fled when 7 5 gullous of liq uor were seized in an out-build ing near his home and the speed ing charge against him ocetfred when he was fleeing from the of ficers. He has been arrested by 'federal officials for the possess ion of the 75 gallons of liquor. He gave SIOOO.OO bond for his appearance in the U. S. Court at Winston-Salem. . GLADE VALLEY SET FOR COMMENCEMENT The Twentieth Annual Com mencement at (ilade Valley will be held April 2Gth through the 28th. The opening program is a Music Recital by the music pu pils on Saturday April 26th at 8:00 P. M. The Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivered by Rev. J. J. Doug las on Sunday, April Jjtti at 11:00 A. M. The Graduating Exercises will be given on Monday April 28th at 10:00 A. M. and at this time the Literary Address will be de livered by Rev. W. M. Baker. On Monday afternoon tlie Re citation and Declamation contest Will be held. At 8:00 P. M. on Monday the Seniors wil present the Class play, "Deacon Dubbs," a three act comedy. The senior class has eighteen member*, ten girls and eight boys. All the exercises will be held In tbe school auditorium.