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Elkin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXI No. 30
Plans Are Pushed Here
For a Community Fair;
May Be Annual Event
WILL MEAN MUCH
To Be Backed By Ki
wanians and Business
Men of City
ENTHUSIASM HIGH
Plans for a community fai r to be
held in Elkin probably in October,
were drafted Friday at the meeting
of the Elkin Kiwanis club, and offi
cers and a board of directors ap
pointed.
The fair is to be staged for the
benefit of the farmers of Surry,
Wilkes and Yadkin counties and the
citizen? of Elkin. Sponsored by the
Elkin Kiwanis club, it will be backed
by the club and business men of
the city.
Although the date has not yet
been announced, October has been
designated as a logical month. A
movement is already underway to
enlist the aid and support of the
farmers of the three counties whose
co-operation and interest is neces
sary to the success of the project.
It is the opinion of those backing
the movement that a community fair
will be worthwhile for both farmer
and town citizen. Farm products,
carefully selected and intelligently
arranged afford an Interesting study
to the citizens in town, and good al
ways results for the farmer wljen
he is able to compare his products
with those of his neighbor.
The women, with their canning
and handwork are able to add to
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ANNOUNCE TEACHERS
JONESVILLE SCHOOL
Prof. Z. H. Dixon Again
Heads Staff; One
New Man
The entire staff of teachers for
the Jonesville school have been se
lected and passed upon, it was
learned Tuesday following a meeting
of the school board Monday night,
and with but one exception last
year's staff will continue their work.
The exception is W. A. Hunt, who
will succeed S. G. Wallace. Mr.
Wallace resigned in favor of a posi
tion elsewhere.
Prof. Z. H. Dixon will again head
the school as superintendent, and
Mr. Hunt, in addition to teaching
science will have charge of athletics.
Following is the list of teachers
and the grades and subjects they
will have charge of:
English, Miss Clara Bell; seventh
grade, M. R. Haynes; sixth grade.
Miss Ruby Steelman; fifth grade,
Miss Elisabeth Turner; fourth grade,
Mrs. Kate Greenwood; primary de
partment, Miss Beulah Fleming,
Miss Mollie Burrus, Mrs. A. D. Stout
aa; Mrs. W. V. Holcomb.
The school board is composed of
J. W. Arnold, F. A. Lineberry and
Ed Reece.
Die* In Car's Overturn
Ernest Teer, 32, Greensboro, was
killed late Sunday near that city in
the overturn of his light car. T. L.
McDaniel, a companion, was charged
with drunkenness. He said both
had been drinking.
Winsome Widow Convicted
of Giving Flexible Check
Mrs. A. J. Hauser, alias Mrs. T. L>.
Hdusci, alias Tussle Hauser, 39,
who fleeced a number of local mer
chants here last week with a well
groomed appearance and the prom
ise of a check, was thrown in Jail
at Winston-Salem Monday in default
of 9300 appeal bond following her
conviction in Winston-Salem muni
cipal court on a charge of giving a
worthless check. She was sentenced
to 60 days in jail.
Court records show that Mrs.
Mauser's latest conviction on a check
charge is her errenth since 1925.
The presumably wealthy widow was
irrested here last week by Chief of
•Police W. O. Church on a warrant
rom Winston-Salem which alleged
hat she had given the J. C. Penney
ompany store of that city a flexible
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Owner of Land Sold
For Taxes Has Three
Years to Redeem It
Although the law requires Mutt
the property of all taxpayers who
have not paid their taxes by the
first Monday in May be advertised
and sold for taxes on the first
Monday in June, owners of this
property actually have a period
of three years, seven months and
15 days in which they may pay
the taxes and redeem the land
before a foreclosure deed can be
obtained to it and the owners
actually dispossessed.
"A great many people believe
that when their property Is ad
vertised for sale for taxes or even
sold, that .it .is gone and there is
nothing more that they, can- do
about it," W.. K. Eawterling, of
the local government commission
of Raleigh, said recently. "But
that is by no means the case."
SWATS WIFE WITH
STOVE. IS ARRESTED
Wilkes Man Sued For
Alleged Slander of
Magistrate
James Cheek, of the Austin com
munity of Wilkes county was ar
rested the latter part of last week
on a charge of hitting his wife with
a stove, and for drunkenness, it
has been learned here from Deputy
Sheriff W. B. Hall, of Thurmond.
According to the officer, Cheek,
who at the time was under a sus
pended sentence in another case, in
addition to having several cases
pending in federal court, was form
ally charged with assault and bat
tery with a deadly weapon and given
a trial before Magistrate D. H.
Brown, of Thurmond, who bound
him over to Wilkes superior coi'rt.
However, before being tried on the
latest charge he will have to serve
the 30 day suspended sentence, it
was said.
Odell Snow, of the Austin section,
also found himself in the tolls of
the law the latter part of last week
at the hands of Deputy Hall, who
served upon him a notice of suit in
the sum of SIO,OOO for the alleged
slander of Magistrate Brown, whom,
it is alleged, Snow had accused of
upholding chicken stealing and
liquor violation within his Jurisdic
tion. Magistrate Brown is a minis
ter. *
In addition to serving notice of
suit, Deputy Hall also served upon
Snow bail and arrest, papers.
The destruction of a still and €OO
gallons of beer ready for a run in
the Traphill section, marked the fur
ther activities of Deputy Hall during
the past 10 days. •
Harold Brendle Is
Painfully Injured
Harold Brendle, small son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Brendle, sustained
painful injuries on Monday after
noon when he fell from a merry-go
round and almost severed bis lower
lip. Several stitches were required
to close the wound, both on the in
side and outside of mouth.
check in the amount of $39.85,
drawn on a Pinehurst bank. The
check was in payment of a bill of
merchandise.
Mrs. Hauser, who 'Was making her
home at Roaring Gap in a home she
said she had rented but which it
turned out she had taksn possession
•of on the pretext of looking it over
secured a quantity of Merchandise
here Monday morning before her ar
rest, for which she left i promise
to mail a check when sh« reached
home.
The kick of a mule sustained on
Friday, was fatal Monday to Arthur
T. Bobbins, 33, of near Randl«nc*.
He ditid in a High Point hospital.
ELKIN, N.. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932
TO HOLD VACATION
BIBLE SCHOOLS HERE
AT TWO CHURCHES
Both The Baptist And
Methodist Announce
Terms for Summer
FOR YOUNGSTERS
A Daily Vacation Bible school will
begin at tbe First Baptist church
on Monday morning, May 30, and
will continue for three weeks. The
classes will begin at 8:30 and will
continue until 11:30 five days of the
week".
All children of the community,
regardless of denomination, are re
quested to enroll in tbe classes.
Children from five to seventeen
years will be eligible. The school
will be conducted in a similar man
ner to daily schools and there will
be no tuition and no text books ex
cept the teachers' books. Pupils
are requested to bring a note book
and a Bible. Tbe workers are deep
ly interested in this school and want
the pupils to remember it as one«of
the most pleasant episodes in their
vacation.
The students will be taught por
tions of the Bible, suitable to their
ages, there will be scripture gems
to be memorized and interesting
Biblical, patriotic, habit-forming
and Missionary stories will be told.
There will also be a period of
supervised play, periods for music
and note book work. Salutes to
the Christian and American flag will
be taught as well as arts and crafts
and different kinds of handwork.
The Methodist church will hold a
Daily Vacation Bible school begin
ning on June 6 and continuing until
June 17. Classes will begin at 9
o'clock in the morning and will con
tinue until 11 each day except Sat
urday.
Provision will be made for all
children in the community who wish
to attend between the ages of four
and sixteen years. Any child in the
town is eligible to enter and is re
quested to do so.
Miss Clara Bell will be the general
superintendent of the school and
the various departments will have
superintendents and co-workers to
assist with the classes.
LOOM 108 YEARS
OLD IN DISPLAY
Chatham Mfg. Company
Contrasts Blanket
Processes
A unique display which contrasts
I the methods of yesterday and today
| in the making of wool blankets has
j'been placed in the show window of
| the .Van Dyke department store in
I vtonston-Salem by the Chatham Man-
I ufacturing company as their part in
I celebrating the Washington Bi-Cen
tennial, which is to feature a pa
geant Saturday depicting Washing
i ton's visit to Salem.
An old loom and spinning wheel,
said to be 108 years old, will occupy
I one section of the window, While
J modern equipment, such as is used
in the manufacture of Chatham
blankets, will occupy another sec
tion. Four women, versed in the
I art of hand spinning and weaving,
{ will card, spin and weave on the an
tique machinery, transforming fleece
wool Into blankets in the same way
it was done 100 years ago.
SURRY TEACHERS
DENIED SALARIES
State's Action In Withholding Funds
Due On Extended School Terms
Is Responsible
Due to the fact that the state of
North Carolina is withholding a to
tal of $26,000 of equalization funds
due Surry county as state aid on
the extended school term, until the
county has paid a debt of $30,234.50
that has been due the state's lit?iary
and school building fund, teachers
in the rural schools of the county
are being denied their salaries for
the laßt two months of the term.
Stokes and Yadkin counties also
owe the state funds but in smaller
amounts than Surry.
2 Drown In Small Pond
A midnight boat ride at a gun
club near Charlotte was fatal, Sat
urday, for George Steed and his
wife, of near Charlotte, both 37.
Mrs. Steed's body was found under
the overturned boat but a day's
!%arch was required to locate the
| body of hfer husband.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The Governor of New York was born in the house in which he still
lives, at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York, on Jan. BU, 1882. He is
a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School. He married liis distant
cousin, Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Roosevelt's brother, in
1905; they have five children. He served in the New York legislature, was
assistant secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, Democratic nomi
nee for Vice-President in 1020, and was first elected Governor cf New
York in 1020, re-elected in 1081.
Brief Highlights of the
Past Week's News Events
of National
LINDBERGH CASE
Hopewell, N. J., May 24.—The
course to be pursued in prosecu
ting John Hughes Curtis, confes
sed and imprisoned hoax nego
tiator in the Lindbergh baby
murder case, brought Anthony M.
Hauck, Jr., Hunterdon county
prosecutor, to the Lindbergh
estate for a conference today.
At it's conclusion the prosecu
tor announced that he planned to
lay the Curtis case before the
grand jury at Flemington, N. J.,
on Thursday. Should an Indict
ment be returned he said it would
be reported formally Saturday.
In the event of an indictment
he said a speedy trial within the
month of June would be set for
Curtis, but that there was no de
sire to "railroad" the boat build
er.
Tr*nJon, N. J., .May 23.—A re
ward tf 125,000 for the capture
of the murderers of the Lindbergh
baby was passed Monday by the
New Jersey legislature. The vote
was 54 to 1.
MAY Wi JjMEDAL
Washington, >fay 24.—.Amelia
Karhart Putnam nearcd an honor
never before accorded a woman
today as Congress moved to award
her the distinguished flying cross
SURRY FARMERS TO
DEMAND TAX RELIEF
To Form Organization;
"Being Bankrupted
and Impoverished"
Notice of a mass meeting, to be
held at the courthouse on Saturday,
June 11, at which time the high tax
situation, described as haying al
ready impoverished the taxpayers of
Surry county almost to bankruptcy,
will be discussed and an organiza
tion for relief formed, is being cir
culated about the county and bears
the names of Surry citizens.
The notice, which is more in thf,
form of a petition, is as follows:
"Recognizing the fact that. the
taxpayers of Surry county are no
longer able to carry the heavy bur
den of taxation which has already
impoverished them almost to the
point of bankruptcy, and recognizing
that something must be done now
if we are to save our farms and
homes, We, the undersigned citizens
and taxpayers, call a mass meeting
of our citizens to meet in the court
house at Dobson on Saturday, June
11th, 1932, at 1 o'clock p. m., for
the purpose of perfecting an organi
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for her record breaking solo flight
across the Atlantic.
f " While the famous flier was re
ceiving London's plaudits the
senate adopted a resolution to
authorize President Hoover to
confer upon her the coveted
medal, heretofore worn only by
men.
HOOVER GAINS
May 564. While President
Hoover discussed prohibition and
other matters connected with the
approaching national convention
w"h three party leaders late yes-
Jay, he gained the indisputable
, lge of sufficient delegates for
retioiuination when Texas instruct*
ed its delegation of 40 for him.
The large block of convention
votes sent Mr. Hoover's total of
pledged delegates to 021, or 43
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Ewe Owned By Jack
Ray Gives Birth To
Flock of 4 Lambs
Not since Mary's little lamb has
a member of the sheep family
made a bid for fame insofar as is
known until the latter part of
last week when an ewe belonging
to Jack Ray, of Rlkin, gave birth
to literally a flock of lambs. For
not only did Mr. Ray find that
his ewe had become a mother,
but a mother of four!
Rxhibited in town Saturday
morning, the lambs and their
mother were the center of much
interest.
Jonesville Negro Borrows
Auto and Drives Into Jail
Bob Doweil, negro, formerly a
resident of Jonesville, but for the
past several months "on the lam"
due to a number of reasons chief
among which was one Night Police
man J. L. Darnell, wh 0 seemed to
be laboring under the impression
that Dowell should pay some court
costs here, made a trip to Bristol,
Tenn.. Tuesday morning in company
with a Bristol deputy" sheriff and a
handsome sport moj(i>l Ford with
which for the. past aevpral days he
had been striking envy into the
hearts of colored acquaintances.
According to Officer Darnell,
Dowell appeared in Jonesville Sun
day driving the new machine, and
proceeded to pass away the time by
driving at break-neck speed hither
and yon, much to the discomforture
Western Carolina's
Leading Weekly
Newspaper
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BATTLE RAGES PRO
AND CON IN BRYANT
HEARING MONDAY
Governor's Counsel Re
serves Decision For
Few Days
PREACHERS ATTEND
Tyre C. Taylor, executive counsel
to Governor O. Max Gardner, after
retereeing a battle royal Monday
morning at Raleigh between the
"don't want 'ima" and the "do want
'ims" of Surry and Yadkin counties
in regards to the reinstatement of
Dr. G. C. Bryant, of Jone9vllle, as
a magistrate, reserved his decision,
saying that he would submit his
recommendation to the governor
within a few days.
Approximately 20 persons favor
ing Dr. Bryant's reinstatement were
on hand while those opposed to it
who were heard by Taylor numbered
about half a dozen.
Pr- Bryant was appointed a mag
istrate by Governor Gardner on .May
2, who acted upon the recommenda
tion pf Wilson Hudspeth, chairman
of the-D«nioci , ati'c cbmmlttee. Seven
days later hie license was revoked,
also upon the recommendation of
Mr. Hudspeth.
It was claimed by those in favor
of Bryant's reinstatement that his
fall from magisterial grace was
through the efforts of Judge Harry
H. Barker, who, under indictment
of a whisky charge, was to have
been given a hearing before him.
However, those opposed said that
that did not enter into the case and
that they didn't want Dr. Bryant
because they didn't want him.
The delegation, made up of busi
ness men and ministers, individual
ly voiced their opinions of the mat
ter. Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, Rev. W.
J. S. Walker and Rev. C. A. Correll
all said that they believed the rea
son behind the move to oust Bryant
was his indictment of Judge Barker
for alleged drunkenness. Rev. Mr.
Walker going even further to say
that Dr. Bryant, far from ndl being
capable of making a fair and just
magistrate, his courtß in
a dignified ' quiet manner as
though they weire a Sunday school.
Rev. Mr. Whisenhunt was said to
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TO DISCONTINUE
FARM HOME WORK
Demonstration Worker
To Leave After
June Ist
Home demonstration work, which
has been underway in Surry, Wilkes
and Yadkin counties for the past
six months under the direction of
Miss Hazel Browne, will be discon
tinued after June 1, it has been
learned from Miss Browne, who is
planning to return to school to com
plete the work for her Masters de
gree.
The hundreds of farm women and
girls throughout the three counties
will learn of the discontinuance of
the work with regret. Since its in
auguration many 4H clubs have
been organized among the younger
folks and many helpful suggestions
made and projects launched.
IMes In Auto Wreck
James Beasley, 25, was fatally
hurt in Durham, Sunday morning,
when his car collided with one
driven by Charles Littlejohn, ne
gro. Llttlejohn was held under
SI,OOO bond for manslaughter.
ot Jonesviiie residents. As a result
Officer Darnell secured the assist
ance of Corporal W. B. Lentz, of
the state highvay patrol, and went
in search of Dowell late Sunday
night.
He was found snoozing peacefully
in the front seat of the car, which
was parked under an apple tree. Up
on being awakened he said he hart
rented the car in Bristol for an hour
and had decided to make a little
trip.
Dowell was thrown in jail here
and the owner ot the car and Bristol
officers notified.. They caipe for
him Tuesday morning, taking him
hack to Teßsesbee to face a, charge
of grand larceny. A reckless driv
ing and speeding charge, against
him here was withdrawn.