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1151 THE ELKIN TRIBUNE 2S
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VOL. No. XXIV, No. 4
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BIG 300,000 EXTRA VOTE OFFER ENDS SATURDAY
Biggest Extra Vote
Period In Campaign
Ends December Bth
"Live Wire" Candidates Are beginning To
Realize The Importance oi Getting In Every
Subscription Possible On The 300 000 Extra
Vote Offer Closing Saturday Night. Names
of New Candidates Announced In Tfrs Issue.
TRIBUNE MAKES A GOOD CHRISTMAS GIFT
The great "Extra Vote Offer," which is in effect this entire
week, gives real workers an opportunity seldom offered early in
the campaign. Usually the biggest "Extra Vote Offers" or
inducements are made later on in the race and they are given at
a time when subscriptions are harder to find.
The "Cash Offer" Campaign is conducted on entirely differ
ent lines from the ordinary "voting contest." The Elkin Tribune
is not attempting to decide the most popular man or woman by
any means. There is very little similarity to a "contest" in the
"Cash Offer" Campaign.
The awards will be made strictly upon a basis of results the
candidates secure during the campaign. "Results count" is a
time-worn slogan and it applies forcibly to the "Cash Offer"
Campaign. The campaign is purely a business proposition
wherein men and women enter into competition with each other
on the Same basis and the results obtained decide the size and
nature of the reward.
Every day— ✓ *
New ambitions are aroused.
New determinations spring forth.
And—new nominations are added
to the roster of those who will com
pete in the Elkin Tribune "Cash Of
fer" Campaign. The great award
distribution continues to excite The
Elkin Tribune territory, interest is
increasing every day that passes.
The "Cash Offer" Campaign has
made a hit everywhere. Those who
wished to take a little time to study
the campaign carefully before send
ing in their nominations have found
that the "Cash Offer" Campaign of
fers the most equitable opportunity
to obtain a handsome reward in a
short period of time. Names of men,
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COUNTY OFFICERS
SWORN IN MONDAY
Commissioners Offer
SSO Reward For Mur
derer of Watchman
W The administration for Surry
W> county for the next two years was
formally set up at Dobson Monday
when members of the board of com
missioners and officials re-elected in
the November 6 election were sworn
Induction of the county officers
was the most important matter to
face the board of commissioners at
the regular session held Monday.
The following county officials re
#. ceived the oath of office: John D.
Thompson, sheriff; P. T. Llewellyn,
clerk of superior court; Worth Gray,
register of deeds; Curtis Harbour,
surveyor; Dr. Robert Smith, coro
ner, and W. J. Swanson, M. Q. Snow
and J. W. Lovill, commissioners.
A reward of SSO was offered by
the commissioners on the part of
the county for the apprehension of
rthe murderer of a Mr. Phillips, night
watchman of a Mount Airy mill, who
was mysteriously slain several nights
ago.
Notice To Campaign
Contestants And
To the Public
In the campaign staged by this
newspaper in 1929, both adver
tising and Job printing were in
cluded by the management at
that time. However, under no
consideration will advertising and
job printing be included in the
present campaign, it being purely
for additional circulation, and to
collect accounts In arrears.
This statement is made for the
benefit of contestants who have
inquired as to this angle.« The
Tribune does not feel that it
would be fair to all contestants
to include advertising and job
work. It wants every contestant
to have an equal chance.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE,
By H. F. Laffoon, Manager
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I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
WIFE OF BANDIT
CAPTURED
Chicago, Dec. 4.—Mrs. Helen
Gillis, 21-year-old widow of
George (Baby Face) Nelson, slain
public enemy No. 1, is in custody
of the Department of Justice
here, it was announced today-
She was captured at 10 p. m.
Thanksgiving Day, two days after
the guns of Inspector Samuel P.
Cowley and Herman E. Hollis,
federal agents, slew the murder
ous desperado in a battle which
took the agents' own lives.
It was reported unofficially
that she had surrendered in fear
she would meet the same fate as
her husband and other members
of the Dillinger gang slain with
out quarter by federal agents.
Justice Department officials re
fused to confirm this.
WAYNICK NAMED
ASSISTANT CHAIRMAN
Raleigh, Dec. 4.—Capus M.
Waynick, of High Point, 45-year
old prominent North Carolinnian,
today was appointed assistant
chairman of the state highway
and public works commission.
Waynick will act in place of
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of
Greensboro, who has been in a
coma almost continually since
suffering a stroke of paralysis
last August.
Governor Ehringhaus met with
members of the state highway
and public works commission to
day in conference, out of which
came the announcement of Way
nick's selection.
REPEAL HAS
FIRST BIRTHDAY
Washington, Dec. 4.—Prohibi
tion repeal will be one year old
tomorrow, and tonight Represen
tative Emanuel Celler (D), New
York, who was in the vanguard of
the fight that brought legal li
quor back, warned the whisky in
dustry it must reform or be out
lawed again.
He threatened to sponsor leg
islation which would regulate li
quor advertising unless the distil
leries cease "placing advertising
before the public designed to pop
ularize drinking."
ARE IN
LONDON
London, Dec. s.—Colonel and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are
due here tomorrow on board the
Holland-America cargo steamer
Damsterdy from California, a
Liverpool dispatch to the Dally
Mail said today.
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ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934
FRED COLHARD, 40,
ENDS LIFE MONDAY
WITH RIFLE BULLET
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Prominent Elkin Man
Despondant Over Busi
ness Reverses
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Fred Colhard, 40, prominent El
kin insurance man and former mer
chant and department store awner,
ended his life here Monday evening
by firing a .32 calibre rifle ball into
his, temple. Mr. Colhard was found
dead in his automobile on a side
road just off highway 26.' north of
Elkin early Tuesday morning by
children enroute to school at North
Elkin. The lights or, the car were
still burning when the discovery
v/as made-
The suicidal act is thought to
have been committed about 8:30
Monday evening. A coroner's jury
found the death a clear case of sui
cide. A note found in the dead
man's pocket, addressed to his wife,
explained business disappointments
as the cause of 'the act. It was
known by close friends of the de
ceased that he had suffered recent
ly from a brain tumor and that he
had taken treatment from special
ists for the ailment.
Mr. Colhard, a native of Bedford,
Va., together with his family, came
here from Winston-Salem about
fourteen years ago and since that
time they have been actively con
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Campaign Workers Are
Off To Good Start
Vj
Several Running Up For First Honors
S6OO In Cash Awaits Best Vote-Getter—s4oo * Cash For
Second Best and Good Cash Awards For Other
Live-Wire Workers.
Most of the Candidates are getting a good start and
anyone could jump to first place with a few subscriptions.
All interested, eager workers will make a determined drive
for all subscriptions possible this weak, as the biggest vote
offer of the Campaign will end Saturday, December Bth.
All candidates who are listed with 20,000 votes are
urged to get in two or more subscriptions by Saturday,
December Bth, and be fully qualified for first period.
Who will lead in votes next week? If your favorite
Candidate is not in the lead, help her this week. The
300,000 Extra Vote Offer will place her on the winning list.
A Big Drop In Votes After Saturday, Dec. 8
List of Candidates in The Elkin Tribune "Cash Offer"
Campaign and Votes Accepted for Publication:
NAME TOWN VOTES j
Mrs. Thomas W. Church Elkin 55,000 '
Miss Irene Brown , Elkin 61,000 !
Mrs. David Morrison ...*Elkin 61,500 '
Miss Beatrice Burcham Jonesville 64,500 I
Mrs. Elkin |
Miss Milared Holbrook. Traphill 67,000 i
Joe Williams Mountain Park 60,250 ,
Miss Lucile Cox Elkin ! 59.000 '
Miss Mattie Brendle.. Elkin 63,000 '
Mrs. Paul Speer . Boonville 66,000 !
Mrs. Ethel Myers Swan Creek 60,000 |
Mrs. H. E. Anthony Benham 20,000 |
Mrs. C. R. Hyden Jonesville ... "*.,......45,000 i
Mrs. M. C. Whitener Elkin 60,000 ,
Mrs. Lula Weir ISlkin ...62,000
Miss Nell Welbom Cycle 2o!o00 1
Miss Opal Smith JElkin 58 000 '
C. A. Hays Dobson, R-l 43,000
Mrs. Cora Cooper Hamptonville 64,500
Miss Bertha Adams Jonesville 20,000
Miss Olga Marion.... v . . Crutchfield * «wwy>
Miss Mayme Stanley ..Fairview " 20,000
Miss Louise Norman Dobson 20^00
Miss Stella Matthews Siloam ...20^000
Miss Vetra Haynes . State Road "..."."Z.2o!ooo
Mrs. C. A. Davis .. Mt. Airy .20,000
Mrs. O. D. Bentley Ronda 20,000
Mrs. Marvin Cockerham Roaring ... River, R-l 44,000
J. C. Martin .. Elkin ..... 4s'ooo
Entry Books Open For a Few New Workers Who Are Not i
Afraid of a Little Competition—Enter Now!
All Candidates are requested to make a cash report to j
Campaign Office on each Wednesday and Saturday, or have
report in mail bearing postmark of that date.
A WINNER NEVER QUITS—A QUITTER NEVER WINS! ]
New Workers Listed This Week
It Won't Be Long Now!
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Just wtoat Old Santa is telling' the kids is not known, but it's highly
probable he's passing along the word that Elkin stores are going to supply
him with a lot of fine gifts this Christmas for good little boys and girls,
and grownups, too.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MACHINERY TEARS
SCALP FROM HEAD
Yadkin Woman Fatally
Injured When Hair
Catches On Shaft
As the result of her hair becom
ing entangled in the shaft of a
roller mill as she stood watching
the machinery operate, Mrs. Zeal
Wilhelm, aged resident of the Enon
community, Yadkin county, was
scalped Saturday, the whirling shaft
tearing the hair and scalp from her
skull. The injury resulted in her
death.
Immediately after the horrible
accident, the 65-year-old woman
was rushed to a Winston-Salem
hospital, where an examination dis
closed that in addition to injuries to
her head, she sustained a severe ab
domen wound and other serious in
juries. Her right arm was broken
in two places, while her left arm
was broken just above the wrist. \
As the revolving shaft twisted the
woman's scalp from her head, her
clothes were caught in the pulley,
hurling her around several times
before horrified mill attendants
could stop the machinery.
The accident occurred about 4
o'clock in the afternoon. It is un-
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RELIEF OFFICE IS
AT N. WILKESBORO
Surry Included In Dis
trict Served By
Central Office
Effective today, the North Carolina
Emergency Relief administration will
work through districts instead of
county offices and a district office
for six counties, Watauga, Ashe,
Alleghany, Surry. Yadkin and Wilkes
has been located in North Wilkes
boro to better serve the needs of the
counties making' up the district.
By reducing the number of offices
and units from 104 to 33 in the state
it is expected that SIBO,OOO can be
sliced from the cost of relief admin
istration.
The consolidation move is the first
important alteration of the relief ad
ministration setup since its organi
zation more than a year ago. Vir
tually every county in the state will
be affected by the change.
District administrators have not
.yet been announced, and those not
retained as administrators may be
employed in other relief Jobs, Mrs.
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LOCAL STORES POT
ON HOLIDAY DRESS
AS OPENS
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Many Attractive Gift
Offerings From Toys
Up Await Shoppers
15 SHOPPING DAYS
With Christmas only 15 shopping
days ahead, Elkin merchants are
today opening the holiday season
with large and comprehensive stocks
of Christmas merchandise, including
practically everything ahyohe could
possibly desire.
And they are calling' attention to
the fact that prices, "considering
quality, are at remarkabiy low levels.
A tour of the stores whOsfc adver
tisments appear in this gala Christ
mas edition of The Tribune dis
closes hundreds of attractive and
worthwhile gifts. Defckrtment
stores are showing miny attractive
new items in gift merchandise in
addition to old f&vbritfes,' While the
dime stores are offering a world of
attractive gift suggestions:
Especially interesting this year
are the toys and . wheel goods. Many
toys, absolutely new in : principle and
construction are on display at the
various stores. Following the inau
guration last Christmas of equip
ping larger toys with electric lights,
• his idea has been carried out this
year on a grand scale, small toys, as
well as the larger wheel toys having
been given both tail and headlights,
which operate from inexpensive
flashlight batteries and burn flash
light bulbs, thus making replace
ment easy in case of damage. Prices
for these modern playthings are re
markably reasonable.
Another feature worthy of com
ment on the larger wheel goods,
such as wagons, tricycles and auto
mobiles are the pneumatic tires of a
popular make, which insure better
appearance and easier riding.
These tires may be replaced with
New ones when worn ou.t.
Local furniture stores, with fine
stocks of the newest in modern
furniture and home furnishings, are
offering very attractive values in
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MRS. FARRIS MOXLEY
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Yadkin County Woman
Passes Following:
Brief Illness
Mrs. Versie Ca«tevens Moxley, 28,
wife of Farris Moxley. of near
Boonville. died Saturday at her
home following: a brief illness. The
deceased was a daughter of Mrs.
Bettie Castevens and the late T. R.
Castevens- She was a consistent
member of Mitchell's Chapel Meth
odist church, which she joined early
in life.
Funeral rites were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Mitchell's Chapel and Interment was
in the church cemetery. *
She is survived by her husband, a
small daughter, Betty Lou Caste
vens; her mother, Mrs; Bettie Cas
tevens; one sister, Mrs. H. S. Wag
oner and one brother, • Nelson Cas
tevens, Yadkinville, R. F. D„ form
erly of Elkin.
Pallbearers were Grady Brown,
Eugene Casstevens, Dollie Swalm,
Edward Casstevens, Weldon Hin
shaw and Sherman Spainhour.
The largest crowd ever to attend
a funeral at this church was present
for the funeral of Mrs. Moxley.