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VOL. No. XXIV, No. 34
OTIS SPRINKLE
JAILED TUESDAY
ON RAPE CHARGE
Alleged to Have Crimi
nally Attacked Mrs.
Lucinda Cox Here
HEARING FRIDAY
Charged with criminal assault up
on Mrs. Lucinda Cox, Otis Sprinkle,
of Elkin, is in jail at Dobson with
out benefit of bond awaiting a pre-"
liminary hearing at 2 o'clock Fri
day before Justice of the Peace I. j
A. Eldridge.
Sprinkle was arrested Tuesday af
ternoon by Deputy Sheriff W. J."
Snow and carried to the Dobson jail.
The charge of criminal assault,' or
rape, if proven, carries the death
sentence.
According to Mrs. Cox,-who swore
out the warrant against Sprinkle,
he came to her apartment over Cash '
& Carry Store No. 1 Tuesday after- |
noon and made an improper pro- •
posal. Upon being refused, the war
rant alleges, Sprinkle assaulted her.
W. M. Allen, Sprinkle's attorney,
stated Wednesday morning that his
client denies the charge.
RABIES INSPECTORS
NAMED IN COUNTY
Will Have Job of Vacci
nating Dogs In Coun
ty Under New Law
In compliance with a law passed
by the last legislature providing for
compulsory vaccination of dogs in
the state, the Surry county health
department has appointed rabies
inspectors for all but four of the
townships in Surry county. In
spectors for the remaining four will
be appointed within a few days, Dr.
J. Allen Whitaker, Surry health of
ficer, said.
Rabies inspectors, whose duty it
will be to vaccinate dogs and fill out
proper certificates, have been ap
pointed for the following townships
in the order named:
Elkin, Stanford White; Dobson,
Taft Moser; Eldora, Richard
Shackleford; Franklin, Charlie Bry
ant; Long Hill, 1 Randell Reeves;
Aiaisii, Oiovei Musiey, Muuut Aiiy,
Dr. Banks; Pilot Mountain, Alton
Gravitt; Stewarts Creek, Claude
Ramey; Westfield, Arthur Cook.
Inspectors have not yet been
named for Bryan, Rockford, Shoals
and Siloam townships.
Johnson Returns From
Banking School Session
Garland Johnson, cashier of The
Bank of Elkin, returned Sunday
from Rutgers University where he
attended a school of banking as one
of a select group of 200 from
throughout the nation who were eli
gible for the banking course.
Mr. Johnson stated Wednesday
that he will continue his studies
through the winter months by cor
respondence and will again attend
a two-week's course at the university
next summer.
The fact that he was among the
comparative few who qualified for
the school, among thousands of ap
plicants reflects high honor upon
the local bank cashier.
Folger Retires As
County Treasurer
B. Prank Folger, who has served
as treasurer of Surry county since
1926, having also held the offices of
tax supervisor and county purchas
ing agent, retired as custodian of the
public fund July 1, when the board
of county commissioners carried out
the purpose of a local act passed at
the last session of the legislature
and named the Surry County Loan
and Trust company to act as treas
urer.
Mr. Folger, it is understood, will
continue to act as tax supervisor aitd
purchasing agent.
Find Boone Trail
Marker In Store
A Boone Trail marker, made of
Iron from the battleship Mtaine, ana
which evidently was' to have been
erected here to proclaim to the world
that Daniel Boone once came this
way, has been feund in Casstevens
Hardware company during moving
operations under way for the past
week.
The marker has been in the store
for the past 12 or 13 years.
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
After 'Cham' Fortune
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TRENTON, N. J. ... A "common
informer" yets one-half the penalties
when thp accused is found guilty in
this state. Above is W. F. Zwirner
who has brought suit against the
Western Union Telegraph Co., for
$3,600,000 on the ground it violated
gambling laws by sending chain
telegrams.
I ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
BELIE.VES IN PAYING
AS YOU GO ,
Kansas City, Mo., July 2.
Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kan
sas, today told a nation-wide
audience about the sunflower
state's balanced budget in a
speech which political observers
saw as a new bid for the Repub
lican presidential nomination.
Landon identified himself as a
"pay - as-you-go" administrator
and offered himself to his party
on a platform attacking "debt
building" and "tax-boosting"
* government.
GIVES WIFE GAS,
WATCHES HER DIE
Chicago, July 2.—William Gan
schaw, 60, put a gas tube in his
wife's mouth today and told her
he would follow her in death.
He sat and watched her die, he
told police. She had been des
perately ill for 10 years, their
children were married and they
had. "nothing left to live for,"
they decided.
Ganschaw, a mechanic, dressed
in Als "Sunday best'' for the oc
casion.
"When she died," he said, "I
tried to take gas myself, but be
came ill and, had to give it up."
mother often had begged for
The couple's children said their
death to relieve her of intense
pain.
PARALYSIS EXPERIMENT
IN GUILFORD
Greensboro, July 2.—The eyes
of the medical profession in the
state and nation turned to
Greenboro today where a field ex
periment in prevention of infan
tile paralysis is under way as five
new cases were reported in North
Carolina.
Two cases in the western sec
tion were reported from Ashe
county. The five cases discovered
today brought the year's total to
278.
The experiment here is under
the direction of Dr. A. G. Gilliam,
of the United States Public
Health Service.
TO INVESTIGATE
LOBBYING ACTIVITIES
Washington, July 2.—Handing
President Roosevelt His second
smashing defeat in two days, the
House today passed a revised
Wheeler-Ray burn bill calling for
regulation instead of elimination
of "unnecessary" utility holding
companies, and then voted Unani
mously to investigate White
House and power company lobby
ing activities.
The inquiry was voted unani
mously after two members
charred thai administration of
ficials sought to influence their
votes. It was approved after the
members voted 523 to 81. for adop
tion of the bill.
Lieutenant-Governor
Brief Visitor Here
Lieutenant - Governor A. H.
"Sandy" Graham, accompanied by
Attorney A. D. Folger, was a visitor
here Tuesday, renewing old acqaint
ances and making new ones in the
interest of his candidacy for Gover
nor of North Carolina.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935
| SURRY POLIO CASE
SHOULD NOT CAUSE
ALARM, DOCTOR SAYS
County Had Two Cases
Infantile Paralysis
Last Summer
URGES PRECAUTION
Although Surry county has its
first case of infantile paralysis,
there is no cause for undue alarm.
Dr. J. Allen Whitaker, Surry health
officer stated Tuesday while in Elk
in.
The victim of the dread disease is
Do rot»y Shin&ult, 17-months-old
daughter of Joseph Shinault, of the
Level Cross section,
y Dr. Whitaker, in discussing the di
sease, stated that Surry had two
during last summer, and that
one or more cases this summer was
,to be expected. He stated that ty
phoid fever is more 'to be worried
about than infantile paralysis as
conditions now stand, although all
possible precautions should be tak
en to prevent tlje spread of "polio."
In connection with the infantile
paralysis epidemic, Dr. Whitaker is
going to Greensboro today to confer
with U. S. public health pfficials on
ways and means of preventing its
spread.
At a meeting of the Surry county
board of health held in Mount Airy
last week, it was urged that child
ren be kept from attending public
gatherings and away from crowds,
.and that older people also use all
possible precautions.
IS INJURED SUNDAY
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
One Goes To Hospital
and Brother Goes To
Local Jail
Arthur Cox, 25, of the Traphill
section, is in Hugh Chatham hospi
tal here with a badly lacerated arm
as the result of an automobile acci
dent which occurred near Thurmond
on highway 21 Sunday afternoon.
Claude Cox, a brother, was jailed
following the wreck. A third mem
ber of the party was uninjured.
The accident occurred when the
machine in which the three were
riding, said to have been driven by
Arthur Cox, failed to make a curve
and crashed a heavy wire guard,
coming a stop many feet from the
road.
Both of the Cox men were said to
have been drinking. Claude Cox,
tried Monday morning, was released
upon payment of a fine. His brother
is said to be resting comfortably at
the hospital. -
To Try Browns On
Bawdy House Charge
A preliminary hearing for Mis.
Nellie Brown, and husband, Ernest
Brown, of Arlington, under an in
dictment charging the operation of
a bawdy and disorderly house for
prostitution and assignation, will be
held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
before Justice of the Peace J. S.
Hinson, of Arlington.
An impressive array of 24 wit
nesses has been summoned by the
state, it is understood.
Post Office To
Close Half-Day
Weekly; 4th
All Elktn stores and business
firms, with the exception of drug
stores, filling stations,
will be closed here today in obser
vance of the 4th of July.
Beginning next Wednesday af
ternoon at 1 p. m. and continu
ing each week through July and
August, the majority of stores and
business houses will close each
Wednesday afternoon in order to
give their employees a half day
of rest during the hot summer
months.
Conforming to plans of the
business firms in closing: on Wed
nesday afternoons, and in order
to meet requirements of the short
work week now applicable to
postal clerks in the local office,
the post office will also be closed
each Wednesday afternoon from
1 o'clock during July and August,
It was announced Wednesday
morning by F. W. Graham, post
master.
Drought Days Are Forgotten
DES MOINES, IA. . . Generous rains and abundant sunshine through
out America's food belt, Texas to Minnesota, now indicate bumper crops
this year with drought weeks and dust storms of last year- forgotten. Photo
shows June Caldwell, former lowa 4-H Club queen, waist deep hi| a heavily
filled wheat field near here.
WORK ON CCC CAMP
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Is Expected To Be Com
pleted Within jthe
Next 30 Days*
Actual -construction work on the
Surry county CCC camp, to be lo
cated on the Elkin-Mount Airy
highway near Dobson, got under
way Tuesday, preliminary work hav
ing been started last week by a
force of Workers brought to Surry
from a CCC camp in Wilkes county.
The camp wiir include 19 struc
tures in all, including the barracks,
dining hall, kitchens and auxiliary
buildings of theCCC corps.
Lieutenant Johnson, of the Wilkes
camp, is in charge of construction,
and it is expected it will be ready
for occupancy witfhin 30 days.
located in the county for the pur
pose of aiding the soil erosion work
already started, the camp will house
150 men, the officers' staff and ad
visors, and a soil erosion expert,
DUMONT ESKRIDGE
TO OPEN OFFICE
Young- Attorney Will
Locate In Hillsboro
July 15th
Dumont Eskridg§, of Elkin and
Jonesville, who early, this year suc
cessfully passed the state law ex
amination at Raleigh and was
awarded license to practice, will open
a law office in Hillsboro July 15, it
was learned Wednesday.
Mr. Eskrldge, who has been as
sociated with W. M. Allen here, is
a graduate of Mountain Park Junior
College, and studied law under the
supervision ofSdr. Allerh He passed
the state law examination with high
honors and has acquired mluch prac
tical experience since that time.
His many friends here and in
Jonesville wish him the greatest
success in the practice of his pro
fession at Hillsboro.
To Hold Tubercular
Clinics In County
The Surry county health depart
ment has obtained the services of a
representative of the State Tuber
cular Sanatorium-, at Sanatorium, to
conduct tubercular clinics through
the county during this month. The
representative, assisted by Dr. J. Al
len Whitaker, county health officer,
will be in the office of the county
health department here Thursdays,
July 18 and 25, for examination of
people in this vicinity. A similar
clinic will be held in Dobson on July
26 and at Pilot Mountain on July
19.
Barker Entertains
Insurance Agents
R. J. Barker, local representative
of the Jefferson Standard Life In
surance company, was host to the
agents of the Winston-Salem district
at a meeting at Hotel Elkin Monday
evening, July 1. The group was well
pleased with the splendid business
reported so far this, year.
Surry Farmers
Vote to Continue
Tobacco Control
Returns from the tobacco con -
trol electKm held in Surry coun
ty last week show that Surry to
bacco farmers are almost unani
mously in favor of government
crop control and the attendant
acreage reduction and tax adjust
ment payments, according to re
turns tabulated by the Surry coun
ty farm agent, J. W. Crawford.
The figures show 4,760 farm
ers in favor of continuing the
act, while only eight voted against
the plan.
Returns from 56 of the state's
64 tobacco growing counties Tues
day showed 114,852 farmers fav
oring continuance of the act with
only 1,229 opposed.
W. J. THURMAN DIES
FOLLOWING ILLNESS
Prominent Citizen
Passes Away Late Sat
urday Afternoon
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William J. Thurman, 66, retired
merchant, prominent churchman
and citizen, died late Saturday af
ternoon in the local hospital from a
brief critical Illness. The deceased
was a member of a prominent Vir
ginia family, having been born in
Bedford, Va., in 1869. He was en
gaged in the mercantile business in
Virginia for several years before
coming to Elkin twelve years ago to
make his nome. His decline in
health some time ago forced his re
tirement from active life.
He was a member of the First
Baptist church and a member of the
Board of Trustees of the church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Sciota Smith Thurman, and three
sisters, Mrs. R. V. Overstreet and
Mrs. Jessie K. Wright, of Bedford,
Va., and Mrs. J. P. Heppenstall, of
Keystone, West Virginia.
A brief funeral service was held
Monday morning at 8 o'clock from
the Reich-Hayes-Boren funeral par
lor, in charge of Rev. Eph Whisen
hunt, pastor of the deceased, and the
remains were carried to his native
home in Bedford immediately after
the service where the final rites were
held at the graveside.
Elkin Merchants Pull
Out of State Ass'n
Withdrawal of the Elkin Mer
chants association from the North
Carolina Merchants association was
officially announced Monday.
A resolution withdrawing financial
support from the state organization
"until such methods are adopted as
will insure its steady growth K~d
make It representative of Merchants
of all sections of the state,'' was
adopted at the meeting in which the
association decided upon the action.
It will continue to operate as a local
unit.
Decision of the local merchants
followed similar action by States
vilie, Rockingham, Reldsvllle, Oas
tonia and Winston-Salem associa
tions;
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IMPORTANT MEETING
TO CONSIDER TOWN
DEBT IS HELD HERE
Hope To Refinance In
debtedness Over Per
iod of 30 Years
JOHNSON PRESENT
A meeting looking toward ad
justment of the bonded indebtedness
of the Town of Elkin and the re
financing of the indebtedness at a
lower rate of interest so as to make
possible the payment by the town
of its principal indebtedness as well
as interest over a period of 30 years,
was under wjiy here Wednesday af
ternoon when The Tribune went to
press. .
Present at the meeting, the out
come of which will be of major in
terest to all citizens of Elkin, wero
some of the town's largest bondhold- »
ers, who with Charles M. Johnson,
of Raleigh, chairmajj of the local
government commission, are confer
ring with the town commissioners,
Town Attorney W. M. Allen and
Town Clerk Paul Gwyn. Also pres
ent were attorneys representing
bondholders.
MRS. G. S. ADAMS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral Services Held
Wednesday From
Mitchell's Chapel
Mrs. Luda Louzane Castevens
Adams, 65, passed away early Tues
day from a brief illness from para
lysis. She was born in Yadkin
county, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Castevens. Early in life
she united with the Methodist
church at Mitchell's Chapel, where
she remained a faithful member un
til her death.
The deceased was twice married,
first to Herrfian Benton, who passed
away several years ago, and then to
Q. S. Adams. She is survived by
two children by the first marriage,
Mrs. H. H. Shaw, Jonesville, and S.
S. Benton, of Danville, 111., and two
sons by the last marriage, George
S. Adams, of Lenoir, and Isom
Adams, of Elkin. One sister, Mirs.
Kizzie uavis, ol Winston-Salem, and
sixteen grandchildren, also survive.
She was a devoted mother and a
kind neighbor and leaves many
friends to mourn her passing.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock fromi
Mitchell's Chapel, in charge of Rev.
J. L. Powers, Rev. Loyd Pardue and
Rev. Isom Vestal. Interment was
in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Raymond Hem
ric, Gwyn Bauguss, J. B. Hemric,
Marion Walker, Tom Mlcßride and
Russ Powers.
REPRESENTED AT
FURNITURE SHOWS
Carolina Furniture
Manufacturers, Inc.
Have Nice Displays
Carolina Pumiture Manufacturers,
Inc., of this city, have displays in
the Furniture Mart at Chicago,
which opens July 8, and will also
have displays at the New York mar
ket and the High Point market, it
was learned from one of the officials
Wednesday.
The local plant featuring a com
plete line of beds, tables, bookcases
and cellerettes, and will be repre
sented at the market by company
salesmen.
Although the business was inau
gurated here only a short while ago,
business has been good - from the
start, and officials are anticipating
nice orders during the furniture
shows.
Revival To Begin At
Presbyterian Church
Rev. W. B. Mfc Swain, of Charlotte,
will conduct a series of revival ser
vices at the Presbyterian church be
ginning Sunday night, July 7, and
continuing through Sunday night.
July 14. Services will be held at
8:00 o'clock each ©veiling during this
time. The public is cordially in
vited. '. j
On Wednesday night and Friday
night of this week the study of the
book of James will be continued,
preparatory to the revival services.