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VOL. No. XXIV, No. 35
PROPOSED BUDGET
FOR TOWN DRAWN
BY COMMISSIONERS
Local Tax Rate Is Not
Expected To Be
Over $1.50
CONFERENCE HELD
A proposed annual budget of
$47,849.00 for town expenditures for
the next fiscal year has been de
cided upon by the town board of
commissioners, final action to take
place at their next meeting. The
town tax rate is expected to be the
same as last year, $1.50.
The budget expenditures are di
vided as follows: police department,
$1,830; fire department, $1,175;
streets and sidewalks, $4,727; exe
cutive, $1,400; sewer and water lines,
$875; general, $2,730; debt service,
school, $2,690; debt service, town,
$30,672; refunding expense, $1,750.
At a meeting of the commissioners,
town attorney and town clerk Wed
nesday afternoon of last week with
a number of the town's largest
bond-holders and their attorneys,
relative to the refinancing of the
town's indebtedness - no definite
agreement was reached. However, a
second conference on the matter is
scheduled to be held within a few
days at which time it is hoped the
matter may be settled for the best
interest of the town.
Under the plan proposed by town
officials, the town debt would be
refinanced over a long period at a
lower rate of interest, thus enabling
the town to meet its interest charge
and at the same time make pay
ments on the principal;
BRAIN FEVER FATAL
TO ARTHUR E. COX
Funeral Services Held
Saturday at Shoaly
Branch Church
Arthur E. Cox, 51, died from brain
fever at his home near Elkin Friday.
The deceased was a highly respected
citizen and a member of Cool
Springs Baptist church. He was
twice married, first to Miss Laura
Blevins, who died several years ago
and later to Miss Mollie Walls, who
survives him together with the fol
lowing sons by the first marriage:
Roosevelt Cox, Traphill; Earl and
Gleathen, of the home, and Horlan
Cox, of Elkin. Two sisters, Mrs.
William Franklin, of Cool Springs
and Mrs. Will Snow of Round Peak
and two brothers, Tyre and George
Cox, also survive.
Funeral services were held at
Shoaly Branch church Saturday in
charge of Rev. Grant Cothren and
interment was in the church ceme
tery.
Dr. Haywood Arrives
To Take Over Duties
Dr. C. L. Haywood, Jr., has ar
rived here to assume his duties as
head surgeon at Hugh Chatham
hospital, effective August Ist, suc
ceeding Dr. H. L. Johnson, resigned.
Mrs. Haywood and children will
Join him here to make their home
shortly after the first of August.
Surry Tobacco Crop
Appears Good; Will
Open Markets Oct, 1
" The Surry county tobacco crop,
from early season indications, ap
pears to be one of the best in
several years as Surry farmers
anticipate the opening of the'
Mount Airy and Winston-Salem
tobacco markets the first of Oc
tober. ' V
_ Date for opening of the mar
kets was set last week by the
United States Tobacco associa
tion.
A fine-cured tobacco crop of
715,004,090 pounds for the entire
country was predicted by the
president of the tobacco associa
tion, an increase of 160, 000,000
pounds over the 1934 crop. This
increase was allowed by the agri
cultural adjustment administration
in order to save the export trade,
which dropped off somewhat last
year on account of the unusually
high prices.
An average price slightly lower
than that of last year w&s also
predicted by the tobacco associa
tion! president.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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- Favors Lottery
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WASHINGTON ... We will soon
all be discussing national lotteries,
pro and con, if Congressman Ed
ward A. Kenney (D.) of New Jersey
(above), has has way. Despite
shelving of his lottery bill at the
last session, Kenney has presented
a new bill with three choices of lot
tery plans, "anyone of which will
briny the govertiment $1,900,000,000
a year in revenues of "painless taxa
tion," he says.
END FIRST TERM
SUMMER SCHOOL
Second Term Will Begin
Here Wednesday,
July 17th
The first term of Catawba College
summer school division at Elkin will
close Tuesday, July 16. Enrollment
for the first term totals 65, which is
five more than the enrollment the
first term last year.
Statistics of the first summer
school are informative. The types
of certificates held by the students
are as follows: high school principal
1) high school A 10; grammar grade
A 5; grammar grade B 9; grammar
grade C 6; primary A 1; Primary B
13; primary C 7; Elementary A 10;
Elementary B. 1; classed as students
2.
More than half of the students
registered in the first term have
definitely indicated that they will
attend the second term which begins
Wednesday, July 17. It is urged
that all registration work be done
on that day in order that class work
may begin on the following day.
Catawba College authorities in
vited the entire summer school group
to the college at Salisbury on July
2. President Howard R. Omwake,
in his address of welcome to the
students of the local division, com
mended the teachers for their fine
spirit and congratulated division di
rector Walter R. Schaff for the fine
way in which he has put across the
summer school.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
HOST TO UNION
Present Program Built
Around Study of Fa
mous Hymns
The Epworth League of the local
Methodist church was host to the
Surry-Yadkin Epworth League Un
ion at the church Monday evening,
with approximately 100 delegates
from the East Bend, Rural Hall,
Jonesville and Central and Rockford
Street churches in Mount Airy in
attendance.
The program was presented by the
local union, and was a study of fa
mous hymns. Misses Dorothy Col
hard, Elizabeth Shores and Nancy
Click each told of the origin of a
famous hymn and something of the
life of the composer. A special fea
ture of the meeting was a group of
piano, violin and vocal solos by Miss
Freida and Harold Boger, of Wins
ton-Salem.
At the conclusion of a business
session a social hour was enjoyed
during which sandwiches and lem
onade were served.
Prof. Lankford To
Remain At Harmony
Contrary to a story appearing in
a recent issue of The Tribune, Prof.
R. H. Lankford will not head the
Mountain Park school this year but
will continue with the Harmony
Farm Life school at Harmony. Mr.
Lankford was elected to Mountain
Park but declined thejelection. A
head for the Mountain Park school
has not been selected.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1935
[ATE NEWC
from the
State and Nation
ROCKINGHAM
GOES DRY
Raleifh, July 9.—Rockingham,
' only county west of Raleigh
amonr the 18 anthoriwid to M
tablish liquor stores, voted dry
today,'lncomplete unofficial re
tains indicated tonight.
• Greene county meanwhile de
cided by a 141-vote margin to
legalize whisky, according to
complete unofficial returns.
With only one small precinct
out of 23 missing, Rockingham
late tonight showed 3,541 dry
ballots as against 3,289 wet.
The Greene vote was 876 wet
and 735 dry.
10 MORE CASES
OF PARALYSIS
Ten more cases of infantile
paralysis werte reported in the
state yesterday bringing the num
ber of CIUKS since the first of the
year to 330.
Despite efforts of federal and
state health authorities to curb
tb&. disease the new cases re
ported continued to average about
ten daily.
Internationally-known authori
ties here to study the outbreak of
poliomyelitis concentrated in the
mid-state section, compared blood
tests from vaccinated groups and
unvaccinated groups in an effort
to determine efficacy of the anti
polio serum.
AMERICANS LEAVING
ABYSSINIA
London, July 10.—American and
other foreign nationals began
evacuating war-threatened Abys
sinia today, the Daily Express re
ported from Addis Ababa.
British and Italian men, wom
en and children, the dispatch
said, joined Americans aboard a
refuge train steaming toward, the
frontier as Italian and Ethiopian
troops deployed on Abyssinia's
northern and southern borders.
The refugees were described as
the vanguard of foreigners has
tening to make their exodus.
REPORT MARITAL
RIFT
Long Branch, N. J., July 9.
Mrs. Max Baer, who married the
heavyweight fighter less than two
weeks ago, tonight denied em
phatically reports circulated in
New York that their marriage had
failed and that they are going to
separate. •
"There is nothing to it," the
former Mary Ellen Sullivan, of
Washington, D C., said.
N. C. MUST
MATCH FUNDS
Washingotn, July 9.—Conferees
on the social security bill today
agreed to a modification of the
Russell amendment under which
no federal money will go into
North Carolina for old-age pen
sions unless matched dollar for
for dollar by the state and a state
security plan is put into operation.
J. H. Allen Descendants
Hold Meeting Sunday
The descendants of John Henry
Allen, who moved around 1800 from
Bertie county to the lower dge of
Yadkin county, met at the home of
Mr. and MYs. W. E. Shugart, near
Yadkinville, Sunday, July 7, for a
reunion.
There were 120 present. They
came from Yadkin, Wilkes, Surry,
Stokes, Forsyth, Stanly, Sampson,
Lee, Burke, Catawba, Durham and
Guilford counties and the states of
South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi
and California.
Stikeleather To Have
Charge of Service
Rev. S. M. Stikeleather, district
superintendent of the Pilgrim Holi
ness church in North Carolina, will
have charge of the services at the
Pilgrim" Mission in this city Thurs
day evening. A cordial invitation is
extended the public to hear Rev.
Stikeleather.
Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Neaves and
daughter and son, Miss Edith and
Sam, and Mrs. H. P. Graham and
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox attended the
funeral of Mrs. Bettle Halsey, at
Bridle Creek, Va., Wednesday after
noon. Mrs. Halsey was an aunt of
Mesdames Neaves and Cox.
BOONVILLE HAS MAD
DOG SCARE; SEVEN
TAKING TREATMENT
Pet Dog Goes Mad and
Bites Numerous
Other Czgiines
MANY DOGS KILLED
Seven people of Boonville, includ
ing several children, are talcing
treatment against rabies as the re
sult of a mad dog epidemic which
occurred there the latter -part of last
week.
Those taking the rabies vaccina
tion are Prank Woodhouse and
daughter, Mary Kate; Dobe McKin
ney, Mrs. Delmar Mock and son,
Barnard; Callie Jane Caudle and
Axie Anne ghore, daughter of Dr. T.
W. Shore.
The epidemic began when a pet
dog belonging to Prank Woodhouse
went mad and bit numerous dogs of
the section. The dog had been con
fined for observation, but broke
loose. Killed, and its head sent to
Raleigh, it was found to havf hy
drophobia. «•
Since Saturday many dogs,
thought to have been either bitten
or in contact with the Woodhouse
dog, have been killed. Those taking
the treatment were not bitten in
every case, but had been scratched
or licked by dogs thought to be mad.
CHATHAM TO FACE
GIRL TEAM FRIDAY
Defeat Lenoir Tuesday
Afternoon By Score
of 15 to 0
Fresh from a victory over Lenoir
at Lenoir Tuesday, which they woiT
15-0, the Chatham Blanketeers re
turned home for a game with Duke
Power Co., of High Point, Wednes
day afternoon, and then began
preparation for a game Friday
with the Bloomer Girls, of New
York and a return match with Le
noir here SaturdayA
In the Lenoir game, the first of a
three-game series in the Charlotte
Observer's semi-pro tournament,
the Blanketeers battered the boards
of the fences, getting three homers,
three triples and three doubles off
three Lenoir pitchers. Stockton,
for the Blankteers, allowed only
seven hits.
Homers were hammered by Wes
ton, Clodfelter and H. Hambright;
triples by Cornelius and Weston and
doubles by H. and F. Hambright and
Mackie.
In a double header here the 4th
of Ju'.y with Unique, of Winston-
Saler.;, the Blanketeers were defeat
ed In both games. Saturday, in a
game with Adams-Millis, they de
fated the High Pointers 29-0.
Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
the Chatham Blanketeers will face
the famous New York Bloomer Girls,
undefeated baseball champions.
Contrary to general belief the
Bloomer Girls are able to give any
male semi-pro team a good battle
and often surprise their male op
ponents with a well-earned victory,
even against strong competition.
This team is not to be confused with
"farce outfits" which sometimes
travel under the guise of "Bloomer
Girls."
Each year the girls play over 100
games throughout the east Mid their
game here with Chatham should be
one of the most interesting games of
the season.
According to Coach Hambrlght, of
the Blanketeers, admission to this
game will be cents for men, 25
cents for women and 15 cents tOt
children.
Are No New Cases of
Paralysis In Section
Although infantile paralysis con
tinues to gain in North Carolina at
the rate of 10 cases daily, for the
greatei -part being confined to the
east central portion of the state, on
ly two cases as yet have been re
ported in this Immediate section des
pite rumors which are said to have
been circulated through the rural
sections that Elkin has several cases.
One case in Jonesville, which oc
curred about a month ago, and one
case near Level Cross, is the total
number yet reported in this vicinity.
Last year Surry county had two
cases and a case or two each sum
mer is to be expected, according to
county health officials.
One Killed Instantly
and Four Injured In
Auto Wreck Saturday
Crime Doesn't Pay
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That crime doesn't pay—regard
less of sex—is proven by these two
photographs which picture Mrs.
B|argaret Waley, 19-year-old wife of
Harmon' Waley, who waa given 45
years for his part In the recent
Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, .and Wil
liam Schweitzer, who must stand
trial for the shooting of H. C. Dick
inson, prominent New York attorney,
following a drinking party at De
troit. Mrs. Waley must stand trial
tor her part in the Weyerhaeuser
abduction.
SPRINKLE IS HELD
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
Eldridge Finds Not
Probable Cause As to
Charge of Rape
Tried before Magistrate I. A. Eld
ridge Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
in McNeer's warehouse, Otis Sprin
kle, local man, charged with crimi
nal assault upon Mrs. Lucienda Cox,
was bound over to Surry criminal
court on a charge of assault with
intent to commit rape. Not proba
ble cause was found as to the rape
charge.
Bond was set at $5,000. Unable
to raise the amount. Sprinkle is in
jail at Dobson.
The alleged assault upon Mrs.
Cox was said to have taken place on
the afternoon of July 2 in her
apartment over Cash & Carry Store
No. 1. Sprinkle was arrested short
ly aftes by Deputy Sheriff W. J.
Snow and carried to Dobson where
he was placed in jail without bene
fit of bond to await last Friday's
hearing.
TRAPHILL MAN IS
* HELD FOR MURDER
WilHam Prultt Alleged to' Have Stab
bed Mian to Death At Dance
Near Bel Air, Md.
William Prultt, formerly of the
Traphill community, but who ajxmt
a year ago moved to a comknunity
near Bel, Air, Md., is held there on
a charge of murder, it was learned
from a newspaper published near the
scene of the alleged crime.
According to the newspaper story,
Prultt is said to have fatally stabbed
a man by name of Kelly Terry at a
dance after Terry was said to have
reproved him for an insulting re
mark directed toward his wife, who
refused him a dance. ,
The former Wilkes man, however,
is said to have denied the charge
and claims that he was" not near
the scene of the crime. ,
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Junior Order to Hold
Rally Friday Night
A rally has been planned by local
Council No. 96, Jr. O. U. A. M., for
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the lo
cal Junior Order hall, it was learned
Monday* from K. L. Lovelace.
Refreshments, special music, both
string and vocal, and a number of
speeches are cm tap.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MOUNT AIRY WOMAN
IS VICTIM; YOUTH
HAS BACK BROKEN
Car, En Route to Elkin,
Goes Over Fill Near
City Limits
TWO UNDER ARREST
Their car going over an embank
ment after failing to make a curve
about five miles east of here on the
Mount Airy highway Saturday af
ternoon, Mrs. Maggie Cobbler, 52,
of Mount Airy, was instantly killed,
and Gaston Cobbler, her nephew,
suffered a broken back.
Three other passengers in the car,
a roadster with small truck body,
received painful lacerations and
bruises which necessitated hospital
treatment. They were: Pearl Cob
bler, daughter of the dead woman;
Jack Puckett, driver of the car, and
Ora Taylor, a passenger, all of near
Mount Airy.
As an aftermath of the wreck,
Jack Puckett is in jail at Dobson in
default of $3,000 bond on a charge
of manslaughter, and Ora Taylor is
at liberty under S3OO bond on a
charge of possession of liquor.
The accident occurred around four
o'clock in the afternoon. Accord
ing to Dewey Chester, driver of a
Jonas & Tipton transfer, of Lenoir,
the ill-fated car met his truck just
after he had rounded the curve go
ing in the direction of Mlount Airy.
Said to have been going at a fast
rate of speed, it failed to make the
turn and went down a small em
bankment, turning over twice and
spilling its occupants into a small
branch.
Chester told local police after the
accident that a man he identified
as Ora Taylor, pulled a half-gallon
fruit jar containing liquor from the
wreckage and hid it in the nearby
cornfield. Officers later found the
liquor.
The injured were rushed to the
local hospital, and the body of Mrs.
Cobbler, the top of her head literal
ly torn off, was taken to the local
funeral parlor, from where a Mount
Airy undertaking firm was notified
to come for it.
Examination of Gaston Cobbler
disclosed his back to have been
broken near the lower end of his
spine, his legs being paralyzed. Tay
lor suffered a severe scalp lacera
tion, and Puckett and Pearl Cobbler
received minor lacerations and
bruises, Puckett spending the night
at the hospital from where he was
removed next morning to the Dob
son jail. Taylor was arrested fol
lowing first aid treatment, by Deputy
Sheriff C. S. Poster and kept in cus
tody until he arranged bail.
Information from the hospital
Wednesday was to the effect that
Cobbler was resting comfortably and
that he stood a good chance to re
cover despite the serious nature of
his injury.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cobbler
were held Monday afternoon from
Woodville Baptist church, between
Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain. In
terment was in the church cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Markham and
children left the latter part of the
week for Red Oaks, Va., to visit rel
atives. Mr. Maikham returned to
Elkin Monday and Mrs. Markham
and children remained for a longer
vis'it.
Stores Close Here
Wednesday P. M.
At One o'Clock
The greater majority of Elkin
stores and business firms and the
postoffioe were closed Wednesday
after 1 o'clock for the afternoon,
a practice which will be observed
each successive Wednesday after
noon during the remainder of this
month and va August.
The stores agreed to close dur
ing the two hot summer months
so that their employees might
have a half-day vacation each
Drag sitni and cafes are not
observing- the dsrtsg bs»i >;
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