STOKES FARMER
GETS 30 YEARS
FOR KILLING WIFE
George Nelson Slashed His
Spouse With Razor; Calm
Under Verdict
GETS LIMIT UNDER LAW
A jrry of Stokes county farm
ers, in Superior court at Danbury
Friday afternoon, found George
"Seab" Nelson guilty of the sec
ond- degree murder of his wife,
Bessie Woods Nelson, on the
morning of October 7.
On the recommendation of the
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA,
SURRY COUNTY.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale in a conditional
sales contract executed by Robert
Bailey on December 3, 1936, to
Elkin Motors, Inc., and default
having been made in payment of
the same and there being now
due on said conditional sales con
tract the sum of FOUR HUN
DRED THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS
AND SEVENTY-SEVEN CENTS
($435.77), the undersigned will
sell at public auction for cash to
the highest bidder in front of the
Elkin Motors, Inc., on October 29,
1937 at 2 o'clock P. M. the fol
lowing described personal proper-,
ty, to-wit:
One 1937 Model FORD 60 TU
DOR, Motor Number 20011.
This the Bth day of October,
1937.
ELKIN MOTORS, Inc.
By Ab Somers,
10-21 Sec.-Treas.
LUZIER BEAUTY
SPECIALIST
I At II
HOME HOTEL
Thursday, Oct. 21
Call Miss Steele for
appointment
Why Pay More
When We Sell It
FOR LESS? JfejgJ
Children's, Misses' and '
Ladies' Sweaters 59c to $1.39
Children's Teddy Bear Suits 51.98
Children's and
Ladies' Dresses 25c to 97c
We carry a complete line of In- kijJnSu
fants' Wear priced right. j||moW
Ladles' underwear,, panties,
bloomers, brassieres, slips, etc. 6
Infants', children's and ladles hosiery 10c to 79c
Children's school shoes, $1.98 value $1.69
Infants' shoes 25c—49c —97c
SOMERS & CO. 5-10® STORE
L. F.' Walker, Prop. Elkin, N. C.
Boonville Fair
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
OCTOBER 22-23,1937
Thursday Afternoon—Entering Exhibits
Friday A. M. Saturday A. M.
Entering of Exhibits Entering and Judging of
Judging of Exhibits '"c^^^DoS?^
Friday P. M. Saturday P. M.
Judging of Exhibits Y *£ ,Jl C ® ant * H1 * h
T Track Meet. 1:30 to 3:30
o'Clock
s Saddle Hone Show 3:30 to
"FRECKLES"
1:00 P. M. High School pfays, Saturday,
By Mr. SauHne and his AH- 8:00 P. M.
Star Player, "SILENCE
PLEASE"
"TbeCWofthe « W ho Car
Golden West" Tonight?"
8:00 P. M. COMEDY
~~ BAND CONCERT—
Fireworks Friday and Saturday Nights
—— ——
jury Judge E. C. Btvins sentenced
Nelson to 30 years In the peniten
tiary, the limit under the North
Carolina law. The sentence stipu
lates the defendant shall wear
stripes.
Nelson was charged with cutting
his wife's throat with a razor af
ter chasing her over the house
and up stairs where she jumped
from a window to escape him. He
dashed down the stairs and caught
her and held her head while he
cut her throat from ear to ear as
his aged mother and five year old
child looked on.
JONESVILLE, R. 1
Rev. I. W. Vestal is at Pleasant
Hill this week, where he is con
ducting a revival.
Farmers are very busy prepar
ing and marketing their tobacco.
Several in this community have
made good sales. John Chappell
so far has the record for high
prices, with an average of S4O per
hundred and some bringing $52
and $54 per hundred.
This community was shocked
by the sudden passing of Rev. W.
E. Linney at his home in Wilkes
boro last week. He will be great
ly missed in the ministry.
Calvin Hemric has not been
resting so comfortably for the
past few days, his friends will re
gret to know.
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Norman of
East Bend, were the dinner guests
Sunday of Miss Margaret Hutch
ins. The dinner was in celebra
tion of the birthday anniversary
of Miss Hutchins.
Miss Ruth Bryant spent Mon
day in Winston-Salem. )
Misses Vermeil Money and
Margaret Hutchins visited in
Boonville Thursday.
Bob Collins is building a new
home near the home of his father
in North Elkin and will move into
it when completed. We regret
that Mr. and Mrs. Collins will
leave this community. They will
be greatly missed.
John Chappell visited Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Swaim at Buck Shoals
Sunday.
Orate left-over cheese that has
become hardened and keep it in
a covered jar. You will find nu
merous ways to use this with
macaroni, spaghetti and casser
ole dishes. —J. N., Sawyer, N.
Dak.
Patronize Tribune advertisers.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELK IN, NORTH CAROLINA
ALL IS COMPLETE
FOR IREDELL FAIR
Premium Books Now Being
Distributed to All Who
Want Them
IS FIRST ANNIVERSARY
First anniversary plans of the
Iredell County Pair Inc.. are com
pleted fair manager. C. W. Cra
craft announces that from the
out-look It will be a huge suc
cess. The premium books are
ready and are being distributed
throughout Iredell county and ad
joining counties and the exhibits
both agricultural and livestock, are
well filled to date. Mr. A. R. Mor
row, the county agent, has in
formed the fair manager that his
Jersey calf show and 4-H club
fair along with his mule and colt
show will be one of the largest
exhibitions that he has ever had
in Iredell County since being
county agent.
Along with the exhibits, and
besides other features, that will
be entertaining, both from the
ages of 16 to 60, will be the big
circus acts, and fire-works that
will be presented daily on the
midway, fair week.
The board of directors have
booked after inspection the Ideal
Exposition Shows, Inc., consist
ing of 10 large riding devices and
14 shows and after close investi
gation, they found that they were
endorsed by the public and press
in the state of North Carolina,
as clean, high class and ed
ucational in every respect.
Aside from other features, the
directors expect to have all the
children 16 years of age and un
der as their guests n the fair
ground, Tuesday, October 2f>. All
the children will be admitted
free and full arrangements have
been made with management
of the carnival company that all
shows and rides will be 5c to the
kiddies until 6 P. M. that day.
Other big features will be a
rublic wedding on v Wednesday
night, October 27. All indications
point that we will have for the
first anniversary of Iredell County
Agricultural Fair, the largest
crowds that have ever been en
tertained in Statesville.
Crops Destroyed
As Yadkin River
Leaves Its Banks
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bottom when waters made their
way into the barns.
The Texaco storage plant was
flooded, and it was found neces
sary to pump a large quantity
of water into a large tank that
had recently been emptied of
gasoline for repair, in order to
keep the tank from floating off
its foundation.
Water also found its way into
the boiler room of the Elkin Lum
ber and Manufacturing Co.. al
though doing little damage. A
considerable amount of stacked
lumber was menaced by the flood,
the water rising in some places
to a height of three feet or
more. Observers here stated
that the flood was the greatest
since August, 1928, when Bridge
street was flooded to a depth of
over a foot.
Wednesday morning about 8:00
o'clock the river had gone down
about one foot, and continued to
fall rapidly. Big Elkin Creek was
back in its banks Tuesday after
noon.
The rainfall here in 12 hours
measured 3.40 inches and from
8 until 10 a. m. Tuesday morn
ing, was guaged at 1.15. This
heavy fall sent the river into the
boiler room of the scouring and
carbonizing plant of the Chat
ham Manufacturing Co., and
completely flooded the Chatham
athletic, field to a depth of six
feet and more on the lower sides.
The Yadkin caused damage all
along its course, causing several
families at North Wilkesboro to
flee their homes and spreading
over the lowlandq between North
Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro. At
Ronda school was dismissed for
the day and pupils sent back to
their homes when it was seen the
Ronda bridge was to be submerg
ed.
That loss of corn and other
crops along the Yadkin was heavy
was attested by the many shocks
of corn and other farm produce
seen floating down the river.
Dozens of pumpkins were seen to
go bobbing down, and about noon
what was described as a wooden
whisky still was seen floating
along—probably wishing to go
with the corn. A boat, recently
launched here by \ several local
men, was also carried down the
river.
Stella: "Oh, I think those na
val officers are too sweet for any
thing. Did you ever lunch on a
man-of-war?" „
Ellen: "No,* I never have, but I
saw a young lieutenant today that
looked good enough to eat."
i
YOUTH CARRIES TWO
DEAD BODIES RIDING
North Arlington, N. J.. Oct. 16.
—Patrolman Norman Turner
burst into a back room of/ the
North Arlington police station
this morning, jabbed a finger at
gangling 18-year-old Paul Dwy
er, and shouted;
"You killed a woman in that
car! I found her body in the back
seat." .
"Yes," the boy said listlessly,
"and if you look in the trunk at
the back, you'll find a man, too."
In that casual, emotionless
manner, the youth launched into
the amazing story of the murder
of a Maine country doctor and his
wife and a trip with their bodies
that took him to six states.
While a police stenographer
took down his words. Dwyer told
how he killed 66-year-old Dr. J.
G. Littlefield, of South Paris. Me.,
on Wednesday; how he stuffed
the body into the automobile
trunk and then induced the doc
tor's 64-year-old wife to enter the
car and took her on a 370-mile
ride; how he killed her too when
she became suspicious; how he
drove on through populous sea
board cities with the bodies until,
at a parking lot here, he fell into
an exhausted sleep at 3 a. m. this
morning.
A few hours later Patrolman
Michael Keane sauntered by the
lot, decided to make a casual in
vestigation. Even then. Dwyer's
crime might have escaped detec
tion If his shoes had been new.
But Keane noticed the soles were
worn. He wondered what a body
with such worn shoes was doing
in so expensive an automobile.
EMPLOYMENT IN STATE
SHOWS A SLIGHT GAIN
Raleigh, Oct. 19. —Employment
In North Carolina industries in
creased one-tenth of one per cent
last month over August, and pay
rolls were up three-tenths of one
per cent, the state department of
labor reported today.
Major A. L. Fletcher, labor
commissioner, said 114,215 per
sons were employed by 1,013 in
dustries froming "a representa
tive cross section." These work
ers earned during a one-week
period $1,749,505. The average
weekly wage per worker in Sep
tember was $15.32, a slight in
crease over August, Fletcher said.
The labor department and the
United States bureau of labor
statistics made the report as one
of a series of monthly studies.
BOWLING CENTER TO
: OPEN HERE OCT. 21
The grand opening of Elkin's
new Bowling Center will be held
Thursday, October 21st, at 1:00
p. m., Cola C. Fulp, Jr., manager,
announced Wednesday.
The Bowling Center, open to
both men and women, is located
In the Oreenwood building on
West Main street, the entrance
being next door to the Eagle
Furniture Co. Four of the best
alleys obtainable await bowling
fans.
A cordial invitation has been
extended to everyone to visit the
Bowling Center upon its opening
date and thereafter.
TWINS COMPLETE
WIFE EXCHANGE
Missoula, Mont., Oct. 16.
Willard and John Nichols, twins,
completed an amiable exchange of
wives today.
Willard was married at ttye
sheriff's office to Eleanor, divorc
ed last Thursday, by Brother
John.
Immediately after obtaining his
decree, John had driven to Ham
ilton, Mont., to be married to
Mary, Brother Willard's ex-wife,
by a justice of the peace.
Willard and Mary, divorced a
few weeks ago, had no children.
John won custody of two of three
children born to him and Eleanor.
He did not ask for custody of a
third child, a two-month-old in
fant.
I The brothers are laborers.
The most trouble one has in
washing a dog is that the animal
will not give you his co-operation.
NOTICE OF SALE OP LAND
Pursuant to an order of sale,
made by the Cleric of the Super
ior Court of Burry County, North
Carolina, on the 18th day of
October, 1937, in the special pro
ceeding entitled "J. M, Crissman,
et als, vs. Etta Crissman, et als,"
the undersigned Commissioners
appointed in the said order, will
offer for sale to the highest bid
der for cash, on the 19th day of
November, 1937, at 1 o'clock P.
M., on the premises hereafter de
scribed at the old Dabney Criss
man Home Place, the following
tracts of land to-wit:
TRACT NO. 1. Beginning on a
stake and pointers in the public
road in the old line between W.
W. Cornelius and Dabney Criss
man, rims 30 deg. west 14 chains
to a chestnut stump at Briar,
Branch, then down the branch as!
it meanders south 72 deg. east 12
chains and twenty links to a white
oak on east side of said branch,
then south 30 deg. west 17 chaina (
along a choped line to a red oak :
on east side of public road, then
with the road as it now meanders ,
north 07 deg. west 5 chains,
north 45 deg. west 6 chains and
50-100 to the beginning, contain
ing 18 acres, more or less.
TRACT NO. 2. Beginning on
a willow on the bank of the
Yadkin River corner of Albert's
and Dabney Crissman land, runs
thence north some degrees east
with the dividing ditch across the
bottom running by a marked per
simmon and apple tree on bank
of ditch to a rock corner at the
edge of the bottom; thence nearly
north with an old fence row and
a well marked line of trees pass
ing east of > Albert Crissman's
dwelling house and west of Dab
ney Crissman's dwelling to post
oak near the bank of the road
leading from Rockford to Siloam
and then south on east side of the
road leading from Albert Criss
man's house to Siloam, whefre it
intersects with said public road;
thence up said road about 440
yards to a marked Spanish oak
corner on the east side of said
road in the Kelley old line; thence
east to briars branch; thence
down said branch to the old
chestnut corner, formerly Haus
er's or Cornelius' corner; thence
south some degrees west with the
W. W. Cornelius line to the bank
of the Yadkin River, formerly a
branch; thence up the. north
bank of the Yadkin River to the
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ELKIN, N. C.
„■ -I r imrri-T-rr" w-'iii.!, —in
beginning, containing 85 acres,
more or lew.
Personal property consisting of
some household and kitchen fur
niture, tools, and other articles of
personal property too numerous
to mention belonging to the es
tate of Dabney Crissman will also
be offered for sale at the same
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time and place by the Adminis
trators of said estate. The said
sales are made for partition
among the heirs at law.
This the 18tU day of October,
1937.
CURTIS CRISSMAN AND J. M.
CRISSMAN, Commissioners and
Administrators. 11-11