Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Oap
and the Blue Ridge
V OL. No.' XXVm.No. 23
THE IMMSSI
JR.
If rumors are correct, grading for the new Chatham
finishing plant should be under way as you read this . . .
Having no place to live, we tried to rent the new city hall,
but no go . . . Perhaps we could get a lease on the jail* but
it's not big enough. One more cell would make it just
dandy ...
\ The building boom here seems to be mostly wind, which
doesn't cost anything . . . Funny how real estate suddenly
Increased in price in the past sev- 1
eral weeks. Was it selling too
low before Chatham announced
its move here? . . .
Lots of strangers in town lately
who walk up and down the street
peering here and there . . . Penny
Bros., world's original twins auc
tioneers, are not twins, we were
told by someone who has known
them all their lives. But don't
feel too bad about it . . .
. Women's hats are getting fun
4nier and funnier . . . We especial
ly like the current pie pan model
attractively trimmed with a po
tato masher . . . We might say
also that the new hats make the
women look funny too, but style
is king and all women pay hom
age . . .
We're making short para
graphs help fill up quickly . . .
A girl we know complained that
her picture in the paper didn't
look like her. The reason: she
was seeing herself as others see
her . . . not as she is used to see
ing herself in the mirror . . , She
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Elkin, N. C.
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me that—and I can sym- See your HANES Dealer today,
pathise with her. Matter and notice the length oi a HAKES
of fact, it's no fun for me Undershirt. There's plenty of tail
to feel like a damp seal —with to tuck deep inside your shorts
my top-shirt all clammy from per- and save uncomfortable wadding
spiration. That's why I wear a at the waist. Get
HAKES Undershirt 1 HANES Shorts, too— tfSJvS
Gentlemen, you need a blotter full-cut broadcloth.
when it's hotter. And that's what Or try HAMES FE y
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up perspiration with its soft ab- Sports and Shorts.
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I ELKIN. N. C. I
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
THIS AND THAT
said she didn't hardly know her
self, but she recognized the free
theatre tickets all right . . . And
in case a young lady in the old
ladies' department of a certain
well-known department store is
listening in, we are not talking
about you . . .
We can't even find a vacant
house in Boonville . . . Wonder if
something is going to move
there? . . . Saw an automobile
fail to make a curve one day last
week, skid completely around,
and turn over. Three windows
were converted into jagged pieces
of glass, yet the four occupants
didn't get a scratch as we could
tell . . . Result of wreck: one
smashed car and one man jailed
—for driving while intoxicated
. . . Another case of whisky and
gasoline mixing—in a puddle on
the pavement . . ,
The insurance company re
quires quite a number of safety
devices on machinery used in a
newspaper office. The latest is
a gadget which > we've just in
stalled on the power paper cut
ter—a gadget which requires both
hands of the operator to work.
However, we've found that if a
fellow is quick enough, he can
get the machine started and still
have time to get his hand cut off
under the blade . . . Come in and
let's chop yours off sometime
when you're not busy . . .
We've been scared to death
that the insurance company
would hear about the celebrated
Browning knees and insist that
safety devices be installed on
them . . . They're very careful
I about sharp objects . . . We'd be
! a pretty .sight running around
1 with a baseball catcher's mask
I strapped on either knee, wouldn't
we? . . .
The last time we were at the
beach, wearing trunks only, some
guy wanted to hire us out as a
hat rack ... He figured our ribs
would do nicely . . .
How about yours?
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WE'RE DEEPLY TOUCHED
Proof that there is at least one
kind soul left in a rather drab
and cheerless world, is the . letter
following, which was received
Tuesday morning and which, in
addition to the fine sentiment
outlined below, contained a dime
in cash as the first contribution
to the Browning Moving Fund,
which now presents the imposing
total of ten cents:
Elkin, N. c.,
Apprill 16. 1939.
Alan Browning. Jr.
Browning Moving Fund
Elkin Tribune
Elkin, N. C.
Dear Sirs;
seein as you bein in sich a bad
plight coz you .have no where to
liv i her by contributt the some
tin sents (10) cts. as a fun to
werds purcashin a home, i think
its a dern shame for a man not
to hav a place to res his wery
hed an bones whin he cums inn
at nite frum a hard daze laber—
but its only the ful-fil-mint of
the scripter fur sum wher inn the
good book we fine these werds
the berds .of the air hav nests
ann the foxes hav holes but the
sun of man hath not wher to lay
his hed 1 supperose you ar the
sun of man altho in your musins
of ther gab bag you try to conect
your fur bak ancestors with the
brancehes of the tall timbers. I
yam goner to take this matter
with the ways and means comitee
as i onderstan you have neither
means or ways buy which to con
trole this situwayshion.
you may eggspect to here frum
me gain soon an until then be
leeve me yoor afectshionette
frin?
IN DEED
On behalf of the homeless
Brownings, we pause in our wan
derings to express our thanks for
this generous -gesture. True, we
have often gotten tangled in the
limbs of trees in our trips back
amongst our ancestors of the
dim and distant past, but in this
day and time it's a little too
much to ask our wife and child
ren to take to the tall timbers,
although, goodness knows, it
looks like it's coming to that.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
We regret to note that Curtis
Lee Stckes, little son of J. H.
Stokes, has been very ill for the
past week, and little improve
ment is shown in his condition.
The many friends of Mrs. Ray
mond Riley will be glad to know
that she is out again after a re
cent attack of flu.
Miss Eulalia Richardson, Miss
Lucille Van Hoy and little Miss
Peggy Sue Myers were the din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Howard Sunday. They toured in
the Blue Ridge mountains in the
afternoon.
We regret to learn that the
condition pf Mrs. Lee Mathis
shows no improvement.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Riley
were the dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Miles King Sunday, and
accompanied Mr. King and fam
ily to visit his mother, Mrs. Bill
King of Branon, in the afternoon.
Grannie Wid Shore visited .her
nephew, Mr. M. W. King, the past
week.
Mr. Walter Martin and Mr.
Dewey Redding of Ronda, are
remodeling the filling station
near West Yadkin school and ar
ranging to put in a line of gro
ceries and a shoe shop.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Snow vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Snow of
Yadkinville Sunday.
Sunday and Sunday night, Ap
ril 23, is the date for preaching
services at Mountain View. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
f BRANON
Miss Georgia Helton of Dur
ham, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Helton.
Mr. Dick Cummings spent a
portion of last week in Elkin.
Prayer service was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Doss Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Forest Doss spent Sunday
in North Wilkesboro.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cummings
-pent Sunday with their daugh
ter, Mrs. Glen Maatin, at Ron
da.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 1939
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WASHINGTON, D. C. . . . Pretty girls from senatorial officer
crowded the Capitol hearing room here to get a view of handsome
Robert Montgomery, spokesman for the Screen Otiild, who
testified before the Senate Interstate Commerce
BOONVILLE
Several Boonville people at
tended the wedding of Miss Ju
lia Davis of Winston-Salem, to
Mr. Forrest Alfred Pollard of
Durham, Saturday night, at
the First Baptist church in Win
ston-Salem. Those attending
were Mr. and Mrs. J. Wade
Shore, Mrs. Elizabeth Reece, Mr.
and Mrs. John Speas, Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Jones, Mrs. Ben
Martin, and Miss Katherine
Jones.
Misses Louise Abrams and
Kathleen Vestal visited Miss Ab
rams* brother. Dr. Amos A. Ab
brams, in Boone, this week. Miss
Vestal, who is a senior and val
edictorian of her class, plans to
enter school at Appalachian next
fall.
Miss Frances Thomas, a teach
er in the local school, was called
home this week, due to the ill
ness of her father, who resides at
Summerfield. His condition has
been reported as improved at
this time.
Miss Sadie Fleming and Miss
Bolick, of Winston-Salem, made
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a trip to Washington, D. C., this
week.
I Mrs. Prank Woodhouse has
been confined to her home with
flu for several days. Her con
dition is improved now.
James Todd, a member of the
school faculty, returned to his
home near Yadkinville, over the
week-end. '
Miss Elizabeth Amburn has
been spending her vacation with
.her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Amburn. Miss Amburn holds a
stenographic position in x Greens
boro.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Coram
and family of Winston-Salem,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Marion Speas Sunday.
A delegation of the Women's
Missionary women went to the
county prison camp Sunday af
ternoon to help in the religious
service there. Rev. J. P. Davis,
pastor of the Boonville Baptist
church, makes one trip a month
to preach to them 'or teach a
Sunday school lesson.. Due to the
fact that he was holding a fun
eral service Sunday he was un
able to fill his appointment. G.
H. Hudler taught the Sunday
school lesson. Missionary mem
bers visiting the camp were Mes
dames O. C. Motsinger, J. A.
Speas, Delmer Mock and J. J.
Coram.
Mrs. Ben Martin of ' Orlando,
Florida, is spending several days
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wade Shore.-
Miss Ruby Winkler spent Sun
day with Mrs. Allan Jessup.
Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Coram, Mr.
and Mrs. Bahnson Hobson, Mr.
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and Mrs. Dallas Hobson, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Kirk of Eastern Virgin
ia, and their families took a pic
nic trip to Pilot Knob Easter
Monday. They were gone all day
and reported a fine time.
Mr. Ott Coram of Winston-
Salem, Mr. Tommie Coram of
East Bend, and Mr. Claire Tran
sou of Boonville, went trout
fishing in the mountain streams
around Boone Friday and Satur
day.