EVENTS
of the
Past
Week
LOCAL
CHARGED WITH assaulting
Joe Johnson, foreman of A. G.
Snow's hosiery mill at Dough
ton, with a deadly weapon,
Stuart Nichols, 42, of Dough
ton, was placed in the Wilkes
county jail in default of SI,OOO
bond Monday. Nichols is al
leged to have fire several shots
at Johnson after first striking
him with a pipe wrench, the
fight resulting from an argu
ment which occurred Satur
day.
JIM ALLEN. LOCAL negro,
is in Hugh Chatham Memorial
hospital severely injured as
the result of an affray which
occurred in the negro barber
shop on West Market street
Saturday night. Allen receiv
ed cuts on one hand and a se
vere slash on one side of his
abdomen at the hands of Wes
ley Gwyn, another negro. Fol
lowing the cutting, Allen was
rushed to the hospital and 1
Gwyn disappeared. He has
not been seen since.
EVERETTE ROBERTS, who
makes his home west of Elkin |
in Wilkes county, was carried
to Hugh Chatham hospital
here early Wednesday after
noon for treatment of cuts |
about the throat which were
said to have been self-inflicted
in an attempt to commit sui- !
cide. He had been drinking at 
the time, it was said. Hospi
tal attaches reported his con- 
dition as not being serious.
THE BUSINESS OFFICE of 1
the Central Electric & Tele- '
phone Co., which serves Elkin 1
and this section, is now iocat- '
ed in new quarters of the ]
street floor of the telephone '
building. The new offices in- j
elude the local and group
managers' offices, and the 1
business offices, making it un- J
necessary for patrons of the 1
company to climb the stairs 1
which formerly led to the of- j
fices. The central office still
remains on the second floor, j
STATE - ;
STATE HIGHWAY depart- '
ment and penal division offi- '
cials were scheduled to visit 1
Guilford county Wednesday in
an effort to find a prison '
camp location "which will not 1
be so objectionable," Governor
Hoey said Tuesday. Proposals 1
to construct a camp in an
other section of Guilford had 1
brought protests from the peo
ple living in the area under 1
consideration.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY vot
ed dry by a big majority in
Tuesday's balloting on estab
lishment of ABC stores. With
43 out of 53 precincts report
ed, the count stood: For, 8,901;
against, 11,935. The mising
precincts were in dry strong
holds.
NATIONAL
USING NATURE'S LORE
he learned as a Boy Scout, 12-
year-old Donn Fendler emerg
ed Tuesday, naked and ex
hausted, from the Mt. Ka
tahdin wildnerness of Maine,
in which he had wandered for
eight days. The boy. who was
the object of one of the state's
greatest searches, became lost
on the chilly summit of the
mile-high mountain. He was
found when his screams at
tracted the attention of the
owner of a sporting camp.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Tuesday described as tommy
rot reports that an inner new
deal circle headed by Thomas
G. Corcoran is seeking the
ouster of James A. Farley as
chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, and he
also denied that Mr. Farley
might resign as postmaster
general.
INTERNATIONAL
TROUBLE has been mount
ing for Great Britain In the
Orient during the past few
days despite her agreement
with Japan to steer clear of
the Japanese army in occu
pied areas Of China. In face
of this agreement, the Jap
navy announced the Canton
river would be closed for two
weeks, a move reported to be!
designed to blockade shipping
between Canton and the Bri
tish colony of Hongkong.
Other news from abroad re
ported demonstrations made
by England in sending 240 fast
warplanes over France in a
maw training flight, the dem
onstration bring designed as a
show of strength to Germany
and Italy.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 37
CAPTURE PYTHON SftJ
longing to a carnival, escaped from its cage during the
flood which recently inundated Morehead, Ky. It was
carried down stream three miles where it was recaptured
after it was reported to have eaten 14 chickens in a farm
yard.
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Gartenhouse
Speak at Baptist
Church S
Rev. Jacob Gartenhouse, Bap
tist Home Mission secretary to
the Jews of the South, will be the
speaker at the First Baptist
church next Sunday evening.
Mr. Gartenhouse was born in
Sanok, Austria, the son of an
orthodox Jewish family of wealth
and culture. He was brought up
in the strictest Jewish observ
ances, and educated in the Jew
ish schools of learning to be a
Rabbi, graduating from Chader
and Yeshivah Rabinnical schools.
He did graduate work under a
famous Rabbi who was a modern
Gamaliel. When eighteen years
of age he came to the United
States, joining an uncle who was
in business in New York. An
older brother in the home coun
try journeyed to New York to tell
Jacob about the Christ he had
found in the New Testament. The
resylt was that Jacob became a
Christian. Some years later he
was graduated from the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Ky.
Since 1921 Mr. Gartenhouse
has been the representative of
Southern Baptists, working
throughout the South with the
500,000 Jews. Mr. Gartenhouse
will relate some of his thrilling
experiences in winning his peo
ple to Christ. The public is cor
dially invited to hear Mr. Gar
tenhouse.
WOMAN KILLED
IN ACCIDENT
Motorcycle Crash Is Second
Fatal Accident of Kind
in Yadkin County
WAS NEAR EAST BEND
Mrs. Vallie Carter Foust, of Ker-1
nersville, was fatally injured Sun
day afternoon, near Wllhelm's
filling station, just west of East
Bend, when the motorcycle she
was riding with her husband went
out of control and threw her to
the ground. Her husband, who
was not badly so hurt, and she
were carried to a physician at
East Bend and she was rushed to
a Winston-Salem hospital, but
was dead when she arrived.
Deputy Sheilff F. E. Hurt of
Boonville who investigated the ac
cident, said that Foust became
confused when a car pulled out of
a filling station on the opposite
side of the road, Jammed on his
brakes and lost control of the
machine, throwing both to the
pavement.
The cople were returning to
their home at Kernersvillc from
Elkin where they had been with a
number of motorcycle enthusiasts.
Second Victim
This is the second fatal accident
from a motorcycle in Yadkin
county in a week, the other being
Lancaster Gourly 'of Winston-Sa
lem, who died in an Elkin hospital
Friday from injuries he suffered
the previous Sunday when his
motorcycle struck the front bump
er of a car driven by Dr. Roy
White of Elkin, the accident oc
curlng at Marler when Dr. White
was entering the highway after
a visit to his father, Ex-Sheriff
G. T. White at Buck Shoals.
Trees uprooted by a storm in
Peru fell into a small lake. Sick
cattle became well after drinking
the water and their owner cured
himself of fever. Thus was quin
ine discovered centuries ago.
HORSE SHOW TO
FEATURE FAIR
Details Being Worked Out for
Bigger and Better Show,
Secretary Says
TO STAGE DOG SHOW
The annual Horse Show will be
one of the main features of the
Elkin Fair this year, it .has been
announced by Mrs. Alan Browning,
Jr., secretary, who stated that the
event will be in charge of a com
mittee made up of the following:
L. G. Baker, chairman; T. F. Coo
ley, McKinley Dickerson and Dave
Brendle.. all of Elkin, and the
Surry county farm agent. The
horse show is to be staged on
Thursday, September 14, with the
classifications and prizes to be
the same as last year. Further
details are being worked out for
announcement at an early date.
Last year's horse show proved
a big success, and under the plans
now being formulated, this year's
show'should be even bigger and
better it was said.
A dog show will also be staged
as a part of this year's fair, under
the direction of Dr. C. E. Nicks,
of illkin, and Austin Kearns, of
Klondike Farm ; Ribbons will be
given winners 'in sporting dogs
and pets classifications. Other
details are being worked out, and
more complete information may
be obtained from either Dr. Nicks
or Mr. Keams.
The premium list for the fair
is being printed and will be dis
tributed at an early date. The
list will also be published in The
Tribune.
It is urged that reservations for
exhibits be made early.
The fair office this year is locat
ed in The Tribune building.
NORTH SURRY
IS HARD HIT
Hail Damages Over Hundred
Acres of Tobacco; One
Home Is Burned
RAINS PROVE HELPFUL
Hail destroyed over a hundred
acres of tobacco, and one home
was burned after it had been
struck by lightning as the result
of a severe storm which swept
across the north central portion
of Surry Monday afternoon.
The storm was most severe in
the Beulah high school commun
ity ten miles north of Mt. Airy,
sweeping for several miles toward
Dobson, where the home of
Charlie Fowler was struck by
lightning and burned to the
ground.
Many farmers in the Beulah
section lost practically their en
tire crop by hail.
However, as a result of heavy
rains last week in the state, E. Y.
Floyd, state AAA executive offi
cer at State College, said that
crops were benefitted far more
than they were harmed, as a
whole. He said the rain had
helped most tobacco, and that
the weed generally appeared to
be of a "fine, healthy appear
ance."
CHANEY FAMILY TO
HOLD SIXTH REUNION
The sixth annual reunion of
the Chaney family will be held at
the old Chaney home place Sun
day, July 30th. Rev. Abram C.
Chaney, of Cleburh, Texas, will
be the principal speaker of the
occasion. Visitors from many
states are expected. All rela
tives are urged to come.
1 ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY. JULY 27, 1939
CCC CAMP IS TO
BE MOVED HERE
IN NEAR FUTURE
Seeking Site with Water,
Sewer Available
TO MOVE FROM DOBSON
Camp Will Be Near Center of
Newly Formed Erosion
Control District
GROUP HERE SATURDAY
Camp Hancock, Surry county
CCC camp, located one mile east
of Dobson on highway 80 for the
past four years, will £>e moved to
Elkin within the next 60 days,
according to Lieutenant Owen W.
Huff, commander in charge of the
camp.
The order to transfer the camp
was made Thursday of last week.
The move is being made in order
to get the camp near the center
of the newly formed erosion con
trol district.
Lieutenant Huff said that pre
perations will begin at once to
move the camp, practically all of
the buildings and equipment being
of the portable type. The camp
is expected to be set up complete
by October. The new location
has not been decided upon but it
will be somewhere near the city
limits, where water and sewage
will be available. It is understood
that officials were here Saturday
of last week scouting for a desir
able location.
The camp, which was establish
ed in 1935, is the headquarters of
Company 3405 of the CCC, and
includes 198 enrolles, three offi
cers, one educational director and
10 foremen.
OFFICERS SEEK
WILKES GUNMAN
Ed Casey Alleged to Have
Shot and Seriously Wound
ed His Cousin
BLOODHOUNDS USED
Wilkes county officers, using
bloodhounds, are searching the
mountains of northeastern Wilkes
for Ed Casey. 25. of Traphill.
who is alleged to have shot and
seriously wounded a younger cou
sin, Paul Casey, 19, of Matoka,
W. Va., Monday.
Young Casey is in the hospital
here. The bullet went through
his left shoulder, just above the
heart, and punctured a lung. Ac
cording to latest reports his con
dition is considered as satisfac
tory.
The injured youth makes his
home with his grandparents in
West Virginia, and was on a visit
with relatives when the shooting
occurred. Officers said the shoot
ing took place at the home of
"Aunt Jane" Casey Sikes. where
the youth met Ed Casey who was
en route to the home of another
aunt, Mrs. Plutina Cox, and had
stopped at the home of Mrs.
Sikes to wait for Bill Casey, who
was to accompany him. DeLos
Casey was preparing to get Ed
Casey a drink of water, when
Casey, officers said, commanded
Paul and DeLos to leave. He
then fired a .32 calibre revolver
and the bullet struck Paul. Casey
then fled. Officers were told that
there had been no argument be
tween the two men.
The officers were immediately
notified and the search begun,
local deputies taking part. Up to
Wednesday afternoon he had not
been apprehended.
Ed Casey, officers said, recent
ly completed a prison sentence
imposed for slashing his wife's
throat about five years ago. She
recovered.
PETTYJOHN FARM TO
BE SOLD JULY 29th
An absolute clearance sale of
the J. H. Pettyjohn farm, includ
ing one home, 67 acres cut into
acreage tracts and large building
sites, located one mile west of
Elkin on the Traphill road, will
be held Saturday, July 29, at 1:30
p.m. by the J. B. Parks Real Es
tate Co., and W. R. Weir Auction
Co., of Winston-Salem.
The property to be sold lies on
both sides of the Traphill road.
Just above the end of the new
hard surface, adjoining Pleasant
Hill and Hinshaw developments.
It will be sold at absolute auc
tion. Easy terms will be granted.
WIN C DDI 7F Mrs. George B. Hobson, daughter
rr 11) u ilalljLj in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hob
son, of Boonville, is shown below as she is presented a
certificate which entitles her to a set of four automobile
tires of popular make, which were made before her eyes
at the manufacturer's New York World's Fair factory in
the exhibit area. Mrs. Hobson was awarded the prize for
being the two-millionth visitor to the exhibit since the
fair opened. She and Mr. Hobson now live at Lincolnton.
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SCHOOL RULING
Judge Makes Permanent Re
straining Order Obtained
by Group of Citizens
IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Jonesville school bond is
sue remains unsettled following
a ruling made last week by
Judge S. J. Ervin, Jr., who made
permanent a restraining order
blocking plans for the construc
tion of a new high school build
ing at Jonesville.
Those leading the fight for
more adequate school facilities
have announced through their
attorneys that Judge Ervin's de
cision will be appealed to the
state supreme court. However,
appeal has not been made at this
date.
In giving his ruling in the
case. Judge Ervin declared that
the Yadkin county board of com
missioners had no power in law
to issue bonds and levy taxes for
a new school building for the
Jonesville school district because
the act of the North Carolina
General Assembly in creating the
school district was unconstitu
tional.
In making permanent the or
der, Judge Ervin ruled that:
"The county commissioners
and county school board acted in
conformity with the legislative
act in designating territory
known as the Jonesville school
district.
"The act of the Yadkin board
of education and the board of
commissioners in designating ter
ritory known as Jonesville school
district and all preliminary steps
taken was in conformity to the
provisions of the act known as
house bill 247.
"That the Jonesville school dis
trict bond election June 13
was in all respects in conformity
with the act.
"That all voters in the election
were qualified and everything in
connection with the election was
regular and in legal order.
"That school buildings in the
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FACES MURDER COUNT
IN DEATH OF WIFE
Clifford Church, operator of a
filling station six miles from
West Jefferson, is facing a first
degree murder charge following
the fatal shooting of his wife last
Sunday night.
The woman's body was found
lying on a bed in their home with
a bullet through her right eye.
The bullet entered the brain.
Church, who was arrested while
attempting a getaway, said his
wife committed suicide. However,
the pistol believed to have been
used in the killing, was found
beneath the Church home Sun
day morning. -Seventy-two gal
lons of moonshine liquor we*e
also found in a rear room of the
Church home.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Church were held Tuesday.
Local Softball
Team to Play
Statesville Here
The T. C. 'U. Club of the
Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany Is sponsoring a team
which will take part in the
American Amateur Softball
Tournament, the finals of
which will be played in Ra
leigh the latter part of August.
Although in just what dis
trict of the tournament the
local team will play Is not def
initely known at this time, it
is thought probable that it will
take part in the Winston-Sa
lem district tourney.
To test their strength
against a club known to be
tops in softball, and at the
same time to raise money for
the purchase of uniforms to
be used in the state tourney,
the Chatham team, known as
the Chatham All-Stars, will
meet Statesville here next
Monday afternoon at 5:00
o'clock at Chatham Athletic
Field. This game is also un
der the sponsorship of the T.
C. U. Club.
A small admission will be
charged for the game, and lo
cal fans will be given an op
portunity to see two good
clubs in action.
HEALTH OFFICER
LISTS ACTIVITY
First Six Months of This
Year Prove Busy Time for
Surry Department
1,021 VISITS ARE MADE
A busy half year was experi
enced during the first six months
of 1939 by the Surry county
health department, according to
a report issued by Dr. R. B.
Franklin, county health officer.
The report showed that Dr.
Franklin and his assistants made
1.021 visits, treatments or exam
inations during the six-month
period. It also disclosed the
health department had admitted
276 persons to service for com
municable diseases, one of which
was meningitis, and that a total
of 2,501 persons were given ty
phoid vaccinations, 1,332 diph
theria vaccinations, and 314
whooping cough vaccinations.
The program included much
work against venereal diseases
and tuberculosis.
GRANGE PICNIC TO BE
HELD SATURDAY, 29th
The annual picnic of the
Wilkes Pomona Orange will be
held at Pine Ridge picnic grounds
on highway No. 16 between
Wilkesboro and Moravian Falls,
Saturday, July 29th, starting at
11 o'clock. The principal ad
dresses will be delivered by David
H. Aga ns, Overseer National
Orange of N. J., and Harry El.
Caldwell, Master N. C- State
Orange. All patrons and friends
of the rural fraternity are asked
| to be present.
Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
INFERIOR LEAF
SLOWS BRIGHT
MARKET SALES
Bids Run Seven to Nine Cents
Lower than in '3B
WEED OF BAD GRADE
Believe Prices Will Pick up
When Better Class To
bacco Is Offered
TOP PRICE 32 CENTS
Valdosta, Ga., July 25—Grow
ers watched buyers move down
row after row of bright leaf to
bacco In the first 1939 bright
leaf auctions today with bids that
ran seven to nine cents lower
than opening-day prices last
year.
Some farmers "turned tags"
and rejected first bids on their
baskets but most sellers appar
ently were expecting lower prices.
Early sales ran under 20 cents
a pound, much of the bright leaf
going at 16 and 18. This con
trasted with last season's open
ing-day range of well above 20
cents for an initial average of
more than 25.
Growers collected cash for
their tobacco in fifteen Georgia
auction centers and two in Flor
ida. Both sellers and observers
expressed the view that bids
would strengthen as the season
progressed, citing small quanti
ties of the better grades on the
warehouse floors.
Offering of inferior leaf at the
first sales was reflected in bids
as low as 2 cents a pound. Last
year's top of 40 cents for best
grade leaf was approached only
in scattered instances, with 32
the top for 1939.
Tobacco Specialist E. C. West
brook, of the Georgia extension
service, observing sales here, call
ed on growers to withhold the
bulk of their leaf. He said un
favorable weather conditions in
Eastern North Carolina and
South Carolina might result in
higher prices.
Burial Ground
Of Lost
Is Said
Gainsville, Ga., July 25.—A his
tory-changing discovery of the
long hidden burial grounds of 64
English settlers—survivors of the
famous "lost colony" of Roanoke
Island, N. C.—was disclosed to
night by Dr. H. J. Pearce, southern
historian and president of Brenau
College.
Pearce and his son, Dr. Haywood
Pearce Jr., of Emory University.
Atlanta, said 13 crudely carved
slabs of granite and sandstone had
been found on a wooded hill near
Greenville, S. C., recording the
burial of the 64 first American
colonists who fled from their cos
tal settlement to escape warlike
Indians.
The father-son team of histor
ians issued a joint statement, say
ing the new stones carried mes
sages in archaic English and ap
parently proved that the former
followers of Sir Walter Raleigh
had wandered 350 miles southward
from their original colony on the
coast.
The Pearces began their investi
gation of the fate of the lo6t
colony, which Included Eleanor
Dare and her child, Virginia, the
first white infant born in North
America, in 1937, after discovery
of a large piece of carved quartz
on the banks of the Chowan River
in North Carolina, 50 miles from
Roanoke Island.
The original stone carried a
message to Eleanor Dare's father,
Governor John White of Virginia,
telling of virtual destruction of
the colony by Indians.
A few weeks ago, a granite slab
was found In South Carolina, sign
ed by Eleanor Dare and giving a
list of 17 colonists killed by the
Indians. The slab also indicated
the surviving colonists were mov
ing southwest.
FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR
HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE
A large number of towns and
cities in this area are included in
the $495,861 total of funds allo
cated by the state highway and
public works commission Monday
for maintenance of state highways
in municipalities.
Included in the list are Elkin,
*i,7Sv; Etebson. *705: Yadkinville.
•400; Mount Airy, $2,345; Sparta.
$640; and East Bend, S2OO.