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BOONVILLE Miss Vivian Matthews, is a nurse at Oteen hospital near Asheville, is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. Fleming Shore, of Raleigh, is a few days with his father, Mr. Arnie Shore, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fleming, of Walkertown, visited friends and relatives here and in sur rounding community Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Patterson and son, of Winston-Salem, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fleming. Mr. James *H. Reece, who is a teacher of agriculture at New Hope, Va., was called home last week due to the death of his father, Mr. H. W. Reece. Mr. Wade Williams, of Shelby, spent the past week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Martin visited Mr. Martin's mother at Hamptonville the past week-end. Miss Carmen Frye, who is teacher of music in the Cherry ville school system, spent the past week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Frye. Miss Myrtle Bolick, of Win ston-Salem, was the guest of Miss Sadie Fleming Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, of East Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Williams, and Mr. Wade Williams, of Shelby, were the Sunday din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams. Rev. James P. Davis, of Spray, helped Rev. Connell conduct the funeral of Mr. Reece Sunday. Rev. Mr. Davis is a former pastor here. Senior B.Y.P.U. Holds Social with Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jessup The Senior B.Y.P.U. of Boon ville Baptist church held its reg ular quarterly social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jessup. An interesting and entertaining pro gram was carried out during the evening. The program consisted of all kinds of indoor games and contests which were played in the living room and basement. After the games and contests refreshments were served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Coram, Mr. and Mrs. Watt Deal, Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Connell, Miss Ruby Winkler, Mrs. Olive Smith and Mr. Albert Speer. Smitherman-Cartcr Vows Are Spoken Of much interest to the people of East Bend and surrounding communities was the wedding last Saturday, February 10, of Miss Illene Smitherman, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Smitherman, of East Bend, to Mr. Virgil Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Carter, of the Balti more section near here. The vows were spoken at Hillsville, Va. Miss Smitherman was a pop ular and outstanding member of the senior class of East Bend high school! She was a star basketball player. Mr. Carter was also an East Bend high school student. Boonville Y.W.A. Meets The Boonville Y.W.A. of the Baptist church met last night at the home of Mrs. J. Marion Speas, with Misses Ruby Winkler and Bertha Hine entertaining the group. Miss Hine had charge of the program. The program topic was "God's Witnesses—ln Various Moods." Miss Erma Hicks conducted the devotionals. After the program a short business session was held with the president, Miss Kath erine Jones, in charge. The group decided to have a special meeting three weeks from the present meeting to observe the March Week of Prayer. Mrs. Ralph Cor am will be in charge of the pro gram. This meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Ethel Tran sou. The regular monthly meet ing, which meets on Tuesday | Vine TMCtt ADS OF Efe&HACY* THEY'VE COT A P4RST CLAM PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT ANO COME I I Incorporated night after the second Sunday in every month, will be held with Mrs. Raymond Connell at the parsonage. Home Demonstration Club Meets With Mrs. Allan Jcssup The Boonville Home Demon stration club met for its February meeting with Mrs. Allan Jessup. Miss Irene Brown, Yadkin home met with the group, and gave a demonstration on making a peach pudding. In addition to the demonstration, Miss Brown gave each member present a list of the daily food essentials nec essary for good health. She also issued a questionnaire blank on gardening. "Itiis was concerned with such questions as the num ber of vegetables grown in the garden, what kinds, etc. Mrs. J. J. Coram was assistant hostess with Mrs. Jessup. After the meeting the hostesses served cookies and grape flip. Those present were Mrs. J. Wade Shore, Mrs. J. M. Speas, Mrs. J. R. Walker, Mrs. Ralph Reece, Mrs. Roy Reece, Mrs. O. C. Motsinger, Mrs. Olive Smith, Mrs. Everett Hurt, Mrs. John Brendle, Miss Irene Brown, and Miss Dorothy Coram. MOUNTAIN PARK Friends of Huston Cockerham will regret to know that he re mains seriously sick at Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital, where he has been a patient for the past 3 weeks. The Mountain Park Home Dem onstration Club met February 7, in the club room with 14 members present. Mrs. W. B. Williams led the devotional. Mrs. Allen Kenzie presided over the meeting. The roll call was answered with "A Good Book I Have Read." Mrs. Paul Brown in her usual interesting way gave a review of "Gone With The Wind." In the absence of the Garden Leader, Mrs. Frank Thompson, Mrs. Clint Saylor gave interest ing helps on spring gardening. Mrs. Grace P. Brown demon strated salads and salad dressing. The salad she made was "Leafy Salad." The next meeting will be held at 2 o'clock Friday March 8. All members are urged to be present. Plans will be made at that time for the "Better Homes Contest." (Deferred from Last Week) Rev. Eli Jordon filled his reg ular appointment at Mountain Park Baptist church last Sunday at 11 o'clock. His sermon was enjoyed by all who attended. We are sorry to note that Mr. U. H. Cockerham still remains very ill in the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital. His many friends wish for him a speedy re covery. Mr. R. W. Walters, of Mt. Airy, visited relatives here last week. Mr. B. J. Snow is ill at his home near Mountain Park. We hope that he will soon be restored to health. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Swift had as their Sunday guests Rev. and Mrs. Eli Jordon, of Elkin. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Adams and family, of Winston-Salem, visit ed relatives here last week-end. Mrs. 0. L Passes Af Long Illness Mrs. Lois Allen Brown, 31, wife of O. L. Brown, prominent build ing contractor, died Thursday about noon at her home near Hamptonville, following a long illness. Mrs. Brown was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Allen, of Hamptonville, and was a member of Flat Rock Baptist church. She is survived by her hus band and five children, Texie, Servelia, Tina Jean, Betty Ruth and Zola Bell; her parents, two brothers, W. T. and Homer Allen, and one sister, Mrs. C. W. Ire land, all of Hamptonville. Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Flat Rock Baptist church. ARE TO OPEN BIDS ON CRUTCHFIELD BRIDGE Bids for the Crutchfield bridge, last remaining link of the short cut tourist route across North Carolina, will be opened February 27, by the highway commission. The bridge will span the Yadkin river and the Southern railroad, running along on the Surry side, making a river bridge and an over pass in one project. Ilit ,p,ddition to serving the tourist traffic to an almost entirely new, fasfy-traf fic route, it will eliminate t»e of the remaining grade crossings in North Carolina and will lerve people along the route with batter highway facilities. 1 THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA SCOOTS TO RULE FOR TWO HOURS Will Hold City Offices Here Friday from 4:00 Until 6:00 P. M. JIM HARRELL IS MAYOR With Boy Scouts this week celebrating the thirtieth anniver sary of scouting, members of the local troops will take over the reins of city government from 4-6 o'clock Friday afternoon. Selec tion of scouts for the various posts of honor was made by the troops. The scouts will serve the city during the two hours in all of the various functionings of the city government. Chosen for the various posts are: Mayor, Jim Harrell; council men : James Hanks, Tommy Bryan, Tommy Chatham, Bob McNeill; police chief, Fred Nor man; police assistants: Conie Couch, John Ipock, Bill Graham, Eugene Aldridge; fire chief, Bob Harris; firemen: Errol Hayes, Jr., Jimmy Garland, Charles Dockery, Jack Parks; tax collector, Gayle Graham; assistants: Jimmy Gar land, Graham Johnson; sanitary officer, Clifton Boger; assistants: Bill Myers, Ray Ratledge, Benny Gross; city attorney,. Charles Colhard; assistant, Worth Gra ham; superintendent of water works, Tom Whatley; assistants: Jimmy Lillard, Bob Parks; super intendent of schools, Harold Brendle. Thurmond Passes A Brief Illness Joel Simmons, 80, passed away at his home at Thurmond Tues day following an illness of sev eral days. The deceased was a highly esteemed man and was a member of the Roaring Gap Bap tist church. He was married 63 years ago to Miss Ellen Sparks, who survives him, together with the following children: Mrs. John Cox, Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Walter Spicer, Traphill; Mrs. J. A. J. Royall, Thurmond: Mrs. Wint Holcomb and Jodie Simmons, of Thurmond: R. A. Simmons, of Elkin; Mrs. James W. Brown, Miles; Clarence Simmons, Moun tain Park, and Mrs. Josie Berrier, of Winston-Salem. Sixty- on e grandchildren, 80 great-grand children and one great-great grandchild survive, a total of 152 descendants. Funeral services were held Thursday from Roaring Gap Baptist church. The rites were in charge of Rev. Grant Cothren and Rev. George W. Miles. In terment was in the family plot in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased and the flower girls were granddaughters. CARTER MAKES KIWANIS TALK Speaks on "Kiwanis Educa tion"; Consider Organiz ing Civic Forum 25th YEAR OF KIWANIS Kiwanian Wilbur G. Carter made an interesting and instruc tive talk at the weekly meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis club at Hotel Elkin last Thursday even ing. He spoke on "Kiwanis Ed ucation," being chairman of the Kiwanis Education committee of the club. This year marks the 25th an niversary of Kiwanis, which was formed in Detroit, Mich. Mr. Carter stated that the civic or ganization now numbers 2,000 clubs with a membership of 120,- 000 members, and is growing daily. Kiwanians W. M. Allen and Garland Johnson were appointed to serve with President Stacey Weaver on a committee td con sider the advisability of organ izing a forum of the civic organ izations of the city and securing a prominent speaker to come here once each month to address the citizens of the community on important topics. Mr. Morris, of Greensboro, was a guest of Kiwanian George Roy all, and Julius Speas was the guest of Kiwanian Errol Hayes. TWO WEDDING PERMITS ISSUED BY REGISTER Register of Deeds Kermit Law rence has issued the following marriage license within the last week: James L. Shelton to Jose phine Thomas, both of Mount Airy, and Hugh Hanes of Jones vllle, to Blanch Woodruff, of Glade Valley. 12 KILLED. 61 HURT IN SURRY Traffic Accidents in 1939 Took This Toll; Alleghany/ Among Lowest 15 KILLED IN WILKES Although Mecklenburg county led all other counties in the state in the number of persons injured in traffic accidents in 1939, with Guilford leading in fatalities, Surry county has no record to be proud of, a tabulation by the highway safety division of the Department of Revenue at Ra leigh shows. ' Of Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes and Yadkin counties, Surry led with a total of 61 injured. However, of this group, Wilkes county had the highest death list, with 15. According to the tabulation, the total number killed in 1939 was 943, with 7,190 injured. Guilford county had 50 fatalities and 493 injured, while Mecklen burg had 40 killed and 658 in jured. Traffic deaths in Surry amounted to 12. Alleghany had no deaths and only 5 injured. Figures for the five counties follow: All«hany: 0 killed, 5 injured; Ashe: 4 killed, 14 injured; Surry: 12 kilted, 61 injured; Wilkes: 15 killed, 28 injured; Yadkin: 7 killed, 48 injured. CHILDREN ARE HURRIED FROM DANGER SCENE (Continued from Page One) wind, she and Mrs. Harris moved their charges to the main audi torium. All teachers of the school, de spite the fear and strain put upon them by the blow, acted with va lor in getting every child from the building. Despite the near-panic of the children, all were safely bundled into their coats and caps and marched in as orderly fash ion as possible from the front exit. Power linesmen worked with speed to cut off the power from the fallen lines, and aided in getting the children safely through. So far as is known, not a single child of the 475 in the building suffered a single scratch. Teachers and parents shuddered to think what the story might have been had the roof torn loose while the children were at play or were lined up to march into the school. J. Mark McAdams, superinten dent of Elkin schools, said that there would be no school at the elementary building today (Thurs day). He did not know, when questioned, when the damaged school would re-open. He said he was to confer with John W. Comer, county superintendent, Wednesday night at which time plans for reopening would be worked out. Mr. McAdams also stated that no tornado insurance was carried on the building. The school library, containing hundreds of books, is located on the upstairs floor of the building, and with the exception of its ceiling, was unroofed. Pear was expressed for the safety of the books in case of rain, but it was deemed unsafe to attempt to re move them until the wind went down. The wind did not confine its damage to the school building alone. During the afternoon a small metal garage at the corner of Church and West Market Streets, blew down, as did sev eral fences. Sagging wires were noted on several streets as poles were loosened. YOUNG REPUBLICANS HONOR LOCAL WOMAN Mrs. Ottis J. Reynolds was elected national committee-wom an of the North Carolina Young Republicans at a state meeting held in Greensboro Monday af ternoon. DOLLAR DAYS TO BE HELD (Continued from Page One) day earlier. Instead of going to press on Wednesday evening. The Tribune will go to press Tuesday. Practically all Elkin stores will cooperate in Dollar Days, and all are planing to outdo one another in value giving. Many special purchases have been made in order to put new merchandise on sale that will mean actual dollars and cents saving. Joining with Elkin's merchants, The Tribune extends a cordial in vitation to everyone to visit Elkin during Dollar Days and share in the Dollar Days values to be found hero. I ■ ■ I NE3T THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY WILL BE DOLLAR DAYS IN ELKIN! Elkin Merchants Will » Offer You Great Money-Saving Values! BE HERE! • " * Thursday, February 15, 1940
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