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MIRE AND MUCK FOLLOW FLOOD ' : Excitement of High Waters Gives Way to. Plenty of Hard Work DAMAGE IS WIDESPREAD plenty of excitement' was avatt atole Wednesday of last week as flood waters moved into a new record high, but as > the wafers fnoved out littte bf excitement was left—just mire, muck wreck age, and plenty of ftard work, j •jftie river fell as fast as it t*tf came up. Down on South Bridge SO-eet, where a large part of the; datnage was done,' was a scene d£D»)late to contemplate. Wreck age there was in profusion where tiufc a day before had stood pros perous business establishments lining each side of a busy street. Slime, over shoe-top deep, was aver everything.' Gone was the White Swan liaundry. Gone was the. Riverside Cafe, Coke Marion's Esso Service, R. L. .Church Oil Co. Badly damaged was Bryan's Double Eagle Service Co. lihe old jail stood under a heavy load of wreckage, a great hole bashed Into Its front. Gone were the familiar aluminum colored gaso line tanks of the Texas Co. Wreck age everywhere. ' \ Those buildings which had withstood the flood had not escap ed the fury of ,the rampaging waters. The floor in , the Elkin Motor Car Company had swelled and buckled tq a height of three or four feet. On the used car lot cars were plied around like some giant had tossed them hither and yon In play. In the repair de partment slime was several Inches deep. The J. C. Dobbins store, the Elk in Bottling Co., the Carolina Ice 6d Fuel Company—all weathered the flood. But all bore equal evi dence of a river gone mad. The buildings of the Elkin Lum ber & Manufacturing Company were moved from their founda tions and grouped In a haphazard jumble. The boiler house was wrecked. Lumber had floated a way or had rammed into buildings. In the bottom east of the street oil tanks lay In a'jumble of con fusion, amid wreckage of buildings and debris. Here and there was an automobile, half buried in muck and sand. Nearer the river was the approach to the old bridge— WANTS For Rent— Cafe in Dobson, at reasonable rate. Have other business, Is reason for renting. Address P. O. Box 76, Dobson, ' N. C. i 9-50 For Sale— Rat Terrier pope. See E. T. Reece, at Reece Barber Shop. , ltc For rent: three and four room apartments. finished. Private bath. Catt ' Chappell. Telephone 126-M. tfc Wanted: Good tenant with stock, tools and fqrce to tend a good farm on Yadkin river. Corn, wheat and tobacco land. C. A. Dimmette, Ronda, N. C. 8-22 c Wanted to gent good upland farm with fertilizer and seed furnished. I wil\ . furnish all stock and tools.,' McKlnley Mickle, care of P. Woodruff. Boonvllle, N. C. : ltp Peaches for sale: Georgia Belles and Elbertae, 300 bushels. Hen ry Wolfe, MoUritain Park. N. C. 8-220 Kill destruottve Insects with proven insecticides. Arsenate lead, magnesium arsenate, Paris green. Turner Drug CO., Elkin, N. C. tfc If you want a good Singer Sow ing Machine at a Bargain, see us today, don't delay. Home i Furniture Co. ltc 3 I Do yon want plenty of «n« from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamln. we have it. Abernethy'a, A QooA • Drug Store. Elkln. N. C. tfc We. buy scrap Iron and metals. Double Eagle/Service Co., Elk in. N. C. tfc One good battery Fhilco radio for sale cheap: Xt!s a bargain. Home Furniture Co- ' > ltc Ranted! Ifefined girls for Beauty Culture Training. ' A complete course for only $50.00. State accredited, taae's School of Beauty Culture, North Wilkes boro, N. C. Mrs. Jake Church. Prop. tft Wanted to repair radio*. Oar expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., SJkin. N. C. Mb For rent: 6-room how la West Elkln. Reich and Hunt. Real tors. [ • tfc One food sseond hand range to sail at a bargain. Home Furni ture Co. tto many tons of steel girders that had been tossed there as easily as tf they had been without weight. At the site of the laundry the floor remained, as did a majority of the equipment, all of which It te believed can be reclaimed. A long look, and then the task of rehabilitation. Owners, their employees, CCC boys—everyone who wanted to work—went to work before the river was hardly within- its banks. Blime was sluiced from buildings; wreckage was cleared from the street; wrecked cars were hauled away; lumber was removed and restack led. Day after day the work went on without cease. Soon some semblance of order began to pre vail. The sun came out and helped dry up the pools of water; turned the mire into mud. Things look better ndw to those who saw them at their worst, but still look bad enough. Already a new building is going up on the lower end of the street in de fiance of the river. But wreckage and damage waa not confined alone to South Bridge street. Numerous stores on Main street saw their base ments flooded; saw mire and slime and ooze over everything. Hard work there was to do in plenty, but a few days saw base ments cleared and washed out; saw order restored where but short days ago was chaos. Receding- Waters Leave Wreckage (Continued from Page One) stations below that point were washed away. Combs Produce Company, which was located In the old jail, suffered a loss of around S2OO, Early Combs said Wednesday. He said all equipment was swept away and the building was badly damaged by the flood. Now lo cated at West End Grocery, In West Elkin, Mr. Combs said he hoped to be back at his old loca tion by the first of September. I. C. Yates, of the Elkin .Lum ber & Manufacturing Co., said Wednesday that his firm would be doing business as usual within the next 10 days, although build ing materials wet by the flood are being sold now at greatly re duced prices. New stocks are al ready arriving, he said, stating tliat the company was going to resume business as usual just as soon as it was possible to clear away wreckage and repair and rebuild damaged buildings and equipment. The Elkin Motor Car Company is now open for business, al though handicapped by necessary repair work to their building. Both their service and parts de partments are operating, it was announced. The Carolina Ice & Fuel Com pany is fast making a comeback and is continuing to serve cus tomers with ice. DeWitt Sparks, owner of a col ored cafe and pool room which was located at the rear of the laundry building, stated that his loss amounted to around SBOO, the buildings being swept entire ly away. Carl Rose has already begun construction of a small office building on the site of the old one. which went out with the flood. The Chatham Manufacturing Company suffered damage to 2,- 000 bales of cotton, rayon, etc., which was on a siding near their plant. Workmen worked for several days unloading and clean ing up this stock, the greater part of which can be reclaimed, it is understood. Oil distributors are planning to locate their storage plants on higher ground when suitable sites, located near the railroad, can be obtained, it was learned. Normal telegraph service over the wires of Western Union was expected to be resumed here late Wednesday afternoon or by today (Thursday) at the latest, it was learned from the local Western Union office. The telephone office reported that its long distance lines are all open, but that so far only one line is open to Jonesville. The first train to reach Ellcin since the flood arrived sometime Monday night. A mixld passen ger and freight train reached EUdn Tuesday afternoon after a delay of several hours near Crutchfield where four freight cars were derailed. Wednesday an engine which had been ma rooned at North Wilkesboro, came through to Elkln. Uninterrupted train service l)ps been announced as work on the road bed con tinues. The first train went "through to North Wilkesboro Wednesday afternoon. Hie Elkln water department continues to work at capacity, Mayor J. R. Poindexter stated Wednesday, with no surplus. Cit izens are urged to conserve water and filling stations have seen their supply curtailed to the point that the washing of auto mobiles has been a thing of the past since the flood. 1 Several dead animals, including horses and cows, have been found at various points in the river bottom, and have been buried. The body of a small THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA ■ ■ IHH ■;. "m■ . ? I ■■' ' 7 fi : - - i- ' ; ®". - jtfmm PPNHi 9HGET ■ More automobiles than Eikin has ever seen before were here all Sunday afternoon as people came from far and near to see the damage done by the flood. Left photo was made from the north end of the Hugh Chatham bridge, showing a continuous line of cars and a few of the hundreds of spectators who jammed the bridge. Photo at right was taken from the Jonesville end of the bridge and gives an idea of the congested traffic as two lines of cars, coming in on the Boonville highway, and on route 21, met at the intersection of the two roads. Some motorists reported it took them from 30 to 40 minutes to get into Elkin from Jonesville.—(Tribune Photos.) thought to. be a monkey was found under a local warehouse. It is believed to have been wash ed down the river from North Wilkesboro. The neighboring city in Wilkes was far harder hit than was Elkin, inasmuch as a large num ber of its Industries was located In the river bottoms and were swept away by flood or destroyed by fire. Like Elkin, North Wilkes boro was jammed and crowded with thousands of automobiles Sunday. C. C. C. YOUTH IS KILLED BY AUTO (Continued from Page One) said that he was blinded by lights of an approaching car and did not see the watchman. Young Powell, a native of Par sonville, Wilkes county, was an orphan, and had been at the camp here about three months. His closest surviving relative Is an aunt, Mrs. Alice Spears, of Parsonsville. The body was removed Wed nesday morning to Parsonsville, where funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday after noon. Mayor J. B. Poindexter and town officials were shocked at the tragedy, the camp enrollees hav ing rendered Invaluable aid to the town during the recent flood, and the loss of a life of one of the boys in the line of public duty grieved the entire community. As an expression of their sorrow members of the local Merchants Association, the highway patrol and supervising officials and members of the young man's company at the camp sent flow ers for the funeral, and six mem bers of his company escorted the body to Paraonsville, and acted as pallbearers for the funeral. J. C. OSBORNE ENDS OWN LIFE (Continued from Page One) shotgun into his chest. He was rushed to the hospital here for attention, where repeated blood transfusions were of no avail. Conscious afterward, he is said to have told members of his family that he could no longer carry on. He was an esteemed employee and popular with his fellow workers. No cause is known for his suicide. . . He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Osborne, of this city, who survive him, with, his wife, Airs. Delia Swaim Osborne, and two children, Wayne. 8, and Vena Mae, 6.. One brother, Brady Osborne, and one sister. Miss Delia Lou Osborne, both of Elkin, also survive. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Swan Creek Baptist church. The rites • were in charge Of Rev. J. L. Powers, Rev. Richard Day and Rev. Rich ard Pardue. The Wooten Reunion To Be Held Sunday The- annual reunion of the Wooten clan will be held at For bush Friends church next 'Sun day, Aug. 25, it has been an nounced. There will be preaching at the church at 11 o'clock and a quar tette has been secured to sing in the morning and in. the afternoon also. Dinner will be served cm the grounds. All members of the Wooten family, their relatives and friends are invited to attend and 'carry a full basket. ] Thousands Came to See—And Got Stuck in Traffic! Passes Away I I Bliipl&i : "W Jjt' HK 5 ■HSBSSHML HL HH Dr. T. W. Shore, widely known BoonvlUe physician, who died Friday morning In a Winston-Salem hospital from a heart attack. Prominent Yadkin County Doctor Dies (Continued from page one) tinuously at Boonville since that time. He is survived by his wife who before their marriage was Miss Zetta Woodruff; four sons, Stew art Shore, of Pockomoke City, Md.; James Shore, of Winston- Salem; Thad Shore, Jr., of Devo tion, and Allan Shore, of Boon ville, and three daughters, Miss Oay Shore, of New York City, and Misses Cam and Achsah Anne Shore, of Boonville. One sister, Mrs. Egbert L. Da vis, of Winston-Salem, and one brother, j. Wade Shore, of Boon ville, also survive. Funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock from the Boonville Baptist church. The body lay in state at the church from 9 o'clock until the hour of the service. The rites were attended by throngs of peo ple from throughout this section and a beautiful floral tribute blanketed the burial plot in the Boonville cemetery. Mayor, Police Chief Express Appreciation (Continued from Page One) a great blow. He said that many of the CCC boys had worked under his direction during the flood, and that he had never seen young men who showed greater willingness to work or greater obedience to or ders. 'lf it hadn't been for these boys," Chief Wall said, "many Elkin merchants and certainly the police force, would have been In the middle of a bad fix. Hie police department appreciates the work of the boys and their superiors and all join in expressing sincere sym pathy to the family of young Powell." SEVERAL COUPLES OBTAIN LICENSE Marriage license Issued by K. W. Lawrence, Surry county regis ter of deeds, during the past two weeks were to the following couples: Troy McCram, of Mount Airy, to Ruth Dawson, of Cana; James Freeman to Alma White, both of Dobson; J. H. Bondurant, of The Hollow, Va„ to Mrs. Alice Graves, of Jackson, Miss.; Qlenn T. Talbert to Marie Hooker, both of Mount Airy, and Oarnle Love to Margie Gates, both ot Mount Airy. Modern Mother White-haired Lady: "Ah, me, things aren't at all like they used to be. The only time a modern mother puts her foot down is when the traffic light turns green." Wife:: "Tommy gets more like you every day." Husband (meekly): "What's he been up to now?" Thrilling New Creationj FOR FALL JL Are Arriving Daily! H|J||^k You'll want to come right on down today and see these thrilling new creations in ladies' ready-to-wear for fall. JVs9Kf£||^ Dresses, coats, shoes, sweaters, skirts . . . new shipments / ,fl COATSjf» The new fall coats will en- 1095 49 50 Newest In /Veu) Fall Dresses Every new style, all the new fabrics, QC? distinctive new trims ... aU are repre- //Q sented in our new fall dresses. Many Wd fall models are here .. . more are ar- TO riving daily. Keep posted on what's m mm! new by coming in and selecting yours 3fj / leathers combinations f^fall McDaniel's ELKIN/N.C. Cold Dream 1 . Dinocan—l dreamed about you last night. Gladys (icily)— Really! Dinocan Yes, really. But then I woke up, closed the win dows and put an extra cover on the bed. The inventor of the green col or of the American dollar was an Armenian. Thursday, August 22. 1940 WOMAN SWEPT AWAY IN FLOOD Body of Mrs. Carrie Boyd Gates Found Caught on Snag in River INMATE OF CO. HOME The body of Mrs. Carrie Boyd Gates, 39, inmate of the Surry County Home, who was swept away in the flood waters of the Fisher's river last Wednesday morning, was found Monday morning lodged against a snag about one mile below the county home. v Officials of the Surry County Home had searched for the body of Mrs. Gates since her disap pearance but all efforts had proved fruitless. Her husband, Matthews Gates, of Mount Airy, continued the quest Monday morning and found the body caught against a snag in the water. Mrs. Gates was a native of Patrick county, where she was born September 3, 1900, the daughter of Robert and Jennie McMillian Boyd. She is survived by her husband, her mother; one brother and two children. v Funeral rites were held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Boyd family cemetery near Ararat, Va. The rites were con ducted by Rev. W. S. Epperson. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express to our many friends our sincere appreciation for the sympathy and kindness shown us during the illness and death of our beloved husband and father. Dr. T. W. Shore, also for the beautiful floral offerings. MRS. T. W. SHORE ltc AND FAMILY
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