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News of Jonesville Miss Virginia Lineberry, Editor Phone 44-M Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beulln had as their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Cordell Moore and son. Joe BiC. and Mr. Joe Moore, of King. Mrs. Apperson returned to her home Thursday afternoon from Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital where she had been un dergoing treatment. Mrs. Robert Apperson left Sun day to spend this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ovid Wea therman, in Winston-Salem. We are glad to welcome Mr. and Mrs. James H. Williams, who have just moved here from Char lotte. Mr. and Mrs. George Hart and . daughter, Mary Prances, of North Wilkesboro, visited in the home of Mrs. Mamie Apperson here Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Marvin Mayberry and daughters, Ruth and Nancy, and Mrs. John Mayberry and daugh ter. Vickie, spent Sunday after noon in North Wilkesboro. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Reece had as their week-end guests Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wishon and Mrs. H. C. Wishon, of Winston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Tat Davis and children, Abbie and Johijny, Misses Louise McGee and Esther Morrison, and Messrs. H. Badgett and Prank Johnson spent the latter part of last week at Myrtle Beach, S. C. Mr And Mrs. P. A. Lineberry spent Sunday afternoon in the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Lineberry, near Boonville. Messrs. Remis Lanning and Oneil Lineberry spent Friday af ternoon in North Wilkesboro at tending to business matters. Several from this community attended the funeral of Dr. Thad deus Shore in Boonville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hampton and daughter, Sarah Prances, spent the week-end near Dobson with relatives. Mr. Wendel Stanley visited in High Point over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Helton and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Helton and daughter, Anita, visited in North Wilkesboro Friday afternoon. Mrs. Johnson Steelman, of East Bend, was the dinner guest of Mrs. Ivry Johnson here Friday. Mrs. Montgomery Casstevens left Tuesday to spend this week in Advance where she will be the guest of Mrs. Cora Kimmer and daughter, Mrs. Agnes Potts. She will also visit relatives in Mocks vffle. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Casstev ens spent Sunday in Crumpler visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Shumate. Miss Kathryn Whitener spent the week-end with her mother, DRY CLEANING 1 f«l QVfSWU WE ASSM AN( - E | I 4 Sigjjg, I [if wu |SSsJ AND BEST EQUIPMENT! | HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! Our Wet Roofing Is Going Fast. Bring Your Truck and Cash If You Want Some Bargains. Our Prices Are for Cash, F. 0.8. Warehouse. We Have Many Other Itejns of Building Materials at Bargain Prices. Surry Hardware Co. Elkin, N. C. Mrs. C. L. Whitener, in Winston- Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Dett Underwood, of Winston-Salem, visited In the home of Mrs. P. H. Underwood here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Holcomb had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Miles Sprouse and Mr. and Mrs. Larce Weatherman and daughter, Linda Lou, of Center. Mrs. I. Y. Jester and Mrs. Carl Hyden spent Saturday in Win ston-Salem where they visited the former's sister,' Mrs. Will Taylor, who is convalescing at City Memorial hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cheeks and daughter, Martha Jean, of Winston-Salem, spent Tuesday afternoon here. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McCurrier, of Mooresville, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Turner Blackwood. Mr. Charles Barkley, Jr.. spent the week-end in Pfafftown. Tommy Reece Honored Tuesday Night The Delia Woodhouse and Rose Marlowe circles of the Baptist church honored Mr. Tommy Reece with a miscellaneous show er Tuesday evening at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Q. Reece. He will leave soon for Mars Hill College, Mars Hill. During the evening the hon oree opened his gifts which were useful and attractive. During the social hour refresh ments were served to the follow ing: Mesdames Ivry Johnson, John Arnold, Jack Brown, Alec Biggs, Will Holcomb, Marvin Hol cemb, Will Brown, Tat Davis, Henry Cathey, P. A. Lineberry, Parks Qroce and Misses Pauline Gilliam, Evelyn Arnold and Bertha Adams. MOUNTAIN VIEW Mr. Click Stokes, of Winston- Salem, was honored on his 21st birthday Saturday night. A sur prise party was given by his mother, Mrs. Mary Stokes. Re freshments were served to a large number of relatives and friends, and the evening was enjoyed by all. Attorney J. Webster Van Hoy, of Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. and Mrs. Burch Tutterrow, of Union Grove, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Van Hoy. Misses Margaret Everage, of dVinston-Salem, and Prances Mc- Bride, of Louisville, are spending this week here the guests of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin R. Shore. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Adams had as their Sunday visitors Mr. and Mrs. Junior Johnson and chil dren, of Winston-Salem. Miss Eloise Stokes spent last week in Winston-Salem, the guest of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Snow had as their Sunday dinner guests the former's brother, Mr. Fred Snow, and Mrs. Snow and little daughters, Shirley Ann, Shelby Jean and Freddie Gay, of East Bend. Mrs. Katie Nicks and grandson, Grant Nicks, of Winston-Salem, are spending some time here with her sister, Mrs. Nancy Shore. Minnesota is called the "Land of 10,000 Lakes." THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA E. H. S. Class of 1917—Then and Now jgggpM m&t. Wm> .ss%*?> ■'".-v^^J •»fsSlsJc«t JP \ gawa^ '^H^l BbSul PrfP^fjSj^. Hp * •~y >: " •:• .• * ._/• •*. % •. ■ ■ ':•> S jH Mpj*»M;j|y•';•;>• Pictured above are photographs of Elkin High School class of 1917, the top photo made during the recent reunion of the class at Hotel Elkin. Bottom photo was taken in 1917 and is the property of Mrs. C. O. Hadley, of Statesvilie, a member of the class. Pictured in top photo, left to right around the table, are: Mrs. Errol Hayes (formerly Miss Nina Whitaker); Edworth Harris, Mrs. Evelyn Bell Carter (formerly Miss Evelyn Bell), all of Elkin; Dr. Claude Parks, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Raymond Harris (formerly Miss Elizabeth Hubbard), of Elkin; Professor Z. H. Dixon, class teacher, Elkin; Mrs. W. E. Hunter (formerly Miss Willie Paul), of Baleteh; Joe Hendren, of Tucson, Ariz.; Mrs. F. W. Gra ham (formerly Miss Ohna Harris), of Elkin; Mrs. C. O. Hadley (formerly Miss Maude Snow), of Statesvilie; and Miss Auba Gray, of Elkin. Bottom photo, made on the steps of what is now the Elkin elementary school, arc, first row, left to right: Professor Dixon, Miss Auba Gray, Miss Willie Paul, Miss Elizabeth Hubbard, Miss Ohna Harris. Second row, left to right: Miss Evelyn Bell, Miss Nina Whitaker, Claude Glenn, Miss Mary Dixon, Miss Maude Snow. Back row, left to right: May hew Hendren, Edworth Harris, Joe Hendren and Claude Parks.—(Top photo by Tribune Photograhper.) Old, Old Story of Murder Of D. Binkley Is Revived By Old Ne (Yadkin Ripple) We wonder how many readers of The Ripple remember or have heard of the old case, the killing of D. Binkley, who lived near Baltimore church this county. It happened in September, 1898. His body was found near the railroad tracks and although not dead, he never was able to tell who shot him. Willis Dixon, Yadkinville, route 2, found a clipping from a Win ston-Salem newspaper, the old Western Sentinel, among the pa pers of his late father, which gives a vivid account of the af fair, the names of the witnesses, etc. *lTie account is as follows: "Mr. D. Binkley, of Baltimore, Yadkin county, who was found early yesterday morning by Po liceman Reed with a bad wound near the left eye, caused by a pistol ball, died about 6 o'clock last evening at the home of Mr. W. D.» Steelman, on Trade street. "Mr. Binkley was practically unconscious all day yesterday. His brother, who has been living in Washington city for eight years, came to Winston yesterday from Yadkin county, where he had been visiting his father and other relatives. He intended leaving last night for his home, until advised of his brother's serious condition. He sent tele grams to his father and other rel atives. The father arrived last night. "The father told the reporter this morning that his son was about thirty-two years old. He was a member of a firm of whole sale liquor dealers. He did the traveling. The father said he had never seen his boy drunk, though he had been told that he drank some. "It is known that the son had some money with him, but there is a diversity of opinion as to the amount, some think he had as much as S2OO. Not a dollar was on his person when Policeman Reed found him. He had a cheap open-faced silver watch, but this was in his pocket. Preliminary Investigation "Th e policeman investigated the case yesterday and as a re sult they arrested eight men, some of them being important witnesses. They were locked up, and at 10:30 this morning were given a hearing before Justices Bessent and Nading in the court room at the court house. "Jones & Patterson and Ben bow & Hall represent the State. Glenn & Manly appear for Tom Reed, while Watson, Buxton & Watson represent Slim May. The trial attracted a large' crowd. "Policeman Reed was the first witness. He stated that a man, whose name he did not know, told him that a man was lying near -the railroad track. He went to the man, found him bloody . . ." Here the clipping had been torn and could not be followed. Listed- as witnesses in the case were Tom Jennings, Will Murphy, George Holcomb, William Bul lock, Dr. C. B. Bynum, Wesley H. Smitherman, John Murphy, Thomas Hudson, Katherine Pitts, J'. A. Thomas, the policeman, later chief many years, Hugh Barnes, and Garfielc} Logan, most of them from Yadkin county who had gone to Winston, then a small town, to a circus. So far as can/be learned Gar field Logan and George Holcomb are the only persons living who were connected with the case. Logan lives near Enon and Hol comb, a native of Center, is still tramping the streets of Winston. Benbow and Hall are the only at torneys in the case living. Both justices of the peace are dead. Reed was given a long sen tence and later pardoned. Ac cording to information hs many fights after gaining his freedom, and was onoe thrown from the saloon of the late Sam Shermer and given a sound thrashing by Shermer. He is still living and can be seen most any day walking the streets of Winston. He reformed many years ago and apparently lives a model life and holds no grudge against anyone. What happened to Cobbler and Hudson could not be learned. Reed is described as the leader of the gang that started the fight in the red light district of Win ston which led to the killing of Binkley. INFORMAL PROGRAM IS HEARD BY CLUB An informal program featured tha weekly dinner meeting of the Kiwanis club at Hotel Elkin Thursday evening. Lieut. Owen Huff, commander of the CCC camp here, told the group of an airplane flight which he made with Thurmond Chatham, of Winston-Salem and Elkin, presi dent of Chatham Manufacturing company, from Winston-Salem to North Wilkesboro over the Yad kin valley, and described the damage and wreckage wrought by the flood in this section last week, as observed from the air. L. S. Weaver, president of the club, presided over the meeting and the brief business session, which followed the program. d ™ e t a s d ay HOLSUM ROOD LEAVES DESTRUCTION Waters Move on, Leaving Months of "Digging Out" in Stricken Area MUCH AID IS GIVEN North Wilkesbcro, Aug. 19 When "hell of high water" ram pages through a nation, a state, a county. It's news. The torrential floods in west ern North Carolina "bearing all down in their precipitancy" evok ed pictures by the dozen. News photographers flew or waded belly-deep to show homes, fac tories. railroad cars inundated, pigs drowned, crops destroyed. When the sensational is over, it ceases to be news by orthodox standards. The thousands left in muck and slime are just left there so far as news is" concern ed. The floods have passed the hills to the lowlands. They are picked" up there. It is still news to see the plain section under swirling water. But that is not all of the story. It isn't dramatic to picture the commonplace back-breaking pro cess of rehabilitation. The western North Carolina counties tiave taken hitches in their belts and they are "digging out" from the mud, debris and devastation left in the storm's wake. Individuals have knuckled down in all sections, busy salvag ing whatever can be redeemed from nature's onslaught. Those indivduals who bore the brunt of the storm's fury do not go without food or adequate clothing. WPA workers on the surplus commodities project have distributed more than 18 tons of foodstuff—a month's supply to each family. Clothes, made in WPA sewing rooms, have been given through the various coun ty departments of public welfare. In WPA district seven, Clyde Crutchfield, WPA district man ager, reports that 150 workers as signed to the SIO,OOO WPA flood relief project, have cleared North Wilkesboro streets of mud, lum ber stacks 20 feet high, collected and burned trash, helped restore the waterworks plant. Twenty five hundred men in Ashe* Alle ghany, Avery, Caldwell, Watauga, Wilkes and Iredell counties work ing on WPA farm-to-market road WE AVIL & REID AUTOMOBILE TIRE SHOP Which Was Destroyed by the Flood, Will Reopen , Elkin Soon. Tires Lost by Flood Will Be Replaced WATCH FOR OUR OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT * ALL FLOODED MATERIALS BEING SOLD AT A GREAT REDUCTION! New Stock Being Received Business As Usual Within Next 10 Days! Elkin Lumber & Mfg. Co. "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 68 Elkin, N. C. Thursday, August 22, 194QJ projects, have been given the of opening roads, building tours, placing marooned c muni ties in touch with the res the state. In Boone and o northwestern places, WPA w ers have been commissioned the shock troops in the rest* tion program. B. L. Waldenmaier, WPA fa engineer, now stationed in Chi lotte. has placed 911 men at flc repair work. Roads are receivl emergency attention in McDc ell, Rutherford, Catawba, Li coin and Burke counties. For I next week, Spindale, Forest CI Rutherfordton and Morgan! streets will be repaired. The in Hickory will engage the : men there for about two mont Z. V. Stewart, State High? engineer, estimated that it wo take three and six months to pair the damage to roads inJ northwestern counties. It will take another year] plant the crops destroyed. Th hundreds must seek other la instead of their acres from wh: the top soil has been washed, 1 bottom lands covered with sa and boulders, replacing the I 1! earth where corn, cabbage a beans were profitably grown. 1 another season must come for 1 return of the tourist crop to 1 glories of several mountain i gions. The news is over. Beyond 1 news, months of grueling toil ahead for individuals, state, lo and federal agencies. Years j ahead for many to mourn 1 loss of their loved ones, the 1 of their homes and the top £ from which they wrested th substance. They Scream v Jimmy—Elsie and her hmW don't talk to each other j more. Alma—You don't say? Jimmy—No, they scream. F-W CHEVROLET COMPANY Elkin, N. C.
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