FOUR ARE HURT IN AUTO CRASH Vance Dunn Receives Broken Back in Accident; Failed to Take Curve • ALL ARE DOING WELL Gilmer Wright and Lawrence, Vance and Leo Dunn, all of Ad vance, and employees of Chatham Manufacturing company here, were injured in an automobile ac cident on the Yadklnvllle-Boon ville highway late Wednesday night of last week while en route to their work heme. Vance Dunn was the most seriously Injured of the young men, having sustained a broken back. Gilmer Wright was also badly hurt, his major injury being a severe scalp wound. Lawrence Dunn also sustained a • scalp wound of lesser nature. Leo Dunn, who was only slightly in jured, has been dismissed from the hospital. According to latest reports, all of the men are making satisfactory progress. The cair in which they were riding and which was driven by Gilmer Wright, failed to take a curve and overturned down an embankment, pinning all of the occupants under the car. Their groans were heard by a passing negro, who summoned aid. Unsafe speed causes nine out of ten automobile accident deaths, records of the Highway Safety Division show. (WARNING TO WATER CUSTOMERS Last month service to 15 delin quent water customers was order ed discontinued. If your water bill is in arrears, make arrangements now to settle at once as we cannot carry these accounts. Paying now will save you the embarrassment and inconvenience of being with out water. DIXIE GRAHAM Collector, Water Dept. FIRST PRIZE in Any Company JARMAN'S NEW BELMONT BROWN To the winning professional base ball club each year goes the World Series Flag. But now, and every season of every year the men of gßjk value, Jarman Shoes.'here's JAMHUUi SHOIS FORM!*/ M'DANIEL'S DEPARTMENT STORE ELKIN, N. C. Aid Is Needed in Filling: Out Blanks (Continued from Page One) become permanent records they must be made out carefully and legibly. This is important work, it was pointed out, and it is the duty of every good citizen to lend his aid in seeing that every man of required age is correctly reg istered. A total of 700 men are expected to register In Elkin precinct, and it will require numerous assist ants to properly register this many men in the prescribed time limits. Anyone who is willing to aid in this Important work is asked to see J. L. Hall. Under the Selective Service Act, stiff penalties are provided for those who fail to register. Those failing this duty are sub ject to five years imprisonment and SIO,OOO fine. These penalties also apply to persons who aid or abet another to evade registra tion or service. Following registration the reg istrant must keep in touch with his local board, reporting imme diately any change of address. He will be given a registration certificate which must be carried at all times, as he may be re quired to show it from time to time. Persons who are sick on reg istration day and unable to pre sent themselves before the reg istration board, but are not in a hospital, shall have a competent person apply to the chief reg istrar for authority to act as reg istrar in the case. Persons who are quarantined or too sick to be registered on registration day THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA must present themselves before a local board, or notify the board, as soon as he can be registered. A physician's certificate or other competent evidence shall be nec essary to prove valid cause for falling to register on the proper day. Complete Information covering other causes which may prevent a person from registering may be obtained from Chief Registrar Hall. . Surry county has two draft boards, which were appointed by a committee made up of F. T. Lewellyn, clerk of superior court; R. A. Freeman, chairman of the Surry board of elections, and John W. Comer, superintendent of Surry county schools. The board appointed to govern the district of Surry In which Elkin is located, Is made up of Dr. C. L. Folger, of Dobson, C. A. Mc- Neill, of Elkin, W. M. Matthews, of Pilot Mountain. R. A. Free man, of Dobson, was named ad vising attorney, and Dr. M. A. Royall, of Elkin, advising physi cian. The other board, with jurisdic tion over Mount Airy townships, Stewarts Creek and Long Hill, is made up of R. W. Sparger, of Mt. Airy; Grover C. Lovill, of Mount Airy; and Sam D. Cook, of Stew arts Creek township, with John H. Folger, of Mount Airy, as ad vising attorney, and Dr. Robert E. Smith, also of Mount Airy, as advising physician. Citizens officially appointed to conduct the registration in the various Surry precincts, have been announced by R. A. Free man. These men are: Bryan—W. F. Thompson, W. J. Nixon, Paul G. Lewis, Claude Harris. Dobson —F. F. Riggs, C. G. Comer, C. L. Jarvis, Walter Blev ins. Eldora R. G. Shackleford, Caleb Marsh, Hobert Simpson, C. E. Hutchens. Elkin—J. L. Hall, R. C. Free man, Fred Neaves, W. M. Dicker son. Franklin—Dixie Lowe, Charles Bryant, Guy Bartley, A. C. Lowe. Long Hill —C. E. Needham, D. B. Needham, J. W. Stewart, J. Frank Chilton. Marsh —Windell Wilmoth, Zella Phillips, T. G. Marion, J. S. Hill. Mount Airy No. 1 Gilmer Wood, C. P. Creed, E. L. Patter son, F. S. Eldridge. Mount Airy No. 2—Jesse M. Banner, A. B. Carter, Wilson Bar ber, Charlie Turpine. Mount Airy No. 3—Phil Cran ford, W. F. Carter, Jr., J. C. Hol lingsworth, J. Monroe Hiatt. Mount Airy No. 4—Bryan Ash by, W. I. Monday, Frank Martin, J. A. Sparger. Mount Airy No. s—Joe Hall, C. E. Cox, J. H. Gwyn, Ben Edwards. Pilot—O. J. Johnson, Arthur Fulk, R. c. Boaz, Boyd Nelson. Rockford—S. E. Banner, J. G. Wood, F. E. Layne, Lee Perkins. Shoals—Oliver Hauser, Oscar Scott, P. A. Marion, A. L. Ash burn. Siloam —J. S. Patterson, W. H. Hardy, Hugh Atkinson, J. A. Whitaker. Stewarts Creek—Claude Ra mey, Guy Sparger, Sam Cook, Joe A. Gentry. Westfield Robert Flippin, W. B. Blair, John R. Tilley, Joe H. Hall. Based upon the fact that the state is expected to register around 430,000, it is estimated that Surry county will register 4,500. Surry, it is said, will be fortunate in the first call, since credit for those now enlisted in service and voluntary enlistments will about fill the quota of the first call. METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES ANNOUNCED Sunday at the morning hour of worship at the Methodist church at 11 o'clock, Rev. L. B. Aber nethy, a former pastor of the church, will preach, in the ab sence of the pastor, Rev. Herman F. Duncan. At the evening hour of worship at 7:30, Rev. Duncan will preach and special music will be render ed by the senior church choir. The church extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend. Monday evening at 7:30 Rev. J. S. Hiatt, superintendent of the Elkin district of the Methodist church, will hold the fourth quar terly conference at the church. This is an Important meeting and all church members are invited to be present. ' SIX MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED Six marriage license were is sued during the past week by the Surry register of deeds to the following couples: John T. Conrad to Miss Katherine Safrit, both of Elkin; Roby Ephriam Tuttle to Miss Minnie Mae Callo way, both of King; Rufus Bled soe to Miss Gladys Corder, both of DObson; Dewey Scott to Miss Iva Simpson,- both of Ararat; Maxwell Jackson Davis, Mount Airy, to Miss Cloyce Key, of Ara rat; Wrenn McKinney, Pinnacle, to Miss Hazel Donley, Mount Airy. I HOLD RITES FOR MRS. D. F. GOUGH (Continued from Page Ode) love and esteem in which she was held was attested by the floral tribute, which blanketed the plot in Flat Rock cemetery in Yadkin county, where she was buried. She was a native of Rockingham county, and moved with her hus band to Elkin about 25 years ago. She was a member of the Meth odist church and the Woman's Society of Christian. Service of the church. | She is survived by her hus band, David F. Gough; four sis ters, Mrs. I. D. Green, of Char lotte; Mrs. R. L. Cloer, of Lenoir; Mrs. H. C. Lomax, of Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. J. S. Boggan, of Rockingham, and several nieces and nephews. Out-of-town friends and rela tives attending the funeral here Tuesday were: Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Cloer and Mrs. Elsworth Harts field, of Lenoir; Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Cloer, of Hickory; Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Green, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lomax, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Faulkner, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ingle, Mrs. Gaffney, Mrs. C. W. Ingle, Mrs. Goodwin and Glenn Ingle, of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Gillis, of Mount Holly; Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes, of Dan ville, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bog gan, of Rockingham; Mrs. John Holcomb, Mrs. Gough Miller and Sid Gough, of Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Bell and Frank and Billy Johnson, of Hamptonville; Woodrow Miller, Mrs. W. C. Mil ler, Mrs. L. D. Kelley, Mr/ and Mrs. D. L. Kelley, Miss Mary Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Labon Hau ser, Mrs. F. Harding, Mrs. A. Kil gore and Mrs. J. W. Miller, of Yadkinville. Patronize Tribune advertisers. CLUB COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING HELD OCT. 2 The County Council meeting of Surry County Home Demon stration clubs was held in Mrs. Grace P. Brown's office at Dob son October 2, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Paul Brown, of Devotion, presi dent, presided over the meeting. The club collect was repeated by the members. Mrs. Frank Folger read the minutes and called the roll, and Mrs. Howard Hardy, of Siloam, gave the treasurer's re port. Plans were made for the Fed-, eration meeting and Achievement Day which will be held at Btulah school building November 2 at 10:30 o'clock. The various clubs of the county will take part on the program and display exhibits. Demonstrations of Home Dem onstration club work will be giv en. The men have a special invita tion to come with their wives to this meeting, therefore it prom ises to be one of the best Federa tion meetings to be held in Sur ry county. At the conclusion of the program lunch will be served. An average of six or more pe destrians a week are killed on North Carolina streets and high ways. Rogers Electric Shoe Shop A Statement To Men of Military Age Under the Conscription Bill, men of ages 21 to 35 in clusive are subject to military service. While all will not be affected it has undoubtedly made some of you hesi tant about your Fall clothing purchases. McDaniel's, therefore, meets the present situation with a new policy, designed to eliminate any undue financial burden on those who may be drawn into military service: A Defense Co-operation Money-Back Certificate will be issued to all men of military age on purchase of Suits, Top coats and Overcoats, for personal use, up to and including November Ist, 1940. In the event you are conscripted and actually enter into service on or before December 31st, 1940, this certificate, with your notice of call, will entitle you to . privilege of returning your purchase for full regard less of wear. Our first consideration in this move has been for you I•j j * young men between 21 and 35 who are subject to con scription. Elkin's most popular department store is proud to be first with this timely offer and service. You may come to McDaniel's and buy your Fall Suits, Top coats, and Overcoats with the utmost confidence that you will not incur a needless expenditure. E. W. McDANIEL President. McDaniel's Dept. Store FOR A SANDWICH, QUICK LUNCH OR A HEARTY MEAL VISIT THE ATLANTIC CAFE WE FEED YOU—WE DON'T FOOL YOU Beer - Soft Drinks - Tobaccos Ode Travis, Prop. East Main Street BUILDING! MATERIAL 9 ■ JUST CALL 68 Elkin Lumber & Mfg. Co. "Everything to Build Anything" Phpne 68 Elkin, N. C. TRIBUNE ADVERTISING GETS RESULTS! '■« / ; ' '' Thursday, October 10. 1940

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