New Rulmg In
School Matter
Made Saturday
Ambassadors to France and Mqiwiwt,
• Judge Finley Holds That'
Children May Not Be
c Transported
IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
New Decision Based On Re
cent Opinion Of Supreme
Court
Another chapter in the con
troversy growing ^)nt of the or
der passed by the Wilk(‘s county
board of education tnuisportiinr *
children in certain non-tax school i
districts to local tax districts was
written Saturday when-Judge T.
B. Finley reversed a decision reii
dered by him in December.
The Wilkes jurist held tliat the'
county board cannot under the
law transport children from a
to a local
non-tax district
district.
Judge Finley re-opened the
matter because of a decision
which the Stale Supreme Court
handed dow;n in the case of El
I Banquet is Held
For De^ersfln.
Murray Products
I Is Given By Colonial Products
Cx>mpany Monday Even
ing In City
WAS AT HOTEL WILKES
Fourteen Towns and Cities'
Represented; Three Fac
tory Men Present
A banquet for all North Caro-
Mina dealers in Murray products’
with the exception of those lo-j
cated in the Asheville vicinity ^
/\[ipfupiiauuu * , t
Is Kvert^ To Reforestation Program
apthyAshe County
Banks Now Open
The first two nominations for Ambassadorships sent to the
Senate by President Roosevelt were those naming Jesse I. Strauss
of New York. Ambassador to I*aris. and right, Hon. Josephus ...
uaiiuru uu«i. i.. i.,.- icls. of Raleigh. X. C.. Secretary of Navy under Woodrow Wilson. ■ (-arolina. Georgia and norida.
liott et al vs Slate Board of Kqu- Ambassador to Mexico ('ity. Mr. Strauss is president of a huge Noa\
Misy Bundy Bainbridge of
Asheville, has ''bee n selected
was given Monday evening at Ho- ^ j „ represent North Carolina
tel Wilkes by officials of the; j,i the contest for Grand Beauty
[Colonial Products company, ^o-j Queen al the Chicago World’s
leal business firm. j Fair in June. Cash prizes of $5,-
Factoi’V representatives of the qqy $3,000 go to first and
Murra>* organization were here Ig^^ond places,
for the banquet. Fourteen towns»
and citie.s of the state were rep- j
resented by dealers in .viurray.
products.
The Colonial Products com-!
I pany are distributors of Murray 1
I products in North and South
The banquet hall of Hotel
Masons To Meet
Coming Tuesday
In Every Lodge
alization since his first decision
was made.
t The decision of Judge Finley
Saturday affecis several districts
’which petitioned agaiusi the ord
er of the bouri
Counsel for the board of edu
cation gave notice of appea’ to
the Supreme {‘oiirl. Judge Fin
ley allowed the county board to
fill bond and continue the schools
for the remainder of the term
(Continued on page eight!
Vork deparlment sUuf. ami Mr. DanU'ls is j.ublishpr of the Raleigh ^ Wilkes was attractively decorat- i .pjjpj Meetings Will Be Held
N. w.s and Ob.serv. r, ' meeting, '^re.s bat .
»lerie^^ brake-linings and other ^
1 autaftobile accessorlf^ were dls-
I played effectively.
Frank Killilea, president and.
sales manager of the local firm, i Masons of North Carolina wil
Annual County Commencement To
Be Held In Wilkesboro On May 6;
Rev. J.H. Armbrust To Be Speaker
By Every Lod^e In North
Cardina
LODGE HERE TO MEET
was toastmaster and presented j meet for the
the evening.
our Masonic vows
reconseeration of
on Tuesday
Bill To Reduce
Number Members
Board Approved
Board Of Education Will
Have Three Members If
Senate Passes Bill
^ei
‘The measure introduced in the
eneral Assembly several weeks
ago to riMluce the number of
merr^rs of the Wilkes county ■
board of cdticiition was reported
favorably by the Senate commit- ,
tee. The favorable reptmt virtual
ly assures immediate passage of '
the bill.
Action on the bill was taken
late yesterday by the Senate com-;
mitteo. I
The bill provides that there j
shall be three members of the
board instead of seven. I
Representative (Miarles H
Cowles introduced tiie bill in the
House of Represonlalives. n schools of the
Rare Type Of
Owl Captured
An onl, not so wise as un
usual. was caught by J. K. to-
forth, son of .Mr. i\ H. fioforth,
at ('ycle on >londay night,
March 20. The bird wa.s caught
ill a trap s4*t for hawks.
The pluiniiiage of this iin-
usual owl was inollltHl with
liuff brown and gray above ami
white under the wings. It was
what Is generally terined
V
“spt*ckled.
The bird filled iH'rfeclly H>e
description of the ham owl
which is rare in this section
and unknown in the uoiihern
states. It was probnhly the
first ever seen in ihi.s itniiiedl-
aie territory.
the speakers of
•These inchtded L. Broomfielfl. of' 4. according to an
j the Murray Tire edmpany, locat- yas,ter
Siim.i-intenr1ent VVriirht An- Trenton. \. J.: J. A., f-'®"'" I j^p^bert C. .Mexander.
Supeiintendent 'Vright An 1 prrsuant to the comm.mica-
nounces Plans For Tihs >
With the opening of tin*
Bank of A»he at Jefferson the
first of the week, Ashe county
returned to' normal banking
service. Th^^ First National
Bank at West Jefferson was in
the first list of national banks
to be given license to re-open
following the holida,y.
The two Ashe banks are
among the stroiififest institu
tions in the* northwest section
of the state.
\orlli WilkeslKiro friends of
the neighijoring comity were
happy to learn of the hank
o|>oning in Ashe.
Tho$e Which Have Not Been
Started May Be Delayed"
Indefinitely
PROJECT HERE IN LIST
Money To Be Used In Car
rying Out Plan Urged 4
By Roosevelt
FORMER WHKES
CmZEN KILLS
SELF AT SOMTER
H. N. Forester Found Dead
In South Carolina Hotel
Yesterday
DEATH DUE TO POISON
Hampton N. Forester, bus-
iness man of Sumter. S. C., w’as
An Indefinite delay was seen
this morning in the constrtictlon
of the new post office building
for North Wilkesboro. The re-
I forestation bill diverts the post-
office appropriations for other
purposes.
The following special dispatch
from Washington to the Char
lotte Observer lists North WU-
kesboro as one of the towns af
fected :
Postoffice and federal build
ing generally for which appro
priations had been made In North
and South Carolina but for the
construction of which contracts
have not been awarded wil! now
have to wait under the terms of
the reforestation and employ
ment bill of the senate passed
this evening by the house.
North Carolina had fared un
usually well under what is
known as the relief bill of July
21. 19J12. Fortunately for the
towns and cities which were gir-
Aimual Event
[ pany, located at Philadelphia,
^ Pa., and E. .Armiiigton, of the
^ion. T. C. Caiidin. Master of
’North Wilkesboro Bodge. No.
-- World Bestos Brake-Lining "n'-1 ^ f ^nd A. M. ordered the
The date and speaker tor the Patterson, N. ,1. I 7.30 o’clock
annnal connty commencement j Mr. Lawler told of the tests to I ' ^emhera
for Wilkes was announced Tne.s-1 Murray batteries are P«t | ' pspeciaUv urged to attend. W-
, day by Prof. C. r. Wright. super-,jj„^ explained the> nia^tenance ( ' ^ . -epretary of th
-- en poF.toffice buildings and upon
found dead in bed at the J^ff®*** | which work is under way they
will not be interfered with, but
those wliere no contracts have
as yet been awarded, it is gener
ally regarded, will have wait
until other funds can be provid
ed as the new law diverts these
iiilendent of the
i system. ! the latest methods of merch-l
Saturday. .May (>. has bt-oii sot ^ Armington brought'
- - I ami exinaiiitru luc, I „ jj Waugh, aeoretary or
connty acho.,1 Mr.'BPoOmflerraTsenss-f „,a„inp notices to
the
all
The purpose of*the meeting is
as the date. Mr. wngm siaiea.; „ four-reel talking pic- i,, *he following com
'and Rev. J. H. Armbrust. Pastor showing the manufacture from Grand Maste'
of North Wilkesboro Methodist | ^^e fleet of test 1 ^
! cars which is used to prove the.
j r4unlity of the product before it j
I is placed On the market. |
i Thirty dealers and their sales- j
chuiTh. will deliver the literary
. addres.s. The exercises will l>e
[held in the Wilkesboro hi';h
'school audUoriuni.
Group commeiicemeiil.4 will he ^
i omUled just as they have been
I for the past two years.
The. program will include the
munication from Grand Master
.Alexander:
“Dear Brethren:
“In this time of national crisis
our President. Brother Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, is facing the
s* veiUh grade
Wright Visited Schools ■ , .
Of The County Tuesday 1 diplomas t.
Superintendent (’. Wright . bt*’duati^s.
visiting several ' Thn best e.xplamition of
coinily. Splendid levs power i.s (ieimrui>
I Morganton. Lenoir,
! Newton. Lincolnton, Gastonia,
awarding of medals for 1 Klkin.
following , [grave problems that confront the
and cities were present: .Marion • ^
. [entire population—problems that
Hickory, not his alone, but ours as
well. This herculean task is be-
atlendame anr! tlie distribution
Wiii.ston-Salem. t yond the ability of any one man
Satis-!* . «
boro, Durham, Spencer. ^^aits-j*^ ^^e united
bury and Statesville. | cooperation of every patriotic
Tlie factory representatives.
I ^ ’Icitizen.
Mr. Killilea ami C. S. Coffey went j call Upon the en
pro- Asheville Tue-S’day evening Masonic membership of the
passed there and wa. .s»-nt to lh»
Senate.
work is being done in the schools :'‘^rbial
wcakiu'ss for
, » • « I I ««* V ^ •
n-enk a nieeling of Mniray prodiict.i Jurisdiction of North Car-
he visited, he reported.
mustaihe. haiuaster New
Kra. i dealers in t he Asheville section.
1
Wilkesboro Town Boys and Girls
To Give Minstrel To Aid School
The Davidkon rouniy Mutual Attorney Kugene
Exchange sold $3,05:1.GS worth Ur. W. F. Jones, of
'of poultry and other produce yesterday in
oiina lo a reconsecration of
Trivette and . of ourselves in unif> for
our
the
tliis city ‘common good of all peoples
Statesville , everywhere.
for
its farmer members during inhere Mr. Trivette had business^
} VllVC ITIIildil Cl lU /\Iil UClIUUi moiitb of February.
In Raising Fund For Gymnasium, Opening Qf Local Bank Is Expected By
J- : End Of Week; Now Working Oat Details
‘matters to claim his attention.
“I. therefore, call upon the of-
irontimied on page eight i
Rehearsab
re.ss; Mi.'i.s
Is Directing
Boys and girls of Wilkeslmro.
few of whtnn are st\ideols of (lie
high school, are making plans to
present a ininsirE^l ti» aid the,
school athletir associnMoii in
raising funas with which to ptir-
chase rnaferial*’ for the gymnas-
ium which is muter con.'^ider-
ation.
Rehearsal':, which are now be
ing held once or more each w^ek.
are directed by Miss Grace Blev-
8 The miii.sircl is to he based *
Speak At Meeting
Of Medical Society
Final details are now
being
Ei;^hth District (iroup *‘>r tlie re-opening of
Meet At Hit'll Point Next the Hank of North Wilkesitoro
Thursday ^ hoped that normal
n. B. Smith, president of, operations may be re-
isnmed by Saturday. However, of-
* ficiuls of the bank could
! resume businoss not later than
'pleted by Uial time. ; tomorrow morning.
The .Imiriial-I'atriot (lelayeti ! H l»'Ped Uiaf bank will
publication until this (Thursday
afternoon with the hop* of cai-j
rying tlie ann^uneemenl of the!
opening dale. However, it
son Hotel in Columbia Wednes-i
day morning, a suicide victim..
Press dispatches stated that a |
medical examination revealed 1
that his death was due to poison.
Mr. Forester was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. I-. (Fate) For
ester, of -Goshen. He was 51
years old.
Since going to South Carolina.
Mr. Forester had been prominent
in the social and business life of
Sumter and was widely known.
He had been engaged in the
lumber business and
several large plants.
Despondency was understood
lo be the cause of his rash act.
the
postoffice appropriations to
reforestation plan.
Those affected In North Caro
lina are Winston-Salem. Raleigh,
Fayetteville, Gastonia, Reidsville,
Wilmington. Asheboro, Shelby,
North Wilkesboro, Sanford under
the new program, whereas New
, liie new ^^iukkiiu, «mri.
operated | Rockingham are listed
as under the old but the hand of
the workingman will be stayed
there just a.s well.
CREDITORS TO MEET
L. C. McKaughan, 6r Win.sion-
Salem. federal referee in bank
ruptcy. issued notice yesterday
TO PRESENT OPERETTA
Cliildren of the elementary
grades of the North Wilkesboro
school will present an operetta
for a special meeting of
the ‘ entitled. “Pandora.” in
creditors of Roaring River Fur
niture Company for Monday.
April 10. al 11 o’clock, to ap
prove a final dividend of 10 per
cent, to all unsecured creditors.
Payment of this^ dividend will
bring the total to lOO per cent,
all unsecured creditors thus re
ceiving 100 cents on the dollar
for all their claims against the
concern.
Friday
the
eve-
school auditorium
ning, April 7.
The cast is being directed by
Miss Ruby Blackburn and Mias
Tim Crawford, memliers of the
faculty. Approximately 75 chil
dren are included in the cast.
This colorful operetta promis
es much delightful entertainment
and a large number of people are
expected to see it.
Senior Class of Millers Creek
High School Will Present Play
Saturday N^ht; Excellent Cast
Mrs. Melville Sells |
Part Interest In |
Wilkes Plumbing
Busi- ‘
Is Entitled “Her Aunt Al-
vira* : Will Begin At
7:30 O'clock
I Saturday morning.
Auditors have be^n working
(liligenlly this week and bank of-
was
jficials have given every help pos-
Du one of the popular inin.streL
siiul with local color shiuild be-_ ** paper at tlie meeting,
very eniertaining. ' Several members of the local
April 2S has been leiilatively Ht.cie\v are expected (o attend the
*et as the date for the minstrel, meeting.
Dr
tlie Wilkes Coiuily Medical So
cietv. will appear on the program. . « i 4u„* ,i., i
. ^ ficials of the bank could not definitely ascertained that in order that the opening
al the meeting >l the Eighth' •
Di.sirii-t Medical Societv In Highj^*^’^ definitely this afternoon 1 velopmenis today would not war- ,„ay not be delayed
T»oint next Tliursday. The locall wfieiher the work will be com-' rant delaying publication until , sarily.
physician has been asked to read
MH-LERS CREEK. March '29.
T^ii • XI i —senior class of Millers
J. D. Holcomb, Elkin ; ( reek high school will lyresent
ness Man, Added To Per- annual play Saturday eve-
sonnel of Company April i. at 7;mo o’clock.
^jj^j. The play, one of the best the
* ....
Mrs. D. S. Melville and years.
T,oiiise Melville sold part -nU-r^ J”„Her Aunt Elvira,"
♦U.4 AViUroii Plumbing Works’ . .n l * ^
Th^^ admission will be ten
iinneces-
in th*» Wilkes Plumbing W^irks'
last week to Mr. J. 0. Holcomb
of Elkin. The business will con
cents for school children and
Girls who will be in the cast
include Eiiciie Han, Diicile Gar
wood. Eleanor Smoak. Helen Call
and Mrs. W'alter Pre.sley John-1
son.
Among the boys are Ed ('ry-
8 e 1. Walter Emerson. Fred.*
Frank and Hob II^‘mie^son. Rob
ert Chureh. Thomas Dula. Charles
Hulchcr
Tag Sales Pick Up
As The Price Drops
OLD BOOKS AND PAPERS UNEARTHED BY
CITIZENS OF WILKES ARE INTERESTING
An old arithmetic and
old papers which would prove of
special interesi lo collector.s of
Many ('ars Parked Since antiques have recently been uii-
First of Year Are Put j earthed in the county.
On Highways ’ Hays, is own-
I er of prohatily one of the oldest
... Sales of North Carolina auto-;iinthmetics in the country. The
WMH Rush. Tom Bum- mobile license plates for 19:t3 arithmetic, with the problems
urner. Bill Tale, i.awreuce Gray , showed a marked iiu rease as the written in long-hand, is thought
three-quarter price .became effoc-[ to be approximately
ind Wiliiam Carrigan.
Kiwanis Directors^Will
Meet With CyO- McNeill
tive last Tuesday.
years
. . old. Us exact age cannot be de-
While the new rate has been j termined as the person who Ia
in effect less than ten days, | horiously wrote out the problems
Directors of the Kiwanis Club thousands of oars, parked since' with pen and ink failed to place
Directors ot me iNiwamn -- -—» * —
ill meet in monthly session with t^ie first of the year, have been ^ any date on the pages,
host this on the highways.
The book contains thirtyrsix
The local office of the Carolina ; pages, all of which are in an ex-
O. McNeill as
[Thursday) evening. i-
Th© regular luncheon of the j Motor Club has sold quite a num- cellent state of preservation, the
:lnb will be held tomorrow at the her of the three-quarter plates, ■ figures and writing being easily
Mual hour. J. R.^ix will be in [ it was learned from J. C. Me-• decipherable. Its owner in 1812
iharge of the program.
[Diarmid. manager.
pasted the front page of a news*
some . paper on the back of the thin
book-binding. The paper was the
issue of Friday, October 16.
1812. of “The Star,’’ published
in Raleigh.
Problems set forth In the arith-
methic are radically different
from those in modern textbooks.
They offer an interesting study.
The first known owner of the
book was Daniel Call, who hand
ed it down to David D. Call. It
was then given to .Mrs. Mollie
Brewer, mother of the present
owner. It is thought to have been
brought here from England/ v
PerhaM the newspaper pasted
on the bf|>k-blnding offers as iUf
teresting information to present
day readers as the arithmetic It
self. One of the advertisements
is headed “Ranaway” and reads
as follows:
“From me on the .10th day of
August, Negro man named Wil
lis, 21 or 22 years of age; has
lately been whipped: can look a
man in the face and tell as
smooth a lie as any man wlthont
exception. I will give Five Dol- j
. , * Mr .twenty cents for adults,
tinue as in the past ■ • excellent cast has been well
Holcomb added to the FoUowitm i« the cast of
,Mr. Holcomb is a tine youiiK j ,.f,aracters:
iiiess man. He “ '''''"''[i":: j Kthel Bierce, a refined woman
business in Elkin and has ha ,hi,-tv-five years, who is iin-
severat years of experience in .he ^
pliimbing and heating line, l money, Estelle Yates;
Wilkes Plumbing YVorks is for- stillings. Ethel’.s
tunate in having Mr. Holcomb
dake a part interest in . : perverse and very trying.
The Wilkes Plumbing works Donahue,
is now able to meet the demands i servant, wlio hates EI-
of the public ^better than evev ^
fore. The business is a f''[ uonahlue, Nellie's himhaud, both
home concern, and the owners Welloiis; Dr.
will appreciate the patronage French. Ethel’s former
the public. I fiance, who never understood the
lai*s reward for said Negro man, i u. D. C. Will Meet On
y L m. 1 \1
ego,
if delivered to me in Raleigh;
and will also be much obliged to
any person who may hereafter
find him out of my services with
out a pass, to give him 39 lashes,
well laid Said man MMllis is
rather of a yellow complexion,
very smart and active, five feet
six or seven Inches: high. Wnr.
Jones, Ralegh, September 17,
1812/' ?
It seemed that one advertiser
(Continued on page three)
Yg WillrM Gwyn Nlchols; Mary
M.H.
Confederacy will meet Monday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at Ho
tel Wilkes. Members are request
ed to attend.
Paplni,
Nancy
Heath, Dare Hayes; Katherine
Jones, Ruth Warren—Three girls
whom Elthel adopts, and each one
has a 'Afferent disposition; Sir
I Edward Loughton-Laughton, a
Mr. Vaughn Jennings, who is j fiifnd of Ethel’s who, can Igsetas
teaching in the schools at Louis- wall,.w, win with good grace, Al-
4mrg, N. C., spent the past weet
end St Fores Knob -with his par
ents, Ifr." SDfl Mrs. W. A. Jen-
" '• ^ -
’ Airl,
nings.
Tin
Th
will
P»J
ht usfit for athletics and^to
conminc
I. ceiaent expeliaes.
..JC-'"*
i.
T4
^moiisy that Is takcdi
J