Tbe JfocnuJ.pBtriot iiM
bli^ tbe t«m of ^
|MMin the “State of
Wnkee” Foe M Veen.
‘Ind*peHdent polltifioByi
fair and jaqwMre to «o
all, Oile neirapa»i»
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PubH^hed Mondays and Thursdays
"NORTH WILKESBOBO, N. €., TH
OUT OF THE
Audit Of Clams
pt,i nied By Comty
Offidals Made
County, Commissioners Pass
.. Bosidut^on To That Ef-
V feet At Meeting
RGUSON REAPPOINTED
New Ruling On Recording Of
Deeds To County Put
Into Effect
r V
A resolution calling for an
audit of all claims filed by coun
ty officials during the past four
years was passed by the board
of county commissioners at the
April meeting of the hoard
held Monday and
which was
Tuesday.
Inasmuch as the time taken hv
the board in passing these claims
may have been insufficient to
thoroughly investigate the merits
of them, the resolution says in
substance, “we. the said board of j
county commissioners, have
agreed to employ a dependable
and efficient person to audit and
adjust ay claims paid during;
City Board Voles
To.BuyggjiJiOut
Of Smidiig
Beer Is Le0h
Will Mean Saving In Prin
cipal And Interest On
Issues Bought
TO PURCHASE $21,000
Board Asks Highway Commis
sion To Install Lighting
Equipment In Bridge
.Mrs. Krankiin D. Roosevelt
found time to get away from a
most siren lions social and hiisi-
Ihls period, and it any of such l ness program the Hiird week in
claims have been illegally paid or j \\ asliin.gion to enjoy a liorseliack
overcharges made by the person |
presenting same, the aforemeu-1
tioned overpayments. if any. j
shall be refunded by the persons ^
or parties to whom same w as |
overpaid."
The resolution is understood,
to call for an audit of the claims i
filed by all county officials wlio |
are elected and by deputies
sheriffs.
C. H. Ferguson, who has look- |
ed after the county's financial ;
detail work for mere than 20 ■
years, was re-appointed as conn- j
ride in Rock Creek Park.
Former Traphill
Man Is Slain In
West By Nephew
lack Spicer, News Dispatches
State, Killed Following
Quarrel
term of two
ARTIS ROYAL IS SLAVER
M
ty accountant for a
yg^,.g I Dispatches from Cody. Wyom-
The commissioners ordered | jug. Motiday iiore the news of (lie
put into effect a new ruling re-• ,|,,ath of .lack Spiier. tr..
garding the recording of Traphill section,
made to Wilkes county. Horoart-1
„er when the county becomes own- ^ " ho has been residing on a
er of property through the sale' ram h near Cody, Wyoming for a
of land for taxes, the register of niimher of years. Spicer is said lo
deeds will make no charge for latally shot by his
recording the deeds whicii have 1
recoraii, . , , nephew. Arlis Royal. .'!n. lo'mier
been ordered probated by the
, , , I Iv of the Donghion coiiimui’ily in
clerk of court. I • .
The members of the hoard of
tax assessors and the tax listers
were ordered paid at the rale of
12.50 per day for the actual lime
required in listing and assessing
property.
All members of the hoard. N.
b7 Smithey. chairman. C. C.
Ha.yes and M. F. .\bsher. were
present for the meeting.
Interest Of W. M. Day In
D, & M. Shop Is Purchased
The interest of .Mr. W. .M. Day
in the I). *1 -M. Electric company
was purchased by .Messrs. R. T.
I the edge of Wilkes, llie Iragedv
coming as a seiiiiel to a iiiiarrel
arising during an all night dance
at Spicer s ranch and aiier Spic
er had ordered his nephew, who
had resided willi liiiii on liis
>raiu'h for six years, to leave the
! place. Shots were exchanged he-
! tween the two before Sincer was
I killed and Royal seriously in
jured,
j Spieer was a soii of the late
' .lohnson Spicer and .Mrs. Spicer
i and migrated west 20 years ago
I after his marriage to a Miss
I Rrown of his native eommiinily.
He is survived liy liis wife, his
The hoard of city commission
ers in session Tuesday afternoon
voted to ifivest the sinking fund
accumulated for the retirement
of 19.14 and 1939 bond issues in
The purchase of the bonds w'hich
it was learned could be bought at
a price that will mean a saving
to la.xpayers of the city. The
purchase of a bond issue of'SIT,-
000 which comes due September
1 1914. and an issue of $4,000
which comes due September 1,
1919 was authorized.
The action of the board will
mean a considerable saving
both in principal and interest.
The bonds draw six per cent in
terest, while only four per cent
Interest is realized on tlie sink
ing fund. Thus a saving of two
per cent in interest will be ef
fected.
.iMl thf bonds are water and
light' term bonds. The sinking
fund on hand was accumulated
for the specific purpose of retir
ing the very bonds which will he
purchased.
The hndrd instructed W. P.
Kelly. city clerk, to write a let-
'ter to the state highway commis-
' sion memorializing that body to
install lighting equipment in the
now liridge w'hich is being erect
ed across the Yadkin River iic-
tween the Wilkeshoros. It is und
erstood that the highway depart
ment has installed the fuipment
ill other bridges erected iti late
years and the board expre.ssed 1
the hope that it will he done
here.
A permit was granted A. F.
Phillips to erect a metal building
on Tenth street between (’ and
I) streets.
A. i\. tDickt f’ashlon was an-
tliorizeil to proceed with the
pouring of concrete on a section
of I he sireet in front of his new
liiiilding on Hinsliaw and Eliza-
lietli streets. The town agreed to
recompense h i ni by allowing
credit for half of tlie cost on his
city taxes.
Mayor .1. A. Rousseau and all
menihers of the board. .1. C.
Reins, S, V. Tomlinson. Ralph
Duncan, I. E. I'earson and I,. A.
Harris, were present.
'Sraool Committeeniiib
AaAorily,To £mi^ T£i^6rs
An early trial is scheduled for
Charles E. Mitchell, resigned
chairman of the National City
Bank of New' York, and now
under indictineiit for income tax
evasion. When arraigned Mitchell
pleaded not guilty.
Reassessment Is
Ordered By Board
Of Commissioners
Committeemen appointed by
the present Wilkes county board
of education have no authority to
employ ,teachers tor the coming
term, it was pointed out at the
regular April meeting of the
board Monday. Employment of
teachers in the schools must
await the appointment of com
mitteemen by the Incoming hoard
which will not be constituted un
til the omnibus bill is passed by
the General Assembly.
Monday’s session of the board
was attended by C. O. McNeill,
chairman, D. F. Sbepberd, D. C.
Whittington. R. L. Hickerao^ and
Mack Moore.
Rev. John W. Luke and the
school committee of the Shep
herd district appeared herore the
board to 'discuss the sale of a
portion of school property in that
district as a lot for the erection
of a new Presbyterian church.
Details were not arranged, but
plans are to hold the sale on
April 17.
General Assembly
•■a
Ratified Measwe
Tuesday Evening J
Local Laws Against Sale of
Beer Repealed; To Be Sold
All Over State
TAKES EFFECT ON MAY 1
Wets Have Big Day As the
Bill Passes Overwhelm
ingly dn House
GREAT DIRIGIBLE CARRIES 73
TO DEATH AND 2 MEN DROWN
AS RESCUE AIRSHIP CRASHES
Listers And Assessors To
Be Announced Soon; To
Begin In May
PERSON
LIST IN
MUST
Sidcclion of tax listers and tax
will probably he com-
LOSES FINGERS
IN COLLISION
^ and C. O. .MrN'eill last week. -'I''-i mother and six tirothers; Hardin.
Day has been as
ssociatetl with
Waller, [blither, and
Joe .Sinter
Arlie Spii-
niiil Doss
them in the business sinie it.s e-s-, (,f Alle.ghauy eounly,
tablishment. ' er of West Virginia.
The local tiriii, dealers in radi- spiei>r of Wyoming.
08 and eleetrical supplies, enjoys j j; heen learned wlietli-
a splendid patronage. . er or not the luniy will In-
I lirougiu to Traphill for burial.
Royal was reimrted to he in a
eritieal eon.lition.
Basketball teams of the J”"'"''m . 'o i r ij
and Senior elasses will play at IVlrS. oStTR-h J, ii&yCS
3:45 this afleruoont Thursday i | Continues Very 111
Coleman Nichols U Injured
In Accident Near Here
Tuesday Afternoon
assessors
pleted this week and the task of
listing property is expected lo
j get under way on the first Mon
day in .May or soon thereafter.
The hoard of county commis
sioners at their meeting Monday
and Tuesday ordered a reassess
ment and members of the hoard
of assessors will he announe.ed
soon.
It will he necessary for prop
erty owners to list their property
in pers'on this year, it is under
stood for a reliable, source. Many
errors can be eliminated in this
manner, it is believed.
Advertisements will be posted
at eonspiciions places in all the
townships and other methods of
advertising will he used to let the
taxpayers know when the tax
lister and hoard of assessors are
in Hie ininiediate neighborhood
of the taxpayers of the various
townships.
A. (’, Wall, county tax siiper-
vi.sor. is now en.gaged in work
preliminary lo the big task in
May.
Juniors And Seniors To
Play For Championship,
for the championship of tlie North ;
.Wllkesboro high school. 1 liey are Jmjyrp .johnson .1. Htn'es, Rcv.
the finalists in the iiitei-chs.ss, Others
tournament wliich got nniler wa
Monday.
J. >1.
Called To Bedside
Spanish-American
ar Vets To Meet
The eomlition of .Mrs. Sarah J.
Haves, of Piirlear. was still crit
ical today, according to word re-
Coleman Nichols, an employee
of the Soiilherii I’lihlie FtilUies
company here, was painfully in
jured late Tuesday afternoon
when the power company truck
on which he was riding collided
'with an antoniohile driven by
I DeWiit Dearman. The third and
I little fingers of the right hand
were cut off. He also suffered an
, injury to his leg. Mr. Nichols' is
I recovering from his injuries at
the Wilkes Hospital.
I Tin- accident took place in front
'the l.egion Hut on the Fairplains
* road. The car and truck struck
^ each other a glancing blow. Mr.
.Vii'hols' fingers being caught be
tween them. He was riding on
the bed of the truck.
No one else was injiirt'd.
Ellis Is Absolved
Of Blame In Death
T. W. Self Is Killed When
Struck By Car Operated
Bv Local Man
.. Members and Former Mem
bers of Camp No. 13 To
'»j Meet Saturday
W a r
All Spanish-Amencan
veterans of Wllkesboro Camp No.
A13 and all who have ever heen
members are requested to be
present at a meeting to be held
at the courthouse in Wilkeshoro
Saturday. April 8. at 2 p. m., ac
cording to a n annouiK-ement
made Tuesday by P. E. Danev.
quartermaster.
The purpose of the meeting
»ilas not explained, but Mr. Dancy
stated that It is very Important
that everyone
.. these -classifications
possible
L.
ceived from her bedside. Judge
'Johnson J. Hayes, of Greens'horo.
who was called here Tuesday on
I account of the illness of his mo-
I flier had not relilrned to llreens-
I boro this morning. Rev. J. M.
Hayes, of r,exlngton, and other
raemlM-rs of the family arrived
Tuesday and yesterday to he
with .Mrs. Ha.ves.
Mrs. Hayes liecarae quite ill
the first of the week. She is 79
years of age.
Legion Auxiliary Will
Meet Monday Evening
'I'he Legion Auxiliary will meet
After an investigation. Forsyth
county officers absolved Joe El
lis, Jr., of this city, of blame in
connection with the death of
Thomas VV. Self, 67, Forsyth
county farmer, who was killed
Monday night when he was
struck by a car operated by Mr,
Ellis.
When the accident occurred,
.tlr. Ellis, who was returning
from a trip to Raleigh, stopped
and rendered every assistance
possible and was released by the
authorities with instructions to
for the coroner's inquest
.Monday evening, April TO, at'
Tuesday morning. Mr. Ellis, ac-
S:tl0 o'clock with Mrs. Ivey
.Moore. Mrs. J. B. Williams and
.Mrs. t’hal .McNeill will be joint
hostesses.
Ail members are asked to
bring thimble and needle to
make curtains tor the Girl Scout
Hut.
who comes within
attend if
Wright Is Named Superintendent
- Of Sunday School For 31st Year
Prof. C.TlTight, superinten- precedent in the entire country,
dent of the Wilkes county school Tt is likely that 30 years as sup-
system for the past thirty-tour
Mr* J 1"- Clements, of this
city was called to A bosk ie yes
terday on account of the death
?f her brother. Mr. Sid Watson,
vbo Jiad .**rly yeaterday morn-
’'tng.
I erintendent of a Sunday schoo^
... . . J . 16 something of a record, at
years, was elected superintendent . . ... ,, , ..
least in this section of North
of the Edgewood Baptist church Carolina.
Sunday school for the thirty- The Edgewood Sunday school
companied by County Agent A.
G. Hendren, Sheriff W. B. Som
ers, Chief of Police Jimmie An
derson and Bernard Williams,
went to Winston-Salem Tuesday,
but the officers had already
mad;' the investigation and It
was declared unnecessary to hold
the inquest. The Wilkes party
went to the home of Mr. Self and
it is stated that the family of
the deceased felt that the acci
dent was unavoidable.
The New^Day
(By 15. Conway Taylor, man
ager of the Baltimore Branch
office of the I'liited States Fi
delity and Guaranty company)
Good fortune, firm leiidcr-
sliip, and the basic soundness
of .Aineriran in.st itulioiis eoiii-
hined lo forestall a serious
crisis, a ii d reo|>ened our
banks, following the nation
wide holiday.
I'robably the result of our
experience will quickly repay
IIS for the shock we sustainetl.
One thing is reasonably cer
tain, and that is that hoard
ing is no longer tdtlier profit
able or popular. Money has
Iktii smoked out of its hiding
places and forced Iwick into
circulation.
The natural thing; is Hint
(he man xvho lioardetl his cash
rather tlian paying Ids bilks
will realize at once the unwis
dom of such a course. There
is every indication, in fact,
that already a period of set
tling up has come. The ex-
rliaiige tif cash encourages
spending, and spending Is
what business needs now. For
money, after all, is but pa|ier
and metal in itself; only when
it Is an active medium of ex
change-only when it is in
circulation—is *t translated
into bi-ead and meat and fuel
and shelter, into work and
play and schooling and
growth, and ha|>piness. It is
the red corpuscles in the na
tion's life lilood, and must be
kept moving.
.And so, in this new day
whii'h arrived with the re-
o]M>iiing of bank.s and the re
vival of national confidence,
we are learning a lesson and.
I iK'lieve, are ready to profit
by it. That we will Join in a
determiiiatiou to make im-
possilile a relapse into tlic
malady from which wc are re-
coverintf we should he able to
lake as a matter of course.
We insurance folks have a
good liart in lielpiiig .America
lii-eiik (hrougli the clouds into
the sunshine. AVe can play an
even more important part ii.v
hitckliiig down to our task of
dispensing in.siirnnce protec
tion witli renewed vigor and
confidence. The new day calls
for an iiisiiruiice rally. Let us
respond!
I Greatest Dirigible of World
j Tossed About and Broken
I By Mighty Elements
I New York. April 4.—In a
blinding electrical storm, the
Akron, mightiest dirigible ever
to cruise the skies, was plum
meted into the turbulent Atlantic,
today about 20 miles off the New
Jersey shore, and by dusk to
night hoiie had waned for 71
missing members of the crew.
Of the 76 men aboard the
"mistress of the skies” as she
crashed, tour were rescued, hut
one of them died before he was
brought ashore.
; A day of searching by water
land by air brought the discovery
of only one body of the ill fated
[crew floating on the ocean.
Fourteen hours after thisima-
I jor disaster, the J-3, non-rigid
iiavy airship, crashed into . the
sea 1,000 yards off the Jersey
coast, with a loss of two lives, as
she searched for Akron victims.
Rear Admiral William A. Mof
fett. chief of the navy bureau of
aeronautics, was among those
lost in the Akron. Aroused fromj-state
sleep by the^slorm. he had been
in the control room shortly be
fore the accident.
The Three Survivors
Raleigh, April 4.—Light wines
and beer will be legally available
to thirsty Novth Carolinians aft
er midnight of April 30 for the
first time since 1905.
The House passed today third
reading of the Francis bill to
legalize the sale of beer, wines
and fruit juices with an alcoholic
content of not- more than 3.2 per
cent. The vote was 15 to 27.
The bill was sent back to the
Senate (or concurrence In minor
amendments, and the upper
House adopted them without de
lay.
Cowles of Wilkes succeeded
in putting through the House an
amendment to raise from 16 to
is years the minimum age to
which the beverages could be
sold to minors.
Murphy of Rowaa fathered the
amendment to legalize Ihe ad
vertising of 3.2 per cent alcoholic
beverages on bill boards and by
other means in addRion to
through the newspapers and over
radio broadcasts.
Boyd of Mecklenburg proposed
Hie amendment to provide that
all laws conMictiiig with the
Francis hill be re'pealed.
.Martin of Buncombe proposed
that the sale of the beverages be
prohibited on Sunday, but the
House declined to adopt his
amendment.
The Francis bill made no pro
vision for the manufacture of al
coholic beverages within the
and today Bowie of Ashe
and Masseiihiirg of Polk intr-
diiccd in the House a measure
permitting the manufacture of
beer and wines in North Caro-
are;
The three Akron survivors j Hna. >
I A license tax of $500 a year
Lieutenant Commander H. V. i would be imposed on all brewer-
i Wiley of Lakewood. N. J.. execu-1 iPS regardless of size. One half
live officer and second In com-i the lax would go to the state
I maud, who was at the controls, j general fund and the other half
I Moody E Erwin, of Memphis.' would go into the debt service
iTenn., raetalsraith. j of ‘he county In which the
Richard B. Deal, of Lakehurst,: brewery is located.
N. J., boatswain’s mate. The Bowie-Massenbiirg hill al-
The rescued man who later so provides that wines a .d beer
died was‘Robert W. Copeland, of j shall not be sold within half a
i Lakehurst. N. .1.. chief radio | mile of any school or church lo-
operator.
Twelve hours after the crash
the body of Lieutenant Com
mander Harold E. .VlacLellan, of
Westerly, R. I., was picked up by
a coast guard cutter near the
scene of the disaster.
Lieutenant Commander David
E. Cummins, of Prescott. Ark.,
commander of the J-3, whi) was
taken from the water uheon-
sciouH after the blimp accident,
died a short time later
cated outside the corporate lim
its of any municipality.
Operetta Will Be
Given On Friday
The operetta. “Pandora”, will
be pre.sented by the elenlerit«rJ^
grades in the school auditorluili*.
j toiiiorsow. 7:45 p, iii. and judging
' from advance sale of tickets an
The body of Pasquale Bettio. ' unusually large number of peop-
I the J-3 chief machinist’s mate on * pie is expected to see it.
j the* J-3. .was recovered several j q’jjg of approximately 90
I hours later. | children has been well trained.
r iKir'iti~ rxPlTM I The presentation is expected to
j LOCAL MEBI OPEN __ be of an unusually high order.
ELECTRIC orivJr I
Methodist Circle Will
Hold Food Sale Friday
Plenty of entertainment for ev-
Messrs. Tal J. Pearson and W. 'eryhody is assured.
M. Day have leased the Meadows [
building on B street amt have op-|
ened an electric shop which will;
be operated under the firm name
ot Wilkes Electric company. |
They have secured the agency '
John A. Norman
Taken By Death
Special Notice
first consecutive time at the an-, was reorganized Sunday.
the
nual election held Sunday. i school voting to go under the
It Is believed that Mr. Wright's supervision. After the selection
long period ot service in the ca-1 of the superintendent and the
pacity of superintendent ot a j teachers,'the church formally ap-
county school system is without' proved them.
All stores or firms holding
federal aid relief food or cloth
ing orders signed by me are re
quested to bring them to me^at
once.
JOS. H. ARMBRUST,
North Wllkesboro Federal Relief
Agent.
From 1899 trf 1913 Frank
Gotch, famous wrestler, won 164
matches and lost but six.
Circle No. I ot the Woman's
.Missionary Society of the Methc-
dist church will hold a food the Crosley radio and are now.
at Belk’s store Friday. April 14.1 stocking their store with allWas Well KitOAvn Resident Of
at 2 o’clock. All special orders j kinds of electrical supplies. In | bomers lOtrasnip. funer-
for cakes, pies, dyed eggs, etc. addition to selling supplies, they | al Held Wedne.sday
should be given Mrs. A. B. John- will be glad to answer any calls | ^ Norman, a well known
ston to be filled. , for electrical service work, township, was
claimed by death Monday after
noon at 3 o’clock. He was 74
years. 2 months and 2 days of
age.
The funeral service was held
, at Sweet Home church yesterday
Mrs. D. S. Melville, who has'service. ( (Wednesday) afternoon at 2
Wilkes Piiimbing Co. Is Now Owned
By Mrs. Melvie And L D. Holcomb,
Woo.. oTiorntinir the comnaiiy for i Mr. Holcomb himself has been o’clock and was in charge of Rev.
sometime, and Mr. Jones D. Hoi , ^ number of years. He ; fence. A large number of friends
comb, ot Elkin, are now Joint ^ executive but relatives gathered for the
owners and operators of “‘ei^ practical plumber as well. The ■ ri‘es-
Wilkes Plumbing Company, well have Surviving Mr. Norman are his
known plum'bing establishment assistance of the expert-wife and the following children:
of this city. Miss Louise Melville ^ pjmnj,ers that have been connect-! Mrs. Lessie Potter, Clay and
will continue to be in charge of j ]ocal firm for some- Norman,
the office. time.
The deal, whereby Mr. Hol
comb acquired one-halt interest
in the business, look place sever
al days ago, and the transaction
places the company in a etrong-
^ position to give Its patrons «
plumbing .’an4. heaUng
The WUkes Plumbing Co.
now has connections with one of
the largest ' plumbing supply
houses in the. state, and the firm
is now in pos|tl6p to render Us
patrons a more cbmBlbte ^rvlce.
both i« plumbtnd.apd beatl&g.
Wllkesboro I Nine Will
Play Moravian Falls^^
The Wilkeshoro high school’^';
baseball team will meet the 110.
ravian Fails nine tomocrow (JFri-
day) afternoon.at 3:SO o'cloek
'Att tHa TITI1VAA,KAMa #4a1i
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