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ilkes Is Considered For C. C,Xamp
y ii^Vral jjLoca/ Schools Face Possi6/e'R^way^ht
Cofl/ Shortage Coming Year
Over Camp Site'
Boys In Cqmp WooM Be Pot
To Work In Forests And
(hi Roads, Trails
Lidnfe Club Will Meet -r
Hotel Wilke*. Tonight
DECISIOK THIS WEEK
Frank Eller and Henry Moore
4wih have cfiarge ol the program
at |the semi-monthly meeting of
the Lions Club at Hotel Wilkes
;i::(hily Hinge Anticipated Is
Over Availibility Of i
Suitable Site
'this (Thursday) evening. A large
attendance of members is expect-
AllQtment of $451 Made By
State Is Seen As Very
Inadequate
$712.64 IS NECESSARY
Proposed Levy of Sixteen
Cents Includes Amount
For This Item
‘^yC.E. Jenldns
..For Local-Rrm
Is Possibility That Trains
May Again Run To Dar-
/ by And Orandih
Two Gl~eat Ain^^^yHelp-I*few Y^
t
Ice St
#
TO HAVE SBY^
Ah^t
Highway
NO DEFINITE STATEMENT
led'.
WUkes county has an excellent
chance of landing one ol the
Civilian Conservation camps, it
was 'learned last night from T.
A. Pinley, county forest warden.
Major S. M. Corbett and Major
A. R. Ives, of the United States
Army, and W. R. Beichler, of
Asheville, F. H. Clarldge. of Ra
yleigh, and E. P. Simmons, of the
• , .1
state department ol conservation '
and development, were here this
ireek looking over the situation
and inspecting sites.
'' Definite decision in the matter
will not be made until the latter
pert of the week, it was stated.
Whether a desirable site is
made available for the camp is
apparently the only question. The
OTarsBient does not pay for the
use o( jiropevty lor a site. How
Hope To Appoiot
School District
Committees Soon
Notice was received from Ra
leigh op Saturday to the effect that
North Wilkesboro schools had been
Workmen Now Engaged In
Repairing Track To' Run
Cars To City
Dr. Bt B. Dougherty Here
For Short While Tues
day Afternoon
The Watauga and Yadkin Riv
er Railway, which ceased oper-
allotted the sum of $451. to pur-iations in 1918, has been purchas-
chase coal for next session of I ed by C. E. Jenkins, of the Jen-
eight months. For the past two|fe>"8 Hardware company, and may
years of partial sUte operation of ^'^n be placed in operation, it
, , „ was learned yeatercay in an
schcols, the amount allotted f6«i ,terview with Mr. Jenkins.
state funds has not t>een suffi- ( Asked if there .'was any pos-
cient to heat the building for the gjbjjjty of rebuilding' the track
EN ROUTE TO RALEIGH
state six months’ term. During
the 1931-32 session this allotment
amounted to $589.79 for the six
erei${ obtain advantaes suph as j noon following a visit by Dr. B.
wovlr tfh4>roperty nearby and j 3 Dougherty, of Boone, who Is a
the- hmidlngB accrue to the own-1
er oLfhe property. I
.Tvrjji..hjindred men would bet™*®®*®"- .
auiUoaed. the camp should it j Dr. Dougherty was en route to
..be li>eitted'4n Wilkes. They would ■ Raleigh on business,
be pat th^ "work in the lorests i possible mat the districts
and in buying fire trails, roads are being set up by .the
and making other ifaprovenients. department will be approv-
Mr. Finley said he was confi-1 ^ commission ■ at Hs
c J T-. dLio+j™ nn-] months of partial state support.
Secured Facts Relative To,
School Districts Now In ^ schools received only. $470 with
This County | which tu buy fiienfprr ^the six
School authorities are hopeful | months. For thesg^^^gj^^ years
. ,1 the average co.st bfJH|lxor each
over prospects for the comple- been $7lf
tlon of the redistricting of Wilkes | difficult matter to
county this week. Prof. C. B. j past two years it
Eller, county superintendent of i sary to supplement state funds , to
j heat the buildings properly, local
schools, stated . Tuesday
and starting operations in the
near future, Mr. Jenkins replied
in the affirmative. He said he
was not prepared to say who
would pjit it In opeyaUon,,^ InH-
. ittatlng«..thAt. jcltber.k.l»is.!,|p»iapaiw-
'or some other- company would-
probably do so.
The present equlpment~ ot~!t11fe
Watauga and YaAkln River Raii"
way consists of 32 miles of rails,-
[ 26 passenger, flat and box cars,
three enginbs, one wrecking
crane and other small supplies.
Ceasing operations in 1918
when the second disastrous flood’
struck tlje Yadkin Valley, the
- left standing on
IS no
^ the
EUhu Root (speakingl, grand old man o|i«the Ba^blie^ party and
an internationally known statesman, and Alfre'd E.' Smith ■ (sitting),
famous in Democratic ranks, were united in a common cause as New
York state ratified the prohibition repeal amendment, the convention
unanimonsly voting repeal. Through popular choice Alfred E. Smith
was made president of the convention. Mr. Root was received with
wild acclainii , *
CompanyTo EMrainFor
Camp JacEim On Safari^
Local Company of NaHbnrf Guard Will S^nd'15 Days-Near
'* Columbia, S. C.; Ralirff R. Reins Is CkptaiB of This
Ckimpony; FuB Roster Composed of 65 Men
'trains
dent Wilkeif would get the camp
If a site is made available.
Belk’s Sale
To Begin Friday
meeting this week. It this Is
done, the county board of edu-
catiq/' will then proceed to name
district committees.
Dr. Dougherty while in
school authorities state.
Assuming that next winter will
be on an average in Wsnpfrature
with the past two and assuming
that coal will not advance in price.'- trackaJJear the Grier Mills
it will be necessary to supplement f trackM»«ar. “e Grmr Mius
the $451 state allotment with!
$261.64 from local funds to ke#)V
the. children warm. •/ '
Included in the propoS(
levy of 16 cents for m
there is a sufficient
local
supplement the item pf fuel.
The 16. cents tax id(-proposed in
have already been -puT;' to
anjounv- to ’ , *•. . . , ComDanv
j county Tuesday afternoon looked
Big July Sale To Feature! over the map of the county and
Merchandise Purchased j studied existing districts, it is
At Low Cost ” ' probable that there will be
I few changes in the setup as to
Belk’s annual July sale will 1 schools,
begin Friday morning, July 14. It was learned from Dr. Dough-
place of the 60 cents levy now be-
i ing paid for operating purposes
the by town taxpayers, an actual re
duction of 44 cbnts in addition to
25 per cent reduction in assessed
.valuation for next year.
at 8-o’clock, W. G. Gabriel, man
ager of the store, announced yes
terday.
Is big event is a clearance
Wit
F
^^v*4rcl
erty that one important change
will be the creation of a . few
large districts which will be di
vided into sub-districts. For in-
dds and ends only as regular ’ stance the Millers Creek district
Ircbandlse is being sold at least j will include all the schools now
K per cent under the present feeding Millers Creek school and
market price. Mr. Gabriel
said. ’’Anticipating an a d-
rance in the price of merchan-
diae, some of our buyers have
been kept on the markets, pur
chasing this merchandise which
We are offering the buyin.g pub
lic during thii July event. We
each elementary school .in that
territory will be a sub-district.
The teachers will be afloted, not
on the basis of the individual
school, but upon the number of
pupils in the large district. The
district must allot those teach
ers in the most satisfactory way
Grandln and it is entirely with
the realms of possibility that
trains may again be started with
in the near future.
Cem/pany “A", 105th Engi
neers 61 the North Carolina Na
tional Guard, will epl^in here
Saturday afternoon for Camp
Jackson, located near Columfila,
S. C-, where they will spend 15
days.
The full roster of the local
company, including officers and
privates, la composed of 65 men,
most of whom are expected to at-
Eight More Wilkes
Men to Go To C. C.
Camps Next Friday
They Will l.ieavc Here Tomor
row Morning; Have Xot
Been Selected Yet
kave been preparing for the sale ! possible.
for the past six months. These
goods were purchased at the low
est figure at which thf-y have
been sold in thlfty years and it
will coat not less than 25 per
cent more to replace every staple
Item la our store and in some in
stances as much as forty or fif
ty per oent.”
■ ‘ .“As long as our stock lasts,
th^e g-oods will be sold at our
V present low prices which we hre
advertising. But after the stock
te-exhansted. our prices must ad
Vance in accordance with
The plan of appointing- com
mittees has not been designated
by the state commission.
Brushy Mountain
Citizens Organize
Towtiidilp -Unit Of Citizens As
sociation Completed At
Meeting 'Tuesday
Wilkes county has been allot
ted eight more places in Presi
dent Roosevelt’s Civilian Conser
vation Corps and that number of
Willies boys will leave here to-
biorrow (FYlday) morning for
two weeks of training at Camp
Bragg.
Selection of the boys had not
been made yesterday and" it is
understood that they will not be
until early In the morning when
those notified meet at the court
house in Wilkesboro. From the
number who come, eight will be
chosen. ^
The applicants will meet at the
courthouse ^between 7 and 8
o'clock in the morning.
work repairing the tracks over
a mile stvetch so that the. cars
and engines may be moved to the
North-Wllkeg.bo^ side of the
river. y
Pending negotiations, Mr. Jen
kins said no definite statement
could be made regarding the
I probable disposition of the rails
and equipment.
The -Watauga and Yadkin Riv
er.Railway was operated'success
fully for a numter of years. It
was built by norraern capitalists
and was abandon^' after the
flood. Until recently It had been
involved ^ a series of litigation
which prevented Its sale. .
Only Two Court ^
Criers ,In Past
75 Or 80 Years
Citizens of Brushy Mountain
township perfected the township
unit of the Wilkes County Cltl-
the' sens Association at a meeting at
ir prices of commodities.” 'Mountain Crest schoolhouse
'Mltr. ■ Gabriel stated that this , Tuesday.
Is not a clearance in the I The meeting, which was at-
iaal meaning of the word. In | tended by a large number of
sense that prices are from 25 [people, was perlslded over by 4.
to 60 per cent lower than they G. Hendren, township chairman.
^iMll lie after the present stock Is! Rev. J. H. Armbrust, - county
^ usted. ft Is the greatest I dmitman, and R. C. Qwaltney,
srsnce sale ever staged,
^s^el said.
Mr. were among the speakers.
MR. HOUCK IMPROVED
Friends here of Mr. R. ^M.
Houck will be gratified to learn
that he is much improved follow
ing • an operation performed at
the hospital in Lenoir last week.
If Mr. Houck’s condition con
tinues to improve, he will be
able to leave the hospital In
about ten days, it is stated.
Mr. Houck is well known here
where he resided for a number
of years before going to Lenoir
to make bis home.
T.
M. Oysel Served For 45
Years; Alec 'Whittington
Was Before Him
Company “A” wni_ arrive at
(2iteip Jackson early Sunday
morning. The address of the
guardsmen while In camp will be
Companjti “A”, 105th Engl' ?ers
National Guard, Camp Jacason,
S. C.
The roster of the company Is
as follows:
Captain—R. R. Reins.
First Lieutenant—Edmund P.
Robinson.
Second Lieutenant — ^Ullam
Staley.
First Sergeant—Robert Goodf.
Staff Sergeant—Jasper Bil
lings.
Sergeants—'Alvls Hadley, Tyre
McNeill, Woodruff Wallace, Fred
Wyatt, and James Hall.
Corporato^Edgar Hayes. Tyre
Hall, -Dewey Stone and Lunie
■White.
First Class-,Privates—Earl', An
derson, elate' Brown, Turner
Baugness, Jay' Jones, H6Ward
Johnson, - ! A n d r e w Johnston
Thomas Morrison, Commie Queen
George Shew« Garmel Steelm^i
Claude Wallace, CJlaude Warren;
John Wells, -Wade Blackburn,-..
Wiley Bro^s; Paul grower, Mar-
ven Bauguess,' Percy Baldwin,'
James Bumgarner, Edward Bum
garner. Cecil Byrd, Claude Cau
dill, Lawrence Craven,: Raymond
Davis, George Dillard, George
Dancy, Charlie Elledge, Woodrow
Guthrie, Paul Haynes, Roy Hen
derson, James H61brook, Barney
Harrold, James Hayes, Tam
Hutchison, Russell Jarvis, Ernest
Marlow, James Martin, Ralph
Miller, Elmore Myer8,y..Numia
Porter, Fred' Rhoades,. Joe
Rhoades, James Re|B^’:‘’Uody
Shatley, Clyde Shephei'd, ^
Shew, William Swanson,'
Wallace, Thurman Wiles, Jo1
Wllltamg;. Malcolm Wyatt.
“Call out" a
miles from Wilkesboro. In some
thing like an hour, the man came
riding In and the judge, who had
great respect for Mr. Whitting
ton’s voice, warned^ the man
against being tardy'^ain and
struck ont the fine tor his failure
to respond Immediately to ir the
■court’s call.
lour-Syil^r’a Mark
»wn 5ale Mgins Friday
slnhonr-Sydhor’s Jdly Mark
Sale will begin Friday!
ng, July 14. and a big ar
il^ real values are being of-
AtClng this special event.
Aw*hot only selling the
erehandise nt the old
to marked down
ItO lowest^figure
Local Union Of Brodierfaood Of
Carpenters and Joiners Organized
A local union of the United
Brotherhood "of Carpenters and
Joiners was organised last alght
with approximately llS charter
members.
Fnnds Joj a charter were rala-
ed at a
hood.
The charter membership Is.
composed largely of furniture
factory employees here with a
few carpenters of the county.
A number of members from
WUkes county has' had only
two court criers in the past 76
or 80 years, it was recalled Mon
day by J. G. Hackett, who Is per
haps as familiar with the history
of the county as any man in
Wilkes.
T. M. Grysel, who served for
45 years as court crier, was pre
ceded by Alec Whittington, who
served between Urtrty and forty
yehrs.
Mr. Hackett recalled ^that oni
one occasion the' presiding judge fthe teams. The c*8ey
called upon Mr. Whittington to Mack will be seen flashing that
man who lived six inevitable score-card, while
Baptists and Methodists to Clash
In Baseball Game This Afternoon
Contest W;n Be Staged At Fairgrounds Beginning About
3-30; Jhn Reins To Send Strong Team On Field To
Oppose Sam Cassel’s Fighting Methodists
Jim Reins, ball-headed mentor about 40 scores. The
of the baseball team of the Men’s
Bible Class of the First Baptist
church of , North Wilkesboro, will
send *.8t».onF team against Sam
Oawl’B lilethodists this
this (Thursday) afternoon at the
fairgrounds. The game will start
about 3:30 o’clock.
Two master minds will direct
Ttfe cagey Connie
Lyon Electric Company
Joined By R. L. Creasman
.-Roy L. Creasman, of Thomas-
vlll*^ a graduate of the Coyne
Elert>ic School, of the Chicago
'School of Electrical Engineering
and ot* the National Radio Insti
tute, is now mwde$ated -wkb the
Our W. Lyoii BlectriC
lomrtei In 'WllkeSl
Ed
die CoUlns wlll^ probably be seen
at third base or even on the
mound.
It has j»ot yet been ascertain
ed when S. V. Tomlinson, R. W.
Owyn and J. R..Eix will enter the
game.
■Whatever one has to say about
Roosevelt’s prosperity replacing
Hoovet’s. depression, there Is
likely to be no depression In er
rors. Basehlts are expected to be
as few as the dollsA in a man’s
pay envelope jdurliig the past
few years. The pitchers are like
ly to he wB .wIld as was the gamb
ling on the stock mnrtet In
19^9-
.Sweat to e^s^^ to flow, as
freely as thp. now- 3.2 bb^ and
'to:
about 40 scores. The country
went Democratic last fall and the
Baptists can’t see why this game
shouldn’t go Baptist.
Sam Cassell’s Methodists have
confessed that they don’t Intend
to whitewash the Baptists but
declare that there’ll be more
Methodist .hits than there were
Hoover Democrats in 1923.
It’S',,for charity anyway.-so all
the entbnsiasm of the Methodists
may be merely a contlnnation of,
the full dinner pail .optimism grffj
they may be soundly thrashe
The proceeds of- the game
be donated to charity, Everybody
is urged t^see' tbto' delightful
entertaiBmenti-,«gfe,.
.
AMociational W. M. U.
Meeting At Gordon 28th
® Annual convention of the
Women's Missionary Union of
the Brushy Mountain Baptist-
Association will be held‘at Gor
don church, one mile west of this
city, on Friday, July 28, Delega-
ttons from all churches in the. a»-
soetation are expected to at^ndr
in^ tbe;ig!^a^-tjiiit . to being
Proapecta
the-early constnict^i S:
new bridge acroi
River here, it
unofficiairy yesbiirii^'
nboQ.' ■ -
It , was reported t!
State Highway Comrhigfeid;
has this project under tonj
sideratK)]^ and that de^t
steps have been' token
ward immediate constru'
tion of the bridge.
Contract for the" bi
may be let .at the Au _
meeftlng of the commia^S]
it was stotdd, The'rep'
however, could not
firmed yesterday;
It was said niat the coi
mission plans to lyiild a.se^
en-,*pan bridge .similar to^
the'Yadkin bridge betyeen.f
the Wilkesboros whicl) la
now nearing complerion. It;
would take a direct course'
from the end of “D” ^eet|
at the Standard Service- Sta-i
tion and ciinnect with ^ thi
highway near the road lead
ing to-.th'e Grier C0ttpi|'^
Mills. ■ ‘
If, c6nsttifeted|y^ inod^^,
bridgfe 'wd|Pt^e^lai'
prestoit covw^ bridge^
'ps&e of the fe^w in the doim-
try ^-this type. Thh present
to'd'ge was washed aVay ia
the “flood.” pf 1916,. but
wi^ebuUt, .niiich o'lHhe old
lumer beihg used>
It has jieeh’’^equently. V
pointed out"that the present’
bridge is inadequate foT'the
traffic on the . B^ppe Trail
bSghway, It 'jpenuits^^ 'only*-
one-way traffic and pro-,
vides no safeguards for pe
destrians.
If unofficial reports are :
correct, the Eedd|es, JUver i
bridge will be atirted' soon
'after the Yadkfii bridge ^'
completed.
Penney Comp«my
Stages Oe^riUice
Lowest Prices In flistbiy
Modem Mprchfuidiafag
Now In Effect
Thft:^^uly clearance f6r
the J. f!. Penney company store
here' was announced today by W. .
H. Clark, manager.
In announcing the clearance
sale, .attention was called Ip the
fact that many It^s have been
marked down and that the entire's
stock of merchandise -to sellfng
beldw the- cost of .j^Iactng the
The J. C. Penney stdfW hsw an ,
unusually large;- stock .'of- -drelTr '
able ^merchandise for tbla
ance. 4The .atotk pf-’iner
was purchased- before
prices and durtj _
ajfmj customer oL' 'fthe
atsbre wiH have an opportunity
to .buy without a price increase,
"'We-t>urchase4 the goods at a:
low!price and ^e are
to profiteer on lt,",’MT.T^
said.'“We have decided-to
our prices down until
to exhansted.’-’
Mr. Clark -pointed--
ever, that Vjna
ed now to coa
and tb^ the la
be exitodled S :
the ^uraUnn oty:i
sale. ' *
this.
Set