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«ft- ^rxteJonrnal-^Sot hits BKz^ fte trill of progress In the “State of Wilkes 'for 27 Years. .■■'' ■■>■' ' ■ - -■ -.V: - ..y ■ ■ fe« v->.^ 4ii?- 1 M roL. kW, N0^2 h;^.. ^biisheS^litt^ys and Thuradays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT, l2. -1933 ^.‘v% vn UNS HE First Farm Julius A. Rousseau Announces For Judge txhibit Is —^-i?—i--^::::^ — c.JTm F5fAi Won by Mr. Moore 1°“^^”°^ Dewey Broyhill Wins Twelve [ First Prizes For Apples; S. C. Stewart Gets Three WILKES CORN IS WINNER Nine of Ten Prizes Taken By Wilkes Com In Boys' Farm Club Exhibits I^Wllkes county scored heavily ^ . the State Fair this week, ac- roording to A. O. Hendren, county term agent, who returned Tues- tey-wight from Raleigh where he _ krried many of Wilkes county’s entries in the (arm exhibits. .-•- It was learned yesterday after noon that Clifford Moore, well ^ known farmer of Straw, received first prize tor the best farm ex hibit at the fair. This carried 1 with it a cash award of $125. ! Mr. Moore’s entry wa.s listed in “live-at-home” exhibits and the victory Is a distinct honor not j only to Mr. Moore and his pro gressive methods of farming, but ■ shows the quality of farm pro- , ducts which can be produced in ‘ Wilkes. Wilkes county corn and apples - were leaders at the fair, the ex- ■ hibits from the county taking about all the prizes that were of-, fered. I Corn Club boys of Wilkrs en- | tered 32 ten-ear exhibits and the i corn carried off nine of the ten ! prizes awarded. The corn enter- j ed la known as the Wilkes Coun- | ty White, a variety originally, named and grown by the late D.! ■V. Nichols and developed by his sons. It has since been adopted In the Purlear community as standard and has on many oc- slons won international fame, likes county corn won first j prize for both the one-year va- \riety and the prolific variety and took the sweepstake for the oest ten ears exhibited. Dewey Broyhill. o f Pores Knob, captured about everything to be had in the way of prizes f^T apples and those not taken by him were garnered by S. C. Stew art. Mr. Broyhill won twelve first prizes, two second prizes and 2 sweepstakes, the sweepstakes be-1 Ing for 20 trays and six baskets Respectively. Mr. Stewart took three first 'prizes and three second prizes and won second prize on the 20- tray exhibit. The almost clean sweep (or these two Wilkes products—ap ples and corn—is believed to be unprecedented in the history of the State Fair. The success of the Wilkes exhibits is very grati- f3rlng to those who have been responsible (or the Improvement In farm products. ^ Mr. James Pennell won a de cided victory in the poultry ex bits at the (air. In the exhibi- Barred Rocks, LMr. Pennell 'won awards for the first hen, sec- , hen, first old pen and sec- cock. la, the White Leghorn exhibi tion, Mr. Pennell’s entries won for the old pen, first and feond hen and first cock bird. fWlzes awarded to his entries L siow that a striking victory was On by his poultry exhibits. '.Other imizes may have been iv^ by iwkes people, but so ^ far as couf& be learned this ^jakprnlng, these were the oiit- ^standing triumphs for the Wilkes entries. Wilkes Baseball Title Series To Begin Saturday North Wilkesboro To Oppose Wilkesboro, Grier Mills or Purlear Nine GAME TO START AT 2:30 First Half Championship To Be Cleared Up Prior To Saturday Noon The three-game series to de- teimine the champions of the Wilkes County Baseball League will get under way Saturday aft ernoon at 2:30 o’clock at the fairgrounds. Under an order issued yester day by league officials, the first half championship, which has been in a muddle for seven weeks due to a three-way tie, will be cleared up by Saturday at To Seek Place On Bench Now Filled By Thos. B. Finley Many Notables To Come Ti County To Take Part On Excellent Pregrant PROGRAM AT 11 O’CLOCK At iTaUet To Be Unveiled Purlear Road On Boone Trail Highway I , 'Plans for the unveiling of the I Prominent Member of Local, u r. tablet on the Boone Bar Makes Up His Mind To Be a Candidate ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY Mr. Rousseau Has Been Prac ticing Law For 19 Years; He Is Young Man Attorney J. A. Rousseau, of Trail highway Saturday morning, which will bring to the county Governor J. C. B. Ehrlnghana and other notables, are now com plete. The full program • was an nounced yesterday by officials of the Wilkes chapter of the D. A. R. The unveiling will take place Above are the “Machine-Gun” Kellys, who were captured in | definitely made up i , ® purlear V . ^ T>ikx\r ovkx Inef. two- .... lov »,uc p Memphis and are now on trial in Oklahoma. They are the last two; mind to be a candidate (or members of the kidnaping gang, seven of whom were convicted for kidnaping of Charles Urshel, oil baron- Attorneys In School Tax Matter Make Plans For Hearing Saturday It was learned yesterday In an interview at hls office. Questioned regarding the con tinued rumor that he would o(- 1 fer himself for the place on the I bench now filled by Judge Thos. busy this week F. B. Campbell, X. Y. attorney i noon so that the series can begin and insurance company director, in the afternoon, was indicted in 18 minutes by a, -North Wilkesboro won ’Jie sec- federal grand jury charged with | ond half and will meet either hoarding more than $200.OU0 ^Wilkesboro, Purlear or Grier ^ consisting of gold bullion bars. Mills. If Wilkesboro wins from ] Wilkesboro He pleaded nut guilty. This is the i Purlear this afternoon in the first government case against al- 'game which will be played at the leged gold hoarders. fairgrounds at 4 o’clock, Wilkes- l>on, will be crowned tltleholders. . In the event that Purlear is vic- itorious, Purlear wilt meet Grier j Mills Saturday morning at 10 I a. ni. and the winner of that i game will meet North Wilkes- boro in the finals. I The three game series will be ! played within eight days, two llearms Will Held Saturday Aftep^n At 1 Oclock In =.Jd Lexington Before Judge Hoyle Siiik; Judge T. C. Bom e Appears For Plaintiff; Jones For City Attorneys appearing in which the citizens voted the Gragg To Retire As U.S. Marshal About January 1| Expresses His Belief In Doc-'games to be played next week. the in rase involving the right of North tax was not called properly and that there were material irregu larities. cent school tax supplement are j Solicitor John R. Jones was making final | employed by the board of city preparation for the hearing on i commissioners to appear for the the restraining order which will | city. The city in its answer de- be held at Lexington Saturday i nies that the local board was afternoon at 1 o’clock before Su perior Court Judge Hoyle Sink. ,„ Judge Tam C. Bowie, of West Jefferson, represents the plain tiffs who seek to restrain the city from collecting the tax on the grounds that the special election Irine That To the Victor Belongs the Spoils RETIRES ^LUNTARILY United States Marshal Watt H. Gragg will resign January 1 of next year and will leave office as soon thereafter as hls successor qualifies, he informed a Journ al-Patriot representative Tues day. Marshal Gragg was en route to ; his office in Greensboro ft mu * Boone where he spent the week- r end with his family and wbere he has large business counec-' tiobs. i Appointed as marshal early in ' t932, Mr. Gragg has made an ef- j ficient public official and his ; without authority to call the elec tion and says that those opposed to the tax were given ample op portunity to register and that the irregularity in the closing of the registration books was not ma- i terial. The final game, if one is neces-, j sary, will be played a week from Saturday. KiwaniansWill Elect Officers BUYING URGED BYNRAHEAD BAPTISTS TO MEETOa. 28 Two Tickets To Be Voted | Upon Tomorrow; Olive To Have Program Johnson Says Success of Cam- ipaign Depends Upon the Housewives Washington, Oct. j"huy now” campaign Pastors and Deacons To Gath er At Mapk Grove For Quarterly Session services have been so satistactoiy j that it was announced at XVash- jjug to the election, a large at- ington recently that no effor’. | tendance is expected would be made to oust him from , meeting, office until his term expires two Officers of the North Wilkes-1 boro Kiwanis Club will be elected j at the regular luncheon of the | club tomorrow at Hotel Wilkes, j Johnson especially addressed his Two tickets will be voted upon, appeal to buy, "not only to save The luncheon program will ^61 money but also because every in charge of Rev. Eugene Olive , pastor of the First Baptist keep the wage earner in her (am- 9.—NRA’s The first quarterly meeting of today was j pastors and deacons of the Stone up to the American housewife, j Mountain Baptist Association To her, spender of 85 per cent i will be held at Maple Grove Bap- of the family income, Hugh S. i tist church, two miles north of Hays on the Traphill road, Sat- had considered the matter and had decided to make the race. The local attorney has receiv ed numerous pledges of support and considered becoming a can didate only at the insistence of friends throughout the district. Judge Finley, whose second eight-year term as Judge expires in December of next year, will not be a candidate for re-election, it Is generally understood. He is expected to announce that he will retire in the near future. Although a young man In years, Mr. Rousseau has been practicing law for nineteen years and has been Judge of the may- Merchants Here Asked To Display U. S. Flags In view of the fact that the Governor of North Carolina will be a gnest in the city Sat urday, merchants here are re quested to dl.splay the .4meri- can flag In front of their plac es of business. A special re quest that this be done has been made by the D. A., R. chapter here. road leaves the Boone Trail high way at 11 o’clock Saturday morn ing. The tablet will be located opposite the Richard Hayes serv ice station on Mr. Hayes’ prop erty. Mrs. H. 0. Steele, state chair man of the Rendezvous Mountain Memorial, will preside at the un veiling ceremony and will intro duce Governor Ehrlnghaus. The governor will formally accept or’s court for two for the lly on a pay roll.” For her too, as she made up urday evening, October 28, at 7:30 o’clock. Announcement of the meeting was made yesterday by J. A. Gilliam, moderator of the association. The meeting will be followed on Sunday by the regular fifth and a half years hence. Mr. Gragg, however, stated Tuesday that while he had not been asked to resign, he intended to retire from office voluntarily. He said he believed in the doctrine that to the victor belongs the spoils and said he felt the party in power should be allowed to fill the political offices with their (Continued on page eight) “Heaven Bound” Coming To Wilkesboro Oct. 24 “Heaven Bound,” the play giv en recently by a cast of thirty colored people, will be presented again at the Wilkesboro high school auditorium on October 24th, at 8 p. m. Only one per formance will be given, and ad mission prices will be 15 and 25 cents. e advertising intensified in a joint effort with the government to stimulate consumer demand into a buying wave that will boost the Monday’s shopping list, store; Sunday union singing in which a windows were refurnished and j number of choirs are expected to participate. The program for the pastors’ and deacons’ meeting Saturday (Continued on page eight) BRIDGE WILL BE OPENED TODAY J. Carl Higgins Dies From Injury Inflicted With Hoe; Austin Jailed ^Junior Order To Meet On Tuesday Died At Wilkes Hospital From Fractured Skull As Result of Blow Alleged To Have Been Struck By Cecil Austin Two Weeks Ago Last Saturday; Funeral Today f Degnse Team Is Especially Re- qnested To Be Present; To ^ Visit Elkin Soon J. Carl Higgins, of this city, died at the Wilkes Hospital yes terday morning at 6:30 o’clock from injuries sustained two weeks ago last Saturday when he was allegedly struck over the head with a hoe by Cecil Austin, who resides one and a half miles east of the city. Austin, who was arrested meeting of the North Wll- shortly after the affray took oro Council, J. O. U. A. M., be held Tuesday evening at o’clock and all members of ^he degree team are especially eqnested to be present. The degree team will at that I'time make plana to attend the patriot meeting at Elkin on Wed- ^^ay evening, October 18. *^The oldest tree In Scotland la iidd to be » ^ . .. TMtrk wbteh bM an estimated age --..vm- iWir'yeari. - f The sorlonaneas of tho place and released under bond of ■$200.00, was re-arrested Tues day morning and placed in the county jail. He will be charged with the homicide. Austin Is reported to have told county officers that he struck Higgins with the hoe after Hig gins had followed him around with a knife. Higgins la said to have been drinking and was per sistent in his efforts to attack man was not at first realized. However, he Received a severe fracture of the skull and gradu ally became worse, death claim ing him yesterday morning. Funeral services were to be held this morning from the North 'Wilkesboro Methodist ■church at 10 o’clock by Rev. J. H. Armbrust, pastor. Interment was to follow in the Baptist cemetery. J. Carl Higgins was born Feb ruary 2^, 1898 and was, there fore, 35 years. 7 months and 20 days of age. He was unmarried. The deceased was the son of Mrs. Sallie Higgins, who resides on “A” Street. Besides hls moth er, he Is survived by the follow ing brothers and sisters; Mrs. Della Milam, Mrs. Joe Sammons, Mrs. Janie Brown and Edgar Grant Higgins, of this citr, and En. Viola Blddlz, at Aabevllle. The new bridge across the Yadkin River here will be open ed today and late this afternoon will see all traffic directed over the new connection between North Wilkesboro and Wilkes boro. Workmen were engaged this morning in putting on the fin ishing touches. All concrete, Including the concrete walk-way, was poured last week. (Continued on page eight) Miss Lina Forester, of this city, is attending the World’s Fair in Chicago with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Forester, who left last week. years. He is recognized as one of the ablest practicing attorneys In the district and is eminently qualified for a place on the bench, according to hls friends. Mr. Rousseau is the only can didate to commit himself and is understood to have the endorse ment of many members of the legal profession in the district. He is well known to the voters of the district, having practiced in the various counties interest ed. According to those close to him, the local attorney as mayor of North Wilkesboro has shown himself as a man of marked abil ity in interpreting the law and administering justice. They be lieve that he will serve as Judge with honor and distinction if he is elected. > and a half' Rendezvous Mountain as a state Rastus Durham Is Bound Over To Federal Court Rastus Durham, of Lomax, ■who was arrested in September on a warrant charging him with possessing and transporting in toxicants, was given a preliml- n a r y hearing before United States Commissioner J. W. Dula Tuesday. Probable cause was found and the defendant was bound over to the next term of federal court under bond of $500. County Election Officials Asked To Attend School of Instruction Schools To Be Held in Every Comity of State October 24; Major McLendon Issues CaD in Behalf of State Assoaa- tion of Election Officials; Guidebotrfi To Be Used 80-Pound Pumpkin On Exhibit At Princess Cafe J. M. Pearson, chairman, W. A.' schools Jones and E. B. Barkley, mem bers of the Board of Elections in Wilkes County, were asked today to call together the judges and registrars of election in all of of instruction have been held (or election officials. The basis for the instruction will be a guidebook which has just been prepared under the auspices of the Institute of Government by their precincts on Tuesday morn-1 Q^orge c. Hampton, Jr., vice . oi of n'rlnrk * James Plperis, proprietor of the Princess Cafe, is exhibiting two exceptional farm products in the window of hls cafe. One exhibit is a carrot, weighing two and a half pounds, which the cafe owner says Is sufficient for 50 bowls of soup. AnothCT exhibit Is the 80-poond pumpkin, the lai^jest seen here tjhis season, which Mr. Plperis says ■would make a piece of pie fw 400 people. On«e eyes of many pMsmby ■re atteMted by iheae nmuaal term prodcct£" Ing, October 24, at 10:30 o’clock and to conduct at that time local schools of instruction In the powers and duties of election of ficials relative to the elections to be held November 7. The request was made In a letter sent to the county boards by the North Carolina Associ ation of BlecUon Officials, Maj. L. P. McLendon, of Durham, president, and George -C. Hamp ton, Jr., of Greensboro,_ and' Ray mond Maxwell of Raleigh, vice- presidents. The letter bad the en dorsement of the State Board of Elections. president of the State Association of Election Officials and chair man of the Guilford County Board of Elections. Copies of this guide book have been sent to the 6,006 election of ficials In the State. Elections this fall are to be held under a special law, and this guidebook Is prepared exclusive ly for the nse of officials In this (elecUoff, said Albert Coatee, di rector of the Institute 'of Gov- amment. He added that criticism of this pamphlet la invited as an the first time Inptbe of the Stete guidebook now being { ' (Continued on page eight) park after a brief address by JuQge T. B. Finley, who donated the mountain to the state in 1926. The D. A. R. hopes that a large number of people will at tend and requests that everybody be on hand when the program gets under way at 11 o’clock. Following is the entire pro gram: Call to assembly—Boy Scouts. Invocation—Rev. Eugene Ol ive,, pastor ol North Wilkesboro Baptist church. D. A. R. Ritual—Led by Miss Ellen Robinson, Chaplain Ren dezvous Mountain Chapter D. A. R. The American’s Creed—Led by Mrs. W. C. Grier, Regent Ren dezvous Mountain Chapter D. A. R- The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Greetings and Introduction of Judge T. B. Finley—Miss Lucy L. Finley. History of Rendezvous Moun tain and Presentation of Gift to the State—Judge Finley. Introduction of His Excellen cy, the Governor of North Caro lina—Mrs. H. O. Steele. , Ajd'dress—Hon. J. C. B. Bh- riughaus. Unveiling of Tablet—Master [Thomas Finley Nelson and Mast- ■er Charles Donald Coffey. Presentation of Tablets—Mm. H. 0. Steele, chairman Rendea- V0U8 Mountain Memorial. Acceptance of tablet — Mm. Sydney Perry Cooper, State Re gent D. A. R. “America”—Assemblage. Benediction—Rev. C. W. Rob inson, pastor North Wilkesboro Presbyterian church. Taps—Boy Scouts. Wilkesboro P.-T. A. To Meet Thursday Meeting^ Will Be Held Today At School Auditorium At 8:15 o’clock - - The Parent-Teacher Associa tion of the Wilkesboro school will meet in the school audltro- lum this afternoon at 3: IS o’clock. A splendid program has beea arranged and all parents and pa trons of the school are urgently requested to attend." Speaks At Fairplatna aid to the completion EWrplaiiui Baptist ehnirti preparao a.-.. im,. . evening. The addicM ra-; * ’-'Sift an enthttziastic raa^nae., 4: ' Ts
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