389 Unemployed To Be Pat To
Work By End 0/ Week; Formal
Progn
Approval of Project Is Awaited
'am of Civil
Works To Start In
Wilkes Decmnberl
Ready for Thanksgiving Day
Armbrustl^ds
Up Psotoratepf
Fo#ilarsHere
Delivers Final Sermon at
Church, Using “Qirist’s
Will” as Subject
SIX COTTAGES DESIROYED
BYFIRE AT (MN MU^
ATROARING RIVER SUNDAl
TO LEAVE WEDNESDAY
778 Jobs Are Allotted Fori
Distribution Among Un
employed of County
PROJECTS ARE OUTLINED
Re-employment Office Is To
Recruit 389 From Ranks of
Those Now Idle
of projects
Final approval
vriich will put 389 unemployed
to work by December 1 Is ex- j
pocted at any tim'' It was learn
ed this morning from Mrs. O. Cl.
Foster, civil works administrator
for Wilkes county.
Projects to supply work tor
tke remaining halt of Wilkes
county’s quota are now being
submitted and are being sent to i
Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state
ad-1
mlnlstrator, as rapidly as pos
sible. The entire 778 jobs must
be filled by December 16.
Heading the list of projects
are additions and improvements |
to school buildings of
Methodist Church Raised $9,-
071 For Church Purposes
During Past Year
In Massachusetts, home of Thanksgiving Day, Miss Ruth Fisher of
the coun- i Laseele College, near Sudbury, selects a 35-pound bird which inani
ty. ,County Superintendent C. B.
Eller devoted much of his time
last week toward securing neces-
aary Information In order that
•ebool projects might be included
In the list.
A basement room is planned
for Roaring River and Mount
Pleasant high schools while a
fested much interest in the grindstone operation of sharpening an axe.
American Legion Auxiliary Has ..
1,800 Members, President Says
I The North Carolina depart-
I ment of the .\merican 'Legion
two-room hut for the Home Ecu-, approximately 1.-
nomics department of Rondaj g(jQ members, according to in
school has been submitted for; formation obtained at the office
approval. Certain repairs are state president here,
planned for a number of school | Absher, state pres-
' buildings. ident, answered the roll call at
Wllkesboro heads the list president’s and secretaries’
among Indianapolis Friday
with the statement that the de-
I partment had 1,602 members.
' Later it was learned that this
i figure had been increased by
planning projects. Chief
these Is a Community House
which the Wilkesboro Woman’s
Club Is anxious to build and ar-
ran^ementa are being made to
secure necessary materials for;2Qo niembers received during the
the structure. Mr. and Mrs. F. G-1
Holman have donated two lots ^ Mrs. Absher plans a number of
valued at $1,000 as a proposed
site for the building.
Additions to the vaults in the
offices of the clerk and the reg- j
inter of deeds are projects sent |
in for the county courthouse and j
It Is also planned to clean, re
pair and paint the county jail.
Work on the streets and other
works are planned for the town
of Wllkeshoro. i
DP to this morning. North Wil-,
visits in the near future. She will
be in Reidsville oh December 1,
In Hamlet on December 5, In
Warrenton on December 6, and
in Raleigh on December 7. Meet
ings of tile organization will be
held in each of these places on
the date announced.
District meetings for the sec
ond area will be held between
December 7 and 10 and first
area meetings will be held be
tween December 12 and 16. The
schedule follows: Washington,
December 12; Edenton, Decemb
er 13; Tarboro, December 15 and
Windsor, December 16.
Using as his subject, “Christ’s
Will,” Rev. J. H. Armbrust de-
! llvered his farewell sermon at
the North Wllkesboro Methodist
church yesterday morning. With
this sermon, ho completed four
years as pastor here.
"My peace I give unto you"
was the sermon text and Rev. Mr.
Armbrust brought his pastorate
here to a close with one of his
I ablest sermons.
A crowd which filled the
church auditorium and the ad
joining Sunday school room to
capacity attended the service.
In the course of the service,
he thanked the Methodists and
other people of North Wilkesboro
! for their kind treatment of him
during his sojourn in the city
and expressed his hope for the
best things in life for the people
he had endeavored to serve.
Summarizing the work of the
past year. Rev. Mr. Armbrust
i Stated that the Methodist church
jhere had raised $9,071 for
; church work.
Brief talks were made yester
day morning at the Sunday school
hour and the regular church
services by W. R. Absher and W.
D. Halfacre, both of whom
eulogized the work of the retir
ing minister, and urged loyalty
toward the new pastor. Dr. W. A.
Jenkins, who will arrive here
Wednesday.
Rev. and Mrs...-Armbrust and
their son, Joe, Jr., will leave
Wednesday for Hickory where
•Rev. Mr. Armbrust will be pastor
of the First Methodist church for
the coming year. •
Unestimated Damage is Suf
fered as Six Famflies Are
Left Hoffideas
BEGAN AT WOOD’S HOME
Fire Also Reported Out in
Forests on ^nth Side of
Yadkin Riyer
Fire Caught From Fldlh JUlr.
tween CeiDng and Ron'
of the Stmeture ‘> ,
ALL CHILDREN GET 0!DT
Plan to Use Oiuvches of j
manity to Centfame I
Sesaon
Fire which caught In the home
of JO’hn Wood destroyed six
Gordon Mills cottages at Roaring _
River yesterday afternoon, doing thrwo^”enltm^t
an unestimated amount of dam-
Perguson school bulldlag, lo
cated at Ferguson, was destroy
ed by fire this morning at IS
o’clock as the flames |«laWr
Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief
administrator, who has an appro
priation of $600,000,000 with which
to give jobs to 4,000,000 unemploy
ed this winter, under President
Roosevelt’s new relief program.
Insurance Cases
Be Taken Up In
Court Tuesday
Federal Court Is Moved Into
Federal Building From
County Courthouse
S. P. U. CASE SETTLED
Ccunty Singers
Meet Thursday
I
Everything Is In Readiness
for County-wide Singling
Thank^iving Day
one
the
kesboro had furnished only
project, that of completing
high school gymnasium.
Chief among the rural projects
is that of carrying out the pro
gram of building sanitary privies.
Anyone who will furnish mater-
tale may secure relief labor and
the advice of S. P. Mitchell, civil
engineer, to aid in the project.
Materials for civil works ad
ministration projects win bo pur
chased from NRA firms after
competitive bids are received,
Mn. Foster was advised by the
state administrator last week. It
ts expected that a large number
of local firms will profit through
the civil works program in this
manner.
By the end of the week 389 ,
persons on the relief list will
have been put to work and the;
remaining 389 will be recruited |
from the list furnished by the |
North Wllkesboro office of the
successful county-
held yet Is expect
ed Thursday when choirs, quar
tets and duets from all sections
of the county meet at the court
house for their Thanksgiving
Day convention, Mr. Llnville
Bumgarner, chairman, stated
Saturday.
Everything is in readiness for
the occasion and indications are
that a large crowd will attend,
Mr. Bumgarner said.
'The singing begins at 10 a. ra.
and continues well into the after
noon.
New Pastor Will
Come Wednesday
Prayer Service in Welcome to
Him Wm Be Held Wed
nesday Evening
Dr. W. A. Jenkins, former
president of Davenport College,
Slot Machines
. Are Moved Out
who has been assigned as pastor
of the Methodist church here,
will arrive Wednesday.
A prayer service In welcome to
the new pastor will be held at
the church Wednesday evening
under the leadership of Prof. W.
D. Halfacre.
The entire membership of the
local church and many members
of other churches are expected to
be on hand to greet the new pas
tor.
Mitchell Heads
Sanitary Works
Glee Club Sings
At Kiwanis Meet
Excellent Program Given By
High School Girls; Car
ter Rt Charge
Solicitor John R. Jones Ap
preciates Co-operation of
People of City
Slot machines which have been
N^Iti'onai Reemployment Bureau, j operating In the city were moved
The local office is in charge of out at midnight Saturday night
R. L. Wooten, who Is assisted Solicitor John R. Jones stat-
by Mrs. A. T. Lott and Miss Nora 1 morning that he appreci-
inils. The office Is located in thei ,
miiw.iuo u co-operation on the
city hall and Is open from 9 a.
m. to 4:30 p. m. each day. | Part of the business establish-
The re-employment committee | ments in which these machines
is composed of J. C. Reins, chair-i located.
man, Mrs. W. R. Absher, R. B. goHdtor Jones said he believed
Prevette, D. J. Brookshire and|
M. B. Sffllthey.
that the people Were laboring
under the mistaken idea that the
St«7 At Friendship
of Wilkes-1 realize that the state
Local Engineer Recommended
to Assist Mrs. Foster
Program
S. P. Mitchell, of this city, was
recommended last week for ap
pointment as county sanitary en
gineer and will assist Mrs. G. G.
Poster, civil works administrator
for Wilkes county, In carrying on
the sanitary projects announced
recently.
Any rural home willing to
provide materials may use civil
work" labor in building a sani
tary privy.
Mr. Mitchell, who Is a civil en-
, . . . glneer, will assist In planning
machines were legal and did not construction of the privies.
licensed
Prof. T. B. Story, |
boro, delivered an address at legally operated machines.
FrientUhiR Methodist church
Millers Creek last night and was
iMard hr a terge and apprecla-
tlvn congregatloh, ’ThanksglTing
waa the theme of kla mewage.
0-., Q ■ .
The solicitor announced last
week that the operators of the
maohlnee would be proeecnted U
the- maohlnee were not removed.
Mr. Arthur Finley, who has
been in Fort Mills, S. €., for aev-
eral weeks erecting - cotton mill
machinery, is here on a visit
wltii his ppnnta. Mr.
'a« A. Finley. ’
The North Wilkesboro high
school glee club, composed of 26
girls under the direction of Miss
Tim Crawford, entertained at the
luncheon of the Kiwanis club at
Hotel Wilkes Friday at noon.
The glee club sang a group of
old-time favorites and won favor
both with their selections and the
harmony of their voices.
The program was in charge of
D. J. Carter.
Among the numbers given by
the glee club were "In the Evening
by the Moonlight,” “jWay Down
Upon the Swanee River”, "Seeing
Nellie Home”, “Old Black Joe”,
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginia”,
"Susanna”, and “Dixie.”
Other features of the program
were a vocal solo by Rebecca
Brame, who sang # ‘The Mammy
Song”, a quartet, composed of
Mildred and Gladys Bryant, Rebec
ca Brame and Marcella Pendley,
and two vocal solos, “Old Dan
Tucker” and “Golden Slippers”, by
Ozelle Andrews, a^ sixth grade
student. * ^
It was annotnfeed at the meeting
that no meeting of the club will
be held Friday on account of the
’Thankspving holiday.
Kiwanian J. D. Holcomb, of
Elkin, waa a guest at the meeting.
War risk insurance cases will
taken up tomorrow in federal
^court at Wilkesboro as the No
vember term entered Its second
week. Judge Johnson J. Hayes,
of Greensboro, Is presiding.
Court Is not in session today
out of respect to R. L. Blaylock,
former clerk of the middle dis
trict, wnose death occurred yes
terday.
The civil docket was taken up
age as household furnishings in
some of the, cottages were burn
ed.
The fire started about 1:30
o’clock anp fanned by the wind,
the flames spread until six cot-
fages were burned before it could
be brought under control. The
cottages were occupied by John
'Wood, Rufus Baldwin, Walter
Bryant, Qwyn King and others.
Some of the furniture and per
sonal clothing were saved from
part of the cottages. However,
the families were left In desti
tute circumstances and county
relief forces were busy today ar
ranging to take care of the needs
of the homeless people.
It was reported that fire was
burning in the forests on the
south side of the Yadkin at Roar
ing River last night and that a
considerable number of men
were fighting the flames. The I
extent of the damage had not
been ascertained today.
Helvering Wi^
State’s Farmers
Says Processing Tax Mast Be
Paid On All Hog Products
Sold By Farmers
Raleigh, Nov. 25.—Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue Guy
T. Helvering stated today that It
Thursday after completion of the attention
of the Bureau of Internal Reve
nue that in many Instances farm-
slaughtering
hogs and selling the products to
consumers without payment of
Kiwanians Will
Not Meet Friday
Omission Ts Decided Upon Be
cause Of The Thanks^vlng
Day Holidays
Because of the Thanksgiving
holidays, no meeting of the Ki
wanis Club will be held Friday.
The decision to omit Friday’s
luncheon was announced at the
last meeting. The next luncheon,
therefore, will be held on Decem
ber 8.
criminal calendar.
The suit instituted against the
Southern Public Utilities com- [ others are
pany by Mrs. Selma Nichols
Church in connection with the
death of the plaintiff’s husband
who was killed during an elec
tric storm was compromised, the
plaintiff being awarded $600.
Judge Hayes directed a verdict
in favor of the plaintiffs in the
case of Grover Bower and Lin
Bumgarner against the Ameri
can Casualty company.
The motion docket was argued
Friday afternoon and court ad-
jurned until this morning.
Classes were In progress at
school when the flames were dllK
covered, but the building w4g •
quickly vacated. The fire had ,ni>h
gained sufficient headway, hoir--
ever, to endanger the lives of the- ^
children and an effort was raadsr '';
to remove school books and deslUK ‘
from the structure.
The fire Is believed to hea»
caught from a defective flue an#
was burning between the ceillBE
and the root when discovereA.
With no fire fighting equipment^ ' ‘
nothing could be done to save ttw v
building.
Prof. L. R. Sims, principBl.;4)t ,•
the school, stated this afternopM-J
that all the books and many of *
the desks were saved. They wore
unable to save an old piano.
Ferguson school has an enroU—
ment of approximately 175 mM
Prof. Sims stated that school a»-
thorlties hoped to re-open school ;
tomorrow. An effort will k#—.
made, he said, to secure t#n-
churches in the community iM.;'
which to continue classes unt9 >!
another building can be erectel.
It was learned from reUabl»>,’
sources that $2,000 of insuranom"
was carried on the building,' paf^
tially covering the loss sustaine4
this morning.
Business Houses
To Be Clos^ On
Thangsgiving Dajr^
People Of Wilkes Expected ^
Observe Day Qnietly; Grid 3
Game At Chapel Hill
North Wilkesboro busim
firms with the .j^ceptlon of ho-s-
- jj
tels, restauran.il; and filling eta—-^
tlona will be closed Thursday ln.;“
the processing tax. 'This is a vio-■ Thanheglvlng
Business tor the part will be at m.';
standstill throughout the.: day.
The people of Wilkes are exp
iation of the Agricultural Adjust-
j ment Act auu regulations pro-
I mulgated thereunder, which pro
vide that any iierson who slaugh
ters hogs for market must file
appropriate retulna and pay the
processing tax thereon.
The tax applies even in the
case of the producer who slaugh
ters his own hogs and sells or
pected to observe TbanksglvlnM . ■
In a quiet manner. 'The count$^41
wide singing at the eburthon
and hunting are to be two attra^L
A number
Criminal cases disposed of late otherwise disposes of all or any
Wednesday and Thursday morn
ing follow;
Walter Love, fine of $400 and
2 years probation.
Clifford Fisher and Roy Bau-
guess, year and day each In Chll-
locothe.
Albert Johnson, 18 months
probation.
U. L. Parka, year and day in
Atlanta.
J. A. Collins and Lloyd Bare,
temporary probation.
Percy Foster, defendant In in
sane asylum, case nol pressed.
Lonnie Oaklejr, six months in
part of the products.
Heavy penalties are provided
for violation of the law or evas
ion of the tax and any person
who slaughters hogs and sells
all or any part thereof should
confer with the collector of in
ternal revenue for his district
who will assist him In preparing
and filing the required returns.
jail.
Joe Moss, tine of $6.00 and
one year probation.
Le-mard Hamby, year and day
In Chlllocothe. '
tions of the day.
Wilkes people are planning $•« >
witness the annual Turkey daF'
tootfball elanie betwren t
University of North Carolina
Virginia at Chapel Hill.
Wilkes Slayer
Joe Benge Freed After
ing Served Two Years ot'\
8-Year Sentenee
Judge Finley Announces That He
Will Not Be Candidate Next Year
Judge T. B. Finley, veteran
Wilkes Jurist, made formal an
nouncement last week that he
will not be a candidate for re-
o f McDowell county citizens
against the Duke Power Com
pany.
Judge Finley is an alumnus of
Joft Benge,' Wilkes coui^ alajr-'
er, was granted a parole
nor Ehringhaus Thursday-■-■fltFJ-’j
having served a little more flwto :'|
two years of an indetermiaatt S8n»’ .i
tence or' from eight to 12 yearik'
Beng^e was convicted of miSM;
slaughter in connection with
death of Kermit Jofanspn, at'
August term of court in 198]^
slaying took place at the ho»|;,of:
Benge on Hunting Credc. .
Singing At C. C.
Ehigene dlvi
Superior court I Davidson College and studied law |
election to the
bench next year.
Judge Finley’s announcement j of Leaoir. He was admitted to
was made In Rockingham coun-ithe bar in 1886.
Franklin Circle Will
Meet Tuesday Evening
The Franklin Circle of the
Methodist church will meet at
the home of Mrs. A. W. Horton
on Sixth street tomorrow e/ve-
ty where he was holding court
Judge Finley will become an
emergency judge on two-third’s
pay. He is now 71 years of age
and is eligible to retire at the
end of his present term which
expires in January 1, 1936.
Elected for the first time la
1918, Judge Finley is now Serv
ing his second eight-year term'
as a superior court Judge. During
the fifteen years he has been on
the bench he has presided in a
number of important casea In
cluding the Cole-Ormand murder
ease In Rockingham eountyt
Dr. Peacock murder ease in Dav-
ind are
1;'^ y attend. -
at 7^36 o’clocke All ni6za*
urgently re^ueeted to idoon conn|f end Um malnrlg flugUfled^ for the wMA
ttfm suits Ibrenght by a number
The voluntary retirement of
Judge Finley leaves the district
bench open to a number of po
tential candidates. Chief among
these are' Julius A. Rousseau, of
this city, who have already an
nounced his candidacy, and J.
Hayden Burke, of Taylorsville,
who was quoted recently as say
ing that he had the matter under
consideration.
The local man'has received the
unsolicited endorsement ot a
considerable number of people
sad ts believed to stshd an' ex
cellent ehai^ tor the nomlnA'
don. Be is considered eminently
Rev. and Mrs.
and daughter, Emily, Mrs. Pesr-.
under the late Colonel Q. N. Folk suu, Miss Ruby Blackbara,' Mrs.^
Tip McNeill, Mr. E.,M. Black
burn and Mr. John . Ksien$tt
Blackburn, of this city, visited
the C. C. Camp at Purlesr
terday afternoon and %'■: song
program was gigen tox^ Ont beW>
fit of the camp boys.'a’They. re
ported an interredng visit to thA'
camp.
Judge Finley will vseste.*
Fiddlers ConventloB'
To Be Held ThMpillUlJ
An old-time Tiddlers cont
and barn dance-,will be iivim’,
the armory here Thursday
ning. It wlU'he spoHOMl by
lOQsl luUon ot :^ VatteA
erhood of and Joisisil
of America public Js
yited. An ad^ttaiba tea. oLi
cents will be eiarged.
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