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Published Mondays and ISiursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., MONDAY, 6, 1934
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it TestSyingj
Heart'BtcilaK
TI Annual Banquet
Of Berean-Bibie
Class Held Here
Expert, E. B.'
Found Note At !
Winston-Salem Home
Xo West Point
Members and Their Guests
Enjoy Excellent Program
At Club House
PAINHOWER IS JUDGE
vo Defendants Are Held In
Jafl Without Bond UntU
March Court
P At tl»« close of one of the most
MOMtlonal preliminary hearings
In recent years In Wilkes, Justice
of the Peace A. E. Spalnhower on |
afternoon ordered Luther
.TUiey and Winfield Stanley held
> bbUI the March term of Superior
for the alleged murder of
■'^Andrew Eldrldge, whose lifeless j
iras found floating on
enidike Lake near Elkin In I
iitiBe., It27. IS days after thej
t 'young man had disappeared from;
^S'the home of his parents i'l the |
edge of Wilkes near Bv. nham. j
^The two men were con nitted
to JaU without privilege f bond i
findings of the
c. 0. McNeill presides
Debate On Humorous Topic is
Feature; 84 Persons in • |
Attendance
The annual banquet of the Be- \
rean-Blble Class of the First'
Baptist church held in the Le-
Baton Rouge . . . Undergradu- j gion-Auxiliary Club House Thurs-
ates at Louisiana State university j day evening was a most enjoyaole
have twice elected Virginia Kil-iattalr.
bourne the school’s champion C- O- McNeill, president of the
“heart-breaker.” Other honors also I class, was toastmaster and wel-
bestowed are cheer-leader, a movie corned the members and their
bid . • . and a newspaper job. | Kuests at the banquet at 7
-: o’clock.
' The invocation was spoken
) Rev. C. W. Robinson, pastor of j
Uhe Presbyterian church, a guest, |
i and the members of the Legion i
National Scout
Week Observance
Starts Tlmrsday
of Escape ThroHih Blazes
Bam%'E^d^ Told %
Sistt ^ Dead ^ At InqiKrt
New Evidence I^'lBrooght To Light j|t Fourth Coroy^u 0
Cff CATXU^IIW xp JLPALfU|^ll» XV m w* '
Heuring In WfllMbc^ fState Bfideavors To Liids miBfs
Witt House BursUg Nile I^ CSly ^
Local To Present Ex
cellent Program On Thurs
day Evening
MURDER CONSPmACY WARRANT RBCOMMfflfDfiD
BE HELD AT 7:30 O’CLOCK
Nath Tharpe, State’s Star Witness, Testifies He Luttw
Tilley Running From Tilley Home When He Answered
Cries For Help; Experts Say Itfrs. Latter Tilley Wrote Note
i Scout Troops To Decorate
I Windows Saturday and
Hear Broadcast
Omaha . . ■ Verona Gruenther,
former Omaha Women’s single
tennis champion, is soon to become
j Boy Scouts of Wilkes will he-
; gin their observance of National
' Boy Scout Week on Thursday,
February 8, the 24th anniversary
of the founding of the organiza
tion, with a program at the Pres
byterian church at 7:30 p. m.
The piogram Thursday even
ing will be only one feature of
Checks For Post
Office Property
To Be Delivered
the bride of Lieut. Garrison David- the observance here. The next
Ison, football coach at West Pointistep
'•y i Military academy.
served
Auxiliary unit here then
an excellent dinner.
A delightful entertainment
feature of the early part of the
to await the
grand Jury. | . . , . a singing of the
• Introduction of a new note, the 'Uisinci Aiiorney I g^otijers quartet which
BW**^T'ance on the stand of an' GiV6 Checks To OwTiei^
armed witness and clashes be- On Wednesday
tween Solicitor Jdhn R. Jones " „ .1
and attorneys for the two de-! Checks in payment for the
Barber Brothers quartet which
is composed of Orisco, Lewco,
Roscoe and Dawkins Barber.
They sang several negro spiritii-
Buu — — , lals to the delight of all present.
fendants were the high lights of | property on which a new-post of-j ^ (jygj also given by Rev.
i fice will be erected here have and Mrs. Eugene Olive. Rev. Mr.
State President
P.-T, A. To Speak
Here Thursday
decoration by each troop of a
window in some local store Sat
urday. All troops will assemble
at the Baptist Scout hut on “B
Street at 11 o’clock
I uu o reaay in jau. ijui-ner was aireaay in jaii lor me auegpa
Saturday -murder of Andrew Eldridge in June of 1927. Mrs. Luti^
morning and will march in a body 'pjijgy held on a warrant swom out by Hill Cox, biother-
the Leglon-AuxlllaiT Club jj. Leota. on a charire of killing the GhiMrMM oirt.
Mrs. J. L. Henderson Will
Deliver Address On Foun
der’s Day At 3:45
" _ - X IJJlCJf W «*0 VAX Or VTWiAWAAV O VWX AX VM4 V XXHX IwaWwaXW**
to the in-law of Leota, on a charge of killing the ChildreM girl.
House where they ^iii listen to Clyde Tilky, 18-ye^-oW youth, was being heM^^ a Am-
terial witness. The fMter parents of the dead girl, gave
are themsclves up to She^f W. B. Somers soon after the hear-
the ing Saturday and w^. not formally arrested.
The fourth coroner’s
a radio broadcast including an
address by President Roosevelt.
‘ All troi)ps in the county
I expected to participate in
program Thursday evening. Girl
! Scouts have been invited to join
the hearing
E. B. Brooks, handwriting e*'' alr'*ady been drawn and will be Olive, pastor of the First Baptist
^,rt who testified in the Chll- Wednesday,
dress coroner s hearing at Ronda
'church, gave the toast to the la
dies who were guests of the class.
ed to be the hit of the evening.
I J. C. "WaffittB ftii(!l' ttoTner-»n-
ttiorneym- ap jjjg program, following.
ford T. Henderson, representing a social hour. *
The Wilkesboro P.-T. A. has been
ed. The note was introduced in Tenth sireet.s and
evidence after Brooks had testi- „{
lied that in his opinion the note , j, t.
'tonnd by the parents of Andrew
Eldridge when they returned
on January 21, told of finding Thomas C. Carter, of Mehane. ^ debate on the query. "Pe
.note On the porch of his Wins-1 assistant district attorney, solved. That I'hings Are Not As
i-Salem home three days later, jjgre la.st week in connection with Good As They Used To Be,” prov
’‘"°:''.the post office site.. ,H^ w^e-
rwhat is hefrt* TOT-yva.. you won’t- ,
who wrote that n^e. And turn Wednesday to deliver tTIe
Vou won't show this note. You checks. the affirmative, carried off the
think you dam sharp.’’ The property on whicii the honors from J. li. Williams and
The note was printed in capi- office will be built is located j. c. Reins who upheld the nega-
tal letters and was not punctual-1 ...q-- street between .N'inth tive side of the query. The hu-
consists niorous aspects of the topic kept
ithe banqueteers in an uproar of
J. T. Prevette, who owns four laughter throughout the entire
six lots, ivill receive the | debate.
, largest check. One lot is owned a serious note was touched by
home the day the boy disappear-|j,y w. F. Absher and the'Attorney A. H. Casey, teacher of
ed and the handwriting of Luther [g, jg owned by Absher and the class, who spoke eii the bet-
Tllley were identical. The expert gj^gj^jjarn, J. C. Henry and C. D. jter things of life.
. stated positively that the same coftey & Sons. j Rev. Mr. Robinson also talked
*’j>er4on wrote both papers, the j Early erection of the Post of- briefly and was heard with much
note and the letter written by Til- fjgg jg anticipated, a committee I interest.
= having already been named to I Atten.. , —
supervise the North Carolina jning were won by Mrs. Carl Cof
buildings, including the o n e fey and Shelton Brewer. I
fof ; here. Attendance at the banquet was ,
fhej |S4_ the number including mem-'
court that this was the first time Io |bers. their lady guests and a few
2^ bis experience that he had had t
to cross examine a witness who|
•was carrying a pistol. Mr. Brooks |
€jn»l»ined that he had secured a
' -mit to arm himself following I — . . rry
ipt of the note, but at the j Legion and Auxiliary To
,^,^gestion of Solicitor Jones re-j Sponsor Festival Again On
Ipoved the weapon and gave it to I February 16th
Mrs. J. L. H';;;5^on. of Hick-jBoy Scouts
ory. president of the North Caro- ’ Following is the progiam as
lina Parent-Teacher Association, outlined.
will deliver a Founder’s Day ad- Song—
dress at a meeti.ig of the North:
M^ilkesboro P.-T. A. Thursday |
afternoon at 3:45'o’clock in the . """"T'^^Tr-^^hsirman of
school auditorium. | tion of speaker-chairman of
Mrs. Henderson’s address nieetlng^^^_^^ ^ ^
■Girl Scouts.
■Boy Scouts.
Program
Program
Song.
Benediction—Rev
C. W. Rob-
invited to meet with the local as
sociation. I.
A Founder’s Day offering will | inson.
be taken. Mrs. E. G. Finley, pres-' Scout leaders plan some excel-
ident of the local P.-T.
nounced this morning.
A.
Wreck Vicrim
an_ i lent features for next week which
jhas been officially designated as
National Boy Scout Week.
Teacher Named
Buried Sunday, Wakesboro
"When J. Hayden Burke.
Taylorsville, of counsel for
defense, took tlje w’itness
cross examination, he told
! Raymond Grinton, Colored, R„miramer Succeeds
Attendance prizes for the eve- Dies of In juries Sustained succeens
In Accident
I special invited guests.
Fun Festival Is
To Be Repeated Miss Andrews Is
Taken By Death
an officer.
iTlIley and Stanley were repre
sented by Mr. Burke and his son,
The Fun Festival, which prov-
.. — - -- .,ed 80 popular last year, will be
Harold Burke, and Turner Grant, repeated under the sponsorship
of Yadkinville. Solicitor Jones
was aidfed in the prosecution by
J. H. Whicker and Parks Hamp
ton, the latter of Elkin.
Stsuiley was linked with the
killing by statements witnesses
aaid he made to them. Tilley was
lyinvolved by the similarity of his
»lmitdwritlng with the handwrit-
'ins of the note found in the Eld-
■ Eidse home and by evidence that
rlia had*accused the Eldridge boys j
of the Legion and Auxiliary on
Friday evening, February 16, at
7:30 o’clock. The festival will
be held this year in the Call
building where city and township
elections are held.
Bingo, auction sales and many
other interesting bits of enter
tainment are in store for those
who attend. Those present last
year will recall the worlds of fun
provided and will welcome the
Member of Well Known Fam
ily Passes; Funeral Held
On Saturday
Miss Robena Andrews, memoer
of a well known family, was
claimed by death at her home in
^ the city Thursday morning at
I 7:45 o’clock. She had been in ill
I health for the past six months.
I iMiss Andrews was the daugh-
1 ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Irv-
I ing Andrews, of Orange county,
1 who moved to North Wilkesboro
Funeral rites for Raymond L.
Grinton, colored, who died Wed-
j nesday from injuries sustained in
Ian automobile accident,
!conducted yesterday from Damas-
I CUB Baptist church in the pres-
j enee of one of the largest crowds
ever to attend a service at the
church. Rev. G. L. Carlton was
in change of the service.
Grinton was injured in an au
tomobile accident a week ago
this morning about nine miles
from Winstoft-Salem. He was an
employee of the 'Reynolds Tobac
Mrs. Charles EUedge, Who
Recently Resigned
ab''’at 30 years ago. She was a
kad..accused the Eldridge boys provided and will welcome the | faithful member of the First Bap-
ateallift his liquor and that he: opportunity to again attend t e church and "was highly es
teemed by a wide circle of ac-
Mrs. W. E. Harris, who has
1 inquired of neighbors about
Itjoe boys.
’The note found when parents
fonng Eldridge returned home
■ troM vrork on the day of the
i boy’s disappearance read: “No-
tJee—I have gone to Elkin to
^irork. W»5 be back Saturday. An-
[drew.”
■ ' InsU;ad of returning home, the,
'boy was not found until 19 days'
• later.
Jeff Sadridge, father of Andrew
iSdridge, was the first witness to
be ^a^ on the stand by Solicitor
jOTes. He testified that he and
Hn. Hdridge left Andrew at home
the day of his disawMrance and
that 'tiiey went to the field to
work. He said they found the note
upon their return to the house
about dark.
Nineteen days later, Mr. EW-
' ridge said be saw the body of his
son in Klomfike lake near Elkin.
The face was swollen and there
WfB a ytry black mark around the
Deck, he testified.
Mr. KUMge then told of a
been critically ill at her home in
Wilkesboro for several weeks,
continues to improve, we are
pleased to state.
Course Will Be
Given At Churd
esbvterians Will Studv ‘The
Presbyterians Will Study
Christian Home’ Febru
ary 11,12,13 and 14
Classes In the study of ’’The
Christian Home” will be organiz
ed at the Presbyterian church
here on February 11-12-13-14.
’The family budget, child train
ing, social and religious life are
some of the subjects to be dis
cussed. The first class Will be
held Sunday afternoon at 3:30,
while the other classes will be
held on the three succeeding eve
nings at 7:30 o'clock.
Mrs. W. J. Bason, Dr. H. B.
quaintances.
Surviving her are two sisters,
.Miss Nettle Andrews and Mrs.
Lorena Jones, of this city, and
one brother, G. A. Andrews, of
Camargo, Okla. Her parents and
one brother, C. P. Andrews, pre
ceded her in death.
The funeral service was con
ducted from the residence Satur
day morning at 7:15 o’clock with
^he! B®''"' Eugene Olive, Baptist pas
tor, in charge. The body vi'aB then
carried to Mt. Herman church
near Durham, Orange county,
where Interment was made in the
church cemetery. Rev. ..Mr. Olive
was also in charge of the service
at the grave.
Active pallbearers were'A. H.
Andrews, E. E. Eller, E. M.
Blackburn, A. W. Horton, C, O.
McNeill and J. E. C^^udiil.
Smith, R. G. Finley and Rev.'0»
n«t he aadJj^JQto^e RpWnson will be the Insttuc-
^ HSontlaaed o^naexptee) ^ ^' tors in the order named.'
I),
Mr. W. F. Miller, of Boone,
was among those In the city 6at-.
urday looking after bupinesa mat
ters. Mr.' Miller Is well known
here an he was engined In bust*' .--
ih; No^. WUke^fo for a' i^tri
number of year*.'**—
The central committee of Wil
kesboro school district met Fri-
iday evening and elected John R-
were j Bumgarner to fill the vacancy in
Wilkesboro high school created
by the resignation of Mrs. Charles
C. EUedge, who before marriage
was Miss Grace Gllreath. Mrs.
EUedge tendered her resignation
several days ago.
Mr. Bumgarner is the son of
Rev. and iMrs. J. L. A. Bum
garner, of Wilkesboro, Route 1.
He is an A.B. graduate of Lin-
Har-
. coin Memorial University,
CO company, having been in their I rogate, Tenn., and a B.S. gradu-
employ for seven years. He died g^ate College. He has com
at City Memorial Hospital, Win- pjeted the course for an M.S. de-
ston-Salem. gree with the exception of his
Grinton was 24 years of age.
He was the son of Robert and
Ida Grinton, of Wilkesboro, who
with the following brothers and
sisters survive: Nevada, Willie,
Grace, Brack and Selma.
A number of Winston-Salem
people attended the funeral.
Wilkesboro Boy
In Boxing Match
Tom Dula Goes To Quarter Fin
als Of Observw’s Golden
Gloves Tonmammtt
Tom Dula, a student at Pres
byterian junior college at Max-
ton, boxed his way to the quarter
finals of fhe Charlotte Observer’s
Golden Gloves tournament before
being eliminated Saturday. He
made an excellent showing.
Young Dula is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Dula, of Wtlkes-
boro.
thesis on which he is now work
ing.
Mr. Bumgarner will fill out the
remainder of Mrs. EUedge s term
as teacher.
Reins Confirmed
For Postmaster
derson About Middle of
This Month
Wilketborb'P.-T» A. ■-
To Meet Wedneodny
The Wilkesboro Parent-Teach
er Association will hold Its regu
lar monthly business and pro
gram meeting in the school audi
torium*’.Wednesday afternoon at
2:15. The'association has
invited to meet, with the North
Wilk^borq association Thursday
afterpoon amd h^r the 'addsnss
of Mrs-'-J: L. Hei'derson,
' If
manfrmeSBers'wnratten
The appointment of J. C. Reins
as North . Wilkesboro postmaster
was confirmed by^. the United
States Senate Saturday.
Mr. Reins stated this morning
that he had hot received his
commission, but e:^ecled ,to take
office about the middle of the
month.
He will succeed James M. An
derson, who has, served as acting
postmaster since Captain R- R-
Walters left office.
:te
Eugene Reevia Taking
^Pasteur Treatment
Brnshy Mountain township, to
plans will be made for a
field
taktoif the Pasteur treatment as meeting Thursday. -Tim fruit
Lresnlt of being bitten fiy hto growers are now
jutuMar' January 87th. Re- spray schedule and this togeth-
itlcS ^i^RSelgh stated that the er wl%.gjMf»l "T®**®"* problems
' ‘ ■ raiBI^v -
Sr.
Five members of the Tilley family are held in the county
jail at Wilkesboro without bond for the alleged mur^ of
Miss Letoa Childress,'whose lifeless body was found in the
home of her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, near
Benham, between Ronda and Elkin, on Saturday afternoon,
December SO.
The five held are Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, their sons,
Luther and Clyde, and Lutter Tilley’s wife, Mineiwa 'Mey.
The warrants diarging all five witii a conspiracy to mur
der the girl were swom out Saturday afternoon following tte
adjournment of the fourth coron»’s hearing which was held
at the county courthouse in Wilkesboro. Tfie action itts
taken at the recommendation of the coroner’s jury whidi
Saturday heard considerable additional evidence wUch tend
ed to further implicate members of the Tilley family in the
mysterious death of the Childress girl. '
All of the five, except Mr. and Mire. W. W. Tilley, were al
ready in jail. Luther was already in jail for the alleged
— hearing
j Saturday was convened about 10
[o’clock. Long befofe the hour of
I the hearing every available foot
I of space in the spacious court-
I room had been appropriated to
,1 himself by some interested spec-
'tator. The balcony was filled and
1 hundreds were unable to gain
Don, Dick and Joe Jokiesl®'^"'*®®*®" T**® c^oua was eeti-
HeldInJail:ToJBc^G|yqn
Hearing "February 10' I _
Z ; The heanng was conducted
William W. Gambill, 28, an . under the direction of Coroner S.
employee of the Grier Cotton i A. Rash and Solicitor John R.
WiDiamGamyi
Killed In Auto
Wreck Saturday:
Mills, was fatally injured Satur-1 Jones, whose relentles's investiga-
day afternoon on the Taylorsville j tion has resulted in new evidence
road near Pores Knob when the; at each probe. Assisting Solicitor
driver of the automobile in ' Jones were J. H. Whicker, of this
which he was riding lost control | city, and Parks Hampton, Elkin
and the car turned over in the attorney.
road. I The story of a narrow escape
The injured man was rushed from a burning building was told
to the Wilkes Hospital where he; by Mrs. Hill Cox, sister of Leota
died 30 minutes later of internal ^ Childress, as Solicitor Jones at-
injuries. j tempted to link the death of the
Don Joines, Dick Jolnes and 20-year-oId orphan girl with the
Joe Joines, who were said to have [burning of the Cox residence and
been in the wreck, were only i the destruction of correspondence
slightly injured. Don Mias arrest- j of Leota with her sister,
ed by Patrolman S. D. Moore | fourth wit-
Saturday afternoon and placed in | placed on the atand.
jail, The other Joines boys snv-|sbe testified that a few days be
fore her sisler was allegedly
rendered to county officers
morning.
this! I
I slain, she saw two men near the
An investigation of the wreck | residence which was then lo- *
is now being made and the Joines p^ted on the faring of
boys will be given a preliminary
bearing February 10.
Gambill was the son of Mrs.
Vick Gambill, of Cricket. He is
Solicitor,
Jones. She heard one of them re
mark, ■'That’s her there.” She ,
testified that the men went
away, but that she advised her
survived by his mother, two, busband and Solicitor Jones who
brothers, Charlie and John, and j fben kept pomeone watching the
one sister, Mrs. Verna Crysel. home most of the time.
At the time the accident occur- j recalled that the note
red, the boys were traveling purported to have been left by
north. The accident took place Childress was found on
at the bridge at the foot of the
mountain.
Funeral service for Gambill
was scheduled to be held at
Union Methodist church this aft-
er’ oon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
Monday. Mrs. Cox testified that
she and the members of her fam
ily barely escaped witfi tbelr
lives on the toUowlog'' 'Btiilnilng
between 2 and 3 o’clock wben
c. .«/wu »v - - j they were awakened and fonod
Seymour Taylor, pastor, and Rev. | melr home In flames. All the let-
Hubert Bullis-ln charge. |ters written by Leota, telling of
Tn Stzidv Aviation [quarrels in the TlUey fanMl^,
WashSftoS^pt? t-Presi-'"’^®"® destroyed In the fire, Mrs.
Washington reo ■ rresi- ^ testified. There wa. (t sW
dent Roosevelt box full of them, she said. .
Secretory ope . ^ . . ( A direct connection wltli the
inter-departmentol study of gf the note, the deatli of
^rl and the 'burning of the
He Win Succeed Jimmie An- a u orm ^ Soimtor
a
Fruit Growers
Meet Thursday
Niswimger To ^peak At
Cmurty Courthouse In
\mesboro At 2 P. M.
The Brushy Mountain Fruit
Growers Association and , others
IpteiiMted in fruit growing will
the courthouse In Wllkes-
boro Thursday afternoon to hear
an address H. R. Ntowonger,
state ihortlculturiat. 'Mr. Ntewon-
— 7 , ger will speak at 2 o’clock.
iMr,^ Eugene i^vto, clttoen of ^ meeting Thursday,
„ . Sotb^tor
Jones. Mrs. Cox said shn wmit to
the county jail on Frtttoy and
Identified Luther 'riUey as one of
the men she saw near her home
a few days before her house 'was
burned. ^ 's--"
Mrs. Cox said that Lepto had^
written her abont quarrato in,the
HUey family and bad sent word
for her to- coma atter-rhiM'. She
said she and her has band with
Will McOlsminery went 4o the
Tijley home for Leota sotm X^r
receiviug this letter.' When Lwta
had gotten her tUngs'^to^aCher.
she asked. Mrs. THlejr lor tter
bank 'book, Mrs. Cox n tieflfied. >
Mrs. 'niley replied thgt "4t-yon .
go. yon’U never get ft"-'' t.. -
The witness said that
spehdtng some time ’'^th
decided to
home of her.
took the t
was the lasV
: (Contin
, r ’ s.