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Published Mondays and Hmrsdays NORTH WILKESBQRO, ^ C., MOI^AY, JULY 16,
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State Election Board
W ;J
Will Investigate Vote
In Judgeship Primary
Will Hold Hearing
In Wilkesbom25th
New Pirate Leader-
Home Demonstration
Agent Appointments
Thrash Out AUegations
k ' That Republicans Voted
On June 30th
Mi-s. Homewood Will Mret With
Relief Cases In V^arious
Communities
Raleigh, July 13.—The state
board of elections, meeting here
today to hear charges of irregu
lar voting in the June 30 pri
mary in Wilkes and Alexander
counties, recessed the hearing to
meet again at North Wllkesboro
at 11 o’clock on July 25.
Attorneys lor J. Hayden
Burke, of Taylorsville, and for
Julius A. Rousseau, of North
Wllkesboro, candidates for the
Democratic nomination tor su
perior court judge in the seven
teenth district, were ordered to
list the names of Republicans
■who they alleged cast their bal
lots Illegally in the primary.
The names must be presented
to the board at its Wllkesboro
meeting
To Study Situation
The future course In Investi
gation of the balloting 'R'Ul be
decided after the situation Is
studied at close range, members
of the board said tonight. It it
becomes necessary, the board
will summon every voter whose
names 'appear on the lists pre
sented by the contestants and
nestion them Individually as to
leir party atfUiations to deter-*
mine which votes to reject.
A 'two days’ investigation of
the voting in the two mountain
counties In the first primary was
conducted by the board which
p^^nvassed the ballots, throw
ing out those declared illegal
and reversing the standings of
Rousseau and Burke, giving the
lead to the former by a few
hundred votes.
Primary Vote
In the second primary, ac
cording to returns certified by
the county boards of elections in
the seventeenth district, Rous
seau received 6,137 votes to
Burke’s 5,690.
The Judicial vole by counties
In the seventeenth district as
certified by local boards was;
Rousseau — Alexander. 82;
Avery, 215; Davie, 542; Mitch
ell, 288; Wilkes. 4.720, and Yad
kin, 740. Burke—Alexander, 2,-
985; Avery. 334; Davie, 649;
Mitchell. 176; Wilkes, 1,070.
and Yadkin, 476.
In today's hearing. Burke’s
adherents claimed that 1,500
Republicans Illegally cast their^
votes for Rousseau In WJlkes
county, while Fred S? Hutchins,
of Winston-Salem, representing
Rousseau, contended that about
800 Republicans voted for Burke
in the Alexander county.
Both Sides Satisfied
Apparently both sides welcom
es an investigation and went,
back to the mountains confident:
of maintaining their contentions |
about illegal voting. They must j
submit to the board and to each
other lists containing the names
of persons believed to have vot
ed Illegally in the second pri
mary of June 30.
Vnder orders of Major L. P.
Wil«ndon, of Greensboro, chair
man of the elections board, reg-
(Contlnued on page eight)
Mrs. S. L. Homewood, demon
stration agent who will work
among relief families in Wilkes
during the summer, has an
nounced the following appoint
ments. Relief cases are required
to attend the most convenient
demonstration;
Thursday. July 19th, Traphill i
Township: 9:00, Mrs. H. R. Bil-1
lings, 2:30. Mrs. Charlie Sidden. ,
Friday, July 20th, Elk Town-1
ship: '9:00, Ferguson school,
house. 2:30, Hendrix school’
hou.se.
Saturday, July 21st: 9:00,
Goshen school house, Goshen.
Monday, July 23rd. Walnut
Grove Township: 9:00, School
house at .\bshers, 2:30. Mrs. P.
E. Bell's.Home—-New Life.
Tup.sday, July 24th, Boomer
Township: 9:00, J. E. German’s
Store, Boomer, 2:30, Maud Sa
uer's (colored) h.mie.
lyednesday. July 25th, Union
Township: 9:00. Concord school
MRS . ,
TOWN FOR FRIST time IN
HER LIFE, 79 YEARS OLD
By J. B. WILLIAMS
Mrs. Mary Emiline Benge, known
to h'r many friends as “Aunt
Mary,” visits North Wilkesboro,
the Key to the Blue Ridge, for the
first time in her life. This good
j woman was bom on April 10,
11856, in the western part of Wilkes
I county, near the Wilkes. Watauga '
' and Ashe lines, and is now over'
seventy-nine years of age. Before
her first marriage she was Mary
Emiline Greer, daughter of Riley
Greer and Frankie Watson -Greer.
In her early womanhood she was
united in marriage to Benjamin
and to this union eight
children were born, six of whom
still survive. She is now a great
-grandmother and has a large num-
; her of great-grandchildren. Her
'first hu.sband, Mr. Parsons, died
several years ago. She later mar
ried Johnnie Benge, of Wilkes
^ ‘‘•'d now lives with her
■ W|||rP5( r fllirihusband near Mt. Zion postoffice
ureal TTimCO * Her husband
Pittsburgn . . . wespite con
tinuation of defeats for the Pir
ates under the new manager,
Harold “Pie" Traynor (above),
Pittsburgh baseball fans voice Parsons,
approval of Traynor’s leadership.
Marx Shows To Be
MidwayAttraction
MBS. EMILINE BENGE
1 111 »T lirkca AAVX ,
Mr. Benge, is now eighty-three to breather the pure, fresh air of
»T. .fi. ifxviaciii %•*■""•■’Iyears old- Mrs. Benge’s father the mountains .and drink the pure
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Hammonton, N
Last Week
21-CAR SHOW COMING
Premium List For Fair Here
In September Is Being
Distributed
W. A. Mcl^ill, president and
2:30. Whittington school |general manager of the Great
Wilkes Fair association, returned
house
house
Thursday, July 26th, Moravi-, Hammonton, N- J-
an Falls Township: 9:00, Mrs., , . „ _
Tom Eller’s home. Moravian ^ where he inspected Marx G
Falls. 2:30. Mountain Crest! Shows, the midway attraction
school. Gilreath. ^ booked for the fair here in Septem-
years old- Mrs. Benge’s father
land mother were bom and reared
j in Watauga county and her father,
! Riley Greer, lived to that ripe old
age of one hundred and two years.
Her mother only lived to be sixty-
six years old-
“Aunt Mary,” as we would call
Mrs. Benge, has now passed her
seventy-ninth mile post of life and
has had the advantage that very
few of us have ever had. and that is
the mountains .and drink the pure
water flowing therefrom, without
ever having to breathe the con
taminated air of the town or city,
and for the first time in her long
life on Wednesday, July 11, 1934,
cast her eyes upon the first town
she has ever seen, and the chances
are had not her husband suffered
a very painful accident and had to
be brought to the Wilkes hospital
(Continued on pag« four)
Rulings Given
On News Sales
her.
Kiwanis Club Will Meet With Fruit
Growers In Picnic Meetii^ Friday
Stete Witnesses To
A|^ar at CouH on
Wednesday,
mim Crawford Take, fjyg Defendants
Lucrative Portion * arvivuwuuu.
Music Teacher Here Resigns To
Accept Better Position At
Marlon
Awaiting Trial
Miss Tlmoxena Crawford, mus
ic teacher In the city schools
here for the past four years, ten
dered her resignation Saturday
afternoon to accept a position of
masic supervisor over five large
elementary schools near Marlon.
This is a decided promotion
for the popular music teacher
here. Due to the stringent econ
omy system necessary In the
schools here she helped In regu
lar teaching In the sixth and sev
enth grades In addition to her
music work in the high school.
On her new position Miss
Crawford will have a substan
tial increase in salary and has
one of the most lucrative Jobs In
the profession of music teaching
In the state. Her friends here
wish her every success.
Jesse Wood Found
Dead In His Home
Resident of Roaring River
Community Passes Away
Suddenly
Tilley Family Charged Withi
Murder of Leoda Childress
December 30th
Mr. McNeill found the show to be
j above expectations. Marx Greater
Shows have ten rides, 20 shov/s and
a large numb'^r of concessions.
Twenty-one railway cars are
F, V- J 1 VT . Ai -used to 'ra.-isport the midway at-
Boys Lnder Fourteen Not AM-
lowed To Carry Papers
On Fixed Routes
Friday is expected to be a
banner day for the Brushy Moun
tain Fruit Growers Ajssociation
and the North Wllkesboro Kl-
wanis Club when the two organ
izations will meet at Mountain
midway section of „„ ^^e Brushy
Charles McNeill, welfare offi
cer. bar received from A. L.
Fletcher, commissioner a labor, a
copy of the laws “"1 n.' j.; the shows were playing for
erning employment of mino.s as ^^^
newspaper carriers or salc.smen.
the fair grounds here will be filled
to capacity with the rides and
shows-
Mi. McNeill states that tfie
midway this year is of the cleanest
type on the road. In Hammonton,
rhe rulings state that no boy
under 14 is allowed to deliver
newspapers on fixed routes.
However, boys between the ages
of 12 and 14 may engage in
In addition to the usual midway
attractions Marx Greater Shows
have some new features, including
a double ferris wheel- Also in the
list of rides are a number of new
of 1- and 14 may « « creation.s which have never before
.street sales. No girl under 16
allowed to engage In any form p^mium List Out
of street trade. . pj-gmi^ni lists for the fair to be
Any under r^^f^tif’riheld September 18-22 are now be-
street sales must have certifi-I ^ distributed by J. C- Wallace,
cates, which are eing iss . I secretary, from his office at
the welfare officer. ^ jyj company on
Are newspaper or f.rm e™' gt^eet. Anyone wanting «
ploying boys under 14 on fixed'
routes will be liable to prosecu
tion after September 1,
Commissioner Fletcher.
ed
45th Series of
B.& L.Now Open
Resources of Local Building
and Loan Nearing Half
Millicm Mark
premium list may get in touch with
states' Wallace.
The prizes this year are very
i desirable, cash premiums being of
fered in all classes, supplemented
in some departments by specially
donat^M premiums-
With crops in the midst of an
ideal season, it is expected that
exhibits this year will exceed any
thing offered in previous years at
the fair here.
Tobaco Growers
May Still Sign
Farmers In Wilkes Have Un
til July 28 To Sign Tobac
co Contracts
Tobaco growers have until July
SSfch to sign reduction contracts,
•ocording to an announcement re
leased today by County Agent A.
G. Heodren. -
The time for signing tobacco
contracts has been eactended in or
der to give all fanners an oppor
tunity to take advantage of the
benefits.
Any farmer in Wilkes county
;wbo may be interested in signing
tobacco conttaets should get in
tonch with County Agrent Hendren
•t hla office bi the conrUiotue.
J. B. Williams, secretary-
treasurer of the North Wilkes-
boro Building and Loan Associ
ation, today issued the following
statement in regard to the open
ing of the 4 5th series of stock:
The North Wilkesboro Build
ing and Loan Association an
nounces the opening of its forty-
fifth series of installment stock.
All who desire to can subscribe
in this series up to and includ
ing August 31st. An Investment
in building and loan stock is the
safest now offered to the Invest
ing public. During the crisis our
country has gone through with
in the post several years, build
ing and loan Investments have
been the only ones that have
stood the test and paid back to
its stockholders one hundred
cents on the dollar, ivnd have
maintained their regular sche
dule of profits. In North Caro
lina not one association failed
while there were numerous other
financial instiutions that had to
close their doors never to open
again.
Since January 1, 1934, the
North Wilkesboro Building and
Loan Association has paid bhek
to its installment stockbold'^ rs
(ContlnueA on back page)
Officials Meet
With Principals
Conference of School Princi
pals Held Saturday In
Wilkesboro
On Saturday morning princi
pals of high and elementary
schools in Wilkes county met at
the Wilkesboro school building
to attend a conference on the
new course of study for the
schools and the set-up for the
coming school term.
A. B. Combs and Miss Jaunita
MacDougald, of the state depart
ment of education, led In the
discussions. Plans hare not yet
been perfected for the new
course of study but will be com
pleted shortly In time for the
teachers to familiarise thra-
selves with It before the begin
ning of the term. The new text
books In a number of courses
were Introduced to the teachers.
Jule B. Warren, secretary of
the North Carolina Educational
Association, was also present In
the conference.
Barn to Mr. and Mrs. Winfield
Nichols, on Wednesday, a son.
Mountains.
The date of the annual fruit
growers picnic has been memd
up in order that it can be held
On the date on which F. H. Jet
er. agricultural editor at State
College, will address the Kiwan-
is Club in a program under the
direction of County .A.gent A. G.
Hendren.
Invitations have been sent out
by Mrs. C. F. Bretholl, secretary
of the fruit growers organiza
tion, for every member to attend.
The meeting will begin at 10:30,
although it is not expected that
the Kiwanians will gather until
noon.
All who attend are asked to
carry along baskets well filled
with good eats to add to the joy
of the occasion. The address of
Mr. Jeter will take place imme
diately following the picnic din
ner. He is one of the outstanding
agricultural authorities in the
state and all who attend the
meeting will hear a practical
and inspirational address.
Jesse Wood was found dead in
his home OM mile "o^h of Roar- court in June to
ing River Thursday morning. Mr ^ because the county
The Tilley and Stanley cases,
which have gained nation-wide
attention because of the shroud of
mystery surrounding the death of
an Eldridge youth in 1927 ^nd
Leoda Childress on December 30,
last, in the Benham community of
Wilkes county, will be tried at the
August term of Wilkes superior
court beginning August 6th.
John R. Jones, solicitor of the
17th Judicial district, in an In
terview with a representative of
The Journal-Patriot announced
today that the case of state
against Luther Tilley, W. W.
Tilley. Minerva Tilley and Mrs.
W. W. Tilley and Clyde Tilley,
for the murder of Leoda Chil
dress, will be started on Tues
day, August 7th. A Jury will be
selected on that date and all
state witnesses are to appear on
August 8th, at 9 o’clock for the
purpose of giving evidence In
the trial. He further stated that
all witnesses In the Tilley cases
will be required to be in attend
ance at court without being ro-
aubpoenaed.
Failing in an attempt to get a
H. R. Niswonger, who needs
no introduction to fruit growers
in North Carolina, will also at
tend the picnic meeting and dis
cuss with the orchhrdists many’
of their problems.
Announcement that the Kl-
wanis Club will meet with the
fruit growers on Friday of this
wook was made in *the luncheon
meeting of the club held on
Wood arose early to do the chores
about the home as usual, accord
ing to an account given Coroner S.
A. Rash, by Mr. Wood’s wife, and
try the cases because the county
commissioners stated that no pro
visions were made in the budgiet
for an extra term. Solicitor John
: drank some liquor.
Friday, at which time a most in
absence about the house she look
ed for him and found his lifeless
body lying on a bed.
For fear that he had been pois
oned Coroner Rash was called to
make an investigation. The inves
tigation was dripped, however,
NoHoin.^ hisiR- has stated his detennina-
Noticing ms . , A,,-nat
terestlng and helpful address
was deliverecj to the dub by E.
P. Simmons, of the state forestry
department.
The program was given under
the auspices of the agricultural
and forestry committee.
Mr. Simmons pointed out the
great need of forest fire preven
tion and control, calling especial
attention to the fact that the
government of North Carolina
appropriates only $2,700 yearly
for forest fire control. The re
mainder spent by the state In
this work is furnished by the
federal government.
Of the 31 fires in Wilkes dur
ing the past year the largest was
the disastrous fire near Roaring
Gap, which started In adjoining
counties in which tl^ere Is not a
cooperative fire control program
(Continued on nacx page)
wh'>n it was learned that an an
alysis of the contents of his stom
ach could be obtained only with
much difficulty.
Funeral services were held at
Rock Creek church near the home
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock-
Mr. Wood is surviv:d by his
wife and five children. He was
a son of Mr. and Mrs- Lee Wood,
who live in the vicinity of Rock
Creek church.
To Play Chatham
Here Tomorrow
Three Tough Gaines On Home
Chair Team Scheduled
For This Week
Splendid Sunday School Convention
Held Thursday at Friendship Church
'’officers of the Wilkes Coun
ty Sunday School Association de
scribed the 1934 convention held
at Friendship Thursday as the
best In the history of the organ
ization from the standpoint of
attendance, program and Inter
est.
While not all of the 150 Sun
day schools In Wilkes were rep
resented, there were delegates
from practically all parts of the
county. Beaver Creek Baptists
took away the attendance pen
nant, having 65 members of
their Sunday school present.
The convention opened at 9:45
Thursday morning with congre
gational singinA devotional
conducted by R«rV Seymour Tay
lor, of WlUteal^. The regular
program then began with an fn-
splratlonal address on “How C^is
e Church and Sunday SCMoT
Help the Home,” by Miss Myrtle
McDaniel, representative of the
etate organization. Mrs. T. W,
Ferguson sang two delightful so
los.
The following hour was taken
up by study groups, the teachers
meeting }n the Sunday school
room of the churcb. with MIm
McDaniel and Rev. Shutord Peel-
■' - I
er leading a discussion In the
church auditorium. Rev. Shuford
Peeler held the rapt Interest of
the congregation with a most
touching address on "Mother
and Father as Teachers of Re
ligion.”
A fbllowship dinner was spread
near the church at noon.
The afternoon session was a
continuation of- discussions and
addresses along the theme of
"Building Christian Homes.”
In the business session the fol
lowing officers were elected:
President, J. F. Jordan, Wll-
kesboro; vice presidents: R. L.
Wpoten, Hendrix; W. B. Hub
bard, Moravian Wllsix Rev. Joha
Burcham, Roaring River; Miss
Beulah Fenrguson, Ferguson;
secretary-treasurer, Mrs, M. F.
'Ruiaganier, WllkMboro Route 1.
Divlstoa Directors: Children’s,;
Mrs. Henrietta Ferguson Perry,'
Moravian Falls: Young People’s,
Miss Marie-McNeill. .. Champion*
Adults. ,W...G. Burohsw, Roaring
Township Officers: Antioch,
Simon Curry’ ' Roaring*^ RlVer
Route 2; Beaver Creek, ITahce
McGbinnfs, Boomer; B t u a h y
(Continued on back pagb)
Home Chair Company’s base
ball team will meet one of the
strongest teams in Northwestern
North Carolina Tuesday after
noon at 4:30 when the Chatham
team from Elkin will attempt an
invasion of the city.
The Chatham team has quite a
record so far this season and the
game tomorrow should draw
every baseball fan In this vicin
ity to the fairgrounds. The Home
Chair Company has a good team
and a "good record. Many declare
the team to be the best ever as
sembled In this county.
Although some of the best
games In the history of local
baseball have been played here
the attendance Is frequently dis
appointing. All who like to see
good baseball are asked to see
the games this week.
On Friday at 4:30 the Home
Chair Company will play SUtes-
vllle Weavers here and on Sat
urday at 4:00 the Yafikia cot^
ty all stars will play the home
team here. ^
The three opposing t^ms this
week are strong outfits'and each
of the three gamee wlU be high
abovfi the avwrage la
baseball. . '*
tion to try the cases in the August
term.
The elder Tilleys ana their two
sons have been held in Jail since a
coroner’s hearing on February 3-
At that time they and Mrs. Luther
Tilley were all remanded to Jail-
Under a habeas corpus preced
ing before Judge Wilson Warlick
several weeks later. Mrs- Luther
Tilley was released under bond of
$2,500.
Solicitor Jones worked untiring
ly for several weeks in an effort
to solve the mystery of the Chil
dress girl’s death, his investiga
tions resulting in the accumula
tion of sufficient evidence to jail
the Tilley family-
History of the Case
On the afternoon of December
30, Leoda Childress, age 20, was
killed by a bullet from a 22-calibre
rifle in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Tilley, ■with whom she was
making her home. The elder Til
leys were reported to have been in
Elkin at the time neighbors rushed
to their home on receipt of a call
fer help over the telephone from
the Tilley home, and found the girl
dead and the home ransacked.
The first motive advanced for the
crime was robbery, since it became
known that the Talleys kept over
♦500 in cash about the home-
The discovery of a note in the
(Continued on page eight)
Housekeepers
Cooks Are Waht^
Calls Plai^ With'
-
National Re-empteym«it
Office Here
N. C- B^ef Pork
WashingtOT,*^ 12--A:tot8l of
6WJ)0« poWdg W porit was ship
ped into North CaroUzm- daring
fhr distribution among the
unemployed, the federal
R. L. Wooten, director of the
national re-employment office here,,
stated today that he has had » ,
number of calls for cooks SHd’ft
housekeepers and ghat ,'he does
not have enough unemployed wom-,^..
en repstered with his office to fillV''
file denumds.
In this connection he
all wmnen who would like:
jobs as cooks and hon
r^gisteic at his office in
■hl|L -
He calls, parlacniar 'sttihtigB, '
howaw. to the fact that , ^
persons who roister a#st
good references and
tions as to eharaebm and
Since pablicatioB of the monber
of jobless regwtersd ft* vafioas
Bbca ol-work several have beA
]^geed in private employment. Mr.
Wopten .is ad^ that peojplf'%
needy unemiHojfou, ku«
emergency r^ef administration re* liaed of laborers ofjpy kmd g«
iB toudi with his
ported today.
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