North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXtin. NO. 98 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1934 $1.00 IN THE STATE—31.60 OUT OF THE STATE . Reddies River I Bii^e Contract Toilet Oct. 18 Will Not Be Constructed On What Is Kttwon as D Street Location LECT UPPER ROUTE Concrete Approaches Will Be Construct^ On Yadkin River Bridge On Thursday, October 18, the State Highway and Public Works Commission will receive bids for the construction of a bridge over Reddies River on highways 60 and 16 on the western boundary of North Wllkesboro, according to news gained from Raleigh this ■«e^. -•llontract for the Reddies Riv- eWproject will call, for concrete bridge and approaches with con crete paving. Another Wilkes project adver tised for bids calls for concrete paving of approaches to the Yad kin River bridge between the Wilkesboros. During the past few days the approaches have been given a temporary treat ment of oi! treated crushed stone and gravel. On the same date that the Wilkes projects are to be let nine other projects in various sections of the state will be bid upon, estimated cost of all the projects run around $400,000. Other projects of interest to people in Northwestern North Carolina are as follows: bitumin ous surface treatment on 1.60 miles on route 17 in Blowing Rock: bituminous surface of .S4 mile of route 2S in Boone; crush ed stone surface on 7.23 miles on route 80 in Yadkin county be tween Yadkinville and Boone- ville. The Reddies River bridge pro ject has been approved and the funds for its construction have been allotted for several months but there was some delay over approval of the first route se lected. The first route (D street location) was abandoned after it did not gain the approval of the federal bureau of roads, it was .learned here, and the survey was '-toen changed to a location some dWtance above D street, which, it was pointed out, could be con structed at much less cost than the route formerly selected. Since part of the project is within the corporate limits of North Wilkesboro. there was stipulation that the municipality indemnify the cn right of way damage. This was done in amount not to e.xceed $750 and what appears to be the last ob stacle in the way of constructing the much needed bridge was re moved. District Medical Society Meeting Registration of Voters For Election November 6 Will Begin Saturday, j , |4,000,000^wtadie Oct Big Two of New NRA. Cbieftaios Washington—The appointment of these two men by President Roosevelt to the board of five which make up the new national indus try recovery board, is being acclaimed with great favor. They are: (left), Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing ,Work- ers, and (right), S. Clay Williams, former presidient of the Reynolds Tobacco company. Both rate high in intelligent and progressive busi ness ranks. The board will take over General Johnson’s administra tive duties on October 15. Watauga Man Jaded For Making One Dollar Bills Into Ten Spot Marvin Warren made a prof it of al>oiit twent.v-five dollars from his manipulations with I'nclc .Sam's currency but •stand.s a fair clianee to pay for his money in one of Uncle Sam’s penitentiaries. Warren, a resident of Wa tauga county, wa.s airesfetl Monday by IhV“ty Marshal W, A. ,I«nes on a charge of defac ing and changing currency .According to the evidence learned so far in liis case he had lHN‘n using a ten-dollar bill and a one-dollar hill to make them all into ten.s by sonic proces.s of splitting and putting pieces together. This methotl worked long enough for him to pass three on firms in and near Boone but the ruse was soon discov ert tl and secret service agents aided in his undoing. Before Unites! States Com- I niissioner ,S. C. Eggers in Boone Alonday AVarrt'n was given a prrtiminary hearing and iMiil wa.s .set at $5,000. WTien he was unable to fill iMMid he wa.s brought to Wil kesboro to await trial in the term of fetleral court begin ning On Monday, November 19. New Registration In 4 Townships Must Reregister in N. Wilkes boro, Wilkesboro, Mul berry and Union Saturday of this week, Octob er 13, will be the first day to register to vote In the general election to be held on Tuesday, November 6. There will be three days on which voters may reg ister, Saturday, October 13; Sat urday, October 20; and Satur day, October 27. Registration books close at sundown on Sat urday, October 27, and after that date no one can register to vote in the election on November 6. The registration in Wilkes county this year 1s of especial importance to -tht people of four townships where new registra tions have been called. Voters In North Wilkesboro, Wilkesboro, Mulberry and Union townships must re-register if they expect to vote. North Wilkc-sboro North Wilkesboro township has been divided into two pre cincts and a new registration was necessarily called. The di viding line begins at the Mulber ry township line running south with highway number 18 to Dick’s Service Station, thence with Elisabeth Street to Trogdon Road and with the Trogdon Road to the branch; thence with the branch to D Street and with D Street to Sixth Street; thence with Sixth Street south to the Ice plant. From the Ice Plant the line runs directly south to the Yadkin River. West of the line described above will be North Wilkesboro number 1 and all east of the line will be in North Wilkesboro number 2. Registration books for North Wilkesboro number one will be open by the registrar at the city hall. Registration in number two will be at the R. & O. Grocery Store. AVUkesboro All residents of that part of Wilkesboro township west of the Southern Public Utilities Com- S. S. Association Will Meet Sunday Mountain Lions To Play Boone AH Churches Asked To Send W'll R® Delegates To Meeting At 1 Gridiron Friday Aft- Mt. Pleasant Will Be Held At Elkin On October 16; Dr. McNeill * On Program Meeting of the eighth district medical society will be held in Elkin .At Hotel Elkin on Tuesday, October 16. beginning at 2:30 in the afternoon. Guest speaker for the occasion will be Dr. I. H. Manning, of Chapel Hill, who will speak on “Group Hospitalization.’’ -A num ber of other physicians will he on the program. Dr. J. H. Mc Neill. member of the Wilkes Medical Society, will be on the program for a paper on “Avtifi- j|lal Fever Theraphy.’’ District officers are Dr. T. C. Redfern. of Winston-Sale'u, dis trict councillor: Dr. M. A. Roy al, of Elkin, president; Dr. Hugh Parks, of Elkin, vice president; Dr. Fred C. Hubbard, North Wil kesboro. secretary - treasurer. Physicians from all parts of the eighth district, composed of sev eral counties, are asked to at tend. Lions To Discuss Carnival Plans Meetln^ Will Be Held This Eve ning At Hotel WUkes, Sev en o’clock Plans for the Community Car nival to be sponsored here by the North Wilkesboro Lions Club will ho|(l the spotlight in the Lions’ meeting to be held at Ho tel Wilkes this evening at seven ’o’clock. In addition to plans for the carnival an Interesting program v.'in b« given and attendance of every member is desired. Ni'xt meeting of the Wilkes Baptist Sunday Sc’aool .Associ ation, organized following the recent Sunday school enlistment campaign in the county, will be held at Mount Pleasant Baptist church Sunday afternoon a t 2:30, it was announced here to day. It is especially urged that every Baptist church In the coun ty have one or more representa tives at the meeting and the gen eral public is invited to attend. There w-ill be discussions on topics of much interest to all Sunday school workers and the meeting is designed to be of much inspiration to all churches represented. ernoon at 3:45 Hauptmann Is Charged By Jersey Jury With Killing Lindbergh Boy Flemington. N. J.. Oct. 8.— Bruno Richard Hauptmann was indicted for the kidnap-murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh by a Hunterdon county grand jury today. Swiftly, with Colonel Lind bergh among the witnesses, the state of New Jersey laid down the evidence charging up to the stolid, tight-lipped German alien the most sensational crime in modern annals. The indictment was voted but a few minutes after the last wit ness was heard. In all the grand jury session lasted only four hours and 42 minutes. Masonic Notice Regular meeting of North Wil kesboro lodge A. F. & A. M. will be held on Friday night with de gree work occupying attention of those attending. All members of th© chapter are urged to attend and visitors will be welcomed. North Wilkesboro High School’s Mountain Lions will go into their third game of the sea son here Friday afternoon when they play a strong team from Boone high school. The kickoff will be promptly at 3:45 and local fans who want to se© one of the best games of the season are asked to be on hand. After two heartbreaking, 7 to 6 defeats at the hands of Marion and Lenoir the local boys will be out to win. pany line from the Yadkin River to the Brushy Mountain town ship line will be In Wilkesboro number one and the registration books will be at the courthouse. East of the power line will be Wilkesboro number two and the j registration books will be open at Straw school house. Mulberry For information in regard to the boundaries of Mulberry pre cincts one and two, attention of tl e reader is called to the reso lution passed by the county i board of elections. The registration books will be i oven at Sulphur Springs school house for Mulberry number two and at Felix Hall’s store for number one. Union New York . . . Ten year old Gloria Vanderbilt (above), heir ess to $4,-000,000, is the center of a court battle between her mo ther and her grandmother (mo ther of her mother) and aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for her custody. Gloria wants to stay with her grandmother and aunt, both of whom testified that the mother cared only tor a gay, spendthrift life and was not a fit person to have the child. Evangelistic Services At First Baptist Two Weeks’ Series of Meet ings Will Begin On Sun day Evening A series of special evangelis tic services will begin at the First Baptist church here Sun day evening, it was announced this week by the pastor. Rev. Eugene Olive, who will conduct the meeting. Services will be held each eve ning at 7:30 for two weeks, ac cording to the announcement by the pastor. No day services will be held. The church and pastor extend a most cordial invitation to everybody to attend any or all the .services during the series of meetings. ilkes Farmers Make Cleanup a N, C. Stale Fair Wilkes Farmers Favor Retaining Control jOf Crops While the government Is taking a poll of the farmers to find ont vrtiether or not they want to continne farming und er the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration, it is in teresting to note that all the farmers in WUkes who signed up for com-hog crop reduction favor having the same system another year. Questionnaires have been sent out to those who signed this year and who get a share of the $10,000 in crop reduc tion payments to VVllkis. So far there has not been a dis senting vote in the county while less than a half dozen “no’s” have been received from the othtk counties in the Wilkes Com Hog Crop Control Association. It appears that they will have the same op portunity next year of getting paid for crop reduction. 44 Wilkes Boys Enlist h Camps Examined in Greensboro Mon day; Taken From Re lief Families Apples, Com, Wheat Winners Purple Ribbon On Countjr Com Exhibit and Commer cial Apple Display Wilkes County made a better record In winning premiums at the North Carolina state fair this week than any one of the other 99 counties in the state, la the opinion of County Agent A. G. Hendren, who returned Tues day night after viewing the pur ple. blue, red and yellow prem iums tied to specimens of pro ducts from Wilkes county farms and orchards. Although the judging had not been completed, Mr. Hendren saw enough to know that Wilkes had made an enviable record with apples, corn, wheat, poul try and general farm exhibit. Dewey Broyhill, Brushy Moun tain orchardlst, swept over all competition to win the biggest apple prize, first on commercial display, first and sweepstakes on five trays, nine firsts on plates, first on ten plates and a number of first and seconds on individu al exhibits. Pearson Brothers Divide Property Biisincs.s DiMl.s Involving Ijarge Sums Are Transacted In This City Rtisines.s deals Involving some of the city’s most valuable prop erty were culminated here this week when I. E., Hamp, Rom H. and Tal J. Pearson divided their business interests. Rom H. Pearson sold to I. E. Pearson his interest in the stock of goods of Pearson Brothers Store on Tenth street and his one-third interest in the new building that houses the firm. I. E., Hamp and Tal J. Pearson sold their interests in the North Wilkesboro Grocery Company, including real estate, situated on the Boone Trail one mile west of this city, to Rom H. Pearson, making him sole owner of that store and property. He also pur chased the interests of I. E. and Tal J. Pearson in The Wilkes Electric Company. These deals will not affect the policies and services of the above named business firms, which are widely known in this part of the state. The Capitol building and grounds at Washington are val ued at 124,400,000. Work On Tanks Going Forward Representative of R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company In Charge Union township has not been divided but a new registration has been called and all voters in Union, regardless of whether or not they have registered in the past, must register before clos ing of the books on October 27. The names of all voters in North AVilkesboro, Wilkesboro, Mulberry and Union townships hav© been stricken from the registration books and no voter in these four townships will be allowed to vote in the November election unless they register on (Continued on page four) Must File Sales Tax Returns By 15th Of October Pcnaltus Will Be Added After 16th; All Reports Are Now Due Attention of all merchants and others who files sales tax re turns is called to the tact that unless they file their returns be fore October 15 th a penalty will be added. This applies to those who file returns monthly and all who file quarterly because of the fact that the quarter ended on Sep tember 30. 1**^ J. R. Rousseau, deputy reve nue collector, will be in his of fice in the Deposit & Savings Bank building each Saturday for the accomodation of state tax payers. Since the arrival of T. B. Al len, representative the R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company, of Newman. Ga., and the beginning of work on the erection of three water tanks and towers, the North Wilkesboro Water Works Improvement Project i s pro gressing rapidly. This concern holds the con tract for the erection of the tanks and towers, which will be placed at three high points of elevation to supply the town with water. Elliot Building Company, hold er of the. general contract for •the remainder of the project, has been engaged in work here for the past month and considerable progress has been made in lay ing (water lines, installation of valves, etc. About 60 men have been used on the job. Workmen were sup plied from the North Wilkesboro files of the National Re-employ- meht Office here. St. Louia Champions In the final game of 1934 World Series baseball Tuesday the St. Louis Cardinals, national league champions, became cham pions of the world when they defeated the Detroit Tigers II to 0 in the seventh and final game. Scores of the seven game series which began on October 3 were as follows: St. Louis 8, De troit 3: Detroit 3, St. Louis 2; St. Louis 4, Detroit I; Detroit 10, St. Louis 4; Detroit 3, St. Louis I: St. Louis 4, Detroit 3; St. Louis 11, Detrslt 0. Forty-four boys from various sections of Wilkes County left Monday to enlist in Civilian Con servation Camps. They were giv en examinations in Greensboro, from which place they were as signed to camps In widely de parted sections. Selections of recruits was made by Mrs. G. G. Foster, coun ty relief director. The boys were chosen from families on the re lief rolls and the greater part of their salaries will go for the benefit of relatives. The forty-four who passed the examination were as follows: Roy Lee Barlow, Vance Handy, Mack Lee Shumate. Earl McKin ley Owens, James Gordon Watts, Talmadge DeWitt Burchette, Pal mer Lee Lovette, James Claude Welch, Fred Allen Kilby, Wil liam Henry Swaim, Benjamin Philmore Hall, Samuel Washing ton Hincher, Robert Lacy Wad dell, Fidell Shepherd. Thomas Earl Huffman, Stacey Roderick Parsons, Rufus Dancy, Wiley Earl Severt, Otis Lewis Bradley, John Rufus Laws. El mer Charlie Harrold, Jesse Glenn Walker, Arless Ray Combs, Q. Andrew Harrold, W. J. Higgins, George William Earp, Eugene Smith, Stergle Watson. Ernest Paul Myers, Howard Paul Church, Raymond Glen Royal, Broncie Ernest Osborne, Hamp Wyatt, Shirley Stone, Hen ry Lee Burnett, Worth Benge, Ira Columbus Watkins, Clyde Woodrow McNeill, Willard Burke, Carl Harris, Clyde Rich ard Jones, Emmett Johnson Law- son, Dennis Pierce and Claude Lester Bell. Want People To Wmter Cattle WUkes County’s corn club members took almost everything they tried for in their contest with perhaps the keenest com petition in state fair history. Their two county exhibits, con sisting of ten or more ten-ear exhibits each, won a first and second and exhibits won various individual prizes from the first on down. The variety coming in for the greatest honors was the famous Wilkes County White, exhibited by a group of Purlear farmers. The corn department was an almost clean sweep for Wilkes, even down to the first prize on popcorn. James Pennell, enterprising young farmer who specializes in poultry, won a number of first and second premiums. J. L. Gregory, of the Hays community, showed the entire state that AVilkes could grow wheat by tak ing first on smooth and bearded varieties. Clifford Moore, whose ability to gather and display a general farm exhibit is known far and wide, had unparalleled competi tion but lost first prize by a few points and won second. Tabulation of the individual prizes wou by Wilkes people at the state fair was impossible here today as no word had been received from Raleigh since Tuesday night but from early re ports it is clearly indicated that AA’ilkes took a big share of the premiums on the staple crops of diversified farming. Comic Characters Convention Here Funny Paper Will Be Person ified In Play At School Friday Night All the best known characters of the “tunny papers’’ will come to life on the state at the school auditorium here Friday night when “Comic Characters Con- Sections Of The State That vention,” hilarious play, will be Did Not Graze Cattle May Feed Them The North Carolina Emergen cy Relief Administration has provided that counties which did not get any of the cattle from presented under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association. F’or this couple of hours of side-splitting entertainment the P.-T. A. hopes to raise funds this year for its work in the schools. An admission of 25 cents each the drought areas to pasture for everybody will be charged, during the summer may have j a look-in on a part of the them to feed this winter if farm-j cast of characters finds Andy ers have the spare feed and want i Shook telling Major Hoople’s the responsibility of caring for l yarns while W. D. Halfacre will the cattle. j be Lord Plushbottom for “the The administration will pay a time being. As Maggie and Jiggs reasonable sum per month for each head of these cattle fed during the winter months. In ad dition to th© payments it is a recognized fact that keeping the cattle will mean improvement for the farm. Any persons wishing to winter any of these cattle can get full details from O. Mack Proffit, farm and garden program ad- Kenneth Chilton and Miss Lil lian Stafford are a scream. Pop- eye, "the one-eyed sailor man,” is Howell Gabriel. C. A. Ritchie and Hunter Keck are paired up as Mutt and Jeff, and what a pair! Betty Jane Turner makes a good Little Orphan Annie while C. C. Paw, Jr., is th© he roic Cheater Gump. Some of the ministrator, at th© relief office in Wilkesboro. If any farmers have the spare feed and do not want to keep the cattle they can get a reasonable price tor the feed by selling to the relief ad ministration. other characters are: Mrs. Frank Allen, Dumb Dora; Marjorie Deans, Boots; Mrs. Ivey Moore, Phyllis; C. B. Higgins, Avery; Mrs. Edward Finley, Annt Het; Mrs. Andrew Casey, Rachelf'Joe Brame, John Hermit Blabkbam. (Continued on page tour)