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VOL. XXIX, NO. 8
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C., MONDAY, NOV. 5, 1934 ’, ' $1.00 INjrpijfeATE-41.50 OUT (W
$100,000 Fire Damages
Large Vote Is Expected In iElection
V
jfiectorate To
March To Polls
To Settle Issue
DRIVERS’
LICENSES
PROPOSED
Congressman, State And \ Kiwanis Club Passes Resolu-
County Officers Will Be
Elected Tomorrow
INTEREST IS HIGH
t^rs;
rge Registrations Are Re-
rted From All Sections
Of Country
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is election
day throughout the countrj' and
from sunup to sundown citizens of
the county, state and nation will
march to their polling places to se
lect their public servants for the
next term.
In the nation the people have
taken it for granted that the elec
tion Tuesday will be on one big
issue for or against the Roose
velt administration. However, in
many localities the candidates and
tion Endorsing Movement
In State
PROPOSAL IS STUDIED
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
in meeting Friday noon passed a
resolution to be presented to the
county’s repre.sentative to the
legislature asking him to favor
enactment of a bill requiring all
automobile drivers to have licen-
The resolution was passed at the
request of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce of Charlotte, which has
taken much interest in this sub
ject. There was much discussion
among the club members, pro anl
eon, and the resolution was pass
ed with the view that the club
should favor anything that would
lessen danger on the highways.
The proposed license measure
I Chicago . . . Evading capture
I since June 1933, Murray Humph
ries (above). A1 Capone mobster,
was seized, hauled into court,
convicted and sentenced all w'ith-
in two hours. A $5,000 fine and
18 months in prison for tax
evasion was Judge Woodward’s
sentence.
their personalities will overshadow j a rigid examination for
national issues. | stat“ licenses to operate an auto-
r The usual predictions are made
by national leaders of both the
HOMECOMING
GAME FRIDAY
Democratic and Republican par
ties. The Democrats confidently ex
pect to hold their present majority
in congress and senat" and maybe
add a few seats. On the other hand
the Republican party is predicting
gains from the present number of
representatives and senators, but
does not hope, apparently, to over
throw the power of the Democrstic
party in national affairs.
Tlirughout the nation a tense
campaign interest with corre
sponding high registrations has
been reported from practically ev
ery state in the union where elec
tions are to be held tomorrow.
In North Carolina the interest
centers mainly on the “lection of
congressmen and members of the
jbdiciary. In many counties the
race for county offices eclipses the
activity for th“ state and national
ticket.
In Wilkes county an unusually
large registration is on the books i
for an off-year election, notwith-1
standing the fact that new regis-1
trations were ordered in four of
the large townships. I
Candidates are making lact min-;
ute appeals for support and a large
vote is predicted in the county
this year.
mobile and the licenses would be
revocable when circumstances war- j
ranted such action. Licenses would
not be sold as a means of revenue
hut only the cost of examination
and clerical expense would be in
curred by the application.
Interesting Program
The program Friday was in
charge of W. E. Jones, who pre
sented Rev. Robert Stewart More
house. Rev. Mr. Morehouse spoke
very interestingly on the subject
of “Relative Values.” stressing
Ancient Rivals of Wilkesboros
Will Clash On Local Foot
ball Field
WILKES COUNTY CORN CLUBS
TO HAVE ACHIEVEMENT DAY
ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
CORN SHOW TO
BE A FEATURE
FOR OCCASION
Five Valuable Prizes Will Be
Given For Best Crop Rec
ords For Year
The annual football classic for
Wilkes County will take place on
Friday afternoon when North
Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro high
school football teams clash on
the fairgrounds field. The kick
off will be promptly at 3:30.
The intense rivalry between
the two schools always makes
for a good game, regardless of
the point that the soul and what j the records of either of the
it gives to the world is the gyeat-j teams against the other high
est of all values.
schools of western North Caro-
Dr. W. A. Jenkins, chairman of ■ Hna.
! the Red Cross roll call in Wilkes j Coaches C. A. Ritchie, of
this year, outlined plans for the! North Wilkesboro and Benny
drive for members, which will be- j Troutman, of Wilkesboro. are
gin on Armistice Day, November
11, and continue through Thanks
giving.
Appeal Of Greens
Argued In Capitol
E. F. Spainhower
Taken By Death
Btink Robbers Await Decis
ion Of Sumeme Tribunal
Of The State
Raleigh. .Nov. 2.—The Su
preme court today heard argu
ments in the appeal of Bascom G.
Green and his son. Lester Green,
both charged with the murder of
T. C. Barnes. Taylorsville bank
cashier, in an attempted robbery.
J. .\rchie Myatt. High Point
attorney, appeared for the two
men, who are on death row in
the state's prison. Assistant At
torney General A. F. Seawell
present.'-'d the case for the state.
The arguments lasted more than
an hour.
The two Greens were convict-
”°The aged man had been in ill ed In Alexander county for the
health for several years and re- fatal shooting of Barnes. Con-
cently suffered a stroke of pa-1 victed with them were Mike Stef-
ralysis. which caused
Aged Man Succumbs At
Home Of Son, A. E. Spain
hower, In This City
Eben F. Spainhower. age 83.
died at the home of his son. A.
E. Spainhower.
idem of this
well known res-
city. Friday after
working their hoys hard to get
them in prime condition for the
super effort Friday afternoon.
•Attendance records for high
school football are calculated to
be shattered when the Lions and
Ramblers meet.
The game will he a home cont-
ing affair for the two schools
and high school alumni are invit
ed to turn out en masse to pull
for their favorites. The admis
sion charge will be 15 and 25
cents and the teams are in need
of funds to supplement their
athletic budget for the year.
Two Are Injured
In Auto Collision
Slarvin Coulter Ijose-s Arm In
Oash By Hit And Run Driv
er Near Morganton
■Marvin Coulter, a former em
ployee of the Home Chair Com
pany here, lost his left arm yes
terday when the antomobile
which he was driving was hit by
Saturday, November 17. will
be Achievement Day for the
members of the 4-H corn club in
Wilkes County. This will be a
celebration of the record Wilkes
members have made this year in
winning corn prizes and a corn
show will he the highlight of the
day, giving all the people of the
county an opportunity to ob.serve
the exhibits that won highest
honors at the North Carolina
state fair and the corn that will |
be on exhibit at the Internation-!
al Grain Show in Chicago in De
cember.
County Agent A. G. Hendren,
who feels a pardonable pride in
the record of the Wilkes boys, is
sponsoring the occasion and has
secured five valuable prizes to
be given to the club members.
Each corn club member in the
county is being asked to prepare
a ten-ear exhibit of corn for the !
show' and are urged to do their!
utmost toward picking the most ^
nearly perfect samples possible |
for the show. !
L. R. Harrel. state 4-H club!
director. O. F. McCreary, district I
agent, and James M. Gray, rep-1
resentative of the Chilean Ni- j
trate Company, will he honor I
guests and judges of the exhibits. |
They will also make a number of
encouraging talks during the
day.
The program for the occasion
will begin at ten o’clock in the
morning and it is urged that
each club member have his ex
hibit on display at that time and
it will be a banner day for the
corn growers of Wilkes, whose
variety. Wilkes County White,
has won both state and national
acclaim.
The prizes will be awarded to
the club members for the best
record of the 1934 crop. For this
reason the county agent is asking
each one to prepare his record
book in the best possible style.
The records will be judged on
the basis of yield, cost, selection
of seed, neatness and accuracy
of record and supplementary
subject matter in the form of ex
periences and stories regarding
the club acre this year. Mr. Hen
dren wants the record books in
his office not later than Novem
ber 14.
Spainhour-Sydnor, A. & P., Two
Beauty Shoppes and Other Firms
S^er Loss In Disastrous Blaze
Los Angeles . . . Ellen Wilson
McAdoo and granddaughter of
the late President Woodrow Wil
son, is in a love tangle. Her de
sire to wed Rafael Lopez de On-
ate is opposed by her father who
threatens disinheritance.
Where To Vote In
North Wilkesboro
As a matter of interesting
information to the voters of
North Wilkesboro and Wil
kesboro precincts the county
board of eklctions today an
nounced that the voting place
tomOTTOw for North Wilkes-
boro nuinlH*r 1 will be the
Brame building #ext door to
The Wilkes Bakery on Ninth
Street. The voting place for
North Wilkcfeboro number 2
will be in the building back of
the B. & O. Grocery Store on
Sixth Street.
In Wilkesboro number one
the voting place will be in the
Rheuben White storH building
opposite the courthouse. Wil
kesboro number 2 voting place
will be at Straw schoolhouse.
Preaching Service
Damage To Buildings
Merchandise Partial Cov
ered By Insurance
ORIGIN UNDETERMINED
Fire Discovered About Mid
night Saturday; Burned
For Several Hours
Rev. Ed Hayes will preach at
Fishing Creek Arbor on Sunday,
October 11, at eleven o’clock.
The public is invited to attend.
CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER
TERM FEDERAL COURT IS
MADE OUT; JURORS DRAWN
Tilley Case In
American Weekly
A feature article on tlie not
TUley
!Two-Weeks’ Term Will Con-]
vene In Wilkesboro On
Monday, Nov. 19
ed TUley Case and death of
Miss I,,eoda Childress will soon
appear In The .American Week
ly, which is the Sunday fea
ture supplement of Hfurst’s
metropolitan iiews|)apers from
Bo.ston to San Francisco.
.’Material for the feature, in-
eluding story and photographs,
wa,s furnished The American
Weekly by Dwight Nichols,
who Is connectetl with fhe
.lournal-Patriot.
Acceptance of this feature by
T li e Hearst supplement is
evidence of the widespread in
terest in the in.v8terlous death
of Miss Childre.ss on Decembf-r
SO last year in the Benhnm
eommunity of this county.
HAYES WILL PRESIDE
November term of middle dis
trict federal court for cases orig
inating in Wilkes, Alleghany,
Ashe and Watauga counties will
convene in Wilkesboro
day, November 19,
Fire of undetermined origin
virtually destroyed four ouslness
firms and caused a property dam
age of around $100,OCO here
late Saturday night and Sunday
morning. The firms sustaining
the greatest loss are Spainhour-
Sydnor Company, local branch
of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company, Wisteria Beauty Salon
and Mayflower Beauty Shoppe.
It was near midnight when
the fire was discovered and the
alarm was sounded. The fire had
gained much headway and was
spreading rapidly.
Initial efforts of the fire de
partment to check the blaze in
its early stages failed, and soon
the entire seconcl floor of the
Spainhoiir building, including
the Wisteria Beauty Salon, and
the second floor of the A. & P.
Store building, where the May
flower Beauty Shoppe was locat
ed, were in flames.
Local firemen fought the
flames valiantly, but when it was
feared that the entire block was
in danger the fire departments of
Lenoir and Statesville were call
ed as an additional precaution,
and they responded promptly.
A number of hose were used
to throw tremendous quantities
of water into the second floor
inferno, and after about two
hours the fire was checked and
apparently extinguished. About
4:30, Sunday morning, however,
the smouldering buildings again
broke out in flames, but the fire
was easily put out.
The Spainhoiti-Sydnor firm,
on Mon-1
with Judge of the largest dry goods
Johnson J. Hayes presiding. and ready-to-wear slorss in this
The term will extend into the ] Pati of ike state, suffered an
almost complete loss of a valu-
Pomona Grange Will
Meet November 13
All Members Are, Urgently Re
quested To Be Present
For Meeting
The
his death. I anoff and Ed Black, husband of
He’was a son of the late William j B. G. Green’s daughter. Stefan-
W and Permelia Grabb Spain- j off already has gone to the chair
bower, members of a well known j and Black
Forsyth County family. Since
the death of his wife and during
the last few years of his life he |
e his home with his children.
Is alive under
prieve, pending the outcome
the Green appeal.
re-
of
are as follows: A. E. Spain-
J. L.
Mack
Florida;
w
'$■
bower. North Wilkesboro:
Spainhower. Greensboro;
D. Spainhower^ Miami
Welbourne A. Spainhower.
Greensboro: and Mrs. Harrj Tip
ping. Clayton, Ga. Also surviving
are two brothers, E. I. Spain-
bower, of Donnaha, and Dr. E. |
H. Spainhower, of Wlnston-Sal-!
em, and one sister, Mrs. .Mice j
Hauser, of Pinnacle. |
Funeral and burial services |
were held a t Mt. Pleasant
Church in Forsyth County Sun
day afternoon at two o’clock.
The poultry, farm seeds and
livestock judging teams from
Alamance county made a clean
sweep of the 4-H judging con
tests held at the recent State
Fair. The Alamance teams won | mar H. Brown and Iva
all first places. I Wellborn, both of Cycle.
a truck near Morganton.
truck driver did not stop.
Marvin was* accompanied by
his brother. Hugh Coulter, of
this city. He was also painfully
injured and both are patients in
a Morganton hospital.
P.-T. A. Fathers’
Night Thursday
Marriage Licenses
There will be a meeting of
the Wilkes County Pomona
Grange at the courthouse in
Wilkesboro on Tuesday, Novem
ber 13, at 7:30 In the evening.
Announcement of the meeting
was made today by J. M. Ger
man, Pomona Master, who urges
that every member be present to
Opportunity Of CJhildren Will] attend to important business
Bo Demonstrated to Each
Parent Present
Marriage licenses issued dur
ing the past few days from the
office of the register of deeds in
Wilkesboro were to George
Johnson, of Reddies River, and
Sarah Jane Miller, of Daylo; La-
Joan
Lions Plan Another Carnival;
First One Was Decided Success
Kiwanis Directors Meet
With Prof. T: E. Story
Directors of the North Wilkes
boro Kiwanis Club were enter
tained in their October meeting
last week by Prof. T. E. Story,
secretary of the club. Among the
Interesting reports of committee
chairmen was the one given by
J. R. Finley, good roads chair
man, stating that work on the
Reddies River bridge is to start
soon.
The community carnival held
on Hallowe’en night last week
for the purpose of raising funds
to carry on the club’s work in
fitting glasses to underprivileged
children netted the sum of $70
profit and proved so popular that
the club in cooperation with the
North Wilkesboro Woman’s Club
will stage another on November
30.
Although inclement weather
in the afternoon and early eve
ning held the crowd down con
siderably on Hallowe’en night,
there were many spooks who
roamed the streets and visited
the carnival over Tomlinson’s
Department Store, pausing to
spend a little for amusement and
for the Lions’ commendable ac
tivity. The bingo stand and the
other games proved much delight
to the visitors.
This was the first attempt of
the Lions to stage a carnival and
the one to take place at Thanks
giving will eclipse the first effort
in every respect if present plans
are carried out.
In addition to the popular
phases of the carnival held on
last Wednesday night many new
features will be added.
Thursday evening at 7:30 at
the North Wilkesboro school au
ditorium the patrons of the
school will be given an oppor
tunity to observe the opportuni
ties of their children when Fath
ers’ Night will be observed by
the local Parent-Teacher Associ
ation.
Each parent attending the
meeting will be given the pro
gram of his or her child and will
follow that through on a very
brief schedule. This will give
every parent an opportunity to
meet his or her child’s teacher
and by this means they will be
matters.
Caswell farmers, borrowing
crop production money this past
spring, paid up their loans prac
tically in full after two weeks of ] lonial Products Company^ versus i
selling tobacco.
second week. The first four days
of court will be devoted to trial
of criminal cases and the re
mainder of the term will be tak
en up with a number of civil ac
tions.
Of especial interest among the
criminal cases will be the trial
of Hal Phillips, Blowing Rock
resident, on a charge of throw
ing M. S. Phillips into a vat of
boiling mash at a still near Fer
guson several months ago. Th6|
criminal calendar, however, is i
made up principally of charges of
violation of the liquor revenue
laws.
Following is the docket for
the civil actions:
Thursday. Nov. 22.—Worth
Harless versus United States; T.
R. Roberts, administrator of the
estate of Shirley Anton Roberts,
versus United States.
Friday, Nov. 23—Ambrose F.
Brown versus United States:
Robert L. Bowers versus United
States: Lonnie Combs versus
United States; Willie Joines ver
sus United States.
Monday, Nov. 26—Elk Creek
Lumber Company versus D. T.
Finley. Eugene F. Teeter, E. A.
Harrell and Arthur Hilton; Co-
(Continued on page five)
able to see the kind of program j
the child experiences each day in j
school. I
The program will be supple- j
mented with Instructive and en-j
tertaining features and will be
appropriate for Fathers’ Night
from beginning to end. It is urg
ed that every member of the lo
cal P.-T. A., especially the fath
ers, and others Interested in the
work of the organization, be
present.
Residents of Moore county
profiting from increased cotton
and tobacco prices are seeking
pure bred dairy cows to round
out their farm programs.
Mayor’s Red Cross Proclamation
As mayor of North Wilkesboro, I hereby designate the period
from November 11 to November 29 as a time given over to a re
view of the work of the American Red Cross and its value to the
community; and I also set it aside as a time for the annual en
rollment of members for the coming year.
This office is in touch with the needs of those who have been
affected by the depression of the last f’w years, and we have shen
the ready response of the Red Cross to meet those n'eds. The or
ganization’s program is so flexible that it meets emergencies and
disasters of all kinds; it has also a permanent structure that is
being built up year by year, to study means through which epi
demics and disasters may be prevented. This community needs the
permanent structure of the Red Cross as it needs the expert serv
ice which is at our command to meet whatever emergencies the
coming year may bring.
I, therefore, call upon former members of the Red Cross to
renew their memberships during the roll c^l this year, and urge
thftie who have never hitherto been members to enroll their names
with those who are fighting disease and disaster and need under
the banner of the American Red Cross.
J. A. ROUSSEAU,
, . Mayor of North Wilkesboro.
able stock of merchandise, in
cluding a large amount of new
winter merchandise and Christ
mas goods that had not been un
packed. The building, the top
story completely destroyed and
the remainder badly damaged,
is owned by S. S. & .M. Realty
Company.
Both the Mayflower and Wis
teria Beauty Salons were de
stroyed by the fire. The stock of
merchandise of the A. & P. Store
was damaged extensively by wat
er. while water and smoke dam
age was heavy in Rose’s 5 and
10 Cent store, and Jenkins Hard
ware Company, adjoining firms
to the buildings which the, fire
ravaged.
While no estimate of the loss
could be made with accuracy to
day, the general opinion was
that the fire was perhaps the
worst in the history of the city,
and damage estimates run from
$75,000 to $125,000.
The damaged firms, it is learn
ed, are partially covered by in
surance but the extent of the
coverage could not be ascertain
ed, although far under replace
ment cost.
Today the A. & P. Store is
moving its stock of merchandise
i to the build g occupied until
' now by the Wilkes Plumbing
Company, which is moving today
; to the Meadows Building,
i Spainhour - Sydnor Company
: has opened a temporary office at
the Jenkins Hardware Store.
The building occupied by the
A. & P. Store is owned by Mrs.
; Madaline Call Boren, of Greens
boro. It is understood that the
fire damage was partially cover-
' ed by insurance. The building
occupied by Rose’s 5 and 10
I Cent Store, owned by P. C. Set-
I zer, of Hickory, was damaged to
I some extent by water.
Wilkesboro P.-T. A.
Meeting On l^ursday
Ail members of the Wilkes
boro Parent-Teacher Association
are urgently requested to attend
the November meeting to be held
at the school building on Thurs
day afternoon at 3:30. An Inter
esting program will be given.
AH sweet potato caring houses
in Catawba county will be filled
with an excellent quality . at
I sweets, reports the farm. asut.^
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