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Published Mondays and Thursdays
north WILKESBORO. N. C.. MONDAY, FEB. ,4, 1935 ,
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Who Is JvAms?
■ v?.-r
^ XB9m»t«s Slowly
B«a •low improvement
X V ».'Tsi /?^'§Wpn of B. B. Jef-
■w^Syw of tke Greens-
t Lloness^J®P»ny- was'report-
P3S^-* s.EHtabeth ’>‘® ‘‘o®?
fireg^ood wlU
*a> ®Pl Aato Wreck
® Mitrie Bum-
flve-yeahoid daughter of
Mrs. Walter'Bumgarner,
^ Sylva, died early today of
i5iA.«e8 suffered'l|hen hit by an
Automobile yeMoirday.
W^fer^T
Picture Leads ^
Police Officer
To Arrest Man
School
BiUioiH
Avery Barnes, Escaped From'
Indiana Reformatory, Is
Arrested Here
Two Schorfs Are Now Without Buildings; Children Moved
From Sulphur Springs School Were Occupying Building .
Which Burned ThurSday^ All March to Safety
QUITE A SURPRISE
Bailies Dumbfounded That j
His Indiana Escape Should |
B? Known In City
-Would Handle RaUroada
Washington, Feb. 3.—Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, to
night demanded government
operation and ownership of rail
roads as a means of escaping
•‘stupidity or cupidity” in man
agement.
Wreck Takes Toll
Raleigh, Feb. 3.—Two negroes
were killed and a Meredith col
lege student. Miss Sara Griffin.
20, of Pittsboro, sustained a
"broken shoulder as results of
three automobile accidents todsyr'
in Wake county.
.^larathon Hiccoughlns
Elmhurst, 111., Feb. 1.—Eliz
abeth Warner, 19 - year - old
Wheaton College sophopore, con
tinued her marathon hiccoughing
tonight, wracked by convulsions
12 times a minute. For 17 days
the spasms have continued un
abated.
Winston .Market Closts
Winston-Salem, ’.‘"'eb. 1.—The
Winston-Salem tobacco market
closed today, with a season’s
record of 40,250.698 pounds sold
for an average price of $26.11.
last season sales were 52,192,-
866 pounds and the average was
$15.93.
10 Hurt In Cra.sli
Burlington. Feb. 3.—Six of
10 persons injured in an auto
mobile collision in Graham at
midnight last night were still in
-Rainey hospital here tonight.
^ undergoing treatment for severe
injuries sustained in the crash.
None of the injured are in a crit
ical condition.
Indian Sentcncetl
Lumberton. Feb. 1.—Foster
p Revels, Indian, of Britts town
ship, pleaded guilty today to sec
ond-degree murder charges in
connection with the death of
another Indian. Revels, who al
legedly stabbed Millard Haggens
I fot.Gly near here December 16,
I V 1934, was sentenced to 30 years
In state prison.
College Hall Burn.s
Hickory, Feb. 1. — Oakview
Hall at l>enoir-Rhyne College
was destroyed by fire this after-
on. The hall was used by the
non
t/ibIc department of the college,
AS headquarters for the Hacawa.
the college annual, and was also
the dormitory of about fifteen
girls who do light housekeeping
while attending college.
.VlleRliany Vote' Bill
Raleigh. Jan. 31.—bill to
provide for election by popular
vote of the county superinten
dent of public instruction and
the county board of education of
Alleghany county was introduced
in the House of Representatives
Thursday by Representative W.
p. Warden, of Alleghany county.
Injured In Wreck
Elkin. Feb. 1.—R. C. Moore,
hardware salesman of Charlotte,
sustained an injury to his head
and a pnlntully injured knee
■when the sedan in which he was
driving toward this city &n the
Dobson road took a sudden nose
dive down a 20-foot embank
ment. The mishap, which result
ed in extensive damage to the
machine, occurred on a curve
near Burch, six miles east of
Itown.
W reck Kills Two
Morganton, Feb. 1.—-Two ne
gro boys were killed and a third
acriously- injured today when a
^ large, rkrlgerated truck crashed
"•'into the rear of a wagon in
‘‘■which they were riding on high
way 10 near Morganton. John
Wilkins, 26, driver of the truck,
ovrned by the Lay Packing com
pany, of Knoxville, Tenn.. was
released on $6,000 bond late to-
,41^ following his arrest by state
highway Fatrolman Frank Ken-
nertf, who charged that his
hrgkee were defective.
St. Petersburg, Fla. . . . Here
he is, fans, now baseoairs first
man, snapped at an informal
moment as he made ready to tee
off in a daily round of golf in
tuning up to start training for
another baseball season. Do you
recognize him? It's none other
than the mighty Jerome (Dizzy)
Dean. Need we say more?
Would Provide
Clerk Hire For
County Officers
S600 Allowed Each Major Of
fice By Bill Passed In
Senate Friday
Raleigh, Feb. 1.—A bill to al
low the register of deeds, clerk
of the superior court and sheriff
of Wilkes county an additional
$600 a year for clerk and deputy
hire, was introduced by Senator
Joe Williams in the Senate to
day, passed hy that body and or
dered sent to the House of Rep
resentatives. The text of the
measure follows:
Section 1- That in addition to
the compensation heretofore pro
vided fo'. the board of commis
sioners of Wilkes county shall
pay the register of deeds, clerk
of superior court and sheriff of
said county respectively, the sum
of six hundred dollars each, per
annum, to be expended by said
officers respeciivelylirThe pay
ment of clerk hire and deputies,
and that said sum of money shall
be paid each of said officers on
the first Monday of each month;
,n the amount of fifty dollars
and that said money shall be
paid out of the Wilkes county
general fund.
Section 2. That all laws and
clauses of laws in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That this act shall
be in full force and effect from
and after its ratification.
A photograrh led a police of
ficer here Friday to the arrest of
Avery Barnes. 22, who escaped
from the Indiana Reformatory on
October 1, 1934, while serving a
ten-year sentence for grand
larceny.
BarneH. it appeared, was a na
tive of Wilkes county, and his
mother, Mrs. Dora Lyles Barnes,
ran'ne.s her home near this city.
Indiana officials mailed the po
lice department here pictures of
the escapee and his description.
While attending a magistrate’s
trial here Friday Patrolman J.
E. Walker saw a man among the
spectators who Impressed him as
being very much like the photo
graphs received 1 rom Indiana.
The officers went back to head
quarters, procured the pictures,
and returned to the trial where
he had ample opportunity to
study the profile of Barnes.
He arrested him for being an
escaped convict and Barnes was
much surprised that he was
known here. He confessed, say
ing that he was .sentenced in
Indiana tor stealing a truck
loaded with yarif and that for
several days he had been in this
county. He was placed in jail at
Wilkesboro t o await officers
from Indiana, who were notified
of his arrest.
’ On account of the baUdlnK
being in a state of ctrfdapse
all children of Sulphor Springs
school in Mulberry to'wnshlp
were moved a week ago . to
‘^'BBptl«RS«4V school'ikii^li^-
ly afternoon ’rhnrisday "toey
were inarched by the teachers
to .safety when the Baptist
Home bnilding burst into
flames iutd burned to ashes.
R. B. Weatherman, a rep
resentative of Tile Journal-
Patriot, was passing the school
building and sow the fire mak
ing great, headway on the roof.
He iminetliately notlHed the
teachers .and the 80 children
marched from the rooms with
their belongings.
‘The exit from the building j
was conducted so orderly that" \
the clilldren did not learn of
the fire until they had march
ed out.
It is thouglit the fire origS-
natetl from a flue. With prac
tically no water supply
or I
raenks to fight the fire it was
usel^ to combat the flames
and the two-story structure,
which was somewhat dilapidat
ed, was totally destroyed.
The Iws is Estimated at
$1,000 and no Insurance was
c.'ir;'lcd on the property.
Mrs. Gordon Bhatley was
teacher at Baptist Home
school. Mrs. Ruby McGlam-
ery and Miss Ora Vonnoy were
tlie teachers at Sulphur Springs,
who were occupying the bnild
ing with their classes when the
building burned.
Thus the fire leaves two
schools without any quarters
whatever. Sulphur Springs
Imving been unconditionally
condemned. School authorl-
ti?s liave so far not been aWe
to make arrangements for the
housing of tbe two schools and
lioth will remain closed until
temporary quarters for the re
mainder of the tenn can be
found.
Mrs. W. W. Barber
Claimed By Death
Member of Prominent Wilkes!
Family Passes; Funeral |
Tuesday Afternoon
Colored Man Is
KiUedByAuto
Tom Wellborn Killed Almost
Instantly By Automobile
Near Ferguson
Urge People To
Pay Their Taxes
Tom Wellborn, age 30, colored
resident of near Wilkesboro, was
almost instantly killed early this
morning near Ferguson when he
was hit by an automobile, said
to have been driven by Bud Lip-
ford, also colored.
According to reports by com
panions of Wellborn, his car had
stalled and he was working on
it when he stepped into the road
from behind his own car into the
path of the approaching automo
bile.
.Additional Penalty Will Be'
Added to Unpaid Taxes j
After First of Wtarch
Sheriff W. B. Somers, tax col
lector for Wilkes county, is call
ing attention to the fact that an
additional penalty will be added
to all unpaid county taxes if not
paid during this month or on the
first day of March. Tax notices
are being mailed out from the
sheriff's office.
■ A small penalty was added to
unpaid taxes after the first day
of this month but those who
have not found it convenient to
pay county taxes so far should
make every effort to pay this
month and save the extra pen
alty. By paying taxes early the
taxpayers help the county to
meet its bills and help themselves
by saving the amount of tbe
penalty.
The same conditions apply to
taxes due North Wilkesboro and
Wilkesboro municipalities.
Wellborn, badly bruised and
lacerated, was picked up by a
passing motorist but died on the
way to the hospital here. He
was. for many years, an employe
of the tannery here and was
well and favorabb known among
the colored people of the WJil-
kesboros.
Two Die In Wreck
Whiteville, Feb. 3. — Two
young men were killed instant
ly and a young woman compan
ion was injured shortly after
midnight Sunday morning when
their car turned over on a curve
between Whiteville and Halls-
boro. Daniel Wlillard Baldwin,
26, of Whiteville, and Marshall
Memory, 25, of Clarfcton, were j
killed as the car left the highway |
and overturned in a ditch. Miss i
Ethyl Tucker, of Clarkton, was i
injured, but was expected to re
cover.
.Mrs. Marianna 'Wilcox Barber.
Wilkesboro resident and a mem
ber of one of the most promi
nent families in the history of
northwestern North Carolina,
passed away Sunday at two p. m.
at the Wilkes Hospital, follow
ing an appendicitis operation
performed on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Barber was stricken a
week ago today and it was ap
parent that an operation was
necessary. Following the oper
ation she improved somewhat
but on Saturday her condition
grew worse.
Mrs. Barber was born in Ashe
county, a daughter of the late
Dr. J. O. Wilcox and Martilia
Worth Wilcox. Dr. Wilcox was a
pioneer physician and political
leader in Ashe county.
T; 1892 >rrs. Barber married
W. W. Barber, a leading barrist
er in Wilkesboro. He died a
number of years ago.
Mrs. Barber was highly re
garded as a Christian lady and a
wide circle of friends who learn
ed her genial nature and neigh
borliness are saddened at her
passing. For many years she had
been a faithful and consistent
worker in the Episcopal church
and took an active part in all
church activities.
Mrs. Barber is survived by
two daughters: Mrs. W. C.
Moore, Jr., register of deeds of
Caldwell county, and Miss Eliz
abeth Barber, of Wilkesboro.
There are two, sons, W, 3Fi»iPlir-
(Continued on page eight)
BIG CARGO OF
LIQUOR TAKEN
Koderal .Ageiil.s Arrest One
Man .-Ind Confi.sratc Two
Heavily Ijidcn Cars
Federal prohibition aRents
working in Wilkes Wednestlay
night inaile' bootiegjger raids
netting 180 gallons of whis
key and the arrest of I^evi
Be.shears, Summit resident, on
ii elmrge of transiiorting II-
qnoi- on whicli tax had not
been paid.
Officers J. R. Brandon and
F. U. liuinpkln confiscated
two cars on th«' Boone Trail
highway west of this clt.v- Tlie
car said to have been operat-
e«l by Besheai-s was well load
ed with 130 gallons, while
tlie driver of the other car,
carrying «0 gallons, made his
e.scape and hi.s identity was
not learned.
Be,shears wa.s given a hear-
1 n g in Wilkesboro before
('‘omnii.s.sioner J. W. Dola and
released under bond of $1,-
OOO for ii|H>eorance at the
.May term of fetleral court.
D. A. HoUeman
Loses Right Arm
B.Y.P.U.Me(^
For 'W^t Central
Bj^tist Young oflSer-
era] Counties to father in
. North Wilk«*t»ro
» WORK IS PROGRES^G
Right Arm Caught In Planer
At Union Grove; Ampu
tated At Shoulder
An E.ve For An E.ve I
Mount Holly. N. J.. Jan. 30.— j
John Senski, a burly l&O-pound
laborer who beat his wife and
child, saw tbe error of his ways
tonight—through blackened eyes.
Justice of the Peace William H.
Grady; so small he had to reach
eyes and bruised his chin when
up to do it. blackened Senski’s
Senski admitted the offense in
his court.
D. Arthur HoUeman. well
known farmer and lumberman of
the Cycle community, lost his
right arm Tuesday when it was
caught in a planer where he was
working at Union Grove. Had it
not been for a man yrorking with
him, who stopped the machine
by throwing a belt, it is quite
probable that he would have
been crushed to death.
He was taken to a hospital in
Statesville where his arm was
amputated at the shoulder.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Eller an
nounce the arrival of a baby girl,
born on Sunday, February 3,
weight ten pounds.
‘POP” STICK FOUND
IN BOY’S STOMACH
New York, Feb. 3. — Bill
Wilkes. 15. was feeling better to
night in a Brooklyn hospital aft
er doctors had removed the stick
of a lollypop he swallowed.
Bill was licking the tidbit last
.August when the fire engines
went by. Running after, he
tripped, fell and swallowed the
lollypop.
He forgot all about it until
two weeks ago when a bad
stomach ache looked like appen
dicitis to the doctors.
When they opened Bill up it
looked like a lollypop stick—and
was. '
Seventy-five per cent of the
young men enlisting for tbe
army in England are rejected for
unfitness; nearly 25 per cent are
rejected without even a medical
examinatioB.
LIST OF CORN-HOG EDUCATIONAL MEETING
DATES FOR THIS PART OF STATE ANNOUNCED
Corn-hog crop reduction pro
gram education meetings have
been announced for northwest
ern North Carolina counliek. A.
H. Chambers, field agent for
North Carolina, will attend the
meetings and explain the 1935
reduction program for these two
crop«.
The meeting for Wilkes coun
ty farmers will be held at the
courthouse In '■ Wilkesboro on
Friday, February 8. beginning at
9:30 a. m., and continuing
throughout the afternoon.
Appointments for other north
western counties are as follows;
Courthouse at Mocksville in
vavie county, February 6, begin
ning at 1:30 p. m.
Iredell county courthouse,
Statesville, February 7, begin
ning at 9:30 a. m.
Alexander county courthouse,
Taylorsville, February 7 at 1:30
p. m.
Yadkin county courthou.se in
Yadkinville, February 9. begin
ning at 9:30 a. m., and contin'U.-
ing throughout the day.
Surry county courthouse at
Dobson, February 12, beginning
at 9:30 a. m„ and continuing
throughout the day.
Alleghany ^county courthouse,
Sparta, February 13. beginning'
at 9:30 a. m„ and continuing
throughout the day.
Ashe county courthouse, Jef
ferson, February i,14, beginning
at 9:30 a. m., and continuing
throughout the day.
Watauga county courthouse,
Boone, February 16, beginning at
9:30 a. m., and continuing
throughout the day.
Caldwell county courthouse,
Lenoir, February 16, beginning at.
9:30 a. m„ and continning
throughout the day.
Attention is particularly called
to the fact that all contract sign
ers of last year who expect to
sign for the 1935 crop should
attend the meetings for their
county, together with all who are
Interested in signing who did not
sign last year. County commit
teemen are required to be pres
ent. The committee for Wilkes
is composed of C. G. Williams,
R. L. Proffit, L. B. Murray and
H. H. Beshears.
Blanks for signing the 1936
corn-hog crop reduction con
tracts will be ready for those
who want to sign by the time the
meeting will be held on Febru
ary 8. ‘Those who signed last
year will not be faced with the
problem of getting up the evi
dence of production that was
necessary last year.
Brushy Mountain An9pdM|aii,f,^J
May Make StandarToflk^*?^^
cellence *
Washington . . . Rear' Admiral
Christian J. Peoples (above), na
tive of Iowa, is the man who
Washington forecasters think
will head the project division of
the PWA and handle the $4,-
880,000,000 work relief drive
for President Roosevelt.
Oration-Essay
Contest To Be
Staged In City
Scholarship Worth $50 To Be
Given as Prizer in District
Contest N**'®
North Wilkesboro high school
has been^selected as the place for
the preliminary run-off for high
schools of Ashe, Alleghany,
Yadkin and Wilkes counties, in
the state-wide oration-essay con
test to be staged by High Point
college In March.
This run-off will take place at
7:30 p. m., Tuesday, March 26,
in the auditorium of the local
high school. One contestant will
be selected to compete with the
representatives of the other 17
districts of the state in the
finals which will be held at High
Point college March 29.
The successful contestants in
each of the districts will be
given a $50 scholarship to the
High Poiht Institution. The one
winning first place in the finals
will be awarded an additional
$360 to be added to the $60 dis
trict win to make a total scholar
ship of $400. The second prize
will be an additional $150, which
with the district award, makes a
$200 scholarship for this place.
The third best contestant will
receive a total scholarship of
$100. Those not winning a place
in the finals will be given the
$50 district scholarship.
Only two contestants from a
high school may participate, and
they must be seniors, and must
register tor the contest on or
before Febriiao’ 20. All con
testants must be recommended
by the principal or a member of
the school faculty. ■“
The subject for the oration or
essay i.s; “Do I Expect My Col
lege Training to Make Me More
Useful to My Community, or to
Increase .My Earning Capacity?’’
It is to be confined within eight
hundred words, and must be in
the hands of the contest dlrec-
tgi;SKon or before March 1.
Baptist Young FMplp*B ,IluIoa
of the west central region,^
meet in North Wilkesbpto jtOn
April 5 and 6. it was leaned
here today from loi^l B.
IT. leaders who are laying' ’plitne
for the occasion. The, west cen
tral region comprises several
counties and tbe Baptists of jhls
section are anticipating an In
spirational meeting. '
Officers To Meet '
B. Y. P. U. officers of ithe
Brushy Mountain Baptist ‘AjlBO-
ciation will hold a meeting.,,, at
the home of Mrs. Helen Gash-
ion in Wilkesboro on Friday,
February 8, at 7:30 p. m. Each
associational officer is asked to
attend.
District Ralli«t>
Rallies will be held in ef(pi of
the four districts in the associ
ation on Sunday, February 24.
Further announcements in. re
gard to these rallies will be made
later.
Baptist young people leaders
are elated over the splendid pro
gress being made by unions
throughout the Brushy Mountain
Association and it was stated to
day that it is quite probable that
the associational B. Y. P. U.
will measure up to the standard
of excellency this year.
Tom Rudy Bryan
Passes Bar Exam
Son of Representative T. S.
Bryant, of Traphfll; May
Locate Here
^Mn-Ronda Road
Work Under Way
Thomas Rudy Bryan, member
of a prominent family of ‘ho
TraphIU community, was one of
the 42 who passed the North Car
olina bar examination in Raleigh
last week and was granted a
license to practice law In the
state.
Attorney Bryan Is a son of T.
S. Bryan, now representing
Wilkes • in the general assembly.
He is a graduate of TTaphill high
school and took a post graduate
course at the city high school
here. His academic college edu
cation was gained at Berea Col
lege in Kentucky and then he
entered John Randolph Neal
School of Law in Knoxville.
Tenn., graduating in January,
1934. He is married and has two
children.
Although he could not be
reached for a statement this
morning it is said that he plans
to establish a law office in North
Wilkesboro.
At the bar examination held in
Raleigh last week there were 85
applicants and onlj' 32 passed,
the smallest percentage in many
years of bar examinations in
the state.
I STANLY FARMER
KILLED BY TRUCK
Shovel and Other Road Ma^
chinery Moving Dirt on
New Highway
Actual construction work on
the Elkin-Ronda link of the
highway which eventually will
connect Elkin with North Wil
kesboro by a direct hard surface
road was started Thursday morn-
nig.
The Graniiis Construction com
pany, of Fayetteville, was award
ed the contract for grading and
gravel surfacing.
A steam shovel and heavy road
machine^ arrived at Honda
Tuesday and the grading work
was begun at that end of the
line.
Engineers are going over the
route which will extend the road
from Honda to North Wilkesboro
and it is expected that the con
tract will be awarded in the near
future for the remainder of the
highway.
R. L. Hickerson, Jr., is district
engineer in charge of the work.
Chicken Dinner
WJoman’s Missionary Union of
the Moravian Falls Merthodist
church will serve chicken din
ner in the Sunday school rooms
of the church on Friday evening
at seven o’clock. A good time Is
pronged all who patronize the
dinner.
Albemarle. Feb, 1.—William
Morton, 60-year-old white man,
was almost instantly killed a-
bout 4 o’clock this afternoon
when struck by a truck driven
by D. R. Dennis, of Albemarle.
The accident occurred three
miles from town on the Swift
Island road near Morton’s home.
Dennis stated that a cow
which Morton was leading grew
frightened and pulled the victim
in front of the truck. Dennis
was placed under a bond of $1,-
000 pending an investigation.
Woman In la'Rislalure
Raleigh, Feb. 3—Mrs. Charles
Hutchins, a Democrat and choice
of the majority of Yancey coun
ty’s 14y468 inhabitants to repre
sent them in the 1985 general
assembly o f North Carolina,
doesn't feel out of place because
she is the only woman member.
In fact, she “doesn’t mind a bit”
and thinks having a seat in the
house 0 f representatives i s
“simply swell.”
TO PLAY LENOIR
Boys and girl.s ' of .' NortJi
WUketsboro hijfii school will
meet the teams'Awm.- Lenoir
high on the local court tomo^,,
row nigfht. The 1^*1 totnoa
are doing weU and. llto.s
of all the fane in
be appreciated.
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