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Wai Revf»to>«ST5,000 QtfU York. tlMch ».—«P«oltfe inMts totaUnc about t$7b,000 contBlnod in tho will ot €barl«(i KltnKenstain, silk mereb- ant,^ko dlM last l^b. 10. Woaaui Acddmt Victim StajlEasTllle, March 8.—^Mrs. W. J. WMtley was testantly killed taalgkt when the automobile in which she and Russell White were rMlns overturned oh Diamond Hill, a mile from StatesTllle. C Negro Confesses Murder Raleigh, March 8.—Coiener L. UM, Waring, of Wake county, an- 'nounced today that Nathaniel C^Mh, 19-year-old negro of near V^hadeU, made a full confession in Jidl here that he shot and fa- • tally wounded William F. Jones, ■ t^^y |FWTa merchant of Blagle Rock, on .iinoary 11. VOL. XXX, NO.'62 PgbHaiiid Mon()«y» «nd Thnredtys NORTH W1LKE8b6b6, M. C., THUBSDAY, MAB.J^JM«_^.501^l68TAh^2jl^grOFTB[j National Office OfWPAPutsOK On Building Plan District WPA Hi>pes Funds Can Bw-mnde Avail able Immediately COST TO COUNTY 42,700 Health Officer Fined Rockingham, March 3. — Dr., John Symington, health offker of | it Vii years, today pleaded guilty In federal court of violating the nar cotic act and was fined 8500 and .put on probation for three years. Negro Ordered Held urinburg, March 3.—A jury ot inqueet here today held Robert Mitchell, 20, negro, without bond In the fatal wounding February 15 of Walter McNair, 27, negro, at the home of Mitchell’s father in north Scotland county. For $9,000 Addition to Courthouse To Be Used For Office Space Works Headquarters of the Progress administration In Wash ington, D. €., has approved the project for th® construction of an addition to the courthouse With approval assured at Wash ington, it is hoped that there will be no hitch in the plans to get the work under way as soon as possible and as quickly as funds can bh made available. School Bos Wreck Fatal Monroe, Feb. 28.—Eleven stu dents were Injured, one fatally, in a school bus crash near Win gate late today. Harrell Wrape, 14-year-oId Wingate high school student, died at a local hospital two hours after the accident. Haw Held Invalid Albany, N. Y., March 3.—New »te’s highest tribunal— edurt of appeals—bound It- aetf today to precedent of the Dnlted States Supreme court and held~ uaooiutltntional the state lahoiT'lafw setting up minimnm untgflS for women. The division Was Toar to three. sv Under the revised plans to which the county commissioners have agreed, the Works Progress administration agrees to erect the structure to be used as an agricultural building provided the county would furnish the build ing site and furnish the cost of skilled labor, which is estimated to be 30 per cent of the 89,000 total or a cost to the county of 82.700 for a 89,000 structure. A. O. Hendren, county farm agent who has been very much In terested in gettipg the project through and under way, has con ferred with JliB Rivers, district WPA administrator, a number of times In regard to the project. The project calls for a 85 foot extension on the rear bt the courthouse with the first floor to be'used for county and court t;nicago . . . Miss Charlotte Gooding (above), Is a slim bru nette standing 5 feet, 7 Inches tall, weighs 128 pounds and is 20 years old. She Is the choice of Chicago Advertising Clubs of the nation’s ad girl models. N. Wftesboro^ Journal-Patrict On Station WBIG Greensboro Stnion's “Our Neifi^rara” Progmm Is. Quite Popular ITEMS ARE SELECtED From Journal-Patriot and BroadesMt Tuesday and Saturday Mom^gs North WUkeeberb and The ' MrirmU-Patrlot a^ aa the. air ’ every' Tneeday aiud '' Satni^y f morning, over WHIG, in Select Debaters For Triangular Tilts March 27 Wilkesboro Teams Chosen in Tryout Contest Held TiMsday Morning stssiiki^ agent’s otheh. home agent’s office and an as sembly room for farm gather ings. Office space in the courthouse, it has been pointed out, is badly needed and county officials feel —; I fortunate in being able to have Former Star Broke ] opportunity to work for the Hollywood. Feb. 2 8.—-When approval of the project calling jttst over was the coldest State weather records first were kept at Fort Snelling ^U.’-1819. The mean temperature as zero, or 16.1 degrees below normal. she was a star in silent films. Blonde Alice Lake drew as much as 82,000 weekly salary. Yester day she stayed In jail because she hasn’t 810' the fine in an intoxi cation case. The sentence was j for two days. for the erection bouse addition. of the court- Robbery Suspects Are Made Outlaws Gnt Proposed Sum ■ Washington, March 3.—^A con ference of administration aides and Senator Morris (R), Neb., to-j day clipped the latter’s billion-1 dollar rural electrification bill more than in half. The proposed spending under the measure was cut to 8420,000,000 over a ten- year period. Two Jonesville Men Charg ed With Kidnap-Robbery of Spurgeon Johnson Sign Not Right Greensboro, Ga., March 3.—In an announcement published in the Greensboro Herald-Journal, Jarrell Arrington says he Is retir ing from the race for coroner be- csnse “the sign of the zodiac is not exactly favorable to me on day which the primary will eld, Wednesday, April 8th.’’ ^ Start AAA Sabetltate Washington, March 3.—Major 4pg(BtlveB of the AAA beaded tor Midiphin and Chicago today to the new 8500,000,000 soil oooMirvatlon-sttbsidy program at meetings ot farm repro- Mtitatlvee. Representativee ot the 'aonaervation Mrvlce, the iltore Department soUcI- tor*g office, statisticians and flCMiomlats accompanied them threo^iy conferences will open Thursday. MILLERS CREEK P.-T. ; HAS GOOD MEETING The MlUers Creek Parent- Teneber Association held Its Feb- meeting Thursday after- rnary noon. An Interesting and entertaining playM concerning Washington, was given by Mrs. R. V. Day and her second grade. A dlsenssion of bus regulation was given by ' Ralph Davis and R. V. Day spoke on the "Morals of Children as Af- (eeted by Discipline.’’ paring the busluess session tion elected a lommll- to find out th( potsi- Br saehring a new school t Jttiff* Crtek. The aa- Millars Creek a Hltdiag, Mnee It largo rural schools and the go tnadNiante. Harvey “Peewee’’ Pardue and Robert Triplett, of Jonesville, charged with a number of of fences in recent weeks, were de clared outlaws by Judge Hoyle Sink in Wilkes county superior court Tuesday. The men arc charged with kid naping Spurgeon Johnson, ot the Brushy Mountain section and robbing him ot a large sum ot money after he was taken from Elkin to a residence near Dough- ton. Since the Johnson robbery. Par- due has returned to the Elkin neighborhood on two occasions, but has made his escape both from Jonesville and Elkin offi cers when his capture seemed cer tain. On his last visit officers sur rounded him near the Elkin High Gchool building, where he Is said to have fired repeatedly at pur suing officers as he scaled a wall and made his getaway. An automobile bearing an Ala bama license plate, thought to hare been a stolen car in which he returned to Elkin, is being neld. Pardue has a long record of law breaking, according to Elkin officers. Wilkesboro high school, suc cessful in winning both sides of the triangular debates 7 times out of eleven trials, is matched again this year with Elkin and Mount Airy. The tryouts to select the teams to repreoaut the suhool wera btid og Tnesd*y.ta0r9taS wftk. tiro feamv of two eash. The qitari this year Is'"ftcsolved: That the several states should provide for socialization of medicine.’’ Debaters winning Tuesday were; affirmative. Miss Paula Craft and Tom Story: negative, Lee Settle and Miss Bda Belle Phillips. Miss Virginia Miller, af firmative, and Willie Hamby, negative, are the alternates. Judges In the tryout Tuesday were said to have had quite a dif ficult task in selecting the best debaters from the eighteen con testants. Mrs. B. S. Call, J. F., Jordan and Wm. A. Stroud were the affirmative judges while Rev. A. W. Lynch, Mrs. Julius Hub bard and Mrs. L. B. Dula select ed the negative side winners. The triangular debate to take place on Friday, .March 27 will be On neutral grounds. Wilkes boro teams will go to Mount Airy and Elkin while teams from those j schools will debate at > Wilkes boro. In the seven years that Wilkes boro teams have won both sides In the triangles they have made good showing at the state wide debates at Chapel Hill, reaching the semi-finals on two occasions. In three, of the four years that Wilkesboro failed to win botb sides, their teams split with oth ers, leaving only one year when they failed to win one or more contests. Greensboro. Items of interest to WUkee county citizens living In this radio, station’s area are select ed from the Journal-Patriot and y>roadcast twice we^y mi the program entitled, “Our Neighbors.” ’This program has proven very' popular over the Greeiisboro station and a num ber of North Carolina commun ity newspap-^rs are taking part in the program. At a later date, WBIG expects to give aa hoar’s program to this community. Major Edney Ridge, director of radio station WBIG, a for- m e r newspaper publisher, wrlte.s: “We believe that the greatest, iiowcr in North Caro lina Is the oommnnity newspap er and this state is particularly fortunate in having some of the best weekly and semi-week ly papers anywhere in the country. A score come to our de.sk each week, and they are fine examples of newspapering. Having had several years of ex perience in pnUishi^ in North Carolina, I know the difficul ties that most newspapers have had and undergo in this state, but no influence in North Car olina has made greater im provement or rtedeMd better seiwiee than the ’ commimlty newspapers ‘give a better view of the gr^ state of Nortli Om> oltea than a^ other UMdinin bo Wo - - Threw Jm into Hot3lq> M Moonshihe Still Doik Sprinkle Draws - Tem Far lA Hifk* ■)-_ Bowery THREE murder BILLS Returned by Grand Juryi Two Indictod in Bus- Auto Colliaion siOS j^SCmaity ^¥01 Bo Spoosorod Aga^ By North Wilkesbovo _ High School ^ TO BEGIN M^cji jmrfl iFkuJs.WiU B^lln^ On March 17; Moidi lator-* ost k Shoem^ North Wilkteboro tekool will' sgf in spOMor-ita# OopdvlA Bwkstball Toorasmeitr for Ugii ■ebooL teams In Wilkes cosnty. The opening dote for tb* tint elimination among the teams of tbp eight blgb scboolk and ttrlft pairing were anaouheed' from the sebool today for' ThurMoF, March 12, at 2:30 s^d- 7:t0 p. Last year was the flrat tourna ment of its kind ever bgiA i beire and was a success every standpoint. It was origiiiated for the purpose of cnttlvstfiig good will and cresUn^ta' gteilsr inter est In higtr school sports threuiA- out the county. Wtlkes'boro bops and Mountain View girls -will this year defend their titles. *• Attractive trophies will * bo awarded the boys and girit ebsa- plons. March 12 at 2:30 in the after noon Roaring River and Tnphitl will play in the frst elimtastion. At 7:30 p. m. on the tame day Ferguson and Traphill 'wiH'pIsy. The elimination will eontinno with Mt. Pleasant versus Rondo and Wilkesboro versus Mlllera Creek on the afternoon and night of March 13. On March 14 will be the semi-finals between the win ners ot Roaring Rlver-TraphUl and Mt. Pleasant-Ronda elimtas- lions. On March 16, 7:30 p. m.. will be the semi-finals betwoea tbs winners of the Ferguson- Monntain View and Wilkesboro- Millers ,Creek eMmlnation. The Championship games, boys gad drls, will be played on the nti^ .of March 17, beginning wt. New York . . . The necklace worn by Mrs. Wm. R. K. Tsylor, Jr., (above). Is the famous dlv mond “Star of Bombay”. The ring is a 19-carat emerald. In all Mrs. Taylor was adorned with a 81>- 000,000 worth of jewelry at the diamond show held here. the coopetetepsi M Mue o the. best newspapers in the state.” In WBIG’s area there Is a population of a million and more than 100,000 radio lionies. Many of these homes are hearing about North Wil kesboro and . The Journal-Pa triot twice a week through this station’s program, “Onr Neigh bors,” 'Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7:45 a. in. Milk Or^ance Put Into Effect County Board of Health Adopts U. S. Ordinance in Meeting Roi^ $nigiii^ To Be On March 29th Singing Convention Will Harre Sesaion at Pleasant Grove Church Ja«/Henry Shore Buried On Monday The Ronda singing convention will bo held at Pleasant Grove ebureb, near Cllngmso, the fifth Sunday In March, the program will b^ln at 10:80 a. m. and continue through the day. All singers are invited to he present and have a part in the song service. Funeral and burial services were held at Booneville Monday afternoon for James Henry Shore, 86, one of Yadkin county’s best known citizens. He died Sunday. Mr. Shore was married to Mias Julia Williams, who died several years ago. There are three chil dren, all of whom are well and favorably known t Dr. 'Thaddeus Shore, Boonville; Wade Shore, banker at 'Boonville, and Mrs. Edgar Dsvti, Winston-Sntem. There are many reUtlves and friwds ot Mr. -Shore in Wilkes who ore ssddexed nt the news of «*-»»"«■ 1.*.^ Gasoline Explodes; Ashe Man Burned Jones Barker, county account ant of Ashe county, was serious ly burned yesterday when a can ot gasoline mistaken tor kerosene exploded as he was kindling a tire in a stove Id his eonrthoose office. He was rushed to the Wilkes Hospital terp hr Attorney Gran^ Banguess.' 'Sssmisatkm (bst he was sevwely %gnied s- bout hU tscft end: was ueceos^ that gp ratsbln'stf :MMf hospital for treateeut. The Wilkes county board of health held a meeting Monday and transacted the following bus iness: Passed on the U. S. public health milk ordinance, and a few of the requirements as set out In the ordinance are as follows; 1. Dairy cows must have the tubercular test annually. , 2. Dairies must be provided with a dairy barn, impervious floors and ample light and venti lation. 3. Dairies must be provided with a m,llk house, separate from the barn, with Impervious floor, ample wash vat, hot and cold running water, receiving tanks with drain, cooler, bottler and capper. '. (, Anyone selling milk to the public must get a permit, from the county health department. ^ 5. All i^lk handlers must bave a health certifieste. Anyone wishing to make the necessary Improvements, .in order to continne to sell milk, most first notify the county health de partment, then an inspAtion ot the plant will be made, and neces sary plans and Information, will be given upon reqnest. It is Imperative that those dairymen, who have not had an Inspection of their dairies, get In touch with tee Wjlkes county health department at once, and make somd arangement for the improvements and the grading ot the dairy. ^ This ordinance was adopted by the board. To Receive Bids For Surfacing S Miles Highway 16 Will Place Bituminous Sur face On Five Miles To Willsar Vicinity The state highway and public works commission will receive bids In Raleigh on March 17 for placing a bituminous sartace* on thre miles ot highway 16 between Millers -Greol^ snd:,yilbar. , it Tils section of the highway bso; bten graded and gravel surfOted' for more than a year and Is thoroughly settled and ready to be surfaced. Meanwhile T. M. Strlder and company. Nashville. Tenn., con tractor, Is going forward rapidly with grading a seven-mile link of the new highway from Wllbar to the Ashe-Wllkes line. When the grading is completed a gravel surface will be applied. Hold Two For Aidii^[ Robbery John Hudspeth and Dick Everidge, Elkin Men, Un der Bonds of $4,000 John Hudspeth and Dick Ever- idge, Elkin men, are under bonds of $4,000 each on charges of aid ing and abetting in the kidnap- robbery of Spurgeon Johnson. They were arrested In Elkin Tuesday and brought to W|llke8- boro, where bonds were named and filled. It is alleged that they aided two men charged with taking Johnson from Elkin to a resi dence in the Dougbton commun ity to escape from the law. It is recalled that Johnson, a vmI- dent of the Ingle Bellow seotldn of Wllkee county, was ro’Jbed of 8236 by two men at the home ot a . woman in the Doughton com munity after they - had carried him from mkin against his will and after tltey'had promised to take him tOv^^^Biepka Cress Roads. To BeBm Revival At Holiness Chufrch Q. Cttfuey Goes To Oo^ Los 'Angeles, Marc^, jJ^amee Cagney took his oontraet tronbles with Warner Brothers studio Into pout today. The red-headed ac tor chargee the studiO' broke an skowetQoral ogreapsent with Wm under fpwtraet: to % iMSfcrod-.sW ^ Conference Snperintondent T e Conduct Meeting At Pente costal Otmrch In City Rev. C. A. Stroud, of Marion, conference superintendent, will preach in a revival meeting to begin at the Pentecostal Holiness eburch in this city on Sunday night, it was announced today. Services will be held each eve ning nt 7:30 for a week or more and the public is Invited to every service during the series of meet ings. Phil Leckie Has Ition With Texas Oil C^pany Bi City Phipps Leokie, who has been in Tsylonville tor some time, has sdM0ted a.-position here with S.i By.RlshariMeaf local dlstynmUiqr agent foi^ite ^Pgns Oil ootgpsny. H*: has began his dstles in that Clementine Fletcher, giant mu latto convicted of scalding * Jim Cheek, Traphill resident, in a vat of boiling still slop and in flicting permanent tajufy, was sentenced in Wilkes bouft yester day by Judge Hoyle Sink to from 7 to 10 years in the .state peni tentiary. His trial consumed only a shoyt time. He bad no attorney but elected to plead not guilty. Cheek told of being at a moonshine still, presumably working there, when Fltcher walked up, started a fight, pushed him Into the hot slop and held him there until he was near dead. He ^ i never re covered sufficiently aule to work. Fletcher was arrested In Ohio recently, about a year following the crime, and brought back to Wilkes, where he caused no end of trouble in jail. His misconduct included tearing up one or two mattresses, pulling a radiator apart and bursting out window panes. His conduct wsa anything but nice, during his trial and Judge Sink advised him' that It be should be so hard and tongb at. the penitentiary that he wonld probably be with load and sent hdBig^i*,.^pi}ir ' ^ rinpj ' party of'toM’Vte iSSa iH( ttti rdbbed Sherman pledge and fals wife at their service station at Hays about a year ago, drew a sentence of 8 to 10 years and was dispatched along with Fletcher to the penitentiary as soon as their trlals were completed. Sprinkle had escaped from jail and was not available for trial when his associates In the holdup were sen tenced last term. He was recap tured recently. Leonard Shumate was handed two years on the roads for aban donment and failure to support his wife and children. Ernest Money drew two years on the roads for assault on a female and two years suspended on another charge. Prayer for judgment con tinued was the culmination of a charge against Edle Church, wo man who Is alleged to have struck an aged man with her fists. Elmer McBride, convicted of highway robbery, was sentenced Thiesday to from 2 to 10 years in the state penitentiary after he was convicted In a jury trial. McBride, who has a lengthy court record, took 8130 in cur rency off R. C. Harris, an elderly man who lives in the eastern sec tion of the county. He is said to have furnished Uqqor to get Har ris in a drunken ..condition and removed the money from his pockets while scuffling. Robert Reynolds, colored, drew an extra six months in the peni tential for falsehoods be is al leged to have told about meat ha had stolen’' from Tom Nichols, colored. Reynolds told the court when asked where be hid some hamS he had stolen and officers were directed: to search for the loot hut'when Judge Slnk-lesra- ed that the officers did not |tod the hams Reynolds was, haVed Into conrt and. sentenced to mm 2 1-2 to five yente, 1“ Jka Pa®*- tentiary. Judge l^k . exAddDOd that he wanted it understood that six months or the sentence was for telling the He about where the meat was hidden. Charlie Church and Arthur Price drew sentences of 18 'months each on the roads after they plead guilty to looting a number of Boomer community farmers of poultry! and produce. Win 'Wyatt was sentenced to 14 montbs on the roads for stealing chickens. Penl Gllreath, of this tity, War fi^ 150 and cost after belpK co'nrieted of reckless driving, « traveling salesman haviag testi fied' that Qilresth, driving s truck, -had crowded his car from the road while driving' In a rock- lees manner. Kd Tnrlor, who cut a man'# ffiw teahn Uris year will be fairly well matched with no team, boys or girls, expected- to take the tournament without knowing (Jhat they have been through the mill with plenty of competition. Much Interest is al ready being shown in the plans for the tournament and it Is ex pected that the games will be largely attended. Admission will be 15 and 25 cents. J. J. Bentley, 91, Taken By Deafii Confederate Veteran Dies at Home at Pores Knob; Funeral Be Today with^sn axe, received een- tenee of three seonthe la jaU or. (CsntteMd on ^ eight) Ranks of Wilkes, county men who wore the grey in the War Between the States grew thinner yesterday with the death of Joha J. Bentley, 91, who passed away at bis home at Pores Knob. He suffered a n appolectic stroke Monday and never rallied. . While in the Confederate army Mr. Bentley took part in many battles, including the Battle of Gettysburg, and was near Gener al Lee at he time of his sur render. He served in the 87th regiment and was wounded three times. As a citizen of bis community and county, Mr. Bentley took an active interest in church and cpfljmunlty affairs. He had moBf friends and took great delight la relating experiences duri^ ^ the war. ‘ ■ He was married ^OD March 16. 1867, to Josephine Phillips, who died December 24, 19S1> ‘PhOn are four snrviving cbU4fen: W. F. Bentley, Tennnesseei'Afra. *P. J. Coin, Tucson, Arikonif'xh*. X G. Bentley, Norton, Vgif Mn. Maude Foster, Pores Kaobf''Atao surviving are 13 '|tantt’c)iitdre)i and 9 great grandehUdtef.,' ' j Mr. Bentley was a beloved citir sen of the Pores Knob coQUBun'- ity and was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist ebnreb, wher# the funeral and burial services wtU . be held today (Thursday) at' 2 p." m. SERVICE FRIDAY NIGHT AT BLACKSMITH SHOP Ren.'C. 8> Bumgan«r haatm^ nottMe^a prayw^ meeting to he> held Friday evening, 7:86, at the City Blacksmith Shop g just south of ^s dspot. The puUie is invited to attend. ' PrqyMiy Saryfoa Rsv, Roby Johnson Satardsy, two p. •„ n U a./a.. M DouMe ' ttve miptiat ehi^eh.';^ A
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