; VouwL.
itorch 8^'fr^P(^
. MtC co«Btr otfioen t^tht
ao trae* of Mf^ NtlUe
LovUtIDo nMtton of
wlio disaj»9Mred
'M.j Mornliif.
> i~
Ov«en WPA Job Sladt
WaakiactoB, Marei 8.—Ordor-
-tO)*90 to St ..449 Job slaab
i la SflMoaii’s y^k bj Jnly
^1, Vanr L. Hopkins today took
anotkor stop toward a ioneral
r«daetk>n In tb« se*^ of tbo
work roUof program.
Doaif and Brtde Ja (^paln
Barcelona, Spain, Mareb 8.—
)Deaglas Fafrbanks and bis bride
—tba former tady Aebley—ar-
rlaad bore today . on a Slying
bo&eymoon. Tbe couple arrlred In
a private plane from Paris, where
they were wed yesterday. They
Will visit Spain for several days.
VOL. XXX. NO/^8 Published ^Ott^ys and Thuretlayg
On CoQBty Jail
Errin Conatructioa Co. Low^
Biddor oo Work At
Wilkoa Bngdlo
IS TO 235F $2,547
Will Conaf.'t of Concrete
Roof SUib and Treat*
menta to Plows
Betlres From Mlnstry
Statesville, March 8.—Rev. P.
D. Rislnger, who has been pastor
of Holy Trinity Lutboran church,
at Troutman, for the past eight
years, is retiring from active
ministry and he and Mrs. Rlsing-
er left today tor Leaksvtlle, S. C.,
where they will make their home.
Seriously Injured
Beaufort, March 8. — Miss
Elolse Freeman, 19, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Freeman,
Morehead City, and Herbert
Clark, of Raleigh, coach of St.
Pauls school here, are In serious
oonditlon at the local hospital as
a result of an automobill wreck
last night along Waterfront drive.
Urge Extra Session
Tarboro, March 8.—A group of
approximately 100 Edgecombe
county farmers were on record
today as urging Gov. J. C. B.
Ebrtngbaus to call a special ses
sion of the general Msombly to
_ immediate action dbr con-
'troUlng tobacco production this
year.
Rcbber “Holiday” Ends
Jeca^e. Pa., March 8.—Presi-
.idoni^jL O. Bowers, of the Penn-
ayhk^iic Evbber convpany an-
Wilkes board Of commissioners
in recess session Friday award
ed contract to Ervin Obnstrnction
company, of Catawba, tor tbe con
struction of a concrete roof slab
and other improvements designed
to make the Wilkea jail fireproof
and as nearly escape proof as
practical. .
The contract drawn u.p and
executed Friday specifies that the
work shall be sUrted on Mon
day, March 16 and is to be com
pleted as early as possible. The
low bid on the project was for
$2,547.
The county Jail Is considered
an adequate building with the ex
ception of the roof, through
which a number of escapes have
been made in' recent years. The
improvements called for. in the
contract will not only make es
cape very difficult but w’ill fire
proof the ,rop_f and a treatment
will be given the floors in the
structure.
It was decided that work be
gin on tbe I6th and be rushed to
completion because on that date
the jail will be aa nearly empty
as at any time, due to the fact
that the present term of court
will end Oh the preceding Satur
day and all prisoners now in jail
till have been tried. However,
there are a number of federal
prisoners sertlng jail sentences
at the present time.
Bobert
(abovay, son of late Pree~.
dent Taft, is the choice of the
Ohio State Republican Central
Committee, as a favorite son can
didate to oppose Senator Borah
in the Hay primartes.
O.H.Efledge,41,
HanjhHimsdfat
Home Near Hays
fOt
% Jr 
EnoiMratoiA CMIl^ uVAp
Not to OigctowAny Inf or* ^
matioa RecelTed .
Member oi Well Known
WUket„Family; Funeral
Tuesday at Bethel
1). W. Maddox, .supervisor of
the census of -business, today ah-
nouBoed that an effort' is being
made to finidi the canvass in
North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro
and environs within the next few
days. He asked that all busineas
flms co-operate by' furnishing
the necesshry census informatim
aa quickly as possible.
‘‘We realize that some fimjs_re-
quire more time than others in as
sembling the information," Mr.
Maddox said, "but it is imperative
that the reporte be sent to Phila-
deiphia without delay so that the
statistics can be compiled and-is
sued by July."
The timeliness of such statis
J-d.: ^
General Teachers’
Meeting j^turday
Dr. B. B. Dottfkerty Will
Addreaa WlUbw T«*ck«n
Oliver H. Elledge, age 41,
farmer and furniture plant em
ploye, ended his life Sunday
night by hanging himself in a
wagon shed at his home near
Hays.
He had absented himself from
the house for a few minutes aft
er supper and when he did not
return his small son, Buford, age
10, went to look for him. He
found his father hanging by a
rope which the children had used
to make a swing in an apple tree.
An inquest was deemed unneces
sary. Relatives were unable to
state a cause for the suicide, al
though it was behoved that he
may have been despondent over
declining health. *
was a member of
tics," h« added, "greatly enhance
their'Value. More than 6.000,000
reports must be handled by the
bureau, and delay in Wilkesboro
and North Wilkesboro delays the
statistics for the entire state.
"The inquiries have been made
as simple as possible.” he con
tinued, “to make the tasks of sup
plying the information easy, and
have been shaped to secure facts
that -will be of maximum value to
business."
Mr. Maddox declared that the
census now being taken is a con
tinuation the regular business
census wore the bureau of the
census, and ilLfbr business use,
not for governmental purposes.
Its scope is the result of requests
from business organizations, and
it has the full support of all
branches of business.
•He reiterated previous assur
ance that aU enomwators SDiJ
otlwv persmu connected with the
C. G. ^den, •( Joynet,
Tax- $a|iMrviMvi Luit
TaldBf in April
»
tween hlmeelt and a committee of
the rubber union workers head
ed by Charles Seria. '
Durham Man Killed
Raleigh. March- 8.—David M.
- WUliams, 27, of Durham, died in
a local hospital here tonight of
Injuries received when he was
struck by a truck on state high
way 10 at Logtown, six miles
west of Raleigh, shortly after
sundown. U B. Underwood, of
Baielgh. alleged to have been the
driver of the truck. Is being held
In Wake county Jail, hut no form-'
al charges have been preferred
against him pending an inquest
by Coroner L. M. Waring.
Wilkesboro P.-T. A.
To Meet Thursday
the Wifku^ol^ ^iSSSoqt^. building
on Saturday, 'March 14, accord-*
Ing to an anhonncement today by
C. B. Eller, county superintendent
of schools.
The meeting will open at 10 a.
m. and the feature of the pro
gram will be an address by Dr.
B. B. Dougherty, president of Ap
palachian State Teachers College,
Boone. Dr. Dougherty is a mem
ber of the state school commis
sion and no doubt will have a
helpful, as well as interesting,
message for the teachers.
The school system in the coun
ty has been operating smoothly
since the schools reopened after
about a month’s shutdown on ac
count of severe weather and con
dition of the roads. All the teach
ers are required to attend the
meeting Saturday.
^OH’^ihroughbut the county. Me
was a'son of thb late Senter SRr
ledge and Mrs. Drnciila Blalock
Elledge. Mr. Elledge was a World
War ydteran.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Esth
er Nichols Elledge, and six chil
dren: Buford, Imogene, O. H.,
Jr., Anita, Treva and Lutrelle
Elledge.
Also surviving are his mother
and the following brothers and
sisters: D. E. and Iredell Elledge,
North Wilkesboro; H. E. and Lu
ther Elledge, Hays; Mrs. Millard
Brown and Mrs. D. C. Miller,
Hays; Mrs. Clingman Fulp and
Mrs. H. M. Fulp," Winston-Salem.
Funeral and burial services
will be held at Bethel Baptist
church near Hays on Tuesday
morning, eleven o’clock.
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher A.s-
sociation will meet in the Wll-
kesboro school building Thurs
day afternoon, 3:15. All members
and other Interested school pa
trons are asked to attend. An in
teresting program has been plann
ed lor the occasion.
X-Ray Students
At Hospital Hen
Examination For
Cycle Postoffice
Job Is Announced
Four New Federal
Revenue Officers
Are Located Here
Appointments Made For X*
Rays of Reactors in Tu
berculosis Clinic
A total of 266 school children
whose tests in the recent tuber
cular clinic in Wilkes showed a
positive reaction will -be X-rayed
this week at The Wilkes HosplUl,
It was announced today by Dr, A.,
J. Eller, county health officer.
Of this number 222 were white
and 44 colored.
The schedule for X-rays of chil
dren in the various schools where
■ I —.■■ the clinics were conducted are as
Three alcohol tax inveatij^tors fo]]o^g;
' ” Wednesday, Slardi 11
North Wilkesboro, 9 , a. m.;
Noble, Bonnet, Williams
and Ronpe Replace Three
Transferred
Civil service examination to
fill a contemplated vacancy in the
position pf fourth class post
master at Cycle will be held in
North Wilkesboro soon, according
to a recent announcement.
Application blanks are avail
able at th« postotfice at Cycle
and must be sent in to the civil
service coojiiuission in Washing
ton by April 3.
Junior Meeting
Tuesday Night
woiiing in Wilkes and adjacent
territory have been transferred and
lomvory »^css , i^urbii Tyimoouvsvp sr „ aaa.i
four have been sent here to filli Palrplains, 11 a. m.; Boomer, 11
their places. ja. m.; Moravian Falls. 11 a. m.;
C. S. Felts has been transfei^'
red to Greensboro, and J. C. Fort
ner to Charlotte, while two from
Charlotte, one from Greensboro
-and one from Asheville have be-
Ifun work in Wilkes.
Agents Noble and Bennett, of
the Charlotte office, will make
Wilkesboro their headquarters.
Agents Williams, of Greensboro,
and Roupe, of Asheville, have also
arrived to begin work.
During the past two months
then has been little activity in
raiding moonshiners, due to the
bad condition of the roads and
jooft paitkulariy due to the fact
4^ weather was so coW manu-
'tbettlring mooBshine liquor in tbe
^ — and valleys was almost an
Bty.
-bout tbe greater part of
w aad Phbruary the weath-
. so cold that mash would
aad reaaain frown, accord-
[te reports of odeeTs.
Wilkesboro, 1 p. m.
Thuiwday, March tii
Union, 9 a. m.; Pleasant Hill,
10 a. m.; Ronda, 10 a. m.; Roar
ing River, 10 a. m.; Mountain
View, 10 a. m.; Mount Pleasant,
10 a. m.; Traphill 11 a. m.; Pat
tons Ridge, 1 p. m.; Maple
Springs, 1 p. m.; Millers Creek,
1p.m..
Fri^y, March 13
North Wilkesboro (colored) 9
a. m.; yncoln Heights, 9:30 a.
m.; Oakwoods, 11:30 a. m.
The Grioutal degree will be a
feature of the Junior order meet
ing of - thO; .North Wilkesboro
council On Tuesday night, March
On ThiiiiMay night, March 17,
there Wiii he initiation of candi
dates. Memimra are asked to at
tend both meetings.
TT
and that under the census law'
no access to individual reports is
permitted, ifdf even to other gov
ernmental, state or local agencies,
and no information will be dis
closed which would in any way re
veal the facts or figures g-iven in
the returns.
"The census bureau expects,"
he said, "to publish the results
for this state by July 1st unless
there is delay in obtaining tbe
relatively few reports still out.
Since the first few states released
received nationwide publicity, and
comparisons with the previous cen
sus will show such a healthy in
crease in the Wilkesboros, we
want nothing to delay the canvass
here."
Wilkes county Board of com
missioners in session last week
named t|x listen for the ensuing
year.' They are to complete tin
task of list taking.in April under
the supeevision of C. d Siddeiw of
Joynes, who was appointed tu
supervisor at S previous meeting
of the board.
■iax listers for the ■ various
townships are as fcdlows:
Beaver Creek, G, H. Walker.
Brushy Mountain, pL Davis.
Boomer, Bob Phflllps,
Edwards* No. i,’ Mn. R. L.
Jones.
Edwards No. 2, Jack'Hoots.
Bklwards No. 3, M. L. Petty
john.
Elk No. 1, Colin Poster.
Elk No. 2. E»a Dula.
J^bs Cabin No. 1, 0. M. Watson.
Jobs Cabin No. 2, Grady Baker.
Lewis Pork, Albert 'triplett.
Lovelace, R. V. Wright.
Moravian Falls. Mrs. Julia
Greer.
Mulberry No. 1, D. C. Sebastian.
Mulberry No. 2, Norman Reyn
olds.
New Castle, C. W. Hanes.
North Wilkesboro No. 1, T. J.
Frazier.
North Wilkesboro No. 2, Jack
Pardue.
Reddies River, Q. 0. Kilby.
Rock Qreek, J. C. Brown.
Sommrs, Ham Somers.
Stanton, R. D. Cooper.
Tnphill No. 1, H. E. BiUings.
TnqpMll No. 2, George
Union. R. L. Wyatt
jWalm^ Grove No. 1, L.
_ . . Ifcf'
Brookisi
Wilkesboro No. i, Mrs. W. J.
Johnson." ~-
Wilkesboro No. 2, C. G. Glass.
Merchants Form
An Association
Meeting Will Be Held At
City Hall Tonight; Many
Showing Interest
Mountain Lions
ToPiayRapiblers
North Wilkesboro and Wil
kesboro to Clsreh Here
Tueaday Night
One of the basketball
high- i
lights of the season will occur on
Tuesday night when boys and
girls of the North Wilkesboro and
Wilkesbofo high schools clash in
cage tilts at the North Wilkes-
boTo school gymnasium.
The first game will start at
7:30 and it is expected that a
capacity crowd will he present to
witness the contests between the
ancient rivals and to spur their
favorites on toward victory.
North WHlkesboro merchants
will meet tonight at the city hall
to form a merchants association.
J. Paul Leonard, for several
years secretary of the North Car
olina Merchants Assodlatlon, and
A. W. Bunch, of Statesville, will
be present to assist in the orga^
ization.
The association has 15 sub
scribed members this afternoon
and it was Indicated that many
others would join In the first
meeting tonight. Much Interest Is
being shown in the proposal and
the association is expected to he
a progressive organization.
North Wilkesboro
P.-T. A. Will Meet
I iD
Berlin, Germany . . . Miss Leni
Riefenstohl fabdve), lieantitvl
German' scremi atar, is the per
son reported mentioned
— in the of the March erfmifial term. 8o-
Hltler^ Secret LovasV atory pub* udtor Jonea was ill last week and
,-k.-J n a.._j I ^ stateevlUe hospital for treat-
lished in- Paris last Sunday.
i. to
Handle Siiklw
Products' Here
Call for Bids oi$ Eroction of
Bulk Plan tsuid Equip*
merit Here
Bason Oil company, new busi
ness firm organized here last
week with fff. J. Bason as presi
dent and general, manager, will
be agent for the nationally known
Sinclair Refining company.
Repieeentatives of the company
were here for several days last
week completing arrangements for
the talk ;dant, whkh 'will be
erected on hCtato-' and Cherry
streets between the Home Chair
North Wiftes-
ment and a number, of cases that
oUtMWtse would have' been call
ed were deferred to tbb’ week in
the hope that he ml^t he pres
ent to prosecute them.
The next WJlkes court will
convene on April 27. This is x
piixed term fixed by an act of
the last legislature and it is ex
pected that a greater part of the
time will he consumed 'With trial
of criminal 'cases which eouM net
be reached' this term.
Following are some of the cas
es completed last week.
Smith Rhoades, convicted of
receiving stolen goods, drew 20
months on the roads after he
was convicted in jury trial. Arlie
Lankford, who recieved IZ
months after he plead galHy to
larceny of chickens, was the star
witness for tbe state, saying that
he and Rhoades stole chlekeas
from Monroe Snyder and carried
them to Mooresville, where Mr.
and Mrs. Snydor wmit the same
day they were carried and ideu-
tMIed. ohieknas purchased by a
Mr. I. M. Myers was a visitor
to Charlotte Thursday. There he
met Mr, L. J. Jolnes, of Galax,
Va., who has-been M>enjtng two
months in Florida. He wBl spretd
several days with Mr. Myers at
the Gall Hotel before returning
to his borne.
March meeting of the North
Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation will be held In the school
auditorium on Thursday after
noon, 3:45.
Misses Nell Rousseau and Es
telle Ardrey will have charge of
an interesting program which has
been planned for the meeting.
All memb^s and other interested
school patrgttB are asked to at
tend.
triimand .
soma for individnal (toaten of
clair products in Wilkea and ad
joining counties.
J. R. Young, of Atlanta, Ga.,
construction engineer of the Sin
clair Refining company, arrived
last week and 'will remain here to
supervise the construction of the
plant until the work is completed.
Other representatives of the com
pany here with Mr. Bason last
week included Paul Guthrey,
special representative from the
Charlotte district office, and John
T. Barnes, of Salisbury.
The Bason Oil company will be
the first to introduce Sinclair Re
fining company products in this
immediate ■vicini^, although they
are popular with motorists in the
metropolitan centers, many small
towns and communities in the
state.
Representatives of the company
here Friday stated that for the
past five years Sinclair Refining
company has held contract for and
has furnished oil and other pe
troleum products for the United
States navy and for other depart
ments of the United States gov
ernment.
Until the plant is erected tem
porary headquarters will be main
tained at the Yadkin Valley Motor
company.
Mr. Bason is well and favorably
known in Wilkes county. For the
past several years he has bera
quite prominent in business life
and civic activities in North Wil
kesboro.
'Was^e end oi
charge against J. L. Bnsic.
Lula Sprinkle was found guil
ty of violation of the prohibition
laws but sentence had not been
passed Friday.
Mr. and Moore have
returned from an extended trip
to Lakeland and other points of
Interest in Florida.
RIVEftS SAYS ADOmON TO COURTHOUSE IS
VIRTUAUY ASSUREDiWORK MAY BEGIN SOON
Textile Worker Killed
Concord, March 8.—^Elwood
Hawkins, 19, textile worker of
Kannapolis and former basket
ball and football player at Kan
napolis high school, died in a
Salisbury hospital this morning
from injuries received at mid
night -when struck by a car driv
en by Harold Torrence^ 21, also
of KanuapoUa.
Word was received today from
Jim Rivers, district WPA direc
tor, ■ that the construction of an
agricultural building addition to
the courthouse in Wilkesboro is
virtually assured because tbe
commlsrioners were agreeable to
the proposal to furniah 36 per
cent of the cost to cover skilled
labor not available from relief,
rolls.
PUns and speclficationB for the
courthouM addltiou ' have beep
draira up' by tbe engineer of- tbe
extefurita' dtaartment and have
been approved by district, state
and national WPA headquarters.
Mr. Rivers stated that he hoped
that work could begin by the
latter part of this month.
By virtue of prompt action,
Wilkes will be the only county in
the district to receive an agricul
tural building under the WPA
program! All of the other conn-
tied, according to reports, failed
to agree to the proposal in fur
nishing their rata costs for
similar struetuirai.
Cost of tbe oourthouse addi
tion is estimated at $9,000, wltb
the county'# share being f$,700.
the fin$ t^,ot tbe adijtiep to
the eonrtSoun will be used for
addRional office space and tbe
second floor as agricultural offic
es, conference and asqein^^i^
rooms; Need for additional. space
at the oourthouse has been ap
parent for tome time.
(tely One Armory
According to reports from Mr.
Rivers, there will be only one
armory building constructed in
the dtotrict. that to be for Com
pany 0, 105th engineers, at Salis
bury. None of the other cities in
>hlch armories were propoesd,
including North Wilkesboro, a-
greed to furnish th^ proportlon-
hto cost of Mtor p«d mteriaa.
To Carry Pruoner
Over 2,500 Miles
Deputy Marshal to Take
Wilkes Youth to Face
Trial in Montana
R. A, Staff(^ of Grsoisbore. will
be stittioned in this loeaUty until
Mr. Jobes returns.
Mrs. Jttle Deaai and little
daughter, Carelya, wqat severe
days last week in StattartU* vtih
Mrs. Deans’ parents, Mr. end Mrs.
Blaekwell.
Number oF'Mkriiclde .
Were Ori For
TriaLThls Wririk'
NEXT TERM
March term of 'Wlkee-fnperlMC;
court adjourned today on aceonnt|^
of the illaeiy'.of _ Jadge Hoyta^
Sink, wbq.topt epnj^ officials Ui
iBssaage,tbnC he was unable to.
preeide taer the rtamlnder of:
the term.
The main of titoWtoart
calendar, ioclttdiuk' sevejni 'hom$-T
clde casee, was Mhedaled for.
this weak, 'seoiwd;Jand. lest weekr
mauslsnghter
Wilkes Students
In Forensic Tourney
Four Wllkee county girlg par
ticipated In the annual forensic
tourney for college students last
week at Rock Hill. S. C. Miss Lu-
clle Hartley and Miss Ethel Da
vis. former 'Wilkesboro students
now members of Mars Hill Col
lege debating team, made quite a
good showing in the debating
contests.
Miss Grace Green, former Ron
da high school student, won first
place in the oratorical contest.
She represented A. S. T. C.,
Boone.
Miss Marie Halgwood, former
student of North Wilkesboro high
school, won second place in the
Impromptu speaking contest. She
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.
Haigwood, of this city.
Electrification
In Farm Homes
To Be Discussed
In Meeting to Be Held 
Wednesday Afternoon
at Courthouse
Deputy Marshal W. A. Jones
will leave Wilkesboro Tuesday to
carry a defendant over 2,500 miles
to face a charge to fedetal court ^ interested to be pree-
Mr. Jones recerved a warreni
for Ray Church, son of Ben
D. E. Jmes, aasistent rural elec
trification specialist to the state,
will address a meeting Wilkes
people interested to rural electri
fication to be held at the court
house to Wilkesboro on Wednesday
afternoon, March 11 at 2:80.
Many inquiries concerning rural
electrification from , interested
farmers have been pouring to to
the office of A. G. Hendren, coun
ty farm agent, and he is advising'
ent in the meeting Wodnndtf
for Ray sot oi time Mr._
Church, of Pa^ns Rid^, to f^ , ^ ekpUto th
Church, of Pa^ns Rid^, to ^ ^ ekplato the method of
a charge of viola^ the mte^ Securing electrk;
revenue laws to Butte, Montgna,
lines. ,
During the past 4ve yean ttk t
where he is to be tried to federal
^ Duke P^r eonqmny has „
^*“*1**^ constantly expsndtog tiie tearritoq^
warrant and will leere Weatay ^
wito Ms prisoner. Deputy Msiehal
served he lines to f^fiOns
it to onderitood that several
tensions inid pomiihiy new
ar# under advtoement si :
ent timp. -3
■ U. G.
reator
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