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Two Sallon Killed
WaaUngton, July 28.—The
. nary department announced to-
> tslght that two Bailors had been
Ulled and eight injured In a gun
,Htnmt accident on the U. S. S.
Marblehead off the aouthern Cal-
l^kr^ coast.
Four Eaoapeee CSaadht
Baloigh. July 28.—Oscar Pitts,
director, of the penal dl-
iteoBi, announced tonight two
a|^tt-term negro prisoners who
aped from the Harnett county
on camp had been caught and
other escaped prisoners were
i In custody.
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VOL. XXX, NO. 84
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Cline Hall Dead
From Knife Wound
Inflicted July 18th
y ■
Tandeoberg For liMidon
_^Topeka, K^s.. J,ily 28.—Sena-
SjHg Arthur H. Vandenberg closed
“'iTconference with Oov. Alf M.
^-'Zflndon today with a pledge to
P**tiie Landon campaign and snb-
uent Landon administration’’
of "every resource at my com
mand.’’
Passed Away Monday At
Hospital Here; Three
Jailed For Offense
WOMAN IS ACCUSED
Bettie Triplett Said to Have
Stabbed Hall in the
Chest July 18
Woman Badly Hurt
Hickory, July 28.—Mrs. John
B. Adge, Charleston, S. C., was
seriously injured when her au
tomobile left the road on a sharp
curve, jumped a ditch and plung
ed across a field beside highway
10, about a mile west of Conover,
last night.
State Has .Money
Raleigh. July 28.—The North
Carolina general fund, from
which all general state expendi
tures are made, closed the fiscal
year on June '^0 with a credit
balance of $949,927. the budget
bureau announced today.
Three Bead In Wreck
Fayetteville, July 28.—Carl T.
« .wart, 22, of Coats, died in a
al hospital last night from a
fractured skull suffered in an au
tomobile wreck near here Sun
day. He was the third victim of
the accident. James R. Johnson.
,jof AUgi^ -owner of the car,
iwrnsd on the -Fort-
'^ragg road, died six hours later,
and Miss Myrtle Breasher, of
■ Wallin Creek, Ky„ died Monday
morning.
Cline Hall, 2S, reoident of
the Denny community, died at
the hospital here Monday from
a knife wound said to have
been inflicted by Bettie Trip
lett in an altercation on the
night of July 18.
Miss Triplett and her broth
er, Walter 'Triplett, and Will
Dula, all of the same eoinmnn-
ity, have been Jailed on the
charge of knifing Hall, al
though Dula has been released
On bond boean.se information
received by officers has not
connected him with the stabb
ing.
Hall said that there was
quite a party at the home of
Zeb 'Triplett and that after
some words were passed that
Walter Triplett inflicted two
gashes on liLs forearm and that
the girl stabbed him in the
chest as he ran from the room.
Little hope was ever held for
liis recoverj-.
l-'uneral services were held
at Darby Tuesday with Ret.
Alfred Foster In charge. Hall
was a son of Cleve Hall.
NEW AUTOMOBILE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY
DURING GRMT WILKES FAIR THIS YEAR
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W. A. McNlel, president and
general manager of the Great
Wilkes Fslr Association, said to
day that plans are going forward
for the biggest and best fair in
the history of Wilkes,
The date for the 11th annual
exposition of the Wilkes fair—for
Wilkes and all adjoining counties
—is September 15 through 20,
five big days and nights of gala
activity that makes it northwest
ern North Carolina’s outstanding
gala event.
To add Interest and zest to an
already full program for the fair,
Mr. McNlel said that the fair as
sociation will give away at some
time during the fair a new Ford_
V-8 automobile absolutely free.’
Further details will be divulged
later, be said.
The premium lists have been
distributed for several weeks, in
ample time to give farmers and
housewives opportunity to pre
pare exhibits to compete for the
many cash awards that were in
creased over tllose of last year
and which are expected to draw
a full exhibit hall of the best
specimens of farm and home pro
ducts that Wilkes and adjoining
counties can produce.
Marx Greater Shows, which
have played the midway success
fully for two successive years,
have been signed for this year
but will be bigger and on a larg
er scale this year because of con
solidation with Virginia Amuse
ment Company. A11 available
space will be filled, Mr, McNlel
said.
The grandstand acts will eclipse
even the sensational acts of last
year, which thrilled thousands
each day of the fair. Mr. McNlel
said in commenting on this phase
of the evenL
m
Heads L«^on
J. M. German Is
Master Farmer In
Large District
Boy Injured
In Accidental
Hanging Here
Boomer Dairyman and Wife
Honored Guests at Farm
and Hmne Week
Kilwin lx>ng Falls Prom Tree
With Hope Around Neck;
Badly Choked
IS NOW IN RALEIGH
Mr. German One of Eight In
State To Retyeive Out
standing Honor
Skull Fractured
InFaUYkRnadkii
Cleve Whittington Reported
Better at Hospital Here;
Is Conscious
Hypnotic Death
Columbus, 0., July 28. -Dr. A.
Kanter disclosed yesterday
'’delivery of a girl to Mrs.
Leonard Loomis, 21. through the
use of hypnotism. Dr. Kanter said
the mother and daughter, Shir
ley Marie, who was born
Monday, were doing “very well."
Kanter said ‘‘the patient i
Dr.
Cleve Whittington, resident of
the Millers Creek community su
stained a fractured skull Monday
in a fall to the pavement on high
way 421 near Millers Creek.
Mr. Whittington, it is said,
was running across the highway
last I to a parked automobile when, ap-
! parently. he became excited be
cause of an approaching automo-
refreshed when awakened after' hile and fell, the back of his head
delivery. There is no ordeal and I striking the concrete,
no suffering.”
I
Eating Places
Given Ratings
To Begin Revival
At Roaring River
Sanitary Inspector Publishes
First Ratings of Nine
teen Establishments
G. S. Odell, county sanitary in
spector. yesterday released for
publication the first sanitary rat
ings of eating places in the Wll-
kesboros.
"Mr. Odell explained that due to
the fact that this is the first rat
ing that many establishments
will show a better grade next
month because they have learned
I points they were pen-
L-HUked in the ratings. Following
“i ^aru grades given the establish-
^jiaaata:
Grade A
T,Hotel Wilkes. 98; Call Hotel,
plje'a- Wonder Cafe, Wllkesboro,
Call Hotel Coffee Shop,
Princess Cafe, 91.5; F
Street Cafe, 91.5; Broadway
TOnrlst Home c|Je, Wllkesboro,
91; Bonnie Fay Lunch (Good
will Store), 91.
Grade B
Eller’s Cafe, 81.5;- Rock Diner,
•Wllkesboro, 80.
Grade C
Moore Brothers, 75; Black Cat
Cafe, 78; Try Me Cafe, Wilkes-
hoto, 75; Green I.antern, 74;
Snappy Lunch, 73.5.
Grade D
Beeche’s, 64.5: Central Cafe,
)lored, 61.5; Southsido Cafe,
^'^lored, 65.
By f-Hnya Cafe, Fairplaius, with a
gating of 20, has been closed.
Rev. A. W. Lynch, pastor of
Wilkesboro Methodist charge, an
nounced today that a revival will
begin at Roaring River Metho
dist church Sunday morning at
the eleven o’clock service.
Services will be held Sunday
night at eight o’clock and each
day during the following week at
11a, m. and eight p. m. The pas
tor will be in charge of the meet
ing. Each and every one has a
cordial invitation to attend any
or all Ihe services.
J. M. German, of Boonler,
prominent Wilkes county farmer
and dairyman, left yesterday
morning with A. G. Hendren,
AVilkes farm agent, for Raleigh,
where last night he was designat
ed as one of the eight master
farmers in the state of North Car
olina.
Master Farmers, one for each
It farm dlsui(^,.ln tj
Edwin Jjong, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Long, fell
from a tree Monday near their
home here and was choked al
most to death by a rope which
he had playfully tied around^
Ills neck.
Edwin and a group of neigli-
bor children were playing with
a rope swing and he had climb
ed the tree. While sitting on a
branch of the tree he playful
ly looped the rope around hts
neck but lost Ills balance and
fell when he started to remove
the rope.
With lus body dangliu«( from
the rope about a yard from the
ground, Jay Johnson, Jr., one
Blue Ridge Home
Coming August 9
Annual home coming day will
be observed at Blue Ridge church
on the second Sunday In August.
9th.
Blue Ridge church is located
on the summit of the Blue Ridge
at Beng. The announcement of
the coming home coming describ
ed the scene as '“The land of the
sky where the Blue Ridge Park
way passes by.’’ Everybody Is In
vited to spend the day there, and
carry lunch for the picnic-style
dinner.
^Improvements At
City Hall Made
During the past week work-
en have beeiT employed in plac-
a new coat of paint on the
.^lor of the city hall and re-
KjjPSin have been made to the city
1%ese Improvements were baa-
Ijf noaded and add much to tbs
appearance of the city hall and to
the *#«nrlty of the Jail.
Picnic Enjoyed
By Gordon S. S.
Despite the drizzling rain and
the overchanging clouds, the peo
ple from Gordon Baptist church
enjoyed a very tempting dinner
served in the grove above the
church Sunday at noon, with a
large crowd attending.
The picnic was started with a
rally from the crowd. Naming the
superintendent, Mr. W. P. Car-
son, as speaker. After a very in
spiring speech on neighborly love,
Mr. G. L. Osbourne returned
thanks.
The picnic was sponsored by a
contest which was started three
months ago, for the psirpose of
getting new Sunday school mem
bers. And the Sunday school Is
glad to report that several new
members have been added to the
roll.
Progressive Farmer, farm publi
cation, in cooperation with North
Carolina State College and the
extension service. This district is
composed of 23 northwestern
counties.
To be selected as master farm
er is the outstanding honor con
ferred upon a Tarheel farmer
and the honor means that he is
conducting his farm along ap
proved modern lines and practic
es and is successful in his occu
pation.
Mr. German, who is now 65
years of age, was born and rear
ed in the Boomer community
where he now owns and operates
his 300-acre dairy farm. He was
reared in a modest and humble
home and received his education,
equal to the high school educa
tion of this age. at the old Boom
er Academy. In 1898 he was mar
ried to Mi.ss Mary Carlton, of
Elberton. Oa., and for 13 years
lived on his farm in the Beaver
Creek section of Wilkes county.
In 1917 he purchased the tract
of land at Boomer where he now
lives and County .Agent Hendren
supports his statement that the
land at that time was hardly any
thing to boast of—in fact badly
run down.
Since he began farming Mr.
German has been interested in
cows—and for a very good rea
son—because he said that the
only money he had ever made
was from cows. “Many years
ago,’’ he said, “we did n>'t need
much money. But 'when we had
to have some money we sold a
cow.’’ During the last fifteen
years he has not sold so many
cows but he has sold dairy pro
ducts. For years before he estab- ;
lished his Montview Dairy he sold
"r^am to a creamery and ten
I years ago he began supplying
I milk to the consumer trade in
j the Wilkesboros. Tlie sanitary in-
j spector says his dairy is grade A
with a high sanitary rating and
exceptionally low bacteria count.
Although his business is dairy
ing, Mr. German is a “Live-at-
home” farmer and produces his
own food and silage and hay for
his cows, the herd now numbers
62 Jerseys. “We don’t buy any
meat or bread,” he said, but
We have to buy sugar, coffee and
some things that won’t grow
here.”
His community and county in-
tereeta are varied. He is master
of the county Pomona Grange,
head- of the county committee to
administer the soil conserva
tion act, head of the county TVA
committee and chairman of the
county unit of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. He and
Mrs. German and children are
quite active in Zion Hill Baptist
church at Boomer and they take
quite much interest in school af-
(Oonttnued oa pa«e eighty-
'weigbi while ycHlng for help.
Neighbors rushed to the scene
and removeil the rope from the
boy’s neck but by that time his
condition had became quite
-rllical and it wa-s several min
utes before lie was quite norm
al after the severe choking.
After It wa.s all over, Hie
young fellow felt the bruise a-
round his neck and avowed
that he would climb no more
trees.
Son Shoots His
Father In Row
About Whiskey
Koonce Prevette Sought For
Shooting Joe Prevette
In Leg
UseatBenhanL
Millers Cmk
AndMuIheny
Improvements Will Also Be
Made On Wilkeaboro
School Building
CAN COMPLETE UNITS
Grant Will Be'"’ Uadd For
Water and Sewerage Sya-
tems and Equipment
Sheriff W. B. Somers and
deputies are searching for Koonce
Prevette, 24. who is alleged to
have shot and seriously wounded
his father, Joe Prevette, at his
home In the Adley community
Monday night.
According to what the elder
Prevette told officers, his son
brought to his home a quantity
of liquof which he wanted to
place in the house. The father re
fused his son storage for the
newly made illicit spirits, where
upon the two engaged In a scuf-
Wlley M. Pickens, of Lincoln-
ton, who was elected American
Legion commander for the North
Carolina department In the clos
ing session of the cenvention at
Asheville Tuesday.
Miss Essie Erwin
Dies Suddenly
Beauty Contest
In City Tonight
Loveliest Girl To Compete In
Contest At Liberty The
atre Tonight
Many of the loveliest girls in
thi.s vicinity will vie for honors
tonight in a beauty contest at
The Liberty Theatre. The occas
ion is in charge of All-State Beau
ty Show Features o f Warm
Springs, Ga., and is under au
spices of the Woman’s Club here.
The winner in the beauty con
test will be given a trip to the
state contest to be held soon and
an opportunity to compete for
the title of “Miss North Caro
lina.” In addition there will be
an amateur contest and a Shir
ley Temple Parade with the city’s
cutest tots participating. The
screen feature will be "Early To
Bed,” featuring Maru Boland and
Charlie Buggies.
Admission will be 10 and 35
cents and the features on the
stage will begin at 8:30.
g'un and fifed at hie father. The
full load of shot hit the elder
man in the right thigh and blew
off a great part of the muscle of
his leg. His condition was con
sidered quite serious because of
loss of blood and agony from
the wound. He is being treated at
The Wilkes Hospital.
Young Prevette, who had not
been staying at home while dodg
ing officers because of other
charges, fled after he fired the
shot and officers searching since
that time have not learned any
trace of his whereabouts.
While searching near the Pre
vette home Tuesday, Sheriff Som
ers and deputies located and de
stroyed a medium sized still
which apparently had been in ope
ration on the previous day. It was
thought to have been the still
from which young Prevette had
carried the liquor to his father’s
residence.
Revival Begins
At Beaver Creek
A series of revival services be
gan Sunday at Beaver Creek Bap
tist church and will continue
through this week or longer.
Rev. B. F. Peeler, of Taylors
ville. pastor, is assisted in the re
vival by Rev. Frank Austin, of
Gastonte. The public is invited to
any or all services. Services are
held at 11 a. m. and eight p. m.
each day.
Miss Essie Erwin, assistant
cashier of the Bank of North Wil
kesboro, died suddenly Wednes
day afternoon about five o’clock
at her home in Wilkesboro.
Miss Erwin had not .been ill
and had performed her duties at
the bank Wednesday in her usual
efficient manner. She was ap
parently In good health hut had
mentioned suffering from a se
vere headache only a short lime
before her death.
Miss Erwin was the daughter
of the late Dr. T. G. and Ellen
Arey Erwin, and was 47 years of
age on July 4.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
R. E. Lee, a nephew, R. B. Lee,
Jr.; a niece, Betty Lee, all of
Charlottesville, Virginia, and a
nephew, Ray Erwin, of Charlotte,
a member of the editorial staff of
The Charlotte Observer.
Miss Erwin had been associat
ed with the Bank of North Wll
kesboro for 1.8 years and was a
valued member of the bank’s
personnel. She was a member of
t h e Wilkesboro Presbyterian
church and was held in high es
teem and respected by an ever
growing circle of friends in this
part of the state.
Funeral service will be held
Friday morning. 11 o’clock from
her residence and burial will be
in the Presbyterian cemetery.
Telegrams were received ’Tueo-
day by C. B. Eller, Wilkes super
intendent of schools, from state
and national authorities of the
Public Works .Administration id-
vising that the county’s applica
tion for a PWA grant of $49,090
had been approved.
The grant will supplement a
county bond issue of $65.0b0 for
erection of modern school build
ings at Millers Creek, Mulberry,
Benham and improvements on
the Wilkesboro school building.
The telegrams advised that au
thorities should go ahead with
plans and specifications for the
school plants and indicated that
work might begin within a short
time.
Bids were asked some time ago
on erection of the Millers Creek,
Mulberry and Benham buildings
but were held up when ft was
’sectfS’lSS'th« 1'
The grant oM49,09e will mok*
possible .completed units with
full equipment, including plumb
ing, water systems, sewerage,
desks and other items while the
proposed $65,000 bond issue
would have provided only for the
buildings.
Representatives of the archi
tect firm of Benton & Benton,
Wilson, arrived last night and
began the work of changing
specifications in calls for bids to
comply with Public Works Ad
ministration standards. Practical
ly the only changes to be made
were minimum wage and hour
scales to meet approval of WPA
officials.
Superintendent Eller, realizing
the possibility of securing PWA
funds from the newly appropriat
ed sum by the last congress, be
gan work on the proposal to se
cure the grant less than one
month ago and worked diligently,
along with other officials, to
ward that end. Congressman Wal
ter Lambeth, of this district, add
ed his influence to the movement.
The plans call for a modem
high and elementary school plant
at Millers Creek, elementary
buildings at Mulberry and Ben
ham and improvements on the
Wllkesboro •building.
Say Talmadge, GOP Linked
W. M. Pickens Heads
State Legionnaires
Crest Store To
Be Opened Here
Mrs. Eileen Phipps, Misses Hel
en Call, Margaret Hubbard and
Eleanor Smoak returned several
days ago from spending a week’s
vacation at Myrtle Beach, S. C.
Omega, Ga., July 23. United
States Senator Richard B. Rus
sell, Jr., and Congressman E. E.
Cox, In political speeches here
tojiay, charged Governor Eugene
Talmadge, Russell’s opponent,
with affiliation with the Repub
lican party.
Lincolnton Vetewaa 8ncceed.s Dan
iels As Conmumder Of
Department
Formal Opening of 5 & 10
Tonight; Opening Sale
Friday, Saturday
Local Man and Three Youths Held
. On Service Station Theft Charge
Tyre Billings, of North Wll
kesboro, charged with aiding and
abetting in the robbery Of Jdhn
Apperson’s filling station o n
machines and with offering them
a price for slot machines they
brought him.
Dennis Pierce, Montro Campbell
and Foy Raymer, all of this city.
s» rauu -
highway 421 near Wanston-Sal-1 were arrested by Deputy Flair
^ ^ _ ^ MtlAor&ri /'nvVIA ILTIQ.
era, May 8, was bound over to
Forsyth county superior -ooutt hy-
Magistrate C. F. Penry In Wins
ton-Salem Monday.
Three North Wilkesboro
youths, each charged with break
ing, entering, larceny and reo^v-
Ing in connection with, the alleg
ed robbery. Involved Billings,
Forsyth Deputy Sheriff Kenneth
W. Pfaff said. i
The deputy said the three
youths "turned state’s evldenc^
chai^FiBniil^’ irUir ‘'BfiotaiS*'
the filling station conUiMng slot
following the alleged crime and
charged with breaking, entering,
larceny and receiving.
Incidentally, when the arrests
were made one of the men -Ray-
mer—was shot in the leg as he
allegedly attempted to make hto
escape. The other two had been
Asheville. July 28.—The North
Carolina department of the A-
merican legion and its affiliated
organizations ended their 18th
annual convention here today,
electing Wiley M. Pickens, Lin
colnton. department commander
and selecting *parham as their
1937 convention eity.
The legld|^,auxil^y named
■Mrs. C. P. Charlotte,
president, and ’Mrs. Thomas P.
Gause, .Wilmington, retiring pres
ident, national executive com-
mitte«»teman. The North Caro
lina grand voiture'of the ”40 and
Eight” at their hnslness meeting
last Sunday elected William T.
Dowd,. Sanford, grand chef de
gare.
Lumber Productioii Up, ‘
Orders Increase In Week
Washington, July 24..—fOio
eacane me uvue. NaUonal Lumber Manufacturers’
handcuffed and were In custody association • *®-
of the deputy at the time of the
sbooUng.
Crest 5, 10 and 25-cent store.
North Wllkesboro’.s neweet busi
ness enterprise, will observe its
formal opening tonight, 7;:i0 to
nine o’clock, in the building for
merly occupied hy Best 1-cent to
$5 store next door to the Deposit
& Savings Bank.
The store here will be hosM
store for a chain to be formed in
western North Carolina, S. T.
Taylor, manager and proprietor,
said in commenting on the store
opening. Friday and Saturday
will be opening sale days and for
details concerning the opening
the reader’s attention is called to
the advertisement elsewhere ta
this newspaper.
Mr. ’Taylor was formerly con
nected with United Dollar Storra
out of Durham and has wide ax-
perience in the merchandlslag
field. He and Mrs. ^Taylor and
small daughter ar« making thslr
home here.
tn commenting on Um ttare
iSmer^'dld not tratlix
of 246.-
M9,P0U tMt at 668 mpi dorii«
4'
Billings hearing.' - ‘ l
** Billings furnished a
pearance bead. '
’fi« at ^6 mills
com-
m-
“week.
Mr. Taylor said that the r*toi»
would carry a complete line of
5 and. 10-«ent store merehaadli*-.
and in addition keynote
6^ent and dollar iirice raa^' la.
• " (Ceatlnaed^n page eight)