North Carolina Newspapers

Wii. IS iVA mi F-- iiJ?- ■ i Jf-A- H^'^tAZED THE OFiPRQGBBSS IN THE “STATE m WILKES” FOR MORE i ■■— - : ■w tJi^ i 4. IMO To Looe Jobo T'a^ilngton. Aug- 2S>—A. . 3,000 vedi^ctloii ia -tbe staff qf te^et^ tlen^t adminyteation was roport- •d today by M. SL Gilfoid, l^r- mation diroctor, coincident with a dSaclosoie that emplc^es of the agency had receiTod flSl.000 too ■UkIL'through duplicate pay-checks and: overpayments up to last Sep- x'a ^ fog jfatmiL _ Fov ^togdag Ja kesMro, ijb»' of Woithwwst Una. VOL. XXX, NO. 91 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORT& WILKESBORO, K. C., MOND4t, AUG. ?4, 1986 "'1^80 IN OTl STATE—62.00 out OP THS-OTAm vJMiiyon..vj>g>inff ^ 5^ V , ;ing- Body Found in Hole Aug. 21—The body of ^rt Hutson, middle-aged Erwin was found dead lajt^ this aft- in a gravel hole .on the Fear river road by Tilghman who was woeUav in a BelA Thonitm niud he saw leiAffied canq^hlg Hut- the pit w!y fa the mom- Seek Slayer of Taxi Driver - Kannapolis, Aug. 21.-, Fifty of- irs and state patrolmen were ing Cabarrus, Rowan and Ire dell or .htleS tonight for the slay- pf Jasper E. Wilkinson, well- r *1n\own Kannapolis taxi driver, I , whose body was found shortly aft- «r midnight this morning on the ndis highway abode* four miles rbm Kannapolis. Woman Jailed in Baby Death Lenoir, Aug. 21.—Mrs. Furches Crane of the Mill Hill section of Caldwell county was under arrest here tonigh"' and office rs were seeking her husband in connection with the death of a sLx-months- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Garson Faw in an automobile accident at Beach’s Ford bridge early this morning. New York . . England’s master 'p.Aa Fred Perry, tennis ace, Is now- in the United States, work ing out in minor tournaments and getting all set to annex the American Amateur Tennis title again at the Forest Hill tourna ment just ahead. Suit Is Filed Against Bus. Co. Hubert Canter Seeks .$50,- ! 000 in Suit Growing Out I of Collision Moratoriam on Political Speeches Hyde Park. N. Y., Aug. 22.— A moratorium on political speeches -until October was declared yester- f-day by President Roosevelt The f ,-president told reporters he had [toomuch to do to take time to gigPbie speeches. He has speak- fag dates at a “Green Pastures” Lnlly at Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 10, Pat Washington Sept. 11 before the world ^w«conf^ce, and at the „ dent said. Rains in Dry Belt Chicago, Aug. 21.—Further pre cipitation in some parts of the drought land today gave agrono- i^ki|tenew hope for salvaging pay- iTBp^aPopa- from the rain left by k^QUs season’s blazing sun. rains, which crop experts said would be of distinct benefit to for age crops and pastures were re- ’ rported over a -wide area of the . 1 north-central states yesterday. The ^\precipitation was reported in east ern North Dakota. Iowa, Wiscon sin, Michigan and northern Illi nois. Hubert A. Canter, of Purlear, whose wife, Mrs. Edith Elledge Canter, was killed in an automo bile collision 15 miles west of this city on the Boone Trail a- bout a year ago, has filed action in federal court against the Grey hound Bus company. The amount asked in the complaint is J50,- 000. It ulH he recalled that both Points Out Need Of Heating System In County Buildings Makes Examination of Total of 131 Bills of Indict ment; 86 True J. B. McCoy, foreman of the grand Jury for the August term of court, submitted a comprehen sive report of that body’s find ings with recommendations to Judge J. H. Clement. The grand jury completed its task Wednes day. The grand jury examined a total of 131 bills of indictment, finding 86 true, 25 not true’, and 20 continued for lack of evidence. There were eight presentments. The remainder of the report fol lows: “The Grand Jury was divided up in committees to visit the var ious institutions. County Home, Jail, the Court House, and the Prison Camp. The committee vis iting the county home, first went to the T. B. Hut, and found sev en (7) patients there, three white men, three white women and one colored woman. We found everything very clean and comfortable the patients being well feed and Veil cared for gen erally. “W© found in the county home, eight white men, sixteen white w'omen and three colored women, a total of twenty-seven people. We found that the premises were kept in a sanitary condition and that the food was well prepared and a well balanced ration, and all were well cared for general ly. We found three whit© prison ers there and one colored. They were well treated In every way. P Triplett’a car and a Greyhound bus coUlded on the highway and an indictment for- manslaughter is pending in Wilkes court a- gainst the bus driver, John ] Jones, of Ashe county. The plaintiff seeks a total of I $35,000 as actual and $15,000 Heavy punitive damages in the civil action filed in federal court. It is quite probable that the case will be tried at the next term of federal court in Wilkeshoro. Roosevelt, London to Meet Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 22.— President Roosevelt will meet Gov. Alf. Landon, his Republican op ponent for the presidency, face to face in a conference of drought state executives September 1 at Des Moines, Iowa. The date was set officially today when the sum mer White House issued the text of a telegram dispatched to Lan- }on, and the governors of a dozen )rought states as well as to the itad States senators and other icials who will participate in the kMscussion. r / Two Entombed Miners Live '' Moberly, Mo., Aug. 21.—Two Icoal miners—one of them appw little the worse for his :y ordeal—vnare rescued late today from a i^as-filled ' in -vfaiejt foCr were impris- mine collapse Tuesday, had taken their eom- A. iW. McCann, oldest of >mbed miners, and Demmer co-worker, was sprawled his feet The others, Edward >nner and George T. Dameron, '^gro were huddled in death at the ■ar of the 200-foot tunnel—vlc- ms of deadly whit© damp. Home Coming At Adley On Sunday; Revival To Begin A series of revival services will begin at .\dley Methodist church Sunday with a home coming and all-day service. All members, friends, and oth ers who wish to attend have a cordial invitation to be present for the home coming. Special fea tures of the all-day service in cluding a sermon, addresses, spe cial music by quartets and oth ers and dinner on the grounds at the noon hour. Rev. J. C. Gentry is pastor of the church and will conduct the revival during the coming week. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Loy, Mrs. John D. Sockwell, and Mr. John W. Wagoner, all of Gibsonville, spent Sunday here in the home of Mrs. C. L. Sockwell. Rural Electrification Brings Hours' Of Leisure to Farm Wives of State ^hway Toward Lenoir Is Closed of 18 Between Mora* rian Falls and Lenoir Being Re-surfaced Ighway rs between Moravian lls and Lenoir will be closed ^this week while workmen em- Eqred by the state highway and fwic works commission re-surf- the road and repair damage to the surface by the severe her of the winter of 1935- »gb traffic is being de- by way of Taylorsville or temporary 2tS from W|l- aro west along the Yadkin ^ork will be poshed as rspld- joidble bot the Ughwsy closed serersi days. Raleigh, Aug. 17.—Rural elec trification is unlocking the doors of many jail-like farm homes and bringing new freedom, leis ure and happiness to thousands of farm women in North Caro lina, according to Dr. David S. Weaver, secretary and chief en gineer of the North Carolina Electrification authority. It is al so decreasing the chores and odd jobs for the farm men, such as the chopping and carrying in of firewood for the kitchen stove, carrying or pumping water for the stock since the electric stove were installed in the kitchens and electric motors for the old hand pumps. “I stopped a week or so ago at a farm home along the new rural electrlte line in Orange county, running out of Chapel Hill,’’ Mr. Weaver said. “I had known the family a long tlm© and asked the wife of the owner how she liked her electric lights and other elec- trio appliances. She said they were too wonderful for words and that even In the day time she often caught herself tnming the swttchee on «nd off jtM see the lights burn, or went to look at her stove and to ponder on how fine it was and how much work it was saving her. “But every afternoon at four o’clock, I find myself getting up and starting to the kitchen to fill and trim the kerosene lamps, just as I have done for years and as my mother and grandmother did before me,” this woman told Dr. Weaver. “The habit of a lifetime is so strong that sometimes I get all the way to the kitchen and start looking for the lamps 'be fore I realize that we have elec tric lights instead now. And you don’t know how good it la not to have to fill those old, greasy lamps every afternoon and wash and polish the chimneys.” Many women are finding that their electricity and electric stoves and refrigerators are giv ing them BO much more time than they formerly had that they are doing additional tuiking, such as cakes, pies, rolls and' bread, which they sell in the neighboring towns. Dr. Weaver said. Some of the tarn women are paying for their new stoves A refrigerators la this manner.^ LMali Hollywood . . . From down Tulsa, Okla., way came the cham pion 1936 chol-us girl in filmland. She is Jean Joyce, 19, standing 6 feet 3 Inches and weighing 108 pounds and adept in every dance step. She was crowned champion ill filmland competition this week. kept in good repair. The farm consists of 250 acres. There are about fourteen acres in corn, about seven acres in garden and truck, about one acre .in molasses cane, ' fourteen acres in peps and soy beans and forty acres in lespedeza, twenty of which will be cut for hay. This year the farm produced three hundred and fifty-three bushels of wheat. Two hundred and six bushels of oats and two hundred and ninety-two bushels of rye. We found the following livestock on the farm: Seven young mules, two horses, thirty-six cows, five lieifers. two bulls, three brood sows, one boar, ten fating hogs, sixty-five hens, two hundred and twenty young chickens, we also found about two hundred and sixty cans of fruit and vegetables, a hundred and twenty-five bear ing apple trees, one hundred and twenty-five young trees. W e were told by Mr. J. M. Absher, the manager, that he had fifty- six acres of Yadkin River bottom rented and had a fin© crop of corn on these acres. The farm is equipped with sufficient farm machinery to care for the crops they are growing. The cows fur nish milk and butter for the in mates of the home, also some skim milk for the hogs and the farm is selling quite a good deal of cream to the cheese factory in North Wilkeshoro. We feel like that Mr. Absher, has Improved (Continued on page eight) Mia. View School Is Ready to Open All Students Urged to Enter First Day and Start Without Delay The Mountain View school will open on Thursday morning at 8:30 o’clock. It is urged that all students enter at this time and gel started without any delay. The central school faculty fol lows: K. R. Spruill, district prln- Ruth Williams, C. A. Williams, R. S. Thornton. Elementary school—J. L. Gregory, C. C. Blev ins. Miss Ruby Flemings, Miss Iva Mae Williams, Miss Nettle Sharp, Mrs. Willie Felts. Miss Helen Stanberry, Miss Lois Parks, Mrs. Dell Dancy, Miss Selma Roblnett, Miss Clara Cau dill; R. F. I>ewey, custodian of grounds. SCHOOtlISffil BEGIN term THURSDAY ^Teachers to Moot in Re spective Districts On Wednesday On Thnrsday morning, An- gnst 27, school children in Wilkes county, about eight thousand in nnmber, will march back to their rooms to )>egln the 1980-87 school term. Total enrollment of WUkes schools is about 10,000 but some few schools liave already btgnn the term and North WU- kesboro city schools will not open until Wednesday, Septem ber 2. Included in the schools which wUl open 'Thursday are all the county high schools and the elementary schools which luive not already opened, llie high schools are Wilkeshoro, Millers Creek, Mount Pleasant, Ferguson, Mountain View, Traphlll, Roaring River, and Ronda. Teachers in the various cen tral districts will meet at the high schools for their respec tive districts Wedne^y morn ing to receive supplies. Pros pects are bright for a good school year in the county, ac cording to school autlmrities. Ask Improvement Of Traphill Road Picnic Gathering to Be Held at Charity Church On Friday Evening People living along the Trap- hill road and vicinity who are in terested in improvement of that road are requested to meet with the Elkin Klwanls club and at least a part of the highway com mission, on a picnic occasion at Charity church on August 28, 6:30 p. m. Those Interested are requested to be present," carry' along a basket dinner and show thetr ajN predation and interest in this effort to get something irf the way of 'improvements on this im portant and much used road. An nouncement of the occasion says that a good time is anticipated and everybody is invited to be present. ' • District Masonic Meet Thursday Will Be Held With North Wilkeshoro Lodge as Host; Free Chicken Dimer afternoon and^vsilfSK for an 6t- ficers conference, chicken supper and a general meeting with the North Wilkeshoro lodge as host, it was announced today by J. W. Nichols, district deputy grand master. Officers of all the lodges and the district organization will meet in the lodge hall at four o’clock for a conference, after which they will be served a chick en dinner at the Legion club house by the North Wilkeshoro lodge. This will be free for all officers attending. The district meeting to which all Masons are Invited will be held in the lodge hall In the eve ning. Among those on the pro gram will be J.,Giles Hendren, of Salisbury, Grand Master, and John H. Anderson, of Raleigh, Grand Secretary. I5-2IL Years b \ Olney, 111. . . . Syl Plumlee, 68, (above), has taken unto himself his tenth bride, since 1898, all wooed behind the dashboard of a horse and buggy rig. As h© re calls ’em there was Mary, May, Lou, Sada, Stella, Lula, Sarah, Sarah II, Laura, Julia; and now Viola. Merchants to Meet Thursday Night “Along Main Sereet” Will Be Shown to Merchants and Salespeople Here Wilkes county Merchants’ as sociation, salesmen and sales la dies will meet on Thursday night, eight o’clock, at the city hall in a special called meeting. The meeting will be held for the purpose of showing a slide talking film entitled ”Along and Attends State Meeting Juniors At Asheville S. L. Pardue was the repre sentative of the North Wllkes- boro council of Jr. O. U. A. M. attending the state convention of juniors held In Asheville last week. Attorney B. L. Gavin, of Sanford, was elected state coun cilor. . Prt^T^ Outlined Reunion McNeill Family at Millers Creek September 6 Union Services Conducted Here _____ T. Held Sunday Night at MeUi- odist Church; First Ba^, list Next Sunday The three leading churches of the city are now in the midst- of the series of union services oh Sunday evenings. Sunday evening the service was held at the Methodist church with Rev. Eugene Olive, Baptist pas tor, preaching a most interesting and helpful sermon on the sub ject of ‘‘The Wings of the Dove.” Rev. and Mrs. Olive also sang a most beautiful duet. The next and last of the se ries of union services will he held on next Sunday evening at the first Baptist church with Rev. W. M. Cooper, Presbyterian supply pastor, In the pnlpit. Food Sale The Mary Brame Circle of the North Wllkeeboro Methodist church will hold a food sale at Spainhonr-Sydaor’s store Fridar [ Program for the annual reun ion of the MoNlel family to be held at Millers Creek school ibnllding on Sunday, September 6, was outlined today by Judge Johnson J. Hayes, program chair man. Judge Hayes said the program committee had endeavored to ar range an interesting and helpful program to stimulate greater in terest and to encourage all Mc- Niels and desoeAdants to attend the reunion. The McNlels are one of the most widely known fami lies in western North Carolina and the reunion of the clan is an annually anticipated event. The feature of the morning program for the reunion will be an address by Dr. J. I. Foust, president emeritus of Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dr. Foust is one of the most dis tinguished educators in the state and those who- are acquainted with him exprees assurance that he will have a message of great Interest. By marriage Dr. Foust is a member of the McNlel clan, his 1'Wife being the fonhw Miss Con MoNlel;.a naUre of^^yiBcegc. Dinner will be apread ^ Wflkeo hoard of is Chairman ot circle and anyone ^Ich time those attendfaC will Dr. W;. -A. Stanbury, pastor of West Market Methodist church in Greensboro and* recognised as one of the ablest ministers in the conference, will be a feature speaker on the afternoon pro gram. Dr. Stanbury is a native of Watauga county and a descend ant of the McNiels. In addition to the address of Dr. Stanbury there will be brief speeches by Judge Hayes, R. H. McNlel, of Washington, D. C., one of the nation’s outstanding attorneys; Attorney Ed Bing ham, of Boone; Senator Peter McNiel and Attorney Joseph M. Prevette, of Jefferson; C. B. Eller, superintendent of Wilkes schools, and others. Music will he in charge of Jay Anderson, graduate of Wake Forest Ckdlege who made quite a record in music and who Is a son of. Mrs, Annie McNiel An- daraon. Time will be set apart for for mation of a constitution and by laws., HilssrUl bo in charge of' JaiuM Larkin Pearson, of Boom er, North OnroHna’s' poet lauMte. Mr. Pearsd;^ ia deecehdant of the McNlels, Is seei'etary, of the aMo- ciation. C.-0; McNl^ cljainnan of edhcatloii, Second Degree . r | Murder. Verdic* Is -Second - Aadetwa Hag B«en Convirtod On Murder Charge., OTHERS SENTENCED ' Dock Anderson, convicted in Wilkes court during the first week of the Augusc term for killing Dink Love at Anderson’s home near Windy Gap in Decem ber, 1934, was sentenced Thurs day by Judge J. H. Clement to serve not lees than 15 nor more than 20 years in prison. His at torney, Judge T. C. Bowie, gave notice of appeal. This is the second time Ander son has been sentenced to prison for murder. He served about sev en years of a sentence imposed In 1923 for the murder of Colum bus Bottoms In the same com munity. Witnesses said Anderson slew Love with a chair. Anderon was not tried on oth er charges pending, including the charge that he burned his own corn crib and about 250 bushels of corn and did quite much dam age to his own residence. Robert Lee was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. Q. TeoguSb who was killed when a car he was driving wrecked about two years ago. Prayer for judgment was continued until next court. Robert Huffman, Percy, Mon roe and Roxie Griffin,, coavictsd of breaking Into a ‘ atore,. sentenced Thu recoi Bubject lie woman four meuda|^..deiJk.witb the — of ‘‘^leemahAlp.” It is calcu&t- ed to be very inspiring and high ly helpful to all who see it and all who are engaged in the pro fession of selling are cordially Invited to attend. The meeting will be short and the picture will consume only a half hour. 2 Die in Gas Chamber Raleigh, Aug. 21—and youth found North Carolina’s gas chamber too much for them today and old John Kinyon, Granville negro, and young Willie Gallman, Forsyth negro, went out in se quence for capital felonies. Kin yon was executed for a crime against a white girl and the For syth negro died for the murder of a negro girL The deepest mine in the world is the Robinson Deep, a gold mine. Temperatures in the bot tom of the mine range from 100 to 120 degrees. The mine will soon be air-conditioned. Carrie Jacobs Bond not only wrote both the words and music for ‘‘I Love You Truly,’’ but also designed the cover, and helped to sell the song by singing it in public. jail. montln - ■ Lester Combe, convicted of assault, were sen tenced to six months each on the roads. Relin Lowe, convicted of larceny in the last term of court, was brought in for judgment Thursday and sentenced to 12 months on the roads on the lar ceny charge and four months for assault. Upon completion of state’s evi dence Friday In the trial of Fred Glass for the slaying of Lum Anderson in the call community four years ago, Judge J. H. Clem ents allowed a defense motion of non-suit. Witnesses who told ot the af fair made out quite a clear case of seif defense for Glass, al though the exact cause of Ander son’s death was not brought out. Court adjourned Friday at the end of the two-weeks term. Many cases considered difficult were tried during the two weeks, although many criminal cases are yet on the docket. Roaring River Faculty Named School Ready to Open Thvn- day Morning With Ap propriate ExercUea Everything is in readiness for the opening ot Roaring River high school Thursday moriafag. August 27, at 10:30, Wm. . H. Davis, the 'new principal, said to day. Mr. Davis was elected head of the school following the resig nation of C. M. Cook, who ac cepted a principalshlp in Iredell county. For the imst seven years Mr. Davis uas been teaching at Ronda. The other high school teachers ar© Cecil Vannoy, who will also be athletic coach, and Miss Geor gia McCall. The elementary teach ers are as follows: Miss Esther Hoots, Miss Annie McNiel, Mrs. H. A. Cranor, Miss Helen Parks, Miss Beatrice Parsons, Miss Belva. Kilby, Denver Holcomb, Miss Zelle Harris and Mrs. Miimle Pardue. n .. Appropriate exercises will mark the opening of school Thursday morning. wuhlng special Muds of *>od may an opportunity to rm»w ac ^ ^uidsfaBcea. ...family; deiMeadaitta, ralatiTa|| and i-|frt»Bda are afthfad and d&g jhe Attoids Meeting E & L. ' ExeentiTe' Committee J. B. Williams, preaide^^^of thto district of the Nortt Building and Laaa:^Xh«k8e;91pi“ from where h® sitended a maet- dt the ezeentive committ^nt the state B. «; U Mrs. John Maided apt daagh-