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JOUBNAUPATRIGT. NORTH W1LKESB0«)T N:
^Mr. aad Mrs. B. B, WUson and
^lly. ol Cborlotto. ylsited the
Arehle OgUvlee Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan AndMson
*^©r® visitors to ^harlovto Mbn-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bell, of
Springfield, were visitors in this
city Tuesday.
Miss Rosa Billings spent the
week-end with her sister, Mrs. L.
B. Murray, at State Road.
Mrs. W. L. Yates has been ill
at her home in Wilkeshoro this
week, friends regret to learn.
Mr. W. W. Gamblll, merchant
of the Dockery community, was a
bnslnees visitor in the Wllkes-
boros Wednesday.
Miss Myrtle Smithey, who is
attending summer school at A. S.
T. C., spent last week-end at her
home at Oakwoods.
, Miss Nell Severt, of West Jef-
■.“rson, has returned to Charlotte
Rfter spending her vacation at
' home and In Washington, D. C.
Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Templeton
are spending the week at Lake
Junaluska attending the Bible
Week Conference. Chief lecturer
for the week will be Dr. James
Moffatt.
Mrs, C. a.^ Hudson ibas return
ed from a visit of several days
with relatives at Fort Mills, S.
C.
-Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Eller and
small daughter, Elizabeth Anne,
of Bwansville, Indiana, are here
on a visit with relatives
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Holland, of
Warsaw, are here for a ten days
visit with their daughter. Mrs. C.
B. Eller.
Mrs. W. A. Seckler left Satur
day to he with her sister. Mrs. H.
D. Byrd, of Martinsville, Va., who
is very 111 in Duke hospital at
Durhatn.
Miss Pansy Elizabeth Smithey
R. N., has returned to Charlotte
after .spending a two weeks va
cation with her parents, Mr, and
Mrs. W. M. Smithey.
Miss Gaeda Porter, of Grassy
Creek, has returned to Charlotte
Sanatorium to assume her du
ties as a nurse, after a two weeks
vacation at .home and Galas, Va.
Mrs. Laura Hemsteller, of
Salisbury, has accepted a posi
tion as in.structor for the Hlnshaw
Sdbool of Beauty Culture. Mrs.
Helrasteller has had eigt^en
years experience in Beauty Cul
ture.
A&P Will Be Closed Monday, July 5th
Sweet or Sweet Mixe{
24-sz. Jar ^ 0c
Dill or Sour Pickles
Pickles
: FOOD STORFS I
Quart Jar, 15c
FINEST t;K.*..CL.\TED BOtK
SUGAR 10 Poitiids 49c
HAMS
IMf tr WMle
.^NX
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SALAD
Qaart Jar
VLKON CLUB
p:\-t jar,
A^st>;; TED
80c
Plus Deposit
BEVERAGES3
AfiEU .MELLOW
CHEESE
A&P PI j:e
mm
WATEpEONS 39c
lEMONS. Dozen 25c
-MBANANAS'-ns 5c
P k AU50 FRESH LETTUCE, CELERY, ORANGES,
k « CANTALOUPES, APPLES, CUCUMBERS, SQUASH.
Misaea Jean Moor© ,and Tudia
Hix are gpaiuUng,^t^,weok at
Betty Hastlnia t;‘W. C. A, camp
near Winston^leni.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Lavery re
turned to New York Tuesday aft
er spending tt few days In this
city, gA'est of Miss Kate Finley.
Mr. and -Mrs. T. 6. Kenerly toad
as guests during the week-end
Mr. and Mrs. Dink Gibbons, of
Woodleaf, and Mr. and Mrs
Lloyd Arey, of Salisbury.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hubbard,
of Moravian Falls, Mr. and Mrs.
P. M. Hubbard, of Hazard, Ky.,
have been speadiug^a lew days at
Wrightsvill© Be^h. *
t ’
Mr. N. M. FrancusI, manager
of the A. & P.‘ stow here. Is
spending his vacation with rela
tives in Gastnoia. He Is accom
panied by ibis wife and two chil
dren.
Mr. and Mrs. John Joinee and
Miss Beula Lee Joinee, of Greens
boro, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Joines, of Mooresville, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. John Mor
rison.
Messrs. -Sam Vickery and
George Ogilvie have returned
from a week’s conference of the
Presbyterian Young People of the
Synod of North Carolina held at
Davidson College, Davidson.
Mr. Sam Turner, who recently
graduated in pharmacy at Chap
el Hill and passed the theoretical
part of the state examination,
has accepted a position with
Binmlnghara Drug company in
Hamlet.
Mr. J. C. Meadows, member of
the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco com
pany sales organization and sta
tioned at Martinsville, Va., Is
spending his vacation at Pores
Knob with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Meadows.
.Miss Bertha Sock well, of
Greensboro, and' Miss Ella Sock-
well. of Greenville, are spending
their vacations here with their
mother and sister, Mrs. C. L.
Sockwell nnd Miss Mamie Sock-
well.
Mrs. F. D. Forester and daugihit-
er. Miss Peggy Forester, Mrs.
George Forester and children, of
this city. Mrs. Allen Poe and
«np A If if. in f
uoamr, nave
returned from a w;eek’s trip to
Myrtle Beach, S. C.
frMihtrfe
AuOicr ^ to TOfifSA
and
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
She Turned Him Dovm Because He Had “No
Prospects^-—His Name Waa—^John D.
John D. Rockefeller had done) for him in a year as he could
two astonlstoittg things: earn by ten day^ grnelling
Jiuuor Bsuk^t»all
fAttracjts Interest;
To Play l^tu^ay
The s^bt ttK
can' liselon, :hmior hMeball
are p4aytBS' Sbia®' food iancS
and the f^gae lo«4e piMsingMt^
balanced wtth no team taavliig
ea^
hrospecta of winning an
champioiwliip' this year. -
l/ai%e' etbWds attended some of
the gameg la the ratal'toonlmuni-
tles Saturday. On July S they
play their fouttlf game. • Tlie
standing to datfe Is as MUrwr.
Tan m ' W. L. Pct.
N. Wllkeaboro 2
1 .667
WiUkeaboro
Chaaq^lon
Cllnge^..
Thd schedule for 'She' next
Weedrs is as folloiH^i ' Q:
N, Wllkertmro at Moiwyian Fall^
ciingman at Ti^hiU
Wllkeaboro at Boomer
Cricket at Chaonpion.
Jaly 10
Moravian Falls at CriekeC
Champion at Ntwth Wilkeebonv _
Tr^hUl at Wilkertiopo ®
Boomer at Cltngxnan.
Miss Mabel Blackman, of War-
trace, Tenn., was n guest last
week of her brother, Mr. Ernest
Blackman, and Mrs. Blackman.
Miss Blackman is a counselor at
Camp Beech Haven at Banner
Elk.
Mr. Lowell Smoak left Wednes
day after spending a few days in
Wilkesboro in the ihome of his
uncle, Mr. N. O. Smoak. He is a
radio operator on the U. S. S.
Ranger, stationed at San Diego,
California. He made the trip a-
cross the country in a navy plane.
Mr. and Airs. J. A. Brown spent
Sunday at Stoneville with Mrs.
Brown’s father, Mr. John (!. Tut
tle. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Brown’s niece,
Lnrettai Sims, of Stoneville, who
will visit here with them for a
while.
Mr. and Mr.s. C. H. Cowles and
Mr. Lonnie Lunn returned last
week from Washington, D. C.,
where they attended the funeral
of Co). C. D. Cowles, 'brother, of
-Mr. f. H. Cowles. The body of
Col. Cowles, veteran of many mil
itary campaigns, was Interred in
.Arlington cemetery with military
lionor.s.
Government’s Economy
Drive Falls Short
Washington.—The government
ill-ought the 19.37 fiscal year to a
close today with indications that
the administration’s economy
drive fell approximately ?1.t0,-
flOO short of expectations.
Tretusiiry statistics indicated
that the deficit, while higher than
expected, was the smallest for
any fiscal year since the new
deal came into power. The gov
ernment’s income broke all rec
ords since the World War and
the Treasury had about 11,000,-
000,000 in cash available to start
the 19C8 fiscal year tomorrow.
The national debt stood at. ap-
pro.ximately $36,400,000,000, al
most $400,000,000 above the
peak anticipated by the adminis
tration earlier this year.
Man Near Death With
Broken Neck From Fall
Spruce Pine, June 29.-—Suffer
Ing from what is believed to be a
broken neck, Mtmdy Buchanan,
of the Bstatoe community near
Spruce Pine, remaina critically ill
in the Banner Elk bospital.
Buchanan, 23-year-old son of
J. G. Bnebanan of Estatoe, was
First, he toad aimaased probaib-
ly the greatest fortune iln all his
tory. He started out lu life hoe
ing potatoes under the :boillng
sun for four cents an hour. In
those days, there were not half a
dozen meu m all the United-
States who were worth even one
million dr liars; but John D. man
aged to (ozc^s a fortune estimat
ed at anywhere from one billion
to two billion dollars.
And yet the first girl he fell in
love with refused to marry him.
Why? Because her mother said
she was not going to let a daught
er of hers "throw herself away’’
on a man who had such poor
prospects as John D. Rockefeller.
The second astonishing thing
that Mr. Rockefeller did was this,
to© gave away more money than
anyone else bad done In all his
tory.
He had given away $750,000,-
000—and that means that he had
given away seventy-five cents for
every minute that had passed
night and day since the birth of
Christ—or to put it another way,
John D. had given away six hun
dred dollars for every day that
ihas dawned since Moses led the
Children of Israel across the Red
Sea, three thousand five hundred
years ago.
He had been one of the most
bitterly hated men In America.
He had received thousands of let
ters from people threatening to
kill him. He had to be protected
day and night by armed body
guards. He had endureu the ter
rific nervous and physical) strain
of building up and managing all
his far-flung enterprises.
The strain of business klllo !
Harriman, the railroad builder at
sixty-one.
Woolworth founded hla vast
and was done i^fth life at sixty-
seven.
"Buck" Duke made a hundred
million dollars out of tobacco
and died at sixty-eight.
But John D. Rockefeller had
made a far greater fortune than
Woolworth, Duke and Harriman
all put together; and lived to
ninety-seven. And remenuber, on
ly thirty white men in a million
ever reach the age of ninety-sev
en—and there is probably not
one man in a hundred million
w.ho over reaches ninety-seven
without needing artificial teeth.
But John D. at liinety-seven
hadn’t a false tooth iu| his head.
Wliat was the secret lot his long
life? He probably inherited a ten-
deney to live long. And this ten
dency had been strenj;thened by
a calm, placid disposition. He
never got excited and he never
was rushed.
When he was bead of the
Standard Oil Company, he had a
couch in his office at 26 Broad
way; and come what might, he
had a half-hour’s nap everyday at
noon.
When John D. Rockefeller was
fifty-five, he had a physical
breakdown. That was one of the
happiest accidents that ever hap
pened in the whole history of
medicine; for because of his own
illness, John D. was stimulated
to give millions to medical re
search. Ah a rasult of his ill
health, the Rockefeller F’oanda-
lion is spending almost a million
dollars a month to promote
health throughout the world.
I was in China during the ter
rible cholera epidemic of 1932,
and in the midst of all that pov
erty and ignorance and disease, I
was able to walk into the Rocke
feller iMedical College at Peking,
and get a vaccination for cholera.
Never until then had I realized
how much Rockefeller was doing
for suffering humanity in Asia
and the remote corners of the
earth. The Rockefeller Founda
tion has tried to stamp out hook
worm all over the world; it is
waging a winning‘battle against
malp.rla; and its physicians dis
covered a vaccine for the dreaded
yellow fever.
John D. earned his first dc'lar
by Selplng big' nrother raise tur
keys.
He saved all the nickels his
mother paid him'tor tending tur
keys and stored the money In a
cracked teacup which toe kept on
the mantel piece. He worked on.
a farm for thirty-seven cente a
day and saved all his wages an-
tll he accumiilated fifty dollars,
'ilieh. he lent those fifty dollars
to his etaployer. at seven per «
work. J
“That settled jit,” he said. “I
determined theai»P^ there to lot
money be tny slave instead of be
ing the slave of money.’’
John D. didn’t spoU his son
with too much money. For ex
ample, he gave him a penny for
each fence ■poet he could find on
the estate that needed to be re
paired. He found thirteen in one
day, and was paid thirteen cents.
Then John D. paid his son fifteen
cents an hour for repairing fenc
es, and ihls mother gave him five
cents an hour for practising on
the violin.
John D. never went to college.
He finished high school and at
tended a commercial school for a
few months. He was through with
academic study forever when he
was sixteen; yet he had given
fifty million dollars to the Uni
versity of Chicago.
He was always Intensely inter
ested In the church. As a young
man he taught Sunday school
classes, never danced, never
played cards, never went to the
theatre and didn’t smoke and
didn’t drink.
He said grace before each meal
and he had the Bible read to him
daily—and in addition, he also
had read to him selections from
a book of poems and prayers con
taining uplife meeeagefl for every
day. •
Mr. Rockefeller’s only great
ambition was to round out a cen
tury of life; and he said that If
he were alive on his ihundredthi
birthday — July S, 1939 — he
would lead a band on his eetatc*^
at Pocantico Hills. And the tune'
they were going to play would
‘When You and I Were Young',.
Maggie.
NOTICE
Pay your Electric Licht bill before the lOA
of each month. 5 per cent will be added
after the 10th.
Duke Power Co.
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In -i^ry Unusual Manner
Miss Lucile Pierce, a memiber
of the sales force) at Jean’s, re
ceived a card addressed to “Miss
Lucile Pierce, North Wilkesboro,
Works at Jean’s.’’
The card addressed in this un
usual manner recalls an incident
a few years ago when a letter was
addressed to a certain postoftice
in Wilkes roiinty, the postoffice
name followed by: "To the man
who lives in a white house on the
left hand side of the road aibove
the postoffice and has a cow for
sale’’. The letter reached the de
sired destination.
Man, 106, Pities ‘Softies’
■SI. PrUersliurg, June 29.-
riiarles W. Eldridge observed his
lOfith birthday today, with an ex-
im ssioii of regret that a genera
tion reared on “pop and ice
cream” has little chance to reach
Ills advanced age. His own formu
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injured lu a fall troni the Toe
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