|oOrna£-pa1!Sqk:»
itiN^Of
^ate^
[.LSD BY TRAIN ^
Rikl«ailt, Jatr X—Ora«) Banks,
nesro. of nearby Mitliod, was kiJl-
ed lat« today when ho struck
by a train near bis botto.
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STRIKE IS ENDED
West Jefforson, July 1€.—A
sit-down strike at the Warrene-
vtllo prison camp waa shortllTed
today when Capt. John Rackley,
camp superintendent, fired a gun
shot into a group of ten long-term
convicts, wounding five of them
slightly. Dr. B. E. Reeves, prison
physician, said none of the con
victs was seriously injured.
HUSBAND IS FINED
Clarksville, Tenn., July 16.—
Mason Burt, 27-year-old husband
of a child bride, was fined $25
and costa today. Judge Ridley
Goodpasture assessed the penalty
Burt pleaded guilty to mak-
i$|r a false statement when he
obtained a license to wed Birdie
Lillian Reed, whose mother says
she is only 13.
VOL. XXH, NO. 80 F-nblished Mond[>ya »ni Thufadaya,
55th Wtlite^RO, Ni= C.
MONDAY, JULY;19, 1987.
linportaht Tours
Mapped Out For
Fanners ofCounty
2 Days This Week
OBf OPtHESTAT*
I r
Number O f Outstanding
Farms Wilt Be Visited in
Coimty Tuesday
YADKIN WEDNESDAY
Many Expected To Go To
Yadkin County Wednes
day to Study Terracing
FRIDAY HOTTEST
^(^rlotte, July 16—^North Car
olina sweltered under the hottest
tamperatures of the summer Fri
day as the nine-day heat wave
continued with no prospect of im
mediate relief. The mercury hit
98 at Charlotte, 100 at Raleigh,
98 at Durham, and 98.5 at Win
ston-Salem. Wilmington, on the
coast, reported a maximum of 94,
and Asheville, in the mountains,
90.
LIGHTNING FATAL
yVlnston-Salem, July 16.—The
C(hottest day of the y®ar in Win
ston-Salem was climaxed tonight
with a storm that killed one and
caused injuriea to three other ...
persons, besides firing one bouse-, jjjgpj,ij,g.jj,ad6 terraces. This
in the city and destroying a house -
In the county. James Boyd, 14,
died in a hospital of injuries re
ceived when a lightning bolt en
tered a grocery store by a radio
aerial. Two others in the store
were dazed by the bolt.
IS dlRO^V'NBD
July W.—Jhe sea-,
_ m’h first drowning hero occur
red today when Cleff Harrison
Wll, eight, slipped and fell into
the lake between the third and
I fourth hole on the local country
club golf course shortly after
noon. The child was there with
two playmates in violation of
“swimming forbidden’’ signs
prominently displayed. An hour’s
work at resuscitation was un
availing. anTl at 1:30 o’clci-k Drs.
Jackson and H, L. Brock-
Two important tours are plann
ed for interested farmers in
Wilkes county during the coming
week.
On Tuesday a tour of many of
the leading farms in the county
will form at the courthouse in
Wilkecboro at nine o’clock. In
the tour, sponsored by' A. G.
Ilendren, Wilkes farm agent, and
the extension service, will be R.
W. Graeber, extension forester,
and R. W. Scboffner, assistant
district manager of farm man
agement demonstration work. All
farmers are cordially invited to
be in the tour, which will visit
the following places: 'Meadow-
brook Dairy, S. V. Tomlinson’s
farm, J. H. Johnson’s, J. .M. Ger
man’s, Gold Medal Orchard,
Mountain View, and a forestry
i demonstrat'Ott of Mr. Mathis
farm near Clingman.
On Wednesday County Agent
Hendren in company with all in
terested farmers who wish to go,
will be in Yadkin county to study
is
of special interest in that a
movement is on foot to purchase
a terracing outfit jointly with
Yadkin county, which has one
and which needs another In order
to fill all demands for work.
District Agent O. P. McCrary
and L. F. Brumfield, county a-
gent of Yadkin, will accompany
.the TislUng TS likes
on their observation tour.
On Thursday it Is expected that
many Wilkes people will attend
the field day at Piedmont station
near Statesville and on Friday
the annual Grange picnic will be
held near Moravian Fall.s.
Clement
Presiding Judge
At August Term
Has Exchanged With A.
Hall Johnson, Scheduled ^
For This District
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Los Angeles, Cal. . . . Albert
Dyer, 32-year-oId WPA crossing
guard employed 1 n Centinela
Park, Inglewood, in his cell after
he confessed to nhe slaying of
three young girls.
Distinguished
Men Visit Here
Ex-Govemor Alabama And
Former Head Federal Re
serve Bank Here
tn pronounced the boy dead.
WOMAN ARRESTED
Columbia, S. C., July 16.—
Lieut. I.,eo Jenkins state highway
patrol identification officer, said
tonight that the arrest today of
a woman booked a,s Joan .Murphy
ended the investigation of the
slaying of Policeman B. Fran,k
Sowell, of Lancaster, “so far as
the suspects are concerned.’’ Jen
kins said sh(\ was the “red-haired
w1||nian’’ sought as the compan
ion of Robert S. Smith, escaped
North Carolina convict held in
the state penitentiary on a charge
of killing the officer, when So-
,^ell wa.s shot down on a high-
: Jlbay near Lancaster July 4.
Attend Dokies’
Ceremony Friday
TAKE IT ON CHIN
Henderson, July 16.—Sheriff J.
B. Hamlett reported this after
noon that two women claiming to
from Daytona Beach, i^a., but
lifuslng to give their names, ad-
vtoed him this morning that they
were criminally assaulted In the
vicinity of a swdmimlng hole near
Norlina last night by two men.
_ien Sheriff Hamlett telephoned
iwiff W. J. Plnnell, of Warren
.iinty, about the incident and
Mked the Warren officer to meet
him at Norlina to coa^ uith the
women in an attanipt to Identify
" • assailants, the P«lr refused
S o, remarking that they would
e it on the chin.”
There were five candidates
from North Wilkesboro in the
Dokie initiation ceremony at
Greensboro Friday afternoon and
Friday night. They were W. F.
Gaddy. F. U. Forester. -V. S. For
ester. Fred Pope and Ed Caudill.
A very successful ceremonial
wa.s carried out and was highly
enjoyed, according to reports
they brought back to this city.
Among those attending were
Dr. H. B. Smith. A. S. Cassel, T.
E. Story, J. B. Carter, Mr. Shu
mate, C. T. Doughton, J. B. Wil
liams, Bill Abslier, Jim Hauser,
Stokes Hunt, J. O. Emerson, R.
1. Moore, and Frank Eller.
North Wilkes'boro and other
points in Wilkes were honored to
day by the visit of two of the
south’s most distinguished gen
tlemen.
They were Thoma.s E. Kilby,
ex-governor of the state of Ala-
bama’and norr a prominent steel
manufacturer in Anniston, Ala
bama, and M. B. Wellborn, of
Piedmont, Alabama, a former
governor of the federal reserve
bank in. Atlanta, Ga.
They were on their way to
Canada and came through Wilkes
to spend a few hours 'here where
their ancestors lived.
Both of these distinguished
gentlemen are descendants of
Wilkes county people, their fore
fathers having moved from
Wilkee to Alabama.
the well known Kilby family in
Wttlkes while Mr. Wellborn Is a
descendant of the late General
James Wellborn, highly promi
nent in public life In this vicin
ity following the Revolution.
The following sketch of Gen
eral Wellborn prepared by J.
Gordon Hackett will be of inter
est here.
James Wellborn came to
Wilkes County between 1790 and
1795. In his day General James
J. H. Clement, of Winston-Sal
em, will preside over Wilkes Au
gust term of court.
Judge A. Hall Johnson, of
Asheville, was scheduled to pr^'
side over courts of the 17th dis
trict but it is understood that he
and Clement have exchanged dis-i
tricts for the period. |
A comparatively light docket
of criminal cases, only about 150
at the present time, is awaiting,
action in Wilkes. However, one
of the matters of outstanding in
terest will ibe the Swaringen vs.
Poplin election suit, which
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Washington, D. C. . . . Represewktive Hamilton Fish (Rep. N.
la Y.) charged the Treasury Dept, had used “inquisition methods’ in
rOpIln. ©IcCllOli SUlLf ^vDlOu IS J 1. T 4 ♦
scheduled for trial at the August its tax avoidance drive during his testimony .before the Joint Com-
IT _«_i .a A.v^T\/v«\ AVi-fa tlWk
term.
Scout Addresses
Club; Tells^Of WPA RoadPro ject Picnic Of Grange
OCOUt JdinDOr66 Foreman Who Did Good Will Be Held Friday At
Pat Williams, Jr., Kiwanis
Speaker; Club Asks Park
Office Here
Dr. F. C. Hubbard furaished
the program at the Kiwanis
luncheon Friday, presenting Pat
Williams, Jr„ one of the Scouts
who attended the national Scout
Jamboree in Washington, D. C.
He made a comprehensive re
port of the entire trip, telling of
the Jamboree In a most Interest
ing manner. His descriptions of
camp life, points of interest vis^
ited, “re-viewing the president,”
and other Incidents were present
ed in a most Interesting manner.
He said he waa benefltt^ by the
Governor KiUiby Is related tin (ftp jmd only •'SisllBA ’flbat "Tjiany
1 -critw.. 4*. 1 V eaviL
Other boys had had the same
portunity. »
In a short business session the
Kiwanians decided to join the
Grange in the picnic Friday of
this week at Cain’s picnic grounds
near Moravian Falls. -
In a letter from R. C. Jennings
the club was informed of the
work planned for the Bluff.park
in northern Wilkes pnd attention
was called to the fact that the
park service has an office in
Grover McGimsey, who receiv
ed much favorable comment for
the manner in which he handled
the street widening project here
a few weeks ago, has been pro
moted by the Works. Progress
administration to foremen of the
entire county-wide road project.
He has already began his du
ties in that capacity and will vis
it each indlvidnal work project
on the roads, i^ondJng a day or
mor© on each project and demon
strating efficient methods of
work and production.
The road project has accomp
lished whjd Is considered some
very bOTWclaL’sfhrk ta 'crushed
stone surficlng on a number of
leading secondary roads and
sc-hool bus routes.
Ill uaiuta parK seiVHJC nan an ***
Wellborn was probably the mo.st charge ’•1 the work located in Ga-
A. J Proffit Is
Claimed By Death
;^AN electrocuted
. fltstesville, July 16.—Harold
ihook, 20, of Shiloh township,
was electrocuted by contact ■with
a live wire on a county road a-
bcnt five miles west of Statee-
vdlle late this afternoon. During a
thunder ehower which was ac-
ooBSpanied by a high wind, a light
pole was blown across the road.
Jhollowlng the rain, the young
*'lRan was attempting to remove
pole from the road when he
I in contact with the wire. A
mnion was unable to extii-
him, Sho* having to remain
in contact with the live wire un-
^ the messenger eonld drive to
l^tet^ille ahd get the assistance
ol an electiielaa.
Funeral service was held this'
afternoon at Lewis Fork Baptist
church for A. Judd Proffit, age
63, who died at his home Satur
day following an extended illness.
A son of the late A. N. and
Sarah Anne McNeill Proffit, he
was a member of one of Wilkes
county’s widely and favorably
known families. H© took an ac
tive intereet In church and com
munity affairs and was held In
high esteem by a wide circle of
friends.
He is survived by his "wife,
Mrs. Willie Proffit, and one son,
Harrold.
prominent man in the county. He
married Rebecca Montgomery,
one of the two heirs to the large
tracts of land known as the Mo
ravian surveys.
James Wellborn was appoint
ed General of the militia about
the close of the Revolutionary
war. From the year 1796 to 1835
General Wellborn served in the
State Senate thirty years. He
served in succession from 1796 to
ISll, from 1817 to 1821, in 1823
and 1924, in 1828 and 1829, in
1832, and in 1834 and 1935.
Prior to 1835 members of the
General Assembly were elected
every year, so Wellborn -was elect
ed thirty times in thirty-nine
yeara The fact that a man can
stand so popular for thirty-nine
years is. honor enough for one
man. I doubt if th© world can
furnish a like example.
During his term an th© Senate
General Wellborn made strenu
ous efforts to have the State
'build a turnpike road from the
mountains to the sea, but he fall"
ed.
It was largely through the ef
forts of GeuM’al Wellborn that
his brother-in-law, Montford
Stokes waa twice elected to the
United States Senate and once
elected Governor of the State.
H© was buried on hla .planta
tion about thrpe miles west of
Wilkeeboro.
Making Progress
On Construction
Warehouse Here
Workmen are making consdder-
abl© progress on construction of
a spacious warehouse for N. B.
Smlthey.
The warehouse, of attractive
mountain stone construcUan, Is
being erected on Tenth and A
streets between the railroad and
A st-eet. ’The building will pro
vide much storage space, to he
tned by Mr. Smlthey in hla many
bnalnees interesta.
lax, ’Va., while 60 per cent of the
park development work will be
in Wilkes and Alleghany counties
in this state. The secretary of the
club was asked to write a letter
to the North Carolina senators
and representaatives asking that
the park service office in charge
of the development work be lo
cated here.
M. F. Absher and Leet Poplin,
members of the county board of
commissioners, were guests of
their chairman, R. G. Finley; J.
G. Hackett and H. R. Niswonger,
horticulture specialist, were
guests of H. H. Morehouse and
Frank Buck, of Salisbury, was a
visiting Kiwanian.
To Occupy New
Church BuOding
Brick Structure A t
Hope Almost Completed;
Revival To Begin
mittee on Tax EJvasion. H© claimed that wealthy opponents of the
Administration had been singled out as evaders.
McGimsey Heads
Foreman
Work On Street Project
Placed Over Work
Many people are eagerly an
ticipating the annual Pomona
Grange picnic, which will be held
on Friday, July 23, at Din© Ridge
picnic grounds near Moravian
Falls. ,
The program for the occaaion
will begin at 10:30 and contains
such interesting features as ad
dresses by W. Kerr Scott, state
commissioner of agriculture, Bwi
■Wilson, state Grange Master,
Harry Caldwell, state Grange lec
turer, J. G. Hackett, highway
commissioner, and other promi
nent men in public and business
-The North Wilkeeboro
Is club accepted an Invitation to
join the Grange In the picnic.
The picnic will be open to the
public and all interested people
are invited to join in the occaa
ion.
Woodmen World
Open Camp Here Junior Teams In
Over 75 Visitors From Vari
ous Camps Here For
Opening
Maple Camp No. 969 of the
Sovereign Camp of th© Woodmen
of the World held Its first meet
ing Friday evening, July 16th, in
the new Moose Hall located on
C street, which will be the per
manent meeting place of fl*® new
Maple Camp. The opening of this
new camp brings the total of
969 W. O. W. Camps, located in
the state of North Carolina. Ma
ple Camp w-as constituted under
the personal supervision of spe
cial state deputies Sovereigns B.
G. Arnett and F. R. Irvin. The
camp opened with! approximately
forty charter members and many
more applications pending ap
proval. Camp No. 806 furnished a
crack degree team for the open
ing meeting, who did soonae splen
did team work for the netw cainp.
Include! in the large number of ^
visitors wer© the entire staff of Qanday.
officers from 806_who in con-
New gave some Interesting
Deputy E. G.
PLEADS FOR JOBLESS
Boston, July 16.—A plea by
James Roosevelt that Massachu
setts publiehere give the unem
ployed free spac© in their want ad
columns today headlined a meet
ing called by the President’s son
to spur the industrial absorption
of 35,000 discharged WPA work
ers In th© Bay State.
The new church .building at
New Hope (near Purlear) is al
most completed and will be oc-
cnpled for regular services for
tha first time on Sunday, July 25,
at wh.ich the annual revival will
begin.
The new building, of brick ve
neer construction, contains a
spacious auditorinm and a num
ber of Sunday school rooms.
Rev. A. W. Eller Is pastor, of
the church, on© of the lergeet rur
al ehurchea in the county, and a
successful revival Is anticipated.
Rev. C. C. Holland, Of Taylors
ville, will assist the pastor la the
revival. «
Eastern Star Meeting
A special initiation meeting of
the local Eastem Star, chapter
will be held on Friday niglit,
eight o’clock. 'There will b© six
candidates for degrees and .ft
large attendance of membeni Is
desired, v., .
Lady Dentiit Is
PraeH(4i|g Here
Dr. Carolyn TsTlbr, anno&nees
the opento^ of hsr dental, ofiBce
In the front of the fliilt floor
the ’Tsylor bulling on RSUh
{Street. Stas will share the »w,
Ttim room of .father, Dr.^W
Aftaylon '
of Newborn, and Deputy P. R.
Irvin, of Rockingham, have been
be here Indefinitely tw'rtpibdeo
tatdves of .the sovereign camp of
the Woodmen of the World,
which according to Dunne’s In
surance reports Is the strongest
fratemel organisation In the
world, financially. Ite certificate
holders rating A excellent.
Through the never tiring efforts
of special deputies It is hoped to
constitute one of North Carollua’s
largest camps In North Wllkes-
boro.
Many Anticipate
Pine Ridge Picnic Grounds
Near Moravian Falls
Games Saturday
.Some of the best games of the
season were played Saturday aft
ernoon in the Wilkes county A-
merican Legion junior league.
The results of the games fol
low:
Boomer 9. Clingman 8; Mora
vian Falls 6, Cricket 4; Cham
pion 16, North Wilkeeboro 9;
Traphill 13, Wilkeeboro 3.
Revised standing of the teams
and future schedule will be pub-
lished in The Journal-Patriot ®
Thursday.
Mrs. W.C, Parsons
Funeral Is Held
Funeral service was held today
at Foster cemetery for Mrs. Re
becca Parsons, age 80, wife of W.
C. Parsons, of Buck. She died
„ - cmiaren, wno are wen ana „
facts concerning woodcraft. favorably known in their respec-
Deputy E. G. Arnett, formerly ... , . the afternoons are devoted to>
tive communities and in the coun
ty: J.
irvin, or Kocarngnam, j Parsons, ^^
assigned to the Weetom North hetlc. During the evenings thero
Carolina territory and th^ ’will ■’
keeboro; and Rufus Parsons, of
Kannapolis.
In mes TcBe^^
Alldwed Use Man^
Readera^ in T«mi
Textbook ComnnsMoii"*P
es On Application For Sa^
plementary Readers
WILL BE RENTED
Cost Will Be About
Third Price; Basil Text
book* To Be Free
For the first time in many otf
the schools, children of WIUms
county will have access to siv~
plementary readers In the ele
mentary grades during the 19M-
38 term. ' .
The 'Wilkes board-bf educatioa
made application to the state text
book commission for suppletttent-
ary readers to be rented to the
children and the application ws*
approved.
This will mean that the chil
dren in the schools will have tho
same opportunity for snpplemeot-
ary reading as the children in
city schooU units and the bent
schools in th© state.
However, the snpplementaxT
readers are not to be confused
with textbooks, which will be fur
nished fre© by th© state to ctail-
dren in all the elementary grades.
The supplementary readers,
may be rented at a cost not ex
ceeding 50 cents in th© first grad©
up to 70 cents In the higher ele
mentary grades. Th© charge in
cludes rental fees on three rend
ers.
It ie believed that this moro
will be a great help to the ed»-
cational system in the county,
supplementary readers being onn
requirement of a standard schobL
Present plans call for opening
of Wilkes schools on August 30.
Mai Enroll Now
In C.M.T. Camp
Number Increased To 700;
Will Allow Additional
Youths From Wilkes
The War Department on July
lath notified Major Geneml
Moseley, the Commanding Genw-
al Fourth Corps Area, that the
number of trainees allowed to at
tend the C.M.T.C. at Fort Bragg.
N. C. between August 3rd-Sep-
tember 1st, has been Inrroasod
from 575 to 700. This means that
125 more young men are to ha'V©
the advantages of this camp.
Brigadier General Manns Mo-
Closkey, Commanding General
Fort Bragg is most anxious to seo
that tho young men of North Car
olina and South Carolina avaU
themselves of the opportunity to
prize on©
month sum.mer vacation at the
Citizen's Military Camp, which Is
to 'be held at Fort Bragg, N...C.,
th© largest Artillery Post in th©
United States, from August 3rd
to September 1st, 1937. This t^O-
portunity will b© lost to boys of
Wilkes county unless they enroll
quickly, according to •information
received from General Manna
McCloekey, th© Commanding Gen
eral of Fort Bragg.
Camp Ilf© featured by military
„ . . . . , , drill under ©xpenenced regular
Surviving are her husband and ...
. . ,,, . . anrny Instructors Is the main at
four children, who are well and
' 4«t vn.aj M 4 VI (wt wBkIfa
nmuniues ana III iu» cuuii- , , . w*
R. Parsons. Wllkesboro athtoUcs ^d swimming. Dteclp-
lin© is strict, but fair and symgM,-
To Begin Revival
At Beaver Creek
Announcement has been made
that a revival will begin at Beav
er Creek Baptist church on the
fourth Sunday night in July. The
public has a cordial invitation to
attend any services during th©
rerlval.
Infant Dies
Patsy Laonia Qriiffi%
daughter of Nathan , a&d-
Infant
‘ Le^
Quarterly Conference
Chur5i‘, telffln, of Reddies RlvOT
townjtta^..4i®d
ueral
Bd B. ‘
uiuuif*.
jCn-
and
Fourth quarterly conference of
the Moravian Palls ifethodist
chailro'wlll ibe held with Lebanon
__ three
"fiT 1" ’ 1 _ _
o’cl
are'Mksd to, be
chi^h Sunday attenoon,
*. Will be to ohai«e. AU .©bAMB
the otfleiala ikt the 9bQr
is
the motion pictures to attend
and occasionally a dance is given
which is eupervised by the Cam;^
Hostess. On Sunday© a church
parade to divine service is tho
regular order. One day of the
camp each year is set aside M
visitorsi’ day, on which occasion
an Invitation is extended to the
friends and relaiivee of thON to
training to visit them In cainv^
and eat a meal with thmn. A9-
tendanee at the camp Is enUraly
free since all ©xpenaes are paid
by the GoverUmeat, ’ inelndtac.
railroad fare to and from'caxujk
No boy who enrolls for the
obligates himself for any totuer
military service.
Prospective applicanU should
apply to Mr. Joe B. 'MeCoy. ed
North wnkttboro. N. C..
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