'Vi • '• V'’
" >•■.
I m«»Unc of tte Woio-
Tmpennc* TTb1o&
Be^kem O^tohar \i,
'••MKia,
Btag
at
tke )^h WllkaM^ aCethodtst
«karci« as well aa th» meetings
ftetuTdar. The seselons on Sun-
: day are to*l)e at the J^rst Bap-
tiat churcfa.
Around 75 delegatee are ex-
)>eoted to attend and in a few
days the committee on entertaln-
■osMit will solicit the city for
hornee for the ont of town dele
gates.
It is hoped that the people in
tile city will open their homes to
Jthe Tlsltors, and cooperate in
ibelping to make the meeting a
moat enccessful one.
Air Mail Week
Proclamation
Whereas, the North Carolina
Postmastera Association, at the
Instance of the Post Office De
partment at Washington, is spon
soring Air Mail Week from Oc
tober 11th to 16th, inclusive, and
Whereas, North Carolina is the
birthplace of aviation and has al
ways manifested a lively interest
In developing our Air Mail Serv
ice,
Now, Therefore, I, Clyde R.
Hoey, Iiovemor of the State of
North Carolina, do hereby desig
nate the week of October 11th to
leth, 1937, as Air Mail Week
V'^or all North Carolina, and do
call upon our people to make
-igsroper observance of this week
■ ■ iby lUierally patronising the air j group singing with Mrs
mall and otherwise evidencing Nelson at the piano, two
their appreciation of the efforts
of the Post Office Department to
provide this necessary service for
■our state.
" bone at our City of Raleigh,
. this twenty-first day of Septem-
her in the year of our Lord one
% ■ thousand nine hundred .and thlr-,
ty-seven, and in the one hundred
and sixty-second year of our A-
merican, Independence.
CLYDE R. HOEY,
Governor.
Officers
LegMM^ Auxiliary
In A Meeting Held
On Friday Night
District Commander Amd
Wife Attend Joint Meet
ing Hdd in City
JOHNSON COMMANDER
Heads Post For Another
Year; Mrs. McCoy Pres
ident Auxiliary
District Commander and Mrs.
F. C. Fields, of Mooreeville, in
stalled officers of the Wilkes post
of the American Legion and the
local unit of the Legion Auxiliary
in a meeting held Friday night
at the Legion and Auxiliary club
house.
The meeting was well attend
ed and a varied program was
carried out. Officers installed in
the Legion were Frank E. .John
son, commander, Ralph Bowman,
vie© commander, and John W.
Hall, adjutant.
Auxiliary officers installed
were Mrs. J. B. McCoy, presi
dent, Miss Norma Stevenson, vice
president, Mrs. W. D. Halfacre,
secretary. Miss Toby Turner,
treasurer.
Brief talks were made by the
incoming officers and a prograan
of entertainment, consisting of
L. M.
hours
square dancing, stunts, and the
“Big Apple” dance, was carried
out. Jack Quinn, assisted by Rus
sel Hodges, puzzled the crowd
with demonstrations of “mental
telepathy.’’
oEiUiarge
PTA Membership
Governor Issues Proclama
tion; Miss Moseley Chair
man For City
Sponsored by the North Caro
lina congres.s of Parent-Tejeher
associations, tbp enrollment cam-
pai.gn in P.-T. A. will get under
way on October 15 and continue
until November 15.
Miss Rebecca Moseley is chair
man of the membershio drive
here. She is a member of the city
school faculty.
Following is the proclamation
relative to the campaign, issued
by Governor Clyde R. Hoey:
“It gives me great pleasure to
commend the work of the North
Carolina Congress of Parents and
Teachers and to direct tho atten
tion of the people of this state to
the Enrollment Campaign which
will be conducted between the
dates of October fifteenth and
■November fifteenth, 1937, for the
purpose of increasing the mem
bership of this great organiza
tion
“Tbe Parents and Teachers or
ganization is composed of fath
ers, mothers and teachers, rep
resenting the three great person-
slltles who come in contact and
vitally affect the llvV the
children and the youth of the
state, tbe purpose of this organ
ization is to afford an opportun
Ity for parents to work together
with the teachers for better un
derstanding of the problems con
fronting our young people and
that Jointly and together they
may arouse public opinion to sup
port the best for the children in
education, in recreation and in
wholesome community surround
ings.
“It is gratifying to know that
last year North Carolina en
rolled nearly 60,000 In the mem-
l^arahip of this organization. I
|Un happy to announce the open
ing of this enrollment campaign
Again this year and to express
hope that the membership
_ _ ' may be increased Inunensely and
that the goal of 100,000 in mem-
' " bershlp this year may be reaeh-
- ad In this campaign.
“ “Oor Interest in childhood de
mands highest consideration of
all the pec^le and It ahould he,
regarded as a high privilege to
O’Dell Stresses
Cafe Cleanliness
Says Many.:Places Fall Down
On Ratings because Of
Condition Kitchins
Casey-’ Is^Naoned
PreriWKm^;
Is Club’s Choic
To Head IXrision
• J. C. Reins Design,iUed fTo
Place Him In NomiaAtion
At Charlotte Meet
A. H. Casey, -prominent local
attorney who was elected presi
dent of the North Wilkesboro Kl-
wanis Cllttb -Friday. He is being
sponsored by the local club for
the office of Lieutenant Governor
of Kiwanls division 3 and the
other nine clubs in the division
have been asked to support him
in the convention.
G. S. O’Dell. Wilkes county
sanitarian, today released over
his si.£:nature the following ar
ticle and report of condition of
cafes in this locality;
From time to time w© have
tried to keep the public informed
as to The condition of eating plac
es and hotels. Wnere most of
these cafes fall down in the low
er bracket is in the kitchen where
the food is actually prepared—
also health certificates, which
shows they are free from T. B.,
venereal disease and not a ty
phoid carrier or any other con
tagious diseases.
Therefore for the public health
and welfare it is up to us to see
that they are kept clean, and
those that stay open are going
to have to meet all requirements
or close. The ratings and grades
will show the condition of suab
placesi.
Grade “A”
Hotel Wilkes —
Black Cat
Goodwill
The Little Grill
Green Lantern
Grade “B"
South Side (Col.)
Moore Bros.
Eller’s Cafe
Rock Diner
Try Me Cafe
Jim’s Cafe —
Green Pig
96.0
94.0
93.5
90.0
90.0
86.0
83.5
82.5
8J.5
81.0
80.5
80.0
(Continued on page eight)
Large Number To
Enlist In C. C. C.
Here October 20
Largest Quota In Several
Month Allowed; To Be
Examined Here
Youths from Wilkes and a
number of other northwestern
North Carolina counties will
gather at the armory in this city
on October 20 for enlistment In
the Civilian Conservation camps,
it was learned today from Charles
McNeill, Wilkes county welfare
officer. ,
It will- be one of tbe*TSrieP
enlistments in recent .years with
liberal quotas allowed for each
county.
Mr. McNeill said that the en
listment quota from Wilkes will
be selected from a long list of
applications now on ihand on the
basis of need and how much they
will aid needy families now be
ing helped ihy the welfare depart
ment.
Notwithstanding the fact that
jobs are more plentiful and the
list of unemployed diminishing,
boys of CCC age very much de
sire enlistment and work in the
CCC as a diversion. The camps
have proved very popular with
youth in Wilkes county.
Moravian Defeats
Kingrs Creek Nine
Moravian Falls Junior baseball
team, Wilkes county champions,
kept in stride Saturday by de
feating a team from Kings Creek
in Caldwell county at Moravian
Falls 5 to 1.
Lane, pitching for Moravian,
held the visitors to a shutout un
til the final Inning when he
forced in a run by hitting the
hitter with th© sacks full.
Irene Wiles Dead
Irene Wiles, age 5, daughter of
R. P. and Sina Brown Wiles, of
Dockery, died Friday. Funeral
and burial services were held
Sunday at Dehart church.
North Wilkesboro Battles Streu^;
Marion Eleven To 0 to 0 Tie Here
The real, old gsjne of football
returned to North Wilkesboro
Friday afternoon with the Moun
tain Lions showing more power
and spunk than has been in evi
dence at the local school for sev
eral years.
The Marion conference eleven,
which had been using North Wll-
kesboro teams as guinea pigs for
the past several years, came ov
er Friday afternoon and were
lucky they did not go home on
the short end of a score.
Ckiach Barker’s boys were in
there every minute of the game
and battled hard for a 0-0 tie.
F*rom the standpoint of a spec
tator, the game was on as even
• —r-—. .X-. ajMo-lterm» as the double gooseegg
work In harmony with this asso-p''
elation kicked to North Wil-'
ia aceompll^BX ' kesboro and the first half was a
;; salts In . kolldlng' mldfle*** scrimmage with no swl-
jiii
CLUB’S NEW ACTIVITY
Will Be Spmsoring Raising
$300 To Buy Equipment
For Health Office
A. H. Casey, prominent mem
ber of the local bar, has been
elected' president of the North
Wilkesboro Kiwanls club and is
the club’s choice as'candidate for
Kiwanls lieutenant governor of
division No. 3, composed of ten
clubs in north-western North Car
olina.
Other ofMcers of t(he local club
elected in meeting Friday were J.
C. Reins, vice president; T. E.
Story, secretary-treasurer; J. B.
Carter, A. F. Kilby, R. W. Gwyn,
E. G. Finley and W. E. Jones,
directors. 'The officers are mem
bers of the board by virtue of
office.
J. 0. Reins made the sugges
tion Friday that Attorney Casey,
the incoming president, be the
club’s choice tor lieutenant gov
ernor and the club uuanlmously
assented and instructed-the sec
retary to ask the other nine clubs
in the division to lend their sup
port. Mr. Reins was designated
to place the name of Attorney
Casey in nomination at the meet
ing to be held soon in Charlotte.
TTie club voted to sponsor the
raising of $300 with which to
purchase badly, needed equipment
for the county health depart
ment.
J. B. Williams, chairman of
the Air Mail Week committee
here, brought $to..matter to tbe.
attentipA' >f clah and the In-
week. _ hi
A. F. Kilby ;^as In eliarg^. of
the program Friday and ipreeeJlt-
ed Rev. Watt Cooper ^as the
speaker for the day. Rev. Mr.
(hooper made a very good talk
about his recent trip to th© west
coast and his descriptions of var
ious points visited, including cav
erns of New Mexico, Grand Can
yon, Los Angeles, Yoseanite and
Yellowstone national parks, were
very vivid.
M. E. Lemmel, representative
of The State magazine, was a
guest of S. V. Tomlinson and G.
T. Snow was a guest of W. F.
Gaddy at th©-meeting Friday.
Carlisle Ingle
Stationed Here
Corporal Will Serve Wilkes
As Highway Patrolman
Under New Plan
Carlisle Ingle, who was sta
tioned at North Wilkesboro when
the highway patrol was organized
and who has served at several
points since that time, is station
ed here again.
Mr. Ingle, who has advanced
to the rank of corporal, came to
North Wilkeeboro from Lenoir
under the reorganization plan
which abolished this district and
moved Sergeant W. B. Lentz to
Wadesboro and Patrolman Crow
ell to ThOimasville. Many friends
are glad to see Mr. Ingle return
to this dty.
Breaks Silence
ed up and North Wllkeaboro be
gan a steady march that looked
like a touchdown just ahead but
a fumble on the 15 turned the
tid© against the Lions
In the last three minutes of the
gajne tbe visitors put on their
big threat with a passing attack
by Broom that had the Lions
worried. Four successive passes
carried the ball to the 18 where
the fifth pass was missed. IQie
Lions held their ground until the
final whistle.
Jones running and punting and
tackling by Settle and Pardne
were highlights of the game for
the Lions. Broom’s passing was
outstanding in (Marion’s oflense^
The -big test of the Lions wU
come Friday afternoon
week wh^ the.Lions play'
stronger Newton team hwe. .
football f&ns and boosters of Ahsi'to ttearobr-ot tto Ktt Klnx
sAeol should he on hand to odd Klstfi , Ho/sald 6s was «»ce
moral support to the * meoab^ tint
Hnjp> Block, trnlted fitstes sen
ator appointed iby-«i. Pmid^t
rSoodeoBlh'to tile sspcsmqlconrt,
jon jphi»rs,dlsy byidce kis sl-
stronger Newton team hwe. Alt|lonce ooneernl^ sbarilNji^^^lia
TOe Sea
Detroit .. . The British trans-Atlantk flying ^t, Cambria, recent
ly delayed by Toronto accident, will soon compute snrvey of propo.s-
^ regular air-travel route between the U. S. A. and England, it is
announced. The plane, powered by four hum motors, can make the
Atlantic crossing in less hours than it took days a century ago.
Ei^ene Sloop
Killed In Anfo
Wreck Sunday
Local Resident 'Killed In
stantly When Car'Over
turns Near Deep Gap
Eugene Sloop, age 22, young
man of this city, was killed in
stantly about 1:30 Sunday morn
ing when the car he was driving
overturned.
The accident occured near the
lYllkes-Watauga county line on
highway 421. There were four
other young men in the car but
they escaped serious injury.
According to reports of th© ac
cident Sloop was driving and was
I’flable to see clearly-became of
the Intense fog. ’The car skidded
and overturned without leaving
the hlghvray. Injury to his head
eausad Imme^^ d^b.
He is surrive^bF hito
Funeral serrteP-'V*B- held 'at
the home today and -buria] was In
Greeniwood cemetery.
Fox Hunters Must
Purcli^^ense
Brookshire, ' c o u n ty
ganJO^iprotector, said today that
persons who do any kind of
hunting, including fox hunting,
bust have license or be liable to
prosecution for violating the
state game laws.
He also pointed oirt that chil
dren are not exempt from the
law. However, a child under 16
may hunt with, his father’s or
guardian’s license. Any person
who has passed his 16th birthday
must have license in order to do
any kind of hunting.
Mr. Brookshire said there had
been much misunderstanding re
lative to the law and that was
the reason for his clarifying
statement today.
Biiishy Mountain
Bapt^ Convene
At Liberty Grove
Annual Association Will Be
Held With Liberty Grove
October 12-13
Brushy Mountain Baptist asso
ciation will convene on October
12 and 13 at Liberty Grove Bap
tist church.
Sessions will be held Tuesday
morning and afternoon, Wednes
day morning and afternoon,
Rev. C. C. Holland has been
designated to deliver the intro
ductory sermon and Rev. Finley
C. Watts is alternate.
Other features of the program
will include addresses by M. A
Huggins, secretary of the state
Baptist convention. Rev. J. C.
Canipe, pastor of the First Bap
tist ebaroh of Boone, several min
witl^
Bunclajl^
A
The full program fWlotWft
J' Taeeday
10:00 Praise and worship
by Rev. Noah. Hayes.
10:15 Enrollment of messeng
ers, recognition of visitors, ap
pointment" of-committees.
2:15 Sunday school: (1) Re
port by Fred Blevins; (2) Discus
sion by T. E. Story.
2:45 Baptist Training Unions:
(1) Report by Mrs. John Cash-
ion (2) Discussion by John K
Blackburn.
11:30 Introductory sermon by
C. C. Holland, or by alternate F.
C. Watts.
12:15 Recess and lunch.
1:30 Praise and worship, led
by Rev. J. E. Hayes.
1:45 Woman’s Missionary Un
ion (Report by Mrs. G. G. Foster;
discussion by Rev. W. E. Lin-
ney).
10:30 Cooperative program
report by Rev. Avery Church.
(1) State Missions, report by J.
P. Jordan; (2) Home Missions,
report by A. H. Casey; (3) For
eign Missions, report by Rev. N.
(Continued on page eight)
Kiwanis Club To Sponsor Raising
$300 For Health Office Equipment
They Never Get
■Toi OW To Drink
Tliey aever iW. too old to
drioJk. , * ,
On Sunday morning at 1:80
o’clock an officer was called
from the Wilkes Jail to pick
np a drunk about a half mile
cast of Wilkesboro on fedeeal
h4diway 4!il.
When he reat^ed the desig
nated place found Dock
Gaither, colored man with the
frosts 87 winters on bis
hair,-lying in the bigbway on
the black mark deslgnathig
the road’s center.
He bad imbibed far too
much sagarbead for one of his
age and it had got him down.
Need of Equipment Brought
Before Kiwania Club By
J. B. Wniiams
Clarence Holloway
Claimed By Death
Funeral service was ibeld Wed
nesday at Pleasant Grove Bap
tist church" near Bnck_^for Clar
ence Holloway, ago 47;"w6o died
Monday. Rev.' Noah Hayes coik-
dneted the 8errico.j .
Surviyiiig are 6Is mother and,
tho following bfothera ' and ai»-
a-and Desslo Hollowair
- ^nnd^ Bitiiop. -
Assurance that Wilkes county
health department will be fur
nished modern equipment with
which to carry on its duties more
efficiently was given here Friday
when the North Wilkeeboro Kl-
,WMls club, a leading civic or
ganization, voted to sponsor the
raising of about 1300 for this
purpose.
The matter was brought before
th© club by J. B. Williams^ who
explained how the health de
partment is operated and main
lined.
"The health department is a
cooperative effort betwemi the
state and county with the cost
shared between the two. While
the state pays a part of tbe sol-
aijios of the health officer and
nnrse and fomUhiH somo snedi-
cinee and smrniasr' the' epoaty:
pays th© remainder of the sal
ary.
‘However, there'are not suf-
muf* funds: obtainable from
MilMr source for purchase of
qjlMlin&eDt and t&e work of the
hekltih departineht dOul d he
Rnl{ih gimtly foeiUtatod hi’ owte
of equipmeDt which have nofr h^.
I come esswtial, he said, °~
Will Maininfti He*dquiort«Pk
"Xt Offi^'irf CbUiity- A-
gent for F«w Mootfca
Wli-L ERECT STATION
la Well' Experienced I n
Orchard Rean^h Woric
and Management
Carl E. Van Deaaii, named by
the state d|epartment of agri
culture and Stata Hollege extenr
slon service to man the orchard
reeearoh station to be e^qhllshed
In the Brushles, tarn'Aeitah 'bJa
duties.
Until th© station U construct
ed he will maintaiir he'adquATters
at the office of the eonnty agent
in the agrloultursl btAlding ad
dition to the couribohilta In Wil-
kesboro. Several months x may
elapse before he begtae opwa-
tions at the station.
Mr. Van Deman, who comes to
tbe state highly recommended,
will spend several days among
the orchardlsts of Wilkes _ and
Alexander counties getting ac
quainted with tbe people, their
methods, problejis and the vari
ous conditions that enter into ap
ple production.
He is a graduate of Cornell
and for four years was manager
of a large orchard in the north
ern part of New York state. For
the past two years bo was ex
tension horticulturist in tho state
of Vermont.
He praised th© thermal belt of
the Brushles as a fruit growing
area, saying that the fruit pro
duced there is of fine quality and
abundance. He said, however,
that various orchard pests pre
sent al greater problem in the
Bruablee tjuta' among northers
itirfg 'tiif ^ak(*8 ‘iektS-
les, wihich te to be«hls prin
cipal Job.
The research atatlon is th© re
sult of an appropriation of $5,-
000 by the state for orchard re
search work and, according to
extension specialists, marks tho
beginning of researob, expansion
for North Carolina agriculture.
Moonshiners Lose
During Week-End'
Federal Officers and Sher
iff's Force Get Many
Stills, Much Liquor
The past week has been an
unusually tough period for moon
shiners and bootleggers in Wilkea
county.
During the latter part of last
week federal officers. Sheriff C.
T. Doughton and deputies and a
constable cut five stills, confis
cated two automobiles, arrested
several alleged moonshiners, de
stroyed about 200 gallons of
liquor and sereral thousand gal
lons of beer.
O n Saturday night Sheriff
Donghton and Patrolman Carlisle
Ingle overhauled a 1928 model
Buick on the Hunting Creek
road. The driver, who was not
Identified, Jumped and ran hot
had to leave bl> 100 galtolis of
liquor.
On Thursday the officers cap
tured A. J. and Mohroe Coii^hs at 3
a still between North Wllketiions
and Roaring River. At-the soeaa
they found 40 giBSDDl'.bf llqaor,
800 pounds of sugar and 20(1
pounds of choik
On Thursdi^’n^Btvlieair Me-
Grady they coptared:^ ItO-goI-
Ion copper ttlU ba^ jned In the
man'ufactnre of Six
gallona of liquor and severat
duundred' gallons maieriala
were deetroyed. Robhril Wyatt
was arrested and sttei' a prelim
inary hearing filled bond tor
trial In federal eoort
Jeas Jolnas wat taken at a still
near Dehart and eartier In th»
week Or lorse- Mill and 40 gallons
of: Uqnc^ wen deetroyed in th^
Windy dap-nmmyidty, Ir
S(^ BUMgiai, constable !>'of
Mulberry toWiiAljp^ ca«j(|i|kk
Roosevelt Cknirk. vltk tan cal»
Ions of llqnor la his ear in tk»
Debart comanoti^; IRtkioli in be-
4|Ur heU in Isa istf di^i of
Llxmd-t'F^
Mi, ' CMvion linly/j
^-Htaa^n-Balem
I
8eht4Bel,-^wu.