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" ^da Mr*. tJ. " Str'* Otadlll
f» rec60tlr moTed Ifito -Mr*. J.
by^ koffl* at Monotain
aad Mr*. Frank KtlUlea, of
ala, former reeldents of
city, are here rlslting Mr.
Id Mr*. Jimmie Andenon.
ifr. Jam,M C. Haboard Is oon-
tirom a tonsil operation
fomed. at The Wttkee Hoepl-
C. E. Leaderman. well
n*avohant of Wilkeshoro,
ntly had his store building
^4«NAuted.
Mr. I*aac Duncan spent the
treek-ond In Raleigh and attend-
[.ed the Carolina>-State football
te.
•Irs. J. I. iMyers is getting
iong hlcely following an oper-
!>a for tlroat trouble Monday
at a Charlotte Hospital.
Mr*. Bdlth (.owe is now back
the Ideal Beauty Parlor.
tk*re.Ahe will be pleased to
re her many friends and cus-
len agalm'
^rn,,to Mr. and Mrs. William
“ ■^Rtoyer, Jr., of New York, on
er 19, a son, William,
•Mrs. Player is remembered
as Miss Nell Caudill.
-Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kilby, llt-
' Jimmie Kilby, Mrs. E. D.
and B. D., Jr., spent Sun-
In West Jefferson with Mr.
and Mrs. Oale B. McMillan.
.frAttomeys Archie Elledge.Jack
k^ell* and Buford T. Henderson,
^f ^tflMtton—Salem, hare been at-
Kteiidfng court in Wllkeeboro this
; week.
MMh Ducan, of Roanoke,
f Va-, spent the week-end at the
of her parents, Mr. and
fr*. W. M. Duncan.
..jMlss Elizabeth Barber left for
^Jptaiflnnatl, Ohio, Mondays to at-
the General Conference of
itl^>jPlitocepal chttrob. She plans
away about ten days,
and 9in. Hatpid Riley
return .to^.Utptt'4litS^a in
irday af)Mir avj^i|lt of
I 'the homes
Mr. and Mrs. George
on, and Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
orn.
and Mrs. Joe Mott are
ilng a few days In Wilkes-
ro with Mrs, Mott’s parents.
nnd Mrs. C. H. Cowles, before
Oing to DeLand, Fla., to make
heir home.
Mrs. Andrew Kilby, Misses
luhy Blackburn, Louise Vyne,
Dd Lillian Stafford, attended a
jtea in Statesrllle Saturday after-
^iioon at the Country club given by
les Pearl and Sue Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Riddle, of
^Peach, Washington, are here tor
Tlgit wit.h Mrs. Riddle's mother.
Irs. John A. Glass.and other
stives in the county. This is
Irs. Riddle’s first visit
home in about 35 years.
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JpabUshed Ma
BSB5ro, n* c^TKtisabAyi^l
Of Wilkes County
Several Other line* Are
Constructed During Re
cent Week* in County
SERVES MANY HOMES
Rural ElectriHeation Ha*
Made Rapid Progress In
Wilkes County
The Duke Power company,
continuing Its program of con
structing rural lines In Wilkes
county, has approved construc
tion of a power line extension in
to and beyond Traphlll, 20 miles
from this city.
Septembe r27, 1937.
line extensions of the year for
the local system, extending from
a point near Mountain View by
way of Traphlll to the home of
D. B. Swarlngen.
During the past year remark
able progress has been made In
construction of lines in rural
communities In Wilkes until at
the present time the network of
electric lines extends from this
city by way of every state high
way and many county roads, in
cluding the Traphlll road.
In addition to the main lines
along the highways many miles
of branches have been construct
ed Into outlying communities,
placing electricity for the first
time in hundreds of homes.
New York . . . Confirming re
ports that he is to retire soon.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley declines to comment on
speculations as to his successor
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Titles In Order to Jiasten 1
jb Iflakaif Paymoit Fw 7,000
Calls Meeting To
Discuss Public
Buil^g Project
Wilkesboro Mayor Calls
Meeting To Be Held On
Ttt^ay Night
Tn re^Knue to suggestion from
a number of public spirited citi
zens of the town. Attorney J. F.
Jordan, Wilkesboro’s mayor, has
called a citizen’s meeting to he
I held at the courthouse on Tues-
I day night, 7:30 o’clock.
I The meeting will be for the
i purpose of discussing the propos-
I ed addition to the federal court
building and other public im
provements in the town.
A liberal allocation was made
for an addition to the federal
court building and the money
was included in the deficiency
appropriation bill passed by con
gress this year.
All persons interested in public
improvements in the town are
cordially invited to the meeting.
Next Week To Be
Air Mail Week
Residents of North Wilkee-
boro and surrounding communt
ties are making ready for db-
servance of “Air Mall Week”
October 11 to 16 and It is ex
pected that several hundred let
ters will he ready for malllifg
when the air mail plane visits the
local airport on Tuesday, Octob
er 12.
It will be the first time that
an air mall plane will officially
visit North Wilkesboro and Is a
part of the observance of Air
Mail Week throughout the state.
J. B. Williams is air mail week
chairman for North Wilkesboro
and in an article released last
week urged observance of the
event and asked the people of
this vicinity to use air mall ade
quately during the week and es
pecially to mail a liberal num
ber of air mall letters for the
plane stop on Tuesday.
J. C. Reins, North Wilkesboro
postmuter, Mtlmated that bOO,
locally but since the estimato wa*
made It Is believed that the num
ber will far exceed that figure.
Mr. and Mrs. J. X. Tulburt, of
West Jefferson, visited his half
back i brother, Mr. R. L. Wellborn, last
week.
!16th Session Brier Creek Baptist
leld With Oak Forest Church Oct. 1-2
By RUTH LINXEY
Last Friday and Saturday, at
^Oak Forest where it had not met
the~116th gather-
Associ-
■for 47 years
lag of the Brier Creek
^'Atlon was made unforgetable by {the splendor of Valhalla,
sweet singer in Israel,” used
often to preach at Oak Forest.
Beautiful, dynamic, and chasten
ing to the ego w'as Rev. William
Ernest Linney’s sermon, vivid as
from
fetwo fine sermons and a good in
spirational address. Certain por-
t^na of the session became cha
otic and, tedious from apparent
ItuAility to distinguish between
the Important and the trivial.
Rev. Nf'T. Jarvis and Sherman
^ O. Crater were re-elected mode-
• Aator'and clerk. The 117th ses-
tj.jlon will be held at Holly Springs
-fi*q>tl*t church, Iredell county,
lay and Friday before the
dnnday la October, 1938.
>rs expressed themselves as
sed with the savory dln-
U Aots at Oak Forest and the at-
tlvo and picturesque appear-
Ce of the ancient grove and re-
old church.
>Aaide from the sermons, the
aotaworthy feature was the
talk on Christian educa
Son by Rev. Eugene Olive. Be-
-'^orace Mann, the churches
client Is the next gen-
ivk.” -ItopAlcally, Mr. Olive
how the lives of men
c. Campbell of Bale’s Creek
;tho profeoeor* at Wake For-
|4mcraved thamaelvee upon the
tA student* like words
*n .by a atylu* on tablets of
apA impressed them far
deeply than mere learning
book*. Kij
on scgr* tiurmen Aepict-
''The Sdhool of the Propb-
rRer. W.>,Jtei«ra, ,::'
‘‘But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excel
lency of the power may be
God, and not of us.”
Preaching on the subject ‘‘Is
life really worth living?” from
the book of the Bible so doleful
and lugubrious that it is called
‘‘Ijamentatlons,” Rev. W. T.
Comer showed that the answer
all depends on how you live It.
X life dominated by desire for
gain, world-appmval, sin, and in
dulgence Is a life in the barren
wastes and shadow-land of fu
tility and not worth living.
Really a good sermon, typical
of the venerated moderator, was
Rev. N. T. Jarvis’ inspirational
address giving reasons for a
Christian life, filled with ‘‘things
that are lovely” and ‘‘of good re
port.”
The Brier Creek ‘Association
has alwa^i placed an almost
medieval ' emphasis on evange
lism. The Spanish say "An open
book is the door of light.” In the
short history of the Brier Creek
Association the clerk proposes to
write will emerge through the
door of light figures as humor
ous, simple, and good as Dr.
Primrose and Parson Adams,
from the homespun tapestry of
the ninteeath century, out of the
illuminated mannscript of the
Charlotte, N. C.
September 27, 1937.
My dear Stamp Collector:
The Postmaster-General has
designated October 11-16 as Air
Mail Week for the State of North
Carolina, and The Honorable
Harllee Branch, Second Assistant
Postmaster-General i s a'nxlous
that this week be put over In a
big way.
I have been named as Chair
man by the North Carolina .Asso
ciation of Postmasters to have
active charge of this work.
On October 12, a plane will
stop at all offices in the state
having flying fields and pick up
the Air Mall for that section and
rush it to the key cities, Char
lotte and Raleigh, for direct dis
patch.
A special cachet is being fur
nished to all the towns having
ports which are as follows:
Asheville, Asheboro, Black
Mountain. Burlington, Chapel
Hill, Charlotte, Cherryville, Dur
ham, Elizabeth City, Elkin. Fay
etteville, Fort 3ragg, Glbsonvllle,
Goldsboro, Greensboro, Hamlet,
Hickory, Hendersonville, High
Point. Kings Mountain. Kitty
Hawk, Lenoir, Lexington, Lum-
berton, Marion, Maxton, Monroe,
. Morganton, New Bern, North
Wilkesboro, Ocracoke, Pinehurst,
Southern Pines, Raleigh, Rock
ingham, Rocky .Mount, Salisbury,
Shelby, Wallace, Warrenton, Wil
son, Wilmington, Winston-Salem.
Air Mail forwarded to the
postmasters In these cities unde*
cover in time for dispatch on Oc
tober 12 will bear the cachet,
and as they are not on a regular
line, a cachet can not again (be
secured.
This Is sent to you for the rea
son that I know that you are
vitally Interested In stamp collec
tions.
Very truly yours,
PAUL R. YOUNTS, Chairman,
Air Mail Committee.
Tryinff" To; Fbut ”
jy^wt of
'' The North WOke*boro police
.department has on ihand two'
barred rook hens and would like
to find their owner,.
The hens, believed to have
been stolen, were found In the
Woodlawn section^ of^ tihe olty
Wednesday night, ^e hens were
In a burlap bag. Owner may have
the ohlckens by calling at police
oftiop and Identifying them.
Tr^c Lights
To Be Installed
WidiinSODays
City Board Makes Purchase
Of Stop Lights For Six
Intersections
HeM is pictured the ta|
J. H. Scott, of Grassy '
ing man from.4b
than in North Caw^^ He is
pictore
North Wilkeeboro iboard of al
dermen In October meeting exe
cuted contract for the purchase of
traffic lights for six Intersections
In North Wilkesboro.
The traffic light system was
purchased at a cost of approxi
mately 11,500 and It Is expected
that it will be Installed and In
operation within 30 days.
The lights will be placed at
the Intersections of B and Sixth,
B and Ninth, B and Tenth. D and
Tenth, D and Ninth and D and
Sixth.
Four will be of the overhead
center type and two will be cor
ner lights. The comer lights will
be placed at the intersectlMiB of
iilnth and
HoMy Depoiifcadt WW^F*
end Court Ptf .Ownenl
Amount Opika* ^ -
EXPECT EARLY ACTION^
Landowner* Have BeMi Gi*^ ’
en Job* As Moan*, of Sup*
port This'Year
Condemnation pros *6 di n g * ^]
have been insituted In-the'mi^
die district federal court sgalaat
titles to about 7,000 sem la th»
Bluff Park In northern WHkM
and southern Alleghany connti**.
It was learned here from Sam P.
Weems, of the national pafic
service.
Mr. Weems, who has charge ot
development of 19 wayalde park*
along the Blue Ridge Parkway,
said, however, that the condem
nation proceedings are entirely a
friendly action taken In order to*:^
facilitate payment for the land,
optioned about two years ago by
the government for park pnrpoe-
He said that the delay in mak
ing payment for the land to tba
many landowners was due en
tirely to the condition of thelr^, |
titles to their lands and was
cause titles which would pass la-
spection by the department of
justice could not be established
by the records.
The total amount of the op
tions has been deposited with’ the-
clerk of federal court and tlH*.
money will be paid to the laaft.'
owners when the court - deter
mines their intemt In ^
^Xbey are i>
ifleT is^'YelSr^L
feet, three indies. ,
he weighs 290 pounds. S'
mum height three years
Mrs. L. A. Scott, of prai
ily are normal in height. V
. -.ireu ~-
muscle. _
L,. He is now 24 years of age, «
Creek, and the other member*
'-V.''rr
Children Escaj^ Injury As &|N>pI
Bus Overtuits OH H^way No^lfi
At Millers Creek Monday Memoon
Mr. and Mrs. J.‘ S. SiraTtln re
turned Sunday to their home In
er, Mrs. R. M, Yale, and Mr.
Yale. Mr. Earle Martin, a broth
er of Mrs. Yala:,*afd ntii*uFJill
nephews, Margarette, Catherine
and Joe Edwards, all of Winston-
Salem, accompanied them 'iloztt*.
The latter had been visiting here^
for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jarvis
in North Wilkesboro shopji
. one day recently.
V'rircsS:’-
Box Supper Oct. 8
Mulberry School
A box supper, sponsored by the
Parent-Teaoher Association, will
be held at the new Mulberry
school building Friday evening,
October 8. An evening full of
fun Is being planned for all those
who attend. A voting contest will
be held in which people will vote
for the prettiest girl, the ugliest
man, and the most love-Slck man.
The public is cordially Invited to
be present.
Bus Overturns When It
Leaves Highway With
Load of Children
Junior Order To
Present Fli^ And
Bible For School
Special'. Dedicatl«fn Service
To Be Held At Mulber
ry Sunday Afternoon
A school bus loaded with forty
cl.ildren going from Millers Creek
school to their homes in the
Mountain Valley community ran
off highway 16 about one mile
from the school Monday after
noon and overturned.
Although a few children re
ceived minor lacerations and
bruises none were seriously hurt.
H. D. Caudill, age 17, was
driving the truck when It loft the
road -and overturned. It wag re
ported that he was attempting to
pass another bus when the acci
dent occured. Following the ac
cident he declined to'operate the
bus and one pf ,thft:,tewhers has
been driving It while a successor
is befbg selected, ,
Glc^^^yiyml At
Liledown Church
The traditional Bible mnd flag
will be'presented to Mulberry
central school on Sunday afterr ( church1*
noon, October 10, 1:30 o’clock. It
was learned tod^ from local Jr.
O. U. A.- M. lead^srs.
The special service as. a dedi
cation of the new and handsome
school building will be similar to
those held .by the order-for vari
ous schooih' and ts expected to
attract a'large crowd.
Among the prominent speakerb
to take part la the program will
,he Mr. Shufbrd, superintendent
ot the Junior Order orphanage at
Lexington, and B. C. Sisk, a past
state conncilor.
nniiirnawi
Rev. S. I, Watts, pastor, re
ports that a most successful re
vival closed Sunday'at Liledown
He
was.sisOlsted In'the. 'aeries of
rn'Oetings by Rot.' C/’CT,^Hand.
was trans&ted.
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Interest
Legion Begins A
Memberslup Drive
One Hundred Members By
Armistice Day Is Goal of
Wilkes Post
The annual round-up of mem-
ibers for the Wilkes County Post
No. 125, American Legion Is
under way, and an effort Is be
ing made to re-enllst the entire
1937 memberahlp and to round
up the AWDLs of the service
men who bave not been members
ot the local post.
The 1937 membership roll has
been divided Into two groups, the
Odd Fellows, captained by Jack
Quinn and the Even-ups, captain
ed by Ralph Reins. The contest
will terminate on Armistice Day,
November 11th, and as a penal
ty the losing side will furnish
the program for the annual Le
gion banquet to be .held on that |
day. They will also have as their i standing wayside
.jot
fl6HB did not aUoif- sbK 1
tlvaAe their lands aiu|.4QUi^hl|i|^|
not had money with whteh
buy elsewhere. - i
Mr. Weems said that he sn
others who have been wdrklDg pa
the problem regret the del*y b«lr]
of course could not anticipate gt
the time the options were talm
the legal work involved befort
payment could be made and that
every effort had been made
settle each ca.se by direct pur
chase and as early as possible:
However, they found It Impos
sible to establish titles to tb»
property, many deeds which, were* I
never-placed on record having'|
been lost.
The landowners In the jrparlc.|
area have been given steady em
ployment on park development
work and it is understood that
the employment has been wel-,
come compensation and( a good
substitute means of support for
loss of crops on the land, muck
of which was unprofitable for
cultivation. However, Mr. Weems
said that every borne was allow
ed to grow a garden and to bavn. (
grazing land for cattle.
The Bluff Park will be the out-
park of 19
lACCO AT 2« CENTS
jk salee.'eni'fniiK-ffric^ tex
tured ^spirited IddfiSfe-p® the
yesHaiMV''.
ed 'Aj;-1,000,000 pounds, selling
at *a'‘^eetlmated average of 26
cents a pound. Clearing skies and
sunny, weather brought more to
bacco to the warehouse f^ors.
guests, the Moravian Falls Jun-1 planned along the parkway and
lor Baseball team, which won the I wUl be the largest of these place*
Legion Junior 'Championship the recreation and stops for vaca-
past summer. Commander Frank
B. Johnson and Adjutant John
Hall will be the judges in this In
teresting contest.
There were 69 service men en
rolled In the local Post during
1937, against 17 for 1936. The
slogan for the membership con
test Just started Is “One Hun
dred Members by Armistice Day.”
Already' a large number have en
rolled and the result of the con
test will be watched with Inter
est.
tionists. It contains wh»t-is now
considered as some of the out
standing rugged mountain scen
ery in eastern America. Of tit*
7,000 acres In the park, 4,000
are in Wilkes and 3,000 In A1Isk-|
ghany. ^ ' ^
tatlon to attend and all memibere
of the order ifb "eanS^y :• re-
quktod to ®fe*ent ?»of " the
service. ■v 'i'.
Neiv York, Oct. 6.-^mporta-
dictad chaigi^
vloliU NjtoPi
KKLED HIS CHILD'
Gastonia, Oct. 4.—!*■ W. Clon-
inger,' 42-year-old father of sev-
en| children, was charged today
wtth the death of his own daught
er, Ruth, 13. Investigating offi
cers said Cloninger, extremely
drunk,, lost control ot- hts truck
In an accident on a county road
near last night and plunged
into aidttch. .The ttu|*ti»r, riding
II
throurn' hfr'anj. ^
otfieers said;
Home Coming Day at
LI^-McRae Oct. 8th
Banner Elk, Oct. 5.—^A full
program is planned for the en
tertainment of the friends and
graduates of the three .institu
tions of the Edgar Tufts Memor
ial Association who will gather
here on October 8 for Homecom
ing Day. ‘ ' '
*11x1*0 who will return to Hon-
ner. Elk Friday fOr Homecoming
include the formOT'etadents of
Le*e-lfcRaa College'^ and Grab*
Hospital School of Nursing, and
thoM who have, been at -Grand-
Orphanage, as ,weirqg'"a
.large''number of friends^of the
Associhitlon. "
Laying PlantFor
W.C.T.U: Meetii
Ministers From Rvhl
don* and Nearby Toem*
Invited to Attend
In laying plans for the st
meeting of the Woman'*...Christ:
tian Temperance Union to be|
held in North Wllkeebofo Octob- ,
er 15, 16 and 17 it waa 'aniot
ed today that a special Invitatioil
is extended to all ruraj mlaiat
and ministers fram‘'neai>bf to^
and cities.
The local unlt pt -th* org*
tlon is leaving u6 stone' *nt
in hwkiiig prepar*il^'' to#^
OTMit and a.T^su
vention ia anticiMted.
Mr. JelMTi
family to W(ttk«gb«h>'
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