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The Wilkes countv unit of the
Governor’s Hospitality commit
tee, a part of the state’s adver
tising program, will publish a de-
tS' s^ptive booklet of i informative
literature on Wilkes county, J.
B. McCoy, chairman of the coun
ty hospitality committee, said to
day.
A meeting of the committee
was held last week at Hotel
Wilkes, St which time plans for
the booklet were discussed.
Mr. McCoy said that the com
mittee solicits the cooperation of
all public spirited citizens and
asks for contributions of informa
tion and photographs which will
tell the story of Wilkes county’s
advantages in various lines.
Things of historical interest.
Ibe said, appeal to some, while
Others -are more Interested In
flceaery, cMmilte, educational fa
cilities, industrial opportunities,
fruit growing, poultry production
' -ur^Sbme special phase of agricul
ture.
:Mr. McCoy said that it is the
intention of the commlittee to
make the descriptive literature as
comprehensive as possible and
with an-appeal to, .the reader.
The booklete'wili bei Cor the
purpose of dlstribntiod .to’thdse
who have made Inquiry about
North Carolina as a result of the
state’s advertising campaign and
will be a follow up of the efforts
of the advertising bureau of the
department of conservation and
development.
Some of the other counties in
the state are also planning simi
lar booklets.
Those who wish to furnish spe
cial Information or pictures for
the booklet are asked to get in
touch with Mr. McCoy.
Conuneiiceinent
For Wilkesboro
District Is Held
Literary Contest and Field
Day Feature Seventh
Grade Graduation
Before The Ballpts
to Close Friday
Rev. W. M. Cooper WUl De-
liver Address On
Friday Night
The
:rry
be
day
le closing exercises of Mul-
school will be held Thurs-
evening, April 21. and Fri
day evening, Ajiril 22.
Thursday evening at 7:30 o’
clock the primary grades will
have a “Tom Thumb Wedding”
The fourth and fifth grades
will present a playlet “Welcome
to Spring.’’ which will be follow
ed by the play “Raspberry Red’’
by the sixth grade.
The exercises Friday evening
will begin at 3:00 o’clock. They
will consist of the seventh grade
graduating exercises and an ad
dress to the seventh grade by
Rev. W. M. Cooper, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of North
Wilkesboro.
Seventh grade commencement
for the Wilkesboro district, larg
est unit of the county school sys
tem, was held in Wilkesboro Sat
urday.
The morning program opened
with devotional by Rev. A. W.
Lynch and a special song by the
Wilkesboro seventh grade. Vari
ous contests concluded tlu liter
ary program.
T. E. Story, principal, announc
ed that Nell Hubbard, student of
Wilkesboro school, made the
highest grade In the county on the
state test for seventh grade stu
dents.
The contest winners were as
follows: muslcHl. duet by Win
nie Edminsten and Earl Hayes,
Ferguson: recitation. Mary Gage
Barber, Wilkesboro; declamation,
Billie Protfit, Ferguson; story
telling, Berlene Pearson. Moravi
an- Falls: spelling bee. Josephine
Martin, Wilkesboro: brainbuster,
Barbara Ogilvie, Wilkesboro.
In the field day exercises Dan
Holler, county farm agent. Miss
Harriet McGoogan. home demon
stration agent, and Mrs. Kyle
were judges. The contest winners
were as follows; boys’ broad
jump, Rufus Moseley. Wilkes
boro; boys’ high jump. Jay
Brooks, Wilkesboro: boys’ 100-
yard dash. R. B. Brooks, Wilkes
boro; boys’ relay, Rufus Moseley,
Homer Carlton and Jay Brooks,
Wilkesboro: girls’ juggling balls,
giris*' baskelball throw, Larcie
Johnson. Ferguson: girls’ 50-
yard dash, Margaret Ferguson,
Wilkesboro: girls’ relay. Elna
Edmlnsten. Winnie Edminsten
and Larcie Johnson, Ferguson.
The commencement was well
attended by students and patrons
from several schools in the dis
trict.
VIE3NNA . .. Propaganda is indispensable in Nazi poT5l!ics. Here ^nop-
aganda Minister Paul Goebbels arrives in Vienna to personally take
charge of the “build up” for the plebiscite which affirmed Hitlers an
nexation of Austria by a 99.75 per cent “pure” vote. 'Her Fuehrer bun-
self spoke immediately before the balloting began, shouting, I regard
Vienna as a pearl and I will give it a setting worthy of its value.
Cafe Operator Is
Robbed of $175
Here On Sunday
Jones Bowles Knocked Out
By Unknown Assailant
At Cafe Here
Jones Bowles, manager of
Eller's Cafe, was knockf’d nn-
coBscioiis and robbed of ap
proximately !?t75 early Sunday
morning as he was preparing
to close the cafe.
;Bowlij| itNt aftei^
CCC Boys
May Go To
California
Thirteen young men from
Wilkes cgunty were enrolled in
the Civilian Conservation camps
Thursday.
Charles McNeill, county wel
fare officer who accompanied the
boys to (^eensboro where they
were exantisgfl 4wd enrolled by_
army offide:
IsBum^
To Death
Fiinoral service was held
Friday for M. J. Imwa, aged
resident of tiie Mariey Ford
community who was burned to
death while sltemptlngf to ex
tinguish a forest fire near his
home Thursday morning.
Mr, Laws, who would have
beeu 82 years of age in July,
was burning brush when the
fire got out of control and into
the nearby forest. Despite
warning of his dangfater and
her efforts to get him to go to
the house and out of danger, he
persisted in his efforts to put
out the fire and his clothing
caught fire and burned him to
death, Coroner I. M. Myers said
following an investigation.
He Is survived by his wife.
Airs. Alartha Laws, and the fol
lowing children: Ed Laws, Fer
guson; N. S. and Alice Iiaws,
Purlenr route; R.. Taiw.s and
Mrs. Juiis Obrey, King; ZolHe
J. Laws, Pomona; Mrs. Bud
Mariey, Purlear.
700 Civil Cases
Are On Docket
In Wilkes Court
Calendar For the May Term
Cases Instituted Prior
To July, 1935
More than 700 cases
action docket are
civil
on the
pending
in Wilkes superior court, it was
learned today from the office of
C. C. Hayes, clerk.
In compliance with an order of
Judge J. ■Will Pless, who is pje-
sidlng over courts of the 17th
judicial district, a calendar has
been made up of case.s in chron
ological order and which were in
stituted prior to July 1, 193.i.
TkiB calendar, w,hich has been
preipated for the civil term to
begin on May 2, contains approx
imately 350 cases.
The term to begin on May 2
and the term to be held in June
wUI be for trial of civil actions
and Judge Pless has ordered that
there be no continuances by con
sent cases in which the plaintiff
bot^ap^eaf ready lor trial
-jXomboy’ at Roaring
tiver High Tuesday
.he seniors of Roaring River
^igh school again present their
play “Tomboy" at the Ronda
^ C%ii school auditorium Tuesday
”7 night at eight o’clock.
Ajltnisslon ton and twenty
Presbytery Will
Meet Tuesday
Quarterly Session Will Be
Held With Presbyterian
Church Here
The Winston-Salem Presbytery,
which includes Presbyterian
churche., of northwest North Car
olina counties, will hold a quar
terly session at the North Wil
kesboro Presbyterian church to
morrow, beginning at ten o’clock
and continuing through the day.
Dr. D. Clay Lilly is moderator
of the Presbytery but at present
is ill and a moderator will be se
lected. The morning sermon will
be by Rev. C. D. Hutto.i, pastor
of Reynolda Presbyterian church.
Rev. Watt M. Cooper, pastor of
the North Wilkesboro Presbyter
ian church, will give a memorial
sketch of the late Rev. C. W. Rob
inson. Officers of the North Wil
kesboro church will assist in the
communion service.
Lunch win be served at noon
by the Ladies Auxiliary.
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he had gathered the day's
ceipts and was readj- to lock
up that- someone called him at
the back entHUice, frequently
used by colored cuslomers, and
askeil for a bottle of beer.
He carried the bottle of beer,
which the man drank hurried
ly and a-sked for another. When
the second bottle was carried
tlie unknown customer and as
sailant struck Bowles on the
head with a bottle and he
slumped to the floor uncon
scious.
When he recovered conscious
ness the money which he had
in a book in, hi,s hand was miss
ing but his billfold in his pock
et had not been disturbed.
Mr. Bowles said that he on
ly glanc«sl at the person in the
darkness and was unable to
give a description of the rob
her. Police have been working
one the case hut there have
been no developments In the
investigation thus far.
S. S. Conference
At Union Churcb
All Day Conference Will Be
Held Wednesday For
Methodist Schools
weife^ to b^ sOfit“'ip^ AllMtk
for equipment and would then
entrain for duty in California.
The successful applicants were;
Lewis Elmer Broyhill, Purlear;
Ruff Clarence pierce. Millers
Creek; Eugene Clyde Smith,
State Road: Garvey Norris Huff
man, Purlear: Raymond S'pencer
Cardwell, Purlear; Joseph Gwalt
Owens, Wllbar, James Willard
Combs, North Wilkesboro route
1: Harless Triplett, Ronda; Hans
ford Lee Bentley, Boomer route
2; Robert Cecil Baker. North
Wilkesboro; Neece Franklin. Se-
graves. Ronda: Clifton Horton
Eller, Ronda route 2; Glenn
Fain Beshears, Wilbar.
The applicants were selected
on the basis ot need and the help
their employment would afford
needy families, Mr. McNeill said.
Giles Y, Newton
Is Visitor In City
Giles Yeoman Newton, one of
the five candidates of the Dem
ocratic nomination for congress
in this district, spent several
hours in Wilkes last week in the
Interest of bis candidacy.
Mr. Newton is president of the
North Carolina Society in Wash
ington.
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Washington, D. C. . Aflffiln-
Istration officials anno>MUie.,that
with a speedy Congressional okay
they will be able to pour an esti
mated four billion dollars into
the dry economic pump before
the end of May. Plans call for
relaxation of RFC lending re
strictions, new .public works,
more pensions and insurance ben
efits and loans to cities and
states. Most of the money will be
spent by Harry Hopkins, relief
czar (above), who a.sked tor an
end to “direct relief.”
Was .Mother of Dr. J, H
McNeill; Funeral to Be
Held Tuesday
Senator Reynolds
Tells Club About
Foreign Situation
Address By U. S. Senator In
teresting to Club Members
Of Local Organization
Greyhound Lines
Get Thru Route
Will Make Round Trip From
Boone to Raleigh
In One Day
A Sunday school conference for
superintendents, teachers and all
Sunday school workers for all
Alethodist Sunday schooU i n
Wilkes county will be held .at
Union Methodist church three
miles west of this city Wednes
day, April 20.
The conference will open at
9:30 and an all day program is
planned. Lunch will be spread at
Robert R. Reynolds, United
States senator, delivered an in
teresting address Friday noon be
fore the North Wilkesboro Ki-
wanis club.
W. H. McElwee was in charge
of the program and Eugene Tri-
vette introduced Senator Rey
nolds.
He spoke about the “Foreign
Situation,” giving many interest
ing facts about Japan, China,
Mrs. Anna Gertrude McNeill,
age 60, mother of Dr. J. H. Mc
Neill, prominent local physician,
died this morning, 3:30, In the
Wilkes h.>spital. She had been lii
ill health for several years
She •★as born in Raleigh, a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
D. T. Johnson. For six wars she
lived in Wilkesboro following her
marriagte to James W. McNeill, a
son of the late Rev. and Mrs.
Milton McNeill. For several years
prior to his death 14 years ago
they made their home in Wash
ington, D. C., where he was a
prominent attorney. After the
deatlh of her husband she made
her home for a few years in
Asheville and more recently she
had lived with her son here and
spent the winter months in Flor
ida.
She Is survived by her son, Dr.
J. H. McNeill, of this city, two
sisters and two brothers as fol
lows: Mrs. F. C. Gold, of Ruther-
fordton: Mrs. Emma Glttings, T.
W. Johnson and Harry Johnson,
all of Raleigh.
Funeral service will be held
Tuesday morning, 11 o’clock, at
St. Paul’s Episcopal church In
Wilkesboro. The body will be
taken to Washingtoni D. C., for
burial Wednesday morning.
Membership Dues
In Association Of
Merchants Lower
Cost of Memborsbip Stiisb^d
In Half; Now Cost Oliljr
$1.00 Per Mootb'
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All Orgaaoiiil^
MayCoi^
Launchmi'
Value of Home ImproiwiMi^
to Be Stressed Durmc ^
the WeeE
SCHOOLS COOPERATE
Civic Organizatkms and the
Churches to Have Part
In the Movement
Membership dues in the Wilkes
County Retail Merchants-^ Sssoci-
tSr quarter uusiw- : pw leuding every reaseTnable
nn ^ h «, A - t a W Jfa ^
month.
An Interesting meeting was
held Thursday night, at which
time many members and other
business men discussed the many
advantage-^ of organization.
All business firms in the city
are Invited to become’members of
the association, which has out
standing among its objectives a
closer cooperation among merch
ants and expansion of the North
Wilkesboro trading territory.
Much interest was shown in
the meeting Thursday night and
it is expected that the member
ship will grow rapidly and that
the association will become one of
the outstanding organizations of
“Better Homes of America*'
week will be observed April
24-30 in Wilkes county as a
part of a nation-wide event.
Miss Hamet STcdAdgan,
home demonstration a^nt, is
chairman and has appointed
committees to serve all parts
of Wilke.s county in stressing
the need and value of better
homes and home improve
ment.
She has solicited the aid and
coo.peration ot all civic organiza
tions, churches, schools and other
institutions in carrying the mes-
age of better homes to all th©
people.
In North Wilkesboro special at
tention will be given the week’s
event by the city administration,
civic organizations and by the
schools. Each grade in the school
will have a definite part in the
program.
Annual Clean-up Week will bo
Incorporated with “Better Homan
■Week’’ In both North Wilkesboro
assistance to the'people in thSlr
Efforts to make homes, businesw,
houses, streets and lots attrac
tive.
In the issues of April 21,
April 25 and April 28 The Journ
al-Patriot will feature the “Bet
ter Homes’’ theme in news, fea
ture articles and advertisements.
It is expected that the Better
Homes movement will stimulato
the Imilding industry and will al
so create a demand for materials
with which to repair buildings,
furniture, paint, appliances, home
furnishings, shrubbery, flowers,
seeds, fertilizer and the many
other things which can be used
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business men in this part of the jin making better homes and mak-
; ing present hotnes better.
The association’s
in good condition.
finances -ire
Rev. J. M. Hayes
Addresses Grads
Delivers Inspiring Message
to Seniors at Millers
Creek School
Several Sunday school leaders Germany.,,It^ly and ^paln. His ad-
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The state Utilities commission
in meeting last week awarded a
franchise to Greyhound Bus lines
for a through route from Boone
to Raleigh in one day.
The route, which will be ad-
antageous to many people in this
section of the state, will go
through North Wilkesboro. Win-
stqn-Salem, Lexington, Asheboro,
Siler City and Pittsboro to Ra-
leigb.
The lines were also granted a
franchise from Raleigh to Wil
mington, which will connect the
western and eastern Carolina
Greyhound systems.
A Guernsey cottle promotion
sale ★ill be ^Id for farmers of
Bfiyvood coontr on April £1.
will be present to take part on
the days’ program, including C?rl
King, conference leader. Rev. Mr.
Kale, of Mooresville. district edu
cational director, and Will Hulch-
ens, of Yadkinville, Alders.gate
leader. ^
A successful conference is an^
tiejpated and a large attendance
of Sunday school leaders and
workers is asked.
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Easter Sunrise
Service Is Hel/i
An impressive Easter sunrise
service was held at Moravian
Falls cemetery Sunday morning.
Rev. J. C. Gentry, pastor,^ of
Moravian Falls Methodist charge^;
conducted the service and several'
short talks were made by lay
leaders in the community. The
Easter sunrise service will be
annual event. Rev. Mr. Genlt[^7
dress was from the viewpoint of
a United, States senator and was
received with,''muc*'intwMt.
During his stay here; Senator
Reynolds visited a number’'of his
friends in the Interest of his cam
paign for re-nomlnatlon in the
June primary.
MUST LIST FOR
TAXES AT ONCE
Niswonger Will
Address Ladies
Three Meetings Will Be Pre
liminary to Observance of
“Better Homes Week”
Preliminary to observance of
Better Homes Week April 24 to
30, H. R. Niswonger, horticulture
specialist of the extension depart
ment of State college, will attend
three meetings In Wilkes this
week and will discuss “Garden
ing.”
Miss Harriiet McQoogan, home
demonstration agent, announced
Mr. Nlswonger’s aPPO^at®®®^-
On Tuesday, April 19, .be will
be at Moravian Falls Methodist
church it 9:30 a. m. and on the
Rev. James M. Hayes, of
Meredith college, delivered an
inspiring message to the graduat
ing class of Millers Creek high
school on Sunday nlgiht.
Using as a subject “The Race
Of Life” he delivered an inspir
ing message which was received
with rapt interest by the large
congregation.
The school commencement will
continue with a program by the
primary grades on Tuesda;/ eve
ning, an operetta by the grammar
grades on Friday, 12:30, and
class day and graduation Friday
evening, April 22, 7:30 p. m.
In devoting three issues to the
theme of “Better Homes” The
Journal-Patriot respectfully asks
all organizations, institutions and
individuals to cooperate toward
making the initial effort of “Bet
ter Homes Week” the suecess it
deserves to be in Wilkes ,county.
Alcohol Tax Unit
Supervisors S'ee
Agents Raid a StiD
Tuttle and Patton Accompa
ny Officers On Successful
Raids Made Friday
Woodmen to Have
Class Initiation 35
. Tuesday evening. April 19,
Maple Camp No. 969 of the appearance in me
Woodmen of the World, will have federal court in Wllk^oro.
a class initiation of 35 new can-
R. E. Tuttle, of Baltimore, dis
trict supeivisor of the alcohol tax
unit, and T. E. Patton, head of
the Charlotte office, came to
Wilkes Friday and accompanied
alcohol tax supervisors oa-some
very successful moonshine raids.
In the Windy Gap vicinity they
destroyed two medium sized out
fits and one unusually large still
with a beer capacity of 5,000 gal
lons. There were 3,000 gallons of
spent beer and 2,000 ready for
distillation. Liquor found on the
scene totaled 116 gallons.^.
The officers arfested Clay Oak
ley, who was placed under bond
for appearance In the May_^ terni
W. P, Kelly, county tax sup-
ervi-sor, toilay announced that
tax Rsting in North WllkcAoro
township will continue through
Satui'day, April 23, at. the city enurcu m ■
hall and in Wilkesboro at the ^ 'game day at Pine View church In
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Conrihouse through Friday,
April 22. ^ ..
Any in other townships who
have not listed an urged to see
their respective list talnrs at
once. Penalties are ptescrlbed
Iv lavr for those who. jWI -to
the Mulberry Ticlnity at 2:30 p.
m. on Thursday. April 21, he
will addresB the home demonstra
tion club at Boomer. '
Mlw (McGoogan emptaaalzed the
fact thgt the.Pnblic, ^d especial
ly all women, are Invited to each
of the Bteetings.
dldates. 1
Degree work for the • occasion
will be confered by Davidson de
gree team and officers of the
Davidson camp. Some street work
will be carried out by the team,
before going to the new hall on
C street for the big time.
Visitors will include D. E}. Hen
derson,. of'Charlotte, B. F. Har-
rlll, special Repreeentatlve, M. W.
^Hh, district manager, Frank
Bairkley, of Llncolnton, is also ex
pected, and a large detegatlon
froih the Cllngman campi-.^'
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Other successful raids were
made In the vicinity of Shew
ridge and the officers spent a
busy day locating moonshine
plants in the hills.
J. W. Baldwin Dead'
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Funeral service^ was held Sun- ^
day at Rock Craj^-chiirch f#(f -
John W. BaldwttU ’siiS;3»'..-.»!»l
died Friday at his home,la
Congo community. J.'-’"- ’ «
He la survived by his ★If^ flve^
, wRia And twb^dhaglUeri, r