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ii’VV ." i'is- F>\v. •® » THE‘JOURNAL-! ATRIOT HAS BLAZED THE TRAIL OF PROGR i’tHE “STATE OP WILKES” FOR MORE TH^ 'THIRTY '; ^ __ ■' ■ ' ■ ., ., :.A...-., f i;a.J.>.... r I ■ Late News Of State • Nation Told Briefly THE JOURKAL-PATRIOT For matoal do your buying i£ NGww* Wilkesboro, the trad^ center of' Northweaiteni North Carolina. DAMAGE BY TORNADO Detroit, Aug. 8.—A tornado roared through western and een- tral Michigan late today killing one man and injuring an undeter mined number of persons while demolishing homes and buildings. Winds of crushing force, spring ing up after sultry heat, swept across Kalamazoo and Kent coun ties, then struck to the northeast to lay waste to property In Mid land county. .-OL, XXXlLm. ioSPublished Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1939|1.50 IN THE STAT^lOO OUT OfShE ST ACT NO POKER PLAYER Louisville, Ky., Aug. 8.- -Mrs. John Nance Oarner says the vice j,\resident doesn’t play poker any )re. “The truth i-=.’’ she wrote jtichard B. Crawfgrd. an officer in a local social clu'i. Mr. Garner “left off the practice a good many years ago." Crawfovd said the let ter was received in reply to an invitation asking t'’.. vice presi dent to tes’ his skMl at draw or stud poker with club members ^Jfany Friday night. City Commissioners In Busy Monthly Meeting All-American Game Gets Spotlight ‘Ours,* Sisters Shout 62 NEW LAMWTM’S Raleigh. Aug. -.aw Hcensps will be issued to 8 2 tif the 100 ap plicants who took examinations given here last week .'.y the state tioard of bar examiners. Secretary E. I.. Can’’nn announc ed toniglil. The n'l'chcr compared with p8 successful applicants I last year o'.it of Ok who took the j exaTiiinatims. ranni'u said he | thpi;ght the perceirage of sjc- ; cessf'il applicants 'ids year was | higher than it had h"OM since the $500 Appropriated For Advertising City’s Advantages Former Order Re-Electing City Employees Rescind- , ed In Tuesday Meeting ABOLISH ONE OFFICE Board Passes Order Abolish ing Office Solicitor For North Wilkesboro Many hnsiness matters of pub lic imere.st were transacted in ibi' August meeting of the North \^■iIke^'l)or(I board of commission ers. Ml members were present with Mavnr R. T. McNit 1 for the meet ing The members are: Ralph llicican. H M. H it'bens. \V. K. Many Sentenced In Present Term Court Number Of Cases Removed From Docket Of Court Judge Frank Armstrong Pre siding At August Term Of Wilkes Court Joe E. Brown, left, film and radio star, after urging members of the house immigration and naturalization committee to act favorably on a proposal to admit 20,000 German refugee children to the U. S., found time to join in a trio presentation of “Play Baseball, the All-American Game," a song written by Rep. Louis C. Rabaut, right, of Michigan. Representative Rabaut dedicated the song to the sandlot teams through out the nation. Other member of the trio is Rep. Charles Kramer of California. board hcs.un givi:ig iti.- examina tions in in.8t. ALMOST HANG^'O Raleigh. Aug, .Xrlhr.r l■.■•n- ey, eighf-ycar-old '-''i of I’''-ir-' ancp Commissioner :" -I \Irr-. i Vni C. Roney, hart a p-irr-'W escape | from dea'h by hanging late yester- , day hut was “gettirg al.m-' fiu"” today, hi.s daddy said. Y.aung Bone.v had been playing with a lasso in his hack yard. The cook- heard a gurgling sound outside her window, saw the lad hanging from a tree, and screamed for his parents. The hoy was bleeding at the nose, mouth and ears. It was after 9:2,n last night, nearly five hours after the accident before the child was restored to consci ousness. When officials of Rockville, Md., dedicated the city’s new S'7.000 post office they encountered difflcnlties. Mrs. Elizabeth Wimsatt of Washing- Ion, D. C., erected a warning sign, declaring that she and a sister were among eight heirs of the former owner of the site and had received nothing from the government. After ^ much wrangling, the chief of police j persuaded the adamant sisters to leave the property quietly. SI iii'rtivii -i'. ';. Killby I .1. Ti. dVillijicis a I vettc. r‘pi'--"i'nting ,1. It. Carter and A. cl .lohii i’rc- the Nortli Wilkesboro CmuMi'-rce liuri-aus. Boy’ s Adventure On Yadkin River Cracks On Rocks j nrp‘-a;-od br-foro lif board asking llli.it Ihc cily appr> priatc Ifn;- iirtvcrlising. Aficr they hart I (liscussi-rt tlie matter and infonn- I'li iti" board lliat lb? money was to be used in adverti.sing NorHi Wilhestioro's advantages the [boon! ndopteil I'n’ ''ty County-Wk'e Mass Meeting to Discuss School Situation Called For Tuesday Will Be Held Tuesday Nightia being conducted. 7:30 O'clock At The 1 .T'>e issued by the nom- County Courthouse '’"'"J,? “That, all over dVIlkes county ■•.le Citmens ami Patrons Com- 's open protest against the. inittee of Wilkes county, com- V in whie!) onr school system | Small Skiff Fails To Get Through Shoals And He Returns By Train • BRIDfiE.S CANDID.ATE I M'ashingtnn. .\iig. 8.— \ couple' of Republicans j-ist out of their | thirties teamed up today for the 1 purpose of electing Senator H. j Styles Bridge?, ef New Hatnp- j shire, the next I’resident of fhej Vnited .8tat-s. One w.is Bridges himself, just past 11. and the j other w;*.-? K-*pres*-nt:it ive ( liarle.'. I Hawks, .ir. of Horicon. Wis., a| first leriu meuiher of the house , who niriU'd -I" only last month Hawks, s-iinewb'rit mystifie'i that Bridges had s.-t.-eted hi:n as his campaign manager, sat in his of- ■ fice today and outlined the ob- jeetives and methods of the i-;un- paign 1 Somewhat downhearted b e- cause his adventure did not pan out just like he had hoped. Albert Minton. IT-year-om youth of the Ruck cou'u.unity. returned to North Wilkesboro today by train after his boat was wrecked on the rocks near Shoals. Min'on b-ft rn the Yadkin here Tuesday morning in a skiff, intending to float all the way down the Yadkin to the At lantic coast at Georgetown. S. C. After he left his mother con- faeted Sheriff C. T. Ponghtoii and asked that he take steps to have her hoy stopped and return ed home, .--he told .Slieriff Ilongii- tio. tlmf .Albert liad been talking abn-r s:,,-h a 'rip but that she tnd l.dd tiini not to go. .S'leriff noughton called Sher iff Ernie Sliore. of Eorsylh cmn- nii'dislied with the addition tlie 8a0n appropriation for ad vrl ising. Appropriations of $500 each by North Wilkesboro and Wilkes conniy tor advertisin,? were au thorized in an act of the 1939 le.gislaturc. On motion of H. M. Hutchens the order by the board in a spe cial meeting on June 9th hiring all city employes for the term of mayor and commissioners was rescinded without opposition. l.ater during the meeting each i e:nplo\e. including ti. city clerk. ■ memtjers of tlie police force. , is being conducted and there is a oC|im.sod of school patrons of differ-. ,|,.niaiid that the citizens and pa- enl districts, today called a irons have a common meeting to, eonnty-wide mass meeting to dis-1**’e facts and find a cuss the school situation in the remedy for the situation, county. “.Accordingly there will be held The meeting has been called to an open mass meeting in the t..u held at the rourlhoiise in 'WTl-' Sburthouse in Wilkesboro on kesboro on Tuesday, August 15, Tuesday. August 15, 7:30 o’clock. 7:30 p. m. All patrons and mtizens of Wilkes The statement calling the meet-, county aale'i and urged to ing said that there i. open protest attend this meeting and help get all ov;t the cminiy against the our school situation straightened: wav in which the school system out.” i ?t riM superintendent and assist- j riTit tuid etb(‘r employes were tak en up st'parately and eb'Cted for :tu days with the understanding Consider County jFarmers Warned AgentControversv, 0 f Overplanting Saturday, Aug. 15; Next Wheat Crop , jiiiul tbev would eontiniie in the ' lem'doye of the city after 30 days _ _ , pda' provided tlieir eonduct and serv- Commissioners Take No Ac- Pen altv Of $4.50 Per Acre I F t).R RVl’^ ( OM-RESF Hyde Park. N. Y . Aug 8 _ President tloo.sevelt assertet! 'o- , dav that a .• ailit-on of c 'ngtvs- ' V. .• r. :! Sheriff Shove placed a . sdonal KcptiVicati? and f'enio- crats had 2a-ntd>'d "i'h ib - w"' fare of p.-;.;.]-- i” rejecti'ig hi- ncfrabry pri'-'ia-ti and w th th- livMih "■',1 ef 3 ppp.'ioo .Amerie:ar.s in sciitiliiig the lending ar l housi'ig metis- nres. At his first press confer ence since the congressional se.s- sion ended, the President said a , solid Repuhliean minority and 20 to 25 per cent of the Demo crats in Con tress had: (11 Made | a large wager with the nation, on neutrality, that there would be no war until sufficiently long after they returned to Washing ton in January for them to take care of things: and i2> Wagered that private industry and busi ness would take up the slack oc casioned by dropping a million WP.A workers this year and by closing nut next spring a PWA program.which had been provid ing 2,000.000 jobs. tb-piil.v O^ tile river at tlie 1)uk“ Power d;im to intercept the ye,.th •m bis way to 'tie sea ami to have tiiei rc’urn home. Th.> .t.'pii'y kept np his vigil ■inril Im’c Wednesdtiy hut Minton •■■li'.-i] ■■■ sh.iw 111'. Min-ioi 'aoarded tlii' train at g),,riN ''-i-i moniiug and arrived ti. r-- b.-fore noon. McNeill Reunion On September 3rd MRS. KILBY STI DYING .MUSIC .\T MONTREAT Mr.s. .Andrew Kilby is spending this week at Montreat. N. C. ■While there .=he is finishing a pi ano teacher's course under the splendid supervision of Mr. and Mr.s. Crosby Adams. The .Adams’ are widelv known in the musical world. Mrs. Kilby would like a linMted number of pupils for rjate lessons for the coming jLr Anyone wishing to enroll call or see Mrs. Kilby at her home here, after this week. Program Beinjf Arranged For Annual Gathering Of Clan Soon Twenty milling, meat packing, dairy product, bread, biscuit, cereal and canning companies selling more than $34,00,000.000 of foodstuffs In 1936 made only S.7 cents on each dollar’s worth . Ot SBOil tbj C. 0. McNiel. president ot the McNeill clan organization, today announced that the annual re union of the widely known Mc Neill family will he held at Mil lers Creek school on Sunday, Sep tember 3. Judge Johnson J. Haye.s. pro gram chairman, is arranging the program for the reunion, which is annually one of the most large ly attended events of its kind in thi= section of the state. The reunion always draws a large crowd, with many North Carolina counties and other states rpprcsDntpd. An intorcstin.? pro- gram will be carried out at the reunion this year, -Mr. McNiel said. Cranberry Revival Will Begin Sunday Announcement has been made of a series of revival services to begin at Cranberry Baptist church Sunday. Rev. L. T. Younger is .pastor. The public has a cordial invita tion to the services, which will ontlnue for a week or loog' ice.; is s'Uisfartory. i On motion of .1. B. Carter, sec- j oiicled by AV. K, Sturdivant, the office of town solicitor was al)ol-| isbed. The office ba? been held during tlie past several years b.x .Miorue,?' .ieter Blackiiurn. ' The matter of ;daeiiig 'i black top surface on the imbidestone srclioii of Ninth street on the hill was ttikeu ui' and lurned over to the street committee for action. .A G. Einley is cliairman of tlie street o.mmillce and the other niembirs are W. K. Sturdivant and J. H. Ctirter. The matter has been nndo|- nd- visement for some time and the project is highly favored by the people pf the eily. Mayor McNiel was anibprized bv the bnarrt tn sign a '\\ I’.A street improvement pn>.ierf. Roy Keplar, a representative of the Boone Music company, ap peared before the board and ask ed permission to put pin boards in the city, saying that* the law does not prohibit sneh devices. The board ordered the city clerk to write the attorney general for a certified ruling on the law. The resignation of .1. C. Shoe maker as a member of Ibe police force was accepted and a motion at a previous meeting to dispense j with his services was ordered re scinded and stricken from the minutes. The board authorized the pur chase of 300 auditorium seats for the new city hall. H. M. Hutchens, chairman of the fire committee, was placed in charge of the fire department un til further notice and 0, G. Day was re-elected fire chief. A resolution was passed auth orizing and directing the city city clerk to advertise property for delinquent 1938 taxes during thi.s month and sell on Septem ber 11 according to law. The ad vertising win begin next week, i A resolution was passed a- mending a contract with the Pub lic Works administration which increased the grant for the city hall from $14,850 to $16,605. tion In Regular Monthly Meeting Monday Provided For Farmers Who Overplant I Wilkes county lioard of com missioners in regular .August ses sion this week took no action Iri'bilivc to the appointment of a I conniy fai m agent but tleferrcd ■Ibe matter until .Saturday. .Inly 1 2. one o’clock. I The t'oard’s full membership, 'enmjmsed of M. F. .Al'siier. chair- inan. Dr. W. R. Triplett and G. i'. Sidden. was present al the I meeting. Routine matters of conn- ||y liusiness were transacted. In ,1'ine the imard appointed i:dwarrt Freas. of TTaphill. a graduate of Stale Gollege, as cotinty a cent to succeed Dan Hol ler, who was appointed conniy a- gent following the death of A. G. lieiKlren. who held that office for more than 2 5 years. Offieials of the North Carolina extension service failed to ap prove the appointment of Mr. on the grounds that he had had no experience in extension work and asked the commisslon- er.s to retain Mr. Holler. .After several conferences with O. F. McCrary, district agent, the matter wa3 not settled and de ferred until this month for ac tion. American State Legislatures, having a membership of 7,466 State Senators and Representa tives, passed 17,194 new laws in 1937, an average of about two aad oner Boy Hurl While Playing In Street Joe Lewellyn. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lewellyn, sustained a fractured skull and other injur ies Tuesday evening when hit by a car while playing a game hide and seek’’ with otlier chil-1 dren on Ninth street near the; street. On .Inly 26th wheat allotments were mailed to all of the com mercial allotment farms and to all the non-commercial farmt who liad a arecommended usual of more than lo acres. Ail of the producers wtio did not receive an allotment from the county agent’s offiee will be allowed to seed 10 acres to harvest in 1940 without any penalty against their payment on the program. This is a raise of 2 acres over the 1938 acreage for tlie farmers who did not re ceive allotments. In computing the acres planted to wheat in 1938 and harvested in 1939, the workers in the coun ty a.gent’s office find t'nat quite a number of farmers will be pen alized on the 1939 AAA program for overplanting recommended usual acreage in wheat. The pen alty for overplanting-wheat is 50c per bushel times the county aver age yield, which is 9 bushels or $4.50 per acre for all over 8 acres sowed in 1938. This same rule will he in effect in 1940 with the exception that the acreage, instead of being 8 acres, will be 10 acres. In a great number of cases this penalty may be avoided for 1940 by mixing with the wheat when sown, a mixture containing 75 per cent wheat and 25 per cent rye, oats, or vetch. While this when harvested may be used for feed it disqualifies it as wheat, and in case a farmer wants to plant more than his recommend ed usual acreage, or 10 acres. I whichever is the greater, he can I avoid penalty by using the mix- ' lure as mentioned above. The county agent’s office is ! taking this means of warning the farmers who are anticipating Heavy Inroads have been made into the docket of Wilkes super ior court which convened Mon day for trial of criminal cases. Judge Frank Armstrong, of Troy, is presiding and Solicitor .Avalon E. Hall, of Yadklnville, is prosecuting the docket. A total of 120 cases were on the ealendar when court conven ed Monday but a great number of the cases involved minor offenses. The cases in which judgments were entered during the first three days follows: Howard (Red) Reavis, assault On female, transporting and in jury to real estate, nine months on roads and two years sentence suspended. Frank Reynolds, breaking, en tering and larceny, four months On maria on one count and 5 to 7 years in the penitentiary su spended on another. Dandy Spears, assault on fe male, four months on roads. Click Brooks, abandonment, six months on roads. Con Wagoner, bastardy, oft on payment of cost. H. E. Sebastian, operating car while Intoxicated, six months su spended on payment of $100 fine and not to drive car in two years. ■ R. A. Davis, false pretense, di rected verdict of not guilty. Luther Prevette. assault with deadly weapon, 12 months su spended five years on good be havior and payment of $50 fine, together with $11 hospital hill. A. W. Hardie, harhering with out license, fine $25: notice of appeal to supreme court given. Hillio Andrew.s, non-support of illegitimite child, not guilty. Philmore Rhoades and Pay Kennedy, forniticafion and adul tery. 12 months suspended as to Rhnade.s. four months suspended a:s to Kennedy. William Lee Langston, driving under influence liquor. 90 deys on roads. Vance .Adams, seduction, six mnniiis suspended on payment 8 22 5. Ellen Yales versus Willie Yates, divorce granted. Opal Douglas versus Lee Cox. marriage annulled lieeaiise he had living wife at time of purported marriage. Mrs. Wilson Davis, four months suspended sentence at former term put into effect on failure to pay $46.58 cost. Cases again.st llie following de fendants went off the docket by the nol pros route; Harry Ed ward Barnes, Janies L. Hamby, .Mrs. Julia .Minton. Marvin Bil lings, Royal AVest, Etta Johnson, Ed Ke.rley, Eugene Reynolds. Chief of Legionnairei History ’of the French Foreiga Lefion seems written In the fc^ tnres ot bearded General Rolled called the “Father of the Legion.* The general, together with his glonnaires, visited Paris recently to, march in the Bastille day paradeb celebrating the 150tb anniversary ef the French revolution. HooperAtThrottle As train Pulls In For Its 49th Year Veteran Engineer Continues On Line After Almost ~ Half A Century Thanks People For Donations Woman’s Club Grateful For For Helt) In Construct ion ofi Club House intersection with E The boy wa.s carried to the hos-1 ^ j^^ge wheat crop, pital for examination and later | returned home. His condition to- Harry Hutchins To day was described as getting a-, The North AVilkeshoro Wo man’s cinb wishes to thank all the people for their liberal do nations and for all help in any way toward construction of the new clubhouse, Mrs. F. C. For ester, club president, said today. 'The new club house, an at tractive stone structure adjoining 'Trogdon Park, was completed re cently and formally opened sev eral days ago. The club Is still In need of funds and further donations will bfi appreciated. Any who would like to have a part In contribut ing the remainder of the cost of the building are asked to hand the donations to the club to Mrs. C. G. Poindexter. long very well. Wilkes Marriages One license to wed was Issued during the past week from the office of Old Wiles, Wilkes regis- fer of deeds, that being to Ford „„„ Teague and Edith Minton, both. hte former eppeJ^nces are Sing Here Sunday Harry Mutchlns, of Atlanta, Ga., a nephew of Mrs. J. B. Wil liams, will sing offertory at the North Wilkesboro Methodist church Sunday. Mr. Hutchens, a baritone singer of recognlied abil ity, has appeared here before and Home Is Burned On August 2 fire completely destroyed the home of Base Har- rold at Hays. Also destroyed were all con; tents of the home, the fire leav- tiit family .wlUxout anyt^i« “Forty-nine years ago today I was at the throttle nf the first train to North AA’iikesboro.’’ Swift Hooper, veteran engineer, said AVednesday after he arrived with the train from AA'iiiston-Salem. "I hear they are goinir to have a big celebration here next year when the town is fifty years old,’ he added ticfore indulging in some very interesting reminis cences aiiout tlie town ? earl.v life. “t hro'ight the first train hero on August 9. 1889, 1 can retnem- tier that day very wrdl. There was no di'pnt and llio trai'i stopp ed alioiit even with tt'.e piece where fhe Blair residence now stands.’’ In answer ’o a question about fhe size of the town then, the old fn”tn'f'r wiin 'Inm was a gangling youth . xplained that there was no t'"'n a"d B^at the only house stood on wluit is now Kensington !!'i'-'lBs. ttnl aft'!' il'o coming of the railroad tin place gn-w rapidly and soon iecaiue a ernter ot commerce in this -ection. il'iop'r’s firs' name is really Swift, although many people have been und'r Ibe impression 'bat it was a nickname given be cause be had driv ii some fast trains on the Southern s' s'em. He hogaii railroading the age nf sixteen iiefore 'life was a Southern line and has been with the Southern ever since it was organized. AA’ith the excep tion ot seven years, he has been making his dai’y trips between North AA’ilkeshoro and AVinston- Salem. He was engineer on the oia number 97. which wrecked near Danville in 1903 but the train met disaster when Hooper had a day off and was visiting homo folks in Davie county. A lot of people are of the opinion that th^rp Tiovf*r wouM have a wreck of the old 97, which has been memoralized in ballad form, if Hooper had been at the throt tle. In December this year Hooper will have completed 50 years as a railroad engineer and he la just full of interesting stories a- bout what has happened during a half century of railroading. He knows the line between Winston-Salem and North Wil kesboro like an average man would know the walk between the street and his front door step He knows every landmark along the way and many who live by the railroad never forget a wave of greeting to the veteran behind the throttle. hooper is driving a much hig her locomotive than he formerly did. It was found necessary to pnt on a more powerful engine whoa tk* a^odule was moved up. Tha
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