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■ Patriot on»PBi0BtT IN fotmcsT ifendttya wad Tlunradays at »o«h Wa^fcoro, N. C. i. OAms i^jpups a hubbabd ^ frAUAm. iOBSCRIPTlON RATES: '0i» Tear _i ji 50 8bt Mostha . 75 jPoor Months 60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year ■■twed at tin port office mt North Wilkes ■5*& •* mcond data matter onder Art of Mareh 4, 187S. THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1939 ' Need Heating Plant .. For tihe past several years grand juries ' kavo been recommending that a heating , be installed in the Wilkes county eonrthouse. It has become the usual, rath er than the unusual^ for a grand jury to XMke that recommendation. , Two or more boards of commissioners have failed to make provision for the much needed improvement They did not fail to * do so because they did not think it was best; they merely followed the wishes of the people who elected them by trying to be as economical as possible in carrying on the affairs of the county. . Like people of other counties, Wilkes property owners hate to pay taxes and the people who have managed the affairs of the county have tried to keep the tax rate as low as possible. As a result the tax rate is much lower than that of many counties and has been for several years. But in keeping the tax rate down it of ten develops that much needed improve ments must wait to be carried out and a heating plant for the courthouse happens to be one of those. In the courthouse are many fireplaces and heaters. Elach one consumes fuel, to say nothing of the trouble and inconveni ence of firing so many places In the jail there is a heating plant which occasionally needs repairs and has to be fueled. It looks to an outside observer as if a good central heating plant for both build ings would be efficient and economical. That would mean fueling only one fire and if the plant was of the right type and con struction cost of repairs would be neglible. In addition to a possible fuel saving, there would be a great improvement in the com fort of people who must ocxupy the court house and those who for one reason or another must be in jail. There would be no coal dust and soot in every room and a great part of the labor would be eliminated, giving the janitor time to better care for the building and grounds. The added comfort to the people in the courthouse would be conducive to better and more work and would be a decided improvement from the standpoint of health of the officers and employes. People who deal with the problem of taxes have to reckon with two classes of people: one wants lower taxes and the other wants more benefits. Occasionally the same individual wants both at the same time. Wilkes property, like that of many oth er counties, cannot stand a very high tax rate. Yet, there are certain things almost indispensible in the course of running the county affairs and tax revenue is a vital necessity. And there are times when tem porary savings untimately result in false economy. National Apple Week We have just been reminded that this is ^-l^ational Apple Week and it would be in- S-i deed fitting that we consume an extra amount of the luscious fruit this week. Apples are one of the leading crops in = Wilkes and the consumption of apples di rectly affect^ the welfare of many of our people and the economic welfare of Wilkes and adjoining counties. We should not on^ be interested in production of ^ more ^d better apples but we should take an active interest in every movement to in crease the consumption of apples. Big publicity and advertising campaigns for citrus fruit have lined the pockets of the citrus growers and allied interests and have caused a decrease in the use of ap ples. This must! be matched by boosting apples for the sake of health and real eat ing enjoyment. Every person can help in the cause and should let no opportunity to popularize the fruit pass without using it to the fullest advantage. ^ Boy an extra bushel of apples this week. “Hitler ” says an overseas dispatch, . '«wa8 beside himself." We can only say ^ that a fellow is known by the company he i^eps.—Detroit News. Americans must view the world situa tion seriously, or they never would suggest kwpS session.—Pittsburgh [6 erperti n’l mwt. Why not? The women ^ SM& is thn ^nunml. JOURN^IrPATRlbT. N0®TH BcNTTowed RATHER PAY 'HlAN FIGHT (Shelby Daily Star) The United States is definitely opposed to sending men across to right Europe s battles. This does not mean that our peo ple are lacking in patriotism. They would go the limit in defense and since the siriia- tion has arisen in Europe, the sentiment of Uiis country is predominantly in favor of a stronger national defense. Report} has it that President Roosevelt will propose a preparedness appropriation of $2,800,000,000 at the January session of Congress and while business is now bur dened with taxes and debt, it had much rather meet the additional taxes that will be imposed to strengthen our army and navy than to be plunged into war. In the past we have heard speakers cry that “war lords want war for the profit they reap.” Little do we hear of this talk now. War is destructive, not only of men but of propertly and morality. So called “big business” does not profit from either of these. If profits should come, the gov ernment is all set to seize them in the form of taxes. Up in Washington, our representatives are trying to devise ways and means of keeping us out of the conflict abroad. Some have one solution, some another. All, however, have the same peaceful purpose in mind. Billions of foreign dollars are in this country ready to buy supplies if and when the neutrality bill offered by the Presi dent is enacted into law. Seven billions be long to Great Britain and Prance. Ano ther five billion was invested in the United centennial of the church 76 years States by British individuals. This has been,ago. confiscated in a manner by the British Mrs. Elizabeth Redding, wife of government for the purpose of buying war the late Allen Redding who has A.VA I' t' AiAitiSiSsed her fourscore and ten be- needs, England did not exactly confiscate the mone^y of ite subjects in _the United States,^ but issuedheard from her. she has been in the home of her son, “Jafle Redding” for the past three or four years. Masonic Grand Liecturer, Mr. John Marquette, of Statesville, lectured last week at night to RONDA, Route I, Oct «0.—r Last Monday a week ago Clarke Pardue, the two or three year old baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pardue, of Brier Creek commun ity was playing with a piece of glass striking it against someth ing when 41 piece of it struck his eye and "put it out”, his Uncle Martin said. V/e were saddened at the pass ing of dear old Aunt Julia Car- render, aged 94, of Boonvllle last Sunday, afternoon. She has been an invalid for years. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Sale and Barbara Jean, with Mr. and M^'s. Robt. Key, Misses Zelma and Hattie Bell Key were luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Denny of Pilot Mountain October 22. Miss Emma Pardue made Miss es Mattie and Armisa Sale a pleasant call last Tuesday on her way to spend the day with her niece. Miss Polly Pardue, who is convalescing nicely since her re turn from Hugh Chatham Hos pital. Miss Jettle Harvlll writes her friends that she attended the 175th anniversary of her church —Presbyterian — 1“ Statesville last Sunday and attended both services. A picnic dinner was spread, half of It was not eaten, about 5,000 people attended. One man was there who attended the ’ N. C/? (SjtriiiTul night. It wa» well rendered and laifialy attendedO ' - ig?*- ^ - ilr and Mrs. Kermlt" Pardue called oh hdr old ’*chams”, Mrs. Gaither Gentry and Mra. Ruth Hayes, of Winston-Salem, at the home of her mother and grand father, Mrs. Yetral Boyd and Mr. R. S. Walker. Mr. Arley Pardue was the din ner guests of Masters Tom~'~and Joe Pardue ■ after Brier Creek Sunday school. Kermit Vestal, Arvllle Pardue Tisited the peraimimon trees and haw trees on Holly Hill yesterday afternoon. t^ yaaae make immediate settle* ' QsirtAar qf ^ eetrttLitf " iVP. B. Miked, (t) long term British bonds to those indivi duals in lieu of their money invested in this country. There is a great back-log of war orders to be filled when the neutrality law goes through and then we may expect an added impehus to business. Business, large and small, does not want war and had rather pay fra stronger national defense than see this country enter the conflict. The cost will be heavy in dollars and cents, but if actual combat can be avoided, isn’t it better to preserve our peace with money than with our blood? w CONSOLIDATION OF COUNTIES? (Morganton News-Herald) There is real food for thought in the fol lowing commer^t from a recent ,issu^ of the Greensboro Daily News, and we are in agreement with it, but it leaves us won dering just where such a movement as it proposes would find its start in North Carolina and how much trouble it would leave in its wake: “What we need to do,” says the Georgia stete junior chamber of commerce, “is to consolidate over half of our present coun ties. With present-day traveling and com munication facilities, only one county is needed now where 30 years ago possibly three were needed. It is to the intere.st of every taxpaying citizen that this needless extravagance and waste be stopped.” “If the junior chamber can drive home the good sense of this appeal to the point of action, it will have rendered Georgia an in calculable service,” says the Atlanta Geor gian. And that action will be an example set for the neighbor states that will also be of service beyond calculation. Meanwhile, North Carolina offers a field for like labor similarly promising of profit for some such vigorous and capable agency as the junior chamber of commerce. The Georgian says that “carerful stu dents of the matter have long held that elimination of unnecessary counties, with their multiplied costs, would save enough money to put all the proper agencies of government on a sound, efficient and pro gressive ba.sis.” Careful students long ago came to much the same condition as to North Carolina. DEPRESSING (Asheville Citizen) Among the depressing news items of the week is the bankruptcy petition filed by Miss Sally Rand. Sally—so the story goes —can’t pay her creditors, despite reports of a six-figure income a year or so ago. Is this the end of an era? Has the car nival spirit evaporated, like one of Sally’s bubble balloons, before the onslaught of a materialistic world? We hope not. Any way, Sally is a resourceful young woman, expert at grabbing the limelight or on or off the stage. Who can forget her famous lecture to Chicago advertising men? __ ^ Sally will be back, we predict, and with parents, Mr. Martin an*’ Mrs. Par- something new and different, or the art of due. press agent^ is dead. Camera! Lights!' Action! Give the little girl a great big hand-out! State College Answ«ra Tfanely Farm Question Question: How far apart should apple trees 'be set in a new orch ard? Answer: Am)le trees should be set at least 36 feet aipart in the row. This distance also appUes to pear trees, but for ipeach, plum, and chenr trees the distance Is reduced to 25 feet. In setting the trees, be sure that the hole is large enough to keep from bend ing the roots and deep enough so that the young trees are about two incheti deeper than they stood In the nursery. However, If the roots are extremely long, they may 'be trimmed to around eight inches from the stem. THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1989 State Colleire Answen TimSbr ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor of ue estate of Ida McNeill^ deceased, late of Wilkes counj^, Nortt Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex-1 hibit them to the undersigned at Moravian Palls, N. C., on or be-j fore the 27th day of Septembert' 1940, or this notice will be plead, in bar of their recovery. All per-' sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement.' T^his the 27th day of Sept., 1939.; C. D. HARRIS, Administrator of Ida McNeill, I deceased. ll-9-6t! V NOIKStOCBEDIfOSS Hsvfaur qaaUfied as adsailBistri^ tor of-m Mtato of ToUos Handy, lata of-WQkw Ooim^, Norft €a^ olina, titia b to notify aS psMona koltmc daios «nkirt aiiff rtttate to presort IkWB TO tt#,tindCTatitBed foT'pnyinM dnlvT^VUdfisd on or bofore.tiMn lOtk day of Oetobsr, i»40, or tids notice will be pleaded In ber of reeovsry. AH psreone in debted to nld estate trill nwke immedbte srttlement. Thb tile 10th day of Oct., 1989. J. G. BILLINGS, Administrator of Tobias Handy, deceased. Lomaoc, N. C. Uie-fltpd ~ NOTICE NORTte CAROLINA. WILKES COUNTY. Having qualified as Executor ol the Elstate of P. A. Lomax, de ceased, and having been ^pointed as Administrator of the Estate of Mrs. S. E. Lomax, dec’d., this b to notify all persons having claims against skid estate, or either of them, to present them to the un dersigned at his office in North Wilkesboro, N. C., on or before the 10th day of October, 1940, or this notice will be plead in bar of tiieir right to recover. This 10th day of October, 1939. C. B. LOMAX, Executor of Estate of P. A. Lo max, deceased, and Administrator of Estate of Mrs. S. E. Lomax, deceased. 11-16-61 Fun QoMthn Qaastioa: ShovU yoang traea !>• praaad sash yaart Ansawr: Thara b a’cartal mourt of pranlng revaUti year after the tresa are ph This, however, depends upon fha growtii of the branches and aesf-, fold Umhe. Extension Cirenbr No.' 206 ‘Tnuring the Apple '' teUs how and when to prana and a copy may be secured by writbac the Agricultural Editor at Stgta College. Honda Lodge. Last Friday evening Mr. Alfred Smith, of Winston-Salem, car ried his mother, Mrs. Carrie Smith, Messrs. Vance, and Gray Pardue, and Bettie Jean, Kate and Arville Pardue made Misses Mattie and Armisa Sale an enjoy able visit. Worth Sale, Martin Pardue. Wal ter Walker, J. H. Hacket and Bessie Sale shucked excellent crops of corn the past week. - I^rs. Ma:pr Kat^ Sal^ came for her mother, Mrs. Lollie Sale, last Friday and carried her to spend her twenty-third birth day with her in her new home in Elkin. Mr. Jimmie Freeman and Mrs. Myres came home with Mrs. Sale. Mr. Freeman carried a quantity of green pine limbs to cover his yard to protect the grass seeds he had sown. Misses Polly, Edith and Kate Pardue called to visit Misses Mat- tie and Armisa Sale Sunday morning. Their sister, Florence, and her husband, Kermit Pardue, carried them over there and came for them later. Geo. H. Sale, Mrs. Sale and Barbara Jean spent the week-end with parents at Holly Hill and visited their “aunties” also. Mrs. Gaither Gentry, and son, Billie, -with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hayes, of Winston-Salem, spent the week-end with their mother, Mrs. Vetra Boyd, and their grand father, Mr. R. S. Wia’ker. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pardue carried their little son, Clarke, to Wilkes HospPal yesterday to have his eye treated again. It is thought now that perhaps his eye is just dimmed and that it is not "out” as was thought when he first got the glass In It. Mrs. Kate Alexander, of El- wood, Indiana, Is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Pau line Kremer, of Mountain View. Mr. Charles Burchette and his sister, Mrs. Ernest Alexander, of Elwood, Indiana, celebrated their birthdays together at his home at Clingman. His birthday was Sat urday and hers Is today. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Smith and son, J. W., daughter, Carolyn, Mrs. Ernest Alexander, and son, •lames, after attending the birth day dinner at Clingman gave their relatives at Holly Hill a few minutes surprise. Mr. Kermit Pardue and Mrs. Pardue, of Cycle, spent the past week-end with the Hmlly of her Clingman school ijave a Hal- Beware (3oog^ from common coldf Hiat Hang On F. D. R. WISDOM (Columbia Sbate) At a roadside grist mill two South Caro lina farmers were talking. “What you reckon’s gonner happen in that war?” “I d'jn’t know but I do know what I’m gonner do about it.” “What?” “I’m gonner plant me a little more .vriieat and oats, get me a few more hogs, build me a new chicken house, and things like that Then, if food goes up high. Fll sell a lot of stuff. If not, FUi pirt some fat' on my own ^ ^ ........... . - . EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Ehcecutor of the estate of W. B. Mikeial, late of Wilkes county, N. C., this is to^ notify all persons having claims^ against said estate to present them | to the undersigned, whose address j is Summit, N. C., duly verified, on' or before the 19th day of Octcber.i 1940, or this notice will be plead in| bar of their right to recover. All, persons indebted to said estate' WILLIAMS MOTOR CO. TELEPHONE 334-J T. H. Williams, Owner Oldsmobile Sales-Service Bear Frame Service and Wh’ 4 Alignment General Auto Repairing Wrecker Service—Electric ai.d Acetylene Welding USED PARTS—For all makes and models of cars and trucks WANT • >3^ Lots of Milk from the Family. Cow? M t, how good cows do look* th« milk on Purina Dairy Chow*. A lot of cows are giving 2 to 3 gallon# a day on it—ond keeping this up f» months pfter cominc [ fresh. A good cow really earns good feed. 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