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fjfi if rtiwo And N«ntiv« Win Ovmr MOh^ Crei^ MoobIi^A^^ ' Km ®7 Tlrtue ot both teams win- aiax In the triangular ,dol)Hte oxer, sutlers Creeh and Monntafn Vieir, Konda teams will take part in the state-wide debating contest to be held at Chapel HUl. Honda’s affirmative team com- Voeed of Misses Myrtle Mathis and Norma Gilliam defeated Mil lers Creek’s negative. Ronda’s negative team composed of Misses laa Lee White and Cloedell Byrd defeated Mountain View’s nega tive debaters last week. The query for the triangular debates is “Resolved: That the United States should own and «^rate the railroads.’’ Charles F. Hester Claimed By Death Funeral service was held todaV, two o’clock, at Mt. Carmel church for Charles F. Hester, age 4 7, who died late Saturday at his home at Pores Knob. Rev. S. I. W’atts conducted the service. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ixiii Parlier Hester, and nine chil dren. HONDA, Route 2, Mari* 30.— This community has recently had an exciting fire experience. The Sale’s homes were threatened, the Ginnings, Vanhoy, and Hen drix farms were estimated to have burned over two or three hundred acres. One hoirsd^on the Ginnings farm was burned. The new resi dence on the Smith plantation was surrounded by men to pro tect it from the flames. There were se/enty-llve or one hundred who participated in extinguishing the flames. Fortunately a good rain came to the rescue early in the night. Miss Emma Pardue, who has been critically ill for several weeks was admitted to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital last week. Last Tuesday she under went an appendix and a major operation. Miss Polly Pardue, her niece, spent a night and day with her and left her doing nicely. Her friends and relatives ard hoping for her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Hermit Pardue, who has been in very poor health for sev eral weeks is now being treated in Mycr’ Hospital. Her m.other, Mrs. Marlin Pardue, spent last week with her. La.st Sunday, Rev. R. R. Cra ter liad a small audience at Rrier Creek for liis Easter service. I “Granny Hawkins, of Honda j spent the week-end with her sis- I..they’re NEAT! 2.. THEYRE COMFORTABLE 3.. THEYRE ECONOMt^L CohrM(ridied\\ V SHIRTS wPANTS! * Good-loolcing com binations in Sand, Son-Tan, Whit*, For est Green, Powder i | i Bios, Oli.e Drob. FOR WORK UNIFORMS C0LFING.MQT0RING.. -FISHING.. CAMPING! UNION-MADE GUARANTEED Payne Clothing Company North Wilkesboro, N. C. ''ter. -Mrs. Francis Shumate. They I walked to church. Rev. Mr. Crater j curried tliem lioine. I .Mrs. \V. O. and Miss Delight j t'hnreh. of Elkin, spent Hie week- 1 end willi .Misses Mattie and .^r- I mise Sale on Sunday a. m. i Brier C'eek community can j boast of a champion sweet potato I grower. .Mrs. Nancy Pardue'Walk er lost her 19.38 sweet potato I with plants four inches long since i jchrisinias during a serious at- ’ tack of flu. She treated this j ^ choice vegetable as a hothouse I j 1 plant. Mrs. Ruby Boyd Gentry and son. Billy, of Winston-Salem, vis ited the family of H. S. Walker, la.st week-end. .Mrs. Vetra Boyd is nursing .Mrs. Hoscoe .Morrison and her new baby this week. .VIessr.s. -4. r. and E. E. Shu mate. of Brier ('reek community, attended the funeral of their mo ther. .Mrs. -Myra Jane Shumate, last Sunday at Dehart. Revs. Wil lis Byrd and Landis Blevins con ducted the funeral services. .Mrs. A. C. Shumate was at his mother's bedside in Rock Creek .■ommuniiy for seven weeks, he- fore lier deatli. .\!r. Wortll Sale cHme lie--- - i-.i:e Wilke , Ui : '• --.i I' ;- ;m;iiedi;ili 'y " "ir lo bed with fill. I,- i- still ill tied liiil improving slowly. .Mesdumes Gruliam Myers and .Seaman Doldiin.s. ot Elkin. Mrs. Worth and Miss .Mattie Sale vis ited Rev. N, T. Jarvis last week. Mrs. (ills Key moved to her IhreljrB Sparks aeootipBaled' ber, retnraiai^ liiribe Saturday., ' Iltta' Sthel Gray iras called to' tbe bedside of ber mother, Mrs. Gertie Pardne Wells, last Thurs day. Mrs. "Wells was said to very sick. ' Mr. Gam Gray and little daugh ter, Bettle, visited Mr. Don Gray last Tuesday jk’m. . f Messrs. Luther, Martin and Fletcher Pardue visited thhir s%: ter, Miss Elmma, at Hugh ; Chat ham Memorial Hospital last Wed nesday. ’ Mr. Armstrong Pardue and Mastea Arvlll Pardue carried wheat to Tharp’s mill last, Wed nesday. • Mr. Clark Walker purchased a tine young horse ot Mr. Dixon of Elkin. Master David Myres spent East er Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Worth Sale at Holly Hill. Mesdames Thorne Moore and Geo. H. Key attended a club meet ing in 'Wilkesboro Friday. Little Barbara Jean Sale-spent ..the day with relatives at Holly Hill. Thursday morning Miss Polly Pardue made a business visit to Holly Hill. Mr. Worth Sale ha.s thirteen nice pigs three weeks old. Miss Louise Childress, of State Road, is with her grandmother, Mr.s. Chap Pardue, while -Miss Emma is away in the hospital. .Mrs. Gwyn Adams was very sick only a few days ago, we re gret to have learned. .Mr. Walter Walker i.s in very poor health. Mr. Curt Sparks, of Brier Creek community, spent the past week end with his mother of Cranber ry community. •Mr. and Mrs. Thorne Moore and Mrs. 0. H. Sale, of Ronda, were afternoon guests of -Mr. Worth Sale yesterday. There has been much comment on the past “White Easter"—a note for diaries. Mr. and Mrs. Graham .Myre.s. Mrs. Royce Dobbins and Miss -Madlin Myres are recent guests of Holly Hill. V *V-. or l^irldiy^ A|t m gFaneHl day at Waw Mm Carrie DatUi; fife .bM*" „ of M. Davis, well koeva cUlseig WUd, a**. 7>.>',wha dlW Wed ot Brushy MouBlaiu, .township,. She died Thursday her home. Mrs. Davis is survived hy . six children: Morrisi, Ethel Fred, Clegg, Estelle and Hazel Davis. Burial was in the Parker cem etery. ' is Leroy Eller Obtains Permit To Preach " ' .1 In a call meeting of the Mo ravian Falls Baptist church held on Sunday, March • 25, Leroy Eller, a citizen of*'that commun ity, was liberated as a minister. It is expected that he will appear in a number of pulpits in the near future. day.at ter home-,-4t^ Lanrrt, Springa Rev. J. W. Luke was la ^ .charge of tbe last rites and bW- . lailiwaif^hi Lairtel Fork cemetery.. She was thw Widow of the late James Long and leaVee th'#'''fOl'' ' lowing children: Mrs. Della Glia-', mette, WythevUle, 'Va.: Ed I-Aurel Springs; Bynum and ey Long, Bettendorf, Iowa; OlavJ ' Long, Laurel Springs; Mra Bee-’ sie Woodie, Stuart, Va.; Adron Long, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Lilllao Hart, Transou; Mrs. Nonna Long, Wythevllle, Va. I \ BIGELOW WEAVERS Tlie Perfect Room Starts With A RUG TTL^ FITS ... YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND A **Floorcovering Forum TO BE HELD AT OUR STORE ON 5th, 1940 A special representative of the Bigelow Weavers, makers of the famous Bigelow mgs and carpets, will be in our store all day to conduct the forum. He will be glad to ^ve you expert, individual advice on your home decoration problems. £iiQ(les-Day Furniture Co. ' MCMBnlete Fnrnialiers Of The Home” - ______ NorUi Wilkesboro, N. C. Floorcovering' Forum ToHelp Homemakers To Be Held" Friday Developed primarily in the in terest of the homemaker seeking more information about rugs and carpets, a “Floorcovering Forum” will be held at Rhodes-Day Fur niture Company Friday. The “Forum” will answer puzzling questions about rugs, and present helpful. Individual advice on home decoration. To help conduct the “Forum.” .Mr. C. G. Day. of Rhodes-Day has secured Mr. Bill Norris, special representative of a well known rug company. ''.Mr. Norris is well (inalified to assist homeowiieiv Willi (lieir vexing decoration prol>- lems,'’ Mr. Day said yesterday. "I am sure that those who attend the -Fonim’ will find his advice extremely helpful and practical.” In addition to answering quer ies on decoration, the “Forum” will also present a miniatnre rug and carpet style show, featuring, according to Mr. Day, the latest and most popular designs. Spe’ial emphasis will he placed on the net.' Swedisli Modern, Botanical, Floral, Hooked and Oriental pat terns. "In hundreds ot cities and towns the .American Homeowner is becoming better acquainted with the newest and smartest ruas and carpets through the me dium of “Floorcovering Forums’.’’ -slated Mr. Day. “With the floor HILARITY reaches a new hisrh peak in the screen ro mance of Mae West and W. C. Fields in the novel western comedv. Universal’s “Mv Little Chickadee. Action of the lurid farce takes place on the frontier prairies durinz the wild and treacherous days (and niehts) of the 1880’s. West And Fields Teamed In Show Obituary ■Map West and W. C. Fields. | two of the most celebrated fig- I ures in the entertainment world. | come to the New Orpheum Thea-1 tre Thursday and Friday in their I new starring picture. L’niversal’s ‘ “My Little Chickadee.’’ j Heralded as one of the out-1 standing screen combinations of ■ill time, the ciirvaceon- actress ami the flaming-nosed funster lilemi llieir colorful personalities in a rip-snorting coined.'’ of fron- , tier days. Tlie story i-’ said to !>>■ ' alive with roo'in'-tooiin' action played agaimst a liackgrnntid of romance, skullduggery ami music. Mae is seen as a glamoroms big- city belle wbo stirs itp a me-.s of troiii'.le wbeli llie l.oys of Hie wild and woolly fromier start to vie for her affections. .\mong “the lioys'' is Fields, as a medi cine man and card sharp, who is completely capHva'ed by Mae. and strives throiighoiil the film to claim her for his very own. One ot the strongest support ing casts of the year was assembl ed for Hie production. A partial list of players includes such favorites as Joseph Calleia, Dick Foraii, Donald Meek, Gene Aus tin with Candy and Coco. .\nne Nagel. -Margaret Hamilton and Maw ,Ta’-e Hawkins Shumate ■ as I'orn November It. 1867, died Ma.-,.' ipio. age 72 years 4 months and 13 days. She was married to William Shumate. August. 1886. To this I union three children were born, j One died in infancy. She is siir- Ivived by two sons. A. C. and Bl. . E., of Route two, Roaring River, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She profes-ed a hope in Christ in early girlhood, united with Zior Baptist church of which she wa.s a memlier untill death. I i!er la.st request wa.s lo he bur ied :n a 'vinding sheet in tlie old fa.shiomd way. We tried to carry lout her request lo the best of o.tr ability. Farewell children, to me you’re dear .No more I'll lead yon while here I you stay I For me Idinent not, weep, nor si.gli. But meet me in the "Sweet Bye and Bye.’' A. (’. aad E. E. SHUMATE. generally recognized as the 'focal Huth Donnelly. int.' the start ot any smart dec- I orative scheme, yon can see how i important it is that American women know what’s new on the floor. The ‘Floorcovering Forum’ tells them, shows them, as well as helping them to a better working knowledge of the basic principles of home decoration.” Mr. Day announces that the “Forum” will b)e in continuous session all day Friday from 9 to 5. John Wood Rites Held On Saturday Funeral service was held Sat urday, March 25, at Bethany church for John Wood, age 74, well known resident of that com munity who died on Thursday. Revs. Jimmie Bryant, Curtis Bur- eham and G. W. Curry conducted the service. Mr. Wood had been ill tor a- bout six weeks. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rboda Wood, and the following children: J. M. Wood, of Lewis Creek; L. W. Wood, of North Wilkesboro route 2; M. W. Wood, of Winston-Salem route 3; Mrs. Tempia (Jarris, of Pocahunlas. Va.; Mrs. Nelia Wood, of Roar ing River. Use the advertisiiig columns o' this paper as your shoppinsr cnide Pl&insON BROTHERS-^Beed. qnariers for Seeds oi lOl hind*—• Potatoes, oats, obIob setsi, lespe- de», beans, etc. Lowest prioes. sings In the film Miss West “Willie of the Valley.” a new number written especially for her. The .story and screenplay of “.My Little Chickadee” were con cocted to assure generous por tions of Westion witticisms and Eieldsian fooleries. Edward Cline, who has piloted some of Hollywood’s most suc cessful laugh hits, and who was once a member of the famous Keystone Cops of Mack Sennett days, directed the film. Lester Cowan was the producer and Joseph Valentine, noted for his camera work on all of Deanna Durbin's films, did the photog raphy. Mrs, rhambe’'lain Ls Bridge Hostess Mrs. A. C. C'hami;crlaiii wa.s hostess at her home on “C’ Street Thursday afternoon when .■jhe emeriaiued at several tables of bridge. Calendulas and jonquils were, ii-^ed to decorate the rooms, and ^ 1 tallies in orange, yellow and green helped lo carry out the color mo- , tif. i .A.fter several progressions, scores were added and high prize won by .Mrs. R. C. Fancelt and low by Mrs. D. V. Deal. Mrs. W. I jP. ,4bsher assisted the hostess in 1 serving a salad and dessert course I with coffee. ' Farmers, we iiave fertilizer, les. pesleza seod. cabbage plants, on ion sets, seed oat.s, seed beans and seed poiatoe-'. Be istire to see ns for yonr needs.—North Wll- kesboro Grocery Co. 8-21t-7i Foundation Party On Friday Night 1 North Wilkesboro Woman’s Club is sponsoring a Foundation Birthday Party at the new cluhi- house on Friday night, April 5, eight o’clock. Announcement of the party said: “Admission will he 2.5 cents each. Come and bring your frieniis. Wear either a costume or your wedding, dress. Prizes will be given.” C.4RI> OP THANKS noul sHouiinE k '/•tN V-'t We use this means to express appreciation to the many who | were so kind and sympathetic ) during the biereavement caused by the death of our father. MRS. JOHN WOOD AND CHILDREN. BT SIR iTBRE Shekmin WILLI^VS Pj/sts Call 109 Paint and Painter CARLTON’S HARDWARE Good Paste Paint. laL $249 Ads. get attention—and roaulta. Ton find all kinds of fresb field and garden seeds at our store. All at lowest prices. Seed potatoes, seed oats, seed beans, and lespedeza seeds. PEARSON BROTHERS. 2-a«-tf COMPARE QUALITY AND PRICE! FULL-FASHIONED PURE SILK HOSiHKV Sheer! Ringtess! High Twist Silk 55 29x34 WASHED, BLEACHED Flour Sack Squares, bargain .. 5c Printed Broadcloth and 80 Square Prints, fast colors, now, yd 11c 18x36 TERRY TOWELS, value 10c 80x105 FAST COLOR BEDSPREADS ....... Blue, Green, Rose, Hibo and Yellow 49c NEW SHIPMENT—FAST COLOR WASH FROCKS, 14 to « 39c PEMMEY^S get attention -and For A Few Cents A Day... Reddy Will Do Your COOKING ELECTRICALLY And we modestly say that it will be done by an expert! A modern electric range relieves every housewife of much of the uncertainty of her cooking. Its gauges and automatic adjustments save her food from burning and the method of cooking saves food from shrinking. And its cleanliness, speed and economy of operation add to the joy of using one of these ranges. So, for a few cents a day, treat yourself and your family to the modern advantages of electric cookery! POWER COMPANY "Etoetrietty b Cheap—Uae It Adeqvtdy” , Phone 420 North Wilkesbo^ N. C. t
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