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C. R. McLAiN WRITES
Moline. 111.
102 19 Avenue
April 18, 1940
Sditor Journal-Patriot;
I am inclosing $2.00 for the
Ccod old pai>er another year. Sdr-
WT for the delay in sending it in.
Tou will see by my address that
% have moved back to Moline,
II., from Cut Knife, Sask., Can
ada. We will make our home in
Moline now. Best regards to you
and your paper. It was wonderful
to have it coming twice a week
Sbr the twenty-two years that we
iqpent in Canada. We will be look-
big forward to have it coming to
our new addresa
Yours very truly,
CHAS. R. McLAIN’.
.TUDGE MARTfN WRITES
IBditor, Journal-Patriot;
Perhaps a few lines from one
»ho can justly claim to he one of
(he real “old timers" of Wilkes,
» well as of many other places,
■jiay b!e of interest to many
triends and relatives, descendants
•t>{ real old timers, who still re
side there and most of whom are
regular readers of The Journal-
Satriot. I was born there, in An-
■aoch township on October 1st,
[.'152. So 1 am now 87 1-2 years
■ lid.
Through the long vista of the
'leeting years, at the annual ar
rival of the present month of
ipril, memory recalls the scenes
jod events which, as a twelve
diabolical
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bora a'part In dnring tha month
of April 18«5.
An army of several thonsand
Union cavalry, commanded by
General Stoneman made a raid
through that country as tar east
as Salisbury, living on the coun
try as they .passed, while, at the
same time, all semblance of law
and order disappeared from the
country. A rapid succession of
events during the same fateful
month of April—the surrender of
General Lee at Appomattox, of
Johnson’s army In N. C„ the final
collapse of the Southern Confed
eracy all together brought about
conditions slm,ply Impoesiible to
describe in a manner to be Intel
ligible to people of the present
generation. Actual starvation and
great destitution and suffering
prevailed for several months un
til supplies were sent In from the
outside. An incident of those
days, which I still vividly recall.
Is that of .being sent to a small
country mill with com which my
father had saved by hiding it In
the woods, and circling around
with it, through the woods and
thickets, to avoid meeting hungry
people who would forcRle take it
from me.
I also recall that the first
school I ever attended was at a
place near my father’s residence,
called Eglantine, then located in
a dense forest, now a cultivated
field. I sat on a bench made of a
slabi with pins set in augur holes,
and conned the alphabet from an
old time “Webster blue-back.’’
The teacher was familiarly called
"old I’liele Billy Mastin’’ and per
haps his own education did not
extend much beyond the “Web
ster blue-back.’’ lAter, I attend
ed a small country school at Oak
Forest, now Dellaplane, and had
as school mates two who are now
still living—the Misse.s Ida and
Lulu Parks.
However nearly all the “school
education” I ever received was
under the ministrations of the
Kev. it, W. Barber, the old time
Epi.sfopal minister and a man of
sainted memory to nearly all the
olit time residents. I attended his
school, tangbl in one of his old
time negi'O cabin.s. which he had
converted into a school room,
throe five montb.s terms during
ibe ye;irs lSi!7-!Nfis and 1S69.
Of those who attended his school
at the time I last attended in
ilS69. I believe I am the sole sur
vivor. The Finleys — Ed and
George; tlie Rousseaus, Julius
and Jas. P., also two girls of the
Adison Kou.weau family: John O.
and two sisters. Florence and Ed-
. tuna, of the Adolphus Rousseau
family. Also the Welborns, Jim.
Ike, Monte, and John: Will Bar
ber and sister. Miss Mamie; Ed
Hacket, Tom Powers and .Mitch
Vannoy »;ho afterwards became
>heriff. Others whose names I
I fail to recall. A short visit 1 made
to tile Episcopal and Presbyter-
ican cemeteries at old Wilkeshoro
disclo.sed to me many names of
those who have ’’gone before.” 1
wa.s last Iheie in .4pril. 19:t7. I
left tliat country in .\pril, 1870.
aioiig witli a Caldwell boy named
.Millroy K.stes wiio joined me at
Statesville. Statesville was then
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Beer License Renewals
May i« the month w^en city and county authori-
tieo have the responsibility of passing on yearly
applications for beer licenses.
k i* the hope of the Breivers and North Caro
lina Beer DistributOTS Committee that local aur
thorkifls will scrutinize the record of each appU-
and win deny renewals to the few who
have abused the privilege of a license.
Careful selection of licensees fosters better law
observance, requiring a smaller expenditure for
enforcement and allowing larger suras for wel
fare and sd»ool purposes
Brewers and North Carolina
Beer Distributors Committee
£lXiAR H. BAIN, ^te Director •
gem n»-n ooiaoKEdLU, bcildwg bausigh. m. g.
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For Beer Ueense
Raleigh.— The 'Brewers and
North Carolina Beer, Distributors
Committee today requested city
and county officials of Wllkee
county to scrutinise carefully
“all applications tor retail beer
licenses to tbe end that the Indus
try may be purged of Illegal or
undesirable outlets."
Eklgar H. Bain of Goldsboro,
State Director in charge of the
beer industry’s “clean up or close
up’’ campaign in North Carolina,
cited the 1939 statute which pro
hibits the issuance of retail ibeer
licenses to persons guilty of li
quor law violations “within the
last two years prior to the filing
of the application.’’ He reminded
that the new tax year for beer
licenses begins May 1.
“In venturing to call this sec
tion to your attention,’’ Colonel
Bain wrote city and county offi
cials, “we courteously and re
spectfully urge you to refuse lic
enses to all dealers who can not
comply with the law.’’
"In our Investigation of beer
dealers in North Carolina, we
have found several instances
where dealers convicted of liquor
law violations in 1938 were re-
licensed in 1939. We hope that
all such dealers will be eliminated
in 1940 for the welfare both of
the communities and of the beer
industry, which contributes more
than ten million dollars annually
in taxes and wages in this state.’’
This letter to city and county
officials was the latest move in
the committee’s fight against the
small minority of beer dealers
who violate the law and public
decency, Colonel Bain said. He
reminded that the committee had
secured the revocation of 67 lic
enses since September. In addi
tion, the committee has petitioned
for revocation of 26 licenses in
eight other counties, and has
warned 97 dealers in 57 counties
to “clean up” or face more dras
tic action.
our nearest railroad point and it
had then its terminus at Morgan-
ton. I walked most of the dist
ance from the old home to States
ville. But here I am entering
upon too great an amount of de
tail for this article. Suffice to say
that I arrived at Denver, Colo
rado Territory, April 19th, 1870.
A green country lad who was sin
gularly unfitted for the strenu
ous kind of a life which lay a-
head. I “beat about’’ and “rough-
toughed’’ in Colorado for seven
years and then went to Arizona,
then the lend of the Apache In
dians and also of impenetrahle
deserts, as well as rattle-snakes,
.stinging lizards, cactus, prickly
pear and porcupines. I travelled
and prospected in many localities
and went through ail phases of
life that are connected with the
traditions of the “wild and wool
ly West.’ The wild buffalo by
thousands roamed the plains of
Western Kansas and Colorado
wlu-n I was there, and in Arizona,
especially in the northern part,
all kinds of wild game were so
plentiful that it was not real
sport to kill tliegn. But I did not
set out to write too much of a
personal autobiography.
I relnrnod to old Wilkes in
.Time, 1S80. and lived tliere until
.Inne 1.8S3. Wilkes county was
llieii known ui.Uinctly and mainly
as "Hie land of Tyre York and
corn liquor.” It really seemed as
though the greatest Interest there
was “corn liquor’’. I came from
there to Idaho Territory in 1883
and have been a resident of Idaho
ever since. But I have been writ
ing of things which really be
longed to a different world from
that which exists today.
I made short visits to that
country in the years 1893, 1913,
1923 and 1937. When I was last
there I was simply amazed at the
great changes which had taken
place In everything .pertaining to
human progress. The present in
habitants really do not seem to
realize what has happened and
what changes are taking place in
their own old time neighborhoods.
I have lived in this—the Lost
River valley ever since the year
1884. I have outlived nearly all
the old timers who came here
when I did. It is a good country
which has been singularly unfor
tunate. I am referring particular
ly to this section of the state—
Butte and Custer counties.
We have had droughts, crop
failures, a c.vcie of dry years
which, together with the failure
of a Cary act irrigation project,
has caused the loss of over halt
of our population within the past
twenty years and we have not
more than one-lhlrd of the land
in cultivation that we had twenty
years ago. Notwithstanding all
this, however, I am thinking that
we will yet “come out of it all"
and am contemplating the sale of
my property here and cherishing
the hope of seeing old Wilkes
again before my flaal “drop off’’.
JAS. D. MARTIN,
Arco, Idaho, April U,’1940.
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with “Dancing Co-Ed” Lana
Turner and “Broadway Melody’’’
George Murphy heralded as set
ting a new pace for the last wotd
in dance teams, and Joan Blondell
In an entirely new^ sort of role,
the streamlined musical, “Two
Girls on Broadway’’ opens Th^nrs-
day at the Liberty Theatre for an
engagement of two days. While
both Miss Turner and Murphy
have displayed their dancing
prowess on the screen before, the
new musical marks the first oc
casion in which they are seen as
a dancing team.
With the three stars as its
principals, “Two Girls on Broad
way" is described as a dramatic
story with a musical background.
Opening in a small town in Indi
ana, Us action proceeds to New
York where the adventures of Us
key characters, Molly and Pat
Mahoney, are traced. The theme
centers about the love of the two
girls for the same boy, played
by Murphy, and the sacrifice of
the older of the two so that her
“kid sister" might find happiness.
In addition to the stellar three
some, the cast of “two G‘ 'ts on
Broadway" includes Kent Taylor,
last seen with Spencer Tracy and
Hedy Lamarr In “I Take Thlr
Woman,’’ Richard Lane, P’allacif
Ford, Otto Hahn, Lloyd Corrigan,
Don Wilson and Charles Wagon-
helm.
■S. Sylvan Simon, , filmdom’s
youngest director, makes .this
the third of a series of films In
which he has directed Lana Tur
ner, the others having ibeer
“These Glamour Girls’’ and
“Dancing Co-Ed." It was Simon’s
idea to take a dramatic story and
set It againOt a musical back
ground apd the result is hailed
as the first time such a comUjna-
tlon has been 100 per cent suc
cessful in Hollyirood.
Jack Cummings, responsible
for such musical successes as the
recent “Broadway .Melody o f
1940,’’ starring Fred Astaire and
Eleanor Powell, prodauced "Two
Girls on Broadway."
Among new songs heard In the
production are “My Wonderful
One Let’s Dance’’ and “Broad
way’s Still Broadway.’’
j Ads. get attention—and reaolta.
On 1939 County Tues If Payment,
b Not Made On Or Before
May 1st, 1940
Pay Your 1939 Taxes Now And
Save This 3% Penalty
C T. Doughton,
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