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Mr. ,'maiLi^..t^«
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Ch«r>«e Steelmur wt
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MIm France* tMC)t-
Main tiite
’ hl»h sebool near Mt. Airr.
UUm |4^iUw anii’ Vr. J.'li.
lA-ws, Q(^.kwoodB, spehtliatnrr
Oay in etai.eerllle.
^ Mr. C. V. Uneberry, of StUn,
iipeat Mveral. houn in? the city
yeaterdny. r,
S'”
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Henderson
returned Wednesday from epend-
Jnc'a few days In JacksonTille,
riorida.
Mr. Forrest Church has accept
ed a position as representatlTe
of Commercial Credit company in
this territory.
Messrs. Sam Smoak, Ray
Stroud and Jimmie Ritchie are
students at State Colleae in Ra
leigh this year.
Mrs. J. Roy Jones, of Colum
bia, S. C., Tisited har brother,
Mr. W. G. Morrison, in Wllkes-
twro, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. lx M. Nelson
are in Raleigh for a few days
this week attending a meeting
of the Standard Oil Company.
Mrs. R. J. Bullls left Sunday
for her home in Sanford after
Tiaitlng with her son, Mr, Carl
BuMs, in WUkesboro.
"Jt-
Mrs. W. H. Foster is spending
a . lew days in Greensboro with
bv'daughter, Mrs. Richard Cra-
A son. Gene Edward, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Pearson,
of Millers Creek, on Friday, Sep
tember 13.
Mrs. Harold Bumgarner has
returned home after undergoing
an operation at the Wilkes hos-
{dtal.
A brood sow owned toy Mr.
George Stroud, of Oakwoods,
gave birth Tuesday to a litter of
sixteen pigs.
Messrs. Palmer Horton, C. G.
Plexico, Robert Shoemaker, Wal
ter Newton and R. E. Walters are
spending a few days fishing on
the coast near Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Jackson
and Mr. and Mrs. Hays McDuffie,
of Sanford, spent the week-end
in Wilkesboro with Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Bullis.
Cc^el Tfmrr T. Blair left
^aad^ Yar, )ila hom^ ip New
IFbrit plt^tter a faw daya Tisit
iiefa with h|s aiater,. R- W.
Gwyn ahd other r^ttraa
Mr and Mrs. W. iky Rile* and
ebiidren, of Winaton-Balem. were
here for the week-end with; Mrs.
Biles’ parents. Rev. ^and Mn. A;
L; ATCock. - r-- v - '
Mr. E. B. fiydnor'and *m, Mr.
Engene Sydnor, of Richmond,
Va., visited relatives here a short
while this week. Ha is a brother
to Meedames J. W. White and J.
E. Spainhour. ,
Mr. Stuart Duncan, soh of Mrs.
J. E. Duncan, of this city, is a-
mong the students leaving for
North Carolina collegss. ^ M r,
Duncan will toe a senior at State
College, Raleigh.
Miss Billie Waugh Johnson,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. H.
Johnson, of this city, has re-en
tered the University of North
Carolina. Miss Johnson will toe h
sophomore In pharmacy this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dancy and
son, Clyde, Jr., and Mrs. Mattie
McNeill, all of Cunard, W. Va.,
have been visiting hie parents,
Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Dancy, of
Reddies River.
A son, Robert Glenn, Jr., was
bom Thursday to Mr. and Mrs.
R. G. McNeill, of Asheville. They
are former residents of North
Wllkeaboro and Mr. McNeill is
a son of Mr. I. H. McNeill.
Misses Bessie Lee and 'Vania
Anderson have returned from an
extended visit in New York, Bal
timore, aud Washington. Miss
Vania Anderson is leaving today
to spend a few days with friends
in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. L. L. Godfrey and Miss
Bea Godfrey are in Washington,
D. C., visiting with Mrs. Godfrey’s
sons, Messrs. L. H. and R. S.
Godfrey. Mr. R. S. Godfrey will
accompany them home the latter
part of the week.
Mrs. Roby Bullis, who has
been spending sometime in Wil-
keaboro with her son. Mr. Carl
Bullis, returned to he; home near
S'anford, N. C., Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. Jackson and Mrs. W.
H. McDuffie, of Sanford, motor
ed here to accompany her home.
•‘m
Liberty
WMls left
I«h Winfrey
Jana.’f of
Mrs. Jant^i
Oak^^ds last week
’I^an., on IBwIness
Que^ TraolktoK «om-
, Ettmand
> maad’^of Comp-
m', In com*
ipS^ |hi'
Italian Ryf ^
i able b. tarttfara-
Ald.
maad’^of Com'panliiSShi, 105th Bn-t||jk>farni6ni |ii^ &a
in' tha ®hn- (lare since Caplin Rafyh taa ryi graaKjlPr a
:)ad Worl4^ f^ln'Na'w waa promote* ?^ kaSA ^
woek.-^ in coonmahd
Mr. Jamea
pieilhs ^
of amjor In eominahd. *of
haa reoalved h^ pftji.
n»SQli io owA*i» **wn Adhtaaf*,, ,
No^ tkirollni’' nattfiiUd fPta^ tT '
i^t^r to his i^usBotiOn Rd'
soa^iiM been a tlrat Ueutengid;.
He haa oa excellOBt^^ttS^.iOfM'
ord. He eras a secohd lltoateiiabt
in the Amerioan IkvedMlohary
force In Pranee dnrl6ji,4hh4,WprJd,: \
- wir' and ha# hpen A
PlperlB, owner Of «^cer In A here pfitee
For the ***t fPStr that Vinter ^ to^Pd the
"ilaig Ital; “
cowet
'iik«
tak^-oE;
pewhrei
Me«tn. Clarence
Benton, o f Pwlear," ^entered
school at the Appalachian State
Teachers College at Boone
week.
it
iraod.
•'mayrbiB
Mr. ih2 Ifriu R;
; Bttljr, "of rAltra,' Okta.^. .^lett
aibtne Satorday,? after vlslUdg.
'.mother. Sirs. Q. Welcht.
Mt. iUon and otl^ jtMMiveB
Wilkee and Watan^
Mr. A'. R. Yates him been 11!
i^akf Yeir‘ days. Mis friends
,foY hlm a speedy recovery;
;•* And' Mrs. 'L.
:/• aMWAnt t>idk WAAV>Anff
tia.'
KM;. MHlErs.>e.'
^^Ur. and Mrs. J. ArXdreta atJ
Fliots»j)od,;9ukday*^^#S^;i .
Hr, % T. TkytetHMit T««a»r
jSatfahnrr .aft*r;;js‘.,.
.iiilh hia^soa.
^0^' la calBd on on the ittf'
Pa*M»»y, T«noripf
afldpa end detafa aad retralMMhf
hrpken male *ad pavemente
byt|be August 1* fkmd. • ''.kb-Fi
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The Princess Cafe, lA. a patient organised after the waiv?r
of the Wilkes Hospl^ and hta A la .apv. (Mseata^'
condition is reported as s«« (Bj, ’tke,falrip^,^d#%6#e ewalt-
ioUS. ' ovi'tpntn for rk«mn
Mr. York Hays, of
township, entered the Wilkes
Hospital today for treatment. Mr.
Hayes has been in ‘bad health for
sometime.
Miss Lala Minton, of High
Point, was in town last ^eek-end
looking after business matters
While here she attended the
Great Northwestern Fair.
Mr. Lloyd Pardne returned to
Fayetteville Snnday after spend
ing a week with his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Par-
due, at Moravian Falla
Mr. and Mrs- Major Minton, of
High Point, spent the week-end
with Mrs. Minton’s relatives at
Purlear. Mrs. Minton was former
ly known here as Miss Hazel
Eller.
ing orders'to entrain for Camp
Lovelace J*ckson, 8. C^ within the neat
Lovelace traimng.
New Independent '
Station To Qpan
E. Turner, of Cricket, has
purchased a service ptatlon for
merly occupied by Kilgore’s fruit
stand four miles west of this city
on Highway 421 and has an
nounced that the station will be
occupied by a new Independent
oil company to handle Republic
products.
The new station will toe open
for Wusinees Saturday of this
week and the public Is asked to
watch this paper next week for
announcement of formal open
ing and free prizes.
iMr. and Mrs. C. H. Wells re
turned to their home Sunday
after a week’s vacation in Ashe
ville, and Greenville, S. C., where
they visited Mr. Well’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wells.
Mrs. Martha Church, Mr. and
Mrs. Turner Church, and Mr.
Clarence Keys, of the Cricket
community, and Mrs. W. F. Wat
ers, of Harley postoffice, visited
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Keys at St. Paul’s, Virgin
ia, the past week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Hutchens
and daughter, Margaret Anne,
and Betty Hutchens, have return
ed from a trip through Tennessee
and Kentucky, where they visit
ed a number of interesting points
among which was the Mammoth
Cave in Kentucky.
Miss Avis Dean Martin left for
Morganton Sunday to assume her
duties as a student nurse in the
training school of the Grace Hos
pital there. Miss Martin, a daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mar
tin, of Wilkesboro route 1, was
graduated with honors from the
Millers'Creek high school.
Miss Reba Doughton, daughter
01 Congressman and Mrs. R. L.
Doughton, of I.aurei Springs, Al
leghany county, was in the city
j today. Missi Doughton, recently
injured when a horse she was
1 riding fell, was in the hospital
for six weeks. Friends here will
be glad to know that she is able
to be out again.
Charlie Shepherd
Claimed By Death
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CORRESPONDENT
JOEL McCKEA ,
day — HERBERT MARSHALL
at the Wilkes' hospital. Funeral
service will be held FViday, 2:30,
at old Fairplains church.
For many years he held a po
sition with the International p*ioe
company tannery here and was
widely and favoratoly Vnnn-n. He
is survived toy his widow and sev
eral children.
ji^jira to «lTe a'g^ean M Mt. Zl^ spent the week-end
^t .«tnter . with their son, Mr. O. O. Trip-
; seeding I alone —> 15 IMl-
Vi^Rlect
aeed shonld 4w applied
l^r seta 'While 10 ponn&s jiof
wIlIxOta salient fV 'ef>$taB >9.
^ paature.
c Italian Rye CirUifhita tfsWOiP
derful root system and there
fore, Is very valaaible ta kelpina
to control erifalon in the winter
months;‘■i'-'-
WiU:esboir4> ^ra|ige
in Meeting Tuesdlty
wilkesboro Orange held'an in
teresting meeting at' the "court-
house Tuesday night with an at
tendance Of fifteen meMtoers.
A nominating committee com
posed of Panl Vestal, J. M. Ger
man and Mrs. Almedla Bretholl
was named to nominate officers
for the ensuing year. The com
mittee will report at the next
meeting, which will be held on
October 8, at which time a large
attendance Is urged.
Local Ford Dealers
In Charlotte Today
Messrs. A. F. Kilby and Q. A.
McNeill, of the Yadkin Valley
Motor Company, local Ford deal
ers, are In Charlotte today at
tending a Ford dealers meeting
and looking over the many new
Improvements of the 1941 Ford
cars which will toe shown to the
public within the next few days.
The Charlotte meeting will be
attended by a number of Ford
dealers of this section of the
state, all of whom are looking
forward to the showing of the
new Ford cars for 1941 with
much interest.
The public Is requested to
watch The Journal-Patriot for
the date on which the new 1941
Fords will be on display in this
city. _ .
Applications For
Limestone To Close
On October Seventh
claaa of 1945-t
Mr, and Mrs. C. M. Miller were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.
8. Steelman Sunday.
' ’ iMrs. O. W. Welch, df Mt. Zion,
:^nt a few days last week with
reUiivM here.
Mr. Vandell Watson, who has
been in the Baptist Hospital at
iVlnston-Satem, for some time,
Ras developed pneumonia and Is
very ill.
Shelby Deane, small da'ughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Rogers, Is
in the AVatauga Hospital rdcelv-
burns. The
ing treatment for
child’s clothing caught ton fire , one of the largest
at Mountain ; V15w -'hlgS ;
met Slanaay, Septesst^/itt'tor
th5 pttrpbee' of eleetiiig ' odDaan
to serve the remainder
term.
^larj^e Brewer was ehosaa
president, succeeding Mary Aliea
Gentry, who haa served in hotk
capacttiea‘'of president and flea
president during the past thraa
years. Other offlcera choeen were,
as toltava: Ray Taylor, vice praa-
Went; Lucille 'Woodruff, seera-
Ury; MeBba WaddisU. treasurer;
and Dean Wbltley,'reporter.
The senior clSarAk** ••
38t Hounti
HOuntain View
from ‘a stove and she was very
badly burned;
.Mh' ahd Mrs. John E. Luther
has had in several .pears, the en
rollment being thirty at the praa-
ent time.
North Wilkesboro
To Play Yadkinville
Management of the North 'Wll-
kedboro baseball team announced
today that the team will play
Yadkinville on the fairgrounds
field here Sunday afternoon,
three o’clock.
The game Sunday between
North Wilkesboro and the "Mud-
cats,’’ a nine from the state high
way prison camp here, proved to
be a highlight In baseball enter
tainment and a large crowd was
on hand for the contest, which
North Wilkes"boro won 12 to 5.
Ferguson Citizen
Claimed By Death
Lawrence Miller, secretary
the Wilkes Triple A committee,
has announced that applications
for limestone under the soil pro
gram must close on October 7.
•Many farmers have taken ad
vantage of the opportunity to se
cure lime, for which payment
will be deducted from soil pro
gram earnings, and it is urged
that early action be taken in
order that no one who desires to
obtain lime will be omitted.
Funeral service will be held
Friday morning, ten o’clock, at
,lhet-home, for Jesse Sheets, 62-
year-old citizen of the Ferguson
community, who died Tuesday
evening.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Dama Sheets, and the fol
lowing children; Arthur, Alves,
of ^Oliver, Foster and Spencer
Sheets, Mrs. Martin Wyatt, Mrs.
Granville Billings, Mrs. Jonah
Billings, Miss Gordie Sheets.
Blevins Writes On
Life Of George Miles
Charlie Shepherd, one of the
best known citizens of the Fair- ...
plains community, died last night George .Miles is deeply engraved
.. hospital. .V —i_
In the passing of Rev. George
Miles we have lost one of our
greatest preachers. The name of
on the hearts of all the mountain
people. No one was loved more
by all denominations than George
Miles. He was well educated and
was one of the most wonderful
preachers in all this mountain
country and reared the smartest
and best children high up on the
mountain north of Traphlll and
the big stone mountain at Miles
postoffice in Alleghany county
INSTALLATION SFR^^ir'F J/VOUJlllV-C lix
HELD AT UNION CHURCH high up on the mountain, which
gives the most attractive views to
ITie new officers of the Wom
en’s Soc'pty of Christian Service
of Union church were Installed
Sunday morning, September 15,
')y the pastor, Dr. W. J. Flint.
The society was organized Au
gust 29, with eighteen charter
members and with Dr. W. J.
Flint acting as temporary chair
man and Miss Ruth Nichols tem
porary secretary. The following
officers were elected: president.
Mrs. Fred Miller; vice president,
Mrs. Ezel Crysel; recording sec
retary, Miss Winnie McLean; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Oscar
Elliott; treasurer, Mrs. J. M.
Nichols. The newly elected presi
dent and secretary took the chair
Vice presidents to the following
committees were elected: Mis
sionary Education and Service,
Mrs. D. E. Turner; Christian So-,
cial Relations, Mrsi. E. R. Eller;
Student Work, Mrs. J. F. Crysel;
Young Women and Girls Group,
Mrs Robert Elliott; Children’s
work. Miss Bess McLean; XJtera-
ture and FubUcatlon, Mrs. C. W.
Mahaffey; Supplies, Miss Ikiura
Fennell; Spiritual Life, Mrs.
Br-ice Baker; Memtasrship, Ik>n
Crysel; Status' Of Wom'en, Mrs.
most of Wilkes county. All who
knew George Miles loved George
Miles. He was not only smart and
intelligent but one of the bhst
conversationalists I ever saw. No
greater honor can be centered on
tho Elk Spur. section than the
producing of George Miles, his
children. Dr. W. W. Miles, of
Champion; R. G. Miles, of
Boone; Charlie Miles, of Trap-
hlU; and Mrs. Myrtle Royal, of
Miles.
GEO. B. BLEVINS.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
IN MONTHLY MEETING
The Fidolls Sunday school
class of the Wilkesboro Baptist
church heldi 'its monthly Sneet-
ing at the toO'me of Mrs,'Charles
McNeil Thursday evening with
Mrs. Lawrence Miller as co-hos-
tess. '
Following a brief busdnese
session games and contests 'were
enjoyed, directed by Miss Bea
nnt teacher since the
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c. 8. EHliott; PubUelty, Miss Ruth «ietw.of tbe arentoc-an tea adUMt
;■/. ;‘.H^-farraa by ttw tSrMaaat'
to Winston-Salem, ' received a .
ahowar of lovatr stfta- t At -rtha aympeffiT'.
i .... ^ntyf
Marcus Wellborn
Last Rites Today
Funeral se^rvice was held today
at Temple Hill church for Mar
cus L. Wellborn, age 74. well
known citizen of the Honda com
munity who died Iste Tuesday
night. Revs. Stephen and Crater
conducted the last rites.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Wellborn, three daughters
and one son: Mrs. Carl Graham,
Baltimore. Md.; Mrs. Robert St.
John, Miss Blanche Wellborn and
John Wellbbrn, all of Honda.
Deputies Capture
Bootleg Truck
After a chase of five miles ear
ly this morning Deputies D. E.
Hayes and H. M. Reid captured
a ’40 Ford pickup truck loaded
with 39 cases or 120 gallons of
tax-paid liquor in north Iredell,
it was stated.
- Driver gave his name as Noah
Thomas, of North Wllkeaboro.
age about 25. He is lodged In
county jail and will receive a
hearing In Recorder’s court on
charges of transporting and pos
sessing tax-paid Uquor.
The whiskey was brought to
the city and poured out and the
truck was ordered stored, it was
stated.
CARD OF THANKS
To any and all who assisted in
any way to comfort or cheer our
dear father. Elder G.eorge W.
Miles, during his last sickness or
to console or assist any of his
children, either by act, word,
deed or' prayer. Permit us to say
May God bless yo.u’’ and please
accept our sincere thanks.
THE CHILDREN.*
CARD OP THANKS
We want to'express out thanks
and appreciation to our friends
- and neighbors for each token of
Godfrey. Mrs. Frank. Wall, assist- kindness during the sickness Md
'.V • r^MS* mntllAr. Wft
death
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