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»>^> ' Mj Caduon EntMtains'^ At Fl^ Fry and Doaatea 5.. ■•*/('? Prica To Orpkanage A. A. Cashion entertained the Rteth Wilkesh^ Dokies club at a fiah fry at his home on Friday —oniTip. at ^vhich time John A. Lug, director of the Natioiial Tooth Administrstion In North Carolina, delivered an® excellent address. The speaker was pre sented by Attorney W. H. Mc- £lwee. Mr. Cashion donated the amount which would have been paid by members for a supper to the Py thian children’s home at Clayton. Announcement was made of the Dokies ’ international convention to be held in Roanoke, Va., Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Several members of the North Wilkesboro club are plann ing to attend part of the sessions. Homer BrookAare, County Game P^eclor, Give* Hunting Regulationa Funeral Is Held For S. M. Knight Funeral service was held Mon day, 11 a. m., at Little Rock Church near Boomer for S. M. •Knight, age 53, citizen of that community who died August 2nd in the Baptist hospital in Winston- Salem. Rev. C. 0. Johnson, pas tor, conducted the service, which was well attended. Mr. Knight, for 25 years a well known farmer and calrpenter of the Boomer community, had been ill about three weeks. He is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Lou Carlton Knight, two sons, Jesse and Tommie Johnson Knight, of Boomer, one sister, Mrs. Flora Homer Brookshire, Wilkes county game protector, today list ed the open seasons and other regulations to govern hunting Ir Wilkes during the coming season. Open seasons for Wilkes on popular game were listed as fol lows: bear, October 20 to January 1; deer, no open season: oposaum, October 20 to February 15; rapping for opossum, raccoon, mink and muskrat, November I to February 15; quail, November 20 to January 31, daily bag limit 10, season 150; rabbit, November 20 to January 31, bag limit ten per day; squirrel, September 1 to January 1, bag limit six per day; ruffled grouse. November 20 to January 1; limit two for entire season. Other reguations cited were as follows: unlawful to hunt on Sunday: unlawful to use shotgun with capacity of more than three sheila at one time; ?50 fine for selling quail: $50 fine for killing doe deer; unlawful to chase deer with dogs; unlawful to sell deer or quail; license will be revoked on conviction of any game law violation: unlawful to hunt with out license, which are now on sale at all dealers. Last Signs of Old ‘Tweetsie’ Fading )r. J. C. StokeiK Albcwi GaK woodi Mik« .^ilUanu «d . Ralph Cravrford W Play has advanced In the 'men’i singles division of the lions Cln& tennis tournament' for Wilkes to semi-finals. Pairing have been made for the junior singles and doubles divisions and will reach the semi-finals be fore completion of the men’s sin gles. In one bracket of the men’s sin gles Dr. J. C. Stokes will play Albert'Garwood for the chance to play the winner of Mike Williams and Ralph Crawford match. » Today’s double pairings finds Conrad Kilby and Gordon Gentry playing James Allen and W. H. McElwee. C. C. Faw, Jr., and Frank McNeill will play Ed Cau dill and Paul Haigood. F%'." ^‘geniy Seed a:^_ ,, ^an agMcy, wits In WtlkesbwiKi Friday looking after official trasl* ness matters. ' ^ > * While in Wilkesboro Mr. Joines stated that farmers may now make appllcatfOB' for loans with which to finaiM planting of fall crops. Applia^OBs should be made at the office of clerk of court as soon as possible by all interested parties. Grange Meeting' On Tuesday Night Wilkesboro Grange will meet at the commum;y house on Tues- ^ day night, August 1?, eight o’ clock. All members are urged to 1V»] i^{»r- ■Tem- ^llfmfcesbbrpv Ag Included Gh , CraiTford; %«aon, Wa^lj|,^^ubenr,fPdlilffl and lesnake Greets Raider on Still Hunt attend. 1 Army Directory Service Helps To Deliver Army Mail Salvage f>pen:itons arc rapidly - f n „ h‘2 taking place, removing the last Knight Carlton, of Boomer He wa.s a son of the late Mr. ' „^rrv-to-Boone railway known fa- Tommie Knight, of Boomer town-^ ^ .Carolina as “Tweetsie." Ice Cream Suooer j t.inville River Railway River , .if.,. comoanv abandoned the line fol- Annoiinoement has been made. ‘'’““’“"J' “ “ , . . lowin'' the floods of .August a of an ice cream .supper and en- tertainnient to be held at Mul-j *, *. "*^* w is berrv school on Saturday, August pany- of C ar e? on. . .. 16. eight o'clock. The occasion rapidly salvaging the road bed will be sponsored by the Union ‘ Tweetsie was as loroug lodge of I. 0. O. F. and Sulphur Appalachian as the mountains Springs lodge of A. F. & A. M. themselves. She wa.s for and of to secure funds to rejiair Sulphur Springs Academy. A pleasant eve ning is anticipated and all are in vited to attend. WAN’TEL^ years, with oir, by targe National Corporation, for local collection work. Must be hustler. Good future assured. Apply. George W. Jones. Hotel Wilkes, 1 to 4 p. m. or write 123, Morganton, N. G. It FOR RENT FHItEE-ROOM unfurnished a- partment. private entrance. Phone nS-R. 7-7-tf FOR SALE FOR S.AljPl—.At a luargaiu, one electric churn in excellent ton- dition. SINGER SHOP. Rein.s- Sturdivant Building. It-pd FOR .S.tl,!': Steam boMcr and cn. gine; one .-•awmill in good con dition: also team disc harrow and mowing machine. Bargains for cash. V. M. Day. Route 2. Ronda. N. C. S-14-2t-pd the mountains and the operators, their engine puffing around some of the steep curves, oftentimes slowed up a hit to hand a drug prescription or a letter to a moun taineer standing on his front porch. Sightseers came for hundreds of miles to see and ride on ■•Tweetsie’’ and of recent years the little train was sometimes chartered by camera fans. Then ‘‘Tweetsie ’ would stop at almost any point along the line where the photographers felt the urge to snap a picture. It looked for a while like war conditions would save the little railroad from abandonment and “Tweetsie” enthusiasts with more vim and vigor than a half dozen chambers of commerce pressed their claims of hauling defense necessities before the interstate commerce commission. But the ICC approved the discontinuance when the company introduced figures to show that the line had been losing money for years. Fort Bragg.—Erch day the personnel of the Army’s Directory Service here goes quietly mad because each day some one insists on writing to Bud Smith, Fort Bragg, N. G. The Directory Service in charge of tracing incorrectly addressed letters is now flooded with a thousand pieces of undecipherable mail. All day long 25 girls from _the NYA sit and file, index and I cross-index, search and re-address the constant stream of inade- quateiy addressed mail. For .some inexplicable reason civilians don’t care to be bother ed with writing the name of the outfit to which their soldier boy belongs. Mail addressed to Private Smith, Fort Bragg, N. C.. re quires a ten-day research before it can be forwarded. Another popular error occurs in mail addressed to Fort Bragg, South Carolina. Please, the Di rectory Service, pleads, please tell everyone that Fort Bragg is in North Carolina. And t.o the usual crackpots who are writing to “Blondie, care Fort Bragg,’’ and to “All the Sergeants and Corpor als in the Ninth Division,” and to “John Kelvin, Selective Service Draftee Who Was Drafted Here Last Week So Won’t You Please Deliver This Immedtately;” Cor poral Johnny Gold of the Direc tory Service begs, "Give us a break and lay off for a while, will you?” “Screwy addresses.” Corpor.il Gold calls them—and among the screwiest was one addressed to a khaki kid “Somewhere in U. S. Army—Probably Fort Bragg. Other contributions tor the Cor poral’s “Headache Shop” are “Feet Bragg. Fort Brig, Camp Bragfe.’’ And when somebdoy writes to John Doe, “Care of the Company!"—well, according to Gold, "you have to be a magici an!’’ A cute one turned up recent ly ^addressed to Private So and So, “Selective Service Draftee.” Old John Turnipseed Goes To Fort Knox Fort Bragg. August 7.—When Major General Jacob L. Devers was preparing to relinquish com mand of the Ninth Infantry Di vision and leave Fort Bragg last week to take command of the .Army’s Armored Forces at Fort Knox. Kentucky, he was ap- LStlE rol’XTY’.S REST FARM— proached by his colored orderll,- 450 acres, cattle, .sheep, horses, equipment all for sale. This farm has be;iuliful home, ten ant houses, barns. 900 fruit trees, fenced cross fenced, well watered and in high state culti vation. Reiil price and easy terms. Millikan Realty Com pany, Gr-aensboro, N. C. 8-14-2t-pd who said: FAM mare AirLI-S^, age 9. weight 2700, priced right. See Clyde Hayes at office over Duke Power Company. 8-18-4t OR SALE—One 7-room house. Running water in house. Id eated 2 1-2 miles west of North Wilkesboro. N. C. 200 yards from Boone Trail Highway, Front 125 feet by 4 00 back. Plenty of nice shade trees.— Telephone No. 40-F-02. L. P. Phillips. 8-14-4tpd phy the post executive is going to Fort Knox with you, and I sees where Lieutennnt Hormell. your aide is being transferred, but I ain’t seen nothing about old John Turnipseed going to Fort Knox. Who’s John Turnipseed,” re plied General Devers. “That’s me,’’ said the Service Detachment orderly. Private Turnipseed, who comes from Atlanta, was transferred to duty at Fort Knox, Kentucky, thb week. "miscellaneous SUITS and Dresses Cleaned and Pressed, 35c:'^Pants 20c; cash *nd Carry. Towne Cleaners, Old Redmond Stand, Back of Hotel •Wilkes. 8-11-tf Robert Wood Finley, whiT re cently jn’aduated with high honors from Davidson College, whore ho received his A. B. de- ?roe, has accepted a i)Osatlon with Sentinel Insurance A- genc.v. Mr. Finley, a ^on of Mr. and Airs. E. C. Finley, of this city, I:a as unicd Ills duties in, hLs position. The management of the agency announces that Mp. Finley will be glad to dis cuss matters with anyone in- teresterl and will use care in placing insurance of cu'-tomers witli the best *and strongest mu tual ngenci«w, which, in aldi- tion to paying all .just elalihs promptly, return a g'ood part of premiums in dividends. Miller-Stroud Vows August 9th Announced Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Miller, of Wilkesboro Route 2, announce the marriage of their daughter. I Margaret Retta, to Bill Stroud, ;of Oakwoods, at York, S. C., Au gust 9th. The young couple are at home in Oakwoods. Ada. get attention—and reanltat Sheriff's Deputy B. W. Brown, of Randolph county, was one of several reiders surrounding a still recently. As he crept toward his quarry,* in the woods seven miles weat of Asheboro, Brown found himselt face to face with a rat tlesnake. The rattlesnake rattlcu. Brown, possibly feeling likewise, made a hasty detour. Later, with E. Mel vin Beckerdite, of the Flint Hill section. In custody and 400 gal lons of mash, 85 gallons of whis ky and a 150-gallon submarine still under control. Brown went looking for the snake. It was not in sight. only eiBllijS ao4 ^«lr glble^ to entar tb^| pretnliuu'^ .tv™ ^Jxh^kd^w^if7 pr«serrlng* handj^rk, garden products, ^wera^kn hies. Tke committee in ehi arrangements la composed Claudia Austen, C. C. PolnMii and J. Milton Cooper. The date for the fair and'j place for exhibits ’wlU be nounced soon. G. W. Huntley of Beaufot.’j canning his own tomatoes year—abont 18,000 No, 2 daily, says J. Y. Lassiter^ Car county farm agent. Reading the aos. get you mor .ar less money: trv ix NOTICE I hereby forbid anyone bs. any property from Mrs. Eul Ellier, of Millers Creek, and il said party or parties will be lisL under the law. FTirthermorel hereby notify the public that I not hie responsible for any d« contracted by the said Mrs. Eig Eller after August 8th, 1941. This August 8th, 1941. EUGENE H. ELLEI Millers Creek, N. C. 8-1^ N. Y. A. DIRECTOR FOR STATE SPEAKS AT KIWANIS MEET (Continued from page one) man of the attendance conumittee for the district convention to be held pt Myrtle Beach September 7. 8 and 9, was present and urged North Wilkesboro to have good attendance. Robert S. Gibbs, Jr., was pro gram chairman. He first present ed Judge Clarence E, Black.’ftoek, of A.sheville, who spoke briefly, and then introduced Lang. LEWIS JOHNSON ON TRIAL FOR LIFE IN SUPERIOR COURT (Continued from page one) 30 steps and fell dead. The jury was completed at four V. m. today. Jurors are Jeff I. Broyhill, G. F. Hubbard, Luther Morrison, Millard Frazier, J. W. Adams. John Adams, Raymond Petty, Freel Wyptt, Grover Ham by. R. G. McNeill, Tom Royal and one colored man. W. L. Barber. Greene Shepherd is the 13th jur or. Mr. Carl Bullis, who has been undergoing treatment at the gov ernment Hospital in Johnson City, Tenn, for several weeks, ie ex pected to return to his home in Wilkesboro this. week. Mr. Bullis is reported to he much improved in health. Child “PaU Out” Flames On Dress; The Sunday school of the Wll- — , kesboro Methodist church will go Dies Little Later ^ picnic to Hollywood Lake Thursday afternoon. Members are urged to meet at the church at 5 Mohridge, S. D. — Laurellie Smelser, 4, carefully patted out o’clock with well-filled baskets, the fire in the burned remnants 'Fhose not having means of trans- of her clothing before she went portation will be provided with a to the house and told her mother, to go to the picnic. Mrs. Ida Smelser, Trail City: “I lit a match and held it un til it burned way down, then it fell on my dross-’’ The tire had also blrzed in the family car where I.,aurellic had been playing and she put that out, lO SilUl - uccii . “Sir. I sees where Major Miir- before going to her mother ■ • •. _ . t . l. — A few hours later she died of her burns. Go-Ahead ‘Signal’ For Arms Factory Given Bv Infant St. Paul.—Army officials yes terday directed full speed ahead in clearance of a 2.425 acre site for a $3O.0'OO,OOO small arms plant at New Brighton, near here, attei an official go ahead signal from Baby Boy Tiller. Young Mr. Tiller, now on his Demand For Fine Cotton Yarn Seen By Textile Men Charlotte.--A sharp expansion in the demand for fine cotton yarn for women’s hosiery to sup plement supplies on hand of thrown silk and eventually prob ably to supplant silk in part is expected by cotton textile produc ers. It was indicated here yester day. W. M. McLaurine. secretary of the American Cotton Manufactur ers Association, said he was in former by the cotton-textile in stitute that a survey it had made showed that supplies of cotton yarn suitable for hosiery were so light as a result of heavy demands on mills by the defense'program that a study would be begun to mitigate the situation in hosiery j^OST—Tuesday ». m-. Elg|ln gold watch, black band, little value, but sentimental attachment. Reward. Return Mrs. John B. Justice. 8-ll-2t-pd. attention grays. Wanted In. formation about Rev. Fletcher Gray Geneology Line of Grays, rieaee CJommunlcate with Mrs. *. 0. Burton, 6937 Co. Hohmaii ftreet, Pianmond, indl^ second week of life, held up a' mill supplies arising from the portion of the big land clearing government’s commandeering of operations because of,his youth silk, and the weakened condition of his mother, Mrs. Wallace Tiller. Army officials relented in their stern ultimatum that 50 families living on the site be out by mid night last Monday and gave the Tillers special permission to re main an extra few days. Yester day the Tillers settled in new quarters a few miles from the de fense site. Revival Now On ' At Millers Creek Dr. J. C. Stokes, pastor of Wilkesboro Methodist church. Is asslMing the pastor. Rev. J. L A. Bumgarner, In revival services this week at Millers Creek church. Services are heiag beld ’at 11 a. m. and eight.p. m., daylight ing time. ’The NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the pow er and authority contained in a certain Deed of Trust executed by Spencer L. Sparks and wife, Minda A. Sparks, dated December 12, 1938, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Wilkes County in Book 184, page 306, to secure the payment of a note therein mentioned, and default having been made in the payment thereof, and demand having been made on me; I will, THEREFORE, on Thurs day August 28, 1941, at the hour of ten (10:00) o’clock A. M., at the courthouse door in Wilkesboro, offer for sale for cash to the high est bidder, the following described real estate, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Wilkes County, N. C., adjoining the lands of W. F. Hendren Heirs 'nd Dr. L, P. Somers Heirs on the South; also said Somers Heirs on the West; J. W. Smith on the North; and J. T. Benbow on the Bast; Containing Fifty-eight (58) acres, more or less: The same being the tract of land mir^ased from Gaston Somers by Spencer L. Sparks. This the 28th day of July, A. D., 1941. A. H. CASEY, Trustee 8-18-4t (m) " administrator’s notice Having qualified as Administra tor of the estate of Mrs. Emma A. Roberts, deceased, late of Wilkes County, North Carolina, this is to] notify all farsons having claims! against said estate to exhibit them! to the undersigned at North Wil-I kesboro, Route 3, North Carolina, or on Wore July 14, 1942, or this Notice 'Will be pleaded in bar against their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment, ThiB the Uth day of Jmy, 1941, S. B. ,GIUY, J, of JL -]tir~*—*"* - / Is Your Logical ADVERTISING MEDIUM For Greater Results EEC A USE: The News While It’s News! Greater Reader hterest! Coverage In The Territory! 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