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'!• • «QlnHi OPM to ttio II for trao otwoioo. THB JOUKNAL-PATEIOT 4o«o aot —any reapoostblUty for t *>*Meo prtBted nder tbla ****^l*»*, *al MMAer eodoroer Mr ooDdenuM tbetn. Pleooo be M brief M poaalble. M. L. LEWIS WRITES Jerome, Idaho, Arti*. 14, 1941. Uditor The Journal-Patriot: Dear Editor: It 1b to be hoped that you will pardon my intrusion on the space of your truly remarkable paper and permit me just a few lines of remlnlseence. The people of the county where I was ^rn and raised should ap preciate the fact that they are getting the services of a daily newspaper at only a fraction of the costs of a daily. But you are doing it—and I don’t know how at the price. I grab it just as I do my dailies and magazines, im mediately. Of course I have al ready had the world news, but I sor C. C. WWght. Just now, it Is a pleasure to note that a son of , Dr. A. J. EUeK U now your Coun- I ty Superintendcat. Chelslo (yotir stiperlntendent) was not old enough to go to school when I last saw him, althoirgh my boyhood was spent almost next door to Dr. Eller. May I add now that Dr. Ell er was always displeased with the inefficiency of the training of school teachers. As I understand your educational system the doc tor’s dream is coming close to rea lization. Incidentally, in a recent issue, as 1 recall it, some one made a speech in regard to the “saddle bag’’ days (Mr. Editor, I am not sure because I am writing from memory), in that list there is on ly one surviving doctor—A. J. Eller—I knew some of those doc tors as a boy. Remembering him as I do Wilkes county is very for tunate in having the services of one of the most outstanding coun try doctors that I have ever met —and I have met plenty of doc- torsi Mr. Editor, I do not know whe ther your readers would be in terested in any further comments from me. It is amazing but not encouraging to observe that you Spencer Tracy p'.-ys his first dule role and tfca powerful characterization of his brunant am anxious for your local news. On the other hand you may have have so many auto accidents and The former may be some people in Wilkes county who do not take a daily paper. To those who do not I can assure hem that if they take your paper hey get all of the essential news !t the world. I am not patting you on the back. I am just simply stating facts. Also, your editorials are well worth reading. No doubt that there are many good people in Wilkes county who will remember my pcren-ts. Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Lewis. They have both gone to their reward. It is sad to me to reflect that most of their friends and relatives of sim ilar age have also crossed the great divide. Also, I will prohaJily be re membered by some in Wilkes Count.v, as Millard I,ewis. (In the West I rm known everywhere as “M. L.”) I taught in the country schools there four terms, under the supervision of that great hu manitarian and educator, Profes- homicides. everywhere, but it is astounding to me that your Court Calendar records so many of the latter. Without making comparisons it is amusing to people here that you have so many preachers and so many bootleggers. They gay that everybody must either be a preacher or bootlegger back there. Of course I understand the situ ation. The progress that Wilkes "r*’? - in M-G-M’s filmization of the Robert L vis Stevenson thril^ classic, “Dr. Jekyll and 4 coti'ng ’Thursday to. the Liberty -re--. With Ingrid Be-gmsn and Tana Turner E the two sharply-contrasting women in the f ’ e doctor who turned himself from an •i ’nored man into a monster, the new pic^re was ’ *r.a rlosed do—s h'’ as his first picture since “(Jone With the Wind.” i.iMta -aaelA5id the t’r to that of the Valley of. the Nile in Sigypt. Yet, am not going to f— you. Black berries don’t grow wild here. They grow in garden? The'rains don’t grow, our crops We gel the water from the Snak River and other streams, and have to pay for.lt a plenty and go to the expense of spreading it over the ground, day and night rain or shine—the rain does not amount to much. Taxes are high and so I3 labor. But with prices a' they are our farmers end stock- men are going to make a killing this year. They can do it any year 'with reasonable prices. The scenery and climate of Idebo, ■ expelTel. One can easily eee 10(kt he neked 'eye. One stande - ed at the wild mounteins cahyon^^—the minerals—^the game. Bat *hl^ ! a'long Itself. So, Mr. Editor, 1 hi^ve say Finis, M. L. LEWIS. gMwHna til* ads. get yon fof leM money; try ft COMING ALLEI from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts—one in Porto Rico, the wife of a Surgeon in a hospital there—the rest of us in the var ious vocations of life, farming. county along with the entire State business, trained nurses, medicine . .. ^ in anH iflw The Riirvivmg friends of North Carolina has made in and law. The surviving the last two decade-s is enviable of my father will recall that we from any standpoint. It would be were a very large family. One of bard to itemize the social, eco nomic, industrial and agricultiir- my younger brothers. Dr. Archie C. Lewis, and his wife, of Charles al gains made in that short per-ton. W. Va.. visited us not long iod of time. A perusal of your'ago. I had not seen him for more paper clearly indicates the pro-j then 20 years, and didn’t know gress that is going on at the pres- him, but he knew me. Although a FUNERAL SERVICES COMPLETE IN EVERY DETAIL SVMfSTHtl'C SSSIbUNCS FiaST lSSl®v'CTiON TO F'NAL SATiSPACTION . Reins-Sturdivant ..North Wiikesboro, N. C- ent time. I left Wilkes county 34 years ago. but returned in 1916, long enough to teach a term of school I at Beaver Creek. At the end of the term I wa.v* imniediatelj eni- I plo.ved by the Atlantic Coast Line III. R. Co., at Rocky Mount. N. C. 'while there I aliended Wake For est College, took their course in law, returned to Rocky Mount, arul pmcMcpd two yeais. then in 1921. came here to Je rome, Idaho, where I have been practicing law ever since. I have served e term here a.s Clerk of the District (to you Superior! Court( .vud a term as Prosecuting Attorney (to you Solicitor). These matters about myself would be of little importance were it not that father. J. W. Lewis, was sei not seen Mansfield Shepherd since he was a tiny boy, yet he is now Sheriff of Benewah County, St. Maries, Idaho. I remember, al=o, the nemes of Spainhour, Tomlin- »on and some others there in the Wilkestoros, also some of the at torneys, at that time. It has been so long since I was back there it is hard to remember ,=i)«cifically any particular friend, or friends, who worked with me when I was a boy working with dad on the farm. However, there is one out standing character whom I have not seen or heard from for more young man he is surgeon for one of the largest coal mining com-ljhan 30 years; it's Bob Hamby my WE LIGHTEN YOUR. TASK well known in Wilkes county, and in the State of North Carolina, as an outstanding corn grower and farmer, and none of his chil dren are located there. They are MARLOW'S MEN’S SHOP Manhattan Shirts — Botany Ties STATEMENT Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Co Indianapolis. Ind. Condition December 31, 1940, As Shown By Statement Filed Amo^t^U.igc_r Assets. Dec. Increased paid up (5apital, Total, ancome—From Policyholders, $2,135,50i.22, Miscellaneou.s, . .$200,o85.3o,-—o 7.’ ’ ■Disbursements-To Miscellaneous* $1,291,385.21, — - » Vire Premiums—Written or renewed during year, $^4^.771.51 t-;' .1" Ul other Premitws—Written or renew^ed during $3,682,948.99 $2,336,092.57 $2,153,792.55 $4,043,925.63 $ 93.3,191.38 year, $ 795,827.16 » Aen Q7q 7C falue of Real Estate 20 lortgage Loans on Real Estate —• 49 fiSI ^58 of Bonds and Stocks DeDOsited in Trust Companies and Banks not on interest $ 327,517.75 Aol^jits’ balances, representing business written subsc- quent to October 1. 1940 » 503.451.S2 Agents’ balances, representing business written prior to^ g^glOlO iTSr" » fctillli iS 8 112,608J3 _$3,997,420.09 paiiie^ in W. Va. He has two do grees in medicine and was train- ed in surgery in the hospitals of Baltimore and Charleston. W. \c. Now. Mr. Editor, you may see from the foregoing outline, that it is almost impossitile for me to know the various persons whose name.? appear in your coltinm. .Al though I may have known their parents nr aiieestors. I h: sten to add that I would be more than pleased to have sucii of them, whether friends or relatives of my parents or of my wife'.s par- enU. just to write a little post card and tell us who they are end their parent’s name. Then, all that T can do now i-' just to mention a few name' from memory that I have seen in your paper. I have ,-lready men tioned the names of two out- staniMng characters in that coun ty, Dr. Eller and Prof. C. C Wright (deceased). Others that I S-emeniher. and it is at random, are a Mr. Wright, whom I thought might have been the professor’s son. Judge Johnson J. Hayes— and I notice that the Judge i.9 still preaching—hut he has a son at Wake Forest studying law. .Judge Haye.s' father end mine were great friends, as well as all of the Hayes family to us. I no tice that you have a Hayes for Clerk of your Court. I.?' it Charlie, a brother of the Judge? Wlien 1 wes in school at Boomer. I met some Carltons, and I notice Hill Carlton’s name mentioned. When I was at school at Moravian Falls, I met some Hixes, and I notice some of their names mentioned. Don Laws is still going, the founder and editor of the Yellow jeeket, the aatroiiomer. the first that ever owned and drove an auto in Wilkes county! Yes. a few years ago I w-as called to the wilds Idaho, on business, where few white men have ever set foot, and there was presented to me a copy of the Yellow' Jacket. Since I was only acquainted in the west ern part of Wilkes and a lUtte in the Wilkesboros, I can only men tion a few' more names that I have seen in your paper ^and 1 mentioned by your correspondent of the Beaver Creek community, w'hcrein it was stated that Bob is 70 years old. Think of it! He say.s that he had never been arrested. Why should he have been, the hard working boy that lie alw'ays was? I knew ail of his relatives, too. I see that Tom Ferguson is still on the map. My memoiT Is better than I thought it was, so I hrd better stop on this and con clude will a few remarks about the people and country here in Idaho. Thase who have traveled through the Far West know that it is settled by and composed of a cosmopolitan people. The ac cent of the New Englander, the Southerner, the Hat brogue of the Mid-Westerner, the droll of the Mountaineer or Texan, the broken English of the Foreigner —it makes no difference to us— we are from many parts of the globe. The Far West has been pronounced the most highly civi lized part of the Earth. There Is a reason for that deduction. It Court, here in Idaho, when I ap peared before that Court many times. Judge Lee is now one of our Judges of the District Court. When w'e have time the Judge flways wants to talk about the people in Wilkes county, many of whom he met in the days gone by. He keeps better track than I do. The Judge w'a-s well acquaint ed with Solicitor Mott. Spencer Blackburn, Dick Hackett, the Spainhours and other notables of that era of Wilkes County’s his tory. He told me when Dick Hack ett died. Another outstanding Tar Heel is our Federal Judge, C. C. Cavanah, who was born at Greensboro, N. C.. before whom I as a lawyer I have appeared many times. Judge Cavanah is of an t-' irely different type to that of Judge Hayes. Cavanrh makes no speeches anywhere. I knew him long before he was ever elevated to the bench. Just looked at my sheep skin and was reminded of another prominent Tar Heel. HU name is Lee, too. He was born, at Asheville, N. C., and now is one of the members of the Inter- 'state Commerce Commission Washington, D. C. This Justice Lee was Chief Justice of the Ida ho Supreme Court when ,'omc years a.go I presented to that Court one of my hardest cases. To those of your readers who may imagine that because of oui latitude here in Idaho, we have to live on Arctic food, they are entirely mistaken. You know in Wilkes connty what you raise In your own gardens and on your farms and in your orchards. Eve rything th?t you may designate is grown here in this great Snake River Valley, and in more abund STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE CO. New York, N. Y. ^ Condition December 31, 1940, As Shown By Stetementt Filed Amount of (japital paid in cash $ 1,000,000.001 Amount Ledger Assets, Dec. 31st previous year, $8,037,919.70; Increase paid up Capital, $ Total, $8,037,919,701 $2,666,348.53 Income—From Policyholders, $2,397,961.09; Miscellaneous, $ 268,-387.44; Total, Disbursements—To Policyholders, _$1,121.108.^; nr i Miscellaneous. $1,“52,6.56.90. Total, $2,473,765.17 Fire Premiums—Written or renewed during year, $6,249,739.38 In Force, $7,59.3,132.45 All Other Premiums—Written or renewed during Year. $ 841,712.01 In Force, $ 759,354.56] ASSETS Mortgage loians on Real Estate 1 263,090.00 I Value of Bonds and Stocks 7 |b>’"’3,180.5' I Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks not on 2“5.^ Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks on interest $ 5,006.89 Agents’ balances, representing business written subse- .*1 quent to October 1, 1940 ? 482.674.1T .Agents’ balances, representing business written prior to October 1, 1940 — —| Deduct Ceded Reinsurance Balances Payable $ | interest and Rents due and accrued $ 15,019.JZ Total I Less Assets not admitted $1,725,614.61 Total admit e l -Assets $6,519,908.|k ] T.l ABTIJTi'lS Vet amount of unpaid losses and claims 1 Unearned premiums .>1,8.4/6.85 8alarie.s, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, toes, etc., locnnnni duo or accrued ^ J.,5UU.w Estimated amount payable for Federal. State, c.iar.ty orreoAon and municipal taxes due or accrued — --? 47,500.00! Contingent commissions, or ot.-ier charges due or a tcraed s 100, All other liabilities, as detailed in statement $_ 15,2004)^] Less Assets not ^n^s^dv::-:::::::: $ «g'0^4.97 jirvlVClV 0 take^ guts to leav. relatives irrigation system friends and settle in a new and unknown country among strang ers. That is why we are cosmopol itan. The educational require ments ere extremely high. For example, no one can teach school in Idaho, unless he or she has completed two full years of col lege or university training, and that applies only to the grades, of which there are eight. There are four years of high school. The re quirement is a College or Univers ity Degree to teach there. Every child has to by law complete the Sth grade. To be tardy is a crime in the school curriculum; it is so to the children who always pre fer being absent, witb a statemeo* from their parents as to the rea- ,-on why. I h''ve eight children, six of them have graduated from high school here in Idaho, two of them have gone to college, there are two of the children left at home, one of them gradiiatesi from high school this coming year, the oth- A than almost any place in the world. With the exception that we do not grow cotton or tobacco and sweet potrtoes are not a suc cess. Peanuts are being tried. A smalt space of garden ground like we have turns out almart unbe lievable amounts of beans, peas corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sQuesh, radishes, lettuce, melons, carrots, beets, turnips, greens, strawber ries. other berries, grapes, apples peaches, plums, apricots, and 1 forgot to mention cabbages, a.- well as some tber g' rden tr On the farms is the alfalfa hay the w'heat. corn, barley, oats, sug ar beets, peas, beans, potatoes and other crops all grown in auch abundance that you would not be lieve me. Dairying, cattle, sheep and hogs are among the best pay ing here. The Great Snake River Valley consists of hundreds of thousands of the finest irrigated Total admitted Assets __$3,931,375.12 LIABILITIES Net amount of unpaid losses claims 139.701.^ sS^s, re^te, expenses, bills, accounts, fees^ 4,500.00 other liabilities, as detailed in statement $ have seen in your just enters his first year. A do not remember all of them— I those whom I do not mention will Jerome, I failed Total amount of all libilities except Ca^al-„--$l,953,143.70 •Guaranty irohiirtles' ””.IIZ.''$1,778,’33L42 gnrplus over all uabuities v , . I^^^lus as regards Policyholders $_1£78^_2 Total Liabilities _$3,931,375.12 business in north CAROLINA DURLNG 1940 _ ._. $4,930,217; Premiums received ....$61,575. Risks written $2,103,803; Bremtums received —S24.677. Ks IncuS^AJl Ahlr.% 11,979; Paid „...-..^-.,_,---$10.907. w Fnwler Secretary I. G. Saltmarsh President F. B. j ^ ghev^n' ttr.i+iiiil Ins. Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Home Office Mu t^a-m q BONETY, Insurance Commisisoner, Attorney for service, u/v.'i . Raleigh. N. L. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, (Seal) Raleigh, June 2nd, 1941 ^. AT r. TJrtMPV Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that I, DAN correct abstract of the statement of the Indkna the above IS a true w . g Company of Indianapolis, Ind., filed x.gnnbermen’s Mu^l insure g^id (Company, on the ;ith this Dej^tmMt, iJ^day of please excuse me, and write me that card. A. J. Foster, of Beaver Creek, has gone to preaching, likewise Avery Church, of Lewis Fork, and many others 1 note. Bob Proffit, at Goshen, I shall always love as my first teacher, he has a son too, and Ben, his brother, up there on Lewis Fork Creek, and Sam and Percy Trip lett, nephews of Com Triplett. There is mention of the Taylors in your paper, also, many others who were friends or relatives of the Lewis and Foster familias'. fMy wife was a Foster), including the Pierces. Nichols, Churches, McNeils, Tripletts—you may have mentioned Hnffmans, but I don’t recall it—. I also over-looked any mention in your good paper any thing about that outstanding fam ily of Shepherds, right up there on old Lewis Fork Creek. Some of them, alas, have had to cross the great divide, but, Mr. Editor, if you and I could go to the homes of those hoys yet living, we would find the clearest ex- |ample of purest Americanism that On my farm near to hear the alarm clock, conse quently the kids were tardy. The Superintendent declined to accept honest explanation, wrote my /Witness my .Ad official seal, the day and year above written. America usmAuaL hand and BONBY, lusurance Commissioner. Is left on this continent. I have Total amount, of r.l! liabilities except Capital $2,399,980.86 j Capital actually paid up in cash Surplus over all liabilities $3,119,927.51 as regards Policyholders $4,119.927.^ 1 Total Liabilities $6,519,908.^7 BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURIN(1 1940 Fire Risks vn-itten $3,268,767; Premiums received -$ 22,029 Ml Other Risks written —$1,217,960; Premiums received, —$35,862 Losses incurred—Fire $ Los.'es incurred—All other $ 9.603; Paid —.---..$ 1,603 President, Sumrer Ballard Secretary, A. Geberth Home Office 80 .lohn St., New York. N. 1. Attorney for service: Dan C. Boney, Insurance Com.missioner, Raleigh, N. C. . . tt i- State of North Carolina, Insurance Department, Raleigh, May 27, 1941. I DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certtfy ih?t the above is a true’and correct abstract of the statement of fee International Insurance Company of New; York, N. h., filw with (w nonar+mpnt. .showins- the condition of said Company, on the 31st day Department, .showing the condition ^wft^^s ’my hand and official seal, the day and year above written. DAN C. BONEY, Tn.surance Commissioner. $1,000,000.00 STATEMENT IMPERIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY New York, N. Y. Condition December 31. 1940, A.s Shown By Statemert F^led Amount of Capit=l neid in cash Amount Ledger Assets, Dec. 31st previous year, $4,141,966.47; Incre-ised paid up Capital, lotai, fneome—From Policyholders, Total Miscellaneous, ’ Disbursement^To Policyholders, - , Miscellaneous $799,888.31 ,--lo.al, Fire Premiums—written or renewed -during year, $1,701.821.03—In loree, All Other Premiums—Written or renewed during ^ OAS A Q T year, 3t $4,141,966.47 $1,1.38,718.34 $1,171,595.78’j $3,448,616.60 $ 706,378.88 “Nix’’ on the report and gave them a black mark on -their grades. While I was^ Prosecuting Attorney here, a “back easterner’’ who had been accustomed to working his children on the farm in the fall of the year Instead of sending them to school, was fined $50.00 by the Court, which was paid with costs. The children went to school. The term starts -here about the 1st of September and concludes: sometime before the 1st of June. There are quiet a number of Ter Heels here. They hold an an nual re-union and banquet over in Twin Falls county, w'hlch is only 14 miles across the great Snake River cajiyou from Jerome. Prominent among us is the able Jurist and Orator, Judge T. Bai ley Lee, who was born at Mocks- ville, N. C., educated at the State University, at Chapel Hill, has been Chief Justice of our Supreme ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Aximmstra- tor, eta., of the estate of Minnie Glass Parker, deceased, this is M notify all persons indebted to said estate to make immediate ^yment to the undersigned admims^tor, through his attorney, A. H. CMcy, North Wiikesboro, N. C., and all persons having claims against saw estate will present same to A. H. Casey, attorney, on or before the 5th day of August, 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their right to recover. This the 5th day of August, A. n 1941 ’ JOHN V. PARKER, Administrator, eta., o fthe ^tate of Minnie Glass Parker, d^d. By A. H. CASEY, Atty, 9-8-6t (m) Dr. E.S. Cooper -CHIROPRACTOR— Office Ne»t Door To Reina-Stiirdivant, Ine. —Telephone 205*R— Office Cloeed Every 'Ttanday AftemeoB 566,205.48—In Force, Value of Bonds and Stocks - ----- —-— Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks not, on mterest-$ .i64,oiz.»» .Agents, balances, representing business w'ritten subse- quent to October 1, 1940 , 143,734.14 Agents’ balances, representing business WTitten prior to October 1. 1940 1 Deduct Ceded Reinsurance Balances Payable $ 43,04».5»,J Bills receivable, taken for fire risks 5 J Interest and Rents due and accrued « z,M08.8/> j All other Assets, as detoiled in statement Total Less Assets not admitted $4,236,889,374 $ 30,146.86j Total admitted Assets —$4,206,742.51^1 LIABILITIES Net amount of unpaid losses and claims 1 113,759.wy IJnearned premiums •— —-—$1>018,8S4.1«^ Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, etc., due or accrued — 7,920.00; Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and i municipal taxes due or accrued --$ 46,930.TO Contingent commissions, or other charges due or accrued..$ 10,400.TO | All other liabilities, as detailed in statement $ 87.634.°° Total amount of all liabilities except Capital $1,285,538,121 Capital actually paid up in cash — $1,000,000.00 { Surplus over all liabilities ■— $1,921,204..39 | Surplus as regards Policyholders $2,921,204.30 i Total Liabilities $4,206,742,511 BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1940 Fire Risks written $811,030.; Premiums received, —$7,36 All Other Risks -written $728,560.: Premiums received, —$2,55 Losses incurred—Fire $ 3,468.; Paid $3,6' Losses incurred—^All other—$ 628: Paid $ 6 President Thos. J. Irvuie Secretary J. F. Cunningham Home (Office 55 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Attorney for service: DAN C. BONllY, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, N. C. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA (Seal) INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Raleigh, May 26, I, DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify, he above is a true and correct abstract of the statement of the i perial Assurance Companv of New York, N. Y., filed with this Dec went, showing the condition of said Company, on the 31st day eember, 1940. Witness ray hand and official seal, the day and year above -writfc DAK C. BONT^, Insurance Commissia -X
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