About Comers and Goert... From ere and There People You Know Who Move About Mr. Z. V. K. Dickson, of Wll keeboro, was a business rlsltor to Charlotte Tuesday. "Mr. .Charles Crook Is spending this week with friends at Lum berton and White Lake. Mr. Rafus Byrd, of Balti more, Md., Is Tlsltlng relatives and friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. George Childress and son, Oeorge Allen, have re turned from a week's vacation at White Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. McNeill and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Kilby have re turned from a week's vacation at Myrtle Beach, S. C. Mr. William R. Byr<L of Bal tlme, Md., Is visiting Mrs. Char lie Byrd at her home on Hln shaw street for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Rollins, of Goldsboro, are expected to arrive Sunday to be house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Qulncy Adams for several days. Pfc. George Ashley, Jr., who Is in the air force and stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, is spending 30 days furlough with his parents at Oakwoods„ Miss 8ue Landon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Landon, is now In New York City. She will leave there Friday, July 1, for a two-months tour of Europe. Miss Colleen Bnnton returned to her home at Hiddenite, Route 1, N. C. Monday, after spending two weeks with her aunt, Mrs. G. Warner Miller, of North Wil kesboro, Route 3. Mr. Richard Sloop, who has just completed his four years in the nary, has returned here for the snmmer to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. R. M. Brame. Mrs. E. A. Michael, of Martins ville, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. John Bdmlsten and Mtajs Clara Parlier at Moravian Falls last week. " Mrs. R. M. Brame, Jr., and children, Nell Gwyn, Bobby and Rickey, and Mrs. Margaret Cof fey are spending a few weeks va cation at Bay View, Michigan.' Mrs. Ida Mae English, of Win ston-Salem, is visiting several days this week with Mr. and Mrs. Murphy Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams and other rela tives and friends, here. Mr. Hayes Huffman, of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, re cently purchased four purebred Aberdeen-Angus cows from Dr. Seth M. Beale of Elkin, North Carolina. ' Miss Amy Lou Mitchell has re turned to her home at Union Grove after being a patient at the Wilkes Hospital for several days. Miss Mitchell is a sister of Dr. G. T. Mitchell, of Wilkesboro. Mr. Robert S. Gibbs and son, Hyatt, of this city, and Mr. GibbB' nephew, Robert Carter, of Mars Hill, spent last week camping on Mt. Pisgah, Craggy Mountain, and Mount Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Summerlin have returned to their home at Elizabethton, Tenn., after spend ing a few days' in the city with Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Foster. Mr. Summerlin is Mr. Foster's uncle. Little Miss Dianne Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Anderson, of Oakwoods, returned home Sunday from the Wilkes hospital, where she underwent a tonsil operation Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Eller at tended the funeral of Mas. fil ler's brother, Mr. W. E. McNeill, at Jefferson Tuesday. Mrs. Eller remained for a few days visit with relatives. Mrs. J. W. White left this morning to Spend several days in the home of Mrs. Thad Jones in Kenansville. She was accompan ied there by her granddaughter, Miss Helen White. Mr. James Hemphill, f son of Mrs. Lee Hemphill, of Wilkes boro, has gone to Burlington to accept a position with Burling ton Mills. He.was a member of the textile engineering class of State college this year. Mi'ss Ruth Phillips, of Dalton, j is recovering satisfactorily from an operation performed several j days ago at the Wilkes Hospital.; Miss Phillips is a sister of Dr. j E. N. Phillips, of this city, and Mrs. G. T. Mitchell, of Wilkes boro. "Silver," a large grey mare owned by Mr. J. D. Hall, proprie tor of Merrymont Farm, died last week. Mr. Hall thinks that the draft mare, not accustomed to work in hot, summer weather, died "of a heart attack. Miss Sue Piper, of Winston Salem, Mr. Bill Royal, of Wake Forest, and Mr. Lee Royal, of Salemburg, were guests of Mr. Jimmie Moore here this week and attended the Barnes-John son wedding. — Mr. George Woodie, an em ploye of Dick's Electric Service for the past three years, recent ly rwas enrolled for a short course at an electric service school In New York City. Mr. Woodie is the son of Mrs. Austin Woodie, of this city. Members of the Fairplains Baptist church Sunday school enjoyed a picnic at Bluff Park Sunday. Mr. Bruce Dearman is superintendent of the Sunday school. About one hundred and, fifty Sunday school pupils and teachers enjoyed the occasion. Mrs. Ruffin Bailey, of Raleigh,( spent last week here with her parents, Judge and Mrs. J. A. Rousseau. Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Bailey, of Raleigh, her parents in-law, came up for the week-end to accompany her home, and were guests of the R'ousseaus. Mr. and Mrs. Lomax Crook, of Norfolk, Va., will be here for the week-end with Mr. Crook's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Crook. Miss Mary Evelyn Crpok, of Winston-Salem, will visit har parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Crook, Monday. Mrs. K. B. Sparks and son, Mr. Jack Sparks, visited Mrs. Sparks' mother, Mrs. J. A. Buehanan, near Spruce Pine Sunday. Mrs. Sparks remained for a more ex tended visit and Mr. Sparks re turned here Sunday. 4 Miss Helen White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. White, of Louisville, Ky., left this morning for Kenansville where she will visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Thad Jones, for several days be fore going to Nags Head for a visit in the summer home of her uncle, Dr. Leroy Jones, of Ports mouth. Miss White has been spending ten days in Wilkesboro in the home df her aunt and un cle, Mr. and Mrs. Julius C. Hub bard. Mr. J. B. McCoy, Jr., a medical student in the University of Pennsylvania at, Philadelphia, arrived today to spend the sum mer with hip parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCoy. He was met in Winston-Salem today by his father. Misses Donna and Toby Smith, Mary Miller and Ann Wearer Starr, Celia Carter, Martha Go zeal Justice, and Ruth Vannoy Pearson left Wednesday to spend two weeks or more at Shirley Rogers camp near Roaring Gap. The girls were accompanied there for the day by Mesdames Dermont Smith, Mrs. Weaver Starr, Mrs. J. B. Carter, and Mrs. John S. Justice. Mrs. C. T. Doughton and daughter, Miss Becca Doughton, were overnight guests in Ashe ville last Thursday of Mrs. Doughton's sister-in-law, Mrs. B. j O. Edwards. The Doughton* went up to accompany home Miss Betsy Doughton and Miss Donna Smith, who had been attending for a week a Methodist camp near Hendersonvllle for Inter mediate boys and girls. Mrs. Jt-nuiip Dicuiio auu young son, Phillip Marvin, who had been spending several weeks In Waldo, Florida, with Mrs. Brame's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.. Weisner, returned to their home here Tuesday. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Brame's Bister and young neph ew, Miss Marjorle Weisner and George Sparkman, who will vis it here for awhile. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Wallace have returned to their home in Dallas, Texas, after spending a few days here with Mrs. Wal lace's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Foster, and Mr. Wallace's par ents in Winston-Salem. They were accompanied home by his mother, who will spend a few days with them. Alease, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, remained here and will accompany her aunt, Miss Jessie Foster, to Dallas by train Sun day. Miss Foster will visit the Wallaces in Dallas for several days. o — Last season, for every dozen oranges that moved to market in their own skinB, about seven other oranges came to consumers In tin cans or bottles. Caroon Presides Af Convention Of Finance Companies W. J. Caroon, o£ North Wll keaboro, president of the North Carolina Association of Finance Corporations, presided over the association's convention held in Charlotte Tuesday and Wednes day. x Approximately 50 members of the association from every sec tion of the state attended the meeting, held at Hotel Charlotte. The program, with T. S. Rog ers of Charlotte as chairman, was entirely informal and so arranged to permit any member who wished to do so to discuss any matter related to the business of the member companies, those | concerns engaged in automobile financing. It was the general feeling of those participating in the discus sions that although' the Carolinas appear to have passed through the more drastic phases of the post-war economic adjustment, prices of new and used automo biles, as well as other products in general demand, including various household^ appliances are still highly unsettled and for that reason the finance com panies should exercise great cau tion in their appraisals of such purchases in making loans. Successful Bible School At Purlear A highly successful vacation Bible school was held last week at Purlear Baptist church under direction of Rev. J. E. Pearson, Brushy Mountain associational missionary. Teachers were Charles Whit tington, Mr. and Mrs. R. Don Nichols, Miss Jean McNeill, Miss Bonita Hayes and Mrs. Mildred Ness. Rev. Glenn Huffman, pastor, conducted a worship service Fri day and there were ten profes sions of faith, who united with the church Sunday. Marriage License Daring the past several day* the following license to wed were Issued by Troy C. Foster; Wilkes register of deeds: Miles Osborne and Virgie Davis, both of Rugby, Va.; D. F. Besbears, Jr., Mt. Airy, and Betty Ruth Phillips, Purl ear; James Lewis Holcomb and Agnes Hemrlc both of Thurmond; Livingston Johnson, Winston-Salem, and Blllie Barnes, North Wilkesboro; Robert Glenn Davis and Marie Slier, both of North Wilkesboro; Kent Moretz Miller, Deep Gap, and Male Mast, Stony Fork; James A. Wooten, Hendrix, and Jessie Ktdmisten, Ferguson; Ar thur Anderson, Wilkesboro, and Delia Mm Brown, North Wilkes boro; Spencer Phillips, Laxon, and Versie Benge, Parsonville; Maurice Nichols and Anna Lou Slag, both of Roaring River; Ir win M. Parsons, Obids, and Ella Mae Qrogan, Todd. Benefit Supper At G. W. Elmore's Home The Community Women's club will sponsor a supper Saturday night, July 2, at 7 o'clock on the lawn at G. W. EM more's store for the benefit of Oafc Grove Bap tist church buil<Un«[ fund. Hot dogs,, hamburgers, ' 'sandwiches, pie, cake, ice cream and drinks will be served. The public is cor dially invited. ,

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