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floods in western n. c.
WRECK WIDESPREAD HAVOC
A dam near Murphy burst on
Tuesday allowing the surplus water
caused by reeent heavy snows and
rains to send rivers and creeks out
of their banks. The waters receded
during the course of the day but
left thousands dollars damage in
their wake. Mrs. Blalock Johnson
and her son were drowned when
a dam of stone and earth, penning
the waters of a small creek on their
farm, burst. The two-story farm
house was battered to pieces and
carried down stream. Three other
people, asleep in the house at the
time, were saved.
COLLEGE YOUTH IS FOUND
DEAD ON TRAIN TRACK
Jerome Nathan Straus, Dart
mouth college freshman, son of a
prominent merchant of Brooklyn,
was found dead on the train track
near Thedford, Vt. Tuesday even
ing. The decapitated and legless
body was found eight miles from
the college shortly after his class
mate's broken body was found
underneath a railroad trestle near
Northampton, Mass. Francis Gross,
of Amherst college, was a classmate
of Straus in prep-school. Possible
suicide was advanced in both
instances.
SENATOR ISSUES FORMAL
STATEMENT OF CANDIDACY
Senator Borah, of Idaho, issued a
formal statement on Tuesday that
he would campaign in Ohio for
delegates pledged to his presidential
nomination. Senator Borah is a
candidate-at-large and plans to
place at least eight mote such
, candidates in the field in a state
where the “favorite ton" idea pre
vails. This was the first formal
statement issued by the Senator.
DAMAGE HEAVY FROM FLOODS
IN SOUTHERN STATES
As skies cleared in Alabama and
Mississippi, on Weiteeedsy the
danger of flooda in wide southern
areas in Alabama lesapaed. From
from their homes and death came
to five as dams burst and floods
overran the homes of the residents
living near streams and the several
large rivers of the states.
FIVE SHIPS REPORTED
ICEBOUND AT NORFOLK
The coast guard at Norfolk on
Wednesday reported five ships
bound in ice in Chesapeake Bay
forty miles sooth of Baltimore. Hie
cutter Mohawk was ordered ant to
the assistance of the icebound
quintet.
THOMAS E. DEWEY BREAKING
MAJOR VICE RACKETS
Thomas E. Dewey, a cousin of
Admiral George Dewey who fought
the battle of Manila bay, has in the
past six months placed leaders of
two of the major vies rackets of
New York’s underworld, behind
prison bars. The rackets without
leaders are usury and prostitution.
Thus far he has stoppled a loan
racket that was greasing a million
dollars weekly and a prostitution
trade that netted 12 millions yearly.
Just what Dewey’s third move will
be has not been made public, but
he is setting his secret traps and
will probably get hie man.
CHICAGO COAL DBA LUIS FEAR
SHORTAGE IF COLD LAST'S
From Chicago came press notices
on Wednesday that if the cold and
biizsard now raging over Minnesota
and North Dakota, coal dealers feel
that the fuel situation may become
serious. Most of the nation east af
the Rockies is covered with anew
and ice while freeaing temperatures
reached to Florida.
Jones Brothers North
H. C. Jones, general manager of W.
W. Jones A Sons chain of stores, with
the main store located in Asheboro,
Robert Jones of the Thomasville store
and Wiley Jones of Asheboro left
Sunday for New York, Baltimore and
other northern markets where they
will purchase spring merchandise for
their eight stores in Piedmont North
Carolina.
Asheboro Man Heads Mass—
An account of the ini
officers in the Sanford I
cent date, carries a pictui
White, who was
master of the Sanford Is
A. F. A A. M. Mr. Wk
Mr. and Mrs. J. & White
a prominent hustnisn ;
Phillips, also a
but now locates
pointed m an ii
GuilfBU Commissioners
IIokHleet With County
Offflals Monday, Feb. 3
Randolph Veterans
Applying Promptly
Bond Certificates
One hundred and fifty applica
tions for bonus bond certificates
hare been filled in by veterans of
the World War in Randolph county.
The amount of the certificates
totals around $130,090, according
to Rufus P. Routh, who is assist
ing the veterans in filling in the
blanks properly.
There are between six and seven
hundred veterans in the county
who will probably fill in their
blankn shortly. In order to assist
those who find it hard to get to
Asheboro to do this work with Mr.
Routh, he plans to visit various
sections of Randolph during the
next few weeks. On Monday even
ings, between the hours of 6 and
10, he will be at the office of the
mayor of Ramseur, at the city hall.
On Saturday evenings between the
same hours, Mr. Routh will be at
the Liberty Drug Store and on
Friday evenings, at the Randleman
Drug Store.
Drive For Funds Is
Now In Progress To
Erect W.M.E. Church
Dime Banks Are Used In Randle
man As Plans Go Forward
Successfully For Church
School Is Resumed
Cddest Weather In Twenty
Years Is Recorded With Ther
mometer Registering Low
Randleraan, Feb. 5.—A drive for
funds to erect a Wesleyan Methodist
church here being promoted by
tfens of jtomft^the chureh at its
anting committee has a mat! bank
with which they are soliciting the
people of the town. Only cBmes can
be deposited and their capacity is
$2.40. Present plans for the church,
is for it to be located on the Worth
ville road, about one mile south of
here. Rev. Mr. Stone, of the Wesleyan
Methodist church of North Aaheboro
is helping promote the drive for suf
ficient funds to build the church.
The local schools opened Monday
morning after a day and a half holi
day, Thursday and Friday. The holi
day was granted because of the severe
weather conditions. So far this week,
classes have been running on a rainy
day schedule, with only one session.
Randleman felt its coldest weather
in twenty years over the week-end,
and Saturday morning, when the
thermometers over the town dropped
as low as 5 below zero. Some of the
people that grew up in the town say
that this kind of weather is very
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New Store Opening1
At Franklinville
Wednesday, Feb. 5
A new dry goods store opened
Wednesday in Franklinville for handl
ing tobacco doth and the cotton
materials made at the Franklinville
mills. N. A. McCorquodale will
manage the store which will be known
as the Franklinville Dry Goods com
pany.
W. A. Martin, manager of the
Franklinville store company has
formerly handled the mill products
but is discontinuing handling this line
and will specialise on groceries and
hardware.
Seven PWA Loans And Grants
For Randolph Schools Are
In Approved Federal Projects
Seven PWA loam and grants have
ten approved for Randolph county,
according to T. Fletcher Bulla,
superintendent of education in the
county. The formal approval of the
new school building for Aaheboro is
among the approval projects. This
plan calls for a new elementary
school ^ith ten darn rooms and an
mwtifotiwBL Plumbing ^**4 he&tirii?
contracts are indnded. This need and
agitation for an additional school for
Ashaboio has been a paramount topic
in the town for some
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Archdale-Trinity Sanitary Dis
trict Set Up With Committee
Of Three Local Folk
Usual Business Is
Quickly Transacted
Meeting Adjourned Subject To
Early Call For Settlement
Of County’s Business
The Randolph county commissioners
were joined in their regular February
meeting on Monday by three com
missioners from Guilford county. The
purpose of the joint meeting, held in
the court house at Asheboro, was for
the appointment of a board of three
members to administer the Archdale
Trinity sanitary district, recently
established under the state law. This
district lying, as it does, in the two
counties, required representatives
from both county boards to approve
the plan and appoint the board. For
sometime the two communities lying
in the upper section of Randolph and
lower Guilford counties, have been
making an effort to secure a sewer
system and the approval of this pre
liminary part of the plan has met
with general approval in the Trinity
Archdale section.
The board named by the commis
sioners was composed of Joe Weaver,
Mrs. R. P. Royer and George B.
Craven. The group will select their
own chairman.
Other matters taken up by the
board at this first meeting of the
month, after the disposal of the
matters requiring joint session, were
chiefly routine. Tax refunds and ad
justments were disposed of by the
board. Dewey Pugh and A. D. Wilson
of Columbia township were placed on
the outside poor relief rolls of the
county. A motion was made and
carried, also, to assume half the ex
pense of Ruth and Marie Lowe at
the state Sanitorium, the expense not
to exceed fifty cents per day.
The petitions h>r the improvement
of the Prospect road between Thomas
ville and High Point, and the road
between the Artemus Spoon and Bud
Staley farms, were turned over to
the state highway commissioners.
,ri Hh^ifaaj^Mdered that the *hid ot
county on ihe O. H. Green
land in Coleridge township be trans
ferred and assigned to S. A. Caveness.
The board adjourned subject to a
call meeting by the clerk at an early
date.
Western Randolph
Has Zero Weather.
Saturday, Feb. 1st
Thermometers Register 7 to 10
Below With One Report Of
5 On Cold, Windy, Hill
Automobile Wreck
Farmers Evening Classes And
Other Important Agricultur
al Wok In Progress
Farmer, Feb. 3.—Farmer seems to
have been a colder place on Saturday
morning than Asheboro or Greens
boro, for local thermometers register
ed from 7 to 10 below zero, according
to the exposure. O. V. Cranford, who
lives on a hill with an open exposure
to the north, says it was 10 below,
but 5 to 7 was as low as it was regist
ered in the village itself.
An automobile accident occurred
Saturday evening at the crossing near
Farmer post office, when a bakery
truck struck the rear of a truck be
longing to Henry Johnson of Denton.
The driver of the Johnson truck
■topped before driving onto the high
way, but before he could cross the
rear of his vehicle was struck by the
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wu that for the addition of six rooms
with plumbing and heat for the town
of Bamaeur. This work is progressing
well despite the unfavorable weather
and will soon be completed.
At Staley, also, work is coming
along, both in the addition to the
school and the digging of a deep well
for adequate water supply. Four
rooms, plumbing and heat are includ
ed in the contract.
Eight rooms with plumbing and
heat will be in the contract at Cole
to Will Include
Ivil And One
ninal Trials
Three W#
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Week i
Judge FeBx E. Alley
Judge Cemes^o Randolph Su
perior CoumFor First Time
As Presiding Officer
At the meetfrg of Randolph county
commissioners A held the first Monday
in February, Jjurors for the three
week’s term of court were drawn.
Court will begin on Monday morning,
March 18th and,will continue for three
weeks. The fiist! two weeks will be
for the trial m [civil cases, followed
by a week oficriminal court. The
three weeks ait Scheduled to be quite
full although ware are no cases of
Alley of Waynesville
i Randolph county
it time as presiding
rors by townships
Asheboro, Cjft. Winningham, C. E.
Cagle, John S# Miller, C. Thayer, A.
C. Pugh, C. Davidson; Coleridge,
Grifton Broom, W. F. Lambert;
Liberty, J. G. Upward, C. L. Highfill,
W. H. Garrett! Gregg Holder; Back
Creek, J. M. Jtch, Earl F. Bulla;
Richland, D. R/Graves, W. H. Tucker;
Union, Alphedb Auman, C. P. Hall;
Brower, J. Wjjtitter; Pleasant Grove,
W. R. Purvis; apevel Cross, J. J. Vick
ery; Franklinmlle, W. H. Wrenn; Co
lumbia, M. Fjpichardson; Providence,
W. L. Kirkman; New Hope, M. C.
Hogan; Randleman, S. M. Penn.
Speond Week
Richland, B. S. Lawrence, Calvin
Chriscoe, H. A. Chriscoe; Providence,
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ntmues
Of M. E. Church
Young Pi
Hold
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District Masons Meet
Saturday Brings Almost A Hun
dred Masons From This
District To Ramseur
Ramseur, Feb. 3.—In spite of the
record breaking temperatures and
multiplicity of snows, the various
organizations of the community have
been functioning with due regularity
and good attendance. The school
endured the rigors of bitter cold
weather and held sessions regularly
last week.
The Masonic Fraternity held a call
meeting on Thursday night, with a
splendid attendance.
The young people of the Methodist
church met Monday evening at the
church to reorganize and make plans
for the promotion of their work this
year. Charles Dorsett and Miss
Frances Mitchell are leading in this
work and everybody connected with
the church is interested in the success
of both senior and junior divisions
of the young peoples activities in the
church.
The Missionary circles of the M. E.
church are meeting this week with
Mrs. N. F. 'Phillips and Mrs. A. W.
Craven entertaining Circle No. 2 at
the home of Mrs. Phillips, on Main
street Miss Nellie Craven has Circle
No. 1 at her home on Liberty street,
both meeting Wednesday at 3:30.
The outstanding event of the week
for several of our men was the
District Meeting of Asheboro district
Masons, held here Saturday evening.
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Organized Cheating
Racket Probed For
Week At University
Forty-Six Students Indefinitely
Suspended After Ring
Is Fully Exposed
After a week’s work, day and night
including Sunday, the clean-up of an
organised cheating racket is practical
ly complete at the University of North
Carolina.
Thus far, the Council has consider
ed 98 cases since the cheating ring,
which sold examination questions for
a fee, was exposed. Forty-six students
have been indefinitely suspended, 20 •
have been acquitted and in four cases
has been deferred.
Indications that the honor system,
which has been held in high regard
at the University for 60 years, will
not be replaced by some other form
of discipline, such as the proctor
system, was seen when every member j
of the large freshman class, meeting
Annual Meeting Of
Randolph Hospital
Officials Held 4th
Officers Elected For Coming
Year And Directors Nam
ed At Meeting
Reports Are Heard
Hospital Said To Have Unusual
ly Splendid Equipment For
Small Institution
At the annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Randolph Hospital, Inc.,
held Tuesday afternoon, February 4th,
the following officers and directors
were named for the coming year: D.
B. McCrary, president; A. B. Beasley,
vice president; N. M. Cranford, sec
retary-treasurer; G. H. Sumner, M.
D.; Arthur Ross, C. C. Cranford, L.
H. Smith, Jr., I. F. Craven, W. L.
Ward; E. Bulla, assistant secretary.
D. B. McCrary was made chairman
and N. M. Cranford secretary of the
meeting.
Reports of operations for the year
1935 were made by N. M. Cranford,
secretary and treasurer of the cor
poration.
Dr. G. H. Sumner, county health
officer, and a member of the hospital
board of directors, was to have made
a report on the professional services
rendered during the year, but due to
illness in his family, he was unable to
be present. N. M. Cranford read his
report. This showed that patients
treated and discharged during 1935
were 170 more than during 1934, and
also, many more out patients were
treated than during the previous year.
By comparison, it was a very satis
factory report from every standpoint,
and it was voiced by all present that
the Randolph Hospital is serving the
citizens of Randolph county and
others who may come in a most ac
ceptable manner. This is proof, also,
that the surgical and medical staff as
well as the nursing personnel are per
forming their duties in a most satis
factory way to all concerned.
As information relative to the
facilities of the Randolph Hospital,
Chairman McCrary told the meeting
that a prominent man in the medical
profession had commended the man
agement of our institution on the
completeness of its equipment This
was Dr. T. F. Wheeldon of Richmond,
orthopedic surgeon, who has been
" monthly ylinics for crippled
Randolph Library
Ready For Opening
Monday, Feb’ry 10
Library Will Supply Books Free
To Randolph Folk Who Com
- ply With Simple Rules
Many New Donations
Will Be Open Daily Except Sun
day, With Librarian On
Hand Monday Evenings
According to plans now shaping up
well, the Randolph public library will
open on Monday for business. The
opening of this library will fill a long
felt need in the county where there
is no public library of any sort save
those attached to the public schools
of the various communities. Mrs.
Blanche Cox Walker will serve as
librarian, and will serve the public in
an able manner.
The following rules apply to the
rental of books: hours for opening,
every day, except Sunday, from 1:00
to 6:00 p. m. except Saturday morn
ings when the doors will open at 10:00
a. m. and remain open until 6:00 p.
m. The library will be open one even
ing weekly, every Monday, from 7:30
until 9:30.
Any person living in Randolph
county may borrow books from the
library free of charge for one week.
A small fee will be charged for over
time. It is understood that there will
be a rental shelf of very new books
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Local American Legion Post
Holds Important Meet And
Makes Some Aggressive Plans
Plana went forward in earnest for
the erection of a hat at the regular
meeting of the Ben Dixon Post
American Legion, held Tuesday even
ing in the room over the Old Hickory
cafe. The president, R. L. Briles,
announced $800 already pledged by
members of the local legion with a
goal of {2,000 well in eight The plans
include the erection of the hut during
_d summer.
committee composed of A. I.
. Arthur Presnell, Dr. J. G.
Crutchfield and R. L Briles, will
select the location for the building
and be ready to report at the next
monthly meeting of the Legion, 1
held on Tuesday evening, March
Jess Garner, Prominent In
Business, Civic, Religious
Life Of Asheboro, Passes
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Civic Leader Passes
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eastern District
Wesleyan Ministers
To Meet Asheboro
Convention Called For Monday,
February 10th At Neighbor’s
Grove Church
All-Day Meeting
Rev. E. W. Black Of Kannapolis
Chairman Of Group Invites
Other Ministers
The eastern district organization of
preachers’ in the North Carolina con
i ference of the Wesleyan Methodist
church will hold their quarterly con
vention at Neighbor's Grove Wesleyan
Methodist church Monday, February
10th. The convention will convene at
10:00 a. m. with Rev. D. C. Stone,
pastor of Neighbor’s Grove church, in
charge of the arrangements.
the following: Devotions, Rev. B. H.
Phaup. Short synopsis of sermon
preached the day before. All preachers
taking part discussion: “Holiness and
the Human Element,” opened by Rev.
Roy S. Nicholson.
Lunch will follow this service at
the Old Hickory Cafe in Asheboro.
After lunch the program will be
resumed at the church with five
minute extemporaneous talks from
one of the following subjects: “My
Most Embarrassing Moment,” “My
Most Interesting Moment” and “My
Most Pathetic Moment.” The conven
tion will end with a short business
meeting.
Rev. E. W. Black of Kannapolis is
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Four Students From
Asheboro Attending
Davidson This Year
Davidson, Feb. 4.—Asheboro was
represented by four students as
Davidson college opened the second
semester of the college year here this
week with an enrollment of 660.
Attending the ninety-nine year old
Presbyterian institution from Ashe
boro are W. A. Coffin, Jr., a senior,
E. M. Armfield and W. D. Hobbs,
juniors, T. H. Steere, Jr., a freshman.
Armfield, letterman in football the
past two seasons, is alternate-captain
elect of the Wildcat eleven.
Extensive plans are being made
here for the celebration next year of
the Centennial anniversary of the
founding of the college. Opened on
March 12, 1837 by the Scotch-Irish
Presbyterians of North Carolina, the
institution has since grown to a posi
tion of leadership in educational
circles in the South.
months.
Another Important action of the
group was concerning the Junior Leg
ion baseball team for the coming
year. R. F. Routh, manager of the
team for the Legion, announced that
the services of coach Chick Doak of
State college had been secured. He is
coach of State college baseball team
and professor of physical education
at that institution. The Legion team
achieved success last season, which
was the first year of organisation, and
great things are predicted for the
team for the coming eummer.
A silent moment of stenttn* indi
cated respect for the valued member
of the Leghw, Jess JP. Gamer, whose
-drawn and adopted
of the group-to which
Dies Unexpectedly At Hospital
From Heart Attack Suffered
Friday, January 31st
President Of State
Fox Hunters Asso.
Funeral Service Held Tuesday
Afternoon From Asheboro
First Methodist Church
Jess P. Gamer, 40, native of Ran
dolph county, died in Randolph
Hospital, Inc. Monday morning' fol
lowing- a heart attack on Friday. Mr.
Gamer’s death, however, was entirely
unexpected and he was bright and
cheerful when he was suddenly seized,
dying instantly.
The deceased was a prominent
business man of the town and county,
managing Gamer’s Economy Aute
Supply company in the business dis
rict of the town. He had other pro
minent business connections in the
town where he has made his home for
many years, and was known as a civie
leader of the town.
A charter member of the Ashebore
Rotary club, Mr. Garner had close
friendships with many of the business
men of the town. He is a past presi
dent of the local Chamber of Com
merce and was, at the time of his
death, a member of the board of
directors of the organization. He was
a steward in the First Methodist
church of Asheboro. Mr. Garner was
known far and wide for his genial,
pleasant manner and pleasing per
sonality.
For many years Mr. Gamer had
been connected with the North
Carolina Fox Hunters Association
and, at the annual meeting of that
organization held in Asheboro in
September, 1935, was named president
of the state group. Many of the of
ficials of this organization from far
and near came to Asheboro for the
funeral services, holding an informal
meeting afterwards for the purpose
of drafting formal resolutions of
respect.
A graduate of Guilford College In
1917, Mr. Gamer enlisted in the field
artillery and was a second lieutenant
during the World War. Later, he
graduated from the Massachusetts
In^tute. of Technology.
H»e deceased is a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gamer of the
western section of Randolph county.
Surviving are his wife, formerly
Miss Ruby Wheeler, of South Caro
lina; five brothers, J. F. Gamer, of
Thomasville, cashier of the Bank of
Denton; Worth, Clegg, Adrian and
Phillip Gamer, all of Farmer, and one
half-brother, Baxter Carter, of Den
ton.
Many people from all sections of
the state attended the funeral service
which was held in the First Methodist
church Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock. Rev. H. P. Powell, pastor of
the church, was assisted by Dr. C. G.
Smith, of the local Presbyterian
church. Burial followed in the church
cemetery.
District Governor
Kiwanians Speaker
At Tuesday Meeting
Plans For Musical Comedy, “Cool
Knights'’ Taking Form With
; Committees Named
Emil Bernatecker introduced by E.
V. Hobbs, was guest of the club, and
speaker for the evening. Mr. Bera
stecker is manager of the Carolina
Theater in Greensboro, and is Lieu
tenant Governor of this Kiwania dis
trict. His address was received with
keen' interest by the Kiwanians. In
keeping with the recent celebration
of the 21st anniversary of Kiwanis,
he explained the aims and ideals of
the club, while outlining the program
of Kiwanis for the year 1936.
Plans for the staging of “Coot
Knights”, a musical comedy, got
under way at the meeting of the
Kiwanis Club Tuesday night. Larry
Hammond was appointed general
chairman of all the committees
handling the various details of the
work concerned with the production.
The committees are as follows: Ad
vertising committee—Eddie Morris,
Walter Craven, Ralph White and
Skipper Pearson; ticket sales com
mittee—Walter Yow, Don Alexander,
O. B. Moore and Lee Kearns; casting
committee—Bob Bunch, Hal Johnson
and Reginald Turner; state and
costume committee—Walter Shaw,
Jess Pugh and J. C. Senter.
“Cool Knights” is one of the more
modem of the musical comedies
written for amateurs, being in keep
ing with the speeding times of today.
A meeting of all the committees
was called for Wednesday night at
7:30 o’clock p. m., to be held at the
offices of the Acme Hosiery Mills, Inc.
Dr. W. C. Carr, visiting Kiwanian
of Greensboro, was presented to the
club.
David Sunnier, three-year-old son
David Sumner 1U