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ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS THE COURIER THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS tri-weekly VOIjUAIEi lxi Efit. As The Regulator February 2, 1876 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEBORO^rC~SUNDAY7raB777T937. Changed To The Courier September 13, 1879 PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 3 First Period Of Courier Caimpaign Proves Successful Enormous Task Of Repairing Damage Of Floods Begins No Definite Idea As To True Cost; Will Certainly P.each Fabulous Sum Worst Is Over Average Cost Of Rehabilita tion Is Estimated At $2o0 For Each Home With the peak of tht Ohio flood definitely over, the overwhelming job of rehabilitation has "e.’gun in the Ohio valley. Officials in v:e af fected areas have nc idea how ;.:'gh th: cost will finally be, but is ce; tain to he high in the millions. All down the 1,000-mile flood trail, from Pittsburgh to Cairo, III., “clean-up” legions of WPA workers pushed the mud and muck fouled debris back to the river. Mops, brooms and hose were brought into action in the nation great “spring cleaning”—a hercu lean labor which officials said would take three to six months, at an estimated cost of $250 per home. Approximately 400,000 homes and buildings were damaged in the 12 day flood emergency period. In Washington, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, majority leader in Congress, announced the govern ment would provide money for re habilitation out of the $900,000, 001) deficiency relief bill. Last Member Of Lee’s Staff Dies With the death Thursday of Rev. Giles Buckner Cooke in Matthews, Virginia, there passed away the last surviving officer of the im mediate staff of General Robert E. Lee at the time of the surrender. Cooke was then a major, acting as an assistant adjutant ahd inspector general. He would have been 99 years old on May 13. He was the oldest Episcopal min ister in Virginia and the oldest living alumnus of Virginia Mili tary institute. Cooke was born at Portsmouth, Va., in 1838 and studied for four years at V. M. I. under Major Thomas J. Jackson, afterward to become famous as “Stonewall” Jackson. He was teaching school ami studying law near Petersburg when the war broke out. He volunteered at the start of the conflict and joined the staff of General Philip St. George Cocke as first lieutenant. He served on the staffs of Generals P. G. T. Beaure gard and Braxton Bragg and later on the staff of General Lee as ma jor. G-Men Quarry I__ I> Mattson Case Prepared to aid in the hunt for the kidnaper of Charles Mattson, Tacoma boy subsequently murder ed, this artist’s sketch of the sus pect has been broadcast by the De partment of Justice. In this connec tion it is remembered that a similar sketch prepared in the Lindbergh kidnaping was a remarkable re semblance of Bruno Hauptmann. Asheboro Rotary In New District r»7th District Divided Into Two Sections; Asheboro In Western Division Now Called 57B Club Gives Approval To Re distribution After Lengthy Discussion The Rotary club at its luncheon Friday approved the revision of District 57 as handed down from headquarters of Rotary Interna tional. This change, one of the most important in the history of the club, places Asheboro and a group of other clubs from District 57 with a group of southwestern clubs formerly in District 58 in a new division called 57B. The regular program was set aside in order to have an oppor tunity for a full discussion of this matter of redistribution. First was read a communication from Bill Manser, president of Rotary Inter national, stating that for the good of Rotary the 57th District was to be divided into two sections, 57A and 57B. Cleveland Thayer, past governor of the 57th District, was called on to outline the territory covered by the old district and the changes (Please turn to Page 2) Kace Is Close Between Majority Of Workers In “Cash Offer” Campaign Majority of candidates to date have an equal opportunity to win n ajor awards. Votes listed below show candidates running very close fjr the First Award—$600.00 in CASH. Biggest vote on each sub scription ends Saturday. Workers listed below make First Period a great success. I hose who have initiative to make real showing will work harder on Second Big Vote Offer lasting only one week. , List Of Workers In The “Cash Offer" Campaign and Votes Accepted For Publication NAME TOWN VOTES Mrs. Walter E. Yow...Asheboro . 49,200 Mrs. Iula Routh Jones.Franklinvllle .. 48,000 Miss Edith Cagle .Archdale . 40,000 s. Lane Russell .Asheboro . 36,001) Mrs. Katherine B. Freeman-Greensboro . *3,000 Mrs. Bob Cheshire.Asheboro . 4/,000 Mrs. Charles Luck .Seagrove . 43,000 Miss Cora Edwards ... Sophia ...; 44,000 Mrs. C. J. Hiatt . Trinity . 39,000 Miss May Caudle. Randleman . 20,000 «*rmon Hastings ,.Asheboro . 48,000 Hal Lanier . .Farmer . 20,000 JJfs- R. V. Anthony.High Point. R. F. D. 36,000 Mrs. Clarence Ward.Central Falls . 43,40) Mrs. A. B. Copenhaver .Asheboro . 36,>00 Mfs. T. A. Jordan .Asheboro . 30,500 Miss Dorothy Bennett.Asheboro . 20,000 Harold Ellis .Millboro . 42,o00 M'ss Minnie Lee Kennedy.High Point . 42,000 Mrs. John Cameron .Asheboro, R. 2.. • • 45,500 S*» Etta Kearns .Trinity, R. F. D. 42,000 Hhis Loula Andrews .Caraway. 43,000 Mrs- Lacy Poole.Coleridge . 38,000 *"*• Joe Lineberry.Climax, R. 1 . 20,000 E“tiy Books Open For a Few New Workers Who Are Not Afraid of a Little Competition—Enter Now. —All candidates are requested to make report to Campaign Saturday and Wednesday each week, in person or by mail. Court Continues | In Randolph With ' A Busy Forecast | Civil Docket Is Running Be hind Because Of Tedious ness Of Many Casses Asks Injunction Gurganious Makes Plea For Slot Machine Operation; Judge Alley Presiding .Because of the presence of sev eral long drawn out cases which have put the civil court behind schedule, Judge Felix Alley on Fri day ordered all cases calendared for Thuisday, February 11, or thereafter, to be held over for the next term, which will begin March 15. A case which consumed a great deal of time Friday and was taken up again Saturday was that of I Mack Pickett vs. John Allred, in which the bone of contention was a dead mule. Among the matters disposed of Friday was a divorce suit brought by Josephine Brown against H. E. Brown. The divorce was granted. C. J. Foushee recovered judg ment from J. J. Ashley for the sum of $219.77. The jury also rendered a verdict in favor of W. T. Raw leigh company against L. E. Cagle, E. P. Boroughs, and Hobard Cagle, administrator of M. A. Cagle, de ceased. The company recovered judgment for $615.08 from the de fendants. Saturday afternoon G. Gurgan ious applied for an injunction to permit to operate slot machines in the county. Judge Alley left this open until further evidence could be gathered. Oakdale Cotton Mills, Inc., de fendant in a case brought by T. L. Cox was denied a motion to have the case tried in Guilford county. In a case of the National Manage i ment Company, Inc., by Lee M. 1 Kearns, agent, against J. G. Pre vette, the verdict was for the de fendant. Court will continue through the coming week and it. is anticipated that attorneys and court officials will find plenty to occupy their time. There have been several rather tedious cases during this week that have tended to slow down the docket considerably, but t there is general satisfaction with I the work accomplished. Webster Is Held After Accident J. 15. Webster, operator of a well known oyster house on the high way between High Point and Greensboro, is being held in the county jail here on charges grow ing out of an accident in the Trinity section Thursday afternoon. Sam Hudson, about 50, of Trinity was struck by an automobile while walking along the highway near Trinity school. The automobile was said to have been driven by Webst The driver of the car is said not to have stopped at the scene of the accident. Webster is reported to have said that he was not aware that he had struck anyone. Hudson is in a High Point hos pital, where it was announced that he had suffered a gash on his head, an injury to his hip and leg, and bruises and lacerations. He is i now believed to be making a good i recovery. * Merchant Of Venice Coming To Asheboro Friday, Feb. 13 Superintendent Reginald Turner of the city schools has announced that the English department of the high school will bring to Asheboro Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” which will be presented by the Avon Players on Friday night, February 12, in the high school auditorium. The Avon Players have a splendid reputation. They have played in a number of colleges and are giving this play at High Point college, Guilford college, and Elon college the same week of their appearance in Asheboro. Asheboro is fortunate in having a high class of entertainment like this and it is hoped that since this company has decided to include Asheboro in its tour, that the play will be attended by a large audience. The advance agent of the com pany has examined the school audi torium and declares that those who attend the play need have no fear of failure to hear the lines that j will be spoken by these actors. The Avon Players are professional i STRIKERS DEFY IEVICTION ORDER I Sheriff Thomas Wolcott, center ,is shown standing at the door of a Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan, reading a court injunction ordering the sitdown strikers within to evacuate the building. The strikers heckled him as he read ana have since refused to leave. A court writ has now been issued for>the arrest of these men. Randolph Public Library To Observe Tag Day February 9 Tip Winner This Time Announced In Thursday’s issue of T^e Courier an offer of two theatre tickets was made for the persoi giving the best “news tip” to th>3 newspaper. There have been sev eral responses and most of them were real news. It was necessary to decide as to which of the sev eral tips was of more real news value and the decision resulted in the two tickets going to W. C. York for this issue. The tickets will be awarded to Mr. York on Mon day morning which will allow him to see “Wings Of The Morning” at the Sunset Theatre. Mr. York’s tip was about an al leged hit-and-run driver which proved to be sufficient to result in an arrest. It is such news stories that are of interest to a great many people. But, there were many in teresting tips given for this issue of The Courier. Someone reported the fire. Usually we hear the fire siren and can check this ourselves, but occasionally, in the noise of the press room, we do miss the siren’s shrill announcement. Anoth er tip was given by Mrs. I. C. Moser which was the announce ment of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Yates. This was actually the first tip telephoned in after the announcement was made. The next tip period will be from 8:00 o’clock Monday morning until 1:30 Tuesday afternoon when two tickets will be given for Girls Tn Flatinum at The Carolina Theatre. Don't delay notifying us about news. There may be several to telephone about the same news i item. In that case, the first person I will be winner. actors of long experience and they are accustomed to giving perfor mances in all types of auditoriums and they are confident that they can give this play in the high school auditorium, and make their voices carry so that they can be heard by everyone. The Avon Players are a large company and they carry a consid erable amount of attractive stage scenery and other equipment. Mr. Lance Davis, who has had ex perience in a number of out standing plays is the leading man in the role of Bassanio. Miss Marta Kytle is the leading lady of this play and will appear as Portia. The members of the senior class who have recently completed tin study of “The Merchant of Venice” look forward with great pleasure to seeing this play on the stage. In sponsoring this play, the English department is planning to allow credit to certain students who can J report on this play and thus make, it fit into their English work. ! To Randolph County On Wed., February 10th '^Tuesday, February 9, will be Tag Day at the Randolph Public irary. That day members of the sSffiftlry .Club, as part of the cele bration of the first anniversary of the opening of the library, will seiT tags in order to raise funds for the general expenses of the lib rary. The library first opened its doors February 10, 1936. The tags will, in addition to help ing the library’s financial standing, boost the proposed new municipal building. The plans of this building call for a large library room. The tags will bear some motto urging Asheboro citizens to vote in favor of the bond issue which will finance the building when the project comes up in an election. Some idea of the remarkable growth of the library may be ob tained from the statistics regarding books and patrons, but for a com plete understanding of its in creasing place in the life of Ashe boro can only be received by visit ing the library and noting its activity. The library opened with 384 books; this has grown to a total of 1,287, and more are being bought and donated every week. The num ber of people who have borrowed books is now 1,706. The circulation through the end of January was 18,365. The selection at the library is representative, but there is need for juvenile fiction and biography. The library will appreciate donations of books of these varieties especial ly, though all will be welcomed. The schools are also helping iri the celebration of the anniversary. Grades 4 and 5 are writing short essays on the value and functions of a library. Roy Champion, manager of the Carolina Theatre, will give a show pass to the writer of the best essay in each section, of these grades. The essays will be read and the prizes awarded at chapel exercises Wednesday. Grades 6 and 7 are making post ers for Tag Day. These will be dis played in the windows of local stores. INJURED GIRL IS RECOVERING RAPIDLY Virginia Moody, 8 year old Balfour schoolgirl who was struck by a truck Tuesday, is believed to be on her way to a complete re covery. Having shown great im provement at the Randolph hos pital, she was carried Saturday morning to a bone specialist in Greensboro for special treatment to her leg. The specialist express ed the opinion that she would be back home as well as ever in two weeks. Mr. Amos On Trip W. 1\ Amos of Amos Furniture company, left this morning for a motor trip to Miami, Fla., and other places of interest in Florida. Mf. Amos will also go to New Or leans, La., and Hot Springs, Ark., j before returning to his home. Citizens Appeal To City Council Help On Streets Representatives From Var ious Sections Ask For Aid In Improving Surfaces Mayor Names Com. Ask For New Street To Be Opened; Street Light Ord ered On Dark Comer A large delegation of Asheboro citizens appeared before the city commissioners, meeting in regular session at the city hall Thursday evening, to petition the board for help in improving street surfaces. Upon being asked to appoint a committee composed of one or more representatives from each street where improvements were sought, the delegation retired and selected the following: Rev. H. A. Parker, representing Worth and Hoover streets;' J. Manley Vestal, Liberty street; C. N. Thomas, E. Kivett street and Highland avenue; and L. A. Hughes and R. W. Wood, Randolph street. Froni the town board Mayor Walter Bunch appointed J. F. White, Jr., W. J. Armfield, Jr., and J. M. Neely as a committee to work with the citizens’ committee. These two bodies will meet with the town attorney, H. M. Robins, to discuss and try to arrange suitable means for financing such a project. Kev. N. M. Harrison asked the. aid of the town force in opening up a new street through the Lewis property in west Asheboro. Resi dences are now erected in this'sec tion and others are planned. Mr. Harrison also asked the commis sioners to correct some surface drainage problems on W. Cherry street. The board decided to help with both these proposals as soon as the town force could get to them. • ■ . .* It was ordered that a street light be erected on Memorial street mid way between Sunset avenue and Hoover street. Bills and accounts for the month were also, as usual, read and settled. The commissioners spent consid erable time considering the growth of Asheboro and discussing plans for keeping step with this growth. Hope was expressed that extensive improvements might be made with the coming of spring, and an opti mistic view of the prospect for the town’s progress prevailed. The full membership of the board was present at the meeting. FRANKLINVILLE BOY SCOUTS CANVASS FOR RELIEF FUNDS The Boy Scouts of Franklinville have been making a canvass of that community to collect money and clothing for the Randolph County Red Cross relief fund and have already turned in $50.61 as well as a considerable quantity of elothing. They are continuing their canavss and when it is complete a list of the contributors will be pub lished. Contributions Continue For The Western Flood Sufferers The drive for clothing for flood sufferers in western and mid western states, has been a real success in Asheboro with most generous response throughout the town generally. M. Bloom, a mer chant of the town, volunteered to help other local Red Cross officials in this drive. Members of the Boy Scout troops, Sorosis members and several others aided in the collection of the clothing and all the dry cleaning plants of the town came to the rescue with an offer to clean the articles collect ed. The clothes go to Knoxville, Tenn., where, they will be dispens ed according to the discretion of the active workers and the need of the people. Among those mak ing contributions within the past few days are: Mr. and Mrs. L. L. McKinnon, $1.00; M. C. Dawson, Ulah, $1.00; Mrs. John Vuncannon, Farmer, $.50; A Friend, Staley, $3.00; Bap tist Sunday school, Franklinville, $32.50; John F. Kearns, Farmer, $1.00; Miss Tucker’s 3rd grade, $2.25; Miss Ayers, $1.00; Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Pugh, Pleasant Garden, route, $2.00; A. C. Cox, $1.00; James Walker and Family, $5.00; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, $2.00; Mrs. A. M. Ragsdale, R. F. D. 1, $1.00; W. G. Steward, $2.00; Vanhie Morgan, $.50. C. ‘C. Camp (additional) Ram seur, $25.00; Christian Sunday school, Ramseur, $30.25; Mrs. V. C. New Estra $30.00 Club Offer Which Lasts One Week Only Opens Mon. Extra $25 Prize For Campaigners An extra prize of $25.00 in cash will be awarded to the campaign worker wiio turns in the largest amount of money for subscriptions to The Courier for one week only, from Monday, February 8th, to Saturday night, February 13th, This extra priz** is in addition to any other prize or commission a candidate may at the end of campaign. Work ers are urged to make every moment count during the next week and win this EXTRA $25.00 as the winner of the extra prize usually wins one of the major regular awards. All workers now in campaign as well as new workers have alt equal chance to win this extra prize. WORK AND WIN. Death Saddens Ramseur People Mrs. Rossie Davies Dies Quite Unexpectedly At Her Home On Thursday Streets Repaired Mrs. J. P. Cox Entertains , Guests At Dinner Wed.; Out-Of-Town Guests Ramseur, Feb. 6.—Although Mrs. J. Rossie Davis hadn’t been a re sident of Ramseur many months, she had spent Ker life in this sec tion, living at Franklinville for years, and her fine Christian spirit had won for her many strong friendships. Her death came so sudden the people of the com - munity wej*: shocked to learn of it. She was sick only a short time and few people knew' the malady was serious. Her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Jesse Hicks and Mrs. Tom Burke survive. In addition to these four brothers, Dennis, John, Henry and Eli Stinson and one sister, Mrs. John Low'dermilk, all of In diana survive. Rev. J. F. Apple of Elon college assisted by Rev. John M. Allred and Rev. W. R. Phillips of this community conducted the funeral Friday afternoon at Pleasant Ridge Christian church, of which Mrs. Davis h^'is been a consistent mem ber since childhood. The badly torn up streets of Ramseur are being patched up this week, this temporary work will be about all that can be done until better weather comes. Chief Hin (Continued from page 2) Marley, Ramseur, $2.00; W. L. Hobson, Ramseur, $1.00; J. M. Mc Alister, Ramseur, $1.00; Win. Henry Leonard, Ramseur, $1.00; Relief Box Ramseur Pharmacy (additional), $1.75; Leward Cotton Mills and Employees, Worthvillc, $38.85. From Randleman—W. T. Hayes, $.25; M. A. Chaney, $.50; Carl Wise, $1.00; Miss Jessie Kirkman, $1.00; Mrs. Philmore Upton, $1.00; W. H. Fox, $.25; Alfred Fox, $.25; Ro'zelle Smith, $.25; J. W. Stone, $.25; Opal Hughes, $1.00; Jewel Hughes, $1.00; H. Doekum, $5.00; Joe Newlin, $1.00; Seventh A Grade, $2.00; Cash, $.25; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Millikan, route 2, $3.00 Miss Gertrude Thornsburg Farmer, $2.00; Mr. and Mrs. F W. Kearns, $2.00; E. L. Clark $.50; Sarah Shaw, $1.00; Mrs Eunice Hayworth, $1.00; Mrs. Ogburn Yates, $5.00; Frances' Frazier, $.29; Franklinville High School, $4.00; Mrs. A. L. Love, ? $.50; M’Lady’s Shoppe (mdse.), $65.00; Alpheus Auman, Seagrove, $1.10; Rev. W. J. Byrum, R. F. £)., $.85; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Graves, 1 Seagrove, $3.00; Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Lawrence, Seagrove, $2,00; Mrs. Percy Stutts, Seagrove, $.50; Ivy Luck, Seagrove, $.50; School and Faculty, Seagrove, $24.55; Hubert Bean, $2.00. A list of donations from the Mc Crary Mill, Acme and Sapona Mills given voluntarily for the relief of flood sufferers will be published in Tuesday’s paper. [Workers Urged To l Use Every Moment , Workers Who Plan To Win Will Not “Lag” During This Important Vote Period Second Period Offer Affords Opportunity “Nip And Tuck” Race On Be tween Leading Workers For $600 And $400 Awards Saturday night marked the end of the -first period in the big “Cash Offer” Campaign just launched by The Courier. Now watch the candidates plunge to ward the $600 Award. And for the other awards! There is time for many other candidates to jump in and outstrip those al ready running. New ones are com ing in every day. Folks, it is go ing to be an unparalled race, with interest waxing hotter and hotter and thrills galore for everybody. New Club Vote Offer There is another “Club” Vote of fer given the willing workers in the “Cash Offer” Campaign to further enhance their possibilities of winning one of the biggest cash awards in the list. It will no doubt be a pleasant surprise to each and every one who is in the race to succeed, to know that they will have another opportunity to furth er increase their vote totals this week. The new offer is a very liber al one indeed, and can be made the means of securing enough votes to carry one to victory. EXTRA VOTES will be credited upon each and every $30.00 in sub scription payments turned in for the week beginning Monday, Feb ruary 8th and ending Saturday, February 13th. New subscriptions : and old subscriptions will count. It is the very best extra vote offer that will be made from now on, and is almost as good an offer as the one which closed last Saturday night. Lasts Just One Week This extra vote offer will last just one week and will end Satur day night. It is “short and snappy’'’ and too much importance cannot be placed upon it. The workers now will be the victorious ones at the end of the campaign, and there ik no time for hesitancy on the part of anyone who desires to win one of the biggest awards. New Members The bonus vote offer this week is a golden opportunity for new members to enter the race and win. Several new members have en tered the race the past few days, and today are right among the leaders in the voting list. You can do the same thing if you decide now to grasp the opportunity and put your spare time on a revenue basis. The wise workers will start out Monday with determination to make the week’s report the very best one. Great Awards At Stake Hundreds of dollars in awards and cash commissions will be dis tributed among the earnest work (Please turn to Page 2) LOST: White German spitz dog. Pat, Jimmie and Anne Newlin. Phone 53. COURIER Several days ago the pet puppy of the Claude Newlin’s children strayed from home and after a day or so of fruitless waiting an ad was inserted iji The Courier. Hardly had the ink dried on the paper before Dr. Tiffany Barnes called the children and reported' he had the dog. It was speedil returned and now Pat, Ji and Anne are happy again.