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The Ripple serves twenty seven states, the District of Columbia, and the ’ Dominion of Canada -r-T—Tibi Trr"B"i"i.i'li'T TliBi^ (Thr Ifaiikm Wiipplz Yadkin’s Oldest and Best Newspaper—Devoted to the Upbuilding and the Best Interests of Yadkin County The Ripple Covers a County of 18,000 of the Best People in the World VOL. XLV YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940 No. 9 LATE NEWS IN BRIEF From the State and Nation J NATIONAL SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27— Waterways, turned to torrents by cloudbursts and melting ■now, drove as many as 3,000 persons from their homes to day in a score or more north ern California cities. Almost nine Inches of rain fell In 24 hours at several points. The storm, in Its third day, left river conditions critical. More rain was in prospect, and flood conditions equalling the rav ages of December. 1937, were predicted by the weather bu reau. ABOARD V. S. Lang at Sea, Feb. 27—President Roosevelt said today that doubling the present number of planes and guns defending the Panama Canal was necessary for the long range defense of the vital link between the Atlantic and Pacific. Such a long range program contemplates defense operations extending, if neces sary, throughout Central America and as far south as Ecuador, Columbia and Vene suela, he told reporters at a press conference aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa after he had completed a thorough in spection of canal defenses and had started the homeward voy age to the United States. INTERNATIONAL LONDON, Feb. 27—Winston Churchill, seasoned warden of Britain’s sea-power, disclosed today that Germany had dam aged the British battleships Nelson and Barham, warned of even greater German attacks on “the sea-power by which we live,” and then announced to a cheering house of commons that Britain’s five new 35,000 ton battleships would shortly join the grand fleet. He also said the Nelson and Barham, both apparently crippled in December, soon would be at sea again. BERLIN, Feb. 27—The im pression grew today that Adolf Hitler would give Undersecre tary of State Sumner Welles, due in Berlin Friday, a com prehensive exposition of Ger many’s claims to a dominant position in central and south eastern Europe as well as de mands for return of her col onies. Arrangements for Welles’ visit were conflrtned by Alex ander Kirk, American charge d’affaires, in a visit to the for eign office. According to pres ent plans, Welles will go into a huddle Friday with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben trop, who is recovering from grippe, and probably will see Hitler Saturday. Finnish Relief Funds Continue To Come in Donations to the Finnish Relief Funds continue to come in and interest in the cause of the little nation increases as the days go by and their suffering is intensi fied. One development during the week is the soliciting of funds for Fighting Finns, Ihc., a separate organization from the Finnish Relief Fund. In this all banks are asked to take donations for this cause, which is for the purchase of arms and ammunition for the Finns. The Bank of Yadkin tells The Ripple it will take any dona tions and forward them to the right place. The other two banks of the county could not be con tacted but it is assumed they will do likewise. Donations received during the week for the relief fund are as follows: Previously reported .$23.25 Yadkinville school . 7.41 Forbush school . 2.47 Jonesville school . 8.85 Total ..$41.98 / ____________ Would Fire Spie—What would you say if you saw me lined up before a firing squad like the man we just saw in that movie? , Oal Friend—Fire! Holding Court Here I Judge William H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte, is holding his first court in Yadkinville this week. Judge Bobbitt is from the district in which Judge Harding formerly resided. He is a man of pleasing personality and his decisions and judgments here this week have met with universal praise from court officials and the public. DAM CASE NOT SETTLED HERE; ARGUEDTODAY Settlement Reached, Signed; Then Rescinded by the County Board MANY RUMORS HEARD me Hign roint aam on tne Yadkin river, that turbulent question that has aroused the people of this section for more than a year, flared up again this week when it became known that negotiations were being made looking toward a settlement of the Yadkin case now in supreme court, where it will be argued to day. From the many reports in the daily newspapers and current rumors. The Ripple learns that what happened was about as fol lows: The old rumored offer of the city of High Point to pay Yadkin county a certain sum of money; buy the county home lands and rebuild certain roads and bridges, amounting to more than $100. 000. was revived. The board of county commissioners was called to meet Friday afternoon of last week. Two of the members, D. A. Reynolds, chairman, and L. L. Smitherman were present; a res olution was drawn and signed ac cepting the condition as set out in the original plans. On Monday the full board met in Yadkinville with representa tives and attorneys for the City of High Point and the matter further discussed, agreeing on the settlement. A few hours later the same board met in the office of Coun ty Attorney D. L. Kelly, who was opposed to the settlement, and rescinded their agreement in a written order and recorded the same oh the minutes of their meeting, signed by all three members. Thus the High Point hydro electric dam project, involving $6,500,000, remains as it did a week ago and the supreme court is proceeding to hear it as orig inally planned after Judge Sink’s decision last summer. Yadkin Basketball Tourney Opens Here Tonight The annual Yadkin county basketball tournament will begin tonight, February 29. at 7 o’clock and continue through Saturday night, March 2, in the Yadkin ville high gymnasium. Last year the tournament was held in the West Yadkin gym. Yadkinville boys and Boonville girls are the defending cham pions. Four games will be played in the tournament the opening night. West Yadkin and Jones ville girls meet in the opening game at 7 o’clock. The schedule: 1—West Yadkin vs. Jonesvllle (girls). 8— East Bend vs. West Yad kin (boys). 9— Courtney vs. Bast Bend (girls). 10—Boonville vs. Courtney (boys). Officials Should Sell County Home Says Grand Jury The grand jury in session here this week, headed by Worth Roc kett as foreman, reccomeneded the sale of the Yadkin county home in their report to Judge W. H. Bobbitt. The paragraph referring to the reccomendation reads as follows: “We reccomend that the Board of County Commissioners dispose of the present county home pro perty. and that the proceeds from same be used in the construction of a modern county home on some paved highway, as we consider the present home undesirable.” This is the second time a simi lar reccommendation has been made by the grand jury. The county home property embodies about 200 acres, a small protion coming to the sand clay road near the state prison camp. The re mainder goes back to the creek with some good bottom lands, now uncultivated. Some of the buildings of the county home have been built in recent years, while others have been there many years and while they are comfortable, they are not TWO BOYS ARE BOUND OVER TO FEDERALCOURT Arrested by Yadkin County Officers, They Admit En tering Post Office BOND IS SET AT ’ $500 Two young men, each 17, were bound over to Federal court by U. S. Commissioner M. W. Maekie, Friday, after they admitted en tering the post office at Boonville on December 17, and taking therefrom a pistol belonging to Postmaster Fred Key. The two boys, Ernest Brown and Warren Hudson, both of the Boonville section, were arrested by Sheriff A. L. Inscore, assisted by Deputies F. E. Hurt and Jake Brown, who had been working on the case since the breaking oc curred. The boys also admitted, according to officers, that they entered the hardware store of C. D. Poindexter at Boonville on the same night by removing a window pane. They also took a pistol and other small articles from this store. Both pistols were recov ered, one at Brown’s home and the other where he had sold it. Officers had worked on the case since it happened but were un able to get anywhere until the filling station of W. G. Brown, also in Boonville, was entered a few nights ago. A few days later one of the boys was offering cig arettes for sale and the officers started work again, soon ferreting out the case and the boys con fessed. The post office robbery being a federal offense they were turned over to federal authorities. Com missioner N^ackie set their bonds at $500 each, which they had not made when taken to Winston Salem jail by a deputy marshal. ( Local officers think they have cleared up petty thievery in that section with the arrest of the two boys. They will be tried at the May term of Federal Court at Winston-Salem. by no means modem. Electric lights were recently installed. There are now 13 white and two colored persons in the home, two of Which will soon be sent to Iredell county, from which they came. The blue grass in Kentucky is that color only in June. Yadkinville Girls And Boonville Boys, Win 4-County Cage Tourney Yadkinville Girls and Boon ville Boys carried off all the honors in the 4-County Bas ketball tournament played at Elkin gymnasium during the past week, ending last night. The Yadkinville girls swamp ed Honda girls 37 to 24 in the finals which ended at 9 o’clock last night. In the boys' game Boonville defeated their ancient rivals, Yadkinville, by a score of 16 to 10, to win the four-county honors of the annual tourna ment. Prank Spencer, sports editor of ,he Winston-Salem Journal-Sen Jnel, last night awarded small niniature basket-balls to the fol ,owing players in the tournament is a symbol of outstanding abil ty. Picked for the boys all-tourna ment team were: Bill Green. Sfadkinville; Graham Stinson, Boonville; Ralph Swaim, Jones /ille; Howard Wilmoth. Dobson; md Joe Transou, Elkin. The girls all-tournament team were; Katherine Williams and Hazel Spillman, Yadkinville; Nannie Woodruff, Boonville; Ddessa Martin, Copeland; Ruth Tharpe, Ronda; and Rose Wag oner. Sparta. The high school band, under :he direction of Allen Dickman was on the program to provide music before and between games. Elkin’s excellent boys' team ruesday night reached the semi finals only to be nosed out 20-18 after showing a lead at the half. The Elkin girl’s team was elimi nated earlier in the tournament. Tuesday’s games featured Ronda girls vs. Jonesville girls, with Ronda winning 22-10; Yadkin ville boys vs. Jonesville boys, Yad kinvllle winning 22-21; Yadkin ville girls vs. West Yadkin girls, Yadkinville winning 30-10, and the Boonville-Elkin boys game as given above. The tournament has been suc cessful in every way with large crowds attending nightly. Results of all games played thus far, in the order in which they came, follow; Wednesday, February 21: Spar ta girls 33, Beulah 18; Copeland boys 33, Sparta boys 17; Jones ville girls 10, Dobson girls 5. Thursday, February 22: Yad kinville girls 42, Piney Creek girls 20; Elkin boys 30. Shoals boys 5; Elkin girls 24, Shoals girls 8; Mountain Park boys 21, Yadkin ville boys 24. Friday, February 23: Boonville girls 19, Mountain View girls 11; Boonville boys 26, Beulah boys 15; North Wilkesboro boys 25, Dobson boys 18; Jonesville boys 31, Mountain View boys 13. Saturday, February 24; Wilkes boro boys 21, West Yadkin boys 19; West Yadkin girls 18, Piney Creek girls 20; Ronda boys 18, Piney Creek boys 10; Ronda girls 20, Sparta girls 19; Elkin boys 29, Wilkesboro boys 11; West Yad kin girls 20, Boonville girls 16; Yadkinville boys 15, Wilkesboro boys 4. Monday, February 26: Elkin girls 6, Jonesville girls 19; Jones ville boys 31, Ronda boys 9; Yad kinville girls 19, Copeland girls 11; Boonville boys 34. Copeland boys 16. Father of 24 Children — Pictured above are Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Collins, of Boonville, the former the father of 24 children, 19 of whom are living. Mrs. Col lins is Mr. Collins’ second wife, and is the mother of 12 of his chil dren.— (Yadkin Ripple Photo.) Father of 24 Lives Quietly At Home In Boonvilie; 19 Living I. C. Collins, Age 79, Is Farmer Who Has An Even One Hun> dred Descendants Scattered in Many Sections of the Nation; Says It Is Just As Easy to Bring up a Large Family As An Ordinary One (By W. E. RUTLEDGE) 1 Mr. I. C. (Coldwell) Collins, of , Boonville, is a good farmer, a , good Quaker and the father of 24 children, and this is just a ! starter for this man of 79 sum- 1 mers who has spent all his life in ■ the Boonville section and has . reared this remarkable family with two wives. Mr. Collins is a quiet mannered , man of six feet three inches, who goes about his daily duties like a man 30 years younger than he is; ( he has a large farm and the more ( tobacco he is allowed to raise the better it suits him. He is proud of his 24 children, i 19 of whom are now living, but not Inclined to brag about it. ; When asked by the writer to i name them he threw up his hands and admitted it was too much of a task for him, and i neither could he give the address i of all as they range across the i continent to California. The i present Mrs. Collins, who was Miss Fannie Brown and married , to Mr. Collins in 1912, is a quiet, industrious little woman and to- j gether with a daughter supplied us with all the family informa- j tion needed to make a small book. Married 58 Years Mr. Collins was first married to ] Miss Lutlna Farrington in 1882 \ and to this union was born a doz- j en children. His marriage to , Miss Brown brought another doz- ; en, although one of these was ] bom dead. I “If all my children had been boys I could have had a couple 1 of baseball teams,” said Mr. Col- J lins, “with some extras in case of ] accident.” The children and their ad dresses are as follows: Mrs. Wil ma Vestal, Mrs. Lora Vestal, Mrs. Grady Reece and Mrs. Julia Wag- ] oner, of Boonville; Arthur Collins, 1 Leonard Collins, Mrs. Ina Coon ( and Mrs. Lona Barker, of Mar- ( shalltown, Iowa; Ponzo Collins, 1 of Redwood City, Calif.; Mrs, Ne- 1 vada Wood, of Winston-Salem; 1 Daniel Collins, of Clarion, Iowa; 1 Zeno Collins, of Jonesville; Mrs. Cora Lee Smith, Andrew C. Col- ' lins, Mrs. Pearl Mendenhall, John 1 &., Farris and Ray Junior Collins, ] all of Boonville. i An Even 100 ( Now we are getting down to < real descendants. It took some 1 figures to get together the num- ; jer of grandchildren and great grandchildren and' when t h e vork was completed the tails showed an even 100 (that was ;wo weeks ago) and they, too vere scattered in many sections rhere showed to be 49 grandchil Iren and 51 great-grandchildren rheir pictures filled the familj ilbum. What a Vote! Mr. Collins allowed that h( lould swing the tide when 11 same to voting and if he hac hem all in Yadkin the resulti night be different on electior lights. Mr. Collins has been £ Republican all his life, he stated ind strangely enough his chil Iren all married Republicans anc hen more Republicans. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Collins, their des pendants and the in-laws then ire 59 votes, all just alike. Thre< children are under 21, the young ;st 12. Speaking further of his un isual family, Mr. Collins think; t about as easy to bring up £ louse full as just an ordinary family and his observation show; ittle difference. He should know A Reunion? Sometimes Mr. and Mrs. Col ins speak of having a reunion ol his family of 120 persons bu1 hen it seems a problem. How *ver they may try it sometime :t would be an interesting sighl or a family of this size in a get ogether and is well worth trying Funeral Held for Miles Casstevens Funeral services were held ruesday morning at 11 o’clock at forth Oak Ridge Baptist church or Miles A. Casstevens, 82. who lied early Sunday night from implications due to advanced ige. Rev. Cleat Simmons, the >astor, was in charge, with Rev l. L. Speer assisting. Burial was n the church cemetery. Mr. Casstevens was a native ol ifadkin and had spent his life n the North Oak Ridge section ie was a well known fanner. He vas married to Miss Catherine Casstevens, who preceded him in leath several years ago. Immed ate relative is one daughter, Mi's :da Flshel, of Boonville. POINDEXTER IS FREED; THIEVES GET LONG TERM Superior Court Here Busy Grinding Out Justice NEW JUDGE PRESIDES The February term of Yadkin criminal court got under way Monday morning with Judge Wil liam H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte, presiding, and Solicitor A. E. Hall representing the state. Worth Rockett, of Union Cross, was foreman of the grand jury and A. H. Logan, of Yadkinville, was secretary. The grand jury fin ished their work Tuesday. Poindexter Freed One of the first cases disposed of was that of Charlie Frank Poindexter, young man of Union Grove, who was charged with perjury in connection with state ments made following the burn ing of his roadhouse, “Green Gables” two miles east of Boon ville last year. His trial was started Monday afternoon and continued until Tuesday noon. At that time his attorney, A. T. Grant, of Mocksville, made a mo tion to dismiss the case because of insufficient evidence. Judge Bobbitt agreed the evidence in sufficient and set young Poindex ter free of the charge. He is a son of Ex-Sheriff C. W. Poindexter, of Yadkin county. Wheat Thieves The next trial of consequence was that of thred white men charged with stealing a quantity of wheat from the barn of Arvil Vanhoy. The men are Mose and Sherman Hazelwood and Willie Stanley, all of Surry county, but who are said to have roamed over the state right much and when arrested by Sheriff Inscore and deputies were wanted in a num ber of counties on theft charges, according to the officers. They were convicted on two charges of stealing and sentenced , to serve three years in state prison on each charge, but the sentences are to run concurrent ly, makine three years each. After being placed in jail here the three tried to tear up the Yadkin jail and were tried in county court on that charge, be ing given 60 days each on the county roads which they served before this term of court. After going to the county roads they i escaped but were recaptured. Sheriff A. L. Inscore states that his information is they are bad boys and when he arrested them I they had 26 erffpty sacks in their car, which belonged to Stanley and the car was equipped with wooden blocks to hold the springs ! in place when overloaded. They also had a sawed-off shot gun in the car when arrested in Stokes , town near where the wheat was stolen. Sheriff Inscore spent some time on the case before | cracking it, making two trips to | Eastern Carolina tracing them. In the case of Henry Newman and Jesse Couch, of Elkin, and | Fred Shore, charged with break ^ ing and entering the store of B. t B. Spencer near Boonville, all de fendants pleaded guilty and were , sentenced as follows: Henry New ’ man 18 months in state prison; | Fred Shore 15 months in state prison and Jesse Couch 12 month months in state prison. Since robbing the Spencer store 1 Newman has been tried at Tay ; iorsville for breaking into a store in Alexander county and is now 1 serving a term in state prison. He was brought from Raleigh here for this trial. Ralph Grimes, charged with larceny, plead guilty and was given eight months on the roads. Maliciah Garris, breaking and entering, pleaded guilty and was given 12 months in state prison. CARD OF THANKS We want to thank the good people of our neighborhood for every service rendered during the short illness and after the death of our'dear mother, Mrs. J. H. White. We also extend thanks to those who sent the beautiful flowers and for the special music rendered at the funeral. J. H. WHITE AND FAMILY AN APOLOGY In a statement made from the stage of the Yadkinville Theatre, last week, reference was made to an article printed In a newspaper. No reflection was meant on any Local Paper, as the story was in an oat of town newspaper. J. E. SHEW, Mgr.
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