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*BABY LEFT IN T. B.
HOLYFIELD HOME
TO BE ADOPTED
+ AUTO STOPS IN FRONT OF
ROCK FORI) HOME EARLY
W' . IN MORNING AN CHILD
IS LEFT
LETTER FOLLOWS
Ask That Tiny- Tot Be I/Ovcfl and
Details Will Be Sent Later;
IN Blue Eyed Boy
A bouncing blue eyed baby boy
left Monday morning in the hall
of the T. B. Holyfield home at
Rockford. ♦will become a legali
zed member of the family as soon
as adoption papers are completed
which will make the child a legal
heir of the new parents.
S v The child was left about 4 o'-
clock Monday morning, Mr. Holy
field being awakened from his
sleep by the purr of an automo
bile in front of his home but
thought is was his son going to
work in his car and went back
to sleep. Another member of the
family heard the tiny baby cry
but thought the sound was being
made by kittens in the house and
paid no attention. Mrs. Holyfield
shortly after heard the babe cry
again and * went downstairs to
see the. child wrapped In blank
ets in the hallway. She immed
iately gave the alarm and great
; excitement prevailed in the home.
Although there was no letter
accompanying the baby, an abun
dance of clothing and food was
left with the chHd as well as
numerous toilet articles. An ef
fort was made to trace the auto
mobile but without avail but
Tuesday morning a letter was re
ceived from Winston-Salem
1 which told the Holyfields the
baby's name was "Thomas" and
hoped they would care for it and
!*love it as their own and be sure
to give it a bath at once as it
had been driven from West •Vlri
ginia. The letter which bore no
signature, stated that the Writer
hoped to explain the whole situa
tion at some future time. The let
ter said the child was born April
21.
The Holyfield's were delighted
with the new arrival and a call
was sent to County Welfare Of
ficer Lon Walker of this city
who went to the home and plac
ed the baby in the care of the
new parents pending the court
proceeding of adoption. The
Holyfield's youngest child is 19
years old and they have been
'wishing for a new baby for some
time, it is said.
FUNERALS HELD
FOR BOYS LOSING
LIVES IN MISHAI
JOB SHORE AND KLRBR
FINNEY DIE AS CAR
PLUNGER OVER BRIDGE
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning for Joe Shore
alid Elbert Finney from the
Mountain View Baptist Church
following their deaths Sunday
evening when they were pinned
in a stream a few htiles south of
Elkin and were drowned.
The accident occured on a
country road leading off Statel
Highway 26. The boys were driv-i
ing down a narrow country road
leading from the paved highway
when the touring car. which be
longed to Shore, overturned at
the aproach to a narrow bridge,
ft is said that the car dropped a
bout ten feet off the bridge to
the creek below.
Shore's neck was broken in
addition to head injuries. Finney
back was broken. Two other oc
cupants of the car, Jodie Rig'
and Charles Collins were riding
in the rear seat but both escap
ed serious injury. Riley was the
osly one of the four not pinnedj
down by the overturned car and
he ran for aid. It is said that
Collins was all but submerged in
the water when succor arrived
and was making a desprate ef
fort tq keep his nose above the,
water and could not h%ve lasted;
. a moment longer.
Shore was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Bhore of the Mar
l«r community and Finney is al
so from the same community. A
large crowd attended the funeral
, riteß.
Mrs. W. E. Bohannon ipentj
tbe week-end in .Boonville, the (
guests of her son Mr. 3. C. Bq
h&nnon.
Hanes Avers 'Road of Roses'
Will Equal Worl
Highway in the Swiss - Alps
E. C. Dinwiddis of Washington,
D. v . h««d of a nor inauranc« com
pany which will takt. only teeto
tal l«n at riaka.
DR. J. R. JESTER
TO BE SPEAKER AT
MASONIC PICNIC
NOTED WINSTON-SALEM MIN
ISTER TO DELIVER PRIN
CIPAL SPEECH JULY 4
FURTHER PLANS
Talk of Running Excursion From
Winston-Salem for Big
Event
Dr. J. R. Jester, pastor of the
First Baptist Chuch at Winston-
Salem will be the speaker at the
annual Surry Yadkin Wilkes
Masonic Picnic which will be
held here on July 4 this year in
stead of the August date that
previously prevailed, according
to an announcement made by W
S. Reich chairman of the speak
ers committee of the picnic.
Although the picnic this year
is expected to eclipse any of the
long line of former«picnlcs, full
details have not yet *)een comple
ted so that announcements may
be made. While it is probable
that the American Legion bi>nd
of v Winston-Salem will furnish
the music for the day, the ar
rangements committee is in
touch with severt other bands.
Full details of the big boxing
card to be sponsored by the
American Legion Post of this
city for the iriglit of July 4 at
the picnic grounds, should be
known by next week but boxing
fans may be assured of Beeing
some of the best fighters in the
South In action here that night
There is some talk of running
an excursion on the Southern
Railroad from Winston-SalSm
here for the picnic and the idea
strikes a great deal of favor. M.
,R. Bailey, manager of the picnic
this year, has made a call for a
meeting to be held at the Ma
sonic hall next Saturday night
at which time further details
will be made.
THIEVES MAKE HAUL
AT DELMONICO CAFE
Thieves sometime Tuesday
morning broke into the Delmon
ico Cafe on East Main Street and
stole aproxtmately $12.00 from
I the cash register, George Paultr,
manager of the cafe, reported to
.the police when he opened the
jplace Tuesday morning.
The robbers gained an entran
ce through a back window aqd
came to the cash register and o
pened it In spite of the fact that
the cash box is Just a few feet
from the front window in plafn
View of the street.
WOMAN'S CLUB REELECTS
ALL OLD OFFICERS
At the call meeting of the
Woman's Club at Hotel Elkin
Wednesday afternoon for the el
ection of officers the present of
ficers were re-elected for (he
year. They are as follows: Presi
dent, Mrs. Ruohs Pyron; Vice
president, Mrs. Eph Whisenhunt;
Secretary Mrs. Franklin HUde
brand and Treasurer, Mrs. John
.Ipock.
It was also announced at this
meeting that all of tire boys who
entered he bird box contest last
month would be entertained at a
weiner roast on next Tuesday.
The committee in charge also
urge every one who contemplates
entering the flower show to be
held this fall to get their bulbs
.now and makes preparaions for
an unusual showing of chrysanh
dahlias and boxed garden
■ flowers.
Highway Commissioner Alex
Hanes, speaking to the Kiwanis
Club here last Friday inght, pic
tured the Blkin-Roaring Gap
highway as the state's finest
scenic drive and visioned the
time when the drive from Elkin
to the top of the mountain would
be the most famous mountain
drive in the country when people
and tonrisits would come from
far distances to see it.
"The Road of Roses" will be
equal to any highway in the
world from a standpoint of beau
ty, according to the highway
head of the district who pointed
[out he got his idea of the road
,laid between the bower of flow
ers from the "Saint Gothard
Pass" in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
Mr. Hanes pointed out that this,
mountain road was reckoned to
the most beautiful In the world
and yet it will not be as beautl-|
ful as the Elkin-Roaring Gap
highway when this road is bloom
ing with the bower of verdure.
Although the convict camp has
been moved to West Jefferson,
a'force of highway employes is
putting the finishing touches on
still at work on the* mountain
the new road and the beautifica
iton. 6000 rambler roses will be
planted 0 nthe upper side of the
mountain road and next year
these will be in bloom while hon
eysuckle has been planted along
the lower side of the highway.
The committees named by the
Kiwanis Club and the Woman's
Club have already distributed the
flower seeds to persons living on
the highway between here and
Doughton and practically all of
the millions of flower seeds have
been planted and will bear by Ju
ly 1. This witf give a road of
flowers to Doughton and from
there to the top the state high
way force will take care of be
setting out of the rose bushes,
Mr. Hanes pointed out that
this road beautiflcation would be
done on all the mountain roads
later but this road would be the
first completed. He also estima
ted that the road widening pro
gram completed up the mountain
would be carried on to Sparta
and the Virginia line within th«
next eighteen months. .
ENIORS GUESTS
OF KIWANIANS
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
The members of the - Senior
Class were the guests of the El
kin Kiwanis club at the session
at the Hotql Elkin last Friday
night and heard a program put
on by the heads of the depart
ments of Davenport College of
Lenior.
Dr. W. A Jenkins, head of the
College, spoke briefly and told
the graduates to go on to
of higher learning but recom
mended that they seek the smal
ler schools where individual in
struction can be given and avoid
the bi guniversities where there
is only mass production of edu
cation and where Individual at
tention cannot possibly be 'siven.
The graduates of the universities
large in enrollment who succeed,
succeed in spite of the university
not because of It, he pointed out.
Mra. F. N. Blackwell. dean of
the fine arts department and In
structor in voice, rendered two
beautiful solos and her charm
lf»g and operatic voice won the
appeal of the listeners. Mrs. S.
C. Hebron, piano instructor at
Davenport, Rave several piano
selections and Miss Claire Ord
way instructor in ,violin render
ed several beautiful violin num
bers which were highly appreciat
ed. The seniors present were:
Richard Atkinson, Bernard Hall,
Herbert Cockerham. Fred Harris
Sam Maguire, Sam Gentry, Olv
ia Abernehty, Bessie- Lee Well
born, Maybert West. Marie Car
ter, Irene Roberts, Lncllle Math
is, Grace Triplett, Opal Wolfe.
Flora Royall. Emma Gentry .Eli
sabeth Evans and Hilda Lewis.
WIN CONTKST
Messrs Robey M. Bates and
Charlie Alexander of the Insur
ance Loan and Trust Com., of
this city won a trip to the Pan-
American Life Insurance Con
vention in Washington, D- C..
Mr. Alexander left Sunday to at
tend this convention. He is Ex
pected to return Friday.
D. A. R. PLANS TO
MARK GRAVES OF
SOLDIERS OF 1776
ASK INFORMATION OF LAST
RESTING PLACES OF EAR
LY HEROES IN VICINITY
, A BIG TASK
Although Several Hundred Fol
lowed Washington, Tombs of
But F«v Are Known
The Elkin D. A. R. Chapter
will make an effort to mark the
graves of every Revolutionary
soldier burled In this community
and the aid of every person who
knows the last resting place of
the soldiers of 1 76 Is sought.
Persons who know where the
Revolutionary fighters are bur
ied are asked to communicate
the information to the committee
in charge of marking the graves
iMrs.- Franklin Hildebrand, chair
man, Miss Mary Gwyn and Miss
Sadie Franklin.
| Although the Elkin Daughters
named their chapter in honor of
Jonathan Hunt who has nine de
scendants Ip the local chapter,
no one knows where the old
fighter lies buried although he
lived and died in this community
and the committee is especially
anxious to find sotneone who
knows authentically the location
of his grave. Daniel Hunt, a son
of Jonathan and also' an ances
tor of the nine members, himself
a soldier of the Revolution, is
buried in the cemetery at Jones
ville although there Is nothing
on the tombstone to Indicate he
served in the War for Independ
ence. Daniel Hunt was born a
bout 1757 and died In 1835 and
was a captain in Washington s
army.
Although there were at least
two hundred soldiers of the Rev
olution from this Immediate vi
cinity, their last resting places
are unknown except in a few in
stances and the D. A. R. has a
cherished hope that all the
graves of the heroes may be
found and .fittingly marked. The
descendants of Jonathan Hunt
for the chapter was nam
ed and who are affiliated with
the D. A. R. here are Mrs. R. L.
Lovelace. MIBS Sadie Franklin,
Mrs. Fred McNeely. Mrs. Joe
Bivens, Mrs. Paul Reich, Mrs.
Herbert Stevens, Mrs. Raymond
Chatham and Mrs. Alex Chatham.
Under the direction of Mm.
W, R. Wellborn, a C. A'. R. char
ter is being organized here of the
children of all the members of
D. A. K. and will be named the
Jess Franklin chapter to honor
I the memory of Surry's county's
[only United States Senator and
State governor. f
SENATE CANDIDATES
VISIT COMMUNITY
Politics are warming up more
jand more as the June 7 primary
I date nears. Last week Major
[George E. Butler of Clinton, can
jdriiate for the Republican sena
torial nomination, was in Elkin
last week and was introduced to
local people by R. L. Lovelace,
who said he was merely showing
Major Butler a courtesy in that
he himself was the Western
North aCrolina manager for tr
vin B. Tucker.
Mr. Tucker of Whiteville. also
a candidate for the G. O. P. sen
atorial honors, spoke at Wilkes
boro Monday and discussed the
political situation with his man
lager, Mr. Lovelace.
JOE DOBSON IS
DEAD AT COPEJLANDI
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at the Cope
land Church for Joe Dobson age
60 years, who died at his home
there following a week's illness
with paralysis. Mr. Dobson was
a member of one of the oiliest
families of Surry County and. a
highly respected citizen.
Surviving are his widow and
eleven childre».
v .> NEW DRUGGIST
Mr. M. B. Tutlte of Smithfield
N. C. has aacepted a position
with the Choate and Browne
Pharmacy here, Mr. Tuttle suc
ceeds Mr. W. R. I Wilkins, who
has returned to his home at
North Wilkesboro. Mr. Tuttle is
a nephew of Rev. Tuttle former- ]
ly of this city.
Miss Gwyn of Rcnda
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. H. T. Brown at their
home on Gwyn Avenue. '
34 Year-old Mother of 2
Schoolchildren Graduates
at Jonesville High School
A! Sden/isi
M 'yit . £
Dr. Albert A. Michelcon of Chi;
cago University, world-famous phy
sicist, who turns out to b« a musical
composer as well..
TO COMB WOODS
IN EFFORT TO FIND
WILLIAM'S BODY
OFFICIALS BELIEVE THERE
IS NO CHANCE OF AGED
MAN BEING FOUND
ALIVE
Cointy Welfare Officer Lon
Walker and the citizenß of the
Mountain Park community are
making a concerted effort today
beating through all the forest
and tapping all the mill streams
and water holes for miles around
in an effort to find Cicero Wil
liams, past 80 years old, who
has been missing from his home
near Mountain Park since a
week ago Saturday.
Although much of the country
thereabouts has been combed
and although his relatives have
been notified not a word has
been heard of any person who
has seen the aged man since his
disappearance. Persons in auth
ority are fearful that they will
find the body of the old man in
a badly decomposed state some
where in the tangled thicknesn
of the forests of the mountain
foothills.
It was first thought that he
might have gone to visit relatives
at Winston-Salem but Welfare
Officer Walker got in touch with
them and they had heard noth
ing from him nor seen him. It is
pointed out that he was too
feeble to walk far and hence
must not be far from his old
home near Mountain Park but
no one believes he is alive.
William's imlnd has been un
balanced since the death of his
sister, Mrs. Rebecca Walls, with
whom he had lived. He was last
seen by the family of J. C. Child
ress, with whom he had spent
Saturday night. He arose early
the next morning and was told
to go badk to bed and they would
get up and get his breakfast.
When they arose however Mr.
Williams was gone and his belt
was found near an old well but
his body has never been discov
ered.
LOVELACE INVITES
HOOVER AGAIN
s President Hoover is expected
to set a date for his Elkin fish
ing visit within the next few
days or reject the invitation of
Justice of the Peace R. L. Love
lace as the former federal sleuth
wrote to the president again last
Saturday reminding him of hiß
promise to spend a tew days this
summer fishing In the Blue
Ridge streams for trout.
Mr. Lovelace says when he
made his visit to the White
House he told the president oi'
splendid fishing waters around
Elkin and the president told him
be would lijie nothing better, at
the same time, telling his secre
tary to make a note of the fish
ing trip and bis schedule could
be arranged to card the Elkin
date for him. To date Mr. Love
lace has not heard from the
White House and he has written
the nation's chief again remind
ing him of the fishing offer.
B. Y. P. U. TO HOLD
DEMONSTRATION MKKT
The B. Y. R. U., oT the First
Baptist Church will hold a dem
onrtration meeting at the Friend-1
ship church on the Dobson Road I
P«3'*ar at C:3O. '«
One of the features of -the
Jonesville school finals last Sat
urday was the graduation of
Mrs. Carola Baker who received
her high school diploma even
though she was the mother of
two children now attending the
grades at Jonesville. Mrs. Baker
>qult school years ago withou
geting the sheepskin and lately
was fired with the ambition to
finish her school work and
teach. She is 34 years old and
finished the seventh grade when
she was married.
Besides carrying an extra
heavy course at Jonesville, Mrs.
Baker carried on her household
duties without the aid of a ser
vant. Her husband is regularly
|'°mployed at the Chatham plant.
Mrs. Baker plans to enter the
Applachian Training School at
Boone this summer and teach as
soon as a license is obtained.
Another feature of the gradu
ation was the fact that Thomp
son Greenwood. who was the
r 'hird generation to be graduated
iunder Prof. 2. H. Dixon, complet
ed eleven years of school train
ing, nine of which he had pei*-
! feet attendance records, neVer
being absont or tardy. Still an
other aature of the commence
ment was the fact that another
of the nine graduates, Miss Fan
i nie Nicholson completed her e
s leven years of school going to
) the classes each day on crutches
' besides taking care of the house
hold duties.
MAY 31 WILL BE
POPPY DAY ON
ELKIN STREETS
RED FLOWERS TO BE SOLD
BL LEGION TO AID DIS
ABLED WAR VET
ERANS
May 31 will be Poppy Day this
year and the flowers will be
sold 011 the streets and to the
homes of Elkin under the aus
pices of the George Gray Post of
the American Legion. Comman
der Oeorge Royall, of the local
Legion post has ordered 750 of
the flowers to be sold that day
and a sell-ont is anticipated.
1 While the George Gray Post was
' inactive the North Wilkesboro
Host sold popples here but with
the revival ■of the post here. El
kiri war veterans and their wives
and relatives will supervise the
sale. '
Not a cent Is made from the 1
poppy sales by the war veterans
but every penny above actual
cost goes to the various govern
ment hospitals in the country
and is given to the disabled war
veterans to give them money for
candy, smokes and the small com
forts of life they are able to get.j
HONEYMOON FOR
CLAUDE FRYE IS
ABRUPTLY BROKEN
IS ARRESTED ON BAD'CHECK
CHARGE JI HT AFTER BE
ING MARRIED
There was no honeymoon for
Claude F. Frye, who lives near
Glkin, Monday night for Just as
he and his bride of a day w'ere
preparing to retire for the night
Chief of Police and Officer Wiley
Lewis, knocked at the door and
arrested Frye, on a warrant
from • Winston-Salem charging
him with passing a worthless
check in the sum of 1300.00 to
a Winston-Salem firm for a Chev
rolet automobile in which to
make his honeymoon. /
The bride was horrified at the
arrest and wept bitterly and
jasked to accompany her husband
to the jail but this was denied.
Winston-Salem officers arrived
at two o'clock in the morning
and took the newlywed to the
Twin Cities wsre he "wil! fac6 the
charge. His bride was formerly
Miss Fannie Shores. The couple
were married at North Wilkes
boro
Dr. and Mrs. R. R, Garvey and
family of Winston-Salem were t
the guests of friends in Blkin
Sunday. 'i
DUKE OFFICIAL
GIVES HOSPITAL
OFFICIAL OKEY
I. ■ ■
DR. RANKIN MAKES INSPEC
TION OF SITE TUESDAY
AND APPROVES PLANS
MONEY IS READY
Hope to Have Contract Let aatf
Work Begun by July 1 and
Finished in Fall
The firs* grouud will be brok
en for the Hugh Chatham Mem
orial Hospital in Elkin t
July 1 and work will be fv'.*
then to rush the new edlfi t t.t>
completion by the time the "t'c
ern Norh Carolina MetJk_ll.J
Conference meets in the fall.
Dr. W. S. Kankin, of Charlotte?
head of the Duke Foundation
Hospitalization Committee, made
made an offical inspiectlon of the
a visit to Elkin Tuesday and
site and gave the whole lavout
his official approval and instru
cted Rev. L. B. Abernethy, fath
er of the hospital movement, to
make his applicaion for the 50%
of the Duke gift and he would*
okey it and have it farwarded to
Elkin at once. The Initial Duke
gift ifc $24,000 and is contingent
upon that Foundation aprovingr
both the site and the plans of the
archlect, - Harold Macklin, of
Winston-Sarem,. has sent him the
plans for the building in parts
and that he had approved them
but demanded a complete set of .
specifications.
It is expected (that these will
be ready within the next ten
days or two weeks and len days
will be given the contractors to
submit bids. Dr. Rankin, wheiv
here Tuesday spoke in the high
'est praise of tha proposed site of
the hospital which is located
within the town limits in the
pineclad slopes just off State
Highway '26. The town has a«
greed to build an improved road)
to the hospital buildings.
ELKIN SCHOOL
FINALS BEGIN
NEXT SUNDAY
REV. HAVES TO PREACH
| C A LAUREATE SERMON
MAY 25
The commencement exercises
of the Elkin High School will be
gin on Sunday evening, May 25V
with the Baccalaureate Sermon*
by Rev. J. M. Hayes of Lexing
ton and will continue through;
Friday evening.
The folowing is the complete
commencement, program:
Sunday, May 25, at 8:00 p. m.,
Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev J.
M. Hayes, Lexington, N. C. Mr.
Hayes is a former pastor.
Special music of choruses.
Wednesday, May 28, at 8:00 p:
m., an operetta. "Aunt Drusilla's
iGarden," by the children of the
Grammar grades. Cast of over
isixty characters.
Thursday, May 29, at 8:00 p.
m.. Senior Class presents its
>lass day exercises, "The Set of
the Sail."
Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock
Field Day Exercises. Ratces,
broad and high Jumps, vaulting
etc.
Friday evening May 30, at 8:Oft
Graduation exercises. Presenta
tion of awards, seventh grade di
plomas. reading of honor list
Baccalaureate Address by Prof. I.
G. Greer, of Appalachian Train
ing School, Boone, North Car
olina.
Presentation of Diplomas: to
High School Graduates.
TO PUT NAMES IN
HOSPITAL STONE
r -* .•$ * ___________
The names of the persons la
Elkin who joined the Golden
Cross will be placed in the cor
nerstone of the Hugh Chatham
memorial Hospital, according to
Mrs. George Royall, chairman of
the committee On w*e Goidea
Cross campaign. A total, or
$312.00 has already been turned,
in duri&g the drire in Elkin.
PROF. DIXON SPEATJS
LENOIR ICIWANIA »S
Prof. Z. H. Dixon, of this (, T.
was speaker at the regular
meeting of the Lenoir Kiwaafer
Ulub at Lenoir Tuesday night of
this week, addressing Ihe Lenoir
Kiwanians on Vocational Guld
»ace. : j