North Carolina Newspapers

OCAIA Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Bailey spent the Week-fend at Shatley Springs. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Freeman left Friday for a ten-days vacation trip to Virginia Beach. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Crater, of Greensboro, spent a short time here Monday visiting relatives. C. N. Bodenheimer and J. A. Gough spent Monday in Greensboro, attending to business matters. Miss Margaret Pritchard, of Chap el Hill arrived Monday to spend ten days here the guest of Mrs. Charles Ashby, at her home on Bridge street. Margaret Greenwood spent Monday in Winston-Salem, the guest of her mother, Mrs. Walter C. Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Loffoon left Wednesdaf for Banner Elk to attend the annual meeting of the North Carolina Press Association. Mrs. R. A. Siceloff and little daughter, of High Point, were the guests last week of Mrs. Marion Al len, at her home on Church street. Miss Sue Kiger, of Lewisville, is the guest this week of her sister, Mrs. Eugene Nelson, at her home here. Mrs. John Gilliam is spending this week in Winston-Salem, the guess of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Gilliam, the former her son. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Cockerham p. moved last week from the Totten home on West Main street to the Willard home on Gwyn Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Fulp, of Haz ard, Ky., are the guests of the form er's brother, C. C. Fulp and Mrs. Fulp. at their home on Elk Spur street. Mrs. Dewey Roscoe, of Chapel Hill, arrived Monday to spend some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Masten at their home on Elk Spur street. Mrs. Robert L. Price, of Winston- Salem, spent the week-end here the guest of her mother, Mrs. R. L. Poindexter, at her home on West Main street. Mrs. C. N. Myers left Thursday of last week for Athens, Georgia, where she will spend several days the guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert M. Middleton. Mr. and Mrs. James Lillard and little son, Jimmy, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Price spent the week-end at Creston, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lillard. Mrs. A. T. Banks returned to her home in Kernersville Monday after spending several days here the guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Salmons, the latter her sister, at their home on Church street. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Allen and children, Mary Elizabeth and Cyn thia and the former's uncle, S. G. Allen of Hamptonville, spent Sunday at New London, the guests of Dr. J. A. Allen. Misses Janie and Catherine Hall left Thursday for Washington, D. C. where they will spend a week the guest of Miss Anna Atkinson. They will also visit their brother, Ber nard Hall. John Reich returned to Washing ton, D. C., Monday after a visit of several days to Mrs. Reich, who is spending the summer with her aur.t, Mrs. E. F. McNeer, at her home on Church street. Mrs. E. D. Vaughn and Mrs. Charles Vance and daughter, Lula Hall, of Winston-Salem, are the guests of Mrs. Hardin Graham, at her home on Terrace Avenue. Mr. Vance came up for the week-end. Mis. T. R. Parlier returned to her home in Charlotte Sunday after a visit of several days to her sister and brother, Mrs. Beatrice Myers Phillips and C. N. Myers, at their homes here. Mr. and Mrs. Gwyn Poindexter and little son, Tommy, of Durham, are spending two weeks here the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Van Poindexter, at their home on Gwyn Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Barbour re turned Sunday from Coates, N. C., where they were called on account or the serious illness and death of Mr. Barbour's grandfather, B. W Barbour. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Walls, of * Pr *f® eton> w - Va., spent the week end here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. k" Stewart. They were accom panied home by Mrs. Stewart, who will spend several days with them. Miss Clara Bell will leave today for Lake Junaluska, where she will spend the remainder of the summer. She will be accompanied by her lit tle niece, Peggy Royall, who will spend a week with her. Mrs. J. N. Freeman, of Washing ton, D. C., and her sister, Mrs. Jack Dobbins, of Canton, arrived last week to visit friends here. Mrs. Dobbins returned to Canton Sun day, while Mrs. Freeman remained for a longer visit. Mrs. R. B. Boren, Jr., and child ren, Margaret Wiley and Dicky, of Greensboro, are the guests of her father, W. S. Reich, at his home on Vine street. Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Harrell left the early part of the week for a vaca tion trip to Virginia Beach. They were accompanied by Mrs. Harrell's sister, Mrs. Sam Davis, of High Point. LaFayette Marsh, of Chicago, who was stricken with an attack of ap pendicitis about two weeks ago at the home of Dr. W. R. Wellborn, where he was a guest, returned Fri day from Davis Hospital, Statesville, where he underwent an operation. James Gilliam and Miss Vera Har liss, of Lenoir, and Clint Gilliam and Miss Blanche Louise Cannon, of Hertford, spent the week-end here the guests of Messrs. Gilliam's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gilliam, at their home on Surry Avenue. Grady Burgiss returned Saturday from a visit of three weeks to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cooper, the latter his cousin, at their home at Wind sor's Cross Roads. He was accomp anied home by Mr. and Mrs. Cooper and little daughter, Elizabeth, who spent the day here. Mrs. T. G. Trivette returned to her home in Winston-Salem Sunday af ter spending six weeks here at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. R. G. Franklin, who is seriously ill. Friends of Mrs. Franklin will be glad to know that her condition shows slight improvement. Mrs. J. B. Long, of Clayton re turned to her home Sunday after a visit to her mother, Mrs. W. E. Bo hannon, at her home on Elk Spur street. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Bohannon and Mrs. Carl Young and little daughter, Patty Rue, who will spend two weeks with her. Mr. and Mrs. Errol Hayes spent the week-end in Mount Pleasant the guests of Mrs. Hayes' sister, Mrs. Hoy Moose and Mr. Moose. They were accompanied home by their little daughter Eleanor, who has been visiting Mrs. Moose and little Miss Rcbccca Wearin in Charlotte for the past three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ashby and children, Letitia and Buddy, of Mt. Airy, were the Sunday guests of Mr, and Mrs. H. B. Holcomb at their home on West Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb had as their guests Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stough and daughters. Misses Jean and Frances of Cornelius and Mrs. Holcomb's brother, W. H. Ashby, of Ashland, Kentucky. Among those from the Methodist church in this city who will leave Monday to attend a council of th® Epworth League at Lake Junaluska are: Misses Jane Wilson, Sarah Lil lard, Emmalene Neaves, Sarah At kinson, Nancy Click, Margaret Aber nethy, Thorburn Lillard and Eliza beth Shores. Charles Dunnagan and Sam Neaves. They expect to return Saturday of next week. A. V. Foote, who has been spend ing some time here with Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Wellborn, at their home on Bridge street, left Wednesday for his home in Chicago. He was ac companied by his daughter, Mrs. Roy Smith, of Benson, his niece, Mrs. J. Ralph Reece, of Albany, Georgia, and Miss Bessie Dean, of Oxford, who will spend three weeks in Chi cago. Miss Frances Chatham has had as her guests at Klondike Lodge dur ing the past week her brother, Charles Gwyn Chatham, Misses Gil nore Long and Frances Luckett, all of Louisville. Ky., Miss Madeline Lee, George Lee and Robert Sale of Pittsburg, Pa. On Tuesday Miss Chatham and guests were enter tained at luncheon by Mrs. Ralph Hanes at Roaring Gap and Wed nesday they were the guests of Mrs. Alex Hanes, also at Roaring Gap, and on Thursday they were the guests of Mrs. M. E. Motsinger of Winston-Salem. The members of the house party left Sunday for their respective homes. S. P. U. To Stage Demonstrations Home makers of Elkin, Boonville and Yadkinville are invited by the Southern Public Utilities company to attend demonstrations of the Hotpoint electric ranges on July 17, 18 and 19 at Elkin, Boonville and Yadkinville respectively. Miss Addie Malone, who is well known here, will be in charge. The demonstrations are being held in connection with the electric range campaign now under way, and are for the purpose of demonstrating to housewives the convenience and la bor-saving qualities of electrical cookery. The demonstration to be staged here will be at Hotel Elkin at 2:30 o'clock. Demonstrations in Boon ville and Yadkinville will be held in the respective high school buildings of the two towns, also at 2:30 o'clock. 27 TEACHERS ARE ALLOTTED SCHOOLS Miss Norma Cawthon Elected Additional Ist Grade Teacher Twenty-seven teachers have been allotted to the three schools in the Elkin public school district, seven at North Elkin, nineteen at Elkin, and one colored teacher. The at tendance last year gave the district an additional first grade teacher. Norma Noel Cawthon has been elected to this position. She was educated in Union and Washington universities and has had a wide ex perience as a primary teacher in the St. Louis County School of Missouri. Last year she conducted a kinder garten class in Elkin with success. The election of Miss Cawthon com pletes the teaching personnel of the district. The board at its last meeting ap proved Mrs. C. O. Ashby and Miss Carolyn Lillard as substitute teach ers for next year. Mrs. Ashby is a graduate of Salem college and Miss Lillard of Queens-Chicora. Washington, July 10.—A piece of news which the cables carried the other day is causing more mental perturbation in Administration cir cles than even the unpaid war debts. That is the statement officially made that in Great Britain unem ployment has been reduced to the point where it was five years ago. Recovery, according to the cables, began in Europe early in 1932 and has continued without serious inter ruption since. Whether it had not already started in America at the same time, and whether it might not have progressed as rapidly here as there if there had been no experi mental efforts to stimulate it, is what is worrying some of the Presi dent's advisers. Not that they admit there is any thing to the idea, but they are ter ribly afraid that the Republicans will pick up the theory that the New Deal has hampered, instead of stim ulated, economic recovery, and ad duce so many facts in support of it as to make a convincing cam paign argument out of it. And no body in Washington forgets lor a minute that this is campaign year. "Outs" Must Have Issue" In all fairness, it ought to be made clear that unless the Repub licans do find some definite, posi tive issue between now and the be ginning of the Congressional cam paigns in September, they haven't any chance at all of capturing the lower house of Congress or the Senate. Their chance of an opposi tion majority is slight, at best; but if the only campaign arguments they are able to put forward are the stale pleas of the "outs" to be put back "in", based upon nothing constructive but merely upon dislike of the New Deal program, then they will capture mighty few seats in ei ther house. It would not be a novelty if they did even gain control of Congress. That has happened more than once in our political history—but never when there was as good a politician and popular personality as Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. In 1890, for example, the greatest opposition landslide in our history occurred. Benjamin Harrison had been elected President in 1888, with a strong working majority in both houses of Congress behind him. Bu£ in 1890 the combined Democrats and Populists captured 85 Republi can seats in the House of Repre-* sentatives. In Tait and Wilson Reigns In 1910 President Taft had a Re publican Congress, elected with him in 1908, turn sour on his hands and go Democratic. In Woodrow Wil son's second term, the Congress elected in 1918 was dominated by the Republican opposition. But in these and all the other instances of a oiid-term upset in the complexion of Congress there was a definite is sue before the people upon which they were thoroughly aroused. No such issue has as yet shaped itself. So while the President's friends con ceded that they will probably lose some seats, they are not greatly scared of losing control of Congress. They have a feeling which many old political observers with Repub lican leanings share, that there is not, at the present moment, enough political acumen and smart leader ship in the Republican party to do much damage. There is, however, a good deal of money on the Republican side. Cam paign funds sri going to count heavily this year in most districts. Here again, the feeling in Washing ton is that the distribution of im mense sums of Government money, in various forms of welfare activity, such as the PWA, CWA, CCC, FERA and the farm benefits and bonuses j will go a long way to make voters j friendly to the Administration, and presumably to the Democratic par ty. Congress Faces the Voters Doubtless all the beneficiaries of Federal spending are grateful to Mr. Roosevelt —but Mr. Roosevelt is not running for re-election this year. It is Congress that has to face the voters, and mingled with the feeling that Congress has been nothing more than a rubber stamp which, the president used to make his personal actions legal and Con stitutional, is a good deal of dis satisfaction in many agricultural sections over the way some of the recovery projects have worked out. Farm prices in general have gone up, but prices of goods the farmers have to buy have gone up farther and faster. The NRA has done a better Job in its field than has the AAA. That has caused a lot of disgruntlement. Nobody yet knows how far and how deep that kind of dissatisfaction extends. Busy Political Summer The drought has offset much if not most of the gains for the farm ers as a whole—the most severe drought in all history, authorities say. Probably nobody seriously will blame the drought on the Gov ernment, but -it has beyond doubt created an undercurrent of discon tent which may express itself at the polls, in the states affected. And if it should result in a definite food shortage elsewhere, which seems not at all improbable, it may affect voters all over the country. Then there is the great block of inflationist voters, lineal descendants of the Populists of 1890 who wrecked the Harrison administra tion and all but wrecked the Re publican party. Some of these are sure to ask embarrassing questions of their Representatives as to why they let "Wall Street" stand in the way of monetary inflation, by either the silver or the greenback route, when they had the power in their hands. Swan Creek News Due to the refreshing showers re cently, the crops are much im proved in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Swaim and children spent Sunday in Elkin the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Myers. Several people from this commun- Miracle Whip Salad Dressing?™ 1 S WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SHIP- LIPTON'S TEA MENT OF GELFAND'S MAYONNAISE— For Iced _ 8 OZ. JAR 14 c »/4 lb. pKG. e 2l c PINT JAR - 23 c LB. PKG. 39? WHEATIES 2 PKGS. 25 c | CORN FLAKES 2 PKGS. 15 c TRY SOME OF THESE FRUIT JUICES-THEY ARE VERY . REFRESHING . DOLES' DELMONTE DELMONTE PINEAPPLE TOMATO GRAPEFRUIT JUICE _ JUICE JUICE NO. 2 CAN 15 c NO. 2 CAN -12** NO 2 CAN 15 c MACKEREL, 3 TALL CANS 25 c GRAPE JUICE QT. 35 c HEALTH CLUB SALMON-CHUM CAN 10 c BAKING POWDER - 12 oz - 9 C Peaches ancy California. _2 CANS 33c CHUCK ROAST BEEF LB. 15 c LETTUCE HEAD 10 c VEAL CHOPS LB. 15 c BANANAS — 4 LBS. 25f PURE PORK SAUSAGE —2 ,b - 35 c LEMONS-FANCY - DOZ. 33 c MIX SAUSAGE 2 LBS. 25 c ORANGES—CALIF DOZ. 30 No. I—ELKIN No. 2—JONESVILLE BASKETERIA, Inc. Joe Bivins Foley Norman * «► ity attended the baseball games at Elkta on the Fourth of July. The many friends of Miss DeEtte Swaim will regret to know that she underwent an operation for appen dicitis at Davis Hospital in States ville Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Swaim, of High Point, spent a few days here last week the guests of relatives and friends. Mrs. H. C. Cook and grand daughter, Esther Shores, spent Sat urday and Sunday the guests of the former's daughter, Mrs. Claude Sale, near Union. Mrs. Arthur Swaim, of Danville, Va., spent the latter part of last week here with her mother, Mrs. Carrie Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Osborne and children, of Elkin, spent Sunday here with Mrs. Osborne's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swaim. The choir is practicing for the singing which will be held at Bethel church the fifth Sunday in July. We regret to note that S. H. Har ris is critically ill at this writing. Miss Anna Lee Swaim, of Ronda, was the guest Monday of her cousin, Miss Pansy Bell, at her home here. HOSPITAL NEWS | The following patients have been admitted to Hugh Chatham Memo rial hospital during the past week: Mrs. Martha Steele, Elkin; Mrs. Mamie Sutphin, Mt. Airy; A. E. Burns, Granite Falls; Adeline Ves tal, Boonville; Ralph Evans, Elkin; Mrs. R. L. Hubbard, Elkin; David Masten, Jr., Elkin; Ralph Right, Boonville; Mrs. Verlie Ham, Lan sing; Mrs. Minnie Burrow, Elkin Route 1; Fred Oliver, Cycle; Dallas Bauguss, State Road; Oscar Steel man, Boonville; Norma Reece, Ar lington; Paul B. Payne, Qalax, Va.; Mrs. Vertie Mathis, Ronda and Mrs. C. G. Kirkman, Dobson. Patients discharged were; Mrs. Vina Scott, Benham; Mrs. Gussie Hopkins, Concord; Mrs. Archie Gambill, Slab Fork, W. Va.; Mrs. Edwin Harris, Elkin; Sherman Delp, Galax, Va.; R. C. Felts, Elkin; Louise Walls, Elkin; Howard Bau guss, Elkin; Irene Miles, Elkin; Es sie Lee Collins, Elkin; Thomas Mc- Bride, Jr., Elkin; Ralph Evans, Elk in; Mrs. C. G. Kirkman, Dobson; Paul B. Payne, Galax, Va., and Nor ma Reece, Arlington. The FAMILY DOCTOR (By John Joseph Oatnea, M. D.) LENSES FOB THE EYES All of us read accounts of hold-ups and robberies of various kinds; they are such common occurrences. But when I learn of some villain exploit ing the sick and unfortunate—fleec ing them—then my blood boils! I shall talk about "spectacles" in this letter. When I bought my first rsading glafses. I went to a refractionist to ing them —then my blood boils! I have a pair fitted. My eyes were not diseased —I knew that; they were rather tired from over-use. The man "fitted me out." I asked for my bill. He drew near me, and said: "Now doctor, those LENSES are a special kind; were I to charge you less than $lO for the pair, they would take the agency away from me; but the FRAME, I can make you at fifty off." He HAD to charge me $lO for a pair of lenses that cost the maker not over $1.30. As this transaction was over twenty-five years ago, we can but faintly imagine the toll of the fleecers, taken from consumers, who often broke a 65-cent piece of glass, and paid $5 for a new one to fill its place. One of the greatest brace games on earth, is the traffic in lenses for the eye. People can not do without them, hence a mono poly of any kind, in glasses, is a walk-over. I have seen the "train-butcher" on a passenger coach—selling spectacles to such people as he could interest; if he got $1.50 for his wares, he made a profit of 250 per cent. I must not forget to tell you—l broke one of my $5 lenses very soon after I began to wear them. A jew eler friend who knew things, said he'd get me a duplicate lens for 65 cents —and he did it! It dawned on me that a manu facturer or patentee can, in this country, compel a retailer to charge the consumer an exhorbitant price and fleece him for all that can be wrung from him. It's plain villainy. Japan's new factory law pro hibits employment of women and children between 11 p. m. and 5 a.