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News of Past Year
Presented In Brief

FIRST INSTALLMENT
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No Sensational News Occur
red Locally During the
Past Year (v '•» '
DEATH INFJJCTS LOSS
Local and more na
tional news of the past year as
taken in brief condensed form
from headlines appearing the
53 issues of The Tribune Wj&lch
were published in 1936, is present-"
ed here for the benefit of those
who desire to glance over the past
year.
Due to the length of the news
summary, it is being published in
two installments covering six"
months each. The second and
concluding installment will be
printed next week.
The year 1936 saw no sensation
al news events transpire locally,
but it brought a story of joy and
happiness to some and sorrow
and tragedy to others. During the
year Elkin was saddened, by, the
passing of a number Qf its prom
inent citizens. Financially, the
year saw a slow but sure lifting
of depression and a promise of
dawning prosperity.
JANUARY 2 ISSUE
Oak Furniture Co., of North
Wilkesboro, buys Biltrite' prop
erty here.
Mercury tumbles to two
below zero with snow Riding to
give Elkin real taste of wjpter.
JANUARY 9 ISSUE
AAA is killed by U. 3. Supreme
Court.
Postal receipts here highest
since year 1927, showing 17 per
cent gain. ,
JANUARY 16 ISSUE
Work going ahead op sceni?
highway, with plans being made
for letting of fifth N. C. link.
Actual construction gets under
way on new high school building
here.
JANUARY 23 ISSUE
Surry officers seek Caleb Wag
oner for shooting of Siloam man.
• Dr. C. L. Haywood, Jr., is ap
proved for fellowship in Ameri
can College of Surgeons.
Funeral for King George is
planned.
JANUARY 30 ISSUE
Surry veterans will receive
$437,874.00 as share of bonus.
John Franklin Cooke, age 80,
3les after long illness; was pion
eer citizen.
.Caleb Wagoner is arrested for
murder of Tom Marion, Siloam
man.
FEBRUARY 6 ISSUE
.Town commissioners discuss
rlans for fire truck and building
here.
Three hundred farmers meet
at Dobson in soil conservation
meeting.
FEBRUARY 13 ISSUE
Final tabulation of AAA benefits
show Surry fanners receive total
of $200,612.05 in 1935.
James Bolin, Yadkin county
man, ends life.
FEBRUARY 20 ISSUE
Seven murder cases on Surry
superior court docket as court
convenes. . '
Elkin-Jonesville Building, Se
Loan association reports fine
year.
FEBRUARY 27 ISSUE
Lon Folger chosen to direct !
Sandy Graham's campaign for
governor.
Chatham Blanketeers winners
in Southern Textile basketball
tournament.
MARCH 5 ISSUE
Charles E. Stuart passes away
here after brief illness.
John D. Thompson, Surry coun- 1
ty sheriff, is charged with con
tempt of Forsyth court.
MARCH 12 ISSUE
Forsyth official fines Surry i
county sheriff SIOO for contempt
of court.
Martha Ruby Mathis, formerly
of Jonesville, ends life by drown
ing.
MARCH 19 ISBUE
Elkin merchants plan two big
bargain days, with fine program
to be arranged. 1
Snow storm does no damage
here.
Klondike Iceberg. famous
Guernsey calf, to meet Admiral
Byrd.
MARCH 25 ISSUE
Surry Republicans endorse Gil
liam Griasom for governor.
Poindexter home is wrecked by
fire.
Body of W. S. Lane, Surry
county farmer, is found in wood.
APRIL 2 ISSUE
Hauptmann execution is post
poned 48 hours at request of
grand jury. I
Thousands attended Elkin Bar
gain Days, staged here by local
merchants.
Lindbergh baby
Tornado kills more than dom
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Finds Mother i v >
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; (above). Alien actor, was placed in
a foundling honife in England when
3 years old. ? He arrived in Canada
at 7 and first went oil the stage
at 15. Now. aftefr a £ll year search,
! he has found hit mother in Eng
land where he iis buying a home
for her.
people, injures many; in Greens
boro.
APRIL 16 ISSUE
Edwin Morrison passes away
as result Of injuries received in
automobile accident.
Elkin Motors, Inc., to occupy
new site on South Bridge street.
Dr. T. H. Higgins, well-known
Traphill physician/ passes away.
APRIL, 23 ISSUE
J. C. Pinnix, prominent Yadkin
county man and educator, is
taken by death. J ; !il - :
Farmers demand special ses
sion of legislature to consider
control of 1930 tobalcco crop.
APRTL 30 ISSUE '
P-W Chevrolet company occu
pies former Ford agehcy build
ing.
Dr. Ralph McDonald, candidate
for governor, cites unfairness of
sales tax in speech at Mount
Airy.
MAY 7 ISSUE
School finals begin here: Jones
ville finals start.
Town board awaits return of
mayor for truck action. Levies
25-cent sewer charge effective
July 1.
Meteor causes excitement here.
Lights up night sky brighter than
day.
MAY 14 ISSUE
Fred A. Kirkman seeks state
senate seat from Surry and Stokes
counties.
Elkin Kiwanis club is host to
high school seniors.
William H. Newman passes at
home in West Elkin.
MAY 21 ISSUE
Yadkin Auto Sales, new auto
mobile firm, is organized here.
Graham-for-Governor club or
ganized locally at meeting at Ho
tel Elkin.
"Joe Gish," cartoon feature,
makes first bow in Tribune.
MAY 28 ISSUE
Annual campaign of Golden
Cross gets Under way.
Crawford urges farmers to sign
under new farm plan.
Young Republicans form organ
ization in Surry county.
JUNE 4 ISSUE
Modern new fire truck is pur
chased by Elkin board of com
missioners.
Candidates for nomination for
governor in Democratic primary
all "confident" as voting day
nears.
JUNE 11 ISSUE
Complete returns give Hoey
small lead over McDonald in pri
mary.
Dr. John T. Burms, of High
Point, passes as result of heart
ailment.
Arrival of soldiers' bonds ex
pected here June 16.
JUNE 18 ISSUE
A D. (Lon) Folger is elected
Democratic national committee
man from North Carolina.
Tribune installs new and more
modern press, increasing page
size from six columns to seven
columns.
Heavy rainfall breaks drought
in this section. '
JUNE 25 ISSUE
Postal savings in Elkin show
S4OO decrease.
■ Lemke will head new party in
effort to "save country."
Gymnasium here is said assur
ed; building committee named to
push project.
(Concluded Next Week)
MANY ROADS IMPASSABLE
Raleigh, Jan. S.—Weather bu
reau and highway and public
works commission officials to
night forecast flooded rivers for
eastern North Carolina with im
passable untreated roads in the
section for the early *part of the
week.
In at least one portion of pied
mont North' Carolina also, the
Wilkesboro area, there were re
ports of dirt roads made impassa
ble after a "week of rain."
Ho, hum! One touch of a bliz
zard makes the whole world shlv-
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Elkiit Saddened
Over Passing Of
Dr W. D. Turner
(Continued from front page)
Burlington, and two grandsons,
survive. Two sisters, Mrs. Addle
McCollum, and Miss Bettie Turn
er, Reidsville, and two brothers,
R. B. Turner, of Elon College, and
J. C. Turner, of Danville, Va., also
sunftve. . .
A brief private funeral service
was held at the home on Circle
Coui-t Monday morning at 10:30
and the funeral proper was held
at 11 o'clock from the Methodist
church. The rites were in charge
of Rev. Wm A. Jenkins, pastor,
assisted by Rev. E. W. Pox, of
Kings Mountain, a former pastor.
In a brief talk Rev. Mr. Pox paid
high tribute to the life of Dr.
Turner.
Interment was in the family
plot in Hollywood cemetery under
a blanket of flowers which si
lently testified to the love and es
teem in Which the deceased was
held. Messages of condolence
from throughout the state, which
have been received by the family,
further testified to the popular
ity of Dr. Turner.
Active pallbearers were: Dr. E.
G. Click. Paul Gwyn, W. W. Whit
aker, Garlarid Johnson, R. J.
Barker, J. P. Moseley, E. C. James
and Joe Bivins. Honorary pall
be&rers were: Van W. Dillon,
Glenn Bailey, George Royall, Dr.
J. G. Abernethy, Henry Dillon,
Raymond Vestal, Woodrow Wind
sor, Edwin Royall, Hunter Ma
guire, Dr. C. L. Haywood, Jr., Dr.
Seth Beale, Dr. Kenneth Costich,
Dr. H. C. Salmons, Dr. W. R.
Wellborn, Dr. I. S. Gambill, Dr.
T. R. White, Dr. R. B. Harrell,
Dr. L. C. Couch, Dr. Hugh Parks,
Dr. M. A. Royall, P. M. Norman,
E. S. Spainhour, J. D. Jones, Dr.
C. E. Nicks, Marion Allen, C. C.
Poindexter, J. R. Poindexter, Ma
son Lillard, S. G. Holcomb, E. P.
McNeer and Jones Holcomb.
As a tribute of respect to the
passing of Dr. Turner all business
houses were closed from 10:30 un
til twelve o'clock.
Annual Report of
Farm Agent Made
(Continued from front page)
3,500 farmers were furnished with
soil conservation information.
Nine 4-H clubs were organized
with a membership of 91, while 61
corn projects, 55 swine projects
and two dairy and four poultry
projects were undertaken by
members of the new clubs.
In the field of agricultural en
gineering the report! shows that a
total of 1,105 acres of land in
Surry county were terraced, and
1'59 acres were sub-soiled on 128
farms, which showed a saving of
$25,280 to the farmers of the
county. This work was done at a
total cost of $2,037.25 for terrac
ing, and $777.00 for sub-soiling.
Six hundred and eight terraces
were built at a cost of $5.44 per
1,000 feet. The acreage cost per
acre was $1.91. One hundred and
sixty acres of land were sub
soiled at a cost of $4.84 per acre.
Over 30 miles of farm roads were
also built at an average cost of
$24.06 per mile, this work being
done on 43 farms.
The highest terracing month
was May, with 337 acres being
terraced, vh'le the lowest mcnth
for terracing was July, with only
40 acres being terraced.
The grand total cost for all ag
ricultural engineering work for
the year was only $3,662.70.
DEAD YEARS
The year of Nineteen thirty six
has gone as all years go
Its sorrows, cares and troubles we
never more will know;
For the dead year never comes
again, when it has passed us
by
It leaves its shattered dreams and
hopes for those who did not
try.
It leaves its book all closed and
locked in the hands of Ood
on high
To be opened on that day that is
coming by and by
I wonder how the page will be on
the coming judgment day
For the life I've lived in thirty
six that now has passed away?
But nineteen thirty seven, we
gladly welcome you
With your new book of life and
hope and dreams that may
come true
Just how IH do in this New Year
I really do not know
But I will do my very best as
down life's way I go.
And now .dead hopes of thirty six,
and deeds I've left undone
Don't haunt my dreams again. I
pray in this New Year just
begun
But grant a chance to youth and
hope, to hjMiirt's desire for
M. right , '
New Hopes of Thirty Seven, we
welcome you tonight,
—Mrs. m Conrad Harris.
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S. Porter Graves
Prominent Surry
County Man Dies
(Continued from front page)
! January, 1930, he definitely an
nounced his decision to return to
the practice of law, leaving the
field entirely clear to other as
pirants.
Mr. Graves was born in the an
cestral home in Surry county, Oc
tober 28, 1865, the son of Judge
and Mrs. Jesse Franklin Graves
and came of a long line of dis
tinguished state leaders.
Immediate survivors include
three children, William Graves,
Winston-Salem attorney, and Miss
Mary Franklin Graves, of Mount
Airy, and S. Porter Graves, Jr.
of Washington, D. C.; one sister,
Mrs. B. S. Graves, Yanceyville,
and three nieces, Mrs. L. M. Carl
ton, Roxboro; Mrs. Margaret Mc-
Alister, Winston-Salem, and Mrs.
James B. Burke, Hendersonville.
One son, Jesse Franklin, died in
1931, and Kate who died in in
fancy.
The former solicitor was well (
Tax Collection Notice
January Round
The tax collectors will meet the tax payers of the several Townships at the
» following times and places. They will have the books for all the years
and advise immediate payment of all taxes. Beginning February Ist the
penalty comes on 1936 taxes, and cost of sale on all 1935 land sales; also, at
that time, interest since day of sale will go on all taxes behind 1935 tax.
Most important of all, after February Ist we will begin enforcement of
'36 taxes by making taxes out of Personal Property and garnisheeing
wages.
We want to give everyone a fair chance—so we are giving plenty of time
at the several points for everyone to get out.
The Mt. Airy books will remain in office over Lamm's
Drug Store all the time. The books of Stewarts Creek,
Westfield and Eldora will be in Mt Airy except when
out on Tax Round or on Public Days in Dobson.
The Elkin Books will remain in Elkin with W. J. Snow -
all the time. The Bryan and Marsh books will be in
Elkin save when on Tax Round or Public Days in Dob
son. All other books will be found at office in Dobson
when not on Tax Round.
Pilot Books will be at Swanson's Store, Saturday, the
9th, all day.
SHOALS—At New School House, all day Monday, the
11th.
SILOAM—at New School House, all day Tuesday, the
12th.
ROCKFORD—at Copeland School House, 9:00 A. M. to
3:00 P. M. At McCormick's Store, 3:30 P. M. 'till
Wednesday, the 13th.
MARSH—at Phillip's Store 9:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. At
Crutchfield 1:30 P. M. 'till Thursday, the 14th.
BRYAN—at
Mountain Park, 12:30 P. M. 'till Friday, the 15th.
FRANKLIN —at Low Gap, all day Monday, the 18th.
STEWARTS CREEK—at Pine Ridge 9:00 A. M. to 12:00
Noon. At Sid Jarrell's Home, 12:30 P. M. 'till,
Tuesday, the 19th.
WESTFIELD—at Westfield 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon.
At Cook's School, 12:30 P. M. 'till Wednesday,
the 20th.
LONG HlLL—at Ararat 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon. At
Bet Davis' place, 12:30 P. M. 'till Thursday, the
21st
ELDORA—at Union 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon. At El
dora Schoel 12:30 P. M. 'till Friday, the 22nd.
B. F. Folger
TAX SUPERVISOR
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educated along literary lines as
well as in law. He first attended
the public schools of Mount Airy.
Later, he did preparatory work at
Bingham School, Mcbane.
From Bingham, Mr. Graves
went to the University of North
Carolina, where he took the reg
ular literary course. Later he read
law under John Manning, head
of the law department. He was
elected associate editor of the uni
versity magazine and among
other college distinctions was
elected to membership in Sigma
Alpha Epsilin fraternity.
He was granted license to
practice law at the February term
of the state supreme court, 1887,
entering practice at Mount Airy.
He kept up this practice until he
was elected solicitor.
MRS. PARDUE PASSES
Martha Jane Pardue, 36, resi
dent of Hamptonville, died at a
Statesville hospital, Tuesday
night, following an operation for
mastoiditis. Mepingitis developed
after the operation causing her
death.
Mrs. Pardue was a native of
Wilkes county. She was married
I to R. C. Pardue in 1924 and to this
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union was born two children, Bo
land and Mollne, who survive with
the husband, together with her
mother, Mrs. Pardue of Wilkes
county, she being a Pardue before
marriage.
Funeral service was held at
Asbury church Friday afternoon
at two o'clock and was in charge'
of Rev. H. H. Cash and Rev. N.
T. Jarvis. Interment followed to
the church cemetery.
All the world loves a lover, es
pecially divorce attorneys.
POTTED PLANTS—FUNERAL DESIGNS
'Flowers for Every Occasion
MORRISON'S FLOWER SHOPPE
Day Phone 170 Elkin, N. C. Night Phone 30-W
Thursday, January,
DR. I. B, SQUIER
AT TURNER DRUG CO.
Dr. I. B. Squier, registerd phar
macist connected with the CHes
ry drug stores of Greensboro, Is
now with Turner Drug Co., of this
city. Dr. Squier will remain here
until a permanent pharmacist
may be obtained. He has been
here since the recent death of Dr.
W. D. Turner, founder of the
fctnrp
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