Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXVI. No. 40
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
FULK NAMED
PATROL HEAD
✓ Raleigh, Aug. 17. Com
missioner of Revenue A. J.
Maxwell announced today the
appointment of Arthur Fulk,
director of the highway safety
division, as major in charge of
the state highway patrol.
At the same time the com
missioner said Charles D. Far
mer, who has been with the
highway patrol since its organ
ization in 1929, had been des
ignated as a captain command
ing the eastern division. Far
mer has had the title "captain"
and until now has been 'ln
charge of the entire patrol.
ORDER MARINES
TO SHANGHAI
Washington, Aug. li.
President Roosevelt ordered
1,200 marines to Shanghai to
day to guard American citizens
against violence in the Chinese-
Japanese hostilities.
Congress was asked to appro
priate $500,000 for all neces
sary relief and evacuation ex
penses that the far eastern sit
uation may require.
Emergency reinforcement of
1,150 marines already on duty
in the chaotic international
settlement was announced by
Secretary of State Hull who
termed the order an "ultra
precaution" against mobs and
other forms of violence.
APPROPRIATION
BILL PASSED
Washington, Aug. 17. A
boisterous house passed the
session's final big appropria
tion bill in an overtime session
tonight after increasing it by
$20,000,000 to start the admin
istration's farm tenancy pro
gram.
Carrying a total of $98,880,-
375, the appropriation went
through without a record vote.
SENATE CONFIRMS
BLACK FOR COURT
Washington, AUK. 17. At
the conclusion of a day devoted
to debate on the nomination
the senate late this afternoon
confirmed Senator Hugo Black,
of Alabama, as member of the
Supreme court, of which he
has been critical and whose
abolition he would have at one
time found it possible to re
gard with composure. The gen
erally foreseen confirmation
was accomplished by a vote of
63 to 16. Democrats recorded
against confirmation were
Burke, Copeland, Gerry, King,
Glass and Byrd.
ICK WINDSOR INJURED
AT LOCAL ICE PLANT
Ick Windsor, an employee of
the Carolina Ice & Fuel Co., sus
tained a painful cut on the head
late Wednesday afternoon when
an iron pipe fell upon him while
he was engaged in moving a
heavy fuel tank.
Knocked unconscious, he was
rushed to the hospital by ambu
lance where an examination dis
closed that his injury, while pain
ful, was not serious.
ELDERLY RUSK WOMAN
DIES SATURDAY NIGHT
, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Stan
ley Axsom, 79, passed away Sat
urday night at 9 o'clock at her
home at Rusk. The deceased was
a well known woman in her com
munity. Since early girlhood she
had been a consistent member of
the church.
She is survived by her husband
Sam Axso'm, two sons, Melvin Ax
som, Mount Airy, and Neal Ax
som, Burch, and one daughter,
Mrs. Dora Wood, of Rusk. Another
daughter, Mrs. Lila Griffith, pre
ceded her in death. Fourteen
grandchildren and 10 great grand
children also survive.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Little Richmond Baptist church.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
J. L. Powers and Rev. Li. W. Bur
rus. Interment was in the church
cemetery.
It is easy to recognize a golden
opportunity that will make you
rich. It's the one you scornfully
turn down.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
PLANS SHAPE UP
FOR PICNIC HERE;
MORRISON COMING
Will Make Address at 11:00
o'clock
PICNIC DINNER NEXT
Will Be Held at Masonic Pic
nic Grounds; Cameron
Morrison to Speak
CONCERT AT THEATRE
The annual Surry-Yadkin-Wil
kes Masonic Picnic will get under
way here next Thursday morn
ing at 11 o'clock with an address
by former Governor Cameron
Morrison, of Charlotte, which will
be followed by the picnic dinner.
This year's event will again be
held at the Masonic picnic
grounds. The Oxford Orphanage
singing class will be here for a
concert to be held at the Lyric
theatre Thursday night, and Lee's
riding devices will be here during
the entire week, being scheduled
to arrive next Sunday afternoon.
The riding devices will be located
on South Bridge street, near the
old bridge, it is understood.
Everyone is invited to attend
the picnic and bring well-filled
baskets.
ANNUAL REVIVAL
TO BEGIN SUNDAY
Rev. J. C. Canipe to Assist
Rev. Eph Whisenhunt
In Meeting
SPECIAL SONG SERVICE
The annual revival will begin
Sunday at the First Baptist
church in this city. Services will
be held twice daily, at 9 o'clock
in the morning and 7:30 in the
evening. A cordial invitation is
extended by the church to all cit
izens of the town, regardless of
denominational affiliations, to at
tend the services.
The pastor. Rev. Eph Whisen
hunt, will be assisted in the servi
ces by Rev. J. C. Canipe, of
Boone, who will bring the scrip
tural messages, and Rev. Chas.
Jollay of Durham, who will be in
charge of the song service. Rev.
Canipe is expected to be present
for the service Sunday evening.
At four o'clock Monday after
noon a special service will be held
at the church, in charge of Rev.
Jollay, at which time all young
people of the town are invited to
be present to organize a chorus.
Much interest has been shown
in the special prayer services that
have been held preparatory to the
services and it is believed that
much good will result from the
meeting.
PILOT MOUNTAIIN
MAN IS .KILLED
Dr. Claude W. Ashburn Meets In
• stant Death in Automobile
Crash in Statesville
Statesville, Aug. 14.—Dr. Claude
W. Ashburn, 33, of Pilot Moun
tain, was instantly killed in an
automobile wreck on Boulevard
tonight.
Dr. Ashburn, traveling alone,
was going to Mooresville to visit
his brother, Paul Ashburn, and
was headed south when an auto
mobile said to have been driven
by R. G. Morrison, of Statesville,
came out from Albea's store into
the street near the city limits, the
two cars colliding head-on and
Dr. Ashburn's desth being instan
taneous. Mr. Morrison was re
ported to be seriously injured.
Dr. Ashburn was for a number
of. years connected with the Da
vis Hospital here. Later he was
with the Blackwelder Hospital in
Lenoir, but in recent months had
located at Pilot Mountain for the
practice of medicine.
Dr. Ashburn is survived by his
widow and two small children.
(Funeral services for Dr. Ash
bum were held Monday afternoon
at the home of his brother-in
law, Dr. G. E. Stone, at King, and
burial followed in the Woodland
cemetery at Winston-Salem. The
funeral was largely attended by
physicians, nurses and acquaint
ances from many counties and
states.)
One pair of meadow mice could
have 275 billion descendants
within 10 years—if every descend
ant lived and bred normally over
that period. This is approximate
ly 5,,000 meadow mice for every
square mile of land surface on the
entire earth.
Tall Corn? Shucks,
lowa Ain't Seen
Nothing Yet
lowa and Wisconsin, for
years and years bragging about
the tall corn which is raised in
the two states, perhaps haven't
heard about the tall corn which
grows in Surry, actual meas
urements having revealed
stalks towering upward to more
than 17 feet, making it neces
sary for harvesters to either cut
down the stalks with a cross
cut saw or else use a ladder to
gather the roastingears.
The Ararat river valley farm
of W. E. Merritt is the section
that has leaped into the spot
light and thrust lowa's meas
ley little sixteen and one-half
foot corn into the background.
SCHOOL BELLS TO
RING ON SEPT. 6
Low Gap School to Open On
That Date. Others Fol
low on 20th
SURRY GETS NEW BUSES
School bells of the county will
begin ringing on Monday, Sep
tember 6, with the Lowgap school
being the first one to open, and
with the others following with
their openings up to Monday,
September 20, according to a
statement by John W. Comer,
county superintendent of schools,
Wednesday.
Mr. Comer further stated that
in the meeting of the county
board of education, which met in
his office Tuesday evening at 8:00
p. m., an agriculture department
for the Mountain Park school was
approved, which makes three
schools in the county now having
agriculture departments, the
other two being Dobson and Cope
land schools.
The county is to get six new
buses, four of which are to be of
the 16 foot size, and two of which
are the 19 foot siie. Mr. Comer
said. The bus routes of the coun
ty have also been approved, he
said.
Other statements were to the
effect that the county will have
six more teachers employed this
year than ever before, and that a
commercial department has been
added to the Dobson school.
WILbCATS TO MEET AT
N. WILKESBORO AUG. 22
A conclave of the Veterans of
the 81st, or wildcat Division, has
been called for Sunday afternoon,
August 22, at 3:30 at the Hotel
Wilkes, North Wilkesboro. Jas.
E. Cahill, of Washington. D. C*
national adjutant of the division
al association, will be present and
will have a message of interest to
all Wildcats.
Every Wildcat veteran and his
lady is invited to be present, ac
cording to an announcement by
Mr. Cahill.
DR. EGBERT SMITH TO
SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
Dr. Egbert Smith of Nashville,
Tenn., secretary of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Presbyterian
church, who is vacationing at
Roaring Gap, will speak at the
Presbyterian church in this city
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
A cordial invitation is extended
the public to hear Dr. Smith.
Champ Billiards Shooter
Shows'Em Th
Pool shooters hereabouts
who may or may not consider
themselves pretty good with
a cue stick, saw some real
shooting at the Lucky Break
pool room here last Saturday
when Ralph Greenleaf, world
champion billiard star, was
here for a couple of exhibi
tions.
Shooting straight poot
Greenleaf was Arrayed against
Cola Fulp, considered pretty
good In this neck of the woods,
but after winning the break,
seemed like all Mr. Fulp was
required to do was sort of
stand around and hold his cue
stick while the champion,
shooting easily and gently,
dropped ball after ball into
the pockets.
However, even world cham
pions miss sometimes, and
along after while when he had
run about 65 balls. Greenleaf
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1937
DRYS TRIUMPH IN
STOKES WHISKEY
ELECTION TUESDAY
Neighboring County Rejects
Liquor Plan
WOMEN'S VOTE HEAVY
19 of 21 Precincts Give 2,566
Votes Against, 1,914
For Control
RETURNS NOT OFFICIAL
Danbury, Aug. 17. —Tradition-
ally dry Stokes county clug grim
ly to North Carolina's prohibition
column today as anti-repealists
rolled up a convincing majority
over the county's wet faction.
With only two of 21 precincts
missing late tonight, drys had
polled 2,566 votes against the 1,-
914 ballots cast in favor of legal
ized whisky.
With unofficial returns com
plete except for these two pre
cincts Brown Mountain and
Frans—leading control advocates
conceded victory to the drys. The
vote from the two unreported
precincts was not expected to
change the final result materially
one way or the other.
Liquor store proponents ascrib
ed the defeat of their cause to the
heavy women's vote, reported
from practically every precinct.
The total of 4,480 votes cast in
19 precincts in today's election
was one of the heaviest ballotings
in Stokes in several years.
Early returns from the first five
or six precincts had the repealists
leading the wet-dry race almost
two to one. Prom then on,, how
ever, it was an entirely different
story, and King and Mt. Olive, two
bone dry precincts, clinched the
victory for the prohibition cause
when they reported overwhelming
majorities against liquor stores.
JONESVILLE WOMAN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Mrs. Solon Eskridge Passes
Friday After Lingering
Illness
FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY
Mrs. Hester Jane Gregory Esk
ridge, 49, wife of Solon Eskridge,
of Jonesville, died Friday in a
Morganton hospital, following a
lingering illness. She was a
member of the Swan Creek Bap
tist church.
She is survived by her husband,
two sons, J. Dumont Eskridge,
who is associated in the practice
of law with A. H. (Sandy) Gra
ham, at Hillsboro, and Norfleet
Eskridge. at home. Five sisters
Mrs. Miles Robertson, Hudson;
Mrs. W. A. Stroud, Jonesvile;
Mrs. J. Ellis Coon, Pinnacle; Mrs.
J. E. Mangum, Danville, Va.; Mrs.
L. T. Triplett, Vaness, California;
and three brothers, R. L. arid T.
A. Gregory, of Jonesville, and T.
G. Gregory, of Charlotte, and her
father, M. F. Gregory of Jones
ville, also survive.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the Jonesville Baptist church and
interment was in the' Jonesville
cemetery.
missed and Mr. Fulp rushed
into action, only to rush right
out again a few balls later.
Then the champ got careless
and missed some more and
EWs pride succeeded in
running some 14 balls and
then he missed. And from
then on all he was required
to do was to hold his cue
stick, which wasn't much of
a Job because it didn't look
very heavy.
Your correspondent was not
present at the exhibition Sat
urday night when Delos Jones
contested with the champion,
but from all reports, consider
ed highly authentic, Mir.
Jones made just as fine a stick
holding record as did Mr.
Fulp, only it was said Mr.
Jones occasionally shifted
from one foot to the other,
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Is Guest of North Carolina
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the guest of North Car
olina Wednesday when he spoke at the Roanoke Island celebration
commemorating- the birth of the first white child ill America—Vir
ginia Dare. The President spoke at Manteo at 3:30 p. m. and was
scheduled to return to Washington today.
F.D.R. SPEAKS AT
MANTEO YESTERD'Y
Aids State in Commemorating
Birth of First White
Child
HUGE THRONG ON HAND STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE
Manteo Fisherfolk and the
state's highest officials gathered
Tuesday night to commemorate
with President Roosevelt Wednes-.
day the 350 th anniversary of the
birth of Virginia Dare, the first
white child of English parentage
born in the New World.
A steady stream of automobiles
over a 74-mile flag-decorated
highway from Elizabeth City
brought thousands here Tuesday
and D. Bradford Fearing, secre
tary of the Roanoke Island His
torical Association, predicted more
than 30,000 persons would hear
the nation's Chief Executive speak
at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday.
The celebration is the high
light of a summer-long commem
oration of the founding at Port
Raleigh on Roanoke Island in
1587 of Sir Walter Raleigh's ill
destined "lost colony."
Virginia Dare, the granddaugh
ter of John White, leader of Ra
leigh's second expedition to found
an agricultural colony, was born
a month after the expedition
reached the then district of Vir
ginia—for which she was named.
White was called back to England,
he returned three years later but
could find no trace of his colony.
The one word "Croatan" carved
on a tree was'the only hint to the
whereabouts of the colony.
Indians and settlers in this sec
tion for years told a legend of a
white fawn that pranced on
moonlight nights. That fawn, they
said, was Virginia Dare reincar
nated. She, the legend went, would
I live forever.
Governor Hoey and scores of
state officials arrived Tuesday
night. Hotels were booked to ca
pacity and many visitors went to
private homes.
W. A. NEAVES SECURES
PATENT ON BLANKET
W. A. Neaves, superintendent of
the Chatham Manufacturing Co.,
has been awarded a patent on a
blanket, different in one way from
any other blanket ever made,
which he invented.
Mr. Neaves applied for his pat
ent February 29, 1936, and fol
lowing an examination by patent
examiners, was allowed one claim
for originality. He has disposed of
his patent rights to the Chatham
Manuafcturlng Co.
CONTRACTOR'S SON
FATALLY INJURED
Page Teer Dies From Broken
Neck When Truck Over
turns; Child Hurt'
Page Teer, son of Nello Teer,
Durham contractor who is well
known throughout this section
was killed, and a three-year-old
boy was badly Injured as the re
sult of accidents in Alleghany and
Ashe counties Tuesday.
Young Teer, 14 years of age,
was killed near Glendale Springs,
in Ashe, when the truck he was
driving overturned on a fill.
He was alone at the time and
his body was found pinned under
the truck a .short time after the
accideht. His neck was broken.
The youth was visiting his un
cle, general superintendent of
construction on the Blue Ridge
parkway project. His body was
sent to Durham for burial.
The Alleghany accident occur
red when Reece Miller was run
over by an automobile in the
Laurel Springs section, suffering
broken legs and head injuries. He
was said to have walked in front
of a passing automobile. Follow
ing the accident, which officers
held unavoidable, the child was
rushed to a Wilkes hospital.
BOOVILLE FAIR TO
BE HELD OCT. 21-23
Sauline Players, Fire Works,
Field Day, Are to Be
Features
CATALOG ABOUT READY
The Boonville Agricultural Fain
committee, composed of J. W.! ■
Shore, A. C. Stinson, J. O. Flem
ing, J. E. Brendle, Albert Martin
and J. R. Walker, held a recent
meeting for the purpose of mak
ing plans for this year's 1 fair. The
date of the fair was set for Octo
ber 21, 22 and 23.
Some of the main features of
the fair this year follow: Hie
Sauline Players will give two
plays, one Friday afternoon and
one Friday night; fireworks Fri
day and Saturday nights; Yad
kin County school field day, dog
show, horse show: high school
play Saturday night.
The printers are working on the
premium list and they hope to
have them ready for distribution
within the next few days.
Times are good again. In swell
places a mere customer is again
regarded as a vulgar intruder. t
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BLOODY FIGHTING
GOES ON AS JAPS
CONTINUE BATTLE
Starving Thousands Throng
City of Shanghai
MOBS SEEKING SUSPECTS
Claim Japs Attempted to Per
suade Natives to Poison
Water Supply
CHINESE GUNS ROARING
Shanghai, Aug. 18. (Wednes
day).—Undisciplined mobs stole
through the streets of Shanghai
today, searching, beating and kill
ing natives they suspected ol plot
ting to poison the city's water
supply, while thousands of home
less refugees clamored for food at
the barricaded gates of the inter
national settlement.
The bitter battle between Chin
ese and Japanese, with its toll of
1 1,400 noncombatant Chinese and
foreign dead, burst again at dawn
along the slithering, murky
Whangpoo river that winds about
Shanghai's famous waterfront
bund and hence to the mighty
Yangtze, exit to the sea.
The first American marine
wounded in the Shanghai fighting
was hit by shell fragments. He
was Pharmacist Mfrte, Floyd Arn
old of the Fourth U. S. Marines,
wounded in the hip while on duty
in the American sector of the in
ternational settlement, bordering
on Soochow Creek.
As the battle .progressed today,
the American flagship of the
Asiatic fleet, the cruiser Augusta,
moved up the river and anchored
off the settlement bund.
Japanese warships, led by the
flagship Idzumo, began bombard
ing Chinese positions along the
river at early morning.
Chipese guns spoke in answer
from a new position established
during the night, in Pootung,
eastward across the Whangpoo
from Shanghai proper.
Native newspapers had carried
rumors, unconfirmed, that Japa
nese tried to influence natives to
poison the city's water supply. .
CHARLES R. LYON
PASSES SUDDENLY
Former Wilkes County Man
Dies From Heart Attack
In Winston-Salem
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY
Charles Ring Lyon, 36, for 13
years a representative of the Life
and Casualty Insurance company
in Winston-Salem, died suddenly
frotn a heart attack in the O'Han-.
lon building in Winston-Salem
Monday morning about 11 o'clock.
The deceased was a native of
Wilkes county and a son of Adol
phus and Emma Lyon. He went
to Winston-Salem from here eigh
teen years ago and had made his
home there since that time. He
was a member of the Cool Springs
Baptist church.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock
from the Southside Baptist
church in Winston-Salem. The
rites were in charge of Rev. Isom
Vestal, of Jonesville, Rev. Doug
lass Rights and Rev. N. G. Tea
gue. Interment was in Salem
cemetery.
He is survived by his wife who
prior to her marriage was Miss
Ola Winkler; his step-mother,
Mrs. Nancy Lyon, Elkin; one
brother, Hugh C. Lyons; five half
sisters, Mrs. Lester Holloway, Miss
Margaret Lyon, Elkin; Miss Betty
Lyons, Raleigh; Misses Ruth and
Ruby Lyons, Mills Home, Thom
as ville; and four half-brothers, J.
Walter; J. L., W. A» Darnell and
Floyd Lyon, Elkin.
NEW MEMBER ADDED TO
ELKIN SCHOOL FACULTY
When the local schools open for
the fall term In September, the
faculty as of last year will be
strengthened by one additional
i teacher in the high school depart
| ment in the person of Miss Re
beccca Bohannon, of Virgilina,
I Va. Miss Bohannon, a graduate of
j Woman's College, Greensboro, has
| been elected to teach high school
subjects and coach athletics for
girls. During her college career
i she starred in athletics.
Provision for an additional
teacher was brought about due to
a larger average daily attendance,
it is understood.
Some authors still seem won
derful, and some have surrendered
to Importunity and made a speech.