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The transport of supplies, troops, material, farm produce, has been made safer, easier on many roads by WPA and the sponsor
ing State Highway Department, eliminating 201 miles of bad curves in North Carolina's road system. The curves, hazardous to ordinary
traffic, in day before yesterday's roads, have been receiving: attention. The WPA and the sponsor are concentrating on this type of work
since the Nation's tempo has been stepped up for National Defense. The curve shown above, eliminated by WPA, is on V. S. Route 601
In Surry county between Mt. Airy, Dobson and Elkln. On this particular route, 26 bad kinks have been "ironed out."
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THE'COUNTRY DOCTOR
A physician can often parry
the scythe of death and even
slow the flow of the sand in the
hourglass of life. To be a good
surgeon one needs a hawk's eye; a
lion's heart and the delicate hand
of a lady. When life hangs in
the balance the doctor becomes a
hero and when he saves one from
going over the brink into eternity
he is a demigod. The country
doctor usually has more brains at
his command to do wonderful
work than any fifty of the great
est Industrialists of ths world —
and he makes less fuss about it
and gets less publicity.
The country practitioner is a
surgeon, a physician, a specialist,
a pharmacist and a friend and
advisor to his clientele. Many of
them are forced to maintain
small drug stores in their offices
where they may compound pre
scriptions.
Dr. Edmund Russell lived and
practiced medicine in Lewistone,
Maine, for fifty years and in
1882 did the first appendicitis op
eration in that state, the patient
being a wealthy sportsman who
had gone to the Rangley Lakes to
shoot mose. In the early winter
Dr. Russell was called to the
home of a guide in Rangley, dis
tance of 75 miles and told to
come immediately as a man was
there very ill.
The weather was below zero,
the ground covered with snow so
deeply that even the fence post
tops could not be seen. Hitching
his two horses tandem to his
sleigh he drove with his son. also
« doctor, and arrived at the pa
tient's bedside in 24 hours. The
patient was placed on the kitchen
table and immediately operated
upon, a badly diseased appendix
being removed.
Leaving his son to attend the
sufferer, the elder physician
started for home immediately
because he was expecting the ar
rival of several new citizens that
week. He recalls reaching Farm
in gton, Maine, where he had
changed horses previously and
left his own mares to rest. Bun
dled In furs he went to sleep
knowing that his own fresh
horses would bring him home.
His wife heard the sleigh ap
proach and when it stopped at
the barn found the doctor almost
frosen and unconscious. Taking
her husband into the house,
where he was revived, she open
ed the bam, admitted the horses
and fed them after giving them
a good rub down. Next morn
ing. Kit, the lead horse, was
found dead in her stall. Hie ex
ertion had been too much for her.
The doctor, however, went about
town attending his patients the
next day.
A month later, a city
walked Into the physician's office
and asked for his bill saying: "I
am the man whose appendix you
removed at Rangley. What do I
owe you?"
"That is up to you." answered
the doctor, whereupon the man
handed the medical practitioner
SSOO and departed, profuse in his
"That was the only fee of more
than SIOO I ever received in my
fifty years at medicine," com
mented the elderly doctor, "for
most of my patients paid me in
cord wood. hogs, beef, calves,
vegetables, chickens and eggs.
But" he concluded w£Hi a smile,
"if I had my life to live over
again Td be a doctor.*
About 700 deatlis occurred last
year In collision* between bi
cycles and motor vehicles.
Man Steals His Own
Thief, Says Superinte
Winston-Salem Superintend
of Welfare A. W. Cline thinks the
search for the "meanest thief"
should for all time be ended.
Cline thinks he has found him.
It happened this way: Back
before the city-county welfare
units were co-ordinated, Asso
ciated Charities bought a first
class cook stove for a man and
his wife who had been more or
less on the bare-subsistence edge
of the rocks.
Everything went along swell
with the family for a while, what
with relief food and a relief stove
to cook it on.
In the county-city welfare
change the family was put on the
books of the county department
ADAMS REUNION IS
HELD AT UNION CROSS
The annual reunion of the
Adams family will be held at
Union Cross Friends church next
Sunday and a special Invitation
is extended to all members and
friends of the family to attend.
There will be preaching ser
vices at the church by Rev. Mrs.
E. G. Key at 11 o'clock, it being
her regular appointment, after
which dinner will be served in
the grove surrounding the church.
Mr. J. T. Reece, Yadkinville
attorney, will be present and will
make a talk before the noon meal
is served. Rev. E. G. Key will
have charge of the program fol
lowing Mr. Reece.
After the dinner there will be
special singing by the Sunbeam
quartette, composed of four small
girls of the Harmony Gipve Sun
day school class, and other sing
ers are being invited.
ALEX HUDSPETH TAKEN
BY FEDERAL OFFICERS
Alex Hudspeth, operator of a
filling station in North Elkin, was
arrested Tuesday by Federal of
ficers after a quantity of whisky,
of the moonshine variety, was
found.
HUdspeth was placed under
(300 bond to await hearing in
Federal court. His younger
brother. Sid Hudspeth, Jr., was
also said to have been taken into
custody, but it is understood that
he was released and was not
placed under bond.
The whisky which caused the
arrest was not tax-paid liquor,
Federal men being unconcerned
about the sale of such liquors
upon which federal tax has been
paid.
THOMAS W. SWAIM
CLAIMED BY DEATH
* Thomas William Swaim, 75,
died Tuesday morning at his
home in the Swan Creek com
munity following an illness from
paralysis. He was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Jack Swaim.
His wife died several years ago.
Survivors include two sons, R.
M. Swaim and Lytle Swaim, both
of Swan Creek, and three grand
children.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday mornlnp. at 11 o'clock
from the Bwan Creek Baptist
church. The rites were in charge
of Rev. E. K. Woo ten. interment
was In the family plot in the
church cemetery.
EVANGELISTIC SERVICES
AT JONESVILLE CHURCH
Rev. Wade Starling, of Golds
boro, is continuing a series of
evangelistic services at the Jones
ville Church of God. Much in
terest is being shown in the meet
ing and It will continue for sev
eral days. All denominations are
cordially invited to attend the
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
—and things still went along all
right for a while.
Then the wife went visiting for
a few days. When she came back
she noticed that the relief stove
was gone. A little, further investi
gation proved that her husband
also was gone.
Still further inquiry led to the
fact that the husband had sold
the stove for cash and had left
his wife on relief without even a
stove.
The net result Is that the wel
fare agency is going to have to
fork over money for a new stove.
Cline is sure the search should
be ended.
"Money I can understand," he
says, "but any man who would
steal his own stove!"
WITH THE SICK
The following patients have
been admitted to the local hospi
tal during the past week: Claude
Kent Berry, Granite Falls; Mrs.
Ida Mae Carter, Elkin; Robert
Reece, Greenville, S.C.; Billy Key,
Benham; Autie Key, Benham;
Frankie Mae Renegar, Jonesville;
Nancy Jurney, Harmony; Lee
Math 1s , Hamptonville; Olive
Pierce, Grassy Creek; Mrs. J. S.
Hiatt, Elkin; Mary Holcomb,
Jonesville; Donald Walker, Yad
kinville; Stewart Maynard, Elkin;
Mrs. Alta Brannock, Mt. Airy;
Mickle Wagoner, Elkin; J. A.
Glenn, Gastonla; Walter Neaves,
Crumpler; Clara Bryant, Boon
ville; Jack Harp, Cycle; E. W. Mc-
Daniel, Elkin; R. C. Davis, Wins
ton-Salem; Mrs. Laura Stlnson,
Boonville; Charlie Frank Cheat
am, Jr., Elkin; Bonnie Lee Tilley,
Elkin; Ernest Luff man, Elkin;
Betty Lou Shelton, Mt. Airy, Jas.
M. Transou, Elkin.
Patients dismissed during the
week were: Mrs. Louise Rauss,
Ramseur; Mrs. Hazel Stanley,
Dobson; Mrs. Stella Newman,
Elkin; Rev. W. L. Hutchens,
Waynesville; Gilmer Phillips, Elk
in; Mrs. Gene Lewis, Elkin; Fred
Day, Elkin; Howard Sparks, Elk
in; Ralph Martin, Elkin; Mrs.
Irene Parks, State Road; Dorothy
Nichols, Dobson; Mrs. Susie Cock
erham, Elkin; Mrs. Johnny Sears,
Elkin f Chas. R. Darnell, Elkin;
Mrs. Pearl Luff man, State Road;
Tommy Hamby, Elkin; Forest
Morrow, Troutman; Flora Jean
Vestal, Elkin; Buddy James Ves
tal, Elkin; Jack Higgins, State
Road; Albert Howell, Ronda; Leff
Holloway, State Road; Paul Holl
oway, State Road; Mrs. Ruth Ed
wards, Whitehead; Clifford A
dams, Elkin; Hilda Hanks, Ben
ham; Mrs. Ethel Wellborn, State
Road; Claude Kent Berry, State
Road; Robert Reece, Greenville,
S. C.; Billy Key, Benham; Autie
Key, Benham; Fipnkie Mae Rene
gar, Jonesville; Nancy Jurney,
Harmony; Lee Mathis, Hampton
ville; Mary Holcomb, Jonesville;
Donald Walker, Yadkinville;
Stewart Maynard. Elkin; Mickle
Wagoner, Elkin; Betty Jane Hall,
East Bend.
NUMBER OF TOBACCO
BARNS ARE BURNED
Many losses from tobacco barn
fires have been reported within
the past few days. A. S. Speer
of Boonville lost a new barn filled
with tobacco on Saturday night.
The tobacco was in the last stages
of curing.
A barn filled with tobacco and
belonging to Rev. Wade Adams
was destroyed on Wednesday of
last week. Arthur Saylor lost a
barn on Friday, Monroe Angell
also lost a barn on Saturday, nnrt
on Sunday a barn belonging to
Benbow Wall was burned. j
SEVERAL ARE INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE WRECKS
Automobile accidents Friday
sent three Yadkin county people
to the hospital here. Lee Mathis,
.65, a farmer of the Brooks Cross
Roads community, sustained a
fractured skull Friday morning
when an automobile in which he
was riding crashed into another
machine which was said to have
stopped suddenly.
The accident occurred in Ar
lington.
An accident late Friday night
sent Miss Mary Holcomb, of Ar
lington, and Donald Walker, of
Yadkinville, to the hospital suf
fering from cuts and bruises. The
accident occurred near Yadkin
ville, when the car in which they
were riding collided with an au
tomobile driven by Dick Woo ten,
also of Yadkinville, at a road in
tersection.
All of the parties have recover
ed sufficiently to be dismissed
from the hospital.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO
HOLD IMPORTANT MEET
An important meeting of the
Young Democrats club of Surry
county will be held in the county
court house at Dobson on Friday
evening, August 30, at 8 o'clock,
according to George Royall, of
this city, president of the group.
Officers will be elected for the
coming year and delegates ap
pointed to the state convention to
be held in Raleigh September
12-14, and other important busi
ness will be transacted.
All members are urged to at
tend.
JIM BALL NOW WITH
LOVILL'S WAREHOUSE
Jim Ball, of Mount Airy, well
known tobacco auctioneer, is now
with LovlU's Warehouse, Pine
street at Postoffice, Mount Airy,
he announced Wednesday. Mr.
Ball was formerly with Simmons
Warehouse, and the Virginia-Car
olina Warehouse.
Lovill's warehouse, a modern
new structure, is located on the
site of the old LovUl's warehouse,
and contains 23,000 feet of floor
space, plus good lighting and con
venient entrances and exits, it
was said.
BURGISS IS TO HOLD
ARLINGTON REVIVAL
A revival, to feature two ser
vices dally, will start at the Ar
lington Baptist church, in Arling
ton, Sunday, September 1.
Rev. Grady Burglss, of Greens
boro, will conduct the services.
Rev. Mr. Burgiss, formerly of
Elkin, was formerly pastor of the
Arlington church, having had a
large share in the work which
created the handsome new
church building some years ago.
The public is cordially invited
to attend each service.
BAPTISTS INVITE
PUBLIC TO S. S.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed the public to attend services at
the First Baptist church Sunday.
Sunday school will be held at
9:45 and the morning hour of
worship at 11 o'clock.
In the evening a special ser
vice will be held for young peo
ple who are going away to school
this fall. The sermon subject
will be "The Dangers of Going to
College." A meeting of the
Young People's • organizations of
the'church will be held at 7:00
o'clock.
PRESBYTERIANS TO
HOLD SERVICE HERE
Rev. O. V. Caudill, pastor of
the Presbyteriaa church here,
will preach at the evening service
at the church Sunday, September
1, at 7:30. A cordial invitation is
extended the public to attend.
Name Please!
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Kansas City—A couple appeared
before James A. Kilmer, to obtain
a marriage license. "We've been
going together two years," ex
plained the man, "and decided to
get married." "What's the bride's
name," asked Kilmer, getting
down to brass tacks. The man
flushed, turned to the girl and
asked: "What is your last name,
anyway?" The wedding was post
poned indefinitely.
The Installment Habit
The husband came in and ask
ed: "Any installments due to
day?"
Wife: "No, dear, I think not."
"No payments due on the
house, the radio, the furniture or
the books?"
"No."
"Splendid! I have $lO. What
you say we buy ourselves a shiny
new car?"
You can lead a bathing beauty
to water but you can't make her
go in.
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