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Elkin "The Best Little Town in North Carolina" VOL. No. XXIX. No. 46 ARE TO PRESENT BEDDING; HERE Quarterback Club Sponsoring Comic Event for Benefit of Football Team LOCAL MEN TAKE PART Friday evening, October 4, the Quarterback Club will present a "Womanless Wedding" at the ele mentary school auditorium at 8 o'clock. Proceeds of the enter tainment will be used for the high school football team. Coaches for the performances are Mrs. Fletcher Harris and Miss Betty Allen. The cast is composed of Hugh Royall as the brides Walter Os borne as the bridegroom; E. Carl Boyles, matron of honor; Joe Bivins, maid of honor; and Dick Chatham and Sam Atkinson as bridesmaids. Groomsmen will be: Alex Chat ham, Abe Harris, John Evans, E. W. McDaniel and Fred Colhard, with Bill Harris, Julius Speas, Van fIHHH Investigate this I Marvelous Heefefl namUs ll', Patented ' Time-Tested YOU ACTUALLY SAVE UP TO 75 PER CENT. ON FUEL WITH AN ASHLEY! WE HAVE STOVES FOR EVERY HEATING NEED! OIL, WOOD AND COAL STOVES AND CIRCU LATORS. Home Furniture Co. Chas. T. Jones Phone 180 Troy M. Church MEN! YOUR ENTIRE PALL OUTFIT IS READY AT fßll e Men's Shop Our store is stocked with every thing men wear for fall. Newest styles, newest colors, newest fab rics. And every brand is na tionally known and advertised, assuring more quality for your MEN'S SUITS YouH find the suit to suit you in our large stock. All the new fab rics. Single and double breast models. Select yours today. Some Cheaper KNOX L $5.00 BYRON $3.50 BOTANY TIES _sl.oo INTERWOVEN SOX, 3 Pairs for SI.OO MANHATTAN SHIRTS -$2.00 BRADLEY SWEATERS $2.95 CROSBY SQUARE SHOES $5.00 to $7.50 FLORSHEIM SHOES $8.95 and SIO.OO The Men's Shop Herman Gayer Phone 199 Barrett Lankford THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Dillon, Jr., and Robert Harris as junior bridesmaids. Dr. J. G. Abernethy will act as the officiating minister and flower girls will be Hugh Salmons and Walter Worth. E. S. Spainhour will take the role of butler and Sam Neaves will be the bride's trainbearer. Q. L. Hill will serve the bridegroom as best man. Worth Graham, Sr., will be the bride's mother and Gene Hall will be the bride's father. Soloists will be James Booher and Leon Martin. Ushers will be Fred Page and Eugene Powers. Among the distinguished wed ding guests will be Claude Farrell, Edworth Harris, Millard Collins, Ab Crater, George Royall and Dr. E. C. Nicks. The public is invited to attend. Local public employment of fices handled 6,241,036 initial and continued claims in two and one half years for unemployed work ers in North Carolina. In Seattle, Wash., it is illegal to carry concealed weapons over six feet in length. An Italian boy with owl eyes can see at night but not in the day time. WILLKIE CLUB FORMED HERE R. C. Collins Is Named Chair man at Meeting Staged Monday Night WILL MEET EACH WEEK A number of people were present for the meeting Monday evening at the city hall to organize a Willkie club in this township. A. E. Tilley of Mount Airy, president of the county club, was present for the meeting, together with a num ber of other party leaders of the county. R. C. Colling was elected chair man of the local club; Pat Osborne, first vice-chairman; Miss Jennie Greenwood, second vice chairman and Robert Guyer, secretary-treasurer. All officers were elected by acclimation.- It was decided that the club will meet weekly on Monday evenings at 7:30 at the city hall until after the national election in November. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend. It was also announced that two barbecues will be held, with all clubs of the coun ty participating, between now and the first of November. Wednesday Is School Day At Winston Fair Wednesday, October 2nd, will be county school day at the big Winston - Salem and Forsyth County Fair. On that date every school child and teacher in all counties adjacent to Forsyth will be the guests of the fair manage ment. From 9 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock that night the children will find ev erything running in full blast. They will find agricultural and livestock exhibits surpassing any thing of the sort ever seen be fore. They will see busy bees at work—they will see handicraft from the boys' and girls' clubs of the various counties. They will enjoy the great midway with its rides and tented attractions. They will see horse races, free grand stand acts, fireworks and a gor geous night revue. In all, they will see one of the greatest agri cultural fairs of the whole South and all without a penny of cost for entrance to the grounds. Every night during fair week there will be an elaborate musi cal revue, with pretty girls, fun ny comedians and graceful danc ers. Fireworks will furnish the usual finale for a great evening at the fair. Horse racing daily except Saturday with the three fastest horses in America as an added attraction will delight lov ers of this American sport. On Saturday there will be automo bile races for large cash prizes. The big midway with its stores of features; band concerts day and evening; great displays of the finest products of North Carolina for handsome premiums will com bine to make this 41st n.nnnn.l event one long to be remembered by those fortunate enough to at tend. Fair Week in Winston-Salem is October Ist to sth. COOL SPRINGS Our Sunday school is still going fine, with a good average attend ance for this season of the year. The Young People's meeting has been postponed for three weeks past owing to services at our neighbor churches. The Cool Springs quartet, com posed of Mr. and Mrs. Paul New man, A. C. Wall and Mrs. John Holbrook, sang at the McCoin re union Sunday afternoon; also at Charity church near BoonvHle Sunday evening. The small son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wishon is very ill at Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital. We welcome to our community Mr. John Holbrook, formerly of Traphill, who will make his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Jefferson, of Pries, Va., have moved back to their old home community. Miss Ruby Raye Holbrook, of Winston-Salem, .spent the week i end here the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Holbrook. Farmers here are very busy making '"lasses," and making hay. Also some of them are grading tobacco, although none are trying for the first day sales. Among 'the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Harris were Mr. and Mrs. John Adams and son, Jerry, Mr. Ivan Adams, of ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 Mocksville, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Linder, of Kannapolis, Miss Lo rene Osborne, of Jonesville, and Mr. and Mrs. James Ross and children, of Benham. COUNTY-WIDE MEETING OF TEACHERS IS HELD The first county-wide session of the principals and teachers of the Surry schools was held Friday afternoon at Dobson, with a full attendance of teachers. John W. Comer, county super intendent of schools, was in charge of the meeting and welcomed the teachers on behalf of the county. The business session featured the election of officers, and all of ficers were re-elected for another year. Members of the state highway patrol spoke briefly to the teach ers on safe driving. 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Many ors " Newest styles. you need for your new fall vP4jaV/vJ colors in solids and patterns. .. nn .. . _ costume. r:virr- Quality SI.OO- $1.98 mo ke? $298 - $3.95 $2.98 $2.98 q>o.yO SYDNOR-SPAINHOUR ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA aPAINHOUR'S Surry Baptis Meet Today For Annual Session Surry Baptist will meet today for the 38th annual session with the Indian Grove Baptist church, in the northern part of the county, near Westfield. The meeting will be a two-day session and will open at 11 o'clock this morning, (Thursday) with a sermon by Rev. D. D. Hodges of Mount Airy, fol lowing a devotional period by Rev. T. S. Draughn of Crutchfield. This will be followed by the report of A. V. West, moderator of the association, and the roll call of churches by Rev. Joe H. Hall of Woodville. In the afternoon service today, foreign, home and state missions, the B. T. U. and other denomina tional topics will be discussed by Rev. Stephen Morrisett, L. F. Walker and Mrs. Earl C. James, of this city; Rev. J. W. Calloway, of Mountain Park; Rev. R. L. West, of Yadkinville; Rev. A. S. Hale, of Mt. Airy, Elmo Renegar, Mrs. Paul Wagoner and Rev. Lonnie Flem ing. A discussion of other denomina tional topics will be continued in the morning and afternoon ses sions of Friday, the speakers on the program to be Rev. R. W. Hovis, of Roxboro; Rev. George Tucker, of Siloam; Rev. A. B. Hayes, of Hayes; Rev. C. A. Sim mons, Mrs. Frank Toler, Mrs. J. S. Bel ton, Mrs. W. A. Jack&n and Prof. H. M. Finch, of Mt. Airy. Lunch will be served on the grounds at the noon hour today and Friday. MEETING ANNOUNCED FOR DOBSON CHARGE C. W. Dockery, lay leader of the Methodist churches of the Dobson charge, announces that a meeting of the church members of the Elkin Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge PUBLISHED WEEKLY charge will be held at Dobson Sim day, September 29. The program will be an all-day affair and will begin at 10 a. m. An interesting program has been planned for the entire day and every Methodist in the charge is urged to attend and the public is cordially Invited. Those attending are requested to bring a basket dinner. New York City is built upon three islands. Now Is the Time to Lime and Sow Your Lawn F. A. BRENDLE & SON Elkin, N. C.
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