Volume 9
SPARTA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933
Number 3
NEW COURTHOUSE IS
TO BE FIRE-PROOF
Expect Its Completion
Within Six or Seven
Weeks
Work on Alleghany’s new fire-proof
courthouse is moving along rapidly.
About one-third of the construction
on the second story has been com
pleted, and the contractor expects to
begin erecting roof steel next week.
Although the plan of the new
building is practically the same as
the old, there are some minor
changes being made, which, it is
thought, will improve its appear
ance and usefulness. The old west
entrance is being eliminated, and a
new front is being constructed. Eight
feet lengths are being cut off the
tops of the columns to make room
for the new stone caps in the pres
ent design.
The building is made of fire-proof
materials throughout, except for the
window casings and inside doors.
Floors are made of concrete. Stair
ways are steel with tile treads.
Where the old roof was of wood and
steel construction, the new one will
be a flat, concrete and steel struc
ture, entirely fire-proof. The roof
over the courtroom will be supported
by four steel beams weighing six
thousand pounds each. All joists
and rafters are steel. Not over a
thousand feet of lumber will be used
in the entire job, it is stated.
The courtroom has larger windows
and more space behind the rail than
the old building, and will be well
equipped to accomodate all court of
ficers and participants in court
proceedings. The acoustic qualities
of the courtroom will be greatly im
proved by the use of acoustic panels.
A new lacfies’ rest room will be lo
cated under the stairs, next to the
office of the county nurse.
The work, which is being done by
the Fowler-Jones Lumber Company,
of Winston-Salem, is being carried
on steadily, and according to O. F.
Fowler, in charge of the construc
tion, the new building will be com
pleted in six or seven weeks.
LOCAL PARTY IS
ON PLEASURE TRIP
Left Tuesday For More
head City And At
lantic Beach
A party of twenty-eight people
left Sparta at 7 A. M. Tuesday morn
ing on the large Piney Creek school'
bus for a pleasure trip to Morehead
City and Atlantic Beach. On the
way down they expect to visit Duke
University at Chapel Hill, and the
Capitol, State Museum, and other
points of interest in Raleigh. Tues
day night camp will be made some
where below Raleigh. The women
in the party expect to sleep in tour
ist camps, and the men will sleep in
tents or in the open. >
Sometime Wednesday the travel
ers expect to reach Morehead, where
they will spend several days fishing,
boating, and bathing in the surf. On
the way back points of interest in
New Bern and other eastern cities
will be visited. They expect to get
back to Sparta sometime Saturday
or Sunday.
Those in the party are: Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Gambill; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gambill of Piney Creek; Mr.
and Mrs. A. F. Reeves and daugh
ter, Annie; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Doughton and family; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Osborne and family; Brice
Gambill and Miss Sallie Alexander
of Ashe county; Mrs. Claude Miles
and small son; Mrs. R. B. McMil
lan and two daughters, Madge and
Jean; Misses Alma Irwin,_ Maude
Richardson and Ethel Crouse.
Sparta Has New Mail
Service In Effect
Sparta has a new mail service
which became effective May 15. The
mew schedule calls for thirteen
round trips a week between Sparta
and Elkin, with a schedule as fol
lows: Arrive at Sparta 9:00 A. M.
and 2:16 P. M. Leave Sparta at
10:00 A. M. and 2:30 P. M. On
Sundays the mall arrives at 1:00 P.
M. and leaves at 1:15 P. M.
Under the new schedule carriers
on star routes to Ennlce, Independ
ence, Jefferson and Laurel Springs
leaves Sparta at 10 A. M. The car
rier to Piney Creek leave* Sparta
at 1:00 P. M.
Muscle Shoals Boss
Arthur E. Morgan, president of
Antioch College in Ohio, is the man
selected by President Roosevelt as
chairman of the Tennessee Valley
Development project. Mr. Morgan
first gained national attention in
flood control work in North Caro
lina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan
sas and Ohio. He gave up engineer
ing to head Antioch College in 1020.
BOARD IS TO MEET
HERE ON JUNE 5TH
School Committee Will
Not Be Named At
That Time
The County Board of Education
of Alleghany County will meet in
special session on Monday, June 5,
for the transaction of such business
as will probably , come before the
Board at that time. When the meet
ing was set by the Board it was
hoped at-that time that all school
committees of the various districts
of the County would be appointed
at the June meeting of the Board.
The new school bill, however, pro
vides that all counties of the State
must be redistricted by the State
School Commission; therefore, it
will not be possible to appoint school
committeemen until the State School
Commission has made its report on
the districts, and this report cannot
be expected for some weeks.
Teachers cannot be employed un
til districts are established and the
number of teachers allotted by the
State School Commission. It appears
now that there will be a delay of
several weeks before teachers can
be employed for the next school
year. There will be a cut in teach
ers’ salaries, but the amount of the
cut has not been determined by the
State School Commission.
President B. B. Dougherty, or the
Boone College, has been appointed
a member of the State School Com
mission for this congressional dis
trict. He served as a member of the
State Board of Equalization until
that Board was abolished by the last
General Assembly.
Methodist Church News
C. W. RUSSELL, Pastor
There will be no service at Sparta
church Sunday because of the De
coration service at Shiloh. The De
coration Service will be held at 11
a. m.
Sparta League gave their regular
program Sunday at 7:30 in the
presence of a large crowd of Shiloh
young people. Many of the older
people were present for the program.
I hope to see all Epworth Leaguers
at the service Sunday night as we
have some important matters to dis
cuss.
Prof. Gentry, of Edwards Cross
Roads and a member of Sparta
church, has been very sick for about
ten days.
Publisher Dead
At Taylorsville
Taylorsville, May 27.—John E.
Hart, 67, owner and editor of The
Taylorsville Times, died at his home
here at 6 o’clock this afternoon after
a lingering illness with diabetes. He
is survived by his widow and two
sons, W. G. Hart, of Springfield, Mo.,
and H. H. Hart, of Bluefield, W. Va.
JH'unerai arrangements are incom
plete, but services will probably be
held Monday or Tuesday.
ATTEMPT PAILS
_
Judge P. A. McElroy today denied
a petition for an injunction against
the holding of an election in Mc
Dowell county June 27 on the ques
tion of legalising pari mutuel bet
ting on horse racing there.
WARREN FAVORS
BUSINESS CLUB
Need Organization To
Cope With Town
Problems
(By Dalton Warren)
In these days of rejoicing over
the prospective return of prosperity
and the satisfaction which has come
with the inauguration of the new
deal, we find ourselves making all
sorts of investigations and plans
for the future. We are naturally
more interested in our own town
and community, the welfare of our
people and the development of
whatever resources we may pos
sess. In considering our community
problems we find ourselves totally
unprepared to cope with our prob
lems due to the fact that we have
no sort of organization through
which we can work.
There has never been a time in
the history of our town when we
needed organization more than now,
and there has never been a more
appropriate time to organize a bus
iness men’s club. We have some
new folks who have moved to our
town for the purpose of taking over
the county paper. They are filled
with enthusiasm and pep. They
are ready to give publicity, through
the columns of their paper, to any
movement which will be beneficial
to our town and county, and we
should make use of our opportunity
by using the paper to get things over
to the people. Why not call a meet
ing at once, elect our officers, draft
our constitution and bv-laws and
appoint the proper committees so
that we can begin at once to offer
inducements to outside capital to
come to our town. We must have
some sort of organization through
which to work and it seems that a
business men’s club would be the
best for us.
The Federal government is do
ing everything possible to bring
about a return of prosperity, by ex
panding credit, by guaranteeing bank
deposits, and all sorts of remedial
legislation. There was a time in
our national life when our people
were discouraged and when they felt
that we no longer had a government
of the people for the people and by
the people, but with the inaugura
tion of the new administration of
ficials came new hope and new cour
age. The old order of things has
changed and the time has come when
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MUCH CONSTRUCTIVE
ACTIVITY IS NOTED
75 Or More Men Em
ployed On Building
Projects
A new spirit of constructive acti
vity seems to be prevalent in Sparta.
From morning till night the business
section is the scene of continuous
activity. Trucks are constantly
coming and going, loaded with
stones, bricks, and building mater
ials. Other trucks are moving dirt
and debris from the location oF“hew
buildings. All day the chug-chug
of the rock crusher is heard as it
moves along the street in the wake
of the grading crew.
Practically all of the outside work
on the new Jay Hardin store build
ing has been completed, and work
ers are completing the roof and
starting on the inside finishing.
Within 20 or 30 days, it is thought,
this, modern store building will be
ready for the occupants.
Gov. Doughton’s new office, just
west of the courthouse, is being con
structed of rough texture shale
bricks. This modern'building takes
the place of a wooden structure
which was destroyed. Jby fire in Jan
uary.
Seventy-five or more men are em
ployed on the four building pro
jects under way now, and it has been
suggested that more buildings may
be constructed in the near future.
In such an atmosphere of construc
tive effort it is not difficult for one
to believe that the business horizon
is brightening.
Demonstrations
Are To Be Held
Mrs. Edna WagoneV Johnson,
Emergency Home Demonstration
Agent, states that cans have already
been ordered and that canning
demonstrations will be held in var
ious communities. She will be glad
to go to any community and assist
in any way she can. -
Indian Mother Oldest of “Gold Stars” In France
Among the Gold Star Mothers from the United States who this year
visited the graves of their sons killed in the World War and buried in
France, was .Mrs. Kate Mike, 74-year-old full-blooded Winnebego Indian
from Wisconsin. She is shown above as she sailed from America with the
first contingent of 113 Mothers who sailed for France late in May.
FARM NEWS
By W. B. COLLINS, County
Agent
Wool Brings High Price
The selling committee of the Alle
ghany Co-operative Sheep Growers
Association met at the Court House
in Sparta on Thursday, May 25, and
sold the pooled wool.
The following committeemen rep
resented their townships: M. E.
Reeves and Van Miller, Cranberry:
Hoyt Black and Charlie Edwards,
.Prathers Cie.ek; WilUPJlgh and Lon
nie Edwards, Whitehead; Eugene
Transou, Bob Thompson and Leff
Crouse and D. C. Duncan, Gap Civil.
The Glade Creek committee did not
come to the meeting. Cherrylane
township does not have a marketing
committee, and Piney Creek has an
individual pool which sells separ
ately from the county pool.
The following buyers were pres
ent when the wool was sold: James
A. Caldwell representing the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company, Elkin,
N. C.; Emmett McNeil representing
a firm in Baltimore: and L. C. Salt
er representing the United Wool
Growers Association.
Sealed bids were called for from
the above representatives and the
committee reserved the right to re
ject any or all the bids made. When
the bids were opened it was found
that the Chatham Manufacturing
company had presented the highest
bid on the wool. The committee
felt that this price could be made
higher, provided the final price re
ceived would not be made known un
til the wool in adjoining counties
had been sold. In order to insure
that the price received would not
be made known, the committee was
asked to elect two men to make the
final sale of the wool and for these
men to not make the sale price
known for 60 days. When a vote
was taken for electing these two men
Eugene Transou and D. C. Duncan
were selected to make the sale.
After holding a conference with
Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Transou and Mr.
Duncan reported to the committee
that the wool had been sold to the
Chatham Manufacturing Company,
Elkin, N. C.; that the wool growers
were to receive 28 cents per pound
for their wool as It was wei'gEed up.
and they would receive the balance
in 60 days.
Some farmers have not been able
to understand why they should sell
their wool through the Pool with
out knowing the exact price they are
to receive. This was done in order
to protect the buyers from having to
pay the same price in other counties.
The Pooled wool could not have been
sold now at the present price if the
price received had been published.
One hundred seventy-two farmer
delivered 19,406 pounds of wool to
the Pool on Friday and Saturday of
last week. There will be about 5,000
pounds more wool delivered this
week.
The farmers of Alleghany County
are to be congratulated on the fine
condition which their wool was of
fered for sale. With very few ex
ceptions the wool was dry, free from
paint, trash and tags. Our farmers
are building up a reputation for sell
ing clean wool and this will always
help them to secure the highest
prices.
Local buyers were paying 26c per
pound for wool on the day the
55 NOW EMPLOYED
IN RELIEF WORK!
Are Widening Highway j
Inside of Corporate
Limits ^ J
Fifty-five men are now employed
in Alleghany County Relief work.
Most of these men are employed in
widening U. S. Highway No. 21 in
side the corporate limits of Sparta.
Work on this project has moved
along rapidly for the past few days.
For a width of four feet on either
side of the present hard-surface dirt
is being removed. Rocks are being
hauled, crushed, and placed ready
for the tar surfacing.
This necessary and valuable pro
ject is a co-operative endeavor. The
State Highway Commission furnishes
trucks, the town of Sparta furnishes
gas, and the Alleghany County Re
lief Organization pays for the labor.
Tire street will be surfaced from
sidewralk to sidewalk through the
entire business section. This will be
a decided improvement to the town,
and those responsible for the project
are to be commended.
WILKES MAN GETS
30-DAY REPRIEVE
Bryant Stone Was To
Have Died in Electric
Chair Friday
Bryant Stone, of Wilkes county,
faced with death in the electric chair
for the murder of his son-in-law,
Wayne Norman, was granted a 30
day reprieve Saturday by Governor
Ehringhaus.
Stone was to have been put to
death tomorrow morning.
The reprieve was requested by
Judge G. V. Cowper, who presided
over the court last August at which
stone was convicted.
There were no eye witnesses of the
actual slaying of Norman and Stone
was convicted upon circumstantial
evidence.
During the expiration of the 30
day period. Governor Ehringhaus
will seek to obtain all the circum
stances in the case on which to base
his decision on the appeal for a com
mutation of the death penalty.
G. C. Adams, Georgia’s commis
sioner of agriculture, Monday pre
dicted cotton would be selling at
15 cents a pound by the end of the
year.
Pooled wool was sold. The day af
ter the Pooled wool was sold the
local buyers were paying 30c per
pound for wool. The Boston wool
market bears the same relation to
wool prices over the country, as the
Chicago Live Stock market controls
meat prices over the country. There
was no difference in the price of
wool on the Boston market on the
day our wool was sold and the day
after it was sold, yet the difference
in price offered here was 4 cents
per pound. Does it pay the farmers
of Alleghany county to pool their
wool?
MANY THOUSANDS
TO BE ENCAMPED
Morale of Personnel of
Primary Consider
ation
Fort Bragg, May 26.—By July 1,
approximately 38,000 men of the Ci
vilian Conservation Corps will be
located in forest camps in the eight
states comprising this corps area.
During eight hours of each work day
these men will be at work in the
woods. For the remaining 16 hours
it will be up to the army to mpke
their lives as pleasant as possible.
As is the case with all armies, so
with the forest army, the morale of
the personnel is of primary consid
eration. To this end Maj. Gen. Ed
ward L. King, corps area.commander
has established an organization in
the Fourth Corps Area, under su
pervision of Maj. P. S. Gage, Coast
Artillery Corps, an officer of much
experience, to employ the off duty
hours to the best advantage. Each
of the forest districts in the corps
area has its welfare officer, and in
every forest camp one of the Regu
lar Army officers on duty will he
designated as the welfare officer.
A system of traveling libraries will
be established in the forest camps,
each library containing from 150 to
200 books. Many of these books will
be on various technical subjects so
that young men who desire to im
prove their leisure hours by serious
study will have an opportunity to
do so. Facilities also will be offer
ed for training in vocational trades
under guidance of proper instruc
tors.
Magazines and newspapers wilMie
distributed to the various camps so
that a member therof may keep
abreast of current events and have
up-to-date reading material.
As funds are made available, by
the war departmept, districts and
camp welfare officers will be' allot
ted money with which to buy ath
letic equipment with which to foster
good sportsmanship and stimulate a
healthy, competitive spirit in the
camps. As time goes on, it is quite
conceivable that baseball and other
leagues will be formed which will
prove of a highly beneficial and in
teresting character.—Raleigh News
and Observer.
Alleghany county has fourteen
boys in the Civilian Conservation
Corps now in training at Fort Bragg.
After two weeks of preliminary in
struction these men will be sent to
various forest camps in the Fourth
Corps Area. Those from Alleghany
are:
Robert Watson, Homer Reqxes,
Frank Hines, John Frank McMillan,
Preston Reeves, Bert Andrews, Gar
nett Nichols, Lorn John Higgins,
Raymond Rector, Ketcher Duncan,
Virgil Goodmen, Eugene Murray,
Porter Wagoner, Eugene Brown.
Believe Ashe County
Man Largest In C. C. C.
James H. Scott, 19, of lower
Grassy Creek. Ashe county, is be
lieved to be the largest man in the
entire Civilian Conservation Corps,
according to Brigadier General
Manus McCloskey, in comand of the
C. C- C., at Fort Bragg. Scott weighs
27U pounds, is seven feet two inches
tall, and wears a number fourteen
shoe. Last winter he played center
on the Grassy Creek all star team
and attracted considerable attention
with his playing in a basketball
tournament at Wilkesboro.
Immediate members of Scott’s
family are normal in size.
Commissioners To Meet
The Board of County Commission
ers of Alleghany County will sit in
regular session on Monday, June 5
for the transaction of such business
as will probably come before the
Board.
THANKS
To the Editors Alleghany Times:
I am delighted to learn that you
are installing a new linotype ma
chine for printing The Alleghany
Times. It is the first time that
such equipment has been installed or
used in this Cpnnty and the public
is to be congratulated. For this
means that our county can have a
real modern newspaper printed at
home. I am certain that the people
of the county will support you whole
heartedly in your undertaking, and
I hope to see your paper in every
home in the county and a real in
fluence in the life of our people.
With best wishes,
Tours very truly,
R. F. CROUSE.
Sparta, N. C. i
May 30th. ;