The North Wilkesboro Hustler from North Wilkesboro, North Carolina • Page 1

The North Hustler. Published Tuesdays and Fridays. North Wilkesboro, N. FEBRUARY 11, 1919. Established July 1896 LOCAL NEWS IN TOWN AND COUNTY Alexander superior court will convene at Taylorsville next Monday 17th Private Dixon Walsh, Purlear, F.

D. No. 1, Friday's' 'casualty list, as slightly wounded. The graded school at this place opened yesterday with very good attendance of the higher grades. Mr.

W. H. Shook began work yesterday on the building for the E. V. Williams Mill Company on tenth street.

Mr. H. C. Landon returned Saturday from Greensboro where sale of the Watauga Yadkin River railroad was confirmed. Probably Hon.

R. N. Page, candidate for governor of North Carolina, will speak at the -court house Monday of court, March 10th. A skift of snow covered the ground Sunday morning and snow fell practically 'all day Suaday but did not lay This is the first snow we have had this winter. Mr.

J. E. Spainhour left yesterday for New York City to buy goods for the Spainhour-Sydnor Co. The hotels of that city are now so crowded that he had to, write ahead for room. Miss Nettie Andrews recently managing a millinery business at Elkin is going north this week to purchase goods for a firm in Winston Salem where she will be located this coming 808800.

Next Friday is the day set for the township meetings in the county to elect representatives to attend the county mass meeting at the court house on Monday February 17th. See that your township holds a meeting. Mr. H. R.

Vannoy and children desire to thank the good people who so kindly assisted them during the illness and deaths from pneumonia of his wife, their mother, his father-in-law, their grand father, his brother-in-law or their uncle, and illness of himself and others. Mr. J. W. Nichols, who has entered the mill manufacturing business, has been with the C.

D. Coffey lumber business since 1907 not having lost scarcely any time. Prior to this he was connected with the A.M. Church Sons Confor one year. Henry Lackey, who was sent Gaston county roads lasf August term of court for 8 months for retailing has been payrolled since January 22od but for some reason has never received notice of same so a telephone message from Attorney Burke in Taylorsville last Friday night stated.

Mr. C. Landon, this week ed a certificate of honor from the Southern Division of the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. The number enrolled named in the certificate from this county is 1,006 and be says when all are in it may reach 1,500. The people of Wilkes county have given their sons and their dollars most patriotically and humanely.

The 'Brame Medicine which some time ago purchased the row of brick store houses from the depot up to ita old stand, is having an additional basement to the one next to the depot excavated. The nearest store room to ita old stand is being filled with goods already. This compang's business, has so. much. increased that 1 more room is necessary.

Some smallpox has been discovered in and near town. The family of Harrison, Gregory in the east part of town is about well of it. Mrs. Charley Horton was a suspect yesterday. A colored man named John Wilborn in East Caro is just recovering a report says and the idea seems to prevail that several cases may exist among negro: 08 on Negro Hill east of town.

Mr. J. W. Jones bas sold his entire herd of dairy cattle to Forester and Phillips, who are offering them for sale. Mr.

Jones has been in the dairy business for 8 years or more, busand has conducted a satisfactory iness during this time and milk buywill greatly miss his prompt and ers efficient service. Mr. Jones is one of Wilkes, counta'e. best. farmers and we are glad to announce that he will continue in this business.

Citizens Opposed to Old Commission- Suggestions As to Roads. We are giving a few suggestions from men in regard to what should be done in order to have better roads and get the value of money to be spent: One man's suggestion is that four new men who may draw pay be added to the old commission and eight new men without pay to sit with the board when laying out roads- -he is of the opinion that eight patriotic men can found who will do this much for the county gratis--and in this way save the county of any graft in the way of "you tickle me and I'll tickle you." Another man suggests that all the old board's time has expired, according to the Attorney General's ruling, and five new men should be appointed, all of whom should live in the towns so that each community could come before the commission and receive an unbiased hearing. Another suggests that a commission should be chosen in whom the people have the utmost confidence and full power be given them to spend the money where they see fit after hearing from the different localities. Another saye that the proposed law printed in last week's issue is right provided we can get rid of the old commission, who have recently wasted two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars of the county's money. Another says it is very important that we put off road work at present and thereby save one third of our money on account of high prices, which in one or two years will be greatly reduced.

Another is that the following men be named on the commission: J. D. Moore, Vyne, C. C. Gentry, R.

N. Garner and Thomas Ferguson, and that the proposed law in last week's Hustler be enacted. One man says it has dwindled into county politics and the fight now is who shall have the road funds to spend in 1920 and with "shrewd ourveying and laying off roads, name the next sheriff. At a good roads convention held in Ashe county at Jefferson last week the following resolutions were adoptwithout a dissenting vote: "Resolved that the people of Ashe county, in convention assembled do heartily endorse the Stevens-Scales Good Roads Bill now pending before the General Assembly, and urge that a General Uniform county and Statewide Road Law, providing for County Highway Commissions with full power for building and maintaining public roads be enacted -said laws to apply to Ashe county. Be it rosolved that we, The Good Roads Association of and for Ashe county do respectfully ask that our Representative, Thomas A.

Farmer, pass a bill in the present session of the Legislature of North Carolina, authorizing and directing the missioners of Ashe county to issue $300,000.00 in bonds for the building of roads in Ashe county. Be it resolved that we also ask that a bill be passed appointing and establishing a county Highway Commission for Ashe county, and that S. G. Parsons, A. A.

Price and G. M. Donnelly be named therein as Highway Commiseioners. Road Work in Walauga. The steam shovel is now moving dirt in the cut near the residence of Mr.

J. C. Hodges, which is a little more than one fourth of a mile from the gap of the Rich Mountain. The weather has been fine through January and the road forces have certainly taken advantage of the opportunities offered. -Watauga Democrat.

Post Card From Overseas--Pit. Pennell Starts for North Sea. Bordeaux, France, Jan Hustler: I wish you a happy New Year and all the folks in the State of Wilkes. I leave soon for a town up near the North Sea. Best wishes, J.

0. PENNEL. Wilkes Soldiers Coming in from Overseas Wounded at Bellecourt. Pvt. J.

A. Osborne came in last week from overseas discharged finally from Camp Gordon, baving landed at a S. port January 7th, en route to his home near Springfield, Walnut Grove township, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Osborne.

He was wounded by shrapnel in the back and right thigh September 29th at the battle of St. Quinten, near Belle Court, France on the same day that more than one Wilkes boy was wounded. Osborne left last May and is now looking fine having just emerged from four months in the hospital he said however. K. H.

Hodges, overseas the past two years with a medical corps in the U. S. A. he said, came in Friday en route to his home at Darby. He disembarked from ship January 21st.

Pvt. Ray Robinson, of Reddies River township is another of the camp boys at home. Pvt. H. S.

Steelman has returned to his father's near Oakwoods, arriving bome last Friday. He was also wounded at Belle Court-2 pieces in his chest, one in the arm and one other. W. L. Howell, of Ashe county, arrived from Camp Greene, Charlotte, here Saturday from overseas wounded in the side by a bullet that went all the way through, October 2ad, 1918, back to New York January 20th.

He was shot at Bellecourt. Mr. Sammuel Pennel who returned several days ago from overseas where wounded at Bellecourt September 29, was in town Saturday having Dr, Duncan make out papers to the government which has allowed him 75 per cent of his insurance. Mr. Roby Lankford, who went across and was wounded, and returned to America several weeks ago, came in from Virginia Sunday honorably discharged from the Expeditionary Forces.

He is a son of Mr. Kapp Lankford, and one of the few sons of Confederate Veterans in the forcesand carries a wound in the neck. Frank Staley came in yesterday from Camp Jackson with honorable discharge en route to his father's, Mr. John Staley, in Antioch township. Pvt.

H. H. Walker of New Castle township has returned home from overseas. Mr. Gordon Church, of Wilkesboro, had a letter from his son, Private Church, last week just returned from across the water and did not know when he would arrive here.

Representatives Pay Tribute to Memory of Roosevelt. Washington, Feb. 9-In solemn services within the house chamber today the nation's leaders and representatives of foreign governments paid tribute to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Members of Congress, supreme court justices, members of cabinet, army and navy officers, and diplomats of many nations heard Senator Lodge of Massachusetts praise Roosevelt as a statesman and 99 a man, Crowded galleries and the throng of men and women who could not gain admission testified to the personal feeling for the man whose death shocked the world. It was this to which Senator Lodge, a close friend of the man he eulogized, referred when he spoke these words in the stillness of the house chamber: "A tower is fallen, a star is set! Alas! Alas! for Celin.

"The words of lamentation from the old Moorish ballad, which in boyhood we used to recite, must, I think, have risen to many lips when the world was told that Theodore Roosevelt was dead. But whatever the phrase the thought was instant and everywhere. Two of the 12 Heard from -Sergeant Jno. W. Hall and Pvt.

Gambill. Aix-Les-Bains, France, January 17th. -My dear mamma: Will write you again -hope you are all well. am having good health. Well mamma I am in A'x-Les-Bains on seven day furlough.

This is the first vacation I have had since I was at home over a year ago. Yes the war is over and I'll tell you a bit of my experience since I left the States, after sailing from New York we landed at Liverpool, we stayed in England for eight days and then to Cherbourg, France: Then went to a small town and had a few days rest and the next place was on the firing line for eighteen days and of course you couldn't expect me to tell you all happened while up there but during our stay the Germans came over and they didn't all go back. And the Dext place was to the Verdum front. We were held in reserve for a few days, but three days before the Armistice was signed we went up against Germans and had a hot battle. Some of the men in my company was killed and lots wounded.

I come out 0.K. So I guess I was just lucky. I am now in a few miles of Italy, and also Switzerland; you can look on the map and see Aix-Les-Boins; it is one of France's largest cities. I am sending you a few pictures of the city; hope to be home some day and will tell you more. Write me a long letter.

1 haven't heard from any one in over a month. Best regards to all. Your loving son, JOHN W. HALL, Co. 317th M.

G. Bn. American F. France. P.

S. I'm in 81st Wildcat Division. Carl (Gambill) was OK. when I left the company. Aix-Les-Bains, France, Jan.

I have been up on Mount Rwalo; it is a high mountain and I must say we had a big time when we arrived on top. We found plenty of snow and one of the finest places for slay-riding and skating I ever saw. I have been here four days and will stay about four more. I have certainly enjoyed this trip the best of any I have ever taken. I am going across a large lake this afternoon to see some real monks.

Guess I have wrote enough about myself. I'll ask some questions. Where is Commadore now, and what is Philo doing? Who is teaching school this winter? Are you all having a good trade, is Hessie going to school or staying in the store? Yes I am sending you some of my pictures so you can see how the boy looks over here. The Wildcat on my left arm represents the Wildcat Divi gion. Your loving son, JOHN W.

HALL Editor Joe H. King Dead. Durham. Feb. 9-Joe H.

King, one of the best known editorial paragraphers in the South, died at his home in this is city this morning at 6 o'clock, following illness caused by pneumonia. He had been ill less than two weeks. He was 56 years of age. Until a few months ago Mr. King was halfowner of The Morning Herald in this city, and bad been in charge of its editorial columns since the paper was founded nearly 30 years ago.

He was one of the founders of the paper. Price Fixing Committee Will Cease Work. March 1. Washington, Feb. pricefixing committee of the war industries board will cease to exist on March 1.

This became known tonight through publication in the official bulletin of the committee on public, information of the joint letter the committee to President. at Haris and his reply. The committeemen include former Governor Henry C. Stuart, of Virginia, representing the agricultural department. Mr.

William Herbert Tomlin, of Statesville, died last Thursday from influenza and pneumonia at the age of 29 years. He WAS a son of Mr. Charles S. Tomlin who is well known and much liked in Wilkes. The deceased is survived by his wife and two little children.

The Department of Labor Predicts Labor Shortage. Washington, Feb. of long continued unemployment were discounted today in a statement by the training service of the department of labor which predicted that when agriculture and industrial concerns get under way in the Spring there will be a shortage of several million men. Manufacturers were urged to begin at once a training program to increase the efficiency of the help they now have in anticipation of the shortage to come later. The statement said that practical cessation of immigration in the last four years had caused a loss of 2,500 000 new inhabitants and that probably 1,000,000 American workers would be under arms in France for many months.

Soldiers' Mail not Delayed in France, Says Pershing Washington, Feb. Pershing cabled the war department today denying reporte that mail to and from the American expeditionary forces had become congested at French railheads. The general said there was no delay or accumulation of mail for the United States and no accumulation of correctly addressed mail arriving in France for the soldiers. General Pershing said there were 1,210 sacks of incorrectly addressed mail at the central army postoffice in France now being redirected, while only 126 sacks of dead letters had been shipped to the United States during January. The incorrectly addressed mail at the central office, he said, "could be placed in one Ameri can car." The Republican Way.

The Concord Tribune. To show to what lengths the republican members of the Senate will go in their opposition to President Wilson and to everything he proposes, Senator Borah, senator from Idaho, is reported to have said in a debate in the senate last Friday: "If the Savior of mankind were to come to earth and advocate a league of nations, I would oppose it." After uttering such a remarkable statement as that, Senator Borah ought not to expect that his words or actions will hereafter have any weight with normal-minded people. It puts him clear outside the pale of even a momentary consideration. W. C.

T. U. To Campaign For Funds in Nation. In the campaign to raise $1,000 000 by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, to be conducted between March 20 and May 31, North Carolina will be expected to give $2,800 and South Carolina $3,000, according to figures on the quotas assigned to each state. The union plans to inlist 1,000,000 new members in the campaign.

The campaign will mark the opening of a fiveyear jubilee program, at the conclusion of which will be a big celebration in honor of the fiftieth year of the organization's existance. Plain People Will Rule. The Greensboro Patriot, "Gentlemen, the select classes of mankind are Do longer the governors of mankind. The fortunes of mankind are now in the hands of the plain people of the whole world. Satisfy them, and you have justified their confidence not only, but have established peace.

Fail to satisfy them, and no arrangement that you can make will either set up or steady the peace of the, President Wilson, speaking before the peace conference in bebalf of a league of nations. Roosevelt Visits King. Brussels, Feb. D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, was received by King Albert yesterday and later entertained at luncheon by the king.

Alexander good road work will be resumed the first of March. Report ot Men's Corn Club Work at Mountain View. Following is a report of the work done by the men's corn club at Mt. View, N. for the year 1918.

Each man farmed one acre according to demonstration methods. Rev. A. B. Hays, 74 bushels and 14 cost per bushel, 38.5 cents.

C. E. Billings, 72 bushels, 5 cost per bushel 65.5 cents. Rev. J.

A. Blevins 62 bushels, 18 lbs. cost per bushel 34.5. C. M.

Dearman 58 bushels 28 lbs. cost per bushels 52. Timothy Elledge 55 bushels, 38 lbs. cost per bushel 48.5. J.

S. Kilby 54 bushels, 36 lbs. cost per bushel 38.5. Jonah Myers 50 bushels 35 lbs. cost per bushel 41.

H. C. Kilby 44 bushels, 28 lbs. cost per bushel 38.5. J.

A. Gilliam 40 bushels 28 lbs. cost per bushel 43.5. W. F.

Alexander 33 bushels 28 lbs. cost per bushel 36. T. J. Watkins, 28 bushels, cost per bushel 44.5.

G. C. Pendry 25 bushels and 14 cost per bushel 77.5 cents. This is one of the most progressive farming seceions of our county. The average per acre for the whole State is only 21 bushels, while that of the Mt.

View Club is 50 bushels at an average cost of 57.5c.per bushel. Each of these men have decided as have also a number of other men in our county to do even better in 1919 and we are expecting, and hope nothing will prevent, the largest corn yield in our county in 1919 the grand old State of Wilkes has ever known. Old Mother Earth is a great paymaster and we believe that each man will get back with interest every cent he puts on an acre of land and we feel sure that each man will receive ample remuneration for each day's work he puts on an acre of land. Believing this and knowing that each man in the demonstration work is going to do his very best, we cannot but look for a bumper crop. A.

G. HENDREN, County Agent. Deputy Collector Allison Destroys Stills. Deputy Revenue Collector R. P.

Allison Tuesday night raided an illicit distillery outfit in Wilkes county, one quarter of a mile from the home of Reece Johnson, near Windy Gap. The equipment included a complete copper outfit, and 85-gallon copper still, 3,500 gallons of beer and a keg of "backings." The still and materials were destroyed. About 3 o'clock Wednesday morning Deputy Allison, one half a mile from the home of William Coleman, near Windy Gap, discovered a distillery outfit in the making. At this place 1,200 gallons of beer was found. The officer proceeded later in the morning along Big Hunting Creek, on the lands of Clint Jarvis, where a copper outfit was found.

This outfit was located one half mile from the home of John Howard. A number of men were seen in the act of putting up the outfit. The men made their escape. The outfit was destroyed. No arreste have been Landmark.

Caught Bootlegging with 3 Gallons to Winston. Will Cline, a young white man of Winston, was arrested at the depot yesterday morning by Deputy Marshal Bauguss, having a suit case containing 3 or 4 gallons of whiskey. He had one quart in his pocket when the officer went up to him. Cline immediately declared he must have some fresh air and trying to jump out the window knocked a pair 3 foot by 2 out. He was heard by Commissioner Dula this morning and bound over.

His father went on his bond. He bad come to the depot in a Ford sutomobile and had the suit case in the waiting room with him. When the officer started to search it being asked what was in it said he did not know what as it was packed "up at the house" --Charley Craven's hopee,.