Teachers Seen Smoking Cigarettes Will Be Asked to Resign, Feb. 10, 1926

Teachers in Wilkes Who Smoke Cigarettes Will Be Asked to Resign

To whom it may concern:

It having come to the knowledge of the board of education that some teachers, both ladies and gentlemen, in the public schools of Wilkes County have been seen smoking cigarettes, it is the order of the board that in case such action is persisted in, such teachers will be asked to resign.

This order made this the 2nd day of February 1926.

--C.C. Wright, Sec. Board of Education

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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Editors Glad Teachers May No Longer Smoke Cigarettes. Why Not Ban Chewing Tobacco and Snuff-Dipping, Too? Feb. 10, 1926

The county board of education has issued an order forbidding cigarette smoking by the teachers—good! Why not include chewing tobacco and snuff-dipping?

From the editorial page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926. W.E. and R.B. Pharr, editors.

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In Mayor's Court Feb. 8, 1926

Regular Mayor’s Court Monday—Many Cases

--Barney Call, operating car without license, $10 and cost

--John Porter, Richard Brookshire, Joe McNeill, Tom Williams, gambling, $5 each and cost

--J.D. Spicer, Jim Williams, John Church, DeWitt Minton, aiding and abetting in gambling, $5 each and cost

--Parks Billings, Herbert Billings, Carl Billings, Sherman Queen, Howard Revis, gambling, $25 and cost

--Evan Wiles, John Billings, gambling, judgment suspended on payment of cost

--Ralph Freeland, gambling, judgment to serve former sentence of court

--Will Hoskins, Tom Harris, Ed. Brown, Chas. Redman, gambling, $10 and cost

--Boyd Bumgarner, operating car under influence of liquor, $50 and cost

--Boyd Bumgarner, speeding and reckless driving, $1 and cost

--Boy Bumgarner, transporting, prayer for judgement continued on payment of cost

--Tom Williams, retailing in two cases, 6 months in each case, appealed

--Tom William, operating gambling house, bound to court

--Joe McNeill, transporting, 6 months, appeal to court

--Millard Bell, drunk, $10 and cost

--L.W. Davis, transporting, 30 days, suspended sentence on payment of cost

--Cecil Wiles, speeding, prayer for judgment continued on payment of cost

--Marshel Herrald, beating board bill, judgment that he pay board bill and fined $1 and cost

--Tom Roop, transporting, in two cases prayer for judgment continued on payment of cost

--John Billings, resisting officer, $25 and cost

--Evan Wiles, transporting, $25 and cost

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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A.G. Hendren Explains What Apple Orchards Need, Feb. 10, 1926

On this page appears a cut of the orchard school held at the Commercial Club Rooms on January 19th-20th. The personnel of this school was high. A number of the leading orchardists from this and surrounding counties attended. These are intelligent and forward looking citizens, capable of bringing fruit-growing into its own in this section.

As was published heretofore in the report of the school, several leading horticulturists of the State were present and made instructive talks. One of the leading things these speakers specially stress was the importance of soil improvement. We must grow a tree before we can grow fruit. It is just as important to have a good healthful tree to bear apples as it is to have a strong stalk to bear an ear of corn. It takes good soil to grow a good tree, therefore if we would have good, healthful, strong apple trees we must build up the soil where they grow. We all have heard it said that certain orchards bear only every other year. The reason for this is that the trees lack plant food supplied by a good soil annually replenished by a good fertilizer. In other words, the soil should be rich enough not only to grow and fully mature the present crop of fruit but to prepare the tree to start the next year’s crop. This is a recent discovery but a valuable one for profitable fruit-growing. The best plant food to prepare the trees for next year’s buds is Nitrate of Soda applied this spring just as the buds begin to swell. The application of Soda will also help this year’s crop.

The proper amount of Nitrate of Soda to use is from one to three pounds per tree, depending on the size and age of the tree.

--A.G. Hendren, County Agent, Wilkes, N.C., February 10, 1926

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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Poultry Raisers Share at Association Meeting, Feb. 10, 1926

Poultry Raisers’ Meeting for February Last Friday

The Wilkes Poultry Association met at the Commercial Club rooms last Friday. Mr. J.C. Henry presided, which was the regular meeting for February.

Mr. Kerr of the state department is in the county this week, inspecting poultry for white diarrhea and taking blood tests.

Mr. Henry stated that he was paying, at the Wilkes Hatchery, 60 cents per dozen for hatching eggs.

Mr. W.T. Kilby, veteran poultryman of the county, stated that last year from 500 hens he got eight two-horse loads of chicken manure, which is worth, he says, from two to three times as much as any other.

It was authoritatively stated in the meeting that too much grain fed to hens would cause them to lay eggs without a shell. To stop this, give hens oyster shells.

One member present said that he would have 1,200 fryers ready for the market in March, and the first part of April.

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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Town and Country News, Feb. 10, 1926

Town and Country News. . . Local Items of Interest

The season for shooting quail in Wilkes closed February 1st.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Dennis Friday, Feb. 5th, a son.

Mr. T.B. Duncan of Moravian Falls, while at work at a saw mill, fell and broke his right thigh.

Last Saturday the E.E. Eller Company sent 5,108 pounds of chickens to Statesville on a truck.

The ladies of the Wilkesboro Presbyterian church have purchased and put down a beautiful carpet on the church floor.

The ladies of the Wilkesboro Baptist Church will serve dinner at the court house the first part of the week of March term of court.

The Griffon’s Shop has been moved from the Bank of North Wilkesboro building on 9th street to Main street in the C.H. Holland building.

The Wilkes Patriot has moved its printing office from back of court house to the Dr. Gray building, opposite C.F. Morrison’s hardware store on Main street in Wilkesboro.

The county Board of Education and the trustees of Roaring River school are planning to build a $28,000 school building. It will be located on the west side of Roaring River.

Mr. Mont. Jones of Oakwoods was bitten by a mad dog several days ago and is now taking the Pasteur treatment. The dogs in a community where a mad dog has been killed should either be killed or confined.

James P. Rousseau Jr., 8-months-old son of Dr. and Mrs. J.P. Rousseau, died January 31st. He is survived by his parents, sister, Mary Louise, grand-father, Dr. H.B. Horton of Winston-Salem, and grand-mother, Mrs. Lila Rousseau, Wilkesboro.

The Wilkes Laundry has just finished and equipped a dry room for drying clohes for customers who want their laundry finished “rough dry” and bath towels, counterpanes and garments on which the nap is desired fluffy. This dry room will enable the laundry to give better service to their customers during continued spells of rainy or cloudy weather.

Dr. and Mrs. W.R. Wellborn are in receipt of a recent message telling of the critical illness of the former’s sister, Miss Nancy Wellborn, in a hospital in Tampa, Fla. Miss Wellborn has been teaching in Tampa this winter and became very ill of influenza. Her friends here and elsewhere will be deeply gratified to hear of an improvement in her condition—Elkin Tribune.

A mutual benefit burial association has been organized and chartered in the name of The J.L. Turner & son Mutual Benefit Burial Association. The following are the officers: J.L. Turner, president; J.E. Turner, secretary and treasurer. Directors: C. Call, W.F. Miller, D.E. Smoak, J.E. Turner, L.G. Caldwell, J.L., E.E., and A.A. Turner, and J.R. Henderson.

Mooresville officers last week captured a Hudson car and 105 gallons of “hootch.” The party driving the car made good his escape. The car is held and will probably be sold at public auction. Upon inquiry from the state department at Raleigh, says the Mooresville Enterprise, the state license No. 115,462 had been issued to Walter Holland, Wilkes County. The car was headed for Charlotte.

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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Local Items in N. Wilkesboro Hustler, Feb. 10, 1926

Persons Coming and Going. . . Local and County Items

Miss Ruth Downs of Asheville visited her sister, Mrs. T.E. Story, last week.

Mrs. T.M. Darlington returned last Wednesday from Lenoir where she had visited her brother a few days.

Miss Louise Greene, teacher in the West Jefferson graded school, is at home suffering with a sprained ankle.

Mr. J.E. Spainhour left last Thursday for a two weeks trip north to buy goods for the Spainhour-Sydnor Dry Goods Co.

Mrs. Ed Caudill, formerly of this place but now living in Charlotte, underwent a slight operation in a Charlotte hospital last week.

P.E. Daney has an advertisement of real estate and automobile accident insurance to which we direct the attention of our readers.

Messrs. H.M. Anderson, F.C. Forester and J.T. Prevette returned last Saturday from Hot Springs, Ark., where they had been taking treatment.

Mr. Sam. Cassell, pharmacist at one of the Winston-Salem drug stores, was here the past week, returning to Winston Sunday. He moved to Winston from North Wilkesboro 11 years ago and lives in west Winston from the main square where they purchased when they moved. They now have three children, three daughters.

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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