Wilkes County Fair to Open Sept. 27, 1926

Wilkes Fair to be Held Week of Sept. 27th

Wilkes County is to have county fair this fall during the week of September 27th. This is the exact date of the last countywide fair held in Wilkes in 1916.

The stockholders met Saturday, June 19th, and elected a board of directors as follows: C.S. Coffey, E.E. Eller, E.G. Finley, D.J. Carter, R.E. Walters, C.C. Wright, H.H. Jennings, W.A. McNeill and H.H. Moorehouse. The following officers were elected:

--C.S. Coffey, president and general manager.

--E.G. Finley, vice-president and treasurer.

--Jack Quinn, secretary.

The fair will be held at the old fairgrounds. An exhibit hall will be built, the fence and grandstand has been replaced and repaired.

Mr. Coffey says they expect to have a real fair—horse racing, etc.

Everybody is urged to speak a good word for the Wilkes fair. A good fair will advertise this section in many ways.

From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, June 30, 1926

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News from Across the State, June 30, 1926

General News items—State and Nation

The price of Ford cars has been reduced.

The town of Boone is to have mail delivery service, effective September 1st.

Greystone Inn, the handsome new $250,000 resort hotel at Roaring Gap, Alleghany County was formally opened Monday, June 21st.

R.B. Crowder, convicted on 11 counts of embezzling $50,387.98 of the funds of the defunct Farmers and Merchants Bank of Henderson, which closed its doors April 15, 1924 while he was cashier, last week drew a 20-year sentence at hard labor in State prison. “Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap.”

Watauga school children will visit Winston-Salem Thursday, July 1st. Miss Eula Todd will be in charge of the girls and Dean Swift will take care of the boys.

Edmond Greer, age 15, was drowned last Wednesday at Lake Broyhill, south of Lenoir, while playing in the water with four other youths of about the same age. None of the boys could swim and when young Greer ventured into deep water, he was unable to save himself.

Watauga Democrat; Between 8,000 and 20, 000 pounds of wool was shipped from Avery County at 40 cents a pound last week. Avery County ranks third in the production of wool in North Carolina, Ashe first and Watauga second. Next to poultry growing, wool production is the quickest and most lucrative farm project that is being promoted in this section.

One community in Alamance County is now shipping 9,000 gallons of milk per month from which an income of $2,350 is being secured. It is up to our farmers to give more attention to cows, hogs, chickens and fruit. Our people cannot hope to grow grain for the market, and the sooner they get out of this old rut, the better. This is not a grain growing section.

The State reunion of Confederate veterans held at Wilmington last week disbanded Thursday. They visited Fort Fisher Thursday and Wrightsville Beach the day before. Thursday the streets of Wilmington presented a riot of colors with Stars and Bars floating from every building and flagstaff. The monument of George Davis, attorney-general in the cabinet of President Jefferson Davis, was draped in the Confederate colors and was the memorial monument to Confederate dead. One of the surprising features was the vigor and enthusiasm of the veterans. Alert, agile and jovial, these warriors of another day appeared fit and ready for more convocations with their comrades.

From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, June 30, 1926

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Missing Boy, John Hampton, Returned to Home, June 30, 1926

Missing Boy Found

Elizabeth City, June 29—Young John Hampton, reported to the police as missing, is safe at his home in Water Lily, Currituck County, it was learned late Friday. The boy was taken home Thursday night by his uncle, Captain Lloyd Doxey, skipper of the good ship Vansciver of the North River line.

From page 6 of The Goldsboro News, June 30, 1926

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Town and County News in the Hustler, June 30, 1926

Town and County News. . . Local Items of Interest

Grocery stores are paying 10 cents per pound for garden beans.

July 4th comes next Sunday. Everybody celebrate by going to church.

Mr. C.C. O’Daniels has accepted a position with Blair & Co. His many friends welcome him.

The brick work on the handsome residence Mr. James Hix is having erected on D Street was completed last week. It is next to J.D. Moore’s location.

The blackberry season will soon be on. The canners are making preparations for a big season. Cans are being hauled out to different sections of the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Matherly, who went to Florida last December, returned here on the noon train Wednesday and went to their home on Beaver Creek.

Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Forrester returned the past week-end from a trip of several days to Philadelphia where they took in the exposition and spent a few days at Baltimore and New York.

The county summer school for the colored race will open at the Training School, Lincoln Heights, Wilkesboro, on Tuesday, July 13, 9 a.m. School will continue for a term of six weeks, and teachers must register not later than the third of the session.

Elkin Tribune, 24th: Mrs. Ida Cassel left Tuesday to join a party of Greensboro friends on a vacation trip to Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Niagara Falls, taking in the Sesquicentennial in addition to the other places of interest which the trip includes.

Linney and Lonny church, sons of Enoch Church, who live on the Whit Williams farm, were being sought by the sheriff Sunday afternoon for abusing their own father and striking Powell Williams in the face with a roc. They were tanked up on liquor. One of these boys is now under suspended sentence for retailing. [selling liquor]

A farmers picnic will be held at Suphur Springs August 5th. An effort’s being made to make it countywide. Good speaking, games, contests, etc., will be afforded those who attend. Iredell County has one every year, a picnic of this nature, and last year over 10,000 people attended. Why not our people get together.

Mr. Frank Goodell of Cleveland, Ohio, who visited Mr. A.P. Gould last summer, was in a railroad wreck recently at Blairsville, Pa. The pullman car in which he was riding was completely demolished and every person in it, but himself, were either killed or hurt.

Mrs. Whit Williams returned several days ago from Winston-Salem, where being treated in the hospital. Her daughters, Mrs. George Miller and Mrs. David Welborn, of that city, returned home with her. Messrs. Miller and Welborn spent the past week-end at their farm west of Wilkesboro.

Mrs. E.M. Blackburn had her tonsils removed last week at the Wilkes hospital.

Watauga Democrat: Miss Veva Foster, who has been doing stenographic work for the Foster Construction Company here, has gone to Taylorsville where her father has a contract for a stretch of paving between that town and the Wilkesboros.

Mrs. C.H. Somers of Wilkesboro, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Pattie, returned several days ago from a visit to the former’s daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Bingham at Knoxville, Tenn.

Mrs. Monroe German of Boomer took the woman’s course of study at the North Carolina State College, Raleigh.

From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, June 30, 1926

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L.B. Perry to Remodel Bay View Hotel, Edenton, June 30, 1926

Remodel Bay View Hotel

Edenton, June 29—Contract has been awarded to L.B. Perry of Elizabeth City for the remodeling of the Bay View Hotel. The structure will be virtually a new one when the proposed alterations have been made. The front of the building is to be of colonial design with face-brick and the side facing the courthouse, which is to be one of the new wings built is also to be finished in like manner.

From page 6 of The Goldsboro News, June 30, 1926

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Gertie Huffmman, 50, Died June 17, 1926

Death of Mrs. Huffman

Mrs. Gertie R. Huffman died June 17th. She had been ill ever since August 2nd, 1925. She underwent an operation at Statesville and afterwards returned home, and then went back to Statesville the second time. But the doctors advised that she go home and stay until stronger. She kept getting worse.

She was 50 years, 6 months and 23 days of age. She Joined Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church about 35 years ago and had been a faithful member ever since.

She was married to Mr. Frank Huffman. There were born nine children to them: Mrs. Lum Huffman of Purlear; Donnie, Cobert, Daniel, Turner, Hampton and Lenn, and two died when small. Four are dead. Donnie was drowned in Yellow Jacket Lake August 10th, 1923; Cobert died with diphtheria several years back. She has four sisters and two brothers, Sisters: Mrs. Octavia Whittington of Purlear, Mrs. Doskey Yates, Mrs. Ida Holder, Mrs. Liza Jennings; and brother Gaither Walsh and E.J. Walsh, and many friends. She was loved by all who knew her.

For about a week prior to her death she had not talked anymore than a whisper until a few hours before her death she talked some about two hours saying that she was not afraid to die and regretted to leave her husband, children, neighbors and friends. Rev. G. Sebastian visited her Sunday.

From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, June 30, 1926

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John Warren, 42, Died in West Virginia, June 30, 1926

Death of Roaring River Man, Mr. John Warren, in West Virginia

Mr. John Warren, aged 42 years, died last week in West Virigina where he was in the employ of a railroad company. His body was shipped to Roaring River, and the burial was Sunday following the funeral Sunday afternoon at Roaring River.

He is survived by his wife and one daughter, the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. J.B. Church of Roaring River; Mrs. Bob Church of Elkin; Mrs. Robert Jones near Oakwoods; Mrs. Dave Morrison of Roaring River; Mrs. Thos. Feltz of Roaring River; Mrs. Luther Duncan, also of that community.

The deceased had been in West Virginia about 15 years and was the oldest brother.

From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, June 30, 1926

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