Mrs. Will Finley has been spending a few days with Mrs. Horton Finley.
A Mr. Pound has bought the R.B. Williams farm on the Brushy mountain.
Mr. W.S. Wellborn spent Sunday at Kannapolis where Mrs. Wellborn is visiting her parents.
Mr. Clate McNeill of Raleigh, travelling salesman for a Norfolk paper house, was here last week.
Mrs. J.T. Roland of the Wilkes Patriot spent the past week end with her husband on Long Island, N.Y.
Mr. C.B. Schulenburger, cashier of the Bank of Wilkes, went down to Landis in Rowan Saturday, where is his old home.
Mr. Russel Hendren left Thursday morning in his car for Raleigh, near which point he will stall a lighting plant in (a) farm residence.
According to the old adage of the ground hog coming out of his hole on the second day of February—six weeks of more winter weather is expected.
Messrs. Joe Johnson, Chas. C. Smoot, J.C. Grayson, R.N. Sanford and W.P. Kelley motored to Winston-Salem last Thursday night to attend a Masonic meeting.
Mr. W.L. Shumate, one of Wilkes county’s well-known and most respected citizens, of Mulberry township, has been sick with grip a few weeks, his friends are sorry to learn.
Mr. D.M. Beardsley of Durham was here last week and opened up the Singer Sewing Machine office, next door to Blue Mont hotel. Mrs. A.E. Spainhower has the office in charge.
Mr. Rutledge, editor of the Yadkin county newspaper for 10 or 15 years now, and now also postmaster there, was here Friday hunting a cook and a devil. It’s the first time we’ve seen our friend in many years.
Mr. R.S. Griswold, who has been teaching in the high school department at Millers Creek, left last Wednesday for Bethlehem, Pa., where he takes a position there as instructor of electrical engineering in the high school.
Memorial services are to be held in the North Wilkesboro Methodist church this afternoon at 3 p.m. in commemoration of President Wilson. All business houses are requested to close at that hour Wednesday and thus show respect to our ex-President and a great leader.
Mr. A.C. Bovender, who, the past year has occupied the cottage next to the Hustler office eastward on C street, and employed himself in garage work in the Harper shophouse near, last Thursday moved his household furniture to Hickory, where he and family will reside.
County Road Clerk W.H. Foster recently, last month, had printed in our local papers a statement (aside from that in the Hustler Jan. 23rd) designating each stretch of road in Wilkes county including bridges and kid of bridges built out of the $275,000 of bonds issued about a year ago (the mass meeting of taxpayers and citizens being held Feb. 5th, 1923).
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1924
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