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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Local News in Wilkesboro and Wilkes County, April 30, 1924

Local News in Town and County

Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Hadley and little daughter Ruth of Elkin were in North Wilkesboro yesterday.

The public school at Grassy Creek, near Pleasant Ridge church, Edwards township, will close next Saturday, May 3rd.

Teams and hands are at work digging a basement or ground floor for the S.V. Tomlinson firm just above the depot for a ware house.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Parkins will move the first of next week to Winston-Salem to make that their home. Their many friends regret their going.

There will be a box supper Saturday night at Haymeadow church, the proceedings to go to the repairing of the building. The public is invited.

Rev. W.C. Meadows will preach at Lewis Fork church the first Sunday in May at 11 a.m. Also at Mount Pleasant church the same day at 3 p.m.

Dr. W.R. Wilkins has accepted a position with a Greensboro selling agency as travelling salesman. He has been with the Brame Drug Company 12 or 13 years.

Mr. C.H. Somers returned last week to Raleigh to resume duties as assistant deputy collector in the office there after having spent the week-end prior at home.

A series of meetings will begin at the Presbyterian church in Wilkesboro Sunday night, May 11th, conducted by Rev. Joe H. Carter. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these services.

The U.D.C. will meet with Mesdames C.H. Cowles and P.E. Brown as hostess at the home of Mrs. Cowley on next Monday afternoon, May 5th, at 3 o’clock. All members are requested to be present.

Mr. J.L. Parsons of Boomer community was in town Monday and informed us that he had bedded 23 bushels of fine sweet potatoes and figures that he will have a 100,000 plants for sale. See his advertisement for prices.

Within the county limits there are a half dozen or more radio stations owned by Mr. Triplett near Maple Springs, two or more in the Wilkesboro—Commercial Club and D.S. Melville—and one near Roaring River at Mr. J.L. Hemphill’s farm—and one perhaps a Moravian.

Mr. U.A. Miller, county agent for Alexander, has completed a water ram, says the Taylorsville Times, that furnishes a farmer in the county 45 gallons of water per hour a quarter of a mile away, the cost being $200, or at least is says the bill “including the material” was.

Miss Fann Cranor and nephew, of Oconoco, Md., arrived last Wednesday visiting her brothers here. Mrs. C.M. Cranor of Roanoke, Va., accompanied them, having spent first a few days with Mr. and Mrs. W.H. McElwee at Statesville. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Cranor,--the former being here also—will go from here to Georgia to live.

Work began in Wilkesboro last Wednesday on Cherry street for laying of pipe lines for the town water with something like a dozen colored hands. About that many more were expected to arrive Monday. And on Monday afternoon work of cutting the ditch across the Yadkin bottoms began, starting in North Wilkesboro near the Ed. Vannoy house below the railroad crossing.

A bad wreck occurred just beyond the Forks near Wade Ashley’s Saturday night between 8 and 9 o’clock when Mr. George More of Spurgeon was going out of town in a one-horse wagon with a load when a car coming into town ran into him knocking the horse down and under the wagon and breaking off the shafts. A boy asleep in the rear of the wagon landed out in the field. Corn liquor was running the car.

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, April 30, 1924

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