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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