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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