Three Davie People Die in Tragic Accident Near Cana

VOLUME XXIX “AU The County N e w i For Everybodjr” . MOCKSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946 ‘AU The County N e w s For Everybody ' No. 29 31 Report For POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT SAYS TOWN THREE DAVIE PEOPLE DIE IN Hi Football HEALTH GROUP TRAGIC ACCIDENT NEAR CANA The Mocksvllle high school MET FRIDAY ENTITLED TO FREE MAIL DELIVERY football hopefuls turned out for CAMPAIGN practice this week 31 strong, In an effort to assimilate plans R, S. Fldier, postoffice inspec delivery. Mr. Fisher stated hi his In one of the most tragic acci* respiration to Mrs. O. M . Howell, Mocksvllle Baptist church will confident of a successful season 'for the betterment of Davie tor, made a survey of Mocks leter that postal receipts wero dents In this section In many expelling some water from her launch a 10-week loyalty cam which will begin about Septem County’s health condition vllle last week and has written sufficient to afford free delivery. year, tihree members of a pro- lungs, but his efforts were of no paign on October 1 which will ber 27. through the local elementary J. P. LeOrand, postmaster, that Olie town commissioners will minent Davle family died last avail. consist of special meetings and and high schools, eight m em the town is entitled to free city discuss naming ot streets at theiff Tuesday afternoon about six o’ Word of the accident is said Coach Raymond Siler is run a series of sermons to enlist all bers of a planning committee delivery. next meeting and a committea clock from drowning and Injury to have been spread in the com ning his crew of boys through a church members In loyalty to representing the school, health Inauguration of free delivery from the Rotary club, composed when the car In which they were munity by car which passed the rugged training schedule but so Christ and the church. Rev. J. department, welfare and exten is contingent upon the town of Mr, LeGrand, Dr. S. A. Hard« riding hit a bridge railing and bridge after the accident and far has been able to practice the P. Davis, pastor, announces. The sion services, and the farm se naming Uie streets, numbering ing and Robert S. McNeil, was turned upside down In Dutch told people living along the high lads only an hour a day, from remainder of this month it will curity met with School Superin the houses and making suitab appointed at last Tuesday'« m an ’s creek near Cana. way about it. It was about 30 11:30 to 12:30. It is hoped that' be spent In preparation. tendent Curtis Price last Friday le sidewalks. meeting to appear before the The dead are Mrs. Woodrow minutes after toe accldent that this period will be lengthened at'the "court housev ......... ...... - Mr. .rasher, came., to ..MocksvUe. .commisslonRrs....to._.urgfi-..accepi*„ ■ Howeil~W;~her daught^^^^ a tractor arrived to remove the later in ' the’ sèàsb'iÎ ........ PIE SUPPER folowing a request by the local tance of the requirements of the dra, 2*/a years; Mrs. O. M . The team will be ready for The representatives, In their car. A pie supper will be held at Rotary club for local free mail postoftice department. flnal meeting before a session Howell, 85, mother-in-law of Failure of the brakes was play about September 27, but a the Pdno grange hall tonight, with state health ofTicials on Mrs. Woodrow Howell, all of attributed as the cause of the definite schedule has not yet Friday, at 8 p.m. The public is September 18, outlined plans for ' Cana, route 1. car being out of control. The been worked out. This week or invited. Improvements of a score of prob DAVIE COUNTY SCHOOLS ENROLL The family had been visiting road from the house to the next will see the completion of lems in the schools. Teachers In Cana and were returning to creek Is bumpy, narrow, has a the scheduled gahies with such DOG VIOLATION schools as Elkin, North Wllkes and principals, of Davle County 2,496 ON OPENING DAY AUGUST 29 their home. The car passed the ditch on either side and was re John Ratts of near Cooleemee boro, Cooleemee and others. schools had listed 21 education ihome, apparently out ol control, cently drug, it was stated. Some was flned $25 and costs, sus A total of 2,406 students are ville, 492 elementary, 214 high al problems last spring, ranging continued down the hill, ran thought the condition of the pended on condition that he enrolled in Davie county ele school, total 706; Farmington, from inadequate ; drinking facil Into the left railing of the bridge road was responsible for Mrs. have his dog vaccinated within mentary and high schools, it 195 elementary, 85 high school; ities to school record discrepan knocking It down and then fell Howell not being able to stay NEW CHURCH three days, on September 2 be was announced this week by total 280; William R. Davle ele cies. Into the creek. Mrs. Woodrow on the highway, the approximate fore Magistrate T. I. Caudell. Supt Curtis Price. mentary, 150; Cooleemee, ele The problems ^were combined Howell was drlvng, center of the front bumper of ORGAN HERE The flgure includes both the mentary 545, high school 143. Into seven major classiflcations Woodrow Howeli, well known the car bitting the bridge railing. ROTARY number ot white and colored total 688; Davie county Train Dr. J. E. Pritchard, the pastor at Friday’s meeting, with chair farmer, was going to'the barn A tractor was brought to the A, T. Daniel, program chair students, but does not include ing school, 175 elementary, 79 of the local Methodist church, men, some of which are still to milk. It was stated, saw a car creek, to pull out the car before man, spoke extemporaneously at the totals in one-eacher col high schol, to^al 254; grand to announces that the new H a m tentative, at the head of each passing the house and recog- Mrs. Woodrow Howell and the Tuesday’s Rotary meeting In the ored schools throughout the tal, 2,496. nlaed it as his vehicle. The dis mond organ, the gift to the group: child could be extricated. absence of a regular speaker. county,. Last year's compila The flgures quoted, It was ex tance from the Howell home church by P. Frank Hanes of Nutrition— Mrs'. Beryl Dryden: tion also is not available at this Mrs. Woodrow Howell, the The W.S.C,S. served a bountiful plained, were those for first day Winston-Salem, in memory of Healthful Environment, Miss place to the creek Is less than a beef stew. Dave ».ai^kln presided time. former Miss LaDeen Lakey and registration, and do not repre quarter mUe, down grade and| his father and mother, Mr. and Ruby Fleming; Safety and First The enrollment flgures for daughter of E. S. Lakey, Farm the absence of President Pen a slight curve, Mr. Howell ran Mrs. Philip Hanes, is to be de Aid—Mrs. Nell Lakey; Physical schools of Davie were as follows; sent those students who may ington merchant, la survived by nington, to the scene and pulled his livered on Friday of this week and Health Education — Miss Shady Grove, 330 elementary, have registered in any schools her husband and father. and will be used for the first mother out of the car but was Alma Anderson;(The Handicap C O U R T CASE 79 high school, total 418; Mocks since last Thursday. unable to extricate M s wife and Mrs. O. M . Howell Is survived time Sunday, September 8. ped Child— M lM Sallle McCol- In superior court last week baby who were pinned under the by three sons, Lieut, Sam Howell J. Milton Panetti of Charlotte, man; Screening '— Miss Eula Clyde Ratledge and Frank True- seat. Mrs. O. M . Howell lived only of Kansas, Ezra Howell of State organist for the Andrews Music Reavls; Health Services — Miss love were each given 12 months REAL ESTATE MORE BOYS a few minutes. She suffered a College and Woodrow Howell of company, and Mrs. Panetti will Katherine Brown. on the roads, suspended on good fractured skuil. It was stated the home; one daughter, Mrs. be present for the regular serv Problems included Inadequate behavior for flve years and pay Roland Pair, Huston, Texas; CHANGES MADE DISCHARGED that the water in the creek \yas ices Sunday at eleven o’clock, drinking facilities, Inadequate Hubert Eaton $20 each for stolen about waist deep. It Is thought four brothers, Ezra Furches, and will remain for a special washing facilities. Inadequate meat. The following real estate The following 21 discharges that the two women probably Draper, Frank Furches, Salis musical program Sunday after toilet facilities, playgrounds, transfers were filed this week In were filed last week in the of died almost Instantly from'in bury; Wade Furches, Farming noon at flve o’clock Mr. Panetti flrst aid and isolation rooms In th? oftlce of C. R, Vogler, reg fice of C. R, Vogler, register of PICNIC SUPPER juries and that the baby was ton and Conrad Furches of will render a number of selec schools, safety, heated 'buses, su ister of deeds: deeds: Miami, Fla.; and her stepmother, The Jerusalem Home Demon drowned. tions and Mrs. Panetti will sing, pervised play and physical edu A, G. Speelman to Lonnie Pee Navy: Robert Floyd Benson, Mrs. Sam Furches ot Miami, stration club held Its annual pic Xenephon Hunter, a neigh The service at flve o’clock Is cation, supervised lunchrooms, bles, $10 plus, 2 lots Jerusalem S 2-c, Cooleemee; Jesse Gilbert Fla.

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