tH E bAVlE R E c o Ib IS TtlE OLDEST PAttER IN DAVlE COUK1TV AND CIRCULATES IN 30 OF I HE 48 StAtES. THE PA^ER TtIAf THE PEOPl E READ: "HERE SHALL THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE’S: RIGHTS MAINTAIN: UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." VOLUMN XLI. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH.CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, .SEPTEMBER 6 , 1939 NUMBER 7 NEWS OF LONG AGO. The Man And The Job. Annual Reunions. MlCKlE SAYS— Fourth Stroud Reunion. Democrat Tells The Statesville Daily. Lexington Dispatch. The fourth annual Stroud re­ Truth. What Was Happening In Davie Somebody’s going to have to run K lf ,- tbe average ,.person in these IF YOU VVER-E HIRIKl’ union' will be held at Society Bap­ Before The New Deal Used Up for the presidency under the Demo­ parts would pick up a newspaper A SALESMAM, VOU1P tist, Church, ten miles west of R. M, Hanes, prominent Win­ cratic banner. It is barely possible and in it read several announce­ WAMT som eeopv 'AT Mocksville, on the Statesville high­ ston-Salem democrat, in a speech The Alphabet, Drowned The before the Charlotte Rotary Club, that some fellow will be willing to ments stating that-.such a family LOOKBO IKAPORTAUT1M way, on Sunday, Sept. 17. Hogs and Plowed Up The make the sacrifice. Certain modist would have its umoteeuth annual PAeKeDSOMeeopp .The program committee met re­ among other things, said: From July 1932 to July 1939 our Cotton and Corn. ones are allowing their friends to reunion on Ihe third. Sunday at OL' PRESTKJE AKiP* ; cently and arranged a program, push them out -front for the voters Hopedale church, he would know which will consist of a number of Federal expenditures amounted to (Davie Record, Aug. 31, 1910 ) DlGkIlTY^SAME- VAY to see, and in calling their gaits, that it was the month of August. short soeeches, songs by the con­ more than fifty-three billions of J. t . Baity made a business trip WItH PRIUTEP sales - these campaign managers either For that has bgcome Tthe favored gregation, several numbers by dif­ dollars. In sevon years, therefore, to Wiuston Friday. MAMSHIP j OR* APS* show a fine sense of humor, else month for these family gatherings ferent quartettes, two duets, and we spent, as a nation, twice as much Mrs. Iobn Minor visited relatives -THEW1RE they are employing a technique that that are growing in' numbers and other, features. as we spent from the time of its In Winston last week. IfsAPORvAWT doesn’t reflect much respect forrbe interest each year. 'The address, of welcome will be creation to the fiscal, year in 1916 Misses Liilie and Sophia Meroney IAi OUR intelligence and honest purpose of Used to be that a family reunion delivered by'Rev. W. L. McSwain, —'.a period of 127 years, including are visiting friends in Salisbury. MBWSPAPER- the voter. meant that Pa and Ma invited In of HarmonyV the resoonse by Har ail our war? prior to the World W. A. Bailey, of Advance, was There is the barest intimation the children, for dinner. som*. Sun* ry Stroud, of Brevard; devotionals War. in town Wednesday on business. that they are picturing their candi­ day during the summer. It’s gone by D. R. Stroud, Mocksville. Short This terrific increase in the nat­ The little child of I. W. Cartuer date in a way that will appeal .to far beyond that now, for with our addresses by Rev. L. T. Younger, ional spending has taken place dur­ is quite ill with fever, we are sorry all men of all creeds and political yen to go places and do things, we of.New Hope, B. M. Madison, of ing a time when we have been at to note. philosophies. have made an art out of our family Cool Spring, N. Sanky Gaither, of peace and when our national, in­ Miss Lalla King left Friday for Take the Garner candidacy, for gatherings. Harmony, and perhaps others. come bas been subnormal. The Tennessee, where she will spend instance. The build up is approach­ We’ve enlarged the scope inten W: W. Stroud, of Harmony, R. result has beeu that the Fed< rat some time with relatives. ed from all angles. Those wto sively. Now a family gathering 1, is President; John A. Stroud, of spending during the pa»t seven Miss Maggie Call left Friday for would have their President rugged, will include relatives to the 33rd Statesville, R. 4 , Vice-President, years has been 1 3 ^ per cent of the Lillington, where she goes to teaoh inside and out, are told how agon, degree and then some, relatives by and Mrs. P. J. Roberts, Secretary- total national income as against less ' this season. ized “Cactus Jack” was over hav­ marriage, by intimacy, or by guess. Treasurer. than 6 per cent during the preced­ D. W. Parker, of Cylacati|!a> ing to weaT formal attire at tVe Or if you're a friend of the family, More than. 8 0 0 people were pre ing ten years. Ala., visited relatives in this city Old-Age Insurance functions planned for our recent- then you’re invited to come right a- s«nt at the reunion last year, and The horror of it all is tbat after last week. royal visitors. long. an even larger crowd is expected at this profligate spending we have County Treasurer J. W. Etchi Accounts. And presuming that the voters And no longer do .the old folks the coming reunion. more unemployed and more on re­ t son spent Monday in Winston. Any wage earner who wants to are more interested in the personal sit around around and talk a bit A big feature of tbe reunion is lief today than we had four years Roscoe Stroud, of R. 5 , made a know the amount of wages credit habits of their choke than in bis while the youngsters play in the au old fashioned country dinner, ago. business trip to Salisbury Monday. ed to his old age insurance account abifity to guide the destiny of tte shade of the trees. No sir. These consisting of everything good to No one but the vet y simple • and Scott Smoot, of Kappa, who has up to January 1, 1939 . may have nation for four years, and maybe days we must have a speaker, and eat, which is spread on a big table greatlv misled would cnntcnd that been quite sick, is repotted to be tbe information for asking, J. N. eight, these boosters remind that the greater the renown of tbe speak more than. 100 feel in Iengh. It is these hiliions, or anv Kfett percent­ some better. Freeman, Manager of tbe Social Se Mr. Garner likes to hunt and fisb, er, the more pleasantly it reflects needless to sav that evetyone pre­ age of thtni, have beeu used en­ T. J. ByerIy and James McCuire curity Board’s field office at Wins­ that be plays a canny game of po­ upon us a family. Then we must sent, from the oldest to the young­ tirely to prevent human misery cr Jr., went to Atlantic City last week ton-Salem, annouaced today.. ker, that be cusses like a sailor on have one to six quartets to render est, will enjoy this part of the pro­ to increase, bnthan happiness. Tbe on the Southern’s excursion. Mr. Freeman explained that all occasion, that he doesn’t balk at a music at any and all hours during gram. Pa«samaqnoilHy Power Prnject in Mrs. H. C. Sprinkle and child­ wages reported by employers for mint julip, that he tells a smutty the day.'. Then there must be the All Strouds, together with rela­ Maine, tbe Ship Csral in Florida, ren, of Albemarle, who have been work done in 1937 and 1938 have joke well, and that he knows how historian who traces the family tives and friends, are invited to be or nearer home, the Port at More- visiting in this city the guests of now been posted by the Social So to play politics like a house afire, from its arrival in America to the present, and to bring well filUd head Citv, to ment:ou only a few her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. cial Security Board to the icdivi and that he has an abundance of present day. There is a service for baskets, boxes or any receptacle of the thousands of improvident Call, returned home Friday. dual accounts of insured workers good old boss sense that directs his members who have, passed on dur­ that will hold fried chicken, bam, expenditures that could be cited, The Center and Hardison Metho­ From these records it will now be way about. ing the year. The minister makes pie ^and cake. aretuo fresh in our memories for dist Sunday schools picniced at the possible to obtain the wage infor But ii Mr. Garner has any pro­ an address and there are brief talks us to be fooled at out vvlice great Methodist Orphanage at' Winston mation which any insured worker found convictions on any subject from ibis and that one. Softies AU of Us. expenditures have gone—Tbe State. Thursday. About 3 0 went, and wants. neither be nor his advance agents But the dinner remains the same. reported a fine time. Mr. Freeuian declared that all a Federal employes in Washington have trotted them out. His long In the announcements, there is. al­ That Man’s In Again. MissMaud Miller returned last worker need do to get a wage state during hottest cf many hot spells record in Washington doesn't show most always tbe injunction “Bring That mysterious “pruminent busi- week from a visit to relatives aod meet is to ohtain from any field of­ dufing the summer, have been per any outstanding achievement or well-filled baskets,"' They are new man” who always bobs up op­ friends in Winston.