High Point, June 15—The High Point Pad and Excelsior Plant was destroyed by fire this afternoon shortly after 4 o’clock. The fire, which originated in the engine room, is thought to have been started by an engine backfiring.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 16, 1926
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Charlotte, June 15—Between 600 and 700 employes of the Ford Motor Company’s assembly plant here will be idle for the next two weeks, it was announced today. The shutdown will give time for repairs to the machinery, it was announced. Manager Frank Atcheson denied that the plant would remain closed longer than necessary for the repairs to be made.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 16, 1926
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By International News Service
Charlotte, June 16—The original Mrs. Alton Freeman, recently discovered in Rock Hill, S.C., will be the defense’s star witness against Mrs. Nellie Freeman, soi-disant slayer of her bridegroom husband, when she goes on trial for her life here.
Discovery of the first Mrs. Alto Freeman was announced by Jake F. Newell of defense counsel, who said he anticipated the revaluation of new evidence with the testimony of the newly-found witness. The finding of the Rock Hill woman was the culminate of an intensive search, Newell said.
Mrs. Nellie Freeman, it is alleged, practically severed her husband’s head from his body with a razor, as he was preparing to leave her after taunting her about other girls.
Editor’s Note: “Soi-disant” is a French term meaning “so-called” or “self-styled.”
From page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 16, 1926
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Raleigh, June 14—Final judgment on the $150,000 damage suit brought by Rev. A.L. Ormond against W.B. Cole, mill owner of Rockingham, for what is charged the wrongful death of his son, Bill Ormond, will be handed out I Wake County Superior Court tomorrow morning, Judge Barnhill, who is presiding over that body, stated this afternoon.
A agreement to be embodied into a formal judgement and signed when the case is called for trial tomorrow, says the News and Observer, has been drawn in which Cole agrees to pay the father of young Ormond the sum of $15,000 costs in the case and have all the original pleadings withdrawn from the record and destroyed, marking the final chapter of litigation which began when Cole shot young Ormond.
The Rev. Ormond entered the suit after Cole had been acquitted of the murder of young Ormond in the Richmond Superior Court last August.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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The “thin gray line” grows thinner each year, and clerk of court George P. Webb finds this year that the list of those to receive pension checks has again shortened. Something like 12 of the gallant heroes of the Civil war have passed away during the last year, while at least 13 of the widows of veterans are missing from the list. Where the list for last year comprised something like 86 names of soldiers, this year it reaches a bare 80, even with the several additions that have been made; and in the case of widows a difference of 13 is found in the 119 of last year and the 106 of this. And even some of the checks on hand will find no claimant.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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Local officers have received information from Atlanta, Ga., that the Buick touring car stolen from H.F. Harrill, realty agent here, has been recovered in Atlanta. The letter from H.A. Holcomb, chief of police in the Georgia city, to Sheriff H.A. Logan, states that the find was made by officers S.A. Smith and A.I. Poole, and that the car identifies with that lost by Mr. Harrill in every particular, including the motor number.
As will be remembered, the car was taken between 5 and 6 o’clock in the afternoon of the first primary here, from where it was parked in front of the Central Methodist church. Mr. Harrill’s attention had been diverted in the meantime by a stranger who asked for directions concerning a southern road route. The owner of the stolen car now finds himself with two cars on his hands, since he bought another car of the same type Saturday. He left Tuesday for Atlanta to recover the car.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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Shelby medical circles received a new and valuable addition Saturday in the arrival of Miss Jane Shackleton of Charlottesville, Va. She is to be laboratory assistant to Dr. Reuben McBrayer. Miss Shackleton is a graduate of the hospital of the University of Virginia, and she has also taken special courses in the university itself. She is a technician of the first order, being expert in the various branches of bacteriology, blood chemistry, basal metabolism and the like. These technical terms, though of slight meaning to the layman, yet have a vital interest to every human being in that his health depends on processes and studies of this kind. Bacteriology, of course, is the study of the constructive and destructive organisms upon which nearly al of nature’s processes rest: blood chemistry of the examination and determination of the chemical make-up of the source of life; and metabolism is the whole process of protoplasmic or cellular assimilation and dissimilation.
Dr. McBrayer has installed several pieces of expensive apparatus necessary for this kind of work, and with the efficient assistance of Miss Shackleton, is well prepared for his further investigations into the peculiar branches of this science.
Miss Shackleton is staying with Mrs. Ceph Blanton while here, and should add as much to the social as to the medical side of the community. She refused to express an opinion of the town, claiming that she had not been here long enough, but it is more than probable that she will be another Shelby booster with a few days.
From page 3 of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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