Mr. J.E. Whitehurst last year owned 26 acres of land a part of the John J. Harper place on the Smithfield and Clayton road. After paying for the guano [imported bird droppings, used for fertilizer in the 1920s], he got $120 rent, but his taxes on the place were $121, so he was short one dollar with nothing at all coming to him.
--J.M. Beaty
From the editorial page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 28, 1922
Mr. J.C. Barbour, who lives on Benson Route One in Elevation township, was here yesterday and called to see us. He informed us he had killed this season 2,727 pounds of meat from 14 hogs. He says that with plenty of corn, peas and potatoes he can make plenty of meat even getting good results from feeding scrub hogs.
Mr. Barbour says that from $59.90 in 1020 his taxes increased last year to $77.41 of which $42.48 went for schools.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 28, 1922
State Treasurer B.R. Lacy, who has been critically ill at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City for the past two weeks, was much better yesterday and plans to complete the job of signing 2,000 State bonds, over which he collapsed, according to a telephone message from Governor Morrison in New York yesterday.
Physicians attending Mr. Lacy are opposed to his determination to sign the bonds on next Wednesday, but he himself thinks that he will be sufficiently recovered in strength to undertake it. Governor Morrison will today confer with ankers in the matter of extending the time for the delivery of the bonds, which fell due on February 15, two days after Mr. Lacy was stricken with pneumonia.
The condition of the State Treasurer and the outcome of the conference between the bankers and Governor Morrison today will determine whether State Auditor Baxter Durham will go to New York tonight to sign the bills for Mr. Lacy. Under the law, the auditor is authorized to sign for the Treasurer in case the latter is incapacitated.
The heroic determination of Mr. Lacy to fulfill the duties of his office, even when laboring under illness and physical exhaustion has stirred the profoundest admiration among his thousands of friends in the State. He went to New York two weeks ago to sin 4,500 State bonds in time for delivery on February 15, when they fell due.
Although ill when he left Raleigh, he began work when he reached New York, sitting on the side of the bed with two nurses in attendance. Temporary arrangements for extending the time were made by Joseph G. Brown, president of the Citizens National Bank, Raleigh, when Mr. Lacy grew too ill to continue his work. Governor Morrison left Friday for New York.
From the News and Observer, as printed on the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1922
Between midnight and day during a rain on Thursday night of last week Messrs. C.H. Johnson, Johnnie Barbour, J.D. Stephenson and Bertsell Smith captured a whiskey still with worm and cap complete in the Duncan neighborhood about three miles south of Clayton. They found two barrels of beer and 1 ½ gallons of whiskey. Two negroes and a white man were arrested at the still.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 28, 1922
A wedding of more than usual local interest was the marriage last Tuesday of Rev. A.A. Butler and Mrs. Annie Hughes Shannonhouse at the Hertford Baptist church in Hertford at 11 o’clock. Rev. B.L. Rhodes performed the ceremony, which was witnessed by a few intimate friends of the high contracting parties.
The bridegroom was a former pastor of the Hertford Baptist church, and is held in high esteem by Hertford people who known him. He becomes pastor of the Baptist church at Selma after March 1. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Annie Hughes and has always lived in Hertford, where she enjoys the love and esteem of everyone.
While the wedding has been expected by friends of both for several months, all were taken by surprise when it really occurred.
A short wedding trip followed the ceremony. Rev. and Mrs. Butler will live at Selma.
From the Hertford Herald, as reprinted on the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 28, 1922
On Wednesday, February 22nd, a large number of people drove from the Powhatan section to the home of Rev. W.R. Faircloth near Smithfield where he united in marriage Mr. Mack Spence, son of Mr. B.H. Spence, and Miss Gertie Godwin, a daughter of Mr. W.E. Godwin. The attendants were Mr. Elbert Jonesd with Miss Guailla Britton, Mr. Worth Woodall and Miss Agnes Duncan, Mr. Wilbert Duncan and Miss Myrtle Benson, Mr. Roiy Woodall and Miss Vistula Britton. The marriage occurred in the afternoon, after which the young people went to the home of Mr. B. H. Spence, where a fine supper was served.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 28, 1922
Conductor Crawford Freed
Salisbury, Feb. 24—Upon payment of the costs, R.E. Crawford, Southern railway conductor who submitted to a charge of manslaughter last week, was freed here Thursday. He killed D.S. Hinton, a Southern engineer, in the Y.M.C.A. lunch room at Spencer on December 5 when Hinton made uncomplimentary remarks concerning his wife.
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Davenport President
Statesville, Feb. 24—L.C. Hornaday, of the faculty of Trinity college, has been elected president of Davenport College at Lenoir.
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Woman Shoots Husband
Asheville, Feb. 24—Mrs. Alice Baldwin is held in jail here without bond while her husband, Preston Baldwin, is in a hospital, believe to be dying. The woman shot him in front of their home near here.
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Bold Holdup
Goldsboro, Feb. 24—Last night Alex Davis, a Goldsboro man, was several miles from this city in his automobile when two negroes asked him to let them ride. Davis agreed and they had not gone far when they held him up at the point of a pistol and took $60 and a gold watch from him and made for the woods. One of the alleged robbers was captured today.
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After Shemwell
Raleigh, Feb. 24—Governor Morrison may take a hand in the case of Baxter Shemwell, it became known here today. Insurance Commissioner Stacy Wade is calling on the governor to demand action on the part of the Davidson county authorities. The Blue Sky stock law is being invoked in an effort to get Shemwell out of Asheville, where he now resides.
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Suspect Freed
Concord, Feb. 24—Harvey H. Adams, detained here voluntarily for 36 hours as a suspect in the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery, left Concord yesterday afternoon after the local police officers were assured by a conductor on the Southern railway that the man held there was really Adams of Richmond, Va., and not Edward F. Sands, former butler-secretary to Taylor.
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Dies From Burns
North Wilkesboro, Feb. 25—Miss Grace Eary, 16 years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Earp of Moravian Falls, died at her home Friday morning from burns received when she fell in a fire a week ago.
[The newspaper printed her last name as Eary on first reference and Earp on second. I don’t know which is correct.]
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Asheville Man Electrocuted
Asheville, Feb. 24—A newly installed electric sausage grinder claimed the life of J.W. Pace, 30, proprietor of a meat market, when he started the machine early this morning. The wires became crossed and he was electrocuted.
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Dies at Age of 104
Winston-Salem, Feb. 24—Mrs. Nellie Hunt, widow of the late Andrew Hunt who die din 1887, passed away yesterday at Cid, Davidson county, nearing her 104th birthday. Mrs. Hunt retained all her mental faculties until the end. She was able to sew and thread a needle up to a few days ago, when she was taken ill.
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Breach of Promise
Wilmington, Feb. 24—Suit for $5,000 damages was filed in Superior court today by Mrs. Ada V. Perry, a nurse, against Cleveland Reeves for breach of promise. Mrs. Perry alleges that Reeves persuaded her to divorce her husband, from whom she was separated, under promise of marriage and now refuses to discuss matrimony.
From the front page of the Greensboro Patriot, Monday, Feb. 17, 1922
Miss Lena Farrington of High Point died a few minutes after a car in which she and Miss Ethel Brown were being driven at a high rate of speed by W.F. Everhart of Thomasville on the High Point-Winston-Salem road was wrecked Saturday night. Miss Farrington’s neck was broken. Miss Brown was painfully but not seriously injured.
Everhart was arrested and placed in jail at High Point, spending the night there. He was released Sunday morning under a $2,500 bond. He will be given a preliminary hearing some time this week.
From information obtained by Deputy Sheriff J.F. Wagner, who reached the scene of the accident a short while after the car was wrecked, it appears that Everhart was driving at an excessive speed and in turning a curve he lost control of the automobile, which ran into the yard of George Penny and struck a fence. The two young women were thrown from the car. Everhart clung to the steering wheel.
It is said that Everhart and Miss Brown had been out riding and meeting Miss Farrington, invited her to ride with them. She had been in the car only a few minutes when it was smashed.
Miss Farrington, who was 18 years old, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Farrington. She was buried this afternoon at High Point.
Everhart is the son of S.L. Everhart, a well known farmer, who lives about five miles west of Thomasville.
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Dies in Auto Smash. . . Robert McPherson Killed When Car Hits Telephone Pole
Robert McPherson, aged 25, of Gibsonville, was instantly killed, and Horace Hamilton of this city and W.M. Pyrtle of Reidsville were painfully hurt about 7:30 o’clock Saturday night when an automobile in which they were riding left the asphalt on East Market street extension, just at the city limits here, and struck a telephone pole.
Prytle, who was driving the machine, was carried from the hospital, after having his injuries attended to, and placed in the city jail, charged with murder. Hamilton, who was also carried to the hospital for attention, went from there to his home. The injuries the two men received were sustained on their hands and legs.
The three men, according to the story Pyrtle told the police, were driving into Greensboro after a drive on the Burlington road. He said that while he was passing a machine coming from the opposite direction he turned to the right and was not able to get back in the road, thus hitting the telephone pole.
Other information given the police, however, was to the effect that the car was being driven at a rapid rate of speed and that the driver lost control of his machine in turning a slight curve. Police said that none of the three appeared to have been drinking.
The car belonged to McPherson. It was completely wrecked. The right wheel struck the pole and parts of the machine were thrown several feet from the wreck.
McPherson leaves his widow and two children; his mother, Mrs. D.C. McPherson of White Oak; a brother, Tom McPherson of Proximity; four sisters, Mrs. Will Carter of Kernersville, Mrs. Clarence Foust of Jamestown, Mrs. J.Z. Moore of White Oak, and Mrs. Ida Parrish of Pomona.
From the front page of the Greensboro Patriot, Monday, Feb. 17, 1922
Kelly Jones, young white man, was arrested yesterday morning and placed in the city jail to answer to a charge of heaving a rock or brick into the residence of Frank Allen, a citizen of Highland, Saturday night. Jones also will be charged with the crime of shooting Clarice Whitener, small daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H.C. Whitener, on the afternoon of December 29 last. Jones was sent to the roads about a year ago for store breaking and along in the summer a petition for pardon was circulated for him. It is said that Mr. Whitener declined to sign it.
Jones is alleged to have told Charles Moody, a citizen of Morganton, that he would get even with the preacher for his action, and Mr. Moody communicated with Solicitor R.L. Huffman, who had the warrant issued for Jones’ arrest on the shooting charge. It will e recalled that the little girl was shot in the back of the head while riding in an automobile with her father. A part of the bullet went into the brain and was not removed.
Local officers have worked on the case, but were unable to get any evidence against young Jones. He is said to have told the Morganton man of his intention to get even with the minister, and the heaving of the missile into Mr. Allen’s home Saturday night caused his immediate arrest. Solicitor Huffman was here Saturday evening to have a warrant sworn out against Jones in the shooting case. Solicitor Huffman will be the prosecutor at the July term of Catawba county superior court, this county having been placed in his judicial district.
From the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, Feb. 27, 1922
Newton, Feb. 27—Mrs. A.C. Sherrill, wife of Prof. A.C. Sherrill, died about 2 o’clock this afternoon at Statesville, where she was carried Saturday for an operation. She is survived by her husband and five children. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. The body was brought to Newton this afternoon from Statesville.
From the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, Feb. 27, 1922
Miss Doris Sox, 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Sox, was reported as getting along all right today at her home on Third street following the injury Saturday afternoon of her hand by the explosion of a dynamite cap. The child had obtained possession of one of the caps, and it exploded in her hand, blowing off part of two fingers of one hand. The injured hand was dressed by physicians.
From the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, Feb. 27, 1922
Mr. Ray Pitts was painfully cut about the head with a knife at the Windy City school house last evening in the hands of Albert Poovey, another young white man, following a disturbance which Poovey is alleged to have caused earlier in the day—and in which Mr. Pitts and several other men figured as pacificators. Poovey would not be quiet and he twice disturbed a meeting in progress and was jailed for his conduct.
It was during a meeting in the school house that Poovey became boisterous, it is said. Mr. Pitts was asked to put him out. Messrs. Chas. P. Bolch, James Sigmon and others took part, Poovey giving up a knife that he clasped in his hands.
Being taken from the school property, he returned and again made himself noisy outside. Mr. Pitts was accompanying a young lady home when Poovey set upon him, striking at him with a knife. The blow grazed Mr. Pitts’ nose. Mr. Pitts then felled his assailant with a blow on the head and the young lady rushed between the two men. It was while she was between the pair that Poovey was struck over her head and cut Mr. Pitts on the forehead.
Poovey faces a charge of disturbing a public meeting and assault with a deadly weapon. He will be tried by the Hickory recorder.
From the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Feb. 25, 1922
From the March 1, 1922 issue of The Hickory Daily Record: “Albert Poovey, the young white man charged with disturbing a school meeting at Windy City Saturday afternoon, drew a sentence of 15 days in jail for that and a fine of $50 for cutting Ray Pitts, another young man who was trying to preserve order. Poovey appealed and gave an appearance bond of $350.”
In the heat of what is said to have been a family argument, Thomas Crawford, Negro porter, 819 Green street, shot and fatally wounded his father-in-law, Hampton D. Smart, 50-year-old Negro carpenter, 714 McRae street, shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Immediately following the shooting Crawford fled and up to an early hour this morning he had not been captured, although several parties of police and sheriff’s deputies were searching for him.
The shooting took place at the corner of Ninth and Fanning streets in the heart of Brooklyn and is said to have been witnessed by a number of persons. Few details of the encounter could be obtained from the police last night. On receipt of the report Lieut. Joe Lane, Sergeant W.T. Hansley and Tom Hall rushed to the scene and arranged for the removal of Smart to the hospital where he died a few minutes later. Shortly after 5 o’clock a telephone message from a yard office on Smith’s creek conveyed the information that Crawford had been seen near there and Lieutenant Lane, Hansley and Hall took up the chase, following the negro to the creek and tracking him through the marsh for some distance. As he went into deep water they lost the trail and after an inspection of the bank up and down the stream was made, they assumed that he had attempted to swim the creek.
Later Sheriff George C. Jackson, L.W. Tyndal and others from the sheriff’s office took up the chase and worked the farther shore of the creek, using a rowboat. Efforts to pick up the trail on that side of the stream were fruitless, and it was said to be the belief of some that the negro had drowned in his attempt to cross. The fact that he did not remove his clothing and that there could be found no marks which indicated he had left the stream supported this theory.
A report to the police from the hospital where Smart was taken after the shooting declared that he had died of his wounds on the operating table immediately after reaching there. Coroner A.S. Holden was notified and after viewing the body, he ordered it removed to an undertaking establishment where today it will be viewed by a coroner’s jury selected last night.
Coroner Holden’s jury is composed of E.Z. Milton, L.H. Partin, W.H. Register, Dwight McEwen, J.H. Huey, and A.F. Gibson. Monday morning at 10 o’clock this jury will sit at the inquest to be held in the grand jury room in the court house.
According to a statement last night by Coroner Holden, two bullets took effect in the body of Smart. One entered the left side of his neck, passed through the parathyroid, severed an artery and came out on the right side of the neck near the shoulders. Another bullet penetrated the abdomen on the left side tearing through the intestines.
A pistol, said to have been of .38 calibre, was used by Crawford, it was stated last night.
From the Wilmington Morning Star, Sunday, February 26, 1922
Many will regret to learn of the death of D.H. Ganon, which occurred at his home, No. 120 Dock street, Friday night at 10:40 o’clock, following three weeks of illness. Mr. Ganon was in his 47th year, and is survived by a wife and four children.
Funeral services are to be held at the late’s residence this morning at 10 o’clock, by J.P. King, pastor of the Advent Christian church. Interment will be made in Bellevue cemetery.
From the Wilmington Morning Star, Sunday, February 26, 1922
Whiteville, Feb. 24—The county contest for recitations and declamations was held in the school auditorium last night, and given before a packed house. The following students participated: Miss Ellen Marshall and Mr. Lester Lowe of Chadbourn, Miss Mabel Thompson and Mr. J.E. Thompson of Hallsboro, Miss Ruth Ward and Mr. Bruce McGougan of Tabor, and Miss Nancy Schulken and Mr. Edward Elkins of Whiteville.
The judges were Mrs. Seth Smith, County Superintendent H.M. Bowling and Congressman Lyon, and they awarded the prizes to Miss Ellen Marshall of Chasbourn, and Mr. Bruce McGougan of Tabor. The prizes were two gold medals offered by the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Tabor, and Superintendent I.J. Killiam of the same town. The pleasure of the evening was increased by four piano solos, rendered by Misses Kathleen Pierce, Vista Fuller, Margaret Sears and Mary Lou Spivey.
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Mrs. H.J. Gore entertained a number of friends at a very delightful tea on Washington’s birthday, complimentary to her mother, Mrs. H.J. Rodman of Waxhaw, N.C., who is visiting her. The afternoon was very pliantly spent in conversation, interspersed with several special features of interest. A very delicious sweet course was served Mrs. Gore’s guests by Misses Lucile Pierce and Margaret Howell. Those present, in addition to the honoree, were Mrs. Janie McNeill, Mrs. Beulah Russell, Mrs. W.H. Phillips, Mrs. J.F. Dunn, Mrs. L.V. Grady, Mrs. W.H. Crowell, Mrs. M.E. Formyduval, Mrs. R.C. Carson, Mrs. A.J. Howell, Mrs. Jennie Audrey
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The sympathy of the whole community is with the family of Mr. Elisha Norris, who barely escaped death in the fire that totally consumed their dwelling Sunday morning. The aged father of Mr. Norris was burned to death in his bed, and the fire had made such headway that the other occupants barely escaped with their lives. Two of the boys were very seriously injured.
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Politics in this part of the world seem to be warming up with the weather against the primaries next June. Quite a number of contestants are being mentioned for the offices of sheriff, register of deeds, clerk of the court, county commissioners. The outcome will, of course, be more problematic than ever before, on account of the woman vote. It is rumored that there may be a woman candidate for one of the offices.
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The last city canvass for the Near East relief fund will be made on next Monday, and it is hoped that Whiteville will make as liberal response to this plea proportionately to what she did to the China famine fund a year ago.
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The meeting scheduled for March 6th to discuss methods of fighting the boll weevil is a most important one and should be largely attended. Several good speakers are expected to be here and take part.
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Constable Ransom Long made a haul last Monday when he not only captured a 60-gallon gasoline drum whiskey still and worm, but one of the men interested in it. Several others escaped.
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It is rumored that District Attorney Irvin B. Tucker may form a law partnership with Mr. Knox Proctor of Lumberton, with headquarters here. Miss Rena Haynes, who has for some time been Mr. Ervin Tucker’s private secretary, has been appointed chief clerk in the district attorney’s office in Raleigh, and will soon leave for her new home. Miss Haynes has many friends here, who sincerely regret her leaving, and whose good wishes will go with her to her new home.
From the Wilmington Morning Star, Sunday, February 26, 1922
--State Treasurer B.R. Lacy of Raleigh is seriously ill in New York.
--Major Edward J. Hale, soldier, journalist, diplomat and statesman, died at his home in Fayetteville last week.
--There is little hope that the depositor of the defunct Central Bank at Raleigh will receive more than 50 cents on the dollar.
--The Old Plantation Tobacco warehouse in Wilson burned to the ground Tuesday morning, the total loss being around $`00,000 with only partial insurance.
--James R. and Benjamin N. Duke of Durham have donated $75,000 for a new negro hospital to be built in that city, when a like amount has been subscribed locally.
--Charles F. Stewart, machine room superintendent of the plant of the Imperial Tobacco Company at Kinston, was overcome by smoke and burned to death when fire partially destroyed his home.
--Arden Taylor, sheriff of Lenoir county, stated that he would suggest a pardon for Charlie Grimes, Negro convict, for service to the State in preventing the escape of Herbert Anderson and Claud Bunch, white men in the county jail on highway robbery charges. In the absence of the jailer, Grimes prevented a delivery at the risk of his life and incurred severe injuries, Taylor declared, adding that his conduct was nothing short of heroic.
--In the suit of Dr. G.W. Norman against R.B. Boren of Greensboro this week, Courtney Norman, a young son of Dr. and Mrs. Norman, testified that he caught his mother and Boren in an immoral act. Dr. Norman is suing Boren for $100,000.
--After giving strict Sunday enforcement a trial for one year, the Board of Aldermen of Goldsboro have amended the law so as to allow the sale of soft drink, ice cream, etc., on Sundays except during church hours. Newspapers and gasoline may be bought all day Sunday.
--Allen Umstead, a negro employe of Meredith College, arrested in connection with the invasion of the bed-room of two students of the college early last Saturday morning, has been formally charged with burglary in the first degree and will be tried for the rim, the punishment of which is death.
--Grady Cheek, J.D. Cardwell, Roy Huffman and Charlie Huffman, four young white men, are in jail at Winston-Salem, charged with an attempt to rob the Bank of Kernersville last Friday morning. Mrs. D.V. Musten, telephone operator, discovered the men trying to get in a window of the bank and notified the police.
--Jesse L. Armfield, former president of the Bank of Thomasville, which failed August 22, is now in jail at Lexington. Armfield is under 69 indictments in connection with the failure of the bank, and is specifically charged in these with embezzling, abstraction or misappropriating $21,000. He is alleged to have shortages totaling $154,000.
--Edward E. Martin, a resident of Florence, Pamlico county, and for a period of five or six years clerk of the court of that county, is at liberty under a bond of $2,500 to appear at the May term of Criminal court at Bayboro and answer to a charge of misappropriating funds to the amount of $2,500 while he was acting in an official capacity in that county.
--“Food for the Family First!” is the slogan for the home garden campaign now being waged in North Carolina to induce each family in the state to feed itself. A committee in each county is suggested to arouse the people to the necessity of planning for better and more gardens, a cow for every family on the farm, poultry to supply the family needs, and pork for home use.
--Milton Bruce is seriously wounded and is in a hospital at Concord, and his nephew Enoch Bruce is in the Cabarrus jail awaiting action which probably will put him face to face with a charge of burglary in the first degree. The two Bruces broke into Lawing’s store at Bergenburg, a suburb of Kannapolis, and Lawing and a man named Fuell were sleeping in the store, and when they discovered the burglars they opened fire with a shotgun.
--A formal application for the pardon of Capt. R.E. Crawford of Asheville, Southern Railway conductor, has been forwarded to Governor Morrison. Crawford was convicted of manslaughter in Rowan Superior Court in connection with the slaying of Engineer Sam Hinton at Spencer in December because of alleged remarks derogatory to Crawford’s wife. The remarkable fact is it is said that the application for pardon goes to the Governor before sentence has been passed.
--One North Carolinian, Private John E. Thompson of Bentenville, lost this life in the destruction of the giant dirigible airship Roma at the Norfolk Navy Base Tuesday. The Roma, 410 feet in length, built in Italy, attempted a demonstration flight Tuesday afternoon with 45 men on board. The steering gear failed 1,000 feet in the air and the big ship plunged to the ground, coming into contact with high tension electric wires causing a gas explosion which killed 34 men outright and burned their bodies to a crisp.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922. This photo was on the editorial page with W.O. Saunders' article praising the president of Wake Forest College for speaking out in favor of eugenics--specifically not allowing unfit people have children.
I am indebted to a friend for a copy of a recent speech entitled “The Standard Man,” delivered by Dr. William Louis Poteat, the president of Wake Forest College. Dr. Poteat has dared to face an audience of his Baptist brethren and say “that we are ready for the application of negative eugenics, that is, restrictive mating for the elimination of the obviously unfit.” Dr. Poteat said: “The feeble-minded, the insane, the epileptic, the inebriate, the congenital defect of any type, and the victim of chronic contagious diseases ought to be denied the opportunity of perpetuating their kind to the inevitable deterioration of the race.”
When the head of a Southern Baptist college begins to talk like that we may all take courage, for surely there is progress in the race. Too long has society represented by the church and its educational institutions wasted prodigious energy in trying to deny or retrain the sex impulse without concerning itself in the more important matter of directing sex in the reproduction of better offspring. We have reached a point in human history where we must order our sex life. We must breed better human beings or the race will be destroyed by the very machinery of civilization which it has so heedlessly, and yet so thoroly, perfected. The world shudders at the thought of true democracy to-day for no other reason than that the world is alarmingly conscious of the fact that the masses of humanity are hardly fit for democracy or anything else.
From the editorial page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922, W.O. Saunders, editor. The campaign for eugenics led to the legislation for the involuntary sterilization of "unfit" people in North Carolina.
M.D. Twiford Sr. of East Lake, Dare County, came up to Elizabeth City this week to fight a $7,000 breach of promise action brought against him by a Pasquotank woman, but the Court didn’t reach the case and the defendant, who is 78 years old, will have to make another trip to Elizabeth City to fight for his greenbacks.
A year ago or such a matter, Mr. Twiford was anxious to get married again. The venerable merchant, postmaster and justice of the peace of East Lake township had raised up a husky family of children and all had gone out in the world and left him alone with his store, his postoffice, his book of N.C. Statutes Annotated and an accumulation of considerable money which he had been salting down for more than half a century.
He had no highfalutin’ notions about a second marriage; he sought no affinity or soul mate; just wanted a plain everyday women who would live with him, keep his house, cook his meals, darn his socks and look after the store when he felt like taking an afternoon nap. He advertised for a wife in The Independent and got many applications for the job he was offering.
He looked the many applications over and rejected this one and that, but finally settled on a vigorous widow in Salem township of this county. He became engaged to marry Mrs. Sarah Corbett, age 57. But he never married her. Mrs. Corbett says he jilted her ruthlessly. Mr. Twiford says it ain’t so; that the truth is he came to Elizabeth City and applied for license but was refused to wed the lady of his choice because he couldn’t qualify on the medical examination required under the law enacted last year. Deeply mortified over his rejection for physical disability, Mr. Twiford returned to his lonely bed in East Lake sans a new wife.
Mrs. Corbett waited for the bridegroom in vain and finally sought the legal advice of the Hon. E.F. Aydlett. She brought suit against Mr. Twiford, naming $7,000 as the sum she thought sufficient to reimburse her for the constumely and mental anguish which she is alleged to have suffered by reason of the broken engagement.
Since Mrs. Corbett brought the action against Mr. Twiford she has married another man. She is now the wife of Capt. A.G.B. Salter, a shipbuilder of this city. Still she thinks she is entitled to balm and will press her suit.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Enemies of the editor of this newspaper have often represented him as a very devil with a regulation barbed tail, horns, cloven hoof and all that sort of thing. They will have an opportunity to see him in that very role in a play to be given under the auspices of the Parsonage Aid Society at High School Auditorium next Tuesday night, Feb. 28. W.O. Saunders, who takes the part of Hon. Geoffrey Myrtleton, member of Congress, also takes the role of Mephistopheles in an amateur theatrical production about to be staged in the Congressman’s home in Washington when two deacons from the Congressman’s own home church come to Washington to pay him a visit. The deacons find their Congressman looking like the very devil himself, encased in flaming red tights and everything.
The title of the play is “The Deacons at the Capital.” It might be called by a dozen other names, because it is full of comedy and dramatic situations from beginning to end. Bill C. Sawyer appears in the roll of Pinkerton Case, a detective who appears throughout the piece in a costume of a Scotch Highlander. Bill C.’s naked knees in the Scotch kilties are just too cute for anything and will make a hit with the ladies especially.
The leading lady of the play is Miss Marguerite LeRoy, who shines like a Broadway star in the role of Betty, the niece of the Congressman. And for a Negro character the committee has made a real discovery in Frank Dawson, who plays the role of Jasper, the servant. Frank Dawson is more like a Negro than a Negro is like himself, in this role for which he has been cast. Others in the piece are Misses Hattie Harney, Mahalah Meekins and Polly Skinner, and Messrs. Sherrill, LeRoy Brothers, Guirkin Cook and Thomas Holloman. The play is under the direction of Mrs. Marion Bennett and Mrs. Mary Fearing. Miller, the Philadelphia costumier was enlisted to supply the costumes for the play, the construction of costumes for a Mephistopheles and a Scotch Highlander being just a little too much for local sartorial art.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Jake Wool of Edenton, well known in Elizabeth City, is about to realize the ambition of a life time. Jake Woold is going to forsake the haunts of busy bodies and settle down for the rest of his life at Nags Head, where he will sell groceries to the summer cottagers in summer and fish in the fall and spring. In the winter he will not fish.
Jake Wool was in Elizabeth City the other day making preparations for his going into exile. He says he has been going to Nags Head ever since he was eight years old and it has been his ambition always to spend his life at that good old resort. For 15 years while an engineer on the Norfolk Southern R.R., he prayed every night for the Lord to see him safely thru the night’s run for Nags Head’s sake. After making up his fourteenth wreck on the Norfolk Southern two years ago Mr. Wool quit while the quitting was good and took a position in the Norfolk Navy Yard. Disarmament talk put an end to a lot of Navy Yard work and Nags Head again came in for consideration. Happily for Jake, he married a girl who likes Nags Head too. Mrs. Wool, who was Miss Goldie Kramer of this city, will be an enthusiastic pal in the Utopian adventure.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Mr. Walton Newbern of Elizabeth City was in Jarvisburg Friday afternoon.
Mr. John H. Carroll and wife are visiting friends in Jarvisburg.
We are glad to announce that Mrs. R.D. Fisher is feeling much better this week.
Mr. I.W. Fisher of Elizabeth City was in Jarvisburg Friday.
There was an oyster supper at Jarvisburg School House Friday evening. The money made went for the benefit of the school. There are several cases of flu in the Jarvisburg neighborhood.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Here is a jolt for you if you live in Washington, Pasquotank, Dare or Perquimans counties; illiteracy among white males is increasing instead of diminishing in these counties if we accept the figures of the U.S. Census for 1920. And of the 100 counties in North Carolina, Pasquotank is way down at 51 in the column in respect to the percentage of illiterates. Of all the immediate Northeastern counties, Chowan makes the finest showing with 7.3 per cent illiterate in 1921, compared with 14.9 per cent in 1910. But Pasquotank has 11.2 per cent illiteracy in 1920 against 7.5 per cent in 1910.
Based on advance sheets of the U.S. Census for 1920, the average of state illiteracy among white males of voting age in North Carolina in 1920 was 10.95 per cent. All told, the male white adult illiterates number 36,744. Nearly one of every nine white males in the state cannot read or write.
Chowan, 7.3, down from 14.9 in 1910
Beaufort, 8.1, down from 13.5 in 1910
Washington, 8.2, up from 6.2 in 1910
Hyde, 8.8, down from 12.4 in 1910
Tyrrell, 9.8, down from 17 in 1910
Pasquotank, 11.2, up from 7.5
Dare, 11.7, up from 6.8
Currituck, 11.9, up from 10.8
Camden, 12.3, down from 18
Perquimans, 12.7, up from 9.3
Gates, 12.8, down from 13.3
Hertford, 14.2, down from 15.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Geo. J. Lacey, a world war hero who fought his way thru the Hindenberg line with the famous Thirtieth Division and was under fire more times than he has fingers and toes, was awarded damages in the sum of $7,131.66 in the Superior Court here this week. Veteran Lacey came back from the war and settled down to the arts of peace only to have his good right arm torn off in a stocking machine in the plant of the Ideal Hosiery Co. in this city. He sued the company for $25,000. The defendants have taken an appeal to the Supreme Court.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
Enoch Jordan Spence, a well-known farmer of Newland Township, was stricken with paralysis last Friday and died at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, 1922. Mr. Spence was 61 years, 11 months and 27 days old. He is survived by his wife, Mary R. Spence, six children, Ernest A., John A., E. Julian and Joseph F. Spence, Mrs. Walter R. McCoy, Miss Blanche P. Spence, and six grandchildren, all of Newland, one sister, Mrs. B.F. Burnham of South Mills, N.C., and two half brothers, A.L. Spence of Deep Creek, Va., and John A. Evans of Norfolk, Va.
He was buried Sunday evening at Whitney Cemetery. On account of the bad roads a minister could not be secured to conduct the funeral at the home, so Mrs. Frank Williams sang a touching solo as the pallbearers (the four sons) carried the body from the house. Rev. Chaffin of South Mills conducted the services at the grave.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
“The Average Man”
A most enjoyable play was given at Ellenboro last Saturday evening, entitled, “The Average Man.” A large crowd was present to enjoy the exercises. Among the well known young folk to take part were Misses Bess Freeman, Cora Lee Dalton, Corine Bridges, Edna Scoggan, Gladys Martin, Ida Green; Messrs. Glenn Bridges, Ewart Burns, Ennis Connor, Levi Burns, Arthur Green and Gail Hamrick.
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Death of Mrs. James Milliard
When relatives found Mrs. James Millard dead in her bed at her home on Rutherfordton route 1, she had her Bible by her side. She had been ill for some time, but was not thought to be serious. She was a good woman and will be sadly missed in the community. The burial took place at Pleasant Hill.
[The paper spelled her last name Milliard in the headline and Millard in the article. I don’t know which is correct.]
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80th Anniversary
A number of friends and relatives met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Smart, Route 3, Bostic, on Feb. 12 to celebrate the 80th birthday anniversary of “Aunt” Emmeline Smart. The occasion was very much enjoyed by all.
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Move to Padgett Farm
Mr. G.W. Martin and family, of the Maiden section, have moved to the Marvin Padgett farm, near Bostic, and received a warm welcome in their new home.
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Barber Shop at Bostic
Mr. Brice Nash of Marshville, who opened a new barber shop at Bostic recently, is meeting with success in his new home.
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Met With Mrs. Price
The ladies’ demonstration club and the girls’ canning club met at the home of Mrs. A.B. Price on Feb. 8th. Miss Eva Logan demonstrated the Parker House rolls. A large number were present and it is hoped to continue the meetings.
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Pie Supper
A goodly number attended the pie supper at Mt. Pleasant last Saturday night, and all report a good time.
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A Fine Boy
Born, to the wife of Mr. Anderson Smart, Route 2, Union Mills, a fine boy.
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Death of Mrs. Hamrick
Writing from Ellenboro, Route 2, a correspondent says:
The death angel visited the home of Mr. J.C. Bailey and carried away Mrs. Elizabeth Hamrick, Mrs. Bailey’s mother, aged 80 years. She was taken sick with pneumonia and paralysis. She leaves to mourn their loss, four children, Mrs. J.C. Bailey, Mrs. Ed Moore, Mrs. Lee Butler and Mr. C.G. Hamrick. She was laid to rest in the cemetery at Beaverdam.
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Death of Miss Thompson
Miss Gertrude Thompson died Thursday, Feb. 9, of pneumonia, after an illness of some time. She made her home with Dr. Ben Thompson, Bostic, Route 2, her brother. She was the oldest child, being 67 years old. Her funeral was held at Brittain church, Rev. Parker Holmes being in charge, assisted by Rev. J.F. McKimmon of Westminster. A large crowd attended which showed the high esteem in which she was held. Miss Thompson was a faithful member of the Methodist church for more than 40 years. She was loved by a large circle of friends. Deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. G.W. Long, and three brothers, Drs. W.A. and Ben Thompson, and Mr. Ed Thompson.
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Caroleen Notes
A Caroleen correspondent writes:
Mrs. M.A. Higgins was on the Northern market last week, where she went to purchase a new line for millinery and ladies’ dress wear.
Mr. R.F. Edwards, Masonic grand lecturer, was here and at Henrietta this and last week.
Mr. Walda Lynch was moved into his new home in Forest City. Mr. Urcilla Lynch has moved into the house vacated by Mr. Walda Lynch.
Profs. W.B. Blanton and W.E. Owens conducted a song service at the Southern church, Ruth, Sunday. It is the purpose of these worthy musicians to increase the interest of music as much as possible in our churches.
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Rutherfordton
Rutherfordton, Feb. 18—Mrs. E.F. Cobb entertained Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 6 o’clock at her lovely home in Spindale. The house was beautifully decorated for St. Valentine’s Day. The favor consisted of red hearts shaped boxes filled with mints. Progressive bridge was played at four tables. Misses Annette Revely and Etna Geer held the highest score. At the conclusion of the game a delicious salad course was served. Those invited were Misses Annette Revely, Eva Logan, Louisa Justice, Etna Geer, Annie Dickerson, Ruby Hicks, Leila Crow, Millie Carpenter, Margaret and Mary Willie Tate Peeler and Pearl Harrelson; Mesdames S.E. Elmore, T.F. Cates, Linwood Robinson, Lollie Revely, E.W. Justice, Moran and James Holland of Mt. Holly, N.C. The evening was most delightfully spent.
The Presbyterian Pilathea class met Tuesday night with Mrs. Claude D. Miller in their monthly meeting. The president, Mrs. Charles Moore, called the meeting to order. The Philathea Hymn was sung and sentence prayers were uttered. After the business a delicious salad course was served to the following members: Mesdames Charles H. Moore, E.W. Justice, L.D. Miller, Harvey Carpenter, N.C. Harris, W.C. Twitty, J.L. Robinson and Misses Theo Twitty , Ellen Erwin, Ruby Hicks, Rev. J.C. Grier and Mr. O.C. Erwin.
The Seniors of the Rutherfordton High school entertained the faculty Tuesday afternoon in their class room. It was charmingly decorated with hearts and other symbols of St. Valentine. The prize, a box of candy, was presented to Miss Gertrude Taylor for composing the cutest and most original Valentine toast to the seniors. After the games delicious refreshments were served by three members of the class of ’22. Those present were: Prof. and Mrs. John O. Wood, Misses Louisa Justice, Ruth Green and Gertrude Taylor, guests of honor and the senior class, Misses Lannie Dickerson, Martin Dobbins, Ethel McFarland, Elizabeth Tanner, Gladys Waldrop, Ruth Scrubbs, Lillian Waters, Emma Young and Winifred Mode; Misses Andrew Harrill, Garland Cline, William Carpenter and James Justice.
B.C. Toms and son, B.C. Jr., returned home in Salisbury Monday after a 10 days’ visit to Mr. Toms’ mother here, Mrs. M.C. Toms.
From the Forest City Courier, Feb. 23, 1922
After a busy seven day session in Judge Lane’s court at Rutherfordton, the following cases were disposed of:
Ful & Hatch Knitting Co. vs. S.S. Horn. Judgment for plaintiff, $113. Interest and cost of suit. Defendant appeals.
Flack vs Forney, Compromise. Plaintiff recovers $5 and cost.
Hill vs. Arrowood. Plaintiff entitled ot possession of land in controversy. Defendant to pay costs.
Cosby Shoe Company vs. Hampton Bros. Judgment for plaintiff for $417, interest and cost.
Emma Sutton vs. Elias Sutton, divorce granted.
W.P. McCurry vs. Mary M. McCurry, divorce granted.
William McCoy vs. Jane McCoy, divorce granted.
W.R. Callahan vs. Lester Horn, damage, $250 to the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
Ed Dorsey vs. P.D. Morrow, compromise, $400 and cost.
Weldon Carpenter vs. Hency Carpenter, judgment for plaintiff $48.20
D.G. Carpenter vs. Frank Wiggins, Judgment for plaintiff, $1,045.
J.T. Harris vs. Grady Jones, compromise.
H.S. Taylor vs. P.L. Marks, non-suit.
J.C. Burns vs. Stonecutter Mills, non-suit.
J.L. Taylor vs. J.C. Patrick, non-suit.
Robt. Haynes vs. B.L. Hamrick, non-suit.
Swift & Co., vs. J.D. Pitts, judgment for plaintiff $750.84.
John Webb vs. Minnie Webb, order of contempt to court. Appeals to Supreme court.
Moss-Reinhardt vs. D.M. Harrill. Judgment in favor of defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
Bettie C. Matthews vs. J.W. Matthews. Judgment that plaintiff is entitled to the land paid for her since her marriage to the defendant.
S.H. Scruggs, administrator Romeo Scruggs vs. Lancaster Ginning Co. Compromise, judgement in favor of plaintiff, recovers $175.
J.T. Edwards vs. Lineberger, non-suit.
O.P. Carson vs. Pitts & Gills, non-suit.
L.G. Ware vs. Florence Mills. Consent judgment defendant pays plaintiff $100 and cost in full settlement of all claims.
Grinnell Company vs. Forest City. Plaintiff takes voluntary non-suit.
E. Morgan vs. Jas. Johnson. Judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
J.F. Alexander and others vs. L.C. Lowrance, mayor and others. Judgment in favor of plaintiff.
From the Forest City Courier, Feb. 23, 1922
Plans are being made for poultry work at the office of the home demonstrator, the work to be started soon. Every boy or girl in Guilford County who wishes to join a poultry club should send his or her name to the home demonstrator, Mrs. Ola S. Wells, Courthouse, Greensboro, N.C., and they will be assisted in their work.
Mrs. Wells also invites every teacher who wishes to start a poultry club at her school to get in touch with her. She is anxious that many of the boys and girls take up or continue poultry work. Sooon after she gets through with the milk campaign being carried on throughout this week in Greensboro, she will actively take up the poultry work.
Mrs. Hen Particular
Now is the time to get the hen laying. Proper food and proper housing are necessary. Mrs. Hen is a very sensitive person and she must be treated right. If she is cold or if the water trips on her at night, she refuses to lay. Some poultrymen go so far as to say that if she gets her feet too wet she decides not to lay that day. A tree is no place for her to have to snooze at night. Comfortable quarters must be provided.
The houses must be dry, well ventilated, free from drafts, with plenty of sunshine and room enough for the birds to move about with freedom and comfort.
Protect the eggs! That is what is necessary if the hen is to be profitable instead of an expense.
The following are good grain mixtures for the laying stock, the proportions being by weight.
Ration 1—Equal parts of cracked corn, wheat and oats.
Ration 2—Three parts cracked corn, two parts oats, one part wheat.
Ration 3—Two parts cracked corn, one part oats.
A choice of any one of these rations should be scattered in the litter twice daily, morning and evening.
Either of the following dry mash mixtures should be fed in a dry mash hopper, allowing the fowls to have access to it at all times.
Mash No. 1—Two parts corn meal, one part bran, one part middlings (words obscured); part beef scrap.
Mash No. 2—Three parts corn meal one part beef scrap.
When fowls do not have access to natural green feed, sprouted oats, cabbages, mangels, cut clover, etc., should be fed. When wet mashes are fed, be sure that they are crumbly and not sticky.
Plenty of exercise increases the egg yield.
Fresh, clean drinking water should always be provided. Charcoal, grit and oyster shell should be placed before the fowls so that they can have access to them all the time.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. The photo is not an historic photo from a Guilford County farm; it's being used ato illustrate the article.
Farm Demonstration Agent E.B. Garrett spent Saturday in High Point in the interest of the more milk campaign. Farm Bureau Meeting
A big crowd of farmers are expected to be on hand at the meeting of the Guilford County farm bureau to be held in the farmers’ room of the courthouse next Saturday, beginning at 11 o’clock.
One of the principal matters to be discussed is the proposal to get together on some plans for the selection of warehouses for the storage of sweet potatoes, and one in each township of the county, more than that if possible.
A speaker from the state department of horticulture will be on hand to address the farmers on the question of proper storage of sweet potatoes. In addition, other talks will be made on the practicability of the proposition, the necessity and, in fact, the matter will be discussed from every angle.
The storage house has been shown to be of great benefit to farmers.
Plan Work for Year
A plan of work for the coming year will soon be announced by Mr. Garrett. The county agents are very busy men, and they find that a well made, definite plan for their activities is a great help in carrying on the work. Practically every hour of the agent’s working time, and much of what might be considered time for sleeping, is given over to county. Work a comprehensive plan enables him to make his activities more effective.
Co-operative Marketing
Many of the farmers of the county, who signed the co-operative tobacco marketing contract, are interested in the news from other sections as to progress. Throughout the state many more farmers are signing the contracts, uniting with the organization for the purpose of securing by business methods fair prices for their tobacco. Plans for the successful inauguration of the work are being perfected by the central officers elected recently at Raleigh.
An impressive percentage of the farmers at Guilford are signed up, more than half of the tobacco acreage. It is confidently expected that the next fall will find better prices for tobacco.
Snow on the Land
Snow is bad on shoes but fine on land, several farmers visiting Greensboro last week stated. They like to see it. As for the big freezes, they are just the thing, in their opinion. A good crop year always follows a severe winter, it is contended. The freezes pulverize the land kill out many insects, and the snow, besides being good for the wheat crop, does the land much good, filling it with moisture that will be needed when the hot sun beats down next summer.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922.
Love laughs at locksmiths, according to the old saying. And that determination wins is equally as well known.
All of which leads us to say that Mr. Thos. Ray of Gastonia is a young man of much determination, and he was put to heroic straits in his endeavor to get a marriage license to wed the girl of his choice, Miss Annie Russ, daughter of Mr. L.F. Russ, a well known farmer of Bostic, route one. Mr. Ray’s trouble all arose when he tried to get a doctor to examine him preparatory to getting the marriage license.
He came into Forest city Saturday night and spent much time trying to find a physician, but failed. Nothing daunted, he hastened to Rutherfordton and met with no better success there, and his efforts by that time had carried her and his party into the wee sma’ hours. Into the machine and off to Ellenboro went the party. Nothing doing there, the party came back to Forest City early Sunday morning, and here it was that perseverance was rewarded, for the party found Dr. Reid, and the coveted papers were made out in short order. Back to Rutherfordton went the party, and the couple were married in their machine by Magistrate Bean.
At least this is the story that was told to the Courier by a well known Forest city resident, who said he was a member of the party.
We are not writing this article in a light vein, but as a tribute to the determination and perseverance of young Mr. Ray. With the “pep” he has he should succeed in life, and here’s “wishin’.”
The groom is a well known young man. He is connected with his big cotton mill and resides at Gastonia, where the young couple will make their home.
From the front page of The Forest City Courier, Thursday, Feb. 23, 1922
The following account of the deplorable accident in which a car driven by a Rutherford county citizen killed Mr. Ernest Netherton, is taken from the Spartanburg Herald.
“An inquest over the dead body of Ernest Netherton, white man, who was run over and killed Friday, Feb. 17, by an auto driven by P.M. Ferree, a farmer, of Caroleen, N.C., was held in the Floyd undertaking parlors at 3:30 o’clock. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that the deceased came to his death by being struck by an auto driven by P.M. Ferree, that the hitting was accidental and recommended further investigation. Mr. Ferree immediately afterwards went to the sheriff’s office, obtained permission to get bondsmen and then returned with his bondsmen. Judge Thomas S. Sease signed the order and fixed bond in the sum of $2,000. G.S. Hawkins and J. Smith, both of Caroleen, were Mr. Ferree’s bondsmen. Mr. Ferree proceeded tohis home immediately after complying with bond requirements.
Mr. Ferree testified at the inquest that he was driving near Whitney, and just as he passed a wagon a man stepped out from behind it, became confused and stepped inf front of the on-coming car. Other witnesses corroborated Mr. Ferree’s testimony. “Funeral services for Mr. Netherton were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Liberty church. The deceased is survived by Mrs. Emma Netherton of Tucapau, his wife, and the following four children: N.E. Netherton, Boiling Springs; C.H. Tucapau; Miss Eura and Miss Cordelia, Spartanburg.”
From the Forest City Courier, Rutherford County, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 23, 1922
Spindale, Feb. 20—The wireless set installed by Mr. S.E. Elmore is causing quite a sensation here. The novelty of it, and the seemingly impossibility of hearing such great distances, draws a crowd each night.
Tuesday night the first program was given. The following program was picked up from Alvin Theatre in Pittsburg. The voice was received through five sets of ‘phones. At 7:15 the program began with a dialogue by Eugene and Willie Howard, appearing in the Alvin Theatre, in “The Passing Show.” At 7:15 a feature of interest for the little folks was juvenile music and Uncle Wiggly’s bedtime stories. At 7:45 the market quotations were given out, together with a report of the New York Stock Exchange, followed by another part for the children. At 8 p.m. Prof. Herbert G. Lytle, president of the Pittsburg Academy, gave an interesting lecture entitled “Vocational Education.” He stressed the value of education in all branches of study, even though one is studying for some certain branch of work. A weekly talk on fashions was given, and from 8:30 to 9 the following musical program was given: Baritone solo, Toreador song from Carmen by Alan B. Davis. Soprano solo, “Who Knows?” by Margaret Lloyd Slate. Enor solo, “Vale,” (Farewell) by John Shields. Soprano solo, “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice” by Grace Evans. Violin solo, Hungarian rhapsody, Master Charles Riley. At this juncture all of the important events of Tuesday were given, together with the sporting news. After this the musical program was continued. Seven other beautiful musical selections were sent out; most notable were “Mother Macree” and “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms.”
Saturday evening an expert came up from Charlotte and connected a Magnavox to the machine. This takes the place of the ‘phones and throws the sound all over the room. The program given out from Pittsburg was received Saturday night. The Pittsburgh program concluded at 10 p.m. Eastern time, and after the conclusion of Pittsburg the machine was tuned up to Chicago, New York, to Springfield, Mass., and back to Pittsburgh to get the Arlington time signals. After this it was tuned in with Arlington.
Sunday evening a sermon preached in Trinity church in Springfield, Mass., was received. Mr. Elmore is contemplating charging a small fee beginning soon, and then all will have the privilege of hearing New York and Chicago’s most noted operas, orchestras and lecturers for a few cents.
From the Forest City Courier, Rutherford County, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 23, 1922
The following account of the deplorable automobile accident near Shelby is taken from the Shelby Highlander:
Mr. Solon Webb of near Lattimore met death on the afternoon of Feb. 20, about 2 o’clock in an automobile accident, which took place near Peter Grigg’s residence on the Lattimore road just west of Shelby. Mr. Webb was riding with Mr. Charles Williamson in a Dodge automobile, which Mr. Williamson says he had just sold to Mr. Webb. Mr. Williamson was himself seriously injured. There is some doubt as to who was running the car, some saying Mr. Webb, others Mr. Williamson.
The accident occurred as the Dodge swerved to pass a wagon, the machine skidding while the right front wheel buckled, the car turning over twice. Mr. Webb was caught under the machine and suffered terrible injuries, including the breaking of his neck, crushing the side of his head, breaking is left leg and dislocating his hip. The car was almost completely demolished.
Mr. Williamson, who lives near Polkville, is understood to have said that he had sold the car to Mr. Webb and that he had been driving and had just turned the steering wheel over to Mr. Webb only a few moments before the accident. Mr. Webb leaves a wife and several children, who have the sympathy of many friends in their tragic bereavement. The burial of Mr. Webb took place at Lattimore.
From the Shelby Highlander, as reprinted in the Forest City Courier, Rutherford County, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 23, 1922
For a father to educate his children is one of the best things that he can do, when this is done following a Christian training in the home, that father may well sit back and fondly contemplate his work and enjoy the blessings which come to those who do a duty well. There are few fathers who can successfully put eight children through college and see them all grow to young womanhood and manhood fully equipped for the battle of life, but to Mr. G.M. Goforth of Charlotte, this remarkable record has come to pass.
Mr. Goforth, who is the representative of the International Agriculture Corporation, and who is well known in Forest City, where he frequently visits, was here recently, and it was after much persuasion that the reporter interviewed him on the subject of his great achievement in putting all eight of his children through college. He was finally induced to tell us of how he had accomplished the education of so large a family.
It took a great deal of money, of course, but to this he hardly alluded, and fondly declared that had he had moe children he would go ahead and put them through. Through it all there was never a word of any sacrifice on his part, of the cost, of the great financial outlay it must have required to put eight children through college. The predominant note of his conversation was a fond parent’s love and a pardonable pride that he takes in the success of his children, and of which any parent would be justified in taking a very great pride and pleasure.
This remarkable family is composed of the following members:
H.W. Goforth, U.S. Consul at Santos, Brazil. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University. This young man has met with wonderful success in his diplomatic work.
Rev. R.C. Goforth, who is a Methodist minister stationed at Glen Alpine Station, N.C. This young man studied for the ministry for 19 years and has met with wonderful success in his work. He is a graduate of Atlanta University.
Another son is Mr. Mark Goforth, a prominent farmer of Lenoir, N.C. He is a graduate of A. & E. College, Raleigh. [Now called N.C. State University]
Mrs. Eva Barker, a daughter, resides at Burlington, N.C. She graduated at Greensboro and at the State Normal, Davenport, Iowa.
Miss Karoline Goforth graduated at Greensboro, State University. She now has charge of Y.W.C.A. work in four States—Colorado, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming. She resides at Denver, Colorado.
Miss Mabel Goforth graduated at St. Luke’s College in Pennsylvania. She is a trained nurse and resides at Lenoir, N.C. Miss Willard Goforth graduated at Columbia University. Following her graduation she was married to Mr. E. Eybers, who is principal in a big college in South Africa.
The baby of the family is Miss Emmeline Goforth. She is a graduate of North Carolina College for Women, where she gained many honors, not the least of which was the honor of having one of her poems publishe din the college magazine, included in Schnittkind’s anthology of verse—“Poets of the Future.” She was chosen editor of the college magazine while a member of the senior class and was also secretary-treasurer of the college press association.
The poem by Miss Goforth is the only one chosen from North Carolina colleges, and gives the North Carolina College for Women an unusual distinction.
A copy of the poem is as follows:
Street Cars
A creeping, crawling, swaying, swinging insect—
A caterpillar with a bee’s deep buzz,
A cricket in its shrieking dialect—
A yellow worm, close clinging to a wire with fuzz.
Of ladies’ bonnets and of children’s faces,
Sweet children’s faces through the window’s dust.
And great clear eyes with a conductor in them,
And oh!—the paint, and iron and wire and rust!
I wonder why the heart of youth is needlessly pent
In these loud, yellow, horrid, creeping things;
Leave them for those with blistered heels and gout—
I choose to swing down the sun-flecked street
Where some impalpable charm somehow close clings,
Where children play with laughter clear and sweet
Beside the flowers, outside of windows gay,
Where youth meets youth all gladly, buoyantly walking—
I scorn this ugly, cringing, mercenary way.
From the Forest City Courier, Rutherford County, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 23, 1922
T.E. Latham and DeWitt Reynolds, young men of this city, were arrested Sunday night on a technical charge of assault against Mrs. R.L. Kirkman and Mrs. Elmer Pickard. The young women charge that the men insulted they by asking them to take an automobile ride. The men admit that they spoke to the young women but said that they thought they recognized a friend and apologized when they found otherwise. The women said that the men followed them for about two blocks until they reached their home on East Gaston street. When Mr. Kirkman came out to investigate, the men then driving off, being later arrested on Greene street. They were put under $500 bond each.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
McLeansville
Old “Brer Ground Hog” seems to be doing his worst.
The roads, due to the weather, are in deplorable condition throughout this section.
Ernest M. Whittington has returned from a visit to relatives in Farmville, Va.
Herman Donnell is spending some time in Hot Springs, Ark. In the interest of his health.
Miss Irene Holt of Greensboro spent Wednesday with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W.T. Holt.
The high school students here are planning to give a play sometime in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Fryar, who have been ill for the past week, are very much improved.
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Whitsett
The Christian Endeavor society at its regular meeting on Sunday evening took up a special collection amounting to $40 for Jewish relief.
Mr. and Mrs. O.M. Whitsett and sons of Route 4, Greensboro, have returned home after a visit here with relatives.
George W. Perrett, who has held a position with the Southern Life and Trust company of Greensboro for some years, has returned to his work after a visit here with friends.
On Wednesday evening the juniors gave a reception to the seniors of the Christian Endeavor Society. It was a very enjoyable occasion despite the unfavorable weather. Last Sunday at the M.E. church Rev. G.W. Clay preached a strong sermon on the life and work of Job to a large and interested congregation. R.C. Dick has been seriously ill for some weeks, but is better at this writing. Mrs. Hinton and Mrs. Walters, of Greensboro, and other relatives have been among his visitors during this time.
The community conference on Saturday evening drew a large crowd and many interesting matters were presented to the meeting by various speakers. The subject of reading and literature occupied a large place in the discussions. Prof. J.H. Joyner made an excellent address upon the subject of books and papers in the life of a community, and led in discussion of these topics. The hall was beautifully decorated in patriotic colors for the gathering, and the meeting was a success from every standpoint. The woman’s club has arranged to distribute throughout the community over 700 pamphlets on various topics of interest to the home. Much interest has already been aroused in this way.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lamb are happy over the birth of a daughter, Mary Francis, on Monday.
Miss Phoebe Henries spent Saturday in Greensboro at the teacher’s meeting.
The continued rainy weather adds to the trouble with the roads, and travel of all kinds is rapidly becoming a problem hard to solve. Some of the roads are entirely impassable at places.
Little Mary Isabella, young daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F.C. Mendenhall, who has been sick, is able to be out again.
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Guilford College
Mrs. Nunn of Winston-Salem, who has been principal of the high school at this place for the past month, resigned last Monday, and for the third time this term the school is without a principal and there were no classes in the high school last week. The grammar grades and primary department have been carried on.
A.J. Marshburn returned home last Saturday from the hospital in Greensboro, where he had undergone a serious operation. He is recovering rapidly and hopes to be out again soon.
Mrs. Binford was recently called to Richmond, Indiana, to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Naomi Harrison Jay, who died in Whittier, California, and whose body was brought to her former home for interment.
There have been and still are several cases of flu in and around the college. So far there have been no fatal cases and most of them are in a mild form. Owing to weather conditions and bad roads, business is almost at a standstill.
Andrew Peacock is building himself a new home near the station road, not far from his father’s place.
Raymond McCracken is also getting material on the ground for his residence on the same road.
On account of snow and rain, road building has been at a complete standstill in this locality for some time, and when one gets off the hard-surfaced roads the mud is fearful, almost impassable in some places. The rural mail carriers in this section have been obliged to leave their cars at home and go with a horse and cart, the only way they could make the trip. The Philathea class of the Sunday school here gave Miss Alice Smith a shower at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Davis last Saturday afternoon in honor of her approaching marriage. She received a number of nice presents.
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Summerfield
This is real winter weather. If some one had assassinated that groundhog when he made his annual visit, he would have done a good act.
Misses Laura Wilson and Louis Lloyd, the teachers of the Scalesville school, were at home last week, as the school was closed on account of influenza.
Dr. W.C. Davis is confined at home now. He has been on the sick list for the last few days.
Mr. and Mrs. B.Z. Byrd and John Hull spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Short of Greensboro, Route One.
Dr. Taylor of Oak Ridge has consented to spend a part of each day here in the village. He has his office in the bank building here.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas and children, of Greensboro, spent from last Friday until Sunday evening at Mr. Byrd’s.
Charlie Willson of Roxboro visited his mother, Mrs. C.H. Willson, recently.
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Cross Roads
J.C. Andrew, who has been confined to his home for a week, was taken to Dr. Reaves’ hospital in Greensboro Thursday for an operation on his throat. He returned home Friday. His friends hope that he will be out soon again.
Miss Rachel Kersey spent last Saturday and Sunday at her home, near High Point.
T.J. Shoffner and D.M. Ingold spent Sunday at W.S. Wagoner’s.
Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Whitt visited James Jones last Saturday.
Miss Lillie McDowell and brothers, James and Hubert, visited relatives and friends in Randolph county last week.
Mrs. W.G. Hutchens and daughter, Ruth, visited Mrs. Nolie Hackney, who is confined to her bed with rheumatism, last Sunday afternoon.
The people are very glad to have “Public Health,” “Farm Demonstration,” and “Home Demonstration” discussed in the Patriot.
W.D. Levens, who has been confined to his bed for some time, does not improve very fast
Those making the honor role at Cross Roads for the month ending February 10 are Annie Bell, Gilmer and Fillmore Andrew, Rufus Hutchens, Percy Andrew, Rufus Hutchens, Lucile and Grady Reece and Ruth Hutchens. In spite of the bad weather these pupils have been on time every morning during the month.
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Oak Ridge
The minstrel by the students of Oak Ridge institute, under the direction of Prof. C.Z. Whitaker, Friday night, was a great success.
The spring examinations at Oak Ridge Institute will begin Tuesday, February 21.
The Oak Ridge institute basketball team defeated the Reidsville highs at Reidsville on Friday night; score 29-26.
Miss Sadie Rollins of Asheville and Miss Mattie Baynes of Winston-Salem were the guests of Mrs. J.A. Holt this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Korner of Kernersville are at the home of their daughter, Mrs. D.L. Donnell. Mr. Korner is rapidly recovering from a slight stroke of paralysis, and Mrs. Korner from a severe attack of bronchial pneumonia.
A.L. Grunamen, stone cutter of Greensboro, has opened a shop at Stafford’s store.
Miss Helen Shore was a week-end visitor at Kernersville.
Prof. and Mrs. A.B. Cummings, Prof. and Mrs. J.A. Clapp, Mr. Helen Helen, and Mr. and Mrs. T.B. Whitaker were among the Oak Ridge folks to see “Down East” at Greensboro.
S.L. Phillips, who lost a leg by accident at his roller mill, will soon be on foot again.
Rev. and Mrs. T.J. Ogburn are visitors at the home of their daughter, Mrs. T.B. Whitaker.
Mrs. Sallie Wilson, recently a bride, was miscellaneously showered by the people of the community last Tuesday night.
Willie Cook is at Jackson Training school.
In this community there is more land in wheat than usual. The people live at home. A number of hogs have been butchered. F.O Whitaker, young son of Prof. T.E. Whitaker, killed nine hogs, the nine weighing more than 4,000 pounds. [Living at home was a national movement to get folks to produce as much of the family’s food as possible. It encouraged vegetable gardens, keeping chickens, raising hogs and similar projects.]
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Ramseur
Work is progressing very satisfactorily on the new $75,000 school building. It will be completed some time in April.
Mrs. Ellen Allred, aged 62, died at her home in Ramseur on February 12 after a short illness from dropsy. [Dropsy was congestive heart failure.]
Mr. and Mrs. V.C. Marley are in the northern markets buying the spring stock of goods and millinery for Marley and Caveness.
Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Covington are being congratulated upon the arrival of a fine son in their home last week.
The weather last week was the coldest witnessed here this season, the thermometer standing at 12 degrees above zero.
The Columbia Guernsey club met at the home of J.O. Forrester recently and discussed matters pertaining to that popular breed of cattle and other interesting subjects.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
A verdict of $806 was returned in Guilford Superior court Saturday afternoon against J.T. Jobe in favor of the Crowell motor company of Charlotte. The case occupied over two days. Breach of contract in the purchase of an automobile was charged.
The case of Miss Lucy Austin against O.M. Hunt for $15,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been received by being struck with his automobile, was continued on account of illness of a witness.
The $100,000 damage suit of Dr. G.W. Norman against R.B. Boren was expected to be begun this afternoon. The plaintiff charges improper relations between his wife and Mr. Boren.
The Summit Avenue Building company was refused the $6,000 that it asked a jury to make J.P. Sanders and W.P. Hockett pay it as damages in connection with the failure to build the General Greene hotel. The verdict was reached Thursday. The plaintiffs claimed breach of contract, charging that the defendants leased a lot at the corner of Greene and Washington streets in Greensboro from them, to pay $8,000 a year for the lot, and that a note for $6,000 was given. The defendants contended that it was only a 10-day contract.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
Mrs. Mary E. Hardison of Jamesville died at the home of her son, Henry, Friday and was buried at the family burying ground Saturday.
She was 79 years old and leavers one brother, Mr. A.B. Waters of Dardens, and one sister, Mrs. L.H Davis. She leaves three children, Mrs. W.A. Brown, Henry L. Hardison and Leonard Hardison. Mrs. Hardison had been a member of the Free Will Baptist church for many years.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Feb. 21, 1922
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Recent Deaths
W.F. Clarida
W.F. Clarida, aged 58, died Sunday morning at the home of his son, J.W. Clarida, on West Bragg street. He was stricken with apoplexy. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but he will be buried in Greene Hill cemetery.
Mr. Clarida was well known. He operated a store on Spring Garden street. Before going into business, about a year ago, he was a mail carrier for about 30 years.
Mr. Clarida leaves another son, R.C. Clarida of Bloomington, Ill., and two brothers, H.P. Clarida of this city and S.P. Clarida of Battleground.
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Mrs. Mary Smith
Mrs. Mary G. Smith, 69 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G.W. Harmon, Revolution mill, Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Revolution Baptist church, Rev. B.G. Whitley being in charge. The body was shipped to Goldston today and burial will take place Tuesday.
Mrs. Smith leaves five daughters, Mrs. C.B. Allen, Ramseur; Mrs. E.T. Wicker, Mrs. G.W. Harmon, Miss Rhodie Smith, Revolution and Mrs. J.L. Jones, and four sons, R.A. Smith, Bennett; W.D. Smith, Ramseur; T.R. Smith, Revolution; J.T. Smith, Danville.
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Mrs. Lutie Apple
Mrs. Lutie Apple, aged 22 years, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Wray in Greensboro early Friday morning. She had been ill for several months.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Pisgah church, near the Guilford battleground, conducted by Rev. A.G. Canada, pastor of the church. She was buried in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Apple leaves, besides her parents, four sisters, Mrs. W.V. Ashier of Florida, Misses Nina, Florence and Ruby Wray of Greensboro, and two brothers, Harry and Charlie Wray of Greensboro.
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Mrs. Roxie Fagan
Mrs. Roxie Fagan, aged 70, died Friday morning at her home on Ashe street. She had been ill for about two years. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon and interment followed in Greene Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Fagan leaves a daughter, Mrs. E.A. Miller of Greensboro, and a son, George Fagan of Richmond, Va.
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Mrs. Malinda Wall
Mrs. Malinda Wall, aged 84, died Wednesday night at her home in Sumner township. She had been ill for some time.
Mrs. Wall had been a resident of Guilford county for several years and she had many friends.
Funeral services were held at Center Quaker church Friday, interment following in the church cemetery.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
Lieutenant Osborne of Plymouth came up last night to instruct the Williamston platoon of the National Guard. His principal mission was to give instruction on the operation of automatic rifles. He had one of the new Browning light automatic rifles and took the member of the company to the river this morning and gave an actual test of the gun. The gun looks very much like an ordinary automatic shot gun except for a little more machinery around the breech. The lieutenant held the gun in a belt socket and fired at about the rate of 600 per minute. He also fired it from his shoulder. Those witnessing the firing wonder how men escape when they charge a machine gun battery. It would seem that a whole army could be mowed down in a single charge.
The Williamston platoon will be furnished with two and possibly three of these automatic guns and will be given full instruction at drills during the Spring.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Feb. 21, 1922
Salisbury, Feb. 18—While his case was being argued before a jury yesterday, Captain R.E. Crawford, Southern railway conductor, through his attorneys, submitted a plea of manslaughter.
Captain Crawford was being tried under a warrant charging second degree murder for the slaying of Engineer D.S. Hinton at Spencer December 5. The homicide was the result of remarks about Mrs. Crawford made by Hinton and heard by Crawford, who struck Hinton over the head with a catsup bottle, making a wound that caused death several hours later.
Sentence has not been passed, but it is confidently expected to be the minimum of four months. Crawford was allowed to go under his old bond of $7,500. A hurriedly written petition to the governor to pardon Captain Crawford was signed by every member of the jury.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
Ten negroes escaped from the city convict stockade west of Greene Hill cemetery Sunday afternoon. Police are searching for them. The men sawed a hole in the bottom of the house in which they were quartered. The men who escaped are Joe Mitchell, Robert Lynch, Sam Allen, James Edwards, Ernest Simmons, Ed Caldwell, Nelson Simmons, Miller Chavis, Amos Adams and Robert Patterson. They were all one-year prisoners.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
It is believed that four white men held in jail at Winston-Salem, on a charge of attempting to rob the Bank of Kernersville early last Thursday, Grady Cheek, J.D. Cardwell, Roy and Charlie Huffman, are the same ones who several weeks ago broke into the office of the branch of the Standard Oil company at Greensboro. On some of the men were found government stamps which were taken from the office and an Iver Johnson pistol, the number on which corresponded to that of a pistol taken from the Standard Oil office.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
Durham, Feb. 17—Three boys were killed and three others injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a switch engine at a crossing in the eastern part of the city about 4 o’clock this morning. With the exception of the driver of the car, who was killed, all were students at the University of North Carolina. Those killed were:
George Hadley, Mount Airy.
George Torry Peoples, Townsville, Va.
T.H. Bryant, Chapel Hill, chauffeur.
The injured were:
Charles Iceman, Monroe, fractured skull.
P. Boney, Goldsboro, dislocated elbow.
J.C. Spach, Winston-Salem, scalp wound.
Iceman died a little after noon Friday.
The six youths were returning to Chapel Hill for (from?) Raleigh, where they had attended a dance last night, when the accident occurred. Spach, who was not badly injured, told hospital authorities that he believed all the boys were asleep except the driver when the engine struck the car.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
Fire at the assembly hall of the White Oak Mill Saturday night causes a loss of several thousand dollars. The building is a two-story one, the upper story being used for a lodge room, basketball court and hall, the lower occupied by the Textile Bank, the White Oak Drug Store, the Fairview theater, W.H. King, merchant, and the White Oak barber shop. Mr. King was the heaviest loser, smoke and water damaging his stock.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922.
Page 3: American Exchange National Bank; the Eagle Range at Johnson-Forbis-Simmons Co.; Poole & Blue Funeral Directors; Meyer’s Department Store; Vicks VapoRub; learn shorthand at Greensboro Commercial School; Atlantic Bank and Trust Co.
Page 7: Greensboro Automobile Show
Page 8: Greensboro National Bank, Gilmer’s Cash and Carry, Greensboro Hardware, W.F. Hayworth the Dependable Jeweler, L.L. Simmons, M.D., Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist; Farmers and Mechanics Bank and Trust Company; Southside Hardware Co.
Ernest C. McLean of New York will arrive in Greensboro about March 1 to become cashier of the Greensboro Morris Plan bank. He is now manager of one of the P. Lorillard tobacco plants in New York city.
Mr. McLean is a Guilford man, the son of Walter McLean of the Whitsett section. He has been away from the county for the past 10 years, having had considerable experience in the banking business, as well as in business. His wife is also a native of Guilford county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Wharton.
He succeeds J.F. Stevens as cashier of the Morris Plan bank. Mr. Stevens remains secretary and treasurer of the Gate City Building and Loan association.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Morris Plan Banks, named for Arthur Morris who opened the first such bank in 1910, focused more on a loan applicant’s character and chances for success rather than his or her wealth. These banks were set up to help the needs of the poor and working-class customers, who couldn't get loans at regular banks.
Van Miller, one of the 16 convicts who escaped from the Guilford county workhouse last Monday night, and who was captured at Winston-Salem Thursday night, told Guilford authorities that a trusty, called “Dolly” Valbes, opened the heater hole of the floor through which the 16 men escaped. Fifteen dollars was given Valbes to open it, Miller said, by him and another convict. Miller was brought back to the workhouse Friday. He said, in relating the story of the escape, that, although he was tired and hungry, he wanted to get over the borders of Guilford as soon as possible, and made a straight line for his home in Winston-Salem. One night was spent in a tobacco barn near Waughtown, he said, and he was in terror that he would be captured. The next morning, nearly frozen, he said, he crawled out of the barn and slunk into Winston-Salem, going to his home.
It was thought that some of the men would go to their homes, the capture of Van Miller was comparatively easy. More of the men are expected to be caught in the same way. Sooner or later, it is said, many of them will come ack to their homes, making quick trips in and out, getting bolder and bolder, until they are picked up.
It is said that a relative of Miller took the money to him at the workhouse last Saturday.
Valbes is no longer a trusty. He was convicted several years ago of check flashing and was sentenced to two years on the county roads. After serving that time he was re-arrested and given 18 months more on a similar charge. When that expires, he will be turned over to the sheriff of Rockingham count, where he is wanted.
Miller had served only a short part of his term when he got away. He was sentenced at the January term of Guilford Superior criminal court to a year on the roads after a conviction on a charge of stealing an automobile.
From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
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Alleged Robber is Not Loose Convict
The report that Roy Huffman, captured near Waughtown, Forsyth county, Thursday and charged, with four other men captured at the same time, with trying to rob the bank of Kernersville, is an escaped convict, was denied, following a trip made to the Forsyth county jail by Superintendent Andrews of the Guilford county workhouse Mr. Andrews saw the Roy Huffman held and knew at once that he is not the same person as the convict Roy Huffman.
In connection with the escape of the convicts, it is said that a suit of clothes worn by one of the escaping convicts was delivered by his relatives in Greensboro to the sheriff’s office. The man, according to information given by his wife, it is said, went home and changed his clothes a short while after he broke from the convict house, then starting out again. From The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, February 20, 1922. Published every Monday and Thursday.
