Superintendent Howell of the welfare department is again camping on the trail of Carl Suggs, formerly of this city, who has been charged off and on—more or less—for the past two or three years with non-support of his wife. Every time they have given him the last warning and told him that unless he got a job, kept it and tried to support his wife they were going to put him where he could eat state rations for a while, Suggs has braced up temporarily and promised to better. But pretty soon he would be just “rocking along. Just taking things easy, you know. Oh, what’s the use? I got a mother-in-law to take care of me and my wife.”
And so his mother-in-law, Mrs. Laura Smith, has been the goat. Even now Suggs is said to be doing more shifting at Smithfield in three days to get his wife and children back on his mother-in-law than he has done shifting for a living in the past three years.
The welfare department had a warrant for Smith’s arrest October 6, 1921, and he left out of here in such a hurry it was reported about town he caught a train that left the day before. And nothing was heard of his whereabouts until yesterday. Word came that his wife and children had come home to visit the woman’s mother, and that Smith was trying to force them to stay at mother’s.
So Mr. Howell has planned a little surprise for Suggs. The welfare superintendent of Johnson county will pay him a little visit today to find out why he is up to his old tricks. They expect the same gag of course, but say they have the goods with which to gag Sugg’s gag this time unless he can show some visible means of support besides his mother-in-law. A membership card in the honorable organization of shifters will be of little service to him in this case for they say he has got to shift something besides his position this time. The patience and long suffering to the department as well as Sugg’s little wife is worn out, declare officers.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1922
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