Albemarle, Oct. 23—That Secretary of State Everett is not only on to his job in his office in Raleigh but all the time and everywhere else was clearly demonstrated late yesterday afternoon. P.J. Huneycutt of the P.J. Huneycutt & company undertaking establishment, drove out to Fairview cemetery about 4 o’clock to see how the work was progressing where he had a couple of men with an old abandoned truck at work cleaning up and beautifying the place. Unfortunately the old truck had no license number so when Mr. Huneycutt arrived on the scene he found his two men in custody of two officers and Secretary Everett. They were passing through and noticing the truck without number grabbed on to the men who were in charge of it and refused to turn loose until the owners had gone straightway to Auten Wolfe Motor company, of this place, and purchased a license number for the truck. The truck was one which had not been used for some time and the men had picked it up and were using it to haul trash from the cemetery where they were doing clean-up work. Their experience cost them just $25, but of course they didn’t argue with the secretary of state, as they knew he had the drop on them even though they were not intentionally violating the law.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 25, 1924
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