Car Accident Leaves Three Dead, Including Ellis Jackson Who Was to Have Been Married Aug. 31, 1926

Auto Accident Kills Three. . . One of Victims Was to Have Been Married Today; Cars Collided

Hickory, Aug. 30 (AP)—Three persons, including a man who was to have been married tomorrow, were killed and three injured when two automobiles collided near here today.

The dead are:

--Mrs. A H. Jarrett of Concord, wife (line obscured) school.

--Ellis L. Jackson of Newton, auditor of Catawba County.

--Nathan White, negro, of Concord, chauffeur for Mrs. Jarrett.

Mrs. T.L. Ross of Concord, sister of Mrs. Jarrett, James Ross, 11, son of Mrs. Ross, and the negro maid, whose name was not learned, were injured. They are expected to recover.

Jackson’s automobile crashed into the Jarrett car on a sharp curve, it was said. Mrs. Jarrett was dead when removed from the wreckage and Jackson and White died four hours later.

Jackson was to have married Miss Lelia D. Simpson of Barium Springs.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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H.J. Neely and Harold Grady to be Tried for Second Degree Murder in Death of Dossie Traylor, Aug. 31, 1926

Not to Ask for First Degree Verdict in Neely-Grady Case

The State will not ask for a verdict of first degree murder in the case against H. J. Neely and Harold Grady, young white man held in connection with the death of Dossie P. Traylor in an automobile accident several weeks ago, but will ask “second degree or manslaughter as the evidence may show or the jury find. Statement to this effect (line obscured) case was called at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

The case against Milford Price, charged with the murder of Senas Howard, was set for Wednesday September 1, and a special jury venire of 50 men was ordered drawn and to be present in court Wednesday. The setting of the Price case for Wednesday indicates that today is expected to end the Neely-Grady case.

Sheriff Grant was the only witness who had testified when court adjourned at 5:30 in the afternoon. More than two hours were spent in selecting a jury for the case, and 32 men were called before 12 acceptable jurors were selected.

The following were finally named: T.A. Davis, F.E. Hales, W.F. Pender, T. L. Hines, C.L. Spivey, B.H. Lewis, John R. Best, Atlas Williams, F.G. Balance, George L. Hooks, G.F. Pearsall, and H.B. Aycock.

Appearing for Harold Grady in the case are attorneys: Hugh Dortch, J.J. Hatch, and Judge W.S.O.B. Robinson. Appearing for H.J. Neely are Col. George K. Freeman and W.A. Dees. M.B. Loftin is aiding (line obscured) case for the state.

Other Cases

A nol pros with leave was taken in the charge of seduction against Bill Lee.

John Sasser, stock running at large, judgment suspended on payment of costs.

A.C. Price, false pretense, continued until November term.

E.P. West, larceny and receiving, continued until November term.

Carl Smith, seduction, no pros with leave.

Frank Grantham, larceny and operating while drunk, continued until November term.

H.L. Miller, nol pros with leave. [charge not listed]

David Smith was arraigned in court on a charge of murder, but a date for this trial was not set.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Judge Cranmer Doesn't Appreciate Defendant's Attitude, Aug. 31, 1926

Take That Stuff Out Cramner

Don’t try to drink a dope in Judge Cranmer’s court.

Harold Grady, charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Dossie Traylor in an automobile accident several weeks ago, left eh court room yesterday afternoon soon after the case against him was called. When he came back he had several Coca-Colas for his friends, and marched debonairly late into the court room.

Judge Cranmer—who when court adjourned Saturday afternoon had given prison sentences totalling 90 years and three months to 16 defendants—shot the young man a smoking glance and devastating words followed:

“Take that stuff out of here, and don’t you leave the court room any more with special permission,” was in effect what he told young Grady.

Editor's Note: In 1926 "dope" was everyday slang for Coca-Cola, just like regular tobacco was often called "weed" even though it was not marijuana.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Mrs. Herman Fincher Innocent of Receiving Stolen Goods, Sept. 1, 1926

Widow Acquitted of Getting Stolen Goods

Charlotte, Aug. 31—Mrs. Herman Fincher, whose husband was killed last Wednesday in an automobile accident near Sylva, today was freed of charges involving receiving stolen goods.

Fincher, who was employed as a chauffeur by Mrs. Frank Gore of Midland near Charlotte, was alleged to have stolen a number of articles from Mrs. Gore and to have taken them to his home.

Mrs. Fincher said she did not know her husband had stolen the goods. “He told me he bought them,” she testified before Magistrate S. S. Stokes.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 1, 1926

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Neighbor Charged with Killing Mary Poindexter's $200 Persian Cat, Aug. 31, 1926

Charged with Murder of Cat. . . Mrs. Poindexter says C. L. Mosely Willfully Killed Her Valuable Persian Cat

Raleigh, Aug. 31—Two important events stand out in the death of a Persian cat here.

One is the loss of the valuable feline worth $200 or more to Mrs. Mary Poindexter of Hayes-Barton.

The other is the arrest of C. L Moseley, Seaboard Air Line conductor, of 1506 Scales Street, who must answer in city court on two charges as the result of the alleged “willful murder” of the cat.

Moseley was arrested Sunday afternoon when both warrants were read to him. He was allowed liberty on his own recognizance.

The conductor is charged with “malicious injury to personal property” and “cruelty to animals.”

The latter charge set forth that he did “injure, torment and needlessly kill a dumb animal: to-wit, a Persian cat by shooting, kicking and beating the same.”

The warrants were sworn out by the police at the instance of J. Sherwood Upchurch, father of Mrs. Poindexter.

According to the police, the cat was highly prized by Mrs. Poindexter as a pet and had refused several offers for the beautiful Persian. Moseley is a neighbor of the Poindexters.

Editor’s Note: Last name was spelled Mosely in headline and Moseley in story in newspaper.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Lewis Bennett, 52, Committed to Insane Asylum in Mount Olive, Aug. 31, 1926

Commit Mount Olive Negro to Asylum

Considerable excitement was caused around the courthouse late yesterday afternoon when Lewis Bennett, colored, 52, of near Mount Olive was brought to the city and papers secured for committing him to the colored insane asylum here. Bennett has been sick for several weeks, and on Saturday he was seized with attacks declared to somewhat resemble those produced by hydrophobia. He was foaming at the mouth, and two men were required to keep him quiet.

From page 6 of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Currituck Public Schools Expect to Enroll 1,200 Students for 1926-1927 School Year

Best Prospects for Currituck’s Public Schools. . . Enrollment Expected to Reach or Pass 1,200 Mark and Conditions Most Favorable in County History. . . They Open Today. . . Program of Consolation Inaugurated by Miss Newbury practically Complete; Trained Teachers

Currituck, Aug. 31—With an enrollment which by Monday of next week, when a Notts Island school opens, expected to reach or pass the 1,200 mark, Currituck schools at all points except Knotts Island open today under the most favorable auspices in the history of the county.

With the schools at Harbinger, Jarvisburg and Powells Point consolidated at Powells Point, Currituck’s program of consolidation, inaugurated when Miss Maud Newbery became identified with the school system of the county became practically complete. Miss Annie Lee Howard, graduate of the two years’ course at the East Carolina Teachers College for Women, is principal of the new consolidated school. Miss Howard was at Poplar Branch last year and did very satisfactory work. Miss Mildred Mattocks, also a graduate of the East Carolina Teachers College for Women, who had signed a contract to teach at Poplar Branch, was released from her contract at the request of Miss Newbury and is teaching in the Powells Point school. Miss Beatrice Williams, who did skilled work at Jarvisburg last year serving as principal of the two teacher school at that place, has third and fourth grades at Powell Point. Miss Esther Albritton, formerly primary teacher at Powell Point, who took a course this summer at East Carolina Teachers College for Women, will have the first grade at Powells Point consolidated school.

Moyock High School opened today with C.N. Baughn entering upon his third year as principal. Mr. Baughn has spent the summer at Columbia University in study under specialists in education. Moynock is also fortunate in having again as teacher of agriculture T. B. Elliott, who has been at Moyock for the last four years and who during that time has won a recognized place among the best teachers of agriculture in the State.

Other teachers returning to Moyock are Miss Isabel lacy, Mrs. W. W. Smith and Mrs. C. N. Baughn. New teachers include Miss Alla Meredith of Tarboro, graduate of the North Carolina College for Women, who will teach home economics; Miss Mildred McDearmen of Appomattox, Virginia, a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, who will teach English and Latin; Miss Sally Cheek of Ocracoke, a graduate of the degree course at East Carolina Teachers College for Women, who will teach history and civics; and Miss Ada Belle Sessoms of Ahoskie, a graduate of the two years course at the East Carolina Teachers College for Women, who will teach the primary grades.

Mrs. Carl Brumsey, who has served as primary teacher for three years at Currituck, entered upon her fourth years in that school today, after having spent the summer at Columbia University in the study of problems of primary education under specialists in this field. Besides teaching the first grade, Mrs. Brumsey wlll also serve as principal at Currituck and as demonstration first grade teacher for the county. Other teachers at Currituck are Miss Eleanor Lane of Elizabeth City, who will teach fifth and sixth grades, Miss Irene Simmons of Pollockville, who will teach fourth grade; and Miss Frances Barringer of Salisbury, who will teach second and third grades. All three of these teachers are graduates of a two years’ course at East Carolina Teachers College for Women.

Poplar Branch has a new principal this year in B. Willard DeShaze of Danville, Viriginia, a graduate of Wake Forest College, who has been doing graduate work at the University of Virigina. Mr. Deshaze has had a number of years’ experience as principal in schools in Virginia and Florida and has been abroad. [DeShaze or Deshaze?]

Other teachers at Poplar Branch are miss Minnie Gurr, who returns to her work at Poplar Branch after having spent two summers in study at Columbia University; Mr. and Mrs. Emory Smith; Miss Stinette of Lynchburg, Virginia, a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, who will teach English and Latin; Miss Bertha Piland, a graduate of the degree course of East Carolina Teachers College, who will teach history and civics; Miss Prebble of Lynchburg, Virginia, a graduate of State College for Teachers at Fredericksburg, who will handle commercial work; Mrs. W. H. Walker, who returned to the principalship of the elementary school for her eighth hear; Mrs. W T. Forbes, Mrs. Norman Gregory, Mrs. Roscoe Baum and Miss Julia Tyler of Roxobel. Miss Tyler is a graduate of the two year course of the East Carolina Teachers College and will teach first grade. Emory Sith’s work at Poplar Branch in agriculture has won him equal distinction with that of Mr. Elliott of Moyock.

Mrs. Katherine Steele, a graduate of Teachers College at Columbia University, will serve as principal at the school at Knotts Island. As assistants she will have Miss Ruby Oldham and Miss Pearl Taylor, both of whom took a summer course at East Carolina Teachers’ College, and have had several years of successful experience. The home demonstration agent will teach home economics in the Knotts Island school.

The Gibbs and Corolla have Mr. D. E. Forbes and Mrs. S. J. Walker returning for another year.

As supervisor of music and industrial arts in the schools of Currituck County, Miss Hilda Jennette will serve. Miss Rachel Everette, who holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, continues home demonstration work in the county, working both through the schools and through women’s clubs.

Arrangements have also been made for the employment of a school nurse in Currituck County this year.

From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N. C., Aug. 31, 1926

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List of Books for Goldsboro Public Schools, 1926-1927

Goldsboro Public Schools

Book list for Primary Grades—1926-‘27

Tablets and pencils for the year are supplied. The supplementary readers will be rented during the year at a cost of approximately 10 cents per book. A proportionate book refund will be made on withdrawal from school before the end of the term.

FIRST GRADE

Child’s World Primer, 45 cents

Child’s World First Reader, 45 cents

Reading Literature Primer, 49 cents

Supplementary Readers (6), 60 cents

Beginner’s Pencils and Tablets, 50 cents

Crayons, Drawing Paper, 1 Comp. Book, Music, 40 cents

Total: $3.25

SECOND GRADE

Child’s World Second Reader, 50 cents

Reading Literature, Second Reader, 50 cents

Mastery of Words, Book 1, 40 cents

Supplementary Readers (6), 60 cents

Tablets and Pencils, 50 cents

Crayons, Drawing Paper, 1 Comp. Book, Music, 40 cents

Total: $2.90

THIRD GRADE

Child’s World Third Reader, 60 cents

Reading Literature, Third Reader, 50 cents

Mastery of Words, Book 1, 40 cents

Good English, Book 1, 45 cents

School Arithmetic, Book 1, 60 cents

Supplementary Readers (5), 50 cents

Tablets and Pencils, 50 cents

Crayons, Drawing Paper, 1 Comp. Book, Music, 40 cents

Total: $3.95

Grammar Grades

A proportionate book refund will be made on withdrawal from school. Drawing and writing material does not include tablets and pencils.

FOURTH GRADE

Studies in Reading, Book four, 70 cents

Mastery of Words, Book 1, 40 cents

Good English, Book 2, 55 cents

Essentials of Geography, Book 1, $1.35

School Arithmetic, Book 1, 60 cents

Drawing, Writing Material and Music, 30 cents.

Total: $3.90

FIFTH GRADE

Studies in Reading, Book 5, 75 cents

Mastery of Words, Book 1, 40 cents

Good English, Book 2, 55 cents

Essentials of Geography, Book 1, $1.35

School Arithmetic, Book 2, 75 cents

A First Book in U.S. History, 80 cents

Healthy Living, Book 1, 75 cents

Turkington’s My Country (rental free)

Webster’s Primary School Dictionary, 60 cents

Drawing, Zaner Writing Material and music, 30 cents

Total, $6.25

SIXTH GRADE

Studies in Reading, Book 6, 75 cents

Mastery of Words, Book 2, 30 cents

Good English, Book 3, 60 cents

Essentials of Geography, Book 2, $1.35

School Arithmetic, book 2, 75 cents

Healthy Living, Book 2, 95 cents

A Young People’s History of North Carolina (first half), 80 cents

Our Ancestors in Europe (second half), $1.05

Webster’s Primary School Dictionary, 60 cents

Drawing, Zaner Writing Material and Music, 30 cents

SEVENTH GRADE

Studies in Reading, Book 7, 80 cents

Mastery of Words, book 2, 30 cents

Good English, Book 3, 60 cents

Essentials of Geography, Book 2, $1.85

School Arithmetic, book 2, 75 cents

History of the People of the U.S., $1.05

Elementary Community Civics, $1.10

Studies in Elementary Science (Rental free)

Webster’s Primary School Dictionary, 60 cents

Drawing, Zaney Writing Material and Music, 30 cents

Total: $7.35

From page 2 of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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W.G. Green, 55, Died August 30, 1926

W. G. Green of Grantham Section Dead

W. G. Geen of the Grantham section died at his home yesterday afternoon at 6:30 following an illness of several weeks. Mr. Green was 55 years old and is survived by his wife and several children.

Funeral services will be held today at 12 o’clock and will be in charge of Rev. Christopher Hooks, assisted by Rev. John W. Gardner. Interment will be in the Glen family burying ground in Green county.

From page 6 of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Father Guilty of Giving Whiskey and Beating 9-Year-Old Daughter, Aug. 31, 1926

Guilty of Assault

Charlotte, Aug. 30 (AP)--Charged by three small daughters with giving whiskey to and beating their nine-year-old sister, Williard Davis, Pineville farmer, who submitted in criminal court today to assault charges, tonight was awaiting sentence.

Judgement was withheld pending further investigation after Judge James L. Webb had administered a severe reprimand. The whiskey charge was nol prossed [not pursued].

Davis said he had spanked the girl because she would not go to bed after he had permitted a visitor to give her half a glass of whiskey to drink.

The child, Davis said, had fled from the home after the first beating and he found her lying in a nearby cornfield in a drunken condition, and administered a second beating, using a leather strap. The girl was said to have been ill from the whiskey. The witness testified that the father was drunk at the time. The child was unable to appear in court because of illness.

Editor’s Note: Notice who charged Davis with this crime? It wasn’t the police. It was his “three small daughters.”

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Despite Admitting to Striking Female Inmate, Burleson Not Guilty of Assault, Aug. 31, 296

Free Burleson of Assault. . . Stanly Officer Declared Not Guilty of Assaulting Woman Inmate to County Home

Albemarle, Aug. 30 (AP)—J. C. Burleson, keeper of the count home for Stanly county, was given a hearing before Judge Ingram of the county court here today and was found not guilty.

He was charged with an assault of the home 10 days ago. Mr. Burleson did not go on the stand himself but County Welfare Officer (name obscured) Moss, testified for the state and swore that Mr. Burleson confessed to him that he struck the woman (words obscured) with a small peach tree twig. Moss said that when the woman was ?? to the home he did not know she was a bad character.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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Men Who Broke into Home, Kidnapped and Flogged "Conjure Doctor" Fined by Judge Cramner, Aug 29, 1926

When Superior Court for the criminal cases adjourned yesterday afternoon is re-convened Monday morning, 17 defendants had been given prisons sentences. Sixteen of the convicted defendants will serve 23 years and three months on the roads of Wayne count. One will serve six years in the state penitentiary.

Three divorces had been granted, and the 10 floggers convicted of housebreaking and kidnapping in the “conjure doctor” case had been sentenced to fines and costs totally approximately $1,900.

Other Cases

Yesterday court remained in session until 1:30 and sentences passed on Tom Pierce, found guilty of ?? whiskey in his possession for the purpose of sale. Piece was sentenced to serve 18 months on the county roads, and it was ordered ?? gave notice of appeal costs should be fixed at $50 and bond at $3,000.

Judge Cramner ordered that three months of the 18 months sentence against Exum Hooks of Pikeville (rest of sentence obscured).

Alonzo Wall and Jessie Wall, young Goldsboro white men, were found guilty on a charge of store breaking and larceny and sentenced to serve 2 ½ years on the county roads. Evidence was introduced to show that these young men had stolen a quantity of goods from the store of Gay Brothers at Mount Olive.

It is expected that a good part of this week will be taken up with criminal cases. Possibly the case which will excite the most public interest of all during the session will be called Monday. This is the charge against H. J. Neely and Harold Grady in connection with the death of Dessie P. Traylor in an automobile accident several weeks ago.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Frank Barnes Cranks Car, It Reverses into Jim Britt's Car, Aug. 29, 1926

Auto Accident on Center Street

Frank Barnes, colored, cranked his automobile while it was in gear yesterday afternoon and it rushed backward into the car of Jim Britt, salesman for H. Weil and Brothers, which was parked in front of the store.

The car of Mr. Britt was slightly damaged. Barnes arranged to have the damage repaired and no arrests were made in the case.

From page 8 of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Bank Failures Should Decline as State Industrializes, Says I.M. Bailey, Aug. 29, 1926

Bank Failures Should Decline. . . Corporation Commission Attorney Says Industrialization of State Should Aid Situation

Raleigh, Aug. 27—Failure of banks, frequent in North Carolina during the past five years, should decline in the future of the growing industrialization of the state and because the power of regulating the establishment of state banks given the Corporation Commission by the 1921 General Assembly, in the opinion of I. M. Bailey, attorney for the commission.

Many of the 57 state banks which failed in the state during the past five years probably would not be allowed to open under the present regulations of the Corporation Commission, says Mr. Bailey. They were banks opening before the General Assembly passed measures giving the commission the power to regulate their establishment. Before regulatory power was accorded the commission, points out Mr. Bailey, banks were allowed to open almost promiscuously in towns where there were no demands for further banking facilities. After struggling along for a year or so, the attorney declares, the then closed their doors with losses to depositors.

This loss in bank deposits in North Carolina during the past five years, as shown a recent issue of the University of North Carolina News Letter, points out Mr. Bailey, was moe than $12 million, an amount arrived at on the presumption of an average lost of 75 per cent of the total liabilities of the defunct banks.

The Corporation Commission has no control over receiverships and liquidation of banks, except their examinations, says Mr. Bailey. It has no figures available upon which to base an exact, or even an appropriate, estimate of the losses maintained in Nroth Carolina during the past five years through the failure of banks, eh says, adding tht the figures compiled by the News Letter are therefore estimates.

In the opinion of Mr. Bailey, the State Corporation should have more control of the affairs of defunct banks, rather than allow liquidation through the present receivership channels. He advocates the passing of a law providing for this, believes that through this method 15 or 20 per cent of the assets of defunct banks, in the future, can be waved to unfortunate depositors.

As an example of the manner in which the system he proposes works, Mr. Bailey cites the control of national banks by the Comptroller of Currency. Under this system a national bank, whenever it goes under, until all assets are liquidated, has its affairs controller by men whose business is the liquidation of banks. The costs of this method, he declares, is approximately five per cent of the assets, representing a distinct saving over the state’s present system.

For under the usual receivership processed as practiced in North Carolina, says Mr. Bailey, the cost frequently amounts to as much as 25 per cent of the assets, and the assets themselves often remain tied up in the receivership for years.

Were the Corporation Commission to control the affairs of the defunct banks until the assets were liquidated (line obscured) of thousands of dollars might annually be saved to the depositors.

Mr. Bailey expects to interest the next General Assembly in the reform which he advocates.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Marriage License Issued for Fred Wade and Fannie Button, Both 16 Years Old, Aug. 29, 1026

Marriage License Issued

One marriage license was issued yesterday from the office of Register of Deeds.

Fred Wade, son of L. H. Wade of New Hope township, was granted permission to marry Fannie Button, daughter of Chas. D. Sutton of New Hope township. Each of the contracting parties is 16 years old.

From page 8 of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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St. Stephen's Church Plans Sunday School Picnic at Crescent Lake, Aug. 29, 1926

Sunday School Picnic at Cresent Lake Tuesday

Tuesday afternoon has been named as the time for the annual picnic of the Sunday School of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church and Crescent Lake as the place. All who intend to attend the picnic should meet at the church at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon.

From page 8 of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Diana Dellinger, 98, Has Died, Was Still Able to Read Without Glasses, Aug, 29, 1926

Diana Dellinger Dies at 98

Hickory, Aug. 28—Funeral services for Mrs. Diana Dellinger, aged 98, who was probably the oldest woman in Catawba County at the time of her death Monday, was held Tuesday afternoon at St. John’s Lutheran church.

Mrs. Dellinger was the widow of Logan Dellinger, Civil War veteran, who died about 30 years ago. Until a short time ago, Mrs. Dellinger was in the best of health. Her mind weas not impaired in the slightest degree on account of her advanced age, and she as able to read without the aid of glasses.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Mrs. Cora Parnell, 56, Died Suddenly with Paralysis, Aug. 29, 1926

Dies Suddenly from Paralysis

Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the home near Fremont for Mrs. Cora Parnell, 56, who died suddenly with paralysis Friday afternoon. Mrs. Parnell had been enjoying her usual good health until about 3 o’clock Friday when she was stricken suddenly with the disease and died at 3:30.

The funeral yesterday was in charge of Rev. Mr. Ennis of the Free Will Baptist Church of New Bern. Interment was in the burying grounds at Pike’s Cross Roads.

Mrs. Parnell is survived by five sons and two daughters. The sons are T. L., A. D., Paul, and Leonard and George Parnell of the Fremont section; Miss Cora Lee Parnell of the same section and another who lives in Goldsboro but whose name could not be learned when this was written.

From page 8 of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Harvey Williford, 16, in Critical Condition with Nail Driven into His Brain, Aug. 29, 1926

Nail Driven in Boy’s Brain. . . Sampson Youth and Father Were Attempting to Dislodge Board in Wall

Fayetteville, Aug. 28—Harvey Williford, 16-year-old youth, is in a critical condition in the Cumberland general hospital here as a result of an unusual accident which occurred while the lad was engaged in tearing down an old house on his father’s farm in Sampson county.

The boy and his father were endeavoring to dislodge a board in the wall of the house when a timber fell from the top of the building and struck the young man across the head with such force that a nail in the rafter was driven into his brain.

Young Williford is a son of D. B. Williford.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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Dr. Stembridge Charged with Possession of Narcotic, Aug. 29, 1926

Narcotic Charge Against Dentist

Durham, Aug. 28 (AP)—War upon violators of the Harrison anti-narcotic law, as staged Thursday by Narcotic Agents S. A. Williams and W. B. Shanahan, when Dr. H. B. Stembridge, local dentist, was held on a charge of having in his possession a small quantity of dope.

The dentist was arrested Thursday morning about 6 o’clock by city police on a charge of drunkenness.

The dope charge was made after narcotic agents searched the doctor’s office, where the small quantity of drugs was discovered.

From page 2 of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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J.C. Burleyson Arrested for Assault and Battery on County Home Inmate, Aug. 28, 1926

Warrant Issued for Burleyson

Albemarle, Aug. 27—A warrant was issued here today charging J. C. Burleyson, keeper of the Stanly County Home, with assault and battery on Mrs. Nannie McIntyre, an inmate.

The woman ran away from the home 10 days ago and was arrested here upon orders of Burleyson. She then told newspaper men of alleged cruelties inflicted upon her by the keeper. She is still being held.

Burleyson immediately gave bond following his arrest.

From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Search Continued for Man Who Ran Over Child, Aug. 28, 1926

Think the Capture of Negro is Near. . . Hunt for Man Who Ruthlessly Killed Child Goes on Vigorously

Black Mountain, Aug. 27—With the posse which has been searching for 24 hours for George Mills, negro driver of the car which last night ran down and killed Clarence Melton, aged 15 months, on the Black Mountain highway, augmented by nearly a hundred men who joined the crowd late in the afternoon, the man hunt is being pushed tonight in the belief that capture of the black is only a matter of hours.

There is less talk of violence but the search is being pushed with renewed vigor and while indications are that the negro will undoubtedly be safe from mob action, the situation remains tense.

The fact that Mrs. Melton, mother of the babe who was killed as it toddled at her side down the highway, was herself fired upon and wounded a few months ago by alleged moonshiners who wanted revenge for the activity of Rev. John Melton, father of the baby, against the liquor traffic, has added to the feeling that has grown as a result of the crime of the negro who is said to have been under the influence of liquor and driving without lights.

A warrant charging the negro with assault with a deadly weapon has been sworn out and is in the hands of Sheriff E. M. Mitchell, who has been on the scene most of the day directing the work.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Henry Manley Gets 18 Months on Roads, Iva Parker 6 Months in County Jail, Aug. 28, 1926

Unwed Couple Gets Six Months in Jail

Asheville, Aug. 26—The plea that they loved each other and that they intended to marry just as soon as the young woman was divorced failed to obtain freedom for Henry Manley and Mrs. Iva Parker, both Fayetteville, today in police court. They both plead guilty living together as man and wife.

Manley was sentenced to serve 18 months on the Buncombe county roads and Mrs. Parker was given six months in the county jail. Both gave notice of appeal.

From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Does C.P. Barringer Have Upright Character Required to Become Lawyer? Aug.28, 1926

Labor Leader Subjected to a Moral Charge. . . Everhardt Alleges Barringer is Guilty of False and Fraudulent Misrepresentation

By Brock Barkley, Charlotte Observer

Raleigh, Aug. 27—The name of C. P. Barringer, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, was omitted from the list of 108 new law licenses this afternoon when the Supreme Court refused to permit the withdrawal of a protest against him filed by O. K. Everhardt of Salisbury, and alleging want of “upright or moral character as required by statute.”

In holding up his license, the court notified Barringer that he would be allowed until September 4 to file an answer to the the protest. In the event an answer is filed, a date will be set for a hearing.

Although, in accordance with the rules of the court, no public notice of the protest was given until it had been determined today that Barringer passe the bar examination held Monday, the protest was filed with the clerk of Supreme Court more than a week ago. A few days after it had been field Everhardt, following, it is understood, a conference with Barringer, requested that it be withdrawn. But the court denied the request because of “the nature of the protest.”

Everhardt alleged specifically in an affidavit filed with the court that Barringer obtained $465 from him by “false and fraudulent misrepresentations of facts,” in that he represented properly on which he gave a mortgage to secure the money to be free from encumbrance when in fact there were already two other mortgages on the property, and the sale of it did not yield a sufficient sum to pay them all off. Everhardt gave notice that he had brought suit in Rowan county superior court to recover the amount, and a copy of his complaint was filed with his protest.

The transaction of which Everhardt complains took place during the latter part of 1924, according to the copy of the complaint filed with the protest.

Barringer, who has long been prominent in labor circles, is now serving his second term as president of the State Federation of Labor, having been re-elected at the annual convention a few weeks ago. He studied law at Wake Forest College, completing the course at the last term.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Interest in "Jackie," Abandoned 1-Month-Old Boy, Aug. 28, 1926

Visitors Not Allowed to See Deserted Baby. . . Hospital Attaches Know They Would be Swamped with Visitors if Doors Were Opened to Public

“Jackie,” month-old boy left by unknown persons at the home here of Dr. J. S. Lafferty Wednesday night, is not having much company at the Concord Hospital where he was taken shortly after being found. Attaches of the hospital have not allowed the pubic to see the baby because the know such practice would result in a regular procession of visitors to the hospital, a condition that would not be beneficial to patients.

Several persons who had seriously considered adopting the baby called at the hospital to see him but were denied the privilege, nurses explaining that if one person is allowed to see the child the same privilege will have to be extended to everyone else.

It is probable that these persons who would really like to give “Jackie” a home will be taken to the hospital by J. H. Brown, county welfare officer, after he has recovered sufficiently from a recent operation to give attention to the matter. Mr. Brown will have opportunity to question those who express a desire for the child, and if he is convinced that they are in earnest, he is expected to take them to see the boy.

Offices so far have been unable to uncover any clue that might aid them in the search for the person who left the baby at the home of Dr. Lafferty, and they are about convinced that the identity of the child will remain a mystery.

Mrs. J. L. Lafferty, who has taken a keen interest in the child’s future due to the fact that it was left at her home, explained Frida that the woman from a children’s home who offered to take the baby to the home did not know anything about the case when she reached Concord early Thursday morning.

The woman has been coming to Concord for many years, Mrs. Lafferty explained, and was here on official business. “I told her about the child and asked her to go to the hospital to see it. She told me she didn’t have time but when I insisted, she visited the hospital with me. She told county officers that she would give the baby a home if they wanted her to.”

Mrs. Lafferty explained further that she interested the woman in the case because of “her fine character” and “the excellent record of the home she represents.”

It is the general belief here that Mr. Brown will seek a place for the child in a private home and it is reported that several persons here are willing to adopt him.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Cotton Mills Losing Money Again in 1926

Doughton Says Textile Manufacturers Losing Money Again This Year

Raleigh News and Observer

“I haven’t received all of the reports from the cotton mills yet, but I have received enough of them to know that the mill that is making money this year is an exception and that as a rule they are not making anything,” declared R. A. Doughton, Commissioner of Revenue, yesterday.

Commissioner Doughton referred to the reports which manufacturers are required to furnish in regard to the capital stock tax, which is based on the excess of capital stock over physical property, and in which the earnings are taken into account.

“My information is that the Cannon towel mill at Kannapolis is one of the outstanding exceptions and that there are others, but not many of the mills are doing as well,” declared the commissioner.

Last year the cotton mills in this state were thought to have recovered from their depression.

From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Judge Quinn Offers Relationship Tips to Women, Aug. 28, 1926

Questions for Wives

Judge J. C. Quinn of California has gained a national reputation as an authority on divorces. Hundreds of such cases have been aired in his court and he thinks he knows the remedy for such a condition.

In fact Judge Quinn has mapped out 10 questions for wives and where the wife will carry them out, he says, there will be complete happiness in the home in which she lives. The Gastonia Gazette carries the 10 questions as laid down by Judge Quinn and expresses the opinion that couples in North Carolina get along all right where the wives can truthfully answer in the affirmative the questions which follow:

1. Do you take into regard your husband’s income before you spend money?

2. Do you comb your hair and dress neatly for breakfast?

3. Do you put thought into your cooking?

4. Are you willing to stay home at night with your husband when he is tired from a day’s work?

5. Do you allow him the comfort of smoking in the house?

6. Do you control your impulse to nag?

7. Do you take an interest in his business?

8. Do you bother him with all your petty household worries, or do you try to make yourself as agreeable a companion as you did before marriage?

9. Do you make your home pleasant for his friends?

10. Have you gotten over the tendency toward jealousy?

The wife who fulfills the perfect mate outlined in the questions of course, would make anyone happier, but how about the husband? Does he help his wife in her determination to do just the things that please him and are best for him?

It would be just as easy to find 10 questions for men, and they would be just as important to the happiness of married people as the ones outlined by Judge Quinn.

The nagging, thriftless, indulgent, careless wife is a handicap, of course, but all the blame can’t be put on the women. The men have duties and they are just as important to the happiness of the home as the duties of the wife.

From the editorial page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Kannapolis Personal Items in Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

Kannapolis Personal Items

Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Jolley have had as their guests the past week Mrs. Jolley’s relatives, Rev. C. A. Upchurch, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Upchurch and little daughter, Marian, Mrs. B. L. Reynolds and Miss Mae Reynolds, all of Raleigh.

Mrs. D. A. Jolley and daughters, Misses Edith and Frances, have returned from a three weeks’ visit to friends in Alabama and Georgia. They motored to Georgia with Mrs. Jolle’s brother, L. B. Reynolds, who spent some time in New York and Canada. Mr. Jolley spent several days in Alabama, returning with his wife and daughters.

Mrs. H. L. Lipe and family, of Main street, have returned from Sparta, where they spent several weeks.

Mrs. C. M. Powell and little daughter Clinton and Master Charles Pierce, are visiting Mrs. Powell’s mother, Mrs. Leonard, in Eatonton, Ga.

Charles Graeber, who is in a Charlotte hospital, is greatly improved, much to the delight of his many friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Yost have as their guests this week Mr. and Mrs. Luther Yost and Luther Jr. of Raleigh. Mrs. Yost will leave this weekend for Mountain Home for a visit to Mrs. M. L. Troutman.

From the editorial page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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Alvester Ayers Killed Bride and Her Father, Aug. 27, 1926

Wilson Man Kills Wife and Father In Law

Alvester Ayers killed his 30-year-old wife, Bertha Ayers, and her father, William D. Starling, early Tuesday morning in Wilson. Ayers had had much trouble with his bride of but six months and claimed his only reason for committing the deed was because he thought his wife was better off dead than to be living in sin; and he further claims he killed her father who was trying to kill him.

Ayers had been making threats during the day, and his 14-year-old daughter had hidden his gun. That night he and his wife were at the Starling home. Ayers got up during the night and went to his own home, got his gun and returned, slaying his wife and father-in-law. He then went to police headquarters and surrendered, and is now in jail.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Ernest Walker Facing Murder, Burglary, Rape Charges, Aug. 27, 1926

Negro Is Indicted for Three Capital Crimes

Durham, Aug. 24—Ernest P. Walker, in whose veins runs white, colored and Indian blood, waived preliminary examination in Recorder’s court Friday and was held without bond for the October 11 term of Durham County Superior Court on three of the four capital offenses in North Carolina courts: Murder, burglary, and rape (criminal assault).

Walker confessed to police that he entered the home of James Cassidy, negro, on Sunday night, July 25, while Cassidy and his wife were sleeping; struck Cassidy with an axe, from which he died a few days later, and assaulted his wife. Police said they have never before ehrd of such a group of crimes in this State. Arson is the only other capital offiense.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Sheriff A.C. Jackson to Face Embezzlement and Other Charges, Aug. 27,1926

Sheriff A. C. Jackson Returns to Greenville

Sheriff A. C. Jackson, who fled from Pitt County recently, apparently to dodge charges of embezzlement preferred by the Board of County Commissioners of that county, has returned to his home in Greenville. Since his departure he has lost the office of sheriff which was first declared vacant by Judge R. A. Newman on account of failure to perform the duties of the office. Judge Nunn’s order for removal was only temporary, however, and another hearing was held last week when the judge, N. A. Sinclair, confirmed the order of removal, making it permanent.

The alleged shortage of Jackson was placed at $30,000. There were other charges also against him, among them failure to perform duty, drunkenness and immorality.

Friends of the sheriff express the opinion that he was the victim of temptations rather than of deliberations.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Officers Seize Stills in Free Union, Leggetts Mill Section, Aug. 27, 1926

Officers Seize 9 Stills in Hunt Lasting 2 Days. . . Get 3 in Free Union and 6 in Leggetts Mill Section

Federal agent Thomas W. Snell and Sheriff Roberson raided Free Union, or Gawk, Tuesday and found three stills, each of about 50 gallons capasity. All were cold and no sign of life about them.

The officers found at the stills about 2,100 gallons of sugar and meal bear, all of which was destroyed.

Evidence was insufficient to justify prosecutions.

Wednesday the officers went to the Leggetts Mill section in Bear Grass township, where an invitation had been extended to them. There they found six fully equipped stills, about 8,500 gallons of beer, many kegs, jugs and other equipment used in the manufacture of liquor.

Two of these six stills had been run during the previous night and were warm when the officers reached them. All the liquor was removed before the arrival of the agents. Much of the beer found at the plants had fermented and most ready to be run. No one was seen near the stills. All the equipment was destroyed.

Mr. Snell says one of the plants was very near the residence of his old friend Hickory Ben Daubbs, and there was a path leading in that direction, but his old friend was not in sight.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Gustof Swenson,17, Killed by Bull at Caswell Training School, Aug. 27, 1926

Inmate Killed by Bull at Caswell Training School

Gustof Swenson, a 17-year-old inmate of the Caswell Training school for the feeble minded at Kinston was killed Wednesday by a bull of the school dairy herd.

Young Swenson, who took great interest in assisting around the dairy had been warned to keep out of the lot where the animal was kept, but on this occasion he went in alone and was stamped and pawed to death before he could be rescued.

The boy’s father, a Norwegian, last heard of in Asheville, and his mother, last heard of in Florida, could not be located to inform them of the death of their son.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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County's Policy of Not Allowing Circus Before Fair Should Be Honored, Aug. 27, 1926

The Circus and the Fair

The circus is coming in spite of the fact that the board of county commissioners have said the should not show in the county between the dates of August 26 and October 2. Gentry Brothers are advertising the advent of their show here on Wednesday, September 22, just five days before the Roanoke Fair begins on Monday, September 27.

It is the custom in counties where agricultural fairs are held not to permit circuses to show within the county at a date which would injure the fair. Our commissioners have already passed such an order for the county, yet it is being ignored by Gentry Brothers, who say they will be here with big elephants, humpbacked camels, fat horses, big show wagons and pretty girls. They fail to state whether they will have red lemonade and the greasy pig; but it is a safe guess that they will make more on gambling games than on door receipts.

It is the duty of county officials to enforce the commissioners’ order and not allow the show to enter the county.

It may be that a fair is not always what it should be; it may have numerous objectionable features; but it does have many good ones. Its purpose is to help folks rather than to “Barnumize” them. On the other hand, the small circus is a gouging game from start to finish. It may offer the opportunity to see a few strange animals and some acrobatic stunts that could not otherwise be seen by some people.

We understand the town has already granted a license for the circus, which, however, does not interfere with the county’s rights; because the town is withincounty and not the county within the town, giving the county the larger jurisdiction.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Frank Fagan Heads Rocky Mount Bank, Aug. 27, 1926

Frank Fagan Heads Rocky Mount Bank

Frank F. Fagan, who was the first cashier of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Williamston, going from here to Rocky Mount and then to Richmond, where he spent some time, but later returned to Rocky Mount, where he has held the position of cashier and vice president and then president of the First National Bank of Rocky Mount, succeeding Mr. Thomas H. Battle, who has been president of that institution since it was organized. Mr. Battle becomes chairman of the board of directors.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Lack of Brick Halts Work on Jail, Aug. 27, 1926

Shortage in Material Halts Work on Jail

Jail work is being held up for want of material, the contractor has been unable to procure face brick as fast as needed, and the work has been stopped for a week.

The contractor expects to start work again the early part of next week.

The recent rains interfered with the work at the new County Home, which is now under construction. Favorable weather has permitted the work to be continued.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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Mrs. Harrell, Miss Harrell, MIss Peel Finish University Summer School, Aug. 27, 1926

University Summer School Closes Today

The second session of the University summer school closes today with a full commencement program.

The University will confer 52 degrees this year, the largest number yet issued to any summer school class. The degrees range from Ph.D. on down.

The work of the University has grown so large that it has become a 12-months school where any pupil may get any course he wants.

Among those attending from Williamston this session are Mrs. W. H. Harrell, Miss Sarah Harrell and Miss Eva Peel.

From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926

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McLeod Family Reunion Held at Mills Pond, Aug. 26, 1926

Reunion of McLeod Family

Mills Pond in Wake county was the scene of a happy gathering last Saturday when the family of McLeods assembled there for a reunion feast.

Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank McLeod and daughter Jeannette of Centrailia, Washington; Mr. Lonnie McLeod of Danville, Va.; Mr. Algie McLeod of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McLeod and children of Lillington; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McLeod and children of Bunnlevel; Mr. and Mrs. Herman McLeod of Dunn; Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Parker and children of Bunnlevel; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allen and children of Bunnlevel; Messrs. C. L. Avery and J. H. Moore.

A sumptuous dinner was served and the day was made enjoyable by the happy reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McLeod had come all the way from the northwestern state to visit relatives here and partake of the pleasures incident to the reunion. They traveled in their car across the country and will start on their return journey sometime next week.

From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Aug. 26, 1926

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Fennell Says Shot that Killed John Graham Was Accidental, Aug. 26, 1926

One Dead, 3 Hurt at Negro Brawl. . . Conflicting Stories Told of Sunday Affair at Harrell’s Store Home

John Graham, colored, of Harrell’s Store is dead and a negress, Annie Bryant will have her arm amputated as a result of a shot gun in the hands of Mark Fennell, also colored, Sunday afternoon.

Sunday night Fennell was arrested by officers and placed in the county jail here without bond, charged with the murder of Graham, who lived only a few hours after he had been taken to the Bullock Hospital in Wilmington. The major portion of the load entered his body just above the thighs at close range, according to reports from officers here.

Two other colored members of the group were also hit by a few stray shot, but their injuries are not reported as being serious.

According to the general statement among the colored people who were in attendance at Graham’s funeral Tuesday afternoon, the shooting was accidental. It has been reported that Fennell was in an adjoining room and was handling a single-barreled shot gun which was loaded.

Some reports have also been received here to the effect that Fennell threw open the door to the room and intentionally fired upon the group and immediately made his escape into the nearby woods, only to be captured by officers late Sunday evening.

According to Sheriff Jernigan who has talked to the prisoner, Fennell said that it was purely accidental and that he was in an adjoining room with the gun in his hands when it fired off the charge, going through the open door space into the group sitting closely together in the next room.

The preliminary hearing has been set for Thursday afternoon.

From the front page of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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R.B. Johnson in Serious Condition, Shot by Sikes, Aug. 25, 1926

R. B. Jackson Shot During Quarrel. . . Former Restaurant Proprietor Here in Serious Condition Following White Lake Shooting

With a bullet hole in the lower part of his stomach and the intestines punctured in three places, R. B. Jackson, who formerly operated the American Café of Clinton but who now operates a confectionary stand at Melvin’s Beach, White Lake, was rushed to the Pittman Hospital in Fayetteville Thursday afternoon in a serious if not fatal condition. During a quarrel between he and a Mr. Sikes, who operates a boat on the beach there, Sikes shot him with a large calibre pistol at close range, according to reports received in Clinton late Tuesday afternoon.

According to information received in Clinton following the shooting, there had been bad feeling between Jackson and Sikes since the fifth of July as a result of Sikes reporting Jackson for gambling. At a later date, according to reports, Jackson tipped off a revenue officer to the fact that Sikes had whiskey in his possession.

The malice had existed between the two men for some time with no evidenced sings of mishaps until Tuesday at noon when Sikes anchored his boat near the shore on the Melvin side of the beach and came upon land with the intention of eating lunch. As he neared the stand operated by Jackson, the latter hailed him and asked why he lied on him during the gambling case. In reply Sikes is reported as saying he did not lie on him. Following this reply Jackson advanced on him at which time Sikes warned him to come no closer. Failing to comply with this request resulted in Jackson being shot in the pit of the stomach, falling on his face.

One of Jackson’s friends, hearing the report, ran out and discovered what had taken place and advanced upon Sikes, who warned him if he came any nearer to him, he would receive the duplicate. With this statement, the friend withdrew and assisted in Jackson’s conveyance to the hospital. Just who the friend was has not been ascertained at this time but many are of the opinion that the person was his business partner, Ernest Jordan of Clinton.

Citizens of Clinton who were visiting the Pittman Hospital in Fayetteville Tuesday night reported that Jackson was taken into the operation room at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon and carried out into his ward at 5:30, having lain on the operating table two hours.

P. M. Jackson, father of the wounded man, who was at the hospital, reported to citizens from here that if his son survived the tragedy, he would be confined there for many weeks yet. The doctors there who are attending the wounded man refrained from making any statements concerning his condition.

From the front page of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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Rory Matthews On Way to Prison to Serve 30-Year Sentence, Aug. 26, 1926

Rory Matthews Abandons Appeal to Higher Court.. . Accepts Sentence of 30 Years Pronounced by Judge Sinclair Following Conviction at June Term

Rory Matthews, who is now confined in jail here where he has been s ince his conviction at the special June term of Superior Court, has abandoned his appeal to the Supreme Court and will within the next few days be carried to Raleigh and begin his 30-year sentence in State Prison. Matthews abandoned the appeal, which he gave notice of taking at the June term, by allowing the time in which he was allowed to perfect it to elapse. The time limit expired on August 10th. His attorneys state that he is resigned to his fate now that he has been allowed to stay in Lillington through the summer.

Matthews was first convicted of first degree murder last September following his trial for the murder of Daniel J. McLeod on July 30, 1925. An appeal was then taken and because Judge W. A. Devin had sent a message to the trial jury out of session and in the absence of the defendant, the Supreme Cout gave Matthews a new trial. At the re-hearing at the June special term of Superior Court this year, Matthews drew a verdict of second degree murder. Judge Sinclair sentenced him to 30 years at hard labor in State Prison. Matthews is now nearing 50 years of age, and the sentence means life imprisonment. It may be that he will gain a parton afre he has served a number of years.

People of Harnett county and of the State generally are familiar with the story of the homicide. Matthews and McLeod had engaged in lawsuits for some time, the question at issue being boundary lines between their land tracts which joined each other. A railroad which McLeod wanted to open from his land leading out to the public highway figured largely in the dispute, and it was on this little piece of road which Mcleod and a number of his hired helpers were working that furnished the scene for the killing. Matthews shot McLeod with a breechloading shotgun, the shots taking effect in his breast and killing him almost instantly. Matthews quietly surrendered to the officers when they went to arrest him. They found him sitting on his front porch eating watermelon and brought him to jail here, where he has been ever since, except for a short period when he was carried to State Prison pending his appeal to the Supreme Court following his first trial and conviction of murder in the first degree. The prisoner has kept in fine spirits all the while, and numbers of visitors, who either go in the jail to see him or else stand on the outside and talk to him through the window, have seemed to furnish him much cheer. Although he is looking well now, those who have observed him closely are of the opinion that his confinement is beginning to wear upon him.

The case of Rory Matthews has been of widespread interest, not only among people of his native county but throughout the state. The final chapter will be written in the story when commitment papers are filed for his entry into State prison to serve the 30-year term. He is not without sympathizers, and it is altogether likely that a petition will be circulated for his parole or pardon before he has served a great portion of his term.

From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Aug. 26, 1926

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Jail Break Foiled, Deputy Saved by Trustee Prisoners, Aug. 26, 1926

Attempt Jail Delivery. . . Prisoners Jump Jailer in Attempt to Gain Liberty. . . Deputy Daughtry Forced to Defend Self Against Negroes. . . Forced Back with Gun. . . Second Break for Liberty Finds Deputy Armed and Results in Confinement of Prisoners

For the first time since twenty-some years ago when W. H. Turner was jail keeper for this county, prisoners attacked jail keeper W. R. Daughtry last Thursday afternoon and he was forced to cast the keys out the window to keep the prisoners from escaping.

According to Daughtry he was placing a prisoner who had recently been sentenced in the cell. As he opened the door to allow the prisoner to walk in, Lee Brown, who has been sentenced to serve a road term for giving worthless checks, attacked him and tried in vain to obtain the keys with which to gain his freedom.

Daughtry had only the key in his hand to protect himself from assault. He hit Brown about the head several times, the last lick knocking him down in the cell door. While he was attempting to close the cell door two other colored prisoners attacked him. Daughtry ran to the window of the jail and tossed the key to a person outside.

Returned to Cell

Daughtry said that other prisoners who were in the cell told the latter two assaulters to return to the cell as the man had thrown the keys outside, and they did return toward the cell but did not enter at that time, according to the officer.

Officer Daughtry then told the person on the outside to open the door for him to get out. This was done and he left temporarily, with the prisoners at liberty to come and go from their cell, only to return a few minutes later at which time he had his pistol for protection.

When the officer approached the jail door on his return, he heard the prisoners say “here he comes now.” When he opened the entrance door to the corridor the latter two prisoners made a dash for freedom and came face to face with the gun in the hands of the officer. They readily cast up their hands and were marched back to their respective cells, which were locked behind them.

During the initial affray with Brown, also colored, Daughtry reeved several scratches on his left arm while Brown was battered considerably with the heavy key which Daughtry carried.

Daughtry is confident that there would have been no commotion at all if he had carried his gun before entering the jail, but as he failed to have it they took advantage of his disarmament.

Former Jailer Beaten

This is thought to have been the first assault by prisoners in the jail here since Jailer W. H. Turner was severely beaten approximately 25 years ago. His case was somewhat similar to Daughtry’s, as he was in the act of entring the cell in which there were several prisoners confined, he told them to enter their cells and lock their doors, which was customary with jailers then and now.

All prisoners entered their cells and locked the doors with the exception of the prisoners in the first cell next to the entrance, who only pulled their door slightly together so that when the jailer threw the bar it did not effect their lock.

As Mr. Turner entered, they attacked him severely and managed to disarm him and were beginning to torture him unmercifully when two trusties who were standing in other departments of the jail came to the jailer’s rescue and saved him from what several citizens have termed probable death. These trustees who came to his rescue saved him from the attacking prisoners and managed to regain possession of the jailer’s gun and placed the prisoners back in their cell.

From the front page of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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Sent to State Prison: Mrs. Lula Lucas and Levi Lee, Aug. 26, 1926

Taken to Prison

Mrs. Lula Lucas, who was sentenced to serve 12 months in the state prison on charges of bigamy during the recent term of court, and Levi Lee, colored, who was sentenced to serve from 3 to 5 years on charges of murder, left the county jail here Monday afternoon in the custody of Sheriff A. A. Jernigan for Raleigh, where they began their respective terms.

From the front page of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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In Superior Court This Week, Aug. 26, 1926

Criminal Docket Takes Up Court Time. . . Road Sentences Continue to be Given Offenders by Judge. . . Civil Cases Next Term. . . October Court Will Find Actions up for Hearing—Judge Devin to Return for Latter Courts

The two week’s term of Superior Court was brought to a close here Friday evening after all criminal cases which had not been continued had been disposed of. The two week’s term was entirely devoted to the criminal docket with but a few minutes being devoted to three divorce cases, which were uncontested.

Attendance this term was above the average as many persons were in the court room, especially at the beginning when Judge W. A. Devin of Oxford, who presided, charged the grand jury with their duties during their inspections and investigations.

Judge Devin will preside over the future fall and winter sessions here, it was announced Monday.

The following are the criminal cases disposed of during the term recently adjourned, including those cases which have been continued until the October term:

--Richard Corbett found guilty of larceny and hired out by the county commissioners to pay the cost of the action.

--Ed Jackson guilt of assault. Judgement weas suspended upon payment of cost and the case continued until October term. He was placed under a $100 bond for his appearance at that time.

--Dorth Ward was fined $25 and cost for having whiskey in his possession.

--P. Stevens, who was charged with having whiskey in his possession and who plead guilty to these charges, drew a fine of $25 and cost.

--Rasher Lockamy, charged with larceny of meat, was sentenced to serve 12 months on the county roads but at the expiration of 60 days he was to be paroled upon good behavior.

--G. B. Bell, charged with giving worthless checks, continued to October term.

--Lee Brown drew a sentence of 8 months in jail when he plead guilty to giving worthless checks.

--Noah Register, charged with assault with deadly weapon, case continue for next term.

--Judgment was suspended upon payment of cost in the case against Leonard Anderson, who was charged with assault with deadly weapon.

--J. R. McLamb, who was found guilty of manufacturing whiskey, drew 6 months’ sentence on the county roads and was ordered to pay the cost of the action.

--Lee Brown, worthless checks, judgment suspended upon payment of cost.

--Hall Bunting, charged with possession of liquor, drew a sentence of 2 months on county roads.

--Willie Shavers, who was charged with larceny, drew a sentence of 12 months on the county roads but at the expiration of 4 months is to be parole upon good behavior.

--James Boone, charged with abandonment, judgment was suspended upon payment of cost including $10 jail fee.

--Myrtle Sessoms was found guilty of assaulting Mrs. Romie Brock. Judgement was suspended upon payment of cost to be paid during October term of criminal court.

--Henry Smith was found guilty of abandoning his children and was ordered to pay $75 for their support and the cost of the action.

--The case against Cleve Faison for having whiskey in his possession was continued to October term.

--L. M. Lee, charged with assault with deadly weapon, was placed under $200 bond for his appearance at the October term of criminal court.

--J. O. Williams, charged with giving worthless checks. Case continued to October term.

--Charlie Hollingsworth charged with manufacturing whiskey. Case continued to October term.

--The case against Matthew J. Parker, who was charged with store breaking, was continued for the next term.

--The case against Marshall Bass, who was charged with the manufacturing of whiskey, was continued for the term.

--Henry Melvin, charged with the sale of liquor. Case continued for the term.

--The case of Isham Hobbs charged with larceny, continued for the term.

--W. B. Norton, who was charged with breaking prison. Case continued to October.

--Bob Adams, charged with having whiskey in his possession. Case continued for term.

--Henry Howell, charged with theft and housebreaking, drew a sentence of 12 months on the county roads.

--Elliott Morrisey charged with operating car while intoxicated. Case continue.

--Hall Bunting drew a sentence of 6 months on the county roads of Sampson county when he was found guilty of larceny of soda.

--Gus Williams drew a sentence of 18 months on the roads of Sampson county when he was found guilty of larceny of soda.

--Twelve months on the county roads was the sentence announced in the case against Sampson Bethne when he was found guilty of stealing an automobile.

--Alex Underwood drew a sentence of 6 months on the county roads when he was found guilty of larceny.

--S. P. Beaman was ordered not guilty after the state offered its testimonies against him charging larceny.

--Walter Bunting was ordered not guilty by court following the offering of the state’s evidence charging him with stealing.

--The following divorce cases were heard following the disposal of the criminal docket Friday afternoon prior to the adjournment of court for the term, and divorces were granted by the court:

Clara Barefoot vs. Ray Barefoot

Maggie Weeks vs. Will Weeks

Paul D. Boone vs. Fannie Hoobs Boone

From the front page of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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H. Y. Cook New Rabon County Agent, Aug. 27, 1926

New Agent in Rabun

H. Y. Cook of near Atlanta has been employed as county agent for Rabun County, Georgia. He and County Agent Arrendale of this county are making plans for cooperation of their two offices, and, as far as possible, of the counties of the two counties, which adjoin, Mr. Arrendale said this week.

From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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J.S. Gray Produces 50 Bushels of Wheat on 3 Acres, Aug. 27, 1926

Gray Beats Wooten

Some time ago the Press carried a news story to the effect that Mr. John Wooten, living on Route No. 2 had produced 93 bushels of wheat on three acres. Now comes Mr. J.S. Gray on the same route, who got a yield of 50 bushels of wheat on 1 ½ acres. He claims this is more per acre than Mr. Wooten made. The Press force has no time to figure it out. Let the school children get busy with pencils and paper.

From page 10 of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Mrs. Lula Brock, 59, Has Died, Aug. 26, 1926

Mrs. Lula Brock Dies

Mrs. Lula Brock, aged 59, died at her home on Fayetteville street Sunday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock following several months of declining health caused from general complications.

For the past year Mrs. Brock has been in declining health and gradually weakened until death came in a peaceful manner. The people of this community are deeply bereaved in learning of her death, although it was not unexpected.

She became a member of the Methodist church here years ago and was a loyal and faithful member of that institution until her failing health prohibited activities.

The funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon, and interment was made at the city cemetery at 5 o’clock, Rev. Matthis officiating in the absence of her pastor, Rev. J. H. Buffaloe. The funeral services were largely attended by a great man of her wide circle of acquaintances, and the floral offerings were elaborate.

Mrs. Brock is survived by her husband and three sons.

From page 2 of the Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., Thursday, August 26, 1926

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Jim Palmer, Frequently Acting Deputy Sheriff, Guilty of Violating Prohibition Law, Aug. 27, 1926

Acting Deputy Palmer Guilty of Liquor Charge. . . Jim Palmer Convicted of Violating Prohibition Law While Acting Deputy—No Sentence Passed

Jim Palmer, frequently acting deputy sheriff, was convicted of violating the prohibition laws by a jury in Macon County Superior Court Wednesday. At noon yesterday (Thursday), Judge W. F. Harding, presiding, had not imposed sentence.

Palmer’s conviction came as the sequel to the disappearance from a liquor car of a gallon of whiskey early in August. Palmer, as acting deputy sheriff, helped to capture the car. The gallon of liquor disappeared as the car was being taken to the jail, testimony offered at the trial showed.

The case has excited wide attention and apparently gave the jury considerable trouble, as it got the case on Tuesday afternoon and did not report a verdict until the following day.

Another case that created interest was that in which Joe Shaltz was charged with resisting an officer, the charge growing out of an encounter he had on the streets here Tuesday night with R. M. Coffey, policeman. He drew six months.

The only other road sentences that had been imposed up to Thursday noon were those on:

--Major Stanley, four months for possessing and transporting whiskey; and

--Joseph Young, who got 60 days for an assault on a woman.

Other cases disposed of follow:

--Fred Davis who pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon. He drew a fine of $50 and the cost, and the pistol was ordered destroyed.

--Fred Arnold, retailing; not guilty.

--Wayne Walker and Isaac Gibson, possessing and transporting liquor, fines each of $250 and the cost; the fines to be paid $10 a month; and to show good behavior each month.

--Greg Meadows, seduction, judgment suspended on payment of the costs, the defendant having married the woman.

--J. M. York, transporting and possessing liquor, $250 and the cost, the fine to be paid $10 per month. He must show good behavior each month.

--J. P. Stanley, possessing and transporting liquor. Pleaded guilty. A suspended sentence of eight months and a fine of $50 and the cost. He must show good behavior over a three-year period.

--Charie Kinsland, possessing and transporting whiskey; judgment suspended on payment of the cost.

--Thad Tallent, store breaking. Suspended judgment on payment of the cost and $30 to apply on the goods taken from G. C. Stamey. He must show good behavior over a two-year period.

--W. L. Talley, transporting and possessing liquor, a six months road sentence suspended on payment of the cost, contingent upon his showing good behavior for two years.

--Earl Crunkleton and Norman Reece pleaded guilty to transporting and possessing liquor. Crunkleton was fined $50 and half the cost. Reece was let off with payment of hal the cost. They must show good behavior for two years. In the same case, the charges against Joe Reece and C. E. Haney were non-suited at the solicitor’s request.

--Wiley Sellers and E. J. Buchanan, transporting and possessing, each $50 and the cost.

--Joe Hopper, Alice Hopper, and U. J. Holder, changing the mark of stock, not guilty.

--Dewey Duffey, retailing, not guilty. Carrying a concealed weapon, $50 and the cost.

--R. L. Williams, retailing, not guilty.

--Fred Hedden, drunkenness and carrying concealed weapon, $75 ad the cost.

--General Byrd and Homer Taylor, an affray. Taylor, $50 and the cost; Byrd, suspended on payment of the cost.

In the following cases, the defendants had pleaded guilty or been convicted, but sentence had not been passed: John Tyler, drunkenness and retailing; Robert Hopkins, retailing; Hubert Stanley, assault with a deadly weapon; Fred Stiwinters, assault with deadly weapon; Charlie Southards, distilling.

A large number of cases were continued.

From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Administer the Law Equally, Judge Harding Tells Grand Jury Members, Aug. 27, 1926

“Go After Representative Citizens,” Judge Harding Tells Grand Jury

“Go after the representative citizens who are law violators. If you do your duty, you will break up some of this law breaking,” Judge W. F. Harding of Charlotte told the grand jury in his charge to that body here Monday morning at the opening of two weeks of Macon County Superior Court.

“Probably your leading citizens ae drinking,” he said, pointing out that 32 of the cases on the criminal docket were violations of prohibition law. “If you didn’t have folks above the average to drink it, you wouldn’t have folks below the average to make it and sell it.”

Judge Harding deplored what he said were two of the most dangerous tendencies in American life today. One, he said, is the “notion that we have done no wrong if we don’t get caught.” The other is the tendency to disregard the oath administered witnesses in the courts of the land.

Judge Harding especially urged the grand jury to bring in bills of indictment in cases where there is evidence of perjury; violating the compulsory school law; and in cases of selling cigarettes to boys under 17 years of age.

Macon county came in for unstinted praise from the jurist for the fact that not one of the first 18 men drawn for the grand jury duty offered an objection. Grand jury duty, he said, may be “the finest service a man can render his state, a real God-fearing American service. I feel like congratulating the county that it has such a citizenship that not one of the first 18 men drawn for jury duty offered an excuse. It is unusual.”

It is a custom today, Judge Harding said, for men to be divided into two classes: those below the average in intelligence, education and moral sense; and those above the average.

“We have had a notion that the man below the average is the lawbreaker. It is a mistaken idea. He is the man who is doing what you and I set the example for.”

People have a desire to see the laws enforced that do not interfere with their personal convenience or desires, Judge Harding declared, and he gave numerous examples. He mentioned the failure to observe the railroad crossing stop law. It is not the criminal who breaks this law, he declared, but the outstanding citizen. That citizen wonders why someone steals is chickens or his pig. He becomes indignant over it.

“He doesn’t have to steal, but he sets the example for the man who does.”

A banker, a deacon in his church and a leader in his community, Judge Harding said, recently deplored the failure of the courts to enforce the prohibition law, and wondered when it would be enforced. Judge Harding said he answered him that, when bankers ceased breaking the law against usury, probably it would be possible to dissuade the bootleggers from breaking the prohibition law.

“The same law that says thou shalt not sell liquor prohibits the lending of money at moe than six percent,” declared Judge Harding.

“It is the subtle influence of the respectable man,” who violates the law that is responsible for law breaking of the man unable to distinguish between the major and minor crimes. The idea that one may violate the laws that interfere with is personal convenience was characterized as the “most damnable propaganda.”

“The man who obeys the laws, whether there is a policeman there or not, is the only 100 percent American.

“The world is growing better. Boys and girls of today are better than boys and girls of another generation. The younger generation is interpreting life differently from the way we did—that is all. We must so direct our courts and schools and churches to interpret life in terms of the day in which we live. I am for the boy and girl of today, so long as they obey the laws.”

Much of the law violation of youthful offenders was attributed by the judge to the “romance of youth”—the desire to do something nobody else has done. “We must direct these impulses, and that will have to be done at the Sunday school, the primary department of the day school, and in the home.”

The grand jury was advised not to waste time in minor cases of gambling—instances of a negro shooting craps or a boy playing power. “There is too much high class gambling by your otherwise respectable citizens. I don’t mean to be personal to Franklin, but that is true of the State.”

Like every visitor to Franklin and this count who formerly has come her via Dillsboro, Judge Harding commented upon the road from Dillsboro to Franklin and declared that 10 years ago, when he first came over it, he declared he would never travel it again—and he had not until Monday, when he found it “like a pavement on the best city streets.”

In the course of his charge, Judge Harding repeated what he said he had stated in every court he had held for years—that he had yet to see a boy or girl offender who had attended Sunday school regularly, and whose father attended with him.

Of the cases on the docket when court opened, 32 were for violation of the prohibition law; 10 assault with deadly weapon; 8 carrying concealed weapons; 3 abandonment; 3 larceny; 2 driving a car without licenses; and one each of other offenses.

The 18 grand jurors chosen were: R. M. Houston, George Williamson, J. M. Rhodes, J. R. Norris, J. M. Brown, A. R. Sanders, E. M. Harrison, T. G. Corbin, Oscar Carpenter, E. F. Horn, Burt Oliver, J. Q. Hedden, G. C. Smith, W. M. Cleveland, R. L. Hale, I. V. Ramsey, A. L. Leach, and Ray N. Moses. Mr. Moses was appointed foreman by Superior Court Clerk Frank L. Murray.

From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Negro Revival to Begin Sunday, Aug. 29, 1926

Negro Revival

Methodism in Franklin among the colored people is still on the progressive march. We are happy to say that we are holding service n our new church just one-half mile from the colored school building.

Sunday, Aug. 29, the Rev. H. C. Gannaway of Atlanta, Ga., will be with us to help us in our annual revival meeting. Brother Gannaway is at present a student at Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta. He is a strong gospel preacher and a wonderful singer. He is a member of “The Gammon Harmony Four.” He has appeared before the leading white people of Atlanta. We invite you to hear him preach and sing.

Special seats will be arranged for our white friends who may wish to come out and hear the good old time spirituals.

--J. B. Meekins, Minister

From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Ad for Evangelist Chas. G. Myers in Franklin Press, Aug. 27, 1926

You are invited to hear Evangelist Chas. G. Myers of Los Angeles, Calif., at the Big Tent Revival on Highway No. 286, three and a half miles North of Franklin. Services begin every night beginning August 22, 1926.

This advertisement is paid for by Macon County people living in Lyman Wash: Rev. V. C. Ramey, F. A. Ramey, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Waldroop, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Holden, A. M. Bryson, Mr. and Mrs. Harley McConnell, Mrs. J. N. McConnell, and C. B. Lowing.

To see the advertisement which ran in the Franklin Press, Aug. 27, 1926, on page 10, go to newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92074069/1926-08-27/ed-1/seq-10/

Rev. C. G. Myers to Hold Revival Meeting in Franklin, Aug 27, 1926

To Hold Meeting

Rev. C. G. Myers of Los Angeles, Calif., reached Franklin recently to hold a revival meeting, which began on Sunday. The meeting is being held on the highway near the Iotla Bridge, and Mr. Myers expects to continue it for about a month.

Mr. Myers, who held a meeting in the court house in Franklin two years ago, is a native of Macon County. He is accompanied by his family.

From page 2 of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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North Skeenah News, Franklin Press, Aug.27, 1926

North Skeenah News

Farmers in this vicinity are much encouraged by the recent rains. The crops ae looking much better.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sanders were at Prentiss Sunday, visiting Mrs. I. Pruitt, who is quite ill.

Ed Shope spent the week end with his family. He is working at Chimney Rock.

John H. Sanders spent the week end at home. He is working for T. W. Porter on Wayah Bald.

The school on North Skennah is progressing nicely under the leadership of Misses Minnie Sanders and Clara Shope.

Charlie Oliver of Franklin was in this section the last week on business.

Oscar Ledford has returned from Chimney rock and is now employed by Addington Brothers at the saw mill on Cowetta. He spent Sunday at home.

B. J. McConnell went to Hiawassee the past week to attend the funeral of his mother.

Zeb Shope spent Saturday night at home. He is helping guard the convicts on the mountains.

The young people of this community are showing much interest in the B.Y.P.U., which meets at the church each Sunday evening.

From page 2 of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Personal Mention Column, Franklin Press, Aug.27, 1926

Personal Mention

Mrs. J. D. Porter has returned to her home in Petersburg, Va.

Mrs. J. T. Gasaway of Central, S.C., is visiting friends at Oak Hill.

H. Hoyle Sink of Raleigh, commissioner of pardons, was in Franklin Saturday. Mr. Sink was her to inspect the State prison camp on route No. 28. He is making an inspection of al the camps in the State.

Mr. Roy McClure and family of Chicago, are visiting Mr. McClure’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McClure.

Jim Mincey held the lucky ticket at the auction of the Onteora Estates last week and wont he Ford touring car. The car was evidently not well trained as it ran off an embankment on the way home and hurt itself considerably.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Landrum and small child, of Daytona, Fla., are spending some time visiting Mr. Landrum’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Landrum on Nickajack. The Landrums left Daytona Saturday morning, by auto, arriving Sunday at noon. They made the trip here from Athens, Ga., Sunday morning. Mr. Landrum commented upon the short time the trip required as indicating the improvement of the roads throughout the southeast, and especially the mountain section.

W. J. Cooper, who audited the county books and installed a new system of accounting, was a visitor to Franklin last week end.

Rev. L. B. Hayes of Winston-Salem, formerly pastor of the Franklin Methodist church, arrived in Franklin Tuesday for a few days rest. Mr. Hays was accompanied here by Rev. G. T. Rand of Morganton.

W. R. Lowry of Greenville, Tenn., I.M. Lowry of Friendsville, Tenn. , D. H. Lowry of Kansas ity, land C. C. Proffitt of Marysville, Tenn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lowry at their handsome residence on the Georgia road. The two former are brothers of Mr. Lowry and the two latter are nephews.

Mrs. J. B. Davenport and Miss Iris Smith Davenport of Macon are guests at the Trimont Inn.

Miss Lucille Cook, who has been visiting friends and relatives at Franklin during the summer, has returned to her home at Athens, Ga.

John P. Stewart, a Confederate veteran, 84 years of age, of Jackson county, spent some days during the Truitt-McConnell meeting with his sister, Mrs. Parker Moore.

C. R. Tarkington of Andrews is a business visitor in Franklin.

H. H. Elliott of Andrews was here yesterday.

W. L. Constant and son, Bill, of Aquone, have been in Franklin most of the week.

Thomas Greene, postmaster at Waynesville, has been here this week visiting his sister, Mrs. D. W. Blaine, and other relatives, and attending to personal business.

R. J. Roane of Whittier, Democratic candidate for State Senator from this district, was a visitor in Franklin Monday. Mr. Roane was here as a witness in court. He expressed confidence that he would be elected to the State Senate in November.

From page 7 of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Tellico Local News in Franklin Press, Aug. 27, 1926

Tellico Locals

Friends of Mrs. Mary Burnett regret that she is quite ill. They wish her a speedy recovery. She is missed in the work of her church and Sunday school.

Professor M. D. Billings of Franklin passed through this sectin recently to attend the teachers’ meeting at Flats. Sanford Smith and Miss Willa Mae Ledford, teachers in the school here, attended the meeting.

Perison Smith of Gastonia has been visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith. He has returned to Gastonia.

Miss Eula Ramsey and her two brothers, Ferd [Fred?] and Loy Ramsey of Charlotte, spent their vacations here visiting their father G. T. Ramsey and relatives. They have returned. Miss Beulah Dehart accompanied them back as far as Gastonia.

Miss Bonnie Dehart who is teaching at Beecher, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Dehart.

Emmit Reighart of Beecher has been visiting in this section.

M. Cochran of Hiawassee, Ga., accompanied by two Florida friends, spent Monday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ramsey.

From page 7 of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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Authorities Looking for Person Who Abandoned Baby Boy at Lafferty Boarding House, Aug. 26, 1926

Babe Left During Night in Boarding House in Concord. . . Was Found When Cries Awoke Mrs. J. S. Lafferty in Whose Home it Was Deserted. . . Laundry Mark Is Only Clue. . . Mark “J.N.H.” Found in Several Dresses Left with Baby Now at Concord Hospital

A precious babe in swaddling clothing is being cared for temporarily at the Concord Hospital while local officials endeavor to trace its parents and locate a home for it.

The baby, a boy about three weeks or a month old, was left at the home of Dr. J. S. Lafferty some time during the night, its cries arousing the household at 4 o’clock this morning. Upon being awakened Mrs. Lafferty listened for a few minutes to the cries of the youngster, being unable to realize that he was inside her home.

When the cries continued Mrs. Lafferty went into the living room and found the babe resting comfortably on a davenport. To ensure his safety, the person who left him there had propped pillows about him, leaving nearby a bottle of milk and a bundle of clothing.

It is through the clothing that officers hope to trace the parents. Several baby dresses, all showing signs of having been worn and laundered several times, bear the laundry mark, “J. N. H.” and the clothing was wrapped in the heavy craft paper almost universally used by laundries.

Mrs. Lafferty notified the police of her find and officers on duty carried the babe to the Concord Hospital, where already he has won his way into the hearts of the nurses. He has been given a basket in the baby’s ward and this morning was quietly enjoying the benefits found at his new home. The nurses at the hospital insist that his name is “Jackie,” and they use that name in addressing him.

The management of the Concord Steam Laundry stated this morning that none of their regular customers has the mark “J. N. H.” Several years ago a man at Harrisburg had the mark, but he has been dead several years, it was stated, and all of the laundry he sent in was apparel for men.

Officers here, it is understood, have notified police officers in other cities of the case and have asked that inquiries be made in their cities to ascertain if anyone thee has the mark found on the babe’s clothing.

So far as the officers can learn no one saw the person or persons who left the baby at the Lafferty home. It may be that the youngster stayed in the home some time before crying out, so it is impossible for the officers to know the hour the home was entered. Officers also are unable to know whether the babe was left at the Lafferty home on purpose or whether the person who deserted it entered the first door found open.

Due to the fact that many boarders stay at the Lafferty home the front door is never locked and it was easy for entrance to be made there. Police are inclined to the opinion that the person who left the baby knew the Lafferty home is a boarding house and that the front door is always open. One opinion expressed by officers is that the babe was left by someone who had stayed for a day or so at the Lafferty home and knew the kindly disposition of Mrs. Lafferty.

In the bundle of clothes left with the boy are various sorts and sizes of garments. At the hospital this morning the youngster was wearing a lightweight flannel shirt, diaper and petticoat that boasted of pink ribbons across the top and a bow on one shoulder. He had been dressed in clean clothing after reaching the hospital and it was stated that he was wearing a dress as well as the other garments when found.

All of the dresses had the mark “J. N. H.,” but the other clothes were not marked. There was one apron-dress in the package, several petticoats and about two dozen diapers. Some of the dresses are large enough for a two-year-old child and all show that they have been worn and washed many times. The clothing is not torn, and everything in the package undoubtedly had just been returned from a laundry somewhere. Nurses who examined the clothing expressed the opinion that only one of the garments was hand-made.

The baby shows no outward sign of mistreatment. He is plenty plump, his skin is fair and his eyes grey or blue. When police officers went into the ward to examine his clothing, he uttered not a sound when he was picked up and carried to a window where the marks could be more easily read. When he was placed back in his basket and covered with a blanket he seemed entirely happy with the world. He had been fed after reaching the hospital although the manner in which he held his fist to his mout indicated that he might have been hungry again.

Until officers have had time to make their investigation, the baby will be left at the hospital. If they fail in their efforts to locate his parents, it is probable that they will try to get some couple here to adopt the boy.

The case has aroused unusual interest here, many persons expressing horror that anyone would be mean enough to desert a helpless babe. “Dumb animals won’t desert their offspring,” one man stated in expressing the hope that the persons responsible fo the fate of the child can be found and convicted under the law.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 26, 1926

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Martin Bost Allowed to Pay Widow of Jesse Vanderburg $3,500, Skips Prison Sentence, Aug. 25, 1926

End of Bost Litigation

Martin Bost will not serve a prison sentence for the slaying of Jesse Vanderburg at the Bost home several years ago. Under a compromise reached, Bost will have the criminal charges dropped upon payment of all costs in the case and $3,500 to the widow of the man he killed.

In discussing the case in open court Judge P. A. McElroy indicated that he considered the disposal of the case a very just one. Under the terms of the court order, Bost is to pay all costs in both the civil and criminal cases including the special venire from Mecklenburg called to sit on the case, and must give the widow of the slain man $3,500.

It is no secret that court attaches felt that Bost would never serve a prison sentence for the slaying of Vanderburg. The feeling was accentuated when the Supreme Court of the State allowed a new trial after the second trial of Bost. To many persons present at the trial it seemed that the defense had little ground for exception, yet the new trial was ordered.

Judge McElroy said in court that he did not see how Bost was convicted on the evidence he had read in the stenographer’s report, and in view of this evidence and the two new trials granted the defendant, the disposition seems a just one.

There is one thing certain about the case—if Bost had been cleared in the criminal charge, no jury would have ever given the Vanderburg damages in the civil suit. That much is certain, and somehow we feel that court attaches knew that and probably felt that Mrs. Vanderburg needed the money too badly for any chances to be taken.

From the editorial page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926

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C.O. Champion, Who Shot G.E. Gibson at Charlotte Speedway, Former Inmate at Broad Oaks Sanatorium, Aug. 25, 1926

Champion Late Asylum Inmate. . . Mooresboro Man, Held in Jail after Wounding Speedway Spectator, Holds Silence, but Kin Bare Past Weakness

Charlotte Observer, August 25th

The speedway shooting took a spectacular turn yesterday when it was learned that C. O. Champion of Mooresboro, who shot and wounded G. E. Gibson of Gibson was a recent inmate in Broad Oaks Sanatorium, a private institution at Morganton.

Relatives of Champion in Charlotte yesterday were reported as having informed county authorities that Champion had been sent to Morganton to cure him of excessive use of alcohol.

It was learned at the sanatorium that Champion was released on July 5th. Dr. Erastus Taylor, head of the institution, declined to make public las tnight anything about the man’s mental condition.

Champion, himself, refused to make any statements. He was seen in the cell at the county jail and doggedly evaded his questioners.

“I have no statement to make,” was his constant reply.

Only once did he give any intimation of how he felt. When asked about Gibson’s statement that he had never seen Champion before yesterday, Champion looked up and smiled.

“Is he able to talk yet?” he asked, seemingly insinuating that Gibson could tell a few things if he would.

The prisoner denied that he had said what he was quoted as saying about making a future statement.

“I didn’t say what they had me saying,” he asserted. “The only thing I said was that I hoped Gibson lived.”

Gibson was reported at the Presbyterian Hospital as being in a serious condition. He was feverish, hospital attaches said, and had spent a very restless day.

The shooting occurred during a lull between the races at the speedway Monday. Gibson was eating at a lunch counter when Champion walked up and shot him.

Champion was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Avery B. Johnston a few moments later and was taken to rural police headquarters in an intoxicated condition.

Immediately after the shooting he told officers that Gibson was responsible for domestic difficulties. He denied this later.

Gibson told his physician that he had never seen Champion before the shooting.

Editor's Note: Shooter's last name was spelled "C. O. Chapman" in a previous article. From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926

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A.E. Gibson, 38, Shot at Charlotte Speedway by C.O. Chapman Aug. 23, 1926

Man Is Shot at Speedway in Charlotte; One Arrested

Charlotte, Aug. 23--A. E. Gibson, 38-year-old Gibson man, was shot and wounded at the speedway today and was reported late tonight by physicians as slightly improved.

He has a chance to recover, despite internal abdominal injuries, according to Dr. T. C. Bost, who performed an operation after rushing Gibson to Charlotte in an ambulance.

C. O. Chapman, a man believed to be of Mooresboro, Cleveland county, was held in the county jail without bond tonight. He is charged with intoxication and with assault with a deadly weapon.

No reason for the shooting has been given. Gibson denies having ever seen Chapman prior to the time Chapman fired point blank at him.

Editor's Note: Shooter's name was spelled "C.O. Champion" in a subsequent article.

From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926

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D.C. Kirby, Winston-Salem Attorney, Facing Federal Charge for Possessing Whiskey, Aug. 25, 1926

Winston-Salem Man Caught with Liquor. . . Attorney of Twin City Arrested Along with Others by Raiding Dry Officers

Charlotte, Aug. 24—A three-day raid by federal dry agents in the mountains of western North Carolina netted the arrest of three men, one an attorney of Winston-Salem, the seizure of three cars and 42 gallons of whiskey, it was learned at eighth district prohibition headquarters here today.

D.C. Kirby, the Winston-Salem attorney, called at the headquarters today to make $400 bond for the release of his car which had been seized by officers. He was arrested by federal agents when one gallon of liquor was found in his car which he was driving along the Boone trail near Brooks Cross Roads, according to the agent’s report. He was bound over to federal court at a hearing before a United States commissioner at Mocksville.

The arresting officers were James Riddle, J. L. Randall and W. D. Demarcu.

Walter Haney, Madison County, was arrested near Marshall, his car seized and 24 gallons of whiskey destroyed. Clarence Loving of Buncombe County was arrested while parking his car on Pack Square, Asheville. The agents seized his car and 17 gallons of whiskey.

From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926

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Isaac Best, 70, Flogged for Being a "Conjure Doctor," Aug. 25, 1926

“Conjure Doctor” Gets a Flogging; Demands Redress

Goldsboro, Aug. 24—Isaac Best, colored, about 70 years old, has 20 welts across his back, three places where the skin is broken, and a bruised place on the abdomen as the result of a flogging at the hands of a band of men in the Sherrods Cross Roads section about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning.

Six negroes and one white man are under arrest, charged with the deed, and two other white men are being sought.

A true bill alleged kidnapping and house breaking was bought by the grand jury now in session.

That Best was a conjure doctor and “liable to pizen our wells” was a reason one of the negroes told Sheriff Grant in explanation of why the old man had been beaten.

From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926

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