Mrs. Geo. A. Shuford, Children George, 3, and Dorothy Louise, 1, Killed in Train Derailment, Aug. 14, 1926

Mrs. Geo. A. Shuford Dies as Result of Railroad Accident. . . Her Two Children Were Killed Instantly in the Wreck on Long Island Road at Calverton, N.Y. . . . Home Was in Asheville. . . Died Without Knowing Her Children Had Been Killed—Was on Way to Visit Her Parents

Calverton, N.Y., Aug. 14 (AP)—Mrs. George A. Shuford of Biltmore, N.C., died in the Southampton Hospital today as a result of a Long Island Railroad wreck here last night. She was pinned under wreckage for five hours before being freed by rescue workers.

The number of dead remained at six, however, as it was learned that Jas. E. Way, Brooklyn business man, a supposed victim, was not killed, but only suffered from shock.He had been listed as “J. B. Waye,” among the dead.

Mrs. Shuford’s children, George, 3, and Dorothy Louise, 1 year old, were killed in the wreck. The others killed were Harold A. Fish, Manhattan broker; Wm. J. Squires, engineer of the train; and John Montgomery, fireman, both of Greenport, Long Island. Six other persons were seriously injured.

Mrs. Shuford died without knowing that her children had been killed in the wreck. Her husband is an attorney of Asheville, N.C. She and her children arrived at New York yesterday and were on their way to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Angell, to the Long Island country home of the latter.

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Calverton, N.Y., Aug. 13—Six persons were killed and 10 injured, several seriously, when two engines and three cars of a seven-car Long Island railroad train were derailed and overturned at a switch tonight. The cause of the accident was unknown.

Engineer William J. Squires and Fireman John Montgomery, both of Greensport, in the lead engine, were among the killed.

The four passengers killed were identified later as H. L. Fish of New York and East Marion; J.B. Ware of Greenport; and George A. Shuford Jr., 3 years old, and Dorthy Louise Shuford, 1 year old, and the children of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Shuford of Asheville, N.C.

Mrs. Shuford is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Angel of Brooklyn, who met her at the Pennsylvania station in New York. They were accompanying her and her children to their summer home on Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Angel were injured slightly.

Both locomotives were battered and twisted into a mass of wreckage, but the crew of the second engine escaped injury by leaping to safety. The first of the passenger coaches, a parlor car, buckled upward and crashed down through the roof of a pickle cannery alongside the tracks. There was no fire and passengers were able to make their way out of the cars through doors and windows.

Mrs. Shuford, after remaining pinned under the wreckage for five hours, was extricated late tonight and taken to a hospital in Southampton. Her condition was regarded as serious, but she is expected to recover.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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C.G. Morgan, Former Cashier at Peoples Bank, Connelly Springs, Pleads Guilty to Forgery, Misappropriation of Funds, Aug. 14, 1926

Former Cashier Confesses Guilt. . . Banker Offers His Property in Effort to Make Restitution

Morganton, Aug. 13—C. G. Morgan, former casher of the defunct Peoples Bank at Connelly Springs, this county, and charged with misappropriation of funds and forgery in connection with its failure last May, plead guilty in Burke Superior Court this afternoon and on the stand made confession of a number of the charges preferred against him.

Mr. Morgan took the stand in his own defense, attempting to explain and justify the various transactions. He confessed to getting money on both unsecured and secured personal notes and to using the name of his brother and others on secured papers. He made an effort to justify his activities by collateral which he claimed to have in Pageland, S.C, where he said he had more than a thousand acres of land and other holdings. He expressed a desire to make restitution as far as possible.

Mrs. Morgan went on the stand to make assertion of her willingness to have her husband make over his property to the receiver appointed to administer on the affairs of the defunct bank.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Klutts Labor Co. Burns to Ground, Aug. 14, 1926

Kluttz Lumber Co.’s Plant at Mt. Tabor Burned to Ground

Mt. Tabor, N.C., Aug. 14 (AP)—The Kluttz Lumber Co. located here burned this morning at 2:30 o’clock, only the lumber in the yard being saved. The estimated loss of $25,000 worth of property is fully covered by insurance and members of the firm plan to rebuild the plant at once.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Three Killed in Boiler Explosion at Self Lumber Co., Aug. 14, 1926

Three Killed by Boiler Explosion. . . Eight Others Injured and They Are Expected to Recover

Greenwood, S.C., Aug. 14 (AP)—Three persons, one white man and two negroes, were killed here today by the explosion of a boiler at te plant of the Self Lumber Co. Eight others were injured.

The dead are: Ernest Jarrett, 18, son of Supt. G. L. Jarrett; David Harris, 20, negro fireman, and Elliott Waller, 12, negro.

The cause of the explosion was undetermined. Fire which followed was soon extinguished.

The injured are expected to recover.

Editor’s Note: If it didn’t jump out at you, go back and read the age of the third worker killed: Elliott Waller.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Steve Miller of Ulla Known for His Purebred Livestock, Aug. 14, 1926

Rowan Man Has 25 Purebred Animals

Salisbury, Aug. 14 (AP)—Beginning with one registered cow in 1916, Steve Miller of Mt. Ulla in Rowan county, has built his heard up to 25 purebred animals, reports County Agent W. G. Yeager.

In addition to this increase, points out the agent, Mr. Miller has sold enough breeding stock from the herd to pay all costs of operation. In addition, he has made a profit from the sale of milk and cream.

On the farm are also purebred Polish and China pigs, Bourbon and red turkeys and Rhode Island chickens, declares Mr. Yeager.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Brand Own on Temporary Parole to Attend Son's Funeral, Aug. 14, 1926

Temporary Parole Issued

Raleigh, Aug. 14—A temporary parole, extending until Sunday at 6 p.m., was extended by Governor A. W. McLean to Brand Own, serving a two-years term from Montgomery County for manufacturing liquor, so that he might attend the funeral of his son, who was drowned Friday noon near his home in Montgomery County.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Winston-Salem Twin City Sentinel Sold to Frank E. Gannett, Aug. 14, 1926

Twin City Sentinel Sold to Rochester Company. . . Headed by Frank E. Gannett of Times-Union There—Other Men to be Associated with Him. . . Mr. Gannett Owns Seven Newspapers. . . Deal Is Said to be the Biggest Ever Pulled Off in the State—Negotiated by Harwell & Cannon

Winston-Salem, N.C., Aug. 14 (AP)—Announcement is made of the sale of the Twin-City Sentinel by Rufus A. Shore and Henry R. Dwire to a company headed by Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N.Y., and including as resident part owners W. M. Clemens, formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., and Warren Ingalls of Elmira, N.Y. Mr. Clemens will be vice president and editor; Mr. Ingalls secretary-treasurer and business manager.

The present independent policy of the paper will continue. The sale is said to be the largest newspaper deal in the history of the Carolinas. Mr. Gannett is the principal owner of seven newspapers in New York state located in Rochester, Utica, Elmira, Ithaca and Newburgh. He was the founder and still is president of the New York State Publishers Association, a trustee of Cornell University, and president of the Cornelian Council. Mr. Clemens, a native of Louisville, Ky., was formerly secretary of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and has been managing editor, editor, or general manager of newspapers in Birmingham, Mobile, Memphis, Knoxville and Atlanta. He was father of the Code of Ethics adopted by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. For the past few months he has been serving as managing editor of the Rochester Times-Union, Mr. Gannett’s leading newspaper.

Mr. Ingalls, formerly of the advertising department of the New York Herald and the New York sun, has recently been advertising manager of the Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, and Elmira Telegram, all Gannett newspapers. He received his military training in Southern camps and served with distinction in France as a member of the A. E. F. The deal was negotiated by Harwell & Cannon, newspaper brokers of New York City. Mr. Gannett and associates were represented by Stephen J. Warren of Rochester and Messrs. Shore and Dwire by Manly, Hendren, and Womble of Winston-Salem, as counsel.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Seaboard RR Discontinues Trains No. 31, 34, 41, and 44, Aug. 14, 1926

Seaboard Allowed to Discontinue Four Trains. . . Two Between Raleigh and Hamlet and Two Between Wilmington and Charlotte

Raleigh, Aug. 14—Seaboard Airline Railway will be permitted to discontinue two trains, Nos. 31 and 34, between Wilmington and Charlotte, and two others, Nos. 41 and 44, between Raleigh and Hamlet, according to an order just handed down by the State Corporation Commission. The trains will be discontinued after August 29th.

At the request of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, steps are being taken to increase the bus service between Raleigh and Charlotte, which will make connections with busses at Sanford from Aberdeen and Hamlet, so that the travel affected by the removal of the trains may be taken care of. Plans are also being made for bus express service between the points affected by the removal of these trains.

At present there is but one round-trip bus a day between Raleigh and Charlotte, but assurances have been received that this service will materially increase to take care of the traffic, both passenger and express, that will result from the removal of the trains, so that neither shippers nor passengers will be inconvenienced. The State Corporation Commission, through its bus division, is assisting the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce in arranging the additional bus transportation.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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George Neal, 11 Weeks Old, Has Died, Aug. 14, 1926

Death of George Neely Neal Jr.

George Neely Neel Jr., 11-weeks-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. George N. Neel, died in Charlotte Thursday afternoon. Funeral services were held at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Mecklenburg county, Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. M. Walker. The pallbearers were the uncles of the baby, Tally and Guy Neal, Howard and Henry Townsend.

Mrs. Neel before marriage was Miss Idelle Townsend of this county.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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James Tartel, 25, Dresses in Best Clothes to Commit Suicide, Aug. 14, 1926

Kills Himself When His Wife Turns Him Down

Clover, S.C., Aug. 12—Dressed in his best clothes, James Tartel, 25, textile worker, killed himself here late last night by climbing a steel electric tower and touching a live wire.

Tarlton’s act, authorities were told, was admitted after he quarreled with his wife, from whom he had been estranged. When she refused to be reconciled, he told her he was going to “dress up and kill himself by jumping from the power tower.”

The short circuit which resulted when the man touched the wire threw Clover in darkness and stopped all cotton mill machinery.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Small Illinois Town for Sale for Back Taxes, $12,000, Aug. 14, 1926

County Will Sell Town to Pay Delinquent Taxes

By International News Service

Nason, Ill., Aug. 14—Anyone with a few thousand dollars desiring a nice quiet town in which to settle down practically to himself should come and give this place the once-over.

The whole town, or about 95 per cent of it, has been placed on the auction block and is awaiting a good bidder. The county treasurer of Mt. Vernon has some $12,000 in delinquent taxes due and is going to sell the town to satisfy these debts.

Nason’s principal industry, a large coal mine, shut down several months ago, and most of the male population were thrown out of work. Business slumped and with the exodus of many of the citizens, home were closed and business houses felt the pinch until they also began moving away.

Then to add to the town’s plight, destructive fires came along and destroyed many buildings. Taxes on many lots, likewise, are due and nobody is willing to pay the treasurer.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926

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Ethel Brown, 18, "Tired of Living in Sin," Attempts Suicide, Aug. 12, 1926

Tired of Sin, She Swallows Drug. . . 18-Year-Old Girl of Asheville Attempts Suicide in Burlington Joint

Burlington, August 12—Ethel Brown, an 18-year-old former Asheville girl, her spirit borne down by the weight of unhappy circumstances, made a suicide attempt here last night in the room she occupied in what is known as “the wienie joint” on Main Street.

Before she emptied into her stomach two vials of Bateman’s drops, a concoction of opium and alcohol, she wrote a brief note that the world might know the reason for her act. “I am tired of living in sin. I am going to end it all. Notify Bill Evans in Greensboro,” she wrote.

Currie Murrie and Boyd Trollinger, night patrolmen, were walking toward the passenger station when they were attracted by the sound of a person groaning as if in agony. The room in which the girl was, is directly above the street. They went up to investigate.

The officers found the girl writhing in pain and on the dresser the empty bottle and note. They called in two physicians who worked with her several hours until she was considered out of danger.

Editor’s Notes: According to Wikipedia, Dr Bateman's Pectoral Drops (also known as ‘Batemans Original Pectoral Drops’, and 'Bateman's and Stoughton's drops’) was a popular patent medicine for disorders of the chest or lungs during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries in Britain and North America. It was later marketed as a remedy for ‘all Rheumatic and Chronic complaints, in pains of the limbs, bones, and joints, for influenza, and in violent colds'.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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After 10 Months Raleigh Police Capture Theodore Vinson, Bootlegger, Aug. 13, 1926

Ingenious Bootlegger Captured

Raleigh, Aug. 13—Raleigh police are jubilant over the capture of Theodore Vinson, youthful and ingenious bootlegger of Raleigh, Goldsboro and other localities, who has successfully eluded arrest for 10 months, despite persistent efforts to nab him.

He met his match here when two detectives, disguised with burnt cork, and fessed in old clothes, lounged around the vicinity of a negro’s house here suspected of being a confederate of Vinson, and when Vinson drove up in his high-powered car, took him into custody. Three regular policemen assisted in making the arrest.

Vinson is being held in jail, unable to make the $5,000 bond. Some eight or 10 different charges are pending against him. His case will be heard next Tuesday, August 17.

Six gallons of whiskey and a pistol were found in Vinson’s car, which was equipped with a “smoke screen” attachment, with which he was to “smoke out” officers who gave chase.

Editor’s Note: The smoke screen attachment obscured the vehicle’s lights, making it difficult to follow a vehicle after dark.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Lonnie Dancey, 8, Dies After Being Struck by Truck, Aug. 13, 1926

Boy Struck by Car Dies from Injuries

Salisbury, Aug. 12—An automobile accident that proved fatal to Lonnie Dancey, 8-year-old boy, occurred on North Long Street Monday morning early. The boy, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dancey, died in the Salisbury hospital and was buried Wednesday afternoon.

The little fellow ran from behind a truck just in time to be struck by a car driven by J. S. Benson, who was on his way to Dukeville. No blame was attached to Mr. Benson, who stopped his car and picked up the injured boy and rushed him to the hospital.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Five Seriously Hurt in Auto Wreck Near Elkin, Aug. 12, 1926

Five Persons Are Seriously Hurt in Auto Wreck

Winston-Salem, Aug. 12—Five persons were seriously injured in an automobile accident near Elkin this afternoon, according to advices received here tonight.

The injured are: Mrs. G. G. Freeze, severe bruises about the head; Miss Julian Neill, broken arm and lacerations; Miss Nevada Freeze, body bruises; C. L. Kelly, lacerations; and Hugh A. Freeze, cuts on arm.

The party, all from Mooresville, were en route to Roaring Gap when their automobile turned over at a curve six miles from Elkin on the Yadkinville road.

The injured were taken to a hospital at Elkin for medical attention.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Typhoid, Smallpox, Polio Reports This Week, Aug. 13, 1926

Typhoid Continues to be Prevalent

Raleigh, Aug. 13—Typhoid continues to be prevalent over the State, according to the daily reports received by the State Board of Health, 65 cases having been reported so for this week. The largest number reported on any one day was Monday, when 34 cases were reported. Only nine new cases were reported Thursday.

The sudden increase in smallpox ranks next to typhoid, in the sudden jump this disease has taken with 27 new cases reported to date for this week. These cases are confined almost entirely to the rural districts.

Infantile paralysis is apparently on the decline, only three new cases having been reported this week.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Sidney Lanier Festival to be Held at Calvary Episcopal Church Aug. 13, 1926

Sidney Lanier Is to be Honored. . . Sidney Lanier Festival to be Held Next Saturday Afternoon

Fletcher, N.C., Aug. 13 (AP)—Sidney Lanier, believed by many to be the South’s greatest poet, will be honored at a special “Sidney Lanier Festival” next Sunday afternoon at the old historic Calvary Episcopal Church here. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 4 o’clock under the direction of the Rev. Clarence S. McClellan Jr., rector of the church.

During his lifetime, Lanier was a visitor at Fletcher on a number of occasions. The last poem he wrote, “Sunrise,” was dedicated to George Westfieldt, who is a member of Calvary Church.

A bronze tablet will be unveiled to the memory of Lanier. Harry Stillwell Edwards, author and lecturer, will make the principal address on the subject of “Sidney Lanier.” A distinguished assemblage of poets, writers and musicians as well as many from the surrounding country are expected to attend the ceremonies.

A part of the program will be the presentation of greetings from the governor of Georgia and the mayor of Macon, Ga., which was the city of Lanier’s birth. The Rev. MClellan will speak and will dedicate the tablet to the poet.

Editor’s Note: Project Gutenberg offers a collection of poems of Sidney Lanier. You can read them for free online at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/579.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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J.L. Armfield, Thomasville Banker, Regaining Physical, Mental Health, Aug. 13, 1926

Thomasville Banker Is Greatly Improved

Thomasville, Aug.12—J. L. Armfield, formerly president of the Bank of Thomasville, which institution was declared insoluble some years ago and a receiver appointed, is here with his friends for a few days. Mr. Armfield spent quite a period of time in a sanitarium in an attempt to regain physical and mental normalcy, which, it is said, his physicians succeeded partially in accomplishing, whereupon he, when dismissed from the institution, went to the state of Alabama, where he has gradually for some time been able to build quite a fine physique, his present weigh being 218 pounds, while his nervous condition has also been greatly improved.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Rev. Thompson, Who Was Taken Ill in Pulpit, Will Take Vacation until October Conference, Aug. 13, 1926

Rev. J. Ed Thompson Will Take Vacation

Salisbury, Aug. 12—Rev. J. Ed Thompson, pastor of Main Street Methodist church, who was taken suddenly ill while in his pulpit one Sunday in June and has since been with a daughter at High Point, is definitely out of active work until conference, which meets in Gastonia October 20. Mr. Thompson was here this week on his way to the home of another daughter, Mrs. L. C. Gidney, at Shelby, where he will be for some time.

The charge of Main Street is being supplied by Rev. R. M. Hauss of the faculty of Rutherford College.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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George Murray, Charlotte Boy, Now Playing for Washington, Aug. 13, 1926

Murray Turns Tables on Team-Mates

George Murray, Charlotte boy, former Bankee pitcher now with Washington, turned the tables on his former team-mates Thursday, holding them to three safe blows and defeating them 5 to 2. Murray was recently purchased by Washington from Mobile, in the Southern loop.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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J.D. Croom Kills 6-foot Diamondback Rattlesnake Near Home, Aug. 13, 1926

Huge Rattlesnake Killed in Sampson Clinton, Aug. 12—A diamondback rattlesnake measuring 6 feet and 4 inches in length and approximately 12 inches in circumference was killed by J. D. Croom near his home in Newton Cross Roads recently. According to reports, this is the largest snake of its kind ever killed in the county.

From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Lightning Kills W.F. Reuther While Walking with Daughter and Small Son on Graybeard Mountain, Aug. 11, 1926

Killed by Lightning While Climbing Mountain

Asheville, Aug. 11—William Frederick Reuther, 52, of Louisville, Ky., was instantly killed at 2 o’clock this afternoon on Graybeard Mountain when struck by a bolt of lightning. At the time of his death, Mr. Reuther was ascending the Mount Mitchell road on food, accompanied by a daughter and a small son. The daughter was shocked, but only slightly hurt, while the son escaped injury.

From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1926

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Visitor Warns Editor of KKK's Coming War on Catholics, Science, Aug. 13, 1926

Capt. Midgett Tells of the Next War. . . Says Christians in His Section Are Joining Ku Klux Klan for War on Catholics

Capt. Thos. P. Midgett, U.S. Lighthouse Keeper at Ridge, Md., passed thru Elizabeth City this week to visit his old home on Roanoke Island. Capt. Midgett stopped at The Independent office long enough to warn the editor that he is going to hell if he doesn’t repent of his ways and steer clear of Roman Catholics, Evolutionists and Science.

“Roman Catholicism, Evolution, and Science,” says Capt. Midgett are the three branches of the devil’s own church conspiring to undo God’s will upon earth and destroy the lives and souls of God’s children.

Capt. Midgett says the Roman Catholic Church was founded by the devil after the Lord had thrown the devil out of heaven and put him here on earth with an army of 666 rebellious angels to do his work. Capt. Midgett doesn’t explain why God didn’t drop the devil and his angels on Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter or some other place and give his Earth children a better chance.

“The next war,” says Capt. Midgett, “Will be between true Christians and the Catholics, and it will be the bloodiest war the world has ever known. I don’t know much about the Ku Klux in the South, but in the North the Christian people are rushing into the Ku Klux and preparing themselves for the great war.”

Capt. Midgett is strong for that sort of war and rearing to go when the soldiers of the Cross prepare to do battle.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926

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Stedman Fletcher "Borrows" Car Left with Employer, Wrecks It, Aug. 13, 1926

Car Turned Turtle and Gave Him Dead Away

Stedman Fletcher, an employe of the Auto Supply & Vulcanizing Co., of this city borrowed a ride in a snappy Chrysler Coach turned over to his employers for storage by a Washington, N.C., young Woman who was on her way to Nags Head Tuesday. The car skidded and turned turtle with him on a curve on the Newland Road near the city. Young Stedman and a companion, Maurice Brickehouse, escaped with minor bruises and scratches, but the Chrysler Coach didn’t fare so well.

Young Stedman is sure that if the car hadn’t been wrecked, its owner would never have known that he had borrowed it.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926

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Why Travel to Beach When Vacation Can Be Spent in Arm Chair on Courthouse Green? Aug. 13, 1926

Vacationing in the Old Home Town

My attention was recently attracted to a citizen of our town seated n an arm chair in the shade of a pecan tree on the courthouse green. He wasn’t sitting on one of the benches provided for casual loungers; he had obtained a more comfortable chair from one of the courthouse officials.

Day after day, for several days, I noticed this citizen occupying a chair on the courthouse green, moving his chair from time to time to get out of the sun.

My curiosity aroused, I paused one day and interviewed the citizen. “You seem to be taking a vacation!” I said.

“Ye, I am taking my vacation,” he said. “I have worked hard all year and the hot weather was about to get me. I usually knock off about this time of the year and go to Nags Head for a week, but I stopped out here the other day and sat down in the shade, and I find it actually more comfortable here in the day tie than it is on the seashore.

“It’s just as pleasant here as it is at the seashore and I can get the same rest here I would get if I went a thousand miles away from home.

“I am not only getting the rest I need and feeling comfortable, but sitting out here on the courthouse green and seeing everybody in town coming and going, I’m getting better acquainted with the town. Many people stop and talk and I find myself getting acquainted with folks who have lived here all the time but who were always strangers to me because I was always busy when I was home and never had much time to meet and talk to folks. I am putting a week out here and I believe it’s going to be the most pleasant and profitable vacation week I ever had.”

That citizen gave me something to think about. He is just a plain citizen who wears plain clothes and goes collarless in his shirt sleeves, but he is a philosopher. Wouldn’t all of us be better citizens, better neighbors and have a better acquaintance with our home town and its folks if we too would take a week’s vacation in the old home town once a year and put in the time watching the daily grind from an easy chair and swapping friendly talk with all who came by? I think so. And I agree with the citizen who found quiet and shade and cooling breezes on the courthouse green; the old home town on the hottest day in the year, after all, as comfortable as most of the highly advertised resort places. I am sure the thermometer on Main Street will not go higher than the thermometer in any town in the mountains or the thermometer on any seaside pavilion anywhere along the South Atlantic seaboard.

From the editorial page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926

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Silk Hose So Sheer, Legs Might as Well Be Bare, Aug. 13, 1926

The Bank Clerk and the Soda Jerker: The Silk Hose Is Going Next

When the Bank Clerk drifted in on the Soda Jerker the other morning he found that worthy studying an advertisement of ladies’ lingerie in a New York paper. The advertisement was illustrated with a picture of a young woman in a transparent combination that gave an illusion of almost perfect nudity.

“As filmy and diaphanous as a cloud,” is the way the underwear manufacturer described his product in the advertisement.

“I don’t know what we are coming to,” said the Soda Jerker. “I have seen women’s hosiery get thinner and thinner, skirts shorter and shorter, necks lower and lower, and now they are making women’s underwear so thin that you can see thru it in the moonlight. I guess they’ll be making dresses the same way presently.”

“That’s exactly what we’re coming to,” said the Bank Clerk. “The manufacturer has strived to make hosiery more sheer and diaphanous until they have persuaded most women that the most attractive hose in the world to wear is a hose so sheer and transparent that a man can’t tell whether he’s looking at a bare leg or not.

“You have to look twice to see whether a woman has on any hose at all when she struts a pair of those flesh colored chiffon hose that are all the vogue.

“And there is where the hosiery manufacturers have cut their own throats and are getting themselves in the same fix the corset manufacturers got themselves in. I predict that in another year or so most young women will not be wearing any hose at all, just as they now go without any corsets at all.

“Women have worn their hose thinner and thinner until they have discovered that their own smooth, healthy, beautiful skin is the most attractive thing in the world and you can depend upon them to make the most of it. If legs look better in hose that are so transparent that you have to take a reading glass to find out whether they are hose or flesh, then the next step will be to discard the hosiery entirely and give the leg a shameless showing.”

“I believe you’re right,” said the Soda Jerker. “But I believe you’ve missed one big reason why women are going to stop wearing hose. The main reason is that it takes all the p. w. g. can make to keep herself in chiffon hose at $2 a pair. The money she spends on keeping herself in fine silk stockings would just about buy everything else she wears. One of the things that has kept me from getting married is the terrible thought of what it would cost me to keep a wife in silk hose.

“And there’s one thing that can be said about bare legs; they won’t always be full of runs.”

“Runs!” sneered the Bank Clerk, “Why the legs of these modern girls haven’t even got to walk in ‘em since very Tom, Dick and Harry has got an automobile. They don’t even have corns on their feet any more; they wear their corn plasters now where their mothers use dto wear their bustles.”

From the editorial page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926

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Andrews, Wills, Durham, Utley, Carrol, Council Seeking Big Catch, Aug. 13, 1926

Off After Fish. . . Jack Andrews and Others Will Leave for Swansboro Sunday

Jack Andrews, Clarence Wills, Carl Durham, Marvin Utley, D.D. Carroll, and Zeb Council will leave Sunday morning for Swansboro, on the North Carolina coast. They will travel in the Andrews and Council cars.

Object of the journey: fish. Last year the gang led by Mr. Andrews captured about 1,000 pounds of mackerel. A good share of the haul was brought back to Chapel Hill and distributed around among the anglers’ friends.

“We hope the mackerel will be as willing as they were a year ago,” said Mr. Andrews yesterday. “If they are, we are going to give Chapel Hill another feast.”

The fishermen plan to come back Wednesday. They will bring with them Jack Andrews Jr., who has been in Wilmington with his aunt, Mrs. E.P. Block.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, August 13, 1926

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Surprised that Marvin Wilson Married July 26 to Margaret York, 1926

Marvin Wilson Married. . . Wed to Margaret York of Raleigh on the 26th of July

A few days ago the report got out that somebody had seen, in the office of the Register of Deeds in Hillsboro, a record of the marriage of Marvin Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson. The report was greeted at first with considerable doubting. But, sure enough, the record is there.

Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Margaret York in Hillsboro Monday, July 26, by the Presbyterian minister, Rev. H. S. Bradshaw. The witnesses were J. T. Gresham Jr. of Warsaw, E. F. Yarborough of Louisburg, and A. C. Justice of Chapel Hill. The groom’s age was given as 21 and the bride’s as 19.

Mr. Wilson is in the University law school and will take the bar examination for his license this month. Mrs. Wilson, who comes from Raleigh, is a student in the Summer School.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, August 13, 1926

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Mrs. Johnston in Hospital with Broken Hip, Aug. 13, 1926

Mrs. Johnston Hurt by Fall

Mrs. Charles W. Johnston is lying helpless in Watts Hospital, Durham, with a fractured hip bone.

The injury was the result of a fall last week. The doctors say that her condition is improving, and in a letter to a friend in Chapel Hill, Mrs. Johnston says that the pain is much less severe than it was.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, August 13, 1926

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Beloved Farmer Gored to Death by His Bull, Aug. 13, 1926

Clay Hogan Killed. . . Well-Known and Popular Farmer Gored to Death by a Bull

People in Chapel Hill and surrounding country heard with deep sorrow Sunday of the death of Clay Hogan on his farm four miles northwest of the village. He was gored to death by his bull.

Rising early Sunday morning, he went to the garden to gather vegetables. Then he took an armful of corn shucks out to the stable. His family never saw him alive again. His body was found with the enraged animal standing over it. There were signs of a terrible struggle.

Mr. Hogan was an exceedingly popular man. Famed for his hospitality, he was always entertaining his friends. He built on his place a swimming pool, and it was visited on hot afternoons by the young people from miles around.

He was born 1862 and at 29 was married to Miss Florence Eubanks. They had seven children: E. Glenn Hogan of Florida, Mrs. C. M. Cates of Hillsboro, Miss Lucille Hogan, Jack Hogan, Henry Hogan, Hubert Hogan and Mrs. D.T. Carr. His brother is A.B. Hogan and his two sisters are Mrs. W.B. Thompson and Mrs. W.T. Hogan.

The funeral was held Tuesday morning at Orange Church.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, August 13, 1926

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Henry Edward Jacobs, 8, Killed When Lightning Bolt Strikes Back Porch, Aug. 12, 1926

Indian Boy Instantly Killed by Lightning. . . Struck While Leaning Against Post on Back Porch

Henry Edward Jacobs, 8-year-old son of Hursley Jacobs, Indian, of Pembroke, was instantly killed about 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a bolt of lightning.

The boy had just returned form a swim with his father and was leaning against a post on the back porch during an electric storm that visited that section, when the lightning struck the post and killed him.

No damage was done to the house other than splitting the post into splinters.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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John Finch, 40, Claims Conspiracy to Send Him to Insane Asylum, Seize His Estate, Aug. 12, 1926

Unusual Suit in Charlotte

Charlotte Observer, Aug. 11

Charging his brothers with a conspiracy to incarcerate him in an insane asylum and seize his estate, John G. Finch, 40, former wealthy High Point man, now a dependent of the Salvation Army at Spartanburg, S.C., seeks $300,000 damages in a complaint to be filed in federal court today.

Summons were issued yesterday for the two brothers in the action, Walter G. Finch and P. D. Finch, prominent mill men of Lexington, and J. Frank Hunsucker, High Point mill man, Thomas J. Finch and wife of High Point, and D. B. Stafford, sheriff of Guilford county who are name co-defendants in the complaint.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Miss Flora Carl New Robeson County Home Demonstration Agent, Aug. 12, 1926

Miss Flora L. Carl Is New Demonstration Agent. . . M.A. Graduate of Columbia University with 4 Years’ Experience in Home Demonstration Work Succeeds Mrs. R. E. Lawrence—Will Report for Duty September 1

News has been received here from the district home demonstration agent, Mrs. Estelle T. Smith of Goldsboro, of the appointment of Miss Flora Lee Carl as home demonstration agent for Robeson County, to succeed Mrs. R. E. Larence, who resigned effective August 1.

Miss Carl obtained her master’s degree at Columbia University and has had four years’ experience as home demonstration agent in West Virginia. She is considered well qualified for the office here, and county officials consider it fortunate that a woman of her experience and ability has been secured.

Miss Carl will report for work here on September 1.

The county has been without a home demonstration since the first of August. Mrs. R. E. Lawrence gave notice of her resignation effective at that time, and the county commissioners discontinued the office at their July meeting. At their regular meeting in August, however, the commissioners were swamped by the club women of the county who demanded the reinstatement, and so another appropriation of $1,200 per year was made for the work.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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W.H. Kinlaw Active Postmaster in Lumberton, Aug. 12, 1926

Mr. W. H. Kinlaw Is Made Acting Postmaster

Mr. Wade Hampton Kinlaw received notice this morning of his appointment as acting postmaster for the town of Lumberton. He will take over the duties of the office immediately and will serve until a postmaster is selected through civil service examination.

Postmaster McGill has held office since June 1922, when he was appointed for a four-year term, which expired in June of this year. Since the past June Mr. McGill has continued to hold the office until the appointment of his successor today. He desires that The Robesonian express to the patrons of the office his appreciation for their co-operating during his term of office.

Mr. Kinlaw was born and raised in Howellsville township, near Lumberton, received his degree in law at the University of North Carolina and was licensed to practice law in 1904. He has been a practicing attorney in Lumberton for the past 20 years. He is a prominent Republican and is well known to the public. Twice he made the race for his party for a member of the legislature, and once he was a candidate for clerk of the court of Robeson county.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Mrs. Inman Share Fairmont News in Robesonian, Aug. 12, 1926

Fairmont Letter . . . Interesting Program by Baptist Girls. . . Man Unconscious 3 Days and Nights from Lightning Strike . . . Unoccupied Dwelling Containing Tobacco Burned. . . Movements of the People

By Mrs. H.G. Inman

Fairmont, Aug.12—the Girls Auxiliary of the Baptist Church gave a very interesting program Sunday night at the school auditorium, the pulpit of the church not being large enough to accommodate the players. The object in giving this program was to impress the people of the great needs of our mountain schools, especially the denominational schools. Most of the schools turn away hundreds of applicants each year for lack of room. Mrs. O. L. Barnes is the leader of these girls and is to be complimented on the program given.

Mrs. A. B. Floyd and brother, Mr. Howard Lewis, have been in Mullins since last Thursday with their brother-in-law Mr. E. T. Maston, who was struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Maston was paralyzed in the right side and was unconscious until Saturday night, when he regained consciousness and was able to get up and walk around.

An unoccupied dwelling house about 2 miles from town, toward the Baltimore section, burned Friday night. Dock Hill of town and some other colored people were storing their tobacco inside. Dock Hill had that day paid $40 for his share being graded. It could no be learned whether the house was insured or not. The tobacco was a total loss.

Miss Mary Lee of Benson is spending a week with Misses Annie Lee, Christine and Kathleen McDaniel. It will be remembered that Miss Lee was seriously injured in an automobile-train wreck near Four Oaks in February, when Miss Minnie Bryant of Benson and Mr. Garey Mitchell of this city lost their lives.

Mrs. W. A. McPhaul and children, Miss Shirley and Masters Billy and Jack, of Charlotte, are spending the week in the city with relatives.

Master Max Rouse of Dillon spent last week with his grandmother, Mrs. Gussie Ashley.

Mrs. J. W. Reynolds and daughter, Miss Melrose, and Mrs. Lacy Harrell spent 10 days with Mrs. Reynolds’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Harrell. Before returning to their home in Portsmouth, Va., they will visit Mrs. Reynolds’ relatives in Pinehurst.

Miss Bertha Davis, trimmer for Miss Annie McMillan’s Millinery store, returned Monday night from a month’s visit to the Northern markets and a short visit to her parents in Frederick, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Morton of Albemarle spent several days with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Inman.

Miss Donnie Thompson of Maxton and Misses Sarah Stuart and Ethel Rowland of Dillon were house-guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Floyd. Miss Thomas and Mrs. Floyd are sisters.

Misses Annie Lee, Christine and Kathleen McDaniel, and house-guest Miss Mary Lee, Mr. Luther Edens of Lumberton, Messrs. Mark McDaniel and Alpheus Thompson attended the weekly Monday night dance at White Lake.

Mr. Leon Andrews accompanied his mother, Mrs. Nathan Andrews, home from Wilmington, where she spent two weeks.

Mrs. H. G. Collins spent last week with relatives in Mullins. Mr. Collins spent the week-end there with them.

Miss Belle Riff and brothers Messrs. David Isaac and Perry, spent the past week-end at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. Isaac remained for the remainder of the week at the Oceanic.

Mr. R. H. Nye spent Tuesday in Fayetteville.

Mrs. S. G. Williamson of Lumberton R.F.D. spent Monday with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Collins.

Miss Nell Hamilton of Laurinburg passed through town Sunda enroute to visit her parents in Marietta.

Mrs. C. A. Thompson and daughter, little Miss Mary Louise, left last Wednesday for Washington, D.C., where they will spend two weeks with Mrs. Thompson’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Inman.

Rev. and Mrs. R. F. Taylor of Vanceboro spent a few days last week with Mrs. Taylor’s sister, Mrs. P. B. Thompson and Mrs. Fannie Fisher, and Messrs. A. S., C. B., and G. W. Thompson.

Mrs. P. B. Gordon and children, Proctor Jr. and Miss Marguerite, of Mullins, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Collins.

Misses Ethel and Evelyn Dutton have returned to their home at Darlington, S.C., after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nye.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Margie Russell to Marry W.C. Preston This Fall, Aug.12, 1926

Engagement Announced

Mr. and Mrs. James Poulson Russell announce the engagement of their daughter, Margie, to Mr. Walter Creigh Preston of Cincinnati, Ohio, the marriage to take place in the early fall.

The above announcement will be read with interest both here and elsewhere. Miss Russell is a talented young lady, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Russell of Lumberton. She attended Flora Macdonald College at Red Springs and has made a special study of art. She taught in the Lumberton schools, at Greenwood, Va., at Glendale College, Glendale, Ohio, at St. Paul, and last year was an art teacher at Fassifern School in Hendersonville. Miss Russell is now traveling in Europe. She is expected home about the middle of September.

Mr. Preston is a native of Lewisburg, West Virginia. He attended Greenbriar Military School and is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. Since receiving his degree from Johns Hopkins, he has been with the Proctor & Gamble Company as a research chemist.

From page 5 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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L.H. Caldwell Distributor of Delco Light, Aug. 12, 1926

L. H. Caldwell Takes Over Delco Light and Frigidaire. . . Lumberton Man Secures Agency for Robeson, Bladen, Scotland and Richmond Counties

Mr. L. H. Caldwell, well-known merchant of Lumberton, has taken over the contract formerly held by the Laurinburg Electric Service Co., as distributor of Delco Light and Frigidaire products in Robeson, Bladen, Scotland and Richmond counties.

A service department will be continued at Laurinburg and Mr. B. F. Smoot, who has been at the head of the Laurinburg Electric Service Co., will continue to cover the territory for Mr. Caldwell.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Miss Clyde Boone Celebrates 14th Birthday, Aug. 12, 1926

Parkton, Aug. 10—Miss Clyde Boone, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Boone, celebrated her 14th birthday anniversary by entertaining some of her friends Friday night.

They were entertained with popular music by Miss Sara Currie at the piano. Games were then enjoyed for a time.

At 10 o’clock all were invited into the dining room, which had been decorated for the occasion, using a color scheme of pink and white. The cake with 14 candles formed the centerpiece. Bowls of pink verbena and petunias were at each end of the table. Delicious cream and cake were served.

Then they repaired to the porch and lawn, and were served watermelon. Sticks of pink candy, wrapped in white and tied with pink ribbon were given each guest as favors. Upon opening them each found their fortunes within. This caused much merriment as they were read.

The guests were Mary Sasser and Myrtle Parker of St. Pauls, Sarah Currie, Sarah Clyde Sikes, Virginia and Rachel McNatt, Gertrude Spell, Annie Belle Edwards, Lonnie Blount, Dan Currie, Don and Lewis Williamson and Neil Hughes.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Ellen McDuffie, 53, Has Died, Aug. 12, 1926

Funeral of Mrs. Ellen McDuffie

St. Paul, Aug. 12—Funeral services were held Sunday about 1 o’clock at the home near Galatia for Mrs. Ellen McDuffie, aged 53 years, who died the day previous. Interment was made in the family cemetery at Raeford, where her husband, Dan M. McDuffie, who preceded her to the grave two years ago, and other of her relatives, were buried.

The burial was very largely attended and man and beautiful were the floral tributes tendered by her numerous friends. Among those from here who were there were Mr. D. A. McDuffie, a brother-in-law of deceased, his sister, Miss Christian McDuffie, his son and daughters, Mr. Burke McDuffie and two Misses Lillie Belle and Sarah McDuffie, Mr. J.W. Guiton, also a brother-in-law of the deceased, and his daughter, Miss Christine Guiton.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 12, 1926

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Police Hold Harold Grady and H. J. Nealy in Accident That Killed Dossie Traylor, Aug. 10, 1926

Hold Grady and Nealy in Auto Wreck Case . . . Grady Out Under $5,000 Bond; Dossie P. Traylor Was Killed in Turn-Over. . . Miss Lena Williams Was Not Seriously Injured, Hospital Authorities Say

H. J. Nealy, 23 years old, of Bummertown, Tenn., is in jail and Harold Grady, local youth, is under $5,000 bond as a result of the death of Dossie P. Traylor, 18 years old, in an automobile accident near the old country club on the Kinston highway about 10: 30 Sunday night.

Grady suffered a broken arm and Miss Lena Williams was badly cut about one leg. Nealy was driving the car at the time it turned over and pinned young Traylor underneath. Grady was standing on the running board on the right hand sill. Nealy escaped without a scratch.

Nealy and Grady were held for the grand jury at the next session of Superior Court under instructions from the coroner’s jury, which considered the case under the direction of Coroner T. R. Robinson yesterday morning. Late yesterday Nealy, a well-mannered young man, was wiring friends in Tennessee in an effort to raise bond.

Evidence introduced before the coroner’s inquest was to the effect that the accident in which Young Traylor was killed and Grady and Miss Williams injured was the culmination of a wild auto ride. Four witnesses testified that the car, a Ford rroadster, was giving chase to a Hudson sedan and making a rate of estimated at between 35 and 45 miles an hour. It was said that Grady was drinking and that he was loudly cursing at the party driving the Hudson.

Evidence as to who was driving the Hudson car was not given in the coroner’s inquest.

The accident, according to the story told by Nealy, happened when he slowed up, because he was blinded by an approaching car, and the right rear wheel dropped off the pavement.

Traylor lived about an hour after he was carried to the hospital. Death must have resulted from internal injuries, for there was only a small bruise visible on the body—a small circular black spot near the right shoulder blade.

Hospital authorities say that Miss Williams will be out in a short time.

The following made up the jury which investigated the case:

E. E. Griffin, E. C. Denmark, Herman Brewer, C. H. Martin, Sam Eason, and B. A. Grant.

The verdict was as follows:

“That Paul Traylor came to his death from an accident from a Ford roadster recklessly and dangerously driven by H. J. Neely, aided and abetted by Harold Grady.

“We think Grady as guilty as Neely and recommend that both H. J. Neely and Harold Grady be held under sufficient bond for the Grand Jury of the next Superior Court, and that Sheriff Grant be instructed to hold these parties (line obscured) the solicitor of the district may require.

Editor's Note: Victim's last name is spelled Traylor and his mother's last name is spelled Taylor because after her husband died the widow married a man named Taylor. In other words, it looks like a mistake but it isn't.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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Funeral for Auto Victim Dossie Traylor, 18, Aug. 10, 1926

Auto Victim Funeral 4 p.m.. . . From Home on East Pine Street. . . In Charge of Rev. J. W. Sadler

Funeral services for Dossie P. Traylor, 18, who was killed in an automobile accident near the old country club Sunday night, will be held from the home of the mother of the dead youth, Mrs. Sudie Taylor, at 212 East Pine Street, this afternoon at 4 o’clock.

The dead youth was a son of the late D. R. Traylor. His mother married a Mr. Taylor. The second husband died some time ago, and her son was the head of the household.

In addition to the mother, Traylor is survived by a half sister, Mildred Taylor.

Rev. J. W. Sadler of the Baptist church will be in charge of the services this afternoon. Interment will be in Willow Dale cemetery.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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Community Raising Funds for Dossie Traylor's Bereaved Family, Aug. 10, 1926

Start Fund for Mother of Dead Boy

Frank Barnes, Eddie Chamblee and William Harris, young Goldsboro men, yesterday afternoon started a subscription fund for Mrs. Sudie Taylor of 212 East Pine street, mother of Dossie P. Traylor, who was killed in the automobile accident Sunday night. The young men reported that the citizens of Goldsboro were generous in their response and that a respectable sum as collected. Part of the money was expended in purchasing a funeral design for the dead boy.

The young men will continue their efforts today, and those who wish to donate but cannot see the collectors may telephone The News.

Editor's Note: Victim's last name is spelled Traylor and his mother's last name is spelled Taylor because after her husband died the widow married a man named Taylor. In other words, it looks like a mistake but it isn't.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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When Pinching Pennies Results in Death of Young Man, Aug. 10, 1926

The Blood of Dossie P. Traylor or A Prophecy Verified

This afternoon all that is mortal of Dossie P. Traylor will be lowered into a grave in Willow Dale cemetery. A weeping, broken-hearted mother, and a young sister will return to their little home on Pine street—hopeless and forlorn. Not only because a son and brother has gone prematurely to the grave, but because there is no one left in the house as bread winner.

But here is the point. If there had been a proper enforcement of the rules governing the speed of automobiles, young Traylor would be alive tonight, the little home on Pine street would not be listening to the knock of the poverty of coming years.

On whose hands does the blood of this young man fall?

In the inquest conducted over the body of Traylor three men testified tht they saw the Ford roadster and the Hudson car it was following driving on main streets of Goldsboro at a reckless rate of speed. H. J. Nealy, one of the men under arrest, admits that he was driving about 30 or 35 miles an hour.

Mind you that the death car was seen traveling recklessly across Center street and on John street a short time before the accident. But no officers stopped it. Here is the testimony.

Mark Lane said:

“About 10 minutes later I heard a noise like a car running at great speed: looked down Center street toward City Hall and saw two cars that looked like the two that had just passed me at the corner, going at great speed with the Hudson in the lead.

Walter Jones said:

Was standing at Fire Station No. 1. I saw a Hudson sedan and a Ford roadster coming down John street going south. Harold Grady was on the running board of the Ford and was cursing and telling the driver to catch the Hudson—he wanted to beat the driver of the Hudson. I think the two cars were running 35 or 40 miles per hour.

W.M. Gardner said:

I was sitting at corner of John and Ash streets about 10:15 last night. A Hudson car passed with a Ford roadster following, with Harold Grady on the running board of the Ford, and both going at 35 or 40 miles an hour.

After again asking the question on whose hands does Traylor’s blood fall, we quote an editorial in The News of June 12 concerning violation of speed laws in the city:

If the city of Goldsboro hasn’t some sort of speed limit, some sort of driving regulation, then it would be well to have such enacted at once, and then to have these enforced. Lfor just as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, there will be a continuance of accidents and perhaps fatalities if reckless and careless automobile drivers are allowed to continue to dash through and across the streets, as they are doing at the present time.

On June 13, The News had another editorial which gives the heart of the whole matter:

The safety of the city is being sacrificed to a false notion of economy. We are losing $10 to save $1. We are running the risk of stultifying our official consciences in a vain effort to convict a tax-paying public that we can run the government more cheaply that our predecessors. One thing we can congratulate ourselves about: We have been exceedingly lucky that gunmen and bandits have found easy picking elsewhere. Sometimes we may not have luck with us.

When will the city wake up to the need of more policemen?

Citizens of Goldsboro, we leave the case to you.

From the editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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Charlotte Police Refuse to Release Names of Prominent Citizens Arrested, Aug. 10, 1926

43 Arrests at Charlotte

Charlotte, Aug. 9—City and county police were active here yesterday, and 43 arrests were made during the day. A number of prominent citizens were included in those caught but their names were withheld at the police station.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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New Deputy Sheriff "Chink" Rhodes Captures Men Who Robbed Three Stores, Aug. 10, 1926

Confesses to 3 Burglaries. . . Deputy Rhodes and Officer Lancaster Clear Up Cases

Three out of the seven instances in which homes or firms were entered last week were solved with the confession Sunday morning of Alfred Harris, colored. Harris implicated Coleman Smith, colored, in his confession. Both Harris and Smith were bound over to Superior Court under charges of store breaking and larceny in city court yesterday morning.

Deputy Sheriff “Chink” Rhodes learned that Harris had changed a $10 bill at a store in Webbtown. Deputy Rhodes knew that Harris was not caster. He went to the Harris’ home early Sunday morning.

Upon questioning Harris, according to officers, confessed to entering the Smithfi Hardware Company on August 3, to entering Handley-Stallings on August 4, and to entering Farley’s Department Store on August 5.

Several flashlights, a quantity of cartridges and a 32 rifle were recovered by the officers and identified by the hardware people.

The question of who the negro was who entered the home of Mrs. H. H. Hobbs last Friday afternoon, of who entered the home of Griff Porter and stole some small change, a pistol and a dinner ring Saturday, and the question of who entered the Parrot and Creech Shoe Store remain unsolved. Officers are working on these cases.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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"Mint Says" Editorial Page Column, Goldsboro News, Aug. 10, 1926

Mint Says

I notice in the columns of our afternoon contemporary that Mr. “Chink” Rhodes was responsible for the capture of the two colored men who area accused of breaking into the Smith Hardware, Handley-Stallings and Farley stores.

I certainly congratulate the city manager and Chief Tew on the efficiency of this new member of the police force. I think they used rare good judgment when they selected him as an addition to the “regulars.”

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Dollars to doughnuts that there will be a season of rigid speed enforcement for exactly 11 ½ days.

Well that will be pretty good anyway. Its might hard, in hot weather, for fat men to stay in high gear over an extended period of time. After they have been going for about 10 days, everything works in a circle. Even law enforcement or non-enforcement.

I have never been able to understand why a man, when he gets incased in a certain kind of job, always gets fat. I am not talking about myself, understand. I was fat when I came here.

And besides, I am supposed to think.

But talking about speed, I have been told that a certain car, bearing four people, was seen last Sunday night, flying wildly about the city, just before it took to the highway leading toward Kinston, and ran amuck with a big ditch, and then there was a fatality. I wonder just what that human life was worth.

I feel sure, if it had been a member of my family, that I would consider it worth as much as the salary of about two of the men who are now employed on the Goldsboro police force; and I wouldn’t hesitate to include the heads of the departments either.

Editor’s Note: The phrase “dollars to doughnuts” was begun in the 1800s when doughnuts were cheap and a dollar was valuable. Betting “dollars to doughnuts” meant you were betting something valuable against something trivial. Thanks, Copilot.

From the editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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From Rev. Daniel's Sermon "The Cure of the Present Moral Laxity", Aug. 8, 1926

From Rev. Mr. Daniel’s sermon at St. Paul’s Methodist Church Sunday, which was entitled “The Cure of the present moral laxity.” And is based on scripture about the Prophet in the sixth chapter of Micah.

“The downfall of Rome was not due to a lack of bravery of the soldiers, of brilliancy of their scholars. The Grecians sank from their high place to one of the lowest in honesty and integrity. The Empires of Charlemagne and Louis XIV and VI fell in almost one generation from the highest position to the lowest generation. We need not think that our nation is safe from moral deficiency. Today its moral condition is the worst ever known in history. God has sone us that it is not his fault. Plenty of folks like to put the fault on the coming of the automobile or something else. But deeper than this lies the trouble. One big thing is our people are not living up to the knowledge they have. Everything must have a great foundation. . . morality not wealth, but upon honesty. La man isn’t fit to govern or rule if he isn’t honest.

Statistics from the school census show a decrease in honesty. In the city of Chicago 64 per cent of the school children are dishonest by their own acknowledgment. If you would build a good citizen, first have him honest; if a great preacher, president, home-maker, have him honest. “I’d rather be right than President,” said one of the greatest men who ever filled that chair.

Another great cause of these conditions is the entry of women into public offices. Now I know that some of you ladies will be angry with me, but let me tell you, women, men have brought shame upon us, and you will not be helped by trying to do the things that men do.

Every success in life must be obsessed by a great passion, a great love for another, which throws aside every fiber of selfishness, or a great sorrow. Sorrow is so close akin to love that there can be no sorrow unless there is love.

Then the prophet brings before you the arrogant rules. Watch him as he grinds his subjects; does anybody admire him? But look at the merciful man with pitying eye and brave heart, who would give up his life if necessary, to lift up broken humanity, and heal wounded hearts. Do all you can, not to lift up self, and smile in your own comfort but weep with those who weep, and rejoice with that do rejoice, and forgive—forgive!

God has never like arrogance. No nation has ever gotten by with it, and we needn’t think that we are going to get by with it. Humanity has ever been the test. “O God, what am I? Just a little speck upon the sands of time.”

So the care for moral laxity is use the knowledge God has given you, be honest, be merciful, be humble, and walk in the admonition and fear of the Lord.

From the editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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A.W. Gurley Official Delegate to N.C. Firemen's Association Aug. 15, 1926

Named Gurley as Delegate. . . Will Represent Local Firemen at Annual State Convention

A.W. Gurley has been name as official delegate to represent the Goldsboro fire department in the annual meeting of the North Carolina Firemen’s Association at Morehead City beginning Aug. 15.

An alternate will be named for the local company, and Fire Chief Leslie Yelverton will probably attend some of the business sessions of the Association.

Fully 2,000 firemen are expected, since the state law require that every fire company in the state must be represented.

The address of welcome will be delivered by Mayor Luther Hamilton of Morehead City, and there will be an address by Charles S. Wallace, also of Morehead City, former member of the legislature. An interesting program of instruction and entertainment has been prepared. Stacey W. Wade, state commissioner of insurance, will be one of the speakers.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 1926

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Raymond Glenn Makes Bond After Shooting John Nance, Aug. 10, 1926

Glenn Makes Bond

Raymond Glenn, who has been at the county jail since last Friday awaiting the outcome of the condition of John Nance, whom he shot on the Main street last Friday morning about 8:30, gave bond last Wednesday and left immediately for his former home in Hendersonville.

Upon recommendation of Solicitor Grover C. Davis the bond was named a at $3,000, which was made at local citizens.

Reports from the Bryson City Hospital are to the effect that Mr. Nance is improving from the wounds he received in the lung.

From the front page of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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Drs. Candler, Tidmarsh Building Modern 60-Bed Hospital in Sylva, Aug. 10, 1926

Sylva to Have Modern Hospital

The announcement was made last week by Dr. C. Z. Candler of this place and Dr. Tidmarsh of Bryson City were going to erect a hospital in the near future, on Courtland Heights.

Dr. Candler says that the building will be of brick and of fireproof construction. It is said that there will be about 30 rooms, and that the building will be modern in every respect.

Work will be started within a short time and rushed to completion, it is said.

The site selected is an ideal location for such an institution, as it is on Courtland Heights overlooking the town, and is within each reach, and yet it is far enough from the business section of the town so as to not be bothered with the noise of heavy traffic.

The building will be built in such a way that as the demand arises it may be added to without heavy expense of remodeling the main building. It is also said that these gentlemen will erect nurses’ cottages and a first class laundry.

From the front page of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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Hute Snyder Sells Addie Store, Aug. 10, 1926

Sells Store at Addie

Mr. Hute Snyder of Addie has sold his stock of general merchandise to Mr. George Snyder at Beta, and Mr. Snyder has moved the stock to his Beta Store.

Mr. Snyder has been in business at Addie for the past 18 or 20 years and has made a great success in the goods business.

From the front page of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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State Department Worker to Test All Cattle in County for TB, Aug. 10, 1926

Cattle of the County Are Being Tested

Mr. I. R. Cooper of the State Department of Agriculture has arrived and started the work of giving the cattle of this county the tubercular test as fast as the work can be done. Every cow, calf, heifer, steer and bull will be tested and every one found to be affected will be killed, and the owner will be paid for it by the federal government.

It is believed by many that this is one of the foremost steps in the dairying business yet taken.

The County Commissioners passed an order some time ago that this work be done as soon as the State could get a man to do the job. It is estimated that it will take about 12 months to complete the job.

From the front page of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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George Snyder Building Concrete Block Store, Aug. 10, 1926

Erecting New Store Building

Mr. Geo. Snyder of Beta is building a concrete block store building which he will move his stock of goods to as soon as it is completed.

Mr. Snyder will also operate a filling station in connection with his store, and a little later he says that he expects to build a repair shop and wash pits next to his store.

Editor's Note: According to A.I., wash pits allowed a gas station to wash away the mud from underneath the car.

From page 3 of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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Beta Young Folks Enjoy Camping Party, Aug. 10, 1926

Camping Party

On last Saturday afternoon several young people of Beta enjoyed a camping party to Black Rock Creek Camp. The party was composed of Misses Leona Mills, Mayme Monteith, Bessie and Mayme Hoxiett; Messrs. Bill Taylor, Hobston Monteith and Julius Mills.

From page 3 of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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Personal and Otherwise Briefs from Sylva, N.C., Aug. 10, 1926

Personal and Otherwise

Mr. Frank Welch of Waynesville was a business visitor here Wednesday.

Messrs. W.L. Gidney and Weldon Gidney of Asheville were visitors here Tuesday.

Mrs. J. R. Cochran has returned from a visit to Norton.

Mr. and Mrs. A. U. McClure of Canton spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. H. E. Monteith.

Mr. B. C. Grindstaff of Asheville was a business visitor Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Keener motored to Asheville Sunday to meet Mrs. J. B. Keener and small son, Billy, of Winston-Salem, who will visit them for several weeks at their home on Main Street.

Mr. and Mrs. John Teague of Asheville have been visiting Miss Ruth Allison at her home in Webster.

Miss Lucile Cook, who has been visiting Mrs. W. A. McNeill for a fortnight, was joined by her father and mother for the week-end. They returned to their home in Lexington, Ky., Sunday.

Mrs. H. O. Converse of Chattanooga and Mrs. T. E. Kaveney and small son of New York City are now guests of Mr. and Mrs. McNeill.

Mrs. Lallie Carter of Americus, Ga., will arrive the first of the week and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McNeill.

J. H. Wilson, C. C. Buchanan, J. F. Freeze and D. G. Bryson were business visitors in Asheville Tuesday.

Miss Sara Lissister, who has been visiting Miss Dorothy Moore, has returned to her home in Leesburg, Fla.

Rev. G. N. Cowan of Apex is the guest of his brother, Mr. M. D. Cowan and Mrs. Cowan at their home on Jackson Street.

Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Latta and family of Hillsboro were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cowan on last Monday.

Miss Katherine Cooke of Elizabeth City arrived Thursday and will be the guest of Miss Mary Allison.

Mr. and Mrs. Hal McKee of Charlotte are visiting at the home of Mr. McKee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McKee. Mrs. McKee has been a guest at High Hampson for several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wison and son, Dick Wilson, motored to Blairsville, Ga., Sunday to meet Mrs. W. O. Buchanan and Miss Bess Curtis, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thad Fullbright at Winder, Fla.

Mrs. E. E. Bain and Miss Lucy Wells of Asheville are week end visitors of Mrs. Frank Weller at her home in Chimney Rock.

Miss Maude Leatherwood of Dillsboro spent a few days in Asheville the first of the week with friends.

Mr. Earl Ezell of Whittier was in the city Thursday.

Mr. John Flintem of Charleston is visiting friends and relatives in Cullowhee and Sylva.

The Woman’s Missionary Society of the M. E. Church will meet with Mrs. M. Buchanan Sr. this afternoon at 3:30.

Mrs. I. H. Powell left Thursday for Chicago where she will visit her brother and other relatives.

Mrs. Sara Sue Sherrill left for Atlanta Saturday where she will take a course in milliner with J. Regenstein Co.

Mr. Dan Smith of Orlando, Fla., is spending some time here with friends.

Mr. A. F. Clouse and Mr. tom Gribble, while looking over a boundary, came upon two large copperhead snakes. Mr. Gribble killed both snakes at one lick.

Miss Frances Coward spent a few days in Asheville the first of the week.

Mr. Sands, who is connected with Florida Citrus Growers Association of Florence Villa, Fla., is stopping at Jackson Hotel for a few days.

Mrs. A. W. Oaks of Florence Villa, Fla., and Mrs. C. H. Henson of Winter Haven, who are visiting here, motored to Asheville for a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson’s sister, Mrs. Sam Allison, has returned to their home in Eagle Lake, Fla.

Friends of Mrs. D. E. Murray will be glad to know that she is progressing very nicely from an operation which she underwent at the Mission Hospital.

Carla R. Sulsinger of Ft. Eustis, Va., stopped at the New Jackson Hotel the first of the week. Mr. Sulsinger writes short stories for motion pictures, having written “The Life” an “Other Women.”

Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fisher of Linden, Va., a son, Richard Marshall.

Mrs. O. S. Dillard and children of Marshall are visiting friends here.

Mr. Grim Grindstaff of Asheville spent a few days here.

T. B. Cowan, A. S. Moss and J. J. Wild were in town one day last week from Webster.

From page 5 of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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George Bryson Died at Work Cutting Down a Tree, July 20, 1926

The Death of Geo. Bryson

George Bryson, son of T. C. and L. P. Bryson, was falling timber on the C. W. Denning and Co.’s works on the 20th day of July, 1926, and as a tree fell it threw a limb back, which struck George on the head, knocked him down and buried his head in the ground. He was picked up and carried to Sylva as soon as possible but he died about the time that he reached the doctor’s office. He was a member of the Ocre Hill Baptist Church. George was not a perfect boy, but he was a Christian. But he, like all of us, made his mistakes, there being so much wickedness in the world and many wicked associates to influence young men that they can’t hardly live a devoted Christian life. He was loved by all who knew him, as he was a friendly, pleasant and sweet spirited boy, and we believe that when he departed this life that he met the loved ones that are in heaven. Mr. Bryson was laid down to rest in the Crawford cemetery to await his call in the morning of the resurrection.

--Rev. J. T. Carson

From page 6 of the Ruralite, Sylva, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1926

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Two Killed When Roadster Crashed into Car Parked By Side of Road, Aug. 9, 1926

Two Young Men Killed in Auto Accident Today

High Point, Aug. 9 (AP)—Two young men were killed and two others seriously injured this morning shortly after 12 o’clock on the highway leading from Asheboro to Franklinville, when the roadster in which they were riding crashed into an automobile parked by the side of the road, according to information received her this morning.

The dead are Joseph York, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Maness, both of Ramseur. The injured are Guy York, 19, and Everett Manness, brothers of the dead boys.

The two boys died at an Asheboro hospital early this morning where they were taken immediately after the accident by a party in a passing automobile.

Editor’s Note: The dead are—and then it only names one person.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, August 9, 1926

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B. L. Jay, Real Estate Man, Dies in Car Accident, Aug. 9, 1926

Real Estate Man Killed by Auto. . . B.L. Jay, Formerly with Thomas L. Dixon’s Wildacres Development Co., Head of Shelby Office

B.L. Jay, prominent real estate man and well known in Shelby, met sudden death Wednesday afternoon in an automobile accident that occurred while he was traveling rom Augusta to Monticello, Ga. Mr. Jay was on his way to see his wife when the accident occurred, details of which have not as yet been received in Shelby.

Mr. Jay was for some time local sales agent for Wildacres Developments, belonging to Thomas Dixon, and in this capacity was a familiar figure to Shelby people. He had previously been connected with the Laurel Park Estates as manager of the Asheville office, and at the time of his death was with Thomas E. Thrower Inc., selling Folly Beach, at Charleston.

Mr. Jay was a member of a prominent New York family, being a nephew of Ambassador Jay, who represented the United States at the British court during the Cleveland administration. He had been a resident of the western North Carolina district for some time before his death. He married a southern girl, Miss Bessie Pope, of a prominent Georgia family, living in Monticello. They had no children.

The funeral took place at Monticello Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Opening Dates for Schools Will Range from Aug. 10 to Late October, Aug. 9, 1926

Schools Are Beginning to Open. . . 30 School Trucks. . . 13,660 Pupils in County Last Year. . . Dr. Highsmith Proposes Shake-Up in Courses of Study

School terms for 1926-27 will begin opening over the county Tuesday when the courses offered at Piedmont, Fallston, Lattimore and Mooresboro schools will get under way. Others will have their openings at later days, Waco the 16th of this month, Grover the 23rd, and others up until the latter part of October. While the exact date for the beginning of the Shelby City Schools has not as yet been decided, it will be some time about the middle of September.

The county schools, under the policy inaugurated during the past two or three years, will be more closely bound together than before by the consolidation of six schools at Belwood, to go into effect this term, and the combining of the Roberts and Elizabeth schools recently decided upon. Thirty trucks will take care of the pupils living at a distance from the schools which they attend.

The total enrollment this year is expected to exceed that of last year, which figured for the county exclusive of Shelby and Kings Mountain, 7,219 whites and 2,752 colored. This number is increased by the enrollment of 2,070 white and 425 colored pupils in Shelby and 971 whites with 230 colored at Kings Mountain. School facilities in the section have been increased to take care of the expected growing in enrollment. . . . .

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Bate Philbeck, 63, To Be Buried Aug. 10, 1926

Bate Philbeck Paralysis Victim. . . Substantial Farmer and Well Known Teacher Died This Morning. . . Funeral Tuesday

Mr. J. Bate Philbeck, prominent citizen of the county, died Monday morning about 12:25 at his home about four miles west of Shelby, as a result of a stroke of paralysis in his left side, which came on him suddenly Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. Philbeck’s health had been gradually failing for about two years, but his death came as a surprise to his family and host of friends. He never regained consciousness from the time of his affliction to the death hour.

Mr. Philbeck has 63 years old at the time of his death, having been born in the midst of the Civil War in the year 1863. He married Miss Susan Doggett and is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Bynum E. Weathers, Joe and Chrles Philbeck, aged 13 and 10 years respectively. He leaves a valuable 200-acre farm surrounding his home, as well as other property over the county, being a very progressive farmer and substantial citizens.

Mr. Philbeck was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the oldest and best fraternities. Although his course was one of the hardest in the curriculum, he was an honor student, and upon his graduation around 1885 he took a position as teacher in a Texas school. Later he returned to North Carolina, where he taught many years in Gibsonville, Earl, Fallston, and in other schools over the state and county. Members of the school board during his career as instructor rated him as one of the best teachers in the county. His last position was at Earl a few years ago, immediately following Prof. Lawton Blanton, and afterwards he retired to pursue farming.

Mr. Philbeck’s family, both on his own and his wife’s side, is related to the most prominent in the county, and he leaves a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. A brother, Irvin Philbeck, died early in the spring.

Funeral services will take place Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at Beaver Dam Church. Rev. D. G. Washburn, assisted by Rev. Zeno Wall, will officiate.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Mrs. Ed L. Kerr Dies in Plainview, Tex., Aug. 9, 1926

Mrs. Ed L. Kerr Dies in Plainview, Tex.

Mr. Henry Kerr and Miss Lill Kerr of Shelby have received information that their brother’s wife, Mrs. Ed L. Kerr died recently in Plainview, Texas. Husband of the deceased has quit ea few relatives and friends back in North Carolina who sympathize with him in his bereavement. Mr. Ed Kerr left his state in 1886 and has been a contractor in Texas. He was in North Carolina on a visit in 1910, the third trip he had made back home since he went West. Mrs. Kerr is survived by her husband and six or seven children.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Albert Vance Weaver Brought Home for Burial, Aug. 9, 1926

Cleveland Boy Dies of Accident. . . Vance Weaver, Formely of Lawndale, Killed by Street Car in Indiana. . . Funeral Today

Albert Vance Weaver, former Cleveland County boy, was killed by a street car in Evansville, Ind., one day last week. Young Weaver, according to the meager reports reaching Shelby, was driving a truck in the Indiana city, where he had been located for about a year, when he was struck by the street car. It was not known whether or not death was instantaneous.

Mr. Weaver was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Weaver, both deceased but formerly of the Lawndale section, and is prominently connected over the county. He is survived by one brother, Paul, and two sisters, Pearl and Mattie, all of whom are married. He also has an uncle living in Shelby, Mr. F.B. Weaver who is connected with the Shelby Corn Mill. The victim of the accident, boy of about 25 years, was himself unmarried, and had spent some time in the Navy, before going to Indiana.

His body will arrive in Shelby about 8 o’clock this afternoon, and interment will take place some time Tuesday at New Bethel Church.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Dr. Richard H. Lewis Has Died in Raleigh, Aug. 9, 1926

Dr. Richard Lewis Dead in Raleigh

Raleigh, Aug. 7—Dr. Richard Henry Lewis, for many years secretary of the State Board of Health, and for the past several years a member of the Board of Health, died here at the age of 75. He had been ill over an extended period of time.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, August 9, 1926

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Duckery Bound Over on Assault on Archie McEachern, Aug. 9, 1926

Son Duckery Is Bound Over on Assault Charge. . . Knocked Neal Archie McEachern in Head with Brick, Rendering Him Unconscious for 15 Days—Other Cases Before Recorder

Son Duckery, colored, was bound over to Superior Court under a $500 bond this morning after probable cause had been found against him by Recorder P.S. Kornegay on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicing serious injury upon Neal Archie McEachern, colored, on July 15.

According to evidence brought out at the hearing, McEachern was sitting on the street playing a new saxophone and did not know Duckery was anywhere about when Duckery hit him in the head first with his fist and then with a brick. McEachern was knocked unconscious without knowing who hit him, it was alleged. He was carried to the Thompson Memorial Hospital, where he remained unconscious for 21 days, suffering with a cracked skull.

The defense tried to bring out that McEachern had been intimate with Duckery’s wife, but this was denied by the State.

Other Cases

--William Carlyle and Harry Melvin were each taxed with the costs on a charge of speeding.

--Walter Lewis, colored, convicted of stealing a 10-cent cake, was required to pay for the cake and was taxed with the costs in the case, $10.70.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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Sheriff and Prohibition Agent Settle Disagreement with Guns, Aug. 8, 1926

Sheriff and Prohibition Agent Are Killed in Duel

Clintwood, Va., Aug. 8 (AP)—A sheriff and a State prohibition agent were dead today, having settled with guns a grudge which had its origin five years ago in a disagreement over a land deal. The dual was staged last night on the steps of the Dickenson County courthouse.

C. Pridemore Fleming, Dickenson County sheriff, died soon after the battle with a bullet in the region of the heart. The dry agent, James S. Mullins, succumbed today from the effects of three bullet wounds.

A group of villagers, gathered on the courthouse for the customary evening talk, were ordered away by the sheriff. All but Mullins obeyed, and the sheriff was said by witnesses to have opened fire on the State officer. Mullins, a one-armed man, retreated up the steps, he sought protection behind a stone column, but in the exchange of shots with Fleming, he was struck in the stomach, arm and face.

After the cessation of the shooting, witnesses said, Fleming turned and walked away. At this juncture Mullins was reported to have fired the shot which killed Fleming, who fell unconscious and died 30 minutes later in a hospital.

The controversy between the men was said to have been re-kindled lately when they had some words over the recent Virginia primary.

Fleming was 50 and well-known throughout Southwest Virginia. He was serving his second year as sheriff and in addition conducted the Fleming Hotel. He leaves a widow and three children.

Mullins was 45 and had been connected with the State prohibition forces for five years. His widow and eight children survive.

From page 2 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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W.C. Bracey, Will Hunt Held for Transporting Liquor and Assault, Aug. 9, 1926

Rowland Men Arrested for Transporting and Assault. . . W.C. Bracey and Will Hunt Placed Under Bonds for Alleged Assault and Throwing Columbus Officer from Car

W. C. Bracey, said to be a brick manufacturer, of Rowland, and Will Hunt, Indian, wee held under $1,000 bail Wednesday following a preliminary hearing before Justice Spivey at Freeman. They were arrested and charged with transporting liquor and assault with a deadly weapon on the person of Deputy Sheriff L. N. Hankinson, states a Bolton dispatch to the Raleigh News and Observer.

The men were arrested at Rowland and returned to Bolton for a hearing, but at their request trial was transferred to another justice court at Freeman.

The Hudson automobile which they were driving at the time of their first arrest was seized and later released under bond.

Deputy Hankinson charged that he arrested the two men on the highway near Lake Waccamaw Sunday afternoon, and leaving his motorcycle parked, started toward BBolton with his prisoners, Bracey being seated beside the driver and Hunt in the rear seat, the officer using the captured machine.

Near Lake Waccamaw, he alleged, Hunt suddenly seized him about the neck from behind, while Bracey stuck a pistol into his ribs.

The officer contends that they threw him from the moving machine and escaped.

Hankinson was painfully though not seriously bruised by landing on the pavement.

From page 2 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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Ladies Call Police on Young Men Preparing for Ball, Aug. 9, 1926

Young Men, Preparing for Ball, Frighten Ladies

Town officers were called out Thursday night on account of a disturbance alleged to have been made by several young men preparing to attend a masquerade ball at Lake Waccamaw. It was reported that the men were using loud language, some of which was interspersed with profanity, and that a pistol was fired by one of them.

Going to the scene, the officers found a pistol in a Chrysler automobile, and, leaving one of the men with the car, they went behind the house—a so-called potato house in the yard of Governor A. W. McLean. When the officers left the car, a man dashed off down the street at a rapid rate in the car.

Ladies living in the neighborhood were frighted by the disturbance made by the young men, but none of them agreed to appear in court as witnesses against the men, and so no case was made out against them.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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1 Polio, 5 Typhoid, 3 Measles Cases Reported Last Week, Aug. 9, 1926

Cases Reported by Dr. Hardin

Dr. E.R. Hardin reports the following cases of last week to the Robesonian:

--1 case of infantile paralysis at Maxton, R. 1, at the home of William Roberson, colored;

--5 cases of typhoid fever.

--3 cases of measles.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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Lumberton and Fairmont Tobacco Markets Open Aug. 10, 1926

Ready for Opening of Tobacco Market

Everything here and at Fairmont is all set for the opening of the tobacco markets at the two places tomorrow morning, the day for the opening of all markets in the South Carolina belt.

A lighter sale is expected on the Lumberton market than that predicted by tobacco men the middle of last week. Tobacco in the fields ripened so fast the past few days until farmers were kept busy gathering it and had little time to prepare any of the weed for market. Local warehousemen now expect from 150,000 to 200,000 pounds on the opening day.

Sales on the Lumberton market begin in the morning at 9:30.

Editor’s Note: If you hear of a relative who grew weed in the 1920s, that meant he grew tobacco, not marijuana.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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Local News Briefs in the Robesonian, Aug. 9, 1926

Items of Local News

--The condition of Mrs. Amantia Pittman, who has been sick for several days, is improved today.

--Alfred P. Page of Lumberton was among the notaries public commissioned by Governor McLean last week.

--Marshall French submitted Friday to a charge of speeding and was taxed with the costs, $10.70.

--The Woo Club will meet with Mrs. Dickson McLean Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock.

--Sign over door of a garage at Lake View, S.C.: “If Rockefeller and Henry Ford cant, How in the H--- can you expect it of me? Please don’t embarrass me by asking for credit. Strictly cash.”

--The Bright Jewels of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church, under the leadership of Miss Lula Norment, held a Bible study each afternoon last week. On Friday, the members were given a delightful lawn party.

--Mr. Everett Davis of Route 2 brought to The Robesonian office this morning twin apples grown on his farm out there. The apples were grown together and almost resembled one apple. Mr. Davis also brought an open boll of cotton plucked from a 26-acre field.

--Miss Bertha Barker recently underwent a serious operation at the Baker Sanatorium and is convalescing at the home of her father, Mr. W. P. Barker, North Elm. Mrs. S. E. Valentine of Rocky Mount, Another daughter of Mr. Barker, was a recent visitor in his home.

--Work is now in progress on putting in two 30-foot spans in the fill between the river, west of town. They are replacing a sunken part of the fill built there three years ago. Traffic over route 20 is being detoured by the Freeman Novelty Works during the course of the construction.

--Mrs. T.L. Johnson returned last week from Hickory, where she visited relatives, Asheville and other places in the western part of the State. She visited Mars Hill, where her son, Master Thomas, is attending summer school. Senator and Mrs. Johnson probably will go to the western part of the State the latter part of this week.

--Considerable improvement in the looks of the S. A. L. passenger station and freight depot has been made by the addition of coats of paint both to the inside and outside of the buildings. It is expected that a row of posts, replacing one that has been torn down, will be erected soon from the passenger station to the flower garden below the station.

--In addition to installing new fronts in his five stores, mention of which was made in The Robesonian some time ago, Mr. L. H. Caldwell is putting in new floors in all the departments and is painting the building inside and out, greatly improving its appearance. New fixtures for a millinery and ready-to-wear department are being installed upstairs in the dry goods department.

--Mr. O.C. Duncan, local manager of the Efird Department store, left Saturday for a week’s trip to New York City, the trip being one Mr. Duncan won when the Lumberton store exceeded the sales of the Albemarle store during the Efird chain sale in June. As stated in the Robesonian some time ago, Mr. Duncan also won cash prizes amounting to $100 for his sales record during the month.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926

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Mrs. W. F. Cannon, 1864-1941, Buried by Husband's Side in Concord, April 17

Cannon Rites Held at Poplar Tent in Concord

Concord, April 11—From Popular Tent Presbyterian Church, which she served for many years as communicant, Sunday School teacher, and auxiliary leader, funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock for Mrs. W. F. Cannon, who died suddenly Wednesday night while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Halbert Webb at Kings Mountain.

Rev. M. R. Gibson, former pastor at Poplar Tent, conducted the last rites, assisted by Rev. P. D. Patrick of Kings Mountain, and Rev. W. P. Roberson of Concord. Burial followed in the family plot of the church cemetery.

Active pallbearers were C. R. Andrews, E. L. Morrison Jr., W. F. Morrison Jr., J. W. Morris and James B. Cannon.

The honorary escort was composed of elders and deacons of Poplar Tent Church.

Flowers were cared for by members of the Mattie Cannon Circle, which was named for Mrs. Cannon, and other friends of the family.

Mrs. Cannon, who was born January 10, 1864, was a daughter of John Harrison and Isabella Morrison, and a descendant of the pioneers, John and James Morrison. She was educated at local schools and at Salem Academy and was a life-long member of Poplar Tent Church, serving as a Sunday School teacher and president of the Woman’s Auxiliary.

She was married to William Franklin Cannon December 25,1881, and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1931. Since Mr. Cannon’s death she has made her home with her children.

Surviving are six children, Mrs. George B. Means, Jay L. Cannon and Epsey M. Cannon of Concord, Mrs. Halbert Webb of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Maurice Wilson of Bartow, Fla., and John Cannon of Easley, S.C., and three brothers, W. F. Morrison, J. P. Morrison and E. L. Morrison.

From the front page of the Kings Mountain Herald, Thursday, April 17, 1941

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Jury Still Deliberating Murder Case Against A.B. Medlin, Aug. 7, 1926

Jury in Medlin Case Locked Up for the Night

Monroe, Aug. 6—The jury considering the case of A. B. Medlin, deputy sheriff of Cabarrus Conty, who is charged with the murder of Mark Simpson last March on Medlin’s farm, in the upper edge of the county, was ordered locked up for the night at 11 o’clock upon their report to the court that they had been unable to reach a verdict. The case was given to the jury at 10 o’clock in the morning.

Medlin has contended that he shot Simpson in self-defense. The prosecution has attempted to show that Medlin was of an excitable disposition and that he had been in previous difficulties. Medlin was placed on the stand in his own defense and related a straight-forward story.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1926

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Mrs. Teeter Dies When Train Hits Car, Aug. 7, 1926

One Woman Killed and Four Others Seriously Hurt. . . Mrs. H. G. Teeter of Morganton Killed Almost Instantly—Her Daughter Was Driving Car. . . Auto Was Hit by Southern Train. . . Accident Occurred Near Statesville—The Car Stopped on the Track—Injured Taken to Salisbury

Statesville, Aug. 7 (AP)--One woman was killed almost instantly and four other women occupants of an automobile where seriously injured near her today when struck by westbound Southern Railway freight train.

Mrs. H. G. Teeter of Morganton was fatally injured. Her daughter, Miss Pearl Teeter, who was driving the car, Miss Dorothy Hinnant and Miss Louise Bannang, both of Raleigh, and Miss Mary Neal Ward of Gibsonville, were the injured.

The accident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. two miles west of here. The automobile in which the women were riding stopped on the crossing tracks and the engineer seemed unable to stop.

The party was en route to Salisbury.

The hurt are in a local hospital, but the extent of their injuries has not been learned.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1926

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Rev. Richardson Dies When Struck By Truck Following Revival, Aug. 7, 1926

Rev. N. R. Richardson Is Killed by Truck . . . Had Just Left Church at Piney Wood Where He Had Been Helping Conduct Revival

Rev. N. R. Richardson of Mt. Pleasant, retired minister of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference and one of the best known men in the conference, was killed Friday afternoon when struck by a truck driven by a negro. The accident occurred near the Piney Wood Church in eastern Rowan County.

Mr. Richardson had been assisting Rev. F. J. Stowe in a series of meetings at his church this week, and Friday afternoon, after preaching, he was going home with one of the members. A lady driving the car stopped for some reason just after leaving the church and Mr. Richardson got out of the car to look about, as was his custom. It is said he saw a truck approaching and started across the road to get out of its path, then apparently changed his mind he retraced his steps in time to be struck by the truck, which was driven by a negro.

An ambulance was summoned from Salisbury but Mr. Richardson died on the way to a hospital in that city. He had suffered a cut in one limb but was apparently fatally injured internally. It is understood no blame attached to the driver of the truck.

The body was taken to Mt. Pleasant this morning and the funeral will be conducted from the Methodist Church at that place Sunday afternoon, the interment taking place at Albemarle.

Surviving are the widow and four children, the children being Miss Merrie, a teacher in the Salisbury schools; Prof. F. R., superintendent of the Spencer schools; Mrs. H. B. Stack of Spartanburg, and R. McTyiir(?) Richardson of Rocky Mount.

Mr. Richardson was 7i2 years old and was a superannuated minister of the Western North Carolina Conference. He had been a minister for 35 years, serving a number of charges in the state.

Before entering the ministry, he was a lawyer and had practiced at Raleigh. His last regular pastorate was First Street Church of Albemarle. Since retiring he has lived at Mt. Pleasant, where he owned a home.

News of Mr. Richardson’s death reached Concord about 7 o’clock Friday night in a message sent to relatives. The news spread quickly and came as a shock to the many friends here of the deceased.

Mr. Richardson preached in Central Methodist Church here two weeks ago in the absence of the pastor, Rev. R. M. Courtney. He had been heard here on numerous occasions and always with interest and benefit.

From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1926

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Farmer Loses Leg While Mowing Crop with Team of Horses, Aug. 7, 1926

W. F. Cannon Hurt in Accident

W. F. Cannon, prominent farmer of N. 2 township, was painfully injured Thursday while operating a mower on his farm. He suffered one ugly wound on his leg and minor bruises.

Mr. Cannon stepped from the mower to fix a line on his team. Just as he reached the horses, they started to walk off, throwing him in the path of the machine. It is believed his leg was cut off by part of the machinery.

While the injuries have proved very painful, it is believed Mr. Cannon is not seriously hurt.

From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1926

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Carpenters Want a Workers Compensation Law for State, Aug. 7, 1926

Carpenters Want a Compensation Law. . . To Make Determined Fight Before the Next Session of the Legislature

Salisbury, August 7 (AP)—The North Carolina State Council of Carpenters, in convention here at the morning session today, decided to make a determined fight at the next session of the State Legislature to have a workman’s compensation law passed, and to this end put through a strong resolution in which the State Federation of Labor is asked to have a special legislative representative on the ground continuously during the session of the General Assembly, and also call on all organized workers to aid in the efforts to secure the relief demanded. Conditions cover the state as they apply to the building trades, and wood working establishments, were discussed in a general way. There is to be an open meeting tonight at which time J. L. Bradford of Nashville, Tenn., international representative, will make an address.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1926

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