Gastonia, June 23 (AP)—Jerking loose from its mother’s hand on the square here this morning, Freida Butler, year-old daughter of Mrs. Amy Butler, Cramerton widow, was struck and instantly killed by a car driven by Mrs. Clyde McLean, prominent young Gastonia matron. Eye witnesses stated the latter was driving at a low rate of speed.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, June 23, 1926
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Salisbury, June 22—Roy Morgan, 14-year-old son of S.A. Morgan of Gold Hill, Route 3, ran away from home Saturday afternoon, his father claims, and took a one-ton Ford truck with him at the time of his departure.
The youth had been wanting to go to Alabama for some time to visit his uncle, his father says, and he things that the lad has gone there. Effort to locate some trace of him failed, officers in nearby cities reporting that they had seen nothing of the lad or the truck.
At the time he left, the lad was wearing a brown coat, gray cap and had only a small amount of money, his father says. The boy is described as being of about 140 pounds in weight, five feet, seven inches tall, and has blue eyes. The truck is described as one with a steel cab, wood platform on rear with no standards. State license 3323 and motor number 9,277,636. The father is anxious to locate the lad and will appreciate any information concerning him.
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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Youngsters must not go about shooting air rifles or 22-rifles on the streets of Concord.
Chief Talbirt warns parents to see that their children do not violate the law against such practice, adding that within the past week several complaints have been made to him in regard to the matter.
“It is a dangerous practice,” Chief Talbirt stated, “and one that must be stopped. Officers have been told to keep an eye open for boys who violate this law.”
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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The so-called “breakdown of marriage,” as typified by the increasing number of divorces and the less rigid acceptance of the “bond” of matrimony as a permanent tie, is not a social revolution but a social evolution, in the opinion of H.G. Wells, famous English student and writer.
In a discussion of changing relationships, Wells presents, in the July issue of Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan magazine some views on the future status of marriage that are likely to startle or even alarm all who believe our racial supremacy depends on a return to the orthodox recognition of marriage as holy and indissoluble bond.
“The marriage of today,” says Wells, “is not the marriage of yesterday and still less is it likely to be the marriage of tomorrow.
“The force of reason is in alliance with he forces of social convenience in narrowing down marriage to a child-protecting bond. Until that is done, it is clear that the state will be depriving adults, needlessly, of their legitimate social freedom.”
Wells argues that public concern in the relationships of men and women only begins when a child is begotten. Then, he says, public responsibilities are incurred, obligations must be acknowledged and home live and upbringing insured for the new citizen.
That the present legal marriage is much more than a bond for the upbringing of a family is due largely, he states, to the old need for a rule of inheritance, approved and sustained by “the impudent intolerance of our intellectually discredited religious obligations.” A new order, in which the illegitimate will be equalized with the legitimate, and the proprietorship of husband and wife attenuated to the privileges of lover and mistress, will result in the marriage of the future signifying little more than habitual association, he predicts.
Back of this change Wells sees the influence of wider education, which has brought a new measure of intellectual and economic freedom. With this has come a loss of the sense of sin in human relationships. The result has been a greater variation of associations, meeting the changes in temperament and taste as men and women pass through diverse phases of development. And this, Wells holds, marks a stage of evolution for this race more significant than any mere “breakdown of marriage.” “In the ampler, easier, less ceremonious social life of tomorrow,’ he writes, “consorts will not always be upon a convention of equality. As we take off the stays, blinkers, hoods and masks we have put the imaginations of human beings we may realize that we have, through marriage, been trying to adapt an immensely various collection of types to one standard bilateral arrangement.”
From page 6 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, June 22, 1926
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Salisbury, June 22—Claude Coley, youthful aviator who died today at Norfolk from injuries received yesterday when his airplane crashed while he was carrying a passenger from Norfolk to Elizabeth City, was a former Salisbury boy and his body will be brought here tomorrow. The body will be taken to an aunt’s, Mrs. Paul Bost, at Rockwell, and the funeral will be conducted from organ church Wednesday afternoon.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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Hickory, June 23—Edmund Grier, aged 15, was drowned this afternoon at Lake Broyhill, south of Lenoir, while playing in the water with four other youths of about the same age. None of the boys could swim and when young Greer ventured into deep water he was unable to save himself. In an effort to rescue his comrade, Hayden Land almost lost his life.
Aid was summoned by the boys but it was a half hour or more before the body was recovered by Frederick Sula, who dived into the lake and brought it to shore.
State Forester Sebron, who has a wide reputation as life saver, and two doctors of Lenoir worked for other two hours in an effort to resuscitate the lifeless body.
Greer was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Geer of east Lenoir.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, aged 32, died last night at 10:15 at her home in No. 11 township. She had been ill with a kidney malady for several months.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home with interment in Union cemetery. Mrs. Howell was born in Cabarrus County, the daughter of George and Catherine Green Plummer. She was the wife of E.T. Howell.
Surviving are her husband and three step-children.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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