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THE COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation VOLUME U PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN - NUMBER » She HUSBAND WAS BORN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY Tragedy Enacted on Lonely Art conn Homestead 23 Miles From Other Habitation. Unable to counteract the spreading: poison of a rattlesnake bite and slowly bleeding to death from a wound inflicted in an effort to. bait the advance of the venom, and with visions of her twb small children starving to death on the desert be fore the nearest neighbors, twenty three miles away, could reach them, Mrs. Evans J. Cox,' 23 years old, shot her babies while they slept and then turned the gun on herself in her lonely home on an Arisona desert Monday night, May 8rd. Bitten by a rattlesnake Sunday night when she vent out into the back yard of her uttle homestead, she applied every antidote of which she knew to stay the deadly poison and as a last re sort took a knife and cut around the wound that the poison might run out with her blood. In doing this she se vered an artpry and began to slowly bleed to death. , All through Sunday night and Mon day and Monday night she suffered mental and physical pain. She made every effort to give the alarm to any chance passers-by firing her husband’s shotgun until she had used every shell and then firing his 22 rifle. As a last resort she tried to crank the family car, but found she was too weak for the job. Then cuddling her babies in their beds, death only a few hours away and starvation awaiting her children after she left, Mrs. Cox shot thefn through the heart and then ended her own life. The tragedy in the lonely desert home was learned a few day? later when her husband who had loft home Sunday to work on a distant ranch returned home. He found the life less bodies of his wjfe and children and a blood-stained note left by the mother telling of the tragedp. Al most illegible in places, the note re counted in detail the sufferings, the hopes and fears and the heartaches of the long hours she waited and watched for*fceSp had then as a last resort to save < her children from starvation after she had died how she had killed them. Her husband and brother-in-law had spent the week-end at home but had left Sunday morning to work on a ranch several miles distant. He was not expected to return for seveal days. This tragic story is of unusual in terest to Randolph county people for the reason that the heroic woman was the wife of Evans J. Cox, who was born and reared m the Holly Springs section of Randolph county. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cox, who now reside in Arisona, but who lived up until 18 years ago in this county. The family has a large number of relatives in Randolph. BAPTIST NEWS LETTER ' Prayer services are being held Tuesday and Thursday evenings of this week in different sections of the town, looking forward in a larger ■way to the revival services which be gin Sunday, June 6th. These prayer services will continue each week un til the revival formally begins. Put these first in your plans. The executive committee of the Randolph District B. Y. P. U. met Monday afternoon of this week in the work of the District B> Y. P. U. The T. T. T. class and their teach er, Mm, Daisy P. Mobley, in company with the Beethian class and their teacher, pastor Morris, motored to WiUomoore Springs last Friday af ternoon on a picnic trip. All report ed a pleasant time. “Philip the Evangelist," is the subject for next Sunday morning. “A Mad World Without Restraint,” will be used for our consideration at the evening service, 8:00 o’clock. This is the fourth and last of a series be ing used at the evening services in May. You are invited to be with us. ' Major A. B. Ostranger of Seattle, Washington, ’ to now three cushion billiard champ. This 81 year old veteran of the Civil War realized the ambition of a lifetime when he annexed the title. The three cush ion same is the most difficult of «U hi I Hard samea DRIVE TO RAISE $500 FOR BOY SCOUT TROOP Most Have This To Participate In National Organization— $125 Raised. ii nips # i\ '• A drive to raise $500 for the Boy Scouts in Asheboro was launched Tuesday at a luncheon at the Ashlyn hotel at which fifteen or twenty lead ing: citizen of the town were present. Mr. Gordon Blair, Chief Scout Mas ter, was present and explained the proposition. This amount must be raised-Toi&be local gcout troop be fore it caft pmfcicipdte in the national organization. The Asheboro troop is a part of the Uwharrie district com posed of High Point and Davidson and Randolph counties. Approximately $125 was raised, ir. a snort canvass Tuesday and it is understood that the drive will con tinue untH the $500 is raised. ~ M. E. MATTERS (W. H. Willis) The writer officiated at the funeral of Wm. S. Ringstaff recently. Rev. L. T. Edens and the writer were guests for supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs.- John M. Presnell Saturday evening. Rev. John Hoyle, of Ramseur, is assisting pastor Edens in a meeting at Worthville this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Searboro had as tHeir guests for dinner Sunday their pastor, Rev. L. T. Edens and this scribe. Our membership is now 574/ The pastor invites the co-operation of his church in making it at least 000 by conference. Who’ll be the first' to bring in a recruit? "What next?” win be the question that the pastor will seek to answer Sunday morning, next. At night, an informal service on “The Making of a good Methodist.” New Machine Shop To Be Located In Asheboro Soon Asheboro is to have a machine shop. That was definitely decided in the last few days when C. A. Bristow, of Sophia, and H. H. Foust, of Greens boro, came down to *look the town over with the view, of establishing the shop here. Mr. A- M. Feme is con structing a building to house the shop on bis lot near Asheboro Wheelbar row Company’s plant. The shop will be opened to do general machine work as soon as the building is com pleted. The business will be operated under the" name of the Central Ma chine Works, the name probably growing out of the fact that Asheboro is well advertised as the center of North Carolina. WONDERFUL REVIVAL IN PROGRESS AT CEDAR FALLS i A series of meetings has been, in progress at Cedar Falls under the di rection of the pastor, Rev. C. H. Hill, for the past ten days. Rev. HOI is bring assisted by the evangelistic boys at High Point. The meetings have been splendidly attended. Many times the church has been crowded to of the < iral days, j or towns, V: ’ From Complication w ami > Mts. R.'jfr-Putnam, aged 41 years, died at her home two miles north of Asheboro Monday from a complica tion of troubles. Mrs. Putnam was bom and reared in Clover, S. C. She was married to Rev, R. Y. Putnam a number of yean ago. To this union there are five children: Irvin, Ralph, John, Clyde and Nettie. Mrs. Putnam had been in poor health for-the past six or seven yean but she was stricken two weeks age seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam have lived near Asheboro for two and a half years, during which time Mr. Putnam has served aff pastor of sev eral churches around Asheboro. The body of Mn. Putnam was tak en to Clover, S. C., for burial Tues day. Those accompanying the funer al party were Mr, and Mrs. A. L. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Selwin Brown, Mr. and Mn. Claud' Dunlap and Mn. W. L. Thurber. The funeral services were cohducted by Revs. T. L. Hill, of Colfax; C. A. Hendrix, of Gaston ia; and C. K. Gentry, of Kannapolis. M. P. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS The past two Sundays have been great days with us. At the Mothers' Day service extra chain had to be 'provided and again last Sunday morn ing it was necessary to provide for a large congregation. We “were greatly pleased last Sun day to have with us Rev. T. R. Wood ford, D. D., and his wife, of Pine Ridge, Ky. Dr. Woodford is the Supt. of a very important Mission School up there in the mountains of that state. He preached for us, Sunday morning and spoke on Pine Ridge 8unday evening. In the absence of the pastor Rev. L. T. Edens led the prayer meeting. Our people were pleased with Brother Edens and wQl be glad for him to come again. In the absence of the pastor this week Brother Robert Lloyd will con duct the prayer meeting. Regular services will be held next Sunday. RECOMMENDS MR. TALBERT FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS The Courier: As all loyal Democrats have the right to express themselves as to their preference as to nominees that are to be voted for this fall, I want to present to the people the next Register of Deeds for Randolph Coun ty, in the name of M. F. Talbert, of New Hope township. Jn all my. travels in different sec tions of the county everybody is talk ing Talbert. The masses are solid be hind him and this makes Jdm the log ical man. If we are to win we must nominate men who are clean, honest and up right. Talbert possesses these qual ities. In my honest opinion he will have no opposition, and he ought not to have. We can elect Talbert, and we will. —Tabernacle Voter.. was widely known in the Piedmont section of the State and everywhere highly regarded. MR. DANIEL T. DICKS DIES AT ms HOME IN DURHAM Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. H. C. Smith, paster of Duke Memorial Methodist church, for D. T. Dicks, 71 yean old, who died Sunday in Durham. The services were at the home of Mrs. Fred H. Stevens, daugh ter of the deceased. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. In addition to his widow and daughter, the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Cicero Stockton, of Kernersville, two grandsons, Freder ick and George Stephens of Durham, and numerous other relatives. Mr. Daniel T. picks was the young est son of the late James Dicks and Nancy Coltrane Dicks, of Randleman, where he' lived and 'operated the farms on Deep River until a few years ago he moved with his family to Durham. The news of his death Ur. David J. Hill Dead Dr. David J. Hill, aged 62 years, died at the home of his sister in Winston-Salem Thursday of last week following an illness of nedrly five months during the greater part of which time he was under treatment in a hospital. Dr. Hill was the pioneer practicing physician of Lexington where he had lived the greater part of is life up until he became HI. He usually Difficult To Hake Thirty-seven students in the gram mar grades of the public schools in the county passed the seventh grade examination held April first and sec ond and are eligible to enter the eighth grade of^the high school at the opening of the fall term. The examination this spring was consid ered unusually difficult and a large number failed to make the passing grade. Following is a list of the successful students designated by schools: Parks Cross Roads: Herbert Stubbs, Wade Stout. Mt. Olivet: Annie Hayes, Willie Hayes, Erlean Davis. Marlboro: Ruth Davis. Sophia: Margaret Kennedy. Three'Forks: Lucile Oliver. Welch: EmoryHancock, Mamie Lu ther, Barnie Lawrence, Charlie Cox, Alice Callicott, Grace Strider. Shiloh: Cecil Rumley, Robert Bray. Coleridge: Margaret Davis, James Ward, Abner Rumley, Kathleen Davis. Tabernacle: Linie Hoover, Beulah Younts. Shepherd: Fannie Robbins, Lucile Walker, Algene Robbins, Blanche Hunt. Pleasant Hill: Ruby Nance, How ard Hoover. Belvidere: William Kearns, Walter Trotter, Claude Kearns, Marie Hunt. Mountain View: Leona Miller, Paul Miller. Walnut Groves Bum Breedlove, Minnie Ferguson, John Jordan. SOLICITOR ZEB V. LONG HAS FILED HIS-ANNOUNCEMENT The following frurticle which ap peared in a recent |ssue of the Concord Times, has been sent to The Courier by a citizen of Cabarrus county, with the request that the same be pub lished: “Solicitor Zeb V. Long, of States ville, within the past several days has filed his notice as Democratic candi date for the solkitorship of the fif teenth judicial district. In his an nouncement Mr, Long stated that he is willing for tha people to judge his worthiness by hb'mMjbrd. “That platfornuw* feel certain, will bring .victory to Wfg%jate<mlle man He has won the confidence of the people and when a than in public life does this he is deserving of further confidence. Mr. Long for years has been a devoted worker for the Demo cratic party, not only in his county and district but throughout the State. He is often called into conference by officials who recognize in him an able counselor and wise adviser on matters of peculiar importance and interest to the welfare of the State. “In his official work Mr. Long is efficient, courteous and able. He has prosecuted with a power that was ef fective but at the same time he has tempered justice with mercy, guard ing the rights of the State and human ity with the same standard of honesty and temperateness. “We feel certain the Democrats of this district will reward his zeal and efforts with a handsome vote of con fidence.” SERVICES AT PLAINFIELD The evangelistic club of Spring Garden Quaker church, Greensboro, will be at Plainfield next Sunday at 2:30 o’clock to hold services to which the public is invited. “The Sign of a Nation Without Law Enforcement” Subject Used by Morris In -developing his sermon on “The Sign of a Nation Without Law En forcement*, the third in a series of four which he is preaching at the evening hour during'the month of May, Rev. B. E. Morris built on these thoughts: First, The Signal Conditions in America; Second, The Causes of these Conditions and Third, The Rem edial Plan. Below we give in brief his sermon as given to a congregation of atten tive and appreciative hearers on last Sunday evening. The first signal condition is the in crease in homicides in America. To every ten . murders in London there are 160 in the city of New York. Chi cago leads in the number of murders in American cities, having an average of one murder a day or SOS' a year. Seven out of every ten persons tried for murder in London are hanged. One out of every 160 in New York is exe cuted. Bold criminality in the American cities is evident in the jpereaeed num ber of highwaymen, house burglaries, etc. Immorality has been increased, even raised to the nth power in our American cities. In our unethical practice we seemingly forget that we are our brother's keeper. Instead of sm is an na. The “Damned rf for the stic views Best; Camp Fire Girt • *». Pretty little 17 year old Mary Murray of Tuxedo, New York, liaa been selected as the beet all around Camp Fire Girl. She ex celled in all brandies of work car ried on by the Camp Tire Girls of America, sister ' organisation of “•a Boy Scouts.'___ NATIVE OF RANDOLPH DIED IN GREENSBORO John Jones, Formerly of Frank linviHe, Passed Away Last Sunday. John Jones, aged 52, died Sunday morning at his home in Greensboro following illness of four weeks from a complication of diseases. Hd leaves his widow, a son, H. Leslie Jones, of Hartford, Conn., two daughters, Mrs. J. H. Kircheval, of Albany, Ala., and Miss Gertrude Jones, of Greensboro; three brothers, W. L., G. H. and J. L. Jones, all of Franklinville; three sis ters, Mrs. P. F. Fields, of Climax, Mrs. J. M. Tippett, of Franklinville, and Mrs. W. B. Fields, of Greensboro, R. F. D. Mr. Jones moved to Greensboro 22 years ago from Franklinville and was employed as a master mechanic at the Wysong and Miles company plant. He was a member of the Centenary Methodist church for 20 years and was an active church worker. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at—Centenary Methodist church, Greensboro, and interment made in Green Hill cemetery. MEMORIAL SERVICES AT PLEASANT HILL CHURCH There will be a memorial service at Pleasant Hill M. P. church the first Sunday in June. Services will last all day and the public is invited to attend. All who have relatives buried in the cemetery will meet there Saturday, May 29th, for the purpose of cleaning up the graves and getting the cemetery in readiness for the occasion. ‘ BIG DAM Contract has been let by the Caro lina Power and Light Company for | the Construction of a large dam across the Pee Dee river ten miles south of Albemarle. The dam will be 76 feet high and approximately 10b,000 horse power will be generated by the water impounded which will cover 6,600 acres of land and will extend up the river to the lower Badin dam. The new State highway bridge at Swift Island on Route 74 will be submerged and the power company will build another bridge to take its place. was discussed. Although-the Ameri can government was established on equality among its inhabitants, today the class distinctions are as pronounc ed as in foreign countries which make no bones about having classes. The next points bears on judicial corruption. The administration of justice today is too often seen in law technicalities and money. Legislative privileges are abused. Our legislative bodies make laws for the convenience of certain classes, trusts and organiz ations, and not for the good of the common whole. The fact that only recently members of the Cabinet were asked to resign because of their mis appropriation of authority and hand ling of government finances is an evi dence of executive defilement. Some of the causes of these signal conditions are: The increase of wealth and its diversion; the convenience of getting by with crime, made so by the good roads and the increase of the number of automobiles, the disrespect of authority, same beginning in the through municipal nation, and culmlnat for divine revelation, of the Bible Then, the i law by omission delays in the ad caused by our in the en jRMh the 18th be home, and even non-felt and ministration of im; the of not expec any V LOCKJAW FATAL TO EDNA BEAN Death Came Sunday Following Intense Pain—Funeral At Shiloh Church. An unusual- death occurred on last Sunday evening: at Memorial hospital when Miss Edna Bean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bean, of the Holly Springs section, died from lockjaw. Miss Bean had the mis fortune about ten days ago to step on a nail which pierced her foot. The wound apparently healed and she was as well as usual, going to High Point to visit reatives. Suddenly Saturday night she was taken very ill with lockjaw and brought to Asheboro Sunday morning to Memorial hospit al. Her suffering was intense and her death was inevitable from the time she was stricken. The funeral service was held at Shiloh Monday, being conducted by Mr. John Allred. The sympathy of the entire commun ity goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Bean and the young brother of Miss Edna. YOUNGER CHILDREN AND MUSIC PUPILS ENTERTAIN One of the most enjoyable school entertainments of the year was the one given in the auditorium last Thursday evening, by- the pupils of the public school music and physical education departments, under the di rection of Misses Ruby Huneycutt and Frances Barker. In all the songs, drills, and other exercises the children reflected credit on them selves and their teachers. The piano recital given on Mon day and Tuesday evenings of this week, by the members of Misses May’s and , Stockton’s classes, also showed the results of good training. On Monday evening, the children of the lower grades entertained their parents and friends with piano selec tions and songs, while the older pu pils gave the program on Tuesday evening. All the exercises were attended by large crowds. Annual Commencement of Asheboro Colored School The annual commencement exer cises of the Asheboro colored high school will begin Monday, May 24th, at 8 o’clock and will continue at in tervals until Monday evening, May 31st. The commencement program includes operettas, plays, exercises by the various grades and the annual sermon. The sermon will be by Dr. H. L. Ashe, superintendent of the Greensboro district North Carolina conference. The local school is under the di rection of J. E. Brower as principal, assisted by four other competent teachers. The graduating class this years includes five who are Dock Arf Hill, Myrtle Rosa Lindsay, Clara Lu cile Birkhead, Esther Virginia Walden and Alford Henderson Maness. MR. AND MRS. C. F. SPAVGH WILL MOVE TO ATLANTA Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Spaugh, who have for the past few years been re siding in Charlotte, will in the near future move to Atlanta where they will reside. Mr. Spaugh has for sev eral years been district manager of Southern Bell Telephone Co., and is being transferred from Charlotte to Atlanta. He spent several weeks in Miami, Fla., during the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh have lived in Ra leigh and Charleston, S. C. In each of their homes they have made many friends and the people of Charlotte are loath to lose them. For the past three weeks Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh have been the recipients of many social courtesies, among which were dinner parties, bridge parties and luncheons. Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh will spend a week in Asheboro before go ing to their new home in Atlanta. FRIENDS CHURCH Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Come and enjoy an hour of Bible study. Worth Mackie and Norman Osborne will have charge of the 11:00 a. m. service. Let us encourage these young men by giving them a large audience. Christian “Endeavor at 7:00 p. m. Belle Gray will be leader. The public is invited to this service. At the 8:00 p. m. service the Stevens Band from High Point will be with us and begin a series of meetings. The public is invited. Several of the women of the Mis sionary Society are attending the Missionary conference at High Point this week. | TRINITY NEWS Mrs. Lucy Haynes, of the Boston, Davidson County section, is spending some time here. Mrs. Astin, of Danville, Va„ who lies been visiting her sister, Mrs. George Craven, has returned to her home. Mrs. Weeks, who returned to her ott apartments hem a short time ago, has decided to remain hem un til fall and then go to Norfolk, Va., and live with her son. Mm. Morris Tyndale is spending some time with her daughter, Mm. June Johnson, in High Point The high school teachers have all left for their respective homes. Mrs. Nannie Craven with several MRS. J.C. BULL# DEAD AT AGE S3 One of the County’s Most Re markable Women—Funeral Yesterday Morning. Mrs. Lydia Henley Bulla, widow of J. C. Bulla, died at her home six miles west of Asheboro Tuesday morning at the age of 83 years. Mis. Bulla was the daughter of the late Nixon Henley and a sister of the late Dr. S. A. Henley, of Asheboro. She is the last one of a large family of children. In early, life she was mar ried to Mr. J. C. Bulla, to this union there were the following childreu who survive: Mrs. Minnie Caudle Asheboro; Mrs. Eugene Ashcraft. Monroe; Mrs. Nora Spencer, Ashe boro, Route 2; Mrs. Joseph Purdie, Annapolis, Md.; Miss Mamie Bulla Asheboro; and Miss Nell Bulla, of Monroe; Mr. N. A. Bulla, of RancQe man; and Mr. Tom Bulla, of High Point. Mrs. Bulla has been one of the most remarkable women the county has ever known, coming as she did from a sturdy, honest, straight-for ward family she has kept up the reputation of her forefathers. In the daily walks of life she has taken advantage of her opportunity to serve not only the members of her family but also those in the community with whom she . came in contact. She was a veritable Mother in Israel. Many of the younger people looked up to her and sought her advice. Her keen in terest in human betterment, her civic pride and her spirituality have char acterized her long and useful life. She had been remarkably strong and active until the past few years when the infirmities of old age caused a decline in her health. For the past two weeks she has been suffering from spinal meningitis. While her suffering has been intense there were moments when she could lend cheer and comfort to all of her sou atnd daughters who were at her bedside for several days before the end came. On Sunday night Mrs. Bulla i to have the curtains between and the other world drawn through them see the loved ones oa the other side. She quoted her fa vorite Psalm, assuring her children that she was happy in the summons which she had to go to the better world and join those of her relatives and friends whom she knew were waiting on the other side. Her •ex pressions and her happiness have lett a lasting: impression on the minds of her children who went with her through these experiences. The funeral service was conducted at Charlotte church yesterday — ing at 11 o’clock, Rev. C. A. Gregory* pastor of the Friends church in Ashp boro, officiating. A large crowd gathered ta pay the last tribute of respect to a woman whose influence has meant much to the community in which she lived to all who knew her. Rev. J. E. Pritchard Is Attending Pittsburg Meeting Rev. J. E. Pritchard left Tuesday morning for Pittsburgh, Pa., to at tend the annual meeting of the Board of Education of the Methodist Pro testant church. Mr. Pritchard is re cording secretary of the Board. Rev. G. I. Humphries, D. D., of Baltimore* is president and Rev. F. W. Stephen son, of Pittsboro, is the Executive secretary. Other members of the Board are Rev. E. T. Howe, D. D„ of Muncie, Indiana, Mr. Ralph White, of Cincinatti, Ohio, and Mr. H. W. Johnson, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Pritchard will return later in the week and will fill his appointments at the local church Sunday. High School Marshals Elected The senior class of Asheboro high school recently held their election to select marshals for commencement and the other public exercises to be held during the closing days of the school year. The following were chosen from the junior class: Miss Pearl Sykes, chief; Misses Irene Kearns, Pauline Steed, Gladys Hall, Johnie Adkins, Ruth Cooper, and Me, Wiley Jones. JACKSON CREEK ITEMS Miss Mabel Ridge, from Churdt land high school, will be with home folks for a few weeks. She expects to enter summer school. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Yates, Sunday, May 16th, a son. What is known as Stephen’s Gang will hold services at Piney Grove nest Sunday, May 23. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gamer visit ed friends and relatives at High Point last Sunday.