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; " ? "' 1 i $ > t . -.>r ■ fE R N NORTH] NA'S LEADING Y NEWSPAPER /W*»L XIX No. 1 ■ « *ELKWS HOSPITAL ASSURED BY DUKE GIFT CONVICT KILLED INCITING OTHERS , J TO RIOT AT CAMP ON MOUNTAIN P HIGHWAY ON MONDAY MORNING SUPERINTENDENT J. L. RACK LEY SLAYS REBELLIOUS NEGRO WHO LUNGED KNIFE AT HIM MADE DEMANDS Threatened Trouble Bdf NJpt Given Holidays and cations in Cjme, of Fog and Rain ) William Jones, New York ne u|' \onvlct, is dead following nff 1 (Attempt to incite other negro conVicts at the Mountain prison camp near Roaring Gap. to a riot during the last week-end J. L. Racldey, superintendent of the camp, who shot Jones, has been exonerated of all blame at a hearing held' before Magis trate Royall and the Bheriff of Alleghaney county. • Superintendent Rackley shot Jones between the eyes as a culmination of a brewing riot Monday morning when Jones made an attempt to bury a knife! into the superintendent's breast.| Trouble has been brewing at the camp for the past week and threatened serious results last Saturday night when Jones at the supper table objected t(o hominey and corn on the menu and Jumped on the table aiw'. kicked over plates of food. Rackley at infotned Jones the* he punished and the ' came to breakfast the next morning with a pi *> botti® in his hand lo use as a weapon in case he were punißhed. Ihpa Monday morning when the krd ß blew their whistles call- Jf all convicts to work only ghteen line up while the negro »nes and two confederates. clos- I the door of the cell house forbidding the other convicts to IMT«. Jones arid two other convicts in a rush to the kitcheii on the night previous had secured knives and .bottles to use as weapons and with these the re maining prisoners in the cell i house were ke«i «r. awe. When the guards ordered the otber prisoners to come out, hmcst of them asked to be allow ed to get out and to work but Jones and his co-conspiriators held them back with a threat of them. Jones then told * Superintendent Rackley that they fwonld leave the cell house only on condition that he would pro vide better food, Saturday after nbons off and vacations in case it was foggy and rainy or cold. Mir. Kackjey would make theft no promises whereupon some of the other convicts tried to get out of the cell house and Jones ran toward one and threatened to kill him., Superintendent Rackley then Bt between the convicts' legs Hthls only angered the negro Imore who shouted curses at the guards and made a lunge at Mr. Rackley with his knife thereupon the superintendent Bred the shot which laid t.he re- Mll'ous convict low. The others immediately surrendered and the •ing leaders were placed in soli airy confinement. Jones is said to have been ;analng trooble at prison camps for the last several years and wm knows ae a desperate pris oner. tfe was serving a five _jtftntence for larceny from the eastern counties of BOYD FARM HOUSE BURNS TO GROUND . Fire completely destroyed the r.rge farmhouse of Puree Boyd nlch is located Ave miles east I Elkin on the Trap H!U road lout S o'clock Wednesday brning. ht Is understood that the Imes caught from a flue in a Let. About half of the lusehold floods were taken gin the burning building. It th%t $1,200 in insurance •ifc-J on the structure and 1 ■*; 4 • ' * J*- # . THE ELKIN TRIBUNE A. B. HARRELL IS DEAD AFTER HEART ATTACK AT HOME FATHER OF LOCAL PEOPLE PASSES AWAY THREE DAYS AFTER CELEBRATING 40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. A. B. Harrell, aged 76, died At his home in Pilot Moun tain Sunday njorning at seven o'clcc'f from a sudden heart at tack. Mr. Harrel retired in his sana! health Saturday night and his death was a distinct shock. On last Tliuisday Mr. and Mrs. Harrell celebYated their 40th, wedding anniversary. Mr. Harrell is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ellen Marshall Har rell and the following children: Mrs. W. W. Whitaker and Dr. Roy B. Harrell of this city, Mrs. lit. A. Frye and Mrs. Matt Tutle of Pilot Mountain, Mrs. H. H. Lyon of Oxford and S. M. Har rell of Baltimore, Md. Funeral services were • con ducted from the Friends church Li Pilot Mountain Monday after noon. The active pallbeares were his sons-in-laws and his grand-sons. Honorary pall bearers were life long friends of the deceased. DARNELL GIRL IS DEAD OF INJURIES Zeola Darnell, seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Darnell, who was fatally Injur ed in an automobile crash on the Yadkin river bridge near Winston-Salem several weeks ago, died last Thursday In a Twin City hospital without gain ing consciousness and was buri ed from the Cool Springs church near here last Friday. The girl's skull was fractured I'rem ear to ear. The family has lin the Cool Springs community, moved back to their old home SALISBURY MAN BUYS RONDA MILL Announcement has been made that the Wilco Mills, Inc., of Ronaa have been puchased by B. H. Hamilton, of Salisbury, and the name changed to the Hamflton-Wilco Mills, Inc. The business offices of the concern will be moved to Winston-Salem, according to the announcement. It is said that the capital stock will be increased from {200,000 to 1600,000 and that a complete reorganization if the plant will be affected although W. Church of Honda, will con tinue as a member of the board of directors of the new concern. ELKIN SUDENTS RETURN TO COLLEGS Among the students who will return to the various colleges thlß week for the spring term are: Misses Margaret and Caro line Lillard and Sue Byrd to Queens College, Charlotte; Cath erine Harris and Mary Virginia Barker to North Carolina Col lege for Women, Greensboro; Mae Johnson to Mars Hill, Catherine Wellborn to Agness Scott, Decatur, Ga., Frances Chatham to Fassifern, Hender sonville, Irene Brown to Appa lachian Trianing School, Boone, anl Messers. Charles Gwyn Harold Sale and Raymond Chat ham to the University of North Carolina, Ben Kirkmau, John Roich to Davidson, Dewey Combs and Linville Hendren to Berea, K"., Robert Sale to Augusta Military Academy, Fort Defiance Va., Cortea Lowery to Wake Forest and David Brown to Oak Ridge. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Smith an nounce the birth of a son at tlte City Matmorlal Hospital in T.'lv'on-Salem on December 24, DIRECTORS VOTE $45,000 AT MEET HELD IN NEW YORK STIPULATED HOWEVER IT MUST BE KEPT BY COM MUNITY IP METHO DISTS FAIL REJOICING HERE Bids Will Be Asked At Once And Construction Work Start- Ed By Early Spring Tlx* Duke Foundation meeting in New York Tuesday, passed the resolution voting $4.Y000 to the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos pital at Elkin but amended the original resolution to read that if the Methodist Church con ference ceased to maintain the institution, it must be supported by the community. This means that all obstacles in the way of the gigantic local hospital are swept away and bids will be asked in the very near future for its construction and the first ground is expected to he turned in the next few months. Half the cost of the in stitution have been provided for, the Chatham Manufacturing Company giving the site besides 810,000 while 815,000 was pledg (Hi by Elkin residents. The Duke Foundation also pledged to give one dollar a day to the hospital to maintain char ity cases. The Methodist con ference lias already passed reso lutions through Its conference to support it through its Golden Cross. JUNIOR ORDER TO INSTALL 6FFICERS On next Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock the officers for the term ending June 30 of the Junior Order of Me chanics will be installed in the lodge rooms here. The of ficers who will taKe their chairs are: H. D. Transou, councilor; Paul Newman, vice councilor; J. R. Windsor, recording secre-j tarf; J. W. Collins, assistant; C. W. Young, financial secretary; J. C. Newman, conductor; E. C. Royall, Warden; Marvin Spenc er. outside sentinel; J. B. Gen try, inside sentinel; W. C. Gil liam, chaplain; J. B. Bell, trustee and L. E. Cockerham. treasurer. CROWDS YIEWRITES FOR FAMILY KILLED BY INSANE FATHER THOUSANDS BEE BLOOD-SPAT TERKD SPECTACLE OF MOST CRUEL MURDER IN STOKES With the largest crowd that has attended a funeral in Stokes county, the bodies of eight vic tims of the most cruel murder and suicide in this section, were buried In a single grave near the scene of the killing on last Friday. On Christmas Day, Charles D. Lawson, a farmer of the Gearmanton section, be came suddenly insane and kill ed his wife and six children and then ran into a woods and blew a hole in his heart with a shot gun. NEW TRAIN TABLE EFFECTS ELKIN 7 Effective Friday of this week a new time table will be used on the Southern Railroad lines through Elkin as well as on the whole system. The early morn ing train from North Wilkesboro to Winston goes through Elkin at 7:30 o'clock instead of 7:40 while the train going west comes here at 11:25 instead of 11:40. The train going East In the afternoon will arrive.here at 1:35 o'clock instead of 2 p. m. while the evening train goisg west will arrive at 4:30 o'clock instead of 5:40. •Mr. H. L. Lyon, manager of the Carolina store here who has been taking treatment at the Memorial Hospital at Lincolton for the past several weeks re turned to this city last Saturday and has resumed his former duties at the store. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 1930 DANIEL COLLINS BURNS TO DEATH IN MYSTERY FIRE WELL KNOWN LOCAL MAN LOSES LIFE IN BLAZE IN LONELY CABIN NEAR IX)W GAP BODY CHARRED Hints of Foul Play Due to Fact That Deceased Always Car ried Sum of Money Daniel Collins, well known local resident, 62 years of age. was buried Friday from the El kin Valley Church after being burned to death Christmas day in flames which destroyed his mountain home near Low Gap which he recently purchased. Although Coroner Lee Snow, who investigated, ruled that death was due to burns, there were many persons who aver that foul play was back of the tragedy as Collins usually car ried a big sum of money on his persoiv Neighbors to the lonely cabin noticed a light in the direction of the Collins home about 9 o'clock on Christmas night but thought little of it until'the char red body of Collins was found next morning. The dead man had slept on a cot in front of the fire place and it might have been that he was burned while igniting the fire with kerosene, which he used to kindle fires, neighbors state. Indications point to the fact that Collins ran from the burn ing home and rolled in the snow and later crawled back into the edge of the burning embers for warmth. The funeral and burial took place Friday afternoon from the EHrln Valley churfeb. The widow and six sons, Judge Mon roe, Frank Lewis, Millard and Smith. Collins and two daugh ters, Mrs.J. L. Darnell of this city and another daughter, Mrs. Robert Sales of Winston-Salem. Aaron, a brother, and two sis ters, Mrs. Bud Money of near Elkin and Mrs. John Mathis of Winston-Salem also survive. BIG FARM HOME BURNS TO GROUND Fire of mysterious origin, completely destroyed the dwell ing and its contents of J. M. Blackburn living a half mile off the paved highway near Thur mond last week. The family was absent from the home at the time of the blare and nothing was saved. No insurance was carried. SPA IN HOURS KNTRRTAIN AT NEW YEAR PARTY The New Year was ushered in very fittingly on Tuesday even ing when Mr. and Mrs. Gene Spainhour entertained at a din ner dance at their home on Gwyn Avenue. The guests were costumed as children and Mrs. James Poindexter and Mr. Alex Chatham were voted the best dressed members of the party. Dinner was served at small tables grouped about the living room and dining room. Those enjoying Mr. and Mrs.' Spain hour's hospitality were: Mr. and Mrs. Alex Chatham, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Poindexter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wooster, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Caldwell. Mrs. Raymond Chatham, Mrs. Richard Chat ham, Mr. Albert Bryan, Mrs. Hardin Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Erroll Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whitaker, Miss Maude Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Grier, Mr; and Mrs. Ruhos Pyron, Mrs. John Aiken and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Spainhour and Mr. C. B. Stainback from Hickory. CI VICE DEPARTMENT TO MEET TUESDAY The civic department of the Woman's Club will meet at the home of Mrs. J. L. Hall Tuesday afternoon, Jan. J, at 3:30. The subject will be "Making Elkiu Beautiful." Leader, Mrs. A. M. Smith; hostess, Mrs. J. L. Hall. All members are urgently re quested to be present. y • ■ lu " ■—'■ ■ ■ v " - *■- — — PTJBLIHHUD WEKKIi* MRS. G. COTHREN DIES OF PNEUMONIA Mrs. Neely" Jane Cothren, 57. wife of Rev. Grant Cothren passed away at her home near Elkin, Saturday after a ten days illness of pneumonia. Funeral services and interment _ were from Round Hill Methodist Church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Cothren is survived by her husband and several sons and daughters. MYSTERY CLOAKS SHOOTING OF LAD WHILE AT PLAY BLOOD HOUNDS FAIL TO FIND PERSONS WHO FIRED SHOT AT RICHARD BYRD THOUGHT ACCIDENT 150 Pieces of Lead Taken From Boy By Surgeons at Wilkes Hospital Mystery surrounds the shoot ing late Tuesday afternoon of Richard A. Byrd, ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Byrd who was playing in front of the" family home when the mysteri ous shot wounded him severely. Surgeons at the Wilkesboro jhos pital where the land was taken, took over 150 aiiot from the boy's hips and lower body and it was feared that the kidneys were injured. brought from Ashboro Tuesday night failed to lead to any clue but was be lieved that youths playing in the neighborhood! accidentally dis-> charged a shotgun, the load striking the boy. The lad was building a snow man In the front yard about 4 o'clock. Tues day afternoon when the shoot ing took place and a maid, hear ing the report of the gun, look ed from a window to see the boy lying on the ground writhing In pain. No trace of any persons could be seen and it is presum ed that whoever fired the gun, saw that they had hit the boy and fled. Word from the hospital Wed nesday morning was to the ef fect tihat the injured lad had suffered considerably during the night but it was believed that his injuries would not be serious GURNEY LYONS IS IN DOBSON JAIL ON A SERIOUS CHARGE RAPE CASK TO BK AIRED IN REX>RDERS COURT HERE ON NRXT TUESDAY Gurney Lyons of this com munity is in the Dobson jail held without bail on a charge of rape filed by Miss Sallie Money and he will be given a hearing before Judge Barker in Recorders court on next Tues day. Lyons was arrested in ' Keys ville Virginia and brought back to this city by Chief of Police Church after a search which has lasted since last August when the alleged rape was said to have been committed. The girl charged that Lyons and another youth accosted her and a girl companion on the eve of the Masonic Picnic here and asked them to take an auto mobile ride which the girls re fused. It is alleged that Lyons told the Money girl he would walk home with her and during the time, the alleged rape oc cured. Sensational evidence is expected to be offered during the trial. Lyons was traced to Canada and to numerous points in this country but was not finally ap prehended until the officers at Keysville located him and held him for the local officials: ON BUYING TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Ray Feldman are in New Yt)rk buying spring stocks for the Feldmnn Depart ment Store h«ro. Th«>y are ex pected to be back by Saturday. Mr. E. G. Click and daugh ters, and Miss Rum GWVn spent Friday in Charlotte. WILLIAM J. MASTEN 91, ELKIN'S OLDEST RESIDENT PASSES AWAY IN LAST HOURS OF THE OLD YEAR 14 PRIZES FOR FIRST BABE BORN IN 1030 The first baby to be born in this community in 1930 will be a lucky boy or girl. Fourteen Elkin merchants in this issue of the TrUmfie announce gifts for the tot in a full page advertisement. This i 8 the first time that this plan has been worked here and it will assure the first baby a shower of useful gifts. ATTORNEY ALLEN BUYS BUILDING FOR FUTURELAW OFFICE ! PURCHASES PAUL BUILDING ON EAST MAIN STREET AND WILL MAKE REPAIRS Through a deal completed late last week. Attorney Marion Allen purchased from the W. E. Paul heirs, the twenty-two foot front building and lot on East Main street which was formerly occupied by the Bivens plumb ing shop. Mr. Alien will remodel the building and remove his law of fices into it by the first of March and later will improve and remodel it extensively and possibly add another story. Mr. Allen has maintained his law offices in the First National Bank building for several years. VAGRANCY CASES HEARD TUESDAY IN RECORDERS COURT MANY CAUSES DISPOSED OF IN SPITE OF COLD AND SMOKE FILLED ROOM With a big coal stove chugg ing; out clouds of smoke which so filled the room that one could hardly see across from one side to the other and which necessitated windows be raised letting in the cold while judge, lawyers, court attaches and au dience sat huddled in overcoats in an effort to keep warm, the weekly session of the Recorders court was held Tiesday. In spite of the terrible in convenience of holding court, many cases were disposed of by Judge Barker, practically all of them being the vagrancy charges against local persons. Hilary Spann, who pleaded not guilty t,o the vagrancy charge, saw his case take up most of the morning and Judge Barker at several instances had to speed up the questioning. Spann,, however, was given a thirty day jail sentence suspends ed on payment of costs and his good behaviour. Will Hudspeth pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding and was given a line of $lO and costs. He claimed something got wrong with his automobile and he could not get it under control at the time of his arrest. The case of vagrancy Against Hugh Creed was dismissed when it was discovered he had visible means of support but Crombie Rhodes was given a thirty day jail sentence suspended on pay ment of costs on the same charge. Orvid Evans, who was tried on an assauft icharge. was let off with the payment of costs. MUSICAL CONTBST PLEAS ANT HILL SCHOOL AUD. SAT. NIGHT JAN. 4th A musical contest will be held at Pleasant Hill School audito rium Saturday nieht, January 4. Prizes will be given to the best players of violin, banjo, etc. Per cent of proceeds will go to the school. Everybody who' enjoys good music is cordially invited. Miss Georgia Vestal is the gueat of Mrs. A. G. Brinegar at Traphill, this weak. ' 4 " *" I' £ •• : . •,* - ii. *.** • - H* 1 !■' ' 10 PAGES j i ~d. WOUNDED 5 TIMES IN BAT TLE AND WAS ONE OP , FEW SURVIVORS OP PICKETT'S CHARGE AT LEE'S SURRENDER Moved Man Was Oldest Employ of Chatham riant; Funeral to Be Thursday i William J. Masten, 91 years old, Elkln's oldest resident, died at 10:30 o'clock Tueaday night, J list an hour-and-a-half before the old year passed into history. The death angel beckoned quiet ly to the beloved pioneer of this section and his death came as a distinct shock to those about town for it was reported yes terday that "Uncle Billy" was much improved and would prob ably recover. He had been ill for some time from the infirmi ties of old age and had late ly suffered a lung infection. With the passing of Mr. Masten, one of the links of the present to the past is broken for few men were .so closely con nected with the past and few played so valiant a part in the building up of this section than did Mr. Masten. With Mr. Masten's death an other of the valiant veteran's of Civil' War pusses. Indeed,, he saw probably as much of .that bloody conflict as any man in either army. He was shot Ave times in battle, once while with Pickett in the immortal charge at the center of the Union line at Gettysburg in 18 63 and he was one of the few survivors who reached the atone wall which marked the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. He served six months in a prison camp and # he was with General Lee at the surrender at Ap pomattox. Mr. Masten went to arms when the first call was made for troops in 18>l as an aide to Colonel Cole of Wilkes boro and was with Stonewall Jackson in his memorable cam paigns. He enlisted with the 39th Carolina infantry regiment and served throughout the war. Born June 20, 1838, the son of James and Harriet Masten, in the Macedonia section of Wilkes county, he lived his early life in that community and married the autumn after the surrender, Mis 8 Nancy Edwards who died on the fifteenth day of last March after a married life of 6 4 years. Mr. Masten came to Elkin in the early 1880's to supervise a farm owned by Alexander Chat ham I and a few years later went to work for the Chatham Manufacturing Co. and had been on the payroll of that company ever since that time, being the oldest employ both in years and employ of the company. He was an honorary member of the Elkin Kiwanis Club and was revered and loved by a large circle of acquaintances for his sterling honesty and ex emplary life. i Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock from the Methodist church with Itev. L. B. Abernethy and Rev, Eph Whisenhunt officiating and burial will be made in Holly~ wood cemetery. The pall bear ers. all grandsons, will be: Fred Comer, Marvin Masten, Joe Masten, Irvin Masten, William Masten, Thomas Masten and Robert King and the flower girls will be granddaughtera. Misses Graie Masten, Betty Mae Masten, Annie Laura Masten, Pauline Masten, Irene Brendle, Margaret Brendle, Mary Masten, Frances King, Virginia Base more, Helen Smith. . ELKIN YULE MAIL HEAVIEST KNOWN - ■>.:« *•!; ctiri I More mail was handled this Christmas at the local postoffice than any time in its history, ac cording to Postmaster C. N. Bodenheimer, who asserts 3 that the volume passing through the Elkin office was amazing. Both the outgoing and the incoming letters and parcels ex ceeded any Christmas rush here tofore, the postmaster asserted.
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