Nash ews VOL. VI —NO. 39 SPRING HOPE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY TWENTY-THIRD, 1936. $1.50 PER YEAR HORN TO OPEN 10c STORE HERE Independent Five and Ten Cent Store, to be Operated by J. C. Horn, Being Built Mr. J. C. Horn of Washington N. C., associated for 14 years with j F. W. Woolworth Company until j the past January, has been in Spring Hope for two weeks reno-- vatitig thei building formerly oc,. cupied by Short Collie. Mr. Horn is making preparations for starting a five and ten cent store here. The business will be entirely indepfaident, he says, own., ed and operated by him and not connected with any chain of stores He plans to offer the community the same merchandise at the same prices as that handled by the chain stores. He hopes in the near future to bring his wife and child to Spring Hopft to make his home here per manently if business justifies. With his experience with Wool., worth Company, Mr. Horn is ex.. pected to give Spring Hope a store that will bei a credit to any tov/n, regardless of size. Opening specials to be offered by the store will be! announced in an early issua of this paper. Mr. Horn has been living at the home of Dr. H. Brantley for thi past two weeks and boarding with Mrs. W. 0. Saunders. Bolt Kills Mule | At Taylor’s Store J. N. Taylor out at Taylor’s ^ Store has been having tough luck. \ Lightning during the storm Monday killed one of his mules, a hog and a chicken. A team of mules had been led into the stable out of the rain an^i were standing in harness. The effect of light., ning bolt killed ona without touch ing the other. The shock killed a chicken in the feed trough and one of two pigs nearby. The other pig was paralyzed. AMednfefi^^iay of last week Mr. Taylor’s house barely missed be ing burned by a fire which destroy ed his smoke house, his woodshed and another small building. The fire started in the woodshed. While everyone else was trying to prevent the house from catch ing fire, a Mr. Johnson, road su.. perintendent, saved four shoulders and a ham from the smokehouse. Though the firetruck which start ed out from Nashville broke down on the way, thei firemen reached the scene and were able to keep the house from catching. SIDELIGHTS by BURT JOHNSON Hilliard Edwards Is Buried Sunday Funeral services weire held Sun- dayk afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Edwards home near Spring Hope for Hilliard T. Edwards, 24, son of Henry May Edwards, and the late Mrs. Nettie Taylor Edwards. Reiv. A. A. Pippin of Ephesup Baptist Church, of which the de ceased was la merjjber, was in charge of the ceremony. Pall bearers werei Alcy Lamrn. Garland Lamm, Luther Bullock, Aubrey Bullock, Wilbur Bullock, and Jack Bullock. Flower girls were Misses Nellie Taylor^ Eliza beth Taylor, Louise Edwards, Lillifi Bell Edwards, Annie Lamm, Mrs. Albert Lamm and Mrs. Lennie Puckett. Inteirment followed in the family burial ground. MA Edwards is; survived! by his father, Henry May Edwards, five brothers, Jack, Joseph, George Billie May and David Edwards; three half brothers and sisters, Junius, Lizzie Mae and Florine. The young man died suddenly at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Mi ami, Fla. He had been in the U. S. Army service for the past three years, stationed most of the time fct Honolulu, although he had seen active service in the Chinese Rtj- bellion. CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this means of exprfrssing the deep and sincere thanks of the family for every kindness rendered during the re-, cent death and burial of our son Hilliard T. Edwards. The beiauti.. ful flowers and large attendance were appreciated. Henry May Edwards and family Cases of Assault Fill Court Docket Judge L. L. Davenport disposed assault cases in recorder’s court at Nashville Monday. Charlie Warbritten, charged with assault with a deadly weapon was sentenced to 18 months on the county roads but appealed to Superior Court. His bond was fix ed at $200. He also appealed and the samei amount of bond was fix ed in another case, in which War., britten was found guilty of pos session of whiskey for sale. In that case he was sentenced to 18 months on thej county roads, to run concurrently with his other sen., tence. Sister Carter, charged with as sault with a deadly weapon, was found ^^Ity of sim/pIe \ assault and judgment was suspended oji condition she pay cost. Obie Cone, who was tried July 8 for assault with a deadly weapon and for whom prayer for judgment was continued until yesterday, ra- ceived a sentence of 6 months on the roads, sentence suspended on condition he pay $50 to Henry Pace and cost. Pace was involved in the altercation from which the charge arose. A case against James Privette, charged with assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill, was continued until Septecnber 14. Earthy Qooper wfcs givfen 60 days in the county jail for assault with a deadly weapon. Odell Murray was fined ^0 and