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THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, N. C. — THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940.
COURT
NEWS
Ernest Allen, 26, of Four Oaks,
■who was tried in Recorder’s court
last week on a charge of operating
a motor vehicle while intoxicated,
entered a plea of guilty. He was giv
en a 90 day road sentence, the term
to be suspended upon the payment
of a $50 fine and the cost.
Hubert Radford, 21 ,Smithfield,
Jtoute 2, pleaded guilty to driving
while drunk and was given 90 days
on the roads, the term to be sus
pended upon the payment of a $50
line and the cost.
_R. B. Lockamy, 33, Dunn, entered
a plea of guilty as to possession of
one pint of illegal whiskey. Prayer
for judgment was continued upon
the payment of the cost.
Ezell Burgess, colored, who was
charged with the larceny of $1.90
'.'Vom Gladys Sanders, was found not
guilty.
W. V. Massengill, 54, pleaded guilty
as to possession of illegal whiskey
for the purpose of sale and was
fined $25 and taxed with the cost.
Ruth Blackman, 28, charged with
assault with deadly weapon and
being publicly drunk and disorderly,
was found not guilty.
W. D. Ausley, 37, was found guilty
of abandonment and non-support of
his wife and three children. Prayer
for judgment was continued for one
vveek.
Gardner Wilkins, 30, was charged
■with conveying and delivering whis
key to a prisoner in the Johnston
county jail. His case was trans
ferred to the court of E. C. Jones,
Candidate For Senate
BRIEF NEWS
ITEMS FROM
OUR FILES . .
10 YEARS AGO
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1940.
•
• The Carolina Power & Light Co.
has recently purchased thirteen acres
of land here and will begin immedi
ately erecting buildings and equip
ment which will cost approximately a
ouarter of a million dollars. The
property purchased was the old
Peedin piece. It is said that sixty
men will be employed on this project
through the summer months. Secur
ing right-of-ways for a high tension
line from felma to Erwin and from
Selma to Raleigh have been under
way for some time.^ According to an
official of the cotripany one of the
most important sub-stations of the
organization will be erected here. The
news of this development will no
doubt relieve the unemployment
situation here to a certain extent,
and dt is hoped that the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
development will follo’w. This com
pany purchased some real estate
from J. H. Griffin some time ago
with the purpose of erecting a hand
some office building here.
E. G. Hobbs
justice of the peace.
A. R. Bryant, charged with re
moving crops without giving notice
r>r paying rents, was found not guilty.
John Henry Williams, colored, was
.given 30 days on the roads for
assault with deadly weapon, the road
term to be suspended upon the pay
ment of a $10 fine and the cost.
R. T. Jones, 42, Selma, who was
i^harged with operating a car while
intoxicated and assault with car, was
found not guilty. He was convicted
Hobbs Give Stand
On Public Affairs
E. G .Hobbs, Selma lawyer who
filed as a candidate for the state
senate a few minutes before the
deadline Saturday, Monday released
a formal statement in which he out
lined his views on important prob
lems.
Some excerpts from the Hobbs
.statement are given below;
Farming—“Under no circumstances
will 1 sponsor or support any meas
ure to increase the tax on the farms
of being publicly drunk and was of our state .... I favor adequate
My remarks about the relation of
Religion to mental health calls to
mind that it was religious people
■who first established homes for the
kindly treatment of insane people.
These unfortunate people -with their
“cries of anger, mingled with the
endless clanging of chains and the
with the larceny of tobacco flues, I operation on the part of the General crocks of keepers’ whips,” awakened
valued at $40, from J. J. Boykin.I Assembly with the Federal Congress the sympathy of the Quakers. ,
IMot probable cause was found and! and Government in ‘an effort to re-i H; ^vas in Yorkshire, England in
■the defendant ■was discharged. 1 establish and build up our tobacco! tbat the first institution ■was
given 30 days on the roads, the term
to be suspended upon the payment
i.»f the cost.
Charlie Lewis, 62, was charged
provision throughout the state for
all-weather farm - to - market and
home-to-school roads .... I shall
advocate and support a policy of co-
MIND YOUR MIND
By JAMES WATSON, M. D.
Division of Mental Hygiene, State
Welfare Department.
• Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mozingo
w'ere honor guests at a dinner given
by their children at the home of
Mr .and Mrs. S. J. Shuler last Thurs
day, April 10th. The occasion was in
celebration of Mr. Mozingo’s 80 th
birthday. Plates were laid for 12 and
a bountiful dinner was served at the
noon hour. A lovely handsome, birth
day cake bearing 80 candles found
the centerpiece. A number of birth
day gifts were presented to the
honored. Mr. Mozingo is a practical
and successful farmer living near
town and has numerous friends in
Selma. He is very active and re
markably well preserved for one of
his age.
J Last Saturday night about 12
o’clock it was discovered that the
saw mill and cotton gin plant of Mr.
Billy Moody, of upper Wilders town
ship, was on fire, but the flames
gained such headway that the cotton
gin, saw mill and planer shed were
burned to the ground, and we under
stand that there was no insurance on
any of his property that was burned.
soon as young Wharton can be
located, said Mr. Fisher, he will be
arrested and returned to Charlotte
to stand trial on the charge, which
constitutes a felony. The story of the
alleged opening of the grave and the
consequent be-heading of the long
dead body of Will Johnson, David
son middle age negro, by the young
Davidson student has created a great
stir in the little college to'wn ,especial-
ly among the negro residents, ac
cording to reports from Davidson.
Wharton, son of Dr. L. D. Wharton,
prominent Sinithfield physician, with
drew from the Presbyterian institu
tion a few days ago after he is said
to have admitted to a faculty com
mittee that examined him that he
dug into the grave and cut the head
from the body. He said he intended
studying medicine and needed the
skull for study, according to the re
port from Davidson.
Some Easter Data
Mr. Editor;—Once I was young but
now I am old and gray, yet I don’t
Some of the men think that
women are nothing but a bunch of
trouble; but then they cannot live
without trouble.
MYSTERY OF LOST CITIES
IN BRAZIL
Amazing discoveries throw new and
startling light on the stories of pre
historic ruins with “eternally shining
towers.” One of many features in the
April 28th issue of
The American Weekly
the big magazine distributed with the
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think that until March 24 did I ever
see snow fall all day on an Easter
Sunday. I have before me an Easter
calendar showing the date upon which
Easter falls from 1904 until the end
of the twentieth century. The earliest
date upon which Easter has occurred
or will occur during the century was
March 23, 1913. This year it was
March 24. In 1951 it 'will be March
25 and not again during the present
century will it occur earlier than
March 26. In 1943 Easter will fall
on April 25, the latest date shown,
and that only the one time during
the century. Whether it ever occurs
later than April 25 I’m not prepared
to, say but since Easter is the Sun
day following the full moon that
occurs on or first after March 21 it
is possible for it to occur on March
22; but this occurs very rarely. I
have seen the statement that in the
year 1818 Easter came on March 22
and will not occur on that date again
until the year 2285, so I guess yo'u
nor I will ever eat any Easter eggs
in the 22nd day of March.—J. M.
Jar\ds in Union Republican.
Spent Millions, Wed Twice—
But Was “New York’s Loneliest
woman.” The tragic story of
the disappointing life of the
heiress who sought happiness in
vain, despite her millions, and
who died the other day with no
loved one at her side. An illu
strated feature in The Ameri
can Weekly Magazine with next
Sunday’s Washington Times-
Herald, now on sale.
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W. D. Blanchard, 45, Garner, Route
1, pleaded guilty to driving while
intoxicated. A 90 day road sentence
is to be suspended upon payment of
a $50 fine and the cost. j
sales and shipments to foreign mar- Mgyjit to treat insanity with kindness.
F. C. Pounds, 56, charged with the
kets.”
Labor—“I pledge him (the labor
ing man) every possible assistance.”
Schools—“I favor a teacher’s re-
farceny of bees from Charlie Brough-
fim, was found not guilty.
Alston Cockrell, 28, and Rudolpii
Starling, 28, were charged with the
larceny of meat from H. B. Brown
fhousebreaking and larceny). Prob
able cause was found and both de
fendants were bound over to Su
perior court under a $100 bond each.
Morris McCullers, 14, was charged
■with assault with deadly weapon. The
defendant being under 16 years of
age, his case was transferred to
.iwvenile court.
Ralph Godwin, 21, Kenly, Route 2,
pleaded guilty to violating the traffic
laws and fleeing after accident.
Prayer fpr judgment is to be con
tinued upon the payment of the cost
on condition that the defendant does
not operate a motor vehicle a.gaiii
in 12 months.
Andrew Johnson, 34, was given 60
days on the roads for assault with a
deadly weapon on Ues Pierce and
then on a female, the road term to
he suspended upon the payment of a
§15 fine and the cost.
Les Pierce, 30, charged with assault
■with deadly weapon, was found not
.guilty.
Hubert Davis was charged with
housebreaking and larceny and was
bound over to Superior court after
probable cause had been found.
Infants under two years of age
ride free on one transcontinental air
line; from two to ten they pay half
fare and over ten they are charged
adult rate.
Announcement!
tirement fund and I pledge the chil
dren and those intere.sted in schools
that I shall be their friend in the
next legislature.”
Taxes—“I am sure that it (money
for maintenance of state govern
ment) can be raised without the un
fair sales tax .... If it cannot be
repealed at the next session of the
legislature, it should at least be re
duced and the system changed in
order to make its collection fairer
and more just to the business men.”
Liquor—“T am convinced that the
senator and representatives of John
ston county in the next General
.Assembly should abide by the wishes
of the people of the county as ex
pressed in the coming election on the
liquor problem. I pledge that I shall
obev that mandate.”
I It was named “The Retreat” and
was spoken of as “a quiet haven
in which the shattered bark might
find the means of reparation and
safety.”
Some twenty years later the
Quakers established a similar institu
tion in the United States. It was
named the “Friends’ Asylum” and
was opened at Frankford, Pa. in
1817. Its purpose was to replace
chains, strait-jackets, strong rooms
and whips by “tender, sympathetic
attention and religious oversight,” in
order that agitated minds might be
restored to sanity.
(Continued Next Week)
• Robert Straughan, Lillian Louise
Woodard, Louise Stallings, Thelma
Gay, Iva Mae Parrish, and Hoge
Vick represented Selma in the typing
ceptest held at Durham last Satur
day. TViey were coactied by Miss
Conn ,the 'Commercial teacher, and
we understand they made good rec
ords. Their grades have not been
announced, but their speed was an
honor to them and their teacher.
• The boys in the newly organized
band of the Selma School have ac
cepted an invitation to be the guests
of Hugh Morson high school Thurs
day. While there they will observe
the work of Prof. Johnson, the direc
tor of music for all the Raleigh
schools, they will also give a per
formance for the Hugh Morson
school, and afterward visit places of
interest in the city. They will be
chaperoned by Miss Mildred Perkins,
Selma music teacher.
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A scientist says kissing is dan.ger-
ous. It is in Selma if the girl isn’t
willing.
When a man is full of his own
importance it usually is a sign his
head is plumb empty.
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• Charlotte, April 10.—A warrant
will be issued for Watson Wharton,
of Sinithfield, former Davidson col-
loge junior, on ‘the charge of en
tering a negro’s grave at Davidson,
as soon as relatives of the dead man
whose grave was violated come to
Charlotte and sign the warrant,
■County Solicitor Henry E. Fisher
said last night. Although the county
solicitor explained that according to
all information available the former
Davidson student’s whereabouts are
unknown, the warrant would be issued
and sent to Sinithfield for service. As
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