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w VOL. XXXIX. NO. 27 MILLER DID NOT ! RETURN NOTE, Broker Said to Have Sold Note to Thomasvilic Bank; Mayor Gragg Says Case Against Miller Will Be Prosecuted i i Mayor W. K. Gragg stated Mon- t day that the town's note for SI 0,000,; c issued for the purpose of construct-! y ing a city hall, and placed in the; t hands of Claude E. Miller, High Point broker, for the purpose of | cashing for the town, had been lo-I v ? r-? -I-' ?" vii*; i USl iOitllUIIitl Dtiim Q of Thomasville, where Miller is al-j c leged to have sold it. In Miller's answer to the com-1 J plaint, it was stated that he sent the note to a New York broker who promised to buy it. On the strengtn j of this promise, Miller says, he pent] two checks to the town in payment! ^ for the note. Later, he says! the; , New York party informed him that r' be could not handle the note, and r Miller ordered payment stopped on! "i the check.- he had pent the town, f. Miller further states in the ans-! wer that when the New York party S returned the note to him. he imme-j . dlately mailed it to the city author!-; . ties, and claims that if they have not ^ received the note, it has evidently j ? been lost in the mail. Mayor Grajgg stated that he. Attorney Comer and A. Y. Howell,) after exchanging a number of tele-, ^ grams and letters, went to High ^ Point to see if the matter could not | be cleared up. Miller claimed to ! have a postal receipt, showing thai the note had been mailed to Boone-j ^ ville, S. C. Upon investigation at the t poslofficc there, it was found that] 1 Miller had sent a registered letter to Boone ville, S. C., and there being no such postoffice in that state, the letter was returned to High Point] and received by Miller's stenograph-] or. Miller carried the local officials to his office and pretended to search] for ihe returned letter, but no trace i , ..e :* i ir- mm ? ! U1 11 \>Ub 1UUIIU. UUWfVCl, iUlllfi I . proposed to raise half of the note immediately, and .send the remain-; ! der in a few days, if that arrange-j , nient was satisfactory. Air. Graggi ' agreed that if he would raise S5,OOUj j! and send the balance within ten daysi ^ it would be satisfactory. Miller went " to Burlington, or pretended to go, I ewhere he said he could raise the' 5j $5,000, but did not locate his man,' f but said be would have it the follow- J ing day. Attorney Comer remained, in High Point until the next day. but, x Miller failed to fulfill his promise,' and proceedings were started to lie-j J cover the value of the note. Mr. Gragg emphatically denied the y rumor that the town was considering, l) withdrawing its case against ihe; J| broker. "We will carry the case to the supreme court if necessary "; * the mayor said, adding, "If you hear r anyone making any such statement,,' brand it as a falsehood or send them! * to mo." | *' Miller is under bond of ?10,000 each on two charges?misapplied- ; tion of funds and giving worthless cheeks. It is expected thai the case, will be tried at the September term of Watauga superior court, convening September 3rd. CLAUDE E. MIU-ER FACES YET ANOTHER CHARGE , High Point. Aug. 12.?Still anoth-i ' .r charge of embezzlement was! r lodged here Saturday against Claude; < E. Miller, High Point broker, already i i indicted on three similar charges, j , The charge involves the sum of $1,-! i 500 and is brought by T. A. Kearns,! t who says that he gave Miller the sum of money with which to purchase Mc-I ^ C'lellan Store stock. According to' ? the plaintiff he received from Mil- j \ lev a slip of certification for the! ' amount involved and the promise of ' securing the desired stock at an , early date. Kearns says that he repeatedly j asked Miller for the stock, which he t claimed to have bought, and that up until the time the defendant went to ~ a local hospital for treatment each 5 time he was told that it would be , . given him tomorrow. Since Miller has returned to his home from the , hospital, Mr. Kearns r-ays he has' " promised him eRch dav that the stock! , would be given biin at a specified: hour on the following day, but each day no delivery was made. Kearns charges in his complaint: . that Miller, knowingly, fraudulently! " and fclonouslv received from him the ' sum of $1,500 and wilfully converted j it to his own use and corruptly mis-1 ; appropriated it. ! . KRAUT FACTORY WILL OPERATE AT CAPACITY , Mr. II. Neal Blair, manager of the, j local sauer kraut plant, has a crew , of hands busy getting all in readi-; . ness about the factory for the man-' , facture of kraut which will begin , within the next three weeks. About! i forty acres of fine cabbage have al-< 1 ready been purchased, which, if the; 1 yield is good, will practically provide! I capacity Production for . the plant; i during this season. Mr. Blair says; the outlook for the cabbage crop!: and for the sale of the kraut is ex-j durin this season. More kraut hasi already been sold than has ever be-| i fore been manufactured locally. says| 1 Mr. Blair, and the plant will be! < kept busy filling the orders and' taking care of business yet to come.; About 250 tons of kraut are soured! at the same time. i ' N rATAl A Non-Partisan Ne ROOXE. Humility Gives Way to Boasting Extract From Address to Summer School at A. S. N. S. August 11. by Josephus Daniels, as Printed in the News and Observer It is fitting. as we rejoice in the mportant and steadily increasing isefulness of this institution to reail that it did not reach its present >roportions by any accident ot foruitous circumstance. It owes its Jgh position to the spirit ot many rood men and women, but mainly to wo men?President Dougherty, who .ith his brother, began to teach here' is mere boys, and Cant. Lovili, hairman of its board of trustees. iiiey and others .saw that the sutreme need of this mountain section ras trained school teachers. But ducators alone cannot bring about; he permanent structures we see tolay. Working \.ith these teachers,! his section and the whole state owes lasting debt of gratitude to the; ate Capt. Edward V. Loviil, brave! 'ohfe derate soldier and able lcgisla-j or, who early and late gave himself; 0 its welfare. As president of the card of trustees, he paralleled the rreat work done at Greenville, North Carolina by the late Governor Jarvisj n laying broad and deep the founda-j ion ox a like normal institution in Eastern North Carolina."which under )r. Robert Wright, iike Appalachian iid Cullowhec in the west. have nade possible much of the education1 progress that has caused this old; tate to have a new birth in the! lotable advance in fulfilling its ob-j igatior. to all the children from the! neuntains to the sea. Sometimes we make the mistake in! ?orth Can :ina in giving most of the 10 ; to progressive governors and ij i . ais for our educational awakenng. Sometimes we give the disinguished service medals all to eachevs. Such division of honor hows only a half realization of the ecompense due. It is rather true hat educators and legislators and xecutives and editors and other eaders have worked together andj he commendation should be awarded n proper proportion to all. While he big captains, who did most in a lay of comparative poverty and igainst great odds, were the two "harleses?Mclver as teacher and tycock as the citizen's voice crying :loquently, they would be the first to leclare that their eforts would not iave borne tile fruit we see today if! hey had not been associated with] ike minded and unselfish men and corneii. j North Carolina is proud of all its durational institutions, those litre: his and others, the creations of the] tate, and those founded by churches md individuals. Speaking here tolav at the Appalachian my mind is ipan the three youngest of our statcchools?the three newest estabiishd to train teachers?the Appalachan here, the child of Dougherty and -ovill, helped by all progressive men ad legislators of this and other secions; Cullowhee over in Jackson: ounty. with like patronage and arlv friends; and East Carolina like-: vise blessed With the friendship of l:i eminent statesman and able; eacher. Let us pause to do honor, o Thomas j. Jarvis and Prof. Rags-; lale of Greenville, who were to the nstitution what Capt. Lovill and Vof. Dougherty to Appalachian; ind Judge Walter E. Moore nad! 3rot. Madison were to Cullowhee.: The Greenville school was the child: if Governor Jarvis' old age. He saw! 'very* brick go in the structure and, tg KirfK Jr> miti.l r\-f Prrtf Pno-c. I ?w ... ."V j lale r calls an old time patriot-1 eacher whose memory is fresh in the] ninds of his section. As speaker of] he house, Judge Walter ft. Moore \ abored to make the- dream of Prof., it. L. Madison, pioneer patriot-! eacher come true at Cullowhee, just! is Capt. Lcvi'l and Prof. Dougherty! vere yoke fellows here in this bsauiful place to start this school on its] iver-widening- mission. It is only in recent years that we1 lave come to give the recognition; ieserved to the men who bad the vis-! ons which have been translated into; nodern educational institutions. We rave high sounding names of the; pre at of other commonwealths to the' rails and school rooms, neglecting] lonor to whom honor is due of thesei nnong us who carried out the vision tplendid. Now nearly all towns are laming, their school building for tome men who led in progress, and ve are doing the same in our state! institutions. We have, fewer Wash-; ngton and Lee and Lincoln schools! ind more Mclver and Avcocki tehools, and have Jarvis and Ragsiale and Moore and Madison and Lovill and we will have buildings! named for Wright and Dougherty! md Hunter and or heads of our] three newest teacher-training schools! vrio are doino. in the.ir dav and coop ration what will do much to make .he North Carolina of the future, greater than those of us now living ran vision or prophecy. If it is true ?as I verily believe?that the- present ''outburst of industry' is largely, Sue to the improvement in public1 education as Aycock predicted would oe the case, how much greater will! be that organized and growing industrial North Carolina due to the trained minds and hands going out everyyear from our crowded educational institutions. * * * There was a time when we gloried in being called "an humble state." Thank God that day has gone for?ver. Humility is a grace that mav be overplayed. When it is intvo'duced as a state attribute it is too (Continued on Page Eight) ' j JGA :wspaper. Devoted to the I WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CARO! i'OuficALEVENTr OFTHE PAST WEEK n? . . ^ Highlights of Political Activity r ? Both Major Parties Sum mar ix From Recent News Dispatc ^ From Over the Country Prohibition Candidate Assails J. T P. Enforcement Record Rockville Center, X. Y., At . In accepting the Prohibitior ,*ty's j nomination for the president, to- t night William F. Yarney accused the Republican administration of wil- i fully betraying the ISth amendment I He did not challenge the sincerity oi* \ the Democratic party as a whole, saying this was impossible because it was not in control of the government,! but he said he could see noth ing in the record of its standard bearer, Governor Alfred E. Smith, to , justify a belief that his election j would result in improved enforcement of prohibition. Asserting that even without real 1 enforcement the prohibition law had proved a blessing, he called for a ) "square deal" for the enactment, ' that greater blessings and prosperity may be the self-evident result." j Republicans of Alleghany Meet al Sparta Sparta. Aug. 9.?A large crowd assembled at the courhousc in Spar- ' ta Monday afternoon for the Republican county convention. Mack Vanhoy, candidate for the state senate , and chairman of the Republican county executive committee, presid- _ ed over the meeting. A resolution unanimously indorsing Mr. Vanhoy in his race for the 1 state senate was passed and he was called on to address the meeting. Mr. Vahoy promised his party to ' wage a vigorous campaign throughout the three counties of the dis- ; trict?Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga?and reminded his hearers that ' he was in the fight to win. He wil! j be opposed by C. W. Higgins, Demo-. J cratic lawyer of Sparta, and former' state representative for Alleghany j county. George Cheek, Republican elector for the eighth district also] > addressed the convention. i ; Harmony was the ruling spirit of the convention and a motion to de-j 1 fer the nominating of candidates fori county offices to a special committee selected from each township i passed without a dissenting voice.1 The committee is empowered to fill any and ail vacancies on the county ticket. Republicans Not To Launch Active Campaign Till Democrats Open 1 Washington, Aug. 11?The Re-' 1 publican campaign is officially on its} ] way, lifted from six weeks of silent preparation bv the Hoover notification ceremonies today in California. How energetically and visibly it will progress remains r r development. for Hoover headquarters have* announced not only that he will do little talking and no barnstorming, I but also that the campaign will not' reach the vapid five stage until the | Democrats have notified Governor; Smith later this month. J To Name Simmons' Successor \ Chairman Odus M. Mull has issu-, cd a formal call for a meeting of the! rx/ciiiuvi(itiv aiaic caccuiuc cui'timi- i tec in Raleigh Friday night, August 24. The business of the meeting is i to select a successor as national| committeeman to Senator F. M. Sim-j ; mons, who resigned July 24. Those) ] whose names are most frequently; i mentioned for the vacancy are for- , mer Governor Cameron Morrison j and Josephus Daniels, Raleigh publisher. The committee will also dealj with the resignation of J. Allen Tay-! , lor, of Wilmington, from the execu-j ; tive committee, following a declara- ; tion that he could not support the i Democratic presidential nominee. COVE CREEK NEWS NOTES Sugar Grove, Aug. 15?Miss An- ' nie Sherwood, who has been teaching ; at the Asheville Normal during the! ' summer session, is home for a few! J weeks' vacation. ; Mrs. S. F. Horton has been vis- ' iting relatives in Wake Fore-it and Richmond for a few weeks, Her mother, Mrs. W. II. Fuller, sister. Miss Willie Burt Fuller and Miss ; Katherine Patterson returned with ' her and will spend a few weeks in i Watauga. Miss Mattie Shenvood, who was; , operated on at Grace hospital several days ago, is improving rather slowly.' Mrs. Mattie Mast Lane of Florida! is spending several weeks with rela?J tives in the community. i The date for the opening of the Cove Creek hie-h sehnnt has hapvt apt 1 for Tuesday, September 4. It isj ; earnestly requested that parents; ; [ have their children in attendance on, the opening day. Further announce-; : ments will be made next week. Mrs. James B. Mast is spending; : several weeks with her parents in; Wilmington. Mrs. N. L. Mast was rather severe-' I ly injured a few days ago by a fail, j I However, she is now able to be up. ; Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Van Dusen j ; and family are visiting in the home1 : of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Horton. Mr. D. G. Brown is excavating; j preparatory to building a residence; I near the home of Mr. J. J. I.. Glenn, j , A series of revival meetings began : Sunday night at the Cove Creek Ban-' I list church. The pastor, Dr. W. O. I Gordon, is doing the preaching. | Work has been resumed on the( : splendid church building at Henson chapel. The church will be com-j pieted within a very short while. DEMC Best Interests of Northwes L.INA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 16, 1S?: hoover Outlines ( f/ii Issues of the N; IGHEIGHTS IN HOOVERS b< ACCEPTANCE SPEECT a; Highiigtte in the acceptance c* peech of Herbert Hoover Saturday 0 vere: * ai Opposition to the repeal of the J1 prohibition amendment and a pledge or enforcement of the laws enacted l! mder it. Farm relief through tariff protecion development of inland water l) .ranspoi n and federal aid for fnrnt st :i;:ation corporations. 11 An honest campaign with public a[ icvcugdng of all expenditures. aj Repeal of the "national origin". V. >asi= of the immigration laws. Endorsement of the principle of ollective bargaining and freedom in x" abor negotiations, with a pledge to lurtaii the excessive lise of injunc- li ions in labor disputes. A comprehensive and co-ordinated *! dan for waterway improvemonts, -j ?lood control, development of hydro- M rlectric power and irrigation. Further economy in government V y reorganization and grouping of ,J' governmental agencies dealing with Ci :he same general subject. \ ? C-o-cpore.i;ion betiveen go vernme it & and hufiness on a voluntary basis for he benefit alike of producer, dis? .ributor and consumer. Ll A foreign policy :ed seated to ? bringing about world pc-ace, but with a ho retention mea: . roe of a navy rs adequate for national defense. 1:1 Honesty in government with no [dace for cynicism in the creed of America. ' -Sl A declaration for religious toler-j SJ inee. j A call to the women and youth of 1 America to contribute their euthu- P Eiasm to the success of the Amvri- a can experiment in democracy. j u A pledge to adhere to the course a of government charted by President b Coolidge. si Stanford University Stadium. * Calif., Aug 11.?His voice heard v around the world. Herbert Hoover j <2 today enunciated the principles upon; which he asks the American people j | Lo send him to the White House as ^ the third successive Republican' a president. | ? He reiterated his stand against re- t peal of the isth amendment and the! rigid enforcement of enabling acts- t under it; proposed farm relief] ^ through a three-fold plan; declared; v for religious tolerance and promised! e the direction of economic progress! ? in support of the moral and spiritual! J progress of the nation. j , As he read slowly and concisely the 8.500-word message accepting c the nomination voted him by the v, Kansas City convention two months a ngo, the adopted son of California. .. faced a vast army of his countrymen j; liankeri tier ui>on tier in the huge|c imphitheater who received his decla-i , cations with noisy demonstrations, j J, Hoover chose this setting, here I upon the rolling campus of the uni- r cersity where he enrolled as a first . student, and his fellow citizens re-J a sponded with perhaps the greatest! outpouring that evei had attended a notification ceremony in any state in] f the union. More than 75,000 people were gathered in the stadium, at most filling it to capacity. Loud speakers, perched high upon, a column that towered above him as. 1 he road, carried his voice to the fur l g chest reaches of the bow:. Broad-' u casting apparatus transmitted hisl ,1 roiiie to more than 100 stations in; tl this country, a network reaching ; from border to border and coast t.i coast, while iiis utterances were u taken neross the seas on short wave ,, lengths to Great Britain, Australia,: the Hawaiian islands. the Philip- j f pines, in fact everywhere the Eng-: ^ tish language is spoken. i Just as Hoover had set out to j u make this rather unique campaign.! so his fellow citizens of California a strove to make this occasion differ-j s. cut 1.ICM11 ?il\ IH tutj M11U tIJilt ItUU | ^ gone before. Marching bands J j, stunting: airplanes and brilliant dav-j light fireworks furnished the fore- j] runner oi the speech making. The crou d bubbled over with I c enthusiasm and it gave the Repub-;u lican nominee a tumultuous welcome 0 its his open motor car drove into the cj amphitheater and circled the run-; ., riing track. Mrs. Hoover sat beside! ' him and joined in responding to the greetings. j s" Senator George H. Moses of New; r Hampshire, who notified the eandi-; date, and Chairman Work of the j, national committee, and other house! guests of the Hoovers entered the t stadium on foot and passed into the e ttand almost unnoticed as the crowd! ji glued eyes to the nominee's motor.* t: Small American fiags were waved in! ^ nison with music as the automobile1 moved at almost a snail's pace be- e hind an escort of i>t>lice. As Hoover; v a.. - v., ? : w. r. .,4.' siepiicu lui ntuii m; cite jjjcii-t.* in uu;ii, j; of the microphones, the enormous n assemblage arose and cheered him .. to the echo, as thousands of little'n American flags werte' again brought! c into action- Holding his hands!; clasped ir. front of him. the nomineej Jbowed to right and left and then' ? stood at attention as the massed1 hands played "The Star Spangled! s Banner." I a There was a real outburst right ati a the start of the address when Hcov-j 0 er announced that he accepted thej 0 nomination. Again the crowd was;t to its feet, cheering, whistling and! t waving flags. Hoover read from a c large type copy of his address es-l s peciohy prepared for him by the r Stanford university press and con- d tained in a brown leather .binder) t 1 )CRA t North Carolina >8 m. O. P. Position itional Campaign earing the university stamp. Again the crowd put its stamp of ppvoval on the speaker's promise to >mhiet an honest campaien, with nnnntr i. * --T ?*.* f-"11; ovtyuii'^ru XKJJL iKlUlltlV. nd not to use words to convey his leaning, not to conceal it. Hoover e-itated only briefly before cenr.uing his reading in a strong, clear >ice. He made no gestures and for ic roost part kept his eyas on the' tinted pages before him. * After listening to the first part of oove; s exposition of the :aim 'sit-; ation in practical silence, the crowd riplauded v.heri he declared that he on Id use the influence of his ofce to give the farmers the full enefit of historic Republican tariff plicy. This was the first phase of his ivm relief program. The second, lat for cheaper water transportaon through water outlets to the tlantic from the Great Lakes and ie Gulf of Mexico via the Missisppi received only scattering apxruse. The third proposition for rderal aid to farm-owned and farmj-moled corporations to take care f the surpluses., was received with realest enthusiasm. Emphasising his remarks only by 10 occasional thumping of the fo^r ingers of his right hand iaterr.ateiyn the board holding the copy of his [idress, Hoover followed his text pher close!;/, but otvasionaliy ansposed a sentence or changed a 'or?l without affecting the meaning. When he reached the prohibition . ction of his speech trie nominee lid : "1 do not favor the rep :.! of tho Sib amendmer.tr' A wave o: plause greeted that declaration . .. i nother rolled around the .stadium ith his declaration that the "soei d nd economic" experiment of prohi-! ition must be "worked out confcructivelj Mr. Hoover declared that crime nd disobedience of law "cannot be evmitted to break down the consti-i ution and laws of. the United tate>." Equal approbation was iyexi to the declarations that modi-' ication is nullification and that the Republican party denies the right of nyone to seek to destroy the puvoses of the constitution by indirer Hoover's declaration for religious ohrunce twice was interrupted by lamiclapping of thousands gathered i ritnin a short distance of the speak-! ir's stand. Another note of apiroval went up in response to the leelaration for honesty in governnent. The outline of the nominee's forage. policy for the peace of thcrqrld, hut with the maintenance of navy adequate for national defense ilso struck a responsive chord, as! lid Ins preachment on the uBcirine if eyual opportunity for al'.. irre pective of faith o; coior, whether; iRtive or foreign-horn, rich or poor. As the nominee in his peroration! iaid ltis trihute re President Coo!-j clge, there was another outburst of; nplause. iOOVER LEAVES DOOR OPEN ! AM DDnUJDITinM A1 1CCT1 AM i ?'.w? liiJi j ivn a njn Stanford University, Ca!., Aug.; 2.?Literally deluged with telerams, many ol" them front persons liknown to hint, Herbert Hoover toay was receiving the first reaction; a his address of yesterday accepting; lie Republican nomination. The general tenor of the message! as of such character as to bring ratification to the nominee, inn hej as awaiting editorial expressions, rotn the newspapers and other evi-j elites before undertaking to assess> tie effect his spc-ech may have had pon the country. Just as it was given the greatest' ttention by the seventy odd thou-! and people who were gathered in! tanford university stadium, the pro-j ibition declaration apparently at-' racted the greatest attention! hroughout the nation. While at least some of the politi-j al writers interpreted this as anItva-dry declaration, close friends; f the nominee placed a somewhat liferent construction on the ianguge. First olf they said that Hoover id not commit himself to the Veil-' tead act, and that he omitted any eference to that statute; they also1 sserted that "organized searching ivcstigation of the fact and causes"; reposed by him would go beyond' he abuses, which have grown up in avvying out the Volstead act: that : would be directed also to the qucs-; ion of the workability of the ores r.r law. Likewise these advisors contendd lhat in the very liatuve of its forking. tlie nominee's statement hat "modification of the enforceK'iit laws which would permit that rhich the constitution forbids us. is unification." left the door open for hanges in the present statutes if the nvestigation showed they were in, onilict with the eighteenth amend-' tent. While the Republican stondard earer reiterated his own view gainst the repeal of the eighteenth mendment. he stated clearly that no ne could denv the light of those oposing provisions of the constitu-j ion too seek to change it. He added, hat they were "not subject to eriti-, ism for asserting that right" but hat "the Republican party does de-: iy the right of any one to seek to' lestroy the purposes of the consti-' ution by indirection." T FIVE CENTS A COPY MRIIK. BROWN RUN DOWNBY CAR is In Serious Condition in Watauga Hospital, While Four Boys are * nelcS in Jail Without Bond Pending Outcome of Her Injuries Mrs. John K. Brown is in the Watauga hospital, serious^ injured, alter having been im. over by an automobile while walking on Highway 17, just within the city limits Saturday night. Four boys, the occupants of the car. are in ine ci.-unty jail without bond. They gave their homes a? Lenoir and t'nt-i; names as Coy Shoemaker, Arnold Sec rest, James Xeison and Era": Smit.:. Mrs. Brown was walking along the highway in the direction of Boone just east of th: Winkler filling station when the accident occurred. tTne was carrying her infant grandchild, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Morotz, ir, her. arms and it is said she was as far as ten or twelve feet off the edge of the hard surface when the oar struck her. Aside from minor cms add bruises the bal y was rot injured, while both of Mrs. Brown's legs were broken, the of them being crushed so badly it was at first thought amputation would h necessary, three ribs broken and fears are Still held that, internal injuries may develop. Latest reports from the hospital indicate her con-; ; is satisfactory, howevc . Police CjKief Garland and Deputy Sheriff Wyke wove on the scene of the accident within a few minutes and found that the wild drivt rs had run from the highway a short distance awav and had deserted the TUv. 7 \.<n . ixiici; Uk. us tecupnnt.s %vv/c found proceeding on foot toward ljcone while the fourth fell from the highway embankment near I auto, and was unconscious. Thinking: perhaps ho had sustained injuiie.s, he was taker, to the hospital, where it v-as found that he was drunk, and he promptly joined his companions in the county hostile. At about the same time a car driven by a Mr. Will Hodges was struck by another within 100 yards of the scene of the first accident. Mr. Hodges was severely cut about the head mid face by the glass from the windshield, hut suffered no serious injuries. The car which wrecked his Ford made a complete getaway. The Lenoir boys, aside from facing charges growing out of Mrs. Brown's injuries will he held accountable for driving "an automobile on the public highways while under the influence of whiskey. MISS MARY HOLSHOUSER F acial services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in the Presbyterian church here tor Mary Holshouser. daughter o.( Mr. and Mrs. \V. L. Hoishouser, whose, death c,ePilPA'il ii, n WrtcViinfffnit hnc-nitnl August *1, one 'lay following her 23yj birthday, ami following a baffling illness of several week-:. Mrs, HVushbuser htui been with her daughter during the illness as had other members of the family, at various times. Her sister, Kate Ilolsbouser. who came fvum New York wty where she had btiett in school, v. .is present when death came . The funeral services were 'conducted by Rev. dames 1. Vance, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Nashville, ear.., assisted by ltev. Obas. Mackarahtvr. her former pastor. The church was filled to overflowing with flowers from friends here and i? other parts of North Carolina', and from friends and associates in Washington, where Miss Holshnuser had been employed fey sonrj time in the veterans' bureau of the war department. Friends who filied the church tc its door; shared in the beautiful service of the afternoon. ' Members of the Christian Krvdeav- i or. who had been Miss Holshouser's ! associate? ar.d friends in that organization. carried the floral tributes to the church and to the cemetery. IheSe were Dorothy and Polly Hayes, Margaret Suddorth. Elizabeth and Helen Sudderth, Mary Bobbins, Pem Robbins. Corein Knight. L.oxs Klutz, Cora Greene and Anne Greene. Hugh William?. Don Greene Dewey Storey, George Bobbins, Spencer Greene and Max Cannon were pali bearers. F.ev. James I. Vance of Nashville will conduct the evening services at the Sandy Fiat B r-tist church on the fourth Sunday, ;t has been annotmc- t ed by the paste t. Key. E. D. Rob- ( bins. This church was organised in February with ten members and now has a membership of between fiftyfive and sixty. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Greene have as their guests this wee1.; Mrs. Greene's cousin. Miss Ocie Keavner and her brother. Lewis Sharpe, both of Hickory. Bailey Groome. progressive secretary of the Slatesville Chamber of Comnierse, and J. M. Deaton of Statesville, spent part of last week fishing ill Watauga county and while here were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Panella. Miss Dorothy Sudderth of Char- . lotte spent or.e week of her summer vacation in Blowing Rook with, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Sudderth. r Mrs. Beulah Kernodle with her son and daughter and Mr John >, Hewlett of Wilmington, N. CV, are spending this week with Mrs. Kernodle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Critcher. ..ifi'
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