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LJI1 jy paper Published in Burke County ine liurke t,ounty News rnncfti;(,ataj -mw oq iam Subscription Price $2.00 per Year in Advance ihe Morganton Herald S ' VOL. XXXVI. MORGANTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 24, 1921 NO. 35 ML DISPOSING EnURT IS if wmm cases fecial Term Making Headway With Heavy Docket; Liquor Prime Cause o f Ma jority of the Cases The ket one! week of. the special , of liurke Superior court has i r.iwA-h headway made in anunusu iiovy criminal docket. Many of Wj Vlc of liquor or have liquor as fiir "cause. The following is a brief tlino of the proceedings since our tort last week: ' Von Fleming, operating car while dru costs. ii; plead SuiltyJ fmed $25 and drunk; plead guilty; fined $25 and Mike Branch; manufacturing li- ..:ur. tiirrt wnre npnitpntiflrv. nuor: uuiiij' " . -. - 1 COLII L 1UUUU WK -w VV " l MA MA A Ski A a nnd conviction on me aamc tnaigc (The 1 1 A T i. onvin ironen n i Limi suun tallica . penitentiary sentence.) Grayson Moses; retailing; guilty; i months Gaston roads. L F. Willis; keeping liquor for c1p'. c-uilty; to be sentenced. Safchn Hogan, Fred Mabe and Hor ace Denton; gambling; plead guitty; each fined $20 and to pay one-third of .WSam Snipes; retailing; not guilty. Sell Mull; two counts, retailing; miiltv; 8 months uaston roaah. J F. Autrey, keeping hquor for gale"; plead guilty; judgment suspen ded upon payment of cost.;. Russell White, cursing on highway; plead guilty; 30 days on roads of Gaston county. . Russell White, driving an automo bile while drunk; plead guilty; four months' on Gaston roads. . Pint T.mvman. manufacturing li- qrer; pleads guilty; to be sentenced. T.vVa T.nwman. manufacturing li- DICK WILLIAMS GETS FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE Guilty of Manslaughter for Kill ing Pink Brittain; Mary Wil liams Released on Charge 1 " ' ' ' " 0 The most important case before Burke court of last week was that of Dick and Mary Williams who were charged with the murder of Pink Uritiain, their neighbor. At the conT elusion of the Slate's evidence the woman was released of the murder churge. The trial began on Thurs day morning and consumed two days. Late v Friday afternoon the jury re turned a verdict for Dick Williams of being guilty of manslaughter. Sentence was passed on Tuesday of this week five years hard labor in the State prison, sentence to begin at the expiration of a roads sentence of eighteen months which the prisoner drew for retailing. Mary Williams was given twelve months in jail af ter having been found guilty in re tailing cases against her. The selection of the jury for which a special venire of 75 had been sum moned, occupied several hours of the trial Thursday morning, but a good part of the State's evidence was in before noon. Officers who visited the scene of the tragedy the night that Brittain was killed were the first to take the stand. Deputies Ward and Scott told of being notified of the killing; of going to Williams' home, whei e they found in front of the door the body of Pink Brittain; of seeing the light in the house burning, but the occupants gone. At the home of Mike Branch, a brother-in-law of Williams, they found Dick and Mary whom they arrested and brought to jail. When the State rested that after noon the motion of non-suit as to Mary Williams was sustained by Judge Lane as was also the motion for overruling the count of first de gree murder aginst Dick Williams, who was the first to take the stand in his own defense. On the testimony of Ed Brittain, CHAUTAUQUA WEEK OPENS Oil MAY 171 - I, Morganton is Promised "Head line Features" For This Year's Chautauqua Pro gram; New Features. ror pleads milty; to be sentenced, son of the dead man, the State relied Joe Mull sentenced to -six years in penitentiary The secretary of the Morganton Chautauqua committee has received the following letter from the Red path . Chautauqua, with whom ar -rangements were made last year for a chautauqua for this year: "The chautauqua season wil soon be on. As the circuit is now routed, the tentative opening date of your Chautauqua will be May 17th. We will soon send you the definite dates. "The program promises to be unusually strong with a large number of headline features. The lecturers will discuss the great live questions before the American people, includ ing your most important community problems. There will be music for everybody, a big feature being a Singing Band. Of course there will again be an American Comedy, play ed by an experienced New York company. "ou find the Chautauqua this year a genuine business tonic a real Chautauqua that inspires, educates and stimulates. Many say it is the best thing that come to town during the year, and few institutions come to create a real community spirit. "We are: anticipating with great pleasure pur visit to your community. The year 1921 will be a good chau tauqua year. With your co-operation we can make it so for you." MRS. MENZIES ADDRESSES THE WOMAN'S CLUB Hickory Club Woman Guest and Speaker For Morganton Club; Urges Cooperation Mrs. Ed Menzies, of Hickory, was the charming guest Tuesday after noon of the Woman's Club and made a delightfully helpful and pleasing talk to the Morganton women who were so fortunate as to hear her. The meeting, which was well attend ed, was held in the Sunday school room, of the First Baptist church. Mrs. Menzies' message was one of enthusiasm and encouragement. She HARDING SELECTS MEMBERS OF CABINET Harding's Official Family Has Been Chosen and No Changes Are Expect ed; Its Members. ! LOCAL BRIEFS IN I AND AROUND TOWN Short Items of Local and Per sonal Interest Gathered During the Week. in his cabinet, and unless there are last minute changes the official circle of the next administration will be composed of these men: pointed out what can be accomplish-1 Secretary of state Charles Evans ed through the organized efforts of I Huges, of New York, former govern the women of a community and of '- justice of the Supreme court and A little daughter , was born on February 19th to Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Beach. Mr. J. M.. Milligan has moved his 1 m -m. m - . namiiy irom iuorganton back to his President-elect Harding has reach- j farm on Route 1. ed a tentative decision on every place j M- and Mrs C,hro T?nr MORGANTON BOY WINS IN MEDICAL CONTEST James J.. Kirksey One of Medi cal Students Selected to Go to New York City Hospital for its leading points. On their way home from cutting wood with Dug m r RoJnnrd lntfprv: nlpad cruil-1 Mitchell, he and his father stopped! Gratifying to Morganton friends tv- fined 50 and costs. a e Williams home, he said, to get I is the news that comes this week E P Dale, assault with deadly liquor. He knocked on the door: told I that Mr. J. J. Kirksey, a son of Mr. wpaBoir" plea nolo contendere accept- his business; heard the Williams! and Mrs. W. L. Kirksey and one of u- vnWmont suspended payment of wnnm ana was turning to leave. Morganton's most popular young " Jim Gettis et al; failing to make report Silver creek drainage com missioners, continued. H. 0. Keever, transporting liquor; plead guilty; to be sentenced. Ike Peterson, larceny; guilty; twelve months on Gaston roads. Peter Tallent, Marvin Tallent, Charlie Tallent and Ellis Yancey; as sault with deadly weapon; guilty; Peter Tallent fined $25; other Tallents $10 each and Yancey $75. Manuel Brittain, assault with dead ly weapon; plead guilty; fined $25 and costs. John Waddell and Clyde Pickler; retailing; guilty; four months each on Gaston roads. Euland Huffman; disturbing relig ious worship; not guilty. Zero Butler, operating car while drunk. Manuel Brittain. carrying conceal ed weapon; plead guilty; fined $50 and costs. David Lo?an and John Cook; man ufacturing liquor; guilty; 12 months each on Gaston roads. Lucius Sineleton: operating car 'while drunk; guilty; fined $25 and costs. Jim Lane, assault on female; guil ty; fined $25 and costs. Fred Mabe: retailing; plead guil ty; judgment suspended .upon pay ment of costs. John Hefner: disturbing election: Mined $100 and costs. Mary Williams and Dick Williams; Retailing; both guilty; Dick, eighteen norths on roads: Marv twelve i months in jail. Russell Saunders, houseburning, hot guilty. when a ' bullet crashed through the wall, and his father, who was stand ing in the yard, fell, exclaiming: "Ed, I'm shot," according to the Joy's tes timony. ' Mary Williams, following her hus band on the stand when the. defense had opened its case, told a story that coincided in its principal details with that told by the defendant. They d'd not know that Pink Brittain, who they maintained, was their friend, was in the party, having heard only Ed Brittain and Dug Mitchell. Both said that Ed Brittain threatened to force an entrance and since they knew that Dug Mitchell was their en emy, Dick shot through the wall to scare them away. Their contention was that they feared personal vio lence and that Dick was defending himself and his home when he shot. men, has been selected as one of three from a class of "one hundred and twenty at the University of Pennsylvania to go as a member of the interne staff in the New York City Hospital. It is a recognition of real worth and not only his family but many friends rejoice in young Mr. Kirksey's succees in the compe titive examination that resulted in his selection. The term in the New York hospital, which is recognized as one of the best in the country is eighteen months. Writing to Mr. Kirksey to notify him of the appointment, Dr. Charles B. Bacon, medical superintendent of the hospital, said: "I am advised by Doctor Steinach, chairman of the examining commit tee, that you successfully passed ex amination and are eligible for a the tendency that club work has to develop the right women for doing particular kinds of work. Her hearers were particularly in terested in the story she told of how the civic department of the commun ity club of Hickory was instrumental through its cemetery committee in raising $2200 for the improvement of the Hickory cemetery. She told of clean up days that her department she is chairman of the civic depart ment of the club - had carried through, of plans they had formu lated and carried through for beau tifying and cleaning the town and of other plans, in the making for fur ther work along these lines and in the schools. The work for and in the school is a very important part of i any club s work for after all the making of citizenship through the opportunity offered in the child life of the community is the biggest work any individual or organization can undertake. . -' ' The inspiration of Mrs. Menzies talk was of incalculable value to the Morganton club. Republican nominee for the presi dency. Secretary of the treasury Andrew W. Mellon, of Pennsylvania, a bank er and financier, member of a fam ily "reputed to be among the wealth iest in the country. Secretary of war John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts, former United States senator and in 1916 a candi ed last Thursday to their attractive new -bungalow on Burkemont avenue. Mr. J.ianly McDowell has , so far improved, as to have been able to be down town for a short time several days this week. "Terrace Place," the new street opening off West Union from Mr. A. C. Chaffee's property, has been grad ed and the street is being top-soiled this week. Mrs. F. K. Roof, who has been un der hospital treatment in Hickory for some time, returned home Saturday afternoon. Mr. Roof went down to accompany her home. - nends here will be interested to NOL PROS IS TAKEN IN THE CASE OF ECHARD Hickory Man, Accused of Being Implicated in Robbing Lip pard's Body, Released. Probably the final chapter of the sensational Lippard murder case, which has been for several months i matter of much interest throughout CITY MANAGER SYSTEM IS . COMING INTO FORM North Carolina cities are steadily the western part of the State, came ' drifting away from the aldermanic t o r-Wo T,locv whon RaHn:tnnform of city government in the di- date for the presidential nomination. iearn that Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Hen dncks, who have been living in Phoe nix, Arizona, have moved to Tucson, Ariz. The' Drexel high school will give its play, "Out in the Streets," to morrow night, February 25. It is hoped that there will be a large at tendance. Miss Annie May Conley, of Ches terfield, who underwent an operation for appendicitis last week at Grace Hospital, is steadily improving. It is thought that she will soon be able to return home. Dr. J. K. Hall, of Richmond, Va., was unanimously re-elected secretary and treasurer of the Tri-State Medi cal Society at Spartanburg, S. C., at the meeting held there recently. Dr. Hall married Miss Laura Ervin, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Er vin, of Morganton. Friends of Mrs. J. T. Regan, of Morganton, will be glad to learn that she is improving followiner an onera- tion at the Grace Hospital. Mrs. Re gan sustained a fall this week which resulted in serious injury but re ports from her bedside today stated that she is getting along very welL Hickory Record, 19th. Attorney general Harry M . Daugherty, of Ohio, who managed the pre-convention campaign resulting in Mr. Harding's nomination. Postmaster general Will H. Hays, of Indiana, chairman of the Republi can national committee. - Secretary of the navy Edwin Den by of Michigan, a former member of Congress who has served as an en listed man in both the navy and ma rine corps. Secretary of - the interior Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, now a Uni ted States Senator. Secretary of agriculture Henry Wallace of Iowa, editor of farm pub lications. Secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover, of California, former food administrator and conspicuous lead er in various movements for Europe an relief. Secretary of labor James J. Da vis, of Pennsylvania and Illinois, a former union steel worker, who has become highest official of the Moose fraternity. The lawyers' arguments and the I place on our interne staff. Allow me charge occupied much of the time Friday, the defense being represent ed by A. A. Whitener and Avery '& Hairfield and Solicitor Huffman pros ecuting. . ' ' ' BUSINESS PROSPECTS T GOOD l MORGAN ON Merchants Are Optimistic and Spring Business is Open ing in Full Swing. MRS. STEIDLEY TO HOLD EASTER MEETING HERE Evangelistic Worker Who Was With McLendon Party Com ing to Methodist Church Morganton Methodists consider jnemselves and the town particular- :? IOrtlirtnto in Viq ontinnnpempnt. at Mrs. C. L. Steidley, who did such I -"ueriui worK nere last summer as co-worker of Rev. Baxter McLen lon is eomim? tn thp. Methodist lie sori(.o ...:n i : ir will uegui uii ouuuajr, Jarch 13th, and will close EasterJ .unaay, March 27th, held each day 3 and 7.?n . Mrs ;n j Rction tn Mof ou ;e Bible teacher of unusual ability rl an ovangelist of remarkably grip ? power. The town is bound to messed by her coming. OPENING OF TEA ROOM haf ..e?'ay and is already proving u"K xcii uteu in tuc -,v- moo uay jjuti uiiac was 4oor x0nc"ura2in. The room, next to the Western Union, has been "eshened walls, draperies, flow- 1Ppearan a mosz mviung Morganton business men are ap proaching the spring season very op timistically. Almost without excep tion they express themselves as be lieving that the depression, which was never so marked here as in many places over the country, is passing rapidly. Practically every one of them says that business this spring and summer will be as good or bet ter than the early part of last year. With the arrival and opening of their lines of new merchandise local merchants are taking on a spirit of business optimism and are cheered by the prospects ahead. All say they expect a good season. to congratulate you, for being se lected from one hundred and twenty men, coming from various State uni versities." It is also interesting to note that Mr. Kirksey is on the honor roll of twenty-five of the class . of '21 of the University of Pennsylvania. Huffman accepted nol pros with leave in the proceedings against Carroll Echard, the Hickory jitney driver who was thought to have been asso ciated with the Hefner brothers in the robbery of Glenn Lippard's body. It will be recalled that Cecil and Dock Hefner and Lone" Young drew penitentiary sentences at the Decem ber, term of Burke court, . and that last week Baxter Hildebrand submit ted to manslaughter, making the fourth conviction in connection with Lippard's murder. Hildebrand's will probably be pronounced this morn ing, and the four men sent to Ral eigh this week. Last week the grand jury found "not a true bill" against Vernon Laf one and Dan Sipe, two Hickory boys whose names were given in one of Docke Hefner's "conf essions",- as implicated in the robbery of Lip pard's body. Not enough evidence could be found against the boys to bring them into the case. FREE SEEDS, WHILE THEY LAST The News-Herald has received the following letter from Congressman Clyde R. Hoey: "I have had mailed to you a sack containing several hundred packages of garden seed which I had left over after filling all the personal applica tions from your county and I thought your readers might be interested in receiving these packages of seed, and that it would not be much trou ble to yoil to deliver them, if they called at your office." The seeds are here and while they last we will take pleasure in giving them to farmers and gardeners. nil i. tue xeiiow wiiu fcayo urran for his town! The bill now pending in the legis lature authorizing a bond election for schools of Lincolnton of $200,000 is one of many bond issues proposed for school buildings. Gaffney, S. C, votes next month on $200,000 for a high school' building, and Asheville votes on a $55.0,000 bond issue for new school buildings. Greensboro re cently voted one million for schools and High Point $000,000. FEDERAL ROAD BILL KILLED While the North Carolina legisla ture is putting through a $50,000,000 bond issue- for good roads, the senate of the United States last Friday kill ed, so far as this session is concern ed, the house bill to authorize a Fed eral contribution of $100,000,000 to ward the construction of highways during the next fiscal years. Advocates of the good roads legis lation in the senate had a majority, .but not the two-thirds majority re quired to suspend the rules and make the $100,000,000 item in order in the postoffice appropriation bill. Senat or Swanson, of Virginia, who offered the bill, will try again during the ses sion to get the measure up separate ly, but the prospect of success is re mote. North Carolina's great roads pro gram was again called to the atten tion of the senate by Senator F. M. Simmons. Under the Swanson amendment he said his State would receive a maximum of not more than $4,000,000 out of the general federal fund, while North Carolina was will ing to bond itself or 12 times that amount to promote highways. The debate also produced a shorp colloquy . between Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, and Senator Sim mons. The latter took exceptions to the sectional issued raised by Senat or Moses, who complained that the federal funds would go largely to the west and south. The senate's action does not per manently kill Federal , aid. It indicat esmanently kill Federal aid. It indi cates, however, there will be a change in the methods of distributing Feder al funds among the States. Chair man Townsend, of the postoffice com mittee, alleged there is much waste under the present system and the Federal government should check up mor closely the disposition of funds. EXTRACT PLANT IS DOUBLINGCAPACITY Local Plant Will Increase Out put of Tanning Extract from Eighty to One Hundred Sixty Barrels Daily. The capacity of the Burke Extract plant is being doubled, the output of tanning extract to be increased from eighty to one hundred sixty barrels per day with the installation of the new machinery that recently arrived and is now being placed in position. This plant is run in conjunction with the Burke Tannery, being owned by the same company, "Kistler,Lesh & Co. The extract from -the chestnut wood is used for general' tanning pur poses. It was erected several years ago and employs, on an average, forty men. Mr. J. A. Shiflet is the superintendent. Think three times before you speak ajid .then give the other fellow a chance to make a fool of himself. Queen Elizabeth was one of the first women to smoke. REVENUE BILL CARRIES 5-CENT PROPERTY TAX R. E. Powell, writing from Raleigh to the Charlotte Observer yesterday reports that carrying on ad valorem tax of five cents on the hundred dol lars for schools and -a graduated in come tax ranging from one to three per cent, the revenue act for 1921 was introduced in the lower branch of the general assembly tonight and placed on its first reading. It anticipates a little more than ten millions of dollars for the main tenance of the State government during the coming year and for the support of the educational charitable institutions. The ad valorem tax is contrary to the hope of the "best minds" in the legislature, but with its announcement is the statement that North Carolina cannot hold a progressive stride without it. The introduction of this bill in the house tonight by Governor Dough ton, and defeat before a committee this afternoon of the 1921 prohibition rection of the commission form, the city manager form, or a cdmbination of the two, according to a report made to the North Carolina club at the University of North Carolina by P. A. Reavis, Jr., of Louisburg. As to the proper choice among these three kinds of government Mr. Reavis thought Tar Heel cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants would find the combination of the commis sion form and city manager form best suited for their needs and he laid special stress on the amended charter to be submitted to the people of Greensboro March ' 1. For cities under 10,000 in poulation he favor ed the city manager plan. "The large cities usually have many industries and an element of labor which must be taken into con sideration in recommending govern mental reform," he said. "Organized labor everywhere sanctions the commission-manager plan of government because it eliminates the-usual polit ical harrangues. ' j "The commission-manager plan is more dependable in. a large city where there is usally 'more legislat ive and routine matters than can be handled by a single individual, but all cities of less than 10,000 popula tion no matter whether they are in dustrial or not, will find it more ef ficient to use the city-manager plan. It eliminates the expense, of the mayor and the aldermen, who are usually paid for their services." Elizabeth City, - Gastonia, . Golds boro, Hickory, High Point, Morgan ton and Thomasville were- cited as city-manager cities in North Caro lina. Kinston said Mr. Reavis, is thrashing the plan out before its al dermanic council, with the expecta tion of putting the question to the people at a near date. Durham is considering the matter al; its aider manic meetings, ajid Greensboro sub mits its amended charter to the peo ple March 1. In 'discussion at the club meeting it developed that nearly air larger cities m North Carolina had aban doned the aldermanic plan. "No sin gle movement m the whole domain of municipal affairs has had such rapid a,nd widespread growth as the com mission form of government in Amer ican cities," said Mr. Reavis. THE FIRST CONTRIBUTION TO MORGANTON LIBRARY Woman's Club Takes Lead in Movement for Public Library By Voting $300 to Cause The first definite step toward the library, which public spirited citizens of Morganton have been hoping for some time to see established, was taken by the Woman's Club on Tues day afternoon when it was voted to donate $300 of what is known as the Chautauqua fund to this cause. With this as a nucleus, it is thought that it will not be difficult to raise a fund sufficient to assure the establish ment and maintenance of a public li- brary for Morganton. The club has a special library com mittee, of whic Mrs. E. McK. Good win is chairman. Mrs. Goodwin stated yesterday that the committee had received already a promise of the donation of a complete set of O'Henry's books, as soon as the li brary is established. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS RW OR BURKE Items of Interest Gathered From Different Sections of the County By News Herald Correspondents WORRY PINK CORPENING ELECTED PRINCIPAL COLORED SCHOOL P. E. Corpening (Pink Corpening), formerly of Morganton but located for some time in -Charlotte, has been elected principal of thecolored school here for next year. Rev. R. L. Tillery has been serving the school in that capacity this year, r , DR. SIKES AT GLEN ALPINE Dr. Sikes. from Greensboro, will preach at Glen Alpine Thursday evening, February Z4tn, at o'clock. Miss Jean Pratt' arrived from New York Monday. Miss Pratt will have charge again of the millinery de partment of Lazarus Bros. The Western Newspaper Union an nounces that 94 per cent of the bus iness concerns which failed in 1920 were non-advertisers. . Mrs. J. L. Rea, of Scranton, Pa., reached here Tuesday and will spend some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Corwening. Miss Margaret Arney, after spend ing a few days with relatives, return ed home Wednesday. Mr. Ernest Crawley, of Quaker Meadows, was a visitor in our section.. Wednesday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Arney Tuesday, February 15, a daughter. weight eight pounds. Master Carl Pritchard spent Thursday night with his uncle, Mr. H. A. Pritchard. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Michaux spent Sunday night with their son, Mr. R. V. Michaux, in Morganton Miss Dbnnie Lowery is spending a few days at home on account of the illness of her little sister, Dome. Mrs. R. P. Laxton spent Thursday night in Morganton with relatives. Mr. Ben Watkins spent the week end at home. Mrs. J. M. Kincaid has been confin ed to her room but is improving. Mrs. A. P. Anderson spent a few days the past week with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Houck. Messrs. J. M. Bean and Sidney Pritchard made a trip to Adako Sat urday. Mr. Mart Lingerfelt moved his family the past week to Miss Z. B. Henderson's farm. Messrs. J. H. Dale and Robert Cope, of Morganton, were in our sec tion Monday on business. (Continued on sixth page.)
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