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7 f flOWEftS COLLECTION A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs, " - - VOU IX NO. 35 Salisbury, N. O., Wednesday, August I3th, 1913 vu.h. STcivAnT, editor km 5 a yoi Ij HI I SISTER OF OBE DAVIS FUL FILLS MOSAIC LAW. H.11.6TM, tiirdsrer, Blockadtr, Wife Butir, Law Breaker tod Wealthy, Meets His Reward. The simple story cf Grubbs fin Ub it as follows: H. Clay Grubb, the leading cit izen of Bjone Township, and one of Davidson Couuty's most widely known citizens, was shot and killed by his wife, Emma F. Grabb, at their home near Church land Saturday morning at about 1 o'clock. The news of th? killing oreated a sensation, the like of . which has not been known in Da vidson County in many years. 'The first word of the tragedy reach ed Salisbury before day break and at an early hour Sheriff Shaw, of Davidsou County! was on the soene. - Coroner Peacock, who lives at Thomasville, was notified, and was on band by 10 o'clock. He summoned and swore in the fol lowing jury: John W. Lambeth, S. W. Fink, Dermont Shemwell, George F Moreflld, jJ$F . Hedriok and Charles Swioefyttd. The killing was witnessed by three children of Mr. aud Mrt. Grubb, youug Zeb V. Grubb, 15 years old, and their two daugh ters, Misses Beulah aud Edua Grubb. The first witusa cailtd was the boy. He said that his father came home Friday night only slightly intoxisated. He continued drink ing after he oame home and by 10 o'clock he was very drunk. Mrs. Grubb had gone to her room and the girls had gone up stairs to their room. A little after 10 o'clock Mr. Grubb entered his wife's room and began' to ourae htr. This was followed' oy Sid-" lence, the drunken man dragging bis wife from the bed and beating bar savagely. The boy ran in and begged his father to let the moth er alone but he responded by cursing his son and ordering him from the r.iom The boy did not know how long this oontinued. He said that he went out of the bouse to be away from it. Final ly the noise ceased and he return ed to the living room and saw his father on the davenport close to the door, apparently asleep. About 80 minutes, the boy thought bad elapsed, when his mother en tered the room with a pistol in her hand and advanoing toward the dtvenpoit, fired at her hus band, while he was yet asleep or just waking up. The boy was not oertain whether the shot was fired when, bis father was asleep or not. At the first shot Grubb leaped to bia feet and went toward his wife, who had fired twioe more and he fell dead. Miss Beulah Grubb, who was examined next, said that when her father became boisterous and abusive, she and her sister, Mibb Edna, went to their rooms and a after 10 o'clock he began beating her mother. 8he oould hear her mother's screams and the sound of the blows. After he had beaten her for some time he called to his daughters to come down, telling them that heas going to kill their mother, his son Zeb and then he was going to kill Lester Davis, Mrs. Grubb's brother. When Miss Beulah went down she found her mother in a terrible condition. Her faoe was covered with blood and blood was oosidg from her hoes. She was barely able to tand up and was begging piteous ly for meroy . Her father contin ued to beat her mother over the head, using a pistol, which he held in his hand throughout the whole affair, and threatening death to the whole family. Finally, after he hid tired of beating Mrs. Grubb, he lay down on the davenport and said he would reat awhile. The last thing be said before going to sleep was that he would kill his wife as soon as he got up. He was asleep in a dinute or two. Several minutes lapsed, during which Mrs. Grubb sent hat ion Zeb to the kitchen 0 IIIERHRIBU for her pistol and,orept out of the room, going: to her'' own room. Miss Beulah said that her mother later came around on. the poroh and sat down at the door, on the outside, olose to the davenport en which lay her husband. When he made a movement' as if to rise Mrs. Grbb ran in and shot him three times, killing him almost instantly. The other daughter, Mies Edna Grubb, corroborated her sister's statements and added a few other details of importance. She aaid that after her father bad beaten her mother with his fists he seized her by her hair and dragged her from the room and out to the automobile shed in the rear of the house, where he got his pistol. He then dragged her baok in the house, using the pistol ai a club and beating her every step. He struck her once aoross the side of the head with suoh force that she dropped to the fibor and was al most unconscious. She I bought for awhile that her mother was dead. Mrs . Grubb revived slight ly at last and asked to be allowed to get some water from the poroh. Thinking that she was planning tjo escape, Grubb olutohed her kirt and followed her to the porch, holding the piatol on her and telling her that he was not going to-let her go to her brother. Lester Davis, but was going to kill her and settle with Lester later. He brought her baok into the living room and threw her down on the davenport, telling her that he was going to kill her as soon as he rested. Miss Edna corroborated her sister as to the pistol and other matters and said that after her father had fallen asleep, she help ed her mother to crawl through the room, she slipped around the back way and helped her mother tororawl through the window. She' advised her to run away. Mrs. Grubb told her that she was not able to go, she was so badly hurt, and that she believed that she oould never stand another blow. They were sitting on the poroh, close to the door, the mother crying, when they beard Grubb move as if to get up. The daughter says that the mother screamed and ran into the room and shot three times. When the taking of testimony was completed tne coroner was requested to bring his jury to Mrs. Grubb's room, as she wish ed to make a statement. They found her swathed in bandages almost from head to toe. The bridge of her nose was broken and one ear was split frcm a blow with the pistol of her husband. Both ; arms had been horribly bruised, and lacerated and her legs were a mass of bruised flesh. Her injuries are serious and very painful, but she will reoover. She was very cool and self .possessed and told a story that ood firmed the testimony of her daughters in every detail. She said that she was convinced that her husband would have killed her if she had not shot first and she killed him to protect herself and ohildren. After hearing the evidence the jury retired for a few minutes and returned with a verdiot that "the deceased, H. Clay Grubb, came to his death from a gunshot wound at the hands of his wife, Emma; F. Grubb, and that she was justifiable in her act." The Grubb place was overrun with people. All of the neigh bors for miles around were there and all of them had stories to tell. A Mr. Bernhardt, who lives on the place, told of seeing Grubb chase his wife around the house with a pitchfork four weeks ago and one of the daughters told of her father throwing dishes, etc , at the mother a short time ago His friends, to judge from things they said, had been expeoting something to happen for the past two years, but all lcoked for serious: iniury to the wife or ohildren. But the talk of the neighbors was not all to his hurt. Many told of the fine work he had done of recent years toward the up building of the community and his willingness to" help every worthy cause. He was-s big hearted, generous, J good-natured man, and kind to his family when not under ibe influence. -of liquor, and numbered his friends in the county by the score. His neigh, bors say that to him is largely due the wonderful progresi Boone township has made during the last two years in road building. At the timer of his death he was engaged in rebuilding, at Urge expense to himself, a section of the central highway through Tyro township, and it is known that he had planned many .other things for the good of his oounty. Mr. Grub was a man of quick temper, ready to resent an affront and was often in trouble. About nine years ago he shot and killed his wife's brother, Obe Davis, and this killing oast a shadow over his life that he was never able to escape.- He and Davis had had-a business misunderstanding and both threatened to kill the other. Grubb "drew first" and killed Davis. The case was removed to Rowan oounty for trial and Grubb was found not , guilty, his plea being sslf defense. Mr. Grubb's real estate hold ings were large. - No one knows how much he was worth. He told a friend in Lexington a short time ago that be was worth half a million dollars, but that he owed about $125,000. He owned 6,500 aores of lsnd in Rowan and Davidson oounties, the most of it being first-class farming land and a great deal of valuable real es tate in Salisbury, inoluding the "Grubb Building," Salisbury's skyscraper. The home place, with about 800 aores in it was in his wife's name. The funeral of Grubb was held at the house Sunday afternoon, Rev. V. if. Swain, of Lexington, officiating, and the interment took place at the Grubb private ceme tery near the home. Those who were present say the attendance was unusually large, probably 8,000 people being present. Mrs. Grubb, however, still suffering from her brutal treatment, was unable to attend. She had the body brought to the door of her room and viewed it before burial. Grubb was a member of the Salis bury Lodge of Elks and the floral offering by this lodge was conspic uous. nialster Praise this Laxative. Rev. H i Stubenvoll of Allison, in praising Dr. King's New Life Pills for constipation, writes: Dr. King's New Life Pills are such perfect pills no home should be without them." No better reg ulator for the liver and bowels. Every pill guaranteed. Try them. Price 25 o at druggists. Hoi ti Preside Eggs. During the summer months .mm a mm eggs are plentiful and icneap. Every year I put up a few in the water glass solution to be used when the eggs are scarce and high in prioe. I make this solution by mixing one gallon water-glass witn 12 gallons of water previously brought to the boiling point . The eggs are placed in stone jars with the little end turned down, and enough of the solution poured over them to thoroughly cover them. Of oourse the eggs are not as good as fresh laid ones, but for boiling one can scarcely notioe the difference. Never put fertile eggs in this solution as they will not keep well. Take the males from the pens before you preserve any eggs. E. M. Best, in The Progressive Farmer. The Best Pain Killer. Booklen's Arnica Salve when ap plied to a out, bruise, sprain, burn or scald, or other id jury of the skin will immediately remove all pain. E. B. Chamberlain of Clinton, Me , says: "It robs onto and other injuries of their terrors. As a healing remedy its equal don't exist." Will do good for yon. Only 25a at druggists. BOB BUNK HI TIE WEST. m Ei-eeienw is jwniij; lie west aai MllUg 1 MBBSIS lEpilSSIOR. While the papers are suggesting the possibility of Ex-Governor! R. B. Glenn - running for the Senate, and he has announced that hii decision in the matter ill be made known early in September, he is not talking poli- tics right now, but is out in the West making speeches which the papers say are good speeches, but all North Carolina knows that ex- uoveruor uienn is a gooa speaker . The speeches were re- ported as being for the elevation y- mT t ? - I of man making all seotions have a better opinion of the South, for these he always upholds the South and its policies and shows the worm our siae oi sue case. The Perry, Iowa, Advertiser has the following to say of his ad- dress there: "Then in the evening Governor Robert B. Glenn, of North Caro- iina, picked up the thread that bad been spun from the- indivi- dual mind and, placing tnem in the loom of the republic, wove a cloth of unity which he styled Patriotism, and bound the in- dividal beside his fellows, fast and sure. T "Governor Glenn has all the Southerner's love and right of . fair dealing. Ho advocates the recognition oi every oreatning, at a a . 1 1 I speaking numanas a orotner ana sister, honoring them not for the position oocupieo; so much s tor wv wt uuub, 'A. tendency of tne ag or ratner tne culmination of all .ages, toward the inflation of the iron heel of oppression upon tne poor ana sne weak and the undermining of the generation tcnoome in physicaU-as wen as moxAi sirengin . , .;. Hif.utter bate pf -oppression, sue aeierence ana lawmag o euo- cess when help toward that sue- . i r . . I I oess was denied, his broad plH lorm oi ngia aisoipune xor me cnild, Kindly ana lovmgiy ea- mimssereu wnere possiDie, au won i i i i I the hearty applause of the aud ienoe whioh followed his reason ings aud enjoyed his arguments. "He is a great man in the nation today. He has held posi tions of honor and trust from his mfmm, mtfrm BAM A AeaA bluff, ffood-natured. kindly old gentleman. He impresses you as willing to live in very truth striv- intr always to live ud to the letter to the ideal he pleads for. "His closing remarks were a tirrina thrillinsr anpeal for patriotism, right living, pro- tection of ohildren. their enlight- enment and betterment, the love nf . flair nf m. nnitari nnnntrv. .nrl w mm B f i better, higher. per. truer man and womanhood in our country." To Ike Faisers ef this Sectlea. TheJIprth Carolina Department of Agrioulture will have a limited number of samples of material for the inoculation of Crimson olover, Burr olover, Red clover, Vetch and Alfalfa for distribution this fall. Anyoneintuis section 01 tne Ol.l I 4. 1 of these orcps this fall for the first time should send in his applies tinn at nnA fnr Annnffh nf thia ; i.ta fn. aore. There is no charge for the material, bat each man is reauir ed to report results. Applications must reaoh ub at least a month before seed are to be sowed. J. L. Buroebs, agronomist, Raleigh, N. 0 . Remarkable Car of Dysentery. "I was attaoked with dysentery about July 15th, and used the doctor's medicine and other reme dies with no relief, only getting worse all the time. I was unable to do anything and my weight droDDed from 145 to 125 pounds. I suffered for about two months when I was advised to use Cham berlein's Oolio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I need two k.tiK. Af U and it fflta ma narm - anent relief, writes B . W. Hill of Snow Hill, N. C, For sale by all IWIUVI " " " dealers. Break Wheat Land at Ones. . T.ftnri that: iu n nm Isina fallnor and ia intended for wheat 8hoald be broken & once and kept worked with a disk barrow every few weeks until time to sow wheat. Land plowed in July or the first of August will usually make two or three times as much wheat per acre as land that is not plowed until time to sow wheat. The writer has tried the experiment and knows whereof he writes. An experiment in Kansas in 1911 gave similar results, though even more . 1 .a .a a . stnxing tnan tnose obtained in North Carolina. In Kansas, land well broken July 15 and cultivated every three weeks until wheat was sown, yielded about four or five times as muoh per acre as that where the lsnd was not broken until tney were ready to sow wheat; If you are going to sow wheat there should be no time lost in plowing the land, provided it is not lying fallow. But if it has a crop of peas or a orop of loom on it, that is a very different proposition. In that case, when tne time comes, ?ut off tne peas or harvest the corn and disk the land well and it will be read? to sow to wheat. T. B. Parker, in The Progressive Farmer. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Met cury L8 meroury wm lurely destroy the Bente Qf 8men and completely de ranKe ths whoie -ystem when MieriDg it through the muooue iurfaoeB Suoh arti0iea .hould never be used except on preaorip- kjont repUtabIe physicians, ag tne damaKe thev will do is ten fold the good you cft1 poi0iy derive from tnem Hall's Catarrh Cnr. mannfaoiIired W F. J. Cheney & 00 f Toledo, O., con UW no meroury and is Hakeoi infj.u--MinBfdirWtlv Tioon uhe blood and maooaB BaraCes of LKa otom in kn.in n.u. - . - Catarrh Cure be sure you get the iM( Ifc ig tftkeQ iaternally -nd made in Toledo. Ohio, bv F. ' J Che & Oo Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. Prioe 75o per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for oonstipation. it is not too early o oegin plan I m it . nin8 lor gating wie oats sowea early enough this fall. I ear at- ter year oats are sowed during November or left until February or Mob, that jnight, haye been P during tne latter pan oi i. . . . beptemter or during the ntBt halt of October, if the work had been better planned It 18 better to SOW OStS in OOt- t0Di either broadcast or in drill, two drills between e row early in ujtooer tnan to sow tnem next February. It is always a diffi cult matter for the ootton and I oorn farmer to get the oats in ear ly enough, but every effort prati- I cable should be exerted to get them in before the middle of Oo tober and in the northern part of I those sections where oats are sow ed in the fauf they should be sowed by Progressive Farmer. l uo to tne Mocxsvnie pionic on Dext Thursday, August 14th, Mothers! Have Your Children Worms Are they feverish, restless, n6r- voua, lrritanie, dizzy or constipat ed? Do they oontinually pick heir nose or grind their teeth? Have they cramping pains, irre gular and ravenous appetite? These are all signs of worms. Worms not only cause your child suffering, but stunt its mind and growth. Give "Kiokapoo Worm Killer" at onoe. It kills andi re moves the worms, improves your child's appetite, regulates stomach and liver and bowels. The symp toms disappear and your ohild is made happy and healthy, as natnre intended. All druggists - t i tier- -rr f -r ,. 01 DJ mai1 2500 wxapoo inuian Medicine Company, Philadelphia, I Pa., at. Louis, Mo. Value if Com Crept. A few of the valuable, features of a cover orop may be named as follows : 1. It prevents loss of soil fer tility by washing.' Lands that lie bare during the winter may lose more plant food by leaching than is used by the crop that, grows there during the summer; 2. It furnishes grsing to stock at a time when food of all kinds is sceroe. It also prodaoes health and vigor in animals and keeps up a good flow of milk of dairy cows. Any successful system of live-stock production is largely dependent npon winter as well as summer grasing. 8. If we ever establish an en during and prosperous agrioulture in the State we shall have to get humus (vegetable or organic mat ter) into our soils. Growing a wintercover crop is one of the ways of doing this. All farmed lands should grow at least two orops per year, a sale crcp and a soil improvement crop whether this is loft ou-thV land or first fed to nock aud then returned there. A feline in soil fertility is not al ways due to a lack of nitrogen, potash or phosphorio aoid . It is often due to the absence of hu mus Suffered Eczema Fifty Well. Years, Now Seems a long time to endure the awful burning, itching, smarting, skin-disease known as "tetter" another name for Eczema. Seems good to realise, also, that Dr. Hobeon s Eoxema Ointment has proven a perfect oure. Mrs; D. L. Kinney writes r "I cannot sufficiently express my thanks to you for your Dr. Hob son's Ecsema Ointment. It has cured toy tetter, which has' troubl ed me for oyer fifty years." All draggists, 'oT by mail 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Co. Str Louu, Mo., of Philadelphia, Fa. North Carolina Joins tie Manual High- wajs Assosiallos. As the result of action taken at its annual convention at More head City, North Carolina, the North Carolina Good- Roads As sociation has become the North Carolina Division of the National Highways Association. This amalgamation of the state organi sation follows closely the amal gamation of the Ohio Good Roads Federation with the National Highways Association, whioh took place last week . - In connection with the above it might be observed that it makes some folks awful tired to look over some of the illustrated mat' ter being sent out by the "good roads' association. For instance they hunt the very worst piece of road that can be found, g9t a buggy or wagon mired in it just as badly as possible, then photo graph it as a typical Georgia road, North Carolina, Tennessee or some other states highways and strive to make it appear as its perpetual condition. SALISBURY UAH'S LUCKY FIND Will Interest Reefers if Tie Carolina Watcsaaa. Those having the misfortune to suffer from backache, urinary dis orders; gravel, dropsical swellings, rheumatio pains, or other kidney and bladder disorders, will read with gratification this encourag ing statement by a Salisbury man. S. J. Horton, 208 W. Monroe street, saiisoury, a. u., says: "For some time my kidneys were giving me a great deal of trouble. My baok was very weak and lame and the kidney secretions were too freequest in passage, causing an noyance. Doan:s Kidney Pills cured me and I have not had any kidney complaint smoe, am a a rne atrove statement was given February 2, 1911, and when Mr Horton was interviewed on March 2, 1912, he said: "All I said some time .asto recommending Doan's Kidney Pills was correot. There is no doubt about Doan's Kidney Pills being a valuable remedy." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 eenta Foster-afilburn Oo., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doans and take no other. : UR. BOUSHTOM CUTTIMS EXPENSES. Ii Is Cbilrnti of ai liportaat Comnlttta , and Is Kept Quite Busy. Washington, Aug. 12. At the first regular meeting held by the newly organized House Committee on Expenditures in the Depart ment or Agriculture, of whioh Congressman R, L, Dough ton is chairman, the committee decided to make a ohange in the system of rendering itemised accounts by the department which means a saving of approximately $17,000 a year. . This is the first of several changes Chairman Doughton hopes to bring about to out down the ex penses of the Department of Agri oulture by eliminating some of the unnecessary clerioal labor, and thereby increase the amount available for the instruction and aid of the farmers. As soon as Mr. Doughton was appointed ohairman of this com mittee about montha ago he set to work to acquaint himself with the duties of the oommittee, and went over all the old files and docu ments on hand. He was soon struck with the idea that a good deal of the itemised bookkeeping prepared by the department for examination by the oommittee was useless and an unnecessary expense. He took the matter up with the Seoretary of Agriculture to gain his opinion and the solio- tor of the department was also oonsulted to see if the change oould be made in accordance with the law, and both gave a favorable opinion to the chairman. As the financial records of the department are always open for inspection by the oommittee or any member of Congress, the com mittee today decided the prepara tion of the report was; hardly nec essary.. ., Hereafter the report will be made up more intelligently and lees cumbersome with a great sav ing in cost. Mr. Doughton's committee is still working without a regular olerk. Although the new com mittees were all named about two months ago, no provision was made for paying the salaries to the committee clerks, and until suoh an appropriation is made the bulk of the work of the oommittee will fall upon A. J. Fletcher, who has been Mr. Doughton's seoretary for quite a while. How the Trouble Starts. Constipation is the cause of many ailments and disorders that make life miserable . Take Cham berlain's Tablets, keep your bowels regular and you will avoid these diseases. For sale by all dealers . How to Fight Bedbugs. He is particularly obnoxious beoause he attacks when we are s least able to defend ourselves, oan live and whet his appetite for warm human blood for a year or more and is so flat that Mark Twain says he "can hide between the same layer." It is a common mistake that bats, swallows and pigeons introduse them into the house. The variety which infests them does not attack man. Wooden beds, carpets whioh ex tend to the wall and cracks in floors and baseboards afford ex cellent shelter. There are many poisons but the cheapest and best seems to be the liberal use of gas oline or kerosine, whioh are not only oheap and penetrating but kill the eggs as well as the bed bug. They may be applied with a rag, spray or sewing machine oil oan. A word of caution as to the inflammability of gasoline is never superfluous .Mrs. W. N. Hutt, in The Progressive Farmer. Costly Treatment. "I was troubled with constipa tion and indigestion and spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and treatment," writes 0. H. Hines, of Whitlow, Ark. "I went tea St. Louis hospital, also to a hospital in New Orleans, but no oure was effected. On returning home I began taking Chamber lain's Tablets, and worked right along. I used them for some ime and am now all r ight." Sold by all dealers. i it, .. V - .A. , -fn II ' - Tf
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