Blockader Draws 17 Months Or $800.00 Fine
CALVIN SNIDER
APPREHENDED BY
SHERIFFS FORCES
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Modern Steam Outfit
Had Capacity Of 7 5
Gallons Per Day; 1800
Gallons Of Beer Poured
Out; Court Had Heavy
Docket Last Week.
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A comparatively heavy criminal
docket faced Judge C. E. Gooch and
County Prosecutor J. Allan Dunn
during the past week. Forty-two de
fendants faced His Honor charged
with a variety of offenses.
Calvin Snider, from Scotch-Irish
township, was convicted for violation
of prohibition laws and sentenced to
a term of 17 months on the county
roads or pay a fine of $800.00. Snider
had a blockade liquor still of the steam
type in operation in Scotch-Irish when
apprehended by Sheriff Miller’s depu
ties.
According to the officers the still
was an up to date affair capable of
manufacturing 75 gallons of whisky
a day. Eighteen hundred gallons of
beer was found at the still.
Doddie Holshouser was also con
victed of violating prohibition laws
and fined $275.00 or to serve a sen
tence of 7 months on roads; his wife
was sentenced to 90 days in the work
house inoperative on a fine of $,2 5.00.
Claude Potts, likewise convicted for
violation of the state prohibition laws,
was sentenced to 4 months on roads
or pay a fine of $75.00.
The docket for the week was as
follows:
Jim Hodges, violation motor laws,
costs.
J. F. Carlton, reckless driving, $2 5;
another case charging defendant with
carrying a concealed weapon nol
prossed upon recommendation of
sheriff.
Harry Chambers, driving drunk,
70 days on roads or fine of $50.00
and the costs and forbidden to drive
a car in North Carolina for 4 months.
Ed. Hoover, drunk, costs; posses
sion and transporting, $20.00 and
COS tS.
D. L. Beasley, motor law violation,
$5.00 and costs.
Grady Johnson, drunk, costs.
Mose Valentine, violation prohibi
tion laws, 30 days or $5.00 and costs.
Pearl Johnson, violation prohibition
laws, 30 days or $5.00 and costs.
Precious Houston, drunk, costs.
Leo Stiller and Marvin Bailey, as
sault, $10.00 and one-half of costs.
S. I. Lippard, driving drunk, as
sault with deadly weapon and viola
tion of prohibition laws, adjudged
guilty and judgment continued to
November 10 th, 1931.
James LeGrand, Henry Wofford,
Fred Koontz, David Main, George
Kofera and Brady Helms, illegal train
riding, Koontz 25 days in workhouse,
the other defendants 15 days.
E. V. Hair, driving drunk, contin
ued 11-2-31.
J. L. Stirewalt, violation motor
laws, costs.
Clarence Hedspeth, drunk, costs.
Crute Crawford, not guilty.
W. 'T. Land, drunk and disorderly,
5 months on roads to go into effect
if defendant is again found drunk in
Rowan county.
R. C. Howell, speeding, $10.00 and
costs.
Jim Shoe and Charlie Shoe, larceny
and receiving, 3 1-2 months on roads
or fine of $75.00 each.
John Butler, abandonment, prayer
for judgment continued for 3 months
conditioned on defendant living with
wife and conducting himself proper
ly.
Harry Deane, motor law violation,
costs.
J. C. Sipe, motor law violation, $iu
and costs.
Claude Potts, violation prohibition
laws, 4 months or $75.00.
Roy Hess, assault and battery, con
tinued 11-10-31.
James Burton, trespass, costs or 20
days in workhouse.
Calvin Snider, violation prohibition
laws, (2 cases) 17 months on roads
or $800.00 fine.
Alvin Jackson, larceny and receiv
ing of chickens, 2 years on roads.
Otho Mason, drunk, costs.
W. H. "Wood, violation city ordi
nance, $5.00 and costs; driving drunk,
not guilty.
John Sercy, violation prohibition
laws, continued 11-5-31.
Homer Riley, drunk, continued
11-5-31.
J. L. Kirchen, speeding, $15.00 and
costs.
Doddie Holshouser and Mrs. Dod
die Holshouser, violation prohibition
laws, Doddie Holshouser, 7 months on
roads or $275.00 and costs; Mrs. Hoi
shouser, 90 days in workhouse or $25.
Fred Caldwell, disturbing public
worship, $5.00 and costs.
Von Bridges and Hayes Thomas,
violation of prohibition laws, contin
ued 11-3-31.
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ROWAN
FARM
GLEANINGS
By W. G. YEAGER
County Agent
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Harvest time is drawing to a close
in Rowan upon a bountiful nature
that has surely smiled upon our till
ers of the soil. Barns everywhere are
bulging with grains and hays, cotton,
bale upon bale, is being piled up in
farmers’ sheds and outhouses with
hopes for a better price, while seeding
of small grains goes forward for an
other crop. Many farmers are mixing
a small quantity of vetch seed in with
the wheat for an additional profit at
harvest time next year. From ten to
fifteen dollars per acre extra can very
easily be picked up this way with no
loss to the wheat crop. The vetch
market is unlimited and the smooth
vetch that Rowan farmers grow is
now recognized as a very superior
vetch to the imported strain and mil
lions of pounds is imported annually
into the United States from Russia,
a veritable gold mine at our door with
but a few pay streaks of sand yet de
veloped.
Thoughtful farmers are carefully
weighing the experiences of success
ful communities in projecting their
future crop plans and will readjust
their farm operations to the more bal
anced type of agriculture.
The comment of County Agent, J.
W. Sargeant of Pulaski county, Ark.,
is worth repeating here as it points
out a striking reality.
"According to County Agent J. W.
Sargent, the cotton raised ifi Pulaski
county, Arkansas, last year brought
$900,000—just about half what it
cost to produce it. As a result, one
fourth or more of the farmers in the
county require drouth relief and are
receiving aid either for food, feed,
seed or fertilizer, or all. But, in spite
of the fact that it was one of the
hardest hit sections of Arkansas in the
1930 drouth, the total value of Pu
laski county dairy products was in the
neighborhood of $2,000,000, and Mr.
Sargent says that not a single dairy
farmer in the county is listed among
those asking for help; they either have
the cash or good security for such
loans as they may have to make.”
Along with the experience of the
Arkansas farmers some one has writ
ten "A Psalm of Cotton.”
A PSALM OF COTTON
Cotton, thou art my shepherd and
I am in want;
Thou hast caused me to feed in a
dry pasture, thou hast destroyed my
credit; thou hast led me into the paths
of poverty, liens, law-suits and near
nakedness;
Thou hast destroyed my soul and
my happiness;
Thou hast caused me to go to a
banker with my hat under my arm
and mortgage the musfcle and produce
of my farm;
Thou hast caused me to live in a
rented house in full view of the moon,
while stars come twinkling through
the cracks;
Thou preparest a naked back and
an empty stomach for me in the pres
ence of my friends;
Thou anointest my head with igno
rance, superstition, poverty and un
paid accounts—how can I trust thee?
Thou hast kept my children out of
school, church and society, thereby
robbing them of that which is good
and noble, elevating and refining;
Thou hast caused me to go to the
barn and bring out the old fertilizer
sacks and ask my wife to make me a
shirt; , /
Now, behold as I stand amidst my
friends in my new shirt with these in
scriptions in full view: "Eighteen per
cent acid phosphate” on the breast and
"12-4-4” on the tail.
The threshing machines are merrily
humming to the tune of dollars on
Rowan farms these days. Mr. H. Z.
White threshed over 1300 bushels Ko
rean from 60 acres; Morrison-Fisher
threshed right at 20 bushels per acre
from their entire acreage; Jim Gra
ham at Cleveland seems to have set
the record so far for yield, 22 3 bush
es from a seven acre tract; Mr. B. B.
Miller will doubtless lead the county
in total crop, still threshing with up
wards of two thousand bushels in
sight. Mr. W. D. Graham says "that
they can load couple cars of seed”
which means some 'seed to the lay
mind hat thas been thinking of les
pedeza as a little patch crop to have
ibout because the other fellow was
sowing some. The fellow that says that
certification of lespedeza does not
amount to anything will get a sur
prise to learn that upwards of two
thousand acres will be certified for
purity in Rowan this year, probably
setting a pace for all counties in the
lespedeza area.
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OHIO COEDS
DENIED PLANES
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Columbus, Ohio.—Ohio State Uni
versity co-eds will have to manage
their annual sorority rushes without
airplanes. Dean Esther Gaw says "there
shall be no machines or airplanes used
as transportation except for one party
which shall be held out of the sorority
house.”
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Three Eggs In One
Mountain Home, Ida.—B. F. Tate
broke open an egg that he thought
was unusually large and soon dis
covered the "why” of its size. The
egg was nearly a three-in-one. Inside
the outer shell was one complete egg,
with a couple of extra whites thrown
in for good measure.
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