A Paper with a Prestige
of a Half Century. A
County, Not a Com
munity Paper.
ESTABLISHED SEP' 19, 1878
PRESIDENT SUGGESTS
REORGANIZATION OF
MARKETWSYSTEM
Hoover Recommends
Farmer - Operated
Agencies
NEW TARIFF BASIS
Would Seek Orderly Market
ing of Surpluses, Creation
of Clearing Houses
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Washington, April 16. —President
Hoover informed Congress today of
what he expects the extra session to
,{ 0 in the way of farm relief and
tariff revision and also recommend
ed enactment of legislation to sus
pend the national origins clause of
the immigration act; to provide for
congressional reapportionment and
for "the taking of th§ 1930 census.
Creation of a federal farm board
with authority and funds sufficient
to cope with, all causes of agricul
tural distress formed the nucleus of ‘
hi ? recommendations on the farm
problem in his first communication
to Congress, which w'as transmitted
by messenger and read in the house
and senate by the clerks.
Conseling Congress to limit tariff
changes to those industries where
there has been a decrease of employ
ment due to insurmountable compe
tition in the products of those in
dustries. the chief executive declared
trade relations with other countries
should be taken into account in re
vising customs duties.
Surprises Congress
The president surprised Congress
somewhat with a sweeping recom
mendation for a reorganization of
the tariff commission and the for
mulation of a new basis for its op
erations so that administrative
changes in rates of duty may be
made in months instead of years, as
has been the case since the flexible
provision became effective in 1922.
The chief executive’s recommen
dations on farm relief in his fifteen
hundred word message drew praise
from Republican leaders in the
house and senate, were assailed as
nebulous by the Democratic leaders
and proved disappointing to some of
■p senate group of independent Re
publicans.
Representative Tilson of Connecti
cut and Senator Watson of Indiana,
majority leaders in the house and
senate, found the recommendations
of the president to their liking.
The Democratic leaders, Repre
sentative Garner of Texas and Sen
ator Robinson of Arkansas, did not.
Fight Over Tariff.
Minority leaders generally gave
notice of a fight over tariff revision
and particularly on the proposition
of continuing the tariff commission
as a rate finding body with its rec
ommendations subject to final ap
proval by the president.
As outlined by the president, the
pledge purpose of the federal farm
board would be the reorganization of
the marketing system on more stable
and more economic lines. It would
have authority to assist in creating
and sustaining farmer-owned and
farmer-controlled agencies for a va
riety of purposes.
Some of these purposes as en
visioned by Mr. Hoover would be the
orderly marketing of surpluses occa
sioned by climatic variations or by
harvest congestion; creation of clear
ing houses, especially for perishable
products; acquisition of adequate
warehousing and other facilities for
marketing, and adequate working
capital to be advanced against com
modities lodged for storage.
Guidance to Naetli
It also was proposed that the board
be authorized to investigate every
field of economic betterment for the
farmer so as to famish guidance as
to need in production, to deVise meth
ods for elimination of unprofitable
marginal lands and their adaption to
other uses, and to develop industrial
by-products.
Safeguards should be provided, Mr.
Hoover said, so that initiative may
jfnot be undermined and government
agencies may not engage in the buy
ing and selling and price fixing of
products, and activities may not be
set m motion which will result in
creasing the surplus production.
Mr. Hoover said the difficulties of
agriculture could not be cured in a
day and that not all of them could
be cured by the federal government
alone.. He emphsisized, however, that
the government must make a start,
and by creating an instrumentality
of a strength and importance equal I
to those of the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the federal reserve
board, he contended that immediate
assurance would be given of a de
termination of the government to
oieet the farmer’s difficulties.
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Joseph W. Bailey, one of the pic
turesque characters of tne south
since 1900, and a former senator
Irom Texas, died suddenly at Sher
man, Texas, Saturday. He wa ap
pearing in federal court for a client
when stricken.
The Chatham Record
State to Build Road to
Grave of W. H. Page
Highway Commissioner J. Elwood
Cox at the present sitting of the
commission, will lay before it a pro
posal to build from route number 50,
ranking with 10 and 20 in state im
portance, and nationally marked, be
tween Quebec and Miami, a road to
the grave of Walter Hines Page in
the country church cemetery.
Mr. Cox said he will ask the com
mission for a driveway to be con
structed of the perfect Sandhill soil
plus an oil treatment which will make
it as good as any road in the state.
The commission, of course, will favor
the road and in time Mr. Cox will
have a shrine to the great diplomat.
Dr. Page, who died in the late fall
of 1918, was buried at the Bethesda
cemetery near Aberdeen. There is a
rather inconsequential road out from
the Sandhill capital to this grave.
During the incumbency of Chairman
Frank Page, of the highway commis
sion, there was a proposal to build
this road but the brother of Dr. Page
was unwilling that it should be done
during his tenure of office. Mr. Cox
now renews the request and there js
evidence that the commission will
prder it done.
The death of Dr. Page following
closely upon his resignation as am
bassador to the court of St. James,
was obscured somewhat by the events
ending the war. In his name many
honors have been shown North Caro
lina. It is the opinion of a great
[many Americans that next to Wood
row Wilson, Walter Hines Page was
the most conspicuous figure in Amer
ican life as it related to'the war.
President Wilson, living on the
American side, was more hesitant to
enter the war than was Dr. Page, who
lived in London. But once in, the
two who had been great friends from
youth went the limit to win. Unques
tionably, the war killed both. A tardy
honor is to be done by North Carolina
in the building of this road.
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Teacher Is Defendant
in a Suit for SI,OOO
Raleigh, April 13. —Charges that a
school teacher forced a girl student
of the Cary high school to laugh to a
point of exhaustion and then ordered
a boy student to whip her before 34
children, formed an alleged cause of
action in a SI,OOO damage suit filed
today in Superior Court.
The suit was started by Opal Hest
er, 13, by her next friend, Mrs.
Effie M. Hester, against Miss Eliza
beth Dorreil, teacher in the Cary
high school.
According, to the complaint, the
whipping occurred on March 10 of
this year, and was administered by
Russell Hester, a boy about the same
age. The plaintiff charges that he
did the whipping at the request of
the teacher, who looked on and re
fused to stop the alleged attack.
A laughing contest in which all
students engaged at request of the
teacher preceded the alleged whip
ping and led up to the occurrance
states the complaint. The girl claims
that she couldn’t stop laughing when
the contest ended and was then made
to stand up before all the other stu
dents and laugh continuously until
ordered to stop. She became ex
hausted while carrying out the pun
ishment prescribed by the teacher
and then was whipped because she
was unable to keep up the laughing,
it was stated.
The complaint also stated the par
ents of the girl have requested the re
moval of the teacher, but that the
officials of the Cary high school so
far have not acceded to the request.
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Great Yields Follow
Crops of Burr Clover
(Monroe Enquirer)
In last Friday’s Lancaster News
appeared the following:
“W. N. Ashe, of Van Wyck, one
of the mosts extensive users of bur
clover in the county, made 40 to 100
bushels of corn per acre (averaging
70 bushels) on 100 acres in 1927 fol
lowing bur clover. On five acres
measured and entered in the State
Five-Acre Corn Contest that year he
made 108.9 bushels per acre at a
cost of 19 cents per bushel and won
the State prize of SIOO. He ferti
lized with only 200 pounds of 12-4-4
per acre; and some plats of the field
that were top-dressed with ammonia
showed no difference, proving that
the clover supplied all the nitrogen
needed. Mr. Ashe makes a bale of
cotton per acre following bur clover.”
Mr. Ashe, it is said, has 700 or 800
acres in bur clover, and produces
each year about 20,000 bushels corn.
He is equally successful in growing
cotton on bur clover sod, producing
with ease a bale to the acre.
I have promised a number of
Union county farmers to get up a
motorcade at an early day and visit
Mr. Ashe’s farm. He is intensely in
terested in farming and no doubt
Tie would take pleasure in showing
visitors the value of bur clover as a
soil builder.
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The Tennessee house of repre
sentatives Saturday killed the bill al
ready passed by the senate requiring
that' the Bible be read in public
schools of the state.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929
[A REVOLUTION IN
I CHATHAM FARMING
I r
Legumes Promising to Enrich
Soil and Foster Dairying
■ Business
In 1925 Mr. H. G. Beard had a
soy bean patch, but he was, we be
lieve, the only man in this section
that we knew definitely as growing
the soy bean. The sample he showed
The Record was such and the editor’s
previous knowledge of the value of
the soy bean as a forage, and soil
enriching crop suggested to the edi
tor an editorial urging the planting
of the bean on all Chatham county
farms. A short while afterwards Mr.
Shiver came as county farm agent
and began a systematic effort for the
introduction of soy bean, and other
legumes. That was only a little more
than four years ago. This year has
seen several carloads of soy bean
seed sold to Chatham county farm
ers, thousands pf pounds of lespedeza
seed, various clover seeds, and a gen
eral movement on the part of Chat
ham farmers that indicate a new
day.
A ride through the country this
early spring indicates the value of the
change already wrought. But a visit
to Mr. Crews’ farm, a mile or two
from Pittsboro, will illustrate the
condition fast becoming typical of
Chatham county agriculture, though
Mr. Crews is one of the pioneers and
further advanced than most of the
farmers.
Several acres of alfalfa almost
ready to cut, other acres being plant
ed, other clovers, several acres in
mixed pasture grasses, an increasing
herd of cattle, a herd of Tamworth
hogs, headed by an imported boar,
several hundred Wyandotte chicks
fast growing toward broiler size, the
house furnished with water by a ram
at a nearby spring—these are some
of the things that indicate a com
ing agriculture for Chatham. Yet Mr.
Crews is not growing rich rapidly.
He is paying for the farm bought
eight years ago, including a healthy
profit for the seller.
This farm, and/ the old home, is
historic. The home is one of the
few that indicate the truth of the
o-ld traditions of antebellum wealth.
It is now fargone in age, perhaps 150
years of age, but the indications are
that it was once the center of a
prosperous farm life and the seat of
old-time Southern hospitality. We
have not yet secured a full history
of the place, but Mr. W. E. Brooks
says that it was formerly occupied
by Judge Toomer. A comparatively
few years ago it was the home of
the Merritts, who moved hence to
Mt. Airy. It has a basement, two
full stories, and a gable story.
Passing Mr. Hamp Ferguson’s one
is attracted by a field of barley, al
ready in full head, and so early that
it may be followed without difficulty
by a full crop. The barley itelf is
said to make more grain than the
same acreage in corn would make,
and gives the advantage of a second
crop. Our farmers should watch that
barley crop.
Mr. J. A. Woody has 15 acres of
red clover far advanced, the pret
tiest, a visiting gentleman said, that
he ever saw. Wheat, rye, and oats
are far advanced, and if there should
be no late frost, catching it in the
heading stage, a fine crop of small
grain should be harvested in the
county, and so much earlier than
usual as to permit of refarming the
land to great advantage. But much
of the small grain has lespedeza
sowed on it, and some other clovers.
Mr. Woody has an acre of sweet
clover sowed, and other farmers are
planting this largest and most lux
uriant of all the clovers.
Miss Dailey’s Club
Wins Trip to Boston
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Among the events at the recent
meeting of the Federation of Music
Clubs at Asheville was a contest of
glee clubs from girls’ colleges. In
the contest the glee club of Greens
boro, of which Miss Alma Dailey,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. A.
Dailey, of Pittsboro, is a member.
This success gives the chib a trip,
with expenses paid, to Boston, where
it will contest with clubs from all
parts of the country. Miss Dailey
is first soprano in the club. While
she did not appear in solo at Ahe
ville,. she was commended and said
to be outstanding as to posture and
interpretation. *As soprano in a
mixed quartette she had previously
assisted in a cup for the Saint Pauls’
high school at the contest for high
school music at N. C. C. W., last year.
The young lady is a freshman in
Greensboro College.
A SURPRISE
A number of friends and relatives
gathered at the home of Mrs. J. E.
; Thomas of Bynum, Sunday, April 14,
1 and gave Mrs. Thomas a surprise
birthday dinner. The table was placed
in the yard filled with plenty of good
things to eat. The cake bore 52
■ candles representing Mrs. Thomas’
■ life. This was a great surprise to
: Mrs. Thomas, and she seemed to be
/ thrilled to the utmost. We wish for
1 her many more happy years of life.
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Interesting News from
Over State and Nation
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh dropped
down at the airport at Greensboro
last Thursday to spend the, night.
His arrival was unheralded, but it
soon became known that he was in
the city. He was on his way from
Mexico City to New York to attend
the funeral of Ambassador Myron
T. Herrick, whose body arrived from
Paris Friday.
That the $30,000,000 Carnegie
pension foundation is virtually bank
rupt, due to poor management, was
stated by one of the directors last
week. The fund was established by
the late steel magnate to pension old
and retired educators.
Twelve members of the Byrd Ant-
Arctic exploration party have return
ed to the United States for rest
while they are awaiting a break-up in
the ice around the south pole.
Captain Charles D. Farmer has
been named to head the newly estab
lished state highway patrol, and one
of his chief lieutenants will be Lieut.
L. R. Fisher of Raleigh. Several
other appointments are yet to be
made.
Investigation of charges of student
drinking at the University of Vir
ginia may lead to one or more fra
ternities forfeiting their charters
from the national organizations.
Federal prohibition agents report
that there has been excessive drink
ing in the frat houses.
R. W. Madry, head of the Uni
versity news bureau at Chapel Hill,
in an address before the association
of college news bureaus, at Nashville,
Tenn., last week, declared that the
press and the public have a right to
full, accurate and impartial news
from the colleges.
Former President Coolidge has a
job as “contact man” with a big
insurance company. The contact
probably being in the use of his
name.
The Leviathan, one of the biggest
liners afloat, operated for several
years by the U. S. Shipping. Board,
is ’ now on its first voyage under
private ownership. Although belong
ing to a United States company and
flying the stars and stripes, the
Leviathan is carrying a well-stocked
bar and will sell liquors to both crew
and passengers after the 12-mile
limit is passed.
Capt. J. C. Benjamin, well known
and beloved citizen of Raleigh, died
suddenly last Thursday night. Funeral
and burial services were held Sunday.
The death knell of newspapers is
heard by some scientists. They pre
dict that before many years a
mechanism similar to the familiar
stock ticker-tape, but operated by
radio, will be installed in almost
every home, printing the news as it
comes from all over the world by air.
Myron T. Herrick, late ambassa
dor to France, whose sudden death
brought sadness to two nations, was
buried at Cleveland, Ohio, with high
est military honors Monday.
David H. Blair, commissioner of
internal revenue since 1921, has re
signed that post. He expects to rest
for awhile and then take charge of
his extensive private affairs in North
Carolina. Wealthy in his own right
and a son-in-law of the late J. W.
Cannon, textile magnate, he has
plenty to keep him busy without a
government job. Gilliam Grissom,
collector of revenue for North Caro
lina, is suggested as a likely candi
date to succeed Mr. Blair.
A constitutional amendment pro
viding that ex-presidents be given
seats as senators-at-large at a salary
of $25,000 a year will be proposed
at the next regular congress by Sen
ator Fess of Ohio. He expects some
opposition; regular senators get only
SIO,OOO a year. But he argues that
the experience gained in the white
house will make the ex-presidents
very valuable as members of the
senate.
AN UNUSUAL EXPLOSION
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Many persons in Monroe and sur
rounding country were startled early
Sunday morning by an explosion that
caused the earth to tremble and
houses to shiweras if there-had.been
an earthquake. It was about eight
o’clock when a tremor was felt, with
a rumbling noise accompanying for a
duration of several seconds, ending
with a terrific explosion which rattled
windows and shook houses. It was
first believed to have been thunder,
as the sky was overcast but there
was no storm in sight, and it was
soon realized that no lightning flash
had preceded the detonation. Some
were of the opinion the noise might
have come from the explosion of a
meteor in the sky, as the rumbling
and explosion was different from that
of earthquake.—'Monroe Enquirer.
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ADDOR PAYS FINE
IN FEDERAL COURT
Felix Addor, whose road house
near Pine Bluff was raided by fed
eral prohibition agents some weeks
ago, and a quantity of wine found,
was fined SSOO by Judge Hayes of
the middle district federal court last
week. Easter Smith, assistant to Ad
dor, was fined a like sum. Judge
Hayes in passing sentence said that
the age of Mr. Addor kept him out
of prison, and he could not send the
younger man if he did not send the
principal. Addor protested the ac
tion, declaring that the alleged wine
was little more than weak vinegar.
PRISONER KNOCKS DOWN
OFFICER AND ESCAPES
Byrd Party Isolated
From Civilization
On March 18th, Larry Gould, Bernt
Balchen and Harold June, three aces
of the Byrd expedition, rounded out
eleven days of tqtal isolation from
the outside world and their contact
with “Little America,” the base head
quarters of Commander Byrd’s Polar
party. The New York Times’ corre
spondent, Russell Owen, who is a
member of the Byrd forces, writes
as follows in his special dispatch of
March 18th: “Party on Rockefeller
range have food and fuel for two
months.”
Anxiety for the men marooned for
eleven days is expressed because no
radio communications had been re
ceived from them for four days. The
Times_ correspondent writes; “Bar
fing some unlikely mishap, they
should be as safe* there as we are
here at the base.” The fact that the
three lone men who are cut off from
communication with “Little Ameri
ca” have sufficient food and fuel for
two months eliminated the possibil
ity of danger from exposure and
starvation. The food and fuel sup
ply of Gould, Balchen and June is
an example of the caution with which
the expedition is proceeding. Com
mander Byrd has carried out his plans
with exacting care, always preferring
an expenditure of extra time in pre
ference to an unnecessary rush.
Hazard of Exploration Reduced
Heretofore, Arctic and Antarctic
expeditions have set off on perilous
voyages equipped with limited food
supplies and the element of risk was
enhanced by outfitting inadequate to
provide for more than a minimum of
delay and unforeseen disaster.
Commander Byrd, while an intrepid
adventurer whose achievements and
daring match that of an explorer
scientist, is, in the truest sense of
the word, a practical man and a
realist. His deliberate planning to
ward off disaster and to provide for
unforeseen delays has proven him to
be the most outstanding Antarctic
explorer in history.
Snug Home in the Bleak Antarctic
‘‘Little America,” the name given
the sweeping area upon which Com
mander Byrd’s main base camp is
built, is a splendid example of the
thought! given to the safety of the
fifty-two men who are to remain
stationed in the great Antarctic
wastes, waiting their opportunity to
bring to completion their explora
tory work and scientific observations
and the ultimate flight of Commander
Byrd over the southernmost point of
the globe . . . the South Pole.
“Little America,” at the edge of
the desolate Ross Ice Shelf, is snug
and ship-shape to meet the blizzards
and cold of the Polar oight. It
consists of nine buildings, two giant
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Rev. Hurst To Preach
at Episcopal Church
Next Sunday, April 17, at St.
Bartholomew’s church preaching
service will be at 11 o’clock. In the
absence of the rector the special
preacher for the day will be the Rev.
E. W. Hurst of Durham. Mr. Hurst
is a recent addition to the Episcopal
church in this state, he having come
from South Carolina to become as
sistant to Rev. S. S. Bost in Durham
and actively in charge of St. Jo
seph’s church in West Durham. He
is considered a very good preacher.
Pittsboro people are invited to attend
the service.
Mr. Shannonhouse and Mrs. Shan
nonhouse will be out of town for ten
days. They are going with friend*
from Raleigh for a visit ini New York.
St.. Bartholomew’s Woman's Aux
iliary led the whole diocese on sev
eral; pokitsuat*lbe ..annual, convention
in the
only branch that complied with every
single request made during the year;
and they led all branches in prompt
ness. Mrs. N. M. Hall, president,
and Mrs. Victor Johnston* secretary,
are delighted with the members*
hearty co-operation. Mrs. Arthur H.
London is the efficient treasurer.
At the meeting on Monday this week,
(Mrs. Shannonhouse hostess), Miss
Lillie Hill was present? and led the
devotional program and also made
a very interesting talk. All the mem
bers except one attended sessions of
the annual meeting in Raleigh last
week, which was a remarkable show
ing.
The new church at Sanford had
corner stone laid last October.. Since
then the members have been hoping
for better weather and more funds.
Last week more material was bought
and Mr. O. Z. Barber is again super
intending building operations. It
will be a very pretty church when
completed.
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The entire school board of Swain
I county resigned Saturday in a tele-
I gram to State Superintendent Allen,
j The action followed appearance of a
; delegation of citizens asking for the
resignation of member of the
board. •
Subscribers at Every
Postoffice and All R.
F. D. Routes in Great
County of Chatham
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 30
Long: Man Hunt Fol
low*—Whole Rouse
Family Involved
MANY STOLEN
ARTICLES FOUND
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D. K. Rouse* a Recent Comer
to Chatham from Davidson
County—Post Office Detec
tive Swears Out Warrant-
Father Allowed Bond
Hearing of Case of Mother
and Younger Son Comes
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Officers of this county and adjoin
ing counties were astir Saturday
afternoon, Sunday, and Monday,
seeking L. J. Rouse, a robust young
man in his early twenties who had
escaped from Deputy John Burns by
knocking him down, securing his
pistol, and taking to the woods. At
this writing, Tuesday noon, the young
man had not been taken, but his
father and mother had spent the
meantime in jail and a younger
brother who had also fled had been
captured over in Randolph county.
D. K. Rouse, wife, two grown sons
and five smaller children moved, last
fall, to the old Ben Poe place, close
to New Salem church. 5 miles north
west of Pittsboro. They had come
from Davidson county, swapping, it is
understood, a place in Davie county
for the Chatham county farm.
The family seemed energetic, not
afraid to work.. Considerable im
provements had been made and prep
arations for a crop set on foot.. A
pasture embracing twenty acres or
more had been fenced in with wire,
but the very wire with which it was
fenced is one of the evidences in the
crimes in which all the older mem
bers of the family are likely to be
come involved.
No suspicion had been aroused in
this county as to the wrong doing
of any member of the family, and
it was not until a postal detective
came to the county that any one
suspected any member of the family
involved in crime. The detective had
made, it seems, a preliminary visit or
two, seeking to identify the older
son, L. J. Rouse, with the robbery of
a post office, possibly Tuckertown,
for even the county officers seem to
have learned very little about the
means that the detective had used
in locating his man.
Last Saturday the detective swore
out a search warrant for L. J.
Rouse, and accompanied Sheriff Blair
and Deputy Burns to the Rouse home
for the search and possible arrest of
the young man. The younger son
seems to have recognized the sheriff
and immediately left. The older
son was lying in the house upon a
bed, it is said* and when he came
to the door was pointed out by the
detective as the man wanted. He
was arrested, placed in the sheriff’s
car, and Officer Burns was left to
guard him while the others made the
search. Mr. Burns, unaware of the
desperate character of his prisoner,
stood by the car, with a sore foot
upon the running board; one of the
sisters came near him and he turned
his head toward her, whereupon the
young fellow in the car let drive with
Jtis against the officer’s temple,
felling butt, lik&uan ox under the
butcher’s axe, though not knocking
him unconscious. The youpg fellow
then*jumped out.upon the officer,
but, somehow, Mr. Burns arose and
the tussle began. The youth had
secured the officer’s pistol, and the
effort on Mr. Burns’ part was to get
it back, and it began to seem favor
able to the officer, when the mother
ran up, at the young man’s call, and
seized the officer’s arm. He flung
her off, but the interference gave the
youth the advantage. He got the
pistol and took to the woods without
hat or coat. The effort for a day or
two was to catch him before he got
clear away.
He evidently remained in the com
munity until Monday. The girls of
the Rouse family had been left in
care of Mr. Charlie Williams when
the father and mother were brought
to jail, except one little baby girl
who remained with her mother. On
Sunday night, Mr. Williams reported
Monday morning, some one had
stolen his hat and coat from his
piazza, and had apparently tried to
get the Ford, as a knife was left
in the car, with which it was as
sumed that the lock had been at
tempted.
On Monday morning, also, came
the report that the young man had
tried to get Charlie Emmerson, col
ored, who lives on highway 75, or
near it, to take him to Siler City.
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