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J. K. Eaves, County Native, Retires After Thirty Years As Rural Letter Carrier With 30 years and 5 months to his credit as a rural mall carrier, J. K. Eaves left Uncle Sam's serv ice June 30th this year and in tends to enjoy the fruits of his la bors for the remainder of his life A native of Cleveland county, this popular post office employee emirrated to Cabarrus in January cf 1004 and was a successful com petitor in the civil service examina tion for rural mail carrier for Car rier, N. C. His appointment was effective February 1, 1906, and the examination was conducted by the late George L. Patterson, a former postmaster in this city. Mr. Eaves then started a route he served for 30 years and five months, first from the post office at Carrlker, then from Harrisburg and other Cabarrus postoffices. He served under five postmasters J. W. Carrlker, John Alexander, H. C. Cook; L. R. Reeder and Charlie Lee Polk. When the Carrlker past office was abandoned, Mr. Eaves' route was switched to Harrisburg, then to Loop route 2, and then to the new postoffice at Cabarrus. After he had served there for 20 years the Cabarrus office was closed and the route was switched to Midland from which of floe he retired last June, Discussing his experiences, Mr. Eaves said: "X have traveled approximately 300,000 miles. For 17 years X cov ered the route by buggy, horseback, cart and cm one occasion by foot, because of a Mg snow. "In U06, when I started, there was only one mud-hole on the route and that was 31 miles long, or the entire route," Mr. Eaves lived tc see good roads over which his route can be covered in two hours when of old it took nearly all day. Mr. Eaves has been a lifelong Republican but has many warm friends who are Democrats. His realised ambition was to serve the public honestly and fairly by giving them the best. Mr. Eaves has always been a member of the Methodist church. He served as a steward in his j church for many years and contri buted liberally in the rebuilding of the $35,000 church at Bethel, No. 10 township. He has many warm friends on the old route, of all re ligious denominations and political faiths, who will miss his daily ap pearance. While Mr. Eaves has retired from active duty he remains alert to the best interest of his church and community and county. Meek in* Demands A Further Check HENDERSONVILLE, Oct. 39—(SP) —W. O. Meekins, chairman of the Republican State committee, said today he would demand a thorough investigation by the entire state elections board of alleged Irreg ularities In absentee ballots in Henderson and Graham counties. Meek ins’ statement followed yes terday's hearing conducted here by J. Harris Sample, a member of the elections board, of Republican charges that absentee ballot-, had been promiscuously handed out without votei application* Meekins said the hearing was In adequate. "We were not allowed to present verbal testimony of our witnesses,” he said, "and the whole hearing took place in a casual manner which oould not hope to get at the bottom of the irregularities of which we are complaining.” Meekins said he would send to Major L. P. McLendon, state chair man of the board of elections, affi davits and other evidence he said tended to show improper use of ballots. TRUCK AND CAR CAUSE INJURIES Shank Tippe. Toluca negro, to seriously Injured In the Shelby Hospital and Woodrow Hoyle, white i man of lower Burke county receiv ed scalp wounds in a wreck on : Highway No. 18 between Palls ton and Toluca Saturday. i Hoyle who was driving a car be- i longing to his brother-in-law Gene < Mull, is charged for reckless driv- i ing, says State Highway Patrol Of- : fleer Marvin H. Dunn. Hoyle’s car was in the act of passing a truck when the wheels ran off the highway, travelling over 100 yards along the shoulder of the road before overturning twice. Joe Mull, 17 year old white youth, was riding on the fender of the car and was thrown a distance of about 40 feet into a cornfield. Hoyle, the driver erf the car yas scalped with out damage to his skull. John and Joe Ahernethy. two eolorM men were also slightly in jured. One erf the largest motion picture theaters in the world is to be oon-! structed soon in Buenos Aires. It will have a seating capacity of 5, 000, a swimming pool and facilities 'or bowling and billiards. Hollywood Sights And Sounds By ROBIN COONS By BOBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD—High society has marched in and stolen some of the lots' most eligible bachelors right from under the noses of Hollywood queens. While studio beauties step Into countless happy endings, on the screen, more and more It Is the Ju nior leaguers and the debutantes who really get the man. When Henry Fonda left to make a film In England, Hollywood buzzed with talk of a reconcilia tion between him and his former wife, Margaret 8ullavan — even though this was denied. Then came announcement of his engagement to Mrs. George T. Brokaw, New York widow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ford Seymour, social lead ers. Randolph Scott also bowled over the Hollywood know-it-alls with the recent announcement of his marriage last March to Mrs. T. H. Somerville (nee DuPont) of Mont pelier, Vt. r Raft Falls In Line Ahd George Raft is scheduled to marry Virginia Pine, whose name means something in Chicago, when the present Mrs. Raft divorc es him Society has been making in roads for some time. Gary Cooper squired many a film beauty but said “I do” to Sandra Shaw, a minor film player better known in eastern social circles as Veroncla Balfe. Pred Astaire’s film romances have all been with Ginger Rogers, but his wife is the former Mrs. Phyllis Livingstone Potter. Ricardo Cortex played opposite many attractive leading ladies—and married Mrs. Christine Lee of New j York. Director Joins Ranks John Wayne, action star, has had numerous heroines—all attractive —but his real-life heroine is the former Josephine Saenz, from Los Angeles’ upper crust. She is the daughter of Dr. Jose Saenz, Dom inican consul. The Baroness Josephine Van der Horck of Germany dropped her ti tle to become plain Mrs. Donald Woods when she met the young actor at college. Actor John Warburton and Di rector Lewis Milestone are other bridegroom who overlooked Holly wood pulchritude in favor of Park avenue. Warburton married Lucille Morrison and Milestone chose Ken dall Glaenzer of New York. Stuart Erwin got both “society" and an actress when he married Dorothea Heermance, better known to film fans as June Collyer. Scout Camp Acquires Additional Lands GASTONIA, Oct. 29.—Officials of the Piedmont council Boy Scouts of America. Inc., have just acquired a tract of land at Lake Lanier ad joining the Piedmont Boy Scout Camp which will provide thirty-two additional acres of beautiful moun tain lands to the camp. This land will largely be developed during the coming winter and spring for use next summer. The Piedmont Scout Camp has outgrown its ability to serve the large number of Boy Scouts who wish to attend the camp each year. With the addition of this piece of property recently purchased the camp facilities will be enlarged so that more boys may be accommo dated and so that a richer program may be developed. TO ASK REDUCTION OF WORKING HOURS WASHINGTON, Oct. 39.—</P)— A bill to reduce the work week of railroad employees to 30 hours with out a pay cut is being drafted by rail union leaders for introduction in the next session of congress. George M. 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