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T"E COURIER. T5he COURIER Leads in Doth News and Circulation. T5he COURIER Advertising: Columns Bring Results. eeued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per mar VOL. XXXV ASHEBORO, N; C, THURSDAY, March 24, 1910. No. 12 TRAGEDY COMES TO LIGHT MR. J. M. STALEY MURDERED FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED Injured Man Was Unconscious When Found and Did Not 'Re gain Consciousness Warrants Issued for Jacob Coble and Hiram Coble and a Negro Named Albert Ryan. Mr. John M. Staley, whose heme was about one naif mile from Julian, was taken to Greensboro last Thurs day afternoon and placed in St. Leo's Hospital, . where he died Friday morning. Mr. btaley was an unmar ried man and lived with his brother's family. He was a paint. r by trade ana his age was 50 years. He left home Saturday night and was found at the home of Jacob Co ble, a short distance from Julian, Sunday afternoon. When found he was unconscious, his skull having oeen horribly crushed by some sort of blunt instrument. His brother learned of the wounded man's pres ence at Coble's home by the tact tbatiUoble had sent one of his children after a physician to attend him. He did not regain consciousness. When placed in the hospital an operation was performed on his head in the hope of saving his life, but to no avail. Foul play is suspected and war rants were issued in Guilford county for the arrest of Jacob Cobl6 and his son, Hiram Coble, and ' a negro named Albert Ryan. According to the officers they went to Coble's home about three miles from Julian, Friday and interviewed Mrs. Coble. She stated that she and her husband heard a noise on their porch Sunday night and on getting np found Sta le in an unconscious condition. They did what they could to relieve his Bufferings. .Later they left and going to Kyan's home several hun dred yards distant secreted them selves upstairs. Soon Mrs. Coble came in and she and the negress dis. , cussed the whole affair. According to the conversation the affair was was about like this. Staley, her husband and son, and possibly others were at her home Sunday afternoon drinking and carousing. A dispute arose and Hiram Coble struck Staley across the head. Staley was then carried to a point in the woods near by by the two Cobles and Ryan and then brought back to the house. On ilast Satnrday Messrs. Jacob Coble and Albert Ryan, a colored man, were lodged in jail to await their trial to be held yesterday after noon for the murder of J. M. Staley. It is stated that Wade Coble, the husband of the woman, was the one who struck the blow which killed Staley. Albert Ryan, at the coroner's in quest, Slid substantially; Sunday night about 10 o'clock Wade Coble came to my house and asked me to come and help him carry a man home who was hurt. I left with him immediately, and on the way to the spot he told me that be and John Staley had been in the woods gamb ling all Sunday afternoon; that Sta ley wns $9 winner and wauted to quit, and they had a fuss about it, Wade accusing Staley of being a 'quitter." They fussed for awhile and then started to the Coble home, but on the way renewed the quarrel and Stale attempted to cut Wade tniih a Irnifo whoronnnn Warto hit. him with a bottle, which was wrap ped up in a sack, and knocked him down, also smashing the bottle. We reached the spot where Staley lay, continued Ryan, and Mrs. Coble was sitting by him with a lantern. Ryan explained this by stating that on the way Coble had told him that the old man (Jacob Coble) ' wouldn't come to help carry the body home when he went for help, and that Mrs. uoDie came aiong to noia tne light, bat when they arrived they found Staley was hart worse than they thought, so had to get more help. rinnfinninor ho a Aid thfV P.ftl-rifld mm w me uuuit) uuiue nuu uc ueniu i -j. .:i tr j little more aoouc n umu iuuuuty afternoon.when be was told the doctor lnmA Kiton fhfra anil aaid if. WAS rlnnht- fnl if Staley recovered. Another Version. Another version of the tragedy also names Coble as the murderer, . . i i . j : ie . , UUfc puis IUO Ilia u tvi m a uiu.eu 1 light. This version is that on Sun day afternoon Wade Coble and John Staley, in company with some eight or ten others, were in the woods rambling, drinking and carousing. ibat a dispute arose about a "pot," j WARRANTS ISSUED. and Wade Cobb struck Staley in the bead with a bottle, the enwd dispersing to the four winds. This vetsion, which it is said is given bv a man who will 8 weir to it at the preliminary hearing, states further that Wade Coble went home, got Ms father, mother and the negro Ryan and went back to see how Staley was getting along. Seeingthat he was badly hurt, they decided to carry him to the house and put up the tale that he came in some time dur ing the night. At this writing, Wade Coble and his father are still at large. J. M. Staley lived in Liberty township in this county, lbe mur der occurred just,acroEs Guilford line in Clay township. The deceased is a brother of Dr A. P. Staley, of High Point and has several brothers in this county. The Neighborhood. The neighborhood in which the tragedy occured has boi ne a bad rep utation for some time, for while there are a number of good citizen: residing throughout the district, i is said they are afraid to report any lawlessness or even testify agaim-t the bad element of the citizenship when placed on the stand in court It is said by a resident of Clay town ship that the Coble' neighborhood has been a rendezvous for drinkers and gamblers for several years and that drunken carousals on Sundays are regular occurrences. It is about 10 miles from the place where Mrs. Lydia Newman was fouly murdered about eight months ago and about eight miles from the scene "of the murder of Simpson Coble about four months ago. One gentleman from the neighborhood sized the situation up In the following manner: "There are two bad gangs; one afraid of the other and the better class of citizens afraid of both, hence nothing has ever been done to stop the lawless ness." A Buxom Woman. Mrs. Jacob Coble, who is in jail charged with complicity in tne mur. der, refuses to talk of the affair, though the officers admit that she was overheard to say that Wade Uo ble struck the fatal blow.' She is a striking woman, appears to be about 45 years old and has an unusually pleasant fa.e, though her eyes have a doubtful appearance, bbe is said to be a "terror" in the neighbor hood. Another Version. A citizen from Clay township last night staged that when Ryan was arrested the officers found a gold watch belonging to Staley on him The officers refused to deny or atlntn this rumor. Ihis gentleman also stated that the feeling in the community was very bitter against the Cobles and aow that it appeared they were going to be sately cared for he thought there would be no trouble in getting witnesses to ap pear against him. The rumor that the officers found Staley's watch on Ryan brings the cass back to the- nrst motive ad vanced "robbery." It is known tbat Staley had a watch and $40 on his person Sunday morning and as yet tnejomcess have made no state ment as to what became of either, It is also stated that Ryan handled whiskey for the Cobles from his hut and tbat be was in the party when the fatal blow was struck. Deputies Crutchfield and Weath erly left Greensboro Wednesday morning with a posse of twenty-five men for tne Julian neigh bornood, where they will be joined bv other men, who will help in the search for Jacob Coble and his son, Wade Coble. Both men are said to be well armed and will not be taken without a fight. Rev. R. L. Bame and S. L. Parker are charged with burning the store house building of Mr. M. ' N." Hall at Granite Quarry, in Rowan county, on the night of February 10th, Mr. came Jiad the house rented. A warrant, has been issued and a preliminary hearing before a magistrate will bo held within the next few days. MURDERS CHILD AND MOTHER. IN-LAW COMMITS SUICIDE. Also Fires Upon His Wife Family Troubles The Cause. Had Only Recently Been United After Separation of MonthsSon of Clerk of Court And Member Prominent Mc Dowell Pamllv. At the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Bird, in McDowell rounty on last Thursday, Charlie Morris shot and instantly killed Mrs. Bird and bis own 2-year-old child and tnen walked about half a mile and shot himself, dying in thirty minutes. The Morrises have been married about three years, separating s?veral months ago, but had lived together again for four weeks. On the day before the tragedy Mrs. Morris want ed to go and spend the night with her mother, who was ill and who lived a mile away. Her husband objected at first, then agreed, but that she mu3t not take the child. Mrs, Morris finally persuaded him to let her take the child and left her husband in apparently good humor. Next moruiug Morris appeared at the Bird home and seeing his wife nrst, without saying a word, knock ed her down and fiivd two or three shots from his pistol at her. He went into his mother in law's room, fired five shots into her body, killing her instantly, then picked up the child, who was the only one in the room with its grandmother, carried it into an adjoining room, laid it on the floor aud fired thiee s Slots, each bullet going entirely through the child's body and into the floor. Morris then, after loading his pis tol, walked down the public road in the direction of his own home. When he had gone about half the distance between the Bird home and his own, he met two men in a buggy. He said to the men that everything he owned now belonged to his uncle, stepped a few feet away, took the pistol out of his pocket aud before the men realized his intentions, shot niiiisdii one time mrougn tne neaa, dying in thirty miDutes without re gaining consciousness. When Morris knocked his wife down aud shot at her, he, of course, thought she was dead, but none of the shots took effect. Mrs. Morris however, was stunned by the blow on her head. As soon as she recovered she ran for assistance, realizing at once that her husband intended to kill her mother and child, but bifore she could find anyone he had finish ed his work and gone away. Mr. Bird was not at home at the time. All parties are prominent and well to-do, Morris being a nephew of Clerk of the Superior Court, Thomas Morris, of Marion. No cause other than jealousy of his wife's people is known for the act. MR. PARKER TO FARMERS, Speech of Much Merit During the Noon Hecess ot Court Last Tuesday. One of the best speeches of an agricultural nature ever made in the county was delivered last luesday in the courthouse during the noon ' intermission of court by Capt. T. B. Parker, Chief Farm Demonstrator, of North Carolina. Capt. Parker is a speaker of real ability, and his effort showed that he knows his subject well. The farmers of the county have been fortunate recently in having some of tne best talent in tne state to tell them more about good farming, and if they do not improve the opportu nity, they are in fault themselves. Capt. Parker dtscuesed, in a gen eral way, better farming by men and also the introduction of better methods to boys. This, he said, should be done by the organization of boys' corn clubs. Better prepara tion of tne soil, and better seed se lection, with the proper Jertilization of the land, were the principal topics of the address. Capt. Parker has charge of the institute work in the State. Among other things he promised the presi dent of the local organization of farmers Institnte tbat he would arrange for Randolph to have three institutes this year instead of one, as has been the case. Special Term of Court for Davidoni County. There will be a special term of conrt for the trial of criminal cases for Davidson connty beginning April the 18th, Jndge E. B. Jones presid ing. , The annual meeting of- the State Laundry Men was held at Greens boro last week. . THE MARCH CLOSING There is only one more week in this month for you to work for one of the March special prizes. The vote for the en tire month has been small and any one of the contestants may. by just one week's hard work, secure one of these monthly prizes. Start today and mail your list with remit tance on March 31st. LIST OF CONTESTANTS. Mrs. A. B. Coltrane. Glenola 63.265 Miss Molela Yow, Central Falls 61.017 Miss Mary White. Glenola 24.684 Miss Lizzie Cameron. Liberty 12.665 Miss Beltye Shambnrqer, Hiils Store 8.475 Miss Nellie Ionian. Trinity 7.731 Miss Bessie Farmer. Randleman 7.122 Miss Maud Rurlis, Ramseur 6.601 Miss Elfie Presnetl. Michlield 6.519 Miss Lena Cole. Dewey 6.151 Miss Myrtle lohnson. Worthwlle 4.976 Miss Alice Bjrgess. Ramseur 3.325 Miss Bertha Luck. Seaarove. Route 2 3.501 Miss Maud Miller. Fullers. Route I 2.650 Miss Maud Foushee, Staley 2.200 Miss Stella Kelly, Troy 2.200 Miss Mamie Aibertson. Trinit 2.020 Miss Emma Pierce. Seagrove 2.000 miss tine riarvell, Abner 2.343 Miss Mary Stuart. Franklinville 1.800 Miss Cora Vuncannon, Seagrove 1.502 miss Ida cox.Haiph Miss Melia Frailer. Franklinville Miss Myrtle Pugh. Asheboro. Route 1 .. Miss Lydia Lassiter, Lassiter Miss Linnle Dorset!. Farmer Miss Nannie Hill, Rachel Miss Lola Troidon. Asheboro. Route 1. Miss Mamje Ellis, Millboro 1.001 951 800 613 416 406 404 400 SEED CORN DAYS. Meeting at Farmer fiext Saturday, March 20th, and a Second Meeting at l-'llut Hill, Saturday April 2nd, 1910. Two more seed corn meetings have been arraugeJ for the county. The n.st will be neid at rurnier next SaturJay afternoon, March 2Gth. This meeting will be open to all the people in the southwestern part of tne county. A large attendance is desired, lbe meeting will be open at one o'clock in the ofternoon. The second meeting will be held at Flint Hill on the following Sat urday, April 2nd. All people in the northwestern part of the county are invited. A pa'ticulur invitation is extended to the people in Back Creek and Tabernacle townships. Farmesheir wives, and ..the boys and girls should be present. This meeting wul open at ten o'clock in tne forenoon. Prof. I. 0. Schanb, of Raleigh, has been invited to come and pre sent tbe work of young people's clubs. Mr. Schaub is an authority on the selection of seed corn. At present he is engaged in organizing boys' clubs in various parts of the btate. Such questions as the preparation of the soil, the selection of seed, and the cultivation of the crop will be presented. Also there will be a practical seed-corn test. Farmer.' should bring 10 or 15 ears of corn in order to show the test thoroughly. The county farm demonstrator and tbe county superintendent of schools will be present. Other speakers also have been invited. C. K. Thomas Lose Suit. At last August term of Davidson Superior Court C. R. Thomas, a Thomas rille druggist, was fined by Judge Long $75 and costs in three cases against him for gelling cocaine to Anson county negroes, who order ed the drug by mail. The State Board of Pharmacy, acting under a tection of the law providing for it, revoked the license of Mr. Thomas as a pharmacist. Mr. Thomas recently brought mandamus proceedings to compel the State Board of Pharmacy to grant him druggist's license. After hearing argument last week Judge Biggs dismissed the proceedings. Death of 8. M. Horuady. Mr. S. M. Hornaday, a prominent citizen of Alamance connty, died at his home in Burlingtoi last Sunday night, aged 45 years. The cause of Mr. Hornady's death was pneumo nia. He is survived by the widow, formerly Mrs. Emma Pugh, of Greensboro, one daughter and three sorj8. ' Birthday Celebration. The children, grandchildren, rela tives and a number of friends met at Mr. 8. F. Pugh'shomeat Millboro on Wednesday, March the 9 th to celebrate Mrs. Pugh's sixty-seventh birthday. A number were present and -all thoroughly enjoyed the occa sion. . Murder at Islington. Henry Moore, a barber at Lexing ton, and who 'ived in Asheboro for a few month less than a year ago and was engaged as a barber by Ray Edmundson while here, shot and killed Henry Hawkins, another ne gro at Lexington on Monday of this week. INTEREST IN AGRICULTURE AND IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE. YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLUBS WELL ORGANIZED. Over 100 Boys in Boys' Corn Contest Numbers of Girls Be ing Enrolled in Girls' Home Culture Clubs Valuable Prizes to be Given Boys and Girls Under 20 Allowed to Enter. The boys and girls of Randolph County are becoming .intensely in ttrested in young people's club work as proposed by the State De partment of Education and as being organized by the Connty Superin tendent of Schools. Already 125 boys have joined the corn clubs and about 25 girls have entered the girls' club?. Randolph boys and girls are awake to tne best things and in this instance their progressive spirit is oeing shown. This contest is open to boys and girls under twenty years of age. It makes no difference where a boy or girl lives, just so the resilience be in the county, he or she is eligible to nter the contest and compete for the prizes tbat have been offered. That the people are interested in the boys and girls is evidenced by the valuable gifts that have alretfdy been arranged. The merchants of Ashe boro, and also those of Liberty have been libeial and a fine array of prizes has been offered. In the meet ings last week in Coleridge and Richland, valuable township prizes were raised. Some of The Prizes Already Arranged. The prizes for boys have already been published. It might be well to repeat that to the boy under twenty years old who makes the highest yield of corn on an acre of land a prise of $25.00 will be given. The second highest yield will warrant a prize of' $15.00: and the third highest, a prize of $10. A prize of $25.00 will also be given to the boy in the conntv who makes the treat- est profit on an acre of land in corn. This is done in order to encourage boys to grow corn at tbe lowest pos sibla cost. Prizes have already been announced for boys living within ten miles of Liberty. In another column, under another bead, will appear a statement of prizes offered to the boys of Coleridge and Rich land Townships. The Glrla' Home Culture Cluba. This name has been given to the girls clubs because it is sufficiently comprehensive to include all that is to be done by girls contest. The worn is more varied than that of boys' clubs. Contests have been ar ranged in Poultry, Canning, Sewing and Cooking. A running statement of each appears below. Whenever a girl signifies her in tention of entertaining the club, she may participate in any or all of these contests, and win prizes in any or all. lo illustrate: a girl may enter the club and compete for poultrv prizes aud also for canning aud sew ing and evtn cooking prizes; or sin may not engage in any qthe;- contest than the one she prefers to work in. Poultry Clubs. Girls who enter the poultry clubs will be expected to take a setting of eggs (13) and with the one heu get tbe best results obtainable. She will be expected to begin the work not later than May 10th and the re sults will be recorded October 25th. The prizes will be awarded on the merits of the records kept, the breed of fowl, tbe total weight of flock on October 25th, and the condition of fowls on exhibit. The girl making tbe best showing will be awarded a prize of $15.00. The second best will receive a prize of $6.00: and the third best, a prize of $4.00. More complete details concerning poultry clubs will be furnished on application to the office of the County superintendent. Canning Cluba. A prize of $10.00 will be given for the best exhibit of canned goods. This exhibit will consist of every variety of canning products. A prize of $5.00 will be given for second best exhibit. The prizes will be awarded on the basis of the largest exhibit of different canned products, the neatness of the work, and other points of excellence neces sary to come in in a case of this kind. Sawing Cluba. A prize of $3.00 will be awarded for the best collection of the fol lowing articles: (Best plain hand kerchief, best laundry bag, best fancy apron and best gingham sofa pillow. For the second best exhibit of these same articles a prize of $2.00 will be given. Prizes of $1.00 will be given for tbe best pxhibir, in each case, of the following articles: (1) Best large table napkin. (2) Best pair pillow cases, hem stitched. (3) Best large gingham sleeved apron. (4) Best pair hemmed linen towels. Also a priz? of 50 cents will I e given for the second best exhibit in each case mentioned. Cooking Clubs. A prize of $3.00 will be given for the best loaf of bread baked by di rections to be submitted later. A second prize of $2.00 will be given for the second best exhibit of bread. Mora complete directions as to mak ing bread will be issued later. A prize of $1.00 will be given in each case for the best half dozen sugar cookies and also for the best molasses cookies. Prizes of 50 cents will be given in each .case for the second best exhibit of cookies. In this case more complete directions will be issued later. Also some other contests may. be arranged. Plan For County Exhibit in Fall. It is the generally accepted idea that in order to carry this work for ward as a part of the work of the schools, it is necessary to have an an nual exhibit of the work that mm be done. Therefore, arrangements are bein(g made for a county exhibit -of the articles DreDXrad bv thn crirlq. of the poultry and canning, and also of specimens of tbe corn grown by the boys. This exhibit will be in Asheboro about the middle of No vember. Young People Urged to Enter The Contest. It has been stated above that boys and girls under twenty years old will be allowed to enter these clubs. We have a good number now, but we want, and confidently expect, twice as many in the county. All boys and girls who enter will have an op portunity of winning prizes, but of far greater worth will be the actual expenence in doing this kind of work. Parents are requested to ar range for their boys and girls to enter. Send the names and addresses t) me and full particulars will be be furnished. Just write me a card add state the name and address and also the club one desires to enter. This contest for boys will be closed May 10th. The contest for girls will be open later. It is a good plan to send names early, in order that directions may be f urnished and also that the names may be put on the mailing list for the government bul letins and other publications which will be furnished absolutely without cost to all young people who enter the clubs. The Work of The School. There are those who doubt the propriety of this work. Some have even ventured to suggest that this is no part of the work of a school man. The answer is to be found in the work being done in other places. Boys all over North Carolina are en tering the corn contests, and in every case, they are being organized by the school men. So far as I know no other county has taken the work among the girls. But the school men of the Middle West have these clubs for girls, and they are sure to come to the South. Why not Ran dolph lead the way? Why should we wait when we see a good thing? We are orvine out for a more racti- cal form of education, and this is the only form in which we are able to manage the system now. Let ns begin the work, even on a small scale, and the time will soon come when we hare these things in onr high schools first and then a little later the system will be worked ont for thebrdinary elementary rural schools. These things must come if the schools are to meet the needs and conditions of the people. Let ng have another 100 boys and also another 100 girls to join the clubs. Send the names early. E.J. Coltbakk, County Sopt. of Schools.
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