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1 Fire Inf
. rtport of the secretary and
tiejlurer disclosed that the losses of
tiUjKssociation in the county during
*Sf3ILet twelve months have been
hopST totaling $10,863.25,- all of
which have been adjusted "and paid.
The assessments not supplying a suf
fieieftt <und to meet the losses, $4,500
bad to be borrowed from one of the
county banks to make up the deficit.
It was pointed out, however, that the
loss the past year had been excessive
and is unusual for the association. .
In: order to make good the deficit
for ti»e past year and to provide a
fund to take, care of current losses,
the meeting voted an assessment of
thirty cents on the $100 for the en
suing year. This is five cents less
than the assessment recommended by
the president in his report.
Re-Elect S. S. Cox President
S.'S.'Cox, president of the associa
tion,, was reelected and also was
elected delegate to the State meeting
to be held in Raleigh January 19th.
Other officers elected were: vice!
president, C. M. Ferree; secretary]
and treasurer, C. E. Allen, directors,]
S. S. Cox, W. R. Hamlin, W. M. Co
ble, G. H. Comelison, and T. S. Boul
dinj agents, J. M. Allen and J. F.
Houth. -*$?**.*• -•> *1
following were named apprais
the various townships:
fif;J. Luck, Trinity; R. E. Macon,
'Qept; E. W. Brown, Coleridge; Har-!
ris Kearns, Conco&l^ J. T.^Thorn
burg,~8.ew Hope;. Elijiu '‘Vuncannon,
Finney, Cedar Groste;
iiPfedding.^. Creek; i. A- En
gm->w: Rich, Franklinvilie; J.
Williams, Liberty; C. C. Cheek, j
sant Grove; <5. M. Tysor, Brower; j
»s Wood, Tabernacle; Clyde ]
f, Richland; R. W. York, Colum- ,
W. F. Redding, Asheboro. I
(Continued on page 4)
OLT OF THE WESTERN
FARMERS SPREADING FAST
e farm revolt in the West is
tding. Senator W. B. McKinley,
rular Republican, threw constem
into the ranks of the adminis
>n forces Tuesday when he
ed himself with the farm Woe
the West,
lator McKinley, in a statement
Death of Ah Aged Lady
Hulda Staley, widow of the
Calvin Staley an aged lady who
lived alone near
d, was found dead in a chair
home yesterday. Neighbors
many years
H. Crowell,
of
Mrs. Staley the day before
found dead. Her husband
about twenty-five years ago
lince that time she had lived
»' in an humble home but her life
of confidence and trust that
Father was guiding and
| for her. Never has the writer
implicit faith and trust
er example of waiting with
the call to come to a
A coroner’s inquest
.—■ ...sfe
robbery, cashier cam# to Ashe
boro Sunday, bufwas not able to iden
tify Davis one*of the number im
plicated in 'the robbery. - He did state,
however# that he resembled a man
seen driving a cararound town the
morning of the robbery.
C. H. Hedgewood and Charles Se
chreist, High'Point youths, have been
arrested and identified by the cash
ier, Robert Riley, as being two of the
men who held him up and stole the
bank’s cash. Another man, Byron
Gibsbn, arrested 6n similar charge, he
was unable to identify.
North Carolina Leads The
Way in No. Active Spindles
North Carolina leads the way in
number of active spindles in its mills.
On November 30th, North Carolina
had 6,037,396 spindles in place. In
this respect she was led by Massa
chusetts, which had in place 11,614,
824 spindles. However, in the num
ber of active.,spindle hours, North
Carolina led Massachusetts, the near
est competitor, by 100 million,hours.
South Carolina mills also showed
considerable activity during the
month of November. Incthe^ciiuntry
as a whole, figures show ,tha£ 96 per
cent Of the total number of spindles
were' operated at some time during
■the month. T*
Bacon
if^Joes
To Journal
Worth Bacon, for the past & years
a member of the staff of the High
has accepted a position as city editor
of the Winston-Salem Journal.
Baptists Have $9,000,600 Goal
Niftd Million Mlara is the goal set
for 1926 by the Southern Baptists,
according to compilation of the fig
ures set by the ehdrch conventions ih
the various states. North Carolina^
goal is $1,000,000, the same as Vir
ginias and only $250,000 behind that
of the Texas Baptists.
Only Plant of its Kind in
South Established at Trinity
George B. Craven, veteran printer,
newspaper man and municipal bond
buyer, is installing a printing plant
at Trinity, this county, for the print
ing of municipal tibnds exclusively.
It will be the only plant of its kind
in the south. The name of the cor
poration will be the Municipal Bond
Priiiting Company. It will be incor
porated wth sufficient capital to in
sure the handling of large orders.
Bobbed Her Hair; Husband Left
Because his wife bobbed her hair
without his permission, Rev. Morris
Cochran, preacher, of Hazlewood, left
home and carried all the household
goods with him. The wife swore out
a warrant for the husband and he is
now under a $200 bond for appearance
in court. ,
DEAD
'
■ Calvin Beane aged citizen of Sea
grove, Route l, died Friday of last
week following declining health vfqr
the past three years. He was born
to Randolph county July 29th, I860.
He had been a faithful member of
the churcWor many years and will
be greatl^biased in his community.
is held at Mount
Saturday afternoon
Beane, of Laurinburg, S. ,C.| one sis
ter. Mrs. H. F. Way, of Seagrove;
and six children, W. A. Beane, of
Asheboro; B. F. Beane, of Cambridge,
Md.; W. E. Beane, of Seagrove; C.
H. Beane, of Asheboro, Star Route;
and M& J.’:
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Washburn, Wis., has the
est Mayor of any municipality in
America. Paul Ungrodt was el
ed to reform the town when hard
iy more than a boy. Now, at the
age of 23, he feaB made a greai
success of his administration, han
dling the city's affairs with rare
judgment for one of so limited ex
perience. f
COUNTY’S BONDED DEBT
IS MORE THAN 1 MILUON
Figures of June 39th, 1925, Giv
Out by State Auditor
Show This Amount.
en
On June 30, 1925, according t
State Auditor Baxter Durham,
total bonded indebtedness of the
of North Carolina, its counties and:
municipalities, was $327,296,050.45,
an increase of 18 per cent fiver
same period in 1924. The 'State
debtedness went up only 10 millions'
while counties increased 15 millions
and 24 millions for the municipalities.
The debt divided into parts is of
June 80, was; State bonded debt,
$103,933,531; counties;-£102,181,873.95
and towns, $121,480,645.50. V t
Randolph county1*/bonded indebted
ness on the date specified was $l£.I
256,000. Some of
were: Alamance, $1,1
er. lb
son,' $817,500; Guilf0^54,270,:
Hoke, $236,000; Lee, $488,000; Mont
gomery, $1,816,000; Moore, $651,000;
Sfanly, $897,000; Union, $1,017,000;
Wilkes, $1,149,000; Yadkin, $441,000.
Of the cities some of the figures
are as follows: Asheboro, $315,000;
Carthage, $15,000; Greensboro, $9,
856,000; Lexington, $1,173,000; High
Point, $2,667,000; Pittsboro, $24,300;
Sanford, $709,500; Thomasville, $1,
420,000; Troy $518,000; Randleman,
$33,500.
HER UNBOBBED HAIR HID A
GOODLY STOCK OF HEROIN
Policeman patrolling Montmare, in
Paris, saw a woman whose hair was
not bobbed. So great was their sur
prise that they arrested her.
At the police station, tfye woman
took down her magnificent locks and
policemen found concealed therein
several tubes of heroin and a hypo
dermic syringe. The woman’s sweet
heart, a chemist, was also arrested.
ATTACKS LAUNCHED ON
MELLON’S ALUMINUM CO.
i -* .
Attacks were launched in the Sen
ate and House Tuesday on the Alum
inum Company of America, in which
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is
a large stockholder.
In the Senate the attack was cen
tered around the failure of the Attor
ney General to bring contempt pro
ceedings against the company for al
leged violations of the Federal Court
decrees, and the action of the Federal
Trade Commission in withholding im
portant evidence from the Depart
ment of Justice.
In the House, Representative Old
field demanded a complete investiga
tion of the company charging that
it was a monopoly and fixed the price
of aluminum. It was charged that
due to the protective tariff on the
company, every purchaser of alumin
um in the country pays tribute to the
abiminum Company ,and indirectly to
Coolidge’s Secretary of the Treasury.
■■HP dnight January let
in answering: a false alarm whoa the
fire track on which they were riding:
collided with the reaf fender oS an
automobile and turned over three
times. The dead are: D. C. Cope,
aged 50; Ed Cope, aged 25, spn of
Doug Cope; and Howard Michael*
aged 80. Three men were injured.
They are: Henry C. Gibson, Henry
Yarborough and Riley Cope. V
Row in the Capital
Them is a row on in Washington.
It is not. in Congjjess this time, but
among the city authorities and the
Brower heads a gang: of negroes
termed the largest receivers of stolen
c&rs and parts that ever operated in
N«rth Carolina. He and his gang
were arrested by Greensboro officers
Tuesday afternoon after a trap had
been carefully laid for them. Their
garage was found'$n highway 70 at
Nagle Springs and from all outward
appearances was a- most prosperous
business, run ope&and above board.
It It one of the beet equipped shops
i&lpb State. V'4
la addition to stolen cars and
parts, there is evidence that Brower
and his crowd were receivers of dll
kinds of stolen goo^s from all parts
of the State and Cthat there were
agents of ihe ganjj at work in many
cities and towns, f
Those crested jnd Jailed are Cur
tis Broker, Sam Brower, Artie Mc
Coy, Will Smith, > Ives Coles and
James Goldstein, all negroes. Held
also-are Grady Ptjjgh, of this county,
and AI, H. Davis, jirhite, Davis being
the man who wricked the Chrysler
sedan near the Star filling sta
tion, in Asheboro lleveral weeks ago.
It is believed that lie was headed for
Eagle Springs to dispose of this car i
when it Vras wrecked enroute.
j Mr. Burns,;who identified his prop- j
erty, says thord* is the greatest pro-1
fusion of auto|ioip» accessories and
parts in the laygatgarage ever seen
Sp&iuarily in a latge garage in the
slate. Tires ate jtacted in racks by
tf*. hundreds as ^batterftsfc and
0^ auto parts.. • M^d^of the loot
disposed of at the. pl&e. " - ’ ,—
V
Colored alow
Greenland and o
Southern^ _ * "
rm o t greon,
bo minute organisms known as Proto
eoecus nivalis.
A Babbit Hunt
last Saturday &Wut twenty-five
men and boys without guns and with ]
13 dogs enjoyed & rabbit hunt on the
farm of Mr. ft. E. Macon, on Ashe
boro, Route 1. A large number of
rabbits were caught.
CALL -ELECTION
To Be Held in Hope Town
ship, Feb. 9—To Build New
School House. >
At the regular monthly meeting of
the board of education held in the
office of county superintendent T.
Fletcher Bulla in the courthouse in
.i$ion was
tf^ftship
ua
school
local
the
for
n of
was or
t on the
y, .Randolph
Asheboro Monday,
presented from Ne
calling far an electh
ial tax of 25 cents
tion of property to
building in the to'
[tax voted shall be,
board and the petii
no other purpose
a school building,
dered that the hoi
road leading from W---.—„
county, to Eldorado, Montgomery
county, at some suitable site between
'3. W. Loflin’s home place and a
branch on the north side of New
Hope church.
The election will be held Tuesday,
Feb. 9th, at New Hope Academy
school building, t, M. Chandler ,was
made registrar and Numa O. Harris
on and J. R. Snyder, poll holders.
The registratioh books will be open
from January 9th to 3Qth.
The audit of the school funds for
the year 1924-26 was approved.
The salary of welfare officer Gar
ner was raised from $1800 a yeah to
$2100 a year at a joint meeting of
the board of education and the board
of commissioners, Mr. Gamer having
made application for the raise. The
raise in salary becomes effective im
$30 to pay •
erection of a
■Site
board
to
the
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston
Princeton, N. J., formerly wife at
the late Piwrident Grover Cleve
land, Joined the Board of foroctors
of the Camp Hr* Girls and will
assist, with many other prominent
American women, in guiding the
destiny of this splendid cr?TJ»f*a
OSCAR ELVIN fflNSHAW
DIED AT JULIAN SAT.
Was 42 Years of Age and Had
Been in 111 Health all of His
Life—Funeral Sunday.
Funeral services /for Oscar Elvin
Hinshaw, who died at his home near
Julian Saturday morning, were con
ducted at Providence Friends church
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev.
R. H. Melvin, of Greensboro, was in
charge of the services. V
The deceased had been in ill health
all of his life. He was 42 years of
age, and in addition to his mother,
Mrs. Zebidee Hinshaw, he is survived
by three brothers, Harvey, Fernando
and Cicero Hinshaw, and one sister,
Mrs. Amanda Allred, all of Provi
dence section.
The service was largely attended.
Interment was made ill the church
cemetery. PaH bearers were, W. M.
son, G. B. MeCliniock, William
T, C. F. Anderson, Jim Gamer,
F, F, '
Vesley Stand last Sunday afternoon.
Ir. Jake Welborn had charge of the
ervlces and made an interesting talk
•n how to make a pastor, a Sunday
ichool superintendent and a Chris
ian. Mrs. Hendrix read the scrip
ure lesson and sang a solo. About
50 were converted at this meeting..
The Gang will hold services again
it the John Wesley Stand the third
Sunday in this month.
BUTLER ATTACKS THE STATE
REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
Former Senator Marion Butler,
now practicing law in Washington,
and who for some time past has been
at outs with the management of the
Republican party in North Carolina,
has recently issued a circular letter
to many members of his party in the
State in which he launches an attack
on Chairman Bramham and the or
ganization of the party in general in
North Carolina.
He attacks the representation of 3
members en the State committee
from each congressional district as
being undemocratic. He recalls that
it is more objectionable because two
of these members are selected by the
State chairman.
Butler charges that the Republican
organization is a patronage machine
and exists for the purpose of doling
out federal patronage and that no
efforts are made to further the party
interests in the State. Butler char
acterizes the present organization as
the “hog combine” and observes that
its members get most of the federal
jobs. *
PARTY RETURNS FROM TRIP
TO STATE OF FLORIDA
Misses Pauline Roberts and Annie
Spake, and Messrs. Sams and Lowell
I. Bass returned from a week’s trip
to Florida with the Hollywood De
velopment company Saturday night.
The party left High Point at 1:50
p. m., December 26 and arrived in
Jacksonville, Florida, the following
morning. After spending a few
hours in Jacksonville they took the
Hollywood bus which accomodates
twenty persons and drove down the
east coast stopping at the principal
YOUTH JAILED ON
ROBBERY CHARGE
Roy Faucette Bound Over To
Court for Robbing J. G.
Stockard, At liberty. *
Roy Faucette, young: white man
whose home is on Burlington, Route
6, was placed in jail at Asheboro last
night in default of #6,000 bond follow
ing a preliminary hearing in Liberty
yesterday afternoon on charge of
holding up J. G. Stockard, Liberty
merchant at the point of a gun Mon
day afternoon and rifling the cash
drawer in his store of $16.
Faucette, after the hold up, escaped
in a Ford coupe, and although the
alarm was given and pursuit made,
he was not overtaken by Liberty cit
izens. Description of Faucette and
the license tag number on the car
were wired to nearby towns. He was
arrested at 9:30 o’clock Monday night
by policemen at his home after Bur
lington officers investigated the
number of the car that sped by them
on highway 62 where they had parked
to watch for him. They chased him
to Burlington and the manner ’ in
which he criss-crossed half of the
town before he raced out towards his
home'aroused more suspicion.
When the officers found his car in
the bam at the Faucette home, the
license tag was gone. It w^s found
in the house, however, and corres
ponded with the number for which
they were looking. Faucette denied
the robbery. However, he was iden
tified by Mr. Stockard and a Liberty
hardware merchant from whom he
bought some, ammunition.
HENRY C. DUNLAP, AGED
CITIZEN, DIED DECEMBER 31
Henry C. Dunlap, aged 78 years,
died December 31st at his home on
Steeds, Route 1, following a stroke of
paralysis suffered the 27th. Mr. Dun
lap was a prominent farmer of Moore
county until a few years ago when he
retired on account of age and ill
health.
He is survived by his widow, four
sons, H. J. Dunlap, of Waycross, Ga.;
Miss Jessie Hooker and Mr. Clar
ence Allred, both of Spero, were unit
ed in marriage Wednesday night of
last week at the home of M. E.
Brown, J. P., two miles west of Ran
dleman. Only a few intimate friends
were predent to witness the ceremony.
NORTH CAROLINA LEADS
IN TOBACCO INDUSTRY
Pays Thirfd of Federal Tax on
Tobacco and Makes More
Than Half Cigarettes.
For the fiscal year ending June
30, 1925, North Carolina broke all
records in the amount of federal taxes
derived from revenue from tobacco.
The total reached $147,000,000, more
than a third of the whole paid by t{ie
entire United States from tobacco
revenue. •
This point of leadership is not all.
North Carolina for the same year
made more than half of all the cigar
ettes manufactured in the country.
In the manufacture of plug tobacco
the State ranked second.
During the year 1923 the State
produced 72,185,000 pounds of tobac
co, or one-third of the total number
of pounds produced in the country.
In 1926, North Carolina cigar factor
ies, 30 in number, used 400,000 pounds
of tobacco and made 18,194,000 cig
ars.
I. N. Dunlap, of Muskogee, Fla.; H.
$anl*P, of Steeds,
Hooker-AHred
MRS. SARAH KING
DIED SATURDAY
Mrs. Sarah
of the late Joh
End Came in a Richmond, Va.,
Hospital—Widow of Late J. •
M. King, of Seagrove.
\jinettle King, widow
3 John M. King, of Seagrove,
uieu Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock
in Kelliam hospital, Richmond, Va.,
following an illness of six months.
The news of her death was received
with' profound regret by her many
relative^ and friends in the county.
She was a consecrated Christian wo
man and possessed a beautiful Chris';
tian character. Early in childhood
she joined the M. P. church, at Flag
W. U5N MILLIKAN .
! (llTS ROAD JOB
Appoint I by Commissioners
Monday-—Ex-Sheriff Hughes
Also Wanted The Job.
The county commissioners in regu
lar session last Monday settled the
bone of contention among county Re
publicans by electing W. Ben Milli
kan, of Back Creek township, to the
position of road supervisor to take
the place made vacant by the resig
nation of My. Bird. It is understood
that the contest lay between ex-sher
iff J. F. Hughes and Mr. Millikan and
that two or more votes were
to decide the issue.
Among the road matters receiving
attention were as follows:
J. P. Lineberry was instructed to
get the -necessary lumber to build a
bridge afcross Bush Creek in Provi
dence township.
Causey Parks was instructed to
put in a new bridge over one prong of
Little River on the High Pine and
Ulah road.
For the special election in Bailey’s
Grove school district, Chas. W. All
red was appointed poll holder in place
of Billy Bean. Nathan Sheffield
was also appointed poll holder in a
school' tax election in place of R. C
Moser, disqualified on account of be
ing a member of the school committee
at White Hall.
The monthly report of R. M. Gar
ner, welfare officer, was made to the
board and accepted.
Wesley and Elizabeth Gerton were
ordered admitted to the county home
upon recommendation of the welfare
officer.
The clerk to the board was instruct
ed to have printed in condensed form
the audit of the county general and
road funds covering the period from
Dec. 1, 1924, to June 30, 1925, made
by Scott, Charley and Company, au
ditors.
Upon recommendation of the board
of education and request of many
citizens of the district, the speeM
tax election for schools in New Mar
ket township and in parts of Back
Creek township was called off by
the commissioners.
The next meeting of the board will
be held on January 14th,
.■
Figures compiled by J. T. Ryan, of
High Point, secretary of the South
ern Furniture Manufacturers’ Asso
ciation, and son-in-law of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles F. Smith, of Ashebono,
show that the South is rapidly forg
ing ahead in the manufacture -of
niture. His figures show that iSfe
there were 53,212 carloads of furw
ture shipped, of which 8,986 carloads
or 16.9 per cent came from the South.
In 1924, 94,221 oarloads were ship
ped, of which 24,878 or 26 1-2 per coat
came from the South.
The increase in the number of car
loads in the country as a whole nas
77 per cent, whereas the increase In
shipments from the South was 176
per cent. For 1925, figures from the
railroad companies show that 9.9 per
cent more cars of furniture were
handled over the countrji over 1924
shipments. At the same time the in
crease in the number handled in the
South was more than 23 per cent.
Fire at Eagle Springs
Eagle Springs suffered a disastrous
fire Wednesday of last week when
the store building occupied by Lewis
and Carter and the post office was
burned, in addition to a car of hay
standing on the railroad track near
the building. The fire is thought to
have been of incindiary origin.
Federal Aid For Roads
Secretary of agriculture Jardine
has announced a federal appropriation
of $73,125,000 for good roads. Of
this amount North Carolina gets for
the new year $1,708,544. More than
10,000 miles of federal roads were
built last year.
Mrs. E. Lee Trinkle Injured
Mrs. E. Lee Trinkle, wife of the
Governor of Virginia, is in a Rich
mond, Va„ hospital suffering from
burns received Monday when the
Governor’s mansion, 114 years old;
caught on fire and was practically de
stroyed. Mrs. Trinkle was burned
while going upstairs to wake her 14
year-old son who was in bed asleep.
None of the other members of the
Governor’s family were injured be
yond a few scratches sustained in
getting out of the burning building.