THE COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation VOLUME U PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN - NUMBER » She HUSBAND WAS BORN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY Tragedy Enacted on Lonely Art conn Homestead 23 Miles From Other Habitation. Unable to counteract the spreading: poison of a rattlesnake bite and slowly bleeding to death from a wound inflicted in an effort to. bait the advance of the venom, and with visions of her twb small children starving to death on the desert be fore the nearest neighbors, twenty three miles away, could reach them, Mrs. Evans J. Cox,' 23 years old, shot her babies while they slept and then turned the gun on herself in her lonely home on an Arisona desert Monday night, May 8rd. Bitten by a rattlesnake Sunday night when she vent out into the back yard of her uttle homestead, she applied every antidote of which she knew to stay the deadly poison and as a last re sort took a knife and cut around the wound that the poison might run out with her blood. In doing this she se vered an artpry and began to slowly bleed to death. , All through Sunday night and Mon day and Monday night she suffered mental and physical pain. She made every effort to give the alarm to any chance passers-by firing her husband’s shotgun until she had used every shell and then firing his 22 rifle. As a last resort she tried to crank the family car, but found she was too weak for the job. Then cuddling her babies in their beds, death only a few hours away and starvation awaiting her children after she left, Mrs. Cox shot thefn through the heart and then ended her own life. The tragedy in the lonely desert home was learned a few day? later when her husband who had loft home Sunday to work on a distant ranch returned home. He found the life less bodies of his wjfe and children and a blood-stained note left by the mother telling of the tragedp. Al most illegible in places, the note re counted in detail the sufferings, the hopes and fears and the heartaches of the long hours she waited and watched for*fceSp had then as a last resort to save < her children from starvation after she had died how she had killed them. Her husband and brother-in-law had spent the week-end at home but had left Sunday morning to work on a ranch several miles distant. He was not expected to return for seveal days. This tragic story is of unusual in terest to Randolph county people for the reason that the heroic woman was the wife of Evans J. Cox, who was born and reared m the Holly Springs section of Randolph county. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cox, who now reside in Arisona, but who lived up until 18 years ago in this county. The family has a large number of relatives in Randolph. BAPTIST NEWS LETTER ' Prayer services are being held Tuesday and Thursday evenings of this week in different sections of the town, looking forward in a larger ■way to the revival services which be gin Sunday, June 6th. These prayer services will continue each week un til the revival formally begins. Put these first in your plans. The executive committee of the Randolph District B. Y. P. U. met Monday afternoon of this week in the work of the District B> Y. P. U. The T. T. T. class and their teach er, Mm, Daisy P. Mobley, in company with the Beethian class and their teacher, pastor Morris, motored to WiUomoore Springs last Friday af ternoon on a picnic trip. All report ed a pleasant time. “Philip the Evangelist," is the subject for next Sunday morning. “A Mad World Without Restraint,” will be used for our consideration at the evening service, 8:00 o’clock. This is the fourth and last of a series be ing used at the evening services in May. You are invited to be with us. ' Major A. B. Ostranger of Seattle, Washington, ’ to now three cushion billiard champ. This 81 year old veteran of the Civil War realized the ambition of a lifetime when he annexed the title. The three cush ion same is the most difficult of «U hi I Hard samea DRIVE TO RAISE $500 FOR BOY SCOUT TROOP Most Have This To Participate In National Organization— $125 Raised. ii nips # i\ '• A drive to raise $500 for the Boy Scouts in Asheboro was launched Tuesday at a luncheon at the Ashlyn hotel at which fifteen or twenty lead ing: citizen of the town were present. Mr. Gordon Blair, Chief Scout Mas ter, was present and explained the proposition. This amount must be raised-Toi&be local gcout troop be fore it caft pmfcicipdte in the national organization. The Asheboro troop is a part of the Uwharrie district com posed of High Point and Davidson and Randolph counties. Approximately $125 was raised, ir. a snort canvass Tuesday and it is understood that the drive will con tinue untH the $500 is raised. ~ M. E. MATTERS (W. H. Willis) The writer officiated at the funeral of Wm. S. Ringstaff recently. Rev. L. T. Edens and the writer were guests for supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs.- John M. Presnell Saturday evening. Rev. John Hoyle, of Ramseur, is assisting pastor Edens in a meeting at Worthville this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Searboro had as tHeir guests for dinner Sunday their pastor, Rev. L. T. Edens and this scribe. Our membership is now 574/ The pastor invites the co-operation of his church in making it at least 000 by conference. Who’ll be the first' to bring in a recruit? "What next?” win be the question that the pastor will seek to answer Sunday morning, next. At night, an informal service on “The Making of a good Methodist.” New Machine Shop To Be Located In Asheboro Soon Asheboro is to have a machine shop. That was definitely decided in the last few days when C. A. Bristow, of Sophia, and H. H. Foust, of Greens boro, came down to *look the town over with the view, of establishing the shop here. Mr. A- M. Feme is con structing a building to house the shop on bis lot near Asheboro Wheelbar row Company’s plant. The shop will be opened to do general machine work as soon as the building is com pleted. The business will be operated under the" name of the Central Ma chine Works, the name probably growing out of the fact that Asheboro is well advertised as the center of North Carolina. WONDERFUL REVIVAL IN PROGRESS AT CEDAR FALLS i A series of meetings has been, in progress at Cedar Falls under the di rection of the pastor, Rev. C. H. Hill, for the past ten days. Rev. HOI is bring assisted by the evangelistic boys at High Point. The meetings have been splendidly attended. Many times the church has been crowded to of the < iral days, j or towns, V: ’ From Complication w ami > Mts. R.'jfr-Putnam, aged 41 years, died at her home two miles north of Asheboro Monday from a complica tion of troubles. Mrs. Putnam was bom and reared in Clover, S. C. She was married to Rev, R. Y. Putnam a number of yean ago. To this union there are five children: Irvin, Ralph, John, Clyde and Nettie. Mrs. Putnam had been in poor health for-the past six or seven yean but she was stricken two weeks age seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam have lived near Asheboro for two and a half years, during which time Mr. Putnam has served aff pastor of sev eral churches around Asheboro. The body of Mn. Putnam was tak en to Clover, S. C., for burial Tues day. Those accompanying the funer al party were Mr, and Mrs. A. L. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Selwin Brown, Mr. and Mn. Claud' Dunlap and Mn. W. L. Thurber. The funeral services were cohducted by Revs. T. L. Hill, of Colfax; C. A. Hendrix, of Gaston ia; and C. K. Gentry, of Kannapolis. M. P. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS The past two Sundays have been great days with us. At the Mothers' Day service extra chain had to be 'provided and again last Sunday morn ing it was necessary to provide for a large congregation. We “were greatly pleased last Sun day to have with us Rev. T. R. Wood ford, D. D., and his wife, of Pine Ridge, Ky. Dr. Woodford is the Supt. of a very important Mission School up there in the mountains of that state. He preached for us, Sunday morning and spoke on Pine Ridge 8unday evening. In the absence of the pastor Rev. L. T. Edens led the prayer meeting. Our people were pleased with Brother Edens and wQl be glad for him to come again. In the absence of the pastor this week Brother Robert Lloyd will con duct the prayer meeting. Regular services will be held next Sunday. RECOMMENDS MR. TALBERT FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS The Courier: As all loyal Democrats have the right to express themselves as to their preference as to nominees that are to be voted for this fall, I want to present to the people the next Register of Deeds for Randolph Coun ty, in the name of M. F. Talbert, of New Hope township. Jn all my. travels in different sec tions of the county everybody is talk ing Talbert. The masses are solid be hind him and this makes Jdm the log ical man. If we are to win we must nominate men who are clean, honest and up right. Talbert possesses these qual ities. In my honest opinion he will have no opposition, and he ought not to have. We can elect Talbert, and we will. —Tabernacle Voter.. was widely known in the Piedmont section of the State and everywhere highly regarded. MR. DANIEL T. DICKS DIES AT ms HOME IN DURHAM Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. H. C. Smith, paster of Duke Memorial Methodist church, for D. T. Dicks, 71 yean old, who died Sunday in Durham. The services were at the home of Mrs. Fred H. Stevens, daugh ter of the deceased. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. In addition to his widow and daughter, the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Cicero Stockton, of Kernersville, two grandsons, Freder ick and George Stephens of Durham, and numerous other relatives. Mr. Daniel T. picks was the young est son of the late James Dicks and Nancy Coltrane Dicks, of Randleman, where he' lived and 'operated the farms on Deep River until a few years ago he moved with his family to Durham. The news of his death Ur. David J. Hill Dead Dr. David J. Hill, aged 62 years, died at the home of his sister in Winston-Salem Thursday of last week following an illness of nedrly five months during the greater part of which time he was under treatment in a hospital. Dr. Hill was the pioneer practicing physician of Lexington where he had lived the greater part of is life up until he became HI. He usually Difficult To Hake Thirty-seven students in the gram mar grades of the public schools in the county passed the seventh grade examination held April first and sec ond and are eligible to enter the eighth grade of^the high school at the opening of the fall term. The examination this spring was consid ered unusually difficult and a large number failed to make the passing grade. Following is a list of the successful students designated by schools: Parks Cross Roads: Herbert Stubbs, Wade Stout. Mt. Olivet: Annie Hayes, Willie Hayes, Erlean Davis. Marlboro: Ruth Davis. Sophia: Margaret Kennedy. Three'Forks: Lucile Oliver. Welch: EmoryHancock, Mamie Lu ther, Barnie Lawrence, Charlie Cox, Alice Callicott, Grace Strider. Shiloh: Cecil Rumley, Robert Bray. Coleridge: Margaret Davis, James Ward, Abner Rumley, Kathleen Davis. Tabernacle: Linie Hoover, Beulah Younts. Shepherd: Fannie Robbins, Lucile Walker, Algene Robbins, Blanche Hunt. Pleasant Hill: Ruby Nance, How ard Hoover. Belvidere: William Kearns, Walter Trotter, Claude Kearns, Marie Hunt. Mountain View: Leona Miller, Paul Miller. Walnut Groves Bum Breedlove, Minnie Ferguson, John Jordan. SOLICITOR ZEB V. LONG HAS FILED HIS-ANNOUNCEMENT The following frurticle which ap peared in a recent |ssue of the Concord Times, has been sent to The Courier by a citizen of Cabarrus county, with the request that the same be pub lished: “Solicitor Zeb V. Long, of States ville, within the past several days has filed his notice as Democratic candi date for the solkitorship of the fif teenth judicial district. In his an nouncement Mr, Long stated that he is willing for tha people to judge his worthiness by hb'mMjbrd. “That platfornuw* feel certain, will bring .victory to Wfg%jate