North Carolina Newspapers

BSircomdl 1 VOL. XXV, NO. 52 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 23, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENT COMMITTEE GOES TO ATLANTA TO ITl'L FOR 1UG SCiW'Jt-. THIEVES AND VAGRANTS BUSY IN DABK HOURS. t- 1 I t" 1 I V f h i I, '? :- f ; "- nr "J -. - J:- Reports of Secret Session Leak Through Closed Doors-Stoney Mountain Company Wants to Re move Body of FederaljSoIdier-Jackson Introduces Tqv Arv,J,.-l- U-J l! Tj f Interest from State Capital SPECIAL TO THE HUSTLER Raleigh, Nr C., Jan., 20, 1919. The Senate and House of Representatives have been meeting for brief sessions each day the past week, but thi Jog is lative mill has practically been idle and no legislation of state-wide sig nificance has been cleared. All im portant committees have been com pleted and the machinery for real business is thought to be in fine run ning order. A few minor measures have been ratified, but nothing of general importance has completed the journey through both branches ex cept the Federal amendment restrict ing the manufacture or sale of intoxi cating liquors within the domains of the United States of America. More than forty states have taken similar action and the new amendment be comes effecetive twelve months h - ice. after which no ljquor can be legally manufactured or sold in any otate of the American Union. John Motley Morehead, Marion But ler and his brother George, E. Carl Duncan and other "outsiders" met here in caucus on Friday night with the re publican members of the General As sembly and "orated" until one o'clock in the morning behind closed doors Newspaper reporters were excluded from the meeting, but the boys got the dope "some how or other." The meeting was called, presumably for the purpose of discussing le::isia tion to be proposed by members of the minority party in the Geiif:r;il Assem bly,, but Butler and Morehead evinced more interest in trying to defeat 4he confirmation of Chairman Toi.i "War ren for United States District Attor FRA3K WALDROP IX FKASCv Mrs. J. M. Waldrop has received a letter from her son Frank Waldrop. who is with the famous Fifth Marines in France. The letter states that al though he is now in a hospital he is rapidly convalescing and expects soon to rejoin his regiment, which forms a part of the Army of Occupation now in Germany. Frank says that this unit has seen some terrific fighting since he joined it in June 1918, and that the marines are the genuine ar ticle when it comes to a man's size CLOSE SHAVE FOR LEE ALLEN Oscar LeAllen, who has been serving i" jne of the gun crews of the TJ. S. S. cralveston, is now in the Naval Hospital in Wa3binr;ton after a terri ble experience in which he misses death only by a hair?-brea!th. On his fourth trip across, on the Galveston Lee was stricken witsi influenza aric pneumonia. . In -an unconscious con dition he was put ashore on an island off the coast of Spain and later brou ght back to Washington, wrapped 'fn cotton batting, with '. o drainage tubes ,iA his side and weighing sixty pounds. . Doctors and nurses ha i given up hopes to save him, but had n.vt stopped try ing. Latest advice is that he has squeezed through and is on the up grade, having regains ?5 pounds of 'lost weight and bein? m a generally ' orralesctnt condition. HEt?jiRSONVILLE NEGRO ' vA J iRESTED AT KNOXVELLE. Jake Mahan, colored, of Henderson ville, is in jail at Knoxville, charged . with assaulting Anna Carson, aged 20, colored. He was bound over to Criminal court in that 'city at a heai ing last week, under a bond of $1,000, which he was unable to give. Mahan denies the charge and declares tnat the" girl had him arrested on a frame np. Asnevllle Times. Delicate Compliment by Dear Wife. Tnere is xXdag so soothing to an elderly registrant as to have bis dear Trtfe pet his slippery crown, and any tnat be needs a halreui fljeaafcglj Gfttad BepKJ? Bgbs -. v . r : :ems o ney than anything else and no defi nite legislative program appears to have been agreed upon.. Butler paid Ins 'respects to Senator Simmons iu vigorous fashion, calied Lim nil il,c mean names in. the catalogue and charged Mr. Warren with accepting the district attorneyship in order to prevent the prosecution of election frauus. He could see nothing good In the Icniu.Ta.t.ic admLi. r-iti m or cu -catiouiil affairs and roastea Dr. Joy nei f.'.i' shifting responsibility for the sj'oiem, or attempui,- to do so. upon other Moulders. All of which comes w'th fine grace froii the man who gave negroa magistral vs. lie-owM:!:"-: rommitit'men, and uo--'j govirum-jut gene. to the perl3 of Eastern North k rolina fro:.--. lS2r, o .s:o, when tiie white pe:i'.'3 of th-j Suite could b and the or:prosvm ?;o liu-rr and determined to drive the despoii ers from place and power. Senator F. M. Simmons, then chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committ ee, led the fight and afterwards de feated Butler for United States Sena tor, a position he had disgraced by selling out to bond grabbers who, through him and his associate, Sena tor Pettigrew of North Dakota, brought suit against he state. It is small wonder that Mary Ann Butler is not fond of Senator Simmons. The Senate members of the commit tee to oppose the confirmation of Dis trict Attorney Warren is composed of j Fisher, of Sampson, and Haymore, of Surry. The House members are put down as Jackson, of Henderson: Swann, of Polk, and Herring, of Sam- . . (Continued oh last page.) L'il'AL LFSINESS MEN MAKE SHIFT AROLD. As:M;.ni Icstmaster Gnither Rnot:s G)rs to F.vrst Bank & Trust Compaq .i!slsvant Cashier. II. M. Whit fi!M Ooes to American National in Asltci iJle. Assistant Postmaster Gaither Rhod es has been elected assistant cashier of the First Bank & Trust Company, and will assume the duties of his new position as soon as he can be released from his responsibility as assistant postmaster. Mr. H. M. Whitfield, at present assistant cashier of the bank, will go to the American National Bank in Asheville. He has many friends here who will be sorry to learn of his move to another city, but it is under- SlUUU ILLcLL lllc U1UTC la iu luc uaiut c of a promotion and for this reason alone will be generally regarded a3 good news. Mr. Rhodes who has wide exper ienc in postal work, is also an exper ienced - bank, man, haying : previously been connected with the old Bank of Hendersonville, the First National Bank, and the First Bank and Trust Company for a period, altogether of some ten years. STRAY DOGS KILL SHEEP i ON KEY. BROWNING'S PLACE. Another ardent convert to a rGg Lav" i.as made several nights aero wi.vji lie. Raymond Browning, who ov"io a p'.yt-fc on the Mills River vw.3, ili-jr.'vered that stray dogs had gotten in his little flock of five sheep, one cZ thtm being deal anl -o others ba, 1 ly tern. CHARLOTTE-ASHEVILLE HIGHWAY AGAIN OPEN. After being closed for a period of three months, the Charlotte highway is again open to travel, the small iron bridge at Uree, between Bat Cave and Rutherfordton, having finally been re placed. The bridge was washed away several months ago," and tbe county r or small unit plan, is held responsible by roadbuilders for the delay in con struction. The bridge could have been put in a week after it was washed away, had the authorities gone prompt ly to warki , .r. ; . v A committee of the Board of Trade composed of Clarence Latham,. C. F. Eland and W. A. Smith left Monday afternoon for Atlanta to keep an ap- pciiKment vith the authorities of the Gf Military A cr.i.emy for the pur Iore of laying before the school au thorities the proposition which Hen dersonville and the Board of Trade of fers as an inducement to the location here cf the institution's branch school and naval college. While the com mittee preferred that their exact pro position be not disclosed before it was laid 1 etore the directors of the GeoY gia scbocl it is pretty well known that tley will practically offer them the eite for the school. A wire from Mr. Bland itceived by the editor of The Hustler yesterday stated that a meet ing hart been held Tuesday afternoon without u final decision, and that a further meeting would be held that night. This proposition, without exag- gcratien, probably holds the greatest possibilities tor nenciersonvme or any rille of any - thing the town has ever really been in reach of, and further advice from the committee will be awaited " witn soineth.ng more than ordinary inter os. by I: cr.dersonviile people. Later. The committee nas return ed and reports that owing 10 unrvvid able absence of several menibvrs a quorum of the board of trustees w.s unable to meet with them in Atlanta. However, ihe members showed an la titude distinctly favorable to Hender sonville. The school will send a com mittee of Colonel Woodwiri and olhei tiustees to Henderson viiie wi;Iiin tie ntst few days, and the matter will be derided. Enough is known u per mit the statement that if Henue::son vil wants this school here it cr.n be had. Let's all pray for a pretty day wnen the committee hi-vs towi. S03IE FLOOD DAMAGE A,)a:G 3IILLS K1TEK Mr. H. It. llaide.i, of Horse ' Shoe Route 1, one of ouv Mills River lead ers, says that tne recent high waier resulted in censuierabi i .iamage to his farm. The river cut across one piece of low-lying land which had just ben plowed ready for wheat, and stripped the soil off several acres. He plans to build a bank across the head of this part Dj the pr0perty to prevent future damage. Mr. Holden had two sons in service. One has already received honorable discharge, "but the other is still held in service in a New Jersey camp, and Mr. Holden says is badly needed at homp to get ready for the coming crop. ' ' ' STOLEN CLARIONET UNCOVEilS CRIME, A small colored boy in possesion of a valuable clarionet attracted the atten tion of a Hendersonville lady some days ago, and investigation by Chief Otis Powers revealed the fact that it and a number of other articles had been stolen from the closed home of Mr. L. P. Carter about two miles out on the Clear Creek Road. The little darkey said the instrument had been sold to him for the sum of five cents j by nia elder brother, Tom Bird, a 1 year old colored boy, who admitted his guilt when questioned by the Chiet. Missing articles from the plundered home were recovered from many hid ing places such as a little darkey would select, and. it is thought, that everything, has been gotten back with the exception of some old family pic tures which for sentimental reasons are highly valued by Mr Carter. One of these is a small picture carried by him in his pocket during the Civil War, and has one corner missing, which was carried away by a Yankee bullei which gave Mr. Carter a close call.- It seems that Tom has a previous recorc of similar offenses, and this fact will probably result in a pretty sd sen tence in-spite of his youthful years. LOCAL BUSINESS MOVING AR0t M. Th(- ftore room on Main street 1 r mrrlv cv.ned by Homer Hawkins and occupied by the Western Union Teie graph Company is unergoini or- i -i, 1 nA a a o ' .rt i i 1 1- a . "S aim win ue uycucu "- --- v:y s?tcre by. Mrs. Brownlow Jacic - son ai.d-fciss Birdie West aDou. u. f-,i c.f Maich. Miss West and M-a Jaoksoji have been using a part of .!-e J. U Imff store , for their milti.ry business, but the growta of their . in nc.ss. makes larger quarters nec.ess i.ry, auc Mr. Duff also finds that he i.-vJs all life ftcor space available. The Wur.i Union office is now locitta at - corner of Main street and Fiitn arfit'o the former quarters of l.e Hme E'ectric Company, which last no t.:na-and occupies the Comoiua tt Cial. building. ,sv - . - . . t Hendersonville issuffering the regu lar annual depredations of vagrants and thieves who make unoccupied houses their mark. Within the pas- few days several homes have been! broken into. The Lewis bungalow on' Fleming street has been entered, Mail Carrier J. M. Brown discovering that thieves had effected an entrance through a back door. It is not known what, if anything, has been stolen in this 'instance. Out -on the Willow road the home of Mrs. A. B. Knowlton or Columbia was forced by miscreants, who also seem to have used the near by Tatum.or Bethea property as sleep ing quarters. In Laurel Park Mr. Wil liam Wright, caretaker, reports that the Wilson cottage has been broken into and silverware stolen. It appears practically impossible in a widely scattered town like Hendersonville, to protect all the property of absent owners, but from information in pos- i session or Chief Powers it is probable . 1 tllat at least a few of the criminals will shortly be enlisted in the good reads movement, whether they are en thusiastic on that subject are not. It is now reported that the Ball coc tage on Hyman Heights, and one of the cottages out at the South Carolina Club have been entered. ANOTHER HOT-WATER BAG TOTEE COMES TO GRIEF. Wayman Beard, reported to be a leader in Weaverville colored social circles, was arrested by Chief Powers Friday afternoon just as he was boarding the Carolina Special with the intention of celebrating back-home day in dear old Weaverville. An ex amination of Wayman's wardrobe and person disclosed many new wrinkles in gents furnishings not ordinarily carried by the dealers in those artic les. For instance, in the pockets of Wayman's trousers reposed two quart bottles full of forty-rod white lightning, while beneath each arm hung a half-gallon hot-water bag .fill ed to capacity with the same dynamic compound. On trial before the May or Saturday he was fined $25 and costs for vagrancy, and placed under $30o bond for Superior Court to explain how come he had so much tno-e than the ordinary citizen's allowance. Joe Summey, also colored, was held under $500 bond to explain his -connection with Wayman's enterprises, it being alleged that the two were partners in transactions with blockaders out in . Etowah section. Aside from the leUer Qf the law many natives of Henderson County resent any attempt n nnvf ..nrlilclraw tr T?HTl(nttlhfl w--. SH00TING NEAR DEPOT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. Quite a good deal of excitement was caused in the depot section of town about five o'clock Saturday afternoon when Pelham Corn, white, of the Clear Creek neighborhood, indulged in a lit tle off-hand pistol pravtne with a tar et in the shape of k Balour colored boy, Ed McGee. It seem? that Corn was coming out of Pace & Shipman's Market anl roade some remark to the passing negro, and not meeting with a response which wao considered sat isfactory unlimbered h'.a artillery an 1 went into -action. .fier the first shot McGee replied with a good-sized rock. The second "shot; l.owevei, although not injuring the darkey punctured one leg of his overalls, anil showed that Corn was getting the range better, and the colored boy mcOe a fair short dis tance record in mo ing to a quieter section of the city. Cora will be tried before the Mayor at 3 0 this after noon. G. M. GLAZENER BUYS J. 0. WILLLUIS STOCK In a deal closed last Tuesday G. M. Glazener Durchased the entire stock of J. O. Williams and will offer it for sale immediately, a display advertise ment of the sale appearing in this is sue. Mr. Williams will for several months at least be connected with the Glazener store, and after that time It i .Li x 41 V. rrt11 A orrt a hlc Hmo -jg mougui iuii uc m. utviv. jto the development of his farming and orchard properties. The sale of Mr. Williams' stock marks the close of a long and honorable career in Hender sonville retail business, one which has for thirty years commanded the con fidence and patronage of a multitude of people in Hendersonville and Hen derson county. A host of friends will wish him success as a farmer and fruit grower. The stock, consisting main ly of a high grade line of dry goods, shoes and ladles wear, is now being inventoried, and the sale .will com menc0 Saturday morning, the 25th. Arrested at Morganton Last Friday-Was Star Wit ness in Trial of Pitts Boys-Carried Scabbard and Cartridges but no Gun-Said to use Pistol with Either hand. Morganton, Jan. 17. A sensation was sprung here when Solicitor Huff man had Aaron Wiseman arrested on a bench warrant from Judge Long charging him with the murder of Dr. E. A. Hennessee, at Glen Alpine, sev eral months ago, for which the Pitts boys were tried and acquitted. Wise- i u UV . man was the star witness in thP Pitt- trial and created a stir hv fail,, t and created a stir by failure to appear and court was delayed until an officer hunted him up in Mitchell county. Wiseman was arrested on train No. 35 last night by Officers Scott and Duckworth, as 'he. was returning from Salisbury federal court where he had been on trial for transporting liquor from North Carolina into Tennessee. When arrested a pistol scabbard was found under his arm but no pis tol, according to the officers, who said he had in his possesion a full box or .SS special cartridges. It was devel oped in the previous trial that this is the size and type of shell used in. the killing of Dr. Hennessee. While the public in general has los; sight of the famous Hennessee trag edy, the solicitor has never let up oh the investigations, and for several months has been preparing to spring the trap which again opens and cen ters interest in one of the most brutal murders in the history of the state, .that of Dr. E. A. Hennessee, one of the state's most prominent physicians, who was shot 12 times in the back as he stepped from a train at Glen Alpine at night. The Pitts boys were tried on cir cumstantial evidence, but the chain or evidence was not conclusive and they were acquitted. The famous Pitts Hennessee feudal fight of several 31 H. K. L. tflfBANK A V .'HMW L Y ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY. Iv?r. Ernest L. Ewbank had very narrow escape from serious or sr bly fatal injury last Tuesday while ht'Jping t move the big steel oliice saf of Ewbank & Ev.?j.n into the firm's new quarters. Mr. Ewbank was in 'ror-t c! .he safe wmie it was being moTia through a d-jcrwav. and Jcn shove witn a bar caught his head bftween a corner of the ware a rue ioor frame. He escaped with a ut nu. one side of the Lr;:-. and a badly o uised ear, Dit 'hi or s. sure van rc-li-nsed tarolv v.u e io a-Ad mh core serious conao! tout HORSE TRADER TRIED ' ON SERIOUS CHARGE Henry Ward, white, a horse trader and railroad worker whose residence appears to be scattered around over several adjoining states, was tried be fore Magistrate 3. F. Fioc;d Monday on charges of highway robbery and as sault. The ro:j -y charge was dis missMl and on the assault charge the defendant was released under $20 bond for court, the bond being fur nished by T. H. Creasiuai! ot Ashe ville. It seems that Ward and his wife land a 12-year old boy, James Reynolds; left Asheville for Greeavilla, No -ember 23rd; Ward and his wife in a bug gy and the boy in charge f several led-horses; that they had a quart an-l a half of liquor when they. left Afifce ville ord none when th go", aluag in front of Lee rf'uith's house near HilJ girt, where an altercai'jj between the . ifcu and oman !s alleged to hae occurred. The !c test!'-! 'tl -. be woman jumpel or ar.i3 ! brown fiom the bupgy. a"n vas then str.ok m the head, with bottle; that she then attempted to climb into a passing truck headed toward Asheville and was violently pulled out and thrown to the ' ground by her husband. The husband : flatly contradicted- this testimony rtW that the woman -was drunk and he himself naa Deen -arinKing, ana mat sue kh from the buggy. At any rate, tne wo man died in a Greenville hospital De cember 14th, Ward testifying tha; death resulted from an attack of in floensa, 'although further - investiga years previous naturally linked the Pitts with the murder of Dr. Henne ssee. Wiseman is a sturdy mountaineer, who, for some reason, was in Glen Al pine the night of the tragedy and knew a lot about the case, as was de veloped on the witness stand. The trial of the Pitts boys also brought out by eye witnesses that the shooting was done- by one man and that a man was seen to board the mov ing train after the killing. This evi dence was a factor in clearing the Pitts boys. Nothing has ever wrought up Burke so much as the long chain of fatali ties and trials in connection with what has generally been known throughout the country as the Pitts-Hennessee af fair. Now an outsider, no relation to any of the parties, so far as can be learned, a grim, sturdy mountaineer, is, to play a part, and the eyes of the country once again are centered on the famous mystery of the murder of Dr. Henn essee. It is said that it can be proved that the defendant is an expert gunman; able' to shoot with one hand as well aa the other. Another point which a rumor says will bo made is that though the state ments were made that Wiseman went to Marion that night (the Pitts boys swore they were at the train to seo him off) the conductor and flagman are positive that he did not ride as a paid passenger. It is understood that other witnesses can be introduced to -show that a man was seen crouching on the rear of the train between Glen Alpine and Marion. TO HONOR HENDERSON COUNTY BOYS WHO GAYE THEIR LIYES. The local chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, are anxious to learn the correct full name and ad dress of every Henderson County sol dier who was killed or died in service during the war. The chapter will erect a marble slab or tablet ia the court house on which will be engrav ed the names of the Henderson Coun ty soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in defense of the nation, and it is the earnest desire of the members of the chapter that this memorial be complete and accurate. Relatives of the soldiers who died in service are asked to communicate at once, either by letter or telephone, with Mrs. Thomas Shepherd. It 9 is earnestly hoped that this notice will come to the attention of all such relatives, and that they will at once communicate with Mrs. Shepherd. OBLE REPORTS HENDERSON s CO. BOYS SAFE AND WELL. Ladd and Henderson Boys Safe and WelL We all send - Love." The foregoing cable, received Tues day night by Mrs. W. A. Smith from her son Lieut. Walter Smith, will tend to relieve much anxiety on the part ot local people who have sons and broth ers under Capt. R. V. Ladd's command in France. The message was sent frrni St. Lazaire, a port on the south east coast of France, and the fact that Capt. i-add's command has been mov ed to St. Lazaire from the big embark ation point at Brest would appear to indici'-t that the Henderson Cour.tv toys a.e going to be shipped home'i ftct from the former port. Regard lo!'?. t-t guesses as to home-coming the cable- will .bring relief . to many wor ried mothers here. ; Delicate Corrpliment. -j." ; Charles' received a wagon onhj g?2 - smarter than yoo Joofc, tion of the cause of death will probT ably be made it f seems -likely thajt Ward's statement im this point will b substantiated. ' " '' v ". i j: r - .; '-.'v . . .v , I x 1 : - - : ' ' : - .