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The Stanly County Herald Established in 1919!
Thirty-Ninth Year.
Albemarle, N. C. Friday, Nov. 26, 1920
$2.00 Per Year in Advance
Local Man Suggests Solu
tion of School Problem
There is one question just now that
is interesting the people of Albemarle
a3 is possibly no other. This is our
city graded school. The capacity
was filled and then some before the
burning of the old building a week
ago. Now, of course, as we all know,
we are "up against it" good and
proper. There must be something
done to remedy this situation. The
people of the town realize it and the
School Board knows it. It is time for
the citizens and the school board to
cc:,inicnce to discuss these matters
together, as friends and neighbors in
terested in a common cause. The
.V.vs-Ifera!d representative approach
ed a leading citizen of the town Wed
nesday and asked him to state his
views on the situation, and the follow
ing .in substance, is what he had to
say:
' The recent burning of the Graded
School building brings forcibly to the
attention of the people of Albemarle
the pressing needs of our schools. It
has been known in a general way that
the school rooms were congested with
an overflow of students, that one sec
tion of the first grade has been for
ced to attend school in the morning
and the other section in the afternoon,
that the auditorium is being used as
a class room, and that some classes
are much too large to be properly
handled by one teacher. But the av
erage citizen has not really stopped
to ask why. The reason for this con
dition of affairs has now come to the
light, and the people know, or should
know the actual situation. The po
pulation of Albemarle has simply out-,
grown the school facilities of the town
in the past few years. The School
Board learned this some time ago,
but the board has been helpless to
remedy the situation. It has no funds
with which to construct new build
ings. Moreover he high cost of the
building material and the scarcity of
labor has made it prohibitive to con
struct any kind of building for the
past three or four years. All this
while the population has continued to
increase. In the meantime conditions
have demanded considerable increase
in the salaries of teachers and all op
erating expenses of the school have
greatly increased. So that now the
income from taxes is not adequate to
ray the salaries of the 'Superintend
ent and teachers and pay the running
expenses of the school. With the per
sonal endorsement of its own mem
bers the school board has secured the
funds to erect a home for the Super
intendent and to install a heating
plant.
"All the people of the town are
interested in the welfare of the school.
If they are not they surely should be.
Something must be done, anil be done
right away, and the people as a whole
NEWSY LETTER F
OF
CULP CASE IN HANDS OF JURY
Happenings in Little City and
Prize Winners in Recent
Community Fair.
SHELTON B. IVEY HOME
New London, N. C, November 24.
Mr. Shelton B. Ivey, who has been in
the Signal Corps of the United States
Army for the past ten years, and
having received an honorable dis
charge in September, has accepted a
position with the Atlantic Coast Line
!BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF
GOOD LIBRARY HERE! STATE WIDE INTEREST
Says That Library in Commun
ity Building is a Credit
to Town.
COURTEOUS TREATMENT
Digest of Happenings of Week! Finds Various County Institu-
Gleaned From the Files of tions in Good Order and
Our Exchanges. Commends County Agents.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
As we go to press the case of State
vs. George Culp, a first degree mur
der case is in the hands of a jury of
twelve men who are deliberating upon
the life or death of the defendant.
The case was concluded at 11 o'clock
Thursday morning when Judge Mc
Elroy finished his charge and left the
case with the jury. The News-Herald
held off going to press for two hours,
hoping to give the news of the jury'
verdict, but the jury seemed to be
taking its time with the case. A night
session was
1110.-1 of the
and defendant addressed the jury. . ing at Lowell, N. C, is expected home
Solicitor Brock made the last speech . for Thanksgiving with her parents. j
Thursday morning. j Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pennington are
Briefly the evidence against the de-1 visiting with friends and relatives in.
fondant, Culp, was to the effect that Lexington and Thomasville this week,
on the night of the killing in ques- j Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Ritchie spent'
Dear Editor:
I just want to tell the people of
Stanly county what a splendid li
brary I found upstairs in the Corn-
Mexico City, November 24. President-elect
Harding will stop at Vera
Cruz en route to the United States
from Panama unless unforseen cir-
!!.,. aiu- 1 r. il .
Railway in Savannah, Ga., and has i 'f cy ine way,
i juuiL-u uie j,iorary Association so i
could secure some of tho .o North
munity Building last Saturday. I am I CUmstances prevent, said a statement
ashamed to say that that was the issuefl at the Mexican foreign office
first time I ever "took time" to visit !.,. ,,ic,r,t
I gone there to take up his work.
Mr. W. P. Ivey, of Florence, S. C,
was with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Ivey several days the past
held Wednesday when : week.
attorneys for the state Miss Lottie Will Ivey, who is tcach-
COMMEXDS THE SCHOOLS
Carolina histories as well as the
United States histo-ies that politi
cians quoted so frequently in the late
campaign.
Mrs. Sikes, the librarian, stated that
she was anxious to have the country
people join the Library association
and she imediately showed me just
the book I wanted and took my dollar,
Washington, November 21. Russi-1
an soviet authorities estimate that!
the unemployed in this country will
number " ,003.0(10 by tin
year, and two represent
er.d of the
itives of t.'ie
third Iniernat'onali ds have been sent
to organize Soviets here, according to
otf'cad advices from Moscow.
The Grand Jury which served at
the criminal term of the Superior
Court finished its work on Wednes
day and made its report. The report
makes interesting reading, and re
flects credit upon our officials. Es
pecial mention is made of the Farm
Demonstration Agent and the Home
Demonstration Airent, and they are
recommended for their work.
Th" following is a complete copy of
the report:
"We. the Grand Jury. re-!"-t:'if !;
submit the f,.l!o.vir.g report u W.3
Honor, Ju;ge Mclilr.-y :
'"We hr.ve visited the Jail, the Chain
Gang, the County Home, and various
County offices.
"We find the records of County of-
tion, July 18th last, the defendant
came to the home of the deceased,
James Sides, and having been in a ! a guest Friday and Saturday in the
Sunday with friends in Davidson Co.
Mr. II. C. Trott of Wilmington was ; Greensboro, except in number,
Raleigh, November 2-1. More men j
too. , have applied to the United States cm- fk-es in good shape and well kept.
I found the books of the same class ployment Service here for work with-1 "We visited the County Hume and
as those in the Carnegie library in in the pa.st month than in the past six made inspection of buildings and the
drunken condition proceeded to curse
and use vile and slanderous language
in the presence of the wife of the de
ceased. That the deceased ordered
the defendant to hush talking about
his wife or leave. That the defendant
answered that he would not leave until
he got ready, whereupon Sides who
had retired for the night, got up and
went into the room where the defend
ant was and again insisted that he
get quiet or leave, and that the defen
dant got out his knife and cut Sides
to death. The defendant's evidence
was to the effect that Sides and other
members of his family were trying to
rob him (the defendant) that Sides
had a pistol drawn on him at the time
he cut him and that he Slew the de-
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Trott.
Miss Mildred Spencer and Bud
Kauffman of Badin were week-end
visitors with Miss Edith Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Napier, and
Marie Ross of Badin spent Sunday
with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Broome and
Master June Broome of Peachland
were here for the day Sunday with
Mr. F. E. Reeves and other members
of the family.
Messrs. Wade and Leroy Ivey of
Concord were at home with their par
ents Sunday.
The congregation of the M. E.
church are much pleased with their
new pastor, Rev. J. W. Strider. He
preached an excellent sermon Sunday
on the subject: "What Shall we Ren
ceased in order to save his own life,
or in order to save himself from thai untQ fQr Benefits
infliction of great bodily injury. In ,
other words, tne aeienaani maae oui,
a case of self-defense, if his evidence
was true. The state's witnesses mere
corroborated by circumstantial evi
dence, and the defendant was corrob
orated to some extend by one Mr.
i months, according to Mr. W. F.
For three years I spent part of my Beasley .assistant director of the ser-
noon hours in the Carnegie library in ' vice in this state, who declared yester-
Greensboro. At that time the busi- : day that there is a well-defined move-
ness girls had no Y. W. C. A. to loaf in ment of the unemployed into North
during the noon hours. I also made Carolina from both the North and
it a practice to read at least two books ' the South.
each month, therefore I greatly j
misses these books when I came to j Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 24. The
Stanly. In fact, I missed them more I Hugh A. Carlisle Post of the Ameri
than my old friends whom I had for- j can Legion last night adopted resolu
saken to become a resident of this j tions protesting againsct the action
of Governor O. A. Larazalo in par
doning yeserday sixteen Villistas
from the State Penitentiary at Santa
Fe, where hey were serving terms for
murder in connection with Villa's raid
on Columbus, N. M., March 9, 1916.
Sides who was present at the Sides j
home on the night of the killing. The ;
defendant was represented by Attor- j
neys R. L. Smith and G. D. B. Rey-
nolds, while Solicitor Brock was as-1
sisted by County Solicitor Hal C. Tur- j
ner, I. R. Burleson and Brown, Sikes :
& Brown.
The case created a great deal of in-1
tercst not only in Albemarle, but
throughout the county, and everybody
is looking forward with interest to the
leturning of the verdict by the jury.
county,
The Carnegie library at Greensboro
threw its doors open to the country
women only a few weeks ago. I am
glad that the Albemarle library as
sociation is giving the country wom
en an opportunity to join it in its in-
, ... , , , ,i samord, jnov. z-l. Ihe congrega-
country people will take advantage of ' . . ., , ... . ,r ., f. .
1, i i : tlon of tne Steele Street Methedist
this great opportunity to improve , , , . .
their education. ! church and the entlre communlty aTe
Several ladies in Albemarle stated 'joicing over the fact that Rev. W. R.
to me that they would be only too : f oyal 1 as be,en returned to hls
glad to lend their card to any one who ratf, here ""other year. Mr.
desired to obtain a book but did not Royai' came to thls chargre four 'ear8
care to join the association just at B m Fayc'ttevlll-- " i under
this time. I borrowed a card for three . sto0fi here that Mr- Roya11 was the on
years and I am not ashamed of it. i ,y mL'mbt'r of the conference who was
I III 4 ! TTAVFff sent to a charge this year for the
The nice new bungalow of Mr. Hen
ry Culp is nearly completed. He ex
pects to have a housewarming and
move into it before Christmas.
Mr. H. C. Hall of Badin spent the
day Sunday with his parents, Mr. and i
Mrs. Thomas II. Hall. J
Miss Bessie Harris of Norwood
was at home with her parents this , es, 2nd prize on canned pears, and
week-end . j first prize on kraut.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Huckabee, Mis- j Mrs. C. A. Crowell took first prize
ses El ion and Alice, were visitors with on pimento peppers and second Drizo
! fifth consecutive vear.
The
novelties make attractive
Come early and
Christmas
get your
must do it.
The uresent nlans of the school
Braid cnritpirmlates the restoration of , ?'f ls'
the old building with some changes, choice. The box is something similar
and this work will be rushed as rap-, to the one ordered last year.
idly as possible, in order to accom- .
modate the children early in the year. I DEATH OF LITTLE BABY.
This will provide eight class rooms. The death 0f little- Zemenna Lucile,
In addition to this the Board is arran- seVen weeks old infant daughter of
King to add four rooms to the old Mr anj Mrs. Ren W. Lowder, Satur-
Mr. and Mrs. John and Miss Fanniii
Harris Sunday afternoon ad eveig.
News has reached us of the serious
illness of Mrs. Mary Crowell Chout,
of Iluntsville. .She is the voungest
daughtc
of Mrs. W. M. and II. C. Ivey She
I was brought up here, and has a num-
bnx of the Japanese novelties bcr of relatives and friends who will
be sorry to hear of her critical con
dition. Mrs. Clause, of Kentucky, mother of
Mrs. Sullivan, arrived last Thursday . jelly.
ordered by the Woman's Club will be
ready for sale on Saturday from 3 to
5 o'c
clock at the club room. These
on blackberries.
Omie Austin took second prize on
kraut.
Mrs. Tom Kirk took second prize on
pear preserves, second prize on
if Mr. Henry Crowell, niece peach preserves, 1st prise on :ucum-
ber pickles, .second prize on beet pick
les, second prize on peach pickles,
first prize on grape jelly, first prize
on a,)p!i jelly, second prize on dam
son jelly, fi st prize on loaf cake, se
cond prize on both annle II till fiTH no
Geneva, Nov. 21. J Projects for an
international staff, proposed by Leon
Bourgeois, of Franco, at the Versail
les Treaty, and rejected there, were
reviewed yesterday in a prolonged
discussion regarding the reduction of
armaments.
V.. Peurgeois firsr of a'l declared
that the carrying out of the Versail
les t-eaty must be asuivd before d;s
armai:ne was passible. He declared
that in order to make that tn-:'.y ef
fective, some military organization
such as he had proposed at the peace
conference was required.
RIDGEVIEW NEWS.
Farmers are through sowing wheat
and will be with her daughter during , Mrs. George Thompson took first
the winter. j pme each on canned peaches, canned in this section, and a fairly good crop
Rev. J. F. Kirk of Saiusbury spent okra, canned tomatoes, canned grapes, h-is been sown
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. T. C Ed- j canned pears, and second prize on the 1 "n j "
wards, i soup mixture. I G,'imdma Mllrton "as been quite
Mr and Mrs. Ed Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ivev took first arize on ; SIck- but IS ,mProvlnB present.
the largest and best pumpkins I A hirge crowd attended the moving er terms
building during the coming spring
and have them ready to occupy at the
opening of the school next fall. -All
these rooms ar ereally needed at the
present this year, consequently only
present needs will be relieved by the
addition of these four rooms. Some
thing must be done for the future re
quirements. To take care of future needs the
Bard proposes to purchase another
site at some convenient location. The
Present site is not large enough for
any other buildings. In fact the pre
sent site does not provide adequate
Playgrounds for the children under
Mrs. Shellie Howell of Albemarle,
Mrs. " John Howell of Concord and
Miss Lelia Howell of Charlotte spent
a short while with Mr. and Mrs. Tom l
farm. The old wooden buildings are
being replaced with modern brick
structures, work is progresing very
well. We recommend, however, that
owing to the fact that cold weather
is drawing near, that the completion
of these new bulidings be pushed
ahead with all possible haste, in order
to have more comfortable quarters.
We find that considerable quantity of
water gets into the basement of both
the new buildings, and we recommend
that this matter be looked into by the
County Commissioners. We further
recommend that the old bedsteads be
ing used in the old buildings be re
placed with more sanitary iron ones as
soon as the new buildings are ready
for occupancy. We find that the
County Home has plenty of corn and
meat to do them until a newcrop is
made. Farm conditions appear to be
in good shape.
"We find the jail in good shape ex
cept a few small repairs to windows.
Prisoners are well treated and well
fed.
"We find conditions good at the
Chain Gang, prisoners are well taken
care of.
j "We wish to commend the Highway
j Commissioners for the building of
! the god roads in the county. We rec
ommend, however, to these Commissi
oners that, if they have not already
done so, to formulate some business
method for the maintenance of the
Highways of the County. It is our
.sincere wish that the mistakes made
by some other Ci.u'ttics allowing their
' roads to l-o t:i pieces for lack of pr,p
i '- mainu -nance will n ,t be repeated
by our county.
"At the :'ivi;a!;on cf the C.iunty
Stipeiintemlcnt of Public Instruction,
we hae isied Iiy commit:, v some of
. the city and rural schools of the coun
i ty, with an idea of placing the prob
lems of ihe rural schools l.vforo the
public. In the city school we find
splendid buildings, modern equipment
: wid school terras of eight and nine
i Months, while the boys and pirls on
, the farm must attend schools lacking
in these improvements and with short-
In order that the countrv
Mr. B. E. Coggin took first prize ' picture show at Aquadale Saturday children may have equal educational
J X- . .. . U nn waa-nnii rf iYia carl.
uay, -wvcu.u.i ... r-, Hall Sund aftemoon
dest incidents to ever occur in West i , . .
Albemarle. Mrs. Lowder had been j
Mr. Ennis Staten of Wake Forest is
at the home of his brother, M' . T. V.
John H. Lowder,
to Mr. C. L. Hatley's when the baby
died. The remains were placed in
the Salem cemetery Sunday after
noon. The bereaved parents have the
deepest sympathy of many friends.
struction of the four new rooms that
will be son i ncourse of construction.
More funds will be required to pur
chase additional land and a consid-
days.
The following is a list of names of
those who received prizes for best
and second b'.st exhibits at the Com
munity Fair held at New London on
November 12, 1920. If anyone has
Present conditions. Another building ! erable sum will be necessary to con
oulJ take practically all the play- i struct the contemplated new build
Eround. On the new site it is pro- J ing. The people must provide some
Posed to erect a modern building big j money, some way, it they want the
wiough to care for the schools for sev J wjH be soon in course of construction.
"al years,
"But the accomplishment of these
plans will call for money. By reas
on of added improvements and the
ligh eost of building material and
""or the insurance money collected
r the recent loss will not be suffi
cient to replace the old buildine. So
so there you are. It's something for
the citizenship of Albemarle to think
about. It's a problem they must solve.
There's no way around it. The child
ren are not getting- a square deaj
and cannot, until the people provide
funds to construct the necessary
buildings and furnish those buildings
mds must be provided for the eon- lwith proper equipment"
been left out who is entitled to prizes, j
please report to Miss Lottie B. Ivey,
New London, N. C.
Sweet peppers, Ms. Zeb Moss, 1st.
Beans, M. D. Dry 1st, and second.
Oats and Hay, Albert Morris.
Peas, Robert Brooks, 1st.
Corn, C. C. Brooks.
Irish potatoes, M. D. Dry.
Soy Beans, M. D Dry.
Peaches and Apples, Mrs. B. J. Smith
2nd.
Canned cherries, 1st, Mrs. WT. N.
Lefler. She also took second prize on
cut flowers, 1st on blooming plants,
second on peas and second on collards.
Miss Jewel Elliott took first prize
on beains, second prize on fig pre
serves, second prize on canned peach-
on sweet potatoes.
W. T. Crowell took first prize on
molasses.
R. A. Huneycutt took first prize on
molasses.
G. K. Shaver took first prize on collards.
j W. M, Ivey took first prize on peas,
Isrcord prize on pop corn and first
1 prize on red pepper.
M F.va Morris took first prize
i on apple butter.
night.
Miss Carrie Scott, of Maxton, is vis-
opportunities, we urRe a greater edu
cational interest on the part of the
iting in the home of A. A. Mauldin ''"e ru' sis. c lur-
for a few days. enuorse a summer term mat w ill
..,," , , , increase the country child's advan-
Martin Tucker and family have re- t Res amJ n,pet h,
cently moved into th.s section, we of thf farnwrs-
are glad to have them with us. . , . . ,
i ' V e wish to commend the County
Crawford Mabry visited in the home I Superintendent of Puhlic Instro.n,,
Mrs. R. W. Ivey took first prize on j
; watermelon rind preserves, mixed cu-'
! cumber pickles, lima beans, sweet pep- ,
per relish, canned corn, coeoanut pn, 1
and butter, and second prize on mince :
meat and sweet potatoes. j
D. W. Henderson took first prize
for the best mule colt and second for
best sweet potatoes. i
oi waiter ureene bumtay. j
Miss Verona Bost who has been
working at Albemarle is at home at
present with her parents.
John Ray Greene, who for the past
few months has held a position in
Virginia is spending the holidays in
the home of his parents.
M.ss Nola Reap spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Reap.
Farmers are looking a little long-
the Farm Demonstrator and the Home
Demonstrator for the efficient work
beinpr done in the county.
"We have passed on all bills com
ing into our hands from the solicitor
to the be-: of our knowledg-.
"All which we-'resp, t! fully submit.
J. C. r.nSTIAX. Foreman.
MEETING OF FIVE HINDRED
On Tuesday afternoon the Five Hun
dred Club held its regular meeting
with Mrs. Wilcox Brightwell. The
on onions, wheat, red peanuts, pop-1 plenty of good wood it looks like they;home 's attractively decorated with
corn. turniDS. cabbas-e. and second on'nup-ht to fl mio-htv well, nwnared cut flowers and evergreens in shades
faced over the 15c cotton, but with
J. M. Elliott took first prize each i plenty of fresh meat and hominy and
sweet potatoes, rye, and pumpkins.
Mrs. W. T. Crowell took first prize
on peach pickles.
Bessie Broks took first prize
(Continued on pare 4.)
for winter.
Several of our pupils are attending i
of red and green. After the club pro
gram was carried out, a delicious sal-
t ..;. ..t! rw'd course was served which consist-
on ! see why. They have . good school and Butmore "T
a splendid teacher.
and marguerites, followed by hot tea.