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The StMMV NewHerald. te Albemarle News Established in 1880. The Stanly County Herald Established in 1918 Wtieth Year. Albemarle. N. C. Friday. February 18, 1921 $2.00 Per Year in Advance E VARNER UAoL IS - ;LtAUtH Ur ' MMm Ur tlbHIH FVFALED BEFORE JURY: MOS ISF0UNDGU1LTY; TESTIFY IN CONTEST CASE Lwds Pack Court Room and Jury In Its Verdict Against H. B. Allows Testimony With Keen and Eager Interest. Futrelle Recommends Mercy To The Court. T E, BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF W.D REED 0NC0NS0L-STATE-WiDE INTEREST IDATION OF SCHOOLS W VARNER ON STAND TO BE SENTENCED FRIDAY reenseboro, Feb. 15. Mrs. Flor- C. Varner, put on the witness Ld in the federal court house here afternoon in connection with her against her husband, Henry B. ner, of Lexington, for subsistence the possession of a $50,000 buil- t owned by him, asserted her in fence of any criminal Intimacy with Uro, Baxter McRary, charged by husband, and disclaiming any' ndship with the negro, said that Rarv and Varner had been practi- bosom friends. A terrible ing has been done her, Mrs. Varner brted. hie case started this morning, was krentful until Mrs. Varner was on the stand. The complaint, the s of her suit, was read, and the Iver to it, the jury selected, a part khe more than a hundred witnes. sworn in, and one witness, G. W. ktcastle, of Lexington, put on the Id before Mrs. Varner testified, Bed by her attorney. An eager Ing packed the room, and when stepped into the witness box the Vi semeed to hold its breath. She uqite calm and made a good wit- , answering readily aid distinctly. Married Twenty Years. "one time in her testimony her band captured the attention of who could see him. In answer question, Mrs. Varner stated that had been married to Varner for hty years, and "I loved him dearly was devoted to him and his m- sts." Tears came to Varner s , and he had to wipe them away than once. He seemed deeply fcted. answer to an interrogation of ,. Sapp, one of her lawyers, Mrs. her stated that she had never had bourse with the negro, or any il- relations with any other man. I is what the whole case hinges It is admitted by both sides. ne lawyers attempted to fix the b at the beginning of the after- V session of court, but Judge J. Boyd, presiding, stated that could Bone later. The attorneys for Uefense attempted to prove sever- isues, but it was finally admitted the case hinged upon the truth talsity of the charge that Mrs. her had immoral relations with negro. Mrs. Varner's suit is the lit of one brought by Mr. Varner nst the negro for $100,000, Var- charging criminal intimacy be- in the two, while he was absent i home, the negro having been ;ged from under the Varner home after midnight on the morning kst August 10, by a searching par f Lexington men. Charges Conspiracy rs. Varner's testimony was main- p show that the charges she made ker suit, that a conspiracy to her been formed, that she had been iwn out of home by her husband, iected to indignities and her hon- paduced, were without cause; that had objected to alleged friend between the negro and Varner, sought to have the negro's vis- fthe house to see Varner or the o servant, Anna Miller, stopped, that McRary was obnoxious to all the time, was the burden of testimony. She said that she had ft told by Fred Sink, of Lexington, employe of Varner's, that it had n talked" that the negro hadybeen ing to see her, five years ago, and Anna Miller to tell him to stay ly, but even then she did not know Sink was intimating that she and negro were intimate. She con- fed to leave Lexington on the ev ? of last August 12, only with the lerstanding that she was going to sbury to see Varner, and present facts to him. She testified that k accompanied her to Salisbury, engineered the whole affair af Varner returned from New York, refused to see her; that she was ptrated when her husband refused See her, and that she made every irt to see him, and establish her locence. She stated that Sink and fie H. Phillips, of Lexington, came fee her and told her that her hus- Little More Zealous on Off Days Here is Your Opportunity to Buy Digest of Happens of Week In Plain Terms He Tells of Con in Hunting Voters of Dem- Stock in Unique Money- ; Gleaned From the Files of ditions in Different Schools orratir Leaninir. i Makme Enterprise. Our Exchanges. oi me loum). FULL REGISTRATION IS NO CHANCE TO LOSE; NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ; STANFIELD AN INSTANCE Wilson, Feb. 16. The trial of H. B. Futrelle, alleged leader of the mob which stormed the court house at Goldsboro on the night of December 3, went to the jury at 3 o'clock this afternoon ' and in two hours to the minute a verdict of "guilty with prayer for mercy," was returned. The first poll of the jury was 10 to I 2 for conviction .and it was generally j believed a mistrial would .be the re- suit".' j Judge Calvert will not pronounce sentence until next Friday, at the re quest of Attorney W. W. Pearce, lead ing counsel for the defense, in order that character witnesses from Wayne county may have an opportunity to say something in behalf of the priso ner. In the meantime Futrelle's bond was increased from $2,000 to $5,000, and he will remain in the custody of the sheriff of Wilson county until it is given. When sentence is pronounced coun-, sel for Futrelle will give notice of ap peal. There was no mistake about the guilt of the defendant, which was ad mitted by his counsel, and their only hope was to enter a plea of temporary insanity, and this was worked to the limit, and X-ray experts featured the trial to the end, with the result that, like other mortals, their opinions dif fered. v Futrelle was on trial for leading the mob that stormed the court house at Goldsboro in an endeavor to wrest from the law five negroes who were to be tried for murder. The three others who are under indictment for a simi lar offense, C. H. (Red) Langston, C. S. Thompson and Davis Wiggins, will not be tried until the May term of Wilson Superior court. Statesville, Feb. 16. The third day ' Speaking of "ble sky" stock selling San Francisco, Feb. 16. Guns of of the Campbell-Doughton contest ' companies, and as "Sassafrac Jimmie" Chinese tong men ushered in a new j was largely consumed the examina-! says, men who wouid sell Brown's j war of tongs coincident with the tion of registrars. j Mule tobacco seed that would produce i Chinese new year today, leaving These were put on the stand by a plant that refuses to "plug up," a ' three dead and five wounded in Los j Dr. Campbell, and testified that on prominent Albemarle citizen handed : Angeles, San Francisco and Stockton. oil the days required by law "they , us the following letter which he said ! were at the places of registration and he had just received from a man who ! Washington, Feb. 16. Loaded down . i.j n ,ii, was nronosiner the establishment of a 1 with more than a score of amend-! utraieu an luiueia atme, icgaiiiicso ui i i . . I l ....,, ... : a Wnafovn Qfra a vtmnt U T-H,,.,. OIYIOPffOTlfV Tariff ' illClli.3. lllC uiui'vj viiiinnj I bill tonight passed the senate. The ; j vote was 43 to 30 and the measure j was immediately sent to conference. ; their politics, that on other davs when : "Cattery" out in a Western State thev were not required to be at the CALIFORNIA RANCHING CO. place of registration they registered j Greatest Proposition on Earth. Democrats and Republicans alike i Mv dear Sir: when requested to do so. The evi-1 Knowing that you are always inter-! j dence tended to show that on these oft ested and open for an divestment in ' Washington, Feb. 16. Representa days the registrars sometimes went ! a good, live business proposition, I j 4've Bascom Slemp, national commit- from place to place for the purpose I take the liberty of presenting you j eman from Virginia and recently , nt v,.r.. that , mlp 1 -u tn thp most won- director of the southern headquarters: .. , . ' ,,. - , ' .... ... ... 1 of the Republican party, today put at thoir A rl nnt cool- nut Ronnh Irani fnr 4orf.il nmnncitmn nn earth, and which 1 1 . . " r .. fho nurnnaa nf rpcistprinfr thpm. hilt i nn Annht t-nn will talrp n livplv inter- bill, uut J . . & .wv, . - - - IIVr (VM ..... .' . . .. i h r, 11- i ! ., . .. . iL . t. went to tne pons oi Kepuoncans wnen j est in, and pernaps wire us me amuum specially requested to do so, The net result of the evidence is that the registrars were more zeal ous in hunting up Democrats to reg ster them than they were republicans. Full Registration The Woman's Club succeeded in raising for the starving children of Europe by the Hoover banquet last week the sum of $350, according to a statement made by Miss Pattie Mc Cain, the club president. band would not see her, and that she was in bed weeping, and that Sink wept too, and Phillips told him he was "too chicken-hearted." She ad dressed several notes to her husband who wa3 in a hotel in Lexington, and said he finally wrote her one, saying that he would come to see her, and that then she prepared to go, tTunking he would meet her in Salisbury. She got to Salisbury, she said, and knew Varner would not see her, she went to her mother in Salt Lake, Utah, arriving there on August 17, leaving there on September 25, and arriving at Greensboro, where sie nas been ev er since. No Conversation. Mrs. Varner said in court that she had never had a private conversation with McRary in her life; that she had answered the phone when he had call ed for Anna Miller or Mr. Varner, but that she had never been alone with him in her life. On the morning of last Auust 10, when FTed Sink knocked! at her door and told her that she was in trouble and told her that the house must be searched, she testified she told him it could not be searched. When he be came insistent, she consented to Sink searching it alone, but when he insist ed that he must have witnesses, the house was searched, Policeman bmith assisting. She was in her bed room all trip time, she said, having just re turned from her husband's moving pic ture sl;o-.v when the deirand f"T tf.c search was made. S!ie told Sink, rh? cai that thp nero was not there. The negro often came to the house, she said, to see Anna Miller, and to see Varner, and often gave Varner pres ents of game, vegetables and milk. Court adjourned for the day after her attorneys bad finished with her testimony. Varner's lawyer will cross examine her tomorrow. The testimony of G. W. Moncastle was brief. He testified that up un til the trouble last August Mrs. Var ner's reputation, so far as he knew, was good. He admitted that he had heard it mentioned one time before the trouble in Auust that she and the ne gro were intimate. of stock that you wish to subscribe towards the formation of this Com pany. The object of this Company is to operate a large cat ranch in or near rest reports that he would be consult ing socialists in the distribution of federal patronage in the southern states durig the Harding administration. a u 1 1 itcgiaiaiiu". All the evidence, however, shows : be purchased cheaply for this purpose. t-i,, tka ,. o o fi,n RoniiMian rpr. : To start with, we collect about istration and that every republican who wanted to register had a full op portunity to do so. The surprise of the day came when Dr. Campbell offered evidence tend ing to show that a soldier had voted without payment of poll tax. Former Governor Bickett called the attention of J. J. Britt, cheif counsel for Dr. Campbell, to the fact that the board of commissioners of Iredell county had made an order exempting all soldiers and sailors of the world war from the payment of poll taxes for the year 1919, and desired to know whether or not in the face of such an order Mr. Britt aid his client would insist upon the disfranchise ment of these soldiers. Mr. Britt replied that the constitu tion of North Carolina and the laws required the payment of poll tax as a condition to voting, that the county commissioners had no right to make any such order, and that he and his client proposed to stand by the law and the constitution.' Fodmer Governor Bickett replied that neither the law nor he constitu tion required Mr. Britt or his client to challenge the vote of any soldier for non-payment of poll tax, and that if they did so it would be because they Washington, Feb. 16. A plea for r . ... . . , i "absolute equality ior women in ine Oakland, California, where land can . . , laws was voiced by speakers at the opening session here today of the na- say one hundred thousand cats (100, 000). Each cat will average twelve (12) kittens per year. The skins run from ten cents each and up for the white ones, and seventy-five cents for the pure black. This will give us twelve million skins for a year to sell on an average of thiriy cents a piece, making our revenue about ten thous and dollars a day. A mai can skin about fifty cats per day for two dollars. It wlil take about one hundred men to operate the ranch and, therefore, the net profits will thus be about nine thousand and eight hundred dollars per day. We will feed the cats on rats, end will start a rat ranch next door; The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, therefore if we start with one million rats, we will have four rats a day for each cat, which would be a plenty, don't you think ? Now then, we will feed the rats on the carcasses of the cats from which the skins have been taken, giving to each rat one fourth of a cat. It will thus be seen that the business will be self-sustaining, and automatic all of t.he way through. The cats will eat the rats and the rats will eat the cats and we will get the skins tional women's party convention. The plea was enthusiastically applauded by the assembled delegates. St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 16. With seven of his ten cabinet iappointments virtually announced, President-elect Harding and his chief political advis ers are sifting over finally the avail able material for the portfolios of navy, commerce and labor. Washington, Feb. 16. Secretary Houston agreed today with the senate judiciary committee not to make any additional loans to foreign govern ments, no matter how pressing the demand might be, until he had con sulted the committee and given it full time for deliberation. New York, Feb. 16. Oxygen today was being administered to Enrico Caruso, world famous tenor, who is waging a fight against death after last night having been stricken with a heart attack that caused his physi cian to fear he would succumb before dawn. Chicago, Feb. 16. The body of Mrs. Nancv M. Chamberlain, 91 years old, IU WC Will fcCV v... . ,. ....!!.: nmnv ronk- and ! whose mysterious disappearance from isethey' Awa'1 ".. a tu ! the home of her daughter, and grand- were not compelled to do so by law, j ! daughter in an artists colony has been but of their own free will and choice, i opp,l . under investigation by the police, was To the amazement of the bystand-; tnat ou wl," 8 .' T moiJ found earlv today ,b uried in the back ers. Mr. Britt and his client still in- ; - " sisted that the soldiers who did not, Yours veiy iiu.y, pay their poll tax should be disfran-! California Ranching Compan chfsed and would be challened thru- P. S.-Eventually we will ci-oss the cats witn tne snaKes. ureu !. - skin themselves once each year, thus you see we will save the cost of men's wages for skinning. There is no waste, we cannot fail. yard of the apartment on 57th street, ! whei-e the family lived. Hartford, Feb. 15. The lower house of the State Legislature pon dered for a long time today over skunks and pianos. Representative Welton, Secretary of State Grange, offered a bill declaring for a closed seasonaganist the skunk. Fellow members said they would favor the I closed season against the skunk pro- D. W. Blalock, generally known as j vi(Jed thg was reciprocal. Mr. "Dock," who was bady injured in a : eiton declared the animal was much railroad wreck several months ago, maijnged, and said he aided the far between Albemarle and Salisbury, has mer in catching rats and mice. No been released from the hospital in Sal- 3Cti0n was taken. isbury, and is now at his home m rvor MR. BLALOCK OUT AGAIN. out the district. Another surprise came when Dr. Campbell introduced in evidence a printed circular purporting to give the full family tree of Warren G. Harding. The witness who produced this paper stated that he bought it for five dollars, and that it was on exhibition at a store in Mooresville; that it was brought there by some ob scure person, that it was a Democrat. Mr. Doughton through his counsel strenuously objected to the introduc tion of this paper upon the grouna j' ; that it was a base slander on the blood wood. The editor of the s-Her- home the coming Sunday. He was a and lineage of the President-elect; aid received a letter from Mr. Blalock . brakeman on the yards .t Spencer. aiiu 6 1 i -.... j !,;,. V. nf course was ' -ix i 1 Ulr. or, A loir anil that neither he nor his manager, nor a lew cm, "V" , sune.eu a u,u .... . ;fa,)o,l fnr nuhlication. but which ! BoU,r ho1 tn np onprated unon. I any responsible democrat nor any " -- - . , - - newspaper in North Carolina, Demo-! we believe will make interesting ".d-;hope that this wl be my last wreck. ' hoi-c and we are sure r ...,,.. oo ,K,uit hrnVpn lpo-S. cratic or Republican, had anything to "B i - " .' , " " ' do with the origin or distribution of that Mr. Blalock will not object to the riidimr down straw stacks, falling off no wun s 'Ki;t;., nt thp Pttpr. After mak-: .. hut inst tr- one crood said paper; that it had never Deen - ! published in this State, and that to j ing a number of suggestions, among wreck. You need not look , the a - bring it forth n this public investiga-; mem - manac , umig r- C. nrr tn X fir wood, t i i ui . ..leif Yia ifi- ennn tion where it would be given to the ms paper nu... o... . nope vu ur u ...... .......... ii- tii.w.i- u..;toc. ' r thi-nlffiil tn hp snip to The very object of creation was progressiveness.Out of chaos came order, out of order came harmony, out of harmony came progress, out of progress will come perfection. And you can't resist progress until perfection has ta';en its place. This leads us to consider that there -e some things that we cannot do. "If these hold their peace," said the Master of the children who cried un to Him, "the Stones will cry out." So with progress, its mighty wheel is rolling on untrammeled, and we are forced to move on or be crush ed beneath its awful grinding. It is so with our progressive men in school work. It is not a question as to whether we want educational centers or not; the question is, can we hin der it ? And the answer comes back, NO! The best evident of a fact is the fact itself. Surrounding Fairview school are four one-teacher schools, three of which have had to employ two teach ers each, and one of them, after try ing two teachers is without a teach er, and some of the leading citizens from all four of the districts are sending their children right from the doors of these schools to Fairview, which has become in a measure an ed ucational center, with three splendid teachers. This is not said to reflect on the teachers of these schools, or the pa trons they are some of our best peo ple but it is simply stating facta and that is what the people want. The children are crying out for bet ter educational advantages, the mul titudes of non-progressive are saying "hush them," the old way is good en ough but if they should hush them the very stones would ory out, tho in silent tones, can you stop this thing? I was talking with a promi nent citizen of Western Stanly the other day and I said to him: "How do you stand on the question of es tablishing educational centers?" He replied: "It is all right; the best people are favorable to it, and I claim that I belong to that class, and all else are opposed to it." Don't forget; this is not my saying; it is only a quotation. I was down in Wilkes County a short while ago that place where Professor Reap has been tel ling you about and it was an inspi ration to see the trucks marked with large letters, "WILKES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SERVICE," and to see them loaded with the freight of human childhood with their little feet lifted above the mud and mire and their little bodies shut in from the wind and storms. I need not tell you that I did not hear a single word of disapproval. Don't you wish that you had it? Well, you will. W. D. REED. INGOLD SCHOOL. press and made a record in the Con-) Mr. Blalock writes: gress of the United States would be a grave injustice and a gross indignity to the President-elect. In spite of the strenuous protest on the part of Dr. Campbell and his counsel insisted on introducing the paper. ' I -rtninlv fepl thtnkful to be able to I assure VOU that the News-Herald rptlirn as I am. We should not rush was appreciated during my stay in ! through life too fast. On September the hospital. The only objection I had 2gth, I kissed my five-year-old boy : T . . . . . v i was that there wasnt more ui 11.. have read every issue from A to Z, during my stay at Whitehead-Stokes Sanatorium, four months and 9 days trying to pass the long hours. If "any one ever was glad to get the view of stjinlw Hilla acain. I was. There is Galveston, Tex, Feb. 16. Colonel Henry Watterson, veteran newspaper , . a trinisA nn nl&ce like home. The oldest patl BISi Dinnwtjr Auwug ; , who are enjoying the day with him ent now in the hospital is my friend, go along. . . w - I if T . t.iTi knA thoM aiiMta 1 are Mr. and Mrs. cawara m. r lexner, mt. na, uc iimB jrood bye in a hurry to catch my train. It liked to have been my last. He said: "Daddy, come back again some times." It is only through goocrness and mercy that I am here today. Indeed we live in a grand old world if we only had time to stop and think as we of Louisville, Ky. j'July 12th. He will be able to return Your friend. D. W. BLALOCK. The health of this community i3 very good, we are glad to noite. School is progressing nicely, with good attendance. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Holt on February 5th, a son. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Kimrey and children visited Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Morton Sunday. j Mr. Delmor Morton paid a visit to our school last Friday afternoon, j Mr. J. E. Kimrey is on the sick list at this writing, we are sorry to not?. Miss Caroline Mann is visiting Mr?. iWilbcrt Kimrey this week. Mr. Jason Ingol l is workinsr at A'. .bemarle this week. Mrs. J. D. Turner spent the week i end with home folks. ! Mr. and Mrs. George Russell visited their daughter in Albemarle Saturda;- and Sunday. i Misses Zora and Foda Kimrey visit jed Misses Ethel and Freda Poplin on j Sunday afternoon. j Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Efird spent Sun jday with Mr. Efird's parents, Mf. and Mrs. Ben Efird. Misses Maggie Hartsell and Ada Harrington spent Sunday afternoon i-!tli Miss Wpstpr Miller. ! Mr. M. F. Maulden has got hissaw mill down ready to go to wkork. Wheat is looking fine through this section.
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