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The tamly News eralc The Albemarle News Established in 1880. The Stanly County Herald Established in 1919 Fortieth Year. Albemarle, N. C, Friday, July 22, 1921 $2.00 Per Year in Advance. CAROLINA REPUBLICAN IS PEEVED AT Writes and Tells Warren Just What He Thinks About Him Appointing Henry Lincoln Johnson HAS KILLED PARTY, HE SAYS A Western North Carolina republi can seems to have reached the break ing point, according to the letter which he recently wrote to President Harding. He is very sore over the fact that Mr. Hardin? has appointed Henry Lincoln Johnson, a negro, as Register of Deeds of the District of Columbia, especially since in discharg ing his duties in that office "Link" will have under him quite a number of white girls who will be subject to his orders. H. E. C. Bryant, the able Wash ington correspondent to the Charlotte Observer, secured a copy of tills wes tern Nmth Carolina republican's let ter to tlie president, and among oth er things the writer makes the fol lowing statement to the president. j "The peoii'.e of the south are great ly surprised and badly disappointed , in every way in regard to you ap-! pointing Henry Lincoln Johnson as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. You have killed the re publican party in the south by this one move. Last November, if Henry Lincoln Johnson had not been a na tional committeeman from Georgia, you would have received 100,000 more rotes in the south, and would have carried the state of Georgia and pro bably North Carolina. I have been a life-long republican. "In 1874 I cast my first republican vote, and I have voted the straight republican ticket ever since. If it had not been for the negro in politics, old North Carolina would have been a re publican state yeais ago, and no doubt several other states in the aouth. I have been mining in the atate of Georgia for the past three years, and have become acquainted with a great many prominent people lawyers and business men and in conversation with these men they have expressed their feelings and sympa thy as being with the republican party and both lawyers and business men have stated to me that they would join the republican party if it was not for having to humiliate themsel ves by equalizing with the negro in conventions and all political gather ings. Several prominent newspaper wen have made this same statement 'to me. Republican Party Doomed. "Now, Mr. President, suppose you W daughters working in the record er's office, how would you like for your daughters to be bossed by a coF ored man ? I know if I had a daugh ter working there, I would order her nome when the negro came in the of fice, and any other man with the right thought would do the same. I am in -avor of the negro being treated right tat the more you try to ally the two Taces politically the more crime and lynchings occur over the country and is best for the negro to remain in u Place. If he is given an office let be sent to represent this country ere no white people come under his control. "If the election was coming off next November, after this appointment you . ' mae, your vote would be at last 200,000 less in the south, and iw had not done this, at the next wtion we could have carried sever- southern states. So if the Senate I8 Henrv Lincoln Johnson, the "Pubhcan party of the south is doom M wall time to come." MOTHER CHANCE FOR TREAT MENT. Dr; J- N- Anderson reports that due the heavy nns Wednesday the of th Smij j T . Z coulJ t all get out to take vaccina treatment. Due to the J" use the physicians who were B1,J h8d chare f the work at 2mmfctr failed to Wed- auiln?' ,orced th necessity of hose who did not get a chance to t th! treatment ,Mt Wednesday the above n,med pUces can re- at 7 ttendin Wednesday tk rt,M,ne 8 Wch NO, IT'S NOT THE BLUE RIDGE OF BUNCOMBE, BUT THE UWHARRIES OF STANLY! The News-Herald has heretofore made some mention of the beauties of the Uwharrie Mountains, of Eastern Stanly and Western Montgomery, that noted mountain range which Rev. Q. C. Davis says is possibly older than the Rockies. We are glad to say that we are not the only one who has great faith in what these mountains will mean to Stanly's future. Mr. J. M. Morrow, one of the state's best known business men and financiers, has shown his faith in what the future of this mountain range will be by purchasing several hundred acres which take in the highest peak of the entire range in this county. He has spent quite a hand some sum of money on this mountain, having built a fine drive way up to the very top of it. The above photograph was taken from this driveway at a point near the top of the mountain. Few people in this section of North Carolina know of the real beauties of th e Uwharries, but they are now going to learn since the fine highway is being opened up east of Albemarle to Troy. When the outside world learns of this beauty spot, we may expect to see many sum mer and winter homes of men of wealth located there. A WORD ABOUT SNAKES. SAPP & MEIGS BANKRUPT. Maybe Job did and maybe he did not have such vexing propositions to deal with as the Stanly County citizen with whom the News-Herald representative talked one day this week. The ques tion of the scarcity of "licker" was under discussion, and from this sub ject the citizen was reminded of the fac tthat a snak eha daccosted his frau in her own kitchen a few days ago. The News-Herald man saw his companion was about wound up to the point where he was ready to "submit a few remarks," so with a bit of en couragement and a little sympathetic interest this 'old timer" preceded as we listened, and his statement ran like this: "Haint we told you times and tim es agin that snakes would bite, also that when the remedy for that bite was put out of commission, the rep tiles seemed by some kind of intuition to just simply know their advantage and double their efforts to get at their ancient enemy man? Well, the of ficers of the law have been a consid erable deterrent to these wildwood la boratories in my section of late, and the heavy rains coming and raising the little streams far above their high water marks, have played a consider able part by carrying off a great deal of brew just when hope began to bloom, and the awful result is out rage on top of outrage on top of out rage, and deperdation on top of dep erdation, by tbe pesky snakes, that know their ground. We had several reports of people having been bitten by the impudent things on the sly, but when they begin to walk boldly into one's kitchen and begin to at tack the cook in the legitimate pur suit of her daily round of duty, it is too much. Since we must have a law that prohibits the remedy, could we not manage some way to prohibit the bite, something on the order of a tariff that would make the bite un profitable and thereby discourage the growth of teeth in snakes? "Oh, for the good oV days when even the rattler was loath to bite Messrs. John S. Sapp and W. . H. Meigs, trading as Palmerville Mer cantile Company, with stores at Palm erville and Badin, were adjudged bank rupts by the court of the Western N. C. District at Salisbury Tuesday. The petition was filed a week ago by a number of creditors, and J. M. Boyett was then named as temporary receiv er. Mr. Boyett is now receiver in bankruptcy and will proceed at an early date to wind up the affairs of this unfortunate concern. Represent ing the petitioning creditors at the hearing were Attorneys W. L. Mann and A. C. Huneycutt, while Judge R. R.- Ingram and Messrs. Brown, Sikes & Brown appeared for the bankrupts. Messrs. Sapp & Meigs represent about the fourth or fifth Badin mer cantile concerns to go down with the crash at Badin caused by the closing down of the factories there about six months ago. The merchants at that plac ewere caught unawares by the close-down. They had heavy stocks of goods on their shelves, prepared for doing business in a town of 4,000 pros perous people, when the sudden and unexpected close-down caused the lar ger portion of the residents to leave Badin in order to make a livelihood. . FURR RE-UNION JULY 30. 0 Another scene from Morrow's Mountain Road. BRIEF MEWS ITEMS OF STATE-WIDE INTEREST ! ! Digest of Happenings of Week Gleaned From the Files of Our Exchanges. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE London, July 19 It is announced as provisionally arranged that Premier Lloyd George will attend the Wash ington Conference on limitation of armaments. Morganton, July 19. A member of the board of county commisioners in jail charged with wife murder is the new blot on Burke county dicetly tra ceable to blockade liquor. I Durham, July 18. Fire estimated to have done damage of $100,000 com i pletely destroyed five buildings and ! l)a('ly damaged two others at Roxboro j at an early hour today. The blaze j originated in a feed store and sprea'L rapidly. Raleigh, July 10. Cotton mill re ; spen.-'ents to the Southern Power Company's petiti'in for higher rates j partially granted in the recent order 'of iho corporation commission, will except from the order and ask the rommiy.ion to revise the rate it au , thorized. Salisbury, July 19. As a result of an inquest held yesterday by Dr. H. H. Newman, county coroner, Cicero Carter, a white man of Lower Rowan, is in jail on instructions from the jury in connection with the death of his young wife, Mary Sheldon Carter, last Wednesday the jury ordering him held without bail. The body of the wo man was exhumed and the stomach has been sent to the state chemist at Raleigh to ascertain if it contains traces of strychnine. Washington, July 19. In a confer ence with Congressman Lyon, Con gressman Brinson and Frank A. Hampton, secretary to 'Senator Sim mons, this afternoon, Secretary Hoo ver accepted the invitation to address the Harnett county agricultural fair association at Dunn on October 15. It is said that this is the first invitation that Mr. Hoover ha3 been prevailed upon to accept to speak in "the south and he also said hat Mr. Hoover's ac ceptance might be taken at full value provided some public exigency does not arise in the meantime that would force him to remain in Washington. BOYS FIND WHAT THEY SEEK. There will be a family re-union at the old home place of Roe Furr near Stanfield on Saturday, July 30th. All th erelatives and friends are urged to I be present and bring well-filled bas i kets. A good speaker will be pres ent to deliver an address. Mrs. R. A. Crowell is visiting rela tives in York, S. C. because he knew it was only a waste of energy. But after all, maybe our whole dreadful soliloquy- is ground less, as these snakes may be stray fellows, last of the trained snakes of the days when the family physician was allowed to give us a scrip for a pint from the drug store, for a real snake bite." It has always been said that one i can generally find what one is looking for. If you expect to see good, cheer ful and delightful sights you will see them. If, on the other hand, you go out to look for ghosts and such like you will nearly always run across these. We can prove this by Harold Horton, George Reed and Carter An derson. In fact we are not sure that we could not also call up Lee Boyett for the same proof. These boys had been rather "a hankerin" after hob goblins and ghosts for several) even ings, looking mostly around Mr. J. M. Boyett's garage and garden, and on the lot just adjoining the Doctor Hill residence. They rather suspect ed that they saw a hobgoblin Tuesday night near Mr. Boyett's garage, but as they did not get very badly scared they were hardly satisfied that it was really a ghost. Wednesday night they continued their search and investi gation for something awful and also ghastly, and to their blood-curdnig surprise they were not disappointed. As they were peering into the gar den lot of Mr. Boyett they saw some thing white come up out of the ground and move slowly and mysteriously to ward the fence. When the ghastly object reached the fence it glided easily and gracefully over it, as the ghosts always do. They thought it was a ghost when they first saw it, and when it glided over the fence near Dr. Hill's residence like a vapor, they knew that it was a ghost of the worst type. Up to that time the boys had not had the slightest idea of i how bad they wanted to get away j from that place. They did not fly,' because they did not have wings, but the fact remains that they did vacate that particular section of town rath er abruptly. Then the question arose among each of them as to how they would each get home. Neither one wanted the other fellow to crowd too closely upon his walking space, but they all wanted company, and the cold fact remained that they must go home or remain up all night in the ghost infested street, and that was unthink able. Finally, according to the infor- Washingtoin, July 19. The direct charge that $50,000 was paid to Ma jor Bruce R. Campbell, an officer of the army, for use among the "high er ups" to obtain the release of Gro ver Cleveland Bergdoll, her slacker son, was made today by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, of Philadelphia, to a house investigating committee. Having heard the charge, the com mittee developed that on February 10, last year, about 10 days after Mrs. Bergdoll swore the money was paid, Campbell deposited $4,500 with Wasserman Brothers, members of the New York Stock Exchange, and $2, 000 more on March 3, all of which and more was wiped out by the end of June in market trading. The money was deposited to the joint account of the Major and Laura E. Campbell, sup posedly the Major's wife. WITH OUR ADVERTISERS. We are carrying in this issue of the News-Herald a number of important advertisements to which we refer our readers, among them being the half page "Vacation Sale" advertisement of the Albemarle Sample Store, the half page "July Bargains at Efird's" Morrow Bros. & Heath Co, and Badin Furniture Company. These are all responsible mercantile houses and as the summer season is now rapidly pas sing away, we are sure that our read ers will profit by scrutinizing careful ly these and other advertisements in the News-Herald. mation comirg to the News-Herald reporter, the boys went home with each other, fully convinced that one always sees what he may continue to look for ,eb it sight to delight the sen sibilities or one to freeze the blood in one's veins. Our printer's devil is sore because he did not get to see the beastly sight and pretends not to believe that the boys saw a ghost, but they did.
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