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The Stanly News eralc The Albemarle News Established in 1880. The Stanly County Herald Established in 1919 Fortieth Year. Albemarle, N. C, Tuesday, September 27, 1921 $2.00 Per Year in Advance. 1NGSAI WAHIUN HE Breezy Notes of Things Politi cal, and a Keview 01 tne le gislation of Interest NEWSY NOTES ON POLITICS (By David F. St, Claire.) Washington, September 27. The Republicans are now tast ing the bitterness of their great success at the polls last year. And the American people are also. There is neither party government nor leadership of the party ostensibly in power here. The President is not leading his party, or, if he is, the party and the country are not aware of it. In the Senate the group spirit reigns as absolutely as it does in a menagerie. There is a group or bloc for everything in time and space. There is the famous irreconcilable group the bitter enders which was born to pre serve the complete isolation of this country from all the balance of the world. There is the farmer's group, the dry group, the wet group, the New England group, the Middle Western and the Pacific Coast group. The Republican majority of twenty three in the Senate has greatly strengthened these va rious groups and drawn tighter their lines of division. The De mocratic minority has of course joined these various groups, but the minority party is more adhesive as a party than the ma jority is at this moment. For example the irreconcilable group has only about four Democrats in it, While it has at least 12 Republicans. The Republicans in the Senate are not legislating or attempting to legislate as a party though the country is hold ing them responsible for legisla tion as the party in power. This situation, where there is neither leadership in the senate nor in the White House, makes everything uncertain. There has never been so much doubt or confusion as now reigns here. Congress is sick and tired. Ev en after a month's recess the senate returns to its task more weary and irritable than ever. Moral Tragedy of Prohibition The senate's irritation bursts forth and flares up over the search and seizure amendment to the Volstead prohibition law like long imprisoned fire. The atmosphere of the senate gives the strongest sort of evidence that prohibition has reached its crest and that public opinion is convinced that the law cannot be rifidly and effectively execut ed. Unless the law is so enf orc ii prohibition is simply a farce. On this question the discussion n the senate presents a moral tragedy of the American people. The country is flowing with liqu or. What is to be done? What ver is done, politics must take wantage of it and each party 18 going to see that the other Py does not beat it to the P of the ladder. The wet sroup in the senate has plans matured to launch a measure l0r 4 per cent beer and light nes and the revenue tax from mese beverages is to furnish the ney for the bonus of $2,000, WO.000 for the soldiers. No her way to get the bonus is seen and every man who fisted but never swelt gas nor ent near a trench can have 40 ttes and a mule or two mules J:0. a tractor or a corner groce 7.lf the country is allowed to without being searched "tf seized. Jhe plan of the wets is to prohibition to the winds V offering the politicians this t the bonus. But . !!? 18 uncertainty. Drys are mm, determined set of folks. "ey have not made the country J. but they say they can if and t? g0 mt0 the pantry Vp e ?.loset an look under the continued on Page Five) FIRE DAMAGES HARRIS BUILDING ON SATURDAY Loss is Estimated at About $25, 000, of Which Most is Cov ered by Insurance A NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT Those Albemarle residents who were still asleep at five o'clock on Saturday morning, were aroused by the fire alarm to find that the flames hart rathpr a destructive hold upon the beau tiful Harris Building on West ! Main Street. Before the local nre ngnters could get to the scene of the fire and start effec tive work, the flames had gained such a hold as to cause con siderable damage before they could be gotten under control, the total damage having been estimated at from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars. From all indications, the fire originated in the dental office of Dr. T. P. Nesbit, whose office fixtures and furniture were a complete loss. Dr. Nesbit's of fice being located on the second floor on the north east corner of the building, and a breeze hav ing been blowing from the north east, the flames were dri ven into the heart of the build ing on the second floor, crossing the hall and into the law office of Brown, Sikes & Brown, where almost complete destruction was wrought to the furniture and library of this law firm. Con siderable damage was also done to the offices of Drs. L. V. Dun lap and J. F. Laton, and great water damage also was done to these offices. The fire, being located near the middle of the building, made it almost impossible for the fire fighters to get it under control. The result was that the second floor of the building was almost a complete loss. A large hole was burned through the second floor and heavy damage done to the Snuggs Drug Store and the dry goods store of D. Riff. The local fire company put up a good fight, and in attempting to get at the flames they broke the windows of the north end of the building and a number of the men got on the inside in their at tempt to smash doors and parti tions that water might be put directly on the flames. Among those who got on the inside were Messrs. J. E. Gantt, and city manager, Widenhouse, the latter having come very near suffer ing a fatal accident. While ma king his way across the hall in the dense smoke he ran into the large hole made by the fire and fell through. Fortunately, he caught to the ceiling with his hands and managed to pull him self up again and save himself from what might have been a fa tal fall into the drug store be low. He was not burned,- and suffered no injury except a slight bruise on the jaw. Most of the damage done by the fire was completely covered by insurance, but as Mr. A. P. Harris, the owner of the build ing only carried $8,000 insur ance, it is thought that his loss will amount to considerably ov er the insurance carried. Dr. Nesbit, whose office furniture and fixtures were completely de stroyed, estimates that his dam age over and above his insurance carried will amount to from two to three thousand dollars. The drug store of Mr. Snuggs and the dry goods stock of Mr. Riff were amply protected by insur ance, although the damage to both these stores was quite hea- vy. S it is very fortunate for Albe imnrlp that this fire did not break out two weeks ago, for at that time the town was almost entirely without a water supply. The recent rains, however, had placed ample water in the city lake, and this was very timely under the circumstances. While the flames were being brought within control between five and six o'clock, the owner of the building, Mr. Harris, was WANTS TO STAY HOME: ! BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF ! NEWSPAPERS TO PUT ON LUTHERAN CHURCH HAS WILLHtlMENTASGIR L Youth Who For 21 Years Posed as Girl Soon Tires of the Fleshpots of World THEN COMES HOME TO MA Did you ever hear of a sure- enough boy being reared as a girl, who was brought up in company with girls, who wore dresses, long stockings and other things that girls wear? Well, down on the little Island of Oc racoke there lives just such a one, and we can prove it by a young lady well known in Albe marle who maker! Albemarle her home, because she has seen him and knows him personally. Some time ago he decided he wanted to be a man for awhile, so left Ocracoke dressed as a man, then 21 years old. For two months quite a lot has been published in the newspapers about him. Now the New York World has taken notice and in a recent is sue publishes the following arti cle concerning him, written from Norfolk, Va.: A strange story of a boy rais ed to manhood as a girl without any one but his mother sus pecting his real sex comes from the isolated Island of Ocracoke. Charles C. Williams according to reports has found after a brief struggle with the world that he would prefer life at home as a girl to the struggles and tempta tions of the city. When Williams was born his mother was so disappointed that he was not a girl that she dres sed him as a girl and called him "Vera." "Vera" had light hair, was of fair complexion, and as "she" grew up developed into a decidedly good-looking "girl." For the first twenty-one years of his life Williams lived on his island without ever having cros sed the waters to the mainland. Ocracoke supports about 500 persons, most of whom have lived all their lives on the island but it is said none of them ex cept Mrs. Williams knew that "Vera" was a boy. Williams, himself, was perfectly satisfied with his lot until, when he was twenty-one, his mother took him, dressed as a young woman, to the mainland. There, ac cording to the story told, he bought a magazine and from it and his observations of the city folks, learned that Ocracoke was after all, a little place. In the magazine was the ad vertisement of a mail order house, and when he got homej Williams sent to it for an outfit of man's clothing. When it ar rived, he cut his hair, took the money he had earned by sewing and rowed to the mainland in a small boat. From here he wrote his mother, telling her he was "tired of being a girl." In re turn, Mrs. Williams told him his real name was Charles. Baltimore wa3 selected by Williams as a starting place for his life as a man, but after two months of it he is back at Ocra coke and glad to be there. Dur ing his absence he worked in a restaurant, and while he was there he says he saw enough to make him love Ocracoke more than ever, more than enough to make him return to the island and his skirts. Girls for companions, sewing and the other domestic virtues for occupations, and the name of Vera, all will he accept glad ly if he can have with them the simple life of Ocracoke's fisher folk. See Otis Skinner, America's most talented character actor in "Kismet," the enormous epic of the screen, at The Columbia on Thursday and Friday nights. figuring with Contractor D. A. Holbrooks for reconstruction work on the building, and before sun up a force of hands was on the scene cleaning oui aim mak ing ready for starting work of rebuilding alter me ure. STATE-WIDE INTEREST Digest of Happenings of Week Gleaned From the Files of Our Exchanges. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23. Delegates to the convention of the United Mine Workers of America were called in todav by President John L. Lewis to take action in two Kansas strike cases that he said would declare the union holds its men to the fulfillment of their contracts with operators. Washington, Sept. 23. North Carolina is destined to play an interesting part in Ku Klux Klan investigations. The resignation of Major Bruce Craven as grand dragon and the "disbandment" of the Klan in the state is being given serious attention by the department of justice. San Francisco, Sept. 24. Al fred Semnacher declined to re peat aloud from the witness box today the details of Roscoe (Fat ty) Arbuckle's description of his treatment of Miss Virginia Rap pe, at the revel which preceded the girl's death, and instead on a piece of paper wrote the facts which he showed to the attorn eys and to Police Judge Sylvain Lazarus, who is hearing the murder complaint against the film comedian. DRIVE FOR SUBSCRIBERS! WORKED OVER S S ROOM 'Subscribe For Your Home Pa per Week to Be Observed Week of October 7 ; Sunday School Room of That i Church Thorough Remodel ' ed and Improved HAVE HELPED EVERYBODY IS AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE Raleigh, Sept. 24. Ex-Governor Locke Craig's fine classic in behalf of commutation for T. J. Harris, well-to-do Ridge crest merchant, who is under the death sentence for slaying a wealthy Alabama churchman F. W. Monnish, failed to move Go vernor Morrison today, and Har ris must pay the death penalty tor his crime on October 20. Washington, Sept. 23. The senate, after a continuous sessi on of nearly eight hours, ad journed today with the prospect that further consideration of the anti-beer bill would go over for several weeks. Opponents of the measure, in the face of a night session, forced by the dry leaders, were successful in their obstructive tactics. Sen. Ster ling, republican, South Dakotah, in charge of the measure, finally moved adjournment. Goldsboro, Sept. 23 Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Fremont hotel at Fremont, 11 miles north of Goldsboro, last night. The loss is estimated at $5,000, partly covered by insur ance. The building was a two story wooden structure, and it burned very rapidly. No one was injured, but a number of guests who had retired for the night, had narrow escapes. Fremont is now threatened with a water famine, and its citizens became frantic for a time last night for fear the flames would spread to adjoining buildings and the town would be wiped out. Asheboro. Sent. 23. The wa ter situation at this place has become so acute that the mayor is urging the people to avoid nnv waste of water in any pub lic places, and that house keep ers see to it that no water is was ted in the homes. A very deep well used by one of the facto ries has been tapped, and will supplement the town's water supply for the present. Even with this, it will be necessary to use the most rigid economy until there is rain. It has been nearly a month since the peo ple were requested to use water judiciously, and while there have been several small rains,, they have not been heavy suf ficient to help the pond from which the supply of water for the town is drawn. Concord, Sept. 23. The joint convention of the tenth and el eventh districts of Odd Fellows with Told Water lodcre iNo. 62, Thursday afternoon and night. The convention was ai- Since the beginning of the war in Europe in nineteen hundred iand fourteen, drives have been I very fashionable. There were Y. M. C. A. drives, Knights of Columbus drives, various and ; sundry Red Cross and Liberty iBond drives, to say nothing of ! Eastern Relief and Chinese j fund drives. In fact, there were ! so many drives that the people jat home, to use the language of The Hendersonvilie News, were ! almost "driv" crazy. During jail these drives the press of the 1 United States joined freely and 1 gave space for reading matter of ; various kinds free of charge. In Ifact one of the most powerful j factors in all these great drives were the newspapers of the ! United States from the country weekly to the Metropolitan daily. Now that all other drives have been made, apparently, the newspaper publishers of the country have decided to put on a "drive." The week beginning on November 7 has been set aside as "Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Week." The Stan ly News-Herald is going to ob serve this week and calls upon every friend in the county to as sist in making this week a great success. We have always thrown open the columns of this paper and have given ample space for all good causes. The News Herald has tried to support ev ery move for the uplift of Albe marle and Stanly County. We have boosted our section when boosting looked almost like a hopeless proposition. The dif ferent churches of the county have grown and been placed in better financial condition, the rade territory of the town of Albemarle has been more than doubled within the past two years, industries have sprung up and prospered, miles and miles of the finest public highways have been built in our county during the past two years, and our educational system has at last been placed substantially on its feet. The News-Herald takes a pe culiar interest in this unprece dented progress along all lines and feels that it has done its full part in assisting in the great work. In the meantime, the Stanly News-Herald has ne ver failed to raise its voice in behalf of the cause of the farm ers of the county. Since we feel that this paper has been of some help to many causes worth while in Stanly County, we make no apologies for inaugurating , a drive dur ing subscription week, and we feel justified in asking that every family in the county ral ly to our standard and give us a subscription for the coming year, especially when we guar antee for the sum of $2 to put into the homes of the county one of the best semi-weekly news papers published in North Caro lina. There are. according to j best estimates, at least 12,000 j heads of homes in Stanly. At; least 10,000 of these heads of : homes ought to be subscribers: to their local paper, and not: half that amount really are. If, this paper is what it claims to be, and what it ought to be.; what greater blessing could' happen to Stanly County than for it to be put into from three to five thousand additional horn- j es before the middle of next! November? For the benefit of 1 every good cause in the county, as well as for the benefit of the : The congregation of the First Lutheran Church has just fin ished improvements on the Sun day School room, which afford much greater conveniences as well as comfort for the Sunday School of that church. When the church was built, the San jday School room, which is in the basement of the structure, was provided with a wood floor, I and the walls were merely plas Itered. A.s a result, beinz below the ground surface, the floor gave way, and Jdecayed, and the walls became dampened and ' presented a disagreeable appear- ance. This was all torn out and the walls of the room were pro vided with a tar and concrete preparation, over which was placed a coat of plaster. The walls will now remain dry and look as bright as though above the ground surface. A solid con crete floor has also been prepar ed with a drain pipe, so that the entire floor can be washed when necessary, and the water drain ed. The room has been furnish ed with a sanitary drinking foun tain and other conveniences. The heating plant has been ov erhauled and put in first class condition. These improvements together with a fresh coat of paint, make the Sunday School room of the First Lutheran Church a very attractive place and thoroughly sanitary in ev ery way. JEWELRY STORE MOVED TO LEXINGTON The jewelry store formerly lo cated on West Main Street, for merly known as "Russell's" has been moved to Lexington. Mr. H. C. Miller, who has been all the while owner of one-half the business, recently purchased the interest of his partner, Mr. Rus sell. He continued to run the business for a short while, but owing to the fact that Albemarle has in the F. E. Starnes Jewelry Store one of the largest and most complete jewelry stores in the state, in addition t othe first class jewelry business of W. J. Rowland Company Mr. Miller de cided there was a better opening in Lexington, hence his decision to move the business to that city. A strong cornea1 ny has been or ganized, consisting of the fol lowing gentlemen, who now own the Lexington Store: H. C. Mil ler, F. E. Starnes, L. O. Park er, C. M. Criscoe, W. J. Row land, Dr. Charles I. Miller, R. L. Miller, of Badin, and Charles Parker, of Salisbury. This will make the new concern one of the strongest financially in the state. The new Lexington store will be known as the Starnes-Parker-Miller Company, and it will be under the management of Mr. Miller, who has moved his family to Lexington. tended by more than 100 dele gates, the largest attendance the districtmeeting has had in; several years, and those present j declare in point of interest the meeting was the best held in 20 j years. publication itself, we are going to make a supreme effort to double our circulation before the first of December. This is no small job, and can not be done without the help and co-operation of our good friends all throughout Stanly. However, with just a little assistance from each friend, we can make "Sub scribe for Your Home Town Pa per Week" a great success, not only for The Stanly News-Herald, but for the welfare of the entire county. If you are al ready a subscriber, get ready to renew your subscription for an other year, and urge upon your neighbor to subscribe. If you are not at present a subscriber, decide here and now that you have enough pride in your home town and county to subscribe for and support your home paper, and see that your name i3 on the list at once.
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