THE TRI-CITY DAILY GAZETTE
Published every week-day afternoon
LEAKSVILLE,. N. C.
Successors to The Leaksville Gazette
Established in 1880.
THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO.,
Incorporated, Publishers
MURDOCH E- MURRAY. EDITOR
ARCHIE LA PRADE JR., Adr. Mgr.
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mediate Territory includes Leaks
ville, Spray, Draper and all Leaks
ville Township, equal to a city
population of 17,000.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1923
BIBLE THOUGHT
FOR TODAY—
Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a
priceless heritage in after y>
SAFE IN THE LORD:—That they
should seek the Lord.
For in him we live, and move, an :
have our being.—Acts 17:27,2S.
C. C. COUNTRYMAN
UNDER ARREST FOR
DEFRUDING BANKS
Former Publisher of Weekly
Signal to be brought
here for trial
GOT $900 FROM
TWO COUNTY BANKS
Carl C. Countryman the man ox
whom it was said “He was run out of
i't; noviile ’ and later” that he walfc
< •! out of Laaksville “was placed
under arrest in' New York City Sat
urday and is being held there for
Rockingham County on a charge of
defrauding two banks.
It will be recalled that Country
man was the superintendent of
rhuols in Hfonevillo fop one term,
tlo bad several fights while there,
was arrested and had others arrest
ed etc., had one of the teachers
fired, to be reinstated by the Board.
He served on the police force, car
ried two big guns as he attended
to school matters, and in general
way turned Stoneville inside out
and upside duwn-and then some.
He was soon due to walk out of
Stoneville. When climatic conditions
endangered his health around about
Stoneville, he moved his comb and
hair brush to Leaksville.
Shortly after landing here, he
r ude application to the local school
Committee for Superintendents of
Schools, with the district understand
ing that his application, would be
considered by itself; that is, that
he would not be humilated by being
placed on the same level with other
: nnlirfintf?.
This did not work out the way he
wanted it. He conceived the notion
that E. V. Hobbs and Geo. H. Clark
treated him as if he was only an or
dinary mortal. Then he got angry,
r cir.e folks would say mad.
To get even, he took his pencil
and proceeded to write a “roast” on
the School Committee and on Mr.
Hobbs especially, and presented
thi3 “roast” to the Gazette^ for pu
blication, which of course was turn
ed down.
While this was all going on he
worked in the Mechanical depart
ment of tho Gazette Print Snap.
For some time before this, he
planned on buying the controlling
interest in the Gazette. In fact the
price was agreed to. He wrote out
a check for 125.00 to bind the deal
for ten days.
He figured on raising the money
bin Wig local party men who would
Welcome a different kind Of a pa
per but failed. iThe ted days option
passed, and he was Compelled to ask
for another weeks time. Again he
failed aitd then later bn dicided to
buy or lease the Darlington Boule
vard Priwt Shop'with which he r-tar
Because^the Gazette did not pu
tetl the Signal and organized th»
Signal Publishing Co.
bliah his “roast” on the School Corn-'
mittee, he began “burping op the
Gazette” with We little Signal. '7:
Tha money did not come in fas1
as he needed it and he had to d»
something.
Countryman called up Mr. B. F.
Mebane on the phone two or three
times, and called on him several
times, but Mr. Mebane evidently
did. not fall in ,love with the man
from “Ohio” and did not dig up i«
suit him.
Mr. Mebane then -got word to “dip
up” or get “roasted.”
Well, most everybody will recall
the “roast” which the Signal dealt
Mr. Mebane. It was the end of
local confidence in CDuntrman. Mr.
Mebane never opened his mouth
and when asked about the matter
just passed it by with a laugh.
About this time he began working
on Mr. Gwynrt. Gwynn did not havo
faith in him and failed to “dig up”
as Countryman expected he should.
So of course in a short time the
Signal was tottering.
Countryman had two government
bonds, $500.. each.
He had borrowed money on
these at the Bank of Stoneville and
the Boulevard Bank. When the notes
were due^he offered a check on a
Charlotte Bank, which was accepted
and the bonds given back to him.
That same day he disappeared. The
Charlotte Checks were no good, so
it is for defrauding these two Banks,
he is wanted here.
NO ACTION EXPECTED
ON LETGUE COURT
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON Feb. 27,—Post
ponement of action Until next session
Congress upon Hardings request for i
authority to enternational court of
justice, was virtually decided on by
the senate foreign relations commit
tee,
FOREIGN WAITERS ARE ' &!'
FLOODING LOttbON
LONDON Feb 27,—The British
waiter is gradually disappearing,
and foreigners are taking hia place.
This is particularly noticeable in
Saho and some of the leading West
End restaurants which are managed
by Italians, Greeks and Polish Jews
who prefer waiters o f their own
race rather than the Englishman.
During the war Soho became al
most Enlish in character, but of late
the foreign invasion has changed
conditions. Foreign managers natu
rally help,their own countrymen,
but another reason is found in the
fact that foreigners will work for
considerably less money than the
average Englishman. There are also
waiter agencies which find jobs for
the sfflstldr "off street’*
and collect high fees from tM Ap
plicant as well as. takp a pr»porti«H
of his weekly earnings. If these *P«
not paih regularly their employers
are informed and the waiter loses
his job.
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