2 CENTS PEE COP /—$5. YEA
LEAKMLLE AS IT
WAS » 1914 AND
WHAT IT MA.Y BE
BuikRngof mills it> LeakaviHe
Gave Town New Hope
And Life
CHANGES SHOW S0ME
PROGRESS IN 9 YEARS
When it became known that
Marshall Field and Company would
build large Mills in Leakmrllle, the!
old town began to take on hope fo-;
lowed by new life. Dreams of great
riches passed through many a man’s
mind. New hope gives inspiration
fof undertakings in many lines of
business and enterprise. But then
as people began to find themselves
and settle to the work before them,
the war came on and with it new
problems were upon us. Coiumrvat
ism seamed to again dominate the
thought and action of most men.
No one knew just how things would
end. Of coarse no one doubted the
outcome, bat as to when the strug
gle would end and the result as far
as business was concerned, no one
knew.
It was only"natural that a people
long conservative would again re
turn to that state of mind whenever
B dark cloud appeared. So It may
be truthfully calculated that the war
held the town back at least four
years. It wil be remembered that
a start was made in the way of
public improvements when Washing
ton street and Boone road were
paved with asphalt and water and
Sewer mains laid on Washington
street.
High priced materials and labor
conditions along with the poliey of
the Federal administration made
further progress in pnbllft taPNve*
meftts impractical. It was than da*
elded to defer any additional public
work under th* then witting con
ditions,
, to joy the Mw m om
not prevail. Wo* w«s poshed en
the Mill* until they were completed
end pat Into operation. Hundreds
of houses were built foy employes,
Street* |*id put end, graded, side
walks l*ld pnd a town really bfOHght
into being In two pears time. For_
the benefit of out of town readers,
it may be stated that the mills 8*0
located Inside of the Incorporated
town lines, while most of the mill
residential section lies outside the
line, 'but close to the town. This
development undoubtedly adden
1,000 or 1,200 more people to Leaks!
ville inside and outside.
No town can be more proud of its
mills than Leaksvflie. There Is a
good reason why it should in addi
tion to the. (incree%ed business It ;
brought to stores and shops. The
Wearwell Bedspread mills are a
complete textile-imit taking the rav j
cotton and-turning out the finished i
Bedspreads ready for the Market,1
with a- capacity of IQ,(>00 B*
spreads a week.
And another thing, the manage
ment was in the hands of men well
known in the community. This de
veloped a spirit of cooperation.
(Work already begun, means much
for LeaksvlUe when completed. Un
til completed, it is but a hindrance
to business with streets and roads
tpro up. Ntxt summer should sea
on# big thing after another com
pleted.
The $200,000 $t*t« Highway brio
ge op Hnmfften streets across pan
rtw, «MiU h *p*a tar tn*«I lit*
aawliatt-- * turn at WAk **----1
•ipWMl WmmM ITOB Mtomm uroilUIBOro
•ad Danville, Va., by way of Raids j
vilie through Wentworth the county,
seat, t* LasksviOe and and a sand
elay road to Ridgeway and Martins.
viBe Virginia. While the State toad
by the Berry mute wil be two mBaa
longer between Leoksville and Went
worth, the Hamilton Street roars1
direct to Ridgeway wW make UP
about the same distane.e.
The Town Bagineer experts u
see the 9200,000 water ana sew
erage systems in operation K tune
pf this year. This will give the town
a first class water system of sufl
LIQUOR CONSPIRACY,
TO BE INVESTIGATED
CUunx whiskey wu shipped
To Cmd> sad then re
shaped to U. S.
(By Associated Pres*l
NEW YORK, March. 7^Con
spiracy in which government agents
ate alleged to have acted in coitus*
sion with a Kentucky distillery in
exporting'to Canada a million and!
a half dollars worth of whiskey to
be smuggled back into the United
States Is under investigation it was
learned. Federal agents who have
been investigating operations of a
ring for weeks are said to have ob
tained evidence against a score of
men.
WIFE MUST PAY
HUSBAND ALIMONY
Mrs. Moon able to work must
Support Husband
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, March. 7.—Fred
erick Moon seventy who was sued
for divorce by Lou Ethel Moon,
forty, was awarded fifteen dollars
(monthly alimony by the superior
court. “Mrs. Moon is strong and
able to work while it is evident her
hudband .is too feeble, to support
himself. She married him for bet
ter or worse and must stick to her
bargain” the court rilled.
BRITISH-FRENCH
STILL DEADLOCKED
(By Associated Press)
X0NDON, March. 7.—A Reuters
Cologne correspondent learns on the
highest authority that French and
British representatives are still com
pletely deadlocked ever the Question
of moving French troop* through
the British aone,
COAL SITUATION
NOW VERY CRITICAL
pit* long strike of coal miners and
transportation difficulties which fol
lowed the National situation as to
the coal supply, is now good accord
ing tg a summary of reports from
mining districts issued hy the Nat
ional coal Association. Any shortage
are not of serious moment the Asso
ciation declared and exists nly be
cause of inability of railroads to
'furnish sufficient cars.
BURDENED WITH BILLS,
BUT NO CARFARE
(By Associated Press)
DUESSELDORF, Marcn. 6.—
“You must be making an enormous
lot of money,” said an American to
the head porter of the largest hotel
in Duesseldorf, "you spend mo >
than half your time counting great
stacks of bills,”
The hefcd porter looked up sad
ly:
“Don't joke with me,” he admon
ished. “I am the man who is respon
sible for the passing of oneof the
oldest ironical sarcastic remarks
ever made about jobs.”
“What is it, I would liko to know”
“T)us job isn't worth carfare.”
the porter replied.
It turned out to be literally true.
It coat him fifteen thousand marks
a mouth to go to and from hie woi
on the street care; the hotel paid
him ten thousand marks.
dent capacity far present and fu
ture needy.
Thau during the spring and early
■treat paring b* dene. Much
grading nut be dan* and Wbg i«,
in several ftbcee and o concrete All
at leiit on bridge- street.
The amount that will Se expend
ed for street improvement win reach
$800,000. d All theee added
together will make $700,000 to be
spent in and close to the town, who
ean now say that this here rid town
has not.the Carolina spirit of punch
and progress. It is said that tarheels
are hard to start, bat once started
there is no stopping them.
(To be continued)
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LEAKSVILLE GIRLS
WINS FROM STRONG
GREENSBORO QUINT
Score of 21 to 20 after moat
Exciting game in history .
of local basketball >
HIGH SCHOOL LASSIES
WINS TWO OF SERIES
TIm LmIutIIU Girls’ High School
•Bstskotb.il Team Wins S.co.d
Cmbo of Tho Championship Ser
in one of the most exciting gam
es ever witnessed on the local court.
The Leaksville High School Girls’;
defeated the * strong quint from
Greensboro last night by the very
close score of 21 to 20.
The Greensboro team is one of
the strongest in the State, having
lost only one other game this seas
on.
Both teams Were intensely eager
to win the game and the spectators
were Jcept thrilled with intense ex
citement* by the fast*and furious
playing'of the players of the two
teams. The game _was spectacular
from start to finish and the large
crowd present certainly got their
money’s worth of good clean sport.
At the end of the first half the
score was 11 to 8 in favor of Leaki
ville at the end of the thigd quarter
luck had changed, and the score wa.
18 to 13 in favor of the Greens
boro lassies . Leaksville forged a
head again in the last quarter. The
final score being 21 to 20.
Both teams played a splendid
game. The playing of Elizabeth
Gunn for Leaksville, and Miss Miss
Flubarly for Greensboro being es
pecially brilliant.
Miss Elizabeth' Gunn shot a field
goal in the last few_ seconds of the
game that turned the trick for the
High School lassies.
Lin* up and summary.
Greensboro, Leaksville.
Fluharty . r. f. Hodges
Myers _ 1. f. Eliza. Gunn
Stfnntel c. Maraball
Scurlock r. g. Moore
Clapp. J. g. Ev. Gunn
Summary: Field goals. Fluharty
9. Myers 1, Hodges 4. Elisabeth
Gunn 5. F®u! goals; Gunn 3. Substi
tutes, Hu trier fgr Scurlock, Scur
loek far Butner; Webb forScurlock;
Gunn for Marshall; Marshall for
Gunn.
Referee, Hodges, Carolina. Um
pire Philips.
CHAMPIONSHIP TUSSLE
AGAIN ENDS IN TIE
Guilford College, March, 6.—For
the second time in the state cham
pionship race the girl basketeers of
Reidsville and Winston-Salem high
schools fought to a deadlock, the
game here last night ending in an
18-18 point tie. In an effort to de
termine a winner the two teams will
meet at the local court on Monday
night.
The game last night was'consid
erably Blow. During the initial half
of the contest the Reidsvile highs
weron not able to strike their re
gular gait, the period closing with
Winston- Salem on top an 11 to *
score. The second half found the
Winston-Salem team away off color.
Misses Newnam and Butler were
the stellar players for the Reidsville
live, while Miss Lents did practically
all the scoring for the WinstonsSal
em lassies. The lineup and summary
Reidsville Winsteat-Salem
Newnam a fc, Lents
Trent 1,1. Heathy
N. Ballard a. Steward
Samara li * Oatnar
$ammary: Ft*»d cento Mtmee
Newnam, I; Batter, Si Lento ti
Huntley, I. Goals from fente, Mto
Newnam 4 oat of 4; Mice Trent, 1
out of 4; Miss Butler, 1 ont of 4;
Miss Huntley, 2 out of 8. Referee,
Miss D. Stinnetts, of Greangbttro,
Substitutes, Miss Butty* f«r Mtys
Newnam, Miss Newnam for Mias
.Trent, Mias Shaner far Mias Steph
enson, Miss Maslin for Miss Shep
herd, Miss' Maslin for Miss Maslin,
Half time score, Reidsville, 2; Win
ston-Salem, 11. —
I officers on shine
I } STILL RAID KILLED
BURIED IN SWAMP
Dflwty sheriffs Crain and
Wifey dain near still and
bodies disposed of
CONFESSION LEADS
TO FINDING BODIES
(By Associated Press)
" FRANKLINGTON, March. 7.—
Th» bodies of Wesley Crain and Wil
•y Pierce were fonnd a quarter of
a mile from the destroyed moonshine
still in the swamps eight miles from
! bepe buried in mud and covered
wit^i the carcass of a cow. Jove
Morphy and John Rester who con
fessed and led the officers to the
spot, according to district Judge
Prentiss Clark.
SEW ORLEANS, March. 7.—The
bodies of Wesley Crain and Wesley
Pierce deputies sheriff, missing
since last Friday w4»en they left
Frenklington to make a raid on a
moonshine still in swamps between
there and 'Bogalus have, been locat
ed, according to a telephone message
to the Times Picayune from Frank
lington The message also stated
that one of the twelve men now
held in jail at Franklington as a
suspect in connection with their
disappearance is alleged to have con
feaised. The message did not state
how and where the bodies were dis
covered.
LATE DISPATSHES
RIGHT OFF THE WIRE
BERLIN, March. 7.—The Coup
d'e tat planned o occur about the
middle of March has been nipped in
the bud by the arrest of fifteen per-!
sons at Munich, according to the
authorities here.
RICHMOND, March. 7.—Another
long debate over the joint resolution
to Rmit the introduction of New bills
la indicated when the measure !
attainted to the house after the pas
sage by the senate yesterday. Mean
time the senate indulged in a pro
longed discussion of a resolution by
Senator Leedy which would giv„
consent to both branches for con
sideration of his bil providing pen
alties for persons wearing masks in
public.
WASHINGTON, March. 7.—Dur
administration ending March 4, al
ing the two years of the Harding
most a hundred thousand employes
have been separated from the gov
ernment service, according to a
tabulation made at the direction of
the President and given out at the
White House.
PARIS,* March. 7.—The French
government will ask the Chambei
of Deputies to vote the ratification
of treaties signed at the Washing*
ton armaments conference, Minis
ter of Marine Raiberti, told the
Chamber when asked as to the sta
tus of the pacts.
ANDERSON. S. C. March, 7.—
George Allen, negro, charged with
Young a white farmer was
killing his employer, Cecil Hall
captured near here by a sheriffs
posse and hurried to Columbia for
safe keeping.
SUN’S RAYS GENERATE THE
POWER TO DRIVE AN ENGINE'
NEW YORK, March 5.—A minia
ture engine whose power was gener
atfd by the sun's rays, was success
fully demonstrated today la the lab
oratory of the College of the City
of Now York by Bernard Crewman
A parabolic *epp*rmhr*er caught
and focussed the rays upon a test
tube of water, the heat causing
steam which in' tarn operated the
tiny motor at a high speed.
Grossman said his Invention could
vide tight, .hfSt end power, while
be used in off!?? buildings to pro
the 8\ui motor. ?o,uld he utilised to
operate motor trucks. He will build
a larger model to prove his theory.
When Elisabeth starts after
Greensboro they soon find they are
up against a big gun.
DOCTOR ABDUCTED IS
BEATEN AND ROBBED
I • .... ...
rFace slashed from eye to his
Throat left in mud
(By Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA, CITY, March. 7.—Dr.
Chester Goldberg who was abducted
from his home here last night by
lour masked men, walked into p ,1-ee
headquarteis and told the authorit
ies he regained consciousness while
lying in a pool of mud thirteen miles
from the city after he had been
beaten and robljed. His face wA
disfigured, by a slash from one eye
to his throat.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OVERCOME SEVERE
HANDICAP AFTER ALL
Passed best educational meas
ure ever enacted in North
Carolina
“LOST PROVINCES”
BIG RECORD MAKER
The General Assembly of 1923
labored under severe handicaps. So
many things of a spectacular nature
happened in Raleigh during the six
ty days of its life that we are afraid
'the public gave more attention to
them than to the great constructive
activities of the law-makers.
From the headlines and debates in
both ends of the capital a man from
Mars might have thought the anti
Ku Klux bill was of more importan- j
ce than the educational bill. But j
they do not deserve to be mentioned ,
in the same breath. We have the ;
word of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction that the 1923
Legislature passed the best educat
ional measure ever enacted in N.
C., if it had done nothing else, it
would deserve to rank high among
the legislative bodies of the Com
monwealth.
There were many spectacular in
vestigations. Sometimes these so far
overshadowed the real work of the
Legislature that the public was
tempted to reach the conclusion that
'the General Assembly was doing
nothing but investigate. But as a
matter of fact it was making better
provision for the maintenance and
progress of the State’s institutions
than was ever made by any other
Legislature.
Of course, the Legislature of 1923
made mistakes. It did some things
that it ought not to have done and
left undone some things that it
ought to have done. But on the
whole its record is one of \yhich ev
ery member of both Houses may
well be proud. The good bills far
outnumber the bad bills. The things
it failed to do that were right are
nothing to the things it might have
done that were wrong, but didn’t
It failed to give us relief from con
gested court dockets by redistrict
ing the State, but at the same time
it might have put Solicitors’ salaries
so low that no lawyer Worthy 01
the profession would have had thi :
job;
—Winston-Salem Journal.
MR. P. F. OSBORNE RETIRES
Mr. P. F. Osborne has sold his in
terest in the Twin City Grocery
Company to Mr. T. H. Barker and
retires from that firm after several
years of strict attention to business
The transfer of stock was made the
latter part of December, but Mr.
Osborne continued with the con
cern until yesterday.' Ha has not an
noimced what his intention is, whe
ther he vtfll engage in business in
the near future or In 'What lih*, Hi*
news has hesn meatishst) in sen*,
n action with severs) enterprises.
MrnJBasher paid Mr. OsheHftf sev*
era) very fins compliments this
morning when asked as to the h u^
ness change.
Mr. George B. Jones, Mr. John
Bringle Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Thom*
as Jones Mr.s J. B. DeShazo and
Miss Estelle Jones all of Ridgeway
Va., were the guests of Dr. and Mrs
Andrew Tuttle* Sunday.
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j MRS. D. E. PURCELL
SHOT THREE TIMES
BY YOUNG BOY
! __
Hilton Seares taken into the
home turns on lady of
house while men is out
DEMAND HER TO OPEN
THE SAFE FOR HIM
REIDSVILLE, March, 7.—Mrs.
D. Ernest Purcell was shot and per
haps fatally wounded yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock by Hilton
Sears, a 17-year old orphan boy who
was making his home with Mr. and
Mr3. Purcell about :even miles south
west of Reidsville.
Mrs. Purcell was carried to a
Greensboro hospital this afternoon.
Mrs. Purcell’s husband was spend
ing the day in Danville on business
and young Seares, taking advantage
of Mr. Purcell’s absence, decided to
rob the safe in the Purcell home. En
tering the room he demanded of Mrs
Purcell to open the safe, and upo..
her refusal, the boy shot her W'ith a
revolver. The first bullet entered her
arm, penetrating into her brepst,
Two other bullets entered the wo
man’s back just left of the spine.
Her children at school at Sharon,
a mile distant, were notified and one
of the sons came to Reidsville for a
physician.
The Purcells are prominent and
well known in this county. Lae-, y^ar
Mr. Purcell operated an avr.tfmobile
business in Reidsville.
The youthful desperado has been
living with Mr. and Mrs. Purcell
about a month. Only last Saturday
Mr. Purcell told County Welfare
Superintendent J. H. Allen that the
youngster had been a model boy and
he and his family were delighted to
have him in their home.
Sears was an inmate for a time
at the Thomasville orphanage. Last
year he was sent to the orphanage
farm (Kennedy Home) near Kinston
Sears was dissatisfied with his sur
roundings ' there and ran away. At
little later he was caught at Raleigh
and turned over to the State Wel
fare Department. About the first of
December Welfare Superintendent
J. H. Allen, of Rockingham county,
was asked to take the boy in charge.
Supt. Allen went to the home of
the boy’s sister, Mrs. Whitt, at Prox
imity, and brought the youth to
Reidsville.
Mi-. Purcell asked Supt. Allen to
allow him to tak^ charge of the boy.
Seares seemed to be delighted with
his new home and soon gained the
full confidence of the Purcell fam
ily. He knew that Mr. Purcell kept
money in the safe at home and the
temptation to rob was too great for
him to resist.
•Seeing Mrs. Purcell seriously
wounded the boy dropped the revol
ver, mounted one of Mr. Purcell’s
horses and left. Ashort distance
down the road an hour after the
shooting occurred the horse was
found wandering in the woods with
out its rider.
Searching parties were formed
and messages sent to nearby points
notiying officers of the dastardly
deed.
Mrs. Purcell before her marriage
was Miss Vannie Troxler, daughter
ofAlex. Troxler, of near Benaja.
REIDSVILLE, March 7.—At noo.
today the Sheriffs office 0r Police (
partment of Reidsville had not lo
cated Hilton Seares who yesterday
shot Mrs. D. E. Purcell at their
home west of Reidsville.
They had a report eta tiny th«v
a young man answering the boys
deaeration was earned toward 8ur»
HagUn or IM atari*
•»ant tha night, it was said in
Rockingham County.
Mrs. Purcell w^s reported better
this morning and hopes are now
h?ld nut for her recovery.
There is e f 60 reward now offeraa
for the arrest °f Scares.
Mrs. B. Frank Mebane returned
borne last evening from a trip to
New York, Philadelphia and Wash'
ington, D. C.f Col. Mebane meeting
her at Reidsville.
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