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eting and ovemment To the people of Rockingham County: I Mi a citizen of Rockingham County, and at present I am Choir iNia* of the.Democratic Party, and if ' I know “ myself, 1 am interested with all my heart in this good County, an ! in preserving peace and harmony in it* herders. I was opposed to the Commissioners building the Fishing Creek bridge, and think now it was a mistake for the Commissioners tt build it. I attended the first mass meeting last summer and took part in an effort to induce the Commis sioners not to bnild it. The matter was carried to the courts and the legality of the action of the Commis sioners sustained. I thought then, think now, even though the action was legal, that the Commissioners should not have gone on and built the bridge. So much for that. Now lets take the other side of it: The County Commissioners are the with authority to govern the county. They are, for the time being, clothed with authorit yto govern the county. I do not believe these men are dis honest. If they have made a mistake and done something they ought not to do, let the people elect another board at the next election. If the-, have the legal right to act (and the courts have decided they have) and they have seen fit to go ahead anJ build the bridge, then pray tell m what good the continued aggitatio of the matter will do. Why tear th county to pieces and fan hatred an^ ill-will among our people when it wi' do no good. In my opinion it is r dangerous matter to continue to sti up the people and fan the flame ii - this eounty. It looks to me like it i about time for some good Strong peo pie to counsel moderation and stor ffdu tips f hot language and bad feel tag % this eounty. tnav- me vum arc the constituted au to act in auep matter*, and is always the right of the » petition their offteers. yet it matter to' onry the of threatened point These: -,-j___ they are entitled to fair treatment TWpeople will soOn have the opportunity Jo elect a boned tp their liking. If the bridge is built, It will not ruin the county, nor change the plan of salvation. They say the bridge is being built for B. Frank Me hane. He may have been influential In gating it built—grant that he has been, we mu*t all admit that B. Frank lfebaae baa,by bis efforts, brought p.minna 0f property to the county to be taxed mid made good pay Tolls for lets of people. I have never been a partisan of Mr. Mebane—have not ap proved al ibe has done, but we must be just, even to him. What I am dndertaking to do is counsel moderation in a very trying time sad beg the people to cease this continued strife and lets have peace. I beg the people to call off any further mass meeting about this mat ter. To my mind » i* useless. The contract for the bridge has been let, * «_ __U..J nn wfrft an we do now but stir up feeling snd hate among the people. and w* have had enough of that. t. b. Wilson. AMERICAN HELD BY GERMANS RELEASED (By Associated Press) Waahingotn, Jan. 80. — Corlisi the American who attempted to kid nap Grover BergdoU in Germany released from prison b) y, the State Department wai advised, ? - ■ Strewn and Grefwy Selected As Counsel for Oil Prosecution (By Associated Pruss.) Washington, Jan. 80.—Steps to ward the prosecution of oil cases were begun by Slips Strawn, of Chicago, one of the special counsel selected by Coolidge. Strawn conferred with the President and announced he would proceed immediately with his work. Organisation matters will await the arrival, Friday, of Thomas Gregory, a to racy general in the Wilson cabinet, who will conduct the prosecution jointly with Strawn. The only in structions received from the Presi i dent, Strawn said, were to proceed in accordance with the executive’s state ment of last Saturday night. Phyucians attending Fa.ll told the Senate oil committee that the former interior secretary is in no condition to appear before it and testify. The hearing was behind closed (doors and details were not divulged. Rear Admiral Latimer Judge, ad vocate general of the Navy, told the house naval committee that in De cember, 1921, he informed Secretary Denby it would be legal to enter into a contract with the Dcneny intersts for constructon of tankage at Pearl ( Harbor, Hawaii, as a part of their (tease of the California oil reserves. The admiral said he based his opinion on the authority granted the naval department by Congress in June, 1920, to exchange ofl and provide storage facilities. Republicans and Democratic leaders in the Senate were pressed for a vote on the Walsh oil lease annulment resolution. Debate was resumed immediately after the Senate convened. ■**- ,^.wi iUiasasnffFmirir~" WHEN WINTER COMES Philippines Elay ball Manila, Jan. 80.—The baseball sea son in the Philippines is now in full swing, and close observers .declare that greater interest has been shown it* the gams than for many years. The amateur championship of the islands will be decided during the thiyd week in February when the an ual carnival is held in Manila. By a process of elimination among the various leagues, not .only in Manila but in the outlying provinces, the number of teams will be narrowed down so that the series of games which will decide the 'championship can be played off in one week. The army league, made up oi teams from each of the five United States army posts in the vicinity oi Mianila and' three civilian teams, has adopted a schedule calling for games on Saturdays and Sundays during the season. The team from ths Thirty-lfrst United Stafco Infantry is composed of Americans, two othen are made up of FWpi«* and Ameri cans and the remaining teems of ths Army League are aB Filipino. The bureau of edopation has en couraged baseball In the schools in all the provinces, and during the seasoi provincial and inter-provincial con tests are played, thus determining thi regional championships. The various universities in Manila and othei cities also have organised basebal teams and leagues, and even th< sugar, plantations of the Island o. Negros have taken up the game. Read Tour County’s Dally Paper First Leader New York NOT York, Jan. 30.—William H. ndemon .State superintendent of the OTSnioow League of New York, di night waa convicted by a Su reme Court Jury on both count* of i indictment charging him with lird degree forgery in connection th the fitting” of commissions ith a fotjmer league fund aolicitor. Justice (Tompkins announced An mon would be sentenced Friday, ebeuary «. Bail of fS/MO, in which I preme Court Justice Tompkins in , which he emphasised that the Anti- J Saloon league was not on trial nor | the prohibition law. When the jury ! retired it took the Anti-Saloon books ! along. Anderson wae Men to wipe | away tears while the Anal iusligij] tions were being made. I jj Justice Tompkins pointed put thpt { charge of forgery connected two i aeperftp. accounts although it was a J part of the sa«»e transaction. Be « acquainted the jurors with the dK« LATE ITEMS RIGHT OFF THE WIRES (By Associated Fim) Boston, Jan. 30.—Harry Maniff, ol Revere, surrendered at the federal building here, and was arrested on charges of conspirarcy to rob in con nection with the million-doUar mail track robbery in Los Angeles in March, 1921. Bert Chapman was ar rested on similar charge yesterday. (By Associated Press) Frankfort, Ind., Jan. 80,—Governor Warren McCray is adjudged bank rupt in the report of Harry Sheridan, federal master in chancery, who rdl cently conducted a hearing on the pu tion of three Ft. Wayne banks. Sheri dan held that McCray is not a farmer nor a laborer and, therefore, is not exempt feeds the federal laws govern ing an involuntary bankruptcy pro ceeding. CLAIMS ORIGINATION OF IMPROVED TYPE OF FILM (By Associated Press.) London, Jan. 80.—Hundreds of thousands of feet of cinema dims and countless phonograph records, are being carefully preserved by museum authorities in London so that future generations may see how things were done in this age, and hear what primi nent British statesmen had to say of present day problems. On difficulty in the way of this un dertaking of interpreting today to to morrow has been found in the fact that cinema dims contract and de teriorate with age, but a British firm claims to have invented a dim that will not shrink and that is not in flammable. I Read Tear County’s Daily Paper First Last night bids w$$e opened for the new building to'bb erected soon by the Leakmrille-S|lfay Insurance and Realty Company., iThe bids were as follows: 1 Jackson and TooehsteA^... .$96,800.00 Hankins and CoIMna,^.... 96,000.00 Jno. P. Pettijohn Co. '.„’.... 98.7W.00 J. M. Hopper Conatftift Co. 89,777.00 Lcaksville Lumber Company 88,698.00 These bids corer thd cost of con struction, the steel to n furnished by the owners. PlasM^ and steam fittings were bid on ahfarately, whic’-. will bring the cost of the building well up toward $104,600. The contractor had**not been an nounced as yet, and will probably not bo known until the later part of this week. 1 . The nev/ building will be ftve stories high, with about a hundred foot frontage on Monroe Street and seventy-live feet on Washington Street. '-1 The builders of this commercial palace have announced that the build ing will be as absolutely fireproof as modern construction can make one. Although Anal details have not been worked out, it is probable that the building will be of reinformed concrete throughout Construction is to start immediately after the contract is let. PENNSYLVANIA BANK SHOWS BIG SHORTAGE (By AssodfctedCjPress) * Harrisburg;, Penn., ^*n. 80. -Dis covery of a shortage of $74,940 in the finds of the Peoples Bank of McKeesport was atth^unced by tbo State banking depart.' Peter Cam eron, State secretary Of banking, said that a warrant has Been issued for the arrest of James Baker, an em ployee. ir SWISS OBJECTS TO BERVING LEFT-OVERS TABLE D’HOTE (By Associated {Press) Geneva, Jan. 30.—The abolition of table d’hote service in all hotels “throughout Switzerland and other countries” is advocated 'in the current issue of the Swiss HotM Revue. “It is not fair or just,” writes the contributor, "to impost' upon guests the left-overs of a dish that has passed around several times from table to table .especially mutilated fish.” The writer alsb airfares guests do not want to be Ordered to the table for a meal “at a obtain hour by the clock.” Read Your County’s Dnl% Paper First UNMASKED BANDITS ROB BANK OF $10,000 (By Associated Press) Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 80.—Two unmasked bandits held up the Farm ers Bank, at Jasper, and side 910,000 in currency. A posses overtook and captured the men at WMteweU. DEMURRER SUSTAINED IN CANTONMENT FRAUD (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 30.—The District of Columbia Supreme Court sustain ed the demurrers of Benedict Crowell, former assitant secretary of war, and six others indicted with him in cases growing out of building wartime cantonments. MR. AND MRS. J. P. TURNER ENTERTAIN TEACHERS Mr. and Mrs. J. Platt Turner en tertained several of the teachers and a few friends Tuesday evening. The guests found their places at small tables by means of dainty Valentine place cards. The hostess, assited by her daugh ters and Miss Mabel Beeker, served quail on toast, olives, sandwiches and coffee, pineapple syllabub and cake. i Your - IT has been said of English voters that thCymake the newspaper their Bible. What consideration haVe You give® the Tri-City Daily Gazette? Did You ever consider it ana matter of community interest? If Your paper is not full of interesting News, it is not Your paper, but yourself who is at fault. We are anxious to co-operate with You. It is Your paper. It prints the news You furnish. Because of false modesty or thoughtlessness of lack of interest You fail to report to the paper what you know about yourself or others that is of interest. Then don’t knock the paper if it fails to report that you went to Mayodan, to visit your dear Mother-in-law. The local paper is a big family letter, or at least it should be. Con tribute Your part to the letter and what a newsy paper You will have. Make a new resolution and try it the rest of this year. Then don t forget the Subscription and Cash. The local paper can not be run on promises or a bushel of turnips. Editorial Appearing in the Gazette Wednesday, December 19, 1923 AT HOME The time has come when retail merchants in this section should do something to stimulate home buying. There is entirely too much out-of town shopping done for the prosperity of our towns. No one wants to place a fence around the towns, but there is a limit, or should be at least, for local people to hop on their cars, turning their backs on local mer chants and do their shopping else where. And while this state of affairs is going on what are our merchants doing to stop it? How many times have they met in conference to con sider this ever growing problem? The Gasette’s pages often go begging for local advertising and we are being told by merchants that they cannot afford to advertise in the face of this running to other cities by people who should trade at home. This then, is apt to bring about a con dition that will force us to solicit business from merchants in out-of town dries. Of course this will net be done unless it become a neeessity if our merchants and this newspaper will -ocoperate in finding out the cause and then to take steps to ■remedy it. In thousands of other cities mer chants meet and study conditions. This getting together has led to many things that helped them in meeting competition. When a business man falls into a rut and naturally becomes stale, the active shopper lose interest in him. This creates the opportunity the wide awake merchant wants to make a bid for those who have tired of local in difference. With the hearty co-operation of re tailers, any daily newspaper can over come these conditions by molding a home-trading sentiment. But with out this co-operation both are bound to suffer. Why not start the New Year by getting together and see why home trading cannot be stimulated to the advantage of the entire community. We are ready, are you? Editorial Appearing in the Gazette Wednesday, January 23, 1924 THE HOME \ NEWSPAPER H there is anything in your town worth talking about ten chances to one your own newspapers had a hand in putting it there. If anybody beyond the walls of your burg ever learns Oat there is such a place as Leaksvffle it will be through the home paper. Every town gets its money’s worth through the home newspapers. It’a the wagon that carries all vour goods to market. It ought to be kept in good repair. It will pay to grease it, paint it and keep its running gears in good shape and shelter. They are the guardians and defend ers of every interest, the forerunner* and pioneers of every movement and the sturdy advocators of law and oiden Read in tomorrow'* Gazette, ’ What I* the Remedy? Earnest Cook Found Guilty Manslaughter In Criminal Court i JOHN L. PHILLIPS MUST STAND TRIAL IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 30. — John L. Phillips, Republican State chairman of Georgia, and nine others, indicted in connection with the sale of surplus lumber from army cantonments, must stand trial in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, it was held in overruling demurrers to their in dictments. DESTROY INSANITARY MEAT (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan 80.—Federal in spection laws have been in operati^. for seventeen years. During this] time more than 8,600,000 whole carcasses and more than 12,000,000 parta of carcasses have been con demned and made unfit for food pur poses through the vigilance of federal meat inspectors. JUDGE BRYSON GIVES REIDSV1LLE MAN A CHANCE (Staff Correspondent of the Gaaetto) Wentworth, Jan. 30.—Jesse Gillie, of Reidsville, 21-year-old married man, came before Judge Bryson for sentence, having been indicted for asault, and standing before the bar, received the best advice he had ever listened to. Gillie told the Court that he would heed the advise and stop drinking. “Jesse,” the Court continued, “you have a good face, and you ought to make a good citisen, husband and father and I would like to give you a chance.” After much sound and kindly counsel Judge Bryson told Gillie he would give him a chance. He is to give a $100 bond to report to each term of court for two years. MODERN FOOTWEAR OUSTS OLD STYLE SHOES OF, SA'» IN m., --—s*’ ■»S-'nj+x-..- • (By Associated Press) Peking, Jan. 30.—The encroach ment of western civilisation has revolutonized the shoe-making indus try in Peking, according to the Chinese Economic Bulletin. When official shoes made of sating where in vogue among the well-to-do, and the poore rclasses wore shoes made out of cotton cloth, the business was pros perous; but now the old-style shoes have been discarded for foreign-style leather shoes which are imported, or made by another class of artisans from Shanghai or other treaty ports. For this reason Peking shoemakers are engaged almost entirely in mak ing cheap footwear for the poorer classes. Another industry affected is bak ing. Owing to a liking for foreign - style pastry, the business of Chinese bakeries is falling off. Bread is being used more and more. A few years ago, it is said, there were in Peking more than 400 bakeries turning out Chinese food, whereas today there are only 127. Medicine shops, although showing a decreased turnover, are less seriously affected because of the enormous profit to which the business lends itself. SUNBEAM MEETING At the meeting of the Sunbeams at the First Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon, there were twenty-one present The offering for foreign missions amounted to *8.37. The meeting was opened by the new president, Miss Evelyn Barker. I The roll was called by Miss Andrey ' Jones. i Scripture verses on prayer were I given by members. Other interesting features of the pror-tm wer piano solo by Miss Vivian Hundley, readings by Misses Evelyn Barker, Elisa Turner and Vivian Hundley. THE ACQUIRED TRAIT OF FATHERHOOD (Continued On Page Four) (By Wickes Wamboldt) A woman physician of Internationa reputation said to me, "Motherhooc is a perfectly natural and norma characteristic, but fatherhood is ai acquired trait.”' There is food for thought in that leather love and mother sacrifice ar so normal that .the world takes titer eathei r*gg tonight; fair tc (Staff Correspondent of the Gazette) Wentworth, Jan. SO.—Earnest Cook, colored, charged with the murder of Henry Nixon, also colored, was found guilt;, of manslaughter in Superior Cour ; Tuesday. Judge Bryson will probably pass sentence on Cook later in the week. ' The law4 calls for a sentence of from four months to twenty years. S. P. Graves was assited in the prosecution by A. W. Dunn, wihile A. D. Ivie defended Earnest Cook with a great deal of earnestness as if he was thoroughly convinced of his innocence. An hour’s time was alloted each side and Mr. Dunn opened the arguments to the jury before noon recess. A. D. Ivie followed, speaking R full hour and admitting he felt the strain of it. Judge Bryson’s charge to the jury was fair and able, and several at torneys commended the charge. The jury was told that they could return a verdict for second degree murder, or one for manslaughter, or “not guilly.’’ The State contended that Cook and Nixon were drinking and had fell out about something. That Cook had thrown a fruit iar at Nixon That Nixon had ,et>t Cook’s band. That when Cook hod his hand dressed by Lizze Jones, he went outside and killed Nixon with a rock nr other blunt instrument. Tbn' John Early Jones swore he saw Cook strike Nixon through Lizzie’s —indow. That Cook said in the house he would kill Nixon. The body was found lay'ng straight on the ground; the left hand on the breart and the right hand stretched out on the ground with a broken knife in it. His head turned slightly to the left and a pool of blood was nearby. The, feet straight out and close together. It also appears that the dead man’s hat was on his breast. It appears that Henry Nixon and Roy Cook worked together on the same job and they were friends. Nixon boarded at. Lizzie Jones house and Cook boarded at Roberts’ house. It seems that on Saturday nig tJeteber gltfr .,tha fci'n «—■» ant: State line to get lome whiskey. Cqdlr' -aid that Nixon wanted to get a quart of liquor for Lizzie. They returend with the liquor after the Jones’ had/ gone to bed. A fuss started soon after they were back. Lizzie and her crowd all blame Cook and Nixon for the trouble that fol lowed. Cook places the blame on John Early Jones, Lizzies’ son. Cook said he -wont in the house with Nixon just so they would be together; that they had planned on going somewhere on Sundey. Thet when they got in the house they knocked and were admitted. They went into Lizzie’s room which seems to be used as a sitting room. Lizzie was laying across the head of the bed and one of the girl board ers laying across the foot. Nixon, he said sat on the side of the bed and wanted Lizzie to get up. Cook sat by the fire place. Then he said the gili on the foot of the bed got up and came to him and leaned over on his shoulder. Nixon had in the meantime sat on a trunk in the room. John Early Jone- came down the stairs coming into the room, and pushed Nixon off the trunk. Then when Lizzie and others were on Nixon, John Early Jones snatched a flash, light out of Cook’s hand. Then it was that his hand was cut, ag well as a number of other cuts on his clothing and body. Uook saia ne rnrew a irun, jar John Early after he found he was cut. Nixon he said left the room while he was having his hand attended to, Lizzie helping. His hand bled so pro fusely, that the stove pipe was taken down nnd a handful of goot applied. Cook said he never saw Nixon after that. Cook then started home to the Roberts’ boarding house. As he left the women folks came to the door with him. He said there was no dead man at the gate post where Nixon’s body was later found. He said that he got to the Roberts’ boarding house at a quarter of ten. The Roberts woman refused to let him stay because of his condition. Cook then went out to the Rock crusher at King’s Mill, where he spent the night. ' Cook said that while he was hav ing his hand dressed three men in the Jones boarding house disappear
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