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The Monroe journau
PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOL 27. No. 3.
MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921.
$2.00 PER YEAR CASH
REDUCTION IN PROPERTY
VALUATION IS FAYORED
lluail jllthlll OH I (if Wit), legis
lators A if runiing Their At
t rut m to Taxation.
lOM Dl.VOX ADDRESSES HOUSF.
Legislators of the lower house of
the General Assembly passed the
i toad bill are now turning their ut
totion to matters of taxation and ap
piopriatious. write Max Abernethy
iu the Gastonia Gazette.
This work will be handled largely
by the committee which are already
hulding night sessions ill order to
complete their work in time to sub
net a report to the legislating body
within the sixty-day limit. The mat
tr of appropriations for the state's
eciK'utional and charitable institu
tions Is second in importance only
to the road legislation and it is like
ly that much of the time left of the
session will be (siven over to piovid
ing adequate fuuds for North Caro
l.na's charges.
Recommendations of the State Tax
Commission and the Governor are
b' ing considered by the finance com
mittees in mappiuK out the tax leg-l.-Union.
Thete will be some reduc
tion in the valuations of property,
but it does not appear what this
figure w ill he. Governor Rufe Dough
tt.n is authority for the statement,
however, that the committer- will rec
ommend that the lDl'.t valuations he
lowered.
Having spent virtually all week on
the Houghton -Connor- Bowie Rood
roads bill the House today finds lt
k If fat behind with its local calen
dar and faster work or night sessions
will be required to get hack to nor
malcy. There ar two bills the house
Must consider within the next week.
The first is stock law for Eastern
North Carolina and State-wide tick
iadication.
Both of these measures will be
threshed out on the Iloor in general;
debate, the senate having deferred
action on stock law and passed the
lick eradication bill. The House first
defeated the latter measure, but
moved to reconsider.
Senator Galbert's bill to authorize
nenslons for every North Carolina
Confederate soldier conies back to the
senate for further consideration, as
does the short ballot bill with a fa
vorable report from the committee.
Harry Stubbs' measure for a consti
tutional convention to revise the state
constitutions Is also expected to con
sume some time during the next ton
days. The welfare bill retaining the
welfare work in North Carolina will
also bo one of the things the senate
has to settle. This bill has already
passed the house.
Dixon vs. Censor.
Tom Dixon, Introduced as the man
who had done big things in placing
orth Carolina on the map, stam
peded the committee on education,
which he appeared before to protest
against the passage of a bill provid
es for censorship of moving pictures.
The galleries were packed at the
committee hearing, which began at
:i ; 30 yesterday afternoon, and the
spectators saw Tom Dixon In action.
If he did not convince the committee
members that a censorship of mov
ing pictures was more evil than the
pictures it was not because he didn't
huve close attention.
Telling the coinittv he opposed
the bill as "a citizen of North Caro
lina," Mr. Dixon decried the tendency
of the time to "blue-pencil every
thing that was done. Censorship is
in t a step forward, but backward, he
told the committee, and then proved
It. No group of men should be given
the right to say what the free-born
citizens of North Carolina should
"think" and motion pictures were
represented as being only one way
or putting "thought" into action.
The committee after hearing Mr.
Tiixon adjourned and the proponents
of the bill will be heard later.
The state-wide banking law has
passed the senate, this being one of
the few bills that passed through the
grind without discussion. The bill
attends and consolidates the present
Nanking laws.
WAGING SECRET CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE MOONSHINER
Swrial IMail of Twenty OflUers art"
Organized as I-1) iii Squadron
lo 0wiate (her State.
EXPECT TU KM) Llol OR MARINt
OIKSTKK SHERIFF SHOT
WHILE III NTING liquor
I ntered House When Gun Went Off;
No One Whs In the House nt the
Time.
Chester. S. C. Feb. 19. Sheriff D.
Gober Anderson was dangerously
wounded this afternoon while search
ing a negro house for whiskey, but
his wound Is not expected to prove
fatal, unless complications ensue.
The sheriff. In company with two
deputies, was on a raid, and came to
n house whose occupant they sus
pected of being In the booze business.
Finding no one, the sheriff climbed In
a window and was opening a door
that communicated with a second
room when he was shot, either acci
dentally by a gun that hud be. u jarr
ed from it place, or by a trap gun.
It It generally believed that the
shooting was accidental, and occurred
in the manner suggested but officer!
will visit the scene eight miles
southwest of Chester again tomor
row, and Investigate the trap gun the
ory. Naturally this afternoon their
first thought was of the wounded
man. and after making sure there
was no one In th chouse to fire the
Kh.ot they put out with all speed for
Chester to bring the sheriff to one of
the hospitals.
The load of shot struck Sheriff An
A score of federal prohibition
agents under the command of Chic
H. G. Gulley left Raleigh secretly
last night for an unnamed destina
Hon, and this mo mini; they will
pounce unawares upon the unsus
pectins moonshiner in some section
of the state within a night's journey
of the capital, says the Raleigh News
& Observer.
It is the beginning of an intensive
campaign to wipe out the illicit man
ufacture of liquor in North Carolina
Sptcial officers, two from each State
in the southern division, have been
assembled in Kaleigh during th-? pas'
few days, and the campaign carefully
mapped out. Full arrangements have
been made, and by tonight it
thought that the first report. will be
coming in.
Will Viuy Attack.
Points of attack will be widely
scattered. Today the general laid
will be prosecuted in one county and
tomorrow, the agents may rest or
they may go to some section remote
from the scene of their Initial raids
and institute a new drive. Secrecy
it is understood, will veil their move
incuts, and every precaution is being
t;:ken to forestall warnings that
might be s'-nt to the moonshiners
The growth of the liquormakiug in
dustry In North Carolina during the
past 12 months has been of set ions
concern to the prohibition forces, and
the complaints that have been com
ing in to headquarters here from ev
ery section of the State have moved
the chief of the agents to action
With only 42 men to cover the State,
Mr. Gulley has been seriously handi
capped in restraining the liquor traf
Re.
During the past week, he appealed
to District Chief Hrame in Richmond
with the result that authority has
been given for the assembling of
special force of officers to take the
situation In hand. Twenty men left
the city last night, and they will, un
less needed elsewhere, stick by the
job until North Carolina has been
in a measure freed of the liquor In
dustry.
(it liens Co-operating.
Active co-operations of citizens In
many parts of the State has been
promised the department, and a rep
etition of the achievement of the
Law and Order League in Cumber
land county is expected in many
sections. Organized drives, with
several score participants may be in
stituted and carried out, as was the
case when the citizens of lower Cum
bet-land got together and combed
the swamps of 27 plants In one weefc
More liquor is being made In
North Carolina than at any time in
the history of the State, according
t'i prohibition agents. There Is more
money Invested In the traffic that has
been mil la wed for years than v as
ever luvestc.1 In the business w lien 't
vv;in legitimate, licensed Industry
Liquor manufacture was banished
from the State after the plebiscite of
IfMH, and for the past 12 years the
State has been technically free of II
(liior.
Est'mutcs of the number of stills
actually at work in the State run a
high as 15,000 and the estimated
weekly output of whiskey of various
sort is placed at upwards of 100
(HMi gallons. Every variety of liquor
is being made, agents find on their
raids, ranging from a good quality of
apple brandy to the vilest of concoc
tious of uncertain origin.
The plants In operation range
from modern copper stills of a high
capacity to crude makeshifts with
nothing more than an oil can and a
few feet of Iron piping. Officials
have been unable to trace the source
of manufacture of the better class of
stills which are being shipped into
the state, but It is easily recognized
that the moonshiners have access to
the very best of equipment If they
have the money to pay for It with.
Mr. Walter Kenton's Mother Dead
Mrs. Anna Benton, wife of the late
H. F. Benton of Goose Creek town
ship, died this morning about five
o'clock of paralysis. Deceased was
about 76 years old and was a mem
ber of Denton's Cross Heads Baptist
church. Six children survive to
mourn her denth, four daughters and
two sons. The daughters are Mrs.
G. It. Helms of Vnlonvllle, Mrs. Jas.
Pinion of.Mint Hill. Mrs. J. T. Sher-
ron of New Salem township and Mrs.
G. W. Broom of Goose Creek town
ship. The sons are Mr. Walter Ben
ton of Monroe and Mr. E. E. Benton
of Charlotte.
Funeral services will be conducted
tomorrow at 10 o'clock at the family
graveyard near Benton's Cross Roads
chreh. Rev. E. C. Snyder will con
duct the services.
Harding II us Pet Alligator.
Washington. Feb. 21. A Florida
alligator with a six-foot smile, more
or less. Is to succeed as White 'House
pet. President Taft's famous cow,
Pauline, the pony that rode in an
elevator in President Roosevelt's ad
minlstartton and more recently,
President Wilson's flock of lawn
mowing sheep.
Senator Trammell carried word to
White House offices today that Pres-
the ident.veleet Harding bad already ac-
VARMINT" HAS STRUCK
GOOSE CREEK TOWNSHIP
Mi. ume Animal Starrs Oft llog and
Kill Teu t hickt-tiM mi Home
of Mr. W. W. Simpson.
MORE THAN ONE KIND OF
RAT PESTERING FARMER
Wall StiW Rats,
.it ii MHiNi, Are Costing the
Country Millions of Dollars.
MARSHYILLE MAN PROVES
4 IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"
According to Reteived Kift)-luo l.eiier in loMj.
Eight Hour From People lot
Were Anxious lo Work.
DON'T WANT DIRTY MONEY
SAYS YARNER ON STAND
Mr. Vanier Sr I jle of Misery, sh
Says, in I filers Asking Husband
For "One Mre t 'haute.
COMET MAY M HIKE THE WoKI.lt IT'S A FINNY WORLD, AMY HOW THE ItAIIY SHOW A UK SHCE.hs'dID NOT WAST STOItY IN PRINT
Indian Trail. It. F. D. No. 1. Feb.
21. A varmiut baa struck this sec
lion. A strange animal, unlike any
even before seen by old people, is
known to have crossed the road Into
the woods near Mr. W". W. Simpson's
place. Mr. Simpson's dog refused to
Kie chase to the white-looking ani
mal, which killed ten chickens be
fore it finally departed to the woods.
From all indications the animal went
in the direction of the Belmont
school. A reward of ten dollars has
been offered by citizens of this com
munity for its rapture.
The world may be destroyed by
fire on the night of June 2$t!i, re
cording to a newspaper clipping that
has been sent the wri-."-i An as
tronomer says that the 'Toi's-Wiu-necke"
comet will appear on that
day, and that if h strikes Mie cuth
the continuous rombustii-.i of tie1
thousands of meteors migiii set the
world on lire. .4 urn the tii'e on jour
calendar, and see what li;pp:iK.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. P.m. II have
started keeping house.
A baseball team has been organized
at the Ileliiiont school. This school
is having a vety successful year un
der the supervision of Rev. T. J.
Huggins and Mr. Ray Clout. Doth
aie college men, and the community
hopes to retain them indefinitely.
The average attendance at Belmont
is around one hundred and ten pupils.
Its near neighbor, the Purr school.
taught by Mr. J. H. Cunningham, has
a regular attendance of about fifty.
Misses Ruby Price, Pearl Hill and
Selma Furr are studying music under
Mrs. T. M. Wiley.
spring is in trie air. Progs are
croaking, and Mr. Sanford Halgler
was seen turning the sod last week
Our friend Mr. John Forbls has
graduated from a miller to a shoe
cobbler, and is doing fine work.
Several, bones in one of Mr. I). L
Furrs feet were crushed recently
when a cow stepped on it.
Mr. Paul Furr of Monroe was the
guest of friends and relatives in this
community last week.
Lots of cabbage seed were sown
here last week.
CITS HIS OWX APPENDIX'
WITH LOCAL AN. ESTHETIC
Kane Surgeon Seeks to Demonstrate
That Patients With Weak Heal Us
Need .Not Take Ktlier.
Knne, Pa., Feb. 17. Dr. Evan
O'Nell Kane, chief surgeon of Kane
Summit Hospital, performed an op
eratlon upon himself for chronic ap
pendicitis this forenoon. Sitting on
the operating table propped up by
pillows and with a nurse holding his
lead forward that he might see, he
calmly cut into his abdomen rare
fully dissectlnt the tissues and clos
ing the blood vessels as he worked
his way in. Locating the appendix,
he pulled it up, cut it off and bent
the stump under. He applied local
ana'stnetic and when seen by n re
porter a few hours after the opera
tion declared that he was feeling fine
and saw no reason why he would
not recover rapidly.
Dr. Kane Is sixty years old. He
has been a surgeon thirty-seven years
and has operated In nearly four thou
sand appendicitis rases. Nor is he a
stranger In the field of self operat
ing, as he amputated one of his own
fingers two years ago.
The operation today was witnessed
by his brother, Dr. Thomas L. Kane
and two other physicians, besides
nurses. He went as far with the op
eration as he ever does with a case,
allowing his assistants to close the
wound.
'I believed that I could exemplify
in my own case not only that the
operation could be done without the
use of a general anaesthetic, thus sav
Ing many Individuals who had heart
or other serious troubles, from the
dangers of a general anesthetic, but
that It would show that if a surgeon
can actually do the work upon him
self, there need be no fear on the
part of the patient of having another
do it," declared Dr. Kane.
Dr. Kane has done a great deal
of experimenting In the interest of
medical science. He recently has
taken .vrlal flights to the height of
five thousand feet to test his heart
action at that height. Those flights
have been taken over land and sea.
So far as known, only two other
self-removals of the appendix are on
record. These cases are believed to
have been of a far Ipss delicate
nature than the Kane operation.
Dr. Kane Is a graudate. of the Jef
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
PltAYF.lt AVE I ITS LYNCHING
rlernon In the law. tore awav
fleshv front Portion of his throat, and eeptod a "fair-sized 'gator from
struck bitu on the shoulder. 'Henry M. Bennett, of Jacksonville.
Prisoner Induces Mob to Supplica
tion Instead of Snooting.
Clyde. Ga.. Feb. 17. Colored
possemen who came to shoot, remain
ed to pray here last night at their
prisoner's call. That ended plans for
lynching and Isra?l Waters, colored,
charged with having attacked a
school-girl of his own race and cap
tured by a posse of white and colored
resident, went to Jail Instead.
The whites turned Waters over to
the colored men for punishment fol
lowing his capture. He said tod-iv
he had been stood ui to be sho "-' i
he asked the brethern t-i pny for i Reports from the Middle West are
hlra. and the mob changed its mind .to the eifect that banking conditions
about the shooting. I nave Improved greatly.
Wavhaw. R. p. D. No. 5. Feb. 21.
The survey bureau at Washington
has sent out the astounding Informa
tion that there are as many rats in
this country as there are people.
The bureau, of course, refers to
the little four legged, straight tailed,
animal known as rodents, and de
clares that It requires the labor of
two hundred thousand men to feed
these scoundrels.
I don't know who were the rat
census enumerators, or how the said
enumerators know that they obtained
an accurate count, and didn't enum
erate the same rat more than once,
and tare sure they got 'em all, but
taking for granted that the count is
correct, and that two dollars each is
the sum required to keep 'em all fat
enough to look sleek and pretty, we
are inclined to believe that the four
legged, straight tailed rodent is less
expensive than some others w ho have
only two legs -and no tails at all.
There is a bunch of the latter va
riety of rats located on Wall Street
that's where they are at who
are much harder to keep up than the
oilier kind, and when they decide
to draw In their net after having
launched It wide and deep into the
nation's financial vitals, they out
strip the little straight tailed fellows
so far as to make us torget that they
are with ua.
We are right now in the midst of
a dire calamity caused by the activi
ties of these Wall Street rats who
have leached the agricultural indus
try of this country to the tune of
several bilUon dollars, and have done
it in such a short time, and in such
a rapid manner that the whole
nation's Industries are suffering
severe stroke of paralysis, with scant
hopes of recovery, and no hopes at
all of regaining any of the stolen
goods, these sharks have looted
from it.
If it were not so serious It would
be amusing to know that in the
midst of such high handed devilment
as above referred to, our Important
bureaus that are devoted to the task
of fei retting out economic laws to
he put in 4rSration for the general
betterment of all the people are
spending their time, and wasting
their energies talking abouts rats and
the cost of supporting rats at two
dollars per.
There is one thing sure about the
rat question and that is this: If the
robbers of industry are not curbed
in their mad rush for gain unearned,
there will be none of the straight
tailed variety of rats In the U. U. A
in a few more years, for the simple
reason that rats are animals and
their bodies require support in the
shape of food to nourish them, fl'id
this element will be so scarce that
thev will all die from starvation.
1 think this bureau Is "straining
at a gnnt mid swallowing a camel,"
and besides there is this that can In
said In the rodent's favor: he works
for what he gets, and very often he
works hard and, like man, when he
feels that he Is almost In reach of
his goal he strikes a plate of sheet
Iron, breaks bis teeth out, and thus
deprived of his only tools, he droops
skids, and scampers away, and
dies In abject poverty. "Poor fel
ler," some scoundrel headed him off
and deprived of the means of sub
sistnnce. he abdicates, while men
who are supposed to know some
thing, and are nccredlted with civili
zation and development, are talking
about what an enormous expense it
Is to keep his family propagating at
two dollars per year. Ain't people
funny folks, anyhow? Novus Homo.
EARTH IS FLAT, VOLI A SAYS.
ion Overseer Asserts River Would
Spill If Planet Turned Over.
Chicago, Feb. 17. Columbus was
all wrong. The earth is Hat. The
moon does not reflect the rays of the
sun. The 11100:1 nas notning i 110
with the tides. The sun is only 3,000
miles away; It Is only 32 miles In di
ameter. The earth does not rotate.
Instead, the sun travels around the
earth. You don't beleive It? Well,
it's true, because Wilbur Glenn Vo-
liva, overseer of Zion, says so. What
Is more, he offered $1000 to any as
tronomer or scientist who can prove
him wrong.
Voliva, It seems, has been conduct
ing a bit of astronomical research on
his ow-n hook. The best proof, he
says, that the world doesn't rotate
is found in the fact the waters in
the rivers, lakes and seas are still
with us. He claims that if the earth
did turn upside down every twenty-
four hours all the water would spill
out.
TWO SHOT I.N HOW EK IKM,
Merchant Mounds Woman Vlmll.
rated by Court, Then Tries Suicide.
Norfolk. Va., Feb. 21. A police
court row over a bulldog ended fatal
ly here today, when Miss Frances
Holland was shot and mortally
wounded at the courtroom door by
Thomas Toyon, a merchant. Toyon
then turned his weapon on himself
and may not live.
The court dismissed Toyon's charge
that Miss Holland had Mo'en
do. He awnited her on the snle
v.ilk and oeened fir" as she came out.
Marseille. Feb. 21.-Mis Sadie
Austin of Polktou was the week end
guest of Miss Lottie Harrell.
Mrs. S. F. Long has been spending
a few days in Charlotte with her
father.
Miss Bess Biugers of near Pine
ville returned to her home Saturday
alter nursing the youngest son of Mr.
W. P. Pierce through a severe rase of
pneumonia.
Mr. Hildreth of Ansonville has ar
rived to work with the Griltkh Drug
Company.
Messrs. Charlie Simpson and C. 11.
Covington spent Monday in Wades
bo: o.
Airs. E. H. Moore was the guest of
her brother. Mr. Willie Barrett of
Peaiiilaiid Friday.
A prominent Marshville merchant
was winning a young man to assist
III his store, so this week he ills.-It'-d
a want ad to that effect in the Char
lone uoserver. 1 lie a a run one issue
and by return mail the applications
begun pouring in from far and wide.
Within forty eight hours after publi
cation of the ad the merchant had
received fifty-two letters and one tel
egram in answer. Needless to sav
he feels that he has gotten his mon
ey's worth, and that it pays to ad
vertise; also that a lot of folks are
out of a job and wanting one.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Davis of Mon
roe were in town Friday greeting old
friends and neighbors.
Miss Mary McWhirter of Charlotte
spent the week-end here with her
sister. Mrs. Wade Bivens. Miss Mc
Whirter has been the popular trim
mer for the united Cash Store tor a
number of seasons, and her friends
here regret that she has taken work
for the coming seasi'i l.i another
town. Miss McWhirter leaves this
week for the northern markets.
An Interesting feature of Marsh-
Mailman's big sale which has been
in progress for ten days, was the babv
show held in the store on Thursday
afternoon. The building was full of
babies who were looking their best
despite being a bit dazed over the
unusual proceedings. Tne prize, a
doll, was awarded to the baby of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Phifer, who Is an
unusually pretty baby. So Marsh
ville has good material for a first
class human show as well as for a
display of cows and hogs.
Mr. John M. Long, who for the past
several years has been associated
with the Ilarrel Bros. & Co., being
manager of the sales stables of the
company, has sold out his Interest In
the firm and will be engaged in the
live stock business for himself in the
future.
Mr. nnd Mrs. J. '.. Green attended
the fiddler's convention at Peachland
on Friday evening.
X-RAY IS DEVELOPED TO
COMBAT DREADFUL CANCER
It Is I telle vis I Harvard Discoveries
Will Prolong Lives of Those So
A iVIii led.
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 17. Dis
coveries made by William Duane,
professor of bio-physlcs at Harvard,
working in collaboration with re
search students of physics, have made
It possible, according to Harvard
physics, to obtain X-rays of more
penetrating quality than have ever
before been obtained in this country,
and those new rays are now to be
used for the first time in America
for the alleviation of cancer.
While it Is emphatically stated by
Professor Duane that neither X-rays
nor radium should be considered a
permanent cure for all kinds of can
cer, it has been long known radium
has a marked allevlatlve effect upon
that disease, and the Harvard physic
ists have reason to believe the effect
of the highly penetrating X-rays will
be equally beneficial.
The Harvard Cancer Commission
is erecting a building adjoining the
Collins P. Huntington Hospital in
Boston, where an X-ray plant will
be Installed, as well as the commis
sion's radium plant. Confident life of
cancer patients may thus be prolong
ed, life insurance companies of Bos
ton have given more than SSO.iMiO
toward the new building. There the
experiments will be performed which
will test the vain of the newly dis
covered, penetrating type of X-rnvs.
How effective they will prove cannot
be determined until they have been
used for some time.
Professor Duane was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania
In 1892 and also from Harvard in
1S!3. He took his doctor's coure
1S03. He took his doctor's degree
In Berlin In 1897, worked for many
years in the Curie radium laboratory
In Paris and came to Harvard In 191
as assitant professor of physics and
and research fellow of the cancer
commission. In 1917 he was pro
moted to a new full professorship of
bio-physics.
Greensboro, Feb. 21. Examina
tion and cross examination of Henry
B. Varner marked the high lights ia
today's trial of the suit of his wile,
being tried In federal court here.
Varner broke down and cried when
he related how Fred O. Sink, of Lex
ington, told him that the negro. Bax
ter McRary. had been dragged from
under the Vainer home on the night
of August S, 1920. He denied that
McRary was any friend of his; denied
that he had ever invited him to hi!
house; asserted that he had tried to
persuade Mrs. Varner to accompany
him on his nips away from homo and
she declined, and, in a moment of
emotion on the stand, expressed a de
termination to see the malu-r through
to "the bitter end."
Hardly less compelling in interest
was the introduction of several
notes wiiten by Mrs. Varner to Var
ner after he got to Lexington last Au
tusi. w ii-ri summoned from New
York by Mr. Sink, whn Varner re
fused to see his wife. Tile notes
Were U use to come to see her and
let her e .1 .lain, protestations of inno
cence anil request that he not "cast
her off."
"I kin v that we can never be any
thing to .i.-h other here, but let's try
again," is .;:i excerpt from one of the
not.-s. Al o. "We could be happy
somewhere else," and "Please, for
God's sake, have mercy and pity on
me. 1 swear I 11111 innocent. I have
never been untrue to you. believe me.
Give me one more chance."
The question of Varner's alleged
financial interest in the $100. U00
suit he instituted against McRary,
rhargiug alienation of his wife's af
fections, wa brought up. It precip
itated another outburst of emotion
on the part of Varner.
Don't Want Dirty Money.
"I wouldn't have a dollar of the
dirty money:" Varner exclaimed, "t
would go to the poor house first,"
and, "I have no apologies to make."
When he instituted the suit, he
swore, be told his lawyers that he did
not intend to benefit by the money,
but would give the proceeds to sotu
charity; some orphanage or hospital.
Later, he stated, he made the matter
of the Intended donation public
through the press, because, accord
ing to his testimony, there was prop
aganda on the part of the negro's
friends that lie (Varner) brought the
suit for financial gain.
"I never borrowed a cent from Mc
Rary in my life," Varner declared.
"I never had any business with him.
I never fixed up any papers tor him
in my life."
He was subjected to a rigid cross
examination.
While he was on the stand his wife
seldom took her eyes off his face.
Once, when he stated that he believ
ed the story of O. P. Dickerson, that
he had seen the negro go Into the
Varner home at night. Mrs. Varner's
eyes became moist, but she did not
give way to grief today.
He would have given anything to
have kept the original story of the
institution of the suit against the ne
gro, with its allegations of intimacy
between the negro and his wife out
of the newspapers, he said. He In
sisted, he said, that It be not sent out.
but E. K. Wltherspoon, who sent it
out, told' him, he said, that it w ould
be bound to come out.
Wltherspoon was an employee of
his. he stated, but not In the matter
of reporting news for other papers of
the state. Varner was closely cros
examined here, but Insisted that he
did not want the story to appear, nor
his picture in connection with it. and
had nothing to do with either.
Knew Nothing of "Scandal."
During the first ten years of his
married life, he testified, his wife
nearly always went with him on his
frequent trips from home. But after
that she went seldom, giving as her.
excuse that she could be more com
fortable at home. He never made an
agreement with her for her to stay
at home and attend to his business
while he was away, he staled.
He always kept his wife advised as
to his destination, he testified, and
as to time for his return. He never
knew of any talk in connection with
her and McRary until August 11.
1920. after the negro was found in
his absence under his house, he de
clared. He did not forbid her to come to
see him in Lexington after the trou
ble which separated them, he stated,
but he did not want to see her. To
have seen her would have been m
heartrending that he could not have
gone through with It. Pressed for a
reason as to why he would have noth
ing to do with her after the negro
was found under his house, he stated
that he accepted the evidence of
those who told him she had been
guilty of Immoral relations with the
negro. He believed them, he suld,
and "governed himself accordingly."
He was very sorry for his wife, he
testified, and sent Fred O. Sink to
(randmother Buys 41 Palm of Shoes
Deep Water Point, N. J.. Feb. 21.
A grandmother of a famllv of the , T.".' T". w . ?'u I-
nM.fa.hlnn llvlD I,. I 1 Urniril IS IOI Ufr lo gll UJ
saw
I. Colt t nt... r,v
went shopping Saturday after she "' . " V "r' ' H
a list of bargains In a newspaper.
. ,1 .VI 1.- .AJ "el.
oioiiv inner iiiiiik Biie iiueu uui ner i
"i"i, grandsons, and granddaughter?
with new shoes, her order totaling
forty-one pairs. The merchant
her wholesale rates.
She Asserted Innocence.
All four of the notes written by
, Mrs. Varner to him while she was at
her home in Lexington and he at a
Mr. H. G. Nash is In bed w ith j
mumps, but will be out soon. I
a hotel, waiting for her to leave his
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