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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT." I'll 1..; '4 '-7 PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 96. Monroe, N. C, Friday, January 5, 1923. $2.00 Pel o ear Cash "nil UNION COUNTY PAPEIi EVERYBODY READS IT." J Lee Hallman Spends Week at Marshville on Parole i HOME FOLKS GIVE HIM A CORDIAL RECEPTION , "You Must Come Back to Marshville i W hen You Are Released," They Insisted on Every. Corner ; HE TELLS OP EFFECTING AUREST OF LIFE-TERMER Says That Two Mt. Holly Policeman . r: Aided Him in Making the Capture, ' and That He Did Not Accomplish "t It Alone as the Newspaper Reports " First Indicated ' . f v v' By a Saff Correspondent v.. A;, f A Marshville, Jan. As Lee Hallman I has, returned to Mt. Holly, Where he is stationed with the prison force,' af ter having spent the happiest -Christmas: of his life here with his parents, ! Cap, and Mrs. J. F, Hallman, and, his friends who number 1 ninety-five or more out of . every hundred inhabi- ; t. "No-.convict ever;' receive v'a' 'tnoifej innn fir in v rnnimiim v. ..- .. - cordial welcome to ma Tioroe, tewnY , .The former United States army ' ' lieutenant was .'-hailed ' from . ev- ery. corner ; as -he,- walked."-, down 1 the streets', .'" Everybody had V a hearty handshake ' and a kind word ' for him and he received more dinner engagements than he could possibly . All durinir the few davs he was here. 1 Marshville people refuse to believe! . the young man is guilty pi tne ottense for which: he. is serving "a, sentence; of fifteen yearsand they take particular Jiains to assure him of their steadfast oyalty. "You don't have to go , to Bome other town when you get out of . brison. Lee." they have told him time ..' and tirrie again, "ypu've got nothing ' to live down.- , xou. come Tight back to Marshville."1 ' 'vV"T:vv;. His Christmas Present : ; Of course, like every model prison er, Hallman had hopes, of getting Christmas parolef tut as Friday, Dec. " 23rd, had passed by without the glad-4 some tidings, hope died in his breast. He became reconciled to the idea of . , spending Christmas at Mt Holly. At noon, when the. superintendent of the force told ' him he had a Christmas n present for him, Lee thought he was ' -going to receive a box of cigars. To his unbounded Joy, it was a Christmas ..patole signed by the Goverhof of the UWtnjth iiiftedgle His parole did not expire until to : day, but Lee, thinking it best to be ' back in plenty of time, reluctantly left home a day ahead. He spent most of the time here with his mother, but did go bird hunt ing a few times with boyhood com tianinns. To his friends, Hallman gave his verson of his capture of the negro life-termer, which occasioned much comment throughout the state and won for him the friendship of the su perintendent of the prison. He first saw the escaped convict in Gastonia, where he haq gone on a mission for the superintendent of the Mt. Holly t force, and reported his discovery to .the Sheriff of Gaston county, but no arrest was made. When he later saw the negro at Mt. Holly, he effected his arrest with the aid of two local . policemen, and not by himself, as the newspaper reports indicated. Tells Prison Experiences 1 Hallman also denied having report ed the arrest to Superintendent Pou, fcs newspaper stories first indicated. 'The apprehension of the negro, and his part in tne arrest, he said, was reported to Mr. Pou by his deputies . at Mt. Holly. i The Marshville man had worked i with , the negro at the state prison, ' where he escaped on September the tenth, and knew him by sight. His experiences at the prison were . freely related by Hallman. "I made the trip to .Raleigh to begin my sen tence unaccompanied by an officer," he said, "but when I reached the pris "on I was told that? I could not enter except in the custody of the Sheriff or someone deputized by him for the purpose. This necessitated my wir ing a request for a deputy to Sheriff Fowler." - 1 Hallman remained in the state pris on for two months. He was given a job picking and shoveling, but his pnArtnr Ann AmAnnhlAnpaii t.n Hiapin- , , line attracted the attention of the au i thorities, resulting in his transfer to Mt Holly. There he was made water boy and afterwards a trusty. Now he is an honor man, serving as office .boy. He is entrusted with many er ' rands, besides being sent on 'business : to different towns. It was on one of these errands that he saw and recog nized the life-termer, whose . arrest he effected. Popular With Prisoners ' , Hallman is said to be very popular ; . with the prisoners and camp author- hies. A former camp superintendent nce told Hallman that "if I were as popular as you are, Lee, I'd certain ly run for Governor of North Caro- . lina when I get out." . , People from practically every town . .1ia af a t h.u. ...I.Un Uallm.ti .letters of sympathy. His own town, -. as stated, is almost 100 per cent strong in the belief of his innocence, while disinterested parties who kept up with the case, through the news papers think he has been punished too much. At the time of the trial, his friends ' In Marshville think, public sentiment : was somewhat against the' young - man and feel that had the trial been postponed for a few weeks- longer that the .v.:!rt would have hpen riif- - i'LACE SENATOR HEATH , ON MANY COMMITTEES SENATOR TV', C. HEATH '. Raleigh, Jan. -'-Lieutenant-Gov ernor Cooper has named Maior v. C. Heath, ;"the gentleman from Union," chairman of the Senate committee on military affairs and placed him on .many other important committees, in cluding that of appropriations, which, together with a similar committee Xlom the House;, will make up the state budget for the next two years. .Major Heath's other committee as signments are; agriculture, congres sional districts. Federal relations, im migration, railroads and water com merce. ":'r-y-r.. 1 December Report of Miss Farmer v' Below Is given'the December report of the ' County Public Health Nurse for Union county: : . "Visited and gave healtlNalks to 1177 children in the following schools Weddington, Wesley Chapel, Rock Rest. Shiloh, Macedonia, Trinity Sandy Ridge, High Ridge, Maple Springs. Gilboa. .Newfoundland, (col.) W axhaw,' Unionville, Oakland, York. These schools have adopted Modern Health Crusade and are doing health .'chores. Conferences; were held with teafheis MTOllnffloela : Monroe; -Benton Heights) Marshville, Wingate, Lee V ark and Jcemorlee, ' Met for health talks With Wedding ton Momen's Club, Marshville Wo men's Club, and Rotary Club. . Held conferences with county teach ers during teachers'-meeting in Monroe.- ' We now have scales and measuring rod for county schools, and teachers in the different schools have been fur nished with "pupils physical record cards, and physical examinations as with weighing and measuring all the children will begin at once in the dif ferent schools. . Health literature has been fur nished to 24 prenatal cases registered with the State Board of Health. The book on "Cire of the Body" has been mailed to 46 mothers of babies two years and younger whose names have been registered with the State Board of Health. Have held 20 heme conferences with mothers, who have been instructed in health laws, and individually instruct ed in health 60 r.iothers. Two nutritional corrections secur ed. In different group conferences, gave health talks to 123 mothers. - -iFirst class in mid-wifery complet ed and the mid-wives have received certificates furnished and signed by State Health Director, K. Y. B. Bon ner, M. D. Katherine Farmer. -' Southern Favorites "Lyrics from Cotton Land," $2: "Soiigs Merry and Sad," $1.50, both by. John Charles McNeill. "Idle Comments," by Isaac Erwin Avery, $2. "Carolina Folk Plays," 1.75; "Carolina Chansores," $1.25. "Foote's Sketch of Early North Carolina;" "John Lothrop Morehead and the Early Development of N. C." I promptly supply every book you want J. T. Norsworthy, The Book Man, Gastonia, N. C. Eastern Standard "Johnny, don't you know it's Sunday T You mustn't play marbles out there on the sidewalk. Go into the back yard if you want to play." "All right, mother, but what day of the week is it in the back yard?" ferenjt. Hallman, however, protest ing his innocence, wanted the trial held immediately. Hallman's visit here revived a hith erto unpublished Btory of an incident that occurred the night he was re leased from jail on bond.' Someone had circulated the rumor that there would be mob violence, and ' sure enough, about 11 o'clock! in the even ing an automobile drove up to Hall man's home. One of the party went to the door and asked for Lee. "I heard," said the spokesman, who re sides near Jefferson, S. C "that there was likelihood of some trouble here tonight and I brought nine men along to see that nobody harms you, Lee." The nine men were heavily armed. ' -:' Before leaving, Hallman was pro fuse in his appreciation of the letters i ; '-;'i ': 1 - i -J and kind words on the part of his friends, and reiterated his intention of making one of the best prisoners that ever served time in North Car olina. '''; ' '";"' " ;" C-7--'.' -A-', v' WOMAN HAS NARROW - , ESCAPE FROM DEATH Load From Shotgun, Accidentally - Discharged, Misses Mrs. Simp a - son's Face by Few Inches "Indian Trail, Rt. 1, Jan. 4. The condition of Mrs. D. L. Furr is some what improved. V The family of Mr. W. J. Rowell is down with the flue except one mem bc; The disease has also appeared in the homes of Messrs Atlas Rowell. Biuce Blackmon, Brady Williams and Mrs. Vernon Funderburk. The Furr choal has been closed temporarily on account of the epidemic. : . . Mrs.., Pearl R .Simpson came very r.ear being seriously if not fatally injured, the other day from the ac cidental explosion of a shot gun. She was in the act , of standing the gun by the side of a bed post, when the trigger, striking some obk.t, releas ed the hammer. The load went into the ceiling, . missing Mrs. Simpson's ftce by the slight margin of six or seven inches. A neighbor, who was standing nearby, also had a narrow escape. ' - - Mr. Claud Furr of Monroe, spent the week ( here with relatives. Mr. J.yA. Pressley, our efficient mail carrier, requests us to express hi . thanks to his many patrons for the" many f fine Christmas presents they sent him. He feels wery grateful iuj-- turae' aueBiauuniB oi me service he, has given during the past year. .Messrs. Jim T. Hill of Charlotto, J. C. Hill and Ernest Hill and Miss Pearl Hill of the Unionville commun ity, were the guests of Rev, and Mrs. A. B. Haywood last week. , Mr. and Mrs. W. Sams of. Char lotte spent the past week with the lntter's parents, Esq. and Mrs. H. M. Furr. Services at the Union Grove Me thodist church have been abandoned for the present on account of the flu epidem c that is raging in this com munity. . Mr. Dewey Broom has abandoned his horse and buggy for an automo bile...; ... . Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Williams of the Unionville section were the recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Berry Wil liams. ' .V, ' 'K . .' Death -of Mrs. James T. Deese. Mrs. James1 T. Deese died' at her home five miles southwest of Monroe Tuesday aftrnoon at 4:30 o'clock, She had been ill for some time, pneu monia being the- direct cause of het Mrv Deesei who lived in the Mace-' joua.smmunu-y(wni jjave .jeen seventy-ohe years 'bid the I2tn "of February, having been born in 1852. She was Miss Ellen Arant of Chester field county, S. C. and was married to Mr. Deese in 1874, He with four sons and one daughter survive. The sons are W. C. Deese of Monroe, J. E. Deese of Greenville. G. C. Deese of Rock Hill, S. C., and Fred Deese ot V ashington, D. C., the latter be ing unable to come home for the fu neral. Mrs. W. B. Davis of Monroe is the surviving daughter, and was too ill at the time of her mother's death to attend the funeral. For for ty-eight years Mr. and Mrs. Deese l.ved in the same community m which they settled, where they have endear ed themselves to the people. Mrs. Deese was a most excellent christian woman, a member of the Methodist church, a devoted wife and mother, and wa3 always active in the welfare of the community. Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon by Dr. C. C. Weaver, pastor of Central Metho dist church of Monroe and interment was. made in the Monroe cemetery. The pall bearers were her sons, W. C. Deese, G. C. Deese, J. E. Deese, her grand-sons, Charlie Deese and Frank Deese, and her son-in-law, W. B. Da vis. So Long Since A darky approached a fish .stand kept by another darky and asked: "Got any fresh fish?" "Cose I has. What you think I'se selling, shoes?"' . "Oh, 1 knows youse sellin' fish, but is dey fresh?" i ' "Cose dey's fresh. Hyah, quit smellin' dem fish.'' " I ain't smellin 'em." "What youse doin', den?" "I'se jus whisperin' to 'em, dat's all." .'- "An what youse whisperin' to de fish?" "Oh, I'se jus' askin' 'em how's all dey relations dat dey lef in de ocean." "An' what dey say?" "Dey say it's so long since dey seen 'em dey forgits." The Most Useful Books The Encyclopedia Americana, SO superb volumes, (the world's greatest reference works,) are the most useful books published. It provides a Uni versity for the Home. Its use assures mental growth and intellectual prog ress and benefits financially every member of the Household. Write for Special Introductory price, free sam ple pages and easy terms J. T. Nors worthy, Southern Salesman, Gasto nia, N. C; " .;:.( ,;. Department Store Special "Why, Holle, Pat, I hear you lost your job in the department store." "Oh, yes, 1 got nredi "You got fired? How did that happen?" "Oh, . I just tookv a sign from a lady's shirt waist and put it on a bath tub." "And you got fired for. that? Well tell me what the sign read." - "It said: 'How would vvr l"ke to see your best girl , ;or 'Cole Blease" Entered in the Union County NoJ the Former Governor, of Course, But a Bronze Gobbler From -; His Home Town Mr. Beckley Has Already Discovered 1 the Ideal Chicken for Town Folks with Gardens thth upwards of a thousand birds ! Beauties they are, but few people entered, the Union county poultry , hereabouts are in the chicken busi- show opened this morning with ex- nioits never Deiore equalled locally ana, according to tanciers present at the; show this morning, seldom excell-1 edfw the state. Many of the birds ! are! valued at unusually high prices ranging from $150 to $200. ;Competition is "hot," as Mr. Beck ley the superintendent, described it, between the standard breeds like R&de Island Reds, White Wyan dotteB, White Leghorns and Ban- SlV tl" 3 neNy breeds entered by a number of union county fanciers. 9t special interest to the children is'3the . exhibit of home-raised Mal tese cats, entered by the little son of Mjs; Lonnie Helms, and the twelve six,-weeks old turkeys, mothered by a hen, entered by Mr. W. W. Pus seis of New Salem township. The hen claims them as her own, too, and the slightest effort : to molest the little turkeys puts her into a. fighting hu mor. ,. . " f A $200 Cockeral tthe most expensive bird in the show is a White Leghorn cockeral, owned by Mr. T. B. Liles of Rock ingham. It is valued at $200. But when it comes to crowing, he is out classed by any half dozen of the less er flights that might be selected. And a a noise-maker, "Cole Blease," a btcmie turkey gobbler entered by Mr. Vf, W. Pusser, is some cackler. The gobbler was bought from a man liv ing in the former South Carolina governor's home town, which ac counts for its name. ' 'Among the many expensive birds entered in the show are four Rhode Island Reds, owned by Mr. H. I. Tucker of Pineville. They are for aje at the low price of $100 each. - i""'" ' ' '"' " ' SPOE IS TO BECOME BIG HOSPITAL CENTRE JLocstion of Doctors Mahoney and .i Burke Here Gives Hospital u 'fli-tf-'' New Lease on Life. BOTH SURGEONS POSSESS EXCELLENT REPUTATIONS Churches, County and City Officials, Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs Are Backing New Management People , Cannot Afford to See Institution . Neglected, the Directors Are Point ing Out - The location here of Dr. A. J. Ma honey and Dr. Burke will make Mon roe one of the most important hospi- tal centers in this section, excelled enly by Charlotte, and it is possible that the skill of these surgeons may eventually attract patients from the excellent hospitals of that city. Dr. Mahoney, in addition to his sur gical practice, will have charge of the Ellen Fitzgerald hospital. Part of his staff has arrived, and he is expected today or tomorrow. Dr. Burke arriv ed Wednesday night. The latter has no official connection with the hos pital, but the facilities of the insti tution', as to all other surgeons, will be placed at his disposal by Dr. Ma honey. . - Both surgeons stand high in their lormer homes. JJr. Mahoney has been attached to hospitals in Chai le.s- ton and until his decision to come to Monroe, operated a large hospital at Clio, S. C, Dr. Burke has done much surgical work at Petersburg and Hopewell, the famous powder city. Directors Happy The directors of the hospital are overjoyed at the recent turn of events. They have secured a competent man to manage the institution and have met the crying need for a surgeon with not one, but two! And better still, the people of Mon roe are almost a unit behind the di rectors in heir latest moves. The churches are determined to see. the hospital thrive under the direction of Dr. Mahoney. City and county offi cials have lent their endorsement, and leading lights in the Rotary and Ki wanis clubs will secure resolutions of approval from their organizations. As one director stated, the people of Monroe have spent too much mon ey and time in erecting and furnish ing the Ellen Fitzgerald hospital to see it fail, and their old enthusiasm, revived by the coming of Dr. Maho ney, is going to put it over big. From now on every citizen who goes out of town for a minor opera tion that could just as well have been performed here is likely to be classed unpatriotic. Card of Thanks .1; We wish to take this method of thanking our friends for their many expressions of sympathy and acts of kindness during the illness and death of our wife and mother. J. T. Dees and children. A Baptist preacher in a South Car olina town had been called to serve another church at a much larger sal ary. His little boy was over a a' neighbor's house ope dr.y, and they 1 tain to hold up the appointment in asl:d him .what h;s father had de- definitely, two years at least. That cide i to do. He said: "Father is I would mean Mr. Winchester, the nres- praying over it, but mother is1 pack-lent ing up. Exchange. Chicken Show ness so deei to even contemDlate paying four century marks for the nuartette. : Mi- Tik-W olar. h,.o fine bunch of Buff Orphington'3 that will sell from $100 down.. This Fineville citizen conducts a large poultry farm, ; shipoing eggs for hatching purposes all over thj coun try. .- Sam Is No Piker Mr. Sam Hudson, a Monroe citizen, is no piker, however, when it qomes 'to indulging his fancy for fine birds. He has a young White Leehorn cock eral in the show that cost him $30 when it was but six weeks old. Mr. Hudson, it seems, has outgrown his fondness for game chickens and has specialized upon the more sedate egg prouueers. uut tne signt of a game rooster still gladdens his heart Several new breeds have been en tered by Mr. G. B. Caldwell, a chick en fancier of no mean proportions. Among them are rose comb Blue Or phingtons and English Orloffs. The Orloffs have bushy whiskers on their face that cover their ears somewhat like the women wear their hair now days. Mr. T. P. Dillon also has three Orloffs in the show that he imported from Canada at a cost of $50. The Orloffs are said to be good, all the y ear-around layers. Rev. Mr. Shankle On Hand A new breed never seen here be fore is the Plymouth Rhode Island White, entered by Mr. J. A. Mattox, of Monroe, R. F. D. No. 7. It is a white bird possessing all of the good points of the Rhode Island Red. and is a strong contender for honors in its class. Rev. B. B. Shankle, one of the best known Presbyterian ministers in this (Continued on page eight) GILMER JOYCE IS IN THE RACE AS "DARK HORSE" Hoping to Break the Deadlock If Case Is Reor?ned, Republicans Trying LOOKS LIKE LOCAL G. O. P.'S ARE UP A TALL TREE How to Get the Case Re-opened Is a Question That No One Seems To Be Able To Solve Regardless of Outcome It Is Now Pretty Certain inat Winchester Will' Continue in Office For a Long Time. An effort to place Mr. Gilmer Joyce in the running as a "dark horse" by local itepumicans is said to be the 1 latest development in the post office I fight. By uniting orf him, G. O. P. leaders say, they have a chance of se curing his appointment should the case be reopened. His appointment, they feel, would be hailed with satis faction by the patrons of the office, who know Mr. Joyce as a clever, ac commodating gentleman. How the case can be reopened, the Republicans are unable to sav. All they know is that under the rules of the game a Republican is entitled to the pie. A Democratic postmaster under a Republican administration is an unbearable thought to them, and they are wilting under the strain. Republicans Ud a Tree It will take a prophet to show them the way out of the dilemma in which hey have been placed. Thev haven't a chance, as matters now stand; but if mere is a way to gel around fresi dent Harding's executive rder, and the findings of the civil service com mission, they, nor any one else in this vicinity, know not what it is. President Harding, at the begin ning of his term, announced that he would require all candidates for the position of postmaster to file their applications with the Civil service commission for the purpose of an in ouiry into their business ability, and that out of the three whose qualifica tions the civil service commission deemed the highest, he would name one for the job. His order has been carried out to the letter in the Monroe ppstof fice fight. The score or more applicants for the job, both Democrats and Re publicans, have been subjected to a searching inquiry on the part of the civil service commission, which found that the business men of Monroe con sidered Messrs. G. B. Caldwell, P. P. W. Plyler and E. C. Winchester to possess the best qualifications for the office of those in the race. Its find ings have been reported to President Harding and he will have to name one of them or rescind his own order. .......Winchester May Hold On. . So the local Republicans are up against a veritable stone wall. They are in a predicament, with apparently no way to turn. There may be a way, but it is going to take a lot of thought and scheming to discover it Regardless of the outcome, it is pretty certain that a Democrat will hold oh for at least two years lon ger. Should Mr. Harding name a Re publican for the job in the face of the fi c''rr?s of the civil service commis- .on, Jorth Carolina Senators are cer- incumbent, would continue to serve. . . . NO KU KLUKtBN HAS BEEN ORGANIZED HERE; Marchers Donned the Garb of Klans-I man to Frighten Bootleggers and I : Other Undesirable Citizens ' IDENTITY OF SEVERAL OF ; j THE MARCHERS IS KNOWN First Effort to Establish a Chapter Hrere Was Made Nearly Two Years Ago Only Three Responded to the Invitation to Be Present and Two of These Were Drawn C ) of Cur iosity 'r The night-shirters who rode through the streets of Monroe about two weeks ago were not Klansmen, but a dozen or SO of local cit.iwpnfl nrlm - adopted the garb and tactics of the ivu iuux ivian lor the purpose of ter rorizing bootleggers and a few al leged, undesirable inhabitants of the community, according to a well known ck.zcn, who, while denying he was in the parade, claims to have in side knowledge of the incident Though no court action is either ' possible or contemplated, the Sheriff's office is said to have ascertained the identity of several of the members, and should any overt acts be commit ted in this section by Kluckers or masked men, they will receive calls from Sher.rT Fowler, who is declared to be opposed to invisible government of any sor.. . Desiring to frighten a few evil doers, one or two Monroe men, the writer's inf ormant said, got in com . munication with, an organizer of the Klan, who sugjfesied the ride through the streets of the town in the garb of his organization as an excellent means of ' aiding law enforcement, " The ride, it was stated, was under hie direction, but none of the marchers actually took the oath of the Klan. Whether or not this initial effort at intimidating the lawless element will result in the formation of a chapter of the Klan here remains to be seen. Those who seem to be on the inside think not, especially since the ident ity of the prime movers in the esca pade seem to be known. Opposed to Klan Generally speaking, the majority of the people in this community are op- ' posed to the Ku Klux Klan. They prefer to leave the enforcement of the law to their capable Sheriff, Clifford Fowler, his deputies, and their -Chief of Police, J. W. Spoon, and his equal ly capable policemen. Monroe, and Union county have unusually good of ficere,dahaititjUias, resulted" m this section being unusually free of lawlessness. : r. . This is not the first effort to organ ize a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Monroe. Nearly two years ago, at the request of a Klan official, Mr. J. -B. Simpson, formerly a member of the board of aldermen, gave a list of forty or fifty leading citizens of the community whom he thought might be intersted In joining the order. Mr. Simpson, himself, was not interested in the proposed chapter. He gave the ' names as a matter of courtesy to the official, and he did not attend the meeting planned to have been held at a room in the Joffre hotel. Stressed Racial Feeling Those on the list given the organ izer by Mr. Simpson received myste- ' rious cards, with all sorts of helio graphs printed on the corners, re questing them to meet at the said Joffre room, but at the appointed hour only three were present Of these three, two were drawn there out of curiosity. They talked with the organizer for a considerable length of time, learning that this particular representative of the Im perial Wizard was using racial hatred as his chief argument for the need of the Klan. He especially stressed con- ; ditions in Chicago, where race riot ' are frequent. - - - - COLONEL BROWN. MEXICAN VET., DIES AT CONCORD He Was One of the Few Survtvon of That Conflict in the State Long -Served His Country Concord, Jan. 3XJoL James N. Brown, Concord's oldest and best known citizen, died here shortly aft er 6 o'clock tonight. He had been ill for several days. He was born Oc tober 23, 1827, and had lived here all " his life. No funeral arrangement have been made. Colonel Brown was one of the few remaining Mexican war veterans of North Carolina. He enlisted for the Mexican war when 18 years of age and also fought with the Confederate ermy until his capture at Gettys burg. He was married on June 15, 1&53, to Martha E. Wallace, who died m 1918,- after 65 years of married life. Seven children, a number of grandchildren and several great grandchildren survive. Col. Brown was active in politics in Concord fof many years and served several years as mayor and postmaster, . . Buried at Sea and Prayers by Radio New York, Jan. 3. A story of a ship without a prayer book, a Bkin per dead at sea and the ever helpful radio was told today by the wirels operator of the President Adams on her arrival from abroad. Captain A. Matthews of the g(.-r . er Hatterag died on December 30 r pneumonia. The Hatteras sent out message announcing her sVJrr death and requesting the burinl , vice and prayers by radio. "We granted the r : t it o'clock and at noon i ' that Captain JT ' : "buried in U t ' less opcr-s r.
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