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to tha arft God!af** mratlm which «H wH MM< by eh* U||Ml crowd rro ad ■itud to the ncUgpml dMthrflom. waa ana af Mm leant lyartmlif W all Mm 4* and mora which have taken place there. Tho priaamr wti<. ha» < nviH at latorvwla and h#dwl foe tela Ufa far day* had little pwyiilifci p^pif wbiryi iht cuirvnt ■ track hire thu mi mint. Ha died with aa Itttla rwlatiwt aa any man whoaa Ufa haa baan rot off by tha electrical ehortclr Perhape tha larpat nu.-aber of aawepaper man erer admitted there want owt tbi« time. Nearly all of thaw had baan trainee to wyai MMtklnr for "human intaraat." Thay mlaaad it all. Godtay walking erect and aplomb pat tha feature wrllaia to rout. AH that happanad waa a pala, haad-«hav ed, bony, little man'a daath in the el ectric chair. Anything that the imagi nation rare* to (apply will go. but flodlcy halpad tha *tory not a bit. Tha wretch, white and dlaran to tha akin, walkad easily down death lane with two minuter* mmforttnr him. Whan ha entered the death eirele he aaar what had nerer bean Men at any alaetrocution, • crowd too larjfe to find quartan In tha chain provided. Tha prisoner ut without direction from any official and watched him aatf onaqualty yokad with the chair, f Ma wor» prison tfarb on which wa« •till tha tag shovnntc tha manufnetur ar'a number. When ha dropped into the chair ha mid with *c»reely audible «ke "Lord forrive them; they know to Governor Bickatt. It waa admitt edly a crime, but 'till not capital. The ntt«*ndant« hound him har,d and foot and somebo.ly soakilf Ac helmet d-opped it over hi* head a* the heavy «traps '*»me over hi* month a.vl noae.1 The len'.hen movej by G-dley'fi fray «-. a sort of mono'oirue—"receive my soul" - were «canely heard. Warden Bi-sbee warned the men not to stand too near the chair, but the suf{ration tarried no <-hi!l to G0.T9;' who wns now fastened to tie ap.*r*tm ready V> receive tha daadlyflre. Dr.Carl Bell mve the signal and Wa den Rutber loosed tha current. The body lea pad and tha dynamo, polling hard, made $e little atone room quiver, hut it waa plain that Godley himaelf Had no power of re ajatance The hakinf and blistering ao often present, did not appear today. The bony, milk-white akin of Godley hardly ebowed the marlu of the trap pin r* The warden lowered the cur rant. sent it hack ler a faw aeconds, then cut it down and on airain and » Godley waa lifeless aftar the firat shock One or the witnesses yielded to the power of suggestion end half-way fainted. He recovered and walked out. retting hi* bearing* after coming away from the scene. It was a ware* five minute* from the time Godley laid down hi* cam Sorative scripture* and walked <iv«n <l«ath-row, until he had been carried to the dead wagon and prepared for ha rial. The effort to save the prisoner waa perhaps the most aggressive under taking in recant criminal history. God-, ley'* crime greatly incensed Johnston, county people, hut there were strong man at work trying to aave him. Gov- j ernor Bickett never aw any chance to do anything for the fallow unless' tt could be ahown that his mind waa' affected. The condemned man made It: all the harder on the executive by eon-1 stantly contradicting itatements which he affected to make bi the very praatnee of death. The Johnston peo ple gave him a very bad name, yet of ficers from the county today declared that after his arrest on this capital charge, the aherfff risked him In an aatomobile unahackleJ and allowed the motor to run with Godley holding the wheel while the officer ran In the ' house. He waa said to be devoted to ' Mi wife and to hav>j treated her with | great consideration She made a great j fight to aave him. Bat for her, little. Interest would have been ta'ren In him.. 0odl*7 *u not a pauper and own ed a handsome aatwaobUe In which Ike HHte girl rede M the trip resolt hf la Mm crime Ike Mr haa haaa - - -a a,. »* - ■ .I ■ Ham ■ TtiriMKI otw fo rfmi v+* at tka affair. TIm Mnttty at Mm *ar ami 4nm to unknown. Mr. Jaffrw aw fu (I*m at MM*, hut HM Mn( atrark. fb • )i»m MM toat gmwa, an liw Ha lurw ■ wr and bfdkm ami ibUi ■ ato Ihra Aahavtlto, Jan. " Oaalar King, avail U yaar«, *•- killed laat niftet whan he waa e* • k hy a tntek thai edlkM wttk ihe i«r of a wagam upon whfc-h Ik ind another hoy want riding. W. B Kin*, driver of tka trark waa ariaatwt and to baing Md by tka outeawe of the roronar'a lniuaat. H»a drtoar, althourh of alnllar nama to as* ra toted to lha arrtdant victim. Raloiifh. Jan. ll_Mra. O. L. Markaan, who waa atrnrk by an aste rn ibila yaetarday, driven fcy the iiagTB hauffaur for tka W. H. King Whoto -ale Dnnr Company, dtod at Rn hoa pttal thto afternoon. She waa wad known throogkaot thto city. Ska, at no tima after tka arcidant. reiralnad eonariouanaaa. Bmrgmr Rifn^ SmU fcy Over wbalakf Majority Washington, Jan. 10.—Victor Berg er. Milwaukee socialist. re-eleeteu from the fifth Wisconsin congiaaalaw district mltm Im M httn refused membership In the hoar*. "beraaa* he rave aid and comfort to the tnemy," wan denied hla neat airair tmiajr by a vote of 228 to •. The bona* acted in a little mors than an hoar after Berger had pre sented himself to be iwom hi. Chair man Dallinger. of the election* com mittee. which held Berber ineligible the firat time, presented a resolution Republican. Illinois, Voigt, Republi can. Wla^onain. and Sherwood. Demo crat. Ohio, supported Berber's right to a neat. "This is a representative form at government." Mr. Mann said, "and this we must maintain inviolate If the pe'iple desire H Berger was elected by the people of Wiaeonain. They hav« m riirht to be represent^." Reooeet for a hearing on Henry H Rod en stab > righ' to the seat denied Berger has been made before Chair man Dallinfp-r Bodensteb, a Republi can. was defeated by Berger by a ma jority qf 4JUM votes in the special el ection. The committee previously held ■fiiseph P. Carney, Bei gar's opponent in the firat election, to be ineligible Chairman Dallinger said today that al the time of hia first election Berge? was not only under indictment under the espionage act, bat that he had been convicted before the second elec tion took place. This, he added, would strengthen Bodenstab'i case. Strange Illness Hu Stricken 500 Person* Oklahoma City Okie. Jan. 11-—Flv» hundred of the 2.000 inhabitant* o' Shiatook, Tulsa county, are seriously ill of a it ran malady which haftfi -< physicians. according to reports t'. the state health department. Several deaths have occurred. In ths opinion of one of the physician* there the disease la a mild form of cholera. It begins with an attack of dy&ntery and causes a losing of weight, ac cording to the reports. The state health denar.ment will •end three physicians and 10 inspec tors there tomorrow. Merchant Robbed and Burned Osceola, Ark., Jan. 8.—W. E. Han sel, owner of a chain of plantation stores, bound tn a poet, supposedly by robbers, with his faee and cloth ing saturated with gasoline, was burned to death when his store at Halt, near here, was sst afire after It had been looted last night Parmer*, roused by * negro who discovers! the building in flames, found Hansel, tied to the post in the building with his clothing afire end his face seared by the blase. He died within a few mlnatae after he was removed from Um burning building. Deat Tea Forget It Bear In mind that Chamberlain's Tablets not only more the bowels but improve the appetite and strengthen tke digeKtion Tney contain no pepsin or other digestive ferment but strtngtlwn the stomach and enable It to perform Ms functions as to rally. Wood. TV loafed abnot the iter* ■ faw hoar* aad were ail drinking. Dar ing th* time that thry war* at dM ' ator* they had angry wante and quar reled wKh each other. Ahoat tan o'rloek that night the fear young Man ; laft tka (tor* together rotaf to tha direction of tha HtoUlar Kaaia. What I took ptore on tha road that led to tin fight and muntor mar naaar b« 1 known, far tha two S tattler brotheri •ra both (toad and at thia thaa than la no wthmi that will eaarlet any ona for tha Mordar. Tha two young man war* found nomotlmr Sunday morning, ona with a ballot hoi# in hia hreaat daad. Th» nthar on hia kneea with hia baad hang ing through tha raila of a "galloping" fenre, ao near dead that ha expired within a few minotea aftac ha wa» found. Tha two young man war* founri aomething like V> yard* apart. Neigh bora aoon gathered on the arena, ear riad tha remaina to their humbla homt and notified Dr. Nurhlea, tha corner who hold •n tnqueat. Tha raroner'a Jury found that on« • amr to hia death by gun ahot woum and that tha other ona, haing unde> the influence of liquor remained wit. hia brother, and died from the intena« rold. The your.ir man Wood ha* been ar raated on nueptcion that he may hart had aooiething to do with tha eriwa ) and fcaa tnmU aboat and aaan mm thing of tha world. Report ha* it It thi* rity that h« cam* hare noma thai during Saturday night and told ar "•'luairtanr^ that he had had Kimi trouble in hia neighborhood and a«kri{ thi* friend to take hi* revolver am! ke*p it. Later in the night he hirer an aatomobile and went to Winston Salem, and left that rii ' r unknowr parte wm> time Sandn National Coyerr - enl to BuiUi Road* hi Svrry County The Nationa' (jevrrnment aftei much surveying a - d delay during tlx paat few day nrrmted the aurvcy ol the Intar-r irfy State Highway gining at thr Stoke* County line bj way of W •ot.'icld Mt. Airy and Dob son. Thi- r- an* that thin road will tx huilt prutically new by the StaU under tl - direction of the federal gov ernme- the federal government U pay ' - half the rout, the state one fon-'h and the rounty one-fourth { Thi* »wtion of the road it a part o! the highway system that connect* u[ 'he different county »eat« in tha Tar. counties. Surveyor* will lorat* ' e road in the near future from We*1 ield to Danbary in Stokes coontv and from Dobson by way ->f Kapp« Mill, Park Mountain and Thurmond • n sperm in nnrirnany. imn connect ing up the county neat* in thi* part of th« state. The contract will be awanird for the building of thU road in Sorry County at Greensboro Tuesday of next week and in case no bid* are accepted by the government the work will be done this summer hy state , convicts. All of which means that this will give Sorry county on* of the beat sand-clay roads that ran be mad*. *W«at to Try • Curious Sum? It waa invented by Lewis Carroll tb* author of "Alice in Wonder land." who was a professor of higher mathe matics in Oriel Collate. England. H* loved to invent mathematical fnalri like thia: Pot down the number of your living brothers. Multiply by two. Add three. Multiply the result by five. Now add the number of year living siatora. Multiply the total by ton. Add the number of your dead broth era and sisters. Subtract ISO from the total. The right-hand figure will ha the number of deaths; the middle figure the number of living siatora; and the left-hand figure the number of living See if it deeaat work. Tk« tiHr utoriee of at children at public Institutions, derttaad ta xhm hahy. "We braaghl all the proof* m ; ant, "but the mother paralalad ta bar hallucination She became hysterical with grief a rut fright. finally, I 1 Lj U + * ■ »- * nroufni nwr our rvrorm wnirn mow* «4 that only a Itttla negro baby and bar own bad baan barn ta tha hoapital ' tkat day. That convinced bar, but Juat j think of what would hara ta that poor woman If hahiaa had baan born on thai I Ay." In ordar to avoid a airailar a*pan aace tha auparintandant engaged a finger-print ax part ta matron tha bead nor* in trying tha ayatam on hahiaa. "*» found wa couldn't cat food print* of their hand*," «aid tha official. "Their feat, however, rame mt beautifully an't for greater eecur ity the mother ia finger-printed alao." Vary young hahiaa, it ia (aid, may !«pk Juat alike but their feet are Tutte dissimilar. One rhild, tha »uparintend «nt declared, will have a perfectly formed mi nature pedal extremity, an other's will print moatly vacua criaa craa* line* and atill another will look like "an egg and five toothpick*." Under the preaent *y*tem. which ha* been in operation nearly *ix month, the rhild'* foot ia inked and atamped or. the boapital chart at the mother* Although ha may not reearn or Ma *y*a or hi* mouth or fha color ' Ma hair, a comparison of the foot print taken at Mrth. it was aaid. will tell arhoee child he la from among the hundred* of infant* in thi* Maw York institution. Prohibition Effect! re In The United States Washington. Jan. 14.— Nation-wide prohibition by constitutional amend ment. thr dream for year* of thou# op poeed to the lata of liquor, became ef fective tonight at midnight with the <ii'partment of justice and the bureau of internal revenue. the two govern ; ment agencies entrusted with enforce ment of the new haaic law, ready to take action a rain at all violators. The final atop In the work of en forcing the new form of prohibition waa taken tonight when Secretary Glaaa approved finally the regulationa I to be obeerved by amenta of the feder al government. John F Kramer, general prohibition commissioner, announced that he prac ; tically had completed selections of his corps of state conunisaloners snd local sgenta, and had bR>n notified by them that they were prepared to "tart to morrow morning on the taak of en forcing the amendment. There waa little notice taken by government official* of the end of all licensed aalea of liquor except at the treasury department, where much activity waa shown at the offices of officiate connected with prohibition enforcement. Their taak, however, was confined to the linking op of detailed • plana for aiding local authoritiea in driving out the illegitimate dealer in intoxicants. Official* said they expect ed a multiplicity of legal and leaser tangles to ensue, but they ware mak ing an effort to avoid as Many of , these as possible. Commissioner Kramer said he had a staff of naarly 1,600 men ready to be gin their dntiea at midnight. About SAO of thee* will work under the dtiac tion of the state prohibition enforce ment officers while the others will serve much as Internal revenue agents before war-time prohibition went Into effect. Mr. Kramerti brireau has tS.OOO.OM with which to conduct Its work until July 1. Treasury officials anticipate sons trouble in Handling the deeded liquors la bonded warshouass. It has been diacloeed that la several rltiee, large quanltlee of bottled gooda have diaappeared from bended storage de pits the vlfOanee of revenue officers. To avert farther thefts, Mr. Kramer's staff has basn Instructed to gaard sick liquor* srith extra ear*. - i and paid up tha Am and the hh Is a4dMaai ta tka Am mmt of tka mot in* (nod behaviar Aa m undaratand It tka ooet of this pwiaarntlan la la be eqaaily borne by tka town at Haunt Airy ami th« coanty of Harry. The coat wWI ba aeveral hundred dollar*. bat evidently tka ftnaa, all of wktck geee ta the •HhoI fund of tha county. / 5tr»d A««H—< Ij V Policeman Jonaa of tkia city warn knocked down and painfully bnriaad laat Friday aftamoan by a ear driven by Mr. Joka L. Bannar, on North ; Main atreet. Tha aatuta at tka aeet 1 riant waa aacb that no Waaia la attaek 1 ad ta any ana. Tka poUeaaMa waa oa bis way homa about ftaa o'clock and i at a paint naar tka ham of Dr. Kaaci, ha beard a track I ma baling alone with the cat-oat wida open. With Ma «yi on thia track ha atepped out into tha itreat intending to atop the driver hut aa had lock would hare it ha atop pad into tha ■ treat at a time whan tha car driven by Mr. Banner vai 1 only a few feat away, coming from the opposite direction, and before Mr Bnnner could *toj> hi* est - Mr. .lone* waa knocked down, and bruiaad about ' tha ley and head. Paul Bel ton wai driver of the truck and la the Mayor'i court Monday ha waa let off with tha coat with tka undaratandinff that if ha violate* any of tka traffic law* with in the next ate moatha Ma llacanaa i for driving a car hs thia city wffl b« revoked. Ima . * i'-■ ' r M Whit lock of Laar*nc..ville Va , will fake charge of the City Water arnl l.nrht Department on Feb. 1st Mr. Whitlock graduated tat electrical engineering at Richmond college Rich mond. V*. and la a young married man who has hear employed at Hope well Va. having rone in there s> chemiat am) now hold* the position ol -uparviaor of .the city plant at Hope wall The only reason he is leaving there is that the Hopewell place fi 'losing down. In politics Mr. Whit lock ia a demo < rat. Religiously he ia affiliated witl the Episcopal church. Eight Years Required to Re move Barbed Wire. 1 Sew York Evening Poet It witl take eight yaars at the pres ent rata of progress to clear Northern France of barbed wire entanglements. There ware fifty thousand milee of wire laid in Franca by the struggliag nrmies during the war and only six thousand mile* have been rolled up. These are amonfr the Interesting fig ures in a report given out at Atlantic division headquarters of the Red Cross. On the work of reconstruc tion of homes, the report shows that sixty thousand of the five hundred and fifty thousand homes wrecked by shellfire have been made habitable. But most of the repairs ara only tem porary. The report quotes Andre Tardieu, formerly head of the Minister of Re construction ia charge of all work in the ruined areas, as paying high trib ute to the work of the American Red Cross in the devastated district. He declared that without its aid it would have been impoeaihle to have made much prog i ess a* has bean mads in restoration. The entire area devastated In France embraces foar million and flvs hundred thousand acres, says the re port. Approximately one million acres have bean cleared and returned to the fanners, bat only flvs hundred thousand acres of the heart of France's agricultural district ara again ready for cultivation. Of the ana thousand, one hulWrad aad sixty industrial plants destroyed five hun dred and eighty sight have been re paired. TVs gevsiwa—t Has repair ed twe thousand aad sixteen kfloms tars of Ota three thee sand, twe hun dred aad forty-six xfl masters el nA ways that were tarn eg and seven hundred and seventy-five Mlipstii fWa par aant m* of Kb gonkt Da you know tha fertory fM ' tor far fia par waak < k« b Da y«« know tJ» Da jrao know tba who da not think children to bay War for than and taarh them to aava? Do you know tba ahoppar who aay I "Wrap it up" tnatead of "How I Do you know tha paraon the daaira of tha motaant ! raanlta of day* aad waaka of thrift I and aaatour? I Do you know thinka it oat wamaary to aava? Do yoa know thr man who aaya that tha fnvammant aartnea iafl baa, I.ibarty Bonda. War Saria^ Stamps and Traaaory Saving* CariM> irataa, ara too ii*> or too i-aafl ar too old faahionad for hia inveatnantaf If yaa da, yaa knew pratty waS what la tha matter with tha Da ' Tha world rolla am That seoffen my, Nor all the cynic's Bitte* cant Han ever utopp^i On* rrowin* plant; Tree* tMH to bud And then to bloom Despite the men , Who scatter frloom. Nor all their doubts Nor all their *irh* Can keep the sunshine From the skies. Andy Johnson's Tailor Shop ft* Be MotmI Naabeille. Tea*. Jaa. 14*— The (aft er (hop of President Andrew Jeina •on, of Greenville, one cf the histeria nt: uctures of Ternaaaes. ia to be mew ed to the courthooae froands there, and the lot on which it ha* stood far the paat three generation* ia to ha lined for building purpose*. While working a* a tailor in Grei ville, Johnson'* jrooni wife taufht him to read. Hi* c4d home at Onssa ville. now occupied by his srandaoa, 1 Andrew Johnsot. Patterson, is alao • advertised for sale. ITS FOOLISH TO SUFFER When So Many Mount Airy People Arc Pointing the Way Out. You may be brave enough to ataa4 Karluche or headache or dixxineaa. But ' if, in addition urination ia dwn itarad, I look out! If you dont try to fix your lick kidney*, you may fall into the rlutckea of gangeroua diaaaae before you know it. Bat, if y«a Hn mm carefully and help your Wiiyi with Doan'a Kidney Pi!l», you ean atop tha paina yon hare and avoid future daa car aa wall. Deat tha rMMdy Mount Airy puMidy endorabig. Saad thia raaa: Mr*. L. 8. Ladwick, E. Kim St, Mount Airy, aaya: "8o*na time ago I had inaiil to uaa Doan'a Kktaay Pflla. tWy certainly brought ate Am reaulta. I waa troubled with paJaa hi my bach, had R___ Kidney POi lettered mm of Hh trem ble awl it ia a ah—an fwathn
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