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Mount Airy News. : ML Air* N.C.JM.* INK a a johwom • ton. -1 auBTwmow eat—i * «M r«r M-M tfca poatoffica at Mooat Airy. N. C„ Hbr tlx art at Cwp«n of March * X»T2. A BIT OF INFORMATION. H«r» la a Mt of Information that W« kn> (bring oat itratuifoualy to tho« eMaana n th»«a part* who may poa aifcly road thia nawa pa par and at lh« aamr tima be la aympathy with th« Hiatal traffic la liquor. Tha Informa tion wa havf In mind la thlf. whathai rota think it la m> or not no, tha Kin* dam af (tod haa coma on tha aarth The reign of rignteouaneee la nere, and It I* here to »tay, and to control the de*tinie* of the nations u nation*, and th* individual* u Individual* This does not moan that III* powrr* of evtl will T-t contest every Inch of ground for many day* to come, hut tha reign of righteousness—the Kingdom of God,-^-la a winning fore*, and ita purposes ara not thwarted. The in II virtual or the nation—Germany an-! Tor key for Instance—and the liquor dealers about here, for anothar in stance, lose out every Hole they join battle with the force* of Rod. Na tional prohibition ha* been written into the conatitution if this nation, and with the victory won the righte oua power* of thia people will not longer wink at tha diapoaltlon to vio late the liquor lawa. There waa a time when it appeared to many to be good policy to be lenient until men inclined to violate the Hqpor lawa ha t ttoa to correct their way*, hut the time for indulgence and patience with the evil minded haa now pest, and the "eed of good road* haa alao herome prominent. It ahould he vary plain to any thinking liquor man that he in on a rough and rocky road if he care* to travel farther In Ma line. Will Inatall Looping Machine*' In a recent interview with Mr. A. R. Strayhorn, auperintendent of the Golden Belt Manufacturing company learned of a new department to be a Jed to their plant here which will provide profitable employment tor girla and women. It ia the purpoee of the company to inatall a few looping machinal at once for finishing the toe* of mercerised hoeiery made in their plant at Dur ham. Other machine* will be added aa rapidly an posaibte. Mr. Strayhorn tellH u* that the work of operating theae machine* require* tome akill. and that akilled operator* command high wage*. In Durham many <f the girla who learn te operate the looping machine* have a machine installed in their home* after their marriage and make good wages working their upare time. Mr. Hailey ia in Dur ham thin week arranging for tha ship ment of the machinaa. 'Wide* Falls Wit|i Team .ml Driver. The bridge over Stewart's creek on the McKinney road, two miles south of this city, fell in last Friday. The bridge fell when the team of mules the property of Mr. E. F. McKinney, and the driver were well on the bridge. With a sodden crash the whole went down into the stream, falling a dis tance of possibly 20 feet. The driver escaped by jumping and while he went down almost 28 feet he was not much the worse for the experience. The team was to pinned in the wreck that M required much effort to rescue them. They are not able to work and just when they will be no one can tell. This bridge was a long span of wood construction and had been in service for possibly ten years. It had been condemned, but had not been dosed op. Because of the much travol on this road it is supposed that • good iron bridge will now take the place of the old one. Influenza-Pneumonia Kills 101 On Sunday In Chicago Chicago, Jan- 25.—Influenza and pneumonia case* and deaths, are de creasing. it was announced today by Health Commissioner, Robertson. During the last 24 hoars Dr. Robert ace said, 1,364 cases of influenza and MB cases of pneumonia were reported. Daring the same period there were 64 deaths from influenza and SI tram In an effort to wsunaM the scarcity of experienced nurses, the health department tonight wired te Many cities in the middle west and Canada fee volunteer aids te assist in combatting th.< influenza epidemic. Of the More than 10,400 influenza win reported last week, there are •tfll 14,400 demanding the attendwnee et nurses, health department officials ■aid. . v MISTRIAL M HEN If 19 CAM ami at Am ordinary. The vary fact that aa muck mm) ran ha i—di aaw by aapgk| la tha liquor hnainaaa, tha wamter ia thai mora man da nat taka fhaarii with 'ha taw. It la caamaa talk that than ara ahout five eitiaaaa in thta town «IM of wKota atand high up In ' "aariaty" and are auppoaed 'a ha above mapitlaa, have haan coining tha monry by aMta*in* in tha lli|aor tnuineaa. Juat whv they aay "fiva" • Itiiana and m<4 makr It thrra or aia, «a da not know, neither ila wa h«vr iha laaat Idra who lhaaa "fiva" prom nant rtttiana ara, bat Lhara la a graat ilaal of talk ahout lhaaa auppoaadly uuilty parttaa who havr ao far baan nble '« Krt by with tha mm*. There i* na and to tha amount of talk that ia currant in thia raaamtlon. They trll how it Haa ham hauled here from Wilkai and Yadkin rountiea and hCiw It nu« '-nine here In M( truck load*. They tell hew citizens up in Wilk« have, during the pa*t few month*, changed from humble rittaen* worth n few hundred dollar* to affluent business men with trig hank account* and worth as much aa fifty and seven ty ihouaand dollar*, and along with thin increase in their wealth thoy have al«o added to their reputation the name of being a blockade manufac turer of liquor. They tell how they have figured it out up in Wilkes that, by the new proceas of quirk manu facture. a citiien can take a few bu*hel* of corn meal and secure two helper* ai d in ona day and tvfti night* he can convert that m«al into liquor in a way to clear the «um of eight hundred dollars. Now Home of the Wilke* county liquor that ha* been .making so many of the Wilkea citiiens rich ha* credit for being brought here and tha "five" prominent citizen* get crndit for dealing in thia liquor In a wholesale way. Rut the 11 vest part of the talk thia week i* the trial of Mr. Hennis. Part of Monday, all day Tuaaday, and part 'of Wednesday hundred* of people stood in the new town hall and listen ed to the law and thfe testimony in thi* case. A jury of six men ware selected to hear the evidence and paaa upon the facta. The prominence of Mr. H-nni* and hia high standing among his neighbor* a* a citiaen and buainaaa man makaa the rase of great interest. Mr. Henni* i* just in the prime of life and has lived here from childhood. Mr.Henni* successful in busineaa far beyond the ordinary, and it ha* been by hia own ability and energy that he haa suc ceeded. He own* one of the finest homes in the city, ia one of the largest wholesale produce dealers here, rides in one of the flneat makes of cars, belongs to the Baptist church, and makes a useful member who ia appre ciated by hi* brethren, can prove aa good aVharacter aa any man should want, and cah number hi* friends by about as many heads as any other . man in town, all of which puts thia case out of the ordinary. Mr. Hennis' trouble be ran when ; Lin Taylor cot indicted for retailing ' and turned states evidence, claiming that he had been a tool in the hands of Mr. Hennia and that the? had been partners in the business for months Lin Taylor ia an interacting charac ter in some ways. He ia aa afflicted man of little sense and no ability, and yet he gets credit for doing about aa well as he can, for he works and ia honest. He ha* a crippled hand and hi nfflicted with phthisic and evidently is not" able to work. He is a tvpical character for a retailer, for lawyer* can plead all kinds of things for him in case he is convicted. Just common human svmpathy would forbid that he be confined in prison or he sent to the roads. He has a wife and gets Tedit for doing about the beat he can, when his ability and affliction are considered. N"w this same Lin Tavlor had gone ->n th» stand as the star witness again st Mr. Henni" and freely told at length about all their dealing. He ap rwars to keep nothing hack and to want to tell the truth, at least he makes that imprassion. * He tells at great length about how ha has sold larre ouanities of liquor and how Mr- Hennis has kept him •applied and how Mr. Hennis has not sllowed him to have hts share of the profits aa they agreed to. Re tells how Mr. Hennia triad to gat him to leave the country when this prosecu tion started, and haw ha was In the act »f l-avtng at the time he was arrested. Mr. Hennis went on the witness stand and denied every having any dealings with Taylor in the liquor Susinoss, and admitted soma things •hat Tavlor had told, but claimed •hat all he had ever dona in the way -f befriending favlor was done as 'he set of a neighbor, Taylor had Wrowed monev from him and had ftcn poena to him for favors and had •M A* *m torn. Mr. ago bf the din Iff. mm faoMl about the plm liquor. incky ilw mmII. Nm Tartar tolla tha that Haun often kept hit llqu la fhUI jar*. Oa amaa naai • told how at <mm tea Mr. Htiuila told him that lha folha wan hamming ruapieiooa about Ma fra <4Uant vlaita to tha prnlun houaa ami ihat ha, Taylar. muat quit enmiof lhara mo oftan. And than ha toM how Mr. Haania had wnt tha liquor to hia. Taylor'* homa, In fruit jars, aad how ha tfcue kapt tha huaihaaa |oin| and not have to be making vialta for hia liquor to the produce houaa. Mr. Han 1a anawered thia by flatly danyinir moat at it, but ha accounted far tha fruit j»ri in bin pUra of buainaaa by tailing *nmethinir Ilk* thia. Ha work* at Umra a number of man who help |.mk and -hip produce. Noma at lhaar men drink at timaa and a/tor (hey had t'mptod a Imttla or fmit jar in which they had their liquor tb«*\ thu.w it down and in thin way tha jara might have lMM-n plact-dubuuthi* building.He nl o remembered how at ona tima no» V>ng ago hf run abort of liarrel* lytid had hi* m«n go uut in town and l«uv tip all the • mpty barrel* thay <'ould '>nd. Wh«-n t Kf y biouitb: in th«*c »mnty barrel* *ome of them contain "d tra.«n and rubbiah ami in ona of tha barrel* were two half galbn jar* in whirh had recently hem kept liqu or. Them- mii'bt have bten tha jain that tha officer* found at' tha tima thay nearched hi* place. The utato made much of tha eonfl-! dance Tavlor had in hi; ability to go free in raae he got caught. It *a«m« I hat hi' wan bold about hi* bu*lne*« ami *old liquor a* though it ark* nut unlawful to wll it. He got *o bold about it that hir brother. Sl'.a* Tavlor. want to *e« him and tried to gat him to dlacontinue it. Tha atato mada a witne** of Mr. flllaa Taylor who told of hi* effort* to get hi* brother to quit aelllng .but all to no avail.. Torn Tay ! lor wan alao a wilnena for the *tata. Tom told how he had prone to *ec l.in and told him he had bettor quit be fore ha got tangled up with the law. But Lin inaiated to him that there wa* no danger, for he had n man of in i nuunre, Mr. Hcnrii*. back of him and tl.at they ware partner* in the buai 1 nasa and Mr. Ile.mi* atood in with the | officer* and could get him out even i if he got caught. TM Mat* made mum of tne effort I that Taylor claimed Hanoi* made to' rat him to laave tha country whan the liquor prosecutions started. Taylor sid that Mr. Hcnnis triad hard to vat : h<m to go to east Virginia and stay until thing* quieted down. Murh | time wa« taken up on thia point and Taylor told how he wan in the act of starting to Virginia at the time of his arrest and how Mr. Hennis had givei. him $W> and said that he would sand him more money all along aa he need ed it. Mr. Hennis admitted that he loaned Taylor 160, hut that he did it hecaoae Taylor came to him and so lirited tha loan. The ntate made murh of the evi dence of John Da via who testified that Mr. Rennia came to him and aak ed him to go see Lin Taylor and tall him to quit talking so much and kaap his mouth shut, for he. Rennia. stood j in with the Judge ami'could tret him out of all his trouble. The above article was written be fore the trial waa completed, and this final paragraph is being wirtten on Thursday morning after the jury fail ed to agree on a verdict and was dia Icharged. The trial of this case has attracted much more than ordinary attention. The jury was selected on Monday afternoon and was made up of the following citizena: T. W. Davis, j foreman. W. R. King. P. D. Webster. I G. M. Sparger, Joe Banner and —I . Lawrence. It required all day Tuesday to e* nmine the witnesses and the lawyer* •ooke all dav Wednesday, the case go ing to the jury about 4 P. M. No ver dict was reached by night and the court took a recess until nine o'clock at night thinking that a vardict might he reached by that time. But at nine o'clock no verdict had been agreed . ""on. and so the jury waa sent to the Blue Ridge Inn for the night. When court convened at 9.80 Thursday morning the jury reported that ne , verdict had been reached and the Judge declared it a mistrial. Because Dobron court comas on in a ttm days it was decided to not hear thia case apaht until after court, and Wednaa ' ''w. February 11th, waa the data Ml for hearing tha awe a second time. /-e.p-Y-r Hopaful Club. V Miaa Alma Y ok ley entertained at a Vlightful rook party Saturday after noon at her lovely home on Pranklin traet which waa the Initial BMeting of the "Leap Year Hopeful Club Rook was played at Ave tables after which a business meeting was held fllcan elaaM far tha yaar. Mi»* v 'Vley assisted by Miaa at Anna Reeee and Alice Hale served a delicious valad «Mrw. Intm C. m4 I. O. Vm reaeatatit« and diatrVt nrfiniwr far tkla dlatrH in (hi twanty-Ave million l->Uar I'Mftirn far fund* far Hum l-aw Enforcement and tha World Pro hibition Mori ami > that to htmi apaa «irad by tha Aati Balaeai U«fw. Hon. W. V. Carter, rhalrman »f th. local orraniiat.un, Introduced tha riaitora and praaidad at Um l.anquct 1 The ladle* of the W C. T. U. pre wired a tempting nmu and attar a Me«ain* was aakad bf R»» Waat an hour and a half waa apent ia eating nd making ahert apeachea. Anaong tha ap»ak«r» ware B. C. 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