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Carroll County Signs Contract For
The RuiMiwg of Fancy Gap Road
For
ENGINEERING CREW BBGAN
WORK AT STATE LINE TUESDAY
j erow of
arr+rod in thi* eity
work of
atate I fat* to tlia foot of the
(toy working from thi* and of the
rook. Already i lore* ■mnwnt of
won hoa boon
i on the rood and
Mm crada from HfflrrW- and half
•a) down tka mountain ia practically
rt ady for aorfacinc. The mountain
read haa bacn blaatod out and widen
Od until that portion which haa boon
worked on, la aa fine a mountain
grade aa can ha found'in thia state,
and when completed It is said that
•ry food ear in fair running condi
tion can make the mountain in high
gaar.
l ne state highway c xnmiulon al
mdy hu in operation two riant
•team rock crusher* located at a
limestone quarry on the Poplar
Camp road beyond HMsrille and
these are daily crashing large quan
tities of limestone rock to ha mad on
the road. Last year the state pot a
surface of rock on die road from
HMsrille to Poplar Cafip. and mv
they are putting on another heavy
layer of stone and will then hind it
together with a layer of tarrla, mak
ing a first claas tarrla hound maca
dam road.
With the assured fact that oar
Virginia neighbors will build a hard
surface road to the state line at an
early date it now becomes the duty
of the road officials of this state to
begin considering a like move and
get under construction the small
stretch of road from the city to the
State line which connects with the
Vancy Gap road. Already there Is
• mutual .understanding between
road officials of the two states to
Stake the road between Mount Airy
and Hlllsrille a hard surface pro
ject and now that Virginia has made
• definite start la the construction
ef her end of the road its up to
North Carolina to make a like mors.
LBABN TO SAVE
Our farmers must barn to save as
well as make befoN prosperity de
cides to abide in our beloved Dixie.
Eight years ago one of our neighbors
height a new one-horoe wagon. One
year I ter we bought one. Both wag
em fared about alike except that the
Hlgthar's wagon was kept under •
shed when net in uss. His wagon Is
rd as new, while sots Is Jnk-C.
C, to The Pumasslw Parmer
»l
TWt it to
the first trip of a raaolina 4Ht- |
en TcbirU ta Awrle*.
Thto horseless carriage, which
hennas a familiar ilfht in Um
■treats of KokoaM, was the rwah of
two years of rxperimenta and now to
pwwi wil in tha Smithsonian Insti
tute at Waahtagtoa, D. C Mr
■aid ha waa ordaead to "|»
cootraptioa off tka itmta," wkaa ha]
J- L|. W-.t
orove nis nm i
go.
Tka
■ult of tha fact that Mr. Haynaa had i
a torga U»il«n to
ttoa aa flald lapsrintealiat far a|
natural gas cam pan j. Ha
torn of mind and
of aa invmtivH
A year after hid first
trip with hii horaatoaa carriage, Mr.
Hajrnea formed a company for thai
manufacture of ubauU
preaident of K for away years. Ha
in-ranted numerous improvements in
the automobile.
86.496 Babies Bon la The
State During 1924
R*lti(h, Afcrll 11.—Then were
80,490 babies born Hi North Caro
lina, the whole onion'* champion
birth-rate itate in 1924. This total
waa announced by the vital statis
tics department of the state hoard
of health today
The 1M4 total excaedi tkat of 19Z3
by 2,906. In 1MI there wese only
M.1M birth, reported.
GMni the figure* hy months. Dr.
P. M. Register, of the rital statistics
department, pointed oat that Decem
ber led all ether months, with • to
tal of 1,770. Its nearest competitor
was June, with 7,890.
Dr. Register said physicians were
growing less las all the time la re
porting births. In a test conducted
by the T+ta! statistics bureau of the
federal census bureau, he added.
North Carolina made a score of M on
reporting births. This state is now
In the federal registration area.
Liquor Car Camouflaged With
Traps For Camping
Asherflle, April 8.—Liquor valued
at 12,000 or more was seised, and a
twin-six Packard automobile bearing
a Kaeaachuaetts license tag waa con
fiscated by the police this afternoon.
The automobile waa being washed
when someone suspected that H Con
tained liquor, tipping off the police, j
The officers ssade a quick search
of the neighborhood, hot could find
no one to claim ownership of the au
tag. 11m car
■qulpmcnt to avoid
la trunks, traps and fa
of the
Wan njmjto. Nobody
ThU week the Dndgo mmpany, vir
tually mi off shot cl Fori, Magi
11W.000,000, after a spirited Mnv
rl« with the Morgan firm.
What Wan street would par tar
the organisation today cm only be
coajaetad. Ford Motor Co. wao es
tablished with capital of M»,000 and
IS utockholders. Today it b worth
nearly a billion. J not recently Mm
other remarkable things a eaah sar
thore am h«t two WwHwHiii, Hoa
ry Ford and Mo Mm, Heel B Feed.
Both la the rohaae of production sad
hi the nho of aaleo the Ford ciaa
pnny tope orory other producer of
FOUNDLING NOW AMONG
RICHEST
Two Fill mi 11 for Littl* Girt
Loft on Grook'a PuriUp.
Mtneola, N. T.. April 10-Jef
LooIm Liifc, 12 ;«n ifo a found
ling. today learned that aha la ooa
of the country's wealthiest children.
Warner M. I.eeda, who made a far
time In tin plate, and who, cMkfless.
had adopted Joy Louise It jrwn ap,
when alia was a year old, left har
the balk of hia estate, estimated at
more than $4,000,000.
IVo years ago the child was left
the 14.000,000 estate at har foster
mother, Mrs. Loolaa Hartahorna
Leeda, who was killed in a plunge
from a window of her New York
home. The will of har foster fath
er, who died two weeka ago, waa
filed here today.
Available data of the eat ate i of
rich children In the United States
show the Lead's heireaa to be far
richer than any of har con tempo rar
iea. Gloria Caruso received half af
her father's $8,000,000 estate aad
half of hia poethumooa phonograph
royalties, estimated at 1228,000 a'
year. Each of the seven grand
rhildrea of the lata E tutor William
A. Clarke, received 11,000,000 at
birth. Tfca aixth Jolu Jacob Aator, i
whoae father died in tha Titan tic
diaaater, inherited some Uif like $S,-1
500,000. John, Emily ltd Edward,'
children of E. B. McLean, Waahing
ton publisher, letelead trust fund*
amounting to more than 11.000,000
each.
Joy Looiae Leeds is not to coma
into the principal of her foster fa
ther's estate until she la 86 years
old. Henry Abbott waa named in tha
will aa guardian of the aatata and
Mrs. Abbott aa the ehOd'a personal
guardian. .
Beqoesta totaling little more than'
1400,000 were made to other heirs.
TV new rich girl's origin is un
known. On the laat day of January
1912, a policeman took to Betlevne
hoapltal a little Mb af pink aad
while humanity which had been giv
en Mm by a Greek woman aa hia
heat The girl, aha explained, had
baaa toft ea har dooratap by aaa»!
STUCETOW, CaL, April !• Wimw
pmml to flUa city, whan wrttfM
that W. H. Hot. ■ arimr. tofc hn»|
•4 within • hw fast of Ms luthss^
My said:
That's good Mwt. 1 tow baa*
paying Hunt la if for te My of
Floyd aa that it caaM ha aMead ta
the crystal cm ht flanwwt I ax
paet to return hoM to Cava City aa
•om aa I haw taoofh aaaaj to yay
Hunt for his work, which will ha to a
few waaha more and thaa I will aaa
Chat a aattakle monument ia erected
for Floyd to front of the crystal
care and the casket irlaaed ta a
steel box.
DEATH CAR OCCUPANTS
err PRISON SENTENCES
Mich
ad Wilfong Trott, Nek, to t
of not Im than torn and not
nort than fifteen year* in Um State
penitentiary at hard labor. Theee
young men were convicted daring the
present tern of Catawba conrt of
■rarder in the second degree far the
killing in an sutoatobUe collision of
Mi»* Evelyn Rowe. on the evening
of February tth. Notice of appeal by
both defendant* was given in open
court. Appeal bond waa fixed at
1100 and apoearance bond at $20,
000 for each defendant.
In passing sentence Judge Stack
said he had purposely postponed
sentencing the young men, under the
hope that the officers could appre
hend the men -who sold the lienor, as
they are the mea moat responsible
for Um death of the yoang lady.
While ha had sincere sympathy for
young Trott and Michael, he had the
protection of society and the majes
ty of the Isw committed to hi* charge
by hi* oath of office. This verdict la
to give notice that the peopli and
courts of North Carolina are deter
mined that the public highways
be made safe against drunken
Bond* for Trott wet* promptly
Aad he waa on the streets a
few minutes after the adjournment
of court The bonds for Michael
have not yet been
Mixed Train «a
North Wltkeeboro, April 11.—At the!
luncheon of the Kiwanis dob today
the chib went an record aa
the proposed action of the
railway for making a mixed train |
not of the prssint morning and even-1
ing passsngsr train which runs daily j
Lxleees thia city and Wl
While there was much opposition to
the change, those advocating the
proposition cam* oat the winasr. It
is said that ths Jitney Haee 1
between North Wllkeeboi
iton have aboot taken all of the trnv- I
rifreas this train, and this is given aa|
* making it m i
Tom Jnnbon Unable to "Brail
Into JaiT and Begin Sentenc^
th» roortkaoaa at
to tka riwi Iff, to ka Nut
T. L. EHrkpitriek and
n Jfft tkt dtj late in tka af
fa* Spancar to apart tka
wark-art with Ma rtfa and
PorBif Goaarnar Montana, H ait
uid kcra tonifkt. waa tka tartar (n
•ha more to kaap Jhniaon off tka
r»a«l* art aanra • rikaariag hi tka
caaa naxt Tnaaday. Lcnftky confer
eneaa wara frU *orln* tka day hi
hi* office. tkaaa reauhiny in tka 4a
riiion to uuatpuwa Jhaiaoa'i trip to
tka
Tom F.
Methodist minister ud
now convicted li
quor transporter. made known his
intention of tarring the «0-day road
sentence Imposed upon him last Fri
day by Recorder Wade H. Williams.
Mr. Jhniaon ha* been at liberty
under • 1250 bond since his convic
tion in recorder's court. Yesterday
he decided to abandon his appeal and
take the sentence. A number of his
friends have asked Jadg* Williams
to '-bangs the sentence to a fine, bat
he has not done so. TW charge of
transporting whiskey arose from the
of three pint bottles of boose
in one soKeaao and a jug with spirits
in another saitcaae he was carrying
when he was arrested. Admitting
that he had the Hqoor he adds that
"T was simpty pre»orse enough to try
to do a kUiJaiss for a friend."
MAKES STATEMENT
"I shall withdraw my appeal this
week, surrender to the sheriff, and
be off for the chain gang. I hare not
asked for mercy, hare bogged no one
for clemency, and I shall not do so.;
I want to pay to the state the
farthing for ay offense
majesty of the law. T hare no
with which to inflate my MhMws
and even if I had I do sot cars to ho
under obligation to the
bo. I do not want it to ho
in my face that I am Iniibtsd to asy j
state, or that I faded to fulfill the
law's demands.
"On last Friday Morning I was ar
rested by two city dstortlvsa Jnst af
ter I had stepped from a local hotel
and started to the railway station.
I had sow
It had not
for sale. It wa not mine. I was
to try to dn
for a friend. Tlst dsos
pnltuly
I
rhk*
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