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MOUNT AIBT. NORTH CAM
I * Mount Airy! wm I
M» Botary Club, im
I*
i in Um not that goc
to be built there.,
be atratch of road that Mr. By«rty
Um other reaideate of tikis mc
of Um country an particularly
hi at this tea ia Um
m Um Fancy Gap road, lead
fron Mount Airy to Um Virginia
, a dittance of about four and ona
' atiiaa. Virginia, it appaara, la
building tba road with hard »ur
i by Fancy Gap to Um North Caro
i road from tba vary heart of tba
jfipMntaina to tba south, In
at Airy, Winetaa H«l— and tba
■mat taction. With tba four and
built from Mt
Airy ta the Virginia Una tha hard wmr
•aaa on this side will connect with the
Tirgiaia road, according to Mr. By
aaty. and will thu« give the bard tor
tee highway from the aouth of Win
aftew-Salem all the way into the heart
of the mountaina of Virginia, and
tana an artery that will lead to the
aaath and up into tha north and «W
i mm pruapvi-ia iur im strewn 01
read to the Virginia line U very good
at this time and the future ia vary
bright for great declopment throout
that section. With the road being
haitt u the North Carolina state line
by Virginia, theu with the many road*
from this city and section into Moofct
Airy, and from hare to the aouth, the
mmpletton of the road will open aa
tea bean said, a route of hard sur
face road* thru the entire northwest
md Piedmont North Carolina.
Of particular interest to Winston
Bhlem and to the towns in the terri
tory to the south of this city and in
tervening territory between here and
■mint Airy is tha broad field of
that will be opened whea the
4 roads are completed. Accord
to Mr. Byerly and other citiaens
> have paid attention to the reai
of Carroll county and Wythe
aeaaty in Virginia, every known kind
«f farm product ia raised in these
I The people are well edu
are well dressed and are hard
Writing, thrifty people. When they
market their product, according to
■r. Byerly, they do not go to tha
worth but come to the south, Winston
Baleen. Charlotte and other places.
Even now there are a number of
Bbe larger farmers of the Virginia
aeetion who drive their trucks and
wagon* all the way thru to Charlotte
he market their product. Naturally
they also come to Winston-Salem, but
■at as much as they would If new aad
hatter roads, such aa are being plan
wad at thla time, are built.
"IVr» are great possibilities hi
Bh proposition," said Mr. Byerly,
■aiming to his subject, in which H
■light be said here, he has his whole
and soul. Ton em go oat to
Fancy Gap road, even aa It la
r, and you can see It lined with
bringing la farm produce of
' description aad gaod staff. With
Virginia bringing a hard surface
road thru this sactlaa. over the aMMm
tehm to the North Carolina liae. North
Carolina should build the four and
this road. The territory opened
mp would be tmanwas aad the poeal
MMee that lie ta the trade that tha
«Maa to the sooth woo Id get as s ra
gait. Is not ta be realised."
ta Mr. Byerly there la
of aay else kitwim Mt Airy
Va. Therefore there
ef aay sine at whleh
the farmers cm tufa. Thua they
must com to tlM aouth to do the bulk
of their sh lipping. With good roads
they will alae "warm mg" to the
"•abject" and brine toto Winaton
Balem, Ml Airy and tha othar towna
In thia •action much buaineaa aS a val
ue that tmda to maka succaas for
every community.
Tha paopia of tha souther set Vir
ginia section of tha coon try, accord
ing to Mr. Byarly raallaa that they
must depend an North Carolina, an/
thua tha atrotoh of rati to whidl ha
rafairad ia much mora naadad for this
reason. 11m road bain* built by tha
Virginia highway commission, togath
ar with tha atratcb from Mt. Airy,
will , ai i mdtog to Mr. Byarly, opan
up Carroll county, Wytho and othar
counties of Virginia to North Caro
liflt . a. •
In rafaronoa to roada leading from
this city to Mount Airy, Mr. Byerly
pointod out that at thia time work
ia prograaaing rapidly on tha road
from Pilot Mount to Mount Airy,
which will ba opanad about Sep
taibar 1. Thia will giv* • hard aur
faca road orar thia atratoh. Tha
Stokea county highway commiaaion
ia alao buay ollinc the road from tha
Stokaa-Foraytk Una to Pilot Moun
tain and tha county and ateta forces
are busy on the hard aurface road
from thia city to the Stokea line.
When all of thaaa roads are complet
ed it will five a hard aurface road
practically all tha way from Mount
Airy to thia city, with the exception
of about eight miles of oil rfcad. be
tween the Stokee-Forayth line and
Pilot Mountain, which will be main
tained in excellent condition at all
timea.
The roads leading into Mount Airy
from the weet and the eaat are good,
according to Mr. Byarly. altho the
prMeipal travel ia over the roads
leading from the north and front the
south.
Mr. Byerly aa haa been said, la
ntoet optimistic over the future of
thia section of the country and with
the opening of the new hard surface
"nada, he believe* that trade will be
increaaed thruout the entire aaetion.
Chicago, Aug Scott «u
Uktn to the Cheater State Hoapital
for the criminal biMM today to begin
nerving the sentence which saved him
from the gallows. Tw» deputy sher
iffi were hit guards.
When the priaoner is formally turn
ed over to the hospital superintendent
at midnight. Sheriff Hoffman, of
Cook county, frill relinquish Jurisdic
tion <»ver the principal in one of the
most dramatic criminal proceedings
in America. Scott has been in the
county jail here since April 7,1924,
and has been under sentence to hang
on five different date*. Each time
a new legal process rescued him.
Thursday evening a Jury found him
iyane.
He goes to Cheater with the death
sentence still hanging over him
should he ever regain sanity.
Dro^Tx) MiUa Witk Daad
Lam on t*. Mo., Aug. IS.—Everett
Adams drove for more than SO miles
with the dead body of A. K. Clawson.
Lodi. N. Y , school teacher, propped
up beside him before depositing h in
• ditch along a lonely road three and
a half miles southwest of hers, In the
belief of officials investigating the
case since the finding of the body
early yesterday.
The 17-year-old Wilmington, Ohio,
youth ahot Clawson while he was
driving his car near OttorvUJe, Mo.,
M miles east, propped the body up
In the seat beside him. and then
drove through Seradia and Lam onto
to the culvert en the little-traveled
road where the body was found.
There ware no definite marks on
the body to show that Clawson had
haea ahot An autopey la Impossible
because of the condition of the body,
the rnrnaar said.
The place wSere the body was found
only eight miles out ttom Cape Oris*
Nh am a fourth attempt to nria tha
Engliah Channel today. MIm I.ltliaa
Harrison, of Arg*ri*w, mm foread
to (N up bMHN of atcone tr-i*
■raw current*.
Miaa Harriaon took tlM mttr at
Gria-Mes at lf:lf p. aa. Hm ms waa
amooth at the time, thara waa little
wind and the orator waa not aa chilly,
but whan ahe waa a aaila oat a atom
of rain and hall hroha and greatly
retarded har.
Extraordinarily atlai curranta
<-arri*d har fhrthar south than haa
been uaual In tha hiatory of channel
■wimming. Har pregreaa waa alowrw
than on har preceding at tempt a and
aha waa ontinoally running behind
her achedale undar whiah aha ahopld
>_ra been 10 mllaa out hi tha channal
after aix houra of swimming, whara
aa aha had not Tone eight mllaa.
Still aha plugged an for aa nmir
and a half mora, then having been
in the water nearly eight how a. Bat
»he found har taak waa froitleaa
againat the treacherous curranta and
finally decided to ghre up.
Miaa Harriaon waa aupremely con
fident when ahe parted and waa par
ticularly heartened by tha outbursts
of cheering and applaoae from spec
tators lining the cliffs.
Alaseet Loot Ufa
Lillian Harriaon nearly laat har
life today by drowning in har fearth
unaacceasful attempt to aortal the
Engliah Channel. Only prompt work
by Inhale Helmy, aa Egyptian swim
mer, who waa in the water pacing
her. prevented her from going to tha
bottom.
"Catch me, Helmy, I am gniatf
down, Miaa Harriaon auddenly ex
claimed while apparently awimming
strong. She lurched forward, caught
the Egyptian by the neck and nearly,
fainted She waa then hauled aboard
the accompanying tug and brought
back to Boulogne.
"This is my laat attempt," aaid the
little Argentine «trimmer aa ahe
reached the deck of the tog In a
•emi-conacioas state at 7:17 o'clock
•hia evening, after having been bi
the water 7 houra and 8 minute*.
"The channel ia too much for-me."
BAD CROP CONDITIONS IN
WESTERN NORTH CARO
LINA
E. S. Millaaps Return From
Trip Through Stwwl Coun
ties
Ststenville, August lf.th.—E. S.
MilUaps. district farm demos
atration agent ywho has just returned
from a trip Jktmgh western North
Carolina, east Tennessee and south
west Virginia, reports distressing de
vastation in many sections resulting
from the almost unprecedented
drouth which remains unbroken. In
the trip, which was one of recreation
and sightseeing, about K25 miles were
covered. The places visited included
Blowing Rock, Boone, LfnriUe and
Newland. N. C.; Mountain City,
Tenn., and Lamaacua, Va.
"I have often visited the mountain
sections during, the summer," said Mr.
MilUaps, "fend always the mountains
and pasture* were green, but in every
section I visited <« this trip the pas
tures were hare, the meadows thpugh
mown were destitute of a new growth
nf graaa and the hay stacks were
ratteriag. The cabbage crop, while
extensive in acreage, is poor. The
plants are making poor heads and
have that b^ue appearance our cab
bage have in hot, dry weather. The
< are in all the mountain territory is
suffering as badly as ear crops hare.
All corn is badly dwarfed, the taaseis
are dead and that means failure of a
grain crop.
"Here and there may be seen small
areas where showers have otcuriod
and rrops and graaa hare net suffer
ed, hut in all thia territory the drouth
is the severest It has ever been
known te he. The crepe in the val
leys along the streams are good and
it is a great relief to pass from the
drouth-atricket areas and sas the Ins
urious growth of all crops la the val
leys
It is distressing to see the devas
tation in Watauga aad Avery rwm
tiea where showers normally o~cur
ktmost every day la the summer Nat
only arc the crops a failure, hot the
timbers are dying la away places "
A
iiimm fro* Wtiwnrit
called ataaptog this
try, bnt in na war
African sleeping «>«lm«M which It be
lieved to WN few* the bite of the
fly. hftoMMtiM of the brain,
in the African ibtpini aickneaa te the
of lather git eneephalMa
The exact cauaa of lethargic en
cephalitis never bna baan determined,
far It In n dlaim that anljr nsrhU
riant pmtbnqr to canaa exten
rinnwh In tha laat ton ymr%
It r«namll)r follow* attack* of at bar
_1: »' ■ - a_ . « ^n_ .
pPrMvHiHrl|r iHTIlMnUI HilQ
infantile paralysis, slthough It Ha not
»i*her to contract lethargic enceph
alitis. Aji epidemic In 1*1* and Itlt
fottowad tha Influensa rpidank. Maw
York CHjr two years ago had many
'■aaaa, bat there at* few caaaa now.
Became HI J ana 14
Mra. Morgan flr.t bacama ill June
14. Sha had attended »kaa at St.
John'* Bpiacopal Church her* and
. oaplained feeling 01 ahartiy after
ward*. Her condition-rapid
woraa and before tha day
hnoband, who waa milling Lang la
land Sound on hia yacht, Caraair, waa
On the Thuraday following tha in
ception of her lllnaaa bar condition
became critical and a Mood tranafu
nion waa made'. Tha tranafnaion waa
i'»naidarad successful and aha rallied
remarkably. From than on her con
dition alternated between prograaa
and relapee until about July 1, when
she began to ahow atendy improve
ment. At timea ahe waa in a state of
coma and other timea, though her
•yen were wide open, aha waa unable
to recognise frienda. according to
•one of thoae who were cloae to bar
during the illneea.
There waa a • toady improvement,
and soon the attending phyaiciaaa is
sued balletins that there waa every
indication that ahe would complexly
regain her health, though convales
cence would ba alow
A few daya Sgo there waa another
relapse. Only the cloaeat frienda, of
the family ware informed of this, but
Mr. Morgnn canceled nil b—him and
social engagements and remained al
most constantly at bin wife's bedside.
Dr. Charles L. Dana, ex-President
of the New York Academy of Medi
cine has deacribed encephalitis in this
way:
>u-.-pinr siiknru of the kind that
has been occupying pubHc attention
of late year* it practically a new 4b
eaae to modern medicine, although
«ome ^physicians affirm that it ac
tually roes back to Hippocratea. Ha
true name ia encephalitia lethargic,
and it haa nothing to do with the Af
rican sleeping sickness, which i>
earned by the bite of a fly. Alao, it
is communicable, which the African
disease ia not. No ge»m affects the
nervous system ia as vartod a way
as encephalitia. It may cauae Insan
ity, paralyais. neuralgia, tresaors,
prolonged sloop or prolonged insom
nia."
Other authoritiea point ou\ that
while the chief symptom of the Afri
can disease ia slaeping, the features of
somnolency are comparatively minor
in lampkslltis. It causes Ihm»
able aervous disorders, some eery
dangerous, bat many self curing, phy
sician* My.
Mrs. Morgan, like her hue band ear
ed little fer social life. Her social
sctteMea ware confined aha set <p->
tirely to use of her name to chaAty
affair* gtvmi by society aad to * few
small daacee and iMimeia, given to her
tow* home. Ko Ml Madison Avnm,
fer bar children, to whom she d*vatad
moat of bar time. Her name seldom
appeared to new* soounts of *ociety"s
functions and she Ihpsd entirely apart
fmm p*Uk or social bf*
She *h a frequent contributor to
. Hartty, particularly to institntiosis
hot the *to**«faw V»«y* were
Hatod olntly with thooe <of her hue
bo«d
bf opt to* and
1490 aarm of
creat of the Dm RMft at a point
tfcon tha village of Low gap and
overlooking Mount Alrjr and Galax.
The praUnkwrr plant nl for tka
unit of a hotel
building of a
alone Mm crnat of tha
front the Fancy -Gap link
of tha Lake#-to-Florida highway hjr
tha hotel ah* and connecting with tha
Lowgnp highway and tha Soaring
Gap highway and tha building of a
dam that win form a pleasurs lain
covering over 100 acres. On Chestnut
Creek Immediately back of tha hotel
•Ite nature hae provided everything
necoaaary for the lake. A dam 128
feet long and «0 feet kigh will im
pound enough of the crystal clear
water to ipraad over the hundred or
more acres aatuiad for the purpose.
Just below tha proposed lake is a
large rxpanaa of BMadow and rolling
prairie which has been secured for
a joint country dub and golf Hnka.
The promoters of this development
justly claim that a more ideal location
could not he found along the entire
stretch of the Blue Ridge, and to sup
port this contention they point oat
that nowhere etae has nature wrought
» more perfect summer playground
or Uaaed the earth with a more ideal
summdr climate. With a greater
altitude than Asheville, a wider hori
zon tk in Blowing Rock or Roaring
Gap and with an expanse of virgin
forest unequalled anywhere, this site
bids fair to become in a very few
v«rs the rival of any resort In the
Southland.
A nuatwr at cold mountain stream*
hi the immediate vicinity of the hotel
*ite already afford fair trout fishing,
notwithstanding the fnct that they
have never been storked with fish
except as nature has provided a nat
ural haven for them to dude the sat
and the spear of their enemies. By
•tockinr these streams with trout
fingerlings from the state hatcheries
and keeping a ririd closed season for
a year or two the streams adjacent
to this resort will afford in time the
finest sport for the angler to he
found in the entire state. Even now
the expert with the rod and reel can
take a fair catch, and in oqp of the
brooks where a few yean ago rain
how trout were introduced the pres
ent season sow beauties were taken
that would gladden the heart of a
confirmed flohe-trotter.
That this development is ideally
situated is apparent from the fact
that It is only t4 miles from Mount
Airy and eight miles from Galax. The
business men in these localities like
J. B. Sparger, postmaster of Mount
Airy, And J. P. Carico, business man
and financier of Galax, both of whom
it ia understood are interested in see
ing the project go through, realise
that the citisens of these thriving
towns, as wall as those of WHiston
Salem, Gastonia and Greensboro,
need a nearby place where they can
wptrni a few days or weeks tat sum
msr with their families.
One of the most significant facts
about the whole project came about
the past week. Mr. Watts and Mr.
Rudy ware both working Ilka moles
trying to secure all ths acrsags they
<im»< necessary for the project
without letting the ouUids world
knew what they were skint While
Mr. Wolta hails frem Oastenia and
has several clients who ars Interested
In the deal aa a whole, ha thanght
'hat te could keep his operations se
cret until such a time as It ems
thought best to give thssa oat to ths
papw*. Bgt In ths midst of things
• woman In a limousine and hailing
from High Point came to 0* Lewgnp
section right •doer- to the
hotod site and quietly pjrehassd It
hsaae ths prseent week task "tops to
buy a small paresi ai ground for a
summer cMip ft la Mm that
i ,
in thto Mir mi womod to W to
ON It for the peat two weoha U»
i the me ■Willi!!1 ud iaqofcing'^fcMt
th« new kotal aft*. Wrb riM|i
, in view of Am! that htttoeto
nothing hu been mM too* It to tho
paMfe
COAL BOW SHOWS NO
SIGN OF ADJUSTMENT
Omtf Twt V«tb ■—to to
Which to Avoid Strike
ladk Sfato Stahton
fblliMfUt, Aug. Id.—Onlr *mm
try to to knows definitely whether it
ja«ate to to Mffar Iriyiiiplto at Ito
•apply rf hard coal far whtor ton
and flIMM ky • MMpMHiM to 4W
m tori *0*1 mines to imlliiiitoi
Pennsylvania on the put at the Mr
000 mine workan.
Tonight st headquarter* bmoflto
operator* and miners, now at lag—
t heada over renewal at tka wage earn
tract expiring Anrust 11, no aign ap
Taata of sentiaBeat of verioua looi
' era indicate neither aide to dtopoaad
| to www toon the Mjrtittoa brok
en off Augaot 4 In Atlantic City.
The United Mine Workers "da not
; work without a contract" they nay.
Fixed far War ^ N«
Since the break at the whan
' both operator* an)1 miner* bare ra
in trenched themselves m their an
nounced opposition to each otoar.
Operator* have reiterated tha
danger of a public boycott if they
let the price of bard coal go any high
er. They have repeated that thia
prevents their *—anting to any term
in the new contract, such aa the re
quest for a 10 per cent wage increase
i for contract miners aad 91 a day ad
, ditional for all day worker., which
would to any way increase preeetft^
production cost.
With the outlook unsettled, tha ceal
anthracite trade and public are re
ported to be taking emergency pre
cautions
Werkfcag Tap Speed
Work at the mines la proceeding at
j top speed, words comes. In order to
store up every extra pound of coal
possible in advance of any untoward
development a fortnight hence. Aa
th recite carry roads indicated ia
i-reasingly heavy shipments.
Meanwhile fleets of retail coal
trucks rushing bulging loads to houoa
hold cellars and to the "coal pockets"
of large industrial uaers are reported
familiar sights on the streets of largo
eastern cities.
Boy in Malom Patch Shot by
Durham, A Off. l&.-Jim Herndoa.
farmer of Durham county, arms today
required to give hail of $800 to hold
him pending the outcome of the eom
ditioa of William Lonaford, 16 year
•■Id youth of Eaat Durham, who wae
♦erioualy wounded when ihot In the
hack with a load of small ahot when
he and aeveral other* entered a water
melon patch on the Herndoa farm
•hree mile* from here. The epiaode
occurred Tharaday night and two
| days elapsed before the affair hsraima
known publltly and Herndon was ap
1 -»_ -1
pi I IIHIllfU.
Parent* of the youth and hospital
aothoritiea endeavored to qua ah the
I 1 -* a a « > a - a a.
nriQrfii, wVk ix n rkn on I ' nr"Ujn
companions of the injured youth.
AHhoa«h owe aha* penetrated the
rifht hmg at Lunaford hie wa^di
wffl Ml prove fatal aaleae ■■fine
Daarffle, Pi, Aug. 14.—The
fit of Sitting Ball, faanw Hon
Indian ehktftiin, iwniilin df x
by Mrs. Emma Heller te the Wyoeatog *
Historical Society af WWma-Sana
for «M0.