lit# 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 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 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.