VOL. XXVI. _Y ADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920 No.
(H. COX Ml
ROOSEVELT IRE
NOMINATED BY
THE DEICMTS
San Francisco, Cal., July 6th.
—Gov. James M. Cox of Ohjo
was nominated by the Demo
cratic nattonal convention for
President of the United Stetes,
' this morning at 1:34 o’clock after
the convention had been in ses
sion for more than a week. Cox
was nominated on the 44th bal
lot, and after Atty. Gen. Palmer
had released his delegates.
Franklin T. Roosevelt was
nominated for vice president by
acclamation. Roosevelt is as
assistant secretary of the navy
and a native of New York State.
“Lie And Kill” Club
High Point, June 25.—A story
so strange and almost unbe
lievable that it would well fill a
♦dime thriller or else be classed
as born of a lazy reporter’s im
agination was unearthed in po
lice court here this morning
when Frank Snipes, a white
ijnan from Forsyth county, was
^arraigned under a charge of re
ceiving stoled goods from the
smembers of the “Lie and Kill”
dub, an alleged gang of thieves
^organized in Winston-Salem and
'which is said to have functioned
to some extent in Lexington,
‘Greensboro, Statesville, Thom
vasville ahd High Point.
According to members of the
dub who took the stand their
(purpose was to take whatever
they could get and kill whoev
er happened to interfere with
them.
Coming to High Point one
might during the midd'e of
March, the band selected as its
zone of action the rear of the
store of the Beeson Hardware
Company which happens to be
exactly rn front of police head
quarters. The thieves actuatly
parked their car almost in the
door of police headquarters,
forced their way into the hard
ware store, carried out a num
ber of guns and knives and a
quantity of ammunition and
then returned to Winston-Salem.
Police officers, evidence dis
closed have been working on the
case for some few weeks and a
day or so ago conditions were
ripe for the arrest of Snipes, it is
said. It is alleged that his farm,
located about three miles from
the Twin City was used as head
quarters and a place for storage
by the “lie and kill” organiza
tion.
The State introduced today as
its chief witness one Paul Liv
engood, purporting to have been
the very “life of the party,” with
an ei£ht*cyiinder automobile
and acting as recorder, or secre
tary, of the club. And a spon
sor of the order, a Miss Cook,
was introduced, both testifying
that their home was in Forsyth
county jail where they boarded
with that sheriff. Following the
hearing of the evidence, Snipes
was held for appearance before
a superior court grnadjury under
A bond of $3,000, while the re
corder and sponsor were each
- held as material witnesses under
bonds of $500.
PoindeXter-Speas
At the home of the bride near
East Bend Thursday night Miss
Lucy Speas became the bride of
Mr. C- Brooks Poindexter of
Winston-Salem, the ceremony
being performed by Rev. J; M.
Ridenhour.
The bride is the handsome
and acompiisned daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Speas and
has many friends over the State
who will oe interested to Ram
of her fc appy marriage. Mr.
Poindexter is a son of Mr. A. R.
Poindexter of Boonville, and has
been a leading attorney in Win
ston for several years. He is
very popular and nnmbers his
friends by his acquaintances.
Reece-Davis
A very quiet wedding was
solemnized at the home of the
bride at East Bend Wednesday
night when Miss Ina Davis of
that place became the bride of
Mr. J. Thad Reece of Yadkin
ville. Rev. J, E. Robinson of the
Presbyterian church performed
the ceremony. Only a few inti
mate friends and relatives of the
couple witnessed the ceremony.
Miss Davis is a very popular
young lady and has engaged in
teaching the past few years at
which she has been a success and
gained many friends. Mr. Reece
is a young business man and at
present is Supt. of schools in
Yadkin County. They will
make their home here.
Thursday night the couple
were given an old time belling
at which all the old Saws, bells,
tin buckets, etc,, were brought
into play.
Crossing- Accidents
About 1,500 persons were kill
ed at railroad crossings in the
United States last year. Most of
them were in automobiles Some
didn’t look; others didn’t listen,
and very many tried to beat the
train across the tracks.
Men waste hours and hoard
seconds. A fellow will loaf all
day ar:d then risk his life in his
hurry to cross a congested
street, or race across a track
ahead of a train, io save a min
ute ! It’s a poor sort of thrift.
What’s the hurry? It’s better
to get there late than not at all.
Everybody knows this, of course.
But the headline that tells of a
family wiped out at a crossing
has become a commonplace of
the news.
Office of Farm Demonstra
tor Abolished
ihe county commissioners
met in regular monthly session
Monday and attended to many
routine mattere, paid bills for the
past month and drew a jury to
serve at the August term of court.
They also took up the matter
of economizing the county ex
oenses and made two substan
tial reductions. One was at the
I county home where many dol
lars worth of merchandise goes
each month and a lot of which
can be purchased wholesale and
a good per cent saved. Ar
rangemenrs were made with a
wholesale house to furnish these
things, which, in a year, will be
a considerable saving.
Action was taken in regard to
abolishing the office of county
farm Demonstrator. It was de
cided to abolish this office to
take effect Oct. 1st, aH three
commissioners voting to do
away with it*
Subscribe For The Kipple
REVALUATION AS ✓
ADMINISTERED
Simply Illustration of How
This Act Really Farms
The Farmer, By
F. A, Linney.
I think a simple illustration on
the practical operation of revalu
ation will convince any farmer
that its effect will be to shift the
burden of taxes to real estate. In
1915 a farmer owned s piece of
land assessed at $100. He had
three friends w 10 lived in town.
One of them had a note and a
mortgage of $100; the other had a
share of stock in a foreign cor
poration worth $100, and the
other had a hundred dollars in
money. So each of them was
assessed at $100. The rate of
taxes for State and county pur
poses was a dollar on the hun
dred, so the farmer and his three
friends each paid jone dollar tax
es.
In 1920 the farmer’s land was
assessed at $400; his friend’s note
and mortgage at $100; the shares
of stock in the foreign corpora
tion, by the generosity of the
last Legislature,-is exempted en
tirely from taxation; and his
friend’s note and mortgage at
$100. Now we are told by the
“evangels of truth and honesty”
in taxation that the remedy now
is to reduce the rate. Suppose
we reduce the rate to 25 cents
what is the result? The farmer
pays a dollar as he did in 1915;
his friend .who holds the note
and mortgage pays 25 cents; his
bond holding friend pays noth
ing at all because he has been
entirely exempted; and his
friend who has the money, pays
25 cents.
In his reassessment of $400
worth of property, we have lost
$2.50 in taxes, but the farmer still
pays his one dollar, and no re
lief is found for him. Now, will
some “evangel of truth and hon
esty” tell me why the shares of
corporation stock should De tax
free, and the burden piled high
er on the farmer?
Now, who pays this $2.50 of
taxes that we have taken off of
the tax of the holder of notes and
mortgages, money and stock in
corporations? If the farmers’s
land has been assessed at eight
times what it was assessed at in
1915, then he will pay back one
dollar of this $2. 50.
If you think this is an .equita
ble and just system you should
vote the Democratic ticket this
fall — Union Republican.
Courtney News
The weather continues warm
and diy, heat threshing will
soon begin in onr neighborhood.
Mr. Earnest Baity ane Darnin
Essie of Winston were here Sas
urclay to attend the picnic.
Mr. and Mrs, Lee oi Winston
were visiting Mr. WT. H. Allgood
Sunday.
Mis Manilla Craver came home
Satnrdav from Greensboro
where she has been attending
summer School. She will return
today,
Mrs. T. A. Holton and children
of Marion are spending some time
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
C. E. Craver.
There will be a play, broken
Links,” given at Boonvillc July
10th by the young people of
Courtney. The preeeeds to
paint the church. Fverybody in
vited to attend.
Mrs. J. M. Craver andJittle son
Harlan of Concord are spending
some time with her mother, Mrs.
Cooley,
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Mrs. Mary Settle Sharpe.
The first woman in North
Carolina to be nominated far a
State office. She was nominat
ed by the Republicans for State
Supt. of Public Instruction.
Program of Forbush S. S.
Convention
The Forbush Township Sun
day School Convention will
meet with the Enon Sunday
School the second Sunday in J u
ly at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Song services by the Enon Sun
day School, conducted by P. L.
Kiger at 10:20. Scripture lesson
by John W. Doub.
Invocation hymn,“Jesus, Lov
er of My Soul,” by the conven
tion, lead by P. L. Kiger.
Prayer service, led by John W.
Doub. Song, “Pass Me Not,
Oh, Gentle Saviour,” by the. con
vention, led by P, L. Kiger.
Address of welcome by J. H.
Saylor. Response by J. H. Eat
on. 11 o’clock left open for an
nual address. Appointing com
mittee on time and place. Nam
ing of officers.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Ten minutes song service by
the convention.
Two recrtations from each
Sunday School in the township,
by some young lady or little
girl, Interspersed with a song.
Five minute talks on the best
and most successful method of
conducting a Sunday School, by
L. A. Speas, S. H. Brewbaker,
S.E Kelley, S. L. Doub, J. H.
Saylor, J. H. Eaton, E. J. Eaton,
E. T. Davis aad others. 3
o’clock presenting reports from
each Sunday School. Hearing
the reports of the committee on
time and’ place and election of
officers for another year.
The closing hymn, “God be
With You Till We Meet Again,”
by the convention, led by P. L.
Kiger.
All bunday bchools m For
bush township please aUend in a
body, as near as possible.
JOHN W. DOUB, Pres.
Jurors Are Drawn For Ang
ust Court
Following is a list of jurors
drawn to serve at the nest term of
tadkinPsuperior court which con
venes here on August 23:
J. H. Eaton, W. W. Wood
ruff, J. T. E. Norman, J. B. (Ike)
Davis, J, TV. Caudle, Boy Benton
W. R. G. Martin, J. K. Gough, J.
B. Phillips, W. E. Gastevans, H
-J. Steelman, E. S. Hinshaw, L. A.
Brown, R. M. Fletcher, A. M. An
gell, J. H. Huff, J. H. Dobbins,
TV. A. Williams, Gray Smitker
man, J. J, Martin, 1. B. Williams,
O. V. Poindexter, N. A. Nicks, A.
J. Reinhardt, M, L. Shugart, Jon
ah Williams, J. E. Spainliour, C.
L. Cranfill, J, H. Spillman, D. R.
Williams, U. S. Gross, S.L. John
son, J. D. Matthews, C L. John
son, J, F. Motsmger, and L. T.
Cornelius.
TO NUMBER FIJR SEALS
Dra Dallas Hanna Will Make New
Census,
Purpose Is to Determine How Many
Seals Can Be Removed
Each Year.
San Francisco.—Dr. G. Dallas Han
na. a member of the staff of the Cali-,
t'omia xVcademy of Science, has just
left here for Alaska, where he will
make a census of the fur seals on the
Pribiloff jslands, under the direc
tion of the United States bureau of
fisheries.
Doctor Hanna has been connected
w,ith this work each year since 1913.
In 1919 it was reported that there
were-~Q40,000 animals in the herd. In
1910 wbifen the government first took
over the operation of the island in
dustry, there were fewer than 200,000.
During the time when this increase
was taking place enough surplus and
useless males have been killed and
their skins sold at auction to provide
the national treasury with $3,500,000
above all expenses, according to W.
*V. Sargeant, secretary of the Cali
fornia Academy of Science.
The purpose of the census is chiefly
to determine how many animals can
be. safely removed each year and still
provide for a maximum percentage of
increase of the herd. If the increase
in 1920 continues as heretofore, it is
said that there should he about 600,000
of these amphibious fur bearers, by
far the largest herd in existence, as
well as a surplus of about 30,000 males
which can be killed for their skin«.
At current, prices of these furs they
will be valued at about $3,000,000.
“Since the cost of operation will be
.'ess than $200,000, it is quite evident
that this industry Is one of the. best
financial enterprises the government
has,” said Mr. Sargeant.
‘dt is capable of almost unlimited
expansion, provided the females are
protected at sea and the surplus males
aie removed from the herd. The fight
ng of such males on the crowded rook
eries causes a .large mortality among
.he females and ycling.
“The carcasses of the animals killed
■cere formerly allowed to waste, hut
• year a by-product plan was put
into operation by means of which it
s expected a very superior oil and
animal meal will be placed on the
market. The census which will be
taken In 1920 will enable a close ap
roxiinaticn to be made of the quan
tities of these products which will
oe available in the immediate future.”
Mow Crows Over the Doctors.
Huntington, W. Ya— Marguerite, the
twenty-month-old daughter of E. \7.
Stoller anld wife, was slowly wasting
away. Physicians saw no hope of her
recovery. She was seized with a fit
of coughing and a watermelon seed
she had swallowed last September was
disgorged. Now she will get well.
She Served Through Civil
War .
Mrs. Mary A. Fowler, agea
96, who accompanied her hus
band through all the campaigns
of the civil war die^l at Green
ville, S. .C, June 24. Mrs. Fow
ler served as a cook for the Orr
Rifles, South Carolina compa
ny, from the beginning of the
war until the Surrender at A tap
pomattox.
Nurses Wanted
Pupil nurses wanted for State
Hospital at Morganton. $30 per
moutli for beginners, with in
crease fo}- second and third rears
up to $40. Board, room, (sepa
rate from Hospital wards) , laun
dry and uniform furnished. Op
portunity for course in Nurses’
Training School for young wom
en.
Address Superinteudant,
Dr. John McOampbell, Morgan- j
ton, N. C.
Notice To All Dog Owners
In checking up rhe list I find
about one third who haven’t
paid their dog tax. The law
says thej must be paid during
November and all persons fail
ing to do this have violated the
law and are subject to indict
ment. You who haven’t paid]
please arrange to do so AT
ONCE.
C. E. MOXLEY, Sheriff.
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NORTH CAROLS
13 DISAPPL
i A DISTRESSING CUT
IN RICERS AND HA
BY THE CONORS
APPROPRIATION IS f
With but $12,000,000 at
posal, Army Engineers tlj
Have Dene the Best P
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Washington, (Special).—
olina has fared sadly in th«
of funds under the lump su
in the rivers and harbors
next fiscal year. The army
who were delegated unde
with responsibility for the ’
of funds to the various rive
bors of the country, have
decision, and it appears ti
tire North Carolina appropr
prises only $100,000. Tbii
is for the Cape Fear river
low Wilmington.
Various Democratic m«
Congress, including Senatoi
Senator Overman and Rep
Small have charged that tl
can idea of economy was en
and erroneous and this wt
to economize at the exp«
foreign and domestic comm
United States. With frei
throughout the country con
foreign shipping at % low el
sisted that if there ever w
ment for encouragement
waterways, river transpor
harbor development this
moment.
However with only $12
their disposal the army
think thhey have done gh«
sible.
No Tax Free Stock
There are no tax-free <
stocks in North Carolina,
statement that there is has
tion in law or fact. When
advertised as “tax free,”
means that the wner is nt
to list and pay taxes on tb6
the corporations pays all ta;
Bids on Road Projects
Bids were opened by the £
way Commission on three
jects aggregating &6 miles
gravel highway in Sampso
and Forsyth counties. Th
the three bids received wa
The Forsyth and Stanley
and the Sampson county ;
ferred.
! Successful Sohool for Ager
The most successful, e:
and inspiring summer scho
Home Demonstration Agei
State which has yet been
was that held at the Nort
^ollege for Women at (
during the two weeks ei
19th. Such is the estima
Jane McKimmon, the able
cient head of the Home ;
tion work in North Carolin
Mayors to Petitiorr LegisJat
The mayors of North Cart
will ask the special session *
islature in July to except
towns from the ten per
placed on increased revern
the revaluation act, to re
limitation on taxes levied
and twons for the payment
pal or interest of bonds o:
reduce the maximum pen
bonded debt, and to enact
which, until the adJournm<
1921 session of the General
cities and towns may sell t
for the best price obtainal
Urgent Warning to Soldiers
Attention fa called by tij
chapter of the American Re
all ex-service men carrylg g
Insurance that the closinj +
instatement is close at 1
sands of men all over tn<*
have allowed their policie
hut under the liberal terms
ernment will be allowed tc
them up until July 1.
Municipal Association Orga
The North Carolina Muni
elation, which has been do*
ing the war, was organize*:
election of Gallatin Roberts
vllle, president; Sid M. Cla
▼illej vice president; T. T.
Rocky Mount, vice preside
Eldridge, seoretary; W. H.
Winston-Salem, treasurer.
The executive committee
sist of the officers and Li
of Goldsboro and John
Monroe.
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