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VOL. XXVII.__ VADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, MAY lil. iO.ii. r XC*ifT~
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Prehistoric Kcckslna Rian of
South America Were Skillful.
Scraped the Bone With Knives of
Stone or Obsidian and Covered
Hole With Gourd.
New York.—Prehistoric Indians of
South America had crude medicine
men who removed splinters of arrow
heads and stone bludgeons from
.wounded warriors by cutting through
the skull with knives of stone or ob
sidian- and other simple instruments
.wrought from copper and bronze.
Sometimes the patient lived; frequent
ly he went to the happy hunting
grounds.
These uncomfortable treatments of
Serious casualties from tribal skirm
ishes still continue in remote areas of
Bolivia. Evidence of this has been
gathered by field workers from the
American Museum of Natural History.
Of nearly 1,200 skulls collected in
South America by. the late Dr. Adolph
Bandolier for exhibition in the mu
seum, about 5 per cent has been oper
ated upon.* To surgeons the practice
is known as trephining. It consists
of removing a disk or button of bone
from the skull with a saw called a
trephine.
Complex fracture of the skull with
depression of the bony plates must
^ave been common occurrences dur
ing the ancient tribal wars when clubs
beaded with stone and copper along
With slings, the “bola” and the “lliui”
Were offensive weapons, said the re
ports of the museum’s investigators.
A natural procedure, they opined,
with victims who survived skull frac
tures must have been attempts to re
move the splinters of bone that
pricked the brain, or to cut out frag
ments pressing upon it.
Warlike clans fight intermittently
even today in the wilds of Bolivia and
skull fractures are common. Other
heads are perforated now and then in
the bacchanals and festivals whooped
up occasionally with' great quanti
ties of intoxicants, the investigators
reported.
When the laughter and the free-for
alls quiet down, the medicine men
get out 1heir sharp pocket knives and
make incisions inlo the injured skulls
of the sufferers, frequently covering
the apperture with gourd. During the
operation they scrape around the
wound with a chisel.
Modern anesthetics are unknown to
the medicine men. They put their pa
tient into insensibility by constant
use of the “coca” plant. This also is
employed for healing purposes and is
icomroonly applied to wounds, bruises
land contusions.
! TRACES TB. TO BAD TEETH
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fr. Dr. Thomas J. Ryan, noted dental
scientist and writer on dental topics,
declares in his latest bow, “Teeth and
Health,” that lie has traced tuber
culosis to decayed teeth and foul
mouths. His experiments also show
■T tthat Bright’s disease and epilepsy
«ean be the result of infected teeth.
Doctor Ryan urges the establishment
(flk H)f municipal dental X-ray clinics to
•check these perils.
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| A Real Constable on the Job.
. Louisa, Ky.—Mose Maynard, con
stable, delivered J. D. Brownnig to
the Wayne Jail, but only after an ex
citing experience. Browning Jumped
from a train near Coleman and
plunged into a river. Maynard fol
lowed. The constable had the fastest
vtroke and caught his man as he
tcrambled out on the opposite shore.
Then together they walked eight miles
In their wet clothes to Wayne.
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BERLIN PLOTTERS TO PRISON.
Eleven Reds Nabbed in Blast Attempts
Given Long Terms cf
Imprisonment.
Berlin—Eleven communists, con
victed of having made the recent
attempt to blow up the victory
monument in the Koenig j^atz. \vei«
sentenced to long terms of imprison
meet in the penitentiary.
The evidence implicated Eoelez, one
of the alleged leaders of the communist
uprising in middle Germany who v as
arrested in Berlin April 15, and now
is locked up in the Moabit jail in this
city. The attempt to blow up the
victory monument was frustrated by
the police, who discovered a box con
taining four pounds of dynamite tad
other explosives some distance up the
monument and tore away a lighted
fuse leading to the box.
Herr Talheimer. editor of the Bote
Fahna (red Hag) the organ of the
communists, has been placed under
arrest.
Jail for Life Saving.
Omaha, Net).—Saving a man from
death in a water-filled hole beneath a
burning shanty at the Dietz club here
the other day may result in a prison
term for C. M. Wallace, who was ar
rested by the police, charged with au
tomobile theft after they had read of
his heroic deed in the papers. Wal
lace escaped the police recently and
had been in hiding. When summoned
by the screams of a woman calling
for help 1'rom a manhole he ran to the
rescue. Two hours later he was it
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SUNFLOWER SEED GOOD FEED
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For Growing Animals or Laying Hens
Material Is Considered Superior
to Grain.
Limited feeding tests with sunflower
seed compared to grains show them to
he of about equal value. From the?’
composition sunflower seed should
have about the same value as mixed
corn and oats. The sunflower seed is
higher in protein than corn or oats, but
is also higher in crude fiber than corn
or oats grains. For growing animals
,sc la; ir.g hens probably ihe sunflower
seed would be somewhat heller than
grain.
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I; Solons Send Pages $
to Witness Circus ||
;; Sacramento, Cal. — “Mister J>
\\ Speaker-r-!” “This is circus J;
!| day,” said Assemblyman Frank J|
!| L. Coombs, wlaen the assembly J|
!| convened. “I think tint if this i;
! assembly could take a day off j;
! yesterday to go to the ball !;
j 1 game It might det the pages <;
! hav« the afternoon to go to the !
’ circus. We were all boys once, <!
' except those til»■ us who were < '•
j girls.” ThenjfJJt jCoombs, whose ;
|» suggestion was approved unani- |>
;j niously, gilded the lily by tak- jj
); ing up a collection to pay the J;
£ pages’ admission, buy their pea- J
2 nut*; and otherwise make the J
z day bright, and five small boys t
u step: rg hiyh and «nuHrig wide- •
> !y ]' foi* the lair f! • .-I.
y .wectitig behemoth.
Notice
North Carolina
Yadkin County
S. G. Miller and
T. F. Miller
vs
M. H. Branon
In Superior
Court
Sefvice by
Publication
The defendant above named
will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been com
menced in the Superior court of
Yadkin county, arising upon a
promisory note, dated October
16th, 1919, for two hundred and
fifty dollars, given by the de
fendant to the pMlitiffs, and
that the plaintiffs h&ve taken
out a warrant of attachment
against the property of the de
fendant; and the said defendant
will further take notice that he
j is required to appear before the
1 Clerk of the Superior Court of
Yadkin county, at his office in
Yadkinville on Tuesday, the 7th
day of June, 1921, at 2 o’clock p.
m. and answer or demur to the
1 complaint, or the plaintiffs will
apply to the court for the telief
demanded in said complaint.
This the 3rd day of May, 1921.
' J. L. CRATER,
Clerk of Superior Court. 1
State JN'ews Items
Larkin Smith, colored, feii
from the top of a 40-foot tower
at Carthage the other day. He
landed on his head, got up and
scratched his head and returned
to work, unhurt.
Marcus towards, serving a
life sentence ior killing his wife
in Wake county in 1918, has es
caped from the penitentiary.
The 75-ioot flag pole and
monument on the courthouse
square at Winston, erected in
memory of the men from For
syth county who lost their lives
in the great world war, will be
unveiled May 3oth.
The Mcrgunto^f News-Herald
says that the School for the
Deaf has a Holstein-Fresian cow
six years old that gives over nine
gallons of milk a day.
Statesville capitalists* are to
erect a modern 70-room hotel in |
that city.
James G. Stikeleather,former
ly of Iredell, now living in Ashe
ville, was seriously injured last
week when his car went over an
embankment near Canton.
James Thompson, a mail car
rier of Alamance county, was
killed recently when his horse
became frightened at a passing
motor cycle and threw him
from the buggy, breaking his
neck.
Thieves broke into a store in
Lexington a few nights ago and
stole 35,000 cigars. Nothing else
in the store was disturbed.
Carl Talley, a member of the
gang of blockuders thai killed i
Policeman McCuiston of Greens-;
boro, is reported to hiding near!
Danville, Va., disguised as a
woman.
Mrs. Effie Scott was divorced
from her husband, Lin Scott, in
Lexington last week and marri
ed another man in forty-five;
minutes. She gave her age as
15 and stated she was married
to Scott before reaching 14.
Postoffice clerks in several
cities have been.given pistols by
the government- This is done
On account of so many postof
fice robberies.
David D. Lindsay, of Marion,
Indiana, has bought the Fayette
ville Observer from John A.
Park and has taken charge.
A cyclone passed through the I
eastern he state Fn* _
afternoon. Around Lumberton,
Clinton and Wilson great dam*
age was done. Near Wilson a
house was blown down and all
seven of the.inmates badly hurt.
George L. Keller, a Charlotte
grocer, was shot and killed Sat
urday night in thai city as he
was passing a dark place. His
body was robbed. Two negroes
are suspected.
General News
At the Southern Baptist Con
vention at Chattanooga last
week Dr. E. Y. Mullins, presi
dent of the Theological Semi
nary at Louisville, was elected
president of the convention.
Mrs. Ora Painter, aged 50,'
was caught by revenue agents
operating a blockading plant at
her home near Luray, Va., the
other day. She had a complete
plant rigged up in her smoke
house.
Mrs. Helen Cox Mahoney,
aged 25, daughter of Ex govern
or James M Cox of Ohio, died
suddenly at her home in Dayton
[Monday.
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!ROAD COMMISSION
i here; interest high
Today is a big day in Yadkin
ville and as we go soberly to
press the town begins to take on
war paint from many factions,
and it looks like now that sheii
holes will be plentiful before
sundown. Road advocates of
ali descriptions and from all sec
tions, from Charlotte to Mount
Airy, are here with a “proposi
tion” to place before the State
Highway Commission which
will hold a meeting here at 10
o’clock ■ today to hear argu
ments,
We say to hear arguments for
lack of a better.word only; the
fact is it looks like the argu
ments were settled in Raleigh
last winter when the road law
was passed with a map attached
to it, providing for a hard-surf
aced road from Winston-Salem
to Boone, by way of Yadkin
ville, Brooks’Cioss Roads and
Wilkesboro.
But now comes the substitute
roads—by Boonville, by Farm
ington, by Hunfsville, by Mount
Airy and the Charlotte way.
! And the State Highway Com
I mission is coming today to hear
them talk and scramble.
‘‘Stand by the. Map”
Winston-Salem, through the
I Kiwanis Club and several other
I organization lias become in
! terested in the matter and their
I slogan is “Stand by the Map” as
adopted by the legislature which
provides lor a through line from
Winston to Boone by Yadkin
ville, Brooks’ Cross Roads and
Wilkesboro. These commer
cial organizations and Winston
generally will be here today in
great numbers with a single aim
in great numbers with a single
aim in view and their next cry,
i and every body will join here,
is to build this road first of all in
the seventh district.
Then there will be delegations
from Farmington, Statesville,
Boonville, Elkin, Mt. Airy- and
j the saints only know where else
| all wanting it to £o their way,
Programme of Yadkinville
High School Commencement
• Thursday, May 19fh, 11:00^A. M.
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- • The ■con)meucement exercises of Yadkinville High]
School will begin on Thursday, May ic£ raid last through
the 20th. On Thursday morning Rev. J. Kenneth Pfohl,
of Home Moravian church, Winstou-Salem, will deliver a
sermon, and on Friday morning Dr. D. D. Carroll, principal
of Chair of Econmics of Chapel Hill, will deliver the annual
address. The school and community are fortunate to have
these able men visit ,us.
Below is Program of Exercises.
Hymn Come Thou Almighty King
Invocation N. E. Gresham
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Chorus God is My Refuge
Scripture Reading
Hymn All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name
Sermon Rev. J. Kenneth Pfohl
Hymn
^Tnrcises ? OA T
Class Poem Loren a Wooten
Class History Della Mae Williams
Solo The Pi^es Gavofch
Class Prophesy Rufus Crater
Last Will and Testament Robert Logan
Children’s Exercises, 8:00 P. M.
Class Motto To Live Nobly, To Speak Truly, To Serve
Class Colors White and Gold
Fishermen Ask Supreme Court of
United States to Pass on
Age-Old Question.
Washington.—The age-old question
of whether a clam is a migratory fish
came to the Supreme court for de
cision.
Mussel fishermen operating on Lit
tle river, Mo., appealed for a review
of decisions holding that removal of
the.shellfish from a public stream
passing through private property was
“trespass,” despite state laws vesting
all rights to game and fish in the
public.
The lower court held that “the
fresh-water mussel Is a shellfish
capable of locomotion sufficient to
bring It within the category of migra
! Wry fish.”
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California Woman Also Calls Her
Dog-Catcher; Will Serve
150 Days.
San Diego, Cal.—County Jmtire ,!
Edward Keating was bon.
with eggs in his court here by .\b
Bertha Polak of East"San Diego, who
was arraigned on a charge of h . vi: ..
violated her parole following convic
tion for disturbing the peace. i...
Keating asked if she had adytlb' g tc
say. - »• “ ‘
“Yes, I have,” she replied. “You!
think you’re a judge, don’t you? A'el!,
you’re hot; you’re a dog-catcher.”
Before the court attendants could
reach her, she threw three eggs at j
the Judge, all taking effect.
The judge ordered that she serve
the In© days’ jufl sent cnee originally
posed on hf-rv ^
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Pai'soiiag'j Mailer
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Iki 60 to 0 ,1
While Boonvitle and her i 1
advisors'g£> ahead -viih pLu . o
h-ihJ a personage that should
main in Yadkinville, this ».»• f
i the Methodist congregation, t
! is those wiio were not x>lck* p
body and soul and thrown cu« >f
the church that the/ might lu.ve
no voice in its proceeding; , ;e
going quietly along with pro
ceedings that before lung may
throvv a •bombshell into me
Boonville plans
Local attorneys, as wed, as
some oi state wide reputation,
have been employed, so we un
derstand, to take the matter of
the sale of the parsonage to the
courts. This action, they say, is
based on the discipline of said
! church which plainly says cer
tain things must be done which
it is alleged, have not been done.
Center News
We are sorry lu say that Mrs.
Julia Whitaker has moved to
Winston-Salem.
Glad to say Mr. Lee Sprouse,
oi Winston-Salem, has moved to
our town and opened up a store.
We are gian io nave Mr. Sprous
with us again. , Ae is a jolly
good fellow.
Mr. anclv Mrs. Barnet Smith
and lamuy \,eie visiting Mr.
and Mrs, J. B. Long Sunday.
Miss Ruth Whitaker visited
Miss udiu vVhite Sunday.
TVirs. j. in. Heholi "aifd chil
dren spent Sainiuu.y (iu Loon
ville shopping.
Several of our young ioihs at
tended die ice cicttin supper at
Brannon’s Satiuuay night.
Mr. John Bales and son,
i ietcher, went to Wiuston Sat
urday on business.
Miss Ddra Ireland and mother
visited Mrs. Sarah Pcndry Sun
day.
Mr. Maivin Wagoner and
children visited in Wins ton \ Sat
urday.
We are sorry to say that Miss
Adelia Whin:: li L .,iitr.e(i,.u>
her room. Lope s.ie ..hi .soon
j be out a„aia
\\e U;'' g:;u! to sv. Mr. Will
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