-j * --1- „ ■■■■-■-‘ — ■■--'!-■-'_ _ VOL. XXVII. . VAJDKINVTELP, YADKIN CO., ft. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1921 - \ -N0.31 |7 J ^-.. .....—I -L-U .. 1 ^.'... —Li/.Tl'J-1... lJ 1 ' 1 ■ -LI." S. . ' Mi i -State News Items r •• r) TJ -r A grandstand at the baseball ab^ark at ShGSjy was wrecked by windstorm Che past weekend several persons hurt, Four companies of national guard went into camp at Camp Glenn yesterday. Tney will re gain in camp until the 28th. It is hoped to have President Pardin&attend the State Fair at Raleiglrthis year. The dates are October 17 to 22, and it is hoped to have Mr. Harding speak on one of these days. The Old Hickory Fair will 6e held at Lexington OctobeHl to 14. Dewey Bost, Arthur Aldridge and Paul Rooks were sentenced last week in Iredell Superior court to serve 21) years each at hard labor in the penitentiary. The three ipen beat up James Norman, a jitney driver, and took his car from him. % Will Whitley, aged 40, a prom inent merchant of Greene coun ty, was shot and killed at his to bacco barn one night last week. There is no clue as to the guilty party. W. L. Pettigrew, a Reiasville barber, committed suicide last week by shooting himself at his home there. v - Senator J. E. Kanipe, of Ma lian, has been appointed super visor of the third divison by Mr. Blair. This division embraces 15 counties in western North Carolina. Mrs. WVH. Stewart, wife of Editor Stewart of the Carolina Watchman, Salisbury, has be come totally blind. She is un dergoing treatment by specialist *anu u is hoped her sight may be restored. John Holland, 18 years old,*of Bessemer ^ity, was killed a few days ago when he w'as struck a blow by Dawson Hull while engaged in a friendly boxing match, 1 he Danbury Reporter says the tobacco crop in the Buck isiaud hills section of Stokes con;,!,} is as liae us ever grown, hut in other sections of? the chuuy the crop is almost a fail ure. r Sin rif f Shelton, of Slokes, cut up ami sola at auction last week a bunch oi captured stills. The stihs or ought a >out $65. F-ota tfai* - to one-half a crop ot tobacco is reported in fctoKvs county. k v-r'jju tobacco the Lumber tor Linrket is sai- to have sold lei lair prices Ur week, some seiiini: tor35 cent. Ye pound. YvYKington is ' have a $100. 00d fountain. 1 fountain is to l e erected as a ‘iiioiial to Mr. and yfrs. W. ; Kenan by their son. . * , p > ^ *K* borer worm reported to doing much dam ?• to corn in s'::te sections of > ate. Two little girls w ^ : died by a to1t oMighniugamber ten Saturday. Sr-t. ' other PeTSc ns were seve J • V hocked by iLjijoU, ^•textile sirikt C ncast lias btey ... , and the rfo^ls are reporjL. : o run niv i lull time lull ftjic. oi operatives. \ t - yy j , C igeHauser, at MiLvoiai N. Y., took his sweet er. , Miss Mildred Armstrong, for a sail.the other day. *When the., were 3,000 feet high he % ‘proposed and shejsaid hesitated; at 3JO#, feet shp ^aid “Yes.” They will be married ih day of August-1922, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persom in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This July 27th, 192i, Mr*. A. j. Myers, Executrix. Williams & Reavis, Att’ys. J. C. Sullivan Passed Away Sunday Night / L.~ Mr. J. Cla^rk Sullivan, widfely known citizen of Winston-Sa lem, djed' at his home, there Sun day night. He had been con fined to his room only a few days, but had been in declining health for sevetal months. The direct cause of his death was pnemonia. * I Mr. SullIVan, who was % years old, was bornin Da vidson county. He moved to States ville in early manhood and liv ed there for many years. He sery'ed in the federal revenue service for several years. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. R. T. Holbrook, of- Win ston-Salem, with whom he made his home. Interment was in Statesville Tuesday. Two Btowneo ' ' ; * At Wrightsville » Miss Louise Sloan, of States ville, and Marion Avant, of Wilmington, were drowned at Wrightsville EeaCh Sunday morning. The Jodies Were re covered. The body of Miss Sloan was found floating on the surface, face downward. The body of Miss Ava*.t floated ashore, half mile away. Miss Sloan, who was 21 years old, was the daughter of Mr. ^and Mrs. Jas. L. Sloan, of Statesville, and was visiting rel atives at Wilmingtqn. Funeral and burial *were at Statesville Tuesday. Resolutions of Respect Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom and allwise power has j seen fit to remove from our pres ence our beloved member and secretary of this board, E. C. Mayberry, who died in St. Lukes Hospital, Richmond, Va., July 21, f92l. N Now, therefore, be it resolved, First: That weJ the Board of Road Commissioners ofYadkinr county, in regular meeting as sembled, August 8, 1921, do hereby express bur great appre ciation of the good, faithful and efficient service of Mr. Mayber ry as a member of tK;: bond, who was always ready and-will ing to assume any responsibility of the duties of the board. , - Second; That this board has lest a godti and faithful servant, and the county Of Yadkin a worthy citizen whose example as public official and privase cit izen, we should all emulate. Third: And be it further re solvedHhat this sejsolution be spread upon the minutes of this board and_acopy delivered to the father.of our deceased mem ber, and to the Yadkin Ripple. - -C. S. REA$IS, Chairm’n of Board. D. G.'WAGONER, Sec. to Board. > ’ ——-"*1 - * Steamship Goes Down in Pacific. Many Drowned The steamship, Alaska, struck a rock in the Pacific Saturday night and sank in about half an hour. Forty-eight of the 215 passengers are, missing. The ship was bound from Portland, Ore^to San Francisco when the accidedt occured. A dense fog concealed the treacherous rocks off Blunt’s Reef, where the rocks projects far into the ocean, \yhen the crash came. _.J ‘j ♦ . ■ * ’X ( , •’ ^ i . /" J ‘girf- » - \ ; - , Or. Alexander Against Co-operative Marketing Dr. H. Q. Alexander, former presideBl of the Farmers’ Union spoke to a picnic crowd at Guil ford battleground a few days ago apd bitterly denounced the farmers^co-operative marketing plan. t He declared that all the farm ers might sign up for co-opera tive marketing but it would do no good for the financial agenc ies would still price the pro ducts. ' “That smart young lawyer, Sapko, of California, has told the North Carolina farmers what was accomplished in the co operative marketing of citrus frnitsifl California and only a few farmers grow it. Compare only a few thousand farmers with the thousands^ of farmers all over the state of North Caro lina and there is "no parallel. The problem in California was one of distribution and after this was solved the citrus was ship ped only where there was a de mand for it. Sapiro did not tell the North Carolina farmers that thousands of bushels of citrus fruit was rotting in the orchards of California. The papers have not printed out that the co operative plan has fallen down. Tell me that farmers who make" crops two-thirds of which are made on credit can control prices by a co-operative plan?” The co-operative plan of marketing's fallen down, the speaker pointed out, because there are live million peopie idle and live million people with wages cut and.Uuropean manu facturers are on* the verge of bankruptcy with consumption almost on a starvation ba'sis. World’s Champion Coffee Drinker Uncle Lem Bennett, of Ger manton, Route 1, is, according td all available records, the greatest coffee drinker on eaith. He says he drinks the beverage three times a day, 6 cups to the meal, 18 cups a day, on the av erage, but sometimes he drinks more thanr this, as in the night he fr< 4 \y keeps the pot siz zling on the stove, and . drink§ copiously. U-ncle Lem says that he has consumed coffee on this scale practically all his life, with the exception of a few years when he drank whiskv7* averaging a quart a day, and-during this period he did not use sd much of the narcotic. Estimating his consumption of coffee through out his life, upon the average above quoted, ^ being now 78 years of age, he has drank no less than 17,232 gallons.—Dan bury Reporter. Two Instantly Killed When Car Turns Over James Smith, white chauffeur for Kirk’s Transfer Co., of Salis bury, was instantly killed, a neg ro woman was also killed, and another negro woman and a ne gro man was seriously and probably fatally injuries as a re sult^ a Buick touripg car over* turning down an embankment on the highway three miles east of that city late Friday after noon. The negroes were pas sengers in the car which was op its way to the city when the ad curred.| jMFyit&V V' -.v.-:'" • *C 'W'V ■' ‘S'Mt V ' v' v , Ay V*- ' 'o V ' • Al! Business Ceases While] Lovers Pass By • Business in this block cwas very near thrown into constern ation yesterday morning when a young good looking couple camb walking up Main street holding hands and shoWing oth er* evidences of being afflicted wifK that disease of the'dieart commonly known as “love,” This case was not different from many others that have hap pened since that An&el of ■ old took a rib-from the side of man and made woman, only this one was what you might call public courting and don’t give a cuss who sees it In other words they just fiejd hands and courted on the same as if they had been tramping through some flowery lovers lane with only the birds and butterflies to watch their ec static movements, such only as is indulged in by those afflicted as stated above. So much for the lovers; let them go on their way rejoicing; we will move to the business ceased while the dual proces sion waltzed by. Business could go~hang, if i: liked, but this must be sfeen. perhaps with en vy, perhaps with delight, but it should not gf> unnoticed. The onlookers, mind you, were not all young folk#; some of them were griay headed; some walked ^dth a cane; some wore, no hair at all, but they all manifested the same interest; men whom you would thiqk had forgotten the entrancing days of court ship,- who, you would guess, thought only of business. But not so, the pink of youth re-ap peared, the fire et love again showed in their eyes and all were young once more/ ^ But the lovers passedfrom the streets to their machine on the square and sat for hours enjoy ing the cool breezes of this rare crimate; the stride of the beau tiful old oaks That stand vigil over the red brick court house in which so many hopes and wishes have faded into convict stripes, and where the stern voice of a seemingly rude judge sends piercing words through innocent and guilty souls alike; but nothing bothered them; they thought only gf each other, the^ were wrapped in the love | of each, other; they were ab !SOThe,ra in tile entanHim * ances of love s peculiar grip, So tar US they Were Concerned the rest of jhe world could go b3 » great problems of church and state meant nothing 1o tjiem; the Bolshevics o^Russia could take the world; the Chin ese'tould starve by the thous and; the tax burdens of thel country*cou>d all be bundled to gether and thrown into the Po tomac river; but they would lov£ on, they cared not, and we glory in Jheir devotion, We do not know vthem; they disappeare'd as mysteriously as they came; but wherever they may be we wisfr them w'ell; may their ardent devotion of young.andf tender years bind for a thousand years and th if ex ample of unsullied love be l'm- ! parted to miilions where only deceit, intrigue and dollars counted or deducted; ihey were happ& they wde iunowm; they were iuu^iiiEg . iC vuriu i laughed with them, ana so. moie it he. “Where courting in i1 Ford is happiness it is fully to owu a mansion.4’ < I The Panama canal tolls the i past fiscal yea** amounted to ihe | I enormous sum of $11,276,390. ( * 1 / v i C. E. Holcomb Died Saturday in Elkin —i ' Mr. Calvin Eli Holcomb died suddenly about 10:30 Saturday night at his home in Elkio. ^ Mr. rfoleomb was 53 years ofd. * He ft’as a,son of Mr. and Mrs. ; Daniel M. Holcomb, and was Dorn and reared near Longtown this county.' He moved to Elk in some 18 or 20 years ago and for many years had been a mem ber of tbe firm of Holcomb : Brothers, wholesale grocers, of Elkin. He was a man devoted to bis family, of rare personality and „ an ardent churdh worker. He was always ready to help any worthy cause oP individual in need of help. ■ ; Funeral and interment were at Elkin, Rev. W. H. Baucomb conducting the services. Surviving are the wife, and two son/and two daughters and several' brothers and sisters. f_V_ Died From Effects of a Sn^ke Bite ..\ . 4 \ Mr. J. P. Binkley, a farmer re siding near Lewisville, died Fri day afternoon from the effects of a bite from a ccpperhead snake three weeks ago. He had been unconscious for two weeks. Mr. Binkley was storing pota toes in his celler when bitten, a doctor was sent for but about six hours elapsed before his ar^ rival. ✓ x . Mr. Binkley was 74 years old and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Funeral and interment were ' at Warner’s Chapel Saturday afternoon. Couldn’t Fool Pat / A gentleman sent his Irish servant to a neighboring groce ry to get a demijohn. “Misther Crawford sent me1* here to get a dimmercrat!” said .3 Pat. “A\yhat!” exclaimed tne tonished shop keeper. “A dimmercrat,’’'repeated the * Irishman. •- - %“NovV wasn’t it a demijohn that he sent you to get?” “And sure its fooling wid me j< *hc difference? Jsn’t it all the same thing wheth er hVfi dimihefcf&t or a demi john, it’s something’'!© hoki bad whiskey anyhow.” V; -Si Office Hurts Many Men / , Franklin- K. Lane, after 15 years in the‘public seryice, died _ leaving his family only $10,000. ' He was well-to-do when he * went into office, but politics i nibbled away his accumula^ ’ ft tions until af his death, after' valuable services to his-country, ~ his estate yields his widow. an<|.) v> children a bare $50 a month. t i Office holding has done 1ha£ and worse, to many a good man. How many men who seek and Jlad a political job, enjoy it for f hi"* eight or twelve ya.rs/. re private life only to find ■ ir*mselves unfitted for the task 1 ' a t a ruing a living against go n- f ; K>on? There is no competi- • ’ lion iu office. The 'salary is— ’ regular, and’the p. oplfe pay the freight, lint uitraf^rmath! On the whole the proportion of men who suffer financially and in business efficiency by ot ticerholding, is perhaps as ten to one. ' - h