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_V0L- XXVn._ YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUSTI8,1921 NO. 32
State News Items
S Locke cotton mills at
>rd, closed last February
trike of its 700 employees,
ed operations last week
bout 300 of the employees
back on the job.
J. B, Huneycutt, a Newton
barber, was found dead on the
streets of that town last Wednes
day morning. Alcoholism. He
was about 40'years old and is
survived by a family,
A. F. Coombs, of Newton, fell
from a motor truck and frac
tured his ski^ll. He died within
a few minutes.
C. C. Wagoner, living near
Statesville, killed a crane near
bis home recently that measur
ed six feet from tip to tip and
bad legs six feet long. Mr.
Wagoner said he saw the crane
ily over his house, and thinking
at was a “stork” decided he
would kill it.
Harvey Clark, colored, of
Catawba county, was shot with
a .38 calibre pistol, the ball
lodging in his heart. The doc
tors say he will recover al
though he still carries the bullet
in his heart.
Foui persons, two men and
two girls, were seriously hurt
last week near Ltnoir when
their car left the road and went
Over an embankment.
Deputy Sheriff G. B. Flynn,
Of Forsyth county, captured two
men, a Ford car and thirty-eight
gallons of whiskey near Walk
town, that county, a few days
ago. The men were well arm
ed but offend no resistance
whenarre«| The men, who
gave their names as Harvey Ed
wards and John Scott, of Virgin
ia, were lodged in jail.
George Franklin, a farmer liv
ing near Charlotte, tanked up on
tomato wine last Thursday and
proceeded to raise h— in gener
al. After shooting at his wife
and missing her he shot two
deputy sherriffs, seriou sly
wounding them both. He was
finally overpowered and landed
in jail to cool off.
: f NOTICE
KortliCarolina
Yadkin county
In superior court
before the clerk.
»v imam ana busie bmith
vs
Sarah Phillips, John Kirk, Frank
Kirk, Wade Byrne. .. -a Bynum,
Odell Bynum, and Son Bynum
and J ames Kirk.
The defendants above named,
John Kirk, Frank Kirk and Pearl
Morgan will take notice that a
Special proceeding entitled as a
bove has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Yadkin county,
which is for sale of lands describ
ed in petition, the proceeds from
which to be divided among the
tenants in common; and said de
fendants will further taKe notice
that they are required to appear
before the Clerk of Superior court
of Yadkiu county, at his office in
Yadkinville, on the 17th day of
September, 1921, and answer or
demur to the petition filed, or*
the relief therein demanded will
be granted. This Aug. 17,1921.
J. hi. Crater
Jm Clerk-Superior Court
tenant Commander W erner—
OTarged with having sunk .Hie British
steamship Torrington a-rub then- drown
ing the entire crew with the exception
of the captain, by submerging while
the unfortunate men were linei^vip as
prisoners jon the deck of the sub
marine. t ,3
In the house of commons recently,
In reply to questions, the attorney
general, Sir Gordon Hewart, said the
seven ca3w*tf6ijfiwftie government had
prepared dla not begin to exhaust its
; list. They were merely seven selected
! test cases. i "; ‘
CHASES BLACK CHICK AWAY
One of That Color Was Enough in This
Hen's Family, So She Drives In
truder Off Nest
Allentown. Pa.—Does a sitting hen
associate ideas with colors or has she
a knowledge of arithmetic.
This is the problem that is puzzling
an amateur chicken fancier who is try
ing to practice economy while follow
ing his favorite hobby.
A Rhode Island Red hatched seven
'yellow and one black chicks: three
days later another hen brought forth
a brood of four yellow and one black
balls of fluff.
For economy's sake the second flock
was doubled ijp with the first. The
mother hen opened her wings and
clucked a welcome to the newcomers
and all went well until she spotted the
two black chicks together. Then she
saw red. One black chick was enough
for her family, and she promptly
pecked and chased the offend fug black
out of her nest.
ENGLISH BIRTH RATE HIGH
Vltai Statistics 10 1920 Show Mortal*
ity the Lowest Ever
Recorded.
London.—Vital statistics just issued
by the Ministry of Health show that
the birth rato for 1920 in England is
the highest for the decade and the
death rate the lowest ever recorded.
The infant mortality rate also is the
lowest on record. The number of
births is the highest ever recorded,
while the number of deaths is the low
est since 1SG2, when the population
was only 20,000,000. The figures are:
For England and Wales—Birth rate
per 1,000 of the total population, 25.44;
deaths, crude rate. 12.4; deaths under
one year per 1,000 births, SO.
For London—Birth rate per 1,000,
20.3; deaths, crude rate, 12.4; deaths
under one year per 1,000 births, 75.
The increase in the birth rate is at
tributed to the number of delayed
marriages prevented by the war and
to the mmarriage of war widows. It
is suggested that the low death rate
may he due to the rapid strides taken
in surgery, medicine and sanitation
during the war.
AMATEUR “FIXES” GAS TANK
Hot iron—Then Neighbors Called the
Police Reserves and the Fire
Department.
New .York.—“Now then, doggie, we’ll
have this thing fixed in' a jiffy,” said
William S. Grey to his dog, as he
placed a hot soldering iron on a partly
filled gasoline tank in the kitchen of
his home.
The tank on his auto had been leak-'
lng and he decidgd to fix it.
He had scarcely finished the sen
tence when the top of the tank went
up to the ceiling.
Tenants on the three upper floors
rushed to the street, pojice reserves,
firemen and detectives were called and
Inspector Callahan of the bureau of
combustibles, who was in the neigh
borhood, ran to the house.
The police entered the apartment to
take charge 6f a corpse, but found
1 only a broken Window, a dismembered
tank and a perfectly healthy .man.
Robert Hervey Randolph was a rich
young man whose experience with au
tomoO-.go lu,v, ocen confined
to the racing kind. When he became
a taxi driver he was a riot in more
than one sense of the word. Read
“Taxi,” our serial offering by George
A.gnew Chamberlain.
Building Church on Wheels.
Louisville, Kv.—A church on wheels,
said to be the first of the kind in
America, is being built by the Episco
palian diocese of Kentucky to visit
isolated families in the western end
of the state.
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\ Letter-Mailed in Boston J
\ 31 Years Ago Delivered \
t Boston.—A letter mailed from *
J Boston to the State House thir- *
* ty-one years ago has arrived *
t here. *
* It was addressed to “David *
t Pulsifer, Esq., State House, Bos- J
* ton,” and the postal date, still *
t very legible, was “Boston, Oct. *
\. 5, 1889, 7:45 p. m.” ' {
* It bore a light-green colored t
* two-cent stamp, with a likeness *
* of Washington, an issue long *
0 ».,ago abandoned. *
9 ' rt 'had' evidently reached Se- *
t nttle in its thirty-one-year trip, (
* as it bore the following date, *
1 “Seattle, Wash., Terminal Sta- '
l tion, April 13, 1921.” ' 9
i Postmaster Morris Jackson at t
, I' the Stpte' House doesn’t know J
| "hnd never has heard of “David *
| Pulsifer, Esq.” so he turned the \
$ letter over to the Boston postal *
p authorities, to whose care it was t
£ ’entrusted Jhirty-one years ago. *
COCKATOO KILLS BIG ROOSTER !
I -
Bird, at Outs With Barnyard Fowl,
|j Wins Battle at Mar
| tinez, Cal.
Martinez, Cal.—A bitter battle was
fought at the home of B. F. Rhine,
local merchant, by a two-pound cocka
too and an eight-pound rooster.
The diminutive cockatoo proved
thtit weight does not always prevail,
for after taking a severe grueling for
almost five minutes he grabbed the
rooster in the windpipe with his sharp
beak, administering the death blow.
According to Rhine, the pair had
been at outs for several weeks. One
morning the cocka* >o was perched on
a bush in the back yard when the
rooster spied him. The heavyweight
barnyard champion made a rush at
his smaller enemy, spurs and beak.
The cockatoo, however, dug his
clawjjajfcito the rooster’s breast, and
pullitiy' himself upright administered
the de&th blow.
TRAPS SHREWDEST CRIMINALS
' ‘liiiiiii Ainu!ton Mnrston, a Bostoi.
lawyer and scientist, is shown here
wirli his “lie detector.” Three com
plicated pieces of machinery are used
to detect deception in a witness oi
other subject.
First, the chronoscopy, it measures
in twelve hundreths of a second, the
time the witness takes to answer
questions. “Innocent'’ questions and
questions connected with the Case
under consideration are verbally
“shot” at him. He can’t die without
hesitating a fraction of a second—
. and tlie ebronoseope measures and
records the delay.
Second —The kimeograph. This
measures the respiration of the
suspect as he answers questions and
records it in traced “graphs” on a
smoked cylinder. And a man breathes
differently when lying ' (does a
woman?)
Third — The spygmomanomefer.
This charts the blood pressure during
. the questioning. When a mari is lying
his systolic blood pressure rises
rapidly in a *Hying curve.”
Scientists say that if a subject
reacts “guilty” to all three tests his
deception, or attempts at deception,
is practically pr-wml in die full
scientific meaning oi the word proof.
| Wild Bears Endanger |
| Lives of Tacoma Children |
ft Tacoma.—While Tacoma is a ft
ft city of 160,000 persons and old $
ft hunters sav that it has been
_ ft ' , , ft
ft twenty years since a bear nas ft
ft been killed witlvn the city limits, ft
ft a meeting of the mothers and ft
ft fathers held recently at Cedar ft
IZ Heights, a mile and a half from ft
i the heart of the city, revealed ft
? the fact that hears and other ft
z wild animals are lurking in the zz
< woods, and they have petitioned ft
ft for the erection of a school ft
ft nearer their homes, so that the ft
ft children will not have to pass ft
ft through the woods every day. ft
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\ Pumpkin Vine Growing \
\ Inside the Parent Shell !
t When Mrs. D. 8. Thompson of t
* Waynesboro, Pa., cut open a *
4 pumpkin she was surprised to 4
* see that the seeds on the inside *
i had started to grow and that a 4
J young pumpkin vine had start- J
4 ed to fill the entire inside 4
\ of the shell. The pulp was \
4 in perfect condition and the *
J shell had been unbroken until it t
* was cut. Roots several inches *
t in length and full-shaped leaves #
* had been developed.
To Speak Saturday
HON. CLARENCE POE
Who will deliver the address at
Center Farmers Union Picnic
Saturday. His subject will be
“Co-Operative’ M arkeiing.”
Hon. Frank A. Linney
is District Attorney
Hon. Frank A Linney of
Boone, has been confirmed by
the U. S. Senate to be District
Attorney for the western district
of North Carolina and will take
the oath of oflice at once and
enter upon his duties.
The Linney nomination has
been hanging fire in the Senate
for some time and me vote was
31 to 17 when taken. Mr Lin
ney is a highly respected lawyer
of western Carolina and his
friends have been busy congrat
ulating him.
Angus Cattle Sold Here
Saturday afternoon a truck
passed through Yadkinville load
ed with an angus bull aDd heifer
for Mannie Williams. These
are the prettiest beef cattle ever
seen in Yadkin and came from
the herd of Sanford and Rich of
Mocksville.
The bull was shown last year
at the State fait of Texas at Dal
las Texas, and also the fair at
Waco and won the champion
ship at both places. His father
is Sanford and Rich’s biggest
bull and weighs over 250o lbs.
The heifer is bred by another
Sanfoid and Rich bull that won
the championship last year at
the tri-state exposition at Savan
nah Ca„ the state fair of S. C.,
and the Central N. C. fair.
Ve believe Mr. Williams is
starting Yadkin county off in the
right direction and we hope
others will follow in his foot
step.
Sanford ana Rich nave over
150 head of Angus cattle and
anvon*e who is interested in good
cattle would do well to pay their
herd a visit.
PLANS FOR A HUGE GARDEN
Six Hundred Thousand Trees Are to
Be Planted ci North Slope of
Pike’s Peak.
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Work wll!
start soon on the planting of 000,000
trees on the north lope of Pike’s peak,
and a bonus will be paid to the sixty
odd workers who remain “on the job”
until the planting is completed.
This gigantic planting project is
part of the reforestation program
planned by the United States forestry
service to conserve the water supply
cf the Pike’s Peak region by reforest
ing the watersheds that have been
denuded by numerous forest fires.
Thousands of the trees to he plant
ed have already b£en delivered to a
.earby spot, where, they are cached in
crates in deep snhwbanks to prevent
premature budding. The trees are
four and five inches high and were
raised from seetjs planted In govern
ment nurseries^
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Miss Mackie Becomes
Bride of Mr. Shugart
Miss Sallie Mackie and M.r
Zeno Shugart gave their friends
a surprise Saturday night by get
ting married- No announcement
of the approaching event was
made and the marriage came as
a complete surprise. The wed
ding took place at the home of
Dr. Rvssell who performed the
ceremony in the presence of a
few relatives and friends of the
happy couple.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Mackie. of this
place and is a beautiful and ac
complished young lady and very
popular with her many friends,
while the groom is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. L. Shugart of Shu
gartown and is a deserving
young man. Mr. Shugart now
holds a position with the Auto
motive Implement Co., of Wins
ton, where they will make then
home after a short honeymoon
trip North. They both have
many friends who wish them
success and happiness.
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No Respector of Persons
William Jennings Bryan had
delivered a lecture at Delaven,
Wis., and was making a fast au
rnobilejump to Waukegan, a
Chicago suburb, where a Chau
tauqua audience awaited him.
His driver had been doin/> a lit
tle better than fifty miles an
hour when he slowed down lor
a curve at Antioch and made the
acquaintance of J. B. Congdon,
marshal.
“Where are going, and who
are you, anyway?” was the in
troduction.
“I’m going io Waukegan. I’m
William Jennings Bryan, and I
must deliver a lecture in Wau
kegan in just a few minutes.”
“Live in Waukegan, what’s
vour business?” as the little note
book appeared,
“I'm a writer on subjects of
political economy. I’ve been
in politics forty-one years. I
Jiave been a candidate for presi
dent on several occasions and
have served as secretary of
state. In Lincoln, Neb., where
I live, I am fairly well known as
a law-abiding citizen.”
“That may go in Lincoln
But I never heard of you, Mr.
O’Brien. You 'vii ve Y * ^
the judge about it.”
At the village hall a Demo
cratic policeman recognized
Bryan immediately, and after
apologies he sped on his way.
There was no fnrther advent
ure until Zion City was reached,
where a motorcycle drove the
machine to/the curb.
“I’m William Jennings Bry
an,” said Mr. Bryan to a request
for his name.
“Glad to know you,” said the
motorcycle policeman. “I’m
Woodrow Wilson and that man
in uniform across the street is
Robert E, Lee. Christopher
Columbus is out shooting craps
with Queen Elizabeth.”
The Commoner, for once in
his life, had no answer ready
and the party proceeded to po
lice headquarters. The police
chief took one look and said:
“Let me shake the hand that
raised grapejuice to its present
high state.”
Mr. Bryan complied and sped
on to Waukegan.
—Mr. ami Mrs. it. V. Long
spent a few days last week visit
ing friends and relatives in Wins*
ton and High Point.
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Yadkinville Celebrates
Coming of Electric Lights
-
1 adkinville and her citizens
put on a few extra airs Friday
night in the form of a celebra
tion of her new electric lighting
system which was turned on the
streets for the first time thaf
night,
A large cro vd of young and
old people of the town turned
out and celebrated informally
for about two houis, parading
the streets with all kinds of noisy
instruments punctured now and
then by the noise of a cannon
or shot gun belching forth her
welcome of the comiag of elec
tric lights to the streets ol Yad
kinviile AMr. \1. V. West brought'
out his cannon which is only
used for such important occa
sions as this, the inaugural ot a :
Republican president, the sign
ing of an armistice, and so on.
And tnis wite ud would not
be complete it we did not pay
yarucnlur credit to our popular
ma\ or Mr. *. E. Wan ace wh.j
has worked Laid aim iaithfui m
securing this lighting plant tor
the town, lie has at all times
been the moving spirit in the en
terprise, and has been backed by
several progressive citizens who
have placed at his disposal their
money and influence. As a con
sequence of their untiring etiorts
there are several houses in Yad
kinviile, in tact most oi them,
lighted today with electricity,
and all the stores but two.
Yadkin County Convention
Sunday School Workers
Sunday School Workers of
Y'adkin county will hold Con
vention in the Harmony FrieDds
Church, near Yadkmville on Sat
urday and Sunday, August 27th
and 28th. This meeting is ar
ranged for Sunday School work- *
ers of all denominations of the
county. The first session of the -
convention will be held on Sat
urday morning, August 27th at i
10:30 o’clock. There will be
morning, afternoon, and nights
sessions on the 27th and morn
ing and afternoon sessions on
Sunday, August 2Sth.
The principal speakers at this
Convention will be Mr. Gilbert *
T, Stephenson of Winston-Salem -
who E teacher r* a large men’s '»
tame class m me Brown Memo
rial Baptist Sunday School and
also Piesident of the State Sun
day School Association, Mr. D.
W. Sims, General Superintend
ent, and Miss Flora Davis, Assis
tant Superintendent of the North
Carolina Sunday School Associ
ation. Both Mr. Sims and Miss
Davis are recognized leaders in
Sunday School work.
This Convention is arranged
under th* auspices of the Yadkin
County Sunday School Associa
tion of which Mr. L. F. Amburn
of Boonviile is county President.
Other Officers of the County As
sociation are Mr. S. T. Ilinshaw,
Yadkinville, county Secretary;
Mr. J, W. Garner, Yadkinville,
Assistant Secretary; and Mr. W.
H. Adams, Yadkinville, Vice
President.
Prominent among the officers
of the Township Sunday School
Associations in the county are:
Messrs. Charles Hutchens, East
Bend;,C. F. Reece, Eoonville;
W. L. Mackie, Yadkinville; H.
C. Johnson, Buck Shoal; R. J.
\V. Doub, East Bend; Mrs. Mar
tha Brown, Boonviile; and Miss
Anna Speas, East Bend.
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