VOL. XXXIII _YADKIN VILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1926 _ VOL. NO. 2 Mrs. Shugart Claims Bible Used as Argument Writing in the Winston-Salem Journal from Yadkinville, L. J. Hampton has the following story, of the affidavit made by Mrs. M. L. Shugart in the Shugart-Sprouse affair: “He quoted the Bible” to seduce me, said Mrs. M. L. Shugart, of Center, this county, in her de position in the case wherein Lee Sprouse, merchant of the upper part of the county is charged with assault with intent to kill upon Mote L. Shugart, husband of the woman who makes such a strange allegation in her testimony against the man who is charged with being a home-wrecker. The Bible has been used and abused for many things, even the lawyers in the case who were pre sent when Mrs. Shugart took the ^ oath agreed, but it is the first time in the history of this county, it is thought, when its precepts and divine teachings were ever brought actively into play, if the allegations are true, in separating a wife from her husband or to win the alleged illicit affections of a woman who swore no man had theretofore come between her husband and herself since they were married 30 years ago. Preliminary Waived Sprouse, through his attorneys, H. H. Baker and W. M. Allen, of Elkin, waived preliminary trial in the criminal action in which Sprouse is charged with assault ing with a shotgun the husband of the woman who told of “hug ging and kissing” parties they had clandestinely enjoyed. The case will come up for trial in superior court in Yadkin at the term sche duled to begin February 22, next. ine nrm oi williams and neavis of Yadkinville represent the pro secution in the Sprouse case..Shu. gart, whom Sprouse charged with hitting him with a heavy bludgeon is also under bond for his appear ance on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Arrest and bail proceedings against Sprouse for $5,000 damage resulted in the lat ter’s arrest again. He was let out on bond of $5,000 in that case, with Marvin Holcomb, J. Blum Long and W. L. Sprouse, a brother, as signers. Sprouse has also in stituted a damage suit against Shurart for $5,000, it is learned. Denies His Guilt From the cross examination conducted by Attorney Allen, of Sprouse’s counsel, which the de position records show, Sprouse will deny flatly, it is apparent, all allegations as to illicit relations between them, the cross-questions indicating Sprouse’s attitude as one of friendship only for the woman in the case. would Quote Bible Mrs. Shugart said Sprouse would quote portions from the Bible to her in an effort to con vince her that their intimacy was not wrong; that he would throw his arms around her and kiss her; that they often met at Mrs. Hel ton’s, sometimes when the latters children were there and some times when they were not; that they hugged and kissed on the porch of her home; that the back porch was out of sight of the road; that Sprouse took a job of ,fixing all the locks on the doors of the Shugart home which it took him two weeks to do; that he kissed her several times in his store, etc. Then she wa? asked about her husband’s insurance, $4,000, which is payable to her as bene ficiary at Shugart’s death. She denied that the matter of insur ance was ever mentioned between herself and Sprouse, but that they had talked of the proposal to buy and sell. She denied that Sprouse had urged her to get the title to Shugart’s property. She said that her husband had accused her of being intimate with other men for the past nine years, but she said that didn’t mean that she had had illicit relations with any of them. The deposition named the three men about whom she was questioned. Of one it was a matter of religious belief she sL/:. . said. Husband Insane? Asked if she had ever tried to get her husband into an insan asylum, she admitted that she had talked to Dr. T. R. Harding about her husband's mental condition and that Sprouse, at diffehent times, had told her that her hus band “must be cr^zy” to treat her | in the manner she said he did. Mrs. Shugart denied that they wanted to get her husband “out of the way” to get his property and ! insurance. She said she had al i ways been true to her husband ■ and while admitting that Sprouse j had kissed her and hugged her at . various times, she said that was as far as their intimacy went, al though she at first admitted that *Sprouse guoted excerpts from the Bible to seduce her and to show there was nothing wrong with their clandestine meetings. By her own acknowledgement ! Mrs. Sprouse is 49 years old. She j said she had been almost a con ! firmed invalid for the past two | years but was not confined to her j bed all of the time. She designat | ed the time of her alleged inti j macy with Sprouse as being be ! tween April and November of 1925. “No man ever came be tween me and my husband until a year ago,” Mrs. Shugart solem ly affirmed. Upon cross examination Mrs. Shugart admitted that Sprouse often came to her house after a drink of water; that most of the time some of her children were there when Sprouse camei; that when they were at the home of Mrs. Helton that either the lat ter, some of her children o<r “Grandpa Cheek” were always there. She admitted, also, that she had complained to Sprouse of the way her husband treated her. It was at such times, she told, that Sprouse would put his arms around her and kiss her. On the night of the alleged as sault with a shotgun by Sprouse upon Shugart, Mrs. Shugart said she was at the home of Mrs. Hel ton and that the shooting appear-! ed to be in the direction of Sprouse’s store. She said she; thought her husbaad had been at their home that night, but she didn’t see him. It was at tobac co curing time, she testified, when her husband was at the barn that Sprouse would frequently make his visits to her home and to Mrs. Helton’s where she met him. She would cook Sprouse’s meals for him sometimes, she admitted, and would carry them over to Mrs. Helton’s for him to eat. She said her husband objected to her “working” for Sprouse. Mrs. Shugart’s maiden name was Cheek. DEATHS FROM AUTOS IN 1925 WERE 21,000; 5 PER CENT INCREASE Chicago, Jan. 25.—Accidental deaths from automobiles in auto mobiles in 1925 totalled 21,000, an increase of 5 per cent over 1924, the National Safety Coun cil announced tonight in making public results of a survey based on reports from more than 90 cities. These figures include cases of collision between a motor vehicle and railroad strain or street cars. The trend of automobile acci dents during 1925 was by no means uniform over the United States, the statement points out. Some cities with previous high death rates showed substantial de creases, Los Angelees being an I outstanding example of this [group. The entire state of New York, according to incomplete statistics, likewise showed a large reduction, chiefly in the smaller cities and rural districts. j Twice the value of manure is ob tained when spread with a spread er, to say nothing of the saving in hard, disagreeable work. The spreader puts out the manure thin ly and assures an even stand of grain, says D. S. Weaver, agricul turnal engineer at State College. PUSH CLUB WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh, Jan. 27.—With the ap pointment of L. E. Harrell as Club Specialist for the Agricul tural Extension Service of State College, more attention will now be given to work with farm boys and girls during 1926 and there after. The 4-H club organization) is the largest <jfrganization of young people in the United States tod^y; but, because it deals with boys aind girls out on the farms, it has hot received the attention from public leaders and business organiza tions that some other organiza tions have received. It is stated by officials ox the extension ser vice that clu» work is peculiar because, the ►oys and girls Who are members must engage in some productive work. Not only must they engage in this producting en terprise, but they, at the same time,*are beimf taught the funda mentals of good farming and good home making. According to the ideals th|t will be held before the club mem bers of North Carolina, club woxk develops the heart, the head, the hands and the health of the in dividual taking part. At the recent meeting of ex tension workers at State Collegte, club work was selected as one ff the main things to which atten tion would be devoted this year. For special emphasis, one county in each of the five districts intb which extension work is divided, will be picked to develop a model club organization. For the moun tain territory, Polk is the county selected; for the piedmont, Da vidson; for the southeastern sec tion, Roberson and for the north eastern section, Pasquotank. Dur ing the last few years, this junior extension work has been allowed to lag somewhat in North Carolina hutibore-^ppears- renewed fleter mination now to make it more ef fective than ever. -:-« Randolph farmers did not have keys, so county agent E. S. Mill eaps sold over 10,000 pounds to a New York firm. This, with a pre vious carlot shipment made before Thanksgiving, relieved the exist ing surplus. LESS COTTON * MORE MONEY HASTINGS DECLARES PRESENT FARM PRACTICE WILL BANK RUPT FARMERS Atlanta, Ga.—(Special.)—"We hav« again seen the result of too much cot ton acreage. Strange as It may seem the more cotton we make the less money we get for what we make,” de clared H. ©. Hastings, leading agricul tural authority and chairman of the Farm and Market Bureau of the At lanta Chamber of Commerce. "The only thing that saved the cot ton growing farmer from outright dis aster last year was the extreme heat and drought that held down the yield per acre on the more than forty mil lion acres in cotton. There was suf ficient ootton acreage planted to have made with favorable season some where near twenty million bales and a price of 10 cents per pound or less* one or tne cotton (irowers Asso ciations recently announced that th< 1925 cotton crop will sell for fom hundred million dollars less than it cost to make it, making reasonable al lowance for*-labor cost. What sort oj folks are we anyhow to keep on grow ing at a loss? There is no profit tc the farmer in planting all or nearly all cotton and buying all or nearly all the food and grain consumed by family and live stock. “Our farm operations and our farn: pocketbooks are never going to ge right until we quit spreading cottoi over the whole South only to draw out meat and meal and other food stuff? as well as grain, .etc., from Chicago Kansas City and Omaha at prices twc to three times what cost would be il made on home acres. “We have been trying to carry on s farm system based on a one cash crop which has impoverished every peoplt everywhere in the world that have fried it. It is steadily impoverishing our farmers here li the South. There s only one safe farm system. Thai s to produce on hmue acres so far as possible every pound of food, grain anc brage needed for family and live stock •“A good all-year-round home veg table garden, plenty of corn and oats orage and hay crops, to see yov hrengh without buying more, cows logs and chickens. All these cu •otton costs, afford the best of health ul living and leave the farmer ownlnj :is cotton instead of owing it at th* ond of tho year," MR. JOE L. VANHOY DEAD THREE VETERANS LEFT I Mr. Joe L. Vanhoy, confederate j veteran, of Buck Shoals township, ! clied Saturday morning, aged 82 years. He was buried at Mt. View church Sunday, the services be j ing conducted by Rev. W. V. Brown and Rev. Eli Hinson. He is survived by two sons, Edward and Thomas Vanhoy of Yadkin county and one sister, Mrs. Jane Ireland of Iredell county. The death of Mr. Vanhoy leaves three confederate veterans living in Buck Shoals township, these being Mr. J. A. Hoots, R. W. Crat er and D. L. Totten. The lines of the gray are thinning out. THE BE§T CURE If you are poor—work. If you are rich—continue to work. If you are burdened with seem ingly unfair responsibilities — work. • If you are happy—keep right on working. Idleness gives room for doubts and fears. If disappointments come—work. | If sorrow overwhelms you, and love ones seem not true—work. When faith falters and reason fails—just work. When dreams are shattered and hope seems dead—work. Work as if your life were in peril. It real ly is. No matter what ails you—work. Work faithfully—work with faith. Work will cure both mental and physical afflictions. Waldron, Ark., Jan. 22.—Three Scott county women, taking the law in their hands daring the ab sence of most of the men who were attendiiig court, conducted a raid on a moonshine still, seized I it and turned it over to officers. The women decided to take a 4ook oVfcr tire covtntrynide. They found a large still ready for a run. Unable to turn it over, they ! punched a hole in it and emptied its contents. Then swinging the boiler over a pole they took it to town and turned it over to a de puty sheriff. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND UNDER MORTGAGE By virtue of the power contain ed in a certain mortgage d^ei ex ecuted on the 29th day c: May, 1920, by D. H. Baity ano wife, Jennie Baity, and recorded in Book No. 33, page No. 259, and de fault having been made in pay ment of note secured thereby, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Yadkinville, N. C., on Sat urady, February 13, 1926, between the hours of 12 o’clock noon, and 2 P. M., the following described lands lying and being in Liberty Township, Yadkin County, adjoin ing the lands of W. H. Lynch, A. R. Key, Dr. S. A. Harding and P. H. Baity, and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at the Reed branch, running south by the brandy distillery; thence east with the public road; thence west down to Huntsville road; thence north with the Wishon line; thence west with the Wishon Spring to the beginning, contain ing 60 acres more or less. This January 11, 1926. I. A. WISHON, l-14-4t Mortgagee. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virture of the power contain ed in a certain Mortgage Deed executed by Israel Stinson and wife Permelia Stinson on the 25th day of May, 1921, and default having been made in payment of note of even date, I will sell for cash to th£ highest bidder at the court house door in Yadkin coun ty, on the 1st day of Feb. 1926, between the hours of 12 o’clock, noon and 1 o’clock p. m. the fol lowing described lands, lying and being in Boonville township, Yad kin county and bounded as fol lows: On the south by the Israel Stinson lands; on the east by Will Vestal lands; on the North by the | lands of Bill Asburn and Bud ' Vestal; on the west by the lands of Sanford Stinson, containing j seven acres, more or less and known as the Spease lands This Dec. 28, 1925. B. A. VESTAL, Mortgagee. DR. S. L. RUSSELL AND MRS. WILLIAMS MARRIED A quiet home wedding was solemnized at the home of Mrs. Texas Williams, six miles east of Yadkinville Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, when Mrs. Williams be-1 came the bride of Dr. S. L. Rus sell of Route 2. A few intimate friends of the couple, including some of the Doctor’s special friends from Yadkinville, wit nessed the ceremony. Mrs. Williams is a highly re spected lady of that neighbor hood, while Dr. Russell is a sub stantial citizen and wrell known physician of the county, and has served as county health officer two terms. Both have many friends throughout the county who wish them many years of happiness. -* Tom Tarheel says he enjoys his work as a member or the county board of agriculture, but it made him hustle to do the things on his place that he was pushing for-the county. The inlelligcnt use of lime will improve the soil and will help to produce better yields of legume crops in North Carolina. Magne sium limestone under tobacco makes better quality and yield of weed. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MORTGAGE By virture of the power contain- ! ed in a certain Mortgage Deed i executed by M. R. Welborn and j wife Mary Welborn, on the 26th I day of June, 1925, and recorded in Book No. 37, Page 80, record of Mortgages for Yadkin county, and default having been made in the payment of note secured there by, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the court house door in Yadkinville, N. CL on Saturday,, February 6, 1926, between the hours of 12, noon and 1 p. m., the following described real estate lying and being in Buck Shoals township, Yadkin county, North Carolina, and bounded as follows to-wit: Beginning on a rock, M. C. Bob bins corner, on south side of sand clay road, running north 70 yards with T. C. Inscores line to a stone, thence west 70 yards to a stone, thence south 70 yards to a stone, thence east with old road 70 yards to the beginning, containing one acre. This 5th day of Jan. 1926. M. A. FINNIX, Mortgagee. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND UNDER MORTGAGE By virture of the power contain ed in a certain Mortgage Deed executed Jan. 10, 1922 by D. L. Hemric and wife Mary Hemric, and default having been made in the payment of note securer thereby, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder at public auc tion at the court house door in Yadkinville on Monday, Feb. 1, 1926, between the hours of 12 noon and 2 p. m., the following described real estate, lying and being in Deep. Creek township, Yadkin county, North Carolina, and bounded as follows, to-wit: .Lot JNo. 3, beginning at a stone j northwest corner of Lot No. 2 in { Hoots line, runs west with his j line 7.44 chains to a stone in Hoots j corner then south 26 degrees west j 2.17 chains to stone, thence north 52 degrees west 4.85 chains to the branch, then south 57 degrees west 1 chain with branch to the crook of the branch, then north 67 degrees west with branch 9.33 chains to a maple on north side of branch, thence south 23 de grees west 3.18 chains to a pine, Johnson’s corner, thence, south 67 degrees east with Johnson’s line 10.28 chains to a stone John son’s corner, thence south 7 de grees west with Johnson’s line 13 chains to a poplar, Johnson’s corner, then eastward down the branch as it meanders 7.80 chains to a maple on the bank of branch, then east with Pinnix line 6.94 chains to a stone, southwest .cor ner of lot No. 2, thence north 5 degrees east 13.50 chains to a stone, the beginning corner, con taining 25 and one fourth acres, more or less. Terms of sale made known on day of sale. This Dec. 31, 1925. AMSLIA NICKS, Mortgagee. • \ . -Jjh , ' / MRS. ELZENIA BRYANT DIED MONDAY, AT VADKlrt HOME _ •* Mrs. Elzenia Bryant, an aged and highly-esteemed woman of Yadkin county, died Monday night at her home five miles east of Jonesville, after an illness of pneumonia of only a few days duration. She was 73 years of age, a de vout Christian, having been a loy al member of the Baptist church for fifty years. She is survived by several daughters. The fune ral service was conducted Tues day afternoon from Fall Creek church, near Jonesville, by Rev. J. W. Bryant, interment following in the church cemetery.—Elkin Tribune. --♦ CENTER NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Holcomb and Master Odett Mabery from Winston-Salem visited Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Holcomb Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Holcomb and Mrs. Frances Gross from Jonesville visited in Center Sun day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Sampson and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Bloom Long Sunday. Mr. Lorris Weatherman from Winston-Salem visited Mr. Earn est Long Saturday night. Rev. Blum Vestal and Mr. New som will begin a series of meet ing next Sunday at Eleven o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Weatherman visited Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Size more Sunday afternoon. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION In the Superior Court NORTH CAROLINA, YADKIN COUNTY. H. F. Gray vs S. Pardue. By virtue of an execution di rected to the undersigned from the Superior Court of , Yadkin county in the above entitled ac tion, I will on Wednesday, Febru ary 24, 1926, at 1 o'clock, p. m. at the Court House door of said county, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy said execution, all the right, title and interest which the said S. Pardue, de fendant, has in the following real estate, to-wit: Adjourning the lands of T. C. Swaim, George Sal mons, W. D. Royal, J. C. Pinnix: and others, and bounded as fol lows: Beginning at a post oak, T. C. Swaims corner, W. D. Roy al’s line, runs South on W. D. Royal and W. F. Messick line 28.34 chs to a stone, J. C. Pin nix’s corner; thence West on Pin nix line 16 chs to a persimmon said Pinnix corner; thence South i, 52 deg. to Pinnix’s line 5.25 chs to an ashe, E. C. Nick’s corner; then North on Nick’s line 8 chs to a stone, his corner; thence South 66 deg. West 17.85 chs on his line to a stone; then North 25 deg. West on Nick’s line 10.50 chs to a stone, his corner; thence Northr 60 deg. West 6.93 chs on his line* to a stone, his corner; thence South 66 deg. West on his line 12.30 chs to Hunting Creek at the mouth of a branch, hi's cor ner; then North 68 deg. West with the meanderings of the creek 14 chs. General Brown’s corner; then North 23 deg. West 16.65 chs on his line to a persimmon tree, bank of branch; then Southward with the meanderings of- the creek, T. L. Pardue’s line 11.60 chs to the mouth of branch; then up branch as it meanders 17 chs to New Chappel’s line; then South 73 deg. on Chappel’s and Salmons line 43.35 chs to a black oak, for- * merly a post oak, George Salmons corner; then North on Salmon’s line 12 chs to a dpad white oak, T. C. Swaims corner, then. East on Swaims line 14.25 chs to the beginning, containing 170 acres, more or less. » From the above is excepted the following boundary which has been allotted to S. Pardue as his homestead; Beginning at a post oak in Swaims line, corner; runs South old line of W. D, Royal and W. F. Messick line 8 chs; West 10 chs to a pine stump; then I' orth 8 chs lo a white oak on the bank of the road; then with Swaims line 10.75 chs to the be ginning containing by estimation 8 1-2 acres. This the 21s(^lay of Jan. 192 T. C. E. MOXLEY, Sheri*.

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