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VOL. XXXIII __YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926 V0L No 7
HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND
SELF AT GRAVE
Reconciliation Failing, Estranged
Man Draws Gun and Fires
Gallopolis, 0., Feb. 12.—While
the body of a relative was being
lowered into the grave in a ceine- j
tery here today, Nelson Bonecut- j
ter, 35, shot and killed his wife j
and then shot himself, dying a
short time later in a hospital. j
Bonecutter had come here to j
attend the funeral of Mrs. Clinton 1
Walker; and attempt a reconcilia- i
tion with his wife. They had been !
estranged for some time.
When his wife spurned him,
Bonecutter exclaimed: “Well, I
will end it all right now’.” He
drew a revolver from his pocket,
shooting Mrs. Bonecutter between
the eyes. As she fell he grabbed
her and shot her in the breast.
She died instantly. He then shot
himself in the mouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Bonecutter’s home
was in Point Pleasant, W. Va.
SOFT PORK HARDENED
BY PROPER FEEDING
Raleigh, Feb. 17.—After five
years of work, the animal indus
try department at State College
feels that it is now in a position
to say that pigs fed peanuts or
other oily feeds may be hardened
so fliat the carcasses will grade
hard.
In the report ot the Agricultu
ral Experiment Station now being
prepared for the printer, the live
stock workers show that in three
separate trials during the last
two years, pigs weighing 125 lbs
and 63 pounds, each, fed 255 lbs
and 205 lbs of peanuts for 56 days
have been killed out hard at a
marketable weight.
These pigs, comprising a total
of 16 in the tests, made average
gains of 75 and 72 pounds each
on peanuts. The peanuts were
then followed by the proper a
mount of hardening feeds. The
pigs then killed hard. The work
ers state that for each pound of
peanut oil consumed in the pea
nuts fed, it is necessary to give
2 1-4 pounds of hardening feed
to make the hog kill out hard.
It was also found that when
hardening feeds are given follow
ing the softening feeds, harder
bodies were produced than when
the hardening feeds were fed in
equal amounts and at the same
time that the peanuts were given.
This is explained partially by the
more rapid laying on of fat after
the hog reaches 130 to 150 pounds
in weight. Growth has then de
creased and the more rapid de
positing of fat begun.
The workers found also that
the size of the hog when killed
influenced the hardness of the
body. A tendency to softness oc
curred in those hogs killed at 150
pounds or below, even when fed
under the most favorable condi
tions and with the best feeds.
In the tests made, brewer’s
rice, which is rich in starch, was
used as the hardening feed.
According to the animal indus
try workers, it is felt that the
fundamentals in soft pork re
search have now been solved.
pass theTchicken
Somebody has figured out that
if all the milk produced in the
United States last year had gone
into a single can this receptacle
would fcave been loOO feet in di
ameter and a halfmile high. There
were nearly twelve billion gallons
of it, and its value was $2,566,
000,000. But he goes on in his
figuring to show that there are
400,000,000 chickens in the United
States, and that the flock would
form a procession, single file,
more than 100,000 miles long, or
four times ar-und the world, and
the hens would lay enough eggs
every year to reach them to the
moon and back. All of which on
ly makes us glad that we live in
the United States, where there is
never a scarcity of three good old
standbys—milk, eggs and chick
ens. And as for the chicken part
of it, we suppost every Methodist
minister in the land is also thank
ful.—Lancaster, S. C., News.
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Paris, Feb. 12.—King Alfonso
of Spain expects to visit the Unit
ed States late next year, says a
dispatch from Madrid, which as
serts that preparations for the
royal tour already are under way.
The tour will include visits to j
Cuba and South America.
TO CONTINUE CAMPAIGN
FOR MEMBERS OF MOB
Asheville, Feb. 11.—The fact
that Governor McLean has re
fused to extend executive clem
ency to the fifteen men convicted
of mob violence in storming the
Buncombe county jail when Alvin
Mansel, negro under a death sen
tence for assault on a white wo
man, was confined there last fall, !
will not check the campaign laun
ched here by their friends and
families to secure parole or light-!
er sentences for them, it was de
clared today-by R. E. Reynolds,
Asheville attorney, when he learn- i
ed that the petitions had been j
turned down.
“We do not intend to abandon
our exorts to aid the convicted
men because the governor has re
fused them executive clemency.”
the Asheville attorney said today.
‘‘We will continue our fight to
secure a parole for them or to
have their sentences lightened. I
have not decided what our next
step will be but we will carry on. ]
Those petitions to secure clemen-1
cy were signed by six thousand j
names and that should carry some !
weight. The fact that they have
been turned down will merely
stimulate our efforts.”
Mayor Cathey announced this
afternoon that he had not receiv
ed the governor’s request for an
investigation to determine wheth
er families of the mob members
are in need as a result of the im
prisonment of their male relativ
es. He said, however, that he will
'make whatever investigation Gov
ernor McLean requests.
The mayor said he had no off
hand knowledge or the condition
of any of the families.
POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO
CHAIRMAN BRAMHAM
Durham, Feb. 16.—Dan W. Hill,
postmaster of Asheville, K. E.
Shore, Winston-Salem business
man, and J. J. Jenkins, Siler City
banker, have been mentioned as
possible candidates for Republi
can state chairman to succeed W.
G. Bramham, of Durham, wro will
not stand for re-elecation at the
state convention here on April 8.
Mr. Jenkins is mentioned as the
candidate for Marion Butler fac
tion, while the other two are con
sidered regulars.
AUCTION SAI^J OF YADKIN
COUNTY FARMS
Pursuant to ah order of the
Superior court of Yadkin county
made on the 8th day of Feb. 1926
the undersigned commissioner
will sell at public auction at the
Court House door in Yadkin Coun
ty on Monday, March 1. 1926, at
1 o’clock, p. m., the farm lands
of the J. M. Jones estate located
in Boonville Township, Yadkin
county, and lying on the Yadkin
River. The 270 acres of these
lands have been divided into
tracts and will be sold to the high
est bidder. 270 acres, subdivid
ed, 89 acres river bottom.
Tract one and two will be sold
together. Tract No. 1, known as
old homeplace containing 61.95
acres. Approximately 40 acres
river bottom and balance in timb
er and pasture. G>ood 7 room
| dwelling house, large feed barn
and all necessary out buildings.
Tract No. 2, containing 28.13
acres. Approximately 15 acres
river bottom and balance in timb
er. The above tract No. 1 and 2
will be sold separate and then as
a whole.
Tract No. 3, containing 34.35
acres and No. 4, containing 59.22
acres will be sold as one tract
only. Tract No. 3, containing
34.35 acres. About 7 acres river
bottom, a few acres of upland
cleared and balance in timber.
Tract No. 4, containing 59.22
acres. About 27 acres river bot
tom, balance in timber, good 4
room house, new feed barn and
other necessary outbuildings.
Timber tract, containing 86.39
acres with original timber stand
ing will be sold in one tract only,
the following being the whole
amount laid out in three tracts,
now one.
Terms: One-third cash, bal
ance in 12 and 18 months.
Any person desiring further in
S formation can apply to the under
signed at Boonville, N. C., or to
J. H. Hunt, Boonville, N. C., or D.
M. Reece, Yadkinville, N. C.
This Feb. 8, 192«. '
J. L. and C. H. JONES, Commis
sioners.
ASKED FOR FARMERS’
EIGHT MONTHS’ OPINION
President of Union Requested to
Give Data for High School
Debates
HE’S FOR NEGATIVE SIDE
Miss Mabel Cole, of the library
extension work of the University
of North Carolina, is gathering
data argument and such pro and
con, on the proposed eight-month
minimum school term for North
Carolina, for the use of high
schooldebaters, and she has writ
ten to R. W. H. Stone, of Guil
ford county, president of the
North Carolina Farmers union,
regarding the stand of the Union
in the matter.
Mr. Stone yesterday sent to
Miss Cole his opinion, including
a resolution passed at'the last an
nual convention of the union,
held in Raleigh last December b
and 4, in which the organization
went on record as opposed now to
extension of the six-month mini
mum to eight months. The re
solution doubts' that the six-month
term is as efficient as was the
four-month term, and calls for
more work and less sports and
“non-essentials.”
Also included in Mr. Stone’s
letter to Miss Cole was the opini
on of the Professor Kelsey, of a
university in New York, who ven
tured to criticise consolidation of
schools as destroying the interest
of parents; as being machines,
and, although good machines, not
stimulating interest of those with
children in the schools—not their
schools any longer, or so regard
ed.
Further, according to the quit
ed matter, those iscudents in col
leges from the rural districts have
a better background for college
work and get along better in col
lege than those from the city
schools; do better than their city
cousins in college; have practical
experience, broader vision.
Mr. Stone asserted that the
Farmers union was instrumental
in having the six-month minimum
term adopted, and stands ready to
assist in expansion of educational
facilities, but only when, as he
wrote, the teachers prove that
they are turning out a better citi
zenship from the schools, trained
in more the practical things of
life, if not with as much “polish.’’
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It looks like a good year for
these early irish potato growers
who will be ready for the market
on June first, according to agri
cultural workers at State College.
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SALE OF LAND UNDER
MORTGAGE
By virture of a mortgage deed
executed on the 4th day of De
cember, 1923, by G. H. Brown and
wife Emma Brown to C. M. Hig
gins, which mortgage is recorded
in Book 32, Page 169 in the office
of Register of Deeds of Yadkin
county, North Carolina, I will sell
for cash at public auction to the
highest bidder at the Court House
door in Yadkinville, N. C. on the
1st DAY OF MARCH, 1926 the
following real estate to wit: Be
ginning at a pine on the North
side of North Hunting Creek, runs
j North 25* East along Elisha Mes
sick and Wiley Messick line 40
chs 20 Iks to a chesnut; then
North 50* West 24 chs to a post
; oak and two white oaks at a road;
then South 22* West 39 chs 50
Iks to a persimmon at the mouth
of a branch on the bank of the
aforesaid creek; thence down the
same as it meanders to the begin
ning 50 acres more or les3.
Second Tract: Beginning at a
holly on the West bank of creek,
runs West 2 chs to a stone on
bank of creek; then South 51*
| west 6 chs to a stone; then South
31* East 8 chs to- a stone on bank
of branch; then North 22 1-2*
East 2 chs to a stone on bank of
branch; then North 60* East 3.70
chs to a double white oak, in A.
N. Reeds and W. F. Gray’s line;
then North 2.70 chs to a bunch
of iron wood on South bank of
creek; then 47* West with said
creek 2 1-2 chs to the beginning,
containing 5 acres more or less.
Sale made to satisfy note and
interest secured by said mortgage.
MRS. S. G. HIGGINS, Admr. of
C. M. Higgins, Deceased.
Williams A Re ay is, Attys.
2 4 4t.
HELP THE LEPERS
Think of dressing an ulcer with
a cabbage leaf, or a piece of old
newspaper. That is frequently
done in Korea. In all Korea there
is one Leper Hospital in charge
ot Dr. R. M. Wilson, a mission
ary of the Southern Presbyterian
church. By the way, his wife is
a-native of North Carolina.
Dr. Wilson recently made an
earnest appeal'to Americans for
ofd sheets, old table-cloths, any
soft and sanitary rags, to be used
as bandages. Gauze and cloth
are very expensive in Korea, but
packages sent to Dr. Wilson—
properly marked—are delivered
tor the Lepers free of duty.
I Dr. Wilson’s appeal met with
| such a ready response that he
now has enough rags to last some
i time. However he very much
| needs old clothing for the Lepers
! to woar. Any kind of warm
underwear, garments of khaki,
vests and coats for workmen,
stockings, socks, etc., can be us
ed and will be gladly welcomed.
All denominations should, and
do co-operate in this work of Dr.
Wilson’s. The Missionary Wo
men of Mocksville Methodist
J church are getting up a box for
| him. Any donations from friends,
I irrespective of denomination, may
| be sent to Mrs. J. L. Sheek, Supt.
j of Supplies, Mocksville, N. C.
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King Alfonso is known to have
cherished the idea for a long time
of a journey to the American con
tinent.
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NOTICE OF SALE
By virture of the power of sale
contained in a certain mortgage
j deed, executed March 10th, 1<>22,
by J. P. Cheek and wife Nora
Cheek, P. M. Cheek and wife Nel
lie Cheek and W. M. Cheek to J.
5 P. Collins, which mortgage is re
| corded in the office of Register of
! Deeds of Yadkin County, North
j Carolina, Book 30, Page 52, and
i default having been made in the
payment of the deed secured by
I said mortgage deed I will sell for
cash to the highest bidder at pub
lic auction at the Court house door
! in Yadkinville, North Carolina, on
f SATURDAY, MARCH 13th, 1926,
' p. m., the following described
real estate: Lying and being in
Yadkin County, Buck Shoal Town
ship, State of North Carolina,
and described and defined as fol
i lows:
Tract One: Beginning at a
Spanish oak, A. Matthews corner;
thence East 24 poles to a double
sourwood in Finney line; thence
North with Finney line 40 poles
to a stone; thence West 31 poles
to a stone in A. Matthews line;
j thence South with A. Matthews
j line 39 poles to the beginning,
j containing 6 acres, more or less.
J Second Tract: Beginning at a
large maple on the branch, M.
Finneys corner, runs South 52
poles to a large stooped pine, M.
Finneys; thence West 56 poles to
a stone on West side of road;
thence North with said road 33 1-2
poles to a black oak; thence East
; 38 poles to a stone; thence North
37 poles to a hickory, A. Mat
| thews corner; thence East 36
, poles to the branch with dead
j Spanish oak corner; thence down
! said branch as it meanders to the
beginning, containing 34 acres,
i more or less.
| Third Tract: Beginning at a
Spanish oak, W. M. Cheeks corn
; er, running North 33 poles to a
! stone; thence West 36 1-2 poles
'to a stone; thence South 33 poles
! to a black oak, in Godfreys line;
j thence East 40 poles to the be
' ginning, containing 8 acres more
! or less.
Fourth Tract: Beginning at a
! double sourwood, runs North 36
! poles to a pine; in Godfreys line;
! thence South with a ditch 61 poles
! to the Wilkes Road, Pinnix line;
! thence East with said road 30
poles to a rock, corner of Thomas
Shore place; thence North with
said Shore line 12 2-3 poles to a
Hock; thence East 12 2-3 poles to
the Jonesville road; thence North
with said road to a stone on South
side of said road; thence East 12
poles to a chesnut stump, Finney
corner; thence North to the be
ginning, containing 12 acres, more
or less.
This the 8th day of February,
1926.
J. P. COLLINS, Mortagee
Williams & Reavis, A ttys, 2 11
MAN IS SON-IN-LAW |
OF HIS OWN BROTHER
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His Wife Sister in-Law of Her [
Mother in Odd Birth
Marriage Mixup
London, Feb. 13.—America gen
erally is pointed to by English- |
men as the normal home of “freak !
relationships,” due to divorce and
inter-marriage, but Harrow, near
London, has a relationship prob
lem which is equal to anything
reported from the United States.
Alfred Shaw of that town has
just become son-in-law of his
younger brother, and brother-in
law of his mother-in-law. His I
wife is sister-in-law to her own
mother and she is also step-sister
to her own nephew. The child
it—well, here’s how it happened.
Four years ago Eustace Shaw
married a widow, Mrs. Nichols,
who had one daughter. This
couple have one child by the mar
riage, a son. Now Eustace’s eld
er brother has married the form
er widow Nicholls’ daughter. The
local wedding authorities were
worried over the numerous re
lationship problems, but there
seemed nothing illegal in the
union.
But reckoning through the mar
riage of his step-sister to his un
cle, what relation is Eusace’s son
to his own father. Some say he
ought to be a step-brother. Har
row has given up cross-word puz
zles for the new “teaser.”
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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
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 North
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, his 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 dead 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 cbs to a pine stump; then
Forth 8 chs 1c 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 th9 21st day of Jan. 192'.
a E. MOXLEY, Sheriff.
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NOTICE
In Superior Court.
NORTH CAROLINA,
YADKIN COUNTY.
C. A. Hall administrator of J.
V. Hauser deed, vs Emma Mat
thews et al.
By virtu re of an order of the
Superior Court made in the above
intitled action I will sell at the
late residence of the said J. V.
Hauser. March G, 1926 at 12 o’
clock M„ the' following described
lands: Lying and being in East
Bend township, Yadkin county,
State of North Carolina, adjoin
ing the lands of J. W. Culler and
others and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stone, J. W. Cull
er’s corner, in J. V. Hauser’s line,
and runs North 32 degrees East
49 chains to the Yadkin River,
thence up the river 9 chains to a
stone, thence South 43 degrees
West 20.90 chains to a stone. M. M.
Flynn’s corner, thence South 38
degrees West 15.33 chains to a
stone; thence East 4 degrees
South 7.65 chains to a Stone;
thence South 41 degrees West 24
chains to a stone; thence East 4
degrees South 14.50 chains to the
beginning, containing 00 1-2 acres
more or less.
Terms of sale.—One-third of
purchase money to be paid in cash.
The remainder—one half in six
months, and one-half in twelve
months. Bond and approved se
cur.ty required. Title reserved
until purchase money is paid. Also
at same time and place I will sell
a lot of corn and fodder for cash.
This Jan. 30, 1926.
C. A. HA.LL, Commissioner.
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HAYES IS ELECTED
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Durham, Feb. 11.—Johnson J.
Hayes, of Wilkesboro, was elect
ed Republican national commit
teeman for North Carolina, to
succeed Judge John J. Parker, of
Charlotte, in a decisive vote over
A. A. Whitener, of Hickory, at
the state executive committee
meeting here last Wednesday.
Chairman W. G. Bramham, of
Durham, announced he would not
stand for re-election at the re
publican state cpnvention the
committee decided to hold in Dur
ham on April 8.
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SALE OF LAND
By virture of the power of sale
in a deed of trust executed August
15th, 1922, by J. M. Wagner and
wife, 11a Wagoner and Ann Wago
ner to secure a debt of $1900.00,
said deed of trust being register
j ed in the office of the register of
: deeds in Yadkin county, in Book
28, page 252, and notes secured
by said deed of trust being un
paid, I will sell for cash at public
auction at the Post-Office in Jones
ville, N. C., on the 27th day of
■ February, 1926, at 11:00 o’clock
in A. M., the following property:
First Tract: A. Lot in the
Town of Jonesville, N. C. Begin
ning at a rock the north east of
the Baptist Church lot, south 6.20
degrees west 55 feet to a stone
i edge of alley, with alley south
85 degrees east 214 feet to a stone
at the edge of upper cross streets,
north 6.20 degrees east 55 feet
to a stone at the corner of the
street, north westward 105 feet
to a stone K. M. Thompson old
cornel*, north 85 degrees west 150
degrees west 150 feet to a stone
I in old line, south 6.20 degrees
| w*est to the beginning.
. second Iract: In Boonville
Township, adjoining the lands of
Jacob Brown, J. A. Fraziers and
others. Beginning at a stone
Jacob Brown’s north east corn
er, north 3 chains to a gum, then
west 7 chains 50 links to a black
oak, then north 45 degrees west
with J. A. Frazier’s line 15 chains
to a gum, then south 23 degrees
west 66 chains 44 links to a maple,
then north 72 degrees west 1 chain
89 links to a stone, then West 18
chs 50 Iks to a dogwood, then
south 8 chs 15 Iks to Jacob Browns
corner, then east 40 chains to the
beginning containing 31 acres
more or less.
This the 26th day of January,
1926.
C. G. MATHIS, Trustee.
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