She jjjjatifeia Higgle
VOL. XXXIII _YADK1NVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. CM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1926 VOL No. 8
Superior Court Grinding
Out Troublesome Docket
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Judge Finley, of Wilkesboro,
surrounded by a bevy of attorneys
from different points, have been
working diligently since Monday
morning on a weary docket of trou
blesome cases, while trying to
clear the criminal docket of Yad
kin court.
Many cases have been disposed
of during the past few days and
many offenders have met with the
penalty for their sins and crimes.
One of the largest cases on the
docket, the Shugart-Sprouse case
of Center, was continued until the
August term by agreement of
council: This paved the way for
finishing the docket much earlier.
Mr. M. H. Bryant is foreman of
the grand jury. And we feel like
saying that the entire jury is com
posed of the best citizens of the
county, men of good sound judge
ment, and capable of serving on a
jury.
Among the cases disposed of are
the following:
Carl Davis of Jonesville was giv
en four months on the roads for
passing worthless checks and a
12 months suspended sentence for
stealing.
W. G. “Bill” Williams was fined
$50 and costs when Tom Manual
swore he bought a pint of whiskey
from Williams. Manual under
went a severe cross examination
by attorney S. C. Williams and ad
mitted he had spent more time in
jails and on chain gangs in the
past few years than anywhere else
A capias was issued for Alphon
so Gentry when he was called and
failed.
Gets Six Months.
Henry Hutchens, convicted of
assault on Louis D. Shaw of Knob
township. Shaw was attacked
while hauling wood anu knocked
from his wagon by a severe blow
on the head, and it was feared for
several days he would not live.
Hutchens was given six months
on the chain gang. Mr. Shaw is
a substantial citizen and has lived
in Knobs township all his life. He
is about 70 years old. Hutchens
is only 25 years old. Solicitor
Hayes called it a very brutal at
tack.
Roy Burgess and Clarence
Brow of Nebo plead guilty of thro
wing stones at a tenant house own
ed by Abe Willard and were fined
$10 and costs. Burgess was also
fined $50 and costs for driving an
automobile while intoxicated.
Jim Cara Hutchens, cutting
belt at C. 0. Pardues mill, found
guilty, no sentence. '
G. C. Ireland, disposing of mort
gaged property, guilty, no senten
ce.
Gorrel and John Speer, mfg. li
quor. Gorrel not guilty, John
guilty and not sentenced.
Sandy Berry Hutchens, selling
liquor, $50 and costs. '
Claud Wooten and Shufford Re
ynolds, manufacturing liquor, not
yet tried.
Sam Branson, seduction, alias
capias.
John Parker, yellow negro, was
given five years in the state pri
son for stealing automobiles. John
is said to be a bad negro and the
judge said he wanted him to have
time to think over his sins before
he was turned loose on the public
again. His last theft was the car
of Gus Carpenter, local engineer.
Shuford Hutchens got eight
months and Belt Hutchens got six
months on the roads when they
plead guilty to attempting to make
whiskey.
Shuford Hutchens got eight
months and Belt Hutchens got
six months on the roads when
they plead guilty to attempting
to make whiskey.
Ephriam Collins was convicted
of making whiskey but has not
been sentenced.
A nol prose with leave was tak
en in the case charging Blaine
Sparks with assault.
W. F. Dobbins, assault with a
deadly weapon, alias capias.
J. T. Watkins, manufacturing
liquor and retailing. Nol prose
with leave.
Steve Turner, statutory charge,
case now in Supreme Court.
Nelson and Roe Cummings, lar
ceny and receiving. Nol prose
with leave.
Floyd Hutchens, resisting an
officer. Nol prose with leave.
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Walt Allen, failing to list tax.
Off of the docket.
Calvin and Robert Swaim, dis
turbing congregation, alias capi
as.
Vaudie Mackie, attempt to man
ufacture liquor, alias capias.
Melvin and Roe Cummings, lar
ceny and receiving, alias capias
es.
Miles Swaim and Guss Swaim,
breaking into a house, alias ca
piases.
Lee Plowman, selling liquor,
called and failed. Capias.
Robert Gough, carrying a con
cealed weapon. Defendant called
and failed. Judgement nisi, scifa
and capias.
Gray and G. W. Taylor, burn
ing house. Continued for the de
fendants on account of absence
and sickness of former District
Attorney A. E. Holton, their at
torney.
Nelson Hudspeth, larceny and
receiving. Continued for defend
ant on account of his sickness.
WAGONER CASE
As we go to press the case of
Thurmond Wagoner and Leo
Wagoner, aged 22 and 14 respect
fully, charged with second degree
murder, is being tried. This case
grew out of the death of Richard
Swaim, near Boonvilie some time
: ago when he was shot by the
, Wagoner boys with a gun wad
! ding. The boys say it was purely
! accidental.
j HARM»..M«S NAMELESS NEGRO
IS IDENTIFIED AT LAST
Once upon a midnight dreary,
there pondered, weak and weary,
through the streets of-Yr.dkin
vYlle, a harmless, speechless,
negro, who knew not from whence
he came nor whither he was go
ing.
It was in bleak December, 1924,
14 months ago, when all humanity
, was preparing to enjoy the holi
day of Christmas, but indulgent
souls stopped in their mad rush
for joy long enough to try and
help this helpless victim of para
lysis and wandering mania. He
was simply standing around on
the streets, cold, hungry and with
out winter clothes. The only
thing he.could ever tell anybody
was that he was on his way to
“Jim Smiths” and there not be
ing a Jim Smith in this section
nothing was gained by this utter
ance. The negro was cared for
a few days and then moved to the
county jail only as a means of
safety and comfort. Later he was
taken to the county home and for
one year all efforts possible have
been made to identify him and
find where he belonged, for al
though he was black, dirty and
ragged, he was somebody’s boy,
and no man of any color ever
come to that condition through his
own will, but through mistakes
or misfortune.
.Last week a Yadkinville busi
ness man was in Mocksville, and
passing through an alley, he saw
an aged couple, greedily snatch
ing at a cold dinner while their
“critter” munched his fodder. The
Yadkinville man cnanced to ask
the colored folks where he could
find a cook and told where he
lived. The old mothers eyes
brightened as she rose to tell of
a wandering boy, whom she had
recently heard was last seen near
Yadkinville, and a few words as
sured both that it was Cornelius
Griffith who was picked up in Yad
kinville and that this was his
mother, Lena Griffith speaking.
Mother and boy will soon be join
ed together again.
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Most weather prophets are pre
dicting that the “winter is brok
en.” Of course, none are so rash
as to predict that we shall have
no more cold weather, but the
best authorities on weather con
ditions believe that despite the
influence and efforts of the
ground-hog, Old Winter has shot
his big gun for this season.
The home demonstration agent
of Pender County aided one poul
try grower to cull out 444 non
producers from a flock of 1800
birds. The remaining hens will
' give bigger profits on the feed
than the original 1800.
BUILDING IN NORTH CARO
LINA DURING MONTH
OF JANUARY
During January North Carolina
continued to hold. Its fourth posi
tion among the twelve strictly
Southern states, In volume, of
building permits, according to the
national monthly building survey
of S. W. Straus & Co., which cov
ers forty-seven states.
North Carolina, it will be re
membered, held fourth position
among Southern states for 1 the
year 1925, reporting a total of
nearly $36,000,000. For January
this year North Carolina, nine
cities reporting to the S. W. Straus
& Co., survey had a total of $2,
376,917, only a little more than
one million dollars below Tennes
see, its closest rival. There were
twenty-two places in North Caro
lina, each* with more than 5,000
population, which failed to report.
If these places would report in
time to have their figures tabulat
ed North Carolina’s building
figures would probably st>rpi&ss
those of Tennessee and give the
state of Texas, in which sixteen
places report, a hard race for-se
cond position.
Cities ot North Carolina were
led in January by Winston-Sal<*m,
first; Asheville, second and Char
lotte third and Raleigh fourth.
On the report for the entire year
1925 Charlotte was first with a
total of over $7,000,000; Greens
boro, second with over $6,000,000
and Asheville third also with ov
er $6,000,000. The figures for all
the cities reporting this January
in North Carolina were:
January January
1926 1925
i Asheville . 412,912 346,885
! Charlotte 365,975 585,514
Durham 140,045 57,950
: Gastonia . 96,200
Greensboro . 180,841 191,980
High Point . 240,810 64,920
Raleigh . 289,575 589,rAg
Wilmington 73.800 23.050
Winston-Salem 672,929 300,199
State Totals 2,376,917 215,798
The figures for the twelve
Southern states in January were:
(1) Florida. $18,994,195; (8) Tex
as, $9,613,663; (3) Tennessee, $3,
423,165; (4) North Carolina, $2.
376,917; (5) Georgia, $1,917,996;
(6) Alabama, $1,541,821; (7)
Kentucky, $1,466,099; (8) Virgi
nia, $1,320,444; (9) Louisiana,
$1,271,058; (10) Arkansas, $629,
509; (11) Mississipi, $113,820;
I and (12) South Carolina, $150,
309.
SALE OF LAND UNDER
MORTGAGE
By Yirture 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 ihe
following real estate to wit: Be
ginning at a pine on the North
side of North Hunting Creek, runs
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 less.
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 8.70
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* Wes: 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 & Reavis, Attys.
2 4 4t.
GIFT OF $1,000,000 TO YALE
UNIVERSITY
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 21.—
A gift of $1,000,000 to Yale uni
versity in honor of their father,
by the sons and daughters of
; Charles W. Bingham, class of
i 1868, of Cleveland, O., will be an
nounced by President James Row
land Angell to the graduates here
for alumni university day tomor
row. .
From the fund a new dormitory
to replace' Osborn hall will be
built. The estimated cost will be
$500,000, and the dormitory will
be known as Charles W. Bingham
I hall.
From the balance of the fund
a portion will be used for main
tenance and the remainder placed
in the general endowment fund.
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COUPLE FOUND DEAD
DAY AFTER WEDDING
New York, Feb. 21.—Surround
ed by halfopened package con
taining dozens of wedding pre
sents, Pablo Roderiguez, 25, and
his bride, Nadavedo, 23, were
found dead in bed from illumi
nating gas in their Eastside home
when friends called to congratu
late them today on their marriage
j last night. The belief is that
! while the couple were opening
* packages after the guests had
j gone, a string caught and opened
J the burner of a gas stove. The
' string was found today, caught
^ around the open burner.
NOTICE OF SALE
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By virtu re of the power of sale
; contained in a certain mortgage
i deed, executed March 10th, 1922,
by J. P. Cheek and wife Nora
; Cheek, P. M. Cheek and wife Nel
lie Cheek and W. M. Cheek to J.
j F.'Collins; which mortgage is re
| corded in the office of Register of
| Deeds of Yadkin County, "North
; Carolina, Book 30, Page 52, and
; default having been made in the
■ payment of the deed secured by
’ 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
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
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;
thence South with A. Matthews
line 39 poles to the beginning,
containing 6 acres, more or less.
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
j 37 poles to a hickory, A. Mat
| thews corner; thence East 86
poles to the branch with dead
! Spanish oak corner; thence down
said branch as it meanders to the
beginning, containing 34 acres,
more or less.
j 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;
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 t>o a pine; in Godfreys line;
thence South with a ditch 61 poles
j 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
rlock; 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 ft Reavis, Attya, 2 U
FIVE FERTILIZER MIXTURES
FOR GROWING GOOD CORN
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—Since corn
does not sell for a high price per
bushel, the grower should buy
and use fertilizer carefully for
the crop. Prof. C. 1>. Williams,
head of the department of agro
nomy at State College, advises
that not over 300 to 400 pounds
of fertilizer be used on the aver
age soils of the State and he has
worked out some five mixtures
that could be made at home and
used to advantage.
For the coastal plain soils, the
first mixture is as follows: 940
pounds of 16 per cent acid phos
phate, 490 pounds of 7 per cent
cottonseed meal, 190 pounds of
18 per cent nitrate of soda and
380 pounds of 12 i>er cent kainit.
This mixture is for sandy soils.
Half the nitrogen should be ap
plied at planting and the other
half applied as nitrate of soda
when the corn is from knee to
waist high.
A second mixture is 680 pounds
of.acid phosphate, 775 pounds of
cottonseed meal, 300 pounds of
nitrate of soda and 245 pounds
of kainit. The entire application
is 300 to 400 pounds may be ap
plied at planting or part or all
of the nitrate of soda reserved
for use as a topdresser.
A third mixture is made by us
ing 845 pounds of ncid phosphate,
470 pounds of fish scrap, 310
pounds of nitrate of soda and 375
pounds of kainit.
r or the piedmont or mountain
soils, Prof. Williams gives two
good mixtures both of which
should be applied at the rate of
300 to 400 pounds per acre. These
are, first, 10G0 pounds of acid
phosphate,*320 pounds of cotton
seed meal, 370 pounds of nitrate
of soda and 250 pounds of kainit.
The second mixture is made by
using 1200 pounds of acid pros
| phate; 500 pounds of nitrate of
; soda and 300 pounds of kainit.
These mixtures harden rather
quickly upon standing and should
be applied immediately after pre
paration.
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Pecan week in North Carolina
is March 8 to 13. Every land
owner in eastern Carolina is urg
ed to plant a few trees on or be
fore this period.
AUCTION SALE OF YADKIN
COUNTY FARMS
Pursuant to an 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. Good 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
aeres. 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
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, 1926.'
J. L. and C. H. JONES, Commis
sionere. >
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 6, 1926 at 12 o’
clock M., the following described
j 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:
i 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 Btone, 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; th?nc-.* East 4
degrees South 14.50 chains to the
beginning, containing 60 i > ajres
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. HALL, Commissioner.
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HAVES IS ELECTED
N A TI ON A L COM MITTEE M A N
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 convention the
committee decided to hold in Dur
ham on April 8.
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, Ua Wagoner and Ann Wago
ner to secure a debt of $1900.00.
said deed of trust being register
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. €., 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
redge of alley, with alley south
85 degrees east 214 feet to a stone
at the edge of upper cross streets,
north G.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
corner, north 85 degrees west 150
degrees west 150 feet to a stone
in old line, south 6.20 degrees
west to the beginning.
Second Tract: 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,
j 1926.
1 C. t. MATHIS, Trustee.
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