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ROGERS -HALL CASE MIS-TRIAL After Being Oat a Few Hours The Jury Was Discharged Cound Not Agree. Another case of interest on the civil docket was that of B. G. Rogers vs. R. L. Hall, both of Woodsdale. The plaintiff sued the defendant in this action for $10,000 damages for criminal con versation and alienation of his wife's affections. , On account of the prominence of the parties and their families much interest was shown, and a large crowd heard the case. Messrs. V. W. Kitchin and L. M. Carlton were counsel for the laintiff and Messrs. A. L. Brooks, , S.Bryant and W. D. Merntt counsel for the defendant. The case consumed the greater part of two days. The defend ant did not go upon the stand or introduce testimony. Several witnesses were examined for the plaintiff. The iury, after being out sever al hoars, reported that they. could not agree, and it being the last day of this term, a mistrial was order ed by the Court, which places the case back upon the docket to be tried again. This was one of the most strong ly contested cases that has been tried in Person county for many years and able arguments were made by attorneys on both sides. Found Dead. William D. Hamlet, who lived on CottonX Factory Kill was found dead on the porch of the negro graded school building last Thursday night about 8" o'clock. Coroner O'Briant was notified and had body carried to the may or's office where a jury was sum moned and inquest held. The ju rors and Drs. Long and Bradsher after making a thorough examina tion, found that the deceased came to death by unknown cause. ) Hamlett was a heavy drinker and often drank lemon extract in quantities. He 'leaves a wife and several children. Insure with Sattortield. 9 e GEO o o o o : o o o o o o GEORGE WASHINGTON NEVER LIED. THAT'S; WHY HE HAD THE CONFIDENCE OF MILLIONS; AND WHY WJ JRESPEC HIM TO THIS ,DAY AND ALWAYS WILL,. . " WE DO NOT NfED TO MISREPRESENT OUR MER CHANDISE. THE BRANDS WE SEJX HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. v ASK THOSE WHO HAVE TRADED WITH US WHE ther or not they like the way we' do jbusi ness: , Long, JURY AWARDS $3,500 DAMAGES In the Saunders vs. Southern Railway Case $20,00 Dam ages Asked. v In the case of Sanders vs. the j ourt convened Monday? mbri, with deadly weapon and judge-SouthemRailwayonthecmidock-lin? Kbraaiy 2nd' art?n .tivjent was suspended upon -pay- et of the February term, the; jury awarded Sanders $3, 500 damages. The plaintiff sued - for $20,000 damages for the killing of Kemp Sanders at Thomasville over a year ago. The deceased was employed by the Southern1 Railway company and was engaged in installing block sig nal systems on the main line at Thomasville. He left his train and went across the tract near the sta tion and on returning to catch his train he was struck by an extra on main line, and instantly killed. There was evidence showing that no whistle was blown or bell rung for crossing and that the train was going at the speed of 25 miles an hour. This was an interesting case as it involved the Federal Employers Liability Act. Sanders and his people formerl ly lived near Helena, in this county, and he was a spledid young man. Messrs. Kitchen and V. S. Bry ant appeared for the plaintiff and W, M. Hendren, of Winston Salem for the railroad. The case will be appealed. From Mullins In Auto. Mr. Geo. H. Yarboro and fami- ! ly of Mullins, S. C, made the trip here iff Mr. Yarboro's car last Friday. The day was ,bad and few over here, would have un-; dertaken the trip "but he says lie had no serious trouble on the way. Mr. Yarboro has been living in Mullinjsfor a number of years and his friends will be glad to know that he has made good' in his ad opted home. Vital Statistics. Mr. R. E. Cheek, local register for Roxboro and Roxboro Town ship gives us the following report for January: Deaths, town, 5; Township, 2. Births, town, 4; Township, 6. Insure with Satterfield. oooeoeeooooeeaooooooooGOO o 9 O O O O o N Ow WHERETO O o o o o o 8 HABBWftRE: o o o o o o o o . o o o o -rO o o o . o .- o o o o o o s o o o o o o o o s o o . o o 4) o Bradsher & Co. o ,i o ' vo COURT PROCEEDINGS" ; Court Adjourned for the Febru iically -required It' and that it was ary Term Saturday afternoch Humane to be done.1 i , Following Cases Tried- Dur- -- State vs. Thomas Howard. De ingTerm.. - -. "'-7 :1Mfendant plead guilty to assault 1 St witii juage .u.yon presiamg anap-tme"1 M. Gattis prosecuting; The Judire?s charge to the grand jury lasted j& bout an hour and the f ollowiijg cases on the criminal docked were disposed of: State vs. Cook Pearce and Jlr ter Williarav Defendant pleM not guilty. ' "vfv, In this case Walter William was charged with shooting.Cook Peaite shooting taking; place near Broods dale some months ago. 'The mag istrate bound Pearce over "with Williams, charging him with in assult with deadly weapon. At tjie close of evidence upon a motion before the Court Pearce was dls charged and Williams found guilty Judgement was suspended in the ease of Williams upon paymenfrof cost Pearce was represented -by L. M. Carlton and Williams re presented by W. D. jilerritt. ' t State vs. Walter Williams. , tin this case Williams plead guijty to carry concealed weapon and was fined $25.00 and cost. Williams was also put under a $100 bond for His good behavior. , H State! vs. John Smith. Defendant plead guilty to larcency and was given 12 months on the county road force. ' I Statelvs. Charles Winstead. f in this case the defendant submitted to ossaltiwith 'deadly weapon uifai 0DiSllenMcGe.eThe':judgemiit of the'eourt was that the defendant pay 'Ellen McGee $75.00 and judge ment w-as suspended upon payment of the cost. i In this case it appeared that Mr. Winstead had been out hunting and had started home and on his way stopped at Ellen McGee, who is an old colored woman living in Cunningham Township, and sat down on her door steps to rest. The old woman being out some 15 or 20 steps at the wood pile pick ing up chips and the defendant claimed that his gun accidently went off, shooting the woman in the hip. There was some evidence tending to show that he ! snapped the gun at her, but same was strongly denied by the defendant. The Court held him guilty upon the ground that he was negligent ly and recklessly handling the gun and amount ordered to be paid her by Winstead was in the nature of damages for her injuries and ex penses. Ellen McGee was present and seems to have fully recovered. State vs. Tom Glenn. Defen dant plead guilty to assault with deadly weapon and judgement was suspended. State vs. Jim Carver Day. The defendant on December 19, 1913 was on train coming Jroin Den- niston to Roxboro and was charg;--ed with taking - a suit case belong ing to a iMr. O'Brien, of Durham, who'wasv.ori same train. :v.r There were two other boys with Day and all had I been , drinking heavily. Officers were notified and suit case was found in Day's possession, but same was returned later to Mr. O'Brien The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of -larcency and defendant was .sentenced to 12 - .t-A'.- . ....-(.. .... ,.,.'. mrnirti nn , Pmmfv vm Thft r.uT .7 r.r"' - detendant's attorneys were Messrs.;. Carlton and Merritt t A i : 'j. -i ' 1, Lvon took occasion to ask about the condition of the. county ' jail, He asked if .there-were fire .rooms to jail as required by law. That x"j separate apartments for white mules and female and black males aiid females ,and; a poor debtors. roomer. And stated -that Jf such the county commissioners they were lnaictaDie, as tne law speci- oi cost. ? State vs. Alex Clay. Def en- dant found not guilty. ' State vs. Ed. Bailey. Defen dant was charged with seriously cutting and wounding Arthur Beard, in Holloways township The difficulty arising over girls. Beard was seriously cut, on arm and back and came near bleeding to death. Jury rendered a ver dict of guilty and Bailey was senx tenced to 12 months on roads. State vs. O. Green. Defendant was found guilty of larcency. State vs. Dalphin Winstead. Jury found defendant guilty and the judgement was suspended up on .payment of cost. State us. Tom Glenn. , Defen dant charged with assault with deadly weapon and found guilty. Judgement was suspended. State vs. Tom Glenn. Defen dant charged with assault with deadly weapon and found guilty. Given three months on roads. State vs. John Russell. In this case John Russell, a negro boy about 14 years of &ge was charged with killing another negro boy named Frank Williams. The de fendant not being able to employ counsels, L. M. Carlton andF. ' O. Carver were appointed by Judge Lyon to defend .him. ; r . The state's witness, who was the onlvveye witness .to the, killing staled that the.' deceaseiand d fendant were, out hunting together and that the defendant pointed his gun at deceased's dog, whereupon deceased told him not to point the gun at his dog as it might go off and kill him. The defendant then said, "I will shoot you," and turned upon the deceased and gun fired. , It appeared that they had been the best of friends and the defend ant claimed tfyat they were play ing at the time and the gun acci dently discharged. Upon this evi dence the defendant through his counsel tendered to the state a plea of man slaughter, which was ac cepted, and the Court, on account; of the age of the defendant and all J circumstances connected with the killing, sentenced the boy to ' the penitentiary for one year. State vs. Zack Jones. In this case Jones was tried for retailing. It came out in the evidence that tile person who brought the charge against the defendant had been convicted of the same offence and Jones had been a witness against him. The defendant ,was f pund not This completed the criminal rlnp.kfid for the February term of ! Court. ; ' r Z County Teachers Meeting. The, meeting of -the County Teachers will be held in Roxboro !oh Saturday, February . 21st, at 10:30 o'clock ih the Graded School building. These meetings mean much to thp: teachers and it is very neces sary . that they should attend them! When you find an up-to 1 date teacher you will' always find one wno tajes an acuve miviw - ' ' ' 1 . 1L!. " Unn m meeimgs or ms mtbiue, u- erintendent Holloway is,veryanx- j ious that every 11C .hn pvftrv tpachftr in the ! County attend HowtoGetaiTrosperousToscn: f If yon-want a prosperous town TZZi en do .flwaViWithsnbury , from aght all 1 jealousy: and spite work move, for commons prosperity ana mutual Denenivaiie utr, ronwourvuu VOLCANO ERUPTION, r Recent Disaster in Japan Re-; suits ini'HeavV Loss of life. ; San Francisco,' Oal.; Feb",;T. The first detailed account of the eruption of Sakura Jima, on the southern coast of Japan, as re ceived here today by - mail from the Tokyo correspondent of The Associated Press, ' plaqes the loss of life, , conservatively estimated at ' several hundreds.'' - y Not only was the island of Sa kura Jiina itself, with its dozen villages flooded by a torrent of flaming lava and buried under a hail of incandescent rocks, but the beautiful city of Ivogbshima, ov erlooking the Golden Gate of Ja pan, was partly destroyed, several towns and villages on the main- land to the east were sore, , hit andrf1 WT "um 1S llot wor: the villages of Akamidu, Yoko yama... and Koike literally were swallowed up by the molten lava. Until they are dug out, no specific count of lives lost will be possible. The account follows: LAST DATS - OF POMPEII. 4tl While ,;a Tokyo audience of Japanese - was assembled at the Imperial Theater, viewing moving moving pictures of the last days of Pompeii, the subterranean fires of their own Empire, imprisoned for more than a century, were surging upward beneath the is land of Sakura Jima, in the soutli ernmost part of the raimi! , jjlp- "The 22(000 inhabitant ol Jai kura Jima fled wildly vin all direc tions, in a pitiful quest for food and shelter.- Frcfoti thicklysettjed vijlages and irom f houses embps omedlhgrdyes of ora'ngeseadi es and plums, the1 farmers y ran to the shores ot the buy i "Horses neighed and snorted in terror and all manner of domestic cattle bellowed and cried to be let loose. Many freed themselves and began a wild stampede through and over their human companions. "Many old men refused to try to save themselves and had to be dragged along by the unger. Wo men and childoen were sent off first, the women carrying their; infants, slung Japanese-fashion f OUR Is LoWj Very Low 1 And it is just like we want , it at this time of the year. It means much to you as well as to us. It ineans that we will have almost a complete stock of brand new goods and ' sty les td begirttheew season -with. ' There will be little danger of your buying anything but ttife neweist from usj1 We will have next to nothing in . cany overs. We are buying and planning every I xl. O - " 1' . 'J ?Za. ' aay ior ine opnng purpose to spare no errors to get togetner; ;theb(Bsiand?mbst;c stp'ckrof merv;. chandise evdr shown in kl)oroWe are ; daily ...receiving new. sliipmente. Within ; 4. : the next few days; we will 'dfsplay a , grand f , ' line of new laces ; and embroideries, as well as woolen and cotton dres goods for early , Spring wear in the newest fabrics. r , . in.tne meantime we : lare.ciosing'ouih odd lots andvall ;heavyi:winter gobds;atS ridiculously ; lo w pnees. t 2 I Roxboro's Harris BiuriTis. I .'across their .backs,- theirs haiids; I filled with '.portable' household: goods. ,Someihiilded. themselvrs i es with mattresses; others ''.wore metal' and: earthern pots ' for hel- - mets. It was a ,wjldr a pell-mell ; rush, - a flight- of '.indescribable .. -' .. - ' r i - - , panic ana coniusion; r? T Every-day ; Religion. ' Every man should be strong e-,V; nough to "tote" his religion around ; sevea days a week. . ' ( . ; A religion that won't work more than twelve; hours out of ; eighty-t four is not worth keeping. - : True Christianity is in doings : hot in believing. A man's business may , nothelpf his religion, but true religion will ; not hurt his business. 4 s ' 'A business that won't prosper jAii. r ni j T)..i i. j.i I while. , . - Success at the cost of a man's ' conscience is dearly purchased. ; It is not so much what we'get as what we are. The worst of all failures is sue-, cess in wrong doing. V When we learn the true definl- tion f or love we have solved the - ...... i mysteries of God's kingdom. ' V' Six Applicants. An examination was given here r u last Saturday for the position- of . postmaster at Hurdle Mills and !, Woodsdale, There were three applicants from both offices. From Hurdle Mills: A. P. Daniel, Louis Long and T)r. ' J. I. Coleman. '-r From Woodsdale: Mrs. E. J. V Robertson; R. P Brooks and E. ' Mitchell.- It ..will probably be, : about five or six , weeks before - it' is ;ktiown-who-were -successful. End Treasurers'' Jobs. 1 , - During the last session , of our . General Assembly a bill passed al lowing fifteen counties to abolish the office of County Treasurer and ! : allowingv a local bank to disburse ;, the funds under bond without sal ary. A strong sentiment is brewings ; looking towards the end of this sin- 7 ' ecu re and we hope our citizens will ; keep this theme in their minds as . any reduction in taxes will be : a consummation devotedly to be de- sired. Ex. , iTOCI t' . , X season anu; 11 is our-, 4-: 4 4 , 4 4 4 4- 4. 4 4- 4r t Best , Store! T . , 4r C00OQC89CO0CCC3C3O089CCSOO CSC3CCCSCC5CCCd00C30epSCC3 apartments were noi rumisnea oy jsjx . r ; ,, ; - t .
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