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WEATHER REPORT For North Carolina Fair t.ini-ht and Wednesday, fresh west winds. HIE TUT ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Volume XL No. 83. Four O'Clock Edition Scotland Neck, N. C, Tues., November 23, 1920 Telegraph Service Price Five Cents. WOMAN 5 CLUB FINDS COUNTY MI E DfSGRAOEFUL Dirt And Filth Without Stint Or Limit No Tablr Or Chairs NOTHING HARDLY AS SHOULD BE o- Are we iOr are we not living in the 20th Century? This is indeed a question but have you ever visited the so-called County Home of Halifax County. If you have not, we would advise you not to wait until you have time ,but take time, and take your car your horse and buggy or your JUDGE J.T.GRUTCHFIELD 1 AT K GilOND Richmond, Vu., Nov. 23. John Jeter Crutchfield, celebrated Po lice court justice, who has " pre sided over the local court for the last) 82 ears, died here Sunday after an illness ,of about two weeks. He was 76 years old and was a prominent Mason and vet eran of the War Between the tiu-t cannot go a little description St.,tos ie lms bn suffering from of what a committee from the asjnr,a IRISH PRIEST SLAIN, BODY FOUND IN BOG Bullet Wound in Temple 'Tells Tragic Fate of Curate Re - recently Kidnaped. GALWAY ROUSED BY CRIME Galway, Ireland, Nov. 23 The bodp of Father Griffin, the priest who disappeared several days ago, was found yesterday tin shallow grave about 4 miles from j0fi :f bullet JIHANGOCK'S FLOAT WINNER OF IE PRIZE In speaking about the floats j here on Armistice Day which) were beautful, we failed to men tion the winner of the prize. Mr. J. E. Hancock. Mr. Hancock, being a , progres sive ' farmer and business man, ) THE FAWJQIIS LECTURER, M FREDERI At Th CK D" LOSEY GOMINB Request cf The Clarksviile Lit erary Club IVTzl HERE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH J cotton, sweet potatoes and some a ox ear Pa ml go! And " when you go, do hot go alone, take your friends and neighbors' that all citizens may know of the dis grace Halifax Countp has in its so-called Count v Home. For those Woman's Old' of Ro-oke Rap id louiur mijiUt oe well. This committee was composed of the .President and three members of 'the Womans Club,- and we were accompanied by l)r. Carter, the Count v Health Officer. . Justice Cruthchfield was born in Richmond September 20, 1844 in wos educated in the public schools here. His court was known throughout the country as "Justice John's court' and was a regluar stopping place for As we took the turn from the tourists. His flow of readv wit imiifax road, we found an attrae- ;,nd remarkable insight into hu tive grove in which there were UUV11 nature brought him into na dght1 buildings nicely painted, so tional prominence, and many far so good; as we entered the magazine stories liave been writ hinges, on t h.c- ..lelt. Ave 'fcjFi; e K das jMuaciin at. i oim desolation and much filth and in 'built .-around the celebrated "One no room was, there a ' basin or John." pitcher. In one room, where : : there were three negro women, one of them in bed (the only bed in the room), there were two mattresses on the floor, with on ly dirty and ragged quilts for covering, in this room, there were no chairs, ivnd in no room any lamp or light f any kind except Galway There was wound in his temple. . - .'Tile body was brought to Gal way this morning. Intense excite ment prevails. The body was found ina bog by the roaside near Darna. Volun teers had been searching for the missing curate since he was kid naped by three unknown persons last Sunday. A party of country lads .obser ved in the bog what appeared to have been a recent upheaval. They began probing into the mound with sticks and finally uncovered the skirts and the over coat of the priest. Without pro ceeding further, they sent for priests in Galway, and when they arrived, working under their direction by moonlight, unearth ed the body of the missing curate. T'he bullet wound in the head of the priest was evidence of the cause of his death. r Cottagers, in this bleak', and sparsely inhabited part of the countryside, 'tell of the mysterious. fashioned collards. which brought, applause from the vast ciowd as he passed in 'review. B K Bill YOUNG LATEST TELEGRAPH Hickor j It is with great pleasure that the Clarksvillje Literary Club an nounces the return to Scotland Neck of Dr. Frederick D. Losey on Monday, Nov. 29th. j It is the ernest desire ,of this Nov. 23. Glenn Lip- elub to be able to give to the EG MAN BRUTALLY KILLED NrWn n r h H uT I M r n i pa 1 d' a young white man was people of Scotla,ul Ne p: IlLlIU ULul III UllLu imurdp and apparently robbed portunity of hearing at least one j b- inown persons just across . f00 lecturer a year. The club vi Burke county line on the is indeed fortunate to be ahl tn Dublin totalled five perwy-es-- T ' ueveu,ea , " n Bmu ume RO gl"ei terdav1 jiirday afternoon with the finding and earnest a man as Dr. Losey, y ;ot his body by some horsemen Avnos4 lectures dramas mid reeit- Belfast, Nov. 23. The tol terday OIG REVER STEAMER SINKS AT WILMINGTON New York, Nov. 23.-Govern-iWh" .T from the "fwr- Alve become famous. ment agents have seized over a ' , T'f ?raaheA mt0 hls head "nrc eoer w.U remember million dollars worth ,of ' Nareot- i , h'S skl,,U was crushed with D''' Lo!if K Ipc(nr "f Iast n ies which will be distributed !"',e.b,Utt e,,d of a Pisto1' a Part of ""?'' 'e thrUle.1 a select among the hospitals of. the conn-1" ,T llfUnf nearby- A '"" .mmv'fv" 1Mldi"'"-" r" -trv; Despite Jarge seizure! "the jl-"P' dolUr bdlnd a flat tms,an. He has a rare drama- ch'ug habit is "on the decrease is!'""'81' ako were found- Lippard, Mot and gives to his hear, the opinion of supervisor Fits-!"'11" was eulPloPed V Hickory tbe benefit of l,is wonderful jwtrick ;of the . prohibition enfor- C,n?T'' was 'said to have abo,lt T"1. ,n?,ftht i,lto ' whick cement department. ' ,hundretl olUr with him. ' in hteratnre. IIe has a iwhen last seen Friday night. ; broad conception of present day Tokio, Nov. 23.-Police disclos-1 TT . problems, and no business - . . ucvciupmeui o! me natural .man or thinker can afford pM n mint t.n assassinnfp Prpmipr i 1 C,U1,1U ! i PS1I ill If- P v fl(-'fnvn mrr rt to Ilara with seven bombs. renort bureau of insular affairs. arrival -v -York, - Nov. 23.-.J 'Ptrrr; Nov.- 23 -Venizehs defeat at midnight last Sunday, , - , ,1 iV, Uumh ,Q .M.i-.rM-,,,, ni- r.,i,,. 1 ' 1 (Lespoiuient over ins Oriffin. of lorrvLd of men! ? T , " " . rn " , ''d ? r,t permanent-1 will be give,, in the se The lorry halted "near the sr,ot rJ.' fmm UU son tolls , toriu,,, to miss his message. Dr. Losey will be in Scotland jNeck only one day- this year,, isM(:ulay. Nt-)v. 29. Tie will" dfi- , .4- 1 . . i . ,nver two r- ni-f rr fiool audi- y nairea near tue spot where the body was found and I the lights were extinguished. In about 20 minutes the lamps were j relighted and the party drove 'awav. . EMBASSY WHISKY MISSING SINCE BALL uouairs iiiruugu tne uam;ej.ictiiun correspondent of 'merchantise orders. H. F. Baker an official (of the National association of credit elared to make short credit terms and prompt collections. Geneva, Nov. 23. A clash be- " men de- fween tle counen am the as He .advised ousmess men The afternoon lecture will be .3:30 and 1lie subject 'will be, Poetry; with illustrative read- Wilmington, Nov. 23. Tne steamer Pioneer, 165 feet in the fire which was made Of green length and capble of transpor pine wood, so-green that the tags ting a thirty-ton cargo, sank in were ? t ill on it. - eiglit to ten feet of water early At-the present time there are Saturday moraine after running sixteen p-rsons in the County upon a stump, 200 yards south of ! j Home, ten colored and six white. Bannerman's bridge. The cargo ! 'oM it not in Ascalon nor pub- ; A cook is provided from outside had been discharged and the boat ilsh rt 0n the streets of Gath, but, , . . i , , -..,iL andma, iov. Co.- the home, as nearly every one m ,vas returning from its second !a new lcaK: was sprung m the n;0foi n t i Ti- i a. i i .i t. i i rivecl at L-Jiristooai at nine the home , isabled m s.ome'way f,ip since cmii.S off the ways V olstead law at the Br.t.sh cm-(v.1((ck aboard stcanlcr to care -for themselves, much less two weeks a" No .one was in-1 hassy Inday night when a cer-;. ' . . . IUCM xyK' J" wets ill n iPoriviiuiin TTa wna (tivph o. nmV Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23. Mrs. Julia Drewrey, aged thirty five 'was shot and killed in her home. Two soldiers are held on sus- issem- jiks' bly of the League of Nations over; The the Armenian question loomed 7 : ed up as a possibily result of the ;('!,,.;, t)1.ls r()ral" f " 7 fit -IT ' lanure ot tne council L,carue t 1 j?, f,is ai'oiwikh 1 ...i...... rn y j f 1 1 1 1 ii jvc i.u i t win oe at and he will internret " A by Dickeus. interpretation he sliows picion. c!cl. i.ast nignt on mans -reso-;t'io solution of the great unrest lution the entire question of ihelwhVd. harasses the1 world today. p'alotiMii 4? .. : 1 . il. ..... . ' lwau,,u KL lJlt cuujicii uj uie as- Tiekets may e secured eiiily might he raised. Hardinjj ar- I tain amount of good, old Scotch, each ether. Seme aTe cripples, jured some, have been paralyzed, some are subject to fits. Two of the Wilmington and Smith's bridge, 'fed bp attaches to be less than The Pioneer, plying between rmnored to be lalrge, but estima- iast n;t::.ed iiavi;:g been badly burned by faiiing in the fire. The houses are old and in bad repair, large cracks under every door and in nearly all cases no is an old-fashioned, fiat-ibottom stern wheel river steamer, own ed by D. J. Stokes, of Banner .nun's Bridge. of five days. half a dozen bottles, disappeared via channels other than regular that is to sav, wt0S' stolen, pur-! T , . ' . , Berlin. N loined or expropriated, it - was the night of the ball, when Wash ington society danced as the no guests oij the English Ambassador. Unlikemanv others who would rarismma. lie was given a' noisy welcome by the Harbor craft and fllooded with invitations to public functions during - his stay Asheville, Nov. 23. Every in dicant vote cast in the ' Jackson county at the general elections was thrown out by a vote of the Jackson county board of Canvass ers, also moved the hearing here to pi-event threatened disorder. from any member of the Clarksviile Literary Club. Season tiekeT i $1.00 Single Admission $ .75 I wro Birmingham, Nov. ynen were killed and rj; injur ed in the mine explosion at Parrish Vasliin,rtoju, Novf. Ii3. Ki-pie- hcks on the doors only a wood- some. Certainly not nourishing. en button. The walls are crack- On the farm of 400 acres ed an very dirtv, the floors are p are raised, no chickens and bad and dirty. Many of the consequently no eggs for the in- not be in a position to report the chairs have no b.ottoms and vin mates, the sanitation is bad about matter to the police, the embassy, one, room there were no chairs at as bad as can be, and there is possessing a1 diplomatic 'prerogai all. not a screen on the place. tive transcending dry laws would The me;vls are served in a pc- It is impossible, now that we be quite justified' in iOsking the culiar way. The inmates go to konw the facts for ns to remain authorities to bring the off end- Paris, Nov. 23. French foreign office informed the Plebiscite to sentatives of the Florida Fru'l ov. 23. One hundred decide on the return of Ex Kin?; tnd veiretf hle o-rowers jn.nparorl eminent persons amon? them the Constantine had been, postponed before the TnTerstiate commerce Crown Princess Cecilie,, Prince until December fifth. commission to argue petetion' for Eitel Friedrich, Prince August, v- suspension of proposed diversion Wilhelm Late Prince Joachim, Rome, Nov. 23. jibe ineteen : and " reeonsignmejds charges in Count 'Itadolin an Princess Wan- twenty wheat and rice crops fruits and vegetables as ordered da Radziwill have smuggu:? to Holland two hundred and fifty milllion dollars, in Reichstag. show a slight increase over lar by commission the delegation and ears figures of worlds ero. said it effects the entire country. 'The Hame, Nov. 23.- of -Former ! Asheville, X. C. Nov. 23 By throwing1 out the Indian votes all COTTON MARKET . i. ' . . . . . ' " - ' I in aiv (1 11 1 1 U 1 1 rAi;r J . Wilt- VV . I Innnm .i.n 1 1 ' l .1. . I. . 1 . i . . J3 . . . 1 1 . f . 1 1 1 il txta n nlr 4-- o 4- T r nif i &ru 4-n incf irto onrl acii1i1tt orftsi-i-n - 1 l j "i . . Q 1 . . r J 1 . 1 K tne Kueuen gei. piaies auu varvy vc ; hu.at, jj.c , jm- . - i" ouu ocuuic eoum go 10 u ooi woo ''' defeated and a protest will b them to their room. Are there zens of Halifax County join us' in the return of the stolen propertp consent of the Allies the foreign bpard in tl(1 eourts ' 'covered, ways for use in bad demanding that a modern home to its extraterritoriall status, office announced even though the j 1 . weather! No. Are there tables' be huilt. Not next year, not next However, the police have not and Former Greek Knig Constantine j Xew York Nov. 23. T'he Coun- for them to put their plates on month, but today. Now- is the will not be called iu, it was said had regained his throne and in Cil of the National Retail asso- when they reach their rooms? -ime to act And we should not Nst night. ! vited him. jciations organized to meet the No ! ' So the meal is eaten in their hesitate to demand for those who Maj. Gen. H. K. Bethell, mili- -crisis in retail trade occasioned by laps, the meals, which axe good are too helpless to demand for tary attache of the embassy, Havana, Nov. 3. Horacio Blan- price decline, enough we might say are: for themselves a home that will no made light of the mottcr last co Fombona-a. VenezuelVind news-1 breakfast, coffee, three biscuits longer be a. disgrace to the "name night, saying that the report had paper man and poet who is held j Miami Nov. 23. Regub. r ?h-- cornbread and three slices of of Halifax County. been Sreaely exaggeraeed. Ask- a prisoner by the American niiL jeeptance service inaugurated be- whit mpat. fiinnev nntatnps The Womans Club .ot Koanoko ?d eo oe more aeiiTiiTC, ne saia nary autnoruies in oanio jom- tween JMiami and Anatm, l.nlti ' " ' . J W L 'VV-J - - - 1 ehe loss was trifling not. more mgo has started a hunger strike, i Jacksonville and Palm than half a dozen botelles-- and - itjvi? winter. that ehev were not sure it had Washington, Nov. 23. Tnabil- j. ir.r,o January 10.42 March 1 1G.31? May 16.22 Julv Iocla 15 cents. Cotton Seed 37 cents per bu. turnip salad or greens, eornbread and white meat; supper, three biscuits eornbread and three slices of white - meat. Good enough! But for fnree hundred and sixty five days rather vire- Rapids. airs T. airs. C. Mrs S. Mrs. J. W. M. Long, Pres. A. Wyche, Chin, F. Patterson, M. Jackson, air. R. M. Gray returned from .Vfchovill, X C, this morning where he had beeen as a witness in a famous murder trial for near ly three weeks. He ame by TVnrh 'T'arboro where Mrs. Grav has been spendinc tne Tinie and companied him home. ;he been stolen "simply having dis- ity to interest American capital ; Ocor-n, Holland Nov. 23. anneared as things will some- on a large scale in the nations 'mer Emperors of Germ-ny Fo I' ve rv Rev. W. B Strickland Hob-"- '1 arrived in town this morn- CommittGii. times. insular possessions has retarded weak. mi
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