WORKMAN SCHOOL
HOUSE ARE WARNED
Csrinth-Holders Work Still Is
Proceeding; Governor Of
fers $400 Reward
Ihe school situation in the C'orinth
Holders consolidated district is still
ine subject of comment, the latest
news being that warning letters have
been received by workmen repairing
the school building which was wreck
ed recently by dynamiters. County
Superintendent Marrow states, how
ever, that the work is still in pro
gress, a cessation of only a few days
having intervened when new work
men were placed on the job. The
The building is guarded each night
and the work will proceed as planned
during the day.
It is true that an anonymous let
ter was received recently by the fore
man the closing sentence suggesting
that “a hint to the" wise is sufficient.”
As a result the workmen quit work
on the building. A new force was
engaged to proceed this week.
The State school authorities have
taken up the dynamiting affair, and
at the request of State Superintend
ent of Public .Instuction, A. T. Allen,
Governor Morrison has offered a re
ward of $400 for the arrest and con
viction of the person or persons re
sponsible for the dynamiting of the
building.
.Two Weeks Civil Term Begins
. The September ,two V'eeks Civil
term of Superior Court began here
yesterday. Judge F. A. Daniels of
Goldsboro is presiding.
MISS BLANCHE PENNY
IS RURAL SUPERVISOR
M)fcsj Blanche Penny of Cary,
N C., has accepted the position of
rural school supervisor fo North
ampton county for the remainder of
the present school year.
Miss Penny is well qualified for
* this position. She graduated from
Randolph Macon Woman’s College
several years ago and more recently
from Columbia University where she
receives Master’s degreer this year.
She has several years experiense in
school work, as primary teacher and
for the past two years at Princeton
high school.
Miss Penny begins her work this
week. She asks the friendly coop
eration of every teacher. She is in a
position to greatly serve the teachers
of the county if she can have tfieir
active support.—Roanoke-Chowan
Times.
TWO MILLION DOLLARS
IN WHISKEY STOLEN
St. Louis, Sept. 21. The exact
amount of whiskey “spirited” away
from the local bonded warehouse of
the Jack Dsfniel Distillery was 893
barrels, Federal officials announced
today. It was said to be one of the
biggest whiskey robberies since the
enactment of the prohibition law.
Each barbel contained 42 gallons
and it was estimated that at the drug
store, price of $6 a pint the stolen
whiskey had a retail value of nearly
$2,000,000.
A complete check up today show
ed 894 barrels in the warehouse. One
barrel, the one nearest the door, con
tained the full amount of whiskey.
The ^others had been “tnilked” of
their whiskey contents and refilled
with water.—Associated Press.
GROOM IS NINETY-TWO
AND BRIDE FIFTY-SIX
Edmond Dudley, a negro 92 years
old, yesterday set a new record here
abouts, being the oldest man ever to
receive a marriage license in the
county.
Dudley, whose wife died four years
ago, came before Hunter Ellington,
deputy register of deeds, and passed
through all the formalities necessary
to secure a license to marry Mollie
Williams, a widow, whose age vgis
given at 56 years. Both parties are
from near Wake Forest. The ap
plicant was accompanied by his young
est grandson, who is 26 years of age
—News and Observer, Sept. .21.
American Army
Balloonists Dead
BRUSSELS, Belgium,
September 24.
UNITED STATES army bal
loon S-6, competing in the
Gordon-Bennett international
race was struck by lightning
last evening and Lieutenants
Olmstead and Choptaw, her
occupants, were killed.
This was the third balloon to
be destroyed in the race. Five
aeronauts have been killed.
The S-6 was destroyed near
Listerlrood, Province of Bra
bant, the Aero Club of Brus
sels officially announced.
_United States Navy balloon
A-6699 has landed at Putten,
Holland, near Zuyder Zee, Lieu
tenants Lawrence and Reichel
derfer, comprising her crew
are safe.
HAPPENINGS IN THE
STATE AND NATION
Digest of Interesting Events
Which Have Taken Place in
Last Few Days
Figures compiled by State Board
of Health show that the births ex
ceed the deaths in North Carolina dur
ing August by 3,502. Of the deaths,
tuberculosis claimed the greater num
ber, 226 deaths being attributed to
this disease. Two hundred three
deaths were among children under
two years of age.
A little ten year old Geogia boy
shot and instantly killed his eight
year old sister, Friday while playing
with each other. The little boy placed
a shotgun against the key hole of a
door to the room in which his sister
had locked herself. Not knowing the
gun was loaded, he pulled the tigger
and the tragedy was done.
Miss Emeth Tuttle of the State
Brard of Public Welfare, in charge
of the administration of Mothers’
Aid, made possible by the last legis
lature, signed up the seventeenth
case Friday. This is a mother in
Ja kson County.
More than two thousand students
have already registered at the State
University and the spring term will
find more than that matriculating.
This is the 130th year of the Univer
sity.
Ralph Shuping, a fourteen year old
boy of Drexel, was shot and almost
instantly killed Friday by a youthful
playmate, Charles Poteet. The shoot
ing was said to be entirely accident
al. The boys were scuffling over
which should carry the gun to Po
teetfs step father wlfj 'had asked
that it be brought to him from the
house.
! The cotton mills of the Carolinas
will un full time now, a fact which
presages better times in the industry.
Just a few weeks ago the mills were
in the midst of a drastic curtailment
program, advances in the price of
cotton have caused a spirit of opti
mism to prevail and more prosperous
times for both manufacturer and cot
ton farmer are indicated.
—
The Mount Olive school board has
let a contract for the placing of three
modern steel fire escapes from the
graded school building. This will re
move the ban from the use of the
auditorium which was placed on it
by the state insurance department.
According to statisticians there
was $649,175,337 worth of butter pro
duced in the United States last year.
That was six million dollars more
than the 1921 cotton crop.
A state (f war has been declared
in Bulgaria bv the government as a
consequence if communb.tic riots,
says an rv hange !«•'• g-Toh dispatch
from Sofia
How would you like to sleep under ;
a blanket from the wool from your
own sheep? Many good farmers of
North Carolina are doing so now.
GETS A BIG INCOME
FROM DAIRY FARM
Man Near Greensboro Converts
Poor Farm Into A Valuable
Piece of Property
Greensboro, Sept. 24—Twenty
years ago, Jesse C. Causey, who lives
near Liberty about 18 miles from
Greensboro, bought a poor, run-down
gullied, pine thicket—by courtesy
called a farm. He paid $800 for
about 366 acres. His first payment
was $100 and the balance to be paid
in $100 installments for seven years.
Though he had only $50 to begir
with, he soon secured the remaining
$50 and was given the place.
Mr. Causey broke away from the
accepted idea of farming in his sec
tion and determined to become a live
stock and forage crop man. In spite
of all predictions as to how he would
fail to make a living, this old run
down farm is now one of the most
/aluable in Guilford County and Mr.
Causey is beginning to be known over
the State as one of North Carolina’s
best farmers.
County Agent E. B. Garrett of
Guilford County says of Mr. Causey,
“He is one of the best examples of
a successful small farmer that I know
of. Mr. Causey has no interest out
side of his farm, yet he has an income
of from $5,000 to $6,000 per year. His
home is valued at $30,000, and the
whole farm together with equipment
is worth close to $100,000 at this
time.”
Mr. Causey made his money by im
proving his soil, milking about 35
cows per year, and selling his farm
produce through cows, poultry and
hogs. He grows all the supplies need
ed on his own place and the money
from his butter, poultry, eggs and
hams is clear cash. He has used
sound methods, worked hard and pro
duced a quality product. This is
shown by the fact that he sells about
150 pounds of butter in Greensboro
each week at a price 10 cents above
the market quotation. He has regu
lar customers who depend on him to
supply them with butter or any oth
er produce that he may have for
market. M. Causey uses labor-saving
equipment on his place and saves his
wife and family the drudgery usual
ly associated with farm life. Yet this
is the man of whom it was said, “He
will starve to death on that place.’
TO INVITE GOVERNORS
TO “DRY” CONFERENCE
Washington, Sept. 21.—President
Coolidge has virtually decided to hold
the proposed conference of Governors
on enforcement of prohibition and
other laws in Washington about the
middle of October.
The Governors are to be invited
here after their .regular annual meet
ing at West Baden, Indianapolis, on
Octber 15. The President has been
in communication with a number of
the State Executives and some of
them advised him that the time sug
gested would suit their convenience
No i dditional light has been thrown
on the scope of the conference, which
originally w^s designed mainly to
discuss co-operation between Federal
and State authorities in enforcing
prohibition. The program was ex
tended to include immigration and
possibly other questions.
Good Cotton Pickers
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Penny, who
live in the Smith school section,
were in town Saturday. They have
six children, the oldest of whom is
nineteen years old, and the youngest
eight. Mr. Penny says they pick
over 2,000 pounds of cotton a day.
Anothe good cotton picker is Ada
Edwards, the eight-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. J. A. Edwards who lives
near Wilson's Mills. She picks 122
pounds a day.
A Little Child Hurt
Thel Hooks Ryley, the little son of
Mr. W. C. Ryley who lives near here,
fell from a trycicle Saturday about
twelve o'clock and was seriously
hurt. His injuries were internal and
it is thought that an operation will
be necessary.
BUSINESS MEN STUDY
SOUTH C. CREAMERY
By-Products of Creamery Help
To Make Florence Industry
Pay Dividend
That it takes the by-product® of
cream to make a creamery really
profitable, was one of the significant
facts learned by the twenty-five or
thirty business men and farmers
from this county who visited last
Thursday a creamery operated in
Florence, S. C.
The time which the visitors had to
spend in looking over the creamery
was short, and the details of opera
tion correspondingly meagre, but the
trip was well worth while from some
| standpoints, according to those who
took the trip. The owner of the
Florence Creamery has been in the
business there only two or three
years, and all the time has been
improving his plant, so that the
dividends so far have not been large.
I He runs his creamery on a cash basis.
He also buys chickens and eggs,
which he advices as a by-product for
the former. He induced one of his
customers, who happened to be there
Thursday, to tell the Johnston Coun
ty visitors about his experience. This
farmer grew cotton until the boll
weevil ruined him. Left with a
scrub cow and a few chickens of mix
ed stock, he became interested in
keeping cows as a money making
project. He had replaced the scrub
cow with a herd of good breed, and
had a yard full of thoroughbred
Rhode Island Red chickens which he
raised on the milk left after being
separated from the cream. He stated
j that if he could raise cotton now
; without the boll weevil, he would
| stick to his cows and chickens instead,
i After visiting the creamery the
party went over the Experiment
Station located near Florence, and
saw the tests in combatting boll wee
vil. According to Mr. R. E. White
hurst, one of the party, this was a
most interesting part of the trip. Ex
periments with various kinds of dust
ing machines, poisoning in different
ways, tests in chopping cotton with
varying spaces, were all full of in
terest to the farmers.
COMPROMISE REACHED IN
HUGHES WILL CONTEST
Danville, Va., Sept. 21.—The con
test over the will of John E. Hughes,
tobacco man, who left an estate worth
nearly $3,000,000, most of it to
charity, was settled this afternoon
when attorneys on both sides signed
the terms of a compromise which was
later filed in the Corporation court.
In the original will the heirs-at
l^w, brothers, a sister and nieces and
nephews receive comparatively small
amounts. Under the terms of the com
promise they win $200,000, which is
divided among them in the ratio of
the oiginal bequests. Settlement
puts an end to prospective costly liti*
gation involved in a suit to break
the will and which would have taken
probably 30 day* to try.
JUDGES FOR PEACE PRIZE
CONTEST SELECTED
Six prominent men and one woman
have been selected as judges in the
Edward W. Bok peace prize contest,
in which each contestant will try to
give the most practicable plan for
the United States to co-operate with
other nations in abolishing ;future
wars. They are as follows:
Col. Edward M. House who repre
sented the United States in the Su
preme War Council at Versailes.
Gen. Jones Gutherie Harbond,
President of the Radio Corporation
of America, Chief of Staff of the A.
E. F., in France in 1917-’19 and in
command of the Marine Brigade near
Chatteau Thiery.
Ellen Fitz Pendleton, president of
Wellesley College since 1911.
Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard
Law school since 1916.
Elihu Root winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1912, member of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration at
The Hague since 1910 and of the
Commission of International Jourists
that proposed the plan of the new
Permanent Court of International
Turbulent East In
Another Conflict
PARIS, France,
September 23.
A DISPATCH to the Havas
Agency from Sofia says the
present insurrection in Bulga
ria is spreading and gathering
strength. One hundred thou
sand peasants, a majority of
whom are armed and fairly
well organized are marching on
Sofiia in an attempt to over
throw the government.
The dispatch adds that the
cabinet sat throughout Satur
day night. It was presided ov
er by King Boris. Two regi
ments have been dispatched
against the on coming peas
ants who are reported to have
halted in the face of rifle
fire.
SHOOTS SELF AFTER
RABIES DEVELOPS
Hoke County Man Unable To
Get Treatment for Rabies
Kills Himself
•
| Raeford, Sept. 23.—Death was just
j around the corner for Ben Gulledge,
well known white man, who lived
about two miles from here, and he
met it half way by shooting off the
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top of his head.
What doctors declared to be the
first stages of hydrophobia brought
Ben to death's door, and he decided
to end it all. Ben was no coward.
He endeavored to secure entrance
in hospitals for treatment but none
would take him. So he came back
home to die. He would not prolong
the agony either for himself or for
his wife and four children.
There was a shot gun handy, and
after neighbors who had done their
best to help him had gone, Ben’s
son saw him go into a bedroom. He
acted more strangely than ever and
the boy feared for his father.
Rushing to the door of the room,
the youth was horrified to see his
father with gun in hand about to end
his mortal existence. The son tried
to intercept the deadly weapon, but
the father was determined to carry
out his purpose. Turning the gun
on the boy, the father sternly order
ed him out, saying that life was
nothing to him mow, and he was
going to end it all.
Hardly had the door closed be
hind the boy before he heard the
explosion of the gun. The force of
the shot blew the top of his head
off.
Early in the spring one of Ben’s
sons carried home a dog that had
symptoms of hydrophobia. It was
tied out with the hope that it would
recover. Gulledge fed the dog occa
sionally but did not remember to
have been bitten by the dog. Final
ly the dog died and he forgot about
it.
Friday Gulledge became seriously
ill with a pain in his neck, but the
physicians did not attach any par
ticular significance to this at first.
Friday night, however, they became
convinced that it was hydrophobia.
He was rushed Saturday morning to
a Fayetteville hospital, but he could
not get in. The hospital there isn’t
treating persons afflicted with rabies.
Then the doctors wired to Raleigh
for irsstructions with a similar re
sult. There was nothing for poor
Ben to do but to return home to die
And there he ended it all in the aft
1 ernoon, and today his wife and four
children mourn for a father who was
! brave in death as he had been in life.
He was forty years old.—News and
Observer.
Dentist: “Am I hurting you? Smart
Patient: “Oh, no; I make it a rule to
groan twenty minutes every day for
my health.”
Justice.
William Allen White, editor and
novelist, went to France as an ob
server for the American Red Cross in
1917.
Brand Whitlock former Ambassa
dor to Belgium.
BUT TWO CASES IN
RECORDER’S COURT
Violation of Prohibition Law
Ends In Road Sentence—
Jury Trial
In the Recorder’s Court last Tues
day, only two cases were disposed
of, both being against W D. (Bill)
Lee, of Ingrams Township charged
with violations of the prohibition law.
The first case grew out cf a raid
upon an illicit distillery by Deputy
Sheriff W. W. Stewart assisted by
Henry Massengill. This raid was on
June 5th. In the opinion of the of
ficers there were three men at the
still but only two were recognized
they being Bob Massengill and W. D.
Lee Massengill was tried before the
Recorder on June 12. Lee escaped
and was not captured until Sunday
morning, September 2. He asked for
a trial when brought into Court on
Sept. 11'h. Ti e trial was th?.n set
for Sept. l£th. the following b±<ng
selected as jurors: H. G. Wilder, M.
L. Hardee, C K Pleasant, D. S.
Jones, J. W. Lnnis and H. W. Hig
gins.
The case consumed all of Tuesday
ar.d the greater part of Wednesday,
the jury turning a verdict of guilty
and Judge Noble imposing a sentence
of twelve months on the road.
The second case was the result of
the officers finding a quart of liquor
on his person at the time of his ar
rest. He did not introduce any evi
dence and was found guilty. Prayer
for judgment was continued until to
day, Sept. 25th.
“ORIGINAL HUMAN FLY”
CLIMBS COURT HOUSE HERE
Smithfield people were given a
real thrill Monday afternoon when
Mr. George G. Polley, “The Original
Human Fly,” climbed to the top of
the Johnston County Court House.
Mr. Polley started from the ground
and with nothing to aid him but his
arms and feet succeeded in going
over the cornice which overlaps the
top of the building about four feet.
After gaining the top Mr. Polley
gave his spectators a hair-rising
thrill when he stood on his head about
two inches from the edge of the
cornice. He has been giving exhibi
tions of this kind for 16 years and
has previously climbed the Wool
worth Building in New York, which
is 57 stories high, also the famous
La Mont towner in Chicago, the
Statler Hotel in Cleveland and num
erous other buildings throughout
the country. He has toured England,
France, Germany and several other
European countries. Mr. Polley hails
from Boston, Mass.
WORK PROGRESSES
ON CONCRETE ROAD
The work of laying the eoneete
base on this section of the new ha»d
surface road from the Wake lire to
Smithfield was finished up last Sat
urday and the mixer that has been
employed on the work has been mov
ed to the Smithfield end and is now
laying concrete there. The road
above Clayton is finished with the
exception of a few feet to be laid
through the underpass at West Clay
ton. This will be laid later when 1he
underpass is completed. Laying the
asphalt on the base is now under
way and as soon as the Main street
stretch is finished up activities will
be extended to the road above Clay
ton and finishing up a short section
between here and the asphalt plant.—
The Clayton News.
FORD GIVES FIRE
ENGINE TO MT. VERNON
Washington, Sept. 21.—In its mad
rush of turning out one or two, ears
a minute the force of the Ford Motor
company recently stopped long
enough to make a chemical fire en
gine to protect Mount Vernon, the
home of George Washington. The
apparatus arrived today, a gift of
Mr. Ford. He recently visited the
shrine and was so impressed with
the, fire danger that he telegraphed
his factory to make an eng’ne and
ship it posthaste.