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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926 rremont Youth Is Cruelly Murdered Fremont, Nov. 8.—This quiet and peaceful little town was sad today. For at a country cemetery a few miles away, the rain beat mer cilessly upon the wilting flowers placed yesterday over the grave of Gordon Yelverton, 16 year old son of J. B. Yelverton. Highway men in the morning mists of Fri day, shot young Yelverton through the head that they might steal a truck load of tobacco- which the boy was driving* to market. All evidence in the case points to one of the most foul murders committed in North Carolina in recent years. Six years ago, Gordon’s mother died and for the past two years he had been living with an uncle in Walliainston. “The boy loved an automobile,” said J. B. Yelverton, the father, and his lip quivered and there was that numbled look of pain which comes to a brave man under a great sorrow. ‘‘And his uncle let him drive his tobacco trucks to tobacco specula tors who hauled tobacco from Wil liamston to Wilson. On Friday, however, was the first time that he had allowed the^Toy to go away by himself.” i Me hoy left YVilhamsLon for Farmville about 5 o’clock in the morning. It is supposed that the men who murdered him begged a lift, and having ingratiated them selves into the confidence of the youth persuaded him to stop on some pretext and to accompany them some distance into the wood.;. His body was found about twen ty-five feet from the highway some six miles from Farmville. It was at first thought that the boy had been stunned by. a blow and then finished by a shot from a pistol. The bullet entered the back of the head and came out :«L the fore head. Undertakers who dressed the body yesterday discredited the re port that the skull had been frac tured from a blow from some in strument. “The discoloration and swelling °ver one eye,” said one who view ed the body, “was evidently caused by the body having* lain with the face across a large stick. This was the position in which Gordon Jay when found.” Funeral services were held over the remains from the home of the grandmother of the boy, Mrs. El len Yelverton, two miles east of Fremont. Sunday afternoon. Rev. N. B. Strickland, pastor of the Fremont church of which Gordon ■was a member, was in charge of the burial and a great concourse of people attended. “I don’t see how any body could kill Gordon,” said one of the num ber taking up the story, because he never made anybody mad and was always a good boy and easy to get along with. I don’t remember that he ever got into a single fight at school.” / fourteen hundred dollars worth of tobacco was the booty which caused three men one white and two colored, to slay Gordon. The circumstances indicate that these' men killed the boy. took the truck he was driving, carried it to Farm vilie. unloaded it on the floor of Mack’s warehouse, and sold the to bacco. But they never called for the $1,400 in three checks which had been written for it. J. 10. Cash, employe of Mack’s warehouse, helped three men un load a truck load of tobacco Fri day. one of them a white man, ac cording to Cash, was .‘05 or 40 years old, poorly dressed, very un- j kempt looking and wore an old toboggan cap such as is worn by young children. Of the two ne groes, (.'ash Said, one was tall and slender and one chunky, • both of them black. He paid no special at tention to the trio and thought little about them at the time. A little later Chief of Police Taylor chanced to be talking in the warehouse. While he was there I and near several piles of tobacco ' some one noticed and remarked upon the fact that these particular ! piles looked different from the,to-i bacco raised around Farmville . ml i began to make a closer inspection. 1 11 is thought that the presence j oi the officer and the scrutiny the j tobacco from the murdered boy’s car was getting caused the mur- ' derers to become frightened and 1 to make their escape without wait- ^ ing to get the price of their crime. ! The truck was left in the ware- | bouse. One of the three checks j w.-e. made out in the name Reddick. j ’I hi' other two names were not j available but it is believed that! they would afford no clue as it is i frit certain that assumed names were given. Tin* body of the youth was found j Jit bi.’W o'clock Saturday evening in the woods near Highway PI, about six miles south of here. It was discovered by Jack Thigpen. 1 lie hack of the head had been beaten in and there was a bullet hole in the middle of the forehead. Sheriff K. A. Itasherry, of Greene county and his deputies are search ing for the three men who are be lieved to have committed the crime. (Joldsboro News. A SCORE CARD or 11 HEALTfl RI LES Since in teaching health or any thing else, it is important to be as simple, specific, and definite as possible, we are awarding* second prize of $10 to the Georgia sub scriber who sends us the following experience embodying a simple i “score card” of health rules we should all do well to cut out and try to follow. Says this reader: “I have found better health by keeping these fourteen health rules: ; 1. Ventilate every room you oc cupy. : - Wear hygienic clothing, j Live out of doors as much as ! 4. Breathe deeply. n. Keep your weight; up to the I standard. ; fi. 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Cer tainly excessive quantities of nico tine or caffeine should be avoided under the prohibitions of rule 11, as we lias all patent medicines, since in taking them one is intro ducing drugs and possibly poisons into the system without knowing CAPITAL CAFE Where you get good things Why cook when you can get it and stay out of the hot kitchen during the summer months? Special Dinners Every Day French and American home cooked. vhat the effects will be.—Clarence [•oe, in The Progressive Farmer. KNOWLEDGE IS SUCCESS U lien Douglas Fairbanks went :o Richard Mansfield, told him he wanted to be an actor, and asked lim for advice, Mansfield coun adled him to go home and “deve oj> himself.’ to learn all sorts of “If you want to be successful,” 10 added, “and are thrown into the ivorld of big things, with men who lave succeeded in their fields of en deavor, you will be able to Speak I'heir Language.” Knowledge is the language of the Hundredth Man. Ignorance embarrasses you, shames you, makes you tongue tied and awkward. There is no Royal Road to know edge. You cannot learn its language in a week, nor a month, nor by four years in school, nor by any other spirit of effort. ! here is just one Rig" Idea you must get, it you would take your place among the worth while peo ple. It is, “Learn One Thing Every Day.” That is the old, smooth, straight turnpike that leads directly to your goal. Wilson Times. Urges Farmers To Use Their Heads Continued from page one season, instead of a reduction, there has been an increase. Now js the time for us farmers to wake up to cur own best interest, be come organized with a penalty for any farmer violating: an agree ment as to reduction of acreage, raise about one-naif crop next year, work your children less, send them to school more and have a bank account lafrge enough to pay cash the next year. “Quit this way of being a slave for the Banker and the Credit Gro cery Store. Put in more hours and burn less gasoline, until you get on a cash basis, then the cotton crop will not be forced on the mar ket in thirty days to satisfy banks and credit merchants holding mort gages. If a,man farms 10, 20 or 80 years and still is in the red by a year, or in other words if it is still necessary for him to borrow enough money the fir’st of January to make a crop, it is hig-h time for him to change his methods or just quit the business. “A solid phalanx of cooperation of the solid South is the only thing that will save us from bankrupt cy and ruin. Who is your friend in time of temporal need? THE CASH. The banks are always for the banks. The 'more fortunate farmers deposit their mo/iey in the banks to be loaned to the less for tunate at from 8 to 10 per cent, after exacting collateral to the ex tent of 8 to 5 for one; then when the note is due it must be paid, re gardless of the price of cotton. Don’t be peonized by these finan cial institutions. Get a year ahead and demand a living price for your farm products. Don’t use your hands less, but your heads more. “I am not a Bolshevist, Socialist or a Pessimist. Brought up in a school of the old-time Democracy, I believe in a government by and for the entire people, with a square deal for very man. “Let’s have the mills begging for cotton in 1927, at 25 cents per pound. No trouble to do it by co , operation.” ASTHMA H There is no “euro," but the wheezy breathing that prevents sleep may oftentimes be relieved by inhaling the soothing medicated vapors«oi— Concrete Sidewalks Keep You Out oi the Mud! LAY Concrete v. a1 Vs t.iJ drive' ways in front ar.d around your house; out to the barn and garage. They add dollars and certs value to your property; provide hard, sure traction for car, truck ar.d teams; and save your time, temper and money. * Anyone can lay a sidewalk. The cost is very little compared to its usefulness. 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