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J'C " > •^'-. -r • . ■ r • _ ■ /■•.- ■-. •" -^' ^ ..' "■• . - . - . i- - SC - - ' r: v‘^ , • V. ■ . - •/*’. THE JiOKE COUNTY NEWS gtJME XiyX-^m^Y if ^ ., THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL RAEFORD. N. G.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 16. 1931 : 1*^ Populur and Reapacted »^^fc-Wa8 Sixty Two Years o« -Died in Aberdeen While ^fklng On m* Mill., DIED LAST FDIDAY vW||l Highly Reepftcftsd Clttzen of ' 4Rue Spi'lnga Township—Moived to this County In 1904—Was El^^ty- Two Years anrf Eleven Month Old. l-a., i# town Raelord and. the -’"'^-^^yalde at large were Bhooked sudden death on Tuesday, 13, ^ Idr. B. ^ MaiQieeon, irominent and beloved citl- Raeford. Mr. Matheson died ^^e mature age of sixty-two, yot ihi^ sudden and unexpected death was a severe shock to his many friends. The town and county in iSeneral, grieve with. the afflicted family over the death of this belov ed 'man. ' Pt^ some two months Mr. Mathe ^11 h'ad been operating the old Mac . l^rlane grist mill at Aberdeen, re- ' tiirnttg to the town, on week-ends Tui^ay afternoon, witnesses of the t ith say, he closed the mill and nt to Aberdeen for supplies. Com ling back to the mill he raised- the gates and started the rocks to work j a^ln. Some trouble with the work- ► fng of the millrocks developed and "Mr. iMatherson jendeavored to cor- , r^t it. In the process of working with these rooks, he collapsed. Help was immediately summoned from Aberdeen and iDr. R. A. Matheson, Jr.i 4jf Raoford was snnunoned, arriv- :lng howevw to find his father al- ready dead. Mr. Matheson was a native of Montgomery County, but was also lOngaged In farming in ' the Spring Hill section in the middle period of -ihls life. At the time when his isoiv Qr. R. A. Matheson, Jr., came. ' to Raeford -to practice medicine, Mr. Matheson and his family moved ' to Raeford, and here they have lived for several years, honored and beloved neighobrs. Mr. Matheson was a man of utmobt sincerity and friendliness, cheerful, warm-hearted and delighted to talk, with friends and neighbors. Wholehearted and true' in his dealings ,'h6 led a life of strength and warm friendliness. The people of the community feel :the sadness of his sudden dea+h and sympathize deeply with thoke who were nearest to him. iMr. Matheson was the father of four sons and three daughters now living: Dr. R. A. Matheson, Jr., of Raeford; Dr. J. G. Matheson. of Ahoskie, M. R. Matheson, of Heights town, N. J., ancf Jimmy Matheson, of Raeford, now a btudent at the University of North ■ Carolina at Chapel Hill; Mrs. Hector MiCNeill, ^ Red Springs; Mrs. J. L. Warner Miss Dean Matheson, Of Rae ford. He is also survived by One brother, Charles Matheson, of Mount Gilead and one sister, (Mrs. A. M. Lentz, of Norwood. Funeral services were conducted from the home on Thur’sday at elev en o’clock by the pastor of the de ceased, Rev. F. Trawlck, of the Raeford Methodist Church and in terment was made in Raeford ceme tery. Honorary pallbearers were: R. L. BeCbunel C. Wi Seate. T. B. Upchurch, W. B. IMoQueen, Dr. R. L. Murray, L. B. Reaves, A. D6w, K Israel Mann, A. J. Fuller, A. B. Mc- Fadyen, F. G. Leach, and' L H. Sha^n. Active palibeareVs were Rush iWooley, W. B. McNeill, W. P. Ba ker, L. S. McMillan, Paul Dezern and T. B. Upchurch, Jr. •Mr. Hiram Norton, a highly res ’psotsd. citizen of Blue Springs Township, died at his home last Friday, his death being due to high blood pressure and kidney trouble. He wah eigMy-two years, eleven mmuths and nine days old. Hp had been sick about three months. Mr. Norton was a native of Scot -land County (then Richmond) and. ^jiioved to this county in 1904. He was an^ exceptionally good" farmer and had accumulated a sizeable es tate during his active days, owning at the time of his death some of the best farms in t^jils county. Surviving are one' brother, Silas Norton, of' Scotland County, two sons, Manley and Bmmett, three daughters, Delia, Mary Bliza and Carrie, all of this county. His wife, who before marriage was Miss Mar tha Ann Norton, preceded him to the grave about eight years ago. {Mineral services were conducted from the home Saturday at three o’clock by, the, pastor. Rev. W. P. Trawick and interment was made in Raeford cemetery. Active pallbearers were; W. F. Jackson, W. M. Norton, Onslow Morgan, E. L. Norton, D. J. Love and Dan Wilkes. Tax Relief Meetinp A number of prominent cW- zene of Koke County have aaked this paper to state that » mass meeting of tax payers who are Interested fn a reduction 'of taxes will be held tomorrow (Satur day) at two o’clock In thp court house to make such recommenda tion to our representative as they may see fit. It is urged that a large atten dance be had. OOltH AnENDS ASSEMDIV OPENHIG SUPEUD CODIT CONVENES MONDAY Will Funish our Readers With Do ings of the Legislature In His Own Way—Commen,ta On Gover nor’s Speech. His Honor Judge Frank Daniels to Preside—Both Criminal and Civil Term—Criminal Pocket Heavier Than Usual. SI.50 YEAR, IN ADVANCB FOimiNG OF HOKE OnTEDLY FODGHr Old Papers Yie^d Interesting Story Of Fight for Mew County—Coun ty Twenty Years Old On April First. Albemarle Man Has ^ Explanation For The Deoressions Aibemiarle, Jan. 12.—Though it was on the' thirteenth of the month when he made hte statement, J. V. Barringer, local :;jln8urance counsel, proves in black and white that the idepression was a thing of the past when 1981 arrived. Says Mr. Barringer: “The year 1912 was a dull year for business, as it had the biggest slump In a. long time. After 1912 and until the country- was prosperou'^ 'Wbrk plen tiful, and times gobd. HoW©tct, 1921 was one of the worst busIndS's year^ on record. This was followed by good business until 1930. And there is a funny thing about these three years. Look at these figures; OFFICERS ADSOIVED VKIIUNG BRIOMAN Coroner’s Jury Held That Deputy Sheriff of Scotland County Shot In Self Defense—Other Incidents Injected Into to Case. Dr. G. W. Broyn, acting Coroner, swore In the following jury Tuesday to hold an inquest over the remains of Jim Brigman, who died in a Hamlet hospital Monday night from wounds received last Friday night: W, C. Odom, H. A. Currie, C. L. Stephens, W. W. Roberts, H. L. Gatlin, Jr., arid Jack Shaw. The Coroner and the jury went to Laur- inburg Tuesday morning to view the body of Brigman and cam^ back to Raeford for the Inquest which was held in the afternoon. - According to testimony brbught out at the hearing. Deputies Lamar Smith, R. C. Miller and S. H. Dun lap, of Scotland County, phoned Sheriff Hodgin that they had infor mation that Brigman was at the home of his sister, Susan Brigman, in Antioch Township and-that they had a warrant for his arrest charg ing him with manufacturing whis key and desired an officer from this e;qHnty to accompany them.Jo make thi arrest. Depatyi^tHPri^g^B WW" By CARL GOERCH. “Wle are met today,’’- said Gover nor O. Max Gardner last Friday noon, starting off his meakege to the General Assembly, “to Consider North Carolina and to take thought of her future. This solemn duty comes to us at a time when most of our problems appear aggravated by the condition of economic mal- (adjustment in which we find our selves.’’ “What does he mean by econom ic maladjustment?” whtepered neck-stretching individual to a friend in the crowd that swarmed about the door of the house chamber. “Indigestion!” whispered the friend in reply. ‘T’ye been troubled with It for years,” murmured the first man. "Wonder how he knew it Several hundred folks, in addi tion to the members of the Gener al Assembly, were so keenly inter ested in what the Governor had to say about our econonmic malad justment that they stood on their ijeet—and one another’^ feet—for about an hour and a half, listen ing to His Excellency tell what was wrong 'with North Carolina. And even then he , only hit the high spots. If he had gone into details the chances are that he would have been talking yet. He dealt with agriculture in a direct and forceful manner, and it seems as though the farmers of North Carolina either are going to have Vp^ei^ept a live-at-home policy -m starve at home. ;fThe 'i^st 3l^ls recommendations lucent 6ttt be made in the siate, coimty and muntol^P^lwployees. MemberB of thOi.v’i^i8lature cheered and The January term of Hoke Su perior Court will convene here next Monday with His Honor Judge Frank Daniels presiding. This is (By ROBERT COVINGTON) Many folks now residing within the bounds of Hoke County have little conception of the bitter battle both a crimnal and civil term and the docket is heavier than usual with thirteen defendants to fac^ trial. Ten of theke were bound over from Recorder’s Court, two appealed, and one bound over from Magistrate’s Court.- The Defendants and crime charged are as follows: R. H. Swanson, larceny. Chanqy McLauchlin, Carl Cobb, alias Carl Pankey, Alias Carl Wal ker and Ed Morris, housebreaking and larceny. Wilkin Thomas, housebreaking and larceny, three charges. S. L. McLendon, store-breaking and larceny. Mack Daniels, larceny, three charges. Nathaniel Morrikon Charlie Dod son and A. L. Robinson, askaalt and highway robbery. Floyd McRae, murder. Jesse James McNeill and Roose velt Harding, store-breaking and lar ceny. John Will Cephas, attempt at housebreaking. assigned to go with them and they proceeded to the home of Mr. G^'fras that a C. Biggs, who walked with them to the Brigman home and pointed it out to them, arriving there about 8:30 p. m., he remaining a iThen it suddenly dawned dlklt^d -away. Mr. Barrington to one of the two doors of the house (both opening on a prch) and knock ed. ■ Susan Brigman asked who it was and Mr. Barrington told her his name, his mission and asked! that she open the door. She replied that she would have to have time to dress but after some five minutes them that they were inicluded in the list of State employees, and after that^they eyed the Governor in stony s Four mi^jfeji'dollars will be sav ed to the Sagfe. annually if the pro posed cut goer into effect. It may be that some of the legislators will 1 13 13 13 “Now how in the world can you beat that number “13”? inquired Mr. Barringer. “You can’t get around the fact that hard times are I '-er, because iv* ai '. all be .dead w.-i.-p this C0i1i iliith-a wirLa out •.■ain. The no.^.t tlim m tury-aa will l.e in 2029 an.t we w;.’. no’ be con Ci..‘*..ed abcU biiiinc^s ccu'llMons then. Yea, air, hard times are over. Figures don’t lie.” or more, she 'still failing to open gg^ sore and throw up their jobs, the door, Mr. Barrington crashed^ -^vi^ich event the State would' be in the door that he was stationed fortunate. However, the at and at the same time Miller open-1 ^^vernor has to take his cut along Poultry Car of \f S^8on To Be made The first shlpmenf pf live poultry fleason la scheduled to take here next Tueeday -when the division of the State De- pafOMBt - of Agriculture In oo-oper- County Agent Wu D. Bnrtim Irlll h*ve g poultry oar plgced here In order to furnish far- rinMa' with a market -for their sur- lowla. Virile prices are not ygh as they have been In years ipast,>they are on a parity with the priices of othm^ farm produce and it la expil^ that riiany will take ad- vantagPot the opportunity to get some-gffcidy cakh out of a crow, cac kle, gobble, quack, or what have you.' A tunUlar at these poultry excisions-for nmny year# Kirill be mlsbii this former Bent L. B. 'BnuMoh, but Its hritsYa -that 4 4h>chaioii]1ia\WlU hare jlfd^feta the OB' Bep, From Hoke On Iinportant Committees - w Hoke County citizens will learn with-Interest that their representa tive In the Legislature, the Honor able L. McEachem, has been placed on three 'very Important commit tees. These are Agriculture, Ap-' ed the door he was guarding and entered the room. Brigman appear ed with a pistol and covered Miller while he re-opened the. door and stepped backward. At this point Miller opened fire on Brigman, fir ing three shots at what he termed as the “biggest part” of him. He testified that he shot because he felt that his life wak In danger and to protect himself. As Brigman backed off the porch. Deputies Smith and Dunlap ran around the house and ' seeing the position of Brigman, shot, as they thought, to protect the life of Miller, they not (Continued on Page 3) McLauchlin Company Move Hardware Dept, McLauchlin Company, who have with the others, so they can’t com plain. His idea is that it’s better for the whole crowd to lose a few dollars apiece, rather than to kick half the gang out of office. There might be some room tor in that. He suggested that the State take over most of the county roads and that another cent be added to the gasoline tax. That’s going to shift the burden of keeping up the high ways onto the shoulders of the fel low who uses them, and it will help reduce taxes on farms and other real estate. Heretofore the farmer A has- had to pay taxek on everything [ —^roads, schools, drinking cups for the senate, new rug for the Gover nor’s office, bathroom fixtures for (Continued On Page 4) Dr, Ansrus McBrvde Accepts Position Duke University His Hoke County friends will learn with a great deal of interest that Dr. Angus M. McBryde has just accepted a position ori the medical staff of Thih® ■' aud wljl that was waged at this season twen ty -years ago, for the dismember ment of Cumberland and Robeson counties and the firmsGon ot Hoke County from these two. Hoke Coun ty now, to those wh-o were not interested in that old fight, seems to have always been here, she rests quietly with her elbows on the sandhill's and her feet in the Lum- bee and Rockfish, carrying on with assurance the policies of county independence, remembering only as in a dream the blows that were struck and the words that flew twenty years ago when the ques tion of her creation was so bitterly contested in Raleigh. It was a bat tle of grants and pigmies, a battle in which the clear intelligence of the division was fought by com merce, pride and tradition of the old counties and there were on both, sides, sincere intelligent men who held to their views with tenacity and. opposed the other with the oratori cal fervor which in our age has alomst disappeared. It was a ro mantic battle, with the roll of drums and the salliek and sorties of argu ment making the capitol ring, ami with the few newspapers of the time viewing the whole proceeding with the amused smile which is the news paper’s privilege. It all comes back very vividly in glancing over the old papers, sheets now yellowing with age, but still crimson with oratory and high feel ing. Arguments Pro and Don. What is now Hoke County wak at that time a pioneer section rap- take up his duties of teaching there in September' He is ri smacialist in pioneer secaon rap- children’s diseases a>W*YM a great,' developing in farming and in deal of work under Dr. Davidson,' dependent businesses. Dean of the Duke Medical school and .head of the department in whl^ Dr. McBryde will teach. For severed" years since his grad uation Dr. l^cBiyde has had quite a bit of ip^t^graduate work, being for some ftlme resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania hospital and later studying at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McBryde has been spending a few days with his brother, Mr. Ryan McBryde, here, and visiting other relatives in the State. He went to Durham last week to look over the hokpital there and he says that it is fully equipped as either Johns Hopkins or the hospital at Penn. He is very much pleased wit(;i the outlook and his friends are glad that he will be located in this State. propriationk and Banks and Bank-I been selling about everything for ing. The two latter are scheduled t^e family and farm since Heck to come In for some hard work since they handle matters that are especially in the public mind at this time. Season For Hunting Deer Just Closed The hunting season on deer which has just closed, witnessed the mokt successful hunting . that hunters in the county can remember... Deer have been more plentiful than riny- one how living can remember and” the loical sportsmen have had godd luclc in bagging them. This week Mr. ^Daniel McGill, of Llrile River, bagged two and. his nephew one in a day’s, hunting. Cb Tuesday, without a dot, Mr. Make McK^than bagged a nice buck a few miles North ot Raeford. As jpiadlcted bjr General Bowley severaf years, ago, the Folft &agg reservation 'would prove a bwn to htnUcm 111 that It. '#o^d proye # retreat .ta which deer w w 'Wste-i- was a pup, have moved their hard ware department back to their -Main Street location near the Post Office and will use the large building in the rear as a storage warehouse. If they just had Gap Conoly In there saying ..“I Goshens” it would 'be easy to \um back the hand of time some ten years or more and start a conversation on the successful ending of "The War.” Fire Destroys Former Home of N, P, Conoly On Wjednesdgy night of last week the house, formerly occupied by N. P. Conoly, about three miles South of Raeford, was completely, destroy ed by a fire ot. unknown origin.-This was said to have been -A house of extra good construction and the! loss is considerable t> the prekent own-, im, (McLauchlin AJDo. Mr. Conoly ilad .recently moved: from ttie ^oose At;.!.||K:.'tj|me' Mr, L, E, Reaves Loses His Home Bv Fire The worst fire in Raeford since the big conflagration several years ago occurred (Monday morning about three o’clock when the handsome residence of Mr. L. E. I^ave6, on North Main Street, 'wak a total loss from a Are of unknown oriigln- Be fore the Are was discovered the en tire root 'was a mass 6t flames, it appearing that the Are inust have originated In the attic and gained tremendous headway " before -being noticed. A man on his way to the West End GirVs Team Defeats Raeford Girls In a well attended double-header basketball game last Friday night at the Armory, the girls from West Ekid outplayed and defeated the Rae- Iford girls, while the Battry- F. team mad^ up for it by outplaying the men’s team from West End. After the two basketball games, local fans "hollered themselvek hoarse at a five round boxing bout between Kid Brown and Steamboat MacMillan, which was called a draw by the Judges. MAXTON junior college AGAINST BATTERY F. Followers of Basketball will have a good chance Friday night to wit ness a real good game between Moxton Junior Grillege and' the fast stepping team from BattMy F. The locals have won two ont ot their last three games, losing one ot tie three to Fort Bragg by one point. The game 'wlU start promptly at sev en forty-five There will be a boxing bout after oll^'mill ran Into the house arid awar tke basket ball game, conteatautk ikened Mr. Reaves 'and his son Hal- to bo announced later, lie just before the roof of the hONise. fell in. The Are department answered 1%' call to (he fire bat the flhinM Imd made Inch headway that it 'was Im- ipdaidble' to di^;'iltein betiore the ^aildlBg wasreduced to a merb kil^L 'Most oi tub tomitore oh the Iknjl floor wag saved but it was te- to fst any in the It^ui -npetiira ^:9ha IMMRM and fttnittaia ammrifl nith APPRECIATION. Nevertheless the roads that led to Lumberton and Fayetteville, the county seats where the citizens must go for civ il matters, were muddy, impractical 'paths and the citizens felt for a nearer beat of county government. The population of this section felt that with a smaller county, they could attain a better citizenship, quicker and better dispensation of the law and a more satisfactory de velopment of the territory. Humor ously a speaker of the time asser ted that a young man could leatre the upper part of Robeson coun ty to secure marriage license and that before he could make the haz ardous and tirekome trip to Lorn- berton and .return, his sweetheart would give him out and marry ano ther man. A serious side of the problem however was that in the upper and inaccessible reaches ot the county, many crimes eacap^. justice. Opponents of the county found the cry for Hoke county a laugh able and impossible conceit of a handful of people. One opponent made the remark since becoming famouk, that “the land is so pK^ that a crow flying across It would have to take his dinner.” Thejr did not hesitate to lay the impetaa of the movement at the feet of the commercially ambitious citizens of Raeford and this section and con tended that Fayetteville and Lum- berton were more than capable of serving the people ot the petition ing section. A great stir was made over the naming of the county after General Hoke, prapoaents ot the bill getting great applahke in their eologiee of the pegnlar veteran, and opponnents tecryii^ the nam ing of the new county “which have not more than 8,500 people counting men, women and Republicans and HntteBtbto’* com paring it to putting a saddle at a caL Great eloquence was sthnred up in the opponents of the blU ev er the “sacrifice of the people of Robeson and Cnmberland” thnngh whether these people were saeri- - ficed secuns still to be a questioii wflh the regulation two Mdes. First Attetapt to Get County u Failuroi. An early attempt to pms Cohaty bill, a few yean pravtaiig' l|ci’ the suceessAri -attiyuir.- nre. 'Fhe^.advxmtoil oT W ifWe want to'thank all our friends ibr their syn^thy and (dfers 'Of h«to in tlM^hiiiB' of our Itoifle^liy Ore. We fully vqHpreodgte your frtandahip. . - Yto ««Kt-iib-dapectsUy 'tWIsk Raeford fire Deartment giad nach I t» their proodpt ahd h^ole n^«hei»e IriT"' to efttomfrlt the ■. mflhvm 8R, ■>;.