North Carolina Newspapers

/ -.J ken rr cwvn f >* /? jv -v f ? * ' '?>???-?? -". -*v *'. -', i* Tryon, N. C., May 28, 1925 i- .?'?*.?? ?? m/fe- '->At'W) -* i <-<H jf >?5 W ? ,'> ??-.????' >?'??:.?. ? ". 'JETj^V -T m. ? ..:_:"3fe? I * _ t_ j ? __j ? i <? ! An Independent Weekly | . Published in an inde- j dendent part of these ' United States. "" . : : "Sr,. 1>A _ -2^ ? ?* " * * Five Cents Per Copy $1.50 a Year ? ^ ^ wzW'^X .^. . ? I . J ;. ... _ . aT $ 'A [MR ACCUSED IF POISONING HIS WARD TO OBTAIN FORTUNE i gjjiy McClintock Uncovers Alleged Plot to Loot McCHntock h Family Attorney Formulated Twenty Tears A* o And Resulting In Three Deatts . urt rot. in sits a lawyer ? interested in a criminal case (4Cb>ca?0U j.lft before. He is William Darling Shepherd, been i; bis aeNer '7?.fh a vine killed his "millionaire oitphan" ward Wm. 1[nal^t>d ' ?jjtock with typhoid Korms. tie evideuc-o n v i^ing introduced, the State will plot more than t??-my years old existed in th ok*"6?1* to 8ho* & McCliniock iuri .n*. 6 Shepherd home to b L,rl ,nd bis ?"e' Julle L were' co guardians G. of wcciintook through ibe will jjcdintock diod in Shepherd Faces Jury On Murder Charge aeplierJi were living with fcCllnwck ?i 1"" am-' Mrs Mrs McClintock hav. Kliool dv friends. Mc l Sr MS killed in an auto, ^eideut portly after the .?Biiiy" which brought the .J. ipto the McClintock home. HcClintock. who had just L twenty-first birthday and l0 be married to Miss ^pe died in the Shepherd ^ home. Dec. 4. 1924. tdrtwn ^ Shepherd and at ^ Shepherds house servant gaths after young McClin i jeached his majority, made spberds chief beneficiary. It (nded for Isabelle Pope an of 13.000. to ti*t Miss Pope nad wait ^ the sick room with a 1L. marry him, as young Mc lied, attracted public atten tie case. . followed rumor as to tke of the Shepherds toward ui's ftnancee at that time, r district attorney took no t investigation was start ? nTestigation developed erl_ Lich brought Harry^ Olaon, a i! Court Chief JoaticeJnto i r.th charges that the tie Shepherds to obtain [Mock fortune also involved |tb of McClintock's mother Oscar Olson, the Judges file had been the McCLin Ikjiician. I midst of a Coroner's inquest Padge Olson instigated, Shep indicted March 18th, this tterred bodies of Mrs. and Dr. Olson, buried md three years, respective ?ied mercury in sufficient ifl Mrs. McClintock's body awed her death, examiners Confession of C. C. Faiman, * science school in Chicago, kd supplied Shepherd with ?erms, taught him to keep p administer them ? and F *as Promised ilOO.OOO. is p9 strongest card. *a8 jointly indicted with but granted a separate * jftepherd was named in the [/ ^ Coroner's Jury as be *^th her husband but was a Grand Jury refua. #fot her. I1* toe "McClintock case" to M holding the iinterest of * J^?D &8 ^ pro" *111 he the verdict? ifiir HOME SUMMER MONTHS Mi)m h October Ti! Winter Wttteer Trron mr ^htful Journey, of h0me aU ?jL - ut even more of ?7^ to the thought of it tl|ry?D ln October. The 81 ft* * 8ch001 ^th 39 * tW . 8 teach^, al_ * in lQferi0r 10 010 Mr8 a second Spring I apple bl?88oms in II tie JS aild dewherries ?, ^J^et at about the * *rs VT Stiiter ?, SchUlett*r? ** for m' Hope are 80n Co"ege, S. ^IIp. SPeDd the 8um* Q? -v6 r w)l1 spend two 1 *dtooi>rtly after leaTk** ' *Ul ri J,an<1 1116 People ^ck la Iy Welcome the 18 September. """ ^lA^TDCAgTKg 1 Wm. D. 8hepherd, accused of killing Wm. McClintock his "mil I lionaire orphan" ward with ty phoid germs, ww he faced the court in the trial now in progress at 1 Chicago. The State is working for hanging.# Below, Mr*.# Shepherd. N who was charged with Oeing equal ly guilty but was freed when the Grand Jury refused to indict her. WELL KNOWN CITIZENS APPOINTED ON COMMITTEES OF POLK COUNTT CLUB 0 Dtola&MJflsttmJrm Many Sections AUbmI Oak HaN Banquet and Display Jrimst n New Ctafe Idea The Polk County Club at its monthly - meeting in Tryon in addL Jon to revising the constitution and by-laws as stated in the last Issue of the tfEWS transacted other impor .ait business including 'the appoint ment of a program and amusement j committee composed . of Charles J. f Lynch, of Tryon, E. W. S. Cobb, of | Columbus and E. C. Bernard of Sa_ ! luda. Among the other commit.ee ap pointments were W. 8. . Green, Try on, \ E. W. Thompson, Saluda, and W. D, Westbrook, Greens Creek on j County Government and Taxation. Membership Committee, J. H. Gibbs of Mill r Spring; Mrs. Henry Gray, Erwigi Thopson, Saluda. Grievance Committee; R.> N. Hunter, Greens Creek, W. B, O'Neill, Tryon j and H. H. Carson, Columbus, Agricultural vCommiitee W. J. Isbell, L. L. Tal lant, and Sam Feagan. Roads Com mittee, W H. Stearns, E. W. Thomp son, F. P. Bacon, J, H. Gibbs and F. W. Blanton, ex_offlcio- ^ The club is off to a good start with nearly onq hundred members, a live wire set of officials and an organ. ixation full of pep and ginger. The officials are: Fred W. Blanton, pres. 0. B. Cloud, vice-pres,; Charles J. Lynch, Sergeant at Aipns; Miss Mae | Irene Fleniye, Secretary, and MlSs j Minnie Arledge, Treasurer. At the Oak Hall Banquet promi nent visitors from different sections ?" * ? * ' V- Vr- ' r ' J A THOUGH^ FOR MEMORIAL DAY--?** We Kept Faith ? - By a b chapin ? s 7, mv - m < 9 ^lo you, Rwu falUno hands vittwio* ** Tbnch 9* yours . Tonoldithioh ! If ye brtak"wtK Witti us who die. We shall rxJt sleep, IVTtouoh ^bppies U&narm * Renders Field MOONSHINE STILL NOT FOUND IN POLK COUNTY BUT IN SOUTH CAROLINA i ASSERTS R. ft McFARLAND, SHERIFF. Green's Creek Citizens Very Indignant Over Statement Thaf ' Revenue Raiders Uncovered Illicit Moonshine Factory in Pott County According to the latest dispatches from the seat of war, the govern ment's land and sea offensive on mm runners hag resulted in an in. crease in the retail price of - liquor and a marked scarcity of the stand ard brands of hooch in certain quar. ters. The offensive against bootleggers and moonshiners on land is reported to be as effective as the action of the enforcement fleet along the At lantic, Pacific and Gulf seas-boards Be the outcome what it may, the ?NEWS made a big mistake when it credited the capture of a still to Major Hutcheson, Federal enfbrce ment officer operating in Polk Cou^. ty stating that the still and auxilary paraphernalia was located in Greens Creek township in the County of Polk. The information coming direct from a federal officer was supposed to be authentic. In his statement the officer in question stated that the still was located ten miles Bast of Columbus in Greens Creek town ship near the South Carolina line. Numerous complaints have reach, ed us concerning that statement both by letter and telephone. la order to keep the record straight we are running an official statement ment made by R. F. McFarland, She riff of Polk County who in a writ ten communication says ; 8till Not Found In Polk County / " Editor of the Polk County News: There was an item in the last i* sue of your paper, stating that on Monday' last (18th.) the Federal Prohibition Officers destroyed the largest illicit still ever found in Polk County, located 10 miles Bast <of Co lumbus, In the Greens Creek sec tion. The above statement was called to my attention by a citizen of this county, he stating that some one had of- the S'ate were innattendan<?r in cluding Miss Martha Creighton, Dis. trie t Home Agent, of Charlotte; J. C, Goodman, District Farm Agent of Asheville, N. C.; C. L. Newman, as sociate editor of the Progressive Farmer, Raleigh* G. B. Dombhart, expert accountant, of Charlotte and Paul W. Wager of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who was the chief speaker of the evening and whose splendid address we shall take pleasure in publishing at an -rtr misrepresented the location of this still, and asked that I make a per sonal investigation and state facts a8 found. And on last Monday (in company with one <!ff the men who was caught at the still) I went to the site, and found that it had been de stroyed about one mile South of Pac_ olet Hirer in Spartanburg County, .South Carolina and about two miles south of the Earles Bridge, and at ! least a mile and a half south of the North and South Carolina line. f am making this statement in Justice to the people of Polk County, and especially the Greens Creek Township, for in my experience as an officer I have found less viola tion of the whiskey law than any other township in the connty. So please let us endeavor to place the burden where it rightly belohgs. This May 26, 1925. (Signed) R. F. McFarland, Sheriff of Polk Connty. | Greens Creek Law Abiding In addition to the sheriffs state ment we are printing I letter from one of our rural correspondents re siding in Greens Creek. Dear Editor: In reading last week's Polk County News we were gratified to note the statement that prohibition agents were making a determined effort to stamp out the liquor traffic on land and sea. With all our hearts we say "Let the good work go on. May it go on until there shall hot be a drop of liquor left in all our great South land, nor in any other part of our great country." i v And if there should be a still in the Greens Creek section, which is not impossible, to he sure, we cer tainly should like to have it raided and the operator^ placed where they could not perform this kind of mis. chief for a time at least But certain citizens of our community have com plained to your correspondent that th4 statement in re gard to the 125 gallon capacity still captured by Major Hutcherson and C. A. Hudgens is incorrect. It was not near what is commonly known as Greens Creek we are sure, and some think and claim that it was at least one and one half miles beyond the line in South Carolina. Surely, Greens Creek township^even does not reach as far as we understand this still to have been located. Many of our people believe the atafatoMt to Uplifts be erroneous, and if so we feel that our Editor' will surely correct it. Respectfully Yours, Mrs. Solon L. Hines. Officers Overlooked State Line A tired and hungry enforcement officer who has spent endless hours in the wooded' sections hunting il licit stills may be excused perhaps, for not knowing the exact geographi cal location of said moonshine fac tory and we feel sure that Major Hutchecson intended no aspersion on the honesty, intergrity and law abiding habits of the inhabitants of 6reens Creek township when he said the still was located "ten miles East of Columbus in Greens Creek town, ship.'* The fact that it did lie across the county line and the product was probably distributed to the south of us is a reassuring fact in any case, and we are pleased to make the re quested correction. Next time we'll try to have the ex alt spot definitely defined. / -0 LANIER CLUB PRESIDENT ATTENDS THE ASHEVILLE CLUB CONVENTION Mrs. F. B. PeatHe Addressed Meeting On CKib's'SWe Widt Literary Contest Saturday last the president of the clubs of the Second District met at Ashevile at the shannons of the Dis trict Chairman, Mrs. J. W.Huston. The incoming President, Mrs E. L. McKee of Sylva was present and addressed the gathering. Mrs. R>.' B. Peattie, President of the Lanier Clqb of this town also was present, and in the capacity of State Chair, man of Literature, to which she was appointed at the State Federation held recently at Pinehhurst, spoke on the literary contests in which all clubs of the state are asked to participate. Prizess are1 given ? for th^ best Poem, the best serious short story and the best humorous - story offered by any member of the Federation. > ' u? Mrs. James Vernor is leaving the i latter part of the week for Detroit, Mich., where she will spend the sum mer months in the magnificent new home just completed. Barbara Villa will be closed for the summer. . ? *' f15 o 1 SALOOA'S HOTEL HOWMD OPENS FOR SIMMER SEASON MONDAY JUNE FIRST * ? - / \ ? _____________ ? * - Fifty Room Mbdern Hotel Under Management of Mrs. Fnlton Former Proprietor of Crystal Springs Ion Will Feature Dinner Dances Owing Sooner '1 i m ' \ ?/ 7 * . Saluda, located on the old Howard Gap stage road was (or possibly '?> lyrff a century known as Pace's Gap and 'not until the present Southern Railway line built across \he mountains in 1878 was the name changed to Saluda. / ? The first hotel in Saluda was the Saluda House, ?opened by John jVorrest who ran a store and boarded passengers, drivers and horses foi; i the stage coach line running into AsheviUe. 1 Wfan U. S. Cbric 1 boon* tti ' RICKSHAVEN SOLD TO FLORIDA INVESTORS BY CHAS. J. LYNCH! 0 Mis. Marian A., McDow of Puota Gorda and Farina Island Ftadia> to Occupy Rkksfeanea House Doriof Stumer Monttis Rickshaven comprising some two thousand acres lying on the .north west slope of Tryon Mountain has been purchased by ' Marian A McDow of Punta Gorda, Florida; Harry Poe Johnson of Fort Meyer, ^orida; and Paul S. Ragan of Indianapolis, Ind., through Charles J. Lynch well-known Tryon real estate operator. Mrs. McDow, formerly of Helena, Montana, has an extensive estate at Punta Gorda and is prominent in Florida artistic and social circles. Former Governor Hardy of that state tendered her as his "first appoint ment" a position on the State School Board which Mrs. McDow refused to accept. In~" addition to the magnificent mansion at Punta Gorda, Mrs. Mc Dow owns an estate on Treasure Is land ^vhere she i8 now building a splendid winter residence. 1 Ranking amongst the first five authorities in America on botanical subjects Mrs. McDow is credited with having introduced, more new varieties of fruit into Florida than any other single person. Mrs. McDow states that she will spend six months of each year at Rickshaven and will personally su pervise the landscape gardening and beautifying of the property. As she is ra ed along with David Fairchild of the Bureau of Plant Industries of Washington, D.*" Cj, Prof. John K. Small, and Professors Simpson and Nearling as one of the leading bot anists of America it is an assured fact that Rickshaven will become one ?f the show places of Western I North Carolina. Entertaining extensively, Mrs. Mc Dow is a clever musLi?n, a painter of exceptional abilitj, and an auth or of viiote. Her library at Punta ' Gorda is one of the finest in the Sou h it is said. Harry Poe Johnson, an / influential business man and capitalist of Fort Meyer, Florida and Paul S. Ragan of Indianapolis^ Ind., both associated with Mrs. MADow in the develop ment of the two thousand acres com. prising the Ricks estate, have had wide experience In the exploitation of Horlda realty and the fact that V ?? < ? V * V" * ? *4 f V,.,_ u s."\ y/7 Shortly afterward the "Mounain House" was erected by Col. Tanner and run as a resort hoarding house during his lifetime. Among the ! e early visitors were Rev. McCullough Bishop Howe, Dr. Geddings, Ste phen Wirners, Win, Hinson, Jir. Goe let, he Aldrlch family, Col. D'Arcy Duncan and Dr. V. V. Moore. Salada became known throughout the C&rolinaaa as a desirable place to spend the sultry summer months and each year saw an increasing number of visitors. In 1893 the Misses Herriot of Charleston, S C. built Melrose Inn. / whch has always been very popular wi h v Charleston people *nd which still draws a large clientele from that charming city. Esseola Inn was erected in 1901 by Mrs. J. K. Campbell of Chester, S. ? C, and is delightfully loca ed. The The following year the Charles Ho- * tej, was built by R. A. Esttea,* a for mer mayor of Augusta, Ga. Saluda's Many Attractions ' With her delightful wa erfalls Sa luda hag driwn many visitors etch summer from the Carol^nas and Georgia, each year seeing a marked inerease in the number and an add ed inclination to make their visits of longer duration. ^ lie expansion of the highway sys_ ^ ~ Pfkts ?Ter the number of gues s in the various hotels. Direct connection with Lake Sum mit by a good road provides swim ming and boa ing as well as fishing and last summer proved beyond a doubt that the hotel accommodations were inadequate. A group of business men organiz ed ;he Howard Hotel- Company, purchased the old Saluda Seminary rebuilt, remodeled and refurnished it and under the management of Mrs. Alice Fulton formerly proprie tress of Crystal Springs Inn, the new hostelry will be formally open ed June first. With fifty rooms, splendidly fur nished, every one of which has hot and cold running water, some sui es with private bath, and a large cool' dining room under the supervision of an experienced caterer the How ard Hotel seems an assured success fnim the very start Mrs, Fulton Quite Popular , Mrs. Ffclton a former resident of Savannah, Ga., has a hos^ of friends throughout the South and during the years she conducted the Crystal Springs she made many new ones in this section. A woman of charming personality* she knows the hotel businnss thoroughly and" under her management the rfbward Hotel will beyond a doubt prove exceedingly [popular. Mrs. Fulton will make a specialty of dinner dances dnrtng the season, and an orches ra will be employed to furnish suitable music. The plans of the hotel company include the construction of a lake on the grounds large enough to af ford swimming, canoeing and other aquate sports. Work; on the erec tion of the dam and lake will begin at once so that it may be used dur ing the coming hot months. Guests are arriving in large num bers daily and the other Saluda Inns and hotels are filling 'rapidly. Dr. G. R. Little, proprietor of the Sa luda Pharmacy states that never be_ ver before during his s ay in Saluda has the Influx of visitors started so soon, and he predicts an exception ally good season for the resort town on top rf he mountains. they have decided to centralize their efforts in Wes era North Carolina means a lot to p?lk County. The fioridians are coming ? com ing in droves ? thig summer, and with them they are bringing people from every other state in the United S ates. It (b up to those interns* c 1 in the development of this ^c-.or to see that all visitors are treated courteously and given every oppor tunity to become permanent fixtures In "The Land of the Sky." m