Farmer That Was Not A Sucker Countryman Coins Golden Kegs From Tennessee Product In Gafl’itey . During Holidays. Gaffney Ledger. We were born on a farm and have spent several years pulling the bell eord over a tassel tale, hoeing, rcap ing, weeping, etc., and have always been taught that there was little or Vio guile in the man who lived in vhe country. We have at ways regarded these as the salt of the earth and it hurts to know^nd then learn that all the trickery in the world is not con fined to towns and cities. During the holidays .iust past a fellow from the country played one t which he sold his eggs, placed them , in his basket, covered them with th? ootton seed and then went out arid sold then as fresh country eggs at 60 cents per dozen. He riot only did this cnce, but repeated for several *■ days. In fact he did such a thriving business that he was about to wipe out the stock of the dealer in Ten nessee hen fruit before the latter . “caught on” to the scheme. We admire this fellows enterprise /but we condemn his methods. It is jt}st as wrong to deceive people by packing shipped eggs in cotton seed ' and selling them as fresh country eggs as it is to give a mortgage on something you do Pot possess. Both methods are getting money under false pretense. ’* ss Spindale’s New Band. The progressive town of Spindale has a new brass hand, recently or ganized. Mr. D. C. Cole is leader. The new instruments have arrived and regular practice is. now being carried on. There will be from 20 to ;!t) men in the band when it is finally com pleted. ' Prospects are now that Spindale will have one of the best bands in this part of the state. The mills have giv fcn it strong backing. hor Coker’s pedigreed cotton seed see O. E. Ford Co. Adv McBRAYER’S | SHIRTS Are the best to be found any where and they are pric ed so very reason able. Wo boughf heavy when cotton was low. So you see we can save you mon ey. They are here, hundreds and hun dreds of them, in the most wanted patterns. With or without collars priced at 95c to $7.00. Sizes from 13 to 20. We can fit any man in shirts no matter how large or small Make us prove it. EVANS E. McBRAYER Shelby’s Best Men’s Store. 6 li t=xr '-n rsvt rrm r=*n n=an n=*n rpn n=>n epb rpnn=*n n=n rpn rpn n=*n rpn rpn rp.~ rpn rpn !rTi rpnt?p fPBipn rranrpn rF=n rpn rpn rpr rpn r=n rP3 r=r rp rpi *pr rpi rp-! npi rpi n=*ippi r, IMPERIAL BLOCK AND LAURA BLOCK THE HOTTEST COAL IN SHELBY , PHONE US FOR PRICES. IDEAL ICE & FUEL CO. We Deliver Anywhere. Phone 250. WE SELL WOOD. ahappy home s PBOM THE PROPER USE OF HONEST FECTILIZEQS DUY FERTILIZED FROM „ "HOME FOLKS" L)UR INTERESTS ARE YOUR D^TEDESTStWE WILL SAFE* GUARD YOU AS WE WOULD OURSELVES C1CTT iUTVPl THE SOUTHERN COTTON iUF “.us j g wfNQBwaov. Mystery Surround* Finding Of Baby Hally Girl Found on Porch of Tnrlioro Home Without Murks of Identification. The residents and neighbors on St. Patrick rtreet in Tarboro were great ly excited when a white baby girl, not more than three 05'four days old, was found on the front porch of the resi. ilence of Mrs. Alice Cobb there recent l.v. Mrs. Frank Andrew:; was prepar ing; to leave the Cobb home, where she is now living, and when she op ened the front door, there between the door and the screen she saw a basket that she first thought to be 1110 laundry of Mrs. Cobb’s, but upon examination of this basket was found to contain the form of a beautiful girl baby, nicely. and costly tucked away. The child was warm and asleep, and in the basket was found a bottle of milk. This infant was well, but not very handsomely clad in baby clothes and covered with a nice clean blanket, and in perfect health. Upon sonic of the wrappings were fount the cost marks of Grant Stores but from this nothing was learned as to where this infant came from. The mystery attached to the find ing of thg little baby may never be solved. ( So far as any one knows it came from nowhere, and only God knows whnt its future will be. The fac' that the basket was wrap ped in paper led some to believe that the child must have been brought to town in an automobile, but this is mere conjecture. The little stranger was taken to the hospital, where it will be cared for temporarily. Death Stages Finale To Sumter Tragedy Mrs. China Accused of Husband's Murder, Dies of Pneumonia In Sumter Hospital. Death from natural causes Friday staged a grim finale to the domestic tragedy ushered in Sumter, S. C., five dags ago with death by violence. Mrs. Louisa Davis China, rtiiddle aged society leader, died at 3:25 o’clock Friday afternoon of pneumo nia in- the Sumter hospital to which she was taken on Monday, following the' discovery of the body of her hus band, Dr. Archie China, wealthy phy sician and hanker, in his bathroom with two bullet wounds in the head, which she was charged by a coroner’s jury with inflicting. Progress of the disease that step ped in to stay the hand of the law was swift. Traces of pneumonia were reported by physicians on Wednesday, the day the coroner’s jury formally charged Mrs. China with her hus band’s murder, and only a few hours after Dr. H. M. Stuckey, her physi cian had testified that in his opinion she was malingering when taken to the hospital in an apparent state of of collapse. Friday, she 13608016 rap idly worse, and her illness was diag nosed as double pneumonia. Little hope for her recovery was held after that. It was Mrs. China’s apparent collapse that led‘to the finding of her hus band's body, nearly 4 hours after he hud been shot, according to testimony at the inquest. Early Monday, she was found lying on bed, semmingly un conscious by Louise, the 11 year old adopted daughter of' the family, who rushed next door to call a nurse. The latter found the body of Dr. China when she went to the bathroom to get SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF M.L RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF NO. 7 TOWNSHIP ROAD FUND FROM JULY 1, 1923 TO JANU ARY, 1, 1924. 1923 Receipts July 1, Balance-- ---■--—---$3,815.56 July 21, By H. A. Logan, aBlance, 1922 tax — ^V--*-1,637.24 December 10, By Mary E. Yarbrough, interest — -- 131.55 December 10, By II. A. Logan, 1923, tax —.-1-4,500.00 Total receipts____j---...$10,084.35 __._i_3.00 L-18.90 July, 1923 1 Disbursement* First National Bank, 8 coupons at $30.00.....---240.00 W. W Mauney, piping ...-——----- -5-- .36.90 M M Green, 1 day service as commissioner --.....-...3.00 Lee Lovelace, June salary-.--Tr----—44.00 F Y .Jones, shop bill, expenses, etc — -s---,-44--28.29 F. Y Jones, June salary ---- ----—105.00 Loe CaUiHWS^rT day service as commissioner--...---3.00 ^/ACrowder, 1 day service as commissioner,-.. W W Mauney, tiling-.....--i—j J C Benjamin, 6 road machine blades —--—**---75.00 Tractor and Machinery Sales Co., tractor repairs-.-i-100.00 First National Bank; 1 coupon —... --,j:-4--JH).00 August < Lee Lovelace, labor -- - -52.00 Standard Gilt Company, gasoline--'-200.61 W A Crowder, machine blades---- ...-.75.00 W A Crowder, tractor parts __—-...-....-.,4-121.25 F Y Jones, labor_~ --,-i- ---— —-105.00 F Y Jones_... .—-—„-- ---—137.27 W A Crowder, July service_...---- 3.00 I, N Cabaniss, July service -- ---3.00 M M Green, July service __...—--...3.00 September First National Bank, 2 coupons-----—* 60.00 F Y Jones, general expensces, sand, hauling, etc.- -167.92 F Y Jones, salary for August _ —---105.00 Lee Lovelace, salary for August -—----50.00 Standard Oil Company, gas and oil ------234.00 Star Publishing Co., publishing semiannual report---.-—8.50 Plato Crowder, trip to Charltte with car ....- -... 8.C0 Lee Cabaniss, 2 days service asp cmmissioner ...—-— -,6.00 W A Crowder, 2 days service as commissioner___6.00 M M Green, 1 days service as commisscioner ....-—,,-—. ..3.00 The White Company, 1 truck ...— ---1,990.00 October Standard Oil Company, gas and oil, September account_—-60.11 Tractor Sales and Machine Company, tractor parts —-...-9.17 J C Benjamin, road machine parts_.....--3.50 W W Mauney, tiling------—..200.20 F Y Jones, freight shop bills and general expenses___139.26 F Y Jones, salary or September_... --105.00 I_ee Lovelace, salary or September _______48.00 M M Green, 2 days service as commisioner___6.00 Lee Cabaniss, 2 days service as commissioner___6.00 W A Crowder, 2 days service as commissioner ____;_6.00 Grady Davison, labor_____—T- __...29.00. Grady Davison, work__ __28.00 ISovemDer F. Y Jones, shop bill, etc____38.70 F Y Jones, salary or October _____125.00 Lee Lovelace, salary for October____'.80.00 Lee Cabaniss, 2 days service as commissioner, October_..._6.00 M M Green, 2 days service as commissioner in October_6.00 W A Crowder, 2 days service as commissioner in Ortober___6.00 Aaron McSwain, tiiing__ __ _18.00 December. First National Bank, 47 coupons at $30.00.____l,#io.00 Standard OH Company, gas bill for October_...__03.63 F Y Jones, salary for November.___125.00 Lee Lovelace, salary for November ___ _80.00 F Y Jones, general expenses month of November _71.30 Standard Oil Company, gas and oil in November ...__101.65 I.ee Cabaniss, 1 days service as commissioner __..,__3.00 M M Green, 1 days service as commissioner___3.00 W A Crowder, 1 days service as commissioner____3.00 Total disbursements ______$6,842.16 Balance, January 1, 1924 ______ _*_^_ 8,242.19 Total receipts ........... .„...$10,084.35 I, Mary E. Yarbrough, Treasurer of Cleveland county, do solemnly swear the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. MARY E. YARBROUGH, County Treasurer. - Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 5th day at January 1924. GEORGE P.. WEBB, Clerk Superior Court. a towel to be used in an effort to re vive the apparently unconscious wo man. The theory of suicide w«is advanced when it was seen that the - 'banker physician had been shot to death, but it was quickly abandoned when no weapon could be found in the bath room, or the adjdining rooms. Several hours later the pistol with which Mrs China, according to n confession Dr. Stuckey said she made to him Monday night, declared her husband had been shot when she grappled with him over the weapon, was found in a neighbor’s woodshed. Mrs. Chinn, the physician declared, admitted having hidden the weapon there. A. story of domestic tribulations, in tensified by a wife’s jealousy, mark ing the close of a married life of more than a quarter of a century, was told at tiro inquest. One woman neigh bor said Mrs. China had mentioned another woman as one who was get ting “the love and caresses she was dying for.” Other witnesses testified that it was common knowledge that the married life of the China's was not happy. There Are No Children. The China;s had no children of their own. Little Louise, who has been cared for at' the home ot a neighbor since the. discovery of the tragedy of TRUSTEE’S SALE. By virtue of the power of tale con tained in n Deed of Trust executed to me as Trustee on June 20th, 1023, by Frances Wedd, widow, securing an in debtedness to the Shelby Building and Loan association and default having been made in the payment of same and, having been called upon to exe cute the trust. I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Shelby, N. C., on Saturday, February 16th, 1921 within legal hours the following de scribed real estate: Being a part of what is known as the Suttle-Washburn property an 1 lying in the northeastern part of the town of Shelby, N. C., and on the north side of Buffalo street, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in the branch the northeast corner of the lot sold to Johnson Webb, and running thence south 4.22 West 205 fec-t to a take in north edge of Buffalo street; thence«rast with northedge of Buffalo street 71 feet to a stake, the south west corner of the lot to Wade Jons; hence with Wade Jones' line north 5.37 east 181 feet to a stake in the branch ,thence up the brand north 74 west 75 feet to the begin ning being the tract deeded France; Webb by J. L. Suttle and M. A Spangler, mortgagees, by deed datce June 16th ,1923. This January 2nd, 1924. CLYDE R. HOEY, Trustee. Sunday, \vas*adopted by them wh.le she was still an infant. Plans had been made by Solicitor Frank A. McLeod ,a brother of Gov ernor Thomas G. AlcLcc: to place Mrs. China on trial for murder, he an nounced. at the February term court in Sumter county. Dr. China was a native of Sum ter, his father having been a pacticiny: physician here for many years, lie v.-fts graduated from The Citadel tn Charleston with the fiui