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SKELETON SHY IS SUBSTITUTED I'acis Como On! As To Placing Of Oadave In Colum Ol Building. Davidson.—Thr Iasi relic ol Old 'esmfipir, fci tiding at Davidson col. cue Is today a mass of crumbled nick and mortrr. By order ol the x.u'd of Iru.tces, v l;!ch edict wa. sswd «t tnc Itwruary 20 meeting ji the body, a cable was attached 0 it. ■ he massive, and lowt ring col •mti.s rt-.rt on their earthward u-t.lmard tourney When they •,-cached a point which reminded wlcokfca of the leaning lower cf ! Da. etch pillar collapsed, a re joundmg thud told of their passing,; and the ground was made high with biicfc, stone and mortar. Many Davidson eollege students. 3 Glasses Water Help Constipation One glcss of water is not enough —take three gh-sses one hour tie fore breakfast. Much belter re ults are obtaind by adding a raspoon of simple glycerin, saline compound (known as Adlerika* to each glass. Adlerlka acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel and removes old waste matter you never thought was in your system. Stops gas and sour stomach in TEN minutes! Relieves constipation in two hours. Paul Webb Pharmary. I members of the faculty and towns people wore : tending bv when the j ptihuT !t !!. I'hr students swarmed i I oyer the remnants, lookinK for tel-1 irs which might have been placed in the hollow eohmmns. but the , .ash had so jumbled the pillars ! that nothing was discernible. When the debris e rleured and hauli < away, some objects may be ionic However, when the building was dt strayed bv fire in 1921, (he ton pillar hid smoke issuing iromthti lor three days and whatever migh. hnve been In tiiem was perhap: consumed bv fire. Hid Corpse. 'T wo substantiations oi the akelr ton story have been made within tin past few days. When one of ih< columns had been torn down. Ur j. M. Douglas, now a ineniber of thi Davidson facility and a graduate ol the college ip the class oi 18911, whs among flit crowd looking on, and remarked, "That’s the pillar in which n corpse was placed when I was a freshman at Davidson The students hid the body there, and a few days later poured a barrel of lime down the pillar to destroy the odor." Thomas J. McNeely, who was a student, nt Davidson in 1890, the same year as Dr. Douglas, lied an nrllclc in last Sunday’s issue ol The Charlotte Observer, which lie aid would solve the secret of the skele j ton story, which was mentioned in a special feature article from I Davidson a short time ago. He said, in part: "The left-hand middle column as you enter the building, holds ihe bones of a negro woman, whose body was taken from a grave near MONEY AT 51/4% FOR 5 TO 35 YEARS You Owe It To Your Wife And Child ren To Protect Them With A Co-Op erative Long-Term Farm Loan. They have enough (roubles when you leave your estate for settlement. If you have been forehanded and have a 35-Year Loan from us you are sure they will not be embarrassed by having to seek a loan at what may be a most inopportune time. They merely continue to pav the installments (he same as you have done. It’s the most comfortable, cheapest, safest, sensible and longest loan. SHELBY NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION. HENRY B. EDWARDS, SECRETARY-TREASURER 21 Royster Building — Shelby, N. C. Call or Phone f»73. We’re Glad To Explain. QUEEN CITY COACH LINES FOR. ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON FAYETTEVILLE. FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—9:45 a. ra.; 11:45 a. m.; 1:45 p. m.: 3:45 p. ni.; 5:45 p. m.: 8:45 p. m. FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a. m.; 12:50 p. m.; 2:50 p. m.; 4:50 p. m.; 6:50 p. m.; 8:50 p. tii. FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m.: 2:50 p. m. FOR FAYETTEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a. m., 2:50 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION — PHONE 450 QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY Exchange Poultry For N. C. Money CAR IN SHELBY AT SOUTHERN DEPOT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20. PRICES: Heavy Hens, lb. 25^ c Leghorn Hens, lb. 25£c Roosters, lb. 13c New Broilers, lb.38c Ducks, lb. 20c Guineas, each . 30c F. B. PRICE, Jr., SALISBURY, N. C. W. C.*s LARGEST POULTRY PLANT. Miller Free on Parole Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, con victed of conspiring to defraud j the Government in the han-'j dling of confiscated German J property, is free on a parole granted by Attorney General Sargent a few hours before the latter was succeeded in office by William D. Mitchell. (litUrniUooal NtwirMl PboUl Davidson college. It was In the fall of 1890 that the report got out among the students that a large quantity of 'Red-Eye' or 'Under taker’s Delight,' better known today as ‘bootleg whiskey,' had been hid den In one of the columns, and that It could not be gotten out as the rope either broke or slipped and that the Jugs and all were at the bottom of the column, "There were no Jugs, and we were very much set back. But hope Is Cver beckoning ahead. We crawled to the next column, the left-hand middle one. As we reached the opening a foul odor met us, coming up out of the hollow column. We made another torch of twisted newspaper and threw It down Into I he hole. There at the bottom lay an object lied up in a bag. Oh! Such a smell, it. backed us out. We were glad to get out in the fresh air .main. "We talked the matter over, and came to the conclusion that it. was a 'stiff,' that the medical class had hidden up there. And, too, I re membered that one of the medical I students (by the way, ho Is a very fine surgeon living not far away) lmd borrowed my pistol about ten days before this, saying he was go ing out into the country, and was afraid to go without protection. And when he gave the pistol bark to me. he would not tell me where he had been. “It occurred to me that this stu dent knew something nbout this 'smell'. I went to him and told him about this 'Black Narcissus Per fume’ we had located in the col umn and accused him of knowing all about It. I threatened that it he didn't ''fess*' up. I'd report the 'smell' to the faculty. “After putting him through the third degree, and crossing my heart that I'd never tell (which I have not), this Is what 'he' told me: '“The medical department of the college needed the body of a woman for dissection purposes. Having heard that a negro woman had died that day and was burled near Davidson, be and several students went that night and got the body. They left the college about 9:80 p. m. with an old white horse, a sheet, a shovel and an axe. They had no trouble in getting the body, as the earth was loose and the cof fin a cheap pine affair, which was easily opened. They rolled the corpse up in the sheet, and placed It across the neck of the horse tn front of the rtder, while the other boys walked on cither side of the horse, helping to hold the prize. “ They arrived at the college building about 12 o'clock that night In attempting to get the body off the horse, it slipped on the ground, where a full moon shown upon the upturned face. Just at that instant a student <\vho now lives in Char lotte*. came out of the buUdtng and when he saw the white horse, white sheet and black lace, he set up a howl The boys nabbed him, and forced him to swear secrecy. They also made him help carry the 'black narcissus' either into tho Green or Latin room, which was on the left hand class room as you entered the building. «'Here they raised a trap door in the floor and lowered the body into a pit. It was left there until the fol lowing night, when the medical lx>d,v carried It to the dissecting room Alter they had procured the parts desired, they put the remain der in a bag and dropped it down the column'.” SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY As administratrix of the estate ot J. E. Champion, deceased, I will of fer for sale all the personal prop erty belonging to said estate, con sisting of one tractor, two mules, farming implements of all kinds, two wagons, etc., about 50 bushels of corn, ar.d other things of value, to the highest bidder lor cash at 2 o’clock p. m. on Saturday. March 9, 1929. at the home place of the late J. E Champion, just west of Cleve land Mills (the Peeler place* in Cleveland county, N. C. MRS J. E CHAMPION, Ad ministratrix 3t Effort To Work Out A 'Hot' t ost His Preacher-Eat her $250.00. Mantro, March 12.—The most stounding sensation in this vicin ity bursted after a tew hours of hectic spr,dilation and excitev.ont when young Htjgh B. Hines con fessed that he branded, gagged and bound himself on a recent night in an effort to work out an unsolvable plot for a detective story he In tended to write for his high school cIbhs. Hines, who is the 18-year-old son of Rev. H. B. Hines, the Baptist minister at this place, went to a de serted house on the outskirts of Manteo at 8 o’clock on Sunday night in answer to a mysterious note, which commanded him to ap pear there alone at that time. Shortly afterward he was found scrambling and kicking on the porch of the home of G, T. Wescott, which Is some 350 yards away. Mr. Wes cott was aroused, and Hines told him that he was seized, gagged and bound and bramded with a figure •'6" on his arm by parties unknown to him. He declared his assailants were unknown, and that he had come in response to the letter left on the porch of his home that night, the missive being number six, of a series he had received. A detective and bloodhouds were brought from Norlofk at a cost of COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF LAND. Under and by virtue of a decree of the superior court of Cleveland county. N. C.. the undersigned com missioner will sell at the court house door in Shelby, N. C., at pub lic auction, for cash, to the high est bidder, at 12 o'clock M., on Saturday, April 6, 1929, the following described real estate: Tract No, 1.—Lying in No. 8 township, Cleveland county, N C on both sides of the public road leading from Lawndale, N, C„ to PolkVille, N, C., and being bound on the north by the Lucas lands, on the east by the lands of R. E. Shuford, on the south by the lands of Mrs. R. H, Bridges, on the west by L. B. Champion and J. A. Pow ell, and being described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a stone, corner of Mrs. R, H Bridges and L. B. Champion, and running thence N. 2% E. with R. E Shnford's line 39 7-10 poles to a stone at a pine, thence N. 65 W 9 1-5 poles to a stone, thence N. 4 E. 27.70 poles to a stake, thence N. 24% W. 30 poles to a stone on north edge of public road, thence N. 10 W. 11 poles to a stone at oak, thence N. 34'. W. 95 poles lo a stone, thence N. 35% W. 10’, poles to a small P. O., thence S. 68', W 53'« poles io a stone; formerly a post oak. thence N. 73% w. 27 poles to a stone; thence N. 94 , W. 14 3-5 poles to a stone, thence 8- 21 W. 35% poles to a stone, thence S. 79% E. 59 b poles to a stone, thence S. 50% W. 30 poles to a stone, thence S. 52% E. 24 3-5 poles to a stake, thence 8. 20 E. 27.20 poles to a stake, thence S. 34% E. 35.20 poles to a stake on north edge of public rond, thence with north edge of public road N. 54H E. 77 links to a stake, thence S. 2% E. 67 poles to the beginning, containing 131 acres more or less—Less 25 acres of land allotted as dower to Laura E. Champion, widow, on the south western portion of said lands, plat of which may be seen upon applica tion to the undersigned. Also less 8 acres and 105 square rods convey ed to L. B. Champion along the west edge of said tract, deed for which is in book 3-U page 213, of registry of Cleveland county. Tract. No 2—Beginning at a stake on south edge of the Casar-Lawn dale road, P. C. Mauney's comer, nnd runs thence with said road N. 25 W. 21 poles to a stake, thence N. 10 E 101H poles to a stake in tile center of Knob Creek, thence with the center of said Knob creek about S. 50 E. 85 poles, thence about south 20 E. 113 poles to a stake in said creek, thence leaving said creek N. 12 E. 97 poles to a pine stump, thence S. 72 E. D poles to a stone, thence 8. 12 W. 07 poles to u stake in the creek, thence with the meanders of said creek 8. 60 \V. 45 poles to a stake in center of said creek, thence leaving said creek and crossing said road N. 70 W. 11C poles to a black gum, P C Maueny’s comer, thence N. 18 E. 31 poles to the beginning, containing! 137 acres. Tract wo. 3—Being all ol lott Nos. 20 and 21 and part of lot No. 52, lying in the town of Lawndale, N. C.. and being the property de scribed In a deed of record In the 1 registry of Cleveland county, N. C., In book KKK page 629. and as shown on plat in said office in book one of plats page 51 and described as follows: Lot No, 20—Fronting 44 feet on the north side of Champion street with a depth of 139 feet on the west line and 134 feet on the east line, and the buck line of said lot being 43 feet. Lot No. 21—Fronting 46 feet on, the north side of Champion street with a depth of 112 feet on the east line and the bark line of said lot being 42 feet in length. Also that part of lot No 53 front ing 86 feet on the east side of Brown street said lot beginning on a stake in edge of Brown street and running thence N 77\» B. 100 feet, thence N. H degree W. with line of Robert Jones. .78 feet to corner of Robert Jones, thence N. 84*4 W. 891 feet to a slake on the east edge of Brown street, . thence with the edge of said street 85 feet to the beginning This March 2, 1929. LAURA E. CHAMPION, Conn. Rybuni Sc Hoey, Newton & Newton. Attorney. $250 to tho boy's lather No clue could be found to an? assailants and while the search was going on !the boy, who had not imagined an | aftermath so exciting, confessed ; I that the episode was a scheme of j j his adolescent mind, concocted for ! j the purpose of lurnlshing him an j unsolvable plot for a detective story I he intended to write, and to mysti fy his fellow-students. His father is ; mystified about the strange doings \ of youth, which makes a country Baptist preacher dig up $250 to pay the bloodhounds. BUYING AUTOMOBILES CREATES NEW JOBS New York.—"Purchases ot auto-! mobiles of American design in vari- j ous countries of the world during ] 1928 created 115,000 jobs for rcsi- i dents of those countries,” says ] George F. Bauer, secretary of tin export department ol the National | Automobile Chamber of Commerce, j in his report this week to the ex port managers of that body. 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