Episcopal Church
Christmas Service
There war lx- h Christmas service
ol tin Holy Communion at the
Church ol ihc Redeemer, S I.ri
x Fayette direct on Sunday. Decem
ber 27th iv. C a. in., Rev. J. B. Sill
bring priest hi charge. He will c:
ii the church Saturday afternoon,
r’Oth, to meet any who may wish to
eoiio'.ilt him. ..om 2 to 3
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- I‘HONE S01-.T
Claim Booth Lived Many Years
After Killing Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth Used Episcopal-'
ian Minister's Name. Relative
Says.
: High Point.—John Wilkes Booth.
I the assassinator of President Abra
ham Lincoln, whose mummy was
aid to have been located in Chi
cago recently, lived after the crinipj
under the name of James P. Arm
:ong, an Episcopal minister, and
died more tlian 20 years ago. if the
' tory revealed for publication for
the first time today, told by Robert
Booth, who lived ,Ior a short time
on Church street, Greensboro, t?
Mrs. Martha Robbins Tilden ct
Jamestown, is true. Robert Booth
told Mrs. Tilden in this interview
which she sought about 20 years ago
that he was the cousin of the as
Mnator; that he 'Robert Booth) had
contributed to Wilkes Booth's sup
port and that he had letters which)
Ik would Ire able to produce con-j
induing many thanks for the finan
ced aid to Armstrong alias Booth
Mrs. Tilden says that she remem
bers that on tile occasion of her
visit to Booth, which she made to
check on a Story that he had also
•’d another Greensboro neighbor,
he cousin of the alleged actor-,
murderer, .said that the letters were
at the bottom of his trunk but that
if shy would come back within a
i nr days, he would have them out
and ready for her to look at.
"I would not tell this if he were
now dead,” Mrs. Tilden says
hat Robert Booth told her.
I intended to go back at an early
date to :cc Mr. Booth but kept put
ting it off. And within a shoit
while he left for the south, I think
New Orleans, and I never hea*d
1 ram him again,” Mrs. Tilden said,
"My only interest in the matter,"
aid Mrs. Tilden, who had her son,
Robbins Tilden then a small bov,
with her, “was from a historical
point of view. It never occurred to
One to have his story published un
til I saw the account of his sup
I posed mummy being found."
Mrs. Tilden says that Robert
Booth was a dirt excavator and was
jin charge of a gang of negroes, who
: were working on street railway
work. She says that he was ver;
definite about the description of th<
old Booth homestead in Virgin!.;
and the account of how the escape
from the theatre was made on that!
fateful night in the sixties.
She recalls that he told her that
the broken ankle which Wilkes
Booth sustained in the Jump frrm
the box of the dying president to
the stage was the only hitch in the
program. The man, whom the mob
thought to be Wilkes Booth, whom
it burned in a frenzy of_ excltment j
on the supposed route of escape was
in reality a tramp, Robert Boot.!
told Mrs. Tilden. This wanderer
had been induced in the barn by
arrangement of tho.« assisting Li
the escape of the assassinator.
Robert Booth told Mrs. Tilden
that it took some time for the for
mer actor, who had shot President
Lincoln, to get on his feet financial
ly after the crime and that he with
several other members of the fam
ily contributed money to his sup
port.
The story as told to Mrs. Tilden
checks In two particulars, A Greens
boro woman, who knew the Booth
family, told Mrs. Tilden after she
had learned about the story of Rob
ert Booth that she had seen an
Episcopal rector conduct a service
in Virginia, who had a striking re
semblance to Wilkes Booth and
whose name wai Armstrong. A
similar recognition was said to have
been observed upon one occasion In
Atlanta, Ga. The home of Arm
strong. who may have been the
killer of the United States presi
dent, was said by Robert Booth to
have been in Chicago.
The mummy located recently in
Chicago by Dr. Orlando F, Scott
was that of a man who passed un
de£ the name of John St. Helen,
who committed suicide in Okla
homa in 1903.
Mrs. Tilden, to whom the story
of Booth's ministerial disguise, was
told, is of a prominent Guilford
county family, is a well known resi
dent of Jamestown and has done
considerable historical research, es
pecially In local records.
Christmas Tree Started In Germany,
But Queen Elizabeth Brought It To Us
:
I
ILbtorians and research experts
have just completed thetr annual
investigation into the background
! of Americas Christmas customs.
■ and have come up with an unusual
harvest. The Christmas, tree, they
i inform us, comes from the Rhine
valley and goes back to 1608. Queen
| Victoria introduced tBe custom to
English-speaking countries in 1840.
; Empress Eugenie, of whom the
world has heard a good deal during
| the past year, made the Christmas
! tree popular in Prance. Denmark
j and Norway adopted the same cus
! tom a bit earlier, in 1830. and Swe
1 den about 1863.
j The first authentic record of can
dles being used on a Christmas tree
is dated 1737, and comes from Ire
land.
The whole truth about the Christ
mas tree is given to the public by
| one of its ablest research experts,
| Lucy E. Hubbell, in The Country
Home. She recounts, for instance:
“According to an old German
j legend St. Winifred found the first
'Christinas, fir. Thwack! Thwack!
His ax sent chips flying from the
trunk of a giant oak formerly wor
shipped by Druids. In a religious
'frenzy he was cutting down an in
| nocent tree. Suddenly, backward it
swayed, groaning as it split asun
der. Just behind, unharmed by the
crash, showed the point of a young
fir.
" ‘Behold, said the saint -to the
I converts crowding round, watching
j his labors, “this babe of the forest!
jit is the wood of peace, for your
] houses are built of fir. Henceforth
i Jet it be called the tree of the
Christ-child. Gather about it in
. your own homes.’
"Disciples Qf Martin Luther pre
, ferred to credit him with the glory.
6>n a wintry evening, walking alone
! acres snow-crusted fields, he was
so impressed by the sky’s splendor
| that when he got home he cut a
‘small spruce and set it up in the
• nursery.
"‘Now,’ lighting the candles, he
| turned toward his children, ‘from
| heaven have fallen these stars to
i nest tonight on the little Christ’s
! tree-.’’ > --
Anyway, little by little the pleas
j ant custom spread until practically
; every house had its own Yule tree.
And in almost every country sprang
up some popular, fabulous belief j
about the origin of Yule tree. In
Scandinavia it is said to have mir-!
aculously sprouted from soil where
slain lovers lav, and that no storm
!could extinguish the lights among;
'its boughs
Gives $40-000 To
Restaurant Workers;
Chicago, Dec. 21.—Albert L. Plx
ley, head of a restaurant group, dis
tributed a semi-annual bonus of,
$40,000 to his 550 employes tods." j
,and told them lo put it in circula
tion lie fore Christmas. ,
Olive Grove To Have
A Christmas Service
(Special to The Star, )
Casar R-l, Dec. 32.—There will
be preaching at Olive Grove on
Christmas afternoon at 2 o'clock by
our pastor Rev. E. T. McDaniel, also
on Saturday at 2:30 and Sunday at
11 o’clock. Everybody invited to
come.
Olive Grove church will give their
pastor a pounding on Sunday De
cember 27 at 11 o’clock. Every
member is asked to attend and
give something.
Mr. Cleveland Cdok and family
spent Sunday with Mr. Cooks moth
er Mrs. D. D. Cook
Miss Mamie Cook spent a week
with her aunt Mrs. Ella Barnett of
Shelby recently.
Rev. J. H. Cook has been sick
quite a while but is improving some
at this time.
There will be a Christmas tree at
the Philbeck school house Wednes
day December 23. A prize box will
be given for the ugliest man and
ugliest girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Walker and
family and Mr. Charlie Crotts, Miss
es Arno Spake, Blanche White,
Zula Wortman were afternoon
guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Cook
Sunday.
Mr. David Cook spent Sunday
night with his grandmother Mrs. D.
D. Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Self spent
Sunday with their daughter. Mrs.
May Buff.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Walker on November 21, a son, Wil
liam Eugene.
Christmas Program ..
. At Mt. Zion Church
Program for services which will
be held at Mt. Zion Baptist
church Christmas day 10:30, song,
“Joy to the World.” Scripture read
ing and prayer by Rev. Ovie Cook,
followed by Professor King of Mo
riah school, who will speak on the
Birth of Christ. At 11 o'clock Lawn
dale quartet will sing two selections
followed by a solo.
11:20 a. m. Preaching by Rev.
Charlie Rackard of Kings Moun
tain.. 12 oclock, short intermission.
One o'clock there w’ill be several
songs and speeches rendered by the
children of this section, followed by
a quartet.
Rev. Ivey Cook will speak follow
ed by Rev. Albert Hudson. So there
will be a number of other talks and
speeches concerning the Birth of
Christ. Last on program the Lord’s
Supper will be administered.
The Basis.
Friend: Why do you always in
quire what your patients eat? Does
it help your diagnosis?
Doctor: No but it help*, my.
charecs foe professional services , |
Mrs. Yount, Native
Of Cleveland, Dies!
Funeral Conducted at lln Home
Near Waco. Interment at
Kings Mountain.
'Special to The Star.'
Mrs. Ernest H. Yount, a pronun- i
ent and much loved young woman j
of Newton, but formerly of Cleve
land county died at Davis hospital j
Statesville, Wednesday afternoon
December 9th of septic pneumonia j
after an illness of one week. Mrs.'
Yount was before her marriage,
Miss Margaret Smith, daughter ot
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith of Clev
eland county. She was a grand- j
daughter of J. B. Rhyne a promin
ent and highly respected citizen ol
this county.
Called from this world in the
prime of life, being in her 33rd
year, Mrs. Yount's death was a
shock and an occasion of deep sor
row to her own family and ltupr
circle of friends Reared in Cleve
land county, educated at Davenport
college, Lenoir and Queens col
lege Charlotte, and having lived in
Newton since her marriage to Mr.
Ernest H. Yount. Mrs. Yount was
widely-known, and has a large cir
cle of friends in this i«h! other!
states who will be grieved to learn
of her untimely death.
The funeral service was conduct
ed from her mother's home at Waco
by Rev. W. a. Harry, a Presbyter
ian minister, of Warm Springs, Oa .
formerly her pastor at New 1911, Dr
Craven, president of Davenport col
lege at the time Mrs. Yount was a
student there and Rev Mr Benette,
pastor of the Waco. M E. church.
During the service "Abide With Me'
and “The Lord Is My Shepherd'
were beautifully rendered by Mes
dames Glenn Long and Frank War
lick.
Interment was in the King
Mountain cemetery with Messr; A
Warlick. Mr. Ztmtbaum. R. W.
James. Harry Hollingsworth. Julius
Abernethy, Alex Warlick, T. R
Owen, Russell Yount of Newton.
Kendall Beam and Avery Putnam
of Waco, and C. B. Suttlr Jr, ot
Shelby as pall bearers
Woman Of 85 Takes
First Ride In Air
K.iuaton—Mi's. W. F. Hart. 8.», de
clared she was going to Uy again
and as many time* opportunity i
presented Itself.
While visiting here, her grandson
insisted she take a flight and
though "dubios" at first, she fin
ally got In r ship and went aloft.
John Parrott, the pilot, said she
was an excellent passenger with one
exception—the didn't to conic down
Think Buildings
Were Set On F ire
An empty four room house at id,
barn of Dan Neal living near W
3 North Brook school in I.lnculn
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xmnty. oast of Palls ton, were burn-1
>il iibou midnight Sunday nigh' ti;
is thought tin' buildings woro
>11 fire as the llvetaock in tin- bum
ivHti turned out before the i'.v ■
made any headway. All of the tcMj
,n the burn wa- burned. It is un
ierstood that Mr. Neal carried!
•bout $1,100 insurunee on the
building.*.
Pleasant Grove
Week-End News
Ites. Yancey Elliott To 1‘rrach Sun ■ I
day. Penmnal Men
tion.
'Special to The aui, ■
Pleitsftht Orovo. Dee. INI. IV".
'luney Elliott ot the Baptist Thro
oglcitl seminary. Louisville. Kv.
on of Mrs. J V. Elliott will preach;
it Pleasant Orove Baptist church
Sunday. Dee. 37. at IT o’clock.
Mr. Dennett Wright spent the
yeck-end with his grandfather M
\mo; Wright of Boiling Springe.
Mr. and Mrs Grady Royster, Mi
»n ! Mrs. Caro Costner and (um
ly and Miss Martha Sue Royet •
■pent Sunday w.Ui Mr. and Mrs a .
1
M. Hoyle.
Mr. anti Mrs. Paul Bridge.* an*!'
Mr. F C Hollins all of Cleveland j
Springs spent Sunday with Mr antll
Mrs. w c. Bridges.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bridges and son J
Bobby and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Wright spent the week-end with
;Heir grandparent, Mrs Chapman!
of Charlotte.
The many friends ol Mr. and j
Mrs. Odus Ledford will be glad to i
hear that their little daughter j
Hattie Maud is almost well again
after having pneumonia
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs B. F
Gardner Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.:
Gordon Hamrick and mother. M-. 1
Hudson Hamrick of Kings Mountain '
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wright ar.J i
daughter. Jewell, and Mr. and Mrs !
John Ledford spent the evening.
Mr. ant! Mrs, onley Wright and j
little Miss Thera Costner were the!
dinner guests of Mi and Mrs.!
Grady Hoyle Sunday.
Mr and Mrs . Hatcher Ledford
and family spent Sunday with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C Led
ford.
Mrs Pressley Costner and daugl'.- (
i r Mn. Qniey Wright and Mrs)
Vales Costner were the dinner |
8ucs. * of Mrs John Wright Frtd&v j
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wright spent,
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dor!?
-—- .. . Jl JjL^lJUaMB-gBBaBai
Hendrick of Shelby.
Mr. mid Mrs. D. Y. Costner *pei”
Sunday with their parents,Svlr. and
Mrs. Zhn Williams aflU " Mr and
Mrs. Pressley Costner and daughtei
Thera, spent awhile Sunday nlfht
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