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SHELBY, - N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAR. IS, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Street Fight Told
In Blow-by-BIow
Account in Court
freeman Tried Today
For Newman Attack
Heitor >purHn* Arrives To Take
on Two Murder Caaea And
W Incendiary Trial.
A fketchy blow-by-blow account
battle between Charles Pree
* jaw driver and ex-wrestler,
justice of the Peace Roy New
m in which Newman was sent to
UK hospital several months ago,
M8lPd more than 500 fight fans
to the eoui t house this morning.
flymen is being tried on an in
dictment for secret assault, in
which it is alleged that he attack
jd jjewman with knucks, fists and
left. Defense attorney Cleveland
Gardner aimed at the body of the
Newman testimony with a long pro
ton of witnesses, but Peyton
jlcSwam, from the Newman cor
ner, disabled some of them with a
oom examination of rapid fire
questions.
Denies Kicking
freeman freely admits beating
Newman, but asserts that the en
counter was no more than a street
fight, with no malice aforethought,
Bid that he did not kick him or at
tack him with deadly weapons.
The case rested at noon pending
appearance of Dr. Sam Schenck,
who was in the operating room and
was thus not available t», testify.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw, venerable
■tired jurist sitting under a spe
commission from Governor
iiringhaus for the one week’s term,
.lied the audience to Order sev
eral times as they grew .boisterous
during the crass examination.
Sparling On Hand
Solicitor L. 8. Spurting of Lenoir,
tho missed the first two days be
cause of influenza, appeared today,
looking fit and hearty as usual.
Solicitor of the Recorder’s Court C.
!. (Cobby Horn has been prosecut
ing cases during his absence, run
ning through the docket with re
larkable speed and eliding' com
pliments from the bar.
Two Murder Trials
Solicitor Spurling has two mur
der trials, those of Jack Parks and
George Bankhead, and a barn burn
ing case in which Henry Swlnk is
accused of setting fire to a build
ing owned by Asor Pruett.
Nine convictions have been re
corded. They are:
Sam Nivens, who plead guilty to
hrreny, six months.
Green Green, larceny, mistrial.
Vard Wall, jail delivery, three
Donths.
Ab McDowell, violation prohibi
tion law.-, six months.
Woodrow Jackson, forgery. He
plead guilty to passing bad checks
end received a six months sen
tence.
John Self, violation prohibition
lews, six months.
Fred Wilson, public drunkeness,
Marian Rothel, driving while
trunk, four months.
Maggie Martin, violation prohibi
tion laws, six months.
Approximately SO capias instantas
i>ave been issued for defendants
*ho failed to appear.
Late News
the markfvs
Cotton, spot _ 11>/J to 12 ViC
Cotton seed, wagon, ton_$45.00
Cotton seed, car, ton _ $48.00
Generally Fair
leather forecast for North Caro
Generally fair Wedensday and
Thursday, preceded by rain on
r“nhea-st roast Wednesday morn
r*' co,(ler in east and central
Portions Wednesday; warmer Thurs
Torror In Havana
of terrorism broke
LtV*T’,° ^ v«terday after
8ov,_Co! ■-’«* Pedraea, military
ill Province, ordered
«"•» ar*d motorists off the
beliec./*^ nme P m- ™S W8S
the bun ° ^ aTl effort te ntP »*>
tesirt, ,aRy nocturn*d movement
'he president’s government.
Poland Holland
Takes New Position
fttvTr,0,'5 5!olland. member of
*hperirtpC1J l6ft Monday to becc
j»rchl tU of two of the M
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thooi ^lm al the end of
Ex-Shelby Pastor Presents
Dancing Girls In Church
Arthur Brisbane, world's high- i
est paid columnist Is thought to
refer to Dr. R. L. Lemon, for
mer pastor of the First Baptist
church in the following extract
from his column released
throughout the United States
and published Monday:
“The Reverend Dr. Lemon, of
Columbia, Mo., plans to stimu
late church attendance. This
Sunday “10 pretty dancing girls
interpret the old hymns.” While
the congregation sings, the 10
lovely ones dance. Some old
hymns, "Dare to Be a Daniel,"
“Pull for the Shore,” "There’s a
Land That is Fairer Than
Day,” “Shall We Gather at the
River,” might all acquire new
meaning, interpreted by 10 love
ly dancing girls. “Rock of Ages"
would be harder. The 10 girls
selected to dance are all stud
ents of Christian college, where
Miss Sally Rand studied before
she Invented her fan fcnd bub
ble dances. Either of those
dances would fill a church but
neither would be suitable for the
Interpretation of hymns."
Red Cross Health Nursing
Likened to Public Utility
By MISS HARTE OLIVER
Red Cross Nurse
[ Red Cross public health nursing
j m Cleveland county is a community
service to the individual, the fam
ily and the community. This serv
ice Includes the interpretation of
.medical, sanitary and social pro
cedures for correction of defects.
I preventin of disease and promotion
of health.
It is a self evident fact that the
basis of useful service is health.
Efficient work 1b impossible when
health is affected. Many a person
will spend a year in depression be
cause of some minor ailment.
At this time of year everywhere
in Cleveland county there is
planting. Farmers planting seed for
food with the expert advice of Mr.
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Free Employment
Aid Is Proposed;
Would Help City
Local Employment Office Give
Figures; Bill In Leg
islature.
A step toward tbe possibility of
free employment service to men and
women who wort f«r a Hying was
revealed today by C. M. Baber, in
charge of the Federal Re-employ*
ment office here.
MT. Baber has moved his office
from the court house Into part of
the office occupied by the coontr
agent in the basement of the Hotel
Charles building.
Work Now Done
According to a statement issued
from the office there are now 1,476
men and women on the active list
in his office. Of this number 191
are women. Several hundred others
have been contacted and have
found work through this office
since its establishment last fall.
The office is now trying to help
equalize Shelby unemployed with
the need for farm hands at this
season.
State Control
The federal government has been
providing this unemployment thus
far, but states may later take care
of it in that: A bill has been intro
duced and passed by the house
amending the present laws to se
cure the benefit of $77,490 annually
I appropriated by congress. This bill
entails an appropriation of $75,000
by North Carolina. Twenty-four
other states and 29 foreign coun
tries have such a free employment
service as contemplated by North
Carolina.
Three Unknowns Had
Wrecked Their Car
The three young men who report
ed at the Shelby hospital early
| Sunday morning for medical treat
iment and asked that police not be
'informed of their injuries, are sup
posed to have been hurt in a car
wreck on highway No. 20 near
Mooresboro.
People living in the Mooresboro
section say they heard a crash on
the road during the night and found
that a car had plunged into the
guard fence. The wrecked car was
removed next day. The three young
men gave their names at the hos
pital and claimed Winston-Salem
as their home. After receiving
treatment for slight injuries, they
were dismissed.
Cleveland To Be
Model County For
Rural Boy Scouts
Choaen from 11 Counties As Most
Successful With Rural
Troops.
Because of the past success of
rual Boy Scout troops in this
county Cffeveland tea teen choaen
by tha national councilto te t£q
as a model in the Piedmont dis
trict council in further work done
by this boys organization.
This information was made known
today through Captain B. L. Smith,
commissioner for the council and
M. A. Spangler, president of the
Shelby district. R. M. Schiele, of
Gastonia is Piedmont council exe
cutive. ,
Study Methods
R. W. Shoffner has been appoint
ed chairman of a board to promote
and to study methods of promoting
scouting in rural troops of which
Cleveland has most of any county
in a district of 11 other counties.
The 11 counties which will study
methods of rural Boy Scouts In
Cleveland are Gaston, Rutherford,
Lincoln, Burke, McDowell, Catawba,
Caldwell, Iredell and Alexander.
First Troop
Scouting began in Cleveland coun
ty more than 25 years ago when a
special charter was granted a troop
in Kings Mountain directly from
Baden Powell, British founder of
the organization. Troops here have
Just concluded celebration of the
25th anniversary of the American
organization.
The first rural troop, so far as is
known, was organized at Double
Springs by Arthur McSwain in
1922, but It was re-organized with
a charter issued to Lattimore when
school consolidation began. Other
troops were organized at Piedmont.
Polkville, Mooresboro, Earl, Bel
wood and perhaps other places sev
eral years ago.
Belwood has the distinction of
producing one scout, Alvin Propst,
who has been awarded every merit
badge and scoutmaster’s award of
fered by the organization. He now
has more than 100 of the badges.
Shelby, for city tropos, has been
one of the strongest scout towns
in the district since the organiza
tion of the district council in 1924.
Mrs. Ambrose Cline who has been
a patient for nine weeks in the
Shelby hospital with a broken
thigh, was able to be removed on
Tuesday to the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Mike L. Borders on
the Cleveland Springs road.
County to Tam Bond Salesman;
Offers $28,000 at Four Per Cent
Cleveland county becomes bond
salesman today, for the first time
in some years.
An Issue of $28,000, maturing be
tween March 1, 1936 and April 1,
1944, and totalling $28,000 is offer
■ ed In one and two thousand dollar
bonds, with four per cent interest,
i Troy McKinney, county auditor,
has mailed circulars to leading bond
: houses throughout the state and in
Ithe eastern markets, and antici
' pates premiums on his offerings.
These are the bonds which will
| supply the money for the negro
school, part of the Dover school
and the high school arcade. The
city board of education’s note for
$13,000 secures its share of the
expense, the county gives $15,000,
and the Dover mill $8,000 for the
Dover school.
The bonds will be sold to the
highest bidder by officials of the
Local government Commission at
their office In Raleigh as soon a&
the certificates are obtained from
the engraver in Cleveland. Ohio.
An interesting note in this: two
of the bonds, one for a thousand
Legislators 0. K.
Hospital For T.B.;
Budget In Doubt
Set up $100,000 Fund
For Maintenance
Monetary Committee* Make Little
Headway; Expect Hearing On
Beer Bill Thursday.
RALEIGH, March 13.—Pinal ap
proval for the construction of a state
tuberculosis sanatorium, with a $10,
000 appropriation for 1935-‘36 and
$100,000 for maintenance through
1937 was given last night by the
legislature.
In the meantime, monetary com
mittees made little progress toward
balancing the proposed budget for
the next two years. It now appears
that revenue and appropriation
measures may be introduced in the
house with the money-spending act
approximately $2,800,000 larger than
the finance bill
Revenues Short.
The revenue measure in its pres
ent form will provide approximate
ly $31,217,000 for the first and $31.
492,000 for the second year of the
next biennium. This is more than
$2,800,000 short of the $32,311,12«
and $33,203,795 in allocating respec
tively, that have been tentatively
approved by the Joint appropria
tions group.
The appropriations group has in
cluded a 25-per-cent horizontal sal
ary increase for all state employes
including teachers.
An expected hearing on a meas
ure to raise the legal limit on alco
holic content of beer from 3.2 pet
cent to five per cent was postponed
to Thursday, the same day the sen
ate has set consideration of the
tllll liquor-stores bill as a special
order.
The joint finance committee res
cinded one of its money-raising
features today when it voted tolhp
tt^ th^f8»unL Of salea -frft.m.gjM
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WiU Buy 12,000
Tons Fertilizer
For Cotton Crop
Would Be 550 Our Loads; Does Not
Include Other Crops; Many
Home Mix.
Preparations for the production
of more than 40,000 bales of cotton
in Cleveland, the banner cotton
county are shaping up rapidly, If
the purchase of commercial fertili
zer means anything.
A sweeping estimate released
from the office of the county agent
R. W. Shoffner today indicated that
approximately 12,000 tons of vari
ous kinds of cotton fertilizer will
be purchased here within the next
few days. The town and county is
just swarming with agents for
every known brand.
500 Per Acre
The calculations do not include
| a large amount which will be pur
chased for corn, grains and garden
crops, but were based on the 78,000
acreage of the county in cotton. Of
this number of acres some 55,000
' will be planted in cotton this year,
i Most farmers put from 400 to 500
pounds per acre under their crop
at planting and others side-dress
later.
! Twelve thousand tons would be
approximately 550 cars, and at a
cost of the round figure of $20 per
ton would aggregate the sum of
$240,000.
Mix At Home
Mr. Shoffner indicated, however,
that there will be more than the
■usual amount of home-mixed fer
tilizers used this year. Most farm
ers think they can mix for $6 to
$10 per ton cheaper.
Acid phosphates, nitrates, and
potash will be sources used, as few
growers will have the usual cotton
seed meal this year, as prices have
been too high.
Side-dressings this spring will be
tn the form of sulfates and nitrates.
Brands used will be almost as var
ied as the farms, and analyses will
range from 10-2-2 to 10-5-5 or even
higher. It is thought that potash
applications will be heavier in the
county this year. •
Chief D. D. Wilkins
Is Back In Uniform
Chipper in i bine uniform.
Chief of Police D. D. Wilkins
was at his desk early this mora
ine and later appeared in court.
He has recovered from a month’s
illness from influenza, two
weeks of which he spent in the
hospital.
New Baby Bonds
Go Slowly Here
The government's new Baby
Bonds aren’t popular In Shel
by. Postmaster J. H. Quinn,
asked for a report on their
sales this morning, said that
only $350 worth has been sold
since they were first offered
March 1. This Is an Increase of
only $50 over the first day's
sales.
Asked for a report on postal
savings deposits, the postmaster
gave a happier, reply. Since Mar.
1. more than $0,000 has been
deposited In new and old ac
counts, he said. The total de
posited here comes to nearly a
quarter of a million dollars.
Students To Vie
In Essay Contest
On Alcohol Evil
Methodist Mission Group Offers
Foot Prises For Writers And
Poster Artists.
Announcement has just been mads
that the Woman’s Missionary socie
ty of the Central Methodist church
will sponsor essay and poster con
tests in the Shelby public schools on
the subject of temperance.
It Is the hope of the committee
to promote the dissemination of in
formation on the evil effects of al
coholism and narcoticism, and the
benefits of temperance.
Four Prises Offered.
Four prizes as follows, will be off
ered:
1. For the best essay submitted
by a high school pupil a prise of $5
will be given.
» 2. For the beet essay submitted by
a grammar grade pupil in grades
5-7, a prise of $2.50 will be given.
3. For the beet poster submitted
by a pupil in grades 1-4 a pries of
of g2JK> will bd given.
Ba&lattons.
Other rules jfre as follows:
AH essay*'And posters should be
designed to portray the benefits of
temperance, the evil effects of In
temperance, the proper uses of grain
and fruit or some other phase of the
question.
Essays and posters should be the
work of the pupil. (Only suggest
ions and corrections are permissible.)
High school essays should not ex
ceed 1,000 words; grammar grade
essays should not exceed 500 words.
Posters should be made on 32x38
inch cardboard.
Posters may be water colors, pen
cil or pen sketches, or cut-outs.
Deadline April 13.
All essays and posters should be
turned In to the superintendent of
schools on or before April 13.
Names of contestants should be
attached to contest materials by
clips or pins but not written on
them.
The superintendent of schools will
appoint the Judge, whose decisions
will be final.
Before placing essays and posters
in the hands of Judges, numbers will
be given them corresponding to
numbers recorded with the names
which will be kept in the office of
the superintendent.
Basis Of Judgiifr.
The following basis of evaluating
essays will be used:
I. Subject matter and contents—
60%.
II. English form—30%.
A. Spelling,
B. Grammatical correctness,
C. Punctuation.
III. Appearance of manuscript—
10%.
A. Neatness,
B. Legibility.
The following basis of evaluating
posters will be used:
I. Idea expressed—60%
II. Artistic appearance—30%.
IILNeatness—10 %.
' Annual School
For Midwives Is
Set For April 11
The annual training school for
some 25 or more midwives In Cleve
land county will be held this year
on April 11, according to a decision
reached Monday In a meeting of
the county board of health.
At this time a full day will be
spent by teachers in giving Instruc
tion to Cleveland county women of
this profession, and permits will be
issued for legal practice next year.
Teachers for the group will be
announced at a later date, and an
announcement as to the place of
meeting will be mad^. Members of
the board at health are Commis
sioner Chairman J. L. Herndon.
Mayor 8. A. McMurry, J. H. Orlgg.
Drs. Ben Kendall, W. J. Lackey,
H. C. Thompson and J. S. Dorton.
U. S. Will Renew
Loans On Cotton
Senator Declares
Smith Assertion Seen
1 As Stabilizer
Break In Market May Be Probed As
Waahlniton Await* Word From
White House.
WASHINGTON, March 18.-A flat
assertion yesterday by Senator
Smith, Democrat of South Carolina,
that the government's 12-cent cot
ton loan would be renewed on this
year’s crop appears as a possible
stabiliser for a market that, bas
fluctuated wildly during the last
two days.
But Secretary Wallace. Chester C.
Davis, farm administrator, and oth
er officials Involved met Smith’s
brief statement to newspaper men
with the same silence that charac
terised their attitude throughout the
day. despite rumored statements.
Davis declined to discuss Smith's
prediction. His only statement con
cerning the cotton situation was:
"There is no Immediate change con
templated In the government’s cot
ton policy”’
Other officials would say only
that the Commodity Credit corpor
ation which makes the loans had
not discussed their continuation.
They pointed out that last year's
loan announcement was not made
until August.
May Probe Price Break.
Those quarters of the capital most
interested in cotton were on tip-toe
much of the day In the expectation
of some official statement as to fu
ture plans. Senator Smith had re
ported that a statement would be
forthcoming from the White House.
At the executive mansion, how
ever, It wee said that any such
statement would come from secre
tary Wallace eg one of his aides.
But »t the AAA, officials said noth
that arir
at present regarding
a loan policy would ba premature
and added that a guarantee of con
tinuing the loans would undoubted
ly have tiie effect at stimulating
pTbduetfoh this yetfr. -'
Smith, chairman at the senate
agriculture committee, told newspa
per men who asked him about the
cotton situation that the loan would
be continued but he would add no
details.
He did say, however, that he
would ask a senate investigation In
to the precipitate break in cotton
prices which provoked concern on
Capitol Hill.
The break was attributed by some
to rumors that the government In
tended to change its lending policy
and that the Bankhead act, com
pulsory cotton control law, would be
further liberalised.
“I want to find out where these
reports originated,” Smith said. “I
will ask my committee to report a
resolution asking senate Investiga
tion of the whole mess If we have
to subpoena cotton exchange offi
cials as well as officials of the de
partment of agriculture."
Hoey Resting Better
From A Heart Attack
While the condition of 8. E. Hoey,
foreman and secretary of The Star
Publishing Co. remains serious, he
was resting better this morning and
had a fair night of sleep under the
Influence of drugs. He suffered a
heart attack Monday afternoon at
2 o’clock while at work in the of
fice.
Masons Meet Friday Night
The Masons will meet Friday
night, March 15, in a called com
munication for work in the first
degree. The presence of the mem
bers is desired at this meeting, and
all visiting Masons are Invited.
Jaunita, Aged 10, Rides Train
And Tells Officers A Whopper
Miss Juanita Perry, aged 10, of
Marlon, packed her scanttes and
panties In a neat little bag and
[shuffled off to Shelby. Away she
i went—lured by who-knows-what
! Juvenile urge to vagabondage as
.the first hush of spring came—and
|she probably got as much out of it
as she intended anyway, a good
ride on the train.
Officers Burgln Putnam and
Banks Buttle were a committee of
, two to meet the small traveler at
the Southern station Monday even
ing. She addressed them brightly
and confidingly, and told a good
yarn.
I Her mother, who works in a Mar
lon mill, had telephoned police
when she returned home and saw
the child had fled. After being fed
and bathed at teb home of Officer
J. H. Carroll on North Washing
ton street, the young lady wat
taken on an automobile tour of the
city, which she admired Then she
was re-addressed back to her fran
tic mother In Marion.
It seems that she had watted
around the Marlon station several
hours for the train, and had pur
chased a ticket. When greeted here
by Mr. Buttle, she said:
"8ome mean old men kidnaped
me and tied me up in a sack. I
didn’t run away.”
But Juanita had run away. The
Southern conductor, who’d kept an
eye on the child, said he thought he
would have been aware of it if she
had been sitting there all that
time with a sack over her head.
Mark it down to you and romance
—and Spring fever.
Plans Approved For
36 Bed Addition To
Hospital; Money Here
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Will Retire
Lady Aster, of London, native
daughter of Virginia and the first
woman to sit in the British parlia
ment, has indicated that she will
retire from public Hfe at the end
of her present term. She has
represented the constituency of
Plymouth tinee 191b and has
boon one of the most publicised
ha the English house
Non-Signers For
Last Year’s AAA
Are For It Now
Report Nearly 100 Percent Signing
Up; Date la Moved To
March 14.
Reporting virtually 100 percent of
last year's non signors of AAA cot
ton reduction contracts calling for
contracts this year the county oom
mittee In conjunction with R. W.
Shoffner and Alvin Propst is today
completing its schedule to accept
requests of farmers who did sign
last year who wish to rent land to
the government again.
To date 360 of the 470 farmers
who were not under contract last
year have made application, and
others have indicated that they
will do so as soon as blanks are
available.
Mr. Shoffner announced today
that the time for the non signers
has been moved qp to Mprch 14
because of a shortage of blanks.
Orowers who still want to ask for
contracts will call at the township
center.
Applications for contract for the
main body of Cleveland growers is
expected to begin at the first of
the week. Announcement will be
made soon as to meeting places and
the times to call.
To eliminate any misunderstand
ing, Mr. Shoffner wishes to em
phasize the fact that renting land
to the government under the AAA
contract is altogether a different
thing from the Bankhead bill. Too,
the present step is merely an ap
plication for a contract which will
be signed later, if the grower is
willing.
Three Story Brick
Addition On East;
Doctors Invited
Thirty six moro beds will be
provided at the 42 bed Shel
by Public Hospital, enlarging
the institution to 78 bed ca
pacity, according to plans ap
proved last night by the trus
tees.
Tentative plans were submitted
by O. C. Cook and Bon, Charlotte
architects and approved by the
trustees, physicians of the county
and hospital staff, funds for the
addition were given by Hatcher
Webb, the Duke foundation and
the late A. C. Miller.
Extends U feet
The present building wilt be ex
tended <16 feet on the east, this
addition to be three stories, the top
floor to be the maternity section
provided by the Hatcher Webb do
nation as a memorial to his moth
er.
The second floor. • op the same
level as the present main float
will provide offices, private rooms
and wards, while the ground floor,
all above level of the land, will be
for colored patients.
It Is planned to renovate and en
large the present colored unit tat
contagious diseases.
Another main entrance will be
provided at the east end at the
present building where the solar
ium or sun-parlor t$ located. A sol
arium win be built on the east end
of the new unit..
Cost 930,DM
O. It. Hoey. chairmen of the
board at trustees, staged this morn
ing that the improvements will
cost approximately 130,000, furnish
ed as follows: $10,000 by Mr. Webb,
$13,300 by the Duke foundation,'
$2,500 by the A. O Miller estate
and $5,000 by the hospital.
The addition will conform in
style of architecture with the pres
ent building and will have heat and
automatic sprinkler system,, mak
ing the entire plant fireproof.
Architect Hook says he will try
to complete the final plans and
specifications by April 1 so that
bids can be advertised for and the
contract let by April IS.
Several pyhsicians of the county
accepted the general Invitation to
attend the meeting with the trus
tees and approved the plana.
Nollie Washburn,
Bostic Merchant,
Dies In New York
Succumbs Suddenly In Home , Of
Of Daughter; Ex-Commission
er In Rutherford.
RUTHERFORDTON, March 13.—
E. Nollie Washburn, banker, mer
chant, church leader and former
county commissioner of Rutlferford,
who lived near Bostic, died sudden
ly at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Robert Martin, In New York
City Monday afternoon. He went
there a week ago to visit his daugh
ter, became ill Sunday and died
suddenly. His body Is expected to
arrive today.
Mr. Washburn Is survived by his
wife, four sons, E. N. Washburn, jr.,
John, Ruben, and Ben Washburn,
four daughter, Mrs. Martin, Mrs.
Berge Neal of Sunshine, Mrs. George
Harris. Hickory, and Miss Alice
i Washburn, at home; one brother,
John Washburn; three sisters, Mrs.
O. B. Biggerstaff, Forest City, Mrs.
Tatum Holllfield, Bostic, and Mrs.
Charles Davis. Sunshine.
Mr. Washburn was one of Ruth
erford ton's best-known citizens. He
was president of the Bostic bank
(and had many other business in
terests.
Mr. Tom* Seriously
111 In Hospital
j L. C. Toms of Lattjmare, who
| formerly worked for the Blue Ridge
Ice Cream Company Is seriously ill
in the Rutherford ton hospital with
ulcerate stomach It is understood
that hts brothers were called to the
hospital this morning for a blood
test to see if either has blood that
v'iP much to give the patient trans
fusion.