The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) 190?-1965
July 22, 1935

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LINCOLNTON IS THE 5 TRADE CENTER

J For More Than 35,000 People. 2 It Is Located in the Heart of Pied- J mont North Carolina the Most Prosperous Industrial and Agricul t tural Section of the Entire South. ?1.50 PER YEAR Masked Florida Band Lynches Negro Facing Brutal Attack Charge NEWS::::::::: j —BRIEFS j Girl Dies Reducing Los Angeles, July 20.—A desire to be slender led to the death today of trances E. Jacques, 24, physicians at the General hospital reported. She died from an overdose of drugs used to take off weight, they said. Finds Rare Dime Lewisburgh, Pa., July 20.—While street sweeping isn’t a well paid job, William N. Rohrer finds it lucrative at times. A vigorous push of the broom re cently revealed a silver half-dime which a numismatic concern told Rohrer was worth $l5O. A Violent Awakening Athens, Tenn.—Lois Raby, 12, walked from her home in her sleep and lay down on a paved highway. Oliver Nichols, autoist, thought she was a piece of paper. He drove over her Her cuts and bruises were only superficial. Potatoes Grow Above Ground Senath, Mo., July 20.—8. S. Har key, farmer has a potato vine on which the potatoes grow above the ground. They are about the size and shape of radishes- Smoking Affects Nerves St. Louis, Md., July 20.—Smoking has no marked affect on the nerves of men, but it stimulates nervous ness appreciably in women, psycho logy students at Washington Univer sity found after a series of tests on fallow classmates. Blind Boy Good at 3 Trades. Nebraska City, Neb., July 20. Completely blind since birth, Clif ford Borden, 19, Wallace, Neb., has mastered trades of piano tuning, broom manufacture and shoe repair ing He is a graduate of the Nebraska State Institute for the blind. No Order On Their Going. When the supposed corpse rose up on her bed and declared :“I want some cantaloupe” mourners and sym pathizers who had gathered at the home of a negro in Southmont, Dav idson county, the past week, lost little time in leaving the place. The negroe’s wife had been a sufferer fvom a malignant disease. When she recently sank into a coma, exami nation by her family indicated she was dead and relatives were sum moned to the home. Arrangements had been made for an undertaker when the woman returned to con ciousness and declared her hunger for the melon. Post Plans Long Pacific Air Trip Along With Wife Los Angeles, July 19.—Wiley Post is choosing the second anniversary of his solo flight around tne world for another far-flung aerial adven ture. On July 22, 1933, he landed at New York after a whirlwind pace over 15,400 miles of continents and oceans. He had girdled the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. Next Monday, another July 22, he plans to hop off with his wife in a big new monoplane on the first leg of a trans-Pacific journey covering Alaska and Siberia, and on to Mos cow. The project has been unofficially described as a preliminary survey fer a possible air route to link Amer ica and Asia. THE LINCOLN TIMES Body Is Found Suspended to Tree Limb and' Filled With Bullets Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 20. A negro accused of a knife attack on a white woman was snatched from six deputies near here late today and lynched by a mob of masked white men. The suspect booked as Rubin Stacy, was hanged to a roadside tree within sight of the home of Mrs. Marion Jones, 30-year-old mother of three children who had identilied him as her assailant. Arrested this morning amid gun fire, Stacy was being taken by Broward county officers to the Dade (Miami) jail, 25 miles from here, for safekeeping until he could be brought to trial. ‘‘There was about 100 of them,’ said Deputy Sheriff Virgil Wright, “and they ran our car off the road. Alter overpowering us, the masked men took the negro up the load and hanged him. Filled With Bullets “He’s filled full of bullets, too. I guess they shot him both before and after they hanged him.” When brought before her this morning by the officers for identifi cation, Mrs. Jones involuntarily cried out: ‘‘That is the man, without a doubt.” Deputy Wright said the officers were unable to identify any of the masked men. The license plates of then automobiles were covered with paper or cloth, or had been removed. An hour after the lynching, the body of the negro still swung from a limb. Deputy Wright said it re mained there until Peace Justice liugh Lester could reach the scene and give his official consent to its removal. “As far as we can figure out,” said Wright, “they just picked him up with the rope from the ground— didn’t bother to push him from an automobile or anything.” Admitted to her home last Tues day on the pretext he wanted a glass of water, Mrs. Jones’ assailant sud denly seized her by the throat and flourished a small knife. “He kept saying ‘don’t holler, don’r holler,’ but didn’t do anything else,” she told deputies when they reached the house. Fought Her Assailant “I fought him as hard as I could, cutting my hands on his knife as I struck at it. I ran through the back door and he followed me. succeeding in throwing me to the ground while I continued to fight him. “It seemed to me from the look in bis eyes he was intent on cutting my throat.” Her frantic cries for help finally frightened her assailant away. Stacy was sought when Sheriff Walter Clark learned he disappeared from his house, a mile and a half from the Jones’ home, on the day of the attack. Former Lincoln Pastor Gets Editorial Post Kannapolis, July 20.—Rev. Roy S. Nicholson, for the past five years pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church here, has been elected con neetional Sunday school secretary and editor for his denomination. His work will be largely editorial and in this capacity he will write all the quarterlies, papers and other literature used in the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday schools through out the country. Rev. Nicholson had recently ac cepted the pastorate of a church in High Point, effective August 7, but the appointment at the general conference recently took precedent over the other call. He will take up his new duties in the near future, and will be succeeded here by Rev. E. W. Black, of Roanoke, Va. Not To His Liking. Two little boys were talking about the President. One of them said: “My father thinks the President has done a lot of good.” The other boy replied—“Oh, I don’t know—(he hasn’t closed the schools yet.” Published On Monday and Thursday LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 TO SOUND OUT N. C. FARMERS ON AAA AMENDMENT PLAN State Cotton Council Frames Letter To Be Used In Gathering Opinions Raleigh,’ July 20.—Plans were un der way today to get an expression of North Carolina farmers on pend ing amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Members of the state cotton council and Claude T. Halt, chair man of the tobacco advisory board, yesterday framed a letter to county committees in the 97 cotton and to bacco growing counties asking them to send their views to the state’s congressional delegation. The letter said: “It is apparent that unless the es sential features of the AAA amsnd ments are ratified, the whole agri cultural program may be wrecked by unfavorable supreme court decisions regarding thought that the amendments spon sored by the administration if en acted into law, will counteract any unfavorable decisions of the courts on the original AAA.” 3 Divorces Granted By Judge Sink Three divorces were granted Thurs day by Judge H. Hoyle Sink, presid ing over superior court here, as fol lows: Olive York Hullet vs. Plato Huliet; Thedia Wilson Sigmon vs. W. M. Sigmon; B. V. Lineberger vs. Maude Allen Lineberger. Bald-Headed Dad. Dad— Sonny, they can’t tell me anything about the borrows of war. In the battle of Verdun my head was grazed by a German bullet. Sonny—There ain’t much to graze on r.ow is there Dad? 7heStoryqfthe (onTOtutioif® ‘iy Caleb Johnson- S&ZzMLi-. THE SEED FROM WHICH CREW THE CONSTITUTION Somehow’ the states struggled through the first five years of the Revolution under their loose and in effective alliance, centering in the Continental Congress. In the mean time, plans for a permanent govern ment were being debated. Such a plan had been drawn up in 1776, immed iately after the signing of the Dec laration of Independence. This plan was embodied in the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation were ratified by the thirteen states i:; 1781. The smaller states, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, had held back, fearing that the other stales, all of whom claimed terri torial rights extending westward to the Mississippi River, would domi nate by their mere size. Massachu setts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, both of the Carolinas and Georgia, at last agreed to let their westward lands be carved up into new states. The others then ratified the Articles of Confederation. Under this new form of govern ment each State remained com pletely independent. Congress could act only on: 1. Declaring war or peace, and su perintending the conduct of war. 2. Building a navy. 3. Controlling diplomatic relations. 4. Coining money and emitting bills of credit. a* Establishing Post Offices. 6. Regulating trade with the Indians. 7. Adjusting boundary disputes be-1 tween the States. There was no executive authority, no Federal judicial system. The Congress could, if it desired to set up a court of appeal. No vote could be carried in the Congress without the assent of a majority of state On all important meas ures the votes of nine stales were required. This plan did not bring about na tional unity. When the War of the Revolution ended, in 1783, the State of Great Britain signed a treaty recognizing each of her former American Colonies as an inde pendent State, but gave no recogni- NEXT WEEK: The Constitution Jaw-Jah Melon Queen j WASHINGTON Miss Fannie Megaliee, queen of Georgia’s annual watermelon festival, came North with an 84-pound prize-winning watermelon to preaent to President Roosevelt. TEACHERS MEET IN CHARLOTTE, NOV. 1 Plans have been completed for the thirteenth annual convention of the South Piedmont District Teach ers’ Association, to be held in Char lotte November 1 and 2, V. P. Rous seau, executive secretary of the Charlotte Merchants' Association said yesterday. Committees are at work on the program and a number of outstand ing speakers and educators from various parts of the country will ap pear on the program. The district includes Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Cataw ba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lin coln, Mecklenburg, Morganton, Row an, Stanly and Union counties. ticn to the United States as a nation. In 1784 the States claiming Wes tern lands, ceded 430,000 square mi les, lying north of the Ohio River, to the Congress. (This Northwest Territory later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, illinoise, Michigan and Wisconsin.) In the meantime, however, the government under the Articles of the Confederation had practically collapsed. The Congress in 1776 reported the Federation “broke,” with a debt of $42,000,000 and no erdedit. The States had to work out their own problems. Since there was no Federal regulation of commerce be tween the States, each began to set up protective restrictions against goods coming in from other States. This confused inter-state commerce situation w r as the seed from which giew the Constitution and our Fed eral Government. In 1785 the States of Maryland and Virginia appointed delegates to work out a plan of regulating com merce on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. The delegates met at the home of General George Washington at Mount Vernon, Vir ginia. They came to a satisfactory agreement, and proposed a meeting of commissioners from all the States, to work out a system of regulating commerce between all of them A convention was called" to meet in 1776 at Annapolis. Only five states sent commissioners. The An napolis convention asked the Con gress to call on all of the States to rend commissioners to a convention in Philadelphia the following Spring, “for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederat ion” The call was made, and on May 25, 1787, fifty-five delegates, repre senting all the thirteen States, met in the hall, under the shadow of the Liberty Bell, in which the Dec laration of Independence had been signed eleven years earlier, and drew up the document upon which our Fed eral Government rests and from which it derives its powers, the Constitution of the United States of America. Drafted in Secret Convention. ROOSEVELT WILL LOSE LOUISIANA, SAYS SEN. LONG Returns From Louisiana to Shout Denunciations of The President Washington, July 20.—Fresh from another legislative triumph in Louisi ana, Senator Long returned to the senate today shouting defiance at the Roosevelt administration for cutting off PWA funds from his state. Packed galleries heard Long pro claim that “Louisiana is not in the R‘ osevelt column, and you couldn’t put it there if you spent the whole five billion dollars down there.’’ He asserted that the state would file suit in the Supreme court and would win—to prevent the federal government from setting up boards vjthin the state for the disbursement of funds. He said educational boards and other agencies had been created for this purpose “without constitu tional authority.” Long amused the galleries which had teen packed an hour before he began. But the reaction of Senator Formally, Democrat, Texas, was far from amusement. From a desk just a few feet away, the Texan warned Long angrily: “Don’t get funny with me, either here or any other place.” A few moments earlier Connally had protested that the galleries, which were laughing at some of Long’s remarks, were not in order. “This is not a vaudeville show, though it may seem to be,’’ Connal ly told the presiding officer. When Long concluded his speech there was the usual disorder as the spectators pushed toward the doors 5f the galleries. Connally again pro tested. “The show is over,” Vice President Garner shouted from the rostrum. “You can get out of the gallery.” Long based his remarks about de nial of PWA grants on newspaper re ports. He said he had not received the announcement. “1 don’t know how the President or Secretary lekes addresses me,” he said, adding that so far as lekes was concerned “I have no direct diplo matic contact with him.” “Our talking reminds me of a son in-law and a mother-in-law in Louis iana,” he said. “They wouldn’t speak to each other, so when they had something to say they would speak to the cat “But the state of Louisiana isn’t concerned about these dire pro nouncements. Now, just five months before our state election, we are told Louisiana is to have no more PWA funds. Last year we allowed five Congressmen to come back here who because they were avowedly anti- Lor.g were to get PWA funds. “But now it seems, like Benedict Arnold, the deserters will not get their 30 pieces of silver. They have my sympathy, but not my support. They have my sympathy for having, like myself, trusted a certain gen tleman once too often.” After denouncing at length what Long concluded: “Louisiana will run itself. It will ho called the “bureaucratic system,’ not stand for the fiats from Wash ington, nor will it allow itself to be enslaved. We are not afraid of them in any kind of a political campaign.” Mrs. Frank Love Loses Diamond Ring Shelby, July 20.—The Dover mill office was robbed Monday night for the second time within a year by thieves who broke the vault door, smashed the combination, and es caped with between S4OO and SSOO in cash and a diamond ring. The robbery must have occurred lifter midnight, Charles Dover said this morning, because families living near the office were up until that hour watching the eclipse of the moon and would have seen anyone inter the building. Footprints were found near the rear, but no other clues were dis covered. Sheriff Cline and his depu ties are investigating. The ring was diamond-set and be longed to Mrs. Frank Love, sister of Charles and Jack Dover, who had asked them to put it in tne vault for safe keeping. The production of horses and mules is steadily on the increase in Stanley county. Two stallions and two jacks are available for service. Prison Camp Bosses Gain Freedom In Mistreatment Case NEW YORK Little Mavis Freeman (above), lead all the way in the National Junior A.A.U. free style 100-meter swim in the just featured here. She’s now na tional junior champ ion. FUGITIVE SHOT TO DEATH; PUT UP A FIGHT WITH COPS Jimmie Chalk, Negro From South Carolina Chain Gang, Killed (Gastonia Gazette) Jimmie Chalk, alias Jimmie John son, 25-year-old negro convict who (scaped from the York county chain t ang Thursday, was shot and killed aj: 5:25 o'clock Friday morning at the rear entrance of the city hall by Policeman J. Ed Armstrong, follow ing a struggle in the course of which the escaped convict got Armstrong’s nistol out of the holster and had knocked down Brooks Parrish, son of Sergeant Meek Parrish, who is on extra duty. When th* officers, who,acting on advices from the York county offic ers, had picked the negro up as a suspect, a few minutes before on East Airline Avenue near the Ed Long residence, started to take Chalk from the car to the city jail in the city hall, the latter attacked the two men and came very near getting Armstrong’s gun. Had he done so, the police officers are convinced he would have killed one and maybe both of them in his desperate ef fort to get away. Armstrong fired two shots, the first striking the convict in the ab domen and the second in the heart. Af'er the first shot struck him Chalk attacked Parrish, knocking him down, bruising his eye and face and tear ing his clothing almost off. The second shot resulted in almost in stant death. Took Them By Surprise. When the officers, who had been cruising around looking fer Chalk, a description of whom iiad been given them by the York county chain gang management, saw him on East Airline Avenue, the negro surrender ed very quietly and meekly. He denied his identity, saying he worked on a farm down the country. He gave no trouble whatever. As a result the of ficers were thrown off their guard and were taken by surprise. As Patrolman Armstrong was getting out of the car, a coach, Chalk jumped on him, throwing him to the pavement and getting hold of the officer’s gun. Armstrong man aged to hold on to the gun by pressing his arm tightly over it after it was out of the holster. Parrish, who was driving, jumped out on the opposite side of the car and ran around to the other side where his fellow officer was engaged in a desperate struggle with the ptisoner. About that time Armstrong managed to get his hand on his gun and fired one shot, striking Chalk in the stomach. Chalk jumped up and attacked Parrish, endeavoring to get the latter’s gun. It was locked in (he holster and he failed to get it. A powerful stroke of the negro’s fist floored Parrish. It was then thai Armstrong fired the second shot which killed Chalk. Joe: “Did you get your hair cut?” Jim: “No, I just washed it and It shrank.” j LOCAL MARKET 5 COTTON 12*4c lb. 2 WHEAT __ 80 85c bushel 2 CORN 85c bushel J EGGS 16c 18c doz. FIVE CENTS PER COPY State Highway Department Will Not Re-employ Any Os The Defendants Charlotte, July 21.—Three former convict camp officials were acquitted today by a jury in Mecklenburg Superior court of mistreating two short term negro convicts whose feet had to be amputated after their imprisonment. Those acquitted were Dr. C. S. Mc- Laughlin, former prison physician; It. C. Rape, a guard, charged with neglect of duty, and Capt. Henry C. little, former camp superintendent, charged with assault with intent to kill. The jury returned its verdict this morning at 10 o’clock after having received the case Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The trial occupied two weeks in a special session of Su perior court before Judge Wilson Warlick. The state charged that the con victs, Woodrow Shropshire and Robert Barnes, were confined last winter in an unheated cell and that their feet froze, necessitating am putations. The defense, denying mistreat ment of the negroes, sought to show that the convicts themselves were responsible for the gangrenous con dition of their feet by wrapping rags and cords about their ankles, cur tailing the blood flow. Assault charges against Dr. Mc- Laughlin and Rape were dismissed Friday by Judge Warlick upon com pletion of evidence. The three defendants, together with T. M. Gordon and J. W. Eudy, enmp guards, originally were indicted on several counts, including three felonious charges, assault with a deadly weapon, maiming and toi ture. Charges against Gordon and Eudy were dismissed ea-ly last week. Shropshire and Barnes, the stumps of their legs exposed to the jury, were the chief prosecution witnesses. Capus Waynick, chairman of the state highway commission, the de partment having charge .if prison camp operations, said he was not surprised at the verdict. Waynick said there was little like lihood of any of the defendants being re-employed by the department as prison officials. They were discharg ed because of what was interpreted as infractions of prison camp regu lation. “The action of the commission,” Waynick said, “was not based on any possible development with reference to the outcome of the superior court trial.” Waynick said the case illustrated the difficulty a prison camp official has in determining where an official’s actions cease to be those prescribed by duty and become acts of a ciiminal nature. The Observer said “when a jury re tired about 2 o’clock Saturday after noon they took a ballot and four men wanted to convict one or more of the defendants. The jury continued to discuss the verdict and take ballots and at 9 o’clock Saturday night there was only one man holding out for 'conviction. The jury then retired for the night and Sunday morning took another ballot. This ballot revealed the jury was unanimous for acquittal of all defendants on all counts.” ISHSflll JOE GISH SAYS— The rolling stone may gather no moss, but it cer tainly picks up a lot of experience. J

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THE LINCOLN TIMES Published MONDAY AND THURSDAY By Western Carolina Publishing Co lne., W North Public Square. Maude R. Mullen Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year, in advance IBO Six Months, in advance Three Months, in advance 4e Outside of Lincoln County One Year 200 Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Lincolnton, N. C. Communications intended for pub lication should be brief, and must be signed by the writer. Objectionable advertising not ac cepted. The publisher reserves the right to discontinue advertising with out notice. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 READ THE. CONSTITUTION. The Times began last week publication of a series of arti cles entitled “The Story of the Constitution,” which has re ceived much favorable com ment. The second installment appears in issue. In this connection we would suggest that you read again the entire Constitution. Not one American in ten thousand, we venture to say, really knows the Constitution under which he is governed. Every American ought to know it. It has lasted longer than any other such written document since the begining of recorded history. And history is filled with references to it. Read and know how it plainly defines the duties and powers of each of the three branches of the Federal Gov ernment, how it guarantees your rights and how it pro tects you. Again we urge you to read it for that is the only way of knowing whether the political office holders who swore to protect it are actually doing so. TURNING POINTS. Most people of middle age and beyond may look back up on apparently trivial occur rences which seem to them to have changed the entire course of their lives. A chance meet ing, a fortuitous remark, a casual letter, or even an ac cident, may mark a turning point in one’s course. It is related of Disraeli, the Jewish boy who became one of England's great prime ministers, that his turning point came through a fist fight at school as a conse quence of which he changed his place of residence and fell in with friends who aided him in getting started on his bril liant career. Numberless sim iliar instances may be found in biographies of the gieat and near-great, in which chance or small happenings led to fame and fortune Sometimes, too, they lead in the opposite direction, as in the case of Napoleon, who is said to have lost the battle of Waterloo, which changed the whole history of Europe, because it rained just before the battle causing his cannon to be mired in the mud. Thus, while carefully plan ned efforts count most, a great deal often depends on wheth er one gets the lucky “breaks” in the game of life. ARE YOU ONE OF THESE? The people who do a town more harm than good may be classed as follows: First, those who oppose im provement. Seccond, those who run it down to strangers. Third, those who never ad \ertise their business. Fourth, those who distrust public spirited men. Fifth, those who show no hospitality to any one. Sixth, those who hate to see others make money. Seventh, those who oppose every move that doesn’t orig- The 1 Annals Lincoln County j By William L. Sherrill Installment VIII LINCOLN COUNTY Lincoln County, named for Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, a hero of the American Revolution, was established out of a part of Tryon County, by the General Assembly at Halifax, in January, 1779. Tryon was abolish ed and Lincoln and Rutherford Counties organized out of its territory, according to the act, to make it easier for its inhabitants in its remote parts to perform public duties, but another reason was to eliminate the name of the Royal Governor, William Tryon, whose record was odious Jo the patriots of the Revolution. The General Assembly named Sampson Lambkin, Benjamin Hardin, John Walker, Jonathan Gullett, as Commissioners, to run the dividing line between the newly organized Counties. The Justices of Tiyon were continued in these positions in then respective counties, without new commissioners. Further, Christopher Carpenter, Valentine Mauney, James Reid, John Patrick and William Grimes were commissioned to buy 100 acres of land in the most central and convenient part of Lincoln, for a court house, prison and stocks, and to contract for the erection of same and to pay for these buildings, an additional tax for two years of two shill ings (on the 100 pounds value of taxable property, and one shilling on every free man was levied. The money previously raised for the Tryon court house and jail was ordered d.vided between Lincoln and Ruther ford. A bill introduced that year by William Graham, the Senator, to edtablidl) a county seat town on lands of Valentine Mauney, failed to pass. The County was assigned to the Salisbury Superior Court district. The County Court for several years was held at old Tryon court house, which was about five miles North of the present Bessemer City, on the highway leading to Cherryville. (1933). In December, 1782, the Genera! Assembly added part of Burke to Lincoln County and named Daniel McKissick, Henry Thompson, James Lytle, John Dickson, John Wilson, John Caruth, Frederick Hambright and Nicholas Friday, Commissioners, to fix a place for the court house for Lincoln County, and levied a tax of six pence specie on each 100 pounds value of property for two years. In 1783 the courts were held up stairs at the home of Christian Mauney, 9 miles south-west of Lin colnton. In 1784 at the homes of Nicholas Friday and Henry Dellinger, east of Lincolnton. In 1784 the General Assembly established a new boundary line be tween Burke and Lincoln and appointed Joseph Dickson, John Caruth, John Wilson and Joseph Steele and Nicholas Friday, to buy 100 acres of land “as near the center of the county as may be and to contract with proper workmen to build a court house, prison and stocks thereon..’ The Commissioners acted and early in 1784, the Assembly set forth in an Act that they had entered 300 acres of vacant and unappropriated land between the lines of Phillip Kanceller (Cansler) and Christian Rein hardt, and had laid off 50 acres for a town and sold the lots. This site the Assembly "established into a town which shall be called Lincoln ton.” Joseph Dickson and the other Commissioners named in 1784 were continued as "Town Trustees and Directors.” The Commissioners reserved an acre of land for the court house and jail and in 1785 these buildings were erected of logs. In 1788 a new frame court house was built, the space between the planks being filled with eafth. The outside was painted red and was known as the :"red tfomjt house.” It was removed in 1810 and a third court house erected in its place. This building was abandoned about 1855, when a structure of brick and stone of attractive design was built and used un til 1923 when the present handsome court house built of concrete and stone was erected on the same site at a cost of about $225,000.00. The original Wills and Deeds and the County Court Minutes all be gin in 1769 for Tryon, and 1779 for Lincoln County. The first United States census taken in 1790 gave the county 1405 heads of white families. The census was taken by the Militia districts (now called townships) 12 in number, covering the country which then embraced the present counties of Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln and half of Cleveland County. (The above information was largely supplied by Col. Fred A. Olds, of Raleigh). On January 11, 1841, the General Assembly finally passed the bill signed by Andrew Joyner, Speaker of the Senate, and Robrt B. Gilliam, Speaker of the House of Commons, creating the County of Cloaveland, from parts of Rutherford and Lincoln Counties. It was named In honor of Benjamin Cleaveland, a brave soldier of the Revolution who took part in the battld of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780. The bill reads that “Cleaveland County is to be composed of parts of the counties of Ruth erford and Lincoln, beginning at a point in the South Carolina line and running a north course so as to tap within 14 miles east of Rutherford ton until it strikes the Burke County line; thence with the dividing line of Burke and Rutherford to the Lincoln line; thence to the 13 mile post on Aha Lucas ford road; thence to the 12 mile post on the new post road leading from Rutherford to Lincolntrn; thence to the 12 mile post lead ing from Lincolnton to Quinn’s ferry; thence to the 12 mile post leading from Morganton to Yorkville (S. C.); thence with the road tapping Abernethy’s store by the Gold Mine at Kings Mountain to the South Carolina line, then with it to the beginning. The bill provides also that "Robert H. Burton, Alexander McCorkle, Henry Cansler, Eli Hoyle, Ed Bryant. Achilles Durham, John McDowell, Samuel Andrews and David Gray, a committee whose duty it shall be to designate some point in said county of Cleaveland, not more than four miles from Thomas Wilson’s mineral springs (now Cleaveland Springs) which shall be the county scat of said County,” and the site of the present town Shelby (named for Isaac Shelby another hero of Kings Mountain) was selected for the county seat, by the aforesaid commis sioners appointed to locate same. This left Lincoln a large county, the majority of the inhabitants lived far from the county seat with poor highways and many of the citizens wanted to divide the county. Nathaniel Wilson, one of the lead ers of the new county movement, was elected to the House of Commons on that issue in 1842. The Lincolnton opposition to Wilson aroused his ire and he advocated division line to run through the center of the town of Lincolnton when Catawba County was established in 1842, A com promise resulted in the placing of the boundary line one mile north of Lincolnton, and it remained so until Gaston County was organized in 1846 when the southern boundary of Catawba was moved five miles north of Lincolnton and the northern boundary of Gaston five miles south of Lincolnton, leaving the present County of Lincoln ten miles wide and thirty miles long. Gaston was named for Judge William Gas ton and the county seat for George M. Dallas, at that time Vice Presi dent of the United States. Catawba County as well as the Catawba river, were named for the Catawba tribe of Indians. Newton, the county seat, was named for Sir. Isaac Newton, the philosopher. The three counties voted together for members of the General As sembly, after the division, until 1854, when they voted separately for members of the House of Commons. (CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE) in ate with themselves. Eighth, those who put on iong faces when a stranger speaks of locating in their THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C.. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 town. Ninth, those who oppose every public enterprise which does not appear of personal benefit to themselves. Roosevelt Destroys Legislative Power, Shouse Declares New York July 20.—The legisla tive branch of the Federal govern ment is being “destroyed,” under the New Deal, in the opinion of Jouett Shouse, one-time chairman of the Democratic National Executive Com mittee. Mr. Shouse holds that the President’s constitutional duty is to tdvise the Congress and leave it to the legislature to accept or reject his advice. “An Administration which passes unconstitutional acts is bound to bear the brunt a'f its course,’’ Mr. Shouse, who has been a constant critic of the present Administration, told report ers just before he left here with Mrs. Shouse for Europe on board the Man hattan, of the United States Lines yesterday. “The present Administration is perverting the form of the American Government and either it must stop itself or it must be stopped,” re con tinued. “It has fostered legislation that is utterly unconstitutional, and every lawyer in America knows it is unconstitutional. “The presidential compulsion as to new legislation is wrong.” Mr. Shouse, who now heads the American Liberty League, which he said has a membership of 100,000 held that “there is great distrust of the present Administration” among the people, but he refused to fore cast the result sf the 1936 presiden tial election. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Locgworth, widow of Nicholas Longwortn, Speak er of the House of Representatives, ar.d her daughter, Miss Paulina, were among the other passengers on the Manhattan. Mrs. Longworth and her daughter are on their way to visit the countess of Berkley at Berkley Castle in England, and will then go to Paris for the marriage of count Rene A. P. de Chanbrun. Mrs. Long worth’s nephew, to Mile. Marie Jose I aval, daughter of the prime Minis ter of France. Mother Dies When Son Tells Tale Os Alleged Shooting Leaksyille, July 20.—Mrs. Charles Harris, about 50, a resident of the Ayersville section of Rockingham county, was dead today as a result of a story of a shooting told her by her 17-year-old son—and the story was branded false by Sherrif L. M. Shef field. According to the officer, young Harris told his mother, who was suf fering from heart trouble, that he had shot Jake Johnson, outlawed negro, wanted for criminal assault on a Miss Grogan in this county several months ago. Mrs. Harris dropped dead when the youth told her of the alleged occurrence. Sheriff Sheffield and his deputies, who checked on the tale of the shoot ing, said there was “nothing to it.” The youth said he shot the negro while hunting near Sandy Ridge yes terday afternoon, but the officers claimed they could find no trace of the body nor any signs that anyone had been at the scene of the report ed killing. Kidnapper’s Wife Is Given Twenty Years Tacoma, Wash., July 17.—Plump, blonde Margaret Waley, who pre ferred life in prison to freedom without her kidnapper husband, was sentenced today to 20 years im prisonment for her part in the George V. eyerheauser kidnapping. Federal Judge E. E. Cushman pro nounced sentence .He presided at the trial terminated Saturday in her con viction on “Lindbergh law” violat ion and kidnapping conspiracy charges. The 19-year-old wife of M. Waley will serve her time at the federal de tention farm at Milan, Mich. Waiey vowed his wife was innocent when he pleaded guilty to like charges in the $200,000 abduction of the nine year-old lumber heir. He is serving 45 years at McNeil island federal prison near here. With no show of emotion, the young woman stood silently before Judge Cushman. She did not open her mouth when asked if she had anything to say. She had said it already. Last Saturday, as the jury deliber ated her case, Mrs. Wfeley amazed a jail attendant by exclaiming: “My goodness! I hope they won’t acquit me.” Love Is Not Blind To Two In Chicago Chicago, July 20. —Love may be blind but happiness found a thous and pair of eyes to shine through to day at the wedding of Aloah Dallas Elk and William Parks, both sight less since birth. St. Ita’s Catholic church was filled for the culmination of their music inspired romance. Messages of con gratulation and well wishes poured in from the high and low over the Rowan Woman Uses Razor To Commit Suicide Mrs. Hassel Beck of Scotch-Irish township killed herself Tuesday aft ernoon at her home by cutting her throat with a razor. 11l health was said to have been the cause. She was found by two children who had gone to a spring near the house to wash some blackberries she and the children were canning. She is survived by her husband and three children. They lived on the farm owned by the father of her husband, S. B. Beck. Dr. W. L. Tatum, coroner, stated no inquest was necessary, it being an evident case of suicide. [want ads] 1 (Minimum Charge—2se) J 2 This Size Type—lc a Word t This Size Type—2c a Word 2 This Size Type—3c j J a Word 2 i LOST—Pair dark rim glasses. Finder please return to L. M. Nolen at Nolen’s Beauty Shoppe. It. 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USED AUTOMOBILE PARTS—For Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Chrysleg, Plymouth, Pontiac, Essex, Whip pet, and Chevrolet 1H ton and Dodge 2 ton truck. Also tires and batteries. General automobile work a specialty. W. H. Lohr, Jr., West Main Street extension. ts 5-9. MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route of 800 families. Write today. Raw leigh, Dept. NCG 120-SA, Rich mond, Va. 7-4-11-18-25 WANTED—To sell or trade late 1932 model Dodge sedan. In good condi tion. L. A. Wright, Lincolnton. BABY CHICKS Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, White Leg horns headed by Pedigreed males. White Rocks, White Wyandottes headed by Pen-Pedigreed males. Excellent quality, all State blood tested. You’ll like them because they are good. BUNCH HATCH ERY, Statesville, N. C. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS de livered to your home, 20c week See Clyde C. Cornwell. WANTED Second hand laundry heaters. Ford’s Shoe Shop. Lin colnton, N. C. ts. 7-15. MALE HELP WANTED Steady work Good pay—Reliable man wanted to call on farmers in Lin coln county. No experience or capital needed. Write today. Mc- NESS CO., Dept. S. Freeport, Illinois. It. The Lincoln Times—sl.so per yeai land A delegation from the Dallas, Tex., Elks lodge, which spent some $30,- 000 in providing the finest tutors obtainable in violin, piano, the organ and languages for the bride, its pro tege, was among the thousand guests at the solemn nuptial mass. Officiating was Monsignor C. J. Quille, pastor of the church and pat ron of its 30-year-old organist, the bridegroom. Miss Elk, an orphan who v. n 3 adopted by the Dallas lodge and legally named “Dallas Elk,” was given army by F. J. Laudermilk, ex alted ruler of the lodge. TESTS OF NEW DEAL MEASURES ARE PENDING IN HIGHER COURT, Washington, July 20.—With a record breaking number of laws i swatted out of existence in the last two years by the Supreme eourt, gov- i ornment officials today counted five j i new tests of young laws that are marching toward the judicial proving ground. Seven laws enacted in the Roose- 1 velt administration have been de- dared unconstitutional by the Su preme court in the last two years Two of these the railroad retire- 1 men! act and the Frazier-Lenike farm 1 mortgage moratorium law —were not sponsored by the administration but received the President’s signature. Hundreds of cases now are pending in district courts over the country involving tests of the new deal laws. Many of these, however, would au tomatically be settled by Supreme court decisions on the five eases that are moving rapidly toward the high est court. Two of these cases involve the ag ricultural adjustment act and the processing taxes. The other are di rected toward the slum clearance projects, another test of the gold e.ause abrogation and the Tennessee Valley authority. The cases are: Mills Case Pending The Hoosac mills case in which a federal circuit court in New England held the processing tax unconstitu tional because it was an effort to control crops, which the court decided was a state function. A Texas court has handed down a similar decision. The other farm act case —the only one already before the Supreme court —:s a suit against a railroad because it refused to haul cotton which did not bear tags certifying ’hat the staple had either been grown inside the quota or had been ginned under the taxing requirements of the Bank head cotton control act. The slum clearance case sprang up in Louisville. The court in that dis trict held that the government did not have the right to condemn land for such projects because they were not designed for public use. A cir cuit court has just sustained this decision. The gold clause case—an offshoot of the one in which the Supreme court ruled last session—is the Dixie terminal case now in the court of claims. The claimant asks for pay ment of interest up to the date of maturity on certain bonds called by the government, claiming that the government broke its contract when it abrogated the clause promising to pay in gold, and therefore that the government forfeited its right to call the bonds. TV A In Court Battle The Tennessee Valley authority case has already had its ups and downs. It involves the right of the authority to sell power to munici- I palities. The district court held I against the government. The circuit court has held for the government. Out of the decisions on these eases, government officials hope will come One gallon could lift a K w y* I three-ton WSt S j Mastodon Vv| J :fZ CXm Un I ll* n"w road tests prove 15% I I to 20% more smooth power 1 I Ask the Sinclair Dealer ‘ZZZHXZT j Agenf Sinclair Refining Company (Inc.) C. L GOODSON, LINCOLNTON, N. C. a settlement of hundreds of other* that are pending in the lower courts. However, it was conceded in official quarters that if the court did not make a broad ruling, any one of these hundreds might move forward to present new angles of the same ques tion to the court. There are 350-odd processing tax cases alone now pend ing. More than 80 tons of triple super phosphate supplied by the TVA will be used on demonstration farms in Henderson county this summer. State Laboratory Os Hygiene North Carolina State Board of Health.) Analysis of Water Serial No. L-1382. Sent by Dr. J. F. Gamble, Water Insp iration: Lincolnton, N. C. Source: Tap in residence. Marked Town of Lincolnton. Collected 7-16-35. Received 7-18-35. Reported 7-20-35. Sediment 0 Color 0 Turbidity 0 Odor, cold 0 Alumn .05 P. M. Ph 7.3. B. coli in 1 c.c. 0. B. coli in 10 c.c. 0. B. coli in 50 c.c. 0. Total bacterial count per c.c. at 38 degrees c. 900. Count on lactose litmus ager per c.c. 200. Acid-producing bacteria per c.c. 0. M. L. S. Analyst. John H. Hamilton, M. D. Director. POULTRY LOADING. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935 The following prices will b paid at car in Lincolnton: Heavy Hens 13 Leghorn Hens 1C Colored Broilers, 2 lbs and up _ 16 Leghorn Broilers, 2 lbs.. and up 14 Roosters 7 Loading hours, 8 A. M to 3 P. M. Lincoln County Mutual Exchange By J. G. MORRISON,

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Personal Items f" An Invitation i= =i If you receive a copy of The J J Times this week and are not a regular subscriber, it is only an S invitation for you to become a regular subscriber to The Times. J Read it carefully and you will J note that We carry all the news t t that is interesting to the people J Jof this community. Take your home town paper. Only $1.50 per year. J We also invite you to send any J i news that you may know of to The Times and we will be glad to s J publish it. We especially want all the local news we can get. PHONE 195 J. E. Self, of Lincolnton, Route 1 is a visitor in the city today, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Elmore, of Lin colnton, Route 2, were visitors in the city Saturday. Paul Page, of Hickory spent the week end in Lincolnton with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Page. Miss Evelyn Cornwell, of Char lotte spent Sunday here with her mother, Mrs. Nina Cornwell. Hf. and Mrs. W. P. Morrow, of Lenoir spent the week end in Lin colnton. Miss Juanita Ford, of Lenoir, spent the week end here with her mother, Mrs.. Ella Ford, who is ill. Mrs. Joe Caddell of Atlanta is visi ting her father, L. A. Abernethy, at Iron Station. Miss Mary Graham, of Clinton, has returned home after a visit to Miss Margaret Lee. Miss Enid Avery spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Zero Costner, at Vale. Miss Beatrice Boyd, of Hickory is the guest of Misses Georgette and Roberta Brown. Miss Elizabeth Kerr and her sis ter, Mrs. Maria Kerr Jonas, of Leaks ville,- left yesterday for Morehead City where they will spend a week. Mrs. J. P. Lore is spending this week in Hickory with Dr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Lore, the former her son. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, of San Antonio, Texas arriveu in the city Saturday for a visit to Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Putnam. M. E. (Murt) Bumgarner will be gin the construction of a six-room dwelling on the Charlotte highway near Goodsonville within the next few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. G. Mullen and sons, Chas. Jr. and Harris, and Miss Elizabeth Mullen spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Epperson in Bluefield, W. Va. Landus R. Avery left Monday morning for Knoxville, Tenn., to spend a few days. From there he will go to Garber, Oklahoma where he wili spend some time. Mrs. C. R. Jonas left today for Charlotte where she will spend the week visiting friends. Next week Mis. jonas will entertain a number of her friends at a house party at the Jonas cottage at Blowing Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gabriel are con structing a new home on the Char lotte highway just beyond Goodson vilie, They expect to have the build ing finished within the next several weeks. The Ladies Aid Society of the Matthew’s Reformed church will have a picnic supper on Thursday evening, at 7:30 o’clock. The price per person will be fifty cents. The pat ronage of all of the public will be appreciated. Mrs. Laura Stauffer, of Elgin, Okra., and Mr. and Mrs. John Han sen,-«f Oklahoma City, will arrive in the; city tomorrow to visit Dr. and Mr*. .J .Frank Gamble. Mrs. Stauf fer is a sister of Mrs. Gamble and Mrs- Hansen is her niece. V; _________ Mrs. J. C. Gore, of Atlanta, a na tive and former teacher of Gaston county, has been the attractive house guest the past week of her sister, Mrs. N. F. Hovis, and niece, Mrs. Clarence Holly, of this city. Mrs. Gore wili also visit another sister, Mrs. J. A. Hovis, while in Lincoln torn t Mrs. R. C. Goode and Miss Helen Goode, spent the week end in Dur ham with Miss Jane Goode who is attending summer school at Duke University.

Mr. and Mrs. Sid J. Smyer, of i Newton spent the week end with Mrs. Srnyer’s mother, Mrs. J. E. Reinhardt, j Friends of Mrs. Reinhardt will be glad to learn that she has recovered p from a recent serious illness. i j Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Ballard and i daughter, Misses Genevieve and Car i ol Ballard, Herman Holly, of Cramer- I ton and Luther McClure of Alexis, were guests of Mrs. Clarence Holly Sunday. The new home which Mr. and Mrs. fas. A. Shuford are having construct ed on North Aspen street is taking shape rapidly and will be ready for occupancy within the next several weeks. Louise Holly, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Holly, under went an operation yesterday for ap pendicitis. A report from the Lin coln hospital where she is a patient is that her condition today is satis factory. Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr. Building New Home Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Crowell, Jr., have let the contract for the hand some new residence to be erected on the lot on South Aspen street ad joining the property of Dr. L. A. Crowell, Sr. Work has already start ed on the building. The dwelling, which will be oc cupied by Dr. and Mrs. Crowell when completed, will be one of the most modern in this section. The entire structure will be thoroughly fire proof. The contractors are Herman and Sipe Construction company, of Con over. C. D. Stroup, Jr., Injured In Wreck C. D. Stroup, Jr., was painfully injured Saturday night when the motorcycle which he was riding was struck by an automobile. He had several of his teeth knocked out and was cut and bruised about the face and head. The accident happened on the Gas tonia road when the automobile oc cupied by a crowd of boys turned into a filling station without giving the proper traffic signal. Young Stroup was attempting to pass the car when it turned in with the re sult that the two machines crashed. The motorcycle was badly damaged. Little Brother Killed By Girl Frestonspurgh, Ky., July 20.—Hat tie Irene Hyden, 14, was held in jail here today on a charge of slaying her nine-year-old brother, Thomas James Haydcr., while berrypicking on a mountain side. She will be tried in Juvenile court July 25. Deputy Sheriff Willie Johnson, who said the girl confessed, quoted her as saying: “He was dragging along behind as we climbed the hill, and it was so hot I couldn’t hardly stand it. I flew into a mad fit and cut his throat.” Teachers’ To Get 20 Pet. Salary Raise Raleigh, July 20.—Every teacher who taught in the North Carolina public school system last year pos itively will get a 20 per cent increase in his or her salary this coming school year and also any increases that may be due to either increased experience or better certification, it was learned today from a high state official who is in a position to know what he is talking about. He declin ed to be quoted directly at this time, but indicated that plans are now in progress of development which will make it possible for the State School Commission to grant a minimum sal ary increase of 20 per cent to ©very teacher employed this year who also taught in the schools last year. It was indicated, however, that new teachers who are employed for the first time this year cannot expect to receive as much as teachers who were employed in the schools last year and previous years. REALTY TRANSFERS 3. S. Carpenter and wife. Sallie, and D. F. Chapmen and wife, Grace, to Mrs. C. B. Hoke, for $l5O, prop erty in Lincoln county. THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 ERA Project* Work Resumed Here Today All ERA projects in Lincoln coun ty, which were suspended last Fri day because of lack of funds to car ry on, were resumed this morning. Miss Chloris Kellum, aeting ad ministrator for this district, which includes Lincoln, Mecklenburg and Gaston counties, announced yester day that additional ERA funds se cured from state headquaiters in Raleigh would make it possible to resume the work and with the new allotments the projects are assured of being carried on until August 1. The two days lost last week will also be made up by the workers. The most recent report of work projects carried out in the three coun ties comprising the Charlotte dis trict show a total of 4,007 persons on the Emergency Relief Adminis tration rolls. Os this number there are 3,611 working on the various projects. Examination of the work figures shows that approximately 99 per cent of those who receive relief are get ing it through work projects, while only a bare 10 per cent are receiv ing direct relief. Jenkins Will Be Tried This Week For Killing Bessemer City Man Ed Jenkins, who is chaiged with murder in connection with the slay ing of Paul Collins, former basball player, is slated to be tried in Gas ton County Superior court, which con venes this week. Judge Wilson War lick will preside. Carter Mill Team Defeats Ore Bank (Special to The Times) Carter Mill defeated the Ore Bank base ball team Saturday afternoon by a score of 7 to 2, with S. Reep pitch ing, and allowing only 2 hits. Baker pitching for Ore Bank allowed 12 hits. B. Beal and C. Cloniger lead the hitting for Carter, the former get ting 3 hits and the latter 2. Leonard Moore fell down in his hitting and got only one. Hildebran Man Is Freed In Death of Ed Bradshaw Here M. P. Lipe, of Hildebran, was found not guilty of manslaughter in Lincoln County Superior court in session here Thursday and v,as freed of all responsibility in the death of Ed Bradshaw, which occurred in an automobile wreck near Iron Station on February 1. Judge H. Hoyle Sink entered a non suit verdict after the state completed its evidence which failed to show the Burke county man criminally liable. Bradshaw, who lived at Iron Sta tion, is said to have driven his car into the highway on which Lipe’s truck was passing. He received in juries from which he died several hours later at a local hospital. He was on his way to call a doctor for a member of his family, who was ill, when the accident occurred. Harrowing Story Os Snake Is Told By Wayne Farmer Goldsboro, July 20.—A harrowing experience with a big rattlesnake was related in Goldsboro this week by Frank Pearsall, who lives three miles north of Goldsboro. He said that he was recently down near Burgaw when he came across the snake. He hooken the tines of a pitchfork over the snake’s head, and the snake coiled around Mr. Pear rail’s leg and arm. He felt his limbs growing numb and called to a man who was near to help him. The man was afraid and would not come near. Finally Mr. Pearsall got a string looped around the snake's head and choked him. Then the man came and helped remove the snake’s coils from around Mr. Pearsall’s leg and arm. The snake was killed. Check Is Received By “Gov.” Maxwell Rhleigh, July 20—A check for $5 made out to “Governor A. J. Max well” was received today at the of fice of Governor Ehringhaus, having been sent over unindorsed from the revenue department. The voucher came from a Harnett c.'itizen wanting a oommission as nocary public. Maxwell opposed Ehringhaus for the gubernatorial nomination in 1932 and was renominated revenue com missioner when he lost the lace. And The Cat Came By. Henry—What became of that por table garage you had? Adolph—l tied the dog to it the c-ther day and a cat came by. ifornia. Russell D. Angel Wins Honors With Insurance Company Russell D. Angel, former Lincoln ton boy, who now makes his home in Greensboro, was one of the represen tatives to win highest honors in the Durham Life Security Insurance Co., contest, making an average of ninety' five per cent and above. As a result he will be entitled to a free trip to Virginia Beach with the president cf the company. Mr. Angel will leave Greensboro August 4 and while he is away Mrs. Angel and their little son, Russell, Jr., will come to Lincolnnton to visit Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Angel. They will also visit Mr. and Mrs. Richard Angel at Cherryville. Star Carriers Hold Meeting in Morganton A district meeting of the N. C. Branch of the National Star Car riers’ Association was held in Mor ganton, N. C.. July 21. This district covers 35 western Counties. Mr. Hugh H. Smith, Sec. Treas. of Greensboro, N. C. presided at this meeting. The purpose and aim of this as s'.ciation is to eliminate the evils of competitive bidding, to improve the service of the Star Route Carriers through co-operation with the Post Office Department and the public, to promote legislation whereby’ the working conditions of the St;.r Route Carriers will be improved and the service rendered to the public bet terment, and to secure for Star Route Carriers the same recognition as now given other government em ployees. Imprisoned in Attic 5 Years By Mate, Wife Half-Starved Philadelphia, July 20.—Free of the sordid loneliness of five years’ im prisonment in an attic room, a gray haired emaciated woman today fal tered through a tale surpassing fic tion in its sickening, nauseating in humanity. Nearly starved, weighing but 58 pounds and aged far beyond her 48 years, she told the police who rescued her that she had been kept a prison er by her husband and his sister be cause ‘‘he didn’t like my cooking.’’ The woman, Mrs. Anqe Van Cleve, muttered of beatings of water thrown on her and of hunger so ter rible that a “chance to grab some rood from the garbage pail was a luxury.” With her shattered body cor roborating the story of her dreadful plight, William Van Cleve, 54, her husband, was quoted by detectives as having only this to say: “She’s dirty, and I never liked her cooking.” Together with Van Cleve, police arrested his sister Catherine Van Cleve, 57 on charges of false im prisonment. They placed the “living skeleton” under the protection of hospital authorities. College Answers Farm Questions QUESTION: What was the final vote by North Carolina tobacco growers on carrying on the adjust ment program? ANSWER: According to inform ation secured from E. Y. Floyd in charge of the tobacco adjustment program, 130,622 persons voted for continuing the program and 1,432 voted against it. In the larger pro ducing counties the vote was almost unanimous in favor of the program. QUESTION: Can I cut my ies pedeza for hay and still harvest a crop of seed from the same land. ANSWER: Yes, if you cut the hay early enough. Set the cutter bar high so that the crop can grow out again and the lespedeza will make sufficient growth to produce seed. However, one usually does not se cure a commercial crop of seed when a crop of hay has been harvested. Enough seed is produced to reseed the same land or to harvest for use on the farm. QESTION: I am losing a lot of chickens and I think the trouble is li nberneck. The birds lose the use of their necks and become completely paralyzed. What should I do to con trol this trouble? ANSWER: Apparently your birds are affected. with the limberneck. This trouble is caused by the birds eating decayed animal or vegetable material which is highly poisonous to them. The best method of approach is to confine the birds until the cause is located and removed. This may be in the form of mouldy or decompos ed mash or grain, a dead chicken or rat, or some other animal. It would be well to give the entire flock ep i som salts at the rate of three-fourths of a pound to two and a one-half gallons of water. New Extension Bulletin Describes Chair Caning Many beautiful chairs are carried to the attic or discarded because the cane supports are worn or broken. “For that reason we have secured permission from the lowa State Col lege to reprint some of their bulle tins describing how to cane chairs,” says Dean I. O. Schaub, director of agricultural extension at State Col lege. “The work is not so difficult but it requires time and patience and with the aid of our new exten sion publication, we believe that any farm or other person may learn how to do this work. There are many fine j chairs in North Carolina farm homes which might be made service able again at little expense. Many of these chairs are not repaired because of the expense of having a profes sional to do the work.” The new publication to which Dean Schaub refers is extension circular No. 206, “Chair Caning” and copies may be had by any citizen of North Carolina as long as the present sup ply lasts by addressing a request to F. H. Jeter, agricultural editor at State College. The publication was originally pre pared by L. Mildred Wilson and Nora VV orkman of the lowa State College and the information and directions wore so simple and lucid that the homo demonstration workers of State College asked that the bulletin be re printed for use in this State. The western college kindly gave this per mission and the publication is now available. Detailed photographs are used to show how to make the cane weaves. The equipment needed, preparation of the chairs and the cane, precaut ions to observe and specific direct ions for making the different weaves are discussed in simple detail. Benefit Payments Reach Huge Total During the period from July X, 1934 through May 31, 1935, the Agri cultural Adjusement Administration had paid to North Carolina farmers in rental and benefit payments the huge sum of $13,042,808.44 These payments consisted of $4,- 615,754.76 for the cotton program; $51,192.12 for the wheat program; $7,674,014.12 for the tobacco pro gram and $701,937.44 for the corn hog program. In addition to these these payments, the AAA has paid, dining the same period, the sum of $1,011,607.98 to counnty and com munity committeemen and to various persons engaged in the compliance work and clerical work in the crop adjustment program. Many of the persons benefitting from this latter payment were those needing work and were largely from farms of the State. A study of AAA work in North Carolina this year reveals that farm ers are cooperating in the adjust ment program more heartily than ever before. Few violations have been found by those now engaged in compliance activity. The growers have planted the acreage they ag reed to plant and the few instances where there has been overplanting has been due largely to errors in es timating the acreage. Extension workers also report that farmers are deeply concerned about the future of the AAA program. The numerous attacks designed to de stroy the program by eliminating the process taxes are reported to be attracting the attention of the busi est farmers. Their votes in the re cent referenda show positively that they want the adjustment program continued and they are hopeful that, the amendment now before Con gress will make the original Act Constitutional so that the program will not be hampered in the future. Send Local News to The Times [NEVER] BEFORE SUCH A SMOOTH SHAVING BLADE at thla low prlco! rL !r\ ftt mU Gillette UN-/HJ on( i MAOI IN U.B.A T. MR EG. US. PAT. OFF. Probak I OTHER PATENTS PENDING 1 PROBAK BLADES Recommended and Sold by Childs-Wolfe Drug Co. Phone 330 LOOKING BACKWARD j Items of Interest Taken From The Times’ Files for This j Week, 1920 and 1925. J TEN YEARS AGO. Exactly three hunderd and forty five passengers made the trip to Montreat Tuesday on the special train run by the Presbyterain Sun day school. Ennintrude Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. 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.9£PDivorcg. Court iMIJRDERi^ Aamilton propper*** ©HAaP£RtBROTHE.ftS"IBI«. Seventh Instalment SYNOPSIS: Six persons are in an inner office of the law firm of Daw son, MeQuire and Locke at Philadel phia. A master hearing in the divorce case of Rowland vs. Rowland is un der way. Mrs. Rowland, represented by her lawyer brother, Mr. Willard; Mr. Rowland, the defendant, and his attorney, Mr. Trumbull; the court clerk and Mr. Dawson, the master, are the six persons. There is a new development in the case. After fail ing to defend himself against the charge of adultery in earlier hear ings, Mr. Rowland digs up evidence and asks the court’s permission to produce witnesses and resist the suit. Judge Dawson overrules the heated objections of Mr. Willard, and orders the witness brought in. Rowland’s lawyer goes to get the witness but finds her dead chloroformed. She is Mrs. Barbara Keith, wife of a prominent Philadelphia business man. Judge Dawson phoned for the police. Detective Tommy Rankin is assign ed to the case. He is now question ing all of the parties involved in the case, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. According to the court reporter’s record, that was all he said, name ly, that at 11:30, a stranger, who Mr. Willard later informed him was Mortimer Keith, husband of the mur dered woman, appeared unexpected ly from the hall, looked about as though puzzled, and then left quickly without a word. To Rankin, now, the incident was of utmost significance Months be fore it could have been conjectured that his murdered wife would be a leading witness to Mrs. Rowland’s own infidelities, Mr. Keith, had been present at the scene of Rowland's ap prehension. What could his interest in that intrigue possibly have been? How was he apprised of the rende vous at the Inn, and what did he ex pect to find there? Instinctively, Rankin perceived that an immediate answer to these questions was essential to the solu tion of the crime. Going to the of fice door, he called Jenks to summon Miss Edmond. When the secretary appeared, he motioned her to a seat and returned to the lawyer’s swivel chair. down, Miss Edmund,” he said brusquely. “You know, of course, that I have charge of the investiga tion of. this crime. I am questioning everyone connected with divorce hearing. You are the corespondent, I believe; I suppose then that you re call all that happened the night of Wednesday, February first, at the Sunset Inn.” Perfectly composed, the girl smiled quietly. “Yes, quite clearly,” she ad mitted freely. “I could hardly forget it as I was unfortunately involved." “You’ve also been told,’’ the de tective pursued, “that the dead wo man is Mrs. Keith—Mrs. Mortimer Keith. Are you acquainted with her husband? Though Jill Edmond’s tone did not change, he caught an expression of wariness in her gaze before she could veil it. “No, not personally, Mr. Rankin. As Mrs. Rowland’s secretary,l never had occasion to deal with them. Os course, I’ve vaguely heard of them as people prominent in Philadelphia silently.” *T have here the complete story of the er escapade at the Inn.” Rankin tapped Mr. Simpkin’s stenographic report. “Among other facts, it states that at eleven-thirty, just after Mrs. Rowland invaded the bedroom, Mr. Keith arrived and en tered behind her. At least, you re member that?” As he paused, the grl merely nod ded her very silence an indication of her vigilance. “What I want to learn, Miss Ed mund, is why he appeared like that? How was he connected with this af fair between you and the Row lands?” The secretary shook her head. ‘‘l don’t think I can tell you that, sir,” she answered. “I don’t know why he came. In fact, he was a total strang er to me until some time later Allen Mr. Rowland identified him as Mortimer Keith.’” “Surely he must have offered some explanation for his intrusion into an embarrassing domestic scene in which he had no concern,’’ Ran kin pressed. “I don’t believe he said a word,” Miss Edmund returned.’ “He didn’t remain over a minute, he just came in from the hall and looked about; tjier. he seemed to realize he was meddling and turned and went out silntly.” Rankin sensed that she chose her words carefully. “You have no idea what brought him to that particular ulace at that time,” Imperceptibly the secretary hesi tated, but her reply was positive and direct. “Not in the least, Mr .Rankin. He probably had no reason. If he hap pened to be stopping at the Inn that night, he couldn’t help coming for ward when he heard the commotion.’’ The detective placed small stock in this idea. He retired to the library where Dr. Sackett waited impatient to present his report and get away. His examin ation of the body confirmed Dr. Clark’s orginal diagnosis. “Thanks very much doctor,” Ran kin said, when the physican com pleted his summary. “Now, I’d ap preciate it if you’d do one more ser vice for me before you leave. At tend to shipping the body to the mor gue.” Grumbling, Dr. Sackett neverthe less proceeded to supervise the dis posal of the corpse. Hardly had he gone when Johnson appeared from 15U5. tying his fingerprint kit to gether. I’m just about finished In there, Tommy,” he said. “Ive located plenty of prints all over the place— on the table, the desk and the book case. All I need now is to find out who owns them.” Well, I’ve had the entire staff de tained,” Rankin returned,“so you can take their prints. And practically every visitor who entered fifteen-o five is here too. Get Jenks to help you with that.” He paused. “How about marks on the doors and win dows, Johnson? Did any come from there?” The expert shook his head. “Noth ing doing, Tm sorry to say. I exam ined the sills and knobs throughly, but they were as clean as a whistle.” “And the chlorform bottle? were there any prints on that?” Again Johnson shook his head and the detective pursed his lips in dis appointment. The expert raised a hand and smil ed quizzically. “One moment, Tom my, not so fast. Have you searched the office that held the body at all?” “No, I haven’t had time,” Rankin replied. “1 made a pretty complete canvass of the place while collecting my prints; and I located something I supposed you had missed. These “These gloves were stuffed in the bottom of the waste basket.” said Johnson. were stuffed way down in the bot tom of the wastebasket under the desk—out of sight.” Johnson produced a pair of yellow sport suede gloves, of expensive quality. Turning back the cuff, the detective disclosed the label of an ex clusive haberdashery on Chestnut Street. They were clean and little v.om, and he eagerly noted their size, 7 and 3-4. The expert started to leave. “All light, Tommy, I’ll do the best I can,” he promised. “I rather expected you’d be interested in my find.” New he returned to Mr. Dawson’s office, switched on the central light and summoned Allen Rowland. He motioned the young man to a chair. “Now I’m ready to discuss more important matters with you,” he said; “Primarily about your evi dence of your wife’s infidelity with Campbell.” Rowland made himself comfort able, lit a cigarette and offered Ran kin one. ’’My lawyer doesn’t know any thing about it personally,” he re turned easily. “Only what Mrs. Keith and I were lucky enough to discover two weeks ago; we both went to him and gave him the de tails.” “Well, exactly what was this oc cuirence that the chance to defend? And how did Mrs. Keith happen to be a witness to it?” “Only accidentally; when I needed some one to bear out my story, she was fortunately in a position to help me.” Rowland plunged into his THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 account. “But long before my affair with Miss Edmund, my wife and I disagreed because of her friendships «i‘h other men. I knew she had many admirers; but I had no reason to be lieve she was misbehaving with any of them. After she brought suit, however, I moved into my own apartments and began to watch her eiosely. What was sauce far the goose, I decided, was sauce for the gander, and I hoped, in the end, to get evidence that she was being un faithful. I was my own detective. First, I paid her chauffeur, Donald Finley, to keep me posted as to when she went out in the evening—both when he drove her himself, and when she dismissed him, because some one else was taking her. On those nights, for the last two months, I waited outside the estate in my car. When she and her visitor left, I would fol low them all over town—to parties, theaters and dinners. And Hugh Campbell was her frequent compan ion.” "How long has he been acquainted “I was my own detective.” said Rowland. with your wife?” Rankin asked. “Where did they meet?” “At Saratoga last summer. Adele bets on the races regularly, and Campbell had a couple of horses en tered on which she placed bets. They won, and afterward mutual acquaint ances introduced them; that was the beginning. Then last winter, we were at Palm Beach where he had taken a villa; she attended his parties and they saw much of each other at the casino and on the beach. He visited Philadelphia fairly regularly and has been a guest at the Willard home.” “Was the divorce entirely Mrs. Rowland’s wish? You opposed it and would have done all in your power to prevent it?” The young man spread his hands to emphasize his reply. “Certainly I opposed it,” he declared vehemently. “I had everything to lose by it—the income Adele settled on me, plenty of leisure, and social position. And I was trustee of my wife’s first hus band’s estate, that was most impor tant, For that I was as anxious to stay married as Mr. Willard was to force us apart.” Rankin’s voice held a note of fresh interest. Mr. Willard? How did it affect him? Had he a personal concern in the divorce besides his professional desire to win the case?” “He benefited by it decidedly!” Rowland gave a short, scornful lauhg. “The minute Adele was sin gle, the executorship of Tom Mar shall’s estate —and with it the power to manage the income—reverted to him. but as long as the marriage lasted, I had charge. It was all part of Marshall’s clever arrangement to make it difficult for Adele to mar-»bit of buying I your magazines Ron us. 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