Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

THE LANDM AR No 47 STATESVILLE RIDAY NOVEMBER 13 1931 VOL 58 LIOYD CUTTING Raising rom the LANDS GOOD JOB Charlotte Nov iz Governor gco winder Max Gardner of North Carolina de kiled Sheriff Lock i a iL fi 4ktr on US NIURDLRSUSPECT Mr and save to the utmost any Ill to DOm xur anu nunareu pvum JIt vvwvvi vr i Jr at Sanatorium Tuesday 1930 the federal state crop Teporting 1 700 half gallons of fruit canned T)ie His injury was attended at 1 1 xx CnHAlAWHirrt Ila ta HAinir label uour stop 0 The date oh the is the date paper will be ped! CON CONERENCE OPENS SiLpaIp Blair Moose charged with trans porting and possessing liquor enter ed a plea of guilty He was fined $25 I and taxed with the costs Nol pros with leave was taken the case against loyd Holbrooks charged with larceny II Williams alias II llastv charged with operating a car with smoke screen and transporting and possessing liquor was called and tiiilpd The iudement was nisi sci Watch label on your paper and let your subscription ex pire! Roger Bennett showed that his be havior had been good and his case STTt I TL f'rm ma zxm I zx 1 ne "v3Sc UgalllhL UUgll The Sherrill Lumber Company is erecting an addition to the plant on West ront street at the Taylorsville railway crossing new building situated on the another negro convict rank ivior Thp states evidence snowea that Blackburn struck rank Mor gap on the side 01 the neaa wnri a stick of wood 18 inches long knock ing him down and inflicting a seri ous bruise on the side oi nis neaa The defendant a jet black un adulterated descendent of the Afri can race appeared in court without a lawyer He went on the witness stand on his own behalf and testi fied that Morgan hit him first and the alleged assault was the outcome of the previous attack But the jury discounted his evidence returned a I verdict of guilty as charged in the 'bill of indictment and Judge Mc Elroy sentenced Jack to the state prison at hard labor for not less than three years and not more than five years The defend term on the roads will be out in a few days and he will then be Johnson who Misses Anna rench ley Katherine Parker Sarah White Edth Sherrill Mary Sherrill Eliza beth Pressly Margaret Steele Clyde ields Louise Walker and Lois Sherrill Mrs Gray Mrs Ixiwis Mrs Mills Mrs John Sharne Mrs Jenkins Mrs Elam Mrs Carl Axley Mrs Roach Mrs Mary Sims Mrs Walker Mrs Garrison Mrs Lewis and Mrs Paul Har ris of Salisbury A large number of rends were here to attend the funeral In addi tion to those already named were the following: Mr Hammond of Ashe boro Mr Giles of Glen Al pine Messrs Turner Deaton and Judge A Starr Mooresville Mr Sherrill of Catawba and a number of others Relatives here to attend the funeral included Mr sister Mrs Bruce of Atlanta Mr and Mrs JBoyijk th6 former a son of Mr Boyd from Winston Salem Mr an 1 Mrs John Watts Mrs Mc Auley Misses Edna and Martha Me A Auiey and Mrs rank Brown of Huntersville Mr and Mrs Hugh McAuley of Charlotte MrX ATWhite Dies at His Home Near Mt Mourne Wesley Jones Jr alls Off Step ladder And Breaks Arm Wesley Jones Jr little son of Mr Wi iv Jones ion on a tatoes 80 bushels of sweet potatoes stepladder at his home Tuesday' aftJ 47 tons of hay and all barns were ernoon and broke his left arm in two Dunorl efroaf nnnr Baptist church The additional build beiive on Him WEATHER boro Generally fair today and A been seen since Saturday except prooamy 1 A light showers in wesv poruun tion Saturday Conducted Tuesday Afternoon from irst A Interment at New Stirling The funeral service for Mr Boyd was held Tuesday afternoon nt 2:30 from the irst Associate Reformed Presbyterian church ami interment was in the cemetery nt New Stirling A church in the county The service was conducted bv Dr IL Pressly and Dr iRavnal The Masons were in charge ol the burial service Th active pallbearers' were Messrs Don Cochran 0 Elam Cusinng Tomlin Gubert and Stevenson The honorary pallbearers were Messrs' rench Herman Wallace Carl Axley Ash II Lewis Raymer Gray Glover Jr Dr James Pressly Mr Hamilton of North Wilkesboro Mr Roseman of Cleveland Secre tary of State Hartness also the fol lowing group from the State depart ment of revenue: Messrs Reid Claywell Ashburn 0 Carpenter McLaughlin 1 Siler and Rousseau The flowers were in charge of Mrs John raley and Mrs rank were assisted by Martha Braw rX 11 4 fl I 4 several miles oemw nsne 0(X) thered from the farm 1050 bush The cat sneaked away irom pounoa rish po Tr ine iwnn voviuia maiaeis Mr Thomas Alexander White died Monday night at his home about two miles from Mount Mourne He had been seriously ill for some time and his death was not unex pected Mr White who was 89 years old was born and reared at the old White home near Mount Mourne (where he died He was in the Con federate army and losi an arm at the battle of Seven Pines Mr White was a brother of the late A White of this city and known to many Statesville people Ho is survived by three sons Mr Tom White who lived with his fath er at the old home and Messrs Walter and John White of Laramie Wyoming Mr Walter White came home about two weeks ago on ac count of his condition and was with his father when he died The funeral service was held at airview church Mount Mourne Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and interment was in the church cemetery A Meets at Monticello Mrs Ramsay Miss Mamie McElwee and Mr McCormick of Mitchell College were in Chapel Hill attending the inauguration of President rank Graham which link nlaco Wednesday at the Univer sity of North Carolina Mrs Ramsay transferred to the state prison ac as president of Mitchell College was cording to court ordersrepresenting that institution at the! Robert Steele and James Nichols inauguration and Miss McElwee charged with robbery tendered pleas dean of students and Mr McConrick not guilty but thejury found of the chemistry department accom jtliem guilty Each defendant drew panied her la term of three to five years in the Mr Carroll Spencer of this city ptate pri80n at hard labor Nol pros who was a member of President Gra eavo wag taken in the count class at the the jor housebreaking and larceny class of 1909 had expected to go to agajnst james Nichols and Robert the inauguration but was unable to gle attend IWr Will iled or Probate! killed Sheriff Lock McKenzie had re gained his sanity and was ready to be turned over to tljpm for trial or the present the matter will be dropped and Winders will be kept in the state institution to which Judge McElroy sent him after a Rowan jury had declared him insane in Septem ber In justification of his decision to turn the prisoner over for trial Dr Anderson states that he has shown no signs of insanity since be ing brought to Raleigh His type of insanity is such that it may be years before he becomes affected again and Dr Anderson thought in justice to the prisoner he should be given a bearing and not kept in the hospital indefinitely on the original commit ment ers are invited fwnrvci 5 nn a 1 Qincnrifr leadership the chorus is aiding in great way in the services Several Attend the Inauguration of Dr Graham The services at Western Avenue p9pttfclmrch are being well atta id ed Tbc church was practically fillet! I last nt anti those present 1 Lo 1 it Thou ur brother had tkelf Thursday at ogo but was unable to make up his mind as to acceptance until this week after he had gone over to Haywood county and looked over the sitira tinn i Mr Cutting is now at work build ing a prison at Hazelwood in Haywood county having 25 men un der his personal supervision Mr Cutting is not working any prison ers on this job only married men with families who are residents of Haywood county It is expected that three or four months will be consum ed in constructing the camp at Ha zelwood thus helping greatly with solving the unemployment situation in that locality this winter Mr Cutting has served most effi ciently as service officer for Hurst Turner Post American Legion for tka at hjs departure several years ne is reearueu as one of the most outstanding American Christ with the message that their Legion service onicers in tne state hrAfhPr was 1: 01 iNorvn varuiiiia wmiuanutr rimm A Anderson of the Hurst Turner Post having been advised by Mr Cut ting that he will be unable to ecn t'nue his work as service officer for the local Post stated that an executive meeting would be held in the near future with a view to select ing a service officer to succeed Cutting Sherrill Lumber Company Erecting Addition to Plant in aLseuiu This action was taken at the behest of the jury which in an exe cutive session Wednesday night di rected that Mrs Pickett be arrestad and held without bond as a murder suspect Mrs Pickett made no comment according to deputies who attested her and took her to the county jail Upon reaching the bastile the mid unmnn snsnected of poison ing her daughters aged six and 10 by administering arsenic calmlV lighted a cigarette and made herselt comfortable She added nothing to her previous denial that she knew how either of the children came to have the poison in their stomachs Coroner Yokeley conducted an open hearing Wednesday night of last week at which time Mrs Pickett made a voluntary statement describ ing the illness of the children and de claring she knew nothing of any poison being about the home except some rat poison put out for mice the day the younger of the two children became ill in September Warrants Served On Patrolman ice About two hundred young peo pie were present last Jiightfi ana oin invifoJ Aside from the con vi air under efficient 1 a Accents Position With State iliffh wav Commission as Snnerintondpnt a irreat message on of Construction of Prison Campshadst been here our brother had ound Not Guilty Other Cases in Woctom Part of Qlnln nnl rlirwl taken from the eleventh I nanter of John These the Thursday at 1 :45 a a birth of a daughter IV! lir I 1 I 1 fr If t'LIIlUIlUl UUCKPL tlL LI tr nuvvur 4 4TA 1 WV 1 1111 VII I 1111 IIBr IlliX lll'l Pill rm nfl rt la a ivi ClTir nnt 11 tl ll Til ya II I Ill'lillf 11 ed the position of superintendent of desus aft i tl bi other Lazarus term of Iredell Superior court had wag dcad construction of prison tamos in theuiezi been disposed of the court took a i Stikcleather western part of the state Mr Cut Some pie contend that until next Monday Iman iage to Mr Stikcleather ting was ottered this job with the Martha and lazarus were of the com state highway commission some tune mon class of people but Mr Mott 'V1 tak'ng up 1 Wednesday afternoon and Completed it was an appeal case i whwh KAvmnnri ikPHvis was Liiui iivii 4a Wlin assault wail uvaun ttvapuu tv IL a nnlnvwAhllrt XYI MM A 1 1 tie This indictment grew out of a 1 ILga xnnp rr ml liivil i it I ivcpvi Uianu ui puna gran jurors completed their hwork for the present term of Su jperior court and brought in their re 'port late Wednesday afternoon The report bearing the signature of 'N Brown foreman stated that all nmv I yarns east side of the ront street plant is an(j he came forth bound in grave i or 4 1 Itr ehAfrOd by 110 feet and is to be used for of His power and gave Martha faith fices Storage and machine rooms (This same God is our Savior todav TTn ihn nrARPnt tiniP the ShCI Tin will cnVP VOU When OU art The will of the late Mrs Caroline! razier has been filed with the clerk of the Superior court for pro bate The will was made January no 1 non ixiitsKnnzl "Mt CZacwtrt 40 UIH1 inS IJUOMHiiu 4141 I1U JUUglllVIlU 1HOL OV4 razier was named executor Aft fa anj capias The same judgment er making to relatives bequests of wa8 jecorded in the cases against paintings jewelry and certain pieces Kenneth Baity Howard Jackson of furniture etc the residue of furniA and Harris all charged with ture personal and real property was (transporting and possessing liquor left to Mr razier I an an having failed to answer No estimate was made of the value wh talled in court xt 1 4 zttrTXAl 01 vne esmve uut vnnu a half interest in some store I ings on east Broad street and home on Walnut street 15436 Bales Are Oinnprl in Irprlpll presented to that body had vJlllilCvi ui examined and passed upon and Lexington Woman Held In Connec tion With Mysterious Death of She Is Denied Bond Lexington Nov 13 Mrs Pickett widow of this city was taken in custody yesterday by county oft 1 cers and lodged in jail without bond pending further action in the inves tigation of the deaths of her tvvo small daughters Elizabeth and Vir of the conierence weje kelievcj to have been poisonea Blackwood of South Carolina operation By the first of the year to Mr Sherrill it is expected that the business on East Broad street will be consolidated with the pTant on West ront street Red Cross Window In Local Store An interesting Armistice Day pro gram in which the teachers and pu pils of the Monticello school took part featured the regular meeting of the Monticello Parent Teacher Association held at the school Tues day evening After the program Mr Claude Crouch led an open forum and a number of questions of interest to school patrons were brought up for discussion The Association decided to hold the meetings hereafter nt 7:30 instead of 7 Mr Tom Little Suffers Painful Injury Mr Tom Little 505 South Center street suffered a painful injury to his right foot Tuesday afternoon Mr Little was at his work at the States ville lour Mills when a pair of scales fell off one of the small trucks which is used in the mill and fell on Mr foot breaking some of the small bones Mr Little was giv en medical attention at Davis hos pital and returned to his home this morning Mrs George Woodward Suffers Stroke of Paralysis The friends of Mrs George Woodward will regret to learn that Mrs Woodward suffered a stroke of paralysis Tuesday which affected side Sh is restinef com mi mill Liuni 1110 a ia vz nunureu nuunua wiiva rounds lew than in October well filled with stoven mere were places between tne wrist anu einqw uonaoiy noevui vouugn nei i ziAnnnzI lTi Iwihko was fit I PAHl itlAH 1ft Sift RprinilS survey announced today (Continued On Page ive) Sanatorium He is doing wen is at her home on west oeij street Up to the present time the Sher an( He will save you when you are Wednesday afternoon was jir Joe Currin of 1 rill Lumber Company has had its wiHing our sms may have you a negro convict Mr sis manufacturing interests divided part bound as Lazarus grave clothes had kb alias Jack prank Milholland and Mr of the plant having been operated on hinl bound but God is able to save ackbhur ith secrtt assault on of Salisbury Mr Stik East Broad street near the first save to the utmost any who I Urnnb Uni lx Jbneo Ml ITnrACft 1 mb JJta! 1 I baptist enuren ine duuiuuiku uunu believe on Him ing will make it possible to conspli i service being held at 7 clock date and thus cut down expense of 'jor tbe V0Ung people is a great serv taat at the time of her marriage to Mr Stikcleather which took place in De cember 1930 Mrs Stikeleather was twenty years old the past May She is survived by her husband by her mother Mrs Alma Currin of Morrisville a sister Miss Nell Cur rin of this city and a brother Mr Joe Currin The funeral service for Mrs Stikcleather and her infant daugh ter Barbara Anne Stikeleather was held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 the home of Mr Stike parents Mr and Mrs Stikeleather on North Center street The service was conducted by Dr 1 Pressly pastor of the irst A church assisted by Rev Kerr of Salisbury The grave in Oakwood cemetery was banked with beautiful flowers Mrs A Sample had charge of the flowers at the funeral and assisting her were Misses Garnet Bowles Nell and Etta Lou Patterson Rachel Moore Lois McCall Clara Wise Grace Kimmons Tommy Nesbit Hel Rra Moore Lily Belle Ramsey Barbara Byford Maliel Pos ton Katherine Pressly Ruth Black well and Margaret Patterson Mrs Ralph Shuford Mrs Mattress Mrs Lippard Mrs Willis Ches ter Mrs John Sharpe Mrs Ujuis Evans Mrs A hite Mra oster Mrs Coite Sherrill Mrs Davis Mrs Setzer Mr Chirfis tVah A Kelly The pallbearers were Me sis a Kelly A Sams Jr 1 I ackey Lazenby A White and 1 rank Deaton Attendance at the funeral was un usually large with numbers ot friends present from this and other communities Relatives here to at tend the service included Mrs btike mother Mrs Alma Currin Morrisville Wake county her Wlftt vir ncr mt jut vuuhm 7 Mr Stikeleather Bister Mrs lunnoi land of Salisbury Mr Stikeleathc i two brothers Mr Horace Stikeleath er of Oklahoma City Okla and Mr Iee Stikeleather of Arcadia la were unable to attend Among others attending toe funeral were Mrs Entemann of Newark Rev Kerr Mr and Mrs Ruth and son Mrs Milholland Mrs Rufty Mr and Mrs Stout all of Salisbury Mr and Mrs Johnson of Ra leigh Mr and Mrs Joe Moss Mrs Myric Miss rances Myrtc and Mrs Ruth Thomas of Durham Mr Green of Clarksville Mr Airs Annie Lee Gordon and Mr Henry Gordon of Buffalo Springs Mr and Mrs James Tom linson of Harmony Rev and Mrs I Hood of Troutman and Mrs A Padgett and daughters of Tum ersburg Death Comes To Mr Harwell Mrs Glenn Stikeleather Passes! 1 Away ollowing Birth of a Daugh I fer uneral for Mother and In 1 fant Wednesday Afternoon heard Civil Calendar Will lie Taken Up Mrs Glenn Stikcleather died Tues Next Monday Haymond Keavts is day morning between me aim six at tho Davis nospnai mis death followed the Hie nanv oorn the death prior to her was Miss Ina Currin of Raleigh She had 'lived in Statesville for several years gave three proofs that they were not on but was making her home in Raw Tlinv conf fYinccnYifrAT tft JpSUR RQV nt tllUC of llCT TBtllTiugO to mg "Lord ne wnom tnou wvest js sick" 1 here were no names in we co court in message and Christ evidently knew rbnr(r(i 1a wivenrva crmlo hApnilQP Ul WJlUXll HIV llJVQOttfeV Pjnmv He knew the messenger as a serv ant in the home of Mary Martha and Lazarus where He olten visitM no 0CCUrring more than a year common class of people said Mrto on Wegfc ront strpet between Mott have had servants andWOak streets In This Mary was the same Mary court Reavis was found guilty and broke precious ointment on Jesus a fine an(fthe court feet and wiped His feetwith her hair The dJendant tbrougb his at Estimating this ointment in our torneys Raymer and Raymer gave money today it would be valued at 5 fo Superior court about $51 No poor people would PP the jury lame in with a I have $51 worth of ointment at one gu Uyy finding that it rime The Pharisees tkl of Las an aJomilc conis5on and 'death and wept with Mary and Mai rC1Donsible The I A i 11 4k Tti vworskwvo' If Mary and Martha had gone Va miles from town: the the message war uieir rm 4 Vizi tl 17 ni AArlnns prosecuting witness uromer was sien xjvu thA Pin mnnt have found some other means of sav ing him But because they sen I Henderson appeared in court God let Lazarus die and stay in the iurs(la hav bcen broubt jn tomb four days to show thea fa i by capiaJs issued Wednesday This is People today are trying to send 1 he connection message that God mepnt for them to to a Hait girl near the take Jesus was an Perea aboaJ Wayside schod on No 10 highway twenty five miles from Bethany at me ago II(ndrsong case waS the time of Lazarus death Afte continued until next terni of Superior four days He started to Bethany ana cour amumet Rog1 Bennett showed that his be if Thou hadst bmhereoui broker had good and w3 had not died Shecame to rea continued undei former order that man could not help that sher Thj case aga nst 1Iugh Carson lo needed God Pfinri man rharc ed with violat TnaWlmtthe stone be the prohibition hws was contin ingtpnMrs Henry Douglas a Mrs moved ttd He not have tne tX1c on the' sci fa power to move the stone i ine docket wag discharged represents you sa ch Mi Mot Howard Kyleg charged with violat between some life and thp prohibition laws was called death Souls are lost today because fajjed Judgment was nisi sci fa of church member? standing in the nd Th" same judginent was ias wen Uli ordered jn the case of Charlie llart Showed sell charged with violating the pro God snowea i ruini answer IllUlLlvll law? wiiw ruuvu vv nnllfwl Allf COllft vz IVdvlivI a An Aiitstandinff case in Superior rc Mnrrisville 1 xK A V1 xxw Effectively Portrays the Service of the American Red Cross to Suffer ing Humanity The service of the American Red Cross to suffering humanity is eP ac tively portrayed in the Red Cross window in the Ramsey Bowles store Wednesday th opnlng day of the Red Cross roll call In the window the kneeling figure of a wo man is renresented her back to 1 boisterous language on the street her face raised in supplicarion 1 it zv 4Vz A rvwriA'in i siirnvu uy io une sianumu ui vi Lee Biggerstaff while two other Cross The worn shoes the shawl 1 ULV fka nnnn onn urapeu uvci ujv uvau vus kped in upraised hands the whole attitude of the pathetic figure sym bolizes the appeal that the crippled the suffering and the needy make to the Red Cross an appeal to which the Red Cross has been responding for fifty years In the background is the American flag and there are also 50th anniversary posters of ihe American Red Cross in the window The window was arranged by Miss Annie Wingo Mrs rederick Burger and Mrs Lonnie Mills Pridmore Denied New Trial Columbia Nov The state Sunreme court today declined to give A rank Pridmore Green ville county supervisor a new trial on his appeal from a three year sen tence for manslaughter and upheld Governor Blackwood in his order re moving Pridmore from office The opinion brings to an end the long fight of Pridmore to escape a prison sentence for killing Nick San ders road supervisor on July 9 1930 and to evade the governors order removing him from office for and persistent neglect 1 of Loftis Is Killed When Struck By Auto Marion Nov 12 Struck by an automobile Dock Loftis 25 died 2IMII1D PfillDT DEATH CLAIMS oUr tKIUK bUUKI young woman Dead of Lazarus Lieut Beck Is Charged With Cursing on Streets at Rutherford ight in City Hall Rutherfordton Nov Three warrants were served by ttoeriii Mcarland today on Lieut Beck of Marion commander of di vision state highway patrol who has charge of 22 western North Ca rolina counties One charges him with cursing and liGinr 1 streets here and was warrants signed by George IL i Hodge charge the lieutenant with parking within three feet of a fire plug in Rutherfordton Wednesday and of assault on affiant while act ing as a special policeman The trouble started Wednesday night when Beck parked his car near the fire plug and Hodge asked him to move it It is reported that Beck cursed Hodge followed him on the street and later struck him Thurs day morning after the warrants were served Beck told the chief of police here Waldrop that he whip the whole fire At noon Thursday Lieutenant Beck accompanied by Patrolman Al lison and one other patrolman whose name could not be learned went to the city hall and talked with Lee Biggerstaff fire chief and secretary treasurer of the town of Rutherford ton Beck did the talking and curs ed Biggerstaff it is said A fight followed in the city hall One patrolman seeing Postmaster John Williams approaching slarn i med the door and kept Williams out Chief Waldrop Charles IMcfariana nnd Williams hurriedlv rushed into the city hall through another door and parted Biggerstaff and Beck High Point Cat lias Last Laugh High Point Nov 12 The next fimn 55 Grppn who livps nn East I nlnv an Anril fool ioke on a cat he at 7 01 XT ern edge of Marion Winders to Remain In State Hospital Dr Anderson Tells Salisbury Officers To Ignore His Letter Regarding I Sanity I Salisbury Nov 13 Local officers 1 zxl 4 Mzxl zxw rl lt4o1'z1 0 1T 111AAY1 rr JC1U 1CUCVCU JtOVLlUMJ MpV Governors of Carolinas Virginia and of a etter from Dr Albert Anderson Georgia Attend Meeting in Char of the state hospital Raleigh in Gardner and Blackwood Dis wbich he stated that they could ignore agree as to Remedy I hi3 letter of recent date telling them unaiivbbc xxvv Muiviuvi i that Scott Winders local man whu scribed the plight ot the south's ag riculture as a national and interna tional problem here today and assert ed the burden of solving the problem fell primarily on the federal govern ment Addressing the four state meeting attended by the governors of the two Carolinas Virginia and Georgia he said President Hoover should call a national conference on agriculture and an international conference to deal with the cotton situation A divergent view was taken by Governor Ibra Blackwood of South Carolina who spoke after Governor Gardner' He pointed out that Texas Louisiana South Carolina and other cotton producing states had taken steps to limit next cotton acre age by legislation committed ourselves to this program we must carry on he said "We can not afford to wait on South Africa India and The North Carolina chief executive had asserted 'that any cotton plan that did not take into consideration the cotton growers in foreign coun tries was fallacious must hope that the south does not'eut its throat by reducing its cot ton acreage while the rest of theworld increases said Gov ernor Cardenr When Governor Blackwood had set forth his views Governor GardnerSuggested that the conference go into executive session Sitting by Governor Gardner at the rZf 4kfx rnrarAnPA WPTP G()V vpeniuK yx 4HT1A1Q Khpkwnm oi aouin baiumw Russell of Georgia and Pollard of Virginia Agricultural and market ing experts froin the four states were also present Governor Gardner pointed out he could not pall the legislature of this state into special session with any restriction upon what it should con cijnr nnzl enid he did not feel he should cap a special session under the circumstances Governor Blackwood said he could not get the slant as the chief executive 6f my sister Citing the fact that the estimated 1931 cotton crop and carryover will make the cotton supply in this coun try 26000000 bales Governor Black wood said seems apparent there is too much cotton in the Aaron Campbell Hit and Killed by Tom Bailey Tom Bailey colored of States ville killed Aaron Campbell colored also of Statesville while the two were working with a construction force in Maryland near Washington City Wednesday according to a tel egram from Mr Bryant of Washington City to The States ville Daily Thursday afternoon The wire dated 3:21 Thursday November 12 Washington states: Bailey Statesv'lle negro is held by Maryland authorities near here for killing Aa ron Campbell another Statesville ne gro with a road shovel yesterday No details were given And rela tives here Thursday night had receiv ed no further notice of the killing than that included in thewire to The Daily from Mr Bryant in Washng ton City It is known here that both Torn Bailey and Aaron Campbell worked for the same construction company Campbell 25 years of age had been away from Statesville about twe years it is understood He was born in the county but was reared in Statesville He was a son of the late Andrew Campbell colored is enul trt be between 20 and 25 years of age His mother lives on the Wilkesboro road about seven miles north of Statesville He has a wife Campbell was not mar ried Methodists Vote 298 to 4 in avor Judicial Council Asheville Nov The Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episocpal church today voted 298 to 4 in favor of council amendment The last general conference sub mitted a proposal to the various con ferences for the formation of such a council which if adopted would re lieve the college of bishops of de cision in controversial questions This would be put in the hands of a gi mria! judicial group The upper South Carolina confer nrn recently rejected the amend Tho conference admitted for cr al as ministers from the Statesvil'e district II Benfield and Washam 1 1 An efntn hlfrh It Hl! IJd1 lU vV 1 Lil tiuiivx i niu iHiinrv r1nv an Ann! fool ioke on a cat he at i ClOCK etauv i 1QQA I 4 will wait a while before beginning way No 10 where it enters tne jnjSKj'rSST Wri lh who Malta oil Wtf Al" Ahe nlll horn rne cat sneaKeu away irviu its new residence the same day and bond shenn jonicers ju A mm CfAu nrl Qvlfmi Wednesday it came to the ureen it 41 4x z4 iiMrtkTfv Armio Hafu Hfr an Mrs bVkeS nuiliu Hl VUI1V VV vov a icai VJ mimiio wv ft LomaL AZM 4 lZ MTt I Mzt 1 ported daughter Ann Siewert Sykes Mr II Gaither Harwell of Cataw ba county died at Sanatorium at 4 Wednesday morning his death resulting from kidney trouble The funeral service was held Thursday morning at 11 clock from Hopewell church in Catawba county and interment was in the church cemetery Pallbearers were mem bers of the Junior Order Mr Harwell was 55 years old He is survived by his widow' Mrs Anna Harwell and four sons: Mr Clar ence Harwell of Charlotte Mr Hazel Harwell of Catawba station and Messrs Boyce and Gaither Harwell who live at the home Ca tawba Route 2 Mr Eugene Morrison Jr Undergoes Serious Operation Mr Eugene Morrison Jr under went a serious operation Wednesday at Sanatorium His friends will be gratified to know that his con dition today is considered favorable Master Scarr Morrison Jr young son of Mr and Mrs Morrison underwent an operation for appendi citis Wednesday at Sanato rium He is doing well Mrs Cashion is Critically in Charlotte Mr Robert Cashion was called i xuonuay on account or me that the body hy committee hadi tlwp There were 15436 bales of cotton visited the offices in the court house went ginned in Iredell from the crop of the county home the jail and the charlotte Wednesday to be witl 1091 iz Ktevember 1 1931 Itpnfik0 Lnanoue weanesaay ro oe wiu i ncr motner aw 1T1 I 1 1 1 11 1 1 I I 4 1 I A I ii inn oi me ciuui jniii to November 1 lUou The county home was found to be Casbion is very critical and nv hope ir we'l hept and in good condition bed for ber recovery sirz11 rxrjnf rrwl 1 luualiu 2 Wt UtlUO VL pi VJ'U VU rounas ground had just been sown in wneat Nnv to A total of 125 The superintendent reported that he hands on in October at ap average of $993 per hundred pounds which was $499 per Z' i ft.