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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-24
PERSONAL. AND
LOCAL ITEMS
B. D. Hamiy, of Thelma, was
here Monday on business.

John Patterson, of Spray, N.
c., sent Tuesday night and
We'd lcsdov here with his sister
Mrs. ]. II. Hines,
Carl Stinson, Of Raleigh, is
here visiting his parents. Mr.
and Mrsr W, G. Stinson.
Mr. Frank Sobota, Of Mount
Pleasant, Pa, arrived Monday
and will be violinist in the Lyric
Theatre Orchestra.
Jimmie Lawrence, of Scotland
Neck, spent q few hours here
Tuesday with Bruce Tillery.
J.R. Liys ,omb and family, of
Kinston, have moved here to live.
Miss Josephine Tillery left Fri
day for her home in Scotland
Neck.
Mrs. C, A. Webb left Wednes-
day night for Columbia, S. c., to
spend the Christmas Holidays
with relatives.
Messrs. Lenard Perkins and
Willie Powell, Of Emporia, Va,
spent the weekend in the home
of Mr. and Mrs, L, NJ. Perkins.
Duke Wade spent Sunday in
Halifax with friends and rela-
tives
Mrs. w. c. Williams left We'd
neSday for her home in Enfield
to spend Christmas.
Misses Tucv md Lucille Glen
ents, o G ry burg, p t Tues
day in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Keene
and children left Wednesday for
Suffolk
Miss Minnie Hopkins left Mon
day for her home in Oxford to
spend the Holidays,
Miss Lucille Edwards left Satur
day for her home in Seaboard.
Miss Pearl Andrews left Thurs
day for Chapel Hill to spend the
Christmas Holidays.
j. P. Ashwor,h spent Tuesday
in Norfolk.
Josh Norwood returned to his
home in Petersburg Wednesday
after few days visit to relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Tolbert
left Wednesday for Commerce,
Ca, to spend the Holidays with
relatives.
Mrs. Sawyer, Of Franklinton,
arrived this week and is visiting
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. Z. Pinkham.
Clement Taylor after a few
days visitto w. 0. Thompson re-
turned to his home in Wilson
Tuesday.
c. NJ. Lynch left Thursday to
spend the Foi1ays with relatives
in Bruaswlcn Coanty, Va.
C. T Chase, of Richmond was
here Wednesday on business.
G. 8. Gregg left this week for
Fayetteville, and from there vii
accompany his brother N. A.
Gregg on a hunting trip.
Eddie Buslinger is here from
Dayton High School, spending
the EIo.i ay with his moth r.
Mrs. J. R. Brewer, of Diamond
Greve, Va, is here visiting hei
mother, Mrs, Green.
Eugene Collins, of Kannapolis
arrived Sunday to spend few
days here with his parents.
Mr.. Marvin Vestal, Of Bur
lington, spent a few days herr
last week with his brother, Mr.
Charlie Vestal.
Miss Rosa Moody is at hom
from Btes C,eel Academy
Mrs. Fred NJ. Shutc is visiting
her parents in Williamson.
Miss Iottie Greene is at HON
from the Oxfor Semi ary rend
ing the Holidays with her moth
er.
Mrs. Laura Faison left Monda
for Randleman, to visit he
daughter, Mrs. J, B. O'Briant.
Miss Mymo Fleshman, of Har
over, Penn. is here spendin
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20

never knew where his son wag
buried. Madison Chandler, the
father, testified before the grand
jury Saturday, in part, as follows:
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
.CALOMEL DYNAM|TES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile, making you
sick and you lose a days
work.
ia

Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on
sluggish liver. When calomel comes
into contact with sour bile it crashes
into it, causing cramping and nausea
If you feel bilious, headachy, con-
stipated and all knocked out, just go
to your druggist and get so cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful
and if it doesn't start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without
making you sick, you just go back
and get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll
be sick and nauseated tomorrow;
besides, it may salivate you, while if
you take Dodson's Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and ready for work or play.
It's harmless, pleasant and safe to
give to children; they like it.
(advt.)
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
More Than a
Hundred Indictments

With Crum out of the way the
special grand jury faced the prob
lem of returning indictments
against others who had participant
ed in the pollution of Island T'hir-
ty-seven. One hundred and twenty
seven true bills were found Some
of the accused were niger men
and some were niger women
and there were the white degen-
crates. The two Kentons, broth
ers, were found by the grand jury
to have aided and abetted in the
murder of Mauldin. as was also
Dave Hearne-Hearne, that heart
less brute who laughed so thor
oughly when he looked down upon
the writhing form of Mauldin and
heard the latter moan in agony as
his life was rapidly ebbing away.
j. A. Osborne, who married Crum S
mother a number of years ago, is
accused of selling liquor. The evil
dence against him is so strong that
defense is useless except to the eX-
tent that a supreme court decision
may be hoped fora supreme court
decision that may recognize the
splendid efficiency of Going's tech
meal law. Osborne's case went to
trial yesterday afternoon, after the
entire morning had been devoted to
something very vague in the way
of delays that a casual onlooker
couldn't exactly understand, but
which had something to do With
Goings arrival on a late train and
his very respectful insistence that
he be allowed until noon to con-
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Three Joints on
Island Thirty-seven

Following Mr.. Green, Curtis j.
Little, at present circuit clerk for
Mississippi county, but for fifteen
wears surveyor, took the stand.
He testified that Island Thirty
seven at the point where Crum' S
Joint was situated was approximate
ly $50 feet from the Arkansas
shore, but that at other points the
distance was less and that when the
water was low the stream could
be forded. He stated that there
were three joints operated on the
island. The upper was known as
Crum's joint, and the lower one,
three miles downstream, was oper-
ated by Ed Patterson. A few hun
dred yards from the Crum joint
was Red Thompson's place
known as the middle joint. Little
had made surveys and maps OF
these places and would swear that
they were within three hundred
feet of correct, which, in effect
placed Crum's place and the other
Joints on Arkansas soil. Court ad-
iourned before Mr.. Little had fin
ished his testimony.
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Real Manhood
To The Rescue

But, when the worst has been
said, it should be remembered that
Mississippi county is not controlled
by this element. The only trouble
seems to have been in the fact that
a spirit of indifference to Island
Thirty-seven had grown up, which
spirit of Indifference was supple
mented by the fact that it was not
believed any effective cure could be
administered until Tennessee grant
ed to Arkansas concurrent jurisdic-
ton over the waters of the river.
When such an act passed the Ten
nessee legislature last year Prose-
cutting Attorney Huddleston and
Judge Driver readily agreed that
the time for action had arrived.
And action it has been. Mauldin
was elected with the distinct I'M
derstanding that he would enforce
the laws. Spurred on by Messrs.
Huddleston and Driver, who, it will
be remembered, announced early in
the spring that a cleaning up of
the Lee line would be inaugurated,
the scrubbing process was carried
to the point of Mauldin's raid, and
his death.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
WalcOtt Team Defeated.

The game of baseball Saturday
afternoon at the Farmers Union
picnic between Herman and Wal
colt, was very interesting and for
the first time this season Walcott
went down in defeat, the Herman
team winning IA. The Walcott
team outhit the winners and but
for poor base running would have
won the game. Hyde and Green
way did the battery work for Wal
colt, and Smith and Willette work
ed for Herman-Jonesb Tri-
bune.
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TONERS. He is known to have or
dered them to shoot any Arkansas
officer who might attempt to make
an arrest. He is known to have
been the leading spirit in the sale
of liquor to Mississippi county mig
gers; is known to have fostered
the hell-hole where loW-breeds
were taught to gamble, to drink
and to fling themselves away both
morally and physically as careless
i ly as though life were but toy to
| be played with for brief period
{ and then cast aside. If we can
cagree capital punishment in any
case is justifiable, then we must
agree that Andy Crum had merit
| ed death, and there only remains
to be haggled over the process of
accomplishing this end. Friends OF
Sam Maulden put an end to this
haggling, firm in the conviction of
| the need for summary action.
| Therefore, while the public at
large engages in the careless pas
time of condemning these men for
doing what they have commission
| ed a court to do, let us also re-
member that we individually are
responsible for the conditions which
contributed so largely to the I'M
| fortunate affair. The people of
Mississippi county are responsible
to the extent that for years they
have permitted these dens of vice
to thrive until they became can
cerous growth upon the common
wealth, and, therefore, a physical
operation to remove not only the
cancer, but other unhealthy tissues
as well, was foced upon them after
the growth had developed to Won
derful proportions. These resorts,
where wine, women and song hold
out their allurements to the young
manhood of both races, have cor
rupted more Mississippi countians
than all other immoral elements
combined. They have been respon-
sible for the transmission of dis
ease that will not be stamped out
in this or the next generation.
They have bred ruin and mental
famine for years. They have low
cred the vitality of Mississippi
county in that they have Slapped
the strength of this generation and
the next and the next. Sexual dis
ease is a boosted heritage of the
outlaws who collect on the island,
/ and in turn it is transmitted to
the black and the lower elements
of the white population in a most
shameful manner.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
Crum Not a
Rich Landowner

Contrary 20 former reports, Crum
was not a rich man. Island Thirty
seven did not belong to him. In
fact, it is not shown that he own
ed one foot of the island, although
the saloon, gambling joint and APP
purtenances were his. Crum was
an expert niger killer and seemed
to care very little for consequences,
On June so he shot and killed Gar
field Chandler, then forced the
boys father to drink so much
booze that the edler Chandler
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
MISSISSIPPI COUNTY
AND HER LAWLESS
How an Outraged Citizenship, Bound
Helplesssly for Years by Technical
Law, Has Organized to Clear Their
Border of Crime.

similar to that in Mississippi coun-
ty following the murder of Sheriff
Mauldin set all Europe on fire last
July when Austria demanded the
right to participate in the trial OF
the assassins of the Archduke and
his consort, which occurred in Ser
via. The latter country denied
this demand, the world applauded
her stand, international lawyers al
most without exception agreed that
Servia was acting within her legal
rights, and-Europe went up in
smoke.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
Osborne's Case
Goes to Trial

Shortly after noon Osborne IS
case was called, and, as was ex-
pected, formal demand for a con-
tinuance was made by Attorney Go
ing. The senator read from
lengthy compilation of facts he had
typewriter, in which it was stated
that if permitted to continue until
next Monday witnesses (named in
the request) could be brought from
Tennessee who would testify that
Crum's Joint was located within the
territorial boundaries of that state.
The motion was very promptly de-
MED and the trial ordered to pro-
coed. 1t was at this point Prose-
cutting Attorney Huddleston threw
life-sized bomb into the laps of
attorneys for Osborne in the per
son of James A. Green, surveyor
and abstractor for Upton county,
Tenn. Mr.. Green had map,
real, bona fide map with marks
and distances and links and chains
and sections and islands all very
accurately marked. And from this
map it was ascertained that all of
Osborne's land, upon which Crum's
Joint was located, is west of the
center line of the Mississippi river
all except very narrow strip
east of the points in controversy.
Mr.. Green explained that for SO
years he had been making surveys
in West Tennessee, and that the
map in question was prepared in
1909 at the instance of Col. VIM.
H. Carol, who represented the
state in some legal matters involv-
ing the boundary. The map, pat
termed after others that had been
brought down from survey made
in 1923, was claimed by Mr.. Green
to be correct, and, although frantic
efforts were made by Going to con-
fuse the witness, he answered ques-
lions of fact in such a direct and
intelligent manner that little salts
faction fell to the share of the at
torney.
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was forced to conclude that Ten
nessee authorities were in league
with the devils of Island Thirty
seven?
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sult with his clients. Just to keep
the wheels of justice turning, VIII
lie Heard, colored, was yanked into
court and faced with a charge Oh
forgery. Heard isn't exactly a MOD
ell niger and his criminal lie
line crosses at many points. 1t ap-
neared from the evidence that
Heard maliciously, feloniously, etc,
etc, forged an order on bank for
sixty dollars. Mr.. Huddleston,
prosecuting attorney, advised the
Judge that confinement in Little
Rock would perhaps be OF some
value to the black and suggested
five years as the term. Judge Drl-
yer admonished Heard to go and be
| a good niger. But" continued
the Judge, 81 don't think you Will
be good, because it isn't in you.
NV advice is that since being con-
fined in jail you attempted to in
lure a guard by throwing pepper
| in his eyes. For this offense you
should have been skinned alive, and
had the guard skinned you there
would have been no voice of protest
raised by the citizens. However, II
YOU go to the penitentiary and
make a model prisoner, you will be
given credit for good behavior and
at the end of four years will be set
free. 1 shall expect, however, to
hear that you served five full years
and perhaps after that time some
other court will have dealings with
vou That's all"
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
No Defense Of
Mob Violence

This is not meant in any sense
as a justification of mob violence
Yet crimes committed by mobs diff
fer in degree There was not one
particle of doubt concerning the
guilt of Andy Crum. He is known
20 have armed his negro execu-
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
No. Six-SiXty-SiX

This is prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or ctilLLS G. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
If taken then as tonic the Fever will not
return. 1t sets on the liver better than
Calomel and does not grippe or sicksn, Csc
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20
Garfield Chandler
Killed by Crum

Killed by Crum
my boy, Garland, was killed on
Island Thirty on the Goth os-.
June. Andy Crum told me he
killed him. He was killed in Crums
saloon l sometimes went over to
the island on Sunday and bought
whisky. Sometimes Mr.. Crum
would wait on me, sometimes Joe
Osborne, sometimes Bob Kenton.
sometimes Charlie Kenton and
sometimes a man they called Dave
Hearne. / never gambled but
have seen others gambling. A man
/ by the name of Bert Spring (Spring
| fired the shot that killed Mauldin)
was running the game most of the
time l have seen Ed Buchanan
selling liquor at all three of the
den is called Bert Springs wife. 1
never saw her gambling, but have
seen her with a pistol. She just
had the pistol and wasn't doing
anything with it. Everybody there
had a pistol; all of the house men
had pistols and kept them around
the tables and would say they did
not propose to be interfered with
and wasn't going to be arrested
All of the darkeys around Crum's
place went armed. Crum had, l
Mic tN1c hot
he got from darkies for a dollar
and a dollar and a half when they
would go broke gambling. they all
! had pistols. When they killed my
boy they made me so drunk that I
don't know where l buried him
and they asked me how l liked it
this man Hearne and Bob Kenton
and Bert Spring and Copper Ken
ton and Cham Moore, they did
They made me drink / don't know
how much whisky. When I got
over there my boy was lying on
table and l said, 1T looks mighty
| bad, and Mr.. Andy, he says, Come
in and have a drink and l says,
| 1 haven't got time and he said,
oh, yes, you have plenty of time,
and they all had pistols and
walked in and they said we'd talk
the matter over. l went over
there directly after breakfast and
it was after dinner when / left
My folks had to haul me home
was so drunk"
Such, in brief, is the testimony of
an old darkey whose son had fall
len a victim to the temptations of
Island Thirty-seven. Just how
many others were put away in a
similar manner for their bones to
rot and fertiliZe the land will per-
haps never be known. This much,
however, is known: The sterling
manhood of Mississippi county
and it predominates-has set it's
face to a housekeeping that will
be thorough and complete.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPARING WIFE

] had gotten so weak could no. stand,
and J gave up in despair.
Al last, my husband got me bottle Of
Cafdui. the woman's tonic, and COM
menced taking Il. From the very first
dose, ] could tell II was helping me. I
can now walk two miles without be
firing me, and am doing all my work"
iyou are all run down from womanly
troubles, don't give up In despair. Try
cardui, The woman'stonic. lihas helped
more than million women. in It's 50
years Of continuous success, and should
surely help you, Too. Your druggist has
sold cardui for years. He knows what
II will do. Ask him. He will recon-
mend II. Begin taking cardul today.
Write ioi chsusnooss Asslclns Co.. L.ai,s.
Advisory Dept. ChaitanooEa. Tenn, for Special
Instructions On your case and 64-pags book, HONS
Treatment fer Wsnsn." sent IN plain vrspp.f. I<s
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08
CITATION ny PUBLICATION


THE STATE OF TEXAS
County Of Scurry
To the sheriff or any Constable Of
scurry County. GREETING:
You are hereby commanded, That
you summon, by MAXIM publication
OF this Citation In some newspaper
published In the County Of scurry. II
there be newspaper published
therein. but II not, then In any news
paper pub.iyhed In the seth Judicial
District; bud II there be no newspap-
er Published in said Judicial
district. thsn N newspap-
or published inN che nearest district to
said seth JudlcleF District, for four
weeks previous the retIrn day
hereof, Dee Duvtlh whose residence
is unknown. to e and appear before
the Honorable County Court at the
neyt regular terri thereof, 10 be hold
en- In the County Of scurry at the
Court House thereof, In Snyder. on
tie 18th. day OF January 1915, then
and there TO answer a petition filed
In said court on the 25th day Of Aug
ust. A. D. 1914, In a suit numbered
on the docket OF said Court. No. SIS,
whe. Elm .. F. Daigitz is plaintiff and
Dee Duyall Is defendant
The nature Of the plaintiffs de
mand being as follows, towit. Suit on
promlssory note dated Dec End, 1913
for the principal sum Of s225.oO pay
able to order OF plaintiff. due Nov. ?.
1914. bearing interest at the rate OF
10 per cent per annum and 10 per
cent additional as attorneys fees, Sc
cured by a mortgage lien on the fol-
lowing. described property. towit;
one blue mare about : yesTs old.
ISL hands high. no brand: one roam
mare. about years Did, about i5h
hands high. branded D on left hip.
Plaintiff further alleges that hereto
fore ;owit. during the month Of April
1914. defendant induced plaintiff to
sign as surety for him a certain obli-
cation In writing for toe principal
sum OF $500 payable to Glide Jones
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08

at Fluvanna. Texas. due Nov. LIST.
1914, bearing 10 per cent interest
per annum from date until paid and
providing for the usual 10 per cent as
attorneys fees.
Plaintiff prays judgment against
the defendant for each OF the above
obligations, foreclosure OF the mort
gtge lien, interest and attorneys fees
for writ Of attaehy6ent and costs of
suit.
Herein fan n0t. and have you DO
fore said Count on the said first day
OF the next tetm thereof, this Writ,
with your endorsement thereon.
showing how YOU have executed the
same
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court at office In Snyder, Texas.
this the 9Th day OF December. A. d.
1914.
W. r. SKINNER.
Clerk County Court, scurry County
Texas.
by CORA sTURDIvANT. Deputy
26-4t
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08

costs OF suit, under judgment In
favor OF Thell Browning In certain
cause In said Court, No 1888 and
styled II. II. Thompson VS.. W A. Me
Cullough ct al, placed In my hands
for service. |. W. A. Merrell, as
sheriff Of scurry County. Texas, did
on the 9Th day OF December. 1914
levy on certain real estate. situated
In scurry County, Texas, described as
follows. towit: \The West three
fourths OF the Northwest one-fourth
of Section No. ASS, Block o., Ger
tiGcate Number l3-573O, II. q r. c,
Ry Co. survey, in scurry County,
Texas. and leyibd upon as the prop
erty Of W. A. Mccullough and that
on the first Tuesday In January, 1915
the same being the 9th day OF said
month. at the Court House door OF
seurry County. In the town OF Sny-
der. Texas between the hours OF 10
a. m. and 4 p. m. by virtue OF said
levy and said order of sale, will sell
above described real estate at pub
lie vendue, for cash, to the highest
bidder. as the property Of said W. A.
Mccullough.
And In compliance with law, give
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08
RECORDS COTTON SAYINGS.

The Fort Worth Record publishes
a column Of short sentences from
which is here taken:
Cotton made sensational ad-
vance Monday IL jumped 30 points
on the strength OF active buying and
reached It's highest price since the
slump occasioned by the declaration
Of war in Europe
There is a greater demand. or
should be. for cotton than ever be-
fore for the reason that the staple
enters more largely into the life OF
the people and thor necessities than
ever before.
AN neutral countries are eager to
buy cotton goods "
Al the warning bations are run
ming their mills.
There is no reason why raw cot
ton should be cheap
There is every reason why It
should bring a fair price
There Is every reason why tho
surplus should be held.
There are a thousand reasons
why acreage should be reduced"
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-01-08
SHERIFF'S SALE


THE STATE OF TEXAS
County Of scurry
Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue Of a certain order Of sale issued
out Of the Honorable District Court
Of Delta County, on the 3Oth day Of
October, 1914. by o. c. Orr, Clerk
OF said Court, for the sum Of Two
Hundred sevcnty-one and 3O-1OO
Dollars, Interest and costs Of suit.
under a Judgment Of said Court In
fcvor OF James Robertson. in a GER
tain cause In said Court No. 1852
and styled james Robertson W. W.
+. Robnett, ct al, placed in my
hands for service, !, W. A. Merrell.
es Sheriff Of scurty County. Texas,
did on the M bay of November.
1914 levy on ceNtdln real estate, sit
uated in scurry hpunty, Texas, de
scribed as follows, tQwit:
The Northwest quarter OF Section
2S5. block %, ~ q r, G. Ry Co. sur
yey, patented to @. II. Leath. Jan.
%, 1911. by patent No. G12. Vol 45
which is recorded In Volume 2, page
SO. Of the records Of scurry County,
Texas and Issued on Certificate No.
! I3-5645.
and levied upon as the property Of
W. f. Robnett W -. Harrison and
c. o. Moss and that on the first Tues
day In January 1915. the same being
the 9th day Of said month at the
Court House door, OF Scurry County,
In the town Of Snyder, Texas, be-
tween the hours OF 10 a. m. and 4 p.
m. by virtue OF said levy and said or
der Of sale. will sell said above
described Real Estate at public ven
due. to the highest bidder, as tho
property Of said W. +. Robnett. W
H. Harrison and c. o. Moss.
md In compliance with law | give
this notice by publication. IL the Eng
llsh Language, once a week for three
consecutive weeks Immediately pre-.
ceedIng said day Of sale. In the sny.
der Signal, a newspaper published in
scurry County
witness my hand this sth day oil
December. 1914.
W. A. MERRELL
sheriff, scurry County, Texas