davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
RUM RUNNERS AT WAR
IN BLOODY HERRIN, ILL

Herrin, ILL.,, Oct. 26.-Two camps
of armed men, one boasting an arm
ored truck, 26 men and about II. ma
chine guns, were disclosed today aft
er William McQuay and Ward Jones
had been found shot to death. Nc
Quay's body held 16 machine gun
bullets and 20 bullet holes punctured
the back of his automobile on the
country road where he was shot.
Jones was shot four times.
The shooting resulted from friction
of gangs of Charles Birger and the
Shelton brothers who are reported to
be heavily armed gangs ready to fight
it out to settle difficulties in the
bootleg business.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
Two Boone Ladies
Are Signally HOnOred
Mrs. Moretz and Mrs. Huggins Elect.
ed President and Secretary of
Third District Federation
NEXT MEETING BE HELD HERE
Session Held in Statesville Last
Week Was Largely Attended

Mrs. j. M. Moretz, president of the
Worth While Club, was elected presi
dent of the third district of the North
Carolina Federation of Women's
Clubs at the closing session of the
district meeting in Statesville last
Wednesday, and Mrs. F. M. Huggins
was elected secretary. And in addi-
ton to this the ladies from the
metropolis of the mountains landed
the next district meeting
Mrs. Moretz succeeds Mrs. Carrie
Gamble, of Hickory, whose term of
office expires next May. Mrs. Hug
gins succeeds Mrs. Carl Wolfe, also
of Hickory. The next meeting of the
district will be held in Boone in the
fall of 1927 either in late September
or early October.
The following report of the meet
ing is taken from the Statesville
Landmark of last Friday:
Attended by 234 club women rep
resenting some fifteen clubs of the
district, the annual meeting of the
third district of the North Carolina
Federation of Woman's Clubs was in
session here Wednesday with the
Woman's Club and the Electic Club
of Statesville as hostesses. Marking
: the morning session, which opened
at 1880 o'clock, were the address of
the state president, Mrs. E. L. Nc
Kee Of Sylvia, who is present for the
district meeting a message to the
club women from President H. w.
Chase. of the University of North
Carolina, who was present for few
minutes at the opening of the ses-
sion; the years reports of work in
the district by the district president,
Mrs. Carrie Gamble, of Hickory; a
report Of the Sally Southall Cotton
Loan Fund, by Mrs. E. M. Land of
Statesville, chairman of the loan
fund in the state federation, and
report of home demonstration work
in three counties in he district, read
by Miss Anna Rowe, of Catawba
county. The meeting was held in
the First Presbyterian church.
During the afternoon session re-
ports of club work during the year
read by club presidents; round table
discussion of various club problems
was led by Mrs. J. A. Moretz, of
Hickory, and Mrs. E. H. Williamson,
of Fayetteville, state chairman of dis
tricts, discussed some items of the
years program in club work, etc.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY SEEN
BY CHAIRMAN OLDFIELD

Washington, Oct. 24.-The Demo-
cratic party will win the approaching
congressional elections on the major
issues of "honest elections and hon
esty in government; tax reduction
and square deal for agriculture, -
Chairman Oldfied, of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee,
said in a radio address here tonight.
A shifting of issues was charged
against the Republicans, who, Mr..
Oldfield said, first had tried econo-
my, then prosperity, and then the
president himself as talking points
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
M. E. CONFERENCE
COMPLETES WORK
Rev. M. B. Woosley Returns t.
Boone and r. A. Taylor to
Watauga Circuit

Gastonia, Oct 25.-Reading of the
appointments for the coming confer
ence year by Bishop Mouzon at 1
O'Clock this afternoon brought to a
close the 37th annual session of the
| Western North Carolina Conference
| of the Methodist church. a session de-
clared to have been among the most
| harmonious in the entire history of
the conference.
Of interest was the report of the
statistical secretary giving detailed
! satisfies as to the conference. The
report shows that the conference has
l l districts, 303 pastoral charges, 914
societies with total membership of
13S,928. There are 1876 local preach
ers. During the past conference year
1898 adults were baptized and g.
1876 infants. There are 369 Epworth
Leagues with total membership of
II, 1892 and 855 Sunday schools with
total of 1920 officers and teachers
and 132,032 pupils. The 440 wom-
ems missionary societies have 1860
members and have raised a total of
$147,216 during the year.
The grand total raised by the con-
ference for all purposes during the
year was $2,41O,625. The six educa-
tional institutions have 1O1 teachers,
3,494 students, property valued at
$11,781,25S and total endowment
of $15, ,5O6,618, with an Indebtedness
of only $66,446.
The Children's Home at Winston
Salem has 80 teachers and 209 chill
dren, the property being valued at
$1,0O0,00O. Among the amounts
raised and apportioned to various
causes were $22,735 to foreign mis-
sions, $4O,O63 to home missions; $15,-
367 to church extension; $33,297 to
education; $1,915 to the American
Bible Society and $3,76O to general
conference expenses.
Following is the list of appoint
ments for the North Wilkesboro dis
! trict:
Presiding elder-Seymour Taylor
Avery-A. H. Bryan, supply.
Roone-M. B. Woosley.
Creston-W A. Thomas, supply.
Elk Park-W E. Moretz.
Helton-G. G.. Graham.
Jefferson-J. R. Reynolds.
Laurel Springs-J. w. Hall, sup
ply.
Moravian Falls-R. E. Ward.
North Wilkcsboro-H. G. Allen.
Ronda and Roaring River-T.. H.
Houck
| Sparta-A. L. Lucas.
Todd-A. G. Lackey, supply.
Warrensville - Orell Lineberger,
supply.
Watauga-R. A. Taylor, supply.
Wilkesboro-J. S. Folger.
Missionary to Japan-W. A. Will
son.
Professor Appalachian State Normal
j. NJ. Downum.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

Miami, Fla, Oct. 25-Starvatoin
of residents of Mars Harbor and
Hopetown, Great Abaco Island, Ba-
hamas, numbering several hundred,
was averted by the timely arrival of
a colonial government relief boat
Sunday, according to radio advices
received here today from the govern
ment. wireless station at Nassau.
Mars Harbor was completely wreck
ed and Hopetown was badly hit by
the hurricane which passed almost
directly over these settlements last
Thursday. Practically all foodstuffs
we're swept away or damaged by
water.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

New York, Oct. 25.-Striking
with tropical fury and suddenness,
transforms that at times reached hur-
ricane pace today raked sections of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land. Three persons were killed in
the vicinity of New York city, many
others injured, considerable proper.
ty damage was caused in more thar
a score of cities and towns of the
four states, and harbor and coastwise
shipping was affected.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
COVE CREEK NEWS ITEMS
correspondence of Democrat.

Correspondence of Democrat.
Sugar Grove, Oct. 27.-Several
people from this community have
been attending the series of meetings
conducted by Rev. J. C. Canipe at the
Boone Baptist church.
Cove Greek high school won from
the Trade school on Friday by the
score of IL to 81 This was one of
the mos. interesting and hard fought
games of the year with both teams
showing fine form,
\ number of former graduates of
Cove Creek visited the school on Fri
day afternoon and were defeated in
game of basketball by ,he second
team, to the tune of g to 6. Tug
man and Hagaman, members of last
years team, played forward, Combs
and Donnelly, guards, and Bingham,
center.
An effort is being made to beau
.ifv the school grounds. A number
of shrubs have been planted by men,
bers of the student body and several
trees set out.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Horton attended
the Shrine ceremonial of Oasis Tenn
pie in Asheville on Friday and Sat
urday. They visited Mrs. w. w. and
Miss BERTHE Phillips in Gaffney, S.
c., over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther M. Bingham
have moved to Lincolnton, where Mr..
Bingham will engage in business.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
PRESIDENT HAS RIGHT
TO REMOVE POSTMASTERS

Washington, Oct. 25-The right of
the president of the United States to
remove postmasters and other execu-
tive appointees from office with the
consent of the senate was upheld to-
day by the supreme court in the
Myers case from Portland, Oregon
In an opinion by Chief Justice Taft,
the court held that federal statutes
which have been regarded as with
holding that power from the presi-
dent, are void.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
Eysrything Ready For
Election Next TUESDAY,
ults of Next
Tuesdays Election

The Democrat is anxious to give
the results of next Tuesdays cleo
tion as fully as possible in the
issue of the paper which will go to
press Wednesday afternoon. The
only way this can be done is for
friends at each polling place to
either telephone or send by mail
Wednesday morning the results
at the various boxes.
This service will be greatly ap-
preciated by the publishers of The
Democrat and will enable US to
give the results in very satisfac-
tory manner.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
ATTACKED BY CANNIBALS

Batavia, Java, Oct ga band of
200 Papuan cannibals, armed with
bow and arrow, made an attack on a
transport party of Dyaks belonging
to the American-Dutch expedition in
the New Guinea jungle country.
While. the Dyaks were obliged to re-
turn to the base, it appears from the
meager advices received here that
there were no casualties. Later the
party made another start without
molestation.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
ENCCH SOUTH ACCIDENTALLY
KILLED LAST WEDNESDAY

Mr.. Enoch B. South was instantly
killed on Wednesday of last week at
his home in the North Fork section
of the county. Mr.. South was climb
ing into the loft of his wood shed
when in SINE way his foot slipped,
throwing him to the ground, his head
striking the hub of a wagon. His
skull was crushed and death is sup
posed to have been instantaneous.
Interment was in the neighbor-
hood cemetery Thursday.
Mr.. South was 54 years of age, well
known and highly respected citizen.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
OUEENE IN CANADA

Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 26.-Queen
Marie of Rumania set foot on Cana
dian soil today for the first time. She
saw the wonders of Niagara and
then came by special train to Toron-
to. With beaming face and jaunty
carriage as she strobe through lanes
of humanity in the station, the
queen acknowledged the cheers OF
Toronto.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
JUDGE COUNCIL BETTER
IN CHARLOTTE HOSPITAL

The condition of Judge w. B.
Council, who is undergoing treat
ment in Charlotte hospital, was
said to be improved today. The judge
was taken to Charlotte last week and
placed in sanatorium.
Mrs. Councill is in Charlotte today
with Mr.. Councill- Record,
Thursday.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

Washington, Oct. 23.---Internal
revenue collections from July 1 to
September 80, amounted to $685.
100000, an increase of about ST.
100000 from last vast, year, the
treasury announced here tonight.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
SUICIDE CONSICNS BODY
TO HOGS IN LAST WORDS

Rockford, ILL.,, Oct. 26.-Harvey
Slaughter, 72, shot himself through
the head here and died almost in
stantly. He left a note which said
You may throw my body to the
hogs if you find it. 1t was never any
good anyway"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

Kennie Wagner, famous Tennessee
killer, began at Meridian, Miss, Tues
day. Wagner is being tried in Mis-
sissippi for the murder in 1924 of
Deputy Sheriff Murdock Mcintosh.
aKinney is alleged to have killed five
men, and was sentenced to die some
years ago in Tennessee, but escaped.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
METHODIST MINISTERS
20. K" BORBED HAIR

Gastonia, Oct. 23.-After going on
record as favoring bobbed hair and
pledging themselves to be progressive
and up with the times, Methodist
ministers of Western North Carolina,
in conference here adjourned for the
day.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

Clarence L. Names, young BRISTOL,
Tenn, police officer, died Tuesday
as the result of shot fired at him by
Jake Shake, whom the officer had
arrested and was carruying to Jail.
The shooting took place Saturday
afternoon.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
COUNTY CAMPAIGN WILL
CLOSE HERE SATURDAY

The countX campaign, which began
at Northf9n ~ weeks ago, will
close with eting here Saturday
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

He gains wisdom in happy way,
who gains it by another's experience.
-Plautus.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28
II SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES
And Member Corporation Commits
sion To Be Voted For; Interest
Centers in County

N-4A S'ASo~-~@S~
preme court and eleven members of
the superior court bench.
The polls will open al sunrise and
close at sunset. For the convenience
of the votors below is given List of
the voting places in the various town.
ships of the county:
Polling Places
Boone neutrality-suspicious..
Bald Mountain-Elkland
Beaver Dam-Don Hagaman's
store
Blue Ridge-Aho.
Blowing Rock-Blowing Rock.
Cove Creek-Mast.
Elk-Triplett's store.
Laurel Creek-Watauga Falls.
Meat Camp No. Soda Hill.
Meat Camp No. 2-Rich Mountains
schoolhouse.
North Fork-Thomas store.
Shawnehaw-Matney schoolhouse.
Stony Fork-Rocky Point.
Watauga-ShulPs Mills.
Election Managers
The registrars and judges of elec-
tion for the fourteen voting precincts
are as follows
Boone township. D. Council, A.
j. Edminsten, w. L. Trivett
Bald Mountain-John Tatum,
Wiley Adams, w. H. MCGUIRE.
Beaver Dam-Claud Williams, Car
ter Farthing, Raleigh Johnson.
Blue Ridge-W. D. Cook, Clint
Coffey, l.. T. Elrod
Blowing Rock-Talton Hartley, d.
C. Coffey, ], M. Hodges.
Cove Creek-John E. Combs, John
Perry, J. R. Isaacs.
Elk-Ed Simmons, r. G. Carroll,
c. c. Triplett.
Laurel Creek-Oscar Phillis, Lu-
ther Ward, w. F. Winkler
Meat Camp No. ii. W. Wall, C.
g. Hodges, Walter Greene.
Meat Camp No. 2-L. f. Beach,
Herman Mcneil, J. A. Penley.
North Fork-Jim South. Alex
South, J. M. May.
Shawnehaw-Lloyd Welch, Lee
Carrender. Albert Mills,
Stony Fork-A. G. Moretz, C. D.
Mcneil, Jason Morctz.
Watauga-D. P. Wike, j. E. Har-
bin, Caleb Garland
Below is given in full the Demo-
cratic and Republican state and
county tickets:
Democratic State Ticket
For United States Senator:
Lee S. Overman
For Member Corporation Commission
Allen j. Maxwell
For Chief Justice Supreme Court
Walter P. Stacey
For Associate Justices of the Su-
preme Court
Heriot Clarkson
w. J. Brogdon
w lllldH y. AudHnS
For Judges Superior Cour
Third District
Garland E. Midyette
Fourth District
Frank A. Daniels
Fifth District /
r. A. Num-
Seventh District.
w. C. Harris
Eleventh District
Raymond G. Parker
Thirteenth District
A. M. Stack
Fifteenth District
j. M. Oglesby
Seventeenth District
Thomas B. Finley
Eighteenth District
Michael Schenck
Nineteenth District
P. A. McElroy
Twentieth District
Walter E. Moore
Republican State Ticket
For United States Senator
johnson j. Hayes
For Member Corporation Commission
Joseph J. Jenkins
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-10-28

Mrs. J. M. Moretz (above) and
Mrs. F. M. Higgins, who were
last week elected president and
secretary, respectively, of the third
district of the North Carolina Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
POET, r, ONCE WAS
 ATTEMPTING DEATH
Editor OI Poetry Gives Young
 Western Girl a Chance

Chicago, Jan q lRA-ssyen'eon lines ct poetry represent II y,ar old girls desire 10 live
 Back on New Years ENc. when lhe rest ot the world Was making merry, Lilly Olson, a M.nneapoI!s "ait attempted self destruction bv. cause she had lost faith in her poet genius and was friandless and alone ih the world But Lilly has recover cd, inspired more by the promise ot Miss Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry 70 publish some of her verses, than hy many offers of a homo. pretty clothes trips abroad and q college education
 Today, the young poets verse ar- p"arel just IT lines of it-"Dark Lines" they are titled, and ending with a phrase that might have des- rIh"d her eEisronr" unu' now. "tlr
 "rld is strangely ohnvious."
 When Lilly took roisou in a street 1T, her shabby purse revealed but cents her total resources A morbid
 r." page message tclunc why she ll moi wish 10 live snI a silver nedal--a prize from the Minnesota b A. k, for patriotic essay. Not without poin', then. IS the heginnlng Of the first of her three poems. sub
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
TWO SLAYERS ARE
 SENT ID PRISON
Bercier and Berry Both Guilty
 Of Manslaughter

l Waterbury. Jan. 2l Rl-Ernest J. Bercler was sentenced to from 10 10 l5 years in states prison by Judge Newell Jennings yesterday after noon, Bercier was found guilty late yesterday Of manslaughter in con- nection with the killing on May 9. 1925, Of Patrolman William J. Stokes
 Judge Jennings yesterday gave de. fense counsel the opportunity to pre- sent a motion 10 Set aside the ver- dict and postponed any action on sentencing Bercier until today. The accused's attorneys did not care 10 present tho motion. but pleaded for cIemencv,
 Mrs Bercier, whom the defendant met and married in Franee, while he was serving overseas, may return "a that country She and her three small children have stayed in the court room corridors throughout the trial
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21

titled "Poverty'-"IIunger stalks like a gaunt leopard Nx down this gray street, and continuing
 Dawn makes no prying revela- tions--.
 Life IS discreet,
 The houses stagger in drunken
 despair
 "Croaliing maudlin sorrow
 The ghosts that creep up that an-
 cient stair
 Shall know no morrow
 But the morrow apparently has started for Lilly Olson.
 The only reason l ever wanted to live was 10 be a poet, but now l am convinced l have no genius. I want to dic," was her plamtive cry when she begged persons mot ro worry about saving nc"
 Then with Miss Monroos promise came this
 I'd like 10 live just long enough 10 See my name on my poems"
 Today Lilly Olson" IS signed 10 "nark Lines" and the young woman who few weeks ago. with neither friends nor relatives, was working as filing clerk, has achieved hor desire
 Perhaps 'he epigrammauc and larc' 'homea nature of her verse Is h.st illustrated by these four lines, luhelcd useless People" This pon1'roUs foo, is a dcaIer in facts He hammers them with imprcs- siNe certmony.
 Against the portals Of the world. "ThA world is strangely obliyious." The third Of her verses, tirado against "civIli2ation' runs Blaze your defiance to the stars. O raul cous civilization
 See----oven now the stars reel in
 the heavens.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
HASKELL IS APPROVED
Assured That He Win Re Made commander Of New York Na. tional Guard Within Few Days,

New York. Jan, ?i GPl-victorious In skirmish with the National De. 'ense Society Inc, over his attitude toward soviet Russia. Lieut.. Col. William Haskell today had the as. slranee Of Senator John Knight. state senator majority leader, tha, he will be confirmed as commander ot the New York National C;uarG within week,
 The defense society which charged him with sympathy with the soviet. and asked an investigation. sum. marily withdrew Its request yester. day after Lleut,-Col. Haskell denied the charge and was defended by Secretary Of Commerce Hoover. The society had protested that Colonel Haskell was unfit" for the position because of his alleged sympa,hles GoVernor Smith, however, stood by his nomination.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
Chimes of Old Church
 To Be Rung Once More

New Orleans, Jan. q tI1 -- The chimes of ST Louis cathedral. silent for d generation. will be heard again.
 Seven bells Tn the cathedral doWers hang over the site of an altar, among tho oldest used con. 'Nuously in Christian worship in this hemisphere, The ;reat bell in Inc central tower. which will sound : h. hours, bears this inscription:
 Brave Louisianians, this bell 7hoSo name is Victory. vas cast in eommemoration of the glorious Eighth ot January. ISl5."
 The bell was hung at the time tho name of the Place d'Armes was changed 10 Jackson Square. in honor Of Gen. Andrew Jackson's victory at
 bllmette
 Two small bells, 70 ttnkle the quarter hours, are dated 1851 and 'h" bells Of the chimes. to be rune a' midnight mass, weddings, com. m3n'ons and other special occasions. nmbcr three.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
ETHEL LEG|NSKA AGAIN ACTING UP teInperanental Pianist PeeYiish
 at Evansville

Evansville, Ind. Jan. 21 P-, Ethel Leginska, temperamental' English pianist failed to appear for t scheduled concert here last night Endcr circumsi ances much the >lme as those under which she ab- S2nted herself from q similar en- gagement at Carnegie hall in New York last spring.
 $, F, MacMillan of New York, Hcr manager, had not been able to ocate. her, several, hours after the. uudionce has dispersed. She was sal1' to have departed from her hotel early in the evening.
 When she failed to arrive at the coliseum for which her concert had been advertised an audience of fIoosiers twiddled it's thumbs and Uttered at the discontinue of Mac Milan who altcrnated attempts to 2lcify the assembly with suggestions 'o the local management as to where she might be found
 She is simply misplaced" he aid distractodly, T expect to find her soon."
 She showed her first symptoms of a recurring Gotham temperature when she arrived here late this afternoon.
 "1 don't want to ride in your old yellow cabs"
 "I won't play the piano tonight. I want my symphony orchestra" she pouted. T want to go to the Nc Curdy hotel. l won't go any place but the McCurdy," she screamed.
 So she went to the McCurdy.
 Then they took her to the Coli scum and she practiced a bit on the worries which she didn't tickle this evening.
 T don't like this old barn. |. don't play the piano in this old building" she proclaimed to the building empty except for her men age.
 Local police and detectives unac- customed to trailing pianists with expehsive temperaments searched everywhere they could think of in- ending the Ohio river. the hospitals. tho libraries and the homes of prom. inrnt citizens but Ethel was at least an octave ahead of them.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21

city, was sentenced by Judge Allyn L, Brown in the superior court to from 10 to lb years in states prison on each count. but tho sentences to run concurrently, Berry had been on trial for two days for second de- gree murder for chloroforming his two sons, five and four years old, on October 20 last, the night after his wife had left home when he ac- eused her Of being out with other men.
 Berry's willingness 10 change his plea came after a morning ot con- ference between his two lawyers, Ed ward c, Mckay and Thomas NJ. Shields. States Attorney Arthur NJ. Brown, and half a dozen doctors who had been called 10 give testi- mony which Berrys attorneys were
New Britain herald., 1926-01-21

relying, They were net called upon to testify in court.
 In the remarks of the states at lorney when he moved for sentence and In what Judgo Brown said when be pronounced sentence. there was n current of sympathy for the accused man and of condemnation for his wife for her moral responsibility" for the tragedy in the family.
 Berry will be held in jail here for a few days to await the convenience Of Sheriff Sidney 4, Brown in talk ing him to Wethersheld.