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TAR HEEL FARMER WILL. NOT BURY SON'S BODY. Jolui F. Speaks Keeps Remains or Soldier Soil in Best Room, in the House. Statesville, N. C., Sept. 5? John P. Speaks of Union Grove township, refuses to bury the body of his son, Thomas B. Speaks, who was killed in France in October, 1918. The remains of the dead soldier were shipped from France to the United States, arriving at the home in Iredell county August 13The report being circulated that Mr. Speaks was keeping the remains of* his son in the home and would not consider burial caused an investigation on the part of County Welfare officer W. \V. Holladn. Yesterday morning Mr. Holland, accompanied by County Physician Dr. Ross McElwee and Sheriff M. P. Alexander, drove in a car to the Speaks home, 20 miles north of Statesville. The box in which the casket ' was shipped was seen lying under a shed near the house; the casket, draped in a United States flag, was resting on chairs inside the home, where it was placed by the undertaker on its arrival three weeks ago. There was nothing offensive about the casket, and the mother and other members of the household were moving around looking after the duties of the home as though the casket were a piece of choice furniture in the best room in the house. Immediately following the arrival cf the body at the home, the father, John P. Speaks, who has the reputation of being a man of very peculiar and uncompromising ideas and convictions, first decided that he ^w iiited to satisfy himself that the \ jeasket contained the remains of his own boy. He therefore had the casket opened and found little more than a mere skeleton- The shape of the teeth and the dental work with which he was familiafr, the length and size of the bones of the body all gave Mr. Speaks good hope that the rem nine urnro f h nco of hiQ Qftfl TTp then announced his purpose to keep the. body In the house and not bury It During the past few days, however, he stated that he ment to build a special room in or near the house in which to keep the body, and he is now arranging to have timber cut for that purpose. Mr. Speaks treated the visitors with special courtesy and consideration. He manifested no stubborn or rebellious disposition in regard to the request of the officers and friends to have his boy's body buried, stating that he would bury only if required by law to do so, or if it was found necessary from a sanitary standpoint. "I do not want to bury my boy now," said Mr. Speaks to a newspaper man, "but I will bury him if I have to, or if it is unsanitary to keep him in the house. I am At i n r? nr expecting anomer sun, wuu is m many in the United States army, to come home in a few months, and we might decide to bury him then. I prefer to fix a place for him in or near the house, since he has already been buried once, and keep him until I am dead and have his bones buried with me. I do not want my body left out when I die, and after I am gone I do not want my boy's body left out, as the farm might change hands, and I would not want his , body neglected or abused in any way." Mr. Speaks refuses to make application to the government for the $10,000 war insurance which his son had taken on entering the war. Another peculiarity of Mr. Speaks, which was learned through a neighbor, is that, while he does not go to church himself nor permit the members of the family to attend church, still he is said to be a constant reader of the Bible, conducts family worship in the home and can quote the Scriptures freely and accurately when the occasion demands. "What will be done with the body of the dead soldier," was asked the officers yesterday on their return to Statesville from a visit to the Speak? .home. The reply was that nothing .could be done. If the keeping of the body in the home was found to be unsanitary, the man could be forced hy law to bury it. The county physician does not find that it is dangerous to the health of the family, and the officers are therefore at the end of the row. Members of the Speaks household do not express any dissatisfaction over the trend of affairs. They freely yield to the wishes of the head of the home and state that what he does is satisfactory to them. o ? BROWNSVILLE TO SELLERS ROAD TO BE ABANDONED Passenger and Freight Service to Ik Stopped Monday?I?g Trains to Run for a While. Pee Dpe Advocate. Some time ago the Bennettsvllle and Cheraw Railroad Company applied to the state railroad commission for permission to discontinue the operation of trains on the piece of road between Brownsville and .'Sellers, a distance of eleven miles This application was opposed by a s J number of citizens and business men r in the territory affected. Two hearings were held by the railroad commission in Columbia, al which arguments were made for and against the petition of the railroad. The decision of the commission waj not announced at the time, but on August 31st, the commission issued an order granting the petition. The railroad Is giving notice thai It will discontinue freight and P??s senger service on the Brownsville Sellers end of the road next Monday Sept. 12. Thereafter all trains wil! top at Brownsville and return. The Tilghman Lumber companj has a lot of timber on this side oi Brownsville, and It will continue tc operate lta log trains over the road * THE DILLON HE] to its mills at Sellers till the timber is removed. The Brownsville to Sellers piece of road will then probablv be abandoned or torn up, and i Brownsville will be the terminus of the roadIt is claimed that this part of the road hay always been operated at a loss, as there is very little freight or passenger business in its territory. Most of the business in that section goes to Sellers and Latta, on the |main line of the Coast I-ine. It is regretted by the people of Bennettsville and all Marlboro counIty that it was found necessary to abandon the piece of road between Brownsville and Sellers. It had been hoped that the road would some time go on to Marion, or pos- i ;sibly to the seacoast. j There is another railroad, built by I the Marion Lumber company, from > Brownsville to Marion. It has never : been used excep1 as a log road, how- 1 ever, and has now been abandoned and is falling into decay. Hereafter the B. and C. railroad will be wholly in Marlboro county, 1 running from Kollock to Browns- 1 ville. a distance of 32 miles. I o J FOREIGN INSECTS IVVADIXG SOUTH CAROLINA , I 1 Mexican Bean Beetle and \ el vet Bean < Caterpillar May l>o Great Damage ' ! Cleiuson College. Sept. 1?Two 1 foreign insect posts which ure likr-lv | I ! f f \ ' ' A s , . } ; \ ' * ^ ; i^ r?%? * -r?<e?*s. t v>v %% fr . *- ->'rmn ii y < .. ^ jjl ;; N 9 y - "u \ i $ I " } * n A t?t i i?** v >i n ? wmm Is V ( 1ALD. DILLON, SOITH CAROLINA. to do much damage are being watched closely, says Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomologist; namely the Mexican bean beetle, which has already reached this state; and the velvet bean caterpillar, which is rapidly working its way upward from Florida and southern Georgia. The Mexican bean beetle has been reported by Government scouts at \ two points in the northwestern corner ol' this state; viz. Long Creek and a point near Easley. The spread of this! pest has been so rapid during the spring and summer that it will possi-j blv spread over much more territory j before being stopped by winter. This; is an especially destructive pest to all kinds of beans in the garden and to cowpwis. The grubs, which do the principal feeding, are one-fourth to three-eights of an inch long, of a. bright yellow color, and covered with spines which are branched and color-, i (i black at the tips. The velvet bean caterpillar has been | reported by the Florida entomologists to be spreading in central and northern Florida. It is believed that this pest may be expected in southern Tields in early September and may reach South Carolina by the middle of | September. Throughout Florida thisinsect is a most serious pest to velvet beans. Tins caterpillar when full grown is nearly two inches ions. After it is half grown it is generally lark green with prominent bright colored lines with darker border running langthwise on lite body. Many, in pnip proon witn linos either ittdis-j linci or absent. Tho lino alonK the side of tbo body is wider than those " ?? ???*--. ,-.-r i ? ? -r v*- ~r" **" >. . ^ -?TT'-TfT * ' yj J ' V % * 4 v,*kA- * *> v a ". *"siiflS? a V,.w "* JtVnMn.'1 . i\'. ."i ? mrfllZ'- . 'fatvufiit'./.A TW i ! ?Itt?C The more ch Packard Siiv C. reveals its gem ounce of ste< chassis, every it, evidences t manufacture, that powerfe security. that! / r of Packard c? Six, which, ori touring mode YOU CAN SAFELY EXP] OF 17 MILES OR BE' BETTER TO THE GALt PACKARD MOI Roger Ish t w M?mmmmmmmmmm i , rHURSDAY MOKM.NU, SEPTEMI on the back and is often pink or brown. If disturbed it throws itself violently until it reaches the mound. Prof. Conradi urges that the occur-! ence of any suspicious insects be reported to the entomology division. Clenison College, S. C., so that steps may be taken to control the peats. | AN INTKHi:STIN<; ItKCISION. I.and Pase Passe,| on l?y Judge .Moore ?Holds Port baser of Land Pan Not Klect to Forfait Pay. meiit. ! Judge Moore, of Lancaster, handed down an interesting decision recently in the case of the executors of the estate of J. M. Cherry against l? - ' junn rruiu, 01 i\mierson. The action was brought by Plain-1 tiffs, as executors, for the enforce-! ment of a written contract for the purchase of several valuable tracts of land bid off by Pruitt at the sal?-J of the Cherry lands, conducted by J Pat \V. Major in July of last year, i the said contract, which was signed [ by Pruitt, embodying the terms of his purchase of said land in detail. The defendant Pruitt demurred to the plaintiffs' complaint, the main issues raised by said demurrer aris ing out of provision in said contract providing that, if the purchaser failed to make the second payment on said land, due on the first day of' January of this year, he should forfeit all rights under the contract and the seller should retain all payments theretofore made by him ;.sj liquidated damages. W"'7 " " n'mi/.-'i uwtai-. d V-.' v ."- w- , ' ' ' * ' v-A'jvJ . in Jt-. ?~ r- ? ? ? :ka vjj/ asely you exarr *le-Six, the mc line Packard chi el in the comp trace of worktr he care and ski On the road t il action, that lave always been irs. Come ride ginally priced at I, is now $2975, ECT FROM THE PACKARD SINGLE-SI ITER TO THE GALLON OF GASO ON OF OIL, AND 15,000 MILES OR rOR CAR COMPA s Motors Con DILLON, S. C. aan who { * '? IKR 15. 1921. I Tk" contention of Pruitt was that he had a right to give up his initio! rnyment of 15 per cent required to bo made in cash on the day of sale,1 and that the seller was bound to accept the same in full satisfaction of ih? contract by way of liquidated damages, and that thereupon the contract was at an end. Tins con-( tention is overruled in Judge' Moore's decision, in which he hold*' 1 that said provision as to forfeiting and liquidated damages was ir.tended as securuj for the perfonuunei o* the contract by the putchaoer. and tl at the putiha.-'-i ha- u?> i.-tlit to '< i ' to give up said first pavnv t.t j viid compel the seller to accej tb? same as a substitute for sp- ific i? r t finance; and h2 furthei holds t. at there is no'b'.'g in the coiaola'nt to; show that !ha v.Jv.intiffs. a< rente-, sentative of the seller of ?a?d land.' a not entitled to liav said con- , tract snocifically enforce' Sv requit 1 i g tb>. defe.-<a:t. to ae ? t th-tr' dred to sai-1 land hnd to pav th? whole amount of the purchase m,v nev t! eiclor, as provided i t the j contract. Several objections to the plaintiff*8' complaint were made in the demurrer, all of which were overruled in Judge Moore's decree, which is wholly in favor of the plaintiffs. ii is unucrsiooa there uro a f w oilier cases of similar nature arisinc out of tlio miction sale of the Cherry lands last year, but most of the purchaser* completed their contract. It is expected that tin- above case will bo foimht furtbor. - Hock Hill l.voninp Herald. Sept 1st ' . . iml: > - . 1 fyil .-j. 1 , N 11bAAeM# We* ' ' J'Sf.'- y ? ... ? rn - /v. ?? ^ A *a % . iU? awipy^^x^iiMWW. awymuci. ^s?xf lKL line the new >re clearly it iracter. Every act and able lanship upon 4 ^ S* 'w ^ il ot Packard he car shows comfort and characteristic in the Single$3640 for the f. o. b. 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