The Rutherford Courier from Smyrna, Tennessee • 1

28 have Mrs, Randy oward and reom a opped agton, on the and other, R. T. GROOM Nothing But Insurance Phone 757 RUTHERFORD VOL. VI-NO. 32 MURFREESBORO, Local Man Robbed, Left Tied To Tree By Farm Hands Car, $50 And Watch Taken From Dog Wagon Operator Billfold With $205 Tossed Into Bushes And Saved County officers searched over the week end without success for two farm-hands who are alleged to have abducted Carney Handley, local dog wagon operator, early Sunday morning, robbed him of about $50 in cash, his watch and.

his car, and then left him tied to a tree in a woodslot on the Manson pike. The two men, according to Mr. Handley, were Buck Stedum, who worked on the farm of Oscar Crouch near Blackman, and Medford Harrell, who lives near Crescent. Found Billfold Mr. Handley, after being left tied to the tree, worked himself loose, and called officers.

Policemen Claude Vance, Sam Vaughn and Red Allen answered the call, and found Mr. Handley walking toward town on the Manson pike, about four miles out. Mr. Handley told the officers that he had tossed his billfold, containing over $200, into some bushes, when he saw that his abductors meant to rob him. The officers to took Mr.

Handley to where he said the billfold had been thrown, and there it was found. According to Mr. Handley, the two men had loafed at his wagon, located on Vine street near Maple street, all day Saturday. They made a trade with Mr. Handley to take them home, and were, supposed to meet him at a local cafe.

When Mr. Handley went to the cafe, Dee Busey, who works for him at the dog wagon, accompanied him, and Stedum and Harrell refused to get i nthe car. Bound With Belts A short while later Mr. Handley stopped at Bynum-Stephens garage for gasoline, and the two men were waiting there. Mr.

Handley agreed to take them home, after some talk, and they entered the car. Soon after leaving town they seized Mr. Handley, and took the car from him. They then drove out the Manson pike about four or five miles, and stopped the car near a woodslot. They bound their victim with belts, and started to throw him into a sinkhole, but after he pleaded with them, they tied him to a tree and left, taking the cash which they found on him, and the watch and the car.

Mr. Handley was slightly hurt, stating that one" of the two men struck him when he atten.pted to call for help to a negro they passed on the road. He also suffered bruises and skinned places from being tied up. County officers report that the two men have not returned to their homes since the abduction took place. Warrants for their arrests were sworn out before Magistrate E.

I. Rion. Army Posts In Canal Zone Open Application May Be Made In Nashville The United States Army Recruting Officer, 519 Post Office Building, Montgomery, Alabama, announces that vacancies for service in the United States Army for assignment to Infantry, Coast Artillery Engineer Corps and Chemical Warfare Service in the Panama Canal Zone are now available. Young men between ages of 18 and 35 who are interested in enlistment for this assignment should apply in person to the Army Recruiting Office nearest their home as follows: 519 Post Office Building Montgomery, Ala. 29 Federal Building.

Birmingham, 303 Post Office Building, Dothan, Post Office Building, Decatur, 400 Custom House Building, Nashville, Tennessee, 319 Post Office Building, Knoxyille, Tennessee, Room 45 Post Office Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee. All applicants will be required to pass. a rigid physical and mental examination and secure character references from reliable business men on their home community. COURIER TENNESSEE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936 80 THE PRICE 4 THE FARMER THE CORN Lavergne Farmer Buried Saturday Was Father Of Local Citizens Funeral services for John Pierce, Briley, 82, Lavergne farmer who died at his home Thursday night at 7 o'clock, were held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock the Cainridge Presbyterian church. Burial are was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Briley was born and reared in Davidson county. He had farmed all his life until his retirement a few years ago. Fifty-five years ago he was married to Miss Fannie Bonds. He was a member of the Presbyterian church having joined 26 years ago.

Survivors are his wife; five daughters, Mrs. Annie Hodge and Mrs. Tomime Keller, Nashville, Mrs. P. D.

Dacus, Madison, Mrs. 'T. A. Burnett, Chattanooga and Mrs. L.

H. Higdon, Antioch; five sons, Andrew, Alec and Charles Briley, Murfreesboro, Nathan Briley, ville, and Sam Robert Briley, Madison; one sister, Mrs. Amelia burn, Nashville; 35 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Wise Farmer Puts Land Under Cover Pelting Rains Will Wash Topsoil Wise indeed is the farmer who prepares his sloping crop lands for pelting winter rains which are just around the corner, say Farm Management specialists of the U-T Agricultural Extension Service. Whether the rains be torrential' downpours or drizzling showers, bare crop land will be an easy prey to soil washing, they say, in advocating immediate preparation for more extensive use of winter cover crops.

These crops should be planted in late summer or early fall, All sloping fields which ordinarily would be without vegetative cover during the winter months should be planted to a cover crop. Corn land, to be followed by oats, soybeans or other cultivated crops, especially needs this protection against erosion. The Soil Conservation Service and Agricultural experiment tions advocate the use of available small grains grown on the farm, such as wheat, rye, or oats to hold the expenses to a minimum. Oats sometimes winter-kill but if planted early enough in the fall will attain sufficient growth to provide a fairly good winter cover. Wheat or rye will serve to best advantage in most areas.

Haynes Hardware Co. WESTINGHOUSE Refrigerators, Electric Automatic Water Systems. Price Quality Service PRICE FIVE CENTO Her Hands Full Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, voted the year's best country newspaper correspondent, is a very busy woman. Receiving a trip to New York as part of her award, Mrs.

Eisele is pictured in her hotel room as she typed out her column with one hand and held her 2-month-old son with the other. Mrs. Eisele was notified of her award the day this son was born at her home in Blue Earth, where, in her "spare" moments, she takes care of two other children and helps with the work on her husband's Circuit Court Opens Session Murder Trials To Start Monday Circuit court opened Monday, in a continued session of the July term, starting on the civil docket, with the criminal docket, including three murder cases, to begin next Monday. First case to come up for hearing was that of Mrs. Alice Weatherly, of Shelbyville, against a number of Bedford county people charged with allying to have her committed to an insane asylum when she was not insane.

A large number of witnesses had been subpoenaed for the case. The trial of Albert DuBois, for the fatal stabbing of George Snow here some weeks ago, will begin next Monday. A murder case against Roy Lee Jones is scheduled to begin Tuesday, and another against L. Fugitt, colored, is too start Wednesday. -Judge T.

L. Coleman is presiding over the court, There are a large number of grand jury indictments which will be heard during the session. Watch For Worms On Cotton, Advise Agents The county. agent's advice to farmers to keep a careful watch on their cotton fields for worms, and to dust the fields, promptly when worms are found. On some fields, which have been already dusted, the second crop of worms is appearing, and it will pay to redust in this case.

In three weeks or a month more, cotton will be so far developed that the worms can do little damage. In fact, if the worms attack at the right stage, they really help the cotton, causing the bolls to open faster. Robert Jolly and Mrs. John F. Jolly and son, Jack have returned from a month's visit at Huntingdon, Tenn.

where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jolly and Mr. and Mrs. John Wiley Lashley of Camden, Tenn.

All-Star Team Listed On Today's Sports Page The All-star softball chosen by almost 300 fans, and players who submitted selections in the Courier's All-Star poll, will be found listed on the sports page of this issue of the Courier. The poll created an usual amount of interest. A majority of the players and fans and officials took part. Social Agencies To Hold Carnival At Country Club All-Day Program Planned; Tickets Go On Sale Soon Dance Will Be Feature At Night; Charity To Get Proceeds A Charity Carnival, beginning early in the afternoon and continuing through a dance at night, will be sponsored next Monday, which is Labor Day, at the country club, by the Council of Social Agencies. Plans for the event were made at a meeting of members of the council and others Monday morning.

Mrs. T. A. Robertson is general chirman of the carnival. Sub-chairmen are: games, Mrs.

F. L. Ransom; food, Mrs. A. R.

King, dance, Harry Scott; drinks, James Ransom; decorations, Mrs. James Haynes; water carnival, Miss Esther Licker. Tickets to the grounds will sell for a quarter. These tickets will entitle the buyers to admission to the grounds and to all the events exept the dance. Dance tickets will cost fifty cents a couple.

Mrs. M. B. Murfree, is chairman of the ticket sale, which will begin immediately. The tickets will admit the buyers to all attractions offered at the club including tennis, golf, and swimming.

A softball game will be played that night, between two teams to be announced later. A water carnival, including exhibitions and contests, will be a night feature, starting at 9 o'clock. Bill McClean's orchestra will play for the dance, which starts at 10 o'clock. Food will be sold on the grounds all during the day. Money realized from the carnival will be used by the Council of Social Agencies in carrying on its charity work this winter.

Rutherford Below State's Averages Crop Comparisons Are Made In yield per acre, Rutherford county was below the state average for the past ten years on all but three of the ten important crops, according to estimates prepared by the division of crop and livestock estimates of the United States department of agriculture, cooperating with the University of Tennessee. Only in yields of rye and oats was Rutherford county above the state average for the 1923-32 period. In sorghum syrup, Rutherford county farmers produced exactly the state averages, 58 gallons to the according to the estimates. corn, wheat, barley, Irish acre, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tobacco and cotton Rutherford county was below the state average. Cotton estimates, however, included only the five year period, 1928-32.

Average total state yields for the 1923-32 period, are as follows: Acres Y'ld. Per A. Corn 2,980,000 20.9 Wheat 326,000 11.2 Oats 130,000 16.5 Barley 16,000 17.9 Rye 19,000 7.1 I. Potatoes 39,000 73 S. Potatoes 53,000 85 Sorghum Syrup 24,000 58 Tobacco 131,180 792 Lint 1,082,400 181 Rutherford county acreage and average yield per acre for the period were as follows: Acres Y'ld Per A.

Corn 69,800 19.5 Wheat 5,825 10.5 Oats 3,280 16.8 Barley 170 16 Rye 50 7.2 I. Potatoes 240 64 S. Potatoes 230 93 Sorghum Syrup 400 58 Tobacco 125 698 Lint 18,500 181 estimates are for the fiveyear period 1923-32. Yields are in bushels, except cotton and tobacco in pounds, sorghum syrup in gallons. Mr.

and Mrs. returned to their freesboro Tuesday, with relatives here. Herd Building, Breeding, Only Way To Profit New Dairy Program Will Revolutionize Industry Hoard's Dairyman Editor Speaks To 1,200 Over State a E. as to The biggest problem facing the dairy farmer today is that the average cow does not bring enough income. This was the keynote statement made by J.

C. Nisbet, Editor, Hoards, Dairymen, in a series of meetings throughout the State recently. "If the dairy farmer survives he must replace the average. cow with a better cow through a constructive breeding and herd building program," he said. Mr.

Nisbet spoke to over 1200 people at a series of dairy meetings arranged by C. A. Hutton, U-T Extension dairyman who states that dairy farmers throughout the state are taking renewed interest in improving their herds following the meetings. "Plans are being made by county agents and dairymen for herd testing and the formation of county dairy bull exchanges whereby many good bulls will be exchanged and kept in service instead of being made into bologna before their value is found out," he said. Mr.

Nisbet who is one of the best known dairy authorities in this country outlined a program for building better dairy herds, in which he showed in a very interesting and forceful way the importance of a properly selected herd sire and a continuous system of dairy herd records. "The new, permanent system of dairy herd improvement association records, together with a new standard of selecting herd sires, will 1 revolutionize the dairy cattle breeding industry in the next few years," he said. A. L. Todd Asks To Join Creditor's Bill Against News Journal A petition was filed in chancery court last week by Andrew L.

Todd, praying to become a party to a general creditor's bill- which was filed last year against the News Journal Publishing company by the Graham Paper company, and which has been on the chancery dockets since that date. The petition lists judgments, notes, accounts ana claims against the publishing company, now held by Mr. Todd, to the amount of approximately $21,000. W. B.

Knott is solicitor for the petitioneer. Chatterton Fliers Stop At Airport Crowd Of 5,000 Wel- comes Derby Planes A crowd estimated at 5,000 people welcomed the Ruth Chatterton Air Derby as the thirty planes in the air caravan stopped over at Sky Harbor Sunday. The planes in the derby were enroute from Cleveland, Ohio, to Los Angeles, where the national air races will be held this year. The derby winners will be chosen on basis of all-round performance and not on speed. Miss Chatterton, leader of the derby, and nationally famous stage and motion picture actress received a great ovation from the sightseers present.

She graciously signed autographts for all who asked for them. The derby planes landed about 8:30 and remained at Sky Harbor until after 10:30 o'clock. Miss Chatterton was tendered a reception during the stop-over by the Nashville Lions Club. Pasturing Will Kill Pesky Johnson Grass Adclay McCasland, Hardin County farmer, killed out a badly infested field of Johnson grass by pasturing with cattle, states County Agent W. C.

Mitchell. Mr. McCasland purchased a creek bottom farm in 1936 that at one time, before it was allowed to be overrun with Johnson grass, was one of the best farms in the county, He is rotating his crops, fencing off the worst infested fields and pasturing them with cattle. In this way he expects to bring the farm back into a high state of cultivation and to entirely eliminate the grass. Children Inherit Barnett Estate Late Smyrna Woman's Will Filed The last will and testament of Mrs.

Mary Jane Barnett, of near Smyrna, who died recently, was filed and probated in the office of County Court Clerk J. P. Leathers last week. All Mrs Barnett's property, real, and personai and mixed, was left to J. N.

Barnett as trustee to hold for the use ana benefit of her husband, W. T. Barnett, during his natural life. At his death, the property was left to be disposed of as follows: To a daughter, Mrs Mamie Barnett Johnson, is to go a 37-acre tract adjoining the homeplace near Smyrna, to have during her natural life. At her death, the tract is to go in fee simple to her children, and if there be no issue, then the tract is to be divided between J.

N. Barnett, or his children, and the children of a deceased son, Lee Barnett. J. N. Barnett is to receive onethird of the remainder, personal and mixed, in fee simple.

Mrs. Mamie Barnett Johnson, or children, will rceeive the children of the deceased son, Lee Barnett, will receive one-third. Full settlement of the trust fund is to be made when the youngest son of Lee Barnett, deceased, reaches the age of 30. J. N.

Barnett was named executor. The instrument was dated January 27, 1932, and witnessed by O. B. Coleman and J. R.

Coleman, State H.D. Clubs Have Over 50,000 Membership Largest In History Membership of rural women and girls in Home Demonstration and 4-H clubs in Tennessee for 1936 totals 52,687, the largest enrollment in the histary of the work, states Miss Margaret A. Ambrose, U-T assistant Extension director in charge of home demonstration work. This number includes 25,281 girls enrolled in 1,309 girls 4-H clubs as compared with 14,442 girls in 800 clubs in 1935, and 27,406 women in 1190 clubs as compared with 17,977 in 756 clubs in 1935. Broken up according to the four districts of the state the numbers are as follows: District 1, West Tennessee, 757 girls in 406 clubs, and 9,147 women' in 341 clubs: District II, Middle Tennessee, 5,524 girls in 315 clubs, and 8,894 women in 397 clubs; District III, Chattanooga area, 5,502 girls in 277 clubs, and 4,902 women in 247 clubs; district IV, East Tenn(Continued on Page Four) Eight H.D.

Women Attending Course Left Sunday By Bus For Knoxville Eight representatives of Rutherford county home demonstration clubs left here Sunday afternoon by bus for Knoxville, where they will attend the farm women's short course to be conducted this week at the University of Tennessee. Miss Elizabeth Atchley, home demonstration agent, accompanied the group. They will return Saturday. In the party were: Mrs. N.

N. Dryden, representing the Eagleville club; Miss Tabbie Peebles and Mrs. Mildred Davis, representing the Seminary club; Mrs. W. T.

Elrod, Porterfield; Mrs. Mabel Stephens, Shelbyville road; Mrs. Lloyd Smith, Florence; Miss Lena Edmondson, Smyrna; and Mrs. H. C.

Pate, Patterson. IN SERIOUS CONDITION S. A. Upchurch, Walter Hill, is confined to his room serious condition due to gastric ulcer of the stomach which prevents him retaining any solid food. Jots" Jest THOSE two Saginaw, men who were jailed for trying to kiss women in the neighboring city of Alma may merely have been saluting their Alma maters.

Greece and Albania have no radio stations. Well, that's one way of taking care of those announcers, It seems to us that the parachute jumper who landed on an outdoor dance floor near Pittsburgh might have crashed the gate with a little more finesse. The African cheetah can run 103 feet a second. They don't need quite so much speed in the U. since all American policemen "have big feet." Newman Grover home in Murafter a visit If opportunity is responsible for the new "knock knock" fad, we'd just as soon stay where we are..