"Lockhart Given Life for Murder of Smith"

   George Lockhart, who jointly with Richard Morgan was indicted in the Whitley Circuit Court for the murder of Wiley Smith, a Middlesboro young man, but who resided at Corbin at the time he was murdered, was given a life term in the penitentiary Saturday morning at Williamsburg, where the court is in session.  Morgan will be tried at the next session of the court, which will be held at Williamsburg.    Throughout the deliberations, it was learned today, ten of the jury held out for the death penalty, because they were convinced that the motive for the murder was robbery.    The murdered man was the son of Noah Smith of Elys, and cousin of Harry, Eugene and William Smith of Middlesboro.

Jellico Club To Make Airplanes Design of Capt. Walter J. Carr Adopted, To Capitalize at $250,000      Jellico, Tenn., Jan. 14 --

Airplanes are to be manufactured at Jellico.  The design is such as to enable the plane to be manufactured at a minimum cost.  The capital stock of the company will be $250,000.    Monday night at the stockholders' meeting of the Jellico Aero club several forward steps were taken in this organization.  As a result of the successful operations of the first six months of the club it was decided to expand the business to immense proportions.  There being a majority of the stock present in person or by proxy.  L. E. Woody, president and general managers stated that the purpose of the meeting was to increase the capital stock, enlarge the powers of the corporation and to transact any other business that might come before the meeting.    The first resolution presented and unanimously adopted was to declare a stock dividend of 100 per cent and to authorize the issuance of the same.  This was unanimously carried.    Capt. Walter J. Carr, aviator presented a miniature production of the aeroplane that will be manufactured at Jellico.  Owing to the fact that there are no aeroplane factories in the south makes Jellico the pioneer southern town in the manufacturer of aeroplanes.  After explaining the new plane, which will be called the "Carrplane" Capt. Carr placed the miniature model on exhibition at the Central Drug store.    It was also voted to change the name of the corporation from the Jellico Aero Club to the Southern Carrplane Manufacturing company.

Death Bed Denial Bombing Charge Corbin Man Swears Innocence - Mrs. McJelton Held in Williamsburg Jail    Corbin, Mar. 6 --

Through the arrest early in the week of John Stansberry, a well known and respected citizen of this city, the disclosure was made that he and Clyde Earls, who is in a serious condition following an operation for appendicitis at the Siler and Smith hospital, had been indicted by the Whitley county grand jury jointly with Mrs. Dudley McJelton in connection with the blowing up of the Meadows Boarding house on January 20 last.    When advised that such an indictment had been returned Stansberry immediately went to Williamsburg, and voluntarily surrendered to the authorities.  He was released at once on $2,000 bond.    Later a statement was obtained from him in which he denied any knowledge of or connection with the crime with which he is charged and completed (sic) exonerated Stansberry.     Mrs. McJelton, who was arrested at San Bernardino, Cal., three weeks ago is in jail at Williamsburg.  She was brought back to Corbin last Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Young who later in the day accompanied her to Williamsburg.  When arraigned for preliminary hearing her bond was increased from $2,000 to $5,000 and she was remanded to jail in default of bond.  She refuses to make a statement for publication.    Attorney R.L. Pope and George Morgan of Williamsburg, are among the claimants of the rewards offered for the capture and conviction of the offenders.  It is stated they obtained the evidence upon which it is believed the indictments were based during the preliminary investigations of the crime in the court of Magistrate Chestnut in this city.

 Nov. 22, 1922

 Say Cumberlands More Beautiful Than The Rockies

 Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper of Colorado stopped in Middlesboro
 today on a motor trip through to Florida to spend the winter. 
They have made the trip from Colorado in ten days, sleeping out of 
doors at night. They say the roads were splendid until they got about
 to Danville, Ky., and that they were rougher from there.
 The Coopers were enthusiastic about this section of the country and Mrs.
Cooper said she considered the mountain scenery around 
Williamsburg more beautiful, abstractly speaking, than that of the 
Rockies.She thinks the drive from Frankfort to Williamsburg is every
 bit as impressive as the famed drive into Estes Park in Colorado.
 They suggested that a tourist camp here would be a great help in
 bringing travelers this way, and told of many of the splendid 
camping grounds further north, mentioning the one at Galesburg, Ill.,
 as the finest.Mr. Cooper took a parting shot at our East End street as 
he was leaving, but in general, they had nothing but praise for
 Middlesboro.

Thursday, May 20, 1976

Jellico – a town full of brothers

By Gene Siler

This town was full of brothers and it has claimed quite a few notables
 among its citizens through the years.
        It was always called Jellico – or Jillico as my grandmother 
used to say.
"Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down",
according to the Negro spiritual.
        But our Jillico was not a Jericho by any means and the walls
 are still there – just about all of them, I think.
        Oh Yes! I promised to tell you about those brothers who lived
 up and down Main Street and really ran the town of Jellico.
        There were the Ellison brothers – Will and George. They were
 in furniture and undertaking and wholesale groceries.
        There were the Smiths – Frank and Charlie. They were in
 hardware and banking.
        There were the Bairds, whose first names I don’t recall, and
 they were in dry goods.
        There were the Silers – M.V. and Wymer. They were in
 wholesale groceries.
        There were the Harknesses, whose first names are hiding 
out from me right now. They were in the ice and electric power business.

        There were the McCombs brothers, Sam and Barrett. They 
were in the coal and mine supply businesses.
        There were the Mahan brothers, Lee and Wesley. Lee was a
 salesman and one a postmaster.

        Eight sets of brothers in one small town. All those mentioned, 
except Charlie Smith, have gone on to help run the affairs of the 
golden streets, we hope. But wherever they are, it is likely they will
 be busy in any situation – never idle. They were not good loafers.
        And now I hope you are hanging on my words to find out
 who were Jellico notables. I promised to tell, didn’t I?
        In music, there were Grace Moore, Metropolitan Opera Star 
and movie celebrity, and Homer Rhodehaver, nationally known 
song leader for the great evangelist, Billy Sunday.
        In sports activity, there were the Douglass brothers, Big Doug
 and Little Doug, both Big League Baseball pitchers, and there was
 Billy Harkness, University of Tennessee football quarterback.
        In the field of writing, there were Tom Siler, author and sports
 editor of Knoxville News Sentinel, and Grover Cleveland Kidwell,
 whose published stories appeared in national periodicals a 
generation ago.
        If you had come down town in Jellico on a Saturday night
 in those halcyon days I have mentioned you would have seen a 
great throng of peope at the Union Station. What on earth were they
 all doing?  Well, talking and waiting for the evening trains from
 Knoxville. It was excitement and romance and crowd stimulation, 
you see.
        Then, if you had left the crescent driveway of the station and
 wandered up on Main Street, you would have found plenty of people
 still milling around, even until 10 o’clock.
        What brought up all of this Jellico lore? Well you see, I went to
 Jellico to the funeral of Nona Vermillion, a beautiful Christian, and 
as I sat between former Mayor Paul Harp, and Goldie Garber, both
 of them were voluble talkers. So we talked and talked about Jillico
 and its people. But we also listened to the funeral, mind you.

        Jellico – it’s the only one of its kind on earth, the town you
 can’t forget.