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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1923.
ABOUT THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Those who attended court in Pitts
boro last week will agree with us that
it was one of the most effective courts
held in Chatham county m a long
while. The dispatch with which the
docket was dispatched, the result ot
the trials, the ability displayed b>
the solicitor and the judgments of the
C °The time is at hand for the busi
ness of the courts to be dispatched i
like manner. They have heretofore
proven very expensive and or mo
consequence so far as the object le:~
sons are concerned for the guilty, oi
would be guilty persons. This can
not be attributed to the judges win
sit at the courts. They are all con
scientious in their work. Perhaps i
few of them are more severe m thei
judgment than Otners, but the time j
at hand when violators of the star
utes written, must feel the hand o
punishment, and Judge Lloyd Horto
is one of the most able judges, i
our opinion that has sit in Chathai.
County in a long time. Following ui
on the heels of that most excelle.
man, Judge E. H. Cranmer, Chathan
has felt the influence of the court
strongly, and the law violation is no\
on the decrease to a great extent.
There has been too much chant;
no doubt, thrown upon liquor mal
it has proven to be fruitless, a.
the time is ripe for a more stei
dealing with the blockader.
It is to be hoped that the sentence
of the court will be carried out. A
evil to be feared, is the pardoning lr
fluence. The governor of our cor;
monwealth does not know circum
stances in individual cases, and as ck
izens, who abide by the law, w<
should interest ourselves in this mat
ter and prevent a miscarriage of jus
tice either for or against a prisoner
In the court just closed a defendant
was pardoned after three months ser
vice of a twelve months sentence, and
he was before the court again at this
term, receiving a sentence of three
years. An appeal has been taken to
the supreme court. Let us all watch
the results of this case, and let this
man serve his time, and know that to
violate the law means punishment.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE.
Pittsboro is presented with a prop
csition to vote upon the issue of sell
ing bonds for the building of a schoo
house commensurate with the .de
mands now made. It is a proposition
that cannot afford to lose, yet therv
are many people who have not S(
much as registered, to vote their ap
proval of the arrangement.
Folks, this is the last week r
which you may register, the book r
closing on Saturday night, Januar;
27th. It is necessary to have an en
tirely new registration, under the
law," to take a vote o nthe issuing o
bonds, and if you approve of tht
pioject, it is further necessary tha
you vote after you do register.
There is no reasonable manner i
which we can avoid the erection of
new school building; it must be dom
Pittsboro needs it and must have i
Register todav, and vote on Saturda
February 10th, for the issuance c
bonds.
ANOTHER FORWARD MOVE.
With this issue of the paper, \
come to you with eight pages, s
columns. It is necessary to take a
of our advertising patronage, mo
of which, however, comes from a f.
eign source. We hope to maintain t
size of the paper. From time to til
we have added to and enlarged t
paper. We want to print a good cou
paper and with the added pages,
will enable us to get in the pap
more home news, aid we can mai
tain it with the proper patronage.
Home folks have not given us the
patronage that the papm* desenros.
We are printing a good, clean paper,
full of Chatham facts at ail taues,
and the management is entilted to
a liberal patronage. We do hope that
you will appreciate our efforts suffic
iently to do your part.
There is no other agency that gives
more publicity to a local community
than does the county paper. There is
no man or set of men that put forth
as much physical labor as does the
country editor. We have labored for
16 hours every day during the past
12 months, and without near so much
reward as has been accorded less im
portant enterprises. We do not mean
to discount any organization or busi
ness, because collectively all main
tain effort for good, but we do insist
that a community should support a
local enterprise of merit.
Owing to a delay in the shipment
of paper we will be delayed a day this
week, but in the future we will print
I Write to
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C. B. Ellis, Proprietor. Burlington, N. C.
In Stock* Here F ° r thC PaSt Thirt y- two Years.
Twenty Pianos, $l5O to $595. .
Four Player Pianos, $395 up. |
1 Twenty Five Organs, S4O. to $125. i
Twenty Five Phonographs, $lO. to $l5O.
One Hundred Phonograph Records. |
Seven Hundred Player Rolls. ■ J
Twentv Five Sewing Machines, $lO. to SB6.
Supplies for all kinds and on Easy terms to Reliable People. |
I and mail the paper on Thursday.
1 The maintenance of a good, local
j paper is in the hands of the business
people, and we abide by your decision.
A New York minister says he un
derstands the language of chickens.
He must have been to Raleigh on a
visit and watched them as they walk
ed up and down Fayetteville street.
An editor of a country weekly has
consolation in being poor. His bus
iness with the lawyers and the income
tax collector is limited.
The legislature keeps on adding
new laws to an overburdened people,
someone remarked, and said we al
ready have too many laws. But wh>
worry, friend, we don’t obey many of
them.
Statistics show that the value of
last year’s corn crop was $1,900,000,-
000. The figures do not include any
amount gained by the multiplicity of
bootleggers in the United States.
PERM PliiT
fC!i m\\\M FAR!
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“Why wouldn't it baa good idea to
start right now establishing permanent
farm prosperity on every Southern
farm, to take the place of the regular
see-saw into debt and out of debt that
has bean going on for fifty years or
more,” said H. G. Hastings of Atlanta,
prominent agricultural leader, recently.
“Enough money has come into the
South during the last twenty-five years
for cotton to have made this the weal
thiest agricultural section instead of the
poorest. Where has all these billions
upon billions of dollars gone?
“These cotton dollars have largely
gona to the North and West for bread
and meat, gone never to return. Our
foolishness, our slavishness to the one
crep system is the reason. Our foolish
tjss has put our farm land values on
A SIO.OO to $50.00 per acre basis and
largely helped to put Illinois and lowa
lands on a $300.00 to $400.00 per acre
basis.
“It is world wide experience with
no exception that there can be no reg
ular permanent prosperity to the reg
ular food buying, grain buying cropper
or farmer. Every dollar’s worth of
food and grain produced on home acres
is a dollar saved. It means that much
freedom from debt, high interest and
dealers’ profits.
“Food, grain and forage production
on home acres sufficient for the family,
the working live stock, the cows and
meat animals, poultry, etc., Is the first
step toward permanent farm prosperity
and there can be no permanent farm
prosperity on anybody’s farm until these
necessary items, fully sufficient for
home needs, are produced on home
acres, not only in 1923 but every year.
“It’s a good time now to start the
prosperity prog nun off light. The first
thing in line is a real heme garden,
properly prepared, planted and kept re
planted through the year. Lets of farm
folks tell us that eae»thlrd to one-half
their living comes out es their garden.
Corn and other grain and forage crops
taka care of the live stock. Hogs and
poultry cannot fatten or produce eggs
on air and water. So it to all along tne
line. Make food instead of buy food
for home use. It beats ‘get rich quick*
schemes and steadily followed insures
permanent farm prosperity.*
MORTGAGE SALE OF LAND.
Pursuant to the provisions of a
ortgage deed executed by Genna La
er and Hinton Gunter to A. N
)hnson Co., on the 19th day o!
ily, 1921, and registered in the office
the register of deeds of Chathan
>unty, inßook FZ at Page 92 default
ving been made in the payment oi
a note therein set forth, the under
-ned mortgagee will sell at public
ition, for cash, in the town of Pitts
•o, North Carolina, at the court
>se door on the *
27th cte. of February, 1923,
at li2 o’clock noon,
3 following property:
he home place ui Genna Lame:
id Hinton Gunter in Cape Fea
.vnship, Chatham county, Nortl
vrolina, and known as the G. F
rake Home Place and containing 1(
teres more or less, and bounded a
follows:
On the east by B. M. Mclver, o
the north by W. A. Lawrence and o:
the west and south by the lands of
the Carolina Power and Light Com
pany—conveyed by the said Genna
Lanier and Hinton Gunter to satisfy
the debt and interest provided foi
in said mortgage.
This January 18th, 1923.
A. N. JOHNSON CO.,
B.RAY OLIVE, Mortgagee.
Attorney, Fuquay Springs, N. C.
Feb. 15-p.
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THF. FEATURELESS FLAPPERS
HpilE flapper is &ot to be con
deeped per so because she is
a flapper.
But sSe is to be criticized be*
cause of the methods she uses
to become a flapper.
•If you mean by a flapper an
unsophisticated, innocent, child
like young girl, with the legiti
mate child short dress, curly
hair, red cheeks, bounding spirit,
then let nature make the flap
per.
AThe artificial flapper of to'av
is disgusting, and to an honest,
serious man she is an object of
pity. -
She has used artificial means.
She is using the cosmetics that
destroy her skin, rob her of the
distinctive features that belong
to the sweet girl. She is a fea
tureless creature. She is an un
attractive person. She is an ob
ject of pity. She is a female
deserving the protection and
prayers of /«rws£ people.
- The drug store cannot produce i
natnro’s rose and hang it on the
cheek of a girl. No artificial
power has ever been able to put
the flash in the human eye, or
the sweetness in the human soul,
or the magnetism in the human
heart. The moving dummies,
the drug store flappers, the cos
metic females are hideous, piti
able, and featureless.
The mothers of the country
are responsible for the feature
• less girl and for the destruction
if female beauty. God have
fnercy on the e r '“v when the
featureless fla becomes thi
r octal qvopn.
Thougnt for the Oay.
Neighborhood is of th«* mind and
heart rather thntr of dl»?a»»«»*
#V ache and pain? m
IMENTHOLATUMI
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You will be glad to know that Has
tings’, “The South’s Seedsman,” will
give away about 2,000,000 packets of
seed of the South’s most popular flow
ers this spring.
There to nothing in the home that
can compare with rich colored flowers.
They brighten us all up and make any
house attractive. You can’t plant too
many flowers and this opportunity to
get Shirley Popples, Everlasting Flow
ers, Zinnias, Cosmos and Mexican Burn
ing Busto absolutely free, is certainly to
be welcomed by all readers of this
paper.
You can get them! Just write to
Hastings’ tor the new 1923 Catalog. It
tells you haw to get flower seeds free.
It has 100 pages of beautiful photo
graphic pictures and correct descrip
tions of garden flower and field seeds,
bulbs and plants, and also is full o!
helpful information that is needed
almost daily in every Southern home.
It’s the most valuable seed book ever
published and you will be mighty glad
you’ve gdt it. Just write and ask for
the new Catalog.
H. G. HABTINGS CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE.
North Carolina, Chatham County.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
1. R. Ross and W. S. Skeen
vs.
I. T. Brown. - "
By virtue of an execution directed
o the undersigned from the superior
ourt of Randolph county, in the
above entitled action, I will, on
Monday, Feb. sth, 1923,
at 12 o’clock noon,
it the court house door in Pittsboro,
Chatham county, North Carolina, sell
o the highest bidder for cash to sat
isfy said execution, all the right, title
md interest which the' said H. T.
Brown had in the following described
sal estate, which was transferred to
V. A. Brown by H. T. Brown, de
endant above named on the Bth day
of December, 1921, after judgment in
the above entitled action was duly
locketed in the office of the clerk of
the superior court for Chatham coun
tv. Tbe same being in Bear Creek
township, Chatham county, North
Carolina.
Beginning at a pine knot G. M.
Phillip’s northeast corner; thence
oi th with I. H. Dunlap’s line 24 and
r 4-100 rods to a stake; thence west
48 and 36-100 rods to a stake in At
las Brown’s line; thence south with
raid line 24 and 54-100 rods to a pine
knot: thence east to the beginning,
containing 16 acres more or less.
This, the Ist day of January, 1923 J
G. W. BLAIR, Sheriff, j
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTiON
i IJN VIiTSiiUKU btiloUL uloiiiltl’. 1
North Carolina, Chatham Comity:
(office ox the Board ox County Com
missioners, Unatnam county, January
l, ibid.) / •
WHEREAS, a petition signed by
the Committee ox r’lttsooj.o iscnool
District, Center townsinp xn umber six,
requesting the Board ox County Eom
missioners ox Cnatnam county to or
der and call a special election to be
held in the said scnool district on
the 10th day ox Feoruary, iOnd, xor
the purpose ox submitting to tne
quaiiiied voters ox the said school dis
trict, and allowing them to vote on the
question ox issuing not exceeding inty
1 thousand dollars isoV,o\h).uo j ox se
rial bonds ox the said Rittsooro school
district, Center townsmp, nuinoer six,
and levying a sufficient annual tax
to pay the same, Xor the purpose of
building, erecting and equipping, a
school building, or school buildings, in
the said school district, nas been pre
sented to the Board of County Com
missioners; the said bonds to bear in
terest at a rate not exceeding six per
cent per annum; and the said bonds
to be serial bonds, aud each issue
thereof so maturing that the aggre
gate principal amount of the issue
shall be payable in annual install
ments or series, beginning not more
than three years after the date of the
bonds of such issue and ending not
more than thirty years after such
date;
Nov*, Therefore, in pursuance of
the provisions of Chapter 87 of tne
Public Laws of North Carolina, Extra
Session of 1920, and the amendments
thereto, be it, and it hereby is, re
solved by the Boaid of County Com
missioners of Chatham county:
First: —That the petition and re
quest of the Committee of Pittsboro
School district, Center township, num
ber six, be, and the same hereby is,
approved and allowed; that it be, and
it hereby is ordered that a Special
Election be held in Pittsooro School
District, Center township, Number
Six, on the tenth (10th) day of Feb
ruary, 1923, for the purpose of voting
on the question of issuing not ex
ceeding Fifty thousand dollars
($50,000.00) of serial bonds of the
said Pittsboro School District, Center
township, Number Six, and levying a
sufficient annual to pay the
same, for the purpose of providing
funds for the building, erecting a.id
equipping a school building, or school
buildings, in the said Scnool District,
the said bonds to bear interest at a
rate not exceeding six per centum
per annum, payable semi-annually,
and to be serial bonds, and each is
sue thereof shall so mature that the
aggregate principal amount of the is
sue shall be payable in annual install
ments or series, beginning not more
than three years after the date of
the bonds of such issue and ending
not more than thirty years after such
date, and no such installment shall
be more than two and one-half times
as great in r amount as* the smallest
prior installment of the same bond is
sue; and that for the purpose of the
said election the polling place of the
said School District be, and it here
by is declared to be, the Court House
of Chatham county in Pittsboro, N.
C.; and at the said election the voters
who are infavor of the issuance ox the
said bonds and levying of said spec
ial annual tax shall vote a ballot on
which shall be written or printed the
words “For Bond Issue;” and the vot
ers who are opposed to the issuance
of said bonds and the levying of said
tax shall vote a ballot on which shall
be written or printed the words
“Against Bond Issue.” And that said
election be held under and pursuant to
and the bonds be issued in accordance
with the provisions of Chapter 87 of
.he Public Laws of North Carolina,
Extra session of 1920, and the amend
ments thereto.
Second: —That the following per
sons are hereby designated and ap
pointed Registrar and Judges of said
election:
Registrar:—E. E. Williams.
Judges of election—F. P. Nooe and
T. W. Hackney.
Third—That, under and by virtue
of the authority conferred by Chap
ter 87 of the Public Laws of North
Carolina, extra session of 1920, and
the amendments thereto, for the pur
pose of the said election, a new reg
istration of the voters of Pittsboro
School District, Center township,
Number Six, be, and the same hereby
is, ordered; and that the registration
books for the said election be opened
on the 4th day of January, 1923, and
kept open between 9 o’clock a. m., and
sunset on each day, Sundays excepted,
up to and including the 27th day of
January, 1923, for the registration
of electors residing within the said
School District who are entitled to
registration; and during the said pe
riod above set forth for the registra
tion of voters, the registrar shall at
tend with his registration books at
the voting place above designated in
the said Pittsboro School District,
Center township, Number Six, on each
Saturday, within the said period, for
the registration of voters, and on
•said days the books shall remain op
en between the hours of 9 o’clock a.
m. and sunset.
Fourth —That E. E. Williams be,
and he hereby is, designated and ap
pointed Registrar for Said new regis
tration and for said election.
Fifth—That a copy of these reso
lutions, signed by the Chairman and
the Clerk of the Board, be posted and
published as by law required.
Duly enacted and passed by the
Board of County Commissioners of
Chatham county at their regular ses
sion on the Ist day of January, 1923.
E. E. WILSON, Chm, ■
County Commissioners of Chatham
County.
, C. C. POE, Clerk.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of C. T. Goodwin, de
ceased, late of Chatham county, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
holding claims against said decedent
to present them to the undersigned,
duly verified, on or before the 30th
day of Dec., 1923, or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recovery. AP
persons indebted to said estate will
| please make prompt settlement.
'Feb. 9 G. P. GOODWIN,
I Apex, Rt. 3, N. C. Administrator.
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. Unusual Winter Comforl
Buick reputation for anticipating your ideas of
comfort for all weathers, performance and
utility, with models of advanced design is
strikingly upheld in Buick open models.
Examination shows how the thoughtful ap
plication of simple, practical methods of sealing gj
curtain and windshield joints against wind, fl
cold and rain has resulted in a welcome degree
of winter and early spring comfort you never . 1
thought possible for an open car. W
Fours Sixes
2 Pass? Roadster $065 2 Pass. Roadster $1175 4 Pass. Coupe -$1895
5 P-ss. TountXL' 5 Pass. Touring 1195 7 Pass. Touring. 1435
? - t.’vlf I - 2195
5 Tss! Tauring" ° Sedan - - - 1935 Sport Roadster 1625
Sedan - - 1325 5 Pass. Sedan - 1955 Sport Touring - 1675
Prices f. o. b. Buick Factories; government tax
f 5 vi. Ash about the C. M. A. C. Purchase
N which provides for Deferred Payments.
D-15-26-NP
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When you buy Hardware without examining the Qual
ity. and getting prices, you’re buying a “pig in a poke."
We have what you need, and we handle staple, reliable
goods. Our prices suit the times, too.
If you have produce to sell let us pay you a high cash
price for it. See us first.
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•Pittsboro, N. C.
Tax Notice
7 ——
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NOT PA]
THEIR 1922 TAX, I WILL BE AT THE PLACES ON TE
DATES BELOW STATED :
Silk Hope, Perry’s Store, all day Thursday, January 25th.
T. M. Teague’s Store, all day Friday, January 26th.
Siler City, Mayor’s Office, all day Saturday, January 27th.
Thrailkill’s Store, Monday afternoon, January 29th.
Harley Kelly's Store, Tuesday morning, January 30th.
Council’s Shop (Markham’s Store) Tuesday afternoon, January 3
Merry Oaks, Cotton’s Store, Wednesday morning, January 31st. i
M. E. Mann’s Store (Beaver Creek) Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 3
Brickhaven, Harrington’s Store, Thursday morning, February li
Corinth, Mimm’s Store, Thurstjay afternoon, February Ist.
Moncure, Bank, Friday afternoon, February 2nd.
Please remember that a penalty of one per cent per month w
be charged on tax after January 31st.
Dog tax was due and should have been paid by December 1
1922. Therefore be sure to call for seperate receipt and licer
number.
Thanking you to meet me on the abovve mentioned dates and s
tie your tax, lam
Yours very truly, *
G. W. BLAIR,
SHERIFF CHATHAM COUNI
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Call around and let us prove it to you.
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