Zi)t Cftattiam laecorb INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS. Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Entered at Pittsboro, N.C.', as Second Class mail matter by act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, $1.50. Six Months, Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Char. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923. A STORY AND A MORAL. Many years ago a man told his wife that he had committed murder, but for the Lord’s sake for her not to breathe it as it would get him in trouble. The man’s wife promised to never say a word about it. As the days went by the woman became troubled over the murder. The more she thought of it the worse she became Finally she told her ‘ best friend” of a -horrible murder her husband had committed but bound the “best friend” in an oath not to- tell it. The “best friend” told her “best friend” and so on until an officer of the law got hold of it. The husband was arrested and would have been tried for murder sure enough but got off by saying that the murder he committed was that of a frog, which he buried under a tree in hs garden. He simply told his wife the story to test her fidelity. In 1919 Jerry Dalton, who lived in the western part of the state, loved a pretty maiden of that section. One day Dalton met her in a car with a man he did not like. Words were pass ed between them and the man was shot and killed. Not only that but in the scuffie the pistol accidentally fired and killed Dalton’s sweetheart. He was arrested, tried for murder, con victed and sentenced to be electrocut ed. He took an appeal to the su ' preme court, got a new trial and was again convicted and sentenced. While waiting last fall to be electrocuted, he made his escape from jail and went to California, one thousand dollars beng offered for his capture. There he lived with an aunt. He told her /vs frnnhlpfi. OI niS . Lruuuies. His aunt finally told her “best j friend” the - secret, who in turn told ■ her ‘best friend’ and it finally reached \ an officer. Dalton was arrested, and brought back to North Carolina and j today he is in the death house in the j penitentiary at Raleigh along with 16 I more to be electrocuted. J Moral: —If you are in trouble do not tell your troubles to your “best friend.” It will certainly be told on you. THEY MUST AND WILL GROW. In 1909 there came a baby girl in- i to the home of a Center township citizen and there were made two de posits in the Bank of Pittsboro for the benefit of the little lady—one for $2.00 and one for $2.50. The amount has been left alone for all these years, allowed to accumulate interest and I multiply itself. For twenty-four years j these few dollars have been at work, • gaining ground each month, and to day they have ,doubled themselves and therefore are gaining more rap idly as the months go by. The young lady has passed her ma jority. Os course'she prizes this bank account very highly, and it is useless to say that she is improving the hab it nculcated at her birth. The example of this revelation is what we want to impress upon the folks of Chatham. There is not a man or woman in the county who do not live within easy reach of a good, safe bank, and it would be an excep tionally good thing to follow the ex ample and make a sacrifice to make the deposit as large as possible and leave it there for the little folks at maturity. Not only will the fund ac quired be worth while, but the im press will be lasting. ■ CLEAN UP YOUR BACK YARD. Friday night last Dr. W. W. Butler pastor of the First Baptist church of Cleveland, Ohio, delivered an address on Education in East Pittsburg, Pa., it being broad casted over the Radio phone. It was a magnificent talk and one that was heard by tens of thousands of people. It will do good. Dr. Butler emphasized the need of - _ clearing up the back yards of men s - souls as the most essential progres- I sive movement for the day and of a | thorough qualification in all the edu- $ cational lines. 1 - —•—» Congress has adjourned; the leg- S lature has adjourned; winter has ad- |j joumed, the birds are happy and so [I are we. si Tornadoes out west contnue to II kill people and do other damage. Why s not come to Chatham to live and miss J all such dangerous things? M President Harding and family start- I ed south on their outing , Monday, l! Here’s hoping he will have good luck in getting to Florida and not be ’et up by skeeters when he gets there. The oil industry is in complte con trol of the Standard Oil Company. That’s why we have to pay so much ' for kerosene and gas. At least Sena- I tor LaFollett makes this charge in I the pursuit of his investigations as authorized by Congress, and he says in a very short time folks will be paying a dollar a gallon for gas. The Gold Leaf Farmer is again on our desk, having been resurrected by J. B. Johnstun and C. F. Vogler. Mr. Johnstun is well known to Chatham people, having acted as secretary oi the Chamber of Commerce in City, as well as of the Chatham r ai Association. He is an old newspap * man and with the proper e n c • -..t on 1922. I ■ ' •' • M When you start a-figuring how you stand at the end of fij a year—how much money you have lost on various so- X called investments—then you will realize what it means [jj to put your money where it is safe. || Sad indeed are the thoughts that come to many around the first of a New Year. ' (pj A i;i - i MAKE 1923 MORE | PROFITABLE 1 \ . ; | You can make the New Year a profitable one. Your <4 savings or surplus funds, if invested in Alamance First | Mortgage Six Per Cent Gold Bonds will bring you back a good interest yield and at the same time will be invest- [} ed where there is no possibility of loss. 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