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INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS.
Established in 1878 by H. A. London.
Entered at Pittsboro, N.C.', as Second
Class mail matter by act of Congress.
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Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor.
Char. A. Brown, Associate Editor.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 <m ra £ "
ment from the Wendell residents,
will produce an excellent paper.
BUILD A HOME NOW!
FARMERS ARENOTO^^fiD.
U. S. Crop and Live Stock Report is
an Interesting One.
In Bulletin No. 15, issued by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, we find
a crop and live stock ■ report for
North Carolina that is, very interest
ing.
Among other things this Bulletin
says that agriculturally North Caro
lina ranks fifth in total crop values,
twenty-third in live stock, and a to
tal ®f‘5430,000,000 for the past years
agricultural production.
The Bulletin further says that be
cause “farmers are not organized, un
like other, industries, their products
were the first to decline and the last
to rise in value.”
In 1922 there were a total ot
7,055,000 acres planted in all crops, a
gain of 417,000 acres over 1921, the
value of all crops being $8,501,395,-
000 or ninety one thousand more than
iri 1921. . .
Live stock report in the Bulletin
gives the state, a total of 178,136
horses; 272,166 mules; 642,353 cat
tle; 1,068,049 hogs; 110,798 sheep and
24,458 goats.
A general list of average prices
paid farmers for hogs, beef, sheep*
milch cows, milk, wool and all pro
ducts of the farm, show a very low
average and the Bulletin says: farm
ers are usually too little interested
in the market prices of their prod
ucts.”
NOTES FROM SILER CITY NO. 5.
Siler City, Rt. 5, March s.—Mr.
R. E. Beal has returned from Ral
eigh where he was on a visit.
Mr. Jolm Sharp is now sawyer at
his upper mill, near J. W. Burke’s
place. • _
The good road from the R. L.
Beal place to the Dalton Harris
place will soon be completed.
Mr. Gregson Bright, of Bear Creek,
Rt. 2, lost a valuable horse last week.
Mr. O. L. Moody and family, of
Bear Creek, visited in this community
Sunday. ,
Mrs. Pattie Burke will leave the
15th of March for Winston-Salem to
take further treatment from Dr.
Capps.
✓/ / Cures Malarie, Chills
fifth and Fever, Dengue or
UU V Bilious Fever.
1 Millinery Display I
;! You are Cordially invited to attend our First Millinery
■ and THURSDAY, MARCH 15 and 16.
to see the most Wonderful Hats v in both quality and
Prices, that we have ever shown. "
Our Slogan—“ The Best for the Money” will be fully g
exemplified at this Showing.
I MISS KATE VESTAL
Miss Kara Lane - Miss M. Stone
Phone 68. Siler City, N. C.
HOME BUILDERS
| The Lee Furniture Company is better prepared than
I ever before to fill your home with Furnishings at a nomi
nal Cost. They have anything you want and the prices
have been fixed at a live and let live Standard.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
will be given to Chatham county customers and we ask
you to come in, make yourself known and we will be glad
to give you the benefit of our years’ of experience in the
home furnishing business.
Goods Delivered Anywhere in Chatham if Sufficient Quan
go ty is Purchased.
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i Foushee Building.' * Sanford, N. C.
I! Millinery Opening 1
I We will be pleased to welcome you on the dates of our ||
| Opening
I Wednesday and Thursday,March 14-15 |
I FASHION SHOW 1
If TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 at 8 O’CLOCK AT 1
TOWN HALL. ; ||
W On this occasion we will present for your inspection
M the very newest of the Season’s Coats, Suits, Dresses and hj
Hats on live models.
jrai An additional feature will be a musical program given m
*l® by Miss Emily Thompson and her Music Class. j®
! Admission 10c. and 15c. The proceeds of which will be |jj
given to the school piano fund. m
Miss Bessye Caviness, 1
! Miss Beulah Headen 1
j • Siler City, N. C. |
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“The Rats Abound My Place Yve*~
Wise,” Says John Tuthill.
“Tried everything to kill them.
Mixed poison with meal, meat, cheese
etc. Wouldn’t touch it. Tried RAT-1
SNAP, inside of ten days got rid ol
all rats.” You don’t have to mix RAT
SNAP with food. Saves fussing, both
er. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP, lay
it where rats scamper. You will see
no more. Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by Pilkingto.i
Pharmacy, W. L. London & Son, Chat
ham Hardware Co., Pittsboro, and Sil
er City Drug Store., The Hardware
Store, Siler City, N. C.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND.
North Carolina, Chatham county :
Under and by virtue of the order
of the superior court in a special
proceeding therein pending entitled,
Sallie of Wes
ley Marsh, Jiceased, vs. John IV.
Marsh and others, I will on
Saturday, the 31st day of March, 1923
offer for sale at the c6urt house door
in Pittsboro, North Carolina, at,l2 o’-
clock noon, to the highest bidder for
cash, at public auction, the following
described tract of land, to-wit:
Bounded on the north by the lands
of L. A. Brooks, and on the old stage
road; on the east by the lands 'of
Walker Blair and others; on the south
by the lands of Ben Headen and oth
ers; on the west by the R. D. Brooks
place, the lands of Bosen Burke and
Emeline Watson and others, it being
a tract for which three deeds were
given, one from Elias for 21 acres,
more or less, one from Judd Chavis
for about 14 acres, more or less, and
one from B. E. Webster for 20 acres
or more, all to Wesley M. Marsh
which constituted the tract hereinbe
fore conveyed and the same upon
which the said Wesley M. Marsh re
sides, containing 57 acres, more or
less.
This the 28th day of February, 1923
W. P. HORTON,
March29R-4-p Commissioner.
yHT GUARANTEED J1
jBflT Pittsboro and Surrounding Community will be pleased [
to Know that J. J. Johnson & Son have recently added
Mjß the Clothing line of— •
,=== Schloss Bros. Co., Baltimore I •
llßi This line of Clothing is recognized as the best , line in
I the country, and every suit is I
GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION OR Jm M
■ YOUR MONEY BACK— Wmm ! I
iwsjmk You will no longer have to leave the county to get a (l || j
. fIHK First Class Suit of Clothes at a REASONABLE PRICE. * T I
fPI See us before you buy that — '
H Spring Suit. | Jrl
We have also put in a line of— j BEm j
READY MIXED PAINTS 1 j ||
for all purposes, the Pittsburg Plate Glass Line. Spring | %
is here and you will want your floors painted, and your ij j
' 1 Furniture varnished. Give us your order—prices are | ——r~jl I
right and goods guaranteed to give satisfaction. jj i
a New Stock STAR BRAND SHOES just arrived. | ' I
Jf J. J. Johnson & Son, m| 11
I I Service and Satisfaction Store. | * MV f
* Cor. Hillsboro & Salisbury. Pittsboro, N. C. J1 J,
iemm
Farmers in Perquimans county re
cently sold a 600 bushel shipment of
soy beans cooperatively through the
efforts of County Agent L. W. An
derson.
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IJjW. E. SHARPE, Manager. , C. G. SOMERS, Field Representative.
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A farm without records is like a
clock without hands, running, but
gives no information.
The sweetest type of .heaven is
home —J. G. Holland.
Looking Back |
> • -..t on 1922. I
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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
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MAKE 1923 MORE |
PROFITABLE 1
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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. ' 4
Fully secured by mortgages—sponsored by a well k
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