“jgXLER OITF NEWS ' local N«wa Picked Up Here and There—Per sonal and Otherwise 7m LE FOR TOPAyTJ UnUmitwi Supply. | is ms, sad my words •i/ii Too! ye ®bMi Mk whAt y® it shall bo dons unto you.— job, IS- '• > James Brown, of Pittsboro, was a ( visitor boro today. p.-wri Oldham, of Groeasboro, was ' , toaiaosa risitor hero today. t p Murchison, of Goldston, was 1 , V.waoes visitor boro Monday. in-od 1. Dorsett, 0 f Columbia, S. C *IT* piost of relatives this week. ] Miss Mary Marley has accepted a ] pJtoinVth. Fanner’s Allance ] Store- . ! Mr. and Mrs. i. G. Waugh and C. t Hester and son, Coy, of Greens birr were guests at W. B. Straughns Sunday. " \ \ mold Moore, of Graham, is re- | f»nvf>ring: very nicely from an opera- , tion for appendicitis at a hospital at J Burlington -4 Messrs. Dark, Cooper, Quinby, and Stout, of Chapel Hill, are spending the week-end here. . Miss Mallie Straughn returned to her home on route 1 the 18th, after spending several days in Greensboro ▼isiting relatives and friends. < Our supply of garden seed has been , exhausted and all those who have . written for them since last week ' must necessarily be disappointed. < The seven curb markets established ( in North Carolina by farm women did ] a $ 17,000 business last year. How j about’one for Chatham this year? . The recent rains have given us plenty of mud and made the streets muddy but next week is clean up ( week, the sun will shine, so what’s ; the difference. I There is prevalent quite an epi- < demic of measles throughout this sec- \ tion at this time, in a few cases sev eral members of a family being sick 1 at the same time. 1 < Annie Lois Welch, the thirteen j months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Eli Welch, who live on the Oran farm, died last Friday and was buri- < ed Saturday afternoon at Oakley, the i service being conducted by Rev. Rich- ] ard S. Fountain. i 1 B A. Phillips and son, Mottu, of ] Bonlee, were here Monday on business ; Mr. Phillips is advertising in this is- 1 sue a big sale to be held March 31 to end April 7. See his announce ment and a few of his prices else where in this week’s Herald. Small pox is prevalent in many sec- ; tions of the State. We are free from the disease in this section so far. Minter M. Bums, who has not been heard from since his discharge from the army in 1919 has been located by his father, T. L. Bums, in Alabama. W. A. Headen has received a tele gram announcing the death of his brother, Dr. J. S. Headen, who for a number of years has been parcticing dentistry at Laredo, Tex. Chas. C. Wilson and J. C. Berry man, of Columbia, S. C., who are ar chitect:, for the new school building, were here Friday inspecting the work which is rapidly progressing. On account of wet ground it is not thought that the wheat crop in Chat ham is much damaged, we are told. And it is said that the fruit will not be hurt to any great extent from the cold snap Tuesday morning, the wind saving it. Theodore York, the seventeen year old boy preacher, who lives in Greens boro, will preach here next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the town hall. The public is most cordially in vited to hear him. If there is a school in Chatham county in which the honor roll of the students have not been published in t us paper it is the fault of the teach ers. We are always £lad to get the names of the little folks in our paper and look to the teachers to send them in. Mr. J. Dan Dorsett has his plans niade to attend the reunion in New j. eans and he wants all the old sol ders that can to go with him. He will i, eave Siler City for Salisbury on the rr.j an( l will leave there on the Bth. ~ * are is only 2 cents per mile for the round trip. a change in the law made by . e ,a te legislature, taxpayers were ? Uen until May Ito settle their taxes j 1 -922. After that date 1 per cent f VI - ae added. Heretofore if your axes had not been paid by Febru t one per cent was added and "o per cent after March 1 and so m. i ay your taxes now and save the extra per cent. SWOLLEN STREAMS. llie water in Haw river at Bynum as nearly up to the cement bridge unday, barely missing it by a foot r; Heavy rains have fallen in ! mtham during the last 10 days and n yers and creeks have been away Jr , their banks. It is said that the v.n ee s Hie electrie plant at Lock ‘ 1 u ’ er ® covered by ten feet of wat ,*y* cutting the power off until nearly night. LOOK~AT your label SILER CITY BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday, March 25, 1923. Bible school—Teachers meeting at 9:30 a. m. Led by Prof. S. J. Husketh. Bible school at 10 a. m. R. O. Welch, Supt. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. Mrs. C. N. Bray, leader. Group number four will render the program. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. Evening worship at 7:30. Sermon by the pastor. To all of these services you 'are earnestly invited. Strangers and visi tors will receive a warm welcome. Richard S. Fountain, pastor. Lore’s Creek Baptist Church. There will be services at Love’s Creek next Saturday afternoon and next Sunday morning. The pastor hopes to have large congregations at both services, and also a large num ber in attendance upon the Bible school Sunday morning. The Gem Theater. “Timber Queen,” the serial just be gun last week at the Gem theater, Siler City, is indeed a thriller. Two episodes of this “best serial vet” will be shown every Friday and Saturday, with extra attractions each time. This week Gladys Walton will appear in “Lavender Bath Lady.” It is a peach. The biggest picture of the season will be shown Friday night, March 30, “The Unpardonable Sin.” DEATH OF MRS. FIELDS. Mrs. Nathan Fields, Chatham’s old est citizen, being in her 97th year, died at her home four miles south west of Goldston at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Interment was made at Tillman burying ground at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Surviving are three sons and two daughters—Joe, James and William Fields, and Mrs. Thos. Gains and Mrs. Hugh Smith. J. G. WEBSTER DEAD. Following a week’s illness of appen- 1 dicitis, John Guy Webster, aged 19 1 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Webster, of near Siler City, died at 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at * Greensboro where he was admitted three days before for an operation. He was a student in the Bonlee high school and was very popular with ! both teachers and fellow students. Be- 1 sides his parents, he is survived by his sister, Miss Lillian. All were at his bedside w f hen death came. His father, H. W. Webster, is one of the most prominent farmers, saw mill and cotton gin operators in Chat ham county. The body will be for warded to Bonlee on the 12:30 train today and will then be taken to his home. Funeral services will be held at Sandy Branch church sometime tomorrow. KEEP IT UP. The Clean Up and Paint Up Cam paign not only puts the community in good sanitary condition, but makes it possible to keep it clean. Unless the work of cleaning up and painting up is kept up by systematic efforts the year around little permanent good is accomplished. It is important that the initial intensive work be general and thorough. Then the follow-up work can be carried on effectively, and the danger of unsanitary conditions re turning is removed. Next week is Clean-Up week. KIMBOLTON AND VICINITY. Mr. and Mrs. Woody Entertain—Per sonal Paragraphs. Pittsboro, Rt 2, March 19. —Misses Luta White and Dora Clark spent last Friday night with Mrs. Ellen Clark. Misses Ressie and Juanita Johnson visited their sister, Mrs. R. L. Camp bell, Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Clark spent Saturday night with her son, Walter Clark. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Wombles visited Mr. and Mrs. Mark Teague Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Woody delight fully entertained a number of the young people in the neighborhood Saturday night in honor of their com pany, Misses Johnson and Pender grass, of Moncure. Misses Luta White and Mrs. Wal ter Perry spent Saturday night at Miss White’s home on Siler City, Rt. 2. Mrs. Alex Cockman and Miss Dora Clark visited Mrs. W. H. Ferguson last Thursday. Mrs. Cockman visited her until Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Mann visited at W. H. Ferguson’s Sunday. Mrs. Erie Clark visited Mrs. Ellen Clark last Thursday. Bill Campbell has purchased a new Ford touring car. 6 6 6 is a Prescription for Colds, Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the most speedy remedy we know, preventing Pneumonia. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX. The undersigned having .qualified as administratrix of the estate of E. H. Cook, deceased, late of Chatham county, North Carolina, this is. to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to present them, duly verified, to the undersign ed, on or before the 12th day of Feb ruary, 1924, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons owing the said estate will please come forward and make im mediate payment to the undersigned. This the 12th day of Feb. 1923. Mrs. MAUDE COOK, W. P. HORTON, Administratrix. Attorney. Mch-22-R-p BUILD A HOME NOW! DEATH OF J. A. HAMLET. j The community was saddened to* learn of tb* Hamlet, which took place at his home j four miles northwest of Pittsboro, early Friday morning, aged 69 years and four months. About nine years ago Mr. Hamlet suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never Entirely recovered. Since then he has had three other strokes, the fourth one taking place the fore part of last week, this later causing his death. Mr. Hamlet was well known in Chatham and his friends were num bered by those who knew him. A kind hearted husband and father and an excellent neighbor, he will be missed in his immediate neighborhood Besides his widow he leaves one daughter, Mrs. Jeter Perry, and one brother, Mr. C. C. Hamlet, to mourn his death. The funeral services were held at the house at 11 o’clock con ducted by Rev. C. E. Byrd, and the interment took place at Brown’s Chapel Methodist cemetery Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Free Flower Seeds T*u wIU to ,U 4 t» hM* am tinge’, “The South’# Sn»<—»» will give away sheet 1.054 S pnehete et seed et the fteutfc’e meet popular Sew ers this anting. There to nothing la the heme that earn compass With rich eolmel flowers. They brighten ue $2.50 % mmmmmmmmmmmM m