FAIR
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An Institute e j opm ent.
„ wha m County Fair Associa-
The C n taze another fair this fall,
tioin wil b & week in October. Just
during w* grown better each year
as the fan v be better and. bigger
just so * l is t 0 be the biggest of
this year- *
all- . r e to sav that there could
It *? b ‘ a better advertisement for
scared> tban this institution, and
our couju. the suppo rt of all good
it . (le ‘" ei i/jp a display of the county’s
citizel !fl- on a scale that • increases j
resoun' rp be several communities
eac . h outdo each other in their ex
ind a friendly rivalry is stimu
lil/ r i-ich is educational and points
Pf te ‘ J j v ‘to better results all around,
-iw/d no man or woman who visits
* ll • an< ] takes note of what is on
t , he n] ‘' 1 {mt what goes away with a
m " p . v ;<ion of things as they aie
■■ rountv and of what they may
J" ‘me if effort is expanded; and all
- )V what they see and the ideas
al ‘ al : e transplanted or inculcated or
ia So‘ that, with the fair not so far
even- person who has some
rtil’of interest to show should pre
sto show it; and those who have
r v should plan to go and see what
others are doing. Interest there will
b e found for young and old. Staple
: . iU; of the farm, the range, the
!r l a ; d poultry yard, the orchard and
iV“ garden; of the housewife s art m
„ n , > ( | glass container; of the sac-.
tones and the school room; all these
things and more are to be shown. The
eve is appealed to, and the
of the things which sustain
life a lie create wealth are a stimulus
to Greater effort. .
fi < > i? the amusement side also.
n--, e ~.on a gement intends this year to
' . lir aggregatoin of wholesome
• ie* V and tent shows at small cost to
‘’ e \ .--reap : air is in the making. Do
you t part to make it the best ever.
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Beginning today every Merchant in Chapel Hill has
! Greatly reduced prices on every article in his store and
the special sale will continue for fifteen days, dating from j
todav. Every arrangement has been made to give all spe- I
cial bargains and we want the people of Chatham county
who trade in Chapel Hill to enjoy the low prices during
I the special sale. Don’t fail to come, we have made the ar
rangement for your benefit. _
There was a slight error in some prices in Pope-Mat- I
ties advertisements on our circular, the figures being j
made too high, but come ahead and any error will be cor
rected when you reach the store.
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l times. Screw cap makes leaking impossible. FULL
j STANDARD SIZE has nickel silver clip on cap to hold j
pen firmly in pocket when not in use. LADIES’ SIZE, has
| gold ring affixed to end, instead of pocket clip.
For the next 30 days we are making the liberal offei j
j to give one of these ladies’ pens to the girl or young wo
man who will send us four new subscribers to the paper,
either The Record or The Herald. Or to the boy or young I
man who will get the same number of subscribers we will
give one of the men’s pens.
This offer is good for four subscribers and they may
be sent in—one subscriber for one paper and three to the
other or two to one and two to the other or all for one
Paper, thus making it easier for the solicitor to get the
j list. Send all the subscribers at one time and tell us they
j are sent for one of the pens. I
Promptly upon receipt of the $6.00 we will forward bj i
j prepaid insured mail the pen asked for—men sor ladies
j size. I
This is the most liberal offer ever made by a newspaper - I
! in North Carolina. The pen is equal to the $5.00 fountain
pens on sale anywhere and satisfaction is guaranteed. It
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_ COLIN G. SHAW, Editor— _ {
Pittsboro, North Carolina. j
THE COUNTY OF CHATHAM.
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tion. In 1772 Mir. Hooper was clerk
of Chatham court, no other officers
being reported. The first court house
was of wood (yet standing) and was
half a mile from' the present one.
Governor Josh Martin (the last of j
the Royal Governors) mad a journey j
from his “palace at New Bern into J
the counties of Randolph, Chatham
and Guilford, in October, 1772, to see
how the men who had been “Regula
tors” were behaving themselves and
. reported that “their behavior was de
-1 cent orderly.” He added- that there
were many loyalists. The latter gave
a great deal of trouble during most
of the Revolutionary war. The Pa
triots were hard put to it to keep
them down. Mial Scurlock Jonathan
Harper and John Thompson were in
177<> designated to take charge of
Troy property in Chatham. When in
February Governor Martin called on
the Tories (Loyalists) to rally to the
“King’s standard” (flag) at Cross
Creek, Dr. John Pile was designated
by him as the leading Tory in Chat
ham county. Dr. Pile presented to
the magistrates a document called an
“association” for them to sign, but
this they refused and the committee
of safety at Wilmington warmly com
mended them, and ordered their
strong reasons for not signing to be
published.
* In 1777, in July, a thousand Tories
made an attempt to raid Cross Creek
(Fayetteville,) as they claimed to get
salt, which was selling at $5 a bushel,
but they were headed off and foiled,
a number being from Chatham. It was
said by the Patriots that what they
really wanted was the lead at Cross
Creek, to make into bullets. A com
pany of Light Horse was raised to
keep Chatham quiet, and 60 bushels
of salt was issued to the people from
1 the public stores.
In 1776 the Assembly took up the
1 creation of a plant on Tick creek, in
Chatham, as an iron foundry, to make
! cannon, and cannon balls, also uten
j sils needed by the people, and James ,
j Mills, of Pennsylvania* was made sup
erintendent. It was said that iron ore
was abundant, there was plenty ot
wood for charcoal, and that on the
lands of Hermon Husbands there was
“pit coal” and also hearth-stones, the
I latter for use in making the furnace
; floors. It was also reported that lime
| stone was in the neighborhood.
In 1778 the “inhabitants of Chat
! ham were desirous for a town and
j that the court house of Chatham be
; located on the plantation owned
| Ambrose Edwards, but now by Am
; brose George,” and the Assembly di
! rected that 200 acres be laid out for
a town and town common (that k
| bublic land, kept open,) the town to
be named Chatham.” Jonathan Har
i per, Edward Waddell, Matthew Jones
| Mial Scurlock, James Williams and
j Robert Ramsey were named as com- i
! missioners and trustees. Two hundred
j lots were to be sold “for ten pounds
; and one dollar (an odd mixing c
1 British and American money) the 10
| pounds to go to Ambrose George, the
I one dollar to the commissioners for
their work.”
The Assembly in session at Smith
field, Johnston county, on May 8,
1779, decided that it was necessary to
have a fixed place of meeting for it,
in other words a “capital.” It appoint
ed two commissioners from each oi
the six “districts” into which North
Carolina was divided—Salisbury,
Hillsboro, Halifax, Edenton, New
Bern and Wilmington, and ordered
; that a majority of these should meet
1 and “fix some place in one of the
1 counties of Chatham, Johnston and
J Wake and report to the Assembly.”
' They were to meet at Chatham court
1 house on or about September 25 that
year. One member of the Assembly
1 endeavored to insert in the bill the
! words “or any place,” but this was at
1 once voted down. It was found, how
ever, the Edenton district was
5 not fully represented so nothing more
1 was then done.
Chatham furnished from its militia
1 in 1778 sixty men to fill the ranks of
the North Carolina batallions in the
* Continential army. That year Charles
Shearin, who had been convicted of
horse-stealing and sentenced to death
(then the punishment for that crime),
was pardoned by the Assembly which
set forth that he had behaved as a
good and faithful servant of the peo
| pie since the offense. In 1784 the wife
| of Conner Dowd, a Tory of Chatham,
who had forfeited his property there,
was given his property in the county
| iV»r the use of herself and children.
Ned Griffin, a negro slave who had
volunteered to serve in one of the
| North Carolina batallions of the Con
tinential army, was given his com
plete freedom, having been in service
j a full year.
A petition came before the Assem
bly in 1781, to establish a town on the
lands of the late Mial Scurlock,
j “where the court house now stands.”
The Assembly was told that this was
agreeable to the Scurlock executors,
so it ordered a town of 100 acres laid
off by Joseph Stewart and others, as
trustees, but in 1786 the Assembly
was notified that the Scurlock execu
tors had when the trustees appeared
to lay off the town forbidden them to
I clo so, saying Scurlock’s will did not
j fully empower them to sell the land
and they might, therefore, in the fu
| ture, become involved in lawsuits. The
| Assembly set this all out and said
[ that the trustees had at the request
I of the people of the county purchased
j the plantation of William Petty, ad
joining the Scurlock land, and had
j laid this off as a town. The Assembly
j ratified this action and named the
| town “Pittsborough” for (William
\ Pitt, Earl of Chatham) and named as
i commissioners George Lucas, Joseph
Stewart, Roger Griffith, Matthew
I Jones, Zachariah Harmon, Patrick St.
Lawrence, Nathan Stedman, James
i Massey and William Riddle. The sec
! ond court house, a tiny one, was then
| built, of brick, and was used until
1882. .
I In 1786 the Assembly ordered that
I as Pittsborough had been duly estab
j lished as the county seat the courts be
[ held there. The Assembly in another
| act declared that as Pittsborough
was “in a healthy location and pro
visions cheap” an academy be estab
lished there and the act named as its
trustees Dr. James White, John Wil
liams, attorney, James Anderson,. Geo.
j Lucas, Matthew Jones, John Mont
j gomery, John Taylor, Patrick St
Lawrence, Dr. James Servant Jones
! and Ambrose Ramsey, and it was
named Pittsborough Academy. The
Assembly this same year enacted 2
law that Chatham have a “pool
I house”, under the direction of the
j county wardens of the poor. Anothei
! law provided for the inspection of leaf
i tobacco at Pittsborough.
The members of the Assembly dur
ing the brief existence of Chatham ir
j the Colonial period were John Wilcos
j and Isaac Brooks, 1770; Isaac Brooks
in 1773, also William Grave, and
j 1773-74 Stephen Poe and Richard
j Parker. It furnished as councillors o
state during the period 1776-186 f
! George Lucas, 1795; Joseph John A1
j ston, 1800; Allen Goodman 1836-1841
David Watson, 1842; state comptrol
ler (auditor), Nathan Stedman, 1834
j 36; attorney general, Hugh McQueen
; 1840-42; superior court judge, Thomas
B. Womack, 1889-90; officials of thf
| General Assembly since 1776, John M
| Moring, speaker of the house, 1779
! 80; clerk of the house, Thomas B
Womack, 1889. Its first members o
the legislature under the State gov
ernment, since 1771, were in 177 r <
Ambrose Ramsey, senator, Mial Scur
lock, Alexander Clark and John Bird
song, representatives.
Its members of state constitutiona'
conventions, 1788 to 1875, have bee
Ambrose Ramsey, James Anderson
Joseph Stewart, George Lucas arcl
William Vestall in 1788; Robert Ed
wards, William Vestall, John Ramsey
John Thompson and James Alexander
in 1789; Joseph Ramsey, Hugh Mc-
Queen, in J. 835; J. H. Headen, Johr
[ Manning,. Jr., and L. J. Merritt, ir
[ 1861; G. P. Moore, Robert Love and
| John A. McDonald in 1865; John A
| McDonald and W. T. Gunter, in 1868
j John Manning and W. F. Stroud ir
I 1875. Its representatives in Congress
have been Abram Rencher, 1830-43 \
! John Manning, Jr., 1871; W. F
I ! Stroud, 1896-99, John W. Atwater.
> 1900-01.
AN EASTER LILY
Flower of loveliness In perfect bloom,
Thou art a benediction In this room.
Essence of harmony, thou dost express
A calm above . our mortal restlessness.
Symbol of purity, thou dost suggest
The perfect peace of Paradise the blest.
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Surely our loved ones who had gone be
fore
And stand upon the glad eternal shore,
Have flowers there that are like unto f
thee,
Glowing In radiant Immortality.
Bright miracle of nature, fresh and fair,
Distilling sweetness in the fragrant air;
Incense of Heaven, yielding hope and
cheer,
Thou shinest with a light serene and
clear.
Celestial messenger, thou dost fulfil
In acquiescent grace, thy Maker’s will.
Not all the riches that the earth can
hold,
Nor Solomon surrounded by his gold
Within a precious palace, yet could bo
Arrayed In glory that Is like to thee. .
No wonder the Angelicos of old
Made their annunciation angels hold
A lily, token of the love, divine
That into every human heart must shine;
The love of Christ who rose on Easter
Day
To show to us the Truth, the Life, the
Way
Into the Father’s the sight
Os the New Earth and Heaven in the
light
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Os peace and love—by angel hosts adored,
And over all—the glory of the Lord.
—Mary Sanger.
CUSTOM OF EGG-ROLLING
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Old Pastime of Washington Children,
but There Are No Record*
of its Origin.
Washington children were the first
to play at rolling eggs, but there Is
no chronicle which sets forth when
and how the pastime came to be.
The first reference to egg-rolling
which has been found occurs In the
Evening Star of Easter Monday, 1874,
and that reference has to do with
some interruption of the egg-rolling
at the capitol by ruffians. The rea
sonable inference is that the custom
of rolling eggs at the capitol was then
an old one. When Washington was
young the small, fenced park about
the capitol was the only one in Wash
ington improved with turf, trees and
flowers. It was the habit of school
children to have an Easter picnic, and
with their teachers ail'd their baskets
of lunch they would go to the Capitol
park. At the west front of the cap
itol were steep sodded terraces. In
sitting at the top of these terraces
and eating their lunches, of which
dyed Easter eggs formed part, some
child or children discovered that the
colored eggs would roll down the ter
races. In that way the custom start
ed and became a part of the Easter
festival In Washington. When the in
cident of 1874 occurred there were
several thousand children rolling eggs
down the sodded banks. Congress In
1875, noting that because of the
Easter egg-rolling it was hard to keep
grass on the terraces, forbade the
practice, • but egg-rolling festivities
were observed in 1876 and 1877 just
the same. On Easter Monday, 1878,
' the children were turned away from
the capitol grounds. The word passed
from child to child, and the march to
the White House was taken up. They
invaded the executive grounds and
began rolling eggs, and the custom
survives.
Mexican Easter Custom.
■- A Mexican flower girl standing in
front of a large, funeral wreath. At
the Easter-time these wreaths are
placed on the throughout Mex
ico. Mexican peasants bring their flow
ers to the market place In Mexico Olty
for sal* during Eastertide.
Laws That Must B Obeyed.
Conditions are largely what peupit
make them. If they observe natlohai
and economical *!aw there Is greater
prospect of peace and plenty than
when they ignorantly or deliberately
violate them. When these laws are
violated no man-made laws will change
results.
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I An Invitation 1
|| To the People of Pittsboro and Chatham County we want |l
H to extend our cordial invitation to visit our store when II
ji you are in Sanford. Come in and rest. Make our store II
P your headquarters. Leave your bundles here. We will take 11
II care of them for you. Come in and ask us for any, inf or- |h
j mation that you may want. We are more than glad to be |
I able to serve you. Don’t forget, the next time you are in jj‘
j Sanford pay us a visit. . j
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SANFORD NORTH CAROLINA. 1
% What Spring Offers in 1
j MEN’S CLOTHES
I Here men will find styles that meet their preference in < >
| every respect—Clothes for the man who has made his < >
I mark in life, as well as the young fellow who is climbing, f
| Everything that’s good in clothes is offered in our pres- |
f ent stock which embraces the high waisted models, sports 1
• and Norfolks stlyes and conservative Suits for older men. i
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| Service and Satisfaction Store. J [
| Cor. Hillsboro & Salisbury. Pittsboro, N. CL * [
| Notice to the Public |
iThe “Square Filling Station,” located on the corner of
West street and Court House Square, is now open for |K|
service. A line of bulbs, spark plugs, tires in stock. Free
battery water, air and water. Best oil in the county and Ira
gasoline at nominal price. Give us a call.
Square Filling Station i
JAMES MAY/ Manager, Pittsboro, N. C.
| Easter Sunday, April lstj
wn j^l|wp| ||| We are prepared with
p the newest of foot-wear, M
i’ldl Wd Jlr ItfiM Satin pumps, high, medium ||
lip and low heels, priced $4 to |j^
H NEW EASTER COLORS ||
IN SILK HOSIEBY * H
iH 1 fancy stripes and plains, to *jjjk
\m % I V?\fv R/v\L't match your dress and inf -
* I Silk StocJkznqs pumps. Prices of silk hosi
|H »- 1 t ery 50c to ss.o^
I STROUD ft HUBBARD, Sanford, N. C. I
If) Largest Stock of good Shoes and Hosiery isl Lee, Chatham, Moore
!||> and Harnett Counties. % Sk
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The aluable thing in letters is tha
judgment which forms Itself Insensi
bly in a fair mind along with fresh
knowledge, and this judgment any
j one who will but trouble himself
try and make acquaintance with the
j best which has been thought and ut
tered In the world may hope to attaitt
i to. —Arnold.