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DR. J. D. GREGG,
Dentist Siler City, N. C.
Office over Siler Drug Store.
Hours 8 sl m., to 5 p. m.
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17 1 For Quality
lay tnough Groceries
The surest way of disappointing yourself is to buy infer- I
ior goods at low prices. Quality demands its price—but
only a fair price.
We have the low prices and the Quality in everything
we sell. Groceries, Feedsuff, Roofing and we buy and sell
Country Produce. j
Don’t be disappointed with your larder. Let us price
things to you first and then you’ll be satisfied.
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TRACTOR IMPROVEMENTS 8
A Tractor that will do all kinds of farm work, breaking M
harrowing, cultivating crops, drilling wheat, corn, cotton
pulling wheat reapers and other classes of work, is here |HJj
ready to give a demonstration to the farmers of Chat- >*ss>
HI Give us a trial to demonstrate and let us show you |s|
[mj what this farmers’ friend can do for you. It is the best jjj|
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1 Chatham Hardware Co., 1
| Pittsboro, N. C. j|
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A complete assortment of Good Clothes for Men and
Young Men. i
WilkMcks Company
| Sanford, N. C.
■ earnings, multiply your aches and
pains, take interest from your work
• and discount your chances for safety.
Besides this, I can divide your
thoughts between business and pleas
ure and be a potent factor in your
failures.
Even if I am with you only a small
fraction of the time, I can lessen
your chances for success. I am a fig
ure to be reckoned with.
Cancel me from your habits and it
will add to your total happiness.
LOOK AT YOUR LABEL
in jail here charged with killing his
wife, Berta Adams Barnes, 25, at 8
o’clock last evening at the home of
| Henry Bunn, at Five Points, a suburb
! of Wilson. Mrs. Barnes was shot to
1 death.
! It is stated that Barnes and his
! wife had separated recently, she and
their three small children going to
live with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bunn,
friends. Yesterday Barnes approach
ed local officials, stating that he want
ed to get his wife to return to their
home, four miles from Wilson, to live.
S. E. Leonard, local welfare officer,
late yesterday accompanied Barnes
to the Bunn home and they interview
ed Mrs. Barnes, who refused to re
turn to live with Barnes, stating, ac
cording to Mr. Leonard, that she fear
'ed he would harm her.
Last night at 7:30 Barnes return
ed to the home in an automobile and
his wife is said to have consented to
go with him. The three children had
entered the automobile, it is stated,
and when Mrs. Barnes moved toward
the house Barnes Ire five shots at
her three taking ecect. Bunn tele
phoned for the police and Barnes
waited beside his wife’s dead body
until the officers arrested him. He will
be given a preliminary hearing before
Justice W. O. Pearson Saturday morn
ing. No inquest will be held.
University Trustees Take No Action
on New Buildings.
Chapel Hill, March 26.—The build
ing committee of the university trus
tees had no decision to announce to
day regarding just what building will
be erected here during the next two
years.
A committee composed of Mrs. Sta
cy, Miss Maybelle Penn and A. C.
Nash, the university architect, were
asked to visit institutions ior women
in the State and report back to the
committee concerning the question of
the cost of providing suitable accomo
dations for women on the basis of the
university’s present policy as to co
education. The building committee
does not expect at this meeting to be
able to arrive at any definite decision
as to the exact buildings to be erect
ed at the university.
Hastings’ Seeds '
1923 Catalog Free
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Just write tor this handsome new
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and you’ll be mighty glad to have it
in your home. It is absolutely free,
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H. Q. H ABTINGB CO.,
Atlanta, Qa.
“The Rats Around My Place Were
Wise,” Says John Tuthill.
“Tried everything to kill them.
Mixed poison with meal, meat, cheese
etc. Wouldn’t touch it. Tried RAT
SNAP, inside of ten days got rid of
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 Pilkington
Pharmacy, W. L. London & Son, Chat
ham Hardware Co., Pittsboro, and Sil
er City Drug Store., The Hardware
Store, Siler City, N. C.
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 Marsh, administratrix of Wes
ley Marsh, deceased, vs. John W.
Marsh and others, I will on
Saturday, the 31st day of March, 1923
offer for sale at the court house door
in Pittsboro, North Carolina, at 12 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. W T ebster 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
, loss.
This the 28th day of February, 1923
; W. P. HORTON,
> March29R-4-p Commissioner.
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! This arrangement gives yon an
> opportunity of buying a Diamond
[ at parctically the wholesale price
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\ Jewelers, SANFORD, N. C.
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ac- i;
! ; cording to a bulletin of the weather ;
• i bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, made public in j
• Washington and received here.
1 To produce one inch of rainfall over <
an area of an acre, approximately j
| 113 tons of moisture would have to be ,
; drawn up into the air and then pre- '
’ j cipitated, it is stated. There are 640 ,
’j acres in a square mile for which 72,- i
320 tons of moisture would be re- ;
j quired, the bulletin continues, adding j
that a square mile, however, would
' be scarcely a dot in the center of
! any section where drought prevailss,
’ as in Arizona or parts of Texas.
“Enormous forces are required in ]
nature to elevate moisture above the
earth before it can be precipitated/’
it is stiated. “Billioins of horsepower
are represented in the cloud that
spreads over the house-tops; and ev- r,
en if some artificial means were found j
| to cause the aggregatioin and fall of [I
rain of the infinitesimal drops of >
' which it is made up, calculation shows j
that only a trifling amount of preci- '\
pitation would result. There must be }
some way by which the moisture-la- j
den atmosphere can be lifted to a \
considerable higher altitude to lower >
its temperature, and thus precipitate j
a considerable part of its moisture. ■]
“It is quite true that in the labora- j
tory a small amount of moisture can j
be precipitated by the use of special >
equipment. Meteorologists of the jj
weather bureau of the United States .
Department of Agriculture say that
they do not know of any scheme for j
the artificial production of rain on a |
i scale of practical magnitude, nor for
otherwise affecting atmosphere be- jj
havior. *
“Widespread drought is due to lack
i of sufficient moisture in the atmos
phere and the absence of other con
i ditions essential to the formation of
: rain. If there is little moisture to
bring down, obviously no device for
s cashing rain artificially has any val
ue, because of the absurdity of sup
: posing that human agencies can sup
! ply adequate amounts of water for
. extended areas when the atmosphere
is partially dry.”
The bulletin states ideas of pre
venting fog, making rain or forestal
ling the disastrous effects of storms
are not new. After relating the “hail
shooting,, method introduced in for
eign countries ten years ago, the bul
letin describes attempts in the United
States.
1 “More recently, in our own country,
’ a man achieved prominence by ad
' vertising a contrivance which he pro
j posed to build at various points where
I more rain would be welcome,” it is
t stated. This scheme was entirely
different from the proposal to shoot
, bombs, sprinkle hygroscopic or non
, hygroscopic dust particles in the air,
i or electrified sand to induce precipi
i tation. It consisted of powerful fans ,
, at the base of high towers for forc
; ing upward great quantities of air and
i thus simulating the conditions which
i occur in storms and cyclones when
, rain is produced. This plan also is
, futile and economically impossible.
“The case of the man who con
| tracted with farmers in droughf-strick
en regions to produce an inch or more
of rainfall within a period of two or
three months for a consideration of
; SI,OOO per inch is well known. This
1 man claimed to be able to cause rain
1 by a secret process with the use of
chemicals. If the rain came the man
collected his fees; if the rain failed he
lost nothing. Now the average amount
of rain for each region is accurately
recorded and after a long drought and
within the limits of the record a
shrewd operator is quite safe in pro
mising precipitation: and collecting
SI,OOO per inch from desperate farm
ers.
“A recent proposal is to cause pre
cipitation by sprinkling dust parti
cles in the air by means of appara
tus carried on airplanes, on the the
ory that these will aid condensation.
Cloudiness dus to dust particles, how
ever, takes place long before precipi
tation occurs, and frequently contin
ues after the rain is over, indicating
that the motes and dust particles do
not necessarily cause the precipita
tion. If clear weather follows rain
fall, it may be because new dry air
has moved in from other localities.
“Presence or absence of dust par
tides in the atmosphere does not, in
the opinion of meterologists, have any
thing to do with the distribution of
rainfall. A a rule far more dust par
; tides are present in the atmosphere
■ everywhere than would be essential
. were the dust hypothesis correct, to
• bring about abundance of precipita
. tion.
“On the other hand, enormous
; quantities of rainfall occur over the
! oceans where there is least dust. Some
! places in the Hawaiian Islands have
l a n annual rainfall exceeding 500 in
. ches, and yet the air is nearly dust
> free. The most dust in the atmosphere,
[ excepting near industrial cities, oc
; curs over the dry and semi-arid re
» gions.
, “The suggestion has also been
5 made that powdered quicklime be em
l ployed to precipitate moisture. On
? this point the weather bureau says j
i that dry, powdered quicklime, expos
- ed to the atmosphere, absorbs a cer
l tain quantity of moisture—that is, it
- dries the air. t Dry quicklime is used
v in many industrial operations for dry
ing gases. The moisture absorbed in
3 these cases completely disappears as
available water and form a new chem
•• ical compound called irslaked lime.
“Unless exceedingly fine, this sprin
kled quicklime, after absorbing one
third of its weight in water, would
fall to earth, leaving the air dryer
than before. Any exceedingly fine
particles remaining in the air would
very slowly absorb carbon dioxide i
also present in the air in very small
quantities, and form a substance
chemically the same as limestone or
marble. If the plan to sprinkle dust
of some sort into the air were feas
ible at all, it would therefore appear
to be better to sprinkle finely pow
dered marble in the air in the first
place because this would not rob the
atmosphere of any of the moisture
present.
“All of these schemes, however,
are, in the opinion of the weather bu~
J .erau t entirely futile.”
our opening In the nawstoS
1 which we have just completed on Friday and Saturday 1
£ March 30 and 31, and take this means of saying to the '
2 good people who have contributed, or rather made it pog. !
I sible for us to erect such a building, that we deeply ap. j
I predate the support given us in the past and we respect
| fully solicit a continuance of same in the future.
if J. J JOHNSON v & SON
o . Service and Satisfaction Store.
Cor. Hillsboro & Salisbury. Pittsboro, N. C,
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TRACTOR, i
$395 f.o.b. DETROIT
The Fordson Tractor is taking much of the
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PITTSBORO, N. C.
BANK of PITTSBORO
wants you as a custo
mer. Do your banking
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CIATE YOUR BUSINESS
A* H. LONDON
President
JAS. L. GRIFFIN
Cashier
W. L. FARRELL
Asst. Cashier