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n— — €l)t Ctjattjam laecorp independent; in politics. Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Enteted at Pittsboro, N.C.. as Second Cla.-s mail matter by act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, SI.SJ). Six Months, *75 (olin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Cha- A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising:*2sc. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1923. • THEY DESERVE THE PRAISE. Since our last issue we have had the privilege of conversing with another one of the old teachers of Chatham county, one who began his career about the same time that Mr. Cole did. This man is now ready to start another school, having taught last ses sion at Meadow Creek. We refer to Mr. H. F. Richardson, who lives near Siler City, and who is affectionately known as “Mr. Henry Richardson.” It was in the fall of j 1880 when he took his first examina- j tion to teach school and the examina tion was held in the old Ramsey Hotel i that stood on the site, in Pittsboro,! where the stores of the Pittsboro case and Cecil H. Lindley now stand. It was an old wooden building and the only hotel that the town had at the time.. This was the year that the present court house was under con struction. Dr. P- R- Law was the superintend- | ent of Public Instruction and held the j examination. The questions, with the i • exception of arithmetic were all oral j and were given in rapid succession, j On November 28th, 1881, Mr. Rich- ' ardson began teaching and he receiv- 1 ed the magnificent sum of S2O per month for the service. As stated in our mention la°t week of Mr. Cole, the day’s length was from early in j the morning until late in the after noon. While the schools were not I graded there were many phases of the work that are now employed in the high schools, although the stud ents were graded as “beginners”, “in termediate” and “advanced” students. Back in those days children were started in their A. B. C’s., learned to spell and then read, but the elemen tary principles are not regarded now as they were then, or at least not con sidered essential. Mr. Richardson has taught at Mea dow Creek for three sessions, Red Cross eight years and at Flint Ridge for four times. Many other schools liave received the benefit of his splen did tutorship. Henry Richardson is a graduate of. the old Mt. Vernon Springs Academy, j There were no colleges in those days, but there were scattered here and there many old schools that were su perior in many ways the present day colleges. There was old Sylvan, Floral College, Elon and Mt. Vernon. Classmates of Mr. Richardson were the late Dr. H. T. Chapin, of Pitts boro, and Dr. J. D. Edwards, who now lives and practices medicine in Siler City, the year of his graduation. In 1880 he and Dr. Chapin, Wesley Whitehead and L. B. Chapin, brother of Dr. Chapin, were “batching” at old Sylvan and attended school there. Prof. R. P. Johnson, now residing in Pittsboro, was principal at both old Sylvan and Mt. Vernon Springs. Mr. Johnson, too, is one of the oldest teachers in Chatham county, but he devoted all his time to higher educa tion, while the subject of this sketch and Mr. Cole and the other older teachers were continually with the county schools. Mr. Richardson’s father died when he was six years old. A short time later his mother became an invalid. He was left to labor for himself and only chance times, rainy days and “off” seasons did the opportunity pres ent itself for him to attend the schools. However, after he reached more mature years he engaged in picking blackberries, skinning rabbits and saving in every way, it enabled him to qualify as a teacher, and the county has been wonderfully blessed by his ability and influence as a teach er. •As we stated last week, the. young folks of Chatham county or elsewhere for that matter, could well afford to become stimulated by the sacrifices made by these grand old men and it should posses them with a greater de sire to become better informed and to get an education under our present liberal and advantageous conditions. Our hats, are off to the old teachers of Chatham. May they be a joy to us for many years to come. A SHAMEFUL REPORT. Report That The Editor Was Fishing Sunday is False. Strange how a false report will take wings and fly to the far corners, while good deeds and kind actions travel with slow speeed, run in low gear and take so long k) reach attentive ears. Now it comes that it is reported over in the New Elam section that on Sun day, May 20, the editor of the Record wa>» on New Hope creek fishing How could a report like this gain cir culation. At the time it is reported that we were fishing there, we were at Beulah Baptist church, in the edge of Randolph county, making a speech to a Memorial gathering. Piehing is a pleasurable sport and ene that is indeed near to the editor but w« have never loved it so well as to violate the laws of God and the ■will of man to fish on Sunday and as long an we keep ane and retain an ev en fath on Deity we shall hever at tempt to fish on Sunday. We trust that our numerous friends in that j community will brand the report as falso for us. We shall depend on the folks who . have circulated the former reoort to correct it and tell the people that we are not guilty. Then, too, we have always been taught that “truth crush ed to earth will rise again/' ' MUST HAVE WELFARE OFFICER Effort Should Meet With Approval of. All Our People. This paper understands that there will be an effort made next Monday to encourage the county commission i ers to consider the appointment of a Welfare Officer for Chatham county. ! W r e hope the effort will meet with the i approval of the commissioners. There is no more needed officer . in Chat ham and the value a good worker ! could be to Chatham cannot be reckon ■ ed in dollars and cents. There has been a welfare officer heretofore at a nominal salary and no j good can be accomplished unless there jis an all time worker, one that is j competent and willing to. see that the . county gets the best results, j It is true that the county is badly ! behind financially and needs money, ! but every cent that is paid into a good : salary for a Welfare Worker is eco -1 r.omy in itself. Provision can be made for the payment of the salary and ’ there will be saved in humanity to the county more tran $1,500 or SI,BOO a year necessary to employ a good worker. Then, too, it is not a a question of politics. Republicans will give their hearty endorsement to the plan and encourage just such work. In fact, leaders in the party have frequently discussed with the editor the need of a Welfare Worked and a Demonstration Agent. Let’s not lag, folks, we must keep pace with the best of things and T the cost should be the last considera tion. THEY ARE INTELLIGENT TOO. Man came in our office last week just after we had printed our paper and ejaculated: “Shaw, why in the de ! vil do you want to be forever quot ing what some Republican has *said?” “Well,” says we, “Why not?” “The folks have accused you of be | ing a Republican and it might lead them to believe you really are.” Our reply simply stated, was this: ; “If folks want to believe that the edi tor of this paper is a Republican, af | ter stating time and again that we have been a life long Democrat, let them believe it. However, we have met some very sensible, intelligent Republicans in Chatham county and elsewhere and when they have some thing to say that is sound in logic and of a news value we expect to quote them. In fact we never question a man as to whether he is a Democrat or a Republican when we desire to quote him and it will continue to be our policy.” We are making effort to publish a paper for the entire county, to print that which is of news value, leaving off the politics. We are trying to make the paper independent so far as politics is concerned and it is our fond hope that we have succeeded to a marked degree. In fact we have a good subscription list and it is about 150-50 Democratic and Republican, sufficiently so, at least, to persuade an even course that we have followed for some time. RESULT OF THE SIN. In connection with what we had to say last week in regard to the man with the dirk, or the dissipated act of a distorted mind, with vengeance j aforethought and a purely prejudiced i personal grievance, we learn that a I nearby lodge *is about to lose its char ter from the grand lodge of Masons because of malice shown in the local meeting. x All goes to show that one small soul, so little that the rattle of a mus tard seed would drown its noise, can do a great and good organization much harm. The aggregate assembl age must suffer the consequence of a 2x4 and the progress of a municipality be hampered. It is an established fact that no man can well afford to be smaller than the demands of society and he must meas use up to the standards expected by a big body of men that cover the face of the earth like the dew. If no direct violation of conduct unbecoming a man stationed in a specific*sphere can be established and a character can re main unblemished, it remains for the organization itself to redeem the act of a coward at times. When will men be men and meashre up to a standard of developed Chris tion attitude? Or will there continue to be “culls” as long as the world stands? Cyclone Mack was right : when he said some statements and » acts by men were scaw* ed in Hell i uid spewed out of perdition. J The Vas Pilot has been recently en | larged and is now one of the prettiest : printed and best edited country pa ; pers in North Carolina. > The pictures of some of North Caro ’ina’s handsome young Women print ed in the Charlotte Observer now and then, are of a different make of beauty 'rom those pictures in patent m^di > cine advertisement in the same paper. Supt. George Ross Pou and fifteen ** of the bosses of prison camps in this I State have all agreed to quit whip- ] ning prisoners and putting them in J dark cells in future and Governor I Morrison’s “new idea” has gone a- j booming. q Officers keep on arresting automo- J bile thieves, moonshiners murder- J w*s. but it does not stop them a bit. Thieves, liquor makers and sellers and j murderers are abroad in the land and j it seems that prison cells, road work < and electrocutions are not doing much good. It is said that 60,000 Germans are committing suidide yearly and all of f his suiciding has been going on since the World War. Why in the name of nence didn’t the Germans commence killing themselves one hundred years ago. If they had there would have been more American, English and French soldiers living today than there are. The sonhisticated person asked the waiter: “Do you serve lobsters .here?” “Why. yes,” he said, “We serve any- ! 1 body.” . •: OBSERVATIONS. By. Rambler. “Wouldn’t it be nice if some of our enterprising citizens, I don’t mean all of them, would build a dam on Rober son creek, make a pond of from 25 to 50 acres, stock it with fish, put on several boats, fix the place up for a resort for our people, have music, dancing and other amusment fea tures? It certainly would be a nice place for picnics "and social gather ings,” remarked a pretty young lady, who is very fond of dancing. “My friend Mr. Allen Jinks has hit on a new plan to kill and crush out the boll weevil,” remarked Mr. John Thomas last week. “In trying to fool the-weevils he soaked his cotton seed in hot water in order to make ’em grow quickly. But his plan did not succeed. The hot water killed the meat in the seed, and the consequences were only two stalks of cotton show ed themselves. He has turned his cotton ground into corn ground and hopes he is not too late in making a few barrels of corn.” “Please put this among your obser vations,” remarked a citizen, as he handed Rambler the following: “Died, after a short illness of gum biles, C. O. Commerce (Chamber of commerce) after a few months of struggling existence. The Lor i gave and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” What a pity. It was ever thus, from Pitts boro’s earliest day, it never had but ( one Chamber of Commerce, and like ■ a dead, rotten limb, it has gone and ‘ faded away. “I notice in the papers that brick layers in New York have struck for an increase in wages from $8 to sl2 a day,” remarked an observant citi zen the other day. “Now I don’t blame « a man for wanting all he, can get and 1 getting all he wants, but in a case like that the man who strikes for higher wages for laying brick or any other kind of work forgets that when he quits work others have to quit with him; that the man who is having the work done can easily put it off as long as he wants to and that he is not the loser but it is the bricklayer. Oh, well, everybody to his own notion, but < if I' was getting $8 a # day I’d try to be satisfied, if I was not.” “I was out in the country a few days ago,” said a Pittsboro citizen, “and I noticed that corn was up, some of it knee high, but it had a yellow cast on it. What caused it, you think ?” “Com, like folks,” answered an old toper, “has got into the new mode of things. It used to be useful in mak ing liquor, feeding stock, feeding peo ple and drawing prizes at the State fair, but some people got the idea in their heads that com meal, turned in* to liquor, was dangerous and was only good for food. Since that time not as good com is raised as there used to be and it has become disgusted at the new ways and refuses to grow like it used to.” NEWS FROM CORINTII. Corinth, May 28. —Last week we did not sho up in print at all. Our ( teacher had remarked that she wrs “going to write the Corinth Items next time.” But she must have forgotten her promise. The Corinth school community play ers put on their play, “My Irish Rose” in fine form, the best ever, at Fu quay ‘Springs auditorium a week ago last Saturday night. The audience was small but appreciative. Next Saturday night the Moncure school will bring their splendid plya, “A Kentucky Belle” to Corinth. Both schools will share in the prcfks. The admission will be 20 and 35 cents, this' play is a da ulv one, humor a-d' wit from start to finish. Let’s come I out and give our good neighbors a full and appreciative house. Our neigh bors have patronized the Corinth play Nhorally. ret, so now let’s return the compliment. Miss DeUa Dowell, of Carthage, and Miss Mary of Pittsboro, week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Kennedy, were • all welcome callers at Buckhom last Sunday afternoon. Mrs, T. V. Sexton returned home Monday from a week’s visit with re’a- j tivos in,Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. WP a oh, Broad- 1 vav. spe-nt Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Clark. Mr. B. N. Dmkens came honm Mon day fmm p 8-dajfc visit with relatives near Raleigh. . TtPlcr f eooe T ’letter. "^ T ew end Mws Mpp t o * BeP’s c, r I ~ooT, "-el come callers at Buckhom Sunday. Not co vPP r l'vnq' arm it n bis o* v to to dance. Now any sort of motion is called ’ancing.—Chicago News. There is tr’k of making' rubber from milkweed. Our garden may yet be a success. —Arkansas Gazette. - -~L UTT -■!' -T_ - - - j*. I ‘HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINE) T BY AN EXPERT—COSTS NO ! | j ! Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known! eyesight Specialists and Optician I will be at Dr. Farrell’s office inj Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tues- J day and at Dr. Thomas’ office Siler I City, N. C., every fourth Thursday j in each month. Headache relieved! when caused by eye strain. When i be fits you with glasses you have| !the satisfaction of knowng that! they are correct. Make a note of I the date and see him if-your eyes j are weak. I His next visit in Pittsboro willj be Tuesday, June 26th. His next visit in S’der City willj ? be Thursday, June 28th. Death of J. S. Farrell. Mr. J. S. Farrell, one of Center township’s oldest citizens, died at his home one mile north of Hanks’ chap el last Monday morning. Funeral ser vices were held over his remains Tues day at 1 o’clock and were laid to rest in the Hanks’ chapel cemetery. ' * Mr.. Farrell left three sons, his wife died about 10 years ago, Tlie sons were C. 8., W. A., and W. V. Far rell, Mrs. Martha White, of Bynum and Mrs. Barbara Brinkly,. of Durham. | One daughter, Mrs. Mary Adcock, died j about a year ago. Mr. Farrell was 74 years of age on the 10th day of May ! and has lived in this county practical- ; ly all his life. . • | * It Helps the Town. Miss Lillie White and Mr. Johnnie.| Clark have placed large boxes Ground j the trees fronting the postoffice and the store of J. J. Johnson & Son in - Pittsboro, filling the boxes with good, rich dirt, and have planted therein Canna flowers, circling the boxes with violets and other flowers. It beautifies the street, they are very pretty and it helps the town. Flowers qnd clean streets are an as set that cannot very well be overlook ed. Qarcts ' VICTOR R. JOHN SON. 1 1 Attorney-at-Law, . j Practices in all courts —Federal, State and County. Office over Brooks & Eubanks Store. - Northeast comer court house square, PITTSBORO, N. C. LONG AND BELL. Attorneys-at-Law. PITTSBORO. N. C._ j 1 J. ELMEJt LONG, Durham, N. C. DANIEL, L. BELL. Pittsboro, N. C.. A. C. RAY ! ‘ Attorney-at-Law. PITTSBORO, N. C. j DR. R. M. FARRELL. Dentist Offices over the drug store, Main St.; Hours, 8 to 5. PITTSBORO. N. C. • PILKINGTON PHARMACY, j Prescriptions, drugs, medicines and toilet articles. * KODAKS. ******_ T * * * * * * 15 R. F. PASCHAL, * Attorney-at-Law, * * Office over Postoffice Siler City. * * * * * * * * * * * * DR. J. D. GREGG, Dentist. Siler City, N. C. Office over Siler Drug Store. Hours 8 a. m., to 5 p. m. .' N N "—v v/-rr—a y IWilliams-Belk Company j A-Complete Showing «( I .wash fabrics! M PLAIN COLOR fl FRENCH VOILES M FANCY M PRINTED VOILES p ORGANDIES ! LINENS 'S. | ; AND RATINES GINGHAM ~ TISSUE DRESSES H SLEEVELESS || SWEATERS I GIRLS’ LINENS 1 I WILUAMS-BELK COMPANY \ J : SANFORD, N.C. j B Summer Time Is iQ; | I Sandal Time Q £*s § H| In our new, showing of Sandals you'll find the pair for lj || the kiddies that will please them and you, too. They are 1 jfi just filled with quality. $ Then, too, white canvas Shoes are ideal for the hot, i ! 11l sultry, discomforting days of Summer. We have a good S ill. line of canvas shoes that will please you and give you f| I|n cqmfort besides. " || IP In fact we have everything the line of footwear calls for f§ fim and we have it in popular brands,of the best quality and S Hour prices are lower because we sell for cash and let you §] save the difference. Not only Shoes but we have about anything you may fi H want in the clothing and wearing apparel line and can 11 satisfy the most fastidious. Prices on home supplies are IS rB equally as low. Just call at our store and be convinced. “PAY CASH AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE.” I L. N. WOMBLE, | H PITTSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, p r® mmmmm mmmsm rv Have a Happy \ I Family f If The only true way to attain happiness and be fully con- ® Ej tented is'to have good, staple food, well prepared and in H 1 season. We make, a specialty of being prepared to fur- j? j§ nish you at any time with any class of Groceries that you f| $ may desire. We get them direct from the markets and g, I we keep them fresh and ready to serve you at the least J| possible cost. In fact, service is our first consideration | and courteous attention is a second nature. You are al- | ways welcome in our store and we appreciate your having i (steadily enlarged our business. We rectify any mistakes. * B Richardson Bros., 1 S Phone 42. SILER CITY, N. C. Phone 42. 1 mmmm mmmmsm I• 7 ' * I -In the wanted high shades and cool Summer styles, hand hemstitched; sizes 16-44; reasonably priced— (w . $9.95, $14.95 and $19.50. Ip Printed Voiles in a large assortment of the season’s color II Combinations; Organdy, self and lace trimmed; popular 11 prices $3.98, $5.95 and $9.95. In all the wanted shades and combinations; embroidered and insert trimmed; sizes 16 to 38 v\ $9.95 and $12.75. ’ i -■ ” I , . In all the best colors and styles. Pricted nj • r $9.95 to $14.95. ■ - K ■ In wov£n checks, pink, gray, tan, lavender and yellow— M $5.95 . 1 ' * D In all the high Sport shades, made of fiber and mohair; ft popular price > M ’ $2.98. ... ' > 1 In sizes 6to 14, in all colors; embroidery trimmed; priced I - $4.98. . ij
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