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Ct)e Chatham mctori) "Independent in politicsT Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Entered at Pittsboro, N.C., as Second Class mail matter by act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, $1.50. Six Months, Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Cha? A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923. DON’T KID YOURSELF. A common expression is, I "wont build now as cost of constriction is too high.” . ~ Incomes have increased proportion ately to cost of construction and the man who does not demand every new fangled contraption can build with his present-day income and have a lar ger margin left than wouid have been possible in 1913. Don't blame the present building costs entirely on to lumber and la bor. Remember tha tin nine cases out of ten your ideas of what you want have expanded with your income and you would not be satisfied today with the 1913 bungalow. Taxes at sioo, insurance at S3O, re pairs and upkeep at SIOO and 7 per cent interest on a $5,000 house amounts to SSBO a year. If you pay SSO a month rent lor nine years you have $5,400 worth of rent receipts worth nothing. If you put SSO a month into a home for five years, even if it was necessary to cut out a few theater parties or clothes to make up the interest, etc., until the property was paid for, you would have an asset worth probably more than §5,400 at the end of nine years and j your family would have a roof over j its head which could not be taken away from them for failure to pay a j month’s rent. Don’t kid yourself, you can own a ; home as well today as you could ten I years ago if you want to. It is not the cost of building that will prevent you, it is the cost of satisfying your in flated demands for luxuries and mod ern extravagances. TOO MANY LAWS. One of the strangest political ten dencies of our time is the suddenly in creased faith of legislators in the po wer of laws to enforce themselves once they are reduced to writing. No belief has been so continuously and thoroughly discredited yet none is so alarmingly alive. Every political philosopher from Montaigne’s day to this hour has recognized that the best government is that conducted with the least law and machinery. A multitude of evils attend the naive faith of legislatures in the auto enforcement capacity of law as rep resented by words on a piece of paper, one is an inevitable weakening of re spect for a government born of* a dis regard for its more outlandish as pects. Another is the uninterrupted encroachment of government on the governed. A third and most distress ing evil is the appalling expense at tending the creation of multitudinous ' new T bureaus and offices provided for. | The time may come when a candi- I date pledging himself to nothing but the repeal of two laws for every one created will be generally supported. THE FAN BELT LOST. A certain good friend of the editor, while talking a few days ago about his physical condition, stated that he had been running in high gear so long riding the hood and pouring water in to the radiator while the speed was up, never slacking even for a fan belt to be replaced unless while motion continued, that he had reached the point where relaxation was necessary and a course of physic was required. When he entered our office we were in deep meditation upon the subject of mirth and happiness, and we were wondering why folks nowadays are too l&zy to even laugh, much less smile. You seldom hear the loud, hearty, wholesome ha! ha! ha! that w r as once so frequent and folks met one another with a hearty handshake. Is it be muse they are less chivalrous, less courteous, greedy envious and degrad ed* or is it because they have reached a state of high speed and are too busy to stop and devote a small measure of their time to their fellow man? Our friend referred to is a very ge nial, pleasant and affable gentleman. Always in a good humor, apparently, although for more than a year he has been through the mill, physically speaking, and he is today in* a sick condition bodily, but rich, healthy and happy in spiritual matters and the very essence of joviality. We long for the good old days when associations with mortal beings will be just as pleasant and we fully real ize— “ The thing that goes the fatherest Towards making life worth while; That costs the least and does the most Is just a pleasant smile. It’s full of worth and goodness, too, With genial kindness blent; It’s worth a million dolars And it doesn’t cost a cent.” WHY BE A SUCKER. The newspapers have recently been filled with numberless accounts of stock swindling operations. The old that a sucker is bom every minute seems to be more than bourne #Wf. The. average man knows nothing about investments and too often seems adverse to securing advice. rs the uninformed citizen before giving up his hard-earned money for a Scheme about which he really knows nothing would consult a bond house ©r banker and learn the actual facts in she case, the fake stock seller wauld soon disappear. Daugherty Will Not Resign —Head- line. Who said he would. COME, LET’S GO! There never was a time in the his tory of Chatham county that the time was more opportune for development. It is not a segregated privilege eith er; is not confined to anyone parti cular section or community. The time is at hand for moving forward and it can be done only by united, concen trated effort, and we must cast aside petty foolishness and jealousy and go to work. During the past few weeks many business men have been making quer ies about Chatham, they are casting about for investments and inasmuch as Chatham is so rich in possibilities that have never been developed, these folks want to invest where they will reap the pioneer benefit. If we remain close-fisted, silent and content we will lose these opportunities. There is no one individual neither is there single community that can propound a proper strength to induce a growth. It must be united, both as to the county and the people. Let’s go, folks. Get together and appre ciate the fact that an industry to the north, east, south or west is to the advantage of the old county and will produce a tax-income that will benefit every individual and bring money into the county. . . 1 The greater handicap to Chatham today is the fact that there are so many things that continually take the monev away from the county instead of bringing it into the county. We need pulling strength and we must have it. We must have cooperative strength and the time is opportune to produce it. This paper is ready for the fray. Will you join and help us do the best we can? Here’s something for somebody to worry about: A Wake county super indent of schools wants school com mittees elected by voters. On May 31st it was snowing in Butte, Mont. Now who would like to butt into a country like that. North Carolina and Chatham county suits us. When a man gets crazy enough to ride 500 miles in an automobile at an j average speed of 91.4 miles an hour just to get $35,000 in money, he is a bigger fool than we’d be. A. J. Maxwell may be right. Treas urer Lacy claimed that there was a deficit in the State treasury at $3,- 000,000. Maxwell said $5,000,000. So ! in order to find out who lied some 25 l accountants, maybe more, maybe less, | were put to work at SSO a day. The accountants have been on the job j about three months a.id the end is not j yet. “They” say.it will cost tne State at least $40,000 or $50,000 to find out the truth ot the deficit. Object is no money to the taxpayers of the State. MORE ABOUT THE TEACHERS. Prof. R. P. Johnson, of Pittsboro, is j the oldest teacher in Cnatham count and together with Mr. Emerson Cole, of Pittsboro, route one, and Mr. Henry I Richardson, of Siler City, are the very oldest teachers in this section. Not in the point of years as we term it, but in tne matter of service as teachers. We have referred to these folks within the past few weeks and in con versation with Mr. Johnson since our last paper, we leant that he taught a j “subscription” school as his first es- j j fort just after his sixteenth birthday. ! He attended many schools after this | first experience in 1866 before he completed his education, but he kept hammering after it until he was ca pable and competent to teach in the Academies in those days. When we reflect upon the fact that these old teachers were compelled to study long hours into the night when the only light they had were tallow candles, and many of them in the old days were not able to afford them and got their learning by the flare from pine knots, more fully do we appre ciate the splendid opportunities that the boys and girls of today have and how little they make use of them. Old Eastern Academy in New Hope townships; Haw River Academy, at Hanks Chapel; Oak Ridge Academy (now Institute), are some of the old ?* and bettor schools that we did not mention heretofore. , Rev. P. T. Klapp, from Graham, or old Elon College, was the teacher at Haw River Academy, and Prof. C. L. Siler, under whom Prof. Johnson stu died a long time, was a professor in old Mt. Vernon Springs. We regard very highly these gra-d •old men who have made a life sacrifice . In bringing the schools up to the pres ent standard and we hope the genera- tions present and to-follow will readi ly appreciate the fact that everything has been done possible to make “it easv” for them to qualify in “their books.” THE MASONS AS BUILDERS. Charlotte Observer. The Shriners* Mosque shortly on the way to a finish in Charlotte, and the elegant Masonic Temple, located o~ Trvon street, serve to give the local public an idea of the enterprise of the Masons as builders. But the Char lotte creations are merely incidental. Over the country the Masons are row building temples and mosques the cost of which will amount up to over one hundred million dollars. The Ma sonic Temple at Detroit, alone, repres ents an expenditure of $5,000,000. The Temple at Birmingham, recently com pleted, cost $1,000,000. The Masonic Memorial at Washington cost $3,000,- 000. and New Orleans is completing a $1,000,000 structure. The Masons in Boston are planning for a Temple to cost $15,000,000, with site and fur -1 -ishir.gs included, and with an en dowment fund of $3,000,000. Mean time, the Masons are building High 5 -chools, Widows and Orphans’ homes. dormitories for Masons and sons- of 1 Masons, hospitals and asylums, in all * parts of the country. The Masons are 5 “builders” in more than one sense of i the word. r If the spring dallies much longer one straw hat will last all summer. — Buffalo Enquirer. lo6k~at""your label I OBSER V ATION S. By Rambler. 1 “What is the matter with every thing,” asked an old fisherman Satur day. “Corn and cotton are glowing slowly, the creeks and rivers are dry ing up and the fish won’t bite.” And it does look that way. “There are more worthelss dogs in Pittsboro than any town the size of it in the State,” remarked one of our citizens yesterday. “And the town au thorities ought to take some steps to have them killed or kept off the streets. They are a menace to our citizens.” “One of the prettiest scenes around Pittsboro,” remarked a citizen a day or two ago, “is that which one views from the Chapel Hill road about a mile south of Bynum. This view of the high hills beyond Haw river is magnificent. Reminds one ..of western North Carolina country.” “June was the month, not now, that we old topers used to go to Raleigh t odrink bock beer,” remarked an old man Monday. “But now get near beer, and the only nearness it gets to being beer is because it is put in a beer bottle. There used to be an old saying something like this: “June is hot and and the weather is clear, too hot for liquor and too cold for beer.” Oh the good old beer days are gone forever.” Be a Booster. Be a Booster, like a rooster—al ways crowing loud and long; keep a yelling what you’re selling—put some pepper in your song. If you’re tired go get fired —hunt a job you think will suit you. Be a getter —times are better for the man that packs a smile; take your licking or quit your kicking—dig right in and make your pile. The war is over and there’s clover in the pastures all around; it’s not waiting or debating but making hay out of the ground. Watch it growing—always showing lots of blos soms —all alive. If you re a dead one go use a lead gun—drones ain’t want ed in this hive. Be a doing—quit your stewing—get a move on, grab some kale; don’t let your head get feeling dead yet—Sweat and Smile and You Can’t Fail. BILLY SUNDAY. * ! The Uplift. , . 0 Billy Sunday held old Columbia, S. C. in a swing. He worked them up to such a pitch that he handled them i as so much soft putty. At his last day ! meetings he had a combined attend ance of 37,000; and the “trail hitters” reached a total of 4,440. The 800 ushers employed in the tabernacle pulled the evangelist’s car I to the station, having hitched them j selves to it by means of ropes. A dis patch to the Charlotte Observer an- I nounced that Mr. Sunday was present ed a check for $25,002.00. That is probably considerably more than the • Columbia churches will pay all its I preachers for an entire year’s service. Had a Close Call. Sanford Express. Mr. W. B. F. Johnson, of Chatham county, had a close call while return ! ing home Saturday afternoon by his ! buggy being wrecked about a mile north of Woodards bridge by a car ! driven by Mr. Tom H. Gore, a travel ing man from Atlanta, Ga. The acci i dent occurred at a sharp curve in the road. Mr. Gore did not see the buggy until the car had almost reached it. As he failed to sound his horn Mr. Johnson did not realize the danger un til it was too late to get out of the road. Mr. Gore threw on his brakes and attempted to stop, but the car was carried along by the momentum after the wheels were locked. The rear wheels of the buggy were broken up but fortunately Mr. Johnson escaped without injury. Mr. Gore seemed to want to do the right thing and paid Mr. Johnpon about what he thought it would cost to repair tfr© buggy carried him to his home. professional (Bards VICTOR R. JOHNSON. Attorncy-aC-Law, Practices in all courts —Federal, State and Cou’-ty. Office over Brooks & Eubanks Store, Northeast comer court house square, PITTSBORO, N. C. LONG AND BELL. At torney s-at-Law. PITTSBORO. N. C_ J. ELMER LONG. Durham, N. C DANIEL L. BELL. Pittsboro, N. C A. C. RAY! Attorney-at-Law.' PITTSBORO, N. C. DR. R. M. FARRELL. Dentist Offices over the drug store, Main St Hours, 8 to 5. PITTSBORO. N. C. PILKINGTON PHARMACY. Prescriptions, drugs, medicines am toilet articles. KODAKS. ♦ * > » * * * * * 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. 1 ABOUT THE EFIRDS. Gigantic Sale on at'33 Stores Now Lasting Through June. The thirty-three stores of the Efird chain started a big sale on June Ist, that will continue through the month of June. The Raleigh store has a large ad in this paper giving only a few of the specials they offer, and they say they will give especial at tention to Chatham people who read the ad in The Record. Clip the cou pon elsewhere in this paper and take it to them or to any advertiser of the Record and they will give you special consideration. . __ , It is only 18 years since J. tk Efird, president, and E. L. Efird, secretary treasurer of the Efird Department stores in 33 cities of the Carolinas and Virginia, left their farm home in An son county to begin to study merchan dising. Their introduciton to retailing jras humble enough. For S2O a month they worked as clerks in a Charlotte store. Indicating the calibre of the men who had succeeding in saving money while farming on the strength of six cert cotton. They managed to save even while clerking for a meager S2O a month. They had been brought up on a farm, two of a family of seven brothers, every one of whom at an early age had to literally learn the value of not only a dollar, but that of a cent as well. It was the early struggle of the Efirds which prompt ed J. B. and E. L. Efird earlv in their business careers to devote their chief energy to building up a great busi ness based on vahies for cash. No man knew better than they and their brothers what a few cents .saved to thousands of people in the Southern states. 9 I If—n— ! ■■ wIT r-r~r - I have your eyes examined! BY AN EXPERT—COSTS NO ! Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known j eyesight Specialists and Opticia j will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in j Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tues- | day and at Dr. Thomas’ office, Siler j City, N. C., every fourth Thursday j in each month. Headache relieved I when caused by eye strain. When I he fits you with glasses you havej the satisfaction of knowng that! ! they are correct. Make a note of I Ithe date and see him if your eyes! [are weak. J His next visit in Pittsboro will 6 J be Tuesday, June 26th. j [ His next visit in Siler City will? fbe Thursday, Ju :e 28th. v —■—- —■—..—■——-—-—-—■■—«»-»;« ■■ ■■ ■■ "" I « —■———c j—b—ii 11 i i ——— pidTOiahTsS] I Now Going On and Will Continue I : 1 Through the Entire Month of June § l j| TEL L YOUR NEIGHBORS, STOP WORK AND GO TO THE RALEIGH STORE AND i ; H GET YOUR FULL SHARE OF THE BARGAIN?THAT ARE BEING OFFERED. THIS p J H SMALL SPACE PREVENTS PRINTING THE HUNDREpS OF BARGAINS THAT WE j§j J p HAVE TO OFFER, BUT IF YOU WILL COME AND LET US KNOW THAT YOU || j.M READ THIS AD IN THE CHATHAM RECORD YOU WILL GET SPECIAL CONSID- 'l| j|g ERATION, - ■ I : fHj Below we name just a few Jhe hundreds of bargains we have here and we assure you ' 11! • that we have a rock bottom price on almost anything that you may want: ' m . I Wit j PALM BEACH SUITS. and young men's suits in slims, ex ra sizes, stouts, and sport models in light colors, dark grays, flannels, etc. Every . M juit with genuine Palm Beach label, !3ale Price - $10.75 DRESS SHIRTS. Men’s Dress shirts, SI.OO values 65c One Table men’s fine' dress shirts, all sizes, new patterns 79c Men’s $1.25 dress shirts, special at ___ 95c M Men’s dress shirts, values worth up H o $1.65 at t Men’s $2.00 dress shirts at $1.65 MEN’S HOSIERY. IjM] Men’s 50c silk socks 35c ' m 3 for SI.OO. ld fH Men’s full fashioned silk .socks in m black, cordovan and navy, 85c values at 50c HI Men’s very fine quality silk hose 20c * |i| Men’s cotton socks 10c < if THE EFIRD STORE I - p One of The 33 Big Stores | I Raleigh, - - North Carolina § Sis |n i||l The Fastest Retailing System in The World | Speaking of the irony of fate, here are the New York World and other Wilson Democrats tumbled into the band wagon along with George Har vey on the world-court issue.—Detroit Free Press. j * """"" ~~1 ★ ★★★★★★* ★★★★★★★★★★ A -k M ★ ★ j - ★ - i ! | | ARE | dangerous! i TIME IS MONEY ITSELF | I While we have a full and complete line of feedsuff at a J I moderate figure it is wortli your while to come in and get } it. The prices now are at a minimum, we bought to sell at a short profit and you’ll find that wo ha\e everything in the feed line marked down to a lover level than ever j before. Don’t delay, it is dangerous. Os course it will take a little of your time to call here and stock up on your needs, but then time is money it- \ i self and if you save more than the value of the time, you \ !“ still have a dividend. \ I We have several car loads of hay, sweet feed, oats, and jj I anything that you need on the farm. A full line of Pease & Dwyer products are at your disposal. This brand needs ! { no introduction. You know it to be the best and we want f !you to have the very best. _ l We have a large and complete stock of heavy and staple I groceries and we are price setters when it comes to sup- \ plies for the home. We regulate the market and we offer | you the very best quality of things that you have to eat \ at the lowest possible price. \ i' ! j We buy and sell country produce, and crossties and pay the highest market price. See us first. j | CONNELL & FARRELL I Price Leaders Pittsboro, N. C. j | _ |iaiiniiMi>i S ' BOYS’ SUITS, $3.98. ~ lj§ Boys’ tweed suits, novelty iillktufes, v: etc, sale price $3.98 01 Boys’ two-pant suits, special at $5.98 All other boys’ suits at special prices dur- $$ ing Chain Sale. f(j| ' "bedYinen. if 72x90 Seam sheets 686 !r'| Full double bed size seam sheets 98c 63x90 Pepperell seamless sheets $1.25 81x90 Peppered seamless sheets $1.35 42x36 Pillow cases 22c jgl 32x36 Peppered pillow cases 35c All other sheets, wide sheeting and pillow 01 cases cut in price. ”muslin'and silk underwear" (| All ladies’ silk and jnuslin underwear to go in this sale at ridiculously low prices. Ev- iiUj ery table to be marked with special tickets. KNIT TEDDIES. || Ladies’ Summer weight knit ted dies, 50c values at 35c pi 18c gauze vest, regular and extra sizes, . 14c W ♦ One lot ladies’ gauze vest 10c $ On Decoration Day in the u ni^~. I States the Confederate and Union vet ; erans joined hands together as broth' ! ers. This is one of the good signs' nt the no north and no south movent | “Blessed be the Tie that Binds.’’ '
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