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Cl)c Chatham &ecor& "Independent in politics. 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 - 5 r P- Six Months, * /D Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Chas. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1923. WE ARE GROWING OLDER. By glancing at the front page of this edition you will note that this paper has begun on the forty-sixth volume, having become 45 years old with the last issue. It was establish ed in September 1879, and the present editor was born in January of same year. Therefore the paper and the editor are growing old together. For nearly three years we have made every effort to print a good pa per in Pittsboro and for Chatham county; many hundreds on our sub scription list are silent witnesses that our course has been approved; many good people have complimented us to our face and quite a few have written letters, telling us how much they en joy th Chatham Record. It is true that we have made some enemies along the line. It has been necessary to print news matter that was distasteful to some. The course we have followed was not parallel with the opinion of some and time shall roll on and leave that impress of hatred in the hearts and minds of some — a n of which is unfortunate but not possible to control. No man or set of men can publish a paper to please everybody and anyone would be foolish to try. Here’s pledging our best efforts in the future ot give the whole of Chat ham county as good a paper as is our ability to produce, until some unfor tunate circumstance shall cause our efforts to become still, and should this ever occur we leave all the kindliest thoughts and pleasant recollections to those who love God and are true to their fellow-man. PROSPERITY IN CHATHAM. From many sections of North Caro lina there comes a statement that the business outlook and general condi tions are not so good, but Chatham is not suffering and there is plenty of money in circulation; times are pros perous and her people are happy, par ticularly so among the farming class of folks. During the past few days we have had opportuniyt to talk with a number of our advertisers and without a sin gle exception they tell us that their business has increased on an average 20 percent and the majority of those to whom we have talked are doing a cash business. The Farmers Alliance and Union Store Co., in Siler City, has gone be yond SBB,OOO in gross business dur ing the first nine months of their year, a great tincrease over last year. C. L. Brower Co., and Wren Bros., both of Siler City, have both increas ed around 20 percent. L. N. Womble, Pittsboro, Williams- Belk, Sanford, and many others to whom we have talked tell us that the folks have the money and buy gener ously and pay the cash. It is a true index to the general good conditions in Chatham county and proves that our folks are prosperous. While many sections are bemoaning the scarcity of money the Chatham banks have greatly increased in de posits and always have the cash on hard to accomodate industrial ven tures. There is perhaps no county in North Carolina better prepared than Chatham for an emergency. Frenchman’s Flyer Hits a Tree, Wrecked—Headline. Which ? Twelve hours after the cotton had been picked near Augusta, Ga., it was made into aprons for the Shriuers in Washington. It was taken to New Bedford, Mass., by airplane. This is pretty fast time but away back in the old days 30 years ago the governor of Georgia had a suit of clothes made from cotton that was picked in the morning. The cotton was gathered, ginned, woven into cloth and before night he was wearing the clothes. There was another case of quick work. This was in Georgia, too. Wheat was standing in the field. It was cut, threshed, ground, cooked and eaten for breakfast by the assembled crvvod. A big New York lawyer says that before many years this United States will have a woman president. He says that men cannot govern themselves; that they are like children, they get mad with one another, fight and scratch, cause war between countries in which millions are killed, then make up and be friends until another war feeling passes over them. Women are different. They oppose war, they do pull hair sometimes, but that’s about all. The lawyer says the women would keep this country out of war and un til the end of time there would be peace, happiness and but few hair pullings in future. Another Still Captured. Another still has bit the dust and still they keep on making them, faster it seems than they can be destroyed. Some time during last Thursday Ray mond Lassiter and others captured a 50-gallon outfit over in Williams town ship and along with the outfit they ar rested two white men, one by the name of Thompson, a Wake county voter, and the ocher Jones, no---, e ?.* Durham. The two men and outfit were brought to Pittsboro and the men went up against Squire John R. Blair who bound them over to court in bonds of SSOO each which were given. The officers lay in the bushes near ly all night watching for these two and about daylight they were reward ed by Cap c uring whom. n. io c ui wCcr jeas poured out. _ _ 0 —o —o —o —o o—o —o—q—o o o o WISE AND OTHERWISE o O Some Our’n—Some Their’n o O 0 o—o —o —o —o o—o —o —o —c A fish story is the romance of real life. —O—■ When a woman can’t talk she has to be real smart to listen. —O— When the shoe hurts her feet, a woman will say it is too large. o The man with a grouch usually gets more sympathy than he deserves. You can make an enemy of a friend by convincing him he’s wrong. —o — If a wise guy fails he considers the man who succeeds him a lucky fool. You may have observed that satis fied people, as a rule, are quiet about ■, it. Many a coming man fails to arrive ■ because he got cold feet shortly after starting. Education is all right in away, but the best housekeepers never got theirs from a correspondence school. —o — When a man boasts of his virtues he may be trying to hide his real character from you. O If you want a woman to admit the faults of her neighbors she will do it if it is to their discredit. If a man is wise and good he is wis er and better because of the friends he has. PEACHES MOVING. Vass Pilot, Bth. This week sees the 1923 peach sea son started well on its way. The first day of the week the shipments went over the 500 mark, and this figure will increase from day to day. The only variety ready for market now is the Mayflower, whose only virtue are its looks and earliness. Peaches are averaging $3.00. per crate on the plat form, and the prices reach as high as $4.50 per crate on the choicer fruit. The car lot shipments of peaches will this year be handled for the Sandhill Fruit Growers’ Association by the Standard Growers, one of the largest fruit concerns in the U. S. The express shipments, however, will be handled by the local association the same as in years past. THE LYSTRA BAPTIST CHURCH. Chapel Hill News. One who has never been to Lystra, a Baptist church near Riggsbee, would naturally think it an ordinary country church —but it is more—in fact, it is the largest country church in this part of the State. Years ago the country between New Hope Val ley and Haw River, was a prosperous section. In the M. E. Conference Haw River circui twas considered strong est circuit in the conference and Mt. Pleasant was the strongest church in the circuit. That church was erected a short distance south of the Pitts boro road, and the Baptists, equally as strong, built about the same dis tance north of the same road and Lys tra and Mt. Pleasant were known far and wide. And in this section between Mynum and the Orange line, about ten or twelve miles, these people worship ed at one or the other of these chur ches. If a Baptist at Lystra, if a Methodist, at Mt. Pleasant. Lystra is a large edifice, about 40x75 with a vestibule at each front corner. The auditorium will seat seven or eight hundred. There is an eight or ten foot space all round between the seats and wall. At the end part the way up the sides is four or five Sunday school rooms. The location is fine, plenty of good water, and every ne cessity and all other advantages. It is a model country church of the old en days. Duncan-Calvert Wedding. Mr. William Duncan, Raleigh’s post master, and Miss Margaret Calvert, daughter of Judge and Mrs. T. H. Cal vert, were united in marriage at Ed enton Street Methodist church last Saturday night, Rev. R. F. Bumnass, assisted by Rev. W. W. Peele, pastor of the bride’s church, performing the ceremony. After the bridal tour to northern cities Mr. and Mrs. Duncan ! will be in their new home on Polk street in Raleigh. j The bride is a lovely and attractive young lady and since her engagement! has been the recipient of a number of social courtesies. Mr. Duncan is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Duncan and is now postmaster at Ra leigh. Mrs. Duncan is well known in Pitts boro. having lived here at one time, I and since her removal to Raleigh she has often visited her aunt, Miss Mag-1 gie McClenahan. She has many! friends who wish for both of them many years of happiness. Among those attending from Pitts boro were Hon. and Mrs. Walter D. i Siler, Miss Maggie McClenahan and Mrs. Arhtur H. London. Something You Didn’t Know. Chathas has one stenographer in the auto department at Raleigh—Miss Ruby Little. Also Mrs. R. D. Thomas j is in the auditor's department as bond clerk and stenographer. Miss Vera Ellington is corporation clerk. She from Pittsboro. Lillian Rav is a stenographer in the division of negro education. She is also from Pittsboro. Mr. Henry M. London, le gislative reference librarian, in the North Carolina historical commission, is from Pittsboro. Services Postponed. The Children’s Day services which were to be held at Pleasant Hill M. E. Church Sunday. June 24th, have been postponed indefinitely on account of whooping cough. LOOK AT YOUrTaBEL OBSERVATIONS. j By Rambler. “As there has been frosts in every month this year so far,” said an old j timer on the corner Monday, “Wonder if we will have frost in June. Last Saturday was almost cold enough for one, and coats and fires didn’t feel bad.” I “Tourists keep passing through,” remarked a citizen yesterday. “I ask ed one how many more were left in Florida and he said about three mil lion. As about three million have al rady passed through Pittsboro, I j wondered where the Florida people ! found room to build a house.” J “The four Durham youths who row- I ed down Haw river trying to make the trip by water to Fayetteville,” said a , farmer Saturday, “must have found j more work to do than they had been 1 used to. Haw river, when the water lis low as it is now, is one of the worst streams I know of. There is enough rock in the river, from one | end to the other, to build a wall ten feet high around the United States. It has hundreds of falls that are hard to get over and unless a person knows ' I all about boats and rough water he’d . better keep out of Haw river espe- 1 cially. It’s dangerous.” ] “Women folks have more curiosity ] than anything on earth,” remarked a ! citizen. “I wanted to have some fun 1 the other night, so I bought me a ' small bottle of the stinkinest stuff < that was ever invented. I simply can’t < describe the odor. I carried the bottle 1 home and told my wife, under no cir- < cumstances, for her to touch or open ‘ the bottle. During the afternoon sev- < eral young ladies were at the house < and while they were talking about r.o- J thing in particular, as all women do, < one of them, a frisky young miss, saw - the bottle and nothing would do but < she must open it. And open it she < did. When she got a whiff of its con- < tents it so excited her that she drop- J ped the bottle, some of the fluid fall- < ing on her dress. In a minute there '• was not a nose in the house but what was closed tight by thumb and fin- < gre. And the ohs and whoos that ] came from those ladies were immense. i for three days that young lady had ' to stay at home and she must have used at least $2 worth of perfume try- < ing to change the odor. If she had not had so much curiosity and let ( alone something that did not bother < her she would have been all right.” ( Young Papa as Interpreter. Kinston Free Press June 1. “When I left the house this morn- ! ing that boy was crying for me to < take him fox-hunting,” said Nat C. ! Hill, I, Wednesday morning while ac- i knowledging congratulations on the arrival at his home during the small | hours of the morning of a 10-pound son, whom he designated as Nat C. Hill, 111. “The fellow was clamoring ! for something, and at first I thought it was a cigar he wanted, but that was refused. I knew he wasn’t asking for permission, to drive the car down . the street, yet he was asking forl something. After a while he succeed- J ed in making his wants known, and j I learned tha the wanted to join the Kinston Fox Club. Anyhow, this is \ what he wanted because he stopped crying when I mentioned fox hunting and the McDevett-Eugene Wood Nat ural History Research Society. I’ll ' tell you, fellows, if there is anything < I do understand, it is children.” ' BUILD A HOMF NOW! < • For Every Summer Occasion-The Clothes For You! a WHEN A MAN LOOKS WELL AND KNOWS IT—WHEN HE LOOKS COOL AND FEELS IT—THEN AND I THEN ONLY—IS HE PROPERLY ATTIRED FOR THE SUMMER SEASON. AND HERE ARE THE CLOTHES A —. DESIGNED IN STYLE, WEIGHT, PATTERNING AND TAILORING TO SATISFY EVERY DESIRE. H PRICES $lO to S4O 9 | J. J. JOHNSON - & SON, i SQUARE DEAL MERCHANT PITTSBORO N. C. Appointed Notary. Mr. Ernest E. Williams has been commissioned a notary public for Pittsboro by Governor Morrison. Mr. Williams is not only assistant cashier in the Farmers Bank but he is a good baseball player. LOOK AT YOUR LABEL What is (lyour Future & * f | I XW/ i inf I What will it be ten years from now? Twenty Will you I have attained your goal or will you have dropped by the || f wayside ? w mm § j: | These are interesting questions and not easy to answer. ! | e || But one thing is certain: Your decision today to start '!! I saving and to make it a habit will do more than any other one thing to put you on the road to success. j © j Start now and stick to it. Regularity and compound in- | terest will do the rest. The view into the future will be ! clear and pleasant. j F -- I | ****** ****** ***** ****** . ***************** *•* ***** * * *************** am 1 j The Farmers Bank IT. M. BLAND, J. D. EDWARDS, j it President. Cashier. I o 9 RIGHTLY SAID. ] * * News and Observer. ! # The break between, the high-ups in the K. K. K. presages the breakup of * the organization. There is no need * and no room for any hooded body in * this country. * LOOK AT YOUR LABEL * * * * Clip this coupon and tali. ■ ' to any advertiser of Th. d' 1 ' cord, tell them you saw the!,; ’ “ The Recor <i. and they Jj ’ give you suecial considers * on your purchases. ° n 1 ******** * * * *
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