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CtjeCijatljam Record 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, $1.50. Six Months, **s Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Chas. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1923. f 1 " j I —FOR TODAY—I II Bible Thought* memorized, will prove • | priceless heritage in after years. g Who Indeed? If God be for us, who can be against us?—Romans 8:31. WE ARE AGAIN COMMENDED. Dozens and dozens of people have come to us and told us how much they appreciated our article last week on the vaudeville show that was appear ing in Pittsboro. These citizens were not confined to the country either, as some would believe. Right here in WPittsboro there have been many good men and women, and loyal church members to tell us that they weie glad indeed that someone had back bone enough to “buck” such things. We highly appreciate this commenda tion and it puts more determination in us to try to do the right. The editor of The Record does not pretend to be a saint by any means. There may perhaps be many things that he could leave undone, unsaid and unsung, but there is no truthful man can bring aught against his character, his honesty or his morals. The editor has fought his own battles since he was a mere child and he has lived in many sections of North Carolina, has traded and transacted business with all classes of people, and if he has ever failed to discharge an honest debt, told a lie or been guilty of con duct that does not become a gentleman it remains to be charged. No man can truthfully say that he has. This may sound like egotism to some who read it. However, it is necessary to say it to tell you that we are honest, sincere and pure in our motives in everything we say in regard to the moral atmos phere of any evfent or section. We pro pose to continue to fight liuor, im moral shows, of any_ 'pther agency that we belive is against the best in terests of the comunity in which we may live. It may be true that there are many people in Chatham county who are not friendly towards the paper be cause they are not of the same opin ion. Be that as it may, it shall not prevent us form doing and saying those things that we think are honest in the sight of God, because iwe feel and know that we are on the right path in His sight, and we do know D)pt there are legions of people in Chatham and surrounding territory that are our friends and are giving us their support. There is only one supreme being and one is subject to only one final ex amination, therefore there is nothing -to daunt us or make us afraid of a hereafter. Some of the writers of the Bible has to say that “the evil day is with us” and it is unquestionably true to day. Just a few people here and there that want to make everybody else do as they see and think, but the masses are fast learning to fight for them- FeIYSS, their rights and maintain their individual ideas. Fight, folks, stand up for those things that you belive are becoming an honest citizen. MORE ABOUT CHEAP SHOWS. Substantiating what We had to say last week about the cheap, tented show in Pittsboro, is the fact that that some of the merchants failed to have settled some of their grocery bills in full Saturday night. There s lomething about a show of this character that is compelling —it has a force that draws a man or woman into its meshes when deep down in their heart they realize thev are doing wrong. They know that the money they are spending for the till of the show man, really belongs to the merchant who has credited him, or to the friend who has loaned him money. It has been said that a friend is a man that will lend you money and an enemy is one who has. No person has a moral privilege to pay into the coffers of a cheap show money he has obligated to pay one who has befriended him. People who constitute the element of a show crowd have no considera tion for the morals of a town or com munity, for the churches, for the schools; neither do they regard the future of your son or the virtue of your daughter. A few weeks or months in the wake of a vulgar vaudeville, there usually comes the calamity of disease to your boys that will damn their future life, or the disgrace to the daughter that banishes her future hopes and jo\s. r^oo tate! to mourn and say I m sorry!” Folks, let’s imnrove the future by the experience of the past. JUST SUPPOSING7 Tax exempt bonds are issued by cities, counties, states and nation. The holder of these bonds pays no taxes on the income derived therefrom. Bill Jones whose income results from his labor and investments in in dustries pays every know taxation and he pays considerably more than is just, m order »»> up for amouts lost to the government through “tax-exempt” incomes. Supposing every body tried to get tax-exempt bonds, where would the money come from to run the govern ment ? The continued issuance of tax-exempt bonds drains money away from pro ductive enterprise and increases the tax burden on all those who do not ' hold the bonds. I ABOUT LOCAL ADVERTISING. The Goldsboro Record says: “A farmer who was carrying an ex : press package from a city mail order * house was accosted by a local merch ant with these words: ‘Why didn’t you buy that bill of goods from me? I could have saved you the express, and besides, you would have been patron izing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and build up this commun ity.’ “With characteristic frankness the farmer replied: ‘Why don’t you pat ronize your home paper and advertise your goods ? I read it and didn’t know you had the goods I have here, nor do I see your name in the paper in viting me to come to your store.” Sanford has a tongue and needle Club. Bet you there is something sharp said and done in that Club. Where is the fool-killer. There is a lot of fools over in Georgia that need him. They have started a tobac co chewing contest in a litle town in that state and one man chdwed up 48 plugs in 69 hours. And he still lives, we suppose. A young woman over in Danville, the wife of a printer, left a comfort able home and went off with a man to Greensboro, and they lived togeth er as man and wife in the O’Henry hotel. The man tired of her and tola her she would have to go back to Danville to her husband. In the midst of her dilemma she committed suicide. No one knows the cause of her down fjall. Apparently her husband was generous and provided well for her comfort and he was a hard working, honest man; she was the daughter of a minister of the gospel and so fvas her husband and both evidently had the proper counsel and admonition in tnen growing years, but the devil got in his evil influence and there was tragedy as a culmination. The dutiful husband, after her death, claimed the body and gave it a respectful burial. The man responsible for her sin and her untimely death got off by the pay ment of a fine of SSOO for immoral conduct. Probably he will have suf ficient remorse of conscience to do no more evil, but there is always a possibility. We trust that this good woman never got her inspiration from a cheap show or a vulgar vaudeville. “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” TENT MEETING AT GOLDSTON. C. H. Matthews Began Meeting in Tent There Last Sunday, C. H. Matthews, an evangelist of a few years experience began a big tent meeting at Goldston on last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Eddie Ruffin, a business man of Raleigh, and a member of the Baptist Tabernacle there, had charge of the afternoon service. Mr, Ruffin gave a splendid discourse, considering his position in the church as a layman and not a preacher. Mr. Ruffin is well and favorably known in Pittsboro where he has rel atives and has so frequently visited. Mr. A. R. Brothers, a locomotive! engineer on the Seaboard and a mem ber of the Christian church in Ral eigh, gave a good sermon at night. He chose his text in James 5:16. “The ef fectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Mr Brothers em phasized the need of prayer in a re vival meeting, and urged the people of Goldston to pray and read the Bible. The evangelist will do most of the preaching through the 1 week. Mr. Mat thews preaches the plain, old-fashion ed gospel. He believes in a religion that saves a man from his sins and e ables him to live a clean, honest life among his neighbors. Mr. Mat ins wj& is *»ot trying to organize new churches and get people to join, but he is doing his best to get the churches revived and sinners converted and then let them join the church of their pref erence in their community. Mr. Matthews very much appre ciates the spirit of helpfulness shijivn oy the presence and interest of the Christian people around Goldston. Since the annual revivals are in prog ress at the various churches m the community there will be no day ser vices at the tent for awhile, but there will be services each night at 8 o’clock. Everybody is cordially invited to these services. SUNDAY. Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but it seems that people work harder on that day than any other day during the week, that is, in this section. Some are alter pleasure, some money, some liquor and some after something good to eat. At any rate many people spoil a good day to rest. This writer was impressed with thi fact last Sunday when he watched car after car pass his home, raising the dust and causing those who had to inhale it, to think n it. In the morning hundreds of cars and other vehicles went to Mitchells colored church, three miles west cl Pittsboro. In the afternoon hired cars were hauling them back, some of them happy because they had heard good sermons and singing, others were happy because they had secured a few drinks of joy water, and some Xvere drunk. While those who lived along the right-of-way almost cursed the makers of automobiles which raised so much dust. And yet Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Off To Market. Mr. S. Berman sent us a telegram just as we were going to press stat ing that he was leaving Chapel Hill for the northern markets with the ex press purpose of buying the largest stock of goods ever brought to this sec tion of the country and that he would have some astounding prices to an-1 nounce on his return. Almost any broiling meat mav be ' cooked on a plank. , y j 0 —O —O —O: —O - O —-O —Q—O —O O O o WISE AND OTHERWISE o O Some Our’n — Some Their’n o O O O —O —O —O—O O—O —O—O —o The crow always has caws for his own praises. Q The darling dollar is nearer some folks than anything on earth. —o — , , Drag old ideas after you and they will wear out, both you and the ideas. —o: — . Every advance in civilization is marked by the graves of old supersti tions. No man can be your friend who ad vocates your slavery to immoral con ditions. Satan hasn’t near the Influence ov er men where reason put his exist ence in doubt. A fat woman trying to get thin, is just as funny as a thin woman try ing to get fat. Some women have a pedigree and some have a grudge hut a mother-in law with ten thousand is acceptable. O If one would study natural life they must live among the lowly—you get nothing from the artificial, never sweat aristocracy. A political vacuum is the hole in a man’s head who was born into a spec ific political sphere and hasn’t brains enough to get out. 0 The man who prays for me is rath er presumptuous. God employs no lob byists nor bribers, and I will tolerate I none in my private business. OBSERVATIONS. By Rambler. “Do you ever hear voices without being able to tell who is speaking,” Dr. Chapin asked a young lady the other day. “Why yes,” replied the la dy, “Everytime I talk over the tele phone.” “Women change the style so often,” | remarked an old woman hater yester day. “I noticed a woman has applied for a divorce from her husband, who she married while a Captain in the army, because Captains are out of style.” “I see that my friend, Frank Page,, has been given a new name. They call him “Highwayman” Page now. It does not make any difference what they call him, he is Johnnie on the spot in road building,” remarked a citizen a day or two ago. “My little girl asked me the other day what made barbers have streaked poles in front of their shop,” remark ed a citizen, “and do you know I could not tell her. I have read something of the origin of the painted poles but have forgotten it.” Well, iwe will not tell him what it is because he should have remembered it after he read its origin, and unless some of our readers will write and tell it, we are going to let him look it up again. “Did you meet John Park here last week?” asked a Pitsboroite Monday? “Yes, I shook hands with the limber Jack. I will never forget John Park. When he was up here at the big sing last year, I laughed at his antics and songs he tried to get the audience to sing. Every time I watched Reddy Ray and others who tried to sing about the baby in Chicago, tears ran down my cheeks and kept it up for three days. My friends thought I was losing my mind. No, I never will for get John, and I will always think of that night at the auditorium.” HOLD A FAREWELL RECEPTION. The Missinary Society of the Bap tist church in Pittsboro gave Miss Pearl Johnson a farewell reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Griffin Monday, at which nearly all the members of the Society and a f<*w invited guests attended. It was somewhat of a sad meeting as Miss Johnsoli will be gone a long time, probably seven years, and her many friends here hate to see her leave. one of the most touching acts of the meeting was the presentation of a $75 check, given by the Society, and one of the Sunday school classes also gave her a check for SB.OO. Miss John son leaves Friday. BIG DEMAND FOR HOUSES. Moncure, Aug. 20. —The ball team went from he e to Farn.ville last Sat urday afternoon and played a game vvith the team there. The score was 3 to 6 in lavor oi Moncure. Mrs. J. H. Wissler has been very sick this week, but we are glad to say that she is a little bet’ter. Mr. J. L. Womble, a prominent citi zen, is building a dwelling on his lot near Haywood. The demand for dwel lings is far beyond the supply. There ire two families in nearly every home around Moncure. Mrs. J. L. Womble wasi called to Sanford one day this week on account of the sickness of her mother. Her mother is improving. Miss Pauline Ray and her friends spent last Monday in Durham. Mr. R. A. Moore spent one day this week in Sanford. Messrs M. T. Wilkie, Doyle Wilkie, John Bell, Jr., and Ralph Crutchfield attended the ball game at Pittsboro last Thursday. Mr. W. B. Lambeth, of Mississippi, is visiting his brother, Mr. T. B. Lambeth, this week. On Visit to Relatives. Mrs. N. M. Hill left Tuesday for Kinston to visit her son, Mr. N. M. i r * Before returning home she will visit her sister, Mrs. E. W. Pou, in Smithfield and Mrs. W. J. Calvert, j in Portsmouth. j Clean jewelry with prepared chalk. MARRIED LAST WEEfT. Mr. Braxton Andrews, son of Mr. i Luther Andrews, of Bear Creek, Rt. , 1, and Miss Jessie Wilkie, daughter , of Mr. Frank Wilkie, of Bear Creek, were married in Bonlee on Wednes ; day, August 15th. Squire B. A. Phil lips performed the ceremony. of Hr 3LXL S&lc AS BY LAW REQUIRED, I WILL, ON SATURDAY, THE 22nd, DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1923, AT THE COURT HOUSE DOOR IN PITTSBORO, AT 12 O’CLOCK NOON, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING THE DELINQUENT TAXES FOR THE YEARS OF 1921 AND 1922, SELL THE REAL ESTATE OF THE SAID DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS, THE LAND OF THE DE LINQUENT OWNERS AND THE AMOUNT OF TAXES BEIN AS FOLLOWS : LAND ADVERTISED FOR 1921 TAX. Bear Creek—Chas. H.Phillips, 82 a-$16.73 Gulf—J. A. Dowd land, 74 a $14.10 Gulf—D. D. Andrews, 78 a $22.14 Gulf—Thos. E. Z. Hilliard land 77a $14.39 LAND ADVERTISED FOR 1922 TAX. ALBRIGHT TOWNSHIP. WHITE. B. O. Williams, 8 3-4< acres $ 3.70 BALDWIN TOWNSHIP. WHITE. T. C. Dallas, 80 acres 8.42 E. C, Dallas, 27 acres 7.17 W. G. Fields, 350 acres 73.92 R. L. Hamlet, 57 acres 6.10 COLORED. W. L. Morphis 100 acres 16.80 Emma Morphis, 100 acres 25.22 R. A. Morphis, 10 acres 3.36 BEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP. WHITE. R. J. Brown, 35 acres 9.42 H. T. Brown, 16 acres 3.65 Bob Boyd, 9 1-2 acres, 4 lots 10.64 T. M. Bynum, 135 acres 24.10 A. D. Davis, two lots 6.46 W. G. Fields, 174 acres 20.09 Loula Page Johnson, one lot .48 A. C. and G. M. S. Kelly, 213 acres 11.65 Sam Maner heirs, 41 acres 6.21 Jennett Murray, 25 acres 3.14 Mrs. C. W. McManess, 25 1-2 acres 3.86 Charles H. Phillips, 82 acres 15.68 Mary I. Phillips, 28 acres 4.39 Charles Rayle, 50 acres 7.77 W. H. Smith, 4 acres .50 C. K. Scott, one lot 3.73 Hobert Gorden, 27 acres 4.82 Mrs. Ida Glosson, 80 acres 8.33 COLORED. 9 E. H. Brewer, 6 acres .50 Emperor Caviness heirs, 6 1-2 acres _ .85 Bob Headen, 11 acres 1.70 Johnnie Matthews, 6 acres .81 Joe Tysor, 6 acres .76 CAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP. WHITE. A. G. Buchanan, 90 acres 29.00 J. J. Burt, 250 acres 29.04 C. C. Judd, 82 acres 26.40 Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, one lot 2.08 Frank Martin estate, 3 1-2 acres .45 W. F. Mann, 34 acres 3.97 Mrs. M. A. Palmer, 60 acres 9.69 Raleigh Savings Bank, 175 acres 40.20 COLORED. Ralph Bland, 6 acres 1.00 Colia Macklin, 1 1-2 acres 2.00 Reuben Vincent, 4 acres 1.70 CENTER TOWNSHIP. WHITE. Mrs. Maggie D. Farrell, 46 3-4 acres. 6.41 Mrs. Annie Pleasants, 5 acres .45 COLORED. Carson Alston, 29 acres 3.2 / Lewis Burnett, one lot .73 •Julia Brooks, 27 acres 3.27 Jake Bingham, 2 acres .44 Tom Cotton, 4 acres .58 Maggie Cotton, 5 acres 1.42 Eliza Clegg, 15 acres 2.09 Henry Craig, 2 acres 6.88 Sam Fike, 40 acres 9.08 Caroline Gilbert, 20 acres 3.36 Henderson Harris, 19 acres 4.51 Fannie Hanks, 16 acres 6.41 Lin Hatcher estate, 16 acres 2.24 Priscilla Jackson, one lot 6.76 Ada Jones, 36 acres 6.05 Gertrude Jones, 7 acres * 4.90 Jas.McCain&Charley Mitchell, 27 ac_ 3.27 Caroline McClenahan, 20 acres 1.88 W. E. Perry, 82 acres 17.68 Mary Rives estate, 4 acres 1.12 Anthony Rives, 10 acres 1.03 George Richardson, 38 acres 13.00 John F. Smith, 12 9-10 acres 5.79 Thos. Sturdivant, one lot 2.32 Albert Snipes, 5 acres 1.11 Susie Taylor, 22 acres 2.64 GULF TOWNSHIP. WHITE. M. A. Barber heirs, 225 acres 16.43 YOURS VERY TRULY, G. W. BLAIR, -TX71TZ'72*17277 7 ' SHERIFF OF CHATHAM COUNTY. CHATHAM ROAD FORCE. The Chatham county road force is noiw at. work building up its road to the Orange county yine, near Mr. R. H. Cheek, in the Mt. Carmel church section. The Orange county road force is meeting the Chatham road force in the building of a fine road to the Chatham line. J. A. Dowd heirs, 74 acres 12.59 Barber Goldston, 21 acres 81.32 J. A. Knight, 14 acres 1.64 Mclntyre est. E.V.oldham,Agt., 60 acs 12.27 Miss Mary Norwood, 72 acres, 7.25 Mrs. Noah, 57 acres 5.06 J. P. Safley, 30 acres 6.72 O. P. Tally, one lot. 4.20 COLORED. Sam Emerson, one lot 1.62 Ben Goldston, 5 acres 1.70 Harvey Nevels, 1 acre 3.70 Robert Palmer, 60 acres 13.20 Lonnie Rives, one lot 2.07 Maggie Smith, 8 acres 3.36 HICKORY MT. TOWNSHIP. WHITE. C. D. Brown, 75 acres 12.17 Charlie Clark, 54 acres 7.31 Ada Headen estate, 133 acres 15.95 C. G. Kirkman, 22 1-2 acres 13.89 COLORED. Joe Dark, Jr., 25 acres 5.36 HADLEY TOWNSHIP. WHITE. W. G. Fields, 75 acres 10.08 J. O. Johnson, 53 acres __ 10.08 HAW RIVER TOWNSHIP. WHITE. Mody Burns, one lot 4.72 C. C. Clifton, 92 acres 12.68 N. B. Gunter estate, 56 acres 4.70 L. R. Holt, 50 acres 6.72 John C. Thomas, 54 acres 4.54 W. B. Thomas estate, 4 acres __ 3.24 COLORED. Walker Clegg, one lot 7.56 Joe Holland, one lot 3.32 O. S. Harris, 25 acres 4.21 Maggie Taylor, one lot .85 MATTHEWS TOWNSHIP. WHITE. Mrs. Pattie Brewer, 147 acres 14.20 J. F. Brewer, one lot 12.59 Sam Curtis, one lot 7.87 C. D. Fox, one lot 22.09 Mrs. M. R. Gilliland, one lot 23.95 F. J. Henry, one lot 10.67 J. R. Park Jr., one lot 9.49 K. D. Smith land, 110 acres 13.70 J. H. Taylor, 8 acres .76 COLORED. Oscar Goins, 15 acres 4.43 John Matthews, 6 acres 1-29 John M. Millerfi 15 acres 2.51 Minor Paschal estate, 20 acres 3.36 John B. Siler, one lot 7.87 Lee Siler, one lot 2.85 NEW HOPE TOWNSHIP. WHITE. David Fort, 287 acres 63.73 H. H. Herndon, 86 acres 24.62 C. L. Hicks, 52 acres 26.21 Mrs. Kate Lawrence, 75 acres 13 64 C. R. Mills, 60 acres 34.94 Mrs. G. L. Thomas, 54 acres 5.55 W. W. Wilkins, 70 acres 7.84 COLORED. J. C. Matthews, 14 acres 5.87 OAKLAND TOWNSHIP. WHITE. J. M. Heck, 70 acres 3.42 J. D. Johnson, 33 acres Mrs. Lillian Matthews, 38 acres 5.40 E. G. Segroves, 71 acres H- 1 * WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP. WHITE. S. Bane, 110 acres O. K. Farrell, 88 acres 23. bi N. B. Harward heirs, 75 acres J. D. Hutchins, 82 acres Fred H. Williams, 148 acres 49.2 b COLORED. Peter Bullock, 30 acres *'2? Alex. Edwards heirs, 27 acres F. J. Edwards, 9 1-2 acres S Eugene Riggsbee heirs, 20 1-2 acres— *.O ITEMS FROM SPECIAL LIST. Gulf—T. B. Norwood, 72 acres Williams—P.H. Johnson, val $159- 1' Gulf —Nannie Cotton, 102 acres l^ Gulf—Sidney Moody, 78 acres Hickory Mt.—Robt. Johnson, 93 a- 15- GOOD FOR APEX. A farmer fronTne^TApex, who „ a , romzes the curb market in R a ,j!, has sold during the last six mnn+u’ $415 worth of poultry and eggs fr? S a flock of 135 hens. He has one W dred pullets for another vear an/? 11 ' fertilized his truck crops with poult™ manure. F tr J
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