North Carolina Newspapers

INTO A MILE OF CONCRETE. i - I Engineering and Contracting. It is a simple matter for any con tractor to figure out the amounts of cement, sand and gravel needed for • c \ remain length of hignwav construc tion. in fact Bulletin JO.- ol th< i pi e l'-.PMtmei ture contains a vast amouac o i this ort of informat’on. with tables giv ing approximate figure? tor various thickness of pa/emiat. Info nr. atran on the preliminary work is not so easily obtainable, however, and there are some amazing sidelights to the construction industry that the con tractor has but little opportunity to tome in touch with. For example, the government bul letin estimates that a mile of con create pavement, 7 inches thick at the edges and 8 inches thick in the center, will require 3,913 barrels of Portland cement, including 1,102 cu. vd. of sand, or fine aggregate and 1,- cu. yd. of coarse aggregate or In ranking 3 913 bbls. of portland cement, over 390 tons of coal are re paired at the cement mill. Approxi mately 19 tons of gypsum are requir ed to regulate the setting time of the material. To get the cement shipped to the construction job, over 15,600 clolrh cement sacks are needed —and approximately 15 bales of cotton must be woven into cloth to supply this item Incidentally, over 30,000,000 cloth ce ment sacks are lost or destroyed each, year, and the textile mills are called on to furnish material for the replace ments. Back in the cement quarries, approximately 450 lbs. of dynamite were shot off in blasting loose the raw materials required for the cement for the mile of highway. The government bulletin estimates that 30 gallons of (water are needed to mix and cure a square yard of con crete pavement. Over 300,000 gal lons of water must be furnished for the mile of road, and approximately 4,500 tons of concrete go into the con struction. , . A good idea of what the highway construction beusiness means to the railroads can be obtained from the requirements of the mile of concrete road. About 42 cars of fine aggre- CATARRHAL DEAFNESS is often caused by an inflamed condition •f the mucous lining of tfhe Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. Unless the inflammation can be reduced, your hearing may be de stroyed forever. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will do what we claim for it—rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE has been successful in the treatment of Catarrh for over Forty Years. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & 00., Toledo, O. SAFETY STRENGTH I SERVICE 1 The combination that a man demands before entrusting his hard-earned money to any Bank. The man who places ■; a part of his income in Savings Account here has no fear over its safety. The same courteous, efficient service ft awaits the small depositors as well as the larger ones. * Savings and Time Certificates here earn 4 percent. mr BANK OF PITTSBORO § PITTSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA fjj Capital, Surplus and Profits, $35,000.00 p A. H. London, Pres., J. L. Griffin, Cashier, W. L. Farrell, || Assistant Cashier. g| [ .w ->■. -- • .aiauß.- ... j., - [• fS THE NEW \ Eg f ] i L . vi r,i v———% M T • ■ Jh ;| | y' If j ii |j giiMf r ..rmeiT. .aajaaL- r —m——i MmJ ' r y v Fl~ ipntoring public has been emphatic in its approval of the A ne-.v F iid Four-Doer Sedan, in all parts c{ the country its p.j stylish appearance and inviuiig inurior have the c_r iu- |i| stand/ into grxat demand. 11l j* Now, at its red read price, it preset: a a mere compelling vdue than ever. A'.rho i-S better looking, roen.l.r, career ridir.g, it i 3 listed tjrty dollars lew. •*- • ' i f* fS T\i Ln c?'- J —T’tL. ®Vt»- • y ■■ aty i <-.v ! 5 This pood-iool h.g, co xiort iL e, and dependable Ford selling at this r' 8 low p.iee offers ; .i agreeable solution to >our closed car problems. These cars can be obtained through the lord V/ccLly Purchase flan, THE CHATHAM MOTOR CO. j Pittsboro, —■ iiorfii Carolina. CAKS -TRUCKS • TRACTOILS || gate, or sand, are needed on this job. I Sixty-five cars of coarse aggregate are required and it takes 20 cars to j haul the cement—or 127 cars for the j basic materials. Where reinforcing is specified, further tranrf ortation is called for, while the water supply is governed by local conditions. In addi tion to these requirements, the drain age, grading, bridge and culvert con struction must all be provided for. When it is considered that the equivalent of over 7,000 miles of 18,- foot concrete pavements were placed under contract during this year, the enormity of the transportation end of the work is easily seen. More than 880,000 freight cars are needed to transport the cement, sand and grav el for this operation. As the peak of the demand comes during the late summer and fall, there is added dif ficulty in getting materials on the job at exactly the tifcje desired. Early shipments of construction materials, and loading of all cars to capacity li mit, would go a long ways toward al leviating the congested conditions. SURPRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER. Written by his niece. About three hundred relatives, neighbors and friends gathered at the home of Mr. Henry Buckner near Silk Hope last Sunday, the occasion being the celebration of the 72nd birthday of Mr. Buckner. The dinner was a complete surprise to him, not I knowing it until Sunday morning when the relatives and neighbors be gan to arrive. A large table 93 feet long was erected in the yard and was loaded’ with various delicacies that satisfy the appetite and hunger of human be ings. j When all had gathered around the table, Mr. Straughan made a very interesting talk, telling of the long life of service which had been given by Mr. Buckner. Rev. Nube Dark, pastor of Hickory Mt. Baptist church, led in prayer. The afternoon was spen tin happy acquaintance. The occassion was a conversation and renewing old ac quaintenances. Teh occasion was a very happy one to all who attended and particulaly so to the honored guest. He is well known in that sec tion of the county as a man of excep tional kindness and charitable deeds towards his neighbors and friends. People were present from Mann dale, Pittsboro, Staley, Burlington, Greensboro, Siler City and Durham. VERDIE THOMAS. Rockingham.—While trying to drive a car and hold a dog at the same time, Wade Moore, of Biscoe, was thrown from his car when it lurched and his neck was broken by the fall. GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS. Short Items of Common Interest to AIL New York. —Over half million peo ple attend theaters here daily. Dallas.—Klan day at the Texas State Fair drew 300,000 people. More than 30,000 of those were Kluxers. Orlando, Fla.—Two bandits held up a jewelry house here and robbed it oi jewels valued at $40,000 and escaped. New Brunswick, N. J.—Public ofii cials should not bo allowed to drink liquor says Congressman lr Upshaw. Chicago.—Ten times as many peo ple wear glasses in the United States as in England, says a London special ist. Washington. North Carolina schools will be the first in the United States to plant memorial trees for Warren G. Harding. Wichita Falls, Texas. —Oscar W. Underwood opened his campaign here for the nomination of piesiclent oi the United States. Chicago.—The passing of the old clay pipe has greatly decreased the number of cancers of the lip, says a well known London doctor. Washington.—Secretary Weeks will not deliver the address at the unveil ing of the Bennett Place memorial near Durham on Novembei Bth. Stockholm. —The Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Drs. F. G. Banting and J. J. R. McLeod, of Toronto, for their discovery of in sulin. Oklahoma City.—Governor Walton has been ousted as governor by the Supreme Court, but Walton says th. r t he will continue the fight. He will be impeached. Cutawissa, Pa. —Jam*s Huber, 7, accidentally pulled the trigger of a gun loaded with salt; shot and kill ed his sister, aged 5. The gun had been loaded with salt to kill a dog. Pittsurg.—Fire destroyed a Cathol ic orphanage. The loss is nearly half mililon dollars. Eighty children and 150 nuns were rescued from the burn ing building without a single loss of life. Charleston, W. Va.—lVe years ago a woman named Dotson disappeared from her home and she was believed to have been murdered. The husband and father were arrested. The wo man has been found in Inez, W. Va. In dragging the creek for the sup posedly murdered woman the skele ton of a woman and child were found. The father and husband have been re leased from jail. MOUNT YERNON SPRINGS Sanford Express, Sept. 4. Recently the writer spent a delight ful half clay at Mount Vernon Springs, the Saratoga of Chatham county. Mount Vernon Springs is naturally a beauitful place. The wa ters of the spring have medicinal prop , erties and the hotel is built in a love ly rolling country. As a health and pleasure resort for tourists for our Southern Seaboard in summer and for Northern people in vrinter, it can and some day will be made one of the most popular spots in North Caro lina. Pinehurst and Southern Pines cannot compare with Mount Vernon Springs in scenic beauty, leavirg out the mineral waters. Instead of scrub by black jacks and small pines you find here groves of forests of ma jestic oak, hickory and other trees with wide spreading branches—grand and magnificent parks fashioned by the hand of the creator of our uni verse. You find here too, a beautiful fertile and prosperous farming re gion. It really seems that nature has de signed this spot as a place of rest and recreation. There are broad and smooth plateaus which could easily be arranged into fields for golf, race courses and all of the popular sports and games. At a small outlay an ex -1 tensive lake could be formed for boating, bathing and athletic sports A modem highway leads to the place. The widow and children of the late John M. Foust own this resort and a large belt of country around it, and the hotel is run during the summer months by Mrs. Foust and family. The hotel is situated on a knoll and the place is cool and delightful all summer. With work it could be made an ideal summer resort, and if the natural advantages of the place were known to the health and pleas ure-seeking world many new build ings would soon be erected to accom modate not only the summer but win ter tourists. The surrounding coun try is a garden spot and guests at the hotel are feasted on the best. The farms around Mount Vernon Springs are pointers to prosperity and progressiveness. Good crops are everywhere in evidence and about the homesteads graze fine cows and oth er live stock. That section of Chatham does not raise a great deal of cotton and little if any tobacco, but it goes in for fine com, wheat and other grain crops. From the appear ance of the farms one would gather that their occupants are mostly land lords. Truly Mount Vernon Springs and the country hereabouts is a veri able Arcadia—a modem Vale of Tempe. Besides its hotel and homes the village has church buildings and a modern academy. The hotel is only one mile from Ore Hill, on the South ern Railway. Many Greensboro peo ple go down to Mount Vernon Springs to spend Sunday and the place is visited daily by scores of people in automobiles. The octopus is highly valued in Japan as an article of food. - GOOD ROADS IN THIS STATE In a speech at High Point last Thursday Mr. h'ranK Page, the good roads man, sa.d tnut it wao iwu a> estimate the benefits ox good roads, but he soon told the audience some- , thing of the great good the State has already derived from its $65,000,000 bond issue. In 1920 there was consumed in the State 73,9997,882 gallons of gasoline, there being 142,284 autos in the State, giving each car 520 gallons of gas at 25 cents a gallon, or $l3O per year. In 1922 there was burned up in the I State 86,125,368 gallons of gasoline in which 181,955 cars, or 463 gallons per car, or $175.75 in round figures per car. j Between the two years there was a saving of $14.25 in gasoline per j car, or a combined total of $2,520,000. i So, said the chairman, there is one ' splendid example that it pays to build good roads, to say nothing of the in crease in trade throughout the State. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT We, the senior class of Brown’s Chapel Sunday School, join in deep j sorrow and sympathy with Brother J. N. Dark over the loss of his com panion and our Sunday school scholar and classmate, Sister Fannie A. Dark, who was one of our oldest and most faithful members. We shall miss her presence and pleasant smiles, but we submit to our Heavenly Father’s will, and pray that all of our class may be as faithful as she was in attendance at Sunday school until her last sick ness, and be ready when our time school and join the great Sunday school and ojin the great Sunday school of God, Christ and all the good and faithful Sunday school and Christian workers that have preceded us into the sweet haven of rest, where God and Christ have prepared a Heav enly mansion for us all. and for all who wil ltrust and obey him. COM. High Point.— President Coolidge will be nominated by the Republican convention and the county will re-el ect him to the presidency in 1924, de clared James H. Bartlett, first assist ant mostmaster general and former governor of New Hampshire, here to attend the Pageant of Progress. BUILD A HOME IN PITTSBORO. TONSIUTIS Apply thickly over throat— I cover with hot flannel— vtsiss Over 17 Million Jar a Used Yearly *£*ro tessionac (Bar-cls FIRE INSURANCE! We write all kinds anywhere in Chat ham County. Strongest Home Com panies. H. D. GUNTER Pittsboro, N. C. W. B. CHAPIN, M. D. PITTSBORO, N. C. Office: Main street, Dr. H. T. Cha- Telephones: Office, 43. Residence, 39 pin’s former office. ELKINS FUNERAL PARLOR, Siler City, N. C. Offers Superior Funeral Service. Caskets, Accessories, Coffins Embalming Separate Hearse Service Maintained For Colored Patrons. ■ _ -mmJL p .- - ■ ■ ■ DR. ERNEST BROWN. —Chiropractor— -109 South Steele St. SANFORD, N. C. DR. ROY T. HODGIN, Chiropractor. Siler City Office Hours:— 2 to 5 p. m., Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays. Asheboro Office Hours:— 9 to 12 and 2 to 5, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Also 9 to 12 a. m., -Mondays, Wednes days, and Fridays. DR. J. D. GREGG, Dentist. Siler City, N. C. Office over Siler Drug Store. Hours 8 a. m., to 5 p. m. I \ . VICTOR R. ToTINSON. Attorney-at-Law, Practices in all courts —Federal, State and County. Office over Brooks & Eubanks Store, 1 Northeast comer court house square, , PITTSBORO, N. C. LONG AND BELL. Attorneys-at-Law. PITTSBORO. N. C._ J. ELMER LONG. Durham, N. C. DANIEL L. BELL. Pittsboro, N. C. 1 a. c. RAY. Attorney-at-Law. PITTSBORO, N. C. PILKINGTON PHARMACY. Prescriptions, drugs, medicines and toilet articles. KODAKS. * * ♦ a * • * a a a * • * R. F. PASCHAL, * Attorney-at-Law, * * Office over Postoffice Siler City. * Recently two French soldiers were bathing in the Rhine River. Since they were unable to swim, the soldiers were in a serious condition. A young German, who was watching, swam out and rescued both of them. The French Tribunal, to reward him, promised that anything he asked would be granted. He asked that the lives of seven men, who had been condemned to be shot for causing trouble to the French authorities, might be spared. The request was granted. W fl grind your corn or sell yon meal. Beard Bros. i i * —.. * - - ■ r w —— ■ ■■ ■ ■■■■■ ..—— *;• ❖ HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED! I BY AN EXPERT—COSTS NO | j j Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known! I eyesight Specialists and Optician! I will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in j • Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tues-1 i day and at Dr. Thomas’ office, Siler j I City, N. C., every fourth Thursday j lin each month. Headache relieved I ! when caused by eye strain. When I Ibe fits you with glasses you haves the satisfaction of knowng that! they are correct. Make a note of! the date and see him if your eyesj are weak. His next visit in Pittsboro will I be Tuesday, November 27th. j His next visit in Siler City will 1 be Thursday, November 22nd. I Eyes of the World Are on thel fo* Economical Transportation II Sales and Service |l Parts Depot II Bonlee Motor and Machine Works, 1 Bonlee, N. G. Some Good Farmer I Will Get $5 FREE I TO SHOW THAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN GOOD FARMING WE WILL GIVE FREE $5.00 I TO THE FARMER THAT WILL BRING THE LARG- I EST PUMPKIN TO OUR STORE FOR DISPLAY IN OUR SHOW WINDOW ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST. NO PUMPINS ENTERED IN THIS CONTEST WILL BE RETURNED TO THE OWNER, BUT WILL BE DI VIDED OR SOLD AND PROCEEDS GIVEN TO SOME ■ POOR FAMILY TO BUY FUEL FOR THE WINTER. Your Credit is Good Witb Us. I Carter Furniture Co I EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME. SANFORD NORTH CAROLINA. | Out of Each Days Work || Something should be saved. You cannot expect to work ft jh forever. Money saved now will care for you in later ft years when you prefer to take “things easy.” 11/ jjj So Don’t Spend All t * We Pay You to Save j I | Banking Loan and Dust C 0.,! t)/ SANFORD, •k* I" AM M R. E. Carrington, W. W. Robards, J. W. Cunningham, I Vs/ President Vice-Pres. Cashier. ft 1 i if I $ ftl \to JONESBORO: MONCURE: ftl itjr L P. Lasater, POSTMASTER EXAMINATIpJ A civil service examination win I i held at Sanford on Saturdav V I ber 24th, for the purpose an eligible list for theannnL CUril ß postmaster at Ore Hill. Ppointnie nt ■ compensation for postman I this office was $602 f or the Pa t t Applicants must be 21 yea except women applicants who m J ter the examination at i» ei fl age. Those taking the examtlJ must reside in the territrfrv ™ atlo ß by the office at Ore Hill y For application blank apply tn postmaster at Ore Hill or the o* Sennce Commission, Washington” 1 LOOK AT THE LABEL ox PAPE | wwaos 4 [‘AQi^T'