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OFFICE 284 ' iEARS AGO IN BOSTON. / J , »ration of Its Anniversary This * Month Recalls Manner of Its Founding. Boston, Nov. 25. —Two hundred and eighty-four years ago the first post office in the United States was estab lished in Boston, and the celebration of the anniversary this month recalled the manner of its founding. It had been the custom in those days for the citizens of Boston to troop on board the packets which arirved from overseas in quest of letters and other tidings from England. That was all very well for a while, but as the po pulation grew the habit became a nui sance to the skippers, who objected to having their decks made impromp tu delivery offices and the none too spacious quarters below crowded with men and women. So the general court (as the Massa chusetts legislature has always been called) stepped in. In 1639 it ruled that Richard Fairbanks (on the site of whose home the Boston Globe build ing now stands) was to take charge of and distribute letters from abroad. “For preventing the miscarriage of letters,” the quaint order read, “and it is ordered that the notice be given that Richard Fairbanks, his home in Boston is the place appointed for all letters which are brought from be yond the seas, or are to be sent hither, are to bee brought unto. And hee is to take care that they bee delivered or sent according to their directions, and hee is allowed for every letter a penny.” John Winthrop was governor when Fairbanks was appointed. The latter had a permit to “sell wine and strong water,” and over his bar the men of Boston sipped their ale and read their mail and talked of the tidings from far away. Fairbanks acted as postmaster un til 1677. In January, 1673, the gen eral court make a provision for a do mestic postal service, the carriers to he paid three pence per mile for their services. Twenty years later the American post office was established and in 1695 a coach and mail service was begun between Boston and Hart ford. Ask Any Married Man. Women have, in a more developed degree than men, the power of rapid preception and intuition. We have this on authority of Sir Humphrey Rolleston, distinguished English phy sician, who says this feminine trait is allied to second sight and clairvoy ance. No married man will question that. Plenty of Apples for All. Thirty billion apples were grown last season, or nearly 3,000 for every man, woman and child, so this ought to be a poor winter for the doctors. If you don’t eat apples to the num ber of six or seven a day, you are not getting your share. Hjtl). «n.n.i».n...»n(».....i»i.ii , inmvmmMUp jjf 51 i Our stock of merchandise has never been more complete, and prices more attractive $| || ?l| Jlj than at this time. We are offering mi§ | H “Special December” 11 1 -4f| jpsl | fM iy bargains which must be seen to be appreciated. Come in and “browse” around. See the many bar- m |i| || | | gains, a few of which are listed below. |g | | mi | If juh.il.imm [I j u mm m m;'mim m' ■igjgg .«■»■ •m ffi | 8 V>s $ i . fe? & i pi WOOL BLANKETS, SPECIAL, Pair ..$5,85 «-gP sfefs\ COTTON BLANKETS, $2.; $2.50 and $3. 1 ****** \W> -;.< KVvi /. 1 " X>A MEN’S WOOL SHIRTS i l|p 1 WOOL RIDING PANTS gifi frags* gj LEGGINS 51 IRS m ****** %$• is®a g*f SPECIAL ON SWEATERS; ALL SIZES i|P PS AND GRADES S[ 98c. TO SB.OO jm. jmj MEN’S WORK SHOES $2.50 and up SIS I - ■ ■ ■ . fl ?2! |y C. L. BROWER, || “Dealer in Quality Merchandise,” SILER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA %J£ HAS FOUND AN IDEAL SPOUSE “After marriage a woman finds out what her husband really is,” said Mrs. Cora Walker La Forge, of East St. Louis, 111., who has just married her i fourteenth husband. All of her form | er husbands except one are living. She has divorced them all. The first one was good to look at but lazy. She divorced him after three years of ma trimonial warfare. There was something wrong with 5 all the others, but Henry—well, Mrs. i La Forge just knows that Henry will [ do for good. Henry is her fourteenth » husband—Henry La Forge. I “It’s very possible to be happy - though married,” says Mrs. La Forge. - “All you have to do is to find the right 1 man. I’ve tried to for years and only . now have succeeded.” > Mr. La Forge was described as a i middle-aged business man with quiet habits and refined bearing at the time . of his marriage, but that’s been some i days ago. [ “I just know we’re going to be hap > py,” says his wife. “Henry has re . stored my faith in men.” i Mrs. La Forge says she has no re . grets to express over having mar ! ried and divorced thirteen men. The j men have no comments to make. i ( Legal Precedent, Maybe. “We were married in 1898,” testi fied George A. Arnold, Chicago citi ; zen, in the divorce court. “We lived | together until 1909, but, Judge, she 1 never took a bath, and I couldn’t make , b er> » “That will do,” said the judge, “you get a divorce.” Yet, as we re collect, there’s nothing in the mar riage contract about taking baths. This must be what lawyers call a legal precedent. Bad Moiler Explosion. Nine persons are known to have been killed and fifteen others injured, five of them probably fatally, as the result of a boiler explosion at the Vida Sugar Refinery at loreauville, ten miles east of New Liberia, La. A man standing 1,500 feet away was completely beheaded, while a mule a distance of a quarter of a mile was killed by a flying piece of steel. Plenty of Light Already. The solicitor for for an electric light concern visited a Kansas home and asked the lady of the house if they had plenty of light. “Oh, yes,” she replied, “I belong to the Sunshine So ciety and my husband is a member of of the Moonshine Club.’ ? Haw! Haw. f|l Two farmers met on a country road and pulled up their teams. “Si,” said one, “I’ve got a mule with distemper. t What did you give that one of yours • when he had it? ; “Turpentine; giddap.” , A week later they met again. “Say, . Si, I gave my mule turpentine and it ; killed him.” “Killed mine, too; giddap.” THE WORLD NEEDS HELP OF YOUTH. (Joan Kilbourne.) Wake up, young man! Wake up, young woman! The world needs your youth and your smiles. Then, what right have you to waste your God given talents, your heaven-born abili ties in useless living when there is so much for you to do? Never before in the history of the world were abili ty, genius, talent, hard-headed com mon sense and application to duty so much needed as now. This war-sick and struggle-weary old world is awaiting eagerly the ministration of ; those who have it in their hands to j heal its ills. Experience the men and women ■ who have reached the middle-ground of the years or gone beyond—has very . 1 very much to give, too, but youth with ; its smiles, its winsomeness, its mas- ,■ i i terly disregard of fear, its endurance i i and its readiness to grasp — all ingre- i dients in the tonic in which the world ! stands so much in need—has so much to give. It has been well said that “the pos session of given faculties is an indica -1 tion of God’s will that they should be developed and strengthened in the or der, the proportion, and relation in which they have been received from the Creator,” which is but another way of saying that Experience and Youth each must render its fair re turn for its peculiar gifts. The parable of the Ten Talents, it i would seem, is a direct challenge to the honesty and integrity of those who have been endowed with soecial gifts in the way of peculiar abilities; it is a challenge to use, develop and increase them against the day when the Lord of the Harvest shall return for an accounting. Each is therefore a steward only of his gifts and abili- ; ties. And there are few who are not , specially endowed in at least one par ticular direction. The call of the world today is but!! another way of bringing out the best in men and women—of giving them an opportunity for developing and in creasing their gifts—of requiring at! their hands a fair return for the:, things they have received from their Creator —and especially for those ab- ! ilities wherein to work for the won ders of well-ordered and unselfish con tribution to the happiness and comfort of others. r The Big Football Game. In a game that was bom in a driz zle and died in a downpour of rain, two ineffectual elevens battled through four periods in Chapel Hill last Thurs day to a tie without a tally. All North Carolina and a goodly number of Virginians saw the teams of the two states fight a feeble struggle up and down the gridiron and saw both teams go down in futility at the im penetrable goal lines. BUILD A HOME IN PITTSBORO. NEW, USEFUL AND PRACTICAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THE EN TIRE FAMILY ON DISPLAY HERE. SEE THEM ! Rodgers Silverware Free to Each Customer WITH EACH 25c. CASH PURCHASE WE GIVE A TICKET, GOOD IN EXCHANGE FOR RODGERS SILVERWARE—SAVE YOUR TICKETS! NEW WOOLEN GOODS OF THE LATEST STYLES ON DISPLAY TEN ROLLS CATTLE FENCING, THIRTY-NINE INCHES HIGH CLOSE OUT AT A BARGAIN. DISCIPLINE AND UTILITY. (Nathan Howard Gist.) Your value to society is determined by two forces—discipline and utility. Tne educated person is the one in whom those two factors are maintain ed in the proper balance. Life con sists of those two things. To succeed you must first discipline yourself, you must exercise self-control and sob riety. You must be able to think for yourself ,to be reasonably sound in judgment, and to think a thing thru to a logical conclusion. You may have schooling, or you may be self trained, out at all events you must have discipline. I But your niche in life will not be ' an important one if you have disci pline only. No matter how intellec tual you are, no matter how much you have trained yourself in self-discipline your place in life will be of compara tively little consequence unless yours is a useful life. The trouble is that most of us do not maintain these two forces in the right proportions. We allow the de mands of one or the other to over shadow its fellow. That means a lop sided life, top-heaviness in some stuff and emptiness or lack of other stuff. Too many school curricula savor of this tendency. For instance, because mathematics is a highly desirable, if not imperative, study, there is no rea son why it should take up one-fourth of a person’s time in school. Geogra phy, history, and manual training suf fer as a result. And far too many persons seem to feel that being useful is the chief pur suit in life. All energy is directed to ward that objective. But frequently the usefulness of those folks is gross ly impaired because they have not first striven for discipline. They are putting the cart before the horse. They are the blind leading the blind. They are numbered among the trage dies and the blunders of the unprepar ed. Their minds, their souls, their hands are ont prepared and trained for the vigorous claims of life. Utility there cannot be without training. To be good is an essential thing and a commendable aspiration, but being good for something is far better. Every person would profit by having worldly wisdom, common sense to an uncommon degree, and then the foresight to apply it to useful ends. But how many have that sagacity. Precious few, methinks, for the “child ren of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light.” We need to revise our life’s pro gram. We need to mingle the best qualities of mind and heart in right relations, adding here, taking away there, giving cohesiveness to our life’s structure. Even a good thing can be overdone, and if it is, it means dis sipated energy or wastefulness.— Pennsylvania Grit. Cyclists. “How did Mr. and Mrs. Hemkins ever manage to get into the best social circles?” “Oh, In a roundabout way.” a h\ ' ( Z/^Aibrf o krfstl ■ As usual, the farmer is getting the short end of the stick "**l Cartoon from The Farm Journal, September was v — 5 —— '-4 He Had a Confession, Too. A Kansas bride of a few months after deceiving her husband for sev eral weeks, said she had a confession to make; that her conscience would no longer permit her to keep a secre. from him, so the World relates. “I have a glass eye,” she said. “Don’t let a little thing like that worry you, love bird,” he said. “All the diamonds in your engagement ring are glass, too.” Killed While Hunting. The lure of Thanksgiving hunting resulted in the death of Bud Lewis, 12 year old son of Hardy Lewis, who lives 13 miles east of Dunn, in Samp son county, when the back of his head was blown off by the gun of Rogers West, his 16 year old first cousin. Car Costs $7.70 a Week? The average cost of owning and using an automobile is $7.70 a week or $4,00 a year, according to the esti mate of A. R. Hirst, Wisconsin State Highway Engineer. This includes in terest on the original investment, ex penses for gasoline, repairs, depre ciation, etc. The national auto bill this year will be three times as much as what will be spent on building new homes and apartment houses. Think of that, fellaw citizens! IT’S NOT WHAT YOU PAY IT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR WHAT YOU PAY, THAT COUNTS WHEN YOU BUY FROM AN ADVERTISER ! SS l i BEDROOM SLIPPERS gb?J FELTS 95c- || g|) KIDS FELT LINED, SOMETHING NEW, VM A uLM $2.25. . TWO HUNDRED PAIR CHILDREN’S (fi {M <§gfr< SHOES, SIZES 8{ TO 2 98c. to $2.25. jj& 1 j| RED CROSS SHOES; CLOSING OUT NUM BERS $4.98 & $6.50 ||| I M FLORSHEIM SHOES; CLOSING OUT ||7 NUMBERS $5.00 pi |vi m ————— ■■IIMB —— i£l Hookworm Almost Universal It is estimated that 900,000 000 neo pi- livr <n countries where hoobvorm infection is a serious menace to health and working efficiency. Advertise ir you Want a Cook Want a Clerk Want a Partner Want a Situation Want a Servant Girl Want to Sell a Piano Want tc oell a Carriage Want tc «Sell Town Property Want to Sell Your Groceries Wapt to Sell Your Hardware War> Customers for Anything Advertise Weekly in This Paper. Advertising Is the Way to Success Advertising Brings Customers [ Advertising Keeps Customers s Advertising Insures Success Advertising Shows Energy Advertising Shows Pluck Advertising Is “Six’* Advertise er Stag*. \ Advertise Long ■ Advertise Well ADVERTISE At Once In This Paper! 1 1 — — dl
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