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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 »jf,'f iSiiOHO BOY 125 YEARS AGO Lad Who Was To Distinction As Educator A hun dred and twenty-five years ‘ a barefoot lad who was to a % disinction as educator and j V in -rpr might have been seen plod- j f?aH.ng the uust covered roads! \at Pitwboro. His name was' f l Brantiy, and he was! u iii.ani 1 , numaous progeny ot par- i olid v/» •i*i i - u . ss ,a with lew ot tms | tjrds goods, according to a sktren written oy one son. i Whether his ianihy Lved in the' )Lv s chapei neighoorhood, or in j Siting community is not | LCcertain. Biake Brantiy was I thJ deacon at Rock Spring, and i V>'m 1., may have been his son. But the indications are stronger that i K - was a res.dent of the May s Ciiaoei neighborhood. Purefoy’s fci-t'ry of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association states that Wm. T. Erantly was a member ot that church, then known as George's £^ e k. And there was another William Brantiy who was a mem i),: ci that church, and who is re ( d- Q as a delegate to the Sandy (. -.ck association ir. 1807 as Wil- U;:i Brantiy; the next year he is tr’censeu minister, and'the next’ Hforcai’A. minister. Whether \ws the i nner of Wm. T., and ■ entered tne ministry after his son he cam .1. rial student is not • t 1. a.t .mined from the informa t; .i at hand. Wm. f. at that j y--vn.s sfudont a: S. C. College,! tv.:.iv he graduated in 1808. . these early years of the nine teenth century was the era of a re m. rkabie revival that spread over the whole country. It is noted in the sketch of Rock Spring church that that church enjoyed a great revival in ISOO. That was probab ly about the time Wm. T. Brantiy W 3; converted,* which was at the age of fourteen, The boy was so bright and so re ligious that he soon began to speak in public. Alter the pastor had preached he would ask to be al l to speak and it is related that more than one man attributed hi' conversion to “that boy who sp"ke after the minister was done.” _ There lived at Pittsborough in Bse days one William Warden, - wealthy Scotchman but a mem m no church, who was so im pressed by the talent of the boy diat he offered him the funds nec essary to prepare him for college, “ d the youth gladly accepted the prorfered aid. Afterward, as stat es above, he attended S. C. College, "meh Jonathan Maxcy, a for ®er scholarly president of Brown diversity, was president, and be tAveen whom and the young Pitts °m student sprang up a deep friendship. his college course in . me. young man became “rec- Kichniond Academy, in Au- a ’ ,a ’’ P re aching to the desti- of that section €« oiirufov ••» , a - - while residing at Au „ ra ‘ ,ni « l a sister of Gov- Ha ® McDonald. iwln'v TT pastor of the j..., , '‘ • I ■’ baptist church. In to the rectorship kaci-bi °° ] iU . Augusta an d while u , * f ? an; zed the first Bap '!aau^h °f that city. coantv the former Chatham ate +• '■ U . as ca ßed to the pastor- Philade'pvT "T B , aptist church of has C r ' ,Uj v, ’h lc h was at that t: ‘ <; most distinguished the Union. While ipbia he edited ding Baptist papers f -dit years. At years,, his health northern climate, he c: v . an d became pastor rtist church of • ( ■, and also served ‘ irlestor • the Colle^e of fce kad , i llle double work that tiftidow,, . ' (ione finall y broke Paraly si; , "v, K Was str i c ken with c las s reoif\- i C bearing the senior never n ° n 13 > *844. r recovered. <C ° ntinued <>n Pa S e eight) The Chatham Record memorial Meeting At Rock Springs ■ , * v. * » , Mr. P. T. Farrell has reported the memorial day services at Rock Spring cemetery, just out of Pitts jero, quite a success. Besides the pastor’s sermon, addresses were maae by Mr. J. L. Griffin and Mr. A. C. Ray. A big dinner was ser ved. Mr. Griffin’s address was of a historical nature. Mr. Farrell has k aned one of the rare volumes of Purefoy’s history of the Sandy Creek association, from which we give here tho story of Rock church. Ihe Sandy Creek church, in Ran dolph county was the parent of the | Baptist churches of a large part of i the south. The old chur h started | w.th sixteen members who moved t the Sandy Creek community ; from Virginia. Shubal Stearns j was <.he notable leader of the little ■ oa. u which was to revolutionize i ho church life of so large an area. ; ,n a comparatively little while the members of the church had grown i from sixteen to 606. The associa tion soon embraced churches in a terri ory extending as far as New River in Onslow county, and in South Carolina. A little later and the membership of the church itself which covered a large area began to withdraw and establish new churches. It is supposed, you note, tha. Rock Springs existed for a . me as a mere arm of the Sandy Creek church. But here is what cure toy's history, published in 1859, nearly seventy years ago, j says; “Rock Springs Church. i This church is located two miles north cf Pittsborough in Chatham county. It was known probably by he name of “Haw River Church at first, then by the “Old Fork, and linally when it moved to its present site it took the name of Rock Spring. It was no doubt an arm of Sandy Creek church, at the formation of the Sandy Creek Association, in 1758, and was soon afterward constituted into an in dependent church; consequently, it may be considered the second ldest church in this association, that is in 1858, the centennial of the organization of the Sandy Creek Association —Ed.), and Bear Creek the third oldest. The church records, previously to 1817, cannot be found. In 1800, or during the next year, this church enjoyed an extensive revival of religion, under the * ministerial labors of Rev. George Pope. Elder Elnathan Davis, it is supposed, succeeded him in the ministry at this place. From 1816 to the present time, 1859, the following ministers, in the order in which their names ccme, having been the pastors of the church; Elders Robert T. Dan iel, George Brown, Hezekiah Har mon, Thos. D. Armstrong, Wil liam H. Merritt, Geo. W. Purefoy, Jesse Sowell, and William Line berry. 'The deacons have been Robert Ward, Blake Brantiy, Stephen Moore, Richard Webster, Willie B. Straughan, Ransom C. Poe, Guil ford Petty, Elisha H. Straughan, Geo. W T . Dismukes, and C. C. P. Dismu'kes. The clerks have been, since 1816, Basil Manly, William Lightfoot, W B. Straughan, S. Mcore, E. H Straughan, and Joseph G. Dis mukes. j Brethren Basil Manly was licens ed to preach by this church April 25, 1818, and Brethren Edmund A. Poe and Richard R. Moore were li censed in 1854.” Note that the ancestor of the no tably influential Manly family was clerk of this old church. The edi tor himself studied Latin at Wake Forest under Dr. Geo. W. Manly, a grandson of this Basil Manly, while hundreds of the most promin ent preaches in the south studied under Basil Manly, Jr., son of the old clerk of Rock Springs, at the - Louisville, Ky., Seminary. — Many a man’s good reputation is due to what isn’t found out ; about him. Writing has one great advant age. It makes no noise to annoy people. - % S PITTSBORO, N. C„ CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927 Farm-Grown Sausage Pays Large Profits Minnesota Man Wfth 10-Acre Farm Sells Minneapolis Hotel $6,800 Worth of Sausage in Year More than S6,SQQ worth of farm grown and farjn-manufactured sausage was sold to Minneapolis hotels, clubs ajpl housewives last year by William J. Gregg, a hog raiser at St. Bonifacius, Minn., who jelieves that the day of big oppor tunity has ccme for the li.tie farm er who puts out a high quality pro duct. Or. his little 10-acre farm 28 mix s rem Minneapolis last season Mr. Gregg and his son Walter rais d 250 Berkshire shoats and put them through the sausage mill, .•ays the Minneapolis Journal. This year they plant to convert nearly . purebred pig’s .nco sausage and realise 510.000 profit. In order to mar■ u-aeture his sausage under Alter cond.tions Mr. Gregg now is ju iding a small m.dern plant on his farm. No hog ra : sed by Mr. Gregg is .lowed to reach a weight of more lian 180 pounds before going into .m-. sausage grinder, “for he won’t make as good sausage if permitted ui get fatter than that.” The pigs P'ow up in plentiful alfalfa pas .ures leased nearby and get a little shorts and shelled corn in the sum mer. They are then finished on Canada field peas, boiled barley and a little corn. Mr. Gregg contributed much of his success methods of growth and feeding of the an imals, to the fact that he tried to make sausage that is better than his competitors’, and lets trucks or the mailman do most of his deliv ering. x “i have Mr. Gregg said, “that the farmer who puts out a high quality product for which .here is a regl public demand be cause of its better quality, and who avoids the high costs of trans portation, handling and manufact upring that intervene between the farmer and consumer, is the one who has made the most money.” GARDNER WILL OPEN DURHAM EXPOSITION Durham ,May 9.—0 Max Gard ner, conceded by many to be the next governor of North Carolina, has accepted the invitation extend ed him to open the Durham exposi tion, which will be held in this city during the week of May 16. The Shelby man, probably* one of the best known orators, and offi cials of the exposition feel that he will attract an enormous crowd on the opening night of the exposition. The exposition being staged un der the auspices of’-the Durham merchants’ association with the view of showing to. the people of this section of the ; state the wide diversification of products made and sold here. One of the most el aborate programs ever presented in this section of the state has been prepared for the week and includes musicians and speakers of note, in addition to other features. .*.• (ii CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS The following contributions to the flood relief fund are reported by Mrs. N. M. Hill of the Red Cress: Supplies .... $139.00 Rev. R. G. Shaunor.house .... 1.00 Mr. J. L. Griffin 1.00 Baptist S. S. Pittsboro 15.00 Rev. Mr. Brown of Ebe • nezer church 20.00 Mrs. J. E. Morgan 1.00 SANFORD BANK MAN TAKES NEW POSITION Sanford, May 8. —John R. Jones, Jr., who has been cashier of the Sanford branch of the Page Trust company for the past three years, has resigned to become Southern representative of the National Bank of Commerce, New York. . Mr. Jones is one of Sanford’s prominent young business men and lenders in civic affairs. REGARDING KNOWLEDGE. (Henry Ford in Dearborn Inde pendent.) Knowledge is something that somebody once knew and left in a form which enabled anyone else, who wanted to, to know it. If a man is born with normal hu man faculties, if he is equipped with enough ability to use the tools which we call ‘ietters’ in reading or writing, there is no knowledge within the possession of the race that 112 cannot have —if he wants it! The only reason every man does not know everything that the hu man mind has ever learned is that no one has ever yet found it worth ,vhiie to know that much. Men satisfy their minds more by finding out things for them selves than by heaping together the things which somebody else has found cut. You can go out and gather knowledge all your life, and with all your gathering you will not catch up even with your own times. You may fill your head with all the ‘facts’ of all the ages and your head may be just an overloaded fact-box when you get through. The point is. this: Great piles of knowledge in the head are not the same as mental activity. A man may be very learned and very useless. Any college professor will tell you that. And then again, a man may be unlearned and very useful, very wide awake in his mind —ar.d any professor of phy chology will tell you that, too. The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. Just how much knowledge must be held in common by everybody is a matter of fashion. It is large ly a matter.of the class of peopl: you want to associate with. If you move in cne class you will discover that you are expected to be able to talk about art, and music, and poetry and similar sub jects. Thousands of people are chattering about those things who don’t know anything about them at all, but they have learned the phrases and they pass for “educat ed.’ A scholar of wide fame said just a little while ago; ‘lt is now possible in our best society to ex press opinions about a book with out having read it, or to gabble about without knowing a single fundamental principle.’ People do this because it is ex pected of them and because it is the fashion. Most of the fads of so ciety are intellectual fads, which change like the style of hats. Os course, if you want to gather knowledge like pebbles and exhibit it, all right. That is one form of human vanity. But to flatter your self that you are learned, while the man who does not follow your fad is unlearned, is to add a vicious flavor to your self-flattery. There is a young fellow stand | ing before you. His skin is clear, his eyes are bright, he understands 1 what he sees, and his mind is | awake. He doesn’t know every ! thing. As educational fashions go nowadays may ‘know’ compar atively little. That is, his head 1 may still be unburdened by a load of facts out of books. No, he doesn’t know everything. | But as you look at him, as you 1 note his comprehending gaze, as ' you mark the cool glance of his ; eyes, this thought comes to you: 1 ‘He doesn’t know everything, but | there is nothing he could not know !if he wanted to; and when he ! chooses his work in life, he will i learn it clear through to the end and beyond.’ | He doesn’t have much knowledge, but he has a lot of brains. Please note! if you are ever given a choice between brains and knowledge, choose brains. (i With brains you can get any form of knowledge yo,u need. But better than that with brains you can use any kind of knowledge that you have. Without brains, no amount of gathered knowledge will ever amount to a straw. The best thing a book does for a man is to make him think. All i I " (Continued on Page eight) Legion Auxiliary. The American Legion Auxiliary met with Mrs. C. E. Bryan Thurs day evening, May sth, 1927. The meeting was opened .with allegiance to The Flag. After which the secretary read the pre amble. It was decided to send our sol-. dier at Oteen a year’s subscription to the Saturday Evening Post, as a gift for Mother’s Day. The medal given by the auxiliary to the eighth grade girl in the Pittsboro high school was won by Miss Elsie Riddle. It was voted by the auxiliary to give this medal annually. Mrs. C. E. Bryan gave a splen did report of the meeting in Ral eigh. The following program arranged by the president was then given: Memorials and memorial Day, Mrs. W. G. Johnson. Poem—“Poppies”— Mrs. Geo. W. Brewer. “The Message of the American Le gion Auxiliary Poppy,”—Mrs. W. P. Lathum. “In Flanders Field”, —Mrs. Ros coe M. Farrell. Mrs. Walter C. Johnson and Mrs. C. E. Bryan were appointed chairmen of the Poppy sale. A delicious ice course was ser ved by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. H. D. Gunter. SHERIFF ENJOINED. Judge W. C. Harris, on the plea of J.N. People's,represented by at torney Daniel L. Bell, ten days ago granted a temporary injunction against Sheriff Blair, forbidding him from advertising Chatham county lands for sale for 1926 (axes. The hearing on the matter is to be held by Judge Harriss at Sanford today. If the injunction s made permanent, the matter may 5c carried to the superior court. W. P. Horton, as attorney for the county, will represent the commis sicners at the Sanford hearing. The plea of Mr. Peoples is based on the ground that the context of the bill under which the land is to be advertised indicates that the law was not intended to apply to 1926 taxes. The injunction is serving the good purpose of giving the people more time to raise the money for their taxes, but Sheriff Blair in sists that they do not take too much for granted in this matter of the injunction, since he has to make his settlement according to law, and it is possible that the supreme court may set aside the injunction if made permanent by Judge Har ris, and that the hardship on the delinquent tax-payers would be all the greater, since a delay might prevent his being able to collect all the taxes even if the people are prepared to pay them. A similar injunction has been secured in Wake and Johnston. If you pay now as the Sheriff asks, the thing is over, whatever else happens. FRED EXPECTS TO KEEP , S. C. MONEY SAFE Mr. Fred Paschal, newly elected Mayor, and Mr. Mann, both of Siler City, were here Wednesday and consummated a trade for the big iron safe that was used in the Clerk’s office for nearly forty years. It was sold at auction whe»- the new court house was occupied and purchased by Mr. J. S. Cook.— Alamance Gleaner. LOOKING BACK 72 YEARS. Sanford, Rt. 4, May 4. Editor Record: I was at Pittsboro 72 years ago today, May 4, 1855, and saw Sheriff Richard Paschall hang Wil lis Hester, the first man in North •Carolina to be hanged for stealing negroes? Jack Williams was sheriff, but Paschall as deputy was present and assisted in the execu tion. It was a rainy day, but there were thousands of people there. I do not know another that was there who is living. Major William Guthrie and I were together, but he is dead. If any one who was there that day sees this, I would be glad to have his name and address. Respectfully, J. R. BRIGHT. Road-Bridge Work 1 In Progress In County v Work is in progress on tHe re pair of Moore’s bridge preljminsry co the turning of the Chapel Hijl ar.d Durham traffic through the jaeiour being prepared in view of I the early beginning of paving work i on the Pittsboro end of the Pittfc , boro-Chapel Hill highway. The j cost of the repairs to the bridge ! will be considerable, and then, we , believe, that a new bridge is con templated at another point on the : Haw when the Pittsborc-Raleigh highway is constructed. But the work done on the old bridge and that done in making the deour fit cor extensive traffic, will benefit the several communities in which the work is being done. The best way to Raleigh at present is by way of Durham, as a detour on route 50 lengthens the trip by Mon cure, and the repair of Moore’s bridge cuts off traffic on the Jenks road. When the bridge is repair ed, the Jenks route can be resumed. A rock cruhser just out of Pitts boro is crushing stone for the pav ing work on the Chapel Hill-Pitts boro project, and a considerable sum is being expended in the pur chase of stone. Several of our citizens hauling great quanti- ties of the rocks that have been a nuisance about their places. The price is 65 cents a ton delivered, but it doesn’t take many stones to weigh a ton. It lo'oks like slow mo ney at first. glance, but a good truck can haul many a ton a short distance in a day. Also work begins this week on the Lockville Bridge across the Deep. That means that three fridges are under construction a very few miles of Mon cure. The Haywood bridge across Haw and the Lockville bridge ?.re state projects on route 50, but the bridge across the Cape Fear just below the confluence of the *iaw and the Deep is a joint pro ject of Lee and Chatham county. The paving work, the engineer ing on both the Pittsboro-Raleigh and the Pittsboro-Chapel Hill routes, the construction of the de tour, and the building of these three bridges, all together, are dis tributing quite a lot of money in the county. Moncure is peculiarly favored, and at a time when the good little town needs help to push it over the difficulties arising from the failure of the bank, and of the Mill and Ginning Company. Club Notes The Civics department of the Woman’s club held its regular meeting Friday evening May 6th, at the home of Mrs. Reid Thomp son, with the Chairman, Mrs. Ar thur Hill London, presiding. Following the reading of the minutes of last meeting, etc., it was decided to ask all who would to contribute a book for the club li brary. A Better Garden Campaign was discussed and an exchange day, cf shrubs, flowers and plants of all kinds will be held at an early date. It was also (lecided to have a flower show in the early fall. Mrs. N. C. Shivar and Mrs. Wal ter Johnson will have charge of the program, which will be given at the next regular meeting of the club. At the close of the business ses sion delicious strawberry cream and cake were served by the hostess. Many Additions to Durham Churches Durham, May 8. —Scores of peo ple have been converted in Durham during the past several weeks and many have joined the church as the result of a series of revival | meetings which have been in pro-1 progress for some time. Several | denominations are included in theT churches holding special services.; A number of outstanding church men have been brought here for the meetings, including Bishop E. D. Mouzon, head of the two North Carolina Methodist conferences; Dr. H. M. Wharton, of Baltimore, Md.; Rev. H. W. Connelly, of Roa noke Rapids, Va., and others. Sev eral services are still in progress. VOLUME NO. 49 MEMORIAL DAY IN PITTSBORO ■ . t -V - The Occasion One of the Most Delightful - Only Blerwi Veterans Answer to Roll- Call Memorial Day in Pittsboro was one of the most delightful in the history of the day. Only eleven veterans reported, but each of them, seemed hale and hearty, and car ries his eighty odd years mere like a man of sixty than eighty. Present were: G. T. Hart, G. S. Williams, H. M. Lewter, T. H. Gil more, W. H. Cross, T. Y. Mims, J, Dan Dorsett, A. D. Burnett, J. B, Thomas, Richard M. Jones, J. R. Bright. Present also were Mes dames. T. Y. Mims, J. R. Bright, Carson Johnson, Isaac Morris. The ladies had prepared a most excellent and abundant dinner, and the youngsters of the sixties en joyed it. After dinner, the boys were seated on benches in the court house hall and had a jolly good time, telling yarns and singing old war songs. The occasion was more social and had less of formality about it than any the writer ever witnessed in this, or any other county. At one-thirty the crcwd assem bled in the court room to hear Senator W. B. Horton, of Caswell county, but a brother of our Sena tor W. P. Horton delivered an ad dress upon the service of the Junior Reserves, especially with reference to the Battle of Bentonville. After prayer by Rev. Jonas Bar clay, the ladies sang the Bonnie Blue Flag. Mayor Ray then intro duced Mr. Daniel L. Bell, who in roduced most fittingly the speak er of the hour. Mr. Bell attributed to Mr. Horton the credit for the passage cf the pension bill allowing the veterans a dollar a day. Senator Horton, in his first words, identified himself with this county. He was glad to come home and have the honor of speaking on this occasicn. He paid glorious tribute to Mrs. H. A. London, and stated that he only did his duty in fighting for increased pensions for the veterans. Mrs. London deserved more credit" than any one, and the D. D. C. of the state the whole credit. It was a real grief to him that Mrs. Lon don could not be present on this occasion. The speaker, before proceeding to the discussion of his ' subject, “The Junior Reserves,” jpaid tri bute to the North Carolina soldiers and to Governor Zeb Vance, the war governor who foresaw the needs of the Confederacy and pro vided blockade runners to bring in the needed goods from Europe. Mr. Horton, as know*} to our readers, spent his boyhood in Chat ham. He joined the navy as a youth. Served in it through the world war, and later retiring stud ied law and settled at Yanceyville, where his talents and high charac ter won him the senatorship last fall. , r He was chairman of the pension committee in. the senate, and from the very beginning fought for the increase in pensions, and making the most celebrated speech of the whole session in behalf of his bilL With him was his bride of Jan., a charming young lady who married him at the very opening of the ses sion of the legislature in which he v/on his spurs as a statesman. He is a good speaker and his ad dress was thoroughly enjoyed by the appreciative audience. While he was here as orator of the day, his brother who fought with him for the increase of the pension fund, was in Raleigh, where he was the Memorial Day orator. The Horton brothers cer tainly have won the hearts of the old soldiers and the U.D.C. Just Too Dead Judge (about to sentence a pris oner) —You have a pleasant home, a good wife and happy children? Prisoner (hopefully)—Yes, yer Honor. Judge—Well, you won’t see them for two months—Sydney Bulletin.