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PUSHED SEPTEMBER 19», 1878 Ig.S'iVDERTO DIE JUNE 20TH . cnvder and Her Accom- Ml *f <;«>• l)enied Motion P To Set Aside Verdict Xew York, May 13—Taut and * *. ith never a glance for each Sl T' Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder ot ‘ :er^r* ers tvhii e paramour Henry kldGray s tood within arm ’ s reach pother today while they were 0 they mu -t die in the electric 1 !. at mng sing the week of June C Xtho murder of Mrs. Snyder’s “ . in A \lbert Snyder, magazine JjUSOcULU. . a r editor. Gr?y heard the sentence, read from notes by Justice T wnsend Shudder, without a tremor, and jV ,ve? peered through heavy directly at the judge.. But V-c Snyder, her hands clasping and one foot rock ■ on the heel of a slipper, bowed her beau. i s tood h few feet spsit, , e former lovers, as they heard the state’s voice demand their lives in forfeit for that of Albert Snyder, v\h in they slew as he slept. Tney had testified to a love that could p- be restrained, and as the state alleged, they had hopes of sharing 595.000 of insurance sur reptiously obtained on Albert Sny der's life. h smaller crowd than any day fetheir trial at Long Island City feed “at attention” as the death feitence was pronounced. Their lacks were turned to “their public,” Ind only reporters who squeeze into ■spaces beside the bench saw the hopelessness and grief written up- L their faces. Their attorneys re plied for them what they had ■ought to say before court imposed ■sentence, and the words of the at fe feemeys were: “nothing at this; lime.” I Sentence pronounced, the steely, blonde Queens Village housewife ; fed the corset salesman were led j back, one at a time, to the seclusion fe’ their separate cells in Queens bounty jail. They will remain there I fetil Monday, when they will be bjiisked away to Sing Sing’s death bouse. ■ Mrs. Snyder was sentenced first, bn! several moments elapsed be- ■ ort Gray’s fate was pronounced. b bvief motions asking that the be set aside were made by Breners for both before sentence! fe“ s pronounced Justice Schuddtr i fern lately denied them. Notices i fe appeal were filed. By statute, j feose sentenced to death have the j fesht to appeal directly to ihe court ! I ‘PPcals, avoiding the delay of fe. -ng their cases before the appel fetedi\jsion of the supreme court, fe in the procedure in cases not in fedng the death penalty. feß'oni.nths will be required, at fe ne ‘ s saitl ’ f°r preparation of the ■Veals. ■ Lid been arranged that Mrs. K Ra Gra y would be taken, ■ l a *ter sentence to but Justice Sehudder ! '•ounsei’s request that Mrs. I Gra y permitted to K, , n ue, - ns county jail until ,J<1 ‘ tu ari 'erjge their affairs. r hree Arrested ' ■ Ihomas of Baldwin ■r , ku a raid Saturday even- K, ,/‘ a ' requited in the arrest of ■ ‘ ,!i charge of posses- I ' >r * n*e men are Will ■arrir. and Robert 1 negroes who live K h rr ° n Bush Creek - a My,,, premises revealed . " lka l dace and several B.? VT is ’ vith lhe °d°r of li- V, ln " this raid ’ Mr vt ‘ r --d a still site about Bd r ‘ ! ' 1 • one of the houses m* tv' three barreis of ' ln . * vere given a pre- n P before ’Squire Bund ni «ht and were B% be t- <J ' l ’ Urt ’ and will pro ■ rio(i this week. Banners r ,f r " ■ S.y, raven county"have B Ur ‘(len ‘ ., V '° rih of fat h °gs fe spring Vs methr ' d during The Chatham Record stuto : /ibravy ; i . ... Mrs. Julia Holt Dies, At King’s D; lughters’ Passes At King,’s Daughters’ Home at Age of 81; Last Saturday Mrs. Julia Holt, widow cf the former well, known. S. ML. Holt of this county, died at the King’s : Daughters’ home,. last Saturday, at the goodly age of ; eighty-one. Mrs. Holt was the step-mother! of Mrs. W. M. Eubanks of Pitts boro. The following account is! taken from Sunday’s Durham Her- 1 aid.:: Mrs.. Julia Holt, age 81, died yes- ■ terday afternoon at five o’clock, at the King’s Daughters home,! from a complication of diseases. She was the relict of the late S. M. Hoit of Pittsboro, who was for; many years clerk of the Chatham Cv unty superior court, and who died s me five years ago. She was well known to a wide circle of friends in Durham, and Chatham countits. She is survived by three broth ers, Captain W. N. Pritchard and !• W. Pritchard, of Chapel Hill, and J. J. Pritchard, of Durham; also several nephews and -neices>—Dr. W. H. Boone, of Durham; Fred B. Pritchard; Mrs. J. W. Saunders,and Mrs. J. P. Aven, of Durham. Her remains . were carried to Chapel Kill yesterday evening where they will lie in state, at the s.denee of her brother, I. W. j Pritchard, until the hour for the! funeral, which is three o’clock this afternoon. The funeral services will be held at the hour named, at Damascus Christian church, of which Mrs. Holt was a member from child hood. Rev. J. B. Harward will be assisted in conducting the services of Rev. Stanley C. Harrell, of the Christian church of this city. The pall-bearers will be her neph ews, J. B. Stroud, of Greensboro;; Dolphus Long, of Burlington; Fred B. Pritchard, of Durham; D. L. Boone, of Durham; Clarence Holt,; of Greensboro, and Grady Pritch ard. Legion Men To Have Chaperones Aplenty Forty Per Cent of Legionnaires Signed Up for Paris Trip Are Women - : Raleigh, May 14—Forty percent of the 8,500 legionnaires and mem-' bers of the American legion auxil iary who have made applications: for passage to France in Septem- i ber to attend the national conven- 1 tion of the legion, are women, Ma jor Wade H. Phillips, one of the j nine members of the National! France Travel committee, said Fri- j day on his return from a meeting: this week of the committee in In dianapolis, Ind. The time for filing applications j for the trip back to France has been extended to June 15 he said, ’egion officials, he added, expect 10,000 to make the trip in Septem ber. North Carolina legionnaires and auxiliary members are leading their j brothers and sisters in the south in j the number of applications, said; Major Phillips. To date 185 appli cations have been sent*in by North Carolinians. He expects around 1,- 200 Tar Heels to join in the pil grimage to France. “Speaking about the large num ber of women, who intend to make the trip,” said Major Phillips, “it seems that they provide the balance | wheel for the ex-doughboys when! they hit gay Paree.” Siler City To Have Great July Fourth i Dr. Van B. Elkins states that \ Siler City is already planning to j have the greatest celebration on .he Fourth of July that it has ever had. He says it is early to make such an announcement, but that he wishes the folks to know it and be looking forward to it. Records kept in hog feeding dem onstrations are teaching some men the value of keeping farm accounts. PITTSBORO, N. C„ CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MAY 19,1927 Soviet House In London Is Raided In Spectacular Manner By Police London, May 14 —One of the most spectacular raids in London’s lir.ancial district tcolc place today, whe|n. forty- five men from Scotland Yard swooped down upon the soviet house in Moorgate and took charge not .qnly of the Arco’s offices, but the quarters occupied by the Russian trade delegation, whose officers are supposed to be immune from arrest. The Scotland Yard men were j reinforced by 60 uniformed police men, who surrounded the five-story building, and no one was permitted to enter or depart without permis sion. Acting under the instructions of the home office, they took com plete charge of the entire building, and well on to midnight the search was continuing. The raid, which began shortly before five o’clock in the afternoon, was carried out under authority a search warrant issued by a Guildhall magistrate upon re quest of Whitehall officials, who presented evidence designed to convince the magistrate that the aws of the country had been violat ed, and that on this account drastic steps were deemed necessary in the interest of public safety. The employes of Argos, a cor poration which controls Russian trade, as well as the employes of the trade delegation were taken completely by surprise. Before they had time to realize what had hap pened the building from attic to cellar was in the hands of de tectives, who endeavored to gain control of papers and documents and took measures to prevent any slipping from their grasp. Con sternation prevailed among the clerks and typists, girls and young men, and for more than an hour not one of them was permitted to leave the premises. Two Men Are Held On Forgery Charges Are Arrested at Charlotte For Passing Several Checks On Concord Citizens Concord, May 14.—Two men giv ing their names as Charles Smith and J. D. Ashton, and claiming to be representatives of an advertis ing concern, are in trouble with the law as a result of several checks they are alleged to have forged in Concord. They were arrested in Charlotte at the request of local officers. G. Ed. Kestler, editor of the Con cord Observer, engaged the men for special work here, instructing them not to accept money until the work was completed. He said they brought in about SSOO worth of business and he gave them one check for $2 and another for S2O. The checks were cashed and I sup pose from them they got my signa ture,” he said. “The men stayed in a Charlotte hotel at night and worked here by day. They went to H. I. Woodhouse at the Cabarus Saving bank and got a cashier’s check. Later they signed Mr. Woodhouse’s name to a SSO check in Charlotte. They also have two worthless checks at the Concord National bank, drawn on local per sons. E. B. Grady gave them a S2O check for me and A. F. Hartseli gave them one for the same amount, but instead of turning them over to me they endorsed my name on them and got cash at the Victory case in Charlotte.” The men will be given a hearing here later. Two Boys Get Sentence To Pen Two youngsters, charged with robbing a Corinth filling station, got a stiff penitentiary sentence of two to five years at Judge Har ris’ hands Monday. Their name is Dowd and they have a court record that caused the severity of sentence The solicitor stated that the only protection to people in their section in southwest Chatham is to keep the boys incarcerated. They were out of their regular beat at Corinth. A Fine Citizen Suddenly Passes # Mr. C. M. Lutterloh Stricken With Paralysis Friday Morning; Dies In Short While Just as the District Conference was about to close its delightful session at Brown’s chapel Friday, May 13, the distressing news was spread that Mr. C. W. Lutterloh, one of the church’s faithful stew arts, had died almost suddenly. About six o’clock that morning his son, C. W., Jr., was talking over the phone with him. Ten minutes iater, the son was called to come quick, that his father had been stricken with paralysis and had fal len out at the well. The father was able to speak after his son and others got there, but immediately became unconscious, dying at seven-thirty. Mr. Lutterloh had been in good heal h, had been attending the district conference at Brown’s, and told his son a few minutes before his death that he was feeling well. Consequently, it was a great shock to hi's friends and the host gather ed for the conference to learn that he was dead. For years Mr. Lutterloh had been a member jit frown’s and a steward and was president of the senior Sunday school class, in which he took great interest. His cheery and genial spirit made him a gen eral favorite, with both tvhite and black. He has been a faithful fa ther and husband, and great sym pathy is felt for the bereaved fam ily. One sen, Dr. P. W., lives in Arkansas, and the funeral was postponed till Sunday that he might arrive. A great throng attended the fun eral at Brown’s Sunday afternoon, manifesting the degree of esteem in which he was held by not only his neighbors but by citizens in all parts of the county. The funeral services were conducted by his pas tor, Rev. C. M. Lance, assisted by ! he deceased’s nephew, Rev. Ernest Durham, and Rev. H. G. Dorsett of Wake. He leaves a beloved wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, also three brothers, Dr. I. H. and Mr. T. H., of Sanford, and Mr. G. G. Lut terloh and his sister, Mrs. W. F. Jones, of this community. %The sons are Chas. H., W. W., both of the Brown’s community, and Dr. P. W. Jonesboro, Arkansas. The daughters are Mrs. G. L. May nard and Mrs. H. M. Marshall, of the home community, and Miss Annie Lutterloh cf Raleigh. The Junior Order, of which he was a member, also participated in the funeral services. Durham Exposition Now In Progress Max Gardner Delivered The Open ing Address Monday Evening. The Durham Exposition is in full swing. The opening was Monday evening, when the Mayors and oth er prominent representatives from nearby towns and citizens were pre sent to grace the occasion. That night the entrants in the beauty contest also made their first appearance. Miss Bessie Chapin as “Miss Pittsboro.” was introduced to the exposition aud ience by Mr. J. L. Griffin. Miss Alice Ingram, a young lady well known in Fittsboro, was Miss San ford. O. Max Gardner was tile speaker of the evening. He confined him self to a fifteen minute address and is-reported to have been very feli tous in his remarks. intro duced by Lieut. Governor Long as the “next governor,” but Mr. Gardner wittily replied that he heard something like that in 1920. Mrs. Henry M. Middleton of Warsaw in Duplin county won sec ond prize in the southern garden contest by the Southern Euralist of Atlanta last year. Mrs. M ; ddleton was awarded a cash prize of S2OO. CLUB NOTES The regular monthly meeting of the Woman’s Club was held in the club room Wednesday at 3:30 There was a full attendance and splendid reports were made by the chairmen of the health, civic and music departments. Mrs. Arthur H. London, chair man of the Civic department, an nounced department would put on a Better Garden Program at the club room on Wednesday aft ernoon, June Ist at three-thirty. Mesdames Walter C. Johnson and N. C. Shiver will have charge of this program and a treat is in store fer all who are interested in beauti fying their yards and gardens. In teresting speakers have already been secured. A book shower is to be given in the club room on the above named date and every one is requested to contribute a book—which need not necessarily be a new one. Mrs. London asks that if you have any books dealing With h stcry, music, art, or literature that you bring one or more to the club room Wednesday afternon, June Ist. It : s earnestly hoped that every club member will conrtribute one book to aid us in starting a “vil lage library.” Mrs. Griffin, president, urged that every one keep in mind the an nual bazaar given by the club each /ear. The date is Saturday No vember 19th. It was decided at this meeting to discontinue the regular meetings of the club until the first Wednesday n September. Mrs. Julian M. Gregory gave a most interesting account of the State meeting wh£eh was held in Durham. At lhe close of the business ses sion interesting as well as instruct ve talks were made by Dr. W. B. Chapin and Dr. Yoder of Sana torium on tuberculosis—treatment of patients in the incipient stages, sanitary precautions to be taken, the need of frequent examinations by a competent physician all were stressed. Mrs. Griffin thanked Drs. Chap in and Yoder for their fine talks and also the members of the health department who were instru mental in s uring these men for their program at this meeting. State Again Is Urged To Aid Flood V ictims ! Governor McLean Refers to Great est Peacetime/ Calamity Nation Ever Known. Raleigh, May 14—Governor Mc- Lean’s third flood proclamation to night appealed to the people ofj North Carolina for funds for the | relief of Mississippi flood suffer-1 ers. 1 “We take just pride in the fact | that we have grown to be a ‘billion ! dollar state,’ supplying the world markets with goods worth approxi mately that figure annually,” he declared. Our crops yield from $320,000,000 upwards, and our citi zenship free from plague and pes vlence, looks hopefully forward into a future that holds untold pos sibilities for all who grasp pass ing opportunities.” But another picture is that of the greatest peace-time calamity this nation has ever known, he said, and the American Red Cross should be aided generously in its goal. His message, he said, “follows iwo definite calls that I have sent out and I issue this third as a mat- I ter of stern duty, realizing that we have not responded as we should have done.” “It is highly desirable,” said the I governor, “that gifts be made j through some responsible agency. In ail counties having an active Red Cross chapter, contributions should be esnt through these agen cies. In counties having no such organization, remittances can be sent to Gilbert T. Stephenson, of the Wachovia Bank and Trust com pa,ny, , Raleigh, who will see that the funds are sent to the proper place and due credit given.” British convicts receive half a cent for every day they work. Miss. Myrtle Phillips Bride B. F. Moffitt Pretty Ceremony Takes Place At Bonlee—After Honeymoon Trip Willi Rtoside in Benrlee. Bonlee, May 14. — A wedding; of impressive beauty took place at four o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Phillips, when their daughter,. Miss Denaf Myrtle Phillips, became the bride of Browdy E. Moffitt.. The ceremony was performed by Rev. E.W. Byerly, pastor of the bride, the vows being spoken on the spacious porch, where an altar of delicate pink roses and ferns had been arranged. Prior to the ceremony, Mrs. Kate Houston Barnes, of Mount Vernon Springs, very beautifully rendered several piano selections. During the ceremony, Mrs. Barnes softly played “To a Wild Rose.” The bridal party entered to the strains bf the wedding march from Lohengrin. After the minister had taken his place, the two grooms men, R. Clyde Dorsett and Dewey Barber, entering from opposite dcors, took their places at either side of the altar. The bridesmaids entered next. They , were Miss Marie Phillips,, sister of the bride, and Miss Martha Webster. The bride and bridgroom enter ed together. The bride, a charming blond type, wore a handsome gown of blue georgette with cream lace and accessories of a harmonizing shade. Her bouquet was composed of but ter-fly sweet peas showered with lilies of the valley. Immediately following the cere mony, the happy couple left for an extended western tour. The bride is the charming and popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Phillips, of this place. She is assistant, cashier of the Peoples Bank and Trust company, and is prominent socially. Dui { lg th;- weeks following the announcement of her engagement, she was the re cipient of a number of social cour tesies. Mr. Moffitt is a young man of sterling character. He is the effi cient agent and telegraph operator of the A. and Y. railway. Ex- I change. Board of Health To Hold Clinic Here Soonj Burgaw, Elizabethtown, Warsaw,! In This Section to Be Visited Raleigh, May 15—More than 2,- 000 school children between ages of 6 and 13 years are expected to have their tonsils and adenois I extracted in the series of Summer j to)nsil-adenois clinics to be held under the auspices of the State Board of. Health. The first of the clinics will be held Monday, May 17, at Winton, county seat of Hertford county,and | the last one will be held at San- ! ford, Lee county, September 27. Total of 1,745 pairs of tonsils and adenoid, were removed in the clinics held last year, and since the health board started such opera tions back in 1919 more than 14,- 000 pairs of the alleged necessary appendages have departed the mor tal life, officials said. The tentative schedule for the clinics is: Winston, May 17; Swan Quarter, May 24; Bayboro, May 31; Burgaw, June 7; Elizabethtown, Bladen county, June 14; Warsaw, June 21; Whiteville, June 28;Lillington, July 5; Warrenton, July 12; Roxboro, j July 19; Hillsboro, June 26; Yan ceyville, August 2; Lenoir, August 9; Waynesville, August 16; Bryson City, August 23; Robbinsville, Au gust 30; Hayesville, September 6; Sylva, September 13; Morganton, I September 20, and Sanford, Sep- i tember 27. ~ The anti-tonsil-adenoid force is composed of: Dr. L. B. Gaw, anaethefics; Miss Glora Ray, chief nurse; Misses Bir die Dunn, Cleone Hobbs, Cora Beam, Geneva Sykes; Idell Buch an, Ruth Wells, Katherine Living stone, Lucile Pegram and Mrs. H. P. Gussy, nurses, and D, P. Sap penfield. VOLUME NO. 49 MAKING GARDEN PAY DIVIDENDS Mrs. Henry Middleton, War saw, Gets Big Returns From One Acre (From News and Observer) From a garden one acre in size, Mrs* Henry M. Middleton, of War saw, last year sold vegetables to the amount of $297.71, used in her home an amount valued at $698.15, gave about S3O worth to friends, fed to hogs and cows an amount valued at $101,20 and won prizes with vegetable displays to the amount of $12.50 at the county fair. Mrs. Middleton won first prize in he state-wide garden contest con ducted by the home demonstration agents and horticultural depart ment of State College last year. Her total cash profits from the garden amounted to $1,139,56 and her expenses were $57.88 which left her a neat little profit of sl,- 081.68 on the venture. Nor was this the greatest profit. “For two years now,” says Mrs. Middleton, “we have had the doctor in our home but twice for sickness. The children are bringing home better reports from school and the oldest one has been on the honor roll every month during the past school term. I believe this is large ly due to our year-round garden and daily supply of vegetables td which our family helps itself in generous proportions. We have served a cooked leafy, a root, and a raw salad for 365 days during the past year. Irish and sweet potatoes, beets, radishes and onions we have had each month in the year. Our daily average has been liine and one-half and all of these were fresh and stored from our own garden—the fruit of our own labor.” Mrs. Middleton states that the garden spot is the most fertile acre on a fertile farm of 72 acres. It is located back of the house near the kitchen door and the soil is deep and tile drained. In her report to E. B. Morrow, extension horticulturist, Mrs. Mid dleton gives an interesting recital of how vegetables were planted to succeed each other on the land and how she struggled with dry weather in getting the young plants start ed. She used a lot of water. “For three weeks,” she says, “we carried from 50 to 75 buckets of water per day besides using the hose to water young plants near our tank. From the last of June until July 24, we had no rain at all We still had plenty of vegetables to eat and some to sell but we had trouble in getting young plants to come up. Everything I planted during this drought, I would cov er with bags or boards. The bags were kept moist until the seed showed the first signs of coming through, then the bags were grad ually lifted above them as a shade from the hot sun. In this way we hardened the plants to the sun as we had formerly hardened the early plants to the cold.” Mrs. Middleton believes that her tomato record can hardly be beaten. The family ate its first tomatoes! from the garden on June 12. were served fresh each day until February 4, 1927. In addition,Mrs. Middleton canned 48 quarts and sold $51.25 worth. The tomatoes were planted for an early and late crop and each plant was kept tied, pruned and staked. The ripe fruit were gathered each day while the inferior ones were fed to chickens. In addition to vegetables, the garden was made to furnish all the sage, Thyme and hot pepper used for seasoning and for the sausage and pudding sold on the curb mar ket. All the pop-corn that the chil dren enjoyed during the winter evenings was also raised in this garden. The profits paid for groceries purchased and for the few simple clothes that had to be bought for the children. “By having this garden,” says Mrs. Middleton, “we have learned to live at home on our vegetables and fruits, together with our poul- (Continued on Page eight)