ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 POE REUNION marked by rain Hundreds of Descendants of First Poe Settlers Meet at Old Homestead Saturday Fall Breaks Into program What had the promise of being he greatest day in the history of .! Poe family in Chatham coun t , v was marred Saturday when rain b an to fall when Dr. Clarence Poe had just fairly got swung into on account of the early history of the family- However, the hun dreds gathered at the old home stead in Gulf township could scarce ly. regret their going, as the social privileges of the day, the meeting ’relatives who had not seen each! .her in long years, and the making of new acquaintances in the family should have fully paid them for; the trip. It was the third attempt at a re- | union, and had been heralded far j a nd wide, with the result that three I or four hundred of the tribe were | present, some of them coming from j a? far as Georgia. To the editor, who had the pri-! vilige of g ing along with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bland, the former a 1 ■ scion of the Poe family tree,, the F day was far from a total loss. It was worth the trip to see the old country home in which Dr. Clar ence Pue was born and the fields in which the lad who was to become ’ nationally known as publisher and writer ploughed and hoed not so : many years ago, and to contem- ■ plate the swing upward of the boy j from the tugged little farm in an isolated community. C. C. Poe. Chatham's worthy reg ister of deeds, is president of the family organization, and gracefully put the meeting on an easy and in formal footing. He made way for Rev. W. D. Poe, successor to the re vered Dr. Marsh of Oxford in the fine old country pastorate in Green ville. The latter, contrary to the mark of homeliness conceded by the family, is a fine looking speci men of the genus homo, and talks well. His was the pleasant duty of introducing the pride of the fam- L % a nd the historian who was to |f sketch the family history for the trioe that day—Dr. Clarence Poe, enuor of the Progressive Farmer. L ' r - Poe came to the stand with Quite a manuscript, which is as sumed to be that of a book in pre-! paration, giving the history of the ; family, and from it he had begun j 1 ' glean, here and there, the prin- c k )a ‘ an d pertinent points in the history, when the long-de- ! ~ r re( i ra - n began to fall just suffi iy heavy to disturb the crowd on the improvised seats aj ' in one of the great spreading aks oli the homestead, and the j leather continued so uncertain ! bat the address so interestingly u Atn was not continued, i oweve:-, a few pertinent points gleaned, which we here give , ' benefit of the scores of the 1 ,n!il not present and for the gen eral interest they contain, bi. loe stated that the Amer-i i '.cs seem to have been derived an Kngiish family that settled | 1 in Cromwell’s time, and m ' ") iginal pronunciation was e ' ■-mi Mar to Nooe, or Noe, as e name is spelled by some of the "Ua Carolina family, q. | K !vn up and married • Pat erson, whose parents ■-tern t, j . r fJCc ,, ‘- ave been the original , ! : the old homestead and \h* reun^on was being held his eie esse Poe resided with y ear Wl , ( whence a hundred fortt (1 an °tber lad was to go niake for himself and his (Continued on page four) The Chatham Record Johnson Home Up In Flames One of the Best Residences In Pittsboro, Total Loss By Fire Wednesday Forenoon. An alarm of fire Wednesday forenoon brought the fire truck and a large part of the popu lation of Pittsboro to the resi dence of Walter Johnson right in the heart of town but the fire demon had laid his clutch es too broadly and deeply upon the beautiful Bungalow for the trifling fire engine to have even the effect of deadening for a moment the devouring flames. The blaze had begun in the rear but was eating its way into the interior of the h me preventing the recovery ol the elegant furniture within Only a small part of the valu able furnishings was saved. This is partly covered by in surance. The excellent metal roof decreased the to nearby buildings. Dr Eubanks to Preside Over 3 Day Session The 48th annual convention of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical association will be held at the O. Henry hotel, Greensboro, June 21 to 23. Mr. Clyde Eubanks, of Chapel Hill, is President of the association, and will preside over the three day session. J. G. Beard, of Chapel Hill, is secretary and treasurer, and F. O. Bowman, cf Chapel Hill, is general counsel. There will be over 700 Tar Heel druggists in attendance. Chapel Hill News. Whatever “illiteracy” shall re sult in Chatham county from retaining a six-mdnths school term will evidently be unavoidable from sheer lack of brain on the part of either pupils or teachers. In either case, it is hard to see how a longer term will remedy the matter. Bright boys and girls with a de sire for an education will get it with much shorter terms than the six months, and without the de sire for it will not get it at all; while blockheads don’t want it and couldn’t get it with a twelve months term. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Mrs. Matilda Straughn, late of Chatham county, I warn all persons having claims against the estate to pre sent them duly proven on or be fore the first day of May, 1928, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons ow ing the estate will please make ear ly payment. This May 2, 1927. IRA A. SMITH, Executor, Siler City, N. C. May 5 —6tp. - SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of a certain mortgage deed executed by L. L. Smith and wife, Mary P. Smith to W. L. Goldston, mortgagee, dated March 10, 1925, and recorded in book F X page 546 in the office of the register of deeds of Chatham county, default having been made in the payment of the mortgage in debtedness thereby secured and at the request of the holder and own er of the said indebtedness, the un dersigned mortgagee will on Mon day, May 30, 1927 at twelve noon, I offer for sale at public auction to | the hig’hest bidder for cash at the , court house door in Pittsboro, N. C., the tract of land described as | follows, to-wit: A tract of land in Gulf Town | ship, Chatham county, North Caro i lina bounded on the north by lands of W. C. Caudle; on the east by | lands of Williams heirs; on the • south by lands of Mrs. O. D. Gains, and on the west by lands of J. L. | Cook and c»t*ining by estimation | forty-eight (48) acres more or less. ! The same being a part and parsel | of the L. H. Elikns deceased lands. This April 30th, 1927. W. L. GOLDSTON, Mortgagee. V. R. Johnson, Attorney. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927 M. E. MEETING GREAT SUCCESS Mrs. Steidley Preaches Fine Sermons and Heard By Large Congregations Probably the most successful and most largely attended series of ser mons heard in Pittsboro in several years was preached by Mrs. C. L. Steidley, of Charlotte, at the Pittsboro Methodist church last week. Mrs. Steidley is assistant to the pastor of Tryon Street Methodist church, Charlotte, but is not a li censed or ordained minister. How ever, it was generally conceded that she is a real preacher. Great audiences heard her twice a day, and many professed conversion during the week. The meeting closed Sunday even ng with a sermon on the subject i Torment. In the afternoon the the lady preacher talked to the wo men alone. / / "V Allred-Perry With the beautiful oak grove for a setting a simple but pretty mar riage ceremony was performed at i Moon’s Chapel Baptist church Sun | day morning, May 29, in which j Miss Dena L. Perry became the bride of Mr. It. Speight Allred. The music was furnished by the birds in the lofty branches of the great I old oak trees. The vows were spok : on in the presence of a small group jof relatives'and friends. Rev. B. I S. Beach of Bonlee performed the I ceremony. This young couple are | both well known in theqr home j community and their many friends wish for them a long and happy i life. They left immediately after ! the ceremony for a trip to Washington, D. C. \ The groom is an honor graduate of Wake Forest College, while the I bride is a recent graduate of the Siler City High school. Mr. W. C. Hammond having cal ed our attention to the number of persons vitally concerned in the matter of schedule B taxes and it being understood that a penalty will apply after August 1, the Re cord feels that it would be doing a favor to many readers by giving the list of the businesses of the county affected. Items that do not 1 apply to anybody in Chatham are omitted from the list. Taxes are j due June 1. A Partial List. Attorneys $ 25.00 I Auction sales of real estate, a day 20.00 Automobiles for hire, per seat, 5.00 One Ton Trucks for hire 10.00 Two-ton trucks 30.00 Automobile dealers 50.00 Automobile Service Stations in towns 10.00 Selling only oils and gas in country * 5.00 Barber shops, each chair 2.00 Bottled Carbonated drinks 5.00 Bottling works : $125.00 to $300.00 Cases $5.00 to $20.00 Cartridges • $12.50 22 Cartridges only 2.00 Tobacco Products $5 to $lO Civil Engineers t 25.00 Coal dealers 10.00 Cotton buyers 15.00 Dentists 25.00 Doctors 25.00 Frigidaires 50.00 Craphphones, Etc $25 to SSO Horse and mule dealers (N. C. Taxpayers) 25.00 Horse and mule dealers (non-residents of state) 50.00 The above for first carload; $5.00 for each additional carload. Hotels, per room ? 25c to 50c Laundries !>• 10.00 Marble yards 10.00 Moving picture shows SSO to SIOO Optician 25.00 Footpeddlers, each county 25.00 Peddlers other than foot 75.00 Medicine and extract peddlers 100.00 Pistol dealers , 50.00 Plumbers and electricians 20.00 Pressing clubs, Etc 10.00 Dealers in Sewing Machines 50.00 Shoeshine parlors 5.00 Soda fountains $5.00 to SIO.OO Undertakers $5.00 to SIO.OO There are much larger taxes on most of the business mentioned in larger towns. We have listed above levies for towns of less than 2500 population. If Siler City has more than 2500 population the rate will be higher on some of the items above. Persons requiring license under this schedule should see Dept. Com missioner W. C. Hammond, or write him at Raleigh or Asheboro. SCHEDULE B TAXES. Jury List The following citizens are called as jurymen for the term of court I beginning June 13: ! Haw River—W. H. Lassiter, W. B. Moore. New Hope—E. H. Goodwin, John Stone, D. L. Carroll, W. T. Law rence. Matthews—W. D. Poe, T. P. Fox, t J. W. Vestal, N. E. Thompson. Albrights—J. C. Lindley, G. D. Harris, W. M. Shaw. . Baldwin—S. A. Mann, E. P. Smith, C. E. Hackr.ey. Williams, W. G. Horton, D. J. Carson, T. D. Farrell. Cape Fear—^-C. H. Marks, R. A. Wilson. Bear Creek —C. W. vJLambert, J. A. Welch, G. L. Andrews, A. E. Cox. Center—J. T. White, Wilson Burns, James L. Griffin, W. G. Fields, A. G. Thomas, Gurney Far rell. Hadley—E. L. Lindley. Gulf—Z. T. Barber, T. C. Vestal, R. M. Wilkie, A. D. Coggins. Oakland—W. C. Gunter, *R. R. Seagrove. Mr. Robt. Lambeth Passes at Jonesboro Mr. Robert Lambeth, a brother cf Mr. Rufus Lambeth of Bynum, died Saturday night at his home at Jonesboro, and was buried Sunday afternoon in the same town. Mr. Lambeth has many friends and relatives in Chatham, who re gret his passing. He leaves a widow and one child. Mrs. Lam beth was born a Bland but was a Mrs. Stedman whon she married Mr. Lambeth. Among those a-ttending the fun eral from this section were Mr. C. C. Poe and family. Quite a Job. Fortune Teller: I see a tall stout woman between you and your husband. She follows him every where. Client: I’m sorry for her, then —he’s a postman.—Passing Show. TRAINING CLASS GIVES PAGEANT I Successful Session of Teacher- Training Class Closes With Beautiful Pageant—Sermon Sunday Evening By Rev. R. G. Shannonhouse. The Teacher-Training class of the Pittsboro high school, success- I fully conducted the past session by Miss Coltrane, closed this week with a beautiful pageant, The Light, given at the school * audi torium Tuesday evening. The sermc-n to the eleven yotmg ladies composing the claiss was preached Sunday evening in the Episcopal church by Rector Shan nonhouse, who set a high ideal for teachers. The class is composed of the fol lowing young ladies: Louise Brooks, Mary Bell Dell Bynum, Bessie Chapin, Pittsboro; Pauline Brown, Ramseur; Lillian Melvin, Stedman; Mabel Meredith, Trinity; Blanche and Evis Johnson, Siler City; Leola Riggsbee, Margaret Mann, and Mary Alice Hall, of Bynum. The music for the evening of the pageant was directed by Mrs. H. A. Bynum. Dr. R. M. Farrell and Miss Annie Bynum were the vio linists of the occassion, and Mr. Lester Farrell saxaphonist. Certificates were presented the members of the class by Supt. W. R. Thompson. The class has done exceptionally good work, it is understood, and Miss Coltrane has won laurels for l'T work and devotion to the in terests of the class and the com munity. Receivership Sought Judge Harris, at the recent term of court, on application of creditors of the Pine and Oak Company, a corporation of Goldston for a re ceivership for that company ap pointed Attorneys A. C. Ray and D. L. Bell referees to hear the evi dence and report the findings of the facts and conclusions of law to him at a subsequent term of court. The referees sat Tuesday and heard a number of witnesses pro and con. Messrs. Siler and Barber, and W. P. Horton represent the company, and Attorney Clegg of Carthage the petitioners. The hearing brought a number of gentlemen from southwestern section of the county here Tues day. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is herby given that in an action pending in the Superior court of Chatham county, entitled “Spoon and Brewer et al. vs. Goldston Sash & Door Company et al.” wsa de clared inslovent and all of its as sets were placed in the hands of the undersigned receivers: all cred itors will take notice that they shall file all claims against said Golds ton Sash & Door Company with the undersigned receivers on or before sixty days from the date hereof, as required in the above mentioned order, or else this notice will be pled i nbar of their participation in the assets of said insolvent corpora tion. This the 21st day of May ,1927. V. O. OLDHAM & C. C. BREWER, Receivers Goldston Sash & Door Company.—May 26—4tc EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having duly qualified as exe cutor of the last will and testament of the estate of T. J. Harrington, deceased, late of Chatham county, I hereby warn all persons holding ! claims against his estate to pre i sent them on' or before the first ! day of May, 1928, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. Ail persons owing the es tate are requested to make immed iate payment. This May 1, 1927. > MRS. CLARIE L. HARRINGTON, Executrix. Long and Bell, Attorneys. May 6 —6tc. A. H. London, Jr., j ♦ Appointed Interne I Philadelphia, May 26—Arthur ! H, London, Jr., of Pittsboro, N. C., has been appointed interne at the Methodist hospital, Long Island, N. !Y. London is a student in the Uni ! versity of Pennsylvania Medical School where he will complete his studies in June. London is one of one hundred and thirty-three members of the Senior class of the Medical School of the University who has received an appointment over the past month. These appointments em brace more than fifty different in stitutions located in fourteen states and include several U. S. Govern ment hospitals. The University of Pennsylvania Medical School which London is! attending is the oldest and one of the foremost schools of medicine in! the country, having been estab- j lished in 1765. As early as 1780 it! attracted students from foreign countries, and since then has risen j \o a position where each year it ! draws numbers of students from I Latin America and other parts of the world. The present enrollment of the school is 482 students, com ing from thir v-five states and nine i foreign countries. Its Graduate! school of Medicine, like the under graduate department, is “the first to have been established in Amer ica. London is a graduate of the Pittsboro High School and holds j the B. S. degree from the Universi-1 t yof North Carolina. NEW HOME COMPLETED i Rev. R. R. Gordon’s new resi- | dence is complete except wiring. Mr. Barber has made a quick and effective job of the building. The now home, located on one of the most desirable lots in town, is ; quite an acquisition for a Baptist preacher and Mr. Gordon may be complimented upon the financial , wizardry that has made it possible, i But as some one said, if he had j ever bought an automobile he wouldn’t have had his house. 1 NOTICE— To Mrs. Julia Holland, New Hope Township, Chatham County: This is to notify you that if you i do not redeem your land which was sold for taxes for the year 1924 on Sept. 6, 1926, I will get a sheriff’s deed for the seventy-five acres, j valued at $1,242.00. This May 26, 1927. C. D. MOORE. I June 2 4tp. NOTICE OF ELECTION TO BE j HELD FOR THE ELECTION OF A MAYOR FOR THE TOWN OF PITTSBORO, AND OF A NEW REGSTRATION OF THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID TOWN OF PITTSBORO. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the Town of i Pittsboro, N. C., on the 12th day of July, 1927, for the election of a Mayor for the said Town of Pitts boro. Notice is also hereby given that; a new registration of all the quali fied voters of the said Town of Pittsboro has been ordered by the; Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of Pittsboro; that the; registration books shall be opened | on the 11th day of June, 1927, for, the registration of all the qualified voters residing within the said i Town of Pittsboro, and shall be closed on the 2nd day of July, 1927; that the said registration books shall be kept open between the hours of nine o’clock, A. M., and five o’clock, p. m., on each day (Sundays excepted) during the said registration period; and that the said books shall be kept open until nine o’clock, p. m., on each Satur day during the said registration period. That the following have been de signated and appointed as Regis -1 trar and judgees of election for the said election and registration: Registrar: C. C. Hamlet. Judges of Election: C. E. Bland, and W. E. Brooks. That the polling place for the holding of said election has been designated as and to be the court house of Chatham county in Pitts boro, N. C. This notice is published by order of the Board of Town Commis sioners. This the 6th day of May, 1927. E. R. HINTON, Town Clerk. 1 VOLUME NO. 49 FINE CITIZEN CALLED HOME Mr. W. F. Beard Dies After Lingering Illness of Many Months Pittsboro and Chatham county have lost no better citizen in many | moons than they lest in the death of Mr. William F. Beard, who pass ed away Friday at his home here in Pittsboro. Mr. Beard had been sick for more than a year and was hardly expected to survive long, yet hi# death came as a shock to his family., and many friends. Mr. Beard was reared near Cedar ! Creek, Cumberland county. He . would have been 57 years of age June 12. He married Miss Idst I Gardner, of Bladen county, who ■ survives and mourns the loss of her devoted husband. They had no ! children. After his marriage in 1894 he | and Mrs. Beard lived in Georgia five years. They then returned the old neighborhood in Cumber land and lived till they moved to ; the vicinity of Pittsboro nine years ; ago, where his brother, H. G. Beard had already located. The funeral services were held, at the Pittsboro Methodist church, of which he was a devoted member, last Saturday morning. The ser- I vices were conducted by Pastor ! Lance, assisted by Revs. Gordon, i Barclay, and Underwood. After- I ward the body was tenderly laid to | rest in the cemetery hardby the j church. The pallbearers were: Messrs. ! Geo. H. Books, W. F. Bland, G. W. Blair, E. R. Hinton, E. A. Farrell, W. P. Horton; honorary, A. P. Terry, G. R. Pilkington, W. M. Eu banks, J. W. Johnson, J. M. Ham mock, A. D. Pendergrass, E. M. Farrell, J. T. Bland, W. R. Thomp son, W. Z. Crews, and L. J. Rid dle. Attending the fun oral services were his brothers, Dr. G. C. Beard, |of Atkinson, D. H., of Rocky • Mount; H. G., of Pittsboro, and his | sisters, Mrs. R. S. Tatom, Buies’ | Creek, Mrs. W. J. West, Cedar , Creek; Mrs. S. G. Bullard, Eliza bethtown; Mrs. A. B. Smith, Cedar ! Creek; Mrs. W. A. Fisher, Eliza bethtown; also Messrs. West, Bul lard, Smith, and Tatom, and Mes dames. D. H., and G. C. Beard; also Mrs. Bard’s brother, Mr. Gardner, and sisters, Mrs. Belvin and Bul lard, and other friends and rela tives from Cumberland. Mr. Beard was most highly es teemed and only words of good re pute have even heard spoken of • him. His friends here will greatly miss him and feel much sympathy forth ebereaved wife and rela tives. Some people are bounded on the right and left by hard luck. MORTGAGE SALE Under and by virtue of the pow er of sale contained in that certain deed of mortgage executed by Charlie Brooks to the undersigned, | .and duly recorded in the registry |of Chatham county, North Caro lina, in book FX, page 531, et seq., ; default having been made in the ! payment of the bond secured there- I by, the undersigned will sell, at public auction, to the highest bid der for cash, at the court house door in Pittsboro, North Carolina, ;at twelve o’clock noon, on Monday ! the 6th day of June, 1927, the fol lowing described lands and premia- , |es: A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Chatham county, North Carolina, in Center town ship, and described as follows, to wit: Bounded on the east by the lands of John Thomas and Annie Pleasant; on the south by the lands of Mrs. Jenks; on the north by Joe Harmon and Lonnie Womble; and on the west by the Seaboard Air Line railroad, running from Pitts boro to Moncure, containing sixty (60) acres, more or less. This the 4th day of May, 1927. W. A. BROOKS, Assignee of Chatham Hardware Company, Mortgagee. Siler & Barber, Attorneys.