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 !<mn der of the family in
“ “ im was Jesse Poe, an orphan
■ ' came with his mother
q eutp- ppej. county, Virginia,
, iU the age of nine. The
T he removal and whether
family still remains
cr county are points not
] by Dr. Poe, nor did we
' where the mother set
-1,1 within a few years the
" * :< >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.
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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.