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PAGE FOUR THE CHATHAM RECORD o. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months Thursday, January 26, 1928 WHY PICK ON CHATHAM It seems unjust both to Chatham county and to Messrs. Jones, Pow ers, and Scott to have the prosecu tion of the band of automobile thi eves centered here. • Chatham has no band of automobile thieves, and, we believe, no member of anj such band. True, Messrs. Jones, Powers, and Scott, of Bennett, have bought cars from members of the band, but that they have been in a conspiracy with the stealers is not yet proved, and is hard for those who know those men to believe. In the first place, the publicity is unfair to the county. It is not Chatham’s gang. In the second place , it appears that we ate to board for four months three prisoners who do not so much belong to us as to Randolph and Guilford. But the most definite injury has been done to the reputation of Jones, Powers, and Scott by the indiscrim inative lumping of them in a story of car stealing, hold-ups, and bank robberies. The Greensboro News, correctly, excuses itself from any injustice because the indictment is a matter of Record; yet much more w T as involved in the report sent by the correspondent under a Pittsboro . date line than is in the record. The unfair thing' is the implication aris ing from indictment of the gang in Chatham (the state’s act we judge) and of a report that while just, pos sibly, with reference to the men of the gang of known bad records, was entirely unjust to men who, it can be readily conceived, may have been dupes of the real conspirators. The characters of Messrs. Jones and Pow ers. so far as we have learned, have never before been questioned. Mr. Scott has been indicted before, we understand but was acquitted. Jones is a good man or he has fooled every body he has come in contact with up to this occurrence. Reid Thompson, under whom Jones taught three years, says he is one of the finest kind of men. The citi zens of Bennett speak his praise. Cit- ! izens of Pittsboro and other commu nities praise him. Yet the centering of the prosecution here and the in discriminating newspaper story in- j volves his reputation for four months with that of known jail birds and j desperadoes, also the reputations of Powers and Scott similarly. How in the dickens is Chatham to get collards and chitlins for those Randolph county prisoners? The j cold killed the collards and hog kiil- ! ing time is about gone. Since it seems that Chatham has got to board • these Randolphians, they will simp- j ly have to live like the civilized folk j of Chatham. Give them rabbit, Bro. * Burns. \ ictor Blue is dead. Twenty-nine years ago his name was as well i known as that of Rindbergh is now. * He was one of the first heroes of the Spanish-Ameriean War. Yet a ■ more than usually well informed man ! asked who was he. Fame is fleetinp*. I More space was taken up on the first page of the state papers Monday about Rindberg’s activities than of Y ictor Blue’s whole career and his ! death. And Blue was a North Caro- ' linian, a native of Rockingham coun- tv. Fie won distinction in the world j war also, and reached the rank of, rear admiral. Mr. H. M. Rondon, noticing the clipping from the Sanford Express which hinted that rabbits cannot he j imported, writes to call attention to j the error. The world is open to the rabbit market in season, but nearby ! cities seem able to take all the county j can spare. j Dr. A. J. Crowell of Charlotte is J now president of the State Board of Health. A gaod selection we be- • lieve. If the expenditure of a billion dol lars were all the damage resulting from the building of a great navy, ! it would not be so bad. The real mischief is the precedent and the spur to rivalry on the part of other rations, and the evident expectation of war. Folk that are preparing to ! fight can usually he accommodated. ' Borah’s characterization of the move for a big navy as “sheer madness” is not so far from right. j (Science has done much, but has not improved . the Norton yam or j - the scuppernong grape. It cannot be done. It is unfortunate enough that the j South has deemed it necessary to vio | late the 16th amendment to the U. I S. Constitution, or to nullify it. But , there is no need to deny it or lie it. Anybody, North or South, knows that Swanson’s speech in Con gress Monday was bosh. We doubt if half the first-grade teachers of North Carolina have been allowed ! its system. Ignorant registrars turn j down negroes of more education j than the registrars have. Such busi | ness will ultimately result in federal | interference despite the efforts of i all the Swansons. It would be good ! policy to allow the negroes, as they j gradually qualify, to register. While j there are few negro voters they can j be induced to divide and vote as they j individually please. If when a host iof them are qualified the federal government should interfere and put the Constitution into effect, the new voters would naturally feel the pow er and again vote as a race and not as individuals. A little foresight •now might save trouble later. Al Smith showed by his refusal to show clemency to Mrs. Snyder and Gray that he has the what it takes to enforce a law, and if he should be elected president and be sworn to enforce the prohibition law. ; likes or no likes, it will be enforced, j Andrew Jackson was not a protec- j tive tariff man, but when he had j sworn to enforce the laws of the j United States and South Carolina j undertook to nullifv the tariff law, ! Jackson said. No, you sham, and his j word went. Not since 1860, when the Demo cratic convention held at Charles- ! ton split, has there been a Nation- j al convention held in the South. ! Accordingly, while it is surprising to i see the next convention go to Pious- j ton, Texas, it is gratifying, whatev- ! er the cause of the decision. i Wheat and oats are almost, if not ! entirely ruined, especially on the red 1 lands of the county. The warm i spell of la.~t week may enable the > grains to get another rooting, but it is hard to conceive of a full crop being made in fields that have the appearance of having been scorched. We suspect that the modern method j of planting with drills is rot so good : in case of weather like that of two j j weeks ago as the old method of the I ploughing of grain under. A freeze j ! more easily uproots the growing j crops. The press meeting at Chapel Hill j was the most worth while we have j ; ever attended. There was really substance and sense in the discus sions. The editorial page came in for much discussion, and R. R. i Clark’s paper on that subject was a i mest able one. Mr. Clark named I sincerity and fairness as the two es -1 ser.tials of the editorial writer. Mr. i Pew, the big gun from Neve York, I i insisted that the editorial is an es ! sential of a real newspaper, as an j interpreter of the news of the mom ent. It seemed agreed that more at- j tention should be given the editorial I page by the average newspaper of j the state. i Over In New Hope j (Continued from page one) j few days, and then went to Wilming ton, where Mr. Goodwin is manager of a Pender store, j There are three fine Clark broth j ers living within a small compass It. 15., Lj. E., and B. A. has recent !ly taken unto himself a bride. He ! went down to Cheraw, S. C. for her. I bhe was Miss Ethel Freeman. The , couple wore married by another bro ther of the group, Rev. R, C. Clark, pastor of the Baptist church at Cheraw. we believe. Mr. E. E. has i had a deal of sickness in his home the past year, but conditions look : better. R. B. wasn’t at home, but ;it was a pleasure to meet Mrs. Clark. And we didn't have to stop I there to see about getting a new subscription or a renewal, since Mr. R. .B. only recently had run his sub scription up two years. t A pleasant home is that of Mr. Newt Bryan. Mrs. Bryan had a j year’s subscription in her hand, when , a new count up of her payments showed that she was already nearly a year ahead. Such trips as this seem almost necessary in order to straighten out the confusion of the i subscription book caused by the buring of the lists by the fire a year i ago this week. The young folk of the section have no doubt discover , °d that there is a mighty fine young ; lady at that home—we believe her 1 name is Maggie, and she would fit j mighty well into a certain one of , the old-time songs, boys. Mr. L. A. Copeland was another ; one ahead, but we had to stop and • see that fine heifer of his, which he is offering for sale in our want column. There are several of these i Copeland brothers and they are real ' farmers and fine citizens. Here we are at Seaforth and the j Thrailkill store. Mr. B. D. was gone, j but Trubie was keeping store. Here w r e also see Merritt Womble and get his suosciiption straightened out, add the name of Troy Harwood, and push on across New Hope creek, or river. New Hope is a regular down-coun try stream, spreading- out in times of freshets more like Moore’s creek or creek, in Pender, than like an up-country stream. The conse quence is a very costly bridge un der construction where new highway 90 crosses. The cement part of the bridge is just about complete, and stands high and white above the. stream at low water; but there are two gorges to be filled with em bankments before vehicles can reach the central structure. Thousands and thousands of loads of dirt will be necessary to fill them, and it seems quite a while before the bridge can be used. At Mr. Pleasant Harwood’s we were enticed by the fine lot of Norton yams in his modern potato house and a subscription went for some of them, which were loaded in the car. New Hope is a real potato country, and a water melon country too. It was our first sight of Bell’s school. It was recess and a few moments with Principal Bickerstaff indicated that things are moving satisfactorily. Here two of the Pittsboro girls teach, Misses Carrie Gunn and Catherine Johnson. Nearly j 250 pupils are enrolled, 35 of them ; high school pupils. The teacherage I is an attractive building. We meet Mr. L. J. Harwood and j K. T. Mitchell in the road; they were at work, hauling logs. Mr. Mitchell had thought he, could do j without the Reco d and had his name i, cut oft some weeks ago. but he says ! he didn’t know how much service j it had been to him until lie had it J s'opped. He will know better next i time. And just up here is something ! unique for a country district—a real , undertaker’s business. Mr. C. L. ' Raster has been an undertaker for 8o years, was the first in a consid- j erable area. He carries a fine stock I of coffins and caskets, and his rep- j uiatn n for moderate charges has! gone so far that he is called up info ! Person and Granville counties. And i no wonder, when his prices are com- j praed with those of, say, Durham, j A Person count man came through 1 Durham and priced a casket, came) on down to Mr. Raster and found the J identical style, from the same sac- \ tory and the same style number. In | Durham the price was $575, at the i country shop $237.50, latter price in- ; eluding- a -100-pound vault and ser-1 vices as funeral directors, against a ! 2nd pound vault in the Durham ! place. On another occasion v hr j rrices were $3lO against his of j SIOO. Evidently, then, country con- i c'*vns can more than hold their own with city ones, and good roads are net solely to the adavntage of the city dealers. j Mr. Raster is the water melon ! king of New Hope, too, and lie snn-j ply urges his friends in the good i old summer time to come and help j themselves, and he may look for us some ot these days. Hardby him ! lives his son J. E.; at home are J. j R. and a younger son who runs a store at Farrington. And here is Farrington, a neat little village. It and Seaforth are both on the Norfolk and Southern railway, though the way the road runs at each place it is hard to see how it goes from one village to the other; but it follows around the bend of New Hope creek, it seems, and finally gets to Farrington, coming up from the southwest. Mr. Scott has a good store here. Mr. J. T. Mills, a brother of R. 11. who has been living i n Pittsboro the past year, has a good garage and blacksmith business. Mr. F. B. Hor ton is section master and has a good home hardby. Here we meet Mr. G. H. Mason and Mr. R. I. Jean, th< latter a native of Harnett but residing in Chatham since 1885, but never before a subscriber to the Chatham Record. Rack, and a call is made on Mr. J. T. Horton, an uncle of Attorney W. P. of Pittsboro. Mr. Horton is a native of Virginia and not of the breed of the big family of New Hope Hortons. He and Mrs. Horton no children. They have a good little farm and should be living in ease and comfort. But we had missed telling of Mr. J. E. Womble’s ho<y killing. He had three butchered when we came up, and one of them was a whonper, netting- 508 pounds. The three made 930 pounds. Other folk we saw that day, and if we had had a full day of it and a longer one than a January day, we should have dis covered the homes of a lot more of New Hope’s good folk. We ran in a few minutes at Mr. N. J. Wilson’s not to slight him, but mostly to get acquainted with Mrs. Wilson, whose husband as a member of the school board was one of the first men we learned on coming to Pittsboro. They have a good home, right in the corner of Highway 90 and the Farrington-Durham road. It would be hard to find a country home more conveniently located. History tells us that Tyson’s army marching to Hillsboro before the battle of Alamance, camped at New Hope one night, and we have been wondering if the folk over there know at what point the site then called New Hope was located. It seems probably that it might have been near Farrington. What do you know about it. New Honors? New Hill Items Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Goodwin mo tored to Burlington one day last j week on business. Billie, J. A. and Kenneth Speagle ' of Durham are visiting their grand- I parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Speagle. j Mr. I. H. Hear n has been to Cary i to see his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Holt I who has been sick quite a while, but' THE CHATHAM RECORD is greatly improved. Mr. W. A. Drake has gone to Greensboro to visit his son Mr. J. W. j Drake. Mrs. Addie Webster spent the ! week-end with her mother, Mrs. Bet- ! tie Thomas. j Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Goodwin and ! little daughter spent Sunday i n San- j ford with Mr. Junie Womble and i family. I Mr. K. B. Riddle was leader of Christian Endeavor Sunday night. The subject was “Sunday” and how it should be kept. We had some very good suggestions as to the best way to spend that day. We had some very good special vocal selections. Harry Kendrick one of our junior boys sang especially pretty, the song was “I Will do Wihat I Can for Jesus.” Mrs. Jim Hatcher is quite sick we are sorry to note. We hope she will soon be back in her usual good health again. Rev. R. W. Gordon filled his first appointments at Pleasant Hill church Saturday and Sunday. He was pastor of this church a few years ago, Rev. Mr. Morris served this church last year. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hackney of By num and J. C. Thomas of Apex were Sunday visitors of Mrs. Bettie Tho mas. Clarence Holt happened to the misfortune to get painfully injured at J. E. Holt’s saw mill one day last j week. He was unconscious a while 1 after being hit in the back with a j plank. He was carried to a doctor ! who gave him treatment and he is i getting along very nicely. j j Miss Josie Woods and Francis; I Woody of Durham were holiday ' ! guests of Miss Hilda Raster. | Miss Alice Copeland entertained j i a host of young- people Tuesday eve-; J ning. Miss Velma Sturdivant en- ' , j tertained Friday nights. Misses Rosa - I Sturdivant and Vada Goodwin were j i at home to friends Saturday night. , Mr. J. C. Raster was given a birth- • J day dinner by his family last Fri- ] j day. His children and other rela- - I fives were present to join in the ! ' : celebration. j 1 I M iss Blanch Holt* has gone to ‘ Hillsboro to spend some time with ! her aunt Mrs. Gunter. Mr. and Mrs. Chappel and daugh- > ’ ' ter cf Alamance Co. were recent' < ! visitors in this section. < ' ' Mr. Ray Garrett, Misses Inez El-1 ; lis, Josie Woods and Francis Woody i < | spent Friday i n Raleigh. j ] Mrs. Edd Woody and children of ! Durhani spent last week with Mr. ! < , J. C. Raster. ’ Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Poe have < j moved to Pittsboro to reside. 1 ' G. N. Thomas was in Raleigh Fri- ■ \ | (lav on business. < Mrs. Daniel R. Webster and little * daughter Rouise, have returned to ' 1 : their home in Philadelphia, Pa., as- j < ! ter spending a few weeks in Chat- j ] ham and Durham counties. j < Miss Alice Copeland is visiting her | 4 , sisters in Raleigh, Mrs. Clarence • \ Desern and Miss Grizle Copeland. - DRASTIC REDUCTIONS! T In Prices On AH | t COATS HATS DRESSES AND ACCESSORIES I | We must vacate our store before the 1 | first of the month. | Y Only three more days and our store jf, 4 wiU be out of business, only 3 days ? I more of rea lbargain opportunities. i T We have a number of spring Coats 1 I which are offered at geatly reduc- jf ed prices, such an opportunity will | not come again before the spring £ season will be over. All sales are f final, none sent on approval, we are | selling out and we mean to do it in 4 | the shortest time possible. | THE IRENE SHOP i Steele Street, Sanford, N. C. I S Arthur Ellis spent a few days in Durham last week. I Mrs. Kate Buchanan of Manly is ! visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. I. ! Copeland. ! We are informed that Mr. Doug j las Pruyear was married to a young ! lady of Raleigh one day last week, j He is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. i Pruyear and has been employed in I Raleigh for quite a while. One morning last week when Mrs. Elmon Holt was taking her baby from the bed to dress it she found the little one was cold in death. The child was about two months old. The other little twin died when only a few days old. The baby was laid to rest in Elam Cemetery. There was a Sunday school Christ mas tree at Ebenezer Methodist church Saturday night. The choir sang a number of Christmas carols and the smaller children rendered a splendid program. Prof. G. P. Far rar made a short talk on What Christmas Means to Me. Mr. Ruffin Farrar at the beginn ing of 1927 offered a prize to the ones attending every Sunday or if they were not at Ebenezer but at another S. S. Mr. Farrar presented the five children making the per fect attendance a gift Saturday night they were: Mr. N. J. Wilson’s two little boys, Mr. J. R. Matthew’s two little daughters and little Robert Sloan. Mr. and Mrs. Bynum Tysinger of Lexington are guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Sturdivant. Mrs. Vera Kirk of Richmond, Va., has been visiting her parents, Mr. and W. A. Drake. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Webster of Greensboro are guests of Mrs. Ad-1 ! i X Clearance Sale f ! CLOSES SATURDAY. JANUARY 28* ! t 1 ♦ X ♦ For this week-end we are offering the following items: 2 | 86-inch sheeting* unbleached, 25c yd. (shorts) ; 36- ♦ o j ♦ inch pajama checks unbleached, 10c yd.; Ladies silk 2 Y Hose, SI.OO value, 59c pr., 2 pr. for $1.00; Good out- | 2 ing Flannel, colors and white, 10c yd. £ t 2 % ♦ WSLLIAMS-BELK CO. . f z 2 Steele Street Sanford, N. C. t «* 2 2 t % ♦ Thusr£ , Jav* January 26, 1928 i die Webster. j Miss Grisle, and Leslie Copeland : ; of Raleigh spent the holidays with | their father, Mr. J. L. Copeland. j Mr. Johnson Seagrove and fam i ily of Raleigh were Christmas vis itors of Mrs. Bettie Goodwin. Miss Pansy Speagle and Mr. Sam Jones were united in marriage one day last week. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Speagle, and the groom a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jones. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Beckwith and children of Cary were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beckwith Sunday. Miss Pauline Ray, teacher at Gard ner’s school arranged a Christmas program for the children and also they had a Christmas tree Friday afternoon. I thought Christmas was all gone. Mrs. A. J ; Holt is improving from her recent illness, she is with her rrothpi;,- Mrs. L H. Hearn. Miss Valiie Hatley of Pittsboro, spent Monday night with her cou sin, Mrs. Webster. i » LACY SHORT’S HOME BURNED Lacy Short, who lives three miles from Siler City, lost his home by fire Saturday afternoon. It was a two-story building. The fire is sup posed to have been caused by a faul ty flue. The second story, was in blaze before the fire was discovered. The Siler City fire truck went to the rescue but could not save the building. The maenest trick a woman plays on her husband is to increase his i stock of family connections.
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