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Thursday, February 28, 1929. TOWN AND * i' * \ ' =* COUNTY BRIEFS * i 3= * * * * * * # * | Mir. W. C. Hammond, deputy j vull beffin Pittsboro j 3£arch 1 «assi|t income tax payersl >t» make It tfieir tax re-j turns. All|lnglr persons having anl income of SIOOO a year and all mar- j Tried persons having incomes of j are expected to make T ’°-; '' sports, and the time is drawing tc a Jtlose. Miss Lillie Hill, who came home * two weeks ago to nurse her sister,; has herself been ill. Miss Hill is c employed as a church worker in the; -Leaksville-Spray section. Mrs. Annie Chapon left last week! for a visit to her son George in lEksrida. * Mr. N. B. Nooe, Sr., and Mes- <■ «3ames Louis and Henry Nooe, of 'Biidgeway, S. C. visited' Pittsboro last week. Miss Corie Harmon accompanied I Bessie Gaviness to the north- J markets, returning last week. Ai 'Visit to the Caviness stores will in- j ‘dieate what was the result of the { 'trip. Those folk seem confident that j "there is to.be a spring at an early| <date. Mrs. James L. Griffin hurt her self by a fall during the sleet but; *iot to the extent of breaking any j scones. j Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse broke | tan ann Wednesday evening of last j veeek. She was down in Sanford and slipped on the sleet. Don’t t.ke checks from strangers for your chickens. A man repre senting himself as buyer the White produce Company of Char lotte got S2O worth of chickens from «one of our farmers for a worthless •check. Whether there is such a <t3npany as the White produce Com pany in Charlotte or not has not yet j discovered. Hiis friends are glad to know ‘ 'That Mr. Lacy Burns, who spen two j or more in a Sanford hos pital after his fearful injuries is able to be out. He and his mother have been visitrs of Mr. and C%de Bland the past few days. ! J That was an error of the printer made the price of the Record last week instead of $1.50. j 'There is no chane in price. . j The throwin of the business of: "Sht? Candler company of Henderson j the hands of a receievr closes j 'the doors of the Siler City branch, | ■'which has occupied the biig Wrenn | F. J. Beasley of Louisburg is j : sWeiver. The -Parent-Teacher Asscc’atim Will meet Friday evening, March 1,! the school building. ' . _ j\ -Mrs, R. C.-Giiffjn returned a few | days aj’i fi&m a pleasant viisit to j relatives in Florida. . i " t ] Bishop Cheshirie preached at St. j Bartholomew’s church Sunday. | The Baptist Sunday School has i |♦ ~ I ! Special Notice f X ' . % ♦ The spring selling event has been such an unexpected % ♦ success that we have had to replenish our stock. | £ «► By request of many of our customers we decided to J | continue the event for a few days f | longer . f Below are some more new white goods that will be %, J seen in white sale now on. ... * % ■ + \ ♦ White Sale prices t "♦ ❖ Fine smooth Cherret, 39c grade 25c yd. % J 35c Batitse T 15c yd. t Assorted white dimities * 15c yd. <* o 36 in. white nainsook 15c yd. * Bleached Pepperell pillow tubing • 29c yd. & -£■ Toweling of linene and liinen 10c yd. <► Part linen toweling : 15c yd. g j Fine crash toweling —l9c yd. * t 36-in. bleaching —^— 10c yd. <> 36-in. Fan white madras 25c yd. J % 1 Williams-Belk Co. ! %> ' * Steele Street SALFORD, N. C. * t « % i * _ on an attendance campaiign. Mrs. George May and Mrs. Wirtz are leaders oTThe two contesting erwes. Fenny weather — L sl)ot and thun der and lightning on) night last week and frgs singing Monday with the ice from last week’s sleet lying within a hundred yards of the pond let in which the frogs were singing theii spring carol. Fatally Injured While At Work On Monday night, February 11th, the children and friends of Mr. Le roy of the Dover school com munity, were shocked to receive a ' telegram from Randolph county, j stating that he was accidentally in- J jured in a mill which he was run nng. He had turned his back to ward a revolving perpendicular shaft which caught his coat and wound him around the shaft so tight ly that death resulted within a few j hours. The remais were brdjlght back to his home about a mile from Dover T church, to await the arrival of his two sons from Newport News, Va. Funeral services and interment took place Thursday at the church, Rev. Jordan, the pastor, officiating. ! Mr. Stutts leaves a wife and three single children, besides several mar- 1 ried. The oldest son married a Miss Davis, a sister of Dr. F. H. Under wood’s wfe, of Carthage, and also a sister of Dr. Davis, of Highfalls. j A host of friends aijd acquaint-; ances join with the relatives in mourning the loss of one of the most upright and honorable citi zens of the county and especially Dover section. A. V. H. Don't blame | tlm Hen if she doesn’t proaßfc eggs for you as you think she should. More than likely she’s starving not j for want of enough feed, hut for the RIGHT feed. Give your hens Quaker " FOL»©*PEP EGG MASH and you can’t go wrong. For this feed has an oatmeal base—con tains everything your birds need to enable them to lay regularly. Come in and see this great egg mash. WC. JOHNSON PITTSBORO, N. C. THE CHATHAM RECORD Sheep Helpless When c Turned cm its Back There hre so many ways in which sheep can and do die that it is a wonder any. of then) are left alive. The most peculiar method of all is that called “dying on their backs.” writes A. B. Gilfillan in Atlantic Monthly. When horses or dogs roll they either roll all the way over oi roll back to the position from which they started; they are unable to bal ance themselves on their spine, as it were. But whs**, a sheep rolls «nd reaches a position with its legs point ing upward it is often unable to com plete the turn, especially if it has a heavy coat of wool, as is the case in spring. <• The reason for this is that a sheep’s legs, being very thin, are not able to exert any pul! to one side or the oth er and thus aid the sheep in righting itself. Its only chance is to twist it self violently, in the hope that some movement may turn it on its side. If unsuccessful in this the unnatural position for some reason causes gas to collect in its body and it begins to bloat. Finally the pressure of this gas on its heart and lungs becomes so terrific that these organs cease to function. If the ewe is found at any time before life is extinct and is turned over on her stomach she will get up. stagger off and deflate, look ing meanwhile like a misshapen bal loon. Brides Cling to Old Beliefs About Luck Wedding superstitions are dying out very slowly, according to a British au thority on matrimonial problems. Although the superstitious bride is now the exception rather than the rule, the question of lucky or unlucky* hours, days or months still holds a place in the mind of many a young woman contemplating. marriage, he said. May is usually a lean month for weddings, and there are couples who hesitate to get married on Friday. Others have a dread of the 13tli of the month. - More remarkable still is the fact that one o’clock—the thirteenth hour —is very rarely chosen for the wed ding ceremony.' Green —which, worn as an emerald; is believed tp be a talisman against evil —was long viewed with disfavor as a portion of the wedding dress. In recent years, it has been used more frequently. Recently, a prospective bride stum bled on the doorstep while about to enter a register office. Had she actual ly fallen there is little doubt that the ceremony, which was taking place on a Friday, would have had to post poned till a more propitious Destructive Locust* The cicada or harvest fly is not a locust at all, the true locust being a grasshopper. The periodical cicada or 17-year locust is a large insect about an inch and a half long with wide blunt head and with prominent eyes on the outer angles. It is black, banded and marked with some orange on the abdomen, and it has six red dish legs. It has four shiny transpar ent wings with network of orange colored veins. Its life cycle is -bout 17 years, most of which is spent as a larva or pupa underground. The lo cust has long hind legs with thick ened thighs and narrow leathery wing covers. Beware “Friendly Enemy” The original saying, “I fear the Greeks hearing gifts,” appears in Ver gil's “Aefleid,” The reference is to the siege of Troy. The Greeks be sieged the city of Troy without suc cess. Finally they resorted to strat egy, offering a huge wooden horse to the Trojans as a .gift. The horse was taken into the city, and while the Trojans slept the warriors, with which the Morse was filled, came forth and opened the gates for their Greek comrades Tne conclusion is that one should fear an enemy most when he seems friendliest. “Penny” Is Unofficial The term “penny” has been in gen eral use in this country since the Revolutionary war, hut it has never been the official designation of any coin minted in the United States. It is and has been a recognized coin of pretit Britain and the coinage of .Eng land was used in this country for a number of years after the Revolution, and the use of the term became an es tablished custom at that time and the name became applied to the cent as it was about the same value. The first cents actually minted under the Con stitution appeared in 1793. Hopeless The minister had been talking to the little son of a neighbor. “It grieves me very much, my young friend,” lie remarked, “to* hear you sav that you pray for your motoer and not for your father. Now, tell me the reason.” “What’s.the use?” returned the boy. “Mamma says that dad is beyond all hope.’ Get Set • -This tiling of: jumping around from one job to another may make you ac quainted .with a lot of scenery. s ßut it will never make you acquainted with success. Stick with your job ' iong em ’Tgh to call it by its first name. —Grit & Masterpieces of Pen and Brush Forgotten A pine tree brings forth many seeds but among the millions that it scat ters over the mountainside perhaps hut one may survive—treasured, say, by a squirrel, stored underground* . springing to life when the uncertain ties of existence deprive the squirrel of need for food. Charles Wesley, ft is said, wrote 6,000 hymns, but from this 6,000 -.prob ably but one has assurance of humor- j tfllity—“Jesus Lover of My Soul.” ; Wordsworth was prodigious in son- j, nets but of the thousands lie drafted j ho published nut a few more than j 430 and of those less than half a i dozen have taken root Ui popular mem ory. La Farge burned many of his drawings, left between 50.000 and (50.- (M)(). and some critics say he will be fortunate if one of them he remem bered a few hundred years from now. Raphael painted scores of madonnas, doubtless sketched hundreds that he [ never painted, and the world really treasures two —the “Sistirie Madon na.” and “Madonna della Sadia.” The “Sistine,” it might he remarked, was not thought much of at the time of its painting, a critic then dismissing it with four lines of comment. —De- troit News. Legal Knots Untied by Chinese Solomon In a village near Peking, China, four tradesmen clubbed together to buy cot ton. To protect it from rats they pro cured a cat:, and agreed that each of them owned one of the animal’s legs. Soon afterwards the cat hurtxine of its paws, and the owner of that par ticular leg hound it up with a rag soaked in oil. But the cat went too near the fire, the bandage ignited, and the terrified animal rushed amongst the hales of cotton, which flared up and were destroyed. The three owners of the uninjured legs sued their partner for loss and damages. The judge ruled thus: “Since the cat was unable to use the injured leg, the cotton was set bn j fire by-the action of the three un- j injured legs on which the cat ran \ among the bales of cotton. Conse quently these three legs were guilty, and their owners must pay damages and costs.” Turkish Trade Unions The oldest trade unions in the world are in Constantinople. Here every worker, no matter what his calling, belongs to a guild. These guilds are very powerful, having been in existence for many centuries and possessing special privileges granted to them for services rendered to the state in times of crisis. To this day in Constantinople, no shoemaker of the guild of shoemakers may be pun ished except by special officers ap pointed by members of his own call ing; the favor having been conferred upon the fraternity by one of the sul tans of the Sixth century. The guilds regulate wages, length of working day, and even control the “pitches” of. the vendors. Good Job A young lawyer had a foreign client in police court. It looked rather black for the foreigner, and tiie lawyer fair ly outdid himself in trying to convince the magistrate that his client was in nocent. The lawyer dwelt on the other’s ig norance of American customs, his straightforward story, and enough other details to extend the talk fully 15 minutes. His client was acquitted: In congratulating the freed man tlm lawyer held out hfs hand in an ab sent, though rather suggestive man ner. The client grasped it warmly. “Dot was a fine noise you make,” he said. “Thanks. Goo’by.” .Metals Found in Scotland The precious metals exist in several Scottish counties. The ancient Celts made their wonderful brooches, and other trinkets of native gold, probably gathered from the beds of streams. In the Sixteenth century the metal was extensively mined in Lanarkshire. Pen nant describes a nugget weighing one and a half ounces which was discov ered on Crawford Muir. Some years ago, a local writer, Doctor Watson, collected a fair amount of gold in small grains from the Wanloekhead district. • Popular Scottish Stone One of the stones that has never waned in popularity is the Cairngorm. This splendid stone is a variety of rock crystal found in the Cairngorm mountains in Inverness-shire, Scot land. and also in the Grampians. In color it ranges .from light orange to deep brown. The Cairngorm is made j into various articles of jewelry, which | find a ready sale, especially amongst tourists visiting Scotland. From time immemorial it has been used to dec orate the dirks and brooches worn with Highland dress. Teacher’s Helper A kindergarten teacher, who was obliged r<i leave the room for a few moments, returned just in time to see one mischievous little chap sneaking up the aisle toward the front of the room. ’ r ' ‘ • “What are you ’doing, James?” the teacher asked. James hesitated a moment; then-he replied hopefully: “I was just coming up front to see if everybody was good.” USED CARS THAT HAVE BEEN REPAIRED AND PUT INTO FIRST CLASS RUNNING CONDITION Our terms on used cars are better than have ever been offered in the past and Ve have at all times used cars that will give good SERVICE. If you are interested in purchasing a used car this is the place to buy it. No extortionate prices-—no un reasonable requirements. Weeks Motor Co. PITTSBORO, N. C. I ROOFING— ♦ | All Kinds at Right Prices % Stoves and Heaters | - Builders’ Supplies ♦ Anything in Hardware O ♦ I Lee Hardware Co. % SANFORD, N. 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