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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 Today, j BORAH, GOOD AMERCAN PUBLISHERS, CHEER UP EINSTEIN’S DISCOVERY COATS GROW YOUR OWN FUR By ARTHUR BRISBANE Senator Borah, good American, fears what if we builld crusiers with out making arrangements satisfac tory to Britain we shall have a “slopbuilding lace with England.” If necessary, why not have it? But Brtan couldn’t afford it and knows well that we shall never at tack Britan unless we are first at tacked. The British, while they could dominate the seas, and were proud of it. Whoever didn’t like it could lump it. That condition existed frm the day when Nelson at Tra falgar wiped out Napoleon’s chances of British conquest up to 1924. It is Uncle Sam’s turn now. Airplanes, submarines, fast cruis ers, will answ T ei tny question from any other nation and this country should have the answer ready. Grow your own fur coats at home. Mr. Vernon B.iley of the Agricultural Department tells you that muskrats, supposed to need big swamps, can be raised like rab bits of guinea pigs, in sm,il pens. They need only enough water keep comfortably wet and cool in Summer. This will interest Cali fornia rabbit raisers, among others. The world of science, including B err ran Russell, called 'the great est living mathematician, is inter ested in Professor Einstein’s an nouncement that electro-magnet ism and gravely are practically the same. This discovery, says the learned Dr. Pupin, of Columbia University, places Einstein beside Galileo and Newton. All interested in physics await a demonstration that there is only one kind of force in the universe; that liight, heat, motion, electro magnetism, gravety are all the same. Einstein seems to confirm part of Herbert Spencer’s definition of evo lution which describes the “retain ed emotion” as under-going a trans formation, from .“an indefinite, , in conherent homogeniety to a definite cohereint heterogeniety.” More interesting to practical pub lishers of newspapers is the fact that the big Wool worth concern plans an enormous advertising cam paign amounting to. $3,000,000 the first year. Abandoning the theory that selecting the right location makes advertising unnecessary, proves the wisdom of W oolworth’s president, Mr. H. T. Parson. Get Pie best position for your store, by all means. But get f lso the best “position,” and the best copy for your advertising in a newspa per. HAVE WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT THEN LET THE PEOPLE KNOW YOU HAVE IT. That’s the secret' of success. Work fearlessly for the right and vou will be honored, and appreciat ed. AFTER YOU DIE. Mrs. Pankhurst thought women should vote. Since they created the men for wars, they should have something to say about war. Everybody agrees with Mrs. Pankhurst now, and Mr. Baldwin, who opposed her, 'will unveil hei monument. , „ When -she was alive, (remaning justice for women, they put her in iail She starved herself until she was released, justice not liking the idea of disposing of her corpse and that’s what it would have had to Released from prison, she renew ed her right, chained herself to the iron railings before the Com ™ ol l s l was failed again, and agan, enteie self-imposed starvation. Her courage won. Briitish women in the House of Commons and helped make laws Mrs Pankhurst lies in her grave, her deathJiasten ed bv hardship; and those, thM hounded her now horior he* She is satisfied. ' kimbolton news Zeb Ferguson is improving after an attack of the flu. r Will Johnson, son of Mr. H. G. Johnson, is still very ill. He has been suffering with rheumatism af fecting the heart, and was though to be dead at one time during the earlier attacks. Jeter Jenks of the Pittsboro com munity a-Jd Miiss Fljbta Giilmore of this community were quietly married in Pittsboro last Wednes day by ‘Squire Lysander Johnson. The brdei is the daughter of Mrs Nannie Pickard. The groom is. a fine young farmer. They will live wiu. the groom’s mother. 4 ? •. •£ •• -a- \ - - •• * ■ « •'■ - r '•iscpj^'thai iif^^^l BROWN'S CHAPEL NEWS The* Hopcdnle -string band will be! with 113 again next Sunday after- 1 noon to furnish music for Pastor Daily’s service. Ccme out to hear, free, an be seen. Mr. N. A. P;rry has not been j well for several weeks. Mr. A. F. j Whitaker, also, has been ill and has 1 heard our new pastor onl once. We are sorry to report the death j mi our community, but the first this | wintlr, that f Mr. Elii Johnson, j who'died Feb. 20th after a few days) ■fi'ness cf pneumonia. j Much cvmrathy is extended to; Mrs. W. C. Henderson in the death if her father Mr. A. D. Burgess, of Ntw Hope township. The second, quarterly conference of the Pittsboro circuit was suc cessfully held at Chatham church Sunday afternoon. Presiding Elder W. A. Cade was in the chair. His sermon was good. Some offi ces we’s present who cannot us ually attend on week days. MOST For Term Begiimig Monday, March 4th, Ths Following Have Be Em Drawn as Jurors T. R. Goodwiin, J. E. Fox, James L. Carscn, J. R. Poe, J. J. White, W. N. Brewer, C O. Gilmore, W. H. Fergusn, W. H. Tyler, II C. Briidges, N. E. Thompson, John W. Grilffin, W. H. Ward, R. H. Viieker, A. J. Mclver, W. A. Brar ion, J. C. Blake, Arthur Teague, and R. W. Hackney. For Weeks Term Beginning Mon, day, March 1 8th, 1929 H. E. Stewart ,Q. D. Webster, J. B. Fearrington, J. W. Coldston, G. D. Dowd, R. L. Hatcher, John M. Farrell, H. F. Quaekenbush, A. Call Perry, Ed S. Phiillips, E. W. Avent, J. \V. Fiields, E. M. Bind ley, J. F. Burnett, J. E.-Goodwin, W. M. Scott, W. C. Markham, G. P. Murchinson, C. E. Lasater, W. H. Hadley. BEAR CREEK NEWS T. P. Beaver was a- week-end vis itor in Greensboro, Burlington and Graham, returning Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Beal and daughter, Frances, were visitors in the homes of W. I. Williamson and J. M. Yarborough, of Sanford Sun day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Rives, after spending sometime with Mr. Rives’ mother, Mrs. Jessie P. Rives, have returned to their home in Washing ton, D. C. S. B. Burke was a visitor in Fay etteville last week. Mrs. Thomas, after nursing Mrs. C. B. Fitts and Mrs. D. T. Brooks for the past month, has returned to her home in Sanford. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Rives, of Siler City, were, recent visitors in the home of Mr. Rives’ father, C. J. Rives. . John Nall, of High Point, Was a visitor near here last week. R. G. Dunn, who has been work ing: in South Carolina, has returned :o him home. Messr. W. L. Dunn and D. T. Dark were visitors in Broadway last Saturday. • ' • Eugene B. Straughan has been removed .to the Clinic Hospital, Greensboro, from the Central Car olina Hospital. He is improving at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Straughan, his father and mother, visited him during the week-end. Mrs. Henrietta F. Foushee, after a long illness, died at the home of her son, J. B. Foushee, on Rt. 2, Saturday night. She is survived by one. son, J. B. Foushee, and one daughter, Mrs. George Holt, of Siler City, Rt. 5. A full account will ap pear next week. I ! CAPE FEAR ITEMS ! Mrs. J. R. Rumbley has returned lto Greensboro after spending two j weeks with Mr. ant Mrs. W. C. t Matthis. j Mrs. W. C. Matthis is visiting ! friends and relatives in Greensboro. Mr. W. C. Matthis is the new su perintendent of Carolina Steam plant at Cape Fear. Mr. Matthis has been wiith this plant three and one half years. At tenclent of Southern Power Co. at one time he was assistant superin • Greensboro. Mrs. W. D. Aman has returned after spending five weeks with her sister in Charlotte. Mr. J. L. Andrews of the Carolina Power and Light Company has been transferred to Raleigh. They will move to Raleigh as soon as Mrs. An drews school closes. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 1929 MT-imn ■-■-tmmmmmmmmm ■■ ■„mm mm A. T. McIVER Mr. A. T. Mclver, a brother-cf Mr. J. D. Mclver, of the Buckhorn section of this county, died at his home in upper Harnett county Feb. 16, at the age of 57. He leaves a widow and three children. He is also survivied by his rged mother. An other brother, Marion, and sister, Elizabeth live with the mother and Mr. J. D. in this county. Hiis sisters M':s. N. G. Avent and Mrs. R. O. Buchanan live in Sanford, and Mrs. Tom Auslye in the Buckhorn section of this county. ELI JOHNSON Mr. Eli Johnson died at the age of 73 at his home in Hadley town ship, February 20. Just one week :o the day before his death he was in Pittsboro in good health to make his will. The editr of the Record wit nessed the will and thought it would be sever 1 years before it would be come effective. But the next issue of his serious illness with pneumo of hiis serious illness with pneumo nia, and the next news was that of his death of the 20th. The burial was it South Fork Friends church, in Alamance county. He leaves fou*r sons, Messrs. Jesse, Wesley, Amick and Willis. Wesley and Willis live in Alamance county. The funeral services were conduct ed Mr. Ed Harris, who also is ex ecutor of his will. S KEMP BURGESS Mr. Kemp Burgess, a man of mid dle age wheif moved from this coun ty to Lee county two or thre years ago, died at his home in Lee last week-, and was buried at Mt. Gilead Baptist church last Saturday. The funeral sevices were conducted by Rev. R. R. • Gordon, pastor of the Mt. Gilead church. A. D. Burgess Saturday morning the editor heard that A. D. Burgess was and sought information for a write up, but learned that it was Mr. Kemp Burgess dead. Monday morning, however, definite news came that Mr. A. D. Burgess had died Sunday afternoon, and thus on Monday we are wriiing the news item started by error Saturday. Mr. Burgess was a well known ci tizen, residing in New Hope town ship, just beyond Moore’s bridge. He was seventy years of age. He had been married twice, and his last wife survives him. He is the father of Mrs. Walter Henderson. The bural was at Bell’s Metho dist church Monday afternoon. Pneu mOrua was the immediaite cause of death. “UNCLE BOB” ALSTON . Bob Alston, for many years an inmate of the county home, died lost week and was laid away with unusul ere by the uthorities. Bob has been a mainstay of the home. He was subject to occasional spells of craziness, but retained his physji cal strenth and for thirty or forty years has been a servant for the more helpless in the home. He has cut mountines of wood to keep the occupants of the home warm, and been a mainstay in the farm work. He was ood: and reliable, and only bjs occasional mental lapses kept him from having a home a home of his own. He has been worth much more to the home_than his expenses have been ,and Supt. Johnson had on occasions shown him extra fa vors and upon his bought -a better grade of coffin, expressing his purpose to pay the difference himself iif the county commissioners objected to the extra expense. Well done, thou good and faithful ser vant. May. your mind be cured in iJie land where you have gone, Bob, and may your rewrd be in accord with your merits. Court next week, then skip a week and court for another week. Both terms for the trial of civil cases. Mr. J. M. Gregory underwent a minor operation, for tonsliitis we believe, at Watts Monday. ) Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Duncan visit ed at the latter’s old home *the first of the wek. Messrs Sam Griffin and D C. Beard, and R. H. Mills have formed a partnership and will. opena branch of the Economy Motor (Company of Silier City here. A buildin is being erected and the business will open about March 10. They will sell Chevrolets and run a general garage. A more formal announce ment will be made next week. The McLean Bill Running Gauntlet Dual Purpose Bill Intended to Reduce Property Taxes in . Counties and Give Eisrht- Months School Term Suc cessful in House. One of the most important bills introduced in the Legislature is that of Representative A. D. McLean of Beaufort County. Mr. McLean is seeking to reduce land taxes by placing the burden of school sup port upon the state, to do away with all special tax districts, and at the same time to legalize an eight months school term, especial! for all counties that desire the extension of the legal term. The author seems more concerned with the, reduction of taxes than in the extension of •the term, and has not made it hiis business to provide the means of securing the ten mllion dollar equal ization fund which his bll requires He is leaving that up to the finance committee. ! A.s the bill is candidly aimed at liftng the burden of taxes from lands the representatives of ihe richer counties, upon which the burden must be laid if it is effect ually lifted from the farm owners, are opposing the bill. These repre sentatives object to the milking of their cows dry for the benefic < of other counties when they have scarcely enough milk for their own needs and- when the cows are al ready kicking. But there seem to be more poor counties than rich ones, and the bill has passed, at this writing on Monday, two read ings in the House, and is scheduled for passage of the third reading, it is now up to the senate to decide its ultimate fate. In the senate, thirsty senators have signed an agreement to work for a relief of tax burdens by se eding a ten-million dollar equaliza tion fund for the schools, but some wiTo have signed it are by no means r. favor of" the eight-mon/rh term. Accordingly, the tax-lifting feature will meet with favor in the senate, but whether the senators will agree with Representative McLean that an eight-months term can be secured for less money than the six months term is now costing is to be seen. MONCURE NEWS Messrs. J. L. Wcmble and W. W. Stedman motored to Chapel Hill! today, Monday on business.' Prof, and Mrs. L. D. Wolfe of Chatham, Virginia, was down last Saturday in the interest of real es tate. Mr. W. W. Stedman sold them the late Johnnie B. Clegg farm but W. F Bland of Pittsboro owned that place. It is a splendid! farm, they liked it very much and the trade was closed the same day. Prof. Wolfe and family intend to move sometime soon. Mr. H. C. Hall of MeLeansville, N. C. was in town ®n . busiiness Monday. Aiiry .are \visiting his parents, M'r. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Ray of Mount and Mrs. J. R. Ray. Capt. J. H. Wissler is viisitjng friends in Goldsboro for a few days. The following from Moncure Methodist church attended this second Quarterly meeting that was held at Chatham church yesterday afternoon: Mr. J. F. Womble, Mrs. Mary Barringer, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clegg, M'r-. and Mrs. J. W. Wom ble and family, Mbs. Daisy Lam beth and Miss Dorothy Lambeth, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman and daughter, Cameiia. The conference at Chatham church w T as well attended and good reports from each church. Presiding Elder W. A. Cade preached a splen diid sermon on “Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God and His Righteous ness and all these things shall be aded unto you.” Prof. H. G. Self was absent from school today on account of sickness. Mr; T S. Crutchfield tauht iin his place. Mr. W. C. Mathis has been made superintendent of the Carolina Poer and Liht Co. to succeed Mr. F. P. Ernst, deceased. M'rs. E. G. Broodmax is nw fill ing Mr. J. L. Andrew’s place as chemical enineer. Mr. Andrews has been transferred to the Gas de partment at Raleigh The Emvorth League met last Sunday evening with Miss Lois Ray president in the cair. Miss Dorothy Lambeth, secretary, read the mn utes of the last meeting and called rool. After the announcements by he president, the meeting was turned over to the leader, Miss Catherine Thomas, w'ho presented the lesson, “Why the World Needs Christ?’ im an interesting way. Af ter a song, the meeting closed ith CLUB NOTES Music Department Entertained ey Mesdames Joh n son and Eland A Pleasant Meet ing. The Music Department of the Woman’s Club held its v regular meeting Feoruary 2und, at the nome of Mrs. Victor R. Johnson, with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Will Bland as joint hostesses. \The meeting was called to order by vhb chairman, Mrs. O. J. Peterson,' .....d opened with tne Club Woman’s Hymn, afrer which the collect was read. „3 ■ were very glad to hive our Ciub President, Mrs. A. H. London, meet with us for the first time; al so to have Miss Berta Coltrane as a guest. Motion was me/Ie and seconded to purchase an Orthophonic por table Victrola for the school. Mo ral v/as voted on and carried . A rising vote of sympathy was tended Mis. R. G. Shannonhouse, one of our faithful members, who had the misfortune to break her arm. It was moved and seconded that we contribute $5.00 to the Music Loan bund. Motion was voted on and c: rried. At the close of the business ses sion, the meeting was turned over to the program committee, Mrs. Daniel L. Bell, and the following program was rendered: Life Sketch of Edward Alexander I* acDowell, Amenic ’s Greatest Composer, to have been read by Mrs. ShHnnonbiouse, but owing to her absence on account of illness was read by Miss Berta Coltrane. Piano Selection—“To a Wild Rose” —from MacDowell’s . Wood land Scotches, Mrs. H. A. Bynum. Current Events on Music —Mrs. W. P. Hortop. Song—“lf I H:>d Wings”—Miss Emily Taylor. Piano Selection —“Song”—from MacDowelJ’s Sea Pieces —Mrs. Dan iel L. Bell. Mrs. Victor R. Johnson, iin her attractive manner, presented \ Mrs. London, President, and Mrs. PeterJW; our chairm n, each with a beautiful small American Flag as a reminder of Washington’s birthday. TAX NOTICE TO THE TAX PAYERS OF .CHATHAM CCUNTY This is to again call to. your at tention the fact that unless youe taxes ane paid before May Ist, 1929 i that your land .will be atvertised !to satisfy your unpaiid taxes. Please do not ask or expect me to | cany over your taxes for it will be j mpssible for me to do so regard less of how much I would like to : accommodate our people. This it 1 £ux a.TojeleiH ‘jaainui jtmos.iad u aou personal wishes will have to be dis -1 regarded and the law governing the collection and settlement of taxes will have to be adhered to. There i sere, let me urge, that you make a special effort to get ail our taxes | paid before May Ist, 1929.' Let me ask you please, to get it paid well before May Ist, and avoid the last minote rush to get your name cutt off the list for advertis ing before it is publshed. I take ths opportunity to thank ' yen, people of Chatham, for ths splendid cooperation which you have giiven in the past in the matter of settlement of taxes. I shall expeit I your continued. cooperation in the matter of cleaning up the taxes for the year 1928. * Yours very truly, G. W. BLAIR, Sheriff? ’ 58 ACRES ON PITTSBORO-SAN ford hihway, 2 1-2 miles from Pittsboro; part with growth of crossties and firewood; plenty of water, good for dairy or poultry farm. Will sell at a low price and on reasonable terms. —D. M. Smith, Pittsboro, N. C. short prayer. A play entitled, “Ted for Tom,” will be given at the school auditori um this coming Frday evenng at 8 o’clock by the hgh school students. I Everybody is invited to come. Ad .mission adults 35c, children 25c. The members of the Junior Or der will give an oyster supper in i the Junior Hall Thursday evening, February 28th. Each member will j invite two visitors. - A good time is I antepated. VOLUME 52. NUMBER ». A Good Samaritan | Obtains a Release For Aged Prisoner Once Prominent Banker Work*- ! ing Coal Glen Mine Finds Friend in Visitor. Scnford Express j Some time after negro convicts I Were brought from the State’s | prison in Raleigh to work in tlw j coal mine at Coal Glen, a white con vict came over from Raleigh and became a “trusty” in charge of some of tne convicts. Some time \\after he came to the mine Mr. W. H. Cralle, who is interested in the coal . business at Coil Glen and Cumnock, aisicoverd that he was a man whom, he knew and had had business deal ings with ten years ago. Like all other convicts in th,e State’s pri son this man w:s known to the pri son authorities by number, but this, name is A. B. Schiicter, and before he was put in prison his home was jat Hollister, this state. Mr. Cralle tells The Express that he built the town of Hollister, owned large in terest in a railroad, big lumber con cern and a bank. He stood high as a leader in in every line of endeavor in the community and at one time was a man of considerable means. He was convicted in the courts of crocked dealinges in connection with the bank of his' town and sentenced tn the penitentiary' for a term of years. He was sent to the peniten tiary in August, 1927, and came to the mine at Coal Glenn in 1928. As soon as Mr. Cralle recognized him he got busy in an effort to have him pardoned by the Governor of :he State. He went to Hollister and succeeded in getting the names of 3,000 people to a petition to have him pardoned. Armed with this pe tition he went to Raleigh and prer sented it to Governor Gardner. Gov ernor Gardner informed him that he decided not to Consider applications for pardons until the Legisla ture adjourned. After hearing the plea made by Mr. Cralle, who in formed the Governor that the pri soner was in b;.d health and should be discharged ajfc once, he agreed to grant pardon. Mr. Cralle carried the p rdon to him at the mine two weeks ago and the old man, broken, in health and good name ruined, re turned home about as happy as a he irregularities of this bank, and man could under the circumstnces. who served time in the penitentiary, Ason who was also connected with was pardoned last year. NEW, ELAM -NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jones of Bur lington spent the ween end with the former’s partnt-s, M'r. and Mrs. Jack Jones. ' Mrs. Lacy Trotter attended the rnnual Chevrolet dealer’s meeting at Greensboro Friday. _ / Messrs-. W. M. Goodwin, K. B. Piddle, and W. A. Drake spent Taisday of last week in Fayetteville on business. Uncle Young Wilson .an old re spected colored man of 86, is v able to continue his work at chair bot tmer in which he has been engaged 25 years, and walks to church. Mrs. vAdelide Holt continues vtry ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tave Jones. Mrs. Holt is m her 77th year. % Mrs. Dora Holt has returned to her home after spending sevtral weeks with her sister Mrs. Walter Gjilmore cf Lee county. Jim Sturdivant of Siler City spent Sunday with his parents, M'r. and Mrs. R. F. Sturdiivant. Mr. ana Mrs. R. Lacy Trotetr Wert Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bright of Pitts boro. Wilma, the little daughtre of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Goodwin, is very in. ; :: Mr. and Mrs. George Mann viisit ed friends in Lee county Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Faiison, of RoJboro, and O. J. Peterson, Jr., of Cliinton, viisited their parents her? Sunday. It w r as good to see M'r. W. M. Eubanks out though he has not yst gained full strength. Misses Essiie and Gladys Peter- ; son got a hitch-hike trip to vis c their aunt in Greenville, S. C., t week, returning Monday. A friend j who was going to Augusta for a few days deposited them on the way j down and toftk them up returning. #
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