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Thursday, February 28, 1929. ~ TOWN AND * =» ' COUNTY BRIEFS * ****** Mr. W. C. Hammond, deputy •commissioner, will be in Pittsboro UftaTch 1 to assist income tax payers tfco make out their income tax re •turns. All single persons having an i*xicome-p£ SIOOO a year and all mar ried persons having incomes of Js2ooo are expected, to . mak<» T *°- yjorts, |tnd the time is drawing to a tflose. Miss; Lillie Hill, who came home Ifcwo weeks ago to nurse her sister,! ihas herself been ill. Miss Hill is ►emplojred as a church worker in the; iLeaksville-Spray section. 1 Mrs. Annie Chapon left last week| Sor a visit to her son George in EJnrida. , » I Hr, N. B. Nooe, Sr., and Mes-! «9ames Louis and Henry Nooe, of stlidgeway, S. C. visited Pittsboro last week. Miss Corie Harmon accompanied 3Miss Bessie Caviness to the north *ern markets, returning last week. A ■visit to the Caviness stores will in dicate what was the result of v the “trip. Those folk seem confident that there is to be a spring at an early date. Mrs. James L. Griffin hurt her ■self by a fall during the sleet but mot to the extent of breaking any Bones. Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse broke an arm Wednesday evening of last week. She was down in Sanford and slipped on the sleet. Don’t tike checks from strangers Tor your chickens. A man repre senting himself as buyer for the White produce Company of Char-; lotte got S2O worth of chickens from 1 «one of our farmers for a worthless j »check. Whether there is such ai dnpany as the White produce Com-1 pany in Charlotte or not has not yet] discovered. Hiis friends are glad to know | fcthai Mr. Lacy Burns, who spen two j araotnths or more in a Sanford hos after his fearful injuries is sahße to be out. He and his mother fimve been visitrs of Mr. and Mrs. CSyde Bland the past few days. ’That was an error of the printer tOhafc made the price of. the Record last week instead of $1.50. *3\®re is no chane in price. "The throwin of the business of I ©» Candler company of Henderson J si»io the hands of a receievr closes Kbe doors of the Siler City branch, -vs&sich iltas occupied the biig Wrenn sStorre. F. J. Beasley of Louisburg is j jrereiver. J '"The IParent-Teacher Associaticr. •'Will meet Friday evening, March 1, •art the scliool building. IVlrs. R. C. Griffjn returned a few flays ago from a pleasant viisit to relatives in Florida. ( I ' 1 »■ Bishop Cheshirie preached at St. | church Sunday. The Baptist Sunday School has Special Notice 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 continue the event for a few days longer Below are some more new white goods that will be seen in white sale now on. White Sale prices Pine smooth Cherret, 39c grade 25c yd. 35c Batitse 15c yd. Assorted white dimities 15c yd. 56 in. white nainsook ; 15c yd. Bleached Pepperell pillow tubing 29c yd. Toweling of linene and liinen 10c yd. Tart linen toweling 15c yd. Tine crash toweling 19c yd. 36-in. bleaching 10c yd. 36-in. Fan white madras 25c yd. Williams-Belk Co. Sleele Street SANFORD, N. C. oh an attendance campaiign. Mrs. George May and Mrs. Wirtz are leaders oTlhe two contesting crwes. Funny weather —slaet and thun der and Tghtning on a 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 their spring carol. Fatally Injured While At Work On Monday night, February 11th, the children and friends of Mr. Le roy Stutts, of the Dover school com munity, were shocked to receive a telegram from Randolph county, stating that he was accidentally in 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 hours. The remais were brought back to his home about a mile from Dover 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 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. A host Os friends and 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. afeppuiipsi Don’t blame the H^p if she doesn’t produce egg 3 for you a3 you think she should. More than likely she’s starving not for want of enough feed, hut for the RIGHT feed. Give your hens Quaker FUL-O-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. ;' r r Vr ;■£* c«< iZi- \ / • ’ T ' i THE CHATHAM RECORD Sheep Helpless When c Turned on Its Back There are so many ways in which sheep can and do die that it is a wonder any of them are left alive. The most peculiar method of all is that called “dying on writes A. B. Gilflllan in Monthly. When horses or dogs roll they either roll all the way over oi roll back to the position from which started; they are unable to bal ance themselves on their spine, as it irere. But when ■ sheep rolls and reaches a position with its legs point ing upward it is often unabje to com plete the turn, especially if it has a heavy coat of wool, as is the cose in spring. e The reason for this is that a sheep’s legs, being very thin, are not able to exert any pull to one side or the oth er anil thus a>d the sheep in righting i 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 becorqes 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, lie 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 13th 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 to 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 ti? Destructive 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 Greek* bearing gifts,” appears in Ver gil’s “Aieneid.” 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 horse was filled, came forth and opened the gates for their Greek comrades. The 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, but it has never been the official designation of any coin minted in the United States. It is and has been a recognized coin of Great 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 mother 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 thing of jumping around from one job to another may make you ac quainted with a lot of scenery. But it will never make you acquainted with success. Stick with your job long enoMyh to call it by its first name. —Grit * % : t Masterpieces of Pen ahd Brush Forgotten A pine tree brings forth many seeds but aifiong 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 squirret of need for food. ' 1 Charles Wesley, ft is saidv wrote 0,000 hymns, but from this 6,000 prob- ! ably but one has assurance of immor- j IrJity—“Jesus Lover of My Soul.* j Wordsworth was prodigious in son- j nets hut of the thousands he drafted lie published nut a few more than 450 and of these less than half a /lozen have taken root in popular mem ory. La Farge burned many of Ills drawings, left between 50.000 and 60.- 000. and some critics say he will he 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 “Sistine Madon na,” and “Madonna della Sedia.” The “Sistine,” it might be 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 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 hurt one 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 on fire by the action of the three un injured legs on which the cat ran J among the hales of cotton. Conse quently these three legs were guilty, and their owners ipust 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 he pun ished except by special officers ap pointed by members of his own call ing; the favor having been conferred upon tl?e fraternity by one of the sul tans of the Sixth century. The guilds regulate wages, length Qf 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 the 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 the lawyer held out his 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 Wanlockhead 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 brolvn. The Cairngorm is made 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 arid brooches worn with Highland dress. Teacher’s Helper A kindergarten teacher, who was obliged to 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. “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 oil used cars are better than have ever been offered in the past and we 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. ♦ l ROOFING— I All Kinds at Right Prices { Stoves and Heaters l Builders’ Supplies | Anything in Hardware | Lee Hardwire Co. ♦ SANFORD, N. C. THE GREENSBORO DAILY NE\VS A progressive, independent daily newspaper, pop ular among all classes because of its completeness as a newspaper in every respect, and its unerring pur pose of giving the discriminating reading public all the news, all the time, from all the world. 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