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W MU Service
July 29.
• Today has been quiet. Those, con
stant reminders of the latest tragedy,
the boats dragging the bay, have dis
appeared, and once more we see gay
Tittle picnic parties chugging across
the water to Robinson’s point or
thereabouts, laden with hampers and,
1 dare say, with flasks.
Jane and I took a brief walk this
afternoon, and noticed a man clear
ing the woods on Nylie’s farm, across
the road. We stopped and watched
him for a time, and he seemed curi
ously inexpert at the job. But per
haps I am too ready to suspect Green
ough’s fine hand in everything I see.
Young Gordon, although still con
fined to his room, is up and about
again.
Today I asked Hayward, who had
been to see him, if I might visit him.
but he shook his head.
“He is still in an excitable condi
tion,” he said. “Better give him a
day or two more.”
As, however, Annie Cochran reports
him in excellent shape, although
moody and irritable. I can only feel
that the doctor has his own reasons
for keeping mi away from him. At the
same time, I must be careful not to
allow suspicion 'to carry me too far.
Mr. Bethel states flatly that the boy
has no idea of who attacked him and
himself suggests Thomas! . . .
My talk with Mr. Bethel last night
was interesting and not without an
unusual quality of its own. He chose
to be civil, and rather more than that
2 felt that the alarm of my entrance
over, he not only greeted me with a
sense of relief, but kept me as long as
possible. My last impression of him
is of a helpless and yet indefinably
militant figure in a dimly lighted
room, sitting upright in its chair, one
'withered hand palm upward, on his
knee, and the other not too far from a
revolver. . . .
I am puzzled over that picture, as
I ara over the one which I saw from
the terrace window, as I approached.
He gave the same impression then as
he did when I left, of a man sit
ting waiting for something.
As I looked in at him, he was facing
toward the hall and the dining-room
door, directly across, with a concen
tration so great that my light tap at
first did not reach his ears. And dur
ing the entire conversation which fol
lowed, every now and again I was
conscious of a sudden abstraction on
his part, an intent listening, that
made me nervous in spite of myself. ■
I gather that, like young Gordon, he
has heard certain sounds in tl*e house
at night, but does not intend to be
stampeded by them, to use his own
words. He has some theory of a dis
turbance of molecular activity, by
some undiscovered natural law, which
I could not follow closely. But in the
discussion of superstition in general
which followed, I was a trifle discon
certed to find him laying much of it
to the Christian religion; that our
present theology had given birth to
the widespread belief in evil spirits
and in sorcery.
Strangely enough, 1 had at that mo
ment one of those curious sensations
which I have heard referred to as a
failure of the two sides of the brain
to synchronize.
I had the feeling that sometime,
somewhere, eons ago, I had sat in a
dimly lighted room and heard those
same words. And that I had had the
same instinctive revolt from them.
But the impression was fleeting, and
seeing perhaps that our views did not
coincide, he added that I must not be
lieve that he disregarded the spiritual
side of the individual, or of the uni
verse.
“Soul animating matter!” he said.
“It is a great thought, Mr. Porter. And
I have reached that time in life when
what Is to come Is assuming more im
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Then he ditmUwed the subject, and
went back again to the local situation,
this time taking up the crimes them
selves. He sees no necessary connec
tion between the disappearance of
Maggie Morrison and the tragedy of
Carroway, on this I did not enlighten
him.
As to the strange affair of the at
tack on Gordon, he himself with
Annie Cochran’s assistance, examined
the gun room the next morning. The
lock of the window was broken, but
he fancied that was a matter of old
standing. He was having it repaired.
“The boy’s story seems to be borne
out by the facts,” he said. “There
were indications, as you probably
know, that some one had entered by
the window. But what strikes me as
strange is that whoever did so should
have known his way so well. Gor
don says no light was turned on, yet
this fellow puts bis hand on the only
weapon about, the poker, without diffi
culty.” He turned and glanced at me.
“How long have you known Thomas,
the gardener?” he asked.
“Too long to think he would do a
thing like that,” I said, rather warmly.
“I dare say. And, although I think
Thomas is not fond of Gordon, that
would be carrying a distaste rather
far, I imagine.”
He has no anxiety for himself, or
at least so he said; I am personally
not so certain. For as I looked back
from the terrace on my way out, he
was once more facing toward the hall,
and —I somehow felt —watching it.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
NORTH CAROLINA:
CHATHAM COUNTY:
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
JUNE 3, 1929.
In accordance with the petition
duly filed, as provided by law, and
as more specifically provided by Arti
cle 17 of the Codification of the
School Laws of North Carolina,
wherein one-third, or twenty-five, of
the qualified voters, who have re
sided at least twelve months in the
proposed school district, have pe
titioned the Board of Education of
Chatham County, to request the
Board of County Commissioners of
Chatham County to call a special
election for the purpose herein men
tioned, and an election is hereby
called to be held at the residence of
C. P. Teague in the district here
inafter described on
Saturday the 3rd day of August,
1929, for the purpose of voting a
special school tax, not to exceed
twenty cents on the one-hundred dol
lars valuation of the property in said
district, to supplement the public
school funds which may be appor
tioned by the County Board of Edu
cation in case such special tax: - is
voted, in the following described ter
ritory, to-wit:
BEGINNING in the Randolph
County line near Staley in the public
road leading from Staley by (not in
cluding) L. C. Siler’s and C. C.
Cooper’s, thence east along the north
boundary of Staley local tax district
in Chatham County (formerly
Woodsdale district) to the bridge at
the head of Albright’s mill pond,
thence east with the courses of Rocky
River (including) the lands of
Luther Bridges and Harvey Cotner
to the west boundary of the Garfield
Swain lands, thence along the east
boundary of Harvey Cotner’s lands
to the east boundary of (including)
R. D. Teague’s land, thence north
along the west boundary of (not in
cluding) W. J. Thompson’s land to
the (including) A. J. Clarke lands,
thence north along the east bound
ary of lands of A. J. Clarke lands
(including) the Cotner heirs, W. B.
Teague, the Widow Thomas, to the
Alamance County line; thence west
•With Alamance County line tq Ran
dolph County line, thence south.along
Randolph County line to the be
ginning.
At said election of the qualified
voters in said territory who shall
have registered shall be entitled to
vote, those who are in favor of the
levy and collection of said tax or
shall vote a ballot on which
shall be written or printed the words
“For Special Tax,” and those' who
are against the levy and collection
of said special tax or taxes shall vote
a ballot on which shall be written
or printed the words “Against Spe
cial Tax.” For the purpose of carry
ing out said election C. P. Teague is
hereby appointed registrar, who shall
keep his books open from Saturday,
the 29th day of June, 1929, until
Saturday, the 27th day of July, 1929,
both dates inclusive, for the registra
tion of the voters within said district
or territory, and a new registration
is hereby ordered; the registration
and the election shall be conducted
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have we at a greater saving still. J
We will show you some real bargains Saturday, June ?
29th, when we put on that AUCTION SALE from 2 to
4 o’clock P. M. Be sure to be here and be here on time
for this auction sale will only last two hours. If you come
on time you will make money. ?j
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THE HAMLET NEWS-MHBSBNGBft, HAlftbiflT. N. G
as nearly as possible under and in j
accordance with the General Election I
Laws for the election to the General I
Assembly. David Lashley and C. R. |
Thompson are hereby appointed poll- j
holders to aid in said election. i
-After closing the polls on election |
day the registrar and poll-holders I
shall proceed to count the votes for I
and against said election, declare the
results of the same, and certify the
same to the Board of County Com- j
missioners of Chatham County.
This the 3rd day of June, 1929.
R. J. JOHNSON,
Chairman, Board of County I
Commissioners, Chatham County
C. C. POE,
Clerk ex-Officio to said Board
of Chatham County Commissioners.
(June 27, July 4, 11)
FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the
power of sale contained in that cer
tain deed of trust executed by Alli
ance Manufacturing Company, to
the undersigned Trustee, dated Feb
ruary 9th, 1929, and recorded in the
Registry of Chatham County in Book
GU, pages 119-20, and default hav
ing been made in the payment of
the indebtedness therein secured and
demand having been made upon the
undersigned Trustee to foreclose for
the satisfaction of said indebtedness;
the undersigned will on
Saturday the 20th day of July,
1929, at twelve (12) o’clock noon in
front of the Courthouse door at
Pittsboro, North Carolina, offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property:
| BEGINNING at an iron corner
50 feet from center of Southern
Railway tract, M. F. Morris corner;
thence south 47 degrees west, his
line, 18 poles to. an iron in Cheek’s
line; thence South with Cheek’s line
8 poles to a stone, I. P. Coggins’
corner; thence east with Coggins’
line 19 poles to stone and pointers;
thence north 47 degrees east 13 poles
to an iron Southern Railway right of
l way; thence with said right of way
21 poles to the BEGINNING, con
taining 2 acres, more or less, and
I being the lot of land conveyed to
•the party of the first part by J. W.
; Emerson, and to J. W. Emerson by
S. J. Emerson estate, it being the
! same lot of land upon which is now
located the Gin property of the party
of the first part. Also all the gin,
presses, machinery, motive power,
beltings, shaftings, tools, etc., used
with and in connection with the
operation of the cotton gin located
upon said lot, whether the same be
fixed to the real estate or not.
This the 18th day of June, 1929.
WADE BARBER,
Trustee
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Default having been made in pay
ment of the indebtedness secured by
j that, certain deed of trust to me as
Trustee for the Jefferson star)dard
Life Insurance Company by V. B.
Elkins and', wife, Willie Jordan
Elkin's; ‘on the 16th day of June,
1924, and recorded in thf office of ■
the Register of Deeds fov Chatham
County in Book GH of Dj*eds, page
405, et seq., I will, under and by •
virtue Os the power of sale vested •
in me by said deed of trust, and at *
the request of the cestui que trust, ;
and for the purpose of discharging :
the debt secured by said deed of *
trust, proceed to sell to the highest \
bidder, for cash, at the Courthouse l
door, in Pittsboro, Chatham County, ?
North Carolina, at 12 o’clock M. on <
Monday, July 22nd, 1929, •
the following described land, to-wit: ;
Beginning at a stake, corner of <
Raleigh and Jordan Streets, and run- ;
ning South 25 degrees East with J
Jordan Street 175 feet to a stake, "t
on West side of Jordan Street; <
thence South 65 degrees West 125 •
feet to a stake; thence North 25 de- •
grees West 175 feet to a stake on ■*
‘ the South side of Raleigh Street; ;
. thence with Raleigh Street, North' 65 ;
degrees East, 125 feet to the begin- J
ning, amd containing 21,875 square J
feet. Same being the land conveyed 1
to **Mrs. Willie Elkins” by Cattie M. J
Jordan, by deed dated November 4, «
1920, and registered in Book F’W at «
page 458. ;
This the 14th day of June, 1929. *
JULIAN PRICE, ;
Trustee ;
Brooks, Parker, Smith and Wharton, j
Attorneys, <
Greensboro, N. C. • ' j
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