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Copyright by Geo. H. Dorse Company
WNU Service
July 30.
! I have today borrowed some of Mrs.
.Livingstone’s books on psychic re
search, and intend to go into them
thoroughly. If there Is any proof in
a mas 9 of evidence, it is certainly
here.
On the other hand, one must remem
ber that the hope of survival is the
strongest desire of the human heart
How many, if they felt that this life
was all, would care to go on with it?
Analyzing my last night’s exped
ience, however, I can find nothing in
'my mind before I went to sleep, to ac
count. for it. I ate a light dinner, and
spent the evening after Jane retired,
■ with this Journal. The night was
quiet, and my last waking thought was
concerning the wood cutter across the
froad, who seems so singularly inactive
except when some one leaves the
Lodge, or appears at one of its win
dows.
One thing I have traced, however.
It is distinctly possible that the herbal,
aromatic odor I noticed at the end oi
the experience was due to the leaves
he collected yesterday, and which 1
find have smoldered throughout the
night. . . .
It was after midnight when, just as
I was dozing off, Jane came to my
door and asked me if I would mind
sleeping in her room.
“I can fix you a bed on the couch,”
she said, avoiding my eyes. “I’m
nervous tonight, for some reason.”
I went at once, trailing my bedding
with me. and while she prepared the
eouch. I observed her. She was very
white, and I saw that her hands were
shaking, but she refused my offer of
some brandy with her usual evasive
‘ answer.
“I’m alt right,** she said. “I just
don’t like being alone.”
She fell asleep almost at once, like
one exhausted, but the change of beds
had fully roused me, and I lay for
some time staring into the darkness.
I do not know when it was that I be
gan to have the feeling that we were
not alone in the room, but I imagine
fully half an hour had passed.
I saw nothing, but I had the sensa
tion of being stealthily watched, and
with it something of horror rather
than of fear. I was rigid with it.
Then something seemed to tug at my
coverings, and the next moment they
had slid to the floor. Almost imme
diately after that there came a rush
of air through the room, a curtain bil
lowed over my face, and the door into
the hall swung open. Then all was
silent, save for a low whine from Jock
outside in the half.
How much of this today to allot to
my nerves I do not know. Undoubted
ly Jane’s nervousness had affected me;
equally undoubtedly bed clothing has
a tendency to slip from a couch. 1
have experimented today. A gale of
wind would blow out a curtain and
open an unlatched door.
On the other hand, I am as certain
today as I have been certain of any
thing recently, that I had bolted the
door when-1 entered the room. But it
was not bolted in the morning.
If I have- indeed' actually had a
psychic experience, it seems singularly
purposeless; Up to this time I have
fmagined, correctly or not, that these
Inexplicable occurrences have had a
concealed but definite objective, if
such a phrase may be used. But in
this case there is apparently nothing.
We have had, however, a develop
ment of our own, and this from Edith!
It appears that this morning, seeing
©ofctor Hayward pass on bis* round of
morning; calls, she went! to> bis office
and; on his housekeeper reporting him
out, askedi permisstoni to* go into his
office and'there- him a note.
“A note?” I’inquired. “What* sort of
aknote?”
“Any sort' of note,” said Editlb “As
It- happens, I asked him to tea tomor
row. It was all I could think of.”
But what she really did was to type
a,few lines on his typewriter, tear the
paper out and put it in the small
vanity case which Is as much a part
of : her as the nose she powders from It.
(As a net result of which audacious
performance Halliday now informs me
that the cipher words were not written
an the doctor's machine.)
A careful; comparison under a mag
nffying glass shows this so that even
I can recognize it So there we are
again.
TIMBER FOR SALE?
Is so, phone, write, or wire TODAY
GOLDSTON BROTHERS
Goldston, N. C.
— ■ ■ - —" - ?
We just want to live, another year or two, to see if they
will padlock a congressman.— The Hamilton Evening Journal.
July 91*
Halliday has found the boat.
At least he has found a boat which
answers Jane’s description. Today be
took me to see it.
It lies in the small creek which ex
tends through the marsh half a mile
north of the boathouse, and just be
yond Robinson’s point.
The boat, evidently an old and aban
doned one, gives some evidence of re
cent use. That is, although it con
tains some water, there is very littie,
whereas, as Halliday says, after the
recent rains it might well be full..
The oarlocks are wrapped with din
gy white cotton cloth, and to prevent
their being stolen, or the boat taken
’away, the oars had been skillfully
Tcdny He Took Me to See It.
hidden in the marsh. Halliday located
them hut left them as they were; but
with his penknife he cut away a small
bit o’ the muffling on the oarlock, for
later possible identification.
It was in this* boat, Halliday be
lieves, that the murderer fled onto the
bay from our slip the night Carroway
discovered him, and from it too that
he later climbed into Carrovvay’s
launch and attacked him.
Small wonder that the boy’s face
set bard as be examined it.
Yet, for one must find some humor
nowadays or go mad, there was some
thing humorous in the careful indirec
tion by which we reached it. We
made rather ostentatious preparations
to go fishing, Halliday working with
hooka and sinkers, and I hopelessly en
tangled in coils of line.
Later, we rowed across the bay and
anchored by the whistle buoy, where
we fished assiduously for some time.
Our approach to the mouth of the
creek was therefore of a most desul
tory sort, but once around Robinson’s
point, we abandoned caution and
rowed rapidly.
Had Greenough been able to see us.
from start to finish, he would have
had some basis for his suspicions
of me.
Whether Halliday’s later discovery
has any significance or not we are not
certain. Believing that, on the night
of the girl’s murder she was brought
iu the truck to the water front, and
coupling this with the finding of the
boat, he left me sheltered from ob
servation in the woodland and started
through it toward the main road.
In a half hour or so he came back
again, and reported that he had found
tlv track of wheels driven through the
woods, and that in one place a barbed
wire fence had been taken down and
boards placed over it, to permit the
passage of a car across it.
This is, I imagine, fair presumptive
evidence, although it brings us no
nearer the identity of the criminal
than we were before. One thing, how
ever, may be valuable. Edith, who
knows a number of unsuspected house
wifely things, insists that the strips
■ which wrapped the oarlocks are of
a fine grade of material.
“Look for somebody,” she says,
“who uses linen sheets on his bed, and
doesn’t care that they cost twenty-five
dollars a pair nowadays.”
From which I gather, among other
things, that our little Edith has been
pricing the equipment of a home.
Tonight that old sea-chest which in
the boathouse hoids on its top the
low hooks which were to occupy Halli
day’s leisure this summer, and which
so far seem to be used chiefly to hold
open his doors on windy days—the
old sea-chest contains to date the four
clews which are our sole ammunition
In the putative expedition against
Greenough. They are:
■ (a) Half of a broken lens from a
pair of eye-glasses.
(b) A scrap of paper, containing a
cryptic bit of typing ill large and small
’ letters.
(c) The small cap of an ether can.
(d) A fragment of white cloth.
) Had it not been for Halliday’s un
> wittingly placing a weapon in the
1 enemy’s hands we should also have
had:
(e) A very sharp knife, with a plain
1 wooden handle and a blade approx
* imately six inches long.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
THE CHATHAM RECOBP, PITTSBQgQ, it. C.
Groceryman Inspire*
Thoughts on Economy
(From The Maxton Scottist Chief)
Some few years ago “the high
cost of living” was one of the most
talked about subjects. Nowadays
people complain to some extent
about tight money and hard _times
but the term “high cost of living
seems to be forgotten. Or it may
be the people have investigated the
matter and found that the burden is
not so much the “high cost of living”
but rather the “cost of high living.”
There is no denying that on the
average, the standard of living has
been raised. Throughout the country
people are getting more of the things
they enjoy than they used to get.
In dollars and cents, it is costing
some more to live than it did before
the war when standards were lower
and when only a few enjoyed con
veniences and luxuries afforded to
day to many. The variods conven
iences cannot be had without paying
for it; but, being personally interest
ed we are led to wonder how many
people realize that for the same stan- j
dard of living, some families pay j
more dearly than others, and we also j
wonder if it would not be a good ;
thing for families to form economy
clubs so that the heads of families
might get together, compare notes
on household management and ex
penditures to the end that those who
pay too much, may profit by the ex
perience of those especially gifted in
the art of stretching the dollar.
The writer walked into a Maxton
grocery store the other day to buy
some vegetable seed. The grocery
man happens to be a student of hu
man nature, and, though he may not
know himself; is also a good prac
tical economist. While wrapping my
seed he began talking of the advan- 1
tage of having a good garden—-how
much money it saved by raising
plenty of vegetables. 'From that the
conversation drifted into the subject
of management and money-spending
in general and this groceryman and
practical economist said “it is surpris- j
ing how much different there is in
the amount of money expended by
different families. He has observed
two families of the same size and j
practically the same income; one he
says will manage to get along on
half the mount spent by the other. |
And he ventured the assertion that 1
half the amount spent 'by the other.
Picking up a jar of salad dressing,
he remarked that one lady would pay
49 cents for that while another
would take a little Wesson oil and
make something better for 20 cents.
Some may think that by such talk that
this merchant was furnishing a stick
to crack his own head, but not so.
For he hastened to add that as a
rule the people who manage well and
stay within their incomes are the
most satisfactory customers because
they are better able to meet their
obligations. There are exceptions to
the rule of course. He meant to deal
with average customers as may come
under his observation day by day.
This subject of personal and
household economy is as old as
Benjamin Franklin, and of -course
even much older than that, but after
our chat with a neighbor, the gro
ceryman, we are moved to remark
that it is still just as important to
take care as to spending as it is to
speed up production or to be con
cerned about our earning power, and
we ought not feo forget that the per
son who spends half what his neigh
bor does for essentially the same liv
ing will soon have additional earning
power in the form of saved capital.
®
More About Kudzu
(From The Monroe Enquirer.)
Fearful of wearying my readers I
had about come to the conclusion to
say no more, for the present at least,
about kudzu. But I ( note in Tues
day’s Charlotte Obsarver where “at
tention is called to the possibilities
of this fine legume in reclaiming
worn-out land, the utilization of
rough, rocky lands unsuited for cul
tivation, for pasturage, and for the
production of enormous quanities of
hay on any land.”
The Observer is absolutely right in
its contention as to the value of
kudzu, and should be commended
in its effort to get the farmers of
Piedmont Carolina interested in a
plant which eventually will prove the
farmers salvations.
Right now there are a number o>f
fields here in Union county, and also
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in Mecklenburg, knee deep to waist
deep in Kudzu. Very little corn has
been planted the present year m
these counties because of the very
wet spring and summer seasons. Had
our farmers, who apparently will
have very little corn with which to
feed livestock the coming winter, a
few acres each in Kudzu a distressing
situation would have been avoided.
Wet season or dry, year after year,
Kudzu produces enormous crops of
fine hay. It never fails—needs no
fertilization of cultivation. I have yet
to find a man who has grown this
splended legume who is not a Kudzu
Krank.
Piedmont Carolina can never be
come a prosperious country until it
becomes cow-minded. Cattle may not
be profitably grown unless there is
cheap feedstuff in greatest a
bundance.
Kudzu, as the Observer states, may
be grown on practically worthless
soils. It will enrich the land, afford
pasture for three or four cows per
acre over summer, or will produce
five to eight tons hay per acre.
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] Too Much Forgiving
| (From The Harnett County News)
Judge Sinclair stated in court here
last week that a great majority—
practically all —of the cases of lar
ency and like crimes are chargeable
to white boys between the ages of
18 and 22. His statement is not new.
We hear it ever so often.
I But what is to be done about it?
Is there anything being done about
it? Yes. There is this much being
done. The young men who commit
the crimes are hailed into court and
a crowd sits around and listens to
( pleas for leniency. The Judge is
persuaded that the crimesters are the
best boys in the world but that they
1 have “gotten into bad company”
when in fact they have been in no
one’s company except their own.
More often it is the case that they
are so bad that no one in the com
munity will associate with them.
, Then the forgiving is done. The
j crimesters are told to go to work
and be good—something they have
t never learned to do.
I What is the punishment and what
I is to act as a deterrent against fu
ture committing of crime? Nothing
,—nothing at all.
In the opinion of the News there
j is too much forgiving and too little
‘repentance in these cases. Only last
I week this writer saw a young white
j man sitting in court listeing to a
i plea for leniency in a case in which
ihe was charged with crime, and he
' was laughing—a sneering laugh at
that!
1 It is well and good to exercise the
J forgiving spirit after tnere is some
( evidence of repentance. But to be so
quick to forgive, and even before the
guilty party has shown signs of re
pentance, or has had time to decide
wheather he will repent, simply
means that the crimester is getting
away with his wrongdoing.
The News believes in the forgiving
spirit and leniency and all that sort
of thing. But where it is not deserved
and not appreciated, we wonder
where it will end and what the result
will be. What is the cause of the
condition that justifies the statement
( of Sinclair that practically all of the
I larency and such like crimes are
! being committed by white boys be
tween the ages of 18 and 22?
' In our opinion it is because there
;is too much forgiving where it is
not deserved nor appreciated.
<§,
“WOODENSHOE” GIRL
“I call mv wife my ‘better half.’.”
“Why?”
“Because she’s always saying, ‘You
better half that tire patched,’ and
‘You better half your tooth fixed,’
and ‘You better half this,’ and ‘You
; better half that’!”—Life.
, I ®
, I Poetry is the morning cfcream of
. great minds.
’j NOTICE OF SALE
;) Under and by virtue of an order
'j of the Clerk of the Superior Court
■ of Chatham County, North Carolina,
> in the proceeding entitled “K. J.
Smith against Mrs. M. A. Smith and
(husband, Manley Smith” the under
. signed commissioner will, on the
’> 31st day of July, 1929,
offer for sale at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash the fol
-1 lowing described real estate, to-wit:
i NORTH CAROLINA
I CHATHAM COUNTY:
' I, G. W. Blair, sheriff of the
1 county of Chatham, do hereby certify
that the following described real
estate in said county and state, to
wit: acres in Matthews Town
ship was, on the third day of Octo
ber, 1927, duly sold by me, in the
manner provided by law, for delin
quent taxes of M. A. Smith for the
year 1926, amounting; to $25.34, in
cluding interest and penalty thereon
and the cost allowed by law, when
and where K. J". Smith purchased said
real estate at the price of $25.34
Dollars, he being; the highest and best
bidder for the. same. And I further
certify that unless redemption is
made of said real estate in the man
ner provided by law, the said K. J*
Smith, his heirs or assigns shall have
the right of foreclosure of this cer
tificate of sale by civil action at the
expiration of one year from the date
of sale.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal this the
4th day of October, 1927.
Sheriff
It being the lands on which the
said Manley Smith now resides*, lo
cated near Route 90 of the State
Highway leading from Pittsboro, to
Siler City. , , .
Place of Sale: Courthouse door at
Pittsboro, N. C. , _
Time of Sale: 12 o’clock noon. _
Terms of Sale: Cash.
This the 29th day of June, 1929.
W. P. HORTON, '
Commissioner
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
I 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
1 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
! eluding) W. J. Thompson’s land to
5 the (including) A. J. Clarke lands,
thence north along the east bound
ary of lands of A. Clarke lands
> (including) the Cotner heirs, W. B.
Teague, the Widow Thomas, to the
Alamance County line; thence west
i with Alamance County line to Ran
> dolph County line, thence south along
{ Randolph County line to the be
ginning.
At said election of the qualified
s 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
taxes, shall vote a ballot on which
■ shall be written- or printed the words
1 “For Special Tax,” and those who
’ are against the levy and collection
j of said special tax or taxes shall vote
1 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 2.7th day of July, 1929,
(both dates inclusive, for the registra
! jtian! of the voters within said district
or territory, and a new registration
» lis hereby ordered; the registration
,and the election shall be conducted
!ui pue japun se se
| accordance with the General Election
• Laws for the election to the General
Assembly. David Lashley and C. R.
Thompson are hereby appointed poll
holders to aid in said election.
After closing the polls on election
day the registrar and poll-holders
shall proceed to count the votes for
and against said election, declare the
results of the same, and certify the
same to the Board of County Com
missioners of Chatham County.
This the 3rd day of June, 1929.
R. J. JOHNSON,
Chairman, Board of County
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 pf July,
1929, at twelve (12) o’clock noon in
t 1
THURSDAY, JULY d
front of the Courthouse door .4
Pittsboro, North Carolina, offer f &t
sale to the highest bidder f or cash*
the following described n ’
BEGINNING at an iron
50 feet from center of
Railway tract, M. F. Morris corner*
thence south 47 degrees west h ’
line, 18 poles to an iron in Cheek’s
line; thence South with Cheek’s li n
8 poles to a stone, I. P. CoggiJi
corner; thence east with Coggi n ~>
line 19 poles to stone and pointer*-
thence north 47 degrees east 13 po w
to an iron Southern Railway right of
way; thence with said right of
21 poles to the BEGINNING, corf
taining 2 acres, more or less, and
being the lot of land conveyed to
the party of the first part by J.
Emerson, and to J. W. Emerson bv
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 gijf
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, IQ9Q
WADE BARBER" ’
Trustee
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SAIF
Default having been made in pay
ment of the indebtedness secured by
that certain deed of trust to me as j
Trustee for the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company by V. B.
Elkins and wife, Willie Jordan
Elkins, on the 16th day of June,
1924, and recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Chatham
County in Book GH of Deeds, page
405, et seq., I will, under and by
virtue of 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
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
Jordan Street 175 feet to a stake,
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
ning, and containing 21,875 square
feet. Same being the land conveyed
to “Mrs. Willie Elkins” by Cattie M.
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,
Attorneys,
Greensboro, N. C.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Under and by virtue of a certain
decree made and entered in that spe
cial proceeding now pending in the
superior court of Chatham county,
North Carolina, entitled “James L.
Griffin, Administrator of J. J. Brooks
versus Mrs. Sallie Brooks, et als,”
the undersigned commissioner will
on F
Saturday thfe 13th day of July, 192$
at 12 o’clock noon, in front of the
Courthouse door at Pittsboro, North
Carolina, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, all that certain lot
or parcel of land lying and being in
Center Township, adjoining the lands
of T. M. Bland estate and others, and
bounded as follows, viz:
Gn the north by the lands of T.
M. Bland; on the east by the right
of-way of the Pittsboro Railroad; on
the south by the Jenks land, and on
the west by the Newman lands, con
taining 35 acres, more or less, and
being more fully described and de
fined in the title deeds which he held
the same, SAVE AND EXCEPT,
HOWEVER, from this tract of land
the dower interest of Mrs. Sallie
Brooks in and to the following:
| BEGINNING at the southwest
comer of the- J. J. Brooks lands,
'Jenks line and running thence about
; east 163 yards; thence about north
1160 yards to a cedar tree in grove;
thence about west 180 yards; thence
about south 190 yards to the be
ginning.
! This the 10th day of June, 1929.
WADE BARBER,
. Commissioner
Siler & Barber, Attys.
FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
deed of trust executed by H. G.
Goldston and wife, Gola Goldston, to
the- undersigned Trustees, dated June
23rd, 1928, and recorded in the Reg
istry of Chatham County in Book
HA, page 621, and default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness therein secured and de
mand having been made upon the
undersigned Trustees to foreclose f 01 ’
the satisfaction of said indebtedness;
the undersigned will on ,
Saturday the 20th day of July, 1929,
twelve o’clock noon in front of the
Courthouse door at Pittsboro, North
Carolina, offer for sale to the hig
bidder for cash, the following de
scribed real estate:
BEGINNING at a .stake in the
fork of the west and east prong of
Indian Creek; thence up west pr ,T ‘2
of Indian Creek its various courses
41 poles to an ash on said creek,
thence about north with hedgerov
-112 poles to a stone in Cleve Gunters
line (formerly W. L. Goldston HneL
thence about east with said Gunters
line 62 poles to a sweet gum on
east bank on the east prong of
Creek; thence down said creek ! -'
various courses to the beginning, c° n ‘
taining thirty three (33) acres more
or less.
This the 17th day of June, 1929.
WALTER D. SILER
& WADE BARBER,
Trustees