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CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1929
Eible Thought and Prayer
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’!' MERCY ASSURED He that!!
' covereth his sins shall not prosper: <>
- but whoso confesseth and forsaketh ~
'] them shall have mercy— Prov. 28:;;
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; PRAYER—Our loving Father, we
thank Thee that in Christ Jesus!!
! our Lord, when we confess our sins,;
i Thou art faithful and just to for-!!
; give us our sins, and to cleanse us;
4 from all unrighteousness.
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Bishop Cannon has left for
* Europe to attend a peace con
ference of religion. His going
should mean a definite gain
to peace in this country.
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Note that the Weeks Motor
Company has started a little
paper of its own in a ten-inch
space of The Record. This
promises to be a readable
feature of The Record as well
as profitable advertising for
the Weeks Motor Company.
Help Mr. Weeks make it so.
The subscription money The
Record received last week was
a gracious help at a time
w r hen advertising has been at
a low ebb. When subscrip
tion money comes direct to
the office without any ex
pense on our part, it plays a
real part in making the paper
remunerative. Isn’t it your
turn ? ifijtssi j>,
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It should require very little
outlay to prepare sufficient vot
ing booths in Chatham county.
The editor of The Record saw
the Australian ballot system
in operation for eight years
in Louisiana, and there was
no evidence of any real out
lay for booths. A curtain or
a temporary partition in a
corner of a store or court
room sufficed to give the de
sired privacy.
Crops have greatly im
proved the past three weeks.
Early corn is fine. If the boll
weevil will only let the Au
.gust crop of cotton make, the
cotton crop will be much bet
ter than it seemed possible
a few weeks ago. While there
has been much rain, cloudy
weather following each soak
er has prevented steaming the
crops and the rapid baking of
the soil.
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Five poor crops in succes
sion have made it very diffi
cult for Chatham county, but
its time is coming. There is
no county better suited for
dairying, poultry raising, pork
and beef cattle production
than Chatham. And what soil
is not adaptable for cultivated
crops or pasture, reproduces
timber at a surprising rate.
The visit of a group of farm
ers last week to the various
demonstrations of new crops
and new methods of cultiva
tion of old ones should quick
en the transformation in farm
ing that County Agent Shiver
is so diligently and intelli
gently promoting.
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If Chatham county is to
have the home-coming sug
gested in Colonel Harrelson’s
letter found in another col
umn, there is little time to
lose. It will be important that
friends get in touch with
Chathamites out of the State
in time for the latter to make
preparations for coming home
if they so desire. Colonel Har
rel'son has named a commit
tee as found in the letter, but
the greater number of “ex
iles” can be reached by rela
tives and friends who know
their addresses and can make
• a personal appeal to them to
visit the old county on the
named. As Supt. Thomp
son is named first upon the
committee, The Record sug
gests that he act as chairman
in calling a meeting of the
committee, when it can be de
cided whether it is deemed
worth-while to attempt the
'“Bome-coming.”
MAKING VS. GETTING
| It is a pity that people do
not distinguish between get
ting and making, or earning
monev. Below is a paragiaph
from ' Arthur Brisbane which
illustrates the point. No set
of men have taken $6,500,000
and made, or earned, $40,-
1 000,000 in three years. We
grant you that they may have
got it, and are preparing to
get more, though why a con
cern “making” money at that
rate should need to sell stock
is another question. But one
thing is certain, if the com
pany is really on a permanent
profit basis of the rate indi
cated, it is one more instru
ment that is aiding in the
rapid transference of values
from the many to the few.
Says Mr. Brisbane:
“Money is made rapidly
here. Three years ago an in
vesting company was formed
with $6,500,000. Now it is
sues $24,000,000 in six per
cent preferred stock, and shows
profits of over $40,000,000.
NeverthAess, DON’T GAM
BLE.”
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KICK THEM OUT
Gerald Johnson, in The
Baltimore Evening Sun, says
that the per capita cost of
schools has multiplied nearly
four times, since 1916, but if
the schools are four times
better the average man has
not found it out. He suggests
that the three-billion-dollar
school fund of the country,
as the carcass draws the
eagles, has attracted crooks,
grafters, incompetents, wast
ers, lazy-bodies, and plain im
beciles. But many noble and
competent me n and women
are engaged in the school bus
iness; nevertheless, we dare
say that there was never a
period when so many incom
petents were being well paid
to destroy the mentality of
children. A weak-brained man
or woman, or one with no
taste for knowledge for its
own sake, should not be found
in a school room. The editor
of The Record is surprised
occasionally to learn what
kind of men are chosen for
responsible school positions. A
two- to three-thousand dollar
salary should get real men,
that is, men who know some
thing and are not satisfied to
see boys and girls waste their
opportunities.
We were surprised when
we came back from Louisiana
to find at the head of the
Clinton schools, where such
men as Stewart, Stallings,
Murphy, Philjips, Neill A. An
derson, Grady and Graves
had taught, one of the very
weakest men we knew while
at college as head of a school
larger than any of those stal
warts named cquld have hoped
to preside over in Sampson
county. And weaklings are
being put into responsible po
sitions all about over the
State.
We noticed the elevation of
a man to a county superin
tendent not long since who
by his works has thoroughly
convinced us that he has
little, or no regard for the
development of actual schol
arship in his pupils. You
should hear Bob Paschal tell
what happens to incompetents
who happen to find lodgment
in the Fort Worth, Texas,
high school. They are kicked
out. No contract justifies
school authorities to retain an
hour an incompetent teacher.
Competency is what he is sup
posed to be selling, and if
he doesn’t deliver the goods,
the contract is broken. But
who has heard of a Chatham
county teacher’s being dis
missed for incompetency? It
simply isn’t done, though prin
cipals, the county superin
tendent, and state high school
inspectors are supposed to be
employed to secure competent
service. Do you remember
that algebra teacher at Siler
City a few years ago?
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With Hall’s Federated store
open and the Jones store
opening tomorrow, Pittsboro
is better prepared to supply
goods in competition with
other towns than it has, pos
sibly, ever been. But these
stores can not expect just now
the. patronage they are wor
thy of, since it is at the very
scarcest season for money. Yet
every day sees Chatham coun
ty people buying goods, and if
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C.
all those citizens of the county
who are within an hour’s
• ride and wish to see Pittsboro
■ become a real modern town
; will come to Pittsboro to
i trade, it will do much to make
their wish a fact. We should
; judge that there are 20,000
• people within forty minutes’
■ ride of Pittsboro, and with the
i goods here and at. prices that
1 compare more than favorably
i with those in the cities, it
will be the fault of the people
; of Chatham if they do not see
Pittsboro become the trade
center of the county.
People of the western part
of the county and of other
. parts where the Gaines lumber
: trucks ply consider them a
; menace. Two deaths have oc
curred in the last few months
on other cars’ meeting the
Ganies lumber truck. A gentle
man here Monday said he
would go ten miles out of his
way rather than risk meeting
one of those trucks on the
road. The fear of the said
trucks cause drivers of other
cars to lose their heads. Wat
son who was driving the truck
from which the negro DeFraf
fenreidt was thrown to his
death and Floyd Moore seri
, ously injured testified that he
■ was so frightened when he saw
■ the Gaines truck meeting him
on a curve that he swerved too
‘ rapidly, with the result that
; his truck turned over. Coroner
i Brooks accepted his statement,
; knowing what he did from
« personal knowledge and from
general complaint. A driver
of one of those trucks is said
to have passed a public cross
. ing in Bonlee lying flat of his
. back and guiding the car in
that position. It may not be
any of the Record’s business,
but this is the way the people
are talking about it, and they
seem thoroughly justified in
their complaints. , _
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Well, A1 Smith seems to
have placed the double con
junctive “if and when” in
newspaper English to stay. We
prefer Smith’s economic ideas
to his English style, but “if
and when” will go sailing on
when the world has forgotten
A1 Smith and his vigorous fight
for the economic rights *of the
masses. But isn’t it possible
for North Carolina writers to
eschew the useless double con
junction, or conjunction and
conjunctive adverb? Take the
Greensboro News’ “if and
when he (McDonald) should
make the visit,” and see how
it will sound when the f ‘if” is
omitted. The double conjunc
tive has not only failed to serve
any good purpose, but has led
the careful editorial writer of
that paper into a serious syn
tactical blunder, “Should” with
when expresses duty, or at
least fitness, while with if it
is an expression of indefinite
or double futurity of event.
It’s easier to get the facts
than to face ’em.
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A SURPRISE REUNION
The following brothers nad sisters
of Mrs. Hassie Griffin Clark of
Hickory Mountain gave her a sur
prise reunion on Sunday, August 11:
W. E. Griffin, Pittsboro, route 1;
J. W. Griffin, Pittsboro, route 1;
Mrs. J. W. Hackney, Durham; R. J.
Griffin, Durham, and Mrs. Stephen
Hearn, Chapel Hill. Besides her
brothers and sisters manj» of her
i I nieces and nephews with their fam
ilies from Durham, Chapel J#iH, I
Burlington, Pittsboro, Moncure and
Cheraw, S. C., were present. After
the usual greetings and conversation,
1 about seventy enjoyed the bountiful
picnic dinner which was spread in
the yard.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
The following named persons have
been installed as officers for the
, Alamance-Chatham council of the
Sons and Daughters of Liberty:
Councilor, Mrs. E. J. Dark; associ
ate councillor, Mrs. R. G. Perry; vice
councillor, J. F. Durham; associate
vice councillor, Mrs. Lola Jones;
guide, Miss Vesta Thomas; inside
guard, Mrs. Maud Jones; outside
guard, Mrs. Cordie Perry.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES’ SALE
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the
power of sale contained !n that cer
tain deed of trust executed by J.
E. Sturdivant to Walter D. Siler and
Wade Barber, Trustees, dated June
17th, 1925, and recorded in the Reg
istry of Chatham County in Book
GN, page 161, default having been
made in the payment of the indebt
edness described in the said deed of
trust, and that upon demand of the
holder of said indebtedness, the un
dersigned trustees will on
Saturday, the 10th day of August
1929, at twelve (12) o’clock noon, in
front of the Court House door at
Pittsboro, North Carolina, offer fo
sale to the highest bidder for cash
; that certain lot of land lvm* and
being m Baldwin Township, * Chatham
County, North Carolina, and more
fully described and defined as fol
lows, to-wit:
One lot or parcel of land contain
ing dwelling and outhouses located in
the village of Bynum, and bounded
as follows: On the North by the lands
of R. J. Johnson; on the East by the
Dr. B. H. Hackney lot: on the South
by the Chapel Hill road and on the
West by the C. W. Neal lot, contain
ing 3 and 3-4 acres and being fully
described and defined in the title
deeds by which the parties of the
first part hold the same.
This the Bth day of July, 1929.
WALTER D. SILER and
WADE BARBER, Trustees.
FORECLOSURE RE-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 February
9th, 1929, and recorded in the Regis
try of Chatham County in Book GU,
pages 119-20, and default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness therein secured and de
mand having been made upon the
undersigned Trustee to foreclose for
the satisfaction of said indebtedness;
the undersigned will on
Saturday, the 17th day of August,
1929, at twelve (12) o’clock noon in
front of the court house 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 Rail
way tract, M. F. Morris corner;
thence south 47 degrees west, his
line, 18 poles to an iron in Cheek’s
i 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 way; thence with said right
of way 21 poles to the beginning,
containing 2 acres, more or less, and
being the lot of land conveyed to the
party of the first part by 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 connec
tion with the operation of the cotton
gin upon .said lot, whether the same
be fixed to the real estate or not.
This the Ist day of August, 1929.
WADE BARBER,
Trustee
(Aug. 8 and 15)
NOTICE
Having sold out our hardware bus
iness in the town of Goldston to W.
H. Garner and Son, we here give
notice that neither nor both of us
are responsible for any account made
by the Goldston Hardware Company
after the date of transfer to the
above named purchasers. All bills
made by us for the Goldston Hard
ware Company have been settled so
far as we know. If there should be
any claim overlooked for indebted
ness made by us before the sale to
Garner and Son, bill for same should
be made to us.
All debts due the Goldston Hard
ware Company before the transfer
named above are due us and should
be paid to us and not to the Goldston
Hardware Company. This July 25.
1929.
E. M. HARRIS,
J. J. HARRIS
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NOTICE OF SALE
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NORTH CAROLINA: ' *
CHATHAM COUNTY:
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
in the Special Proceedings therein
pending entitled “Bettie S. Mclntyre
vs. John C. Futrall, et als, the
undersigned will on the
24th day of August, 1929,
offer for sale at the Courthouse door
in Pittsboro, North Carolina, to the
highest bidder for case all of the
merchantable timber measuring ten
inches in diameter at the stump, 12
inches from the ground when cut,
upon the following land situated in
Hickory Mountain Township, Chat
ham County, and lying on Rocky
River:
BEGINNING at a red oak, John
B. Headen’s corner, and running
west 160 poles to a stake and point
ers in Aaron Berk’s line, thence
south with his line 32 poles to Rocky
River, thence down the same its
various courses about 240 poles to a'
white oak, thence leaving the river
south 51 degrees east 72 poles to a
stake, thence east 13 poles to a
stake, thence north 63 degrees east
118 poles to a wild cherry, thence
south 20 degrees west 22 poles to an
ash on the bank of the river, thence
down the same about 60 poles to a
hickory, thence leaving the river
south 85 degrees east 11 poles to a
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post oak in People’s line, thence
north with his line 151 poles to a
small hickory and' pointers, thence
west with John B. Headen’s line 156
poles to a hickory said John B.
Headen’s corner, thence north his
other line 145 poles to the begin
ning, containing 310 acres more or
less, said tract of land being the
same conveyed by deed registered
in book “AO” at page 57, from N.
M. Alston and wife, Sept. 25, 1869.
Another tract containing 13%
acres lying on Rocky River said
county, beginning at a stake in B.
F. Headen’s line and running east
with his line 25% poles to a stone,
thence north 11% degrees east 30
poles to a stone, thence north 50
poles to a dogwood, thence west 27
poles to a stone in said B. F.
Headen’s line, thence with his line
to the beginning, being the same
land conveyed by deed from John
B. Headen to B. F. Headen, Decem
ber 3, 1881, registered in Book “BC”
page 483.
Said timber on the said land must
be cut and removed within two
years from the confirmation of the
sale.
Terms of Sale: Cash. '
Time of Sale: 12 o’clock, noon.
This the 22nd day of June, 1929.
W. F. HORTON,
Commissioner
(July 25, Aug. 1,8, 15) ’ '
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) your income. It will keep you out of trouble
and make life happier.
Extravagant habits often lead indirectly to
crime. Step by step it is easy to get into ways
that require more money than one is earning.
Then comes the crash. Nothing is more stabiliz
ing than practicing THRIFT. Open an account
at our Bank. Learn to save before you spend,
and you will succeed.
THE BANK OF GOLDSTON
HUGH WOMBLE, Pre*. T. W. GOLDSTON, Cashier
GOLDSTON, N. C.
H BANK’S FIRST CARE
The first interest of any bank is the care of the ,
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funds cf its depositors. That is our prime responsibility, /
and if you will refer to our statement published two
weeks ago, you will see how well this responsibility is
observed by the Bank of Pittsboro. You do not see a
dollar of accounts payable therein.
No call can be made for a large sum borrowed to
loan which would sweep all the cash out of our safe.
We play safe for our depositors and for the bank. If
that is the kind of bank you wish to deposit in we shall
be glad to serve you.
BANK OF PITTSBORO
PITTSBORO, N. C.
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