PAGE EIGHT
***************
* *
Bynum News *
***************
The young ladies class of the
Bynum Sunday school will give an
oyster supper in the old B\ num-
Horton building, near the chur.ch, on
Saturday afternoon, January,- 25.
Come and get a good supper at a
reasonable price. 1
Miss Lena Hackney visited friends
in Bynum Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Layton Jones gave
a turkey dinner Sunday in honor of
Miss Minnie Belle Wilson’s and Mr.
A. T. Ward’s birthday. The guests
were Mr. and Mrs. A. TV Ward and
son, Bruce, Miss Wilson, Misses Clytie
Foushee, Bettie and Edna Snipes, Mr.
Grady Snipes.
Mr. and Mrs. Colon Yow of Siler
City visited the latter’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Foushee, Sunday.
Miss Fannie Riddle and Mr. Paul
Atwater were visitors here Sunday.
Miss Ruth Burnett left Saturday
for Raleigh, where she will attend
King’s Business College.
Mr. Kyle Jones of Roxboro, spent
the week-end with his father, Mr. Y.
A. Jones.
Miss Lucile Harris, one of the
teachers here, spent the week-end
with home folks.
Mrs. Cuthrill, from Bethel, mother
of Mrs. A. E. Brown and the latter’s
sister, Alice, are spending some time
here.
We are proud of the interest shown
in the prayer meetings that are being
held here several nights out of each
week. We feel that a wonderful
change has come over our village and
we hope that through the influence
of these services much good may be
accomplished in the coming year.
The P.-T. A. will hold its regular
meeting Thursday night, January the
16th. All patrons are urged to be
present.
$- ,
! WHY HE MARRIED HER
I
She —What would folks say if they
saw me in tights at that amateur
performance?
lie—Probably say l married you for
your money.
SMALL BILL
Hubby—What have you got to pay
for that canary bird?
Wifie—Oh, the hill for that kind
of bird is very small.
A SURE THING
M
! “My dear man, what would you
suggest to put more hair on my head.”
“Well, sir, you might try the wig
maker next door.”
DIDNT KNOW HER
Teacher—Now, James, what do you
know about Polynesia?
Pupil—Polly Neeshur? Don’t know
- nothing,' teacher —she don’t come to
. -this school.
rigutrc* u*ywo»
of English Language
The amazing growth of the English
language, surpassing that of any other
during the past 100 years. Is illustrat
ed by statistics given by the Neue
Auercher Zeitung. English was spok
en by less than 2U,000.(XH) persons in
1830. the statistics showed, white at
present no less than 100,000.000 peo
ple speak it natively, white an add!
tional 60.000.iHH) understand it but dc
not consider It their own native
tongue. The newspaper says the rate
of increase has far outstripped all
other languages, and that there is no
part of the world where English is not
now spoken. German was spoken by
32,000.000 persons a century ago and
now by between 80,000,000 and 90,000.
000 persons, the statistics showed. The
use of the Dutch languages Increased
from 6,300.000 to 15,000,0001 Swedish
from 3,200,000 to 7,500,000, and Danish
from 2.100,(M)0 to 5,000.000. The growth
of the Latin languages on the other
hand has been less rapid, with Italian
slightly in the lead. Spoken by 21.
400.000 a century ago, that language
now is spoken by 45,000,000, while
Spanish, which was second in increase,
was used by 35.200,000 a century ago
and now is used hy 50.000,000. French
the language of diplomacy, has in
creased only from 32.400.0(H) to 4->,
000,000. but it is understood by an ad
ditional 75,000,000 foreigners.
Relics of “Boom” Days
on Death Valley Trail
Stovepipe well is a hole in the sand
on the east side of Death valley at the
foot of Death valley buttes, writes
Bourke Lee in the Saturday Evening
Post. When freighters were making
regular trips across the valley during
the mining boom, men and stock got
water at Stovepipe well.
The well was hard to find until
some one thrust a short piece of stove
pipe into the sand to mark it. Very
thirsty men got water at the well
Stovepipe well Is a point of interest
to the tourists. They take pictures
there. Sometimes they taste the water
Across the road from the well is the
Bottle dugout. Two-thirds of the dug
out is underground. In hot weather
the valley is cooler below the surface.
The Bottle dugout is a curiosity. Ii
was a saloon in the days of the freight
ers. The freighters crossing the valley
on the old Bullfrog trail stopped at
Stovepipe well and helped to empty
the bottles that went into the walls of
the Bottle dugout.
Land Transference
From 3000 B. (\ down to the Chris
tian era the form of documents trails
ferring land remained practically tin
same. First came a description of the
land, its size and exact location; then
the names of the seller and the btiyei
and a statement that the land in (pies
tion had been sold. Usually the price
was paid at once, but there are cases
on record where the purchase was
made on credit —this credit being a
promise to pay written in the contract
or made before witnesses. At the end
of the contract was a note to the es
feet that the participants have cor
roborated the purchase hy oath (sim
ilar to our oaths before notaries for
legal papers); then followed the sig
natures and the names of witnesses.
Modern Miracles
The allusion to the use of a sudder
rise in temperature mechanically call
lug the fire station by releasing a
spring that ssts the bell ringing, men
tinned in a case before the King’s
Bench division, has astonished tlu
world. But there are more wonderful
miracles than this due to applied sci
ence. For instance, some of the fog
\ horns on buoys at sea are blown by
an amazing device. Human hair is I
the means employed. A hundred hu
man hairs fixed side by side, like the
hairs of a violin how, stretch in fog
gy air and thus open a valve which
releases a gas. This gas works the
siren.—London Mail.
First Shorthand System
Modern shorthand dates from the
patent granted on July 26, 1588, for
fifteen years, to Dr. Timothy Bright,
resident physician at St. Bartholo
mew’s hospital, which licensed him
“to teache, Imprynte, and publishe, or
cause to be taughte, imprynted, and
published, in or by character not be
fore this time commonlye knowne and
used by any other oure subjects.”
In the same year Bright published
a description of the system in his book
“Charaeterie. An arte of shorte, swifte
and secrete writing by character.”—
London Answers.
Ancient Pictish Tower
Little remains to identify the early
race of people that occupied the Brit
ish isles prior to the coming of the
Germanic tribes and the beginning-el
things historical. Some evidences ni
their civilization are found, however,
and among them this Pictish tower, or
castle, on the .small island of Mousa
in the Shetland group. It is about 1(1
feet high and 158 feet in circumfer
ence at the base.
British Royal Household
In Buckingham palace, London, there
are more than 200 rooms, including 40
bedrooms (30 for servants), 10 private
apartments for the king and 9 for the
queen, 30 state apartments and 20 box
and luggage rooms. The servant (staff
numbers about 250 man and maid serv
ants. There are about 60 housemaids,
a housekeeper and 4 assistant house
keepers.
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITT9&ORO, N. C.
uiiwgo iree Uncaao i)fc .;
Through the Centuries
The gingko has an ancient history
found in the wonder hook ot the rocks.
It has come down to the present,
scientists say. for perhaps ten million
years so little changed flint it is diffi
cult.. if not indeed impossible* to find
any essential difference between the
fossil leaf Impressions that were bur
ied in tlie mud millions of years ago
and the leaves from the living tree.
The family group of the ginkgo was
at one time abundant and widely dis
tributed. as the records of the rocks
show, but it is now represented, bot
anists say, hy a single species ginkgo
hiloha, so different from any other
tree that it forms a group all alone,
A striking feature of tlie tree is its
variation of leaf in size and outline.
The large bilobed leaves, found on the
long branches, recall most clearly the
ancestral forms. The leaves of the
short spur-like shoots are smaller and
more gently lohed, while the fruiting
branches are conspicuous for clusters
of small leaves entirely without lobes.
On close examination ail of these
leaves are extended like a lady’s fan,
but were delicately constructed.
Male Hornbill True to
Mate in Confinement
The nesting habits of the rhinoc
eros hornbill, a large and peculiar
bird of the Malay peninsula, Borneo
and Sumatra, are said to he very ex-
I traordinary. After pairing, the horn
bills select a hollow tree, which the
female enters. Then, with the assist
tance of the male, which remains out
side, the female walls up the entrance
witli mud and other materials until
only a small slit is left open, through
which she can thrust her long, narrow
bill. During the entire period of lay
ing and incubating the eggs and the
growth of the young to the fi.vlng age,
the female remains Imprisoned in the
trunk. The male, free on the outside
to do as he pleases, remains neverthe
less faithful to his mate, returning
i frequently with food, which he depos
its in her bill through the slot in the
tree, and otherwise assiduously- at
tends to her needs. . TTtiry
i Bagpipes in History
That bagpipes did not originate in
Scotland is revealed in an article in
Time, the Newsmagazine. “The bag
pipe has a place in Genesis,” says
Time. “In Egypt it was called the as
it and was piped ceremonially. In
Rome it was called tibia utricularis.
Colleges were formed for its instruc
tion; Nero piped. Invading Romans
took it to Britain. Early Britons
named it the chorus. Itinerant pipers
carried it farther into the Highlands
and Iceland. The weird Asiatic music
appealed to t’eltic and Gaelic iinnginjL
tions and stuck with them.” Accord
ing to Time both Marie Antoinette
. and Henry VIII piped, while Schubert
and Handel wrote pieces for it. King
: George greatly enjoys the music of his
royal piper, as did Queen Victoria.
■— in*...
Red Hair in Disfavor
Red hair was no novelty in ancient
Egypt and evidently no delight eit tier.
Some of the female mummies discov
ered in the Nile delta are coilfed >rK
smartly made black wigs which fit
snugly over their own natural auburn
tresses.
Fair skin was much admired. The
hellos of antiquity used a mixture
of white lead to whiten their faces
and hands. Also, they used the juice
of the fragrant, freshly plucked lemon
as a bleach.—Clifton Harby Levy, in
the New York World.
Both “Thirty-Two”
According to Jean and Jane, two
sixteen-year-old twins, answering ques
tions about themselves gets milter mo
notonous. Recently they determined
they would have a little fun out of it.
It started when a new girl at the
store where they work part Mime
asked:
“How old are both of you girls?”
Jean correctly replied; “Belli of us
are thirty-two!”
“Thirty-two!” the new girl ex
claimed, “why you don’t look as though
you were more than sixteen!”
Invented Monkey-Wrench
It is supposed that the word
“monkey” In monkey-wrench is a cor
ruption of the proper name Moncke.
There is a tradition that wrenches
with moving jaws adjustable by a
screw first were made by a London
blacksmith named Charles Moncke,
and that the implements originally
were called Moncke wrenches. Owing
to popular ignorance as to the origin
of the word, it was corrupted into
monkey.
4
Wheat Net Wild Plant :
Wheat grows wild nowhere hi the
world. Botanists have never found a
wild wheat that can be regarded as
the direct progenitor of the cotainon
wheat plant. This grain has been un
der cultivation so long that its wild
progenitor is unknown. Its cultivation
antedates history and evidence found
by archeologists shows that it was cul
tivated already in the Stone age.—Ex
change.
P
Earth’s Loneliest Spot
H. G.' Moore, traveler and lecturer,
says that when I.e touched at the is
land of Tristan di Cunha in February
1929, there were 1 >6 inhabitants. This
island has been designated “the loue
liest populated spot on all the earth s
sin-face” and as the “farthest flung of
all Great Britain’s outposts.”
ooi*go iree Uncaao ;i -.
Recognition Gained by
Pose as English Artist
A number of years ago a young
American artist sought a position on
a certain eastern newspaper. His
work was admirable, but there was
no vacancy. Undeterred, he applied
at other newspaper offices, but With
out success. Starvation and a hall
room overlooking a back yard stared
him in the face.
At that time, foreign artists were In
demand. The young fellow changed
his name and inserted a hyphen to
give it a ritzy atmosphere, and hied
himself to the first editor who had
turned him down He had had cards
printed bearing a London address.
The busy editor, having forgot ten
his face, listened to his story. He was
an English artist, just arrived. His
work, according to the artist, would
take the country by storm. The edi
tor believed it, for the drawings wen
excellent.
The artist was set to work and his
name emblazoned on billhoartls and
trucks. It wasn’t long, however, be
fore the editor discovered the hoax
Instead of firing the man, he kept him
on the staff.
“Anybody who had tiie nerve to
pull a stunt like that,” said the edi
tor to me, “deserves a job. He fooled
me completely and any guy who can
get away with that is a lulu.”
The editor insisted that the artist
resume his right name. It is only fait
to say that the perpetrator of the
hoax made good and is still earning
an excellent living with his pen.—
Washington Star.
Great Commanders Not
Famed as Rifle Shots
The great Napoleon, being econon.
ically minded, would have been grati
tied to know that his “fowling piece'
brought $1,900 second hand at a re
cent sale in Paris.
Bonaparte, educated as an artillery
man, was a “big gun” man In his niili
tary attitude, and depended largely oi
his artillery and cavalry sabres to wir,
glory. As a handler of small arms h<
was a true artilleryman.
The Little Corporal was a poor she*
and sport did not appeaj to him, per
haps for thaT reason. Students of th<
intimate details of his life recall tha>
on one of the few occasions he wen
gunning for game his entire bag cod
sisted of his favorite dog.
His great adversary, the duke oi
Wellington, was no better. Lady She!
ley, in his memoirs, describing a day’*
hunting with him. says;
“The hero of Waterloo was a ver\
wild shot. After wounding a retrieve:
and peppering a keeper’s gaiters, h<
sprinkled the hare arms of an oh
woman washing clothes at her cot
tage window.” .i • • • - ~ •
Severe Old Laws
Back in < lie Seventeenth centum
when Boston was only a town, one ol
the laws enacted hy the General court
provided that suicides w-ere not to o»
interred in a burial ground, but- o>
the side of a public highway. with •-
cartload of stones dumped on th.
grave as a mark oi public contempt
Other laws of the time prohibiten
Christmas celebration for fear of dis
orders, and forbade cards and dice un
der penalty of $25 fine. Marriage t«
one’s deceased wife’s sister was for
bidden; common scolds were punisjieo
by ducking them in salt water, Sab
bath desecrators were confined in a
cage in front of the town house, anc
a hole was burned in the tongue ol
the blasphemer w-ith a hot iron.—De
troit News.
Cure Worse Than the Bite
Crossing the English channel was a
worse business in early days than
now. This is how our ancestor.*-
sought to evade unpleasant effects:
Take one ounce of sirup of clove
gillyflowers, one drachm of confectio
alchermes, one ounce and a half of
borrage water and the like of mint
water, one ounce of mountford watei
and as much cinnamon water, temper
all these together in a cordial and
take a spoonful at a time when at
sea.
Indians’ Basket Granary
A large basket granary, used by Pa
cific coast Indians to store acorns, one
of their chief foods, on exhibition at
the Field Museum of Natural History. »
Chicago, is shaped like a beehive. It
is made by twisting willow withes with
the leaves left on into a rope-like form
which is then coiled to make the re
ceptacle. There is a mouth in the top
with a cover. The granary rests on a
platform of poles devised to keep It
out of reach of rodents.
Swiss Superstition
Rigi, one of the most famous moun
tains of the Swiss Alps, has staged
many landslides In its time. Some of
them have cost many lives, and buried
whole villages at its foot. An age-old "
legend ascribes these slides to the
hard-heartedness of the people, who
are supposed to have incurred the
anger of the dwarfs by refusing them
hospitality.—Gas Logic.
Aluminum Alloys Formed
Aluminum is combined with other
metals, according to reports of proc
esses developed by a San Francisco
Inventor, to form valuable alloys.
With gold, a hard, light alloy is pre
pared; a silver mixture so hard that
it can be sharpened to a razorlike edge
is also made, and copper is made suit
able for use in tools. —Popular Me
chanics Magazine.
BILLION DOLLARS IN
SALES OF GROCERIES
-
Tremendous Business of the A & P
Stores Is Result of Economy
and Advertising
A record of about one billion
dollars in sales—by margin of a half
billion dollars the largest annual re
tail volume in the world—was cele
brated this week by the Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Company on its
70th anniversary. From a number
of viewpoints the event is significant.
This year for the first time the vol
ume of any retail organization will
pass the billion dollar mark.
This volume will practically equal
the anticipated annual sales of the
three next-largest American retail or
ganizations—Sears, Roebuck, Wool
worth and Montgomery Ward—com
bined.
It will be half as large as the ag
gregate sales of some thirty-six chain
organizations in various fields for
which figures are available.
Until now the A&P figures have
not been published. some
15,000 of their familiar red-front
stores now attract 5,000,000 house
wives in thirty-four states daily
1,500,000,000 visits in a year—the
immensity of their business perhaps
has not yet been realized.
In the list of retail sales which
various investment houses publish,
the A&P, greatest cf all, is never
mentioned. Its volume and expansion
has not been known. At the head
of this list in Sears, Roebuck, Chi
cago mail-order house, which now
also operates several hundred retail,
stores throughout the country. Sears,
Roebuck’s volume this year will ap
proximate $450,000,000. Next comes
another mail-order house and retail
store chain. Montgomery Ward, neck
and neck with F. W. Woolworth Com
pany, 5-and 10-cent stores, with an
expected* $325,000,000 each. The
three of them combined will not far
exceed A&P. The largest chain in
the A&P’s own field, for which fig
ures have ben published—the Kroger
Grocery & Making Company, which
has some 5,000 units throughout the
Middle West—will do this year about
$270,000,000.
The A&P runs thirty bakeries and
sold last year 500,000,000 loaves of
bread. Its butter volume is 150,-
000,000 pounds; coffee, 140,000,000
pounds, (of which, incidentally, 130,-
A STUBBORN ANIMAL
«
~'~V- It has been said: “A lobster changes his shell,
a snake sheds its skin, a woman changes her
mind—but a MAN won’t even change his COL
LAR unless his wife MAKES him do it.”
Man is a creature of habit. Therefore it pays
to adopt GOOD habits early in life—the BANK
ING HABIT, for instance. Keep your funds in
a reliable bank like ours, pay only by check,
\ and thus have a record of your expenditures.
We do all the bookkeeping FREE.
THE BANK OF GOLDSTON
HUGH WOMBLE, Pres. T. W. GOLDSTON, Cashier
GOLDSTON, N. C.
- ■
START YOUR FORTUNE
We would ALL like to have PLENTY of
money. No use denying it. Yet in the long run,
ALL do not become well fixed, financially.
Why?
Any number of reasons. Bad luck, poor invest
ments, failure to form a habit of SAVING.
There are too many little things one MUST
have have. It’s a little here, a little there. But
figure up their total for a week, or a month.
When you deposit funds at the bank, (for your
own good) determine to leave them there.
That’s the way fortunes are started.
THE BANK OF PITTSBORO
PITTSBORO, N. C.
THE LEE HARDWARE CO.
Sanford, N. C.
„ Thanks the People of Chatham for Their
Generous Patronage the Past Year and
Wishes them a Happy and Prosperous
New Year.
Make our Store a Help to You in 1930.
THURSDAY, JANUARY i«
000,000 pounds were its
Eight O’Clock Red Circle and
More than 10 per cent of thewH
sold in this country about 24 nX?
000 cans are distributed by the AA'
thousands of carloads of veeJ»vi P;
pass yearly over its counters
The company’s own advert,v
program chiefly in local newsn*? 8
cost $6,000,000 annually. A&p Pers
tiative has also been a
stimulating advertising by indep*
ent and chain competitors. p
A&P’s advertising campaign b
been expanding since 1925 at ? s
rate of about $10,000,000 a year i
1925 its appropriation was l e *« *L ln
$2,000,000. - A year later this »
increased to $3,000,000. In the thr
vears ince the appropriation has do?
bled. u ”
€> ,
EDWARD K. BOK DEAD
BURIED IN FLORIDA
Edward K. Bok, former editor of
the Ladies Home Journal, an immi
grant Dutch lad who became a mil
lionaire philanthropist, died at V'
winter home in Florida Sunday
Burial was in the crypt of the famous
Singing Tower, erected by him a year
or two ago near Mountain Lab
Florida, as a haven for song birds’
Mr. Bok left a trust fund for the
maintenance of the tower for many
years to come.
<&•
JOHN B. MILLS ONE
OF COMMITTEE OF 15
Mr. John B. Mills of New Hope
township has been appointed one of
a committee of fifteen to put afoot
the organization of a N. C. tobacco
co-operative association.
The tobacco area of the State has
been divided into 15 districts. This
district comprises the four counties
of Wake, Chatham, Lee, and Durham,
and Mr. Mills is committeeman for
this district. The district comprising
Sampson, Johnston and Harnett has
Wm. Peterson of Clinton as commit
teeman.
®
HERO BY PROXP
Two little boys came into the
dentist’s office. One said to the
dentist, “I want a tooth took out and
I don’t want no gas because I’m in
a hurry.”
Dentist“ That’s a brave little boy.
Which tooth is it?”
Little Boy—“ Show him your tooth,
Albert.”—Exchange.