4 Paper with a Prestige
of a Half Century. A
County, Not a Com
munity Paper
ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
A Day Down
in Sampson
Mk
A Marvelous Acre of
Corn —Careful Pick
ing and Packing of
Berries Rewards Mr.
Fisher Something
About Kudzu
" •• editor unexpectedly had an
unity to spend two or three
"Sweet Sampson” last week.
• at phrase reminds us that
j. , r Bickett undertook to apply
v, »rd ‘‘sweet to Union, but
. Union” has no euphony in
reover, tlje word “sweet” had
preempted by Sampson # for
sixty years, since the
recalls his father’s quoting
1 old Sampsonian of yore and
memory itself reaches back a
hak'cvntury.
i ere was quite a contrast in the
v . union of crops last week and
ui the 15th of July last year.
A: the earlier date vegetation was
extravagant. The corn and cotton
fields were lapped with the lux
uriant growth. To come back to
Chatham then looked like starva
tion. as it very nearly was so far
as the crop of 1929 was concerned.
But this year, Chatham has an
earlier start, while the dry weather
of the spring retarded crops in
Sampson. It looks impossible for
the cotton to grow as widly by
July 15 as it had last year. How
ever. much corn in in silk, and the
roas’n'ears being sold included some
fully matured Truckers’ Favorite,
which is considerably later than the
Adams. „
Beans and cucumbers found no
sale, or sale only at price not justify
ing picking and packing. Huckleberries
were still sold at fancy prices. Lack
of care in sorting and packing is
still hurting the sale of the famous
berry as well as the products of
the truck fields. To illustrate what
proper packing means for the huc
kleberries, we cite the example of
a Mr. Fisher on the Cumberland
side, for huckleberries, like rabbits
in Chatham, are not confined to
the borders of Sampson even if
Sampson gets the credit. Cumber
land, Duplin, Pender and Bladen
produce many fine berries. This
Mr. Fisher has a large area of
woods in the flats on the east
*ide of the Cape Fear. He hires
Ills berries picked at ten cents a
quart, requiring painstaking handl
ing on the part of the pickers. At
that rate some pickers can make
from five to six dollars a day,
while Mr. Fisher told a gentleman
who caught him in the act that he
;and his family could make twice
as much cleaning and packing the
berries as they could picking them.
When the (berries have been
brought from the woods, the con
tainers are emptied upon a long
table and Mr. Fisher and his family,
with needles prepared with awl
like handles, pierce the bad berries,
leaves, trash, etc, and thus leave
only the edible berries for packing.
Then the berries are carefully
packed in quart cups. Rough handl
ing of berries mean their ruin,
while if the juice is not allowed
to exude from them at all the
hazy-blue color is retained and the
berries may be shipped safely for
a thousand miles. Indeed, we have
fflt, for the writer knows his “big
blues”, that perfectly picked and
packed berries would actually dry
to almost perfection right in a
crate, and the dried huckleberries
is one dried fruit that has lost little
■°f its delicious flavor.
The gentleman who told us of
Mr. Fisher’s activities said that
a buyer arrived while he was at
the Fisher home. Mr. Fisher ''had
a recent bill for berries sold in the
northern markets for sl4 per 32-
quart crate. The buyer offered
Mr. Fisher asked sl4 and got
it, while some of his neighbors had
received for shipment as low as
dollars a crate and had to sell
to the buyers for much less than
Mr. Fisher got for his berries. Ac
cordingly, it seems that he bad
proved his statement that he could
jnake more by preparing the
berries for shipment than he could
}, . v picking himself.
A wonder we saw in the corn
~ne - Nothing has probably ever
been seen like it. Something like
‘ijAeen years ago, Mr. Milton Hall
ot Roseboro broadcast an acre
-'wn lot with corn, presumably
t! teed. He of course could not
it; nevertheless, it grew, and
,~. e season being right, surprised
•’ urn a nd even Bion Butler, who
’■appened to be down there and saw,
vy making an abundant yield. Mr.
estimated the yield from un
corked broadcast corn at 122
bushels to the acre. And as Mr.
bad a newspaper man to see
-Hat crop, he by a similar accident
ad this writer to see an equally
?!‘eat, or greater, demonstration
bbis season.
1 be- land has been made rich,
* wonishingly rich during the years,
FLEA SB TURN TO PAGE EIGHT
The Chatham Record
Union County Falls
Short A Million
The following from the Monroe
Inquirer is significant. We do not
beleive that Chatham is falling
behind at such a rate. We cannot.
Everything has already been mort
gaged and the folk have to pay
;argely as they go. But those mort
gages are, due to several , crop
shortages—six in succession. The
first year w<e came to Pittsboro
there were scarcely a half dozen
mortgages foreclosures advertised in
the Record. Money * was borrowed
when crops failed and the succession
of failures brought foreclosures, so
that .now we carry as many fore
closure notices in one issue •as we
carried in a year, beginning Septem
ber 1, 1924. Here is the Union
situation :
\\ ell, friends and brothern, the
other day I took pen in hand to
write you a piece about our burden
some taxes. According to some
good folks of my acquaintance taxes
are the very blame of our existence,
and could the cost of our schools,
roads, and administration of public
affairs be effaced the millennium
will have come.
But before blaming everything
on taxes, let’s do a little figurin’.
Union county is spending annually,
approximately for—
Gasoline, oil, etc $1,250,000
Commercial fertilizer 750,000
New automobiles 200,000
Life Insurance 750,000
Interest on loans 500,000
Taxes 550,000
A total of $4,000,000
Practically every dollar of out
side revenue the county receives is
from its cdtton crop. A little more
than 30,000 bales were marketed
last year at an everage price of
SBO per bale, a revenue of
$2,400,000. N
It is nqt a pleasant picture to
contemplate, but how can our
county progress when we are
actually spending year by year a
million dollars more than we are
producing.
Union is considered a representa
tive North Carolina county. It is
my conviction that practically every
county in the State today is in the
same boat as our community. It
also appears to me that very few
oersons are willing to face the facts.
It is not entirely our taxes, but
rather spending more than we are
producing, that is causing a panic.
Wilkie Reunion
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Sanford, N. C. June 15. —A re
union of the descendants , of the
late Tobias and Elizabeth Wilkie,
orominent poineer settlers of Chat
ham county was held Sunday from
the old homestead near Goldston.
A crowd estimated at about four
hundred, including relatives and
and their friends from Raleigh,
Greensboro, Durham. Siler City,
Sanford, Burlington. Win%tom-Salem.
Swepsonville and other points in and
out of the State were present on this
delightful occasion.
Early in the morning the people
began to gather under the shade of
the lovely oaks in the grove and
near the old soring which flows with
delicious, sparkling water. The morn
ing was devoted to handclasps and
a general renewal of the ties of
relationship. At the noon hour a
bonteous feast was spread on a long
table in the grove. A huge cake,
prepared by the Greensboro Bakery
Comoanv, bearing the inscription
“Wilkie” occupied the center of the
table. Rev. C. L. Wicker of Gulf,
gave an interesting history if the
Wilkie family. Short, enjoyable talks
were made by Frank Wilkie, of Bear
Creek, Bailey Wicker, of Gulf, C.
D. Wilkie, of Moncure and Green
Hart, the last named being 84 years
of age.
Tobias Wilkie was a native of
Scotland. In company with two
brothers he came to the country
many years ago. He settled in North
Carolnia. He made a splendid citizen
and throughout the years his decen
dants have imitated the worthy
example set by their forefather.
This reunion which was established
by Frank Wilkie, of Bear Creek, and
Bailey Wilkie of Gulf, N. C. was the
first one, and the descendants ex
pect to make it an annual affair.
Mr. G. H. Wilkie and Mrs. Otis
Bridges, of Sanford, are direct de
scendants of this family. Seven
generations were present at this re
union. This reunion was hastily got
ten up. Mr. Hilliard who lives at
this old homestead, deserves much
praise for his help and kindness, in
making every one present enjoy
the day.
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Young Prince
Goes to' Roads
Young Prince, prince of colored
blockaders, but now no longer young,
has at last got his. Having failed
■ to come at the set time to take his
medicine, he was located by Depu
r ties Desern and Lacy Johnson, over
t in the edge of Wake Saturday night
and placed in jail. The county court
sat a while Monday to dispose of
’ his case. He went to the roads. He
’ has long been known as a blockader
in Case Fear township.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930.
Photos from Wide World Photos
In celebration of the 154th anniversary of the battle of Brandywine,
famous in American Revolutionary history, the color guard re-enacted a
scene which no doubt stirred the hearts of the present generation as much
asit did more than a century and a half ago. If you recall your American
history this battle was fought in 1777. ,
The Londons
Have Reunion
Family Gathering at Ances
tral Home Held June 22nd
—The 55th Wedding Anni
versary of Mrs. London.
The Occasion a Welcome
to Capt. J. J. London and
Bride—Twenty-Six Descen
dants Present
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The home of Mrs. -Henry A. Lon
don in Pittsboro Sunday afternoon
was the scene of a happy family
reunion—a welcome to Capt. J. J.
London and his bride, and a cele
bration of the 55th wedding anni
versary of Mrs. London. ,
Seven children, 18 grandchildren j
and one great grandchild, together j
with the in-laws, to the number of j
thirty, gathered around the long
and smaller tables arranged in the j
dinning room and library, for din-|
ner Sunday night. At the head was
Mrs. London, presiding with her
characteristic graciousness and
poise, this despite her health which
in recent months has become im
paired by reason of angina pec
toris. In the center of the table
was the bride’s cake, iced by Mrs. ,
London herself, with the lettering
“London-Sculley, April 26.” And
perched aloft this cake were the j
two love-birds which were used on
her own bride’s cake 35 yars ago •
and which have been used for every j
wedding in this family since then.!
“Vive la vous” were drunk to
the health of each one present in.
quaffs of Adam’s ale. !
Present for this family gather
ing in addition to Mrs. H. A. Lon
don and her sister, Miss Carrie
Matitia Jackson, were:
Lucy London Anderson and her
husband, John Huske Anderson ,of
Raleigh; and their three children:
Lucy Andreson Wooten - and daugh
ter, Bettie London. Wooten of Fay
etteville; John Huske Anderson Jr.,
and Henry London Anderson, stud
ents at Carolina.
Henry Mauger London and wile,
Mamie Elliott London of Raleigh;
and their tw\> sons, Henry Mauger
London Jr., and George Elliott
London, Carolina students.
Sallie Lord Fell and her four
children, of« Trenton, N. J., Bettie
Jackson Fell, Jlenry Ridgeway Fell,
Armand London Fell, Sallie Lon
don Fell.
Captain John Jackson London
and bride, Genevieve Sculley, of
Chicago, married April 26, 1930.
Isaac S. London and his four
children of Rockingham: William
Everett London, Lena Payne Lon
don-, Bettie Louise London and
Isaac Spencer London, Jr.
Betsey London Cordon and two
children, of Pittsboro: James H.
Cordon, Jr., and Betsey London
Cordon.
Camelia London Jerome and three
sons, of Shreveport, La.: Fred Je
rome, Jr., Henry and Jack London
Jerome (twins).
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Matt Crews Brings
Bride With Him
Mr. Matthews J. Crews returned
a week or two ago to Pittsboro,
after an Absence of two or three
years, with a bride'. The young
couple have been visiting Mr.
; Crew’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Z. .Crews.
The bride was Miss Eloise Hodge,
/ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
; Hodge of Hot Springs, Virginia.
■ The Record is not informed as to
> the date of the marriage. Mr.
Crews is a resident of Newport
News, Va.
Siler City Will
Celebrate 4th
Big Speakers on Pro
gram for the
Occasion
HOME-COMING DAY
.
Cash Prizes Will Be Awarded
for Certain Events; Big
Time in Store for Every
body
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In accordance with the /time
honored custom, Siler City is to
stage another great Celebration,
(July 4th.
| The celebration this year is.. to
ibe a little different in that it
j has been designated as home-com
| ing-day as well as a celebration
of Independence. Day.
A program of all home talent
has been arranged and it looks
now as if is going to be one of
the most interesting ones ever
staged there.
Speakers for the day are Dr.
George W. Paschal, of Wake For
est College, Prof. R. L. Paschal,
of Fort Worth Texas, and Judge
Walter D. Siler, of Raleigh, all
of whom are Chathamites.
I A program of athletic stunts
for boys and girls, with cash
; prizes for the winners has been
j arranged. A base ball game at
1 four o’clock in the afternoon be
tween Alamance and Siler City,
,• the two strongest teams in the
1 Central Carolina League, and a
play sponsored by the American
Legion and the Legion Auxiliary
at the High School Auditorium,
’at night. These together with a
Brass Band moving and talking
pictures going all day; the bowl
ing alleys, and the Minature Golf
Course will furnish the chief
amusements for the day,
Thej*e will be air planes circl
ing over town all day and they will
take up passengers from the new,
air port, northeast of town on
the old Graham road.
Free ice water will be furnished
for everybody, in fact it looks as
if about everything has been done
that could to make the day pleasant
and entertaining to the public and
the largest crowd that has attended
in years is expected.
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Burial of Mr. McDaniel
Funeral Serivces for Mathew
Thomas McDaniel, age 56, promin
ent Chatham County farmer who
died at his home. Siler City RFD
3 early Tuesday morning, following
a six months illness with heart
trouble, were conducted Wednes
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from
I Rives Chapel Baptist Church, Rev.
E. W. Byerly pastor of the church
| was in charge.
Mr. McDaniel joined Rives church
tyenty nine years ago and remained
a faithful member until death. He
was twice married. His first marriage
was to Miss Martha Buchanan.
I Surviving this union are three sons,
Walter McDaniel of Mt. Vernon
Springs, Arthur McDaniel of Siler
l City, R.F.D., Eugine- McDaniel, at
, home, also one daughter, Mrs.
i Robert Brinkley, of Mt. Vernon
f Springs. His second marriage was
. to Miss Mollie Campbell, who sur
. vives with the following children:
Leola, Lillie, ClydeT Arvey, and
, Joyce McDaniel. He is also sur
. vived by one brother, Albert Mc
. Daniel of Baden, N. C., one half
) brother, John Casper, of Goldhill,
. N. C.; also by three sisters, Mrs.
t Joe Moody, of Bear Creek, Mrs.
Ben Dowd, Siler City, RFD 5.,
A Chathamite Out
In Tennessee
Beersheba Springs, Tenn.
June 20, 1930
Editor Chatham Record:
I have read the Record for years
and have always enjoyed it very
much. My father, Mr. A. B. Wom
ble of Moncure, has always taken
taken the Record and sends it
to me after he has finished with
<it.
Perhaps, it would be of interest
to some of your readers if I told
you something about the country
where we are now.
We are doing construction work
on a state highway in Grundy
county, Tennessee. This county is
located in the Cumberland Moun
tain and is very rugged.* It is
beautiful from the scenic stand
point but I can’t say much for the
agricultural side of iit. Milling,
mining and some agriculture are
the chief industries.
The state is covering this sec-‘
tion with a net work of highways
which makes it easily accessible
-from both Nashville and Chatt
anoogo and incidentally furnishes
us with good jobs which is the
most interesting thing in life/right
now.
We will be here for some six
months yet and as I want to read
the Record regularly, I am enclos
ing a money order to cover cost
of same for six months.
Here’s wishing for you and the
Record many more years of great
success.
Verv trulv yours
Mrs‘ H. 0. Wall
Beersheba Springs
Tennessee
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Bear Creek News
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Frances Beal, age 6, was given a
birthday party last Saturday after
noon at her home, just south of
town. She was 6 years old Sunday.
Several little girls were invited.
Games were played after which ice
cream and cake were served those
present. They all seemed to enjoy
it very much. Those who attended
were: Misses Marie and Grace Mur
row, Hellen Brooks, Nancy Lou
Brooks and Nannie Frances Pas
chal, all of Bonlee; Mozelle and
Clara Cheek and Marion Emerson,
of Bear Creek, loline Briggs of
Bear Creek,
William (better known as “Bill”)
Hackney died at his home in Greens
boro last Saturday and was buried
at Sandy Branch Baptist Sunday
afternoon. There were a throng of
people in attendance. He was na
tive of Chatham County, but had
lived in Greensboro for many years.
He was a brother of the late Rev.
John A. Hackney.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Straughan
and daughters, of Baltimore, Md.,
are visiting Mr. Straughan’s father,
F. C. Straughan, on route 2.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Saunders, of
Raleigh, were visitors last week at
J. D. Willetts.
T. B. Beal is attending the Cokes
bury Training School at the First
M. E. Church, Siler City, this week.
Mrs. M. E. Stewart accompanied
Mrs. W. G. Andrew and daughter,
Hazel, to their home in Asheville
for an extended visit.
Miss Ruby Lee Webster of Burl
ington, is visiting at R. W. Dowd’s.
Thomas Addison Burns, son of
Fred W. Burns, is seriously ill at
his home one and one half miles
north of Goldston. x
Miss Burema Hilliard, of Durham,
is visiting her grandfather, A. D.
Coggins.
M. B. Beaver and children of
Durham were Sunday visitors in the
home of T. P. Beaver.
Misses Vaudie, Eliza and Ruby
Norwood of Greensboro are spend
ing their vacation with their mother,
Mrs. W. F. Norwood, on route 2.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Rives and
family, of Burlington and Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Moody, of Durham, were
Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs.
R. R. Dunn.
Mrs. Frank Scott and daughter,
Lucille, accompanied by S. C. Beal
spent a few days recently at the
Atlantic Beach, at Morehead City.
Mrs. W. C. Pitts of Winston-
Salem, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
O. D. Wicker, on Rt. 2.
Adison Burns, son of Fred W. j
Burns, died at his home Monday j
night from a leaking heart. A full
account will appear next week/
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Phillips, of
Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thomp
son, of Pleasant Garden, Mrs. J. J.
Norwood, of Greensboro, Misses
Margaret and Pauline Andrews, of
Fayette, were Sunday visitors in the
horiie of G. B. Emerson.
The Sandy Branch Baptist church
will hold a public ice cream supper
next Saturday night, June 28th, at
the home of G. B. Emerson in Bear
Creek for benefit of the piano fund.
There will be vocal and strong
music. Everybody is most cordially
invited. _
Miss Nora McDaniel of Siler City,
R. 3. Pallbearers were: E. W.
Smith, L. W. Burns, W. C. Braswell,
O. D. Fields, S. J. Fields, and C.
,H. Dunlap.
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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 35
Brooks Eubanks
CloseTheirDoor
Ed Hinton Made Trustee—
Will Sell Goods and Settle
Debts Business Simply
Couldn’t Be Longer Profit
ably Conducted
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Deciding that they could no
longer pprofitably conduct their
mercantile business here and that the
only way to get out of it is to
get out, Messrs. Geo. H. Brooks and
Y. M. Eubanks, composing the
firm of Brooks and Eubanks, locked
their store doors Monday after
noon, turned the key over to Ed.
R. Hinton, who had been made a
trustee of the goods, and they had
quit.
To continue in business would
have mea«t that the cost for new
goods would have kept pace with
payments on debts for old ones, and
that a quitting place could not be
found. Accordingly, they quit smack
off and are honing the funds re
ceived by Mr. Hinton for the goods
will settle all debts, without any
draft upon the personal resources
of the two partners.
Messrs. Brooks and Eubanks are
two of the finest men in town. In
all their dealings during the years
of their partnership it is quite cer
tain that no one has had reason t'*
complain of intentional injustice or
unfairness. The Record is not in
formed as to the future employ
ment of either, but it is hoped that
both will continue actively in af
fairs.
Food Dumped;
People Hungry
Charlotte Observer.
The Associated Press tells us that
an over supplied market has forced
New York commission merchants
to dumo hundreds of truck loads
of perfectly good vegetables into
East River within the past week and
dozens of cars loads of arriving
vegetables are being turned down,
leaving them on the hands of the
railroad, with the former responsi
ble for the freight bills. And yet,
in New York City alone, in all
probability there are tens of thous
ands of neople going to bed hungary
every night, if they have a bed
to go to. Plenty of people to con
sume the products of the farm and
plenty of food for all the people
to have sufficient, and yet people
starve while good food is dumped
into the river—all in the same
community! We have far to travel
before we get matters arranged on
a commen sense basis.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
The county commissioners will be
in session Tuesday, July 8, 1930,
for the purpose of reviewing the
tax lists and hearing the complaints
of taxpayers as to assessments.
C. C. POE, Clerk of Board.
jun 23 1930
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Joax—l know a man who nicked
Gene Tunney under the chin and
stretched him right out.
Hoax—You don’t say! Who was
it?
Jonax—Tony, the barber. — The
Pathfinder.
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“Uncle” Phil Farrar a much re
spected colored man by both white
and colored of this com
munity ‘will be glad to know he
is recuperating after an illness of
several weeks.
Mrs. E. H. Holt has been spend
ing several days in Rurham visit
ing relatives. She was accompanied
home Sunday by Mr. and Mrs.
Slyvester Johnson, Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmie Fonville and children.
Mrs. J. L. Goodwin spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. G. B.
Sturdivant of Pittsboro.
Little John Drake, Jr. of Wilson
is spending this week with Grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Drake.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey
Sturdivant, Pittsboro, N. C., June
20, a daughter, Dorothy Gertrude.
While going through the low
grounds pasture which was over
i flown from the swollen stream of
New Hope Mr. J. L. Goodwin saw
some carp playing and he drew
near them, stabbed one with his
pocket knife twice and caught his
in his arms but the fish floundered
and escaped but he came near
enough to them again and captured
. one of them which weighed thir
teen pounds.
Friends will regret to learn that
Mr. Andrews Holt is no better and
, is now in Mary Elizabeth hospital,
Raleigh, for treatment.
, Mrs. Andrews Jones and children
visited relatives near Fuqv.ay Springs
Sunday. __ ...