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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
Doctoring Symptoms
a year and a half ago, the
p ' -d insisted that a deep economic
was festering at the heart
f world prosperity, and that the
«Anomic doctors :were treating the
? L -,Vi‘toms of the patient for the
fi?ease. We illustrated with the
r ? I time foot-itch. It would some-
JL O I pat a youngster on crutches,
T * j inany a poultice was used in the
tiVinent of bad cases. No one at
‘ time dreamed that the foot-itch
V^ L the least evil consequence of
'Jw was happening to the barefoot
]. n i or man. But a little more or so
)' U 18 months ago the thinkers of
.! untry are beginning to realize
thit the thing they have been form
l,ri concerned with as the evil it
is on y the symptom of some
ji-jL- much more menacing.
The discovery that the hookworm
r; .j the germ of the foot-itch were
■ paved the way for the
niivsieal salvation of- of
ven °f l° w vitality, and thereby
pa veii the way for economic effi
ciency for the same number of in
efficients. Scientists gave real
thought to the hookworm problem.
g i;: the economic doctors, for the
mo st part, refuse to see anything
beyond the foot-itch of the social
hody. But some progress is being
made._ ___
for instance. Dean B. B.
of the State College of Agriculture
nr 1 Engineering, at the Central
Welfene District Conference at
tor the other_ day, evidenced
in?i cr ht when he said: “Not over
reduction. 'hot an unfair distribu
tion of wealth is the root of our
economic ovib”
There the Dean has recognized
th?t the hookworm is a real
B' t the next. ar»d th° most imnort
{mr ?ter> is to identifv the course
of the evil thus correetlv set forth.
ThenP was no va modv. actual or
preventive, if o'** the hookworm so
lonir as the identification of the
font-itch eemi e-nd the hookworm
pot maHe. That discoverv reg
istered, whole .countries have be°n
blessed by the eradication of
verv source of the former terrible
menace to health, both nhvsical and
economic. Similarlv, following the
identification of the cause of the
“unfair distribution of wealth.”
there should be as an effective
for its eradication as the
Rockefeller Foundation has nut on
in the whof’e earth for the eradica
tion of the hookworm evil. \
But. unfortunatelv. we fear em»n
the benevolent Mr. Rockefeller
could not he induced to apply a
hundred million Or two to the erad
ication of the “dog-eat-dog” prac
tice, if it should be identified as
the basis of the prevalence of pov
erty among the masses of a coun
try possessing natural resources suf
ftcent to support comfortable a
poDulation ten times as large as the
present one, and in 8m era when
the officent errmlovment of the
able-bodied wotr’d produce such an
abundance as had yet been undream
ed of. Just here consider what the
peoDle of this country did when
two millions of it* flower of man
hood were enlisted in arms. Not
onlx did the country dress, in silk
instead of cotton and produce food
so" a large part of the world, but
built a score of cities, called
cantonments and was fast bridg
ing: the Atlantic ocean with shins.
Today millions scarcely know where
thoi” next meal is to come from.
What if the mil’s do start un at
full capacity? What if the fields do
asrain produce their billions of bush
el? of grain, and if swine and kine
the farms from the Atlantic
to the Pacific? Isn’t manifest that
the same consequence as now ob
servant will follow so long as the
few have it within their power to
divert to their own coffers the pro
ceeds of the labor of the many? Tim
?' v eat industrial, commercial, and
financial octopuses, with suction
Pipe? running to everv nook and
corner of the land, which have al
readv sucked un (not on n y the re
wards of the formerly unmarallel
efi productions of the country but
the natural resources, will still
function so far as the former are
concerned?
Eor it should tbe recognized as a
basic cause of the depth of the
Present denression that the octopuses
have so little more of m»turq r
resources to suck up that the buying
power depends now almost altogeth
er upon the production incomes.
) ew more farms mav 'be mortgaged.
Too few are left without that ap
pendage and sales have become so
uncertain that land is no longer a
security for loans.
1 re same Dean Brown states that
the figures of the Federal Trade
Commission will show that “77 pee
cent of the people of the United
States are practically penniless
while 13 per cent possess 90 per
1 the nation’s wealth.” That is,
yielding of the 90 per cent of
t!le wealth of the country _ has
enabled the masses to maintain a
buying power that has kont Pro
duction in a comparatively full
swing. Now there are only a few per
f to be absorbed and the wealth
represented by them, for the most
Part, lies in the possession of the
fussing ten per cent (for 77 and
E> make only 90) who are able to
doid it against the larger
” bo, then, will finance a cam-
Pa>?n against the octopi, not so
Numerous as hookworms but a
The Chatham Record
Judges Support
Two Amendments
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To the voters of the State of
North Caro^ina:
We, the undersigned Judges of the
Superior Courts of North Carolina,
hereby register our approval of and
and urge the citizens of the state
to vote for the two constitutional
amendments to be submitted to the
Electorate this fall.
1. To increase the membership of
the Supreme Courts from five to
seven.
2. To authorize the General As
sembly to divide the state into Sol
icitorial Districts, which need not
be co-terminous with the Judicial
Districts.
The appellate CJcfurt urgently ne.eds
the additional members in the care
ful consideration and in the proper
disposition of the important ques
tions presented to them for deter
mination..
The Solicitoria'l District amend
ment is a needed change in the
judicial department, which will pro
vide the General Assembly with the
authority to grant relief to the con
gested dockets in certain sections
of the state, without creating any
offices not needed at the present
time.
C. C. Lyon Clayton Moore
W. A. Devin H. H. Clement
G. E. Midyette A. M. Stack
R. A. Nunn Henry Grady
Win. F. Harding W. C. Harris
G. V. Cowper Walter E. Moore
H. Hoyle Sink C. F. Macßea
Michael Schenck M. V. Barnhill
J. H. Harward F. A. Daniels
Walter L. Small
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How to Vote
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Voting under the new law is easy.
The Democratic ticket is on the left
of the ballot, under the picture of
an eagle. If you want to vote a
straight Democratic ticket, simply
nut a cross in the big circle under
the eag’e. The Renu'blican ticket
is on the right of the same ballot
under a picture of an elephant.
If you desire to vote a straight
Republican ticket, simply put a
cross in the big circle under the
elephant.
If you wish to vote a mixed tick
et, that is for some Democrats
and some Republicans, Don’t mark
the big circles at all. Simply put a
cross in the little square by the
name of each man on either side
of the ballot that you wish to vote
for.
Follow this simple advice and you
need no one to he r p you mark
vour tickets. There will be several
ballots, covering the National,
State and county tickets. For in
stance, one ballot has only the
names of Messrs. Bailey and
Pritchard, candidates for the U.
S. senate. Mark each of these sev
eral ballots as directed above and
your ticket will go through and
vou may vote without anybody’s
knowing for whom you are voting.
That is the object of the Austra
lian ballot —to make your voting
secret and give the priviledge of
doing just as you p'lease without
anybody’s interference. However,
if you want help, there will be de
signated gentlemen present to help
vou mark your ticket. There will
be Democratic markers and Re
publican markers. Pick your marker
to suit yourself. It will be your
own fault if you do not vote ex
actly as you want to vote.
Told by her children that there
was a big owl sitting on a tree
near her home, Mrs. J. E. Johnson,
of Moncure Rt 2, got her gun and
went and shot him out. She found
that he was minus a foot, a trap
or another load or shot having de
prived him of that member
thousand times as fatal? Are wild
men, dominated by the Russian
Soivet, to be left to offer the only
remedy for the evil? If so, as sure
as fate, the quacks wi'U win a
following, and a dangerous one.
The remedy lies in a means which
will insure a living wage or income
for the small farmer, the agricul
tural employee, the millions in the
more humble industries, like the tex
tile industries, and in the coinci
dental limitations of the incomes
of more than sufficent volume to
give a ‘life-long competency on even
a luxurious basis. This cannot hap-
Den automatically, any more than the
eradication of the hookworm could.
Conditions, which fostered the hook
worm were of natural development,
and the “dog-eat-dog” policy is a
natural growth. The economic system,
prevailing throughout the ages is
not a planted one, but an evolution
ary development. And there are fea
tures about it as fatal as the human
appendix, which also is declared to
exist because of, an evolutionary dis
carded of its function. The evidence
is only too manifest that the appen
dix is not sacro-sanct. Why should
the poverty producing features of
the age-old economic policy be con
sidered sacred?
The masses are poor simply be
cause the few have what they should
have. And what is saddest, the excess
that the few have makes them no
more happy than the hay in the
mantger. made the traditional . dog.
Enough is enough, and there is no
injustice in depriving a hog of the
monopolization of what he cannot
j use.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930,
He Would Come
Back to Chatham
L. D. Hatley, who deft Chatham
several years ago to live in Wake
i county, decided he‘ would come
back to the old home. His wife
objected, principally, it seems be
cause the Chatham house had
gone into to serious disrepair.
Hatley, who kept a filling station
hear Cary, took out ejectment
proceedings to get the wife and
children out Os the '*■ house. A son
countered with proceedings to
have the fother put in the insane
asylum. A compromise was reach
ed. Hatley deeded the Wake coun
ty tpf ace to his wife and she' and
the idhildre’h will remain; there;
while he comes back to v good old
Chatham' alone.
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Moncure News
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Miss Catherine Thomas, who is
teaching in Bynum High School
this year, spent last wek-end at
home with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
C. C % Thomas.
Mr.' Jennings Womble, who is
teaching at White Plains High
School again this year, spent last
week-end at home with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Womb’e, also
Mr. J. L. Womble, Jr., who is, a
student at the University, Chapel
Hill spent last week-end at home
with his parents.
Miss Pauline Ray who is teacher
in Mt. Airy Schools again this
year spent last wek-end at home
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Ray.
Mr. E. M. Farrington of Chapel
Hill was in town Monday on busi
ness.
Mr. Coley Davis of Raleigh was
in town one day last we k.
Mrs. Mary Barringer spent last
week-end with relatives at Jones
boro.
Miss Mary Frances Durant is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. E Moore
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Wilkie of
Waterville and little daughter,
Helen Elizabeth are visiting his
mother, Mrs. Florence Wilkie and
her sister, Mrs. W. T. Utley this
week. Mr. Wilkie has had a posi
tion with -C. P. & L. Co. at Water
ville the past year.
The B. Y. P. U. wil give a Hallo
we’en Party next Saturday evening
from 6 to 9 p. m.
A Hallowe’en play wil be given
at the school auditorium next Fri
day evening, Oct. 31st at 7:30
o’clock. The public is cordially in
vited.
Rev. T. Y. Seymore will preach
at the Baptist church next Sunday
morning at 11 a. m. and evening
at 7:30 o’clock.
A tourist, Mr. Cockerham, was so
struck with Sheriff S. W. Womble’s
place near Deep River Bridge,
bought the house with 40 or 50 acres
of land one day last week.
The Social meeting of the Wo
man’s Missionary Auxiliary of Mon
cure M. E. church met with Mrs. W.
C. Harward last Thursday evening
from 7:30 to 10 'o’clock. The mem
bers were met at the door by Mrs.
Harward. The meeting opened with
with song by all with Mrs. W. C.
Harward at piano, then the devo
tional was held by the President,
Mrs. Stedman. The week of Prayer
fiom Nov. 945, programs are being
olaned by Mrs. J. E. Moore. Then the
Mission Study Book, “Trailing the
Congustadores”, the two last chap
ters were taken up. Mrs. W. A.
Freeman of Sanford gave the 7th
chapter in a most interesting way
and Mrs. M. D. Foister of Sanford j
gave the Bth chapter in a sp’endid
wav. We appreciate their presence
with us and hope they wil come
again, soon. We also enjoyed a piano
.solo rendered by Mrs. Freeman.
The committee appointed to look
qftev the Gift Shoo were Mesdames
E. G. Samimons, Roy E. Cole and
Barbara -Watkins. Then Mrs. W. C.
Forward assisted by Miss
Watson, served a m'ost delicious
salad course with cocoa or coffee.
A delightful was soent and
Mrs. W. O. Harward made a most
charming hostess.
Miss Melba Moore was leader of
the Epworth Junior Society last
Sunday evening.
The Fpworth Leaeue met at 7
o’clock Sunday evening with Mr. E.
W. A vent. Jr., leader, who led the
devotional and l a (1 so gave an inter
esting talk on. “Is Your Conscience
a Guide?” This subject was also
discussed by Miss Margaret Mann
and Camelia Stedman in an interest
ing way.
At 7:30 o’clock church service
was held by Rev. J. A. Dailey. After
the offering Miss Lucy Bone favored
ns with a beautiful solo. Then Rev.
Dailey in a most impressive service
took the following into membership
of the church, eight by vows and
baptism viz.
Mrs. J. D. Crutchfield and daugh
ters. Josephine and Sarah, Mrs. A.
B. Womble, and daughter Gertrude,
Mrs. E. G. Sammons and son, Ja
cob and Miss Bettie Ann Hicks and
one by letter, Mrs. W. J. Harmon.
; Then Rev. J. A. Dailey preached a
most helpful sermon.
Court Proceedings
There was very little to do in
Superior court last week, and some
of the docketed cases* were contin
ued. Consequent’y, court lasted only
three days. It was gratifying to hear
the good reports from those on their
good behavior.
• Silas Terry, for forcible trespass
and bad checks, got a sentence
of six months.
M. M. Oldham, who had fired his
gun a few times in the direction of
a mature man whom he had ordered
to cease paying his attention to his
15-year old daughter, was taxed
with the costs. The judge didn’t
happen to have chromio with him.
Bud Jenkins goes to the peniten
tiary two years for stealing cot
ton.
Pink Cotten got clear of a simi
lar charge.
Claud Brown for resisting offi
cer got three months.
Harrison Brown and Charlie
Maness were cleared of assault
charge; while Floyd Langley got
three months.
iE. P. Jones got a divorce from
Mary C. Jones.
Herman Forrester was cleared
of the charge of manslaughter
growing out of the death of E. P.
Paschal in a dual collision south
of Siler City. The lumber truck
driven by Forrester had hit a car
of a Mr. Coble or had been hit
by the Coble car, just a moment
before the Paschal car was hit
by the Forrester truck. The front
wheel of the truck had been in
jured in the first collision and
prevented Forrester from control
ing the truck in time to prevent
the collision which caused Mr.
Paschal’s death. It is probable
that a civil suit against the employ
ing companying of Mr. Coble will
follow, the Record learns. The case
against Forrester did not reach the
jury. In fact, the jury had little or
nothing to do during the term,
though they heard this case develop
ed to the point. at which it was
thrown out.
The county court has largely de
prived the superior court of business.
If the latter had had to try the 200
odd cases disposed of by the county
court the past ten months, there
would probably have been two or
three weeks of extra terms at a
cost exceeding the entire cost of the
county court. Besides, jail fees,
witness fees and -much time of citi
zens have been saved.
House Burned
A four-room house in the north
east quarter of town, belonging
Id Mrs. R. P. Johnson and occu
pied by Tama Brown colored, was
burned Monday forenoon. The oc
cupants were gone. The little struc
ture burned like tinder, and noth
ing was saved.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Williamson and
son, Wilbur, of Sanford, were Sun
day afternoon visitors in the home
of T. B. Beal.
Mesdames G. B. Emerson, W. L.
Dunn and F. F. Watson were visi
tors in Greensboro last week.
Miss Evelyn Beaver, who was hurt
in a car wreck near Goldsboro, about
a month ago, came to her home, on
route 2 last Sunday, but returned
to Raleigh for further treatment by
a head specilist. Her friends will
be pleased to learn she is improving
nicely. She was accompanied home
by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Blake, of
Raleigh, with whom she is staying.
An infant of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Johnson, of near Meroney church,
died last Saturday, 'being just one
month of age. 'The funeral service
was held from Meroney church Sun
day morning, being conducted by T.
B. Beal.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Woody and
family have moved from their home
on Rt. 2 to their home in Bear
Creek (ormerly owned by B. F.
Moffitt). We are glad to welcome
this splendid family to our twon.
Mrs. W. B. Thomas, of Rt. 2,
Moncure, has been visiting her sis
ters, Mesdames J. D. Willett and
J. H. Fisher.
June J. Phillips had a severe at
tack of kidney and bladder trouble
last Sunday. Hs is taking treatment
in Durham. •
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Snipes, of Dur
ham; Miss Velna Phillips, of Pine
land College, Salemburg, N. C., and
Miss Allie Lou Phi' lips, of Burling
ton, were Sunday visitors in the
home of J. A. Phillips, of Rt. 2,
this office.
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Cumnock Bridge Burned
The old wooden bridge over Deep
river near Cumnock was burned
ast Monday. A concrete bridge on
the new section of highway sixty
serves now for general travel, but
it is considerably out of the way
for any one in the neighborhood
of the Coal Glen mine to cross that
in going to Cumnock or to San
ford.
NO CLUE
There seems to be no clue as to
who shot down Dalton D. Goodwin
early one morning last week at a
saw mill near Apex, where he was
employed as fireman. It is lament
able that such a crime is to go
unpunished.
Former Chathamites
Have Died Lately
A dispatch from Jonesboro tells
of the death, on Oct. 21, of Atlas
Dickens. He is characterized as
one of Chatham county’s leading
farmers in other days. He had
been blind for more than eight
years. He was 87 years of age.
The funeral services were at Zion’s
Christian church, ’ near Sanford.
The Raleigh papers report the
death of Elijah Gunter at the age
of 90 years at his home near
Fuquay Springs, where he had
lived for fifty years. However, he
was a native of Chatham county,
going to Wake when a young man.
Pneumonia was the immediate
cause of his death.
Few, if any residents * of
Chatham can recall Mr. Gunter’s
residence in the county, but so
near he had doubtless kept in
touch more or less with relatives
and friends on this side of the
line.
Mrs. Harris Dead
Mrs. Lizzie Harris, widow of
John A. Harris, one of the former
we’l known citizens of the Goldston
section, died last wek and was buried
at Meronies M. E. church, of which
she has been long a member. The
funeral services were conducted by
the pastor Rev. M. Griffin, assisted
by Rev. Jonas Barclay.
Mrs. Harris was a Miss Goldston
before marriage. She leaves five
stalwart sons, all of whom live in
Goldston and vicinity except one.
They are Messrs# Henry, Ed., Jodie.
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Miss Tressie Rogers, who is em
ployed in a five and ten cent store
at Grensboro, spent the Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Rogers in AObright township.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neves, of
Greenville, S. C., spent two days
last week with the latter’s sister,
Mrs. Peterson, and from here
visited Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Faison
at Roseboro.
We feel that our subscribers are
our friends as we are theirs, and
that they will do their best to help
us out with renewals. But they
should realize the urge of the mat
ter. The slacker advertising be
comes the more necessary it is that
subscriptions be paid. With good
advertising patronage, even as good
as that of three years ago, we could
get along now without subecription
money, as publication expenses are
much lower than then and living
expenses also. But, positively, sub
scription money is necessary now,
and your renewal may help save us
from prolonged embarrasiment. To
spend a cent to get your renewal
means greater hardship. It would
be easy to pay out every cent of
subscription received by hiring men
to go to see the subscriptioners.
If all could have the money the
day a representative called, it
would be different. But it would
take several calls to find all at
home and with the money in hand.
We hoped that it would be other
wise this fall, but it is as it is,
and it is tough on all of us. Our
living comes from littles. Squeeze
it out for us, please. Neighboring
papers, in their desperation are re
sorting to subscription campaigns,
but we cannot afford any such ex
pensive process.
Misses Jennie Connell and
Camilla Powell were in from Ra
leigh for the wek-end. Also the
University boys visited home folk.
The condition of Mr. J. L. Griffin,
we regret to report, is very dis
couraging. Mr. Griffin has been ill
for more than a year. He spent sev
eral months at hospitals, but re
turned from Watts several months
ago with considerable confidence
in being able to recover. However,
the last few months have been dis
couraging. He has been one of the
must successful and useful citizens
of tjie county, and his long afflic
tion has been much regretted by
hundreds of friends. He has borne
it, however, with much courage
and good cheer.
Mr. R. L. Houck, associated with the |
Vick Chemical Co., Greensboro, and
who recently bought the Bouldin
place northwest of Pittsboro, was
in town Tuesday.
Several friends and relatives were
guests of Mrs. R. M. Burns and
Mrs. Herbert Norris at last week
end. They were Mr Herbert B.
Norris and daughters, Misses Sarah
Williamson and Mary Ranson Norris
of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Laney
and Mrs. E. C. Crowell of Monroe,
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Norris litt e
son, Jesse Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Gar
land C. Norris and daughters, Misses
Frances Hill and Mary Neely Norris
of Raleigh.
Quite a number of Pittsboro
ladies attended the district meeting
of the Woman’s Clubs at Wendell
Tuesday.
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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 52
Walter Thrift Survived
Word reached Mr. John Thrift
last week to the. effect that his
brother Walter had been killed by
an electric shock received in the
Coal Glen mine last Wednesday
night, but when he got over there
he found that his brother had final
ly returned to consciousness. After
lying many hours apparently dead,
signs of life returned* and later full
consciousness. The victim of the
shock was taken to the Central
Caro 1 ina Hospital at Sanford. A
severe burn on the back of his
neck was in evidence. It was a close
call.
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Though Mr. A. C. Whitaker had
been in declining health for some
time and was very feeble when
his, birthday was celebrated a Sun
day or two ago, no one thought
that within a week he would at
tend Mr. Whitaker’s funeral. But
God saw fit to relieve him from
the suffering, due to rheumatism
and high blood pressure.
Mr. Whitaker was born in Orange
county 1861. After moving to this
county he was married to Miss Ann
Quight, to whom was born nine
children. She and five of the chil
dren had gone on before. The four
living children are Messrs. O. C.,
G. P., and A. C. Whitaker, . and
Mrs. 0. R. Mann, all of Pittsboro
Rt. 2. There are 14 grandchrdren
and eight great-grandchildren. Three
sisters also survive, living at Chap
el Hill.
He died the morning of Octo
ber 23. His last hours were rest
ful and he passed out as if falling
asleep. He had expressed himself to
the writer as ready and anxious to
go. He was a man of much know
ledge of the Bible and had been
a wonderful Sunday school teacher.
On Thursday night, Oct. 23,
Brown’s oldest member, Mrs. Liz
zie Quackenbush, in her 83rd year,
dropped suddenly dead at the home
of her daughter Mrs. Lou Ander
son near Winston-Salem. She had
been making her home with the
children since the death of her hus
band several years ago. Six child
ren are dead} four survive, namely,
D. V. Quackenbush, of Burlington,
Mrs. Anderson, Winston, Mrs.
Thompson and Mrs. Apple of Greens
boro.
Both Mr. Whitaker and Mrs.
Quackenbush were laid to rest in
the Brown’s churchyard. Many
floral tributes expressed the res
pect in which they were held by
many friends. We deeply sympa
thize with both the beraved fami
lies. J. A. Dailey conducted the
funeral of Mr. Whitaker and was
assisted by Rev. Mr. Clark of Win
ston in the service at the burial
of Mrs. Quackenbush.
Mrs. Ludie Cole and daughter,
of Winston, who left this community
two years ago, and Mrs. Maud
Cheek of Greensboro attended the
funeral ©f Mrs. Quackenbush. The
latter stayed over with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Justice.
We are informed by Mr. W. J.
Durham that his son G. C. Durham
was so bad 1 y off his mind that his
confidement became necessary. The
mental trouble is ascribed to the
loss of his home and many years’
earnings in the city of Durham.
Mr. G. C. Durham is totally deaf
and dumb, as is his wife. Mr. W. J.
Durham undertakes to care for Mrs.
Durham and the two children. Un
fortunately, no one seems to have
informed Mrs. Durham of what had
happened and she spent a night in
misery, not knowing where her hus
band was.
Mr. W. J. Durham was delighted
to have a visit from his aged sister
Mrs. Mollie Dark of Siler City.
The writer was much pleased, in
reading a letter from Mr. L. B.
Duke to Mr. Robt. Hatcher, game
warden, to note the sympathetic
feeling expressed for us poor South
ern farmers. Mr. Duke enclosed a
check for S4OO to be paid 'out to
the farmers from whom he has
leased hunting rights as the first
annual payment. This little income
wi' 1 help each farmer concerned.
Mr. O. C. Whitaker says he has
n’t enough cotton for a bale and
he supposes the fellow that got
his wife’s hasn’t either; so he says
that if the fellow will bring it back
they might bale it together.
Messrs. Brevard Brady and John
Durham and a friend spent Sunday
afternoon in the community. Mr.
j Housel Brady is back at his old
home here with Mr. and Mrs. M.
T. Lindsey.
Mr. Gordon Marshall was home
from Elon College. He has recover
ed from an injury recently received.
Jerome and Junius Durham re
cently took the school bus to Ox
ford to have the body lengthened
to accommodate the 50 chi dren
who go to the Pittsboro school from
this commuity.
Mr. John Creed is said to have
sold tobacco last week at an aver
age of 18 cents. Mr. J. F. Bouldin
sold at 11 cents, but in the -long
run Mr. Bouldin’s crop, it is thought
will average more than Mr. Creed’s
Mr. R. H. Lindley’s mother has
been dead some time. It should
have been his brother’s birthday
instead of his mother’s, as mistaken
, ly printed last week.