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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1930 ************* * * l town and * ' COUNTY BRIEFS * * » A ************* ~ va< 315 votes that Mr. Brooks pi-. Chapin for coroner in 0f ‘215. "Ksdames W. P. Horton and (', Shannonhouse atended the . V p.-T. A. Convention in High j last week. :lo Julia Bland, daughter of md Mrs. Will F. B and, has "h ;uite ill with diptheria, but is uh as improving. ' and Mrs. Oran Dorsette and ilerbert of Greensboro spent u t i C o Hay in the home of J. S. as of Gulf township. and Mrs. Fell of Trenton. N. i -itoti their kin folk in Pitts ;ast week. The Record always oc tales a call from Mr. Fell, Pty fine fellow. Roy Cadieu, of the Hamlet -Messenger brought his charm ride of a few months up to his brother newspaper man’s , ':v Sunday. s Margaret Shelton, assistant of the Siler City town govern p, spent Tuesday here in the „ter of deed’s office copying ds for her town. Pastor J. A. Dailey left Monday .noon for the Conference at nderson. His friends hope that may again be assigned to the I ttsboro circuit. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Bass of Wil -in county happened to drop in at * e home of the latter’s parents -t Thursday night just at the time • er to see her uncle from Savan h, whom she had never seen. Mr. R. L. Peterson and son, who came up from Savannah for the p. mpson School reunion, left Mon ay for Clinton to visit relatives n ihe old home county. Miss Gladys Peterson accompanied them for a visit in the same homes. You will observe a large adver tisement of the Greensboro Hard > are Company, and should find interest in reading of the opportuni ties that good company offords its patrons. Rev. Mr. Baker, pastor of the Mebane Presbyterian church, very much pleased his hearers here last week at a meeting held in the Pres byterian church. Bad weather and ther interferences, however, deter red many from attending regularly. The Gulf Mercantile Company was the victim of a considerable robbery last week, when thieves broke in and carried away two dozen men’s suits, 23 pair of shoes, ~;x raincoats, three dozen shirts, and a quantity _of men’s and women’s hose, cigarettes, etc. The engagement of Miss Gretchen Mae Cheek of Siler City to Mr. Pal mer Wilcox Dark of Kansas City. Miss Cheek •is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cheek and is a young lady of much charm. She is employ t i in the Chatham Bank. Mr. Dark is a sen of Mr. Robert Dark of Siler City, but for the past year ha< held a responsible position with the Moline Power Implement Com pany of Minneapolis, but is located at Kansas City. Mr. D. B. Nooe has installed a feed mill at the planing mill, which is a much needed institution here. He is prepared to grind anything you have in the way of feed from corn stalks or shucks to cain seed. It is to be hoped that Pittsboro people wil no longer have to pay three cents a pound for a mixture of 90-cent corn and wheat. He grinds upon a toll basis. Os course, his clients should be aware that Mr. W. P. Horton is now again in his office after several weeks as secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee, but there is no harm in mention ing the fact. However, he made a trip to Chicago on business this week. The Record had on its list six of the seven Copeland brothers, and four of them have come in recently to renew, and when L. A. came in we made it unanimous hy putting the seventh brother on the list, as Mr. L. A. had -heard him express a purpose to subscribe. More than eight dollars from that one group in the past three weeks has helped the horse to go, though he is still going very slowtly. Fellows, do like the Copeland and squeeze out a renewal for the Record. It is ..your friend and affords just about the only means of a citizen’s knowing what is ‘being done in the county. —, AGED LADY OF BENNETT DIED LAST SUNDAY. Mrs. Maria Jones, widow of Em's-’ ley Jones, died at the age of 80, Sunday, at the home of her step son, Mr. C. R. Jones at Bennett. She has been sick for several months, but critically ill for a few days. The funeral service was conduc ted by Pastor J. C. Kidd at Falls Freek Baptist church. Interment was in the churchyard. She .is survived by three step sons. MF. l E., GAR.* and A. C. Jones, °f Bepnett. and four . step-daught ers * Mrs. H. C. Purvis, of McCon nell, Mrs. D. H. Welch, of Mt. ernon Springs, Mrs. J. W. Hill and Mrs. J. L. Hill, both of Bennett. Three' brothers, J. T. Jones, of Siler City, H. L. Jones,' of Graham, and J. W. Jones, of Greensboro, and four sisters, Mrs. William Bar ker, of Siler City, R. F. D,, Mrs. Cheek, of Mt. Vernon Springs, and Mrs. S. S. Edwards and Mrs. J. R. Paschal], of Siler City, also survive. * • . ' l State and General NEWS g - Raleigh, Nov. 12.—A. H. (Sandy) Graham, of Hillsboro, is expected to be a candidate for Lieutenant Gover nor of North Carolina in 1932” and for Governor of North Carolina in 1936. While no definite announcement has been made in either case, it ;s generally understood among his friends that Mr. Graham will enter the race for Lieutenant Governor in due time, and that such entry will have a definite object—that of be coming candidate for Governor four years later. Although only 40 years old. Mr. Graham has packed a lot of ex perience in his limited years, parti cularly since he graduated from the University of North Carolina in iPI2, studied law there the next year and at Harverd Law School in 1913-14. He entered the first Of ficers Training Camp early in 1917 and served for more than two years, rising to a Captaincy with the 81st Division in France. Since 1921 he has been a mem ber of the General Assembly from Orange county and has served as chairman of several important com mittees, all leading him to the speakership of that body in 1929. He has served as a member of the Advisory Budget Commission for several years and during the past two months has been Executive Counsel to Governor Gardner, all of which positions, his friends say, are excellent training for the next two positions to "which he is al most certain to aspire. In the first contest he will doubt less have as an opponent D. F. Giles, of Marion, former legislator, now secretary of the N. C. Railroad and, within the past years or two, be coming an attorney at law. Wil liam F. Wood, also of Marion, and State Senator, has also made some sort of conditioned announcement for the Lieutenant Governorship. In the second race, that for the Governorship, Mr. Graham will in all probability contend with Judge Thomas L. Johnson, Asheville, for merly of Lumberton, who retired from the approaching 1932 gover norship race, but who has let it be known that he still has his eye on that goal for 1938, and Col. Thomas L. Kirkpatrich, Charlotte, original good roads enthusiast, who has said he expects to be a can didate in 1936. Other prospects are W. M. Hendren, Winstom-Salem, A. L. Brooks, Greensboro, and— but the quintet will be enough to mention for the present. The “irreducable minimum’ of 13 Republicans in the North Carolina legislature, 10 representatives and three senators, achieved in 1923 through the charged gerrymandering of senatorial districts by the late Col. A. D. Watts, was still further ’■educed to eight Republicans, six representatives and two senators, as a result of the election last week, which proved a landslide for the Democrats of greater proportions than the 1928 Republican deluge. While the Democrats were win ning more than 100 Representatives and a dozen senators for an al most exact even number with the Republicans in the National Con gress, and carrying many hitherto rock-ribbed Republican states with the election of Democratic governors and other officers, North Carolina Democrats made inroads that sur mised even the most sanguine party leaders. They e’ected a full Demo cratic delegation to Congress and 144 of the 150 Representatives and 48 of the 50 Senators in the State General Assembly, and reclaimed county governments in more than 20 counties. The only two Republican senators are A. T. Grant, Mocksville, veteran representative of the 24th district, composed of the Republican counties of Davie, Wilkes and Yakin, of which Davie went Democratic and Wilkes elected a Democrats representa tive this time, and Roy A. Harmon, Elk Park, from the 30th district, composed of Avery, Madison, Mit chell and Yancy counties. Six counties having republican representatives are Avery, Mitchell, Pamlco, Randolph, which elected half of the Democratic ticket, Samp son and Yadkin, where the Republi can lead of 14 votes is being con tested. Some of the counties that have been since Civil War times swung to the Democratic column last week, and some of those remaining in the Republican column are there by greatly re duced majorities. All of the counties which went to that column in 1928 are now back in the Democratic fold. . . Josiah William Bailey’s majority for U. S. Senate over his Republican opponent, George M. Pritchard, will .probably reach 120.000, largest in the history of the State. In the 9th Congressional district, the only one in grave doubt, Major A. L. Bul winkle defeated Congressman Char les A. Jonas, Republican, by a large majority, and Zebulon Weaver, re deemed the 10 th, winning easily over Brownlow Jackson, Republican, thus reclaiming the two districts carried by the Republicans in 1928 and giving the State a solid dele gation of 10 Congressmen, with two Senators. Shift of 29 members of the House of Representatives in 1929, includ ing one Independent, to the Demo cratic co’urnn in 1931, a part of which was expected, has brought, about redoubled efforts among the four candidates for the Speakership of the next House among the new Democratic members. The candi dates, Willis Smith, Raleigh, E. B. Moss, Spring Hope, Fred I. Sutton, Kinston, and H. G. “Tobe” Conner, Wilson, are out after the new votes. All have numbers of pledges of support, but it is not safe now, with the possibilities of trades and shifts, to make a safe prediction. Only eight members of the 1929 Senate will return, but several of the new members have had legisla tive experience in one or both of THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. the houses before. Three candidates are mentioned for President Pro Tom of the Senate, to serve with the President, Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain. They are Marvin K. Blout, Greenville, Rivers D. Johnson, Warsaw. and H. P. Horrton, Pitts boro, the latter two returning after two-year intervals. Deposits in State banks in North Carolina decreased nearly ten mil - ion dollars, $9,950,000, durring the past year, or from to $250,000,000 on Sept. 24, last, as compared with October 4, 1929, the report of John Mitchell, chief State bank examiner, on the 405 banks, including 84 branches, shows. Total resources of these banks decreased $27,652,000 in that per iod, or from $341,183,000 to $313,- 530,000, but in the last three months, since the call dated June 30„, 1930, the resources have in creased slightly, $1,469,000, the report shows. Investments in stocks and bonds during the year increased by $5,800,000, while decreases were shown in loans and discounts of 826,000,000, in government secur : - ties of $1,800,000, in cash due from banks of $1,200,000, and in bank ing house, furniture and fixtures, $4,300,000. Capital, surplus, etc*, dropped $2,200,000 and borrowed money decreased $15,000,000, the re port shows. A county board of education has supreme and final authority in fix ing the number of teachers in county schols, even at a figure low er than the State schedule, the N. C. Supreme Court held in dismiss ing the mandamus brought by Johnston county schoql districts to force the board to supply the sched filed number of teachers, after a cut, due to the reduced budget, had been made. The action of the board in that particular was not subject to control by mandamus, the court held. A compromise had previously been reached by the education board and the hoard of county commission ers, so the decision had no definite effect upon this . much-contested Johnston county case. jJ; * A State wide eight months school term for North Carolina, the last two months of which may be su pended by the County Board of Education when the attendance will not justify its continuation, is em braced in one of the two bills drawn up by the Special Education al Commission prrovided by the 1929 legislature and to besubmitted to the 1931 body through Govern or Gardner, just made public. In another bill, which the commission offers in case the General Assem bly is not ready to enact the eight months bi'l, are included provisions seeking to produce efficiency and economv. as are also included in the first bill. The economy of operation is sought through consolidation of ad ministrative units, of school term, of spending agencies and by great er aid from the State in current operating costs. Savings are expect ed through suggested increase in teacher load, by abolishing the ex perience increment in teacher sal aries, and in the administration of schools. The bills seek to further elimi nate the small schoo's in favor of units, permit the transfer of pupils across district lines within the coun ties and allow distribution of pupils to equalize the teaching load. The commission in its report, finds it “inadvisable at this time to create the office of business manager or financial secretary for the State Board of Education,” one of the objects the commission was named to investigate and report on. $ LEE McIVER KILLS HIMSELF Among the reports of hundreds of suicides during these years of financial distress comes as a shock to his many friends in central North Carolina the news of the death of Mr. Lee Mclver, of the Lee Furni ture Company, of Sanford, by his own hands Sunday night. A meeting of the directors of the company had just closed when Mr. Mclver returned to the rear of the company’s store and shot himself ’dead. He was a most lovable fe 1 - low and his company for several years greatly prospered—so much so that a few years ago it invest ed in a most costly building on Steele street, where it was hoped the business would prosper. Thus the capital of the company was taxed to the uttermost just when the succession of bad crops in this section paralized all business. Presumably, the deplorable con dition that he had to reveal to the directors and the feeling of regret that he had led others to lose their money by investments in the enter prise so wrought upon his nerves that he was driven to the rash act. The editor of the Record feels a keen personal loss in Mr. Me Iver’s passing. He was a lovable character and a good business man. Much sympathy goes to his wife and children. <j> Death of Mrs. Lizzie Harris Mrs. Lizzie Harris, wife of the late John A. Harris was born June 1865, died October 24th, 1930 at the home of her son J. J. Harris of Goldston, with whom she lived for several years. She has been an invalid for most two years, and had another stroke and she passed quietely and sweet ly away. Funeral services were conducted at Meronies Methodist church with Rev, L. M. * Chaffin, officiating, as sisted by Rev. Jonas Barclay of the Presbyterian church, i * t “ Mrs. Harris was a member of this church and had lived*- a con sistent Christian life, and an : active church worker until health* failed. The funeral was largely attend ed and the floral offerings’ were very beautiful. The deceased is survived by six sons, J. J. and E. M. Harris of Goldston, W. G. Harris of Apopka. Fla., T. H. and P. D. Harris of Siler City route five and W. G Harris of Thomasville, two sisters * ■> Mrs. A. S. Dalton of Winston-Sa lem and MMrs. E. A. Rives. ol Greensboro, with a host of near re atives and friends to mourn the loss of this good Christian woman. She will be missed by those who knew her, but Heaven is richer and nearer because she i« there. VETERAN GIVEN SURPRISE Mr. J. D. Dowdy was given a surprise birthday dinner by a few relatives, Sunday, November 16, at his home near Antioch, in honor of his 84th birthday. At noon a most delicious dinner was served. The center of the table contained a large birthday cake. There was a lovely custard pie with his initials and age on it. Fruit, candy and cold drinks were served throughout the day. Every one declared they had the most delightful time and wished Mr. Dowdy many more happy, pros perous yea-s. He is one of the few remaining confederate veterans. Mr. Dowdy has been in declining health for the past two years and his many friends will be glad to note that he was able to ride over to Goldston Saturday afternoon and be up and enjoy his birthday dinner Sunday. ■ COURT PROCEEDINGS The following cases were tried at the session of the county court Monday: Massey MiTlikin, charged with breaking into the Elder Motor Com pany’s cash drawer and securing more than $25 in cash, was bound over to Superior Court. He was sent to the roads on another case for three months; hence a bond be came unnecessary. The same col ored gent was convicted of aban donment, but prayer for judgment was continued to the first Monday in February. The road sentence was given for breaking out of the Siler City bastile. Norman Shambley submits to charge of possession of liquor, but . he was also convicted of the pos session of apparatus for the manu facture of liquor and the actual manufacture of it. He got a sen tence of 18 months on the roads. Clarence Kelly, who hit another white man with an iron pipe, charged with an iron pipe, charged with assault with deadly weapon, got off lightly because of the pro vocation. Judgement was suspend ed for two years, on condition of good behavior and upon payment of costs and a $7.50 doctor’s bill. Paul Chisholm drew a sentence of six months for larceny and Char lie Chisholm had prayer for judg ment continued for two years upon payment of costs. W. H. Chisholm not guilty of receiving stolen goods. —<♦> CARD OF THANKS We take this means to express our heartfelt thanks to all who were so kind and thoughtful during the illness and death of our mother. May God’s richest blessings be yours. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Harris and brothers. ® Attendance in N. C. Schools Show Increase Raleigh, Nov. 5. “Both enrollment and attendance in the public ele mentary and high schools of the State for 1929-30 show an in crease over that of the preceding school year,” declared State Superin tendent of Public Instruction A. T. AFen today in a statement to the press. “Although this year’s increase did not establish any new records, there are a number of reasons for the inuprovement in this respect”, he continued. Last year, there were 866,939 children enrolled, or 11.057 more than the number for 1928-29. This year’s addition is less than half the increase of 1927-28, when there was a gain of 24,627. a three per cent increase, over the 1926-27 enrollment. The present total enrollment is divided, according to the state ment issued by Supt. Allen, into 607,344 white pupils and 259,595 colored pupils. In other words, 70 per cent of the total schoo' enroll ment is white and 30 per cent colered. School attendance, or the aver age number of enrolled pupils at tending school daily, has also in creased. During 1929-30 there was an average daily attendance of 672,895 pupils, botlh white and colored. This number represented an increase of 28,140 over the at tendance for the preceding year, and lacking only 714 reaching the record year of 1927-28, when there was an increase of 28.854 pupils in average daily attendance. The annual percentage increases in at tendance for the past several years are shown by Supt. Allen to be as follows: for 1925-26 1.6 per cent, for 1926-27 1.0 per cent, 1927-28 4.5 per cent, 1928-29, .64 per cent, and for 1929-30, 4.36 per cent. Out of every 100 pupils enrolled last year 77 were in average daily attendance. This record, the highest yet made, is just 4 more than in 1924-25, or an average increase of less than half a pupils a yfear. Among the schools for white child ren the percentage in attendance is 80, and for the colored pupils it is 72; but the colored improve ment in attendance for the five year period has been slightly greater than that for the white race. This increase in school enroll ment and attendance for 1929-30 is, according to Supt. Allen, due to several causes: First, during 1929-30, there were fewer epidemics of contagious disease previous years. Dur ing 1928-29 contagious diseases were prevalent in ‘many sections of the state,., and consequently the in crease in" School attendance for ...that year wasrless than for 1927-28/ ’ Second, many counties for Ahe first - time operated a split term, closing the schools after running a month or six weeks to allow .the children to 'help with cotton picking and other work on the farm, and then reopening them again after this work had been finished. In this way the number of absences were reduced, and as a conse quence v a higher attendance was maintained. Thidr, in many systems a greater emphasis than ever before was placed upon the matter of im proved school attendance. Many superintendants put on attendance campaigns, and the State Board of Charities and We’fare through its division of school attendance stressed its importance. And lastly, the economic de pression began to be felt and many of the older boys and girls who were formerly employed found them selves without jobs, and so re turned to school. I $5.00 for a beautiful Permanent Wave. Mayfair Beauty Shoppe Chapel Hill, N. C., Phone 6691 | ******* j; ****** : WANT ADS ; *************** NOW IS THE TIME to buy your candies for the Christmas trade from the Norßrook Candy Com pany. Their prices are the lowest and their candies the purest, fresh est, and best. Send orders to Pittsboro. STRAIGHT SALARY—S3S.OO p7r week and expenses. Man or wom an with rig to introduce Poultry Mixture, Eureka Mfg. Co., East St. Louis, 111. 11-13-30 The Enterprise Mill Company’s ginnery will run only on Satur days from now on. 11-13-30 A NICE shipment of salt just re ceived. C. E. Durham, Bynum. Nov 6-27 FAST COLOR PIECE goods in a variety of shades for 20 cents a yard, at C. E. Durham’s. WURK SHOES and dress shoes, plus style, at unusually low prices. Come while your size is in stock. C. E. Durham, Bynum, N. C. TULIPS, NARCISSUS, HYACINTH, and other bulbs. Spencer Mixed Sweet Pea Seed. Farm grass seed, Rye, Grass Seed. See us for seeds of all kinds. J. H. Monger, San ford, N. C. HAVE YOUR Pictures framed by Geo. H. Brooks, Sr. OATS, RYE, WHEAT for seed will be on hand on or before September 15. Several varieties of oats, including the marvelous New Victory, which produces wonderful crops of grain weigh ing as high as 44 pounds a bushel. See sample at Poe and Moore’s, Pittsboro. GOOD PURE COFFEE 20 cents a pound a pound at R. J. Moore’s. ! MlLK—Better milk—Aerator cool ed, bottles sterilized. No more complaints of sour milk. Let me furnish you. Lexie Clark. CHICKEN FEED, sweet feeds, oats, etc., wholesale or retail at lowest prices at Poe and Moore’s, Pitts boro. PROFESSIONAL, nurse. I am lo cated in Pittsboro and offer my services as a professional nurse to the people of Chatham r unty. Elsie Lucile Peterson. R. N. I PLANT IT for you—Ornamental Shrubbery, grown in my Chatham county nursery, brought right to your door and iDlanted so as to assure its living and forming a beautiful ensemble. D. S. Cope land, Apex Rt. 3. r — ——\ Lee Hardware Co. * ) Headquarters for Farming Tools, Implements, Mill Supplies, Builders* Supplies, Kitchen and Household Hardware i- See Us for Roofing and Paints . Chatham Folk are invited to make our store headquarters when in Sanford THE LEE HARDWARE CO. Sanford, N. C. . v / r. ■—: " ■ a CHECK YOUR WAY TO A SAVINGS ACCOUNT If you do not maintain a checking account with this 1 bank we believe that if you will start one and make all payments by check that you will find that at the end of the month you will have money that probably you wouldn’t have had otherwise. Checking accounts promote thrift and leave you something to start a savings account with. C -r • - ' * . A i THE BANK OF MONCURE MONCUBE, N. C. V A FOR GLASS cut to any shape or dimensions, see Geo. H. Brooks, Sr. \ I " 1 will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in Pittsboro from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Tuesday, Nov. 25. I ... , . ■ ■■. ■■ , . „■ J 6 6 6 is a doctor’s Prescription for ! COLDS and HEADACHES i. It is the most speedy remedy known. 666 also in Tablets. An Unpleasant Sabject All of the functions of life are. not pleasant to consider. Perhaps, this is why some mothers refuse to think that, such symptoms as restless sleep, loss of flesh, lack of. appetite or itching nose and fingers in their children, can be caused by round or pin worms. Many mothers have proven, however, that a few doses of White’s Cream Vermi fuge, that, sure and harmless worm expellant, wail make these symptoms disappear. Yoil can get White s Cream Vermifuge for 35 cents per bottle from Pittsboro Drug "Co. Adv. Dr. Arthur H. London, Jr. WILL PE AT Dr. CHAPIN’s OFFICE on Tuesday of each week from 11:00 to 12:00 a. m. for the Practice of Disease of Infants and Children C^jlr ANY BABY I WE can never be sure just whaf makes an infant restless, but ! the remedy can always be the same, i Good old Castoria! There’s comfort in I every drop of this pure vegetable prep aration, and not the slightest harm in itr. i frequent use. As oilen as Baby has a i fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can’t 1 sleep, let Castoria soothe and quiet him. i Sometimes it is a touch of the colic: ! or constipation. Or dreaded diarrhea— a condition that should be checked j without delay. Just keep Castoria hand} i and give it promptly. Relief will follow 1 very promptly; if it doesn’t you should call a physician. CASTORIA
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