THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930
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w rs l. D. Johnson went up to
Waits hospital Monday with a view
'' a possrb’-e operation.
1 Pastor Dailey will preach at
oJuvn’s Chapel Suday morning at
fi o’clock and at Pittsboro M. E.
church at 7 o’clock that evening.
iyj r V. M. Dorsett attended the
overman; funeral at Salisburv Sat
irdav Mrs. R. H. Hayes, wiho is
’jgjting her brother in Davie county,
was also at the funeral. \
It is eight and not eleven neg
w,es in jail here on charge of rob
bing the Mclver store at Gu f. Six
others werfe arrested for robbing
stores at Colon, Vass and possibly
other points, but they are in jail
jn the other counties.
The Recordman was glad to have
a call Saturday from Mr. and Mrs.
John S. Hart of Gulf township,
itlr?. Hart ids a native of Sampson,
a« was the former Mrs. Hart, and
that fact makes a visit from them
more like one from home folk.
Mr. G. C. Cole of Gulf
made 4820 pounds of \ ginned cot
ton on ten acres. This was his first
rear as a tobacco grower, but on
2% acres he made tobacco which
sold for $325 K beating fiis -cotton
by far, as successful as jie was in
growing that. Mr. Cole’ land is a
sandy loam. • ;
Mr. C. M. Marshburn of Carbon
ton writes that Rev, Geo. M. Talley
will preach at Christian Chapel
church, near Corinth, next Sunday,
Dec. 21, at 2:30 P. M. He will
preach at Shady Grove church, near
Ether, at 11 A. M. the same day,
and at Bear Creek that evening at
7:30. His text wi 1 be John XIV:3.
Mr. Marshburn speaks in the high
est terms of Mr. Tally’s ability and
urges those who can do so to go
out and hear him. His circuit that
day will cover 200 miles.
Harvey Womble tells us that he
and some other fellows went o’pos
sum hunting one night recently
and when they cut down a for
a ’possum not only got one but
found two rich bee hives in the
tree, which furnished everybody and
the dogs a baiit and left many
pounds to be carried away.
County court in session for a
while Monday heard charges against
Willie Millikin, Toy Chambers, and
Melvin Chambers. Millikin got a
sentence of 60 days to the roads
for disorderly conduct, including as
sault; Toy Chambers was acquitted
of charge disorderliness; but Mel
vin Chambers pleaded guilty to
driving car whil Q drunk and drew
a sentence of six months. It was
decreed by Judge Bell that C" am
bers may serve the six months in
the employ of G. F. Hancock, pro
vided that gentleman would pay the
costs in all three of the cases.
Remember that advertising has
been short and that bhe Record must
depend more than usual upon sub
scription money to meet bills. Don’t
postpone renewing. The Record is
one of very few county papers in
the state that haven’t got a goodly
sum for publishing land tax sale ad
vertising. Chatham county hasn’t
made any such advertisements this
whole year. And thus the Record,
with all the other drawbacks, has
not had even the comparatively
small amount that is paid in Chath
am for that service which falls short
of what the papers get in most
counties. In view' of this and the
general shortage of advertising, you
should renew just as early as you
can.
Pension checks are being de
livered by Clerk of Court Hatch,
but there is little chance being giv
en this year for any clerk to play
the Gant and Sessoms game. The
pensioner must either sign i. the
voucher or the witness of his mark
must himself have, a witness, or
notary's seal backing him., There
are only eleven olcj., so <sfers' .tetilj.
•living in the county. These ail get a
■dollar a day. Qne body guard, Uncle
Alex Jones, who is about TOO years
old, gets S2OO a year. Three widows
of Class A get S3OO a year each,
and 43 widows of Class B get? SIOO
a year each. The checks now being
distributed are for half the above
amounts, similiar checks having been
paid in June. 1 ;,/•
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This geranium rivals nature for It
blooms every day in thp year. Never
falls. It is the latest in paiet!
flower decorations. It is so realistic
as to be deceiving—looks like nature’s
▼cry own. Charming to give as a
Christmas remembrance. A roll of
geranium-colored paper, some green
paper for leaves, a bit of wire, arti
ficial moss to fill the flower pot is the
equipment necessary for the making
of these decorative flowers. One can
either hand-enamel the flower pots,
i "osing dissolved sealing wax, which
works very satisfactorily, or fluted pa
per can be tied around as florists do.
Chatham Fifty" '’
Year* Ago.
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Fifty years ago Chatham county,
along wiith Moore and Halifax, hook
wihat was then adopted as a ijuick
and effective way to secure. pro-i
hibition in a county. The law re
quired that any man licensed to
sell liquor must be a man of good
character, and it began to be the*
practice of the boards-'' of '-com-'
miissionens. -to act;;. upon the basis
that no ; man of good character
woulld apply for. license to sell,
quof. The first* of December-1880,
according to Va 50-year
s 'in Raleigh Times, Ghathalh
was ofie of/ the three counties ’bhj|r
to that ;step. Older cirri
probably*: tell what became. ; .of the
experiment. The writer personally
Ire<**l s the time when 'Robeson counJ
acted upon the assumption men
tioned and got by with it, but that’
seenfits to have been several years
after the experiment on the part
of Chatham. ;• •
The same source is to be credi
ted with the following item:
“The Rittsboro Record quoted
Julius A. Gray,-, president of the
C. F. and Y. V. R. R., as saying
that arrangements have been made
to install a telegraph along --the,
road from Fayetteville to Gulf.” .. M
The railroad fifty‘‘"'years'* ago,
readers should recall, has been
built no further north than Gulf,..,
It was only a few years later that
the line was extened northward
from Gulf to Mt. Airy and south
from Fayetteville to Wilmington.
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Four Trainmen Hurt
As Boiled Explodes
Four trainmen were injured, one
or more of them probably seriously,
when the boiler of a freight engine
blew up on the main line of the
Seaboard Air Line railway 15 miles
from Baufort, S. C., Friday, Dec. 5.
The explosion occurred just be
fore the freight bound for Charles
ton from Savannah, Ga., drew in
Lebeco, S. C. The injured men
were taken to Savannah in am
bulances about two hours after the
accident.
They were B. F. Smalit, engineer;
B. B. Groups, conductor; W. P.
Bryman, brakeman, all of Savannah.
Anthony Collins, negro fireman, was
thrown 75 yards, members of the
crew said.
The engine was a’most torn in
pieces by the explosion. The first
car left its wheels and piled up on
the tender and the next cars rolled
on top of the tender and first car.
The boiler and firebox were blown
clear of the engine. A wrecking
crew from Savannah arrived late
Friday afternoon.
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Peach Institute Met on
December 16 and 17
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The second annual meeting of the
Carolinas Peach Institute at Colum
bia, S. C., on December 16th, and
West End, N. C., on December 17th,
again saw the growers assembled
at which time they were afforded
n opportunity to hear well-qualified
men discuss subjects having a very
prominent bearing on the future of
this industry which is now so firmly
established that its continued success
wi 1 be felt in all quarters of the
Carolinas.
A number of men of national re
putation have accepted inviations to
discuss various subjects before the
meetings of the peach growers. The
program will be further supported by
local men and extension and research
workers of both North and South
Carolina who have devoted a large
portion of their time to the several
problems which still confront the
peach growers who this year are en
joying a singular position, in that
they represent one group that have
received satisfaction returns from
an agricultural commodity. The fu
ture prosperity of the peach business
will be largely contingent on matters
that the-speakers will -discuss in these
meetings and it is therefore expected
that with the renewed interest in the
peachb usiness, due to this season’s
results, sthat a large number of grow
ers will take advantage of
portunity so offered them and a
good attendance is anticipated.
Considerable interest has centered
around the quick freezing of peaches
which Mr. W. R. Tucker of Atlanta,
Ga., who will appear on the program,
handled this past season, and the
successful culmination of this work
woula provide a new outlet for fresh
peaches which would broaden the'
marketa nd insure the growers of a
satisfactory manner for disposal of at
least a portion of their fruit and even j
in years when the already established j
distant markets would not offer sat- j
isfaetdry prices that wou’d permit a
profit to the grower, the crop could
be saved through this medium.
;\'Th«i. meeting at the Jefferson Ho-'
tel, Columbia, S. C., is being held
simultaneously with a meeting of the
South '• Carolina Peach Growers As-1
sociation, so that the speakers will,
have all opportunity of addressing |
both bodies at the same time. The
North Carolina meeting at West End ;
will be held in the High School Aud- j
ifcoriunv and will be followed the
next' day by a fie’d demonstration
dealing with cultural practices. In the
Columbia meeting, Peach Institute
officers for the ensuing year will be
nominated and at West End, these
nominations will g
No Change in Books,-
fi r it-Presw °t Pff rd
ultimatum spread the news Friday
| December 5, at Raleigh that there
would be no adoption of new text
'books this year by the North Caro
lina board of education.
..The statement follows in full:
“At a meeting in the governors
office Friday, it was decided by the
state board of 6*duc option lih&t tIfGTG
would be no adoption of text books
this year and all bids were accord
| ingly rejected.”
HE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO. N. C.
The special text book commission
, was in session Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday to consider proposed
changes in text books for arithme
, tic, drawing and writing—one major
! and two minor subejets a&. allowed
by lawfto be changed in one year.
1 Book 4;drummers crowded around
in the commission's office, and,last
Thursday things came to a pofet
When t&e bids were opened at nodh.
*, 'They were considered- Friday* • the
■■ text: o6ok -.oohrimlission went> 4iito
executive ifcsmip-. wm £Gev. O. Max
f .Gardner and within; » few minutes
i, m statement announcing
decision to buy was
Mdirth Carolina
Items of Interest
Tobacco Co-op# |To proceed
with Charter; Othfr J
State News
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RALEIGH, Dec. 101—Three out of
every 100,. or 87,370 of the estimated
J 1,250,000 employes subject to the N.
C.: Workmen’s Compensation Act,
were injured during the first year of
f t'he operation _of_ the act, beginning
Ju’y
quired no medical or compensation
costs, 24,350 had medical costs only
and 9,681 were awarded comsensa
tion averaging $11,69 a week, the
first annual report of the N. C. In
jdustrial Commission shows.
I During the year 191 workers were
killed, compensation was awarded in
1117 of the cases, denied in 44 and
1 30 were still pending, the report
shows. The three members of the
commission, Chairman Matt H. Al
len, J. Dewey Dorsett and T. A. Wil
son, held 558 hearings in disputed
cases, awarding compensation in 378
and denying it in 182 cases, and
heard 78 appeals from the decision of
one of their number to the full board.
Thirty-six cases were appealed to the
Superior Court, 28 of which were
, pending, and six were appealed to
' the Superior Court, in a 1 of which
the opinions of the commission were
affirmed. Os the 12,571 employers
subject to the act, 11,396 carried in
surance, 98 individual firms and 56
towns, counties and the State were
self-insurers, 676 employers rejected
the act and 345 neither insured nor
rejected the act. Total compensation
and medical costs the first year were
$1,789,825, the report shows,
j Richmond county had 313 accidents
reported, involving a total cost of
$10,182, practically every cent paid
.by the insurance companies, accord
i ing to the report.
,' J. R. Page, head of the N. C. To
bacco Growers Cooperative Associa
tion, was authorized last week at a
! meeting of the executive committee
in Raleigh to go ahead with plans for
securing a charter and to open of
fices in,Raleigh. The. charter must
i meet the approval of tne Federal
Farm Loan Board. The body hopes
to get this approval in time to meet
.here this week to proceed with the
! organization of the association under
| the charter.
! Textbooks in the elementary grades
in the pub ic schools of the State
will not be changed next year, the
State Board of Education announc
ing last Friday that all bids on arith
• metic, drawing and writing books,
the three subjects up for considera
tion, had been rejected. Some of
bids were lower than the prices paid
,for books now, it was stated,
i The fact that an additional cost
of an estimated $60,000 would come
about the first year if the proposed
changes were made, and the general
economic condition, helped influence
the board, although the extra cost
the first year would have been re
covered by the lower prices for the
books during the four succeeding
years in which the books would have
been used v ,
| The main objective to continue the
present books in arithmetic, drawing,
and writing is that it also continues
all of the other books now in use for
ja year longer, and, in some instances,
i notably geography and history, the
j books will be in dse for about 12
years and are becoming obsolete and
; out of date.
North Carolina had a total of 111,-
832 horses, total value $5,114,685,
average value $45.78; total of 281,-
j 459 mules, total value $18,832,934,
.average value $66.87; total of 461.-
j 842, cattle, total value $13,156,746,
average value $28.48; total of 944,-
1 555 hogs, total value $5,341,294,
J average value $5.66, and 101,621
ishee, total value $453,958, average
lvalue $4.46, or a grand total of 1,-
1901,309 animals in thes five divisions,
jail valued at $42,889,617, an aver-
I age of $22.56 per animal, for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, ac
cording to the report of the State
I Board of Assessment, just issued.
I Noticable in the report is the pre
dominance of horses in the west,
! mules in the east, cattle in the west
and piedmont, sheep in the mountains
land hogs in the east. Highest aver
!age prices for horses are found in
Halifax, $63.14, lowest in Dare $19.-
85; for cattle, highest in Avery, $56.-
128, lowest In 'Moo're, $15.53; fo!r
mules highest in Greene, $87.65, low
iest in Buncombe $41.61; for hogs,
highest in, Cleveland,, $11.25, lowest;
iiii/Hard,252.23? flrfrlsheep, highest;
in Ajshe,, $6.90,» -lowest in Tyrrel,;
$1 < m it /;> !
Richmond county had 441 horses.;
vgdroslft,6£s, average $44.50; mules,
j2so&, TOtfe $159,968, average $59.-
95; cattle, 2,483, value $71,784, aver-,
is2rsri;;hogs, 4,150, value $28,-;
626, average $6.89; sheep, 58, value
$160.00, average $2.75, the report
showed.
D. G. Brummitt, Attorney Gen
eral of North Carolina, will address
the annual meeting of the Society
of Mayf’ower Descendants in the
State of North Carolina in Raleigh
next Saturday night.
The Mayflower Society’s offer of
a. loving cup to be awarded the
veys in the nine districts,
j The State system now embraces
,a little more than 9,000 miles, of;
i which 6,698.3 miles had actually been i
; constructed at the end: of vthe last 1
fiscal year, and approximately 2,000 i
miles are below standard. The com j
mission needs to spend $4,592,700 i?? |
building ; and rebuilding bridges,
$12,306,966, in grading and topsoil
ing, $5,847, 775 in oil treating and
$9,384,000 in paviny during the next
five years to bring the system to a
perper standard, a summary shows.
1 Much of the work is Tn grading and
topsoi ing roads which have not been
improved.
. Chairman Doughton said the ori
ginjal seven er cent of,the State sv's
tern on which Federal Aid waS to be
spent will be completed by next July
North . Carolinian producing the best,
literary or historical work du”inc
the year, taking the place of the
former Patterson cup, was accented
by the, State Literary and Histori
cal Association, meeting here this
/week. A small replica of the larger
cup will be presented to and be
come the permanent property of
the annual winner.
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Prices of textbooks in the three
subjects in (which changes may
be: made, Arithmetic, Writing and
Drawing, will play an important
part in determining whether changes
will be made, effective next year,
in books for these courses, as re
commended by the State Textbook
Coinmission, \yhen bids are sub
mitted this week to the State Board
of Education. In addition to receiv
ing bids, the board is hearing the
first three afternoons this week the
of the approved books.
State Superintendent A. T. Allen,
states that conditions appear favor
able for a reduction in prices at this
time, due to economic conditions,
with a resultant saving to the school
patrons. However, he said, the board
will look closely at the prices an<V
if no saving can be made, thq t
present books may be continued.
•In every contract the
of books used in this State agree;
to furnish books at a price as low
as the same books are furnished
to any other State, and when a
reduction is made in prices any
where else, North Carolina and her
divisions automatically are given a
reduction to that price. By which
it is seen that no State can get
books at prices lower than North
Carolina pays and few, is any, re
ceive them at prices as low.
Even though 11.7 per cent of the
banks and 19 per cent of the
branches, involving 13.33 per cent
of the capital stock in the State
bank system of North Carolina, have
closed their doors since January 1,
1930, only 7.8 per cent of the
total deposits and slightly more than
1 per cent of the total resources in
the system are involved in the banks
that are still closed, according to
figures compiled from records in the
State Banking Department offices.
This means that 92.2 per cent
of the deposits and 92 per cent of
the resources in the State bank
system remain intact and untouched
by the 34 banks and nine branches
which closed and did not reopen.
Seven hanks and five branches
•losed reopened and continued busi
less.
The 350 banks and 74 branches
operating in the State system Jan
uary 1, 1930, had total deposits of
5113,595,208 subject to check and
total resources of $341,750,898 on
that date, while only $8,853,898 in
deposits and only $27,606,892 in
total resources were involved in the
Hank failures during the year, in
duding the 13 banks, led ;yb the
Central Bank &,,Tpust Co., Ashe
ville, which closed last week. The
bu k of the State bank money, it
is seen, is still intact, and those
figures will be increased if some of
the banks closed last week reopen,
and it is expected that at "least
two or more of them will, after the
situation settles down in the western
section.
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“If the State Board of Education
should change the school. textbooks
now being considered, in arithmetic,
writing and drawing, on the basis at
which the new books have' previous
ly been seeling elsewhere, it would
not cost the patrons of schools in
the State more than the cost of one
15-room school übilding or three
miles of concrete road—not more
than $60,000,” Dr. A. T. Allen, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
sadd today.
“However”, said Dr. Allen, “we
expect to find the prices of arith
metics reduced five to seven cents
when we open the bids next Thurs
day and, if so, the increased cost
of 5550,000 to $60,000 for the first
year of the change will be re
turned and an even greater saving
made by the lower cost of the
books during the four years follow
ing, in which the same books will
be used.” Dr. Allen pointed out
that additional material which has to
be bought to go with the books
now in use is included in the books
on the approved list, thus resulting
in a still further saving, as this
material will not have to be bought
outside and in addition to the books,
if the change is made.
“Textbooks, like other things,
become obsolete and give way to
others in keeping with the best
thought of the times, and the arith
metics now on the approved list are
more complete and more modern in
several particulars than the arith
metics now in use. “In fact”* said
Pr. Allen*? “the publishers of the
bopks we, now ujse did not offer
the same books to, us for considera
tion this time, but substituted other
books, which are on the Approved
list. All of’the arithmetics approved
are more .up-to-date than those in
use and all are up to present ap
proved standards.” .
Practically no additional cost is
involved in changing the books in
writing and drawing, for those now
in use are v intended to serve only
one year and are used up at the
end of the year, Dr. Allen said. New
textbooks are purchased in these
two courses each year anyway.
Dr. Allen states that, instead of
being an extra cost, if the bids are
five to seven cents lower per book,
as the board expects when the bids;
• are opened Thursday, several thou
sand dollars yvill be saved the school
{ patrons during the next five years
even if the cost of the change will
reach $50,*000 or $60,000 the firsi
| year, when all of the books have to
I be bought new.
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-In working their way thru schoo’
some boys try to work father. .
We wish everybody a merry
Christmas but the 'bootleggers.
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NOW IS THE TIME to buy your
candies for the Christmas trade
from the Nor Brook Candy Com
pany. Their prices are the lowest
and their candies the purest, fresh
est, and best. Send orders to
Pittsboro..
GOOD PURE COFFEE" 20 cents “a
pounds a pound at R. J. Moore’s.
MILK—-Better milk—Aerator cool
ed, bottles sterilized. No more
complaints of sour r.Jlk. Let me
furnish you. Lexie Clark.
PROFESSIONAL nurse. I am lo
cated in Pittsboro and offer my
* services as a professional nurse to
the. people of Chatham county.
Elsie Lucile Peterson. R. N.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
That Long; Keep You in Remembrance
When you give Cutlery, Table Ware,
Electric Equipment, and other Most Useful,
Elegant, and Lasting Articles to be Found
in our Store, you make a present that will
often bring you into the pleasant memory of
the recipient.
Let Your Christmas Presents Represent
Real Value.
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Lee Hardware Co.
SANFORD, N. C.
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CHRISTMAS IS COMING
And you desire to give something worthwhile
to that boy of yours. Let us suggest a savings
account with this bank. If you start the account
y :> with only a dollar, it may mean much to the
y . » youngster. .Really you cannot estimate the value
v r of inciting him to save his nickles and dimes and •
3dd to liis account instead of Spending them for
trifles. With interest at 4 per cent, compounded >
quarterly, a dollar doubles in a surprisingly
few years. ...
THE BANK OF GOLDSTON
HUGH WOMBLE, Pre*. T. W. GOLDSTON, Cashier
GOLDSTON, N. C.
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SAVINGS ACCOUNT
If you want to give a SUBSTANTIAL gift—
\ -S. nothing with frills—hut something of life-long
value, give a Savings Account. It may mean the
*' start of a fortune; certainly it is the first step
; to independence. Money in the bank enhances
. in value, while other gifts are used up and
' .rVifesi.'. $
|V • vanish.is lor as~much more as you please starts
' -• •V •/ : v
, account. -. a - . Ij
; ' ' 77, r 7
4% Interest compounded Quarterly on all |
' * savings accounts.
THE BANK OF MONCURE
r - v. MONCURE, N. C.
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- Dr. J. C. Mann
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
will be at Dr. Farrell's office in
P. M. Tuesday, Dec. 23rd. ?
Pittsboro from 10 .A. M. to Z
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Dr. Arthur H. London, Jr.
WILL PL AT Dr. CHAPIN’i
OFFICE
on Tuesday ot each week from
. 11:00 to 12:00* a. m. for the
Practice of •; *
i Disease of Infants and
Children .
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is a doctor's Prescription for
COLDS and HEADACHES
It is the most speedy remedy known.
666 also in Tablets.
Permanent Waves
$5.00
Mayfair Beauty Shoppe
Durham, N. C.
5 Points Phone J-5481
Piedmont Bldg.
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