THE COURIER Advertising Columns Bring Results ■--; THE COURIER Leads In Both News and Circulation mwwMiwwiliisimiwiMiil ISSUED WEEKLY NOT MEN 1 $2.00 A YEAR IN Ai)f /%*« A: VOLUME L January 1, 1*25 NUMBER L HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE SATURDAY Broke Out In Asheboro Bargain House Saturday Night— Causes Big Damage. Fire breaking out in Mr. B. B. Brooks’ store, the Asheboro Bargain House, in the AMen building oil Worth street in-the business district \ pi Asheboro Saturday night about 9:30 o'clock* completely ruined the stock of goods, damaged the building to the extent of a thousand dollars or more, and W. A. Gregory’s store next door to the extent ef approximately $2000. The fire apparently originated from ‘the stove in the Asheboro .Bargain House. Mr. Brooks had closed hi| store about an hour prior to the dis covery of the flames, leaving a fire in the stove. From thl path taken*! ' by the flames it is evident that the j stove pipe became-disconnected fall-' ing against some shelves packed with dry goods, spread to the ceiling and up into the second story of the build ing. Charlie Catelett, who occupied the rooms above Mr. Brooks’ store, discovered the flames when he went to the bathroom in the back part of the building to get a pitcher of wa ter. He gave the alarm and the fire department for about two hours grappled with the flames. Owing to the dense smoke pouring out of the building it was impossible for the fire fighters to immediately . locate the blaze. Streams of water were poured into the building from front and rear and through the skylight. Before the flames were checked a large part of the ceiling in the build ing was burned and the fire - had broken through into the stock room of W. A. .Gregory’s store next door. Mr. Brooks’ stock of goods amount ing to approximately $8,000 was completely ruined by fire and water. The stock was covered with insur ance to the amount of $4,000. The damage to Mr. Gregory’s stock from both fire ami water will amount to $2,000 or more. The goods in his stock room on the second floor were totally destroyed and water coming through the beaver board forming the ceiling damaged the stock in the store. Mr. Gregory’s loss is-covered by insurance. The building which is owned by M. E. Allen, of Asheboro, Henry Cox, of near Franklinville, and by the Monroe Cox heirs, is damaged to the extent of more than a thousand cW A large, part of the ceiling in _^ __/«nd the •JtWii the buildings partly burned. There is a fire wail between Mr. Brooks’ store and Mr. Gregory’s store next door, but probably through some de fect in construction the fire* passed through the wall. / Mr. Catelett, who is machinist afe the Asheboro Hosiery Mill, had mov ed from Tenessee to Asheboro Sat urday and had bought new furniture and placed in the rooms above Brooks’ store that day. This furni ture and his other household goods were completely soaked with water and his. damage will amount to sever al dollars. Is Destroyed By Fire e residence owned and occupied Ben Morgan’s Home by Ben Morgan, in Tabernacle town ship about twelve miles from Ashe boro on Caraway just to the left of state highway 76, was totally de stroyed by Are last Sunday about night. The fire originated, it is thought, from a defective flue or chimney in the second story of the building. tParts of the roof and up per story were falling in when the fire was discovered by the family. So quickly did the .flames spread that Mr .Morgan was able to save little or no furniture and only a part of the family wearing apparel A amount of insurance the building. The house was _ --„ tore, containing fourteen rooms. It had not been built many years and COOLIDGE GETS LARGEST PLURALITY IN HISTORY Total Vote Exceeds Combined Number Given Davis and y 'p La FoHette. President Coolidge pelted more votes in the recent election than both Davis and LgFoDette combined and had a plurality in thom in Charles City county, Virginia, >ut for a number of years her fami y had lived at Cedartown, Ga., where die body waa taken for interment. Mias Clarke waa well known in isheboro having visited the late Mrs. Hancock during her life time and after her death her daughter, Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer. Miss Clarke was isaodatad with Mrs.’ Hancock for i at Greensboro College. Mr*. Rorie Hubbard Dead Mm. Roxie Hubbard died at the heme of her father, John Ashley, in South Asheboro, Saturday. Mrs. Huhbard had been to aee her husband who ie a patient in the government hospital at Johnson Tity, Tenru, and was sttickeh while «n route home on Friday afternoon. The funeral ser vice was conducted at West Bend Sunday afternoon, after whttSt burial follow*!. The deceased is survived by her husband, parents, and several brothers PROMO® AY NO. 75 Held In L* linville, A meeting wan held in the court houselat' Lexington Tuesday after noon to promote the hard surfacing of st^te highway No.' 75 along . its entire route. Representatives from the ten counties traversed by this route were present. The ^sheboro delegation was composed of Arthur Ross, D. B. McCrary, W. J. Armfield, Jr., And Congressman William C. Hammer, Mr. John W. Clarke, of FranklinviUe and I. F. Craven, of Ramseur, and a number , }of others from these two towns ware present. In a resolution offered by E. E. Ra per, of Lexington-, it was declared the sense of the, meeting that Route 75 be hard surfaced and authorised the committee appointed to present the matter to the state highway commis sion and urge the necessity of this important road work beihg done at the earliest possible date. A committee consisting of three men from each of the tan counties traversed by No'. 75 was appointed. John W. Clarke, of FranklinviUe, was named chairman of this committee, which includes from this county also I. F. Craven, of Ramseur, and D. B. McCrary, of Asheboro. The mem bers of the committee from Chatham are .Walter D. Siler, John Siler, and J. Q. Seawell; and Davidson is rep resented by J. T. Hedrick, Wade fl. Phillips, and G. W. Mountcastle, of Lexington. At a Rotary luncheon whi$h pre ceded the meeting in the court house talks were made by Arthur Ross and Congressman Hammer, of Asheboro, relative to Route 75. At the meeting held in the court house talks were made by Chairman John W. Clarke, of Franklin vine ^H. B. Varner, E. E. Raper, State Sena tor H. D. fownsend, J. R. and T. E. McCrary, and J. T. Hedrick, of Lex ington; and Arthur Ross and Wm. C. Hammer, of Asheboro. From the report of the meeting to the News and Observer we quote: “Mr. Hammer pointed out that highway 76 is 12 miles the shorter route from Lexington to all points west to Raleigh than by the Central highway. He and Mr. Ross, also em phasized that this route would feed the railroads rather than deprive them of traffic and also serve a group of counties somewhat short on A Steady rain during'the day de ferred several delegations expected, but telegrams were received from several o^ these points pledging co operation. Fatal School House Fire Thirty-three are dead and twenty are confined in hospitals, some suf fering from fatal injuries, as a re sult of a fire in Babb Switch rural school house, near Hobart, Oklahoma, Christmas eve. More than 200 per sons including children and their par ents were in the building onythe acca sion of a rural Christmas tree when the fire occured. A lighted candle on the tree ignited a ball of cotton am! the flames spread despite every ef fort to smother the flames. In the panic which ensued many were tramp led underfoot in an effort to reach the one exit which the frame school building afforded. The teacher, a young woman, lost her life trying to save some of the school children. This tragedy recalls the Collings wood school fire at Cleveland, Ohio, in March 4th, 1908, when 172 pupils and two teachers lost their lives. Cotton Ginned In North Carolina The United States Department, of Commerce announces that the total cotton ginned in the State this year up to December 18th was 761,886 bales as compared with 987,511 bales for the same period last-year. In Randolph county there has been gin ned, according to the report, 1,570 bales; as against 1,880 for the same period last year. Montgomery coun ty has ginned 6480 bales this year as against 6,337 for the same period last year. Davidson county has gin ned for the period 1,880 bales against 1,996 for a like period in 1928. Republican Vote In -South Falls Short Die complete figures of official election returns show that the Re publican vote in the Southern states for President CooUdge fell off 26 per cent from the vote cast for War ren G. Harding in 1920. The only Southern state in which the Republi cans showed any gain was in Texas. The greatest loss was in Tennessee. In North Carolina Mr. Harding in 1920 polled 232,848 as against 191, 758 for CooUdge in 1924, a loss of rSTEES VOTE Allege name Win Comply With Terms of Duke*8jfnnefaction—Will Be £jafce University. The Board. Ot trustees of Trinity College in sheeting at the college in Durham Monday morning voted with out a dissenlpig Voice to change the name of Trinity College to Duke University in compliance with the terms of Janes B. Duke’s huge bene faction. Trinity College is to contin ue as an integral part of the univer sity to Pe known as the college of liberal arts and sciences. As a result;of the compliance with tjie terms laid (Jown in the benefac tion Duke University will get a gen erous donation of $6,000,000 for build ings for the;; university and the an nual income1 of, 32 per cent of the trust fund of. $40,000,000, which is es timated will^rim th $500,000 annual ly. The vaktesof the trust fund is expected to Iwcase as the stocks comprising jfifevance in value. The coll«g|q|£jks already an endow ment of $3,(j(>0p)Q0, and this with the additional eapfcment will make Duke University mfUrichest endowed col lege in the jfcSph and ' one of the richest in tnMNpPuntry. It is planned to begin at ast early date a complete remodeling d&jthe campus. A number of existing biddings will be torn down to makeWoom for large struc tures and BOttm already standing will North . Lay »lina Hens ,100,000 Eggs Approximal were laid by North Cawlii according tp marketing s{ Carolina exp and one hall live in rural | half milliojK of dty home: Eleven pgr hens are wb« istrocrats'VM that will If y Other 89 per i as they will per year, i the number' year win ave for the m state. W y 666,100,000 eggs le 6,000,000 hens in during the past year, . W. Lewis, livestock inlist of the North ment station. Five Billions of these hens tricts, while the other a in the back yards snt, or 660,000 of these Mr. Lewis terms “ar it is breeded poultry fO eggs per year. The Bt he calls ‘^poletariat” y. only 85 eggs each mrding to Mr. Lewis eggs produced last ge only 221 eggs each 123 people in the ■T" - Death Rate Be mi i ifWjjtr figure of the De partment of Commerce show that the death rate In North Carolina from typhoid fever fell off largely in 1923 as compared with 1922. In 1922 the deaths from this cause numbered 298, of these 154 being whites and 144 col ored, while in 1923 there was a total of 260 deaths, 131 being whites and 129 colored, the death rate per 100, 000 having decreased from 11.2 in 19 22 to 9.T in 1923. The dath rate among the colored for both years has been more than twice that of the whites in comparison with the population. NEWS IN BRIEF O. L. Nance, of Thomasville, has been arrested and put under bond in two cases of alleged immorality w'Lh a neighbor’s wife. Nance and his wife have been separated and living .•.part for some time. Asheville reports an increase in the number of automobiles stolen in that city. It is announced that since No vember 1st 93 carfc have been stolen in that city, and all except 15 have been recovered. James H. Morgan, aged 67, died at his home at High Point Monday af ternoon. He .was a native of Moore county, but had made hia home at High Point for some time. The employes of the Elk furniture company, at Lexington, were present ed with insurance policies to the amount of #500 each as a Christmas gift The presentation of the in surance certificates was made by J. T. Hedrick, president of the company. Shannon W. Vickery, aged 78, died Saturday moaning at the home of his son, near Pleasant Garden, following ’omona, id ^ #150 lants during Paul a u indley, prcsic manv I Harding Sitter Wed« ] Miss Abigail V. Harding, sister ft the late President, was last week to R. T. Lewis ligail V. the late President, was married T. Lewis, Mar O., real estate dealer honeymoon in Bermuda. ARTHUR ROSS WILL BUILD A VENEER PLANT IN ASHEBORO To Remodel Old Cox Lumber com pany Plant And Erect Other Necessary Buildings Mr. Arthur Ross will in the spring convert the plant and buildings of the old Cox Lumber Company into a ven eer manufacturing plant. A number of alterations and repairs will be made on the existing buildings and others necessary to the operation of a veneer plant will be constructed. Mr. Ross uses quite a large quantity of veneer at the Home Building and Material Company and the veneer plant will be an auxiliary to this lumber plant. However, the surplus will be placed on the market. The buildings of the Cox Lumber plant are now used by the Home Build ing and ^Material Company as ware houses. To relieve this situation the company will erect as soon as the weather permits in the spring a large brick warehouse near the present machine rooms of the Home Building and Material Company. liberty Is Assured of An News comes from Liberty than an overall and shirt factory for that town is assured. It develops that R. A. Kohloss will move the machin ery from his plant at Salisbury to Liberty. Messrs. J. H. and" H. C. Johnson have begun the erection of a building’ 50 feet by 135 feet in which the machinery will be set up and the factory operated. Mr. Koh-| loss hopes to have everything in readiness for beginning operations early in the spring. The factory will furnish employment to a number of women and girls. "v. The plant has an authorized capital of $100,000, and $20,000 paid in bj> R. A. Kohloss, of Salisbury, G. L. Koh loss, of Mount Airy, James H. and H. C, Johnson and J. D. Gregg, of Liberty. Number of Convicts Get Freedom Over 500 eonvicts gained their freedom under Governor Morrison’s t>arole order. Thirty-six reports have Been received from sheriffs showing that 311 inmates of,jails and convict lamps in their counties had been liberated. Forsyth county lead with the liberation of 61 prisoners and Mecklenburg was next with 36. Ran iolph county had no prisoners coming rnder the terms and conditions of the Governor’s orders. SEAGROVE ITEMS Miss Blanche Reddick, of Winston Salem, is spending the Christmas hol idays with Miss Canary Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. R. L> Russell, of Alerandria, La., were the guests of relatives here during the holidays. Mr. Samuel Auner, of Pennsylvan ia, is spending-the Christmas holidays with Mr. Lacy Harper. Mrs. A. F. Lowdermilk, of Hemp, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Henry Yaw. Miss Ruth VonCanon, of High Point, is spending her Christmas va cation with relatives here and in Star. The Misses Comer of Steeds gave is party Saturday night to a , few of their friends. An entertainment was given by of Union Christian Eve. Nunnery King’s Car FATAL ACCIDENTS MAR HOLIDAYS Great Number of Auto Acci dents—Associated Press Reports 70 Deaths. -t Automobile accidents, fires, trains, and hunting accidents levied a heavy toll on life in the country during the holiday season. With the exception of the unfortunate accident which re sulted in a fractured skull for a young son of W. A., Craven, ,near Moffitt, Randolph county people so far as can be ascertained did not share in the great number of accidental deaths and injuries. The Chicago office of the Associat ed Press reported 70 deaths in the United States due to Christmas acci dents, some of which are included in the following paragraphs. Pour persons were killed in Guil ford county and others injured. Four persons were killed in ah au tomobile wreck near Richmond, Va. A man and his wife were killed in an automobile accident near Birming ham, Ala. And this list is by 'no means com plete. Three automobile accidents, all resulting in injuries, occurred on the High Point-Thomasville road near High Point Tuesday. Misses Hazel and Ethel Modlin'were knocked down by a car while walking along the road and badly bruised. A white man and a negro each driving a Ford had a head on collision resulting in in juries to both. E. P. .James sustained three brok en ribs and collar bone Tuesday af ternoon in Greensboro when struck by a car driven by G. H. Cummings. A bus and a Ford roadster collided Tuesday afternoon in Greensboro re sulting in several injuries to Miss Irma Bundy, of Jamestown, who was driving the roadster. Meyer Levin, aged about 30 years, was killed Sunday night when his car left the road at a bridge between [ Burlington and Kernenrville tumbling down an embankment and pinning Levin beneath the automobile. — I Mrs. Gertrude Sides, of Kannapol is, was run over and fatally injured by a car driven by Peter Parker at Statesville, Sunday night The wheels passed over her right side In flicting serious internal injuries from which she died within an hour. nue railway crossing in Greensboro When his car was struck by south bound train 35. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Martin, of Hamlet, were elec guted at Roberdell last Friday n they came in contact with a i power transmission wire which to the ground after having been .severed by a shot fired by the oldest of the children. • -s Woman Burned To Death Mrs. J. M. McMichael, aged 42, was burned to death at her home at Stokesdale last Friday. The woman was subject tp epileptic fits and it is supposed that she was taken with a fit and fell into the fire. Her husband died several years ago and since his death she has been living with neigh bors and sometimes spending a days and night at her home. Mrs. Hunsucker Has Narrow Escape Mrs. G. F. Hunsucker, wife of the chief of police of Troy, had a narrow escape from death one day the first of the week when her night gown caught on fire while she was seated before the open fireplace. Quick work on the part of Mr. Hunsucker in ex tinguishing the flames probably saved her from being burned to death. Bruce Craven In Auto Accident Bruce Craven, of Trinity, who was riding in his car driven by W. T. Par kin near the country club at High Point, Tuesday night of last week, was thrown from the car and badly bruised when the automobile collided with a milk delivery truck. Craven was taken to the Guilford General hospital where his injuries were treat ed. Parkin was badly shaken up in the accident but not seriously injured. Dim Break* Killing Nine Nine persona are known to have beat killed, seven an missing, and 21 injured as the result of the breaking of a dam at Sultville, Va., Thursday night Of last week. A wall of mud MARK HOPKINS HEIRS TO SUE FOR LARGE ESTATE Randolph County Descendants Will Sue For Shan In Millions. ' Suit will be filed in the California courts oft behalf of the North Caro lina heirs of Mark Hopkins, one of the founders of the Central Pacific railroad, to recover his estate which is said to run into millions. Lee Free man, one of the heirs, went to Cali fornia three months or more ago to look after the matter. Mrs. W. D. Stedman, of Asheboro, and her broth ers and sisters are heirs. Others are Rufus Hopkins, of Asheboro, and Ellis Hopkins, of New Hope township, who are sons of the late Miles H. Hopkins, a Confederate veteran, and a near rel ative of Mark Hopkins. Mark Hopkins and a younger brother, Moses Hopkins went to Cal ifornia many years ago from Ran dolph county. Mark Hopkins died in 1878 and either left a will disposing of a part of his estate tp relatives in California and the balance undevised, or lety a will that was not effective or protected. It is claimed that Moses Hopkins in the division of the estate frauaently concealed the fact that he had near relatives in Ran dolph, Cabarrus, and Stanley coun ties, in North Carolina. When Moses Hopkins died later his widow got the major portion of the estate. County Agent Milisaps To Attend Agent’s Meet County Farm Demonstration Agent E. S. Milisaps, Jr., will leave Sunday for Raleigh to attend a ten days' meeting beginning the 6th of the state’s agricultural workers to be held at State College. At this con ference will be all the county dem onstration agents in the state, field workers, and state directors of ex tension work. Sessions will be held each morning and afternoon. Among the speakers at the meet ing from out of the state will be Reu ben Bringham, president of the Na tional Association of College Editors, J. E. Barr, of the Bureau of Agricul tural Economy, Washington, D. C, and Walter C. Abbott, dub agent of Louisiana. This meeting will be something like a dealing house for valuable in formation for the extension and dem onstration workers. New ideas will be obtained by those iff attendance not only from practical discussions at /the work being carried on in the state, but also from the findings of the experiment station at West Bar leigh ahd from praedeal -f£dd work. Mr. King Opens Up Property Mr. G. H. King has opened up a street in West Asheboro at the west end of Sunset avenue directly south and intersecting with the street run ning parallel with Sunset avenue. He has graded his lots which are on the east side of this street, sowed them in grass, set out flowers, and has planted a row of sugar maples along the street. He has named the street Spring Garden. Mr. King has built three nice bungalows with all modem conveniences ca these lots and ex pects to build others in the spring. Asheboro To Have a New Hosiery Mill Hugh Parks and_pthers have organ ized a corporation with a capital stock of $200,000 authorized, with $75,000 paid in, for the purpose of manufact uring hosiery. The plant will be built in Asheboro. Work will be started on the mill building, which i^to be two story and of brick construction 100 feet by 60 feet, as soon as the weather permits. The mill is expected to be ready for operation in the spring or early summer. , The corporation, which will be known as the Parks Hosiery Mills, Inc., will install 40 or 50 knitting machines at first and will place addi tional machines as business warrants,/ The building will have capacity for 100 machines. The kind and quality of hosiery to be made has not been defi nitely determined. HRS. SARAH LUCK DEAD lira. Sarah Luck, wife of A. J. Lack, of Archdale, died Thursday af ternoon after an illness lasting for some time. She had been / taking treatment at a High Point hospital up until.a few days before her death. She was bom in this county June 21, 1870. She Was married twice, first to William Allred, and after his death to Mr. Luck. Mrs. Luck was the daughter of S. W. and Isabelle Uw ett Mrs. Luck is survived by her hus band, one son, Earl Allred, of Areb dale; one brother, S. W. Kivett, Jr* of Roseboro; five sisters, Mrs. A. ML Osborn, of Worthville, Mrs. L. E. Sptncer, of High Point, Mrs. George Glasgow, of Kansas, and Mm. Mary Michael, of Greensboro; and by four grandchildren, two stepdaughters, Mrs, Bessie Hurley, of Randleman, mui Mrs. Blanche Harris, of ville, and a stepson, Calvin Allred, of