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TUB COURIER f ,« r-4, V> Wi/1 t JJ^LI ,, . - - . 1 -fa j i f !■■ M jjl ■ ■ ■ 5 FIRST SECTION f j BIGHT FACES Aahefcoro, North Corottna, Thursday, June 18, 1925 NUMBER It ... i I i .iji * ■ MRS. E. L MOFFITT The announcement of the sadden death of Mm. E. L. Moffitt In a sana torium la western North. Carolina Monday cast a gloom over the entire town of Asheboro. Mrs. Moffitt had been in poor health for the past two years, bat had been in a Baltimore hospital for a few months and had gained in flesh. After spending sev-; eral weeks at home, Mrs. Moffitt two week* ago went to western Carolina for the summer and was improving, . hut Monday morning suffered am iff tack of angina pictoris from which she mccumbed late in the afternoon. In Mr death her family, her rela tives and her large circle of friends and acquaintances have sustained a distinct shock and load. For many years the has resided in Asheboro and during that time has won friends, numbering them by her acquaintanc es. Mm. Moffitt was born and reared in Harriabnburg, Va., the daughter of Mr. and Mm. J. B. D. Rhodes, and before her.marriage, on December 14, 1897, was Miss Ella Rhodes. SM re ceived her education at Staunton, Va^ and also at Keemar college, Hagers town, Md. For a number of years after her , marriage Dr. and Mm. Moffitt lived at Elon College, Dr. Moffitt being presi dent of that institution. Upon the failure of the health of the late John Moffitt, Dr. Moffitt moved to Ashe boro, succeeding his brother as secre tary and treasurer of the Asheboro Wheelbarrow Company. Mrs. Moffitt was a consecrated member of the Christian church, but as there was no church of that faith in Asheboro she worshipped with the Presbyterian congregation. For three years Mrs. Moffitt was president of the Randolph Chapter U. D. C, and for many years was a member of tM Randolph Book Club, which was or ganised in 1899. Her death is the first to occur during active member ship in the history of this organisa tion—-an unusual record. * And her passing from this group of women, al most the relationship of sisterhood, has broken a strong cord of friend ship. DIED MONDAY P. M. Death Game Suddenly—Funeral Services Were Held Wednes daf Morning. L. Moffitt, Jr., of She is also survived by sisters: Miss Dick of Dayton, Va.; Mrs. J. K. of Dayton, Va., and Mrs. I , of Rochester, N. V.; and C. E, Rhodes, of :js|j in G. Smith, pastor Dr. J. Q. Atkinson, officating, interne ia the Asheboro cemetery, crowd attended the funeral services. The members of Book Club and other were flower bearers, pall bearers were Messrs. Chas, K. Alexander, D. B. McCrary, 3. 3. X. Wood, and Edd Phil ps. Among those from out of town at ;nding the funeral were: Mrs. Roe* bush, Mias Bruce Rhodes, Mr. Chas. E. Rhodes, of Dayton, Va.; Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Fleming, of Burlington; Dr. W. A. Harper, Dr. J. O. Adkin of Elon College; Mrs. D. M. ' of Burlington; J«r. and lire. Wins fitt, Griffin, of J. R. Parks, C. 0. Burton, A. Moffitt, Mr. J. T. Mo Dr. W. P. OPPED WORK AT THE COGGINS GOLD MINE CROSS A NATIVE OF THIS COUNTY Half-Brother of Mrs. Hattie Cross Poole—Killed In Auto mobile Wreck Thursday. Warrant Officer W- A Cross, who was killed in an automobile accident at the Hoke-Cumberland county line bridge last 'Thursday morning, was the adopted brother of Mrs. Hattie Cross Poole, of Asheboro, Route 2. He waa 49 years of age and had been in the Unitdd States Army for 28 years. Besides his widow he leaves three children, Beulah, Virginia, and W. A, Jr. The funeral services were held at Fayetteville Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock in charge of the Masons and Knigth of Pythias, of which orders Mr. Cross was a member. The re mains were then taken to Raleigh and a military funeral held in the Nation al cemetery where interment was made. : At the time of the .accident Cross in company with Sergeant Harry J. Weiderman, who was also killed, were on their way to Hamlet with the baseball team of the 17th artillery regiment from Port Bragg. When the ear carrying Cross and Weider man stopped near the bridge at the scene of an automobile accident which had occurred the day before, a ma chine gun trade bearing the members of the team came around the curve and crashed into their automobile be fore the trade could be stopped. Cross and Weiderman, who were in the front seat of the touring car, were crashed to death, while two oth er soldiers in the rear seat escaped with a few braises. . ; Cross was popular among the sold iers at Fort Bragg. He had retired from a captaincy in the army and in order to stay in the service had ac cepted appointment as warrant offi cer. He was well known in the State and had many friends. He had visited Asheboro many timee since he joined the army and was well known and popular in this town and his many friends will regret to know of the tragedy- - New Hope S. 8. Convention raw The New Hope township Sunday school convention will be held at Un ion church on the fourth Sunday in June. Speakers will $ be announced -s . ' H A New York professor of astrono my says that spots on the surface cf the sun of an unusually active char acter have had much to do with the recent climatic changes and give promise of causing many more. He says if these spots continue to mul tiply we may look for more electrical B. Y. P. U. "■V •* • : ; M..,..':-;'.;; j The sixteenth annual session of the Baptist Young People’s Union con vention is in session at Salisbury this week. More than 1600 delegates from all parts of the State are in attend Th* meeting will dose tonight - - BE iSls REPUBLICAN SENATORS NOT SURE RE-ELECTION Those Up Next Year Voted To Whitewash Newberry and to Give FoD Clean BiU Health. Thirty-three senators are to be elected next year. Seven Of these are from absolutely certain Democratic states, and hence seven Democrats Native County—Funeral Held At Holly Monday. R.S. raven, aged 70 years, died evening, June 13th, at , Mr. Craven had for the years resided in (hot -r, Asheboro, Route 1. Prior time he lived for several years The funeral services Rev. w. Street assisted by the late Craven. He was to Miss Claudia to Miss Tothisl . who, with the wid i children are: Robert ; and Misses Hettie, Grace of this county, faith in ready to help those in need. WEEVILS NUMEROUS ;5S#.\ -- •' n examination of cotton in Rob eson and Scotland counties discloses the presence of boll weevils in large numbers. The average of the acreage examined is 155 weevils to the acre. Some of the most heavily infected acres have more than 300 weevils to the acre. The weevil is said to be more numerous in these countfts than ever before in the history of the boll weevil invasion of the State. J. €. Johnson, Man, Has Been J. C. Johnson, who last appeared from a Bawmill in the north era part of the county wjiere he had been employed, was found within 24 hours after his disappearance' se riously ill lying in the woods about a mile from the mill. Due to exposure and lack of food he is seriously ill. Memorial Services At Gibe Chapel All-day memorial services will be held at Giles Chapel next Sunday. Mr. Wm. 0. Hammer will be one of the speakers during the day^ An inter esting program has been arranged for both morning and afternoon and the public is cordially invited to attend. Dr. A. C. Dixon Dead Regular Meeting Of ■Board of Education Board At Tabemde ' isisMI School In itip—-Appoints nraitteemen. The county board of education met in regular session in the office of the county superintendent of schools in A&heboro Monday, June 8th, the de tails of which we were unable to get for last week’s paper owing to the absence from town of the county su perintendent. ' •••'* -: A delegation of colored citizens of liberty township came before the board with request for a new school building. The Ix^urd instructed the delegation to get “bids for the con struction of a Boifmwald school and advise the board before any definite action would be taken. The Uwharrie school in Tabernacle township was ordered abolished, the pupils to attend Tabernacle school. A footway will be made across the river so that tfce jttudents of the Uw harrie district can get to the Taber nacle school. Thefeounty superintend ent and J. F. Hughes are to make ar rangements for the operation of a better school at Tabernacle. . The water system for the new lib erty school building was ordered from M. G, Newell Company, Greensboro, through their * representative, Earl Baldwin, a former Randolph County school teacher. Chairs for the audi torium of the new Liberty building were ordered from the Carolina School Supply Company at the. same price paid for those at Trinity. The Board igave the county super intendent authority to purchase at the lowest price possible a lot for the site of the new Gray’s Chapel consol idated school. i, School comzQjfttee for a number of districts were Appointed, a partial list of which is given. The names of the committeemensfor all the districts in the county willbe published in a later issue of this paper after selection has been made in all parts of the county. Committee for the new Gray’s Chapel consolidated school are: C. E. Julian, G. W. Pugh, W. L. Kirkman, I. E. Routh and W. A. Smith. Farmer consolidated school com mittee was named as follows: J. H. Kearns, T. W. Bingham* for a term of three years; R. W. Fuller and Carson Cranford, for two years; and S. M. Lewis, for one ,year. , , .For Liberty tohool the committee is as follows:. E. c. Williamson and R. B. Staley, forJfcree years; T. A. Johnson and ($ G. FOushee, for two years; and -Brjjfejfc Shepherd, for *•£ <****»»-•;, fr". ' _Mi—I- ' 1 NEWS Rufus Herring, of Sampson county, with his wife and six daughters, vis ited on Johnson street last week. Hr. Herring was partly reared near here, but moved back to Sampson county many years ago. He has prospered wonderfully in the land of the "big blues". :&•; Mrs. Annie Robins, - of Asheboro, visited Mrs. Nannie Craven afternoon. Mary McDowell, of South Main, is visiting cousins in Greensboro. Bettie Royals has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Snider, who lives not far from here. Spurgeon White and wife are spending some time with friends and relatives around here. Mr. White and wife have recently lived in Okla homa. Will Roy Parkin is back from Chapel .Hill. We had a little shower here Satur day evening. Rev. Mr. Harris, our preacher, is at Durham now, attending the preacher's training school. Mrs. Har ris and little son, Junior, are visiting relatives not far from Durham. All the pretty rose hedges about here, for which our town is famous, are blasted on account of the dry weather. Mrs. Nell Southern tives here Mr. Ji Trinity, Compton, of visiting rela well known is all other visiting old j Cow Eats Bankroll 1 Johnny Staring of Salisbury, N. C., left his coat with a $200 bank roll hanging on a fence. While he worked a cow ate the coat John ny, just as hungry for money as the cow, promptly shot the animal. Then, scorning all rules of earring he knifed his way towards the money, but he couldn’t find much in the cud. Now the Treasury de partment is using a magnifying glass trying to get a rebate for Johnny. CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE NOW IN SESSION M. P. Young People Meet At High Point College For 10 Days’ Study. The High Point College, at High Point, is in the midst of two confer ences, that of the pastors of the vari ous churches throughout the State and the annual summer conference for young people. The summer conference largely attended by delegates from the various M. P. Churches in the State, opened Monday night with a lecture by Dr. C. E. Forliness. More than 1500 people from the 220 churches of the North Carolina con ference have registered, and of this number 300 or 400 are expected to remain throughout the ten days. Classes for the young people are being held regularly each day. Tuesday night Mrs. Wm. C, Ham mer, of Asheboro, president of the Womans’ Home Missionary Society of North Carolina, spoke on the “Mis sionery Compass". Among the others on the program are Hon. John H. Dr. Ira G. Landreth and Dr. preached next Sunday at 11 o’clock in die First Methodist Protestant church iy Dr. Landreth. Among the young people from Asheboro attending the conference, besides the daily visitors, are Joseph floss, Jr., and Misses Nan Lewis and Lucy Davis. • : WESLEY OF THE CO esley Hicks, respected citizen, o died June 8th. Mr. Hicks large family and a host of BuriaT services were conducted former pastor, Rev. T. J. Green, of Elon College, assisted by Rev. D. R. Moffitt, present pastor at Pleasant Grove Christian church and interment was made in the church cemetery, the large congregation in attendance at test the high fcsteem in which the deceased was held. . Finch Expected Home From Hospital In Ten Days -*■ . • ■' T. J. Finch, who has been under treatment at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore for several weeks, and who has been in a critical condition, con tinues to improve in health, and is expected to return to his home in Trinity township within about ten days. Mr. Finch’s many friends throughout the State will be pleased to learn of his recovery. ... PUT ON NEW BUS LINE FROM SIMMONS TALKS OF MELLON PLAN Mellon’s Crusade Is To Reduce The Income Tax of The Big Fellows. >.j • 1 - ' Senator F. M. Simmons, while in Raleigh one day last week, was asked to comment on Secretary Mellon’s crusade for the reduction of income taxes in the higher brackets. He said there was nothing new in the “propaganda,” and that the secretary of the treasury was again deliberately attempting to mislead the public in his reiterated statement that the in come derived from “corporate big business” were being invested in tax exempt securities. He said there was a comparatively small number of rich men in this country who had placed their money in tax exempt securities, because they wanted to retire from active business. He mentioned Sena tor Couzens as an example of that class. These men are satisfied with small profits. But the far greater portion of the tax exempt securities are owned, not by men making huge incomes, but by men of comparatively small j incomes. It is not the income taxes j of these men that Secretary Mellon j would have Congress reduced, but the j incomes of the big fellows who are “reaping fortunes from their corpor-: ate interests.” Senator Simmons said the reduction of taxes in the higher brackets without a corresponding re duction hQ the way down the line will not stop the flow of money into tax exempt securities, and that “Secre tary Mellon knows it will not.” But, the senator added, it will do the thing that Secretary Mellon and the interests that control the Re publican party want. By reducing their income taxes to 25 per cent, without a proportionate reduction of taxes on'the smaller incomes, it will greatly increase the influence of the money power. That, said Senator Simmons, is the real secret in the so called Mellon crusade for reduction of income taxes in the higher brackets. But Cdhgress, in the senator’s; judgement, will pass an equitable and just tax law at its next session. The government is now collecting more money than it 'needs, and more money than it has a right to from the people, the senator thinks. To Let 2.3 Miles ^Of ^ The State highway commission has set July 22nd as the date for receiving bids on thirteen road projects in the State. One of these projects is 2.3 miles of hard surface on highway 75 east from Asheboro. The letting of this contract was forecasted, in the June 5th issue of the Courier through information contained in a letter which J. ElwoOth Cox, fifth district highway commissioner, wrote Mr. D. B. McCrary, maydr of Asheboro. It appears from the lists of projects to be let that the contract for hard surfacing a part of Route 70 leading south from Asheboro towards Sea grove will not be let the 22nd. How ever the town and county has not lost hope of the ultimate hard sur facing of a part of this rout? and look forward to its letting at an early date. sm'M H FIRE COMPANY TO HOLD A PRELIMINARY CONTEST A Forerunner of Contest To Be Held July 4th—Losers To Give Feed. m As a forerunner to the big contest to be held the Fourth of July for a Silver Cup, the JFite Company will hold a preliminary contest Friday evening of this week at 6:00 o’clock. This contest will be for a feed, the winners eating at the expense of the losers. Messrs. Herman Cranford, Joe Lewalien, C. E. Davis, C. M. Fox and others have already made in in regard to procuring a sup [ring sire chickens and other suitable to grace the ban The contest will be held on Sunset hvenue near. Memorial Hospital, and myone so desiring is invited to watch he boys work. There will be plenty jf speed and action. BIRTHS EXCEED DEATHS BY 644! Figures Show 1,058 Births I* County in 1924 and 414 Deaths—Township List. : --' Births exceeded deaths in Randolph county in 1924 by 644. The total mm- K ber of births in the county was 1,058, of which number 955 were white sad 103 colored. The deaths for the year numbered 414, 357 white and 57 old ored. * t Following is the number of birth* V" white and colored by townships: Asheboro, white 139, colored 17; Baft Creek, white 29, colored 3; Brower, white 37, colored 8; Cedar Grave, white 28, colored 0; Coleridge, white 63, colored 8; Columbia, white 76, col ored 9; Concord, white 29, colored 1; Franklinville, white 72, colored 4; Grant, white 27, colored 4; Level Cross, white 8, colored 2; liberty, white 62, colored 16; New Hope, white 30, colored 1; New Market, white 4t, colored 5; Pleasant Grove, white 15, colored 2; Providence, white 27, col ored 0; Randleman, white 91, colored 2; Richland, white 38, colored 3; Tab ernacle, white 50, colored 8; Trinity, white 62, colored 8; Union, white 2St colored £> ’ The number of deaths by townships follows: Asheboro, white 61, colored 16; Back Creek, white 12, colored 3; Brower, white 4, colored 1;' Cedar Grove, white 11, colored 0; Coleridge, white 22, colored 4; Columbia, white 37, colored 7; Concord, white 12, ceJ-, ored 1; Franklinville, white 20, col ored 4; Grant, white 11, colored 1; Level Cross, white 4, colored 1; Lib erty, white 20, colored 1; New Hope, white 12, colored 0; New Market, white 20, colored 1; Pleasant Grove, white 1, colored 2; Providence, white 13, colored 0; Randleman, white 37, colored 1; Richland, white 16, colored 3; Tabernacle, white 12, colored Ip Trinity, white 24, colored 9; Union, white 8, colored 2. ■ * JOINT SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS IN JULY School Begins July 13th U Teachers in Randolph and 3 Other Counties. 1 Preparations Being Made For Celebration ' •' Moon, A six-weeks* joint for teachers of Randolph, Montgomery and Chatham will begin in Asheboro July 13th, it is announced from the office of T. Fletcher Bulla. ers in some of the counties who at tend the school, these counties wane grouped together and only one scbed will be held for the four. Teachers from these counties who expect to at tend the summer school are reoaesfcei to notify T. F. Bulla, Asheboro, N. C During the past week many esting events have been worked oat for the Fourth of July celebration to be staged in Asheboro. Among the events will be an automobile race be tween three lady drivers driving standard stock cars, an old time dance to be held on the streets in the even ing, music by a good brass band, firemen’s contest for a silver cup, aH sorts of athletic events including a good baseball game, a big parade in cluding funny floats and handsome' floats, a clown band, and too many other things to be mentioned right now. This is to be a real gala day, and the town will be simply turned over to everybody who comes. Watch for further announcements, and plan to spend on grand day in Asheboro. In all athletic contests prizes will given the winners, and terested, especially the boys, should come prepared to take a part, full list of these contests will be nounced next week. Pension Checks Veterans Have One hundred and totaling $9,580 and semi-annual State vonieueraic veterans have
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