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^LE of the “POLLY HODGIH
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Under and by ^jxrtiie of an order
the Supfe'Hoi' Court of Alamance;
vCounty In which Nancy Carter and i
'rthfyrs ^jlaintifFs and Clem Coble i
irid are defendants, the under- |
commissioners will, on j
Monday, the i»th day op i
JANUARY, 1914,
at 12;00 o’clock, M.,
■'-! thti prernir>es hereinafter described,
for riale to the highest bidder
public auction for cash the follow-
'Inscribed real estate, towit:
- yiRg and bein^ partly in Alamance
Cour.ty and partly in Chatham Coun-
North Carolina, on the waters of
■•^'6 middle prong of Rocky Riv'sr, ad-
th« lands of the late Alfred
Pickett, William Pike, Garton But-
. ler, J. H. Johnson, A. L. Fuqua, W
' H. Kimrey, and more particularl;
bounded and descrbed as follows:
Beginning at a stone, ssid Butler'
corno”, and runn'n'c thence West wit;
said Butler's (formerly John Dixon’s
line 55 chains to a stone in the Cou;
ty line; thence South with said Cou]
ty line 17 chains and 50 links to -
stone in lot number one; thence Ea?^
1 55 chains and 50 links to a small poj
lar in said Pickett’s line; thence Nert
; v.-ith a line of said Pickett and Pil:
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■ 20 chains and 50 links to the begir
!
I ning, containing 105 acres more c
! less; the same being the property de
i scribed in a deed executed by K. T
: Hodffin and his wife, Julia A. Hodgin
I to Artilia Hodgin on the 12th day of
|Angust, 1381» and recorded in the
Office of the Register ot Deeds fo?,
Chatham County in Books “B. K.” at
pa"e 447.
Thig properiy is known as the ‘‘Pol-
ly Hodgin Land,” and is situated two
miles from Liberty, North Carolina,
and upon this land ard telt\iatei a
dwelling house, barn afe'i granary.
About one-third &f this las4 ia iu
woods, and the farm is well watered
and specially adapted to the produc
tion of grain.
This the 9th. day of December,
1318.
EDWARD TEAGUE,
DENNIS HODGIN,
Commissionwrs.
E. S. W. Dameron, Attorney.
International Lession for December
28, 1812—Young People’s
Topics.
At this backward looking time of
the year it is appropriate to look still
iUrther back than the petty concerns
of our own past 12 months., B’rankly,
most of us think in very small terms.
We are cellular, parocl^l, provinchi-
al. A long look at history tends to
emancipate us from small fears. It
helps us to see things in their relatiye
importance and so delivers us from i
the thraldom of trifles.
A xew days ago, in a dining car,
a new waiter asked the steward if he |
should serve ice with a bottle of
Vichy water. The French steward
went into a paroxysm of contempt.
“Serve ice with Vichy ? Why, every
body knows that ice is never served:
with Vichy.” So he spluttered and
fumed, unwiUmg to let the subject
drop for an hour later. Did not the
guest pity him, for having as waiters
such dolts as did not know better than
to serve ice with Vichy? One guest
did pity him, but not for the reason'
he supposed. Millions of better men
than he, in every respect except a
knowledge of cookery and table ser
vice, don't know anything about
Vichy, and don’t care. The steward’s
trouble was the trivial one of a soul
that has shrivelled to the size of a
petty tool of his trade. He is an ex
ample of thep erson who is troubled
by forks and spoons and table garni
ture; and who need to think back up
on the great men who got along with-
'.:ut a.ny ci these encumbrances of our
avjdorn civi^i^ation. It wuold be
wholesome for all of us to remember
that greatness is no matter of petty
usages. Let us call the Bible patri
archs to our aid to deliver us from the
blight of littleness of soul.
MANKIND’S LONG JOURNEY.
How old is man? “Three million
' years,” answered a recent magazine
article. ‘*Franlcly, j we do not know,
ansv.'ered the %vise*scientists. Geology
and anthropology have given us
grlimpses of the long, long journey the
human race hast ravelled; and out
school children talli learnedly about
the stone age and the bronze age,
(not knowing that these synchronised
in different parts of the earth); but
all we really do know, from crediable
history, is that so long as we have
been able to read his contemporan
eous records, man has had the same
essential needs and traits.
The history that is ti'uest to type is
the Old Testament. Here we see the
race developing, acquiring larger re
lationship and wider horizons, and
being disciplined for the business of
life and inoral responsibility. There
are some changes which the centuries
do not make—and this truth may be
stressed without limit, since our day,
with its amusing and amazing ego
tism, is inclined to believe that within
a decade or two it has ’‘advanced”
beyond the old landmarks. Thus, the
need of pure family life must con
tinue to the end of the. race. We shall
never outgrow the necessity for mor
al standards. The call for the exer
cise of soverign v/ill power on the
part of every person is abiding. Sin
sviii works as a permanent factor in
' human society. Most of all, God
abides. All these factors and forces
' we find in the Old Testament historj',
' which we have been studying, and a
contemplation of them is involved in
any reasonable consideration of his
tory'.
THE GREATEST TRUTH OF ALL.
One overshadowing truth, the old
est and greatest, yet also the newest
and most intimate, has been studied
during this year's lessons. That ’s
Unclaimed Letters.
List of unclaimed letter remain
ing in the post ofiice at Burlington,
N. December 12, 1913:
Gentlemen—Buck Evans, Geosfg:8
Gray (2), S. C. Hall, W. T. No«k,
Wm. H. Julian, R. L. Tate.
Ladies—Miss Emma Brown, Miss
Hattie Grase, Mrs. R. E. MeCussey,
Miss Annie I'hompson.
Persons calling for any of these let
ters will please say “Adveitiinsd” and
give date of advertised lisl.
F. L. WILLIAMSON,
the truth of the existence and char
acter of a divine bsing. No fact is so
contemporary as the fact of God. “In
the beginning, God—” so began our
lessons. As the opened eyes of John
saw it. He is the first, and the last,
the Alpha and Omega, the generating
tause and the final ajudication, This
loftiest tlieme tbai &rer eoiiimaiAd^d
human considwaticfri is thg eeatral
truth of the yeai*’* study. Man is re
lated to God by the very nature of
both beings. The present character
of this relationship is more import
ant than the Mexican question, and
the state of business^ the affairs of
the holidays, and tie problem of get
ting along with other people. K God
btjdked larger in our thinking, the
things that disturbed us in life would
bulk smaller.
As it was at the bdginftihg of the
first man, and, as it be at the
deathbed of the last, God is the su
preme question. Aiiy jSdnd that tries
to get along without reclining upon
God is not doing justice even to his
own man-power. As Mt. Hermon
dominates the landscape of Palestine
so does the truth tower above all else
in these lessons.
TEXAS, FOR INSTANCE.
If we may shake ourselves loose
from the things near and small, and
take a fearless look at the task of
organizing human life along the best
lines, we approximate somewhat the
genius of tMs Old Testiment history.
Away back in God’s task was to
develop a people qualified to lead the
world into the highest life. As we
look over the record it seems, to
judge by our little two-inch standards
that the undertaking waa full of
slumps and blunders and imperfec
tions.
But, be it remembered, states are
not made by machinery. Take Texa?,
for instance. AH that the civilizatioa
of the old world acquired through
laborious centuries is following the
Texas pioneers within a few decades-
Where the bison roamed, within the
memory of living men, the college
boys now play football. Th«i dug-out
and the sod-house are being supplant
ed by modem homes of convenience
and refinement, such as the poor of
the world never aspire to. The old
low towTj is becoming a raetropo.’is.
Any one with the vision and the sj-ir-
:^t cf patience can see this wonder be
ing wrought before his eye?. Shall
we view with less discernment the
making of this old Hebrew nation?
AFTER GOD, THE MAN.
For twelve months, we have been
studying a long stretch of history^
most of it in the terms of a few men.
ijod first; then man; both are indis
pensable to the story. These ai’e the
two essential factors of all history.
We may supplement the old catechism
statements, that "The chief end of
men is God,” by saying reverently
that the chief end of God is mark.
After considering Adam and Eve
f.nd their sons, with a femily problem
as modern as anything in today’s
newspapers, we studied that great ad
venturer and “come outer.” Abra
ham the man who dared to follow his
gleam. All ages are richer for lus
simple loyalty to his vision. Then
Isaac, a mere cipher connecting two
numerals; and Jacob, a crooked stick
whom it took long years and hard ex
perience to straighten. If God could
do what he did with old Jacob perhaps
we are not wholly unavailable materi
al.
Like many a man, Jacob came to
his real greatness through his chil
dren. The most notable fact about
him is that he was the father of Jo
seph, There is comfort, for parents
in that thought that, although we
may not be able to hold the torch
high,,Tve may at least be able to pass
it on to the son, whose arms we have
strengthened.
MOSES, MAD AND MEEK.
Quite as today explains yesterday,
and as tomorrow is needed to make
clear the meaning of today, so it took
Sinai and Nebo to enable us to per
ceive the unique significance of the
schooling of Moses, son of a slave,
protege of a princess. For the great
work cf delivering the Jev/s he was
trained, and he used his peculiar
equipment for its highest purpose.
Moses did not belong with that fav
ored group of well-fitted young men,
who waste their noble preparation up
on their ignoble selves. He rose
greatly to his great task.
The loss of his temper is the first
mature act of Moses of which we read
—and we cannot help loving him for
it. Hot with indignation over an in
justice, he risked his all to serve the
oppressed. God send us more men
who dare blaze forth in behalf of
truth and justice and patriotism, in
sublime scorn of consequences. That
deed drove Moses to the wilderness,
where he got a disciple which the
palaces of Egypt could not give. He
learned how to be meek and how to
wait. It is simply impossible to help
men v.ithout being patient. We for
give Moses his subsequent lapses
trom long-suffering, for they came
from caring little for Moses and all
for his work. A great patriot he,
whom earth and heaven honor.
THE GOOD TIMES COMING.
All the men and events of this his
tory which the Sunday Schools have
been studying looked forward to a
Promised Land, wherein the Chosen
People should find their mission. Now
we are learning them, the Jordan
crossed., their patience rewarded, the
land apportioned, and their national
life assured. The hand of God in it
all is as clear to us who read now as
ever was the pillar of cloud by da^ ^
Or pf fire by night, God guides the
lifife of men and of nations into stead
ily bettering conditions. In his
scheme of things, good times are al
ways coming.
Now the Sunday schools drop the
Old Testament course, and take up
a year’s Study in the life of Jesus.
We contemplate Him of whom all the
Old Testament was but a prefigura
tion and a richer and more vital than
this 12 months of studies now ending.
6
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the North Carolina Railroad Company bad sor-
T«7ed and potted ali that trait of land which
they own in North Burlington on Fisher Street
and Bijf FaHs road but this land Had never been
priced and placed on the market ontii this
montfi.
.Ihere are 58 lots ranging in size fran 1-3
of an acre to 1 4 aq'esand in price fros $100-
:0& to $300 00 per lot. Hcwever we are only
offering 26 of these lots at present.
We beheve tbis property is good investnient
at price placed upon it and mil be glad to show
map or land to anyone interested.
Alamance Insiirance Real t .state Co.
W. E SHARPE Mgr.
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