jjlUllSDAY, APEII. 25, 1907.
LocalRecords.
I FOUR MEN DROWNED
Swept Over Buckkarns Dim.
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j Four men were drowned, on last
Tuesday, at the JJuckhome dam in the
Cape Fear river.
They were Capt. Thorson, the fore
maa of the works at Buekhorne, Mr.
Emory A. Brady and two colored men,
one named George Champion and the
other Henry Lashley.
They and a colored man, named Joe
por Sale: One six-horse power por
table boiler and engine. Apply to J.
' Bland, Pittsboro, N. C.
lt ramea nere iasi luesaay aDoui : Andrews, were in a gasolene boat that
ts hard as we have ever seen it rain, j was m lne Tiyet above the dam, carry
all many creeks overran their banks. jngSome lumber across the river", when
All kinds of repair work in wood . the machinery gotoutof lix, or forsome
flnd iron none m iiM-urt uimr t cause the boat got beyond control and
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jjjjyliaDlC pilCCS 111 ilL J. If.
W'omle's, Roundtop.
Democratic primary will be held
ftt w court-house tomorrow (Friday)
nirlit at S o'clock to nominate a mayor
tive commissioners.
.j. P. Womble at Roundtop will
sell vou goods at reasonable prices,
highest market price paid for all kinds
of country produce. Give him your t rade.
The recent rains have caused all
vegetation to grow rapidly, and soon
our fields and forests wTill be beautiful
with the'1" green grain and verdant
foliage.'
Krnest Petty died at Durham on
lat Saturday of lung trouble. He was
ason of Mr. A. J. Petty, who moved
from this township to Durham a few
vears ago.
The wind blew with much violence
on lat Tuesday, and in Hartley town
ship there was almost a cyclone un
rooting and blowing down many build
ings. Ve are indebted to Miss Annie
Vaim for an invitation to attend the
closing exercises of Mount Vernon
Springs graded school, which were
held yesterday.
Messrs. Jacob Thompson, John M.
Jhinlap and M. G. Dorset!, of this
county, have been drawn as jurors for
the next term 'of the federal court! A
which will be held at Raleigh on the I
21st ol -May.
Young men, it will will pay you to
see the clothing at London's before you
buy your new suit. Their :?10, $12.50,
$1.5,?1S.50 and suits are bound to
suit you. Nice line of extra pants and
blue serge coats.
Compromises have been made in
most of the suits brought against the
Cape Fear Power Company by the
landowners on account of the back
water from the" Buekhorne dam. The
remaining suits have been transferred
to the federal court at Raleigh.
Auburn Bland & Co., having open
ed up a select line of staple and fancy
groceries at their store on Main street,
respectfully solicit a share of the pat
ronage of the general public. Their
motto is "small profits and quick re
turns." All purchases, however small,
promptly delivered in town. Give
them a trial.
The notion department at W. L.
London & Son's was never rnore com
plete than it is this season. Most ev
erything a lady needs can be found
there. Corsets, all grades, hosiery, long
black and white silk gloves, a dainty
line of neckwear, white and black par
asols, combs, and about anything need
ed for a summer outfit. ,
The stockholders of the Chatham
Cotton Oil Company will meet here on
Friday of next week to consider the
question of rebuilding their oil mill,
which was burned on Easter morning.
It is to be hoped that they will rebuild
as the mill was quite a help to the town
and drew a good deal of trade, which
was not dnlv nrmreciated bv some of
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our merchants.
Last fall deputy sheriff O. S.John
son Jr. had a writ for the arrest of T..
K. Williams, of Oakland township, on
the charge of unlawfully selling wine.
When Mr. Johnson attempted to ar
rest him Williams shot him, but be
ing bird shot no serious wound was in
flicted. Williams ran away, but was
arrested on last Saturday, at Hamlet,
where he was working as a flagman
the railroad. He was brought
began drifting with the strong current
towards the dam. All efforts to stop
the boat were in vain, and with accel
erated motion it swept to the dam and
plunged over, dashing the five men in
to the seething waters below.
Only one of them, Joe" Andrews, es
caped a watery grave. He was able to
swim ashore, but the other four were
drowned, and their bodies were swept
down the river and may not be found
for many days, if ever.
Capt. Thorson was a stranger who
had been at Buekhorne only a few
months. Mr. Brady was born and
reared near Haywood, in this county,
and had been employed for two or
three years by the company building
the dam. He was a son of Cant. Bra
dy, who was the captain of the old
steanr boat that used to belong to t he
Cape Fear & Deep River Navigation
Company.
This dam at Buekhorne was com
pleted last year by the Cape Fear Pow
er Company and its construction was
so costly as to bankrupt that company,
which went into the hands of receivers
last summer by whom its property was
all sold last fall. Its present owners
will soon be able to utilize and trans
mit the electric power generated there
to Fayetteville and other places.
Chairman Simmons Will Resign.
Washington Cor. Charlotte Observer. '
Senator Simmons will resign
his position as chairman of the
State Democratic committee and
will call a meeting this summer to
jke action upon his resignation.
This he announced today, saying
that he had held the position lon
enoughsince 1898, when he
fought the Populists and Radicals
and won out. It is time now for
somebody else to take hold, he
says.
The Senator wishes his resigna
tion to take effect before the com
ing battle within the party for
control of the State. Concerning
this, however, he expresses no
ear for the party. When asked if
he thought there won I'd be split in
the party, he replied emphatically
in the negative.
"There will be no split "he de
clared. "There will be a heated
contest for Governor and possibly
or the control of the party and.
when it is over, the defeated ones
will acquiesce in the result. The
effect of it all will be to weld the
party together rather than
thinsr else."
Sad Death.
This community was saddened on
last Tuesday afternoon by a telegram
from Raleigh announcing the death of
Mrs. AVilliam K. Brooks, of this place.
She had been taken last Monday to the
Rex Hospital at Raleigh for medical
treatment, and on her arrival there a
dangerous surgical operation was per
formed on her, which was thought to
be successful, but fatal complications
set in and she died next afternoon.
Iler husband had accomplanied her
to Raleigh and yesterday returned here
with her dead body, which today wil 1
be buried at Mt. Vernon church, near
Silk Hope.
The deceased, before her marriage
wras a Miss Holliday, of Alamance
county, and was a lady greatly beloved
by all who knew her. Beautiful in
person and lovable in character, her
untimely death is deeply deplored by
her many friends, who sympathize
most deeplv with her bereaved hus
band and motherless children.
Seaboard Train Kills Two.,
Petersburg, Va., April 22. An
accident occurred this morning at
a crossing on the Seaboard Air
Line about three miles from this
city in which two persons were
instantly killed and one seriously
injured.
Mr. Perkinsou and his sister.
Mrs. Shelm, and her daughter,
were in a wagon drawn by two
horses. They were' crossinsr the
rack at an abrupt curve in the
road throusrh a deep cut which
j.
prevented 'observation on either
side, when'the fast train truck the
wagon. Mr. Perkinson and Mrs,
Shelm were killed instantly, and
Miss Shelm had an arm broken
and was otherwise injured. One
of the horses was so badly injured
hat it had to be killed.
on
here to jail on last Tuesday to await his
trial at May court.
Personal Items.
Miss Alice Bynum has returned from
a visit to Winston.
Mrs. William J. Womble and Mrs.
Mary Barrineer are visiting Rev. WT.
F. Womble at Moranton.
Miss Lula Rothrock,of Washington,
I). C, has returned there after a visit
here to her sister, Mrs. B. Nooe.
Mr. W. K. Fearrington, of Rocking
ham county, has been on a visit to his
sister, Mrs. J. R. Milliken , near here.
Capt. WT. L. London and Mr. A. H.
London went to Greensboro yesterday
to attend a meeting of the stockholders
of the J. M.Odell Manufacturing Com
pany. Mr. John B. Harris returned home
on last Saturday from the hospital at
Sanford, where he had been for treat
ment ever since his left leg and arm
were broken, three months age, by a
tree falling on him. He can now use
his left leg without a crutch, but car
ries his arm in a sling.
Wedding Anniversary.
On Friday night of next week Sheriff
Milliken and wife will celebrate their
"china wedding," which no doubt will
be a most pleasant occasion and for
which neatly engraved cards have been
issued, as follows:
''Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Milliken ,
. Request the pleasure of your
company on their twentieth
anniversary, May the third.
Hours from eight to eleven
at their home.
J. R. Milliken, and Annie Bunyan
Fearrington."
County History.
Some facts connected with the early
history of this county may be of .inter
est to our readers. As most of them
know, this county was created by an
act of the Provincial Assembly in Jan
uary, 1771, from Orange county.
The countv-seaf was first located
about half a mile south of the present
town of Pittsboro. and was known as
Chatham Court-House. In 1778 the
General Assembly enacted a law to
establish a town to be called "Chat
ham" on the land of Ambrose George
about four miles west of the. present
town of Pittsboro. The commissioners
named in that act to lay out the pror
posed town were Jeduthun Harper
Edward Waddell, Matthew Jones
Mini Rmirlnek. James Williams and
John Ramsev. For some unknown
reason that town was never laid out
and nothing was ever done by the
above named commissioners. If that
town had been laid out as proposed
our county-seat would have been nearer
the centre of the county than it is now
Wpdnnht. if half a dozen persons in
Chatham ever before had heard of such
a -town as "Chatham" having been
proposed.
As nothing was done under the act
to establish the proposed town of
Chatham, the county-seat remained at
Chatham Court-House until some
nftpr ihft Revolutionary war. On
the 29th of December, 1785, the General
ssembly enacted a law to establish
town to be called Pittsborough on the
land of Mial Scurlock, deceased, where
the court-house and jail then stood.
That act appointed Joseph Stewart,
John Montgomery, Joseph Brantley,
Zachariah Harmon, Elisha Cain, Geo.
Lucas, Matthew Jones, Will. Vestal
and James Anderson trustees to buy
two hundred acres of the Scurlock farm
and lay out the proposed town. They
were not able to buy that land, because
the executors of Mial Scurlock did
not think that they had the right to
sell it. Accordingly, the above named
trustees bought land from William
Petty, and established thereon the
present town of Pittsboro.
At the next session of the General
Assembly (in 1787) an act was passed
confirming and legalizing the action of
the trustees iu establishing the town
on the land of William Petty. Another
act was passed at the same session (in
1787) removing the court-house and jail
to the new town and making Pitts-
borough the county-seat, which it has
been now for exactly one hundred and
twenty years. . ,
any-
Fight in Church.
Portsmouth; O., April 21. Men
and women were knocked down
and trampled, upon and women
fainted daring a pitched battle in
the Free Will Baptist church this
morning. Hymn books were hurl
ed back and forth and pews and !
other furniture were demolished.
The fight lasted fifteen minutes
and was at its height when a pa
trol wagon, with policemen, rolled
up to the door. This stopped the
conflict, and the patrol wagon was
used to convey several hysterical
women to their homes. No one
was seriously injured, although a
number were badly hurt. JNo ar
rests were made.
The riot was the result ot one
faction of the consrregation briner-
insr in a new preacher, the Rpv. I
George L. Vance, of Galford. The
fighting started the minute he
mounted the platform to conduct
the services.
Whipped by Women.
London, O., April 20. George
H. Ward, a prosperous farmer
near Roscoe, Madison county, was
soundly whipped yesterday byj
sixteen indignant women neigh
bors for his alleged continual
whipping of his wife and other
cruelties to her. Mrs. Ward died
Thursday and Friday Ward buried.
her, digging the grave himself to I
save expenses,
The women met at an appointed
place and when YY ard came from
the funeral pounced upon him and
beat him with horsewhips, crying
"Beast, brute and dosr!" Mrs.
Ward before her death filed a pe
tition for divorce, alleging cruelty
in that Ward drove her out of her I
bed and made her feed the stock.
Almost Suffocated by Gas.
Wilmington, N. C., April 22.
Unconscious from the fumes of
eras escaping- from a leak in a
tube leading to the heater and al
most submerged, William C
Crow, a prominent young business
man of this city, was rescued from
his bath tub yesterday morning.
Alarmed on account of the long
absence ot his brother, George
Crow went to the bath room to in
vestigate. Forcing the door he
discovered vouns Crow in the
bath tub more dead than alive.
After hours of heroic treatment
his life was saved.
To those who use a buggy or
siirry a part of their satisfaction
is in the style of their turn but.
We are now showing a pretty
and stylish lot of buggies and
sui ries, in open and top rubber
and steel tire, end and side
springs, finished in colors to
harmonize wih the vehicle. We
warrant them for 12 months
and will sell for cash or on time.
uu y au catty auuaj vlj &2"ajd
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Boylaii-Pearce Co.
Boylan-Pearce Co
Killed 30 Greek Monks.
Vienna, April 22. Bulgarian
1 t m I lit!
Danuus sacked the monastery in
Macedonia after killing the abbot
and thirty Greek monks. Few de
tails are known here. The bandits,
according to reports, resorted te
barbarous cruelties to the monks
opposing them.
Ptomaine Poison Kills a Pastor.
Baltimore, April 19. The Rev.
Dr. William G. Herbert, for elev
en years pastor of Caroline Street
M. E. Church and one of the most
popular clergymen in East Balti-
more, aiea today irom ptomaine
poisoning. Three other members
of his family were also made ill at
the time, but have apparently re
covered. Dr. Herbert became ill
shortly after he had eaten dinner
and within two hours died. It is
believed that the poison was con
tained in the oysters of which Dr.
Herbert had eaten heartily.
Steamer Sunk in Snow Storm.
St. Petersburg, April 22. Forty-five
persons are believed to
have been drowned by the found
ering of the river steamer Arch
angelask while she was crossing
the Neva. The accident occurred
during a snow storm. The steamer-was
two-thirds the way across
the river, when it struck an ice
floe, numbers of which still re
main in the river, despite the late
ness of the season.
Sauford Express: The Southern
Railway expects to put a passen
ger car on the through freight
train .which leaves Sanford for
Greensboro at 5 in the morning,
leaching the latter place at 10
o'clock. This will enable passen
gers from Sanford and all inter-
hmediate points to go to Greens
boro in the morning and return
in the afternoon, instead of bav
ins: to remain 24 hours.
Three white prisoners escaped
last week from the penitentiary at
T?.aioi'crh Onfi of them, named
Scrubs, was shot dead by
guard' and the other two
captured after a short chase.
the
were
Modern Progress in New York.
Office Buildings 2G stories high,
containing a thousand omces; ho
tels covering a city block, contain
ing 1,400 rooms, many, very many,
painted with the L. fe M.
Machinery produces L. & M.
Paint at 50 times less cost for la
bor than if made by hand.
4 gallons L. & M. mixed with 3
gallons Linseed Oil, bought fresh
from the barrel at about GO cents
per gallon, makes 7 gallons of
paint at a cost of less than $1.20
per gallon.
If any defect exists in L. & M.
Paint, will repaint house for noth
ing. Donations of L. & M. made to
Sold-by W. L. London & Son,
Pittsboro, N. O.
NOTICE !
It is hereby ordered by the
Board of Commissioners of Chat- i
ham County that all county orders
for $100 (one hundred dollars) or
less now outstanding shall draw
no interest on and after the . first
day of May, 1907: and no order
issued on and after May 1, 1907,
shall draw interest except from on
ana alter the date the same may
be presented to the sheriff and
payment of the same refused by
him. The Sheriff will stamp any
order that may be presented to
him for payment, showing the
date of its presentment and its
refusal.
ijet this order be published in
The Chatham Record for 30 days.
S. W. Haerington, Chm'n
Board of County Commissioners.
TAX SALES.
On Monday, the Gth day of May,
1907, I will sell for cash at the
court-house door invPittsboro, the
following real estate for the taxes j
due thereon and listed by the fol- j
lowing persons:
ALBRIGHT TOWNSHIP.
Wm. Hobson heirs, 40 acres S3. 38
BALDWIN TOWNSHIP.
Sarah Williams, 73 acres, $5.08
Hayes Baldwin (col.) 10 acres, 4.31
CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
Mrs. Pan. Lasater 213 acres, 10.23
J. H. Thomas 50 acies, 1.60
Nannie Watson 24 acres, 1.44
W. A. Williams 177 acres, 11.44
Athelia Alston 163 acres, 3.45
Claudia Cotten 23 acres, 4.16
Geo. Perry 8 acres, 1.20
Walter Taylor 5 acres, .18
Dave Taylor G acres, .20
W. W. Newman 58 acres, .94
CAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP.
R. L. Johnson 25 acres, $1.41
J. A. Mclyer and Seawell
10 acres 1.20
J. W. and Neill McCoy 400 -
acres ......
A. J. Rosser 172 acres,
Ann Smith 131 acres,
Melisa Spivey 51 acres,
Elizabeth Thomas 34 acres,
Susan A. Lutterloh 1 3-4 "
Jane Taylor 47 acres, ,
Jane Thomas 47 acres,
Superb Easter Millinery J.
The smartest Easter Hats shown in
the city. With enthusiastic accord the
ladier are delighted. Hats that are ex
elusive in style, inhaling the very atmos
phere of Parisian boulevards. The lowest-
price exhibit (quality considered) in
this or any other city. Swagger Tailored
Hats in Satin Straw, Pyroxalines, the
smartest trimmings in wings, fancy quills
and other novelty effects.
Splendid Costumes
And Tailored Suits For
Easter
The most desirable to be had in
Silks, Voiles, Panamas and fancy
effects, white and in the delicate
light shades. . Fine Costumes,
Pony and Eaton Suits. The style
eloquence is pronounced.
No store in the city devotes
more space to Tailored Garments.
No store gives more intelligent
attention to the buying. No store
buys with greater discretion. No
store marks prices more moderate
ly. Necessary alterations are made
without cost.
Early Spring wraps
Taffeta Silk Coats in half and
three-quarter lengths, in black and
colors, and Covert Cloth Coats in
short lengths, lined and unlined.
Stylish Shirt Waists
Fine Lingerie, Lawn, Silk and
Net Waisto f-hat would do credit
to Fifth Ave;aue stores. There is
not a Waist want that we cannot
successfully fill.
Misses' Jumper Suits
Made from manufacturers' short
lengths, fine French materials,
Panama, Batiste, Voiles and fancy
weaves, Jumper Shoulder Caps
and Kimona Sleeves. Sizes, 11 to
17 years; lengths, 30 to 39 inches;
values, $10 to $15. Only a limited
quantity. Choice $7.48
The Spring
Style Book
The Spring Quarterly Style
Book of the Ladies' Home Journal
Patterns, containing 120 pages,
with hundreds of illustrations, is
given, together with your choice
of any 10c. pattern, for ISc.
BoylanPearce Co.,
RALEIGH, N. C,
Jackson heirs, 1 town lot,
McEadgan heirs, 54 acres,
Mrs. M. J. Moffitt 1 town lot,
B. H. Oldham 79 acres,
M. Cheek (col.) 19 acres,
An nie Dark " 3 acres,
25.50
11.16
4.14
i net
VnT Robt. Lambeth (col.) 50 acres, 3.85
-1"1 I ITT YT7-i. I 1 or Q Qfi
5.05
1.67
.44
7.12
1.46
1.91
.33
4.68
2.26
The program for the next ses
sion of the North Carolina Teach
ers' Assembly'has been completed
aud presents perhaps the most at
tractive army of speakers ever of
fered to an educational gathering
in North Carolina. The assembly
is to meet in Durham J;ine 11-14.
TherA are more iudsres in New
York City than in all of England.
HICKORY MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP.
Mrs. T. J. Burke 138 acres, $2.10
Tracy Dixon 32 acres, - 1.02
W, R. Perry 35 acres, .64
Boson Headen (col.) 15 acres, 43
MATTHEWS TOWNSHIP. - '
Zeb. V. Dark 40 acres, $2.57
A. M. Bowers estate, 2 acres, ',26
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP.
Oren Alston 10 acres, .63
W. C. Douglas 110 acres, $7.02
Rod. Gilmore 50 acres, 3.92
John Gunter 6 acres, .19
Z.V. McPherson 190 acres 16.92
Primus Holmes (col.) 4 acres, 6.99
ROCK ItEST TOWNSHIP. "
Broughton & Snelling 20 a. .66
Luther Mann 20 acres, .66
K S. Sellars (col.) 63 acres. 3.38
HADLEY TOWNSHIP. "
Levi Buckner 19 acres, $L46
Levi Richardson 19 acres, .35
GULF TOWNSHIP.
Wra. Watson (col.) 25 acres, 9.36
Louisa Spruill " 9 acres, 1.12
J. J. Cheek 130 acres, 3.30
8. P. Claridy 60 acres, 1.52
Cape Fear Brown Stone Co.
56 acres 20,32
D. H. Johnson 2 acres, "1.28
J. C. Smith 9 1-4 acres, 1.70
J. M. Wilcox 150 acres, 12.73
S. H. Wiley heirs 118 acres, 5-95
T. W. Bynum (col.) 25 acres, 1.28
John Bynum " 94 acres, 5.08
Jerrv Creecr " 7 acres. 5.24
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Theopholiua Creecy (col.) 13
acres.. 1.20
Mittie Haughton 17 acres, 1.11
Jas. Murchison 62 acres, 3.49
Norman Rives 15 acres. 5.62
Cornelia Taylor 52 acres, 2.57
r William Hilliard 48 acres, 2.57
J. R. MILLIKEN, Sheriff
Chatham County, N. C
April 8, 1907.
C. G. Harden 50 acres,
$8.90
I DMIN ISTR ATK1X NOTICE:-Hav-
Ainsr qualified as administratrix of T.
11 Kd v Pierce; deceased, I hereby notify
all persona holding claims against saia
decedent to exhibit the same to me on
or Iwif ore the 2J st day of March, 1908
March 91, 1907.
MATTIE PIERCE.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Having qualified as administrator
of O. A. Palmer, deceased this is to
notifiy all persons holding claims a
gainst hi estate to present them to
the undersigned on or before the 1.7th
aay ot April, lyos, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery.
This the 12th daj of April, 1907.
DR. R. W. PALMER, Adm'r of
O. A. Palmer, deceased.,
Womack, Hayes & Hynum,
Attorneys.
Coffins and
:: caskets:-:
"IfORTGAGE SALE. By
virtue of
certain mortgage executed to me
by James D. Brooks and wife, which
mortgage is regisierea on page ooi iu
Book "D It." in the office of the regis
ter of deeds of Chatham county, I wilt
sell for cash at public auction at 12
o'clock onr Saturday, the nth aay oi
May, 1907, the land described there
in, in Hickory Mountain township,
adjoining the lands of W. C. Burke
and others, beginning on the north
bauk of Rocky River about the "Hign
Hnr.k." runninar thence north 30 de
grees east 222 poles to Gunter's line,
thence with his line nrth 25 west. 86
poles to Peoples corner, thence with
his line of marked trses to the fork of
the branch, thence down the branch
134 poles to a wainnttree. thence west
11G poles to the river, t'iiee down
river to the beginning, containing 2Htf
acres, excepting the 100 acres nouvny
ed hv deed resistered on pa?e 314 in
RookD K" in the office of the regis
ter of Chatham county.
April 10, 1907.
JOIINF. MCNAIK,
Mortgagee.
11. A. London & Son,
, Attorneys.
A full stock of Coffins and
(Caskets always on band and
sold at all prices. All kbds
and sizes.
B. Nooe,
Pittsboro, N. C.
Jan, 26, 1906.
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