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- 1 '1 - Cb."tbam IRccorfc H. A. LONDON EDITHS AND PH0PRIETO3L TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: SI .SO Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE P.aS 19 I r mi Ebc CDbatbam tterr. VOL. XXXIII. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY.-N.-C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. 1911. THE LEGISLATURE. ! NO. 29. RATES OF ADVE8TISIS3 e Square, ot insertion t, Our. Square, tw loertUcA., On Sqauur o, nitt-.. . . . , For Larger Advertise msnts Liberal Contracts vH! be made. , change from Tune 1st to May 1st ' WASHINGTON LETTER. The Legislature will probably the date for beginning to list urn next Monday, and will property.' .... 1 i 1 11UW 1 bills as is usual during From our Rular Correspondent. ! Washington, D. C, Feb. 21 -'Less than a week of the session I remains and Congress will doubt- N. C. Wheat and Flour. N. C. Agricultural Bulletin. North Carolina has 31,091,200 the closing days of every Legis- IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION. jess crowd a3 much legislation as We fear that too much ! A most important decision was ' possible in the final Saturday, thu Good Roads Essays. Editor of The Record:' ;'' -.- The directors of,, the Chatham ' county good roads association acres of land surface, the larger have decided, in order to arouse portion of which is arable. We interest and create greater en- grew wheat on 570,000 acres in siasrn n the subject or gcol 190J, which produced in the ag gregate 5,415.()00 bushels. fer a prize to be competed for by I Careful statisticians have estl- 1 Til. , , - - - , , , , il 1 -1 p tinio has been lost in the earlier made last week by the Inster- , f "u "Piy m ove trie n arm oi roads" in Chatham county, to of .T.-,-o tVii dQcirn-i anH tVmt- rrn Stnrf I jOmmprrp I ntiimission That. . . , w,fitr ar maao,;a nrpotlv nlTprt rm-rin rn'IronHQ CUie a f w min?tes more time, the children of the public schoolsj mated that each man, woman and sequent. many measures that greatly ahects certain rail Chatham county. The chil- child in the United States .oil- ought to have been passed, will and tnose who have freight haul-, March 4th affixirg his signature dren competing for these prizes ! sumes an average of about Si r.nt be? mssed. uniet amoncr eu on mem. i "- jcu uma. uusicaa these the proposed amend- Sometime ago certain large rnents to our State constitution, railroad companies, chiefly those ! March 4th. will ha rpnmrpn to wnr.f an - . riiTahola nt inhflat o iroor' Tf tlmca i is working: iranticaliv m order to 1 ni,,- . ,.r.:., u t-.-i. ' . 'r. i ,i -in . 1 '11 .y UI1 CllCiCll tuujcct Ul BUttlSLlCS UtJ LI U lUr INOIIU - TimshThinnrc wnro tro 170 A r nfu- . . X , . . . . . . . . . r . legislators, wjth Chatham county, and I ing our calculation on aponula- Everybody seems to admit that in the West, gave notice that statesmen, making laws lor the vould s t that one subject tion of 2. 200, 000, about 12.100,000 several amenumenis snouiu ue tney would increase tneir ireicrnt made, and yet not one has been rates, and" application was made agreed on. Possibly a few, ono by parties interested to get the one or two, may be passed yet, Interstate Commerce Commission but we cannot expect that all to forbid such proposed increase, will be. j The matter was heard fully, and, The reapportionment of mem- after, mature consideration, the bers of the House of Represen-. Commissioners have granted the tatives among the counties of prayer of the petitioners or ap the State is as follows: Guil- plicants and have forbidden the ford, Mecklenburg and Wake proposed increase. thrje xiiemb?rs each; Buncombe, Durham. Forivth. Gaston, Hal- It is said that the proposed in crease would have added $27, f.Lf.L "V" "J- wi woiiu, .;that should be discussed exten l)iishel.-i of wheat. This forces us lham County and the Bestleth- suppiy the demand of home con- ou ot Attainment. sumption. For the best essay, thedirec- If we should increase our yields tors will pay $3. ' .from 9.5 to 25 bushels per acre For the second best essay, $2 we would supply our home de will be paid raand and have 2,150,000 bushels A committee of judges will be to sell each year. This increase appointed later to be composed in yield is by no means impossi-" of three disinterested persons who ble. Individual yields running sion most frivolously and then do huray-scurry work in final fleeting minutes. So it has been, so it is, so it will be. Whether there be an extra ses sion called immediately after March the 4th depends entirely 'upon the action of Congress on the reciprocity agreement which the president has made with the!wjjj carefully Canadian government. Much of Lfj mS,a ua marching around a hill,. by their : activity and noise make an im pression upon a one-sided on looker of the whole array. Tney . have their representatives in : both houses of Congress, too, 'though some of them ,vill rot ifax, Iredell, Johnston, Nash, ' 000,000 a year to the revenue of P::t. Eobe3on,Rockingham,Row-the railrbad companies and of an. Union and Wayne two mem-! course would have taken that bers each and the remaining sum f rom the shippers of freight, counties one each. ; The railroad companies contend- Durham and Nash each gains ed that such increase was neces a member .over the apportion- sary in order for them to im ment of 1901, a; the following prove and extend their lines and counties lose a member: Beau- service. The Commission, in fort, Cumberland, Edgecombe, their decision, say thsi ih-i west- Randolph, Sampson and Wilkes. : ern roads have increased their : stay much longer. Bell weather Only a few changes will be ! surplus over 100 per cent in ten j Aldrich is at a southern resort made in the senatorial districts, years, and they further say, "be nearly all remaining as ihey :fore any general a-ivaace can be have been since 1901. Under tn e : periritted it must appear with I rc-appcrtion mert S 'ai n county is : reasonable certainty that carriers placed in the oSth district, Hoke have exercised proper economy county In the district with Cum- : in the purchase of their supplies, berland and Avery in the dis- . jnthe payment of their wages trict with Mitchell, while Edge-,and in the general conduct of combe and Halifax are combined ; their business." examine all essavs over 25 bushels to the acre have gQVemment. iVIUCh OXinnrl m -i .& na o ur'l vA o Tn mat. Viiifln 'Qif,-l t'wnm mnnxr ln.ri the time of Congress has already ing their awards the judges will in the State. In one case, by been taken up listening .to the j be required to take into account turning in red clover and the use selfish plaints of isolated inter- j the ideas contained in these ea-, of acid phosphate, on the red eats-interests ; that have so longisaySt a3 well a3 iiterary merit- lands of the Piedmont section, been favored that they imagine j All essavs to be entered in this one farmer grew 4,021 bushels themselves the people and the ; competition must be forwarded tct-cn 130 a -res. thus averaging over nation. They are active and the SGCretary at Gulf, N. C, on 30 bushels per acre. A number .vruu. "U vjtvi . v ui.f,iiu n.. jTiTni'O V I O yn V! fh III! 1 .ill rt- y-.d vtt unn . i- ,-.i.-v-i envelones containing said essays Jar methods, crew from Kl to 40 roust be marked GooJ Roads bushels r:;r acre on smaller tracts. 1 Ltfsay. j i It is the desire of the offers W1,en vou U:lVP rllcuuslti" in vour j and directors that all the ciiil- ioot ,ir '-'P :Hv f-'iiambe: Iain's ; dren of the public schools "f the : iiut aiul yni win Set nuiek re-! countv shall enter this contest ,K'f- ? -v-: h.:t T.vrter. Why suf-, v.nd thus become interested ir , fer? :'-t y i,LUS tUilt:CL, VVillCll 13 JbliClJ dll i i at OLIVER m if 0 U i0 i iti il vi 5 Ui l ) vi i vi l V4 Chilled Plow A car-load just received in allsizes. See the new Oliver subsoil plow. If you are not using an Ol iver plow you do not get the best results for your work. W.L. LONDOiN & SON. ' W. 2". 'V'u' - k r. n n Ctt. V, f froct mam raRRACR plants GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS I ROM THE ORIGINAL CA23AGE PLANT GHO WERS. iiviiis, aS ,sc wja, ui umeui important one for this county nia iiie, ana iseuweaiaer naie, this time. Verv truly yours, of Maine, has just seven days! Arr n toxtpq I was? kil ed last week t tin tU.C:;yT of Mi. OMSi :n county, explosion into one district with two sena- j tors. No other changes are; RUSHING LEGISLATION. m'3e- j Both Congress and our State A3 predicted by The Record Legislature are rushing business the bill to issue one million dol-1 this week with most unseemly lars worth of bonds for erecting ! an(j dangerous haste. The pres an administration building was J ent session of Congress expires amended in the House to limit ;next Saturday and must adjourn the issue to $250,000. The Sen-sine die on that day whether or ate had passed the bill for $500,-! not it ha3 important business to 000 but the House cut that sum j transact, as is probable. Both in tvo, and this action will, we . branches are in session this week think, meet with general ap-jdayand night and the passage proval. of bills is being pushed as rapid first granted to Confederate wid ows vvas because they were the wives of soldiers during the war and took care of the children and An attempt was made in the ; ly as possible, but many will fail Senate to put on the pension roll of passage for lack of time. -It widows of Confederate soldiers now seems certain that the new who were married as late as Jan-; Congress will be called in extra uary 1st, 1370, but we are pleased i session about 4th of April, and to note that this was defeated. the Representatives elected last The reasons why pensions were : November will then take their seats and for the first time since 1892 the House will be largely Democratic. Our State Legislature is hold- tha farm' at home while their ing sessions not only in the day husbands were .absent in the: but also late in the night and army. It was -not intended to; bills are being passed with light apply to any widows except those jning-like rapidity, but with all who were wives during the war! their belated industry and rush and wore married before thejmany important measures will close of the war. The Legisla- j fail of passage, just as we fear ture, two years ago, let down the j ed from the beginning of the ses bars by extending the time to j si0n. We had hoped, but really January lit, 1868; that is, all j did not expect, this Legislature widows who had married up to j would improve on the bad habits January 1st, 1868, could get a of its predecessors. Instead of pension. By extending the date 'improving, however, this Legis of marriage after the war there j lature has delayed legislation is no teiiinf where the limit worse than any of its predeces T,'ould be, the small pittance ; sors, and rarely before has there xqw granted ' to women, who been such an unseemly rush dur were wives during the war,would ing the closing days of any pre- be reduced still smaller. The Senate has passed a bill to establish a State school for the feeble-minded, providing for a bond issue for $60,000 and an an- vious Legislature. A Libellous History. Special to the Ciiarlotte Observer. Roanoke. Va.. Feb. 27. The r.ual appropriation of $50,000 for greatest excitement prevails here among the patrons oi the Koa ncke College, as well as among the Confederate veterans, owing to the introduction of a history of the United States, which car ries paragraphs relating to al leged improper relations between maintenance. W c aoubt it the House will, or ought to, pass this bill. The "machinery" bill as intro dac i in the House provides a nev, method of assessing real es- ww r nr.t thi thp 1 masters ana slaves m siave aas, as wen as to paiat The i .... V A V ' iRobert E. Le history is is wrrr-m; a great improve- j ent,-tled "A History of the Urn -nt on thn present method, that ; ted States by H. W. Elson " used so long and has c u- been P'-ved to Le so unequal and in-; Three., Kuadre-I Dwellings Destroyed, ade juate. The proposed method j Manilla, Feb. 25. Three hun prv lies, in addition to the town-, dred native dwellings in the sub s'vt. jsessors, for an assessor ' urbs of Ton do were destroyed by fu-n.e whole countv who shall . fire today which swept ths dis- , , , . , 'trict. The Mary Johnson Char- yisu ach .township and f-pt ;ly Hospital was partly damaged the township assessors arid thus ; nd the patients had to be car- ake a fairer and more uriif orra ; ried out. Eu ven hundred na-l iigiit sncw, tue second ia tWttj valuation. It is proposed to tives are homeless. lyeare. more, but he is playing his role of obstructionist and will play it till the curtain falls. There will be no encores as far as he is con cerned. After he is out of the Senate his inability to learn or forget will hinder progress no more. The Japanese war scare will not down. Representative Hob son parades it in that House and says there will be war with thst country in ten months or .l.-ng bo fore the completion of the Pana ma canal- It seems that cur in a Secretary and Treasurer. Gulf, N. C, Feb. 20, 1911. Makes Everything New. j OKI kitchen chairs, oM furniture. oliL Cioset.s, '"'-'I ureaus, when worn -tut ; mad'? new aptin at a cost of 13 t'o to ' c?hts with a can of cither Home Fin ish Domestic i'aint, Home Finish I,. y M. Varnish, or Home Finish L !v M. . 'arnis!i Stain. I Directions fo'r use on each can. Any f bJ v ran use it . i . . ' j Cet it from V. L. 1 .onuon i Salt i of a pieve of dvnaniite. It had tecn itjought for blasting purp-s-s, a:vi a IHtie of it vas swept into the fireplace, i wheie the child wasstaadi.-jr, and ex i pie'ded. J. A. III. il 1 L-. - J? - :".L rV"" 1 ii - if: ! Hasband and Wife Dead. president has submitted to the Special to the Chari .tie O'. -server. Senate the text of anewtreatvj Warrenton, Feb. 24 The cit with Japan. Protests from Cal- izens of the town were deeply ifornia against this treaty are grieved when the information coming in. It appears that th? I was received that Mr. and Mrs. exclusion clause preventing the"; M. M. Pendleton passed away importation of Japanese coolies : this morning. Mrs. Pendleton's or laborers is omitted from the death was rather sudden, she new treaty. The situation is having been sick for only a short ugly, no matter what view-point! time. Her husband, having stood one may have. San Francisco, i by her bedside during this short the nerve-center of the Pacific j illness, when death was an slope, is the most intensely un- nounced, took his own life by ion labor bestridden city in the shooting himself in the head with hemisphere, if not in the world. a revolver, only living for about Two years ago it came near dis- j half an hour, rupting our. peaceful relations! Mrs. Pendleton wa3 a daugh with Japan by the exclusion of j ter of Senator M. J. Hiwkins, Japanese children from the ; one of Warreriton's most popular Tiicr's more Ci'trrli In this section ot the countrv .m otli.-r (! j' :i:-vj? put towtber. and urtil the la; i y;-;ir.-5 vas ?np;io:'i" to b? Incurable, f or a eres.; ; : :r.y y-.ir ; i;: -tors ;irofioiuirf d it a IoimI UicaA air I.-.- -srri'K i i-i' remt dies, ani by con.- taiitiy luilUi t -:n- with !oi!.ii tUTiti'icrrt, !rotiouii(.ea It llicnriibti'.' i-i'tonot! hi? proven t:.tt rrii to U a conptltutional dy. !!. 2.-.C. ti'-rcforp r'Hiuires cf.natutionsl treatment. I 'l'ri ''ure. m .nMf: ctuivd by V. J. Cnr-nty A- C., 'lo'.fl.. Ohio. If. the on"y.OiM3tttutional cure t!i rirlwi. Ii Is taken Internally In dosfs from 10 i."i"s to : tetsrioo-'fta. It acta directly on the blod a-irt rtiueoiw surfaces of the s stem. TUey otter oe li.jndred dollars lor an sr' mm 'it falls to cure. SenJ, for circulars and tost'monials. Address F. J. CHENEY Jk CO., Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Iruee!st3, 7rc. . , xd.ne Hall's Famllr Pilla toreonstlpation. I. r m 1 B.UiLT jrHarY WAKKlll!.t. CHlSI f rOM I HKOTiTVrt. SmXBSMC.V. " AUOLVtAIRUl-KLK, sh.ip.tstkmmuu lb( u WAU.Kie.l-U. . A.I.IMlfctr k LAI Ul' I. Cfti6r teA. za H.viiesc . f t Hint Vhc.etf. Itutn au4'r3tk. tltKML nd lktM CMttftt. 25 Essfcjbfisftet! 1 868. Paid I Cnfaia! Stock $30,000.00 -CZ Weeww 1 he first FROST "R0)OF PlflOlTS InliOi: Now have over twenty tuounaaa mv.n'.u-i customs 3. We have Rrown ud sold mora cabbage piinisthan kII other person, in the Sotriliero atas eomblrtbd. WHVf Ii.-Pcusi.-ocr plants iriurt ph-a-wor e t-nd yotir tnonry biw Ordtrnow; it is true Ui net tUeen plant? iu jur A.tioti toet tstra, cly cabbaife. UMilibvy are lUo viiod t hut soil for tile niotit uir.ney. Ve saw ihres tons of Gabber Sesd j5? secson 'M i'S'. Fi ait tiw s and riameut:tja. Write lor Hee .!fittr t fr'St-prMil' plants ottheliott Tarlfties, vonuiininf; valuable jurormalloa about fruit fend vifetable erowlnff. Prleeeoitfablnitrel'l.ints: In lots of f,00 at S1.00: VM;') to oixio &i 50 ier thoutnd: 5.W0 to 0.IH.0 4l.2.i per thocxan'l : 10.000 &ud trvtr $1.00 per tboUMud, f. o. b. Yonges Islaad. Our spejUil oxpresa rata on plan: is vwry law IVm. C. GeraSy Co., Box 159 Yonfjes Island, S. C. g s,-i'fi5". :y7TF i C feaAaS ?at Ht g . . . l USE- jjMILLER j if schools. Now, after securing from Congress its approval of San Francisco for the interna tional exposition, it is foremost and most wealthy citizens. Kills a Murderer. A merciless murderer is ivmipiidieitis in alienating Japan on whom in ; With many victims, but J)r. King's wXe great part the success of the ex- : Life Pills kill it by prerention. They position yill depend. I gently stimulate stomach, liver and The chief signal officer of the : bowels, preventing that . clogging that army, General Allen, is disposed ' invites appendicitis, curing const ip:i to make prompt U3e of the $25,- ! tion, headache, biliousness, chills. 2oc 000 appropnated in the army bid at g. It. Pilkini for the purchase of flying ma- ilkington's. chines, lhis country has been There was a destructive fire at behind European countries in;LaGranga, in Lenoir county, on the adoption of aeroplanes for i last Sunday night Eleven build-: military purposes. France is the ; ings, most of them brick, were leader in the art, and now has a 'destroyed and the lo3'is esti fleet of more than thirty fliers ; mated at $100, OOD. j manned by thoroughly trained aviators. It has appropriated! Success has attended the ex-; one hundred million francs for periraents in the army with ty improvements in military avia- phoid vaccine. Thirty thousand tion. As many as seven types soldiers have been inoculated, j of aeroplanes are used in the There have been no deaths, and j French equipment. Besides there little sickness. j are hundreds of aeroplanes own- llf you want the A ) i imii 1 1 i- Mil mmw in mtm m 11 11 nn 1 BEST. Put up 1 in the best sacks of any Guano mi I ; 1 I on the market. I W. L. I j London & 1 sfaai East Carolina Teachers' Training School, GREENVILLE, N. C. Spring and Simanicr Courses for Teachers 19x1 Spring Term, March 11 to May 20th ten weeks. Summer Term, Jane 6th to Jaly 29th eight weeks. The aim of this course is better to equip the teacher for his work. TEX C BOOKS: Tho?e used in the public schools of the State. For further information address, R03T. H. WRIGHT, President, Greenville, N. C. :gBrgS-E- Coffins and : caskets: f: SOUTHERN RAILWAY. TUronirh Cn Dictions for Pointn South and Wt$bt. all A full stock of Coflins and : Caskets aJxvavs on harxb and j Isold at all prices. AH kinds! ! - and sizes. ed by private individuals and should the time come for mili tary operations, the French army would be strengthened by the skilled owners of these private flying-machines. John W. Sickelsmith, Greensboro, Pa., has three children, and like most children they frequently take cold. "We have tried several kinds of cough medicine," he says, "but have never found any yet that did them as much good as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all dealers. Snow in San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 2i. The first considerable flurry of snow h-re in fifteen yeajs grave the youngsters of the city a cnance this afternoon to play a few minutes snowballing.. The heights abound San Francisco remain ed white for half an hour. Street cars were targets for the heavy bombard ment and several passengers were cut I by flying glass. Fresno also reports THE SMITH) PREMIER TYPEWRITER NOTICE TO CREDITORS. -. Hrtvinsr qualified as administrator : on the estate of the lnte J E. Perry, this is to notijy all creditors f said estate to present c aims to Ihe un dersigned or his attorney!? on 01 be fore the Is tday of RIarch.1312, or' this notice will be plead in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to saM esta'e will please come forward and settle. A. CAUL PERRY, Administrate! of J. E. Perry. Hayes & liynum, Attorneys. RALEIGH AND S0UrHP0?,T RAILWAY Nooe, Pittsborc , N. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given thit apolic!i ti n will !e m'tcle to the Gansral As sembly of N'rth C irolma at its pres ent ssssiou for the ptssvw or' a bill to incorporate as a town, to 'bo called lfeariri'itOii, the raihOMi s'atiou of that nam- 01 the D-iran-ii nn i Siuth Carolina Railrod,in Williams' town ship. Chatham countv- FRED II. WILLIAMS Feb. 6, 1911. and oui -rs. TOWN BONDS ELECTION. Notice is hereby given thai an emo tion will b3 held in the tow.i of Pi? ts boro, N-r;h Cariiai, o Sitiudiy, the llth day of Mir.'h, l'Hl. up : tSii question of said town issuia; boads to the amount of -,OJ0 for .streenn pfovement of said town. Sa d b ods are to run or to be pavuble iii thirty years from date of i.-huu and the amount of taxes pr pjse.i to be leviec for the payment of the interest a:i i to provide a sinking fund for the pay ment of the principal of said bond;; shall not exce?d twe'Hv co "t- or every ?10 ) w rth of pr p.Tty a 1.: vx - - 1 Pullman sleeping Curs on nil Through Trains; l)ninf Oar ATTIiAt) i Ml ilXOCnSlOK ' RATES To FLOIUDA, CURA, AND NUM EROUS OTHER WINTER RESORTS. Eor safetj-, eon; fort and conrt eons troatmeit, travel via. Southern Railway. Rates schedules and other informa . tiou gladly furnished. R. H. DeButts Travelinsr Passenger Agent, -Weigh, N. C. II. F. Cary, s General TaBenper Agent, Washington. 1). C. . Schedule of Passenger Trains. Ef fective Sunday, May 22. 3910. The foliowine sc edu!e on the Ral-' ty cen's on the poll, ei.rh and Southport, R. ilway rives) At such election tho-e w-.' fvr 1.) three trains nach way dailybfetween-;lssue of sai;i b,,nds :in i v . lt, (y is the best machine made and is more popular than any other. For terms, &c, address J. M. Stinson, Goldslosi, SoIq Agcsit Southbound. Lv Raleigh 8:00 a m ArFayeU-t-ville 11:10 a m Lv Raleigh J:i5pm Ar Fayetteville 4:1.0 p m Lv Rale-gh 6:3") p m Ar Fayetteville &:85prn Northbound. the taxas shall vole a wi1 1 or i ed ballot with the w nii"Fjr ii d-," and thosa opposed s iH vote a 'vitr-n or printed ballot wi h U13 words 'Against Bonds." G. R. Pilkifigto.n has ern '.'ipp-ii .1 - ed reistr ir in 1 U. A liyusi u ard J . WOOD'S SUPERIOR Seed Oats We offer all the best and most productive varieties clean seed and first-class qual ities. 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