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v. i f'V ? l' ' -f A TOT A T J " ESTABLISHED SEPT. 18, 1873. P f TTSEORO. CHATHAM CO.. JAN.UARY 11920. VOL. XLIl NQ2 2 i .i- . : ; : ' 1 - ' - - ' 1 : 1 FIRK AT THE .OIL MILL Three JlHiidred Bales. Cot ton 0 a Smoke pjre at the Chatham oil; null we last Fiiday destroyed 300 bales or more of linter, cotton be longing id the government and about 100 cords of Wood. By t woii of the citizens with buckets and tubs thtf " fire - was ktpt vfrom sp wdintather basins, although an old ator- re house nearoy was on nre sev rftl times.- Deyofta . vnw hous were old about 100 bales of good cotton, several of which fire DUl were KAwiiguwiu. w were finally rolled out of danger, BREAKING UP STILLS Three WLite Men Gaitfrc&- , . r . Important Notice v The' law required thalafter Jan uary; 1st a penaJty rfc6ne per cent" isadded bn-afttinpaid taxes. If not paidby. February then two The high price of whiskey these 4ajs is getting rhore men into trouble who have bcn good citizens, but who, indtbet rich quick, -have tepapjM; Tate and ifcany have lost in thf&ne. Witness the number snt to; t0s on, : whohad to . pay jiayr. fejes, and those whose trials. iiye yet to take places -.- "k , Wednesday! of last yer three white jn3n were capture4t a still ..pQ'n;Dry Creek.. They, were Walker Pendergrass; Cup Joh&son ard Eraest Henderson. Pnder- A light wind from 'thenJ&west Igrasaxlaims that he hai nc4lifng helped save the mm. to do with the still; that he went It is said that the fire started to the place to get a sitk friend by some little colored boys pop-1 SOme liquor, but whllo there bei f ping fire-crackers too near the Game-Engaged in a ga:;V3 cf cards. i and while trus was gin nr :qn the officers stepped up and arrested them. Upon being, searched a pistol was found on the person of Pendergrass. AH 'threa of : the- men -gave bail. : ' ' : 1 Xater in the day anotherstill was captured near Ileroney's church, and still later in : the af ternoon another one " was cap tured in the same neighborhood. The county cheers and citizens have nearly cleaned u.; ths'ecun- jty, and if they keep up the lick per cerit 'is addeJarch; three per cent isao'dedfeind so on. Af taxea;were paid-in Novem- Few Persons Healthy; V Statistics showing that less than 20 per cent of the Anwicaii people are really . healthy, ? and that approximately 45 per cent are suirerihg from some form of affetts. malatiy vterc trelientd: to the "annual : convention of Jife JTnWrf - Tf .?W.rwWws. s- Rankm, of the Arner- payer-ico; sayuipsnaiKr Tnf-iv-;; ' Wtillary -or alatf fwm 2,000,m toS6d0 eases month-to seme,3:he n, lk momefcenaseKvw6rthfe aayinff;-so attends lb! vou ta&cest ? pmowwoeiML cotton ikied. We this subject is up we wish to state, for th benefit of : those who own ' property on the business street here that some of these times Pittsboro is going to have a fire right. Suppose a house were to catch and get beyond con trol? Five or six buildings weuld soon be in ashes and other build- ings be in immediate danger. The citizens should see that dawn and that right away. KOW. , - - j vAery. truly vmirs .ST VV M as-. Sheriff, it: AN UNUSUAL HANGING w mis iiestert v mte, ii?ys Penalty for Stealing Slave Dr. Jbnkih concluded "That we nave'li insane asylums in the United States more men and wo men thftTi we have tn coHeiresand univerttles." '' r The OlJ Home Paper . "RvArv Ifttlft while there starts iroinK the rounds of the i: pxchaneres a bit of verse. ,an editorial, a humorous para- graph,the source of which nobody seems to know. "The 4 -r 5ld -"Horn's Paper" is one' !jf these, which it is safe to say t: avow pn rnr nT a ramriu v uauei win w tii w- uxinv. ery friend of the country paper wilLwant to read. The Chatham Record is glad to pass it on. We got it from the Cuba Patriot, published in New York State, and here it Dangerous houses in other towns they have been making there are condemned and torn down, t nnt hp 1 j.r fu and why r : t the same thing here? The Record has not a thing against the owners of any of ifc?se firetr?.DS, but for their own protection and the safety of oth ers, some of them should be torn aWay. A Study In Tips The average waiter in the ho tels of the big cities receives $2.28 a day in tips. The waiters of the Washington, D. C, hotels are the most favored, their average be ing $3.67 a day; New York comes next, their average being $3.10 a day. Travelers stopping at Indianap olis hotels become quits stingy, since they tip their waiters only $1.16 a day. The average hotel porter picks up $1.60 a day with which to aug ment hi3 weekly salary; Pittsburg being the most liberal, wTith tips amounting to $3.67; Milwaukee running a close second with $3.22. - Again, the air, or something about Indianapolis, makes a trav eler so parsimonious that he has but thirteen cents a day for his porter. Hotel bellmen (or bellboys) farebetterthan the porter, though jnot so well as the waiter. The average tip to bellmen is $2.16 a day; those in San Francisco far-, ing the best with $3.78, the aver age being pulled down at Louis ville to $1.27. The chambermaids fare the worst. They receive .but forty two cents a day in tips. Travel ers stopping at New Orleans are liberal with them to the extent of eighty-eight cents a day, but in Omaha their lot Is a hard one. iry do not get but eleven cents a day. The.-e figures are taken from a tailed tabulation contained in Lae United St-itps Monthlv Labor twenty five of AJie principal county. - ' It seems like sticking -a -fioisrer1 in a Jtiib M water. er.pecttht to leave a hole there v?:en a titiil is captured, because another one is cocn on the ground. But, Men will work, Men will teal, . Men will barter and dicker. Men will die, Men will lie and Men will keep making licker. Tlie ew Year Gift To the People of Chatham: I wish one and all a happy New Year, hoping yev have had a merry Christinas. As I write this the year of 1919 ha almost passed and as the nev year of 1920 comes in I think ol the many kindnesses of 1918slnwn me and my family in my affliction. I am not strong yet in ray . rirrht hip, but I can- get about on my feet and not have, to be rolled around in a chair. This is the first Christmas I have ever spent out of Chatham and I missed being t my dear, old home . enjoying the fun and goodies with father and mother. With best wishes .r both young and old for a h?.npy, pros- u il it J & Wl . it M i i if i ti vv & mi a Jis il it is: Its printed old fashoned and homely, Bearing name of a small country town; With an unfeigned sneer at its wrapper queer, The postman, in scorn, throws it down. But I scan every line that it offers. Each item brings something to view, -TiiiOUiih the isla of years, through youth's ' pleasures and fears, Jt serves heir;keen touch to renew. The'death of Ihe-girT Lonce courtedr-- The erowth of a firm I once peered, Tlie 'rise of a friend I love to commend, The fall of a man I revered. As I read I drift dreamily backward To the' days when to live was a Joy, I think and I pore, 'tiir the city's dull roar; Grows faint anoT again I'm a boy. s' , Rare perfume of green country byways, , Fair music of flowers and bees, And the quaint little town with the streets leading down -To the creek and the low-bending trees - . . Arouiid me-the forms of my. comrades, About us i earth's gories unfuri'ed. Each heart undef iled, with the faith of a child, Looking forth to a place in the world. And the paper tells how all have prospered, I follow their lives as they flow ' Applauding each, gain and regretting each pain For the sake of the days long ago. Above all the.huge city dailies With wonderous.utterance'wise, This scant page hath, power to spread for an hour A fairyland sweet to my eyes! t 9 J m if .. m m m A SOCIAL ATTRACTION Yoan Men of the Town Give a Delightful Dance m In an editorial In this week's jHecord is the story of an unus ual hanging--that of Willis ller tir -who stole a heifro slave in Orange county.5 VlTie hViki toik placo on pallowa Hill, on the fcorthern edge of town, on the-6th 3ay of Kay, IS55, : on otic of thfc rainiest days imaginable. It is said that the mud in- the streets was nearly lenee dep. Mrv&oibert M. Burns ives The Record a bit of his experience. He says lie witnessed the hang ing, Deing $0 years old at the time.' Mr.. Burns says that 1 was so eager to witness the per formance that he -walked along with the sheriff, Richard Pas chal, in order to be near the scaf fold; that he had just bought him a new pair of boots, and with his breeches stuck down in the tops of them he waded thru the mud, ruining his boots. A young boy 11 years old came to the hanging with his mother's shoes on and lost one of them in the deep mud. This boy was the late Maj. Wm. A.1 Guthrie, of Durham. Rev. Wm. Taylor, a relative of Messrs. Spence and Harlowc Taylor, of this place, read the burial service to Hester, who was in his shroud, and preached a sermon as he stood on the scaf fold, the words of the text being ' 'It is once appointed unto men to die.and aiter death judgment. ' ' Mr. Burns says at the jail Hes ter in his shroud came out witL the -sheriff and waik'' to a wagoi in which was his- coffin; got on top Without aid, and rode to the scaffold, got on the coffin and toox arseat on the scaffold. It was a very exciting time among-the large crowd present who watched the man with such a -wonderful nerve. Hester was buried near where he died. This is the first and only case on record in this state or probably in the United States where a white man gave his life for stealing a negro. ; Beautiful Ghristmas Tree On Friday afternoon, Decem ber 19, before closing of the Mon cure high school . for -the Christ mas holidays, three of the lady i teachers and the 'students got up Turner's Almanac For 1920 Turner's 1920 Carolina Alma nac, iustoff the oressv; has been 7 mr growing of late years until now It has becomV a book of more than 100 pages. The edition for '1920, issued . by The Raleigh nproiis new vear. I remain a true i, if wifl, m, ,, . taKes preceutmc v l . ' - . VCVlViVt w f x wa jimiij The Chathamite, and would be gladjents. to see or hear from anv one. HENRY F. DURHAM, Durham, N C, Rt. 1. nn; of tht United States. ! ',e Psychology of the thing is idt ou seldom sees one's cham- bei-maid; not always the porter ruii.es one's baggage. gunman, too, i3 not always in fjght it h? moment when a tip it b dut, liut ene tannot Change Of Postmasters Junius C. Wren has received an appointment as acting postmas ter at Siler City to serve until a regular appointment shall be made. Mrs. Olive B. Webster, former postmaster, will leave about Jan. 1st to accept a position with the North Carolina- Insur ance Commission. She will have Salisbury as her hewdq Barters, working" in the western psrt of the State. Her duties, will be speaking t schools and women's organizations on Fire -Prevention. Siler City' Grit. windows of the as- - . . , sembly room,, where the tree was, JV - :L"f "7 uaa nA rtm 3;u ; first and the matter of the sea were shaded and the room Ught- fL . A j .T-.u i sons and tides, the moon and ed so that the tree and ts pres- , its pnases, trie sun, lus ents made a beautiful appear ance. Before distributing the pres- the planets, and all the vaious phenomena of the heavens are nresented in that careful and con- ents an appropriate exercise was . wa foilowinff uainstaking given by he students, consisting i calculations by expert scientists of songs, readings, recitations ; that ass,iraccuraCy as to the as and declamations which were toomi1 ontent. These facts well rendered and very interest-, and figures are the large part of an almanac and no booklet, how- This school . resumes its work ever useful in other respects, 120 i wnnl.-l hi ur nlmanac without them, and not much of an alma nac unk'ss the calculations had been carefully made with special reference to the territory to be injr. J till c w 1 i Tnere pupils enroilod in this school and there i a laro music class taught by Miss Emily Thompson, of Pittsboro. .There are three grades -8th, 9th and 10th in the high served These calculations were school department. Th trustees have secured a The : dodge one's waiter. lit hus one ; more desirable Jot than the one fast." Few of us have th mor.il now ia use, :-.nd next spring are courage to give him (ho "go by." j to put fin a brick school building BuSttt the tip? en it. V J. r. R. made for the Carolina territory and serve the purpose which Is claimed. - Tho book is sold by dealers in T)racr.!:h!iv every toVn in North i Carolina and Stuth Carolina. j farmer? Kit by Automobile Monday morning, while stand ing by the side of the road, just north of Moncure, waiting for Dick Ramsay's car; vMr; Spence Taylor was struck by a'car driv en by Mr. James Brown and knocked : down. Besides being bruised", it is said two of his ribs were broken. Dr Strickland at tended the wounded man. The way-the accident occurred our informant said that Ramsay's car had slowed down for Mr. Tay lor, when Brown's car, which was rather close behind, struck Mr. Taylor before it could, be stopped. It was purely accident al. Mr. Taylor was taken to the home of Mrs. John Taylor where it is hoped he will soon be able to be out again. Good Farming From the Chapel Hill News we learn that Ernest Riley, who re sides near Efland, this county, and his 10-year-old son, Cohen, and Jack mule, raised this year 400 bushel s of corn, $420. 72 ivorth of tobacco, 30 bushels of sweet and five bushels of Irish potatoes 20 bushels of peas, three bushels of beans, and four fine porkers, and during the time Mr. Riley had off from his crop -he being a good weaver worked in Eno cotton mill and made $100. How is this for a one-horse Orange Co. The greatest social event of the holidays for the younger set in Pittsboro, was a dance given In Womble hall last Monday af ternoon and evening by the young: flien. The halj wa3 made'; at tractive in decorations of holly, mistletoi:rad-pinei. Music was furnished by Fletcher orchestra. v The 'afternoon dance I was iirom 4:$0.t6 6:30, and while, the even ing dance started 'St 9:S0, we will not say just when it ended, but somewhere in the weesma' hours, tor' merriment ran high and at midnight sandwiches and . punch were served. - Those dancing were Misses Myrtle' Pilkington, Emily Thomp son, Margaret Womble, Elizabeth Milliken, Louise .Brooks; Allie Peoples, Susie Bell and Misses Carrie and Ihder London, of Ral eigh, 1 Barbara Cbckman, of Bal timore, and Misses Pearl Kent and Vestal, of Sanfcrd, Mrs, Jas. Thompson and Mrs. Bennet Nooe, Jr. Messrs. W, F. Hun ter, Will and Arthur London, Jas. Thompson, June Peoples, Will Rose and Ralph Womble, Lee Cockman, D. L. Bell, James Mil liken and Philip Cross, of San ford, and Mr, and Mrs. 'F. M. London, of New York. Thexhaperones were Mr. .and Mrs. Arthur H. London and Mrs. John London. Married Last Friday evening, at seven o'clock, at the Methodist parson age, Durham, Mr. Ernest Har mon was united in marriage to Miss Annie Eiectra O'Bie. They left on the 8 p. m. train for Greensboro where they will spend a few day3 with the bride's sis ter. They will make their fu ture home near Apex. On the evening of Dece mber '24thy at the home of the bride's prrents, Mr. Atlas Farrell was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Yarboro. On Christmas day a sumptuous dinner wa3 given the' bridal couple at the home of the bridegroom's mother at Moncure which many of their relatives aid friends enjoyed. Theoung. couple will make their home in Moncure. . .. , On Thursday evening, Dec. 25, at the Methodist ehurcn in Mon cure, Miss Nell Strickland, young est daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W.. J. Strickland, became the bride of Mr. Edward Gregory Sammons, Rev. W. A. Waff officiating. After-the ceremony a luncheon was served,7afer which they motored to Sanfcrd and boarded a north bound train for an extended trip. robafely Overlooked In the bill, to fix the salaries of the county officers of Chatham, section 11 says: ''That it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners to employ an ex pert accountant at least once a. year to examine the books of any of the county off icers whose duty it is to Receive and account for or disburse public money." As the law has been in. force since the first Monday in Decem ber, 1013, and no accountant haa tone over any of the books, the County Commissioners have prob ably overlooked the matter. This item, perhaps, will jog their memory. A total of $700, COO, CC0 was re alized 1 y the sales of America's war material inngland,Fi::cj, Belgium, Italy and Germany. . V: . 1 - . s
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