GHAfflAM
a rt TSHED SEPT. 18. 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CO.. THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1920.
VOL. XLII NO. 49
fittsboro
Scene of
Mystery
1
Stuff
Qfl Part Of Rail
road Crel?
(ByTh.Detil)
. o. CViorlnV TTnlmes.
With W--
nn Thursday e""
Uof June, lazu, bucuhuuiw
U before, at least "
riend John Barleycorn, Pitts-
the rabbit
Hnnere cvi ------
,th from the courtnouse tu mo
tollhouse hill was nrst canea
;hipel Hill street. It is like
there are about
I A3 JW" " ' .
Wis. of track between Pitta-
Cm and Moncure, (twelve miles
ran!? ana iweive muca wihuhr,
ver which a "Lightning Ex-
1 1 . -n1n lrvir o V o 1 i
ress tram mawa, wj
readth, two trips to Moncure
riback daily. This terror is
nown to some as simply The
'rain;" to others, tne lightning
pres3 train. (The author of
is epistle does not consider it
pessary to put this name in
uotation marks). The stage is
Lmrn fn nthtr A3 "The TTflTld-
is known as "The Footcar."
!he three people that call it the
potcar - Jake Bland, George
Fomack, and Bob Thompson, do
o because: First, they want to
0 something different from the
ther people of our town; sec
ad, they figure that if they were
1 the train going to Moncure,
lat they were to get out, they
mid go quicker on foot.
Well, the writer is figuring
fat he is getting off the track,
the Pittsboro train often does,
he is also figuring that he had
tter be getting back on again,
t first he wants to hem and
w a little on this said Pittsboro
yror's office hours:
pe train is pushed out every
ping by the section gang,
pdedbyJake Bland, at 8:35
pp; returns through U. S.
f at 11:40; is pushed off again
p5, but, saddest of all, has
Jhelpin coming back; canse--atly,
the crew has to eat cold
pers, all but those who get
an hot, although the "jit" is
'at 6:10.
a I said befora, it was on a
may evening; Mr. Johnny.
re had opened up the depot
I enousn to fall asleep on one
!Qe desks. Hp ssid 't.wnn't
. -w VMIIM mf I 1 WJb V
iQKinor for tVio r.iA
daybreak, nohw
Bland & Dick Ramsey
f back in Disk's car
Presently, at ex-'6-05,
th$? heard the train
too?" ditOPr? Jlr (ft'uik
i . Jake's utterance was his
echo).
at that time the traisi rol-
P.
ultK and Jake caught up
seeond
flC tO hftva U 4l,A4.
alone."
ft act was Bob-Thomp-
upon tne scene lead--
coroner. Both train and
wee carefully insDected.
e onlv fv:. i L t
-v unusual to De
asitheaest of an innt-
New Corporation
s Formed
Buys Lockville Water Power
on Deep River; Will erect
Brick Plant Soon, etc,
A new corporation known as
the Moncure Manufacturing Co.,
with Messrs. Howard White and
S. B. Shepherd, of Raleigh, and
C. D. Orrell, of Moncure, as in
corporators and stockholders, has
bought from the Lockville N. C.
Power Corporation, a Virginia
corporation, the undeveloped
water power on Deep river near
Lockville owned by it. With the
water power is also included about
100 acres of land, about half lying
in Chatham and half in Lee
counties.
Since the dam across Deep river
at Lockville was washed out in
May, 1901, this valuable water
power has been going to waste
and its early development by the
new owners will mean much to
thnt section of Chatham and Lee
counties. It is understood that
the new corporation will make a
hydro-electric development, using
150 horsepower in running a large
brick plant soon t6 be erected by
it near Lockville, Electric power
may later be furnished Moncure,
Pittsboro and other nearby towns.
The new owners, wno are
among the most alert and pro
gressive business men of this sec
tion of the State, have the best
wishes of our people for a sue
cessful development of this prop
erty.
Referee Hearing.
An important hearing was held
here Tuesday of last week bef re
ex-Judge Jas. S. Manning, referee,
in the case of Siler City Loan &
Trust Co., administrator of J. G.
Hannah, Sr.; vs. The Fidelity &
Deposit Co., of Baltimore, Md.
The surety company is being sued
as bondsman of Mr. Hannah in
the administration of the estate
of his son, the late J. G. Han
nah, Jr.
Local Income Tax Returns.
Posted in the Pittsboro post
office are the names of 19 indi
viduals, corporations and com
panies who filed income tax re
turns for 1919. It would be
interesting to know how much
money was collected last year
from people who get their mail
at the Pittsboro postofHce as an
income tax. We understand a
larger number of people will pay
an income tax at this place this
year than did' last.
cent dirt-daubtr, which was cru-.
elly torn down by. the section
gang with picks and crowbars.
The result of this peculiar esca
pade WSS thi the train was all
widely folded Up M& fucked away
in Capt. Hunt's watdfe pocket for
th$ night when Dick's ST yrs 9
mos. Old animal got there with
the car to Dick Jrs.' old roller
L2 .dKe weFe betwem Uo-gter to haul the mail to the
joeiow are giyen miw sayings ua
sorlle of Pittsbor' leading citi
zens' eson. the matters
Shef man Alston:
4
WhoM 'a' tho't it?
if
Dick Ramsey:
"I alwajsaid that trfif ;a
going to do something: great
some day"
Subscribe fef fte Record,
Chatham's Official Vote at Primary
Election, July 3; 1920.
Governor. Sup. Ct. ; Auditor.
Precincts. I '
Albright . . 33 5 6 32 34" 3
Baldwin . 38 19 25 32 40 17
Bear Creek 1 : 53 27 37 41 65 13
Buckhorn . .:.. 51 . 7 5 52 51 6
Merry Oaks 13 6 18 2 3 15
Center. .... . M 103 136 119 118 183 51
"Gulf . : -.J 37 6 10 32 6 36
Richmond 26 23 4 , 42 42 3
Hadley... 22 14 8 27 31 4
Haw River ..... .......... 12 30 11 28 27 10
Hickory Mountain 28 19 29 13 12 26
Mt. Vernon Springs 29 5 23. 8 21 10
Siler Cify 163 40 85 106 146 45
New Hope .;. .. 40 32 31 25 45 8
Oakland : 30 4 5 28' 29 4
Williams : r. 11 17 6 18 10 15
Total .. . ... 689 390 422 604 745 286
Pittsboro Wins
Its First Game
of the Season
i
Speedy Locals Run Away
With the Fields Team
to Tune of 12 to 1
In an interesting game of ball
(to the Pittsboro people) last
Saturday, Manager Peoples led
his crew to victory over the
Fields team.
The following U the detailed
report of the game;
Fields AB R H IS
A. Ehrfc: 2b. o. . . . .4011
r. Hamlet, p, 2b 4 1
C. Edwards, lb 4
O. Hamlet, 3b . . . . . .4 0
Fields, S3. 4 0
K, Edwards, cf. 4 0
C. Dark, rf . . . . . .4 0
Oldham, If .3 0
3
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
Gattls,
.3
Total
Plttiboro
Johnson, lb . .
Neal, c . . . .
Peoples, ss .
Williams, 2b . .
Clegs, p . .
W. Womble, cf .
R. Womble, 3b .
Goldston, If. . .
Dixon, rf. . . .
Total
S:ore by innings:
ields . . ... .
Pittsboro ....
341 6 2
AB K H PO A E
.5
0
2
1
3
2
3
0
0
1
1
1
2
0
1
2
2
0
0
8
6
4
0
0
3
1
0
0
a
o
l
2
0
2
0
0
.5
.5
.3
.3
4
.5
.5
.4
39 12 9 27 7 2
000 000 010-1
200 011 44x-12
SUMMARY:
Two-base hits: Neal, R. Wom
ble; three-base hit: T. Hamlet;
home run; Williams; sacrifice
fly: Dixon; stolen bases: Will
iams (2) ; struck out: by Clegg,7,
by Hamlet, 8; base on balls, off
Hamlet, 5, off Clegg, 0. Um
pire, Taylor;
-In the Mayor's court Tuesday
morning Peter Rogers was- fined
$10 and costs for speeding.
SpoiM mth'. Sentenced To
Simple IiW By Court.
Hereafter Jatfa ftley, Jr, 19
years old, of Kan dtfj Mo;
must ahidft bv th a rn 13 M& doWB
by Judge Fleming or go
and serve out a $20fr f ine.1
rules are:
Must give up driving his fat
her's car. . s
Must not visit his girl later
than 9:30 o'clock at night.
'Must be in bed by 10 o'clock
every night.
Must go to work.
The court laid down the rules
to young Foley after his father
had appeared to prosecute him
for disturbing the family peace
by forcibly trying to appropri-
ate the family automobile.
When asked for his side of the
Story, young Foley said:
TABLE SHOWING RESULTS
OF FORTY-THREE BALLOTS
San Francisco, July 5. The situa
tion in the balloting in the Demo
cratic National Convention continues
to resemble that at Baltimore eight
years ago. Forty-three ballots have
so far failed to develop sufficient
strength for any one candidate to get
the nomination.
The balloting has not yet equalled
the record of the Baltimore conven
tion when 46 ballots were necessary
to bring Wood row Wilson out as the
nominee, but present prospects point
to an equal number at Frisco, or
maybe more, as the deadlock between
the "big three" McAdooj Palmer
and Cox appears far from being
broken. ...
s
u
139
159
177
BALLOT,
1 8t
2 nd .....
S rd .1 .
O :
as
266
289
823
335
547.
3C8
384
380
386
385
380
375
363
355
334
337
332
330
327
256 32 26
264'-- 31 27
251 28 26
254 SI 24
844 29 21
265 29 20
267 S3 19
262 32 18
257 ,82 18
257 84 19
255 83 19
201 21 8
193 29 7
182 33 7
167 32 19
164 52 20
176 57 19
174 43 19
179 31 19
178 36 10
144 54 7
166 52 6
J81 50 6
178 54 5
169 55
167 55 2 ,
166 60 3
165 62 4
166 63 4
165 58 4
174 57 3
176 65 3
180 66 3
184 54 3
222 89 3
241 28 8
202 50' 3
211 60 ,
74 71 2
19 76 2
15 55 2
8 49 2
7 57 2
J
4 th
178
6 th
7 th
8 th
9 th
10th
11th
72th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
ISth
19th
20th
213D
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
26th
27th
295
315
821
821
332
404
428
443
468
454
442
458
468
456
426
4w .
8644
864
364
371
371
340
395
372
125 -
429
424
424
423
423
404
400
391
391
380
879
876
377
386
383
468
490
497
540
567
28th 868
29th 394
30th 403
31st ..... 415
32nd 421
33rd 421
34th 420
35th 409
36th 399
37th 405
38fh 403
39th .... 440
40th .... 467
41s 458
42nd .... 427
43rd .... 412'
Notice.
To the Baptist Churches of Chatham
County:
I wish to call your attention to
the articles of Bro. W. O. John
son in regard to the Mobile School
at Siler City July 19-23, in this
and next week's issues of The
Chatham Record. Please read
them carefully, and by a1 1 means
send some of your members to
this school. It will pay you well
to do so, , Indeed, you can't well
adrd not to be represented in it.
W. B. WAFF,
''Judge, I've been spoiled aild
pampered by my father, and now
he's having me sent to jail!"
i ."Well I'll 'unspoil' you!,, roar
eS ihe court. Two hundred dol
lars fine."
Then father intervened, the
rules were laid down and a par
ole arranged. Penn. Grit.
The Country Weekly.
'.'.
I am the Country Weekly.
I am the friend of the family,
the bringer of tidings from other
friends; I speak to the home in
the evening light of summer's
vine-clad porch or the glow of
winter's lamp.
COX FOR PRESIDENT
Convention Adjourns Until
Noon To Nominate Candi
date for Vice-Presidency
and Complete Ticket
GOVERNOR COX SAYS HE
HAS NO STATEMENT TO
GIVE OUT AT PRESENT
Deadlock In Balloting Con
tinued Until The Thirty
Eighth, Following Which
Attorney - General Palmer
Gave His Delegates Thier
Liberty; Out A n d Out
Fight Between McAdoo and
Cox Started, With .Cox
Gaining Gradually Until He
Went Over On The Forty
Fourth; Great Exultation
Follows Breaking Of Dead
lock And domination Is
Made Unanimous
Auditorium, July 6. James
M. Cox, governor of Ohio, was
nominated for President of the
United . States in the Demo
cratic National Convention, at
1 :40 o'clocE this morning.
The nomination came at the
conclusion of a forty-four bal
lot struggle, in which he had
steadily beaten down the
forces of William G. McAdoo,
former Secretary of the Trea
sury and President Wilson's
etm-in-law.
When the balloting on the
14th vote had gotten to a point
where Cox had 702 votes and
was rapidly approaching the
necessary two-thirds of 729,
Sam B. Amidon, of Kansas,
manager of the McAdoo forces
and vice chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee,
took the platform and moved
that the nomination be made
unanimous.
Immediately there' was a
roar from the tired delegates;
which lasted for a full four
minutes before Chairman Rob
inson could put the question on
Amidon's motion 'to suspend
the rules and nominate Cox by
acclamation I '! v '
At 1:43 o'clock this morn"
ing the motion was formally
voted over, with a rolling
chorus of ayes and a crashing
of the brass bands.
State standards, which had
surged back and forth in the
desperate battles of the dead-
lock, raced to the front of the
hall and to a place before the
platform.
I help to make this evening
hour; I record the great and the
small, the varied acts ?f the days
and weeks that go to make up
life. . . '
I am for and of the home; I
follow those who leave humble
beginnings; whether they go to
greatness or to the gutter, I : take
to them the thrill of old days,
with wholesome messages,
I speak the language of the
common iifi 4i my words are fitted
to his ufldsrfdihg; My con
gregation k lirgey than that of
any church m my town? my read-
am flro mrtia Vsn
seho.l. Young and old alfe 8iwJ
. . . i . . , .
m me stimulation, instruction
entertainment, inspiration, solace,
comfort. I am the chronicler of
birth, and love and death the
three great facts of men's ex
istence. I bring together buyer and
seller, to the benefit of both; I
am part of the market-place of
the world. "Into the home I carry
word of the goods which feed and
MORRISON VICTORIOUS
News & Observer. July 6.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs.
manager for 0. Max Gardner in
the Democratic gubernatorial
campaign, last night conceded
the nomination of Cameron Mor
rison in Saturday's primary "by
a substantial majority. "
Returns, complete and incom
plete, . from ninety-five counties'
in the ; state, compiled by the
News and Observer, give Mor
rison 63,038 and Gardner 54,863.
The indications are that Mor-
ison's majority will be well over
the 8,175 shown in these figures.
The five counties from which-
no returns have been received
are A very, Camden, Granville, v
Macon and Tyrrell. In , these ;
Gardner's majority over Morri- '
son in the first primary was 297.
In the ninety-five counties heard
from, Morrison led in the first
primary by 384.
4 P. Stacy, of Wilmington, has re
ceived 46,171 votes to the 27,251
for his, opponent, Judge B. F.
Long, of Statesville, f or associate .
justice of the Supreme court.
The same give Baxter Durham,
of Raleigh, a lead over- J. P.
Cook, of Concord, for State aud
itor, by a vote Of 37,821 to 29,
808. Mr; Heriot Clarkson, manager
for Morrison, closed his head
quarters yesterday assured of
victory, and last night left for
hi? home in Charlotte.
dnperior ijourt
The special two weeks term
of Chatham Superior court con
vened last Tuesday morning,
Judge W. M. Bond, of Edenton,
presiding.
The first case tried was that
ofTeagueand Boushall, receiv
ers of the National Bank of LiU
ington, against R. R. Seagroves?
The plaintiffs contended that
they were the holders in due
course, that is, for value before
maturity, of a note for $768. IS
executed by . the defendant to
the Salmon Live Stock Co. May
21, 1908; The defendant claimed
Stock Co. The jury, after a
short deliberation, decided the
istue in favor of the -plaintiffs
and iudcrment was sicrned bv hia
Honor accordingly.
The next case was that of T.
M. Morphis vs. Vincent-Warren '
tion of a $400 note given for a
pair of mules, the plaintiff also
asking for $400 alleged to be due
in the trade. The plaintiff con
tended that the defendant, had
broken the agreement as to a
swap of the mules and horses of'
plaintiff.
clothe, and shelter, and which
minister to comfort, ease, health
and happiness.
I am the word of the week, the
history of the year, the record of
1 ll A
my community m tne arcnives 01
State and Nation.
I am tha vArtdnf li'voa
oi my readers. .'
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X iUil MIC WUUM. f T vviVJjr . .
Adams.
New Fence
congregation of the Meth
i odist church herA ar tn h rYn-
? i TV 77 . . .
gratulated on the erection at an
early date of a new iron fence
rt Tl A fliain aViimIk- tA TtA
old wooden fence has been re-,
moved and the material for the
new fence , has arrived and will
he erected in a few davs.
There will be a ball game here
no-vf Safnrvlay loHxroan PiffcWknn
and Silk Hope,