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;S FT ABLISH ED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CO.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY T7, 1921.
VOL. XLTI1 NO. 29
CHATHAil
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COUNTY COM
MISSIONERS MEET
le County Commissioners met
j Monday and heard petitions
n the following townships in
e trd to roads:
j 1 aid win For the construction
if I road beginning at the pres
ent completed township road at
folin Dawson's and leading to
th J Orange County line beyond
Lriibsville to Graham, Burling-
IcA and other points.
I Center and Haw River For
thl improvement of the'Provi-
enco Road leading from Moore's
;Mge to Moncure.
kew Hope For the construe
qn of a road from Mt. Gilead to
ihnson's Bridge on New Hope
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'rppk. Also for the establish
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fr.en
lent oi a roaa irom me raiu
tnwnsVnn linp near Ttet-
tie's Branch on the river road
if nom Bynum to Seaiorth, and
Inning east up Bettie's Branch
Griffin's School House.
Several citizens of Bear Creek
tnfwnshiD also petitioned the-1
Board in regard to a road in that
township.
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Action on all these petitions
postponed until the time
vmen the two new Commission
ers, E. E. Wilson, of Cape Fear
township, and S. S. 'Edwards, of
Ifatthews township, who are
named as the additional County
Commissioners in a bill intro
duced in the Legislature by Rep-
I risentative Lane increasing the
z number of Commissi Dners of this
3 County from three to five, have
assumed the duties of their office.
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Sleeping Sickness
j unatnam uounty seems xo De
keeping up with , the procession.
,The latest is a case of sleeping
sickness, which has been so pro
j nounced by physicians. About
f ight or ten days ago Mr. Will
I Ward, who lives on Route three,
- iras taken sick. He went to bed
; .nd to sleep. Up to last Satur
c ay he had been asleep every
i ay and night, with the excep-
on of a short time each day
,'hen his people Jwould get him
roused long enough to give him
urishmeni. It is said Mr.
Vard suffers no pain but just
ants to sleep all the time. Last
aturday he had so far improved
i s to be able to sit up, and it is
loped that he will be in his usu
j 1 good health in a few days.
Since the above was put in type
Ive are glad to note that Mr.
Vard has so improved that he
as able to be m town Wednes-
ay.
Home Burned
i he home of Mrs. Texana Poe
In New Hope township was to
tally destroyed by fire Saturday
Jmornmg about 9 o'clock. The
house caught from a defective
iflue. The entire house and prac
ftically all of the contents were
urned.
Mrs. Poe is a widow and she
jvvas living in the home by her
feelf. As practically all of her
pelongings were destroyed, a pe
tition is being circulated by her
friends to obtain donations t
pntribute to her relief. If any j
jof our readers wish to help her
fin her distress, they may send
contributions to Mr. C. D.Moore, '
Route 1, Pittsboro. All contri
butions will be appreciated both
by Mrs. Poe and her friends.
Seven thousand houses are need
ed today in the 85 cities in North
Carolina with more than 1,500
Population, to relieve the hous
ing shortage
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MR. SEGROVES LOSES $300
One day last week Mr. A. J.
Segroves, who lives - near Merry
Oaks, received $300 for a lot of
fertilizer. He placed the money
in his pocketbook, and after feed
ing his stock that evening, he
missed it from his pocket. Fail
ing to find it, he reached the con
clusion that maybe, while ,he was
about the stables a cow . fished
the bill book from his pocket or
picked it up after he had drsp
ped it and swallowed it. He had
Dr. J. I. Neal go down and try
to locate the lost money. Dr
cut open the cow's stomach, but
could find no trace of the lost
money. A week or two ago a
man living near Oxford killed a
cow to recover $60 in bills which
she had swallowed. Sanford Ex
press.
Officers Active
in Bear Creek
Mr. George H. Hancock anoj
other deputies captured two
whiskey distilleries in Bear Creek
township last week. They also
destroyed some boxes and a
wooden cap at a third place.
One of the stills was in active
operation at the time of the raid,
with two men operating it and a
third man standing by. All of
the men got away, but the one
who appeared to be an onlooker
is known to the officers.
The second still captured, the
officers say, was the most com
plete blockading outfit they have
ever seen. While no men wre
captured at this still or present
there at the time of the raid,
the officers watched it all the
day before arid know and are
able to identify the parties who
were operating it.
The 'Possum Shrunk
Be sure your sins find you out.
A few nights ago Mr. James L.
Griffin heard a racket in his hen
house. On hunting the cause a
'possum was found which was cap
tured and the family feasted on
baked 'possum. On being asked
the size of the animal, Mr. Grif
fin laughingly remarked that it
"was big as that stump," nod
ding his head at a stump in front
of the Pittsboro Bank. But his
good lady said, . when asked, that
it weighed three or four pounds.
Found Dead
Geoage Patton 59, was found
dead ki bed early Saturday moan
ing at the home of Don Pattishall,.
near Modctre, at whose home he
lived.
Mr. Patton was in his usual
good health Saturday night when
he retired, havingjwalked several
miles during the day. Hh was a
good man, and highly aespeted by
all who knew him, and his sudden
death was a great shock to the
community. The only surviving
relatives are two sisters. Mrs
Mariah Betts, of Raleigh and
one livieg in Baltimore.
Church Services
Services will be held at the
Episcopal Church next Sunday
at 11 a. m. and 4:15 p. m. Len
ten services Wednesday a 4:15 p
m. Evening pray and short ad
dress Friday at 7:30 p. m. Lit
any and Bible class.
Card of Thanks
I wish to return thanks to ray
neighbors and friends who were
so kind to my mother during her
illness and death.
R. H. JOHNSON.
SHERIFF BLAIR EN-
FORCING THE LAW
Sheriff G. W. Blair and his
deputies are certainly endeavor
ing to enforce the law in regard
to liquor. On last Saturday four
stilla were brought here and two
men bound over to Superior
Court on the charge of manufac
turing liquor.
The two men bound over to
court were Lee Perry, white, and
Make Marsh, colored. There were
two cases against Make. These
parties were arraigned before
John R. Blair, J. P., who bound
Perry over to court under a bond
of $500 and Make under a bond of
$1,000 in each case.
These two parties were cap
tured at a still in Hadlev town
ship by W. H. Ferguson and oth
er deputies.
F. P. Nooe found and captured
single handed a still and a little
whiskey in a man's barn in Haw
River township.
In another column we tell of
the activities of the officers in
Bear Creek township.
Besides these, numberless oth
er raids have been made by Sher
iff Blair and his deputies in which
beer was found and destroyed
and boxes cut up. It is clearly
evident that Mr. Blair is doing
all he can to perform his duty as
Sheriff in the enforcement of the
law.
Bynum Notes
Mrs Alma Ellington has reurn
ed to her home in Raleigh after a
visit here to her brother Mr.
Clarance Andrws.
Miss Ada Justice of rear Emmes
church spent satuMayri:ghTarid
sunday here with friends.
Mr. D. T. Moore, the aigerette
man spent th9 week end here on
dissiness.
Mr. Plato Riddle has returned
from Carthage, where ne spent
last week with friends.
The community aid society gave
a valentine party at the school
building Saturday evening Feb.
12 th
Supper, ice cream and candy
sold, the amount realized was $
71.00 funds to be used for the
Chineese relief funds.
Mr. J. Nat Atwater, wh has
been confined to his room for the
past two weeks, on account of
sickness, is able to be out again
Death From
Sleeping Sickness
After a 15 days period of co
ma, Fred Look, 16 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Look, 906
East Fith street, Charlotte, died
of 'sleeping sickness."
The death of the young man
had brought to a close one of the
most engrossing cases that had
commanded the attention of the
medical profession there. The
case is one of the few in the United
States, about 12 cases being re
ported last year on 'the .Pacific
coast. Young Look for more than
a fortnight had been in a stupor
showing sight of life only after
being aroused. He ate when food
was placed in his mouth.
Another symptom of the Look
case characteristic of a few other
cases reported was double vision.
Dr. G. E. Petty way, the attend
ing physician, said that he could
hold two fingers before Looks'
eyes and he would see four.
In last week's raid revenue of
ficers captured 16 stills on the
North Carolina-Tennessee bor
der.
Superior Court here March 21.
TRAINLOAD OF EGGS
i FROM THE ORIENT
A train of 25 cars, loaded en-
;;tK to.oa' o
eggs, left Vancouver, British Co-
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New York. The train was made
up of nine carloads sent over
from Seattle to be attached to 16
carloads of eggs from the steam
er Empress of Russia. The eggs
from Seattle were delivered by
Japanese liners. The eggs, with
the exception of 1,500 cases from
Montreal, were all consigned to
New YorkT .The shipment to the
latter point consisted os approxi
mately 17,500 cases of 30 and 36
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more than an egg for breakfast
for every man, woman and child
in New York.
Income Taxes
The Collector of Internal Rev-
enue has given out the following
information with regard to the
filing of income tax reports:
I desire to impress upon every
partnership, personal service c r-
poration, or fiduciary, the im-
portance of filing forms 1096 and
1099 with the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, sorting sec-
tion, Washington, D. C. These
forms are required to be filed in
Washington on or before March
15, 1921, by anv partnership, per-
sonal service corporation or fidu-
ciary that paid to any individual
partnership, personal service cor-
poration, or any fiduciary during
the year 1920, salary wages, com-
missions, etc., of $1,000 or more,
Of course all individuals or cor-
porationsthat paid salaries of
$l7O0Oor' more during the year
1920 are required to file forms
1096 and 1099.
Li addition to reporting the
payments set forth above, every
partnership, personal service cor-
poration and fiduciary must file
a form 1099 for the partnership
or personal service corporation
or each beneficiary, showing the
distributive share of the mem-
bers or beneficiaries, whether or
not actually distributed. Thse
amounts are requited to be re-
ported on the basis of the calen-
dar year.
The form 1099 will show pay-
ments individually, and a sum-
mary should be prepared on form
1095.
The forms may be secured
from the various division offices
in the State or direct from the
office at Raleigh.
Left $600 Roll
Six hundred dollars for seven
rhirVpnc wis t.hp nnVfl naid hv a
thief who raided the chicken After all the cost has been fig
coop of John Alcorn, at North ured out, then let the town issue
Bessemer, Pa. The robber left hos to cover
in haste when surprised by Al- The town could build, its own
corn, but he carried away seven Plant have as many street lamps
h as-necessary, and by selling elec-
Alcorn went into the coop to
take an inventory. He was
Ptintr thl PhiVkpns when a
roll of bills on the floor caught
Tf tc-r.oH a $1 no
bills and tvvo $50 bills. , Alcorn
believes that the intruder drop-
ned the roll in his haste to es-
cape.
Live communities ana live
newspapers are found together
oe a bull on your community ana
show it bv subszribing to your
newspaper.
Oh cotton and tobacco, 1 give
you notice now;. on lana wnere
you grew last year I'm putting
in a,,pasture for I have bought
a sow.
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OLD CHATHAM LOOKING UP
Editor of The Record:
Chatham County is at last to
have an up-to-date County Home
and Hospital, something that has
been nee?f fort these many
years. I do not know where it
w" "e ,out su5.se.
win De near riusooro. rnis is a
good sign. Of course there will
be many knocks and kicks 'from
the knockers in issuing bonds for
better improvements for the poor
and unfortunate, as well as any
thing else for the betterment and
uplift of the people of the Coun
ty. And while it is a fact that the
Home and Hospital are to be
built, let us, as good citizens of
tue uiu iuwu, come uuiui uur
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holes and see if we cannot open
the way to issue bonds for the
purpose of putting in an electric
light plant here 'to light up our
muddy streets (and the Lord
knows we have them, the worst
ever) and to give our citizens
lights in their homes.
Let me paint a little picture
right here. Let a man go into a
city for a few days, ond see the
difference between Pittsboro and
the city. There you have elec-
trie lights. Go out on the streets
at night and it is nearly light as
day. Go out on the streets here
at night and it is as dark as the
hinges of midnight. Go into your
room in the city, push a button!
and you have a flood of light,
Go into your room here and you
have to face a kerosene lamp.
What is the difference. In the
city you have all the comforts of
a home light, water and sewer
age. Here you do not.
A few nights ago a stranger
called on - a, young lady. In re-
turning to his hotel he stepped
off the sidewalk and fell back
wards into the mud. Before
reaching his hotel he stepped off
again and fell face foremost.
When he reached the hotel he
was covered with mud. Don't
you believe that young man will
keep his misfortunes a secret!
Oh, no. He will JLell it every-
where he goes, and that's what
hurts, and it does the town harm.
More people would come here
to life if the place had any com-
forts, because it's one of the
healthiest places in the State.
Let's see if we cannot have
electric lights. Suppose the
Town Commissioners were to ap-
point a man to canvass the town
and see how many lights could
be sold. Then let a committee
find out the cost of machinery,
wire and poles; and another com
mittee could find a location and
the cost of land and material to
build a dam or by steam power.
city to the citizens would in a
iew years pay on rne principal
and interest on the bonds and
forever afterwards have an in-
come to build good streets, and
have water and sewerage.
Pittsboro will never have elec
tric lights until bonds are issued;
never have good streets dnless
they are built different. When
we cret these lights and good
streets more manufacturing
plants, people and more money
w:n corne here and the town, m-
stpaa Gf beiner a bvword and an
evesore. Will begin to hold up its
head and our citizens feel proud
of it besrin now-todav
to make a move. ABC.
Farm work not planned is of-
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ten never done.
THIS BANK MAKES
A GOOD SHOWING
TJiere was a large attendance
of stockholders at the annual
meeting of the Banking Loan
and Trust Company January 27.
Notwithstanding the business de
pression during the past year, a
4 per cent semi-annual dividend
was paid, making a total of 12
per cent was paid during the
year, and a substantial amount
was added to the profit account.
This company has paid substan
tial dividends regularly since its
organization, the total of which
aggregates considerably more
than the capital stock. The prof
it is now more than the capital
and both combined is more than
$50,000. -
They expect to occupy their
new quarters in the Mclver
building where they will be even
better equipped to take care of
j their growing patronage. They
have doubled the capacity of the
vault and have installed a large
number of new safety deposit .
boxes of the latest modern make.
The company has gone to consid
erable expense to f urnisft its cus
tomers with the best banking fa
cilities for service, convenience
and safety and we predict for
them the continued success
which they merit. Sanford Ex
press. Wilson's New
County Home
Wilson's new County Home is
now completed and fifteen in
mates from the old institution
took up their residence there last
Monday, and they were ; amazed
when they entered their new
place of abode and overjoyed to
find that all comforts and con
veniences were in evidence on
every hand.
The structure is of brick, two
stories high with accomodations
for 40 people and is steam heat
ed throughout with hot and cold
water and electric lights in each
room. All rooms are fitted up
with hospital furniture and prac
tical nurses will be in constant
attention and when necessary
trained ones will be called. There
is an operating room in the build
ing and in the basement a well
equipped laundry.
Firebug Fined $400,000
The heaviest fine ever levied in
court at Indianapolis, Ind., was
imposed, on Rufus Morgan, 30,
after a jury found him guilty of
arson.
The court sentenced Morgan to
prison from 2 to 21 years and
fined him $400,000. Morgan is
penniless. His friends say that
to pay the fine at the rate of $1
a day, besides the maximum
amount of his prison sentence,
he would have to stay in jail 1,
117 years.
More milk much less medicine.'
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