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Established sept. 19, i878.
PITTSBORO. CHATHAM CO.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1921 -.
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CHATHAM'S NEW
THE MARCH TERM
A NEW COUNTRY
DEBATING AND ATH
LETIC ACTIVITIES
Hundreds of North Caroli
na Schools Announced
COMMANDER LONDON
AN UNUSUAL
COUNTY
HOME
OF SUPERIOR COURT
IS DISCOVERED
WRITES INTERESTINGLY
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INVESTMENT BILL
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flie Old County Home to
Convenes 21st For Trial of
'North Carolina FruithillsV
He Sees Three Christmas'
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Civil CasesCalendar
On Seaboard
"The Carolina "Fruit Hills" is
Celebrated
The following is the bill which
Ira introduced by Representa
tive Lane and passed by the Leg
islature providing for the con
tfruction of a new and modern
kntv Home for the aged and
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infirm in Chatham County:
1 "The General Assembly of
?North Carolina do enact:
"Sec.l. That Arthur H.Loac'o ,
Iwho will act as chairman, Dr. R.
tvy Palmer ana ur.iiyae j. nomas
he and they are hereby appoint
ed commissioners to select a site
for a new County Home for the
stred and infirm for said County
of Chatham and they are hereby
reauested, empowered and direc
ted to sell the present County
TiTnA in such manner and on
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such terms as they think best,
the proceeds to be paid into the
general County treasury, the
deed or deeds to purchasers to be
executed by the County Commis
sioners, and to purchase another
site near some highway or rail
road if in their opinion the com
fort of the inmates of said home
would be enhanced thereby.
4 'Sec. 2. That the said com
missioners are further requested,
empowered and directed to have
plans drawn by an architect for
building of said home, which
shall be provided with toilets,
bath rooms and lavatories, with
running water and all sanitary
provisions for the safety and
comfort of the inmates. .
"Sec. 3. That the commis
sioners are, further requested,
empowered and directed, after
sacuring a site for said building
and the plans of the architect,
which architect shall follow the
discretion of .the commissioners
in regard to such plans, to make
a full report to the County Com
missioners of said County speci
fying the site by metes and
Vinnnrlc: an d to file the nlans of.
the architect with the Board of
County Commissioners.
"Sec. A. That the County
Commissioners are hereby em
powered, ordered and directed to
have constructed and equipped a
new County Home in accordance
with the true intent and mean
ing of this act and for that pur
pose they are empowered, order
ed and directed to levy a special
tax for thac purpose, or in lieu
thereof may issue bonds of the
County, bearing a rate of inter
est not exceeding six per cent,
not exceeding the sum of fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000.00) in
their discretion, said bonds to run
for thirty years and to be in de
nominations of one thousand dol
lars, each of which shall be
marked "Chatham County Home
Bonds.,,
"Sec. 5. That if any bonds
are issued under the authority of
section four of this act, the
County Commissioners shall an
nually thereafter levy on all real
and personal property in Chat
ham County a special tax suffi
cient to nav the interest on said
bonds and to create a sinking
fund adeauate to retire said bonds
at their maturity. The said spe-;
cid tax shall be levied and col-!.
lected at the same time and in
the same manner as the other
County taxes are levied and' col
lected and shall bee turned over
to the treasury of Chatham
County to be held separate and
apart from the other County
funds and to be used for the pur
poses specified in this section.
The March term of Chatham
County Superior Court will con
vene here Monday, March 21st,
for the trial f civil cases only,
with Judge C. C. Lyon, of Eliza-
bethtown, presiding. The fol
lowing is the calendar of cases
that will be disposed of:
MONDAY, MARCH 21.
32 J. C. Lane vs R. G. Lassater
et al.
21 Siler City Loan and Trust
Co. vs Harry B. Hannah.
27 J. H. Norwood vs N. L.
Broughton.
35 S. W. Johnson vs T. G. Raw
lins et al.
61 Pearless Lumber Co. vs J.
T. Gwaltnev.
67. W. H. Garner vs W. M.Bar
ber.
79 National Novelty Co. vs T.
M. Bynum,
8& Joe Moore vs Wesley Cheek.
94 Rosa Stratton- vs Lena Poe.
95 Roy Lee Dixon vs Wilkins
Ricks Co.
107 Robert Palmer vs T. M. By
num.
TUESDAY.
118 L. C. Ellington vs Fred A.
Badders. -126
M. L. Harris vs John B.
Clark.
135 Jane Peoples vs Sarah Harris.
161 L. N. Womble vs C. B. Phil
lips.
162 W. S. Durham vs American
Express Co.
163 W. S. Durham vs American
' ' ;,. . Express Co.,
164 W. S. Durham vs American
Express Co.
167 Richard Brewer vs Thomas
Moore. -
173 C. R. McHaney et al vs John
Mitchell et al.
WEDNESDAY
184 Oates vs Glover.
185 C. L. Lindsay vs A. H.Marks
et al.
193 Maude Holland vs Jessie Sea
groves. Margaret ' H. Womble vs Jack
C. Murphey.
E. E. Walden, admr., vs S. A.
L. Rwy Co. v
T. C. Marks vs A. C. Johnson.
In re the will of M. M. Fogle
man. ;
W.G. Fields vs Howard White.
Uncle Samuel, Uncle Samuel,
we are surprised at you I When
the North Carolina Legislature
has just passed a $50,000,000
go?d roads bill for you to lie down
the very idea! Greensboro
News.
and for no other purposes what
soever. "Sec. 6. That the commis
sioners mentioned in section one
of this act shall be paid the sum
of five dollars per day for their
services while actually engaged
in carrying out the provisions of
this act..
Sec. 7. When the new County
Home is completed f and ready
for occupance, the board herein
named together with the County
Physician or Health Officer and
the County Commissioners (mak-
ing nine persons in all) shall
electa superintendent of the home
at a salary to be agreed upon by
them.
"Sec. 8. That all laws and
clauses of laws in conflict with
this act are hereby repealed.
"Sec. 9. That this act shall
be in force from and after its
ratification."
the title of an attractive booklet
of forty-eight pages dedicated to
that terrytory stretching from
Raleigh to Columbia. This re
gion has been known for ages as
i4T"ie Sand Hills," a name which
fairly well describes it in its wild
native state, but when the hand
of man is applied thereto, it is
subdued, its character and ap
pearance immediately change 0
that it produces wonder crops of
peaches, grapes and other farm
products. , -
When this section will this sea
son set out a million and a quar
ter peach trees in addition to the
hundreds and hundreds of acres
already bearing and coming into
bearing, it deserves to be known
as a fruit section.
When this same section is the
largest dewberry center in Amer
ica, and in addition raises grapes
that bring five cents per pound
wholesale, and produces apples
that win at the National shows,
there is more reason for consid
ering it a fruit section. Sure
ly, this is a New Country discov
ered. For these reasons the general
development department of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway Com
pany, directed by Jesse M.Jones,
Norfolk, Virginia, has christened
this section THE CAROLINA
FRUIT HILLS, because this so
fully describes the purpose fo:
which this soil is admirably adap
ted. "'This booklet tells of results ac
complished by farmers in the
Fruit Hills, is attractively writ
ten and fully illustrated with
new pictures, most of them tak
en during the last crop season.
It is one of several booklets the
Seaboard has issued covering the
States of Alabama, Georgia, Flor
id a, North and South Carolina.
They are used in connection with
the Seaboard's advertising cam
paign, which is reaching 25,000,
000 readers in every part of
America, in fact, in all parts of
the world.
Send and get one of these book
let?. Married
A youne couple sauntered into
the office of the Register of Deeds
last Saturday afternoon and the
young man call 2d f or a mar
riage license. Justice of the
Peace John R. Blair happened to
be around and he soon made
them man and wife. The young
groom is Mr. Daydon Goodwin
and the happy bride was Miss
EuniceHil Hard, both of NewHope
township.
Determined to Go
For several days last week the
Pee Dee River was so high that
traffic could not get to the bridge
at Cheraw. The river was out
of it banks and over the "lane"
that leads to the bridge.
A man from Boston on his way
to Florida was informed at Kof
lock Saturday that the bridge
could not be reached. Nothing
daunted, he inquired of the Sea
board agent as .to when a train
would be along and picking his
time bewteen trains set off down
the track in his car and crossed
the river on the railroad bridge
two miles distant and triumph
antly continued on his way to the
Alligator State. Rockingham
Post-Dispatch.
Wide -sweeping plans concern
ing debating and athletic activi
ties in hundreds of North Caro
lina high schools have been an
nounced at the University of
North Carolina.; ; "
Secretary E. R. Rankin, of the
high school debating union, an
nounced that the time for the
triangular high school debates
had been decided on April 1, and
that the further eliminating con
tests at Chapel Hill for the championship-of
thfiLState and theAy
cock Memorial Cup would- take
place two weeks later, April 14
and 15.
The number of High- Schools
entered in the debating contents
this year has mounted to 238,
covering 90 of the 100 Counties.
Buncombe, Gaston, Guilford and
Pitt Counties have 8 schools each
entered; Moore and Robeson
Counties . have 7 schools, each;
Wayne and Johnston have six
each ;and Alamance, Duplin, Meek
lenburg; Rockingham and Wak
5 each.
These 238 schools, each with
affirmative and negative teams,
will, fight out among themselves
the!question of collective bar
gaining, and those schools win
ning both sides of the contest
will send their schools to Chape
Hill for further elimination con
tests. '
' Mr. Rankin has also announced
that 39 high schools have entered
teams in the seventh annual bas
ketball championship series, 19
teams from the eastern part b
the State, and 20 from the west.
The eastern teams are Eliza
beth City, Greenville, Fremont,
Wilson, Durham, Benson, Cary,
Clayton, Belhaven, Wilmington,
New Bern, Chapel Hill, - Phila
delphus, Red Oaks, Raleigh
Stem, Roxboro and Mason's
Cross.
From the west the teams are
Burlington, Statesville, James
town, Siler City, Matthews,
Mooresville, Candler, Asheville,
Leaksville, Dixie, Charlotte, Ba
din, Concord, Belmont, Greens
boro, Reidsville, Winston-Salem,
Startown and Biltmore.
Managers from the 19 eastern
teams met in Raleig h February
14 to arranere dates for elimina
tion games to decide the eastern
champknship. Details for the
western championship were de
cided at a meeting of the wTest
ern managers in Greensboro, Feb.
.5.
At the same time that the high
school debating championship is
being decided in Chapel Hill, the
week of ADril 11-16. the ninth
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annual interscholastic track mee
and the fifth annual interschol
astic tennis tournament wiU be
held. This week will be given
over almost entirely to high school
activities and many events are
being planned in celebration of
the event.
Last year the debating cham
pionship was won by Asheville,
the basketball championship by
Wilmington, the tennis tourna
ment by Wilson in both singles
and doubles it being the second
successive year that Wilson had
won, and the track meet was
won by Friendship, which has
been at the top for the past seven
years. ' ,
Thirty-two per cent of the farm
houses in the United States have
running water.
The follow extract from a letter re
ceived from Commander J. J. London.
U. S. Ship St. Louis, written from
Constantinople on January 22, will be
of interest to our readers: -
"This is a place of many celebrations
at this time of the year, which havii
caused many parties as you can imagr
ine. First, there was our Christmas
and New Year, then the Russian and
Greek -Christmas (January 6)' and New-
Year (January 13) and later the Arme
nian ChristmasJ The Allied police per
mitted hotels and cafes to haVe "all
night lights" on those occasions, hence
there were great celebrations. They
say some sort of Persian New Year is
coming soon
"I received my mail just as I was
leaving my ship this afternoon on a
sight-seeing trip to Stamboul. I have
just returned from there. .We went to
see the Turkish museum of antiquities
and it was wonderful. Some 25 years
ago all these sculptures and monuments
were gathered here from all parts of
the Turkish empire. The oae piece of
art there which stands out above all
others anywhere in the world is the
tomb of Alexander. It cannot be proved
positively as yet that it was Alexan
der's tomb, but it doesn't have to have
Alexander's name to stamp it as the
most marvelous work of art in the
world. The tomb is of white marble,
shaped like a Greek temple, . but with
sculpturd figures of men and animals
on every side
"The street life here is as interest
ing as the museum. I have just pass
ed through the money changers' alley
where dozens of little stands exchange
the currency of all nations. Money of
of all nations is on display in little
show cases, amounting to thousands
of dollars. In one alone, Fsaw $1,
000 in United States gold and even
more in U. S. paper money. Strange
to say, you can get more Turkish mon
ey for a twenty dollar greenback than
for. a twenty dollar gold piece. , The
money of all. foreigners fluctuates daily
in terms of Turkish money When we
came in October you 'could get 130
piasters for a dollar bill; now you can
get 150; two weeks ago you could get
165.
"No news of our future movements.
It all depends on the political situation
out here, which is critical."
Why Pay Cost on Taxes ?
Even in prosperous times quite a num
ber of taxpayers wait every year about
paying their taxes until, costs was add
ed to them. This seems very foolish.
We all know taxes will have to be paid.
Why not pay them without giving the
Sheriff trouble and having costs added
to them. If taxes can be paid with
the costs added they could unusually be
paid a little sooner without the costs
on them. Some wait until the last and
pay costs every year. It seema they
have gotten into the habit of waiting as
long as possible before paying. This
is a had habit to form and one which
gives more or 'less trouble to all con
cerned. If your taxes are high enough
why , should you pay costs on them?
Why should you have your property
advertised and levied on? The Sheriff
is compelled to collect and all who can
do it should pay at once. Smithfield
Herald.
Eggs Depend on Light
"Lay eggs while the sun shines" is
the slogan of 30 high bred hens that
figured in a year's experimeriment. sta
tion on the effects of artificial light.
Thirty hens avera? ed 147 eggs under
the influence of 15 hours of light from
sundown until 9:30 p. m., against 104
eggs f er another flock of 30 hens given
attention without the light;
Money in Chickens
There must be good money in
chickens. A Chatham farmer has
150 hens on his farm. Last year
he gathered about 5,500 pounds
of lint cotton. At present prices
of cotton his chicken products
brought . more money than did
his cotton and with less work.
He says if every farmer in the
County would leave cotton' off
and plant more chickens he would
be lots better off.
Is Crop Averages
FRANK PARKER
That ignorance is bliss is relative.
The speculators . have been blissfully
enjoying the farmers .of ignorance of
general crop tendencies. A legislative
member stopped another on the street
last week and asked if the crop esti
mates reports were not taking advan
tage of farmers. , Many farmers have
thought so. Now what is the true siti
uatioh? The Agricultural Statistician
uncharge of the Cooperative State and
Federal work, has offered some ideas
worth considering.
If information were available that
warranted closer buying and higher
prices for farm products, farmers and
business interests would prosper more.
It is the skeptic or the pessimistic class
who-would have us remain in ignorance
of the true tendencies. ' -
The speculators h?ve their own pri
vate sources of crop information, but
they have to use it for best advantage
prior to the issuance of the government
reports, since they stabilize tendencies.
The basis of all valuable farm inform
ation is that of the crop acreages.
A bill has been introduced by Sena
tor Varser providing for this essental
basis. By dependable information avail
able to all interests, the question of
uncertainties is minimized. Senator
Varser's bill simply proposes that the
acreages of crops planted each year be
secured through the tax listers, the re
sults to be turned over ; to the. Depart
ment of Agriculture who will tabulate
and publish the' information after the
cops are harvested. This was tried
voluntarily and very successfully for
two years by 93 Counties. It has been
approved by all who understand it, and
farmers went such information as will
aid them in planning for their next
crops.
The idea of economy is prevalent in
this bill. The blanks and tabulations
are paid for by the Department of Ag
riculture and the tax listers have to'be
paid any way." -The .final information
is sent all over the State and is free to
those who request it.
" Through reliable information one
learns what other Counties, as well as
his own, are doing;' markets for buying
and selling are located; settlers are
given opportunity for studying coun
ties; and teachers can instruct intelli
gently about local crors. Enlighten
ment aids while ignorance retards proa
jaerity. Listen to this: A farmer said this
information last year saved him over
$800. It is estimated to result in five
per cent better prices to the farmers
and lower prices to the consumer; but
even af. one per cent increase in farm
prices, it would mean over $3,000,000
saved annually to the North Carolina
farmers alone. A good investment bill,
isn't it?
Cigar rettes
TheUnited States smokes 3,000
miles of cigarrettes per day '.Burn
ing stumps thrown away care
lessly cause a daily fire less of
over $25,000.
At Geneva, Pennsylvania, a
student threw a burning cigar
re tte stub on the grass. A spar
row picked it up and flew away
with it to her nest under the
eaves. The nest burned and set
fire to the building.
The terrible Triangle Waist
Co. fire started from a cigarrette
thrown into scrap material; 145
employees lost their lives.
CANCER
Why are over one hundred thous
and people dying annually )n the U.
S.with cancer? Because of procras
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