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The Chatham -r-HE RECORD is read X every week by almost everybody that's anybody. Record rip HE RECORD is the JL paper that's in every home, and the only paper in many homes. ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, N.C., CHATHAM CO., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1921 VOL. XLIVNO.17 PRINT FRIDAY Record in Future Will be Mailed on Friday Morning. Beginning with our issue next oplAhe Record will beDrinted on Friday morning- and mailed out on the train ana ruiai routes the arn morning. We have made every effort to get the pa per to our subscribers promptly by printing on Thursday, but find it is not practical. Owing to the fact that some of the routes from here are star routes, leaving here Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it is nec essary to get the papers on them and we cannot get all the letters and h cal new& in the paper in time to do this on Wednesday. We want trie correspondents to mail us the letters just like they have been doing to reach us not later than Tuesday noon and pre ferably i n Monday. vVe have had to cut ihe letters a great deal the last week or two in an effort to get them in at all and we don't want to do this any more. Gum Spring School. The Gum Spring school opened the 24th of October and has closed a very successful month. There has been sixty-five en rolled already. The teachers for this year are Prof. Hurst, of Mandale, princi pal, Mrs. Hurst has the primary work and Miss Ola Harmon the intermediate and also the music. The school celebrated Armis tice Day No. 11th, with appro priate songs, readings and reci tions. Several from the com munity were present and seemed to enjoy the program. The exer cises were very impressive. We cannot give too much honor to the boys who gave their lives fighting for liberty. The stage was beautifully decorated with autumn leaves. pine, cedar chrysanthemums and flags. Prof. W. R. Thompson nmde a very interesting talk to the par ents and children of the com munity last Wednesday evening. Tre purpose of this talk was con cerning the needs of the school. They decided to en'arge one of the rooms which i very much needed and they expect to begin the work after Thanksgiving. Athletics for the children were also talked over. They exrect to enlarge the ball ground lor the boys and arrange for games for the girls. We believe in clean, out-door sport for the children which means healthy bodies and minds. Gum Spring is in its fifth year as a school. It has made a splen did record the past four years, and still has a brighter future. This school is in the midst of pro gressive people and the majority tfd interested in the school and education. Prof. Hurst is attending the Teachers Assembly at Raleigh this week. He was sent as one of the delegates from Chatham county. ' Those on honor roll for being present every day during the month in the lower grades are as fellows: 1st grade Elizabeth Lutterloh 2nd grade Dorothy Whitaker. 3rd grade -Senard Eubanks. 4th grade -Jessie Wright. oth grade -Charlotte Wright, Kuby Wright, Evelyn Justice, JewelJustice, Hazel Perry. 6th grade -Leona Eubanks. Chatham Church. R. R. Knight, of Sanford and V Clegg, of Greensboro, vis aed their parents Sundav. Mrs. H. C. Clegg, Sr.. and C. Burns visited relatives in Wdston last week. George Morrow and Mrs. John borrow and son, Frank, of Ala nance county, spent Sunday ggrt with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Charlie Clifton and family apQt Saturday night with Mr. and M. C. M. Eddins. Mr. y'tton has just returned from lamassee, S. C. where he is working. ANDE. THE BANQUET Columbus Lodgs of Masons Have an . Enjoyable Time Last Week. The banquet given by the members of the Masonic lodge last week at the Blair Hotel was an event that will long be re membered m Chatham county. There were near a hundred in at tendance and a general good time was had. The ladies attended with the members and all the wives, sweethearts and friends of the lodge were there to enjoy the occasion. Rev. W. E. Allen was toast- master and all the men responded with interesting zeal, making the affair one of continuous pleasure and enjoyment. The gathering had been plan ned for sometime and was the culmination of .the general desire to have a get together meeting, in which both members of the lodge and their lady friends could enjoy the meeting. The supper was all that could be desired and the management of the Blair deserve all the honor and praise they have received for the splecdid success of the- ban quet Wise-Otherwise Stolen Paragraphs Localized by the Editor to Tease His Friends Shall I send this suit over to you said the clerk to the lady customer. No. she said. I will just put it in my hand bag. Some men seem to think that they are highly esteemed for the wearing of gay garments, Reggie Cotton, of Merry Oaks, says it certainly pays to attend church. He caught a nice, fat possum there last Saturday. Unless we get one thousand new subscribers soon, we will have to borrow some money to keep out of debt. Can you guess with what well known bird cranberry is asso ciated ? Beer may not be good for an illness; but illness is good for a bier. Several Bynum friends chided us for not giving the price of rab bits in our Market Report. Well, for their individual information we will say they are bringing $2 in Germany, $1.05 in England, 85c. in New York and 15c. on the local market. Some are loved for a real cause, while thousands are bated with out cause. Yes, we wish the hard times could be made brittle. When work will prevent it, we are in favor of listing poverty as a crime. Sometimes the man who does you a favor remembers it longer than you do. There are two kinds of men those whom you can trust and those who agree with everything you say. We are also thankful that Eng lish sparrows are not as large as an ostrich. When folks ask you about some thing you do not care to tell, it is a fool question; but if it is some thing that you are just itching for them to know then they have a keen mind. Shot by Negro. , Monroe Measmer, nine vearold son of L. E. Measmer, who live near Sanford, was shot and in stantly killed Saturday by Lynn Mclver, a negro boy about 15 years old. The negro boy made his escape. NICE JUICY TURKEY may be a powerful incentive to Thanksgiving, yet is not necessary when there is gen uine appreciation of the real blessings of the year. jgs .JtS'SiGEBSfjeKS Statute1 amrtflP l& AsBry , WHAT WOULD THE DAY Of BE WITHOUT A BIRD LIKE THIS "AND THOU skalt keep the feast of weeks unto J the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill L offering of thine Kand, which thou sKah give unto the Lord thy4 God, according as the Lord thy God Kath blessed thee. And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God has chosen to place his name there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. THOU shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine; AND thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidserv ant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gate. SEVEN days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall choose; because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy in crease, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. DEUTERONOMY, GIVING THANKS may be made so formal that the Almighty doubts the existence of gratitude. It was the poor Publican's prayer that was commended to us all. TO GRAC E THE BOARD? MS CH. 16, v. 10.15. ROAD MATTERS Commissioners Meet in Regular Ses sion Last Week. The Chatham county Road Commissioners met in regular monthly session on Monday, Nov ember 14th, with, chairman A. T. Ward and commissioners J. D. Willett, J. W. Griffin and E. E. Wilson present. Bills approved and paid amount ed to $4,075.43. This amount represents expenditures princi pally in Hadley township, where the road forces are now at work building roads. Other bills were for bridges and repair work in New Hope and Oakland town ships. The total amount covers all salaries, supplies, material and for labor. No new orders or petitions were acted on and the meeting of one day's duration. HISTORIC GROUND The Record Now on The Location of Chatham's First Paper. Our good friend R. Percy Eu banks, now living in Grand Junc tion, Colorado, gives us the in formation that The Record office is now on the site of the old build ing wThere the first paper ever published in this section, had its office. He states that the paper first published in Chatham county was called the Central Reflector and was published by Henry Ward, and that the late Hon Maurice Quincy Waddell gave him a copy of the paper in 1880, and that it was dated March 15, 1832. Mr. Ward was a brother of Rev. Eu banks' grandmother on his fath er's side. He went from Pitts boro to Montgomery Alabama, where he became prominent in the newspaper field. The late Mr. Charles Dismukes told Mr JJubanks that his broth er, A. H. DTsmukes, Henry and Hiram Ward, went to Raleigh in 1815 to learn the printers trade. A. H. Dismukes was the grand father cf Dr. Clarence Poe of Raleigh. He published a paper in 1840 or 1845 in Pittsboro. Rev. Mr. Eubanks writes fur ther to say that he notices that we are to get a linotype machine. "What an evolution from the old No. 4 Washington hand press of 1878. I congratulate you on your paper and may it go on from place to place in its great work for God and humanity," he says. Memorial Tablet. Mrs. Henry A. London states that very soon a memorial tablet will be placed in 1 he court house in honor of the men from Chat ham who lost their lives in the World War. A list of these men has been supplied by the adju tant-general of the United States. ft is desired that a short sketch of each man be sent to either Mrs. London, countv chairman or Prof. W. R. Thompson, secretary. The time of the unveiling will be announced in the Record at a later date. Mr. Waff Resigns. People of all the denominations over Chatham county will learn with regret that Rev. W. B, Waff will leave Pittsboro after this year, having tendered his resig nation as pastor of the first Bap tist church here to accept a call from the church at Mocksville, Mr. Waff is a splendid man, an excellent preacher and a citizen that the Record regrets to see leave. School News. Battle school is progressing nicely with Mrs. T. M. Clark as principal and Miss Luta White as assistant. There is an enroll ment of about sixty. An interesting program was rendered by the school on Armis tice Day, and everyone enjoyed the talk lawyer Ray made. It was very appropriate. v There will he a box party and pjrogram given at the school building Wednesday night, Nov. 23rd, at 7 o,clock. The proceeds will go for the benefit of the school. APPOINTMENTS The Methodist Conference Selections Contain Surprises. There were many surprises in the appointments made by Bishop Darlington of the North Carolina Conference. W. V. McRae was taken from Fayetteville and transferred to New Bern and is succeeded there by H. A. Hum ble. J. D. Bundy lemains pre siding elder of this district. Appointments in which our readers are most interested are the following: . Buckhorn -W. A. Piland. Goldston S. Salyer. Haw River J. R. Edwards. Pittsboro J. J. Boone. Sanford L. B. Jones. Siler City-H. B Porter. W. A. Royal has been at San ford for five years and goes from ttiere to Laurinburg. Chatham county people are de lighted to have Salyer, Boone and Porter back again. J. W. Autry will continue to be near us, hav ing been assigned to the Orange circuit. R. L. Davis was re-appointed as superintendent of the anti saloon league; T. A. Sikes busi ness manager and T. N. Ivey editor of the N. C. Christian Ad vocate. L. S. Massey, president of Louisburg College and A. ?. Barnes as superintendent of the Methodist orphanage. The Baptist Convention. Jas. L. Griffin has returned from the North Carolina Baptist Convention where he went as a delegate from the Pittsboro church. President B. W. Spilman, re cording secretary W. M. Gilmore and secretary of . the board of missions, Dr. C. E. Maddry were re-elected b,y acclamation. This Convention develops the fact that there are 27,500 church es in the bounds of the Southern Baptist Convention and of these 2,192 are located in North Caro lina, with a membership of 299, 364. North Carolina stands third in the list for number of Baptist churches and membership. Tex as is the only state to exceed North Carolina in Sunday schools, there being 2,140 schools with a membership of 120,081 in the state. The Baptists Throughout the state contributed during the year for all denominational pur poses $1,131,935. UNDER REPAIR Improvements Being Made in The . Presbyterian Church. For the next several weeks the congregation of the Presbyterian church will hold their religious services in the court house, ow ing to the repairs tnat are being made on the building on East street. Entirely new windows will be placed in the church aod in ad dition a new carpet will be put down and other interior improve ments will be made. This work has been contemplated for some time, but owing to the delay in getting the desired kind of glass for the windows, the work is late in its beginning. Until the church is completed in every particular all the ser vices will be held in the court house. Siler City Wins. Siler City defeated the fast Ramseur team in a snappy game of basketball played in Siler City Friday afternoon, the score being 16 to 11. The feature of the game was the goal throwing ot Small, win won 10 of the 16 points for Siler City. Jordan al so played a good game for the home team. Referee, Wrenn. With The Lodge. State lecturer Rev. J. W. Row ell, of Waxhaw, is with the Ma sonic lodge at Goldston this week, having advised with the Siler City brethren last week. Mr. Rowel I is personally known to the editor of The Record and we wel come him to Chatham county.