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St e t , ill. 10 icau JL every week by almost tit? Drrnon ; r-aA TTT71 jHE RECORD is the 'jL paper - that's in every home, and the only paper in many homes. ;erybody that's anybody. ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, N. C, CHATHAM CO.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1921 VOL. XLIV NO, 22 I3UED SATURDAY NOW IS THE TIME THE DAIRY COW. DEVIL'S GROUND. Chatham Record ? 1 J. B. Clegg Who Had Been Desperate ly HI Buried Sunday. If the presert editor of the Record ever had a true and gen uine friend it was ,T. B, Clegsr, that noble man that died at his home near here last Saturday and was buried Sunday. The funeral was conducted at his home by the pastor, Rev. J. J. Boone. Mr. Clegg had been extremely ill for more than a week and from the first it was realized that the end was near. All his children were summoned and were at his bedside when he died. He was 72 year3 of age and urj to the time of his last illness was very active, except for periodical at tacks of rheumatism. Thursday, December 22nd, was the 50th anniversary of his mar riage and for all those years he had been a devoted husband, lov ing father and a splendid citizen. In addition to his widow, Mrs. Bettie Clegg, he is survived by the following children: R. W. Ciegg, Hamlet; A. V. Clegg. Moncure; T. B. Clegg, Greens boro; Misses Grace and Mary Clegg, Moncure; Mrs. J. W. Speed, Franklinton; and Mrs. J. W. Womble, Moncure. He had many nephews and nieces and other relatives through North Carolina and was widely connected in Chatham county. The Record sympathizes with the bereaved ones and feels af flicted with them in their loss. Sincere Regret. The editor had promised to be present at a school entertainment heldd at Gardners Academy Thursday night of last week, but owing to the circumstances over which we had no control it was impossible to get there. We sor ely regret it, but expect to visit that community before many days pass. Different Thera Our friend W. A. Stickley, who publishes a paper in North wood, Iowa, comments upon the fact that "down in North Caro lina the sheriff travels around over the county on scheduled dat es collecting taxes." He says its different there, the payers have to do the traveling themselves. Postmaster Examination. J. J. Hackney, postmaster at Moncure, informs us that an ex amination will be held to fill the vacancy at that office for post master on January 14th. Mr. Hackney can furnish all desired information or it can be obtained from the Civil Service Commis sion. Washington, D.C. DR. J. C. M ANN EYE-SIGHT SPECIALIST Will be at Dr.R.M.Farrell's office, Pitts boro, every 4tb Tuesday in each month Glasses fitted that are easy and restful to the eyes. Cross-eyes straightened without the knife. Weak eyes of chil dren and young people a specialty. My next visit wilr be Tues. Dec. 27. SPECIAL NOTICE Do not fail to visit the new Jewelry Store in Sanford. It will pay you, and you will be pleased with the large se lection of the very best of Jewelry you can buy for the money. :: :; :: Come and See Us. 1 THE IDEAL JEWELRY CO. GEO. W. JOSEPHS SANFORD, N. C. Next Door to the Bank of Sanford. If You Owe For The Record, Send The Dollar Now. After thi3 issue The Record is $1.50 per year in advance. No tices have been sent to all who are due for the paper, and unless we hear from you by January 7th, your paper will be stooped. The United States Government re quires this and is not in our dis cretion to continue it. The no tices gave you the privilege of paying up at $1. If you wait un til after January 1st to send the money, just add 50c. to the amount of the notice sent you. COLIN G. SHAW, Editor. A Xmas Dinner and a Mer ciful Death. On Christmas day the people of the Corinth-Brickhaven com munities served a Christmas din ner to the inmates of the county home Of the fifteen provided for only 10 could come to the din ing room and of these ten only 5 could walk at all. Mr. Clark, the Supt. used his Ford to transport all that could be moved to and from the dining room. There was an abundance of good eats for all and baskets full left over to be used up during the week. T. M. Bland, of Pittsboro, and the boys at Buckhorn gave a crate of fine oranges which will last them throughout Christmas week. Now just a word as to condi tions at the home. First of all in " addition to serving a Xmas dinner there we paid our last re spects to one poor soul who woke up Christmas morning on the other side of the River beyond this vale of tears and unappreci ated service in years gone by. Mrs. Fannie Burns at ore time was a splendid school teacher and gave the best years of her life to the service of this county, and when misfortune overtook her it seems sad that the county by whom she had stood in her days of usefulness could not have found some means of providing better for her than was possible at our present county home. Surely the author of the county home article in last week's Record does not know the facts in Miss Fannie' s case. The charge that most of the inmates had been of little use to themselves or any one else is an ungrateful Christ mas greeting. It seems to us that it is a thankless, almost hopeless task for anyone to undertake to care for these unfortunates under the present conditions of equipment and helD with only five out of the fifteen able to walk from their rooms, 80 yards, to the dining room and with one of these five now in an advanced stage of in curable epilepsy, it seems to us that while waiting for the sorely j needed new home, the immediate need here is to find some means of providing a practical nurse whose sole duty it would be to help care for the needs of these most unfortunate people. Mr. Clark or no other Supt. can care for these old people without a little more trained help of some kind. FRANK M. NASH, MISS MARY BLAND, MISS GAYLE MIMS, MISS KATE MARKS. Attorney Ered W, Bynum, of Rockingham, is visiting in the city. "lord.TJiou. IG BBS Xouujrlielp in age? past. Our lnope (oryears to Otar Wlielter from 4e Ana. wxr eternal home. Amen. Before &e Upr sdbits Iiaive 3weli $ecire$ iSuiifficiet isT&Ime arm alone Ana efore ite fiiUs in oirder sioodl Or iardii received fier frame, Iron) everlasting Ihou art God. To endless y&oxs Ae sasnae I satcwazu Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Ellis, of Bonlee, spent Christmas with j Mrs. Ellis' parents. Mr. and Mrs. ! S. W. Harrington. Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Sexton, of Buckhorn, are spending Christ-1 mas vacation with relatives near ; Cary. ' Mrs. E. F. Drewery and chil-j dren, who have been visiting Mrs. Harrington, are spending the rest of Christmas week with Mrs. M. I. Ellis, of Bonlee. R. L. Wilcox and family are spending Xmas week with rela tives at Cedar Grove. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Rollins Thursday, Dec. 22, named Newell Estelle. Wipn nil was nm'to Amno ofarforl i out, running, singing around the style when fashion decrees that neighborhood circle to.spread the we wear a toeless sock. glad tidings of his Xmas gift, he mtm! lost his new derby hat and didn't It is said that some of our girls miss it until the r.ext day, now j get satisfaction in believing some he can't find it at all. of the other girls are jealous of The Xmas tree and treat and them, the Xmas program at the Corinth school house were thoroughly en- A fake way of taking a Christ joyed by the little children as mas vacation is to put on lots of well as the grown up children, furs, cover it with Epsom salts for what gray-haired person does and have your picture taken, not claim to be a child again at : Christmas time. . , . w Miss Mary Mims of Durham, and A. F. Holly, of Raleigh, vi? ited Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cross . Christmas day at Buckhorn, Miss Georgia L. Alexander, of j Washington, D. C, is visiting F. M. Nash and family at Buckhorn. j Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Allen, of Ellerbe, are visiting Mrs. Allen's parents, Mr. ana Mrs. D. A. i Clark. Roy Buchanan and Ray Cross are spending Christmas week , with their parents at Corinth. Letter Left Out. . . , , . , Owing to the fact that the pa- per was puunsiieueany lasiwecn. a letter from our correspondent of RrifWhavpn r.nnlrl not hfTvrint-! ed. We regret this because it was written thousands ot years was relating to the Christmas ago, evidencing the fact that time and was splendidly written modern inventions are but dupli and would have mrde good read-, cates of punishment, ing j 71 4. I I About this time of year when a Administrator s Notice. , man lopkg at the calendar and Having qualified as administrator of grins, you may know he IS a the estate of John Taylor, deceas- wood 0r coal dealer, ed, this is to notify all persons holding i claims against the estate of the de- ceased to present same to the under- j "phe average person wants to signed on orbefore the 20th day of , , fc th amount of taxes that nooomKor or this nnt.ir.e will be -,aJ J"" , . . , , t,ioqh in hkr nf thpir recoverv. w- All persons indebted to the said es tate will come forward and make im mediate settlemeat. This Dec. 20th, 1921. MRS. AURELIA A. TAYLOR, Administratrix. Long & Bell, Attorneys, Feb. 3 float been, our refuge front one generaSoftip come. Are like an strairf mssst Sfcortas tSe BWnejiLe Beauns all (fir r - C.flOflLffliiLir 3M - t Our fiope Beliom our And onr eternal Some. i ?. I .il W. T. CHURCHILL i w ise-1 I Stolen Paragraphs Localized by the Editor to Tease His Friends Of course both are bad, but in choosing our preference we will take the simpleton to the knocker vv Live an(j et live has resolved ; itself into the fact that the let live class must hustle tor its share or starve to death. Yes, those old codgers can yell for disarmament they von't have to fight in the next war anyhow. vg We men folks will be right in have viaited New York they have seen America. A gossip in time tells nine. WW The first womans club was a rolling pin. ????? The teachers in the school here claim that chewing gum keeps a lot of useless things from being said. Folks are more than apt to re spect the people who are dead, if it was possible to respect them wnile they were ljving "The smoke of their torment" he looks like he is aoie xo. C. D. Wilkie of Moncure route 2, reports to the Record that he killed two fifteen rronths old pigs last week that weighed 1060 pounds. cuvobW eventing gome; w&tcfi tfiat ends Aem&l rising $u$u aim wer-rolfcmg stream Us sons awa; . . u 4hk .. h&m tin aoes nasi. -B I T for years to oome. gatod Klelife sfiaH last. ten. Good Citizen'of Moncure Passed Away Saturday Last. T. W. Churchill, resident for many years of Moncure, a Justice of the Peace and a splendid citi zen, died at his home there last Saturday and wa buried in Hay wood Presbyterian cemetery on Monday afternoon. The funeral was conducted in the Baptist church in Moncure, of which he was a member, by his pastor, Dr. W. E. Williams, assisted by Rev. Jonas Barclay of Pittsboro. The burial was wih the honors conferred by the Junior Order United American Mechanics and was performed by Moncure Coun cil N o. 203. He was a m em ber of the fraternity. - In addition to a host of rela tives and friends, he leaves five daughters, his wife and one son, Ernest, of Haywood. You Let it Pass. Our snpf.ial nrofjosition on sub scription at $1.00 for the Record alone with the progressive Farm er at $1.25 is in the past. The price of the Record is now $1.50 alone or $2.00 with the Farmer. We want all our readers to turn over the paper and look at your label and if it reads 21, then you owe ar.other year and unless it is paid at once your paper will bestopred. We do not like to stop it, we want all our old friends to continue to get it, but the post al laws say stop it and this we are compelled to do. We must obey Uncle Sam. Send us the $1.50 now so that you will not miss a paper. NORTH CAROLINA In the Superori CHATHAM COUNTY Court Before the Clerk L. N. Womble, Administrator of Na I than White, deceased, vs. Herbert White and others. Herbert White, one of the above named defendants, will take notice that the above entitled special proceedings have been instituted in the superior court of Chatham county. North Caro lina, for the purpose of making sale of some lands belonging to the estate of the late Nathan White, same being situate in Oakland township, Chatham county, adjoining the lands of Claude Johnson and others, for the purpose of making assets to pay debts due bv the ! said Nathan White; and the said de lendant will further take notice that he tn annear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham I county, North Carolina, in Pittsboro on ! the 9th day of January, 1922, and an ! swer or demur to the cjmplaint in said ! special proceedings, or the plaintiff will ' apply to the court for the relief de manded in said compiaim. This December 5, 1921. JAS. L. GRIFFIN, Dec. 3Q. Clerk Superior Court. Dixon & Dixon, Attys. for Plaintiff, A i The Place of The Cow on The Farm in Article No. 1. (By A. C. Kimrey.) Wherever people are to be fed, soil fertility to be maintained, and boll weevils to be eombatted, the dairy cow has a place Her place on the average Southern farm is not unly to help feed the people on the farm, but also to aid the farmer in his efforts to make money to buy those things which he must have that he can not produce. The dairy cow consumes the grain and roughages which any farm can produce, and readily converts these things into milk, a most palatable and essential food product, which can well be relied upon to furnish at least 40 per cent of the food necessary to Maintain the bodies and health of those who cultivate the fields and keep the farm homes. The dairy cow is by her nature and ability, the foundation ani mal of the well balanced farm. It is a well known fact that the most succeSj.ul agricultural states and communities are those in which the dairy cow is the foundation stone on which their farming system is built. The agricultural thrift of Denmark and Holland are models foi the world, and it is built around the dairy cow. On the other hand, the agricultural systems of Rus sia and Spain stana out as beacon lights of failure, and neither of these recognize, the dairy cow as having a vital part m their sys tem of farming. It is generally conceded that the greatest problem of agricul ture is the maintaining of soil fertility. It is doubtful whether s ii fertility can or will be con served on farms where the main crcps a?e grain and cotton, and where these- are sold from the farm. Whether or not it is pos sible to conserve the soil fertility under such conditions, it is cer tain that it is seldom done. Sell ing crops directly from the soil is nothing more or leis than draw ing out anT nrST ket the fertility that past ages have stored in our fields, and thereby leaving the land poor and unprofitable. On the other hand, there are numbers of farms in every county where, by means of a system of livestock farming, the soil ferti ity has not only been conserved, but vey mark edly increased. It is noticeable that this takes place more rapidly on those fanns where the dairy cow holds sway. When grain and hay crops are fed to dairy cows and dairy pro ducts marketed, a very small part of the soil fertility of these crops actually leaves the farm. For example when 2000 pounds of butter is sold from the farm, less than 75 cents worth of fer tilizing material goes with it. When 2000 pounds of milk is sold, less than $3 worth of soil fertility is sold with it. In the case of selling butter at the pres ent market prices, one-tenth of one per cent of the money re ceived for it wi'l buj back all the fertilizing material sold there with. This, it will be readily seen, is practically negligible from a soil depleting standpoint. In addition to producing the best food a family can have, and at the same time guaranteeing to keep up the soil fertility, the dairy cow produces a product whkh can be marketed in one form or another every day in the year, and thus guarantees a con stant cash income, which is a thing badly needed on every Southern farm, and especially on our cotton farms. Still one more place the dairy cow can fill on the farm is to fur nish profitable employment for the farmer and his help during those months of the year when he otherwise would have no such enjoyment, end thus enatle him to increase his income, without very iiiaterially increasing his cipita ROOFING 2s V, 5-V and Corrugated All Lengths BLAND & Chatham County Has a Distinguished Plat of Ground. Mr.N Eld i tor: It's not generally known that there is. a place in the western part of Chatham called "The Devil's Tramping Ground." A circle of solid wire grass one hundred fifty feet in circumfer ence and forty-five in diameter, with a well beaten path through the center, and ends abruptly at the margin of the circle. No trees are growing within the circle, not even a shrub, but just on the margin are several original oaks and pines, which are surrounded bv original forest No grass like that in the circle grows anywhere in the commu nity. I have made diligent inquiry about how long this place has been known. Mr. Rufus Harper, who is quite an old man, says his father was the first settler at Harper's Cross Roads, and he had told him this place had been known as far back as he could recollect. Mr. Harper's father told him that there was one other circle like this, and that ore was in south ern Europe. I have met no one who could explain why, or what caused this circle of grass. One old gentleman told me, "It was here when the earth was made," ha. Mr. Sam Cox gets off a good one on Bro. W. H. Lawhon. who said, "We rioted the devil in Moore county, and he went over in Chatham, gained a victory, and celebrated it at this place." My friend, Mr. I. H. Dunlap, of Bonlee, who owns a large body of land on both sides of the Bon lee & Western railroad, has re served one acre of land that in cludes this Won : erf ul place. It is about seven milts west of Bon lee, two miles north west of Harper's Gross Roads, and one fourth mile south of Blue Rock station on the Bonlee & Western Some one many years ago (fug a hole in the center of the circle, which mars the appearance of the "ground,'1 and somewhat creates a superstitious thought to the young and incredulous. The conjecture I have is this was a place used by the Indians as a "council ring," where they had theii war dances, and plan ned an attack on the Colonies. Many Indian relic3 are found. L. E. COLE. ' Ore Hill, N. C, Dec. 19, 1921. E. L. Hinton Dead. Tuesday night of last week, E. L. Hinton, of Clinton, ended his life by shooting himself with a shot gun. He was 55 years old and was well known in Pitts boro, he being president of the Chatham Oil and Fertilizr Co. He leaves one son and a wife. A Chatham Record. J. N. Holt, of Moncure route 2, has a Poland China brood sow that has given birth to 36 pigs within the past ten months. This is a record number for the time, in the United States, and established in Chatham county. Camilla Powell has gone to So. Pines to visit Mr. Ivy Hill. J. P. COULTER CO. Jewelers SANFORD, N. C. Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry Silverware, Cut Glass and China Fine Watch and Jewelry re pairing a Specialty CONNELL