THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C.
THE WEATHER
The United States Weather Bureau
Raleigh reports weather conditions
'or Pittsboro and vicinity for the next
twenty-four hours as follows:
Fair and warmer, east winds.
LOCAL RECORDS
Both the Methodist and Bap
tist churches had Christmas trees
here on Friday night last week,
J, which a large number attend
ed and the hearts of all present
were made glad by the numerous
splendid gifts received.
On Wednesday, December 20th
Claud Fogleman and Miss Clatie
Williams were united in marriage
at the Baptist parsonage by Rev.
V. B. Waif. Mr. Fogleman is
from Staley and Miss Williams
from Siler City.
Mrs. R. C. Griffin and son Dav
id, will return from Raeford Fla.
this week where she visited her
sister, Mrs. R. H. Cox.
That was a splendid Christmas
spirit in the Corith folks in
serving a most excellent dinner
to the inmates at the county
home on last Sunday.
J. H. Thomas, Moncure route
2, was a visitor at our office last
week.
Rev. W. B. Waff preached his
last sermon as pastor of the Bap
tist church here last Sunday,
leaving on Monday for his new
home in Mooresville. Chatham
county loses a splendid citizen
and the church at Mooresville
ffains a good pastor.
James Sutphin left yesterday
for Southern California where
he will spend the winter.
Jack Lanius and wife, of
Greenville, S. C, are visiting his
mother, Mrs. J. C. Lanius.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Elkins,
publishers of the Siler City Grit,
called on the Record Wednesday.
The Union Sunday school, or
f mized last Fall at Center Groye
Christian church, will hold a
welcome gathering at the church
today Friday from 10 in the
morning until 2 this evening, to
which all friends are invited.
The colored folks will celebrate
in Pittsboro next Monday, Janu
ary 2. This is the emancipation
exercises that are heid " annually
and all colored folks are urged to
be present.
W. P. Griffin and family, of
East Derham, visited his sister,
Mrs. Robert Glenn, this week.
Mr, and Mrs. Charles A. Brown
are with friends in town Mr
Brown has accepted a position
with the Record and will begin
next week. He is a good news
paper man and his many friends
will be glad to hear of his re
turn to Pittsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Eubanks,
of Carthage, and Miss Katherine
Eubanks, of Winston-Salem, vis
ited their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
1ST. M. Eubanks, here this week.
We sincerely appreciate the
lore than a hundrd greetings
received from our readers m the
form of cards and letters during
this Christmas.
J. F. Elkins, route 3, Siler
City, renewing his subscription
to the Record, says he just can't
well get along without it.
Pittsboro has been filled with
young men and women during
the holidays with our own boys
and girls and their guests from
the various colleges over the
state,
MissVeva Ellington, of Ral
eigh, spent the week end with
her father, W. A. Ellington.
G T. Burns of Durham visited
relatives in Oakland township
this week and subscribed for the
Record while here.
I Seasons' Greetings :
8i I
Closing our Books for the
Year without thanking you
for Your Trade would leave
a Debt Unpaid.
L. N. WOMBLE
LOW PRICE MERCHANT
Pittsboro, N. C.
Raymond Campbell who has
spent some time in Raeford is
home for a few weeks.
Grover Durham and family of
Durham, were with his father,
W. J. Durham, at Roscoe, dur
ing Christmas.
Miss Jewel Hatch of Burling
ton is viiting her mcther, Mrs.
Nancy Hatch.
K. B Riddle of Cape Fear
township called on the Record
this week.
We are publishing article No. 1
in this issue of the dairy cow and
her products, secured from the
Extension Service Bureau, in Ral
eigh. There will be ten of these
and it will be well worth reading
if you keep a cow. Look for one
each week until the ten are print
ed. A nine pound girl, named Lula
Foushpe, was left by Santa Clause
Christmas morning at the resi
dence of E. R. Hinton.
A rabbit left his nest near the
Confederate monument at mid
day on Tuesday and was caught
by a crowd of boys before he
gained a block.
Back on the job, after a very
pleasant Christmas, the Record
force starts another year to try
to even get out a better paper
than heretofore. With the con
tinued interest and support of the
folks of Chatham, we will suc
ceed too.
Former Governor T. W. Bick
ett, died at his home in Raleigh
last Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock as a result of being para
lyzed, The editor of the Record will
be at the N. C. Press Association
next week in Winston-Salem. We
want everybody to phone in local
news early so that the men in
the office will not miss any of the
news. Correspondents please
mail letters early also.
On Thursday, December 21st,
at the residence of George Brew
er in Pittsboro, Dallas Pickard
and Miss Bessie Sears, both of
Durham, were married, the cere
mony being performed by Rev.
W. B. Waff. Mrs. Pickard is a
sister of Mrs. Brewer.
The lat issue of the Christian
Advocate contains an account of
a pounding given by the church
membership to the pastor, Rev.
S. Salyer, by the good people of
Goldston. The article states that
there are as good people in Chat
ham county as can be found any
where. Without meaning any
reflection on any county, the edi
tor of the Record believes they
are just a little bit better.
T. W. Hackney spegit Christ
mas in Fayetteville with rela
tives, returning by the way of
Raeford, Aberdeen, Southern
Pines, and many other towns in
the eastern part of the state.
Next Sunday there will be
preaching by the pastor at the
Methodist church in Pittsboro at
11 o'clock and at Browns Chapel
at 2 o'clock, to which he requests
all members to be present. At
night in pittsboro at 7 o'clock, the
Presiding Elder J. D. Bundy will
preach.
Joe Gunter and W. N. Burns,
of Cumnock, visited the editor
last week and both- subscribed
for the Record.
C. H. Lutterloh and little son,
Charles W.. of Browns Chapel,
were visitors here last week.
0. F. Mann, of Pittsboro route
No. 2, called at the Record office
to see us last week.
During the past week it has
kept one man almost busy put
ting new subscribers on the list.
A great many folks who are al
ready taking the paper subscrib
ed for their friends and sent them
as Christmas presents. We cer
tainly do appreciate the loyalty
of you Chatham county people.
Same Old Stand
SUDDEN DEATH
Chatham Man Dies in Adopted Home
in AsheviUe.
Chatham Record: Noticing in
last week's paper a piece headed
another friend, Roberc A. Long,
who sent in a new subecriber and
spoke a good word for the paper
and the good old county that gave
him birth, and as I knew at the
time that I was the new sub
scriber, I thought that I would
write a few words Mr. Long
sent my name and had a sample
copy sent some 3 weeks ago and
I met him and asked him if he
sent it to me and he said he did.
I asked him if he would send my
subscription for the paper, and
I went by his place of business
and gave him the dollar about
1:30, and the next day about the
same hoi r he was at his place of
business sitting at hi3 desk and
some one heard lvm groan, and
went to him and saw that he was
very ill. They phoned for a doc
tor but in a very few minutes the
spirit of Robert A. Long had
gone to the God who gave it.
My brother, C. D. Beal intro
duced me to Mr Long about the
first of July 1912, and from that
dav to his last we were the best
of friends. He would always
hail me across the street if he
saw me and was always delight
ed to talk about old Chatham
friends. I feel the loss of a dear
friend.
1 handed him the money for
the Record just 24 hours before
his death and he told me to wait
and he wonld give me a receipt
for it. I remarked that it was
unnecessary as I knew he would
attend to it and the next day the
afternoon paper carried the no
tice of his sudden death. I
thought maybe his duties had
perhaps caused him to delay send
ing it in, but as the paper is com
ing I knew that he was true until
death and had sent it in at once.
Indeed the world was made bet
ter by Bob Long's daily life.
Mr. Editor I want to congratu
late you on the newsy paper you
are now publishing, not having
seen a copy of it m a number of
years, as I moved from Chatham
county to South Georgia in 1890.
I took it for a while there but let
it run out and forgot it as we
sometimes do, but now I have
made up my mind to take it until
my spirit joins Bro. Long in a
better world than this. Your
snappy news items from all over
the county make it a very inter
esting paper and it will be a wel
come visitor every Saturday p. m.
Long may you live and prosper.
L. K. BEAL.
Asheville, N. C, Dec. 19. 1921.
Other Marriages.
David Baker, age 26, and Miss
Lillie Hearne, age 21, both of
Chatham county, were married
on December 22nd by Squire R.
M. Burns, at his residence in
Pittsboro.
Licenes were issued last Mon
day for the marriage of J. L.
Straughan, age 23, and Miss Mos
sie Moore, age 20, both of Bear
Creek.
Spelling Bee.
There will be an old fashioned
spelling bee at the school audi
torium tonight (Thursday) at
7:30 o'clock. The admission is
10c. and 20c. The proceeds are
for the benefit of the Womans
Club, will be used to purchase a
new lot of books for the school.
Everybody is invited to come
and take part as a speller or as a
spectator. A prize will be given
for the best speller and home
made candy will be on sale.
Mrs. Burns Dead.
Mrs. Fannie Burns, aged 84
years, died at the county home
last Saturday and was buried at
Chatham church on Sunday, the
funeral being conducted by Rev.
Jimmie Clegg.
Mrs. Burns had been an in
mate of the home i or about twen
ty years, being feeble and afflict
ed. She was a remarkable char
acter, however, during her early
life and left her impress from
the school room upon many men
and women livmg today. Rev.
Mr. Clegg, who conducted the
funeral, having been an old stu
dent under her.
She left no near relatives, hav
ing been preceded to the grave
by all those dear to her.
Gift to Home.
E. E. Wilson went to the coun
ty home last Friday, taking with
him a gift from Bonsai schooi to
the inmates, consisting of fruits,
candies, walnuts, peanuts and
various articles of profit to the
people there.
This act of benevolence was the
result of the efforts of the teach
ers, A. T. Holleman, Mrs. E. E,
Wilson and Miss Aileen Luther.
Bonsai school is located just in
side of Wake county and the gift
therefore, has greater signifi
c a n c e, coming to Chatham
county.
H. C. Dark, of Roscoe, was a
caller at the Record office during
the Christmas time.
OLD YEAR AND NEW
Forget Past, Start Anew With
No Apology for Yesterday.
Bex Up All Mistakes and Troubles
That Never Happened and
Bury Them Deep.
VISITED a penitentiary
one time. The turnkey went
before, unlocked all the
doors and carefully
locked them after we had
gone through. We went
from cell-house to cellhouse, and from
corridor to corridor. We could not go
back, but we could go forward. For
get about last year. December 31
locks its doors securely forever. You
can't unlock those doors. What has
been done cannot he undone. Perhaps
you began your life's journey quite
awhile ago, 1900 is gone ! 1910 is
gone! 1920 Is gone! Those years all
sped by, and they are lacked forever.
They are gone with lost opportunities,
wasted privileges, broken pledges. You
cannot call them back.
Regrettable it is we cannot go back,
and, with the added experience of
years live a portion of our lives again.
Every high-minded person would do
differently If he was given the last
ten or twenty years to live over. But
why think over the past? Why nurse
the unfortunate in your bosom?
You cannot go back If you would;
if you are sensible you would not if
you could. To brood over life's un
forgotten past only doubles the pres
ent load, makes one more morose and
crabbed, and deepens the furrows In'
one's brow. Wipe off the slate. Box
up all omissions, all "shallow mis
eries," all mistakes, all the troubles
that never happened and bury them.
Then about face ! Head erect, chest
out, shoulders back, and forward
march ! Look every person squarely
in the eye, make no apology for yester
day, for tomorrow Is before you. The
new year is yours. The world lies at
your very feet.
This is not a message simply for
youth, because no person is exempt
from moral obligations. There is no
age limit in life's battle. When we
are through with the world the world
is through with us. Too many per
sons consider it fashionable to "re
tire" at a certain age, and that age
is getting constantly lower.
If one has not found life's place be
fore forty, the more the reason for
his doubling his efforts after forty.
A man should not consider withdraw
ing from life's toil at fifty, and one
should not think himself old at sixty.
Gladstone was doing the best work
of his life at eighty-five, and at eighty
seven toured England on a speech
making trip in behalf of Armenia.
Little streams often dry up In the
desert, but great rivers run full
strength to the sea, and turn the
wheels of commerce before they llnally
plunge into the ocean. Small lives are
easily discouraged, but every great
life is rooted in the past, blossoms to
day and bears fruit toftorrow.
The great life is ahead, because we
have the blessed results of yester
day's experience. The future is full
of promise. America's greatest his
tory is yet to be written. The best
days are yet to come. 1921 was far
better than 1920; 1922 will be better
than 1921, if we will make it so. We
shall find this a very good old world.
If we are willing to do our part.
"Success consists not in never fall
ing, but in rising every time we fall."
Nathan Howard Gist in Grit.
LIFE'S NEW YEAR
Our Being Not Transitory, but
an Eternal Possession.
Time Has Very Little to Do With the
Fundamental Things of Our
Existence.
HE serious thing is, not that
life is or may be short, but
that it may be wasted or
misused indeed is likely
to be so in most cases.
There are few men in whom
there is not something of the slacker-
and yet there is so much to do ! Others
are not slackers, but only because they
have no sense of responsibility, and
are conscious of no obligation. To
these the sudden realization that time
is passing swiftly by comes with a ter
rifying effect when it comes at all.
It was these that the Psalmist had in
mind when he wrote :
"Yet they think that their houses
shall continue forever: and that their
dwelling places shall endure from gen
eration to generation; and they call
their lands after their own names."
So it is harder to live nobly and
bravely than it is to die gallantly in
defense of a righteous cause at the
call of country. This is, of course, in
no way surprising. Yet the obligation
is the same in both cases, for in both
it is a question of being loyal to duty,
sensitive to the promptings of what
is best in human nature. If time is
short the wise thing is, not, as the Ro
man poet suggested, to use it reck
lessly and to the utmost in mere en
joyment, but to build it into the fu
ture self which is being realized with
the passage of each day. Life thus
used is not transitory, but rather an
eternal possession, something of which
a man cannot be deprived. And that,
of course, is the moral of New Year's
day. It is an old moral, and yet ever
new new every morning. Indeed,
practically the whole of religion, as
applied to daily life, is summed up
in it. For religion, even more than
culture, is "the study of perfection,"
andt speaks of, and was meant to
further, the progress from imperfec
tion to perfection.
He who has been "made perfect in
a short time" has, as has been seen,
"fulfilled a long time." "And an un
spotted life is old age." On the other
band, the man who dies in wickedness
dies in his youth even though he live
far beyond the scriptural term. Time,
therefore, has very little to do with,
the fundamental things of life.
Good Record.
Greenwood school closed Wed
nesday, Dec. 21st for the Christ
mas holidays with a Christmas
tree and a short but splendid
program.
Those who made perfect at
tendance this month were:
First grade Bradius Thomas,
Liddell VVomble, Mary Belle Mc
Intyre, Irene Petty.
Second grade Atlas Petty.
Elon Vev Mclntyre,
Third grade Isabel Petty, Al
ma Lasater, Roy Thomas, Harvey
Womble.
Fourth Grade John and Willie
Thomas, Wilson Womble.
Sixth Grade James Thomas,
Audrey Thomas, Jimmie Thomas
Clem Lasater.
Pittsboro Route 2.
We moved into our new school
house Monday, Dec. 12. Have a
nice school building built accord
ing to the state pian. We made
the average of 49.5 last month
ending Dec. 16th.
Annie Bell Johnson, fifth grade,
and Leaton Thomas, first grade,
were present every day without
being tardy. Troy Pugh and
Frank Webster, eighth grade;
Edna Thomas, seventh grade;
Lacy Johnson and William Henry
Clark, second grade; and Alfred
Self, fourth grade, were present
every day also, making a total of
eight out of 60 omroll. We gave
one week for Xmas holidays.
Henry Thomas is at Chapel
Hill at work at resent.
Rahh Shaw and Macellus
Line ley were visiting in the
neighborhood recently.
BILLY.
The Question.
Mr, Editor; Will you please
allow me just a few words in jour
most appreciated paper. I will
say that the Record is getting
better every week, and I appre
ciate the stand you, the editor,
takes in regard to the liquor traf
fic. Mr. Editor, if the counts
can't settle liquor cases satisfac
torily and the Governor has to do
it, I think it would be wise to cut
out the courts.
A READER.
Pittsboro Route 1, Dec. 24, 1921.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
It's Getting so You can't tell when
there's a Show in town any more, since
the Younger Set have taken to Dress
ing like Actors. Fur-Collar Overcoats.
W
Notice of Sale of Land
Under and by virtue of the powers of
sale conferred upon me by a certain
mortgage deed executed by I. T. Mann
the 7th day of February, 1921, duly
registered in the office of Register of
Deeds for Chatham Courty in book FS
pages 387-388, I will offer for sale at
public outciy to the highest bidder for
cash at the court house door in Pitts
boro, on
Saturday, January 21, 1922,
at 12 o'clock noon, a one-hlf undivid
ed interest in the following described
pKoperty, towit;
That certain tract cr lot of land lying
and being in Baldwin township, Chat
ham County, N. C, being more fully
described and definea as follows, towit:
Bounded on the north by Hillsboro
road; on the east by the lands of Dora
Harris; on the south by the lands of
the slate I. N. Mann and on the west by
che lands of C. T. Gattis.
This is a part of the lands of the lata
Dr. Mann and for a more full and ac
curate description reference is made to
the title deeds by which the said Dr.
Mann held the same.
This the 12th day of December, 1921.
J. G. HAMLET, Mortgagee.
Siler & Barber, Attorneys. Jan.20
GREETINGS
We wish to thank our
friends and customers
of Chat! am county for
their liberal patronage
during the year 1921,
and wishing you one
and all a happy and
prosperous New Year.
We are here to serve
you and hoping to be
favored with your 1922
business we beg to re
main, W. F. CHEARS,
dl The Pioneer Jeweler,
Phone 109 Sanford, N. C.
I WANTS
Rate 7c. line lsc week, 6c line each ad
ditional week. Count 6 words to line.
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN-One
red colored hound dog, slit in ear,
auout 6 years old. Finder notify H. H.
Hackney, Pittsboro, and receive re
ward. it-c
FINE YOUNG JERSEY COWS, just
coming in for sale. Apply to R. M.
Connell, Pittsboro. Dec30-tf
ELECTRICAL WORK have located
in Pittsboro and am prepared to wire
your house, furnish all fixtures and
give you satisfaction, and do anything
in the electrical line. C. E. Cox.
- NovlQ-tf
CEDAR LOGS wanted -6 in. and up
ward, -and 8 feet long. Will pay
highest cash market price, delivered
at Pittsboro. B. W. Gilmore. NovlOtf
FIRE INSURANCE or life insurance
with best companies. Give us a part
of your business. C. G. Shaw, Record
office.
MULE FOR SALE-7 years old horse
mule, eleven hundred pounds. Write
J. D. Hatcher, Routh 1, Pittsboro. J6
$10 REWARD leading to the recovery
of female pointer pup, six months old,
named Pat. White with lemon or or
ange ears, dot on top of head. L. D.
Lloyd, Chapel Hill, N C. d-30-lt
GREETINGS
Happy New Year to all
Our Patrons
W. I LONDON & SON
I
Williams
Wishing for each and every
friend of ours the joys and
good cheer of the Christmas
Season, and may the coming
days of 1 922 be your bright
est and ones of abundance
and happiness.
WILLIAMS-BELK COMPANY,
Member Merchants Association
BEST WISHES
and
GREETINGS
Extended By
Chatham Hardware Company
On The Square
Why Mr. Joe Armstrong, Ce'ebrated
Dog Trainer, Uses Rat-Snap.
"Noticed-rats around my ken
nels, having hundreds of prize
dogs, couldn't tae chances.
Tried RAT-SNAP; in three weeks
every rat disappeared. Noticed
chat the dogs never went near
RAT-SNAP. I tell my friends
abot RAT-SNAP." Use this sure
rodent exterminator, it's safe.
Comes in cake form. Three sizes,
35c, 65c, $1 25.
Sold and guaranteed by W. L.
London & Son and Pilkingtm
Pharmacy.
Notice to Creditors
HavinP nualifiH as aHminiglntn 1
r T p uuiiiiiiiuuawi Ul
the estate of W. C. Redden, deceased,
mis is to notity all persons holding
claims against the estate of the deceas"
ed to present san-e to the undersigned
orD. W. Sorrell, Atty., Durham, N. C,
on or before the 17th of November, 192ii,
or this notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to the said es
tate will come forward and make im
mediate settlement.
This the 17th day of November. 1921.
MRS.' MAGGIE M. REDDEN,
Dec. 29. Administratrix.
POSTED LAND NOTICES for sale at
The Record office.
- Belk Co.
Pittsboro, N. C