BRIEF, INTERESTING FACTS
Figures and Historical Mention
Os Interest.
From Dearborn Independent.
There were only 18,853,0G0 horses
on the farms of the United States
January 1, 1923. This total was smal
ler by 203,000 than on the first of
January, 1922.
Many of the doors in the houses of
Havana’s middle class are built of
solid mahogany and other expensive
native wood.
Bullfrogs from America have been
sent to Japan for distribution through
out the island kingdom for propaga
tion. It is believed they will thrive m
the drainage and irrigation ditches
and paddy fields throughout Japan.
The frogs are expected to destroy
many injurious insects in the paddy
fields and truck gardens.
A descendant of Christopher Col
umbus w r as recently admitted to the
bar in England.
The Belgian Congo will be able to
furnish radium in such quantities as
to suppyl the needs of the world, ac
cording‘to the Belgian minister of the
colonies.
A new T hemp harvester has put new
life into the hemp industry in Amer
ica. It competes with cheap foreign
labor which formerly was putting our
hemp raisers out of business.
Eight new American firms have re
cently opened offices in Shanghai.
Divers are recovering $150,000
worth of copper lost by the govern
ment in 1919 when a tug on which it
was loaded was crushed in collision
with the steamship Buford, between
Governor’s Island and Ellis Island,
New York Harbor.
A stone mounment stands in Madi
son county, lowa, dedicated to the
first of the “Delicious apple trees.”
Starving elk are breaking down the
fences built about the haystacks of a
rancher near the South Dakota boun
dary line in Wyoming. The state re
fuses to reimburse him for his hay
losses and it is against the law to
kill elk, so he is confronted with a
serious problem. If he loses his hay
supply his stock will suffer and it is
necessary constantly to stand guard
over his stacks.
Swiss soap manufacturers are
wrapping their product in .Austrian
ten-kronen paper bills. This is cheap
er than printing special wrappers and
it acts as a premium on which the
holder may sometime be able to cash
in.
France has but 2,500 movie theat
ers.
The play, “William Tell” is being
produced on every stage available
throughout the occupied area of Ger
many to stiffen the passive resistance
of the people to the French.
Kansas saves $200,000 in a year by
printing ite own school textbooks.
Two million nine hundred thousand
persons in Great Britain are drawing
disability allowances, costing $l6O a
head.
A monkey belonging to a family
living in the fashionable Quai D’Or
say, Paris, trapped a burglar. Wh?n
the burglar entered a clothes closet
the monkey locked the door and when
the owner returned home the monkey
proven* t urne( l the prisoner over to
him.
* Copper is more valuable than gold
from the sandard of usefulness. Gold
is heavy, soft, of low tensile strength
high electrical resistance, low heat
conductivity. Copper is employed in so
many uses that if it should fail, civi
lization w r ould halt its onward march
until some substitute could be produc
ed.
. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.
Having qualified as administratrix,
of the estate of Robert L. Sutphm,
deceased, late of Chatham county,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons holding claims against said
ttececieni to present them to the un
dersigned, duly verified, on or beiore
the Bth day of February,. 1924, or
this notice will be plead in. bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make im
mediate settlement.
This Bth day of February. 1923.
Mrs. W. E. BROOKS,.
Mch-22-R-p. Administratrix.
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Captain Dave Bancroft, of the New
York Giants, who is reported to be
holding out for more of the reputed
lucre. Bancroft is expected to join
other players on the train at St. Louis
but whether or not he will be on hand
remains to be seen.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals will be received
by the Trustees of Pittsboro School
District No. 6, up to 12 o’clock noon,
March 15, 1923, for the erection of a
High School building at Pittsboro, N.
C., according to plans and specifica
tions prepared by G. Murray Nelson,
Architect, Raleigh, N. C.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at the office of the Architect or
additional copies may be obtained on
request by Contractors of recognized
responsibility upon receipt of a de
posit in the amount of Fifteen
($15.00) Dollars which amount will
be refunded if plans and specifica
tions are returned in good condition
not later than the 18th day of March,
1923.
Each proposal shall be accompanied
by a certified check in the amount of
two (2 per cent) per cent of the pro
posal, said check being made pay
able to A. H. London, Chairman, as
a guarantee that the Contractor, will
if awarded the contract for the work,
enter into a written agreement and
execute bond as required by the state.
Proposals for heating and plumbing
subject to the above stipulations, will
be received at the same time sepa
rately from the General Contract.
The owners reserve the right to
reject any or all bids.
A. H. LONDON, Chairman.
G. M. NELSON, Architect.
Commercial National Bank,
Raleigh, N. C.
First National Bank,
March 15. Durham,N.C.
NOTICE OF RESALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale conferred upon the under
signed by decree of the superior court
of Chatham county, in an action there
in pending, entitled “M.M.Fox, admin
istrator vs. Sallie Headen and others,
the undersigned commissioner will on
Saturday, the 17th day of March,
1923, at 2 o’clock p. m.,
in front of the postoffice in Siler City,
offer for resale to the highest bidder, j
for cash, the following described lot
or parcel of land lying and being
within the corporate limits of the
town of Siler City, and being more
fully described and defined as follows:
to-wit:
Beginning at the northwest corner
of lot number eleven on the east side
of main street and running about
north with said street forty feet to
a stake, thence nearly east seventy
five feet to a stake, thence nearly
south forty foot to a line of lot num
ber eleven, thence nearly west with
line of lot number eleven, seventy-five
feet to the beginning, and being the
southwest part of lot number ten of
the plat or the town of Siler City,
North Carolina. Same being the prop
erty known as the old “Grit Office.”
This the Bth day of March, 1923.
WADE BARBER,
Siler & Barber, Commissioner.
Attorneys. Mchls-R-2p
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MISSION WORK PRESBYTERIANS
Progressive Program of Southern
Church Has Named the Quota.
The Presbyterian Progressive Pro
gram of the Southern Presbyterian
church, authorized by the general as
sembly of the church and directed by
the assembly’s committee on steward
ship, has named as the quota of the
synod of North Carolina for the cause
of foreign missions for the year 1923-
24, $259,740, this being 33 and 3-10
of the entire quota for all causes of
the assembly to be pledged by North
Carolina Presbyterians during the ev
ery member canvass to be made on
March 18th. The total pledge for all
causes of the assembly to be secured
at that time is $460,000 and the total
amount for the causes of the synod
is $312,000, making a grand total of
$780,000.
The foreign mission work of the
Southern Presbyterian church oper
ates in seven countries—Africa, Bra
zil, China, Cuba, Japan, Korea and
Mexico, and this church has assumed
the responsibility -of the evangeliza
tion of 33,000,000 unsaved people in
these countries.
There are 463 missionaries of this
church in these fields, and in addition
to these there are 3,406 native work
ers maintained. As the result of these
missionaries and native workers last
year, 4,731 members were added to
the church membership on profession
of faith, bringing the total number of
communicants in the foreign field to
44,839. The total number enrolled in
the Sabbath school on the foreign
field is 74,536 and the total number
enrolled in the day schools under
Christian instruction is 36,644.
The total cost of operating the for
eign mission worn of the church, in
cluding the support of the missionar
ies and native workers traveling ex
penses and maintaining the office of
the executive committee at Nashville,
Tenn., was only $2,709 per missionary
last year.
BE SATISFIED.
We must drink of the cup fate holds
to our lips
Whether it be bitter or sweet.
As we journey along thru sunshine or
gloom,
With trials and crosses to meet.
For life is not always a dream of
bliss,
And each has his burdens to bear.
And the blessings that fall on the
highway of life
Are oft times mingled with care.
There’s a time to smile and a time to
weep,
And a time to rejoice and sing.
There’s a time for work and a time
for rest
And a time for everything.
There’s a time to sow and a time to
reap,
And we reap whatsoever we sow
And it takes the sunshine as well as
the rain
To make the roses grow.
J. A. NEAL.
NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.
Under and by virtue of the power
conferred by an order of the super
ior court of Chatham county made
and entered in the Special Proceeding
therein pending, entitled “Willis A.
Bums, administrator of John B.
Bums, deceased, vs. Nora Bums, wid
ow and others,” the undersigned
missioner will on
Saturday, March 24th, 1923,
at 12 o’clock noon,
at the court house door of Chatham
county, in Pittsboro, North Carolina,
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for CASH the following de
scribed tract of land located in Haw
River township, Chatham county,
North Carolina, which is bounded as
follows:
Bounded on the north by the lands
of Walker Thomas'* and John De
sem; on the east by the lands of Nan
cy Thomas, Billy Marks, J. N. Holt
and Walker Thomas; on the south by
the Gorgas lands; and on the west by
the lands of Charlie Clifton; contain
ing 110 acres, more or less; and be
ing the land on which John B. Bums
resided at the time of his death; sav
ing and excepting from the same,
however, that portion of the said land
alloted to Nora Bums, widow, as her
dower, and that portion allotted to
the heirs at law of John B. Burns as
a homestead during the minority of
Max Bums.
This the 23rd day of February, 1923
DANIEL L. BELL, Commissioner.
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