gXABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
* MOTHER S boy is
I PAYING the penalty
j There a Difference in the Degree
(1 of crime. What is Punishment?
„ , ir , ]av nieht when we received
5 mail from the post office we pick
n a letter that was written m a
. ed ?L e hand. It was a strange
i teß ?ip and we knew it. We had never
SCIID it before. It was the first let-
I f en n nened and the first words that
i te Jit our eve were “mother’s boy .
Wp wondered what it could be and
Irnin* to the first page and runn g
Eurh the lines our heart went out
! deepest sympathy for the writer
®j we feel the same sorrowful pangs
Sis hers. We have a sen, an only
in and I can remember the hours of
f distress I endured in days gone
f, , v j lPn I watched him in extremis
L m illness. I have seen him writh
nTin pain from accident. I have
looked in his face m a hospital for
tpe ks while he was bound m plaster
However it has never been my
noi-ticn to experience sorrow that was
Lysed bv an infraction of the law and
m have him incarcerated in prison.
Nevertheless, I can feel that poor wo
ran's interest in her son and her con
cern for his wife and off spring.
We read that “the day of retribu
tion will surely and speedily come.
Does it follow in the wake of all
those who violate the principles of
sodeW or break the laws made by
man 9 This woman thinks not. Has
4e just cause for so doing? The edi
tor of this paper has tried to make
i plain that he has the tendered feel-
Si for anyone who may be in trou
ble whether it is caused by foolhardi
ness, lack of common sense, or
through error. Justice, tempered With,
mercy has unending influence at all
times, at other periods it only licens
es wrong. A father may look upon
an afflicted child, one diseased by care
lessness or by the sins of ancestrv,
vet there is deep devotion, the more
i.o because that child has suffered
more than other favored children, and
there is ro parent but can realize ard
understand the anxiety and interest
of the mother who has a boy that has
. oen placed in jeopardy.
For a season the editor seemed to
think that it would not be appropri
ate to publish the following letter writ
ten by Mrs. Brown. That more pos
sibly could be accomplished without
its publicity. We have decided tho’
since she has made the demand to let
the message she sends stand out for
itself, and The Record and its force
stand squarely in sympathy for her.
Her son cannot be acquitted in the
public eye. We heard the trial and
appreciate his guilt and know that he
deserves punishment, yet in the midst
of all this our heart goes out to her
in her womanly complaint. Mrs.
Brown writes as follows:
Pittsboro, N. C. v R-2, Nov. 2, 1923.
Editor of Chatham Record: Please
publish the following for me in your
valuable paper:
I want to ask the people of Chat
ham County if it is right to punish
my boy, Billie Brown, by sending him
to the’ roads for 13 months for mak
ing and drinking whiskey, and let
Radcliffe Lanius go free for the same
offence.
If it is right to punish the one for
this offence of the law is it not right
to punish the other for the same ?
I do not uphold my boy in break
ing the law, neither do I uphold any
other mother’s boy.
My boy, Billie Brown, has a wife
and two small children le r t to do the
host they can with not much means
of sunport; an aged grandfather and
an afflicted grandmother for her to
care for as well as the little children.
I think there should be some pro
vision in the law for a woman and
Rttle children left this way. It is
not right that thev should suffer for
the necessities of life.
I shall leave this question to the
citizenship of Chatham County as well
the lawvers and officers to decide.
”e are all human and have our
weakness.
Most respectfully,
Mrs. ANNIE BROWN
We Appreciate Electricity.
How many people in Sanford re- :
member when the homes in this part
? l county were lighted with tal
‘°w candles? They were used in many
homes for some years after the Civil
. \ ar - When kerosene oil lamps came
; mo u S e people thought the light they ‘
Produced was a wonderful improve
‘ ,en .t oyer the candle lights. The el
etne light is as far superior to the
\amp light as the latter is to the can
■,e Hrfic. We noticed in passing the
j'°|; le of some of our people last Mon- ,
Vi l ' ? ,! ll P'ht that they were using can-j
'’Hits as a substitute for electric j
‘umts while repairs were being made
P ar t of the system. They
me in a position to appreciate the,
• "be lority of the electric light over j
y a fll e light.—Sanford Express, t
W 1 - 8 ? 01 ' 0 P eo Pl e can feel for the!
Uorc People whose lights were out i
CoUn *' re Pah*s and had to use
r 1 ! e . s ° r lamps. Although not much I
liis done here, we miss the |
uS every night when they go out
Hi v accoun .t the low water in Dee?
.'yhich causes the company at
kville to cut off the electricity.
Visiting in Siler City.
Watson, of Oxford, and
Hober+ e t. more and little son,
Mr J wm’ Hillsboro, are visiting
in q;i * y*. Dorsett and other relatives
n biler City.
The Chatham Record
SCHOOL INTERESTED IN
THE NEXT CHAUTAUQUA
Local and Personal Items—Corres
pondent Selling Power Stock.
Corinth, Nov. s.—School opened ov
er at the Cross school last Monday,
Mr. L. E. Cole, of Pittsboro, is the
teacher this winter. Mr. Cole is stay
ing with his daughter, Mrs. D. A.
! Clark.
j Mr. W. W. Horton spent Sunday
again in Wendell. Looks like this must
be a regular item of news for every
Monday morning.
Miss Carrie Lee Cross spent Sun
day in Jonesboro with Miss Elena
Buchanan.
i Miss Lelia Johnson spent Sunday
visiting realtives in Sanford.
Mr. Piland preached his last ser
mon at Buckhorn church before the
annual conference. Mr. Piland is a
good man, a splendid pastor and most
of the members are anxious that he
be returned to this charge again next
year.
W. H. Cross and family took in the
Sandhill Fair and along with others
they bring back glowing reports or
how a good Fair can be put on and be
successful without the questionable
| shows and games.
The Fair in itself is its own draw
ing card.
Again the young folks of the com
munity have gone on record in favor
of Chautauqua. The Truth school
which has been in session for three
weeks has interested themselves in
Brick haven Chautauqua for next year.
They want to sign up for one and per
haps more shares at SIO.OO each. Now
with the schools of the three special
tax districts all on record and asking
for the return of the Chautauqua, the
parents and patrons of these three |
communities will surely see to it that !
this new plan of securing fifty names!
at $lO each and each subscriber tak- ;
ing in return $lO. worth of season!
tickets, it will be put over and put ,
over strong.
Just so sure as death and taxes, just !
so sure are young people going to
find some kind of amusements as they
grow up. If they cannot find these
amusements and thrills at home they
will go away from home to tawdry
tinsel and midnight foot lights, all too
often are the thrills that our young
people seek.
It has been proven time and again !
that the young people will go to a
good Chautauqua and enjoy it, if pre
sented with a ticket and the opportu- j
nity to attend. Invest in the future j
of your own children and your own i
community by providing wholesome j
fun and entertainment at home. Come
on across with $lO. for a share in I
this Brickhaven Chautauqua move-1
ment and let’s put it over.
We are selling Carolina Prefererd
Stock this week by the bushel ard!
havent’t time now to write any more ,
for this issue.
NEWS FROM NEAR KIMBOLTON.!
Pittsboro, Rt. 2, Nov. s.—Battle
school opened today with a good en
rollment, particularly so as the weath
er was bad. The teachers are Mr. N.
J. Dark and Miss Annie Marin.
Mrs. G. W. Jones spent several days
last week with her mother, Mrs. El-
J en
Miss Edith Clark and Mr. W. D.
Clark visited thier grand parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Daffron last Thurs
day.
Mr. Walter Clark and family spent (
the dav Sunday with Hr. and Mrs.
M. H. Woody.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Perry spent
last Thursday in Durham attending
the show.
Mr. Will Cook spent last week with
his nephews W. W. Clark, and J. E.
Clark.
Mr. Lacy Webster and Mr. Floyd
Teague spent the week end on this
route.
There will be preaching at Emmaus
Baptist church next Sunday morning
j at eleven o’clock, by the pastor, Rev.
j R. R. Gordon. Everybody is invited to
come.
i
j THE CONFEDERATE BAZAAR.
‘ The various committees that will
have charge of the Confederate ba
zaar, to be held the first week in De
cember, have been appointed and are
as follows:
Bazaar committee —Mrs. J. M.
Gregory, chairman; and vice-chairman
as follows: Mesdames E. A. Farrell,
J. C. Lanius, Fletcher Mann, Jacob
Thompson, W. D. Siler, Lee Farrell, j
Arthur London, E. R. Hinton, Jas. L.;
; Griffin, V. R. Johnson, W. R. Thomp- j
i son, L. N. Womble, Will F. Bland, W.
i B. Chapin, J. R. Milliken, H. D. Gun
ter and Miss Cordia Harmon.
Custodian of articles —Miss Evelyn;
Alston.
j Bazaar treasurer —Miss Margaret;
I Womble.
Charmen of Childrens Booth—Miss
i es Carrie M. Jackson and Margaret
; Horne.
Proceedings of the October meet
| ing of the Winnie Davis Chapter of
U. D. C., will be published in The
Record next week.
Ladies Go to Greensboro.
Mrs. L. L. Wrenn, Mrs. J. S. Wrenn,
Mrs. Junius Wrenn, Mrs. J. Q. Sea
well, Mrs. T. D. Bynum, and Mrs. J.
C. Cheek attended the meeting of the
Third District Woman’s club at the
O’Henry Hotel in Greensboro, last
Friday.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM O *NTY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1923.
MRS. J. S. WRENN DIES
AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS
Burial at Baptist Church in Pittsboro
Last Saturday.
On Friday night, November 2nd,
1923, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. R. Hinton, Mrs. Lula Foushee
Bland Wrenn quietly passed away.
The silver cord that bound her be
loved soul to earth was gently loosen
ed, and with her loved ones at her
bedside, as she would have had it, her
sweet spirit winged its way back to
Him who had loaned her to us for a
while.
Beloved and esteemed by all who
knew her, and at peace with God and
mankind, she quietly fell asleep in
Jesus to awake in the Paradise oi
God.
Having cultivated the higher, truer
instincts of her nature, she attracted
all whose lives came in contact with
her own, by her gentleness, and the
true nobility of her heart and charac
ter, and won for herself friendship
an esteem. The quiet, unconscious in
fluence of so pure a life ever bright
ened the sphere in which she moved,
and has left it the richer and the bet
ter for her having lived in it.
The chief beauty of her life was
shown in the family circle where her
gentleness, tact and devotion, made
her a woman of singular charms and
impressed all with her rare qualities
of motherhood. Never happier than
when doing for the comfort and hap
piness of her family and others.
The sincere sympathy of the en
tire community goes out to this de -
voted daughter, who was ever her
closest companion. It was indeed beau
tiful to see the sweet, unselfish de
votion between this mother and
daughter, and to the grand children,
her devotion was the same.
! Mrs. Wrenn was the daughter of
i Wm. F,._ and Joanna Foushee. Bom
1 January 27th, 1869. She was happily
married to Mr, Robert W. Bland on
j June 29th, 1892. To this union was
! an only child, Joanna.
Mr. Bland died in 1906, and Mrs.
Bland was married to Mr. Ji S. Wrenn
in November 1917.
Mrs: Wrenn whs a devoted member
of the Baptist church of Pittsboro,
where she was ever active and happy
in every phase of church work.
Besides her husband and this be
loved daughter and devoted son-in-law
Mrs. Wrenn leaves two grand chil-
I dren, Robert Bland and Lula Foushee
; Hinton; also five sisters, Mrs. W. W.
Rose, of Franklinton, N. C.; Mrs. G.
, A. Matton, of High Point, N. C.; Mrs.
; H. T. Chapin, Mrs. Arthur London,
and Mrs. James A. Thompson, of
| Pittsboro, N. C., rind two devoted step
daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bland
! Cook, of Mebane, N. C., and Mrs.
Cara Bland Moore, of Salisbury, N. C.
The funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon by Rev. R. R. Gor
don, her pastor, assisted by Rev. J.
J. Boone, pastor of the Methodist
church. The funeral was conducted in
the Methodist church, the interment
being ma.de in the Baptist cemetery.
“She is not dead. Has only entered
into life! *
Why should we grieve that she has
gone away? j
The soul we loved as dearly as our
own,
Has only journeyed to eternal day.”
A MEASURING PARTY.
|
Grandmas and Grandpas would you
like to feel as young as Ponce de
Leon expected to feel after drinking
i of the water from the Fountain of
Youth?
Fathers and Mothers, would you
like to be in your teens again?
Young boys and Girls, do you want
to enjoy some wholesome fun?
Children, would you like to enjoy
for awhile some games and stories?
All of these may be obtained easily.
Where? At the Hickory Mt. school
building.
When? Wednesday, November 14.:
1923, from 7 to 10 p. m. i
How? By bringing a nickle for ev
ery foot you are in height, and a pen
ny for every inch over the feet. 1
Each person will be measured as he
or she enters the door into where
games, recitations, stories, vocal and
string music rendered.
Refreshments served, and decora
tions used which will remind you of
Armistice day.
Miss JOSIE DORSETT, Prin.
Miss BUENA FERGUSON,
Something New.
A dispatch from Franklinsville says
that with the instillation of a new po
wer plant by the Randolph Mills, in- j
corporate!, the light situation, for- j
merly ve?> unsatisfactory, has been 1
solved.* Owing to the scarcity of wa
ter power at Moncure, which has been
the distributing center of electric
lights in this part of the county, the
i installation of this plant was necessi
tated. Franklinville now supplies
lights for Ramseur, Pittsboro and
Moncure.
Conference Next Week.
The North Carolina Conference will
convene in Elizabeth City next Tues- i
day night, the business sesions be- ■
ginning on Wednesday. The various
Methodist ministers of Chatham coun
ty will all leave early in the week for
the meeting. /
His numerous friends here are in
great hopes that Mr. Boone will be
returned to the Pittsboro circuit.
In the Phillipine islands there are
25,000 lepers.
HALLOWE’EN PARTY
WAS SPLENDID SUCCESS
News of a Local Nature From Mon
cure of Interest.
Moncure, Nov. 5. —The Hallowe’en
entertainment that was given by the
fifth and sixth grades under Mrs. H.
G. Self, as teacher, last Wednesday
evening, October 31, 1923, was enjoy
ed by the large crowd present. The
proceeds, ($35.00) thirty-five dollars
will go toward buying a desk for their
room.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Self attended
the Teachers Asesmbly that convened
in Raleigh last week end.
Mr. Edwin Cathell, of Wake For
est College, spent the week end with
his parents, Dr. and Mrs J. E. Cathell.
Mrs. A. M. Yarborough, of Wake
Forest, N. C., spent last Sunday with
j her sister, Mrs. J. J. Hackney,
i Miss Bettie Lawson, of Pittsboro,
' spent last week end with her parents,
I Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brady, near here,
i Miss Elizabeth Farrell and mother,
j Mrs. W. O. Farrell, spent last Sun
! day in Pittsboro with Mr. and Mrs.
, Lee Farrell.
| Misses Edna Hedrick and Lula Pat
-1 terson, teachers in Moncure school,
attended the Teachers Assembly at
Raleigh, and also visited Dr. and Mrs.
1 . W- P. Hedrick while in that city,
i Misses Sankie Perry and Marjorie
Perry, teachers in Moncure high
school, spent last week end at Pitts
boro with Miss Sankie’s parents, Mr.
! and Mrs. S. V. Perry,
i Fifty new men have been added to
the Phoenix Utility Company in the
lsist week.
! Dr. J. E*. Cathell and Mr. M. T. Wil
kie attended a ball game at Sanford
1 last Friday.
| NEWS FROM BROWNS CHAPEL,
Pittsboro, Rt. 2, Nov. s.—Mr. aiid
Mrs. J. J. Thomas, welcomes their
daughter, Mrs. J. B. Hargrove, of
Burlington, who has been critically ill
i with typhoid fever, and is now able to
be out again, She will spend sometime
with her parents.
I Mr. Will Durham ,of Burlington, is
spending a few days with Mr. I. A.
Durham.
j Miss Annie Mann is going to have
a birthday party November 9th and
invites all of her fgriends.
Mr. Lemuel Crutchfield and Miss
Etta Cheek were united in marriage
at Miss Cheeks* home near Swepson
ville, last Sunday. Rev. R. P. Elling
ton, of Graham, performed the ser
vice. After the ceremony they were
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Bailey to Mr. Crutchfield’s home,
where they will spend a few days,
visiting. They will make their future
home in Burlington. We wish them a,
long and happy life.
Mrs. J. T. Womble and son, Leigh
ton, spent Thursday in Carrboro.
, Mr. I. A. Durham and daughter,
Berta, and Mr. and Mrs.\|Y. W. Lut
terloh, spent Friday in Burlington.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Crutchfield,
were called to the bedside of his sis- |
ter, Mrs. Cheek, of Swepsonville, last |
, Thursday.
j CHATHAM RECORD FRIENDS
I Below we have another list of splen
did pepole who have subscribed for
j The Record since last week. Most of
these are new subscribers and we wel
■ come them into our midst, together
with the renewals. The following is j
the list for this week:
A. F. Womble, Mrs. Mathus Self, j
O. C. Homer, Frank L. Thomas, W.
C. Strowd, Mrs. D. F. Davis, H. K.
Eubanks, Mrs. Mary Ann Wilson, Geo.
E. Rives, Mrs. E. W. Kidd, J. T.
White, Mrs. W. J. Calvert, Sam Grif
fin, Tony Andrews, N. R. Bright, W.
Clayton Johnson, Mrs. Matilda
i Straughan, and one lady and one gen
tleman who requests that their names
be not published.
Card of Thanks.
i Four northern tourists and their!
families, on their way to Dunedin,!
Florida, stopped over in Pittsboro;
! Monday and Tuesday and were camp- j
ed in the Record office lot. These gen
tlemen are high in their praise for j
the reception they received by the cit
izens of Pittsboro, especially Mr. B. ;
M. Poe and Mr. Henry Bynum. They
have requested the Record to tell the
folks of the village how much they j
appreciate the courtesies and their im- j
j pressions of the town. They were j
| piloted by Mr. M. R. Hocroft, who has i
business interests in Dunedin, and has ■
made the trip through here on more i
than one ocacsion.
CAR TURNS OYER.
About 10:30 o’clock on Wednesday
night of last week a Ford, driven by'
Miss Nellie Swann, one of the teach
ers of the Pittsboro high school,
while detuming from a trip to San
ford. in turning the corner at West
and Fayetteville streets, ran into the
ditch and turned over, catching the
j four occupants, Misses Nellie Swan,
I and Annie Brown, another teacher,
| Mr. John Clark, the popular clerk at
J. J. Johnson’s store, and Luman Ov-,
| eracre underneath. Mr. Clark final
; ly worked his way out and lifted the
car high enough for the rest to crawl
out.
Miss Brown was bruised about the
body and was unable tn get out of
i bed Thursday. Miss Swann, Over
' acre and Clark were not hurt so bad
i ly, but were considerably shaken up.
I The top of the car was broken as was
also the windshield. It was a nar-
I row escape for all of them.
A BIG ARMISTICE DAY
CELEBRATION IN SANFORD
Chatha, Moore, Harnett, and Lee
Counties Unite 'on Program.
One of the biggest celebrations ev
er held in central Carolina will be that
in Sanford on Tuesday, November 13.
This is the fifth anniversary of the
signing of the Armistice, the day hav
ing been thus chosen because of the
fact that the 11th comes on Sunday.
The business men and Chamber of
Commerce of Lee County have spared
no expense in the preparation for the
event and an elaborate program has
been arranged for the folks of the
four counties that will participate.
Speeches will be made by General
A. J. Bowley, of Camp Bragg, and
other prominent men of the state. A
pageant, representing current and his
torical events, individual floats, great
decorated automobile procession, beau
ty queens representing several towns
from the different counties, will be in
the parade.
There will be band concerts by the
military band from Fort Bragg, free
barbecue to legionaires, ex-service
men, and visiting soldiers; football
game, athletic contests, wild west pa
, rade, fiddlers’ contest, open air fes
tival, in fact a day full of events that
no one can afford to miss.
Elsewhere in this paper you will
find a large advertisement telling
about it and one that invites you to
be a part of the celebration on that
day, Tuesday, November 13th,
! “JUST A SLIGHT COLD.”
October Health Bulletin.
[ Beginning about this season of the
year and continuing on throught the
winter, probably one-half the patients
, who visit the average doctor’s office
seek medical advice for “just a cold.”
: Even among people of more than av
erage education and intelligence, the
conviction has been held that “just
a slight cold” is a trival matter and
therefore not to be bothered about un
less it “hangs on.” As a matter of
fact, the syndrome of symptoms which
have been conveniently and ignorantly
designated as “common colds” are al
ways serious.
For the first two or three days it
! is often impossible for a physician to
make a diagnosis between a “cold”
and many of the serious infectious
diseases, unless he has definite knowl
edge that the patient has been expos
ed to some such particular disease.
For example, the initial symptoms of
| such serious diseases as smallpox, in
i fluenza, scarlet fever, measles and of
! ten diphtheria, are identical with the
| symptoms presented by a patient hav
i ing “only a common cold.” Therefore
; it is the duty of every patient, not
only to others but to one’s self, to
take warning at the very first indica
tion of an attack of coryza. In the
first place, the only rational treatment
! for a “common cold” is amsolute rest
j in bed for two or three days, begin
> ning at the first onset of symptoms,
i In the second place, if the attack turns
| out to be some other disease, no other
person has been exposed, and the pa
tient’s vitality is conserved from the
beginning. Although epidemiology
and vital statistics records tell nothing
of the prevalence of “common colds”,
because the condition is not reportable
and the mortality is nothing (no death
certificate assigning “colds” as a
cause of death would be accepted), it
j is probable that more people suffer
from acute coryza than from any oth
!er single ailment. If a campaign
lasing all winter could be carried on
persistently and intelligently, cover
ing all parts of the county, there is
; no way to estimate the great saving
in life that would certainly ensue by
preventing the spread of many other
serious contagious diseases, even such
collateral diseases as tuberculosis. If
the spread of “common colds” could
be suppressed and held to a minimum
for a period of one year there is no :
doubt but what the effect on the pneu- j
! monia death rate would be amazing. !
One of the chief predisposing causes
of pneumonia is a neglected acute
j coryza which has not been regarded j
with sufficient concern to demand rest
i in bed until recovery is complete. Such
a patient nearly always presents a
history of having “gone on” with work
and other promiscuous activities, ne
cessitating exposure in crowded street
cars, crowded, overheated trains and
| theaters and so on. The mucous lin-
I ing of the entire respiratory tract be
j ing inflamed and in an abnormal con
dition, thus becomes a suitable lodg
' for virulent pneumococci. As
i “colds” are contracted from other per-
I sons, and as the contagion is probably
! most active in the beginning, that is
for the first two or three days, if ev
i ery person so afflicted would isolate
himself by remaining in bed during
this period, the spread of the ir/ec
tion could be controlled much better.
To all persons who would ask for ad
vice as to the best treatment for
“colds”, the State Board of Health
would urge that the services of a good
i physician in each individual case is j
necessary if complications of a seri- j
ous nature are always to be avoided.
SERVICES AT MONCURE.
Preaching at Moncure next Sunday
; morning and night. Preaching also at
Mt. Zion Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock.
l If the reader of this notice has fa*l
! ed to pay his Conference collection,
i please pay at once. The pastor will
leave for Conference Monday after-
I J, J. BOONE.
PATRIOTISM AND RELIGION
ARE VERY GLOSELY ALLIED
Correspondent at Brickhaven Has An
Interesting Letter on Armistice Day
Brickhaven, Nov. 5. —Mr. James
Thomas, of Spencer, spent last week
here with friends.
Mr. C. W. Hanks is with us again
for a short while. We are always
glad to have Mr. Hanks here. He is a
general favorite with both old and
young.
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Kennedy, ac
companied by Mrs. T. J. Harrington,
motored to the Sandhills Fair one day
last week. They reported an unusual
ly pleasant time, and it seems the
State Fair must have had a worthy
rival in the Sandhills exhibits.
Miss Kate Marks, of Olivia, and Mr.
June Hackney, of Moncure, were vis
itors here Sunday.
Mrs. J. A. Mims returned Sunday
from a several days stay at Durham.
She was accompanied home by Mr.
Herman Mims and Miss Mary Rose
Mims.
Mr. Seawell was called home last
Wednesday on acount of the death of
his grand mother. The entire com
munity extends sincerest sympathy to
' him.
Rev. Mr. Piland preached his last
sermon at Buckhom for the Confer
; ence year last Sunday morning. The
service was conducted in the same
' forcful, eloquent style that character
’ izes all of Mr. Piland’s work. We are
eager for him to be with us again
next year. 4
Next Sunday, November 11th, is
Armistice Day, a day that will ever
be of great significance, not only td
! the people of America, but to those
! of every nationality. For the first
! Armistice Day brought to a close
; the great World War, the most de
structive war in all history. No pOft
can portray, and no orator, however
5 gifted, can describe the wave of r -
j lief that swept through the hearts
‘ of the people, those at home and the
; thousands of soldier boys, some in
, camp and some ready at the front
I on the battle grounds of war-scarred
l Europe. Then the world, in one sense,
j was on its knees, bowed in gratitude
and thankfulness before the Great
i Prince of Peace, and it seems it is
: appropriate that this Armistice Day
should fall on Sunday and can thus
| be observed as a day of prayer and
l worship.
Patriotism and religion are very
| closely allied, but it would seem that
| on this particular day military pa-
I rades, martial music and patriotic
! speeches should best be left for oth
er proud days in our history and let
this day be a day of prayer and
praise, of quiet and peace.
When one looks back over the past
four years, and views conditions to
j day, the national unrest, the conflict
i betwen the two great forces, capital
and labor, the great political chaos
and the tending towards lowered mor-
I al standards, one wonders if the les
i sons taught by the war have been
so quickly and easily forgotten—those
j lessons on the dignity of labor, the
j beauty and sweetness of service and
I sacrifice—the example set by the
hundreds of soldier lads who sleep
under the little white crosses on the
poppy fields—that “Greater love hath
no man than this, that he lay down his
life for a friend.” And so on this Ar
i mistice Day let every one remember
I the soldier boys—those who are with
j us today and those who made the su-
I preme sacrifice, and pray that noth
j ing has been in vain, and that all the
; suffering and heartaches will but lead
j us into the light of a gerater tomor
j row, when in truth we can say with
the noet:
“The war drums throbb’d no longer,
And the battle flags were furl’d,
In the Parliament of man,
Federation of the world.”
DOINGS OF MANNDALE FOLKS.
Manndale, Nov. s.—Mr. E. A. Brax
ton and family spent Sunday evening
in the home of Mr. R. C. Johnson.
Mr. Lawhom, who is now 82 years
' old, preached at Mt. Olive last Sun
day. His text was: “He went up a
Little Further.” Some were present
from the Emmaus section, where Rev.
Lawhom served as pastor for some
time.
Mrs. T. C. Perry, Robert Glosson,
Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Braxton and son,
were visitors at Mr. James Jones
last Sunday afternoon.
Corn shuckings will soon be over, if
bad weather does not prevent, plans
having been made for them until
about the middle of the week.
Whoornng cough is prevalent 'n this
com muni tv.
Since Thursday afternoon Mrs. Cor
die Perry has been constantly remind
ed of the thought ’tis finished, mean
ing her cotton patch,
j Mr. W. T. Hurst and Mrs. T p.w
rence Jones returned home last week
from the Rainey hospital, where they
underwent operations.
Read Them AH.
In this paper is an ad from The
Hardware Store, Inc., in Siler City,
of a one day Aluminum Ware sale.
It is a big thing and it will pay you
to read it. There is also an ad in
regard to the sale by auction of the
j Powell farm by Allen Brothers Real
Estate Co. that offers a golden oppor
tunity for those who want a small
farm. In fact we have many new ad 3
j in this paper and in every advertise
; ment there is news value. You should
j not fail to read them all. j
NUMBER 22.