Wished September 19, 1878. 00mm\ PALMER GROWS EEST PUMPKINS by a Big Concern Do 'ing a Big Business. „ me many farmers in Lee \niong, a r *t‘es Mr. J. J. d R. F. D., No. 2, ? Yiufced the best pumi-km 1,25 flip tv o counties by the Car «m,> o‘iveß Webster, T., 1 CNn S ' Fountain, L. L. i Browe'r j V unius Wren ’ C ‘ 0re ?son. ’ S - Wrenn and J. C. The Chatham Record WILL CELEBRATE HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY Friends and Relatives of Mrs .Bettie Thomas to Gather on Sunday. New Hill, Nov. 19.—Monroe, the small son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Jones, died last Wednesday night. He was only 19 months old, but he inul lived 10, g enough to become very dear to his devoted parents, who mourn for their little son. His Lttle body was buried in the New Elam cemetery Thursday after noon. At present the father is con nned to his bed with sickness. The family have the heartfelt sympathy of the community. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Drake received word from Mr. and Mrs. P. F Litien announcing the birth of a daughter, Florence Eleanor. Lev. B. J. How ard filled his regular appointment at New Elam Christian church last Sunday morning. His sub ject was “‘My Church,” and it was a wonderful sermon. Mr. Howard has been pastor of this church for four years. We are indeed very glad that he will be with us again for the en suing year. Mr. and Mrs.. John Gunter spent Su. day afternoon at the home of Mr. Millard Goodwin. They will move to Durham this week, where they will make their future home. Mrs. G. L. Mann spent Tuisday in Sanford shopping. . Miss Mary Webster spent Monday ! ’’en • F ttsboro at the home of Mr. I B. M. Sanders. On next Sunday, November 25th, relatives and friends will gather at . the home of Mrs. Bettie Thomas to ■ el eh rate the 70th anniversary of her j birth. TAXES AND DEATH. ! The man looked wild-eyed and hag gard. His hair was disheveled. In his ; hand held a scrap of paper. It was I only a scrap, but it meant much to ths holder. The man was muttering to es. Now and then a w r oid could ■? heard as it oozed out between his i gnashing teeth. “Taxes!” it sounded j like. The man rushed on towards the court house. Into the sheriff’s office he tottered. “Taxes, taxes, taxe*!” be j kept muttering. -Harry Nu*Wfr»d lo&fc ledup at the wild looking man. “Tax es and death! Taxes and death!” The wild man kept- hissing between his ; teeth. Harry looked towards the srife In it aly an automatic. “Death and taxes,” still muttered the wild man. | “What can I do for you?” asked Harry, in his mild, feminine voice. “I have a notice here,” slowly arti culated the haggard man. “I own a house and two acres of land which i I had paid S3OO for ten years ago. The taxes on it this year are more i than SSO. Please give me a receipt and take my home!” He got the re i ceipt and the old man went out mut tering, “TAxes and death. Death and taxes!” An Old Time Clerk. Tom Leach, one of Pittsboro’s old 1 time colored citizens, came into The Record office Thursday morning and paid his subscription to the paper un til next year. Tom now claim? the distinction of 1 being the only clerk now living here i who were acting as clerks when he began. He began his clerkship in a store in Pittsboro in 1883 and has con tinued in that capacity ever since. In 1885 he began taking The Record and ; today is still a subscriber. If all the colored people, or white people for that matter, were like Un cle Tom Leach, there would be no i need for judges, lawyers, jails, or • convict camps, nor would there be any moonshiners or bootleggers. TEACHERS TO MEET HERE The Record is requested to announce that there will be a meeting of the Chatham County teachers in the Pitts boro School auditorium on Saturday, November 24th. The meeting will be gin at 10:45. At eleven o’clock Dr. : N. W. Walker, Professor of Educa j tion at the University of North Caro lina, will speak on the county wide school unit. Dr. A. M. Jordan, who is also with the School of Education iat the University, will speak. A de finite program has not yet Deen made. Sandwiches and coffee will be serv ed by the Woman’s Club so you need not bring lunch. Don’t forget to be there at OUR LIST OF FRIENDS. During the week the following good , folks have subscribed for The Record, j and we highly appreciate everyone of t Mrs.* W. F. Bland, Mrs. N. B. > Eobt. E. Harris, M. ti ffs' j' Pug-h, J. T. Farrar, W. N. .* ield f’ J- H liwrence, Roland R. Mrs. Jas C. Boone, J. D. Rogers, Mrs. J. A Tally, J. A. Gunter, Tom Leach, Ralph P Griffin, Ed. H. Perry. Grady I Pickard, A. C. Ray ,Jr., and Rnchard Lane. Up to November First. According to Mr. G G. Lutterloh, special agent for Chatham county, there had been ginned in the coun.y 6,658 bales of cotton prior to Novem ber 1, 1923. For the same date last year there were 6.047. BUILD A HOME IN PITTSBORO. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1923., BASKET PICNIC WILL BE GIVEN ON TUESDAY, 29TH Flag and Bible For Moncure School—. Marriage of Interest* Moncure, Nov. 19.—Mr. C. M. Brown, the barber, spent last Thurs day in Raleigh. Miss Sankie Perry, the primary teacher, spent last week end in Pitts boro with her parents. Mr. E. G. Sammons has secured a position with the -Seaboard as flag man, and left here to report for duty last Monday. This is a position he has always desired and we hope him much luck. The Junior Order United American Mechanics will present to the Mon cure school a flag and a Bible next Thursday, (Nov. 29th,) Thanksgiving Day. Several sepakers will be present . and exercises will begin at 10 o’clock. l There will be a basket picnic. Every . body is cordially invited to come and t bring a basket with them. ■ A wedding of interest took place • at Snow Hill, N. C., last Saturday at ; high noon, when Mr. William T. Bell, . of Moncure, N. C., was married to Miss Susan Best Morrill, of Snow ; Hill. The following Moncure citizens ■ attended the wedding: Mr. John Ball, j John Bell, Jr., the brother of the > groom was best man and Mr. J. K. Barnes, cashier of the Moncure bank, l was one of the ushers. The groom is a salesman for the r Quaker Oats Co., and a promising young man. The bride was the bell of Snow Hill and she was the “crown ( ed Queen” of the festival which was • held in Eastern Carolina. They were , married in the Episcopal church. After the wedding a reception was held at the home of the bride’s pa rents and many costly and useful presents were presented to them. They left for northern cities and upon . their return will make their home at ! Raleigh. ; We wish for them many happy , years. , Miss Mildred Smith, of Raleigh, i spent the week end with her sister, ; Miss Sarah Smith, of Moncure. Many from Moncure attended the funeral of Mrs. Fannie Thomas at ■ Gum Springs Baptist church last Sun | day afternoon. | THE SHAMROCK TRIO COMING. O i School Auditorium Wednesday Night, ! November 28th. j The third entertainment of the Piedmont Bureau Lyceum course will j be given in the new school auditorium, in Pittsboro on Wednesday night, November 28th at 8 o’clock. The community was well pleased 1 with the last concert and The Sham -1 rock Trio comes highly recommended ; by the press and the general public. : Those who desire to come will be ' assured of a comfortable seat, a warm building and will enjoy a splen . did program. Due to the fact that the ‘ new auditorium will be in use, is as surance enough that the comfort of the audience will be much better than heretofore. i This series of entertainments have a been brought to Pittsboro at a great J cost to the local men who signed for 1 it, and the Lyceum was brought here for the benefit and entertainment of f the folks of Chatham county. If you 1 miss it you will regret it. The price of admission is only 25 2 and 50 cents. This is in reach of all a and no one should think of missing it. j DEATH OF MRS. THOMAS. 3 Mrs. Fannie Thomas, widow of the ' late James Thomas, died last Friday night at the home of her daughter, 5 Mrs. H. R. Stedman, on route 2, Mon r cure, where she had gone on a visit a few days before. Mrs. Thomas was 70 years old. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. C. A. Norris, at y Gum Springs Baptist church on Satur x day, at which one of the largest ' crowds seen in that section for years, attended the services. [ Besides her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Stedman, she leaves another daughter, ; Mrs. Iteus Stack, of Winston-Salem a d two sons, Mr. W alker Thomas, with whom she made her home, on route 2, Moncure, and Mr. W. A. ‘ Thomas, of Bladen county. 1 'Mrs. Thomas had been a consistent member of Gum Springs church for 58 years and was truly a Christian woman, loved by all who knew her. She was a kind a~d loving mother, an affectionate wife and a friend in need and indeed to those who lived near j her, and she will be missed in many i ways by her loving children. Peace to j her ashes. J Death of Rev. Mr. Smith. Rev. W. A. Smith, pastor of Prich ard Memorial Baptist church, in Char- j lotte, died at his home there on Thurs day, November Bth, as a result of a paralytic stroke. Mr. Smith was a J native of Durham and married Miss Mary S. Cheek, of that city. He is 1 survived by his wife and three sons; j also a sister, in Lexington, and Mrs. G. G. Lutterloh, another sister, of j Pittsboro, route 2. I Mr. Sm’th was TT ears old and a very active minister in the Baptist °hurch The Grievance Burglar—The only thing I’m kick ing at >ut is bein’, identified by a man that kep’ his head under the bed-, ’n’ nth .• -hole f.* t’s wrong. l BETTERMENT ASSOCIATION IS BOING MANY BIG THINGS Chautauqua List Grows—Thanksgiv ing Program is in Making. Corinth, Nov. 19.— Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Ashworth, of Fuquay SprL gs spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Buchanan at Corinth. Charles Cross spent the week eid in Duncan visiting his sister, Mrs. A. E. Rollins. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Harrington spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. M. I. Ellis at Bonlee. Miss Audrey Maynard and Miss Lelia Johnson spent the week end at the home of Miss Johnson in Pitts boro. Miss Alma Buchanan, of Jonesboro, is spending a week with her grand mother, Mrs. Katherine Mclver, at Corinth. Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Thomas are back at Buckhorn after a two weeks visit at their homes in Lee county. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Benson and Mrs. M. A. Arey, of Albemarle, spent th? week end with Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Parker at Buckhorn. Mrs. Parker her two children returned with them for a weeks visit with relatives in and near Albemarle. Mrs. T. V. Sexton spent a few days visiting in Fuquay Springs. The Corinth school Betterment As sociation held a business meeting last week. Mrs. C. W. Cross was elected president; Mrs. T. H. Buchanan, vice president; Miss Audrey Maynard, sec retary and Mrs. F. M. Nash treas urer. They have over SIOO.OO in the treasury and with a good up-to-date school room equipment already in use, they are going to do something next in the way of play ground equipment ;picture machine and social welfare of the patrons and pupils. A splendid idea. Let’s all get in and help the good work along and inciden tally have a jolly time ourselves. The teachers, Misses Johnson and Maynard, will give a party at the school house Saturday night, Nov. 24. The Betterment will serve. Let’s all turn out and have a good time. Then on Wednesday night, Nov. 28th, the teachers will put on a Thanksgiving program at the school ; house. your friends to be there' and be sure to come yourself and help make the program a success. The Chautauqua list grows a lit tle each week. Now, we hope some of our good Pittsboro friends will come in with us and furnish the necessary names to complete the list. If Pitts boro will do this, we see no reason why Corinth and Brickhaven would not be glad to help Pittsboro on a Chautauqua and alternate between this community and Pittsboro each year. How about it Pittsboro? We want the Chautauqua anddffieir whole some upbuilding influence to stay in our community. We need such. Do you? GETS FIRST PRIZE FOR GEESE. Mrs. Robert E. Harris, Pittsboro, route No. 1, has in her possession the two blue ribbons awarded at the State Fair for her geese, being the first , prize in each instance. Mrs. Harris has some fine speci • mens of the goose tribe and they are very pretty. They are of the African breed and are very large. I Mrs. Harris is justly proud of her prizes and her friends are proud of i her success as well. She is an ener getic lady and has her home yards ? ull of chickens, geese, turkeys and 'owls of every choice variety, and it 5 -a delight to see them. Card of Thanks. ► I feel deeply grateful to all thos : i vho so generously gave of their time j attention and their love to my wit* i during her last illness, and for the I manifestation of sympathy and consid ’! eration given me in the loss of my I companion. I shall ever remember the 1 goodness and cherish the thought of the constancy and devotion shown by so many. W. E. BROOKS. Pittsboro, N. C., Nov. 20, 1923. Cut on the Head. A tinner, working on the new resid ence of Mr. W. P. Horton, received a painful cut on the head Thursday. In digging a well near the house a blast was fired and a pretty good sized rock fell on top of the head of the tinner, cutting a gash about two inches long. Dr. W. B. Chapin dress i ed the wound the man went back 1 to work. | An Ancient Fable. J Concord Uplift. I There is an Indian fable that tells how Budha visited the heavens and i being led about, came to a place in which there was a huge mound. “For what purpose are these countless snail shells here,” he asked. “These are not snail shells, but the ears of pie who heard what was right, but did not do it. The ears therefore were saved, but the bodies are in hell.” In another place he observed fishy for mations and he asked, “Are these eels or fish?” “They are neither,” was the an swer. “These are the tongues of those who told others the way to heaven, but did not go the way themselves, and therefore the tongues are saved but the bodies are in torment.” LOOK AT THE LABEL ON PAPER. 1 CONFERENCE MAKES AP i iiINTMENTS FOR YEAR Rev. Boone Back to Pittsboro; Hinson to Siler City; Edwards, Southport. Appointments of interest to Record readers, made by the North Caro lina Methodiist Conference at its an nual session in Elizabeth City, are as follows: Fayetteville District. Presiding Elder, R. H. Willis. Bladen charge—G. H. Biggs. Buckl orn charge—W. A. Poland. Carthage circuit —J. M. Wright. Lake H. L. Davis; N. McDonald, supernumerary. Dunn—G. T. Adams. Elizabeth circuit—H. E. Lance. Fayetteville, (Hay sLeet) —H. A. Humble; Person street and Calvary, E. C. Maness; Fayetteville circuit, W. L. Maness. Glendon circuit —Z. L. Hill. Goldston circuit—H. L. Withers. Haw River circuit —C. H. Caviness. Hemp—J. C. Cummings. Jonesboro circuit—B. F. Starffe’d T.fflirgton circuit —H. L Hendricks. Mamers circuit—L. R. Cru •?, supply. Newton Grove circuit— W. J. Un derwood, supply. Parkton circuit —J. C. Humble. Pittsboro circuit—J. J. Poo e, Roseboro circuit—J. A. Thorpe. Sanford circuit—L. B. Jo e=i. Siler City circuit —O. I. Hinson. Stedman circuit —E. C. SeH Other appointments of interest to Chatham folks are as follows: Rev. J. W. Autry is returned to Carrboro; Rev. E. R. Clegg is sent to Leesburg circuit; W. F. Craven goes to Durham circuit; V. A. Royal to Creedmore; G. W. Perry to Weldon; L. E. Salyer to MaysviHe d all to Rowland; H. B. Portev to War renton and J. E. Holden to Clinton. G. W. Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Perry, of Pittsboro, was last year located at Carthage. E. R. Clegg was on Gates circuit, L. E. Salyer was in charge of Goldston cir u’t and Edwards was on Haw Rivei" C'rcu't. There is general satis action that Mr. Boone and Mr. Hinson were re turned to Pittsboro and Sdes Cit , re- Spectiveiy; Mrh boro. where he has given splenduT sat isfaction. The Conference as a whole has ae complished much work and there were manv things that are worthy of pub lication, that space prevents in The Record. From Out of the Past. The longer I live the more I grow to abhor rhetoric that isn’t based on facts, words that are not translated into deeds. And when we applaud the birth of demorcracy in another people, the spirit which insists on treating each man on the basis of his right as a man, refusing to deny the humblest the rights that are his, when we present such a greeting to the re t presentatives of a foreign nation, it . behooves us to express our deep con i demnation of acts that give the lie ; to our words within our own country. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT. J BETTER NOT SAY IT i Bad news travels faster than good - news. There is an old saying, “No f news is good news.” Let a man be . converted at a church service and ? there is not much of a stir, but let a J resident be convicted of some crime \ ' and the news leaps by word of mouth from one end of the communtiy to the other. How thoughtlessly unkind we some times are when neighbors of ours suffer misfortune! Troubles are bound to come to us all in some shape or ! form and what we say about our i friends and acquaintances today may apply to us tomorrow. News is no r respecter of persons. 5 j We are prone to consider the ways : of others, not our ways, when we r should be watching our own step. What folks say of one another some times hurts more than anything they could have done. News, either good ! or bad, grows and becomes exagger j ated and distorted with peddling. ! When the news is good it makes no material difference how it is exag gerated or distorted —it can never do anyone positive harm. But bad news, given wings, may bring sorrow and ruin upon people 'who certainly are not deserving of a punishment beyond the penalty of their mistake. More charity for others will mean more charity for ourselves and we I will gradually come to take a keener delight in reporting something good of some person than something bad. Good is constructive, bad is destruc tive. Just before you are about to let out a bit of “bad news”, stop and think a moment. See if you can’t think of something good to say in; place of it. The chances are ten to one that you can and that you will. Carfare. For hours they had been together; on her front porch. The moon cast its tender gleam down on the young! and handsome couple who sat strange ly far apart. He sighed. She sigh- l ed. Finally. I wish I had money, dear, he said. I’d traveL Impulsively, she slipped her hand in his; then, rising swiftly, she sped into the house. i Aghast he looked at his hand. In his palm lay a nickel. TO HOLD BAZAAR DEC. 1 AT BRICKHAVEN SCHOOL Local and Personal Items From our Neighbors at Brickhaven, Brickhaven, Nov. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Phil Harrington, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Overby and little Beth Overby, were week end guests of rel atives at Chapel Hill. Misses Mary Bland and Laura Har ris spent the week end with relatives and friends in Pittsboro. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Kennedy, Miss Ruth Kennedy • spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Kennedy’s father, at Franklinton. Sam Utley, of Burlington, spent the week end here with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Ltley. Mrs. Lee Rich and little Dorothy j Lee, of Rocky Mount, are nu king ; their home at the Boylan Ranch. Mr. Rich, who holds a responsible ! position with the Phoenix Co., has been here for quite awhile. Mrs. N. T. Overby returned Sun day from a week’s stay with rel atives at McCullers. At a meeting of the Betterment ; Association last Friday it was decided !to hold the anual bazaar Saturday [eve'' ing, December 1, instead of on | Saturday before Thanksgiving. Every j member of the Association is urged j to do her best to help make the ba j zaar a success. Chicken salad and i coffee will be on sale and the articles i priced will l e sold ?.t auction. Come everybody and buy a supply of appro i priate Christmas gifts. ! j THE PRIZE-WINNER j Greensboro News. Surry County Democrats sp'ent | 090 winring the election, and now. a i Republican superintendent of public ! welfare continues to hold his job— ■no wonder the old guard is almost tearful in its indignation! j But why should the Surry guards ! men lay their distress at the door of the Utfffo commissioner of public wel fare ? Their $3,000 was not enough to 1 buy up their own officials, not to men tion the State commissioner. As Sher- Lifff Haynes pointed out, if the Demo i Malic candidate for the position had I heel elected by the Surry authorities, it is highly probable that Commission j er Johnson would not have interfered. I But Surry couldn’t elect its own man. Democrat as he was, there was enough opposition to his election to tie it up,. | thereby gving Mrs. Johnson the de ciding vote. If Surry officials, pre ; sumably anxious to have a Democrat | in the office, would not take this par ! ticular candidate, why expect Mrs. 1 Johnson, who is not engaged in the , business of putting Democrats into j office, to vote for him ? j Os all the sorry exhibitions of par . j tisanship that have disgusted the ; State, this bland assumption that : county welfare work is a political L j plum is the prize-winner. Is it alto ■ i gether impossible for North Carolina ; I county officials to imagine that there ■ j is such a thing as public service quite ; j apart from politics ? Are we never . | to get rid of the barbarous notion that public office is the property of what ever group of politicians is clever enough to win an election, or crook ed enough to steal it, or rich enough 1 to buy it? Unless and until we do, > the people will rever have a chance to 3 get honest value in return for the 1 money thev spend keeping up county i ■■ governments. a j ■•■■■, -> - ■ i Caught on the Run. Private Banks had been the most .; bashful retiring little man in the j j army. When women visited the camn 1 he always fled for shelter and stayed r there until after they had left. So it r came as a surmise when of his j former companions came across him ) in civilian garb and was introduced to a large, husky girl as Mrs. Banks. ? When he was able to get Banks ; aside he asked him how he had met his wife. “Well,” renlied the little man meek r ly. “it was this wav. T nev«r did ex [ actly meet her. She just kinder over . took me.” , Somebody’s Boy. An unknown youth about 15 year 3 old, was killed on the railroad east of Eads, Colorado, recently. He bad j brown hair, slightly upturned nose, rather high forehead, hair combed i straight back, and wore a dark gray j coat, work shoes, but no underwear. | His pockets were empty. Beating hid way, perhaps. Sheriff W. P. Mayne, Eads, Colorado, will answer inquiries. .. More Than His Share. The farmer is payings more than his share of the nation’s tax bill, says the National industrial Conference in pointing out that the country’s tax burden has increahed three and a half times since 1913. The large amount of property ex empt from taxation—aggregating $54,000,000 last year, and the increase in the number of employes of Feder al and State governments are given as causes for tax increases blamed for raising taxes. Consulting an Authority All were quiet in the cinema watch ing the comic man counterfeiting in toxication. The silence was broken by a small boy’s shrill voice, “That’s ain’t the way to be drunk, is it, fav ver?” NUMBER 24.