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
<S, tare Company,, of Sanford.
ie r company is a big con
»is " they are doing a big bum
cer Thev recently offered a prize
nes? :nAn the former of Lee or Chat
. ~y.l put on exhi-
W - In ti-eir .-.0.e tire largest and
bition w, 1 , ■u: n
lo t all round pumpkin.
Thomas a big farmer and
, ‘ things in .- wa y and he de
• Xto enter i. e of if* pumpkins of
c* l V ~„r , -P | V ! he \ oil the prize,
‘•tlrir* the .. tost ore among
j the samples .X ti e oiher farm
contributed. ,
This event is e;a I ® n c l lre . l j‘
ff*nt for (' e, bounty, it 1-
iictes the e:
Carter Forma.. • aiolinaffhev
xk farmers of ■■ -v 1
lute much bus 1 ;; f
ito County a: \ : uUI P-Oe ,e
deep in a bed t - was P, c! ?"
* the home the: sitrn
their chairs an § trom their
ses and enjr i househald com
forts that were • a th.re by the
farter Furnitir * "• '• .
Coming on do mas, too
much cannot be dusto ms energy
id thrift. He i o.e of the leading
fann ers in Chatham and he has pro
duced what he ,14 V. 01 _v, -Ui g
hours and a tueirc? (imposition .o
own and to hav
ited his home. - '-- akS , u al “
ing invitation t - - ■■ -} " l -
time, yet we have uaked vytti io'ys
who know him mi; lately and they go
say tha tno m: ’• ’um etter acl is
more cordial i i.oiucs than is
J. J. Thomas, he has reared a fam
ily of splendid r Ui'cn a d they are
examples of the
Mrs. Thoma. - excellent
housekeeper, a- , a a
good wife. S e-« -o .iijutea large
ly to her husk a Us success. J
’Mr. and Mrs. i"i o; as are full of
fun and are jol c .o'l iciKsMo. asso
ciate with. We l 6isiiy enjoy Iris fre
quent visit? to The Record office.
We are proud o : ' 1 e fact that Chat
ham County wo < t is distinction; we
are proud of Mr. Tiro mas in his suc
cess and we are proud of our adver
tisers, the Carter Furniture Company,
in promoting: this occasion and we
feel that a great honor has been be
stowed upon all of us.
HON. A. C. RAY RETIRES.
At a recent meeting of the Lay?
men’s Association of Fayetteville
Presbytery, he’d at St. Pauls, Hon A.
C. PJy was succeeded as chairman of
the Association by Dr. G. S. Currie,
of Parkton.
Mr. Ray had held thi s position since
the organization of the Association
hut a new Presbytery was recently
formed from the counties of Lee,
Chatham, Orange, Alamance, Guilford,
Caswell, Rockingham, and Randolph,
thereby taking Mr. Ray c A of Fay
etteville Presbytery.
In his remarks to the meeting Rev.
y C. Murray, D. D., stated that the
biggest contribution that the Presby
had made to the newly formed
Presbytery was that of the Hon. A.
C. Ray. This, indeed, is highly com
plimentary when we take into consid
eration that there are some large and
churches to say nothing of the
aj e ministers that go with the new
or ganization.
. Mr. Ray is really a very useful man
111 his denomination. He is. very ag-
and energetic in all of his
undertakings and he has establshed a
wnfioence with the people that is far
oe ter than gold and riches.
Married here last week.
.J* A. Tally, a prominent far
]: 01 , Jtennett, and Miss Leota Phil-
J ! 01 pear Creek, route 3, came ov
, s ßoro Wednesday of last
marw j a^er securing license were
j o l£t the court house by Squire
J0 ™ R. Blair.
Cftr j e J la PPy couple visited The Re
wpvc °i ce a Her the ceremony and we 1
to have them. Both are
paper and Miss Phil
er S , n a con stant subscriber ev
chame Ce P resen t editor has had
frielui/^ 1 rs : Tally both have many
court-,. section of Chatham
life nf v !l ° them well and a long
,p, ot happiness.
ho^ e at°Ben ne^ U make their futurG j
HE bound dozen book club.
Broiler P l ?’ Nov - IB.—Mrs. C. L.
music j cna^ rni an of the literary and
Blub J artme nt of the Community
twelve LI P r S a nized a Club with
Bound n'l n ‘ )er f to Be known as the
with Mil, z £ n Book Club. They met
toon and P 1 / ower on Tuesday as ter
tog. a - a mos t interesting meet
stodwic p A : lcif ) us salad course with
JoHowina! coffe e was served. The
Blub : H daies are members of the
M la jJ C p C ' Thomas, J. B. Mar-
i >«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 <v?cr"*t; J.
R. Edwards to Southport; P. D or>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.
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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.
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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.