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only weekly newspaper in the world having a circulation that is four times that of the population of the town in which ms PUBLISHED The Chatham Record ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. GOVERNOR cam is an ex pensive BIRD. >vhat It Costs To Keep Up Your Governor’s Family of Two. Elizabeth City Independent. Do you happen to know what it its you to keep up a household for C °' r governor? You probably never SLrht about it. You have probably S little mean about the fact that mil- governor is paid a salary of on -1 $6600 a vear. But you will not feel n mean about it after you learn what v OU pay for the upkeep of your gov- Imnr’s household. e In addition to his salary of $6,500 fovemor Morrison set the S„ate hack $18,563.68 last year for his household and personal expenses. The figures are in the report of VOU r State Auditor forf the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1923 No othei Governor of North Carolina ever had has lived so sumptuously and so extravagantly as has Governor Mor rison. Glorying in his plebian ancestry and forever proclaiming , himself one of the plain people, Governor Morrison spends money hand over fist on his household at the public’s expense, while the spending is good. It cost exactly $12,878.73 last June to keep up the Governor’s mansion and grounds; it j it costs $3,549.95 to keep up his auto mobile. The State allows him SI,OOO a year in cash for servants which he , got; but in addition the salaries of four servants and a chauffeur are charged up on his mansion and grounds account. Add to that $975 that he pull ed down for traveling expenses. Governor Morrison’s drug store, ga rage and laundry bills would stagger the average man with an income of so much as $50,000 a year. He is sup posed to pay for the laundry of his personal wearing apparel, his own silk shirts, his own silk pajamas and his ! silken B. V. D’s he wears. The State is supposed to pay only wash of his household linens from the Governor’s mansion. The laundry bill for the mansion last year was $368.08; a considerable bill for a family of one gay old widower and one daughter. The gas, oil and supplies for the au tomobile which the State gave his Royal Highness runs up a staggering bill and the drug store accounts charg ed up to the mansion would supply a modest sanatorium with necessary antiseptics, toilet goods and drugs for. * These figures are published here because there has been so much talk about Governor Morrison’s high faluting ideas of living like a prince of royal blood, while no one seems to have taken the trouble to publish the facts. This newspaper has no file of State Auditor reports listing the expenses of former Governors’, but it is generally known that the late Governor T. W. Bickett, a man of refined tastes and a great entertain- . er, was criticised in some circles be cause his expenses ran into something like SB,OOO. S A matter of SIB,OOO or $20,000 for the household expenses of a North Carolinian seems little enough to folks used to such expenditures, but it looks like an extravagant sum in ! the eyes of plain living North Car~- liians, thousands of whom support real families on less than is spent for the weekly wash of the Governor’s »ed and table linens. THIEF CAUGhViN SILER CITY. A short time before Christmas, the j store of Lawrence & Son, at Corinth, m lower Cape Fear township was en tered and a quantity of merchandise j carried away. No clue was had at the time as to the guilty parties but the officers have been on the alert to lo cate the guilty parties. A few days ago Charley Crutchfield, chief of police of Siler City, located some of ine stolen goods in the possession of Vann Dowd and Dowd and his son, lom Dowd, both white men were ar rested and charged, with the offense, : ttie elder Dowd being accused as an ! accessory of having received stolen goods, while the younger Dowd 's accused of the crime. Vann Dowd res been released on bond, but Tom is ret in jail. The case will be given a rearing in Pittsboro this week. Besides the one man in jail and one ret on bond, George Brewer and Son Powers, two other white men, and | al Raines ,a colored man, have also i reen arrested. They were taken into custody Monday at Red Hill, near rerbonton, by officers John Bums, chief of police at Pittsboro, Cal De- i depuy sheriff and Johnnie Gold ?°o, also a deputy sheriff and they - av e been lodged in jail. All will be ?Iv en a preliminary hearing this ANXIOUS FOR* THE RECORD. The Chatham Record is in such de ana that we can’t print them fast u°ugh to supply the demand. On JJ ess days we have quite a number in? f or Paper and all expect g to get the first copy. Local sales j e J week reached nearly 50 cop an D we had quite a demand r u £h the mails for the last issue. each 6 arP encou naged more and more ciato aTl d we certainly do appre in? 5 , „ interest the folks are show § paper. Pittsboro citizen went home one reuldn’f m oons ago and he’ him nf Y a k straight. His wife met door and said: “Drunk e » t00 ’” spited the happy CHATHAM DOCTORS MEET. Elect Officers For The Year And Set Scale Os Prices. The Medical Society of Chatham county held its regular monthly meet ing in Siler City on Tuesday night, January 29 with a representative num ber of the doctors being present. Much business of importance was transacted, among which was the election of of ficers fofr the ensueing year.. Dr. J. D. Edwards, of Siler City, was elected president and Dr. W. B. Chaphin, of Pittsboro, os secretary and treasurer. Dr. H. A* Denson, of Bennett, was elected delegate to the State Medical Society to be held in Raleigh during next April. Dr. J. D. Edwards elected as alternate. A motion was adopted to set a uni form scale of prices for Chatham county, and the following schedule will be in effect until the next an nual meeting; Day calls, in town, $2.00 This is the old charge. , Night calls, in town, $4.00. Day calls, out of town, minimum charge 53. 00, with a charge of SI.OO per mile for out of town calls, one way charge. Day hours are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. I Night call, out of town, double that of dav call, i Side call, $2.00. ( Labor cases, normal, $25.00 and mileage. The>e prices are effective February 1, 1924 and thereafter. The fraternity in Chatham county has established a generous considera tion for the people as the charges are far below those charged in most coun ties in Nortel Carolina. OUR NEW LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS j We continue to increase our list of subscribers every week, and we con tinue to get praise from them in ev ery mail. This week we have a nice list of splendid Chatham county peo ple, many of whom have moved away to other places to make their homes, but who say they must have ‘a real newspaper’ from home. We appreciate everyone of them and we hope to continue to merit their approval. The following good people are entered this week: • Minter M. Burns, Wilkes Journal, S. W, ChampiarvChatham News. Mm T. E. Petty, Darrefl Teague, B. W. Harris, H. F. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Bright, R. H. Clark. N. S. Clark, C. C. Brewer, Sanford Jewelry Shop, Howard N. Butler, Mrs. W. W. Fields, Adja H. Womble, Miss Mary Lynch, Rev. E. Jonas McKay. G. G. Lutter loh, J. D. Cooner, O. B. Mann, O. W. Thomas, J. W. Creed, ‘W. P. Petty, B. N. Dickens, Mrs. J. C. Davis, Jar vis E. Johnson, Roy Riggsbee, R. B. Lambeth. C. J. Morris, J. B. Atwater, C. L. Andrews, J. E. Thomas, and one who requests that her name be not published. i Twenty-four of these ar enew sub scribers, some of them never having been subscribers to The Record be fore, while some of them are old friends coming back. ! We now have subscribers in almost every state in the union, besides send ing copies of the Record to New Mex ico, Panama Canal Zone and to China. The Record is the only regularly pub j lished newspaper, weekly, that has j more than four times as many sub scribers as that of the population of j the town in which it is published. If you are not already a subscriber to the Record get on the band wagon now and let us send it to you. I The Record is read by almost every body that’s anvbody. It is the paper that’s in everv home and the only pa per in many homes. We have a letter this week from a lady who states that they take no other paper. A letter from Mr. J. P. Dorsett on Rt. 3, Siler Citv, savs that they can’t get along without The Record. The children are wrong and everything else goes wrong I when The Record don’t come. GEORGE CHAPIN IS VERY ILL. Dr. W. B. Chapin was notified by Mrs. George Chapin Sunday at noon that his brother George, who resides |at Leesburg, Fla., was serously ill, and asked that the doctor come at once. Dr. Chapin left Sunday after noon. i A few days ago a garage caught fire in Leesburg and George was on j the inside fighting the flames, when a ; can of gasoline exploded, covering his | face, arms and breast with burning gasoline. His fae£ and arms were bad ly burned, but he appeared to be get ting along as well as could 1 be expect ed under the circumstances, but he began to suffer acutely on Sunday and his condition became alarming George Chapin is an excellent young j man and has many friends in Chat- i ham countv, where he was reared and thev will deeply smypathize with him and is loved ones in is affliction. ■ i— mi AN ERROR MADE. In our report of the Countv Com missioners published on Thursday .Jan uary 24. we had an item to the effect that C. B. Fitts had been paid S3O. for lumber. This was an error and should have read that Mr. Fitts bought from the countv $1.20 worth of lumber, the amount being calculated at S3O par ! thousand feet. Te error was made by The Record and we gladly correct it. <l rnm . It is usually the lazy man who is I always ready to rest on his laurels. 1 PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, WOODROW WILSON IS DEAD \W WASHINGTON--NAT* N MOURNS STROKE OF PARALYSIS IN REAL CAUSE OF PRESIDENT’S DEATH Flags of the United States' at Half Mast in Reverence Former President Woodrow Wilson died at 11:15 o’clock on Sunday morning in Washington, D. C., at his home on S. Street. The end was peaceful. Life ebbed away while he slept. A tired man, he closed his eyes, and, “sustained and sooth ed by an unfaltering trust,” passed on to the great hereafter “like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams!” The immediate cause of death was exhaustion following a digestve dis turbance which began in the early part of last week but did not reach an acute stage until the early morn ing hours of February 1. Last Friday the grim reaper had forced his way into the house after waiting on the door step more than four years. Saturday he had advanced to the landing on the staircase, and stood counting off the ticks of the great clock. Saturday night he knock ed on the chamber door. A fathful i physician and a loyal wife stood with their backs against it. At 9 o’clock | he rattled the knob and called to the | peaceful, prostrate figure on the bed —a great bed, long and wide, a re plica of the bed in which Abraham Lincoln slept in the White House, with a golden American eagle and a tiny silk American flag just over the headboard. The watchers knew the battle was lost. At the portal of the door now open, the fathful negro servant hov ered. On the bed, sitting beside her husband, sustained with all the for- , titude and composure of a woman fac ing a crisis, was Mrs. Wilson, holding between her hands the wan, withered! right hand that had proved the pen mightier than the sword. Near the foot 6f the bed was the eldest daugh- j ter, Maragret, resigned to the inev itable. Close by, tears welling from his eyes and coursing down his cheeks was Dr. Grayson, taking the measure of the fluttering pulse, weaker and fainter with each effort. Death advanced and beckoned for the last time. The tired, womout man drew a long breath, there was a slight flutter of the eyelids, an almost im perceptible twitch of the nostrils. Woodrow Wilson’s soul had drifted out on the great dark tide that runs around the world. The real cause of the ex-President’s death was a stroke of paralysis which followed his collapse in the late sum mer of 1919. Like Warren G. Harding he was stricken while on a speaking trip in the west. Up to the time of his collapse the country thought him a normally heal thy man, but he was far from it. He entered the White House with a well developed start toward Bright’s dis ease which caused his physicians to predict that he would never finish his first term. But _by careful devotion to his doctor’s orders he fought off the malady. He was practically blind in one eye from a retinal hemorrhage which came while he was still at Princeton university, but the country never knew it. Years before he had suffered a thrombosis—a blood clot j j in his arteries—but it was in one of! | his legs and never developed any 1 j serious trouble. The same thing in his brain later on laid him low and led to his death. By his own personal directions, the ‘ exact nature of his fatal illness was concealed from the world for months because he feared public knowledge of it, while he was President, might lead to a stock market panic, and pos sibly far-reaching consequences to a world then passing through the first stages of post-war reconstruction, some of the details came out piece meal and over a long period of time. Others have not been hitherto pub lished. It is appropriate, therefore, to give them now that he s dead. | Tentative plans for the funeral of i Mr. Wilson, as announced Monday' by Dr. Grayson, provide for a brief private service at his residence at 3 ! o’clock Wednesday, Feb. 6th. j This service will be followed by | another at 3:30 o’clock at Bethlehem Chapel in the cathedral at Mount St. Albins, where the body will be placed in a vault until arrangements have been made as a final resting place. It was decided not to hold a state funeral as proposed by some, or to let the body lie in state at the Capitol. The funeral services will be con ducted both at the home and at the chapel by the Rev. James H. Taylor, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, which Mr. Wilson attended, the Rev. Sylvester Beach, of Prince i ton, N. J., who was Mr. Wilson’s pas- I tor there, and Bshop Freeman, of Washington. The Federal government already has offered to do whatever is fitting !to express the nation’s reverence at ► ***************** ♦ » * * WAS A MARTYR. * * * * (By Amirer on Pittsboro 3.) * * * * After all the harm his enemies * * claim he did his country and fel- * * low citizens, in Woodrow Wlson’s * * heart he was as true and brave * * a martyr to his country as Rob- * * ert Emmett was to Ireland. * * * ***************** 11 EX-PKES. WOODROW WILSON. the passing of a great leader. Presi dent Coolidge called m persn at the Wilson home on Sunday and expressed his regret and his readiness to be helpful, and then issued a proclamation of thirty days official mourning. Over .the White House and the .government on the nation’s fighting ships at sea, and on the outposts of | American diplomacy in foreign lands i the Stars and Stripes were brought to i half mast. Congress Monday recessed |in respect for his memory, and the whole machinery of the government of the Unted States, whose guiding genius he was for eight momentous years, will stand still on the day of ,his funeral. ■ I UNION SERVICE SUNDAY NIGHT. | Welcome Extended to Mr. Shannon house at St. Bartholomew’s. j Rev. R. G. Shannonhouse, recently called as Rector to St. Bartholomews ! Parish in Pitsboro, was given a wel come service at his church last Sun j day night. I Mayor AC. Ray presided with an 1 opening address and the following gentlemen responded with appropriate talks: Rev. J. J. Boone, Jas. L Grif fin, W. P. Horton, Victor R. Johnson, Prof. E. R. Franklin and Prof. W. R. Thompson. I It was a distinctive meeting and one. ! pronounced to be the best that has been held n Pittsboro in a long time. All other services for the evening had been recalled and the town gathered •at St. Bartholomews to offer honor i and good will to the new Rector. Mr. .Shannonhouse responded to {the greetings offered, in his character i istic style and everyone gave him j the glad hand of fellowship. I The townsfolk appreciate the fact 1 that they are fortunate enough to .have Mr. Shannonhouse here. He is a preacher of acute intellect, splendid vision and broad in his views and he i will mean more to Pittsboro than merely being the pastor of one of its churches. He has been called to a splendid church, one that offers more than a mere pastorate. It has a history and while its membership is small, it is one of the most loyal to be found any where . The members are ever alert to their obligation and it will be found that St. Bartholomews and Mr. Shannonhouse will be mutually at tached before many moons. MISsTwRENN liTa RECITAL. Two student recitals are to be giv en this month by the Greensboro col lege, the first of whch took place on last Monday. All musicians appearing on these programs have not made appearance before in this series of recitals. This recital is an annual event. On the first Monday in each month the students recital will be held. In a recital on Monday, January 21st, Miss Alma Wrenn, of Siler City, was one of those to present an organ recital. Her number was “Arise,. O Sun” Maude Day. This composition was never used before in a recital. Her many friends will be delighted to know that Miss Wrenn has an en viable reputation in her musical pur suits at the college. i » Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s shoes, if he^ wears no more. 83r= SEE YOUiTIABEL FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS. Puzzle This Week Confined To Young Readers of The Record. We are offering a problem this week for boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighhteen years. We want everyone to try and see if they can’t work it out. At first it may ap pear simple, but you will have to do some studying before you can accom plish it. We are going to award this prize purely on the manner of its ar rangement and neatness, and on the correctness of the answer. The object of the problem is to in sert nine figures in the nine squares below in such a manner that they will add up fifteen both from left to right and from top to bottom. No figure can be used twice and a cipher must not be used. All of. the figures must be single. Following is the squares. i •*, ' •*' •• The figure nine must be the first one used in the upper, left hand cor ner of square Do not use the squares here. Draw your own squares, place the figures therein so that they will accomplish the purpose, sign your name, give your correct address, including route number, >tell your age and certify on your honor that you have not been helped by anyone older than you . are. Also tell the school you attend, if any, and the teachers name. , Remember the neatness, correctness and general arrangement will deter mine the winner as well as other con siderations. The winner gets a six months free subscription to The Chatham Record, to be sent to such person as the win ner may designate. Address all answers to Joe Snyder, care of The Chatham Record, Pitts boro, N. C. | All answlers must be In Joe Snyder’s Hanjc ] a ter than Monday, Febru ary 11. MEASLES ON SILER CITY FOUR. •VT Bridge Now Completed Over Terrells Creek—Local News. Siler City, Rt. 4, Feb. 4.—The work on the bridge over Terrells Creek has just been completed. This bridge is near the home of Mr. John Glenn. Mrs. J. C. Crutchfield spent Sat urday night and Surd ay w,th her sister in law, Mrs. J. C. Simmons. Misses Nena and Erma Lindley spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. D. Perry. Miss Tressa Rogers visted at Mr. J. P. Lindley’s Sunday afternoon. Miss Vida Lindley, of Bonlee high school, spent the week end at home. The children of Mr. G. D. Lindley i are confined at home with the measles. The family of Mr. John Harris are also sick with measles and pneumonia. Mr. W. H. Stone is slowly improv ing after a spell of sickness . ’ MR. ERNEST FARRELL HURT. Last Thursday night, January 31st, Mr. Ernest Farrell, of Pittsboro, was severely injured when the big oil truck he was driving left the road ; tnr ran through the bridge over Rob ersons Creek, just south of Pittsboro. Two great timbers forced themselves through the radiator, under the hood ! and to the cab where Ernest was sit ting, pinning him to the seat and badly crushing one of his thighs. He was given first aid by Dr. W. B. Chapin, and taken to- a hospital in Durham. Mrs. Farrell, who has been with her husband constantly was in Pitts boro yesterday and states that he is getting on nicely. Ernest has no tem -1 perature and his condition, aside his injury is normal. Mr. Farrell is general agent here for the Standard Oil Co., and .had been on delivery trip and was re turning after dark, with poor lights and an approaching car blinded him, causing him to miss the bridge, j He had a narrow escape and those I who saw the wreck marvel that he escaped so fortunately. His mutitude of frends in Chat ham rejoice that he was only painful ly injured and hope for his rapid re covery, despite the fact the surgeons state he will be confined for several tfeeks. OAKLAND HAPPENINGS. Pittsboro, Rt. 3, Feb. 4.—Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Goldston and children spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Burns. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Clegg spent Sunday night with their daughter, Mrs. W. C. Henderson. Miss Dora Gunter, of Durham, came home Saturday to spend a few days with relatives.' Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bland and chil dren spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Burns. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D Bums. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tuck, of Dur ham. visited in the home of Mr. C. M. Eddins Sunday. It’s a wise woman who knows when ; to stop talking and turn on the tears. | AWARD MADE TO FOUR IN• STEAD ONE. N. T. Smith, Mrs. Woodell, Henry Teague and Henry Buckner. Our devoted friend and contest ed itor came in Tuesday morning with tears in his eyes and stated that he had gone through the one hundred and fifty six answers that he received from our last week’s puzzle, and that he had found sixty-five of them cor rect so far as the object itself was concerned, but on arrangement he had narrowed his views down to five and he could not decide between them and the editor himself would have that to do. i -. Now, this is a proposition that we have made effort to avoid, but we told Joe Snyder we would relieve him of further responsibility and we looked the five of them over. We considered that of N. T, Smith, Bear Creek, Ut. 1, the best, with the answer by Mrs. M. D. Woodell, High Point, close second, so we are gving these two con testants a six months free subscrip tion each. Elsewhere we are publish ing both their answers. Then, too, Miss Bessye Caviness was good and we decided to publish her answer as well and let the advertising advantage she would get, reimburse her effort. Then we came to the names of two of our younger friends, Henry Albion Teague, Siler Cty, fit. 1, whose in itials, “H.A.T.” spell the answer, and he had it arranged in a characteristic style so we have decided to give Hen ry a three months subscription any how. He is 12 years old and attends school at White Cross, with Miss Ber ta Dark as teacher. He is a smart *young boy and makes a good pupil, according to the report from his school. Last, but not least, by any mean, comes young John Henry Buck ner, Siler City, Rt. 4. His mother takes The Record and he reads it ev ery word each week and says the more he reads it, the better he likes it, so we are making an award of three months subscription to him. Unless otherwise ordered we will enter these names on our list next week. If the winners would prefer to have TJie Record go to anyone other than themselves for the time they have won, they must write promptly and tell us. Thereis anotkor-ptaxiethis week for the younger folks. Let all take a part and observe the rules closely. This is an entertaining feature of The Record and furnishes much fun and recereation for our young readers. Last week brought more replies than any heretofore and shows its increas ing popularity. The mistake that most of them made was stating that it was a “Mah’s Hat,” or a “Woman’s Hat,” some addressed their letters to the editor, Colin G. Shaw, while others sent them to The Chatham Record, in stead of to Joe Snyder and those im properly addressed were not given to Mr. Snyder. Those giving the correct answers to the puzzle, but losing in other res pects, were: Mrs. W. B. Knight, Edward B. Fol leman, Ruby A. Rickmond, Edna Hat ley, Charles Gamble, Fr°d F. Tysor, Mrs. J. H. Webster, Sallie Edwards, H. B. Jones, W. E. Beane, E. M. Har ris. Walter R. Moffitt, J. C. Cheek, Robert Glosson, Robert Haley, Caro Mabel Farrell, Josie Johnson, Les sie Jones. Edith Welch, George Castle berry, Mrs. N. E. Bland, Mrs. A. A. Marks, A. G. Burgess, Mrs. R. H. Overby, George Voncamion. Roy Cole, Eva Kirkman, Annie Mae Dixon, Ow en Buie Mclver, Mattie M. Stedman, Rose Bums. Reta A. Andrews, Ken neth G. Rives, Mrs. Martha Pike, Maxine Thomas, Clarence Dowd, Ma ble Jackson, M. F. Tignor, Dewey Cheek, Alma Lee Snipes, Virginia Ka ral Rives, Lula E. Beale, Mary E. Womble, Roe E. Gunter, Margaret Paschal, Erma Elkin®, Mrs. J. R. Beale, Mrs, E. C. Hart, Margaret Lee Kellum, Clatie Daffron, John A. Burke, Mollie Stinson, Clarence Clark, Flossie Clark, Elizabeth Rid dle, Mrs. Paul L. Elkns, Mary P. Hor ton, Motley Vestal, M. H. Brewer, Eva Brooks, Mrs. M. H. Moody, Mrs. Lina Johnson, Annie M. Lambeth. TO OPEN MILLINERY STORE. Miss Bessye Caviness, of Siler City, has rented the rooms over the store of J. J Johnson & Son and on March first she will open a millinery and ladies ready-to-wear store there. Miss Caviness is an experienced merchant m ladies goods, she has an abundance of friends in this part of •the county who will be glad to/know that she is coming to Pittsboro to open a store. Then, too, she will h*ve as manager of the local store, Miss Cordie Harmon, recently with the W. L. London & Son store, and who is so well known and has many friends m and around Pittsboro. CAUGHT A FOX* LAST SUNDAY. Last Sunday Sallie and Hilda, two of the best hounds that Mr. W. J. Bland owns, took it into their head that they wanted one more fox chase and hied themselves out and struck a trail, running Sir Reynard to an old house near Bonsai, where his foxship was taken alive and unharmed. LOOK AT THE*LABEL ON PAPER, STRAYED—Lewellen setter dog, named Jack. Has white and brown , soots on the head. Reward, naid. Evnest William® at Farmers Bank. NUMBER 35;