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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 IT IS PUBLISHED The Chatham Record ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. ffl THE RECORD AND PROGRESSIVE FARMER FOR LESS THAN PRICE OF THE RECORD ALONE ONLY SI.OO FOR THE 2 Demand For The Record Brings About This Decision Thee nas been such a demand made ~po n us to give others a chance to et the Chatham Record for one dollar that we have decided to give the peo ple of Chatham one more chance. Lots „f folks have come to us and said that they did not know that we had on a special offer and wanted the paper. We could not let them have it, be cause the period of time the we an nounced had passed. Now we are go ing to give everybody a fair show and if you want The Chatham Record and not already a subscriber, now is the time for you to get it. It is the BEST paper ever published in Chatham county, according to the statement of hundreds of people. Here is the offer, in plain black and white, and it is up to you to act promptly because we are making the offer for a short time only. It is this: Send us one dollar and we will send vou BOTH the Record for a full eight 'months and The Progressive Farmer for one full year. The only rendition being that it must be a new »uscription for The Farmer. For The Chatham Record we will receive subscriptions for either old or new subscribers, but for The Farmer no renewal subscriptions will be re ceived. Or you can subscribe for The Record for yourself and have the Far mer sent to a friend; or the reverse. You can subscribe for the Farmer for yourself and have The Record sent to a friend. Many people have requested this and we hope they will not wait until the time has expired and then ask us to violate it. On this offer all subscriptions must be in our hands on or before Saurday March, Bth. We shall continue all old subscriptions until the close of this campaign and discontinue those who do not renew at that time-. Some of our correspondents and friends have asked us to do this for the benefit of their friends. So now is your chance to get yoiCr neighbor to take The Record. The only way for him to know about this proposition is for you to tell him. He is not a sub scriber and when he borrows your paper he may read it over hurriedly and he may not see it. When you have 7-ead about this offer tell him and he will subscribe and quit borrowing your paper. You can also get The Record alone for only SI.OO for a full twelve months if you prefer the Record alone. You don’t want to miss the news during the political campaign. You want to know what is going on in your county. You want to know all the facts about your home and the very best source to get it is through the columns of The Chatham Record. We hold nothing back about any thing or anybody, and it will be worth many times your dollar before the end of the year. Then, too, you B®* the Progressive Farmer for one whole year. The papers are worth hat price for many purposes—our enemies say Don t let this opportunity pass. We want vour remittance at once and as soon as it is received we will start : he paper. We must have your remit tance not later than on Saturday. or it cannot be accepted at the special proposition, oend a money order, registered let or a check. We cannot be respon se for currency sent in the mail. your neighbor to give you a check if you haven’t a checking ac count of your own, or buy a money order from your postmaster or rural \ carrier. For your convenience we are print- ! ln g a coupon elsewhere in The Record this week for use in sending in the remittance. Address all letters to COLIN G. SHAW, Editor, Pittsboro, N. C. RUMMAGE SALdTsATURDAY. , The woman’s club of Pittsboro will !l°ld a rummage sale on Saturday, February 16th, next. Every club mem her is requested to help by giving a h of the old clothing of every kind an d anything that can be sold. The realized from this sale will be a?p d to pay off the Endowment fund. | Send all donations to Mrs. J. W. f Hunt, who is chairman of the commit- i to be without The Record.” SILER CITY GAMES , Early last week the boys basket J al ' team of Siler City played the ! hl £h school team at Ramsuer and defeated by a score of 25 to 20. <j.P n Thursday the girls team from City played the Sylvan team • r ° m Snow Camp and were defeated :7 > a score of 15* to 12. the game be- , 1 * Played in Siler City. *ndav the bovs team from Siler . v F Played the Denton boys at Ashe of pi er City won by a score • 14 i1 23 - nwnwwa ( vil? y* E. Dark, of Oxford, is n 8 her sister, Mrs. Sam Griffin. 1 j A REMARKABLE OLD COUPLE. Both Passed Seventy, Yet Active and Live Happily Together. One of the oldest and most remark able couples living in Chatham county is Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Rieves, resident of route 2., Bear Creek, N. C. Mr. Rives is 86 years old and Mrs. Rives is 75 years old. His birthday was cel ebrated on January 17th, 1924, and that of his good wife will be honored next August 11th, at which time she ! will be 76 years old. j This old couple live alone, all of I the children having established homes ! for themselves, and moved away, j Both are active and energetic. Mr. ; Rives cuts the wood and does the ’chores about the place, reads his pa pers, among them the Chatham Rec ord, smoks his pipe and gets as much satisfaction out of life as he did for ty years ago. Mrs. Rives does the housework and her home is as tidy and neat as can be found anywhere; in fact a great deal more so than some of the modern bob-haired women keep theirs. I addition she milks the cow, churns, keeps a nice flock of chickens, gathers the eggs and enjoys th pastime immensely. This old couple did not roll in wealth, but they are possessed with a sufficiency of this world’s goods and they are as contented and as happy as any pair that can be mustered in the whole of Chatham county. Mrs. Rives is the second wife, i About fifty years ago Mr. Rives married Mrs. Sallie B. Watson and to this union were bom five children. They were Rena, now Mrs. W. B. Cheek, Capel N. C., George E. Rives, of Goldston, N. C., C. J. Rives and D. A. Rives, both of Bear Creek, Rt. 2, and Mary Rives, who died several who died several years ago. Soon after the birth of Mary her mother died. In a few years Mr. Rives married his present wife. She was Miss Julia Moore and to them were bom two children, one of them Ralph Rives, , lives at Goldston and the other Addie, : now Mrs. P. L. Elkins, livs on route " 2, Bear Creek. i j This old couple is surrounded by 1 their children and grand children and their greatest delight is to have them gather about them at times in a joy ous union and the love and esteem between them is beautiful. It is per jhaps one of the happiest homes, and 'bo doubt eldest couples in Chatham. Their children have all reached their majority and they are all living cor rect lives and are an honor to trie old couple in their declining years. It is a blessing to them and the children are a blessing to themselves. Noble lives, honorable conduct, rectitude of action and a splendid example to those who would be blessed with like happiness in the springtime of old age, and a heritage anyone might well covet, i The Record extends a cordial greet ing to this splendid couple and to all , those that are near and dear to them. ANNOUNCE PRIZE* NEXT WEEK | Will Take Time to Decide The Win ner-Watch Record Watch The Chatham Record next week for the winner of the prize in the Mathematical problem as publish ed last week. There has been some thing like two hundred replies and I Joe Snyder says he will have to be given more time to decide the winner. Says he just can’t do it in time t* get it in the paper this week, j On account of the fact that the win ner cannot be announced this week, we are not running a puzzle for a prize this week, but we will have one that will keep you guessing for a while next week, so we want all our young friends to watch for the paper to come and get an early start, be cause you are going to have to work some to get the next one. It will be #asy if you go about it the right way, I and we are going to let you have all i the help that you want. So be ready ! to start the minute you get The Rec ord. We want to thank all our young friends for the many nice things that they had to say in their letters about The Chatham Record. We are going to continue to make it an interesting paper for you and we want you to continue to read it. MT. ZION LOCAL NEWS Moncure, Rt. 2, Feb. 10—Mr. and Mrs. Carey Griffin, of Pittsboro, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin. ; Mrs. Tommie Gotten and little son, of Cumnock, spent most of last week with Mrs. Turner Petty. There are several cases of measles among the little folks in this com munity. We hope that they will soon be well again. Mr. Tom Pope, a gifted mechanic of Atlanta, Ga., has been here several days doing some mechanical work for Mr. J. Lee Harrison. Mrs. Clyde Griffin, spent several days last week with her parents in Durham. Mrs. W. B. Thomas, spent last Fri day in Raleigh, visiting relatives. j There will be a box party at Mur phy school tonight, Thursday, Febru i ary 14th. The p roceeds are for the benefit of the school, and the public 'is invited to attend. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1924. . SILER FAILS ? -’0 GET PAROLE J. W. Bownre ; Will Not be Given Freedom t Twenty Days Last week Iter D. Siler went to i ; Raleigh and sented to governor Cameron Mo ion a plea to release on parole so venty days one J. W. Bowman, nc serving a sentence on : the chain ff; g ot Chatham county. The governor granted the request up on the argument of attorney Siler, but the iniormation leaked out as soon as it had been granted and the gov ernors office was flooded with tele grams and phone calls and he phoned sheriff Blair to disregard the parole that had been mailed direct to him, later sending a telegram to Mr. Blair confirming the telephone mes sage. Governor Morrison frankly admits that he was misguided in the affair and that he was pleased to withdraw the parole on the presentation of the facts by a delegation of good people who later went in person to see him. j It will be remembered that Bowman was convicted in Lee county on a liquor charge in two cases and sen tenced to work the roads in Chatham 12 months in each case. He appealed from the decision of the superior court and pending his appeal he as saulted a boy who was caught hunting on his premises, breaking the lad’s gun on some rock. When Bowman was reprimanded by the father,of the boy for the act, he assaulted him and also choked the mother of the boy. An alarm was sent in and Bowman ,defied the sheriff of Lee and made his escape. He was declared an out law by the State and was later cap tured in Surry county, a former home. He lay in jail in Pittsboro several weeks pending a fight to have his road sentence changed and on Jan uary 25th was finally sent to the roads in Chatham. Just why any consideration should be shown a criminal of this character is hard to understand and it is to be appreciated that the governor found out the true state of affairs before Bowman was given an opportunity to do further mischief and possibly make his escape from the State. The people of both Chatham and Lee are indignant over such an oc currence. The best element of citi zenship in the two counties are de termined to stamp out the liquor business and to deal with criminals in the proper manner, and there is no need to attempt to excite sympa thy for them. The best opportunity that violators of the law have is to stop their wrong doing before the clutches of the law gets them and avoid embarassing situations. Neither money, politics or influence can de flect punishment any longer. The people are tired of it and they want action. Commenting on the circumstance, The Sanford Express says: Raleigh, February 5, 1924. Sheriff Lee County: The prisoner, J. W. Bowman, was convicted in two cases in the Superior Court of Lee County and sentenced tc 12 months in each case for the viola tion of th prohibition law. It has been made to appear to me by evidence which I credit that the prisoner has a very great and im portant private buhiness matter which ought to have his attention and that it is highly to his interest to have a short parole for this pur pose. I. Therefore, parole him for twenty days upon the condition that he ex ecute a bond m the sum of $5,000, conditonied upon his returning and submitting himself to the judgment of the court. The bond to be ap proved by the Clerk of Court of Lee county. CAMERON MORRISON, ' Governor. By the Governor. W. H. Richardson, Private Secretary. The above parole is self-explana tory. When it was learned here Wed nesday morning that his parole had been granted, some of the leading citizens of Sanford got in touch with Governor Morrison by phone and af ter they had explained some things to him he realized that he had been im posed upon. He held up the parole until they could go to Raleigh and present the matter in full. The fol lowing gentlemen went to Raleigh this (Thursday) morning to give reasons why the parole should not be , granted; Solicitor C. L. Williams, : Mayor W. H. Fitts, Sheriff Landon C. Rosser, Paul Barringer, Chairman of the Board of County Commission ers, J. R. Rieves, member of the Board of Aldermen, Dr. R. C. Gilmore, pas tor of the Presbyterian church, John R. Jones, secretary-treasurer of the Sanford Cotton Mill Company. There also went a delegation from Jones boro headed by Rev. E. B. Stanfield, pastor of the Jonesboro Methodist church. ************ * MR. WRIGLEY SAYS: * * - * I believe in newspaper adver- * * tising. I spend about a million *. * dollars a year -for newspaper * * space to tell the world about the * * goods I have to sell. * * Nearly everybody reads the * * papers and they are the most * •* effectiv medium to reach the buy- * * ing public quickly and often. * ************ 1 * Q Loafing is just a slow and tiresome business of lighting another cigarette. SILER CITY INDUSTRIES Year 1923 Was the Best In the His tory Os The Town i Siler City, Feb. 9.—Siler City, which is the metropolis of Chatham county, is located on the old Cape Fear and Yadkin railroad now op perated by the Southern, and is ap proximately half way between Greens boro and Sanford. It is the center of more than 100 miles of good, improv ed highways radiating to all parts of the state. | During the past year Siler City has made more progress than during any previous year, this being partial ly due to its splendid back country, for this growing town of western Chatham is the center of a section that has a wonderful variety of soils, ; making possible the production of a wide diversity of crops—cotton, corn, wheat, rye, oats, clover, potatoes, pea nuts, melons, tobacco and much truck. Slowly but steadily Siler City is becoming a manufacturing point and as such is attracting new business, new enterprises and naturally an in creased population. The pioneer in the manufacturing business was the Hadley Peoples company, manufacturers of cotton yarns, which from a small begin ning with 2,000 spindles has grown to 10,000. During the past year the company has installed a new water system, a part of which is a modem sprinkler throughout its buildings, erected a warehouse capable of hold ing 2,000 bales of cotton and the original steam power has been su perceded by electricity. , Twenty years ago the High Point Bending and Chair company was or ganized here housing itself in a wooden building with 2,400 square feet of floor space. Other buildings were erected as were required but it remained for the most marked improvements to be made the past 1 year, when a moderti three story building comprising 110,000 square feet of floor space, replaced the old wooden structures. As an outgrowth of the Rex Chair company the Chatham Chair com pany was organized during 1923 to continue the manufacture of a num ber of different kinds of chairs. The plant of Williams, Brower and company which was located five miles west of here was moved to this place in September of last year into . its own new buildings in the southern | part of town. Another plant which affords a ’ ready market for raw materials is the Chatham Cedar company which will in a few days move its equipment into its new building near the depot, ; One of the moit keenly felt needs |of the community ter a number of * seasons has been that of some means whereby ice could be regularly and satisfactorily supplied. This situa tion was met during the past year by J. B. Buchanan, of Sanford, who | erected an ice plant here with a ! daily capacity of 12 tons in addition to which will be maintained the coming season a commodious cold storage plant. i The broom factory has outgrown its original building and has moved its machinery into the former large ! quarters of the Siler City Auto and Machine company, this being a well [ arranged brick building. ! Siler City Mills with a daily capac ity of 90 barrels of flour and 120 Jbushels of meal are contemplating the installation of their own power by March of this year. The original cotton gin of Lane and Stone was the past season con verted into a storage room, a much larger and more modem gin having been erected to replace the old one. It is necessary to turn backward 30 years to get at the beginning of Siler City’s school life when there was established here the old Thomp son school, a department of which was a business course, the first of its kind ever taught in North Carolina. Graduates and students of this old institution are scattered throughout the South Atlantic states. During the succeeding years the local grad ed schools has had its home in the same building until last September when the 450 pupils marched proud into a beautiful new brick build ing erected at a cost of $75,000. This structure with its six acres of play grounds, is indeed an achievement i claiming its full share of community i pride. A corps of fifteen teachers j with S. J. Stone as principal, backed j by a live parent-teachers association, places Siler City’s school system among the best. During the past year the Metho dist congregation has moved into a ! beautiful new brick church located j on the same spot as that of the old i wooden building. The Baptist are making plans for a new church and j it is quite probable that active work , will be begun during this year. Conveniently located near the cen ter of town and three ffiUng stations. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Elkins last September opened an ideally ar- I ranged undertaking establishment. At different points about town there were built during 1923 about 35 residences, notably among these being the palatial home of J. Wade Siler, which is the handsomest in the county. In addition to these are a large number of homes built in the negro section, showing the spirit of thrift among this class. The increaesd business of the two banks together with the increase of the postoffice receipts indicate the healthy financial condition of the community. A gain of nearly $6,000 was made in the postal receipts in the last half of 1923 over the corres- j ponding period of 1922. MR. BAILEY FIGHTING FOR A JUST SYSTEM OF TAXATION IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Does Not Think’Senator 4 or Governor Should Name Successors ANSWERS OBSERVER More About His Principles Upon Which He Will Make Campaign. 7 The followng article appeared a few days ago in The Charlotte Ob server and was in answer to a crit cism made by that paper. 1 had hoped to be spared the nec essity of further writing to you at this time; but someone has sent me a copy of your editorial page contain ing my concluding letter in regard to the official relations of yourself and your Raleigh correspondent to the present Administration; and I find that you have sprung two new sub jects of discussion. I do not wish to present the appearance of constantly discussing matters in your paper; but you bring foward some subjects that I think demand my attention 1. You speak of the vote the girls took in Chowan College. I assure you that the only light in which that may be viewed is that it was wholly acad emic. I think ft was without political significance, it was complimentary to Mr McLean. I do not think the girls meant anything more than a little lo cal diversion; and 1 most earnestly hope that none of the people of this State will take the matter so seriously as you seem to have done. So much for this. It is quite inter esting to observe that although you often say that nobody is for me for Governor, my candidacy nevertheless seems to give you great concern 2. As to what Mr. Whitlock has to | say, I wish to address myself only to that paragraph in which he says: “It is hard to understand why Mr. I Bailey has turned from a staunch sup j porter of Governor Morrison to one of I his constant'* critics. Mr. Bailey sup | ported Mr. Morrison for Governor, spoke for him and lent the aid of his mighty pen in his campaign. After Morrison’s election and on down to the middle of his term* Mr. Badley seemed to be pleased with the Gover nor’s Administration. He was looked upon as one of his advisors and sup porters. What has happened ? The Governor hasn’t changed. He has dog gedly stuck to every policy announced in his campaign and had the good fortune to see most of them carried out. His enemies will say as much. Can his friends say less? He has cer tainly not changed; yet from a strong supporter, Mr. Bailey has come to be a constant critic of the Governor. He | was formerly a staunch supporter of I Senator Simmons and held office by i virtue of the Senator’s support. Has i Simmon’s changed ? Not that anybody i has heard of. Yet Bailey holds it I against McLean that Simmons is for him.” I think I can clear this matter once and for all. As for Senator Simmons, I do not think a United States Senator should undertake to nominate our Governors. So, I respectively differ with him on this point. We entrust him with the : senatorship in behalf of all the i people. I do not hold the fact against | Mr. McLean; it will doubtless be held ! both for and against his candidacy. 3. Now as to Governor Morrison. I do not think that Governors should ! undertake to name their successors j but when the present Governor’s kins i men and appointee (such as Whit i lock) takes the field so earnestly 1 against one candidate and for another, I judge that we are to be left in no doubt on this score, in view of no lit tle evidence in many other directions, j It is true that I supported Mr. Mor j rison for Governor, and undertook to I be a friend to him after he entered ! upon his duties. I wished the utmost, ! success for his Administration. The i break between us is a matter of rec- J I ord. I published in the papers shortly j after the election of November, 1922, , an article in which I set out “Four j Services of Progress” for our State and party to perform. These four ser vices were stated as follows: I. Safeguard and check the issu ling of long term bonds. 11. Reduce the volume of taxes — State, covnty, city and town. j 111. Rescue primary and election systems from corrupting use of mon ey* IV. Rehabiliate the office and curb the power of the State Tax Commis sioner. i Upon publication of this article, Governor Morrison denounced me in the press of this State, for attacking his Administration. This was a great surprise to me —I had thought to help : his Administration. I still (to this day) do not see wherein I attacked his Administration. It did not occur to me that friendship required servile silence on my part Upon public ques jtic - This article was prompted largely by certain discoveries I had made in the primary of 1922; they greatly as tonished me and humiliated me. I felt that it would be more seemingly to speak of these discoveries after the i election; but I made up my mind that I I would speak of them and protest ►— —• against them'between the election and the assembling of the General As j seunbly in 1928. I was seeking to servo the State and the Democratic party in writing this article. I had defended and upheld the Dem ocratic party in eight successive cam paigns. I thought I might at least set forth my views of its duty. And at worst I anticipated only that those opposing them would consider and discuss them—it did not occur to mo that they would cause anyone to de nounce me, for I had become con vinced of my duty. Mr. Editor I deeply feel that our party and our State have reached a stage that demands most conscientious consideration and deep rooted action. I am now setting out to make a fight and put an end to the corruption in our politics and to bring about fair play. I am also fighting for a fair sys tem of taxation. Mr. Whitlock is right in his statement that I stood for hon est taxation in 1919. I stand for hon est taxation now. In my announcement I declared that “land ought to bear its fair shares of taxation—and no more. The burden now upon our farms and small homes is greater than can be borne.” This is my view. I am setting out also to make a fight for fair freight rates, and to put an end to the outrageous discrim inations against our State. I intend to show how railroads have dominated the policy of this State for 30 years; and how (very recently) they cut off one more chance to obtain for this State a through line from the middle west to the sea via Charlotte, and a through-rate based upon a through line. I intended also bringing foward the condition of our farmers; and to con vince the State that, while we have a great deal of industrial progress, .we cannot be satisfied nor may we i be secure, until we have a prosperous agriculture as well. Revelations dis closed by official investigations of the state (recently published), as to how our farmers have to live and how little they receive, are enough to de press and arouse every man whose heart is susceptible to the considera tions of humanity. They are enough to demand the attention of every man who believes in the general welfare. We cannot have a real and great progress fir tMs Commonwealth so long as half of our population (that is oar farmers) are languishing. These are four great subjects, the subjects of my candidacy. There may be “many holes hr my armor”, as Mr. Whitlock said; I cannot help that. I would be the last man to portray myself as invulnerable to criticism and attack. But these causes are great causes, and there is nothing wrong with them; Sm If my health and strength, shall be spared me four or five months, I shall do somewhat to advance these causes I would prefer, of course, that our people would center their minds upon these subjects, rather than weaknesses and frailities of the candidates—and I think they will. We are beginning to live in a time of larger views and larger thinking in North Carolina. Petty politics and personal politics are passing out. There is a new day the world over. Some of us do not realize .that an age is dying—not only here, I but everywhere. People are taking j charge of their governments, and they mere political considerations and po ; litical appeals ;and they are demand ing that those who undertake to serve them in office shall think and act, not in terms of personal preferment or gratification, not in terms of enjoy ment of political power and glory, but in terms of service to humanity. I do not know at this time whether our party shall nominate me for Gov ernor, or not. Nor do you.’ I read in your paper that all of the powers are against me. You see only the bigwigs. You forget the people. Do you think ; this would. deter me for a moment ?! |Do you think that these statements will deter the people for a moment? • No. Neither you nor I will know what jthe outcome is until June 7. I shall i make the fightt with an abiding faith in the power of the great rank-and file of men and women of whom the I Democratic party consists, and whom it must serve—or die—in the faith that they wall see to it that the right prevails, and that thev are served. JOSIAH W. BAILEY. Raleigh, N. C. A FEW MORE NEW FRIENDS. This week we have twenty new suscribers, some of them old friends, a few of them entirely new. We ap preciate every one of these subscribers and we greatly appreciate the nice things they say about the paper. This week we are giving our old and new friends another chance to get the Rec ord and Progressive Farmer at a low rate. Tell your friends about it so they may enjoy the privileges of a good pa per. Here are our friends for this week N. T. Smith, Mrs. J. H. Nall. C. T. Dezerne, Mrs. M. C. Mclver, J. C. Puryear, O. D. Wicker, J. W. Loyd, John P. Dorsett, T. B. Wilkinson, Rev. J. E. Reaves, D. S. Barber, Willis Clark, Mary A. Poe, M. T. Williams American Land Co., Union Republi can, H. C. Johnson, W. P. Carter, B. D. Woody, Henry Albion Teague, W. H. Rieves, John Henry Buckner and two who request that their name be not publishd. NUMBER 36.