ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878.
g ODELL COTTON MILL
HAD PROSPEROUS SEASON
Mill a* Bynum Not Idle a Day
Durina the Dull Milling Sea
son —Sold Ahead
Probably the Odell Cotton Mill at
R.-UPi I' 3 ' s been more fortunate than
.« other in the state, or has bene
flVpj from better management. Many
ot all, of the other mills in the
r te had to shut down or run on short
( i u ring the spring and summer.
4 e Bvnum plant has run day and
!Lht and is still so running, and
are ahead for its product that
indicate continued activity during the
fom infir months.
It was the editor’s pleasure to ac
,npaliv general manager A. H. Lon
; n to the mill Thursday and to look
t e r the fine property.
Situated on the Haw it is independ
ent with respect to power. For half
eiituiy its wheels have been turning
ave for a period after fire had de
lved the original plant in the eight-
And though the capacity of the
nant is now 12,000 spindles, even
curing the past weeks of low water
te wheels have not stopped at all for
-the lack of power. .
part of the plant is operated by
jrect water power, while a second I
cirt is operated by electricity gen
erated on the spot.
The mill, originally built by the
Bvnum brothers, now belongs to the
Odell company, which consists of the
Odell brothers of Greensboro /and !
Concord and Mr. A. H. London, of j
Pittsboro. Mr. J. A. Odell, of Greens
boro. is president, Mr. W. R. Odell,
of Concord, vice president and Mr.
A. H. London, secretary-treasurer and i
general manager, and the facts cited J
indicate what the character of the |
management is.
Air. C. W. Neal is superintendent.
He is a product of the mill, having
entered it as a boy forty-two years
ago at the bottom and climbed all
the way up to the sperintendency. He
has a good job and is evidently equal
to the occasion. Mr. W. C. Abernathy
is foreman of the card room and Mr.,
j M. Durham of the spinning room.
The whole personnel of the mill is
superior, being practically all of good
Chatham county stock.
The product of the mill is thread
rady for knitting mills. It is shipped
fur and wide, even to Cuba and South
America. In one corner Mr. R. L. j
Smith is busy making big boxes in
which the product is shipped, making
eighteen a day, while near by is Mr.
I A. Heame filling and nading up
the boxes. Shipments are made from
Pittsboro. A big truck easilv trans
its the raw cotton from Pittsboro
bi the finished product back.
W The Village of Bynum.
■ Bynum is a fine little village. The
■ principal store is conducted by Messrs.
■ 18. Atwater and R. B Lambeth,
■ who operate also a roller mill of twenty j
H barrels capacity and a cotton gin. ;
■ These are clever gentlemen and do !
I- fine business.* Here we met Mr R’ggs-
I bee, a mighty good friend of the R* c -
■ ®d, and several other gentlemen,
■ Marly all of whom are subscribers i
Ito the old paper.
I Mr. D. T. Moore has a good li-1° j
■ >tore and is apparently a fine fe’low j
I The owner of the third store we failed j
I to meet.
I As suggested, the Record already j
■ goes to nearly all of the homes of j
■ the village, but we were able to add
■ the names of Messrs. W. H. j
■ L L. Smith, R. A. Hearse, H. J :
■ white, and D. T. al?*"> P L. j
■ Williams, of West Durham, who hap- j
I t* ene d to be caught in Mr. Moore’s i
■ -store.
■ the trip to the good little viPage
I " a very pi as ant one and we thor-
I a P predate the courtesy (of
■ London in taking us and in show-
■ lr ‘ ? us through the mill and helping
meet the people.
W MOUNT ZION NEWS.
I . *’Tr. George D. Harmon, who has
■ ? en a student and an instructor in
■ ii e University of Pennsylvania for
I £ ’ r ‘ e s . ? b two years, has returned to
■ institution to resume his studies
■ h ‘ er spending a short vacation at
IS-J 6 his mother, Mrs. J. C. Har
■ cllp ' an(l Briggs Atwater and
lx‘, en visited relatives at Bynum
I ay afternoon.
■ a f t e Miss Ruth Steadman spent
I Alr> ays w ith her grandmother
I At H a rmon last week.
■ ef j‘ L aR d Mrs .J. Lee Harmon attend
■ C( , r .. le Asbury Epworth League re
■ an( , v T n ’ in the home of Mr.
■ i n V airs - J ac k Johnson Saturday even
■ Thomas of Raleigh spent
llrt-end at home.
■ Margaret Johnson and William
■ "%(!’ the Asbury neighbor
■}j r l veße dinner guests of Mr. and
I Mb h^ e .^ armon *
BWmo’ S -P Jlivia Harmon has returned
■ tan * rom Roxboro, where she has
■ W 0 ° na visit to her sister.
■ Wire/ ere blessed last Sunday by
UH rL a , steady rain through
i y uififht. The farmers
■k f ly have needed rain for some
■&o<H aa will no doubt do lots of
ftWin°~ Va m P re P a ring the soil for fall
‘ , e .have had a long, dry
wuifA; ar i f 1 .there will be less com
Bfcr in* 1 "his section than there has
m years.
fcfilav hiesern returned -to Star
The Chatham Record
NEW MARKETING SCHEME
IN NEIGHBORING COUNTY
County Commissioners of Or
ange Employ Man to Gath
er up Country Produce.
j
Chapel Hill Weekly.
At a special meeting held last week,
the Orange county commissioners
agreed to oppropriate SI,OOO for the
pay of the man who will drive a truck
around to gather products for the
market. Their decision was taken af
ter they had heard R. P. Harris, ag
riculture teacher in the Chapel Hill
school, explain the scheme in detail.
The grant of money for the driver
is conditioned upon Mr. Harris’ rais
ing money among the farmers for the
puchase of the truck and arranging
with the school bard an dthe bank
for a fund to finance the marketing
operations.
“I am sure I can carry out my end
of the job,” said Mr. Harris yester
day, “so the action of the
ers cinches' the matter. I have talked
to enough farmers about this plan to
know that the purchase price of a
truck will be contributed. As for fi
nancing, there is no reason to fear ob
stacle there. What we need is a re
volving fund’. We may sell a lot of
chickens and eggs; say, to a restaur
ant here, or possibly a commission
house in Richmond. The' bill may not
be settled at once, but we want to be
able to pay the farmers promptly. So
we use the money in the ‘revolving
fund’ and it comes in later from the
people who buy the products. This
is a familiar mercantile operation
such as the banks are financing ev
ery day.
“Prompt payment is a feature
that will tend to stimulate the farm
ers’ interest and make them join in
the marketing scheme. My idea is
to have the driver carry to a farmer
every week a check in payment for
what the farmer has delivered to him
the week before. Os course we will
get the very best price we can for
his products.
“By going over six routes one for
each day in the week one truck can
cover the greater part of Orange
county; that is can reach those farm
ers who are going to have things to
sell at first. As times goes on, and as
the merts of the scheme become
j known, there will be more and more
sale. The sooner there are enough to
justify running more trucks, the bet
ter.
“This appropriation by the county
commissioners gives the marketing
system a start. Eventually it should be
self-supporting. With a large volume
of sales, the cost to each farmer will
be small. Perhaps not more than a
cent, or a cent and a half per dozen
eggs, or a cent a pound for chickens.
“With proper cooperation from the
farmers (and my experience this sum
' mer indicates we will get that), this
farm-to-farm collection plan should
be of vast benefit to the county. We
have got the soil and the climate for
poultry and vegetable production on
i a large scale. The county ought to
! supply all its own needs and have a
| surplus to ship away.”
BROWN’S CHAPEL NEWS.
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Pittsboro Rt. 2. Sept 15.—Com is
waiting to be cut and shocked. Well,
well, the farmers are in no danger of
getting out of a job.
The health of our community is
i splendid there being little sickness
J that your correspondent is aware of.
There will be al lawn party given
at Brown’s Chapel M. E. Church Sep
tember 20 at 7:30 o’clock, also a
spelling bee and a measuring contest.
Refreshments will be sold by the Phi
lathea class. Come and bring your
friends.
Mss Annie Mann spent last week
with her sster Miss Lelia Mann of
Greensboro.
Miss Josie Thomas is visiting rel
atives at Burlington this week.
There were three fogs in August, so
according to the old saying, only three
snows this winter.
Mr. J. J. Thomas and children Josie
and Verdie spent Saturday in Bur
lnigton.
Mr. E. W. Ellington and family of
Chapel Hill and Mrs. J. L. Wright
and son William have recem,!v re
turned from Ocean View, Norfolk, Va.
Messrs Lee and Roland Wright of
Chapel Hill spent the weekend at
home.
Mr. Leaton Mann spent Sunday
night at Gibsonville.
Mr. Jeter Ellington and Miss Lecell
Morgan of Carrboro spent Sunday
with Mrs. R. H. Ellington.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ray of Carr
boro spent the week end with Mrs.
W. R. Perry.
Mr. Edgar Ellington and family
spent the week end visiting relatives
here.
OXFORD ORPHANS HERE.
The concert class of the Masonic
Orphanage at Oxford were scheduled
to be here Wednesday evening, Sept.
17, and to give a concrt in the school
auditorium. The entertainment was
given under the auspices of the local
Masonic lodge. This is written be
fore the event, but the Oxford class
can always be counted upon to give
a fine entertainment. We shall tell
you more about it next issue. _
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924.
PITTSBORO A GOOD
NEIGHBOR OF DURHAM
People Are Thrifty and Progres
sive and Among the Best
(1 Citizenship of the State.
Durham Herald.
Pittsboro, the county seat of Chat
ham, thrifty and progressive with its
prosperity reflected in its well kept
streets, comfortable homes and sub
stantial business establishments and
peopled by a citizenship through
whose veins flows the blood of those
who helped carve a nation out of a
wilderness is one of Duham’s desir
able neighbors and a town in which
the Bull City has ever taken an in
terest because in Pittsboro one sees
mirrored the requisites necessary for
the advancement and growth of a
county seat and a city.
Located in the heart of fertile agri
culture country and governed by peo
ple who have always placed service
before self. Pittsboro is thrice blessed
and her progress cannot be anythisg
but steady. Her population is made up
of live wide awake people who believe
in her future and yet they are people
who have never been willing to sacri
fice the finer things of life for the
material ones.
These are some of the worth while
things that can be said of the town;
her officials are honest and are elect
ed from among her best class of peo
ple; her banks are sound and ever
ready to help legitimate enterprises,
recognizing thrift as the finest moral
risk in the world: her churches are
numerous and well supported and the
nature of her citizenship is best re
flected in attendance on services; her
schools are modern, well conducted
and well attended and her business
section is one of the best lighted of
any town of like size in the state.
Good hotel facilities, another of the
all important things that go into the
making of a town or city, are in evi- j
dence here, making it possible for the
stranger within her gates to find the
comforts of home. Although her peo
ple are a thrifty lot, time is found
for the enjoyment of those things
that make life worth while and con
siderable interest is taken in fratern
alism.
Although the county was born in
1770 her capital is not antiquated and
has moved steadily foward changing
with the times and keeping abreast
of the march of progress. The old S
landmarks lend color but the hand- :
some buildings that have been erect
ed point plainly to the fact that the j
town is fully awake and is taking ad- !
vantage of her opportunities.
A. C. Ray is mayor of Pittsboro. j
He is one of the county’s most prom- j
inent citizens, a lawyer of ability and
one who takes a deep interest in ev- |
erything pertaining to his town. The
aldermanic form of government is in
effect here and the mayor with the
five aldermen associated with him in
the management of the city are handl
ing municipal affairs in a satisfactory
manner.
Pittsboro has been a neighbor of
Durham throughout the long years
that have elapsed but the creation of
a closer communion, a better under
standing and a finer community spir
it, will do more toward cementing
this bond of friendship than anything
else possibly could. Durham would like
to know Pittsboro better and Pitts
boro would get a newer and more
comprehensive outlook on life if she
knew more of Durham. The one needs
the other and in the realization of this
both will have benefited.
And good roads will help wonder
fully in this matter. In this con
nection it is interesting to note that
contract will be let September 30 for
hard surfacing a 10-mile link on route
75 from Pittsboro to the Lee county
line which will connect north and
south routes and add materially to the
progress of the community and the
convenience of her citizens and visi
tors.
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A FAMILY REUNION.
Sunday was a real rainy day, the
kind of a day hardly fit for a re
union, but several from Pittsboro and
vicinity braved the weather and went
to Carthage where, at the home of
Mrs. W. P. Branson there was held
a reunion of the Poe family.
Those who went from Pittsboro
were Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Norwood,
Mrs. J. C. Lanius, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Tatum, Mr Jack Lanius, Mr. Brook
Lanius, Master Jimmie Lanius, Miss
Nannie Lanius, Mrs. A. H. McManus,
and Mr. John Harris, Mr. and Mrs.
Cooper Harris and children, from
route 3, Pittsboro.
This is the seventh reunion that
has been held by these people and in
all this time not a single death has
occurred among them and not one of
them has failed to attend. This is
something remarkable.
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CHATHAM GAME LAW.
Partridge season opens Nov. 15 and
closes March 1. Wild turkey, Nov. 1. —
March 1; Opossum Octl.—Feb. 1;
foxes Septl—Febl. Unlawful to offer
wild turkeys for sale. Non resident
of the county license, $10.50; non-res
ident of the county license, $5.50, ex
cept landowners in the county. Vio
lation a misdemeanor fine of not more
than SSO or imprisonment for not
more than 30 days. There is no law
against killing squirrels, providing you
do pot get on posted land,
HORTON SUCCEEDS SILER
AS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
Siler To Engage in National
Campaign As Candidate
For Elector at Large
At the meeting of the county Dem
ocratic executive committee Monday,
Walter D. Siler’s resignation was ac
cepted and W. P. Horton was elected
as his successor as chairman.
Mr. Siler, who has served accept
ably for several years as chairman of
the Demovcratic Executive committ
ee, is one of the electors at large on
the National Democratic ticket, and
has been called upon by the State
executive committee to devote all his
time till the election to the national
campaign.
Mr. Siler will speak at many points
in the state and may be counted upon
to render a good account of himself
in behalf of the Democratic candi
dates, Davis and Bryan.
Mr. Horton is an able young attorn
ey, has served creditably in the gen
eral assembly, and will doubtless ren
der fine service to his party.
THE CHATHAM^WINS.
SEE TEXAS CONVENTION.
Dr. George Paschale Back From A
Visit to Bob in Texas.
Wake Forest, Sept. 15. “Well, you
got the upper hand this time, but
; wait until two years hence and we
| will show you a thing or two,” that
! is the remark of the majority of men
sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan in
Texas, according to Dr. G. W. Pas
chale, registrar at Wake Forest, who
| returned yesterday from the Lone
' Star State where he visited his twin
j brother, R. L. Paschal. Dr. Pas
; chal got a look at “Ma” Ferguson
just after her nomination, attended
i the Democratic state convention at
Austin, where the Klan was definite
jly ousted politically, and rode a
, thousand miles in auto over the state.
! For a score of years Dr. Paschal’s
brother has been connected with the
administrative department of Fort
Worth high* schools. He is now prin
cipal of the Central high school which
has some 1300 students.
| “The night before we were to at
j tend the Austin convention we were
i out from the city some distance and
, there on a lighted hillside we saw a
| great mass of knighted klansmen.
j There must have been a thousand
• cars passed us. These men must have
(been headed for the convention at
j Austin for from the demonstrations,
1 1 judged that most of the spectators
I -some 2,000 who occupied the galler
• ies-were all Klansmen. Down where
j the delgates were gathered there
! were about 1500, and they were she
! ones who applied the steam roller to
' the klan.
“W. M. Crane, temporary chairman,
' made a heated address against the
1 order, then Ex-senator Bailey elected
permanent chairman, made one not
so violent but still anti-klan. It was
| the most riotous meeting of men I
j think I have ever witnessed and took
a man to handle them.
“Out there they have a system of
making up their executive commit
tee for the state by letting each dis
trict delegation name its men and the
convention then adopts or rejects the
suggestion. The convention determined
that not a klan man should get a
place on the committee and used the
steam roller to do this. Fort Worth
and Dallas, which returned large klan
majorities in the primary, were forced
to name anti klan men on the commit
tee. It took three men to pull down
one fellow who wanted to make a
speech that the crowd did not want
to hear. This same fellow took off his
coat and pitched it almost to the top
of the ceiling.
“Ma” Ferguson was seated over on
one side and I got a good look at
her. The general impression is that
she will give the state a safe con
versative administration, but in the
great questions that come up she will
turn to her husband. And the latter
is not as black qs he has been paint
ed. When he became governor the
Stae was operating at a deficit. He left
the chair with an $8,000,000 surplus
in the treasury. The charge on which
he was impeached was simply a tech
nical one. Even the men who. oppose
nical one. Even the men who oppose
him and his wife will-admit that he
was a good business governor.”—Dur
ham Herald.
FARMERS, ATTENTION.
Mr. W. Kerr Scott, county farm
agent of Alamance, offers to accept
orders from Chatham farmers in mak
ing up an order for a carload ship
ment of pyrotol, an explosive for
blowing up stumps, etc. Mr. Kerr is
trying to get one more carload of the
war-time government supply at the
lowrate of 7 cents a pound, which he
says is only a third of the regular
commercial price of similar explosives.
As this probably is the last opportunity
to secure a cheap explosive, those in
need of a supply should write Mr.
Scott at Haw River.
The State Beekeepers Association
will meetat Winston Salem Wednes
day, September 10. Prominent bee
keepers from over the state told
their experiences with bees and honey.
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TEAMS’ TRAINING
Mass started Monday
# .
? is Ruth Berry, of Statesville,
Teacher.—Professional
Library Installed.
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A most valuable adjunct to the
Pittsboro high school is the teachers’
training class, which started Monday
under most favorable auspices.
Supt. Thompson, and principal No
lan have had difficulty in securing
a competent teacher for the class, but
fihally succeeded in getting Miss Ruth
Berry, of Statesville, a graduate of
Winthrop college, Rock Hill, S. C.
Miss Berry is a young woman of fine
personality and ability.
The class is organized for the pur
pose of giving professional training to
high school graduates and teachers of
the lower grades. However, students
with twelve high school units to their
credit will be admitted to the class.
The following named ladies have
thus far been enrolled: Misses Mar
garet Johnson, Laura Harris, Pearle
Johnson, Effie Thomas, Mildred John
son, Nenah Jones, Norma Shannon
house, Mabel Cheek, Sankie Perry,
Jeannette Hinson, Lelia Johnson and
Brona Carter.
The class is free to all Chatham
county student of the requisite qualifi
cations. The State pays the teacher’s
salary and the county furnishes an
equipped room. An essential and most
valuable part of the equipment is a
choice professional library, which has
been received and is being installed.
This library, consisting of many valu
able volumes and covering methods
of teaching all the elementary sub
jects and school management, cost the
county board of education S3OO. But
it will serve the other teachers of the
school also, as a professional library
and will thus prove of exceptional
value.
The course is designed to be the
equivilant of one year’s course in a
normal school as far as its effect up
on the certification of a teacher is
concerned.
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MONCURE NEWS.
Miss Esther Womble left last Tues
day for Raleigh where she entered
Peace Insitute. This is her second year
there. She is delighted with Peace
and we hope her, much snecess this
college year.
Moncure high school opened last
Monday morning Sept. 15. It was a
very rainy and dreary day, school op
ened with a large enrollment and
a faculty of seven teachers. All the
teachers are boarding with Mr. H. G.
Self, the principal, who has built a
nice cottage with ten rooms near the
campus.
We welcome them all to our town
and hope they will enjoy their school
work.
Mr. Edwin Cathell, who is in school
at Wake Forest College, came home
last Thursday with his shoulder dis
located by playing ball. This is the sec
ond time his shoulder has been knock
ed out of place by playing ball, so
Edwin is very much grieved, for he
was making good in ball-playing, that
he will have to stop playing entirely.
Mr. C. M. Brown, the barber, was
hurt Very badly by jumping off of
a car near Broadway, N. C. last Fri
day. He is at home for this week at
Sanford,N.C. where he is taking treat
ment, for he was advised by the phy
sician to stay off of his right leg for
fear it might go into bloo^lpoison.
After spending sometime in the
mountains near Asheville recuperating
Mr. W. W. Steadman reached home
last Wednesday very much improved.
He was accompanied by his little
daughter Camelia who enjoyed the
scenic beauty of the mountains.
Mrs. J. C. Geddy of Fayetteville, is
visiting mesdames E. E. and T. B.
Lambeth this week.
Messrs. J. Lee and George D.
Harmon took dinner last Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Steadman on
Providence Farm, then George took
the afternoon train at Moncure for
the University of Philidelphia, Pa.
where he will resume his school work
in the senior class for the coming
year.
The nice rain was welcomed in and
around Moncure last Sunday, but the
Sunday school and congregation, that
gathered at the Methodist church
were very much disappointed when
they did not get to hear Rev. J. J.
Boone preach. We are very glad indeed
that he is at home and able to preach
for us again, but we are very sorry
we missed the good sermon last Sun
day on account of the inclement weath
er that we had looked foward to so
long.
Miss Virginia Cathell motored to
Sanford last Friday.
Messrs. J. K. Barnes and C. C.
Thomas motored to Durham last
Thursday on business.
Mr. Allen Moore motored to Ral
eigh last Friday.
Dr. W. B. Chapin and Mr. S. D.
Johnson of Pittsboro were in town
last Friday.
Mr. E. G.. Sammons, who was flag
man on the train, got his right, eye
hurt with a cinder which flew in it
as the train was running. He went to
an eye specialist at Sanford and had
the cinder cut out. He has suffered
very much from it, but is getting on
as well as could be expected, but he
is afraid that the sight of that eye
will be somewhat damaged.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers of Pennsylvan
ia are visiting their uncle Capt. J. H.
j Wissleer this week,
MEEKINS HOLDS AUDIENCE
TWO AND ONE HALF HOURS
Republican Candidate Heard by
Large Crowd at Siler City.—
Fair Grounds Ready /’
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Siler City, Sept. 13.—Addressing an
assembly or representative men and
women who completely filled the town
hall, Col. Ike M. Meekins, Republi
can cadidate for governor of North
Carolina, opened his campaign n
Chatham county here yesterday af
ternoon. The intrduction to his audi
ence was made by J. J. Jenkins, coun
ty chairman of the Republican execu*
tive committee.
For two and one-half hours Mr.
Meekins held the close attention of
his listeners while he discussed the
system of examination of the state
banks, Mr. McLean’s record as
and builder of railroads, the extrava
gance of the present state govern
ment, high taxes on land and nontax
able foreign securities and free school
books. He eulogized president Cool
idge, but denounced Fall, McAdoo, and
Doheny, and declared that the recent
national Democratic convention was
a disgrace to the country. In closing
he reminded his hearers that if the
80,000 voters who voted for Bailey in
the June primary did not want to
vote for McLean in November
they could stay away from the poles.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of school here Monday morn
ing and the patrons* are invited to
be present for the first exercise.
The office building, which is the
last of the seven to be erected at the
new fair grounds, one mile east of
town, is being finished, the high wire
fence is* being put up around the
ten acre tract, which when completed
will mean that this new home for the
Chatham County Fair Association will
be in readiness for the opening of the
fair for the week of October 6.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Teague will
go to High Point tomorrow, where
Mr. Teague will teach in the city
schools this winter.
Mrs. S. T. Dorsett is a guest in the
home of V. M. Dorsett, being enjfoute
to her home in Washington, D. C. af
ter having spent the summer with
her father in Asheville.
Ms. and Mrs. G. M. Baker and chil
dren returned to their home at Bak
ersville today following a visit to the
home of S. P. Teague.
J. B. Emerson of Bear Creek was
a business visitor here yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Elkins and two
sons, Carl and Hal, and Ernest Brew
er attended the Rockingham fair at
Leaksville Thursday.
W. A. Teague has returned from a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. J. J. Oar
rick at Bayview, Virginia.
J. Q. Seawell, who has been in a
Greensboro hospital for the past two
weeks, will return to his home here
tomorrow.
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TWO MARRIAGES.
New Hill, Rt. 2. Sept. 15.—R. L.
Trotter of Asheboro spent Thursday
night in this community.
Mr. Silas Poole, of Jonesboro, was
the Wednesday night guest of Mr.
J. L. Goodwin.
School began at Bells last Monday
with about 169 enrolled. Several truck
are used to carry the children, Mr.
P. G. Farrar is principal. The other
teachers are Misses Green, Beatrice
Burgess, Ila Copeland, Lelia Jusice,
and Annie Baldwin, and Mrs. R. G.
Beckwith is the music teacher.
Mr. G. N. Thomas of Raleigh spent
Tuesday night with Mr. R. F. Sturd
ivant.
Mr. W. M. Goodwin made a business
trip to Raleigh Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Thomas and
family.
Mr. Roy B. Farrar and Miss Vena
Lewis were united in marriage last
Friday, Mr Farrar is the son of Mr.
Ruffin Farrar and is an energetic
young man. The bride is a native of
Alamance but during recent months
has held a position in Raleigh. Im
mediately following the ceremony they
left for Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Mann and chil
dren spent the week-end at New Hill
with Mr. and Mrs.FloydEllington.
Quite a number of young people
motored to Fearington Saturday af
ternoon to witness a game of base
ball. , ,
The New Hope players have played
their final game for this season.
Mr. A. L. Mann and family spent
the week-end in lower Chatham with
rel atives.
Mr. Kemp Goodwin and Miss Nellie
Hearae were united in the holy bonds
of matrimony last Saturday. Mrs.
Goodwin is a daughter of Mr. and. Mrs.
“Buck” Heame. The groom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Goodwin.
May their days of joy be many.
SPEAKING* T SILER CITY.
Hon. Baxter Durham, State Auditor
will deliver an address upon the po
litical issues of the present campaign
at Siler City on Saturday evening,
September the 15th 1924 at 8 o’clock
P. M. Mr. Durham is an able speaker
and it is hoped that a large crowd
will greet him upon this occasion.
Are you building your soil? Plant
some legumes this fall for plowing
under next spring and note the re
sulting increase in crop yields.
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