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KjfT IS YEARS AGO BL 2000 Brinffs Many Im- To The Town. W , he Chatham papers of May B clean the following informa nt lights were turned on W> nie ht' and the citizens of B went wild with delight. Old Z* n o ne of the foremost citi mthe town, was seen trying to | Ol C i e aret by an electric light. ■j, man might have known bet ■“ the idea of a man of his age, B\ lin o- how to smoke cigarettes | Khing to be wondered at. pinkins, who lives near the W*?< out in the yard picking up ■ when the lights came on, and B" screaming to the house, de- Bf th ; world had come to an end ■? ''jt v.as burning up the town. ■ \ blame aunt Polly as she B, it her read nor write, but it looks could have learned all the |kv o m her women friends who ■everything. ■ v are talking of cutting the ■ ( j fAvn on the main street of the ■ if they do, it will break up ■ding places of the blind ti^ers ■lie Burgass. a very respectable ■’woman living on Long Avenue, Bbiith to her 36th child Saturday. ■ an d her husband are to be pit ■-... t ’ ne y teed and clothe so many Kg n is not known. Br. Jonas Matthews went fishing ■j a y and fell into the river. When te to the surface he had a Jin one hand and a snake in the ■ p e was so excited about hav- Bhe snake that he sank under the ■ and came near drowing.” ■gs have changed. The new ■boro of today was the old one of Bars ago. Instead of electric lights Bile comers we have 25 big arc ■ situated at different points on ■outskirts of the city which give ■to the people living here. Every I has artesian water running into ■ houses; the streets are paved ■ solid rock, hewn out in blocks ■ches thick and 12 feet square. ■ street card running over the ■ thoroughfares of the city have ■ails to run on but glide over the Id streets so easy and without ■ that people riding in them go to land have to be waked up when ■ get where they are going. le old courthouse that stood in ■enter of the town 78 years ago I been tom down and is built le site of what they use to call ■s HilL All around it is sur- Ided by stores anywhere from two ■ stories high. It is in a beautiful ■sand is near the Medical Col ■ street car barns, the movie the land a few negro shacks. It is ■ tbe shacks will be tom down in mm future. ■ what I learn from the county Kin the long ago Pitts boro must ■been a slow village as the papers ■at time stated that before the ■ric lights were put in people used ■ to bed at seven sharp. ■ town well, situated in the mid ■ two streets, was locked up by ■ Tom Leach, who carried the ■at 6:30 o’clock p.m. and those I had not got their night’s water ■hand had to go without until Kng. I JOE SNYDER. PNETT HAS NEW lIRAL DELIVERY ROUTE lollment of Siler City School I a &d Local News Notes, P* City Sept. 19.—Siler City ■office now boasts of another I route, this being one from this ■to Bennett, thus giving a di ■nail service twice a day to Chat- | s thriving and growing town lo- P n& ar its southwest comer. | er i’ day except Sunday the sche |‘ s as follows: Mail leaves here f a. m. and 3p. m. for Ben- 1 0 an ‘d reaches here on return trips I to and 5:45 p. m. Only one trip ■to on Sunday, this being the on ■to covered on Sunday from this f* having here at 6:30 a.m. and l nun ? at 1 a.m. This mail is be- by P. L. Sizemore, who f s family moved here from Ben- I‘ ast Monday. f tota * enrollment of students in I apartments of the local school F, a | 498, which number will ■of* to very materially before the week. lio nnie ambe last week K anton f° r a short visit, after ■ <^ an d her hostess, Miss Glass, ■ family of John Snode, of Al- Isl an /’ Was saved from death by l r ,. Vlne * The car in which they L ba cked over an embank- P a tree but the grapevine linw? s f°PP € d the car from fall- river below. l°. man iri a New York courtroom ■red ° pow dcr her nose. The judge I er to be locked up. j will go by motor to Miami Fla., where they will teach this winter. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Gyles are congratulating them upon the arrival of a daughter. J C. Fesmire has returned to his home south of here after a rather prolonged stay at a Greensboro hos pital. —ii a . STRANGE AND CURIOUS. Peculiarities That Will Astonish Almost Anyone. Dead bandits in Kansas are worth SI,OOO apiece. By the explosion of a barrel of beer E. Foster, of Los Angeles, lost an eye. Sound travels 1,100 feet a second. Radio waves travel 186,000 miles a second. The world’s tallest man is Jan Van Albert, 23 years old. He is 9 feet and 3 1-2 inches tall. Dan J. Hickey has wtnessed 225 ex-' ecutions in 31 years at Sing Sing pris on. He has retired. A single bet of SIOO,OOO against $30,000 has been placed in New York in favor of Coolidge. Old Werner Bauer a Bohemian farmer, was a great smoker. In his will he wanted his pipe and tobacco buried with him. During a flood in a Wisconsin town the water became so high that the lady postmistress had to put on a bathing suit to do her -work. A baseball pitcher out in Minnesota missed his train. An airplane took him to the game in time to save the day by a score of 5 to 4. A. J. Fuller, 96, was recently mar ried to Mrs.. Mary Saunders 74, at the Bevoir, Miss., soldiers home. Pat McLaughlin, 104, was the best man. I Unlimited Money to Lend. We are in position to make ten year farm loans at 6% do not require any repayment of the principal during interest, payahlle on the first day of each November. We the period of the loan, but do give to the borrower the privilege to pay the loan in whole or in part at any in terest date he desires. In applying for loans we cannot accept over $50.00 per acre on the cleared cultivated lands; buildings must be in good reepair farms must be located on good public road, in a good state of cultivation; and above all the borrower must be a man of good moral character who will pay his j (interest on or before the eduee date. We do not lend less i than SIOOO and there must be at least 40 acres in the tract of which 25 acres must be in cultivation. We can handle these loans promptly after they are ap praised by our farm appraisers. Alamance Insurance and Real Estate Co., | Burlington, N. C. I W. E. SHARPE, Manager, Capital and Surplus, $400,000 ! - ..A HELD UP AND ROB BED ON DURHAM ROAD Bynum Neville, white taxi driver repoirts that he was held up and rob bed on the Chapel Hill-Durham boul evard between 3 and 4 o’clock Tues day morning while returning from Chapel Hill, where he brought a load of studets and was alone in the car on the return trip to Durham. He was stopped by three negroes, one of them shoving a gun in his face while the others went through his pockets, relieving him of $6.00, overlooking $25.00 in his vest pocket. The rob bery took place where the New Hope valley road enters the boulevard. — Chapel Hill News. tm i mm Legion for Big Army and Navy. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 18. —With rousing choruses of “yeas” the sixth national convention of the legion went on record here today for a navy sec ond to none, and adequate army and j other preparedness. Passage of the universal service act, sounder Americanism, soldiers and officers national training camps ! and similar proposals also received the endorsement of the convention in a session of more than five hours Condemnation of the tw T o depart ! merits of United States veterans’ bu reau and demand for immediate trial of Colonel Forbes on the indictment charging irregularities in his manage ment of the bureau were contained in other resolutions adopted. On international matters the first bitterness of the convention sessions ; was shown, but when the issue was turned to one of confidence in Nation al Commander John R. Quinn, who retires tomorrow, the latter received : unanimous and ringing support* —•— ■ A woman under arrest in Hagers town, Md., thought she’d have the last word before a judge, but she didn’t. The judge sent her up for 30 days and fined her SIOO for contempt of court. ****** * $ * * f * * I * QUERY DEPARTMENT. * | * Answers by John * ! * * ! ****** * * * * I I What is the height of impropriety? ! —Alice, Apex. | Answer —Laughing at a funeral | when someone slips into the grave. J What kind of a book would make > a good present for a man who is to ) get married.—Sarah, Pittsboro. Answer. —A pocket book. . j Are there any stingy men in Chat- J ham? —Josie,, Durham. i Answer—Whoopee! Yes. We know | a man so stingy that he talks through his nose to save wearing out his false teeth. My limbs are covered with little black specks and they move about. What are they?—Miss Sallie, Pitts boro. Answer. —See if you can catch one of them. If not, they are fleas. How long before my boy can go out after whooping cough?—Mrs. Mower Auburn. Answer—He doesn’t have to go out after the whooping cough. It comes to him. ■ ; What is the meaning of the words: ■ Cry and weep?—Mary Jones, Aber i deen. \ Answer—When a baby cries, that • means 5 cents for candy. When a mar- J ried lady weeps, it costs her husband ’ about S7O for a winter coat. That’s ■ all the difference. > [ Where was Babe Ruth raised?— Henry B, Raleigh. Answer—ln an orphanage. Every boy, whether he was born in Pittsboro ; from poor but honest parents or else . wher, has a chance to either become 3 a baseball artist or president of a f good soap factory. ■— t ■ Twenty-four hour service for de- ! * positors has been inaugurated by a bank in Phoenixville, Pa. After bank- j ing hours patrons deposit their money | in a chute which runs direct to the vault. COMPLETE IN ITSELF Sharpens the blade in the razor without removing it. Quick. Convenient. Easy to clean. Complete sets— razor, with strop and extra Hades, SI.OO and up. | VMeiAito-Strop Raaor i |=-.. ■' ' !?■■■ '■ •- ’ I We Have $500,000.00 To I 1 Protect You I H That $500,000.00 our entire capital and surplus guar- |P jl antees every 6 per cent First Mortgage Real Estate Bond Z H| But it will never be needed! M H| Our first Mortgage loans are too conservative to need (H if The Real Estate behind them is too financially sound gg i to need it! Thjt legal and moral safeguards are too de- H W pendable to need it! If Ira You will’never need that $500,000.00, but like an anch- |J| or to windward, it’s" good to know IVs' there! M jm| We have these 6 per cent First Mortgage Real Estate M m Bonds for sale in denominations of SIOO and up. m 100 00l I Central Loan and Trust Company, 1 H CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $500,000.00 I i W. W. BROWN, ■ Secretary and Treasurer, H I BURLINGTON, N. C. 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Not true, you’ll say, but consider a moment m and you’ll agree with us. The guarded dollar means n©> 12 fear of loss by theft, spendthrift or speculation. II tty] You’ll think twice before you remove the guard, be~ ||» ’ |>| cause he’s your dollar’s best friend. jffl Here we extend the utmost vigilance to keep your dol- SB W lar’s intact. & / : m H FOR YOUR CON- HIGHLY PROTECTED* H H VENIENCE BKBSBB SAFETY BOXES. |i 1 The Chatham Bank 1 if J. C. GREGSON, President J. J. JENKINS, Cashier. ■ fit W. A. Teague, vice President. . . jSi | SILER CITY, - NORTH CAROLINA. i| ' ——l ■ I —i i ———————■———————a—
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