ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
, LL BROKE loose
DOWN ON BUCKHORN
, Man Killed, One Dangerously
Injured. Liqnor and Pistols
Galore
Corinth. Nov. 17. —There has been
, entv doing down our way the past
reek-end. Bedlam broke loose and*
the devil will be to pay. De
'tv sheritl's Harrington, Holmes
L | about 5 quickly Appointed assist-
L workdl from 6:00 p. m. Sun
.v un til 3:00 a. m. Monday; .High
Blair spent all Sunday night
rrecting’ tire work, and Mr. J. D. Mc
lver rrot on the job at 1:15 a. m.
and began his record series
.magistrate trials for one day. 4
Oie hard working industrious ne
rro is dead. His slayer, a good for
t ine negro bootlegger, is still at
large.
\ white man was literally cut to
; e* at the Ferry by some drunk
nacvvnp- and now it is doubtful if
pH Iv/v - •
e will live. Three other negroes
’ • white man were hauled in off
t h e pn’hc roads and relieved of 2
-ns, i rarer, half pint whiskey, and
2 bottles containing a small amount
r* liquor. Most of the contents had
eeen put under their belts. One
neerc* was so drunk that the sheriff
; i.ow ghi-g him free board and
keeping him safely in his
<.jtrone house” in Pittsboro. An
as a trusted employee
at the plant of the Carolina Power
a Light Co., but got caught to-
: n? a gun, (a double barrel dud-
Lqq- as Mr. Melver called it) and
company with those toting
)U liquor and guns. Mr. Joe says
that one of these negrpes had been
a lay—preacher among the colored
folks. *
re Ford car that the bunch were
driving was taken to be held on a
importation charge, and all four,
aiumng the white man, were
sind over to the superior court.
Is car was a borrowed car and we
iferstand that the owner has been
.emitted to recover it.
And as if that were not enough of
:* usual Mo a” morning'police or
magistrate court cases for one week
tad’s debauchery, or as if that were
,}t enough for one Sabbath day’s
Pee and open exhibition of the
' wefts” of blockading liquor, drink
ing and gun toting (they go hand
in hand), Paul Hooker, a young ne
.’o stepped out into the lime light
. in. folk needed some sewing
•tone so badly that Paul borrowed a
sewing machine from a neighbor, us
of t ki ’ : it
"ol and sold it and kept
L 25 we tl USt i ■ - • »
' I'C* ~’iiV
' .r.i, no matter how
:uct ere; one may be justified in
s view, we hope can be settled out
: court. If apologies are due for
itti action? or unguarded words the
ne wh his error and makes
he apo'oyy is always the winner.
1 m is Lov-is Womble.
h anu Hoary Winston had been seen
bgether not long before the killing
Nat that time there was no
rouble noticed. Louis was a bard- i
*'orkuig, fearless negro and Henry
rva > a no-count, jealous negro from j
Raleigh, with a public record behind,
him. I
We have thought much and said
01 >ie about the "man who hastened
0 ?o on the bond of any one caught
the toils of the liquor business or
5 associate evils, but when Win
Thomas was caught in Sunday s
ira ?net. we happened to be tihe. one
% signed his bond. Win is a
sober, industrous ne
and has been in our employ for
lJ years. He agreed to submit to
charge against him and take his
,Jll ishment. We believe he is sincere
will make a better negro, and I
] all certainly see to it that he faces
: e charge against him and pays the
Penalty. Such is the full purpose of;
lilr laws. !
Lom at least 3 reliable and en- 1
; re -y uns' icited sources in the past
«ee v.-eeks we have heard of the
!‘ ien > daring, and apparently unhin-,
e ‘ e, l moonshine liquor business go
- °n in this part of the country
in Chatham county). Some
think our Federal officers are i
aking fake raids and letting the J
) L’ guilty go. We know that j
, re as been free and open drink-;
at and near some of our places
ja siness. This is just more evi- j
THE CHATHAM RECORD
BRICK HAVEN NEWS
Brick Haaen, Nov. 17.— Mr. i
and Mrs. Kennedy, of Carthage, I
Who have been spending a while 1
here with their son, Mr. O. C.
Kennedy, have returned home.
Mr. Allen Davis, of Raleigh,
is staying a few . weeks • here
with his daughter, Mrs. A. M.
Cotten.
More than one family in our
little village enjoyed a most de
licious breakfast of partridge
•Sunday morning. Our little
feathered friends certainly fared
ill Saturday, if the crack of
guns and the eager sounds of
hunters and dogs were signs of
successful sport.
One of our ambitious and
wide-awake farmers was much
chagrined when he missed some
cotton, which had been- left
sacked in the field over night.
Naturally, he just supposed
that his field had been visited
by a cotton thief. Imagine his
astonishment when he was tolcf
'.about a week later by one of the
most truthful men in the com
i munity to look m a ditch a short
distance from the field. The
cotton was found intact. How
is that for a prank with a moral
attached ?
| Misses Lelia Johnson and
Sankie Perry, of the teacher
taining class, of Pittsboro, did
observation work in the Buck
horn school last Thursday.
Mr. J. A. Mims and family
will move to Moncure sometime
in the near future. We are
sorry to lose them, but wish
them success and happiness in
i their new place of abode.
Miss Mary Lee Utley is doing
substitute work in the Bell’s
school this week. One of the
assistant - teachers resigned to
enter other work, and a succes
sor has not yet been secured.
Do not forget the bazaar at
the school building next Friday
levelling, November 21. Wei
| nies, oysters and coffee will be
served and music will be a fea
ture of the evening’s entertain
ment. Quite a nuber of at
tractive articles will be far sale.
Come,' and if you don’t care to
buy, perhaps you may get help
ful suggestions for making your
| Christmas gift list.
The Red Cross Roll call is
now on. -Every home in the
community will be given an op
portunity to contribute to this
most worthy cause. May we
as a community “go over tbo
top”. ‘ -
SILER CITY HONOR ROLL
i Below is the honor roll for the
.second month of the Siler City
SCiiOoJ.
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; First Grade—Ruth Bray, Dorothy
Van Elkins, Gretchen Green, Edna
Gregson, Sallie Carroll Huddleson,
Alice McLaughlin, Decie Siler, Grigg
Fountain, Victor Williams, Jack Sea
• well, Phoebe Phillips, Louise Wini
fred Edwards, Howard Elkins.
Second Grade —Viola Richardson,
Frances Huddleson, Clarice Fox, V.
j M. Rorsett, Jr., Frank Willette, Lena
■ Ruth Phillips, June Parker Wrenn.
i Third Grade—Effie Mae Stanley,
Mary Siler, Frances Elkins.
Fourth Grade —Fannie Peoples.
Fifth Grade—Alice Stutts, James
Wrenn, Ben Clapp, Mildred Pender
grass.
Sixth Grade —Edna Teague, Sam
Siler, Berta Bray, Imogene Persy. .
Seventh Grade—Benton Bray.
Ninth Grade—Lisel Womble.
PLAY* AT MONCURE SCHOOL
“The Path Across the Hill,” a
comedy in three acts, will be given
in Moncure school auditorium by the
high sdliool juniors and seniors on
Wednesday night, November 26.
Rev. J. J- Boone goes to Creed
moor, after four year’s service on this
j circuit. The best wishes of many
1 friends will follow him.
dence that there are some good peo
ple in ou* community that yet have
to be won over from those who are
’ indifferent to this hellish traffic to
those who are avowedly and openly
1 last Sunday’s record about a stom
i ac h full ? Not until the people rea ly
! want these killing and cuttings and
drunkenness to stop will they ever
| stop, laws or no laws.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, . HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1924.
PITTSBORO L MDS SILK MILL
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The Pompton Lakes Weaving Company, of
New Jersey, to Locate Here---$150,000
Plant to Be Erected on a Five
Acre Plant North, of Town
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The biggest news from Pittsboro'
in many a day is the decision of the
representatives of the Pompton Lakes
Milling Company, of Pompton Lakes.
New Jersey, to locate at Pittsboro.
The decision was made this morning,
when President Harry S. Gould and
Mr. Zeigler, representing the com
pany, actually purchased a five-acre
site from Mr. A. H. London for the
location of the $1 , 50,000 plant which
they expect to erect.
1 Messrs. Gould and Zeigler had vis
r j ited Fayetteville, and Sanford, and
1 had Pittsboro on their program as
‘ the last point to- be investigated.
' The gentlemen had stopped here some
weeks ago and were favorably en-
I ough impressed and returned for a
better view of the situation.
I Mr. London took them to the
J Bynum plant this morning and
1 showed them through it. The vis
itors were impressed with the qual
ity of the labor and other features
T of the cotton mill, while Mr. London
| was determined that nothing should
\ \ stand in the way of their coming and
' sold them at a merely nominal price
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OUR NEW HILL LETTER
; New Hill, N. C., Route 2, Nov. 17.
\ | —Miss Edna Blanche Hall is spending
> two weeks in Durham and Hillsboro
■ with relatives.
The relatives and close friends of
; Mrs. Bettie Thomas will gather at
her home Sunday, -November 23 ta
■ celebrate her seventy-first birthday
! anniversary. This is an annual oc
■ casion, and those who atttend are
■ I certain to enjoy the day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ellis were re
cently blessed with a son, which has
1 been given the name Barbee.
Miss Louise Mann spent the
week-end at Chapel Hill.
A. M. Goodwin spent Friday in
1 Raleigh with Mrs. Johnson Sea
-1 groves.
Due to change in the Christian
> I Conference, Rev. J. F. Johnson did
' i not address the people at New Elam
4 1 the third Sunday morning as the
i previous pastors have been doing, but
! the fourth Sunday morning he will
! deliver his first sermon at this
, | church.
Mi sses .Lilia XLllis and Hilda Lasa
ter and Arthur and Luther Ellis,
r spent the w r eek-end in Raleigh.
, R. L. Trotter, of Asheboro, spent
the week-end with Chatham friends.
It was decided at New Elam Sun
day school to have a “treat” Christ
mas, and endeavor to raise money to
paint the new room which has been
, added to the church. The Sunday
school scholars will give a program.
Mesdames G. F. Carr, G. L. Mann
and Cora Jones are the program com
mittee. The collectors are Misses
Mandie Mann, Janice Carr, Mary
Webster, Dora Holt and Rose Sturdi
vant.
While operating a saw at a saw
inill one day last week Mr. K. B.
Riddle had the misfortune of getting
his leg injured. He fell upon the
carriage of the mill. Dr. Upchurch
attended and , advised him to remain
in bed for awhile. We certainly hope
he will get on nicely. Mr. Herbert i
Holt was also hurt at a saw mill j
last week. The injury was painful,
but not serious, we understand.
Quite a number from New Elam
Christian church will attend the
Christian Conference, which will be;
held at Pleasant Union, beginning!
Tuesday, November 18. There are |
several delegates who will represent
New Elam church, and quite a num
ber of visitors are expecting to at
tend. 4
Mrs. Addie Webster, spent Mon
day with Mrs. J. B. Beckwith on
Morrisville route one.
Mr. D. L. Thomas has been ill
several days. We certainly hope he
will soon be completely well
The report of number of bales
ginned in Chatham up to November
1, shows only 3,713 against 6,658 at
the same date last year.
a five-acre tract on “Factory Hill”,
just beyond the northern limits of
Pittsboro on the east side of the
highway.
The company manufactures silk
trade mark ribbons s and bands, such
as you find bearing the name of the
makers of your Sunday coat. Con
sequently, the question of transpor
: tation is not a very important one,
as the output is very light and the
ordinary supply for a tailor shop
may be, shipped by parcel post.
The number of employees at first
’ will not be very large, but the suc
• cessful competition for this plant
! means much more than the location
• of the plant itself here. Other com
t panies will find and learn of the
availability of Pittsboro as a sac
► tory site. The cheap power here is
[ 1 a big factor. Mr. Zeigler informed
. | the writer that their power bill here
-! would be SIBO a month as against
i { about SBOO at Plompton Lakes. That
l ; news is bound to travel, as well as
l that of the cheap sites.
I Mr. London has done a big thing
• in getting this plant here.
CARPENTER KILLED BY FALL
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Other Interesting News Notes
From Moncure and Vicinity
f 1
Mr. John Bell, Jr., who is an ex
pert salesman for the Quaker Oats
Co., spent last week-end at home in
Moncure.
Messrs. Sam Crutchfield and Jen
nings Womble of Elon College, spent
last week-end at home with their
parents.
Jennings Womble and Johnnie
Bell, Jr., just for sport and recre
ation, went Saturday afternoon hunt
ing. They had the good luck to kill
a turkey, but as both of them (fired
at the same time, he is not known
which one of them killed the turkey.
! Mr. O. G. Skipper, who received
1 a painfully sprained ankle by jump-
I I ing off the platform at Phoenix Util
-1 * ity Co. several weeks ago, has
; thrown his crutches back and gone
to work again, we are glad to state.
Mr. L. H. Chestnut, who was a
1 i carpenter foor Phoenix Utility Com
pany, fell last Thursday morning
1 twenty feet and was killed instant
, i y . He leaves a wife and one child.
■ His body was taken to Delco,
; 1 near Wilmington, for burial. It is
i sad to be separated from loved ones,
j but it is a debt we all have too pay.
|We never know when the time is
,! coming. God knows everything and
.! does what is best. sympathy
■ goes out to the bereaved wife and re
! latives.
j We are glad to have Mrs. R. L.
j Mclver, of Bluitt Falls, N. C., back
with us again.
i We are very glad to state that
Mr. J. R. Ray, the popular and pro
gressive merchant of Deep River
Store Co., of Lockville, N. C., who
has been very sick for the past
week, is much improved. We hope
that he will be up and out again
so/on.
The Ladies of the M. E. church
under the supervision of Mrs. J. E.
j Moore has clothed an orphan girl, ,
! Mabel Mason, for ten years. Miss
Mason is now in training at Mary
Elizabeth Hospital for a nurse. They
have taken another girl, Helen Bry
' as Wesley, who is 8 years old to
I clothe.
I The many friends of Miss Etta
| Mae Olinger in and around Moncure
will read with pleasure the following
clipping froim the News and Observ
ers. W. W. Dußant, of this city
announces the engagement and ap
preaching marriage of her sis er,
Miss Etta Mae Olinger to Mr. P
lip A. Kearney, of Miami, Fla. The
marriage will take place the latter
part of December.
The Duaghters Confederacy
wi U K Ult Mr, E R Hinton and
Miss Evelyn Alston, Saturday after
noon at 3 o’clock.
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CHATHAM CLUB ORGANIZED
Dozen Chatham County Students at
College Form a Club
A Chatham County Club has been
organized this fall at N. C. State
College for the first time in the his
tory of the College, as far as re
cords show. Attempts to organize
have been made for the past three
years but as the number of men then
attending was very small, it was felt
that a good showing as a club could
not be made. The upper classmen
fro-m the county did not give up the
idea, however, and at last a strong
Club with a membership of twelve
has been organized. This organiza
tion is not due to any one student,
but to the united efforts of all the
Chathamites here.
The purpose of the organization is
to bring about a friendlier relation
ship between the students of the home
county and a spirit of service, that
we may do our part towards back
ing progressive and democratic ideas
; at State College and by so doing be
of more service to our county and
State when we graduate from col
lege. We believe that if we meet
together in a spirit of friendliness
: we can better understand one an
other and will be able to profit' by
interchanging of ideas.
..The meubership hails from the
various sections of the county and by
open discussion we are able to learn
; the different needs of the‘county.
The following Were elected of
ficers of the Club for the year:
■ ,G. F. Seymour, President.
J. S. Moore, Vice-President.
M. L. Snipes, Secretary.
H. L. Bynum, Treasurer.
G. F. Hackney, Reporter.
The membership is divided among
the different classes with the Fresh
men Class in the lead, which shows
that Chatham’s boys are realizing
more and more the need of higher
learning.
-There is one co-ed, Miss Lillian
Ray, in the College, and we boys are
proud to have her in our club.
The following are the students
who are at State and members of the
Chatham Club:
Henry L. Bynum, Pittsboro-; G. F.
Hackney, Siler City; H. L. Harris,
Pittsboro; H. L. Jordan, Siler City;
J. S. Moore, Gulf; H. R. Palmer,
Gulf; Lillian Marguarite Ray, Pitts
! boro; G. F. Seymour, Seaforth; M.
L. Snipes, Bynum; G. P. Stout, Silei
City; C. L. Straughan, Goldston; H.
j H. Vestal, Siler City.
Anyone of these students may
addressed ut State College Station,
Raleigh, N. C.
Some Good Home Firms
Messrs. J. J. Johnson & Son and
McConnell and Johnson, who had
space on the missing word contest
page are back in the regular adver
tising columns. These are both good
home firms and worthy of your sup
port. The former have been selling
suits for and near. A Leaksvill
• man recently found it to his advan-,
tage to buy at Johnson’s. Colin G.
Shaw came up from Sanford and
bought his suit there. McConnell
and Johnson do not handle clothing,
but yau will find them ready to give
you right prices on the goods they
do handle. Then, there is the Chat
ham Hardware i Co., and Hall and
Burns, who ask for your trade and
are worthy of it. Read their adver
tisements and treat them right.
Brooks and übanks also will sell
you goods as cheap as anybody here
or near.
CAROLINA NEWS
, The school opened at Carolina
November 3, and is progressing nice
ly. Mr. Clyde Stinson and Miss
Nellie Stinson are the teachers.
The school organized a literary
society, and named it “Lee” m
or of Robert E. Lee. Following are
Geanie Oldham - vice
president, Beadie Oldham; secretary
and treasurer, Edna Dowdy, report
er ’ E ev n trLe“miHsregular
appointment at Carolina
Sunday at three P*
iS MtteX C D*on and Mr. Eonme
Murdock '
j. E . Johnson, Sunda.^
Lawyer >x with Mr. W.
Tenn., spent tne mg l4>
E Dixon, Friday, November 14-
SEE YOUR LABEL 3^
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SEVERAL CHILDREN HURT
Another School Truck Turns Turtle
W ith Ten Children
Sanford, Nov. 18.—-Miraculously
escaping death while enroute from
school at Gulf to their home near
Cumnock ten school children went
down with their car as it left the
embankment after passing a car,
turning two or three somersaults and,
landing upon the children. After
help arrived and they were pulled
from the wreckage and found to be
all alive arrangements were made
to carry the injured to Dr. Palmer’s
office at Gulf, it being the nearest
place for medical aid.
Worth Rosser was found to have
a broken leg, his sister a broken
arm and other members of the party
suffering with bruises and probably
j some broken ribs.
The driver of the car stated that
Ihe had passed a car, pulling clear
to the right, and after the car passed
pulled back into the road too far
and over went the car, which was
j completely wrecked.—Daily News.
j PITTSBORO LADIES INVITED
1 The Y. W. A. of Chapel Hill M. E.
Church to Hold Fair
“The Young Women’s Auxiliary of
the Methodist Church, of Chapel Hill
cordially invite the ladies of Pitts
boro and of Chatham county gener
ally to come to the Holiday Fair
given in the Methodist Hut, just be
hind the Methodist Church, on No
vember the twenty-fifth, from nine
in the morning until-nine o’clock at
night. All kinds of lovely and use
ful household linens will be on sale
'at the Domestic Booth, rag dolls, toys
and little tot’s clothing at the Kid-
I dies Booth, cakes candies, pies and
I jams at Sweet Shop Booth, a
1 regular Jack Homer ,Pie for the
! children and a delicious chicken sup
' per in the evening.
Mrs. Julia Boone Passes
Mrs. Julia Boone, wifq of Mr.
Billie Boone, died at her home in
Pittsboro. Monday morning after a
lingering illness of several weeks.
This good lady was highly beloved
by all who knew her and was a irind
and loving wife and -mother. For
many years she was a faithful mem
ber of Hank’s Chapel church and was
buried in the cemetery there Tues
day afternoon.
Besides her husband she leaves
! six affectionate children, three sons
and three daughters. Her sons are
Fred L., Harvey, and Frank Boone;
her daughters are Mrs. Rufus Wall,
Mrs. Rom Eubanks and Mrs. Hugh
Farrell. She also leaves two sisters,
Mrs. Nancy Hatch and Mrs. Adol
■ phus ' Farrel. Two brothers sur
; vive her, Stephen and John Hearne,
of Carrboro.
. Mrs. Boone has always lived a
Christian life and she and her heart
broken husband had lived happily
together for 45 years. She was 70
, years of age.
F\jneraal services were conducted
by her pastor, Rev. J. S.* Carden, of
Durham.
HICKORY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and
family were visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Manns Sunday.
Miss Hope Ferguson and Mr.
Alph Bowers, motored to Vass Sun
day to see Miss Ferguson’s brother,
Wade, who going to the Farm Life
School there.
Miss Corrine Carroll, visited Miss
Edith Clark Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and
daughter, Mrs. R. L. Campbell,'went
to Raleigh, last Tuesday to see Mr.
and Mrs. P. S. Mitchell. Mr. Mit
chell is in the hospital, but he is get
ting on nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Cockman and
little son, Alex Edward, visited Mrs.
Cockman’s mother, Mrs. W. H. Fer
: guson Sunday at Pittsboro.
Mrs. W. M. Ray and children vis
ited her sister, Mrs. J. A. Woody.
Misses Stella and Eva Harris,
Messrs, Henry Harris and Curtis
Quackenbush, of Siler City, motored
to Liberty Sunday afternoon.
The Epwortih League, of Hickory
Mountain M. E. church will meet at
Miss Juanita Johnson’s home Satur
day night, November 22.
There Will be a pie supper given
at Battle school house Thanksgiving
Thursday night, Nobember 27.
Everybody invited. _
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