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THE CHATHAM RECORD rST AEI-SHED, SEPTEMBERNL9, 1878. IUG BUILDING BOOM NOTED IN SILER CITY Several Business Houses and Residences Under Construc tion-Other News Items ' i I > U Siler City, June 27.—At the pres (, < time Siler City is experiencing ; precedented amount of build activities. Four handsome new \ usiness houses are being fin-1 these being the John F. Lambe 1 H. L. Terry’s new market, 1 s also shared by the bakery, " . . building and a .new home for m Theatre, the iast two being! by H. W. Webster. Also in ! of the business section the . ust company is remodeling. \\ ebster-Paschal building into j iking house. J. T. Fergu- j .. enlarging his business place | ’ J. D. Edwards is complet- j most attractive new building !vVch will furnish quarters for an-; , r jrug store, the upper part of b'b building having just been fm for professional offices. *‘ ir addition to all this improve ment in the business section the man-, ut’acturing industries are expanding, • l lavi v e number of homes of the bet mr type are in course of construction Ind along with it all goes the work of installing the water and sewerage. The directors of the Chatham County Fair Association were in ses- | don todav, planning additional build- • ; no - .pace for the coming fair. An en hvoed premium list has already been mailed * out and all indications are for an unusual event this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Coley Gee, who were recently married in Randolph coun ty. Mrs. Gee formerly being Miss Blanche York, the atractive daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. York, have moved into their beautiful bungalow. Mrs. George Duke ,of Raleigh, was j the guest this week of her sister,; Miss Nell Perry. S. P. Teague suffered minor m-1 juries vesterday while alighting from a car near Loves Creek church. He jg recovering satisfactorily. T .0 79th birthday of Mrs. Martha r hie was celebrated last Sunday ' *r he home of W. A. Summer near this place. ' i. yip-’v den, one of the; i of this section, last Wednesday. Her; age wa. nearing the century mark., j cuests in the home of Mr. j .... Elkins were, Mr. and , >ble and little daugh ter. :L . iVilliam Thompson, Mr. and Mr’-, j n Coble of Burlington. Be : a Cooper left today for Chiea g > he goes following his grad uation m the University of North Car io pursue further his couise in elec* heal engineering. Karl Likins "and Fred Thomas re-| turn: 1 csterday from the boys’ scertft j camp near Fayetteville where they i spent .-everal days. On a count of the torn up condition j ’ t • streets herewhile putting in j , the water system, Siler City will for | the first time in more than twenty years fail to celebrate in great style for the Glorious Fourth. Mrs. W. H. Strayhorn, son Billy, and daughter, Carolyn, of Durham are tine guests of her sister, Mrs. T. 0. Bynum. Mi s Cara Lane is spending some j time -vi.hir. ; friends at Albemarle and Charlotte. Mrs. J. B. Marley, and daughter, Louise and aterine, Miss Evelyn Fox, William Yvren and Rufus Reitzel left yesterday by motor to spend several days with relatives and friends in I Columbia, S. C. Hen H. Lambe and little daughters, Pe SST and Sallie of Washington, D. C-, arrived yesterday to spend a vrith his father, J. F. Lambe. Guests of Mrs. E. H. Jordan are h - Brooks Rollins, of Crad inia and Miss Maggie Dav ■ 1 ’ 01 heme Georgia. I I; • Mrs. R. S. Fountain have im. Williamston where m lied on acount of the ’‘' aul ( ' Fountain’s mother.. Mwa - _ _ _ \ - **-£**:■ ii * •Your Land for Grass I 5 : i":lilted by the best farm- T uvj only right and econom- B 7 vV Y -o sow grass is to sow it^ means it should bedgown 0 oar t( - -Tory in the late^summer ■ be Vei Y wady fall. The land should Iv e ple P aref l now for this purpose. I Par' hIUC ‘ I the method of pre- I Pi* 11 ? lan<l for wheat.—Southern I f Writer, I ?e 28^400' tC habitable rural B ln^s nr, w vacant in Missouri. MONCURE HIGH SCHOOL ON ACCREDITED LIST School Has Grown Gratifyingly Under Principalship of H. G. Self.—Other News Notes We are glad to state that Moncure High school is on the accredited list now. Mr. H. G. Self has been principal ■of the school for three years. The ; first year that he was employed there were four teachers, five including the ' music teacher, and an average tendance of 100 students, but now | there are eight teachers besides the ; music teacher, with an average at tendance of 200 students. Moncure ; school has doubled in, growth since ; Mr. Self has been principal. Nearly al of the schools in this community have consolidated with | Moncure School during these three ; years. A good principal and consoli- ; dation make a school grow. A list of the faculty for next year will be pub lished later. Mrs. .Mae Hall, of South Carolina, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. .R. Jenks, this week. Misses Catherine Thomas and Pauline Ray left Monday for Louis burg, N. C., where they will attend the Epworth League Assembly this week, June 29 to July 3rd inclusive. Mr. Clinton Bryan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bryan, and Miss Friz j elle Knight, of Pittsboro, were mar ' ried at the home of her mother’s, Mrs. Charlie Knight, of route 2, on j last Wednesday. . Mr .and Mrs. Brylan are well known and have many friends in and around Moncure. Mr. Bryan has a friendly disposition and has been rur al mail carrier for many years. Mrs. Bryan is a very pretty and attractive young lady, of gentle dis position and loved by all who know i her. They will make their home at 1 Pittsboro, We wish for them many j years of happy wedlock. Mr. and Mrs.. Clinton Bryan spent last week-end with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bryan. Mr. P. S. Lassater, of Y'emassee, S. C., was in town today, Monday, ! visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman and little daughters, Camelia and Ruth,; spent Sunday with Mr. A. B. .Clegg ! ; and his sister, Mrs. R. A. Speed. The ; day was pleasantly spent afid thor- ; oughly enjoyed. They served a de licious dinner and Mrs. R. A. Speed made a charming hostess. Mr. A. B. : Clegg is a prosperous farmer. He j ' owns a large plantation with sever- ; al tenants on it. The Epworth Leagers held a very interesting meeting at the Methodist church last Sunday evening at 8 o’- : clock. The president, Miss Catherine ! Thomas, was in the chair. The roll j Wets called and the minutes of the 1 last meeting were read by the secre | tary, Miss Pauline Ray. Then 'the ; president turned the meeting over to j Mrs. J. E. .Moore, the leader for the ; evening. The subject was “Christian I Education.” 1. Scripture lesson Acts 10:34-43 and also the Importance of Christian Education. —Mrs. J. E. Moore. 2. Prayer: Mr. H. .G. Self. 3. Duet: “Jesus Lover of My Soul” Mises Pauline Ray and Hilda Wilkie. 4. Christian Education in Africa. — Miss Eva Phillips. 5. Christian Education in the Ori ent. —Mr. H. G. Self. 6. Educational Missions as a voca tion. —Miss Catherine Thomas. 7. Collection* 8. Prayer —Mrs. W. .W. Stedman. Bank Robbery at Bonlee. Western Chatham ,Kas had two re cent robberies. Ten days ago or more the post office at Ore Hill was rob- ; bed, the loss being about $1.75, we are informed. Last Monday night the J bank at Bonlee was entered. The rogues, fortunately, could not gain en trance to the new vault and safe, but got into an old safe where some church money had been teniporairly deposited, not having been codnted but probably about S2O. That money and probably SSO worth of stamps de posited there by the postmaster, whose safe was robbed some-months ago, comprised the chief loss. There is said to be no clue to the perpet rators of either crime. mm » First Chatham Blossom Mr. B. N. Dickens, of Corinth, was the first Chatham County man to send in a cotton blossom. It came just too late to be printed in the last issue of the Record. IMOK 3KOH Y Qlllia PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1925. COTTON PICKING MACHINE INVENTION OF GEORGIAN It is a Hand Machine Capable of Doing Work of Four Men. The folowing appeared in an is sue of last week’s Augusta, Ga., Chronicle: * Augusta has another new indus try. It was announced yesterday that the Foucher Cotton Picking Company is to manufacture its pro ducts here, which is an invention of an Augustan, Harry E. Sourcher, The enterprise, which has for its purpose the manufacture of a prac tical cotton picker, is financed en tirely by Augusta capital and located in this city in the face of inductive i offers from other -cities in this sec- j tion of Georgia and South Carolina. J Already, it was stated by a large stockholder in the company orders ,have been placed for the manufac ture of 100 of the cotton pickers. ; and these machines are now under j construction in Augusta. Hundreds of other orders are expected in the very near future, just as soon as the farmers learn of the advaptages of the picker over the old methods. The picker, it is stated, will aver age 65 pounds per hour and will pick the cotton cleaner than by hand It has a life of ten years ana accord ing to its inventor will pick as much clean cotton in a day as four men or ‘hands”. The picker it was announc ed, will be sold for approximately I $l5O each. The machine is run by a small storage battery and is carried on the hand picking the cotton and conveying it to sacks in a very light wagon which is pulled by the per-' son who operates-the “picker” Picks and Conveys Cotton. The light wagon which is pulled along row by the person operating the “picker” is very light in con struction and has six empty canvas bags of a capacity of 75 pounds of cotton each. When a bag is filled it is dropped along the row. The wagon is 15 inches wide and 40 inches higV and is so light as not to hinder op erating the cotton picker. It is expected that experiments i that will be conducted by the “pick er” will lead to sales of the machines throughout the entire cotton belt that will ultimately mean the es tablishment of a great p’ant here I for their manufacture. It was point 'ed out that the posibilities of the machine are unlimited in considers l tion of the great saving in labor I that it represents. .The fact ch..c it j does not pick trash and is operated so handily is pointed to by the man ufacturers as the means of assuring its success. / BRYAN-KNIGHT™ Post Office Rorhanec Culminates In Marriage of Mr. Clinton Bryan and Miss Fri zelie Knight. The expected has happened. Mr. Clinton E. Bryan and Miss Frizelie Knight are married. The happy event occurred on last Thursday. The mar riage vows were taken at the coun try home of the bride’s mother, Mrs.. Charles J. night, a few miles south of Pittsboro. .The ceremony was per formed by Rev. Thomas Clegg, of days’ tour. This marriage is the culmination of a courtship that has progressed for many moons between two popular postal employees. The groom is car- ; rier on Pittsboro R. F. D. 1. The, bride was a clerk iru the post office till tyro weeks ago, when She re tired and went down to* spend the remaining days of her girlhood with | her mother, being succeeded at the : post office by Miss Lelia Justice. I The Record is convinced that Mr. Bryan has secured a real jewel. Sue is. not only pretty, genial, affable but has proven herself courteous and capable as a postal employee. In fact, it seemed a pleasure for her to serve the patrons of the * office, .-.and the writer is convinced that he has never come in touch, in all his years of newspaper experience, with a more efficient and pleasant postal clerk. If Clinton Bryan does not deserve congratulations no young fellow does. Many friends wish the hapy young couple long life and much joy. Prof Matt Thompson, long known as a leading public school man of ths state, died Tuesday at the Mor ganton State Hospital. Quite a number of other shocks LOOK Al iUCJB LABEL MURCHISON CLAN MEETS Fifth Annual Meet at Mount Vern on Springs Tommorrow The fifth annual reunion of the Murchisons will begin tomorrow at the Mount Vernon Springs Hotel and will last through Monday, July 6. Mr. .Duncan M. Murchison, of Rock Hill, S. C., secretary has sent the Record an interesting program for the occasion. Robert Alexander Murchison, of Fayetteville, is president; Geo. C. Smith, of Douglas Ga., vice, president, Mrs. John Colin Murchison, of Or lando, Fla.., is historian; Prof. Claudius Murchinson, of Chapel Hill, j is reporter; Mrs. G. L. Merril, of Gulf |is assistant secretary, j Mr. D. M. Murchinson says he has been away from Chatham 33 years, but; has been greatly gratified in noting the various developments in the old county. He gives the editor \an invitation to look in upon the clan in reunion and he will be de lighted if he finds it convenient to do so. The Murchisons are real folks. Mr. Murchison states that all are natives of Chatham and have many relatives and friends in the County wlhom they would be glad to have call on them during the four days at Mount Vernon Springs. GULF NEWS NOTES Mrs. H. A. Russell and little daughters, Inez and Anne, returned Sunday night from Asheville, where they have been for some time visit ing friends. . Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Duval and Mr. and Mrs. Lano, of Sanford, spent one day last week in Greensboro, N. C. Mr. John Lilly, of Star, spent the week-end here with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Phillips spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister at Bear Creel?. Miss Margie Murchison and Mrs. John Freman visited‘friends on Sun j day- v ] Last Thursday night the slab pile at Mr. A. J. Little’s saw mill caught on fire and wouM have destroyed the whole mill but for the quick work of Mr. M. J. Jordan, who lives near the mill. Mr. Jordan gave the alarm by blowing the whistle. Help was there in a few minutes and the fire was soon put out. Rev. J. H. Broom, the pastor of the Baptist church, could not he with us so Mr. G. L. Merrill preached for us, using for his text, ‘The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.” Last Thursday night Miss Eleanor Palmer, who has been taking train ing at Central Carolina Hospital, San ford, but is now home for her vaca i , tion, gave her friends a delightful camp-fire supper and weiner roast, which was greatly enjoyed by those present. Mrs. J. N. Little has returned home after visiting her son, A. G. Little. Misses Margaret Mclver and Mary Lacy Palmer, from Greensboro, spent the weeke-nd here wiht their people. KISSES ON PUBLIC ROAD ARE COSTLY Greenville, S. C., June 20.—Kiss ing on public roads in Greenville coun ty is a costly matter. Thursday night a young couple are said to have been seen “neck ing” in the City View section; They ! were arrested and hauled before a i local magistrate. The young people produced a marriage license and said they expected to be married shortly. However, that fact made no j difference to his honor the magis trate. The boy then entered a plea of guilty for both himself and the : girl. He was also chsft-ged with reck less driving*. “Fifteen dolalrs for reckless driv ing and S2O for reckless kissing,” the magistrate said. “Thirty-fjve dollars for a kiss,” j someone said. ‘No $35 for a lot of kisses.” { “Worth-Tt? “I’ll say they were worth it,” re- j plied the young swain as the couple departed. New Police Force. \ John Burns, who has proved to be as good, if* better than any po liceman Pittsboro has /ever had, has resigned. Lacy Johnson has been ap pointed to serve as “chief” from now on. Pittsboro loses a good “cop” but the force is about as handsome as ever.” . r ... Y. [EARTHQUAKE WRECKS SANTA BARBARA, CAL. Great Buildings Rock Like Boots and crumble. Millions of Damage. Few Lives V Lost Santa Barbare, Calif., June 29 (AP) —A series of earthquakes, de scribed by survivors as rocking* and swaying the business center of Santa : Barbara as if it were on a turfeuient;« ocean, early today left the principal j < structures, of the channel city a mass ] of debris and ruins. The loss of life j was not large, due to the tremor oc- j curring at 6:44 o’clock in the morn- | ( ing* -and also that the mass of ruins j' fell in the second earthquake, some j' 15 minutes after the first tremor. Estimates of the loss vary from : $3,000,000, a “conservative figure” by j < the city manager to $30,000,000, aj. figure quoted by the city engineer. ; Indications are that 12 lives were j lost, although this rests upon the re- j covery of several «bodies asserted to / be in the ruins. Mrs. Perkins A Victim Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, widow of the railroad wizard, former president of the . Chicago, Burlington and Quincey, was declared to be buried ip . the ruins of a sectiop of the ’ Arling-- Hotel. Manager A. L. Richmond said that he did not Have the slight est hope that she escaped and debris was being removed to uncover the body. Manager Richmond also be lieved that Bertram B. Hancock, of Los Angeles, was killed, his room Visit the National Capital and its demolished. State street, the main thorougfare, is a ghastly avenue t of ruin, portions of its most stately buildings being tumbled down, and cornices, walls, and fronts of practically all principal structures shattered down. * The earthquakes continued through out the day. They menaced the water supply by crashing out the dam of Sheffield reservoir, but a by pass has been established to a main reservoir j back in the hills and water provid- ' ' ed for the city. Hotel Demolished ] The terror-stricken 30,000 inhab- ! itants in most cases settled down to I an emergency existence by noon, many of them living on the lawns. ‘I have been through 50 * earth quakes but never one like this be-1 fore,” said Manager Richmond of; the Arlington Hotel. “It just took i the hotel that we considered strong as a fortress and shook it back and j forth as if'it were a rag. ‘lt was precisely as if one were ; at sea in a storm. One would not j I believe it were posible for a build ! ing to move with such force in so ! many directions and apparently so limply as did the Arlington. The, hotel is a total loss.” Other stories of the motion of the earthquake were similar. ‘The twisting of the earth was like a violent storm at sea,” said Harry Afford, janitor of the Daily News, j He was one of the comparatively few men in the downtown district when the earth began its shivering. ! Like Ship In a Storm. “The first shock shook the Daily News building like a little ship in a big storm. It knocked several of; us down. There was nothing to do, \ it was just a question of getting up | and holding on. Then came the sec- [ ond shock. This was the one that i 1 did the damage. It just rocked back i and forth, until the crunching and crashing sounds showed that the buildings were being torn down. Londons Gather at the Old Home ; |_ Mrs. Henry A. London has been en- j 'joying a reunion of her family. Those who have been here are Mr. and Mrs.; ■ J. Henry Fell and children, Miss Bet tie Fell, Armand London, and Sallie London Fell, of Trenton, New Jer sey; Mrs. .John H. Anderson, daugii- ! ter, Mrs. Tho.mas Wooten, little Bet- j tie London Wooten, of Fayetteville,; ; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac London, and chil ! dren, William Everett, Lucia Payne, and Bettie Louise, of Rockingham; j Mr. H. M. London and son, George j Elliot London, of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. James H. .Cordon and son, Jim Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jerome, and Fred Jr., all of Raleig.h. And other members of the family are ex pected this week. The water in Frenchman's Bay, on Desert Island, off the coast of Maine at midday of the day when one of , the marine annelid worm breeds, be comes blood red due to the untold numbers of red eggs cast into the ' bottom waters by the worm. x STATE NEWS Governor McLean has been so busy that he has not considered the mat ter of a vacation. The Ham meeting continues at„ Smithfield the rest of this week. Great crowds are attending, it is re- Over near Newton a still has been found operated by gasoline, which eliminates the smoke signal. How- / ever, it was found and captured, ported. Mr. B. N. Duke has given $15,000 to establish a ward for crippled ne gro children at the State Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia. Commissioner of Labor Grist, makes an official statement of the cause of the explosion at CoaL Glenn. A defective jpowder blast was the prime cause. \ I ( Governor McLean has decided upon ,a successor to Sam L. Rogers, recent ly deceased, as a member of the wage commission, now in session, but is not ready to name his man. Death row in the penetentiary had been thinned out by recent electrocu tions, but two or three convictions of negroes for murder and subset quent sentence to the chair last week are filling up the r@W again, Tax Commissioner R. A. Doughton, reports a shortage of $730,000 in in come tax as compared with receipts to the same date last year. The de crease! is acourited for largely by lack of textile prosperity. North Carolina has paid during the year ending July 1, $160,000,000 into the U. S. Treasury, $140,000,00 com ing from the tax on the tobacco bus iness. There has been an of 17 per cent in the number of person al returns made. Henry Mason, a negro charged I with gambling, deputized another ne [ gro Monday to take $25 and answer Ito his name in a Greensboro court ! and pay the fine. The negro did so, ] but instead of drawing a fine he drew I thirty days on the roads in Mason’s ! name. *7 Fifty carloads of peaches were ship ped from North, Carolina last week. | Os course, the largest shipping, sea j son is still__weeks ahead. The supreme court has decided that it is legal for counties to advance ' money to the state highway commis sion for road construction within their borders, and the door has been flung wide open for that kind of business. Mr. .and Mrs. A. W. Sikes, of Mebane, and a party started out ear- I ly Sunday morning to go to Norfolk, ! but got only to the depot. Here they drew up for one train to pass and ' !not knowing that two trains met there drove upon the track just in ! time to be struck by the second train. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sykes are dead, i The car was driven by their son, j Hubert. STATE NEWS __ __ After the conviction of Dr. Rober son, of Durham, last week for the ! illegal sale of narcotics, there occur j red a mistrial in the case of Dr. jE. .H. Boeing. Judge Meekins an nounced that if the others indicted | would submit that he would not place a prison sentence upon any of them. All submitted, including Dr. Boling. , The bigegst fine of all w r as placed on j Dr. Boiihg, SI,OOO, but this was af | terward cut down to SSOO. The oth i ers got off with $250 each. Judge | Meekins declared Durham the hub of ! the dope business in the state, or ! words to that effect. It seems that ’ some of them had made practically their whole income from dispensing dope. I . It has been stated that Governor McLean has offered the secretaryship of the North Carolina railroad to W. J. Brogden, of Durham, who manag ed Mr. McLean’s campaign last spring, but Brogden is reported by I the Durham Herald as having no hankering for a railroad job or any desire for “pie” at all. He was in conference with the governor Tues day and it w~as suggested that he might be offered the presidency of the road if he declined to be secre tary-There is a string of candidates for the job, which pays $2,000 a year and is now held by Arch Johnson, editor of Charity and Children, who was very helpful in Morrison’s cam paign but who voted for Bailey las? NUMBER 4.