THE CHATHAM RECORD SmSHED SEPTEMKT ■c . v.£BP-jES ■ -vPWspass ’Sews From The Good 8 a ‘“‘ l L JV uo f Bennett. u g. 3.—Rev. J. C. Kidd, BeiUlC - ’ are away this meetings at their lW o reporting much interest on Sunday, the beginning. H powers, known as Jack fYh cancer on side of his face le , ee n blind for seven months, jtetTuesday, 28th, and was bnr churcn cemetery at Beulah on Wednesday. Mr. ®' ,r was seventy eight years old "fdealh and had always lived "V died, had lived a Christian ‘ eli |lliie( l with Fall creek Baptist \ about forty years ago, and 1 e of the charter members who ai T t 0 institute Beaulah Baptist He reared twelve children, % and six girls, all who are \ J are married, raising a family % own and own their own a nd live within five miles of . Jeer’s home. He leaves a wife, elf -o' Miss Cynthia Ritter, daugh bo ” Capt John Ritter, who was during the Civil Wen:. .. . ons who are living are J. i., J. 15 Y C. H., E. S,. and Bennie H., ! ' ’.lest son, who lived with him. k"daughters are Mrs. J. E. Jones, b j Cheek, Mrs. John Jones, g g. Cheek, Mrs. R. B. Kidd, d Mrs. W. A. Moffitt He had thirty-nine grand children - eicht great grand children He ves one brother, Mr. ames Bowers, UV t.s near him, and is eighty I Aid v large crowd attended the Stdce, which was conducted , hi> pastor, Rev. A. G. Lasater, as hev. J. C. Kidd, Rev. E. A., vingstone, Rev. G R Underwood, ,d Kev. Mr. Picket. Mi. Garrett Smith, who lives near dl Creek Baptist church and whose He died a few years ago, died at e home of his daughter, Mrs. Ritter, st Thursday. He had lain uown for st in the aiternoon and passed away e was aoout seventy-nine years old id had been - faitnful member «i s church, nis pastor, Rev. J* C* M crated that he was among the iMithial members, and was al ms\, ins post, oe is a brotoer to ■r. Ldiii Smith and Mr. Corner tithe treasurer of the Sandy ii'Baptist Association. IHe was buried Friday at Fall Creek |apt cemetery, the services being Inkted by his pastor, Rev. J. C. E. He belonged to the High Falls tier Cider and they rendered acer- Hnony. . ■ Q;..:e an enjoyable time occurred l E John Bray’s Saturday evening tea ins relatives and friends sur- Iri-eu him by Jmedting there and ■reading a big sapper in the yaid |e king up at Bennett at the time ■it teaching home and finding the ■aid gull of people and the supper ■repared. It made him feel good thus ■m: hi.' relatives and friends. ■•'.: an enjoyable time with all. Imßeu.iett base ball team won Eo pines last week, defeating Col three to one, and High Falls E to four. They have challenged ■oie better and stronger teams than Ey cave played heretofore, but some can't get a game. Probably they, m afraid they will get beaten. The ■*! team will play Ramseur here B® Saturday afternoon. , ■ The crops through out this section offering for rain, while in sec- ccrn has a gocri chance so far Ptoldirg its own very well. Cotton ■ looking very good. A good many ■ Manners are busy hauling ties ■ : ‘Umber to the markets here. w* is also a good deal of cedar Put on the market. Meeting cf W. M. U. E 5 I\l. U. of Sandy Creek As- Vi;: ;-::Ul its annual meet ■' “' k Baptist church V" a ' !I C v iber, 17th. Ail church ■Y l ‘ le Arscciation are urged to ■‘ ie Pro.'mh.atives whether they an ov -d society or not. B’-O. Davis,.of Upper Halifax, in ■ tu “i farms and found the boll Itlig • (01ng <lama^e i n a majority of visited. Mr. Davis states ■ the farmers of Halifax are now ■ to make infestation counts m l 0 tell when dusting is nee’ded. I' ACCIDENTALLY KILLED Mr. H. A. Fields Tree Which He Was Cutting Lived Two Hours. Mr. H .A. Fields, one of the good citizens of White’s Bridge communi- I ty died last Thursday as a result of being struck by an o d pear tree which he had sawed down. He lived only two hours after being struck, but was conscious to the very last. It was a most ancient pear tree and was dying. Mr. W. W. Fields, son of the deceased says that Mr. Porter Stedman when 92 years old said that the tree was as large then as it when he was a boy. The ancient land- i mark was only cumbering the ground, ! and Mr. Fields and his little grand- i son Henry Fir.lips went out to cut it down. l*«-n the nee was aboup to Ta.ll, ' Mr. Fi-rkls duelled the boy to run i ami ho :mseb' stepped away, but, un- j fortunately, made a mistake in the di rection, and when he discovered it, 1 it was falilng toward him and he didn’t have time to get out of the I way. A limb hit him upon the right i shoulder, bursting his collar bone and otherwise crushing him. Mr. W. W. Fields was called and he and Henry . carired the stricken man to the house!, ! where he soon passed away. Mr. Fields was 73 years of age. He married Miss Clara White, a sis- j ter of Rev. J. M. White, father of I Dr. John E.. White. Mrs. White and one son survive. He had been a mem ber of Mays Chapel Baptist church many years. The funeral was preach- j ed by Rev. R. R. Gordon at Mays , Chapel and the body was laid away j in the church cemetery, in the pres , ence of a large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives. BRICHAVEN Ys FORT BRAGG Chatham Team to Cross Bats Satur day With Army Team at Sanford The Brick Haven Baseball team, which has made quite a record this summer in its games with local nines, has cut out for itself a more ambitious program It has arranged to tackle the Fort Bragg team at San ford Saturday. The game will begin at 3:30, and will be played on the Sanford dia mond the Chatham team is compos- 1 ed of Tyler Dewar, pitcher, Brooks Snipes, catcher, Thomas Hamlet Ist. base, Leo Buckner, second base, Zeb Harrington, 3rd base, Frank Gattis, short stop, Hugh Buckner, left field, Sam Utley, center field, Salter Utley, right field. This game should enlist more than j the local interest about Brickhaven and Corinth. The fans throughout the county should take a pride in being • l here and cheering the county team. CRACK SECOND NINE WINS OYER NEW HOPE Moncure’s Winning Team of Young- sters score another victory. -JMEHB 1 » ;>■ , Moncure August3.—Moncure s 2nd nine , composed of boys under four teen, won over New H Hope Saturday afternoon by a score of ,14 to 11. The j winning pitcher was Julian Ray. The first five were pitched by John Worn ble, at the end of which the game stood tied ,11 to 11. But after RdV was put in he held the New Hopcrs rather now the hopeles-s, hitless to the finish. j Frank Morrison caught a fault.ess game. Frank Morrison hitting a two bagger with two men on . the bases, cl anged what appeared to be defeat in ■victory. Capt. Pete Sasser ti J locking for some other team i at and asks that boys ha wig « t am write him. Visiting Hdfoe Fo’k. • Mr. and Mrs. .P. A. Rudd., of Co lumbia, S. C., have been visiting Mrs. Rudd’s relatives in the Fearrington ■ community. Mrs. Rudd was a -Will iams. They left this county ten or twelve years ago and seem to be . prospering in the state of their adop tion. While here thety took the op ! portunity to run up to Richmond to visit a sister. >)>■ i PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTy, THURSDAY^m^SOr-1925. SIMON’S BUNCH ROUNDED UP. ■‘ | Sheriff and Posse Capture Five Ne • groes, Long Time Booze Makers Out on $2200 Bond. # The Sheriff has had his eye for some time upon Simon Alston and his boys, who have apparently been doing a land-slide business in booze. Yet till last Saturday the officers had not been able to get them with the goods or to get definite evidence'. Last Saturday, Sheriff Blair, play ed a strategy upon them. He had gathered a group of fourteen officers, among whom were five good runners. H g divided his forces into three group leaving Pittsboro a few minutes apart. The one went the direct road to Simon’s, while the group starting earlier made their way around and came up from the other side, thus cut ting off both approaches to the house | So well-timed were the goins of the i two groups that they arrived at Si mon s the same minute with no warn ; to the booze-makers and dispens ers. There was a scurrying to and fro. One son seized a fruit jar of booze | and started for the barn. He had his | eye upon Deputy Desern and had not ! yet seen the sheriff and his coterie. The Shriff was watching him, how ever, but was some little time in get -1 ting the attention of Deputy Harring- I ton who was looking at another fel- I low being endangerd by Mr. Desem’s party. The! black saw the sheriff ■ about the time Harrington saw the ! negro. The latter started across the field jumping a wire fence. Harring ton heeled it after him and overhaul ed him. The father and three sons and one of the negroes working with the Hag ! edorn Company on the road paving ! job were captured. The last named had a gallon which he had presum ably brought, but he the jug down and broke it. Plenty of evidence of dealing in the stuff was found, booze in the house and out "of the house, empty kegs with the smell of booze, etc. The five were brought to Pittsboro but were released upon a combined bond of $2200.00. A preliminary trial will be held August 15, before ‘Squire Blair. GULF NEWS Miss Mary Lacy Palmer is giving a house party at Lakeview. Mrs. Taimage Johnson and Miss Katherine Humprey, of Charlotte, are staying this week with Mrs. Walter Johnson. . Mr. and Mrs. Coy Cole, and Mrs. Martha Ann Cole of near Sanford visited Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Gaines, Sunday. Miss Virginia Murchison who is at tending summer school at Wake For est snent the week-end at home. % * 1 Mrs. F. O. Smith and children and Mr. Altan Jordan, of Durham and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Murchison and chil dren, of Vass, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Jordan. The revival that was held here last week at the Baptist church, in which Mr. J, A. Honeycutt did the preach ing, accomplished much good in the few days he was here. He was com pelled to return home on account of sickness in his family. Nine were baptized and one joined by letter. . j Mrs. Jack Vann Laudingham and son Joseph, Jr., of Raleigh, and M iss , Margie Murchison, of Sanford, were ! the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. E* Murchison. Mr. and Mrs. A J. Little, attended j the Brooks-Little reunion at Marsn ville last Thursday ’ Miss Fannie Beal, who has been spending her vacation with her sister Mrs. W. H. Hill, returned to her nome in Durham, last Sunday. Mr. Archibald Palmer, of Sanford, is here, spending his vacation with his parents, Dr. and M'rs. R. W. Palm er. ' * - Soil fertility is still the biggest problem to be solved by Tarheel farm ersi says one investigator who claims that if our acre yields were as good as the average of the county, we would have added $50,000,000 to our income in 1924. CHATHAM COUNTY ASLEEP , I That is Conviction of the Record’s Fair Correspondent After Attend ing Farmer’s Convention. . I Mr. and Mrs. Will Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Pickett, of Durham, were visitors of Mr. .and Mrs. Clyde Grif fin last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bynum and chil dren and Miss Lizzie Clegg attended tr-e Farmers’ Convention at State College last Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ivey P. Harmon ard little daughter Hilda, and baby, John Harold, of Hartsville, S. C., spmt from Wednesday until Satur lav with his father, Mr. .J. E. Harmon Mr. Floyd S Harmon returned wi s h Mr Harmon to South Carolina and spent a few days Our revival began last Sunday. A large crowd was present and heard Rev. C. M. Lance preach a strong and forceful sermon. Rev. Mr. Goodchild led the singing. He is a fine singer.. The offertory song, The “Savior With Me,” was very impressive. Messrs. Grady S. Patterson, Bev erly Lake, Misses Elizabeth and Vir ginia Lake, of Wake Forest, Mr. George D. Harmon, and Mrs. Cald well, of ort Smith, Arkansas, motor ed to Pinehurst and Aberdeen last Thursday. They reported a pleasant trip. Mr. George D. Harmon left last Friday for a two weeks’ stay in Washington City where he will spend most of his time working on his thesis in Library Congress* The twenty-third annual session of the North Carolina Farmers’ and Farm Women’s Convention held at State College of Agriculturee and En gineering, Raleigh, July 28, 29 and 30, 1925, was one of the most suc cessful conventions that has been held. It was a real vacation for the farmers as well as an instructive one. There were about 1400 farmers pres ent and 520 were farm wonum These people represented different countis in the state. Sorrfe of the most dis tant counties had the largest num ber or representatives. Forsyth coun ty led in number,/with one hundred and forty present. Hyde county next, eighty. There was a silver cup pre sented to Forsyth county for the larg est number. j The writer regretted that Cnatham county was not represented with a larger number of men and women. Probably there were a dozen from Chatham. Some one asked the writer “If she learned anything new Vhile at Ral eigh?” The reply was, “Yes, that Chatham county is asleep and not do ing anything comparable to other counties with reference to the more progressive and scientific methods of farming. The counties that were real ly doing things had county agents and home demonstration agents and were organized in farm and home clubs and were doing first class work. Chatham county was not mention ed in the convention at all. Chatham county has some of the finest peo ple within the state, but they should realize the needs of cooperative farm ing and. less individualism; therefore Dr. Brooks and the other people <sf state college. Dr. Brooks is certainly a fine man and is one of the best orators in the state. State College is fortunate in securing him as presi dent. I Governor McLean lectured at Hie Convention and a number of other prominent men, and also women, made fine lectures. | Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clark and daugh ter, of Apex, spent last Sunday v.tii his sister, Mrs. W. B. Harper. Opposed to Investigation. Shanghai, Aug. 2—(AP)— A dis patch received here from Peking says the foreign office has cabled Chinese ministers abroad instructing them te inform the governments to which they are accredited that the Chinese government is opposed to another in vestigation into the recent Shanghai disordrs. * • ! dj- j,_ j L".. ’ -a v MONCURE NEWS Miss Wilkie Bride of Mr. John Bell, Jr„ Beautiful Home Wedding at Moncure —Other Moncure Items. # Mrs. J. R. Jenks and little children and Miss Eva Phillips, who have been at Rutherfordton, N. C., for the past ten days, enjoying the mountain seen ery and air returned home last Sau* { urday for a few days. Miss Fmmps will go to Montreat to enter school for fall term. Miss Catherine Thomas, who has been at Apex, for the past ten days visiting relatives returned home last Saturday. Last Saturday morning at the home of Miss Florence \viiKie, at 11 o’- clock Miss Hilda Wilkie, the oldest daughter of Mrs. Florence Wilkie was married to Mr. Johnnie Bell Jr., the son of Mr. John Bell. It was a very quiet and beautiful home wedding. Rev. R. R. Gordon, of Pittsboro, I\. G., officiating, it was an I impressive ceremony. The parlor was j beautifully decorated with ferns and j potted plants intermingled with bowls of rosebuds. Mrs.. J. W. Utley, sis ter of the groom, played the piano while Miss Willie’ Brown, a cousin of the bride, beautifully sang, “The Sweetest Story Ever Told.’ ’Then the| strains of the Lohengrin Wedding Wedding March burst forth, while tjhe bride and groom entered. Little Miss Lois Wilkie, sister of the bride, dress ed in pink voile and lace, carried the ring on a silver tray, showered with lilies of the valley. The bride was! lovely in an ensemble suit of green j charmene and crepe black satin with tan accessories carrying a shower boquet of bridal roses and lillies of the valley. Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for Richmond and! other points. After the 10th of Aug- | ust they will make their home in Mon cure. Mrs. Bell is the popular, attractive and refined daughter of Mrs. Flor ence Wilkie, who taught school one year after compluteing the High 1 School course at Moncure High School 1922-1923. Mrs. Bell is very talented in music, both piano and voice anu i has secured the position as instructor of the music department of Moncure High School next year. Mr. Bell, a former State College Student and who made a successful year l on Moncure Route one, is the son of Mr. John Bell, Sr., and is now a promising salesman of the Quaker Oats Company. There were no services at the Bap tist Church last Sunday, as the pas- tor, Rev. Jesse Blalock, of Aberdeen, was taking his vacation. The Epworth League met at the Methodist church last Sunday evening at 8 o‘clock, Miss Catherine Thomas the president, in the chair after the Bible reading ‘by the president and; prayer by Mrs. W. W. Stedman, roll! was called by the secretary, Miss Pauline Ray, and then the minutes j of the last meeting read. The sub ject for the evening was ,‘Tne Friend liness of God as Seen in Nature.” following took part in the pro gram: Song: Onward Christian Soldiers — By All. Nature Reveals God’s Glory—Lo- Miss Lucile Wicker. # God’s Providence Seen in Nature — Camila Stedman. Nature Reveal’s God’s Glory—Lo- Lift Up Eyes to the Hills— is Ray. Roberta Lambeth. ! Learning from Nature—Margaret Strickland. Song: Win Them One by One—By che Leaguers. . • UYjll’l Reading: If" God Cares iof the les nay the very grass—will be not muen ser things—the birds, the flowers, I more care for you, his children?” Mrs. W. W. Stedman Song: “I am so Glad ?That : Jesus Loves Me.”—By all Present.. —u^aoure r £ vffisreQ 'sapj ‘osiumj _ 1 Closing Prayer—Miss Arvey Wo| bid. •• ■'! Everybody invited to attend j Epworth League meeting-.next Sjiifc NUMBER 9« 1 CHARGED WITH RAPE Fon Burke Taken to Penitentiary for Safe-Keeping—Charged with Crim inal Assault Upon Young White Girl. ■> Fon Burke, a young man of good parentage but not unknown to the court records, was taken to the pene tentiary Monday afternoon to pre- He was charged with rape upon a sixteen-year old white girl, living within a few miles of Pittsbero. elude the possibility of mob Tiorenee. While there were no indications of the formation of a mob, it is said that the people in the girl’s com munity were rather wrought up, and it is a fact that the father declared that he would shoot Burke if he saw him, and expressed regret when he learned that he had been spirited awav to the penexentiary. | The story of the alleged crime as | h comes to the Record is something I like this: Young Burke had been going with the girl and the father had threaten ened to whip her if she did so again But last Friday afternoon, rather late the girl was at her grandmother’s a j few hundred yards from her own home, and Burke came up. They went to ride. When the girl came home she was crying and cried practically all night, refusing to tell what had happened. But at last she was persuaded to j tell the story. According to the story | as reported to the Record, Burke be gan to hug and kiss her after they started to ride. She urged him to quit and take her back home. Instead of quitting or returning home, she says he whirled into a woods road, stopp ed, dragged her from the car and ac complished his purpose. The state ment is made thath her underclotjhes were 4< as bloody as a stuck hog. Officer Desem was early informed of the matter and was on the watch out for Burke. On Monday a warrant was sworn out. Officer Desem found his man in Cape Fear township Monday and ar rested him and brought him to Pitts boro. Burke declared his innocence,, but -wanted time to get his witness | es . No trial of any kind was held, | but the young man was hurried off to the penetentiary. It is not known when a preliminary hearing will be held, but probably not till time has served to cool down the temper of the wronged family day evening at 7:30 o c.oc^. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Moore and lit tle daughter, Melba, spent last week end at Goldsboro, N. C. with relatives Miss Mae Watson, of Osgood N. C. spent last week-end with relatives | Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Crutchfield, here, Mrs. R. P. Johnson and little neph | e w, Harry Bell and Miss Minnie Bell of Pittsboro attended the Wilkie-Bell wedding, last Saturday, also Mr. Worth Wilkie, of Raleigh. Rev. C. M. Lance will preach at the Methodist church next Sunday morn ing and evening. Miss Willie Bostian, who spent last week with Miss Catherine Hackney has gone to her home at Peak S. C. Capt. J. H. Wissler is now at Cedar Springs, Va., visiting relatives there. ' Mr. I D. Wilkie, wife and child are spending their vacation in Virginia with relatives. | Mrs. Hillary Marks and children, of ! Carrboro are visiting her parents, Mr, . and Mrs. S. W. Womble. Miss Catherine Thomas is spending ’ Tuesday (today) in Raleigh shoppin; We are glad that Mr. C. C. Thom as, the efficient depot agent, who has 3 been sick is able to be up and out again. Methodic Sunday School is fckjanfting to go on- a picnic at Lake tlllaorParfe:, /Durham next Wednesday %eek. Everybody invited to go and r take! a basket.' 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