ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
n ew hill, route two
NeW Hill, Rt. 2, Sept. 14.—The fol
, ;announcement* was received
last week:
, H i Mrs. Zaccheus Claude Clark
, uce the marriage of their
dair liter
Lessle Tilitha 1
to
Mr. Lewis H. Powell
Wednesday, Teptember ninth
vTctr-en hundred and twenty-five
M.leigh, Nor »h Carolina.
• -T; s 0 f much interest to Chat
yi. eo pie as Miss Clarke is a for
. hat ham girl having made her
Tr oi - several years on this route,
years ago with her parents
T, lvoved to Raleigh, where she holds
Position as' stenographer. She is
r 1 i active young woman and her
'■Herds "wish her much Jiappiness.
T'nc writer expresses her deep re-
Tj n the unexpected death of Mr.
"tley of Brickhaven. We sym
'natiiise with the entire family in this
,1 }, U v and especially his sister
- . Mary Lee, The Record's corre
‘j p],i e pleasant Hill Baptist Sunday
scK ,l members went to Raleigh last
Saturday picnicing. Most of the
nTmb ; -rs were present and all had an
eVo'-able day together.
L There will be a baptizing at John
n bridge. New Hope creek, next
Saturday afternoon. Rev. J. Fuller
Johnson, the good pastor of New
Flam Christian church, will preach at
the bridge also just before the bap
tiziner.
There was an ice cream supper at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hi Web-
on Pittsboro Route One last Sat
urday night, Mr. and Mrs. Webster
AT Mr. Robert Johnson’s people
furnished the vanilla and chocolate
cream, which was served out-doors.
There was a very large crowd pres-
M 1 ’ and Mrs. G. L. Mann. Miss
Nndie Mann, and Mr. Millard Gooo
\vin spent Sunday in Hillsboro with
"’Messrs. Edgar Holt. K. B. Riddle,
Misses Dora and Ruth Holt accom
panied bv Miss Blanche Holt, de
lighted the* Sunday school attendants
with a song last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Holt, Ruth and
Kov Holt, K. B. Riddle, and Kather
ine Riddle spent Saturday in Dur-
We are verv glad to know Mr* R. F*
Sturdivant, who was seriously injured
in an autnmcWe and train collision is
getting along nicely.
Miss Air-a Thomas of Henderson
j- visitinc* Chatham relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Langley of
P : Ltsbm'o visited at the home of Mrs.
Addie Wedster Sunday.
Miss Grizell Copeland has returned
after spending several weeks in Ra
leigh. Last Saturday she and her
sister. Miss Alice Copeland, enter
tained a number of their friends at
the home of their parents, Mr. am
Mrs. Lonnie Copeland.
ALICE WEBSTER.
WINS 15 OUT OF 18
Brick Haven Team’s Record—Gin
Busy—-To Take Collections for
Near East
Brick Se TV t. 14. —The base
ball season for the Brick Haven team
has closed. The season’s record
• stands with eighteen (18) match
games played and fifteen (15) of
were won by our boys. Mr.
W. A. Griffin was the manager of the
team and has been untiring in his
work for the interest of the team as-a
whole. Too, the community, with few
exceptions, has stood squarely be
hind the boys. Co-operation along
any line will bring success, and we
hope those who so untiringly and
willingly gave their services for the
success of the team will now join
hands in behalf of our Sunday school,
and other organizations and thus
? make our community a one-hundred
per cent community, a community
that goes “over the top” with every i
worthwhile project.
Mrs. Edwin Mills and children, of
Raleigh, after a week’s stay with
relatives here returned to Raleigh
yesterdav.
Mrsi A. P. Harrington and little
Mildred Harrington returned Few day
from a visit with relatives of Bon
sai.
Messrs. Sam Utley and Grady
Truel owe spent the week-end at Bis
coe. ;
Only a few were present at the ,
school building for the C. E. social
Saturday evening, but those few spent:
ja dokghtful few hours. The refresh- j
* fronts were delicious. We hope that
mor e of the members can be present
n ext time. ;
Misses Annie and Hilda Utley and
•hv. J. W. Utley spent the week-end
V -A relatives near Corinth.
r - J- C. Seawell was among the
M m who motored into Raleigh
, as t Friday night for the famous pic
ure~-“Xbe Ten Commandments.”
his is a picture well worth one’s
’me and money. It is to be shown
1 1 an f°rd sometime in the near fu
1k vv'p 6 V, er^a P s more of our people
■Vr , e opportunity of seeing it.
■ Bri i annon ’ the Cherokee
■wit? r? o '’ who s P ent the week-end
Hl h brothers and sisters at his
■ hie near Carthage, returned to his<
THE CHATHAM RECORD
ELECTION ILLEGAL
School Board Holds Brick Haven
School iilection Illegal—People
of Cape Fear Confused—
For County Unit Plan
(By F. M. Nash)
After much argument last Monday
before the county school board by
those, interested in going ahead with
the enaction of the consolidated
school building at Brick Haven, the
board finally decided to “sit tight”
on the question by ruling that under
the advice of their attorney and also
of the state attorney that the local
school election held last fall is il
legal. /
The Board contends that under the
clause in the public school law upon
which the call for this election was
based, a local school district that at
the time had no special tax, can not
be legally forced into a group of local
or special taxing district that al
ready had the special tax. Then a
gain they contend that to establish
the Junior High School as voted was
not in harmony with the proposed
county unit plan, which is also ex
pressly forbidden in our state school
laws. Although the election carried
it is a fact that now many of those
who voted for it are now opposed to
carrying out its provisions.
Many counter petitions have gone
before the board since the election
and now it is very hard to tell just
what the people do want. But we
must say that if-the election was all
a farce and not legal, some one in
authority should, and we think could,
have stopped it at the beginning. At
any rate, in spite of the fact that'
those few most vigilant now in go
ing ahead with the plan, have inti
mated their intention of gqing to
court with the proposition. We sin
cerely hope that their better judg
ment and regard for the best inter
ests of the entire community will de
ter them from any such unpleasant
action.
It is true that some arbitrary and
unnecessary things have been said
and done by those, in authority, but
surely no one thinks such things were
done intentionally injure our schools.
They were just some of those unfor
tunate things that often occur that
we can not undo or recall.
We think now that there are just
two things that can, or should, be
done: first, say to the board: We
have tried for 8 years to reach some
satisfactory agreement for consoli
dated and better schools, but have
failed, now, if you have a plan that
will solve '-ur problem we are ready
to accept 1 it.
Then, the second thing would be
for the board to say: “Some time a
go the state school superintendent
sent expert into Chatham county
to work up a detailed plan for better
schools in the county, just the same as
had been done in most of the other
counties. It is called the County
Unit Plan. It controls the schools
and school tax in the county as on~
big unit. No local committees and
no local taxes. That plan gives you
people down in the “Handle” an ap
proved consolidated elementary
school and trucks to transport the
children. It also gives you the
necessary trucks to transport high
school children to an approved stan
dard high school. We will establish
this plan and put it into effect in
your community.”
This county unit plan so far as our
own 4-school districts are concerned,
nearly identical with the plan that
has just been turned down by the
county board that we would not know
the difference. So on Sept. 25 let’s
all be ready to go to Pittsboro un
der the call that has just been sent
out by Mr. Thompson, and work
heart and soul for the support and
establishment of the Chatham county
unit school plan.
Miss Leila Justice has resigned her
position in the post-office to take the
teachers' training course under Miss
Berry. Miss Grace Dark of Goldston
work here today.
The Lambeth-Harrington Gin Co.
opened for the season last Thursday,
and already the rush has begun. The
cotton ’wagons line Mp await their
turn. One man who resides about a
mile and a half from tljte gin, arises a
little after midnight jn order to be
on time with the first bale for that
day, but some one came in late the
evening before and so he too had to
wait the line. The gin company is
buying seed, and J. H. Lawrence is
I the cotton buyer for this section. H.
A. Harrington, who runs the gin, is
the receiving agent for the Cotton
Cooperative Marketing Association,
'so everything is quite convenient for
the farmers who bring cotton here,
j Mr. T.. J. Harrington is now able
to be at his store every day and his j
customers are very glad indeed to
see him at his post agafh. We hope
that he will soon be well and strong
for he has been badly missed at Sun
day school, and elsewhere.
The Near East Relief campaign is
'on again. We hone that every one
'will do the best they can for those
poor unfortunate people. A special
collection for the Relief Fund will be
taken at Sunday school next Sun
day morning.
PITTSBORO, N.c., CHATHAM COUNTY, Thursday, September 17, 1925
GOLDSTON NEWS LETTER
Many Young People Off to School-
Miss Garner Entertains—School
on Accredited List—Socie
ties Organize
The following young people are
leaving for the various colleges; Lou-
Iner Goldston, Nellie Stinson, Guil
ford College; Messrs. Milton Garner,
Davidson; William Goldston, Joe
ise Womble, Greensboro College;
Father Elkins, N. C. C. W„; Margaret
Goldston and Louise Ellis, N. C. C. W.;
Dark, Carl Phillips, Wake Forest; Al
ton Goldston, University of N. C.;
Eugene Goldston, State College;
George and Houston Alexander, At
lanta Dental College; Flynn Goldston,
Buies Creek.
The following young people have
gone away to teach.: Misses Wilma
Garner, Charlotte; Grace Burke, At
lanta; Bertha Barber, Roseboro:
Gale Cheek, Farmville; Rosa and Nell
Paschal, Greenville, S. C.
The town of Goldston should be
proud of her girls and boys who
are in college and of the splendid rec
ords they are making.
Misses Wilma Garner and Vada
Barber delightfully entertained the
teachers of Goldston and the girls and
boys who are going away to school at
the beautiful home of Miss Garner
last Monday evening from eight to
eleven-thirty o’clock. Tables were
arranged for the game of hearts. Mr.
Herbert Goldston and Miss Nannie
Cox made highest score. The
hostess served ice tea and various
kinds of sandwiches. Music was also
om’ovod bv different ones present.
The Goldston high school opened for
the fall term Monday, August 31.
There was a full opening enrolled.
There was a great interest shown by
a number of the parents and patrons
of the town and community. We are
proud the school is on the accredited
list this year, which we owe to the
tireless efforts of our former prin
cipals, Professors Tyler and Wilson.
The following teachers are mem
bers of the Goldston school faculty
for the year: Professor C. L. Parker,
principal. Mrs. C. L. Parker and Miss
Mary Hammond, high school. Grades:
Misses Ola Harmon. Pearl Johnson.
.Brona Carter, Dessie Roberts, and
Nannie Cox, music.
The young men’s Literary Society
has been reorganized with the fol
lowing officers: President, Roeland
Goldston; Vice-President, Ernest
Alexander; Secretary, Wade Goldston
Recording Secretary, John Wiley
Garner; Critic, Prof. Parker.
The “Betsy Ross” society for
young women has also been reorgan
ized with tb- 1 following officers: Pres
ident, Vivian Oldham; Vice-Presi
dent, Lizzie Wicker: Secretary and
Treasurer, Hilda Fields; Critic, Mrs.
Parker.
The Busy Bee Society met the first
week of school and reorganized with
+he fo 11 owing officers: President.
Verna Stout; Vice-President. Fred
Watson; Secretary, Aline Hester;
Treasurer, Mae Taylor; Chaplain,
Gladys Hough: Critic, Miss Johnson;
Censor. Ollie Dixon.
The Busy Society is composed
of the sth, 6th,' and s 7th grades.
Misses Ola Harmon and Pearl John
son have charge of these grades.
Rev. J. C. Humble assisted Rev.
Mr. Witten in a revival at the Meth
odist church here from August 31 to
September 6th. Mr. Humble did
some nowerful preaching, which we
feel did much good. There were
nine girls and boys converted and
taken in the church on Sunday eve
ning. Mr. Humble was pastor on this
circuit twenty-five years ago. Every
body loved and honored him and
were glad to hear him preach again.
Miss Maria McMillan, who attend
ed the summer school at N. C. C. W.,
stopped in Goldston a few days to
visit her sister, Mrs. Vann Ellis, be
fore going to her home in Parkton.
Mrs. W. L. Goldston and son, Wil
liam, spent a part of last week with
her daughter, Mrs. N. E. Batchelor
at Mount Holly.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. 'T. W. Gold
ston, September ninth, a nine pound
boy, Thomas Warren, Jr..
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Mur
chison, September the second, a
twelve-pound boy.
Mr. Johnnie Goldston, Jr. has re
turned home from the Fayetteville
hospital w r here he has been for the
treatment' of a- cpt leader- in his ankle,
which fnjurv he received at. White
Lake recently).; ’ r •*. I
Mrs. Lizzie Harris is visiting rela
tives at Ore Hill and Siler City.
Mr. W. M. Barber and daughter,
Miss Margaret, have returned from
Baltimore, where they had been to
purchase their fall stock of goods.
Orphanage Singing Class
f /
The Oxford Orphanage Singing
class will give a concert at Pittsboro
on the evening of Friday, Sent. 25.
This class usually give a most inter
esting entertainment and all who at
tend may count upon a pleasant eve
ning .
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank P' ,n r mr ' fl who in
any way by word or deed helped us
since the loss of our home and its
contents by fire.
•A. R. BROOKS and Family.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Property Changes Hands—Baseball
Team Made Great Record—A
Big Eaptizing—Preacher
Pounded
Quite a few property transfers
; have been made in this place lately.
. Mr. S. W. Maness lias purchased the
• Hotel property and will take hold
, about the first of October and run
• the hotel. Mrs. Forkner, who has
had the hotel in charge for several
; years, will move from this place.
Mr. R. A. Routh, who has had the
Routh Roller Mill in charge for a
good long while has sold the mill and
his home here to Mr. E. C. Routh of
■ Asheboro, and the new owner will
• uiove here, this week to take charge.
Mr. Routh is an experienced Roller
Mill man and v T e learn that he will
buy a good deal of grain and grind
it for the wholesale trade. Mr. R.
A. Routh will move into Mr. J. R.
Peace’s residence that he some time
ago purchased from Mr. J. M. Pres
nell.
Mr. Guy Brewer moved to Siler
City last week, where he has accept
ed a position with The Chatham Sash
and Door Co.
Mr. j. M. Yow carried his wife to
the Hayworth Hospital last week,
where she is remaining for a few days
under treatment.
Mr. W. A. Ward moved his family
to Elon College last week, where his
children have entered school there.
Mr. Thad Brewer moved into Mr.
Ward’s home here for the time be
ing, boarding Mr. Ward’s hands.
On account of the v dry weather the
water has become very short at this
place. A good many have been haul
ing water for their stock and cooking
use from other homes. We learn
from old people in this section that
Deep river is the lowest it has been
in fifty years. Mr. W. A. Moffitt of
this place commenced digging a well
at his home here last Monday morn
ing. digging forty feet with no blast,
striking a good head of water. He
walled this well by Saturd ny noon.
Some say this is a dry place. True,
there are not many wells here and
about seventy-five families, but this
drought, no doubt, will cause more
people to sink wells.
The Bennett baseball team won the
three last games they played, defeat
ing Coleridge 5 to 1. A picked-up
team,. Oak Grove, Blue Rock and Bon
lee 9 to 6; High Falls 13 to 9. The
team has played thirty one games
this season, winning twenty-five.
One of about the largest crowds the
writer ever witnessed at a baptizing
was at Fall Creek Sunday. The can
didates from both that church and
Bennett were baptized by Rev. J. C.
Kidd, pastor of both churches.
The revival meeting began at the
Christian church Sunday. Rev. Hiram
Caviness of Graham is assisting Rev.
Gangier, the pastor, in this meeting.
Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Livingston
were happily surprised Saturday
night when nearly a hundred people
visited them with a pounding, dis
playing in their home something good
to eat as an appreciation of the
spiritual work they are doing for us
in this vinnity. Mr. J. H. Scott was
the main speaker of the occasion.
Others expressed their reasons why
they like to live at Bennet. Rev.
Livingston expressed his happy ac
ceptance of the gifts and apprecia
tion for the good will of the people
of this place.
This section was blessed with a
good rain Sunday night and with good
showers Friday. They have refreshed
things and have given more water for
stock.
CORINTH ITEMS
Found Man in HouseHLDrunken Driv-
W. Hubert Cross returned Friday
from a two weeks’ trip to Florida in
a Ford. Hubert says that of all the
destitute, dejected, disappointed
people he ever saw they were to be
found around Miama. Those going
there under the spell of exaggerated
tales and lurid advertisements of
great fortunes awaiting them are sad
ly disappointed. The boom is only for
those who have money to pay their
way and to invest fabulous sums in
high priced winter homes.
At a magistrate’s trial before Mr.
J. D. Mclver last Saturday, Mage
Pattridge was assessed the costs for
being drunk on the public highway,
i and required to pay Mr. Jeffries the
cost of repairs to the Ford he tore
up in his reckless escapade.
These reckless demons can’t get
, drunk without liquor. Liquor can’t
be had nowadays unless some law
, breaker has furnished it. The
drinker cannot get it unless he or
some blockader has made it., More
work for our officers and law-abiding
citizens.
• Mr. M. J. Ellis and family of Siler
> i City spent Sunday among relatives
in Corinth.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Marks, who live
. at Corinth, left home last night a
. bout eight o’clock and were gone a
bout an hour. As they came up on
the porch on their return, Mrs.
Marks heard some one in the house.
Edd opened the door, struck a match,
i got hold of a gun, just in time to see
? someone raise a back window and
5 jump out. Edd fired through the
' window at the hastily retreating
. guest, but could not find any evi-
.r.i ■ - , —hi
SILER CITY LETTER
t
Enrollment On Opening Day Was 515
—Series of Meetings in Progress
Siler City, Sept. 10.—The opening
day of school showed an enrollment
of 515 as compared with 414 last
year. One hundred and fifty-four
of these are high school students,
while the remaining 331 are regis
tered in the grades.
A series cf meetings is in progress |
at the Baptist church this week?
with services at 3:30 and 7:30 o’clock I
each day. The pastor, Rev. Richard j
S. (Fountain, is filling the pulpit each i
hour and is being assisted by F. W.!
Betts, of Raleigh, who has charge of '
the music.
’ Jake Johnson and Jim Teague will
leave tomorrow morning for’ Florida
where they will accept employment.
C. K. Wrenn is spending this week
in Baltimore and Philadelphia on
business.
J. J. Jenkins spent Wednesday in
the capital city.
Henry C. and Jefcome Johnson of
the Silk Hope community are erect
ing an attractive seven room bunga
low in the new residential develop
ment in the southern part of Siler
City.
M. M. Fox returned yesterday from
Newton where he spent several days
with his brother, Rev. E. W. Fox.
Miss Sallie Ferguson returned yes
terday to Farm Life school in Moore
county, where she will again be a
member of the faculty.
Miss Katie Cooper has gone to
Sparta, where she will be connected
with the school of that place dur
ing the coming year.
Cicero Buckner, one of the coun
ty’s most substantial farmers, who
lives on Siler City route 2, has
on his farm a dogwood of unusual
size, it measuring 75 inches at the
base.
Mrs. O. I. Hinson and daughter.
Miss Ellie Ford Hinson, have gone
to Nashville. Tenn., to visit relatives.
After a week’s stay there Miss Hin
son will go to Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin where she will enter school.
Recent guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Beavers were Miss
Mamie Rodgers, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
James McMath of Indianapolis, Ind.,
and O. N. Rodgers, of Greensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Bynum, accom
panied by little Miss Katherine Dor
sett Marley, have returned from a
visit to relatives in Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Speight Wrenn
and family have moved into their
newly purchased residential property.
Guests of theirs this week were Mr.
and Mrs. George Knox and Miss
'Ep/'-inr—o of
F" ; °uds here of M>*. and Mrs. Lee
B. oo:n'rr« fl,lo+ e lino"
the o-rrival of a daughter.
Annie, a 4 - their home in MiddJ«burg
E._L. Curtis, who with his family
returned here from Clarkton several
weeks ro, is erecting a residence
in the part of town which
thev will occupy as soon as comnleted.
Miss Jordan, who holds a
stenogranhic position in the exe
cutive offices in Raleigh, spent the
week-end here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Jordan.
The birthday anniversary of Mrs.
C. N. Bray was most pleasarrtly cele
brated by a few of her closest friends
Wednesday evening at her lovely
home.
Following a visit to her daughter,
Mrs. E. E. Barringer, at Salisbury.
Mrs. J. MV Jordan has returned to
her home at Brush Creek.
Mrs. Alex Langston and little son,
Alex, Jr., who have been spending
some time at the home of S. P. Tea
gue, Siler City, route 1, have re
turned to their home in Macon, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Teague have
gone to High Point where they will
again teach in the city schools.
A. S. Fields this week exhibited
corn grown on his farm just south
of this place which refutes the idea
that the season has been too dry for
heavy production. The Daily News
correspondent was presented with
three stalks by Mr. Fields which con
tains ten heavy ears. Mr. Fields is
planning to make a com exhibit at
the fair next month.
The senior class of the Siler City
high school met and was organized
Tuesday, September 8. The meeting
was called to order by the president
of the old junior class.
Thp following officers were elected:
President, Van Ferguson, Vice presi
dent, Miss Nathalia Bray; Secretary,
Miss Frances Dorset*; Treasurer,
Miss Louise Marlev: Reporter. Miss
Joy Bell Clark: Marshal, William
Headen; Class adviser, Mr. Moore.
dence of he vine hit anv one or anv
! clue as to who the intruder was. Evi- j
dently the thief had not been long in- j
side as nothing about the rooms had
been molested.
Hardly a Sunday passes nowa-davs
but what a few drunken neero
rowdies p'et out on our roads ebout
town and drive their old rattletraps
no and down the roads,
the Rvog ®f pverv one. Tom Croat,
a whisker Vegro with a court, -record,
oerpo within an inch of T * rr eckmg a
1 ‘F'-.t./I in whi/»b MV and Mrs. A. H
! j Wicker pry d their infant S'"’ Were rid
[ ‘-no* Ssrmd*»v afternoon. We wonder
! j how rnueh ™rtro + his Snndav
■ 1 rowdvism ther- Hiipk the people are
• going to stand for.
NUMBER U
VETCH AS A PASTURAGE
x AND A WINTER HAY CROP
■ / 5
(By i County Agent Shiver)
With the lack of jrain and other
unfavorable factors entering in dur
ing the past season, it is’now a good
time for Chatham county farmers to
,be considering some) good winter
i cover crop to make up for the short
i age in the corn and hay crop,
j Probably in this section, there is no
I one crop that will lit in better than
i vetch, or vetch in combination with
| some grain cron. Vet:-h may be sown
on stubble, or between cotton or corn -
rows, and covered .wi th a harrow or
cultivator. For best -esults it should
be sown before Sept. jLsth, but it may
be sown up as late October Ist.
For best results it -jis usually sown
with oats or rye, as it fails to make
an erect growth alone, and for this
reason is difficult to harvest for hay
or seed. When sown alone, about a
bushel of seed to the 1 acre should be
used; when sown in combination with
a grain crop, 15 to 120 pounds of«
vetch, and if with Abruzzi rye, about
three or four pecks of the latter. It
will also be necessary to inoculate,
unless the land has been in vetch
previously. This may be done by
using soil from another field, or from
a pea field.
Vetch re-seeds itself readily, and
thus eliminates the necessity of buy
ing a fresh supply year. When
cut for hay at the right time, e
nough seed will develop on the re
maining stubble, if £raaed, if the
stock is removed before the end of the
growing season, enough seed will
mature for reseeding.
Vetch does equally well if used for
hay, pasturage, or soil improvement.
In this last respect, it is estimated
that a full crop under in the
soil will contain as § much nitrogen,
which it has taken 4rom the air, as
could be found in a ton of high grade
cotton seed meal, or 800 pounds of
nitrate of soda.
When the editor of The Record and
his good wife were harried to find
away in which a family of so limited
means could send tjvo daughters to
college at the same time, they did
not realize the extent of their good
fortune when they had their atten
tion turned to Elon College. In that
village it was found possible to se
cure comfortable quarters at prewar
prices. Bnt Still wd had not become
thoroughly impressed with the high
character of the college. But now
we feel that the girls could not be in
any school in the state where higher
or more Christian Standards prevail
1 h conduct, while we are convinced
the faculty is composed of reel
scholars and teachers. We were at
Wake Forest when Elon College wn
instituted. Our college mate" J. O.
Atkinson joined the forces of the in
fant institution. Mr. Newman, then
a recent graduate of the University,
became teacher of Greek. Those two
men have been there all these years,
though Atkinson has been editor and
mission secretary the greater part of
the time. The influence of these two
fine men can scarcely ever be fath
omed. Elon has grown into a great
institution. Its plant is modern, its
site almost ideal. More than four
hundred young men and women are
there this year, and a more orderly
group of students we have not seen.
It would surprise some of our Chat
ham folk to learn what a splendid in
stitution this is, and within an hour
and a half’s ride of Pittsboro.
THANKS AND GOODBYE
As we are leaving Pittsboro with
out being able to call in person upon
all the dear friends of the Hanks
family, we wish to say to each, God
bless you, and to express to each of
the dear people ryf Pittsboro our heart
felt thanks for their kindness and at
tention during the illness and death of
our dear aunt Mrs. Laura Horne and
to ourselves and cousin Miss Margaret
Horne during her-stay in the hospital.
LAU]RA UNDERWOOD
JNO, H. UNDERWOOD.
(Mr. and Miss Underwood left
Monday for their home in Columbia,
Texas. The latter has been in Pitts
boro since May, arttending at the bed
side of her aunt. Mr. Underwood
arrived after his aunt’s death. Their
friends here have enioyed their pres
ence among them.—Editor.)
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Coal Glen Sees Another Tragedy
Coal Glen, which saw over fifty men
killed by the explosions last summer,
was the scene of another tragedy last
| week. Silas Worthy, a negro, was
! killed by a falling timber which was
dislodged by a wrecked coal car.
Coroner Brooks summoned the fol
lowing gentlemen as jurors and held
an inquest, with ! the verdict indicated
above: A. Segroves.-'W. H. Hill, G.
M. Dorsett. Claud B. Matthews. Colon
Johnson, H. T. Matthews. The de
ceased leaves a wife and ten children.
Here is a case as worthy and as de
serving of help as any of those of
the greater disaster, when funds were
provided so freely for the relief of
the families of the victims.
Mrs. J. M. Gardner of Carthage
visited Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Johnson. ,