JSAM COUNTY FAIR, SILER CITY, OCTOBER 13-15. MANY ATTRACTIONS
ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
Two Cases Diptheria
In Brick Haven Homes
Measures Taken to Prevent Epidemics
Personal Notes —An Ecstatic
Tribute to Autumn
Brick Haven, Oct 6. —Mr. J. C.
Seawell, accompanied by Misses Cecil
and Geneva, motored to Raleigh Sat
urday to attend the marriage of their
sister, Miss Bertha Seawell, to Mr.
J. F. Calfee, of Virginia. The groom
is a graduate of Trinity College.
Miss Seawell has visited here and is
most pleasantly remembered by
friends here, who wish her and the
fortunate young man a long, happy
life together.
Mrs. O. C. Kennedy was a delegate
to the Baptist Association held near
Siler City on Thursday and Friday
of last week. Mrs. Kennedy motored
from home each morning and was
accompanied by delegates from Mon
on re.
2 Over by h:"~ Messrs. J. H., N.
1 R. H., were called home one
in-p fcy ; *22 critical illness
r. ; :cm i'adu-.r. v’L' iives at the Mc
( V-c a:* gh dto know that he
1 -’g.rrovinP
It was quite a shock to the com
munity this morning to learn that we
have two cases of diptheria here.
Wallace, the little son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Marks, and Charles Thompson,
Jr., are both critically ill with the
dreaded disease. Pamphlets on the
prevention and cure of diptheria will
he sent out by the State Board of
Health, the local physician will give
the antitoxin and everything possible
will be done to prevent an epidemic.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barber and
Mr. Wade Griffin, of Durham, were
here Sunday as guests of their
October is here again with all the
golden glory of the mid-Autumn sea
son. This month is probably the
most popular month of the year. As
a rule people feel better and do more
work than in any other- month of the
year. This is a time of exhilarating
and glorious sunshine. Nature does
not go into mourning because bleak
winter is near. On the contrary, it
seems that everything is brighter and
gayer than ever before. Red and
yellow and glorious brown of every
hue take the place of summer’s
green, and even the flowers rival the
brilliancy of the trees with their gay
colors. If it were not for the fact
that on ahead lie the gloomy days of
winter, every one would enjoy this
season more. As one writer aptly
puts it, “this proves the human folly
of borrowing trouble and letting
something in the indefinite future
spoil the perfect present.
The • lovely autumn time is a
beautiful promise of the glorious ful
fillment of the springtime. If we
could only think of this season in that
spirit—the melancholy days spoken of
by the pack would be no more. We
would be eager to live every minute
of the present and the memories of a
well spent autumn would tide us
through the dark days of winter.
Why cannot we poor mortals learn
the lessons that Nature tries so hard
to teach —!es c ons of beauty, faith, and
ho-e? See beauty, look up and love
and laugh and work and live!
DEATH CT MR. HOWARD
Bear Creek, N. C., Rt. 3, Sept. 30.
The Death Angel entered the home
of Mr. W. 11. Howard on Sunday
morning, September and claimed
him as his own.
Mr. Howard was a good Christian,
2 devoted husband and father.
He was a member of Beulah church
and was a prompt and regular at
tendant as long as he was physically
able.
Mr. Howard was married to Miss
Fannie Garner, and to this union
were born six children, five of, whom
are living,- one having died in in
fancy. The living are: Mi's* Robert
Cheek (Dora), Miss Flossie Howard,
Mr. H. C. Howard, Mr. Johnnie How
ard. and Mrs. Hobert Hussey (Hat-
Ce.l t _ ,
He is survived by his wife, five
children, and nine grandchildren, be
sides a number of relatives, and a
host of friends.
He was buried at Beulah Baptist
church on Monday afternoon, Sep
tember 28 about 2 o’clock. The fun
eral was conducted by his pastor,
Rev. A. G. Lassiter, assisted by Rev.
Mr. Lawhon of Carthage.
Then his body was carried to the
cemetery by the Masons, he having
been a member of the Masonic Or
der, where he was buried By this or
der. The many beautiful flowers
which were placed on the grave
showed the love and esteem in which
he was held.
May we all live such a l’.fe, so that
when we see death staring us in the
face, we will have no fear but go home
to die no more.
First to Pay Tax
Mr. S. P. Teague was the first man
in the county to pay his tax this
year. He paid Monday. Sheriff Blair
says that if every man in the county
would pay as Mr. Teague has it
would be worth ss*ooo to the county
and would mean $1500.00 in hie own
pockets.
The Chatham Record
President Stone
At White Cross
President of State Farmers* Union
and Others Address Albright
Local Union.—County A
gent Active
On Saturday morning, September
27th, Farmers’ Union Local of the Al
bright township met at the White j
Cross school house. The principal j
subject on the program was “Coopera- !
tion,” and the meeting was addressed!
by President Stone of the State j
Farmer’s Union, Prof. Paul H. Nance I
of Bonlee, and County Agent N. C. j
Shiver. In introducing the speaker, j
Prof. Nance stressed the need of co
operation among the farmers of the
j county, and the idea was ably en
j forced by Mr. Stone in his speech.
1 The speaker pointed out the ne
| cessity of the farmer first organizing,
I and then studying crop conditions and
| needs, the necessity.of growing things
[that are in demand, and proper sys
tems of crop diversification. North
Carolina has a good market system
of crops, and work should be planned j
so that farm produce is going con- j
tinuously to these markets. He laid j
especial emphasis on organized sell- j
ing by the farmer in carlots, a study j
of market conditions, and an effort
<to work for better quality rather than
a larger quantity of farm products.
According to Mr. Stone, the princi
pal duties of farm agents are to help
the farmer market his produce rather
than assist him in growing more. In
addition to the speaking, a splendid
program of music, and a picnic din
ner prepared by the ladies of the com
munity were enjoyed by those present.
The Agent has devoted several days
during the past two weeks to a tour
of several of the townships in the
county with Mr. Ernest Brewer, Sec
retary of the Fair Association, ary
ranging exhibits, and advertising the
Chatham County Fair,
' Indications are “that the fai? will
be one of the best in the history of
the county, and although in many
ways, this has been a bad year for
- crops, it is hoped that the people of
l the county will bring out enough ex
hibits to make it a success. Much
interest in the fair is being shown
i everywhere in the county, and a rec
-1 ord breaking attendance is expected.
. The County Agent is attempting
to build a program of work for the
countv on a township basis. With
this idea in mind, about a hundred
letters are sent to represent**.,
tive farmers in each township. Dis
: ferent projects are outlined in these
! letters, and each man is asked to
check the projects needed in his,
• township, and return the letter to the
■ Agent.
i --
; New Elam S. S ; To
Have Picnic at Elon
i ( j
Will Feast Themselves and Children
s of the Christian Ornhanage —
Batch of Personal Items
L
l New Hill, ,Rt. 2, October 5, 1925
i Messrs Bynum Tysinger and Roby
! Seafield spent the week-end at Lex
ington with their parents. They were
accompanied by Mr. Bailey Sturdi
vant of this route.
Mr. W. A. Drake is spending this
■< week in Richmond, Va. with his
daughters; Mrs. P. F. Letien and Miss
Vera Drake.
Mr. D. L. Webster of Durham
spent the week-end with his mother
Mrs. Addie Webster.
Vincent, the infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Mann, has been quite
sick, but is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Mann spent one
day last week in Siler City with Mrs.
Mann’s sister, Mrs, C. B. Thomas.
l Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Holt and Mr.
and Mrs.. B. C. Holt motored to Win
ston-Salem last week. Mrs. E. H.
; Holt went to see a physician.
Miss Alberta Hill of Asheboro is
spending two weeks with her uncles
Messrs. Lacy and Joe Trotter.
One of the most charming social
r affairs of the fall season was a party
i given by Misses Rose and
j Vada Goodwin at the home of their
mother Mrs. J. L. Goodwin last Fri
; day night. Notwithstanding the in
• (element weather, was quite a
. number present. An Edison phono
, graph furnished music throughout
, the evening entertainment. Games
were enjoyed in the living room where
; the guests were assembled. Miss
■ Vada Goodwin, assisted by Miss Re
, mie Webster, served delicious home
. made candy. Those present were
, Misses Nina and Velia Sturdivant,
, Mary, Alice and Remie Webster, and
Hilda Lasater, Messrs. Erwin Mann,
i Bynum, Glenn, and Raymond Tysing
er, Bailey and Floy Sturdivant,
, Dwight Webster, Millard Goodwin,
Roby Seaford, Andrew, Luther and
Arthur Ellis.
At New Elam Sunday it was de
cided that the whole Sunday school
membership would go to Elon Col
lege picnicking Saturday before the
third Sunday in October. The party
will leave here at 7 o’clock A. M.,
they will carry dinner for themselves
and the small children at Elon Or
phanage, our Christian Home for the
fatherless and motherless. Rev. J.
| Fuller Johnson, pastor of New 61am,
r will be invited to be * member of the
tF.
PITTSBORO, N.C., CHATHAM COUNTY, Thursday, October 8, 1925
Bennett News Letter
Two-Day Session of Creek As
sociation not Satisfactory.—
Patriarch Has Attended ".2
Sessions.—Bennett Local
and Personal Notes
Bennett, N. C., Oct. 5, 1925.—The
dry weather continues throughout
| this section while the water supply
| is~ low, and wells are being dug and
j the plants are hauling water from
jthe creeks and branches, yet we are
l making out all right.
I Corn huskings are in progress
, throughout this section. Some re
■ port that they made more than last
year. A good deal of cotton is be
ing ginned here at W. C. Brewer’s
gin. He is buying almost all he gins.
Mr. Brewer had two, if not three
bales stolen from his gin one night
last week. No trace so far can be
found of the stolen cotton.
The merchants’ business is picking j
up and all seem to be well pleased I
with their new fall trade, since thei
farmers are selling their cotton and
i tobacco.
| The crosstie business is on the dull j
I order just now. While the local
I dealers are still buying and piling
: them up, at present the railroads
; don’t seem to desire to buy just now.
Prof. Forrester and the school com
mitteemen went to Pittsboro in the
interest of the high school students
who have enrolled for high school
studies here. They went with thirty
seven names and we trust that our
; school board will see fit to establish
a high school here this season, and we
trust by another season we will have
a larger building and we will be able
to take care of more students.
The writer attended the Sandy
Creek Baptist* Association at Shady
Grove church, which was held last
Thursday and Friday. A great meet
ing was held and a good many dele
gates and ministers were present.
But this did not seem like the asso
ciation used to be when it covered
four days. There came up a resolu
tion at the last minute to amend the
constitution to three days, but a good
many of the church representatives
had gone home and this resolution was
tabled until next session which will
meet at Oakly Baptist church near
Siler City. Rev. W. H. H. Lawhaun,
who has attended fifty-five associa
tions, was present and was elected
Honorary Moderator for life time,
with Victor H. Johnson active moder
ator and Abner Teague clerk for the
ensuing year.
Mrs. Jettie Forkner. who has run
the hotel here for some time and
some time ago sold her property to
Mr. S. W. Maness, has moved to a
farm near Liberty and Mr. Maness
will run the hotel here, we learn.
The Bennett Motor Company is re
ceiving several of the new tvpe Ford
car*. ard report that they booked a
! good many orders beyond what they
have received.
Siler City School
Shows Great Growth
Officials About the Fair Make Sug
gestions to Prospective Exhibi
tors —Friday Free for
Children
Siler City, Oct. 6 —Prospects for
the Chatham County Fair which will
open Tuesday, October 13 at this
place, were never more promising for
a successful event.
Applications are being made daily
for exhibit space of some kind. A
new feature this year will be several
community exhibits for which the of
ficials are offering handsome pre
miums. Another addition to the Fair
is a big new building which will
house the displays of merchants and
business ‘ 'firms of Chatham and Lee
Counties.
Exhibitors are urged to bring all
exhibits Monday, although entries
may bs made until noon Tuesday.
Horses and mules are not wanted
until Wednesday morning and may be
; removed from fair grounds Thursday
afternoon. All live stock must be
furnished feed by owners, but Fair
association' will have reliable men in
charge to feed and water all stock.
All schools of the county are urged
to bring their exhibits to Fair
grounds on next Saturday, Oct. 10,
at 2 o’clock, at which time the secre
tary’s office and school building will
be open to receive entries. This plan
has been adopted in order to avoid
congestion in the entry department
Monday.
There >vill be two big fireworks
urograms during the week, the ftrst
being on the opening night, Tuesday,
Oct. 13. This, together with the big
amusement comnany which will play
the midway, string bands, free acts,
and basketball games each day and
hoy scout program Thursday, will
furnish an unusual amount of fun and
entertainment for everybody.
There will be plenty of water so
let no one be uneasy on that account.
All school children admitted free
Friday.
Come the first day and you will be
there every day.
E. BREWER. Merr.,
MRS. P. H. ELKINS, Sec.
Mr. Thos L. Dorritv, aged 63, died
lit tl>e county home Monday.
Program to Eradicate |
Tuberculosis in Cattle
adopted by County Commissioners—
More uog-KiHcd Turkeys Re
ported—Payment from Dog
Tax Fund
The county commissioners in ses
sion Monday, in addition to the ap
proval of the usual batch of bills, ac
cepted the proposition of the Bureau
of Animal Industry to cooperate in
the eradication of tuberculosis in
cattle. It will be recalled that Mr.
Peterman of that government bureau
met with the commissioners in Sep
tember, met a favorable reception,
yet saw the matter deferred till the
October meeting. He was here and
after the adoption of his program by
the commissioners stated that the
work v/ould probably begin about the
first of January. The proposition
seems to have met with quite genera l
approval by the people who have dis
cussed the matter in the hearing of
the Record’s representative.
The dog tax fund has been dis
| covered, particularly by turkey own
j ers whose flocks have suffered from
the ravages of ravenous curs. Sev
eral months ago when one man was
paid SSO from this fund for turkeys
killed, the fact that such a fund ex
isted began to spread abroad. At
each meeting now the commissioners
have to assign the investigation of al
leged losses of turkeys to a commit
tee, and the committee usually finds
that the turkeys have been killed by
unidentified dogs. The law provides
that the *wner of the offending dogs
must pay the damages if the dogs j
are identified, otherwise the pay
comes from the dog tax fund. That
is what the fund is for, so the claim
ants are perfectly within their
rights. But it is funny that turkeys
alone seem to suffer. Sheep, chickens,
and other fowls killed by dogs would
b 6 as readily paid for.
Bills Approved
The following bills were approved
and ordered paid:
Chatham Hardware Co., $18.65.
State Prison keeping for Burke, 13
days, $13.00.
Coal for County Home, $131.04.
E. B. Hatch, salary, postage, etc.,
$213.33.
Bank of Pittsbord, safety box, $5.00.
G. H. Brooks, inquest over Silas
Warthy, $8.60.
Brooks and Eubanks, goods for Coun
ty Home, $11.98.
Supper for 12 jurors (August), $9.00.
W. B. Gunter, car and service as mem
ber of dead turkey committee,
SIB.OO.
J. J. Thomas, 2 days as member of
turkey committee, $6.00.
W. H. Ward, ditto, $6.00.
F. C. Straughon, worm, $5.00.
C. T. Desern, one still, $20.00.
Washing for jail, $2.00.
John Burns, jail fees, $222.60.
C. T. Desern, carrying Ada March to
Goldsboro Asylum, $25.00.
C. T. Desern, summoning jurors,
etc, $7.00.
Meat market, for Co. Home, $25.00.
John Cheek, for dead turkeys, $20,005
C. M. Lindlev, dead turkeys, $17.70.
Drugs, $16.00.
W. L. London. Ins. premium on Co.
Home, $300.00.
J. M. Johnson, salary, $83.33.
S. S. Jonas, syrup for Co. home, $15.30
Robt. Brown, work at Home, $25.00.
Maggie Brown, cooking, $16.00.
Perking for Co. Home, $9.20.
J. M. Hammock, shop work for Co.
home, $16.05. •
Washing for County home, $14.25.
Shoveling coal at Home, $7.50.
Carson Melvin, hauling coal, $7.50.
Luther Riddle, hauling coal, $7.50.
W. F. Bland, hauling coal, $7.50.
Mrs. J. M. Farrell, hauling coal. $7.50.
Will White, hauling coal, $7.50.
Freight on coal, $170.35.
N. C. Shiver, county agent, $60.00.
T. V. Riggsbee, work on tax books,
$68.00.
Pearl DeseYn, work on tax books,
$50.00.
Edna Barclay work on tax books,
$60.00.
C. C. Poe, clerk hire, SIOO.OO.
Postage, etc, $9.50.
Salary. $166.66.
Silas Worthy’s inquest jurors:
A Seagroves, $2.00.
Troy Matthews, $2.00.
G. M. Dorsett, $2.00.
Claud Matthews, $3.00.
Caesar Johnson, $2.00.
Wm. Hill, $2.00.
Printing, sll.lß.
Connell and Johnson, $114.85.
■ Receipts
Fee bill, register’s office, $149.60.
Fee bill, clerk of court, $126.17.
To Beautify Court Souare
A resolution w*as passed author
izing Mr. J. W. Harmon to plough up
the Court House Square and plant
some crop preliminary to sowing
grass when soil is improved.
Mrs. Mattie Foust and son Eugene
Foust, of Mt. Vernon Springs, and
Miss Elizabeth Poe of Fayetteville
visited friends in Pittsboro Monday.
Mrs. F. C. Mann and Miss Evelyn
Alston visited Raleigh Wednesday on
a shopping expedition.
Mesdames Mattie Lanius. Radclif
Lanius, Wm. Tatum, J. C. Norwood,
and Adelaide McManus shopped in
( Durham Tuesday.
I NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HA*.
PENINGS GATHERED FROM ji
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE JUSY READER
The Occurrences Os Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading i
Foreign—
* .1
Dieudonne Costs, French aviator,
whose plane crashed near Freiburg-
Trr*-Breisgau, Germany, September 14,
killing companion, Robert Thierry,
was sentenced to pay a fine of five
thousand gold marks, with the alter
native of soending one day in jail for
every two hundred marks the fine.
Hundreds of wily Riffian tribesmen,
firing from ambush or on the battle
front and prowling near French camps
at night are striving to earn~the pr’ce
which their chieftain, Abd - El - Krim,
has placed upon the heads of Ameri
can aviators,' who are flying with the
French forces in Morocco,
3?he steamer Chi Chuen, an Amer
ican-owned was hit the other
day by 200 shots fired by Chinese
troops from a point on the Yangsta
river, between Ichang and Chungking.
The American gunboat Palos has been
ordered to the scene as a convoy td
i the attacked vessel.
London newspapers say that while
the fate of the S-51 has centered at
tention upon submarine operation In
the United States, the British subma
rine X-l, declared to be the greatest
undersea craft In the world, has left
Chatham naval station for an un
known destination. ;
Another severe rainstorm has swept
Japan, flooding many thousands of
houses In Tokio and other cities. Sev- •
eral were killed and injured by land*'
slides. Water entered the Impfriy
hotel, Tokio, shutting off all the UfAfll
and water supply temporarily,
Twelve thousand French troops,
plunging directly Into the Riffain
lines north of Kifane, have launched
a new offensive which already has
made material gains and may effect
an important junction of the French
and Spanish fronts.
Leon Bourgeois, former premier of
France, and one of the of
the league of nations, died at his coun
try home at Oger, France, in the de
partment of the Marne. The Paris
newspapers credit him with being the
father of the league of nations.
The Rome edition of Premier Mus
solini's newspaper, II Popolo d’ltalia,
has ceased to exist. It will be re
placed with a new paper, the result
of a recent organization, which will
have the same Fascist political com
plexion.
Gomer Thomas, official town-crier
of Burnham-on-Sea, England, won the
title of the loudest-mouthed man in
the British Isles, by beating sixteen
other competitors for the town-crier
championship of Great Britain.
Washington— ;
Alternating waves of optimism and
pessimism rolled over the Franco-
American debt negotiations, but after
a series of meetings between the two
commissions, two more suggested
plans for settlement were visible. Sev
eral joint sessions were held, and each
of them produced a proposal—-the
first by France, suggesting terms re
garded by the French as more accep
table than the original offer calling
for a $25,000,000 first payment, and the
second a counter proposal by Secre
tary Mellon containing figures de
scribed as perhaps more favorable
than those accorded Great Britain.
While the formal request of the
Shenandoah court of inquiry to trans
fer its sessions to Washington has not
reached Secretary Wilbur, it is under
stood that he will issue such orders.
From the first it has been assumed
by the navy department that the court
would want to hold some of its ses
sions in Washington because of the
availability of witnesses here and oth
er considerations of convenience.
The “bungling” of three major aer
onautical efforts the disastrous
flight of the Shenandoah; the inter
rupted flight of the PN-9 No. 1 to
Hawaii, and the unsuccessful Arctic
trip of the navy-Machlillan airplanes
—was charged against the navy by
Colonel Mitchell, center of the air
craft row.
Sales of radio sets and musical in
struments were nearly fifty per cent
greater in August this year than last,
the federal reserve board reports, in
a survey, which shows a general boom
! in retail trade throughout the country.
Motor vehicles registered ill the
United States for the first half of
1925 totaled 17,716,709, an increase of
13.9 per cent over the same period
, last year.
Dispatches from Honolulu say that
’ Japanese airmen will undertake a
flight from Japan to Hawaii nedt ffiqt.
NUMBER 14
Lack of sufficient personnel and
material is preventing air officers
from receiving tactical training nec
essary to cope with an enemy, M&j.
Thomas G. Lamphier, commandant of
Selfridge Field, Michigan, told the
president's air board. He endorsed
the Patrick air corps plan. The first
attack in the next war, Ifnter Lamp
hier said, •‘undoubtedly,” Will be from
the air, and only nine pursuit planet
are in commission at BsKridgs Field,
with seventy-two needed at (he least
possible calculation. He endorsed the
Mitchell plan.
Rear Admiral J. K. Robison, a
Storm center m the senate oil inves
tigation, concluded his four-year term
as chief of the navy bureau cf engi
neering with the end of September
knd reverted to his regular rank of
captain. Tie had requested permis
sion to retire before relinquishing his
bureau post, but this was refused by
President Coolidge.
- The program for hearings before the
ways and means committee on r he plan
for reduction of taxes has been an
nounced, and beginning October 29 the
bars will be down for those who wish
to advocate revision of -sched
ules. First will come statements of
treasury officials and tax specialists.
Two days will be given to that ex
pert testimony.
Frank Moore, president of the Odd
lot Cotton exchange of New York and
several cotton brokers of that city
have come to the defense of the agri
culture department's bi-monthly cot
ton crop reporting system, recently*
criticised in several quarters of the
cotton growing section.
Announcement is made at the white
house that President Coolidge baa or
dered a stamp printed hearing the
likeness of Woodrow Wilson. Pres (
ldent Coolidge has already honored
Grover Cleveland by placing bts fjto*
I ture on a stamp. J|
Domestic-*
. A preliminary session of HOlstofl
ffenn.) Methodist conference wa d
{||pA at Trinity church, Chattanooga,
the sermon being delivered by Rerj
George Stoves of Nashville. A fight
over the plan of unification, voted at!
a special session of the general con-j
ference Is In prospect, with Bishop
Mouzoh, chairman of the commission!
of unification, leading the proponents*
Mayor Hylan of New York City, re-j
cently defeated in the primaries fofj
mayoralty of New York City, has is-j
sued a statement in which he says
he is through With politics and de-j
dines to run as an Independent can-4
didate.
A defense of the curtailed valve sys 4
tem installed in the airship Shenan4
early last summer an introduce
tion of testimony to show that Com 4
mander Lansdowne had fuil liberty of
action under his order constitutes twd
of the high points in the naval court
of inquiry into the Shenandoah disas-!
ter. -I
The Tennessee supreme court
tinued until a later date the hearing
of the appeal in the case of Johlj
Thomas Scopes, who was convicted at|
Dayton, Tenn., of violating the state's
anti-evolution law and given the min
imum fine of SIOO.
Forced down when one of the mo
tors became disabled, the United
States navy seaplane, PB-1, en route
from San Francisco to Seattle, was
towed into Astoria, Ore., and is await
ing a new engine before proceeding any
farther.
Five hundred dollars more than h
single Ohio farmer received from ad
mission charges to those who visited
one .part of the wreckage of the Shen
andoah on his farm, the navy got $5,-
500 for the wreckage of the airship.
Sixteen airplanes, entered in the first
commercial airplan© reliability con
test, arrived at Chifcago without mis
hap from Detroit on the first hop of
a tour of the Middle West for the Ed
sel Ford trophy. j
Col. Edward M. House, returning
from a trip to Europe, told New York
newspaper men that the peace and sta-!
bility of Europe depended entirely up
on the security pact in behalf of the
French. > j
| The honor prison system has beeni
discarded in Texas, after a year’s tri-j
al. The reason’given is that too many;
convicts took advantage of the sys
tem and escaped.
N. D. Suttles of Jacksonville, Fla.,j
has purchased for $250,000 1,200 acres
on St. Simon’s Island, off the
of Brunswick, Ga.
| Four were killed and 35 injured in &
wreck on the Atlantic Coast Linfc sjxj
miles from Thomasville, Ga., when two
passenger trains met head-on one mfte|
east of a flag station called Newark.
The eastbound train overlooked meet
ing orders at Newark. \
A negro boy, Clarence Williams'
sat down on a keg of wood alcoto
In front of an Atlanta, Ga., drug Btorai
and was blown thirty feet In the hir,
tt Is stated at the hospital where U*
hoy wee taken that- his chances of if*
orrery are slim. - - -—*