ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. jyir. Dave Womble Kills Himself . an j Highly Esteemed Citizen ** et n f Pittsboro Shoots Top of 0 Head Off WAS A GREAT SHOCK Pittsboro people rose yesterday to a shock of surprise and ?*° • The body of Mr. J. David was found lying in his work ° with the top of the :head .prac 'Sly blown ott by a ioad of shot 1 , ‘ a gun held in his own hand. The bodv was cold and the indica , 5 was that he had been dead sev hours. Neighbors, too, are re to have heard a gunshot be f.®een three and four o’clock. The dead man was in his night , thes, indicating that he had risen from his bed to commit the rash act, 1 driven from bed by the intense w had decided upon self-descruc tion'while seeking relief. He was in his usual good spirits, apparently, Tuesday evening. His >soii Ralph, a traveling man, finding himself in a nearby town, had run down for the night, and .had been ? greeted in the usual manner. The writer passed the home after six o’clock and was invited in by the .genial gentleman. It happened, that three of his chil dren, Mrs. Meyers, of Brooklyn, N. Y, Ralph, and Miss Margaret were at home instead of as usually when Miss Margaret was the only compan ion of her father. Hurried calls Wednesday morning started the rest of the numerous chil dren and sons and daughters-in-law to the stricken home. The burial is planned for today, Thursday, and will take place at the old home church, Mt. Pleasant, in which Mr. Womble still held his mem bership, though he had been living in Pittsboro several years. Mrs. Womble, who was Miss Addie May, died three years ago last win ter. Since that time Mr. Womble and his youngest daughter have been keeping house alone. Mr. Womble had reared a most in teresting and estimable family of children. The oldest, Mr. Gus Wom ble, died two years ago in Sanford. The ethers are Mrs. C. T. Wrenn, of Siler City, Mrs. R. L. Goldston of Goldst'-o, Cleveland Womble of Dunn, Mrs. W. J. Meyers of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. G. W. Blair of Pittsboro, Miss Margaret, Ralph, of Raleigh, and Will Rose Womble of Richmond. Regret at the rash act is general and much sympathy is expressed for the grief stricken family. SUNDAY, HOME-COMING DAY AT HAYWOOD CHURCH Brief History of Haywood Presbyter ian Church—Organization The Presbytery of Orange in ses sion at Clarksville, October 28th, 1859, ordered Rev. C. K. Caldwell to organize a church, if the way be open, in the village of Haywood, Chatham County, N. C. Accordingly, a church was organ ized on the second Sabbath of Novem ber 1859, consisting of one Elder and ITG members: viz: Richardson Fau cette, Elder, William C. Faucette, Ken neth Alexder McDonald, John W. Scott John L. Walden, Roderie Mclntosh, P. C. Shaw, Catherine Bryan, Rebec ca Shaw, Rebecca I. Mclntosh, Anna C. Bryan, Sallie A. Faucette, Martha Faucette, Sophie Martin- Mclntosh, Jennette Chisolm, Mary Jane Mcm tosh, and John B. Massamore. Immediately after the organization, a sermon was preached and the sac rament of the Lord’s Supper was ad ministered for the first time in Hay mood by any evangelical denomina tion of Christians. May the Lord water this young and tenaer vine ano cause it to grow and grow and bring forth fruit, that God may he glw lfied and souls saved. September 18G0. This day a Pres b.vterial house of worship in Hay -I,v°oci was dedicated: Rev. J. M. Sher v;ood preached the sermon, assisted l b " Rev. Messrs. A. G. Hughes and ( • R. Caldwell. ’ ou are invited to come and bring a basket and help us make this a great day in the history of this old church and meet of your old treinds. COMMITTEE—Kate Thomas Hicks E. E. Walden E. C. Churchil Fred Thomas P. V. Budd. ENTERTAINS FOR MISS WRIGHT Mrs. J. \y Hunt entertained Mon "ay a fternoon from four to six in mmor of her niece, Miss Eleanor w right. Cards were played at two tables and delicious refreshments were served. \y Th< L Se presenb were Misses Eleanor - Rl n . ” Annie Bynum, Elizabeth T an*, Mary George Blair, Pearl K o fu lS^ n ’ Margaret Brooks and Eliza beth Womble. J 1 : BPRe Chapin was a special gUest for the afternoon. r . MANN-FIELDS l en d s congratulate Mr. Am ]yr e fields and Miss Nellie David ..n upon their marriage Saturday Dn,,! 110011, The ceremony was at Win., where the bride was visit & Natives. The young couple arc 2.i with the groom’s parents, Mr. Chapel rS ’ ayb)r ann > near Hanks - he Record 'extends best wishes. The Chatham Record Moncure News Letter f IMr. and Mrs. Lee Farrell and son, Lester, of Pittsboro are visiting today Mrs. W. O. Farrell and daughter, Miss Elizabeth. Miss Elizabeth Farrell clerked for Maddox Bros, last Saturday. * Mrs. Daisy Lambeth and little daughter Mary Helen, spent a few days last week with Mrs. Chas. N. Johnson at Fuqual Springs, N. C. Mrs. C. A. Watson’s father of Lilesville spent last week with her. Mrs. B. G. Womble and little daugh ter, Hetty, and Messrs. D. J. Hackney and C. D. Thomas returned last Mon day frem New York City where they spent several weeks visiting friends. Mrs. C. C. Thomas and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, spent today in Ra leigh. ■» Captain J. H. Wissler, accompanied by his friends of Virginia and Mr. R. A. Moore, motored today to the peach country where they will purchase some good fruit. Miss Minnie Bell of Pittsboro is spending sometime with her sisters, Mrs. E. E. Utley and Mrs. T. R. Wilkie. Mr. John Bell, Jr., after taking two weeks’ vacation at home, is now travelling for Quaker Oats Company. Miss Lucile Maynar eral services. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Brown, now of Har nett county. She had not been well since the birth of an infant a few weeks ago. The deceased was highly esteemed by those who knew her and much sympathy is extended the sorrowing j husband and the bereaved parents and - brothers and sisters. CERAMIC EXPERTS REPORT FINDINGS Research Will Be Boon to Manufacturers. Urbana, 111. —Unaffected by world fame that has come to their university with the discovery of illinium, newest of chemical elements, students and professors engaged in research at the University of Ilinois are carrying on with the same painstaking spirit. Two of them, Prof. Cullen W. Par melee and Pierce W. Ketchum, gradu ate assistant, both of the department of ceramic engineering, have an nounced some interesting findings, fol lowing investigation into the trans lucency of porcelains, that are ex pected to prove of practical value to manufacturers of art and table ware. The object of their investigation, Professor Parmelee said, was to ac quire additional knowledge of the na ture of translucency together with a satisfactory means of control and measurement; this knowledge, h * said, would be of value in many kinds > of ceramic work. “While it is true,” he added, “that translucency in art and table ware is valuable to the purchaser only from an esthetic standpoint, to the manu facturer it determines the price which can be obtained for his product. “Translucency is a property of por celains which lends itself easily to visual measurement. A trained ob server can distinguish between two pieces with only small differences in translucency by holding the fingers between a piece and a lamp and not ing the clearness of the shadow pro duced. “The degree of translucency of any piece must be determined by the char acter, amount and distribution of the minerals which make up the body. Porcelains consist of quartz particles Imbedded in a fused matrix composed mainly of feldspar, together with granular and crystalline muliite. “Among others, the following con clusions were reached: Translucency Is not inversely proportional to the thickness of the specimen; in bodies composed of clay, feldspar and flint, those with the highest feldspar con tent have the highest translucency and those with the highest clay content the least; increase of burning tem peratures gives increase of translu cency, and the fine grinding of bodies gives a striking increase in trans lucency at the temperatures used,” BEST YOUNG ORATOR Herbert Wenig, seventeen-year-old high school student of Hollywood, Calif., who won first place in the third annual national oratorical contest in the Washington auditorium. Seven students, the pick of 2,000,000 all over the United States, took part in the finals, which were judged by Chief Justice William Howard -Taft and four of his associates on the Supreme Court bench. A cup was presented to Wenig by Vice President Dawes. Mrs C. C. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Murdock spent Sunday in Cary. NEWS FROM ANTIOCH Cumnock, Rt 1.. —Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Oldham and children of High Point spent Sunday in the home of Mr. Old ham’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Oldham. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Oldham and children of Bynum were Sunday vis itors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Oldham. f Mrs. Fannie Dawkins and baby are visiting relatives in this section. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Oldham spent I Sunday afternoon in the home of, Mr. j Bud Poe of Cumnock. Miss Bettie Johnson of Durham spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Poe and daugh ter (Mattie) attended the Children’s Day exercises at Asbury Sunday. Among the visitors in the home of Miss Gleanie Oldham Sunday after noon were Misses Sadie and Daisy Oldham, also Mr. L. D. Oldham of Bynum. Miss Violet Johnson of Siler City spent the week-end with home folks, j Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Oldham and I childien spent a while Sunday after-! noon with home folks. x ' VOL. 48. NCfc SEVERAL SENSATIONS . . . • i Interest of North Carolinians Caught by Sensational Trials and Squabbles The Cranford Case There has been no dearth of sensa tion in North Carolina the past week. The trial of convict boss Cranford at Albemarle for alleged killings of con victs has brought out testimony of a series of brutalities that the nearly inconceivable as happening in a civi lized land. Yet unimpeachable evi dence is to the effect that Crawford’s cruelties have extended over nearly a score of years and that men have been knocked, kicked, and stamped right on the streets of Albemarle bj the county convict boss. The indict ments are for the killing of two men, - but Judge Finley has allowed testi mony to be brought in many other cases in order to establish the char acter of the man’s rule. The case has already lasted a week and is not yet ended. “The Razor Girl” Over at Charlotte the young woman who cut her husband’s throat with a razor has been on trial. A mental expert declared that she was a child in mind, that she couldn’t name a, single man who has been mayor of her own city and does not know the meaning of the word “governor.” She herself says that she did not intend to kill her husband but to cut him only enough to make him stay with her. The jury at this writing has not agreed, but are reported \as in the majority for her acquittal. The Ashley Case « At Asheville quite a different kind of man was under investigation. Dr. Ashley Chappell, pastor of one of the leading Methodist churches of Asheville, was acquitted Tuesday of a charge of immorality in a church trial. Dr. Chappell had bee» caught in a most unfortunate situation. He was attending a conference in Mem phis. He suffers from hernia. That night after working on a sermon for the next day he went out to walk. While out his truss broke and he was suffering intense pain. He got into the first house he could to repair the truss and it happened to be a negro house of bad repute. Two or three minutes after he entered the police entered and arrested him. Dr. Chap pell was unanimously acquitted Tues day and will return to his work as pastor. The Woman’s Survey Squabble - Several months ago, all of a sud den there rose a great demand for a survey of the condition of women in industry in North Carolina. Finallj the governor authorized such a sur vey and put it under the direction of the state board of welfare, composed . of Supt. A. T. Allen, Dr. G. M. Cooper, acting supt. of health, and Mrs. John son, state welfare commissioner, E, 7 . Carter, executive secretary of the Lild welfare commission was ex acted to direct the survey. Mrs. J* ■i. Highsmith was appointed as in /.arg-e of the active survey. But Mrs. Johnson declined to approve the survey under the charge of Carter, claiming that he is inexperienced and inefficient. Allen and Cooper held out against her. Last Saturday all three of them asked the governor to relieve them, or at least Mrs. John son did, and the two men expressed the idea that the survey now would be ineffectual. The governor called off the survey, and now the sistern are raising cain. Dr. Delia Dixon Car roll claims that the Governor insult ed her when she as a committee of the woman’s clubs asked for the sur vey by asking her whom she was em ployed by, the talk having been that it was northern interests moving for the survey. Dr. Carroll says that she informed the Governor later that she would not report the insult to the State meeting of women’s clubs if he would grant the survey and that he did in two days. Governor Mc- Lean declines to enter into any dis cussion of the matter with Dr. Car roll. The affair is rather mixed. Mrs. Johnson has a battle upon her hands to retain her prestige as state com missioner of welfare. THAT BELL-BRICK HAVEN GAME Bell’s Team Rather Resent Implication of Brick Haven Correspondent The Brick Haven correspondent of the Record in her letter last week rather left the impression that Bell’s team did not play the game in a fair and square way when that team de feated the Brick Haven team by 7 to 6 in a 12-inning game July 10. Bell’s team and fans are inclined to resent the implication, and deny that they were unsportsmanlike in the game. “We simply outplayed them,” they say, and further aver that Mr. Harrington, the umpire, a resident of Brick Haven, declared that Passmore, Bell’s pitcher, was a better pitcher than the Brick Haven pitcher. Pass more struck out sixteen men. That may have been unsportsmanlike, but the Bell’s folk feel that it was pretty good playing. On the other hand, Duell, the Brick Haven pitcher, struck out only three or four. The Bell’s team denies emphatically any unfairness and cannot understand why the usually accurate and fair Brick Haven correspondent has im plied that the game was not fair and square on our part. ONE OF THE BELL’S FANS. I Mary George Blair of Raleigh is visiting Elizabeth Blair.