PlpnfATnbpr 0. 1 $26
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, fr N McK. Buie, of Oakland
, went up to Virginia Sat
t0 j. • + o his cousins, Messrs.
l ] U p W. k* L. Lea.
, rr an d Mrs. Moton Leonard, of (
T Yn'o-ton, Visited Mrs. Leonard’s pa-,
LeXl Nlr. and Mrs. J. J. Thomas, on
16 t,’ Leonard was formerly j
r ° ute Yerdie Thomas. She was mar- !
offer the close of her school near '
ried i t IHSt April. She will teach near
Lexington this year.
rhp “Shoo Fly” has been taken off
, 1 Laboard Air Line. This tram
t lt? f om Raleigh to Hamlet and back,
ran Moncure in the forenoon for
Hiunk't and returning in the after-j
noon. , I
Rev Donald Mclver, who preached,
able sermon at the Presbyterian
a v,nrch last Sunday morning, and who
C nt much of his vacation here with
*? brother, Dr. Lynn Mclver, return
jtn hi« home in Bristol, Tenn., this
td P k He was joined at Gulf by his
-i*v who spent the summer with
their ‘people at that place.—Sanford
Express.
The opening at The Caviness Millin
ery and Ready-to-Wear was quite a
success.
Mr and Mrs. W. J. Myers and sons,
after’ spending several weeks with
Margaret Womble, left Monday
for their home in New York, where
Mr Myers work, as an officer of the
appellate court, begins again about
October 1.
Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Alston, of New
York arrived ten days ago to—visit
the latter’s sister Mrs. Jordan, at the
Peav place near Pittsboro. They
were accompanied by Miss Ermine
Peek, who has spent* several weeks
with her aunt in New York Mr. and
Mrs Alston’s one son has been with
Mrs’ Jordan the greater part of the
summer. Mr. and Mrs. Alston will
be in the state till about October l. (
Mr Alston is associated with the.
Paine-Webber Company, dealers ini
stocks, bonds, and cotton. Mr. Al
ston gives his attention to the cottoft
end of the business and is on the cot
ton exchange every day when at work.
Mr Alston is still a confirmed coun
tryman, though residing in the me
tropolis, and enjoys his visits to Lof‘--
ham. While Mrs. Alston, one of the
charming Peay sisters, is of course de
lighted to be back at the old home
stead.
Miss Leila Johnson left yesterday
to teach again near Tarboro.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stone of Dur
ham, spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs.
Will Chapin.
Mr. Oren Dowdy, of Oakland town
ship, in the office to renew Monday,
informs us that he has taken the Rec-1
ord for forty years or mere without |
interruption. Mr. Dowdy is nearly |
seventy, but looks more like a man of
the fifties.
Mr. W. F. Bean, who moved two
months ago to Nash county, and wife
and child were back visiting relatives
the first of the week. Mr. Bean is a
saw mill man.
Mrs. Wade Barber is at the bedside
of her mother, Mrs. Farebee, in a Nor
folk hospital. Mrs.. Farebee is seri
ously ill.
There was a larger crowd here than
usual on the first Monday. The com
missioners’ meeting, the meeting of
the board of education, and the sale
of lands for taxes accounted for it.
There are actually bargains at the
bankrupt sale of hardware and furni
ture, as advertised on another page-
The editor saw, for instance, a u "
dor set of silver plate sell for less than
half of the price advertised in a full
page Saturday Evening Post adver
tisement. Those three Moline Riding
Plows at $25 each should come to
Chatham.
A note from Rev. R. B. Lineberry
directs his address changed from
Winton to Harr ells ville. Mr. Line
berry is a successful Baptist pastor
and is well known to many of our
readers, as he and Mrs. Lineberry
are both Chathamites.
Mrs. George Brewer accompanied
Mr. B. Nooe to the Sanatorium Sun
day to visit Miss Fannie Nooe, whose
"ondition is reported as rapidly im
proving.
Mrs. Thomas H. Calvert and daught~
ers, Miss Patsy Calvert and Mrs.
Duncan, of Raleigh, spent Monday in
Pittsboro.
Messrs. Robert and Gordon May, of
Union, S. C., who have been visiting
their cousin, Miss Margaret Womble,
left Sunday for their home.
Miss Dudley Hackney, of Durham,
spent Sunday with Mrs. D. L. Bell.
Misses Ruby Wright and Gladys
Sturdivant are spending a while with
Mrs. C. C. Hamlet.
Dr. and Mrs. Farthing and son,
Watts, of Wilmington, have been
visiting friends here.
Mr. George Brooks, who has a posi
tion in Hamlet, is visiting his parents
here. x
Miss Miriam Chapin, who is in train
ing at Johnston-Willis Hospital in
Richmond, is home on her vacation.
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Messrs. Frederick and Garner John
son, who have been visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Logan Womble, have returned to
their home in Atlanta.
Miss Louise Brooks entertained
with three tables of bridge at her
home Saturday night.
Mr. Herbert Morris, of Raleigh,
spent the week-end with his grand
mother, Mrs. R. M. Burns.
Miss Norma Shannonhouse, who
has a position in Charlotte, is spend- i
ing her vacation here with her pa
rents. She has as h r »* guest Miss
Margaret Menzell, of Charlotte.
THE
FELLOW IN ,
BED 14
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By J. B. KAYE
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(© by W. G. Chapman.)
WE CALLED her Miss Mitram,
although everybody knew
that Nurse Mitram had been
married. But nobody knew
it until she put on her wedding ring,
and that was not until the senior sur
geon had showed unmistakably that
i interest in Elizabeth Mitram was
J m °re than a purely professional one.
| Dr. Carrutliers went about his work
i like a man who has received a stun
ning bl »w for several weeks after
that. I had just come off duty and
was dog-tired when he knocked at the
door of my little office bedroom.
“Jack,” he said, “I’m in a good deal
of trouble, and you’re the only friend
I have to whom I want to it. It’s
about Miss Mitram.
“You see, Jack,” he continued, “I’ve
I been clean daffy over her ever since
she Came here. Why everybody else
isn’t I can’t pretend to understand.
Shocking bad taste, it seems to me.
But of course I’m not worrying over
it. However, you know she is mar
ried, of course?”
“Was?” I hazarded.
“Is,” he answered with a groan.
“Brute of a fellow, too. Married eight
years ago, when she was a girl of sev
enteen. It was a runaway match, and
he had been a jailbird then, although
he posed as a gentleman. lie was a
valet, I believe, and learned the man-;
ners of gentlefolks in that way. Well,
he thought she had money, and a
month after the marriage, when he
found she hadn’t, he abandoned her.
, She hadn’t much left for him by
> then, so it was the kindest thing he
1 could have done. But, though she
loves me, she won’t get a divorce.
Doesn’t believe in divorce. So there
you are. What am I tQ do?”
“I don’t know, Fred,” I answered
frankly. “You’re asking me to solve
the oldest unsolved problem on earth.
You must decide for yourself, old man
—you and Nurse Mitram.”
He agreed with me that It was up
to him, and a few days later he told
me he had talked it over with her
and had decided to take a post In
Texas which had been offered him.
That seemed the only thing possible.
It must have been a week before
Carruthers’ projected departure that
a patient was carried Into the hos
pital from a cab. We put him In the
i general ward, wtiere Miss Mitram was
1 night nurse.
I was acting house surgeon at that
time, and I was going the rounds
when Carruthers came up to me, as
white as a sheet.
“Jack,” he said, “it’s all up. I knew
it would happen.*’
“What?” I asked.
“That fellow Johnson in bed 14 Is
Elizabeth MitTam’s husband!”
“Nonsense!” I answered be
cause the shock was almost as bad
for me as it had been for him. Von
see, every one had looked with sym
pathy upon the senior surgeon and
the pretty nurse in their unhappy
love affair.
“Go and see her, Jack,” he said,
pressing my hand.
There is not much privacy in’a hos
pital, but bed 14 occupied a little al
cove at the end of the room, and one
could speak there without being heard
by the others. Nurse Mitram was
standing beside Johnson, and the fel
low was looking up at her with the
face of a man under sentence of death
She beckoned me to follow herto
the night nurses’ room, and there she
wheeled on me like a tigress. She
drew a paper from her apron pocket.
“Will you please read that,” she
said to me.
It was brief and to the point. It
offered a reward of a thousand dol
lars for the arrest of a certain Larrt
son, who was wanted on the charge
of theft. He had been the valet of
old Montague, the-milllonaire, and had
made off with all the cash he could
lay bis hands on and, what had ,en-,
raged the old man most, some minia
tures of a dead child of his. Hence
the offer of the reward. The photo
graph accompanying the article was
that of Johnson.
“What are you going to dor* I
asked.
v «i have told him to give himself
up,” she replied.
“Well.” answered, “of course we
are not informers, but—”
I never saw a woman go all to
pieces so suddenly as she did. She
burst Into hysterical laughter and sobs
and clung to me wildly.
“You don’t understand.” she gasped
at length, when I had quieted her a
little. “He is penitent. Do you un
derstand bow, Mr. Drake? He wants
me to go ba<* to him. And I am go
fng—after - he ’ has served his sen
tence.”
Here was a wretched dilemma. The
mao, broken by disease, outcast hy hi*
own actions, had drifted Into the hos
pital to come face to face with the
wpman whom he had ;rulned. . r
I went to the bedside alone. John
son was staring up at me with hollow
eyes. /
“She has told you?” he asked.
“Yes,” I answered, and it was all T
could do to refrain from insulting the
creature as he lay there.
“Doctor,” he said. “I’ve been a
pretty bad sort of customer in my
time, but It’s all over now. The po
| lice have been notified, and they are
coming for me. I guess.”
“1 wish to ueayen you had stayed
'tttt
I away, or gone to some other hospital,*
I answered.
I watched Nurse Mitram pretty
closely that evening, but she went
about her work very quietly. She
had herself under complete control,
hut it was a question how long it
would last. It did seem a wretched sit
uation but there tfere her principles,
and there was the sick man, helpless,
penitent. I am sure his conversion
was sincere.
Knowing her, I' knew she could not
have done otherwise.
Sure enough, next morning about
six o’clock, a police officer came into
the ward and posted himself beside
the man’s bed. That was too intoler
able, however, and we arranged that
the officer should call for the fellow
as soon as he was able to leave. Wt
had a little difficulty In convincing
them at headquarters, but Carruthen
could work wonders when he was per
suasive, and finally we had our way
The days went by, and Nurse Mit
ram and Carruthers avoided each <*h
er so carefully that I don’t think they
met for about five days. But. as 1
was saying, Nurse Mitram’s self-con
trol couldn’t last. It was on the nigh!
before Carruthers’ departure that she
broke down.
I w r as in the ward beside one of our
patients who was ill enough to have
tire screen drawn round him, so that
nobody could see me. He occupied
bed 13, in the corresponding alcove
opposite that in which Johnson lay.
and the door of the night nurses’ room
was only a few feet away, at the end
of the room. Nurse Mitram was just
coining on duty and had gone in ts
get some charts when I saw Carruth
ers step quietly after her. Next min
ute I heard them talking together in
side, and Nurse Mitram was sobbing
as though her heart would break.
Decency demanded that I should
make my presence known, but I
couldn’t bring myself to let them see
me. I could hear every word of the
whispered conversation, though I
could see nothing. Carruthers was as
hysterical as she was.
“You can come with me,” he was
urging. “Why should you ruin your
life for that miserable man?”
Nurse Mitram said something about
duty.
“You have a higher duty,” said the
senior surgeon. “You have a duty to
yourself, Elizabeth. Do v«>u iove
him?”
She must have shaken her head,
for no answer reached my ears.
“But I love you and I need you,**
Carruthers exclaimed fiercely. “Look
at it from the practical pont of view.
You are ruining two lives to save
oneJ’
“It isn’t mining a life to be ftlthful
and—and true.” she sobbed.
“I tell you, Elizabeth, you are act
ing quixotically,” he answered “Come
with me. Oh, my dear, I must have
you, and you want me, too, I know
In Texas you can get a divorce —■”
“I can’t, my dear,” I heard her whis
per. “It would be the sweetest thing
in the world for me—for me and for
you. But one cannot buy happiness at
such a price. There is the principle
—and not that alone, my dear. H%
has his chance at last, and he needs
me more than yoa do. You are strong
and ' - * ~ l'fe without yield
in; --. temptations. But
he
Carruthers tried for hqlf an hour,
as it seemed to me—though It must
have been Jess —to convince her. At
last he yielded. Then she took his
face between her hands and kissed
him on the lips.
“But I shall always love you, my
dear,” she said. “Wherever you are,
remember, my love shall always fol
low you.”
I was glad when they came out,
leaving me to make my escape un
observed.
It would have been amusing under
other circumstances to see the strict
ly professional manner which both
adopted on the following morning.
The senior surgeon was making hie
l§s(: round of the hospital. He was to
go off duty at noon.
They tvere standing beside the bed
In which Johnson lay, and the fellow
was looking up at them humbly, as
he always looked. I am sure his con
version was sincere.
Johnson,” said Carruthers.
“we are going to let you sit up awhile
this morning, and the day after to
morrow you ought to be well enough
to —” There he checked himself In
his unlucky speech. “Help me raise
him. nurse,”, he said to Miss Mitram.
They put their hands beneath the
fellow’s shoulders and slid him up
ward upon the pillows. I had no ex
cuse for remaining In the vicinity any
longer—and, as a matter of fact, I
didn't want to.
I had left the ward and was half
way down the passage when I heard
Carruthers coming after me. He
called me from the door. “Drake,” he
said, “come here,” ; , V
His voice was as agitated as It had
been the night before. I turned and,
hurried back toward the bed %lth him.
Johnson had slid back on the pil
lows again, and his eyes were closed.
His face was the color of marble.
Nurse Mitram, almost as white,
kneeled at his side. I raised the limp
wrist; there was no pulse in it Tht
was dead.
It was quite simple, physiologically
speaking. There had been a clot o1
blood which the change in posture had
carried to the b?art. It sometimes
happens, as we surgeons know. Bu;
somehow I have believed in Provi
dence since then.
Carruthers is still at the hospital
hut his wife las never been insid<
the gates since then. Still, I nee be
nearly as often, for Fred and I ar*
better u* than ever.
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Id, a well trained rabbit dog. Puns
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n Bulletin No. 1408 the U. S. Dept, of j
Agriculture it was stated that flies!
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Not only in the excreta but also in :
the regurgitated matter sometimes!
called vomit spots.” The fly is the j
filthiest insect knowy Do not tol-1
erate a single one. Fly-Tox your'
home against flies and other insects, i
r ly-1 ox has a pleasant odor. It is I
harmless to mankind and animals. It
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your dealer, always in bottles with
blue label.
Fly-Tox against mosquitoes and flies.
Fly-Tox against ants, spiders, etc.
WANTED—Man with car to sell
complete line quality Auto Tires and
Tubes. Exclusive Territory. Ex-
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$300.00 per month.
MILESTONE RUBBER COMPANY
, East Liverpool, Ohio.
123-Acre Tract, 50 ascres, cleared,
located near Sheriff Milliken’s farm
3 miles from Pittsboro, for sale. Good
land; good buildings. See it and price
it. Wes Lynn, Pittsboro, Rt. 1. |
E. W. ELLINGTON
Contractor and Builder
Pittsboro and Chapel Hill
Let me figure on your job if you
ire considering building.
Now building for the Pomnton
Lakes Weaving Co., Pittsboro, N. C.
A WORD OF THANKS
To those who were so kind to us
during the illness and death of our
daughter and sister, we wish to offer
our heartfelt thanks and praise. May
we be able to repay the debt of lov
ing service, is our great desire.
' I- W. Farrell and Family.
R. L. PUGH & SON
Complete Funeral Service
Hearses for white and colored patron*
Bonlee, N. C.
GRADUATE NURSE
In Pittsboro for the time being,
Miss Lucile Peterson, a recent gradu
ate as a nurse, offers her professional
services to the people of Chatham
county.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
AUGUST 31ST, 1926
NORTH CAROLINA:
CHATHAM COUNTY:
Tom Duglass vs. Lillie Duglass
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
NOTICE
The Defendant, Lillie Duglass, will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the Su
perior Court of Chatham County,
For Cash But For Less*
We Sell It For Cash And Sell It For Less
Oats Per Bag, $3.25
Best Grade Sweet Feed, $2.50
Good Grade Sweet Feed, , $2.25
Corn Meal Per Cwt. ' $2.65
Choice Timothy Hay, $1.60
Covington’s Fancy Molasses, Per Gal., 80 cts
Sugar Per Lb. 7 cents; by the hundred pounds 6 3-.
Full Cream Cheese Per Lb. 30 cts.
Lard, 45 .Pound Cans, Per Lb. 17cts
Maxwell House Coffee, , 50 cts*
•\ . . f ■ *, ►.? ✓ • ■- •
- Loose Arbuekle 33 cts.
Large Size Tomatoes Per Can, . 15 cts.
Small ” ” ” ” 10 cts.
Salmon 15 cts*
Good Heavy, Overalls sl. 50
$7.50 Rain Coats Reduced To $5 *OO
Flour The Best Per Barrel $8.25
Gementperbag SI.OO
Carload new salt, per hunded pound sa§k, $1.20
' We Sell It Cheap, Sell a Heap, And Keep Eternally at
it. Visit our Stores at Pittsboro and Moncure and be
Convinced {
CONNELL & JOHNSON.
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North Carolina, to obtain an absolute
divorce from the defendant; and the
defendant will further take notice that
she is required to appear at the of
fice of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Chatham County, N. C., in the
Courthouse in Pittsboro, N. C. on the
Ist day of October, 1926, and answer
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or demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff wifi apply to
the court for the relief demanded in
the complaint in said action.
E. B. HATCH,
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Chatham County, North Carolina.
IW. P. Horton, Attorney.
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