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The Chatham Record ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 FAMOUS GERMAN SCHOLAR PRAISES WORK OF DAWES Dr. Jackh, Founder and Presi dent of Berlin Institute of Political Science. PRESENTS GERMAN NEEDS Address Based Partly Upon His Ex periences As a Member of the Ger man Delegations in Versailles, Ge noa, Locarno, and Geneva —On Speaking Tour of U. S. The American Dawes scheme is the life insurance of Germany, and the Locarno v.v>tem the mutual life insurance of the European powers, asserted Dr. Ernst jackh, of Berlin, in an address before the Historical Society here last night. Xhe founder and present president of ti;<* Berlin Institute of Political Sciences, Dr. Jackh is considered one of the fore most political leaders in Germany, and is an American on a speaking tour at the invitation of the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace. His ad dress here tonight was based partly upon his experiences as a member of the Ger man delegations in Versailles, Genoa, Locarno, and Geneva. ‘ she most democratic constitution in the world is the political basis of the new Germany,” Dr. Javkh said, speak ing in excellent English with only a trace of accent. “It is the constitution of Weimar, the town of Goethe and Schiller, selected intentionably and sym bolically by the new German leaders.” The needs of Germany, her position in European politics, and the trend of Ger man thought were topics discussed by the speaker. The complete address follows: “The decisive constitution has both an actual connection with the Parliamen tarism of Prince Max of 1918 and an in tellectual connection with the Parlia ment of Frankfort, 1848, of the intel lectual mobility of the German nation at that time when Germans like Carl Schurz came to America and became outstanding leaders in this country. “The Germany of today is the realiza tion of the old Forty-Eighters and of the new fourteen points of Woodrow Wil son. The basis of the German democ racy is the universal, equal, direct and secret franchise of every man and wo man, married or single, over twenty years of age. “The Prussian example proves most distinctly the decisive efficiency of the new democratic system. Prussia, the largest state in Germany, containing 61 per cent of the German population, has always been the key-stone of the mili taristic monarchy, nothing but a result of the unequal franchise, and is now a cornerstone of the German Republic, a result of the equal franchise giving evi dence of the industrial and social struc ture and therefore truly representing the democratic and socialistic majority of the people. “The new Germany is no more a Great er Prussia, but a complete German or ganism, decentralized, neither unitary or federal, a steady republic. New men control a new machine. (Continued on page three) BROWN MEMORIAL FEBRUARY 23RD Services in Memory of Joseph G. Brown Will Be At Time of Board Meeting. Memorial services for the late Joseph C. Brown, chairman of the board of trustees of the University since 1917, will he held in Craven hall at the chapel hour °n Wednesday, the 23rd of this month. Hie services will be of the same type as ti?e Duke ones of last year with members 01 the board, faculty, and students par ticipating. In the afternoon of the same aa y the regular February meeting of the board of trustees will be held. plans for the services in memory 01 Mr. Brown have not yet been com 1‘ ; ed, but it is thought that the prin- Cl ple address will be made either by a member of the board, of which Mr. Br -wn served as chariman, or by a mem ber of the faculty. Dr. W. P. Few, President of the University, and other 1? b officials, attended the funeral which IS held last Monday at the Edenton Street Methodist church in Raleigh. Mr. Brown, who was more than active m ( hurch and educational circles, was, at L j ,e m i e of his sudden death last Sun tltt *» president of the Citizens National J )aR b> and the Raleigh Savings Bank and L t Company. He entered Trinity Col kge, now Duke University, in 1871, and bile a student and at later times mani ' a keen interest in the welfare of tbe college and university. He was sev er,C\-two years old at the time of his death. FORMER PITTSBORO CITIZEN DIES AT LITTLE SIOUX, IA. Mr. James A. Perley, a former citizen of this community, was killed by an automobile which struck him as he was walking up street from the train in Onawa, lowa, Jan. 31, within two days of his 60th birthday. Mr. Perley was a man of culture. He was a graduate of Ames College, Iowa; a teacher, an engineer; later a teleg rapher. His health demanding an out door life, he brought his young wife to Pittsboro and farmed on the place now owned by Mr. Crews. That was in 1900. While here he served as a member of the board of education and president of the Farmers’ Union. In 1910, after the death of a brother at Little Sioux, lowa, he moved to that town, where'he was living when killed. Surviving him are his wife and five children, the little Harriet known here now being a teaeher in the school at Monticello, lowa. The foregoing is gleaned from a fine tribute in Mr. Perley’s home town paper. POPULAR BONLEE GIRL TO WED Bonlee, Feb. 5. —An engagement which will be read with much interest to friends throughout the state, is that of Miss Myrtle Phillips to B. F. Moffit which was formally announced at a party given by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Phillips •at their home on Friday evening, February 4. The guests were met at the door by Miss Marie Phillips, sister of the bride elect, and after being served punch in the front hall by Miss Emma Tillman, they were invited into the parlor which was very artistically decorated by “Dan Cupid.” Miss Girlie Tillman had charge of an interesting contest “A Musical Ro mace,” Mrs. W. S. Phillips at the piano. The book, “Heart Throbs,” was present ed to the winner. The guests were then ushered into the dining room, which was unusually pretty in its color scheme of red and white. In the center of the table on a huge red heart stood a miniature bride and groom. A delicious salad course was served by Mesdames D. C. Phillips and R. I. Tillman. A cupid on each plate held the surprise “D.M.P.-8.F.M.-Early Summer.” FERTILIZERS CAN BE MIXED AT HOME FARM Proper Mixtures for Different Soils Can Be Secured by Home Mix ing of Raw Materials. Extension Farm News The equipment required for home mix ing of fertilizers is not expensive. It consists of a sand screen (three to six meshes to an inch), shovels, an iron rake, a tamper or grinder and platform scales. The mixing may be done on a tight floor or in a “wagon bed.” After the materials have been crushed and screened the mixing is accomplished by spreading out the most bulky material in a uniform layer about six inches thick. The next most bulky material is then spread out on top of the first and fol lowed by others until the pile is com plete. Beginning at one side of the pile, the material is next shovelled over, care being taken that the shovel reaches the bottom of the pile each time. This oper ation should continue back and forth about four times until the streaks of different materials disappear. The mix ture may then be put in bags and kept in a dry place until needed. There is a growing demand for raw materials to be mixed on the farm. This is due to the fact that-fertilizer manu facturers do not put out mixtures in the proportion to meet the fertilizer require ments of all the different soil types. Some advantages in home mixing of fertilizers are: 1. A means by which a farmer may know definitely of what his fertilizer is composed. 2. The use of different plant foods in any proportion desired. 3. It has an educational value which leads to a more intelligent fertilizer prac tice. 4. Generally, there is a saving in cost per ton. Some disadvantages are: 1. Hard to secure raw materials. 2. Mixing not as perfect as factory mixed goods. 3. Likely to harden if let stand any length of time. 4. Not ground as fine as manufactured products. Your county agent will advise you. BIG NEWS BREWING The Sanford Express, in its last issue, hints at an expected early break of big news from the Deep River Coal field. The Express states that prominent finan ciers and coal men have been in the ! section the past week or two preparing . to put the deal over, though that paper i seemed under a pledge not to give out what it already knew. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927 MONCURE NEWS Deputy Utley Improving—Play Well Presented—Siler City Girls’ Vic tory Balanced by Moncure Boys—Personal Items. We are glad to report that Mr. W. T. Utley, the deputy for Moncure and who is in hospital at Sanford, N. C., is improving fast from the wound received last Sunday a week ago while trying to capture a still in Lee county. We hope all who were seriously injured will re cover: The play, “My Irish Rose,” was well presented at the school auditorium last Friday evening to an appreciative audi ence. The play was given by students from the eighth and ninth grades. The teachers who were supervisors of this play were Misses Minnie Bell and Jessie Strickland. Mr. “Tip” Dorsett, of Wake Forest, was in town today Monday on business. Mrs. Julia Stedman is visiting Mrs. R. L. Lambeth at Sanford. Rev. Jesse Blalock, of Aberdeen, N. C., preached two excellent sermons to good congregations last Sunday at the Baptist church. The Epworth League held an inter esting meeting at the Methodist church last Sunday evening at seven o’clock. Miss Annie Lambeth, the president was in the chair and called the meeting to order, then the roll was called by Miss Marne Sockwell and minutes read. As Mr. H. G. Self could not be present as it was his evening to lead, Miss Mamie Sockwell led in his place. The subject was, “How to Encourage Juniors.” Good and interesting talks were made by Misses Mamie Sockwell, Virginia Cathell and Annie Lambeth. There was a prayer meeting held at the Baptist church last Friday evening for the wounded officers, who are seri ously ill at Central Carolina hospital. The basketball game that was played here on home ground between Siler City teams and Moncure teams was en joyed very much last Friday afternoon. The writer does not know the exact score, but Siler City girls geat Moncure girls and Moncure boys beat Siler City boys. Messrs. Glenn Womble, Sam and Clarence Crutchfield and Zeb Harrington of Elon College spent last week-end at home with their parents. We are sorry to hear of the death of Sheriff Turner this a. m., Tuesday, who was seriously shot while capturing a still in Lee county last Sunday as a week ago. MERRY OAKS NEWS Mrs. S. E. Holt, who has been on the sick list, is much improved. There was a pie party at Merry Oaks school house for the benefit of the base ball team. $47.75 was raised. Mr. Joe Boulin, of Miami, Fla., spent awhile with his grandmother, Mrs. W. T. Edwards, last week; then extended his visit to Holly Springs visiting rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Pate, of Liles ville, spent Sunday in Merry Oaks. Mrs. C. C. Wheeler, of Holly Springs, made a visit to see her mother, Mrs. W. T. Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Spray, of Fuquay Springs, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Mann, Sunday. Mrs. Joe Mann has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. J. Lumbston, at Brevard, N. C. Mr. Ernest Case, who has been at Hogansville, Ga., is back in Merry Oaks. A new house, being built at Bonsai, was burned last Friday night. F. H. Windham and Company have put in a corn mill over on the highway. Miss Dora Holt spent Saturday with Miss Flonnie Sauls of Merry Oaks. Mrs. J. C. Holt is spending this week with relatives and friends at Chapel Hill. Mrs. J. D. Richardson, of Bonsai, who has been sick for some time, is some what improved. Will Swain, of Liberty in Randolph county, clears about $5,000 per year from his poultry flock of 2,000 hens. Last year he had one egg contract that brought him a weekly check for $128.60. THE LEGISLATURE What the General Assembly Has Been Doing or Contemplates Doing. It was our purpose to keep our readers informed each week as to the work of the legislature, but the fire and conse quent effects resulted in an omission of the outline last week. But it is not very difficult to catch up, so far as measures vital to the state are concerned. In fact, not one of the important matters before the General Assembly has been disposed of. The appropriation and revenue bills are still in committees’ hands as are the Australian ballot bill and the bill repealing the absentee voters’ law. The Poole bill, seeking to prevent the teaching of the hypothesis of evolution in state supported schools is to be discussed before the joint com mittee of both houses this evening (Thursday). This bill is backed by the recently organized Bible League, which has prepared petition for presentation to the people of thecounties, bushels of which were expected to be on hand be fore the committee meeting, but of which very few had materialized the first of the week. The Record has had no evi dence of the circulation of such petitions in Chatham county, though it may have been done. The school question is one of the big gest questions. It it almost certain that there will be no measure passed looking to an eight-months school term by consti tutional amendment. The equalization fund will be greatly increased so as to relieve the poorer counties of the great strain upon them in maintaining the six-months term. The old Confederates seem likely to fare well at the hands of this General Assembly. Disabled ones will likely get a dollar a day and the ordinary pen sioner $240 a year, a striking increase over former appropriations. The Australian ballot law still has a fair show to arrive. The danger is that it will be weakened by those who, unable to check its passage, will gain their point by making it ineffectual in its purpose of securing real secrecy for the voters and depriving heelers of their former privilege of controlling a large portion of the voting strength of the precincts. The repeal of the absentee voters’ law seems to have some strong friends in the house, but there is not the same degree of propaganda behind this effort as behind the Australian ballot bill. The reform elements seem not to have realized the adaptableness of the absentee law to th ends of the heelers. In brief, the real work of the session, apart from that of the committees in charge of the bills, is yet to be done. Os course, many bills of minor impor tance have been passed in one or both houses, but few of general interest. A real game law is before the two bodies and the prospects for its passage are brighter than for a similar bill at the last session. But the fight is waxing hot as you may see by reading the dailies. TOWN AND COUNTY BRIEFS Officer Lacy Johnson picked up Rob Brown, colored, Saturday night driving drunk, without lights and without li cense. He gave S2OO bond for appear ance at court. Miss Emily Taylor spent the week-end with Mrs. Daniel L. Bell at the Mansion Park Hotel, Raleigh. Representative Bell himself spent the week-end at Pitts boro. Miss Camilla Powell spent the week end with her cousin, Supt. George Ross Pou at Raleigh. Miss Vivian Allgood, of the Pittsboro school faculty, and Messrs. Claud Harris and Carlyle Brooks, members of the engineering force working on the Chapel Hill and Pittsboro highway, spent the week-end with home folk at Roxboro. Folk, Dewey Dorsett has certainly built him a beautiful home in Siler City. The family have just moved into it this week. Miss Sallie Johnson, of Durham, came down Saturday to note the progress being made on the beautiful residence being erected for her 4 miles this side of Siler City. She spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in that good town. On completion of the residence, it is expected that Miss Johnson’s moth er, who is now living in Durham, will occupy it. That is the old home com munity. Mr. Chas. Moore and sister, Miss Lucy, visited relatives at Jonesboro Sunday. Mr. J. W. (Dock) Griffin, who has a job in the house of representatives, spent the week-end at home. CAROLINA PLAYMAKERS HERE SATURDAY EVENING FEB. 12 1 Next Saturday evening, February 12, Prof. Kock will entertain the people of Chatham county in the Pittsboro audi torium with his troupe of some twenty odd well trained members of the Caro lina Playmakers. They need no intro duction to the* people of Chatham county. Prof. Koch and his Playmakers are so well known all over the country and have made such a distinct and unique place for them selves in the state that any explanation of their accomplishments or introduction to Chatham county peo ple is unnecessary. The history of the university is a source of pride to every loyal citizen of the state. There is perhaps no point in the present history toward which we can point with more pride than that of the Carolina Playmakers. This organi zation is truly the product of our own people, the outgrowth of a long-felt need for an expression of our thoughts, feel ings, and aspirations. In coming to this entertainment we give ourselves an evening of genuine pleasure, and recognize home talent, which already has received applause from the leading theatrical centers of the United States. There will be presented three one-act plays, In Dixon’s Kitchen , a Carolina folk comedy; Lighted Candles, a moun tain tragedy; and The Muse of the Un published Writer, a Greenwich Village, New York, comedy. In addition to having the privilege of seeing the Carolina Playmakers in action here in Pittsboro, the Pittsboro school will get a liberal percentage of the proceeds. There will be an admission charge of 35c for school children and 50c for adults. Go and enjoy the eve ning, Saturday, February 12, 7:30 p. m. SOIL IMPROVING CROPS TOO FEW IN CHATHAM The first three of a series of commun ity meetings were held by the County Agent in the Rocky River, Gum Springs and Mt. Pleasant communities, Jan. 28, Feb. 2, and Feb. 3. Other community meetings will follow next week. Mr. S. J. Kirby, Extension Agronomist, ad dressed the meeting in the Gum Springs community on the night of Feb. 2nd. Mr. Kirby laid especial emphasis on the farmers of this county using better seed, larger amounts and higher-analysis fertilizers, more permanent pastures, etc. According to Mr. Kirby, a few years ago, only about 7,000 acres of the total land cultivated in this county were in soil improving crops. The acreage in soil improving crops has increased until now we have approximately 10,000 acres in soil improvement crops, chiefly soy beans. However, even at this rate, it is only once in seven years that a soil improvement crop is used in a rotation, according to the average reports. Mr. Kirby stated further, that if farming is to go on a profitable basis in this county, farmers must produce three hundred and sixty-five days of the year rather than only about three months, which embraces preparing, fer tilizing and picking cotton. He showed that on the average North Carolina cot ton farm labor was so unevenly dis tributed that during the late fall and winter months, very few if any days are spent by the farmer in profitable production. This shows the need for a diversified system of farming in this county, by which, livestock products (milk, cream, poultry, eggs,) also hay, seed, etc., can be sold during those months, when on the average farm there is nothing to be done. In this way, farm ers can still utilize cotton as a cash crop, but the actual expenses of the farm will be taken care of by other products. N. C. SHIVER, County Agent. ROSSER BACK ON JOB Former Sheriff Rosser is back on the job in Lee county by authorization of the coroner of the county who assumed shrivality power automatically on the disablement of Sheriff Turner, who has been lying in a hospital with two buck shot in his brain as a result of the at tempted massacre of Lee county officers by the Bud Davis gang of blockaders. f NOTICE TO POSTMASTERS AND R. F. D. CARRIERS Gestlemex : It would be im possible to prepare lists for mail- i; ing this week if we had all names and addresses in hand. It will 11 probably take a month or more to i get lists properly made for mail ing purposes. Accordingly, we are again asking you to distribute the Recor4 to the best of your ability. ! New subscribers’ names will be writen on their papers. Please deliver any excess of papers as samples. We thank you for the generous i cooperation we have discovered. ,£» -U— .. m|> CHATHAM OFFICERS ARREST BUD DAVIS Raid in the “Hurricane” of Wake Re sults in Capture of Leader of Des peradoes—Robbins Taken at Louisburg. CHATHAM OFFICERS WIN PRAISE Eight Men Now in Prison for Shooting of Lee County Officers—Charge Now Murder Since Death of Turner. Sheriff Bud Turner of Lee is dead. The charge against the desperadoes who shot him and Deputy Craig of Lee and W. J. Utley of Chatham is now murder. Bud Davis has been captured, as has Robbins, the eighth of the number now in prison, charged either with the crime or for guilty knowledge of it. Our story of the crime and the chase of the desperadoes ended last week with the loss of the trail of Bud Davis and Robbins after the capture of the other six men implicated in the attempt ed massacre of officers in Lee county. But there 'was not much quietude for Chatham officers. They were back on the chase Saturday evening. Off for the “Harricane” Having received information that Bud Davis, leader of the desperadoes, was in hiding in his haunts in the “Harricane” of Wake county, Sheriff Blair, accom panied by Deputies Desern, Burns, Nooe, and Lacey Johnson, and by acting- Sheriff Rosser of Lee and three deputies, hastened to Durham, where they were joined by Sheriff Harward and a bunch of his officers. The whole posse then proceeded to Raleigh, where Sheriff Turner of that county and his men were added to the raiding party. It was toward day when the group of thirty men, led by Sheriff Turner, Sheriff Blair, Sheriff Harward, and Sher iff Rosser, set out for Newlight town ship, or the “Harricane,” seeking the most wanted man in North Carolina. Five hundred dollars reward had been offered for the desperado, S2OO by Lee county, S2OO for the town of Sanford, and SIOO by Chatham county. Judge Sinclair had issued a decree of outlawry against the man, and anybody who would might shoot him down as he would a mad dog. But it was not with hope of the re ward that the unusual posse had assemb led. It is a question whether an officer can successfully claim it, the Record is told. The men were simply determined to have the man who had deliberately, seemingly, defied the state and brutally shot down officers of the law. It was easy to hear of the man’s move ments when his former haunts were reached. But he had last been seen or heard of at some point distant from that at which the information was re ceived. Sunday went by in a fruitless search, so far as the real purpose of the hunt was concerned, though in the course of the day’s hunt a big still was found and destroyed and about 4,000 gallons of beer poured out. The shades of evening were falling. The Wake, the Durham, the Lee officers wearied and left the field. The Chat ham officers also appeared to be leav ing and did travel 15 or 20 miles, get ting supper at ’Squire Sanders’, clear out of the Harricane haunts. On the ride out towards ’Squire San ders’, a suggestive hint was received from one Merritt, a store keeper and reputed big man of the blockaders. He would know about the reward. His man ner was significant and suggestive. Con- after supper at Sanders’, Sheriff Blair, Burns, Desern, and Nooe (Lacey Johnson had returned home) scooted back to Merritt’s, finding him ready to leave in his car. He was rest continued on page three) SHERIFF TURNER DIED OF WOUNDS Victim of BlockaderV Bullets Suc cumbed Monday Night—Utley and Craig Improving. f * It was the expected but regretted news that flashed from Sanford early Tuesday morning to the effect that Sheriff Bud Turner, of Lee county, had died dur ing the night. FoFr eight days he had lain with two buckshots embedded in his brains. These had been hope despite of hopelessness. But the inevitable occurred and the brave spirit passed on, leaving his stricken body as another testimony against the illness of that traffic which as invariably brutalizes its participants. Mr. Turner had been in office only tw r o months when shot down by the Davis blockaders. He was making a good officer. Regret is universal at the close of so promising a career by a dastard’s bullet. Deputies Craig and Utley, the other victims of the desperadoes, are reported as improving as steadily as the nature of their wounds would permit. VOLUME 43
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