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ircT \BLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 jpiT 1 SoOtiU BALK i O OLD TIMES Town Isolated for two Days; In Darkness Wednesday Snow 20 Inches t Deep TRAIN MISSED 5 TRIPS } >o Daily Paper Comes For 2 1-2 Days; Durham Mail Ar rived Friday Noon; At tempts Saturday to Deliver g F. D. Mail. p; boro was back in the con •tjoT,s 0 f fifty years ago, plus the I snow known possibly in of the old vtown—cer . .. - n memory of the oldest 'wViflh’tant. V/o can hardly claim the 30-inch , v . .. reported from Siler City. J, : t was more than twice as deep '• any the editor of the Record ver happened to see before. \ rv mjr our hills, it is hard to de t-’-mine the actual fall, but that is yts 18 to 20 inches is pretty cer tain. For instance, it stood 14 1-2 inches deep on the piazza balus trade of our heme. It is a guess as t 0 how much failed to cling to th narrow hold of that 5-inch foqt j» c. In lower places it was as |j eeTl as three or four feet. Coir: Wednesday was prat.ical out of the question. The writer ; .anted down town, plugging holes 15 to 20 inches deep. Seeing that a. m£l: j.> iz at ail, ho w :u!d be t ,c. Jagged out to return, he turn ed back after 300 or 400 yards and ■ hen only succeeded in getting back by resting occasionally. When he reached the house he was sweating an d utterly fagged out. Only a man accustomed to lifting his foot knee-high for a long period could have floundered through a mile of it without ferquent rests. The great old elm back of L. N. Womble’s store had fallen and broken the electric light line and there was a threat of darkness for Wednesday night. A message to the C. P. and L. Co., headquarters in Sanford started Mr. H. G. War ren this way on a mule. That cherry-hearted fellow left Sanford 1 on his muleship at 3 p. m. Wed nesday. He spent the night with FMr. Johnson just this side of Rocky River and came plugging into Pittsboro Thursday after ten. He and his mule were as patient and as cheerful as if they had been on a holiday jaunt. He got the lines fixed and Pittsboro was alight again Thursday night. The train stood still for 2 1-2 days, missing five trips to Mon cure. The trains on the main lines 1 "were moving, if behind schedules; ] but here is Pittsboro, a typical ; piedmont town, while Moncure, ten ' miles away, is in the edge of the : coastal plain. The little railroad, : laid out forty years ago winds its < way around the hills to its junc tion with the main line at Moncure. 1 Moreover, it isn’t maintained in die condition of the main line. Con- ■ sequently, it was deemed unsafe < start the train down toward its love land junction. But Friday as- . •-Tnoon the venture was made and round trip was safely achieved, -'ur. W. t. Johnson, the intrepid, : i' ;cn "is big mail truck came roll- < 'tom Durham at noon Fri ' a ->» bringing the first mail to boro since Tuesday. But it » to ° late and conditions too ! t'i putious for him to continue -i ourn ey to Siler City, Besides, M ! Fity was not isolated. Thus ’ 1 means, the outgoing mail ‘•'-Cumulated in the Pittsboro office uh d way out and Pittsboro ln tou -h again with what was on In the snow-blanketed f a an< -‘ the bigger world. Con "" vvas about to end and the Mature had been doing things 1 a '' !i Pittsboro were thorough > uv.ait. Senator Horton and i preventative Bell were johnnies be spot, the former reported p L Peking election reform, ‘ttsboro was back from a (Continued on page 8) The Chatham Record Mrs. E. H. Johnson Died Last Thursday Mrs. E. H. Johnson died at her home in Bennett last Thursday. She had been ill several months. Her husband and five children sur vive her. She was a sister of Mr. Carl Pickard and Mrs. Carl Phil lips of Siler City. SILER URGED FOR JUDGESHIP Able Pittsboro Attorney Be irjg Pushed By His Friends For Appointment to Judge • ship By Governor McLean. As soon as word reached Pitts boro Tuesday afternoon that the } legislature had really passed the j bill providing for four full-time judges to broadcast their services throughout the state, Walter D. oiler’s friends here got busy in presenting his merits to the Gov ernor and urging his appointment to one of the newly created posi tions. Mr. Siler is an able lawyer, has served as solicitor with distinc tion, and has proved his fitness for the honor sought by the excellence of his service on several occasions is emergency judge the past two ears. Os course, there will be many ap plicants for the job, even if in arguing for higher salaries for judges, lawyers have said iliac j no able _ lawyer could accept the J position of judge except at a fi- ■ naneial sacrifice. Judge Siler has not said any such thing. He will net be found resigning because of meagerness of salary. His quali fies fit him for the position and he would cherish it even on the salary that such pygmies as Settle, Clark, Connor and others used to draw. His many friends in Chatham! county and the state generally will be glad to see Governor McLean appoinee Mr. Siler to a judgship, i assured that he will prove him- ■ self worthy of the honor conferred. . PEARL MITCHELL ! GRANTED APPEAL} Slayer of Fogleman Not to Die Friday; Supreme Court Must Grant Or Deny New Trial j Pearl Mitchell, who within a week and an hour of the time of the slaying of William Fogleman, was convicted and sentenced to i the electric chair on March 11, will . not be executed next Friday. His attorneys, Messrs. Horton and Dixon, who made so manful a fight for their humble client, are car- j 1 rying the case to the supreme j court. It will be recalled that Mr. Hor- I ton made one continuous objection i ; i to the introduction of evidence of the occurrences after the shooting j of Fogleman in a case the crux of which was whether the slayer was guilty of first or second degree < murder. Horton s contention is j that Mitchell’s actions after the i shooting of Fogleman did not in-i, dicate the state of mind of the;. killer before the killing but rather j ‘ that into which the act which he | deemed fatal to himself threw him after the killing. There were other exceptions, but; it is assumable that argument for j a new trial will turn upon the J point mentioned. It is not known j how long it will be before the su-! preme court decides the question j of granting a new trial; but the | appeal doubtless gives Mitchell several months’ lease on life. In case of a new trial, it is easily pre dictable that the case will be hard er fought than on the first trial. • Determination in a friend may look like bullheadedness in an en emy, and self-respect in a friend may appear as conceit in one not so loved. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MARCH,# 1927. LEGISLATURE , NEWS OF WEEK | Editorial Comment Upon the; Work and Measures of the j General Assembly | Editorial Comment Upon the Work: and Measures of the Gen eral Assembly (Written for last week.) For weeks the work of the Gen- j era! Assembly was allowed to lag j while the committees studied the j revenue and appropriation bills, j Now the body is within a few days: of the end of the 60-day period and j is almost smothered with work. At J this writing’ (Tuesday) it is hard to ( say just what is the status of af fairs or what will be the outcome of the contests on the appropria tion, school, and other important bills. A week, however, will see the end and we can summarize the important work ci the term. ( A few things have been definite ly done. The house wouldn t hear to seven additional judges and so licitors. They compromised with four new districts and two emerg ency judges, thus saving the salary of several unneeded solicit- The $30,000,000 bond issue for roads has been passed. Several millions of this, however, has to go to the payment of loans made by the counties. The bill to give discretionary powers to the highway commission • in the matter of relocating high- i ways approved by the session that j voted the first $50,000,000 was | passed, but thanks to our Senator j Horton with amendments that left the commission wicn few dictatorial powers. But Horton’s amendments j were necessary to its passage at all and the commission is appre ciative of his good services in relieving them from the liability of being- restrained at the instance of just any citizen who shouldn’t like a change suggested by the commission. The authorities of the towns affected must take the \ legal step. The house killed the Australian ballot bill and our representative, Mr. Bell helped do it. The state, accordingly, must wait two years longer for a decent election law. It is notable that men like Graham from Sampson who know what can happen when the people take the bits in their teeth can do, voted for the bill. Chatham will likely learn its lesson some day. There seems little likelihood that the shamefully abused absentee voters’ law will be repealed. The senate bill was introduced by Senator W. P. Horton, but larger matters which he has championed have largely consumed his time and en ergies and he sees little hope, or none, of getting a state-wide bill through the senate. Our senator and his brother W. 8., of Caswell, became the real champions of the Confederate vet erans and pushed a bill through the senate, giving totally disabled I Confederate veterans S4OO a year; others $365.00 a year; widows who were married to Confederate vet erans before 1880, S3OO a year. Widows who married veterans lat er than 1880 get only SIOO a year. The total given for the veteran fund the coming year is $1,400,- 000; for the next year $1,100,000.} We believe we have failed here- j tofore to state that it is now law j for drivers of horse-drawn vehicles} to carry at least a rear light. Both houses havfe passed the law unmasking the kluckers, and the churches will not again be disturb ed by the hooded self-advertisers j who have been wont to march up the aisle in night-shirts and hood and make an offering. It is a , felony now to be caught in the ppen thus arrayed. The Schools The question of an eight-months school term has never been* se riously raised in the assembly, but j the main question of the past sev (Continued on page 8) OLDEST PENSIONER DIES Washington, March 4—Death took No. 1 from the federal pen sion roils when Mrs. Mahala Huff, 108, died' recently near Louisa, Ky. Lhe was one of 17 surviving wid ows of veterans of the War of 1812 and was the oldest pensioner of all. PITTSBORO AND RALEIGH ROAD The Pittsboro and Raleigh Road Placed on State High way Map (Written for last week.) At last the Pittsboro-Raleigh read has been taken over by the State highway commission. The road is on the map and its upkeep will be taken over at once by the commission. A surveying party has already been over the route and preliminary surveys are to be gin scon. This road built will shorten the distance from Lexington to Raleigh by many miles, and will turn a great volume of east and west travel through Pittsboro. It is easy to conceive of the route be coming an important bus line, so that a trip to Raleigh will be a matter of only an hour going and one. returning. This news will be especially pleasing to that great booster of this route Mr. Clark of Franklin | viiie. The new road will intersect ; highway 50 at or near Apex. j Mr. C. T. Norwood Dies Suddenly Falls in The Fire When Stricken and Body Badly Burned; Buried at Mt. Pleasant. Mr. C. T. Norwood, one of the most highly respected citizens of the upper part of the county, died suddenly Wednesday night of the snow, while standing with back to the fire before retiring. When stricken he simply sat down in the fire and there remained till late the next morning before his plight was discovered. The body was very badly burned. His son, C. T., Jr., lived with him. Mrs. Norwood has been dead a number of years. There survive seven children, five sons, D. M. Norwood of Laurens, S. C; J. A., A. J., W. S., and C. T., Jr., of this county, and two daughters, Mes dames Ben Pritchard and Joe Gat tis, of Chapel Hill. Much difficulty was encountered in securing a casket from Pittsboro and makinug other funeral ar rangements, but the body was buried Saturday at Mt. Pleasant church, the funeral being con ducted by Rev. Mr. Brown, pastor pf the Haw River circuit. Despite the snow, a good crowd of neigh bors and friends were present at the obsequies. The deceased was an uncle of Mr. Harry Norwood of the sher iff’s office force here. A Delightful Social Occasion The meeting of the members of the Music Department of the Wo man’s Club with Misses Cordie Harmon and Bertha Jones at the home of Prof. Nolan Monday night proved a delightful occasion. An interesting program was a fea ture of the occasion, while the serving of delicious refreshments and a general good time made the event a memorable one. Visitors were Mrs. Lord of New York, and Miss Coltrane of the school fa culty. Mrs. Nolan entertained the civic department the following after noon and that group enjoyed the delightful hospitality of the hostess as well as transacting the business of the meeting. By the time most of us find our ] selves with money to invest thebar * gains are gone, and when the bar gains are back on the counter we have no money. TWO PEOPLE FROZEN TODEATH Traveling Salesman and Hotel | Employe Lose Way And Freeze Near Aberdeen Aberdeen, March B.—Tragedy of the heavy snowfall of last week was disclosed today when the ■ bodies of James Bushway. travel- : ing salesman, and Miss Helen Hig gins, a waitress at the Berkley hotel, Pinehurst, were found in a cotton field about 150 yards from highway 50, near here, shortly af ter noon today, They had frozen to death, evidently, Tuesday night when their car stuck in the snow and they became lost in an effort to make their way afoot back to Aberdeen, from which place they had started to drive to Pinehurst. The bodies were discovered early this afternoon by a negro. The man was lying on his back and the , young woman’s head rested on his chest. It was said that persons passing along the higghway pre viously had observed something unusual in the field but no one in vestigated until today, when the negro saw the bodies and went to them. Bushway’s car was round cn 1 .he highway near the scene sev eral days ago and after identity v/as established efforts were made to locate him, but no trace later than Tuesday night could be found. The young man who was about 35 years old, had been seen in Aber deen with the young woman, about ; 22 years old, Tuesday night and they were known to have started for Pinehurst. The road to Pine hurst forks one-fourth mile north of Aberdeen and it was here that Bushway’s car was stuck. The couple, after abandoning the car, 1 evidently started back to Aber , deen and in the blinding snow took the prong of the highway, known as 50, which goes toward Rocking -1 ham. The land is level and it is as -1 sumed that the heavy snow had covered the road so that the cou -1 pie could not stay in it, wander -1 ing off into the cottonfield, about 1 1-2 mile southwest of Aberdeen. The position of the bodies indicat ’ eel that the couple realized their fate. Effects found in the young woman’s pocket showed that her home was in Boston, Mass. Bush way, who had traveled this terri tory for three or four years for the American Safety Razor com pany, is said to be from New York. Court Holds Only A Brief Session The term of court for the trial of civil cases scheduled for this county this week held a short-met er. session Monday morning and adjourned. A few cases of little interest were tried. Either Senator Horton or Rep resentative Bell represented one side or the other in many of the cases docketed for trial at this term, and they were still engag ed in their legislative duties. The weather, oto, and made the country ;*oad very bad. Altogether the of doing enough work to justify the term was so poor ■ that after a few hours the court adjourned and Judge Harris re turned to his home in Raleigh. The jurors seemed to have turn ed out on time, but hardly regret ted very much the opportunity to return home to rebuild the wood piles so badly depleted last week. Officer Edwards of Mt. Vernon Spring was right here for a week’s duties. Miss '' Speight, steno grapher, did not put in her ap pearance. Another week’s term is sched uled to begin Monday, March 21. The man who wants to marry happy should pick out a good moth er and marry one of her daughters; any one will do. The individualist who talks so . freely about postive gestures, for » gets that most of us have our arms full of bundles. Home Burned Mr. Wm. Meacham of the : upper part of Baldwin township, had the misfortune to have his home burn ed last Saturday. It was a good two-story building. Mr. Meach am’s*son lived upstairs. The house hold goods of both families were destroyed. The neighbors, we are told, are planning to help him re build. HORSE TRADERS GET IN FIGHT Fred .Hill Knocks Down W. P. Edwards With Hickory Stick W. P. Edwards, a horse trader from lower Orange county, received a blow from a hickory stick in the hands of Fred Hill, another horse trader, Tuesday evening that knocked him down and sent him under the care of Dr. Chapin for a gash in the scalp. Also Kinnie Edwards, brother of W. P., got a lick across his head and another on his arm. And it all seems to have come from very slight pro vocation. It seems that W. P. Hill had touched with his whip a skittish horse on the trading lot and made him nearly jump on Hill. Some words were passed there. Later at the stables, according to Mr. Luther Mann, the Edwards told Hill that they didn’t mean any harm and virtually apologized. But about that time an old man Mall, another trader, put in that “if there was any fighting to do he was a fighting man and would share in it,” and with nothing else said Hill reached across a mule stand- j ing between him and Edwards and popped him over the head with the stick and then whacked Kinnie Ed wards. This done Hill jumped into his car, but couldn’t start it. H Mj jumped out and left a running. It/ was later reported that he had struck the road toward Bynum.His capture is almost assurtd. Edwards wound was painful, but supposedly not serious. SEES HAPPINESS TEACHERS LIFE Real Sport To Awaken Young Men To Life’s Opportuni ties, Says Dr. Noble Davidson, Feb. 26—“ The teacher of today is no longer a book worm or a mere philosopher”, declared Dr. M.C.S. Noble, Jr., connected; with the State Department of Edu given before a group of Davidson College students who were attend ing the Vocational Guidance Insti tute. “The well-trained instructor is j fast becoming a person who can ex pect and demand a respectable sal ary because he is expected to be a scientifically trained, individual.He is also supposed from a j richness of experience information I likely to stimulate a child’s mind,” j said the visiting speaker. He stated that there was no more exhilarating sport than to awaken young men to life’s oppor tunities. The declaration of Dr. Eliot, late president-emeritus of Harvard was cited as an induce ment to enter the teaching profes son, for Dr. Eliot had said that he would rather be a school teacher than anything else in the world. ] “Fame, fortune and happiness came to him by the highway of school teaching,” asserted Dr. Noble. In closing his address the speak- j er said that the price of being an instructor of education was laid down in “terms of a scound mind and a sound body, constant and well-organized study, and a desire for mental development.” Prior to speaking specifically about education as a profession,the educator stated, man’s particular ambition in general was to achieve success, and that this, in the ulti mate analysis, was merely being happy in the work which each one was doing. “Os all human ambi- VOLUME NO. 49 MAN murdered: IN HIS BED John Headen, Colored, Shot Twice in Bed Saturday Night; Dies Almost Im* mediately. SHOT TUESDAY NIGHT Was Recovering'From Pistol- Shot Wounds Received at a Box Party a Few. Night Earlier; Coroner’s Inquest. (Written for last week.) There will be no question about the degree of murder if the killer of John Headen, colored, in ever brought to trial, for it is clear that his murderer was determined to kill him before the week ended. On Tuesday night of last week at a box party at the old Hadley mill place in Hickory Mountain township, the killer, supposedly, took four shots at Headen, three of which took effect, wounding the victim seriously but not fatally. Dr. Chapin called in dressed the wounds and John was convalescing satisfactorily. No arrest was made, as no one seemed to have been able to identify the would-be assassin. ' , Shot in Bed On Saturday night the killer, presumably the same man, slipped up to the window by the bed in which Headen lay and shot two loads of No. 4 shot into the help less man. One load took effect in the region of the heart and the i other in the hip. John, despite his | former wounds and the now fa tal ones, got out of bed and start ed to his mother’s room, but fell and died in a few minutes. The Inquest As on the former occasion, the killer was not seen. Coroner Brooks went to the scene of the crime Sunday and held an inquest. The following composed the jury: E. E. Williams, Cecil Lindley, Joe Campbell, Orren Campbell, F. P. Nooe, and J. A. Woody. Evidence implicating an unnamed perfeon v/as secured, but the inquest was adjourned till Monday afternoon, when the inquisitors reconvened for further investigation. Suspect Held. It is deemed best by the coroner not to reveal the name of the man, most suspected of teh crime, but Turner Johnson who was accused of the first shooting by the victim l was held under a SSOO bond, though there is little thought that he is the guilty party. The sheriff’s for ces were immediately put in search for the real suspect. Those who saw the first shooting said the kill j er had his cap pulled down and his collar up so that they could not recognize him. Headen was a bad negro and it is supposed that the man who did the shooting feared | he would get well and take veng | eance aplenty. ANOTHER STORE ROBBED The county store of Mr. W. T. Sauls, a few miles west of Merry Oaks, was robbed Monday night, Feb. 21, the same night Oldham’s and Chamber’s stores were depleted by thieves who carried off the goods in an automobile. But the robbery of the Sauls store was done by local negroes, whom th© alert county officers scooped up Thursday. Oscar and Will Mims are in jail charged with the crime, j and part of the stolen goods were found on their premises. Mr. Sauls could not estimate the amount of the loss. .earad . tion,” he declared, “an open mind is the noblest, the rarest and the most difficult to achieve, but it is a necessary requisite to an intel ligent choice of a vocation. 1 ” Dr. Noble remained at Davidson through Thursday and had per sonal interviews with many David son students.
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