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established September 19,1878 MORE than a hatch for two Carey Thomas, Attacked by Two Youngsters, Gets a Cut or Two, But Wallops Roth His Assailants . if you want to raise a rough ./ you ’d better steer around , rlrev Thomas. Two young fellows Sunday maJe the mistake of think theJ. could manage him, but !’L ed their calculation. Both of then, get knocked down and are ‘ , ld over to court to boot. Carey £ slashed slightly in three places, but not seriously. The anger of young Henry H arne had been smoldering for 4 r al months, it seems. He was nvoTied to a neice of Mrs. Thomas and she left him only three weeks •''. er t he marriage and has been living with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas a : ut half way between Pittsboro and Mel cure. Henry naturally blamed Thomas and had had some thing to say about it. Thomas said that he told some one that he would talk with Hearne anywhere er anytime. Hearne seems to have read a threat into this message,and he and young Will Brasington, both 0 f Bynum, appeared at the Thomas place Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were in yar d. Hearne called fThomas. He went and asked who called him. Brasington, who on the near side of the car, replied with an oath that it was not he, that he didn’t have a thing to do with it. Hearne came from the other side of the car and said it was he; that Thomas had said that he would "meet” him anywhere and that he was there, that he had a pistol and would shoot hell out of t him. He asked Thomas if he had a pistol and the latter told him it was none of his business, and told his wife to come on and they would go back to the house if that was the way things were starting. Hearne made for Thomas with a , knife in his hand and called him a fighting name and Thomas turned upon him and knocked him down. Brasington then rushed at Thomas and got his. Hearne got up and cut at Thomas and got another blow in the face. Mrs. Thomas swung on to Brasington. The sec ond blow landed Hearne against a wire fence and Thomas collared him and was handling him roughly when Mr. B. A. Perry, passing, saw what was happening, jumped out, and asked Thomas to quit. He did so, but Hearne tried \t again, but Mr. Perry, and Rev. R. G. Shan nonhouse, who had also stopped, got the two youngsters to leave, though, as Mr. Shannonhouse said, neither party seemed any too anxious for it to quit at that point. It was only after the fight that the extent of Thomas’s cuts was discovered. There was a slight ike on the back of the neck, a OUI 0 Ul n the arm that took six stiches lo sew up, and a long gash in pants leg but no wound cor responding. 1 nomas came with Mr. Shannon a( Use to Pittsboro and had his wounds dressed. developed that Hearne had a *wd Emory Thomas, deputy at nun. if he would serve a search ”lU,ant on Thomas’ car, and had >ne oft, professedly, to get it. It tl!ls "hat he wanted to find dether Thomas had a pistol or L > hut instead of getting the , laa! an d Brasington went on . n tl ’ Ihe Thomas home, a dis ' 1 about ten miles, and on t°ld Emory Thomas j^' L u lla< l searched Thomas, that tin l - & nsar hilling him and would Klli him. • tria l of Hearne and Bras- R f gton ' va s held before ’Squire f i!Ur M »«day. W. P. Horton rep ,^ ented the state and D. L. Bell -Mo rented Hearne. Brasington n lawyer * The witnesses as J above f°hl the story about hntn V j n ’ anc * ’Squire bound H efendants over to court> rne under a SSOO 00 bond> and Drrb 'f ° n 350 ’ The C£lSe W *ll v ’ be tried at the May term, -icer Burns testified that the The Chsthsm Record ••Y; #• • * County Property Sold At Auction Great Crowd Attends Sale Os Mules and Camp Fixtures of Road Force Goldston Brothers, the twin auc tioneers, proved their efficiency Monday as auctioneers, when they sold hundreds of articles used by the" recently disbanded convict force. The items sold ranged I from a tin pan to a fine mule. The young auctioneers had a band present and were evidently much concerned in making a big success of their maiden effort at the county seat, and it may be safely said that they know their business. Commissioner C. D. Moore and Road Supt. Ward were collectors and account keepers for the oc casion. The prices secured for the ‘ seventeen mules sold ranged from $25 to $132.50. The total amount of the day’s sales was $2000.00. It would have been difficult to dispose of all the varied articles without the aid of Goldston Bros. It is recalled that the convict force was recently disbanded and ! the convicts hired to Wayne county. ! WOMAN'S CLUE PRESENTS FLAG The Civic department of the Pittsboro Woman’s Club presented a handsome U. S. flag to the coun ty Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Fred Noe had selected and erected a fifty foot pole, a perfect specimen of young pine. The presentation and receiption of the flag were made Tuesday at 4p. m. with ap propriate exercises. Mrs. A. H. London, chairman of i the civic department, made the presentation. Master Fred London unfurled it. The flag was accept ed for the county by chairman R. J. Johnson of the board of county commissioners. Appropriate re marks were made by Judge W. C. Harris,, Walter D. Siler, James L. 1 Griffin, W. R. Thompson. The music department of the club fur nished music. N Women Plan In teresting Campaign (Chapel Hill News) Meeting in final session of their seventh annual convention here Saturday in conjunction with the school of citizenship, the North Carolina League of Woman voters adopted resolutions declaring that the league will redouble its efforts this year in an effort to secure a survey of women in industry to be made by an efficient and impartial | agency. This plan is to invite other wo men’s organizations to join with the league in a concentrated effort to secure the survey with the view to forming a central committee to conduct an intensive campaign. The program of work for the coming year will also include a study of the operation of the child welfare commission which has su pervision cf enforcement of the child labor laws and those relating to women in industry and a re newed fight for the Australian bal lot and reduction of the working | hours to men and women to 10 hours a day and 55 hours a week. The work of the board of the public welfare was hearcily en dorsed and a vote of appreciation j was expended to the state board of health for the work it is doing under provisions of the maternity and infancy act. Endorsement was also given a resolution by the national league that the misunderstanding between the United States and Mexico and Nicaragua could be settled amica bly by arbitration. The resolution urged that the United States fol low this course. The league voted to hold a con ference on living costs at a time and place to be decided by the board of directors. The next con vention is to be held in January with the place to be selected. young men appeared to have been drinking, and Mr. Shannonhouse 1 thought he smelled whiskey. Both i of them have court records. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, *27 iFEARFUL STORM IN ARKANSAS Twister Takes Toll of 20 Lives In Bear State And Causes Big Property Loss Little Rock, Ark., March 19 — Search for the dead and the injur ed continued late today in the Green Forest area of Carroll coun ty where a tornado swept half a dozen rural settlements last night with a known death toll of 20 persons. Red Cross workers and national guardsmen from Harrison were bringing aid to the stricken com munities in the northwest Arkan sas section while they attempted to discover the basis for reports that 30 or more persons had per -1 ished in the wind and wreckage of homes. , Meanwhile 11 victims of the storm in Saline county Thursday night were buried today and relief measures there were well organiz ed under local control at Benton, 30 miles southwest of Little Rock. The storm dealt destruction in Saline county, then with giant strides struck again more than 100 miles to the northwest and rolled up a known fatality list of 31 per sons. The injured were estimated \ about 30 in the first blow while 50 or more suffered physical hurts in last night’s disturbance. Eighteen of the dead in the j Green Forest section had been j ! counted tonight while two died in ! a Eureka Springs hospital where | perhaps 20 of the injured were being treated by hospital attend ants. The whirling wind visited Den j ver and Coin, other communities !in Carroll county, but reports of ! deaths there were disputed by later accounts and the number of in jured was not known here. One house at Green Forest was lifted clear of the tree tops by the tornado and set down again without serious harm to its occu pants. Another* residence was borne away by the violence of the storm and deposited in the middle of a road. Rescuers found the head of the household seated un hurt in his doorway smoking his pipe. No one was hurt. Jenkins And Gavin Win Endorsement It is exceedingly gratifying to their friends that Mr. J. J. Jenkins, of Siler City, and E. L. Gavin, of Sanford, secured the endorsement |of the state republican executive committee for appointment as dis trict marshal and attorney, re spectively. Both won out with good majorities, after which the endorsements were made unan imous. It is not certain when the ap pointments will be made, but there seems little reason for delay. If any delay, it will be due to the warming up of the contest for the judgeship between Hayes and Lin ney. In that race Hayes seems to have the inside track, but there seems a disposition to make a per ; sonal attack upon him, which, how ever, he professes to have no fear of. The Record is highly gratified at the success of Messrs. Jenkins j | and Gavin. I ! 1 SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IS RECORDED Washington, March 20—Earth .shocks of severe intensity were re corded at Georgetown university today and computed to be center ed about 4,800 miles from Wash ington. The disturbance began at 11:24 tjiis morning and continued for an hour, reaching its maximum in tensity at 11:57. Two hours ear lier, another disturbance was rec orded but its lineal location could not be determined. Y ’ 7 * >' That Settles It Little Fellow — Fa, it’s raining. Dad—Well, let it rain. Little Fellow—l was going to, I Pa. Baptists Arrange A Series State Meetings Noted Speaker Will Have Place On Programs Os Unusual Interest Raleigh, March 15—The offi cers of the general board of the Baptist state convention of North Carolina are bending every .energy toward arousing the Baptist people of the state to see the vital neces sity of enlisting every member in the whole denominational program To that and several series of reg ional fellowship meetings have been arranged to cover the entire state by the middle of April. Dr. Fred A. Agar, New York city, of nation-wide fame as«a church effi ciency expert, Dr. A. J. Barton, Nashville, Tenn., general director of the co-operative program of the south, and Dr. S. H. Templeman, pastor of First Baptist church of Elizabeth City, have been engaged to speak at these meetings. Be sides these, Dr. Charles E. Mad dry, Raleigh, the general secre tary, Dr. R. T. Vann, Raleigh, Prof. M. A. Huggins, Raleigh and Rev. Walter M. Gilmore Raleigh, will participate in the meetings. Mr. Gilmore, superintendent of Missions, will direct the first se ries beginning at Kinston Monday morning, March 21 at 10 o’clock; ! Wilson, Tuesday; Henderson, Wed nesday; Oxford, Wednesday night; Roxboro Thursday; Siler City Fri day. Dr. Templeman, who has | done such a notable work in his i church, and Dr. R. T. Vann, Ral eigh, and Prof. Huggins will assist in this series. Dr. Agar will be in the second series, beginning at the Raleigh tabernacle Monday night, March 28; Durham, Tuesday; Winston- Salem Wednesday; Charlotte, Thursday, Shelby, Friday. Dr. Barton, Dr. M.addry, Dr. Vann, and others will take part in the third series beginning at Scot land Neck, Tuesday, April 5; Mur freesboro, Tuesday night; Edenton, Wednesday, April 6; Buie’s Creek; Thursday; Fayetteville, Thursday night; Lumberton, Friday; Hamlet, Friday night, April 8; Wingate, Saturday, Raleigh, First Sunday, 11 a. m., High Point, Sunday night. BISHOPSCRUSADE The Bishops’ Crusade at the Episcopal church in Pittsboro last week was carried on and com pleted under most favorable cir cumstances. In the first place the congregation was ready and in terested in it. Members and min isters of other churches attended and cooperated in very fine spirit. Perfect weather prevailed. Mr. Jackson, the crusade preacher from Charlotte had the undivided and sincere interest of all the churches in town, and to his credit he appre ciated it thoroughly. Forty five definite re-dedication cards were signed at the last service Sunday morning, and placed on the altar. And many pledged definite services in church life and religion. All things considered Pittsboro as a phurch town responded nobly to the Crusade preaching, and it seems that the churches should all feel strengthened and encouraged. Mr. Jackson returned to Charlotte to »preach at his own church Sunday night. Bishop Cheshire preaches and confirms a class at St. Barthqlo mews church Wednesday night, the 23rd. More next week.—R.G.S. ANOTHER ROBBERY. Our New Elam letter tells of the robbery of W. M. Goodwin’s store Friday night, and of Moses’ store Saturday night. But it seems the thief was not disposed to remit his labors Sunday, as he entered Mr. Goodwin’s residence Sunday night, helping himself, among other things, to a cake on the table. The family were not at home. Tracks show a number 10 Star Brand shoe, the same as Mr. Goodwin thinks was stolen from him on Friday night before the visit to the home Sunday night. The fellow seems Joo bold to have good sense. GET THREE STILLS IN SINGLE DAY Friday a Banner Day in War Os County Officers Against Booze Industry Last Friday was a banner day for Chatham county officers in their eternal fight against booze i making. Friday morning saw De j sera and Nooe seize s galvanized ! still near the Carolina Coal Com | pany’s mine. They found no one i there no liquor or beer. The run had been made and the makers and makings were gone. But the fel lows may not be so lucky the next time they try it.- That afternoon, Desern, Noe, Lacey Johnson, and John Perry | picked up a small copper outfit ' three miles northwest of Pittsboro, and poured out 150 gallons of beer. | They watched while the operator * made ready his furnace, but the fellow beat it too fast for the offi j cars when he discovered their pres- I ence. That night Desern, Nooe, A. B. Robinson, John Perry, and Henry i Harrington hied away to the neigh borhood of Corinth. They watched I eight men make ready for a run of booze as they thought, but it ! turned out to be a run for freedom. Seven escaped, but one negro, an | old offender, Lewis Douglas, was caught. Others were recognized ! and will have to make themselves | scarce in the county or face the ! judge ere many moons. Beer was | poured out. i MAN GIVEN UP BY CHATHAM WELL Thirteen hours after the well at the home of Mr. Oscar Stephens in the southeast strip of Chatham county had treacherously made young Jeff Ashworth a captive,the frantic friends and well wishers of the young man drew him forth and carried him into Mr. Stephens’ home for recovery from his har rowing experience. The young man was being let down to clean out the well and •when ten or fifteen feet from the | bottom, but forty feet below the j surface, the rock walls crowded in j upon him, but fortunately form ing an arch over his head that j saved him from being flung to the j bottom and crushed. A rope about Ashworth’s body j and held by means on the surface! saved him also from a plunge to the bottom with possibly a pile of rock upon him. Fortunately in the center of the arch an opening through which the man could get fresh air. To prevent possible closing of this, an open-end box with air holes bored through it was let down, thus strengthening the arch and assuring an air supply. The man’s young wife was there from the beginning and was, of course, badly frieghtened. Crowds came to the rescue and work was incessant till the rescue was made. It took thirteen hours of steady work, and the young fellow was without food and water all that time, while constantly complain ing of the heat in his prison trap. It is said, also, that the pressure of ■ the stones had pressed his head downward and almost between his legs, so that the discomfort of the weary hours was all the greater. TWO YOUNG GIRLS SMOTHER TO DEATH Water Valley, Miss., March 20- Two young girls were smothered today when their cave playhouse collapsed. Evelyn Hunter, 12, and Edna Earle Lott, 6, were the victims. Evelyn was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter, and Edna Earle was the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Lott, of the First Baptist church. The cave in was the result of recent heavy rains, and came without warning. Nicholas Murray Butler of Co lumbia University, says he does not want the nomination for Presi dent. So that makes it unanimous. | Bryant Gets $750 For Loss of Arm In the case of Bryant vs. the All red Saw Mill Company, or simply Jeff Allred, a compromise was ef fected Tuesday morning whereby Allred undertakes to pay $750.00 to Bryant as the best recompense he can make for the loss of Bry ant’s right .arm at the former’s saw mill last year. The case consumed Monday aft ernoon session of court. The plain tiff, represented by Long and Bell, had rested their case when court adjourned. Tuesday morning an attempt to compromise was begun and continued till nearly noon. The trouble seemed to be in settling upon a sum that the defendant could pay rather than in unwilling ness on the part of the plaintiff to pay what he could, though the re cord of recent mortgage to the Page Trust Company for $6,000 was brought into court as ' evi dence that there is property, if not honestly or fraudulently dis posed of by mortgage. Bryant got his arm c\*t off near the shoulder when some one start ed up the engine in Allred’s saw mill while Bryant was preparing to turn the saw to see where a j tooth had been broken out. Allred i paid the hospital bills at Greens ; i bcro, and has done apparently the i best he could to help the unfortu- J nate man in his troubles. The accident was really due to the improper connection of the saw and engine. The saw automatical ly starts when the engine starts in stead of being under control of the operator of the saw. COUNTY MUST I HAVE ACCOUNTT One of the laws passed by the | recent legislature requires the | commissioners of every county to | appoint an accountant on the first 1 Monday in April. Many counties | of the state have been on a pro j business basis, and sheriff after sheriff faces a deficit. Chatham has practically had j such an official and a most com petent one, though he has been employed by the officials them selves and paid by them, mostly by Sheriff Blair. For five years Mr. T. V. Riggsbee has kept or audited practically all the accounts of the several officials. He is a real. | bookkeeper and the books balance jto a cent. It is pretty safe to say [that if the sheriff of Randolph or |of Harnett had had his services j they would not have been caught in j apparent arrears reaching into the tens of thousands. Mr. Riggsbee fills the require ments of the new law, but the ac countant must be chosen by the county commissioners, and must be a man familiar with modern bookkeeping methods. • MARRIAGE LICENSE The following couples have re ceived license to marry this month: George Robbins, Merry Oaks, and Maie Sauls, Merry Oaks; T. F. Horton, Apex, Rt. 4, and Mildred Merritt, Chapel Hill, Rt. 4. John W. McDaniel, Jr., and Maggie Wil liams, both of Siler City. Mr. Horton and Miss Merritt were mar ried by ’Squire A. E. Cole, who 32 years ago performed the ceremony for the marriage of the parents of the groom. In addition to these foregoing white couples, Tom Scurlock and Daisy Pattishall, col ored, Pittsboro, secured license on March 19th. There seems to be a slump in the marriage business— only four in three weeks. The average North Carolina farm that neglects the home-mak ing idea will generally fail com mercially. * If the home is provid ed with livestock, poultry, garden and farm products with the surplus sold, a real farm home will be de veloped regardless of commern .1 success. - E. D. Purdy’s Philos Many a lesson in history may be learned from a laundry. It cer tainly brings home things never seen before. VOLUME NO. 49 OUTLOOK FOR HOGS IN 1927 _____ Various Reasons Given for the Optimistic View As To Hogs The outlook for swine industry in 1927, is favorable. The indica tions are that hog prices will be maintained throughout the next six months at about the same level of a year ago, and about the same amount of % seasonal movement. Prices during the summer and ear ly fall are likely to continue high, but not quite up to the average of the last six months of 1926. It is anticipated that prices during the winter of 1928 will move to slight ly lower levels than during the past winter. The reason for the above fore cast may be briefly stated as fol lows: 1. The corn belt pig crop of 1926 was about one percent less than the 1925. Cholera losses took a comparatively large toll, especilly from the spring pig crop. Losses from this cause is estimated at about three per cent., which will reduce the available number aver age for market during 1926 and 1927. The hogs on hand Jan. 1, 1927 are somewhat lower than they were a year ago. * 2. Indications are that the great er part of the reductions in market receipts will occur during the win ter months. The reason for this is the highly profitable feeding ratio. As a result hogs will be held back for feeding to heavy weights, and thereby reduce the proportions of total markets dur ing the winter of 1927. 3. A tendency to hold hogs long er for heavy weight will dlso delay the market of the 1926 pig crop and increase the proportions of these in the market receipts dur ing the late summer. 4. In December 1926 the big survey indicated that there was little if any increase in the num ber of sows farrowing in the corn belt in the spring of 1927. With the average weather conditions the spring pig crop in the corn belt will not differ greatly from that of 1926. 5. The present supply of corn will be more than ample. Unless greater reductions in corn acreage are made in 1927 than are nor mally made under similar price conditions even a low yield per v would provide more corn than would be needed for the present number of hogs. 6. Domestic demands for 1927 will in all probability be above the average, but probably slightly lower than in 1926. 7. Foreign demands for pig pro ducts for 1927 will probably be lower than in 1926. Industrial conditions in Great Britain have been improved, but industrial ditions in European countries gen/* erally are not sufficiently differ-* ' ent from last year to indicate an increase in foreign demand for pork and pork products. It would be advisable for farm ers in the cotton belt who can pro duce good yields of corn to con sider increasing, if possible, their hog production to some extent. r CHATHAM HIGHWAYS It is gratifying that the contract for paving the highway from Pitts boro to Chapel Hill is to be let next week. The pavement of that section means continuous hard sur face from a few miles below San ford through Durham to the Vir ginia line. The survey to the Capital short cut is progressing . It is about de termined that the highway will go out the stretch east of the court house and cross the railroad below the depot, re-entering the old road and toward the county home. The new route will vary from the old considerably, crossing Haw River below Moore’s bridge. It will enter route 50 at Apex, which Mr. Clark, the Franklinville booster of this route, declares is too far south. He y wants a 31-mile road from Pitts baM> to Raietgh.
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