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E , tA BI ISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 ■Prospects for IfURNITURE PLAT P ,,i:,t Manufacturer I nterested - Engineer To | ome __Pitlsboro Folk to Be \iked to Take Stock. | pffrSBORO ADMIRABLE i location FOR factory I oak and Cedar of the County I Afford Mach Adequate Material. w s> d. Johnson, who sees I possibilities for Pittsboro as I point and is constant- I the outlook for means of de- I Sloping the town and county, hav- I Wteterested a High Point Furm- I Zi manufacturer, hafc received I fetters recently which indicate I 1- the gentleman is more than I willing 1 to meet Pittsboro folk halt I *Ten or fifteen days ago, a brief I note indicated that an engineer I * , u ld be sent to look over the field, week a long letter, dated I August 12. was received, which is given below. •Supplementing our letter of the tenth regarding the organization , furniture plant for your city, U i would suggest that you see f me 0 f your leading citizens and f those who would likely be inter red in taking stock in a proposi nd before our engi neer calls to see you. By doing this it will be an easy matter to get a number of your citizens to gether and go over the proposition in detail. “You are of course aware of the fact that the manufacture of fur niture can be started on either a small or large scale, depending on the amount of capital that could bp nisei For your information there are 'ome lines of furniture very much in demand that would not re quire a great deal of capital. How ever. sh'»ukl you desire to go into the manufacture of bed room or dining r, . m furniture this of course would require more capital. d e trust that you will take this mat: r up with some of your lead ing citizens and advise us just how they feel a out the proposition and Me w;li be very glad to have one f t oui engineers call and see you i immediately thereafter.” -or. Johnson stated Monday i •mg that he had already talked | with several leading citizens and i -hat all had expressed a willingness to do what they can, and he has written the High Point promoter send along his engineer, it being l ' i;fe Purpose when he comes to call a meet ing of citizens and discuss the situation. Pittsboro is an admirable point fcm the location of a furniture I'h-mt. As the Record has insisted, shiham is one of the best timber counties in the state. True, many ' e ‘ '°‘ tutting have depleted the a ‘Ppl. considerably, but the new }, apid and constant, and tae *' ire hazard is practically nil. P- audition to the constantly re producing growth of oak, the cedar tvould supply ma ce plant making chests “ f ' -r appropriate articles. For Jarvis Boone esti ,i‘du ' ic;t h e has bought and ship- L ■■’!! cedar logs the past year. • out the three car loads ogs ranging from five * •> inches in diameter at ’d. and Mr. Boone is only r.i-, Pper of cedar among while from other poir *5 i Minty much cedar is 1 i SWIMS 1 \KE W ACC AM AW ‘a Gregg, charming j J. D. Gregg of Li ‘y of this county, won • ew days ago by fj v ‘ 1 a across Lake Waccamaw, kind the first feat of the for „ * tc ° !( * e d- With that record sonn -" tarLer » the young lady should t li'h v dble to com P e te with Eng channel swimmers. X Kp Chatham Record Rogue Wrecks Car West of Pittsboro X Two Other Negroes In Limbo For Helping Him Escape The Officers. A negro whose name escapes ev ery informant as to the mattei stole a car from the grounds of a negro church several miles west of Pitts boro Sunday, drove it into an ob struction and wrecked, and then had the effrontery to go back to the church. A small boy, it is stated, identified him as the man who drove away the car and the fellow was given a good beating. Later he was taken away in a car by Thomas Mitchell. The com plaint had reached Deputy J. T. Johnson and he undertook to arrest the rogue. Mitchell prevented the arrest. Another negro, George Chamber, cranked Mitchell’s car and told him to go ahead. Johnson informed Sheriff Blair by telephone and that officer headed him off as he came toward Pittsboro. In the meantime the rogue had left the car and taken to the woods. Mit chell undertook to resist the offi cer and got a pop on the head. Be ing tamed he was lodged in jail on the charges of assisting the other negro to escape and resisting ar rest himself. Chambers also was put under bond for his part in the escape. —— ‘ | SCHOOL MASTERS’ CLUB FOR CHATHAM At a meeting of the High School principals and superintendents with Prof. Thompson and Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, Tuesday August Bth, it was unanimously decided to or ganize a School Masters’ Club for Chatham county. The organization | was perfected as follows: . Mr. J. ; S. Waters, Pres.; Mr. J. H. Moore, Vice Pres.; Supt. W. R. Thompson, general counselman; Mr. W. G. Coltrane, to serve with the Pres, and Vice Pres., as program com mittee, and Mr. H. G. Self, re porter. All superintendents, principals, and mail teachers of the high schools of the county are eligible for membership in this club. The first meeting of the organization is to be held in Supt. Thompson’s j office at Pittsboro, 8:00 p. m., Sept. 10th. The purpose of the organization is to bring about closer coopera tion between the schools of the county and to work out a uniform ! and standard system ,for the va i rious activities of school work. To show the needs of such uniformity, it was learned that the passing mark in the different schools va ried from 60 percent in some schools to 75 percent in others. It was readily agreed, however, that a passing mark of 60 percent in some schools might be even higher than one of 75 percent in others since there exists no uniform sys tem of marking and testing. A part of the time for each meet ing wall be given to such routine matters of business as may come before the club, and a part of it will be given to the study of some pure ly professional topic. The club expects to have meet with it, from time to time, some of the leading educators of the state to assist the local talent in working out the professional problems that may be undertaken. It is felt that such an organiza tion as this is a most progressive step toward increasing the efficien cy and usefulness of the schools of the county, and it is realized by the members of the club that its possi bilities are unlimited. Reporter. Insures Employes. The Carolina Power and Light Company, through a contract with ' the Metropolitan Life Insurance, has provided life insurance for its employees on the cooperative plan. Under the contract each employee who has been with the company at least six months is insured without cost to himself for §SOO. This con tract, effective July 31, covered im mediately 1,700 employees and will ultimately cover the 2,200 men in ‘ the employ of the company in 350 communities. <v , * PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 1927 THE TRAINS ARE OFF A. & Y, Star Route Is Established Between Greensboro and Sanford The much mooted question of taking off one of the trains on the A. & Y. R. R. has been settled and the train is off. The train removed formerly left Sanford early in the morning and returned from Mt. Airy late in the evening. The railroad claimed to be losing by its operation at the rate of $50,- 000 a year. The bus service had cut its passenger business to the bone. Mount Airy was most con cerned and is not yet reconciled. Siler City was concerned chiefly for its mail service and is satisfied by the establishment of a star mail line running from Greensboro to Sanford early in the morning and back to Greensboro in the evehing, just reversing the routing of the train taken off. The order of the corporation commission authorizing the discon tinuance of the train directed that it should not be discontinued till the star routes were established. But no time was lost. An immed iate order came from C. F. Honey cutt, of the railway mail service , putting into effect the Greensboro- Sanford route and also one from Greensboro to Mount Airy. The new star routes began operating Monday, and Sunday saw' the last of the trains ordered discontinued. An order w'as also made directing the railroad to carry an express car on a freight from Mount Airy to Greensboro. With the new’ schedules in effect, ; mail from Pittsboro for points on the A. & Y. which is too late to go by the Durham-Pittsboro-Siler City mail truck to Siler City, should be sent north by that bus at 1 p. m., thus reaching Greensboro in time to come down early the next morn ing and be delivered, say at Golds ton, at 7 or 8 o’clock. Automobile Accidents Must Be Reported Don’t forget when you are in an automobile wreck, or collission if you come out alive that it is your duty to report the accident to the Motor Vehicle Bureau, Raleigh, within 48 hours. If the driver of the car is killed then it becomes the duty of any companion escaping alive to make the report. If you cannot get the regulation blank, re port at once, and if further infor mation is required by the bureau, it can send you the blank. The sheriff also has to make a report, and it is no small job, as there are 33 questions and one of these re quires 16 answers. All sheriffs would appreciate an immediate re port of the facts in accidents where any one is injured to him or a dep uty at once. There is a penalty, jail or fine, for not making report, in both the case of the sheriff and of the occupants of the car in which an injury occures. Commissioners In Session. The county commissioners were in session Tuesday going over with tax supervisor J. S. Wrenn the com plaints registered. There are about 300 registered complaints. Some are based on errors in acreage. The most, of course, are against the new valuation. It was guessed that a change is being made in one in about every five or six. Mr. Jas. Murphy Dies at Bynum Mr. James Murphy, aged about •50, died Sunday at Bynum. Death w r as due to tuberculosis, with which malady Mr. Murphy has suffered quite a while. The burial was at Mt. Gilead Baptist church Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy came to Bynum several years ago from Rockingham 'county. Besides the wife several children survive. Have 50-pound pigs treated for cholera. Brooks-Marsh Clans | Hold Yearly Reunion Between Two Hundred and Three Hundred Attend Gathering at Old Brooks Home Near Bonlee Greensboro, News, August 12: The Brooks and Marsh families re union at the old Isaac Brooks home stead near Bonlee, Chatham county yesterday was a decided success despite the fact that it rained steadily for most of the day, ac-j cording to those from this city at tending the gathering. The clan, closely related families,began gath ing at 10 o’clock and by noon be tween 200 and 300 people were on the premises, looking over and in specting the historic old building which was erected about 1756. On these same premises General Na thanael Greene and his forces were encamped one night while in pur suit of Lord Cornwallis after his retreat from the battle of Guil ford Court house. General Wil liam Washington, one of Greene’s trusted subordinates, spent that night in the Brooks house. The Brooks grist mill nearby operated throughout the night grinding grain for the continental troops. A number of counties in North Carolina were represented at yes terday’s reunion and one of the main features of the day was a talk by Mrs. John A Beall, of Atlanta, a direct descendent of Josiah Brooks, who moved from Chatham county to Georgia in 1832. Mrs. Beall featured the Brooks families of Georgia and her talk was of mark ed interest to those present. Other talks were made by Rev. Charles V. Brooks, of Goldsboro; Rev. Mr. Keller, of Jonesboro; Dr. and Mrs. Brooks, of Durham; Dr. Clyde Gil more, of Greensboro, and others. Frank A. Brooks, this city, one of the owners of the old homestead, was present and in a short talk wel comed the gathering to the old home. He also read a very inter esting paper on the family history, it having been compiled from notes left by his father, T. T. Brooks,who died here in 1926. •A cue was/Jserved at Mount Vernon springs £nd many old time plan tation sojTigs were sung by the choir of the Bdnlee Baptist church. Before adjournment, it was un animously voted to keep the old homestead intact and in the family and to hold the Brooks and Marsh reunion there every year. Fatal Accident; f ‘ Bus Driver Held Everett Fisher, driver of one of the bus line passing through Pitts boro, is under 500 bond for man slaughter, the charge growing out of an accident at a Durham cross ing Sunday, when the bus rammed a small car containing three ne groes, killing one and very serious ly injuring another occupant of the negro car, and causing injuries to four white passengers on the bus. j A passenger stated to a Durham; Herald reporter that the bus was ; going at the rate of 40 miles an j hour, but Fish thought it was go- j ing at a moderate speed. The car is said to have had the right of way, but was not seen by the bus driver till too late to avoid a col lission. The car was driven twen ty feet against a telegraph pole The bus was turned over and had all its windows broken out by the crash or by passingers trying to get out. This is the first serious accident that has occurred since the estab lishment of the bus fine two years ago. Mr. Fish, is known in Pittsboro as “Country Boy,” D. C. Beard hav ing named him thus when he first! came through, and it is only since the accident that his real name is generally known on Pittsboro Main street. He is a genial young man. This writer has ridden with him several times, and found him a good driver. In fact, we know of even no minor accident that he has had previous to the unfortunate one of Sunday. One gallon of paint will cover about 500 square feet of surface. FIELDS WINS FROM CREDIT CO. In Case Against Piedmont Credit Co. for Usury; Other Court News Among the comparatively few cases finally disposed of during the two-weeks term of court which clos- j jed here Friday, was that of W. G. ■ Fields against the Piedmont Credit Company of Siler City, in which the plaintiff sought recovery of SSOO deducted from the face value of a note. The note made to “the bearer” was carried to the Piedmont Credit Company by Attorney A. C. Ray, and the company set up the defense that? it bought the note from Mr. Ray. The face value was $2,500.00, and the company gave $2000.00 for it. It was adequately secured by mortgage. Ray was made a co defendant with the company, the plaintiff Fields complaining that he had borrowed money on the note and that Ray, his attorney, did not own the note nor was authorized to peddle it. The defense contended that they I bought it and were within their le (j gal rights in getting it for $2,000. :»| Judge Grady, however, pronounced j it a clear case of usury and allowed , Fields credit for the shortage on ■ the face of the note. Commission [ ers were appointed and authorized ' by His Honor to sell the property and discharge the debt if the plain • tiff should not settle it within 30 i days. J. A. and Wade Barber are the commissioners. Mr. Giles, who now lives at Chapel Hill, represen ted Mr. Fields, and Siler and Bar . ber the Piedmont Credit Co. The Branson will case, in which certain slighted kin, sought to set [ aside the will as a forgery, was compromised, the caveators being allowed a third of the real estate. The suit of Simon Alston against , j Lacy Johnson, former Pittsboro po j 1 iceman, for SIO,OOO damage for the j death of his son which /Occurred a few days after Johnson had shot young Alston when several negroes appeared to be attempting to take a j prisoner away from him, was con- I tinued to another term. " I ' Chatham High School Principals Organize The principals of Chatham coun ty high schools met Thursday of last week, with Supt. Thompson and High School Inspector J. H. Highsmith, and organized. Prin cipal Waters of the Pittsboro school was chosen chairman of the ses sion, Moore of Goldston, vice-chair man, and Coltrane of Siler City chairman of the program commit tee. The club will meet here next on the evening of September 8. OIL MILL ENLARGING ITS OPERATING PLANS The Chhtham Oil and Fertilizer I Company is preparing for enlarged I operations the coming season. Mr. j W. Ellington, who has been super ! intendent of the flayton mill, has come to Pittsboro as superintend ent. The mill will open about the 15th of September, considerably earlier than in recent years, and it is planned to operate the oil and i fertilizer departments, altogether, j eight months, running 24 hours a j day, instead of 12 hours as last j season. The extended period of operation i and the double shift of workers j will more than double the output, it is stated by Mr. E. Hinton, sec retary and treasurer of the com pany. Mr. Hinton will be assisted in the ! office by Mr. George Brooks, Ju nior, who for the past year or two j has been working for the Seaboard i Air Line. It has been more than twenty one years since the editor of the Record left Lumberton, but when last week’s Record appeared a local stated that/‘Prof. J. H. Highsmith, high school inspector, was a “LunU berton visitor Tuesday.” Subcon sciousness had evidently come to the top, Pittsboro At Crossing ! Os 2 Great Highways Numbers 75 and 90, Each Sweep ing Across the State, Cross at Right Angles Here Pittsboro is now at the crossing of two main highway arteries as the highways are renumbered. No. 75, which has turned at right an gles here and extended westward | after coming down from the Vir j ginia line, under the new number ing absorbs number 53 from Pitta boro to Sanford, number 74 from Sanford to Carthage and old high way No. 702 from Carthage to Pinehurst, and highways 512 and 51 from West End through Ellerbee to Rickingham, thus becoming a north and south highway practical ly from the Virginia to the South Carolina line. Number 90, born by the adoption of the Jenks road from Pittsboro to highway 50 near Apex, absorbs old 75 from Pittsboro westward and thus becomes the shortest and most direct route from the state capital to the mountain counties. No. 90 is next to No. 10 in length, now having its eastern termination at Roanoke Island and its western at I Lenoir in Caldwell county. | New numbering signs are being i placed on No. 90 further west, and I ere long the signs “90” will be di -1 recting travelers from the sea 1 shore to the mountains. . i ■! PRELIMINARY WORK ON NEW HOPE BRIDGE BEGUN 1 ! Preliminary work has begun on 1 the New Hope Bridge project, on Highway 90, near Seaforth. This 1 ! is the fourth big bridge project in ' j Chatham county this season. The ' contract which was let some time ! ago invok* js a cost of more than L §30,000. he bridge will be on the : very site of the present bridge, ; which fact necessitates the con ' struction of a temporary bridge by the contractors and will considerab ; i ly augment the cost of construc tion. It is supposed that the new ■; bridge, which will be of concrete, • will be practically the same length 1 and height of the old one. The length is considerable for a stream ■ j the size of New Hope, as the New Hope flows through a flat country j and the water spreads over a con ! siderable width when the stream is up. It is more like a down-country i stream than the typical Chatham county stream. ! Woman’s Missionary Os Sandy Creek Baptist Association Bonlee, August 11—The annual j meeting of the Woman’s Mission ary union of the Sandy Creek Bap j tist association was held today with I the Bonlee Baptist church. Rep- I resentatives from practically all of the churches in the association were present. The association includes churches in Chatham, Lee, Moore and Randolph counties. The meeting opened at 10 o’clock and lasted until well into the after noon, dinner being served by the ladies of the Bonlee church. The 1928 meeting will be held with the Baptist church at Jones boro. The following officers were elect ed: Superintendent, Mrs. June Gunter, of Sanford; assistant sup j erintendent, Mrs. Gunn, of Sanford; secretary, Mrs. E. Nall, of Sanford; treasurer, Mrs. Oliver, of Sanford; junior superintendent. Mrs. E. W. j Byerly, of Bonlee, and W. Y. A. and i G. A. superintendent, Mrs. Boone, | of Sanford. Mrs. Charles U. Harriss, of Ra leigh, who is state corresponding secretary of the W. *M. U. ,address-1 ed the, meeting at the morning session, making a very worthwhile | talk on the work of the organiza j tion and pointing out definite ways ; of increasing the service rendered. In the afternoon, the young wom en of the Bonlee Baptist church gave a demonstration, which con sisted of a two-act playlet. The first scene showed an associational meeting and the second a home scene. Good farmers use pure seeds and pure breeds to underwrite respect able annual profits. VOLUME NO. 49 BEGIN DRIVE TO TESTHEADUGHTS Police Officers Called On Ttf Enforce New Automotive Headlight Law Raleigh, August 12.—Letter** have been sent out from the High way* Commission to police chief* and county sheriffs asking them to enforce the new automotive head light bill passed by the 1927 Leg islature. Around 500 headlight testing stations have been set up over the State, the letter poined out, and ample opporunity given car owners to have their headlights tested. Strict enforcement of th elaw was urged. Police officers are familiar with the. fact that blinding head lights are responsible for a big per centage of accidents at night, H. K. Witherspoon, assistant to the chair man, pointed-out, and hence have given the law their hearty support from the first. A large number of motorists have taken advantage of the test ing station to have their automobile lights properly adjusted, he stated, but there are still a large number who have not complied with the new law. The letters, which were mailed yesterday to police chiefs and sheriffs, urge them to see that all cars in their territory have head lights'properly adjusted, and bear on the windshield the certificate required there by law. “NUMBER NINETY.” The Lexington Dispatch. Road signs between Lenoir and Pittsboro will probably continue to inform the traveler he is on N. C. Highway 75. These are perfectly good signs and can serve their pur pose for awhile yet without chang ing. We have become accustomed to speak of “75” rather frequent ly, for it has been a subject upper most in the community mind for the past two or three years. But if one would be officially correct now the road must be called “Num ber Ninety.” And it is better so. No. 75 is most often thougiit of now as the most direct way from the Blue Ridge to Raleigh, where as in fact it turns almost due north from Pittsboro and trails off to the Virginia line. As “Number Ninety” it will symbolize the connecting of the seacoast with the foot of the mountain by the most direct stato highway, North Carolina’s second i „ longest thoroughfare, yet so well routed that it touches only fifteen in a distance of nearly 450 miles. It goes almost directly across the middle of thirteen coun ties, crosses the corner of another and has its western terminus in the heart of the fifteenth. It goes Tyrrell, Washington, Martin, Edge clear across the counties of Dare* combe, Nash, Wake, Chatham, Randolph, Davidson, Davie, Iredell and Alexander, crosses the southern tip of Franklin and runs to the county seat of Caldwell. Some of the picturesque names of points along the way are Scuppernong, Heartsease, Eagle Rock, Cedar Falls, Pleasant Grove and Spring Hope, all of which sound inviting to the weary traveler. MORE MINERS FOR COAL GLEN MINE (Sanford Express) Sixteen miners and their families arrived here Wednesday morning over the Seaboard from Florida. They went from here to Coal Glen, where they take work in the mine of the Carolina Coal Company. Four more miners arrived from Birming ham, Ala., that night, making all told 20 added to the working force of the Carolina mine. The company now has more than 150 men em ployed in the mine. The daily out put is increased as fast as new min ers can be added to the working force. / , Your cooperation with the Fair manager means education and en lightment to your . neighbors and friends throughout the county.