North Carolina Newspapers

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 I SIMMONS PRAISES i I CAPE ENTERPRISE! I „ ;nr Senator Has Long ■ genior pveained of Development At Lookout vv gem. Setember 3—The pro- I • Vi t 0 develop the port of Cape 1 I t "lout and build a railroad from I *7 t 0 points in the piedmont in-: m t eU r 0 f the state has been accord [ ter wide interest. Among the eti-j I Aments receded is one from; I v AI Simmons, who has 1 I Senate 1 r - |1 breamed of such a plan. He 'Served in Raleigh Thursday with ; I q rtiror McLean relative to the 1 I I i) reject’ ! t In a letter to Calvin A. Owens, j o nganizer, Mr. Simmons says Cape Lookout can be made a great pro-:, I t ected harbor with a depth of near- ( , v if not quite 40 feet. *‘ The < ena : r’s letter to Mr. Owens I in part follows: !, an enormous expense to the ( Federal government we now have; .;-e jrreat inland waterway connect-1 ( j ro . our state with the chief coastal I cities of the north and east as far a ’ Boston. This great water high- j; wav. one of the greatest and most ambitious schemes ever undertaken I bv any government, will soon be», I extended to Wilmington and thence i the toast to Florida and I eventually t 0 Texas. | ( m' -This island waterway system to [ and through the state measurably I parallels the great north and south . line; which run through North I Carolina, thus giving our state the -.refit f both through rail and in land water transportation between . the North and south. In an effort to limit the effect of this water competition it was to be expected that the competing trunk line rail ways would do all they could to stifle this water competition or lo calize and limit its operation to a small area on either side of its course. “There is significant evidence that the campaign to accomplish this result has already been in augurated and it is greatly feared that if the Interstate Commerce Commission should approve of their initial proposition now pending be fore it they will continue the policy thus inaugurated and ultimately ac- j < c?mulish their purpose, so far as L North Carolina territory is concern- I ed, unless the people by further and i appropriate means shall protect themselves against such an event uality. , "The whole people of North Caro lina are entitled to the benefits of j w ater competition made practical : the construction on the part of the government at great cost of this water way and in the improve ment and development of Cape : Lookout harbor as an ocean port ar i to be placed upon a parity in I ma tter of its freight rates with j l he sister State of Virginia and in j ’ I; ier that this right may be safe- j guarded against artificial restric- j ti ,n 11 would seem apparent that it j ; '' necessary that we provide as J j 'jwed.iy as possible facilities for ( a ' lect eas t and west rail transpor- j; ‘ ■ n concerning our great sea- L° rts ar ‘d the intra-coastal water- ( ' a - W!tn the great middle west. . Vv:t h this accomplished, the ] re gulatory effect of water competi t!i !* will be felt in reduced trans- Pmtation rates throughout the ; whole state. . L ndoubtedly Cape Lookout can made a great protected harbor " 11 ting with the open sea by a - depth of nearly, if not 1 quite > forty feet. * • ; The government has authorized 1 " ! - my term in Congress the 1 appropriation of $3,000,000 to im- ' ar ‘d further enlarge this land- Ch ‘ d harbor. It has already ex •‘- 'h <i a million and a half of this mount and will spend the balance 7 " and more if necessary, when a surances °f a railroad con (uiig ith that harbor are given. I■, ur ' ]n S my term in the Senate inth 6en P r °T° un dly interested l a , ( instruction of this great in ■tent * a^ rway an <l the improve j 1 thl s great harbor and now ai b naturally deeply interested eein f» that all the people of H'e Chatham Record W eeks Becomes Ford Agent Here i . •, Clinton Man Succeeds Bruce Strowd As Representative of Ford Products—To Take Charge September 26th. J. C. Weeks, Jr., of Clinton, will come here Sept. 26, as proprietor of the. Ford business at Pittsboro, suc ceeding Bruce Strowd of Chapel Hill, who for a number of years has conducted the Ford agency at this point as well as that in his home town. Mr. Weeks accepted the agency from the Ford folk two or three weeks ago, and made a purchase agreement with Mr. \ Strowd for the building and ma- j chinery at the same time. Pittsboro’s prospective citizen I has, for several years, held a re- j sponsible position in the Bank of j C hnton, and is a young man of ster- , ling worth. He is a son of J. CJ eeks, Sr., one ot Sampson coun- ! ty s large farm owners. The editor j of the Record has known “J. C.”, Jr., since the latter’s youth, and car, and gladly does, commend him to the people of Chatham county. He is a man of character and of good business sense. He and Mrs. Weeks will prove a real acquisition j to Pittsboro. He is a Methodist, i while Mrs. Weeks, we believe, is a ' Baptist. The latter is a native of Georgia. She is a young woman of culture. Mr. Week’s expects to bring with him as mechanic, Mr. Warren, who for the past ten years has been em ployed in the Vann garage at Clin- j ton, and who knows automobile j mechanics as few men in this sec-! tion does. However, Mr. Weeks ex- ! i pects to retain, for the present at; least, the force already j by the Chatham Motor Company. Deep Sea Fishing In Full Swing The deep sea fishing season will be in full swing in the vicinity of Morehead City and Beaufort about the first of October, according to Captain J. A. Nelson, fisheries com missioner. The fall season is ap proaching and the sport fish from the deep are doing their seasonal moving to within the range of the coast and the sportsmen. The inside summer fishing for trout and smaller fish is passing out and the lovers of big fishing are sheathing their light summer tackles and greasing and limbering up their high caliber machinery, to wrestle with the fighting finny beyond the twelve mile limit, Cap tain Nelson reports. Preparations ai’e already in order in the twin cities of Morehead and Beaufort and a very successful sea son is anticipated for the fall. MRS. M. L. BUCHANAN IS DEAD AT SANFORD Sanford, Sept., 18.—Mrs. Marga ret Love Buchanan one of the most highly regarded women of this town died in her home here Sunday morn ing. She was the wido wof S. H. Buchanan, former banker and real estate dealer. She was 83 years of age and had lived in and near Jones boro all her life. She was loyal to her friends and everybody who knew her loved her. One of the main characteristics of her life was the generous hospitality she ex tended to the well-to-do and the poor alike. Funeral services will be held from the Shallow Well Christian Church Monday afternoon at 3 o’ clock. The service will be conducted by Rev. O. I. Hinson, her pastor, assisted by Rev. Roy Morris, of Sanford. Interment will be made in the church cemetery. Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. J. L. Reid, of Carnegie, Penn. One of every three people in this country earns his living. my state shall be given full bene fit of these wonderful water facil ities and advantages and that what ever may be expedient and neces sary to accomplish and safeguard this result should be done as quick ly as practically possible.” / v : i > PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1927 'P>OY CALLED FROM CHURCH IS KILLED Congregation Is Stunned As It Hears Screams, Punctu ated With Gunshots Murphy, Sept. 16—Called from his place in church by whispered conversation with John Bright, con stable, Wayne Moore, 19-year-old Cherokee county youth, was shot dead a few minutes later within hearing distance of the church which was crowded with people. When members of the congrega ! tion, startled by the sound of pierc- I ing screams and two revolver shots, | rushed from the little church they j j found Moore dead with two bullet j i wounds in his head. Bright had | iled and up to a late hour tonight 1 had not been arrested, although a ; warrant sworn out by the boy’s fa j ther charges him with murder. I Will moore, father of the dead ! youth, declared that the boy was i followed from the church by his ' mother, who pleaded with Bright not to shoot her boy and that the shots that ended his life were fired as the mother tried in vain to hurl, ; herself between the boy and the | flying lead. j The interruption to the little fac tory town Baptist church came just after the minister’s sermon had be£n concluded and he had asked for the young people of the congre gation to come forward and give him their hand and kneel in front of j the altar. Bright was seen to enter the i church, whisper momentarily with I Moore, who got up slowly and fol j lowed him out. Again the heavy : note of the persuading hymn rose from the throats of the congrega tion as the minister renewed his plea. Just as the notes died away and there was a strained silence screams were heard from the dark ness about a hundred yards from the church. The screams were fol lowed, or rather punctuated, by two shots fired close together and then came the heavy silence again as the congregation stood stunned. The people poured out of the building and went in search of the spot from which the sounds had come. Investigation by members of the sheriff’s department has failed to unearth a single clue to the motive for the shooting. A BIT OF PAVING ON HIGHWAY NINETY The indications are that a short distance will be paved on route 90, leading out toward Raleigh. The paving on the Chapel Hill road will reach Pittsboro by October 1, and it seems probable that Zeigler Bros, will be awarded the job of grading and paving a section of 90, at least to the edge of town. It is to be hoped that the rumor is correct and that the work will be done within the next month. \ _________ WORK PROGRESSING ON STATE HIGHWAY NO. 50 Sanford, Sept., 18.—Work is rapidly progressing on State High way No. 50, which is also known as Federal Highway No. 1. This highway is being re-located and straightened from Deep river, seven miles south of Moncure. The con tractors have a large force at work and in a few weeks the work will be completed. It is thought that in the spring this link will be hard surfaced. REORGANIZATION PLAN FOR BANK IS APPROVED Fayetteville, Sept. 16—Unan imous approval of a plan for re organizing the National Bank of Fayetteville, was accorded by di rectors and stock holders of that institution in two separate meetings held here today. The plan was pre sented by its author, Judge Robert G. Finney, of Virginia, financier and lawyer, who for many years hold an important post in the office of , the comptroller of the currency at "Washington. V.'• ' > ' » ,., t Farmers Bank Goes To Moncure *'_v ' ■ S The Farmers Bank has combined forces with Moncure capital and the new bank will be established at Mon cure. The stock of the old bank goes into the new corporation at par and the capital stock is increased to twenty five thousand dollars. The name of the new bank will be The Bank |of Moncure. Matters are at an indefinite stage now but a full and complete state ment will be made by the bank through these columns after 1 the new organization is effected. Baptist Centennial Campaign Launched Last Thursday evening saw about 650 more or less prominent Baptists of the associations of the central section of the state assembled in the dining hall of Meredith College, Raleigh, to launch the Centennial drive for funds to pay the indebted ness of the Baptist schools of the state and afford additional endow ment funds. The next two or three months will see a well organized campaign pushed through the state, when pledges will be secured to be paid in quarterly installments up to 1930, the hundredth year since the ; organization of the Baptist State convention. The campaign in each association will be directed by an associational leader, aided by a lady assistant, with leaders fc.r each of several as sociational groups and for each • church. The leaders for the whole Sandy Creek association are Mr. D. B. Teague of Sanford and Mrs. Sinclair', of the same town. The I leader of the associational division I ‘ of which the Pittsboro church is a : member is Mr. J. L. Griffin. Present from Chatham Thursday evening, enjoying the banquet spread by the State management and the speeches by Drs. Madry, Poteat, and Gaines, the new presi dent of Wake Forest, were Messrs. L. P. Dixon and Dr. Edwards of Siler City, H. A. Teague, and son, Charlie Fields, V. R. Johnson, J. L. Griffin;-and O. J. Peterson, and possibly others. Mr. C.-B. Griffin of Chapel Hill, too, was with the Chatham group. The occasion was a very pleasant one and was particularly enjoyed by the Chatham bunch, who were located near the speakers’ table and had the prettiest senior in the whole college group to serve them. Speakers will invade the county later, presenting the matter of the centennial fund in every church in the association. Retiring President Poteat was given an ovation, while the recep tion of the new Wake Forest presi dent, Dr. Gaines, was almost as en thusiastic. He appears a mere boy, but seems to be a real man. O. P. MAKEPEACE NAMES HIS NEW HOTEL THE CAROLINA Sanford Journal. Mr. O. P. Makepeace has employ ed a manager for his new hotel and the building is being rushed to com pletion with the hope that it can be opened between the first and fif teenth of October. The manager, Archie Cooke, of Burlington, is an experienced hotel man, having had charge of the Burlington Hotel. Mr. Makepeace says that he will not operate a dining room in con nection with the ' hotel, but will operate, a coffee shop for his cus tomers. The shop will be one of the best equipped shops in the state, and will be furnished very attract ively. The name adopted for the new hotel is the “Carolina Hotel.” MOTHER OF BOY IS GIVEN GIRL ——- Cleveland, 0., Sept. 16—While a heart-broken mother lay in a hos pital tonight praying for the return '■ of her “son,” as she nursed a baby' girl, Judge Carl V. Weygrandt; looked forward to a conference to- 1 morrow with masters of the medi cal profession who might aid him in solving a tangle -that would test lie wisdom of a Solomon. i The pressure of business in com mon pleas court, where Judge Wey gandt presides, forced him to post- j pone a personal visit to the hospi-! tal, planned for late taoday, until j Monday. Last Saturday the tangle was brought to the bar of justice in Judge Weygandt’s court whenj Sam Smith father of the child in stituted habeus corpus proceedings: demanding that Fairview Park hos-! i pital officials be forced to rescue his child “George Smith”. Mrs. Smith nursed a baby girl ' ! tonight which hospital officials claim is the child born to her Aug gust 22. They also claim that the tangle resulted from a clerical er ror made at the hospital. But the doubt of a mother is not dispelled by their eplxanation, and the child’s father vowed today that he “would spend every penny I have to strai- j ghten this.” Meantime she possibility that the grand jury may be called upon to probe the case was seen today when County Prosecutor Stanton assured Charles F. McConnell, attorney for Mrs. Smith, that, “the grand jury will make an exhaustive probe with out delay if there is the least bit of evidence of perjury or hint of cri minality in the case.” McConnell told the prosecutor that he was convinced of “perjury in the case.” “At least two wit nesses have not only failed to tell the truth, but have plainly showed that many details of the case are being covered up,” he said. For eight days after the birth of the disputed child, nurses and doc tors told Mrs. Smith that she was the pother of a boy. She then dis covered that the child she"* had in her arms was a girl and hospital officials then explained that it was ; a clerical error. The same day I Mrs. Sam Smith’s baby was born two other women by the name of Smith gave birth to boy babies. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith hold that there was a shuffle of babies and that hospital officials in some manner lost identification of their baby giving it to another mother while they received a girl instead. WANTS STATE HIGHWAY COLERIDGE TO CARTHAGE If you look on a state highway map you will find the two largest areas in central Carolina without a state highway both penetrating Chatham county. Bennett is in one of those sections, while the other includes . the northwestern section of Chatham. Accordingly, it should not be surprising that there is a de mand for a state highway in the first mentioned area. The sug gestion is that the state take over the road from Coleridge, Randolph county through’Bennett and High Falls to Carthage. Four miles of the proposed highway would lie in Chatham. Randolph and Moore county folk are moving for the adoption of this route and Commissioner Brooks has also brought the matter to the at tention of the Chatham board, and himself is anxious,to see Bennett get the benefit of a better road. After all, the state has built comparatively little road in Chat ham, since most of the roads taken over by the state had already been graded by the county with state and Federal aid, and it is to be hoped that the highway commission will take over this proposed road. County and community fairs are being planned for practically every county having a farm and home agent according to reports from these agents. Sweet clover should not be cut or pastured so low that no. branches are left on the main stem.^. I _/ ; Fireproof Barns To Cure Tobacco ’ i State College Professor Starts [ Movement For Their Erection; To Replace Old Type j Fireproof tobacco barns to re ! place the present type of log struc ; ture will probably become a reality in the bright leaf tobacco belt, if the research plans developed at State College in conjunction with j the Oxford experiment station are | satisfactorily completed. Prof. A. F. Graves-Walker, head of the ceramic engineering school j of State College, started the move- j ment one month ago with an article in Progressive Farmer on the ad | vantages of fireproof structures for curing tobacco. In regard to the experiments which will be conducted at Oxford. : Prof. Graves-Walker said today, j j “the 75 fireproof barns that have already been erected in this State I have demonstrated both their su- I j ; periority as to fire resistance, and ; the superiority of the tobacco cured in fireproof barns. The object of, the experimental work is to deter mine scientifically the best mate rial for the construction of fire- j proof barns, and to determine the exact degree to which tobacco | cured in fireproof barns is superior | to that cured in old-fashioned loj* j barns.” j I The experiment at Oxford will be ; conducted jointly by the engineer ing experiment station of State College and the agricultural ex j periment station. The plan is to I j have the manufacturers of brick, 1 I hollow tile, and cement to furnish the material for the barns. , Speci men structures will be built of these various materials under the direction of Dr. H. B. Shaw and Prof. A. S. Graves-Walker, of the engineering station, and curing , tests will be made under direction jof Dr. R. Y. Winters and E. G. | Moss, of the agricultural station. ; The farm at Oxford is equipped | with old style lok and frame tobac j co barns at present, and the re sults from these barns will be com { pared with those from the different J types of fireproof barns. It is ex- j ! pected that it will be two years be ■ fore the experiment is completed. According to Prof. Graves-Wal ker, the project includes the im ; mediate distribution of standard I plans for fireproof structures made of brick, hollow tile, or hollow ce j ment. From 70 to 120 wooden barns burn up every year in the State of North Carolina, causing great loss es to farmers, for, in addition to losing their investment in the barn, a fire there leaves them unable to j j dry their crop. An additional sav-! | ing will result from the fact that j much less fuel will be required in j a fireproof barn with tight walls. | In recent years the price of such ' building materials has decreased so ! much that the proposed fireproof barns will cost little if any more than wooden barns at the present price of lumber, j $-m- PEONY SHIPMENTS NOW GOING FORWARD Jonesboro, Sept., 18—Fifty thous and plants were shipped to Michi j gan last week from the Peony farm | near Sanford. The owners, James land W. R. Medlin, J. D. McPherson | and Arch McPherson, have been i raising peonies on their farms for a number of years, and are now getting a profit from the roots on plants as well as the flowers. Dr. J. A. Knapp, of Evansville, Indi ana, came to this section a few years ago and upon discovering that the soil would grow these beau tiful flowers to perfection had Messrs. Medlin and Mr. and Mrs. McPherson cultivate them. They have been shipping them to north ern cities in large quantities every spring and have made a profit growing them. Buy Land For Dairy Charlotte—Mecklenburg County Commisisoners today purchased for $6,000, 60 acres of land adjoihing the County Tuberculosis ’Sana torium. The land to be developed as a site for a dairy. VOLUME NO. 49 =g"" ■ - DOUGHBOYS ARE i OVER THERE General Pershing And Th<M»» sands Os Buddies In France Paris, Sept., 16. —General Persb jing and his doughboys are back hi France again. Tonight Paris is : literally filled with wartime tune*, I “Madelon,” and “Over There,” a ad the French people have turned back j to those days of lDlf when Europe made the acquaintance of the Yank uniform. This time Yank— 3o,ooo of him, they say is in “Cits,” and there isn't a man in all Europe to prevent him, as he goes about the job of seeing France as a civilian. ! All Paris has caught the cami- * val spirit that this second A. E. F. has brought and the whole country looks forward to taking a holiday Monday when American Legion naires parade through the capital ; before opening their convention on soil they helped to save ten years - j ago. General Pershing and 1,6000 of - men he commanded during the war, arrived today at Cherbourg l aboard the Leviathan, greatest of wartime transports. ■ Other thous- " l ands landed at French ports during jthe night and today on other ships, ; and still more thousands of their buddies had reached Paris before j them. Those that had known Paris in wartime when it was gay but not bright, came back to find more / lights than they had any idea the city could produce. Not only were the street lights burning brightly tonight, but thousands of others were strung to make a Franco-Am erican holiday. Many of them were so arranged that they spelled the word “Welcome,” and everywhere 1 in the city buildings displayed the Stars and Stripes and Tricolor. ! Along great avenues and in the more famous squares of the capital ! high white posts have been placed ;by the government to carry addi ; tional emblems of red, white and j blue. | HIGHWAY COMMISSION i DENIES DEBT TO LACY Raleigh, Sept. 16 —The highway commission tcday denied obligation to pay C. W. Lacy, Wilmington road contractor, $150,133 for removal of dirt from ditches along highways in Gates and Pasquotank counties. Lacy recently filed suit against 1 the state in suprme court alleging ! that he removed 150,133 yards of i dirt from ditches, for which ho | was under contract with the high iway commission for $1 per yard. I The suit was started in supreme ; court which could only reccommend that payment be made the plaintiff. The answer was filed today. The state highway commission does not deny the contract price per yard, but denies the contract was made as alleged by Lacy. It was stated in the answer that 40' cents per yard for dirt for road building was named in the contract and that | the commission had paid the plain ! tiff all due him. The manner in which the dirt was removed from the ditches and placed on the road i had considerable part in the com | pla fait. MONEY FROM TOBACCO IS BENEFIT TO TRADE Goldsboro, Sept., 18. —Goldsboro merchants are optomistic as to the fall busfness generally for ' thss section . Mounting sales show a tangible result of the large amount of money paid over to the farmers for tobacco sold on this market. Over a quarter of a million dollars have been thus checked out for tobacco during the ten days on which sales have been conducted this season. Statistics Saturday showed that sales this season to date have been in excess of one third more than the sales for tb# same period last year. Never judge a man's greatness by the opinion his neighbors bar# of him.