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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 HARD COAL FIELD BEING OPENED BY CHATHAM FOLK n Millions of Tons of Superior loa i Near Surface in Tract Now Being In , stallt^o- YVhat appears to be a rich 1 coa l field is now being exploit ed by a company composed of Chatham county people. Some thin* Hke fifty tons of high arade coal has already been taken from the mine by wheel barrow method, but machinery j. be incr installed to operate up on a commercial scale. The product is a superior coal, ■ alyzing 79 to 81 per cent, carbon, - ,-*6 per cent, volatile matter, and ' ,lv 15 per cent. ash. The State College chemist making the analys j; , ta t es that the analysis indi anthracite coal. The grade , altogether superior to that of the Cumnock and Coal Glen products, it appears, and ranks high among fuel coals. The editor of the Record, in Siler City Saturday, found Mr. W. T. Dorsett testing the coal in a stove. The coal was there to show for it self. hard and glittery- A fire started on Friday morning, and oc casionally replenished with a few M lumps of coal, was burning with a steady glow. The mine, according to Mr. Dor sett. is on a 640-acre tract willed by the late Oliver Newland to his grandchildren, including Mr. Dor sett's own four children and those of Prof. I. C. Blair of Raleigh. A one forth undivided interest was bought by John Gardner. The ope rating company is composed of W. A. Jones, of Gulf, president, A. J. Dorsett, of Raleigh, secretary and treasurer, W. R. Dorsett, of Ra leigh. Mrs. M. M. Fox and Mrs. J. E. Marley, of Siler City, and Enos Blair of Raleigh. The company has leased the min eral rights for 12 years from ex ecutor of the Xewland estate and the Garner estate. The tract lies, on Deep River about two miles north of Carbon ton, and about one mile from the Norfolk and Southern railroad. The coal taken from the field | I thus far has been taken from the frve-foot stratum jutting out twen-i ty feet below the ordinary land ifvel under a bluff overhanging a Mnall stream. But as there is j -iiuught to be danger from over- I; o\\ it the mine should be opened ! from this end, the plans are to sink | a 'haft trom the top of the bluff,! r.n 20 feet to the coal stratum, j Machinery on a small scale is being I I'frced tor the uplift of the coal and ' screening and loading. fr is estimated that there are 3,- OOu.ooo tons of coal readily access j^ e unc ier the tract, judged from -ngs. The stratum slopes to- Va <. the river, but so gradually it is deemed that the deepest j Part is only 200 feet under the surface. Tories, the president of the company, is a miner of long expe le‘lCe ‘ knows Pennsylvania ~ lne> ’ and h a d long experience at h this, as indicated, is truly an raJ’ te coa l it is unique in the „ Ut ’ and if the quantity is such fi fp U(^u o importance of the * s °* a irnost inestimable value, Jr( ling, as it would, an abund jjJ 6 of fuel right in the ait "1 the industrial district of the state. IN THE BRICE OF GINNING * Tl b an j le a<lvoi 'tisement of the Chat . ! ' a : Fertilizer Company <i&u y been printed when we 07 change in prices. In ‘ *-S(i Qt N < r-/ k i ? |4 do ° 38 reads * le P iace and v! ' ' a ' e ’ rncluding bagging to J'° Uld So bad to listen have to sa y if the y not h y ° U sonK? thing you had too. octr tefore and in less time T ’*c Chatham Record Says Women Will ■j Keep America Dry Went To the Mat To Get Sobriety And Will Win, Declares George Mansfield New York, Oct. 10—“ The Ameri can women ‘went to the mat' to get more soberiety,” declares George Mansfield in the first issue of “The New Age Illustrated,” “and despite a perfectly terrible fuss over the. deprivation, made by a lot of' per sistent ‘serious drinkers,” the cold i facts as they now gradually shape (themselves, are that America is slcwly but surely drying, and that 1 . there is not a chance that liquor can come back,” ‘‘We will have to face the fact,” , writes Mr. Mansfield, “that in a country like America, where we really respect women and offer them a chance to shape civilization according to woman’s ideas, as well as to man’s liquor and women’s self-respect, welfare, and safety do not hitch together.” The writer in the new magazine points out that “the American wom an first become conscious of her ; political serength in facing the li quor question; and first became j aware through it that she needed \ the ballot to aid her if one of her vital interests should become en dangered. Let us grant,” he con tinues, “it to be the truth that wom en, since attaining the vote, have 1 not shown so much interest as men in ordinary politics. The fact re mains that she wants the ballot as a flint-lock musket hung over her j fire-place to snatch down if the | deepgoing special interests of worn- j en or their offspring are very se- j riously endangered. “It looks as if Mother Eliza Thompson, Frances Willard, Carry A. Nation and the great majority of women of both yesterday and today j have got us men, with our age-old j weakness for strong drink, backed ! in a corner. We have been making j one gorgeous obstreperous fuss; over it, but the facts seem to in» j dicate that mother knows best.” r NEGRO KILLED ' ; IN COAL MINE A Negro miner was accidentally j killed at Coal Glen Thursday. A | cable broke on a car. He juriiped j out and was crushed between tim bers. He was taken at once to a Sanford hospital but died immed iately after arriving. The unfortu nate man was a South Carolinian. P. T. ASSOCIATION HAD A GOOD MEETING OCTOBER 7 The Parent-Teacher Association had a most enthusiastic and enjoy able meeting on Oct. 7. Splendid reports were made by the committees and grade mothers. Thirteen new members were re ported. Committees were appointed and other plans made for the annual Hallowe’en carnival. Mrs. H. A. Bynum reported that the work of the public school music teacher had begun and that one les son each week was being given the seven grades of the primary and elementary school. The association was most pleas ingly entertained by Dr. R. M. Far rell and Miss Annie Bryan with violin pieces and by Mrs. H. A. Bynum and Miss Emily Taylor with vocal selections. The children of the Ist and 2nd grades interpreted several nursery stories in costumed acting. The delegates to the state con- j gress to be held at Charlotte were appointed as follows: . Mrs. .0. J. Peterson, Mrs. Wm. Hunt, ; Miss Bertha Coletrane, Mr. J. S. Waters. Literal Len “I’m striking a happy medium,” said the detective as he hit the fake spiritualist over the head. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCT. 13,1927 j JOHNSON WINS IN J SIO,OOO SUIT . i | Former Pittsboro Policeman ! Sued For Killing Negro, Wins in Orange Court. Lacy Johnson, former police chief of Pittsboro, who was sued by Simon Alston for SIO,OOO, under arrest and bail procedure, for kill ing Alston’s son while the officer ! was in performance of his duty as ! police officer, w’as cleared by an j Orange county jury last Satur .• day. Johnson had been cleared of the criminal charge immediately after the shot which proved fatal, but the ! father of the dead man was not : satisfied and brought suit under ar rest and bond proceedings for the i sum of SIO,OOO damages. It seems that no Chatham county lawyer would take Alston’s case, and he employed R. O. Everett of Durham, who at the last term of criminal court here, on the ground c ’ prejudice indicated by the failure to secure a Chatham attorney, se cured a removal of the case to Or | ange county. ! The case was set for last Thurs i day and a crowd of Chatham citi zens were summoned as witnesses, i chiefly of the character of the de , fendant. The case was not reached | Thursday and only late Friday, making it necessary for the attor neys and witnesses to go the third day, Messrs. W. P. Horton, D. L. Bell, and A. C. Ray appeared for John | son, and R. O. Everett, of Durham and Graham of Hillsboro for Als ton. The defense was also assisted i by Gattis and Gattis of Hillsboro.* After three days’ attendance by i two score leading citizens of the | county only a few were allowed to testify. Two speeches were made on each side. Messrs. Bell and Horton spoke for the defendant, and Ever- I ett and Graham for the plaintiff. Messrs. Horton and Bell are said | to have made very able addresses. I Anyway, the jury rendered aver- I diet in favor of the defense in short | order. ; James L. Branson Passes At His Home Near Staley Liberty, Oct., —James L. I Branson, 62, died at his home 3 miles south of Staley last night about 9 o’clock. The deceased had been in ill health for the past two years, and his death was not un expected. He was a farmer and had lived in this community all his life. He was a member of Reho beth Methodist Episcopal Church, having joined that church many years ago. Funeral services were held from Bethany Church and interment made in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Ida Bridgers; eight children, Lula Jo seph, Cecil, Mary, Dora and Daisy Branson, all at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Branson; two sisters, Mrs. Levi Lindley and Mrs. J. A. Coltrain, and one brother, Randolph Branson. CAMPAIGN WORKERS TO HAVE WORKERS FRIDAY The leaders in the Baptist Cen tennial campaign of the Sandy Creek Association are to have a supper at the Sanford Baptist church tomorrow evening, Friday, Oct. 14. At this meeting the work of the campaign for the raising of the Sandy Creek’s share of the $1,500,000 fund to be raised for the i Baptist colleges of the state will be inaugurated. The chairman from each church is invited to attend, also the chair men of the several groups of | churches in to which the associa tion is divided for campaign pur poses. Mr. J. L. Griffin is chair man at Pittsboro, Charlie Fields at Bynum, L. P. Dixon at Siler City. Other names are not known. i 1— It is all right to play an indoor game, provided you don’t play to hurt the fellow on the out side. O’Briant Apparently , Had Planned Suicide Durham Man, Held For Murder, l Had Made Rope of Sheet And Tied It To Ceiling. ; v ( Durham, Oct., 9—An apparent at , tempt on the part of Walter D. O’Briant, charged with the murler of Mrs. Sallie D. Smith Williams, to commit suicide in his cell in the county jail was frustrated by fel low prisoners who took a rope made from him while he was in the act of 1 form him while he was in the act of fastening it to the ceiling. For more than an hour, after his i effort at self-destruction had been , | , frustrated, he raved like a maniac, at times howling only to burst into tears and then suddenly break out in boisterous laughter. O’Briant, who made twoo other at tempts at self-destruction, including j the first one when, after sending ! a bullet crashing into the body of | Mrs. Williams he turned the gun ! upon himself with almost fatal ef fect, is scheduled to go on trial for his life in this week’s term cf cri minal court. His actions from the time he was rushed to the hospital « more dead than alive as the result of the attempted murder and sui cide have at times been queer and there are those people here, in cluding the sheriff, who believe his act of today was done in an effort to sway the verdict when his case is placed into their hands toward an insanity verdict. That he will plead insanity has been the belief ! of observers here for sometime. The prisoner, formerly in the | jewelry business here, sprang into ! the limelight several months ago | when, after waiting on an uptown I corner for several minutes, ap | parer.tly for Mrs. Smith with whom | he is alleged to have been infatua ted, sprang upon the running board | of her car when she drove in sight | an d shot her. He ran for the dis tance Os a city block, pistol in I hand, when suddenly he re-traced his steps, got into the car beside his victim and sent a bullet through i his abdomen. While being rushed to the O’Briant expressed the hope/shat both the woman and himself might die, while the woman wished that O’Briant might die. Neither had their wish for she died j several days later and he got well. | I O’Briant created a sensation ! when he escaped from the hospital I while a patient there. He was cap-! tured and returned there, however, and for a time police stood guard over him to prevent him from any violence. ’ I i BROOKS WRITES FROM AVERY CTY Editor Record: It may be of interest to my Chat ham friends to tell them of my whereabouts, and something of the baby county of Avery, in which I am now living. It commenced its existeance in 1911, and is now 16 years old. It was made from parts of Mitchell, Watauga, Caldwell, and Burke counties, and is the one hundredth county of the State. The climate is ideal and the scenery is grand. Nearby is Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Rocky Mountains. There is great educa tional activity in the county. Most of the local schools have been con solidated and the pupils are con veyed to the schools in busses. I am teaching in the Cranberry high school. Thare are 12 teachers, five men and seven women, and there are about four hundred chil dren. Mr. R. T. Teague, formerly of Chatham county, is the county superintendent of schools. He is highly esteemed by the people of his adopted county. Our principal is Prof. Daniel C. Butler of the state of Robeson. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and has both executive ability and tact. Although lam away from the county of my birth I still re member her people with great in terest. W. E. BROOKS. Subscribe to The Record, $1.50 .GRAND PRIZE j GOES TO BYNUM I Bynum School Takes First Place at Fair; Golds ton Second. ] _ - Bynum, Oct. 10—The Bynum > students left the fair grounds Tues . i day with the grand .prize. Bynum I won 57 points and the next highest | Goldston, won 40. These points I were gotten by running, jumping, | throwing and doing different kinds of athletic stunts. Bynum should i be proud of her boys and girls for ! winning the most points of any in I Chr.tham county. Mr. Sion Sturdivant returned to Florida last week for the winter, alter spending the summer here with his father. Mr. Brooks Snipes has returned to Raleigh where he is a sopho more in State College. Miss Camela Gilmore spent the week end here'with Miss Fanny Riddle. MONCURE PLANS FOR SILK HOSIERY MILL S Capital Stock of $25,000 Sought for Initial Plant—Town’s Advant ages as Industrial Center. I j With the successful opening of i the new bank at Moncure there seems to have come a new spirit upon the old town, and plans are progressing for the establishment of a mill to make silk hosiery. Investigations are being made of the possibilities of such a plant, and plans are afoot to raise a capital stock of $25,000 for the enterprise. Situated in the fork of the Cape Fear and with fine railroad fa cilities, Moncure has a location equal to any town for in dustrial development; while its ac cess to a flood of power is not equalled by 1 that of any town in the state. Within sight, practical- I ly, are two hydro-electric plants | and the immense steam-electric ! plant of the Carolina Power Com ; P an y> furnishing an abundance of I cheap current for whatever indus : trial enterprises may be established ! ; for years and years to come. It is a matter of history that this ! triangle, with Haywood then the center of community interest, lack- I ed only one vote of becoming the site of the Capital of the state. It is interesting to conceive what would have been the result if the I capital had been located there. The | map of the Whole northern part of I the stats, if not of the wh«ale state, would have been different. Here i would have been the great city of North Carolina. With water for every use abundant and with the possibilities of water power much ! earlier than it actually came, the ! industrial basis of a city would have been laid much earlier than at Raleigh. But while the great chance is gone for ever, Moncure still has its unique advantages, and with the enterprising spirit now manifest there is no telling how soon it may swing into line as one of the coming towns of the state. 214 TONS OF COAL IN ONE DAY Since the mining force of the Carolina Coal Company at Coal Glen has been greatly augmented by bringing in a number of expe rienced miners, the daily output of coal is much greater than ever be fore in the history of the mine. The Express is informed that 214 tpns of coal and 84 tons of rock were lifted from the mine Tuesday. This was more coal than was ever taken from the mine in any one day be fore. Two shifts are at work in the mine.—Sanford Express. ’ ROAD IMPROVEMED Mr. L. D. Johnson, in charge of one of the road forces, has just finished top-soiling the old road from the Cumnock bridge to Gulf, a part of the old highway 60, turn ed back on the county after the completion of the short cut. This work did not come too early, as the road was in a bad fix. It is now reported to be in fine shape. Autos Cause 47 .! Deaths In Month September Figures Already Be yond Those For August; State Issues Report With 47 fatalities from Auto mobile accidents in North Carolina during September already reported with figures for the State still in j complete, the death toll last month has passed that of August, when 42 deaths were reported, according to information from the State De partment of Revenue. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Revenue is fur nishing a new type of service in the monthly reports listing the number of accident and fatalities,the cause of the accident if known, the age of' the driver and those hurt and the J conditions surrounding the accident. J Out of the 352 accidents reported I during August, 443 persons were in jured and 42 killed, according to j | the report. There were 566 cars, j however, involved in the crashes, which indicated that the majority j of the wrecks were by collision with other vehicles. The majority of the collisions, in which the conditions were known, occurred in day-light on clear days, with the hour “between eight and nine in the morning leading all oth er hours of the day in the number jof accidents. Sunday, of course,led jail other days of the week with 71 accidents, Saturday following next with 63, and other days as follows: Monday 47, Friday 56, Thursday 43, Wednesday 42, and Tuesday 40. More than three times as many I men as women were driving cars in- i volved in accident, the report show- i ing 441 cars driven by men and 125 ! by women. The majority of the cars involved were passenger cars with 506 out of the 566, being pas senger cars. Street and highway intersections were the scenes of most of the acci- i dents, the report showing 50 acci- j dents at highway intersections, six i at rural intersections, 100 at street! intersections, and ten at railroad crossings. There were 118 occurr- \ ing on the straight highway. FINE SERVICE . AT BONLEE Bear Creek, Oct. 4 —Sunday was a great day at Bonlee Baptist church. Mr. William B. Cheek, j once a member of Bonlee church j and teacher in the Sunday School, I now superintendent of Lystra Sun- j j day school in northern Chatham, j was present and conducted the! opening service. He took as his theme the faith of Daniel and the I j three Hebrew Children, stressing the latter’s deliverance from the fiery furnace as an example of God’s deliverance of those whose faith is firm and true to him. His talk was greatly enjoyed by all. At the 11 o’clock hour Mr. G. E. j Lineberry, superintendent of the' North Carolina State school for the j Blind, at Raleigh, delivered a great! address on the Baptist Centennial! Campaign. Mr. Lineberry is a na tive of this association and of this county, his grandfather, Rev. Wil | liam Lineberry, having been one of the foremost Baptist preachers of | his day. His speech was filled with | reminiscences of this section and of the state. He referred to his boy hoood visits to the home of his fa ther’s sister, the late Mrs. Sarah .Emerson, at Bear Creek, whose home place was the farm on which this writer now lives with his fam ily- Mr. Lineberry is also a brother of R. B. Lineberry, long a minister in this association, now preaching in eastern North Carolina. The peo ple in this section are always glad to welcome him for any wisit and his wonderful speech was immense ly enjoyed Sunday morning. GROVER C. PHILLIPS. If some people were shave down to the size that some people think they ought to be—it would take a search light, at close range on a sunshine day to make them appear as large as red bug full grown. VOLUME NO. 49 >INE EXHIBITS AT COUNTY FAIR County Agents Comment Upon Exhibits; Cream De* liveries Increasing. In so far as quality is concerned,, the exhibits at the Chatham County Fair were the best in years. Thhf was especially true in the case of the corn show. The largest amount of tobacco ever seen at the fair was shown this year. Mr. D. J. Wil liams of New Hope Township, ex hibited the best grade of tobacco. Mr. J. M. Hackney of Siler City R.F.D., won first prize in the gen eral farm exhibit class, although | he was closely pushed by Mr. Dun ! can who won second prize. Th&rf poultry exhibit house was filled to I overflowing, and some fine bird# were shown. 'The exhibits of hogs and dairy cattle were also good,anct j excited very favorable comment from the judges. j One of the most fea tures of the fair was the talk made by Clarence Poe, Editor of the Pro gressive Farmer. His talk was oil the subject of Dairy Farming. He pointed out to the farmers that there is very little danger of glut ting the market with dairy prod ucts, and advised the farmers of Chatham to begin making prepara tions for this phase of farming. It is interesting to note along the lines of Dairy Farming, that the cream route which was begun some weeks ago and running through the i central portion of the county noxV delivers 300 pounds of cream from < Chatham to the creamery at Bur ! lington per week. The agent made the first trip with the route haul er, and 65 pounds of cream were collected that time. This shows that j the farmers in this county are be ginning to turn to dairying for a i sure and profitable source of in jcome. As pointed out in an article : some weeks ago, farmers in the vi cinity of Pittsboro, Goldston, Bear Creek and Bonlee can deliver their , cream to stores in the above named communities, and the route hauler will deliver this cream later. In office at Pittsboro, Saturdays and first Mondays. N. C. SHIVER, County Agent. i —— * I DESTROYING STALKS MAY DOUBLE NEXT COTTON CROP (Columbia State. j Statement by David R. Coker, j Hartsville, to Darlington county | newspapers: “Four years out of the past seven | were bad weevil years and Darling jton county averaged less than 77,- COO bales per year. In three other years the weevil was not so bad and the county averaged a little under 30,000 bales per year. If the farm ers in Darlington county will de stroy the green cotton stalks promptly most of the weevils will ;die before frost and little damage to j the next crop is likely to occur until I very late. This may mean addition jof 10,000 or 15,000 bales to the ; county’ scrop. It will pay every farmer to cut his own stalks promptly whether his neighbors d(f or not but it will pay far better if all can be induced to destroy them. The quicker this work is done the j more effective it will be. No more pressing or important subject ha* ever come to the attention of our farmers. Let’s get together and de stroy the stalks and do it quickly.” MR. WATKINS PREACHES AT THE METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Geo. T. Watkins, one of the best known Baptist ministers of the state, preached a fine sermon at the Baptist church Sunday, on the subject of Christian Education. Mr. Watkins came as an envoy of the managers of the campaign for a million and a half dollars for the Baptist schools. A Meredith student was also scheduled to come, but the inclem ent weather probably was the hin drance. Columbus was right. He sighted dry land—Ohio State Sun Dial.