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E jT\i:U> Hl:o SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 heath takes GOOD CITIZEN M T Williams, One of Pitts u.rns Oldest and Most ooru = ' jjjffhiy Esteemed Citizens, passes Quietly to Rest. After weeks of hopeless \fv Middleton T. Williams, illness. • * i ' rlv aIH i easily passed to rest evening at his home . The funeral services were v Friday afternoon at the Pitts- Methodist church, conducted . pastor Lance. The body was j afterwards laid to rest by that of j .jj helovetl companion of many | ars who passed away three | ‘ t 0 a day before his own j death. . | Without exaggeration or hesita the writer can pronounce Mr. Williams ore of the most highly j availed and respected citizens of , ;fce e.-unty- Urbane and grave,! vei genial and friendly, he en- j deared himself with all readiness - all with whom he came in con .,e: _ He was universally esteem ed for his integrity and the beauti r: graces of his character and per sonality. Save for only a few years in his j ang manhood, which he spent in 1 the mercantile business in Raleigh,! he had been a lifelong resident of ! the community in which he was j reared. He was one of the organ- | izers of the Bank of Pittsboro a ! quarter of a century ago, and its j first cashier. All the while he has | • retained the large farming interest which he held near the old town. In early manhood he married Miss Ella Cotten, a daughter of the late Karnie Cotton, one of the most esteemed and distinguished | citizens of the county in his day. ! Surviving this union are three j children. Mr. Fred Williams, and Mesdames T. K. Duncan and J. M. Gregory. The church was filled with trends and neighbors who went • pay their last respects to the eteran citizen. Many beautiful t ral offerings also attested the 1 meeni in which Mr. Williams was | -Hi. In fact, the grave appeared ; | a n Ta." of lovely flowers. -Tuch sympathy is felt for the 1 ■ '■'eared son and daughters; yet : •' a P’-:v:lege to have had such' £ father. M liiams lacked only 12 days - -ing ,o years of age. AbED CHATH AMITE IMES AT CREEDMORE; - ir - Evander J. Mclver, a life- j ■ - resident of this his county, f ast few years, which he: -'Pent with his daughter at -•eedmore. died Thursday. The, •• 'as brought to Meronfes ' ; “ rch f er burial Friday. p Mr ; * Mclv er married Miss Ella j aiMl t.‘-» the union quite a . ' 1 children were born. Mrs.: ’ iVer died a few years ago. Three j • Lharles, and James '' g'on. There are also 1 ■■‘eral daughters. . *’*' ! w as long known as ,-;- n u * the Singer sewing WREXX BROS. COMPANY CLOSING OUT STOCK t ,; a! in an advertise-! r T tr Laper the Wrenn Bros. 5- C .U ‘ S : ! City will close out its 1 hdnue the half-cen-| business. I C l!; b ’x since it, or its pre a>. r as founded 49 years Q ' n a prominent factor in .A-" h a i*fe of the county.> ago the great new uer City was occu- ; Fed . s tock has been car-i liquidation sale is' the public a great | as. and at a time can take more ad- j m- low prices than is Uj tne casm ! • N °t So Clever Vr .. ar.y , ' l ' “Do you detect genius in my son?” 1 or—“ Madam. lam a detective.” T :.e Chatham Record Mrs. W. J. Brya n Files Several Suits Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan Discloses That Her Husband Was Worth Over Million Dollars ■ j v Miami, Fla., Oct. 24.—Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan, widow of William Bryan, today filed suit in circuit court here for a court construction of certain alleged conflicting pro | visions of the late “Great Com moner’s” will. William Jennings Bryan died in Dayton, Tenn, July 26,1925. His will named no executor and the widow j was appointed by the court. Other members of the family who are heirs under the will, and the trustees of a proposed relig ! ious college were named as techni i cal defendants. Setting a value of $1,111,948.50 Mrs. Bryan in her petition made public the first definite estimate of the worth of the estate, j Os the total $258,644.76 is in per j sonal property and the remainder in real eseate in Los Angeles county. California; at Lincoln, Nebraska and in Miami it was set forth. Payments to Mrs. Bryan since her husband’s death *have amounted to $101,666.66, part of which came j from the sale of the famous Mary ; mont, estate at Coconut Grove, (Florida. MEEKINS RAPS CRAVEN COUNTY - r Appeals To The People of New Bern To “Rebel” Against Nefarious Industry -T— ■ New Bern, Oct. 24 —Describing New Bern and Craven county as | “the worst spot in North Carolina for liquor law violators,” Judge Isaac M. Meekins in his charge to the Federal grand jury here shortly ! before noon today appealed to the people of New Bern to “rebel” against this “nefarious and de structive industry.’ ’ The remarks were made to the jury which is to serve at the fall term of United States District Court opening here i today. ; Judge Meekins asserted that j these conditions exist only because i the “best people” of the community ! permit it. He said the people owe it to themselves to rid the com munity of the liquor traffic. The jurist in discussing condi tions said that “I am informed that I i one automobile concern up State has a standing order for 10,000 gal lons of Craven county liquor week ly,” and added that “at least three men whose names are well known here and elsewhere have thriven successfully in the liqpor business without apprehension for 10 years.” Peter Skalchunes Is Greensboro Hero i . - Greensboro, Oct. 24—Peter Skal chunes was the hero of the day in Greensboro. This afternoon he saved the 12 months old baby of Mrs. Katherine Poythress from death or serious injury. The lit i tie girl had pushed the screen i from an upstairs window, had fal len through the window to the roof of the porch and was rolling down the roof when Skalchunes, happening to be passing, saw her. He ran under the eave of the porch 1 and caught the child as she fell. MEETING OF THE P-T. ASSOCIATION j The meeting of the Sixth Dis trict of the State Parent-Teacher Asssociation will meet at Raleigh at 11 o’clock, Nov. 1. The presi dent and one delegate from each lo i cal association will be guests of the Raleigh association. However, an invitation is extended to all mem bers to come, and dinner will be i served others than the two official ! guests at 35 cents each. Fed Up “And are you satisfied with mar ried life?” ! “Yes, I’ve had enough!” PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCT. 27, 1927 i -v. NINE-YEAR-OLD | ! KILLED BY CAR I | Leßoy Eubanks, Son of Luther Eubanks, Instantly r Killed at Bynum Sunday * | Afternoon. D i 1 j A most distressing accident oc ’ 1 curred on the highway at Bynum Sunday atfernoon, when Leßoy 1 { Eubanks, the nine-year-old son of ] [ ; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Eubanks, was j j . j 7 instantly killed by a car driven by Mr. Headeu Dark, of the Pace’s j r I Mill community. Mrs. Eubanks and some of the ; children had been visiting at the j home of Henry Carter. Mr. Car- j ( ter ar.d Mrs. Carter were bringing ! them home. The car stopped on j . ! the right hand cf the road, going j I north. The litUe chap jumped out i ! of the car and ran from behind it | • I across the road just as the car i driven by Mr. Dark was passing. He was run over, bruised consid erably and his neck broken, being dead when reached by Mr. Dark. The latter came on and reported the matter to the officials here, and as Coroner George Brooks is not well, Mr. C. A. Snipes was ap pointed coroner for an inquest. A jury composed of six good citizens of the community, namley, W. G.! Fields, R. B. Lambeth, I. E. Brax- j ton, G. G. Ward, A. T. Ward, and j O. T. Cooper, after hearing the evi- j dence, adjudged Mr. Dark innocent of blame, pronouncing the tragedy a sheer accident. The burial took place Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eubanks, who lived for several years in this communi ty, now live on Commissioner R. J. Johnson’s place, just above By- : i num. MISS McCLENNEHAN GENTLY PASSES AWAY Miss Maggie McClennehan, an i other of Pittsboro’s oldest group of , citizens, quietly passed away Mon- j day, after an illness of several J.' i weeks. The funeral services were j i held at the Episcopal church Tues- ; I ; J day afternoon, and the body gent-' ! ly laid to rest in the family burial j plot in the old churchyard. j Miss McClennehan was the last i < of her name surviving in the coun- j ty, though the McClennehan blood i flows in the veins of the Aayl.ors ! and possibly others of the older families; while the wife of Judge Calvert of Raleigh is a niece of hers, and Mrs. Graham Connell of ! Raleigh a gj'eat niece. The deceased was near eighty years of age, and has been an es- 1 teemed resident Os the old town all her long life. * She was the third of the land marks of the county to pass within i 1 less than a we t ek, the others being ’ Mr. M. T. Williams and Dr. W. M. I Burns. i !TO ORGANIZE COUNTY COUNCIL i I Mrs. R. H. Hayes, president of | l ] j the Pittsboro Parent-Teacher Asso- j j ciation, asks that the officers of all j ! the local P.T. associations in the j I county meet at the Pittsboro school I j building next Saturday, October 29,j ! at 1 p. m., for the purpose of organ ! izing a County Council. The coun i ty teachers association will be in session that day at the school build j ing, and the officers who come may j ! also attend that meeting. j THE LEMONS’ STORE ROBBED SUNDAY NIGHT \ i ! , \ The Lemons’ Department Store | of Siler City was robbed Sunday i ■ night of ready-made clothing to ! the extent of S6OO to SIOOO worth. j The thief lunged a heavy stone j [ through the front door, thus secur- I ing ingress, and made his way out jby a rear window. There was left no clue, though Sheriff Blair spent Monday visiting Greensboro and - other towns, on the lookout for the ! goods and putting the officers on the alert. I Girl Shoots Father, ! Instantly Killing Him j - Was Beating Her Mother And d-f ,• ' [ \ She Warned Him To Desist. / Danville, Va., Oct. 24—Domestic disaffection lasting for several years constitutes the back ground of the ' sensational shooting, in Franklin county yesterday when Ercell Brogan, aged 17, shot her fa ther, John Brogan, four times through the head with a revolver, she claims in defense of her mother. Commonwealth’s attorney, John P. Lee, continued his inquiry today following the coroner’s jury last night when the accused girl was held in $2,500 bond for appearance today. She has been removed to a detention home for delinquents at Roanoke not as a punitiVe measure but because the authorities felt it unwise to leave her to her own re sources in her present hysterical state. Such evidence as has been de veloped by Lee is that Brogan and his wife have for several years had quarrels which resulted in periods of separation. He was a farmer, owned a pretentious home near Ferrum and neighbors say that he lived well and possessed one or more expensive cars. On Sunday a recent quarrel was renewed. The wife and daughter say Brogan was drinking and that he attacked the mother while she was in the back yard, brutally beating her. Ercell Brogan, according to her arid her mother, went into the house, secur ed the revolver and threatened to kill Brjpgan unless he desisted. He turned as though to disarm the girl when she fired several times quick ly at his head causing instant death. The mother and daughter are the only witnesses. When neigh bors reached the house Ercell Bro gan was in a serious state and re ceived medical aid. The case will go before the grand jury meeting December 1. CHATHAM CLUB HOLDS MEETING Chapel Hill, Oct. 21—The Chat ham County Club held its second meeting of the session Tuesday night, October 18, 1927 ,at the Uni- j versity. The newly-elected presi-! dent of the club, Wyeth Ray, called the meeting to order. It was de- j cided that the club would subscribe ; for the Chatham Record for the re- j mainder of,the school session, and place it in the reading rooms of the j Y.M.C.A. so that anyone who cares j to do so may read it. After at- j tending to the other business com ing before the meeting, the presi dent turned the program over to the initiation committee. * This committee proceeded to in itiate the new men into the club with all due formality expected of such a society. After giving all of them a conception of the respon sibilities as well as the brilliant op portunities afforded them by atten ding their State University, they were received into the club as full fledged members and were accord ed all the privileges due to all members of the club. In view of the fact that it had been announc ed at the previous meeting that all new men would be duly initiated at the following meeting, it was in deed surprising to all the old men from Chatham to note that every Freshman presented himself at the place of the meeting at the appoint ed time. The club wishes to do more and better work than it has ever done before and to let other people from other parts of the state know that; there is a Chatham county on the map of North Carolina. One stop | in this progra mis the placing of the Chatham Record and the Chat ham News before the students of the University. JAMES WRIGHT PASSES AWAY Mr. James Wright, aged sixty died at his home three miles from Pittsboro Wednesday morning. Burial will be at Brown’s Chapel today. Mr. Wright was a highly respect ed citizen. FOREST PLOTS [ SELECTED FOR i DEMONSTRATES \ Expert Forester Gives Dem i J | onstrations Hog Feeding 4 Demonstrations Kirby Comes Today. •j i Mr. R. W. Graeber State For .■ ester, and Mr. W. V. Hays of the j Office of Swine Extension of State College, spent Thursday and Fri-; 1 day with the county agent holding ! i | forestry and swine meetings. Three ! forestry meetings were held on the farms of Messrs. Clarence Hack- ■ ney of the Bynum community, T. W. Green of the Pleasant Hill sec-, j tion, and Mr. N. J. Dark of Hick- 1 ory Mountain community. One I swine meeting was held at the farm i of Mr. N. J. Dawkins near Golds- I • i ton. I Two demonstration forestry plots have been started on the farm of Mr. Clarence Hacknew and T. I. Foushee. A section of woods on these farms was given the proper thinning for the best growth of the larger timber, and inferior timber from these jplots will be thinned every year. Mr. Graeber emphasized the neces-! sity of allowing the young straight j trees to be allowed the best growth > possible, and he also emphasized the necessity of farmers using their ! timber as a crop rather than a t mine. There are a number of young stands of timber on the farms of this county, especially pine, which if properly thinned and cared for will prove sources of re venue to their owners in the near; future. The big problem, however, ! is that of eliminating waste in these woods, and another problem is the prevention of forest fires. Twenty-seven nine week old pigs have been weighed for the begin ning of feeding‘demonstrations this J week. Mr. W. B. Straughan of Siler City and Mr. N. J. Dawkins of Goldston are the. men beginning this work in cooperation with the county agent and the office of. j Swifie Extension at State College, i j Mr. Straughan will put nine pigs i on feed and Mr. Dawkins will put ( tl7 pigs on feed. These pigs are to I be fed out to porker size, with a i balanced ration, recommendations I for which are furnished by. the I county agent and the office of; i swine extensiori. These pigs will j be weighed at the beginning of the ! test, and every 30 days thereafter, !• until sold, The ingredients of the ! feed mixture are fishmeal or tank- j age, shorts and corn meal fed as j a slop and an equal portion of j whole corn. The mineral mixture ! will be composed of 10 per cent. { acid, air slacked lime and salt. Seven thousand porkers in North Carolina were fed this mixture and I marketed at a profit last year and | the year before: Mr. Hays states ! that farmers who fed their corn to j pigs in this test averaged $2.06 a bushel for their corn. It is esti-1 mated . that it costs the average | farmer 75 cents per bushel to grow • corn. If this corn were sold on the local market now, the farmer would realize something like SI.OO per bushel for it—if fed to his hogs he j will realize something over two dollars per bushel for it. Taking! into consideration the cost of grow- | ing corn, it is seen that farmers ; who have been marketing hogs in i this manner have been realizing over a 100 per cent on their invest : ment. During the week of October 24, ; Mr. S. J. Kirby of the Davidson 1 Agronomy will spend the 27th and 28th with the agent. Farmers meeting will be held at Dickens’ store in Corinth Thursday morning. | Ira White’s farm in the Oakley church community in the afternoon j of the same day, and at C. G. ■ Sharpe’s store Friday afternoon at j 2:30. The object of these meetings is to stimulate the growing of soil improving legumes.and hay crops, the use of better fertilizers, the introduction of* more and better cows, the production of cream, and Tells Ashe Citizens To Defend Home I . ' .1 Judge Sinclair Says It Is The Duty To Shoot Masked Men If They Enter Your Home Jefferson, Oct. 24 —“Citizens of Ashe county, provide yourselves with guns in your homes and if any masked men enter your homes, it is not only your right, but your duty to shoot them and be sure that you shoot them,” was the admoni tion of Judge Sinclair from the bench today. | “Nobody but a coward ever wrote an anonymous letter,” was another; i judicial declaration in which Judge ; Sinclair disgust with al- i leged floggings and threatening methods which had been used by certain groups who claimed to be j affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. . STATE TAKES I OVER HIGHWAY It is good news that the State i Highway Commission has taken i over the Graham-Pittsboro road. Thus Pittsboro becomes located at the center of a five-pointed star of 1 highways and practically every section of the county will be put in easy access of the county-seat. This means much for Pittsboro as a trade center if the opportunity is only utilized. | COURTNEWS No Important Cases—Judge Cran mer Presiding—Virgil Goes to The Pen. Judge Cranmer was here bright and early Monday morning for opening of the term of court for the trial of criminal cases—the j first since the spring. Solicitor; Williams was ready and Miss! Speight, official stenographer on | hand. But the term is proving, as | usual in recent years, a mere tri bunal for hearing submissions and fixing penalties. h ; .. The following good citizens were chosen as a grand jury: W. M. Perry, R. F. Sturdivant, C. A. Snipes, R. W. Seymore, W. B. Rid- j die, P. S. Lassiter, J. W. Griffin, j A. F. Harrington, J. C. Seawell, K. j S. Carter, WfX Drake, R. T. Far-i rell, W. A. Headen, Fred Johnson, | G. M. Clark, D. L. Thomas, Claude i Thompson, G. T. Yates, Mr. W. A.! Headen was appointed foreman. The judge’s charge was compar atively brief but clear and compre hensive. Nine of the men summoned as jurymen were excused for various reasons. The petit jury as sworn in for the week’s service were L. Thomas, L. T. Dark, J. T. Petty, W. R. Johnson, L. Cooper, R. R. Sea grove, Peter Thrift, "H. A. Brooks, J. E. Fox, J. T. Griffin, J. E. Stone, W. R. Stone, W. B. Talley, J. V. Ray, C. S. Elmore. Numerous fellows under bond to report good behavior did so. Jim Lee was called, but failed. Catch him. W. C. Jones, ’ called, failed, capias; also Moses Canady. Capias for J. C. Squires, also Neill Spence, Carl Fox, Celeste and Na-! than Alston, Marion Oldham, Co lumbus Cotton. W. G. Womble plead guilty to driving car while drunk. SSO fine J and not to drive car in three months. Virgil Davis, store breaking, (Continued on page four) OCTOBER BLACKBERRIES. Mr. J. W. Johnson, mail carrier! on Route 2, from Moncure, was i showing a cluster of blackberries | on a branch of a bush from his place near Asbury church last week. It is a most unique sight j to see real blackberries ripening in October. The bush must have felt that the warm weather following the August cold was a new spring. the proper methods of selecting feed corn. ' N. C. SHIVER, County Agent. In office Saturdays and first Mondays, VOLUME 4*o. 49 CHATHAM LOSES AGED PHYSICIAN Chatham has lost one of»its best citizens and most useful physician* in the death of Dr. W. M. Burn*, who passed away Friday night at his home in Goldston after an ill ness of two weeks. He was 74 years of age, and had been a prac ticing physician for abcut a half century, extending his ministra tions over a large area of the coun ty. | He is survived by his wife and three sons, W. L., and Dr. J. E. of Concord, and Phil Burns at Goldston. The funeral service*, which were attended by a throng of friends and neighbors, /were j held at the Goldston Methodist j church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. London Ends Long Service As U.D.C. President Organizer of Winnie Davis Chap ter Resigns Presidency at Cele bration of 29th Anniversary— Mrs. Siler Chosen Successor. Saturday was a big day with the Winnie Dhvis Chapter of the U. D. C., though, in some respects a shct one, since it was marked by the resignation as president of Mr*. Henry A. London, who was the moving spirit in the organization of the Chapter 29 years ago, and who has served as president all these-years, and not so long ago was elected as permanent presi dent. A large crowd was present, it I being the 29th anniversary of the I organization. The meeting was | held in the home of Mrs. London, | which was decorated in the Chap ter’s colors. Among the decora tions shone a lovely boquet of American Beauty roses, a token from the chapter itself; and a bou quet of dahlias, presented by Mrs. J. B. Fearington. The occasion took on the feature |of a birthday. The table was grac | ed with a cake, bearing 29 candles, I Numbering the years since the first i meeting of the chapter, in October i 1898. when the following named ! ladies were enrolled as charter members: Mesdames H. A. Lon don, Gideon Alston, J. M. Leach, W. R. Hunter, J. C. Lanius, Burkhead Mann, and Misses Maggie Horne, Annie Brewer, Carrie Jackson, Lou Horne, Lucy London, Julia Bynum, and Sallie London. It was noted during the business session that while the Chapter had no delegate at the recent meeting at Asheville, its president was re membered over there, a telegram expressing the regret of the con vention at Mrs. London’s absence being sent her, stating that the convention was not complete with out her, and that the whole con vention had risen when her name was mentioned. When the time for the election jof officers for the coming .year came, the Chapter was startled by the announcement of Mrs. London that she could not serve another . year, because of her recent illness. All persuasion to make the beloved j president agree to continue at the head of the chapter which she has so long mothered was futile, and Mrs. W. D. Siler was elected as the new president. Mesdames J. M. Gregory, R. P. Johnson, and Mattie Lanius were | chosen vice-presidents; Mrs. O. J. i Peterson recording secretary; Mrs. I R- C. Griffin corresponding secre tary; treasurer, Miss Emily Taylor; registrar, Miss Maggie Horne; his j torian, Mrs. Victor Johnson. The afternoon, apart from the regretted resignation of Mrs. Lon don, was highly enjoyed. Mrs. Cordon read a most interesting pa per on the career of Col. John R. Lane, a paper which had, in fact, won a $lO prize in a recent contest. Delicious refreshments was ser ved by the honored hostess, and were highly enjoyed by the mem bers.