CSXASLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 Rambling and Scribbling The Editor Gives an Account of The Towns and People Seen " In Two Days of Subscription Work Last Week o i v two days of field work a k ' but they serve to introduce * ce Record man to quite a few new the i., and acquaint him better with f h e e ° P geography and history of the f v a nd as many Chathamites CC V know little of the great old untv as a whole, we again will take c 0 readers on the rounds with us. Visiting Siler City is no rarity, hut on nearly every visit we have the pleasure of making new acquain tances or seeing Chathamites whom have not seen in quite a w'hile. imonz those last week was Mr. C. v page, who with Mr. J. M. Jordan imposes our list at the surviving litt le country post office of Brush r ree k. These are two of our real tan dbvs and though out of our beat always manage to get their renewals t 0 us an example that others whom we cannot visit should follow. We intended to spend only an hour at Ore Hill Friday, but when we reached the old village, now go jne by the name of Mt. Vernon Springs, from the long-time resort nearby, we found Mr. Chas. Forest er with a corn-shucking on tap and tarried. Mr. Forester is postmaster, merchant and a good farmer, as was evidenced by the fine pile of corn that he had gathered from a small acreage at hand. Those Ore Hillians take their corn shuckings seriously. When Mr. For ester and the editor walked up from the store, quite a bunch of the neigh bors were already busily .engaged and apparently as solemn as owls, and the solemnity was maintained till the last ear was shucked. Wheth er the funereal atmosphere was due to the thought that the writing man might be taking notes or to the fact that the Sheriff had got the com munity’s prize still a week earlier, we leave it to them to reveal. Anyway, the corn shucking in the bright light of a beautiful fall day with the shucking as the main thought in mind differed much from the recollections of the old-time corn shuckings in Sampson, when at night fall the little chaps, after see ing a sheep or a pig killed and a big pot out in the yard, supplementing the smaller cooking vessels in the kitchen, preparing for the feast away in the night, were thrilled by hearing the booming voices of the negroes approaching from the east and from the west with the old hal loaing song of ‘'Bull Row,” at least that is the way it sounded. It was only at corn shuckings, log rollings, and wheat threshings that the editor’s father ever brought home a jug, and one of those events without the toddy would have been accounted an injustice. It has been more than fifty years, but the mem ory of waking and peeping out the window while the white folk were eating, and seeing Tom Killett, a young buck, dancing by a torch light and to the patting of many black hands, is almost as vivid as if it were yesterday—and Tom, old Tom now, was living when we left Sampcson three years ago. But there was a live wire in the Forester kitchen, who pepped up things when the bunch reached the dining room. It was the vivacious Mrs. Hardin Holliday, an idea of whose wit and audacity may be had from a story we later heard of her. A patent medicine man was selling his wares one day near her and irri tating her with a frequent cough. Soon she called to him if he had any cough medicine. He, thinking a sale was imminent, answered “yes, the best kind,” to which he got the instant reply, “Why in the devil don’t you take some of it, then?” Mr. Bob Gorrell remarked, as all of us were busily engaged in dispos ing of the variety of good things to eat, “I have seen folks go to corn shuckings and just eat and eat; thank you for some more of that stew,” and to Mrs. Holliday who asked him just then if he would have some more pudding, accenting the ing" with unusual clearness, he said, “Now, Mae, you are putting on airs because the editor is here; I’ll take some pudd’n.” And “I’ll thank you tor some chicken stew.” Cer tainly, “Bob” is rather delicate, and just goes to corn shuckings to help get his neighbors’ corn housed, weatz bhkM.shrdlu,etaoin shrdlu u Me were pleased to Tind Mrs. Forester a sister of Attorney L. P. Dixon, of Siler City, and thus made to feel more at home. ihe editor pitched in to help shuck that pile of corn, but when it began to seem too much like work slipped awa y and called upon Mrs. O. B. at her pleasant home nearby. Mrs. Stroud will be pleasantly re tailed by the older Pittsboro folk, as >he was a Headen, a first cousin of M- Will A. Headen, who, unlike Mrs. Stroud, has not discontinued his Vl sits to Pittsboro, but, on the con trary, for some reason or other, pays Particular attention in his drumming to Dittsboro merchants. Mrs. Stroud is hale and hearty tor her age. She has only two chil dren, a son, who lives with her, and a daughter, Mrs. E. H., a fine young voman whom we had also the pleas ure of meeting. Mr. L. F. Gorrell was preparing to ieave in a few days for Craddock, a *> near Portsmouth, where he will - xie Chatham Record j spend the wdnter with his daughter, Mrs. J. B. Brown. He will have the Record, however, to keep him in in touch with things here in Chat ham. Mr. D. T. Vestal is playnig substitute R. F. D. carrier for a week or two and had learned his route well enough by Friday to get in con siderably earlier than on his Jfirst days. Mrs. Vestal has a nice'little store and had already subscribed for the Record before the husband ar rived. We had only a moment or two with Mr. W. V. Cheek before the bus came, but was glad to lear n that his son, Allan, who suffered so severely in his struggle with the negro in Cheek’s store last winter when Mr. Fogleman was killed, is hopeful of finally recovering from the effects of the injuries, though he was that very day away to see his physician, we believe. We had the curiosity to step into the store and see the site of that memorable struggle, though the graphic description given of it on the trial made viewing it a mere form. kAortbfiitHodHe cmfwyp cmfwyppp And that reminds us that we did not see Mr. N. H. Heritage, the veteran railroad man, but we are going again, and especially to visit the Springs and the good people in that old community, which we have known of since our childhood, when R. R. Vann, having come up to Mt. Vernon Springs to school, was lucky enough to win a bride and settle down there for many years of quiet usefulness. As we leave the sun is dropping behind the sugar-loaf hill from which the village had its former name, Ore Kill, because of the pres ence of considerable iron ore in its bosom, some of wnicTi was mined in the earlier days. We intended to work at Gulf the next day, but nut knowing just what the hotel facilities were there and the Pugh house at Bonlee having been highly commended in the Chatham Record last week, we decided to drop off at that good little town, and there made a contract*with the Bon lee Bank and Trust Company to run its advertisement weekly. So read these weekly messages from that strong institution. Here we learn aiso that we were mistaken in naming Mr. J. L. Carter postmaster. Mr. W T addell is the post master. and possibly the only Dem ocrat holding such a position within a hundred miles. Messrs. Waddell and Carter take turns postmastering and running- the hardware store. There are other fine characters about Bonlee whom we hope to touch up some time, as we could not work them all into our story last week. i At Gulf Robert Morrisey, the Clinton youngster who carries the mail from Greensboro to Sanford, was along bright and early the next morning and gave us a lift to Gulf, where we spent several hours pleasantly with the good people of that, the second oldest town in the county. It was in 1879 that the railroad was extended from Cumnock, or Egypt, to “The Gulf.” The road had been built to Fayetteville during the war to get coal, particularly for the arsenal at Fayetteville. Gulf had an opportunity and didn’t have an opportunity to become a real town. As the terminus of the railroad for nearly ten years, it should have got a fine start. Unfor tunately, however, the land at Gulf was owned by the estate of Oliver. Ditson, the famous publisher, and couldn’t be sold, or nobody would' sell it. Mr. Mclver and Mr. W. S. Rus sell were the early merchants, and Mr. Russell is still flourishing at the age of 89, and with his son, Mr. A. H. Russel, a chip off the old block, is carrying on a good business to this day. The Mclver business is continued by the son of the founder, Mr. J. M. Mclver, a good fellow, and almost necessarily so as the son of Miss Lois Anderson, who forty years ago with her brother, now Rev. N. L. Anderson, D.D., pastor of the most important Presbyterian church in Savannah and author of a recently very highly commended volume of sermons, taught our young’ ideas how to shoot in the old Clinton Male Academy. We surely intended to call upon our old teacher, but crowded till train time, failed to do so. It is difficult for us to conceive of her other than a trim young lady as we knew her in those older days. Mr. J. R. Moore was on the job at the Mclver store. M,t. Mclver was away. Mr. Knight is a sales man at the Russel store. These stores are at the old village site, while a good brick block adorns a site at the depot, in the center of which Mrs. Hill, wife of the super intendent of the Coal Glen mine, an Englishman by birth and training as a miner, has a good store and does a fine business. On the south side is the post office, of which Mrs. Devereux is the genial and efficient mistress, who promises us to write the weekly happenings of Gulf for the Record. On the north side of the block Mrs. O. A. Beal conducts a good little case. The Record will o (Please turn to page four) PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927. Today TO MEET CONDUCTORS. LINDBERGH, FORD, MARIE CHEAP AT SIOO,OOO. GENERAL MOTORS IN AT LANTA. > By ARTHUR BRISBANE In China a labor party is trying to seize a Canton, material law is de clared and more of China’s 400,000, 000 join Confucius, and perhaps hear what he thinks of fighting China. When Bertrand Russell visited and wrote about the Chinese, he conclu ded that their salvation would be to wait, endure, let the wirtes kill them selves off. Then the yellows would rule. China is not taking that advice. Yellows are as foolish as the whites about killing. Students at Chicago’s Northwest ern university vote Lindbergh and Ford “the biggest men of the year.” Queen Marie leads the women. President Coolidge, Mussolini, the Prince of Wlaes, Maybr Thompson, Edison, Tunney, A1 Smith, Babe Ruth get votes. Ruth Elder, charming young lady, attracted attention and newspapers gave her at least $100,000,000 worth of free advertising. Now the intelli gent Loew company gives her SI,OOO a day for 100 days to tell about it in vaudeville. For SIOO,OOO intelligent Mr. Nich olas M. Schneck gets the benefit of $100,000,000 worth of publicity. Madame Curie could not get SIOO,- 000 for telling about radium. The people want action. General Motors announces the es tablishment of a new plant in At lanta, Ga. This is a tribute to the automobile-buying power of the South, the outstanding position of Atlanta as a distributing center and the common sense of Mr. Sloan and others that run General Motors. Atlanta’s Chevrolet plant will give work at good wages to many. Mr. Knudsen, head of the Chevrolet com pany, says: “A plant in Atlanta be came not only a possibility, but a necessity.*' Germany signs the League of Na tions ogreement ‘affording protec tions agreement “affording protec after childbirth.” A woman would be allowed to quit work six weeks before the birth of a child and re main away six weeks afterward, with pay and free medical attention. That pounds almost like ciziliza tion —government compelling the employers to do for women what in telligent horse owners did for mares a thousand years ago. A tax assesser at Washington, D. C. values White House building and grounds at $22,000,000, the capitol $53,000,000. State, war and navy buildings, $13,500,000. Treasury building, $23,000,000. Uncle Sam should get some flying machines to protect all that prop erty. A dozen bombing enemy fliers could soon knock those buildings around the ears of men that live or work in them. A i.ew high mark in LTnited States finance and prosperity. Nationa banks, including Alaska and Hawaii report to the comptroller of the cur rency, resources amounting to twen ty-seven billion, two hundred and seventeen million, eight hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars, beat ing all records. This doesn’t include trust com panies, and other great money insti tutions. This is a rich country, getting richer every minute. Its citizens earn each year ten billions more than | it costs to live. Don’t sell the United States short. A mother and father hid S6O in a bureau drawer, telling only their 13-year old daughter, Christina, where it was. It disappeared. Three times the mother accused the child. The girl denied that she had stolen the money, then drank carbolic acid and may die. Not all parents realize a child’s intensity of feeling. Members of the clergy will dis cuss the drama today and listen to Mr. Otto H. Kahn tell about it. Pro ducers of certain plays say they hope the “Church and Drama Association” will attack their plays. “We would put a pastor on the payroll if he would denounce us.” * A dog will gladly dig up a decay - ing bone if you tell him where to find it. Many citizens unfortunately will attend a rotten play, if you will tell them where it is. Lord Cecil says the British have “banged the doors” on any navy agreement with the United States. Thanks to Britain for encouraging the United States to mind its busi ness and its own rules for its own navy. A country that could manage it self with fewer than 4,000,000 popu lation should manage itself with 115, 000,000 population. GARNER HAS SOLD I PHONE SYSTEM Central Carolina Telephone Co. Takes Over Chatham County Lines W. H. Garner has sold his tele phone property in this county to the recently organized Central Carolina Telephone Company, with headquar ters at Troy. For several weeks the larger com pany had held an option on the property. The option had only one or two more days to run when the purchase was made one day last week. Mr. Garner foresaw a considerable outlay for improvements, especially at Siler City. In fact, a telephone system in a growing section calls for constant investment, since a considerable growth of any commun ity necessitates many new connec tions and possibly a new central out fit altogether. That is the situa tion at Siler City, we understand. Mr. Garner has devoted his life largely to the telephone business, though, as in many cases, it was a mere accident that turned his at tention that way. He had just clos ed a school when a young man and was at his father's home over in Johnston county when a line was be ing erected right by the door. When he went out from breakfast one morning the boss of the job rather jokingly told him to put on the spikes and go up a pole and fasten a wire. Garner told him he could do that very thing and did. When he came down he was employed to help out with the work, and from that moment to this has been a telephone man. He came to Chatham with only SI,OOO, and part of that borrowed. He first got possession of one vil lage plant and has constantly in creased his holdings till he had prac tically all the lines In the county, including the exchanges at Siler City, Pittsboro, Goldston, Bonlee — in fact, all the towns except those on the S. A. L. railroad, which be long- to the Southern Bell, which also has a line from Moncure to Pitts boro, connecting with the Pittsboro exchange. By selling Mr. Garner is able to see actual cash for his long term of attention to business; while to hold meant the continual reinvestment of all profits and possibly the securing of additional capita!. Young Man Dies Os Hydrophobia ' i - Clarence Fields, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Fields, who live three miles this side of Goldston, died Sunday morning of what Dr. R. M. Fields diagnosed as hydrophobia. The burial was at May’s Chapel Monday, under the auspices of Mr. Jeter Griffin, Pittsborqs funeral director. The funeral services were i conducted by Rev. R. R. Gordon, ofj Pittsboro. Dr. Fields was first called in on j the 16th. A few days later the young) man went into convulsions, strong- j ly showing the symptoms of hydro-; phobia. The family knew' of no dog’ bite that might account for the dis- i ease and the victim was beyond the point where he could give an account of the possible source of hydropho bia. The physicians sent a sample of the sputum to the state laboratory for the hydrophobia test J)ut no re port had been made when the death certificate w'as signed. Clarence was 22 years of age, and has thus been cut off in the heyday of youth. Goldston News Miss Edith Roberts, a member of the school faculty, will spend the Thanksgiving holidays w'ith a friend at Polkton. Miss Pearl Johnson will spend the holidays at her home at Bynum. Miss Ola Harmon will spend the holidays at her home near Pittsboro. The remainder of the faculty will be in Goldston during the holidays. Mrs. Moore’s third grade won the half holiday for last month. The honor roll pupils for the last month are the following: Fola Burns and Irene Hilliard 7th grade; Her bert C. Watson, 4th grade; Mary Erma Rives, Janie Paschal, Eliza beth Ellis, Casey Hilliard, 3rd grade; Nancy Ellis, Mary Lois Harris, Ist grade. The Goldston boys’ basket ball team will play their first game of ball for the season this afternoon, with Bonlee. Mr. Leon Goldston, of Texas is expected here this week to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Goldston. Mr. Gold ston has recently married and will • bring his bride. They are just re turning from their honeymoon north. Congratulations are extended to the j popular couple. Ms. Fitts, who has spent some time i here with relatives has returned to \ her home in Fayetteville. Stockholders of the Lincoln com pany which Ford bought are bring ing suit against the old man for many millions. Plaintiffs in damage suits, as well as death, love a shining mark. BONDS SOLD AT GOOD PREMIUM Fifteen Bidders Make Sale Os County Funding Bonds Competitive Sale. Whatever may have been thought of earlier sales of county bonds, which it seemed might have been so advertised a§. to assure as few bid ders as possible, the sale of SIOO,OOO of funding bonds last Thursday was a really competitive sale, and the bids varied from par to a premium of about two per cent. There were two batches of the bonds, one of $63,000 for the fund ing of the general indebtedness of the county; the other of $37,000 for the funding of school indebtedness accruing before March 7, and accu mulating for several years. The two made a. total of SIOO,OOO. There were fifteen bidders. Wells, Dickey & Company, of Minneapolis, were the highest bidders for both batches, with the exception of a bid by Sheriff Blair as treasurer of the county for the $63,000 issue. Their bid for the first batch was $64,490.58, and for the second lot, $37,875. They were awarded the school bonds, but the county treas urer bid $64,800 for the first lot and that was awarded to him, or to the county. Thus the county has bought its own indebtedness. It was this way: The county had used the sinking funds of the various districts in paying the indebtedness of the school board and possibly part of the gener al deficit. The $37,000 of school bonds will pay back to the county the money used for the schools. From this the sinking funds may be re stored. But those funds would have to be deposited in a bank or loaned elsewhere, and at a rate that would hardly equal that of the bonds. Ac cordingly the commissioners seem to have figured that they could save the county money by investing the sinking funds in the county’s own bonds, and thus it results that the siking funds of the bonds exist only as another county indebtedness. However, it is in such form that if, for any reason, a call for actual cash from the sinking funds should come, a sale of the bonds could be readily made, and the cash secured. It looks like lifting one’s self by his own boot straps, but it seems to work. The bonds are 4 3-4 per cent, the lowest rate at which any county bonds have sold ,at least in several years. Soy Bean Harvester Successfully Used Mr. W. H. White and Mr. Tal mage Siler, two farmers near Siler City, purchased a soy bean harvest er this summer. In spite of the fact that they had had no previous ex perience with a harvester, these two men harvested 200 bushels of no. 1 Mammoth Yellow soy bean seed this fall, and some of this amount will probably be available for sale to farmers of that vicinity. This is probably the first bean harvester ever used in this county. However, considering the large quantity of beans that are seeded in this coun ty ever year, and the uncertainty of the farmers being able to obtain suf ficient amount of the seed each year, it is hoped that farmers in more communities will obtain these har vesters. Lespedeza, or Japan Clover, seems to thrive on land that is too wet natured for other crops. Last Tues day, the Agent visited a six-acre field of this legume that had been seeded on Mr. J. F. Fox’s farm in the Rocky River church community. It was one of the best stands of les pedeza ever seen by the Agent. Practically every foot of the land was covered with a thick growth of this legume, and part of the field j that had previously been too wet for anything else, had a fine growth of Japan Clover. Mr. Fox states that he seeded part of this field last spring, and part of the field during the previous spring. He seeded at the rate of 12 pounds to the acre. This clover will be turned and fol lowed in corn next spring. The County Agent is still taking orders for government explosive, orders for 1,000 pounds being taken during the past week. The date of ordering is being postponed as much as possible in order to allow some farmers who need this explosive to obtain it. However, it is expected to order within the next three weeks. The cost of this material is $4.75 per 50-pound case and cash or checks must accompany the order. N. C. SHIVER, County Agt., In office Saturdays and first Mon days. Pittsboro, N. C. Nov. 18, 1927. A RESTRAINING INFLUENCE (“O. J.” In Greensboro News) Chatham’s O. J. Peterson of the Record, suggests that we’ll bear watching lest we do something to break into the state prison camp with a patch of 12,000 collards. Not this season, Pete. We’ve just tasted our first Chatham rabbit barbecued and have no notion of getting any farther from home than Mount Ver non Springs while the rabbit season is open. VOLUME 50, NUMBER 10 NEW FORD COMES OUT IN PICTURES * ■■ ■ Car Photographed in Michigan Is Reproduced in Maga iznes And Papers The much talked of and long awaited new Ford has at last made its appearance, at least in .certain places. A two-door sedan was pho tographed in Brighton, Michigan, as it stood on the streets. The picture appeared in several papers and in Motor Age, a magazine. The sedan, according to a report about six inches longer in wheelbase in this magazine, appeared to be than the Model T. It was finished in a light green and while low in ap pearance appeared to have increa five wire wheels, four-wheel brakes, sed body room. It was equipped with speedometer, oil pump, water pump, bumpers front and rear, standard gear shift and bullet-type head lamps These features were noted while the car was parked for a time at Bright on. The front of the car closely re sembles the Lincoln. Body line are ggenerally graceful, the hood line being high and meeting the waist line of the body which is also much windows are much wider than in the higher than in former models. The former models with the rear win dow curving as it meets the rear quarter. The roof line rises slightly to the rear quarter where it is round ed off. Reports at the River Rouge plant are that the assembly line started running soon after November 15. Engines for the new car are now going through at the rate of about 1,000 daily. The die and tool rooms at the plant are in full operation. It is expected that production of 200 cars daily will be inaugerated about November 21. Production plans are for as high as 12,000 daily by June 1. ERROR IN ADVERTISEMENT'' A serious error oecurrs in the ad vertisement of the Siler City Hard ware Co. That fine $135.00 range is to be sold for $97.50 and not $9.75 as printed in the advertisement. That part of the paper was printed before the error was discovered. BROWN CHAPEL ITEMS Rev. C. M. Lance held a Thanks giving service at Brown’s last Sun day. It w'as an appropriate service and a really thankful congregation heard him, and expressed their thanks by giving the pastor a good uound ing. This mark of appreciation falls to Pastor Lance on his return for his fourth and last year’s work on. the Pittsboro circuit. We hope to make this the best year of the four. Junius Durham of the University and Kiah Henderson of a Ralegih business school are home for the Thanksgiving holidays. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Crawford and William, of Fayetteville, have been, visiting relatives in Chatham, Orange and Alamance. Mrs. Crawford is a daughter of the late John H. Dark of this community. Mr. Ben Nicholson, the big poul try man of Alamance county, with his family spent Sunday with Mrs. Nicholson’s sister, Mrs. F. R. Hen derson, and was a welcome visitor at Sunday school. State Highway No. 93, Pittsboro to Graham, is now being maintained by the state. The route selected is the one nearer Haw River. Others would have been glad to see another route selected. This relieves the county of another road. Mrs. Meacham of New Hope town ship is with her grandson, John R. Goodwin. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are the proud parents of a little girl. LEE COUNTY FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE News came to Gulf Saturday while the editor of the Record was there to the effect that Mr. T. M. Allen, a Lee county farmer, aged 64, had been found hanging to a tree. It w r as stated that Mr. Allen has been som,ewhat off in mind for tw T o weeks. He had declared when he left home that he was going to Gulf to pay an account at the store of Mr. W. H. Hill. Soon after he left it was dis covered that he had not taken the money to pay the account and that a certain rope and chain were miss ing. A search revealed the body hanging from a tree. It was also stated that he was distressed about money matters, but that a check for SI4OO was received soon after his death. ALL DAY December 3rd a foot specialist from the personal staff of Dr. Scoll of Chicago will beat our store to examine all hurting feet FREE. Come and bring all your footsore friends. STROUD & HUBBARD Sanford, N. C.