rtTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 Today A trillion IN GOLD wH EN FORD advertises ONE PIN T » LIFE* (jOMES MONKHTAR BEY. By ARTHUR BRISBANE Interest on “time money” with hich Wall Street gentletnea jjpccu * comes ashore and police him, fearing an Armenian K ack Armenians say Moukhtar ■“led 30,000 Armenians during the ■ ar- He says he did not. ■. in any case. Armenians should ■ tL ' e any political quarrels away ■ cm American soil.' • Brother Turkish ambassador, the K, /lavroyeni Hey, whom all ■ snmgton iiked. replied to . the KilV lUrd ' erin e Armenians' as s: iou talk about Armenians. e , are your red Indians? I see ■ e+ hem^ ,an3 ' did you do yesterday Alex is u ne> Russian, thirty-five Bon be , catT) e world chess cham- Be t’nii er * t * le eighty-first move in E®,. kv-iourth game. Jose Capa- Htivpn l c , am pion since 1921, was ■hen veu tke Unfortunately, ■u don’t- ln cna mpionship at chess Btencp , do thing in particular; Bn-prod^r ta e ? fort is used on Bi En tlVt : work - The man who Kc |sl ’ e ’ however little, on elec ■ the radio is worth more o tnan all chess players. ■H not k. i )a^ ket i c detail, Alkhine ■ 1929 a „J ea to Play again un ■ only to V wm play for a stake ■ ck Demn ’ That would amuse ■?. n pse >' an d Mr. Gene Tun- B ess boar-■■■ --*■ i. p CHATHAM CLUB MEETS The Chatham county club held its regular meeting Tuesday night, No vember 29, and a very interesting program was rendered. The club was very fortunate in Mr. W. -Rr Thompson and Mr. J. O. Han non to speak. Mr. Thompson, who is an alumnus of the University gave an interesting talk on Chat ham county’s need for greater im provements along various lines. He called attention to, the progress that the county has made in the past, but stressed the necessity for greater ef forts to be put forth for the im provement of conditions in the coun ty by a more adequate educational ! system. Don’t Cheer Yet.—Evening gowns ] now are cut to the heels on one side and to the hip on the other. There’s j no occasion, to “hip-hip” over a one i hip. affair. MANY VISIT WEEKS FORD EXHIBITION Pictures of New Car Prove Revelation and Prices As tonish the Public - There were not enough Fords to ! go round, and the Weeks Motor Co. faailed to have one on hand last Friday. In fact, there were only eleven for the state of North Caro lina and South Carolina, and they were sent Friday to the eleven lar gest towns in the two states. From those they are to go to smaller and smaller places till all have had a chance to see them, or until enough have been brought into the state to place one at each Ford station, Mr. Weeks is hoping to have one here within two or thi-ee weeks. . But car or no car, the display Friday was quite satisfactoy, and,, nearly three hundred people were register ed as visitors to the Ford room. Mr. Weeks had the large room prepared for the display of the pictures, that gave a splendid conception of each of the styles of passenger cars, also of the 1 1-2-ton truck. Not only were the pictures of the cars of interest to the automobile public, but perhaps, more so were the prices, which indicate that the new Fords will ;be only a few dol lars higher than the old ones, and the difference will possibly be more than counterbalanced by the addi tional accesserieon the new car. For instance, the new cars will all have extra wheels. At Durham an actual car was on display, and it is stated that more than 17,000 people saw it. Dr. Far rell of Pittsboro was one who was sufficiently interested as to go up and. see it, and he - came • back en thused. j: . VJ | . The New Price*: . . r The variqus types aiid their prices, f.o.b'Detroit, follow: > , , - Tudor sedan $495; fordor sedan, $570; coupe s49£; sport coupe $550; phaeton $395; roadster $385; road ster with pickup body $395 ;» chasis $395. ' Trucks: truck and chassis, $460; truck chasis with cab $545; truck chassis with cab and express body $6110;' true' massis with cab and stake body ilO; truck chassis with cal) and pla* orm body $595. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927 PORKERS PAY BIG PRICE FOR CORN Valuable Results of Feeding Demonstration Chath&m ites Plant Lespedeza The two hog feeding demonstra tions in this county, whicui ing conducted by Mr. N. J. Dawkittfi near Goidston and Mr. W. B. Sfrg* ughan near Siler City, are showing some good results. These two dem onstrations are being conducted in co-operation with the county agent and the Office of Swine Extension j in Raleigh. Mr. Straughan shows an average gain of 47 lbs. per pig fori a period of thirty days, and Mr. Dawkins shows an average gain of j 41 lbs perv pig. The records show] that during this thirty day period, after subtracting the price of feed j bought, Mr. Dawkins has realized j $2.94 per bushel for his com fed i to his pigs, and Straughan has rea lized around $5 per bushel for his corn. This is estimated at the pres ent price of pork. These pigs will be continued to be led until they reach marketing size, and they will be weighed regularly at thirty day intervals. For the month of Decent »bes, tftegfc pigs will lie' fed one part of fish meal, three parts of corn meal and one part of shorts, with an equal amount of corn. The County Agent with the assis tance of tne Experiment Stations putting on a campaign for 2000 acres in Lespedza or Japan clover in this county next spring. During this fall, forty farmers have been induced to seed a total of 400 acres in Lespedeza next spring, and it is hoped to induce a number of farm ers to try this legume before seed ing time. Orders totalling 12,00d ,: 1bs of ex plosive have been taken by the agent this fall, but it is very unlikely that the county will be able to secure this explosive, as a letter from the •Washington office states that the supply for North Carolirfta has al ready been used. In case we are unable to secure this explosive, the checks will be returned to the far mers. , In office Saturdays and first Mon days. H. C. SHIVER, County Agent. SLAYS HJS BABY ADD THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF $ KINSTON, Dec. I.—J. B. Carroll, Jr., 32, member of a prominent Pitt county family, late last night dash ed his infant daughter to the pave ment in an Ayden street, fatally, in juring her, and then drov.e to his home near Winterville and shot him self to death. Carroll is said to have been de mented. His wife had left him and gone to the home of a relative at Ayden. Last night she refused to see him when he called but permit ted the baby to be taken him on the sidewalk. Without warning he hurled the infant to the ground, crushing its skull. The thud was heard by women indoors. Car roll dashed off in his automobile. The baby’s wails were hushed by un consciousness. It died in a short time. Pursuing officers found the man’s body on the porch of his home lying in a pool of blood, a gun by its side. An undertaker placed the bodies of Carroll and the infant in the same casket, the baby in the father’s arms. Ayden acquaintanc es said the man had been subject to fits of dementia since boyhood, when he accidentally killed a near relative. Feeling was high at Ay den until news of his suicide reached that town. SIX KILLED IN SMALL VIL LAGE ’ ■. \ SHUQUALAK, Miss., Dec. 5. Six negroes were dead here today as the result of a pistol duel and an automobile crash last night. . r;V : George Murdock, wealthy negro, land owner was shot down after'Tie shot to death t\Vß‘ brothers,. *F6rest and George Billinger, «negro broth ers, who died with their pistols in their hands, but not. discharged.. Who killed Murdock, unarmed, is a mystery today. Three negroes returning from church were killed when * their car struck a fast M. and O. passenger train near the scene of the shoot ing. J. W. Mills, the pastor, Ross Winston, and John McCullough were instantly killed in the crash. HUSBAND BOMBS HIS WIFE’S ABODE CHICAGO, Dec. s.—lncensed be cause his wife refused to return to him after she had found him paying attention to other . women, Henry A. Grady, Montgomery, Ala., is be lieved by Chicago police to have at tempted to kill her today by placing a bomb in a hallway at her home. Mrs. Grady left her husband in Cincinnati November 2, and claimed that she was forced to go to the railway station under police escort because Grady had threatened her. Grady followed his wife to Chica go and since that time has been tel ephoning every few days, begging to be allowed to return, Mrs. Grady said. The bomb exploded with such force that it aroused the neighbors for several blocks distant. Damage estimated at several hundred dol lars resulted.. SEVERAL VICTIMS STORMY WEATHER Durham Insurance Man Fails In Creek After He Is De nied Ride to City Several men were victims of the week-end. Mr. W. J. Scott, an in surance man of Durham, out in the southern borders of the city Satur day night collecting premiums, be came ill and when making his way back to the city fell into a small stream and was drowned. He had I offered a dollar to .some men to take him baqk up town, but they | charged $3 and he tried to walk. Re was a brother of Mr. A. C. Scott of 1 Chatham county. i When two fellows nYear Marshall were being chased a3 liquor sus- I pects they leaped from . their car i and one ran into a stream and was drowned. A man is said to have froze to death in Robeson county; while another sat in his car which had stalled in a stream near home and froze, or died from exposure. When found his car was running and the lights on, and the footboard up as if he had been working on the car. He was also barefooted, indL Asating that he had been in the wa ter. This was Marshall Lee, a 25 year old Harnett county farmer who had been visiting his brother in Sampson county. Off the coast two or three ships sank, it being uncertain whether two or three. The crews and pass engers were taken from two just in the nick of time. NORTH CAROLINA NOT POOR STATE, SAYS BION BUTLER No State In The Union, Says He, Is In Better Finan cial Shape Today OUR PROGRESS AMAZING -By BION H. BUTLER A few day 3 ago I was i:i Aber deen at the tobacco market men called to my attention a check for $3,769.32 paid a farm er that day for the tobacco he had sold on the floor .during the sales of the forenoon. Then I commen ced to think a little about the con dition of the' farmer in 'North Caro lina, and from that the thought ran ged until it included the whole State. And as I thought of present condi tions it flashed over me that we are crazy as loons when we talk about the condition of the farmer or any body else in North Carolina, for the progress of this State in a material way has been in the last thirty years one of the most remarkable roman ces the world has ever known. In 1890, or just prior to iny first visit to the barrens of Moore county the agricultural products of all this state, according to the figures from the United States statisticial de partment, totaled slightly over $50,- 000,000. From present indications the tobacco crop of the State this year will sell for more than all the agricultural products of the State in that year, and to go further, for more than twice as much. Since that day the farm crops of North Carolina have climbed up to about five hundred million dollars instead of fifty millinos, or easily ten times as much. Then I looked at some more fig ures, and found that the products of the mills and factories in that year were slightly over $40,000,000. Or that the total farm and factory products reached ninety . millions. Last year it is stated that the total of farm and factory reached in this,. State a billion and a half- dollars, or an increase of almost sixteen times that of 1890. Manufactures alone have advanced to a value of a billion dollars, or 25 times what they were in 1890, when I first knew Moore county. , Moore county warehouses are figuring now on selling six million pounds of tobacco, and thac will probably bring a million and a half dollars, where in 1890 Moore county hardly had any idea what any money looked like that came from selling stuff made on the farm. In the pe riod since 1890 the earnings of the State from farm and factory have increased from ninety million to fif teen hundred millions, an increase that is not known to any other State in the Union. And now North Car olina is making and selling more farm stuff and manufactured stuff than any other staate in the Union made in 1890 except New York, Pennsylvania and by a slight mar gin Illinois. We are a more produc tive State now thtn Ohio was then, or Massachusetts, which were the only two that were anywhere near what North Carolina is now, and more ones now, no matter what they are. ! ■ T . In 1890 no one .looked on Ohio or Massachusetts or Illinois as states in the dumps. Yet we go far ahead now of Massachusetts and ‘ Ohio then and are close on the record of Illinois was making. But at that time Illinois "had twice the popula tion we have, Ohio had nearly twice our present population, and Massa chusetts had more people than we o (Please turn to page eight)- LOVE'S CREEK CHURCH BEING MUCH IMPROVED Work upon Love’s Creek Baptist church, near Siler City, has advan ced far enough to indicate that a great improvement in its appearance and the comfort of the buiiding will result as a consequence of the re modeling in progress. The walls are being veneered with brick, with the consequence that the old church will soon look like a new brick building and will possess the comfort of one. The community also built a new school house to take the place of the one burned several weeks ago. In fact, within two weeks after the fire the school building was in use. KEEP PLOWS GOING ON THE CLAY LAND RALEIGH, Dec, operation in the year’s cycle of farming will pay better than the fall plowing of clay soils as compared with plowing these soils in., spring. .. “When clay soils are plowed in' the spring, they are likely to break into clods which are pulverized only at a great expenditure of labor,” says E. C. Blair, extension agrono mist at State College. “At this time of the year, all hands are needed in planting the crops and there is a likelihood that the land will not be so. well prepared. For plowing per mits the land to be well pulverized by the freezings and th&wings and one trip with the harrow in spring, The crop may then be planted on will usually make an ideal seed-bed. time, on a good seed-bed and a bet ter yield will be secured.” Plow deep in fall preparation, ad vises Mr. Blair. Turn up about an inch of the subsoil and leave the surface in a rough condition. This will help the soil to catch and hold moisture and will expose a greater surface to the action of frost. Har rowing is best not done in the fall, according to Mr. Blair’s experience. -This eauses the soil to run together. Plow it and leave it and then when tpring weather opens up run the harrow over the land throughly and the seed-bed is ready for the plant er. It is more important to plow the clover, grass or lespedeza sods at this time of the yeare than the old corn, cotton or tobacco fields. There fore it would be well to begin with the sod fields. However, every acre in the Piedmont section, not. now in a wfrtter cover crop, should be. giv en a Christmas present- of a good, deep plowing, states Mr. Blair. CONFEDERATE BAZAAR . - The most' Successful Bazaar that the Winnie Davis Chapter of U. D. C. has ever had was held in Pitts boro on Saturday, December 3rd. Notwithstanding the rain, the Ba zaar wa= well attended—and enjoy ed by all. The main object of this ba2aar was tq raise money to pro vide Christmas boxes for the Con federate veterans of Chatham coun ty. * . The chapter wishes to thank the business firms who so generously contributed to the success of the bazaar by their contributions. Each article contributed by the firms was placed in the “Advertis ing Booth”—with the name of the firm attached thereon. This being an advertisement for them, and a help to ils. ~ * MRS. H. A. LONDON, Pittsboro, N. C. All veterans who are not drawing pensions, please notify Mrs. London at once. New Hill Items Mr. Charlie R. Heam owned a hog that had been sick quite a while, part of the time he was helpless. Last Tuesday the hog began hav ing fits and after several hours if* died, havinpr shown si&ns, of hydro phobia.., Mr. Heam carried the head to Raleigh, f had it analyzed and it proved to be Effected with rabies. Mr. Heam, his wife'and two small children are taking the. pasteur treatment from Dr. Upchurch'. None of the family have been bitten but they had doctored the hog and wanted to be on the safe side. We regret very much that it is neces sary for them to take this painful treatment but under the circum stances, we, too, think it is best. Since December 1, Turkey hunt ing is the occupation of quite a num ber of our people and several tur keys have been killed. Mrs. I. H. Heam has gone to Cary to nurse her daughter, Mrs. A. J.... Holt,' who is sick with rheuma tism. We hope this young woman will completely recover from this dreadful disease. Bernest Toomer, colqfred, w r as buried at Ebernezer (colored) church cemetery last Tuesday. He was found dead in Durham Saturday having been shot to death. So far no clue has been found as to who murdered him. * We have been informed that last Saturday Miss Rusbia Mitchell and Willie Partin were united in mar riage. Mrs. Partin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moody. Mitchell and Mr., Partin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Billie Partin, both are of this community. We wish sot them many years of happiness and' prosperity. No church services were held at New Elam last Sunday on account of the inolement weather. Next Sunday night Mr. G. F. Carr will be leader of Christian Endeavor. . The subject will be on “Missionaires.”- VOL. 50. NO. 12. BAIN IS MANAGER OF TELEPHONE CO. Headquarters at Siler City— An Additional Operator Al lowed Pittsboro Exchange SILER CITY, Dec. 2.—0. G. Baht of Hendersonville, accompanied by Mrs 1 . Bain, arrived here Thursday to assume his duties as manager of the Central Carolina Tele phone company, which recently pur chased the Bonlee Telephone com pany and the Snow Camp Telephone company., Mr. Bain, who has had 15 years experience in the telephone business will be manager of all the exchan ges taken over by : the new corpo ration. He succeeds W; H. Garner,, who was owner and manager of the Bonlee Telephone company. Mr. Garner still maintains an interest in. ihi system.; - Officers of the Carolina Tele phone company, are: President, Geo. R. Ross, of Jackson Springs; vice president, T. L. Bland, of Raleigh; and secretary, Miss M. Conway, of Charlotte. V ’ 1 Mr. Bain stated today that the business headquarters of the tele phone company company will he located at Siler City. Mr. and Bain are making their .home with Mr. and Mrij. J. T. Ellis; One of .the first things done by the new management was the addi tion of an operator at the Pittsboro exchange, where business has been picking up lately. In the past one operator has been hblding the Pitts boro switchboard for 14 hours each day, except Sunday .v,; The Snow Camp system, which ceased to function several weeks before the closing of the deal which transferred it to the new corpora tion, is to be rebuilt and put into working condition as quickly as pos sible. Additional cables >re to he put in all over the system. LOST VILLAGE HAS NO STREET CAR, TRAIN, BUS CBEVILLY-LARUE, Seine, Dec. s.—Ten miles from Notre Dame m Paris is the ilttie “loss vinage;** of Chevilly-Lqrue, undoubtedly the most quiet community in all of France. • * Leaving Villejuif, with, its gay cases, “Mbn Rave” and “Sammy’s Bar,” where the little Parisian midi hettes spend Sunday eating “muss els and fried potatoes,” one arrives, at a little market place bordered by great plantains. On either side is the thick-walled convent. Besides these white-robed nuns, there are a handful of inhabitants living in. great farm houses behind high fenc es; There is no street car, no tram* not even a village omnibus. Nobody wants one. The nuns, like the farm ers, have their own carriages which they use very seldom.. Everything they need is brought to the market on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. A quarter of an hour’s walk brings them to the next town. The inhabitants of. Chevilly prefer thefr “lost' village.” FOUR MILLION SLAVES IN WORLD UNDER BRITISH LONDON, Dec. s.—Despite the tremendous progress which has been made in the advancement of civiliza tion, recent statistics show that there are more than 4,000,000 slaves in the world at the present time. And England, who was the first to import slaves to America, has the majority of these under her de nomination. However, intensive work is being done in London to abolish this, and results are proving satisfactory. Speaking before a protest meet ing, Lady Simon, famous for, her work in urging the abolition of this form of making man work, pointed qut that it could only end in racial wars. .* - • „ “Everyone knows slavery i s a black stain on the record of hu manity. In Jamaica the slaves were set free nearly 100 years ago. Their descendants are happy, dignified, peasant proprietors of farms, grow ing fruit for the markets.” Look at the progress of the Amer ican colored people since their em ancipation. Our success in setting free 200,- 000,000 slaves in Sierra Leone, Af rica, proves that public opinion is all powerful.” SOLDIER’S DOG RECEIVES HONOR WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A sil ver plate purchased by his comrades in arms and relating his deeds of valor is td adorn the plaster cast of “Stubliy,” the dog mascot of the American expeditionary forces who captured: a German spy and saved the life, of a doughboy during the world war..- • • - The cast has been given a place *>f honor in the American Red Cross museum. * “Stubby” was a veteran of four major Engagements, having seen services at the Marne, Champagne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. President Wilson shook hands with him -5n - Christmas day, 1918, and he as received officially at the White House by Presidents Harding andjCoolidge. He died in 1926 and his ashes were encased in an air tight container which was placed in side s the plaster cast.