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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 himbalton items \Y. S. Mq. Meade, of New York, n d Clifton Wharton, Jr., of Plain field N. J-» spent last week at the Oakmont hunting club. Hunter Morriscon and Bernard Cutter, of New York, are at the Oakmont hunting cluo this week. Barney Burke spent a day last week in'Fayetteville. >?r. and Mrs. Clyde Russell and little daughter, of Greensboro, were uet'k end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Er nest Brewer. and Mrs. James Lawrence jlcManess, of near Bonlee, visited Mr A. V. Ferguson last week. Mrs. McManess was Miss Cora Ferguson. <he and Mr. McManess were married about two weeks ago. Barney Burke, Jim Harris and Millard Elmore went to Greensboro ind Stokesdale Saturday and Sun- Mr. Bignett and Mr. Barber, of Patterson, N. J., are at the Oak mont shooting club this week. Jack Tull, of New Jersey, has been at Jim Webster’s for more than a week. He is trainer for Herman Cook, of Madison, N. J. Mr. R. H. Weaver is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Weaver has been teaching at Hickory Mountain for him. Hickory Mountain school had a box party a few nights ago. They raised $26.74. There was a large crowd, considering the weather. Dwight Elmore is improving rap idly after an attack of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Dark went to Greensboro one day last week on a shopping tour. Mr. Howard Butler, superintend ent of the Carolina Coal Company, was a Norfolk visitor last week and attended the Cotton Seed Crushers’ feast with Mr. Ed Hinton. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Smith, of Cum berland county, visited the latter’s brother, Mr. H. G. Beard, Sunday. LESPEDEZA CAMPAIGN GOAL IS 2000 ACRES Final efforts to obtain Pyrotol for farmers of this county have been unsuccessful and, the agent is re turning checks to those farmers who have paid for the explosive. North Carolina’s allottment of this, ex plosive has already been used, but it was hoped to obtain a portion of the explosive that had been allotted West Virginia and Tennessee. How ever, we were unable to do this. The county agent is making pians to make up co-operative orders of Lespedeza or Japan clover seed and soy beans at an early date in Jan uary. Forty farmers of this coun ty have expressed their intentions of sowing a total of 500 acres in Lespedeza, and the county agent is making an effort to obtain a total of 20U0 acres in Chatham county seeded in this legume. Indications also point to a larger acreage in soy beans for the coming year. Chat ham county had a total of 10,000 acres in soy beans this year, as com pared with a tota lof 800 in 1925. Farmers who are interested in ob taining any of the above seed should place their order with the county agent. Next week, Dec. 12-16 is the date of the Annual Conference of the county agents, and the agent will spend this week in Raleigh. N. C. SHIVER, County Agent. In office Saturdays and first Mon days. BROWNSCHAPEL Mrs. A. C. Whitaker has bean sick for a few days, but we are glad to report that she is now improving and will soon be able to look after the fat on a 5 or 6 hundred pound hog to be killed. Mrs. A. P. Dark has been confin ef - to her room with rheumatism for some time, but is able to get away Ir °m home a little now. Mr. Leaton Mann who, has a position with his brother, Mr. Os borne Mann, a contractor in Bur ■ington. was at his place of duty at *'• C. Sunday school last Sunday and ,; en t the week-end with his parents, - iand Mrs. J. T. Mann. u ‘•' at present, is s,oCht e,rw shrdls mt. pleasant school A The average attendance for the ‘ '• Pleasant school for the third Month was 60.8. fhose who made perfect attend -mce for the third month are as lollows. Grade— Elsie Mann and Le on Mann. Grade—Mildred Hackney •-o Elizabeth Poythress. fourth Grade—Curtis Hamlet, Hobby and Vergilia Smith, ri. ! h Grade—Blanche Mann, Ed -1 n Leer and Winfred Norwood. uxt/i Grade— Clara Hackney, Ola Fil nn -’ Charles Mann, Ralph Morgan, j tn Morgan and Adel Smith. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE of Wng °l ua lified as administrator Cha-u e 'T a t e of E. J. Mclver, late of n u C ? u . nty ’ 1 hereby warn all . o 'ding claims against the on i°r P rese nt them duly proved ber if!>)o° re tlie 15th day of Decem pleaiG. i • or this notice will be All 111 har of their recovery, pleat owing the estate will ThG ! it Ke earl y payment. 192? l^e day of December, Administrator. Burlington > N - iue Chatham Record JUDGE’S PISTOL FOILS LYNCHING Grady Warns Angry Crowd That They Must Not Lay Their Hands on Negro GOLDSBORO, Dec. 11. —Leaning forvvaid from the bench with a heavy automatic grasped in his right hand, solemnly warning the audience that he would shoot dead the next man who laid hands upon the prisoner, Judge Henry A. Grady this morning saved Larry Newsome, 23-year old black, from attempted lynching. Three hours later, when the jury’s verdict of guilty was in, Judge Grady sentenced Newsome to die on Friday, January 13, 1928. Only a moment before Judge Grady rose up from the bench, pistol in hand, the court room, pack ed to suffocation, had been thrown into pandemonium when William Tedder, an. uncle of Beulah Tedder, the Negro’s victim, precipitated what was evidently a well planned atcempt to take the Negro from the court room and lynch him. Beside him stood his brother, the girl’s father and behind him a company of relatives and neighbors. Crowd Surges Forward With a cry of “Take Him! Take him!” the young Tedder grabbed at the shivering Negro. At this signal those evidently in collusion with him rose from their seats and sur ged forward. William Tedder’s hand found the prisoner’s throat, and as he pulled him out of his seat, the Negro’s shirt tore away from his body. In the crowded bar the fa-ther of the girl was squirming forward with his hands raised to ward the prisoner. FI is face was gray and convulsed. Like a flash Sheriff W. D. Grant threw himself between the prisoner and the two leaders of the attempt at lynching. One arm xvent around the terrified black, and the other reached for the pistol in the holster at his belt. A deputy wrig gled through the squirming mass of men and grabbed the younger Ted der. “Stand back” shouted the sheriff. Sheriff’s Gun Roars. “Take him,” yelled the relatives and neighbors of the dead girl, who were still surging forward behind their young leader. Sheriff Grant’s pistol was out now, and he raised it above his head. Twice the heavy gun roared. The bullets ploughed their way into the beamed ceiling ot the court room. Taken aback, the lynchers fell silent and retreat ed a step. Sheriff Grant, still hold ing the pistol on the crowd, and pushing his prisoner behind him, backed toward the door of the jury room. “Take him out for a little until we can get this crowd settled, Sheriff,” Judge Grady directed. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I would veying the scene, with the heavy pistol grasped in his r.ight hand. “No Lynching” Orders Grady At the first outbreak, Solicitor not willingly harm a man among you, but the next man who under takes to lay hands upon this prison er I will shoot dead. There is not going to be a lynching here.’ At the f’irst outbreak Solicitor Clawson Williams was sitting at the counsel table, examining the wit ness, Deputy Sheriff Kornegay. As a precautionary measure, he had arranged for the calling of the local military company if there should arise any need for them. They were assembled in their armory, and were to come on the given signal of ringing of the court house bell. Unquestionably here was an emer gency that might require troops. Rings Bell for Troops The bell rope with which the signal was to be given was across the court room, and unable to make any headway through the tumult, Solicitor Williams mounted his table, jumped from there to the de fense attorney’s table, and thence catapulted himself on the Judge’s desk, down to a table on the other side and by other tables until he had come within jumping distance of the bell rope. He jumped a final time and gave the signal. The bell pealed out, and in their armory the troops began to get ready to move. Half an hour later the troops, heavily armed and under the com mand of Lieutenant Yelverton, marched into the court room. Mean time the prisoner had been taken into the jury room, and deputies and citizens stoo dguard at the doors, pistok in hand. Judge Grady con tinued to< stand, facing the crowd. The doors had been locked, and none could get out. Again he told them that he would tolerate no dis order, and that he would shoot down the first man who made a move toward carrying out any purpose to lynch the prisoner. Tedder Brought Before Judge When Deputy Buck Gardner grab bed William Tedder, the man who started the lynching threat, he held on. Tedder squirmed in an effort to break from his grasp, but the deputy lugged him toward the grim judge, who ordered him into custody, lecturing briefly upon the futility and unreasonableness of undertaking to disgrace the courts of North Car olina by staging a lynching in a court house. Tedder said nothing. He was seated, under guard, within three feet of the judge, and im mediately in line with his probable line of fire if he started shooting. o (Please turn to page eight) PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1927. Washington Letter Sparkling Account of The Do ings at Capital During the First Week of Congress By WILLIAM P. HELM, Jr. (Washington Cor. of The Record) WASHlNGTON.—Washington is boiling and bubbling with suppress ed excitement in these hectic days that mark the convening of a new congress. Across the stage of na tional affairs, drama, romance, pa thos and anger tread swiftly on each other’s heels. Everywhere— in the streets, the cloakrooms of the Capitol, the lobbies of the crowded hotels—the political situation is on the tongue of everyone. The mak ings of as intense and dramatic a political campaign as the nation ev er witnessed are quickening, as if drawn by a magnet, into tangible form. The fight in the Senate to bar from membership the Senators from Illinois and Pennsylvania was thought, in advance, to have mort gaged the spotlight of public atten tion. But now that the fight has come, and ended, interest in it has ebbed away and other swiftly oc curring events battle for a place in the public eye. Os them Washing ton is filled. There has never been so much public news breaking here in the peacetime annals of the Re public as today. They barred Smith of Illinois from the Senate on the day after it was organized and then took up the fight on Vare. Whatever the crowd ed galleries might have thought of Smith for his alleged purchase of a Senate seat, they warmed to him at the moment of his rejection. He stood there proudly in his place, un flinching in the face of the fiery charges hurled upon him by his foes. And when the vote was taken that denied him the seat he claims, he stood unchanged, erect, betraying no emotion. He walked away with a high head and a vigorous step, his face revealing no clue to the heaviness that must have weighted down his heart. Not far away from the Senate chamber the hosts of many church es were meeting with prayer and the singing of hymns to stir them in their long-drawn battle for prohibi tion. The Anti-Saloon League hosts were here from all the states to mourn the passing of Wayne Wheel-, er and to name his successor. They did both, naming to Wheeler’s post one of their most able leaders, Er nest R. Cherrington of Westerville, Ohio. The world knows little of Cher rington but he knows much of the world. For years he has tried to spread the teachings of prohibition in every civilized community. He has been close to the rumblings of revolution in Turkey; he has known of the intrigue of the Soviets at Moscow; he has played his part in the awakening of China and helped in the ebb and flow of her Civil War. All these and many other things he has participated in with the idea that prohibition might thus be ad vanced under other flags. And all the while he has held his fingers to the pulse of American affairjs. He will make a fighting leader and the nation will read of his exploints of ten in the days to come, them 1 ulyHshrdlu shrdluetaoinshrdlu And while the chorus of the churchmen still floated out from the windows of their meeting place, the camp of the wets unlimbered its heavy artillery upon Capitol Hill.. It fired a withering blast on congress itself in a 250-word statement so hot that it should have been written on asbestos. This bombshell car ried with high explosive charges that far and away the majority of con gress drank exceedingly wet while voting exceedingly dry. Congress snorted—and may investigate. Politics is king over the House at the moment and the favorite game seems to be out-jockey the other fel low. The big tax-reduction meas ure is now before the House. It was written in an atmosphere surcharg ed with politics. “Foxy Grandpa” Garner, as his admirers effection ately call him, leads the Democrats and serious-minded William Green the Republicans. Both sides have written things into the new meas ure. The Democrats are out frank ly to put Mellon in tfye hole. The Republicans have their own ideas, in the House, about tax reduction, and they are not Mr. Mellon’s. Thus there is developing a three-cornered fight which bids fair to add much gayety to the nation ere it ends. Mr. Coolidge dropped a high ex plosive shell into the ranks of his party whose echoes are still rever berating through the nation. They marched into the East Room of the White House to hear a few kind words. Mr. Coolidge had prepared his speech and it had been given in confidence to the papers. But he ad ded a single paragraph at the end in which he told the Republican par ty to get busy and select another standard bearer. It left the National Committee gasping. They couldn’t even ap plaud, as the President swiftly turn ed and left them. It had other im medite results, too. The first of these was the wiping out of any chance left to Charles E. Hughes to head the ticket. The very next day, Mr. Hughes came out with a state ment that he would not run. What the President said doubtless quickened the heartbeats of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hoover wants the Presi dency, his close friends say, about as badly as it was ever wanted by mor- o (Please turn to page eight) MISSIONARY WILL PREACH XMAS Rev. Mr. Herring. 40 years a Missionary to China to Fill Baptist Pulpit Here It is gratifying to announce that Rev. D. W. Herring, wrio returned iast spring from the interior of China, where he for many years was a missionary, will occupy .he pulpit at the Pittsboro Baptist church on the fouth Sunday, which is Christ mas day. The Baptists have had several in teresting. visitors since the resigna tion of former pastor Gordon, but none more interesting than Mr. Her ring. Every member of the church should hear him. In fact, it will be a good way for anybody in this community to spend part of Christ mas day. NEW HILL ITEMS A n infant child of Mr. and Mrs. George Robbins of Guilford county was laid to rest in the New Claim cemetery last Monday. Somebody must be hungry as we are told some one made a rage on Mr. J. R. Matthews turnip patch one night last week and carried away several bushels of turnips, back, nearly blind and deaf, and Mrs. Kemp Goodwin are moving from Little Rock, S. C., to Mr. Hearn’s old home on this route. He is expecting his tractors and saw mill in a few days. He likes other places but not so w T eil as he does Chatham. Mr. Aaron Mitchell and family are moving back to Lee county af ter spending two years in Chatham. Mrs. Nannie Hean and little son are in Franklinto with Mrs. Hean’s father who is quite sick with pneu monia. Last week was killing week through this section. Generally speaking, Mr. W. T. Mann butchered the largest one at his time with sev eral others not far behind. Mr. G. T. Holt was given a regu lar birthday dinner at his home last Sunday, it being his 60th birthday. His wife, children and grandchildren had decided to surprise him, he knew nothing about their plans until Sun day morning. The following chil dren were present: Mesdames Cleve land Hean, N own an Hean, and ‘Wil lie Seagroves. Miss Lovie Holt, John. Herbert, and Elvis Holt; the other son, Andrew could not attend due to sickness in his home. The grandchildren were all present ex cept three. At the noon hour a well prepared dinner was enjoyed by the large number present. Mr. and Mrs. Onnie Webster of Durham were Sunday guests of Mrs. Addie Webster and family. Mr. E. H. Holt spent Sunday with relatives in Durham. Mr. G. F. Carr was the capable leader of C. E. Sunday night. The topic was “Missions or Missionaires Among the Immigrants,” Two weeks hence our study will be on “Christ mas”, with Miss Rose Sturdivant as leader. We are informed there will be a Christmas tree at Ebenezer Metho dist church Christmas Eve night. LIBERAL YANKEE PASSES THROUGH Mr. Henry Howard, who lives on the Pittsboro-Sanford highway, had the good fortune to help out a lib eral Northerner the other day and as a consequence got a free trip to Florida. • The driver of the tourist car had let it run off an embankment, but a very small one. Mr. Howard hap pened to be near, as did a truck and its driver. While Mr. Howard could have driven the car out without aid, the tourists insisted that the truck fasten chains and pull it out. Mr. Howard sat in the car, put on the gas, and didn’t let the chain tighten. The tourist then began to hand out money. He gave the truck man a $5 bill, a dollar each to Mr. How ard and two men standing by, and then when the chauffeur said that he had lost his nevre, the easy-mon ey man told Mr. Howard that he would give him forty dollars to drive him to Florida, and a free ticket back. It was a bargain, and Mr. Howard is invited around to tell the Record man about the trip when he returns. GOLDSTON NEWS Dr. Eugene Burns, of Concord, spent the week end here with his mother, Mrs. W. M. Burns. The school will close for the Christmas holidays Thursday, De cember 22, %ad will open for the spring term January 2. Examinations will be held tomor row, Wednesday, and will close Sat urday. This week closes our fourth month of school. We feel the fall term has been a very successful one. Goldston was defeated in the bas ketball game with Bonlee at Bon lee Friday afternoon. The score was 14 and 20. We are glad to have Miss Fran ces Ellis back in school this week after having her appendix removed a few weeks ago. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Landon Ri ley, a son, December the twelfth. Mrs. Rex Shepperd and little son have returned to their home in Mad ison after spending sometime here with her father and sister. V j OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU » j The Chatham Record has estab- J lished its own bureau at Wash- J ington. This has been done to give our readers up-to-date and authentic news of what is going on at the National Capital of interest to Chatham county residents. The Record Bureau is located at 24-25 Wyatt Building, (1403 F Street, N. W.) in the heart of city's business district. i William P. Helm, Jr., a nation ; ally known writer and Washing ! ton correspondent of long experi , ence, is in charge of the bureau. The services of the bureau are at the disposal, without charge of readers of the Record. You ; are invited to write us, or the Bu reau direct, mentioning this pa per, for any information desired with respect to national affairs, or for any service the Bureau may be able to perform for you in Washington. • And when you are in Washing ton, drop in at the Bureau. You will be welcomed there. Also. • the latest edition of the Record , will always be on file there. OLD GULF CHURCH Sketch of Old Church at Gulf and a Recent Reunion Service (By MISS ADA COWAN) In Chatham county, in the little town of Gulf, there is a small white church surrounded by its cemetery and enclosing rock wall. The little structure is simple in design and is buiit of the products of the native forests. For decades it has weathered the ;raging of the elements and the storms of men’s fierce passions, ex pressed by wars. But it stands as a monument of peace—of loyalty and faith in the one, only, who can guide the destinies of men. It is unique in one respect. For years, it has had no congregation. Deserted by all its living friends, it yet keeps a vigil over the dead lying in its yard. Nearly one hundred years ago, Mr. John Haughton left the home of his fathers in the Edenton sec tion and came, to Chatham settling by Deep River on a beautiful slope he called “The Gulf.” Missing his churchly ties and feeling the need and desire for some outward expres sion of the faith within him, he gave from his lands, an acre, and had erected on the site St. Mark’s church. The materials of the building and furnishings were of wood, gotten from the nearby forests and fash ioned in the mills and by servants from his own place. And when the structure was complete, the negroes, too were there in the little balcony built for them—for Mr. Haughton required of the servants of his house hold, an observance of the Sabboth. In this work of Christianity he was ably supported by his wife, who at one time in 1838 and on her own responsibility, had twenty three ser vants baptized in Deep River For many years after the Haugh tons left some to the Great Be yond, some to the county seat, Pitts boro, the Frasier family was the main stay of the little church. Then they, too, drifted away. And now after many years of pas sive waiting, St. Mark’s has found an active friend in Rev. R. G. Shan nonhouse, who has had the inside and outside of the building reno vated, the rock wall repaired and has personally gone through records to find those who might be interest ed. He sent them invitations to the services with the result that on Oct. 23 (with Bishop Cheshire and him self in the chancel and the body of the church full, with 4 persons on the balcony steps) there was held a service after years of silence. The God of the universe gave per fect weather and the foliage of the surrounding trees was bright. The congregation was of people from near and far, people drawn togeth er by love and loyalty to God, the father, and the ancestors from which they sprang. Thos prsent were: Mrs. N. M. Hill, Miss Azie Hill, Mr. Alex Riddle, Mr. and Mrs. Dan iel Bell, Bettie and Allie Peoples Bell, Mr. G. R. Pilkington, Mrs. W. L. Powell, Mrs. J. E. Morgan, Lea Powell, Camilla Powell, Not, Foster and Ross Powell, Mrs. Alex Riddle, Hasty and Vivian Riddle, Sam Law rence, Rev. R. G. Shannonhouse, Mrs J. W. Hunt, all of Pittsboro; R. T. Beck, Jr., Germanton; E. H. Forest, Mrs. J. M. Forest, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Forest, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Leon Lane, Mary Hooker Forest, J. M. Forest, Bernice Forest, Eugene Forest, Jr., Ben S. Forest, all of Mt. Vernon Springs; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mc- Intyre, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Russell, Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Palmer, Herbert Russell, Jr., Elizabeth Russell, Mrs. L. W. Heritage, of Gulf; Miss Mol lie Tate, Ramseur; Bishop J. B. Che shire, Raleigh; Miss Louise Joyner, Louisburg; Mr. Mark Richardson, Mr. Aubrey Peterson, Miss Lillie H. Hill, Leaksville; Mrs. J. H. Darden, Farmville; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Fra zier, W. G. Frazier, Jr., Mrs. R. O. Frazier, Mrs. H. C. McDearman, Miss Sarah McDearman, Mrs. D. C. Mit chell, Miss Martha Cowan, Miss Ida Cowan, of Durham. VOLUME 50. NO. 13. A RHAPSODY ON WEST CHATHAM Best Women, Busiest Men, and Fine Schools, Towns Thriv ing; Bcnlee’s New Dr. BONLEE, N. C., Dec. 10. —Editor. Chatham Record: We thank you for your visits and for your nice sayings about western Chatham, for we are proud of our kith and kin, our surroundings, our churches, our schools, our roads and our good women, for when the Mas ter said “ye are the salt of the earth,” He must have meant it largely for such great women as “Ma” Andrews and many more jew els you can find in Mt. Vernon Springs, Bennett, Goldston, Bon lee and the territory round about. We believe our men to be as good as the average, but we do believe our women to be the best in the world. Now, if we are not mistaken * in them, you will see some great leaders in church and state come out from these highways and hedges. Bennett is again coming out of the kinks. R. F. Rice, the Standard oil magnate, has bought considerable property in Bennett. Fie is a game sport, and we look for “Bob” to organize and have the only real hap py hunting grounds of the south. His location at Bennett is ideal. Goldston is putting on new life. The surrounding country is aroused from its slumber every - weekday morning with its many whistles of industry and they are putting out goods, wares and merchandise ga lore. She is a lovely little town, fill ed with churches, schools, good folks and filling stations. Mt. Vernon Springs, as long as Capt. W. H. Her itage lives, will be a place of work and have, and the people of Chat ham county should patronize those wonderful mineral springs, which to drink of means health and beau ty. Let's while . away our leisure time there next summer, get bet ter acquainted and make her go. And Bonlee is still in the center of the ring, and by the way, the near est village to the exact center of North Carolina, and she is going fine. The big planing mill is run ning full time, the grounds covered with new lumber. The roller mill is, I believe I will be safe in saying, the busiest place in Chatham coun ty. C, ,C. Routh, its manager, came from Randolph county, and to my mind there was none better left be hind. The Bonlee bank is a “busy bee.” The school is the best in its history. Principal Lank is on the job seven days a week. Our mer chants are busv and sober. The new system cotton gin is turning out the fieecy staple satisfactory to the buyers. An office and large storage rooms are being added to the roller mills. Three new dwellings are go ing up. The two churches have ever-green Sunday schools. The Masonic lodge is progressing nicely. Dr. Joe Johnson, of Apex, has located here and opened his offices adjoining the drug store. Dr. Joe comes highly recommended and stands ready to help suffering hu manity. Dr. Birkhead, the clever and efficient druggist, will move his family here from Sanford in a few days. Birk is no stranger, and we do want a few more like him. Three preachers live here, we are proud to say. Our hardware, dry goods store, market, barber shop and Boone Trail Service Station are rapidly turning away satisfied customers and Brake White, one of o.ur best citizens, is still working on an automobile and fixing Fords. In fact, Bonlee is a sweet little village and a good place to live. Come again, Mr. Editor; the Pugh House can fill you up once more. We live by the side of a good road. , Love, from, BEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP. A FINE NEW STORE There is no joking about it. That new “M System” store operated by Earl Wrenn and Mr. Honeycutt at Siler City, is the finest thing in the way of a grocery store within 25 miles of here. It is a self-help store. Every thing is right where you can lay your hand upon it. You get what you want and pay for it at the desk. The equipments of this store cost quite a sum. The new business is located in the former furniture room of Wrenn Brothers Company. It was opened only a few days ago, but when the writer was in the store Saturday it was doing a rushing business. MR. C. W. NEAL STRICKEN It was a grief to his many friends to learn of the severe illness of Mr. C. W. Neal of Bynum. Mr. Neal left his home Tuesday afternoon of last week apparently well. In an hour or two he came staggering back, naerly blind and deaf. Dr. Chapin was called, a nurse was secured, and the best attention possible given him. But on Wednes day morning it was thought best to take him to a hospital. Diagnosis indicated a blood clot, we are in formed. He has been and is a very sick man. PIE SUPPER There will be a pie supper given at Center Grove school Saturday night, December 17, for the benefit of the school. Everyone is cordially invited.