ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
MORE DETAILS OF
CAR THEFT RING’S
HUGE OPERATIONS
44 Bad Charlie” Culler, Who,
Squealed, Is Quiet Sinc£
He’s Getting Vi til
36 CARS ARE RECOVERED
ASHEBORO, Jan. 2.— When a
charge irom a sawed-off shotgun
laid Bad Charlie" Culler low in the
woods of Union township Monday
night, December 12, it was as if sig
nal gun had been fired for the un
folding before the eyes of the of
ficers of the law the operations, it
is claimed, of one of the boldest and
largest ring of car thieves which has
ever operated within the confines of
the State of North Carolina. So
much have the officers found out
about the unlawful trade in stolen
cars by a ring of which Culler is a
confessed member that the shooting
of Culler has become a mere inci
dent in the sordid business which is
now being ferreted out.
Officers from the motor vehicle
bureau of the North Carolina De
partment of Revenue have been in
Asheboro for the past Jen days join
ing hands with local officials and
officers of the law in adjoining
counties and at least two other states
in uncovering some of the operations
of this car stealing ring. Thirty
six stolen cars have been recovered
to date and definite leads have
been obtained as to many more, and
nobody seems to know where it will
end. Fourteen cars were recovered
at Hemp where Larkin Presnell, a
brother of Ben Presnell, who is free
under $3,000 bond to answer to
charge of shooting Culler and for car
, theft, is said to have operated a ga
rage. Larkin Presnell was arrest
ed at the time the cars were seized
and lodged in jail at Carthage. Sev
en cars were recovered in the lower ;
edge of Randolph, five in Asheb#ro
and others at different places thru
out this section of the state. Boyd
Presnell, brother of Ben and Larkin
Presnell, surrendered to Sheriff
Brady last Saturday and is free un
der $3,000 bond on charges growing
out of alleged car theft and dispo
sition of stolen automobiles, all the
result of investigations by officers
during the past ten days.
Culler’s Confession
The real hunt for stolen cars and
members of the alleged car stealing
and selling ring began shortly after
"Bad Charlie" Culler made, in Mem
orial hospital, in Asheboro, what, it
is stated, he thought was his death
bed confession. He had a hole in
the side of his head made by the
charge from the shotgun and one
eye was shot out. There seemed
little chance for him. According to
information obtained by Dr. Hay
worth from Tlise Cox, who brought
the wounded man to the hospital,
Culler had been shot about 11 o’clock
Monday night, or five hours before
he was brought to the hospital. He
had lost' fhuch blood and the shot
\ had gone so deep into his head that
it could not be probed out. So Cull
er ceased swearing and started to
pray. The information had been
given out that it is believed he
wanted to get something off his
mind before he passed away into the
uncertainties of the next.
Few know’ the details of the con
fession Culler made—only the offi
cers, perhaps, know all he told. But
he told enough to justify the sheriff
to get in touch with the motor ve
hicle department of the Department
of Revenue. Culler claimed that the
shot which caused the ugly wound
in his head was fired by Ben Pres
ycilT* of Sgagrove and that it was
fired in the woods near High Pine
church, in Union township. The two
Culler claimed, had quarreled over
the. proceeijs from the sale of a
Chrysler roadster, which "Bad Char
lie had disposed of in Florida. This
car is believed to have been the
Chrysler stolen from the street in
front of the Ashlyn hotel, in Ashe
boro, several months back. The
car so stolen belonged to a brother
m-law of Drs. Dempsey and Tiffany
Barnes. Then Culler unfolded a
story of the mside operations of a
car stealing ring, a story which
seemed incredible to the officers un
t ™ they began to delve into the de-
lt . .
Leader#
the gang, of which Culler claim
ed he and Ben Presnell and others
yere leaders, operated in North Ca
rolina, Tennessee, Florida and .iri
Georgia. "s&rs stolen in North Ca
rolma were disposed of i n Florida
rwv they y ere not sold in North
rohna. It was an easy matter,
-•liler explained, to run a stolen
? Vfir ln f° Tennessee, change the
-* ers ’ and obtain a State license
sos JJ* Culler claimed to have a
of tools with which the numbers
car * were changed. He
«u>Qi a I j ßo to have a set of notarial
forged title papers with
if oJ? 11 Was ’* a * l easy matter to make
ohf!l?J? e j r - the stolen car had been
WWh ed V? ~t he re K ular manner.
stmm I®* 1 ®* Culler told where the in
which he n sed could bo
looking! 8 - ? ot ,.! cn 5 >wn * but officers
havp * ! nt ° bkely places for them
tnnit • } been able t 0 locate the
thpv ho n s, P a P era * The theory is that
ingof Cufe m ° Ved after the shoot '
c the operations of the car
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fee Record
GAME LAW BOON
TO RABBIT TRIBE
Measure Presents Shipments of
Surplus From Chatham
And Other Counties
RALEIGH, Jan. 2.—The kick has
been taken out of the rabbit indus
try in North Carolina by the discov
ery that the 1927 General Assembly
adopted a law making it unlawful
to ship rabbits out of the state de
site the fact it left an open season
on rabbits and made it legal to shoot
them any season of the year.
As a result, Chatham county, and
several others equally noted for
their fast and fleet footed rabbits,
which formerly shipped these lus
cious and toothsome rabbits by the
carload to New York and other-
ern markets, find themselves with i
no market for the rabbits killed,
there. As a result, indications are !
that since it is no longer profitable !
to kill the rabb’ that they will be !
permitted to over-run many sec- j
tions that formerly kept them down j
by hunting them.
Ask Repeal
That the next General Assembly |
will be asked to amend the gam*- i
law and permit the shipment of this j
game fcOod outside the state, where j
a ready market awaits it, seems cer- [
tain. In fact, it was not generally j
known that this law had been pass- 1
ed until the Division of Markets |
started its usual work in assisting in ,
the shipment of rabbits to northern j
markets. The result of the law’ has ;
been that hundreds of farmers must ;
go without what has been hitherto j
the producer of a lucrative income j
in the winter months. Thus the Di- j
vision of Markets will actively sup- I
port any move to re'peal this section I
of the law’.
J. K. Dixon, assistant director of
the Department of Conservation and '
Development, and in direct charge j
of the enforcement of the State
game laws, also believes that peo
ple should be allowed to market rab- ,
bits outside the State, if they can
find the best market. He adds that
he is confident an effort will be
made to amend tne law’ in this re
spect in the next General Assembly. .
But in the meantime rabbits kill
ed in North Carolina cannot be ship- j
peel outside North Carolina.
Carolina Coal
Mines Plan To
Increase Output
North Carolina’s mines furnished !
57,939 long tons of coal in 192 G, i
figures compiled recently show. This j
production came from mines of the :
Erskine-Ramsey Coal company and j
the Carolina Coal company, located j
in Lee and Chatham counties, re- !
spectively. i
One of the most important devel
opments at the mines is thevhoistjng
machine which is being installed by
the Carolina Coal company, de
signed to double the present hoisting
capacity. A new steam plant is also
being erected to furnish power for
the new hoist.
The boiler in this plant will be \
equipped to burn pulverized fuel and i
with it tests will be made to deter- j
mine the heating value of the coal J
in the fine state.
Much research is being done by j
Dr. W. Gage of Washington, D. C.,
in testing the value of the coal for j
by-products materials. In a recent
conversation with State Geologist
Bryson, Dr. Gage appeared optimis
tic that the coal would be suitable
for this purpose. He reported that
as much as 38 gallons of oil has
been extracted from a ton of the J
Deep river coal.
Dr. Gage is one of the leading au- j
thorities on the low temperature j
distillation processes. Before com- j
ing to the state, he did considerable
work on the coals and oil shales of
western United States. The ulti
mate aim of his studies >is the locaj
tion of a by-products plant in ; thatp
section. j j J j
A new coal mine is being opened j
near Carbonton by the Gulf /Coal J
company of Gulf, N. C. Theres a!
vertical shaft is beino- sunk to cut
the seam at several feet below the
surface. It is reported by the com
pany that an anthracite coal will be
produced there. This is the first
record of anthracite coal being pro
duced in the state.
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AT MRS,'. KECK*§ ;
The children of Mr. Luther Eu
banks are at the home of their aunt
Mrs. (Gordon Keck; since the death
of their mother. There~are fiWe, the
oldest only twelve years 6fjpge v Mr.
Eubanks, in our office* Saturday,
said he would - give all ! Wftges
for the/ cai*e of the .except
what it takes A board
where he is employed in
mill. His wagee* are about s2.ftfLja
day, and his board will be S2O. Ur
course other personal expenses of
the father will have to be met, but
they should be slight. It seems that
a contribution from the county to
Mr. and Mrs.-Keck, or whoever’takes
care of the children, would be about
the best solution of the problem.
It coi.ts the orphanages $25 or S3O
a grponth to care for one child, but
that~sum wall, with the assistance of
Mr. Eubanks' wakes, probably take
care of the whole lot.
Mrs. Eubanks was r only ]3B years
of. age when she died, 1 i*
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PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM. COUNTY, THURSDAY. JANUARY S. 1928
Washington Letter
1 Three Troublesome Questions
1 —Wet and Dry Contest
Looms Large
By WILLIAM P. HELM, Jr.
Washington Correspondent of The.
Record.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Prohi
bition, tax reduction, farm relief
such are the three graces (or
plagues, according to the viewpoint)
that will hold high revel during the
coming political campaign. A holi-.
day-rested congress returning -*;to
Washington finds evidence on every
hand that these three issues have
i sharpened their outlines mightily
during the recess.
.. The wet-or-dry question simply
will not down ipr.jall.ithe soft smoth
erings placed upori4£jfcy the drys or
for all the snorting Indignation of
ihe wets. It has bobbed up again
j and again dating the past few weeks
j and now looms as one of the prime
issues, if not the leading one, of the
! 1928 presidential campaign.
Thirty-odd national dry organiza
| tions will pour their delegates into
i the capital city soon to pool their
t energies for the coming fight. The
i meeting will be held January 26 in
answer to an emergency call, and
those steering the dry campaign ex-
J pect that the mammoth gathering
j will show its teeth to all candidates.
They will write their demands,
j those militant drys, upon all con
! te.-tants for the Presidency. , They
j "id ask, say the leaders, that both
; Republican and Democratic conven
| tions write a bone-dry plank in the
; party platforms. They will demand
• that the conventions go on record
j with a pledge to support only such
j of its candidates' qs declare unequiv-
I ocally “for the enforcement of the
i Eighteenth Amendment and all sup
; porting legislation/’ They will re
quire that the parties nominate for
Presidency “candidates thoroughly
| committed to this policy by their
; act-, utterances and records."
The Anti-Saloon League, the Wo
men’s Christian Temperance Union,
the National Women’s Federation
for Law Enforcement, the Flying
Squadron, the National Reform Bu
reau, the Prohibition Party, the
; Sons of Temperance the Inter-Col
legiate Prohibitive Association, rhe
Scientific Temperance Federation
j —these are among - the better known
| of the organizations that will attend.
Back of that stands a mammoth
1 campaign of dry education—propa
j ganda, the wets call it — with more
than SIOOO,OOO to spend during - the
big checks from some of the wealthy
1 men of the country and little checks
1 from many of the middle class—for
' this campaign,which is the pet idea
: of Ernest H. Cherrington. the Anti-
Saloon League’s new helmsman. El
aborate offices are to be engaged
and the League’s publicity depart
; ment will move, for the first time
j in years, from the modest red brick
! building just off Capitol Park.
J This campaign, in its essentials,
I is aimed at Governor A1 Smith, of
! New York, Senator “Jim" Reed and
Governor Ritchie, on the Democrat
ic side and such outstanding wets
as Nicholas Murray Butler and Nich
olas Longworth on the Republican
side.
Out in the country, in almost ev
ery state, the drys are even now
r astir with eager energy to corral
; delegates to the two national con
j ventions. They are a bit early, but
j they are combing the field in a fore
j harrded effort to see to it that the
j drys win a majority, if possible, in
t both national assemblies. If they
j can’t do that, they fully expect to
win more than the one-third neces
sary to vote a candidate in the Dem
ocratic meeting.
.The wets are hardly less active,
though their plans developed no
new public angles during the week.
They too, are going in for a vast
DtFmnk Crane Says J||l
Life After Death
A gentleman writes me a letter,
from which quotations are as fol-
Jpwf: •'
* "The Other day my wife died. She
was 39 years old. She was a martyr,
to her duties and to her children.
"After 19 years of marriage and
hard Work this wonderful wife and
wonderful mother, who never com
plained, was taken from us. .
"Now is the time when she could
have taken life more easy and could
have enjoyed the. growing up of her
children while preparing herself for
old age.
"In two days she is gone. My
duty towards the children will keep
me going and going strong, but I
feel the need for something that
(shall keep, me going On myself.
’“I would like to know if there is
a season for such happenings and
furthermore that the deceased one is.
happy in another life. Please hear
the cry of a spiritual man left in
middle of life ‘(I am not yet 49,) de
prived of the only one faithful com
panion and with nine children, from
18 to two and one-half years. I
j have the feeling that no other wo
; man can ever enter my life.
■ "I need a number of thoughts that
shall satisfy me mentally and emo
! tionally that everything is for the
j best and some certainty as to the
I Marriage License
Lively Trade in Marriage Li
cense During The
Holidays
I The following white couples sec
ured marriage licenses here since
December 18:
D. B. Hilliard and Nannie Han
cock, Goldston; Volner Cheek and
Edna Self; v. J. Poe and L E. Cul
berson, Siler City; E. J. Riggsbe#and
Myrtle Young, Lacy Lee Thomas and
. Attie May Lindley; James Aubrey
Johnson and Hattie Bivins Pittsboro;
(L G. Gains, Goldston and ALce
Phillips, Bear Creek; S. J. Fields and
Lillie Braswell, Siler City; Wade
Harril and Annie Brewer, Siler City;
Dfcwey Smith and Edna Lee Langley,
Siler City, ,
Colored—Hewey Trapp and Rose
Seymore, Moncure; Thomas Walden
and Elizabeth Brewer, Bennett;
Max Hunter and Ethel Boyiin, Mer
ry Oaks; Pearl Stinson and Lacy De-
Graf fenreid, Siler City; Jack Smith
and Alice Rudd, Corinth, James Tho
mas, New Hill, and Laura Taylor,
Moncure; John Mitchell, Haywood,
and Amy Thomas, New Hill; Benja
min Emerson and Winnie Alston, of
Pittsboro; Otis Alston, Pittsboro and
Cornie Emersof*; Siler City.
educational campaign—propaganda,
the drys call it—in wheih they ex
pect to write a letter to every voter
they can reach. Two letters, in
fact, each costing about five cents
fo|* stationery, printing, postage and
labor. At ten cents per head they
believe they can convince all but
the most stubborn drys that prohibi
tion is a farce and the laws should
be modified. The cost of this un
dertaking will mount past the mil
lion mark.
Checks are pouring into the wet
treasury, too, checks from men, in
some cases, who are known all over
thq‘ country.
The second issue, that of tax re- |
duetion, is less sharply defined.
There are staunch administration
men in the United States Senate who
fayor strongly the postponement of
tax reduction till after March 15,
next. r l hat would be too late to have
the new rates apply, except by a re
troactive clause, when the taxpay
ers make out their returns for 1927. i
It would help, however, in the way ;
of finding out how much money the 1
government may expect to collect j
£ext year, as the first tax payments, j
March 15, always are a reliable guide
to the year’s total.
Nobody knows exactly what sort !
of year 1927 has been and just what |
to expect in the way of tax reve-'
nues. It has been a year when some '
of the country’s big business enter-!
prises made barrels of money and j
when many of the little businesses !
made nothing. It has been a spot- 1
ty year, full of pleasant surprises j
and deep disappointments. The
treasury experts can’t quite de
termine what to say about the size
of the total prospective revenue.
What the year’s work will tell,
dumped together and put into a
common jackpot with the tax col
lector taking a rake, they do not
know.
So, say the Republican leaders,
let’s wait and find out before we cut
taxes. Then we can cut according to
our cloth. If the surplus promises
big, let the cut be high, wide and
handsome. If the surplus is shrunk
en and shrivelled, then our Demo
cratic friends can’t the blame on
us for cutting taxes lightly. Natur
ally the Democrats oppose any such
business. The time to cut taxes,
they say, is before the next returns
are made out. Further, the Presi
dent and the treasury both know’ the
approximate size of the surplus. So
why wait. And there we are.
life after death."
There is no certainty of the life
after death. That is a matter that
must be taken on faith and hope: ;;
Os it we have a reasonable hope.
Those who live the higher life*;
that is above the animal, all have a
feeling of another life.
, While .the do not pos
itively teach another .life they as-i
fcume it, as Christ says,.."lf it .were
not so I would have told you.”
Honor, •. patriotism, self-sacrifice
and devotion reac hout into another
life. In this life they are often th
warted. •
What the Almighty's reasons were
for taking this mother we cannot
say. No one knows. But the best
plan from any point of view is .to
go on assuming that He had a good
reason. Nothing can be gained by
giving up. ‘
If we believe in the high purposes
and devoted life of the deceased we
shall ourselves participate in them.
If there is another life and the
deceased is cognizant of our doings
here, she cannot but be gratified' to
know that we are living up to our
ideals. '
The memory of this mother has
faded into a memory, but that mem
ory will continue to inspire and bless
i her children and her husband.
MRS. LUTHER
EUBANKS DEAD
Six Children Left Motherless
and With an ■ Inefficient
Father Only.
Mrs. Luther Eubanks died Wed
nesday as a result of pneumonia fol
lowing influenza. Mr. and Mrs. Tave
£ooper saw to it that sfeey had a
nurse for Mrs. Eubanks in her ex
treme illness- But all the care that
could be given her was futile, as Dr.
Chapin says that pneumonia follow
ing influenza is almost invariably
fatal.
It was only recently that Mr. and
Mrs. Eubanks lost a little son thru
an automobile accident. There are
six more left motherless and with
an inefficient father. The children
were taken to an aunt’s the last
day of the mother’s illness, but it is
hardly assumable that she can care
for them, and it is almost necessary
for them to be placed in some orpha
nage or other institution where they
can have an opportunity to make the
most cf their lives.
Here is where we need an active
welfare officer. What is everybody’s
business is often nobody’s. This fam
ily has needed help all the time, aud
has been frequently helped, but the
crisis is here now, and some dispo
sition will have to be made of the
children, else they cannot have a
fair chance in the world.
1928 WILL MARK CHANGE
IN SIZE OF PAPER MONEY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. I.
The year 1928 will mark the first
change in size of paper money since
1861.
For months the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing, the greatest print
shop in the world, will be busy mak
ing row and smaller $1 bills so that
upon some fixed day next fall they
may be issued sumultaneuosly thru
out the country and the old ones
retired at one swoop, to be redeem
ed, of eouise upon demand. Notes
of other denomination will be print
ed and put in circulation probably
in 1929.
The new notes will be 6 5-16 by 2
11-16 inches whereas the notes now
in circulation are 7 7-16 by 3 1-8 in.
By the change the Government ex
pects to save $2,000,000 annually.
The .reduction 4n size of the. bills is
expeZ 4 ;ed : to inC¥€ase~tife A ''capacfEST '"of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing about 50 percent because twelve
of the smaller notes can be printed
at one impression upon the same
press which now prints but eight.
Through the change in size will be
more convenient to handle and wiii
also be more durable. The new notes
will slip into a bill-fold or pocket,
it is claimed, without creasing or
folding, and for this reason are ex
pected to have a much longer life
than those now in use. The life of
the average bill is not more than
six or seven months, treasury offici
als say. Folding is one of the chief
items cutting short the life of pa
per money.
Designs on the bills are also to be
standardized. Many designs now ap
pear on the different denominations
and the various kinds of notes.
Washington’s protrait, for example,
appears both on the $1 and some S2O
bills.
Treasury officials point out that
through standardizing the designs
the new notes cannot be so easily
"raised" to higher denominations by
the crookeci gentry who make this
their business. In addition to stan
dardized designs on the new paper
money there will be a relation be-1
tween the portrait on the face and
the engraving on the back, except
in the cas«s of the $1 bill and those
above SIOO. ...i...
On the face of the. new $1 bill will
be the portrait of Washington and on
the back will word "ONE" in
large letters, On* the $2 bill will be
a portrait of Jefferson with an en
graving of Monticello, his home, on
ihe back. .
Lincoln’s, portrait will be on the
face of the $5 bill with the Lincoln
Memorial for, the back. Hamilton's
portrait will appear on the face of
the 10 bill arid the Treasury Building
on the back. For the face of, S2O
bill Glover Cleveland’s .portrait has
been chosen, with ; the White House
for the -back,:. v .i -
Grant’s portrait , will .be on the
fafee of the SSO bill. Benjamin Frank
lin?s on the dslQo* McKinley’**op the
ss6o, Jacksan’s>on: the $l,00O;/*Mridi
son’s on the $5,0 and Chasers on
the SIO,OOO. /
All these been ap
proved although iiorine may -be chan- -
ged later. • :: T .V»r>-.f.c
No retirement sos money-making
machinery will be-, necessitated by the
change, it is said;■rf •;
TOMORROWS GOAL
We strive- until the goal is gain
ed,
Then look for one still unattain
ed;
Our records point the course we
take,
To greater records we can make.
For hope springs not from what
we’ve done,
But from*the work we've just be
gun.—Selected. I - . '
Sam Raper of Davidson county is
the pig club champion of North Ca
rolina for the year 1927.
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Tom Tarheel says his radio has
saved him money this past year by
giving him late market information.
VOLUME SO, NUMBER 16
MANY ‘FIRSTS’ ARE
LISTED FOR STATE
Department. of Conservation
and Development Sets Forth
The State’s Record
RALEIGH, Dec. 29.-—This*is-what
the state department of conservation
and development offers as North
Carolina’s “firsts” as the state goes
into 1928 in greater progress than,
ever: • ' ■ •
North Carolina ' has the largest
hosiery mills, towel mill, overall fac
tory in the world. ;
North Carolina has the largest
denim Triill, damask mills, underwear
faetory and pulp paper mill, in the
nation. .
North Carolina has more cotton
mills than any state in the nation;
is first in the number of spindle
hours. North Carolina leads Ameri
ca in cotton consumption.
The University of North Carolina,
founded in 1789, is the oldest state
university in America. North Caro
lina led the nation in expenditure
for new schools, with New York
second.
Duke university, at Durham, has
the largest endowment of any Amer
ican college.
North Carolina leads the world in
tobacco and peanut production. Its
tobacco crop last year was valued
at $103,8012,000; its peanut crop,
$7,985,000. ’
North Carolina produced more
pounds of tobacco in 1927 than the
next slates, in rank of pro
duction, combined.
North Carolina ranks first in the
United States in number of native
minerals, totaling 260, and in the
value and quantity of scrap mica, 43
per cent of the nation, and feldspar,
44 per cent of the nation, produced,
and in pyrophyllite and residual kao
lin clay.
North Carolina leads in variety of
climate and foliage, its trees ranging
from( the tropical palmetto to the
firs of the far north.
North Carolina leads the nation in
the number of .debt-free homes, with
more than four-fifths of its home
owners having no debt thereon.
North Carolina has the highest
birth rate of any state, with but
three thenths of one per cent foreign
born within its borders.
DEATH OF GUY G. DARK
Mr. Gnv G. Dark, a well known
citizen of Siler City and for years
an employee of the Farmers’ Union
store, died at a Greensboro hospital
Sunday night.
Mr. Dark, we are informed, was
treated in a hospital some time ago
for what was thought to be cancer
of the stomach, but it was only Sun
day morning that the fatal disease
became acute in its effects. ' Mr.
Dark was taken with excruciating
pains and when a physician was call
ed was taken immediately to Greens
boro. But not even the pain was al
leviated, it is stated, till death re
lieved him at 11 o’clock Monday
morning.
Mr. Dark leaves a widow, who is
the daughter of Mr. Ed Stone, and
three brothers, Messrs. Robert W.,
manager of the Farmers’ Union
store, A. B. and Junius A. Dark.
The burial was at Siler City.
COLORED PEOPLE’S COLUMN
By Rev. G. C. Roberts
Mr. Benjamin Emmerson, son of
the late John Emmerson, and Miss
Viney Alston, the daughter of Mr.
Joe Alston, were unitd in holy wed
lock in Pittsboro court house De
-cwe. Z 6. rhe ceremony was. per
formed by Rev. W. W. Long, who
happened to be over in town on busi
ness and of course used the temple
of justice for convenience.
Last Sunday was a very cold day
for the two quarterly meetings, held
at Mitchell’s Chapel and Sanford.
It was Rev. W. W. Long’s first quar
ter at Mitchell’s Chapel in 1928.
This has been a somewhat’’ : odd
Christmas in Pittsboro with the : dif
ferent churches. Only one Christmas
tree exercise was held and that ' at
Mt. Sinai A. M. E. 'church. The ex
ercise was appropriate and timely
and the decorations were beautiful.
Mr. George Leach displays 'flbe
taste in this respect. He
them worthy - for
several years. •
The holidays passed off very qtiie&-
ly in‘ Pittsbord. “ No serious trouble
has occurred* and only one drurhk. *;
: y— i' '
HUNGRY WOLVES CHASE *
• • MOTHER, DEVOUR CHfLD
RIGA, Latvia, : Janl I.—ffun’gry
wolves defeated the heroic efforts of
a mother and a faithful horse bear
the Lithuanian village of Malety, and
devoured the woman’s infant child
when the horse fell from exhaustion
in sight of safety.
Driving to the cillage in a steign
with her baby, the woman was* sud
denly attacked by the ' ferocious
beasts when some distance out. Ur
ging her horse on at full speed the
woman gained sight of the village
when the panting hrose dropped in
its tracks. Before peasants that
were aroused by her cries could get
to the scene, the wolves had de
voured the baby and severely injured
the distracted mother.
Getting a supply of pure seed is.
one of the best paying jobs of win
ter. When planting times comes, it
is too late to .spend many days in
the search for desirable varieties.