ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
EUROPEAN GRAPE OFFERS
PROFIT TO THE SANDHILLS
Seaboard Railway Takes Active Lead In Experiments With
The California Grapes Which Have Been Grown
Successfully In The Sandhills
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Today
AMERICAN BUSINESS IN
CREASES
LABOR SAYS 50-50.
OVER THE SAHARA SAND
WHAT MAN CAN DO.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
If you know HOW you can do
business anywhere. Sears-Roebuck,
under its new president, General
Wood, plans stores all over this
country and in foreign countries,
with constant expansion.
The Woolworth stores, growing
amazingly, now have eighteen
stores in Germany, called 25 and 50
pfening stores, the equivalent of 5
and 10 cents.
American business understands
‘ its business. And when it deals in
foreign countries, thug keeping ev
erybody happy while making profits.
On Saturday the executive com
mittee of the American Federation
of Labor will meet at Atlantic City
and decide, probably, not to take
sides in the national campaign.
Both national candidates are all
right, says Labor.
This is sensible. Labor, race and
religion should be kept out of poli
tics. Besides, organized labor can
not deliver its men, and does not help
itself by a declaration with no re
sult. Mr. Green, head of the fede
ration, is a wise American.
Miss Katherine Locke, of Youngs
town, Ohio, travelled miles and miles
over the sand of Sahara thinking the
sun would bring back her voice that
she lost. IT DID.
She visited the Goal of Marakesh,
if you know who he is, in a dwell
ing 3000 years old in the Atlas Moun
tains. Th.e Goul probably knows as
little about us as we know about
him.
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More interesting to many Ameri
cans, Miss Locke saw at Timbuktu,
pens where American- slavers once
brought slaves from native chiefs.
Young men, playing jazz music
in night clubs now, would be
amazed to see these pens where
their ancestors once stopped on the
way to America. They would bless
the slave traders that brought the
ancestors here. We never know what
is for our good.
John Henry Hears and Charles B.
D. Collyer have beaten the “Around
the world record” by several days, j
They finished their journey, at
Miller Field, Seaten Island, in twenty
three days.
When Jules Verne wrote his book
“Around the World in Eighty Days”,
men said it was an interesting story,
but could never be done. Now it
IS done, in twenty-three days. And,
in years to come, it will be done in
twenty-four hours.
Man is a very able creature, a
real credit to his Maker. What he
can IMAGINE, he can DO.
Ellen Terry after eighty years
of happy, successful life, told her
friend s they must not put on mourn
ing, but wear gay colors, and re
joice i n her long life, with rest at
the end.
She was a sensible woman, but
mourning is more than honor paid
to the dead. It affords relief to
those that survive. The widow of
India, if permitted, would be burn
ed alive with her husband's body.
Savage widows cut and otherwise
mutilate themselves to express grief.
To many civilized women, a long
black veil make s sorrow easier to
bear.
Mr. Hoover, kindly, but firmly,
says “I shall kiss no baby for pub
lictaion.” That is wise, and kind
to the babies.
No intelligent mother allows
ANT BODY to kiss her baby. All
adults carry in their mouths disease
germs, harmless to the carriers, but
dangerous to the infant in whom the
Protecting white corpuscles are un
developed.
Mr. Hoover did, however, hold
the baby while its older brother
took a photograph. He likes ba
bies.
8. S. CONVENTION
AT CHATHAM CHURCH
The Oakland township Interde
nominational S. S. convention will be
held at Chatham church, Sunday
night, at 8 o’clock. The Asbury male
quartet will sing. Mr. T. B. Beal
wi’l speak on “The Christian’s Duty
Toward the Sunday School.” Prof
G. Self will speak on the “Ele
ments of S. S. Success.”
Prof W. R. Thompson will speak
on tne Sunday School Teacher.
Ail the Sunday school people from
every Sunday school in the township
are urged to attend.
The Chatham Record
Advices have been received from
the office of J. N. Mcßride, general
agricultural agent, Seaboard Air
Line Railway, at Savannah, Ga., that
the development department of that
railroad will inaugurate in the late
summer an extensive campaign
throughout the Carolina Sandhills in
the interest of grape growing. Fred
P. Abbot, development agent, .with
offices at Hamlet, is interested in
the grape campaign and it is under
stood that this campaign i s the re
sult of experimental work in grapes
that the Seaboard has been quietly
conducting for the past several years.
A few years ago it came to the
attention of the Seaboard that Euro
pean grapes were not cultivated on
a commercial scale anywhere in the
United States except in California.
In fact, the industry is so firmly
established in that state that in the
United States the common name ap
plied to the ciniferous or European
grape is “the California grape,”
Upon endeavoring to determin the
reason for confining the European
grape industry within the state of
California, it appeared to be the
general consensus of- opinion that
soil and climatic conditions prevented
the culture of this crop in other
states of the Union. Such an ex
planation did not appear plausible
and representatives of the develop
ment conducted an exhaustive study
of the European grape industry, de
termining the requirements of this
crop. Dr. George C. Hussman, viti
culturist of the United States de
partment of agriculture, became in
terested in the efforts of the Sea
board to prove or disprove their be
lief that European grapes could be
successfully cultivated in the Sand
hills of the Carolinas. Dr. Hussman
secured indirectly from Europe a
number of vines of a great many
varieties and these, together with a
number of American or domestic va
rieties of grapes, were planetd at
Mcßee, S. C., in the spring of 1923.
The test planting was made in co
operation with D. L. McCoy, one of
the leading farmers and business men
of the Mcßee section.
A Test Vineyard
The results of the test vineyard
have been watched very closely.
Some of the vines bore fruit ni 1924
and all the vines produced fruit in
1925 and ’26. The results gained
in this work have astouned all those
who are intimately acquainted with
the grape industry and have proved
beyond a oubt that European grapes
can be successfully produced in the
Sandhills on large commercial scale.
A great future for these grapes in
this section is predicted by those
who are w r ell informed in the indus
try of grape culture. The vines are
even more prolific than in Califor
nia, while the size of the berries and
bunches, together with the flavor
and quality, are said to surpass the
alifornai-grown European grapes.
W itn the eastern industrial centers
| being the largest consumptive mark
; ets for European grapes and taking
into consideration the fact that the
entire Sandhill territory is less than
one third the distance to these mar
kets as compared with the Califor
nia grape-growing centers; one can
readily visualize the posibilities the
Sandhill territory holds for grapes
culture.
Use Many Grapes
The six southeastern states, al
though large consumers of both Eu
ropean and domestic grapes, produce
less tha n six-tenths of one per cent
of the grapes grown and marketed
annually in the United States. Dur
ing the year of 1926, 77,585 cars
of grapes were consumed in the Unit
ed States, with California producing
63,539 cars or approximately 85
per cent of the total yield for the
United States. The grape industry
in the state of California alone am
ounts to a $52,000,000 business an
nually. A representative of the de
vlopment department of the Seaboard
was sent into the larger markets of
the northeast and middle west to
investigate the marketing possibiliti
es of Sandhill grown Eurpoean grape.
The results seem to indicate that
such grapes would receive a haertyj
reception from the produce trade
and consumers.
State Is Interested
The progress being made in the
proposed development of European
grapes as a potential, outstanding
cash crop for the sandhill territory
of the Carolinas gained still further
momentum by a visit to the Sea
board vineyard, located on the farm
of W. L. McCoy at Mcßee, S. C.,
by C. D. Matthews, chairman of the
horticultural department of the state
of North Carolina. Mr. Matthews,
who has been in horticultural exten
sion work for the past 12 years, was
very favorably impressde with the
work accomplished, and in a letter
which he has addressed to J. N. Mc-
Mride, general agricultural agent,
Seaboard Air Line Railway, he has
given a complete review of the re
sult of his investigation, together
with his opinion of the possibilities
future commercial development of
European grapes.
Tom (passionately): “The more
I look at you, dear, the more beau
tiful you seem.”
Anastasia (expectantly): “Yes?’’
Tom (brutally): “I ought to
look at you ofterner.”
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 1928
A Real Hero
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Any married man will gladly
hand the laurels to Louis O’Neal,
millionaire San Jose, Cat., cattle
man, who won a contest by eating
110 biscuits. The contest was the
result of a wager. The first hun
dred are the hardest, says Louis
Browns Chapel
Mrs. G. C. Durham is spending a
few days with her mother in law.
Mr. O. T. Justice got a very pain
ful hurt from a pitchfork’s falling
from a straw stack last week. A
prong pierced his thigh for two in
ches, penetrating to the bone.
Lictle Maxine Justice while play
ing in the yard of her grandfather,
C. N. Justice accidently broke her
arm just above the elbow.
A basket supper was given Mrs.
J. T. Wright last Saturday evening by
her children and friends.
Most of the members of the Sun
day school attended a picnic at Lake
wood Park, Durham. Also quite a
number of former members now res
ident at Durham, Carrboro, and Ra
leigh joined us.
LINDLEY-ANDREWS
Miss Blanche Lindley of Alamance
county, who will be remembered as a
teacher in the Pittsboro school a few
years ago, was quietly married to
Mr. Harvey Andrews at her home
last Saturday . The groom is a
prosperous young farmer of Albright
township.
Ten thousand pounds of alfalfa
hay was secured by N. A. Beaver
of Iredell county from the first two
on one and one-fourth acres
of land. .Jk ■ „
“Nothing.”
“And you?”
“I take after my father.”
To Iron Soft Collars
Iron men’s soft collars on a Turk
ish towel folded four times and the
collar will be smoother and shine
like new when finished.'
Moon Close-Up! 1
The moon posed for this remark
able close-up or the Southern portion
of its surface, taken with the aid of
a 100-inch reflector at Pasadena, Cab
The surface is dotted with hundreds
of craters, some of which arc over
50 miles in diameter. Shadows are
caused by the sun’s reflection.
DtFrank Crane Sayslll^,
The Best Conditions For Work
I suppose every writing man or
j any successful man is constantly in
receipt of letters asking him about
his personal habits. The correspon
dents all want to know under what
conditions he does his work best.
They even inquire as to what he eats
and what kind of clothes he wears.
One of these correspondents once
wrote to Bill Nye, asking what cloth
es he wore and how he dressed. He
answered, “In the morning I wear
morning dress and in the evening I
wear evening dress and at night I
wear night dress.”
About the best rule for doing your
best work is to find those conditions
that suit you best, wherein the brain
functions most effectively. What
these conditions are varies in the
case of different people.
Elie Metchinkoff, the little Rus
sian Jew who became one of the
famous “microbe hunters” and dis
covered that in the. human body are
cells hostile to disease microbes, said
he could always carry on his experi
ments best when pretty girls were
close by. In your case, however, this
kind of surroundings might have a
disturbing effect.
Paul Ehrilch, another experimenter
used to have the grindorgan musi
cians play dance music outside of
the laboratory. He said that his
Moncure News
Misses Catherine and Elizabeth
Thomas, who have been visit nig
friends at Apex, returned home last
t riday evening.
Mr. C. D. Orreil of Yamassee, S.
C., was in town last Saturday. Mr.
Orreil and daughter, Miss Barbara,
who has been .visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Watkins,' spent last
•week-end at Wilmington, enjoying
the ocean breeze.
Mrs. John Bell, who was operated
,cn for appendicitis at Watt’s hos
pital last Tuesday is getting on fine,
v> 3 are glad to say. Her many
iriends wish her a speedy recovery.
Allen Money of Haywood was
rushed to the hospital at Raleigh,
last Friday. As his appendix burst
ed before operation, he is getting
or. as well as could be expected.
The following Girl Scouts under
Mrs. J. V. Davenport, as leader left
today, for Lakeview, where they
have rented a cottage for a week:
Misses Camelia and Ruth Stedman,
Dorothy, Roberta, and Mary Helen
Lambeth, Lois Ray, Lois and Bea
trice Wilkie, Hettie Womble, Mar
garet Strickland and Fay Sawyer.
Misses Elizabeth Thomas and Fran
ces Thompson also went with them.
They are looking forward to a mi st
pleasant time.
Rev. Ossie Seymour preached two
good sermons at the Baptist church
yesterday,. They have called him to
preach for them.
Little Annie Mae Wilkie returned
Saturday from a week’s visit to her
aunt Lillie Mae Wilkie, of Raleigh.
Misses Wilkie, Bradley, Barnhill,
Parker, and Beardim of Raleigh stop
ped over to see Mr. and Mrs. I. D.
Wilkie Saturday afternoon en route
to Southern Pines.
Mrs. E. C. Wilkie of Raleigh is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Wlikie
thi ? , week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Womblo, Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus Womble, Mrs. Mary
Barringer, Mrs. Ella Speed, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. WombLe and Mr. A. B.
Clegg attended Home Coming Day
at Cdear Grove Methodist church
yesterday.
The people, who have worked for
Highway Engineering Construction
Co., and their families will move
in two weeks to Catawba.
Mrs. H. R. Foriines and children
have returned from a visit to rel
atives at Virginia.
Mrs. T. R. Wilkie of Laurinburg,
spent the week-end with relatives
here.
Mr. J. M. Ketchie of High Point
was in town on business one day last
week.
The Junior Department had charge
of the Epworth League service Sun
day evening at eight o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Durant and children
of Raleigh visited Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Moore yesterday. Miss Mary
Francis Durant w>! spend this week
with her Aunt, Mrs. Moore.
Three new rooms, are being built
to Moncure school building and will
be ready to use when school opens,
Sept. 11.
The sale at C. B. Crutchfield’s
store is progressing nicely.
Kimbalton News
Gus Webster went to hospital at
Greensboro Monday and was operat
ed on Thursday.
C. E. Russell and family of Greens
boro are spending their vacation with
Ernest Brewer.
Hickory Mountain team played
Oakley team at Oakley Saturday.
Their score was 6 to 16 in favor of
Oakley.
The Winston-Salem Methodist Or
phanage gave an interesting program
at Sapling Ridge Sunday morning.
Elevator Man: “Billy, your face
is dirty.’
Billy: “What is it to you? You’re
not my pa.”
E. M.: “No, but I’m bringing you
up.”
best ideas came when he heard gay
music like that.
Dickens always had to have the
same kind of slips of paper, blue
ink and a quill pen when he wrote.
Stephen Foster, an American song
writer, composed his melodies in a
silent room with heavy carpets and
draperies.
Newspaper men, used to the ceas
less noise of typewriters and the
bustle of a copy room, sometimes
find they can not work so well
where all is quiet.
Mark Twain used to write his
best stuff lying in bed wearing an
old-fashioned night gown. Frank
R. Stockton produced his famous
“Rudder Grange,” dictating it while
he lay in a hammeok and sipped lem
onade.
Hazlitt, the essayist, spoke enthu
siastically about the benefits of a
brisk outdoor walk. Many other peo
ple cannot think while walking.
Schubert scratched off some of his
best songs at odd moments. One of
his famous pieces wa s jotted down
on the back of the bill o ffare of a
beer garden as he waited for a
friend.
So the best thing to do is to not
try to intimate somebody else, but
to find the time when your own
thoughts flow with the greatest ease
and then work hard.
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Unique Radio Pleas
• Goldie K. New in
whose SIOO,OOO alienation suit against
Mrs. Theresa Rosenfeld radio mes
: sages were read entreating Mrs.
Rosenfeld not to steal her husband’s
: love. *"
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> An entertainment will be given by
L the Earnest Workers class of the
> Brown’s Chapel S. S. at Gug Springs
school house, Friday night, August
[ 10th, beginning at 7:30. Admission
• 10c and 15c. Everybody cordially
invited.
! Mr. A. R. Webster has been in
St. Leo’s hospital, Greensboro for
> the past week for treatment.
. Veteran John B. Thomas is visit
» ing hi s son at Bennettsville,
-The following named veterans were
’ listed as expecting to attend the
[ Confederate Veterans Reunion this
week at Tarboro: W. H. Cross, T. Y.
r Mims, J. Dan Dcrsett, D. Monroe
t Smith, E. M. Edwards, T. H. Gil
more, E. D. Blackwood.
%
j Mrs. Numa Bright, who has been
. seriously ill for three weeks, was
reported better Monday by Mr. Bright
who also reported the condition of
‘ hi s father, J. R. Bright as somewhat
improved.
! Miss Jennie Connell is spending a
few' days at Asheville.
Mr. J. W. Moore and family re
’ turned happy from a vacation in the
mountains.
Mrs. Effie Sikes spent last week
with her father, Mr. A. W. Dawkins,
Goldston, Rt. who wa s seriously
ill, but was better when she left.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Butler, of
Raleigh, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Butler’s father, Mr. A. B. Perry.
Mr. I. P. Upchui’ch, father of at
torney F. C. Upchurch, was here on
I Monday from over in Wake, and
! when asked if F. C. spent the week
end with him, said that he passed by
home going somewhere else. So ’
these Pittsboro girls may understand
that the handsome young lawyer is
not going home every time he heads
toward Wake.
Mr. B. Nooe came in from Ridge
way, S. C., the first of the week but
returned Monday afternoon.
Preaching at the Baptist church on
Sunday morning by Rev. Mr. Corpen
ing of Wake Forest.
The Baptist Sunday school picnic
at Lakewood Park, Durham, last
Thursday was greatly enjoyed by a
large percentage of the school, of
all ages.
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A protracted meeting will begin ta
Mt. Zion Methodist church Sunday
and continue next week.
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Mr. R. C. Ross says that there are
22 members (Democrats) in the anti-
Smith club. We gladly make the
correction, though they have not
joined at the public meetings and
have not been present.
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Miss Beatrice Burgess of New
Hope township visited Mrs. J. R.
Goodwin and Mrs. W. M. Perry, in
the Brown Chapel community, last
week.
Mrs. L. D. H. Mitchell of New
Hope township, who ha s been quite
ill, was reported better Monday.
There will be an ice cream and
box supper at Hank’s church Satur
day night, August 11. Proceeds go
to the building fund. The congre
gation expects to get inside work
finished and seats in early enough
for the church to be used during the
protracted meeting to begin the 4th
Sunday of this month.
Mr. J. L. Taylor and family of
Bynum wish to express their appre
ciation to their neighbors and friends
for kindness during the illness and
at the time of the death of Mrs.
Taylor. #
Miss Margaret Smith, of Eliza
bethtown, and Mrs. Paul W. Rad
cliffe, of Long Beach, CaL, have
been guests of Misses Mabel and
Elizabeth Thomas.
Parents of the Pittsboro district
who have children who will enter the
first grade this fall and did not take
advantage of the opportunity a few
days ago to have those children vac
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VOLUME 50, NUMBER 50
M. L. Shipman’s
Raleigh Letter
(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
RALEIGH, August 6.—At last
“the cat is out of the bag.” The
reason Senator Simmons quit the Na
tional Democratic Executive Com
mittee as the member from North
Carolina i s plainly set for. in a let
ter A. B. Groom, of the Wilming-*
ton News Dispatch, in part as fol
lows :
“I am deeply interested in the
election of the Democratic state, dis
trict and local tickets, and I ear
nestly hope they may receive the
undivided support of the democracy
of the State, but I feel that because
of Governor Smith’s action since hia
nomination with reference to the
platform, his organization of the na
tional Democratic executive commit
tee and his and it s alliance with in
terests and groups hostile and antag
onistic to the fundamental principles,
of Democracy, all Democratic voters
should be free from coercion or re
straint in the exercise of their con
scientious conviction and judgment
with respect to the national ticket.**
This statement from the Senator
squares with the position assumed by
j the State Democratic Executive com
| mittee two weeks ago when objec
tion was offered to a resolution pled—
; ging support to all democratic nom
; inees from constable to president. It
is considered by many regulars as a
new brand of Democracy which would
not have been countenanced even,
by Senator Simmons in their earlier
days of his political activities. But
considering half a loaf preferable to
no bread the Committee concluded
it the part of wisdom not to “read
out of the party” those who fail ta
support the national ticket. Frank
Nash, assistant attorney general,,
thinks a split ticket would be legal*
but fails to see eihter normal or
, political consistency in that kind of
practice by those considering them
selves regular democrats. Meanwhile
anti-Smith democrats in Wake and
other counties are organizing for a,
determined drive against him and
expect to join a State-wide move
ment to be launched here on August
10 th.
Despite rumblings of discontent in
party growing out of developments
following the resignation of Senator
Simmons as national committeeman*
State Chm. Mull is rapidly mobil
-izing his forces for a battle that
is expected to hold • in tact the or
ganization which has kept North
Carolina in the forefront since re
suming the reins of government
years age. It is his business to hold
the Siate in the Democratic column
but, true to form, he must not de
sert the national Democratic ticket.
The chairman is now forming per
sonal contacts with county and dis
trict organizations preparatory to an.
intelligent, energetic campaign in the
interest of all democratic nominees.
News trickling into the capital city
is to the effect that Mr. Mull is
greatly encouraged by the favorable
conditions existing in the counties
recently visited and that he confi
dently expects the Democrats of the
State to give a good account of them
selves ail along the line on the 6th
day of November.
Twenty-five applications for sal
ary increases were allowed by the
Salary and Wage Commission at its
semiannual meeting held here dur
ing the week of the 199 presented,
the increases totalling $4,498 which
goes almost exclusively to those who
had threatened to accept better of
fers elsewhere, according to reports.
One increase of SIBO per year was
granted an employe of the Depart
ment of Labor and Printing; one
for S3OO to an employee of the
Revenue Department; one for $l2O
to a n assistant in the State Welfare-
Department; one for S6OO to an em
ployee of the Treasurer’s office;
two totalling $660 a year were
granted the Motor Vehicle Division;
one increase of S3OO to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, two totalling
$350 per annum to the Department
of Education; four totalling $24& a
year to the State Labarotory of Hy
giene; and one for $l2O to the In
surance Department. Six of the ap
plications granted and amounting to,
$l,lOO were to employees in the De
partment of Conservation and : De
velopment and were largely to for
esters who threatened to accept bet
ter pay for similar service in other
localities, it is said. The classifica*-
tion of Henry Burke, was changed
to “budget accountant and special
assistant to (the budgqt director,**
and the salary fixed at $25 g day
for not exceeding 25 days in any oae
month, or $7,500, per year, the sec
ond highest paid employee of the
state. Prior to the appointment last
spring of State Senator P. H. Wil
laims as assistant director of the
budget at a salary of $5,000, Mr.
Burke held the position of assis
tant to Governor McLean, director
of the budget, at a salary of $4,500
per year. His new work calls for
him to audit the books of the various,
state institutions and keep them with
in their budget appropriations.
Mike, who was advancing rapidly
in his work, was stopped one day
by the foreman, who said:
“Mike, you are doing fine. I am
going to raise your wages.”
Mike, all excited, said: “No, no,
no, bajabbers, po. I lose enough
now when I’m off a day.”
New Assistant: “Gentleman asks
if this flannel shirt will shrink.”
Proprietor: “Does it fit him?”
“No, it’s too large.’
“Yes, of course it shrinks.”
“What does your father do?**