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Something For Florida
The Old Spanish Trail
U. S. Not Miliitaristic
Young Men, Old Women
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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A suggestion for Congress, with
Republicans now in charge, that
Florida has gone Republican and be
comes debatable territory, why not
do something for Florida' 7
Fiist: Repeal a law discriminat- j
],-ir against Florida in the way of
taxation, practically nullifying Flor
jda’s right to enact its own legisla
te R.
Second: Let the National Gov
ernment regulate flood conditions ir.
Lake Ckechobee. The overflow of
that lake caused great damage in
• v,j, recent high wind. That was due
to the fact that the Federal authori
ties compelled Florida to keep the
lake waters at a certain height for
navigation purposes.
y. T ith or without the nation’s help,
nothing will check the growth of
Florida, or permanently injure its
prosperity.
If the people of Florida knew as
well as outsiders do what their pros
perity and values must inevitably
be, they wouldn’t SELL ANY
THING
Temperature more than forty de
crees below zero in the Northwest
reminds the East that the Old Span
ish Trail is now open from the East
Coast, through Florida, Texas, the
Gulf Coast region, and on through
Arizona to Southern California with
good roads. Only two ferries be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific.
The trip takes you through Nor
thern Florida, past the Old Spanish
.Missions of energetic, modern San
Antonio. And oneju well started, |
you can leave your motor out of *
doors and sleep out of doors. .
No more freezing until you come
back to the Northeast.
President Coolidge says this coun
try is not miliitaristic or imperial
istic.
Certainly not, but it is an empire,'
a good, solid one, all tied together, i
from the northwestern tip of Alas-;
ka to the southeastern tip of Flori- !
da.
And it means to be ready for un
pleasant approaches by anybody
that is miliitaristic.
A Massachusetts woman, aged 60,
formerly assistant pastor of a First
Christian church, marries her 21-
year-old Sunday school pupil, and
the world criticizes.
The boy’s mother says, “I am sor- '
ry for him.”
The bride’s 30-year-old son says,
“‘Mother must have been crazy.”
Plato, wise philosopher, wouldn’t
criticize the couple.
More than 2,000 years ago he
said that older women should keep
very young men out of mischief.
He said also that men should
become fathers in middle life when
they have intelligence developed.
If more young men married old
women, waited, respectfully and
faithfully until they died, then mar
ried wisely, some one younger, the j
race might improve. Hoivever, that!
will not happen often.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
The following couples have se
cured marriage license since Decem
ber 8: Lynn Jones and Addie Keck,
Pittsboro, R. 1; Willie Bowers and
Eva Thompson, Siler' City, Rt. 5; j
Andrew F. Rogers, Cumnock, and
Hattie V. Marley, Siler City: J. Ben
nett Sanders and Nellie G. Burke,
Goldston; Herbert Oldham and Ruby
Andrews, Bear Creek; W. B. Phil- !
lips, Bear Creek, Rt. 1, and Lena ;
Garner, McConnell, N. C. —Colored: |
Irving Green and Dina Petty, Pitts
boro, Joe Thomas and Bettie Fear
rington, Pittsboro; T. H. Fuller and
Nancy P. Thompson, Goldston* Geo.
M. Luter and Lillie Mae Baldwin,
London Womble and Susie Marsn,
Siler City.
J. E. STURDIVANT DEAD
Mr. J. E. Sturdivant, one of
Chatham’s best citizens, died at his
home at Bynum, Tuesday of last
week and was buried at New Elam
church, in upper Cape Fear towmship
last Thursday. He had been ill for
some months.
He was 70 years of age. He leaves
a wife and seven children, six
daughters and one son. The latter,
Mr. Sion, lived with his parents at
Bynum. The daughters are married
and scattered afar.
Hr* was a brother of Mr. Robert
Sturdivant of New Hope township.
TThe burial was under the aus
pices of Mr. Jeter Griffin, Pittsbpro
undertaker.
Mothers of the school-children in
Youngstown, Ohio, ask the police to
protect their sons from girls who
try to flirt with them. And who’s
to protect the police?
The Chatham Record
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Former Chathamite
Dies at Monroe
From the Monroe Journal of De
cember 17, the following account of
the death of Dr. C. M. Bynum is
clipped:
Dr. C.. M. Bynum, aged 36, who
lived at Marshville, died in a hospi
tal at Monroe last night with pneu
monia, following influenza. He had
been confined in the hospital about
one week. Dr. Bynum has four
brothers, Harry Bynum, Julius By
num, Rupert Bynum and Thomas
j Bynum, all of Greensboro, and a
| sister, Miss Fleta Bynum, aiso of
this city, who survive him.
Dr. Bynum was the son of Thom
as M. and Mattie F. Bynum. He was
born at Goldston and received his
medical degree in a medical college
at Richmond, Va. He was well liked
by his associates and popular in the
town of his choice. He was mar
ried to Miss Olive Flowers, who with
two small children also survice him.
The funeral will be held Wednes
day morning at 10 o’clock from the
Monroe Methodist church, following
which the body will be brought to
Greensboro for interment in Green
Hill cemetery.
Shoots But Misses
But Johnnie Pennington, Dr.
Johnson-like, Gets His Man
With the Butt of His Gun
Probably Johnnie Pennington has
never heard of Goldsmith’s famous
saying that “There is no getting
around Johnson (the Famous Dr.
Samuel) ; for if his gun fails to fire
he knocks his man down with the
butt of it,” or w 7 ords to the same
efefct. Nevertheless, it seems that
Johnnie used similar tactics. When
he missed, he used the butt of the
gun.
Joe and Robert Lassiter, of the
Mount Gilead section, were in Pitts
boro Wednesday, evening last week,
the former to get some stitching
done by Dr. Chapin and the latter
seeking a warrant for Johnnie Pen
nington, who was allegedly, the cause
of the need of surgical attention by
the elder brother.
Robert Lassiter said he and his
brother were in the woods sawing
timber when Pennington came upon
i them. He raised the question of
the whereabouts of his axe. Rob
ert told him that a still older Las
siter brother had left it at Robert’s
house and that if he w r ould go there
he could get it. Thereupon Penning
ton, according to our informant,
turned to Joe Pennington and told
him that he would have to have that
axe before a certain time. Joe told
him that he had had nothing to do
with the axe and was* not going to
have anything to do with it. There
| upon cursing began and Joe started
toward, or turned toward, Penning
ton and blazed away with his gun,
the load passing between Joe’s legs.
Then Pennington hit him with the
gun. Joe was unarmed, according
to Robert Lassiter.
The blow was not very serious.
It took three stitches to sew the
wound. All three of the men are in
their early twenties.
Brooks-Long
Mr. Geo. H. Brooks, Jr., and Miss
j Mattie Louis Long were married
| Saturday morning, Dec. 22, at the
; home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and
I Mrs. J. E. Long, in Durham, with
| Dr. Stanbury, pastor of the First M.
E. church of Durham officiating.
Only a few friends of the family
were present. The bride was not 8
well, having had an attack of the in-,
fluenza, and for that reason no wed
ding trip was taken. The young
couple will be domiciled in the home
of Mr. Walter Hanks and Miss Mag
gie Horn, great uncle and aunt of
the groom.
! The groom is the only son of
; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brooks, Sr., of
! Pittsboro, and is a young man of
| much promise. He holds a position
| with the S. A. L. R. R. here. The
l bride is the teacher of Latin in the
i Pittsboro school and is a charming
young woman of culture and even
i scholarship, being a graduate of
' Duke University.
Many friends wish them much hap
! piness.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, parents of
i the groom, Misses Louise and Mar
; garet Brooks, sisters and Miss Mag
j gie Horne attended the marriage.
j IN MEMORY OF A. D. FARRELL
I The death of Mr. A. D. Farrell of
j the Hanks community on November
i 25 was mourned by many friends
I and relatives. He w r ould have been
! 78 years of age if he had lived to
January 29th. He is survived by
eight sisters and four brothers. Mr.
Farrell was a true, honest Christian
and was true to his home folk and
a good neiighbor. But he has gone
to be with his Master, whom he
had served faithfully for so many
I years. He had been a faithful mem
i her of Hanks Chapel Christian
* church for nearly 55 years. We
> should all seek to emulate his ex
i ample, for we too must one day
meet our Lord.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1928.
FRIDAY AN
UNLUCKY DAY
FOR MASSEY
Yoqng Man . Gets Divorce,
Steals New AVife, Marries,
Kills a Man, and Lands in
Jail, All in One Day.
(Smithfield Herald)
Divorce, marriage, . death, jail—
four experiences stranger far than
any moving picture ever thrown on
the screen of his movie theatre in
Selma, were the lot of Claiborn Mas
sey on last Friday.
Friday morning, in the Superior
court which is in session here, the
former wife of Claiborn Massey was
granted a divorce, and on the after
noon of the same day, Mr. Massey
eloped with Miss Blackman, aged
19, and a student at Louisourg Col
lege who was at her home in Selma
on account of the recent fire at
Louisburg. They were married in
Benson and then started toward
Richmond, Va., on their honeymoon
trip. It is said the bride jumped
out of a window to get away from
her parents.
As the bride and bridegroom were
speeding through Wise at seven
o’clock of the same afternoon, their j
car struck and killed R. F. King, j
proprietor of a filling station, as he j
was standing in highway near a :
truck.
A report from Wise gives the j
following account of the tragic ac- j
cident:
“It was rainy and foggy and King
was assisting the men from South j
Hill hitch another truck to the in- !
capacitated one, when he was struck 1
and hurled several feet into the air, |
landing more than 40 feet away.
“It was not known exactly what !
had happened until the groans and i
cries of the injured man w'ere heard I
coming from out of the darkness. !
He was picked up and put into a car |
in great pain but conscious. He died j
before hff could reach his home a j
quarter of a mile away. It is said
that both legs and one arm were
broken and his side badly crushed.
“Massey, very much x frightened,
and his bride more so, did not stop,
but drove on to South Hill where
Chief Police Pointer placed the man
under arrest. The young man said
he would have stopped but his wife
was frightened and afraid of a mob, i
although they did not know that the *
man was dead until realtives ar- I
rived at South Hill. Massey spent
a sleepless night in jail and his bride
stayed at the hotel. Both went to.
Warrenton wdth Sheriff Williams
this morning for hearing. T. C.
Henry, of Smithfield, and a brother
of Mr. Massey, came to render what
assistance he could to the young
couple in their tragic plight.”
KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET
FOR ENTIRE YEAR
Friends of Miss Sussie Perry, j
daughter of the late Geo. W. Perry j
of Silk Hope, was married Decern- !
ber 21, 1927, but kept the secret
till last w’eek when announcement i
was made by her brother G. W. i
Perry, Jr. The groom is Mr. Rob
ert Jackson Lindley.
HARRY IHRIE DEAD
Mr. Harry Ihrie, a lawyer of
Carthage, but a native of Pittsboro,
died Sunday and was buried in the.
Episcopal schurch yard at Pittsboro
Monday afternoon. He was a broth
er of Mrs. N. M. Hill of Pittsboro,
and of of Dr. Ihrie of Wendell, and
Mrs. E. W. Pou, wife of Congress
man Pou.
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About l{ou%
Wealth.
Things You Should Know
WD.* ,
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Most people limit their “swear
ing off” at the first of the year, to
tobacco, whiskey and lying. How
faithfully we observe our new pledg
es, must be left to history to re
veal. But, the effort is worthy al
ways.
Much more pertinent, it seems to
me, would be to assume some sol
emn obligations with regard to our
habits of eating, 1 , since everybody
eats—and many dine to their sor
row. I would like to impress a few
ideas that I have tried to empha
size with the readers of our paper
for the past several months—and, I
assure you, that they are based on
years of experience, both within my
self and many patients; I am sure
these things are worth while:
First, let us pledge ourselves that
we will not over-eat during the com
ing year.
j HONOR BESTOWED
ON WALTER HINES
PAGE BY KELLOGG
Message From The State De
partment Is Read At Mem-.
orial Services in His Honor
FRANK ALSO WINS PRAISE
A message from Secretary Kel
logg, of the state department, was
read at exercises held in the Cary
high school m commemoration of
the tenth anniversary of the death
of Walter Hines Page, one time am
bassador to Great Britain, and bro
ther of the famed Pages, H. A., R.
; N. and Frank, of Moore county.
Mr. Kellogg’s message was as fol
l lows: “I am pleased to send to you
! on this occasion of the ceremonies
commemorating the tenth anniv
; sary of the death of Walter Hines
Page, former American ambassador
to the court of St. James, a high
i tribute to the services rendered to
; his country by this distinguished
j scholar and statesman,
j “During the trying period of the
great war Mr. Page was appointed
| as American ambassador to London
in 1913. And the following year
found him confronted with an al
| most insurmountable task in main-
I taining his country’s true position
| in the European war. For years Mr.
I Page worked ceaselessly and fear-!
; lessly for his government until, ow
i ing to his impaired health, he was
I forced to resign his high post.
“He was a martyr to his coun
try’s cause and a hero whose great
! service will ever be appreciated and
| w r hose name will go down in the
j annals of his country as a noble and
faithful servant to a great cause.”
Frank Page Gets Silver Service
The following day, Frank Page,
! a brother of Walter Hines Page,
| state highway commissioner, w T as
; presented with a handsome silver
; service set by contractors in the
! state house of representatives, at
Raleigh. F. J. Blthe, of Charlotte,
who presented the gift on behalf of
the contractors, paid high tribute to
Mr. Page’s ability and fairness in
bis dealings with contractors in the
contractors in the construction of
the State’s 150 million dollar high
, way system.
A group of contractors gathered
iin a hotel recently were discussing
highway commissioners, engineers,
and other contracting work, and
after venting their wrath on vari
ous ones who met with their disap
proval, discussion at last turned to
; the suggested retirement of Commis
sioner Page, Mr. Blythe recounted.
One contractor declared, he liked
that fellow “on account of the busi
ness-like way in which he awarded
contracts, making it a competitive
proposition with no favors,” Mr.
Blythe said. When a contractor
makes the low bid on a contract he
can move his machinery on the job
without going to see local politicians
! to see if he is going to get the job,
; the speaker continued.
I “I like the management of the
highway business because specifica
tions of North Carolina roads means
1 something,” declared a second speak
; er. ‘‘There’s a real relation be
tween specifications and the actual
| construction work demanded.”
To a third the outstanding thing
in Mr. Page’s administration was
that a contractor could always get
his pay promptly for what he did,
and didn’t suffer any illusions about
getting paid for something he* had
not done.
A fourth contractor, M'r. Blythe
said, called attention to Mr. Page’s
I co operation in unforeseen and un
expected difficulties which arose.
All agreed that during- the entire
period of their relationship with Mr.
Page, he had been absolutely square
and just, and therefore contractors
wished to give this token of appre
ciation and esteem to Mr. Page, Mr
Blythe concluded.
After much throat clearing, Mr.
Page managed to make it eLvif that
ao had rather have this expression
of confidence in his fair dealing
from contractors than anything else
that could be given him.
j But what pleased contractors most
| was rot his expression of appreem
| tion, but his momentary inability to
I talk.
• '‘l’ve known that man for a long
J time, but it’s the. first time l ever
S saw lam when he couldn't talk.”
jj one contractor observed as he left
: the building.
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j Second, we will look out for the
! symptoms of over-diet, such as full
ness, sour stomach, nausea, » gas,
“heart-burn,” and bringing up par
ticles of food after meals; if such
should occur we promise to at once
think of the cause, and make no
more mistakes of that kind.
Third, let us very firmly decide
not to eat dinner at six o’clock, the
■ hour when the body should begin
r its most important season of rest,
■j Fourth, that we will begin each
‘ day’s work with a good, intelligent
[ breakfast, taken deliberately, at an
t hour when haste is unnecessary^.
Fifth, v/e will try to learn of the
i well-balanced meal, and temperate
ly adhere thereto, knowing the need
t of food in wholesome variety, to
- satisfy the requirements of our bod
ies only.
PHENOMENAL GRORWTH OF
SILER CITY FURNITURE
DURING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Began 1904 With SISOO Capital—-Now Nearly Half-Million
- Invested in Business, With Branch in Atlanta, Ga.
CONSOLIDATION OF GREAT SELLING
COMPANY WITH CHATHAM CHAIR CO.
Standard School Equipment Company Name of New Organi
zation—Allied With High Point Bending and Chair Co.
JURY LIST
For Term of Court Beginning
January 14.
The following names have been
drawn for jury service at the term
of court to begin January 14: J. W.
Dark, E. E. Walden, H. F. Durham,
B. H. Jones J. Q. Eubanks, L. L.
Bryan, Ed Quackenbush, W. 'A.
Teague, Charlie Page, George Mann,
Frank R. Henderson, Henry Tripp,
G. ( F. Carr, C. P. Hackney, J. W.
Hammer, A. L. Blake, W. T. Ham
let, Isaac Brooks, Jr., C. E. Durham,
B. F. Wilkie, R. H. Mills, W. I.
Bowers, Lacy Webster, D. L. Car
roll, A. A. Marks, A. L. Moon, James
Knight, O. D. Fields. E. L. Good
win, A. Burris Womble, T. P. Mur
chison, Benton Andrews, N J.
’ Thrailkill, S. C. Glosson, J. H. Wat-
Kins, G. W. Meyers, J. T. Gilliland,
C. R. Elkins, W. A. Buckner.
The term will consist of one week
for the trial of criminal cases.
ij: i't * $ i[i i'fi * ❖ 4
* TOWN *
• AND COUNTY BRIEFS *
sj; £ >1: # sjs t’fi * j
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jerome have
rented the Farthing house, near th '
Baptist church, and will make their
home here for the time being. Mr.
Jerome is an engineer with the state
highway commission, and will doubt
less find it practically as convenient
to live here as anywhere, while it
gives Mrs. Jerome the privilege of
being near her aging mother, Mrs.
Henry A. London.
Messrs. C. C. Poe and J. T. Bland
ran down to Cheraw, S. C., Sunday
to visit the former’s brother Mr. W.
E. Poe, who has been in por health
for some time.
Mrs. Walter R. Perry, of Hickory
Mountain township, who went to
Watts a short time • ago for treat
ment, is at home and reported to be
much improved.
The condition of Mr. Lacy Burns
who got severely injured by ma
chinery in the Sanford oil mi 1 is
improved but it is thought that he
will have to remain in„the hospital
two months longer.
I
Mrs. R. H. Hayes is spending
Christmas with her brother at Cana
of Davie.
Mrs. W. F. Bland has been ill with
influenza.
•
Mrs. Overacre returned last week
from Watts hospital, where she re
cently underwent’ an operation. She
is reported as much improved.
The faculty of Bellas school gave
a play last Thursday evening, but
as the weather was very bad few
attended it and it is suggested that
it w r ill be reproduced later.
For the sake of the printers
we are trying to get the paper
printed on Monday, though it cannot
reach the subscribers till much lat
er in the week. Also the early
printing prevents giving of actual
Christmas news.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Eubanks, of
Winston and Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Hamilton of Greensboro came to
spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Eubanks.
Mr. Billy Griffin, who is em
ployed with a highway construction
company, is home for the holidays.
Miss Sadie Brooks Johnson came
in from 'Greensboro for Christmas.
v-. Santa Working Hard f J
.vY ';: ' ■ Kv
Santa Claus has drifted into
Seattle. Wash., and opened a work-*
shop mere Where he is busy manu
facturing toys for his young friends,
who often come, in to watch him.
VOLUME 52. NUMBER 18
The close of 1928 sees another
forward step i n the development of
Siler City as one of the great furn
iture centres of the state, if not of
the nation. The Chatham Chair
Company,” located at Siler City.
. bined with itself the Standard
School Equipment of Louisville, Ky.,
and the new company is known as
the “Standard School Equipment
Company,” is located at Sile r City.
Mr. W. O. Jones, of Lousviile, Ky.,
and president of the former com
pany, is president and Mr. C. B.
Thomas, of Siler City, secretary*
treasurer. The new company means
the consolidation of one of the
state’s most modern chair plants
with one of the nation’s largest sell
ing agencies, and means further an
extension of both manufacturing
and marketing at and from Siler
City.
For the past year the Chatham
Chair Manufacturing Company has
manufactured school chairs exclus
ively, specializing largely in kinder
garten chairs, though making mod
ern form-fitting chairs of various
sizes. The capital stock of the new
company is $150,000. The com
pany, however, is allied with the
I High Point Bending and Chair Com
| which has a capital jbf $238,-
Thus these allied interests hav
a capital investment of neaflys4oo,-
000, while the investments in oth
er wood working plants of the west
Chatham metropolis will ru n the to
tal investment in that thriving town
close to one half million dollars.
From a Small Beginning
It was in 1904 that the High
Point Bending and Chair Company
was organized with a capital of
SISOO, and began work in a small
room in Siler City. Its products
were bent wood chair stocks, which
High Point, and from which fact
probably the name “High Point,”
a misleading term, because attached
to the Siler City concern.
The Chatham Chair Company is
an outgrowth of the Rex Chair
Company which was organized in
1919 by a Mr. Johnson from Liber
ty. This plant was taken over by
local people at Siler City in 1920,
and was later purchased by ike
owners of the High Point Bending
and Chair Company.
The High Point Bending and
its organization, came under the
control of the late M. J. Boling, un
der whose management and direc
tion it became one of the greatest
manufacturers of bent wood chairs
in the United States, and is now
one of only three manufacturers of
such goods in this country. Since
death of Mr. Boling the company
has had a continuous success under
the management of Mr. C. B. Thom
as as president and Mr. F. J. Bol
ing as vice-president. The company
is now capitalized at $238,000, and
has not only a modern plant at Siler
City but also a large plant in At
lanta, Ga. The Siler City plant
manufactures not only bent wood
chairs but also a full line of very
handsome fibre furniture; while the
Atlanta plant makes a complete line
of overstuffed parlor furniture. The
company has just this syear began t®
manufacture office chairs, and Mr,.
Thomas predicts that sales in this
line alone in 1929 will reach the
magnificent suf .of $200,000. It is
also estimated that the total of
these allied plants will amount to
near a million dollars in 1929. And
with the sales from the other wood
working plants of Siler City will cer
tainly more than total a million dol
lars.
The Siler City furniture industry
is one that the whole county of
Chatham can take pride in. Yet
many citizens of the county are
probably unaware that the county
has a plant that is turning out furni
ture that would not be unseemly in
the President’s mansion.
As stated above, the Bending Com
pany is one of only three manufac
tories in the whole country of
wood wood furniture. They would
have a fine monopoly and the com
pany at Siler City would grow
wealthy at a great rate if the tariff
on Yent wood furniture was suffi
cently high v to impede the importa
tion of the same class of goods from
Czecho Slovakia, which imports
much of this furniture to America.
A year ago the manufactures
sought to secure a higher tariff rate,
but were defeated in the attempt.
Mr. Thomas and Attorney Wade
Barber spent several days in Wash
ington with representatives of the
other three companies in seeking a
higher tariff rate, but strange to
say, former Senator McCumber, who
was joint author of the McCumber-
Fordney tariff measure now in
•» force, was out of the senate and rep
resenting the Czecho-Slovakia man
ufacturers in opposition to the
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