ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
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To Live Eat Little-
A Small Piecs of Land.
No Peace Prize.
Two Coclidse Virtues.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Reasonable expectation of life is
now limited to fifty-five years for
. the average. Formerly, when open
sewers ran through sireets, with
graveyards on hillsides draining
into wells below, life averaged less
than twenty years. Science says
we already have sufficient medical
knowledge to make life’s expecta
tion twelve years longer, but we
don’t use what we know.
The big problem is extending life
for men and women past fifty. Bar
ring cancer and other troubles, not
understood, prolonging life is not
complicated. Eat, sleep, exercise
and breathe properly and living to
ninety will not be difficult. Eating
$s especially important. 'Wc< are
what we eat.
Luigi Cornaro proved it when, at
forty years of age, doctors told him
his case was hopeless.
He cut his diet to twelve ounces
of solid food, with fifteen ounces of
light wine per day, wrote an interest
ing book when past ninety, lived
pa:*- one hundred and wrote to the
Archbishop of Venice: “I mount my
horse without difficulty and had to
live past ninetv to realize that the
world is beautiful.” He made his
wife live as he lived, and she passed
one hundred. Francis Bacon sup
plies interesting details of Cornaro’s
life, as do other ancient writers.
Real estate dealers, old and young,
paste in your hats.
One hundred years ago a small
piece of land, part of the old Bo
tanical Gardens in New’ York, was
bought for $4,807.36. „ The laud,
three blocks, is on Fifth avenue.
John D. Rockfeller, Jr., has just
secured that piece of property for
$100,000,000, an increase to make
a good single taxer shudder.
Mr. Rockefeller will use part of
the property for a new Opera House,
to be built in a fashion to allow
students and others that have musi
cal talent, but diamond necklaces,
to see and hear.
The money goes to Columbia Col
lege, which now owns the land.
That prbably reconciles Mr. Rock
efeller to see so large an investment.
He inherits from his father, w’ho
gave tens of millions to tha Uni
versity of Chicago, an interest in
educational enterprises.
An association organized in hon
or of Woodrow Wilson held its an
nual dinner, but didn’t give a peace
prize to anybody. Secretary Kel
logg certainly worked hard enough
to deserve a prize.
President Coolidge deserves tw’O |
own business, and for minding the I
business of the United States, leav
ing Europeans to mind theirs.
Perhaps the Woodrow Wilson
committee don’t like to honor any
Republican, like the cdlored lady
whose apartment was invaded by a
burglar, while a Bryan parade was
passing. Asked why she didn’t
scream, she put her head out of the
window and replied, “I didn’t want
folks to think I was hollering for
Bryan.”
A collection of miserable human
beings, losing sleep, undergoing
useless torture, engaged in a “talk
ing marathon.”
The one remaining awake and
talking, for the greatest number of
hours, receiving SI,OOO.
A civilization that does not allow’
one man to torture another should j
not allow human beings to torture
themselves for profit.
Chaplin Love?
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Georgia Hale, Hollywood actress,
who appeared with' Chaplin in “The ■
Gold Rush.” Friends say there is a ;
possibility of an engagement between j
Miss Hale and Chaplin, but Miss
Hale says. they are' “just good
fnends.”
The Chatham Record
| Court Proceedings
i In addition to the eases reported
1 in last week’s paper, the following
j cases were disposed cf as indicated:
Capias instanter ordered for John
S Link, Will Bray, Paul Adams, Aaron
J Alston, who failed to appear. Judg- ’
I ment absolute on bond ior Le Grand [
j Baylor, nol pros for Ed Dorsett J. <
Kenneth West net guilty of assault
with deadly, weapon.
Bond cf John Kay forfeited, case
Nol prossed.
P. P. Gaines, judgment suspend
ed on payment of costs on posses
sion of liquor charge.
W. C. Booth pays costs on charge
of driving car while d:unk, is for
bidden to drive car 6 months, judg
ment of six months suspended for
2 years on ccndition he remain sob
er. But in the next case for same
offense he pays $1.50 a Vi costs.
Garret Marsh got a total of 12
months on liquor charges. Dempsey
Carter got 5 months on similar
charges with more to come if he
doesn’t behave.
Leanard Upchurch fined SSO and
coats and forbidden to drive car
for three months.
Will Netties gets 12 years in pen
itentiary by submitting to attempt
to rape in charge of rape. The
parents of the girl consented to
lighter charge.
G. A. Crump was fined $25 and
costs for disturbing religious wor
ship at Hagwood colored church.
Herbert Emerson is adjudged not
guilty of larceny. Willie Brantley
pays fine of $25 and costs on same
charge or goes to jail for 4 months.
Ernest Jordan pleads guilty to aid
ing and abetting in liquor making,
is let off on good behavior as it
seemed to be one of Garrett Marsh’s
stills and Jordan as he claimed a
visitor Andrew Siler to be hired out
one year on conviction for forgery.
Julius Judd year on road on liquor
charge.
Fannie Ward, who claimed to
have liquor for sale and that her
husband was innocent, was given a
few days to leave the county. She
is a native of Virginia. Case
against her husband was continued.
'Rester Judd pays costs on liquor
charge. Hewig Hunter goes to
roads a year on liquor charge.
Madison Foust guilty of liquor
charge. Six months on roads.
John Robert Hammock not guilty
in liquor case.
'Court allows W. P. Horton $25
for defending Will Nettles.
J. W. Poe and Hurley Duncan
nol pros on condition defendants
pay costs.
Neill Cameron, of Harnett Coun
ty, guilty of reckless driving. Judg
ment suspended till May term.
D. D. Elkins pays $25 and costs
for drunkeness orp highway.
W. N. Fields gets nol pros with
leave.
“Cap” Taylor who shot and killed
a negro man here at Pittsboro Dec.
9, was acquitted on a plea of sell
defense. The deceased had followed
Cap home after an alleged threat
to kill him and had one foot on
Cap’s door step when he was shot.
. The jury was composed of G. F.
j Carr, Henr Tripp, A. L. Blake, W.
I. Bowers, D. L. Uarroll, T. P.
Murchison, J. F. Watkins, W. A.
Gopeiand, E. W. Durham, S. W.
Thomas, J. E. Andrews, J. H.
Teague, W. P. Horton defended
Taylor; D. L. Bell prosecuted as so
licitor and Ray and Upchurch as
sisted as private counsel against
the defendant.
Sherman Bradford pays SSO and
costs for driving car wniie drunk.
Walker Baldwin to be hired out
12 monts for disturbing religious
service.
Wilbur Guthrie, arrested the night
before on charge of store breaking
in December, got 18 months on
roads.
Case against Will Emerson nol
prossed.
Judgment absolute on bond in
case of Jessie Williamson.
of Jessie Williams. Costs to be
paid out of bond and balance to go
to school fund.
Floyd Langley, 6 months but
with chance to pay out, which was
done Saturday. That was a liquor
charge. The case for driving car
while drunk and injury to L. P.
Dixon was continued.
Mallie Sauls, possession of liquor,
costs#
I. H. Edwards and R. I. Nall
were relieved of bond in case of
Newby Johnson who escaped from
jail after being taken after for
feiture of bond.
There was some very swift work
in the case against Junius Judd. He
was arrested at a still in Cape Fear
township in the forenoon, was given
preliminary hearing before Justice
T. J. Hearne, was indicted by the
grand jury, was- tried and sentenced
to the roads before 4 o’clock the
same day.
Court adjourned Friday evening.
A number of cases were continued to
May term.
York and Pugh, owners of the bus
line through Pittsboro, have pur
chased the line from Greensboro
through Siler City to Sanford. This
gives the firm almost a monopoly of
bus lines entering Sanford.
i Mr. John Williams of Oakland
.township had the misfortune tn get
a leg broken Saturday morning while
working at a saw mill. The leg was
set by Dr. Chapin here at Pittsboro.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1929
What Are A Shapely Pair of Lips Worth?
Girls of New York have been asked what price they put upon their lips since a Los Angeles judge awarded
$7,112 to Thelma Gordon, a movie actress whose upper lip was marred in an accident. .Left to right are Helen
Gilliland, actress who places value of her lips at $500,000; Blanche C(?operman, business girl who said she
Would rather-be dead than have her lips disfigured; Tina Decker, who estimated the worth of her lips at a
million, and Peggy Udell, stage star, who dreads to think of anything happening to her Ups.
DR. CHAPIN GIVES
PITTSBORO A SCARE
Dr. W. B. Chapin startled Pitts
boro Saturday. He was reported
packing up to move to Tovvnville,
Vance County, and he really expect
ed to go Monday. Trucks ha a come
Sunday evening to take the house
hold goods Monday morning, and
the Record had already written an
article expressing regrets at the loss
of the family and of appreciation of
the Doctor’s services to the commun
ity when the good news circulated
that he had decided to stay wita
his home folk, and that the trucks
had been sent back empty.
Doctor Chapin practiced at Town
ville seemed to hope for his return
death of his father, who practiced
medicine at Pittsboro for many
years. He then moved to Pittsboro
and took charge of the practice va
cated for many year. However, town-'
township had the misfortune to got |
the Record learns that some / one
to hold hopes that he would return
some day to his former practice.
Last week a delegation came from
that town and persuaded the' Doctor
to go back, and the first thing Pitts
boro knew the family was piicking
and arrangements haC been v made
for Dr. Mcßane of Bynum to {move
to Pittsboro. >
Accordingly, it was good news
when the people learned Monday
morning' that the Doctor had
ed and would remain on his native
heath. It was not merely the loss of
the Doctor that was regretted but
of his good wife and- fine children,
though Miss Bessie was to remain
and finish her term as tea.iher in
the Pittsbord school.
DEATH CLAIMS GENA
WILSON FERGUSON
Our bountiful Giver has taken
from our midst, Monday evening,
January 14, 1929, a young flower,
Gena Wilson Ferguson, only twelve
years of age. She will be greatly .
massed by her many friends and
loved ones.
She surrendered her life to her
Savior while a child and followed
faithfully in his footsteps until He
came and carried her to her eternal
home.
It was a great shock to us who
are her friends, neighbors, and kins
folk when we heard of the death of
our dear one. But we knew that
our Father knows best.
The funeral service was held at
Hickory Mountain Methodist church
by her pastor. Rev. J. W. Bradley
Tuesday afternoon at two thirty
o’clock. Those who acted as flower
fiills were Misses Bessie Johnson,
Lozelle and Cleveland Campbell, Jua
nita Webster, Lucile Kath
erine and Viola Mann, Geneva
Clark, and Pauline Craft. The Pall
bearers were Messrs. G. W. Blair,
S. T. Johnson, O. B. Mann, A. E.
Craft, L. D. Webster, and Lacy
Beal. The interment was held un
der the auspices of Mr. Jeter Grif
fin of Pittsboro.
Gena is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ferguson, three
sisters and three brothers, Mrs. A.
E. Cockman, Misses Havse and Nina
Ferguson, Messrs. Charles,
and Lynn Ferguson, both grand
mothers, Mr. Burke and Mrs. Fer
guson, and several uncles, aunts,
and cousins.
The friends showed their sym
pathy by great numbers filling the
church to overflowing.
She was laid to rest under a beau
tiful mound of flowers at Hickory
Mountain Methodist church.
Two of her Sunday school class
mates, „
KATHERINE MANN,
VIQLA MANN.
MEETING OF THE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT OF CLUB
The Health Department of the
Woman’s Club held its January meet
ing at the home of Mrs. J. W. Hunt, j
with Mrs. Hunt and Mrs. H. D. Gun- j
ter as joint hostesses, on Jan. 7th.
The meeting was opened by the
Chairman, Mrs Newton Moore, fol
lowing which, the collect was read
in unison.
Regular business matters were
taken up and discussed throughout
the evening.
' Mrs. C. A. Matthews was welcomed
as a new member, to this department.
Delicious refreshments were served
by the hostesses.
COLORED TEACHERS
AND FARMERS HEAR i
INFORMING ADDRESS
I
On January 17 a very interesting
meeting was held at Mitchell’s Chap
el for the benefit of the colored
teachers and farmers of the county.
Ihe teachers’ meeting had been plan
ned before the Superintendent knew
about the plans of the farmers’ club, i
L. E. Hall, Negro State agent from
the agricultural department, was the
speaker of the occasion. Because j
of inclement weather and the flu!
there were few out.
Mr. Hall’s theme for the teach
ers was “Harness your school to the 1
community in which you teach,” '
and he gave the teachers plenty of
food for thought.
The club served dinner in the 1
school house. The afternoon ses-;
sion was for the farmers, to who,m i
the speaker gave much wholesome
and valuable advice. He insisted
upon a live home policy and the
making of farm life such as to make
the wife content, the children hap
py, and thd boys anxious to be farm- 1
ers like dad.
Reported by T. V. CRUMP.
MONCURE SCHOOL NEWS
Honor Roll-—Fourth Month:
First Honors—Preston Harward,
Toy Patrick, Ruby Mims, Lewis Par
'tinf'Orinner Luxtony* Blanche Longe>
Thelma Thomas, Sam Overby, Inez j
Andrews, Boby Ray, Virginia Haith-i
cox, Kathryn Riddle, Roy Holt, Mel-j
ba Moore, J. W. Thomas, Jr., Pearl j
Mackney, Lucille Goodwin, Julia 1
Travis, Ennis Upchurch, J. E. John- i
Ison, Jr., Roy Mann, Katheleen Carr, ;
Dorothy McCracken, Hazel Up-1
church, Flora Mae Sawyer, Rodney !
Johnson.
Second Honors—J. C. Morrison, t
Jr., Christine Walden, Magdaleen :
Goodwin, Ruth Rambeth, Tom. W. j
MimL Margaret Holt, Joseph Pol- ■
lard, Emma Lee Mann, Edward Carr, |
Lucille Wicker, Woodrow’ Marshall, ;
Annie Mae Silkie, Lucille Jones, |
Fiances Goodwin, Ruth Stedman, !
Broadus Thomas, Sarah Crutchfield, ;
Fay Sawyer, Ben Mims, James Cross,
Corine Hipp, William Thomas, Coy i
Eubanks, Helen Lambeth, William
Marshall, Craig Harrington, Thelma |
Ellis, Cecil Ernst, Mozelle Gotten, j
Wilson Womble.
The Moncure Boys’ Basket Ball j
team plaed and won the opening j
game of the Wake County High !
school basket ball league, which is j
sponsored by the Raleigh Y. M. C. A.:
at Raleigh Friday night. The score'
was 48 to 16. Goodwin was the i
highest scorer for Moncure, but |
Cotten’s and Harrington’s work on I
the floor was more spectacular. The j
local team will play other teams of j
the league in Raleigh on each of the j
next four Friday nights. t A trophy j
will be awarded the 'winner of the ■
contests.
Moncure, 48 —Nightdale, 16.
Byway of the Ashbo*’o Courier
the Record that learns some one
entered the Bennett bank Sunday
night, Jan. 12, but were frightened
away by the turning on of the elect
ric lights in Mr. J. R. Peace’s store. |
Mr. Peace heard a noise down there i
and having a switch to the store \
lights in his home turned it on, and
the robbers skedaddled. An investi- j
gation the next morning indicated;
that the bank had been entered but
only the cashier’s pistlo was missed.
Hoover’s Son
Herbert Hoover, j r., 25, will soon
become Director of the Radio Tele
phone Communications of the West
ern Air Express and technical assist
ant to the president, H. M. Hanshue,
it was announced in Los Angeles.
INTERESTING PROGRAM**
AT SCHOOL FRIDAY
I Y. M. C. A. Deputation Team of
U. N. C. is coming to Pittsboro
school.
T he Y. M. C. A. Deputation Team
of the U. N. C. will conduct Chapel
in the Pittsboro school Friday morn
ing- at 9 :00.
: All the participants in the pro
gram are outstanding leaders in Y.
M. C, A. work at the University. A
| good program is expected.
Several numbers will be given by
i a quartette composed of the follow
-1 ing:
i John Miller, Winston-Salem;
Thomas Marshall, Rocky Mount;
John Humphries, Asheville; Jack
: Conally, Taylorsville.
1 In addition to other musical num
, bers there will be short talks from
j several of the boys.
J. Wyth Ray, one *of our local
boys who is making good at the Uni
versity, will talk on the subject of
“Fair Play in Examinations.”
Mac Gray, President of Y. M.
1 C. A. and quarterback on Carolina’s
I football team of last ‘year will talk
!on “Athletic Ideals.” Probably Mr.
! Mac Gray will tell us how he scored
that touch down against State Col
lege in the last thirty seconds of
the game in order to tie the score.
Aubrey Perkins, acting general
secretary will talk on* the subject of
Living.”
v This program is given for the ben
! efit of the pupils but if others would
like to attend, the school will be
i glad to have them.
| MRS. ERNEST MOORE
DIES IN RALEIGH
1
It was distressing news that
: reached the family of Mr. C. D.
, Moore Thursday to the effect that
| the wife of Mr. Ernest Moore had
: died in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, where
; she had given birth to a child a few
i days before.
The funeral was held in the Tab
; ernacle Baptist church of Raleigh,
Friday, with the pastor assisted by
Rev. C. H. Norris condctin the serv
, ices.
Besides the members of M’r.
Moore’s own family a number of
| other Chatham friends attended the
; funeral of the fine young woman,
| including Rev. R. R. Gordon, B. D.
| Thrailkill, and others.
| Mrs. Moore was a native of Golds
boro, a daughter of Mr. W. W.
; Prince. She had been married to
j Mr. Moore several years and they
' had made their home in Raleigh,
I where Mrs. Moore, according to a
I Raleigh correspondent of the Greens
! boro News, was known throughout
I the city for her remarkable beauty.
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL
DEFEATS ROXBORO
| The basket ball team of the Pitts
boro High School defeated the Rox
boro team in a hotly contested game
at Pittsboro Friday evening. The
game resulted in a score of 53 to
19.
Johnson and Griffin for Pittsboro
were high scorers, though all the
! boys did well.
The line up was as follows:
Pittsboro Roxboro
| Griffin R. F. Long
! Hatley L. F. Walker
1 Johnson Center Gentry
Womble R. G. Warren
Abernathy L. G. Sykes
Substitutes for Pittsboro were
Durham, Avent, Petty, and Snipes.
For Roxboro Oliver. Principal Wat
ers of the local high refereed the
game.
FUNERAL OF MRS. DAVIS
Funeral services were conducted
for Mrs. Etna Ann Burke Davis at
New Elam Christian church, Sunday,
Jan. 6 by her former pastor Rev.
Geo. R. Underwood of Pittsboro,
assisted by Rev. Mr. Wells of Ra
leigh, nad Deacon D. A. Mann, a
life-long friend of the family of
the deceased.
Mrs. Davis had been a faithful
member of New Elam church for
58 years, though for the past 21
years she had been a resident of
Raleigh. She was 70 years of age.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. J. C. Davis, and four children,
Mrs. C. C. Johnson, of Greensboro,
Mrs. C. N. Johnson of Varina,’ Mrs.
C. S. Howell and Mr. H. E. Davis j
VOLUME 52. NUMBER 22-
FIRE DAMAGES
CAFE BUILDING
Blaze in Upper Story Monday
Morning Discovered in Time
Prevent Destruction of
Whole Block.
Os A th fi e re ci d y tS r ( Trfy
iS that
utes the whole block containing tha,
h or {- Adding and Brooks and Eu
banks store would have been greatly
endangered if not a positive ifss. ?
the fire originated in, or on a
h ZT V r of the bedrooms V
atan s, which was occupied by youmr
“?"•, Whether it was due toadgi
ette left burning or to a match
sti uck by a mouse cpuld not be de
termined but Mr. Clyde Bland,
owner of the building attributes it
to one or the other.
When found the bureau, or dres
ser, had practically burned un and
the partition between the two rooms
was burning- and the ceiling above.
Considerable damage was done to
partition and to the ceiling.
The chemical engine of the Pitts
boro fire department did effective,
work and within a few minutes the .
danger was over. However, Mr.
•Rand s case and kitchen had been,
cleared of their contents, alscd
county Agent Shiver’s office up
stairs, and the case business was in
terrupted for a day or two.
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY
MILES OF EGGS
New York City eats over seven,
million eggs a day. Place them end
t 0 end and you would have a row
of eggs two hundred twenty miles
long. One hundred million dollars
is a conservative estimate of what
New York pays for poultry and eggs
m a year.
And yet, of the forty- two car
loads of poultry unloaded in the-
City of New York during the week
ending October 30, only one car
showed up from the South, and it
was from Okla. California and mid
dle Western states are not only sup
plying New York, but they are ship
ping many millions of dollars' worth
ol poultry products into the South.
The South is the ideal section ot
the country for poultry raising.'GSoil
and climatic conditions are as nearly
perfect as could be expected and,
no matter how rapid the progress,
it will be a long time before the
South raises enough poultry to sup
ply home markets. New Orleans
alone consumes over $6,000,000
worth of poultry products annual
ly easily half the present output of 1
Louisiana.
There is plenty of room and abun
dant opportunity, in the South for
commercial poultry raising but we
must grow into the business instead
of plunging into it. Every South
ern farmer can profitably keep from
100 to 500 chickens. One , hundred
good, intelligent farmers in any one
community, keeping 500 good hens
each, will have a carload of eggs
to sell every week.
By far Nhe bulk of our poultry
products comes from farms where
poultry is one of the several side
lines that insure a steady, year
around incolme regardless of how
major crops turn out. Side-line
poultry raising in Rockingham Coun
ty) Virginia, is turning out poultry
products with an annual value of
more than $3,000,000. It is the re
sult of concerted effort to get a
flock, averaging about 200 fowls, on.
every farm and to make it just as
good a flock as possible.
J. E. Hoyle, of Burke County,
made a profit of S6OO last year from,
his flock of 450 hens. Mrs. Nat
Williams, of Greene County, Tennr
essee, say she cleared more than
her husband from his 300-acre farm.
Miss Emmie Hammond, of Oktib
beha County, Mississippi, keeps an.
average of 300 hens. They paid
hed a profit of $2.35 per hen for the
year 1927. Her chickens and twelver
milk cows have paid for 180 acres
of land which were bought six years
ago at a cost of $3,600.
The beauty about raising poultry
is that it is never too late to start.
J. M. Buckalew, who lives near
Guntersville, Alabama, celebrated
his sixty-fourth birthday more than
four years ago. He felt that
was too old to do hard work but he*
wanted to keep busy and earn some
thing, so he started into the poultry
business. He has made it pay its
own way and now has a poultry
plant that brings him a good re
turn and for which he has been of
fered $3,000.00.
Mr. Julius Polk of Pennsylvania
visited his sister Mesdames C. L.
Williams and John Abernathy at By
num this week.
Mrs. Kernodle, mother of Mrs.
Dailey, continues very ill at the
daughter’s home here.
of Raleigh, also eight grandchild
ren and one greatgrand child; also
a brother, W. A. Drake, New Hill,
and a sister, Mrs. J. J • Lasater,
Durham.
• Interment was in the New Elam
churchyard, under a beautiful mass
of flowers. The .pall. bearers were
C. C. Johnson, C. N. Johnson. C. S.
Howell, William Drake, 'VaSSie Las
ater, and G. Woodell.