ESTABLISHED SEP^ r ' 878 1 ■- . \ _ o ■ I lODAY ! Cows and M:n. What Name for Hoover? The Duke Brothers. Farmers in Japan. By ARTHUR BRISBANE I j Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, gave a I dinner to Ben H. Thompson in hon-1 or of his Holstein-Friesian cow, Ca- j nary Cordyke. They both deserved. | The Saskatchewan Government bought the cow for SIO,OOO. Canary is world’s champion in but ter fat and gives enough milk in a day to last the average family a month. In 305 days, this wonder cow produced 1,080 pounds of but ter and 26,396 pounds of milk. Too bad there is no way of im proving men’s brains, as we im prove cows’ udders. Only time can do that, and time is slow. The av erage intelligence in the British House of Commons today, accord ing to Lecky, is lower than the av erage of all the free men in Ath ens, 3,000 years ago. Science goes ahead, man stays about where he was, a little less brutal, a little less selfish. If Americans call President Cool idge “the silent President” what ! will they call Mr. Hoover? He has been elected President of the Unit- f ed States, will begin his work in less , than two months, has been in Wash ington several days at work. How i much has he talked. Not at all. Eight years more of business with out conversation will suit this coun try very well. We have had, at va riou times, considerable periods of conversation without business. Sometimes farmers succeed, but : usually they must leave the farm to : do it. ' 1 Benjamin X. Duke, who died yes- . terday morning in his Fifth Avenue < house in New York, began a farm- ] er, working with his brother, James j ] Duke, on their father’s farm. They ; grew tobacco, started a small sac- j ] tory, introduced cigarette making s machinery and made hundreds of 1 millions. And, farmers note this, < THEY BOSSED THE MIDDLE i MAX IXSTEAD OF BEIXG BOS§- < ED BY HIM. Ask Mr. Hill of the i American Tobacco Company or Mr. . Belt of Lorillard’s how that is done, i American farmers have their , \ troubles, farmers in Japan bav- jj worse ones. _ ! 1 When our farmers complain Gov- < eminent at least MAKES PROM- i *TSES. Jf When thousands of Japanese peas- i ants marched to express dissatisfac tion, forty were shot dead and many 1 wounded. # J i An intoxicated lady told the judge 1 ? , her trouble was due to an alcohol j i rub. She had swallofved nothing. Doctors said it was just possible, ( the judge excused her. ] A gentleman, very drunk, led in . by the policeman, told the judge, , “My mistake was eating raisins ( while drinking ice cream soda.” They j let him go. < —■ ■ < The Pittsboro Team ; Wallops Siler City Rufus Johnson Breaks His ] Own Record With 32 Points > Scored. i. Pittsboro high school basket ball j team maintained its winning streak , Friday evening when it beat the Siler City team with a score of 51 to *lB. Rufus Johnson, who had . already won distinction by winning , 167 points in eleven games previous, \ to this one, went wild and won 32 i points in the igame against j Siler < City, bringing his score for the sea- i son to 199 points. The youngster 1 simply tossed the Dali into the goal 1 from almost any point of the field 1 and at any angle. Sixteen field ] goals in a single game ranks the • Pittsboro goal thrower among the \ professional soforers. Rufus is a son of Mr. R. J. Johnson, chairman ; of the board of county commission- 1 ers. 1 < PREACHER’S WIFE DIES i k The wife of Rev. A. T. Sherrod, « r burner pastor of Stanton’s Temple ] church here, died Friday last at 1 Ruckhorn, where she was teaching, i Ihe family have made their home i ? Southern Pines since they left j ! 'tsboro, but the preacher, who is ’ R :> an umbrella repairer, has made < c-c-asional visits to Pittsboro since 1 e moved away. The burial was at < • e Hamlet churchyard, a few miles 1 rth of Bynum, Monday afternoon, i ■ e husband wishes to thank his sends, both white and colored here,, i 1 the help and sympathy rendered 1 his affliction. The funeral serv- j > were conducted by Rev. G. W. < Rosser, presiding elder, assisted by i v. J. J. Ridley, pastor of Stanton’s j T crnple church, Pittsboro. 1 r A woman living in Indiana 106 ] years has just seen a train for. the : ‘!rst time. Her age makes us think j she has not seen many automobiles. The Chatham Record MRS. B. M. POE DIES AT HOME IN DURHAM I The sad news reached Pittsboro i last Friday of the death of Mr. Bruce Pee after an illness of ten i day at her home in Durham. Death was attributed to a combination of ; disease. ! Mrs. Poe before mairiage was Miss Annie Womble. She is a sister |ot Mr. T. J. YV oriole of Ailanta, Ga., and of Mrs. W. J. Womble of [ Haywood and Mrs. W. W. Alixson of Miami, Fla. She had no children, I but leaves an adopted daughter Min- I nie Lee Poe, and her husoand. Mr. and Mrs. Poe lived in Pitts boro fer many years. It was only two or three years ago that they moved to Durham, where Mr. Poe has been associated with Mr. C. C. Edwards in the real estate business. The deceased lady was most highly esteemed in Pittsboro and wherever known. She was a Baptist, and the funeral was held at Gum Springs Baptist church, Saturday afternoon, with Rev. R. R. Gordon of Pittsboro officiating. The burial was in the church yard. The pall bearers were C. C. Ed wards, W. W. Cramer, G. O. Fer rell, B. W. Harris, and W. G. Mur ray. Flower bearers were nieces of Mrs. Poe. Mrs. Poe was 58 years of age. FINiSWRITTENI.N LAWRENCE CASE; Alleged Murderer of Mrs. terry ■ Must Serve 3U Years in Pen- j itentiary—Supreme Court Renders Decision 4 to 1, Jus tice Brogden Dissenting. The suspense in the W. H. Law rence case was ended last week when the Supreme Court affirmed the sen- ' tence rendered by a Chatham county jury last spring, and thereby assign ed the alleged murderer of Mrs Ter ry to a thirty years residence in the penitentiary. The length of time required to render a decision by the court had suggested, during the absence .of Chief Justice Stacey last fall, a tie of the four remaining justices. How ever the decision was four to one, in dicatiing either that there had been no tie or that one of the dissenting justices had been won over since i the tie or that one of the dissenting f justices had been won over since the return to the state of Mr. Sta cey. Justice Biogden, of Durham, the home of the defendant, was the only dissenting justice. The judg ment affirming the sentence of Judge Xunn was written by Justice Clark. The one issue before the court was that of whether there had been evi dence sufficient to justify the case going to the jury. The defense had rested its one hope upon that point. Exceptions were not wanting, but the defense seemed to realize that a new trial would probably result in another conviction, with possibility of the highest degree, since the cir cumstances were very damaging, and it was difficult for the ordinary jur or to draw the distinctions that the defense hoped the supreme court would draw. Justice Brogden’s dis senting opinion was in line with the | desires of the defense, namely, that j only a strong suspicion of the de fendant’s guilt could be established by the evidence. And that is the state of mind of many who heard the trial, and even now there are few who can say that they know he is guilty, and many who believing him guilty would, if on the jury, have voted acquittal on the ground that the state had not proved it. The particulars of the sensation al case are familiar to practically all readers the Record; hence there is no use in reviewing it. Two or three points those who have never decided in their minds about the guilt of Lawrence which they feel were never properly stressed before the_court are, first, the whereabouts of Mrs. Terry in Duiham from 7:30 p m., when her son left her on the street, till 9:30, for it was thorough ly established that Lawrence was in Durham till after nine o’clock the fatal nighc. If she was in Durham at all, these folk who yet do not have any positive opinion about the case argue, why didn’t somebody come forward and show where she was. If she was in the Lawrence apartments, it was reasonable to ex pect some one to see her going up there or him and her coming down to start on the tragic journey than it was for any one to see Lawrence go up to bed when he said that he was going to “turn in.” On the oth er hand, Lawrence iproved by the hotel records of a western North Carolina town that ihe was in that town the night, on a former occas ion, upon which the son of the dead woman testified that he took his mother down town just as he did the fateful evening, and saw her get in a car similar to the Lawrence car. If this was true, it is said, it is clear that some one else had a car like Lawrence’s and had taken her for a ride on the former occasion. That being the case, then, such a person could have taken her the fateful evening and* her location in Durham from 7:30 to 9:30 would be .is.'puzzle —she simply would have l * PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 315t,1929. Pittsboro Has - Winning Team Basket Ba?l Team of Local School Wins County Champ ionship—Has‘Ovster Treat; Johnson Makes Record. The basket ball team of the Pitts boro High School by winning over Siler City in a hotly contested game Friday evening definitely decided the championship in its favor. But the team’s glory -is passing the bounds of the county. Its record is be coming a theme in sport pages in the state’s dailies, and Johnson has even had his picture published in the Durham Herald and has been lauded for the remarkable, if not record-breaking, experience of mak ing 167 points in eleven games. The team has an interesting schedule of games before it, and be fore the season expires will likely have won laurels from the defeat of teams from some of the larger schools of the state. But the win ning of the county championship gives it a chance to enter the elimir nation contests in the state cham pionship contest, and interest will be at a high pitch if it can reach the final stage of that contest. The Boys Treated The team was given an oyster | supper Wednesday evening- of last j week. The supper was the treat | of Mr. R. C. Griffin and the Farrell j Case. The members of the team and j substitutes made a fine looking group • as they sat at the case tables for the i least. With them were Principal and I Coadh J. S. Waters, and Mrs. Wat ers, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Griffin whose son Russell is a member of the team, 1 and the editor of the Record, the latter of whom thoroughly enjoyed ihe treat and the privilege of listen ing in on the exploits of the team and its prospects as told by Coach j Waters. No more delicious oysters have ever come our way, and it would be hard to find a cleaner group of young men than those forming the Pittsboro team, and the substi tutes. • | MRS. PERRY PASSES At the Age of 81 years, 4 months and 26 days, Mrs. Martha E. Perry died at the home of her son Mr. Ed L. Perry a few miles from Pittsboro Saturday morning, Jan. 26, and was ■ buried at New Salem Sunday after noon. The funeral services were con ducted by Revs. B. L. Gupton and T. W. Hurst. The buriaL was in New" Sfilem CKurcK Yard. Flowet' ! gills were Misses Irene Campbell, Helen Boone, Thelma Thrift. Cath erine Campbell, Ethel Contoner, Ef fie Mae Campbell, Elizabeth Dur ham, Lottie Eubanks, Electra Mae Mixon. The pall bearers were W. J. Durham, P. T. Farrell, J. W. Thrift, J. J. Perry, C. J. Ellington, and J. R. Ellington. The burial was held under the auspices of Mr. Jeter Grif fin, of Pittsboro. | Mrs. Perry was before marriage I Miss Martha Pilkington. Her hus band H. M. Perry, had preceded her to the grave a number of years. She leaves two sons and one daughter, j Messrs. E. L. and Luther Perry, and I Mrs. O. T. Cooper. The deceased has been a member of the church since early youth, and j at death was a member of the New j | Salem church. She was most high- ( ly esteemed and her many friends grieve at her passing. May God j bless the bereaved family, and let us all feel that our loss is His gain. She will be especially missed by the members of the Sunday school. NOTE OF THANKS Mr. E. L. Perry wishes to ex press his most sincere (thanks to all who were so good and kind to him and his mother during their re cent illness and the death and burial of his mother. been out of town. The second point unstressed, or even unmentioned, was that Law rence probably knew Mr. Mann, pro prietor of the filling station on route 50 where the couple attempted to be identfied as Lawrence and Mrs. Terry, stopped at 11 o’clock. It happened that Mr. Mann had just left the filling station. But some wonder if a man out under similar circumstances would risk driving up to a filling station where a man whom he had known for many years was likely to be. The decision of the supreme court has confirmed the opinion of those who had determined that Lawrence was guilty and that it had been proved, but with Justice Brogden dissenting, those who had been un convinced of the proof of the guilt are in the same frame of mind. However, the decision of the court has had the effect of deciding the issue effectively, if not theoretically, and the unfortunate man, innocent or guilty, is in the same fix that he would be if everybody had clear and positive proof of his guilt. He is in the penitentiary for thirty years, which means for life, unless he lives long or he gets. considerable time off for good behavior, or the clemency of a future administration liberates him. And thus FINIS is written to one of the most sensational cases ever tried in the county of Chatham. Bennett Bank Again The Goal of Yeggs Thee Times Witnin Thirteen Months the Bank at Bennett Has Been Entered. The bank at Bennett, which was robbed in open daylight Jan. 7, 1928, and which was entered two weeks ago by robbers who weie frightened off by the turning on of lights in a nearby store with a switch in the home of Mr. J. R. Peace, was again entered by thieves last Thursday morning 3 o’clock. An explosion Mr. John Yow, who was sleeping in an upscaiis room in an adjoining build ing. Mr. low went to his window and fired his pistol, and three men scooted out of the bank and dashed for a car thr£e hundred yards away, escaping, but without nooty. Tne explosion was th e ,. result of an at tempt to break the combination. It is reported that two boys had been asked the day before by two strange men whether the Bank of Bennett kept its money at night or carried it to the parent bank at Bonlee. Finger-print experts brought up on the scene could find no finger prints to give a clue, though the ab scence of such prints indicates that the yeggmen are experienced hands at the business and know how to avoid leaving tell-tale finger prints, REV. T. A. CHEATHAM TO DELIVER STEREOPTI CAN LECTUkE FRIDAY Next Friday mgnt at St. Bartholo mew s cnuicii Jvev. lnauutus oneamam wui present an musu-ateu leetuie on wasnincon Eaineurai. xvir. Uii.ecici.ciii s iuoi years in tne min istry \v ere ac nttoDuro, so ne neecis r.o introduction Here. ror many yeais lecenuy he hns nad mgn posi tion in- uaiVary enuren, jrn.es oux'gn, aim tne enuren at rmeauist. ne asio gives spare time wont to tne eciuca- Lioiicu siue oi tne great Vvashnigton catneuiai, as a memoer of tnat staff, Vvmcn itseii is a uisunct .honor, i ne wiil present wmi lantern sudes some or tne most Vvonaeixui and otuUi.iiai pictures in ameuca of tne catnearai vvmcn is now unuer con struction in Washington, \uast year one hunured ana seventy nve thou sand peopie visited tne cathedral grounus and buildings, and on one occasion in UctDer nearly twenty thousand people attended an out door service on tne catnearai grounds, wmch indicates tnat tne • t lerttrrr ana pictures Will interest very much ail who will attend. inere will oe no admission cnarge, but rree wui oifermgs may oe piaceu in a receiver alter tne lecture, and tne pioceeas will be given to tne erection oi a memorial to Rev. G. 1. Riand in tne new enuren at Saniora. Elease remember tne aate, 8 p. m. rnuay mgnt, reo. rst, aria come to the lecture. K. u. SHANNONHOUSE, Rector. i . Moncure News Items l | Miss Catherine i nomas is visiting j friends at Apex this week. Miss Virginia Cataeii, a teacher at ! the Methodise Orphanage, Raleigh, j spent Last week end witn ner parents 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Catneli. , Mrs. ±i. U. bell, wno has been sick, is oacit ap school tnis week. . ivir. E. H. joenlieid, a contractor, who has been in tne hospital is improved. Many from here attended the fu neral services of Mrs. Bruce Foe at turn bprings Baptist crunch last baiuruay. bhe nad many friends and relatives in tins community and her death was a shock to them. Our sympathy go ivo out to tlicni* Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. J. K.