A Paper with a Prestige I
of a Half Century. A
County, Not a Com
munity Paper. I
ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878
SONS, DAUGHTERS OF
LIBERTY INITIATED
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State Councillor Visits Ala-
Chat Council and Charter is
Presented
The Ala-Chat Council of the Sons
and Daughters of Liberty, located at
a Manndale on highway 93, near the
•Chatham-Alamance line, was named
in honor of the two counties from
which the membership is drawn. The
organization was effected three
months ago, with a very wide-awake
membership.
We were fortunate to have the
State Councillor, Brother J. C. Kes
fer. with us Saturday evening. He
gave us a splendid address and pre
sented the charter with 58 names
written thereon.
We were also delighted to have
Brother T. T. Stafford, state secre
tary. and Brother Cole, ex-state coun
cillor, with us. Brothers Stafford and
Cole are from Burlington and they
were accompanied by the Burlington
initiation team. This team has 22
members and is given up to be the
best initiation team in the world.
We were fortunate in having this
team put on the initiatory work in
our council. It was a very enjoyable
occasion and we hope they will come
a°-ain. —J. R. Goodwin, Councillor.
When the Railroad
Came to Pittsboro
Mrs. W. L. Powell has handed the
Record man an invitation sent out
42 years ago for a “Railroad Cele
bration Hop,” given on the com
pletion of the railroad from Moncure
to Pittsboro. It is a handsome gold
edged card, printed in fine style, and
will doubtless recall to a good num
ber of readers that joyful day when
Pittsboro was linked up with the out
side world by steel bands. It is a
co-incident that the branch road from
Warsaw to Clinton was completed the
same spring. The editor of the
Record was a school boy, boarding
near the new depot at that time,
and he knows what an event the
road’s coming to Clinton was, and
can therefrom imagine the gratifi
cation of the people of this section.
The Invitation
“You are invited to attend the
Celebration Hop’ ” to be
given at Pittsboro, Friday evening,
May 20th, 1887.
Music by Stanley’s Band.
Floor Managers: A. B. Hill, O. S.
Poe, Jr., E. L. Haughton.
Committee on Invitation: H. A.
London, Jr., Jacob Thompson, Ivey
Hill.
Honorary Managers: Capt. W. L.
London, Capt. Wm. Smith, H. M.
Cowan, Esq. Hon. A. M. Waddell.
The last name is suggestive. We
rather believe that CoL Waddell had
already moved to Wilmington* since
we can hardly remember when his
name was not familiar as a Wilming
tonian. Probably he had been invited
back for the occasion.
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Kelly’s Slayer Gets
Long Term in Prison
Dietz, slayer of the former Chat
hamite who was chief of police at
Southern Pines, was convicted of sec
ond degree murder and got a term
of 25 to 30 years in the penitentiary.
He was by no means friendless. Sev
eral of his family and some promi
nent citizens of his old West Virginia
home were present. It seems that
the young man had lost his nest egg
in attempts to develop a Randolph
county gold mine. Reports from
Asheboro were to the effect that he
was highly esteemed while boarding
in that town two years ago. After
the loss of his money, the contents
of his grip indicated that he had turn
ed to robbery as a trade. It was set
op as a motive of the murder that
he killed to avoid search of his in
criminating grip.
New Residences
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Mr. O. Z. Barber, contractor, has
begun work preliminary to the erec
tion of brick-veneered eight-room
residence for Mr. E. B. Hatch op
posite the school building. The home
occupied by Mrs. Annie Chapin and
Mr. and Mrs. Hatch, opposite the
Rlair Hotel building, has been sold,
presumably as location for future
business houses.
The residence being erected by Mr.
™ ill London is approaching com
pletion, and will be quite an addition
to that section of town. The Wirtz
residence on Lanius Hill is complete
and Mr. and Mrs. Wirtz have moved
in, though they have been up north
ne past few days to bring back the
oaughter of Mr. Wirtz, who from now
on will live with Mr. and Mrs. Wirtz.
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Ames Quits $13,000 Job
Leslie R. Ames, who gave up a
* ate engineer’s job in North Caro
nna and accepted one in Louisiana
tv, a sal ? r y
he resignation is probably due to
■p? ramifications of politics in that
'-ale, where the governor has been
under fire.
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The Chatham Record
BOLL WEEVIL CUTS
DOWN PRODUCTION
The Way to Get the Upper Hand
of the Pest is Outlined by
David R. Coker
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Nothing has curtailed the crop of
South Carolina so much as the.idea
that a majority of our farmers have
had that they could afford not to
fight the boll weevil, states David R.
Coker, master farmer of Hartsville,
S. C., in a recent issue of The Char
lotte Observer. In three years out of
the past eight the farmers of this
section who did not fight the weevil
but used good methods otherwise,
made about as much cotton as those
who did fight him. In every one of
the other five years, however, weevil
control paid enormous dividends,
properly poisoned crops frequently
making two or three times as much
as unpoisoned crops. I do not know
of a single farmer in middle or lower
South Carolina who has average fair
to good crops during the past eight
years who has not intelligently pois
oned the weevil. In certain sections
of the piedmont weevils have not
been in evidence during several years
of this period but wherever they can
be found on the young cotton in the
Spring poisoning is necessary. As
there were plenty of weevils in the
piedmont last Fall and as we had no
low Winter temperatures anywhere
in the State, it is pretty certain that
weevil control measures will be nec
essary this year over the entire state.
My entire experience indicates that
by far the most important step in
weevil control is the killing of the
over-Wintered weevils on the young
cotton at the time the first small
square appears. This can be done at
a cost of 15 to 20 cents per acre for
materials for each applications. Two,
three or four applications will be nec
essary according to weather condi
tions. A mixture of one pound of
calcium arsenate thoroughly stirred
into a gallon of water to which one
gallon of cheap molasses is then add
ed, will poison two acres and kill
practically every weevil on the young
cotton. The molasses mixture is best
applied with a cloth mop about three
inches wide on the end of a stick
about two feet long. After lightly
dipping it is extended forward and"
downward, striking the cotton plants
two or three inches below the top,
-the operator then walking down the
rows, tipped the plants over with the
mop and applying the mixture on the
under side of the leaves. Children
quickly become expert in this opera
tion when properly supervised. A
drop or two of the mixture per plant
is sufficient, as the weevils walk
about over the leaves very freely and
are practically certain to discover
and eat the mixture within 24 hours.
The writer has a number of times
watched weevils moving about over
the plants and finding and eating the
mixture.
If a hard rain comes within 24
hours the mixture should be prompt
ly put on again. It should be applied
at least once more, five to seven days
later, and, if the emergence of the
weevils continues in any quantity, a
third and sometimes a fourth appli
cation should be made. If the early
poisoning is done properly and at the
proper time practically no punctured
squares will be noticed before late
July or early August, at which time
dusting by the regular method may
be begun if necessary. In some of
our own fields last year we had prac
tically no punctured squares until
general migration began, the middle
of August, and no dusting was nec
essary in these fields.
Serious infestation of plant lice
sometimes follow several applications
of calcium arsenate in dust form, but
the molasses mixture has never been
known to make lice plentiful. If plant
lice appear in serious numbers after
dusting, it will be necessary to dust
with nicotine sulphate.
In Darlington and nearby counties
a very large proportion of the cotton
was killed by the sandstorm of May
2 and has been planted over. Every
acre of the old cotton should be pois
oned not only for its own protection
but for the protection of the later
cotton. Unless all the old cotton is
properly poisoned at the time the
very small squares appear, it will de
velop an early crop of new weevils
which will go over on the young cot
ton before it as time to develop a
crop. I believe the time of weevil
migration will be delayed a week or
more if all the old cotton is poisoned.
Poison both old and young cotton
when the first small squares appear,
and be sure to do the work thorough
ly and on time, especially on the old
cotton.
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SHELBY WINS STATE
BASEBALL HONORS
The Shelby high school baseball
team won the state championship
game at Chapel Hill last Saturday
by defeating Raeford 4 to 2. Gov
ernor and Mrs. Gardner were among
the 3,000 that witnessed the game.
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► BLAIRS GIVE DINNER
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Sheriff and Mrs. Blair gave a din
ner the 23rd in honor of the birth
day of Pastor J. A. Dailey. A lovely
1 cake with candles graced the table
and a most delicious course dinner
was served, with Mr. and Mrs.
Dailey guests of honor.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929.
the crosses, row on row,/ ' / I [[ M
■[J&j I | That mirk our place; and in the sky j‘ fj [ii ■ J '
■‘■rflßral U\l ,Thc still bravely singing, fly ; // lib Ec
We are the Dead. Short days ago/ ** *, £
We lived, felt dawn 7 : _ C
Loved and were 7 +£f f "
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MMkMii 'lb >n ill mi r ./ v
wmw 4 U P our quarrel with the foe:
(mrJ 1 T° you from failing hands we throw..
ySPypr I '/The Torch; be yours to hold it
X e break with us who die ** r|
'/ y'! We .shall not sleep, though poppies grow [
An illumination of the famous war ballad, “In Flanders Fields/* beau
tifully painted in oil by Miss Edna E. Darias of the War department, whicb
ie in the Flanders Fields cemetery in Wareghem, Belgium.
GUESS WHEAT CROP
AND WIN A PRIZE
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Estimation Contests at Five t
Wheat Demonstrations to be j
Held in June—Prizes for ’
Best Estimates.
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On Monday, June 3, meetings will
be held at the five wheat demonstra- •
tions conducted by Mr. M. C. Cooper,
Pittsboro, Rt. 3, and Mr. B. N. 1
Welsh, Bear Creek, Rt. 2. All farm
ers are cordially invited to attend
these meetings. These demonstra
tions consist of five acres of wheat ■
to which 200 pounds per acre of
nitrate of soda have been applied (
as a top dressing, compared with an :
acre of wheat to which no top dress- 1
ing has been applied. The demon- 4
stration is being conducted in co
operation with the above named men,
the county agent and the Chilean
Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau.
At each demonstration, three
prizes will be given to the three men ‘
who come nearest to estimating the
correct yield of wheat, the prizes to
be distributed after the grain is
threshed. To the man whose esti
mate is nearest correct, a prize of
$3.50 will be given; to the second
best estimate, a prize of $2.50 will
be given; to the third best estimate,
[a prize of $1.50 will be given. Esti
' mates must be presented in person.
All farmers who live anywhere near
these demonstrations are invited to
attend. The meeting at Mr. M. C.
Cooper’s will be held at 10 a. m. The
meeting at the farm of Mr. B. N.
Welsh will be held at 1.30 p. m.
Welsh lives near Harpers Cross
Roads. Mr. Cooper lives near Pitts
boro on the Pittsboro-Goldston road.
N. C. SHIVER,
County Agent.
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Elizabethton Strikers
Returning to Work
Strikers in the two big rayon
plants at Elizabethton, Tenn., who
have been out on strike since April
15, have voted to return to work.
Management of the mills has let it
be known that any former employes
will be given chance at reinstate
ment, but that the union will not be
recognized. Membership in the union,
however, will not be held against the
individual who seeks reinstatement
in his job.
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Baptist Sunday School
Workers Meet in June
The third annaul conference of
Baptist Sunday school workers for
North Carolina will be held at Mere
dith College, Raleigh, June 3 to 15.
Conferences held last year and year
before have resulted in greatly stimu
lated interest in Sunday school and
young people’s work and present in-,
j dications are that this year’s confer
-1 ences will be more largely attended
[than any of the others.
Miss Knudsen Bride
of William Mebane
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The following dispatch from New
ton to the Greensboro News will be
read with interest by the friends of
the bride in Pittsboro and vicinity.
Miss Knudsen was a teacher in the
Pittsboro school the past session and
won the esteem of the people gen
erally. She is a lady of culture and
of fine personality. The best wishes
of her friends here attend her as she
embarks upon the sea of married life,
which it is to be hoped, will be only
sufficiently ruffled during the voyage
to break the monotony of a con
tinuous calm.
Newton, May 25.—A quiet home
wedding of interest to their many
friends was that of Miss Isabel Knud
sen, of Charleston, S. C., and Wil
liam Mebane, of Newton, which oc
curred at the home of the groom’s
mother, Mrs. Charles Harden Mebane,
Saturday morning, May 18, at 10
o’clock.
The home was simply decorated
with spring flowers and ferns. There
were no attendants and only mem
bers of the family and a few close
friends were present. The bride and
groom entered together while Men
delssohn’s Wedding March was being
played by. Mrs., Kate Wright, aunt
of the groom. Rev. W. G. Harry
performed the impressive ring cere
mony of the Presbyterian church.
The bride wore a white tailored
ensemble of silk pique with a shoul
der corsage of white sweet peas and
ferns.
Mrs. Mebane is the second daugh
ter of Mrs. Lorenz Knudsen, of St.
Petersburg, Fla. She was graduated
from the College of Charleston in
1928, and for the past year has been
teaching in the high school of Pitts
boro. She received her preparatory
education in Scotland, having come
to the United States to attend col
lege.
Mr. Mebane holds an M. S. degree
from the University of North Caro
lina and on June 10, at the approach
ing commencement of the university,
he will have conferred upon him the
degree of doctor of philosophy,
majoring in chemistry and physics.
He has been an intustrocrd 1 toan
He has been an instructor at the uni
versity for the past two years and
was previously associate professor of
chemistry at the Citadel, the mili
tary college of South Carolina.
He is the son of the late Charles
Harden Mebane and Mrs. Mebane.
Immediately after the ceremony Mr.
and Mrs. Mebane left for a short
motor trip to Charleston, S. C., and
other southern cities of personal in
terest.
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STATE PRESS ASSN.
ELIZABETH CITY
The North Carolina Press Associ
ation will hold its regular summer
meeting at Elizabeth City June 12,
13 and 14. A full program of enter
tainment is being arranged for the
newspaper men. The summer meetings
are mostly for recreation and good ;
fellowship, the mid-winter institute
at Chapel Hill offering the heavy j
stuff f O T* the editors.
Hoover Invited to
North Carolina Fair
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A North Carolina delegation head
ed by Governor Gardner tendered an
invitation to President Hoover to visit
the State Fair next fall and deliver
an address. The president deferred
the decision. If he Will only bring
along that promised farm relief he
will be a most welcome visitor.
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Jr. O. U. A. M. Meet
at Mt. Pisgah Church
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There will be a Junior Order meet
ing for the public at Mt. Pisgah Bap
tist church, Williams township, next
Sunday, June 2, at 3 o’clock. State
Councillor D. W. Sorrell of Durham
and District Councillor W. T. Hurst
will be present and speak, probably
on the principles of the order. Not
only are all Juniors invited but the
public generally.
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Lindbergh Married
Rather Secretly
Lindbergh, who since his marvel
ous feat of flying as straight as an
arrow’s flight to Paris has had little
more privacy than a weathercock,
managed to pull off his marriage to
Miss Morrow, daughter of the Amer
ican ambassador to Mexico, Monday,
without the public’s becoming aware
of his intentions till the ceremony
was over. May his unbroken good
luck continue. But if he wishes his
bride to have the same husband till
old age, it is advisable to quit the
flying business. This writer appeal
ed to the “Flying Parson” Maynard
to quit while quitting was good, but
the attraction of the air was too
strong till gravity proved its greater
attraction.
Auxiliary Meeting
The American Legion Auxiliary
met in regular meeting with Mrs. D.
L. Bell Tuesday, May 21, 1929.
The meeting was opened with the
regular formal opening.
A letter was read from our soldier
at Oteen, thanking the Auxiliary for
the flowers sent on Mother’s Day.
Mrs. W. L. Farrell, Americanism
chairman, reported that the medal
offered by our auxiliary to the eighth
grade student in Pittsboro high
school was presented to Miss Edna
Knight of Bynum by Mr. D. L. Bell.
The following program was given
following the business session:
“Ten Million Poppies,” Mrs. W.
Lee Farrell.
“Unknown Soldier,” Mrs. George
Br6W6r«
“The Poppy,” Mrs. R. M. Farrell.
“Where the Money Goes,” Mrs.
N. C. Shiver.
“Carry On,” Mrs. J. A. Farrell.
Bettie Bell and Jackie Tatum
dressed to represent “Poppies”, re
cited.
The meeting was then turned over
to Mrs. Geo. Brewer, poppy chair
man. Ways of disposing of poppies
were discussed.
Delicious refreshments were served
by the hostess.—Mrs. W. Lee Far
rell, Secretary. v
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Antioch News
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Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Oldham of High
Point were Sunday visitors in the
home of Mr. Oldham’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Oldham v
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pilkington of
Durham visited home folks Sunday.
Little Miss Eva Mae Oldham of
Pittsboro is visiting her grandpar
ents this week.
Several from this community at
tended the memorial services at
Hank’s Chapel Sunday and report a
nice time.
A surprise party was given to Miss
Ruby Oldham last Saturday night.
When all the guests had assembled
near the house they were quietly
conducted to the door and all shower
ed in at once. It was an enjoyable
occasion. After several of
social chatting games were started
which created much laughter. Music
was rendered by Misses Beadie and
Marguerite Oldham. They also sang
several selections, assisted by Mi3S
Geanie Oldham.
Delicious lemonade and cake were
served by the hostess. Those present
to enjoy the evening were Misses
Geanie, Beadie, Mynna Lee, Mar
guerite and Mattie Frances Oldham,
Lucy Johnson, Mattie Poe, Mildred
Hart, Hallie and Fannie Lizzie
Dowdy, Messrs. Eugene, Aubra and
Wilson Burke, Earp Johnson, Victor
White, Elvin and Raymond Elkins.
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The Fruit Fly Fight
A stalwart fight is being made to
prevent the spread of the destructive
fruit fly that was recently discovered
in Florida. The Congress has ap
propriated a few millions for the
fight. To indicate how insidious his
spread may be, eggs of the pest were
found in oranges of a fifty box ship
ment from the infected area of
Greensboro last week. The shipment
| was made before the infected area
| was quarantined. The pest is de
i structive of practically all fruits, and
j its spread in North Carolina would
endanger the peach industry.
Subscribers at Every
Postoffice and All R.
F. D. Routes in Great
County of Chatham
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 36
CHATHAM WILL NOT
SUPPORT A BOLTER
The Following Article Missed
Just an Ace Getting into Last
Week’s Paper—-It is Rather
Late, but Here Goes:
News from Washington would in
dicate that “The • Senator” yet re
gards himself as the sole owner of
the state democracy. He not only,
if his friends at the national capitol
are to be believed, proposes to select
his own primary opponent, but will
take over all churchmen en masse.
Lest these rather extreme measures
prove inadequate for garnering votes
in Chatham, it would seem that our
rather numerous and interesting
rabbit population is to be enfran
chised and incorporated in the army
of Simmons and Righteousness.
If the humble cotton-tail family
has become really inoculated with
that virulent poison, against which
science has warned, the Macedonian
cry may register with these newly
corralled voters, but Washington may
learn once and for all, that Chatham
Democrats remain true to the tenets
and traditions of the party, and that
it is a far cry from the days when
they battle for Simmons the Demo
crat, to the time when they are com
manded to support Simmons, the
bolter.—Chathamite.
Editorial Note: “Chathamite seems
to have misinterpreted the Washing
ton dispatch with respect to the
Chatham rabbits. The way we un
derstand it, the Senator’s friends
granted that element of our popu
lation to Walter Siler if he should
run. And we accept the compliment
to our rabbits, which indicates that
they will show mighty good judg
ment in comparison with these other
long-eared animals who would sup
port the Senator against any able
and straight Democrat. In this con
nection, the Record copies a sentence
from a letter of the veteran Demo
crat, S. P. Teague, who says: “If
Simmons is elected again, it will be
by the Republicans.”
Colored Farmer*
Buying Implements
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One of the most progressive steps
taken by any group of Chatham
county people is that of the Mitchell
Chapel Farming Club, composed of
colored farmers in the section west
of Pittsboro.
The purchase of farm machinery
is a club proposition, Bynum and
Perry, representatives of the J. I.
Case Company, made the sale, which
includes a tractor, plows, binder,
threshing machine, which will thresh
not only wheat but even clover. The
total amount of the sale is between
$2500 and S3OOO.
Rev. W. W. Long, presiding elder
in this district of the A. M. E.
church, is president of the club and
the moving spirit.
The implements are here and are
being put in shape for delivery as
this is written.
MATCH LIGHTING TRICK
Here’s a good one to spring on
your friends. Tell them you can make
a match light merely by throwing it
up in the air. Os course«they will
laugh at you and say you cannot do
it. After you have got their curiosity
to the burning point calmly take a
match and throw it into the air. When
it comes down and lands somewhere,
you can simply say: “See the match
light.”—The Pathfinder.
Never let the anticipation .of a
coming pleasure cause you to waste
present moments.
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TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD
- ON HIS WITS
New York.— Raymond Hauger, 23-
year-old New Yorker, who recently
finished a 36,000-mile hobo odyssey
on a globe-circling trip, during which
time he mostly lived by his wits. He
experienced a typhoon in the China
sea, was shanghaied in Penang, rob
bed by thugs in Shanghai and yet
was able to save enough money to
stop at the Ritz-Carlton upon his
arrival here.