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A Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century. A County, Not a Com munity Paper. ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878 D. D. DOUGHERTY PASSESJONDAY ro-Founder of the Appalachian Training School Passed Away Monday Brothers Saw Local School Become a Full-Fledged College. 1 » To the editor of the Record the news of the death of D. D. Dough rtv one of the founders of the *; h ool at Boone, is personally grievous. The educator was a class irl ~<-g . in d room mate of the editor of I‘C Record at Wake Forest, and few could attest the solidity of the character and mentality of Mr. pvi o-herty as can this writer. " The Dougherty boys were sons of the pioneer editor of the Boone Dem- h rlt They were poor boys, as were m-i>ically all the college students U forty years ago. After finishing fheir college course they returned m Boone and took charge of the lo , a l school, establishing as was then custom a boarding school, the students securing board in the com- Tnimitv. It was a work similar to pp 0 f j. A. W. Thompson at Oak dale and Siler City, of Stringfield and Ferrell at Wakefield, the latter of whom, too, has just passed; of J. \ ‘ Campbell at Buie’s Creek, and scores of others who by hard work and personal appeal created the de mand for educational facilities in North Carolina. The school grew and finally became the Appalachian Training School for teachers, with state aid. But as it <rrew, the same economical manage ment continued, with the result that a North Carolina boy or girl has been able to get an education at Boone at less cost than almost anywhere else in the state; also the cost per pupil to the state has been the least m all the state aided schools for white youths. . . At the last session of the legisla ture the school was made a full four year college, and it is all the sadder that one of the founders shall be called away just at this stage when he has seen the achievement of hp and his brother’s ambition. Dougherty has wrought well; peac* to his ashes. 4arence Poe Gets Degree of LL. D. -—— The following press dispatch will be of interest to the many friends and relatives of Editor Clarence Poe in this his native county. For a man who had scarcely the advantages of the eighth grade of present day schools such a recognition as that of a doctorate of laws from a Maryland college is a remarkable distinction. The dispatch follows: Chestertown* Md., June 10.—The degree of LL. D. was today conferred on Editor Clarence Poe of the Pro gressive Farmer, by Washington col lege here. Washington college is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in America, having been founded in 1782 when George Wash ington was yet alive and receiving from him a donation as well as his name. Further indication of its an tiquity is found in the fact that 140 years ago this month, in June 1789, Washington college awarded the de gree of doctor of laws to George Washington, who had then just rounded out his first three months service as President of the newly founded nation—Daily News.. $ Goes with Glee Club to Boston to Sing Miss Alma Dailey of Pittsboro, along with Miss Alma Riddle of San ford, joined the Greensboro College Glee Club at Greensboro Sunday for a trip to Boston, where the club will share in the musical programs of the National Federation of Music Clubs. The national organization meets biennially and thousands of singers will be in attendance, drawn from *very section of the country. The « 'rector, Professor Tilman Alexan der, considers it an honor to be ac corded the unusual length of time upon program assigned to the Greens boro Club, of which Misses Dailey and Riddle are members. The young ladies were accom panied to Greensboro by Capt. Alston aad Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Nooe. ® Rhododendron Festival Asheville Next Week All next week at Asehville the ';Uth will do honor to the beautiful p-dodendron. The second annual festival will be on a larger scale than id"; year and has been accorded of ficial recognition by a dozen or. more southern i states, the governors of have appointed sponsors to at tend. M iss Daphne Brown of Ashe vuie will be queen of the festival. Miss Mary Delia Rankin of ]V4f<yunt Holly, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Battley, and voted the ™°st beautiful girl at N. C. C. W., nas been named by Governor Gard represent North Carolina at festival. . I _ I he Chatham Record Meeting of Children of the Confederacy The Henry London chapter of the Children of the Confederacy met last Thursday afternoon with Dorothy Poe. The subject for the afternoon was Jefferson Davis. Pieces were read by several members. Frances Bland, Mary Brewer, and Louise Ray were appointed a committee on mem bership. Confederate songs were sung. After that delicious refresh ments were served. The Best Fish Yarn of All the Seasons (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) „ Ben Landfear is a dispatcher at the local Seaboard headquarters. He works all night, and that leaves him all day to do something else. Oc casionally he sleeps a little, but most of the time he spends raising chick ens and fishing. He has had some rather remarkable experiences on his fishing trips and delights to tell about them. Some months ago he had a party of friends were fishing over at Blew ett Falls. Luck wasn’t very good that day, and Landfear stuck his fish ing pole in the bank and lay back in the shade watching a country woman of the community fishing. She had a pole that looked like a junior fence rail, a window cord for a line, and half a beef liver for bait. He wondered what she was fishing for and finally his curiosity got the bet ter of his timidity and he asked her. She said she was fishing for cats. Ben told her there were not cat fish in that river big enough to take that bait. The woman insisted that there were. The day was too hot and Ben was too la£y to argue about it so be said no more. After a bit that window cord ptarted to acting queer. The pole was almost pulled out of the woman’s hands, and she called for John. Her husband came bounding through the bushes and together they hauled on the line. Ben expected to see a mud turtle or some other worthless varmint of the river come up. But when the pair finally landed their catch it j proved to be a cat fish sure enoufch. It looked like a hog. That cat fish was eleven inches between the eyes. It had whiskers a foot long. Over all length was something like three feet. It weighed forty-one pounds on the cotton steel yards. They had to cut it up to cook it, and then had to cook it in the wash pot out in the yard. Landfear and his party were disgusted with their luck and quit. The little old three to five pound fish they had were hardly worth bringing home, but they had to have some alibi for friend wives so they brought them in. Local fishermen are planning a con test for sometime in the near future. The best yarn will win a prize. This story is being published, not with the idea of cramping Ben’s style in that contest, but just to show the other fellows the kind of stuff they are up against. $ Little County News —s — no news is good news, Chatham has lots of good news this week. No week since the editor came to Chat ham, has he found news so scarce, he believes. Not a single thing has happened up to Tuesday noon that would make a basis for a county news story, and that is about the only kind of news that is really news for the Record, since the dailies beat us to the general news stories, and a large percentage of our subscribers take dailies. Besides, the editor con fesses to having had a lazy spell up on him and did not feel like stretch ing out the few little items he did gather. Professor Small even went back upon us this week. One of his thoughtful articles would have helped fill up right along. $ Chathamites Attend Reunion at Charlotte Editor of Record: Monday of last week Manly Ed wards and son and S. P. Teague, and Tuesday J. D. Dorsett, Mr. Brown, and I*. P. Smith set out for the Con federate reunion at Charlotte. We landed there Monday night, where 3,000 were ready for supper. Charlotte threw wide-open her doors; everything was free, street pars, automobiles, all shows. The biggest thing I saw was the Ford olant, where they are erecting two hundred cars a day. They ran out three cars ready for sale while I walked across the building. Some of the old vets were mighty feeble and could not get in and out of cars without help. On my way back I stopped one night at High Point and went with my son to the high school commence ment, where 138 graduated. They are said to have the nicest, best equipped, and largest building in the s^ate. —S. P. Teague. $ A young Jewish soldier was doing guard duty. “Halt!” he challenged. “Who goes there?” “A friend,” came the answer. “Advance,” said th© soldier, “and i give the discount.” PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929 The Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City, a modern hostelry built by community enterprise, which will be headquarters of" the North Carolina Press Association during their convention of June 12-14. ANNOUNCE NEW > SCHOOL BUDGET Expenses Kept Down to Last Year’s, While Funds from State are Much Greater. # The county commissioners in ses sion Monday received the school budget from the board of education, but did not that day fully approve same. The budget as presented cov ered SB,OOO for purchase of five ; school trucks. However, the board of education consented that they would try to make out with the same sum for the schools as was ex pended last year. But this means an appropriation of nearly $25,000 less from the county, as the share in the equalization fund is about $55,000 1 this year as opposed to a little more than $30,000 last year. This means a cut in school taxes of 12 to 15 cents on the hundred dollars. Collected Insurance on Persons Still Alive R. A. Stokes of Monroe, agent for the /Imperial Life Insurance Com pany of Asheville, has been convicted of collecting life insurance policies on persons still alive, and the state insurance department is investigating | other charges against him as well as against other agents in the state. Stokes is charged with defrauding ! his company out of more than $3,000: ! His method is said to have been ’ carry policies on fictitious persons , and then after a few months to re . port them dead. Other policies on , negroes who moved to the north were also collected. Insurance Commis ' sioner Boney thinks that doctors in some instances have connived with the agents and he is making a thor ough investigation all over the state. Blalock is Pushed.,.. for Farm Board U. B. Blalock of Raleigh, formerly of Wadesboro, and for the past sev eral years manager of the North i Carolina Cotton Growers Association, has endorsement of a majority of the congressional delegation for appoint ment to the federal farm board. Dr. B. W. Kilgore is said to b_e out of the running. Others mentioned are Hugh Mcßae of Wilmington and J. G. K. McClure of Asheville. Presi dent Hoover is said to be willing to name a North Carolinian on the board. Appointments will be made ’ immediately upon passage through ’ congress of the farm relief bill, and ’ that is expected this week. r _—— Halls-Mills Case May Be Re-opened Again Declaration of a prisoner in fed eral prison at Detroit that he was ■ an eye witness to the Hall-Mills murder in New Jersey five years ago, . and that he was paid $3,000 to keep • his mouth shut, has served to put ; that case on the front page. It has ’ been one of the unsolved mysteries, but police have not forgotten it. The confession .of the Detroit prisoner . has been forwarded to the prosecuting attorney at Somerset, N. J., and fur ther action depends upon him. $ - One form of farm relief would give us more farmers and* fewer planters. 1 SENATE MAINTAINS ITS INDEPENDENCE $ Detains Debenture Clause in Farm Relief Measure Despite Appeals of President. - The U. S. Senate has shown independence as well as its concern fdfr justice to the Agricultural inter ests of the country by voting Tues day to retain the debenture clause in the Farm Relief bill. The House bill, which has the approval of the President, omits the debenture plan, and is practically of little conse quence as a fulfillment of the prom ise for farm relief. The senate passed a measure containing the debenture plan, but could not get it into the House. Committees from the two bodies finally presented a compromise meas ure without the debenture feature. It was sent to the Houses but the friends of the farmers in the senate persisted in their efforts to secure the debenture plan or nothing, prefer ring to have no farm relief bill rather than be in the attitude of giving a stone when asked for a loaf. Borah and Johnson on the Repub lican side championed the debenture plan. The President invited the doubt ful senators to personal conferences. But they stuck like leaches and the emasculated bill was thrown out Tuesday by the same majority that the debenture plan was first adopted by the Senate, a majority of three. The larger pskrt of the members voting against the House bill and against the President were Demo crats, but the number included the men like Borah and Johnson whose support last fall made Hoover’s elec tion certain by pacifying the West ern farm vote. Hurrah for the Senate. Both the North Carolina senators voted against the debentureless bill. Senator Sim mons had come down to North Caro lina for the historical pageant at his home town of New Bern but hur ried back to Washington to give his vote against the worthless bill for farm relief. The Congress is in for the sum mer, it appears, if any farm relief measure is to be passed, and it is likely that the Republican bill for the increased tariff will meet a snag in the senate also. PIONEER NI7RSE HERE It is not so long since hospitals were a rarity in North Carolina, and such a thing as a training school for nurses was not to be found in the state. A few years ago the editor of The Record was a member of an algebra class in Clinton in which were seven lovely young ladies. One of them, and the youngest we be lieve, was Miss Cleone Hobbs. The years went by. and this young lady sought a profession. She decided to be a trained nurse, but had to leave the state for her training. But she went and years of great service have followed. She was superintendent of the Watts hospital in its earlier years. For five years she served as chair man of the examining committee for license of nurses in the state. For quite a number of years she has been associated with the work of the State Board of Health, and in that capacity is in Pittsboro this year, in connection with the adenoid and ton sil clinic, for which Dr. Hardee of Durham is surgeon. Incidentally 25 children were operated upon Tues day. Suffice it to say The Record welcomes Miss Hobbs to Pittsboro. Tonsil and Adenoid Clinic is in Progress Many children have undergone operations for bad tonsils and ade noids this week at the Pittsboro school building, where a specialist, and a corps of nurses have been busy. The clinic is being sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association. Shouse Honored at at Democrat Dinner John J. Raskob, chairman of the democratic national committee, told party leaders gathered at a dinner in Washington Monday night that he had no intention of resigning. The dinner was given in honor of Jouett Shouse, new chairman of the execu tive committeee, who has established permanent headquarters for the party in Washington. The dinner had aroused unusual attention because of the attitude of some southern dem ocrats. Senator Simmons refused to attend. Senator Overman was there and made a short speech. Chairman Raskob declared that when he accepted the party chairman ship he did it because he believed in democratic principles and that he had no intention of quitting just be cause of last year’s reverses at the polls. He denounced republican poli icies, pleaded for closer co-operation and better organization for carrying on- aggressive campaigning every day, rather than waiting until a few weeks before the election. Mr. Shouse declared that party headquarters were not concerned with candidacies but would devote its attention to promulgation of party principles. He denied that the demo cratic party is a “free trade” party, but said that it is “definitely and un i alterably opposed to using the tariff ! as a smoke screen to allow the favor ed contributors to republican funds to rob the masses of American people i under the guise of protection.” In speaking of concentration of ‘ authority, Mr. Raskob said the ten dency of the republicans would re sult in the establishment of “a power so colossal as to be unwieldy and in t capable of administration. $ ’ “The lack of respect for such a : government,• he added, ‘‘and the tyranny under which our people will j have to live in consequence thereof, , may well result in a revolution i which will divide this country into two or three republics and our pros , perity will then suffer the ills which the countries of Europe have suf fered through jealousies, lack of trust, standing etc., for countless generations. “As a result of the freedom se cured for us by our forefathers through declaring their independence from living in tyranny, through shed ding their blood in the Revolutionary war and through setting up a new government, the people of the Unit ed States have enjoyed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a degree unhead of in the history of the world. But we have reached the cross road and in my opinion there has never been a time in the history of our country when the states and the nation more needed the unselfish, intelligent thought and interest of its citizens, than now. “To awake this interest and edu cate our people to the dangers of losing our freedom and liberty is the job of the demcratic party.” Great Sale Begins Friday at Sanford The greatest feature of this issue of the Record is the advertisement of the sale at Sanford under the auspices of the Sanford Merchants’ Association. The advertising speaks for itself. Every merchant advertis ing in this issue is knwon by the Record man to be one of the best and most reliable in all this section. Each merchant is putting on cer tain specialties for this eight-day sale at extremely low prices. A buyer by visiting all the stores of the associ ation can thus secure an unusual variety of bargains. Read the ad vertisement of every merchant in the gro,up. ■ 1 • ■■ t Sweet Clover Succeeds with Two Alamance Farmers John Aldridge, Haw 'River, has just stored away 18 acres of sweet clover hay. He says it is too much hay for a~ poor man to fool with, as it filled hfe barn, two tobacco barns borrowed for storage- from Bob and Doc Keck, and three stacks in the field. It is just as fine for grazing and better still for turning under to improve land. Forty farmers met at this farm to study this crop. E. C. Turner, Mebane, was hosfc this week to a delegation of 19 farm ers who came to study his success with growing sweet clover in a 12- acre field and to study a field of Australian winter peas. Fattening our soils is one method of farm relief being studied by Ala mance farmers. —W. Kerr Scott, Alamance County Agent. <g> Police Chief: “What did he say when you gave him the third de gree?” Gefiuer: “He merely dozed off and said: “Yes, my dear, you are quite right.” Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County *f Chatham VOLUME 51, NUMBER 38 TWO IN JAIL RESULT GASTONIA MURDER O. F. Adderholt Is Dead and Four Others Wounded Re sult Shooting Scrape Fred Erwin Beal and K. O. Byers are in jail “somewhere in North Caro lina,” charged with the \murder of Chief of Police O. F. Adderholt of Gastonia and the wounding of four others in a shooting scrape at the Loray Mill strike headquarters in Gastonia Friday night of last week. Beal, who is national organizer for the National Textile Workers Union/ and whose inflammatory speech Fri day night is said to have led to the shooting, was arrested in Spartan burg, S. C., Sunday and turned over to Gastonia officers. On the way to Gastonia the officers were met by a dozen or more men who de manded Beal and Byers, arrested with him, and only the nerve of the officers saved them from possible lynching. The prisoners were taken to another county for safe-keeping and it was not until two or three days later that they were located in Union county jail at Monroe. Ihey have since been removed to another North Carolina jail. The outbreak Friday night was the worst that has occurred since the strike started early in April. Follow ing rumors of violence Loray mill authorities asked for police protec tion and Chief Adderholt with sev eral patrolmen and deputies pro ceeded to the scene. They were shot in the back from the darkened head quarters and nearby tents. Adderholt died next morning. Deputy Sheriff James Roach was seriously wounded but is now expected to recover. City Policemen Tom Gilbert and Charles Ferguson were wounded in the legs but not dangerously hurt, and a civi lian named Harrison also suffered minor wounds. Funeral services for the dead chief were held Sunday afternoon, said to have been the big gest funeral in the history of Gas tonia. Feeling in the community ;. those responsible for. the *_ , trouble is said to be running high, although it has subsided somewhat. Interviewed in the Union county jail by newspaper men Monday night, Beal said that an attack made upon speakers at the mass meetings of strikers by throwing rotten eggs, ; stones and bottles, and an attack by officers on strikers led to the shoot ing Friday night. He declared that he was himself unarmed, that he had never carried a gun ’and knew very little about shooting one. He ad mitted, however, that he made a speech immediately before the shoot ing in which he advised the strikers to give “the opposition” the same • kind of treatment that the strikers had received. Afer the shooting he went to Charlotte and spent the night with his lawyer, Tom P. Jimison, thence to Spartanburg where he was arrested Sunday. He denies that he was trying to run away; says he was in Charlotte and Spartanburg on business. About sixty others were arrested by Gaston officers Saturday and Sun day charged with complicity in the shooting or held as material wit nesses. Meantime national officers of the textile union are gathering at Gas tonia and have announced that the whole resources of the union will be called upon to defend the strikers charged with the murder. The lead ers propose to make of the Gastonia incident a national issue like the Sacco-Vanzetti case a year or two ago. Famous lawyers will be em ployed, it having been suggested that Clarence Darrow of -Chicago will come to defend Beal and his asso ciates. An effort also will be made to get the case moved out of Gaston county, according to union leaders. The national union is sending sup plies to the Loray strikers, a truck load of food being scheduled to ar rive today. AN ECHO FROM THE PAST A letter from E. C. Perry, Ren nert, Robeson county, asks the Rec ord for information as to whether a copy of a booklet written by Shackel ford who was hanged here many years ago while he was in prison previous to the execution can be found. Mr. Perry states that his mother was present at the hanging, and that the booklet was sold by The Record on that day. Shackelford ■ lived for a time at Rennert and citizens there would like to see a copy of the book. Certainly, The P. which has burned out two or three times since that date has no copy. Any one having a copy he would sell may price it to Mr. Perry. ■ — : DEATH OF AN INFANT Charlie May Petty, aged two weeks, died at the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Petty at Silk Hope a few days ago. The burial se- /ices were held at Mt. Vernoa Methodist church, where the little body was gently laid to rest. - Resolve to edge in a little reading every day.