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h A Paper with a Prestiy D f a Half Century. C County, Not a Con munity Paper. ESTABLISHED t’EMBER 19, 1878 pjttsboro School Opened on Monday i pittsboro school opened Mon- J‘morning at 9 o’clock with the L r enrollment in the history of i school. As has been the custom ! v many rears, the openings exer b „ wer e attended by the patrons of TV-hool. The attendance of the 1 -enV- this year was unusually K.lr and the keenest interest was i-initested by them in the welfare T ‘j u , school. The ‘spacious school Suiting did not near accommodate crowd assembled. The order of the opening program as follows: Song: “Onward. Christian Sol diei’S” sung by the audience. Invocation by Rev. J. A. Dailey, 4or of the Methodist church. Prof. J. S. Waters, principal, made telling speech in which he briefly outlined some features of the his tory of education. “Formerly education was for the classes- but in recent years we have become more democratic and have brought education within easy reach 0 f town and country,” said the speaker. “The interest of all the people makes the duty of the teacher Imperative.” Mr. Water’s special ef fort this year will go toward creating a higher standard of scholarship. To this end the faculty will endeavor to make a correct classification of all students and will urge the parents to cooperate with them by keeping the children in school regularly and maintaining the right atmosphere for study at home. After Prof. Waters, Mayor E. A. Farrell, Rev. R. G. Shannonhouse, rector of the Episco pal church, Rev. Jonas Barclay, pas tor of the Presbyterian church, and D. L. Bell, local attorney, spoke briefly. Prof. Waters, Mrs. Geo. H. Brooks, Sr.. Miss Kate Coble, Miss Mollie Boggan, Mrs. Geo. H. Brooks, Jr., Miss McDonald, and Miss Margaret Wrenn compose the high school faculty. Misses Margaret Rives, Della Wil son. Mrs. Henrietta Campea, Misses Mary Dell Bynum, Bessie Chapin, Mrs. E. E. Williams, and Miss Mar garet Siler are the teachers in the elementary school. Music taught by Mr. H. A. Bynum. The teacher training class is in charge of Mrs. W. P. Horton. <s> “ First Meeting of P.-T. Association |?The following note has been re ceived from Mrs. James Cordon, president of the Pittsboro Parent- Teacher Association: The regular meeting of the Pa rent- Teacher Association will be held Friday evening, Sept. 6, at 8 o’clock. After a short business meeting an informal reception will be held for the teachers. This will be a splendid opportunity for the parents to meet the teaehers and give them a welcome. <§, SCHOOLS OPEN The high schools of the county opened Monday with, appropriate ceremonies. Full faculties and large attendances and crowded houses marked the openings. The Pittsboro school is crowded r,) the brim. Twelve trucks are bringing pupils. Patrons of Hickory Mountain school were before the board of education Monday desiring 0 have the balance of the students ln that district brought here. Ar rangements had been made to transfer some of them, and it seems Cil e unanimous desire if some are to 7 me that all come. How to house : :lem here is a problem. The Pitts- school was crowded last year, high school pupils in a swath of the -ounty from Lee to Orange are ?ansferred to this school. The other schools opening are >k ' ler City, Bonlee, Goldston, Mon l' dT , e ’ Bell’s, Silk Hope, and Byhum, possibly others. The state equalization board has t een y ery liberal in apportionments J the special tax districts of the ount y. $10,600 has been apportion f°r them, which serves to cut 'trict taxes considerably. ® WAL WOMAN’S CLUB RESUMES MEETINGS A - H. London, president of r , e i 0^ a L woman ’ s club announces 1 rs t club meeting of the fall r 1 - be held next Thursday, Sept. 11, t 0 clock. All members are urged as plans will be made of winter ’ s wor k. The chairman h p..fi Vai ri° as departments are asked i_'i! meetings of their departments lous to the general 'meeting. <g>—- T , EDISON ILL oernt 0 ! 1138 . •Edison has been des- Sev ey ril_. with pneumonia for dicatL ?? ySf Reports yesterday in pro , Lbat . his condition is> im- PerioH u R* s be ßeved the danger pmod has passed. <$> — 666 It j. 8 ever and Malaria ‘ e most *peedy remedy k ” * • ~ T The Chatham Record Hall Consolidates with Ben Franklin Mr. C. C. Hall informs The Rec ord that he is combining his Fed erated dry goods and shoe store with the Ben Franklin Chain Store. The two stores occupy adjoining store rooms in the Blair Hotel building. Mr. Hall will be manager of the combined store. The enlarged Ben Franklin 'store will carry ladies’ ready-to-wear, millinery, dry goods,; shoes, and men’s furnishings, in ad dition to the stock of varieties car ried formerly by the Ben Franklin store. The growth of the Ben Franklin during it£ sjiort career has been very gratifying to the management of the Ben Franklin chain. Consequently, it was decided to incorporate the Hall stock and lines with the variety store, which will make the Ben Franklin possibly the largest store in Pittsboro. The Ben Franklin management, ac cording to Mr. Hall, has faith in Pittsboro’s future. The Hall store is closed today and tomorrow in order to take inven tory and to allow connection to be made between the store rooms. Both divisions of the enlarged store will be open Saturday. L. M. Petty Trapped on a Liquor Charge —<s> — Lon Petty was arrested Wednes day night of last week by Deputies W. H. Ferguson, Will and Taylor Johnson, and T. M. Clark on the road at the Peay place five miles west of Pittsboro. The officers had a report on a still nearby and had waited into the morning hours to see what they could see when Petty drove up and unloaded several crates of fruit jars, empty, but presumably in prepara tion for the run which the beer found indicated was imminent. The still, beer, and some whiskey was found near the unloading place. Petty was brought to Pittsboro Thursday morning and placed under a $1,500 bond by ’Squire Lysander Johnson. The record is informed that Mr. Petty has already served one term on the road for making whiskey. He is a likable fellow and a man who should not need to make whiskey for a living, and it is a pity that he has no better judgment if no better principles. <g> • Another Fatality at Coal Glen Mine —<s> — Again a fatality has occurred at the Coal Glen mine. Mr. Dan Moore of Cumnock, not a regular miner but employed, it seems, to do some carpenter work in the mine, was electrocuted Wednesday night of last week by coming in contact with a wire. Coroner Brooks held an inquest Thursday morning, with Messrs. E. G. Thomas, W. R. Farrar, C. C. Grif fin, J. E. Thomas, and Albert Sey more, and Miss Helene Daugherty as jurors. The jury placed the re sponsibility for the death of Mr. Moore upon himself, as the wire was properly insulated and he had in formation of its location. However, the dampness of the mine had prob ably wet the earth upon which he stood and the insulation of the wire. Mr. Moore leaves a wife and six children. It is unusual to see the name of a lady in the coroner’s jury list. Miss Daugherty is a stenographer. <g> DEATH OF LITTLE WILLIAM EDWARD NEAL The death angel entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Neal, August 23, 1929, and claimed their dear little son William Edward, at the age of only 21 months. He was a bright child, though he was never strong physically. He was pnly a little bud here on earth and our Heavenly Father has transplanted it where it will glow forever. But how sad when it was learned that his stay was so short! But father, moth er and all who loved him may meet him again. The funeral services were con ducted by Rev. William Hancock, assisted by Mr. John Phillips. His little form was laid to rest in the family burying ground under a mound of many beautiful flowers. May God comfort the bereaved ones. —lla Mae. . * ■„ .. BONLEE FACULTY Bonlee school opened. Monday with the following faculty: * ’ ,V Principal, P. H. Nance; high school English, Mrs. C. W. Howell Miss Margaret Shaw; history, H. L. Paschal; home economics, Mrs* D. C. Phillips; agriculture,- ’ H. Davis; first grade, Mrs. W. S„ Phillips; sec ond and third" Igrades;' Miss Eugenia Lane; fourth and fifth grades, Mrs. V? C:. Powers; sixth grade, Mrs. A. F. Andrews; seventh grade, Miss Hilda Carter, Four trucks are used in conveying students to the Bonlee * PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929. Lespedeza Doubles the Yield of Cotton One of the most striking illustra tions of benefits to be derived from lespedeza The Home man has wit nessed is to be seen in the eastern part of Marshville where J. Z. Green has a field of cotton following a lespedeza crop by the side of another field that has not been sown to les pedeza. The cotton rows adjoin each other and where the lespedeza was grown the cotton is more than twice as large, much greener and is more than twice as well fruited, although the crops on the two pieces of land were fertilized and cultivated about equally. The difference is so strik ing that it is plainly noticeable from the highway a quarter of a mile away. Any farmer who has not yet become concerted to the lespedeza idea should avail himself of the op portunity to witness this demonstra tion of what it means in the produc tion of a cotton crop, or other crops as to that matter.—Marshville Home. <g> * * ************* * * * *Brown’s Chapel News* * ♦ *********** * * * * Our revival was successful one. It has been a long time, our members say, since they have seen a preach er work so hard or so devotedly. God was with him. There were four additions to the church. The play given at Gum Springs school house Saturday night under the auspices of Mr. J. R. Goodwin and Mrs. E. J. Dark was largely attended. The proceeds from admiss ions and sale of refreshments amounted to $30.70, which goes to the benefit of the church. The play was quite a success. However, there was a contrast in the spirit of those who got up the play for the benefit of the church and the play itself, which contained a spirit of mockery not at all Christlike. On Thursday, August 29, a great number of cars loaded with young and old, from far and near, drove up to the home of Mr. J. T. Mann as a surprise party for his seven tieth birthday and in appreciation of his devotion to his church and Sun day school and as a neighbor; After short talks by the S. S. r Superinten dent, Mr. C. H. Lutterloh and by Mr. Mann himself, and a very appro priate speech of praise and exorta tion by Pastor Dailey, more than a hundred people arranged themselves about the long table loaded with de licious food and after the return of thanks, plied themselves diligently to the delightful task of unloading the table. But a cloud approached and many left early, wishing the happy old couple many more years of usefulness. I was forgetting a beautiful initialed cake lighted by candles presented by Mrs. O. B. Mann. Miss Lela Mann, of Burlington but a daughter of Mr. J. T. Mann of this community, has returned from a trip to Detroit, having gone with her brother Floyd on his return to his business there from a visit home. She visited many points of interest, including Niagara Falls. Dr. P. W. Lutterloh and family who visited his mother last week, left Monday on their return by auto mobile to their home in Jonesboro, Ark. Mr. Lee Durham of Burlington is spending some time with his brother, Mr. I. A. Durham. Mr. M. Hinshaw and family of Burlington spent the week-end with Mrs. Hinshaw’s brother I.- A. Dur ham. Misses Blanche and Ruth Hender son of Airington, Va., are visiting their aunt Mrs. S. J. Henderson and son F. R. Henderson. Mrs. W. C. Henderson, after at tending summer school at Duke, is at home. (She will teach at Gum Springs school. Mr. Henderson is al so home after a successful opera tion for appendicitis at Watts Hospi tal. Mr. Gordon Marshall left Monday for Elon College. We wish him the greatest success. Two successful fishing parties wi the Haw resulted in catches of about 75 and enjoyable frys on the banks of the stream. Mr. E. A. Thompson recently caught one of the largest fishes seen here in some time. He caught it in a trap. We thought so much of the zeal with which Pastor Dailey carried on the meeting that we gave him a voluntary contribution. H. F. Durham 1 , is being teased about tearipg , aWay old barns and building greater,’ in the light of a sermon on that« subject during the meeting. But he cannot say as the man in the parable, My soul take now ;thine ease. .The cover on the old barn had been on for over forty 'years according to W. M. Perry, who formerly lived here. $ BOOK CLUB TO ENTERTAIN TEACHERS TOMORROW NIGHT r} 'The'goldston Book Club will en tertain the teachers and patrons of the Goldston school at the town hall tomorrow evening (Friday, Sept. 6) from 7:30 to 9:3d -unlock. ; . •: • '? t. i ;■ . Man, Booze and Still Are Captured Friday Deputies Raymond Lasater and Ex Fearrington ran across M. F. Ellis guarding 75 gallons of booze a quar ter of a mile from his home in Wil liams township Friday evening. Ellis was either asleep or his bad hearing caused him to fail to notice the noisy approach of the officers. Ellis claim ed to have been handed fifty dollars by a negro to play guard over the liquor. But he was put under a SSOO bond to await next term of court. A quarter of a mile further from the Ellis home a 100-gallon still was found. The beer had all been dis tilled. Seventy-two gallons was poured out by the sheriff’s force af ter it was brought to Pittsboro; the rest was kept as evidence. Candidates for the raids are mul tiplying rapidly the past few weeks. *************** * * * Bear Creek News * * * *************** J. L. Straughan, of Greensboro, was a visitor in the home of his father, F. C. Straughan, during the week-end. Miss Elizabeth Woody has accept ed a school near Raleigh, and has gone to take up her work. Mrs. T. C. Vestal, whom we re ported as very ill last week, is still in a serious condition, though she may be a little better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Coggins of Bear Creek and Mrs. J. F. Coggins and family of Hallison, were visitors in Greensboro Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Beal were vis itors in Sanford Monday. Mr. Beal also attended the Lee-Moore-Mont gomery Rural Letter Carriers Asso ciation at Carthage. Mrs. Beal and daughter, Frances, visited Mesdames W. I. Williamson and J. M. Yar brough of Sanford. Mrs. H. W. Murray and son, W. H., have been recent visitors in Greensboro to see Mrs. H. L. Fields, who recently underwent an operation there. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fowler and family, of Burlington, were week-end visitors in the. home of G. A. Loyd. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Beaver and family, of Durham, were Sunday vis itors at T. P. Beaver’s. Bear Creek base ball team played the Martha’s Chapel team at Bear Creek Saturday afternoon, Martha’s Chapel winning to the tune of 9 to 3. Bear Creek will play at home again next Saturday afternoon. Meroney church opened their Sun day school rooms last Sunday. Now each class has a private room. *************** * . * Brickhaven News * * * *************** Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Overby and children. Jewel Lane and Gene have returned from Charlotte where they were the guests of Mrs. J. H. Overby. Mrs. O. C. Kennedy and Miss Ruth Kennedy have returned from a ten days’ tour of western North Carolina. Mrs. R. H. Overby, Beth and Keith spent last week in Chapel Hill as the guests of Mrs. R. H. Marks. Miss Mary Lee Utley left yester day for a two weeks’ stay in Raleigh. Mr. R. H. Overby, local represen tative of the Atwater Kent Radio Co. has returned from the radio con ference which was held at Philadel phia recently. Miss Frances of Gard ner, Mass, was the week-end guest here of Misses Mary Lee and Annie Utley. • We were glad indeed to learn that our own Mr. A. F. Harrington was one of the winners in the guessing contest staged several weeks ago by County Agent N. C. Shiver. Mr. Dan Farrell of Aberdeen is spending sometime here with his aunt Mrs. Clair L. Harrington. Miss Pauline Lawrence has gone to Durham to spend the winter with her aunt Mrs. D. M. Estes. She will be a student of the Durham schools the coming session. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wicker of Corinth are all smiles—it’s a bouncing boy. Mrs. Garland Farrell and children of Aberdeen spent the week-end here with relatives. $ NAVY PACT NEAR? —— • According to dispatches from Geneva, Ramsay McDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, believes that agreement of naval reduction is almost at hand. There were twenty points on which the United States and Great Britain disagreed, and settlement has ! been arrived'at bn 17 of them. The regaining three will; probably be cleared' up this * week. Mr. MacDonald declared that : the Anglo-American agreement would be more than an accord on naval strength. He’ thinks that it will go far toward assuring pea£e for the world. . ■ -V ■ • i?V ' v ' ’ ; AMERICAN IN PARIS TELE-] PHONES FOR U. S. HAIRCUT New York, Sept. 3. —Louis Airco was awakened at 5 a. m. His wife was poking him in the ribs. “Get up,” she said, “someone in Paris want sto talk to you on the telephone.” “Paris?” Louis w r as amazed. “Someone trying to kid me,” he thought as he ambled to the tele phone. But it was Paris. And he recog nized the voice. A haircut? Sure, Louis always pleases his customers, sure he’ll be right over. So Louis sails Friday on the Le viathan to meet William F. Kenny, millionaire utilities magnate and personal friend of former Governor Smith, at Southampton to give him a real American barbering. “I’ve been in Europe all summer,” Kenny told Louis over the trans- Atlantic telephone, “and I haven’t been able to get a decent haircut, and I want to look presentable when I get back home.” Louis has been cutting Kenny’s hair for the last 29 years. <S> Lee Hardware Co. Moves In New Store „ The finishing touches are being put on the interior of the building , that will be occupied by the Lee Hardware Company next to the post office on Wicker Street. Much work has been done during the past week in making the necessary changes and the store room is going to make an attractive appearance when finished, i The company hopes to be able to i move in about the first of Septem ber.—Sanford Express. PILOT KILLED IN CRASH Thomas Reid of Downey, Califor | nia, broke the world’s endurance re ! cord for solo flight at Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday and then attempted to continue his flight to earn bonus ■ money for a wedding trip. His plane 1 crashed and he was killed. Lack of ’ sleep is believed to have caused him 1 to lose control of his plane. Reid was ( married two days before in Califor | nia and expected to go back for his [ wife and take the wedding trip on j money earned in the air derby. * ZEPPELIN GOES HOME l —< The Graf Zeppelin, giant liner of i the air which last week completed ( in record time a flight around the , world, took off fram Lakehurst field at midnight Sunday for its home . port at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the zep, remained in this country for business conferences and the big dirigible was taken home under com mand of Capt. Ernest Lehman. <g> SPECIAL YOUNG PEOPLES’ SERVICE BAPTIST CHURCH A special service for young people ! going away to school will be held at the Baptist church Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. All boys and girls who are going away to college, either for the first year or to resume work, are especially invited to the service. <s> 70 LOST AT gEA Seventy or more persons were drowned when the Spanish steamer San Juan was rammed by a Standard Oil tanker off the California coast last Friday. Heavy fog is said to have been responsible for the collision. The United States government has ordered an investigation into the affair. <g> Des Moines School Closes Trustees of the Des Moines Uni versity, fundamentalist Baptist insti tution, have announced that the school will be discontinued. Recent disputes among the faculty resulted in student rioting that led to such bitter feeling among the faculty and trustees that all hope of getting to gether has been abandoned. O HUSTON NEW CHAIRMAN o It is practically certain that Claudius Huston of Tennessee will be elected chairman of the Republi can national committee when it meets next Monday at Washington. Mr. Huston is the first southerner ever seriously considered for this position. $ PROGRESS ON BUILDINGS The brick work on the handsome and spacious Fields building is com pleted. The roof is going on. Also the residences of Mrs. Annie Chapin and the Hunts’ are fast nearing com pletion. The Chapin building is of brick and will be possibly the hand somest home in Pittsboro. , ; The machinery has all been plqced in the annex to the silk mill and; i part' of it is in commission. When; i the full complement of employees 'is ; secured there will be about, 75 .of i them, and as the wages .are good it i means a considerable payroll for the community. , Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham VOLUME 51, NUMBER 49 ISenatorship Cheap in State of Tennessee While North Carolinians are dis turbed about the election for senator next year and when probably many thousands of dollars will be spent in the contest, a Tennessee senatorship has been declined by Col. Luke Lea, publisher of several of the leading Tennessee dailies, and has been ac cepted , by W. E. Brock, a candy manufacturer of Chattanooga. Mr. Brock, like his predecessor, General who recently died, is a native of North Carolina. Unlike Tyson, he had little schooling. . He was reared near Farmington, wher ever that is, and began his career as a clerk in a Winston store. When R. J. Reynolds wanted his first to bacco drummer, he employed Brock at S3O a month. Next, he accepted a position as salesman for a Chatta nooga candy manufacturer. He later bought the plant and is still operating it. He is, clearly, a succesful business man, but as to how broad his horizon or how deep his penetration of na tional problems, it all depends upon how he has used his mind these 40 years since he became a clerk. A college education in his day would have given him a mighty small start toward a comprehension of the prob lems of this day. Accordingly, his usefulness for the next year and a half in the senate depends more up on what he has done with his years of maturity than upon what he did with the years of his youth. It is gratifying to note that Prin cipal Waters will make thoroughness the principal aim of this session of the Pittsboro school. It is this writer’s conception that anything learned well is profitable, and that slovenly work is fatal not only to scholarship but to character. We have in mind right now to give an opportunity >to students of arith metic, algebra, geometry, English grammar and Latin in Chatham 1 county schools to prove, next spring, ; that they have actually learned their subjects. But are the teaehers real ly masters of their subjects? . u i —; — Mt. Zion Quarterly Conference i —$ 1 The fourth quarterly conference for the Pittsboro circuit will be held at Mt. Zion Methodist church Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock. It is expected the officials from over the charge in full will be in attendance [ and make full reports where possi ble. This is a very important meet ing since the officials for the en suing year will be elected.—J. A. Dailey, pastor. LET’S TALK TURKEY <s> (From Elizabeth City Independent) What the country needs, it seems to me, is more Temperance talk and less Prophibition talk. In all of the windjamming pro and con over the merits and demeries of National Pro hibition we have been permitted to lose sight of the evil of drink in it ■ self. Alcohol, a poison, the poisonous nature of which was in utter disre pute a decade or more ago, has be come respectable under Prohibition. And I think this is true because we have lost sight of the true chemistry and harmfulness of alcohol in a fog of discussion about Prohibition. We may never settle the question of whether Prohibition is good or bad, but there is no question about the evils of»intemperance. While their elders are making much noise over the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of laws, mil lions o$ young people to-day are soaking their entrails with alcoholic stimlants that will in many instances destroy their will power and impair their health in adult life. Very few young men who indulge excessively in alcoholic spirits can long retain thir manhood or hold the respect and confidence of their employers. No young woman who plays long with hot liquor can hope to retain her virture and her good name. And oue of the unfortunate effects of National Prohibition is that it has brought about a youthful contempt for law in which the values of vir ture and a good name havn’t the place they formerly held. I, for one, would like to hear more honest-to-God discussion about the evils of alcohol and less about Pro hibition. . $ BUTLER FOR GOVERNOR Major General Smedly Butler, of the Marine Corps, is being boosted for governor of Pennsylvania. The American Legion is said to be .push ing the fiery Marine, who spent two years up” Philadelphia. • ’ ’J >' r(1 ——vy— » ? ‘ ‘ says here that a person speaks on an average of about 12,000 words # Husband : -Well, I’ve always- said you • e mabove the —Thd . • «"i u-, ’ — 1 SpongeF: “I say, old fellow, lend me. your ear a moment;; will yon?” Smart: “Take both of ..them > and them I won’t be aMeWtorhear;yqp*iask i for. anything else.*—The Pathfinder-. . 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