North Carolina Newspapers

A Paper with a Prestige': :i of a Half Century.- A- County', Not a Co- v»-J munityP' ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. *************** * Moncure News * *************** rs . Geo. I. King of Durham is .-j/itinff Mrs. C. T. Dezern. \ Alfred Lambeth has entered , i jtary school known as Collegiate. t'“ >ute* Mt. Pleasant, N. C. .. ‘ \ SS Mary Bland, the efficient t J . at cashier of Moncure Bank, last week-end with friends at ' ! - ■ : - .•* ' -> and Mrs. Geo. W. Giede .and yAnna Hershey, nieces of Capt. y ;j. Wissler, Mr. J. C. Myers, a ar ; . l-nephew and Miss "Davis, a ~ of Capt. Wissler and who were* hV i him -at his home here several month;s before his death and burial; ] e f: Wt Saturday morning for their home at Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. G. W. Giede will maintain the cottage un der the direction of Mrs. Daisy Jfoore. Wo were sorry to learn of the deal of Mrs. Ida Watson who pass ed away at the home of her daugh ,er Mrs. L. N. Crutchfield, Septem ber 23, at 4:30 p. m. Mrs. Watson Vas well and favorably known throughout this section. She leaves a husband to mourn her loss and the following daughters, Mrs. J. J. Hackney, Mrs. A. B. Womble, Mrs. L. X. Crutchfield of Moncure, Mrs. Arch Yarborough of Wake Forest; ill’s- H. D. Gunter of Pittsboro and one Frank Watson. She will be buried at the Presbyterian ceme tery this afternoon, Monday, at 3 o’clock. Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Cathell and son, James, spent several days w’ith rel atives at Linwood this past week. Mr. E. E. Walden, our popular and efficient funeral director of Mon cure. reports that everything moved along nicely on their long trip to Cedar Springs, Va., to place the re mains of Capt. J. H. Wissler to rest in that beautiful cemetery at As bury Methodist church. This ceme tery was distinctive in many re spects. It is nestled away there in the mountains where Nature’s Land scape Gardner appeared to spare no pains in making it beautiful. No ( graves were mounded but the ground was smooth and was heavily carpeted with a beautiful layer of well-kept grass. By means of special endow ment Capt. Wissler has made full provision for these grounds to be a place of beauty forever. A massive stone with the inscription “Wissler” marks the resting place of him, his beloved wife, son and daughter. The funeral procession left Mon cure at 6 o’clock last Monday morn ing and reached Cedar Springs, Va., about 1 o’clock, where dinner was served at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Lanxz and Mr. and Mrs. Keesling.. The hospitality of these people, was unbounded. About fifteen of the party spent the night and returned at leisure the next day. Mrs. Mary Barringer spent last week-end with relatives at Sanford. Rev. .J. A. Dailey will preach at the Methodist church here next Sun day evening at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. The Epvvorth League met as usual last Sunday evening with the presi dent, Miss Camelia Stedman in the chair. After a short song service by all. the minutes of the last meet ing were read by the secretary, Mr. Lewis Burns, then the meeting was turned over to the leader, Miss Catherine Thomas, who interestingly discussed the subject, “Working To gether with God.” After singing a the meeting closed with prayer i>y Mr. H. G. Self. The members of the Epworth League gave a party in the Junior Hall last Friday evening, September 20th, in honor of the teachers of Moncure school, welcoming them to our town and to our league. Those jn the receiving line were as fol d's: Miss Camelia Stedman, the president of the league, Miss Esther Martin, Miss Louise Petty, Miss Hortense Honeycutt, Miss Cecil beawell, Miss Berta Holloday, Miss Hna Andrews, Mias Margaret Mann, Miss Catherine Thomas, Miss Lucy Roone, Mr. Edward Avent, Jr., and Mr. Lewis Burns, secretary of the 'eaguo. A large crowd was present and enjoyable evening passed by, all Participating in games and nice re freshments were served to all. We to thank the following cornmit sses Catherine Thomas, Mary bland and Dorothy Lambeth for Manning and making it possible for such a nice evening together. the Bank oi Moncure re gretted to lose Capt. Wissler as its President, the directors were for tiinar.e i n their choice of Mr. Cary< Lasafeer as his successor. The sank of Moncure adds materially to V s by adding this careful «*ianciers to its list of officers. • e regret the continued illness of ; 1: ' H. A. Cox on route 2, who has ' J “ a shut-in for sometime. Mr. °v greatly appreciates visits from n eighbors and friends. MR - B. N. WELCH HURT Mi'- B. N. Welch of Bear Creek o unship, who travels for a machin- c °mpany, had the misfortune to km injured in an automo ,lie collision near Wake Forest Mon ray ’ Be was taken to a Raleigh hos pital. The Chatham Record Appointed Advisor In Greek Government Plan I Harold B. Allen, a member of the National Education Association and '.formerly president of the New York State Association of Agricul tural Teachers and Principals, re cently sailed to take up bis ap pointment as Near East Relief ad visor in the Greek Government plan of agricultural development among refugees in Macedonia. Mr. Allen went to Russian Armenia in 1920 to direct the American agricultural work. He was later transferred to Greece to inaugurate extension work and ‘‘farm clinics** for Near. East Relief orphans and Anatolian; deportees placed by the Refugee Settlement Commisson on Macedon ian farms. - Modern Grocery . Opens Saturday —@ — x The rooni formerly occupied by the Farrell Case has been remodeled on the interior for a modern grocery land Saturday it will open. .The new I grocery is a member of the Progres ; sive -Chain, backed by Howard and Bobbitt of Sanford. Mr. Cooper, manager of the chain, has directed the remodeling of the building, and will doubtless be a frequent visitor to this, as well as the other stores of the chain. The store here is to be under the management of Mr. Loving, who is known to many Chatham people as salesman for the Lee Furniture Com pany of Sanford. He is a son of that staunch citizen of Cameron, Mr. J. R. Loving, and is a worthy young man. About the best way to learn just what kind of store this is going to be is to come and see. Remember it opens Saturday, September 28. <s>_ Price of School Books <3> High school textbooks may be pur ! chased by the children of the state at prices not to exceed 15 per cent above the wholesale prices under the new form of high school contract entered into between the State Board of Education and the publishers, which requires that the publisher stamp in each book both the whole sale and retail price, it was learned last week from a letter sent to county | and city superintendents by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, A. T. Allen. > This information was sent to the local superintendents as a result of complaints coming to the state office that prices in excess of a 15 per cent commission were being charged by dealers for high school textbooks. With the price stamped in each book, the patrons and pupils will show the exact price fixed by the State Boa«d of Education at which any book should be bought. 4 “In fixing the retail price under authority of the law,” according to Superintendent Allen’s letter, “the State Board of Education felt that it was a fair and reasonable price for both the dealer and the publish er, for the following reasons: (1) The market is compulsory as the 120,000 high school children must secure books; (2) there is a monop oly of trade as there is only one dealer in a community; (3) adver tising is free as the schools inform the children where to obtain books; and (4) no capital is necessary as the publishers furnish books on 60 or 90 days’ time and most of the j trade is during the first week of school, enabling the merchant to pay his bills out of these proceeds. <§> — Fair Next Week The Chatham County Fair is right upon us. Mr. Gilliland and others interested are anxious . that every one who can make exhibits. In this connection, we are requested to state that all persons in the Pittsboro vicinity wishing to enter fancy or needle work in the Fair send the; articles to the Exline Hotel to either, Mrs. Lanius or Mrs. R. H. both of whom are directors: of that department. They wish to make that department the best it has;ever been. The fair begins Tuesday, Dcto-j ber 1. PITTSBORO, N. C.; CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929. , *************** * * * Brickhaven News * * * *************** 1 . 5. .. BRICKHAVEN, Sept. 23. — Mr. Larry Marks, a student of the Chapel Hill high school, spent the week-end here - with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. M&rksV ‘ , Rev. C. £ L. tta.vvell and. Mrs. Dowell of Forestirille spent several days here laSf weqk ■' with ' tHeir ,daughter, Mrs; ';o:'jC. •’ V’ « , / Mr.. M f iiliam iß&pies ,q£ the Chero kee Bripk the. week* end,.with relativesof; Wilson.. , Miss Delia Dowell, is-the guest here of her sister, MrSvQ. C. Kennedy. !• Mr. Evans of \tass was a week-end guest: of friends at thC r Boylan Ranch'. r Mrs, J. A. spent several days here last week with' Mrs. J. W. Utley. • : There will be all-day services at Buckhorne church next Sunday, Sep tember 29. The home church is hos tess to the Sunday schools of the district, which includes Fuquay Springs, Olive Branch, Holly Branch, and Cokesbury. The program begins promptly at 11 o’clock. Every mem ber of the local Sunday school is urged to be present so that we may keep our attendance banner won at a previous convention. The public is cordially invited. The question of Prohibition which is one of the most agitated before the public today is, like all questions of import, in the hands of the in dividual, so to speak. Individuals make communities, communities make nations and no community is bigger or stronger than the ideals of its individual members. Yet the de bate over prohibition has become so bitter that numbers of people are now drinking to excess merely to vent their views or to display their independence. Nothing could be more foolish. A recent editorial in one of our national weeklies strikes at 1 tho heart of the situation thus: “Pro hibition will be enforced, repealed or forgotten sometime, but during the interval lives must be lived and ca reers made or broken. The best chance of happiness and of useful ness lies in temperance and sobriety. Practice sobriety and advocate tem perance and most of the evils we now find so irritating will vanish. After all we have the final responsi bility for our own lives and nothing that the government, or any other agency, does or fails to do, is in the long run so important as what we do ourselves.” Sobriety and temperance, like charity, should begin at home! ■ 9 *************** * . * Gulf News * ******** ******* Mrs. C. R. Freeman, who was car ried to Scott’s Hospital, Sanford, Sep tember 12, for treatment, is able to be home and at work again. School opened here September 12 with Misses Esther Steele and Lena Palmer of Sanford as teachers. Mr. and Mrs. R. L.. Beal of Nor folk, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. W. LI. Hill for several days last week. Mr. W. A. Beal, who was confined to his bed a few days last week with influenza, has recovered and return ed to his work at Yadkinville Mon day. Mr. D. E. Overby, superintendent Carolina Fire-Proofing Co., and family, are visiting relatives at Kingsport, Tenn. The Carolina Fire-Proofing Com pany expects to start work full time in another week. Only a few men have been employed for the last two months. Several thousand dollars worth of machinery has been install ed during that time. $ Death of a Native of Chatham County —e — As one of the little friendly offices occasionally performed for the Rec ord by Mr. H. M. London of Raleigh is the sending to us of the following account of Dr. John W. Petty’s death, and the information that Dr. Petty was reared within a short dis tance of Pittsboro. The clipping, which seems to be from a Durham paper is as follows: ‘‘Funeral services for Dr. John W. Petty, well known Durham man, who died in Raleigh Saturday, were con ducted Wednesday mqrning at the Main Street Christian Church by the Rev. Stanley C. Harrell, pastor, assisted by Rev. Trela D. Collins, pastor of the Temple Baptist Church. The body was carried to Winston- Salem for interment. *■« Dr. Petty, who had been in declin ing health for some time, was sixty years old. He. is survived by his widow and three children, Clyde W. Petty, of Durham; Edgar E. Petty, of Detroit, and Mrs. C. R. Zella, of Durham. A brother, R. S. Petty, of Greensboro, and a sister, Mrs. J. S. Long, of Rigsley, Me. also survive.” Mr. Gotroeks—Little boy, do you know who I am? Chauffeur’s Son—Yep, you’re the old grouch my daddy always takes , out riding with him. —The Pathfinder *************** * * * Bear Creek News * * * ******** * * * * * * * Mr...and Mrs. R. F. Rives and son, of Washington, D. C., were visiting Mr. Rives’ mother, Mrs. Jessie P. Rives, just south of town last week. Also Mrs. D. K Perrel and son, Elvid, Os Washington, D. C., visited Mrs. J. Cheek. ..... . . Mrs. C. R.; Elkins and daughter, Waya, and a Miss Stewart, ,of Siler .City, were visitors v 1. P, Coggins ’last week'l ; ; . J ’■ X. ' '» . 7. Mrs. T. C. Vestal qnde.rwetit 'an other operation at St. Leo’s: ,Hos r .pitai, Greensbo/o, last week, and seems' to be . slowly imprbvmg., ■ /J. T. _Coggins, after spendig sqme months in Asheville,' has returned to his home. ’ ' . . ' ■' : W. B. Emerson is building a store house on his lots, near the Bear Creek Service Station. He will rent the house to W. A. (“Bill”) Phillips, of Rt. 1, who is going to put in a general store. Stop, look and listen and watch Bear Creek grow. E. B. Straughan, of Burlington, was a visitor at the home of his father, F. C. Straughan, during the week-end. The Baraca-Philathea Class of Me roney M. E. Church will hold a birth day party at the home of A. F. Willett on next Saturday night, Sep tember 28. The public is most cor dially invited to attend. Each person is expected to pay one cent for every year old they are. There will be cake, pie and cream for sale. The proceeds will go to eliminating the indebtedness on the Sunday schools recently built at this church. Rev. L. M. Chaffin will preach at Meroney Church next Sunday, Sep tember 29th. Mrs. J. H. Watkins has been very ill, but is somewhat improved at this writing. W, H, Murray accompanied by Deputy LanLb&rt, es- Moore County, captured a 60-gallon copper still just over the Chatham line in Moore county. *. RICHMONDCOUNTY PRAISED BY STATE No Case of Typhoid Fever Reported in County Up to First of September (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) Richmond county has made one of the best records, if not the best record, in the state in typhoid fever prevention this year, with not a single case reported up to Septem ber 1 for the first eight months of 1929, it was announced in Raleigh Wednesday by the State Board of Health. Dr. A. B. McCreary, county health officer in Richmond, attributes the absence of typhoid to a number of things, all of which should be in teresting to people in all sections of North Carolina, according to the State Board of Health. The more outstanding things to which he at tributes the absence of typhoid for the past eight months are: Method Listed 1. Education of the public to the danger of typhoid, the value of bet ter hygienic conditions and the value of vaccination. 2. Co-operation of the medical profession. 3. Improved sanitary conditions. Grade A milk, inspected foods, better sewage disposal. 4. Co-operation of the public. 5. Inoculation with typhoid vac cine. Much Publicity In order to bring about the con certed action represented in the fore going statement a county-wide pub licity campaign was inaugurated during the month of June this year. Advertisements were carried ,in all the Richmond county newspapers. Motion picture houses were induced to display slides referring to the work against typhoid. The ministers in the churches contributed a great deal by bringing the facts of the work to the attention of their va rious congregations in the county. Circular letters were freely used. Citizens in every section of the county, well known and having in fluence, were urged to interest their families and their neighbors, result ing in the spread of much informa tion as to how to prevent typhoid, in addition to a successful vaccina tion qf several hundred citizens of the county. The health officer in his report of the efforts made very; correctly concludes that “education >is by far the most effective weapon. If the public is brought to realize the value of preventive methods, all the other factors will be added.” —— $ Jim—My father is richer than your father. He’s got three houses and yours has none. Tim—Yes, bqt my father holds the mortgages on your father’s houses. I The Pathfinder. $ Another good place for a no-tip ping sign is on a canoe. * ! Betty Spivey Slain with an Axe in Lee County The mutilated body of Betty Soivey, 20-year-old daughter of S. A. ; Spivey of the Tramway section of Lee county, was found early Sundav morning ,near her home, seven miles west of Sanford. Two men, James Spivev,; a cousin of the dead girl, William _ Morgan, have been ar rested and are being held. L. jThe coroner’s jury empaneled to investigate the- case recommended James Spivey: be held without bail , for the murder; oL his cousin. !;; Evidence .; before the jury was to the/effect that Spivey -went- to the home.. of his cousin- late ; Saturday night and repeated a/request that she marry him. , • Sisters of * the dead wqman told the. coroner that Bettie showed him a pair of hose which, she told him, had been given to her bv another admirer. She refused to listen to his plea to become his wife. A few minutes later the two left the house together. That is the last time members of the family saw the girl alive. Fifteen minutes later Spivey rush ed back into the house and told the girl’s father and sisters that two men had attacked them and had killed her. Rushing out into the yard they found her lifeless form lying near the cow lot, her head batteret and life extinct. An examination of the woman’s body by physicians showed conclusively, they say, that she had been criminally assaulted im mediately after the fatal blows were dealt. Spivey, it is said, declared the 1 woman was attacked and killed by some unknown person who assaulted ’ them in the dark. Relatives of the dead woman told the coroner here this afternoon that Spivey had fre quently urged her to marry him, 1 but; she had persistently, refused tq do so. Spivey is 30 years old. About eight ; years ago he is said to have been ' arrested on suspicion of having ‘ beaten Mrs. Laura Waddell, widow, to death with an axe. There were P 9 eye-witnesses and he was later released, * - . - , Saturday night’s tragedy occurred within half a mile of the filling station on the Sanford-Carthage i highway where, a few weeks ago, Gaither Edwards, owner and opera tor qf the station, shot and killed Levi and Owen Birdsong, Kentucky bandits, and was himself fatally wounded. $ Mill Men Guests of Governor Gardner Governor Gardner had as his guests for breakfast and a confer ence on the North Carolina labor sit uation last Saturday three of the biggest mill men in the State—Ste uart W. Cramer, Arthur M. Dixon and Joseph H. Separk. Raleigh news paper men were unable to find out what the group discussed, but an interview given out in Charlotte by Mr. Cramer Monday threw some light on the matter. The question con sidered, according to Mr. Cramer, was the advisability of calling a spe cial session of the legislature to en act laws for controlling conditions that have arisen around Gastonia lately. The special session is not apt to be called, said Mr. Cramer. Mar tial law was also discussed—and ve toed. The situation around Gastonia has been more favorable during the past week or so, and mill men believe that the period of violence is over. Strike leaders have announced that the col ony maintained on the edge of Gas tonia for strikers is to be disbanded and the relief funds that have been coming in will be discontinued. The special term of Mecklenburg court for trial of the thirteen men and three women indicted for the murder of Police Chief Aderholt will convene next Monday, September 30. Unless there develops something in connection with that trial to stir up trouble again it is believed that Gas ton county will soon l>it its regular stride of peaceful operation of its hundred cotton mills. The first trial of the sixteen strikers came to an abrupt end when one of the jurors became insane. Judge M. V. Barn hill will again preside at the special term next week. Florence Trumbull and .John Coolidge Married Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of governor of Connecticutt, becamt the bride Monday of John Coolidge, ; son of the fonmer president of the United States. The ceremony was^ ■ performed in the little Congrega tional church at Plainville, Conn., the family ministers of both families par ■ ticipating. Only a very few intimate friends were admitted to the church, but thousands crowded the streets t and driveways to catch a glimpse of ; the couple. John and Florence will set up > housekeeping in an apartment house and they declare that they will live on John’s salary as a railro-ad clerk. <§> Our tariff wall too is causing quite ji a bit of wailing in certain quarters. ’ * Subscribers at . Every , Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2 ! REVIVAL SERVICES AT LOCAL CHURCH Rev. McK. R. Long to Conduct Revival Services at Presby terian Church Beginning October 27 Rev. McKendren R. Long, evanga list and Bible teacher, of Statesville, is to assist the pastor of the Pitts boro Presbyterian church in a meet ing .to. begin the fourth Sunday in October.. Mr. Long,, who was an ar tist, became convinced of his call to preach the Gospel and has met with distinguished success. He is just closing a great meeting at Winston-Salem. He is a son of the late Judge B. F. Long of States ville. All of the Pittsboro pastors and people are cordially invited to co operate in making a great spiritual success of the meeting. JONAS BARCLAY, Pastor. Edna Tells Polly About Class’s Work Pittsboro, N. C. September. 24, 1929. Dear Polly: Knowing that you have taken this Teacher Training Course and are fa miliar with its work, I thought maybe you would like to hear about our plans for the county fair. We have eleven girls and are divided into groups. Each group is expected to contribute something to the county fair. The girls that I’m working with are making a seasonal calendar with pictures to represent each season the year. We cut these pictures from the backs of our Literary Digest Magazines, and have mounted them on attractively colored cardboard. On the opposite side of the pictures we have short poems that tell some thing of .that paEtfctnaihseason. ' ( We have the loveliest'plef 3Ts“.of 1 a summer scene! It*is”An Old Fasߣ~ ioned Bouquet of Summer Flotvers. They are in a stone jar and look SO natural that you can almost smell them. One groqp is dressing dolls in foreign costumes, while others are making “cut out” pictures from bright colored paper. And would you believe that the department really has a filing cabi net? This makes it much easier for us to keep our own material and find that which is already here. We have started individual files for each student. I hope you will go in to see our exhibits at the fair. We will try to write and tell you some of our plans each week. Sincerely, EDNA SNIPES. JURY LIST For Term of Court Beginning Mon day, October 21 The following names of jurymen for the term of court to begin Octo ber 21, for the trial of criminal cases, have been drawn: D. T. Brooks, S. T. Moody, A. R. Dowdy, Ei-nest Boone, D. H, Ellis, W. Ivey Budd, D. J. Williams, Von nie Bland, T. E. Gilliland, J. Brooks Snipes, John B. Jones, James Hil liard, M. T. Y'ates, W. O. Brown, J. T. Harris, Hampton Knight, Lee Copeland, D. S. Hatley, E. M. Phil lips, John T. Brady, R. H. Thomas, S. C. Cook, Lonnie Thomas, L. B. Hester, J. T. Mann, T. F. Overman, W. B. Riddle, George Smith, Chas. H. Lutterloh, A. F. Andrews, Claude R. Thompson, J. M. Ray, Carl H. Stroud, T. A. Ausley, O. H. Welch, R. H. Bobbitt, Jim Teague, John B. Mills, J. S. Welch, John Bell, Sr., John Lawrence and Archie Dorsett. $ Fire-Proofing Co. Is to Begin Work —* — It is gratifying to note that the Carolina Fire-Proofing Company is to begin operations again at its Gulf plant. Some months ago the Record reported the plight of the company, how it changed from the use of the clay for which the machinery was fitted to the use of the deeper shale, which is abundant, and that the orig inal machinery was unfitted for ; the more abundant material. It seemed then that the company might hav# difficulty in financing the change of machinery. But ft seems to have been done, and with the reopening of the ’ plant it is to be hoped that the com pany with its large investment will enter upon a profitable career. »■ ~ - - Mr. J. D. Eubanks, after an ab sence of 27 years, came in from Los Angeles last week and has been visiting his brother, Clyde, at Chapel Hill, his sisters, Mrs. Clem Gattis and Mrs. W. F. Norwood of Baldwin Township, and brother, W. M. Eu banks, of Pittsboro. The visitor has traveled widely since leaving the old home county, but seems still t& l fe unmarried.