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A Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century. A County, Not a Com munity Paper. ESTABLISHED .EMBER 19, 1878. ***** v * B school News * . . *********** * * T he Bell’s Parent-Teacher Associ ation met on Thursday night of this vee v for the first meeting of the ' Iy] The presiding officers were \iv Robert Seymour, Piesident, and Hazel Tisdale, Secretary. An interesting program was given by 1., of the ninth and tenth grades. -ae association, and plans were made .• r L ie year’s work. These chiefly Cr ying up the library and beautify- L ; n V the school grounds. A prize of P Sai two to four dollars was voted r r the grade getting the most books nto the library during the year. It further decided that an educa tional motion picture offered by the S ite Department of Conservation and Development would be included ■p me program of next month. The first month’s enrollment at Bell ' totaled 327 pupils, 63 of which ue in the high school. 50 pupils are enrolled at the Yates school. T. e pupils who are to represent Bell’s School in the spelling contest nt me fair are: Alma Mitchell and Claude Holt in the first class, and Glenn Horton and Louise Barbee in the second class. The school is also sending exhibits to the educational department at the fair. The Oxford Orphanage Singing Clam will give a concert at Bell’s School on Thursday evening, Octo ber 10 th. Mrs. Leon Wilson is spending the week-end with her parents at Aurora. N. C. Death of D. W. Dowd The Record is indebted to the Dunn Dispatch for an account of the death of a good Chatham county citizen, away over in the southwest corner of the county—that of Mr. Daniel W. Dowd. One of Mr. Dowd’s sons, D. -J., lives in Dunn, hence the information of the Dispatch. Mr. Dowd died September 19. The Dis patch’s item follows. Mr. Daniel W. Dowd, father of D. J. Dowd, of Dunn, died last Thurs day afternoon at his home in Cad-bou ton. Chatham county, after an illness of several months. He would have been 80 years old had he lived until October. He was twice married, first to Miss Deliah Gilmore, and after her death to Miss Stella Smith, both of Chatham county. Mr. Dowd is survived by his last Iwife and four children, two of his pl’irst union and two of his second. Surviving children of his first mar riage are D. J. Dowd, of Dunn, and Mrs. W. D. Tillman, of Goldston; of his second marriage, Daniel, Jr., of Goldston, and Mrs. Atlas Saunders of Sanford. Fifiteen grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren also sur vive. Mr. Dowd was born in Chatham county, the son Os the late Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dowd. He was the last ."Urviving son of the family, al though three living sisters are num bered among those who mourn his passing: Mrs. J. M. Oldham and Mi>. David Oldham, of Goldston, and, Mrs. James Oldham, of Greensboro. Death of J. R. Edwards ■ —« — Mr. .James R. Edwards, of Vernon Springs, died Saturday Sep tember 21, after several months of illness. He was in hi 3 74th year. The burial was at Providence M. E. church. Rev. J. W. Bradley conduct ing the funeral services. Mr. Edwards was one of the county’s best citizens, and had rear ed a most creditable family. His wife was Miss Rebbecca Jane Phillips. Surviving children are Miss Mary Edwards and Mrs. J. E. Chandler of Greensboro, Rev. J. R. Edwards of Bethel, Mrs. Alston Brooks and Mrs. Hugh Dixon of Siler City, Miss Alice Edwards and Mr. Lawton Edwards of Mt. Vernon Springs. The deceased was brother of Mr. L. Edwards so well known as pourt offcial during court terms also of E. Manly Edwards, and of Rev Anderson Edwards of Salem burg. <g> ) Kudzu Again Phe Record is determined to make ds readers conscious of the possibili -1 kudzu. Here is another para graph from the Monroe Enquirer. - H. Barton, the county agent of ■Jwfield county, South Carolina, j * drove his automobile two hun ired miles to observe my methods of Rowing kudzu from seed, writes that— -John p. Able of Leesville, S. C., three acres of kudzu, about five ,v ; af * s °ld, on which he grazed this summer 1 a head of hogs, including (hive to five cows, four to six u ‘ es w hen not being worked.” Barton also states: kudzu enriches the land on which t gIOWs > the hay retains its leaves, is alMf er C€nt higher in protein than i , a > and will produce on the same n '\ more hay than alfalfa.” ertainly the wise farmer will fa h mself with this wonder le plant. The Chatham Record ■ NINE STRIKERS FREED OF CHARGES $ i Charges Against Other Seven Reduced from First to Second Degree Murder $ Nine of the 16 Gastonia strikers indicted for the murder of Police Chief Aderholt were set free and charges ’ against the other seven re duced from first degree to second degree murder when the special term of Mecklenburg county court convened at Charlotte Monday for the second trial. This action on part of state attorneys came as a sur prise and was taken, according to their statement, in order to expedite the trial and to make more sure the conviction of those against whom they had most evidence. Cases charging secret assault against the seven were consolidated with the sec ond degree murder charges and will be all tried together. The nine defendants released are the three women, Vera Busch, Sophie Melvin and Amy Schechter, against whom first degree murder charges were abandoned at the first trial and who have been out on bond since, and the following men: Delniar Hampton, K. O. Byers, N. F. Gibson, Russell Knight, Robert Allen and J. C. Heffner. / Facing the second degree morder and secret assault charges are: Fred Erwin Beal, 33, National Textile Workers Union southern organizer, Lawrence, Mass.; George Carter, 24, strike picketer, Mizpah, N. J.; Jo seph Harrison, 24, union organizer, Passaic, N. J.; K. Y. Hendricks, 29, union striker, Gastonia; William Mc- Ginnis, 23, union striker, Gastonia; Louis McLaughlin, 24, union picket captain, Gastonia; and Clarence Miller, 23, Young Communist League organizer, New York City. They were denied bond and remanded to jail after the charges were changed. The trial which began Monday morning is rejjJly the third time the case has been called. It was first called at a special term of Gaston county court in August, but upon motion of defense attorneys Judge M. V. Barnhill moved it to Meck lenburg. A special term of Meck lenburg court was ordered which be gan on August 26 with Judge Barn hill again on the bench. More than six hundred men were called in spe cial venires and seven days were re quired to get the jury. Then after three days of testimony on of the jurors went insane and a mistrial was ordered. Governor Gardner called another special term to be gin September 30 and again Judge Barnhill was asked to preside. None of the high nervous tension which marked the other two terms was evident Monday. Several of the big lawyers have been releasd from th case by both sides and instead of a trial of communism or atheism or a rehashing of all the industrial troubles of the territory the case now becomes merely the trial of seven men for the killing of a po liceman. Gl-Srot a single juror was obtained from the regular panel and special venire of ICO was ordered drawn from the box, Judge Barnhill an nouncing that if a jury was not se cured from that list another venire would be called from outside Char lotte township. The seven defendants were re manded to jail without bond, the judge declaring that he did not want the trial to be again disrupted by the running away of any defendant or any show of outside violence.. It is predicted that the trial will last for about three weeks. Many things will make it faster than the other hearing. At the other trial each of the defendants charged with first degree murder had 12 peiemp tory challenges and the state had f»ur, while the second degree cases had four for each defendant and two for the state, a grand total oi 226 peremptory challenges; besides the great number of prospective jurors who declared their opposition to capital punishment and were re jected for cause. Since the charges have' been reduced and the number of defendants cut to less than halt, the total number of peremptory chal lenges is 42—four for each of the seven defendants and two for the state in each case. <s» —■ Weeks Motor Co. - Postpones Car Sale The. sale of used cars advertised bv the Weeks Motor Company tor Saturday was far from a success. The hardest week in the year, ap parently, was chosen for the sale. ■Not a bale of cotton and scarcely a pound of tobacco had been sold, while the scanty funds from last season’s crop had been drained to the bottom. ~ ... Two or three cars were sold, hut at such low prices that it was decided better to call the sale off and rtrj another time. The next sale is_ be Monday, October 21, the first day of court, at one o clock ‘ ton and tobacco should be sold by that time, besides, the first day «* court will bring people neie irc.n ab parts of the county. PITTSBORO, N. C„ CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1929. *************** * / * *Brown’s Chapel News* *************** Brother Peterson and I are good friends if he did intimate in his edi torial comment last week that I haven’t much common sense. True, we all know that cows have to be milked on Sundays and that the words of Christ were that the sab bath was made for man. However great Constantine may have been, God said he made everything in six days and rested the seventh, and blessed it and called it a holy day, and commanded that no work should be done on that day. Therefore, if man has changed the day, we should after working six days try to re member God’s word and keep the seventh as near holy as possible, and make ready beforehand to so keep it. I have no scruples again the de livery of milk on Sunday if it is in accordance with God’s holy will, but with the conveniences of today, ice, coolers, and such like every town person that cannot keep a cow might prepare for Sunday. We farmers do as little as possi ble of our week-day work on Sun day. I know of some who hoot and puff at the church for having meet ings on Sunday to attend to the business of the church; yet some of these same people are in the milk business for the money they get out of it on Sunday as well as other days. However, nearly everybody knows who writes the Brown Chapel news and I am willing to bear the blame for all bad and give God and the Record credit for all the good. (Editorial note: The editor of the Record had in mind Constantine’s own unchristian conduct when the editor wrote that “whatever Con stantine’s faults, he certainly had commonsense.” But for Brother Durham’s benefit, we’ll say that there is not a word in the Bible commanding the keeping of Sunday holy, if it is God’s Word that is to settle the question and not common senst.) I wish all of the Record readers could have been present at a meet ing of the upper end of the Fay etteville conference called for all officials of the church and heard the message of Dr. Few, which bore out what I have said, that few of us do our best. He says he does not.and I do not, but I am continuously working to that end. Mr. W. C. Henderson yet on crutches feels somewhat better and ! is glad to be back home after a week’s visit to his sister, Mrs. H. G. Dorsett at Wake Forest. Our faithful superintendent for many years is still on the job for the best interest of the Sunday school. Last Sunday several children were promoted, a few teachers ap pointed, and a contest started. Our Epworth League is not very active at present. However, our young people are taking active part in singing and Sunday school work and we feel very proud of them. 11. F. Durham played a joke upon himself last week by accidently put ting sugar on bean hay for salt. O. C. Whitaker raised a second crop of beans this year from the seed grown on the first. He has lots of nice snaps, as some others do, and English peas and roast’n ears. We were glad to have out with us last Sunday several of our former members and the new bride was especially welcome. Brother Durham says he has a good cook, and he and she both looked happy. Mr. and Mrs. Mixon, who have been living with Brother Durham, are moving out since the marriage. Mr. Wilbur Perry of Durham spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Perry. Mrs. Lorene Harris is spending some time with her mother, Mrs. N. A. Perry. She will soon return to South Boston, Va., accompanied by her husband, Dewey Perry, who will resume his work with a bridge con struction force. We regret to report that Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lindsey will move to High Point. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Marshall, ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dark, motored to Elon College and picked up their son, Gordon Marshall and went on to Greensboro to visit Mrs. Marshall’s brother, Mr. Robt. Thompson, Sunday. First Visit Made in 59 Years Is Ended Mr. J. T. Straughan of Connell, Washington, who arrived in Pitts boro August 22 for his first visit to his old home in 59 years, has return ed to his far western home. His stay of almost a' month and a half was enjoyed very much by him and he appreciates the kindness the people extended him. On his arrival in North Carolina, he found, to his sorrow, only two sisters and two brothers of the large family living. His people were more than gjad to see him and they extended him a hearty welcome, and they regret his departure. It will take about seven days for him to .reach his home, but. his friends and relatives here wish him a safe and pleasant trip. It is really good bye. ;■*************** « * * */ Moncure News * * Cr • * *************** 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Bell, Jr., who lr r es at Fuquay Springs now, and where he has a position with “The Cnaln Store” there, were in town yesterday, Sunday. Their many friends here are always glad to see them. They are missed in Moncure, Tor it has always been their home town. Miss Lucy Boone, the music teach er of Moncure school, spent last week-end with her parents at Burl ington. Mrs. Roy Cole of Charlotte spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cole. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman and Mr. J. F. Womble attended the meet ing that was called by the presiding elder and held at the Methodist church, Sanford, last Friday after noon. Dr. W. P. Few of Duke Uni versity, was the main speaker of the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Ray of Mt. Airy spent yesterday, Sunday, with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ray. Mr. W. C. Mauldlin of Buchhorn wps in town Monday. Many from here are planning to attend the Siler City Fair, tomor row, Tuesday. Miss Alma Walden, the popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ’ E. E. Walden, and who won out to be the best singer in the radio contest, is a senior at Peace Institute, Raleigh, this year. Listen out for her pro gram, for she will be on to broad cast many times this winter. She is talented in music and has a splendid voice. Miss Catherine Thomas visited friends in Sanford last week. The Epworth League met last Sunday evening at 7 o’clock, with Miss Camelia Steelman, the presi dent, leader for the evening. It was “Mission Pledge Night,” and the sub ject for the evening, “Great Person alities W T ho Have Been Raised Out of Adverse Conditions by Christ,” was discussed by the following: Miss Camelia Stedman, Miss Margaret Mann, Miss Ona Andrews and Mrs. W. W. Stedman. At the close of the meeting a short business meet ing was held. All leaders and offi cers were present and a- good con gregation. Following the league meeting Rev. J. A. Dailey preached a splendid ser mon. The members of Moncure church appreciate his preaching for them on fifth Sunday evenings. Mr. B. J. Weathers of Hamlet was in town today, Monday. O ******- ********* * * * Bear Creek News * * *************** Mrs. J. J. Cheek is on the sick list, and we hope for her an early re covery. Messrs. W. L. and G. T. Dunn and G. B. Emerson are running an eat ing booth at the Chatham County Fair this week. The W. A. (“Bill”) Phillips store building is going up in a hurry. All of the outside work is done and Mr. Phillips hopes to open up this new store on or about the 10th of Octo ber. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wallace and Mrs. Andrews, all of Durham, were Sunday visitors in the home of L. D. Poe. Robert H. Marsh, col., is building a new bungalow on the Pittsboro- Goldston highway, just west of Hugh Elkins. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Poe and family were visitors in the home of A. T. Ward, of Bynum Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ivey and Miss Glennie Dunn were Sunday visitors in Greensboro. J. L. Straughan, of Greensboro, was a visitor on route 2, during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Beaver and family, Mr. and, Mrs. P. G. Maulden and sons, Amick and Herbert, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hall and family, all of Greensboro, were Sunday vis itors here and near here. Mrs. P. L. Elkins is confined to her bed with pneumonia, her friends will regret to learn. Mrs. T. C. Vestal is not improving very much at St. Leo’s hospital, in Greensboro. She must undergo a third operation, we learn. Mrs. J. H. Watkins is much im proved, we are glad to state. Miss Dora Moody and Miss Mamie Burke, who holds positions in Burl ington, spent the week-end with home folks. The Baraca-Philathea class of Meroney church held a birthday party at the home of A. W. Willett Saturday night which was well at tended and a goodly amount was i*aised. Parent-Teacher Meeting The Pai*ent-Teacher association will hold their regular monthly meet ing Friday night, October 4, at 7:30 o’clock. The teacher training class will have charge of the program. Come and help your child’s room get the attendance prize. THE COUNTY FAIR HAS BADOPENING Rain, Poor Crops, and General Scarcity of Money Hit It Hard—Bad for Carnival. The Chatham Fair had the odds against it at the best. The crops would make it hard to produce a fine display of farm products, while the fact that not even any of the cotton or tobacco had been sold would make the scarcity of money more felt than on previous fair occasions. But on top of all that, Tuesday, set for the first day, was the worst day of the year. Nobody could go or would want to go. It was school children’s day, but hardly one child could go. Possibly another day, with better weather, will have been as signed them before the Record reaches it readers. But one can hardly help sympathizing with that carnival bunch over there. This is one time when a carnival will not carry off a barrel of money. If the weather as we write on Tuesday should keep up, it will be lucky if the carnival get money enough to move on.. $ Ben May of Sanford Died Monday Evening Mr. Ben May of the Carter Furni ture Company, Sanford, well and favorably known by many Chatham people, died Monday evening as a consequence of a paralytic stroke ten days previously. He was a native of the eastern part of the state, a descendant of Major Ben May, a dis tinguished Revolutionary soldier and presumably the man for whom Mays ville, in Jones county, w r as named. He came to Sanford sixteen years ago and became a member of the Carter Furniture Company. Mr. May was married on January 7, 1890, to Miss Frances Lang, of Pitt county, who survives him. Sur viving him are the following chil dren: Mrs. A. K. Miller; Mrs. John Lashley, Miss Mary Frances May, Sanford; Ben May, Jr., Durham, Fred and William May, Sanford. The burial was at Buffalo ceme tery, just west of Sanford, Wednes day afternoon. . The Weather and The Cotton Crop During August and July Pittsboro had an excessive number of cloudy and drizzly days, but with a minimum of rain. Yet, while there was not within the period enough rainfall at one time to “run” on ordinary land, the soil was fairly well supplied with moisture, as none of the drizzles was lost, all soaking into the soil. But October has started with a soaker. Cotton had just begun to open at the time of the near-frost on Septem ber 19, but that cold spell and the misty, drizzly days following stopped it. Two fair days came and it start ed to open again, but it now appears that it will be the tenth of the month before ginning will begin in earnest. But, when opening of cotton does start, it will finish quickly, as practi cally all the bolls are grown, and none too many of them at that. Probably there had not been ginned a half-dozen bales in the county on October I. ® *************** * * * Kimbalton News * * * *************** Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Ferguson spent the week-end in Greensboro with her father, Walter Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Filmore Ferguson of Rocky Mount were visitors in the home of A. V. Ferguson last week. M >i. Nannie Burke is improving after having a stroke last week. Walter Clark of Greensboro spent a day last week with his daughter, Mrs. Zeb Ferguson. Mrs. B. W. White and children spent Sunday in Siler City with R. H. White. Mrs. Bob Johnson left Monday for treatment in a hospital in Greensboro. Still and Man Seized Officers J. R. Lasater, Ex. Fear ringtbn and Jim Womble were re warded early Monday for a proUng vigil near a still in Williams town ship by the seizure of Charlie Bar bee, colored, who came to start up the still. A white man escaped, but is thought to have been recognized. The plant was operated by steam. It had been run Sunday, it appeared, but the liquor was taken away. Two barrels of beer were destroyed. The prisoner was brought to Pittsboro for a preliminary hearing. Mr. Lasater said that he had found in the recent past several sites where the still had been in operation, but had not been fortunate enough to locate it till this occasion. : f * Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham VOLUME 52, NUMBER 3 * * * * * * * * ****** * * Goldston Rt. 1 News * *************** Miss Elsie Hillard of this route has returned home from a two weeks’ visit to her brother, N. W. Hilliard, in Durham. Miss Estelle Stinson of Siler City spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stinson, of Goldston, route 1. Miss Cleo Smith of Siler City spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Smith on this route. Miss Jennie Hilliard visited her sister, Mrs. Bob Phillips, at Gulf, during the week-end. Mr. Bob Wilkie of this route, who was badly hurt some time ago, is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gaines of Goldston spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stinson. Master Ray Brooks of Bear Creek spent a few days with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Hilliard. Officers Nabbed Lon Petty Again Lon Petty, who was put under a SISOO bond a few weeks ago on a charge of making liquor, was again nabbed Sunday by Sheriff Blair for possession, and another SISOO bond was required. He is how under bonds for $3,000. The first bond was made by Mr. Petty himself, but he nad to call in friends to help him out this time. Armed with a search warrant, the sheriff searched the store but found no liquor. An odor about the resi dence augured better luck there. The members of the family, includ ing Mrs. Petty, were busy disposing of the booz.e Some had been pour ed through an opening in the floor to the ground under the house. Mrs. Petty was going out with a lard bucket full, probably to pour it out where it would not tell as evidence. But still about -five gallons was seized and brought to Pittsboro. That quantity included nine fruit jars and the bucket taken from Mrs. Petty. The Pettys live in the home of the late Geo. W. Perry at Silk Hope. —<§> — The Grange Returns to North Carolina —s —, The Grange, the oldest farm or ganization in the United States; has been reorganized in North Carolina, with Editor Clarence Poe, of the Progressive Farmer, as president. Fifty odd years ago the Grange was a going concern in North Caro lina. The editor of the Record re members as a tot to have seen his father and mother leaving home to attend the sessions of the Grange in Clinton. The Clinton chapter must have died 53 or 54 years ago, as the writer’s memory is too hazy about it for him to have been more than five or six years of age. But while the Grange passed in North Carolina, it has still held on in the north and west. It has not sought at any time to revolutionize the affairs of the farm through poli tics, but has steadily plugged away at its task of trying to help farmers to help themselves. It will hardly get a large membership in the state on its return, but even a few active chapters, or lodges, will put the state in touch with the most widely ex tended organization of farmers in the country. —4> Progressive Grocery Had Good Opening —s % The business of the Pittsboro store of the chain of Progressive Groceries was very gratifying. It cannot be said that prices are so much lower than in other Pittsboro stores, if any at all, but it is gratifying to be able to know that one can get what he wants when he wants it. It was a busy store Saturday, and the cash receipts ran a few dollars ahead of what the company had counted upon. Yet the business of the other groceries did not seem so badly affected. People were buying what they hadn’t had an opportunity to buy in Pittsboro regularly, and there was simply an increased business. The foregoing i 3 a proof that the right kind of stores here will bring additional trade. There are 15,000 people within a half-hour’s ride of Pittsboro, such stores as the Progressive will turn many of them this way. Music Department ® The music department of the woman’s club will meet with Mrs. Mattie Thompson and Mrs. W. B. Chapin at the home of the latter, Friday, October 4th, at 8 o’clock. , -o Due to the scarcity of news, owing partly to the bad weather, we are making a four-page paper this week. <j>— Mme. Marie Zadille, 44, of Nantes, France, recently gave birth to quad ruplets, two boys and two girls.