A Paper with a Pr, 0 f a Half Centui County, Not 9 munity r .SHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION THIS WEEK County Court Has Thinned Docket —Judge Small Makes Favorable Impression—Few Cases Tried Monday and Tuesday—Ten to Roads at One Whack ',.v C ourt in session this week ;„7, ,> n ted with the smallest' o ;n many moons. The county t’r'nned out the cases, and o \s V to see this week that ;; ‘V court is saving the tax :r‘<; v , money, its simple ;V compared with the eiabo ref 1 of the superior court rU \ crowd was present both Vin hv and Tuesday. The session nwli v after the charge, was large iV nken up with the trial of Colon iLjlar on 1 the charge of reckless j ri vin* This young man is at pres et associated with the Pilot The We but when the accident occurred ♦hat* brought about the indictment he ' living with his father near the pittsboro-Chapel Hill highway. It was a Sunday afternoon and he drove his Ford the 150 yards from hi* father’s home to the highway. The road had been considerably traded down when the highway was paved and also there was not a clear view cf the highway because of small trees and shrubbery growing up to within a few feet of the paving. He stopped his car at the edge of the h'ghwav to see if the highway was clear He saw a car coming tilting toward Chapel Hill. He had partly turned toward Pittsboro as he came down the slant, but unfortunately his right front wheel was a few inch es, about eight according to the evi dence, bn the pavement. There was no evidence that he attempted to back off, but the car was so fast according to the evidence that he would not have had time to back off if he had tried. The approaching Chevrolet hit the protruding fender of Do 1 ’s car, turned it around, and itself whirled about, turning . over (Wubpnts two of Mr. Lonnie o,iig* . _ i.-t*' a- ■ J ti. jiyli o v Oldham, who was driving, another young man. and a Miss Cooper, es caped any permanent injury. Two ribs of one of the Oldham girls were broken and a back tendon strained, according to the evidence of Dr. Mc- Bane. The Oldham car was wrecked. There was no one passing from the other direction and the Oldham car had the whole road to pass the protruding car. But the Oldham car had just passed three young ladies and the evidence indicated that some of those in the Oldham car were looking back at them. The young man on the seat with young Oldham said he was talking to the driver and that the driver was hooking straight ahead. No one ni the Old ham car saw the Dollar car. Those in the wrecked car declared it to be going about 35 miles an hour, and one of them said the old car could not make fifty or sixty miles an hour. When .Judge Small had heard Mr. Dollar's own story of the happening, oe sent the jury out and told the defense that, according to Dollar’s own evidence, he was guilty of the charge. Attorney Elmer Long de clared that he interpreted the law differently, and would fight it through, even to the supreme court, tie trial continued. Dollar’s story 'lu S con^rm cd by several witnesses Wi *° saw the accident or who came s T OOn a 7er and noted the car tracks, toere was evidence that the Dollar c^ r had slided several inches before gypping, indicating that he had put ?, n brakes to stop before reaching tae highway. Tne jury rendered a verdict of Sentence has not been passed u • wri ting. An appeal is mooted. J k ' aid *hat the parties had a once *° compromise the case 7 r - Oldham, the owner of D ol]a C r ar A set S4OO as the damage. *ai is said to have been willing a w hat he conceived was the will; 3 hjiancial damage, but was not ao> 10 Pay so much for the dam fi*L t ?, an °ld car, and decided to TO d out in court. in- cou rt to ok up the sugar steal crow.i % i U ? sday mornin g- A large for +i • colored folk were present d O7OM ls tr^a l> as it involves a half ami i °. r more °f the colored men the l be community. This is storp C 6 In w hich Poe and Moore’s wholes^ 3 7 >bbed of su^ar b y the hari „ I who merely looked e relieve, 6 months in jail, . * \ The Chatham Record Cases Disposed of in Recorder’s Court The following cases were disposed of Wednesday and Thursday in Re corder’s Court: Cases against F. W. Miller and Bud Gunter were continued till Feb ruary term. Wade McPherson submitted to charge of being drunk; costs. Charlie Johnson, stealing chick ens, guilty; three months on roads. Appeals to superior court. Clinton Ivey’s case continued till March term. Clyne Hubbard, possession of li quor; SSO and costs. Transporting, judgment suspended upon payment of costs and bond for S2OO for good behavior. Jim Mason, possession of liquor; $lO and costs. Leonard Burns same offense and same penalty. Burroughs Hicks, possession; judg ment suspended on payment of costs. June Brewer; assault. Must pay Burroughs Hicks $35 and the costs of the case. Lee Jacobs and Will Shelton; ad judged not guilty of liquor charge. Pegram; possession of liquor; pleads guilty; capias not to issue for 30 days and then only in Chatham county. Dalphus Page, liquor charge; hired out to Ivey Gilmore 12 months to pay costs. James Horton, - pleads guilty to charge of assault with deadly weap on; hired 8 months to Lacy Johnson to pay costs and sls to Dr. Mcßane. Phil Alston’s case continued. Nol pros in case against Nellie Thomas. James Martindale, liquor charge, 4 months on roads, or $lO and costs and bond for good behavior. N. R. Gaines, possession of liquor —pleads guilty; 4 months on roads or $lO and costs and S2OO bond for good behavior. Cases against C. P. Alston, and Wilma and Flora Harris continued, also case against Herman Foster. Buck Matthews, Guy Moffitt and Lindo Siler w r ere ordered taken in charge from witness chair and were fined sls each. This was for false swearing in Robert Headen case, and penalty probably for contempt of court. Case against Sam J. Smith con tinued. Henry Barber, assault; not guilty. takes recess Thursday eve-' 'ntttg till Monday, January 20. ——i——- * j Mr. and Mrs. Arthur London, Mes dames J. M. Gregory, D. B. Nooe, Ed. Hinton, L. I. Wrenn, J. C. Greg son, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wrenn attended the funeral of Mrs. Isaac London at Rockingham. Mrs. Henry A. London went down the day of the death, arriving only a few minutes after her daughter-in-law had breath ed her last. She returned the same day, but the rest of Mrs. London’s family attended the funeral. with capias to be issued any time in two years in open court at the pleas ure of the solicitor. Claud Williams (or Scurlock) and Floyd Harris, two years on roads. Dan Williams, Sandy Rogers, Lloyd Moore, and Horton Taylor, twelve months on roads; Clyde Yarbrough, four months on roads; Henry Alston, three years on roads; and Jack Al ston thirty months on roads. It was estimated that 32 sacks of sugar w r ere stolen altogther. Some of the boys made more than one visit to the store. Only about a dozen sacks were recovered* The largest crowd of colored folk heard the sen tences that have been seen in the court house in years. This was due in part to the expectation of the coming up on Tuesday of the Joe Brooks case. The Judge’s Charge Judge Small’s charge to the grand jury was oi*t of the usual order. He did not take time to define any crime, but took it for granted that the intelligent grand jury was fa miliar with the definitions. He talk ed upon citizenship, and an excellent talk he made, one that is conducive to pride in the citizenship of the State and yet provoked concern'for the future. He defined law as a rule of conduct and declared that the courts are not prmarily for punish ment, but for the construing of the law, and that punishments are dis tasteful to any judge, but must be given as a token to the citizens that they will suffer if they fail to ob serve the rules of conduct made for the common good. He thinks children are allowed to go out at night too early in life and that parents should maintain a complete control over them till they have passed the stage of their natural venturesomeness. The Grand Jury The following good citizens were drawn as grand jurors: W. A. Phil lips, foreman, J. T. O’Connor, R. E. Mclver, Newton Moore, Pete Dowdy, C. O. Gilmore, J. W. Bland, J. D. Jones, N. A. Wright, E. O. Dowdy, Chas. L. Henderson, H. W. Luther, R. E. Mclver, C. H. Marsh, W. A. Poe, Ira Foushee, G. N. Thomas, C. E. Griffin, G. H. Andrews. Judge Small, whose first visit this is to Pittsboro, has made a good im pression upon the people. Solicitor Williams is as usual effectively on the job. Miss Speight is here as stenographer. x Full account of disposal of cases , will be found in next week’s paper. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930 j* ************** * * Moncure News * * ********* ****** Miss Catherine Thomas has se cured her a position in Coal Glen school. Mrs. Barbara Watkins spent last week-end with friends in Raleigh. There was a very successful stock holders meeting held at Moncure Bank last Thursday afternoon, be tween 40 and 50 stockholders were present. This past year has been a very good year with Moncure Bank, which declared 4 per cent dividend. Mr. Carter of Wilmington was in town several days the first of last week to see W. W. Stedman in the interest df buying a farm. Mr. W T . F. Gufton of Saxapahaw as also in town one day this week to see W. W. Stedman and bought a farm. Rev. J. A. Dailey preached two excellent sermons . at Monc ur e church last Sunday, his regular preaching day here, but the one, the subject of which was “Life is a Structure” delivered at the evening service was especially good. The Epworth League met at 7 o’clock with the president, Miss Ca melia Stedmaa, in the chair. She called the meeting to order and also explained Epworth Era Night. A con test is now on in getting up subscrip tions to the Epworth Era. The mem bers of the League were divided equally on two sides with Miss Lucy Boone, the leader of one side and Miss Dorothy Lambeth the leader of the other. Mr. Lewis Burns, the secretary, was present and called out the names on the two sides. Three prizes are given if they will secure 20, 15 and 10 sub scriptions to the Era respectively. Then the meeting was turned to the leader, Miss Emma Lee Mann, for the evening. After the president read the Bible lesson and the leader read a selection on the subject, “Prayer,” the following, Miss Margaret Mann and Miss Lucy Boone, responded with very good and interesting talks on the subject, “Prayer.” Miss Daisy Marshall also read a selection on the subject. A Junior Epworth League has been organized with Miss Lucy Boone as leader of that department. An inter esting program was given by them last Sunday evening at 6:30 o’clock, a half hour before the Senior League met i ,- rbe 9 1 the Junior I Teague are anticipating a big time at the party that will be given at the home of Mrs. LiHie Moore, this evening (Monday). Messrs. T. S. Crutchfield, G. F. Womble and J. L. Womble, Jr., spent last week-end with friends at Elon College. Mr. A. F. Womble, of Siler City, has purchased the corn or grain mill from Mr. J. V. Ray and is now run ning it. Mr. Womble and family are now occupying rooms in Dr. J. E. Cathell’s house on Cathell avenue. We welcome them back to our town as Mr. Womble lived here before moving to Siler City. MONCURE BOYS DEFEAT APEX 29 TO 27 The boys basketball team from Moncure defeated the Apex boys Friday night in one of the fastest of the season’s games. The game was real basket-ball from the first whistle until the game was over. The Apex boys showed fine defense work, but were a little weak on offense. This however gave the fast passing outfit from Moncure little trouble. The game ended with the score of 29-27 in favor of Moncure. The Moncure girls were defeated by Apex girls on the same night. The score stood 41 all at the end of the game and 46 to 43 at the end of game with Apex bidding the big end of the score. GREAT MASTERS ON EXHIBIT AT SCHOOL There will be a display of para mount interest at our department school next week, Wednesday to Friday, an art exhibit. More than one hundred fifty pictures will be shown, pictures that _you- want to see and should know something about. You wish to keep up with your children in school. They are learn ing to recognize these pictures and to know something of the artist who painted them. In addition to your enjoyment in this collection you will assist us in raising a fund for the purchase of pictures for our schools, and they are badly needed., Teacher-Training Department. ® SUPT. THOMPSON TALKS TO THE COLORED P.-T. A. The third meeting of the P. T. A. of Horton colored school was held January 10. After the opening by President L. W. Ellis and prayer by Chaplain Dalton, Supt. Reid S. Thompson delivered an hour’s ad dress, which was reported to have been heard with interest throughout. He discussed the matter of such 'training for the children as would keep them out of crime and make them useful and progressive citizens. Our informant says that the plan for a colored high school in the county is meeting with much ap proval. The school planned will be devoted largely to vocational sub jects. » ‘ *************** > * * * Bear Creek News c * * : ******* ******** Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Yarbrough and i Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Yarbrough, of Sanford, were Sunday afternoon vis : itors in the home of T. B. Beal. C. D. Woody has accepted work ■ in Haw River, N. C. ; J. W. Phillips is enjoying his radio, which was a Christmas present ! for him. Mrs. T. C. Vestal, whom we report ed last week as being very ill in St. Leo’s Hospital, Greensboro, though very low, is thought to be slightly improved. Her friends will wish for her an early recovery. Joe (G. T.) Dunn was a business visitor in Greensboro Monday of this week. Mrs. G. B. Emerson’ and son, Jack, are confined to their home with mumps. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Straughan, of Burlington, were week-end visitors in the home of Mr. Straughan’s father, F. C. Straughan, on route 2. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Rives have moved to the late D. E. Rives place, on route 2. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kiser has moved to the place where R. B. Ab bott formerly lived on route 2. We are glad to welcome this family to our route. Mrs. Isaac London Dies —<*>— Bereavement has again come to the London family. The sad news was received by Mrs. A. London last Thursday afternoon that her daugh ter-in-law, Mrs. Isaac London, of Rockingham had died at 2:40 that day. The burial occurred Friday in 1 Rockingham, the funeral services being conducted by Rector Howard S. Hartzell of the Rockingham i Episcopal church, Bishop Penick, and i Rev. Thad. Cheatham of Pinehurst. i ‘ A press dispatch from Rocking ’ ham gives the following information : as to the life and death of the b§. loved woman: - ” t Rockingham, Jan. 9.—Mrs. Issac i S. London died at her home on - Everett street this afternoon at i 2:40 o’clock. She was taken ill Sun f day with “flu.” Wednesday morning » ' pnemriO'nin h>d uui\elct>ed. ■ [Wednesday night an infant son was 1 but lived only Ilf minutes. : Hei* lungs became more congested 5 during Wednesday night, and early this morning her life was despaired of. The funeral will be from the Episcopal church here Friday after noon at 4 o’clock, to he conducted by her rector, Rev. Howard S. Hart zell, Bishop Penick and Rev. Thad Cheatham, of Pinehurst. Interment will be in the Everett family ceme tery overlooking Everett park, be side the grave of her father, W. N. Everett, the late secretary of state. Her infant was buried this morn ing in the little Everett family cemetery. The name given the babe was Henry Armand London after his paternal grandfather. Surviving are her husband and four children, William Everett, Lena Payne, Bettie Louise; brother, W. N. Everett, Jr., all of Rockingham, and sister, Mrs. T. Bernard Wright, of Greensboro. ® Five Killed in Auto Crash Near Dillon One of the worst automobile ac cidents ever occurring in this part of the country was that near Dillon Sunday whelp an entire family,— father, mother and three children— was wiped out and a relatives so bad ly injured that he died later. The dead in the Dillon wreck are J. G. McDonald and his family and Oscar Horne, brother of Mrs. McDonald. The McDonalds formerly lived at Laurinburg where he was head of a large cotton mill. Lately they have lived at Hamer, S. C. Burial was at Laurinburg yesterday. Other accidents over the week-end cost several lives. Ralph Gibson, a Marine from Parris Island, was kill ed when his automobile struck a cow near Spartanburg. A traveling sales man was killed near Fuquay Springs, and a negro at Varma, N. C. Political Row Closes' Transylvania Schools Public schools in Brevard and Transylvania are open again after being closed a week due to a row row between a Democratic school board and the Republican county commissioners. The argument was over which should buy the coal. Pending settlement of the matter through mandamus proceedings in the courts the schools closed for.lack of fuel. The last of the week two wealthy men of Brevard bought a car of coal and had it delivered at the school houses and they opened Monday. These men said they were not interested in the row but they : were concerned that the children were suffering while politicians ar i gued and they wanted the schools ! opened. ! And if you did get Friend Wife ev erything she wants she would want everything the other women want. Simmons Announces Candidacy for Senate The expected announcement of Senator Simmons’ candidacy for re nomination for the United States senate in the Democratic primary next June came Saturday afternoon. The senator’s statement was short and to the point. He says that his duties in Washington while congress is in session will prevent him from makng any canvass of the State, and that he is not financially able to make such a canvass even if he had the time. He hopes that nothing will be done during the campaign to “dis rupt the party.” The announcement came as no sur prise, but there was an element of surprise in the method of campaign outlined. It had been expected, also, that the senator might defend his 1928 position in failing to support the Democratic ticket. His only ref erence to that instance was in the opening sentence of his statement wherein he called attention to the fact that he said then he would be a candidate. Mr. Bailey has said that he does not expect to make many speeches and if Senator Simmons doesn’t make any there may be little bitterness developed. Then if the new ballot ing law, the first approach to a re cent method of voting the State has ever undertaken, is really enforced • the result of the primary election may be more nearly a true expres sion of the will of the people than any recent election has been. <3> Federal Reserve Bank Handles Lots of Money (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) The federal reserve bank of Rich mond has just issued its annual re port to stockholders. Much of the information contained in that report is “Greek” to the average layman, but some interesting facts are culled from it. i- During the year 1929 the bank ?eceived and counted 148,126,049 coins having a value of $16,394,275; it counted and prdd out 148.474.516 coins with a value of $10,392,833. Just how fast a good bank clerk can count money we do not know, but figuring at the rate of a hundred minute, for eight hours a day, 1 ii; required 22 clerks working full tijne all the 392 days that the bank was open just to count the coins. Then the bank received and count ed 174,518,171 currency notes with a value of $757,850,615;. it counted and paid out 175,069,783 notes val ued at $752,158,859. On the same basis as above, 100 notes to the minute, eight hours a day for the 302 days, 25 clerks were kept busy counting paper money. That is a total of 47 clerks working all year not doing a thing but counting actual money. But while this was going on the bank was also handling an average of 184,536 checks a day represent ing a daily average value of nearly forty-seven millio ndollars. Now what most of us want to know is what has become of all this money since the bank clerks counted it. Increase in State High School Pupils —— According to a table recently is sued by the Journal of the National Education Association, North Caro lina ranks second among all the spates in percentage of increase in high school pupils from 1920 to 1926, the last year for which full statistics are available. The increase for the six year period was 174 per cent, while Florida showed 176 per cent. North Carolina, however, leads Florida in the number of high school pupils compared to population. There were 943 pupils enrolled in public high schools in this state in 1900; 8,500 in 1910; 30,868 in 1920, and 84,569 in 1926. The same table shows that in 1900 there was one high school pupil for every 2,008 persons, whereas in 1926 there was one for every 34 persons. Greatly increased interest in Trade and Industrial Education is noted in the state. This department began in 1919 with 128 pupils in five classes; at the close of 1929 term there were 5,689 pupils in 344 classes. There were 150 evening classes in textile subjects, 38 classes in building trades, and the others divided among numerous subjects and trades. p— ® State Prison Shows Another Big Deficit The North Carolina state prison will show a deficit of $150,000 to $175,000 for last year, and faees one of nearly twice that amount for this year, according to a statement issued a few days ago by Supt. Geo. Ross Pou. Rapidly increasing popu lation of the prison with inadequate facilities for self support is given as the reason for the deficit. At the same tjme it is contended by Mr. Pou that the per capita maintenance cost at state prison is much less than in most other states. <#> Never put off until tomorrow the golf you can play today. Subscribers at Every Postoffice and AIK A F. D. Routes in Grenfc County of Chatbaafc VOLUME 52, NUMBER 18 I JUDGE BELL ACQUITS POLICEMAN BARM @ Large Crowd of Goldston Citi zens Hear Trial of Town Officers on Assault Charge; No Argument by Counsel* —® Goldston must have been almost depopulated of its male citizens last Thursday afternoon when the case against Policeman Henry L. Barber for assault upon James Wicker on Christmas eve night was heard before Recorder Bell. Solicitor Wade Barber took no part in the trial, the state and the private prosecution being represent ed by Attorney W. P. Horton and the defense by Ray and Upchurch. The evidence as developed differed very little from that brought out on the preliminary trial and report ed in the Record two weeks ago. Jim Wilson still stuck to his story that he saw Policeman Barber hit ting Wicker with his pistol. Wicker still insisted that his wounds were made by Barber’s blows. Barber, on the other hand, still declared that he did not hit Wicker at all, but that the wounds were made when Wicker fell upon the edge of tb* highway, where stones protruded from the tar of the highway sur facing. A bit of new evidence by Mr. Dowd, the Goldston blacksmith and a man of character, possibly came nearer indicating what really happen ed than all the other evidence. Mr. Dowd swore that on Christmas morn ing after the occurrence the pre vious night, he was walking down town when Barber took him up to ride in his car. Barber mentioned the episode and Dowd told his that he had heard only one side of it. . Barber then said, “I’ll tell you just how it happened. Wicker said he would not go and I told him he would. He undertook to trip me up and I did fall in the ditch on me. I rolled him over ancf when we got up, Wicker started to hit hie with a rock and I hit him.” This testimony pleased Attorney Ray of the defense, who did not even cross examine the. witness. *Rut- : if that was the way of it, a lie was absolutely unnecessary on the part of the policeman, as even a non officer would have been justified in hitting a man threatening him with a rock. ’ But Judge Bell cut the gordiort knot without having to decide which side had lied. At the close of the testimony, he read a decision of the supreme court which declared that an officer having a man under arrest must be allowed to use largely his own judgment as to the amount of force necessary to effect an arrest an arrest or to hold his man, and forthwith acquitted the officr. And thus ended the case with possibly the greatest degree of satisfaction to all concerned. The real question upon which the division of sentiment rest ed was left undecided, and every fellow can still have his own opinion about who did the lying without in volving any criticism of Judge Bell’s decision. Brer Rabbit Wanted to See New Ford The Weeks Motor Company is less hospital to visitors than one would have thought. Friday night, as Mr. J. A. Thomas stood by his desk with the front door of the garage open, Brer Rabbit came hopping in. He didn t mean a bit of harm—merely wanted to see one o£ the new Fords. But instead of a hospital reception, that man Thomas closed the door and he and the other fellows ran his rabbitship down and penned him in a show case till closing time and then that same Thomas man took him home and ate him up the next day. Now, if one left hind foot of a rab bit left in the Record office ten days ago has wrought so favorably, what might not have happened to that Ford shop if Brer Rabbit had been taken in and treated hospitably. Unh, glad it wasn’t the Record that treat ed him so harshly! ® TEACHERS MEETING HERE TOMORROW The white teachers of the county will have a meeting here tomorrow, Friday, January 17. They will come early in the morning and observe the work in the Pittsboro school during the school session. In the afternoon a speaker of note will address the assembled teachers, though at thi* writing it is not known just who the speaker will be. ® “ARTISTIC” TEA The student teachers of Pittsboro school wish to receive their parents and friends in their department next . week, January 22, at an informal “artistic” tea. A silver offering will be taken which will be used for the purchase of pictures for the school. We have on display numerous art masterpieces representing the French, English, American, and Dutch schools, of art. The public is cordially invited.— j Marguerite Waters, teacher training J class.