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A paper with a Prestige a Half Century.' A County, Not a Com munity Pape” ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. SMALL FLOCK OF TURKEYS NET $132 —e — Number of Personal News Notes From Brown’s Chapel Community About Those “Frights”. Mr. Editor; we didn’t mean call those ladies “fright,” for M a nn is rather full of charm to human beings, but if you were bird, or other game, out in the and two men and two women, fall of chat, and with dogs and [ assure you if you snouldn’t get killed you’d be somewhat fright ened. The fourth Sunday is scheduled a* special mission day, and Miss fear! Park lias been appointed lead er for the program of the day. She did well with her former program, -and we are expecting greater things time, especially when our young frtlk have gotten broken into mis sionary and league work. The league reorganized last Sun jav with Junius Durham as presi dent and Mesdames 0. W. Mann and F. 1. Dark as superintendents of the departments. Oar superintendent and his family connections went to Sanford last Sunday to give Dr. Ike Lutterloh a birthday dinner. Consequently, our av'.stant superintendent, Mr. R. G. p e ny. was on the job. Welcome visitors were Messrs. John Durham and his uncles Lee Durham and Clay King of Burlington, who vis ited Mr. I. A. Durham. Last week Mr. R. L. Hough of Greensboro, who now owns the J. F. Bouldin place, sent two men down to do some cleaning up and paint ing. but the bad weather forbade their doing more than getting the dwelling painted. The paint improves the appearance very much. Mr. Houch’s son may move down this spring, but he himself will remain with the Vick Chemical Company, by whom he has been employed 12 years as watchman, and as an officer of the company. Some people seem to think when a man is selling a good deal he is necessarily making money. They seem to forget that anything that lives must ear. and that cattle feed costs money. Some of our milk men who have several dry cows find that i: takes all their profit to feed the drys. Others are making money, but putting it in the purchase of other fresh cows. Let us give you the figures on the upkeep of and income from a small flock of turkeys, consisting of a gobbler and five hens. Spent for feed and antiseptics, $99.65; value of home-grown corn fed, $35; spent for a new gobbler, $7.50; for ten eggs bought, $3.50; paid in to bmt in swapping turkeys, sl.lO. Total expenditures, $1 46.75. Sold on yard, 1,116 pounds of turkeys at 25 cents a pound, $279. Profit $132.25. The account reached till January 24th, when the dock was left as large as it was in the beginnin. Mr. George Maynard and family spent last Saturday in the com munity visiting relatives, but had ick to look after his aged mother their home in Orange countv. * < "H. P.'* says it pays to adver -1 s - sold his baled straw and a beef c \v as the result of a few bnes in the Want Column of The Record. L any of the people in Brown’s Chapel community have news which ™ey wish published, please get it roe on Saturday or Sunday, as 1 -'end i: off Monday morning. o Come out next Sunday evening at ” o’clock and let’s give Pastor Dailey another big, fine looking crowd. ® “A GOOD IMPULSE LOST” Under the above heading Oscar coffin in his “Shucks and Nubbins” co.umn in yesterday’s Greensboro «ews relates his troubles in getting something good to read: Friday night I called at the Uni versity library, committed in my own !“ lnd to a week-end of cultural read /h J. Peterson, of Pittsboro -% ne d for the “Annals of Taci , in two volumes. I asked for f'Om.ethmg in Thomas a Kempis, which been loaned to. Ben Dixon lacNeui. A bit cast down but still ope.u’ i suggested .tfyat I’d accept ■ ox “Book of Martys” as a third Jhoice. only to be told that Nell Bat- Ffl 1S taken .it out just after May Wiggins t,Qok her last ride over Gastonia way. ; started for home to re-read- Mrs. owning’s “Aurora Leigh”; but ‘°pped in at Dean iPaulsen’s snaoke r kick on my laundry, bill and me a couple of copies of lrue Confessions.” O - * error corrected type made the price.,of 16% v ‘ * s, * Poe and Moore’s ad- J? en t last week $2.50, when it note ~ ha A e !> e<m $2.10. Please take ‘ 01 important difference. The Chatham Record Six Assailants of Lonnie Knight Held —<s> — | Six assailants and robbers of Lon- I nie Knight were given a preliminary hearing before ’Squire Ls-sander Johnson Friday and were neld in jail on their failure to give the •required bonds of $5,000 each. One of the seven has not yet been cap tured, was the information at the time, though when The Record was printed last week, it was informed that all seven were in jail. Very little appeared in the hear ing that was not reported in The Record last week. The trial can not be held before the May term of criminal court. GROUNDHOG WILL PREDICT WEATHER Are You Prepared to Shiver * and Shake for the Next Six Weeks if Mr. Groundhog Sees His Shadow on Candle mas Day? (From The Pathfinder) February 2 a certain individual, the North American representative of the marmots, scientifically known as Marmota monax but more com monly called woodchuck and even “groundhog,” terminates its annual hibernation to make a survey of conditions on terra firma. Tradition or superstition tells us that it depends upon just what this little creature sees as to what our whether will be for the next six weeks or so. If it happens to be a cloudy day and he does not see and become unnecessarily frightened at his shadow there will be an early spring. But should it be a bright, sunshiny day and Mr. Woodchuck, alias Groundhog, sees his likeness in silhouette it will frighten him back into his liar. And strange to relate, the simple act of this species monax being frightened back into his lair for another period of six weeks indi cate, to the superstitious at least, that we are to have that much more winter. If he does see his shadow many of us who do not like our winters prolonged will wish we were chipmunks, ♦woodchucks or some thing. Incidentally, it must be a grand and glorious feelin’ when, after taking a squint at the weather and not being satisfied with it, one is able to hop back into the hay for 40 more winks. Just who is responsible for elect ing the groundhog to be our weather prophet? has never been revealed. The origin of his connection with February 2 or Candlemas Day is shrouded in mystery. And history gives us but bits of information on bygone incidents happening on that day. An old, old Scotch rime records that: If Candlemas day be dry and fair The half of winter’s come and mair; If Candlemas day be wet and foul Then half of winter’s gone a Yule. A more modern version of this old Scottish rime runs like this: PLEASE TURN TO PAGE EIGHT $ ' Oratorical Contest to * Be Held at Pittsboro —<s> The County Elimination Contest for the selection of the orator to represent Chatham county in the i Oratorical Contest being conducted and sponsored all over the State by the American Legion will be. held at Pittsboro, in the school auditorium, at 2:30 o’clock, p. m., on Friday, January 31st. All of the high schools of the county have been asked to send representatives to contest for the honor of representing Chatham County high schools; and it is dfinite ly known that Siler City and Pitts boro will have representatives pres ent. . The winner of this county elimi nation contest will be awarded five dollars in gold by the Pittsboro Post of the American Legion, and will represent Chatham County in the Congressional District Contest to be held on February 14th. On February 22nd the ten best speakers from the ten congressional districts will con test in the State finals at Raleigh. The subject for the orator’s con test this year is “Our Flag.” The county contest was conducted at Siler City last year, at which time James H. Cordon, Jr., of Pittsboro, was the winner. g—— —— State Negro School Has Disastrous Fire The administration building at A. & T. College, state technical school for negroes, at Greensboro, was burned Monday. The loss is esti mated at $150,000. Trustees of the school got together almost immedi ately and decided to rebuild. Origin of the fire has not been determined, b,ut defective wiring is thought to j Kave been responsible. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930 PEACH INSTITUTE HOLDS BIG MEETING AT CANDOR Peach Growers of the Carolinas Gather for Dis cussion of Their Problems; Over Million Trees Signed Up; Big Men Talk In calling to order the sectional meeting of the Carolinas Peach Institute in the Candor high school building at Candor, N. €., Tuesday, George Ross, president, announced that more than a million trees in the Carolinas had been signed up for membership in the institute, and that with this for a started the institute.was.ready to begin on its program of educational work among the growers. The program for Tuesday's meeting was cast upon educational lines, except for the last half hour of the day which was devoted to purely business matters, in cluding the proposition from the South Carolina Peach Grow ers Association to admit members from North Carolina on the same basis as from South Carolina. About twenty-five growers, representing a normal crop of 400 cars signified their desire to affiliate with the association, and it is quite likely that the name will be changed to the Carolinas Peach Association be fore the new contracts are printed. —<♦> , « The first speaker Tuesday was Dr. R. F. Poole of State College, who summarized the present knowledge of bacteriosis control methods. Dr. Poole in the beginning that little definite knowledge has been obtained from experiments, although investigators believe that they may learn move*this season. During 1927 and 1928 it seemed that weaker trees were more affected, but last year the fruit on the more vigorous trees showed more infestation than that on the weaker ones. Soil im provement, fertilization and various kinds of spraying all have their place in controlling bacteriosis, but investi gators are lookng for some kind of spray that will control it irrespective of soil and fertilization, and that will at the same time nob damage the foliage. A number of compounds are being tried, and this year is ex pected to produce more definite knowledge of the disease and its con trol. Following Dr. Poole came Dr. R. W. Leiby, state entomologist, who discussed cureulio, the oriental fruit moth and the Mediterranean fruit fly. Dr. Leiby declared that results of investigation of cureulio convince him that climatic conditions during the winter have more to do with spring emergence of the grubs than anything else. The winter of 1928-29 was very mild and last year’s emer gence was the heaviest ever. The early part of this winter was very severe and there may, therefore, be expected a much smaller emergence of cureulio this spring. The most important method of control is pick ing up drops, both in the early part of the season and after harvest. Drops should be very carefully picked up in April and May. Otherwise the cureulio beetle will go from them into the ground, and emerge in time to lay eggs in the late peaches about ripening time. He recommended an oil spray. The cureulio is very hard to kill, he said, requiring from four to eight days after poisoning for the beetle to die, but during that period it is inactive and lays no eggs—or if any, very few. A female cureulio beetle has been known to lay as many as 217 eggs and the average is from 60 to 80. Sixty to eighty peaches on the ground at harvest time, each one of them with a worm in it, would make any grower sick, he said; there fore, much care should be taken in PLEASE TURN TO PAGE EIGHT <e> To Celebrate Kings Mountain Battle Plans are under way around Char lotte, Rock Hill, Gastonia and throughout that section of the Caro linas for a great celebration this fall on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain. The town of Kings Mountain is in North Carolina, but the battleground is in South Carolina and both states are interested. A fund of SIO,OOO is be ing raised to finance the program. $ HURRAH FOR AL! (From the Elizabeth City Advance) Nathan Haskell Dole, author and ex-Bostonian, has come to A1 Smith’s rescue on the pronunciation of ra dio.” He says that, according to the poet Ovid of ancient Rome, the “a” is short in the Latin “radius” and adds that “there seems to be more sense in ‘raddio’ than there would be in changing ‘radical’ to ‘raydical’.” A1 is still the hero of millions of Americans; the failure of the much vaunted “Hoover prosperity” in 1929 didn’t do the popularity of the Happy Warrior any harm; other developments in national affairs have rather helped him; and dog gone if this isn’t the final and most overwhelming vindication of all. We wonder how the highbrows, who deemed A1 Smith ignorant and his better half not high enough in 1 society, will be able to endure this J last straw. <S : Justice Motor Co. i Gets Ford Agency ; The Record is informed that the Justice Motor Company of Siler City has secured the Ford agency for | Pittsboro and will occupy the build- I ing occupied by the Weeks Motor i Company so soon as the Weeks busi | ness is clearned out. There is to be | a meeting of the creditors of the Weeks Motor Company in Greens boro, before the referee in bank ruptcy, next Monday, when it is prob able a receiver will be appointed. It will doubtless take some time to close out the Weeks business and vacate j the building, unless the Justice Motor ! Company buys the equipment in ; lump. i Mr. Fred Justice is head of the ; Justice Motor Company, and will be I a valuable acquisition for Pittsboro. <*> I Two Hurt in School Bus Accident - One of the Pittsboro school busses had its guiding gear get out of fix Tuesday evening as it went down the I hill on the .creek just out of town jon the Golriston road. It plunged j against a culvert and attempted to j stand on its head in the creek. The ; driver, Charlie Mills, was cut on the face and one of the boys of Mr. i Cooper Harris was also slightly hurt. : Fortunately, however, the injuries i were much less than might have been i expected. Several of the school busses ! are getting rather dilapidated, and | new ones will be to buy or the school ! children be endangered. He**:);*******:}:*#* , I * ' * \ * Gulf News X * *************** Mrs. S. S. Lakey, who has been very sick at her home near here, is improving, we’re glad to report. Little Frances Devereux is con fined to her room with mumps at this waiting. Mr. W. S. Russell, who has been confined to his room for about two months, is reported to be steadily improving. Mr. J. G. Mclntyre, of Charlotte, came down to hunt for a few days last week and visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mclntyre. Messrs. W. H. Hill and J. H. Kennedy made a business trip to Asheboro Wednesday. Several from here attended the funeral of Mrs. Agnes Shirley Dowd, which was held at Cumnock Sat urday at 11 o’clock. She was very ill for some time at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Roman Hart at the tile plant. She was carried to Greens boro Hospital. Her case was pro nounced hopeless. She died Friday, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Shirley, near Asheboro. She is sur vived by her husband and three or four small children. * LEE’S SHRINE The one hundred twenty-third birthday of General Robert E. Lee has been celebrated throughout the South with appropriate exercises. The Lee birthday has been selected as the formal beginning of an organiza tion for North Carolina to take a large part in buying Stratford, the birth place of Lee, and making it a national shrine of particular import to the South. The chairman of that organization, Mrs. E. C. Gregory of Salisbury, has asked Mrs. Henry A, L, London to serve upon her advisory committee for Chatham county, and Mrs. Lon don has appointed Mr. O. J. Peter son as publicity chairman for the county. North C arolina’s quota for the fund is $20,000, but Mrfe. W. N. j Reynolds, of Winston, has already j given $5,000 of the required amount. I Killing Hog Brings | Bad Luck to DeWitt ( —<» — It is not only the killing of visiting rabbits, but also of visiting hogs, that brings bad luck, according- to the experience .of DeWitt Wofford, of Gulf township, who finds himself in jail, awaiting the action of the county court next Monday. A hundred-pound pig belonging to Andrew Rives, also colored, strolled through DeWitt’s front yard, not meaning of a bit of harm. But, 10, DeWitt hammered him in the head with an axe, and went so far as to dress him and salt him away in his smokehouse, if DeWitt possesses such an institution. Officers Lacy Johnson and Wrenn Gilmore, authorized to search the premises, found the pork and DeWitt told how it happened to be there. As a consequence, DeWitt is dom iciled this week in the John Burns boarding house. Hard times seem to be making the colored folk steal. They had prac tically left the field to the whites up to a few months ago. DAIRYMEN TO HAVE THEIR COWS TESTED Cow Testing Circuit of 52 Ala mance and Chatham Dairy men Employ J. B. Singletary —Every Herd to Be Culled The sellers of whole milk in Ala mance and Chatham counties to the number of fifty-two have employed J. B. Singletary, a graduate of State College, as tester fior their (fairy herds. A meeting of the Chatham dairy men, here Monday with County Agent Shiver and Mr. A. C. Kimrey, ex tension dairy specialist of State Col lege, found no difficulty in consent ing to the requirements agreed upon by an earlier meeting of Alamance dairymen. The owner of each herd is to pay Mr. Singletary $2.50 a month for his services. It will be Mr. Singletary's busi ness to visit every herd and study the record of the individual cows. He will test the amount of food con sumed by each cow and determine whether she is profitable or a mere boarder at the expense of the dairy man. Dairymen are to be advised as to the amount of food and the kind to be fed such cows as are proved worthy of remaining in the herd and will designate such as should be sent to the butcher pen. The considerable number of men in the two counties who sell cream are not included in the 52 members of the'circuit. Mr. Kimrev-says that, as a rule, they have too few cows to justify them in sharing in the expense of the tester. It is apparent that Mr. Single tary’s income will not be extortion ate. He has to furnish his own car, ' but will have no board to pay, pre sumably, as his duties will make it necessary for him to “board among the scholars.” / Mr. Kimrey says that the dairy business is paying in Chatham, and estimates that the income from milk, possibly including cream, is now SIOO,OOO a year. Several hundreds of gallons of milk pass through Pitts boro each day, going to Durham. Mr. Shiver’s section in this paper will throw further light upon the forthcoming activities of himself and Mr. Kimrey. A Message From Arkansas I Dear Friends: Your paper comes to me often and I always enjoy reading it. The water hasn’t gotten me yet, people are fearing another overflow. We have been having so much rain. My health is good; I am doing a lot of work, as usual. I think so often of you good people and am planning to be with you after this year. Please let me take this opportunity to thank my friends at Gulf for the box you sent me at Christmas time. I do appreciate your thinking of me and I shall write each of you and thank you personally. Sincerely your friend, MRS. A. J. PORTSWOOD. $ MRS. REBECCA FELTON BURIED IN GEORGIA — • — Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton, only woman ever to hold a seat in the United States senate, died in At- ' lanta, Friday night. She was 95 years old. Mrs. Felton was senator for 22 hours back in 1922, serving under commission executed by Gov ernor Hardwick to fill the term of the late Thomas E. Watson. She didn’t vote, but she did acquire the honor of being the first—and up to now the only—woman to serve in the senate. Before that time she had made a reputation for herself as a leader among women and for prohibition, j Funeral and burial services were j held at her old home in Carters ville, Ga., Monday. Subscriber* at Every* r Postoffice and All IL F. D. Routes in Greet j County of Chatham. f ■ K VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2» SAVING THE THEATRE UP TO THE PEOPLE ' Mr. Fields Appeals to the Pee* pie for Steady Support— And He Deserves It - __<* — At the suggestion of Mr. Gaddfe Fields, proprietor of the Pilot atre here, The Record wishes to make an appeal to the people of Pittsboro and Chatham county to rally to the support of Mr. Fields in his efforts to sustain a first class series of pic tures at the Pilot Theatre. As is well know’n, Mr. Fields bar made a great outlay of money here in building and equipping the Fiehfc building, which is an ornament to the town, and the first step in the complete modernization of the busi ness buildings of Pittsboro. And thir has been done at a most critical fi nancial period. Furthermore, he bar undertaken to furnish the community with high-grade pictures, and bai brought to this village the very best plays available. There is scarcely an other town of this size in the world that has as beautiful a theatre, or has the opportunity of seeing right at home the all-talking plays that have entertained and instructed the theatre goers of the metropolis. One does not have to go anywhere else than right here at Pittsboro to see the best pictures shown in New York But the moving picture business, like the weekly newspaper, has tc secure its income through many lit ties. One ticket, it is true, count 1 , for very little, but every time a the atre goer leaves the community tc attend a picture, a definite loss if incurred, and it takes comparatively few of such losses to make the dis ference between a total gain and s total loss. At the best, Mr. Fields has a difficult task upon him to pull through these difficult times, and it behooves every citizen of the Pitts boro section to save every cent he has to invest in such amusements to be spent in the home theatre. The actual cost of attendance at a theatre in any neighboring city, when the cost of the trip is reckoned, would pay for several tickets to the home theatre. Mr, Fields is-bringing to+he people some of the best pictures that were presented in other theatres be fore this (started. That proprably means a delay in securing some of the more recent popular pictures. But they will come in time, and if you run off to other places to see them, it will be as it was this week, when the “Singing Fool” was pre sented—many had already seen the picture. There is not one of the citizens of Pittsboro or community who would like to see Mr. Fields fail. But fail ing is easy. We have just had an example of it, and Mr. Fields is candid enough to state that he must have the support of the people or the theatre can not be operated con tinuously on the present level of at tractions. Mr. Fields has time and again, shown himself to be an exceedingly public-spirited man. It is recollected how he furnished the theatre at the cost of discontinuing his plays for revival meetings last fall. We re call publishing a most liberal prop osition from him when he got his fine flow of water at so small a depth. He freely offered to let any one who desired water connect with his source without charge for the water. In short, he has done more for Pittsboro than any man in many years, and if a cent is to be spent for theatre entertainment, he de- J serves to get it, and the town also, jis concerned that he get it, for it j would be a real loss to Pittsboro to have Mr. Fields crippled worse than he is financially or to have the the atre closed. O McLEAN FOR SIMMONS Ex-Governor McLean has an nounced himself as favoring the nomination of Senator Simmons, on the ground that it is the best for the party. He states that he thereby foregoes his own ambition to become senator, but the gamble seems, to the observer, in his favor if his man wins. Thus each candidate has an ex governor on his side. Cam Morrison favors the nomination of J. W. Bail ey. In this deal, as well as in other features of the contest, Bailey would appear to have the big end of the bargain. Cam Morrison has beeit a more vigorous fighter for the party* things hum politically that McLean and he has a faculty for maksng. will never have. Each one could help his man financially if he should see fit, but Morrison has practicaly stated that his purse wMI not be opened for the benefit of the candidate. And McLean usually want 3 to see a dollar and a half chasing back any dotisr that he let 3 go. # BURNS-WHITE + Mr. Bruce Burns and Miss Calße White, both o# this community, went up to Danville, Va., Monday and-were married. They returned Tuesday a£- / temoon. They have the best wisbea of a host of friends.