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A Paper - . of a H £ A Cov ‘ » Com / Pap®* & ——— ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. Judgments in Several Cases plaintiffs Had Nearly All the Luck in Court Last Week— Only Clegg and Standard, Oi! Lose C a? e.s decided last week after Tuesday were as follows: In the case of Clegg vs. Castle berry for slander, the verdict was in favor of the defendant. The suit was brought on the pauper basis. So no witnesses or officers received pay tv O. Mann got judgment for S3OO and interest against J. W. Svkes. An appeal was taken. tV. L. Langley, administrator of the estate of A. C. Ray, was made a party to the suit of the Auto Repairs and Sales Company vs. A. C. Ray. Appeal in case of Chatham Bank against J. W. Marsh who had en dorsed J. B. Emmerson’s note. The Bank of Goldston secured judgment for SB2O and interest from September 11, 1924, against E. \V. Maness. Court declares it has no jurisdic tion in either of suits of J. L. Mat thews against E. W. Ellington. Plaintiff pays costs. .J. L. Moody secures judgment for $25 against W. G. Adcock and R. \V. Dark. C. F. Fox wins suit for $635 against R. F. Paschal and J. Ti. Paschal. Suit of Standard Oil Company of N. J. vs. Pittsboro dismissed and oil company pays costs. This had to do with forced removal of gas tank from sidewalk at A. B. Filling station. Piedmont Credit Company gets judgment by agreement for S2OO against C. B. Moore. M. M. Fox gets judgment for $39.70 aganist John Aiken. <g> ; STATIC OFF CAPITOL DOME By ELIZABETH HEISER Special Staff Writer Helm New* Service “Let the buyer beware IF is the new battle cry of the “dry.” Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, claiming to rep resent 12,000,000 women, brought the case of the “drys” dramatically before the house judiciary commit tee. “Arrest the liquor buyer!” and punish him (or her) the same as the bootlegger, was the militant de mand of fifty or more “dry” lead ers who testified before the house committee dealing with prohibition. The committee room and cor ridors were crowded with specta tors as the “drys” from all parts of the country gave their rallying cries for the Eighteenth Amend ment and the Volstead Act. La- Gurdia, “wet” leader in the house, had his hands full questioning the 50 women witnesses testifying for prohibition. It appeared sometimes as if the confident, outspoken “wet” was getting the worst of it. * * * “Liquor and war are the great enemies of the race,” testified a prominent woman before the house committee. Women are the natural saviours of the race, it was said, and therefore would fight these two evils to the bitter end. “Men think logically, women biologically,” and the sexes clash on prohibition. * * * Rumors fly that President Hoo ver’s crime commission may give a report that prohibition enforcement a? it stands today is a complete failure. It is said that from the mass of data and information piled before the commission no other con clusion is possible. This would not mean, of course, the commission will recommend re peal of the prohibition amendment er the enforemeent acts. Just the epposite may be the case as their momentous report brings about a “revolution” in the enforcement en i of the question. Pussyfooting Wii! be over as the country, for the time, faces the issue of non ent oi cement. -lachine gun fire mowed the ran ks of the “ocalition” as the. sen ate reversed itself and voted higher battered tariff bill will soon tariffs on sugar and window glass. P- to conference for another hard | l ? t. Then it must re repassed by both houses. * * * F begins to look as though the ariff, will get to the President about r e Fourth of July. In that case *' v *' be a giant fire-cracker to be by the Democrats in the fall ongressional elections. _<§> -irs. O. J. Peterson left Wednes }onling £ 0 v i s j.j. er s i s t er> Mrs. i ev .es, in Greenville, S. C., who I ** sick. HPI , /hi . i ■ n ■ l The Chatham Record * * * * * * * ******** * * Moncure News * * * *********]['.***** | Mrs. E. E. Maynard of Hoffman was in town today, Monday. , Miss Catherine Thomas, who is teaching at Coal Glenn school, spent last week-end at home with her t parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas. The faculty of Moncure school attended the teachers’ meeting at Raleigh last Friday. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hackney, Jr., died with pneu monia last Thursday and was buried ] at Presbyterian cemetery last Fri- ■ day. 1 Prof. S. J. Husketh of Sanford was in town today, Monday. I Moncure club has just completed ; a nice tennis court on Bryan corn- . er, Main street. I Several from Moncure attended the quarterly conference at Pleas- J ant Hill Methodist church last Sat- ( urday. Good sermon in the morn- 1 ing, then a good dinner and in the afternoon a good report .and meet ing. Anniversary Day was observed by Moncure Epworth League last Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A special program had been prepared with Miss Margaret Mann as leader. The president, Miss Camelia Sted man, presided and gave the history of Anniversary Day. Mr. Lewis j Burns, secretary, read the minutes ] of the last meeting. After the de- j votional by Miss Mann, Mrs. W. W. | Stedman gave the history of the - Epworth League, then Misses Ca- j melia Stedman and Dorothy Lam- ( beth sang a duet, “Lead Me Gently Home.” Miss Dorothy Lambeth gave the history of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. We were very glad to have present at this program, Rev. Phillip Schwartz of Raleigh, the field secretary of the North Carolina Methodist confer ence. He made a splendid talk on the four departments of the league. At the close of the service Rev. J. A. Dailey made a few interest ing remarks. The meeting closed with the league benediction. Mr. H. G. Bates, Sr., the field representative of the Federal Land Bank, South Carolina, was in town last Friday. - •. i The primary Sunday school class l of Moncure M. E. church whose teacher is Mrs. Mary Barringer and assisted by *Mrs. J. E. Moore, gave an interesting missionary program last Sunday morning at Sunday school. 1 The B. Y. P. U. will meet next Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock at the Baptist church. A walking contest was tried out Monday. Barber C. C. Brown put up the “wager” that he could walk to Mrs. Aurelia Taylor’s in twenty minutes, a distance of slightly over two miles. Four young men, Glenn Womble, Clinton Bryan, William Strickland and C. M. Brown, set out to test their walking speed. Mr. Brown lost as it required him 26 minutes to walk the distance. Clinton. Bryan and Glenn Womble made the distance in 22 M minutes. The seventh grade of Moncure school won over the eighth grad in playing a game .of basket ball Mon day. Pennell and Harley, the construc tion company, are locating and pre paring to concrete a strip of road between Moncure and Bonsai. A world war picture entitled “Over There” will be given at Moncure school auditorium n®*t Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. -<s- DEWEY DORSETT HOLDS COURT HERE SATURDAY That job of Dewey Dorsett’s down at Raleigh has turned out to be quite a job, and he was back here last Saturday in his ca pacity of judge, in a hearing of the matter of the administrator of the estate of William Snuggs, col ored, for compensatory damages for the death of Snuggs in the Caro lina Coal Mine last January. The eoal company attempted to deny responsibility, on the ground that Snuggs had sought to kill himself. The deceased struck his pick through a wall into u chamber filled with natural gas and was asphyxiated. Commissioner Dorsett did not accept the plea of at tempted suicide and fixed the com pensation on the basis of. the weekly wage. The company is to pay the family of the deceased SIO.BO a week for 350 weeks, or a total of near $4,000. As the widow is mentally unbalanced and the children mere babes, the money is to be paid to the Chatham county clerk of court. <s> The all-day meeting set for Hick ory Grove church next Sunday has been postponed, till the third Sun day in April. There will be much singing and two sermons that day. Rev. William Hancock is pastor of that church. —<s> Snow Saturday and a flurry of it yesterday morning makes this look like a real March. ® Nourish a sick, but never an idle, servant. —Chinese proverb. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930. Republicans Call County Meeting Convention for Election of Delegates to State and Other Conventions, Also to Nominate County Ticket; * Mrs. Winn to Speak • +* i A call is hereby made for the ’ : Republicans of Chatham county to • assemble in convention, in the court house in Pittsboro, at 2 o’clock, P. IM., on Saturday, April 12th, for ; the purpose of electing delegates to I the state and each of the district I conventions—-Congressional, Judici , al and Senatorial —also for the pur- I pose of nominating a full county , and legislative ticket for the coming election. The convention will at tend to such other business as may come before it. The primaries of the different precincts unless other wise arranged, will meet at their voting precincts on Saturday, April sth, 1930, at 3 o’clock, P. M. Ac cording to the vote for Governor in the last election the precincts are entitled to the following vote in the county convention: I Allbright 13, Baldwin 6, Buck , horn 1, Center 6, Bea'r Creek j (east) 10, Bear Creek (west) 10, j Gulf Township—Gulf 7, Richmond ! Pre. 8, Hadley 7, Haw River 3, j Hickory Mt 7, Matthews (Siler J City) 22, Matthews (Mt. Vernon Springs) 3, Merry Oaks 7, New Hope 9, Oakland 4, Williams 5. The committee has arranged for Mrs. Juanita Gregg Winn to address the convention, and every Republi can lady of Chatham should hear this distinguished speaker. This is a special call for the ladies to at tend both the primaries and county convention. It will not take long. Just lay off Saturday afternoon, April 12th, and attend the conven tion and hear this address, which will be prepared for you. By order of the committee, this March 14th, 1930. S. W. WILLETT, Chm. L L. Wren, Sec. to Com. < — Final Estimate of 1929 Cotton Crop Well, Chatham made several hundred bales more than it appear ed it had at one 'time. Once it looked as if 4,000 would be the top estimate, but the latest fig ures of the census department makes the ginning in Chatham up to date4,67o, against 6,782 for the year 1928, when only a half crop was made, or very little more than a half-crop. Cleveland county carries off the honors with a yield of 64,287 bales against 53,549, nearly 2,000 more than in 1928. Johnson made 39,269, 2,000 short of the 1928 crop, and that meant a shortage in sampson, from which county it gets proba bly a fourth of the cotton ginned in it. However, Sampson had, after the tools paid to Harnett, Johnston, Duplin, Wayne, and Cumberland gins, 25,992, or 2500 bales more than the previous year. The total crop of the state was 766,787 bales against 869,248 ni 1928. <s> Special Service at Methodist Church There will be held in the Pitts boro Methodist church next Sunday night at 7:30 a service of special interest. Dr. H. E. Myers of Duke University School of Religion will be the preacher for the occasion, a most attractive speaker. This service is being held in the interest of a spiritual stimulus for Sunday school workers, superintendents, of ficers and teachers throughout the bounds of three charges. The charges or circuits are Pittsboro, Haw River and Siler City circuits. It is expected that many will be in attendance from the churches com posing these circuits. The public is most cordially invited to be pres ent and participate in this promising great service. J. A. DAILEY, Pastor. * <s> CHANGES LIBRARY JOBS Mrs. Lillian B. Griggs, for six years executive secretary of the state library commission, has ten dered her resignation, and will go to Duke University as librarian at the Woman’s college. On the same day that her resignation was announced the state commission al so announced the gift of a truck to haul books and a contribution of $2,500 a year from the Rosen wald fund. Take care to get what you like, or you will end by liking what you get.—Bernard Shaw. Though a thing has been false :’ a hundred years it connot become j true.—-German proverb, j Who hopes to get a profit ought l 1 to be prepared also for a loss.— j Slavic provrb. Mr. Teague at Political Bat | Veteran Farmer Has a Few Questions for Candidates for the Legislature to An swer—How to Cut Taxes | Now, as the county ticket is near- ly complete, we want to know * 1 whether the candidates for the! House and Senate are willing to cut their salaries from $lO a day; to $6.00, also the also the gov-1 fern or’s from SIO,OOO a year to $6,000. That \vould be SSOO a month, and he has a mansion. We elected one farmer once who received $3,000 a year and said he saved half of it. Also we wish to know if, they will work for a cut of $lO a month in teachers’ salaries. We are to have 280 teachers next session, though there may not be quite that many now. The cut would be over $22,000 a year. And we want our commissioners to say whether they will pay SI4OO when S7OO is enough. And why pay the hand $75 a month when SSO is a plenty? One of our road fel lows might come to my place with all the good clover land to tend and have board and guano fur nished free and he could not make S6OO a year, and gather the cfop I himself. Dr. Maddrey, secretary of the missions for the Baptists' of the State, has asked that his salary be cut S6OO. That is the right spirit. We should run the State on just half of what it now takes. I have talked with Victor John son and he has agreed- essentially to all this. I think Harrington will also agree, as he lives in the coun try. And we want to know these things before the; primary. S. P. TEAGUE. $ *************** *. . * - Oakland News * * * *************** Pastor Dailey preached at Chat ham church last Sunday evening at 3 o’clock. From a passage of St. Mark, the text of his sermon was: “For or Against God, Which.” Mr. Dailey will preach here again next Sun-day morning a|; 11 o’clock. Come out and give him a large congregation, so he won’t be com pelled to talk to the benches. Mr. Charles and Miss Bernese Hackney from Carey wore visitors here Sunday. The young peoples Sunday school class can compliment Charles for the splendid work he did in teaching the class. Mrs. J. T. Carroll, who has been suffering with neuralgia sometime, is improving, but very slowly. Mrs. J. N. Mclver has been con fined to her bed for a few days with the “flu” but is improving. Mrs. O. S. Rives, who has been sick, seems to be improving very slowly. VERLEE CARROLL and MOZELL WELCH MISS BELLE BURKE DEAD Miss Belle Burke, aged 67, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Poe, near Pittsboro, Tues day afternoon hnd was buried Wednesday at Antioch Christian church. She is an example of the un pensioned sufferers from the war. She never saw her father, William Burke, who was killed in the war. Never a dollar of pension money probably has ever helped her over come the handicap of orphanage in those difficult times, but the seven teen year old boy who went to war three months and came out un scathed is now drawing a dollar a day from a generous state. <§> KINDERGARTEN WORK —<e> — Dear Editor: The teacher training department announces the opening of the kindergarten school the 21st of April. Any child who will be six years old before Christmas of 1930 may attend the school. Parents de siring that their children enter this kindergarten will please see or send application to Mrs. W. P. Horton, T. T. instructor, or Miss Jewell Justice, principal of kindergarten school. -• • • . ■ —. <s> Rev. William Hancock, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hancock of Bear Creek township, will preach at the Baptist church here next Sun day evening, at 7:30. Mr,. Hancock has been a student, of the* Moody Bible School, Chicago. He is serw ing several churches in this and adjoining counties. It is-' the desire of practically everybody to. hear any young Chatham county prea cher, and a goodly audience should greet Mr. Hancock. He will proba bly preach on the subject of the j “Second Coming of Christ”. ****** ******* * * * I * Gulf News * | * * j *************** i | Mrs. G. P. Murchison, who has been on the sick list for several weeks is steadily improving, we are glad to report. - - ; Mrs. E. H. Herman and two lit tle daughters, also Messrs. R. L. i and Eugene Oldham of Goldston i visited relatives here Sunday after noon. I Mrs. Mattie Pearce of Pittsboro , visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Moore iof this place for a few days last I week. Mr. and’ Mrs. J. W. Mclntyre j visited Mr. and Mrs. Orren Tysor ' and Mrs. Mary Tysor of Hickory Mountain Sunday. Mr. Clyde Stinson, teacher at Westfield, was a pleasant visitor in the home *of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hill one day last week. Mrs. S. S. Lakey left Sunday for Greensboro to spend a few days with her so‘n, Mr. Clifton Lakey. Mr. W. A. Beal has bought the cottage and farm owned by Mr. F. M. Barber on route 60, between Gulf and Goldston. Mr. Beal al ready owned a good farm of about 50 acres joining that he bought. Ue expects to move his family into their new home this week. Mrs. M. O. Phillips is visiting her mother in Salisbury at this writing. $ Tariff Bill Passed by Senate Monday By a vote of 53 to 31 the United States senate Monday passed the tariff bill over which it has been wrangling for more than a year. The bill now goes to conference of committees of both houses and it is expected that it will be three weeks or more before that commit tee reports. Then after approval by both houses of all provisions it will go to the president for his signature or vote. Some senators have expressed the opinion that President Hoover ftvill veto the measure. Forceful leaders like Bor ah have declared that they will withhold support the measure until the conference committee re ports. The senate bill lowered most tar iff rates ■ from * the figures set by the house, but even so they average five;percent higher than the present law. Coalition senators, that group of Democrats and west ern Republicans who held some of the rates down during debate, lost in the final voting. They are quoted as saying that the bill will in crease governmental revenue by about $70,000,000, but will take much more than that out of the pockets of he people and give it to the manufacturers. Discussing the tariff bill Will Rogers has this to say: Grundy’s tariff bill is all set. No body in either house of congress is satisfied with it. That’s why it will pass, for each one will figure: “Well, it will do him more harm than it will me.” Everybody gets a raise but the few people that don’t manufacture anything. How many people are there in the United States that don’t manu facture anything? Oh, roughly, I should say about 112,000,000. Who pays for the raise that the manufacturers receive under this bill? The same people who sent the men there that passed the bill. Well, what’s the answer to it all? Brother, there is no answer. It’s been going on like this for 150 years. If you take it serious, you are cuckoo. Yours, WILL. <§> REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Mrs. Jaunita Gregg Winn, of Lib erty, will address the Republican County convention for Chatham county, which has been called to meet on April 12, at 2 o’clock p. m. at the court house in Pittsboro. It is expected that a strong county and legislative ticket will be nomi nated at this convention and the following have been mentioned as possible candidates for the various county offices: J. C. Gregson, Dr. W. B. Chapin, D. S. Smith, T. W. Goldston, C. C. Brewer for county commissioners, L. L. Wren for leg islature, C. C. Routh for sheriff, Frank Burns, register of deeds, El ton Stout for clerk of court. Mrs. Winn, who is a daughter of Dr. Gregg, is really a fine speaker. She. is now a licensed lawyer. Democrats, as well as Republicans, should enjoy her address. PLAY AT BYNUM ; ' - —<s> — The Winning of Latane, a play given- with much eclat at Bonlee by Bonlee home talent, will be given by the same cast, at Bynum school Friday evening, April 55 at 8 o’clock. Admission will be 15 and 25 cents and the funds will go to the Bynum school and the j Bonlee Baptist church. Subscriber* at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham* VOLUME 52, NUMBER 25 1 Arrest Made in Booze Fight Jesse D. Boone Under Bond for Selling Liquor to School Boys—Will Be Tried Before Judge Bell April 7—An Editorial in News Garb Things have moved so rapidly in the fight that the editor of The Record started Saturday morning against liquor conditions which made it possible for a high school boy to have to be hauled home from school dead-drunk, that the editor’s writings, sent forward to the printer as written, will have to' be sorted according to the day of the writing. Saturday he came down with his fighting clothes on. First he per sonally urged the county judge to vigorous action and got the promise of it. He then wrote the editorial captioned “War Declared” and sent it to the- printer. Monday he saw steps taken that promised results and urged in another editorial the co-operation of the parents of the several school boys (and girls) who might know something of the sources of supply of the liquor that has virtually demoralized the young chaps of the community. Monday evening Jesse D. Boone, who lives at the Powell place on the Chapel Hill highway, was ar rested and put under bond for his appearance at the next session of the county court. A clear ease against Boone seems to be made out, but let the evidence rest till the trial, and let it not be taken for granted that the only source of liquor heretofore obtained by school boys has been located. - • • Unfortunately, Boone, like most bootleggers, has a mother, a wife and children, but he does not live in a fine house nor drive a good '(car, nor is there any suggestion 1 that Mrs. Boone has been splurg | ing among society folk nor scooting ‘ about in any kind of car, bringing in supplies of booze for sale to the boys. And what is worse, he has sold the liquor, allegedly, to local ’[boys and right under the noses of ' their parents, and not to University students whose parents are off sev eral hundred miles, perhaps, work ing like slaves to keep the boys of their pride and hopes in college. He is sure to get all that is coming to him, and rightly, but it must be seen to that he bears only his own sins and is not made the scape goat for the sins of others. Judge Bell, Solicitor Barber, Prin cipal Waters and the sheriff and his deputies deserve approbation for their prompt action in this dis tressing situation. This is an editorial disgused in news garb. <§, *************** * * * Corrinth New* * * * *************** Mr. B. M. Dickens of the Bald win Ranch was here yesterday and reports all hands busy on. the ranch, and that he is improving In health since closing out his busi ness at Moncure. It seems fishing is not so good at Buckhorn this week, as several who have been came back to the village and bought fish to eat. But maybe their luck will be better the next time. We regret that this section is again without a doctor. The near est to Corinth are at Fuquay Springs, Holly Springs, Sanford, Pittsboro, Apex. Here is a good center for a doctor and we hope this will lead to one’s coming to Monroe or Corinth. Mr. Reece Cotten, who has been our barber for some time, has pur chased a shop in Apex. Mr. Connard Richardson had the gas and oil stolen from his tractor and saw mill. The thief even cut the pipe and drained the tank. Mrs. Anna Dickens was visiting in Raleigh Sunday and when she came home late Sunday afternoon was very much pleased to find that a young man of culinary in stinct had gone in an-d got a nice warm supper for her. Look out, girls; better keep an eye on this catch. Mr. C. W. Cross has recently purchased a new tractor and ha* been quite busy trying it out on his farm land. This is a good indi cation of a progressive farmer, and we need more such in our com munity. Mr. S. W. Harrington, our next representative, was a juror at court last week and did not fail to put in a few strokes on his campaign. <§> INFANT DEAD Congraulations to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wirtz, the latter before mar riage Miss Mary Lou Burns, were I followed closely by expressions of ! sympathy. Their baby boy born Saturday died two days later.