14 Paper with a Prestige of & Half Century. A I County, Not a Com tnunity Paper ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. 3 Cases Tried in Court Tuesday Buck Campbell Gets Road Sentence of Eight Months; His Son Let Off Much Liquor Poured into Sewer A session of county court wa? held for only a few hours Tuesday, but it resulted in serious cor sequences to some of Chatham's citizens and to a forfeiture of s3l hv a bee countv deputy game war der for violation of the fishing lav'. Young D. R. Johnson, who was broken up in an automobile wreck a few years ago and who has a filling station on the Siler City road, was a problem for the court. There was in evidence 42 pint flasks of whiskey taken from his olaee. He is unable to work at home or on the county roads and has. presumably, taken that fact as an excuse for selling liquor, hoping to counterbalance his own misfor tune by bringing distress to the homes of others. In view of the physician’s statement that a term in jail would he extremelv danger ous to his life, Judge Bell took from him forever the privilege of driving a car. closed his station for a vear, got his consent for the officers to search his place or per son w ; thout a search warrant. .7. H. Campbell, a big. stalwart looking man, but probably unabl*» to do much manual labor, pays for the sale of liquor bv serving an eight-months term on the Lee coun tv roads. A score or more of fruit jars of liquor were in evidence as to the extent of his operations. While he submitted to the .charges of possession and . tran=mor ; tasipn. evidence was brought out to jcon.r. vince th.e judge that he--had been deo ,; rg i n liquor for a considerable perm ’ and that he had been instru mental in making a criminal out of hi.' own 21-year-old son. who was indicted along with the father. The influence of the father, in making a criminal of the youth worked against thf. vfather and- dn favo" of the son. There was ■■ evidence that the youth had tried to avoid the business sinco his profession of re ligion last fall, and Judge Bell took t" i s into consideration and let him off, giving a suspended sentence of four months on the roads, to be put into effect upon evidence of arty further violation of the prohibi tion laws. He was ordered to give bond for S2OO for his appearance at court four times a year to show good behavior. L. H. Hipp, deputy game warden of Lee county, was hailed to court on the charge of illegal fishing. Game Warden Robert Hatcher found Mr. Hipp’s nets spread in Deep river and gathered them in. As part of them were on the Lee side of the river, Mr. Hipp got the im pression that he could prosecute Mr. Hatcher for taking his nets and talked about doing so down in San ford. But, instead, he found him self before the court here, charged with violation of the fishing laws, and it cost , him the neat little sum of S3l to get free of the. toils. A pretty good lesson to others who think the fishing laws have no teeth. \ After the liquor-rases were over. Judge Bell ordered the two big lots of liquor in .evidence to be destroyed and the sheriff’s forces gathered? up the jars and flasks and emptied them into a court - house commode, a very fit receptable for such stuff. S. S. Moody of Bear Creek also began the sentence on the roads imposed upon him him last week and deferred till this week. Law-violation did not look so good Monday and it is to be hoped that more than one decided that it is better to live within the law than to become invovlved in its toils. A smart man may get away, with his law-breaking for some time, but ultimately, it was evi dent, his streak of luck fails him. Murray gets two THREE MEN Deputy W. H. Murray, with obfe o v made a raid last Thursday in Red Hill section. He got two and three men. About a :(i gallons of beer was pour { . Operations were just be ng in each location. *— . quire Johnson Married. •ire Lysander Johnson has f ■ '.| the ’ folk several times. La-! or he fooled us all by failing 1 get married when it was thought ae would. But the last time, *'•; fooled us by getting married when no one seemed to be expect ing the event. He was married to Mrs. Maggie Purnell, a sister of Mr-. 3. a. Perry. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. R. Cordon at his home here in Pitts boro. .. The Record wishes the couple a - mg happy wedded career. The Chatham Record Ruth H. McCormack Nominated for Senate Ruth Hanna McCormack, daugh ter of the late Mark Hanna and widow of former Senator Medill j McCormack, was last week nomi ! nated as the Republican candidate , for the United States senate from Illinois. She defeated the present senator, Chas. S. Deneen. Mrs. McCormack thus becomes the first woman ever to win the senatorial nomination from a major political party in the United States. t Mrs. Felton of Georgia w'as ap pointed senator to fill out one day of the term of the late Senator Watson of Georgia and she served for 22 hours. But Mr. McCormack is the first to win the nomination in a race before the people. Whatever glory might attach to that fact is largely nullified by the fact that she won with the support of Big Bill Thompson’s rotten ma chine in Chicago, on a platform of isolation and hatred of foreign countries and with the experditure of large sums of money. Any hope that Illinois folks might have had that participation of women in poli tics would tend to clean it up was given a knockout by the McCormack campaign. Former Senator Jim Ham Lewis, he of the pink whiskers and dandified raiment, will be the Dem ocratic opponent of Mrs. McCormack in the November election. *************** * * Moncure News * * ********* *1 ***** The music class of Moncure school, under the supervision of Miss Lucy Boone, piano and voice teacher, will give a recital at the school auditorium Friday night week, April 25th. _ The public ’ is invited..,-Miss. Bo»one has a splendid class.* ” <. , The weather has been ' lbyely the past week. -.Many of the Moncure people have been enjoying “fishing” and as the water is low: about the dam.' many nice fish have been caught. “Fishing” is a great sßort,, bpt .if, you do not fish before Easter an(j Easter. Monday, you will not get to fish for sometime, as the law forbids. . . . Miss Catherine Thomas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas, spent last week-end at home. Miss Thomas teaches at Coal Glen school. Rev. J. A. Dailey preached a fine sermon last Sunday morning at the Methodist church on “Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.” As the Easter season was on, the choir sang Easter music and Miss Louise Petty favored us with an Easter solo. At the evening service, Rev. J. A. Dailey preached another fine ser mon on “Jesus, the Comforter.” There were large congregations at both services. The Junior Epworth league met at 6:30 o’clock and gave a good program last Sunday eve ning. The senior Epworth league met at 7 o’clock with Miss Lucy Boone leader for the evening, pre senting the subject, “The Heart’s Response to Jesus” in-an interest ing way. The following assisted Miss Boone in giving the program: Misses Camelia Stedman, Roberta and Dorothy Lambeth and Mr. Lewis Burns. Miss Emma Lee Mann also favored us with a solo at the evening service. Mrs Julia Stedman of Pittsboro spent last week-end. with her son, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman. Mrs. C. C. Pqe and daughter, Dorothy, of Pittsboro, spent the first of the week with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman. Mr. Stedman has been making several real estate trades recently. He has sold his Walden farm to Mr. B. L. Trollinger of Greenbsoro and Hot Springs and has taken Mr. Trollinger’s house and lot in Greens boro in the trade. He has also sold him the mules and tools. Mr. Trol linger will retain W. M. and Geo. Thrift as tenants who had previous ly rented the farm. Mr. Stedman has also purchased a desirable farm near Zubulon in Wake county. There will be preaching at Gum Springs Baptist church next Sun day evening at 8 o’clock by Rev. T Y. Seymore. Mr. Seymore will be the pastor of this church from now on. . . - Moncure school will give a hob day Easter Monday. Every 'orie is planning a good time then. Mosi of the faculty will spend Easter at their respective homes. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clegg- and sons Wilbur and Carlton spent last Sunday at High Point with his sis ters, Miss Mary Clegg and Mrs. Ella Speed. Mr. C. B. Crutchfield is having his store painted this week. Moncure was well represented at the Republican convention held at Pittsboro last Saturday. Mr. W. H. Lassiter is the one to list your property, so you will find him at the old Maddox store each Saturday this • month. Do not forget to list your taxes. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.—English proverb. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930 I I Jones’ Store Has Visitors at Night I Several Hundred Dollars Worth of Clothing Taken by Thieves Entrance Through Window No Clues Pittsboro woke Wednesday morn ing to discover that a robbery had been committed during the night. Thieves had prized their way through the iron bars that pro tected a window in the rear of the store, had forced open the window, entered, helped themselves to sev eral hundred dollars worth of men’s and women’s clothing, shoes, etc.', apparently loaded the booty on a car, and left with no further clue to their identity. *************** * * *Brown’s Chapel News* *************** Dr. W. B. Chapin drove up the Gum Springs road last Thursday and stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Henderson and left in their care a fine nine-pound girl. We doubt if he could have selected a finer mother in the whole county for the babe. The : writer has just received a nice letter from County Agent Scott of Alamance county, in which he says that the Mebane folk are still- working .dfi the condensary. projectand that, they have" hopes of landing. such a plant within the next year." But they, will need the co-operation of adjoining counties. ; We are sorry Mrs. W. H. Lindley is in such poor health,', but hope she will soon be •better.-;. . : Sunday w&s a fine day and we had a good attendance at Sunday school, 'with out who had been kept, away :by Illness. •' Mrs. O. D. Me Bane of Pittsboro and children, who were visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Z. L. Dark, w'ere out at Sunday school. Mr. and Airs. AI. B. Lindsey eff Burlington visited at the home of Mr. and Airs. M. T. Lindsey during the week-end. Mr. Lindsey has been located in Burlington 32 years, but his old friends are always glad to see him come back to his boyhood home. He made an impresive talk to the adult class Sunday. Next Sunday being our regular preaching day, Sunday school will be held in the morning. Mistakes in these news letters are not always our fault, but we are willing to bear the blame. How ever, we are glad that some of our folk are able to account for the mistakes and to understand. Editorial Note: A typewriter will help you avoid some of them, Brother Durham. When the editor has to rewrite your articles, he can not look at every word of them, but gets the gist of what you are trying to say and puts it in as few words as' he can. Your copy was. sent , direct to the printer last week, without rewriting and he stated that he couldn’t read it.-; So no errors occurred . last week. The editor cap? 'read 1 them, • but /they would look funny if he should ‘put them in just as. they ! come to him. [Amen! —Printer.]) . ... / Airs. L A. Durham and daughter Roberta had an old-fashion quilting party last. week. Air. and Mrs„ O. W. Alann at tended a funeral at Swepsonville last Sunday. > . Our Sunday school contributed a little over four dollars to the fund for building a church for the deaf and dumb in Durham. We have a few deaf and dumb in our church. Mrs. Wright of Allbright town ship visited her brother Mr. R. H. Lindley Sunday. Mr. Clay King and family and John Durham of Burlington were guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Dur ham Sunday. • CENSUS NOT FLATTERING —o Moncure gained seven inhabitants during the last decade, but its neighbor Haywood lost a fourth of hers. We doubt if Pittsboro will show a much greater proportionate growth than Moncure, as a large part of th’e building here has been just beyond the town limits. Fortu nately, the size of one’s town has little to do with the length and breadth and depth of life. Pittsboro and Moncure folk can live as big lives as New Yorkers, and in most cases doubtless do. <§, EASTER SERVICES AT GUM SPRINGS The B. Y. P. U. of Gum Springs Baptist church will present an East er program after the regular B. Y. ' P. U. services next Sunday evening, April 20. Preaching. services will be conducted by the’/.pas tor. Rev. » T. Y. Seymour.- Everybody ig Tor-., i dially invited to attend••tn-ese'serv ices. i Col. Dor sett :| Dies Age 89 '» One of Oldest and Most Loved i Citizens of County; Confed erate Veteran; Buried at » Love’s Creek Baptist Church Col. J. Dan Dorsett, one of the oldest and most loved citizens of the county, has gone. , The burial was at Love’s Creek Baptist church Sunday afternoon, when a great concourse of friends and relatives assembled to pay their last respects to the aged veteran of the war of the sixties, in which he played no mean part. The funeral was preached by his pastor, Rev. J. C. Canipe, pastor of the Siler City and the Love Creek Baptist churches. Addresses were made by Mr. Walter D. Siler and General W. A. Smith of the North Carolina veterans. As only two weeks ago a full sketch of the life of Col. Dorsett, whose title was attained in the organization of the Confederate vet erans, appeared in this paper, writ ten by the hand of his son, Rev. H. G. Dorsett, the reader is re ferred to that article for further information about the departed veteran. Active pallbearers were Walter Jones, R. F. Heddleston, C. C. Brew er, James Sears, R. S. Lane and R. W. Dark. Honorary pallbearers, W. S. Durham, L. L. Wrenn, J. J. Jenkins, Charlie,.. Elkins, Dr. J. D. Edwards, W." Clyde /Thomas, W. S. Edwards,- C. K ; . 'Wrenn, J./jC/ Qregp son and K. -W.i Barnes of'RalCigh. Taps were the ; grave by * member of the local American legion. . . .•’* d. — " ' ' . , * * * * * * * * • * * * * * • * * *'. * * Oakland News . * *; ' * * **.****** * * '* * * * * r•* . . Air. Albert Alclver has been very ill for a few days. > . Mr. Oren Campbell and Mrs. Rosa Gilmore attended the funeral of Air. Dorsett at Siler City last Sunday afternoon. Air. and Mrs. J. K. Crissman of Pittsboro were Sunday visitors at Mr. C. Y. Welch’s. Mr. and Airs. L. D. Wolfe spent Sunday afternoon with- Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hall. Miss Katherine Knight was back home for the week-end, from San ford, where she is taking a busi ness course. Miss Hazel Thomas motored to Raleigh last Sunday afternoon to visit the museum and reports a very pleasant trip. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Brown from near Louisburg visited Mrs. Brown’s mother last week-end. Mrs. John Clark from Hickory. Mountain was visiting her relatives near here last Sunday. Mr. William Simmerson,.. a very good • friend of the people of this comm,unity, was welcomed ? b,ack last ' Sunday evening. ■. r —' —— U. D. C. ENTERTAINED > " Misses Lizzie and Callie Clegg and Mrs. J. AI. Gregory were joint hostesses to the Winnie Davis chap ter of the U. D.i C. on Saturday afternoon at the home of the latter. Airs. Gregory read a beautiful memorial to Mr. J. Dan Dorsett, last of the famous 26th regiment, whose death occurred early Satur day morning. She also gave an in teresting sketch pf his war service, which was followed by silent prayer. Plans were made for the cele bration of the 10th of May, at which time the chapter has the honor of entertaining the veterans. Mrs. E. R. Hinton gave an in teresting report of the district meet ing, which met here on the 2nd of April. Mrs. J. W. Hunt and Mrs. E. R. Hinton read Mrs. John Anderson’s essay on the Jefferson Davis high way. Miss Carrie Jackson played a number of Confederate tunes. At the conclusion of the business session the hostesses served a de licious ice ; course. , , Coast Line Train Held for Taxes in Florida One of the passenger of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad was attached by the sheriff at Seb ring, Fla., Saturday and held for taxes in the amount of $40,000 due that county since April, 1929. 1 Previously the sheriff had levied on the right of way, section. house and i depot of the road. Just what the • difficulty was has not ;v been ex plained in press dispatches, but for , some reason the road refused pay/ l: ment of the taxes- and the authori*- ties*, took 'drastic action. ..However, ■•. the. •.property’ was not sold, as ad • justment was made by the road’s legal department. Saturday Hottest Day in Nearly Five Years You folks who thought Saturday was a really hot day were right, and . you who thought it seemed hot just because you were not used to .it, were wrong. Temperatures recorded at United States weather bureau stations in the State ranged from the low eighties to the high nineties. Greensboro reported 96 the hottest day since August, 1926, and several degrees hotter than any April day since the bureau was es tablished there. Saturday afternoon a blistering dry wind intensified, rather than lessened, the heat. ****** * * * ****** * * * Gulf News * * * *************** Mr. Robt. Murchison of Fayette ville, spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs. G. L. Merrell. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Beck of Germanton spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Little. Misses Annie and Elsie Tyner, Edith Corbett and Katherine Curie spent Friday night with Mr. and Airs. D. AI. Tyner and left Satur day afternoon to spend the night and Sunday with Misses Curie and Corbett at Currie, returning to Elon College Monday. The four are stud ents at Elon College. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jeffreys of Huntington, Pa., arrived Sunday to visit the latter’s parents* Mr. and Airs. J. T. Beal, for severafodays. • Mr. Robt. Jourdan and jjlk|.-,Bes sie Miriam Beal drove to the home of Air. G. C. Cole, J. P., Saturday night,. April 12, and were united, in marriage. Best wishes for a happy anxL prosperous life. ... *. V Afr. and : :Mrs; 'W. H. Hill made a business y trip to -' " Cfreemboro Thursday. /. ... , • <•,*-. ’... , •>'*" Air. ’and Mrs. Dp.ngjd Alclveri’of •Bristol; Va., visited Mr. W. S. Rus sell of thjs place for a few days last week. WILL CELEBRATE .. SILVER WEDDING Dr. and Mrs. Chapin to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Their . Mar " * riage Next Thursday. Friends of Air. and Mrs. W. B. Chapin have received invitations to the celebration of their silver an niversary, which will be held at their home here next Thursday eve ning. The beautifully engraved in vitation is printed in silver and reads as follows: 1905 1930 Dr. and Mrs. William Burdette Chapin request the pleasure of your,company at the celebration of the Twenty-ffith Anniversary of their marriage Thursday evening, April 25th , at half after eight o’clock Pittsboro, North Carolina. William Burdette Chapin y: Foy Chandler . Fike r* —— Robert Dixon of , Goidston Injured Robert Dixon ’., of Goidston, or that . community, was seriously in jured Alonday whqn- ,a truck driven by Walter Hickman of Moore _ coun- . ty ran into his empty ' wagon, in,. which he was sitting. '/ tt seems that Mr. Dixon had stopped on the side of the road and was talking with some one. The latter saw that the truck was going to run into the wagon and fled from between the wheels of the wagon in, time to avoid the re sults of the collision. The truck hit the wagon, threw down the horses, but didn’t seriously injure them, and caused Mr. Dixon to be hurled out. A bone or two were broken and other injuries resulted. He was taken to a Sanford hos pital. Hickman was arrested and brought to the jail (here. He was let out that night on bail. The truck was loaded with the household goods of some one whom Hickman was moving to this county. ® *************** * • *; * Bear Creek News * * * *************** Mesdames Latt D. Poe, G. B. and W. B. Emerson were Alonday shop pers in Greensboro. Air. and Mrs. L. D. Poe and children, Fleta and Russell, Mr. and Airs. T. B. Beal and daughter, Frances, were Sunday visitors i,n the home of I. Al. Gilmore of Pitts boro Rt. 3. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coggins and family of Mallison; Mr. and Airs. Bill Stanley, Willis Halfi and Misses Alurrell and ,Myra Weaver of Greensboro, were , Sunday ; visitors in the home of W.'A. Coggins. •; ; '/ /. «> - :: V -BULL MARKET •• Nitt—“Why the excitement at Wall and Broad streets today?” j Witt “Somebody dropped a dime.”—Judge. Subscribers at Every Postoffice and AH R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham. VOLUME 52, NUMBER 27 Convene Here Mrs. Winn Addresses County Republicans Nomination of Ticket for County Of fices Postponed—Delegates to State and Congressional Conventions Chosen A goodly crowd of Republicans met in the court house Saturday in convention for the •nomination of candidates for county officers and to choose delegates to the State, congressional and judicial conven tions. Mr. S. W. Willett, chairman of the county executive committee, called the convention to order. He called Mr. L. L. Wrenn to act as temporary chairman. Mr. Wrenn was made permanent chairman and Mr. John Paschal secretary. Sheriff Jenkins suggested that an oppor tunity then be given to Mrs. Juanita Gregg Winn to make the speech she had been advertised to make, as she had to go to Alt. Airy that evening. Mrs. Winn, who, by- the way, is a licensed lawyer, though teaching this year at Liberty, after a few pleasant remarks addresses herself principally to the women and the younger men. She praised the achievements of the Republican party, and bade her hearers to be really partisan, but not bitter. To realize that there are two sides to a question and to be informed on, < both sides. In fact, she advised the young voter at the outset to study the history of the parties and to choose deliberately that which ap pealed most to him. It was a very sensible little speech. Mr. Wrenn, in his introductory f remarks, stated that the party has a chance to win this year if it would put out a ticket that appeals to the good sense of the people. He felt that “the Republicans could give a better and more wholesome administration to the county than it has had in many years.” The following were appointed as delegates to the judicial and con gressional conventions: Ashe Camp bell, J. L. Glosson, T. W. Herndon, J. R. Matthews, G. F. Burns, N. L. Johnson, J. L. Self, C. D. Wilkie, J. J. Jenkins, L. L. Wrenn, R. H. Dixon, Jr., Fay Horton, J. W. John son, J. W. Carson, L. N. Womble, W. B. Moore. The following were appointed as delegates to the state convention, which is to be held this week in Charlotte: C. E. Duncan, D. C. Smith, S. W. Willett, Chas. Hearne, S. D<- Johnson, N. J. Dark, H. R , Stedman, J. L. Carson, W. D. Beck with, J. J. Jenkins, M. H. Woody, Carey Harvard, L. L. Wrenn, J. CL Fesmire, R. H. Dixon, Jr., W. D. Burns. The county executive committee consists of the following: S. W. Wjllett, chairman, J. J. Jenkins, J. Ri Alatthews, Mrs. N. J. Dark, Mrs. L. -N. Womble. It was concluded to be better to postpone the nomination of candi dates so r the county offices till another meeting, which is called for May 20. And this date seems to indicate that the brethren have a partiality to patriotic days, the con vention Saturday being held on the anniversary of the adoption of the Halifax constitution, and the ap pointed date being the anniversary of the Alecklenburg declaration. The convention was thoroughly harmonious and the personnel was good. The Republican party in Chat ham is, in fact, a right decent set of folk. Many of them are the sons and daughters of the Alliance Dem ocrats driven out of the Democratic party by Senator Simmons in 1892. ■■ ■ ■— *************** * m * Antioch New# * * * *************** ‘ Mr. and Airs. W. R. Oldham and children of Pittsboro visited home folks Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Poe spent Sunday with Mr. R. B. Oldham. Airs. Martha Oldham and children of Bynum spent Sunday with Mr. and Airs. A. H. Oldham. Aliss Marguerite Oldham has re turned home after spending a month with her brother, S. E. Old ham of High Point. Airs.- George Lloyd of near Goid ston spent Sunday with her mother, Airs. W. B. Oldham. Air. and Airs. Cooper Wheeley of Duriham spent the week-end with Mrs. Wheeley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Dowdy. Air. George AlcDaniel was buried at Antioch Christian church last -Monday evening at four o’clock. He died’ at the home of his son, Mr.--Charlie McDaniel. Miss Mildred Hart spent the week-end at home. We will 'clean off the cemetery at Antioch Saturday, April 26/ Ev erybody come and help!