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4 Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century. A County, Not a Com munity Paper ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. A Day Down in Sampson Mk A Marvelous Acre of Corn —Careful Pick ing and Packing of Berries Rewards Mr. Fisher Something About Kudzu " •• editor unexpectedly had an unity to spend two or three "Sweet Sampson” last week. • at phrase reminds us that j. , r Bickett undertook to apply v, »rd ‘‘sweet to Union, but . Union” has no euphony in reover, tlje word “sweet” had preempted by Sampson # for sixty years, since the recalls his father’s quoting 1 old Sampsonian of yore and memory itself reaches back a hak'cvntury. i ere was quite a contrast in the v . union of crops last week and ui the 15th of July last year. A: the earlier date vegetation was extravagant. The corn and cotton fields were lapped with the lux uriant growth. To come back to Chatham then looked like starva tion. as it very nearly was so far as the crop of 1929 was concerned. But this year, Chatham has an earlier start, while the dry weather of the spring retarded crops in Sampson. It looks impossible for the cotton to grow as widly by July 15 as it had last year. How ever. much corn in in silk, and the roas’n'ears being sold included some fully matured Truckers’ Favorite, which is considerably later than the Adams. „ Beans and cucumbers found no sale, or sale only at price not justify ing picking and packing. Huckleberries were still sold at fancy prices. Lack of care in sorting and packing is still hurting the sale of the famous berry as well as the products of the truck fields. To illustrate what proper packing means for the huc kleberries, we cite the example of a Mr. Fisher on the Cumberland side, for huckleberries, like rabbits in Chatham, are not confined to the borders of Sampson even if Sampson gets the credit. Cumber land, Duplin, Pender and Bladen produce many fine berries. This Mr. Fisher has a large area of woods in the flats on the east *ide of the Cape Fear. He hires Ills berries picked at ten cents a quart, requiring painstaking handl ing on the part of the pickers. At that rate some pickers can make from five to six dollars a day, while Mr. Fisher told a gentleman who caught him in the act that he ;and his family could make twice as much cleaning and packing the berries as they could picking them. When the (berries have been brought from the woods, the con tainers are emptied upon a long table and Mr. Fisher and his family, with needles prepared with awl like handles, pierce the bad berries, leaves, trash, etc, and thus leave only the edible berries for packing. Then the berries are carefully packed in quart cups. Rough handl ing of berries mean their ruin, while if the juice is not allowed to exude from them at all the hazy-blue color is retained and the berries may be shipped safely for a thousand miles. Indeed, we have fflt, for the writer knows his “big blues”, that perfectly picked and packed berries would actually dry to almost perfection right in a crate, and the dried huckleberries is one dried fruit that has lost little ■°f its delicious flavor. The gentleman who told us of Mr. Fisher’s activities said that a buyer arrived while he was at the Fisher home. Mr. Fisher ''had a recent bill for berries sold in the northern markets for sl4 per 32- quart crate. The buyer offered Mr. Fisher asked sl4 and got it, while some of his neighbors had received for shipment as low as dollars a crate and had to sell to the buyers for much less than Mr. Fisher got for his berries. Ac cordingly, it seems that he bad proved his statement that he could jnake more by preparing the berries for shipment than he could }, . v picking himself. A wonder we saw in the corn ~ne - Nothing has probably ever been seen like it. Something like ‘ijAeen years ago, Mr. Milton Hall ot Roseboro broadcast an acre -'wn lot with corn, presumably t! teed. He of course could not it; nevertheless, it grew, and ,~. e season being right, surprised •’ urn a nd even Bion Butler, who ’■appened to be down there and saw, vy making an abundant yield. Mr. estimated the yield from un corked broadcast corn at 122 bushels to the acre. And as Mr. bad a newspaper man to see -Hat crop, he by a similar accident ad this writer to see an equally ?!‘eat, or greater, demonstration bbis season. 1 be- land has been made rich, * wonishingly rich during the years, FLEA SB TURN TO PAGE EIGHT The Chatham Record Union County Falls Short A Million The following from the Monroe Inquirer is significant. We do not beleive that Chatham is falling behind at such a rate. We cannot. Everything has already been mort gaged and the folk have to pay ;argely as they go. But those mort gages are, due to several , crop shortages—six in succession. The first year w<e came to Pittsboro there were scarcely a half dozen mortgages foreclosures advertised in the Record. Money * was borrowed when crops failed and the succession of failures brought foreclosures, so that .now we carry as many fore closure notices in one issue •as we carried in a year, beginning Septem ber 1, 1924. Here is the Union situation : \\ ell, friends and brothern, the other day I took pen in hand to write you a piece about our burden some taxes. According to some good folks of my acquaintance taxes are the very blame of our existence, and could the cost of our schools, roads, and administration of public affairs be effaced the millennium will have come. But before blaming everything on taxes, let’s do a little figurin’. Union county is spending annually, approximately for— Gasoline, oil, etc $1,250,000 Commercial fertilizer 750,000 New automobiles 200,000 Life Insurance 750,000 Interest on loans 500,000 Taxes 550,000 A total of $4,000,000 Practically every dollar of out side revenue the county receives is from its cdtton crop. A little more than 30,000 bales were marketed last year at an everage price of SBO per bale, a revenue of $2,400,000. N It is nqt a pleasant picture to contemplate, but how can our county progress when we are actually spending year by year a million dollars more than we are producing. Union is considered a representa tive North Carolina county. It is my conviction that practically every county in the State today is in the same boat as our community. It also appears to me that very few oersons are willing to face the facts. It is not entirely our taxes, but rather spending more than we are producing, that is causing a panic. Wilkie Reunion —«— Sanford, N. C. June 15. —A re union of the descendants , of the late Tobias and Elizabeth Wilkie, orominent poineer settlers of Chat ham county was held Sunday from the old homestead near Goldston. A crowd estimated at about four hundred, including relatives and and their friends from Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham. Siler City, Sanford, Burlington. Win%tom-Salem. Swepsonville and other points in and out of the State were present on this delightful occasion. Early in the morning the people began to gather under the shade of the lovely oaks in the grove and near the old soring which flows with delicious, sparkling water. The morn ing was devoted to handclasps and a general renewal of the ties of relationship. At the noon hour a bonteous feast was spread on a long table in the grove. A huge cake, prepared by the Greensboro Bakery Comoanv, bearing the inscription “Wilkie” occupied the center of the table. Rev. C. L. Wicker of Gulf, gave an interesting history if the Wilkie family. Short, enjoyable talks were made by Frank Wilkie, of Bear Creek, Bailey Wicker, of Gulf, C. D. Wilkie, of Moncure and Green Hart, the last named being 84 years of age. Tobias Wilkie was a native of Scotland. In company with two brothers he came to the country many years ago. He settled in North Carolnia. He made a splendid citizen and throughout the years his decen dants have imitated the worthy example set by their forefather. This reunion which was established by Frank Wilkie, of Bear Creek, and Bailey Wilkie of Gulf, N. C. was the first one, and the descendants ex pect to make it an annual affair. Mr. G. H. Wilkie and Mrs. Otis Bridges, of Sanford, are direct de scendants of this family. Seven generations were present at this re union. This reunion was hastily got ten up. Mr. Hilliard who lives at this old homestead, deserves much praise for his help and kindness, in making every one present enjoy the day. _<£ Young Prince Goes to' Roads Young Prince, prince of colored blockaders, but now no longer young, has at last got his. Having failed ■ to come at the set time to take his medicine, he was located by Depu r ties Desern and Lacy Johnson, over t in the edge of Wake Saturday night and placed in jail. The county court sat a while Monday to dispose of ’ his case. He went to the roads. He ’ has long been known as a blockader in Case Fear township. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930. Photos from Wide World Photos In celebration of the 154th anniversary of the battle of Brandywine, famous in American Revolutionary history, the color guard re-enacted a scene which no doubt stirred the hearts of the present generation as much asit did more than a century and a half ago. If you recall your American history this battle was fought in 1777. , The Londons Have Reunion Family Gathering at Ances tral Home Held June 22nd —The 55th Wedding Anni versary of Mrs. London. The Occasion a Welcome to Capt. J. J. London and Bride—Twenty-Six Descen dants Present ■ / 9 The home of Mrs. -Henry A. Lon don in Pittsboro Sunday afternoon was the scene of a happy family reunion—a welcome to Capt. J. J. London and his bride, and a cele bration of the 55th wedding anni versary of Mrs. London. , Seven children, 18 grandchildren j and one great grandchild, together j with the in-laws, to the number of j thirty, gathered around the long and smaller tables arranged in the j dinning room and library, for din-| ner Sunday night. At the head was Mrs. London, presiding with her characteristic graciousness and poise, this despite her health which in recent months has become im paired by reason of angina pec toris. In the center of the table was the bride’s cake, iced by Mrs. , London herself, with the lettering “London-Sculley, April 26.” And perched aloft this cake were the j two love-birds which were used on her own bride’s cake 35 yars ago • and which have been used for every j wedding in this family since then.! “Vive la vous” were drunk to the health of each one present in. quaffs of Adam’s ale. ! Present for this family gather ing in addition to Mrs. H. A. Lon don and her sister, Miss Carrie Matitia Jackson, were: Lucy London Anderson and her husband, John Huske Anderson ,of Raleigh; and their three children: Lucy Andreson Wooten - and daugh ter, Bettie London. Wooten of Fay etteville; John Huske Anderson Jr., and Henry London Anderson, stud ents at Carolina. Henry Mauger London and wile, Mamie Elliott London of Raleigh; and their tw\> sons, Henry Mauger London Jr., and George Elliott London, Carolina students. Sallie Lord Fell and her four children, of« Trenton, N. J., Bettie Jackson Fell, Jlenry Ridgeway Fell, Armand London Fell, Sallie Lon don Fell. Captain John Jackson London and bride, Genevieve Sculley, of Chicago, married April 26, 1930. Isaac S. London and his four children of Rockingham: William Everett London, Lena Payne Lon don-, Bettie Louise London and Isaac Spencer London, Jr. Betsey London Cordon and two children, of Pittsboro: James H. Cordon, Jr., and Betsey London Cordon. Camelia London Jerome and three sons, of Shreveport, La.: Fred Je rome, Jr., Henry and Jack London Jerome (twins). ® Matt Crews Brings Bride With Him Mr. Matthews J. Crews returned a week or two ago to Pittsboro, after an Absence of two or three years, with a bride'. The young couple have been visiting Mr. ; Crew’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. .Crews. The bride was Miss Eloise Hodge, / daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. ; Hodge of Hot Springs, Virginia. ■ The Record is not informed as to > the date of the marriage. Mr. Crews is a resident of Newport News, Va. Siler City Will Celebrate 4th Big Speakers on Pro gram for the Occasion HOME-COMING DAY . Cash Prizes Will Be Awarded for Certain Events; Big Time in Store for Every body #— In accordance with the /time honored custom, Siler City is to stage another great Celebration, (July 4th. | The celebration this year is.. to ibe a little different in that it j has been designated as home-com | ing-day as well as a celebration of Independence. Day. A program of all home talent has been arranged and it looks now as if is going to be one of the most interesting ones ever staged there. Speakers for the day are Dr. George W. Paschal, of Wake For est College, Prof. R. L. Paschal, of Fort Worth Texas, and Judge Walter D. Siler, of Raleigh, all of whom are Chathamites. I A program of athletic stunts for boys and girls, with cash ; prizes for the winners has been j arranged. A base ball game at 1 four o’clock in the afternoon be tween Alamance and Siler City, ,• the two strongest teams in the 1 Central Carolina League, and a play sponsored by the American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary at the High School Auditorium, ’at night. These together with a Brass Band moving and talking pictures going all day; the bowl ing alleys, and the Minature Golf Course will furnish the chief amusements for the day, Thej*e will be air planes circl ing over town all day and they will take up passengers from the new, air port, northeast of town on the old Graham road. Free ice water will be furnished for everybody, in fact it looks as if about everything has been done that could to make the day pleasant and entertaining to the public and the largest crowd that has attended in years is expected. I <g> / Burial of Mr. McDaniel Funeral Serivces for Mathew Thomas McDaniel, age 56, promin ent Chatham County farmer who died at his home. Siler City RFD 3 early Tuesday morning, following a six months illness with heart trouble, were conducted Wednes day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from I Rives Chapel Baptist Church, Rev. E. W. Byerly pastor of the church | was in charge. Mr. McDaniel joined Rives church tyenty nine years ago and remained a faithful member until death. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Miss Martha Buchanan. I Surviving this union are three sons, Walter McDaniel of Mt. Vernon Springs, Arthur McDaniel of Siler l City, R.F.D., Eugine- McDaniel, at , home, also one daughter, Mrs. i Robert Brinkley, of Mt. Vernon f Springs. His second marriage was . to Miss Mollie Campbell, who sur . vives with the following children: Leola, Lillie, ClydeT Arvey, and , Joyce McDaniel. He is also sur . vived by one brother, Albert Mc . Daniel of Baden, N. C., one half ) brother, John Casper, of Goldhill, . N. C.; also by three sisters, Mrs. t Joe Moody, of Bear Creek, Mrs. Ben Dowd, Siler City, RFD 5., A Chathamite Out In Tennessee Beersheba Springs, Tenn. June 20, 1930 Editor Chatham Record: I have read the Record for years and have always enjoyed it very much. My father, Mr. A. B. Wom ble of Moncure, has always taken taken the Record and sends it to me after he has finished with <it. Perhaps, it would be of interest to some of your readers if I told you something about the country where we are now. We are doing construction work on a state highway in Grundy county, Tennessee. This county is located in the Cumberland Moun tain and is very rugged.* It is beautiful from the scenic stand point but I can’t say much for the agricultural side of iit. Milling, mining and some agriculture are the chief industries. The state is covering this sec-‘ tion with a net work of highways which makes it easily accessible -from both Nashville and Chatt anoogo and incidentally furnishes us with good jobs which is the most interesting thing in life/right now. We will be here for some six months yet and as I want to read the Record regularly, I am enclos ing a money order to cover cost of same for six months. Here’s wishing for you and the Record many more years of great success. Verv trulv yours Mrs‘ H. 0. Wall Beersheba Springs Tennessee 1 *************** * * Bear Creek News * * *************** Frances Beal, age 6, was given a birthday party last Saturday after noon at her home, just south of town. She was 6 years old Sunday. Several little girls were invited. Games were played after which ice cream and cake were served those present. They all seemed to enjoy it very much. Those who attended were: Misses Marie and Grace Mur row, Hellen Brooks, Nancy Lou Brooks and Nannie Frances Pas chal, all of Bonlee; Mozelle and Clara Cheek and Marion Emerson, of Bear Creek, loline Briggs of Bear Creek, William (better known as “Bill”) Hackney died at his home in Greens boro last Saturday and was buried at Sandy Branch Baptist Sunday afternoon. There were a throng of people in attendance. He was na tive of Chatham County, but had lived in Greensboro for many years. He was a brother of the late Rev. John A. Hackney. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Straughan and daughters, of Baltimore, Md., are visiting Mr. Straughan’s father, F. C. Straughan, on route 2. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Saunders, of Raleigh, were visitors last week at J. D. Willetts. T. B. Beal is attending the Cokes bury Training School at the First M. E. Church, Siler City, this week. Mrs. M. E. Stewart accompanied Mrs. W. G. Andrew and daughter, Hazel, to their home in Asheville for an extended visit. Miss Ruby Lee Webster of Burl ington, is visiting at R. W. Dowd’s. Thomas Addison Burns, son of Fred W. Burns, is seriously ill at his home one and one half miles north of Goldston. x Miss Burema Hilliard, of Durham, is visiting her grandfather, A. D. Coggins. M. B. Beaver and children of Durham were Sunday visitors in the home of T. P. Beaver. Misses Vaudie, Eliza and Ruby Norwood of Greensboro are spend ing their vacation with their mother, Mrs. W. F. Norwood, on route 2. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Rives and family, of Burlington and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Moody, of Durham, were Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs. R. R. Dunn. Mrs. Frank Scott and daughter, Lucille, accompanied by S. C. Beal spent a few days recently at the Atlantic Beach, at Morehead City. Mrs. W. C. Pitts of Winston- Salem, is visiting her mother, Mrs. O. D. Wicker, on Rt. 2. Adison Burns, son of Fred W. j Burns, died at his home Monday j night from a leaking heart. A full account will appear next week/ Mr. and Mrs. Guy Phillips, of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thomp son, of Pleasant Garden, Mrs. J. J. Norwood, of Greensboro, Misses Margaret and Pauline Andrews, of Fayette, were Sunday visitors in the horiie of G. B. Emerson. The Sandy Branch Baptist church will hold a public ice cream supper next Saturday night, June 28th, at the home of G. B. Emerson in Bear Creek for benefit of the piano fund. There will be vocal and strong music. Everybody is most cordially invited. _ Miss Nora McDaniel of Siler City, R. 3. Pallbearers were: E. W. Smith, L. W. Burns, W. C. Braswell, O. D. Fields, S. J. Fields, and C. ,H. Dunlap. ( Subscribers at Every * Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes iu Great County of Cbatbaaa VOLUME 52—NUMBER 35 Brooks Eubanks CloseTheirDoor Ed Hinton Made Trustee— Will Sell Goods and Settle Debts Business Simply Couldn’t Be Longer Profit ably Conducted / ® Deciding that they could no longer pprofitably conduct their mercantile business here and that the only way to get out of it is to get out, Messrs. Geo. H. Brooks and Y. M. Eubanks, composing the firm of Brooks and Eubanks, locked their store doors Monday after noon, turned the key over to Ed. R. Hinton, who had been made a trustee of the goods, and they had quit. To continue in business would have mea«t that the cost for new goods would have kept pace with payments on debts for old ones, and that a quitting place could not be found. Accordingly, they quit smack off and are honing the funds re ceived by Mr. Hinton for the goods will settle all debts, without any draft upon the personal resources of the two partners. Messrs. Brooks and Eubanks are two of the finest men in town. In all their dealings during the years of their partnership it is quite cer tain that no one has had reason t'* complain of intentional injustice or unfairness. The Record is not in formed as to the future employ ment of either, but it is hoped that both will continue actively in af fairs. Food Dumped; People Hungry Charlotte Observer. The Associated Press tells us that an over supplied market has forced New York commission merchants to dumo hundreds of truck loads of perfectly good vegetables into East River within the past week and dozens of cars loads of arriving vegetables are being turned down, leaving them on the hands of the railroad, with the former responsi ble for the freight bills. And yet, in New York City alone, in all probability there are tens of thous ands of neople going to bed hungary every night, if they have a bed to go to. Plenty of people to con sume the products of the farm and plenty of food for all the people to have sufficient, and yet people starve while good food is dumped into the river—all in the same community! We have far to travel before we get matters arranged on a commen sense basis. <g> NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS The county commissioners will be in session Tuesday, July 8, 1930, for the purpose of reviewing the tax lists and hearing the complaints of taxpayers as to assessments. C. C. POE, Clerk of Board. jun 23 1930 $ Joax—l know a man who nicked Gene Tunney under the chin and stretched him right out. Hoax—You don’t say! Who was it? Jonax—Tony, the barber. — The Pathfinder. *************** 9fC * New Hill Rt. 2 * * , * *************** “Uncle” Phil Farrar a much re spected colored man by both white and colored of this com munity ‘will be glad to know he is recuperating after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. E. H. Holt has been spend ing several days in Rurham visit ing relatives. She was accompanied home Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Slyvester Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Fonville and children. Mrs. J. L. Goodwin spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sturdivant of Pittsboro. Little John Drake, Jr. of Wilson is spending this week with Grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Drake. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Sturdivant, Pittsboro, N. C., June 20, a daughter, Dorothy Gertrude. While going through the low grounds pasture which was over i flown from the swollen stream of New Hope Mr. J. L. Goodwin saw some carp playing and he drew near them, stabbed one with his pocket knife twice and caught his in his arms but the fish floundered and escaped but he came near enough to them again and captured . one of them which weighed thir teen pounds. Friends will regret to learn that Mr. Andrews Holt is no better and , is now in Mary Elizabeth hospital, Raleigh, for treatment. , Mrs. Andrews Jones and children visited relatives near Fuqv.ay Springs Sunday. __ ...
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