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A Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century. A County* Not n Com- munity Paper ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. Capt. J. J. London Writes of Tropics — s — to Post-Dispatch Editor From His Brother, Capt. J. J. London, of the U. S. S. Vega. Carries 2 Crates of Peaches to Panama in Cold Storage. Tells of Virgin Isles, their Live-Stock, Roads and Temperature. With news apparently very scarce in Chatham, we are clipping the following letter from the Rocking ham Dispatch, of which Isaac Lon don is editor. This letter from a former Pittsboro boy should be of interest, not only, to his friends, but to many who are ignorant of the Virgin Islands, a comparatively new acquisition in the U. S. ter ritory. U. S. S. Vega Panama Canal, August 6, 1930. >ly dear Isaac: I received the Georgia Belle peaches from Rockingham July 25th, before leaving Norfolk on July 28th, and I am writing to let you know how well they have kept on my passage through the tropics. (The peaches were shipped from Neal Hick’s orchard, 3 miles from Rock ingham.—Editor). As I told you I obtained these two crates of peaches to distribute to my friends in the Virgin Islands and in the Canal Zone. Peaches are a rare treat for people who live in the tropics, and particularly so are these very fine type of peaches. J kept these peaches in the chill room of the ship’s, cold storage. The chill room temperature is just about freezing temperature. The peaches survived the ten days of this temperature very nicely. Before giving them out I allowed them to remain in normal temperature for twenty-four hours, and after sorting them over threw out a few with bad spots where they had evidently been bruised in shipping. My friends were truly delighted with them. On this trip to the Pacific Coast of the Vega, I was directed by the Bureau of Navigation to stop by the Virgin Islands to deliver some blooded live stock, which the- U. S. Department of Agricultrue has pre dated to the Governor of the Is lands for use in improving the breed of live stock. This live stock consisted of stallion, bulls, rams, and boars. Mr. W. H. Black from the Depart ment of Agriculture came along with this live stock and has given me some interesting information in regard to it. Since some of it came from North Carolina I will tell you about it. The government has a thirteen hundred acre farm at Beltsville, Md., run by the Bureau of Animal Industry. There they breed blooded animals, mostly short horns, formerly called Durhams. We had aboard from that farm a very fine short horn bull valued at SSOO. We,had also a red polled youngl bull bought from them Reynolds j Lybrook Farm at Advance, N. C. This breed I undestand is for a dual purpose; i. e. for both beef and milk. By “polled” is meant a bull with no horns. When this type of bull is bred to a long' horn cow the calf has no horns. Another young bull came for meat, bull came from the Sanford and Rich Farm at Mocksville, N. C. This was an Aberdeen- Angus bull, also polled. The boars were five months old. Poland, China „ and Duroc- Jersey breeds. And the rams were a year and a half old, Corriedales. The stallion was of the Morgan breed from the U. S. Morgan Horse Farm at Milldeberry, Vt. I under stand this breed is very rugged and suitable for general farm use. I wonder if our family horse of our early youth named “Morgan” was of this breed. He certainly was made use of for all purposes, and I must say did it very well. We landed these animals at the inland of St. Croix, though we stop ped a few hours before at St. Thomas, the Capitol of the Virgin Islands. I had not been in the har bor of St. Thomas in twenty-five years and found very little change in the port and city. Since my first visit however, these island's have come under the sovereignty •of the United States. You may be interested to have your memory refreshed regarding these islands. I had my memory so refreshed from a bulletin which was distributed to the bluejackets of our liberty party as they landed on the dock for a few hours liberty to see the city of St. Thomas. After two negotations, in .1870 and 1902, for the purchase of these islands, had failed, the purchase was finally made in 1917. The Virgin Is lands, about one hundred in number, small and large, are situated about one hundred miles to the east of Porto »Rico. Great Britan owns about one-half of them. They were first discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1494, and for some three hundred years were the cause of much fighting between various vationalities, At various times they were settled and claimed by the Dutch, English, Spanish,..French, and Danish, The islands were heavily populated with negro slaves used The Chatham Record Sunday School Assn. Holds Meeting ♦ The Chatham County inter-de nominational Sunday School Asso ciation met with Goal Glen Union, Wednesday, August 18th., and the meeting was called to order by county president, T. B. Beal, of Bear Creek. Rev. C. L. Wicker of Gulf led the devotional service. J. W. Gilliam of Sanford made, an address on “How to give Mission ary and ‘ Instruction”. .Miss Flora Davis, General Super intendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, spoke on “Goals for Kingdom Building Sunday Schools.” An offering was Sunday School work. Dinner was served in picnic style on long tables. All ate to their satisfaction and what was left would nearly fed the same number again. I£ev. J. W. Buckner, of Siler City, re turned thanks to the table. In the afternon Rev. J. W. Buckner conducted fthe devotion services. “What the Adults of the Sunday School Should Know and Be,” was ably discussed by Hon. F. L. Paschall of Siler City. Miss Flora Davis spoke on izing and training Young People People for Kingdom Service,” which was very instructive. The business period was then held. T. B. Beal was reelected president. The county was sub-divided and three vice presidents were elected to look after these three districts. Those elected were: Hon. F. L. Paschall, of Siler City; Prof. H. G. Self, of Moncure and Harry B. Norwood, of Pittsboro. Also the township presidents and division superintendents were elected. Rocky River Baptist Church was chosen as the place of the 1931 meeting. While no pennant was given, but the Meroney M. E. Sunday school had tl.e best attendance at the meeting. The night session was opened at 8:00 o’clock, with Rev. J. W. Buckner leading the - , devotional ser vice. Miss Davis spoke again on! the “Beatitudes of Leadership,” which was greatly enjoyed. The audience gave a rising vote of thanks to the people of Goal Glen for their splendid entertainment. in the cultivation of sugar cane and there occurred several minor slave insurrections at various times, In 1848, thirteen years before our War Between the States, freedonm was proclaimed for all slaves of the Danish West Indian Islands. The three principal islands of the United States Virgin Islands are: St. Thomas, area twenty-eight square miles; St. John, area twenty square miles; and St. Croix, eighty-four square miles: You see all three of these islands together are not one third the sizeof an average North Carolina county. However, they are rather thickly populated, having in 1918 a population of about thirty thousand. Os these only about two thousand are white. St. Thomas is the seat of the insular government. 'The governor has been, and is a ■naval officer. The present governor is Captain W. Evans, an old friend of mine. We were stationed.for two years together at Great Lakes, 111., in 1911. Two items worth mention ing about these islands are: that they have excellent roads. Good roads are always encountered in European colonial territory. The other item is the remarkable climate of St. Thomas. Records show that the minimum temperature in winter is sixty-seven and the maximum tem perature in summer in ninety-one. I will always remember how our father in his later years of feeble health was so interested in hearing me tell of climates I had encountered such as that of St. Thomas. This max imum temperature of ninety-one strikes me very forcibly • when I read in the papers of temperatures around one-hundred all over the United States, and I am sure the temperature of sixty-seven would be welcomed in the winter time by a great many places in the South. Hearing you tell, while on my last visit home, about the crop condi tions in North Carolina and the general “hard times” leads me to tell you about a condition I have just encountered across from St. Thomas to St. Croix I took with me Judge Noll of the Island Court. He was going over to place in bankruptcy a million dollar Danish sugar com pany. He described to me the pa thetic situation down here. This company has gone into bankruptcy because of the low price of sugar, and principally on account of the poor crops of the past few years and particularly this year. The sugai cane crop this year will probably be two thousand tons instead of thirty thousand tons. Think of that. They simply do not know what is to become of some five thousand negro laborers. For three months the Island government and Red Cross have been helping these lab • orers to survive. My friend the gov ernor has a very serious problem on i his hands. I have been wondering if i • these -five thousand negroes could i find jobs on Southern plantations! • ••• ■’ • J. J. L. —& • Small boy—Me sadder wants I five cents worth of ice cream. r Clerk——Cone? I Small boy—Naw! Rosenbaum. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930. ***•***#***»*•• ! • • ‘Brown’# Chapel New#’ *************** We have a great old church and community and I try to write some of the good things as an encourage ment. However, we are not per fect by any means, and some evils mentioned along with the good things should be a warning to us all to try to improve. But human nature seems not to want to hear the bad side of- life when it comes as a warning or rebuke, though very few of us seem to realize the trouble our sins may cause some one and how displeasing they are to our Maker. The old saying about the hot dog is still true,, and if teachers preachers, and newspapers would be plainer with facts a lot of howl ing might be heard. I do not re member hearing a sermon preached in some time in- which I did not feel hit, and if we would read more of the Holy Word 'and do more praying, our consciences might lead us in a different direction. For us to say that we could live a life of service and make no enemies would be placing ourselves above our Maker and His Son. Our revival services began Sun day with our beloved pastor on the job. That evening brother I. W. Durham of C&rrboro, a former member, made a very important talk to a few of us gathered in before \the rain. At this writing, Rev. J. A. Russell of Durham has arrived and in his morning and evening services Sunday, made a wonderful impression, and we are hoping and praying for a real revival. We were delighted to have a Mr. Browning of Hillsboro teach our Men’s senior class Sundav morning and appreciate his message very much. Mr. I. W f Durham had a pleasant chat with Mr. A. F. Whitaker Sun day morning and the latter, who has been very feeble, expressed his pleasure at being able to attend the revival meetings for the first time in a considerable time. We have had fine rains and the crops are looking fine, for both of which we are very thankful. Among the many visitors at the services Sunday were Mr. Will Cook, father and sister, who lived here 35 years ago, but now live in Alamance county. Mrs. Lizzie Dark is back home from her second treatment in Dur ham. Mrs. S. J. Henderson is down here spending the week in the met ing, and with relatives. Her daugh ter came up Sunday morning with her nephew, Mr. Kiah Henderson. Mrs. Langster is spending a week with her sister, Mrs. G. G. Lut terloh. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Turrentine of Salisbury are down for the week with Mrs. Turrentine’s mother, Mrs. S. J. Wright. Vernon has only 8 children and says he is seldom lone some. We were delighted to hear Miss Pearl Johnson, Pittsboro’s returned missionary, at Emmaus two Sun days ago, and should be delighted to have her speak at our church. Mrs. G. M. Lindsey of High Point has been spending some time with her sister, Mrs. E. J. Dark. Mr. R. G. Perry is attending the state meeting of Juniors as a del egate from the local church. Miss Lelia Mann came down from Burlington Monday evening to be with us in the meeting and to spend some time with relatives. Also, Mr. Leaton Mann, of Durham, is here. A feature of the excellent Mon day evening service was the violin music furnished by a young man, Connell, a choir director of one of the Sanford churches. ® *************** * * * Antioch New# * *************** Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson, of Illinois, and Mrs. Logan Womble of Pittsboro spent Sunday with their brother, Mr. R. B. Johnson. Mrs. Martha Oldham and two children of Bynum spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Oldham. Mrs. W. R. Oldham has re turned to her home at Yancy ville after spending last week with relatives in the community. Mrs. John Poe of near Bynum spent a few days last week with relatives in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnscfli of Laurinburg spent the week end with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson. Mr. Colon Thomas is spending few days this week with rela tives at Gum Springs. Mr. W. R. Oldham of Yancy ville spent. Sunday with home folks. Mr. Carl Oldham spent the latter part of last week with relatives at Bynum. Mr. W. R. Dawkins of near Moncure spent a few days last ! week with her daughter, Mrs. E. C. Hart. —■- - ' Visitor —What does your dad give you for spending money? 1 » Danny MacTavish—Ten whacks. —Pathfinder. . 1 *************** • * Moncure New# * * *1 *************** Misses Roberta and Annie Lam beth spent several days last week at Wrightsville Beach. Their aunt of Fayetteville accompanied them to the beach. Mrs. Daisy Moore who has been spending the summer in this com munity, left yesterday for Lexing ton to visit her brother there. The Carolina Light and Power ,Plant near here commenced run ning last Wednesday. On account of the drought there was not enough power at Norwood land Blewett Falls, so they had to fall back on the power plant here. There are 25 new men who came in to help run *the plant. The members of the Methodist Sunday School here will go on a picnic next Thursday to Lakewood Park, Durham. Mr. George W. Geide left today for Harrisburg, Penn, to look after some urgent business. Mr. Hostetter, who is president of .the First National Bank, Lan caster, Penn., is spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Geide. His wife accompanied him here. Mrs. Harlowe Mims and chil dren, who were visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mims, returned to their home in Raleigh Sunday. Mrs. J. A.. Mims went home with them and will spend this week in Raleigh. Mr. E. W. Avent, Jr. and sister Miss Ruth, of Bynum, were guests of Miss Pauline Ray Sunday. Miss Josephine Lester of Raleigh spent last week with Mrs. H. B. Dellinger. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dezern of Star are visiting his parents*. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Dezern, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Cole of El kin are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cole. Mr. Roy Cole will be here for some time for he rented the Colv Filling Station and will sell gas and groceries. Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Jones and two daughters, and Dr. L. G. Sykes and son, so Salemburg, paid Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stedman a pfeasant call last Sunday afternoon in pass ing through. Prof, and Mrs. Jones are co-presidents of Pineville Junio-p College. 'Miss Mary who has been, taking a vacation, has returned to her work at the bank. She re ports a grand trip to the mountains. Miss Catharine Thomas is leader of the Senior Epworth League next Sunday evening. All members are j requested to be present and the public is cordially invited. Mrs. Bertha Johnson spent one day last week with her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Langley, and Misses Thelma and Estelle Johnson spent last week with their sist*r, Mrs. Langley. WHY, INDEED? We commend the- question in the following letter fi'om the Tu berculosis Association those who have to do with the disposition of the state’s moneys: “At the recent meeting of the North Carolina conference on olutions were unanimously adopted: In times of stress, whether war, pestilence, famine, financial, un employment, or what not,, the ten dency is for tuberculosis to show a marked increase both in number of cases and number of deaths. Du ring! the World War some of the European nations showed more than 300 per cent increase. It therefore behooves us and the people of the state to enter more heartily, more enthusiastically, and more efficiently into the fight against tuberculosis than we have ever done, and our efforts should be directed toward the prevention of infection and keeping the bodies of 1 our citizens, particularly our children, in at least a normal state of nutrition and we must find the cases and treat those who need it. In this connection we desire to express our regret that in the 20 per cent cut in approriations found necessary by our state budget Com mission, it has been made to apply to the State Department of Health including County Health Depart ments and tuberculosis work. Ap propriations for these things should be increased rather than decreased, particularly in times of depression. The County Health Departments should be enlarged and extended rather than decreased and curtailed, and we express the hope that away will be found to do these things. Why should we pay county and state taxes for education and cur tail the appropriations to health and tuberculosis work, thereby in creasing the number who are unable to attend school and the number wro though able to attend schol are unable to pass their grades. We might ask which is the more im portant, the child or the education we try to give him?, Verily, it seems that the North Carolina government is so obsess ed by the fetich of education that it deems it more important to send a child to school than to feed him and keep him in health. Homes are sold from under the children to pay school taxes, and now when cuts are made in every other de partment of the state’s work, teach < ers still get their 1919 salaries. I Sandy Creek Baptist Women Hold Session j —*— I 250 Delegates Gather at Aberdeen Church Sanford Woman Is Named As President. - Sanford, Aug. 18—The annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary union of the Sandy Creek associ ation, was held in the Baptist church of Aberdeen Friday with approximately 250 delegates and visitors. Mrs. J. U. Gunter, of San ford, president, presided with Mrs. E. D. Nall of Sanford, as secretary. Mrs. R. G. Farrell of Aberdeen welcomed the visitors. Mrs. L. B. Hester, of Goldston, responded. Roll call showed that approxi mately all of the 59 churches in the association were represented and reports encouraging. The morning devotional services were led by Mrs. R. P. Johnson, of Pittsboro. The afternoon devotional was in charge of the Aberdeen Y. W. A. Mrs. W. N. Jones, of Raleigh, state president, Dr. C. E. Brewer, of Raleigh, president of Meredith college; My*s. J. M. Whitted, of Durham, divisional superintendent, and Miss Pearl Johnson, of Pitts boro, who for 14 yeay»s has been a missionary in China, were present and delivered addresses. The Y. W. A. of Siler City gave a demon stration showing the help of the- Margaret fund in the education of the children of the missiontries. At noon visitors were guests of the Aberden socitey at aiunch ' eon served in the Sunday school y»ooms. Mrs. J. U. Gunter, who for 10 years has served as president, de clined re-election. The new president is Mrs. P. H. St. Clair, of Sanford. Other officers r elected were: My*s. C. L. Brower, of Siley* City, yice president; Mrs. E. D. Nall, of San ford, secretary; treasurer, Mrs. Sam uel Oliver, of Bass; Mrs. R. H. Weaver, of Sanford, superintendent of Y. W. A. and G. A.; Mrs. J. C. dent of R. A. and Sunbeams. The Canipe, of Sile-p City, superinten next meeting will be held with the Brush Creek church.—Exchange. * ; 113th. FIELD ARTILLERY REUNION The 113 F. A. Reunion was held at Fort Bragg last Friday “ arid Saturday, August 15th. and 16th. This regimend was a unit of the famous 30th. Division, which won fame for crushing the Hindenburg j line in the World War. This reg iment was organized entirely in North Carolina. Battery A from New Bern; B from Washington; C from Durham; B from Wades boro; and Monroe; E from Lenoir; and F from Mooresville. Supply and Headquarters Companies were both organized in Raleigh. But on January 20th., 1919, there were 38 states in the union and 2 in foreign countries (Italy and Scot land) represented in the regiment, yet there were 1097 of the 1402 were North Carolina boys. This was the second reunion which the regiment has held. A sim ilar reunion was held at Fort Bragg in 1927. Major Robert M. Hanes, of Winston-Salem served as pres ident from that date until this meeting, when Dr. B. R. Lacy of Richmond, Va., was elected as president. Three vice presidents were elected: Major R. M. Hanes of Winston Salem; L. B. Grayton of Charlotte; and L. L. Mallard of Raleigh. . CN. Burgess of Raleigh was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the reunion. There were about 100 present. A reunion will be held at Fort Bragg again next year. It whs thought better to hold them each year than tri-annually. Next year it will be decided whether or nqt it will be held each year or every third year. Those attending seemed to enjoy the reunion to the fullest extent. Os the 25 Chatham boys serving in this regiment, the following were in attendance: W. G. Burns of Orange burg, S. C.; C. E* Dorsett of Win chester, Va.; Prof. W. R. Thomp son of Pittsboro; J. C. Harmon of Pittsboro; R. W. Vann of Mount Vernon Springs; T. B. Beal of Bear Creek. There were people from Maryland, South Carolina and Vir ginia in attendance and possibly other states in the union. «e- *************** * - * * Asbury News * *************** The Asbury School will begin in September with the same teacher in charge, namely, Miss Margaret 'Johnson. The trucks will go to Pittsboro ■< and Goldston with the higher grade pupils. The revival meeting starts at Asbury hte third Sunday in Aug ust. Rev. T. A. Johnson will assist pastor Chaffin. The services will be at 3 p. m. and 7:45 in the evening. Miss Margaret Johnson and Mrs. J. W. Johnson got up a shower consisting of various articles and .money for Misses Mildred and Mar garet Williams at the Sunday School last Sunday, each class giv ing gifts and money. Also the gen eral collection went to them. These girls have beensick for some time, 1 but are better now. * / Subscriber# at Every Postoffice and All I. F. D. Routee ia Great Geaatjr #1 Ckatbaae, VOLUME 25—NUMBER 46 || CURRENT COMMENT ■ 1 The tumult and shouting raised i» Chicago when two new-born babies •were mixed in a hospital, makes it seem that we are not yet educated up (or down) to the point where we can agree, with Plato, that offspring should be scrambled in a common throng, to be nurtured and educated by the state. Filipinos who do not like an offi cial sent to govern them, throw copies of his books into the ocean Those who are not interested in farm relief might show their disgust for the agriculturalist by purchasing a few elevators of grain, and burn ing it up. Perhaps the real problem, of the Farm Relief Board is to find some means for spreading the Fili pino point of view, and thereby make unpopularity relieve over=- production. New Yorkers who are working for the abatement of noise, favor small fines persistently levied, and claim that they are more effective than thousand dollar threats, which it will pay a wrong-doer to oppose. Not many over-time parkers could withstand a half dozen arrests per day, each with an expeditiously col-» lected half-doller fine, and Gotham’s suggestion will bear wide consider ation in connection with petty mis demeanors of many kinds. As to the ’ exorbitant, uncollectible fine, few figures in fiction are more ridicu lous than the Queen, in Alice in Wonderland, whose term for indi cating even mild displeasure, was; Off with his head! No one who has travelled upon the net work of motor bus routes which is spreading over the land, will be surprised or displeased to learn that there are about ninety-three thousand vehicles of that description, in use. The coming of the motor bus however, has marked the passing of the jogging steamer, the narrow gauge railway, and the trolley, fill of which seemed to -have time to wind about, and carry-the pass-r -. enger by much that was pleasant to view. It is by no means all gain and no loss wit the bus rider, but after all, it will require a good deal of argument to overthrow any line of reasoning * that rests on the axiom that a straight line is the shortest distance between two po'inst. <§> PITTSBORO SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER FIRST The Pittsboro school will open Monday morning, September Ist., at 8:45 o’clock. Due to increased enrollment of the school, a formal ! opening exercise for the public will be omitted. In the past much time has been devoted to speech making and other conventional ac -1 tivities, with little being accom plished toward school organization. So pupils may come prepared to classified and assigned to his spend the day. Every pupil will be proper section or grade. In some of the grades where a division is necesitated because of crowded conditions, intelligence tests, will probably be given in order to secure homogenous groups. Much time and money can be saved by both school and elementary pupils if they will bring all second hand books they have for sale. The school wants to cooperate in every way possible in making the school efficient with the least financial burden being imposed upon the parents. Theire are jptfacticaKly enough second-hand books in the possession *of the pupils to fur nish the entire school. So gather them up and bring them Monday morning. , All school truck drivers will make their specified routes Monday mor ning and will try to schedule their time so as to be here promptly* The school appreciates the splen did cooperative spirit shown by the patrons in the past. The faculty members hope to be able to show their appreciation of this fine » spirit by a loyal devotion to the cause for which they are employed The following is a list of fac ulty members with their home ad dresses and teaching positions; J. S. Waters, principal, Pitts boro; Mrs. G. H. Brooks, Sr., His tory, Pittsboro; Miss Kate Coble, Science, Greensboro; Miss Mellie Boggan, English, Silver City; Miss Martha Patrick Archbell, Foreign Languages, Elizabeth City; Mr. Frank Barclay, Mathematics, Pitts boro; Miss Margaret Siler, First grade, Siler City; Miss Ethel Lee 'Low'ery, First grade, Morven; Mrs. E. E. Williams, Second grade, Pittsboro; Miss Mattie Sue Hatch, Second grade, Charlotte; Miss Bessie Chapin, Third grade, Pittsboro, Miss Mary Dell Bynum, Fourth grade, Pittsboro, Miss Ruth Halt, Fourth grade, Morven; Miss Ena Dell An derson, Fifth grade, Timmonsville, S. C.; Miss Della Wilson, Sixth grade, Newton; Miss Edith Gain, Seventh grade, Lawndale; Mrs. H. A. Bynum, Music, Pittsboro.