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A Pap«r with a Prastiga of | Half Can* Coat ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. Predicting A Fine School ® The Pittsboro school has an en rollment of near six hundred al ready. But it is not the number the Record is so much interested in as ♦he quality of the work done, or to be done, by the institution. \\e confess to disappointment in the work of every North Carolina hWh school we have come in con tact with since our return from Louisiana. The first year we were here a daughter was in the senior lass and the work of the school vas particularly unsatisfactorily, for instance, the geometry class skipping ,*}i the original problems, and a half <] oze n pupils demonstrating the same proposition on the board at the iame time and having the privilege of copying from any of them that happened to know it. We took that a> an index of the work throughout the high school, whether correctly or incorrectly. When Mr. Waters became princi pal we became convinced the very first day that he was a man of un usualy fine native senes, but we also learned something less com p'hnientary, but remediable. The latter was rather a secret between principal and writer. It has ben interesting to note that earnest and sucessful attempt of the for mer to overcome the handicap which the writer had discovered. Nor has the writer lost any change to im plant in the minds of the prin cipal two ideas of his for a scohol, namely that the teachers should know something to teach and that the students should learn it. Mr. Waters has ben a real stu dent these, four years. His work at the University summer school, we have means of knowing, has been of extraordinary high grade. The teach ers under whom he has studied are convinced that he is a strong and coming man, as we are equal ly conviced.-x It has been the principal’s aim to raise the standard of the school as rapidly as possible. However, the infiltration of poorly prepared stu dents from the country districts which have been incorporated with the Pittsboro district has been a handicap, which is in a measure being removed as the years pass. Last spring two or three students were denied cUpl OTnas because of failures to pass examinations, and xhat fact was not only an indica tion of a higher standard set but an inventive or spur to the oncom ing classes to apply themselves. A few days ago, the principal assured us that no half-way work would secure the passing of the grades or graduation, and we have been shown a test which has been given to all the pupils of the school, which enables him to diagnose the work of both teachers and pupils. We have happened to hear a criticism or two of the school, or of Mr. Walters, personally, for the time given to this test, and since we believe our readers know that the editor of the Record knows a school work, we deem it to the advantage of all concerned that we here and now give our hearty ap proval of the test mentioned and predict that it will enable the school to improve very much in efficiency in the hands of Mr. Waters. As a physician cannot possibly prescribe successfully for the pa tient whose ailment has not been diagnosed, so it is impossible for a school principal to correct the ills of teachers and pupi’s unless he has a means of discovering those ills. The test in question has given the most complete means that the writer has ever seen and at a time of the school session when the inter pretation of the data in hand can be the most successfully used for the benefit of teachers and pupils. These tests give an idea and a fair one, of the native ability of the pupil and the capability of the teacher. For instance, there are two parts of the arithmetic test, the one, testing the' reasoning abi ity of the pupil and the other his skill in computation. The former is a God-gift; the latter is an ac quirement depending largely upon the skill and the diligence of the teacher. Take an instance that we noted and helped Mr. Waters in terpret. A pupil had made a very high grade on the reasoning part of the arithmetic test and too low a grade on the computation part. What was the interpretation? This: Here was a very bright pupil, capable of learning the computatoin w ? ork thoroughly and yet he had not done so. Accordingly, drill sufficient had mot been given by the teacher. A second example: A girl had nrade a very low grade upon read ing and understanding what she read, yet made a very high grade on computation in arithmetic in problems which required more un derstanding of reading than was needed to pass the reading tests in which she had failed. The test in reasoning in ardthmetib was also low. The facts were irreconceiv able except by supposing that the girl had got a chance to copy the computation work from another pu pil, which was easier to do than in almost any other test of the ten- What is to be done in that case? The answers are to be erased and the girl given a private second trial. The Chatham Record A SECOND MISTAKE MR. J. M. LEMON’S NAME IS USED IN COURT REPORT IN STEAD OF THAT OF BURNIS ALSTON. The editor was extremely un fortunate last week in copying the court proceedings from the docket of Judge Bell. He was doing the work in a hurry in order to get through before the judge wanted his docket, but the errors are really almost inexcusable. Just as in the case of Mr. A. J. Johnson, w-e got the name of the bondsman Mr. J. M. Lemons, instead of the name of the defendant, Burnis Alston. Fortu nately, the sentence was suspended or we should have, bad Mr. Lemons on the road for a whole week before we could get him off. This is being written before Mr. Lemons If the result is not the same or is good ais in the first test, cheating will be evident and the\ pupil can be warned against further such bad business. If the test should be up to the standard of the first, then there .is a peculiar fact and the failures in the other reasoning test must be discounted somewhat be cause of possible confusion in these earlier tests. Surely, a physician can not be expected to treat a disease properly if the patient lies about his pains and aches. And thus the record of each pu pil and a key to the effectiveness of the work of e*ach of last year’s teachers are in the hands of the principal. And this year’s teachers are forewarned to do additional work in the lines where there was a degree of failure last year. In many a man’s hands these tests would amount to nothing, but in Mr. Waters hands we expect to see them used to the great improve ment of the school. More and more the students are being put upon their guard against idleness. As ong as they have felt that a little work would put them across, a lit tle work was all that could be got ten. But the time has come when Pittsboro boys and girls if they pass the grades must actual.y learn something. Glotry be for that con sumation-? Again, Mr. Waters is very much pleased with the ability of h.is fac ulty and the spirit with which they are taking hold of the work. And the writer feels that cmly two things are now needed to make the Pitts boro school a real educational in stitution. The two are similar: Let the teachers become aware of how much bright boys and girls can accomplish, and let the pupils become aware of the same, and become de termined that they shialL not be downed by seeming difficulties. Many a teacher has never achieved her full quota of work under her teachers and seems un aware of the fact, or if they are slow coaches have never realized that there are quite a number of rapid coachqs whose school careers can be ruined and their very lives handicapped by fai.ure to spur them (into 'activity, and awaken them to their powers. If a teacher to use a figure of speech, should never have been able to jump more than two feet high and has the notion that nobody else can do more than that, it would be surprising if her pupils in fence jumping ever surpassed that mark. On the other hand, many a boy or girl ha(3 never learned that he can do things and lots of them, and that he has been wasting the larger part of his time in school. An hour in the; study hall up there ast session convinced us that the majority in the hall at the time knew precious little about studying and cared very little about achiev ing. Such fellows are injuring themselves (beyond {remedy. Car lyle has emphasized a hundred times that a king is a can man, the word king, being derived from the same word, meaning cam ...Accordingly, the boy who wishes to be a king that he is a can man. He must forget that there is such a word as can’t. We know boys in this school who can do three times as much effect ively as they have ever done even in their half-handed way. And we close this article by urging every boy and girl to improve himself or herself a person of abi’ity. Don’t be dummies, boys and girls, when God has given you real abilities. No; we must still say that the tests are igerving the superb pur pose of dividing/ the pupils of the into groups of more even ability. If the lack of application of a boy or girl has been the cause of his falling into the lower group, there is a remedy. Let him go to work and bring himself up to the level of the higher group. It is impossible to get the best out of bright and dull boyts and girls when yoked together—a>s impossible as it would be to get the best out of a team composed of a slow poke horse and and a race horse hitched to the i same buggy. Already the test of the eight grade has enabled Mr. Walters to ■' get a dozen or so bright boys and girls who were going to shirk Latin to join the Latin class voluntarily and with a feeling that they are the lads who can master what has been so long thought a bug bear, but which boys for a thousand years have been learning without diffi culty when they tried. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930. Court Cases. The county court am Session Mon day sent Jordan Thompson to the roads six months for general devil try but more specifically upon the charge of assault with a deadly wea pon, to wit, .an automobile. Fred Wicker, on a similar charge, got a suspended sentence of six months, on condition that he pay costs, pay S6O to Mr. T. P. Mur chison, whose child he ran over, breaking an arm, and not drive an automobile for two yeans, and give SIOO bond to guarantee these con ditions. even comes for a correction, and we hope that everybody who sees this will help kill the error. We most sincerely apologize to Mr. Lem ons. We think we shall wait for the cases to be recorded the next time, even if we miss getting them in the paper till the next week. *************** ♦ * Bear Creek News * * *************** Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hart of Burlington were Sunday visitors in the home of Miss Belle Beal. Mrs. W. G. Andrew and daughter Hazel, of Asheville, are visiting in and around Bear Creek. Miss Elizabeth Woody has left to take charge of her work as a teacher at Gibson. Miss Veilma Philips has entered Pineland Col'ege, Salemburg. Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Willett were week end yisibors in Danville, Va. Mrs. W. R. Highfield has moved to Coats where she has accepted work as a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Philips attended the Hough reunion oin the Yodgin River near Spencer. Mrs. J. W. Philips and children Joe and Vallie, were ;w|el(-tend visitors around route 2. <§> *;************** * Gulf News * * * *************** School opened here Tuesday the ninth wiith Miss Estelle Mclver of this place and Miss Esther Steele of Sanford as teachers. Mr. W. A.- Jones passed away at his home here Monday about 12 o'clock. He had suffered a stroke of parlalysis Saturday night and was in a critical condition until the end came. He had been in bad health for more than a year. He came to this community several years ago and was foreman at Carolina Mine. He was a native of Pema and it is expected his body will be sent to Williamstown for burial. Mr. Jones was a good citizen and the community will miss him. He is survived by his wife, two brothers and two sisters. Miss Helen Wicker left last week for Flora McDonald College, Red Springs, N. C. She being a senior there this year. Miss Annie Tyner left Wednesday for Elon College. Messers R. L. Oldham of Golds ton and Lynn Oldham of Erwin visited relatives here Sunday. A number of young people of B. Y. P. U. here enjoyed a weinie roast at the home of Viola Johnson Monday night. $ * * * Antioch News * *************** Mr. and Mm S. E. Oldham and children of High Point spent Sun day with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Oldham. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Wheeley of Durham spent the week-end with Mrs. Wheeley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Dowdy. Mrs. S. P. Dowd atnd two chil dren of the Mt. Gilead community were recent visitors in the home of Mrs. A. H. Oldham. Miss Gealnie Oild]f>im has re turned home after spending two weeks with her brother, Mr. S. E. Oldham of High Point. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Oldham and children of Yanceyviile spent Sun day with home folks. Mrs. Old ham and children remained for a week’s visit. Mr. and Mrs. George Mo-ore and son and Miss Annie Moore spent Sunday with relatives at Pittsboro. Miss Edna Dowdy left Tuesday to enter college:. Sunday As our preaching day at Antioch. Several are to be baptized. PARENT-TEACHER MEETING A meeting of the Parent- Teacher Association will be held in the school auditorium, Friday evening > September the 12th, at eight o’- clock. After a short business session there will be a reception for the teachers. It is hoped that the people of the .comm unity will avail themselves of this opportunity to meet the teachers. $ t Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Peterson, Jr., ■ of Clinton, were up to visit the for mer’s parents Sunday. MR. A. J. JOHNSON INJURED BY ERROR. We inadvertant'y did Mr. A. J. Johnson an injury last week in reporting court proceedings. We were copying from the notations on Judge Bell’s docket and came to this notation: “Case against defendants nolle prossed. S4O fine for de faulting witness Viola Burgess.” or words to that effect. Glancing up then to get the names of the de fendants, we accidently copied the names of the securities instead of the defendants, making it the case against Clifton Johnson and A. J. Johnson, instead of Will Bra sington and Clifton Johnson. If we had had any idea that it was Deputy Johnson and son whose names occured there, we should hace detected the ery.or. But there are more Johnsons than anything else in Chatham county, and if our attention had been called to the error we should not have yet knoown that we had reported a deputy sheriff -as charged with liquor selling. It was fortunate for us that it was not a case in which there was a conviction, for we should probably have had our good friend on the roads. It was prob ably the fining of the witness that caused us to fumble. That was rather unique and interested us. Viola Burgess, who was responsible for the charge against Brasington and young Johnson, seemed to be unwill ing to face the music, and that raises a strong presumption that even the boys were not guilty of the charge. Anyway, this should be sufficient to set the good deputy right before the bootlegging fraternity, as well as among any friends who might of the error. $ Mrs. Mary Gardner Dead Mrs. Mary Gardner, step mother of Mrs. W. F. Beard, who has been Beard for a number of years even before the death of Mr. Beard, died here Monday night. She had ben in feeble health for a considerable time, but became seriously ill Sat urday night. Death relieved her from the troubles of this life at one o’clock Tuesday morning. She was buried in the Pittsboro M. E. Church yard Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock, pastor Bailey conducting the funeral services. Before) marriage Mrs. Gardner was Mary Sikes of Bladen county where she* lived with her husband till his death, when she came to Mrs. Beard’s home. Fortunately, her nieces, Mrs. Jesse Barefoot of Sampson county and Mrs. Maggie Mathis of Dunn, had arrived the evening before having been informed of her crit ical i-lness. Those ladies were! ac companied by Mr. Barefoot. Mrs. Gardner was 80 years of age and the widow of a confederate veteran. „ She bad been drawing fifty dollars every six months as a pension. The last was paid in June and the next would have been due in December. The law provides that the next draft after the death of a pensioner shall be paid, thus providing for funeral expenses, pro vided that the death occurs within three months of the next pay time. Unfortunately, Mrs. Gardner died a week too early to secure the next payment. " 1 * THE GARDNER FUNERAL The funeral of Mrs. Mary Gard ner was held at the Pittsboro Meth odist church Tuesday afternoon. Rev. R. R. Gordon conducted the services, assisted by Revs. J. A. Dailey and Jonas Barclay. Mrs. Gardner was a member of the Bap tist church (here, but because of her family connection with Mrs. W. F. Beard she was buried in the Beard plat in the M. E. church yard. The most striking thing aboqt the funeral and burial was the large attendance of her step-rel atives. She was the third wife of her husband and there were two sets of step-children, of whom Mrs. W. F. Beard with whom she had long lived I s one, and there could have scarcely been a higher tri bute to her gracious character , than the coming of these step children and grandchildren a hun dred miles to attend the funeral. It spoke volumes for thei deceased lady and for the relatives too. Attending were: Mr . Herman Gardner, step son, from Roseboro, Mrs. M. H. Bullard, Bladenboro, Mrs. George Meivin, Stedman step daughters; W. C. Melvin, Danville, Va., Mr. -and Mrs. C. S. Melvin, Hope Mills, Miss Lilian Melvin, ; Stedman, (Miss Gertrude Melvin, Stedman, Mr. and Mrs. eech *Mel- vin, Fayettewille, Mrs. Lester Hales and Mrs. A. M. Hales of Bladen boro, Mrs. S. G. Bullard, Elizabeth town, Mr. Joe McDaniel, Elizabeth town, all step-grandchildren. With them was Mr. Jasper Edge of Hope Mills. As noted in a previously written article, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bare foot of Sampson county, and Mrs. Mathis of Dunn, actual relatives of Mrs. Gardner were presten. Numerous floral tributes and the presence of many neighbors indi cated the esteem in which Mrs. Gardner was hedd in Pittsboro. A car driven by Bal’y Buck Lee, colored, turned over on high way 75 Saturday night, broke an arm of his sister Marie, and bruised the driver and John Jackson right painfully. Funeral Service for Samuel S. Jackson BODY OF SAMUEL SPENCER JACKSON LIES IN PLAT IN EPISCOPAL CHURCH YARD WITH THOSE OF ELEVEN OTHES OF THAT NAME. The burial of Samuel Spencer Jackson Saturday made the twelfth of his name to be laid to rest in the plat devoted to the family in the Episcopal Churchyard here. The list includes three or four generations, and it /is safe to say that few, if any, family cemetery plats in the state are better kept or bear so many honorable names. The first of the Jacksons to be laid to rest here was the first Sam- ' born in 1787 and died in 1856. The name Samuel Spencer comes from that early gentleman’s grand father, Judge Samuel Spencer of Anison county, whose tragic end from an attack by a turkey gobbler while the Judge, in a feeble state of health, lay under the shade of a tree on his lawn—a story that should be familiar to every man and woman who ever read Moore’s or Wheeler’s history of the state. The mother of the first Samuel . Spencer Jackson was a daughter of the celebrated Judge Spencer. The first Samuel Spencer Jackson was the father of three sons, Jo seph J., Samuel Spencer, ll,and Hamilton Calhoun. Joseph J. Jack son was the father of Mrs. Henry A. London, Miss Carrie Jackson, Jonathan Worth Jackson and Sam uel Spencer Jackson, till, whose body was laid to rest Saturday. Joseph J. was born in 1817 and died in 1902. Samuel Spencer Jackson, II was bom in 1832 ond died in 1875. He was the first husband of Mrs. Moffitt, who died recently at Rich mond at the age of ninety or more, after a life of the greatest usefulness and honor. Hamilton Calhoun Jackson was born in 1836. He was a physician and his monument hears testimony to the fact that he died because of, or at least in, earnest service to his calling. All three of these brothers mar ried daughters of Governor Jonathan Worth, and two of the wives rest in the Jackson lot, Mrs. Moffit only having been buried elsewhere. The foregoing fact indicates that the sons and daughters of the three brothers were all doublie-finst cousins of whom a single representative child from each family was present at the burial Saturday, as was Mrs. Josephus Daniels, a daughter of a fourth daughter of Governor Worth, Mrs. Bagley who was mother of the hero, Worth Bagley, of the Spanish American War. Miss Carrie. Jack son is the only survivor of the children of Joseph J., Mr. Herbert Jackson, president of the Virginia Trust Company of Richmond, the only survival of the children of Samuel Spencer, 11, and Mrs. Hay wood White, of Raleigh, the only survivor of those of Dr. H. C. Jackson. Mr. Herbert Jackson, just men tioned, his son, Herbert 11, and grandson Herbert, 111, are the only surviving males of the Jackson name though other descendants are not so scant in number. As known to the readers of the Record, Samuel Spencer Jackson, 111 died suddenly in Los Angeles California, two weeks ago last Fri day evening. The body was embalm ed and on Monday evening of last week Mrs. Jackson started with it from her far away residence for the native village of her devoted hus band. She 'and the body arrived in Sanford Friday evening. Brought from Sanford, it lay in state in the London home here till Saturday afternoon. Though death had oc curred two weeks the de ceased appeared perfctly natural and as if he were only fallen asleep. Friends in Los Angeles had con tributed a shield of immortelles and other floral tributes, which ac companied the exceedingly hand- some casket. North Carolina friends also .eonttriiibuiy:(d many beautiful floral tributes. The funeral rites were conducted by Rector Shannonhouse. The pal: bearers weoe Arthur H. London, Dr. Isaac C. Manning of Chapel Hill, Fred C. Williams, Isaac S. London, Lacy Alston, Fred P. Nooe, George R. Pilkington, and John H. Andersen. Unfortunately Sheriff J. J. Jenkins, a class mate at the Uni versity of the deceased, only heard ’ of the burial in time to reach the churchyard for the services. In this connection, it is interes ting to note that Chatham county furnished three of the University ! graduates of 1886, when there were only 26 in all. The other, besides 1 Mr. Jackson and Mr. Jenkins, was < ‘ the late O. C. Bynum. The Manning 1 family had just moved to Chape’ 1 3 Hill, where the father was profes sor of law, and Dr. Isaac, now dead : of the medical school there,, was a student with these gentlemen. This was the first opportunity the relatives had had to meet Mrs. Jackson. She proved to be a most lovable lady. Unfortunately, her aged " father is very ill at his home in 1 Indiania, and she has had to leave 1 after three or four days at the t London home, for her father’s bed- S*fc>Mrib*rs at Every PmUMm fiad AB K. F« & R*«tw I* CNg VOLUME 25—NUMBER 49 *************** * * Chapel News]] *************** Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Witty and son and daughter, Billy and Linda, and Mr. Macon Moser all-of Greens boro, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Floy Lewis of Cottontail Club. Brother Dailey gave us a fine sermon at his appointment Sun day. Also we are glad to announce that Rev. B. L. Gupton will preach for us next Sunday night. Some of our people attended Sapling Ridge M. P. church Sunday where they heard an able sermon and a prayer for rain, which was answered that very might with a fine shower, reaching on down to Brown’s Chapel. Mr. Bill Lindley and family of Burlington spent the week-end with Mrs. Lindley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Mann. Mrs. Wilbur Lloyd of Orange county visited her brother, Mr. J. F. Durham Sunday. Mr. C. H. Lutterloh bought and gave to Mrs. Lutterloh a nice cow .last week as a birthday present. Thursday evening little Miss Marie Perry entertained a number of her friends on the occasion of her twelfth birthday. The guests were Misses Lois Henderson, Eloise Whit aker, and Mary Dell Whitaker who stopped over for the night on their way home from school and had a jolly good time. Miss Cornelia Henderson has been in Durham several days. Last Saturday evening two sur prise parties were given by the young folks of Brown’s Chapel and New Salem to Misses Allene Dark and Mary Dean. Ice cream and cake were served. The Dean party all drove over to the Dark party. It was a fine moonlight night for such a jolly gathering. We have been critized for pub lishing some .items while missing others, but we can publish only what we know and the church is where we gather most of our news. Gome out and let us know the news. We shall be only too glad to get it all straight. We have some friends who seem to delight in helping us out. Thesei letters are a voluntary community contribution on our part and the easier you make it to give the news the better. (Editorial note: And it would be impossible for the Record to publish as full reports from every community in the county as the Brown’s Chapel community secures.)\ Mr. N. B. Nixon recently spent a night in the home of Mr. I. W. Durham at Garrboro. Mrs. Lizzie Dark expresses the view that she is improving since her last treatment in Durham. Mr. A. F. Whitefcer suffered from one of Ms bad >head spells Saturday night. Mr. R. H. Lindley and W. K. Mann and family recently spent the day over near White Gross with Mr. Wilbur Lang. <§> MOORE-OLDHAM Mr. N. C. Moore of Wilson, N. C. and Miss Rena Oldham of Goldston, Route 1, were married Sept. 1, in Greenville. The bride is a daug ter of Mrs. S. D. Aldham. Mr. Moore is a prosperous tobacco farmer and owns a nice home near Wilson, besides a machine shop and a corn mill. The people of Mrs. Moore’s com munity wish them a long a/nd happy lives. A Friend DANIEL-LAMBETH Friends of the contracting par ties have received the following announcement: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Eugene Lambeth announce the marriage of their daughter Annie. Maxwell to Mr. Armand Turner Daniel on Tuesday, September the second 1930 Moncure, North Carolina At home after Sept. 8 at Mocks ville, North Carolina. Q All members of churches in group two of Sandy creek associ ciation are invited to meet with Sandy Branch church next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 Sept. 14, to see and hear Miss Pearl John son, also friends of other churches an d de no m i nati ons are given a cordial invitation V «come. Our Mrs. P. H.,StClair is expected to be there. Mrs. Gray Emerson. side. A second . bereavement is im J minent. Other attendants r-om a distance were Mr. and Mrs. H. M. London, of Raleigh, and son, Henry London, jr., also Rev. and Mrs. McLeod of Marston, the former president of the Presbyterian Junior College in that town, and the latter a daugh ter of the late Mrs. Currie, a sis ter of the deceased, who died in April, 1929. <§> Mr. George Bednert who has been in Pittsbotno during the summer, where he has been learning the business at the silk mill, has re turned to his home in New Jersey in order to enter college this fall. He will probably return next June, we hear.