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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
School Girl
Badlv Hurt
£j r l Leaving School Truck
Run Over By Rushing Milk
Truck Driven by Thad
p erry —Agnes Campbell in
Hospital.
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Agnes Campbell, daughter of Mrs.
Joshua Campbell, whose husband
t iieil in Pittsboro a few days ago,
Y ‘ i; terribly broken up when she
run over Monday evening by
a milk truck driven by Mr. Thad
Pern. The girl had both legs
broken and her knee caps dislo
cated or broken. Dr. Mcßane was
called hastily and hurried her to
a Durham hospital.
The Campbells moved last year
from Pittsboro, where they had
lonsr lived, to a place near Rock
Spring church, between Pittsboro
and Bynum. Agnes continued to
come to school at Pittsboro, and was
on the school truck Monday even
ing. returning home. The truck had
stopped for her to get out. But
instead -of stopping, as the law
requires of automobile drivers when
they see school trucks stopped on
the highway, Mr. Perjry rushed
ahead, passing the truck just as
Agnes stepped from it to cross the
road to her home. The tragedy re
sulted.
The young girl is fourteen or
fifteen years of age. Much sym
pathy is felt for her and her wid
owed mother, and -there is no
lack of indignation at the reck
lessness of the driver, who should
have well known that law required
a stop under the circumstances.
Farming to Some
Real Purpose
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The following article from the
Dunn Dispatch should interest any
cotton or corn grower. Be sure to
note what is said about planting
soy beans between com rows, and
realize that it cannot be done with
rows four feet apart *as com is
planted, in Chatham, Here is the
article:
“Last Saturday morning we had
the pleasure of a visit to a cotton
farmer of whom Carl Fitchett said,
“He just sits back and watches it
grow, for he knows when to tackle
it and when to let it a’one.” The
farm of Mr. Claude Pope, one of
our County Commissioners.
We saw there one hundred acres
in cotton and ail of it good cotton.
Some of the stalks have as high as
one hundred and forty bolls to
the hill is maintained. Mr. Pope be
lieves he will average two bales to
the acre and to our unpracticed eye,
it certainly looked as if he would.
Mr. Pope is one of the progressive
farmers who has learned that it pays
to mix his own fertilizer an ap
proximates a saving of SSOO dollars
by so doing.
A Texas breed of cotton is used
on the Pope farm and because of the
fact that he has used an improved
seed, his seed is more valuable than
the lint at the present prices.
But cotton is not all that is raised
on the Pope farm. Luxuriant com
from which Mr. Pope expects to get
forty bushels to the acre was another
sight worth seeling. Between the
rows florished an equally luxuriant
growth of soy beans, another evi
dence of the fact that Mr. Pope is a
good farmer. The soy bean being a
nitrogen producing crop, puts fer
tilizer into the soil faster than the
corn takes it out and Mr. Pope es
timates a yield of twenty-five bush
es to the acre from his bean crop.
Fourth Generation
At St. Mary’s.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shands of
Gainesville, Flordia, arrived the
first of the week, accompanied by
tbeir daughter, Miss Elizabeth, who
n ma triculating at St. Mary’s School,
Raleigh, making the fourth in four
successive genena/tkynis to attend
that famous school. The first of
the series was the young lady’s
great-grandmother, sister of Capt.
and Major London, following her
Was that lady’s daughter, Miss Snow-
Uen > now Mrs. Walter Hawkins;
” ex t came Mrs. Shands, daughter of
Mrs. Hawkins. The fourth entrant
is a bright and attractive young
. a dy, well able to hold her own, we
Judge, with any of her ancestors’
records or to match the abilities
.her own mates at St. Mary’s.
Mr. Shands is a state highway
jommissioner in Flordia and has
loyally stood by the governor of
n , !s state in recent contentions down
nere. He and Mrs. Shands will
*M.end the remainder of the week in
pittsboro with relatives, including
Mr and Mrs. Hawkins, who are
summering here.
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Santiago, Chile.—Many students
1 the University of Chile are
growing beards. They insist they
Ll remain unshaven until some
x Pelled classmates are reinstated.
state \
Ihe Chatham Record
J. W. Bailey to
Sneak Here
Democratic Senatorial Candid
ate to Address Chatham
County Citizens at Pitts
boro, Saturday Next.
At 2:30 o’clock, Saturday, Sept.
27 th, Him. J. W. Bailey, Demo
cratic candidate for the U. S.
Senate, will address the citizens of
Chatham county at Pittsboro.
Mr. Bailey’s reputation as an ora
tor is well known in Chatham
county. Moreover, the county gave
him an overwhelming majority in
the contest with Senator Simmons
last June. Accordingly, it is hoped
that a great throng of both men
and women will be present to hear
him discuss the • issue of the cam
paign. Bring your Republican friends
and then come with them to hear
Mr. Pritchard if he
A Chatham Lady
Travels in Mexico
(By Mrs. S. F. Maddox)
•Guadalupe, the most popular and
sacred shrine in all Mexico, is to the
Mexican what the Ganges is to the
Hindus. The sight-seer will visit the
elaborate 17th century church, which
commemorates the apparition of the
Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, a
simple Indian, converting his “ayate”
into a beautiful “tilma” bearing
his image, which is still preserved
in a frame of pure gold, occupying
the center of the high altar in the
basilica.
We next visit the 'Chapel of the
Well, another celebrated spot in
Mexico. In the center of the chapel
is a fountain of sulphur water,
1 which, according to tradition, gushed
forth on the spot where the Virgin
. stood when she appeared to Juan
Diego. Directly across the street
are .the stone stairs leading to the
summit of Tepeyoe Hill, the burial
place of Santa Ana, the general
who opposed General Taylor in the
Mexican war. The “stone sails”
were gifts of sailors saved by the
Virgin in answer to prayers during
a storm at sea.
During the many religious fes
tival days of the year, Guadalupe
presents a most animated scene.
The population of 10,000 by the
pilgrims who crowd in from all
over the Republic. After passing
through the village of San Juan we
arrive at the archeological zone
which is under Federal control,
where the famous pyramids of the
sun and the moon are located. Those
prehistoric structues antedate those
of the Aztecs and Toltecs. In fact,
their origin is lost in antiquity.
Archeologists assign to them an an
tiquity greater than ever that of the
pyramids in Egypt.
The pyramid of the sun, because
of its massive proportions, is not
only the outstanding monument of
the ancient city of Teotihuacan,
but the largest artificial mound on
the American continent. It is 760
feet long, 722 feet wide, and 216
feet high. On its summit once stood
a colossal statute of a single block
of porphyry, facing the east. The
statue was adorned with a heavy
plate of gold on which the rays of
the sun rested each day. On the
western side of the pyramid of the
sun is a series of steps leading up
to the top, whence a magnificent
view of the country is obtained. The
pyramid of the moon is 151 feet
high, with a base measurement of
426 by 511 feet, and, like its com
panion, is terraced.
On the south of the pyramid of
the moon lies the “Street of the
Dead”, which is the central through
fare of the city. On either side of
this street are small mounds, which,
according to tradition, were tombs.
These ruins are called a “roofless
Westminster Abbey”.
Facing the park near the foot
of the pyramid of the sun is a
museaum holding »an interesting
collection of relics. Few countries
have such a variety of scenery as
has Mexico. It is a land of con
trasts and of exquisite color. Snow
capped peaks rear their ice-crowned
pinnacles against warm tropical
skl6'S*
With its sunshine and flowers,
its unique and romantic peoples,
its grand cathedrals and ancient
ruins, Mexico offers a veritable
mine of golden travels.
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SCHOOLS MUST HOLD
SIX HOURS A DAY
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Complaints having reached the
Board of Education of Anson
county that some of the schools run
less than the six hours a day re
quired by law, the Board last
week gave notice to all principals
that on the first proved complaint
of this kind the salary of such
principal will he curtailed and for
the second offense he will be dis
missed.- So it looks like the children
of Anson are in for six full hours
exclusive of recesses —a “terrible”
hardship.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930
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• Photos from Wide World Photos
THE WORLD’S LONGEST
This important connecting link between the Lincoln Highway and
San Francisco is the longest purely highway bridge in the world. From
bedrock to the highest bit of steel the v structure is equal in height to a
thirty-eight story building. It costs $6,000,000 to erect.
Jury List for
Criminal Court
For Term of Court for Trial
of Criminal Cases Begin
ning Monday, October 20.
The following names have been
drawn for jurymen for the term of
court beginning October 20:
D. L. Burns, Clay Whitehead, W.
T. Johnson, John Hart, Everett
Wicker, P. T. Tucker, Walker Far
rell, Ernest Brooks, George Mclver,
Connie Oldham, D. F. Phillips, Roy
Br afford, Raymond, L. Moore, B.
A. Perry, J. A. Ellis, Moody Burns,
W. E. Brooks, J. O. Kelly, N. T.
Smith, A. M. Cotten, J. W. Phillips,
O. G. Gunter, Street Brady, A. J.
Council, Roddie Mclver, J. B.
Teague, J. E. Lassiter, W. C. Hen
derson, Jas. A. Hargrove, R. L.
Ward, Cicero Smith, Commie Fox,
Hugh Cole, Tucker S. Perry, Hoyt
L. Perry, Dexter Sizemdre, T. P.
Murchison, Gaston Andrews, A. M.
Goodwin, Clyde Stephens, Will Nor
wood, R. L. Beall, Qrem Hilliard,
and George Thompson.
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Odd and
Interesting
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Plymouth, England.—There’s a
difference between Lady peath,
flier, and a merchant over payment
for dresses, and the merchant is
trying to force her into bankruptcy.
Papers were served upon h.er
aboard a liner on Sunday and be
cause it is feared service was illegal
an attempt will be made again in
France.
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New York. —Edgar Allen, who
once managed Peaches Browning
in vaudeville, is suing her for the
return of gifts. City marshals
visited her apartment and demanded:
Two candelabra, one cocktain set,
one copper coffee set, one drawing
room lamp, two sets of books, blue
pajama coat, one ring, one bridge
set, twelve gold dishes, one lem
onade set. They went away with
some of the articles.
Newport, R. I.—On Sir Thomas
Lipon’s yafeh Erin and Shamrock
V flies a blue flag depicting the
British crown in gold with a red
bloody hand under it. It is the
burgee of the Royal Ulster Yatch
Club. The legend is that a sailor
in days of yore cut off one hand
and threw it on the beach, v winning
a race technically, since the condi
tion was the winner should be
determined by the first oarsman to
reach shore.
Peiping—What’s a war when one
has a private golf course? Marshal
Chang Hsueh Liang, Manchurian
warlord, is remaining neural in
the present Chinese turmoil, finding
excitement enough on his links in
his daily game of tennis.
Madrid—Brooklyn’s bullfighter is
in bad because of a novel color
scheme. Sidney Franklin started
the fans with a suit of salmon
pink embroidered with white lacings,
and they booed lustily, the well
dressed matador always has a scar
let cape and gold braid, the colors
of the Spanish flag.
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New York.—Wall street brokers
are to burn the midnight oil in
Central Park. Tickets and tape
are to be among the decorations at
a society dinner dance in the casino
. tomorow night.
Major Stedman
Cannot Live
1 Most Distinguished Living
. Pittsburgher Dying in a
Washington City Hospital—
Born in Pittsboro Ninety
Years Ago.
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■ Major Chas. M. Stedman, the
' last Confederate Veteran to serve in
Congress, lies near death’s door in a
1 Washington City Hospital, as a re
sult of apoplexy and the general
debility due to extreme age.
Major Stedman is a native of
Pittsboro, and from this old village
entered the Confederate army, in
which he rose to the rank of major.
’ After practicing law here for
several years after the surrender
of General Lee, with whom he
served, Major Stedman moved to
Wilmington and while living there,
if the writer recalls correctly, was
chosen lieutenant-governor. He later
moved to Greensboro and in 1904 j
was a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor against R.
B. Glenn, who was the successful
contestant.
Finally the Major was elected to
Congress from the Fifth district, and
has served several terms. Senility
caused him .to decline to be a can
didate to succeed himself this year.
However, he has one more session
of Congress to serve to complete
his term. His death, accordingly,
will mean an earlier vacancy. Frank
Hancock of Oxford is the nominated
successor, and would probably be
nominated by the district executive
committee for the short term, and
be elected this fall, thus entering
upon his duties in Congress a year
earlier.
Major Stedman has no immediate
relatives here, though numerous re
mote ones in the county. It has been
many years since he has visited his
native village and there is scarcely
a citizen of the town who recalls
his residence here. However, it is
a distinction to the old town to be
the birth place of so distinguished
a soldier, citizen and law-maker.
His death will remove the last
participant in the civil war, on
either side from the halls of Con
gress. , s’
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WHAT WOULD BEN
FRANKLIN SAY?
(News and Observer)
In one year farmers increased
their potato crop 142,000,000 bush
els and received for their bigger
crop $242,000,000 less than for the
small crop of the previous year,
according to Arthur Brisbane, who
also points out that in 1924 farmers
got $300,000,000 more for their
corn crop of 600,000,000 bushels
bigger. Mr. Brisbane says “it doesn’t
apply to automobile.”
The morals are: (1) The farmers
should not follow the advise of B.
Franklin to work hard and produce
all the land can bear, because the
bigger the production the less the
income, and (2) no business pays
in which the seller has no voice in
fixing the price be receives for his
product. Steel pays, both because it
gets a subsidy through high tariff
rates from consumers, and the men
who make automobile and steel have
the chief voice in fixing the price.
As long as the farmer cannot
have any part in fixing the price
of what he raises, how can he
evpect euality with industry?
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New York—The doom of jazz
dancing is foreseen by Thomas M.
Sheehy, president of the dancing
masters of America, who are in con
vention assembled. He expects that
classis and conservative steps will
be popular and that bathing suits
with Victorian frills will replace the
suntan style.
County Court
In Session
Several Cases Disposed of at
Monday’s Session of Judge
z Bell’s Court
From over in the White’s Bridge
community came charges of chicken
stealing against Taft Rives, George
Rives, and Jerry Rives. Taft was the
first fellow to be caught up with in
the lot. He stole a chicken from
Mr. O. S. Rives last week, the story
goes, and tied its feet with a strip
from his Shirt tail. As he carried
the chicken to the store to sell it,
it broke the improvised string. Taft
let the broken parts fall and con
cerned himself about another string,
which he got from the same shirt
tail. New, Mr. Rives plays the part
of Hawkshaw the detective, finds
the shirt tail string in the read and
at the store learns that Taft had
brought a chicken tied with a
string matching the one droped
on the road.
Taft and George are brothers and
neither has any sense to spare. Taft
' owned up to the larency of the
Rives chicken and told of him and
Jerry Rives, an older man, catch
ing one -of Mr. Hubert Fields'
chickens, but he denied that on the
stand, saying that he had told the
sheriff the other story when ha
piqued him. George had also owned
to carrying a chicken, along with
Taft, to Mr. George Smith’s store,
but denied it on the stand. Their
mother, a sensible woman and ap
parently of good character, said she
had given a chicken to the boys to
sell at Mr. Smdtjh’s. Jerry l got
clear. The two witless boys got
three and two months on the roads.
Budd Davis, on the charge of
drunkenness and disorderly (con
duct, was given a 6 months sentence,
on condition that he might be hired
out to C. J. Beckwith after payment
of court cost® and $8 into court for
A. C. Fowler.
Raymond Gooch, in connection
with the same wine party, got a
three months sentence, but was
given 24 hours to get out of the
county.
Dennis Headen and Mark Guthrie,
for injury to a highway truck,
under the charge of malicious in
jury to personal property, were
sent to the roads for four months
and 30 days respectively. The young
| darkeys are said to have tried to
start a truck belonging to the
county and practically to have
ruined the tires in their attempt.
It is reported that the damage was
something like a hundred dollarrs.
They were got county employees.
Elmer Perry, who was sentenced
in June to 8 months on the roads
on a liquor charge but appealed,
abandoned his appeal and has begun
the serving of his sentence.
JUNIOR CHORAL CLUB FOR
SANFORD
Os interest to the young people of
Sanford is the organization of a
junior choral club, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Shannonhouse, of Pitts
boro. Mrs. Shannonhouse has offered
to come to Sanford once a week
to give the young people of the town
the opportunity of receiving free
instruction in choral work. All of
those who know Mrs. Shannonhouse
personally or all those who have ever
observed the results of her efforts
in pageants, cantatas, or choral
work will realize what an oppor
tunity it is for the young people to
be associated with her both per
sonally 'and professionally. Those
benefiting by her instructions will
render the services in the Episcopal
church each Sunday morning. The
public is cordially invited to attend
these services, the first of which will
be given in the new church on Sun
day, the 14th of September.
The following girls have already
signified their interest in the pro
ject: Jewell Stout, Comeila Atkins,
Julia Chaffin, Barbara Kelly, Ste
phaine Newman, Edith Makepeace,
Louise Gilliam, Helen Howard 1 ,
Evelyn, Gladys and Alice Lawrence
Doris Suzanne and Geneva Cooper.
The meetings are held every W eanes
day afternoon at 3:30 in the new
Episcopal church. It is hoped that
other organizations in town will use
the services of these girls when they
have developed under the training
into more expert choiristers. Any
one who is interested in joining this
club should consult Mrs. Shannon
house.
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One of six hundred men admitted
to the Ohio bar is a policeman,
and- the papers comment on the ad
vantages of having cops who know
the law first-hand. They have not
mentioned the fact that the incident
suggests an outlet for the overplus
of lawyers, nor have they spoken
of the function of legal training
as a means for teaching its stud
ents to think first and act after
ward. ith police officers recruited
from the ranks of the bar, lega.
prudence wil cause fewer illegal
arrests, and the lodgement of fewer
balls from police pistols in the
bodies of petty offenders who, at
most, ought to be smacked with a
club, or held for a $5 fine.
S«ba«ribws at Ev«r j
Postoffie* ud AB E
P. D. Rentas In Greet
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VOLUME 25—NUMBER 50
P-T. A. Meets
Teachers Welcomed—Mrs, J.
H. Cordon Again Becomes
President Well - Equipped
High School Library Objec
tive.
A large number of parents were
present at the Parent-Teachers meet
ing Friday evening to welcome the
teachers.
Mr. D. L. Bell, vice-president,
opened the meeting and stated that
Mrs. George Brewer had found it
necessary to resign the presidency,
to which she was elected last spring.
Nominations being called for, Prin
cipal Waters nominated Mrs. J. H.
Cordon, who had so accaptably
served before. The election was un
animous, whereupon Mr. Waters
spoke feelingly to the excellent work
Mrs. Cordon 'had done here in P-T A.
work and of the fine spirit she
had shown in again accepting the
presidency.
Officers and Committee chairman
for the coming year are: Mrs. J.
H. Cordon, president; D. L. Bell,
first vice-president; Mrs. George
Brewer; second vice-president; Mrs.
V. R. Johnson, secretary; J. T.
Moore, treasurer; J. S. Waters, pro
gram chairman; Mrs. W. P. Horton,
library; Mrs. G. W. Blair, social
chairman; Mrs. E. R. Hinton, hos
pitality chairman; Mrs. F. C. Mann,
chairman membership committee;
Mrs G. W. Brewer, chairman ways
and means committee; Mrs. Wade
Barber, chairman grounds committee;
Mrs. R. H. Hayes, chairman health
committee; Mrs. G. H. Brooks, Sr.,
chairman publicity committee; Mrs.
Shannonhouse, chairman music com
mittee.
Mrs. Cordon placed as an objec
tive for the year a well equipped
high school library.
At the close of the business meet
ing the following musicical program
was rendered:
•Solo—All the World is Sunshine.
—Mrs. R. H. Dixon, Jr.
Reading—No Time to Laugh.—
Miss Elizabeth Blair.
V ocal Duet—Little Sunflowers,
Good Night.—Misses Bessie Chapin
and Mary Dell Bynum.
Instrumental Duet—Mesdames W.
F. Bland and Victor Johnson.
Mrs. Victor R. Johnson, Sec.
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Cotton Co-Op to Give
Out $200,000 Soon
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Approximately $200,000 will be
distributed by the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso
ciation within the next few days to
members who delivered cotton of
the 1929 crop to the seasonal pool
of better grade than 7 / 8 inch
middling, said Vice-President and
General Manager, U. B. Blalock,
today.
A basis of settlement .has been
agreed upon by the Association
with the Federai Farm Board where
by with cotton in the seasonal pool
will get their premiums for grade
and staple as was announced when
the 16 cents per pound loan was
put into effect last fall. The 16
cents per pound loan was later re
duced to 15 cents and members
who drew only .15 cents, basis
middling 7/8 inch, will get an
additional 1 cent per pound.
Statements and settlement checks
are now being made up in the
Raleigh office of the Association
and they will be released about the
isth or 20th of September when
the money for settlement from the
Federal Farm Board becomes avail
able.
Since the 9 cents per pound
advance on middling 7/8 inch cot
ton of this season’s crop was an
nounced a few days ago by the
American Cotton Cooperative Asso
ciation, interest in the Cotton Grow
ers Association has been very great
ly stimulated. New membership con
tracts are coming into the Raleigh
office of the Association without
solicitation as if the delivery season
were alreac|y underway. Several
contracts have been received dur
ing the past few days from pro
ducers who will deliver a thousand
bales or more each. This is indica
tive, said Vice-President and General
Manager, U. Benton Blalock, that
farmers are not going to sacrifice
their cotton at the present market
levels.
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Washington—The busy bee has
been increasing the cherry and ap
ple crops. Dr. E. L. Sechrist, who
has been touring for the depart
ment of agriculture, has found such
things as an apple crop increased
from 1,400 bushels to 6,000 and
44 pounds of cherries obtained from
one tree instead of four pounds. A
hive is placed under trees. The bees
polinize sterile trees and those that
have small yields^
New York.—ln the Fifth Avenue
mansion of Miss Ella B. Wendel, 78,
heiress to vast realty holdings, and
last of her line, a small white
poddle dines in state with her when
she is in the city. The poodle
sleeps in a high-backed bed, twin
to the one his mistress occupies.