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NOW IS THE TIME TO PAINT ! !! We are prepared to furnish you house, En amel, and Automobile Paints in all colors, and our prices are Right. Come to See US if You Need Paint of any Kind!! Lee Hardware Co, “THE WINCHESTER STORE.” SANFORD, N. C. STATEMENT JHLL OWNERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Des Moines, It . Condition December SI, 1929, as shown by Statement Filed. Amount of capital paid in cash...... ._ Amount ledger assets Dec. 31st previous year, $2,733a78 34 increase^ paid-up capital, f-__0 ;Total __!_32,733,178.34 I*°*?^ro^,?cPolicyhold€rs> $2,082,221.44; Miscdlaneuus, f*17>9o9.t>o; .—~—. ,— --- --._ Toal 82?00 1fil Rtsbursements to Policyholders 834,887.11, miscellaneous, 1,276,670.10'; -$2,111,557.21 Total _ or renewed during year, $311,511,794, All other risks—written or renewed during year, $86,265,837, In force____ -$224,443,946.00 $92,006,276.00 w _ ,, AbSETS Yaiae of Real Estate..... Mortgage Loans on Real Estate__ ▼aloe of Bonds and Stocks . ~ " i in Company's Office —$485,806.03 -$569,658.61 -.$1,400,027.71 $ 690.030 _$ 113,868.92 Mepoaited in Trust Companies and aBnksc on interest _ Agents balances, representing business written subsequent toOctober 1, 1929 -— — ;-—--$226,806.46 Agents balances, representing business written prior to Oc tober 1, 1929 ..._ ........ .. n 845 07 fctecest and rents due and accrued_ 109*368 26 AH other Assets, as detailed in statement . Total__. 13,488.96 —$2,931,560.32 Total admitted Assets__ -$2,866,484.50 LIABILITIES Net amount of unpaid losses and clnitng__ mgR mod premiums . Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, etc, due or _.$ 95,936.22 ..$1,258,899.72 Contingent commissions, or other charges doe or aesued AH other liabilities, as detailed in statement_ 44,589.94 22,086.00 1 Capital actually paid up in cash Surplus over all liabilities_ ■I -$0 .. $1,310,434.66 Surplus as regards policyholders Total Liabilities . -.. -$1,310,434.65 -$2366,484.50 BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1929 PI re risks written_____$77,604; Premium received, $20,851 All other risks written___. 43,129; premiums recived, $ 1.96 Losses incurred—Fire --.—_-$ 4,470; Paid $ 4.220 President, J. T. Sharpe, Secretary, H. K. Carson. Treasurer, Andrew J. Huglin. Home Office, 507 10th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. Attorney for service* Dan C. Boney, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, N. C. (SEAL.) STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Raleigh, April 9th, 1930. I, DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that the above la a true and correct abstract of the statement of the Mill owners Mu tual Fire Insurance Company, of uese monies, lows, Sled with this Depart ment, shewing the condition of said Company, on the 31st day of December, ab 1989. Witness my hand and official seal, the day and year above written. DAN C. BONEY, Insurance' Commissioner. STATEMENT INDIVIDUAL UNDERWRITES, New York City. CONDITION DECEMBER 31. 1919, AS SHOWN BY STATEMENT FILED. Amount of capital paid in cadi — -—._ —_ ,—$-0 Mger a wets Dec. 31, 1929, $2,613,013.56; Increase paid up capital,'*- ..... .0;. _______— -—TtriSl^ $2,613,013.56 Income—from policyholders, $710,473.67; Miscellaneous, $105,712.84; Total___'. „_•_$816,186.51 Total ______ _ _$ 706.351.58 Disbursements—to policyholders, $156,360,42; Miscellaneous, $501)01.16; Total_________$ 816,186.51 Mire Risk—written or renewed during year, $337,073,769; in force . Value of bonds and stocks . Cash in Company’s office . ASSETS *337,416,681.00 Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks net on interest _ Deposited in Banks and Trust Companies on interest_ Ants' balances, representing business written subsequent to October, 1929 $2,4371)41.27 274.91 18,579.59 199,626.37 Agents' balances, representing business written prior to Oc tober, 1929. 641*17.61 : and rents due and accrued . AH other assets as detailed in statement . 5*22.34 29,741.71 43,746.13 Total Leas assets not admitted $2,794,448.93 __$ 7,408.74 Total admitted assets . $2,7871140.19 LIABILITIES Net amount of unpaid losses and claims Unearned premiums . Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, etc., due or accrued . 37*32.75 565,060.93 Bstimated amount payable for Federal, county and municipal taxes due or accrued---s.— —;.., Contingent commissions, or other charges due or accrued All other liabilities as detailed in statement_-... 827.22 4,000.00 13*79.59 232,514.23 Total amount of all liabilities except capital Surplus over all liabilities __ Surplus as regards policyholders . ... _.$853,604.72 -$1*33*86.47 _$1,933,535.47 Total liabilities_ BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1929 Mg*, risks written _-.. ^ ..$1*96,700; Premiums received$ as incurred—Fire -. -.$ 661; Premiums paid, $ .$2,787,040.19 2,195 551 Buest W. Brown, Inc.. Attorney in fact. Home Office, No. 1 Paul Avenue, New York City . Attorney for service; DAN C.BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, N.C. Manager for North Carolina Home Office. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, Raleigh, April 16, 1930. L DAN C. BONEY Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct abstract of the statement of the Individual Un derwriter* of New York City, filed with this Department, showing the con dition of said Company, on the 31st day of December, 1929. (SEAL.) Witness my hand arid offici«l seal, ‘the day and year above written. DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner. ' MONCURE NEWS. Mrs. J. E. Moore spent several day last week with her sister at Golds boro. Miss Hetty Womble is spending thi week with relatives at Meggetti South Carolina. Miss Alma WaHen, the daughte of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Walden, wh graduated at Peace Institute las week, it as home for the summer. Sh also graduated in voice at this time. We are sorry to state that Mr. j V. Womble, who was teacher a White Plains High .School last year underwent an operation for appendi citis one day last week. We are glai to state that he is getting on ver; nicely, and his many friends hope fo him a speedy recovery. Rev. T. Y. Seymour filled his ap poitment at the Baptist church hen both morning and evening, Sundsiy and preached two splendid sermons. Mr. Edgar Moore, who was ridini his motor cycle on the highway, ha< a collision with a Ford car today I Monday), and was scarred up ver; bady about the head, but not sen ously. The Junior League met last Sundaj evening at 7 o’clock and held an in teresting meeting. The Senior League met at 7:3( o’clock, Mr. H. G. Self was the lead er for the evening, and gave a gooc talk on ‘‘Personal Inventory." Ev ery young person of the community should have heard this talk. The President, Miss Camelia Stejdman, pre sided over the meeting and announc ed a business meeting and s .cal combined to be held at her home, “The Cabin.” Monday evening at s'x o’clock. Much business is to be at tended to at this meeting, such as electing officers for the coming year, and also appointing delegates to the summer assembly at Louisburg, whn to W UC UCIU tlUIJ I Ut kU UU1. Sunday School Day will be held at Moncure Methodist-church next Sun day morning at 11 o’clock. The pub lis is cordially invited to be present. The Hurd Quartedly meeting will be held at oMncure Church in the af ternoon at 3:30 o’clock, Rev. W. A. Cade, the presiding elder, will be present at this meeting and also preach i vetnheenise preach in the evening at 8 o’clock. The public is invited to these services. A Mr. Smith, a registered drug gist of Washington, D. C., has been in town for several days on business. Route One of Lee county, has been consolidated with Sanford, Route 5, and is now served out of Sanford. A car load of new cars have been unloaded here today by “Moncure Chevrolet Company.” This company is doing a good business. Mr. Lyman Sevmour. the son of Rev. T. Y. Seymour, left one day last week to play in revival meetings over the State. He is engaged fo* most of the summer as pianist in revivals. BROADWAY NEWS Mrs. Hattie Thomas and Msec I/wi ise Kelly attended the graduation ex ercises of Miss Shellie Mae M^ffitt. of Marion, South las* Miss Frances Kelly left Monday for Greensboro, to b°gin her * Miss Helen Chandler is visiting Miss Lucille Thomas, at Siler City. Misses Clara Tho^a«? jy*»~'*-'<? Kelly spent last week with Annie Laurie and Louise Kelly. After a v«“rv long Olness Mis': Beulah Hai^ington is able to be ou£ again. . Mesrtames L J. Bums, W. O. Cog gins, W. T. Cheshire and Miss Leola Coggins and Wilbur Coggins went to Elon College last week for the gra duating exercises. Ralph Coggins was a H'**’ of o—’or n»oR They also visited Mrs. T. E. White and Mary and Charlie Hunt at the or Mr. J. A. Maddox and family at tend d the graduating exercises at Morgan ton Deaf and Dumb School last week their son Velven finished. Mr. R. M. Phillips and family, of Piedmont, S. C., are spending some time with his people. * Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Autry and children returned to Oeorm'a last Wed nesday after a visit to their people. Mrs. Walter Riddle, of Bynum, was a visitor at Mr. Foushee’s last week. Mr. Riddle came for her Sunday. Mr. CoBee Coggins, of. Hamlet, came. Friday for the Memorial at Miss May Hill McDuffie has as her jruest this week a cousin, Miss Mc jDuffie, of Bynum. Mr. Clarence Simpson, of Raleigh, is visiting his people. Miss Ellen McDaniel, of Durham, and Alice McDaniel, of Mebane, were recent visitors at Mrs. John Walters. Anyone wishing to see the old time ash hopper can do so at Mrs. W. O. Coggins’. She uses the ash hopper for making soap every spring. GOOD PEACH CROP Bent out rrom Kaleigh under date of May 27th, states that government re port gives North Carolina forecast of 1,914,000 bushels. The 1930 crop is expected to be much finer than last year’s as the peaches of 1930 are shy some 40 per cent as against 24 last year. Hie sandhill or commercial area, said the report, of North Carolina peaches contains almost half of the total bearing trees and more than hiflf the production. It is generally recognized that the commercial area is in better physical condition than for the past three years. On the other hand, home or farm orchards i have been sadly neglected. The com mercial growers are expecting to get a considerably better crop than they i did last year. Some 25 or 30 mechanics are now I busily engaged in constructing cars I at the Edwards Railway Motor Car Company plant which was recently reorganized and put in operation. The company has put on a good payroll and should the business increase a larger force will be employed. The company is now turning out seven cars for railroads in the Republic of Panama. The cost of these will be something like $100,000. CARD OF THANKS, We wish to extend our sincere ap preeiatlon to our many friends in Sanford for their-kindness, visits, flowers ,and inquiries during the ill ness of our dear one. We are es pecially grateful to the medical staff -and nurses at the Carolina H.sp.tat for doing all they could to alleviate iris sufferings. May God bless each of you. Gur great sorrow and our sad loss is tempered by the thought of your kindness. Mrs. Alex .McPherson and Children, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Me Phcr son, Cameron, N. C., May 31, 1930. ■T~ iaU-l Do You Believe In Spooks? A Former Sanford Man Repro duces an Essay He 'Vr.ote About the -Devil's 1 ramping Ground” Twent'-two V ears Ago—Wanted to Make an lMprni%n on a (iirl W ho Sat W Whto n School. Last week The Kaprew earned . a story about-“The IK-vii'~ 1 ramping Ground” in Chatham county. Seeing this article, a former Sanford man who now lives in South t arolina, re produced an essa. which he wrote while in a prep-sell " - years ago on “The Flat Woods," and The Devil’s Tfamping Ground,1 hoping that it would make an impression on a girl in the class with whom he was in love. Following- is the essay: “In the counties of Chatham and Randolph in Nortn Carolina, and ly ing north of the Village ut Harper’s Cross Roads, then is a section known as "The Flat Woods." lor miles upon miles the country vi and cover ed by a very heavy, almost impene trable growth of three- and under growth. There is no human habita tion in all. these uiihs ot territory. ‘‘Many weird tales '•Many weird tale> nave been told of what has befallen belated travelers overtaken by darkne.-s tn the road * •' great wild that passes through this gr “i'lear tne Center of the ‘Fiat Wooos and nsnig graunauy a lew honored yards iivui me mgnway, uiere is a corncai mil. un tne top of Uns inui tnere is a path f«. rmug a per feet circle some lorty xeet in an* in ever, ana a secona siraigm. fui crossing the center of tne circiee. fins spot has been known threugnout tne years ot' recorded history oi the county as 'Tne Devil s Tramping Ground.’ Although wire grass grows nowhere else in this section, it grows in luxuriant prolusion ins.de tms circle and around tne immediate outside of the circle. However, there is not now and there is no record of there ever having been any form of vegetation growing in either the cir cular path- Oflsrtlre path-crossing tne circle. These paths are as bare of growth as if a consuming fire were constantly smouldering in them. “Reports have come down through the years of numerous persons being chased at night'in the vicinity of the ‘Devil’s Tramping Ground' by some animal making a noise resembling the crying of a baby. “Knowing all of these things, it was with a feeling of genuine ner vousness that I found myself some years ago faced by the necessity of riding along the ‘fhtwoods’ highway on horseback near the hour of mid night “It was early December. The weath er was cold with dark, threatening clouds driven before a hurricane-like wind. After riding some distance I was startled by a flash of lightning and a deafening crash of thunder. It was bad enough to have to pass through the ‘Flatwoods’ and by the ‘Devil’s Tramping Ground' alone at midnight, but to be overtaken there in December by a thunderstorm add ed amazement to the already almost overwhelming feeling of awe. ^jpKn began falling in torrents and p a point about a half mile from The Devil’s Tramping Ground’, the horse I was riding, a sleek, fiery black with the Spirit of the wild in his veins, stopped suddenly. I urg ed him forward, but he would not move. I touched him with the spurs but he stood as if transfixed In his tracks, I could feel his body trembling beneath me as if he were freezing with fear. ‘‘Just at that instant there was a Vivid flash of lightning and I was terror stricken to note that the horse was standing with head high in the air, but turned to one side as if look ing up a tree. This struck me as most unusual and. in fact, uncanny, as I had seldom ever seen a horse look ing up into a tree. "Instinctively my gaze followed that of the horse and my heart seem ed to stop beating with the paralysis of indescribable fear, because there in the branches of a tree overhead were two fiery eyes peeringat me. Quit of lighting ' and I beheld a "At that W»« ■TlrttkoC dark' fsrnrhurltngS^eH ‘;f?eui 'the limbs of the me onziiy iowini me. It settled upon the home back ot me, two strong arms grabbed me in a vice-like grip— two icy hands were clamped upon my cheeks—and my face was pulled around over my left shoulder, where 1 found two fiery eye the size of the top of a teacup gaz ing into mine. The instant the form Bet tied upon the horse’s back, he plunged forward into the storm and was racing in terror with the speed of the wind. It was only a matter of a few seconds but seemed ages to me, before we reached a point on the road immedi ately opposite The Devil’s Tramping Ground.' As we reached this point the grip of the monster was released and it disappeared as suddenly as it had come. “Weak from the horror of the ex perience, I lost consciousness and top pled from the speeding horse. “The next thing I remember was a harsh voice saying, "What the devil is the matter with you any way? I warned you against eating that big raw potato,’—and as I pith ed myself up from tho floor and crawled hack into bed, I managed to gasp, for the information of my school roommate,—"Boy, I wish you knew how glad I am to ne in this bed. That wo s the most awful dread I have ever had.’’ SENATOR SIMMONS’ RECORD AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN BRIEF FumifoW M. Sommons, farmer, laywer. Statesman, Congressman, Senator for thirty years, Democratic State Chairman in six victorious campaigns; chieftain of. White Su premacy, general of the prohibition movement in North Carolina; co-au thor of the Underwood-Simmons Tar iff act and of the war revenue acts; Father of the Intra-Coastal Water way system; Tireless champion of farm r lief and- Soldiers’ relief leg islation; chairman of the Senate Fi nance Committee during Democrat ic control; able lieutenant and trust ed friend and counsellor of Woodrow Wilson; leader of the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee; member of the Democratic Steering committee of the Senate now and for twenty years past; and Dean of the United States Sedate." , ... The man who is not **tl**?f.e„ h a record like this is hard to satisfy. SANFORD ELECTRIC COMPANY SANFORD.. N. C. “Hello This is Sanford, N. C. We are Interested In This Book yQJJ 7 THE BANKER MANUFACTURER MERCHANT FARMER LAWYER DOCTOR '.'..'.iV E'*1' HISS* ITEM 5 riOW YOU P*Y PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE CLERKS RAILROAD EMPLOYES MECHANICS MIL HANDS MINERS LABORERS To All Who Carry Open Charge A counts with the Merchants of SANFORD and tributary towns: You Should Pay Them by the 10th or 15th of Each Month. If there is any valid reason why you can’t pay, then in, justice to yourself as well as the merchant you should call on him and explain the situation. He will receive you kindly, grant ycu more time. DO NOT FORGET—THE MERCHANT IS YOUR FRIEND Pay the Merchant, Doctor, Grocer, Druggist and others yo uowe and ESPECIALLY bills for a long period of time—these are rated in credit systems as over-due and delinquent accounts. Help us to show that the citizens of SANFORD (who carry charge accounts) are good paying customers! The Years of greatest opportunity for advancement in the South lie just ahead. As John Paul said: “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT” Other Tributary Towns in District: jbNESBORO, BROADWAY, CAMERON, VASS, PITTSBORO AND OTHER TOWNS. SPf?AGOLAX GOOD FOR NUBSING MOTHERS SAYS MRS HARRIS, OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Speagolax Medicine Co., Durham, N. C. Deaf Sira:— \ " I hare been troubled about eight year* with indigestion and other troubles until 1 was not hardly able to to go but dragged around some way. I have been taking Speagolax and it has done me so much good I will never forget it. I want to praise it to others. It is also good for nurs ing mothers. My baby has been fat tening every day since I started tak ing it and he is so much better. I think it is a good medicine for nurs ing mothers. MRS. MINNIE HARRIS, Reeky Mount, N. C. R. F. D, 2. Sold in Sanford by Acme Drug Co. ♦Among the leaders in our line for Over a Quarter of a Century* Special Prices on Asphalt Strip Shingles KING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, ROOFING AND SHEET METAL CONTRACTORS, SANFORD, N. C.