ATTEND THE SHOW
Tell Your Friends About The Lee
Livestock, Food and Poilftry
Show. October 9th and lfith.'
/ *, ' Get Your Exhibits Readji.
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VOLUME 46, Number 6,
§2.00 Per.Year. *
SANFORD, NORTH
Central North Carolina’s- Coining To
bacco .Market—Every Facility
For An Orderly Marketing
Of Your Tobacco.’
[A< SKPTEMBER 24. 1931. „ Published WEEKLY.
LEAF OPENS STRONG
SALES BLOCKED
ON OPENING OF
LOCAL MARKET
Nearly Two Hundred Thousand
Pounds Of Tobacco Are
Brought Here.
GROWERS WELL PLEASED
With one of the biggest
“breaks” in the history of the
market, the result being thut a,
large part of the day’s offerings
were carried over till the follow
ing day, the Sanford tobacco
market officially opened Tues
day for the 1931-32 season. A
total of 140,536 pounds of golden
leaf passed over the scales for
an average of $10.70 per hun
dred pounds. Total receipts for
the day’s sales were $15,114.31.
The flip of a small coin determined
the warehouse at which to hold first
sale, and soon the grand works were
inf motion. The 3-W Warehouse won
out in the toss-up and shortly the
deep, resonant voice of Bob Houston,
of Hopkinsville, Ky., the auctioneer,
resounded through the large ware
house, hundreds of farmers, eagei
and expectant, crowding about. .
This warehouse, all available floor
space of which was taken, engaged
the buyers for several hours after
which they moved down to the Farm
er's Warehouse, where around 40,000
pounds were sold, and then to TiUey s
where the warehouse also was filled
to capacity. The sales at Tilley’s
were halted late in the afternoon when
it became evident the entire offering
CUU1U I1UU UC DU1V1 --
The first load of tobacco of the sea
son to be brought to the Sanford mar
ket pulled into one of the local ware
houses Monday afternoon at 2 o clock.
By eight o’clock there was much to
haccn nn t.he floors of .ill three ware
houses and' this was followed by an
endless stream of weed, it seemed,
which continued to pour in until
Tuesday at noon. Tobacco from eight
me local floors, mu.... -- -=
brought from distances of fifty and
seventy-five miles.
While the average price paid for
the leaf did not materialize so high- -
ly as in past years, there was little
disappointment among those who
viewed- the sales. It had been gen
erally anticipated that prices would
be low, and the consensus among
many, after viewing Tuesday’s sales,
was that tobacco sold higher than
was expected oh the local market.
Large offerings of trash lugs and
, common tobacco, which sold at from _
fifty cents to $3 a hundred, served to
depress the general average paid.
The better grades, many thought, sold
handsomely. As high as fifty cents
a pound was paid for the select types.
One of the best sales noted during
the day was that made by Mrs. Ly
man Kittrell, of near Broadway, who
sold l,<fl.2 pounds here for an average
slightly above 23 cents.
One farmer, who had marketed
three baskets of tobacco here, was
heard to remark that he received
enough money for this small lot of
tobacco to pay off the entire indebt
edness he had incurred in producing
a crop this year.
Despite the hot weather—and there
were many who sold tobacco Tuesday
who did not recall ever having mar
keted it before on so warm a day—
there were several thousand people
here for the opening! Many brought
small lots of tobacco—one or two
hundred pounds—merely to test the
market. They went home well pleased.
The following, companies, together
with their buyers are represented on
the local market: American Tobacco.
Co., Mr. Manning, of Kentucky; Ex
port Tobacco Co., J. C. Burwell, War
renton; Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd.,'
Knox Hughes, City; R. J. Reynolds (
TobacCo Co.,. Ben Richards, Winston
Salem; Liggett-Myers Tobacco Co.,
Frank Joyce, Elkih. I
YOUNG MAN SENT [
TO COUNTY ROADS
Believed It Better To Make And
Sell Home Brew Than To
Steal.
Believing that the manufacture of
home brew for the purpose of sale
less of an offense against society than
theft, Kay Patton, young Swann’s
Station man, who attributed his way
wardness to the fact that he was
reared in town and did not know how
to farm, was sentenced to four months
on the Lee county roads Tuesday by
Judge Thomas J. McPherson in Re
corder’s Court.
A large quantity of home brew was
found on tne Swann Station man’s
premises by officers recently and
when brought to the bar of justice
he entered a plea of guilty. The de
fendant said he was brought up in
town, but living in a farming com
munity was Unable to obtain work.
A farmer, living in the same com
munity, testified he very often need
ed helif on his farm but had not been
ab1 o .hire. help,.
Tt developed that the defendant had ,
* answered to a similar charge in Judge i
McPherson’s court some months ago I
and upon conviction had been levied
with the costs. He had never made,
Settlement with the Court. j
. . The Court construed that Patton
had'interpreted lenience for license)
pnd sent him to the Lee county roads
for a term of four months, 1
.Sylvester Mclver, Manly and Red
^Carter were given 90 days for their
recent escape from the Lee stockade.
GINNERS REDUCE RATES
TO $2.00 PER BALE
Last season the ginnbrs
of Lee County charged $3.00
per bale for ginning cotton.
This season they have re
duced the price to $2.00.
The cost of ginning is sup
posed to come out of the sale
of the seed. At the pre
sent price of seed only $1.75
is left after the cost of
ginning a 500 pound bale of
cotton is met: If the cot
ton is raised by a tenant
the amount that it left af
ter the cost of ginning is
met is divided 50-50 between
the landlord and tenant,
each would get 87 1-2 Cents.
CAST COYETUOUS
GLANCES TOWARD
FEDERAL OFFICE
Sight Republicans Seeking Posi
tion As Sanford Post
master.
KENNEDY WANTS PLACE
Hivil Service Commission Sends
Out Questionnaire Re
garding Candidates.
Eight Republicans, all prominent
ly identified with, G, O. P. politics
in this section of the State, are
mown to be actively seeking the post
>f local postmaster, recently vacated
iy John W. Gilliam, and now filled
)y R. A. Kennedy, Who holds a recess
appointment from President Hoover,
rhe office, Which pays $2,800 per
year, is a very attractive one and is
in object of covetuous eyes on the
part of those who are disposed to
feed at the Federal pie-counter.
The names of. those seeking the
place, revealed in a questionnaire
mailed to fo>ty citizens in and abqut
Sanford last week, are: .~*r
R. A, Kennedy, former newspaper*5
recess appointment; "Carlos McLeod,
jookkeeper and former postmaster at
"artliagcf O. ‘F. Pattersoftj, merchant
iqd farmer; T. H. Lutterloh, drug
ristj John A. Gaines, drug clerk; N.
R. Bright, Sanford R. F. D. 4 farmer;
Paul P. Kelly, farmer; and Harvey
Kennedy, a brother of the present
ncumbent.
The. date of the examination has
lot yet been announced ' but it is
bought it will be in the near future.
When this is held the applicants
lapers will be graded and an eligible
1st prepared from which the position
vill be filled.
MR. ROLLINS PAYS
SANFORD A VISIT
Samlet Man Served As Local
Postmaster Under Presi
dent Rutherford B. Hayes.
Sanford’s third postmaster—Mr.
1. T. Rollins, of Hamlet—was a visitor
lere Tuesday. He came to the open-,
ng of the .Sanford tobacco market, j
He has made it a point to visit the
narket at every opening since it was
istablished. Mr. Rollins was accom
panied by Mrs. Rollins, Mrs. J. A. Rud
iisill, and Miss Dixie Mullin, all of
Hamlet.
, Mr. Rollins is the only white per
son now living who was here at the
time the forests were cleared for the
laying out of the first streets opened
n Sanford. He used to come to San
ford and talk to Mr. W. T. Buchanan,
who recently passed away, about the
early history of the town. Mr. Rol
lins is very active for a man of his
age and remembers many things
ibout the" early history of the place.
He informs The Express that the
first dwelling constructed in Sanford
is still standing on Mclver .Street,
rhis small cottage is now bwned by
Mr. S. D. Porter and is still occupied.
Mr. Rollins thinks that it- was con
structed by the late Henry Bland,
who built and owned a number of
nouses in the town.
As was recently stated In The Ex
press the late T. Rollins, Mr. Rollins’
father, was Sanford’s first postmaster.
He was followed as postmaster by
the late R. M. Brown. When Mr.
Brown retired from the office he was
succeeded, by Mr. H. T. Rollins. Mr.
Rollins kept the office in a small log
cabin under a big oak on Chatham
street near where the Atlantic and
Western track was built across the
street. The building was constructed
many years before the town tfas sur
veyed and laid out. The house was
first removed and not so many years
ago the “big oak” went the way of
other things that had to make room
for progress and development. When
Mr. Rollins retired from the office he
turned it back to Mr. Brown, who
finally resigned. Mr. Rollins was
postmaster from 1876 to 1879. He
moved from Sanford to Charlotte and
after serving as a railway mail clerk
for 44 years, retiredkfrom the ser
vice in 1920. For A past 16 years
Mr. Rollins has made his home at
Hamlet. Much water. Has run under
the bridge since the ground was first
broken where the town of Sanford
now stands. Many people who are
now living here have not been citizens
of the town many years and a genera
tion has grown up during the past
30 years.
Mrs. 0. D. Palmer i£ now on a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. H. C.
Powell, who recently moved from
Greensboro'to Roanoke, Va.
fa* <**.im HMfli
JUDGE LECTURES
MAN APPEARING
AS NEW “MOSES”
Young Mulatto Preacher, Posing
As Head of New Religious
Cult, Admonished. .
MUCH ADO IN COMMUNITY
Brought Community To Border
of Nervous Prostration By
Frequency of Meetings.
Because the apparent zeal with
which he and his fanatical followers
pursued their daily course of worship
proved most annoying to the thrifty
and industrious citizenry of the conr
niunity in which he held meetings,
Garfield Lowdermilk, young mulatto,
posing as the leader of a new reli
gious cult, found himself Tuesday em
broiled in the toils of the law.
M.d, “Wlnraiw"
Residents of the New Hope section
of the county, where Lowdermilk and
his devoted band of followers have
been gathering almost nightly since
the middle of June in an abandoned
farm house to pursue a mysterious
and unusual form of worship, com
plained that the late hours, the
“whoopee” and the petty thefts of
melons and fruits from their fields
and orchards, alleged to have been
taken by the worshippers as they
meandered toward home oftentimes
[just before dawn, had become a public
nuisance and the defendant, under
the old, common law,'was so charged.
Nor was the charge against the
leader of the so-called new cult
brought solely at the behest of the
white population of the New Hope
community; it* was sustained by the
pillars of the New Hope Methodist
Episcopal Church, South (African),
whose jealousy toward the religious
leader was no doubt aroused when
members of thfeir own church began
to manifest a disinclination to attend
tSunday worship and were finally
found among the ranks of the new
cult. As those who once had been
good, substantial members, one after
one, began to absent themselves from
worship, and to act queerly and in
\he jqanner ' ^
denominational form of worship, dis
may threatened the group of loyal
colored brethren who remained by
their church. They were ready to
offer testimony not altogether pleas
ing to the defendant.
All-Night Revelry.
Witnesses stated? the meetings had
been conducted almost every night,
with the exception of three weeks,
since the middle of June. Generally
beginning at nine o’clock, the revelry
was said to last until about one in
the morning. Rejoicing, whooping,
hollering, members of the new sect,
it was said, straggled home at all
hours, in some instances" as late as
four o’clock, or just before sunrise.
The hullaballoo , created by the
nocturnal gatherings, according to
testimony offered, brought several
people of the community to the point
of nervous prostration.
Witnesses told Judge McPherson
that? Lowdermilk had been overly in
timate with several of the colored
widows of the community, pointing
out that it seemed he had undertaken
to “look after them.”
Judge Curbed Activities.
Lowdermilk, apparently 25 years of
age; is scrupulously neat, Chester
fieldian in bearing, soft-voiced and
humble iti demeanor. He attempted
to put several of the witnesses under
cross-examination. He acted as his
own counsel.
Judge McPherson warned the leader
of the new cult to modify the activi
ties and ceremonies of his group so
as to conform with the modem form
of worship. With that admonition
he was told to go, with prayer for
judgment continued.
Among the Witnesses testifying
about the activities of the defendant
were Palmer and John Wilcox and
Ernest Cole, who live in. the New Hope
community.
WINTER MAY FIND
MANY NEEDY HERE
Carrying out instructions from Ra
leigh Mr. E. 0, McMahan, Demon
stration Agent and County Welfare
Officer, has made a survey of the
county to determine the number of
destitute families in our imidst who
will need help during the winter
months unless there Is a great im
provement in business and manufac
turing activities. He tells The Ex
press that there will be at least ZOO
families that will have to be taken
care of unless the heads of these fam
ilies can get employment of soime kind.
He says there is plenty of food
stuffs! made in the county to take
care of all who need help if it were
proprely distributed.
Mr. McMahan finds that most of
these destitute families living near
the mills and factories and in the
towns of the county. While many
of the farmers and their tenants have
little money, they have food supplies
that they have raised this year and
will probably be able to “pull
through” the winter months without
calling on their Neighbors for help.
"Others are not so fortunate and -will
..need., help.__
Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Hutchings, who
visited relatives in this county, left
last Thursday for their home in Cin
cinnati. Dr. Hutchings teaches Span
ish in Cincinnati College. They were
accompanied by Mrs. W. E. Futrell,
who was on her way to join her hus
band, Dr. Futrell, at Sioux Falls,
.South Dakota. Mrs. Futrell had been
in, this State visiting relatives and
friends.
farme&SXtH(;ep
place Exhibits
• LIVESTOCK SHOW
Lee County Poultry And
Livestock Show To Be
Held Oct..9tli and 10th.
NOT- TO- BE ,’STREET FAIR
Exhibits Will M placed In Old
Williains-BelKBuilding on
Moore'Street.
anners, farm
(Tub members
%sked to put
he given, except
H-H Calf Club
ired by mom hers
7 Club, and no
tged to see any
fwever, the mer
ill give certain
to the winners
es, ami ribbons
first and second
arranged for
. .gent, the Coun
ition Agent, and
_'-j. ArraBgpetnentilJjiave been com
pleted for hoI^Dwth1 Let County
Food; ■ Poultry^-, i;.and Livestock
Show in Snnfor^Mi Octrfcvr 9t h
and 10th;. AljM?
women, and 4$
of the county
on oxhibits at tj
No cash prized
to members of
which is being
of the Sanford!
admission will be
of the exhibits.;;
chants of Sanford
articles of mere!
in the different
will be given'for
prizes. .r
This show has
by the Comity Fi
ty -Home Dempi
the Sanford-Merck nt’s Associatior,
in Older to. £ive tji€ farmers and farm
women of Lee Coumy an opportunity
to exhibit the prod Sts of this year’s
bountiful crop; .ad to give all the
people of the coun both rural anc
town, an opportune iTto'get togethei
in a full festival t vidw these exhi
bits of the farm id home, and tc
enjoy two day$'df - fellowship.
The canned good* fresh vegetables
and poultry will b exhibited in th(
old Williams^BeTJe 5b. store building
on. Moore Street*;* ’
Club and Pig Ckil
on the old Midge
Steele Street jusj#
ing. The oalves;.
exhibit for only'/?
10th, while the xjfr
displayed for two
There will; be /yah
tions in conhectao;
The impressioii ~
some people1 that
street fair, bat this
to be pur|ly a
livestock
be free.
The premio^tt lii
Jiile the 4 H Cal;
^exhibits will tx
rGolf Course oi
lack of this build
' pigs will be oi
/day, Octobe:
^exhibits will bi
ays.'
y carnival attrac
\ with this show
| gone Out amonj
?r*ire to have :
■ ^mistake. Thi
poultry, an
fev^ry thing is t
'::-X
j^WKieh
__ . contain
many liberal Cpntr!l^f|ons by th
merchants of^Shnford; yvill be con
pleted in time for p fbjjgation in nei
■ ' ,T- lyanaii, V/Ounty r
$ Farm Agent,
• Miss Corntlia Simpson,
Count.\ Home Demonstration
4 Agent,
A. K. Milled Secretary ]
Sanford Merchant^ Association.
NEW SHOP OPENS 1
HERE SATURDAY
Elsewhere in this issue of The Ex
press is an announcement of Miss
Margaret Oliver in which she states
she will open a gift shop on Wicker
street .Saturday.
The new shop, in which will be car
ried a line of watches, watch bracelets,
gift goods, glassware, pewter, silver
ware and novelties, will be located on
Wicker street, adjoining the City
Dry Cleaners.
Through fourteen years of associa
tion with the Chears Jewelry Co., of
which she was for a time secretary
treasurer, Miss Oliver gained much
experience in the line of business
which she now again is entering.
She extends a hearty welcome to
all her old friends and customers to
’come to see her,
SANFORD LOSES
TO ORPHAN TEAM
Barium Springs Eleven Wallops
Locals Last Friday In
Winston-Salem.
_
Playing un
der the glare
r of lights for
■" = their first time
the Sanford
Yellow Jack
ets, although
losing the
game,’ proved
themselves dan
gerous oppon
ents of «• the
Barium .Spgs.
eleven at Win
mm ston-Salem on
I Friday night.
They were
overcome by
county boys by a score of 7 to 0, This
i was the first game the Sanford boys
have played this season.
Consistent breaks. gave Barium
Springs the game. Blinded by t|je
lights, Billy Utley dropped a pass
from center allowing the enemy to
receive the ball. Taking full advan
tage of the situation the enemy tackle
I soon had the ball within the five
yard ljne. On the following play King
.-carried the ball over,for,a touchdown,
the only one of the' game.
, Hard-fought playing followed, this
play, each team proving its metal inf
the ensuing counters. Neither team,
apparently held the advantage over
the other, both being almost uneven
i ly matched. But for the Unfortunate
1 circumstance developing in the early
part of the game, the score would
have shown the relative strength of
J the fwb'te.'iih.t ■ ,
' The Yellow Jackets, notwithstand
ing the torrid weather,' have been
' practicing on the high school athletic
field every afternon and are smooth
ing out the rough spots in defense
-and offense. 1 nose who are keeping’
in.touch with the boys state they are
showing much improvement and be
lieve they will make it hot for Grens
boro when the two teams meet-each
other in the Gate City Friday night.
' , .. . I
Flout Wild Rumors Casting Reflections
County Hospital
5IWANIANS HEAR
TEAGUE DISCUSS
FUNDAMENTAL LAW
’hases Of Constitution As In
terpreted By the Eminent
John Marshal Heard.
TO ENTERTAIN TEACHERS
Constitution Week Is Observed
By Kiwanis Club—
Name Delegates.
Last Thursday, September 17, wa»
Constitution Day, the 144th anniver
ary of the signing of the document,
rhe original engrossed draft of the
Constitution and l'be Declaration of
independence are i’.V1 the library of
Congress resting behind especially
>repared glass shields devised by^She
Jnited States bureau cf standards'^
prevent as much as possible the
sacred writings being entirely faded
jut by light rays. For many years
be Constitution was kept in a roll,
ind for that reason does not lie en
:irely flat in the especially designed
:ase. The glass coverings are so ar
ranged as to give an amber glow ar
resting the most destructive of the
ight rays. In this condition the docu
ments will continue to be read for a
very long time, how long, the bureau
>f standard experts are unable to de
termine.
the Carolina Hotel last Friday night
observed Constitution Week. Music
was made by the club with Miss Ruth
Phillips at the piano. Miss Phillip;
also charmingly rendered a _ beautiful
piano solo during the evening. The
following delegates were elected to th<
annual convention of Carolinas Dis
trict at Pinehurst Oct. 21 ,'22 and 23
D. B. Teague, J. C. Pittman and W
S. Allen. Alternates: J. E. Brinn
Waylon Blue and Gunter Watson.
It was decided by a vote of th
club not to hold another meeting ii
the country this season. It was sug
gested that thejelub begin early nex
spring to hold meetings among th
farmers. The question of appropria:
ing $15 to a fund to advertise. Feder;
”o. J .during the todrist ae:
—gprfhirtiiaftlnmi mi,. and is.
referred to the board of directors wl
will take action in the matter at a
early date. O. P. Makepeace and 1
L. Burns were appointed a committc
by the Rotary Club to look after th
work in Sanford.
I D. B. Teague, who has made
study of the Constitution, made
1 most excellent talk .on great Amer
can chart, and emphasized the opii
ions of some phases of the documei
I expressed by John Marshal, the fir:
real chief justice of the Supren
Court. John Marshal rendered
great service to the American pec
pie for all time by explaining man
; things .connected with the Constiti
tion not understood by many peopl
who have even made a study of it. 1
is well that the Constitution is studie
in this dav and time when the spir.
of it is violated in high places witl
: out question. Every intelligent ps
triotic citizen should make a stud
of it and be able to apply it in ever
day life. This would insure a mol
intelligent and law-abiding citizer
ship. Following is the American cree
which was read in unison by the clut
“I believe in the United States c
America as a government of th
people; bv the people; for the peoph
whose just powers are derived froi
the consent of the government;
democracy in a republic; a so\ ereig
nation of many sovereign states;
perfect union, one and inseparable
established upon those principles c
freedom, equality, justice and humar
itv for which American patriots sa<
rificed their lives and fortunes,
i “I therefore believe it is my dut
to my country to love it, to suppoi
the Constitution; to obey its laws; t
respect its flag; and to defend
against all enemies.”
POULTRY SALE
FOR SATURDAY
The twelfth cooperative poultr
sale of this year will be held in Sar
ford on Saturday of this week. Th:
will be a truck sale and the poultr
will be received at Palmer and Reeve
Stable on Endor Street from 9 A. IV
to 3 P. M.. Heavy hens will sell fc
16c a pound, Leghorn hens 12c, chicl
ens 18c, and roosters 8c.
Lee county farmers and farm wi
men have sold 53,630 pounds of pou
try at the eleven sales that have, a
ready been held this year. Durin
the same period last year they sol
45,360 pounds. This is an increas
of 8,270 pounds or 18 per cent. Wit
the present outlook for a big fee
crop in Lee county this year, it seen
that it would pay to increase the pou
try7 production again next year.
ERNEST MARKS KILLS A
DEER AND GOES FISHIN
Last Saturday night Mr. Erne
Marks who has been at Hot Sprint
to take the hot bath treatment r
turned to Acme, near Wilmingto
where he is engag' d in the saw ill:
business. His many friends throng
out this section will be pleased
learn that he In,v ffeat !v ' improi.
in health since going to Hot Spring
The report gained circulation he
yesterday that he had been shot. I>
one seemed to know from what sour
the report originated. Friends hr
relatives here got in touch with Acn
by telephone and learned that M
Marks killed a buck Tuesday and we:
fishing yesterday. This was a gre
relief to friends who were in suspeit
over the matter, ■
£
THREE KITTENS BORN
WITHOUT TAILS
—— '
Mr. J. W. Willett, one of
‘ the leading farmers of the
Lemon Springs section,
tells The Express that a cat
in his home recently gave
birth to three kittens, all
without tails. There was
even no suggestion of a tail
where the tail should have
been. Mr. Willett wanted
to know the cause of this
freak of nature. The only
explanation we could offer
was that the times were too
hard for these young cats
to grow tails. Mr. Willett
spoke of others cats that
were born in that commun
ity without tails. May be
the climate or soil had some
thing to do with it. It is
said that a hob-tailed dog
cannot walk a log across a
stream. Wonder if the
1 same thing will hold good
with a cat without a tail?
SUPPLEMENTS ARE
ALLOWED BY BOARD
I County Budget Is Approved By
Commissioners In Special
I Session Monday.
In a special meeting of the County
Commissioners, held at the Court
house Tuesday night, approval of the
county school budgets and supple
ments requested by these schools was
given. Supplements asked for by the
various schools were approved with
out reservation.
i The general county budget was
•' also approved and the county-wide
i tax rate placed at 77 cents :.s against
■. $1.07 for .a year ago. Thi§; ..s may tx
t seen, represents saving o* 30 cent
5 on the per hundred dollars valuatioi
- \ of property to .the taxpayer. ;
Vi- **as a, reduction In the Sar
g' supplements required by .
c school district was taker.
In a previous meeting, held Mot
day, in which consideration of th
Sanfor
e com
i missioners, with the ..on o
Commissioner Lawrence, i to a]
low the supplements. < ;ssione
Lawrence, although vig ly dis
senting with the other coi.sioneij
did not vote in the negat.
Many of the recommendations mad
Tuesday night bv the board re mail
yet to be ferreted out by Audito
Clark, who will have to give the mat
ter much thought before he can mak
anin teHigcnt report.
The meeting Monday was attends
by a representative -body of citizen
from all parts of the county and al
seemed to be deeply interested in th
matter under discussion. Many o
the school committeemen were pre
sent. A number of ladies from San
ford attended the meeting and seem
ed to be deeply interested in wha
was said and done. The budget
from the various schools in the conn
ty were laid before the board by Sup
erintendent George R. Wheeler, wh
e | explained them as they were intro
■ duccd. About all the budgets calle'
for appropriations for supplements
The Sanford school budget was th
| lirst taken under consideration. I.
order that the school should have ;
standard higher than that set by th
State the board of trustees found i
necessary to ask for an appropriate
of about $5,000 for a nine month
■ term. Talks in favor of this sup
plement were made by O. P. Make
peace, chairman of the board; J. E
Brinn, secretary; J. W. Stout of th
board, and D. B. Teague and P. H
,St. Clair, who represented a delega
tion of tax payers of the town. Pau
Barringer, a member of the boar<
also madea talk. While he took is
sue in some things connected wit
the supplements, yet he stood fo
some of the supplements and vote
accordingly.
-'JOHN CAMERON DIES AT HIS
s, HOME NEAR SWANN STATIOl
y\ -
s' Mr. John Cameron, who has bee
in declining health for some tinn
r died at his home near Swann Statio
- at 11 o’clock Tuesday night. The fur
| eral services were held today, cor
ducted by Rev. J. ,S. Cook, of Jones
. boro, and the interment made a
. Cameron Grove cemetery, near th
g Cameron home. A large concourse c
cl neighbors and friends attended th
e funeral.
h Mr. Cameron died at the ripe ag
d of 82 years. His wife preceded hir
s to the grave by two years. Eigh
i- children survive. Mr. Cameron ha
| for many years been a member of th
I Presbyterian church and was in goo
4 standing as a churchman and citrzei
G In discussing Mr. Cameron’s virtue
a neighbor says no man who has eve
»t lived in that community stood hight
;s in the stimation of those who kne1
him. In his death a landmark ha
i.. been.-.removed. He left a rich her
11 tage to his children.
o; Mr. E. B. .Stroud, Lee County
d '£>tt<nVpion- -f<>w-hunter _ t^s-The* Ei
press thai-there is-»a pretty good fo
•e crop in this section. They are prett
o thick in the woods around Avent
e Ferry Bridge and in some other so<
d tions of the county. As they are n<
e protected by law they can be hunte
r. j any time in the year without the la
it j being violated. In some sections c
it | the county the farmers last winte
;e lost chickens by the depredations c
| the |oxes.
MEDICAL STAFF "
LEE HOSPITAL
SCOUTS RUMORS
Deny Reports Circulated Thru
County To Detriment*' * >
Of Institution.
NO ONE TURNED AWAY
A statement released to this
newspaper yesterday, signed by
th} medical Staff of the new Lee
County Hospital, at the head of
which is *4 he name of Dr. M. L.
Matthews, chief of staff, takes
exceptidi to nfumerous rumors
which have been spread about
the county regarding . the man
agement of the ihstitutioin,
branding them as. untruthful.
The full statement reads as
follows: >
“Numerous rumors a detrimental to
the Lee County Hospital Manage
ment have recently been scattered
throughout the County. Realizing
the untruthfulness of tnese rumors
and in iustice to the hospital man
I agement, we are making the follow
ing statement:
“Tnere has not been a person turn
ed away from the hospital on account
of lack of funds when it was thought
necessary by a doctor for the patient
to have hospital care. We cite speci
I fic rumors brought to our attention
1 and deny their truthfulness. No
young man has been refused admis
! sion, gone home and died. No baby
I has been refused admission, gone
home and died. No boy'or man has
lain around the hosbital entrance with /
a broken, leg, later to be earned to a
doctor’s office for attention. There
has Been no sign in or about the hos
pital saying that no chanty patients
are allowed. ’Hie doors of the hos
pital are not shut against everyone
not having thirty-five dollars in cash.
%. “There must of course, be %^Une
"■ drawn between patiepts without funds
and those who can get along without
The doorls of. the 'hospital are
? open to the first mentioned. If the
^ hospital is to bd run on a_baaa that
l will mak^ it possible fo;r_ it to take in
the.emerg^ncy
t, most
_ certainly cannot take m justoaiiy ,one '_ .
B wkd- through'desire fb save money at-" v> !
s •? “We have found the hospital man
j agement to be fair, just and sym
. pathetic, but at the same time, firm
f in their policy that those who can pay,
_ must.
r M. L. Matthews, Chief of Staff,
Chas. L. .Scott, Asst. Chief of Staff,' ■
Lynn Mclver, Staff Secretary,
Geo. G. Chiles, M. D. ^
1 Waylon Blue.
F. L. Knight,
\ J. F. Foster,
R. G. Sowers,
Hayden Lutterloh,
A. L. O’Briant.”
! HOLLER BECOMES
! HEAD LEE G. O. P.
Kennedy Retires From Execu
tive Post After Five Years
Of Service.
Ralph A. Kennedy, for five years
- chairman of the Lee County Republi
> /an Executive Committee, tendered
- his resignation to the Executive Com
1 mittee in session Tuesday night in
. Sanford and Durant C. Holler, prom
; inent Lee County Lumberman and
1 for many years a strong Republican
t worker was chosen as his successor.
In tendering his resignation, Mr.
Kennedy made it plain that ,he was
| resigning as chairman of the commit
tee and not from the Republican
I party. He stated in an interview
! with The Express that in resigning,
he would be giving the other seven
applicants for the postmastership a
fair deal and would bring himself
. down with the others as far as party
1 recommendation was concerned.
t\ “Never before in the history of my
. experience as chairman and worker
! have I witnessed such a party solid
r ity in Lee County,” he was quoted as
\ saying, “and next year’s campaign
plans indicate the best organized Re
I publican party the county has ever
had despite the fact the world wide
I depression is being more or less
charged to the Republican party.”
a The new chairman, D. C. Holler is
well known in the county, coming here
[ many years ago from Wilkes County*
_ and is a staunch Republican. The
. new chairman is in the lumber busi
_ 1 ness and operates many mills in
j-1 Chatham and Lee counties. He has
B an office in .Sanford and one in Pitts
f boro.
, RIDDLE BECOMES
5 DISTRICT HEAD
t| _
,1 Sanford Man Named District
l Deputy State Councilor
Jr. O. U. A. M.
s The appointment of T. L. Kiddle
r i of this city as disUict deputv state
r councilor of the Jr. O. U. A. M. has
v been announced by S. F. Nicks, state
s councilor. Mr. Riddle will serve as
- executive of the 17th district, which
is composed of I.«eef Moore apd Mont
gomery counties. His term ’of office
•s is to run parallel with.that of the
- psnsent st>Mte coijr.riRw. • "" •
x Mr. Riddle’s appointment to thi*
y position of high honor in Junior cir
s cies has been met with commendation
- on the part of his brother Juniors
t and friends. He has been very ac
'* tive in the Jr. 0. U. A. M. for a num
v ber of years and his splendid services
f have-been rewarded with many testa
r tions of approval, including several
f high offices. He is at present coun
sellor of the Sanford Lodge.