ATTEND THE SHOW Tell Your Friends About The Lee Livestock, Food and Poilftry Show. October 9th and lfith.' / *, ' Get Your Exhibits Readji. -—---——--*^/ 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,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 '£>ttw-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.