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LEE COUNTY Population 17,000; Situated In The Heart of a Progressive Agricul tural and Industrial Section. VOLUME 46, Number 16. $2.00 Per Year. SANFORD, NORTH CA*OLIN\, DKCKMBER 3, 1931. Published WEEKLY. SANFORD Central North Carolina’s Coming To bacco Market—Every Facility For An Orderly Marketing Of Your Tobacco. FIVE GENTS STATE’S NOTABLES BANQUET OF C( CIVIC CLUBS TO ,, BACK COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE Joint Meeting of Rotarians, Ki wanians and Merchants Association Is Held. TO APPEAL FOR FUNDS Judge Hayes, Mayor Williams and Messrs. Seawell and Gavin Are Speakers. That no child in Sanford or Lee County may be denied the joy of Christmas is a goal toward which the efforts of three of Sanford’s civic club’s—the Rotary, Kiwanis and ,the Merchant’s Association—'were launch ed last night. At a joint meeting of these organizations, held at the Hotel Wilrik last evening, a committee, composed of members of the three organizations, was chosen to draft plans and solicit the funds necessary to realize this community objective. Making a direct appeal to the ga thering in behalf of the Christmas tree, were, Mayor Warren R. Williams who presided over the meeting; Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of the United States District Court; United States District Attorney Edwin L. Gavin and Assistant Attorney General A. A, F. Sea well. ’Adding to the significance of the movement is the fact that two of the distinguished guests who spoke in behalf of the project are out-of town men, Judge Hayes and Mr. Seawell, both of whom, however, re adily responded when invited to come here and lend their voices to the pro motion df the worthy cause. A committee appointed by Mayor Williams, consisting, of J. W. Kirk patrick, A. M. Hubbard and W. ft. Makepeace, chose the following as a committee to make such arrange ments as will be necessary to realize the Christmas tree for the kiddies of Lee County; E. C. Heins, Jr, A. K. Miller, H. F. Makepeace, D. B. Tea gue, Frank Andrews and John W. Gilliam. This committee will solicit and receive funds for the tree, select a place for it, purchase the gifts and set the hour at which the distnbu . tion of them will be made. The va: cant lot, on which the McBryde taxi station is now located, will likely be used as a setting for the tree. It is quite probable, Mayor Wil ' ' li&ws l»aid last evening, that a musical * progfISi, by the Sanford Music Club, the singing of Christmas carols and as the gifts are’distributed. Seventy-six persons, including mem bers' df the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs, the Merchants Association and guests, were present at the luncheon which featured the inauguration of the community Christmas tree move ment last evening. The meeting was, -. of the song opened with the singing — -— ■■ “Ahierica,” after which came the invocation by Dr. R C. Gilmore, pas - tor of the Presbyterian church. Then came the luncheon, served around a rectangular table, and which waa de lightfully enjoyed. For a brief interval the gathering enjoyed- the lighter moments of the J. Carlton Pittman, brought forth evening which, under the direction of paroxysms of laughter. “Luby” Sauls, a Rctarian who was hailed^ as the most frequent, if not the champion golfing enthusiast of the organiza tion to which he belongs, exhibited his prdwess on the green by teeing off with an egg. Luckily the con tents had been emptied or there would have been a splash of yolk and proto plasmic matter at the feet of the venerable Dr. Mclver, who s.at nearby. “Luby” did not exhibit his accustomed adentness. Far more entertaining man auj group of circus clowns who ever came to Sanford was the cracker-eatmg contest in which George Josephs and Johnny Monger challenged Pat St. Clair’s reputation as the most agile at the festive board. Bill Bryan and Teddy Roosevelt were both consider ed pastmasters at this art but con noisseurs say neither of these could run rings about the Sanford editor. Their attempt to wrest the title from Mr. St. Clair was a forlorn hope. They were each given three crackers but he had eaten his and Whistled be had begun on their third and last fore either Mr. Monger or Mr. Joseph crsckftr. Mayor Williams then outlined the purpose of the meeting after which he introduced A. A. F. ,Sea well, for merly of Sanford, but now of Ra leigh and Chapel Hill. Mr. Seawell, in reality a cosmo polite, hut still claimed as “Sanford’s Own” brought to the meeting that clear logic and sound reasoning from which more than one opponent in past legislative frays shrank. He made a powerful appeal for the com munity Christmas tree. Business has its place in ou# life, he said, but should be more than an end to itself, rather, he vouchsafed, it should be only an end to better and greater things. To make the hearts of little (children glad at Christmas time, to offer aid to the needy and thejjj.own cast, he said, is one of the^gfeater aims of ljfe and one from which the greatest "satisfaction is derived. Edwin L. Gavin, in a short address, voiced his resentment at an inference of the French press that America is a selfish nation. Such is not true, he said, and he proceeded to outline the noble spirit of generosity to which the American people are traditional ly committed. The gathering last , i&ypning and its noble purpose, he **k&id, is the spirit that leapt from the v '^heartstrings of every hamlet in ovAmema. { "-i w-. JudgftfJohnson J. Haves, of the . United States, District Couft, lauded ■ ’ bv Mr Oavlrf/ in his introduction;? as one of North Carolina’s greatest men, - and as jurist who^e decisions have been works of judicial art, was then presented. (Please Turn To Page Eight.) : ARE GJJESTS AT IMMUNITY LEADERS 0 T... COTTON BLOOMS ! It is stated that the unseason ably warm temperature whidh prerailed the greater part of No vember was of sufficient inten sity to place tlte month on re cord as being the hottest Novem ber ever recorded by the weather bureau since its establishment in Raleigh 45 years ago. The Express stated last week that ripe cherries were found in the , county during the latter part of November. We have seen other evidences of warm weather dur ing the late fall. Mr. P. Y. Han ner eame to this office on the first'day of ^December and exhi bited three white cotton blooms Which he found on a cotton farm in Hainett county. The fact that they were white showed that they opened that day. He could have brought many other blooms with him. "He also had a small cotton boll. There was no sign that it ] had been punctured by a boll | weevil. The little pests had prob ably gone to their winter quar ters. SALE OF LICENSE TAGS FOR 1931 TO START HERE SOON Bobby Burns Service Station i Will Handle Sale of Tage Again This Year. 'MINIMUM PRICE IS $12.50 Cars To Be Licensed By Weight —Rate 55c Per Hundred Pounds According. As was recently stated in these columns automobile license tags will again be sold by Bobby Burns at his service station at Three Points The sale will open Tuesday, December 15th and close February 15th. The sale runs thirty days at all tempor ary offices The office at this place is a temporary office, bu$ a movement is on foot to make it a permanent of ce, and should this be done it will be a*P$eat convenience to the people of tms section.* Mr. Bums has all necea iness with promptness and dispatch' The new law enacted by the last legislature basing the license on weight will be effective for the first time." The cost to motorists is 55c per hundredweight With the minimum price at $12.5 When the law was passed there was talk of reducing the cost of the plates to motorists so more could buy them. 4 The logical reasoning was that gasoline must be purchased to run the machines, and the State collects six cents a gallon on the fuel, I This year for the first time, auto mobile licenses in North Carolina will be sold on the basis of the weight of the vehicles* instead of by horsepow er. Under the neW law licenses will be sold at the rate of 55c ents per hun dredweight, manufacturers’ shipping weight to determine proper weight, for passenger vehicles The minimum license fee will be $12-50. Passenger automobiles used for the transportation of passengers for hire will be .licensed brt a" basis of 90 cents per hundredweight, with the mini mum fee to be $X8.00 . Rates for trucks vary from 55 cents per hundreweight for vehicles having pneumatic tireS to $2.00 per hundred pounds for vemides equipped with solid tires and rated from three tc ten tons. Every person listed on the records of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, some 500,000 persons, will receive automo bile license notices before December the fifteenth. The new 1932 license plates may be put on automobiles after Decem ber 15 and the 1931 plates will be un lawfuLaffcer January 1. Mr. Butma and his force will appre ciate it if pepplq will call promtly and buy their tags. It will prevent a rush during the last few days of the sale. ; Nd^crfc&tt; no checks. BATTERY “E” TO RESUME DRILLS The usual Monday night drills of Battery “E” of the 113th Field Ar tillery, which were recently suspend ed by order of the Adjutant-General, will be resumed next Monday even ing, announced Capt. Dan B. King this morning/ v ' ' • 11 \ According to -the . regulations go verning drills, said Capt. King, forty eight are scheduled for each year and appropriations providing, for these drills are based, not on the full per sonnel of the Datteriesj but upon the average attendance at eafch drill. Due to the depression, and other unfor seen factors, the average attendance at the drills this year has been above the average uponJwhich the appro priation was based, and for this rea son an orders to reduce the drills to forty-three per year*, so as to keep within the appropriation, was relay ed from the militia „ bureau by the Adjytant-General. Additional appro priations have been made, drills will again be resumedand those that were ommftted during* the suspension will be jfchde up from time toM.Unje, said drill iSVeiiing. During: the evening: a turkey dinner will be served the hoys at the Carolina Hotel. HEINS TELEPHONE COMPANY IS GIVEN CHARTER BY STATE Local Concern Incorporated With Authorized Capital Stock of $25,000. HAVE A SPLENDID SYSTEM Heins Interests Have Built Mo dren Telehpone Business Since In Sanford. The Heins Telephone Company, oi this place, has been incorporated by the Secretary of State to operate and maintain telephone and telegraph systems in Sanford and this section. The authorized capital stock is $250, 000.00. Subscribed stock, $300.00. By E. C. Heins, Sr., E. C. Heins, Jr., ;and M. T. Heins, all of Sanford. | Messrs. Heins came from Raeford to Sanford in 1922 and bought the Sanford-Jonesboro telephone system ,from Mrs. D. E. Mclver. The system! was built by her .husband, the late D. ] ; E. Mclver, under the supervision of I | W. H. Garner, who later moved from |this place to Chatham county, where | he built and operated a telephone sys j tern for several years. The old sys- I Item was junked and the common bat tery system installed. The new com pany bought a lot on Moore .Street' and constructed a modem telephone j exchange building. All the old cables, j wires and poles were removed and new ones installed. At the time the old system was purchased by the neKv company it had only 350 phones and they were not all working. Now the Heins Telephone Company has j approximately 1,000 phones in San jford, Jonesboro, and Broadway and | the surrounding country. The sys tem is connected with outside systems j and subscribers can talk to not only all parts of this country, but to many parts of the outside world. Ships on | the high seas can also be reached. (When the old system was in opera tion Sanford subscribers had to pay 10 cents to talk to Jonesboro and 20 cents to talk to people in Broadway. I The same amount had to be paid by subscribers in those places in tele phoning to SSnfc-rd. • |. When the old system was in opera tion the company paid no state tax. The present company has to pay an I annual 5. per*.cent gross tax- to the Telephone.,_£loaw pany gives good service and keeps its ■system iir repair. In many instances j the subscribers can get long distance service without hanging up the re ceiver. NEW CHEVROLET WILL BE SHOWN Chevrolet’# New Car For 1932 Goes On Display Here Next Saturday. The new 1932 Chevrolet, which em bodies every proven automotive fea ture in recent years, will be exhibit ed in the show room of Leggett Mo tor Company, of this city, Saturday, according to announcement made this morning by W. M. Leggett, head of the Chevrolet agency. “The new model,” Mr. Leggett told a representative of The Express this morning, “embodies silent syncro mesh transmission in combination with elective free-wheeling, a twenty per cent increase in power, top speed of 65 to 70 miles an hour, stream lined bodies and a wealth of other new features. The new car,” said he, “remains in the price range of the current series, the lowest at which a Chevrolet has ever sold. “Heralded as ‘The Great American Value for 1932’ the car,” explained the local Chevrolet man, “boasts ex tensive changes than any annual Chevrolet model since the change '"mr to a six in 1928. Yet changes,” he went on. “are mostly refinements over the basic design of the 1931 car which, from the standpoint of public acceptance, was the most successful in the history of the company, and brought Chevrolet first place in the industry during the highly competi tive market of the past twelve months “Outstanding improvements in the '32 line over last year’s models are down-draft carburetion, counter- bal anced crankshaft, smaller wheels and larger tires, radically changed front end appearance, ‘finger touch’ front seat adjustment cowl ventilator on all models, hood doors instead of louvres, improved clutch and an ad ditional cross member in the frame,” he added. AN EXPLANATION Due to an eleventh hour appear ance of more than our usual amount of advertising we are compelled to forego the publication of much inter esting reading material offered by our contributors. As an influx of ad vertising, since the advent of the de pression, is so unparalled an occur ance, neither our correspondents or readers should.despair. We do not at this time contemplate many repe titions of the present week’s volume of advertising. Suffice ft to say that your ^contribution will appear in the next, issufti The Express as usual. ItARfgs Bu^mess, But Wrong Kind. To. prov^ to his employees that tfcey_cotold get business if they tried, ’E.-’Fi vStUtk*‘i Of Naperville, 111., a taxi Aiompaany.. owner, drove a cab himself. His first passenger robbed him of $30, his pants—and his cab. AGENClf SEEKS FUNDS FOR LEE NEEDY I " A":'*4 c TANTAjLIZER The letters in, the lines below j properly arranged spell the names of two, persons in Jones-1 boro. If the persons whose names are repWHfented by the group of letterS’idecipher Unbl own names and bring copies of this paper to ThetFxpress Office before next Wednesday night, to each of them»,Will be given a free ticket adpiftting them to the show at the "temple Theatre Thursday night. 1 This week’s tStntali-mr: PHNEISOBJ LEEK A YYNLARM. JtMTNIOAH Last weekiis winners: Minnie^iSlalloy Evelyn. Hamilton KIWANIS JOINS' Civic Orj Charity fiances AN | L SHOW i J£.To Raise is—Square rograiu. The Kiwanis CjBlfeJield its regular weekly meeting^!* the Carolina Ho tel last Friday iug$t. Luncheon fol lowed a program qf?' “music put on by the club. In^ of Chair man H. C. Kenegar/the program of the evening 'Was turned over to S. J. Husketh, a membet^-of the program f|,Understood that business meet club and the £Vr> at the Wilrik fght. /There will KiWanis chib on committee. It op the club should % ing with the Rot Merchants Assodi# Hotel Wednesday ; be no meeting or tl Friday night. T * The question ;,agagtfsinj^ funds for charitable purposed it Christmas was discussed and bjp &itote f^Svas decid-. ed to put on a^jOtuiiktrel at. the audi torium of the hi&h school oil the night of December llth to rais# the pro posed funds The jhroatam will be put on by the minstrel of .the Ra leigh Kiwanis Club.. TW. following members of the club were appointed a committee, to work: out the neces sarysplans: Gillim**., Anderson, chair-, min; James Mclveiy L. & Warrick, Gunter Watson, J. E/ Brinn, Dr. Way Ion Blue, John I^avenpoit, • JSL F. Makepeace, Jack Riddle,« W^ K. Homeland T '****™*\- nyrjMjfii ii shoula be TOciuWS^rtsbjKe -programs beginning with*# the ‘ flew Year to raise additional funds fd^ charitable purposes. Ponds will be*$aised by script. % . The new officers will be installed the first Friday night in Jannary. A new board of directors will be elect ed before that date. James Mclver, who was recently received as a member in the club, en tertained the club with what purport ed to be a history of his life, and if one is to judge by ^diat he said he is an evolutionist so far as his fam ily history is concerned. He stated that in order to give an adequate ex planation of how “I got to be what I am, I will have to go back some years and discuss briefly who and what my ancestors were and why they did not die of old age. The first ancestor of whom I can find any re cord was named Bimbo an&y'he rode a bicycle in a circus and could eat out of a plate. His wife was named Soko and is now in the American Mu seum of Natural Arts, stuffed. My ancestors back in those times were not called the terrible they are today. They were called baboons, chimpan zees or ourangoutangs.” D. B. Teague made a talk on some of the activities at the University. He told of the $100,000 bell tower or carillon chimes that was given to the University by two native North Caro linians who now live outside of the State He quoted Gov. Gardner as stating that about half of the funds for the construction and maintenance of the University were private gifts and contributions. Mr. Te-gue also discussed the ac tion of the University in putting Johnnie Branch back on the football squad after his suspension for vio lation of the rules and regulations. He expressed the opinion that the alumni felt that suspension was justi ifved, but though that the right action was taken in putting him back for the last game. CUMNOCK BRIDGE WILL BE REBUILT Construction of New Bridge fee placing One Burned Has Begun by Convicts. Work has begun on the construc tion of a bridge to take the place of the one which was destroyed by fire at Cumnock when a ftrrce of road convicts set fire to a lot of debris which had lodged against the struc ture. The material Which is being used was taken from the steel bridge which was torn down at Lillington to make room for a concrete bridge. The State Highway Commission is hav ing the woik done by State convicts under the supervision of road en gineers. It i> expected that the bridge will be- contructed and ready for use in a few weeks. An anthracite coal company has been organized and incorporated with principal office in Sanford, to mine coal and other minerals. The author ized capital stock Is $50,000; sub scribed stack,4 $‘100; by John M. Mc Iver, of Gulf; T. J. Williams and D. B. Teague, of Sanford. Relief Association Will Inaugu rate .Campaign To Aid The County’s Destitute. ! HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS Draft Leading Iiusiness and Professional Men and Wo men For Solicitors. A determined campaign to raise funds for the relief of tne unemploy ed of the county will be inaugurated f uesday morning when a canvass of the city will be made by solicitors working under the direction of the Lee County Relief Association. i'lie canvass will continue tnrough Tuesday and Wednesday and solici tations will be made oi every busi ness concern and individual. In addition to the call for funds from tne city residents, contributions will be sougnt from tne more sub stantial citizens residing in tne rural districts. JNot only are cash contri butions invited but such gifts as lire wood, clothing, potatoes, corn and necessities will be gladly ac cepted. m Handling the situation, it is pro posed that contributions from aii linns and manuiactunng estabhsn nients employing five or more people be solicited in a lump. Conference^ will be held with owners and mana gers of these establishments and an effort made to establish an arrange ment whereby the employees will agree to a small allowance for char ity being (ieuucted Irom their salar ies. Each manager or head will act as treasurer for his firm and at some appointed time turn the funds in his possession over to the relief associa tion. The following have been appointed a committee to comer with tne busi ness houses with regard to putting into execution tne above arrange ments, and to solicit and receive funds: R. L. Bums, J. W. Gilliam, A. K. Miller, D. B. Teague, G. Yv. Anderson, E. Frank Andrew’s, J. L. Sauls, W. H. White, J. A. Overton, J. W. Kirkpatrick, W. W. Rouarus and E. C. Heins, Jr. The city has been mapped into 11 districts and aside from tne business district, which will be canvassed by the foregoing committee, the remain ing ten districts rwill be worked by women. To each of these ten dis tricts a group of women have been assigned and they plan a thorough house-to-house canvass. At a meeting held in J. W. Gilliam’s office Monday evening it was sug gested that the campaign open Tues day with a breakfast m one of the local hotels. While it is likely this will be done the details regarding -Such had not-been-threshed out as tlus pSp#^o^"ttd' jnress. While Lee County 'has not suffer ed to the extent of some other com munities in the State with regard to unemployment problem, this section, neverthless, has its qouta of the un fortunate and it is the purpose of the Association that no family in the county go hungry or unclothed dur ing the coming winter. TICKET SALES | FOOTBALL GAME Lee Post American Legion Sells Tickets To Football Char i ity Classic Here. H. Fisher Makepeace, commander of Lee Post No. 18 of the American Legion, today announced that he had appointed a Special Ticket Sales Com mission, consisting of all the local drug stores, to handle the sale of this Post’s quota of tickets locally for the “Big Five” Football Charity Classic which will be played in the Duke Stadium on December 5th, when the composite team composed of Duke and Carolina stars battle with the cofnbined forces of the best football stars 'which Wake Forest, State Col lege and Davidson can muster to gether. The price of tickets for this great game (which promises to make football history in North Carolina, all of this years greatest stars from the Big Five being scheduled to actively participate therein) is one dollar for general admission, and two dollars for tickets with reserved seats. The local Legion ^Commander has invited, expects and will appreciate the wholehearted support of all other civic organizations in helping this most worthy cause. All the proceeds from the sale of tickets for this great State-wide Charity football game, will >>e used for relief purposes. Forty per cent of the proceeds from ticket sales is to be set aside for relief work in the communities in which the tickets are sold; the remainder to go into the general fund for relief to be disbursed by the State Council. Stout-McIntosh. ' The following announccent has been received here: Mr and Mrs. D. A. McIntosh, of Sanford, announce the marriage of i their daughter, Annie to Willie S. Stout, of Sanford, Sunday, Novem ber 8, 1 i>31, Chesterfield, S. C. At home: Raleigh, N. C. I Both the bride and groom, who Uvere formerly employed at Efird’s j Store have a host of friends here whj? wish them every happiness. ! Mr. Stout is a son of Mr. D. V. Stout, of this city. Christinas Bazaar. The Young Women’s Wesley Bible Class of Steele Street Sunday School will have a Christmas bazaar Friday, December 11th., beginning at ten o’clock in the Leo Furniture Company building. They will have many- attradtive Christmas gifts most reasonably pri ced, much beautiful fancy work, *n4 a variety of home made cakes and candies. A RIPLEY STORY “Believe It Or Not”—Ripley— Recently carried a story, which was published in The Sanford Express some time ago to the effect that an electric light has been kept burning at the Sanford Cotton Mill for the past 30 years. The readers of Ripley can rest assured that this is true story. This light was kep* burning day and night for that long period of time. Many peo ple passed away and great changes have taken place in San ford white that light was burning The fact that Ripley got that story should convince oer many readers that The Express has a wide circulation. HANCOCK GUILTY RECKLESS AUTO DRIVING CHARGE Sentence Upon Defendant De terred Until The Next Term of Court. TRY TO REPAIR DAMAGE Lee Recorder’s Court Has An All Day Session—Docket Over-Cr^wdec^ It is the same c-!d tale. Too much •Whiskey and an automobile. The two do not mix.So Hal Hancox, convict ed Tuesday in Recorder’s Court on a charge of reckless driving and operaf ing a car while under the influence of whiskey, found to his sorrow. Hancox, according to the warrant drawn against him, is alleged to have smashed into a car belonging to Mrs. N L. Prevatte, which was parked near the Three Points filling station. He is also said to have knoc’ ^d down Mrs. Rex Kelly from whic1, he suf fered very painful injury Tt was also borne out in the testi’ iv that he ran down a Mrs Crutch'"'dd, she suffering injuries. Mrs. Crutchfield appeared at the trial and offered testimony. * The case was continued until the .next term of court. Hancox, in the meantime will make an effn"t to re pair the damage brought "nt and when such'Is done will of ' this “as it plea in alleviation of f: punish ment. John Dunbar and Sam F ' -r were arraigned on a charge o^ theft of an automobile and a co - t, be longing to Jimmie Mclver. rrhe evi dence offered tended to point toward I the defendants and they were found guilty. Dunbar was given four I months on the roads and Hunter six months. Upon the completion of their I sentences the defendants, by the or der of the Court, must leave the county for twelve months. I Eugene Gunter, who was alleged to have stolen chickens, was dismissed. Bud Atkins will be tried December 15.. | Barton Truelove and Lotir Prad lov, white vouths, will know their fate next Tuesdav. the Court having ! reserved the decision at the late hear ing. The two defendants were 'charred with reckless drivine- under the “hit and run” statute. Truelnyo, according to t1^ testimony, was driv ing a Var which was alleged to h?Y° hit two necroos on Chatham street. Truejove and his companion. Rradley, stated that thnv remembered passing' two negroes but denied hitting them. The negroes testified they tried to wave defendants down but they refused to stop. Tuesday being the monthly “good behavior day” a number of the Sun day school bovs appeared to give a report to the Court of themselves for the past thirty days. MR. COTTON LEE HOG CHAMPION Killed Porker In 1925 That Hit 1,100 Pounds—Kills Two Big Ones This Fall. Since Mr. O. C. Cotton, of this place, killed a hog: in 1925 that weigh ed 1100 pounds he has been known as “Ix*e County’s Champion Hog Raiser.” No one has since the county was created killed a hog that would compare with the weight of Mr. Cot ton’s hog. While Mr. Cotton is 08 years of age he is still raising large hogs. Passing his place a few days ago wre noticed that he had t'wo hogs of the Poland China breed that will probably tip the, scales at more than 500 each when killed. One of these is the most beautifully shaped hog we have ever seen and reminds one of the pictures of hogs in farm pa pers. When Mr. Cotton bought these hogs about a year ago they were small pigs. I Mr. Cotton has demonstrated the fact that he can raise other things besides hogs. He has a small farm adjoining his home near the Sanford Cotton Mill, and by his own labor, working about half the time, raises his home supplies, such as com, small grain, potatoes and other things for his family and stock. He even raises •the tobacco he consumes, if, this, community wrere full of -fanfnehs like -iVT*, .'Cotton we would enjtiy 'jk'^neater degree of prosperity, and , “live-at home.” BIG SPECIAL FAVORABLY RECE[VED To Appear Tuesday, December 15, Coming, Featuring Sanford Businesses. COPIES TO BE BROADCAST Many Leading Merchants Al readvjdentified With This Booster Number. I Many of the business and profes sional men of Sanford are to be con gratulated for the manifest interest [they take in any move that will have a tendency to stimulate business and give promise to a bigger, better and brighter future for Sanford, I^ee coun ty and this section of the Carolina^. Last week We made th,e announce ment of the'preparation of a feature andvjbidgraphical edition of The Ex press, and already many of our most prominent and progressive business houses and professional men have agreed to participate in the general promotion of the community’s wel fare, so much so, indeed, that we have decided to combine our Christmas edi tion along with the feature and bio graphical work, combining same and making one big, attractive issue that we will herald broadcast in the in terest of those it represents and the city and county as a whole. Copies of this booster number will be sent to such places as the Union League in Philadelphia, and the Manufac turers Club of Newark, N. J., where the industrial heads of the universe meet and congregate from time to time; also into the various Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade throughout the various states, in our effort to attract the attention of the •world at large to Sanford and Lee County, North Carolina. The Manufacturers Record, publish ed at Baltimore, in a recent issue says that at present there are more industries seeking new locations now than ever before in the history of the country. This possibly is due to ex pectant and more hopeful business conditions in the near future. In view of this we are through the col umns of this number going to ask them to come to Sanford, where every possible industrial eonvenienee awaitu them in the way of railroad facili ties, ample water supply, abundance'' of electrical power, good surfaced roads, well kept broad streets, first class business houses, modern and most efficient; land sites for the ask ing and a hundred and one other in ducements are available in this sec tion to the manuacturer and home seeker, the exploitation of which 'will be graphically pen-pictured in this special number. Every business and professional man owes it to himself to be feas ably identified with this number, which will be kept as criterion of the latter days of 1931 and will be his tory in years to come. As said last week the offices of The Express will be open evenings until 10 o’clock for the convenience of those who cannot get in during the day. If it is im possible to get in call The Express office by phone and our special re presentative, Frank J. Payne, will be glad to call on you at his convenience, regardless of where you live in Lee , County. GAVIN PROSPECTS LOOK PROMISING - * District Attorney’s Frineds Be lieve He Will Be Endorsed For A Second Term. Advices received from various points over the middle judicial dis trict, believe friends of District At torney E. L. Gavin, who spent several days at his home here this week, point steadily to his increasing chances of endorsement for a second term as Federal prosecuting officer. While the District Attorney him self had no statement for publica tion, he appeared quite optimistic over his prospects for another en dorsement at the hands of the state Republican executive committee which convenes in Greensboro Satur day. Endorsement will, of course, be tantamount to a reappointment. i The Sanford man, who has held the district attorneyship for the past four years, is an able prosecutor and the newspapers in the district have I quite frequently - commented most favorably upon his work. Only re , recently the Winston-Salem Journal, in an editorial, was highly commenda tory' of Mr.1'’ Gavin’s record as dis , trict attorney. Work is being pushed on the walls [of Mr. J. R, Ingram’s new bottling plant The walls are up. to the sec ond floor and the steel beams h^ve been placed in position. This is go ing to be a very attractive building when completed. It will probably bo finished about the beginning of thfe new year.
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