THE COURIER Leads In Both Nears and Circulation ISSUED I SF rOLUMIL VOL 'M m m mm tm t PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN A«faeb«ro, North Carolina, Thursday, M»reh 5th, 1925 t A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 9 * Wf Senator Rons rtitejtoed JHD In Legislature Hopper at The State Capital. ' Board Will Bare Poor Member* Name D. & McCrary, E, B. Laa^h, W. L. Ward and G. EJwood Statf i ton First Members, Senator Arthur Ross has introduced in the General Assembly a biU pro dding for the creation of a non-par tisan road board for Randolph county, the text of which is published below. A companion bill is the act empower ing the road hoard to create road ‘dis tricts in the county. Another act introduced by Senator Ross is that requiring the county board of elections to furnish tickets to the political parties at each gen eta ellection. Another bill, the text of, which this paper does not have, is the Mil exempting this, county from the state-wide primary law. ' A BILL—To be entitled an aef-to cre ate a Road Commission for the county of Randolph, and to reduce the- County Commissioners of said county from five to three members. The General iMsembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That there is hereby .created and established for the county of Randolph a road commission to be known and designated as "Road Com lUtesion of Randolph County” herein after referred to in this act as the rd'commission, which commission hereby constituted a body corpo rate with all the rights, liabilities, powers and duties provided for county road commissions under the provisions of section thirty-seven hundred and fbrty-five, Consolidated Statutes, one thousand, nine hundred and nineteen, and amendments thereto, in so far as they are consistent with the further provisions of this act. .4 Section 2, The said road commission shall consist of four members who ■hall be qualified voters of said coun ty and not mctre than two of whom ■hull be members of the same political party. That Eli B. Leach, G. Elwood Stanton, p.-B. McCrary and W. L. TBftod are hertbr ippointed and con stituted members of said road cam mi«aUn to serve for the following ; EU B. Leach and G. Elwood ified. D. B. McCrary and W. L. Ward each to serve until the first Monday in December, 1928, or until their sue-' cessors are elected and qualified. That at the general election in November, 1926, and biennially thereafter each political party shall be entitled to have placed upon its official ballot one and only one candidate ftr road com missioner to be nominated as other candidates and the two candidates re ceiving the greatest number of votes cast in said election shall be declared elected road commissioner for a term of four years, commencing the first Monday in December following said general election. In case of vacancy by death, resignation or otherwise, said vacancy shall be filled by appoint ment by the resident judge of the Ju dicial District of which Randolph county is a part. > Section’ 8. The road commissioners herein appointed shall meet in the court house in Asheboro on April 13, 1926, and organise by electing one of their number chairman, one as Secre tary, and adopting a corporate seal. Thereafter the said road commission shall meet at such times and places as they may select, provided at least one meeting each month ‘shall be held in the county court house. All mat ters to be passed upon by said road commission shall bo approved by a majority thereof, the chairman voting as any other member. Section 4. The members of said road commission shall receive for their ser vices a per diem of four dollars each and actual expenses while engaged in the work of skid road commission. Section 5. That immediately upon its organisation the said road commis sion shall assume control of all the public roads and bridges of the county of Randolph other than State High ways, and shall provide as rapidly as possible a regular system for the and improvement of said roads, and to this end all the power and authority, duties and obligations now vested in or imposed upon the county commissioners of said county am hereby transferred to, vested in and imposed upon the said road eolh mission. • Section 6. That the said road com mission shall select a county road sif /pervisor, fix his compensation, pur chase such equipment as in their Judgment shall be necessary, author tee the employment of labor, purchase all materials required, and exercise supervision and control over all the work done under the provisions of this CM& \ • wM Section 7. That upon its organisa tion the said road commission shall notify the county commisrionero. of such fact, and the county comadwd oner shall at once cause to be *-J Program of Exercises la Now Being Arranged—Plana For Couuty Commencement. . At a meeting of the high school principals of the county together with the county superintendent of educa tion in the court house in Asheboro Saturday it was definitely decided to have a Field Day for the schools of the county in Asheboro Friday after noon April 17th. All .kinds of athletic events will be staged on the occasion, A program of exercises is being worked out. County examination for seventh grade pupils will be held Friday, Aid:. 3rd. The high school principals also dis cussed plans for a county com mencement. It is planned to hold this event in the spring, probably in JkprO. ItJtfll not be as elaborate as some of tire county commencements in the past have been, but will consist of declamation contests, spelling con lasts and the like and will likely be staged one night only. Later announ cement Will be made of this event. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS To Be Held In Asheboro Five Days In April—Consists of Five Courses. The Western North Carolina con ference Sunday school board of the Methodist Episcopal church through its four employed workers will con duct a standard training school for Stgiday school workers in Asheboro April 12th to 17th consisting of five courses and offering 12 fifty-minute class periods in each course. The. dim of this course is to provide Sun day school workers in the church with a course to study which every one who holds an office in the Sunday school should ham. This standard training course is composed of over 60 units, each unit stantHng for a text book of 12 or more chapters. Eighteen of these units of study are regarded as gen eral or basal courses, eight of which are required to be taken by those obtain a Sunday school of toe remaining number. When a student has worked out eight gen eral units and tjie four specializa tion units in any one of the eight Sunday school departments, thus making 12 units in all, he is en titled to a Sunday school dipkftna. ^ Feel Earthquake Shocks In Various Parts of Country An earth shock of two minutes du ration was felt in New York City Saturday afternoon. Shocks were al so felt in the upper part of New York state and in New England. The shocks extended as far south as Flor ence, South Carolina. Very pronounc ed shocks were felt at points in Penn sylvania, Virginia, Michigan, Indiana and a number of other states. None as far as can be ascertained were felt in this State. - PLEASANT CrKOVE NEWS Death of Lee Brady at His Hone at Bennett February 27th. % L«e Brady died at his home‘near Bennett February 27th, at the age of 53 years. Mr. Brady was an honest, upright and highly esteemed eitisen. He was a member of the Pleasant Grove Christian church for a number of years and a deacon in the church for a long time. v The funeral services were conducted at Pleasant Grove church last Sun day at < 11 o’clock by Rev. G. R. Un-i derwood. Interment was made in the church cemetery, the Junjpr Order having charge of the services. The large crowd in attendance attested to the high esteem in which Mr. Brady was held. '* Deceased is survived by two child ren, Lonnie Brady and Mrs. E. A. Brady, and one brother, Milton Brady Carl, the two-year-old so of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cox, who has been quite ' Fred Steadman is improving the ap pearance of his home with a coat of paint and other improvements. Mr. Walter Brady will soon have his new bungalow completed and ready for occupancy. Hegro child run oyer > AND KILLED BY’TRUCK Small Child Run Over By Car Driven By Boyd Chrisco— Accident Unavoidable. An unfortunate accident occurred in the colored setientent in North Ash boro late Saturday afternoon when the four-year-old daughter of Kelly Bogan, a resident of the community, was run over mid killed by a truck driven by Boyd Chrisco, a 19-year-old negro youth. Chrisco and Alphonso Smith, the owner of the truck, were driving "up into the driveway at the Smith home to park the truck for the night. In order to get the car in the position desired it was necessary to back and again pullup. According to witnesses to the acci dent a number of small children, in-, eluding the little Bogan girl, were playing around a hedge. When the truck started to back the children ran out from behind the hedge in the path way of the truck, the little Bogan child being run over twice before the driver of the truck was aware Of the accident. The child was picked up and carried to the Bogan home while the doctor was being summoned. Failing to get the physician, Chrisco carried the child to the Memorial hospital where it died some time during Satur day night. Chrisco was given a hearing Mon day and was freed from all blame, the accident being held unavoidable. Ministers Praise Law Enforcement Methods The ministers of Asheboro at their regular meeting March 2nd were much gratified to note the success of our eity and county officers in recent raids on bootleggers. The secretary was instructed to ad dress letters to the two county papers commending these officers for their diligence and calling on the member ship of all the churches to give them every possible encouragement in the discharge of their duty. The prohibi tion laws were enacted by the united effort of Christian people and they will be enforced when our churches put their undivided strength behind the campaign for a cleaner county and a cleaner city. C. G. SMITH, Secretary. Go-To-Sunday-School Day A Success at Baptist Church Altl|OU; the weather last Sunday the Baptist Go -vay was quite a success. A very high percentage of the enrolled pupils were in their places, together with many new mem bers and a number of visitors. As had been, announced, the entire Sunday School started on a trip that had been looked forward to for some time, this being an imaginary trip from Jacksonville, Florida, to New York City. The object of this trip is to encourage regular attendance and to increase the membership of the Sunday School. Each class travels in its own car and is credited with, a certain nuntber of miles for 100 per cent attendance with additional miles given for new members and visitors. Health Officer Makes Report On Contagious Diseases Dr. Waite Lambert, who was made county health oficer in January, has submitted the following report of contagious diseases: 23 cases of chicken pox; 14 of whooping cough; 5 of smallpox; 5 of diphtheria; and one of scariet fever. The smallpox cases reported are ill in Liberty township. Dr. Lambert asks that all reports should contain the names and age of persons with contagious diseases, also date on which the disease was dis covered. tendant upon its services. Her husband died last January 8th. Mrs. Kivett leaves three sons and two daughters: D. A. Kivett and Miss Vida Kivett, of Ramsetfr; Mrs. Janies Brady, of Asheboro; Carl and Charles Kivett, of Bamseur. Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Baptist church, conducted by Rev. W. A. Elam assisted by Rev. Sweitzer and Rev. Scott. Sunday school 9:45 sharp. Worship 11 a. m. C.. E. meeting 6:45 p. m Worship 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7:30. The C. E. Society will hold a business meeting at the church next Sunday night at 6:15. All members are re quested to be present. Edgar T. Hole, a missionary of sixteen years' experience in the Afri can field, will be with uh Sunday afternoon at 2:80 and Sunday night at 7:30. The public is invited to at tend these services. A special invita tion is extended to all , the missionary organisations in.town and all others I who Jpe interested in missions to at tend the afternoon session since this twill not convict with the services at Mrs. Magdalene Kivett Dead Mrs. Magdalene Kivett, aged 68, widow of John M. Kivett, died at her home in Ramseur Sunday after a lin gering illness. Mrs. Kivett was & con secrated Christian and a member of the* Baptist church. She loved the church and was ever a faithful at face road just above Glenola to the Guilford County line, Oak Shade school house'Will be used to fix abut ments on the Muddy Creek bridge. It was also ordered that this road be pulled up with a road machine, the citizens agreeing to keep the road up for twelve months free of charge. Citizens living on the road leading from Albright's store to White Oak school house on the Brower road were instructed to prepare the road to be jmlled up by the county road machine as soon fts possible. J. H. Skeen was put in charge of the completion of the road* leading from Ed Frazier’s mail box to the Randleman-Level Cross, gravel road. The clerk to the board was in structed to draw a check to the amount of $20,009' kit favor of the board of education, tha proceeds of the check to be used in taking up outstanding notes held against the board. It was ordered that the clerk to the board pay all the road and bridge notes against the county as they be come due. Accounts against the county were audited and ordered paid. The board Ordered that a notice be put in the county papers to the effect that an adjourned meeting will be held Thursday and Friday, March 12th and 13th, and that the 13th would be given over to the consideration of road work exclusively and that no road bus iness will be transacted on the 12th, and that the citizens be asked to take notice and govern themselves accord ing to this1 minute. • Change In Schedule On Star Route Mail Service Beginning last Monday the Greens boro via Asheboro to Ramseur auto mobile star mail route was changed to leave Greensboro in the afternoon at 1:45 o’clock, immediately after arriv al of No. 45 from the north in Greensboro and will reach Asheboro in time to connect with Norfolk Southern train No. 71 for Aberdeen. Pouches will be made on the main line trains 45 and 36 and also by the Greensboro postoffice for Aberdeen train No, 71. , Connection is also being made on the morning trip via Asheboro for Norfolk-Southern train No. 75 which gets the morning mail to all points south as far as Candor. Davidson Couple Flee The County raunity taking with them two small children of Mrs. Wall and an adopted daughter of Mr. Nance. They left in a Ford touring car belonging to Mrs. Wall. .. Both were under bond pending a hearing in a case in Superior court against them for immoral conduct af ter their arrest at the Nance home at night not long ago. Nance and his wife have been living apart for some time. O. E. Henderson Dies at Arehdak 0. Edward Hepderson, ill since last June with pellagne, died at hit home at Archdale Monday morning. He was a plasterer by trade and had worked in High Point .most of his life. Funer al services were conducted from the home yesterday morning and inter Oscar L. Nance, farmer of Conrad Hill township, Davidson county, and Mrs. Lissie Wall, young,wife of Eli H. Wall, also a Conrad Hill township farmer, are missing from their com Presidents Dad < At Inauguration . ■Z~\. .T.-.hn Coolidge of Plymouth Vt., who by the light of a coal-oil lamp and the o!>J. family bible ari ti.inista:;a :'ne oath of office to his son at the death of Pres. Harding, marie the trip to Washington for the inauguration this week. SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS PASSES INTO HISTORY All Farm Ajd Legislation Goes Into Discard With Muscle Shoals Measure. The 68th Congress of the United States came to an end yesterday, pass ing out with one of the tamest wind ups in recent history. During the closing sessions all farm aid legislation went definitely into the discard to join the Underwood Muscle Shoals leasing ' bill, the McFadden branch bankinl: bill, a score or more of railroad measures of various kinds and a great number of miscellaneous proposals running from a $150,000, 000 public buildings measure. There was an eleventh-hour attempt in the Senate to put through a farm bill, but after hours of -debate the sen ate rejected the measure by a decisive vote. FRANK FULLER DIES AT HOME IN TABERNACLE * • , . .. _ ' Death Follows Several Months Of Illness—Was Prosper* ous Farmer. Frank R. Fuller, prosperous fanner of^TahemacU? township, died at; his home Friday morning at 11 o’clock, following several months of illness, most of the time being spent in the hospital at High Point where he un derwent two operations. Mr. Fuller was 58 years of age. He is survived by his wife and mother, Mrs. Maran da Fuller; a son and daughter, Henry Fuller and Mrs. John Hall; three sis ters, Mrs. L. C. Phillips, of Asheboro, and Mrs. E. T. Kearns and Mrs. C. H. Phillips, of Thomasville; and A W. Fuller. His father, I. J. Fuller, died about three years ago. He was a member of and a steward in the Pleasant Hill Methodist church, from which the funeral service was held Sunday afternoon at 1:30, Rev. D. R. Proffitt officiating. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Mr. Fuller was considered one of the best farmers in the county. He was an incessant tiller of the soil and kept his farm always in an improved state. He was active in all matters in his county and community looking to the welfare of his friends and neighbors. BAPTIST NEWS LETTER We are happy to report that Mr. C. W. Scott has successfully under gone an operation and is now well on the way to recovery. Last Sunday was a record-breaking day in our Sunday school attendance. The attendance upon church worship was indeed gratifying. , Next Sunday morning the pastor will preach on the subject, “My Worth to My Church”, this being the second sermon on the series, “My Church and I”. The subject for the evening service will be “Where is My Wander ing Boy?”. Our doors will be open to the public. We welcome all thirsty souls. “Come thou with us and we will do thee good”. Ed Wright Injured Ed Wright was painfully injured at his shop on the Buffalo Ford road just east of town last Thursday when a sand pulley on a machine which he was operating burst striking him in the mouth. His lower lip was cut through to his teeth making a very painful wound. He was taken to the Memorial hospital where his wounds were dressed and where he is now un der treatment. Gulley show that 1028 men who were trained at the Wake Forest law school have been granted license to practice law in North Carolina. Dr. Gulley has headed tt 80 years vers ear 1028 CALVIN COOLIDGE IS INAUGURATED Took Oath Of Office Yesterday Simple Ceremonies Mark The Occasion. Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated President of the United States yester day in one of the simplest inaugural ceremonies in the history of the coun try. Charles G. Dawes was inaugu rated Vice President. There was a much abbreviated in augural parade, only a small reviewing stand for the President in front of the White House, no stands for specta tors along Pennsylvania avenue ex cept those built by private enterprise, no evening fireworks display, no in augural ball. The ceremonies began with the de parture of President Coolidge from the White House to the capitol shortly be fore noon. In the President’s room just off the senate chamber Mr. Cool idge received and signed the bills passed by the dying 68th Congress in the final hours before its adjournment at noon yesterday . . After 12 o’clock the new senate meeting in special session assembled for the inauguration of Vice Presi dent Dawes. President Coolidge and members of the Supreme Court and the cabinet were seated in the cham ber when Mr. Dawes took the oath of office and delivered his address. About 1 o’clock the President, Vice President, members of the Supreme Court and of Congress assembled on the special stand erected on the cap itol plaza where in the presence of a vast crowd the oath of office was ad ministered to Mr. Cooldige by Chief Justice Taft. President Coolidge then | delivered his inaugural address. The ceremony concluded, the Pres ident and Vice President took their places at the head of the inaugural parade Dack to the White House, com posed exclusively of units of the army, navy and marine corps, numbering about 7,000, and the governors of the states and their official staffs. About twenty-five governors were present. After the parade the President went back to his desk at the White House and Vice President Dawes took up his duties at the capitol. Mr. Coolidge’s Career President of the United States 1923. Vice-President of the United States, 19B1-1923. v . ' Governor of Massachusetts, 1919 1920. Lieutenant-Governor of Massachu setts, 1916-1918. President of the state senate, 1914-1915. State senator, 1912-1915. Mayor of Northampton, 1910-1911. State representative, 1907-1908. Clerk of courts, Hampshire county, 1903. City solicitor, Northampton, 1900 1901. City councilman, Northampton, 1899. Legislature Will Not Finish Business Before Tuesday Governor A. W. McLean stated Tuesday that he does not see how it will be possible for the General 'As sembly to complete its legislative task before next Monday or Tuesday. Some of the legislative leaders have been pressing for adjournment on Sat urday, which marks the expiration of the 60-day limit for which menfbers can draw pay. Twenty-Nine Men Have Preceded General Dawes the vice succeed i died in When Charles G. Dawes became vice president of the United States yesterday he entered upon an office in which 29 men have, preceded” him, but in which only 17 served out their full terms. Of the 12 who failed to -1"L_ their terms of service in presidency one resigned, six ed to the presidency, and ftvi office. John C. Calhoun, of South Caro lina, who won undying fame in the nullification debates with Webster, also has the distinction of being the only man in history to hand in his resignation from either of the two highest officeq^in the gift of the na tion. After serving a term as vice president under John Quincy Adams he was re-elected to serve under An drew Jackson, but found his opinions in such violent warefare with those of Old Hickory that he stepped out The six who became President through the deaths of their chiefs were John Tyler, of Virginia, suc ceeding William Henry Harrison; Millard Filmore, of New York, suc ceeding Zachary Taylor; Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, succeeding Abraham Lincoln; Chester A. Arthur, of New York, succeeding James A. Garfield; Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, succeeding William McKinley, and Calvin Coolidge, of Massachu setts, succeeding Warren G. Harding. Those who died in office were Wil liam Rufus King, of ed with Pieroe; Her Massachusetts, elect Thomas elected with WANT COUNTY INCLUDED IN THE FORSYTH BILL Members of Beard of Education Send Telegram to Ross And Feme to This Effect The county board of education met in the court honae Monday la regular monthly session. All of the members of the board were present. Hie greater part of the meeting was taken up in the hearing of delegations from va rious sections of the connty asking for consolidated schools. A delegation of thirty or more citizens of Provi dence township came before the board requesting a consolidated school for their township. Tabernacle township citizens also | came before the board with request for a consolidated high school for their township. Seagrove school pa trons were asking for a new and larger school building at Seagrove. j This is already a consolidated school, - m but the buildiftg is too small and the i teaching staff not large enough to take care of the increased attendance. ■ 3 Action on the granting of the Coun- j ty Line school in Concord township J was deferred until a later date. An offer was made to Scott-Cham ley, a Charlotte auditing firm, to au dit the school funds. The entire board, L. F. Ross, J. F. Hughes and J. A. Martin, signed and sent telegrams to Senator Arthur Ross and Representative A. I. Ferree, m at Raleigh, as follows: “Delegations from various sections ,4 of the county came before us today pressing for funds or school buildings. Our board is of the unanimous opin ion Randolph should be .included in the Forsyth bill. We urge you to use your best efforts to include Randolph in this bill.” The Forsyth bill provides that the county commissioners shall pro vide funds for the construction of *i a county-wide system of consolidated high schools to be placed on sites se lected by a survey. All requests for consolidated high schools that came before the board Monday had to be declined on account of the lack of funds for the construct ion of the buildings. Guilford County Officer^ Break Up Big Cock Fight Deputy Sheriff Gray, of High Point, and a number of assistants raided a cock fight near Deep River church Monday afternoon catching five men, together with 38 live game* cocks and six dead ones. A gambling table was in use also in the woods at the scene of the cock fight. The am.! who was conducting the gambling ta ble escaped as did the ringleaders in the cock fight. About a hundred spec tators were present. No Randolph county men were caught at the event, although the li cense tags on the cars showed there were men present from Randleman and Ramseur. Other cars bore license tags of High Point, Greensboro and Burlington. * M. E. CHURCH MATTERS (W. H. Willis) The Epworth League had its month ly social Friday evening at the home of W. A. Underwood. Committees recently appointed: on new organ; J. A. Spence, Grady Mil ler, E. D. Cranford, Mrs. S. B. Sted man, Miss Nannie Bulla, Mrs. Hugh Parks, Mrs. J. O. Redding; on ‘church furnishings; Mrs. W. A. Underwood, Mrs. J. A. Spence, Mrj. C. L Cran ford, Mrs W. J. Armfieid, Mrs. J. M. Caveness. The following have been dismissed by letter recently: Mrs. Maud Bulla, Mrs. Martha "Evelyn Russell, Mrs. Sallie E. Odum, and S. Odum. The writer has been at dinner re cently at the following homes: Central Hotel, Reid Hannah, W. H. Moring, C. B. Graham and Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Webb. The pastor’s subject Sunday morn ing will be “The Only Name”; at night he will talk to children. All are invited to attend each of these ser vices. Superior Court Will Convene Next Monday, March 16th Randolph Superior Court will be gin March 16th with Judge T. J. Shaw, of Greensboro, presiding. Two weeks will be given over to the trial of civil cases after which the criminal docket wll be taken up, T March 30th. Judge Shaw married Mi Woollen, of Asheboro. Botfc and Mrs. Shaw have Asheboro and thr Supreme Court Issue Fc The Supreme' Court m* lina has declared the $2,wv,i issue for loans for homes to of the world war invalid. The did not hold that the act wi stitutional, but was invalid reason that the measure, ceiving a majority of the the November general | I not receive a majority i tered of