North Carolina Newspapers

lm.' m j:;'#g/f-?;, £* " ’* w THE COURIER IN ADVAN* Brown Pinch, prominent Thomas ville citizen .and chair manufacturer, was instantly killed Saturday ■ morn ing at 8:80 o'clock when the Buick se dan in which he was riding was struck •and demolished at the West End , grade crossing in ThomasvOle by Southern passenger train No. 87. Pinch was thrown about 50 feet clear of the wreckage and was dead when trainmen and witnesses of the acci dent reached him. Mr. Pinch had just left the home of C. F. Finch, in sight of the grade crossing, and was driving down town. He reached the crossing at a time when a through freight train had it blocked. He stopped his car and waited for some moments Until the freight train was uncoupled and the crossing opened. Coming down the southbound track Was the fast through passenger train No. 37. Un aware of the approach of the passen ger train Mr. Find) was attempting to make the crossing when his car was struck by the train and torn to pieces. Rev. O. B. Williams, pastor of the Community church at Thomasville, saw the fatal agident and himself had a miraculous escape from death. Mr. Williams saw the approaching train and attempted to warn Mr. Finch of its approach but was unsuc cessful in his efforts. The train was not brought to a stop until all the cars had passed over the crossing and parts of the car were strewn for a hundred yards along the track. Brown Finch was 82 years old and a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Finch, of Trinity township, this county. He has three brothers, T. A. Finch and George Finch, of Thomasville, and Doak Finch, of Trinity. Another brother, Charles Finch, was killed in a railroad accident about thirteen years ago, at the age of 17, while a student at Guilford College. He fell from a platform of a coach while toe train was passing over a switch and his head was crushed. Brown Finch was a graduate of Guilfbrd College in the class of 1914 and was one of the most popular and nts who ever attended the college. He was admired for his _ __. L j «t the most pop ular and best known business men of Thomasville. He was associated with his father and brothers in the Thomasville Chair company and was well liked among his friends and ac quaintances and the laboring classes who always felt that in .Brown Finch they had « friend. Besides being en gaged in the manufacturing business Mr. Finch was a builder of homes for many people in different parts of the town and was also interested in a number of mercantile establishments in Thomasville, among which were the Davidson Wholesale Company and West End Store. . ' ^ ' The funeral services were conduct ed at the Finch home, Wheatmore, in Trinity township Sunday afternoon and interment made at Hopewell chuxdL The large profusion of flow ers and the immense number of peo ple who came to pay a tribute of re ^ to toe dead testified to to. at "Hopewell, f Main Street nasville, and istor of Com uu. A»ala e commissioner of par the act passed by tile re _-don of the general wsenibly. i commissioner of pardons Mr. Sink all appeals for executive matters which have hereto fore taken a major portion of the Governor’s time. ■ Sink was bom on a farm in Davidson county 37 years ago. Be graduated from Bridgewater college in 1910. Under the administration of President Wilson he was vice —» at Amoy, China, Dorm* year ended June 80, 1924, show that Randolph county had 296 pupils en rolled in rural high schools during that year. The total white enroll ment in all rural schools of the coun ty was 6,992. Only 4.9 per cent of the children of the county were en rolled in the high sehpols. The aver age daily attendance was 260. . The numbef nf graduates in 1924 was 33. | The enrollment by grades was 8th : grade, 99; 9th grade, 79; tenth grade, 183; 11th grade, 35, In respect of rank rated on 'the ratio that the high school enrollment bears to the total enrollment in the white elemen tary and high schools taken together Randolph county was 82nd. Only 18 counties of the State had a smaller percentage^ of high school enrollment than this county. Chatham- ranked 15th among the 100 counties of the State with 638 of its 4,636 -pupils in rqral higf Montgomery, 26th with 371 Montgomery, 26th with 371 of its 8, 711 students. Guilford ranked 27th and Davidson 56th. In the State as a whole there was a total enrollment in the rural elemen tary and high schools of 410,884 and of this number 31,697 were enrolled in high schools, or a percentage of 7.7. The average daily attendance in the high schools was * 26,399., The total number of high school graduates was 8,631. In the cities of the State there was an enrollment of 188,308 with 27,663 in the high school, or a per centage of 20.7. There were 3,369 ‘graduates of high schools In the cities. ■ The town board at its call meeting held last Thursday named W. A. Lov ett registrar and J. B. Ward and J. M. Caveness poll holders for the town election to be held in May. Rev. Amos Gregson 86 This Meath Bev. Amos Gregson, formerly a resident of Spero, this county, but who now lives with his daughter at Bock Hill, S. C., will reach bis 86th milestone on the 21st of this month. Mr. Gregson was a pioneer minister of the Methodist church in this coun ty, and has preached in various parts of the State. In its infancy, he preached at the church at Durham which is now known as the Duke Memorial church. A' street in Dur business buildings have been complet ed recently and are under < J—* ion in the town. Dr. W. L. has completed a nice new on the corner of Salisbury ■ Main and is now occupied by Mr. Trickett, manager of the cotton null at Central Falls. ROBseil parks has under construction a bungalow on Park street. Another new building is a bungalow constructed for Miss is building a bun street; Joe Was Moved Late Tuesday To Hedrick Building on South Fayetteville Street. Asheboro’s postoffice was moved late Tuesday from the building on the corner of Depot and North streets to the new Hedrick building, next to E. L. Hedrick’s residence, an South Fay ■ ettevilla. Mail Tuesday night was brought to and distributed ^t the new location. The spacious lobby of the building was crowded until a late hour Tuesday night and for several hours yesterday morning by patrons of the office seeking the location of their new lock boxes and endeavoring to familiarise themselves with the com 1 bination to same. The new postoffice equipment is modern in every respect. The private office of the postmaster is located on the left-hand side of the front en trance followed by the general deliv ery, stamp, and other windows neces sary for the transaction of business. Then follow the sections of lock box es forming three sides of a rectangle. There are 525 of these lock boxes, or 105 more than the old postoffice af forded. The new building is of brick and of two stories in height. The entire lower floor comprising more than 2,000 square feet will be used by the post office. The upper floors will be rent 'ed for offices. Serious Shooting Near Bennett Meager accounts of a shooting near Bennett Sunday afternoon have reach ed Asheboro. From the information obtained a young man by the name of Phillips was shot through the head by Mabie Richardson. It is said that Phillips stopped his car near where some white men were repairing a tire starting to get out of his car td assist them when he was. met at his car by Richardson who shot young Phillips through the head just above the temple.* Phillips wds rushed to thle hospital at Sanford where little •hope is entertained for his recovery. ‘Richardson has been placed in Chat ham county jsiil. Light Show In This Section Reported Monday Morning was reported by Asheboro Monday other parts of as reports of a snow fall of several inches in the Western North Carolina mountains, western Virginia, and at Washington, D. C. Whether any great damage has been done to the fruit crop in the State is problematical. Dr. John R. Lowry, of Raleigh, who owns exten sive peach orchards in Wake county and in the Sandhills, says that an in spection of his orchard of forty-six hundred trees in the Sandhills shows no damage has been done by the re cent cold snap. He says there is a probability of scrub trees in private orchards being damaged. Fire At Pop Com Stand The fire company was called out Saturday afternoon late to put out a ire at Mr. Steed’s pop coni stand on Depot street The canvas around the tend caught on fire probably from a spark from a burning trash pile ' on ho vacant lot in the rear and com >letely burned up. Mr. Steed’s ma hinery was saved. A new tin roof tas been put on the stand and busi iasa is goin g on as USUaL DOWN TO UNITE t vote on the proposition to irthem and Southern rrr._T._ jPtjMli Methodist Episcopal Church resulted in defeat for the uni ficationists by a vote of 141 to 137. The vote was taken in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episco S Church, South, in session in Wash ion City. The territory of the Con ference embraces Virginia, West Vir ginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. This is the first Confer ence to vote on the proposal of a joint 'commission on unification, which re commended that the two churches unite under certain conditions speci fied. The proposition requires the af firmative vote of three-fourthsof the Conferences in the Southern Method ist jurisdiction. This first vote is by no means decisive, but it will »© doubt. „__ whose tem _sides of the Ma . line, it is improbable received with favor by tion, is the first to that office in that and now president " " rial Assocta ever elected MAJOR WADE H. PHILLIPS THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Presentation of Bible and Flag To Graded School Last Friday Night. At a public meeting held in the 'graded school auditorium • Friday night the " Patriotic Order Sons of America presented the school a Bible and flag. Rev. B. E. Morris, pastor of the local Baptist church, presented the Bible and H. W. Koonts, of. Lex ington, the flag. Mrs. W. A. Under wood, a member of the school board, received the flag and Bible for the school. Wade H. Phillips, of Lexington, 'State Commander of the American Legion and a member of the order, made the principal address. He spoke of the organization of the order, its aims and principles. * The band of the Lexington camp fof the order furnished music for the occasion. * Was Native of Liberty COMMISSIONER DOUGHTON SLASHES SALARY SCALE Doesn’t Wait For Salary And ' Wage Commission To Do Work For Him. Without waiting for the appoint ent of a Salary and Wage Commis »n, which waa authorized by the at session of the general assembly ith power to put into effect drastic ago scale changes in the depart entg of the State. Revenue Commis dner R. A. Doughton Monday an >unced slashing reductions in salar Sunday Scl Ashe There will I tute held next I 5th, at 2:30 o’c ored church ' Asheboro school ia i church an gether in t iai Institute For Colored People ■ • i Sunday school insti ay aftemoofc, Apr. at the M. E. col i colored people of Each Sunday 1 to meet at its orm i a body and sit to Each church i appoint some one from its Sunday program will be irris will a ' school, on the school. a male a duet sung CHARLES ROSS IS NAMEDASSISTANT Attorney-General Names Ross and Three Others—Reor ganizes His Office. (By M. L. Shipman) Raleigh. Starch 30.—Attorney-Gen eral Dennis fi. Brummitt completed reorganisation of his office during the past week, Governor McLean issued three more orders showing that he is in earnest about economy in govern ment, and various other incidents oc curred during the week in and about the capitol demonstrating an unusual amount of hustle for this season of the year which ordinarily is quiet in official circles. The appointment by Attorney-Gen eral Brummitt of three assistant at tomeys-general, Frank Nash of Ral- , eigh, Charles R. Ross of Lillington and W. L, Vaughn of Washington, was the outstanding event of the < week. Mr. Brummitt, it is reported, • paid off a pre-election pledge by ap pointing Mr. Vaughn, who is an old friend and classmate of the Attorney General. Frank Nash and Charlie Ross were opponents of Mr. Brummitt for the nomination in the Democratic pri mary last June. Nash, who was assist ant attorney-general during the last four years, was retained, so the story goes, because his familiarity with the ■office preeminently .fitted him for the 'job. Ross who withdrew from the sec ond primary in favor of Brummitt, is believed to be reaping the fruits of his withdrawal. The new appointees will be assigned one as general assistant, one to the Revenue Department and one to the Highway Commission. The person who fills the latter post will displace Wal ter L.' Cohoon, of Elizabeth City, who has been attorney to the Commission for four years. The Governor came through with three more orders to the director of the budget. These will require all de partments to cut out embossed and expensive stationery and use a uni form kind of a cheeper grade; all charitable and correctional institu tions and some educational places, such as the Blind School, will have to file immediately a list' of their pa tients and students and their respec tive ability to pay for what they are getting from the State. It is the plan that those who can afford to pay for treatment or service shall be required to do so. The third missive of the bud get director was to require that lists Salary and Wage Commission may get busy and prune out the dead tim ber in the departments and fix a standard salary scale in line with the work done. (Continued on page 4) Meeting of Adult Agricultural Class Announcement is made by R. F. Bracken, instructor in vocational ag riculture at Farmer high school, that the Agricultural Evenihg Class for adult farmers will meet in the high school building at Farmer Saturday night, April 4th. The problems to be discussed include the kinds of commercial fertilizer and the methods of application of same, and the care of home orchards. TRAINING SCHOOL OFFERS 5 COURSES Sunday School Workers— Begins April 12th in Ashe boro M. E. Church. jgMMail The first standard training school held in Randolph county is scheduled to begin at the Methodist Episcopal church in Asheboro Sunday afternoon, 12, at three o’clock. The school be held under the auspices of the Episcopal, Methodist Prot estant and Presbyterian churches. The rules governing the school are in line with those agreed upon by the Methodist and Presbyterian denomin ations. The school will offer five courses given by five specialists who are ac credited to teach their various sub jects by the denominations which they represent. Beginning with an organisation meeting Sunday afternoon which will extend through only thirty minutes the attendants upon the sessions of the school will then adjourn to five separate class rooms where definite discussions will be entered into by those selecting chosen courses. After Sunday afternoon the sessions of the school will be held at night through Friday night, the school beginning each evening at seven thirty and dos &at nine thirty. Between the two i periods each evening a twenty minute worship service for the whole school will be offered. Those enroll ing for a particular course and attend * j all twelve of the class periods will awarded a certificate of credit for of tbe necessary twelve credits ling one to a Sunday school di General News Of The World Told In Brief A Digest of Thing* Worth Knowing A boot Event* Throughout the World Daring the Week. Mr*. Clara A. Williams, aged 22, wife of A. A. Williams, of Hamlet, 'died recently at Hamlet hospital. William Y. Bickett, son of the late Governor T. W. Bickett, has opened up an office in Raleigh for the prac tice of law. The Dunlap Hardware Company, at Bonlee, was broken into Saturday night and several hundred dollars worth of merchandise stolen. The first annual meeting of the Wo man’s auxiliary of the Presbyterian Sjfriod of North Carolina is being held in the First Presbyterian church in Winston-Salem. The funeral of J. A. W. Thompson, aged 77, prominent educator, was con ducted near Swepsonville, Alamance county, Tuesday afternoon. %_ A high wind in the nature of a cyc lone swept over the northern part of Burlington last Friday blowing down chimneys, out houses and telephone poles. No loss of life was reported. J. T. Jones who left his wife and children February 28th and has been missing from his home on Benton, R. F. D. 3, since that time, has been lo cated at Fort Bragg where he joined the army. / ' . The state insurance department re ports the fire loss for February to have been $511,011, as compared with '$669,928 for February, 1924. Of the 196 fires during the month only 26 were rand. , Mrs. Cameron Morrison, of Char lotte, has contributed $25,000 to the $300,000 endowment fund to be raised for Queen’s College, at Charlotte. An active campaign will be waged this week to secure the full amount. The state board of health announces that a successor to Dr. W. S. Rankin, who will become connected with Duke university after resigning from the state board of health, will not be named before the latter part of April. Greensboro is to have another mil lion dollar hotel. J. E. Latham Com pany has sold the site on the corner of Davie and East Market streets to ; New-. York interests who will begin immediately the construction of a ho tel to cost $1,200,000. Lorinzo Barnette, High Point ne gro, was killed instantly and two Greensboro white men, William Ham and L. C. Aulbert, were seriously in jured in an automobile accident on the Greensboro-High Point highway at >2 o’clock Monday morning. Floyd B. Stout, Who is engaged in the cafe business at Greensboro, and Miss Elizabeth Hayes, of Bonlee, were married February 26th, according tc announcement made Sunday by the ' bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brooks, of Bonlee. A miniature hurricane accompanied by wind and rain swept over Siler City last Friday unroofing several houses and breaking plate glass win dows in several stores. Damage in . other parts of Chatham county was reported. R. C. Stanley, said to be a represen tative of the Home Detective agency of Greensboro, was bound over to Su perior court in Danville, Va., Satur day on a charge of attempting to ex tort money from Bruce McKee, a Danville citizen. Dr. John C. Perry has resigned the presidency of Lenoir-Rhyitp College, at Hickory. No reason is assigned for the resignation although it is thought friction among the faculty led to the action. R. B. Redwine, of Monroe, has been appointed emergency judge by Governor McLean and is holding, court this week in Stanly county in place of Judge T. D. Bryson, who is holding a special term of court in Anson county. Doughton has announced work of collecting automobile es which will be taken over by his of fice from the automobile license bu rfeau will be operated with a smaller force than previously. He announces that 64 of the 61 branch offioea will be continued. The collection of auto mobile licenses undi to pervision thousands of Point as a ■' Lambeth's for $15,000 Bennett’s Judge Shaw, Presiding, Mak Able Charge to Grand Jury —Number Cases Tried. Following the close last Friday of a two weeks' term of court for the trial of civil cases, Randolph county Superior court convened again Mon day morning with Judge Thomas J. Shaw, of Greensboro, presiding, for the trial during the week of the criminal docket. This docket is un usually heavy this term of court So licitor Zeb Long, of Statesville, is prosecuting for the State. The following named men compose the petit jury: S. N. Bowman, M. S. Ferguson, W. Roy Smith, A. S. Co*, R. W. Sumner, E. L. Garner, C. H. Bowman, S. L. Varner, U. T. Dawson, Edward E. Butler, Rufus Ellington, S. F. Lowdermilk, E. L. Cox, W. R. Burgess, Alfred York, H. J. Patterson, H F. Brady, and W. M. Richardson. The following eighteen citizens of the county were chosen for the grand jury: R. W. York, foreman, W. R. Brown, J. 0. Fields, T. J. Lambeth, J. M. Cox, O. P. Walker, W. L. Mitch ell, James O. Pickard, C. M. Kennedy, L. A. Cox, E. W. Parks, E. M. Cox,, P. A. Wright J. A. Barker, J. C.' Stout, J. P. Russell, Jasper Vuncan non, and J. E. Ward. To this grand jury Judge Shaw de livered a very able charge, stressing the duties of the body and describing and defining*some of the more com mon crimes with which the jury and the court has to deal. He defined the qualifications of a juror as common sense, an honest mind, and courage. A grand jury to properly function must have the courage to carry out its duty as it sees it regardless of consequences. In tracing the cause of crime Judge Shaw stated that a large part of in fractions of the law was due to the lack of proper training in the home. Most crimes are committed for per sonal gain. Proper training for cit izenship must begin in the home. Laws or rules of society, according to the judge, are made for the aver age man and the courts are for the (purpose of carrying out these laws without partiality and regardless of the station in society of the man who breaks the rules. The enforcing of these laws is necessary for the proper functioning of society in generaL (Continued on page 4) Mr. I. D. Wagger In item The store building in which Mr. I. D. Wagger has been running a store will be overhauled following a fire which occurred a few weeks ago. Mr. Wagger has sent the greater part of- his stock to Greensboro for. dis posal, the remainder of which will be moved to the second floor of the present building. Mr. Wagger will be in Greensboro for a short time amt Miss Brown, who has been associated with him for the past few years will have charge of the disposal of the stock here. When the improvements are completed Mr. Wagger will put in a full line of new goods and will appreciate the patronage of his friends. , >5 V''V Aged Randolph County Woman Dead Mrs. Martha Ingram died Monday it the home of her sister, Mrs. B2to Arnold, in Worthville, with whom he had been making her home for he past eleven years, aged 81years; Mrs. Ingram professed faith in Christ in early girlhood and joined he Oak Grove M. E. church, of which ihe lived a consistent and faithful nember. She was held in high «** eem and loved by all who knew her. Funeral services were conducted by EteV. G. W. Clay at Farmer M. E. :hurch Tuesday and interment n the church cemetery. The srowd in attendance attest the »steem in -which she was held. Our townsman, Mr. John s a brother of Mrs. Ingram, wo sisters, Mrs. Ella Arn Worthville, Mrs. Jno. Morris, ner and Mr. Elzevan Ingram jrother, survives. * ENJOYABLE “MOTHER GOOSfiP PROGRAM BY FIRST GRADE -—“ - . The different grades in the 1«S»1 school are putting on a number J te resting programs at chapel ex es during the spring. The two I tipns of the first grade, taugh Misses Mary McCain and Lucy ; Lovett, rendered an enjoyable 1' Goose program at the chapel, of the school Tuesday* A parents of exercise. The little folks showed training and every one themselves with l Marianna Redding Mother Goose and sociates gave her port. The little j ‘ modesty masters i 1