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THE COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation HHfHmWIHHMWUMW WWM«HffWmiWHIUIWIW»mw» W' ^ ISSUED WEEKLY} VOLUME LI $2.00 A day received bids for the construction of the new consolidated' school build ing at Seagrove. Contract was not let but was deferred until a later datd. Burrow and Lamb, contractors, of Asheboro, were the lbw bidders for the building at $29,895., Bids, several in number, were from $37,800 down to the bid of Burrow and Lamb. There were a number of bidderh for the heating and plumbing con tracts. The Harding Heating Com pany, with a bid of $8,747, were low est bidders* for the heating contract, trhile Kirkman Plumbing and Heating Company were the lowest on the plumbing contract with $1900. The board voted to call in the spec ial school tax election already set for New Hope township and recommend ed this action to the county commis sioners at their regular meeting next sent to either Trinity The location of the proposed new school building in Providence town ship was discussed by the board mem bers and patrons of the district. No definite location of the new building was decided upon. From Union township a delegation came before the board asking for some relief in school matters in that township. Welch, Pisgah, and High Pine were the districts f represented before the board. The citizens of these districts who came before the board are anxious for the provision of better educational facilities for the children in these districts. There are three school buildings which are _presented by a number from Charlotte, Belvidere, and Shepherd school# dis presented asking fbr a election. The board rec „ to the commissioners the of this election, of New Market township i appeared before the board --deed for some provision to be maHo for the high school pupils of the township. The board took the ' * ' * ' at and will Returns from the Randleman spec ial school tax election were canvassed. It developed that there was a regis tration in this district for the election 541 persons, 290 of whom, or a 'ma jority, voted for the special tax levy. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET ON NIGHT OF 12TH The regular meeting of the cham ber of commerce will be held Friday night, February 12th, instead of Fri day night, February 5th. Change in date of meeting was made on account of the absence from town of Mr. C. • C. Cranford, who will entertain the members at a banquet at its first meeting. Can Trade Almost Anything For a Car It is easy to own a car. Any make of car, according to the advertise ments, can be bought at so many dol lars down and the rest payable in monthly installments. Fact is, one is advertised you can save money at that rate and make first payment when you have deposited a certain amount. But not all cars are bought altogether with cash as a fanner in a neighboring county will testify. This man wanted a Ford, most everybody wants one, and there are few who haven’t gotten them, al though Henry makes them at the rates of millions a year. He didn’t have the cash equivalent of the pur chase price so he looked around to see what he had for stock in trade. Here is what he found and gave for his Ford: 100 bushels com, unshelled, 50 irallons home made molasses. 3 ' ‘ calves, 1 bull yearling, 6 3 bushels sweet potatoes, 1 og, 1 second hand ice cream balance in eash. DEATH CLAIMS AN AGED CONFEDERATE VETERAN Jesse Shaw,-Last of ‘Lost Cause’ Followers in New Hope Township, Dead. Mr. Jesse Shaw, New Hope town* ship’s oldest citizen, died. Sunday at the age of eighty-three years. Mr. Shaw was the last Confederate veter an of the township in which he lived. He was a member of Co. H. 8$ N. C. Regiment. His life had been long and useful and his record both in his private life and in the Confederate army had been worthy of emultation. To all who knew him he was “Uncle Jesse” and was highly esteemed and respect ed. T ; He is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Chris Shaw, Lexington; Pearl Shaw and Mrs. San dy Hopkins, Thomasville; and Mrs. Frank Shaw and June .Shaw, New Hope township. c The funeral service was held Mon day at 2 P. M. at New Hope church. A .large crowd of relatives and friends assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to a highly hon ored citizen. MRS. JULIA HOLLIDAY / DIES IN GREENSBORO Mrs. Julia Ann Holliday, 66, wife of D. M. Holliday, of Climax, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. A. Woodell, in Greensboro, following an illneSs of two months. Besides her husband and Mrs. Wood ell she is survived by one daughter, Miss Lula Holliday, of. Climax; -two sons, Hugh and David Holliday, Jr., of Climax; three brothers, Carmie Kivett, of Liberty; J. D. Kivett, of California; and Foust Kivett, of Iowa. ' ' j The funeral whs held at Mount Pleasant church Tuesday afternoon by Rev. S. K. Spahr, of Greensboro. SPECIAL SERVICE Rev. R. Y. Putnam announces that there , will be a special service at Neighbors Grove church next Sunday at 2 o’clock in the afternoon conduct ed by a band of workers from the Stevens organization of laymen from High Point. The public is invited to this service. „ Carl Cox Hurt In Accident Carl'M. Cox, salesman for the Clin ard Milling Company, High Point, well known in Randolph county where He was bom and reared, sustained a South Main Street, High Point, by an automobile. TRAVELSTORY OF CALIFORNIA Mrs. Swanna Lowdermilk Cog gin, Native, of Randolph, Writes of Motor Trip. The Courier is indebted to Mrs. Swanna Lowdermilk Coggin, former ly of Seagrove, Route 1, this county, now a resident of California, for a story of automobile travel in her adopted 'state. Mrs. Coggins’ letter follows: I am wondering just at this time if the people of Randolph county would enjoy a trip with me through beauti ful California. From Jonesville in the northeastern part of the state where we had lived for a little more than two years we drove almost a .day over a wonderful mountain road to Red Bluff, having a fine view of Mt. Lassiter, the only active volcano in the United States. We must, re member as we start out that Cali fornia has its rich, productive val leys, that it is by no means devoid of mountains. This mountain road con nects two v very important valleys, Hanfey Lake valley and the -great Sacramento valley. Red Bluff is a typical California town sitjuated at the head of Sacramento valley. Our first night out was spent in this beau tiful little town. , From here we drove a day through the great wheat fields for which this valley is noted and it was in this valley part offcthe time we drove through a dense fog. W* must re member also that California has its fogs as well as its sunshine. ' We enjoyed a fine stop in Sacra mento, California's beautiful capital city. From here we drove to Stocton Here over the Stocton boulevard, especially is where the raisin g: grow. From here we drove»to land. There we enjoyed a three ride on boat across the bay to F0^'fost place of interest in Bay City was, of course, the house. Here the sun was sh brightly and we had a fine view the ocean, saw many seals bn rocks. We had hoped to see somi SOME RANDOLPH CO. FARM FACTS Farmers of County Cultivated 400 Acres In Tobacco Last • Year—987 Tenants A summary of the agrcultural fact#; taken from the farm census re ports made from the tax listing in Randolph county in 1925 as compiled by the Division of Markets, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, of which Mr. Georgg R. Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ross, of Asheboro, is chief, discloses some interesting features. v Twenty townships in Randolph county report 987 tenant farmers, who are cultivating 25,500 acres of land and that 97,000 acres are culti* vated by the owners. Trinity town ship leads in the number of tenant farmers, the number being 105; New Hope has 87; Level Cross and Union have a dozen each. Coleridge and Columbia townships cultivated more acres by the owners than any other townships in the county. liberty and Trinity cultivated more acres by ten ants than any other townships in the county. Back Creek and Trinity have the largest number of acres lying out. Although Randolph county has not been listed as a great producer of cot ton and tobacco, the census shows that the county had last year about 4,000 acres in each crop. Trinity township'alone is represented as hav ing 1160 acres of tobacco. New Mar ket township 383 acres of tobacco; Back Creek, Brower, Coleridge, Co lumbia anji Grant all had more than 200 acres of tobacco. Liberty raised 926 acres of cotton. Columbia 805; Coleridge, Concord, New Hope, New Market, Providence, Richmond and Trinity all having from 200 to 400 each. Coleridge and Columbia led in the acreage of" com for grain;, Concord arid Tabernacle in the acreage of wheat for grain; New Market and Trinity in the acreage of rye for grain. Franklinville, Tabernacle, Coleridge and New Market produced cowpeas for seed with 75 to 100 acres to each township. Soybeans were grown more extensively in Back Creek, Liberty and Providence townships. No township in the coun ty shows as much as 100 acres of either cowpeas or soybeans inter planted with corn. Tabernacle and Trinity townships cut more than 100 acres of small grain or cowpeas for hay. New Market township and /Trinity township raised 500 *p, TOO acres each of soybeans for hay. CloVer apparently is very generally grown, and cut for hay in Randolph county. Coleridge township alone shows 7S3 acres; Providence 629; Union, Frank linville, Columbia, Cedar Grove each have listed more than 500 acres. Lib erty led with 581 acres. Of vegetable crops Trinity town ship leads with 68 acres of Irish po tatoes; New Market 72 acres in sweet potatoes; New Market has 183 acres of berries and melons. Trinity and Union townships show the largest number of acres devoted to home gar dens. Back Creek township has list ed 197 pecan trees of bearing age. Trinity township uses more commer cial" fertilizers than any other town ship in the county, although there are several townships that use 5C0 tons or more. Productive livestock in Randolph county is represented largely by 1400 sows of breeding age; 6000 milk cows; and more than f25,000 hens of laying age. Columbia township shows a large number c of each. Trinity township has more than 10,000 nens and 580 milk cows. _ ASHEBORO ROLLER MILL SOLD TO MR. CRANFORD Mr. W. J. Scarboro has sold the Asheboro Roller Mills, one of the town’s oldest business institutions to Mr. C. C. Cranford. It is understood that Mr. Cranford will dismantle the mill and take care of the mill’s cus tomers at the Southern Crown Milling Company, which will be under the management of Mr. W. F* Redding, Of the old Asheboro Roller Mill. Mr. W. F. Redding, Jr., traveling sales man for the Asheboro mill, will be secretary and treasurer of the South ern Crown Milling Company. The sale of the Asheboro Roller Mill leaves the Southern Crown the. only roller mill in town. It has had a good business sines its establish ment several years ago and has grown into one of the town’s largest business enterprises. Mr, C. C. Cran ford is president of this institution. COMMUNITY SINGING HELD AT LIBERTY LAST SUNDAY A community singing in which from several churches par was held at liberty last directed <MEi Flying Hath Lester P. Barlo Conn., is in Wa stratdng his anu He is shown here Stamford, ton demon* inventions, his marine Central Falls, has urar way the con struction, of a SRO.lwSdiStion to the present mill building vrich will af ford 4500 additional sdare feet of floor space and enable le mill to in crease its capacity 30 pr cent. The new construction will bebf brick and one-story in height. I In addition to the ne\i mill con struction, twelve tenant buses have been built or under consruction. The Central Falls brai h of the Pennsylvania Textile Mil; is under the direct management o Mr. W. S. Trickett, who makes h* home in the Asheboro. The home of ce of company is in New York City. TRINITY NEV1 Mr. Henry Royals, wh has been confined indoors for so* 5 time, *is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Scott am little son, of West Virginia, have pen visiting Mr. and Mrs. McDowell. . Mr. and Mrs. Browe i, of South Trinity, are moving or ej lect to move soon into the Elias Loh: place near here. Mr. Lee Royals was c< ifiend to the house for a day or so 1st week but is out again. and aerial torpedo* r tifte latter can NEW IND Carl Page, for and treasurer of Chair company, ai nell, building conti lotte, former resid« are planning the c new furniture plat the Asheboro Rolh Plans are being pe new organization < will be given in < columns next wee! STRY «rly secretary the Piedmont Arthur Pres rtor of Char t of Asheboro, struction of a on a lot near Mill building, ected for the which more ta|l in these •- C- -Lr. U CENTRAL FAI TO INCREAi Building $50,000 Mill Building a structed Ne The Pennsylvania & MILL S CAPACITY Addition To 1 Has Con Homes. ixtile Mills, at New Chambetjof Commerce To Stage A Building aid Loan Drive Next Saturday merce'ls beginning to prjve its worth to the town. Each manjfacturer ip the county has been as»d to devote Saturday to a special efflrt to inter est his employes in takijkout shares in either of the two HMing and loan associations in the Bounty with the purpose in view of ] aking home owners out of these emj »yes. Every other business nan and all who will assist in the v >rk are re quested by the chamber f commerce to assist in this buildin and loan to every ne money order to rwner or rater him either as an investm help some man be a wants to become, a hi self. There are two good NO MEETING OF COUNTY BOARD _ . t - Only Two Commissioners Show, Up For Regular Meeting— Others Fail To Come. i • ■■ _ I ' No meeting of the board of ceunty commissioners was held Monday for reason that not enough members of the body could be gotten together for the purpose. Only Elwood Stanton £nd John Yow showed up. C. M. Lof lin was sick, so word was sent. Chair man White was sick too. and had sent in his resignation from the board. T. H. Hornaday had sent in his resig nation and didn’t show up. Both White and Homaday, however, for some reason withdrew their res ignations during the day. Just why they resigned or what caused them to change their minds is not known. However, a condition somewhat like chaos reigned in Republican circles Monday. Dozens of people from var ious parts of the county were in Asheboro on business with the board, a body which had ceased to function. Republican leaders from different parts of the county were here too. There were several in town probably hoping that they would be selected for the places which were to have been made vacant by the resignations of White and Homaday. At any rate, some of the war-horses seemed to be hoping that the lightning would strike them. A regular meeting of the board, so the register of deeds states, will be held next Monday. A lot of people are wondering if enough of the mem bers will come out to hold the meet ing. MR. AMOS HARVEY MACON DIES AT AGE OF 46 YEARS Amos Harvey Macon, aged 45 years, 8 months and 22 days, died at his home 12 miles south of Ramseur, in Randolph county, last Thursday, January 28th, following an illness of two months. Funeral services were held at Holly Springs church by D. R. Moffitt. Mr. Macon was a son of James and Eleanor Macon and was bom May 6, 1880. He was married to Miss Della Moffitt Dec. 21, 1906, and to this union were bom three children, who', with the widow, survive. They are Mrs. Cleveland Burgess, Miss Nellie Louise Macon and James Rus sell Macon. Surviving also are three brothers, Jeremiah, Foster and Hym eli\i3- Mapon, .all of Benpett, Route V, his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Macon; and four sisters, Mrs. A. R. Fesmire and Mrs. J. N. Newell, both of Ramseur; Mrs. J. T. Low.dermilk, of Greensboro; and Mrs. J. A. Hicks, o'f Bennett, route 1. -it Death Rides Rough Shod In Southland During the past week traffic took a terrible toll of death in Dixie. Forty-seven persons were killed dur ing the week in automobile, train, trolley and motorcycle accidents while 240 were injured. Florida led the list in number of deaths with 9 and in injured with 59. Georgia followed as a close second with 8 deaths and 42 injuries. Mis sissippi reported no deaths, but 20 in jured. Alabama had 3 deaths and 2 injuries. . North Carolina had 7 deaths and 35 injuries. The ideal time for pruning orchard trees is in early spring, as wounds made then are not exposed so long before the healing process begins. only on first mortgage real estate, recognized by business men, finan ciers and people in every walk of life as the safest investment. Persons who signify their intention Saturday of taking shares in a biuld Jng and loan association have a choice j of either of the two associations. The ; Randolph Building and Loan Associa tion has a new series open this month. The People’s will open a new series Mafich 15th. The only difference be tween the two associations is that the Randolph loans money on real estate anywhere in the county, while the People’s confines its activities to the town of Asheboro. The business men of Asheboro and throughout the county are behind the movement to increase the assets of the building and loan associations in order that more homes may be built in the town and county. Both TWO COUNTY SCHOOLS GET A BUILDING LOAN Seagrove, Liberty and Gray’s Chapel Each Get Loan From The 5 Million State Fund. During the year 1926 there were 248 applications for loans from the $6,000,000 State school building fund set aside by the general assembly. Of these applications, 197 were ap proved by the committee having the appropriation in charge. The appro priations affect the building of* 1, 627 school rooms in 77 counties, at an estimated cost per room of $3100. This loan fund carries the total of State loans to counties for school building purposes up to $15,000,000. Loans were approved and made as follows to schools in Randolph coun ty: Liberty, $30,000; Gray’s Chapel, $16,000. State Ranks Fifth In Payment Federal Tax' North Carolina ranks fifth in the nation in the amount of taxes paid into the federal treasury in 1926. North Carolina paying $180,272,389 led every State in the union save New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Il linois. Tar Heelia was first in theT South, no other Southern State get ting in the hundred million dollar class. North Carolina and ten other states showed increases in federal taxes last year over 1924, but none as large an increase as this State. Tobacco taxes form the larger part of the State’s federal tax. James D. Patterson Dead. James Davis Patterson; 75, .prom inent Chatham county farmer, died Friday morning from blood poison ing. He is survived by his widow, who before her marriage was Mrs. Emma Hammer, wife of the Jrfte (Jalvin Hammer; and several children. ——————— State Collects Big Sum in Auto. Taxes Already for the fiscal year which began July 1st, 1925, and will not end until June 30th, next, the State has collected more than nine million dollars in automobile taxes, including license plate fees, gasoline tax and license taxes. Indications are that total collections will pass 13 million dollars, or 3 million more than was collected the preceding year. The bulk of the collections comes from the gasoline taxes and goes into the sinking fund for the retiring of bonds issued for road building. DEATH CLAIMS A WORTHY CITIZEN Calvin G. Frazier, Sr., Who Died Last Week, Was For Years Valued Asheboro Resident. In the death of Calvin G. Frazier, Sr., early last Thursday morning, Asheboro lost one of her most highly esteemed citizens, one, who, since he moved to Asheboro from Staley in 1908, had been actively identified with the civic, business and religious life of the town until ill health forced him to retire several months ago. Mr. Frazier had been in declining health for several years and for a week prior to his death his condition had been critical. The end was not un expected. Mr. Frazier was bom in Columbia township, Randolph county, August 31, 1852, a son of the late Pleasant and Carolyn Frazier. On October 12, 1876, he was married to Miss Rachel C. Barker, of the Providence section of the county, who survives. To this union were bora ten children, seven of whom are living. They are: Cal vin G. Frazier, Jr., June E. Frazier and Miss Grace Frazier, all of Ashe boro; Mrs. M. R. Cox, of Staley; Mrs. F. G. Whitehead and M. E. Frazier, or Greensboro; and I. P. Frazier, of Statesville. Another son, James Clyde Frazier, was killed in France in September 1918 while serving in the world war as a member of Com pany K, 120th infantry. Two other children died several years ago in Greensboro and are buried there. Surviving also are two brothers, Thomas Frazier, of Burlington, and Newton Frazier, of Ramseur; and three sister^, Mrs. Sallie Burgess, of Ramseur, Mrs. Lucinda Kivett, of Liberty, and Mrs. Bell Cox, of Greensboro. Mr. Frazier resided for many years at Staley where he was engaged in farming and operated a general store. In March 1908 he and his family moved to Asheboro where Mr. Frazier engaged in the mercantile business, conducting his store suc cessfully until 1916 when he was forced to cldse out his business on ac count of ill health. He actively iden tified himself with the business and religious life of the town, being a faithful and active member of the Baptist church and chairman of its board of deacons. He was until the past summer a member of the town WOODROW WILSON NOW VINDICATED America’s Entrance Into World Court Is Evidence of Triumph of Wilson’s Ideals. (By David P. St. Clair) Washington, February 2.—The pub lication of the personal letters of Woodrow Wilson to Col. Edward ML House during the years embracing the world war period reveals the I war President in a morefintensely in timate spot light than anything else 'that has been written by him or about him. Col. House is said to have hastened the publication of Wil son’s letters to him because of the impression produced by the recent publication of Ambassador Page’s let ters written to the President during the war. Page wrote many letters but Wilson answered very few of them for he is said to have regarded the U. S. ambassador as too modi under the spell of his British envir onent. Mr. Page chaffed In his ef fort to persuade the President to trfke America ftto the war before he de cided to do so, and he hints that the delay was due to the influence of CoL House on the President. Col. House was Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador at large to Europe before America entered the war. He incar nated the President’s ideal of “peace without victory*’ and was sent to Eu rope to inculcate all the governments engaged in the war with that ideal. But Germany so long as she held the sword over the heads of the allies was never disposed to entertain the idea of a settlement without victory and the allies feared such a peace, and Great Britain rather than accept it, determined to bring America into the war if possible. She succeeded and one of her agents was Ambassador rage. After the first few letters from Page, Wilson ceased to read them and turned them over unopened to House who wrote to Page and also con ferred with him but House in his prefatory note to the Wilson letters reveals the fact that the United States without a great army and navy was not in a position at that moment to ask Europe to cease fight ing without victory. Wilson was not convinced that he could persuade the American people to submit themselves to the training of a great army with out an actual declaration of war in advance. But House believes that if this country had been prepared for war, it could have been the arbiter oT a single man. House was sent to Edrope to per form a most difficult task as the Wil son letters reveal, an undertaking, had it succeeded, would have made the President the arbiter of the world, a role he sought to play at Versailles. It would have made America the very heart of the league of nations. House was selected for this mission because Wilson trusted him more than any other man he had* ever known. The two men met for the first time in 1911 at a New York hotel. Col. House writes: “From that first meeting and up t» today (1916) I have been in as close touch with Woodrow Wilson as with any man I have ever known. The first hour we spent together proved to each of us that there was a. sound basis for a fast friendship. We found ourselves in such complete sympathy in so many ways that we soon learned to know what each was thinking without either having expressed him self. «:#1S “A few weeks after we met and af ter we had exchanged confidences which men do not usually exchange except after years of friendship I asked him if he realized that we had known one another for so short a time. He replied: ‘My dear friend, we have known one another always’. And I think that is true." As Colonel House sees it, it was the action of Wilson’s bitterest ene mies that has done more than his best friends to assure his undying fame! Had the Versailles Treaty been ratified by the senate, Col. House thinks Wilson would have been only one of a number to share in the glory of that event, But w'hen Wilson was compelled to make the fight for the treaty and it was defeated, he at once became the central figure in the battle for the league of nations. The world has now come to know the league of nations as the creation of WoodroV Wilson. The adherence of the United States to the world court so «Anr Vioila/] Ivtr tt/ilonn'o onomioD on is now hailed by Wilson’s enemies as his vindication.