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THE COURIER ISSUED WEEKLY YOLUMEU * THE COURIER Advertising Columns Bring j alts a $2.00 A YEAR IN! )VANCE Old Guard Roofed As! ’s Motion Is Tabled 44 to 39 ■ iV •>/«>• • *■•■■■ Eu. IlimaBiilni Ina • vi jivnviivUErivB i^r Pie Cwptter. C. N. COX IS CHAIRMAN Gregg and Kohloss Lend Fight - - ntatrve Del To Name Represen egation To Du Durham. It was a bad day in Asheboro Sat urday for federal officeholders. The Bandolph county Republican conven tion in addition to balking the moves of Cephas Bowman, deputy collector of internal revenue, refused in its closing moments to indorse his chief for State chairman. It all came about l c? when Bowman, after the delegates to i the State convention had been named I and the delegates to the county con L uvgjjtion were leaving, rose to ask the LjgkArention to indorse B. C. Campbell ■State chairman. But 'the sup f. pSfters of Marion Butler and those who were in opposition, apparently, to everything that had the Bmtmham stamp on it, knew what was coming and marshaled their femes for the fight. Bowman began Jus impassioned plea for Campbell by glorifying Randolph Republicanism and singing the praises of Campbell, who was horn and rear ed in Columbia township, this county. That didn’t seem to have any effect on J. D. Gregg and J. S. Lewis and a number of other county leaders. Lewis wanted harmony and he re quested Bowman to withdraw his mo tion for endorsement of Campbell, but Bowman failed to heed. The fight grew hitter while Dr. Gregg turned his guns of oratory on Bowman and Bowman fixed back. Bowman hurled it bate the face of the delega tion that if it went to Durham to day uninsttucted it would be ac knowledging to the statp convention that the Randolph delegation was for sale. J. S. Lewis, Dr. Gregg and a{ number of ether delegates were im mediately bn their feet to resent Bowman’s statement. A vote was demanded. It got off slowly. The temporary chairman seemed not to-know what to do and the delegations from the various pre cincts were scattered over the hall and many of them had left. Some townships even had no representatives present But the convention voted ^4 to 39 to table Bowman’s reaolu Aon and the Randolph county delega Pon is at the convention today unin structed for State chairman. This was Bowman’s second decisive defeat and toe convention adjourned. The first major division in the con vention was ove* the manner in which the county delegation to the State convention should be chosen. Bowman wanted a committee of two or three men appointed by the chairman to se lect the delegation. This was opposed by Dr. Gragg, R. A. Kohloss, the en tire Liberty township delegation, and numbers of others in the convention. It was JUWoes and Gragg who led the opposition. Neither of these dele gates wanted a picked and packed delegation sent to Durham. These two experienced campaigners must have known from experience just how packed a Republican delegation can be nude. At any rate, they were taking no chances. They wanted the entire county represented at. Durham, not a coterie of the machine. Again Bowman went down in defeat. It was looking bad tor toe old guard and Marion Butter's star was in the as cendancy scintillating to its semto in the closing moments of the conven tion. The convention got away slowly with Ralph <L Smith as temporary chairman and Cecil Frasier end R. E. Johnson ae ‘temporary secretaries. The old guard must have scented trouble in toe -dir. It bed an inex perienced AiiwAm to cope with it. £to those who -did not knew of toe It (Continued on page 8) TIMS EXHIBITION AT GLENOLA SCHOOL SATURDAY Beginning at 10 o'clock Saturday morning than will he an old time exhibition at Glenala school house. An all-day program ot songs, recita tions, music, declarations and dia logues has been anaaged. Rev. G. W. Clay will deliver the address and will make presentation of -medals and diplomas. ; REPUBLICANS MEET IN BULL CITY TODAY Warm Fight Expected Whim Butler Opens Up On The Old State Organization. ‘ J. J. Britt, of Asheville, will be temporary chairman of the Republi can state convention which is meet ing at Durham today, From the open ing of th£ convention until its close interesting and spectacular events are likely to occur. Marion Butler, now residing in Washington, D.- C., will be the storm center of the fight that is expected Butler during the past several months has been waging unrelenting war on the old organiza tion headed, by Chairman W. B. Bramham, of Durham. Bramham is coming down this time and there will be a fight over naming his successor. The Randolph county delegation en ters the convention without instruct ions as to whom it will rapport for State chairman for which place there is a number of candidates. Cephas Bowman made a desperate effort to get the delegation instructed last Sat urday for B. C. Campbell, one of Chairman Bramham's chief lieutehr ants but failed in his purpose. w Asheboro Defeats Thomasville Asheboro^ high school defeated the Thomasville high nine Tuesday after noon in a dose game on Lewis-field by a score of 9 to 8. C. Johnson's single through the Thomasvilie in field in the ninth inning was the de ciding factor in the game. Rush on the mound for Asheboro pitched a good game, but with the score tied in the ninth he was taken out for , Ham id. Thomasville drove in one run in the ninth only to have Asheboro come back with two and the game. The Thomasville boys garnered 9 hits off of Ashebaro’s pitchers, which were one more than Asheboro batted off of Stone on the mound for the vis iting team. Thomasville chalked up ftvn errors while the locals were mak ing six. Gregory Opens Hew Store W. A. Gregory will on next Satur day morning formally open his new store which has recently been vacat ed by C. W. Scott A Co. The store building has 'been completely over hauled from tcrp to bottom and Mr. Gregory has morwd nub of his Stock of goods to the new building. He will continue the store for the pres ent in the building be has occupied since earning to Asheboro. George E. Allred, Aged $4, Dies at Home in the Coanty George EL Allred, aged 64 years, died Wt Ins home, one and one-half miles northwest of Cedar -Falls Satur day aftemom following a short IU-; ness. He » survived ky his widow who was before her marriage Miss Esther Hendrix; four -sons, W. A., of;1 Durham; G. H. and Randcdph, of Cedar falls; and Qriendo, at Bur-, Rngtoa; and one daughter, Miss Mar-! tha, ef near Cedar faSte. Funeral was held from the resi dence Monday morning at 11 Whilodk by Rev. George 'L&ngHiin, of Cedar Phils, and interment was made 9q .the Tnpgdon cemetery. IAL IS HELD MRS.SCOTTEN Died In * Greensfcor* H« Sunday—Was Active In Church Work. Funeral services 1of Mrs. Mmy Scotten, aged 29, of Liberty, who died in a Grehnshoro hospital early Sun day morning, -were conducted this af ternoon at 2 o’clock from Mt_ Pleas ant Baptist ehaneh by Bov. T. F. An drew*. Mrs. Sootten was born in Randolph county and graduated from the Far mer high sehool. She taught school in both Guilford and Randolph coun ties. She was dor two years princi pal of the Staley graded school. While teaching in Staley she organ ised the B. Y. P. U. there and was active in other branches of the church work. She Joined the church when eleven years old and from then un til her last illness was active in church work, more especially in the young people’s work of the church and Sun day school. In the year 1920 she was married to W. X. Scotten, for the past four years they have made their home in Liberty where Mrs. Scotten continued to make friends as she had health since CITIZENS WANT SCHOOL HOUSES Delegations Asking For Build ings at Randleman, Seagrove, Providence, King Tut. Practically the entire time of the board of education meeting in the courthouse Monday was taken up in hearing delegations from Providence school district and from SeagrovC, Randleman and Sing Tut. Providence people have not been aide to agree upon the location of the proposed new consolidated school building for which they voted a special tax several months ago. The heard of education after carefully considering the mat ter had decided on the site of the old Providence school building. This lo cation is between the Red Cross and Three Forks road. The road leading hy the school house, according * to agreement, is to be graded. This site was agreeable to -many of the Provi dence citizens. Others opposed it. Beth rides had a delegation here Monday and the matter was discuss ed at length a>ro»and con. Opponents of the site selected "want the building located at a point on the Randleman Red Cross road. The board of educa ion was given to understand that if it did not reconsider its decision as to location of the'building the special tax for the building and its mainten ance might be rescinded by a vote of the taxpayers. The matter of locat ing the building will be taken up at another time, although the board de cided Monday to stick to tire site; selected. I Delegations were present at the: hoard meeting from Randleman, Sea-' grove and KingTut, all of them ask-! iing for school buildings for which aj special tax bad 'been voted, Every-: tfhing is ready for the signing of the; Seagrove.school building contract and; the patrons of ihe school are anxious! for work to begin. The proportion is! to -get the money. The same propo sition confronts the board with ref-j exence to JKandleman, Providence and King Tut buildings. The county] commissioners, so it is understood,’ damped down the lid <m any more' loans for school buildings, but recon-] ride red and differed to hear the board; of education at a special meeting to! be held April 16th. i The only other ’business transacted by the board was to employ Scott, Chamley and Company, of Charlotte, represented locally by Mr. Fred Phil lips, *o audit the ’school accounts for the year 1925-26. The Randolph .county board of com missioners met in regular session in the courthouse in Ashe boro Monday with all members present. Mr. S. C -Mrs. Eugenia McCain Newsom was Meted tax supervisor for the county The artit made of'the Clerk of he Court's office by F. M. Wright P. church, in Asheboro. He is a son of Rev. A. L. Hunter who? is one of the oldest ministers in the Id. P. Con ference in North Caroling He was bom and reared in a Metljiodist Pro testant home and has liw»d|at numer ous places in North Carolina. He was educated at Western Maryland College and graduated, fljm West minister Theological Seminary. He hah served as pastor df;.West End, Greensboro, and Winsta^f churches, spending five years at the Iftter place. Dr. Hunter succeeded J. E. Pritchard last fall at HSpierSon, at that time Mr. Pritchard ft Ashe boro, . The services are la^ and are increasing dailj are held at eight o'cloci ing in order that the i may attend. Dr. Hunter’s openim Monday night was on t “Soul Saving.” He • 107-2 as his text, “Let' of the Lord said so." said there were two gj the church; that of so of keeping souls saved course the speaker a church could afford to fiv* all of its time to soul saving or ministering to the saved but it must do both, and that here is no better way for at church to save itself than by saving others. He advocated serenously that the business of die church was to reach and to save sou$^ outlining three places in udiich this might be done. First, the home, Which he said was te easiest place in the world to talk religion but in many cases it was found bard. Hu urged that the parents try to win their children to 'God. Thu next, the speaker said, the most natural place for “the redeemed of the Lord to say so" was in the church where preacher and people should never miss an opportunity to extend a personal invitation to all unsaved people to accept Christ as their Savior. In the lasft. place he said that everywhere there was an opportunity for sterviwr ufljjihhs ichtd— in the shops, on the itw®e,in w flte business places, on the farms and children i Psalms Redeemed • speaker :tasks of •ring and B- his dis everywhere interested people could find opportunities to extend an invita tion to the unsaved people to become Christians. On Tuesday morning the subject o? "God’s Fellow Workers” was chosen. In thfe discourse bis subject was oat lined us follows: “Fellow workers with each other, fellow workers for Ged and “third follow workers with God”. 'Especially did the speaker emphasise that ©very one .must be willing to work according to God’s plan and ndt our individual -plans and in conclusion he assured success by “entire cooperation of the prosecu tion of God’s ]Han. Dn Tuesday evening "Power for Service” was the subject—Arts 1.8, being the test. This sermon was di vided into three sections—Power, the source of Power and the use cf “Pow er. In the beginning Dr. Hunter torn of “the power the disciples received. He also spoke of political power, of intellectual power, but most cf all be emphasized Spiritual Power, -which is needed in the life of every human being. - Yesterday morning the subject was “Walking with God”. In the cutset the speaker naid that to walk with God means "teat God is a person. It means harmony with God, te keep His commandments and finally to rest with God. Dr. Hunters sermons have been forceful and "have been thoroughly spiritual. Every one is invited “to at tend the services. The services will continue until probably the middle of next week being held each day of the week at 8 O’clock .in the morning and at 7:45 in tee evening except on Saturday and Monday When the morning ser vices will be omitted. The regular sendees wfll be held on Sunday. De cision Day will be observed in the Sunday school. Humming Birds The humming bird retires to the nuth in winter, to the subtropical ©gions of Florida and Central Amer ca. Their principal food is honey and imall insects. North Carolina is on the great development in lii duction, thinks Prof. R. S Fvrrmvr niACi? KiAUIlliu IiIAijl NETS THREE MEN Buick Car Also Taken—Sheriff Uses Bloodhounds To Help j|pp' Catch Fleeing Youths. Three young white men in jail and a new Buick sedan bearing North Carolina license number 101,533 in possession of the sheriff make up the sum total of a haul made by Sheriff Cranford and Deputy Hack Lewallen yesterday afternoon after about six hours of some of the hardest foot work and automobile, driving the county officers have experienced in many days. It all started when Mr. Routh, pro prietor of the Routh Filling Station at the old county home site called Sheriff Cranford yesterday morning shortly after 9 o’clock'and informed him that three young men in a new Buick sedan had left his filling sta tion posthaste neglecting to pay him for five gallons of gas he had put in their car. The three men had af ter, having the gas put in the tank asked for drinks. While Mr. Routh’s daughter, who waited on them, step ped inside the station to. get the drinks called for the driver of the car stepped on the gas and drove to wards Asheboro. Routh phoned aMad and Sheriff Cranford and ' Deputy Lewallen took Lewallen’s Ford and went to meet the Buick. Just west of town the car was sighted and Sheriff Cranford stopped it. The Buick was going at a rapid rate, but the four wheel brakes brought it to an abrupt halt and the driver turned it around and headed west. A front tire was blown out in the process of turning. Cranford and Lewallen gave chase, but were outdistanced. Fallowing the car tracks which were easily dis tinguishable on account of a wheel running on the rim, they found it abandoned on a woods road ^ few miles west of the Dr. Bulla place on Route 75 west of Ashctoro. Returning to Asheboro and bring ing the car, Cranford secured the bloodhounds and pat them on the trail the three young men. bi the af ternoon they #vere found far out on 75 west of Asheboro and near the bridge over the river on this road. They were brought to Asheboro and lodged in jail. After the young me* left Routh’s Filling Station and just after Ropth .had. phoned in to.Asheboro the tele phone wires were cut leading from Routh’s into Ashetxne. Thrre empty purses were found in the Hoick, Trot the boys seemed to have had Tittle need for them Jot the sum of money in aQ their pockets was only twenty-four wants. The young men are apparently men of intelligence. They appear to be in their twenties and are well dress ed. One of them says his home is in brew York, another claims Detroit bis home and another says he daren’t know where he Is from. They claim to bare gotten the Buick at Detroit, but seerpingly can’t account for the 'North Carolina license plate. 'Whether the young men are automdbite flneres or whatever they may be is mot 'known, ’but Sheriff Cranford is (ex pecting some developments. 'Hymn Playing Contest "On last Thursday afternoon in the school auditorium, the music pupils of Hisses Bertie Hay and Mary Stockton entered into a hymn play ing contest. There were about forty contestants, and their performance gave credit to both themselves and thrir teachers. In order to encourage hymn play ing in the music class Mrs. W. H. Haring gives two prims annually, one to the grammar grades and one to the high school. r Miss Jadksie Brooks excelled and won the prim for the high school con testants; There were others whom the judges felt should hare honorable mention. These were, Virginia Lowe, Louise Swaim, Margaret Shelton, Em ma Rice, Althea Presnell and Lena Andrews, si Frances Hughes won the prize in the grammar grade students, while Virginia Morris, Margaret Wilson and Waldo Cheek played remarkably well. The music class is very fortunate in deed to have Mrs. Moring’s interest and encouragement in their work and it is to her continued efforts that .this interest in hymn playing has been aroused, it being her wish that the young people who are endowed with talent be given the opportunity to give pleasure mid service alike in their homes and churches. If yon hare trouble with sick chick ens, write the State College of Agri culture for its extension circular number 164, on common diseases of poultry. wffl be held in the courtho Asheboro the following April 24th. Every precinct is to one delegate to the county tom for every 25 votes cast f emor in the last election. At toe county convention wOl be held in Asheboro Si f -No Hom TW I-■■■ "" -.rS . The authorities of Asbury Park, N. i., haw arrMtad 9t yaar old Dr. E. P. T B. Obaldaaton, far fiif a hMN and b«m 45 ago. TSa Doctor dalasa want fit half brothar, who h ta’wa'hS, lfl»jThaVa, whjf*ht got from a gun fight to lfcir York.” FUNERAL FOR HENRY S. .STUTTS AT WHY NOT Died at High Point Sunday— Had Lived in Randolph Un til About 2 Years Ago. Henry S. Stutts, bom May 22,1867, died Sunday, April 4th, at High Point and was buried at Why Not church, Randolph county, the services being conducted by Rev. John Kidd. He is survived by his widow, who was be fore her marriage Miss Lunda Dun lap, and the following children: Mrs, Odell Yarborough, of Lexington; Messrs. Otis, Carlie, Alton, Howard; Henry S., Jr., Ray and Misses Gladys and Bonnie, all at home with their mother; two brothers, W. L. Stutts, of Seagrove, and John Stutts, of Hemp; and by one sister, Mrs. Wil liams, of High Point. Mr. Stutts was a member of tire Baptist church at Union Grove. He had lived many yh^rs, at WhKi Not, in Randolph county,/vjntil about two years age when he mled to* High Point. Mr. Stutts had been an invalid fer three years.' ' A Stare Sign Restoring from a drive in the car. ■“I believe we are on the wrong read, this don’t look like the way we came out.” “This is the right road alright— theie’s one of the men we ran over this morning.” Easter Services Observed In Asheboro Churches All the churches in Asheboro ob served Easter services in a most ap propriate way. Many beautiful flow ers were in the churches and music suitable for the Easter occasion mid flee sermons were on the subject of the Resurrection. The Easter sea son was further observed by many of the Sunday schools and churches giving the primary and intermediate departments picnics and egg hunts on Monday. These observances will have mach influence on the minds and hearts of the young people of the community. NAME RANDOLPH ELECTION BOARD Composed of M. H. Burkhead, Walter Presnell and J. S. Lewis, All of Asheboro. mem Judge Walter H. Neal, of Laurin burg, chairman of the state board of elections, last Friday announced the personnel of the various county boards. Each county board of election is composed of three men, two Demo crats and one Republican. S. W. Presnell and M. H. Burkhead, of Asheboro, are the Democratic mem bers of the Randolph county board, and J. S. Lewis, of Asheboro, the Re publican member. The Davidson county board has John W. Lambeth, of Thomasville, and S. W. Finch, of Lexington, as Democratic members, and B. F. Lee, of ' ~ - ber. JMf I® Montgomery county has R. T. Poole, of Troy, and G. T. McAuley, of Mt. Gilead, Democratic members, and W. W. Mabe, of Star, Republican mem ber. The Chatham county board is com posed of J. Wade Siler, of Siler City, and F. C. Mann, Pittaboro, Demo crats, and J- C. Hammond, Apex, Rt. 4, Republican. Guilford county’s board is D. C. McRae, of High Point, and Thomas C. Hoyle, Greensboro, Democrats, and THE JUR1 % KEES MARCUSjiJOTTER Acquits Him of Killing Clarence Sechrest—Thompson Gets ' Four Years In Pen. Following a brief session last Sat urday morning, Randolph county Su perior court for the trial of criminal cases in session since Monday with Judge T. D. Bryson presiding and So licitor Zeb Long, of Statesville, prose cuting for the State, came to a close. . The only murder trial on the docket was a charge against Marcus Trotter for the killing of Clarence Sechrest. Trotter based his fight on self defense and was freed by the jury. A case which attracted the most attention, perhaps, was State vs George Thompson on charge of bumr ing a bam belonging to John Kinley. This case was begun late Friday af ternoon and came to an end Saturday morning with a verdict of guilty. Thompson was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the penitentiary. He appealed and is out under bond of $1000. Other cases tried wejpe: State vs Clester Russell, defendant found guil ty and fined $35 and costs. He was also given a suspended sentence of 12 months on the roads, conditioned on good behavior for two years. State vs E. Gate Lemmons, defend ant pleaded guilty and judgment was suspended upon payment of the costs., State vs Jesse Allred, defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs. A large number of cases were con | turned for one reason or another. Such was the length of some of the trials that time could not be found to dispose of many cases which were docketed for trial. The grandjury for the term made the following report on Thursday: To His Honor, T. D. Bryson, Judge Presiding: We, the Grand Jury for the term, beg leave to submit the following re port: We have completed the business be fore our body and have returned all bills submitted to us for action and have acted on all bills except a few cases which are continued for lack of evidence. 4 We have visited all the institutions of the county in a body. On examination of the jail we found seven white and five colored male prisoners. The jail is in good condition and the prisoners appear to' \ be well fed and cared for. We rec ommend that some much needed re pair work be done to the overhead ceiling in the front room of the jail, by replacing some plastering that has fallen. We visited and examined the county' home by committee, and found the-' buildings and grounds in good shape. We found at the home , six Whitt male, eight white female, four colored male and two colored female inmates, all apparently well cared for. We found on hand, two mules, three milk cows and four hogs, thirty-five bushels of corn, ten bushels sweet po tatoes, seventy-five pounds of meat and seventy-five chickens. We visited all the offices in the court house and found them in excel lent condition. It was found that the overhead ceil ing in the office of the county super intendent and the room adjoining his office are badly in need of repair as the plastering has fallen off consid erably, and unless this be done soon it will soon be in such condition that it will cost much more to replace than it would at the present time and it is herefore recommended that this be immediately done. It is recommended, for the conven ience of the Grand Jury, that a hat rack and desk be placed in the Grand Jury room. We extend our appreciation to your Honor, the Solicitor and other offi I cere of the court and county for the courteous treatment and considera tion we have received. D. T. McCAIN, Foreman of the-Grand Jury. i. CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY BOOSTING OSCAR COFFIN The Chapel Hill Weekly has the following editorial comment which will be of interest to the friends here of Mr. Oscar Coffin: A GOOD ACQUISITION It seems to be certain that Oscar Coffin is to be Gerald Johnson’s suc cessor as Professor of Journalism. The University is in luck to get him. He is an expert in the routine pro cesses of newspaper making; he guts distinguished himself as an editorial writer of exceptional forae; and he has had experience as a teacher, and, to boot, he has a vivid personality and a never-flagging affection for the University. A set of qualifications hard to beat. DOratelin R* d at publi v/ •‘Stydixtyl;.