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A YEAR IN ADVANCE
NDHBBa
IS STARTED
ROUTE NO. 75
GradingForce
at Me
Work has been started on the build
ing of a standard topsoil highway
from Asheboro to the Davidson coun
ty line, this route being a part of
Highway 75, or Zeb Vance Highway
as it is generally known in this section
of the State. A grading force was
moved to the project the first of the
week and is making headquarters at
the McCrary farm west of Asheboro.
The J. F. Mulligan Company has the
general road contract while J. S. Bow
ers will build the bridges. The total
contract for the road and bridge work
totals approximately $215,000 and
calls for 15.81 miles of sand clay
highway.
Work will begin at a point about
a half mile west of Asheboro and will
be pushed westward towards the
county line. The road has been-sur
veyed and located the entire distance
to the Davidson-Randolph line. The
only part of the route which there has
been no definite decision announced is
that section'of it through the town of
Asheboro. Two routes have been pro
posed through the town. One is out
^Salisbury street along the route of
"the old Salisbury road, while the oth
er is through the business section of
town and out Sunset avenue.
Low bids were received on the pro
ject from Asheboro to the Davidson
line two weeks ago, but definite con
tract was not signed until last week.
It was expected that contract would
have been let for the bridge across
the Yadkin river af the same time as
that for this portion of 75, but for
several reasons, the matter was de
layed. This bridge is on Route 75 and
would connect Davidson and Davie
counties. Commissioner Cox has been
quoted as saying that the proposed
structure would cost $176,000.
Let Contract For Seating
Methodist Protestant Church
When bids were received recently
for the pews for the Methodist Prot
estant church it was decided that the
General Seating Company had sub
mitted the best bid, everything being
considered and the contract was
awarded that company. Work is to
begin at once on the pews and they
are to be installed as quickly as pos
sible, though it will require several
weeks for the-woik to be done. The
contract for the carpet was not given
at the time the pews were bought
but will be at an early date. The
congregation is anxious to have the
church finished and there will be gen
eral rejoicing when it is done. * |
FOR MR. LAMBERT
The Courier:
..I wish through your columns to
suggest the name of J. T. Lambert,
of Coleridge township, as Democratic
candidate (or sheriff. Mr. Lambert
is competent, well-known in the coun
ty and has a life-long record of square
dealing with his fellow men. He
would add strength to the ticket this
Auto Accident Is Fatal
Mrs. R. B. Osborne, aged 42, resi
dent of southern part of Guilford
county, died Saturday morning in a
Greensboro hospital as the result of
injuries sustained in an automobile
collision on the Greensboro-Randle
imh road three miles south of Greens
boro. Her spine was fractured.
Dave Isley Dead
Dave Isley, colored resident of
Asheboro, died Thursday at Memorial
hospital from- the effects of injuries
sustained Sunday night, July 4, when
struck by an automobile driven *by
Ralph Humbld. Isley was taken to
' the hospital immediately after the
, accident and did not recover con
sciousness. Police investigations of
the accidents are said to have classed
it with the unavoidable.
The catalog for the Randolph coun
ty fair to be held in September, has
been printed and is ready for distri
bution. Unfortunately the names of
those who had exhibits at the fair
last year are not available so that
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fall.
—“Democrat.”
After seven years of intensive search and experimentation, Dr.
T J. Harris'has discovered banana seeds and is now introducing their
cultivation in the South. He plans to make this neat food fruit a
profitable crop in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and later in
South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. Picture shows Dr. Harris
in his southern gardens."
May Have Been Abdut a New Claimant of Share in Estate—John
Lyons the Center of Attraction.
Secrecy veiled the meeting held in
Greensboro last Thursday evening
participated in by about fifty of the
heirs of Mark Hopkins, California
millionaire, who died, in 1878. No
newspaper correspondent was permt
ted to enter the room where the con
ference was held and what took place
is a matter of conjecture only. It is
suppose it had to do with further
plans for pushing the claims of the
heirs for the 95,000,000 estate left
by Hopkins. The meeting may have
been held to lay plans to checkmate
the claims of David Moore, of Bur
lington, who claims to be an heir, and
has employed William G. McAdoo,
former Secretary of the Treasury, to
represent him. v
John M. Lyons, 94-year-old Span
iard, familiar |fgure in Randolph and
Montgomery counties, was at the
meeting and seemed to be the center
of attraction. It was Lyons who filed
several month* with the Cleric of
art in Guilford county ah affidavit
among a lot of other
jlwas a mining
left
and weht to California to mine for
gold. He declared in his affidavit
that in 1849 he was mining gold with
Mark Hopkins in the Sacramento
valley in California, the two having
gone there in the original gold rush.
Many a time he has sat around toe
camp fire with Hopkins and listened
to Hopkins, then with only a few dol
lars, tell of his North Carolina home
and relatives. Lyons recalls the
names of toe brothers and sisters of
Mark Hopkins, saying he was told
them many times. They were Sam,
Hamp, Betty, Callister and Annie
Hopkins and they were back on toe
jld home place in Randolph while toe
pioneer was washing placer gold out
>f the streams in California.
According to Mr. Lyons, he met
dark Hopkins in the old America
lotel in Central America in 1849,
vhere there were hundreds of other
fold seekers from toe States, hav
ng come south by ship along the At
antic seaboard, intended to cross toe
sthmus and go north aloh$ the Pa
:iflc coast to California.
Hopkins and Lyons struck up ac
luaintance, roughed it to California
md then began mining. Bat it was
a toe gold fields that Hopkins
nade his money. He was instru
nental in organising the Southern
Former Chain Gan* Boss Charg
ed With Peath of Taro
Negro Convicts.
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N. C. Cranford, native of New Hope
township, Randolph county, *at one
time employee as guard on the old
county road force, and for many years
superintendent of the Stanly county
chain gang until several months ago
when he resigned and was made sup
erintendent of roads, is on trial this
week in Stanly county Superior court
on charge of murdering two convicts,
James Terry and James Howell, ne
groes. These negroes, it is charged,
died from the effects of heatings giv
en them by Cranford while they were
on Hie Stanly county chain gang.
Cranford was indicted last October
ome sections of the
iat there was * some
* rain which visited
» Saturday night. A
told on the farm 6i
Mur, Asheboro was
to by hail and com
tod was badly dam
Pacific railway. He died in 1877.
Mark HopkinB never married. Those
in Randolph county who think they
are heirs have filel suit for what they
believe is their share of the fortune.
Hopkins left six brothers and sisters
in North Carolina. The estate was
taken over by Moses Hopkins when
the multi-millionaire died and it is al
leged that he failed to tell the court
that Mark Hopkins had relatives in
North Carolina. When Moses Hop
kins died his widow, said to be living
in New York, received the bulk of the
estate. It is said that the heirs of the
brothers and. sisters of Mark Hopkins
now number about ’ 150 persons.
It is not only in Randolph and Mont
gomery counties that these heirs live,
several being in Cabarrus county, and
Dave Moore, the latest found, is a resi
dent of Burlington. The Randolph
heirs, like the ones in Cabarrus coun
ty, have taken legal proceedings to
get what they call their share of the
estate, 14 of them combining in secur
ing a legal firm to look after their in
terests.
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COURT "CONVENES MONDAY -
FOR TRIAL CIVIL DOCKET
Randolph county Superior court
| for the trial of cases on the civil
docket convenes Monday in the
court house in Ashefaoro, with
Judge McElroy presiding. Sessions
of the court will last two weeks
and will be devoted exclusively to
civil cases.
WILLIAM W. AMBURN, OP
RANDLEMAN, DIED 10TH
Death Ensues From Appendi
citis Attack—Was Native of
Stokes County.
William W. Amhum, of Randle
man, died Saturday in a High Point
hospital following an illness of two
weeks from appendicitis. Mr. Am
bum Was a native of Stokes county,
when he was bom July 7, 1882. He
moved to Randolph county two years
ago from Surry county and engaged
in farming on the plantation of Mr.
Nathan Sheffield, near Randleman.
He was a member of the M. P. church
at {fount Airy.
Surviving besides his widow, who
before her marriage was Miss Clara
ren: Ernest Ambum, of Mt. Airy;
Grady, of Sanford; William, Lester,
Dahlia, Violet and Nelson, of near
Rfttllifouuu!. -rV...
The funeral was held Sunday at the
Holiness tabernacle near Randleman
by Rev. S. M. Penn.
UTOMOBILE WRECK PUTS
ONE IN THE HOSPITAL
W. C. Brown, of Winston-Salem, is
the Memorial hospital, Asheboro,
iffering from injuries sustained Sun
when the Buick road
day afternoon
ster in which he was riling with an
other man turned over on Route 70
near Asbury. The car was almost
completely wrecked. Brown was ren
dered unconscious by the accident and
is suffering with concussion of the
brain and a number of bruises. The
other occupant of the car was not
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(By W. A. Hilderbrand, in hi* Wash*
ington correspondence to the
Greensboro News.)
Washington, July 11.—Representa
tive Hammer left today for the state.
Tomorrow the Congressional Record
will contain a speech recently . deliv
ered by Mr. Hammer, chiefly on the
subject of farm relief, which is to
comprise the major issue in a num
ber of the states this fall. The North
Carolina member emphasized some
of the points which led to so much
discussion during the last session of
Congress, and upon which the fate
of many of the members may turn
before they see Washington again.
In addressing the house Mr. Ham
mer told of some of the things he
would like for Jfhnson J.M Hayes to
talk about in opening the Republican
campaign in his borne county. Before
leaving, Mr. Hammer said that Mr.
Hayes, candidate of his party for
the senate, had Jauded the Coolidge
administration aid had expressedly
told of his devotion to the farmer,
but that the Republican candidate had
failed, in his Asheboro address, to
touch upon phases of farm relief and
other public questions in which the
people had a vital interest.
The Congressional Record iS al
ways printed for several days follow
ing the adjournment of Congress,
since this course is necessary to car
ry the speeches that are delivered
during the closing hours of the ses
sion. In the spetch, to be printed
tomorrow, Mr. Hammer said on the
subject of farm relief:.
Will Mr. Hayes* Do It?
“The Republican state campaign
opens in my home county tomorrow
and an address will be made by the
Republican nominee for United States
senate. His audience, except the rev
enue officers, wSl be principally farm
ers. I wonder if he will be frank
enough to teR bis audience that all
but two of the 12 members of the two
houses of Congress from North Caro
lina favored ihrm relief legislation,
but they could not, with all their ear
nest efforts, stem the tide of opposi
tion on the part of the administration
when the crook of the little finger of
the President would have accomplish
that he would veto the legislation if
enacted, and Mellon and Jardine vigor
ously protested against the bill the
fanners wanted. This he should tell
his audience and, furthermore, that
while-.it is true some Democrats voted
against farm relief, some of them
may have done sa because they did
not want to aid in enacting legisla
ed what was
itly desired by the
ifr Savoring farm
let it be known
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Home Department Renders
Program At M. P. Church
A very fine programme was render
ed by the Home Department of the
Methodist Protestant Sunday school at
the morning service last Sunday. Rev.
J. E. Pritchard, the pastor, had charge
of the devotions and the programme
was under the direction of Mrs. E. L.
Hayworth. Mrs. Hayworth as super
intendent of the Home Department
made a splendid talk on her work and
gave a report of the activities of her
department for the past three months.
Mrs. George B. Hasty gave a splendid
talk on the things she had learned
during the quarter. Other talks were
made by those who had been helped
and the service was closed, the people
feeling that it had been a profitable
service.
Work on Route 70
The work of hard surfacing high
way 70 from the county home, two
miles south of Asheboro, has been
completed to Ulah. The road, how
ever, is not open to the public and
short detours stilt have to be made to
reach Ulah and points farther south
on the route. The force at work on
this project apparently is one of the
fastest at pouring concrete that has
been seen in this section in some
time.
Former Randolph Co*
Commits Suicide
27 years, for
ndolph county,
sboro, and for
a of the state
• at- Raleigh,
anging herself
ra of her room
r a rope. Her
L M. Waring,
tire an Investi
t to the State
ding to news
ty, there are
that the Wake
have a chance
(m of the cir
tg Miss Col
Alice Coltrane,
merly a resident
later resident of
the past year an
county,
id in his
Health,
tion the administration opposed
when, if enacted, the administration
would claim credit, as was done by
the administration in the case of
both revenue reduction bills. The
Republican party is responsible for
the failure of Congress to enact farm
relief. The risk was run by Repub
lican leaders of trusting to the fact
that corn may be worth more than
55 cents at the heap before Novem
ber, and that the price of other farm
products may advance, but so tied
are the leaders of the Republican
party to the manufacturers and in
dustrial interests of the east that
campaign contributions will be cut
off if any major legislation was en
acted except in the interest of those
who control, not only the tariff and
taxation, but all legislation. If the
gentleman were to make this dam
aging admission he would probably
not help his party, but he would help
along the cause of truth and would .
contribute to the keeping of the rec
ord of his party straight before the
public. It is true he might not have
as much influence at the pie counter,
but it would be refreshing to have a
Republican spell binder tell a North
Carolina audience where the national
Republican party stands, and that
its real interest is to legislate for 1
those who furnish the most campaign
contributions.
“It is admitted that a 13,500,000
bale crop of cotton brings practically
$200,000,000 more than a 16,000,000
balev crop, as has been demonstrated.
Then is it not clear that there is
need for some system of marketing
which will prevent such a temporary
surplus from being thrown on the
market and reducing the price below
the average cost of production as to
bankrupt a large portion, of farmers.
Further Information Sought
“It would be interesting if this
Republican leader would give his
audience this further information:
In the house 99 Republicans and 68
Democrats voted with the farmers,
and 124 Republicans and 89 Demo
crats against the farm relief bill as
amended. He could tell them how
the railroads were taken care of by
the Republican administration by
guaranteeing returns on investments.
Manufacturers have been highly pro
tected.- How railroads and labor
have been given what they asked by
this Congress without modification.
Yet the prolonged agricultural de
pression can get no relief. Some
thing will have to be done. There
has been a 200 per cent increase in
farm mortgages during the last five
(Continued on page 4)
Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs.
N. C. Lowe Died Saturday
Joseph Lowe, 5-year-old son of
Mr. artd Mrs. N. C. Lowe, died at
the home of its parents in High
Point Saturday night, July 10th, fol
lowing a brief illness. The child was
a birthright member of Oak Hill
Friends church from which the funeral
was conducted Monday by Miss Cora
Lee Norman, pastoress. Besides its
parents, the child is survived by four
brothers, Richard, Charles. Nolan and
Forest Lowe; and two sisters, Marion
and Katherine Lowe. Mr. Lowe, the
father of the child, is a brother of
Mrs .W. B. Lowe, of Sophia, Route 1,
and a son of Mrs. C. C. Lowe. He
was born and reared in Randolph
county .
Mrs. Fuller Celebrated Her
86th Birthday Last Suaday
A number of friends anti relatives
of Mrs. Julia Fuller gathered at her
home at Fullers Sunday, July 11th, to
celebrate her 86th birthday. Mrs. Ful
ler is the widow of Dr. A. Fuller, of
Tabernacle township, and one of the
county’s best beloved women. Mrs.
Fuller Js in good health and is very
active for a woman of her age. The
day was most pleasantly spent in
talking over old times. Delicious re
freshments were served.
nty Young Woman
In A Raleigh Hospital
jow, which was covered with boards,
leaving only a crack between them
;for light and ventilation.
Mias Coltrane’s body was brought
to the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary
ColtmUe, in . Greensboro, where a
short funeral service was held and
bn Sunday afternoon interment of the
body wns made at Bethel church
cemetery, near Worthville. She is
survived by her mother and two sis
ters, Mrs. Kate Stom and Miss Ruth
Led Coltrane, both of White Oak, and
one brother, Roy Coltrane, of Central
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Several aristocratic mammas of
Wentworth-by-the-Sea, N H., ob
jected to the rough way the good
looking swimming instructor han
dled their daughters during their
lessons. The “male” instructor
turned out to be the famous
Aileen Riggin with a boyish bob.
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Vew Chair Plant Rises From Ashes of Old
Liberty Chair Company Rebuilds and Is Now Operating at FuD
Capacity—Lumber Plant Rebuilt.
Hardly had the ashes cooled from j 1
;he fire which destroyed a chair j1
’actory and a lumber plant at Liberty
i few months age before plans were
aeing made to rebuild these industries
an the site of the,old. The Liberty I
Chair Company’s plant, one of the
largest of its kind in the county, was
>ne of those destroyed by fire. In
jrder that the company’s customers
sotild be supplied, the management
if this plant secured floor space in
Barney Gregson’s picker stick factory
ind began turning out about thirty
iozen chairs a day. In this way, the
ausiness built up was held until the
lew plant could be erected.
This new plant, one story and of
iron-clad construction, modern in ev
;ry detail, has been completed and i
for about two weeks has been running j
at capacity with the use of new and;
modern machinery. J. A. Martin is,
UOCAL JUNIOR ORDER
COUNCIL ELECT OFFICERS
W. C. York Re-Eelacted Council
or—Lodge Has Enjoyed A
Good Attendance.
At a recent meeting of the Aahe
boro Council No.' 199 Junior Order
United American Mechanics officers
for the ensuing six months were elect
ed. W. C. York was re-elected coun
cilor. Other officers are L. B. Lam
bert, vice councilor; J. H. Kivett, re
cording secretary; Sulon B. Kivett,
assistant recording secretary; J. W.
Hanner, financial secretary; E. C.
Garner, treasurer; J. L. Overman,
chaplain; Fred Smith, inside Bentinel;
Roy Foster, outside sentinel; J. B.
Humble, N. P. Cox and C. M. Hay
worth, trustees; N. P. Cox and J. W.
Hanner, funeral benefit.
The local lodge of the Junior Order
has enjoyed the best attendance at
its meetings during the past six(
months that it has had in years. The
district meeting held in Asheboro last
fall greatly revived the local lodge
as it did all lodges in the district.
DR. HAYWORTH OPENS OFFICE
OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Dr. C. A. Hayworth, head of the
Memorial hospital, opened an up
town office today on the second floor
of the First National Bank building
for the convenience of his patients.
Had Been 111 For Three Weeks—
Funeral Held at Gray’s Chapel
Church Saturday.
Mrs. Grace H. Gray, aged about 50
years, wife of B. F. Gray, died at her
home one and one-half miles north
of Cedar Falls Thursday night about
ten o’clock following an jUlness of
three weeks. She was consistent
member of the M. E. church, at Frank
lin ville. Surviving besides her hus
band are three daughters, Mrs. Alma
Luck, Mrs. W. V. Trogdon and Miss
Ethel Gray, all of Cedar Falls; three
brothers, W. C. Slack, of Franklin -
ville; H. H. Slack, of Liberty; and C.
C. Slack, of Greensboro; and two sis
ters, Mrs. R. S. Craven, Asheboro, R.
F. D.; and Mrs. Alice Luther, of
Funeral services were held Satur
day at Gray’s Chapel church by Rev.
L. T. Edens, of Asheboro.
MRS- S. J. JOHNSON
DIES ATAGE OF 75
Had Been In ID Health Nina
Months—Funeral at Rehab etii
Church Saturday.
Mrs. Sallie J. Johnson, aged 75
years, highly esteemed woman and a
member of Rehobeth church for fif
ty years, died Thursday night about
7 o’clock at the home of her son. i.
M. Johnson, six miles east of Rau
seur. She had been in ill health for
nine months but her condition had not
been critical until six weeks prior to
her death.
Besides her son with whom she
made her home, she is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. F. A. Houston, of
Mount Vernon Springs; and two sis
ters, Mrs. W. F. Brooks, of Siler
City, R. F. D.; and Mrs. W. H.
H. Brown, of near Ramseur.
Funeral was conducted at Rehobeth
church Saturday morning at 1ft
o’clock by the pastor, Rev. H. F.
Starr, of Coleridge, and interment
made in the church cemetery.
the manager of the business and J.
G. Coward is superintendent of the
factory and in charge of production.
Instead of having the machinery
moved from the temporary quarters
in his picker stick factory, Mr. Greg
son bought this when the new chair
plant had been completed and is now
making chairs at this plant. Thus,
Liberty has two chair plants rising
from the ashes of the old.
Bruce Staley, whose lumber mill
was destroyed in the fire, put m
some new machinery and began using
all the sheds of his plant which were
not burned in order to keep his cust
omers supplied. His plant is now
going ahead with “business as utaaL"
Another improvement at Liberty is
the new brick building erected bjr
Pickett and Hornaday to house their
wholesale grocery business which has
outgrown the old quarters.
IS SAID THAT BOWMAN
WANTED TO BE MARSHAL
Bat Brownlow
His Chief Deputy,
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When Brownlow Jackson, of
dersonville, was made chairman of'
the North Carolina Republican exe
cutive committee, it was understood he
would resign from his federal jofct
United States marshal for the West
ern North Carolina district, and let
some other Republican have the seat
at the pie counter. This, at least, is
the rumor that was current in Repub
lican State politics at the time of the
State convention. Now, however, it
develops Jackson has no intention of
resigning unless he can name his chief
deputy, James Baley, to the place.
This doesn’t set well with a lot of
Republican leaders who have been
waiting for the plum to drop in their
mouths when Jackson Relinquished it.
Cephas Bowman, of Asheboro, de
puty collector of revenue, according
to a news article from Greensboro te
the Raleigh News and Observer oa
July 9th, was the man, or one of the
men, who wanted to be United States
marshal. Behind Bowman, says the
article, was the Gilliam Grissom fac
tion of the party. But, it seems that
Bowman’s aspirations have hit a snag
in the form of Jackson’s intention of
holding on until he can get the con
sent of the executive committee te
let him name Baley. This leaves
Bowman out, and it probably leaves
out a number of other Republicans in
the State who have cast longing
glances at the dangling luscious fruit.
Asheboro Evangelistic Club
Offers Its Services FreeJjr
The Asheboro Evangelistic Club i_
nounces that churches of any denom
ination desiring assistance of the
in revival services at any time
get it for the asking. It is req_
that those wanting the assistance
fered either see or write either of
following: T. B. Wood,
B. E. Morris, chairman; J. _
head, group director; Gurney
captain, group 1; J. S. Tilln.
tain, group 2; O. L. Phillips,
group 3; Colvin Bunting,
group 4.