North Carolina Newspapers

t THE COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation ISSUED WEEKLY7 VOLUME U gf ****** c, TtouUy, Iriy 29, 1926 PMN $2.00 A THE COURIER Advertising Columns Bring Results IN ADVANCE NUMBER M Will Wit. ginning of real activity in the peach section of the Sandhills of Nbrth Car olina. For the past several weeks there have been -peaches in the peach belt, but not in co large quantities as now. There is a large crop despite reports to the contrary stating that the cold weather in April severely damaged the crop. It was damaged to a great extent in some places, but plenty of fruit was left. Georgia peaches, which ripen a lit tle earlier than the Sandhills peaches, have been flooding the market, but tiie peak of the Georgia shipments has been reached and is on the wane. This affords an opportunity for the shipment of fruit from the Sandhills peach belt and it js beginning to go out in carloads. However, many of the peach growers are depending on the local market to absorb the fruit; For the past several years thousands of bushels of peaches have been bought by persons making trips to the Sandhills by car or truck. These buyers, the teach growers say, get the best peaches. They get those that are a little too ripe to stand railway shipment, but not too ripe to be haul ed in cars and firm enough to be used for canning and preserving. The Georgia Belles will be the main peach in the market in the peach belt this week and the peak' of the pro duction and sale of this popular va riety will be reached next week. About the third or fifth of August will find the Elbertas on the market. Both the Elbertas and Georgia Belles are peaches of the highest excellence, the Belles a little higher in flavor, per haps, arid the Elbertas a little better keepers. Later when the Hales come in they are very good fruit, but not so abundant as the other two varieties. The peach belt in the Sandhills ex tends over a fairly large area. The nearest center of production and sale to the greater number of Courier read ers is Candor, but a little farther on is Hamlet, Hoffman, Ellerbe and a half dosen other peach centers. Good roads, either paved or sand day wind those portions of 70 below Asheboro which are under construction. The hard surface may be traveled to Ulah, but the detour from Ulah south is not intended for through traffic use and the detour which begins near the end of South Fayetteville street in Ashe boro should be followed. This detour is in excellent condition and, unlike most detours, does not increase the distance. Scores of cars may be seen each day going to and coming from the peach section. The latter part of this week and for days to come will find a larger number of such cars' making the southward journey to the peach centers. Roads are good and those who desire to make the trip to the orchards will find that the State highway construction work on 70 wOl not hinder progress. 'Controversy Still On Over Routing of Highway 75 It Is understood that no definite de cision has been reached on the way in which highway 76 will be routed through the town of Asheboro. Sur vey was made out Salisbury street ' along the route of the Old Salisbury *road and h part of the right of 'way cleared. However, district commis sioner Cox, of High Point, was down Sunday and looked over the routing of the road, and, it is understood, ex pressed himself as favorable to a different note. The matter is still pending and nobody seems to know which of the streets the road will foi One of the routes favored by -many the citizens of the town is. Sunset renue, while many others are for » old Salisbury road route. Argu ents are being advanced for each ute and H will be probably a knot problem for the highway commig CLOSE AL MEETING Piedmont Baptists Held Mr Days’ Session in Ramsetxr, .Ending Yesterday P. M. The SSrd annual convention of the Piedmont association of Baptist churches, composed of churches locat ed in the counties of Randolph, 'Guil ford and Rockingham counties, came to a close ,at Ramseur yesterday af ternoon with the reading of obituaries for the year by Rev. S. A. Rhyne, of Greensboro. The conventiori*had been in session since Tuesday morning in the Raimseur Baptist church with Rev. J. M. Hilliard, of High Point, serving as moderator. Splendid attendance of ministers, laymen of the Baptist church and visitors was registered at all the sessions. In addition to the reading of obit uaries yesterday afternoon there was an address by Rev. Q. E. Lee on B. Y. P. U. work. Rev. H. E. Howell de livered a most interesting and inspir ing address on Sunday school work,* while Rev. E. E. White spoke on Christian stewardship. At the morning session yesterday, Dr. 3. T. Battle, of Greensboro, spoke on ^ministerial relief; Mrs. D. K. Ma son, of Greensboro, on auxiliary work, while Rev. W. E. Goode, of Reidsville, used Christian‘education as his sub ject for an interesting speech. Rev. B. E. Morris, pastor of the Asheboro Baptist church, spoke on orphanage work and handled his subject with credit to himself and instruction to the members of the convention. Following the devotionals Tuesday morning, Rev. W. A. Elam, of Ram seur, delivered the address of welcome, and the response was given by Rev. Benjamin F. Clark, of .Gibsonville. Christian stewardship was then dis cussed for some time before the roll call of churches at 10 :JMP o’clock. Dr. Lloyd T. Wilson, of High Point, preached the opening sermon, a strongly delivered and most timely message. Discussions during the great er part of the day centered on home and foreign mission work and were led by Dr. Wilson, Walter If. Gilmore, of Raleigh, Rev. H. P. Stevens, of High Point, and A, Wayland Cook, of Greensboro. Mr. Cook’s address was devoted r^ being done by the i Winston-Salem, .that the in support nor in practise. Each Mothers Day In May the Churches in the entire State take up contributions for the hospital in which manner the funds for treatment of charity pa tients are received. Last year more than 860 charity patients were re ceived at the hospital and on an aver age 20 per cent of the institution’s patients are in this class. The people of Ramseur regardless of church membership joined in en tertaining the ministers and delegates to the convention. The congregation of the Ramseur Baptist church served dinner in picnic style each of the two days of the session. Local Methodist Protestant' Pastor Wins In Tennis Match Rev. J. E. Pritchard, pastor of the local M. P. church, who was last week at the joint session of the Young Peo ple’s and Pastors’ Conference of the Methodist Protestant church held in High Point made director of tennis, was one of the winners in the tennis toumameiit held during the confer ence. In doubles, Rev. J. E. Pritch ard and Rev. H. F. Surratt were the winners, eliminating in the finals Rev. Johnson, of Mebane, and Rev. Surratt, of Lexington. In the singles, Rev. H. F, Surratt, of Charlotte, was the win SL. ’ • - >i FOR MRS STEUDER . ' _ ■ Conducted at Bit. Lebanon Sun* day Following Her Death At Bougemont Last Frida: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Strider, of Shelton Strider, formerly resident of Pisgah, Union township, but for the past several months living at Bougemont', died last Friday in a hos pital in Durham following an illness of two weeks with typhoid M Mrs. Strider was a daughter and Emily Jane" Rose, of ! She was a consistent membe Missionary Baptist $hut ~ teen years and lived Christian life'. Surviving besides he two small children. Despite her want appendicitis operation which forced her out of EunpMB play, Helen Wills, Amer ican Tennis Champion announces aha will defend her crown next month fa National play at Forest Hills, N. Y.—and is here shown as OJt te to. (MIC. 1. PLANS MADE FOR S.S. CONVENTION Miss Flora Davis and Miss Daisy Magee and Others Will Take Pfcrt la Program. Plans have been made for holding the annual Randolph County Sunday School Convention at the Baptist diurch, FranklinviHe, N. C., on Tues day and Wednesday, August 17 and 18. Arrangements for the convention are in the hands of Mr. E. C. William son and Miss Hope Hubbard, Presi dent and Secretary M the County Sunday School Association, These officers have announced that they have secured as outside speakers for tiie convention, Miss Flora Davis, Raleigh, Associate Superintendent North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation; and Miss Daisy Magee, Ra leigh, Children’s Division Superintend ent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association. Besides these outside speakers, a number of prom inent pastors and Sunday school work ers of .the county will take part on the program. -'The program for the convention will include addresses and discussions of various phases of modern Sunday School work, the object being to make it possible for workers in all depart ments of the Sunday School to get help from the convention. A request is being made to the Sunday school workers of the county to present to the convention any special Sunday School problem that should be discuss ed. Announcement is also made by the officers in charge of the convention that, following a custom started three years ago, a pennant will be presented to the Sunday School having in the convention the largest number of rep resentatives, sixteen years of age and [over, according to the number of miles traveled. Any Sunday School in the county can compete for the pen nant, except the Sunday School with which tiie convention is held and others within one mile of the conven tion church. / Sunshine Class Circle Held Services At The County Jail Approximately forty or fifty wo men of the Sunshine Class Circle of Asheboro met yesterday at the county jail and held services with those in carcerated in that county institution. Many of the inmates requested the ■prayers of those attending the meet ing. Watermelons tvere served the prisoners following the services. WEST BEND ENTERTAINS TOWNSHIP S. S. MEETING Interesting Reports Aye Heard And Instructive Speeches Delivered—New Officers. hshehoro township Sunday invention met at West Bend tat Sunday, beginning the at 10 o’clock in the morning [lining throughout tan ill well, widow of J. W. ["uesday afternoon at * the home of her ais B- Johnson, in Ramseur, illness of eight weeks of paralysis. Mrs. El tars of age and the old udren of the late Mr. and Mrs. A4B. Covington, or Ram seur, and wftf the first to follow her parents in deith. During the life of her husband, Mrs. Elwell Ifved with him in Maxton, and after his death she made her home with /her parents and fol lowing their death with Mrs. Johnson. An only son of Mrs. El well died several years ago. She was a member of the Baptist church at Ramseur and was held in high esteem and affection by both relatives and friends. She is survived by eight brothers and sisters, who are: W. C. Covington, Asheboro; W. P. Covington, Red Springs; Mrs. S. D. Townsend, El lerbe; Mrs. J. A. Marsh and D. A. Covington, High Point; J. E. Coving ton, Mrs. E. B. Leonard and Mrs. M. E. Johnson, Ramseur. Funeral was held yesterday after noon at 3 o’clock in the home of Mrs. Johnson by Rev. W. A. Elam, pastor of the Ramheur Baptist church, and the body laid to rest in the Ramseur cemetery. The pallbearers were A. H. Thomas, V. C. Marley, J. R. Lam bert, C. E. Baldwin, I. F. Craven and Elwell. R. B. Finison. Flowers were borne by Mrs. C. A- Graham, Mrs. John W. Foust, Mrs. Joe Parks, Mrs. Woosley Marley, Mrs. C. D. Baldwin and Miss Sudie Baldwin. The Curb Market At Candor Offers Variety of Products Those who have in mind that Can dor conducts its curb market for the sale of peaches alone have something to learn. True, peaches are the main attraction and the largest single product offered for sale on the curb market, for Candor is in the heart of the peach belt of North Carolina. But, aside from peaches, the Candor curb market affords watermelons and can taloupes and other products of the SandhiUaJMMjq^ - Fruit, cantaloupes, watermelons, loads of them, may be had on the Candor market. As evidence that the people throughout this part of the State are taking advantage of the variety offerings and attractive prices is the large number of cars and trucks loaded with peaches and melons which may be seen daily passing through Asheboro. REITZ EL FAMILY TO HOLD REUNION AUG. 19 Will Meet at Richland Church Near Liberty—Picnic Dinner Will Be Served On Grounds. The eighth annual reunion of the Reitzel family will be held at Rich land church, four miles east of Lib erty, on Thursday, Augst 19th, ac cording to annoncement made Mon day by. Boyd Reitzel, of Liberty, pres ident of the reunion, and T. T. Staf ford, its secretary, of Burlington. All persons related to the Reitzel family by blood or marriage, as well as all friends of the family, are re quested to be present at the reunion which will begin at 10 o’clock. Re quest is made for well-fiUed baskets for the picnic dinner which will be served. The committee on arrangements for the reunion is composed of Chas. A. Moser, Charles Reitzel, F. E. Clapp, Henry Allred, Wm. A. Kime, George W. Reitzel, Floyd Amick and J. Rom Smith. ,T?' 8 Celebrates Birthday On last Sunday the 55th birthday of Mr, Charles U. Burrow was celebrat ed at his home jp this county by more than eighty relatives and friends who gathered to pay him honor on this occasion. Mr. C. C. Broughton, of Troy, made a short but interesting address. A picnic style dinner was enjoyed by all piresent. lit Summer isses Resolutions The summer conference of the late Farmers’ Union in meeting at uilford Battleground this week pass to safeguard elec against the State an eight-months’ mion also went on ay increase in the of farm land, haV opposed the d the proposal ry. Free text and the pri weather a » from on Rev. Charles M. Fillmore, of In dianapolis, Indiana, national secretary of the No-Tobacco League of Amer ica and a member of the Arm Fill more Music House, of Cincinnati, O., gave an interesting program at the Asheboro Friends church Tuesday night, consisting of songs and a lect ure. Among the songs which Mr. Fillmore sang was ‘Tell. Mother I’ll Be There,” which was based on Pres ident McKinley’s telegram sent to his dying mother. He told interestingly of the history of the song. Other songs which were sung by Mr. Fill more included “I’ll Wear a White Flower for You, Mother, Dear” and "Beautiful Garden of Prayer.” Mr. Fillmore’s lecture in the Friends church was a part of his tour of the country under aspices of the Committee on Alcoholics end Narcotics of the Friends church. He said he believed in using tobacco in the way God meant it to be used, that is as a spray for killing bugs and other insects. He declared that most of the men who use tobacco use it because they have become slaves to the narcotic poison, nicotine, which is the characteristic element of the tobacco plant. In proof of his as sertion, he quoted Charles Itichet, of Paris, acknowledged to be the most famous physiologist in the world. The greater part of Mr. Fillmore’s address was devoted to proving that the tobacco business is unpatriotic. This was shown, he said, by the World War in the way in which the cigaret habit was thrust upon our soldier boys, a habit that weakened them physically and prevented them from being most accurate in their mark manship. The unpatriotic manner of the tobacco business today, he stated, is shown by the way ' in which the igaret habit is being cultivated among the very young boys and girls. But the most unpatriotic conduct of the business today, according to Mr. Fillmore, is shown in fhe special efforts that are being put forth to make cigaret using common among the women of America. No intelli gent man, said Mr. Fillmore, will claim that cigaret slavery will make a better wife or mother of any wo man, and no greater curse can come to America than the wholesale nicotio. ization of her women. Asheboro Gets $139.34 Front State Firemen’s Relief Fund Commissioner Stacey W. Wade of the State Insurance Department has distributed *33,579.70 among 118 cit ies and towns in the State of the Fire men’s Relief Fund, which represents one-half of one per cent of the tire insurance premiums paid by the peo ple of the town or city qualifying for the fund. Asheboro gets of , • this amount $139.34. Charlotte heads the list, followed by Winston-Salem, Asheville and Greensboro. Davidson G. 0. P. For Sink Fred C. Sink, former sheriff of Da vidson county, has been endorsed by a large number of Davidson county Republican precinct meetings for the nomination for sheriff to make the race against R. B. Talbert, incum bent. Talbert is candidate for a third term. He is a native of New Hope township, Randolph county. On Farm Tour Approximately 50 farmers of Montgomery county left last week on a tour of several counties in the State to observe and study farms and farm conditions. Following the State con vention at Raleigh which they attend ed in a body, they will tour counties in the eastern part of the State. They will also visit some of the best farm ing sections of South Carolina be fore returning home. MANY COUNTY FARMERS ATTEND STATE MEETING Many of our farmer reau«a «m looking for the regular farm depart ment in this issue of The Courier and will be disappointed that it is not to be found. The reason there is no farm department this week is that county agent Millsaps together with several scores of farmers and farm women of the county are in Raleigh attending the State farmers’ and farm women’s convention which began Tuesday. The trip to Raleigh was made by truck and by private cars. Many of the farmers journeyed to the convention by means of Randolph county school trucks which were lent youthful Canton, (0) Usher; ia thought to have been tin result of the strenuous vice crusadi he carried on in his city. Reward*, of $30,000 are offered and search for the murderer is nation widr ta uata nlAirr FOR CHILDREN Begins Tuesday, August 10th, and Lasts Four Days—Pre liminary Arrangements. Beginning Tuesday, August 10, and , continuing for four days, the State ! Board of Health will conduct a tonsil- I adenoid clinic for school children be tween the ages of 6 and 12 years in clusive. Miss Buchan, state school nurse, who made the.health survey in the county schools last fall, is now here to make preliminary arrangements for the clinic. A complete traveling hospital unit is in the field., This includes a truck for the transportation of the necessary equipment, such as cots, bedding and hospital supplies. A full-time physician, an anesthet ist, eight nurses, and an orderly com pose the regular staff. An experienced throat specialist is employed to pre form the operations. Over 2,5QQ children have been suc cessfully1 operated on in these clinics the pest year. Only one hundred children are operated on in a county during a season. . . JM by both physicians to deter mine the actual need for the operation and whether or not the child is in proper physical condition to be treat ed at that time. The children are kept over-night in the hospital, where a nurse is in con stant attention. Children are served ice cream and milk following the op eration. Parents can remain with the child if they desire to do so. A nominal fee of $12.50 will be charged for each child able to pay. Free treatment will be gjven needy cases. Make application to County Superintendent or State Nurse. Madison Phillips Buried At Mount Lebanon Saturday Funeral services were conducted at Mount Lebanon church Saturday af ternoon-for Madison Phillips, aged 44 years, who died Thursday at his home near Mechanic following a lingering illness. Rev. Eli Lawrence, of Ran dleman, was in charge of the services. Mr. Phillips was the son of Eli and Elizabeth Phillips. He was married and leaves his widow and ten children, who are, Ola, Bertie, Etta, Katie, Dof fie, Millard, Baxter, Fred, Charlie and Stanton Phillips. Mr. Phillips was converted in October, 1925, Joined the church and lived a Christian life. HEAVIEST RAIN OF THE SEASON Total Rainfall Saturday in Ashe boro Was 3.45 Inches—More in Other Places. ..... heaviest rain of the season and one of the heaviest that has fallen in Asheboro in recent years was that of last Saturday which measured a depth of 3.45 inches. This was the heaviest rain that has been measured since Asheboro has had a weather observer. The rain Saturday was general throughout the greater part of the State, some parts having a heavier rainfall than others. Albemarle, for instance, had more than fou while the rainfall in counties was appn Randolph It is a urday an has hr— crops, fa CM. Albeit L. Cox, of RdMgh, vet* eran of the World War, long active in Democratic party affairs in North Carolina will deliver the keynote speech at the Randolph county Demo cratic convention which will convene in the court house in Asheboro at 1 o’clock in the afternoon of Saturday, August 14th. Col. Cox is a speaker well worth hearing. At the convention on the 14th, a Democratic county ticket will be nom inated together with a candidate for the House of Representatives of the General Assembly. On Saturday, August 7th, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, one week prior to the county convention, tho Demcratic voters of the various pre cincts in the county will meet at the different polling places for the pur pose of selecting township tickets and also to select delegates for the coun ty-convention. It is important that •very Democratic voter in the county attend the precinct meetings and take i part ;n the affairs of the party. Mr. Ferree Expects To Put Peaches on Market Next Week Cranford Himself Is Not On Sta»»d—State Has Inning Today. While Mr. A. M. Ferree, owner of the Highland Peach Orchard in the southern part of the town of Aahe boro, does not expect an unusually large crop from his trees this season, he does anticipate a crop of 1500 crates or more of fruit. His crop will consist of Georgia Belles and El bertas and will be ready for the mar ket next week. The peaches in his orchard appear to be of excellent quality. Mr. Ferree, of’ course, will depend largely on the local market for the disposal of his peaches thiB son. Many who have been annual pilgrimages to the l will be able this year to have needs supplied at their doorsteps. EVIDENCE IN CRANFORD CASE FINISHED All the evidence in the trial ot | Nevin C. Cranford, former Stanly county convict boss, charged with the will not be completed before this af ternoon, according to reports from Al bemarle where the case is being heard in Superior court before Judge Fin ley. The defense rested its case short ly before noon Tuesday after having consumed several days in introduction' of evidence .to contradict the web which the State had previously woven - around the former convict superin tendent. Cranford himself was not placed on the stand. The State began the introduction of rebuttal evidence as soon as the de fense closed. More than a hundred witnesses in all have taken the stand, and seldom has evidence introduced in a criminal case in the State been more at variance than that which has been presented to the jury which is hearing the case. The trial Fas reached its peak and while interest is still keen over it in Stanly county and elsewhere in the State it is on the wane. Small crowds are hearing the evidences whereas the first week the court house in Albe marle was packed to the limit de spite the hot weather. The jury will probably not get the case before next week. M. E. MATTERS (W. H. Willis) The writer is attending an inter denominational conference of minis ters near Asheville this week. The Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches will have 60 representatives each. ; '^s| Rev. T. A. Sikes, one of the Advo cate editors, will preach for us at 11 a. m. next Sunday. J This scribe enjoyed his first Pree- • byterian dinner Sunday since coming to Asheboro. It was with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Willis. About twenty people have fessed conversion at the ing held at West Bend this Messrs. Sharpe and Edens. Two dinners, one at Mr. and W. H. Moring’s, the other at Mrs. W. A. Coffin's, were preachers Sharp and pastor was included. I wish t» ticket for the careful < the Democratic voter*