THE COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation O' liiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiinlj) ■m : ISSUED WEEKLY VOLUME LH PitlNCIPpS, N0T MEflT ~ Aaheboro, N. C. Tiwifiby, frfcruary 17, 1927 $2.00 A YEAR in||d VANCE NUMBEX I Asheboro Benefit And Aid League Organized At Meeting Held Tuesday Stove Started, Officers Named add Plans Laid At Stoss Meeting Monday* SET GOAL OF $1,000 TO FINANCE THE WORK Organization Will Prevent Over* ' lapping of Chanty Work In Town. \ Shall Asheboro have a Community Chest or an Assomated Charities in order that the charity work done in the town may be co-ordinated and the present overlapping be eliminated? A gathering of representative citi zens in the count house Monday'night answered in the affirmative and named a committee to devise plans and means .for the organization and support of sodh a body of associated charities. W.-tf. Armfield was named president of what is to be known as the executivetcommittee; M. G. Ed wards, vice president; Miss Esther Ross, secretary; and John M. Neely, treasurer. The meeting went on record as favoring Urn raising of a minimum fund of $1*000 to carry on the work and empowered the officers named to appoint such sub-committees to1 help in the work of collecting such a fund, and-to call any public meetings as should-be deemed necessary in get ting the organized charity in motion. In fact, the officers named Monday night were empowered to do anything necessary and possible in educating the public as to the necessity of an organised charities and to make and pursue Whatever means may be nec essary to put it on sound footing. The meeting Monday night fol lowed as a~ result of a decision reach ed at a- meeting of the Ministerial Association last week when the mat ter of «averlapping of charity work was ‘discussed at length by the pas tors of-the churches of the town. The min i«t<>r« got in touch with the rlmiTWr of commerce which lent en couragement to the organization of a community chest, and the mass meet s (called to Bet the matter in *.~B. E. Morris, pastor of the Baptist church, presided over the meeting. Rev. B. C. Reavis was upon to explain the purpose of which , was to-take , mj¥. Brittain, ad president*^**. _Uhuan’a Club, and Mrs. Hal Walter, as chairman of the wdfcfe j department of the club, both ( their support to an organised charity, Mrs. Brittain pledging the Urn off Ihe entire club. an ihose who made talks realized the need, of some such organization in as would take care at the eases in town and at the same prevent the overlapping of, charity work. Among those making talks were: Mrs. C. L. Cranford, Rev. JL WL 1 Pritchard, T. Fletcher Bella, Kr. M.'G. Edwards, W. L. Ward, JLil.j Ferree, D. B. McCrary, Rev. Cofihsan Smith and Rev. V. B. Stanley. Mntimi Jer the organization of the Comnmriifcy Chest or Associated Charities. Whichever it may be called, was sate % W. L. Ward, and it was his idea as well as that- of others present no less than $1,000 should be raised for the support of the work to be dona by such organization. Them Is In Asheboro no more char ity work to the done than in any other town its mmt, Jiethaps less, but that them am deserving needy cases in the town nobody,denies. In the past, these cases have tbeen taken care of by individuals, otharches and other organizations ™a« ‘ W»nson, of Miss Alma Ldssiter, of the boro school faculty, Mrs.' Henrietta Campen, who is teaching in Pittsboro, and Mr. Hal J. Lassiter, of Greens boro, spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. "W. "W. Las siter. Mr. J. M. Hill has been on the sick list for the past week. Mrs. H. C. "Nance, who has been quite ill of pneumonia, is much bet ter. Misses Elizabeth Fuller and Madge Johnson spent the week-end with rel atives in Greensboro. Much interest is being manifested in the poultry meetings being held by Mr. M. R. McLeod, teacher of agri culture in the Farmer school. BENNETT NEWS LETTER Alfred Maltese Died February 1st At Age of 76 Years. Mr. Eraslus Hicks has accepted a position in the store of J. R. Peace, and has moved Ms family to a resi dence on- Randolph street. Rev. Willie Moffitt, pastor of the local Christian church since Novem ber, preached an excellent sermon last Sunday morning. >• Dr. H. A. Denson is able to be out again following a recent illness. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Baptist church met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Andrew the first Sunday afternoon. The next first Sunday meeting will be held with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones. The officers and teachers of the Baptist Sunday school hold meetings every Friday night before the first Sunday in the church building, plan their work and study the four lessons assigned during the month. R. F. Dunn, who has been in the employ of the Ward lumber plant, has moved to High Point, where he has accepted a position with a silk mill. Alfred Man ess, aged 76 years, died at his home here February 1st follow ing a long illness. Funeral was held at Riverside Baptist church by Rev. 5. A. Livingston. He leaves his widow, five children and eight grand children. Beginning June 8th, revival servic es will be started simultaneously in all the churches Of Asheboro. This was decided at a meeting of the Min Bennett, Feb. 15.—The Pine and Oak Lumber Company is the name of the firm which recently bought put the lumber plant of W. A. Ward. The new concern is under the manage ment of Marvin Wamble, of Goldston. Told Called beforei a committee from the county boa yd of commissioners appointed to mike settlement with him, Ex-Sfyeriff J. Free Cranford last Saturday afternoon Admitted his ina bility to pay over to the county the $21,000 shortage with which he is charged. That there was something wrong in the^finances of his office, he admitted, and also the correctness of the audit. But, he didn’t have the money, nor were his bondsmen there to make settlement for him. Mr. Cranford was advised that the commissioners had shown him and his surety every consideration in the matter of making good the shortage, but that the comity needed the money. A resolution was then drawn up set ting Saturday afternoon, Feb. 26, as date for a conference between the commissioners and representatives of the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, Cranford’s surety, looking to a settlement of the shortage. Whether the bonding company will send a representative here at that time is a matter of conjecture. It had been advised of the meeting last Sat urday, but nobody was present to speak for the company. The only funds which Mr. Cran ford had which; he could pay over to the commissioners was |274.51 which he had had collected from the more than $1,106 in bad checks which he held at the time he resigned. ASHEBORO (M. E.) CIRCUIT Last Sunday was such a gloomy day that wily one service out of the three appointments was filled. On Sunday night the pastor went to Pisgah and found six young people present and held a short service. We are glad to report that all the churches on the worfcfcave paid out on the coi and that one 15,000 A re-check of the individual tax abstracts of the 1920 listings by H. M. Worth in the office of Reg ister of Deeds E. A. Routh discloses that more than 11,090,000 in tax able values were either left off by individual tax listers or by incor rect additions and various other errors when the abstracts were turned over to the new Democratic administration by the outgoing Re publican regime. Taxes on this property in addition to poll tax and other special taxes will amount to an additional $15,000 to be col lected over and above the amount as shown by the books when turned over by the Republicans. Mrs. Clark Gives Books To Library Sends Eleven Rare Volumes To Asheboro High School Library. The school library is in receipt of eleven volumes of books from Mrs. C. J. Clark, of Trinity. She writes these books are all old like herself, but the people of Asheboro consider the books like herself are valuable assets. I The books are both acceptable to the library or in event of a town and county library very valuable. Be sides the eleven vdlumes, she has pre sented the library with a copy of Randolph Reminiscences by J. A. Blair. While Mr. Blair had a large number of his histories printed there seems to be very few copies in the county now. Mrs. Clark's - gift is not only much appreciated by the Edu cational committee-of the Woman's Club and school but by her many friends in Asheboro. J. A. HOPKINS’ BARN IS DESTROYED BY FIRE With The Barn Was Burned All Of Contents—Origin Of Fire Unknown. Mr. James A. Hopkins, of New Hope township, was in Asheboro Mon day. Mr. Hopkins had the misfor tune last Saturday afternoon of los ing his barn and contents by the origin of which is unknown. The fire was discovered about 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the flames being in a shed built on the side of the main struc ture. They spread until the entire bam was enveloped in flames. Be sides the bam, which was a large structure built in 1918, more than 1500 bundles of fodder, 600 bundles of tops, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of com, some farming tools and harness and a lot of dressed arid rugh lumber stored in the building were destroyed also. The livestock was gotten out before the ‘flames reached the stables. Mr. Hopkins ex pressed himself as being grateful to his neighbors in their assistance dur ing the fire. LATEST DOINGS OF THE N. C. GENERAL ASSEMBLY The committee on election laws has reported the Australian ballot bill favorably by a vote of 7 to 4, the Re publican members of the committee opposing it. An amendment was made to the bill providing for mark ers for persons who would net be able to mark their ballots on account of blindness, other physical disability or illiteracy. In case markers can not be gotten to serve, the judges of election are to mark the ballots. The bill will now go to the floor of the general assembly for action. The Poole anti-evolution bill was reported unfavorably by the educa tion committee in charge by a vote of 25 to 11. Weather Unusually Mild For Month Of February Some of the most remarkable Feb ruary weather for quite a while is being experienced in Asheboro. Up to noon of Tuesday, the 15th, there had been only one morning with a temperature below the freezing point. On the first the temperature was 29, on the second 32, and since then 37 has been the lowest. Sued For More Than $40; Was Awarded Only 47 Cents John R. Smith, Asheboro merchant, suing Horton Riddle, one of the op erators of the cedar plant here, for some forty-odd dollars for goods bought by his employes and for which it was alleged he promised to see paid, and for 47 cents which he per sonally owed Smith, was awarded judgment for the 47 cents in magis trate’s court in Asheboro Friday af ternoon. The court held that while Riddle may have promised verbally to stand good *for. his employes’ ac counts, unless it had been put in writing, Riddle was' not liable for same. Riddle, however, was taxed with the costs which amounted to $9.50, making his account of 47 cents cost him in all $9.97. Heartbroken because a young man failed to carry out his promise to marry her, Lola Briles, f6, of Wilson, shot herself in the abdomen Monday in the hospital in Revaluation Of Property In May Matter in Hands of Counties, Bnt State Will Have Supervision. TRY FOR UNIFORM VALUES In Order To Properly Distribute Equalization Fund. Property .revaluation comes in May. While the principle of local self-gov ernment will be applied to the re valuation in that each county board of commissioners will make appoint ments of assessors, the State will have supervision over the matter to insure uniformity of assessments among the counties. Plans for this regular quadrennial assessment of property will be set up in the 1927 machinery act to be passed by the general assembly now in session. County boards will appoint a county supervisor and township supervisors to do the job in their respective coun ties. These appointments will be made in April and the actual assess ing work will start the first of May and be completed in that month. The new assessment will result in an increase in taxable values in many counties, especially among the in dustrial counties, while it is antici pated there will be a decrease in the assessed valuation of property in the rural counties. It is expected that the increases will more than offset the decreases and that the total as sessed valuation of the property in the State will be highest on record j unless it be 1920 before each county was given permission to lop off a certain percent .of the assessed value. While revaluation in each county will be under local control, the State will have a supervisory interest in the assessments especially in the seventy-odd counties which draw on the equalizing fund for help in run ning their schools. The apportion ment of the fund among the counties is determined by the tax rate in each county and property values affect the tax rate. Although the worth of two coun ties may be equal, one county with a low aaaaaament may have a high tax rate, while the other county with a high assessment may have a low tax rate. If that were permitted, and some counties manage to get by with it under the present system, thecoun ty with the'mew assessment anfa Tngh tax rate would draw more heavily on the equalizing fund than its neighbor with a high assessment and low rate, even though actually they were equal in taxable wealth. Hence, the State hopes in the 1927 revaluation to com pel uniformity of assessments to the extent of making certain that the $2, 500,000 equalizing fund to be provided by this Legislature is equitably dis tributed. North Carolina assessed property values reached their peak in 1920 as the result of the State directed reval uation undertaken in 1919 “to make the tax books speak the truth.” The total of $3,161,440,259 was supposed, therefore, to represent the actual wealth of the State. In 1921 the Leg islature returned to the principle of lobal control over assessments and the taxable worth of the State dropp ed to $2,579,772,023. Since 1921 in creased values have boosted the total approximately $220,000,000. Senator Borah To Force The Prohibition Issue Senator Borah of Idaho has an nounced his readiness to cooperate with others in making prohibition en forcement the paramount issue before the National Republican convention in 1928. The party should declare where it stands on the matter is the opinion of the Idaho senator. Borah has a following large enough to cause trouble in Republican ranks and it would appear that the Republicans like the Democrats will have to face the prohibition issue squarely in 1928. L. C. Wood Killed In Auto Accident Trinity Man Met Instant Death When Cars Meet in Head-On Collision. ACCIDENT IN GUILFORD CO. L. C. resident of Wood, aged 68, Trinity, was killed Sunday afternoon when the Essex car in which he v was riding collided with a Ford touring car on the Winston-Salem highway about a half mile from Friendship, in Guilford county. Wood’s son; W. P. Wood, was driving -to car in which were also Mrs. L. G. Wood, Mrs. W, P. Wood and child and Mrs. R. L. Brown. None of the occupants save the elder Mr. Wood was injured ex cept his wife who was hurt slightly. The driver of the Ford car ran and has not been apprehended. The Woods were returning home from a visit to Spray when the acci dent occurred. The collision was head-ea,. and both cars were badly damaged. 'A passing motorist took the Wood family to Greensboro where Mrs. Wood was placed in a hospital. Investigations conducted by Gull for County officers disclosed that the Ford car which ran into Mr. Wood’s Essex was F. A.- Campbell, Building & Loan Makes Fine Record Annual Report Shows It Gaiaei 906 Shares During The Past Year. LOANED $64,747.96 IN 1926 Earnings Are Over 6 Per Cent— Amends Charter. Quite a number of the shareholder* of the Peoples Building and Loan As sociation of Asheboro gathered in -1 the court house last Friday night, elected officers for the year anf heard a most encouraging report of the past year’s activities given by tins secretary, W. A. Bunch. All offi cers and directors of last year were re-elected. They are: W. J. Armfield, Jr., president; D. B. McCrary, vice president; W. A. Bunch, secretary and treasurer; J. A. Spence, attorney; and the following directors: W. 1. Armfield, Jr., D. B. McCrary, J. O Redding, W. F. Redding, A. Ross, Dr. John Swaim, W. L. Ward, C. M. Fm, F. E. Byrd, C. C. Cranford and "W. A. Bunch. The Peoples. Building and Loan As sociation was established in 1904 and since its inception has enjoyed a steady growth under the manage ment of conservative business men of the town. The association now ha* in force a total of 4,655 shares, a net gain of 906 during the past year. Actually 1,536 new shares were sub scribed during the past twelve months, but Withdrawals for one pui* pose or another of 630 shares cut down the total gain. During the year the association made 23 separate loans for the building of new homes, amounting t» a total of $31,950.00. Forty-twe other loans were made for $36,797.96, malting a total amount loaned during the year of $64,747.96. Included in these 42 loans were stock loans,'Ioann for repairs and also loans for pur chase of homes. Total outstanding loans of the association amount to $207,988.40. Assets reach $208,234.31. The association has a total of 20 shareholders, all white. The parit year the earnings of money invested in the association was more than .six per cent, actually .064044. It was decided at the meeting held Friday night to have the charter of the association amended to afford a maximum number of shares of.l< 'fflswhd~drTfo*K> which’ the now permits. It was also decided t» open a new series on March 15th, an! H. L. Ingram and Arthur Ross were appointed captains of two friendly opposing teams to solicit stock for the new series. D. B. McCrary made an offer to entertain the entire mem bership of the association at a dinner should the two teams succeed in get ting as many as 2,000 new shares m the series to be opened March 15th. JAMES M. KANOY, 72, BURIED AT FLINT HILL Died Sunday At His Home in Back Creek Township— i Was a Farmer. ** James M. Kanoy, aged 72 y&0. died at his home in Back Creek township Sunday following an extend ed illness. He was a carpenter and farmer and was considered an excd lent citizen. Funeral was held at Flint Hill yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. Mr. Penn, of Sophia, and the body laid to rest in the church cemetery. Mr. Kanoy leaves his widow and the following children: Mrs. Ernest Milboume, Trinity township: Ed Ka noy, of Back Creek township; Hi*. Lillie Marley, whose home is in Cali fornia, but who was spending the winter in this county; and D. Kanoy, of the home place in Back Creek. r L. L. Whitaker To Open 1 An Union Bus Station Mr. L. L. Whitaker, formerly with the Lexington Grocery Company, bdfc for some time general manager of the Greensboro-Fayetteville Baa Lines, Inc., has bought an interest in the Bunting Service Station, on South Fayetteville street, and will enlarge the business. In connection with the service station, there will also be operated a bus station, something which the town has long been in need. CAROLINA IS READY TO SAY “HELLO LUNNON" Want to talk to London? Yoe can do it. at the rate of $26 per minute. Yesterday morning trans Atlantic radio telephone service connected North Carolina; and a few other Southern states with England, Scotland and Wale*. Bah S. Read, president of the Southern Bell Telephone and "^Tlfcgraidi Company, held the firstr^fcOilMrcrea tion over this trans-Atftatic hw from his office in Atlanta, Ga. Af ter that the pubUcMhoOe who can produce the $M per thhmte and care to do an, may hath Use of the Phone. The repot*charge, hi case the party wanted cannot he reach ed, will he fid per minute and Bar; every fraction Of • minute (ho I