1 i PBk^ : 1' ’; :^H 1 | I 1 ■ . ’jflttm ¥,.- - ™ Bf-i ■*f' h ■ I - . MBg '■ - HK. ' ’H K^f 1 1 u M * V ■ m ■ PRINCEPtES, NOT MEN Aahebor*, W. C, Hw>#»y, October 6, 1927 $2.00 A YEAR IN A IpfANCE II^mber] State Is Asked , To Take Over The Coleridge Road County Commissioners Passed Resolution Making This Re quest At Meeting. ■i . ' .i—. . 14 Miles Improved Board Also Asks For Extension Of The Road'To Carthage, r In Moore County. The board of commissioners for Randolph county in regular session in the court house in Asheboro Monday passed ft resolution asking the State Highway Commission to take over as a part of the State highway sys tem and maintain the highway lead ing from Asheboro to Coleridge, thence to the county line, and on by High Falls, Bennett and Hallison to Carthage, in Moore county. The reso lution mentioned the fact that four teen miles of the route from Asheboro in the direction of Coleridge is a good top soil sand clay road, that concrete abutments are built to the bridges which are of steel span and that metal culverts have been provided where needed. ^ ' As advertised last week, the com missioners borrowed $60,000 on short term notes at four and one-fourth per cent interest from the First Na tional- Bank of Philadelphia to take care of current expenses until 1927 taxes are collected by the sheriff. These notes are due and payable Feb ruary 3rd, 1928, and are what is known as tax anticipation notes. This is in accordance with the new county government act which permits boards of commissioners to borrow on antic ipated revenue, but not for perman ent improvements, current expenses or anything else which creates a new ‘indebtedness in the form of bonds without vote of the people. The road supervisor was instructed by the commissioners to stake out a route for a road from each end of the bridge over Haskett’s Creek, near the home of C. E. Bonkemeyer. It was ordered by the commission ers that the road from Roland Kearns’ to a point near John Jackson’s, in Back Creek township, be discontinued Bince a new road to replace same has been constructed. The commissioners discontinued also the road leading *-* to Red Cross White’s to Prathe Guilford county line to Bethel church. Hie commissioners agreed to pay $60, half the expenses of a trip to the National Dairy Show at Memphis, Tenn., this month, for E. S. Millsaps, Jr., county agent. Mr. Millsaps gets the other half paid by reason of win ning third place among the county agents in the State .in the “Better Sires” campaign which closed August 31st Heavy Rain Fell In County Monday Rainfall Measured 3.65 Inches, According: To The Official Weather Observer. Seldom in recent years nave dolph county people experienced such a rain as fell Monday. Whipped about by the wind it came from every direction of the compass and fell un til, according* to Rev. J. E. Pritchard, official weather observer, it reached a depth of 3.65 inches, more than falls in sbme single months, and more than twice the amount that fell* the entire month of September, Streams after the rain were reported the. full est they had been in months due to the fact that the rain fell fast and a large part of it ran off in the Greeks and rivers instead of soaking in the soil. Fishermen,” however, are de lighted'because the rain will flush out the creeks and rivers, making the water more clear and pure giving the fish more zest to rise to the lure of the bait Gardeners and farmers, of course, will benefit most by the tain, which will revive vegetatiom in gen eral " v.; '• /■ • " Millsaps Wins 3rd Place In “Better Sires” Campaign County Agent Ewing S. Millsaps, Jr., is again a winner ui the "Bet ter Sires” campaign staged by the Extension Department North Caro lina Department of Agriculture." Mr. Millsaps by - placing on. the farms of Randolph county for the fiscal year ending August 31,1927, a total of 28 registered bulls be comes winner of third place in the State. This entitles Mr. Millsaps to half of his expenses On a trip to the National Dairy Show to be held at Memphis, Tenn., October 15th to 22nd. Mr. Millsaps won second place in a similar contest in 1925 and last year was not permitted to enter the contest, the rules debar ring a previous year’s winner. It Mil be recalled that, during the past thirty months ending Au gust 31, 1927, Mr. Millsaps has been instrumental in placing on Randolph county farm a total of 76 registered Guernsey bulls, 109 registered Guernsey cows and 207 grade cows, a total of 392 cattle of the better grade. Oct 9 to 15 Fire Prevention Week Designated By Governor Mc Lean—Galls On People To Take Ample Precautions. Appalling Fire Less The week October 9th to October 15th huh been designated by procla mation of Governor McLean as Fire Prevention Week for North Carolina. This week will be also fire prevention week for the entire United States. The Governor urges that during the week there be held fire - drills in schools, factories and stores and that these be continued at regular inter vals. All buildings should be inspect ed, says the proclamation, and every thing possible done to reduce the fire hazard. The Governor quotes from statis tics that $6,649,039 worth of prop erty was destroyed in North Carolina in 1926 by fire, 286 persons burned to death, and that this loss of life and property was caused largely /by carelessness. Supplementing the fig In _ _ . build ings of various'kmd8 burned to the ground or partly burned during 1926 in the State and that of these 1,330 were residents. Sixty garages were burned or .damaged, 26 school houses, 140 stores, 16 apartment houses* 5 hospitals, 17 churches and 61 factories^ It is pointed ogt that it is the people who ultimately pay for all fire losses. There may be in surance on the property and the own er can collect for his loss, but the in surance never replaces the property burned and, after all, insurance com panies pay losses out of insurance premiums which have been collected from property owners. Probable That Bakery Will Open For Business Saturday Asheboro’s newest industry, a bak ery, may be opened for business Sat urday. At least, this is the hope oi J. R. Parks, owner of the plant. For the past several days machinery and other equipment for the bakery has been arriving and work has been go ing forward on its installation in the Hedrick building on South Fay etteville formerly occupied by Kivett Electric Company. Alterations were made on the building also. All this has taken time, but now everything is nearing readiness and if the bakery doesn’t open Saturday it will be do ing business early next week. Couldn’t Overlook “Made In Randolph” So Strikingly Attractive That Those Who Came To See Had To B*»rn> In connection with the Fair article in last week’s issue of The Courier, Want Contagious Diseases Reported Not Only County Health Officer But Also To District School Teacher. Safeguards Others At the meeting of the county board of health held in the court house in Asheboro Monday a resolution was passed requiring each physician upon making a diagnosis of a case of diphtheria or in suspected cases of the disease in which anti-toxin is giv en to administer to each person ex posed' to the case a prophylactic dose of diphtheria anti-toxin of from 500 to 1500 units depending upon age. The health board made a request also that physicians in the county report contagious diseases which they come in contact with to the principal of the school in the district in which the case is located. It is especially urged that this be done in the case of chil dren of school age. In doing this it will enable the school principal to see to it that the disease does not spread through his school. Report of Dr. G. H. Sumner, the county health officer, was made to the board at this meeting and ac cepted. His report shows that he has quarantined 28 cases during the month, 18 of which have been diph theria, 3 scarlet fever, 2 typhoid, 1 meningitis and 7 pertussis. He made a total of forty visits in these cases. Dr. Sumner completed during the month 41 typhoid vaccinations qpd 77 for diphtheria. Three homes in which there were tubercular cases were vis ited. Three casesof veneral diseases were reported for the month and treatment for this diseas? rendered in four instances of indigent cases. Final examination was made during ‘ the month of 323 school children. During the month Dr. Sumner made 18 visits to the jail and 8 to the county home for the treatment or ex amination of patients. Examinations made during the month included those of 110 school teachers, 2 for marriage, 3 children for industry, 3 persons by court order, 5 for lunacy, 3 for life extension and 3 prisoners. In performing the various duties incident to his office Dr." Sumner traveled a total of 846 miles. Dear Editor: We would like to write a little in your paper about what we saw and heard at the Fair. Well, I hope everybody is over the Fair and feeling good by this time, after we have all been to the Fair and returned to our several homes and had time to think and hear people talk of the great things we saw in the Fair. The Farm products were fine, also the poultry. Hogs and cattle were very fine and the other things “Made in Randolph” which make us feel proud of our old Randolph of which we boast wherever we go, and in all the buildings- the exhibits were fine. But out on the Midway, as they call it, we regret to say all was not so good as there were several com plaints from people saying they were fooled by the gamblers. While most people say not gamble with them, which they should not do, blit as long as $2 is offered for 50 cents some folks will bite. But let us hope the officials of the Fair Association will never allow the Fair to be defiled with such a' gang again. What do you say ? We- also saw stands of all kinds in the buildings and on the outside. The churches were also there and did serve some extra good things to eat which most people enjoyed very much. But they say that the profit and more from these stands of the churches would go to help finance the different churches represented there. Now, we would like to ask if this is God's plan according to the Bible to finance the most Important institu tion in the world, the ch^rcl). If ;so, • have \ye who have beat tithing fW years to help finance the church have been using the wrong plan? ‘ - V . I would like to hear- through the columns of this paper what some of our Bible readers have to say on subject. , ? a “ —WALTER PAKK.S. Pisgah, N. C.. * 5,: 1927. rf -.W: : -l 4 “Mr. Bob’* To Be Given AtAshebord Mi pre the school from com Teachers [ore Trucks s Requests Are rs Are Deferred ie Refused. Granted,< And board of education was held in the court house Monday with L. F. Ross, chairman, and J.' A. Martin present. The matter of transporting all the children of Kildee district to Ramseur was taken up, but not definitely de cided. Decision"'will be made at a meeting of the feoard to be held Fri day afternoon at 2 o’clock as to whether this will be done or the pres ent arrangement, of one teacher at Kildee and one "fTnck continued. A request wa# made from Balfour district, north- of Asheboro, for a truck to be operated. It was agreed to place one there provided *l ey can be had missioners for A delega trict came bef« to be allowed in the schoolj granted, and intendent Flint Hill pm the coun purchase, tom Flint Hill the board and asaea hold Sunday school This request the County Su lorized to go if it would ' visable to sell a,portion of grounds for the Church site. A petition presented Shady Grove, Columbia township, asking for ah aj^itional teacher. The citizens having jrigned a petition say ing they would send to school so that the average attendance would be maintained for two teachers. An ad ditional teacher was allowed provided the patrons of the school send in such number as to justify two teachers. An additional! teacher was asked for at Gray's Chapel. The County Superintendent tras asked to go there and see if arrangements could be made to get along with the number of teachers already allowed. The County Superintendent was re quested to go New Hope town ship and investigate the truck route on which a truck is now operated to Montgomery to Eldorado y, hauling children school. Mrs. Hattie B|ughes Died Monday At Her Home Here Mrs. Hattie' Hughes died at her residence in South Asheboro Monday night after several days illness from uraemic poisoning and heart affec tion. She had 3psided in Asheboro for a number of ydkrs during which time she had beea-4 »w«hably active and energetic woman. She is sur vived by one daughter, Mrs. June Robins, and four sons, Joe, Stacey, Walter and Calvin Hughes, all of Asheboro. The funeral was conduct ed at Mt. Shepherd church West of Asheboro yesterday. • Foster-Whitlow Miss Fleta Foster and Mr. Carson Whitlow were married Saturday, Oc tober 1st in South Carolina. Mrs. Whitlow is the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Fos ter of Asheboro and is an attractive young woman. Mr. .Whitlow is an enterprising young man, of High Point, where they will make their fu ture home. Bulla, Farlow And Millikan Reunion Held Last Sunday Four Hundred Of Them Gather ed At The Old Benjamin Millikan Homestead. The annual reunion of the Bulla, Farlow and Millikan families was held Sunday at the old Benjamin Millikan home place, now owned by N. C. Far low, in Back Creek township, Sunday. Relatives and friends of the families began to arrive early in the morning from Greensboro, High Point, Lexing ton,' Asheboro, Elon College and other points-throughout the State until four hundred had gathered at the Farlow home for the reunion.. Shortly after twelve o’clock the ladies spread the contents of the baskets which they had brought with them on a table one hundred <feet in length on the lawn and those present parcook of a boun teous repast. President Farlow .call ed the meeting to order and Ed Far low returned thanks. Following the dinner, President Farlow again called, the members of the family present for the business meeting. The minutes, of the meeting [ last year were read and approved. David Farlo'w responded to a call for a speech and spoke most interestingly of . his earlier days in teaching in the public schools of Randolph county. Following Mr. Fallow, Mr. A. I. principal address. Randolph codhtieS. :h David resolution the of and of the com Fer the late to the at order was year Presi pres., Mrs. Home Comers Day Was Big Feature D. M. Weatherly, Master Of Ceremonies, On Most Impres sive Occasion. Several Talks Made The seventh annual Randolph County Fair came to a close Saturday night after four days and five nights of entertainment, instruction and rec reation for the many thousands of people from Randolph ~and adjoining counties who passed through the turnstiles from first to last. From the standpoints of excellence, variety and number of exhibits in every depart ment and the number of people who attended, this fair was the largest and best ever held in Randolph coun ty. The crowds of people who at tended this event began to break rec ords of attendance from the first day and kept it up until the very close. It would be difficult to select from the many departments one which was of more interest than the others. Some people were interested in one department while others were inter ested in another. Suffice to say that the heads of each department and their assistants exerted themselves to the utmost in-making their share of the fair the best in the history of the county. The public generally will testify to the fact that each and all succeeded. Of course, the fair could never have been what it was without the whole-hearted cooperation of the people of the county, people in every walk of life. The crowds were handled smoothly during the fair by those in charge. There was little confusion and less of bad order. Wednesday of the Fair was, of course, Educational Day, and a large number of school children from all parts of the county were admitted free and helped to swell the large at tendance that day. Thursday was Moore and Montgomery county day and people from these counties came to take part in the Fair in addition to hundreds from Randolph and other counties. Friday was Home Comers Day and Saturday was Everybody’s Day. (Please turn to page 5) Historic Residence Is Being Torn Down Oid House On Worth Street Built Before Civil War Gives Way To Progress. The residence on Worth street ad joining the home of Mr. H. M. Worth is being tom down by Mr. J. O. Red ding who purchased the property sev eral years ago. The removal of this building takes away one of the oldest structures in the town. The house was built before 1850 by either J. M. A. Drake who moved to Prairie Cen ter, HI., before the Civil war or by E. M. Drake who ran a newspaper in Asheboro, later moving to Statesville where he operated a newspaper. The residence was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Shubal G. Worth parents of Mr. H. M. Worth, of Asheboro, and Mrs. H. D. Collins, of Greensboro, prior to the building of their home on the spot where Mrs. T. H. Redding now resides. This house was de stroyed by fire while occupied by Mr. R. R. Ross’ family around thirty-five years ago. Mr. H. M. Worth claims the dis tinction of first seeing the light in .the residence now being destroyed. His many friends will remember this historic item with»interest. After the removal of Mr. and Mrs. Worth to their new home, Mr. Arch Dicks, a brother-in-law of the late Dr. J. M. Worth, resided in this historic house and it has for many years been known as the old Dicks place. Dr. S.^k. Hen ley, who probably did more charity practice than any physician who has ever lived in the county, occupied this residence for many years after mov ing to Asheboro. Mr. E. B. Kearns purchased the place around forty years ago and he and his splendid wife lived there the remainder of their lives. The prop erty passed from the Kearns estate to Mr. J. 0. Redding who purchased it several years ago. t; Mt. Lebanon Home Coming On the third Sunday in October a home coming service will be held at Mt. Lebanon. At 2:30 P. M. Prof. P. E. Lindley will 'address the au dience. A number of brief talks by visiting friends will be given during the day: ' Everybody is invited to come and bring a light luneh. , x . —Wm. H. NEESE. T—srial Wizard To Speak * At Kings Mountain Friday _ Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the .Ku Klux Klan, will be the principal speaker at the evening exercises during the celebration of the anniversary -of the Battle of Kings Mountain October 7th. Thousands of people from North Carolina and- South Carolina are expected to be on hand for the celebration. It will be the oc casion also for a gathering of Klans from the two States. Other srs will be Senator George, of v.—gia, and Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia. The battle m ^ fought' Oc the British No Special Term Of Criminal Court To Begin Next Monday The week’s term of Randolph Superior Court for the trial of cases on the criminal docket, sched uled to begin Monday morning, October 10th, will not be held, ac cording to advices received from Governor McLean by the local bar association. This special term has been called off on account of the inability of the Chief Executive to obtain the services of a judge for the week, all of the Superior Court judges being engaged elsewhere. The two weeks term of special court for the trial' of actions cal endered on the civil docket, sched uled to begin October 31st, will be held, however. Rt 90 Shortened By Court Ruling Commission By Selecting Route Brings Asheboro Two Miles Nearer Raleigh. follow Jenks Route A recent ruling of the North Caro lina Supreme Court gives the State Highway Commission authority to determine the routing of all new State highways. This ruling settles a matter of argument between the Wake county commissioners and the State Highway Commission over the routing of Highway 90 from Pittsboro to Raleigh. The Wake board of com missioners contended for the Apex route. The Highway Commission de sired the Jenks route and since the Supreme Court ruling has notified the Wake board that this route will be the one followed. The Jenks route is more direct and is some two miles shorter than the Apex route. Tlje shortening of the distance will mean that Raleigh will be just two miles nearer Asheboro, Ramseur and Franklinville than the Apex route would have made it. It means, also, that the distance to Raleigh from any point west will be two miles nearer. This is not a long distance but with Highway 90 destined to become one of the most largely traveled routes in the State it will mean a total sav ing of time, mileage and tires that will amount to quite a lot when translated into dollars and cents. Childfen’s Home (Society Makes Many Placements The September report of the North Carolina Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, Inc., at Greensboro, shows that there were 40 children in the home September 1st, and that this number including children re ceived during the month made 57 in the care of the institution at the end of the month. Total placements in foster homes during the month reach ed 13. Only one child died during the month. Total placements of chil dren to date during 1927 has reached 75, while grand total of placements amounts to 2,530. Revival At Level Cross Revival services began at Level Cross M. P. church last Sunday, and will run through next Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Dixon are the fhinisterial helpers in the meeting. Two services will be held on next Sunday. At 2 P. M. the church will be dedicated. Although places where liquor may be obtained have been growing in England since the war, the decrease in convictions for drunkenness in the courts the. last fiscal year decreased 10.6 per cent under the previous year, and the total was the smallest in eight years. Saturday is the worst day of the week in England for drunkenness. Mrs. E. E. Moffitt Greets Home Comers Sends Message Expressing Re grets She Was Prevented ^rom Being Present. The Home Comers. Committee of County Fair had _ expected to number among those present on Friday Mrs. Elvira E- Moffitt, a native of the county and for a number of years a resident of Asheboro, but who now mates Richmond, Va., her home. Mrs. Moffitt came to Raleigh enroute to Asheboro but on account of a slight indisposition felt unequal to further travel and returned to Richmond. The following message was received by the Home Comers Committee from her: "I cannot express my regr4t a£ the turn of circumstances that prevent my being with you today. A thousand kind thoughts toward Raq^olph and its people and of my disappointment I have not words to express.” "MRS. E. E. MOFFITT”. The Home Comers Committee also received a message from Dr. E. C. Branson, head of Rural Social Econ omics at the State University: “If I had even a ghost of a chance to get to the Randolph County Fair this week or back' into Randohah at any time -whatsoe tainly not miss i dolph is my hon county. A look •ftet It off m: ar* - Annual Reuflon ' Of The Trogdons Was Held Sunday Brought Several Hundred Hi Asheboro For This Third Annual Meet. \ An Elaborate Program Judge Hayes, M. F. Hinshaw, Mrs. Tucker, Messrs. Guyer And Others Speak. j The third annual reunion of tin Trogdon Historical Association, com posed of the descendants of William Trogdon, Revolutionary patriot of Randolph county, was held at the court house in Asheboro Sunday with several hundred members of the fam ily present from many of the counties in the State. Randolph furnished the largest number, of course, with Trog dons and their kin coming from prac tically every section of the county. The court house was filled to capacity at both the morning and afternoon sessions. The exercises began with music hy tfie Worthville brass band, which furnished music throughout the day.’* Rev. Joseph M. Trogdon, pastor of a Baptist church in Gastonia, son of Samuel H. Trogdon, of Worthville, led in prayer. He was followed by an inspiring address hy M. F. Hin shaw, postmaster at Randleman. Then came the election of officers. W. R Trogdon, of North Wilkesboro, was unanimously re-elected president for another year, as were the following vice presidents, William C. Hammer, Asheboro; Rev. Joseph M. Trogdon, of Gastonia; Mrs. C. E. Stuart, of Seagrove, Route 1; Thomas, W. Trog don, of High Point, and Mrs. W. C. Tucker, of Greensboro. Prior to the adjournment for the picnic dinner which was served on the lawn, Con gressman William C. Hammer deliv ered a thirty-minute address. The picnic dinner served on an im provised table on the lawn left noth ing to be desired and was greatly en joyed by the large crowd present far the exercises of the day. The' afternoon session was featured; by a number of addresses. The first of- these was delivered by Johnson J. Hayes, United States Judge for the Middle North Carolina District, who . made a most practicable and sensible talk on “Correct Living.” Mrs. W. C. Tucker then spoke for several min utes on “Individual Responsibility*, especially emphasizing the opportun ity of the Trogdon family to regulate human conduct along the proper lines. Professor R. C. Hinshaw, member of the High Point city school faculty, spoke most interestingly for a short time. Talks were made also by Mr. Virgil Guyer, business mail of Le noir and former mayor of the town, and by his brother, also prominently identified with the business life Lenoir. The Messrs. Guyer are " natives of Guilford county and are sons of the late J. W. Guyer, Eaqt* and grandsons of Jacob Guyer, prominent minister of the M. F. church fifty to seventy-five years agu. A short talk was made also by Mr. F. C. Holladay, who lives on the old William Trogdon farm. A committee, composed of W. F. _ Trogdon, A. I. Ferree and W. A. Lov ett, was appointed to take care of Has work of incorporating the family as sociation as a non-stock company. The meeting, one of the most inter esting held by the association, ad journed to meet again in Ashebore the first Sunday in October, 1928. There are several hundred, approx imately 2,000, members of the Tri>g don family living in Randolph county, and the names of these will be print ed in an early issue of this newspaper. Among the older of the members of the Trogdon family association pres ent were J. A. Odell, aged 86, of Ibe Odell Hardware Company, Greens boro. Mr. Odell’s mother was a. Trogdon. Mrs. Rachel Dunning, 87 years of age, was present also. There, were several members of the family 75 years of age present and three were introduced to the audience. Tobacco Markets In Old Belt Opened Tuesday A. M. Markets of the old tobacco belt opened Tuesday. Heavy rains Mon day prevented many farmers getting their tobacco ready for sale, however, and in some places the sales opening day were not as large as they have been.' Winston-Salem experienc ed the biggest opening in'its history, but the tobacco sold was saturated with too much moisture to bring the best prices. Something over a mil lion pounds were on the floors of the Twin City warehouses. Good cigar ette tobacco brought from $15 to $2S per hundred. The average was $14kj& with the buyers not enthusiastic ever taking the sorry grades. Reidsville reported 265,000 pounds and Danville, Va., 600,000 pounds. Burlington. Mebane and StoneviUe reported fairly good sales. Over in the east, Mount’s total sales bave reached 667,390 pounds. Wilson broke world’s record Tuesday with 1,668.444 pounds and far this season of 24.490.7 for $4,434,832.20 appointed .assistant At Harwood, of B

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