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&.:■ rmt COURIBB &M*f» Both New* *»4 i -u. ISSUED W1 PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN $2.00 A YEAR INBDVANCE A«h*bor% N. C, rimniiT, October 27, 1W7 One Hundredth Annual Session Of The North Carolina Methodist Protestant Church Meets hi Asheboro Wednesday Sessions Will Be Held Thrice Daily In Local Methodist Protestant Church. Dr. A. G. Dixon, Of Greensboro, President Program For Conference Con tains Many Important And Interesting Features. Wednesday morning of next week at nine o’clock will mark the opening of the one hundredth session of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in the Asheboro M. P. church on South Fayetteville Street. There will be during the Conference, sessions in the mornings, afternoons and evenings until its close Monday noon, and all of the Conference is open to the pub lic. The people of Asheboro and vi cinity are cordially invited to attend any and all sessions. It is anticipated that about half of the delegates to the Conference and the ministers will arrive on Tuesday of next week. These will be enter tained on the Harvard plan by the Methodist Protestant church member ship in Asheboro, this plan providing for lodging and breakfast, leaving the delegates to obtain their dinner and supper at their own expense. As a prelude to the opening of the Conference proper, there will be a meeting of the Conference faculty Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. This organization is the official body of the annual conference and is com posed of the ministers who examine and pass on the candidates for the ministry and the new men seeking admission to the conference. Rev. J. E. Pritchard, of Ashdboro, is chair man of the faculty and Rev. N. G. Bethea, of Lexington, is secretary of the organization. Hie program for the conference provides for many important and in teresting features thiB year. Among them will he the annual election of conference officers, the president’s annual message, the annual confer ence sermon and the consideration of the interests of the High Point Col lege and the Methodist Protestant Children’s diome, the two denomin ational institutions of the church lo cated in North Carolina. The presi come sendee will he held by the local pastor and congregation. At this time addresses of welcome will be made by William C. Hammer, pf Asheboro, congressman from the sev enth North Carolina congressional district, who will speak on behalf of the conference church. Rev. C. 1. Gregory, pastor of the Asheboro Friends church, and president of the Asheboro Ministerial association, will welcome the ministers and delegates on behalf of the Asheboro churches, while Dr. E. L. Moffitt, Asheboro bus iness man, will welcome the confer ence on behalf of the citizens of the town. Rev. N. G. Bethea, of Lexing ton, will deliver an address in re sponse to the welcome address. A special feature of the annual conference this year will he exercises celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Methodist Prot estant denomination. Rev. J. E. Pritchard, of Asheboro, the confer ence historian, will present the his tory of the North Carolina confer ence. Rev. Roby F. Day, of Inwood, i will hie features of the first lay’s session. In the evening a wel (Flease turn to page 8) Singers Convention Will Bring Large Back From Hunting Trip Ed Hedrick, Ed Cranford, C. C. Cranford and Clyde Wood, all of Asheboro, and Charlie Amos, of High Point, are back from a hunting trip to Pisgah Forest last week. The local men went after bears, but, being un able to find bruin, succeeded in bring ing down a couple of buck deer. ’Gene Chisholm, at the Old Hickory Cafe, was so unkind as to insinuate that the deer still had bells around their necks when brought into town, but the hunters, all five of them, maintain that the deer were taken in the open, .and the majority rules. Tests made by the bureau of mines at Caribou, Colorado, recently prove that radio waves coming from fifty miles distant will penetrate more than 600 feet of rock. 'Next Sunday will witness a crowded courtroom in Asheboro for the annual Singers Convention. The sessions of the convention will begin at 11 o'clock in the morning with Prof. A. M. Fentriss, of **—**»— • • The of Ashe s preliminaries, which is sure with the m President Of The Conference 5 Years DR. A. G. DIXON Dr. A. G. Dixon, of Greensboro, will complete his fifth year as president of the North'Carolina Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church when he retires from the office during the con ference here next week. Dr. Dixon was elected to the high office at the Henderson annual conference in No vember, 1922. Prior to that time he had been for five years secretary of the general conference board of young people's work, with headquar ters in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Dixon, who is a native of Rock ingham County, North Carolina, en tered the ministry of the Methodist Protestant Church in North Carolina after his graduation from the West minster Theological Seminary in 1901. He is also a graduate of Western Maryland College with the B. D. degree. Prior to his election as secretary of the general conference board of young people’s work in 1917, Dr. Dixon was pastor of North Main Street ^church in High Point for nine years. He was pastor of the Metho dist Protestant church at Henderson for a number of years, and served either charges in the North Carolina ! conference. SffiSroSm*£ nual Conference very faithfully and has witnessed a wonderful growth of the denominational interests, namely the establishment of High Point Col lege and other advanced steps taken 'by the denomination. Dr. Dixon is the second president of the conference to serve the entire five-year limit as -chief executive in the past score of years, Dr. R. M. Andrews being the other president serving the conference for five years. Cranford Office Building Modern Built Along The Most Approved Lines With All Modern Conveniences. On Church Street The new office building for the Cranford Hosiery Mill and the Ashe boro Hosiery Mill was completed sev eral days ago and is now occupied. The building fronts thirty feet on Church Street and has a depth of 80 feet. Only a driveway separates it from the main building of the Ashe boro Hosiery Mill. The building is constructed along the most approved lines of brick, concrete and steel for office buildings. The lighting ar rangement is ideal as is also the ar rangement of the offices inside the building which are separated by steel partitions. There is steam heat and all the other modem conveniences, in cluding laboratories and cloak rooms. In the building are the general of fices on the front and alongside of this large section is a hallway which leads to the record room on the rear right while on the left are private of fices of N. M. Cranford of'the Ashe boro Hosiery Mills and C. C. Cran ford and Clarence Cranford of the Cranford Hosiery Mills. There is back of these offices a large room for use of the directors. Orthopaedic Clinic next Rotary-Kiwanis ortho paedic clinic at Burlington will be on Friday, November 4th, at the parish house of the Presbyterian church, as heretofore. All cripples in Randolph county are invited to attend the clinic for examination and treatment orthopaedic specialists. Most Successful Session Of S. S. Training School • Came To An End Last Friday Night With Social Meeting —Large Enrollment. Certificates Awarded Fifty-Three Of The 75 Enrolled Completed The Entire Train ing Course. Featured with a thoroughly enjoy able social meeting during which time delightful refreshments were served by the entertainment committee and .the second standard training school for Sunday school leaders in Asheboro and Randolph county, held at First Methodist Church in this city, closed a most successful week’s series of sessions last Friday night. Following the two class periods on the last even ing of the school brief congratulatory remarks were made by various mem bers who had regularly attended the school. It was enthusiastically voted to make the school an annual event and definite arrangements were enter ed into for an even larger enrollment next year. Out of an attendance of over 75, sixty attended six or more class per iods and were definitely enrolled in the school. Of this number 53 at tended all 12 class periods, read their text book, did their assignments and entered into the discussions of the class, thus being entitled to a certifi cate of credit in the standard train ing course. The credit students are listed as follows: First Church, Ashe boro 18; St. Paul, Randleman, 9; Ramseur, 8; Old Union, 8; Liberty, 5; College Place, Greensboro, 1; Naomi, 1; Asheboro circuit, 1; Uwharrie cir cuit, 1; Lexington, 1. The courses, instructors and credit students follow: The Church and Its Work—Rev. H. C. Sprinkle, Instructor: B. F. Brit tain, Mrs. B. F. Brittain, Miss Mabel Parrish, Miss Eunice Bulla, J. A. Spence, Miss Donna Lee Loflin, Mrs. W. A. Underwood, Miss Ethel Maul den, Rev. J. S. Gibbs, Mrs. J. S. Gibbs, Miss Epsie Woolen, Mrs. J. N. Newlin, Miss Tula Morris, L. F. Tut tle, Hugh Parks, Miss Elsie Clegg, Rev. G. W. Clay, Rev. L. T. Edens, I. F. Craven, Mrs. I. F. Craven. Intermediate-Senior Department Administration—Miss Edna Wilkins, Instructor: Mrs. Don McGlohon, Miss Pearl B. Rogers, Primary Pupil—MisS Corinne Lit tle, Instructor: MisS Hattie Burgess, Miss Madge Craven, Mrs. Geo. W. Hilliard, Mrs. R. C. Lewallen, Miss Margaret Lane, Miss Florence Owen, Miss Carolyn Oglesby, Mrs. O. L. Presnell, Mrs. B. C. Reavis, Mrs. Chas. H. Redding, Mrs. J. A. Spence, Miss Rosabella Woolen. The Sunday School Worker—Mr. Paul F. Evans, Instructor: Harris T. Adams, Miss Clara Adams, Miss Gracy Adams, Miss Callie A. Adams, Rev. J. H. Brendall, Jr., Mrs. J. H. BrendaH, Jr., Miss Grace DeLance Brown, C. L. Coggins, J. W. Coggins, Mrs. J. W. Coggins, Mrs. J. T. Coun cil, Alton B. Craven, Mrs. H. T. Dea ton, Rev. John Hoyle, Jr., Lee M. Kearns, Mrs. W. T. Matthews, Mrs. J. C. Wall, Miss Gwen Wall, J. R. Wilson. POLITICAL WISDOM (Charity & Children) Senator Simmons is strongly op posed, to the nomination of Gov. A1 Smith for President, and sees dis aster for the Democrats in case he is nominated. Simmons’ opposi tion is based on Smith’s unavailibili ty and his belief that Smith's nomi nation would precipitate one of the most unfortunate campaigns in the nation’s history. Senator Simmons has a lot of political wisdom. Asheboro People Asked To Subscribe $300 For Boy Scouts This Amount Needed To Carry Out An Adequate Program For Boys Of Town. Nothing is more essential in the life of a growing community than the providing of an adequate program for the boys of the community. High Point, Thomasville and Lexington of the Uwharrie Council Boy Scouts of America have raised their budget to provide such a program for the com ing year and Asheboro is certainly not far behind either of the above named towns of the council. One of the best troops of the Uw harrie Council is located in Asheboro and daring the past summer, nine of these Scouts attended the Uwharrie camp. The local troop, under the command of Bev. Cothran G. Smith, is making the best record of any troop in the council. A new troop is in process of formation at the first Methodist church and with such rapid expansion, it has been deemed neces sary that the local citizenship help put scouting across in this commun ity by raising the town’s quote If money to be used on behalf «f the Scouts. Asheboro people will be ask -- J, — —...... ... . in Where The M. P. Conference WiU Be Held I. > ■—.. .. ■ .— . .—■■■■— V. METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH, ASHEBORO, N. C. Tir Pafetor Of Asheboro M. P. Church REV. J. E. PRITCHARD Rev. Jesse Eli Pritchard, native son of Randolph, who has been pastor of the Asheboro Methodist Protestant church for the past two years, began his ministerial career about the year 1912, following is completion of the courses at Western Maryland College and Westminster Theological Semin ary. He has served pastorates at :Thomasville, BottlftBleb, i Henderson \ and other places in North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Pritchard has not only been 1 active in the affairs of the North. Carolina conference of the denomina- j tion, but has served in an official ca pacity for the promotion of the inter- j ests of the denomination throughout; the United States. He has been for | a number of years a member of th§ general conference board of young people’s work. During the educational campaign for the establishment of High Point College, Rev. Mr. Pritchard was a member of a committee which visited various sections of the State and de Federated Clubs Of Seventh District Held An Interesting Meeting In Liberty 150 Delegates From The 15 Clubs In The District Were In Attendance. Mrs. Eugene Davis Named Chairman Meeting Endorses State Plan For Federated Club In Each Of The Counties. The Woman’s Club of Liberty was hostess to the Federated Clubs of the seventh district Tuesday. The dis trict comprises the counties of Ran dolph, Guilford, Alamance, Rocking ham and Caswell. There are fifteen federated clubs in the district, those being the Woman’s Club, Asheboro, Woman’s Club, Archdale, Mentor Book Club, Burlington, Elon'College Book Club, Woman’s Club, Reviewers and Friday Afternoon dubs of Greens boro, Woman’s and Cantebury Clubs, High Point, Leaksville-Spray History dub, of Leaksville, Dolly Madison Book dub, Madison, Woman’s dub of Mayodan, Oak Ridge Woman’s Club, Arts and Travel dub of Reids ville and the Gibsonville Book Club. Thu meeting was held in the Meth odist Protestant church, and nearly 150 delegates were registered. Rev. J. S. Gibbs, pastor of the M. E. church of liberty, opened the meeting with prayer. Addresses of welcome were made by Dr. J. D. Gregg, mayor, and Mrs. J. T. Underwood, president of the hostess dub. A most elabor ate luncheon was served in the school building by the dub women of Lib erty, who were untiring in their ef forts to entertain their co-workers. Beautiful chrysanthemums were pre sented to the state and district offi After two years as district chair* an, Mrs. W. C. Hammer, of Ashe >ro, declined to accept the honor lother year, and Mrs. Eugene Davis, ! Greensboro, was named chairman, rs. Davis Is also state treasurer, he secretary will be named at a ter date. This office is held at te eftte f ) dvered addresses stimulating inter est in the educational institution which was later established at High Point. He has served a number of years as president of the Pastors’ Summer Conference which has become a permanent part of the denomin ational activities in this State. Mr. Pritchard holds the degree of A. B. and B. St,'the former degree from Western Maryland College and the latter from Westminster Theological Seminary. The Asheboro pastor has become very popular during his two years service to the local church and is not only popular among the members of his own congregation but is popular in the life and activities of the entire town. Mr. Pritchard was bom and reared on a farm a few miles from Asheboro and has demonstrated that the adage, “a prophet is without hon or in his own country,” is not true, at least with regard to his pastorate here. New Hosiery Mill To Start Operation About First Of Year A part of the machinery and equipment has been placed in the new hosiery mill built by D. B. Mc Crary and associates adjoining the Acme Hosiery Mills on North Street. This new plant will, when it begins operations about the first of the new year, make ladies’ full fashioned silk hosiery of the finest quality. There are but few mills making this grade of hosiery in North Carolina. Skilled workmen are required to operate the knitting machines making this grade of hosiery. These will be trained in the plant. At present a few sam ples of hosiery are being made and those in charge are familiarizing themselves with the machinery and getting the plant in shape for the opening, about two months hence. It is not planned to start the mill on any large scale of production until a force of operatives is trained for the making of a finish ed hose that will stand the tests and requirements of the market. Traffic Over No. 90 Now that the four miles of paving from Asheboro westward has been completed on No. 90, traffic may use the highway without detour. The new stretch between the Fuller place and Willomoore has been graded and top soiling is under way. No contract, however, has been awarded from Wil lomoore to Lexington, but the high way there is in good repair. Traffic from No. 10 at Lexington may use 90 to Asheboro and eastward and on to Durham, the distance being nearer and the traffic lighter than it is on No. 10. Willie Myers, employe of the Standard Chair Company, at Thomas KH when he stepped on i West Virginia Woman Struck By Car Friday Night Hit By Car Driven By Clyde Lu cas On Highway 70 Near The Fair Grounds. Skull Fractured And Other Injuries, But Expect ed To Recover—Is At Mem orial Hospital. Mrs. M. M. Meadows, of Hinton, W. Va., is in Memorial hospital suffering with bruises and lacerations about her body and a slight fracture of the skull as the result of an automobile accident Friday nfght about eight o’clock just opposite the fair grounds on Highway 70. Mrs. Meadows was walking with her husband and small son on the right hand of the highway southward when she was struck by a Ford roadster driven by Clyde Lucas, of Seagrove, who was enroute from Greensboro home. The impact threw Mrs. Meadows on the hood of the Ford car, breaking the right front light and bending it backward and al so made a dent on the hood of the car. She fell from the car to the hard surface, and it was this impact which is thought to have caused the fracture of the skull. Mr. Lucas im mediately brought the injured woman with her family to Asheboro and placed Mrs. Meadows in the hospital for treatment. She will recover and is expected to be out in about 10 days. Mr. and Mrs. Meadows with their small son were enroute from Hinton, W. Va., to near Pinehurst to see a daughter of Mrs. Meadows who lives there. Their home together with all their household property was burned down at Hinton a few days ago, and, being without means to pay their way, the family was making the journey on foot. All had gone well until the deplorable accident Friday night. Every attention is being given Mrs. Meadows at the local hospital and many courtesies are being shown her and her husband and son who are staying at the Old Hickory Cafe. Mr. Meadows states that in all his life he has never found a more courteous, helpful and sympathetic citizenship as that with which he has come in con tact in Asheboro. Mrs. Jane Harrell Had Been In 111 Health For Some Time With Dropsy—Funeral Held Sunday. Born In Moore County Mrs. Jane Harrell, wife of W. E. Harrell, died Friday at the home of her son-in-law, A. R. McCollum, in Randleman, following an illness of a year and confinement of three months with dropsy. Mrs. Harrell was bom in Moore county, Feb. 6, 1857. She was a charter member of the Holiness church at Randleman and ever active in the work of her church. She was held in the highest esteem by her neighbors, friends and relatives whom she numbered by the scores. Besides her husband, she is sur vived by the following children: Mrs. A. Ri McCollum, Mrs. M. A. Reitzel, Mrs. S. A. Stevens and Mrs. D. P. Wil liams, of Randleman; Mrs. Lauria Gardner, of Flint, Michigan; Charlie Harrell, of Burlington; and J. M. Harrell, whose address is not known. The funeral service was conducted at the Randleman Holiness church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. W. A. Way, of Greensboro, and interment made in the cemetery. The large crowd of more than 600 people and the many flofal offerings attest ed in a small way of the esteem in which this good woman was held by the people of the community in which she had lived. Her grandsons and nephews were pallbearers, while flow ers were borne by her granddaughters and nieces. Fourth Meeting Of The Year To Be Held In Asheboro Church Sunday. A Special Program The Baptist young people of the Randolph District will come together in their fourth meeting of the year at the Asheboro Baptist Church Sun day afternoon at three o'clock. In addition to the short business session and the awarding of the ef ficiency banner, which creates a great deal of interest among the unions, the programs for these meetings are made attractive with special music. But the feature of the programs is usually the inspirational message brought by some speaker secured for the occasion. The speaker for Sunday afternoon is Rev. J. C. Canipe, who has been for several years prior to accenting a pastorate in Siler City, evangelist for the Baptist State Mission Board, and his work is well and favorably known Fire starting about 5 o’clock Tues day afternoon in the chemical room of the Staley Chair Company, at Sta ley, destroyed the plant, the lumber mill near at hand, the roller mill ant a section house which belonged to the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad. The spreading of the flames endangered for several hours the entire tows. Loss is estimated at $30,000, only partly covered by insurance. The fire started from an explosion in what is known as the chemical room of the chair plant and is be lieved to have been caused by a light ed cigarette or match carelessly thrown down by some boys who were in the room at the time of the origin of the blaze. One of the boys was seriously burned by the explosion. Paint and oil stored in the room where the fire started caused the flames tv spread rapidly and bum with intens ity. The flames spread rapidly thru the plant and to the buildings in the vicinity. ' Liberty and Siler City sent their chemical engines and as sisted in getting the fire under con trol shortly after darkness. A family living in the section house escaped, a sick woman in the building being carried out safely. The chair plant and lumber mill were owned by C. P. Fox and associ ates. Mr. Fox was interested in the Staley Milling Company, which was destroyed. Mr. George W. Berry, for merly of the Asheboro Roller Mills, Asheboro, was part owner of the mill and in charge of the operations. The destruction of these leading indus tries of the town is a severe Mow te the owners and also to the citizenship of the Staley community in generaL New Fish Pond The dam across the creek on the Frank Redding farm west of Ashe boro is completed and the pond Is filling up with water. When full, the pond will cover approximately IS Gun Club for a number of years. A shipment of 30,000 black bass min nows is expected to arrive this week to be put in the' pond and 10,000 speckled trout fish stock have been ordered out. Stocking the pond with trout will be more or less of an ex periment in this community, trout not being native of local streams. Stultz-Moody '* Miss Lena^Stultz and Mr. Gurney Moody were united in marriage yes terday evening at the home of the of ficiating minister, Rev. S. M. Penn, pastor of the Congregational church at Sophia, in the presence of a few relatives and intimate friends. Mrs. Moody is an attractive young lady of Stokes eounty but has been living with her sister, Mrs. Luther Wright, north of Asheboro for sometime. Mr. Moody is the son of Mrs. L. Moody, of Asheboro, and a young man of ster ling qualities. Mr. and Mrs. Moody will make thdir future home in Ashe boro. Robbers Get $27.50 But Lose Their Dog Left Car When Bandits Hold Up Gap Service Station And Took To Woods. ? Three unidentified white men robbed the Gap Service Station on Highway 70 just south of Seagrove Saturday night of $27.50 in cash, but lost their Airdale dog while performing; the job. The three young men, driv ing a Buick sedan minus a license tag drove up to the station late Sat urday night, blindfolded William Saunders, man in charge, tied his hands behind him and put him out side the station, and proceeded te rifle the cash drawer. Two of the robbers were masked, according te Saunders, while the third wore ne disguise. The Airdale dog jumped out of the c r when it stopped at the filling sta tion and when the robbers were ready to leave the dog could not be located. They drove up and down the road near the station several times calling the dog, but it still failed to make its appearance. However, on Sunday morning it showed up at the filling station, and the station owner Is out $27.56 in cash and in a dog for which he has no need.