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VOLUME l6F~
N. C, TlmNriay. Jm»» 14, lfM
At Raleigh Tuesday—Majority
Of State’s Delegation To
Houston For Hull.
Smith Gets A Pew
Estimate Of Smith Strength Is
From Four and One-Half
Votes to 9 Or 10.
In the most turbulent and the most
largely attended State Democratic
convention in twenty years, North
Carolina Democrats in the municipal
auditorium in Raleigh Tuesday namedj
their delegates to the National con
vention at Houston on June 26th.
Worn the hour at which the conven
tion was called to order by Thomas D.
Warren, who had been selected chair
man, until 8:30 Tuesday night, the j
fight raged on the convention floor
between the supporters of Cordell
Hull, of Tennessee, and. Alfred E,
Smith, of New York. And yet, dur
ing the long hours from 12:25 p. m.
to 8:30 p. m., only one test of strength
was actually made. This was a roll
call to name delegates-at-large to the
Houston meeting, with the average
vote 1,078 to 880 in favor of the Hull
slate. Senator F. M. Simmons and
Josephus Daniels led the Hull slate
with 1479 and 1,159 votes respective
ly, while Cameron Morrison, of Char
lotte, former Governor of North Car
olina, led the Smith slate with 906.85
votes.
The Delegates
Delegates-at-large selected by the
test vote were: Senator F. M. Sim
mons, Craven county; Josephus Dan
iels, Wake; Word H. Wood, Mecklen
burg; W. C. Newland, Caldwell; Mrs.
T. P. Jerman, Wake; Mrs. • W. H.
Belk, Mecklenburg; Miss May F.
Jones, Buncombe; and Mrs. J. G.
Fearing, of Pasquotank. All are
pledged to vote for Cordell Hull for
President. Each has a half vote,
woHug a total of four.
Prior to the convening of the State
convention, delegates from ' the ten
Congressional districts held their
meetings and selected delegates. Each
district is entitled to two votes in the
national Democratic convention. Some
D. BoMnson, Anson; Union L. Spence,
Moore; S. W. Finch, Davidson; and
J. C. M. Vann, Union.
No wKdrt^was made by the Hull
supporters to invoke the unit rule, re
quiring the 24 North Carolina dele
gates to Houston to vote for Hull for
President. Neither was an effort
»«ii» by the Smith forces to introduce
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Pritchard Doubles
Capacity “M” Store
Effective Saturday morning, G. P.
Pritchard Grocery and Market, on
the north side of Depot street, will be
discontinued, the stock having been
moved over into the Hedrick building
adjoining the M. System Store, also
owned by Mr. Pritchard. . The M.
store and the new store will be con
nected, the meat market, vegetables
and the like being kept in the new
store addition, while the usual line of
groceries will be kept in the M Sys
tem present department. In making
the change, Mr. Pritchard announces
that he will have the . same delivery
trucks, the same quU* service, phones
and, in fact, everything like his for
mer store, except that he will opmrate
on a <-«>> basis. Those who have
been in the habit of settling their
grocery Mils every ^wo weeloi or
««ery month, under Mr.
new plan, will make a deposit, if they
so desire, at the new store and goods
which they buy ^ Person and. cany
heme or goods ordered and delivered
may be charged against this deposit^
The charge business, however, will be
done away with entirely.
Trinity Township S. S. .
Convention, Sunday, 24th
The Trinity Township Sunday
School Convention will bo held at
Archdale M. E. church on Sunday,
June 24th, beginning at 11 a. m. and
continuing throughout the day. Sun
day school workers in the county «nd
particularly those in Trinity town
SXTarf urged to be prwent as an
interesting and beneficial program is
STSSned. Come and bring a
Democratic Club
Starts With 200
Members Enrolled
Was Organized Last Week At
A Meeting Held On Friday
Night.
1,000 Members Is Goal
Every Democrat In Randolph
County Eligible For Mem
bership-Officers.
At a meeting held in the coart hoase
Friday night, an organization known
as the Asheboro Democratic Club was
formed with more than 200 members
as a beginning. Officers of the club
were elected and a constitution and
by-laws drawn up and adopted. E. D.
Cranford was elected president of
the club; C. J. Lovett, vice president;
Roy Cox, secretary; and Arthur Ross,
treasurer. The officers, together with
I. C. Moser, constitute the board of
directors. Regular meeting date was
set for the second Monday night in
each month at 8 o'clock, unless other
wise called by . the president. The
first regular meeting in June will be
held next Monday night, the 18th, in
the court house at 8 o’clock.
An effort will be made to enroll at
least a thousand members in the club.
The constitution provides that every
Democrat in Randolph county may be
come a member without obligating
himself or herself in any way finan
cially. Every person who pledges
himself or herself to vote the Demo
cratic ticket in the fall election is also
eligible for membership.
Purposes of the dub set forth in
the constitution are as follows:
1. To study and discuss political
and city problems.
2. To promote and improve general
living conditions in the town of Ashe
boro.
8. To cooperate with and assist
other civic organisations in Asheboro
in political, social; governmental, and
civic developments of said town.
4. To promote the interest of the
town of Asheboro generally, and good
government in every way, and to pro
mote and further the interest of the
Democratic party.
“Aunt Dicy” Owen
Of 81
"Aunt Dicy” Owen, one of the old
eat dtixens of the town, being 81
yean of age, died at the home of her
only son, Charlie Owen, on Cemetery
street, Saturday morning. She was
rewed In Richland township and
lived there until about thirty yean
ago when she and her son moved to
Asheboro.
“Aunt Dicy” was known and loved
by many people. Since coming to
Asheboro, she has worked in many of
the homes of the town, and has been
recognized as. thoroughly honest and
dependable. Of a sturdy type, ener
getic and unpretentious, she was, and
there was no faltering in her loyalty
to her friends. While not possessed
with a great portion of this, world’s
goods, she so lived that she merits
'the “well done” for which she has
always striven.
She is survived by her son and six
grandchildren, Fletcher, Floyd, Ha
zel, Lucile, Evelyn and Grady. The
funeral service was conducted Sun
day by. Rev. Cothran G. Smith, after
which burial followed in the local
cemetery. .. >
Recommends Mr. White
For Office Of Sheriff
Editor of The Courier:
Believing as 1 do in law and order,,
m must do our best to put the very
best men in office in order to make
aur county, state and nation of the
highest type. Our people, our offi
wn, our business, our country as well
ts bur county demand the honest
opinion and support of the voters of
county and state—that is the impar
tial and non-prejudicial support. We
want men who can and will stand by
the laws, protect our people and our
property and use the county’s money
in an economical way. And, knowing
tsl do, Mr. E. U White, of New
Market township, I recommend him
for sheriff on the Democratic ticket.
Be is prompt, plucky, clever and a
good mixer. He has always stood l>y
and supported the party and believes
in a democratic government. He has
been in the mail service nearly three
years and has proven to be moat ef
ficient. <• V ii
-B.au.
Archdale, June 11, 1828.
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Hi* Nomination Practically Assured
With the decision of New York and
Pennsylvania to throw the bulk of
their strength to Herbert Hoover on
the first ballot in the Republican
National Convention at Kansas City
today, the nomination of Coolidge’s
Secretary of Commerce for President
is assured. Delegates from these
two states, added to those Hoover has,
isstnMtod for him, give more than a
But while Hoover’s nomination is
practically assured, the Republican
platform committee is having trou
ble. Delegations of farmers have
been trying to get a hearing on farm
relief, but so far have not been able
to get inside the convention hall with
their protests. The farm bloe dele
gates in the convention lost their
fight to get a farm relief plank in the
platform. The platform committee
has before it the task of evolving a
platform that would please the East
and at the same time be acceptable to
the West. Can it do so? Careful ob
servers say not. Western Republicans
have been tricked on platform plati
Democrats Pledge
Enforcement Of
Prohibition Law
And Condemn Republicans For
Making Political Organization
Of Enforcement.
the eighteenth amendment, and
promises any additional legislation
which may be necessary to guarantee
concurrent enforcement with the na
tion of the prohibition law. The plat
form points with pride to the Demo
cratic record on prohibition in the
State and denounces the Republican
party for transferring the machinery
jnto a “mere political organization.”
The Workr Court was endorsed, it
being in a plank proposed by Jo
sephus Daniels. The Democratic ad
ministration in the State was endorsed
in general terms. The achievement
of the party in securing a six months
school term was endorsed and lauded,
and a plank was inserted pledging a
more nearly equalizing the cost of
providing public education and more
evenly distributing the burden. The
platform also reiterates the Demo
cratic pledge against a State ad va
lorem tax as well as a State tax.
More pay for legislators was endors
ed. Kind mention was made with
reference to the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park, gad the State of
Connecticut for dropping a suit to
collect "carpet bag” bonds. A more
harmonious relations between capital
gnd labor was commended.
Nod A. Ned Vistttag” S' %
His Parents A,t Liberty
Noel A Neal, cadet at West Point
tudes before and swear they will not
fall for the old gag again. Appeasing
this Western Republican vote is a
big task for the G. 0. P., and one at
which, it is predicted, it will fail.
Hubert Hoover
Herbert Hoi^ar was bom in Iowa
in 1874, the aha of a blacksmith. He
was orphaafd at » and brought up by
gaged Jr mining.;' The first 18 years
of his adult life he spent in foreign
countries, maintaining his residence
in England. Hie has cast few votes
in the United States, and in 1920 was
uncertain as to whether he was a
Republican or a Democrat.
Hoover was chairman of the Com*
mission for Relief in Belgium just
;prior to the World War. Upon Amer
ica's entry into thjs war, Hoover was
made United States Food Adminis
trator. After the war, he was ap
pointed chairman of the Supreme
Economic Council of the Allies. Since
1921 he has been Secretary of Com
merce.
Brother Of Mrs.
Leon Cranford Is
Killed By An Auto
Struck Down By Hit-And-Run
Driver While He Was Walk
ing Along The Highway.
William Daniel Edwards, 19, of
Guilford College, brother of Mrs. Leon
Cranford, of Asheboro, was killed al
most instantly Sunday afternoon
,when struck by an automobile on the
edge of the road that leads from Guil
ford College to the railroad station.
The car, with five boys riding in it,
did not stop, but sped on its way, and
(Officers have been, unable to ascertain
the owner and driver of the machine.
Edwards was walking along the edge
of the road with several other boys
when the ear which struck him came
down the* highway at a rapid rate of
speed, swerving about 15 feet from
its course to the side of the road to
hit the young mam
Young Edwards was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. N. Edwards, and besides
his parents is survived by the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Samuel, G.
N., Jr., and Jack Edwards, and two
sisters, Mrs. Leon Cranford, of Ashe
boro, and Miss Miry Edwards, of
Guilford College. Funeral was held
Monday afternoon from Muir’s Chap
el church. Military Honors were ren
dered by the Nati<)ial Guard unit to
which he belonged.
Wedding Anniversary
Invitations have been received in
Asheboro as follows: “Mr. and Mrs.
Joe W. Stout request the pleasure of
your presence at their twenty-fifth
marriage anniversary reception on
the evening of Friday, the twenty
second of June, nineteen hundred and
ten o'clock,
at 605 Gulf street/ Sanford, North
a former res
Jurors Are Selected
For The J uly Term
Of Superior Court
Which Convenes In Asheboro On
Monday, July 16, With Judge
Oglesby Presiding.
w.
G.
The county commissioners in meet
ing Saturday afternoon drew the jury
list for the two weeks’ term of civil
court which will convene in the court
house in Asheboro on Monday, July
16th, with Judge John M. Oglesby, of
Concord, preriding. The list by
townships follows:
Tint Week
Asheboro: William H. Rogers,
C. Cox.
Back Creek: Millard Allred.
Brower: J. B. Hayes.
Columbia: R. H. Kirkman, 0.
Kivett.
Coleridge: J. L. Teague, H. P. Mof
fitt.
Franklinville: L. H. Davis, L.
Curtis.
New Market: S. L. Adams.
Pleasant Grove: O. W. Brady.
Providence: L. E. Redding, A.
Hudson.
Randleman: W. F. Talley, M.
Ivey, Nathan Sheffield, C. W. Slack,
John D. Brown, M. M. Kirkman, J.
H. Frazier.
Richland: R. B. Boling.
Tabernacle: Vester Hill. '
Trinity: E. C. Crowson. *
Second Week
Asheboro: Z. T. Byrd, G. W. Ham
H.
L.
L.
ner
Back Creek: J. C. Lovett.
Cedar Grove: G. W. Hbover.
Columbia: J. C. Cannae.
Coleridge: Mann Scott, A. R. Stout.
Franklinville: W. M. Bristow.
Grant: J. C. Brown.
New Market: J. C. Small, J. C.
Rl.
Randleman, C. L. Dobson, L. R.
[ughes, E. E. Bunting, H. T.
fright, L. W. Kidd, T. L. Hinshaw,
B. Redding.
Richland: E. L. McNeill, W. M.
taley, J. W. Marley.
Tabernacle: John Briles.
Trinity: J. L. Harris.
Union: Walter Luck.
Regular Monthly
Meet Ministerial
Association, 18th
The Randolph County Ministerial
Association will hold its regular
menfely meeting in the Methodist
Episcopal church in Asheboro next
Monday afternoon, Jane 18, at two*
thirty o’clock. The speaker for the
>ccarion will be Rev. B. C. Reavis, of
Asheboro, who will discuss a subject
that will be appropriate for the oc
casion. This meeting will finish the
first year of the history of the Ran
iolph County Ministerial Association,
it having been organized in June of
the last year. Meetings have been
field each month and timely topics
fiave been discussed and a great deal
>f enthusiasm has been manifested.
The officers for the past year have
jeen: President, Rev. J. E. Pritchard;
Vice President, Rev. W. A. Elam, of
Ramseur; Sec. and Tveas., Rev. C. L.
Sregory. It is not likely that these
officers will stand for re-election as
it is usually customary to pass the
fionors around in such meetings.
Langston Has Privilege
Asking For Second Primary
Official returns from the primary
1 June 2nd in North Carolina, corn
led the first of the week by the
bate board of elections, show the
blowing vote for lieutenant govem
•: R. T. Fountain, 84,477; Col.
>hn D. Langston, 68,480; W. H. S.
urgwyn, 62,866. Mr. Fountain is
iort 23,335 of a majority, and only
lead of 15,997 over Mr. Langston,
lie latter has privilege of asking for
second primary, but it is not be
*ved that he will.
In the Seventh Congressional Dis
ct, the official vote in the primary
is 19,146 for WiHiam C. Hammer,
d 6,760 for Mr. T. E. Battley, a
ijority of 12,396 for the former.
For commissioner of labor and
inting, Grist was an easy winner,
lling 115,442 votes, against 66,391
r Shipman and 28,207 for Peterson.
Mrs. Green Presents Her *
Music Pupils In Recital
Star, June 12.—As a fitting climax
to the year’s work in the music de
partment of Country Life Academy,
Mrs. Edward Forrest Green, the di
rector, presented her pupils in a bril
liant recital Thursday, June 7, at 4
o’clock at her home, Oak Place. The
affair took, place on the spacious
front piazza, which was decorated
with pink and crimson rambler roses,
with seats arranged at the south end
for the appreciative audience of par
ents and friends. The program in
cluded numbers from Bach, Gounod,
Grieg, Haydn, Heller, Mozart, Schu
mann, Donizetti, Bertino, and dem
enti. Those taking part were Julia
Lee Dameron, Sarah Owen, Mildred
James, Joseph Thomas-Dameron, Isa
bel Dunn, Beatrice Mashbum, May
Murry James, Elizabeth
Walker, Lois Louise Brovn
Owen, Helen Mar Scarbonc,
Brewer, Mary Lou EUis, Bessie
ginU Reynolds, Mildred James,
soph Thomas Ai
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Leads Singing:
CHARLES O. MILLER
Baptist Church News
This seems to be “Miller” week.
Last Sunday night Mr. Samuel Mil
ler, an Asheboro boy, who has just
finished at Mars Hill College, spoke
at the Baptist Church at the regular
evening service, on “The Parting of
the Ways”. A good sized audience of
interested people greeted' him, and
enjoyed the message that he brought.
Next Sunday, morning and evening,
the Miller Brothers evangelistic team
will be at the Baptist church, and
each evening thereafter at 8 o’clock
until July 1. Old fashioned Gospel
messages are their specialty. Ashe
boro needs Jesus Christ; you are
Asheboro; therefore come to the ser
vices, and not enjoy yourself but re
ceive a blessing of lasting good. Life
is uncertain, death is certain; are
you prepared?
"Look your difficulties in the face
and they will begin to run.”
“Why forfeit the best helps in life ?
Go to church regularly”.
Mrs. Wincy Graves
Died Last Thursday
At Advanced Agre
Had Been HI About Three
Weeks With Heart Trouble
—Wife Elkanah Graves.
**»!&ssfss
and daughter of Silas and Dicy Pres
nell, was bom March 23, 2849, and
died June 7, 1928, aged 79 years, 2
months and 14 days. She was mar
ried to Ellcanah Graves, Oct. 6, 1870.
To this union was bom 11 children.
Surviving are her husband, Elkanah
Graves, and the following children:
Hadley Graves, Zap, N. Dakota; J.
O. Graves, Randleman; Mrs. & L.
Presnell, Ellerbe; Mrs. J. R. Lucas,
Aberdeen; Elwood Graves, Marston,
Hiram Graves, Seagrove; Jonah
Graves, Greensboro; Floyd Graves,
High Point; Walter Graves, Ebro,
Fla.; and W. E. Graves, of Seagrove,
who lives with his parents. One
daughter, Mrs. Leana Graves Lucas,
died April 25, 1897.
She is also survived by 37 grand
children, 2 great grandchildren; 3
sisters, Mrs. Moley Neese, Mrs. Sar
ah Trogdon, and Miss Hula J. Pres
nell, all of Seagrove; 2 brothers,
Hiram Presnell, of Missouri; and
Henry B. Presnell, of Asheboro; be
sides numerous other relatives.
She had been sick about three
weeks with heart trouble, but her con
dition was not considered serious.
She went to the breakfast table the
morning of her death, later going to
her room, and had lain down to rest.
When her little granddaughter, Mar
garet Graves, went in to speak to
her she found that she had passed
away.
She was converted and joined the
M. P. church at Fair Grove in early
girlhood, and remained a faithful
member there until New Zion church
was built when she became a charter
member of that church and was a
regular attendant and a great work
er in the church as long as her health
permitted.
The community has lost a good
neighbor and Aunt Wincy Ann, as
she was called, will be greatly missed
by her numerous relatives and
friends.
The funeral was conducted at the
home by her pastor, Rev. Joel Trog
don, and the burial was made in the
family cemetery there. The grave
was covered with flowers by her
friends.
5 Negro Delegates
Stray From The Fold
“Lost, and found, five
negro delegates to the R<
national convention at Kanst
was the announcement whic
Greer, white Georgia Republi
gate, might have made Sundi
Greer began to get his deleg
;iine—and eleven of the 18
Hull Winner In* 4
Democratic Meet
On Last Saturday
Test Vote Taken In Accordance
With The Plan Of Organiz
ation And Hull Wins.
Almost Two To One
And County Delegation To Ra
leigh Is Two-Thirds For
Hull, Third For Smith.
Democrats of Randolph county as
sembled in the court house in Ashe
horo Saturday afternoon at 2M
o’clock for the purpose of
delegates to the State Democratic
Convention which met in Raleigh
Tuesday. I. C. Moser brought the
convention to order and called H. ML
Robins to the chair. E. D. Cranford
and Talmadge Bulla were made sec
retaries. A roll call disclosed that
every precinct in the county except
three was represented with large del
egations.
_ At the very outset of the conven
tion, Arthur Ross made a motion
all Democrats in the county be
delegates to the State conveniisn
.Tuesday and that they be
to east the 86 votes of the county half
for Cordell Hull for President and the
other half for Alfred E. Smith. This
^brought John W. Clark, of Franklm
ville, to his feet with the request that
a vote be taken and the delegation in
structed against Smith and for «i»n_
It was finally decided that a
should be taken and that the
gation to Raleigh be instructed
cording to the results of such
and that each candidate voted on for
President should have his proportion
ate part of the vote of the county
delegation at Raleigh on Tuesday.
This was in accordance with the Dem
ocratic State plan of organization.
The vote stood 128 1-8 for Cordell
Hull, 69 for Smith, 3 1-16 for James
A. Reed, 2 for Owen D. Young,
1 for Claude Bowers. Dividing the
vote on this basis, Hull received 22.7
of the county’s 36 at the State con
vention; Smith, 12.3; Reed, 1-2;
Young, 1-3; and Bowers, 1-16.
Arthur Ross then made the_
that all Democrats in the county
made delegates to Raleigh for flw
State convention, and John W. Clark
countered with the r * “ “
gates should 1
candidates In
feast intbe convention.
the townlhlps was called for
Ross motion which carried by
to 89. ''
To Observe Fbthert Boy '
At M. P. Church Sunday
Father’s Day will be observed at
the local Methodist Protestant church
next Sunday evening at eight o'clock.
.Prof. T. F. Bulla will speak briefly so
Father’s Obligation to the FVunlly.
Mr. R. T. Lloyd will discuss The
Family’s Obligation to Father and Mr.
J. W. Wolff will speak on Father’s
Problems. Rev. J. E. Pritchard will
preside and will have charge of the
devotional part of the service. Fath
er’s Day is rather new in this part
of the country, though perhaps as im
portant as Mother’s Day. The pob&e
is cordially invited.
Junior Philathea Class
Gave Recital Sat. Night
Randleman, June 12.—Rev. and
Mrs. J. H. Brendall, Jr., are attend
ing summer school at Duke Univer
sity.
Miss Eileen Albright, of Summer
field, was the guest of Mrs. Frank
Talley the past week.
The Junior Philathea Class of St
Paul Methodist church gaye a social
Saturday night, June 9th, at the St
Paul Epworth League cottage. May
interesting games and contests went
enjoyed by all, after which delicioua
refreshments were served. Hum
present were Mrs. E. A. Sumner,
Pauline Brown, Helen Prevost, Mar
gie Spivey, Elsie Heath, Eugenia
Talley, Jimmie Lineberry, Watson
Millikan, Kermit Floyd, Frank Swaim,
Argus Lineberry, Kenneth Hilliard*
and Robert Page Burgess.
Death Claims little
Miss Elizabeth Moore
. Elizabeth Louise Moore, the five
months-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Moore, died Tuesday morn
ing at 2 o’clock following a few days
illness with measles and pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted
Rev. O. G. Tillman, pastor of
Baptist church, at Christian D
church near Seagrove Tuesday a!
noon at 4 p. m. and interment^
in the church cemetery. The dm
ed is survived by her parenbfc
and Mrs. Richard Moore and
brothers and three sisters. J&