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N. C.
January 31. 1929
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UMBER 5
Randolph’s Tax
Rate Is Far Below
Average In State
Only Eight Counties In State
Have Rate Under $1.00, And
Only Three With $1 Rate
Forsyth Lowest
Collecting Cost In Randolph,
However, B? A Little High
Compared To Others.
Two recent issues of the University
News Letter, published at Chapel
Hill by the University of North Car
olina, give some very interesting in
formation relative to county tax
rates and the cost of collecting taxes
in the 100 counties in the State. This
information has been compiled by
✓Paul W. Wager, who is well known
to many residents of Randolph coun
ty.
The tax rate in Randolph for the
year 1927, is of course common knowl
edge in the county, was $1 on the
$100 valuation, and was the same for
1928. This rate wad based on an as
sessed valuation of $27,446,362, pro
ducing a revenue of $326,668. The
average county and district rate in
Randolph was $1.19. This, of course,
applies to the entire county where
the various special school taxes and
other special taxes levied in certain
districts, which, if they were distrib
uted equally over the entire county,
would make this average. In this re
spect. Randolph ranked 8th lowest.
Forsyth having lowest rate of any
county in the State. In 1927 there
were but 8 counties in North Caro
lina having a tax rate lew than $1.00,
»nH only three other counties having
a tax rate of $1.00. Eighty-nine
counties had higher tax rates than
Randolph. Clay had the highest tax
rate, $8.10 on the $100 valuation.
Assessed valuation and tax rate in
some of the counties were: Forsyth,
$198,5664111 valuation, rate .60; Guil
ford, $192,823,410 valuation, with .98
rate; Davidson, $88,450,414, rate 1.20;
Chatham, $18,537,924, rate $1.37;
Montgomery, valuation $16,462,438,
rate 1.86. Total assessed valuation
in the State was $2,934,011,733.
Cost Of Collecting
In cost of collecting taxes Randolph
was exactly on the half way ground
among the counties in the State, be
ing 60th from the bottom. The cost
in the county amounted in 1927 to
per cent of the levy. The lowest
of collecting taxes amounted to 9.61
per cent of the entire levy, this being
the highest percentage of cost of any
county in the State. . It cost .96 of
one per cent to collect the 1927 taxes
in Davidson, 1.20 per cent in Chat
ham, 6.17 per cent in Montgomery,
and .90 of one per cent in Guilford.
Ford Windshield
May Break, But It
Will Never Shatter
Two Montgomery county residents
early one morning last week were
given visual evidence that these wind
shields on the new Ford cars may
break after a severe impact, but the
glass will never shatter. Herman
Saunders and Madison Hall, of the
Ophir community, were driving along
before day one morning recently in
Saunders’ new Ford on their way to
a fox hunt. A large owl, probably
resenting the intrusion on its* peace
and quietude by the gasoline buggy,
dashed agaipst the windshield of the
car, killing the huge bird instantly.
The car was stopped and the bird
picked up and taken to Troy. The
windshield of the Ford was broken in
hundreds of radiating cracks, but not
a particle of glass was shattered, nor
did the bird crash through.
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According to * rule followed by the'
Aaheboro Ministerial Association for
the pest several years, all churches
in Asheboro will change the hour of
their evening services beginning with
next Sunday evening, to seven-thirty
o'clock.
thank our many
born for their many
and sympathy dur
Formal Opening
Service Station
Saturday, Feb. 2
The New Ingram-Ganter Station
Alt Ready For Opening Day
./ —24 Hour Service.
Cost $35,000
Is Outcome Of Service Given
Public—One Of Largest Ser
vice Stations In State.
The new Ingram-Gamer super-ser
vice station has been completed at a
cost of |35,000, and will be formally
opened to the public on . Saturday.
The building is one of the finest and
most modemly equipped in the State,
certainly in this immediate section of
North Carolina. It is of brick and
concrete and contains 16,861 square
feet of floor space. The outer finish
of the structure is of white stucco,
trimmed in red. The equipment of
the station is of the latest type
throughout. Every service required
by an automobile may be had at this
new super-service station, which will
be open 24 hours in the day, except
general repairing which will be taken
care of at the Ingar garage, on North
Fayetteville street, which is also
owned by J. P. Gamer and H. L.
Ingram, owners of this new enter
prise.
In was on Sept. 1, 1921, that the
first drive-in Service station in Ashe
boro was opened. This was the In
gram Service Station on the comer of
Worth and Fayetteville streets owned
and operated by H. L. Ingram. On
June 1, 1923, Mr. Ingram sold half
interest in Ingram A Company, style
of the firm under which Mr. Ingram
began business, to Mr. J. P. Gamer.
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J. D. Nevilles Is New
Scoutmaster Troop No. 24
Mr. J. D. Nevilles assumed scout
mastership of Troop 24 for Asheboro
M. E. church with a meeting held
Monday evening in connection with
the Court of Honor. Mr. Nevilles has
been a Scout as well as serving as a
scout official( and the scouts of
Tropp 24 are very enthusiastic over
the prospective work outlined by him.
He will succeed Mr. Ed Cranford, who
has been in charge of the troop for
the past few months. His resignation
was accepted a few days ago due to
pressing business matters that com
pelted man to resign. • * • > r ;
To Assist T*xP*ye™
A representative of the U. S. In
ternal Revenue Department will be in
Asheboro at the postoffice on Feb,
18th and 19th for the purpose of as
sisting taxpayers in making out their
income tax returns.
Hay At Coleridge
“As A Woman Thinketh,” a com
edy in three acts, by Edith A. V.
Painter, will be given, in the Cole
ridge school auditorium, Coleridge,
Saturday night, February 2nd. The
play is full of fun and action. C. L.
Gamer as Charles.Weeden makes the
.play interesting from beginning to
end. Elma Burgess as Mrs. Ida Jan
ette Weeden applies her psycho
logical ideas and recreates and re
forms her entire household.
Native Randolph Man
Gets In “Dutch” Again
J. E. Lanier, a native of western
Randolph, later of High Point, Ashe
boro, Lexington, Siler City and now
understood to make his home at
Madison, N. C., waa arrested last
week in Newton for giving worth
less checks in purchasing antique fur
niture. Lanier appears to have quite
a great delight/in getting into this
kind of trouble. Recently he wms ar
rested in Lexington on the charge of
alleged worthless checks. A similar
charge was brought against him in
Randolph Superior court two years
ago, and he was in jail here in de
fault of bond some six months ago.
A play, “Hie Path Across The
Hill,” will be given in the Balfour
school auditorium, on Highway 70
north of Asheboro, Thursday night,
Jan. 81, at 8 o'clock, by Gray’s Chapel
school. An admission fee will be
charged.
Local Laundry Making
Extensive Improvements
Annuncement has been made by Mr.
F. M. Kingsbury, manager of the
Asheboro Laundry, of the installation
of additional equipment in the local
plant in order that the highest class
of service may be rendered at all
times. Mr. Kingsbury, who recently
acquired the business and became
the manager, has had thirty yean of
experience in laundry operations in
Baltimore, Washington, Florida, and
in Columbia, S. C., and Greensboro,
N. C. A slight change has been made
in the prices that will be charged.
Can In Collision
The Buick sedan driven by Nor
man Hopkins and a Ford touring car
driven by Elvin Cox -collided head-on
Sunday night nett the bridge at
Franklinville, both can being badly
damaged. The Hopkins car is that
which was "borrowed” by Enoch Nel
son, young Asheboro white ifan, from
Rufus Hopkins, about ten diys ago
and taken to Washington, after
wards being recovered and brought
WaaL> f* Asheboro. ■
BY M. L. SHIPMAN.
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh, Jan 28.—Again this past
week the general assembly was the
center of interest as many important
measures came up for consideration
and the budget committee continued
its work of listening to pleas for add
ed funds for institutions and de
partments. Chief among measures
up for consideration were the bills
providing for medical dispensing of
whiskey, liberalizing the divorce
laws* sterilizing mental defectives,
barring lobbyists and tagging them,
workmen’s compensation, and many
others. Governor Gardner was try
ing to line up forces for his Austral
ian ballot system and got an ally in
former Governor Morrison, but it
was reported that eastern North Car
olina would kill this measure offhand.
No announcement was made with ref
erence to the state highway commis
sion, pardon commission and state
prison jobs though it was indicated
that Nat Townsend had refused the
pardon commissioner’s post.
Person Bill Loses
^The senate finally killed the meas
ure which would have liberalized the
prohibition laws so that whiskey
might be dispensed by drug stores on
doctors’ prescriptions. The matter
was referred back to committee for
amendments but even in improved
form it failed of passage. Repre
sentative Boren’s bill providing that
five years of involuntary separation
Home Is Entered
And $60 In Cash
Taken By A Thief
Bennett Man’s Pockets Are
Rifled While He Is Sleeping
In Adjoining Room.
Bennett, Jan. 28.—An unidentified
thief entered the home of Dave Brady
Sunday night and stole $60 in cash
from the pockets of Mr. Brady’s
trousers, which had been left in a
room adjoining that in which he was
sleeping. Nothing else in the house
was disturbed. There are no clues as
to the identity of the thief.
The Bonlee & Western railroad,
which recently came under new man
agement, is doing the best business in
years. The Enterprise Manufactur
ing Company, at Coleridge, is ship
ping large quantities of yam over
the road, and is receiving much raw
has increased in recent months, add
ing much tonnage to the road’s
freight total.
Clark Brady and family moved to
Asheboro last week.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brew
er, recently, a son.
Miss Swann a Jones visited friends
at Buie’s Creek Sunday.
Former Asheboro Youth
Jailed In Greensboro
Harvey A* Woodell, former Ashe
boro young man and nephew of Ed
gar A.. Woodell, also a former Ashe
boro resident, but now of Greensboro,
was arrested, tried and bound over
to court recently on charge of false
pretense, the trial taking place in
Guilford county. It was alleged that
young Woodell obtained endorsement
of his uncle on a note which the lat
ter had to pay, under pretense that
he expected to obtain at expiration of
due date of the note a certain amount
of money due him. Woodell has
served in he United States Navy, hav
ing come home about a year ago.
Committee On Textbook,
Adoption Holds Meeting
The committee for adoption of
high school textbooks for Randolph
county held its organisation meeting
Jan. 26th. Those composing the com
mittee include, County Supt. T.
Fletcher Bulla; Prof. R. J. Hilker,
supt of the'Asheboro school; R. D.
Marsh, principal at Trinity; H. H.
Hamilton, principal at Randleman;
and D. C. Holt, principal at Liberty.
The departmental meeting of this
Committee will be held March 30th,
at which time the various department
teaChers from the * schools of the
county will meet and discuss the
merits of the textbooks included on
the multiple list gotten out by the
State department The wide range
offered in this list according to Sup
erintendent Hilker, is certainly ah in
dication of the progress and enlight
enment in .educational endeavor id
North Carolina in recent years.
Franklinville Merchant
Declares Self Bankrupt
C. L. Allred, Franklinville merchant
for many years, was adjudged bank
rupt Tuesday by Judge Johnson J.
Hayes, in federal court, in Greens
boro, after Mr. Allred had filed a vol
untary petition to that effect. Mr.
Allred listed assets at $3,391 and lia
bilities of $4,289. The ease was re
ferred to C. C. Frasier, referee in.
bankruptcy.
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Girl Disappears.
Christine, 16-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Sal lie Whitaker, of High Point,
disappeared from her home Monday
morning and has not been heard from
since. Foul play is suspected, since
the young lady was known to be de
voted to her widowed mother and
devoted to her .to such an extent it is
not believed she would left «f her
own free wilL' ■1 »• .
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would constitute g
was passed by the
the upper body. I<
cifically to afford i
of convicts but mi
was an opening !
vorce easy and m
ground as the laws
plenty lax now. v'
A move to tag ajS those appearing
in Raleigh in favor of bills as lob
byists failed in the; senate after Sen
ator Person had made a valiant fight.
His measure was* far-reaching in
scope and was aimfed at, he said, the
big business interests of the state,
especially the powdrinterests. A bill
to provide for sterilisation of mental
defectives was presented and referred
I to committee. This Is in line with ad
vanced thought of the day and no
! doubt the measure will have many
: friends when it comes up for consid
eration.
An Economy Legislature
The headsNof educational institu
tions appeared before the power that
be this week and urged that they be
allowed more funds. The request for
educational funds was pressed by lead
ihg educators of the state but no in
dication was given that any changes
would be made from the recommend
i ations of the budget commission, and
all signs pointed to reduction of some
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Mr. Moffitt Builds
A Big Business In
The Furniture City
His Underwear Factory Turns
Out 1,000 Dozens of Suits
Each Day—100 Styles.
The recent industrial edition of the
High Point Enterprise contained
many things of interest with refer
ence to the fumitiire city, in the mak
ing of which many native Randolph
ians have taken to active part and
still are. One of these is H. A.
Moffitt, native of the. Moffitt com
munity, Randolph county, former
merchant, who moved to High Point
more than 30 years ago to establish
a retail mercantile establishment
which he maintained for 20 years.
In 1918 he established the Moffitt
Underwear Company in a small build
ing on North.Main street, High Point,
until today
#200,000. The factory turns out
each day 1,000 dozens of suits of un
derwear for men, women and chil
dren, 100 different styles of which
are made. The output of the first
small mill operated by Mr. Moffitt
was 160 suits of men’s underwear in
two styles only. The weekly payroll
of the Moffitt plant is about $3,000,
and the annual business approximates
$1,000,000.’ Two hundred and fifty
people are employed in the plant. It
wjll be recalled by local people that
Mr. Moffitt was the father-in-law of
Mr. Clyde Cox, of Ashebcro, who
was associated with him in the con
duct of the underwear business from
the time of his marriage to one of
Mr. Moffitt’s daughters until Mr.
Cox’s death a few months ago.
Socials Feature
Week At Ramseur
Enjoyable Meeting pf Parent
Teacher Association Held
Epworth League Social.
Music Club Meets
Ramseur, Jan 28.—Thursday night
of last week brought an interesting
and enjoyable evening to members of
the parent-teacher association when
the teachers club entertained “in the
old-fashioned way” at the school
building, a short business program
was first attended to, after which “the
old became young, and the young be
came kids”. A number of old games
madfe everybody^ happy, and music
by the orchestra rang through the
halls to the delight of* all. Sand
wishes, Candy, chocolate, etc., were
no small feature of the entertain
ment.
Misses Faye Ferree and Mary
Sykes spent the week-end with friends
in Greensboro.
Misses Frances Smith and Lucy
Wylie, of Greensboro College, en
joyed speeding Saturday and Sunday
with homefolks at Ramseur.
Miss Madge Craven spent part of
last week with friends at Greens
boro, and with Mis8 Frances White
head at Meredith College, Raleigh.
Mrs. Fred Smith, of Greensboro,
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. F- Smith,
here Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Thompson and
son, Roy, of Winston-Salem, visited
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Steed this week.
Mr. Burton Leonard, of Wake For
est, spent a few days at home follow
ing exams last week.
Mr. Walter C. Craven and family,
of Greensboro, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Craven.
Mrs. Sain 'Sykes spent part of last
week with friends in Greensboro.
Mr. Jessie Craven spent the week
end with friends in Raleigh.
Messrs. Howard Ellis and Dillard
Chisholm, of Greensboro Commercial
College and Guilford College, spent
Sunday here with friends.
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Twin Gty Folks
Use Airplane In
Making Call Here
Flying in • monocoupe, W. M.
Reynolds and L. S. McGinnis, of
Winston-Salem, landed at the
State Game Farm, two miles snath
of Asheboro, yesterday afternoon,
after haring tried in rain for ser
eral minutes to locate the landing
field near Spero, now being used'
by a commercial plane. The land
ing was made cleanly and the
takeoff a short while later man
aged without mishap. The trip
from the Miller airport at Wins
ton-Salem was made to Asheboro
in 25 minutes. The plane left at
4 o’clock in order that its pilot
might fill an engagement in the
Twin City at 4:30. The young men
in the plane were in Asheboro On
business haring to do with inter
esting two or three local people in
the purchase airplanes of the type
demonstrated in the Winston-Ashe
boro flight.
Boy Scout Troop
Makes Fine Record
Entire Membership Troop 24
Advanced During Past Month
—Unusual Showing.
Scout Meeting Held
At the January Court of Honor
held at the Asheboro M. E. Church
Monday evening: Troop 24 went on
record as having 100 per cent ad
vancement on the scouts in the troop.
Scouth Executive Hackney stated that
this was the first troop during his
career that he has heard of any troop
showing this large advancement for
any month and he praised the scouts
of Troop 24 and Rev. Mr. Reavis,
who has heen serving as scoutmaster,
for the work that they have accom
t plished in the troop. During the
Court of Honor he also introduced
Mr. Nevilles, the new scoutmaster, and
discussed some of the recent develop
ments going on at the council camp.
He stated that Mr. James Howell and
James Asbury had already accepted
positions as leaders during the com
ing year.
The following scouts received ad
vancements: Additional Enrollment,
A. Way; Second Class, Braxton
Younts; Public Health, William Cof
fin, Howard Fox, Edward Armfield;
Carpentry, Carlsyle Page; Fireman
ship, Eugene Tyson, Clyde Burkhead,
Fox, Braxton Younts; Woodcarving,
Howard Fox, William Coffin; Life
Saving, Edward Armfield; Swimming,
Alexander Fox; Civics, Carslyle Page;
Cooking, Howard Fox.
A short troop meeting was held af
ter the regular Court of Honor. Mem
bers present were Rev. B. C. Reavis,
J. D. Nevilles, and H. P. Corwith.
Attempt To Rob
Bank At Bennett
Foiled By Mr. Yow
i
An attempt to rob the bank at Ben
nett was frustrated about 3 o’clock
Thursday morning of last week when
;John Yow, who was sleeping upstairs
in a next door building, heard the
sound of the high explosive being
used to force the vault, and opened
fire in the direction of the bank with
a gun. The three men engaged in the
job ran and made their escape in a
car in which, it is thought, a fourth
man was waiting. Entrance to the
bank was gained by breaking through
the front door, and after entering the
robbers made an attempt to blow
open the vault door, failing in the ef
fort. Considerable damage was done
to the bank’s furniture by the
discharge of high explosives used
in the job. /This same bank
was robbed of approximately $4,
000 on January 7, 1928, and about
ten days ago thieves entered the bank
and stole the cashier’s gum
S. S. CLASS MEETING
HELD WITH MISS McNEILL
Randleman, Rt. 2., Jan. 28.—The
regular monthly social and business
meeting of the Philathea and Baracca
Classes of Neighbors Grove Wesley
an Methodist Sunday schol was held
at the home of Miss Ada McNeill Sat
urdey evening. Reports of the work
of each class during the month
were made. The next meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. R. C.
Caudle February 16. At the close of
the business meeting a social hour
was enjoyed. A tempting course of
refreshments were served.
Many Ladies Expected At
Banquet Tomorrow Night
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Approximately 115 persons are ex
pected to be in attendance on the
annual chamber -of commerce banquet
Friday night in the social rooms of
the first M. E. church. Those who
are planning to attend should send
in their names to the secretary, Mr.
T. A. Bums, without delay. Mem
bers are reminded that Friday night
will be “ladies night,” and not to for
get to bring the wife out. There will
be an address by Dr. Rondthaler, and
the usual treat of music and solos.
Former Governor Cameron Morris
on, V an interview given out at Ra
leigh last Friday, announced himself
in favor of the passage by the North
Carolina legislature of the proposed
Australian ballot act to which Gov
ernor Gardner is committed.
Deaths
George P. Enna
George P. Evans, 88, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry
Frasier, n4ar Randleman, Saturday
Night at 8 o’clock. Funeral was held
at (Hies Chapel church Monday af
ternoon at 8 o'clock.
Bryant O'Neil Moffltt
Funeral for Bryant O’Neil Moffltt,
nine-weeks-old son of Mr. and |frs.
L. M. Moffltt, who died at the home
of his parents in High Point Tuesday
afternoon, was held Wednesday af
ternoon from Pleasant Grove M. P.
church, Randolph county.
Jesse H. Freeman
Jesse Harris Freeman, born Dec.
12, 1890, died Dec. 18, 1928, at Sea
grove. He was married to Miss Ella
Maness Sept. 6, 1914, and to this un
ion were bom two children, Curtis
Gray and Bonna Edith Freeman. He
was a son of G. B. Freeman, who sur
vives. His mother died some years
ago.
Mrs. Roy Saunders
Mrs. Roy Saunders died Sunday,
Jan. 27, at her home in High Point.
Funeral was at Why Not church,
near Seagrove, Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. Joel Trogdon. Interment was
made in the local cemetery. She
leaves her husband, three children
and her mother, Mrs. Jack Davis.
Mrs. Saunders was about 29 years of
age. She had many relatives and
friends in the Why Not community,
Randolph county.
Miss Martha A. Webster
Miss Martha Ada Webster, 52, died
at the home of her brother, E. W.
Webster, at Central Falls, Thursday
after an illness lasting two years. She
leaves four sisters, Mrs. T. L. Trog
don, Ramseur; Mrs. R. E. Tate, Me
bane; Mrs. W. W. Garrett, Graham;
and Mrs. Bert Holt, Burlington; two
brothers, E. W. Webster, Central
Falls; and C. J. Webster, Belmont.
Funeral was held Friday from Bel
mont M. P. church of which the de
ceased had been a member.
Mrs. Amy Trogdon
Seagrove, Route 1, Jan. 28.—In the
death of Mrs. Amy Trogdon on Jan.
20th, Seagrove community lost one
of its oldest women. Mrs. Trogdon
was about 96 years old. She was
married at the age of 22 to J. R.
Trogdon, who died two years ago.
Her only surviving brother is Wil
liam Lucas, of Seagrove, who is 82
years old. Funeral was conducted
by Davfit of ihe:
Baptist church at the home after
which the body was interred in the
Lucas cemetery.
Amick Lamb
Amick Lamb, who had been sick
for several months at his home on
South Fayetteville street, died last
Friday afternoon. He was the son of
the late Oscar and Margaret Jarrell
Lamb, and was forty-one years of
age. In 1919 he was married to Net
tie Presnell, who survives him. The
funeral was held at West Bend M. E.
church, South, Saturday afternoon at
two o’clock and was conducted by
Rev. J. E. Pritchard. In addition to
his wife he is survived by one son,
Marvin; his mother; one brother, Cic
ero Lamb; and by two sisters, Mrs.
Gertrude Hughes and Mrs. Alice Jar
rell.
Mrs. Vandelia Auman
Mrs. Vandelia Auman, 57, widow of
Enos Auman who died 12 years ago,
died from heart failure at the home
of her son, Wiley Auman, on Park
street, Sunday. Funeral was held
from the Auman home at Ether Mon
day afternoon by Rev. Williams, and
the body laid to rest in the Christian
church cemetery. Mrs. Auman,
whose home is at Ether, was on a vis
it to her son when she was stricken
with influenza, which left her in a
weakened condition. She leaves five
sons: Barney Auman, Star; Grady
and John Auman, Ether; Wiley Au
man, Asheboro; and Clovis Auman,
Central Falls. Surviving also are a
brother, Wiley Freeman, of High
Point, and a sister, Mrs. C. A. Need
ham, of Ether.
Clark Hinshaw
Clark Hinshaw, 65, died at his
home near White Hall church Tuesday
morning. He had been ill with flu
and thought he had recovered when
he was stricken with pneumonia, and
his heart having been weakened
could not stand up under additional
affliction gave way. He had been en
gaged in the mercantile business for
many years, having been connected
with the Randleman Store Company
and G. W. Elliott’s store in Randle
man. Jle leaves no children except
an adopted daughter, Mrs. Howard
Slack, with whom he lived. He
leaves five brothers, Winfield, P. L.
and J. H. Hinshaw, of Randleman, Ad
Hinshaw, of Greensboro, and Jake
Hinshaw, of Lexington. The funeral
was held at the residence at 2 p. m.
yesterday, after which burial followed
at White Hall church, of which Mr.
Hinshaw had long been a member.
Play At Ramaeur
The Senior class of the Farmer
high school will give a play, “Mam
my’s Lil’ Wild Rose,” at Ramseur in
the high school auditorium Friday
night, February 1st. An admission
will be charged and the proceeds will
go for the benefit of the schools.
Cramer Tellst/hy .
Solid Soiitlf^roke •1
In Last Election
Advises President-elect Hoover
That Industrialisai Was Prin
cipal Cause Of It
World Disagrees '
New York Newspaper Says That
It Was Due To Other Issues,
Principally Religion.
It is recorded in the daily press that
Herbert Hoover, president-elect, in
quired of Stuart W. Cramer, Republi
can treasurer in North Carolina dur
ing the past campaign and often
mentioned for a cabinet post in the
new administration, how much the re
ligious issue and the liquor question,
had to do with North Carolina’s Yldp
into the Republican column last No
vember. Incidentally, Mr. Hoover
.included the other Southern states
which left the Democratic coliimn.
Cramer is said to have told Mr. Hoo
verm that the growing industrialism ‘ .
in the South was more responsible
than either the religious question or
the prohibition question or both com
bined.
There are those who take issue
with Mr. Cramer's reply. In fact,
there was a storm of protest im
mediately the Hoover-Cramer confab
was reported. The New York World,
staunch Smith supporter in the past
campaign, reminds Mr. Cramer that
it was in the rural districts that the
death knell was given the Smith
candidacy in the South. The World
shows that the large industrial cen
ters in the South with few exceptions
went for the Democratic nominee and
that it was the rural ^Hoover major
ities which upset the States. New
Orleans and Atlanta, largest cities in,
the Southland, were for Smith, as
were scores of other industrial cen
ters, the World points out. The World
concludes:
“Did Louisiana, with the largest
.city in the solid ^outh and with a -
sugar industry dependent on a high
tariff, go Republican? No. It re
mained safely Democratic. Did Ala
bama with its iron, steel and coal in- s
dustries, repudiate Democracy? It
did not. Did South Carolina, the
third largest cotton-manufacturing
state in the union, cast its vote for a
Republican tariff? No. It went Dem
ocratic by a 20 to one vote.
“Why then, did the solid south
split ? Mr. Cramer might obtain some
real information on this point from
Colonel hlann, but'Irfetmbly h<S *d*fld
not want it. It is good politics now
for Republicans to soft-pedal intol
erance and emphasize industrialism.”
Report Cards For
Half Year’s School
Work Out Friday
Report cards for the grammar
grades and the high school pupils *
♦ill be given out from the Asheboro
school Friday, February 1. These
cards will show the result for one
half year’s work. Attention is called
by Superintendent Hilker that in
regard to high school pupils desiring
to go to college, parents should keep
these thoughts in mind, namely that
only grades above a 4 will be recog
nized as units for college entrance
and that this applies to ail grades
given out to pupils in the high school
this year.
If parents are planning to send their
children to college, it would be wise
for them to keep the above mention
ed standard in mind. Pupils not
planning to go to college may re
ceive a diploma from Asheboro high
school even though they receive
grades of 4 and 4—. The average
grade of 5 on a subject represents a
condition, which may be made up by
examination, but an average grade
of 6 is a failure, and therefore the
work must be repeated. Parents
should also bear in mind in examining
grades of their children that the 4
and 4— given this year are equivalent
to the grades 5 and 6 last year, due
to a change in the system of grading.
Young People’s Day At
M. P. Church Next Sunlday
Interested In Legislation
Chief of Police R. A. Gaddis, Police
man E. P. Barnes, Sheriff W. B. •
Millikan and Deputy T. A. Brookshire,
all of Asheboro, and Chief of Police
C. W. Myers, of Randleman, are in
Raleigh today in the interest of a
bill before the general assembly pro
viding pensions for aged officers of
the law, including sheriffs and police
officers. The bill is said to have a
fair chance of passage, but will have
rough sledding due to the economy
attitude of the present legislature.
Next Sunday will be
Young People’s Day at the
Methodist Protestant church,
the evening hour the young
will put on a special program.'
Sunday school and the four Chr
Endeavor societies will be repre*
in the service. This special
to be known as Y<
was provided for by
ference in ~ " "
public is