I
Judge T. J. Shaw
Retires After 30
Years As A Judge
Superior Court Bench Will Lose
One Of Its Ablest In Retire
ment Of Mr. Shaw.
Well Known Here
Married Asheboro Young Wo
man, And Is Well And Fav
orably Known In County.
A most interesting article in a re
cent issue of the Greensboro Daily
News was by Colvin Leonard with j
reference to the services of Hon.
Thomas J. Shaw, of Greensboro, m
30 years on the Superior Court bench.
Judge Shaw will voluntarily retire
January 1st . „ ,
Jtudgre Shaw, though born in Mont
gomery county and a resident of
Greensboro since 1893, is almost one
of Randolph’s own. He married Miss j
Mary Woollen, of Asheboro, to|
strengthen the ties which bind him to j
this county, and from the days of his
“courting” days until the present is j
a familiar figure in Randolph. Few
people in Randolph are there who do
not know Judge Shaw, or of him. He
held his first court in Troy thirty
years ago, and since that time has |
held hundreds in North Carolina,
many of them having been in Ashe
boTo, where his presence on the bench
is always a source of gratification to
Randolph people, regardless of oc
cupation or relation to the court.
A deep devotion to duty has always
marked the career of Judge Thomas
J. Shaw, and the Superior Court
bench of North Carolina loses much
in his retirement. His official con
duct has always been determined by
a desire to see that right prevailed
and the interests of all parties were
protected. He has been the friend of
scores of widows and orphans and
other dependents standing in danger
of losing their rights through im
proper conduct on the part of others.
Judge Shaw has “put the fear of
the Lord” in the heart of more than
one criminal in this state during the
past 30 years. Clever lawyers have
striven on more than one occasion to
have a case against one of their
clients continued until a later term j
in order to save the defendant from ^
judgment of Judge Shaw. Not be-1
cause they feared injustice but in ]
anticipation of deserved punishment. |
In the long years that he has sat |
on the bench Judge Shaw has the
reputation of having passed judgment j
fairly and impartially upon every de-!
fendant without regard for race, color
or creed, but with the fixed purpose
of combining proper punishment for
the individual with adequate protec
tion for society against the lawless
element. Always it has been his de
sire to see that the punishment was
not so severe that hope of reform
was killed in the process. First of
fenders have received his mercy and |
been encouraged by his recommenda- j
tion of parole when the proper time
came.
On January 1 he will be succeeded
by Judge Hoi ye Sink, of Lexington,
as resident judge of the 12th judicial
district. He will then become an
emergency judge, having elected to
retire from active service after 30
years.
The dawn of 1931 will bring to
Judge Shaw a felling of comparative
official irresponsibility that he has
not known for 30 years. Then he will
be able to relax into the quiet
routine of the private citizen, sub
ject only to occasional call to duty
on the bench and the responsibilities
of the place.
CREOSOTE FENCE POSTS
FOR A LONGER LIFE
With the expansion of pastures and
the greater interest in livestock
throughout North Carolina there , is
more need for good fences, and good
fences are dependent upon good posts,
in the opinion of A. T. Holman, ag
ricultural engineer at State College.
“The life of fence posts may be ef
fectively increased by treating them
with creosote,” says Mr. Holman.
“Effective methods of doing this on
the farm are rather simple. The open
tank process may be used on any
farm and all posts therefore, should
be treated. Every farmer knows
that any kind of timber 'will even
tually decay. Some kinds will decay
earlier than others due to the uses
they are put to and the kind of wood.
Pence posts decay first a few inches
below the surface of the ground.”
Mr. Holman says the longleaf or
yellow cypress, mulberry and black I
locust are among the most satisfac
tory woods used for fence posts. Sap ,
woods are very unsatisfactory unless
treated with creosote. In using the
open tank process of treatment, two
tanks are employed, one for hot
treatment and the other for cold.
The landowner may get a 100-gal
lon steel oil drum with the head re
moved from one end. This should be,
used for the first treatment and
another drum or trough may be used
for the second. The coal tar creosote
or similar preservative is placed in
the first tank and heated to 175 or
200 degrees Fahrenheit. The posts
are placed in this tank and allowed to
n standing on end for about an
after which they are removed
placed in the cold tank. In this,
creosote is maintained at a tem
of not leas than 50 degrees,
here for 30 minutes will
illy the ground end of the
rested la the first tank and
ie past ia the second. The
should penetrate the wood
-fourths of an inch, says Mr.
No Accidents Mar
Christmas Season
At FrankMnville
(Continued from page 1)
i Misses Nettie and Esther Moon
visited Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Steph
ens of near Raleigh, the past week,
returning by Morgan ton.
Mrs. J. T. Buie and son, Parks, |
spent the Christmas holidays with
her parents near Boydton, Va. J
Mr. Vernon Hodges and family
spent Christmas with relatives at
Rocky Mount, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. James Allred an
nounced the Birth of a son, Linwood
Newton, December 13.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Evans
December 26, a son.
Bom to Mr. and Mts. Carl Brown
Saturday December 27, 1930, a son,
Ralph Kenton.
Mr. G. H. Maner and family, of
Asheboro, were the guests of W. D.
Maner Christmas day.
Mrs. J. W. Allred and children, of i
High Point, spent the week end with
her brother, R. D. Garrison.
Mrs. A. G. Brower, of Worthville,
was a visitor here last week.
More than 20,000 lbs. pork has
been killed in our community this
fall. Among the largest hogs kill
ed were by the following: Joel Pres
nell, 322, 342 and 380; J. F. Mc
Corquodale, 368 and 386; James All
red, 385; Clyde Smith, 450; J. D.
Prevo, 410; A. V. Jones, 392; Alfred
Pugh, 390; J. T. Hayes, 338 and 381;
Robert Kirkman, 375 and 350; F. L.
Ellison, 390; Benton Moon, two 700;
and J. C. Maner, two 650.
Boyd Hayes, of the U. S. Marines
stationed at Paris Island, S. C., was
at home on furlough for the Christ
mas holidays. On his return he was
accompanied by his brother, Dewey
Haves.
Miss Alma Leach, of Troy, spent
Christmas with Miss Shirly Mc
Corquodale.
William Curtis and Page Hurley,
of State University, Miss Inez Curtis,
of Campbell College, and Misses Eli
zabeth, Cora Mae and Dorothy Fox,
of N. C. C. W., spent the holidays
with homefolks.
Misses Vida and Margaret Kivett
visited H. C. Kivett at Troy Christ
mas day.
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Trogdon and
sons, Garland and Clifford, Jr., were
i visitors Friday in Gibsonville.
| Herbert Fox, of Greensboro, and
I Miss Annie Fox, of Staley, were visi
tors here one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cheek spent
I Sunday at Gibsonville attending a
I reunion of Mrs. Cheek’s family at the
Jordan home place.
Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson, of Lemon
j Springs, was a visitor here Sunday.
Franklinville school will open Wed
nesday, December 31, after two weeks
I vacation for the Christmas holidays.
Thieves broke into the smoke
i house of J. C. Williamson Saturday
j night and took all his meat but one
I middling. He had killed a three
hundred fifty pound hog a few days
ago.
Cheek Family Reunion
i On Christmas day Mr. and Mrs.
IM. F. Cheek, of Franklinville, in
I vited the immediate family of the
late B. R. and Elizabeth Loyd Cheek,
of Chapel Hill, for a family reunion.
There were eleven children in the
family, six of whom are living and
were all present with their families.
This is the first time the family had
all been together during the Christ
mas season in 23 years. At two
o’clock a turkey dinner was served
to the following eighteen members
of the Cheek clan: J. B. Cheek and
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, Mr. and
j Mrs. C. H. Cates and daughter and
sons, Bruce and Thurston of Burl
ington; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cheek,
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Cheek, Jr., and
son, Ben; and Miss Ann\e Lillian
Reeves, of Durham; Mr. and Mrs. M.
B. Self and son, M. B. Jr., of Wil
| liston. Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Stroupe
the Baptist pastor called in the af
ternoon to leave their good will and
blessings on the happy family.
LOW YIELDING COWS
MAKE NO PROFIT
Tabulating yearly records from 2,
326 cows in the six herd improve
ment associations in North Carolina,
John A. Arey, dairy extension special
ist at State College, finds a differ
ence of $54.08 in profits between
high yielding and low yielding cows.
“Those animals producing an av
erage of 300 or more ' pounds of
butterfat a year gave an increased
profit of $54.08 over another group
which produced less than 250 pounds
of fat a year,” says Mr. Arey. “The
average of each cow in the high pro
ducing group was 7,797 pounds of
milk and 323 pounnds of fat. In
this group were 464 cows in 18 dif
ferent herds. The average of each
cow in the low producing group was
5,197 pounds of milk and 219.5
pounds of fat In this group were
857 cows from 31 herds.”
The average feed cost of the high
milkers was $145.64 a year and of
the low milkers was $108.72 a year.
Therefore, says Mr. Arey, it cort
$36.92 more to feed the high pro
ducing cows for one year but in re
turn an additional $91 worth of milk
was secured. . ~ ' *
Mr. Arey sajte he considered the
feed costs only in making these cal
culations. He is convinced had he
inquired too closely into all costs,
such as the expenses of delivering
milk and other items, the cows'in the
low producing group would not have
returned any profit whatever. Some
of them were carried at an actual
loss and should be sold for beef n
their production could not be increas
ed by better feeding and care, *
Small Profit In Tobacco
North Carolina tobacco farmers re
ceived ait average, of $7.50 per hub
died pounds less for tobacco sold this
‘year prior to' ^December 1st than they
did a year agp, and sold 15 million
t wi wwadn i 1 1MA et tmra <*<* 'yyjS
News In Brief
Short Items Of Important
Happenings Of Week.
Walter Watson, one of five negroes
who broke into Stadiem’s store in
Thomasville early Sunday morning,
was shot in the leg and captured by
officers who discovered the thieves. |
The others escaped in a stolen auto
mobile, which was abandoned a short
distance from the scene of the rob
bery.
Jehu Mulies, 49, foreman of a
furniture plant in High Point, was
killed Sunday evening in an auto
mobile accident near Lexington.
Mulies was alone in his car at the
time his machine crashed into a
bridge.
Mrs. Mary Brown, 73, who died at
the home of her son in High Point
Sunday afternoon, was native of
Moore county, and the mother of five
sons.
The annual Christmas bonus paid
by J. C. Penny Company to its 6,671
employes amounted to $536,778.36.
Bonus checks were presented employ
es the day beford Christmas.
Members of the Grace Lutheran
church, Liberty, gave their pastor
and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Q. O.
Lyerly, a generous old-fashioned
“pounding” Friday afternoon.
The Randleman high school, at
RandlemaA, opened Tuesday, Decem
ber 30, following the Christmas holi
days; the Gray’s Chapel consolidated
school opened Monday.
25 persons were lynched in 1930,
as compared with 12 the year before.
24 of the victims were negroes. One
of those lynched was a negro in
North Carolina.
Suggestions of a third party are
not taken seriously by Republican in
surgents and independents in Con
gress who have been approached
about the matter.
A concerted drive for paying off the
veterans’ adjusted compensation cer
tificates is said to be worrying Re
publican party leaders in Congress.
Representative John Garner, of
Texas, Democratic leader in the lower
House, is pushing the drive for the
veterans.
The league of women’s citizens in
Asheville has petitioned Governor
Gardner for the appointment of a
special solicitor to prosecute those
alleged to have been guilty of the
breaking of the Central Banking and
Trust Company in Buncombe county
recently, with a loss of approximate
ly eight million dollars in public
funds.
Senator Joe T. Robinson, of Ark
ansas, Democratic leader in the U.
S. Senate and vice presidential nomi
nee in 1928, believes the five day a
week plan would solve a part of the
nation’s unemployment problems.
J. Clyde Shore, 26, Winston-Sal
em printer, killed himself in his
home Monday, leaving a wife and two
small children. He was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Shore, of Thomas
ville.
November fire loss in North Caro
lina was $444,622 as compared with
$247,258 in 1929, according to Dan
C. Boney, state insurance commission
er. One of the largest fires of the
month was the Asheboro veneer
plant, amounting to $55,000.
CAMERON MORRISON SENATOR
(Aberdeen Pilot)
The stars in their courses have
brought many surprises, but nothing
more startling than the political up
heaval that has characterized the
representation in Congress from
this particular district in the last
two months. Mr. Hammer drops
out to be succeeded by two different
men. Major Stedman in the adjoin
ing Greensboro district is followed
by another. Senator Overman gives
place in the present short session to
a newcomer, and Senator Simmons
retires at the close of this short ses
sion. Four of the best known group
in Congress go out within a few
weeks, or we may say that Overman,
Simmons, Stedman and Hammer are
disposed of in that brief period from
October to December, and the polit
ical front of the state is wholly rev
olutionized.
So the state starts with a new rat
ing at Washington. Cameron Mor
rison establishes this week a new
Senatorial seniority in a state where
a new senator is a novelty in this
generation. It is an old man who
has lived as a voter under any other
Senator in North Carolina than Sim
mons and Overman, and had political
part in the campaigns. But for our
district the state is wiped absolutely
dean, with an extra Congressman
to be dropped March 4. Three dif
ferent representatives from this dis
trict in October, December and
March 5. Four different Senators
between December and Mandi 6 ac
credited to our swiftly changing rep
resentation. ,
Cameron Momson is rooeaved *>y
the people generally as a man 'whose
inheritance has come to him. At the
time of the Gastonia strikes The
Pilot remarked that Max Gardner
had handed Com Morrison the Fed
eral Senatorship, and the people have
approved. Governor Morjison ■> has
such a-lhrgte tod emphatic following
that his selection was not difficult to
forecast He is a man of mercurial
disposition, but he has a force that
could' not be overlooked, and the in
telligence to make good. The man
who has kept even a casual eye on
North Carolina pities has known
that Governor Morrison would even
tually be Senator Morrison, and The
Pilot is with the bulk people
of the state in the bebef thal . .toe
Christmas Holidays
Pass Off Quietly In
Ramseur Community
Snow Blanketed The Ground
Arid Low Temperatures Pre
cluded Outside Activity.
Ramseur, Dec. 29.—The holidays
passed ait Ramseur very quietly, al
most like Sunday. The earth was
wrapped in a blanket of snow, while (
the temperature was very low, al
together making it the more enjoy
able by the warm fireside and tables
laden with turkey and other good
eaMr. W. E. Marley and family spent
Friday with friends at Leaksville and
Greensboro. / ,
Misses Verna and Sarah Williams,
of High Point, spent the past week
end here with Misses Lucy and Nel- ■
lie Wylie. I
Prof. R. C. White and family spent
Christmas day at Hawfield with'
relative® and friends.
Miss Frances Whitehead and Miss
Louise Thomas, of Meredith College,
spent the holidays at home.
Mr. and Mi's. Ed. Bowden and
child, of Roanoke, Va., were visitors
at W. E. Marley’s the past week end.
Mr. Burton Leonard, of High Point,
spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Leonard.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. McRee, of
Newport, Tennessee, were visitors at
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilson’s Friday
and Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cox spent
Christmas with friends at Wendell,
North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lane, of Shelby,
were here the past few days.
The business places of the town
were closed part of this week, tak
ing stock opening for the New Year
with the first day of the year.
Miss Dorothy Lewallen and and her
brother, Mr. Eugene Lewallen, of
Asheboro, enjoyed a six o’clock din
ner with Miss Daile Marley Sunday.
Another guest was Mr. Glenn Smith,
of High Point.
Mr. Pat Brady, of Reidsvdlle, spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Brady.
Misses Ellen Smith and Lucy
Wylie, of Greensboro College, spent
Christmas holidays at home.
Chas. Tate, Braxton Craven and
Leon Maness, of Rutherford, were
holiday visitors here.
Rev. A. C. Tippett preached morn
ing and night to attentive audiences
Sunday, at the M. E. church.
Students spending holidays at home
were: Fred Thomas, and Holroyd
Wilson, Carolina; Ward Trogdqn and
Tip Chisholm, Guilford; Ashley Wat
kins, Lee; Wm. -Stroup, Mars 'Hill;
Miss Patty Watkins, Stratford; Miss
Mabel Stroup, Boone; and Miss Lucy
Burgess, N. C. C. W.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar King, of Win
ston-Salem, spent Christmas here
with Mr. W. H. King and family and
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. Lane Forrester, of
Liberty, were visitors here Christmas.
Mr. A. W. Jones and family, of
Leaksville, visited friends here Christ
mas.
Our school is reopening New Years
day for the second semester. The
teachers went to their several homes
for (Christmas.
AGONIES OF THE
DRUG SUFFERERS
(The Golden Age.)
Drug addicts do not suffer while
they are contracting the habit. The
suffering comes when they try to
break away from it. The agonies of
addict when his supply is ex
an
hausted passes the power of human
speech to describe. The pains are
said to be like a sword thrust through
the body.
Household furniture has been has
tily sold at two cents on the dollar of
valuation just before the expected
visit of the dope peddler. Demons
appear before the eyes. At a conven
tion of the California Anti-Narcotic
League held in Los Angeles two wo
men, in tears, told of their horrible
sufferings when they began to dq
without the drugs to which they were
addicted; and another fell to the floor
in a faint when she began to try to
put it in words.
In another instance the mere
ing of what she had suffered
one woman to faint and fall
profound coma. In advanced cases
results of deprivation of the drug of
addiction, called “withdrawal symp
toms,” are considered the most acute
tortures ever endured by man.
The drug of addiction will quickly
relieve the torture, and hence the
addict comes to feql that the getting
of his supply of the drug is a matter
of life and death. The mental suffer
ings and anguish are commensurate
with the physical sufferings. The
fear of having to endure the pains
of “withdrawal symptoms” makes the
addict a perfect slave to a perfectly
heartless master.
A. normal person cannot possibly ap
preciate the anguish of mind that
comes to an addict as he sees his
own helplessness and realizes that
his morals and principles and even
his body are disintegrating, causing
untold suffering to his family and
friends, and the scorn and hate of
society.
Abrupt Withdrawal of thp drug of
addiction is dangerous to patients and
use death.
has been known even to cause
A gradual withdrawal over a
of fourteen
most efficacious
of helping one to break the
Manv cures supposed to have
effected. taT" -J
od
Plant A Christmas
Tree In Honor Of
Fred R Burgess, Jr.
Peach land,
Burgess, Jr., spent his first Christ
mas, which was also his first birth
day, at the home of his grandmother,
Mis. John H. Burgess, near Ramseur.
Near 12:30 Christmas day, the hour
of his birth, Baby Burgess and his
father called the family into a room
where a tiny living Christmas tree
stood on a table. The tree was
beautifully decorated and had one red
candle burning at its base. After
the gifts were distributed, the candle
was allowed to bum out.
When the parents of the little boy
returned to Peachland, they earned
the tree, taken from the grand
mother’s farm, to the Anson Sana
torium at Wadesboro and planted it
with simple and impressive ceremony
on the hospital .grounds at 3:30
o’clock Saturday afternoon. fred
Ross, Jr., was bom at the Sanatorium
December 25, 1929. His parents had
the happy thought of leaving the tree
to grow on the grounds there where
nurses, patients, and friends of the
hospital might enjoy its green beauty
and use it for many furture Chnst
mas tree occasions.
Many nurses, friends of the little
fellow, attended the ceremony. Rev.
E. M. Brooks spoke impressively of
the significance of the tree. Mrs.
Rosalin Redfem, of Wadesboro, su
pervised the planting. She quoted
Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”. While ex
pressing her wishes and hopes for
the future of the child, he, watching
from his father’s arms, seemed to
understand and held out his hand to
Mrs. Redfern. They shook hands
across the tree. Mrs. Burgess dedi
cated and named the tree. Mr.
Brooks closed the ceremony with a
prayer.
Each person present placed a bit of
dirt on the tree. Fred Ross, Jl-., drop
ped in the first dirt “with his own
baby hand.
THE CHRISTMAS iHOLIDAY
(Rev. D. R. Moffitt, Coleridge.)
The Christmas holiday is the most
beautiful of all holidays because it
touches the hearts of the children.
It appeals to the parents. It is won
derful in its appeal to every thought
ful person. Great men have lived to
bless their nations, but never once at
their coming have angels gathered
above their birthplace and turned
mid-night into glory and silence into
song. Christmas suggests three
thoughts—1. The consoling and
cheering thought that God has not
forsaken us, “for God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever believed in him
should not perish but have everlast
ing life.” John 3:16; 2. Christmas is
the birthday of the great peace mak
er, peace between friends and neigh
bors, churches and nations. When na
tions accept true salvation, wars shall
be no more: 3. The wise men of the
East set 'before us a pattern that we
all should be seekers to find Jesus.
TANTALIZER.
The letters in the lines below,
properly arranged, spell the names
of two persons in Ashehoro or Ran
dolph county. If the persons whose
names are represented by the
group of letters decipher their own
names and bring copies of the
paper to The Courier office before
next Wednesday night, to each
of them will be given a free ticket
to the Sunset Theatre.
This Week's Tantalizer:
Se wmialxi m lnia
Tevkaenvcti
Answer to last week’s Tantalizer:
Wilma Russell Suggs
Ralph Steed.
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1 MYSTERY
Says Indiana Responsible Par Deril'a
Tramping Ground In Chatham
County.
(Dr. H. B. Shields, in Moore County
News.)
In the woods on the south side of,
the public road two miles in a west-1
erly direction from Harper’s Cross
Roads in Chatham county, situated on
an elevated knoll, the ground sloping
off in all directions, is located what
is called “the Devil’s Tramping
Ground." This is a circular piece of
ground 30 feet in diameter enclosed
with a border of wire grass about two
feet in width. In the center of this
border there is no vegetation growing
excepting a narrow .bolder of wire
grass on each side of a narrow path
which passes through the center of
the ground. On the outside of this
circular enclosure there is a space of
2 1-2 feet of ground in which no
vegetation grows. It looks like a
much used path all around the outer
edge of this wire-grass border. There
is no wire grass anywhere in that
section except the border around the
Devil’s Tramping Ground.
Geologists Try to Explain It
There has been much speculation as
to the cause or origin of the Devil’s
Tramping Ground. Geologists have
contended that the lack of vegetation
is due to volcanic action throwing
cut a chemical material that prevents
vegetation from growing, and that
the wire-grass seed were brought
there by birds. If the volcano threw
out a chemical substance that pre
vented vegetation from growing in
the Devil’s Tramping Ground it must
have been a very accommodating vol
cano to have thrown out the non
vegetable chemical over a circular
space over thirty feet in diameter,
then skipped a circular space of three
feet on which the wire grass is grow
ing. then spread more of the volcanic
material for a space of 2 1-2 feet
outside around the border of wire
grass. Now if birds brought the wire
grass seed they must have been wise
and educated birds to plant seed
around in a thirty foot circle, scratch
1 ing up a seed bed in which to plant
the wire-grass seed. There must
have been one bird in the flock of
birds that was highly educated, at
least knew geometry to have been
able to select this place; also to
thorough understanding of geometry
to .have been able to lay out a perfect
circle in diameter. When one con
siders what an unreasonable thing
the volcano and the birds would have
had to do to make the Devil’s Tramp
ing ground, it leaves the geologist’s
explanation without foundation.
1 The location and existence of the
Devil’s Tramping Ground is depend
, ent upon neither volcanic action or
upon wise birds, nor is there any
! mystery about the place.
The Devil’s Tramping Ground was
made by Indians, either the Tuscaro
ras, Catawbas, or Cherokees. If by
the Tuscaroro’s it is more than 200
, years old as the Tuscaroras were
j driven' out of North Carolina in the
year of 1712. If made by the Chero
kees or Catawbas it may be of a la
ter date. There have been some
slight changes in the place in the last
40 years. The wire grass was
brought from the Sandhills and evi
dently a circular ditch or trench was
excavated and filled up with soil
from the place ' where wire . grass
was growing. Thus planted in th®
natural soil it grew and thrived. The
other soil of that section, not being
suited for growth of wire grass, it
would not spread beyond its native
soil. The places inside and outside
the circular border where vegetation
grows, without stretching the imagi
! nation, could have easily been covered
: with the soil from the barren places
in the flat woods of Chatham county,
where no vegetation grows. This will
the
The ...__
of wire gras*,
wains, making
other useful articles
hold the wire grass in
This may account far
grass to make the bonier
circular ground that waa^
either as a dance ground
ligious worship. Solomon
tory of Indian eraft and
them to
» used
ory oi inaian crax- «— ~
[escribes their dance grounds aa totog
- — * - -*—i- -onnrfliiv tnree
lescnuea ©
laid off in a circle, generally
feet in diameter.
Many an Indian swain and maiden
haw tripped the light fantertk tow
In the Devil’s Tramping Ground and
many a pipe of tobacco has been
smoked at this place, long, long ago
While the Indians have almost been
forgotten, it is refreahtag to knw*
there is a place to remind us of their
once existence in this country ^called
the “Devil’s Tramping Ground.
The authorities of Chatham county
should take the necessary actions to
preserve this historic place of Mp
dian lore from the reckless visitors
driving their cars over the ground
and taking up the wire grass to carry
off as souvenirs of their first visit
to the Devil’s Tramping Ground.
Snow Benefits Small Grain
The recent snowfall was beneficial
3 small grains but bad on rabbits
i Lincoln county, reports county
gent J. G. Morrison.
Upon petition of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, the Seaboard Air
Line railway has been placed m the
hands of receivers.
IFE, GAS, SCARE MAN
IN DEAD OF NIGHT
Community
House
FranklinviUe, N. C.
Saturday
Afternoon and Night
JANUARY 3rd
Ken
Maynard
in
‘The
California
Mail”
“Overcome by stomach gas to the
iad of night, I scared my husband
idly. He got Adlerika and it ended
e gas.”—Mrs. M. Owen.
Adlerika relieves stomach gas to
BN minutes! Acts on BOTH upper
id lower bowel, removing old poi
nous waste you never knew was
iere. Don't fool with medicine
hich cleans only PART of bowels, \
it let Adlerika give stomach and
twels a REAL cleaning and gat nd
' all gas! Asheboro Drug Company,
i Liberty by Liberty Drug Co.
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You have read the New Low Prices on the Bigger and Better
CHEVROLET SIX—
NOW
Look Over The Cars and 1931
Low Prices On Our Used Cars
1929
Chevrolet Six Truck
In A-l condition .and lias had
the best of care from former
zr $335.00
1928 Chevrolet
Coupe
Has had best of cam and in
A-l Condition $265.00
Only ...
1928
Whippet Sedan
Only driven TOO® , miles. Car
is same as now. ^ggQ.QO
Chei
1930
A tool bay.
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