ISSUED WEEKLY V0LUMJELYI1 * .-? 1. .1..1 —a. -'.XLI'UI ...i.l.' , ..I ill » MOST PEOPLE IN ASHEBORO ANB RANDOLPH COUNTY READ THE COURIER—IT LEADS $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE al&JMBER is Account Relief Work In Randolph Given By Bulla Is Recounted By Welfare Offic er In Talk Before Parent Teachers At Trinity. Work Accomplished County Stands Eighth From Bottom In List Of Counties Obtaining Relief Funds. Randolph county stands eighth from the bottom of the list of counties in the state in the amount of federal aid received and dispensed since the first of October. T. F. Bulla, superintend ent of Randolph county schools, also welfare officer, spoke at Trinity Tuesday night at a P. T. A. meeting and gave same interesting informa tion concerning the method of dis pensing the aid in Randolph. Beginning in October there were 400 “card cases,” for a card index rec ord is kept of every family or individ ual receiving aid from the county oi* federal fund. The first of April the number had reached 1574. During the six months 1056 school children in the county who were undernourished had received lunches. Most of the time the Rome Economics Department aid in the preparation of these lunches •ftd pften the Woman’s Club, P. T. A., or « similar organization. ► .Ope hundred persons received hos pital treatment, hospitalization chief ly at the Randolph Hospital, Inc. Thirty-seven fancies mtvtd from Randolph county towns back to the country and started farming. A total of 1734 gardens wars started in the spring. 10,000 cabbage plants were distributed to farmers and gardeners and 400 pecks of Irish potatoes were distributed. 1,000 packages containing a dozen packages of seed each were also distributed. 1734 gardens have been started throughout the county. It is announced by Mr. Bulla that the Red Cross flour that has been available from time to time during the winter will not be available after the first of April. There is no as surance of any flour after the first of April. Some cloth will probably be available, although Mr. Bulla states that no definite plans have been announced for after the first of May. Work Projects Eighty work projects have been be gun and completed. These include woric on cemeteries, beautification, painting schools and churches, budd ing a dam at the eity lake in Aehe boro and a playground adjoining, 4 ball parks in the county, 1 gymnasi um (Liberty), 1 community house and jail, (Bamseur), several highways re paired, work on basement of county court house, and other public works. 675. men were employed on public work averaging two or three days weekly at 80 cents per day during the winter. Christian Endeavor Union Will Hear Dr. Poling In Address Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of the International Christian Endeavor Union and one of the leaders of the country’s dry forces, will be the speaker on the closing day of the four-day program of the North Caro lina Christian Endeavor convention which will be held at High Point Col lege June 12-15. A. J. Koonce, convention ewairman, in announcing that Dr. Poling has accepted the invitation to speak at that time announced also that Carlton M. Sherwood, of Boston, also an of ficer in the International Christian Endeavor Association, will be present for the entire convention. For the past five years officers of the state society have been seeking to have Dr. Poling to take a place on the state convention program, but the heavy calls on his services else where had prevented his coming to North Carolina for one of the meet ings. Mt. Pleasant School Ends A Successful Year’s Work Mt Pleasant school closed Friday after six months work under the di rection of Sidney Walker, principal, and Mrs. Cora Cain Briles. The closing took the form of an old-time exhibition and lasted all day with food sold on the grounds by the ladies of the church. The programs during the day con sisted of songs, drills, recitations, plays and the like, while a minstrel in the evening closed the day’s program. The school had a most satisfactory year of work. It is Cherry Blossom Time Washington’s floral spectacle, the cherry blossom time, has for several days been the scene of hundreds of visitors. The tidal basin, or bowl, as it is described, is a mass of pink per fection and is seen from airplanes, boats, automobiles and by pedestrians. Cherry blossom time is an ideal time to visit the nation's capital. Card of Thanks We wish to express our thanks and reciation through the columns of i Courier to our friends and neigh for their many deeds of kind shown us during the illness and £?£«£ ESS’-SS; 1 ev«ry one.—Mrs. J. M. Lovett Commended On His Supervision State Convict Camp Grand Jury Finds The Camp As Well As County Institutions In Good Shape. The report of the grand jury as given in the office of the Clerk of the Court following a tour of inspection of the county institutions proved in teresting and somewhat complimen tary to those m charge. The report, after a visit to the County Rome, stated that they found sanitary conditions as good as could be expected and none of the inmates had any complaints to register, the supplies listed at the Home were 3 milch cows giving around 11 gallons of rtiilk per day; one mule; six shoats; 60 grown chickens; 80 young chickens, in addition to garden and pantry supplies. The group recom mended the purchase of a washing machine for the large amount of laundry work necessary for sucli an institution. The state convict camp with 68 prisoners was found “in extraordi nary fine condition, everything clean and well kept,” according to the re port. Clarence J. Lovett was compli mented in the written report as an ex-army man who was running .the camp army-style and knowing his job. “We are pleased with his super vision,” said the signed report. Ben Morgan was also complimented with his management at the county jail which was also found in good shape. 160 Arrests Made , During Past Month Within District C Arrests For Displaying Improp er Licenses Led; 130 Persons Found Guilty. Total of 160 arrests were made by state highway patrolmen in division C during the past month and of that number ISO persons were found guil ty of law violations, it was revealed in a report released by Lieutenant T. A. Early, division commander. Randolph county is included in dis trict C. Arrests for displaying improper licenses led all othpr offenses. Fifty four arrests were made on that count. Total revenue collected during the month, including fines and costs, ag gregated $6,399.95 and total license tickets lamed, amounted to $9$05-57. Total of 78 months and 20 daps werg One person was killed and seven injured in highway accidents during the period, the report further reveals. Sixty-ajx tickets were issued for im proper lights and 26 arrests made for that cause. Total of 126 tickets were issued to drivers displaying no tags on their vehicles. The following arrests were made: improper lights 25; faulty equipment 3; improper license 54; no licenses 8; drunken drivers 14; drunk on high ways 2; reckless drivers 6; speeding U; minors operating machines 1; no registration cards 1; and other ar rests 35. Six accidents were in vestigated. Warnings were issued for parking on the highway, hogging the road, hearse driving, entering highways without stopping, obscure tags, driv ing on shoulders, passing on curves and hills, etc. Total number of vio lations during the month aggregated 3,033. Total of 152 trucks were found overloaded. Total of 3,367 cars were stopped. Now Is Fine Time To Make Selections For Fall Planting While dogwoods, red bud (Judas) and other trees in the woods are blooming is a good time to make se lections and marking for your yard planting. It is also a good time to get trees in good condition for moving next fall or winter. All around the tree dig a circular trench about a yard in diameter. This trench should be about the width of a spade and deep enough to cut practic ally all lateral roots. If the tree is of a kind that makes a decided taproot, then dig down deep enough to sever the taproot a foot or more below the surface of the ground. Then thor oughly fill this circular trench you have made in cutting the roots, using loamy topsoil, pack it down firmly, and water if the ground is dry. Be sure to prune the top of the tree also, cutting back and thinning branches for the double purpose (1) of giving it the proper shape and (2) to reduce the branches in about the same pro portion as the roots have been re duced. little or no further attention will be required. In February or early March take up the tree carefully, pre serving all the mass of feeding roots that have grown to take the place of those cut away, and keep the roots damp until planting is completed. In conformity with the action of banks generally and in this communi ty, the First National Bank, of Ashe boro, N. C., has reduced the rate of interest it will pay on savings ac counts. J. W. Harrelson To Address Next Assembly Meeting Department Of Conservation And Development Head Will Speak At Trinity. Judge Warlick Speaks Addressed Assembly Meeting! Held Last Week In School House At Seagrove. The Randolph County People’s As sembly and Taxpayer’s League, met in the school auditorium in Seagrove, April 6, the chairman, B. R. Chaney, presiding. The chief feature of the occasion was an address by Judge Wilson War lick of Newton, which was listened to with intense interest. Judge Warlick discussed frankly and sanely the ex isting conditions and needs of the peo ple, and expressed full confidence in the leadership of the President. He said that government costs can be re duced, and that officials should wel come such a movement as these public meetings of the people and co-operate with them for the good of the county. Dr. W. J. McAnaJly of High Point, who is specially interested in using, lime in rebuilding' the poor lands in the State, made an interesting and helpful talk, saying that the lime is in the State and can be produced for the farmer at about a dollar a ton instead of the seven dollars it now costs, and that it can make the State rich. Dr. McAnally is the instigator of the provision in the new State highway-prison act which authorizes the new commission to develop these resources in North Carolina. The committee on permanent or ganization reported that "the one main purpose of this league is to re duce taxes by reducing government expenses.” The action of the county commissioners in reducing real estate valuation 20% without the expense of (Please turn to page 8) With The Churches First Methodist Protestant Church At 11 a. m., “Mom of Victory,* as Easter cantata, 'will be presented by the church choir under the direatte of Miss Louise Swaim. “The Ifeao ing of An Empty Grave” will b« tip subject of the sermon at 7:30 p. m. ] ^.v, ' --• -"V ** . Aaheboro Wesleyan Methodist -j Services, April 16th—Sunday school" 9:46 a. m-> preaching at 11:00 a. m-Tj preaching at 7:30 p. m. . Come ,an
E. Shaw, evangelists. Pray, plan,
come. Rev. W. C. Cockmon, pastor. ]
First Methodist Church
R. S. Truesdale, Pastor. Services at
11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., conducted byj
the pastor. Sunday school at 9:45(
a. m. Epworth League at 6:46 p. m.
Presbyterian Church
9:45 a. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m.
morning service, subject, “Life Ever
lasting.” 6:15 p. m. young people’s
league. 7:30 .p m. evening service,
subject, “Jesus Lives.”
Asheboro Baptist Church
All services Sunday as usual. Pas
tor’s morning subject, “An Escape
From a Tomb.” Evening subject, “An
Escape in a Basket.”
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Special services at the Pilgrim Ho
liness church of Asheboro on Sunday,
April 4th. Sunrise prayer meeting.
Sunday school at 9.45 a. m., O. L.
Phillips, superintendent. Preaching at
11 a. m. Special services at 2:30
p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K.
Wachtel, of the Bethel Bible college,
Kemersville, will have charge of the
singing. There will be short talks
made by prominent speakers, D. B.
McCrary, of Asheboro, Rev. W. R.
Phillips, of Randleman, Rev. J. B
Fulp, evangelist, of Asheboro, and
Rev. F. R. Cooper, of Asheboro. A
revival meeting will begin at 7:80
o’clock .p. m. Welcome to all.—Rev.
Mrs. J. B. Fulp, pastor.
Sophia Congregational Church
Sunday morning, April 16: Sunday
school, 10 a. m., E. T. Bullard, supt
Worship and sermon by pastor, 11 a.
m. Afternoon at Flint Hill church:
2:30, Sunday school, H. C. Lanier,
supt. Worship and sermon following
Sunday school. There will be regular
evening service at the Sophia church.
—S. M. Penn, pastor.
Mrs. Myers Blames Banks
As Cause Of Her Suicide
Mrs. Foster W. Myers, whose life
less body was found hanging in an
out building on their farm near
Thomasville, on April 8th, left a note
reading “the banks are the cause of
this.”
Mrs. Myers was 70, a widow and
the mother of Ford M.. Myers, an at
torney, of Thonnasville.
Howard M. Klutz, of Bloeinf Rock,
has moved to Troy for the practice
of law. (He will be associated With
John T. Brittain, of Aaheboro, and
will maintain offices in the D. S.
-Hurley building. Mr. - Klutz is a
graduate of Wake Forest collage and
the University of North Carolina law
school
ss$
Majority Of Stores
And Banks To Close
For Easter Holiday
The majority of the merchants of
Asheboro have announced that they
will close their places' of business on
Easter Monday. A few stores, how
ever, will remain open for the visit
on in town on that day. The busi
ness houses eloaM on; Monday will be
B. C. Moon A Sons, Hudson-Belk, H.
and H. Clothing Co., Coffin A Scar
boro, Bloom’s, Kate Hammer’s Milli
nery Shop, M’Lady’s Shop, Wagger’s
Specialty Shop,r Hadley’s Economy
Store, Covington, A frevost, A. A P.
Store, M System, Fhre Food Store,
Peoples Store, Allenje Market, Sani
tary Market, Cox-Lewis, Hughes
Morris and Asheboro Hardwares,
Asheboro Furniture Co., Amos Furn
iture Co., and Cui Rate Furniture Co.
The banks also Will be dosed.
*Wlg§
Junior Clfuis. Local
School Entertained
High School Seniors
At Most Deli
Friday
L.L.
itful Affair Given
\g At The
;er Home.
my Bums, at a delightful party,
eeiving line. Mrs
and Miss Beatrice
the cloakrooms; W
and Mills Elda Cl«
cloakroom door; 1
directed at the ei
line. ;
Progressive "Pt
tare of the event
with the followi?
interspersed am on
Violin solos, “Oh,
Life” and “RockJ
sssions
of '80'; reading, “That Old Sweetheart
of Mine," Miss Frances Arme Ellis;
song, “The King of the Winds,” R. J.
Bilker; song, “Smiling Through,”
Mias Edith Meigs; piano solo, “Lie
benfreud,” Miss Ethel Johnson; piano
solo, “Dark Eyes,” Miss Louise
Swaim; song, “Sylvia” and “Trees”,
Miss Clara Gill; and “Virginia Reel,”
Misses Edith Milks, Rebecca Hed
rick, Ruth Prevost, Margaret Cox,
Nell Allred, Eleanor McCain, Eleanor
Hughes, Edna Deaton, Roberta Saun
ders, Emagene Kearns, Anne Ross,
and Pauline Ellis.
After the program; an ice course,
with salted nuts, was served by Miss
es Allene Lamb, Evelyn Holder, Fle
ta Pulliam, Elisabeth Kearns, Gladys
Humble, Helen Thompson, Roberta
Saunders, Rebecca Hedrick, Mabel
Robertson and Mrs. E. V. Hobbs.
Throughout the evening, punch was
served in the sun parlor by Miss Clara
Gill and H. B. Campbell.
The entertainment rooms were all
decorated with a profusion of spring
flowers.
Mrs. C. P. Loflin and Miss Mabel
Robertson said “Goodbyes.”
The Junior clap of Asheboro high
school entertainecf the members of the
Senior Class, the grade mothers of
the two classes, and the Senior class
mascots, little Joan Grimes and Jim
Warren Steed One
Of Three Winners
In Judging Contest
In a live stock judging contest held
a few days ago at Morrison farms
and it Ashcraft dairy farm, at Char
lotte, three boys were successful
Warren Steed, of Candor, was one of
the three boys of the thirty-two from
eleven piedmont counties participat
ing in the contest.
Warren Steed is a son of H. N.
Steed, of Candor, and has several
friends and relatives in Randolph are
interesting in his success.
Mr. Steed is manager of the Mont
gomery Orchard, of Candor, and is a
graduate of State Agricultural Col
lege. Young Warren Steed is a
grandson of Mrs. J. G. Steed, of
Steeds.
COLLEGE CLOSES ACCOUNT
t CASES TYPHOID FEVER
Lees-McRae College at Banner
Elk has dosed as a result of two
cases of typhoid fever and a bolt of
lightning which struck the college
power plant, putting (both the electric
and water systems out of commission.
The two cases of typhoid fever were
not traceable to the . water . system,
but were factors in the decision to
eloee the school.
Students will not lose credit for
their spring work, however, President
Edgar Tufts says, ad arrangements
have been made to continue their
studies through correspondence with
the faculty. : . ?
Liquid in Canned Food
A wrong notion about canned foods
is the idea that the liquid in a can of
vegetables, like peas or beans, should
be drained off and not used. Former
ly this liquid was sometimes too salty,
but not at present. That juice con
Three Ministers
School Students
Drs. Truesdale, Smith And Stev
ens Address School At As
sembly Hours Recently.
Youth Stressed
Its Opportunities And Advan
tages Are Discussed, Notable
Examides Given.
Among the recent speakers at
the weekly assembly hours of the lo
cal high school have been Doctors R.
S. Truesdale, C. G. Smith, and H. T.
Stevens, of the M. E., Presbyterian,
and Baptist churches, respectively.
Dr. Truesdale was the speaker on
March 23, when he told of a drive
through the county and of the beau
ties of blooming trees by the way.
Among other things, the minister
spoke of the Judas tree and its beau
tiful flowers. ‘They (the trees) prom
ise something fine, but give absolute
ly nothing,” he said. The Judas tree
was described as growing strong
enough in Palpstine that Judas is
supposed to have hanged himself on
one.
“We can live very close to the
most beautiful things and to the best
things and not appreciate them,” said
the speaker. It was pointed out that
Judas’s association with Jesus was
very different in results from that of
John. Continuing, Dr. Truesdale de
clared: “Judas had something to sell.
He never got to where he did not
have something to sell. He would sell
the most sacred things. He sold the
of God for seventeen dollars.
“The whole world is trying to buy
youth,” said the minister in closing.
“Let’s hold some things sacred.”
Dr. C. G. Smith talked to the fac
ulty and students March 30, on the
accomplishments of youth and the call
to the youth of today. He said in
part: “Jesus went about from town
to town. This was a roving college.
The disciples were the students.”
The minister gave a report on a
survey by Lancaster which showed
that almost all great minds have
shown strong tendencies toward their
life work in early youth. The fol
lowing facts were brought out by
the survey: Most poets have shown
poetic ability of high character be
tween the ages of fifteen and twenty;
musicians have, in most cases, shown
ability by the age of ten; and artists
by the age of seventeen. Probably a
majority of the pioneers went west
by the time they were eighteen.
Lafayette came to America to help
fight the British when he was only
nineteen. When Die young French
man went to Yorktown, Cornwallis
said, "The boy cannot escape me
now;” but “the boy truned,” declared
Mr. Smith.
Joan of Arc had completed her
work and suffered martyrdom at
nineteen.
Scott read Shakespeare when very
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J. 0. Redding Named
Asheboro Postmaster
Succeeding Wright
J. O. Redding, well known in Ashe
boro and Randolph county, is now
postmaster of Asheboro, receiving his
appointment on April 7th.
Mr. Redding for many years op
erated the Asheboro Chair Company,
which was destroyed by fire several
years ago. Last campaign he rend
ered service to his party as secretary
of the Democratic party in Randolph
county. /
Mr. Redding succeeds Postmaster
Frank Wright, who has served for
five years. The first year, Mr.
Wright served as acting postmaster,
receiving his appointment in January,
1929. During the five years Mr.
Wright has made many friends and
served the public faithfully and cour
teously.
Speakers Selected
Closing- Exercises
Local Negro School
Commencement speakers for the
Randolph County Training School in
clude two very widely known and pop
ular speakers in the selection of Dr.
R. T. Weatherby, D. D., pastor of
Saint Matthews Methodist Episcopal
church, Greensboro, and Dr. Char
lotte Hawkins Brown, Ph. D., prin
cipal and founder of Palmer Memorial
Institute, Sedalia. Dr. Weatherby
has been pastor of St. Matthews
church for the last twenty years,
with the exception of a few years
during which time he was engaged in
general church work. He is secretary
of the County Interracial Commis
sion, member of the state body, presi
dent of the Negro Ministerial Alli
ance, chairman of the hoy scout com
mittee for negroes, and very active in
all religious, civic, social, educational
and welfare work. The school is very
fortunate in securing Dr. Weatherby
to preach the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday, May 7th.
Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, who
will deliver the commencement ad
dress Tuesday, May 9, is one of the
best known negro women in America.
She is principal and founder of Pal
mer Memorial, chairman of the Ef
land Home board for the wayward
negro girls, member of state and
southern interracial commission.