The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-09-27
Chatham County News

Dir. Phil Budel. sou OF the late
DIR. A. V. Budel, was here last Mon
day TO consult Dr. Chaplin. Dir.
Budel holds the position In Rich
mond, Va, OF baggage agent for the
s. A. l.. Railway aud the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway, and the
many friends Of his father in this
county will be pleased To kno. that
he il doing 40 well.
Mrs. Della Fike and daughter.
Mrs ". b. Chaplin and her little
daughter are In Sanford on Q visit
to relatives.
The many friends Of Prof. Il. p.
Johnson. County Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, will be glad TO
hear OF his continued Improvement
from a seven weeks attack OF fever.
He Is now able to sit up part Of the
time each day.
A son of Mr.. Thompson Johnson,
near Mt. Olive, was badly hurt in
cane mill last week.
Rev. n. II. Shepherd spent the
night here last Monday night. He
speaks Of going TO the Southern Bap.
fist Theological Seminary, but has
not fully decided on the matter yet,
as the field in the Sandy Creek As
ISOLATION needs his services now very
badly, especially since the death of
Rev. O. T. Edwards.
The largest saw-mill in the world
is being built in Louisiana, and it Is
said that when it gets in full blast
it will cut 100000 feet Of lumber
per day. This is simply immense.
Several parties of this place went
to Sanford last Monday to see John
Robinson's Show.
When editor Henry Watterson. Of
Louisville, KY, presented Williim
Jennings Bryan to L lisviIle audi
ence, he exclaimed, "May the Lord
be with him and give him wisdom"
Watterson evidently, understood the
necessity of the case.
For many years the people were
obliged to sell their county orders
at loss of 10 per cent on each dol
lar. The Fusionists came into
power and righted things and gave
them dollar for dollars worth OF
county orders. The ring has other
plans to get the money they form
erly got out of orders.
Chatham County taxpayer, did
you know that q Democratic Board
of County Commissioners had passed
an order that no County order would
draw interest until it was one year
old? Do you know what this
means? It means that the pool
man that is not able to put hi
money out for twelve months will
not get any interest on his orde1
when they are cashed if he SHOULD
, hold them for six or nine months
, he would get no interest. This or
, der was passed for the rich man ane
the bank or the owners Of it. How
do you like IL?
Mrs. Lon Jones last Friday fell GU
Of her porch at her home at White
Bridge, and broke her left arm Dea
the shoulder joint and also hui
very badly the left hip. She is i
;. her 10th year, and the injury is
serious matter with her.
ell Mr.. Edward Pearce died at b
y home here last week "wednesday
latter a long attack OF fever. II
had been the fireman on the Pitt;
boro Railroad for about 20 yea
. and was a quiet, good citizen,
=. member of the Baptist church. 3
- leaves q wife and three childaen.
u Mr.. G. G. Moore, President of tt
10 State Cotton Growers Associatio
o. will speak here In the courthou
'p next Friday, the 2sth. He Is said
. be a very interesting speaker, and
III will pay our farmers to hear hi
l. upon the subject Of cotton.
r. Chatham County has as near
te- roads as any county In the State,
he at least that Is the opinion of m
lie who have travelled over the Sta
or and who express themselves free
upon the subject. The taxpayers
eff the county are paying several tho
M sands of dollars for roads per "
nd and yet we have no thoroughfs
eet worthy the name of roads. 7
AN present system is q failure.
- DR.. J. B. Matthew'S, formerly
~ this place, who Is under sentence
49,. twenty years, to the penitentiary
-. the murder of his wife, last Dece
Der in Greensboro, is at his faths
- home in Durham for short VIII
ha.l The doctor, since his sentence
49,, been, so it is said, in hospital q
-. Baltimore, under treatment for
90 morphine habit. He Is out un
sna $4,000 bond awaitsng decision
Cor, the Supreme Court as to whethe
NJ new trial will be granted him or
,ich Esquire r. M. Burns is in P
up boro this week on a visit to his
n of N1. M Rurns and family