Corinth, June 1—Mr. J.E. Dickens was home over Sunday. Jim is a present flagman on the N. & S. passenger train.
Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Drewery came in from Clifton Forge, Va., Sunday to visit Mrs. Drewry’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Harrington. Mrs. Drewery says Corinth is a pretty good place and that she will stay until they run her off. [paper spelled her name “Drewery” and “Drewry”]
Floyd Dixon, the little 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Dixon, died at noon Monday at the home of its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B.N. Dickens. The child had been sick only two days, starting with colitis and running into meningitis. It will be buried at Corinth on Tuesday.
Mr. R.S. Ashworth and family of Fuquay Springs spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Buchanan.
We are glad to see Mr. K. Alligood back in the community again. Mr. Alligood is foreman of the N. & S. bridge crew. They are making some extensive repairs on the bridge over Cape Fear at Brickhaven.
The new planning mill being put in at Corinth by Mr. Ed Steed will be running before long and will employ six or eight men steadily.
We spent the better part of two days and one night last week doing what little we could at Goal Glen. No one who did not see the 50 or more horrible blackened, mangled human remains as they were removed at the mouth of the mine can form much conception of the awfulness of this disaster. Since these unfortunate dead have been laid to rest the call has gone forth for financial aid for the widows and orphans. It seems that the Sanford Legion boys and Red Cross forces were the first to get on the ground with relief equipment. It seems to us that since this disaster all happened in Chatham county, our own Red Cross and Legion officers paired up a great opportunity to be first to come to the assistance of our own suffering people. Be that as it may, it is not too late yet to be of great help. Our own Red Cross down here in the “handle” responded on Thursday with $60 in cash. This was turned over to Mr. J.U. Gunter of the Sanford chapter for distribution. We will have more later and would like to see our own funds administered thru our own Chatham county organization.
It is remarkable the way our sheriff and his forces responded and handled the policing of the grounds so effectively with no disturbance or use of force, and they stayed on the job day and night without rest or sleep. Too bad that bunch of college boys could not have come to the disaster and offered their services to those in charge instead of making a sorry spectacle and nuisance of themselves. It is just such displays of rudeness as this that justly prompts our editor Mr. Peterson in his attacks upon our modern and improved methods of public education.
One of the men who lost his life in the Coal Glen disaster was Tom Cotton. Tom’s mother is a sister of our neighbor, Mr. Bud O’Connell.
From the editorial page of the Chatham Record, Pittsboro, N.C., Thursday, June 4, 1925, O.J. Peterson, editor and owner.
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