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><:' ** ~*'r< flT _ THE PAGElIp JOURNAL . Vol. 5 NO. 42 ^ ^ $1.00 per year *>% _ Interesting Sketch of Funderburk History. Below is an account of the death of H. P. Funderburk, of Columbus, Miss., and an interes tins: sketch of history and comment by Mr. S. M. Funderburk, of Birmingham, Ala: Columbus, Miss., June 22.? The funeral of H. P. Funderburk who died at his home, 718 South Ninth avenue, last night, was held at the family residence at 3:50 o'clock this afternoon, havinir hppn rnnrlnrfpM hv Rev I L. Vipperman, pastor of the First Baptist church. Mr. Funderburk had been in feeble health for several years past, and about two weeks ago suffered a stroke of paralysis which finally resulted in his death. He was 68 vears old and was a native of Pickens county, Alabama, but had been residing in Columbus for a number of years past. A widow and seyeral children survive him. The above announced was in reference to the death of Henry P. Funderburk who was a de cendant of Jacob Funderburk who lived a few miles west of Lynchs creek on the Lancaster county side, in what is now known as the Tradesville section. Among a large number of sons was Joshua Funderburk, who in his younger uays, after his marriage to Rebecca Robertson, a sister to the late Samuel and Ervin Robertson moved *: with two of his brothers, Abram and Henry Funderburk and one sister, the late Mrs Lizzie Blakeney, into what is now the Dud ley section of Chesterfield ntry and being of very industrious habits '_ J i I_ ?-_i-: ?r Buccmmu iu ma mug 11 uue ui i the very best sections of theL county in the early part of the last century. Old Liberty Hill Baptist church stands today a living monument to the efforts of the father and his brothers and their kinsman, known as Uncle Jerry Funderburk, and his sons and daughters. We younger generations can recollect the old log church house, and how the sons and daughters of these old pioneer veterans could sing the old Southern and Sacred Harp tunes. Our imaginations so often fly back to those long ago days, and wish we could live them over in reality again. Joshua Funderburk and his family with the Vails families removed from South Carolina in 1852 to Pickens county, Alabama, where he with his sons and a few others began again in the woods to settle up a new section ^ r A1 A if r ? oi me country. tus iamny consisted of seven sons, Harrison, Jackson, Jacob, Robert, Henry P., Arnie and Uriah. The last two mentioned are living, one at or near the old piace settled by Joshua, the other one lives in Mississippi, and two daughters Rachel and Jane, who are living, and are widows, both having married brothers by the name of Abrams, who died several years ago. Joshua Funderburk resided up to the date 1852, where Whiteford Jenkins now lives* and was succeeded by his nephew, the late Joshua C. Funderburk, father of Mrs. R. H. Blakeney and Mrs. Arra Simnson. of vour town. When I visited that section last found that Mr. Jenkins had converted the old house, which is, notwithstanding nearly a century of use, in a well preservrd condition, into a barn. I observed the doors and window Famine and Anarchy in Control in Mexico City. Washington, July 1.?With unparalleled conditions of famine an anarchy in Mexico Cily threatning the safety of foreigners officials of the United States were giving serious consideration tonight to relief measures. Long dispatches by courier to Vera Cruz from the Brazilian Minister at Mexico City were before Secretary Lansing here and President Wilson at Cornish, N. H., who may authorize an efiort to obtain the consent of General Carranza to send sup plies into the old Capital through neutral agencies. The diplomatic corps in Mexico Cit}' is counted on to provide for the removal of foreigners from the fighting zone. . "Only the opening of the railroad from Mexico City to Vera Cruz," said one of the Brazilian Minister's messages, "can bring relief to the situation." The dispatches, the first the depart ment had received in nearly two weeks from the Mexico Capital, revealed that while the cable from the city is not cut, Carran za authorities refuse to permit messages to pass. It is understood the United States will inquire of Carranza to learn the responsibility for stopping of diplomatic communications. While it appeared today that the Zapata forces still controlled the Capital fighting was continuing in th^ outskirts. The political situation in Mexico, generally helievfid ilonpnHc nn the ?r-"-" v.v op^nuioiis: C<^^^ed Zapata successes in opp&. g the entry of Carranza's troops/jnto the Capital has dead locked operations in the SOftth, while in the vicinity ol Aguas Calientes General Villa claims to have retaken La goes and defeated General Hill, who succeeded Obregon in active command of the Carranza forces. Carranza officials, however, declare their troops are having continuous successes. Efforts to restore peace wait to some extent upon the return of President Wilson, although the out-come of the military situation in the next few weeks will have an important bearing on the problem. Many Villa leaders are in Washington and their group will be augmented by the early arrival of Miguel Diaz Lombar do, Villa's Foreign Minister. blinds in mirtirulnr whiidi rl??m onstrated the wisdom and care used in the selection of material that went into buildings in that age. We younger people can learn profitable lessons from observing how well our fore parents builded. Mr. Editor, trusting this sketch of imformation may be interesting reading to some of his deceased relatives, who no doubt had forgotten him, and that I am not imposing upon their patience and your space will kindly ask you to publish same. S. M. Eunderburk, Birmingham, Ala. P K Rirminorlintn luoe nmi.n * v/? *'?* "'"'h111*111 ?? (1^(1111 selected for Conventional city of United Confederate Veterans next year, and incidentally will say our advantages and facilities for taking care of the Vet's are double what thev were when last Convention was held here, we extend to Vet's and sons a hearty welcome, and remember Birmingham expects you. June 28, 1915. Nation In Debt For Last Y&f< |S Washington, July second business year of w present administration - wKKi closed yesterday showed a $3a- c 864,381 deficit compared surplus lor the year ending p 30, 191-'. of $34,418,677. b Official explanation wifilflE ? be issued until the figures " the year are analyzed by Se^f- j( tary McAdoo, but on the fac$3' the records it is apparent ml J receipts were much smaller^~qm ? enormous reduction in cUBtOQg# v revenues resulting from tfie\vite . ?and that disbursements.,! wej& j ^ much greater. i p Notwithstanding the deficit^ i the year's business the treasufl now has an actual net balan<jo e of $82,025,716, With every pr^v v pect that the balance will b'? c increased by possibly $10,000,00.4 D in the next ten days, it is evident p there will be no bond issue t<J> / replenish the coffers for man; c months to come, if at all. a Customs receipts for the las || fiscal year amounted to $209,= c 268,107, about $11,000,000 unde ^ estimates made by Secretar e McAdoo several months afte a the war began, and $82,000,00' s below the amount from this ^ source in 1814. With the end OS the war apparently remote!, r many treasury officials arc ( convinced it will be necessary s for cong*ess to restore the olil l duty on sugar, which is to ber f come free next year, and adi about $60,000,0(10 revenue. f j The income tax proved th<V big producer the last 12 moqt$M 4 Total teceipts up to the closejJB business lasJ pliant 675; of whicn $36,303,525 camWjr in June 30. This is more thadr lfrc% rAA AAi\ 1 ? J 1 in j>o,duu,uuu aoove me toiai re " ceived from the tax last year * and there remain ten days in J] which it may be 'paid. Officials 11 believe $(>,000,000 will come in n in that time, bringing the tota!^ j1 $5,000,000 above the amountl estimated. f It was said tonight that the ? personal income tax proved a a surprise this year. Last year it e brought in only $28,000,000 but e up to date this year it has pro- c duced more than $11,000,000 and ? that probably will be augmented ^ by several millions. The corporation income tax apparently ? will be about the same as last , t year's. It now develops that the v emergency tax law has proved . a better revenue producer than 11 expected. Despite this, how- D ever, internal revenue receipts f for the year?$535,828,377?were 1 only about $27,000,000 in excess v of last year's. One countribut- : ing fact is that whiskey is not ] paying the revenue it used to ' produce by some $16,000,000 or $20,000,000 a year. Another thing pointed out to- . night by treasury officials was that the post office department, 1 usually self-sustaining, has run 1 behind this year and has re- < csived advances from the treas- f ury amounting to more than * $(>,000,000. The treasury has v IV?lift i^nt l\n (lCfntin* /\f tl x/m V/II (IVCV/Uiil Vfl lilt/ Panama canal during the year v more than $29,000,000 which, though reimbursable, is not like- 1 ly to be reimbursed for many * years to come unless through a a bond issue. c Total expenditures for the f year were $731,527,572 compared v with $700,559,248 last year. * r "Papa, was Moses the first * man to have the stomach ache?" r "Why do you ask, Tommy?" . "Because the Sunday school ^ teacher said the Lord gave r Moses two tablets."?Exchange, f ubmarine Sinks Ship and 20 Americans Lost. Washington, June 30.?The a )ominion freight liner Armeni- b n, flying the British flag and a arrying mules from Newport I Jews, Va., to England, was tor b edoed and sunk Monday night f y the German submarine U 38 t ff Cornwall, England, and t early a score of American n luleteers aboard are reported t jst, according to messages to i ac state department today from j ohn S. Armstrong, Jr., consul at c tristol. Twenty-nine men in all 1 tere lost and ten injured. t The news created a sensation i a official quarters, as it was the t irst case of loss of American ives since the sinking of the i aisitania. The action of the i Jnited States government, how- ]?. ver, depends almost entirely on ; \ vhether the Armenian wasj bartered by the British govern t lent and was, in fact, a trans ' t ort of war aboard which ? Americans would sail at their t iwn risk, or whether she was 1 in unarmed merchantman. In { he latter case, even though i :arrying contraband, officials I leld the ship should be subject < id to visit and search and those | iboard transferred to a place of ? afety before the destraction of i he vessel was attempted. I The activity of German sub narines has been renewed in i >ther directions for the British i teamer Scottish Monarch of ' nore than 5,000 tons, bound J rom New York for Manchester, i ind three Norwegian vessels < lave been sent to the bottom. j Cornish, N. IT," July 1.?Presi- 1 Wilson declared tonight 1 ggLAmfc^ador Page had tjansSnTea to Washington the British Admiralty's announc c aent that the steamer Armenian 1 unk Monday by a German sub * aarine with a loss of American 11 ives, was "engaged in Ad 1 airalty business." The animinrpmont rolinvod loncinn ^ lere. The President continued o decline to discuss the incident mt talk of his leaving: immeditely - for Washington heard arly in the day, was not in vidence tonight. It was indi ated here tonight that the inking of the Armenian would ie investigated to determine all he facts connected with the learance of the vessel from Newport News and the status of he American muleteers lost vhen she sank. The President has not been nformed whether the American nuleteers were in the employ of he British Government. The President still is awaiting vord as to when Germany's eplv to the last American note >n submarine warfare is to be ooked for. Bull Insulted Mr. Seegars effcrsonian On last Monday morning our rood friend and fellow towns- ( nan, Mr. J. H. Seegers went [own to his pasture to feed his 1 tattle having nothing but the 1 riendliest feelings toward all the 1 /orld, but not so with a large 1 ull belonging to the herd, who ' ras thirsting for gore, and at- ' tcked Mr. Seegers most vicious- { '-getting him down and at- 1 ( mpting to gore him to death, 5 i id would, no doubt, have suc> jeded had it not been for the 5 rosence of mind of Mr. Seegers ' s'bo drew his knife and stabbed fee animal in one of his eyes, ' linking him run off a little way wiile Mr. Seegers got up and ' niade a get-away. 1 uResenting the insult, and deephined on revenge, Mr. See?rs went off and returned with i Enforcements, and what he did i 01 that bull was a plenty. Ford Will Build Iron Mules. Henry Ford, the multi-millionire automobile manufacturer, las purchased thousands of cres of land near home at )earborn, Mich., and erect a luge blast furnace and great actories for the manufacture of ractor engines. Iron ore will >e used direct from the mines in ipper Michigan, turned over to he smelting plant and turned mmediately into tractor engines. "It is our plan," says an officer >f the Ford company, "never to et the iron cool off from the ime it leaves the furnace until t is turned out in the shape of ractor engines." For years Henry Ford and his mgineering experts have been 3xperimenting with tractor 3ngines, and some time ago they perfected a model that it is predicted will practically drive lie horse off the farm. Once lie men behind the plan weie >ure they had what they wanted, hey began their arrangements ;or the manufacture of them. It has been said that the ractor engine, with all its possibilities, will have a greater and inormous output. Already it is bredicted that 20,000 men will be employed at the new plant?5,)00 more than at the motor car plant. "What this machine will do that is of world-wide importance," declares Henry Ford, 'it is to keep young men on the num. u will I CVl ULC lilt: CUSl U1 tilling: the soil by one-half or ane-third and it will produce food in abundance for his increased population. It will make work, lots of work. "It wjjl take 20 years to denGW sst state of efficiency. It is my dan to make all my motors at dearborn, for both the tractor ind the uffotor cars. I expect to >lant the factory on 600 acres,'* This new plant will be creat;d in the vicinity of where Ford >layed as a boy. It is predicted hat, once the big plant is under vay, the output will be 1,000,000 rngints a year. Thomas Edison, Optimist. Vashington Post. Thomas A Edison stood near lis great plant at Orange, N. j., i few months ago and saw $3,)00,000 worth of property go up n smoke. The firemen were irevented from doing effective vorlc on account of darkness esulting.from the dislocation of he power plant. The next day the inventor was nisily engaged in reconstructng the plant on a bigger scale han ever. He did not take a lay off to bemoan his hard luck. inaeeu, lie actually turned bad uck into good by seizing upon ind perfecting an idea which occurred to him during the fire. Why should the firemen be landicapped by darkness? How could the handicap be removed? Within two days after the fire Vlr. Edison had made a working model of a portable searchlight, ihe most powerful ever devised, which has now been perfected. It is equipped with small storage batteries, but it can throw rays 3f 3,000,000 candlepower. Eiremen equipped with it can work it night as freely as in daylight ?more effectively, in fact, as the searchlight overcomes the gloom ;>f smoking interiors and will he valuable in fighting large daylight fires. Good for Tom Edison! He is the personification of American grit, ingenuity and optimism. Nature seems to relish a contest with such men, trying them out and opening her treasures to them after they fcave proved their mettle. Shiriff Griffith Took all the "Likker." Monroe Enquirer. Sheriff J. V. Griffith captured about eight gallons of liquor last Saturday afternoon. The owner can get it if he will take the proper steps?but no steps to get the booze will be taken. Sheriff Griffith saw a thirsty bunch making such preparations for an automobile trip that led him to believe that the trip was to be one to get some liquor as well as to take a joy ride. And the sheriff got into his machine and tm;.,rid the one under suspicicion. The miles were reeled off in a northeasterly direction until Sike's mill on Rocky river was reached. The sheriff found that three of the automobilists had crossed the river and three were waiting on this side of the stream. In a short time a buggy I - ? il i ? (jiiiue up aim in ine veincie was a very small boy, an idiot and a quantity of brand new corn liquor. The liquor was taken by the sheriff and as the little bov and the idiot could not be handled by the law they were allowed to go. The thirsty ones went to their homes very much disappointed. There is no law against wanting liquor and there is nothing in the "statoots" made and provided against trying to get liquor, and for that reason the thirsty ones were nfHM| arrested and as they d any law? be fair to give hung out with thirst when the news came back that "there was nothing doing" for there were others who were anxiously awaiting the return of that automobile which went after the "likker." Cotton Crop Estimate 12,500,000 Bales. Washington, July.?A prospective cotton crop of 12,500,000 equivalent 500 pound bales this season is unofficially estimated from the department of agriculture's June 25 condiiion and acreage report issued today. That would be 3,600,000 bales less than last year's crop, or a reduction of 22 per cent. In all 31,535,000 acres were planted this year, showing that the government's repeated appeals to cotton growers to reduce their acreage and devote more land to other crops had been heeded. Reductions for this year's area amounted to 5,871,000 acres, or 15.6 per cent. r1 i:?: ~c .u. ^uuuiuuu ui iiic ciup was better than last year at this time and also better than the ten-year average on June 25. Along the Atlantic coast the crop deteriorated in June but conditions improved in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. A total area of 31,535,000 acres of cotton is under cultivation in the United States according to the estimate of the department of agriculture announced today. That compares with 37,406,000 acres, the revised estimate of acreage under cultivation a year ago. Dr. Vaughn at Chesterfield. Chesterfield Advertiser. w v ? * r ? f ? t ur. h. vaugnn, 01 ^aKDoro N. C., has decided to locate at Chesterfield, S. C., for the practice of his profession. Dr. comes to Chesterfield highly recommended both as a physician and as a man. He can be found at Laney's Pharmacy.