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BRIEF, INTERESTING FACTS Figures and Historical Mention Os Interest. Dearborn Independent. The Caspian Sea is 84 feet below sea level. Due to the fall in the value of the mark, cash registers are now useless in Germany. The Chicago Motor Club has a fleet of motorcycle riders who pick up brok en glass on the streets when they re ceive a call. Our national wild life resources, if capitalized on the basis of a six per cent annual income, are worth more than $1,000,000,000. • During the last year $500,000 was expen eddon construction of graveled roads in Alaska, most of the work be ing done on the Glacier National High way. A roof over the Chicago river 10 mPe in length, carrying boulevards, parks, garages and oil-filling sta tions. has been proposed as the solu tion of Chicago’s traffic problem. The roof would be 200 feet wide, of nine inch concrete supported on concrete piling sunk into the river bed. To eliminate the unintelligible call ing of pail road stations by hoarse voiced passenger train conductors, a device in Prague automotically dis plays electric-illuminated signs in cars just before arrival at each station. There 2re 42 persons drawing pen sions for tlie War of 1812. All these pensioners are women. Hiram Cronk, of Ava, N. Y., was the Inst soldier ac tually on the rolls of that war. He died in 1905. R. K. Atkinson, of the Russell Sage Foundation, snvs, “Wp are rapidly be coming a nation of bleacberites, be cause we have too much temptation and too much encouragement to be passive participants in recreation—to listen and watch and not perform. And all the while, we are piling up emo tional stimulus and repressing it.” f The heavy gvpsv earrings of the J latest fashion in London are stretch- j ing the ears of women who wear them into triangular shapes and permanent ly disfiguring them. Some of the ear rings weigh four ounces. Paris women are wearing earrings attached to their hats or evening head-dresses. A miniature engine, whose power was generated by the rays of the sun, was successfully dernonsrtated in an eastern college recently. A parabolic copper mirror focused the rays upon a test tube of water, the heat caused the steam which in turn operated the tiny motor at a high rate of speed. Certain students at the Johns Hop kins medical School are paying their tuition with blood money, literally speaking. They sell their blood for transfusion purposes at SSO a trans fusion. The subject must be perfect ly healthy and his blood must measure up to a certain standard before he is eligible for bleeding. Italy plans to develop 75 per cent es her available water power within a year. All sources of water power are *to be linked up so that when wa ter is scarce in the north in winter the power can be conveyed from central Italy and in the summer when the water is scarce in the central part of Italy the power can be obtained from the Alpine streams of the north. Badgers live in chalk cliffs of the British Isles and destroy much game while foraging at night. Badger hunt ing or digging, is a novel sport for it entails following the badger into its deep lair in the ground. Extensive gal leries with many ramificaitons are re vealed in the chalk cliffs where for thousands of years the animals have been burrowing and excavating the soil. Tractors are replacing the dog sledge trains in the spring rush to the Yukon this year. The first tractor train, consisting of a ten-ton hauler with three trailers, was made up at White Horse recently for the 300-mila trip to Mavo. Tractors are also be ing pressed into service to carry ore from the Keno Hill silver mines to Mayo landing. The treasures of the Boston Muse um of Fine Arts are guarded each night by two giant police dogs vffir are trained to refuse to accompany anyone but the watchman who ' ha~ charge of them. At intervals each night they are led through the dark ened galleries. All employes have been cautioned against remaining in the building after hours because of the danger oi attack by the powerful canines. Because he had no money a young Canadian from Alberta. 18 Vars oVI was turned back at American side of the international bridge in Nia gara Falls, N. Y. He then climbed to the network of steel girders beneath the bridge and walked across the Nia gara river. 150 feet above the water on an iron beam 12 inches wide. Thou sands of tourists viewed the rash act and customs officers again escorted him back to Canada. DEATH OF MR. BROOKS. After an illness of nine days, Lon nie Brooks, a well known citizen of the county, died at his home in Siler £ lty , at 9 o clock Thursday night. Mr. i>rooK:s. who was in the seventy-sec ond year, unbale to withstand the severe attack of pneumonia from whwh he suffered. tyeral services were conducted 3L M i* Vernon Meth °d<st church Fri afternoon at 4 o’clock in ‘the ores •vid vo! n ? ' nr? T fathering of friends °- L Hinson, neeic.i music heme: furnished bv a ° r City SurViv -‘tnoM, Tho-tt-W five sons ’ Brooks. ma ’ George and L. B. look ax vounl~ BEL NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS. t News in Concise Form For The Busy Reader. University trustees have voted SIOO, ■ 000 for a woman’s building. Half crop of peaches in the sand : hills is about all that is expected. Granville county will issue SIOO,- 000 school bonds. The Wall lumber plant at South - was destroyed by fire Thursday. Loss $150,000. J. R. Cummings, of Winston-Salem, ■ has not missed but three Sundays in 25 years in attending Sunday school. Seven alleged bootleggers were caught in a drag net in Durham Thursday. Most of them were old offenders. Raleigh—A New York architect ua been ordered to design buildings ex uected to cost approximately $1,600,* 000 for North Carolina. Eight vacant business lots sold in Raleigh for $99,944 last week. The highest price paid for a single lot was $551 for a front foot. Oxford—The date of the convening of the annual conve tion of the Dio cese of North Carolina has been chan ged from May 15 to May 8. A gang of four alleged counterfeit ers were arrested in Durham lart week and lodged in jail. They were making SSO U. S. Treasury notes. Thirteen-year-old Edna Eatman is in Wilson county jail charged with burning her father’s bouse. She is married and her husband is only 17. Mrs. A. G. Holmes, of Council, frus trated robbers who were attempting to break in the Bank of Council, Blad en county, by flashing a light on them A 23-year-old son killed John F. Smith, 75, a wealthy Wayne county citizen, last week, by knocking him in the head with an axe. The son w r as arrested, J Income tax collections announced from the office of Revenue Commis sioner Dough ton, show that the State has passed the three million mark and is still going strong. Goldsboro-»-The Seminole Phospate company, million dollar fertilizer con cern of this city, for the second time has been thrown into the hands of a receiver. Clarence P. Gaston, formerly tax collector of Buncombe county, v.ffio embezzled $49,000 of county funds and was sentenced to four years im prisonment, has been paroled by Goi emor Morrison. Tw t o children, Clara Crabtree, who wras killed, and Verona Creech, with a fractured skull, were picked up by the side of the road near Fuquay Springs Sunday. They had been thrown from a bicvcle and dashed against a tree. The Crabtree girl may recover. Granite Falls—Reports have been current for some months that the Sou thern Power company will soon begin the erection of a big dam at Rhodhiss. A hydro-electric plant will be install ed, it is claimed, that will develop around 50 ; 000 horsepower. Wadesboro. The cold weather which continued here made the farm ers somewhat unsteady regarding the cotton planted several days ago. Much of the crop remains to be planted. In some section cotton is already up. Kinston—Jasper Smith, postmaster at Pink Hill and prominently connect ed in that section, is under bail o f $250 for his appearance in Superior court here on a charge of attempting to assault a young girl residing in the village. B. IT. Hedgeeor-k. of High Point banker, and H. D. Edmonds, merchant, of Winston-Salem, the former who embezzled SBO,OOO and the latter for burning his store, were refused rev trials by the Supreme Court. Each go to prison for three years, Raleigh.-—Dr. E. C. Brooks, super intendent of public instruction, has available for one well qualified 1923 high school graduate a four-year scholarship, valued at $250 annual!v to the Colorado School of Mine 0 , Gol den, Col., it was announced tonight. Salisbury.—W. L Ray. a local mag istrate, has received a dollar from r man at Hot Springs, N. C., in navmen* of a debt made 40 years ago while M; Ray w r as counducting a store near Ho" Springs. W T hen Mr. Ray went out o* business the man denied the' debt, b ,rl ■~ow, at the age of 83, he says be could cot sta~d the idea of chirg v.itVoiri saving the debt, and so he sends the dollar. The trouble with blind love is that it doesn’t stay that way.—Washington Post. Presbytery Closes. Fayetteville, April 20.—A “ter a 3- day’s session the most largely at tended meeting of the Fayetteville Presbytery ever held in the history of the Presbyterian organization ad journed here late ysterday after noon. The closing session w r as large ly occupied with the presentation and adoption of reports from the standii g committees and the passage of reso lutions of thanks for the entertain ment of the presbytery. LOOK AT YOUR LABEL * If it is * * FURNITURE, WE * have it. * It Will Pay * you to get * | Our Prices. * * Carter Furniture Co. ✓ * : A FIENDISH DEED, i Burlington News, April 20. , | County and city officers were en gaged in a man hunt about 11 o’clock this morning for an unknown negro, one of three in a party, w r ho shot from abush and slightly wound ed in the legs, three child inmates oi the Christian Orphanage at Elon Col lege. The wounded are: Claud Chambers, 9 years old. Monroe Thomas, 7 yearse old. Earl Strong, 6 years old. The children wmre on the property of the institution, some 300 or 400 yards from the main buildings. They were picking wild flowers, growing intermixt with the mossy bed of the woods and along banks of a branch something any child delights in. Dan ger, lurking, hiding in the form of a beastly black in whose hards a sin gle barrel shotgun was clutched, did not warn them. They were unafraid, unthoughtful of any ill turn against them. Art a spot wffiere the wooded hill side clears away somewffiat, the boys were near together when a shot rang out, and each felt the sting of the shot, in each instance between the an- k T e and knee. Frightened, they start ed to run home, but not before they had seen the sneaking would-be child assassins flee through the woods. Neither of the children is seriously hurt. But blood came from many tiny holes where the shot had riddled the overall suits worn hv the boys and penetrated the flesh. The distance from wffiere the shot was fired to where the boys were was about 45 yards. It happened about 9 o’clock, which gave the fiend a two-hour lead on the efforts of the law to find him. Had bloodhounds been available it is reas onably certain they could easily have struck the trail and gone to the lair of the culprit. Only one shot was fir ed. Sheriff. C. D. Story led the search, j but nothing so far has developed to ’ throw any light on just vffio the three negroes were. Each of the little boys safe in the j institution yards, declared they were!: through with the woods, even though [ they did like t© stroll among the j trees. i \ There v T as no motive for the deed. I [ It was the v T ork of a murderous brain!! directed against the lives of innocent j< children. Everyone expresses regret ! that no clue so far has been picked up.;{ ■ i; DEATH OF MRS. STOUT. j| j i Contributed. On April 10, 1923, the death angel ! visited the home of L. M. Stout and 1 took from their home his wife. i Before her marriage she was Susan I Anna Pace, bom Oct. 22, 1855. She; w r as, therefore, 67 years old. She has ; been suffering from asthma and heart j trouble. She seemed cheerful Monday and i j said she w r as feeling all right except! ( that she w r as awfully weak, was up i. and down with her until midnight and | I H. J. BOLING ESTATE'S 1 At Auction lues. & Wed. May lanp 2 § | PROPERTIES as FOLLOWS I ft At 10:30 a. m., on May Ist, we will sell the M. J. Boling Home j 2| Place, containing 250 acres, adjoining the town of Bonsai, subdivided % into small tracts, splendid home fronting the National Highway, out- % $£ buildings and good timber proposition and the finest tobacco land 5 !!£ to be found, W W _ . ‘ $ At 11:30 on May Ist, lhe Bcokar Place, three ro lei wnst of Bonsai, ad- M joining Mr. J. J. VVomble, T. Y. Mims, on White Oak Creek, containing 225 fjp aces, subdivided into small tracts, good timber proposition and farm. m At 12:30 25 choice business and resident lots in the town of Bon- © 2 . sal and five small farms adjoining the town. A free dinner will be ® ® furnished at this sale. H* ® At 3:30 p. mwe will se’l 4 business lots in the town of Apex, located on @ P the corner of Elm and Chatham streets. . §5 Hi On May 2, at 10:30 a. m, 250 acres, known as the Albert Holt place, lo- H cafced 2 1-2 miles west of Bonsai, on the road leading to New Elam church, sM subdivided into small tracts. Ot« May 2, at 2:30, we will sell the Woody Farm, located on the Siler City m and Snow Camp highway, 6 miles out from Siler City. This is good wheat w and cotton land and has been subdivided into small traces. . Mr. Wade Barber, for the purpose of making division of this estate, has A 2? consigned the above properties to us with instructions to sell each niece @ absolutely regardless of price and for 20 per cent cash and the balance on £p H| unusually easy terms. Sal" rairs or shine. Valuable prizes given away at these s*les. Brass Band dg 0 WADE BARBER, Trustee, Pittsboro J | ALLEN BROTHERS, Selling Agents, Raleigh, N. C. 1 I she said for us to go to bed for she was feeling very well. When we arose we found her dead in bed bvt she hud not been dead but a short while. At the time of her last period of sickness her husband was away w'th his son who was in the hospital where he was operated on a week before. ! She leaves to mourn her husband, , five children and three step-children, ! i 1 jj I 1 A High Grade Bond f ' I of Attractive Yield lj II ALAMANCE FIRST MORTGAGE SIX PERCENT GOLD I J If BONDS ARE ABSOLUTELY SAFE. THEY ARE FREE | || FROM THE MARKET MANIPULATION AND THE 1 || “INVESTIGATE UNCERTANTY OF MANY SO-CALLED INVEST- p BEFORE INVESTING,” MENX g THAT TURN OUT TO BE PURELY SPECULA- !| I ’ TIVE ‘ | 5 || ISSUED ON MORTGAGES PLACED ON HIGII-GRADE t| (| PROPERTY AND YIELDING SIX PERCENT INTER- !j§ ||| WRITE FO^ONDS” BOOKLET EST THESE BONDS ARE A SAFE INVESTMENT FOR || || ANYONE WITH SIOO OR SIO,OOO TO INVEST. I WRITE FOR FREE BOOLKET “BONDS.” if I 1 I . § I § I I fe 1 'isimp insumee aid Real Estate Co I 1 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $300,000 ? j| |f W. E. SHARPE, Manager. C. G. SOMERS, Field Representative. I : 'L BURLINGTON, N. C. | who are Mrs. S. R. Gilmore, Siler City Mrs. E. G. Perry, Siler City, Mrs. W. G. Campbell, Siler City, R-3, Mrs. G. G. Burke, Bear Creek, R-2, and Wade Stout, Siler City, R-3. The step-chil dren are: A. M. Stout, Siler City, R-5, H. 11. Stout, Golds ton and W. C. Cox, Asheboro, and twenty living grand children. She professed faith in Jesus Christ in early life and lived a faithful p* She was a loving wife and kiwi Jle * ther and loved her neighbors* u?' know that God never makes a mi?ui He doeth all things well. Her body was laid to rest at Pi v Chapel cemetery Wednesday ?■- ]i.s o’clock. Funeral services were r ducted by Rev. Richard S. Fount?' Her grave was covered with W?' flowers. a
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