|> dwfctor# Herein fr&i&i&itiifa'iMic wlinilciib W WWWofciii | j Miss Kate Vestal f I is offering her annual July attractive prices on millinery 1 to begin JUNK 15th. & All spring models at price that will appeal to the late | buyer. I Also Leghorns and Mid-Summer White Hats, Felts, etc., | will be shown as the season demands. Taffetas, Crepes, I Hosiery, 12 months the year. 1 To serve you. | MIS* KATE VESTAL 1 MISS KARA LANE MISS M. STONE. I This line or Millinery is also being Shown by Mrs. C. B. I Fitts at Bear Creek. jp ——• IT CAN’T I BE DONE 1 THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THE “RADIO”, I BUT IT IS BEING DONE. CHIROPRACTIC ALSO CAN I AND DOES MAKE SICK PEOPLE WELL. INVESTI | GATE. CONSULTATION AND SPINAL ANALYSIS if FREE. | DR. ERNEST C. BROWN, I Palmer Graduate. CHIROPRACTOR Sanford, N.C. h | Listen, Ladies, Listen! » I WE HAVE A FEW SPRING AND SUMMER COATS I AND DRESSES THAT WE ARE OFFERING FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS AT AND BELOW COST. NOW IS I THE TIME TO BUY. LET US SHOW YOU. | Woody Bros. Quality Shop Formerly Ladies Emporium, I E. D. WOODY, SILER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. TOURING CAR New Price I This is the lowest price at which the Ford Touring Car has ever sold, and with the many new improve ments, including the one man top, it is a bigger value than ever before. y m - - v —•-- - Buy now. Terms if desired. THE I CHATHAM MOTOR CO. PITTSBORO, N. C. FACTS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA Things of Interest About Old North State —Its Leadership in Many Lines. North Carolina leads all the States of the union in the production of pea nuts and tobacco. Winston-Salem leads the world in the production of tobacco products from raw materials; Greensboro boasts of the largest denim and dam ask mills on earth; Kannapolis “points with pride” to her towel fac tory, a world beater; Lexington shows the way in making underwear; Durham claims leadership in the pro duciton of hosiery and Statesville has the world’s largest herbarium. There are 168 optometrists in this State, 72 chiropractors, 1,867 lawyers and 647 practicing dentists. In the World War North Carolina furnished a total of 92,510 fighting men of which 84,577 were soldiers, 7,- 312 sailors and 621 marines. Os these there were 2,505 soliders, 107 sailors and 33 marines who gave up their lives. Since North Carolina has been re cognized as a State she has had 82 governors. Twenty-three were un der the Lord Proprietors’ regime; 6 under the crown; 27 were elected by the General Assembly; 21 by the peo ple and 6 were lieutenant governors and became governors through the death of the governor during his ad ministration. There are 36 different railroad com panies in operation in the State. There are 15 religious denomina tions represented by churches in this State. The North Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence were William Hooper, a lawyer; Joseph Hewes, a merchant, and John Penn, another lawyer. North Carolina is credited with the highest birth rate of any of the Unit ed States and one of the lowest death rates. In the way of educational institu tions the State has 21 State institu tions, 26 denominational colleges, 54 preparatory schools, 99 accredited high schools and 23 orphanages sup ported from various sources. The State has 89 national and 547 State banks. North Carolina has 383 cotton mills with a total of 5,605,102 spindles and employing 78,971 persons; 7 woolen mills; three silk mills; three cordage mills; 142 knitting mills that fur nish employment for 12,564 people and 107 furniture factories working 8,697 employees. With the exception of one city High Point manufactures more furniture than any other city in the world. There are 25 State fair associaitons in North Carolina and the highest point in the United States, east of the Rockv Mountains, Mt. Mitchell, is sit uated in western North Carolina. She is a erreat old State all right. May her tribe increase. Volstead’s colleagues, when he re tired from Congress, presented him with a watch. It probably was a Wat erbury. • *:> ' 4 J ; £p •-'•• • . 4- ; ., .: &H :: ‘&.s■ f• /: ;•: : : • '•>f ?' •; : v-•: : •••>• : - * : . !.•: \ ! : /i :': ' ’ ■ '' '■•■ | TIPPERARY OVER THE TOP. A remarkable photograph made at Prestage, of Calgary, Alta., Canada, die a new seven-passenger touring Aiken, S. C., snapped just as “Tipper- made a record jump of 22 feet dis- car. ary,” a wonder horse owned by Jack tance, 6 1-2 feet high, using as a hur-, ‘ ,,r *"*~ "" 111 '!■ —u 1 111 IHM i—> .mnm. ■'!« —••=—■iwm » ■ [?f& f T/OOME " T' "' ' By J. II ftfe«r j rf.’:ri:Vr-: .'.,. n , - •'' ::V:.-.---- rT — : ■ ■■■■■«■■■■ ■»mi ■—•'■■■ ■■ ■■■■■■>• <^ ■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■ .......»i«m*■. —. -r.,J lTbb~Yob‘W^?f7^RlDE DOWH TOWM?)! __ I BURGLARS BROKE iFr.MYTn STRANGE AND CURIOUS. Peculiarities That Will Astonish Almost Anyone. It will take 20,000 men to harvest the wheat crop of Kansas. Two murderers in Berlin recently hid themselves in the :town clock. A Chinaman in San Francisco re cently wrote his will on a laundry ticket. Out in Kansas City, Mo., a dog barked and saved five negroes from being cremated. A diamond wortn st>uO was found in the stomach of a fish caught near Union Hill, N. J. Mrs. Laura Valles, of El Paso Tex., recently gave birth to her 20th child, a girl. All the others are dead. < A bull frog was caught by John Patterson, of Boonville, Ind., that had a water moccasin snake 18 inches long in him. Merrill, Wis., has been invaded by millions of black ants. The streets 1 and sidewalks were covered with the pests. Prairie du Chien, Wis., has a house * that was put up in 1835. It was ] brought to the town, a distance of 6,- ’ 000 miles. ! William McPherson, of Kansas City, is blind and has no hands, but he reads his Bible daily by sticking' % the 1 tip of his tongue to the raised letters. < In a spiritualistic seance in New j York a sitter grabbed the hand of a ! “spirit” who was waving a trumpet The “spirit” struck the sitter over the head and made a getaway. Five years ago George Davis, a ' Chicago boy, had his leg crushed so ' badly it had to be amputated. A few days ago a train struck him and cut cff the other leg. In Bloomington, 111., five denomina tions have built a church and each worships in it at different times. It was built bv the Presbyterians, Bapt ists, Christian, Congregational and Methodist. A federal convict in the Atlanta prison has painted a life-size of Jesus Christ on the wall of the chapel. It took him six months of hard work to finish the work. It de picts Christ on the- steps of the tem ple while all about him are gathered the sick, the lame and sightless and the weary. Washington.—Foreign governments have about come to the conclusion that the United States even though pos sessing the legal right to keep liquor oiT foreign ships touching American ports will not in actual practice chal lenge the good feeling of the powers j and cause serious embarrassment. GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS. Short Items of Common Interest to All. Dayton,O.—United States dirigible TC-1 is destroyed by fire in an elec trical storm. Portland, Ore.— The Tillamook Creamery Associaiton has announced an increase in price of cheeses of two cents a pound. Valparaiso, Ind.—Harry Diamond, found guilty of murdering his wife, is sentenced to die in the electric chair at Michigan City on October 12. Washington.—Earnings of class one railroads during April totalled $83,- 197,800 equivalent to annual return of 6 1-2 percent on invested capital. Atlanta. —Brick prices are continu ing to advance in response to active demand in this section and products of Southern yards are now selling at sl9 per thousand. Washington.—Woodrow Wilson is serenaded in his Washington home by Shriners from Greenville, S. C., he calls for “The Star-Spangled Banner” afetr “Dixie” is sung. St. Louis. —Transportation of mon ey by airplane to reduce interest charge and lessen number of robber ies is being considered by Federal re serve board. Palm Beach, Fla.—The body of Henry Simmons, negro, riddled with bullets, was found hanging to a tree on Palm Beach Island. The negro was suspected of having shot and kill ed Policeman J. A. Smith, a native of Staunton, Va. Wenatchee, Wash. —Apple growers in this section are confident that they will recover the losses of last year during the present season. The fruit is finely set and weather conditions have been ideal. Denver. —Modification o 4 ' the Vol stead act and the return of light wines and beer were favord in a resolution adopted at the closing session of the annual convention of the Colorado State Federation of Labor. Washington.—The state department is officiallv advised of the resignation of the Chinese cabinet in dispatches from Pekin which said the action was taken because of alleged ‘presidential’ encroachments on the rights and priv ileges of the government. New Yoj-k.—Recommendation that striking bricklayers and employers up to January 1, 1926. was made by a scale of sll a day or $1.37 1-2 an hour up to Jaunary 1, 1926 wasmade by a conference of the committee of the public group of the building industry. The bricklayers, who have been on a strike for more than three weeks, seek sl2 a day and a two year wage agree ment. “COLD IN THiT^ is » acute attack Those subject o f re i , generally In a “run SX'S 1 HALT, S C'ATARrtt JLcondnif Treat r- be us- caliy, and a TW oir % Quickly through the p,lc ecus Surfaces, buMn? 004 «» s •Rd Rl^ ln S you lesc liabl'p P t ,lle I Sold by druggists for a, *° “cot r. J. Cheney & Get 1) A Rid of |\ A * Rid your premises of rats v TRIPLE STRENGTH rV» not a poison, affects n»i l 'i We find it hard to get r ,J, sons, they eat this readily y** ey back if it fails. iout i For further information wrW ’phone 27. ffril( * Wayside Hatched SILER CITY, NORTH CARo^ A throbbing M WtIQTVOUS iMENTHOLATUM seethes it, Quick Relit All the sufferings the world won’t cure disease. Pain makes most diseases worse and sometimes brings on still further dis orders. Stop the pain and give nature a chance to work a cure. DR. MILES 1 Anti=Pain Pill One or two will bring relief. Your druggist sells tin at pre-war prices—2s d« 25 cents. Economy pai age, 125 doses SI.OO. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTIO Having qualified as admimsts of the estate of the late N. B.JjJ deceased, this is to notify all sons holding claims against saide to exhibit same to us duly venw or before the Bth day of May, or this r.otce will be plead in® their recovery. All persons indebted to saw* will please come forward a?.d ; immediate payment. This the Bth day of May, p W. J. HACKNEY FRED. C. JUSTICE, June 14-c. Ad.nuii^ EXECUTOR’S RE-SALE OF l Under and by virtue of tie itv given in the last wi ' a (l j ment of J. T. Womble, deceased undersigned having sold the below described lajy court house door on May j 4 -' and an advanced bid oi m-e H having been filed with tie c " superior court, and under ■ tue of an order of the c - el 'k L ior court for the re-sa*e o low described lands, the uno- • will on „ T 4 On the 16th day of at 2 o’clcok, p. m., at the P -* door in Siler City, Chatham “ expose again to sale the m _ scribed land on the follow i . One thousand dollars cash, payable Five hundred dollars! j until paid in full with in - Y per cent per annum, payable payment secured by notes a land reserved until paid m t ■ Situate in Matthews Chatham county, and bourn lows: , Bounded on the east by J- , of J. T. Womble estate; on £ j by the Paschal lands and - lands; on the west by tne lands and the Estridge ■d T1 _» south bv the lands of Ira . * Mrs. M. R. Houston, recent survey 144 acres, mo and being situate near the way leading from Green?' 10 g ford, and on which is pmia ; residence, a tenant house a barn and other outbuilding-- a good farm and in a g°° cultivation. This June Ist, 1923. T . F. A. HOUSTON Miss DAVIE HOI, Executors estate of J. T. ceased. Dixon and Dixon. A ttys. - Siler City, N. C.

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