THIS SALE
Positively closes on Sat
urday, March 18. It will
pay you to attend between
now and then.
Thousands of people have attended this great
sale and not one went away dissatisfied because
Mason kept every promise that induced the com
ing. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 16,
17,18 are the last three days of this sale and prices
will be cut in every department in the house.
DON’T
Be deceived by other
“would be sales** but look
for the Big Yellow Sign,
“The Sign of Economy.*’
LAST CALL—The Beginning Of The End—LAST CALL
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Men’* and Ladies’ Heavy
Underwear, 50c valve
39c
Monarch Shirts, ralne$1.00
79c
Dtcm <a»gh«—, 121.2c
9c
Drca* Skirts, 75c raise sale
price
39c
Men's Union Saits, $1 mine
> 79c
Work Shirts, 60c mine
39c
Work Gloves, 75c raise
' 49c
Men's Saits, $15.00 value
$11.79
Serges, 50c value
39c>
Men's Hats, $2.50 value
89c
Men's Overcoats, $1# value
$4.98
Men's Shoes, $3.50 value
$2.98
North Carolina
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VILLA’S TREATMENT TO
AN AMERICAN WOMAN
ornnh. Mrs. Wrlfht mid Villa led
nearly 1,500 mb' apon the alaepta*
hmariwn taws at which mn quart
ered lets then 300 American trooper*.
iast before (he end bar hatband
mra takaa prlc.asra with the Hayden
bay, lira. Writht said, the Vina aeea
told bar they had raided Cohmia Jaa
rea, an American Monaco aattlaiamt,
waat of Pee non, looted ad the < tores
S-W
M|.s<w.a.
“Servant**, with IS mb, cam. to
tha taMh the «i«ht MM V
Wright aaid la bar ctocy. ^Thcy pre
ached m f*l h^a«y faeTtP £
of a Mexican empkqr^
tote. Tto wet I trrtfnr * feta Mi
toada MM tow tod toktad Mi todt
% Mi dr— aaSad to ftoydw — to
•to *m tod. Ito I vat «Mi ay
tof ta tor MW to «MVWW —
toU Mat tto* to tod w* wr M
— tokM «* ad w tow — Md
tovta# w itohtaf — that I <Md w*
tMdt it aw J— to wto 'a prtowrv
-,1tai*to*M wMtoa. Iltl|,
It |wa — war Mtoc otola
w^mw MW i^BV*
vwto* wM to aadM akr to twr
to to rater—tot to wa to vto
to —a Ha «tor aw wvad
“My bestead was takes oat to the
goto ot dm ranch yard and bad than
with Hayden. I want oet with tbs
baby ta mo him and saw that they had
alao made a prisoner of the Mexican
who had bean working ateet the
place. A Mexican soldier ordered say
hatband not to talk, f aaid to my
bestead, T am sen they intend to kill
yea.’ The soldier told me to shut op
sad my husband said ho thought
everything would bo all right, if I
«mt into tha house. Ha aaid It waa
too ooU for the baby outside. Bo I
went into the hnnoo. but aeon after
ward a soldier came In aad said my
kaahaad wanted ta saa ms. Whoa I
west out ha told ms to Mara tha baby
with tha wife ef the Mexican who
had also hooa takas prisoner. I did
that Tha soldier aad I wont oet to
gether after he told mo that my has
tend waa at tho top of a bO a tenet
dl riant i away.
• “Tha mldier told me to mot be
hind on Ua harm. When I refused
he pet me en one ef tha pack amine
teksn from my husband. I mas rite*
pidens aad said as.. I did not sea
my husband. Whan I called he did
ant answer, than I said. 1 am going
bate to my baby-' u
}
leg the Mick northward through th»
deaert region of Chihuahua and how
man, thoir tongues swollen, eyes
giaaad and thoroughly exhausted,
would drop from thoir hones, only
to be hMten and prodded with award*
by Villa's officers until they remount- I
ed end again joined their oountrymaa.
JTrtm the first 1 knew that Villa
Intended to attack Colombo*,” Mrs.
Wright eondnued. “It was freely dls
cuMod by the Men sod the officers.
Bess of the latter told me that VUla
intended to kill every American they
could find but they pointed to aw as
an example ed their docWoa net to
harm woman, Later, as .we approach*.
ed the bolder Cram Boca Grande these I
same officers toM *e that Villa—Ms!
rage growing m he neared the bound*
ary—had declared he would make
torch as ever every woman and child
ae mall as every men In Columbus.
" 'Ha intended,' thay Mid, to kin
«wnMi ia tba United Stetaa sad
weald ba helped by Japan and Oar
■any.' At Baaa Granda I aaw art.
daaoa at tbair determination. I did
ao* aaa tbraa Amoriian aowbuya
■fad McKinney. Corbett and O'Nani
■lain, bat 1 aaw iSbn wearing tbair
clothing. That waa aftar Villa bad
aaat oat M. awa to break ap tba Pa
laaaaa cattla ranch, and round ap aad
•apply tba boagry eotauaa with awat.
Saw Aaaaatcaa Kilted.
•1 did'aaa aaothar American kilted.
Ha apyaarad ia tba road feat ahaad of
tha col waa aad a aqaad teak aftar
khn. Ha was traMpted down by tba
bgiaaa at a aaaro of awa. Tbaa Bar
vmotoa dragged tba American yaat
tbo company with which I waa search*
teg. Scrraataa draw hit romlrer aad
•hat hlaiin tha acek. The/American
raa about 40 fact aad fall. Tka Mex
icans atrlppad him of hi. clothing
wkteb. they ^dhr idad. Tha whole column
tbo loot man feed a parting akot hrta
hla bond. Bo waa nothing ami* tbaa
!t palm
"Ww wo hft lw> OiMdi I HiM 1
* to to aland’ Xn. Wri,ht add
ad. -tod toTMta, with a mil*, told
aw that iMtoad, ha toaM t® *fr*
•‘SM0 rid# aad fora* mm to i«ht
with to* Mirtim *caia*t to* fftaf
mw I toW Ma if to did that I waald
throw to* tm tato to* Hw.
“'If rat do.' to add, 1 win thro*
offloon and aald: 1 really bcliera aha
would, and 1 win not give her a rifle.'
Then turning to me he aald, ‘You are
the hardest woman I ever saw.’ I re
plied, This would make any woman
hard.'
"Just before the march for the bor
der began. I spoke to General Villa
again, asking hint to sat ase free be
cause I did not want my own country
men, the American soldiers, flring
upon me in the ranks of tha Btexl
cans. Bat ha laughed and said that
when we got to Columbus he would
gi»« ms my papers in the office af the
beak there. He also mid that tha
Ufa I had led with his troops was
making me fat. ‘Your ekanks are
roeey and fat,' he aald. 'Sunburnt
and swollen,’ l said.
“We loft Boca Qraada yesterday
aad crossed tho border mt of Co
lombo* before 4 o’clock. The officer
in charge mt tho company I was with
mid, *Wa win lay the town la waste,’
•ad VIHa mid, *Wo an to make torch
00 of ovary taan, woman and child to
bo fonad.’
bpoctod Htqr Hms at Cchaahac.
“Ac wo mtwed the ditch loading
pact the American army camp below
0*>«»h»»a. the captain mt my oompany
told me that ha aad SO other offlner*
had yremed tho border yoctcrday as
and found that only a faw
American soldiers won la camp, tint
ths othan won farther west He
added that everybody aspects* aa
•aay time capturing aad burnfc* Um
town aad destroying every Amertoan
ia It. Tho Mexican iahaMtante, ha
told me, won to bo spued.
"I was la Um ttea Villa throw ateag
tho railroad tracks after Ms troops
had swept, eastward through tbs
United States cavalry. A ballet Mt
tho saddle of my boros as I stood by
dtemoonted behind H VUia act bte
»oa across tho tracks late tbs town.
*oea 1 saw buildings on Bn. then tho
American troops, apparently got iate
aoUaa aad In a Httfc white the Maxi
“Villa rod*-f Ota mm iwhg
Md tfUMtaftto* I* ah**t UT MM
who rao away. Ait old ootdlar MtMi
MaMMt o4* aaid ha m too tiak ta
<Uht, Had h*M dotapad to coat* mo,
haMoat ha hod had MMgh *f war, Wt
ho waa afraid, and I want boek with
«b* rotiMdac fatoM a* 111 I raachad
^ pok^MM^toaJtojito
rr m %(•»*•. i ~m » «.
Moores’ home and found Mr. Moore
lying face dawn oe the step*, dead;
hi* wife wai in a nearby ftetd woiuU
ed. She had seen her husband shot,
bat did not know be. wan dead. Some
American soldiers earn* by. They
called for aa ambulance and I came to
Columbus with Mrs. Moor*.”
Mr*. Wright a sail tad surgeons who
attended Mr*. Moore and in the army
eaasp ah* again assisted in helping
wounded soldiers. She was then tak
«i hi charge by Mrs. Slocum who pvt
her to bed. the ilrat bed aha had slept
In since March 1, and kept bar there
all day and tonight, letting her rise
only to aat n little of what she de
scribed aa “real food" and drink a few
capo of tee.
"1 here had nothing for nht* day*
bat mala meat and aaorehad beat
Without salt," aha said. "You an a
real mother," she added, turning to
Mrs. Slocum.
Mr*. Wright cans from Santa,
Clara emmty, Alabama.
DOCTOB FOB BACH M7.
AM • Dray BtntelMUN Per
* New York, Feb. •&—There k a
dray store for every 8,0M inhabitant*
in the United State* and a pbyaidaa
for every 067 inhabitant*, aoeetdhy
ta a directory eenene ef the dm*
trade fast completed by The Pfcarme
eeotical Era, a dray publication ef
New York.
’Them are 4f ,i«l retail dnwyiata le
cntad in I5AS7 dtlaa and town*. It
atao find* that there era tSO dray
iohhtny house*, iacludiny twelve that
are ewned by retail drayyteta on a
eo-operatlve plan. On the baate ef
theaa ilywrea there are 1U retail dray
■tor** for ertry wholesale dray have*.
The number ef physicians is the
Unitod States la asttewtod at IMjm,
■nkiny an avefcye of an dray atom
far every three physician*. TaMny
•he total popniaUen of the eeoatry a*
1MAOOAOO there hi an averaye of one
dray stare Jar every MM of oar pep
otelfca and one phyaldan for army
St^hahteanta—Wadrtaytra Fast. !