PACE SEVEN
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A Newsy Trip
Around The World
By Elizabeth Saunders
In York, Pa., Robert W. Sayresjed his habitual nareotiea. Mm Bar
foat loved the sound of ash eans on (low stuffed a goodly supply in a rub
the pavement and deTeloped the hab- jber finger eot, placed it in her mouth"
tt or melting tnem around tne streets) As ehe kissed a friendly nrinn
kiln tan dollars.
City 1350,000. The Dukt interests
bettered the offer to the three towns
by 180,000 and agreed to reduce the
present rate 3 cents per kilowatt hour
for lights and as far as possible, use
the present force of employess.
The town officials of Spindale ac
cepted the bid of the Southern Pub
lie Utilities company and it is ex
pected that Forest City will also ac
cept. If present plans go through each
of the three towns will hold the spe
cial election on the same day. It is
thought that the elections will carry
if those faroring it will work for it,
The pastime cost
la Chieago, Walter Boesse, iron
worker, toppled fire stories to the
ground, broke only his left foot, was
content because " I had to come
down to post this letter anyhow."
The letter was Mrs. Boesse't which
he had forgotten to mail.
whom in ruse she called her broth
A Minnesota town has held a lawn
mowing eontest, but we doubt that
such events will become popular.
Persons who say they pay no at
tention to little troubles probably
were never infested with ehiggers.
Frank Seagles of Lineoln county Carpet grass ie succeeding in pas.
reports yield of over 300 bushels tures in Rowan county reports W. G.
of wheat from ten aeres of land this Yeager, county agent, though this
year. The grain weighed 3 rounds ' countv is thoutrht ..th. .
to the measured bushel. i west for this narticular fvn r no..
The New York Times asks. "Are
Poets Persecuted!" They must be.
judging by the sadness of most of
their stuff.
My Be Lieut Cr.
Americana aa4 about 3,000,000,000
er, she tongued the drugstuffed eot cucumber piekles a year, according
into hie mouth A guard caught them t0 hs Department of Agriculture.
A small bomb intended for the
Baroness Edouard de Rothschild ex
ploded in the Parie Ceatral Postofflee,
injured no one.
Modernistic ' painters haven t a
thing on Joseph Spoonhower, of
Highland, N. Y. Joseph has his barn
hingled with lieense plates from all
the atates of the Union.
With no grass plots or other dec
erative obstacles in it's 220-foot
Main street in Keene, N. H. is claim
ed by residents there to be the wid
est in the world.
For removing more than 7,000
tons of coal from under a country
church eemetery near Marion, 111.,
the Cosgrove Meehan Coal Co., was
ordered to pay the church $11,035.
By smoking 144 cigareti in. li
hours, George Tsanoff, of Sofia, Bul
garia, asserts that he has act a new
world record.
A solid black in mi ttmA h. With 14.500 hidden in a tea can
Jred Eshelman, in Sowix City. Iowa ister, Henry Richmond, 10, of Pail-
when he "shoed" one of his black delphie was found dying of starva-
aueics off it nest
No more will the skirl of bagpipes
be heard on the bench at iargs, Ay
shyre Scotland. The town council
declares the tones of the national in
strument mae a horrible combination
with accessary motor noises.
In Hammond, Ind., John Graffart,
50, didn't like the food served him
at his boarding house so he hurled
bricks thru the windows of the store
where the food was nurehaierf
A London postoffiee emntov Imm
duty called him to work at 4 o'clock
in the morning, eould not awaken by
an alarm clock. At last h nn
bucket of water over his bed. which
tipped over when the clock alarmed
He married and overlooked the fact
mat nis wile would not like this. The
tion.
A manicure set was among the be
longings of a tramp arrested in New
York.
Awakened by a eat seratehing at
his door. F. A. Pearee, of Buffalo
caught a burglar in his home.
A new alarm clock first sounds a
solft-toned bell, and later a louder
one if the sleeper does not awake
and turn it off.
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Breathes there a man with soul so
last chapter ended in court. He Drom-:cied' wno never to himself has said,
lsed to dismiss the bucket. "I .think I'll
be a candidate."
If he appeared intoizeated it was
because he had paced the floor the
night before with a sick baby, Peter
Nydam told the eourt at Worehester,
Mass, when he was arraigned as a
drankea driver. He was acquitted.
Apple growers of Wilkes eounty
report about 50 per cent of a erop in
the mountain orchards but say the
quality of the fruit so far i .hn
me average.
Pur Faihi
To qneneh the fire that was con
suming the wooden leg of "Peg-Leg
Nell," 'a Hammond, Ind., fruit deal
er's horse, the fire department used
chemicals, which ate the hair off the
horse's legs and back. Now Nell
needs a wig, and the owner is suing
the city, saying the firemen should
have used water. ' '
Se many prisoners at the Wsupun
State prison at Madison, Wis., have
taken University extension courses
that State officials; have decided the
prisoners themselves must pay for
the collegiate advantages of being
JeUs.
Tne school principal In Tomah,
Wis., waited vaily for his pupils one
day recently, until a townsman came
with the information that the trout
were biting. The principal locked up
the school and joined his elasses on
the river bank.
ine ridge method of cultivating
uiuacco is growing, in popularity all
over ea&ern Carolina. Some grow
ers report that the method has be
come general in their communities.
Our sineerest wish for a June
bride-groom is that he will like his
new boss.
A Florida preacher has raised a
chicken with, three legs. If tradi
tion is to be believed tw Vij
would ust suit a preacher.
Believing her little stuffed dog, her
favorite toy, cold, eight-year-old Jean
Lowry, of Madison, Wis, crawled out
of bed, turned on the gas to warm
him, and died from asphyxiation.
Ever since his death more than a
year ago, a lamp has been kept burn
ing continuously before a photograph
of the late King Ferdinand in the
royal palace at Bucharest, Rumania.
A bite of meat which lodged in his
throat caused Andrew Heflin, of Rar
itan, N. J., to choke to death.
In SI. Louis, Federal agents got af
ter one Irving R. Gaetner, pro fres
fional bill collector who, besides
Bending scurrilous duns thru the mails
shamed debtors by parking his car
before their homes. On the car was
painted jibes: "Dead Beats Advertis
ed," "Bad Bills Collected" "Why Be
an easy Mark?"
In New York a big life insurance
company has issued warning that the
bath tub causes more accidents each
year and recommends all - kinds of
safety appliances to prevent slipping
(Wonder if they recommend wearing
scrubbing brushes on the feet and a
pillow tied to your back?
At Bellwood, Pa., Donald W .Wertz
driving a loaded ice truek, hailed a
stranger confidently: "I have 20
cases of beer on that truek. You
can help yourself if you watch it
while I take nap." The stranger
Arrested sleepy Mr, Werts, for he was
K. D. James local-chief of police.
An Alabama lady wrote a nnt tn
the sheriff telling where fifty gallons
of moonshine mash mis-lit t fm,nrf
A sort of masb note.
Borrowers of troubU h . a;.
Acuity in securing a renewal of the
loan.
Skyscraper elevator.
designed to be double-decked, so ae
to take on and let off nossene-A-a on
two floors at the same time.
WILL H. HIBBS PRESIDENT
SOUTHERN FISHERIES ASSO.
Mis. Cora Q. Lewis, veil -knows
Kansas newspaper woman and writer,
wbe ass seen rafted y Ike Demo
cratic leaders f tier state le siake
lbs race for lleatoasst-feveraer. - She
U eeaceded s 'caaass se be the Bret
veieaa te hold a state eflee la Kan
sas. Ber wide popularity Is ecyeetel
te bring her ma ay votes'.
Vja2 IAllss arse a m
FUES AMD N0C5UIT0ES QUICKER ,
decause "It Penetrates"
BLACK FLAG
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It kills ewtatsr s.ssa fc
trmim. Xeateaase the
Black Flag tiquM. Always
leas than other veH-kacwa 1
hilare. Kaaey heck if k scsaat
revs deadliest to sVea, aMsejai
teas, setae, rnacaos, eats, k4
Wss.as. isse.B.v.cx
MADB T Til Uillll or
Kilk fmitktr I
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POWDBK
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At a recent meeting of the South
ern Fisheries Association a tthe Cart
ing Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida,
Will H. Hibbs, former Carteret Coun
ty man who was reared in Newport,
was re-elected president of that or
ganization. He has for many years
lived in St. Petersburg, Fla., and is
the president of The Hibbs Fish Com
pany of that city. He is well known
in this county, especially in the west
ern section. Mr. Hibbs owns a large
estate up on the bluffs overlooking
Bogue Sound and spends his summers
there. He is not only president of j ?
tne association, but for many years
has been an influential member of
the organization and a business man
of the higher order. .
A double scarf ef ereee fei la wen
by the model In the ptctnre. The (reck
Is fashioned la green crepe and the
bet la felt, trimmed with vcItci ribbon.
'l IIIIIMI M"rH"M'f4"Hl"M
Dr. C. S. Maxwell
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office Boars
It to II A. M. sad by
appointmant
An UnpleaiatttlSubjtei ,
All of the funetioas of life are, not
pleasant to consider. Perhaps this is
why some mothers refuse to think that
such symptoms as restless sleep, loss of
flesh, lack of appetite or itching boss
and finwrs in their children, saa be
caused by round er pia worms. Many
aether have proven, however, that a
few doses of White's Oreasa Tessas
fugs, that sum sad haesntcss weans
expeUaat, will make these srssntesai
dMapnear. Yos eaa ct White's Cseass
Ysssnuuga tor U santi par bottle teas
JOSEPH HOUSE, raaiet
666
Rallevaa a HmmLi r Hnralfia la
39 atiautM, check a Celd the flnt
day, aaal checks Malaria is three
days.
666 also in Tablets
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RUTHERFORDTON SELLS
WATER AND LIGHT PLANT i ?
Rutherfordton, . June 27 ' The
Southern Public Utilities company, of
Charlotte, which is a branch of the
Duke Power company, bought the
water and light plant of Rutherford-1 X
ton Thursday afternoon for $295,000 f
a cnicago nrm recently bid 1210,000. ,
for the same plant but the Duke in- X
terests bettered the bid by 1 85,000. jf
The sale is made subject to the ap
proval of the. votess. The town1 1
board plans to call an election soon. ! X
The offer was made at a special
meeting of the mayor of orest City,
Spindale and Rtherf ordton, , with
member of each town board in the
office of the Mayor S. E. Elmore of
Spindale, - ,
The same firm offered the town of
Spindale 1205,000 and offered Forest
City 1410000 for their municipal
water and light plants.
Sheritt and
It CHsrlestown Prison, Boston, company of Chicago, recently offer-
Mrs. Edith, Barlow's husband want- ca Spindale flBO.OOP and Forest
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Spots and stains and hidden dirt pass into history af
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