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PAGE FOUR The Concord Times Entered as second slaia mall matter at the postoflloe at Concord, N. C., «n --ler the Act of March 3, 1870. Published Mondays and Thursdays. I, B. SHERRILL, Editor and PaMlsher W. M. SHERRILL., v Associate Editor Special Representative FROST, LANDIS 4 KOLIN 225 Fifth Avenue, Nevr York Peoples Gas Building, Chloajfc. 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect April 29, 1923. NORTHBOUND No. 136 To Washington 5:00 A. M. No. 36 To Washington 10:55 A. M. No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M. | No. 12 To Richmond 7:10 E. M. No. 32 To Washington 8:28 P. M. No. 38 To Washington 9:30 P. M. SOUTHBOUND No. - 45 To Charlotte 4:55 P. M. No. 35 To Atlanta 10.06 P. M. No. 29 To Atlanta 2:52 A. M. No. 31 To Augusta 6:07 A. &_l. No. 33 To New Orleans 8:2 1 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 9:o> A. M. No. 135 To Atlanta 9:15 P. M. " TIME OF CLOSING OF MAILS. The time of the closing of mails at the Concord postoffice is as follows: Northbound. Train No. 44—11 p. m. Train No. 3G—10:30 a. m. Train No. 12—0:30 p. m. 1 Train No. 38—7:30 p. f m. Train No. 30—11 p. m. Southbound. Train No. 37 —9:30 a. m. Train No. 45—3:00 p. m. Train No. 135—9:00 p. m. Train No. 29t-11 :Q0 p. m. Bible Thought For The Day lip - J|jL BE KIND TO THE ERRING : Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness: considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.—Galatians f»: 1. , m GETTING AT ROOT OF EVIL. William Banks. Columbia corre spondent of The Charleston News anti Courier, makes this comment in a news story: "Men who eighteen months ago would have thought it a lark-to get ahead of the government and buy a lot of Ton tin lui ml whiskey are getting a new idea. One business man in Col umbia ]ntt i£ into, words —‘Whenever 1 read of an officer being killed hand ling bootleggers. I feel that I am re sponsible. Every bottle of liquor I bought was a contributor to liis death. If the men in South Carolina would quit buying it. the rum runners would quit selling it,’ and there you are.’’ That covers the case and gets right at the root of the blockade evil. If business men, who who in many in stances profess to believe in prohibi tion and Christianity, wouM not pat ronize the bootlegger the latter would soon go out of business. Every pur chaser of liquor is "particeps criminis with the moonshiner,” as one newspa per puts it, and that's right, whether the law recognizes the fact or not. The purchase of liquor not only is a violation of the law on the part of the purchaser, hut it sets a bad exam ple for liis children or other persons who may be fafiiiliur witlf his habits. The man tries to teach his child law obedience as well as paternal obedi ence, and yet lie slips around and buys liquor from a bootlegger, in violation of the law. The child may not see him purchase the liquor, hut he will ' soon learn that the liquor was secured ? in violation of the law. It is pure hypocrisy for promihent men, or any other men for that mat ter, to rave and rant about violation of other laws when they themselves yiolate the prohibition laws. ANOTHER TEXTILE PLANT. | . That business conditions with the textile plants in this city continue I good is indicated by the announcement that another hosiery - mill is to begin operations here in the near future. The company has an authorized capi tal of SIOO,OOO and expects to begin operations about July first. * Great strides have been made by the [ manufacturing plants in this county recently. Several of the mills are hav ing additions built to them: others are purchasing more modern machinery, and in addition this hosiery mill and a new cotton mill have been organized here within the past several months. During the most prosperous days of the war Concord did not enjoy great er boom than she is enjoying now. Carpenters and brick masons cannot | be secured, and raw materials are as scarce as at. any time during 1918 or 1919. Not ohly are new business hous es and manufacturing plants lining § erected, but many new homes are also tinder construction, indicating that in- H dividuals as well as corporations and | business concerns are enjoying pros- I perity. CIVIC IMPROVEMENT. The movement started here several months ago by a number of property owners to have streets adjoining their property widened* hits proved very suc cessful. and ais a resfiilt several of Die most important and most congested : streets in the city are now being wid \ ened and made safer and more bean J I tiful. Part of South Church street : Bear the cotton platform, will be wid pned more than 25 feet, and when tin is completed will be one of tin | widest streets in this city. This will 1 j mean much to traffic on the street, . - which heretofore has been so congest ■ ed that travel on it, especially on Sat urdays when farm people visit the city in large numbers, has been almost ■ impossible at times and dangerous at . all times. Part of Means street, near the heart of the business district, probably will be widened later, and the city has al ready agreed to widen West Depot street from Spring street to the first business house. Both of these streets are used by hundreds of autos and other vehicles and are too narrow at present. In every instance the land for the street has been given by the property owners free of charge, and the city has paid for the paving of the laud. The proposition seems a just one, and will mean much for the city in years to come. The traffic problem is a se rious one in every city now, and it is especially serious in Concord, where unfortunately, the streets were made too narrow when the city was laid off. In some quarters where wider streets are badly needed they cannot be se cured without tearing down perma nent buildings and this, of course, means too much expense. But where it is possible, the streets should be widened, and the property owners who have given land to the city for the streets have shown a line civic spirit. SUGAR PRICES COMING DOWN. The general public is aroused over the seemingly unjust rise in the price of sugar, and such a howl has been raised that already one New York company announces a reduction of one-half a cent, per pound. In sev eral cities, including New York, many ladies have boycotted sugar, and this too has had its effect on the price. The ‘Fpderal. government several weeks ago started an investigation to determine why sugar prices should rise so suddenly. There was no ap parent reason for the increase and un just methods were suspected. So far as we have learned the government in quiry amounted to nothing, just what it was expected to do. The sugar owners knew that such an inquiry probably would be made, but they also knew that it would take such a long time that they would be millionaires before anything was done and they could reduce the price again. Facts and figures could he so placed that j the investigators could learn little of the business. But when the public started in be hind the inquiry something had to be done. The boycott also helped. If the men who control the sugar market see that thort? is going to he a real de crease in the amount of sugar used they will let it go at lower prices. ‘Government investigations probably amount to some good at times, but they are never as effective as public opinion and action by the public. It is truly hard to fool all of the people even some of the time, and in this sug ar matter they were not fooled. No sugar shortage has been shown: no reason for the increase in price is of fered ; and the people are not going to sit idly, by ami let the sugar owners get the increase without making a de termined fight. LICENSE DRIVERS. While a great many, of the auto ac cidents in the United States are due to drunken and careless drivers, sta tistics show that in many instances the accident is due to ignorance on the part of the driver. Under the present laws - in most States anyone over 10 years of age can operate an auto. No special test is made to determine the fitness of the man or woman who would drive a car. The law now rules that a person who is 10 years of age and can secure enough money to pur chase a car, may operate it. And a new law should be passed everywhere making it harder for a person to drive. We should have a law that would re quire every auto driver to pass an examiuaDon before operating a car. The Gastonia Gazette points out that "safe drivers’ clubs throughout the United States are trying to effect the passage of laws which would re quire the licensing of every automo bile driver in the country.” Under the plan proposed the examination would require: Driving over a specified road, ac , companied by a police officer and again | under the observation from a machine following behind the applicant. I Working knowledge of the traffic laws. Working knowledge of the English language so every driver may under stand road signs. Physical fitness to drive an automo l bile. ’ The last requirement has caused cou f siderable controversy. There are some - advocates of a licensing law whicl e would bar deaf persons from the driv 1 ! ing wheel. One would disqualify one .- j legged or one-armed drivers unless i- jithey had attachments _ which wouli t 'serve as well as a limb. I- Under this plan. The Gazette point! e out, "the chaff would be gleaned fron e the wheat, a higher sense of responsi t I bility behind the steering wheel would , be felt and automobile accidents in - general would be diminished. These - safety clubs do not demand license i laws for the taxation to be derived t from them or even the of them t to be had. Their only purpose is to 'find some way by which the incompe- II tent, irresponsible driver will be l eliminated. To this end they demand - ! a thorough examination of each appli :' cant before a license is furnished : him.” 1 ; i : -■ l PRICES GETTING TOO HIGH. j. B. Duke, head of the Southern « Power Company, in a statement made • in Charlotte Saturday, declares his company will undertake no more build , ing projects at this time because the [ | prices of commodities and labor have ; j become too high. It is not feasible, | he contends, for his company to build ; j new power plants when the cost of the ■ i plant will be more than the return he ■ | can get from the investment. The facts as discovered by Mr. Duke hold true in smaller projects. One Concord man who has been identified with much building here states that too much building is being done now. It would be better, lie states, if the building program here were scattered over a longer period. People want something built right now. They tell their contractor this and he goes into the market determined to get the ma terial and men needed for the construc tion of the building without much re gard for cost. As a result the price of materials is advanced along with the wages of the workmen. This means that the owner of the building has to advance his rents or goods to pay the increases the contractor has to pay. The public pays the bill in the end, as is the case always. I Some dissatisfaction with the new ~street sweeper has been voiced by a number of citizens of Concord. The sweeper, they argue, merely stirs up the dust and does not give out enough water to fettle the dust, offi cials declare that once the streets here get back to normal after The ex cavation work incident to the street paving, the sweeper will be fully able to keep the streets clian. It is a fact that it docs little good now, for it does not give out enough water to really wet the streets, and unless the water supply is increased it will hard llv keen the streets clean. I ODD AND INTERESTING. A tubular comb that shampoos or dyes the hair is a new invention. More babies are born at the time of full moon than at any other time. Those working in soap factories are said to be practically immune from cancer. The total length of the great wall of China, including its branches, is 3.93(» miles. Scientists say that when the moon is shining human emotions are at their highest point. In India the native devotees of the "movjes” are partial to films dealing with crime and crooks. One female fish may lay 9,000,009 eggs,—this number was actually found in the roe of a turbet weighing seven tom pounds. In* one. English school the children are taught the songs of the various wild birds by means of phonograph records. The Hindu believes that if he tells a lie while looking at the sun he will be condemned to the torments of hell. Sultans and priests of Turkey once considered smoking tobacco so serious a crime that in many cases torture and death was the punishment meted out to those indulging in it. One poultry farmer is known to keep the Sabbath with Calvinistic stern ness. Eggs laid by liis hens on a Sun day are never sold. They are distrib uted among deserving families. The last person who could speak Cornish died towards Die end of the eighteenth century, and today the lan guage' survives only in place names , and in terms Used by fishermen and miners. The commonest physical defect in Die human race is that the arms are . disproportionately long. This defect occurs more often in men than in wo men, and more frequently among the ' colored than among the white races, i At Pisa there is an echo that takes no notice of two sung notes, but if three are uttered they are flung from stone to stone with ever-increasing : strength, until after a few seconds it : seems as if some mighty choir were . singing. Under the English law the wife of a criminal is legally justified in doing • all she can, short of committing anoth i er crime, to shield her husband from justice; although any other person do ing so would lie liable to lie charged as an accessory after the fact. But 1 ! a husband is forbidden to shield liis e I wife who is a criminal. His duty Is to j hand her over to the officers of jus tice. i \ ■■ President May Visit Panama Canal. j Washington, May 4.—President Harding has under consideration among other plans for liis western trip, a proposal advanced by Secre »- tury Denby that lie return from' Alas ka on a naval vessel byway of the Panama Canal and Porto Kico. L- e Sentence Dr. Tikhon. p Moscow. May 3 (By the Associated i Press). —The All Russian Church, con clave today adopted a resolution hj(n trucking the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon is former patriacb of All-Russia. The first ala rip clock made its ap pearance in 1420. and its owner was :s a councillor of Milan. His clock w sounded a bell at a stated hour, and . | at The same time a little wax candlt l ~' was lighted automatically. * THE CONCORD TIMES t- ■ ■■■■——■ , ■——-> t " ' * ~~ * ; Make Non-Stop Flight From New York State to Pacific Coast » 1 San Diego, Cal., May 4.—Some twen i ty years ago at Kittyliawk Field, N. , t\, a crowd of curious spectators stood around a strange machine knotCn as an airship, and with one accord de > ola red: "Huh! That thing will never leave the ground.” But it did. Under the guidance of : Orville Wright, the contrivance arose falteringly and spent a few minutes in the air, groaning a£d creaking. Avia tion in America had become a reality. In spite of this initial success, doubtful ones, who witnessed and read of the achievement still said: "Well, they’ll never get anywhere' with a contraption like that.” .Today in a hangar at Rockwell Field near here there stands a lineal descendant of that "contraption" which only day before yesterday stood in a hangar at Hempstead, X. Y., 2,- 925 miles away, having traversed the •ontinent in the air under its own power and without a stop in 20 bouts and 50 minutes and 38 2-5 seconds. Another .step in the progress of av iation has been accomplished, and one which surpasses what inventors at first merely termed the "flight of a bird," for no bird, can fly continuously for so long a time or such a distance. | The men 'who flew the big monoplane | T-2 from New- York are Lieut's. Oak ley G. Kelly and John A. Mac-Ready, who between them already hold seven aviation records, for speed, duration of flight and weight taken into the air on a single airplane. The men thought little of their ac complishment and almost as soon as they landed were making plans for attempting to establish a new record for duration of flight and an attempt to fly around the world. The plane they flew in to San Diego yesterday was the same they had used in two previous attempts to cross the American continent without a i stop, the first of which was halted by i fog which prevented them from find ing their way through the mountain passes east of here, and the second which terminated through a failure of! their engine at Indianapolis hist year. San Diego, Calif.. May 3. —Today it j is but a single span across the yon ! linent. From Now York to San, Diego I is only a hop. The Atlantic and j Pacific are terminals in America’s j air lanes —and if one wishes —mere j are no stops between. With the arrival at Rockwell Fie'd, near here, of the army monoplane T-2. piloted by Lieutenants Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macßoady, the drst non-stop flight across the United States was completed. The time from Hempstead, N; Y.. to San Diego was j 26 hours and 50 m nutos and 48 2-5 - seconds. CHEAPER AND BETTER TRANSPORTATION NEEDED So Says President of Illinois Central Railroad to Foreign Trade Conven tion. New Orleans, May 4.—The choice between cheaper ami better transpor tation in our national railway policy »s the* big question of Ilic day. U. 11. Markham, president of the Illinois Central Railroad, told the tenth an nual foreign trade convention here to day. "Your secretary lias referred to the need for cheaper and better transpor tation. I wish he had placed the bet ter ahead of the cheaper, as indicat ing the side of the alternative that ought to he attended to first," said Mr. Markham. "No reduction in rates is worth whiHe if 'it wrecks our railroads,"* Mr. Markham added. "If any imme diate cheapening of railway rates is desirable, the way for the public to attain it is to help the railroads cut down operating costs and taxes, the latter a burden of ever-increasing size. "Despite occasional reverses occur ring in years of depression, produc tion and commerce are increasing. Be tween 1911 and 1920. for example*, the number of tons hauled one mile by the railroads increased approximately (52 per cent. In the same period of lime the aggregate tractive power of the locomotives owned by the rail roads increased only 44 per cent., and Die aggregate capacity of the freight cars increased only about 20 per cent. The arrested expansion of the rail roads has taken place just at the time of increased expansion of almost ev ery other line of American business. Three human factors clamor for at tention in any solution of the railway problem. They are the patrons, who receive transportation service and pay for it in freight rates and passenger fares: the employes, who provide the service and receive wages for so do ing; and the owners, wlio invested in the properties and who prosit hv the return, if any is realized. At present t ie benefits accruing to those groups are fairly well divided, although the : owners have beeiKjggcieiviug i constant ly ue'reusing proportion. If any re • adjustment is to be made under pres ent it must be carefull.x handled if the prevailing balance is : not to be disturbed. 'j "Jf transportation charges are to 1 1 be appreciably reduced at present: it ' j will be done at the expense of the : railroad owners or their employes or ; | both. If it is at the expense of the 5 1 employes, there will be further labor M unrest and consequent interruptions of '! service by strikes or breakdowns in [morale. If it is at the expense of the t j owners, there will be prompt cessation [| of the railway projects for improved j j service already launched. Either sit x' nation promises trouble for those who . j expect to benefit permanently by or re .. duet ion in rates. e "My message to you is to build, not to tear down: to plan for next year [and for ten years from now, rather than merely for tomorrow: and 1 1 j promise you that the genius which -.made American railroads great;in the m earlier days-will‘become evident again, i, to tlie. lasting benefit of its-all." j The Japanese religion demand that >- j a man must worship "on the soil'’ s ' every day. Princes and rich men k evade this by sprinkling a little dirt cl in one corner of a room, sometimes e oa a square of cement for me purpose. The grind began Wednesday at; j 12:36:53 p. m., eastern standard tune. The distance is estimated at he- ■ tween 2,700. and 2.800 miles. - The airmen received a warm greet city a few minutes before they land ed at Rockwell Field. Airplanes from the field and naval planes from the ; ing when they jyere sighted over the field and naval planes from North Inland escorted the two lieutenants to the landing field. Whistles of factories and from warships in the harbor also joined in the greeting. Both aviators were in good physical, condition when they landed and after being greeted by army officials were taken to the officers quarters. The historic flight began at Hemp stead With Kelley in the pit. The T-2 cleared the hangars at the end ; f the flying field by inches, nosed up for elevation and turned its uose toward Rockwell Field: It did not stop, an inch short of its goal. Spectators at the take-off , were held in horrified snspense for a mo ment, when it appeared that the huge plane would not rise in time te clear the building at the end of the field. It was the second start, L/ieut. Kolly having turned back after the j first attempt, .when it was apparent the T-2 would be unable to clear the buildings. (Roaring westward hour after hour in the supreme attempt of its historic career, the T-2 wasmwaited in every city, town and village throughout the long line 1 of flight and telegraph in struments during the afternoon and night told of the passing point hours I ahead of the tentative schedule an nounced. % An average speed of more man 190 miles a hour was maintained for the trip. The aviators were the recipients cf | many congratulatory telegrams, in cluding one from President Hard.ng. All distance records for a ncn-siop airplane flight were smashed today by the transcontinental jump. It was the second attempt of Kolly and Mai-Ready at a transcontinental j flight without a stop, having nren ! forced down at Indianapolis on their J way east from San Diego last year, j That flight was made in the same I plane used today though a different i engine had been installed. “You have written a new chapter in the triumph of American aviation,” said a telegram from President Hard ing. and scores of other congratula tory messages expressed a similar enthusiasm over the accomplishment. iTlie T-2 landed at Rockwe 1 field, j according to the official timers, at ■2B minutes 56 1-4 seconds past 12 ! o'clock noon, Pacific coast time. PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION First Denomination to Put the Word “Christian” in Educational Work. New York, May 3. —“The Presbyte rian Church is the first denomination with the courage to put the word ‘Christian’ in its official title for edu cational work throughout the United States,” said Dr. Edgar P. Hill, gen eral secretary of the old Presbyterian General Board of Education, comment ing on the organization of the new Presbyterian Board of Christian Edu cation, which was effected in this city today. i Women constitute one-third of the membership of 36 in the new board. The new hoard takes in the old Gen eral Board of Education, the greater portion of the work of the Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, the Permanent Committee on Men's Work, the Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare, the Permanent Com mittee on Sabhntli Observance, second ary schools and colleges of various old hoards, and missionary educational de partments of the old boards. The chief executive is to be the general secretary. The business de partment. is to take over the large publishing interests of the old Board of Publication. There will he a di vision of Christian education in the home, church and community. The hoard will concern itself with the 57 Presbyterian colleges of the country. .Other departments will he for mis sionary education, men’s work, moral welfare, including temperance, Chris tian education in educational institu tions. and colleges, theological semi naries and training schools. I Liquor Is Confiscated and Poured Into Newton Street. Newton. May 3. —Fifteen gallons of pure mountain moonshine whisky , were poured into the gutters of Main. Street today and a match set to it by Chief of Police Tom Gabriel. The cupture was made last night on the Lookout bridge at the Southern Power Company's plant. Policeman Gabriel and Cline stationed themselves at the Catawba end of the bridge and wait ed for the parties they had reason to expect some time during the night, i And sure enough they came. On l>e-1 lug halted the driver started back- j ward and tried to reach the other side of the river. • A shot puncture of ' one tire threw the car against the side of the railing bringing it to a halt. ‘ Boh Holler was still in the car lmt i Buddie Setzer. his partner, had land- • ‘ ed on his feet and made for the Ire dell side. Both are young men of - North Newton. Holler has made his ’ > appearance bond and was present ; - when the liquor was poured into the ' street. Ho got one double handful 1 and pronounced it good stuff. He. - said six gallons lielonged to him and ) nine to Setzer. j I FARRAR DIVORCE SUIT t MUST BE RETRIED j r One of Co-resondents Named by Sing- I er Wants Chance to Clear Her i Name. e New York, May 4.—Geraldine Far u rar's divorce suit against Lou Telle gen, her actor: which-* has been nearly completed before a res t fejee. must be retried before a jury. eppellate division of the Supreme a Court ruled today in order that Miss t Stella Larrimore. one of the eh-re s spondents .named by the singer, may e hn opportunity to clear her name in public. POLICE BATTLE MAN WHO THREATENS ROCKEWELER < Assyrian, Armed With Stilletto, Cap j tured in Front of Residence of John i I). Jr. | New York, May 2. —Armed with a j stilletto and two long weaver’s need j les, and Assyrian silk worker from I Greenwich Village, who for two weeks had dogged the footsteps of John 3. Rockefeller, Jr., was clubbed into sub mission today when he blocked the multimillionaire’s exit from his West Fifty-fourth Street home and threat ened to take his life. ’ t The man gave the name of George Murad, 31), and said he had come from Canada a month ago looking for a job. Besides the weapons, he carried an Assyrian- Bible, a notebook of direc tions to the city and country homes of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Jr., and a $1 bilb that ji butler in the lat ter’s borne had given him this morn ing on liis plea that he was “starving.” Rockefeller first noticed Murad two weeks ago, he told police, when the un kempt stranger began trailing him to and from his home to his business of lees. occasionally stopping him to de mand that he'be given work. Rock efeller thought the fellow only a harm less “cralik” until Sunday. _ As he started home afoot from the morning service at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, the man. appeared at his side and followed him. gesticulating and talking incoherently, into the vestibule of flic Rockefeller mansion. A butler and a house guard put him out,-after a struggle. The next morn ing, at Rockefeller’s request, a uni formed policeman was stationed at the entrance to his home. Murad was seen to appear at his usual calling hour and slink away when he >saw the hlueeoat. Yesterday, May Day, the guard was reinforced by two police detectives in an automobile, but Murad did not show up. Today lie called before the police or detectives arrived, and was met iii the vestibule by the caretaker, was given a $1 hill with which to ob tain food, and went away. Waving his arms and shouting. “You and the Boislieviks are responsible for •ill the trouble in the world ; you sold out nly country,” Murad reappeared, running around the corner, just as Rockefeller emerged from his home and started toward a taxicab. The multi-millionaire evaded him and sig nalled the police, who came on the run. Murad resisted arrest. He tripped one of the-police. and threw the other. While tlie three rolled in the street, several of Rockefeller’s neighbors ran to offer him aid. a dozen windows in nearby mansions llled with spectators and a crowd gathered from Fifth Av enue. The police got their clubs free and beat Murad into submission. He was hustled away to a police precinct and thence to Bellevue Hospital, protest ing that he thought it up to Rockefel ler to get him a job. but that he did j not intend to harm him. STAR A GRANDMOTHER. ■* But Marion I)a>ies Is So Only By Stern Decree of .History. (Marion Davies is a bit perturbed. While deliv ng into some old history the other day she discovered that Princess Mary Tildor whom she por trays in the Paramount-Cosmopolitan picture “When Knighthood Was m Flower.” which opens at the star theater for three days beginning Mon day next, was a grandmother! “Yes. I'm a grandmother—pictor hv'.ly speaking,” she says with a laugh, “and what’s worse my beautiful grand-daughter had her head cut off! It's all in the history of Eng-aud. That's the worst of playing these fascinating historical characters like Princess Mary. They enlist your sympathies, not only in their own affairs, but in their relatives and de scendants as well. .1 can”t forgef that Princess Mary actually lived and that these things really happened.” Court Fines Trainer $lO for Being “Rough” to a Lion. * » Pittsburgh. May 2. —Because ho had been a bit rought with tlie gentle lion under his direction, Tearle Jacobs, of Kokomo. Ind., a trainer with the Sells-Ploto Circus, was fined $lO and costs this morning and received a lot of good advice on the kind treatment lie should accord the jungle beast. Jacobs pleaded guilty of cruelty to animals before Alderman Harvey A. Lowry, author of “Treat ’Em With Kindness,” who gave him the advice free after he had paid his fine. Agents of the Western Pennsylva nia Humane Society, who arrested Jacobs, testified that they saw him strike the lioii in the face with a heavy blaeksnake whip and shoot blank car tridges at it to force it to do “danger ous lion stunts,” alflwmgh the animal was so gentle and well-behaved that it would eat out of the hand of its trainer. , SIO,OOO Verdict in Sigmon Case. A verdict of SIO,OOO for the plain tiff was rendered in Cabarrus Super rior Court Friday in the ease of Mrs. Ada Sigmon, of Salisbury, against the Southern Railway Company and the Yadkin Railway Company. Attorneys for the railroads filed notice of ap peal. and it is expected the ease will go to the highest courts in the United States should the State Supreme 1 Court rule with the plaintiff. This was indicated by statements made bv the attorneys -for the defendants, i The jury was otit on the case about two hours, arguments by counsel hav : ing been concluded about. 1:30 Friday afternoon and the verdict having been rendered shortly before 4 o’clock. With the completion of this case , court adjourned. Judge James L. ■ Webb, who presided, left Friday night j for his home in Shelby. Sthkcs Loses Point. | New York. May 4.—W. E. D. Stokes, ( wealthy hotel man and realv operator. | today lost in the appellate division of | the Supreme Court in his fight to be i permitted to amend the petition in liis, riivoyee suit against Mrs; Helen En- >s:> that lie could name j additional v correspondents, evidence 1 concerning whom he claims recently to have discovered. ■ British warships scrapped since the Washington Conference include 35 bat tleships and battle cruisers. 280 de stroyers, and 101 submarines. Monday, May 7, 1923. ; Women to Consider Campaign Sale of Narcotics 1 " u,,st , Atlanta. May 4.—The General r, , '; eration of Women’s,- Clubs, who , ' ' convenes in this citv May 7n U • take-up, among other ’ tliin-s 'm U question of a campaign agaimV * sale of narcotics throughout i 1 country. Uil s It is declared by an official of n federation that the women win hands with the Anti-Narcotic I J" 111 ■ in launching a national against the drug evil. An end, will he made to secure the of every member of the federation,• “ th * ' v °rk which the “Commit j Publish Facts" aii-culy has in ,^1“ 400,000 Used Cars in Stock. St. Louis. May 4.—Automobile* u ers 111 Dio United States had Kkiimh, ! ns(Hl cars in stock March 15. xvit j capital investment of $152.2tn;.:',-in I cording to figures announced at hV'T •quarters here of the National ' mobile Dealers' Association The | timated losses the dealers will ahsorh jon this stock ami investment j $23,591,982 for the first tlnv. U m :i 1 of 3i>23, it was added. mr SMOTHERED 1 Mrs. Settlemyer Couldn’t Ev en Eat Bread and Milk Withoht Suffering Before She Took Tanlac. When a medicine produces its praise is sure to be heard. That is why Mrs. J. L. Settlemver. rosidin at Kings Mountain, as well a> thou-T. ands of other North Carolina people SO readily speak out for Tanlac. - “Tanlac is such a grand, good mod ieine and has done so much for mo." said Mrs. Settlemyer. "that 1 am al ways glad to toll others about it. Af ter an operation, which kept me in tin hospital for some time, if seemed I could never gift back to normal again. "My stomach was in such a bad ii\ that even milk and bread caused .me misery and pain. Gas would form so badly I often felt like 1 was going to smother. This happened after nearly every meal, hut at night I could scarce ly breathe and would lie awake for hours almost scared out of my wits. “In my case Tanlac has more than come up to every good word I ever heard about it. It has done away with my stomach trouble entirely and Imilt me up until I feel like :t new person." Taulae is for sale by all good drug gists. Accept no substitute. Over 37 million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable I’iils are Natures town remed.v for constipation. For,sale everywhere. PENNY COLUMN Big Barbecue — Thursday Afternoon at Kindley’s Swimming I’ornl. .John Motley, Caterer. R. F. Kimllew 7-It-p. I Forbid Anyone Hiring or Harboring my soil. Claude Morris. 15 years old. who left my home April 24th. .1. X. Morris, Route 3. Concord. ' 7-dt-p. The Kin (Hey Swimming Pool at the Kindley Mill, just east of Ms. Pleas ant. w’ill open for the summer on Thursday, May 10th. A stringed hand from Baden will furnish music on Thursday night. Public is in vited. , 7-It-p Clerks, Railway Mail, IS Upward. Ex amination Concord May 20. $133 mm Experience unnecessary. For free pirticidars. write R. Terry (former Civil Service examiner) 1103 bar rister Bldg., Washington. D. C. 3-3 t-p. To Eureka Mining Co.: You’re Hereby notified that I purchased on Jim" sth. 1022. the land of the Eureka Mining Co., in No. 0 township _:«i joining the lands of John E. P<*- trea. Joe Rost, Milas Furr and oth ers for taxes levied in tin* year l‘2l and the time of redemption will ex pire on August 21, 1023. W. A. Foil. 30-3 t. Our Fruit Trees, Vines, Plants, etc., are now ready. Crowell’s I’lant Farm, 129 E. Corbin St.. 9-ts e. imxm I S OPENING SUMMER MILLINERY Everything New and Up-tu-Date | LOWEST PRICES | I MISS BRACHEN g BONNET SHOP \ CONCORD PRODUCE MARKET Corrected Weekly by Cline A Moo-' Figures named represent prices P* • for produce on the market: Eggs * W ; Butter __ Country Ham Country Shouider ■ Young Chickens J — _ I Hens Zr, Turkeys ,2 j /o . o Lard - - 1 - \\ I Sweet Potatoes 7 - jlriwh Potatoes j Onions Woo oo Corn CONCORD COTTON MARKET. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1#23. j o Cotton | Cotton seed
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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