PAGE TWO
LOCALS
No marriage licenses were issued
'Tuesday by Register of Deeds Elliott.
County Agent R. D. Goodman is
attending the State Jersey cattle sale
at Statesville today.
No deeds of real estate transactions
ii» the county were recorded at the
court house yesterday.
No marriage licenses were issued
Wednesday from the office of Register
of Deeds Elliott in the county court
house.
Marilyn Miller, famous actress, was
yesterday granted a divorce from her
husband, Jack Piekford, by a Ver
sailles tribunal, according to a cable
dispatch from Paris.
Mickey Walker, middleweight cham
pion of the world, knocked out Mike
jicTigue in the first round of a sched
uled ten-round bout in Chicago Tues
day night.
The Cabarrus County Poultry As
sociation will have a meeting .to
night at 7:45* at the Y. C. A.
at Kannapolis. All members and in
terested friends are urged to attend.
The mild epidemic of measles in
Cabarrus seems to have reached its
climax. Only one case was report
ed Wednesday, while the two previous
days brought reports of 33 new cases.
County Agent R. D. Goodman will
attend the State Jersey Cattle sale
at Statesville Thursday, and the fol
lowing day he will go to the Stanfield
Community fair in Stanly county to
judge exhibits.
There will be no meeting of the
Concord Kiwanis Club on Friday of
this week. Many of the local memr
bers will motor to Mooresville to meet
with the Kiwanis organization of that
city Friday night.
There was little change in weather
conditions here Tuesday. It was warm
again during the day, with a slight
drop in temperatures at night. Again
ihere were overhanging clouds during
the night but no rain fell.
Rain fell for a few minutes in Con
cord this morning, but later in the day
the sun was out again. There was lit
tle change in temperature here yes
terday, but colder weather is predicted
for some section of the State tonight.
Jack Slattery, scout, was yesterday
appointed manager of the -Boston
Braves for the 1928 season, succeed
ing Dave Bancroft, who resigned sev
eral weeks ago. Bancroft will play
with the Brooklyn Robins next sea
son.
The Cabarrus County Market will
be open Saturday morning between
the hours of 8.30 and noon in the
Corl building. West Depot street. The
farmers and farm women are invited
to bring their produce to the market
and place it on sale.
The Concord high football team will
journey to Gastonia tomorrow after
noon to battle the eleven of that city
in the second round of the state elim
ination series. Victory for the lo
cals will make them the favorites to
cop the championship ot group 3. -
Members of the Fred Y. McConnell
Post of the American Legion will
meet tomorrow night at 7 :45 in regu
lar session. Officers for the year are
to be chosen and 1 other business of
Interest transacted. All members are
urged to attend.
Arthur Hord, who played shortstop
for the Weavers during the summer,
ig one of the stars on the Wake For
est freshman football team. Hord
scored one of the touchdowns against
tie State freshmen last week and
otherwise starred during the game.
Teddy Burwell, youthful Charlotte
sensation, moved into the final round
’of the mid-south tennis tournament
at Pinehnrst, yesterday by trimming
Herbert Vail in straight sets. He
plays Harold Lefler, of Raleigh, for
the championship today.
The football game between High
Point College and Elon tomorrow at
Elon is expected to definitely settle
the state championship of the “little
five.” Both teams are in good con
dition and the battle should be nip
and tuck from the outset.
The regular November meeting of
board of aldermen will be held at the
city hall on Thursday night of this
week. It is said that several matters
of importance will be presented to the
b<>ard for consideration and action.
SPECIALS
in onv
SHOE DEPARTMENT
Big Values Men's Shoes and Oxfords in black
and tan at QC d*o QC QC
price
Boys’ Shoes for Dress and School Wear. Big
$1.95 $2.45 $2.95
1 -
For Ladies’ and Misses in Full Dress, High and
Military Heel, patent leather Straps and open
r,T. $3.95 T 0 $4.95
Also the School Oxfords for; young ladies and
misses in black and tan. Exceptional Values —
$2.95 $3.95 AND $4.95
Do not fail to 6ee the Wonderful Values we have
in the Great Scott Shoe for Children. Sizes 5 1-2
10 8 $2.45 812 “ 11 $2.95
And do not forget the baby Shoes-
Happytoz, the First Step, a complete line to
select from. Sizes
1 „ 5 98c -isi 45 5 “ 8 5i,95
EFIRD’S
The meeting is scheduled to begm at
S o’clock. - '
‘The Whole Town's Talking,” a
modern farce in three acts, will be
presented tonight at 8 o’clock in the
Concord high school, auditorium by
the Blue Masqrn? players of Catawba
College. The proceeds will go to
ward further equipping tfie library at
the high school.
Some 300 persons attended the
health motion pictures which were
shown at Bethel school in No. 10
township Wednesday night. The pic
tures will be shown at Jackeon Train
ing School tonight. The; pictures are
shown under the auspices of the Ca
barrus county health department.
A gym dass for employed girls will
be held each Tuesday night at 7
o’clock, beginning next week at the
Concord, Y. M. C. A., it was an
nounced this morning. All women
who are unable to attend the morn
ing or afternoon gym classes are cor
dially invited to attend this night
class.
It is probable that a deal whereby
the Cleveland Indians will change
hands will be made within the next
few days. E. S. Barnard, president
of the f Cleveland club, will be unable
to take over his new duties as head
of the American League‘until some
disposition has been made of his
stock.
Stroking their way into the quarter
finals yesterday, Walter Hagen and
Tommy Armour will meet this after
noon in the third round of the pro
fessional golfers tournament being
played at Dallas, Texas. The win
ner of today’s match will be the fav
orite for the championship.
If the Furman Hurricane wins
from Wake Forest Saturday it will
claim the championship of the Caro
linas. The Laval team already has de
feated State and Duke in this State,
and a victory over Wake Forest would
entitle it to claim the Carolines cham
pionship unless it loses later to a
South Carolina team.
Ty Oobb, famous “Georgia Peach”
of the baseball diamond, may be a
member of John McGraw’s New York
Giants next season, say dispatches
from Philadelphia. Connie Mack an
nounced yesterday that Cobb would
be given his unconditional release
from the Athletics as soon as waivers
oould;t>e| secured.
Riimoj 1 has it that Zack Wheat,
one-time* star outfielder and captain
of the- Brooklyn Robins and more late
ly au outer-gardener and pinch hitter
for Connie Mack's Athletics, will
manage one of the Sally League base
ball teams next season. Columbia and
Knoxville are reported to have the in
side tracks toward securing his ser-
Rabbit hunters are making their
appearance in Cabarrus county now.
The game.law provides that the hare
can be killed after November first,
and already a number of huntsmen
have been in the fields here looking
for the elusive rabbit. Duck hunting
is also permissible after November
first but there are no ducks in this
county.
COUNTY BONDS WILL
BE SOLD NOVEMBER
16TH IN THIS CITY
Bonds Totalling SIBO,OOO
Will Be Sold by Board of
County Commissioners
Under the Finance Act.
Cabarrus county bonds in the sum
of SIOO,OOO will be sold here Novem
ber 16th, if favorable bids are re
ceived.
Os the total $170,000 will be school
bonds and SIO,OOO funding bonds, the
former bearing 4 1-2 per cent, and the
latter bearing 4 3-4 per cent.
Notice of the bond sales was pub
lished under terms of the new county
finance act, and no opposition having
developed, the county commissioners
will receive the bids up to 11 a. m.
on January 16th.
The school'bonds will provide addi
tional houses for the county, and at
the same time will retire part of the
school debt incurred last year when
several modern high schools were
erected. The funding bonds will be
used to retire debts incurred prior to
July Ist, this year.
Thirty years ago Thomas A. Edison
in association with Patrick Kenny de
vised a machine by which pictures
were transmitted bv wire over a dis
tance of a thousand milec
TOWN CLOCK TOLLS
BUT DOESN’T RUN;
WHAT’LL WE DO?
Relic of Victorian Era Seems
Definitely Gone to Where
The. “Wood-Vine Twin
eth.”
It looks and strikes like a clock;
sometimes it even ticks like one.
But does it keep track of hours and
minutes as any self-respecting time
piece should do? The answer is, em
phatically, “No!”
Surrounding the dome, just beneath
the spire of the aged county court
house, the old town clock gazes far
into spaye and seems much more tak
en up with memories and reminis
cencses of the past than in the trivial
matter of keeping time with the pres
ent.
Observers who have taken a kindly
and tender interest in the scarred
visage of the face known so well in
other years were startled one day this
week when the north .side actually
showed, within a few minutes any
way, the correct time. The next
day it was the south face whose hands
were nearly with the Western Union
standard. Can it be, that growing
wise through many years of experi
ence, the clock has decided to preserve
its last faltering strength by working
its four faces on shifts of twenty
four hours each?
The most plausible theory for its
indifferent actions during the past
decade is that the clock, having re
ceived its birth early in the nineteenth
century, is a true Victorifin and heart
illy resents the hours kept by modern
men, women and children. Where,,
in the dear, dead days beyond recall,
it could be certain of having auto
matically turned off all the lights in
the city by tolling eleven o’clock at
night, now the people pay no attention
at all to its command of approach
ing bedtime.
Whatever the reason for it all, the
beloved old timepiece seems definitely
to have gone “where the wood-vine
twineth” for the rest of its natural
days.
Observation shortly before noon to
day showed the decrepit and moth
eaten hands on the north side of the
court house pointing unrelentingly to
5:10 o’clock Directly opposite, on
the south side, they pointed just as
unwaveringly to 1:25 o’clock. The
westerly face indicated 5:25 o’clock,
just seven hours and five minutes
ahead (or behind) the east side, which
showed 12:30 as the time at which
it decided to retire on its laurels
(date unknown).
If, as Yenus would say, you can'
beat that for inconsistency, trot it
out.
uHEALTH CAMPAIGN IS
BEING CONDUCTED IN
SCHOOLS OF CONCORD
Miss Naomi Moore, Red
Cross Tuberculosis Nurse,
Enjoying Co-operation of
Teachers in Movement.
In protection to the health and hap
piness of Concord school children, a
successful and comprehensive campaign
to build strong bodies and to defeat
the assaults of tubercular germs and
other diseases ie being conducted iu
the city schools by Miss Naomi Moore,
Red Cross tuberculosis nurse, in co
operation with the Cabarrus Health
Department.
A nutrition program conservant with
routine class work is, before the
schools, and through which Miss
Moore and the teachers hope to
stimulate the interest of children in
attaining the proper weight for their
age and height, and to observe regular
and healthful habits.
“The growing child,” says Miss
Moore, “needs plenty of- nourishing
foods, such as milk, vegetables and
cereals; the growing child should sleep
at least ten hours each night with
windows in the bedroom open, and
take outdoor exercise each day. It is
vital that every child observe regular
habits to help him grow and develop
properly.”
During the past month Miss Moore
has been engaged in the task of weigh
ing and measuring children in Central
Primary, Central Grammar and No. 2
schools of the city system. A total of
1,429 children have been weighed,
and 673 of the number were discovered
to be as much as seven per cent, or
more underweight. Immediately the
parents of these children were notified
and programs to build up these bodies
instituted in the homes.
It is the plan of Miss Moore to
weigh the children in all schools each
month. This method will arouse the
interest of the child in his or her
weight, and should bring about much
improvement. Three of the four gram
mar school** here have their own scales
with measuring rods. One set was
recently purchased through the North
( Carolina Tuberculosis Association by
the Primary Parent-Teacher Associa
tion of this city.
Miss Moore states that since in
stitution of the nutrition program in
the schools that milk is sold to the
children at the mofning recess period.
Urging parents to cooperate with the
movement to subdue tuberculosis by
eliminating the causes of the dreaded
disease, Miss Moore states: “Tuber
culosis is like a thief of the night. It
seeks entrance when the body is not on
guard. By watching our boys and
girls, and helping them to keep up to
standard in weight and health, we are
helping to stamp out this disease. An
ounce of prevention Is worth a pound
of cure.”
Appointed Receiver
The stockholders of the Cabarrus
Union Supply Co., South Church
street, elected C. A. Isenhour as trus
tee or receiver of the concern follow
ing their decis : on recently to file vol
untary bankruptcy papers in the of
fice of the federal clerk of court for
the middle district of North Carolina.
Mr. Isenhour has been ordered to
appear before the United State#?
Court in Salisbury on November 16.
at which time a hearing will be
granted, as suit has been instituted
against the Cabarrus Un’on Supply
Go., by the Armour Fertilizer Co.
W. F. Moose, one of the main
stockholders in the company.
killed some weeks ago in an automo
bile accident.
Slattery Is New Braves Manager.
Boston, Nov. 2.—John T.‘“Jack'*
Slattery, Boston college baseball coach'
Braves scout and former Harvard
baseball coach, has been appointed
manager of the Boston Braves suc
ceeding Dave Bancroft, resigned.
President Emil E. Fuchs of the Brave#?
announced tonight.
HIGH POWERED WIRES
DROP ON AUTO AS IT
HITS POLE; 3 INJURED
Roadster Leaps Off 15-Foot
Embankment. Marvin
Whitlock, Henry Cook and
Hugh Bullaboy Hurt.
Their Nash roadster crashing into
and clipping off even with the ground
a telephone pole after leaping off a
15-foot embankment on the Concord-
Albemarle highway about 8:30 o’clock
Wednesday\night, three Concord men
suffered painful injuries and had a
narrow escape from electrocution
when high voltage wires fell across
the wrecked machine.
Marvin Whitlock waa driving the
roadster, being accompanied by Henry
Cook and Hugh Bullaboy. Whitlock
suffered a broken collar bone, minor
bruises about the head and face and
a severe cut on the left leg. He
was given treatment at the Concord
Hospital. Henry, Cook received a
laceration above the right eye, ten
stitches being necessary to close the
wound. He suffered also a frac
tured rib and minor injuries about
the body Bullaboy escaped with
minor bruises about the head. The
latter two were given medical atten
tion in a local drug store.
The accident occurred four miles
west of Albemarle. Because of the
high voltage wires across the road
ster, a wrecking crew dispatched from
the White Motor Co. had to wait until
the power was “pulled off” at Albe
marle to tow the auto back into the
roadway.
The trio of ocupants had a har
rowing experience. When the auto
smashed into the. pole, the windshield
was shattered, flying glass cutting the
three men. The pole, snapping off
at the ground with the impact, un
leashed its high-powered wires, one of
which carried 2,800 volts, on the road
ster top, creating an electrical dis
play, and the insulation burning off
the wires for distances of 25 to 60
feet.
The fact that none was electrocut
ed is unusual. All, however, received
slight shocks from the “electrical
shower.” Ernest Thompson, overseer
at the Peerless Brick Co., the first
man to reach the wrecked car, ‘was
slightly shocked as he helped to get
the men from the car. Mr. Thompson
brought Cook and Bullaboy to Con
cord, while another man carried Whit
lock to the local hospital
The roadster was not damaged
greatly by the impact. The exact
rate of speed at which the machine
was traveling at the time of the acci
dent was not learned, but from indi
cations it must have been making at
least forty miles an hour. The tele
phone pole was six feet from the em
bankment, and the roadster virtually
leaped into it.
All of the injured were reported
resting nicely this morning.
PROMINENT FARMER
DIES AT THE HOME
OF SON IN COUNTY
John A. Ritchie Died During
Night After Illness of Sev
eral Years.—Funeral Ser
vices Thursday.
John R. Ritchie, aged 83, well
known farmer, died Yesterday at
3:30 at the home v of his son, Walter
S. Ritchie, In No. 4 township. He
had been ill with cancer for several
years.
Funeral services were held at 11
o’clock today at Mt. Olivet Ohurch,
conducted by Rev. Blackwelden
of Faith, and Rev. Mr. McKeever, of
Poplar Tent. Interment was made
in the Church cemetery.
Mr. Ritchie was born at Troutman,
N. C., June 8, 1844, and moved to Ca
barrus many years ago. He was a
member of Mt.. Olivet Church.
Surviving are two sons, Walter S.,
of this county, and J. P. Ritchie, of
Topeka, Kans., and one sister, Mrs.
Amanda Mills, of Iredell county. His
wife died In 1902.
Announcement of Mr. Ritchie’s
death caused sorrow in his wide circle
of friends throughout the county.
New State Hunting Laws. •
This act passed by the General
Assembly of 1927 makes it unlawful:
1. To hunt without a license.
2- To take or kill game birds or
animals out of season.
3. To take iu one day more tnan
bag limit.
4. To kill a female deer during the
next five years.
5. To buy or sell any game except
rabbits and squirrels.
6. To take game by trap or poison.
To hunt by auto or boat, or to Dait
for upland game.
Following are dates of the ouen
season when the game birds and ani
mals named may lawfully be taken:
Squirrel, September 15 to January
15.
Rabbit, November 1 to Marcn l.
_Deer, October 1 to January 15.
Bear, October 1 to January 31.
Raccoon, October 1 to January 31-
Opossum, October 1 to January 31.
Quail, December 1 to March i.
Wild turkey, December 1 to March
1.
Dove, September 16 to DecernDer
31.
Following is the schedule of li
cense fees: For hunting inside your
county, $1.25; state fee (or residents
$5.25; non-resident state fee, $15.25.
Make application for license to coun
ty game warden, deputy game war
den, or clerk of superior court.
It is’unlawful to hunt on lands of
another without permission. Viola
tion of game law is a misdemeanor
in the jurisdiction of the superior
court. Hunters must wear their hunt
ing button and have license with
them at all times when hunting. It
is provided, however, that a man may
hunt on his own land without license.
Dixie Democratic Chiefs Call on Ohio
Governor.
Columbus. Ohio, Oct. 31. —Consider-
able national political signffiean.ee is
attached to visits here during the past
two days of three prominent south
ern democrats to sec Gov. Vic Dona
hev.
Maj. John R. Cohen, editor of The
Atlanta Journal, and Georgia national
committeeman, and State Auditor Sam
J. slate, of Georgia, member of the
Georgia state central committee, con
ferred at length with Donahey during
a visit today but declined to reveal
whether they talked about the demo
cratic presidential situation.
Last Saturday William D. Upshaw,
former Georgia congressman and
southern dry leader, called at the exe
cutive office to see Governor Dona
hey, but the executiee was at his sum
mer home at Indian Lake.
THE CONCORD TIMES
MODERN COMEDY
IN HIGH SCHOOL
TONIGHT AT EIGHT
‘The Whole Town's Talking’
Will Be Presented in Ben
efit Performance by Ca
tawba Collegians.
Tonight at 8 o’clock the’ Blue
Masque of Catavfrba College will .pre
sent their farce, “The Whole Town’s
Talking,” in the auditorium of the
Concord High School.
This play, which was presented dur
ing the commencement exercises at
Catawba College last year and subse
quently at the Salisbury and Spencer
high schools, recently ran an entire
season on Broadway.
The situations of the plot are such
that they might be found in any
American city.
Mr. Simmons, the senior partner of
a well-known painting business, owns,
has, or what have you, a marriageable
daughter. For reasons best known
to himself, because they are of a bus
iness nature, Father Simmons want**
his daughter to marry his junior part
near, one Mr. Binney.
But Mr Binney happens to be the
kind of bachelor no woman likes—he,
in other words, lacks "it” most notice
ably. In the words of the daughter,
“He is such a blank that every time
he comes in, it seems that someone
has gone out.”
The senior partner and father is
firmly convinced, however, of the old
theory that every woman would like
to get that man whom every other
woman wants. He therefore con
ceives the idea of inventing a few
love affairs for his partner.
A famous motion picture star is de
cided npon as the junior partner’s lat
est flame, and, at the proper time,
the scandalous and romantic story is
allowed to leak out. Soon the whole
town is truly talking and from this
point onward there is a series of
complications which work up to a
climax of whirlwind hilarity.
Is the father’s plan successful?
Well, go see for yourself.
This uproarious comedy is being
sponsored by the local Parent-Teach
ers’ Association and the proceeds are
to be spent for library equipment for
the high school. Citizens of Concord
are urged to come and enjoy a de
lightful evening in helping this worthy
cause.
SELECTS COMMITTEE
OF CONCORD MEN TO
ATTEND CONVENTION
Mayor C. H. Barrier Apoints
Four Men to Attend Na
tional Rivers and Harbors
Congress.
Mayor C. C. Barrier has appointed
a committee of four prominent Con
cord men to attend the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress at Washington,
D. C., December 7th and Bth at which
time problems of flood control, which,
whether viewed from the standpoint ot
humanity or economics, is of vital in
terest to American citizens.
The committee follows: Charles A.
Cannon, chairman; T. H. Webb, Hon.
F. J. Haywood and D. B. Coltrane.
It is probable that the entire com
mittee will attend the congress.
A l«tter to Mayor Barrier from 8.
A. Thompson, secretary of the con
gress, reads in part:
“Many distinguished speakers will
take part in a great symposium in
which various phases of this complex
problem will be discussed and in which
differing—and in some cases directly
conflicting—views will be presented.
Following the symposium there will be
a general discussion.
“The menace to navigation from the
rapid multiplications of bridges, the
strongly supported plan to take river
and harbor work away from the Army
Engineers and to place every form of
Government engineering and construc
tion under a bureau of the Interior
Department, and many other im
portant topice will be the subjecte of
addresses and discussions. Full an
nouncement of the program will be
made later.
“Coming at practically the same
time as the assembling of the Federal
Congress, this convention will give
those who attend it a moet valuable
opportunity to meet their Senators
and Representatives and present their
views on pending legislation at the
very beginning of the session."
MILD EPIDEMIC OF
MEASLES REPORTED
SWEEPING COUNTY
During Past 48 Hours Over
30 New Cases of Measles
Developed in Various Sec
tions.
A mild epidemic of measles is sweep
ing Cabarrus county. In the past 48
hours 33 new cases of the infectious
disease have been reported from vari
ous sections to the Cabarrus county
health department.
Immediate steps were taken in each
case by health officials to prevent
further spread of the disease by quar
antine. Investigation shows that the
disease is a mild form of the measles,
and that mostly children are suffering
from it.
Since late summer measles have
been in Cabarrus, and occasionally
threats of epidemics have occurred.
In October the disease spread rapidly,
139 cases being reported during the
month. The unprecedented number
of cases is attributed to the failure
of many people to respect quarantine.
Many parents, it is pointed out by
health officials, visit their neighbors
when in either their own home or in
the neighbor’s home there is measles.
This spreads the disease rapidly.
Dr. D. G. Caldwell, director of the
Cabarrus health unit, calls upon the
people again to be cautious in order
to curb this menace to health. “Re
spect the quarantine,” he says, “and
be careful of the places where your
children go, mothers and fathers.”
Ex-Major Leaguer Taken to Asylum.
Charlotte, Nov. I.—William Shoe
maker, 43. former national league
baseball player, was committed to the
iusane asylum at Morganton today fol
lowing au al eged attempt to strangle
his wife at Lenoir three weeks ago.
The attempt was frustrated by officers
and Shoemaker has been confined in
the county jail here since, pending
the securing of commitment papers.
Officers said he suffered under
several delusions but were unable to
say whether his afflictions were cur
able or not.
HONOR ROLLS FOR
THREE SCHOOLS OF ,
CITY MADE PUBLIC
A. S. Webb Announces List
of Children Who Made
Honor .Roll in the Three
Schools Second Month.
A. S Webb, superintendent of the
city schools, today made public the
names of children in three of the city
schools who made the honor roll for
the second month. Tbe list follows:
Central Grammar School
Fourth grade—Wilbur Horton, Bet
sy Fisher, Katherine Archibald, Mary
Welker Crooks, George Richmond, J.
C. Paige, Ralph Gibson, Ruth Irvin,
Phyllis Ann Sapp, Billy Means, Mel
vin Means, Edward Sauvain, Saidee
Bunn, Virginia Pharr, Violet Quinn,
Katherine Raiford, Ruth Robbins,
Evelyn Swaringen, Caddie Willis and
Lonise Allred.
Fifth grade—Martin Lafferty, Sid
ney Cox, Thomas Morrison, Clara
Sherrill, Elsie Hatley, Holmes Han
sel, Mary Cottrell Archibald, Janie
Burrage, Mary Carriker, Flonnie
Lipe, Ellen Niblock, Billy Pike, James
McKay.
Sixth grade—Adelaide Allred, Billy
Wadsworth, Clyde Shaw, Smith Bar
rier, Elizabeth Odell, Billy Scott, Lil
lian Batte, James Crooks, James
Sears, Alice Wingate.
Seventh grade—Mary Junker, Helen
Grady, Nancy Pike, Juanita Walls.
Corbin Street School.
Second grade—Harold Earnhardt.
Fourth grade—Hugh Womack, Mir
riam Long and Alice Cress.
Fifth grade—Jane Ivey, Christine
Lefler and Doris Rumage.
Sixth grade—Harold Fisher and
Lillyan Miller.
Central Primary Sc hoc!
First grade—Eunice Cook and Mil
dred Helms.
Second grade—Sara Crooks, Eula
Hastings, Mary Lipe, Margaret Nib
lock, Ellen Sherrill, Emma Lou Wads
worth, Eugene Barnhardt, Katie
Freeze, E'rances Barringer, Hazel Bul
labough, Ollie Cranford, Imogene
Johnson, Lenra Shaw, Willis Barber,
Harold Hawfleld, J. T. Coggins and
James Alexander.
Third grade—Saleda Benfleld, De
light Eudy, Helen Little, Ruby Cook,
Frances Cochran, Kathleen Griffin,
l/illian Mauldin, Naomi Sears, Helen
Talbert, Merrill Courtney, Marshall
Hughes, Cameron Mcßae, Buddyy
Means, Charles Meis, Jesse Pike, Eu
gene Towery, Katherine Barnhardt,
Mary F. Barnhardt, Frances Gibson,
and Minnie Rankin.
FATHER IS TENTH OF
FAMILY TO UNDERGO
APPENDIX OPERATION
Appendicitis Is Sort of Fad
With Family of George
Upright.—He Was Oper
ated Upon Today.
Fate is certainly unkind to the fam
ily of George Upright, of Landis.
There is an unwanted tradition in the
family that each member must under
go operations of some sort, particular
ly for appendicitis. But regardless
of this hardluck the family has the
highest regard for scientific medicine
and surgery.
George Upright, the father, was the
tenth member of the family to sub
mit to the knife. He was operated
upon this morning for appendicitis
at the Charlotte Sanatorium.
A. J. Mills, son-in-law of Mr Up
right, was brought home from the
Charlotte Sanatorium Wednesday fol
lowing a successful operation for rup
ture.
Roy Upright, grandson of Mr. Up
right, was operated upon four weeks
ago for appendicitis at the Charlotte
Sanatorium. Roy is four years old.
The wife of George Upright sub
mitted to an operation for cancer
two years ago, and she still lives.
Mary, the oldest daughter and wife
of A. J. Mills, was operated upon for
appendicitis two years ago, and a year
later another daughter, Marie, went
to the operating table to have her ap
pendix removed. In the meanwhile
Rachael and Georgia, daughters, stood
operations for the removal of their
appendix.
Six years ago Rov Upright, son.
was operated upon for appendicitis
in Danville, Va.
Mrs. Brown Upright, a daughter
in-law, had to go under the knife for
the removal of her appendix
With the exception of two cases,
all of the operations were performed
by one surgeon and every operation
has been successful. * t
MISS MOORE HAS
CAR STOLEN BUT
LATER FINDS IT
Thief Takes Coupe From N.
Union street, Drives It For
Awhile, Then Leaves It at
High School.
Halloween is over, but some of the
mischief-makers of the city don't seem
to have realized It.
Last night Miss Naomi Moore drove
the Ford coupe belonging to Miss
Zena Stroupe to the First Presby
terian Church, parked it. and went
inside to attend prayer meeting
services.
When she returned, scarcely an
hour later, the car was nowhere to be
seen and no trace of it was found for
several hours.
Shortly before midnight someone
chanced to see a stray auto on the
grounds near the Concord High School.
Upon examination it was found to be
the coupe that had been “lifted” earlier
in the evening from Miss Moore.
As far as can be found out, nothing
was missing but several gallons of
gasoline. The thief, evidently, happen
ed to be in the mood for a joy ride and
picked up the first convenient vehicle
to satisfy his desires. Tiring of rid
ing, or losing his nerve, he se ected the
high school area as a good place to
leave his stolen property without dan
ger of being apprehended.
Funeral Held For Slain Man.
Monroe. Nov. 1. —Funeral services
were held here tbday for Hamp Tice,
35, former highway construction work
er, of Waxhaw, who was shot to death
at Walterboro, S. C., Saturday morn
ing.
The body was carried to a ceme
tery at Peachland, where the interment
was made.
Reports, reaching here from W*'-
terboro, ascribed Tice’s death to pis
tol shots, fired by a man whose name
was not given. Details of the slaying
have not been received here.
MISSING 18 MONTHS,
COLORED YOUTH IS
RETURNED TO MOTHER
Jack Hunt Found Tuesday
on Cabarrus Farm After
Being Absent From His
Home Since 1926.
A heart broken mother’s plea to
Chief of Police Talbfrt led to her re
covery here Tuesday of a son who
was myteriously kidnapped og lured
away from her home at Kaiser, N. C.,
about 75 miles from Concord, in Feb
ruary, 1926, some 18 months ago.
Jack Hunt, colored, aged 10, was
last seen by his mother until Tuesday
on a wintry February morning when
she packed him away to the little
school house where he frolicked and
did his ‘readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic
with the other colored children of the
Kaiser vicinity.
Sometime during that eventful day,
the trusting youth either listened to
the false promises of some stranger
and followed him ore else was car
ried bodily away.
At any rate, he was carried as far
South as Gastonia. Not long after
that he reached Cabarrus county
alone, in some unknown manner, and
one day he strayed on the farm of
Isaac Joseph, about two miles west
of Concord. The kind, venerable col
ored man took the dost youth into his
home and heart. He treated Jack
with so much kindness and under
standing that the youth was perfect
ly content and happy. As time went
on he ceased to think of the home
and mother and school that had been
so abruplty swept out of his life.
Tuesday, Vertie Lee Barrings,
Jack’s mother by an earlier marriage,
came to the office of Chief Talbirt and
told the story of the disappearance
of her son. She stated that she had
heard, from some source, of a youth
who answered the description of her
own Jack living with a colored fanner
named Josephs.
Accompanied by Ray McEachern,
welfare officer, Chief Talbirt and the
colored woman went out to Isaac’s
home. The vague rememberanees of
the youngster became actual knowl
edge when he Baw and recognized the
mother he had not seen in almost two
years. Their embraces were punctu
ated with sobs as the companions of
ten years made up for the separation
so cruelly wrought by the Fates.
Jack told his mother a glowing story
of the kind treatment he had re
ceived from Farmef Josephs, of the
way he had been taken care of and
of his deep affection for the family in
whose house he had been living.
As they left the house preparatory
to returning to the city and thence
to their home in Kaiser, old Isaac
brushed a tear from his cheek and
handed the mother the school books
and clothes that he* had provided.
“Here,” he said, “don’t forget these.
School will be starting pretty soon
and Jack will need his books.”
DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR TUESDAY
Mrs. A. B. Pounds Honors Reeeort
Brides at Bridge Luncheon.
One of the loveliest of the Autumn
social affairs was the bridge lunch
eon given Tuesday at 1:80 by Mrs.
A. B. Pounds, at her home on West
Corbin street.. The honorees on this
occasion were the recent brides, Mee
dames William Barnhardt, Charles
Griffin, G. Patterson Ritchie, Ben
White, Marvin Long, James Wilkip
son, Halbert Webb, and Banks Wil
son, of Greensboro.
As the guests arrived they found
their placss by means of Hallowe’en
cards.
Small luncheon tables were arranged
in the living room, library and sun
room. These rooms were beautifully
arranged with quantities of dahlias,
and chrysanthemums, while on each
table a vase of pink and white crest
ed cosmos was placed.
In the dining room, the guests
who were invited in for luncheon
were seated. The table was particu
larly lovely with mammoth cream
colored chrysanthemums and fern in
a tall green crystal vase as its center
decoration. Slender green tapers
burned in green holder*. The same
beautiful arrangement was used on
the buffef, and serving table. Yellow
flow' ca shaded the lights in each
room, casting a soft glow over the
scene. A delicious two course lunch
eon was served, after which bridge
was enjoyed. Toward the close of
the game, refreshing punch was serv
ed.
Mrs. Stowe Green held high score
for the afternoon’s play, and was
presented a silver tea bell. Mrs.
George Graeber cut the consolation
prize, a double deck of cards. Mrs.
Pounds presented each of the honoreea
with a crystal flower bowl.
The invitation list included Mes
dames Charles Griffin, William Barn
hardt, G. Patterson' Ritchie. Ben
White, Marvin Long, James Wilkin
son,* Halbert Webb, Banks Wilson, of
Greensboro, Guy Beaver, George
Graeber. N. T. Deaton, Jr., Ernest
Hicks, Stowe Green. L. L. Mauldin,
W. M. Sherrill, T. N. Spencer, Joe
Hendrix. Gilbert Hendrix, R. M.
Housel, John Porter. E. F. White. Jr..
M. M. Linker, Neal Pharr, George
Fisher, Frank Mund, J. Livingston
Vann, James Dorton. Clyde Pounds.
E. B. Grady, Julius Fisher. R. O.
Caldwell, R. V. Caldwell, Jr., J. V.
Davis, Archie Foil, F. M. Youngblood,
A. F. Goodman, N. K. Reid, Charles
Johnson, of Lexington. Reuben Brown,
of Charlotte, M. R. Pounds, M. F.
Ritchie and C. M. Llewellyn, and
Misses Julia Harry, and Elizabeth
Revis, of. California.
Those invited in for luncheon
were: Mesdames W. A. Foil, John
A. Barnhardt, H. S. Williams, C. E.
Boger, .Tames Springs, of Charlotte,
H. B. Wilkinson. J. ,T. Barnhardt and
Miss Maggie Barnhardt.
Little Boy, Climbing Tree, Takes
Hold Os Live Wire.
Morganton, Oct. 29.—The small
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McGimsey
had a miracu'ouely escape from death
this afternoon when he climbed a
tree in front of bis home here and
grasped a live wire charged witn
2.899 voluts of electricity- The child
fell about 30 feet to the pavement.
His hands were burned where they
came in contact with the wire* and
one of his ankles fractured by the
fall. Otherwise he was uninjured.
Officers to serve the Fred Y. Mc-
Connell Post of the American I/eginn
will be chosen at a meeting of the
post Friday night. Other matters of
importance will be presented and ev
ery member of the post is urged to
be. present. The meeting will begiu
at 7 :45.
CONCORD COTTON MARKET
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Thuesday
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MUSIC DEPARTmeJ'
HAS FIXE
Program Featuring Naw
Offered by
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By MIRY KIDD m
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in the characteristic folWi
various nations, and thttitf
is often reflected in tyfcg
clearly shown In an instmet
enjoyable program featuring
music, given by the Music
ment of the Woman’s Gab a
ular monthly meeting In fa \
of Hotel Concord Tuwdij
The chairman, Miss Lean Gil
sided, but the program of (
ning was in charge of Sin,
Craven.
Prior to the program, lira
Hicks, president of tie p>aa
appeared before the deparnae
in a brief address, summing
objectives recently chosen by t
eral Federation of Music C
specific aims for their rst
are r first, to encourage tchk
ter music memory contests; ■
contribute liberally to tin in
fund which is maintained bt
pose of aiding talented ini i
young people to secure a masi
cation ; third, to obiem citio
Bic week each year - fourth t»
age orginial composition; fifth
the Federation song*. Tk
aim of the organization is tsl
pie to a fuller appredadot
music, and to foster the g
music in America. Its slogu
America First,” and its!
“Make good mnslo popnliri
ular muaic good.”
Nearly all of the twenty
bers present answered refl (
a current event of musical i
As a fitting opening for the
on national music, the cinb i
own national hymn, "Amelia
Hobart S. Davis, director of
the public schools, with Hi
garet Harwell at the piano.
Two 'attractive vocal now
trated the music of Fnmee u
land, respectively. Mi* I
Woodhouse sang, in French,
ring national anthem of Ft*
Marsellaise.’’ while the too*
em of the Scottish people "
Bells of Scotland." wee Ml
Mary Morrison. To both t
bers. Mrs. Leslie Correll ph
companiments.
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tions on- the Orthophonic ’
Mr. Davis spoke on the
National Life on Mwfe
attention to the marked
melodic qualities of ™
played recordings of •
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and two Irish reeU. -
like some of the
music In America.
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wretchedness of .
peasantry, who were
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and an orchestral g
Volga Boatman • s
chosen to illustra * ,
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ans possesses deci.
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monies and
so melodic a* tb« ' ,
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