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Air„ Airy tvwi. ». c m it, wh ■ aEi Jnat that there win he • that many art now dlaaatlsfM M their children era kept In «<I month* ami they war.t at Imm helping to make ■ l'» that waa the tana for years and the srhnnls amounted la hot llttla. Tha greatest Incentive to making tha school tarm longer la that teacher* en Dm maka teaching a profession and not km to maka a crop lxlwaan tarma. Until teaching becomes a md teachers ara aMa to a tiring at tha prafsarfiw tha win not ba what tha? shonld ka. Tha greatest drawback today to oar schools la that tha af tha won*<m of marriageable age who an teaching until they decide to aattia down In a horn* of (hair own. Teach ing la not to them a profeaaion but rather an opportonity to pot in tha •'ma urnfWahty far a while until they Ind thair plaaa hi fka world as horn* builder* No one can object to thla, bat the school* need loacher* wlm ara teaching for a profeaaion and who expect to make teaching their llfa work. An eiirht month tarm would hare much to do with developing a higher class of teachers. BUY MORE CLOTH The big business men arc planning to put on a drive ta induce the Am«r • ican people to hoy more cloth to bring relief to the cotton mill*. The hiirh price of cotton sn<i labor ha« pot the price of all kind* of cloth op no much higher than it once wax that many people are bovine much les* than they once did. Tile cotton mills are not finding saie for their output, and diatrea* ia evorv where amonir people connected with the raan ifac-l tnre of cotton goods. Our people are not only buying I>'4 bat England fa unloading h"r pood* here ev«n if we have a high tariff that Waa *uprosed to exclude the English make of r'oth England lout a large part of h»-r world trade as the reault of the war and *be ia now It. ((operate strait* to find a market and employ ment for her factory people. They are operating at a irreat los* in their <ff<ift* to regain thei* wor I trade. There hi aft effort on to have our tariff increased on all English make of cloth and thu* ret it emcltxted fr-nn our market*. Thia wai tried on wheat • few weeks ago and the nriee dropped rather than increased. The Uffle may prove true of cloth. ^ It MUM to he a fact that when price* increaae people manage to g«-t along on much leaa of ahnoat anything they hoy, even bread. Thia nation la using much leaa bread now that flour ia high. It ia true of many articles of tomkm PLAYGROUND NEEDED Perhapt no one aritneaaed the beau tiful page int. given by the pupils of the primary school* Tuesday after noon on the Kochtitzky lawn, without feeling anew the need for a communi ty playground; it really seems that every town or city should have, and could afford to have a playground for the aake of a place to hold Day fetes and other public plays yet when we think of all these graceful little tots and hundreds of others, some larger and som-t smaller, facing the summer vacation with no place to play but to dodge automobiles on the streets as they try to plav ball, akate on roller skate* or Jist play m the streets we long for a large play * with * * " can take the babies and keep them cool while the kiddiea enjoy the slid ing boards, swings, ahd other amuae maata or wade in the wading pool and the older children skate on their own skating rink, play ball or hatha ia their own bathing pool All this la a possibility If the peo ple of Meant Airy really want It -Give the children a place to play anJ AVa nenklMn Bwo vi uinp^ mom oxi the street will ha iolm. a ft. Webb Getting late Tba n«bt Many of nt readers know that oar townsman. 0. B. Webb, Is now chair man of the Republican party of old Sorry, and be is getting Into the fight early. Tea, he la geting an early start Bat dont think ei«*4lhing is politic* with O. B. yet. "Oils lime his fight Is against that peet. the fly. And to be a leader In the hattle he has Just received a big shipment of fly swatter* and will distribute them to the public free of charge. Every one who wanta to Jota him In the fight ea the f!v I* requested to call at his office and 0 B will famish thsaa la Ml at • _ t jay tha ImitaaaajMd to fwil Wh waj 'Tfc haa I ||p,t .mi ^ tha km until ha la able to Make t% that ia m(parlor to im thin* that fa far aala (Ml the big factoriea, la tlx opinion of thoaa MM hava Mad Mi waiia Mr. Pool aajra that local rap ilallato him off or Ml to IhiHia th< now —torprlaa if ha will atari It, I ■ b to ha aura of Ma ground ha faaa ha atorta. Ba haa frown tmm orn In e.<n»actlag wMh Mi tnaMnf huatoaaa tha pm I flnda that ha can boy tha from tha fannara of Tenaoaaaa rhaap ar than It can ha crown tiara. Mr Pool la a mm of nklll and knowladgi W - . - In tha manufacture nf furniuro aomi yian ago aa auparlntondant of a fac iory Rrrauaa of hia health ha toot rh» outdoor life If ha Jarldaa U launch a hrnaw factory hara ha cm ba depended upon to make It an an lerpriae worth whila. WANTED J. Luther Jonaa, of Bonneville, N C. la In tha county buying up bagwond boa haa for a miliary In Pennnylvani* that makea a boainaaa of furnlahlni ornamental *hruhbery for homaa. Mr. Jonaa rnaa to oM eatahllaheri h«maa whore boxwood waa planter! yearn ago and If tha own ar will par) with it It la due op and ■hipped tn nointa In tha north and reaat In lawna Style* chance In tha way lawna an omnmentod and joat now thara la • demand for thi« bnaWood growth. 1l take* many yean to frowlt and ra ttier than wait man of maana art willing to ft) to the expense of aacur ing it from old eatoblfahed lluwaa. Mr. Jonaa paya from $3 to $20 fnt a single hnah. owing to tha alaa ami quality of tha growth Thoaa wV hara thla ornamental huah about thai) willing to! with It mar ba abla to raallca a nict little mm by writing Mr. Jonaa who will come and aaa what yon hara. 'elcome nawal Tha city fath#i Jfc their regular meeting Tuaada night porchaaad a atraet fluahar ol the latent modern type to replace thi old and obeolat* water wagon that hai ao long nerved the city aa a xprinklt r The naw machine ia a throe-ton C.en tr ml Motor truck mounted with a 7IH g Jlon water tank. The water will b« pumped out of thia tank with a x'-p urate motor driven pump at a higl praaaure that will waah all dirt fruit the paved street* into tha gutter*. Il it afao fitted with a sprinkler a tach men to he nsod for sprinkling th« dlrl *traet« of the city. The outfit coal about 17,000 and. ia the laat word hi street cleaning wjuipment and in «up posed to meat the need* of thi* crtj for years to come. Dell vary wi.l b» made in about SO daya. John Bmmt Sells W.rehoux hl>irw> r A trade ha* Ju*t been completed ij hi* city that will be of tntrrrit t< > large number of people of this nee lion whereby J. W. Lovill become) sole owner and proprietor of Bannet Warehouse. For »evral yean Ban ner Warehouse ha* been conducted by John Banner and J. W. Lovill but by the deal juat consumated Mr. Ban ner retires from the tobacco business, and will devote his time to looking sfter hi* variou* interests fn this city Formerly the Broadway Theatre building and the warehouse were Jointly owned by Banner £ Lovill but in the trade Mr. Banner take* over the *how build in* and Mr. Lovill n. haws the Warehouse. y ^ has been the practice of Mr. Lov I ill n> spend the summer in South Ca rolina where he is interested in the warehouse business, but in talking to a News reporter, he states that he expects to spend the itimnrr in thii >ity and section working in the inter est of his warehouse here and getting his organization complete for the fail business. Back Broken in Auto Wrack Bealey Chandler, a young man of this city is in Martin Memorial hos pital with a broken hack with small chancs of recovery, and should he sur vive his accident will doubtless gv thrufh life a helpless cripple. Chand ler was injured in an auto wreck Sun day night on the White Plains road when the car he was riding in collid I ed with a larre Buick driven by Era 11-«! Brigy*. Chandler owns • nesl |M car ana was out driving wftb some of his friend*, among them be ing Jap Boyd, a former jitney driver of thi* city, but who has been in West Virginia for several months. It la reported that Boyd was drinking to excess and during- the afternoon forc ed or persuaded Chandler to let him Just as the ear he was driving turn ed down the hill In front of where Rev. T. W. Wooten lives It met Brim in his Buick and the ttro cars headed right into each other. The front ax les of both ears were almost torn from the frame and the Ford wai turned over. After the accident lit was found that Chandler had bask seriously in tared, while the other oc cupants of the car escaped with minor injuries. Up to this writing tha of ficers have made no arrsst* over th« Federal The regular term of Federal court will meet in Greensboro the first Monday in June. The following citi sens from this county have been drawn to aervs as Jurors: W. A. York. Round Peak- R. F. Trulove ~ ' I O Wallace. Kappa Mill, IT rot hy with It. h neighborhood, Ih an lurreaafully. AMI ho found what a oH tha yaapla are in] «ympathy with tha liquor hooinao Hot arrange to aoy, there aaa yet * nia - MtltlU ■»-« it*w pvsnv Wiwfv pui'iir w^nviiiiPf haa not yet puntntid Mid whole til folk* ore about all In ayMpothy with | Wa heard reeentlj of a Man who had rloked Ma freedoM and made • hundrad gallon* of what ha railed road ram liquor, hot ha waa not will ing to rtak Ma fireadoM by battling It hara to Ma mark at town and try to aall It In that way. So ha want ,1, ...-a __ _ Li. „ J-LI. -J t-i.J Rinniv rnnunR nn nwi|fni«iiM una inra to aall It In fhw ration lata at W tha gallon. of how anothar man la planning to| maka • Httla fortune whan the rat »ra«n. For, ha K known, about tha ttma tha wnoda rat irraan tha folka ara aD buay plan tin r their rmpe and hara hot Httla time to prowl about tha wooda with run and doga or with flah-hook and Una. And whan the wooda fat irraan thia wa hara In Mind plana to Maka hia 1a*t year1! appla crop Into brandy. La at yanr*a apple* Mind you. Ha rat* credit for having on hand right now aereral hundrad buahala of ap plaa that ara keeping aa wall aa ap nlaa ran kaep at thia tiMa of tha yaor, | nnd ha will not haul a buahal to Mor | krt. nalthor will ha aall them at M> i«Mo. Tha alary roe* that ha will ; iTind them op Into proper form for ! Vrmentation and than Mi* in hrown rafar—brown nurar ia tha ba£j and than ha can ret a ration »f hrmn^ ■It froM *wn buahala of anplaa. Ha xporto to to abla to aall tha brandy at hia home for M tha rallon. All thia ia to he done when the wooda iret "Teen. Now. providing that he rata, hy with all hia plana, he ia In for mak 'nr a nice Httla aum of Money. Putt in r all theae facto together, and I jv doubt there ia aoMe truth In theae '■porta. It appeari that the men who make liquor are retting their ryaa npen to the fart that their buaineaa l« no !on«»r a anfe and aure plan for! ■curing tha daily bread. Franklin School to Have New I Building The County < Board of Education last Monday authorized the erection of a new school building near Cross Roadn. went af this city, known aa the Franklin school. The building win be of brick, one story with basement, and will contain 10 class rooais with a commodious auditorium. When completed it will be one of the Most modern types of school building! be ing built in the state. The erection and equipment of the building will cost about $25,000.00 The funds for work are being loaned to this dip by the state and are to be paid k in yearly installments. This r triet some time ago voted a special li levy to care for this expenditure, ids have been called for its erection and the work will begin within the neat few weeks. this city are in receipt of a letter 1 their ton, Capt. C. Vance Haynea, in ! forming them of his return to hi* base at Washinrton, D. C. Capt. Hay nea ia one of the nation's beat aviators and has been making an inspection tour of western United State* by air plane. The trip of inspection ed about three weeks and during Ha tour— he travelled more than 4,000 miles by airplane. Capt. Haynea was seriously considered as on* of th* round-the- world aviator* bat was cli mated on account of having already I taken a long cruise and the war 4»> partment wanted to divide the cruise* I equally among its leading aviator*. Gao. Atkms Caw Thrown Ovt| of In the Superior Court at Dobeoa last week the ease against Geo Atkins and Sanford Marion was no! proeaed after the Judge had heard the evi dence of Um pr< eecuing a These fsnn-T*, who live near Whit* | Plsins, ware charred with destroying the plant bed of Walter Draughn, but when the atate had put all it* evi dence before the jury at Dobeoa last week the Judge ordered the caae (troo ped as not having snfflcisnt i a si 11 it g* t* a Jury for a > ■Him* tfiHxta OB i a hat VMeT iton VP WW ' WaWVP with m.11 In* rlfir»ttn | «. qUT. She «H aenlenaad to 1* month* in Jail and fined 1100 Jail " If aba lor Tnm Witt m fined |M tor bav in* iiqm.r for the purpeae of aale. In addition tn thr fin# he la imder a 18 month* my»nilal aentenss for »n»< >>ehavior to ha ahown every fow month* for two years by E. T* and W. L Oajm. Stmrt flaiUy. for pimmlut transporting liquor, was fined I In addition to a HO day jail which ia net to take effort if kn ah ataine from drinking or tranaporting liquor for two years. T. H. Brown paid thr root for Dm rarklaaa operation of an antomoMlo. Hay Pariirr paid thr mat for leav ing his engine running while Ma aoto waa parked on tha streets. Alhart Sapp, of Concord, paid tha coat for giving a worthless cheek to J. W. Harn<-« Ha madr rood tha check for IIN, and Judgment waa ana Hmry Maaaay, colored, paid $60 r carry CM* for carrying a concealed wrapon. lotto Johnaon waa convicted of gambling Roland 1 Mitchell waa lat off with tha coat for having liquor on hia peraon. E. Stewart colored, moat ha good for two year* or aarrt aix month* in jail. Ed waa up for aseaulting hia wifr. hat promised ha will ha good haraaftor. 3*~* /l. B. Mc< ?_». _ J *.L _ ^ Work J. B. McCreary Company hava fln tahad thr grading on Cnurch and Wil son streets and hara moved tha force «f handa to Lebanon (treat and wilt begin pouring concrete on that a treat some time thi* weak. Tha lower end of f.efcanon will he poured in half width srrtions ao traffic op the Fan cy Gap road can go oat South Street and into I-ehpnon while tha work is in l—ii~—i TTi- city authoritiee are Splitting the work in thia way rather than n-qnire thr traffic down the Fan cy Gap road to detour over the old Fancy gap road and to town by tha depot. The city'a force have roped off North Main atreet below the dry bridge and are patting a coat of as phalt on that section. For some time they have bean filling op all ho lea In the street on Main and Franklin with ••oncrete and now a two inch layer of asphalt will be spread over tha entire surface. Traffic op Main is being detoored at West Elm, oat South and Your House Painted Faster and Better at Less Cost W. E. Merritt Co. u/rNmuTM) AQim ton DKVOE PAINT AND VARNISH PRODUCTS A Welcome Member of the Family queti^Teid Pr*or <f dw Ford Touring Car FORD MOTOR COMPANY DETROIT MICHIGAN Coup*—(US Tudv 5»U» - *9«0 fWdor5«i«a-(MS AU f o. b Dtrmt You can buy any model by making a naD dnr» pa y ntnl arranging caay »i i ■■ for ikt bihaci Or yo« can buy on our. Weekly Purchaae Plan. Tit* Ford dealer in your neifkborfaood wiB gladly
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