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New Year Greetings
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Sedan $735. Coach $645
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THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
ALLEN.
[ We have been having some cold
j weather.
J I>r. S. C. Duncan, of Monroe, spent
the week-end with his sister. Mrs. O.
■WL. Flowe.
! Mr. Lloyd Gray, of Wake Forest
College, spent the holidays at his home,
r Mr. Gaston Williams and his broth
* er . T. B. Williams, of Charlotte, spent
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Fink, of Carthage.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Estridge, of
Charlotte, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. J. T.
Estridge.
Mr. and Mrs. .Toe Hough and Miss
Ruth Hough, of Smyrna, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Justin
Flowe.
Mr. IT. S. Estridge. of Charlotte,
and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Estridge
and family, spent Sunday evening
with "their mother. Mrs. J. T. Es
tridge.
The wedding bells have been ringing
and we are thinking that they will
ring again.
Mr. Robert Wallace and Miss Isa
bella Conuell were married Christmas
eve.
Mrs. .T. P. Parker, of Inman, S.
C., spent Christmas with her sister.
Mrs. O. L. Flowe and Mrs. A. K.«
Beaver.
Mrs. W. E. Thompson, of Chapel
Hill, is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. p. Flowe.
A READER.
HARRISBURG.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Savage have
returned home after spending Christ
mas in Georgia.
Miss Lila Barley and Theodore
Taylor were married in South Caro
lina Thursday. We wish for them a
long and happy life.
Mrs. Ernest Stallings and little
daughter. Emily Marie, have return
ed home after spending the hoFdn.vs
in Greensboro with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Young.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Barbee have
returned to their home in Murfrees
boro, Tenn.. after spending a few days
with relatives.
A crowd gathered on Christmas Eve
and gave a generous pounding to Rev.
and Mrs. J. F. Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hall, of
Spencer, spent Christmas at the home ,
of the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]
C. L. Sims.
Mrs. J. I). Sides, of Concord, spent
Saturday afternoon' with her sister.
Mr. Mary Barbee.
Miss Cullie Stafford, of Moorosvillc.
is visiting Miss Addie Quay.
A singing was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Taylor, in honor of
Mr. Henry Turner, of Cleveland. X. C.
ECRIYIAX.
GEORGE VILLF.
Christmas was spent very quietly at
Georgeville.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. ITagler and
children. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shelton
and children, of Greenville, S. C„
spent the holidays wth their mother.
Mrs. A. M .Furr.
Mr. Sefront Turner, of Winnsboro,
Texas, is visiting his father, John S.
Turner.
Rev. Mr. Scott preached an excel
lent sermon Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Frank Furr is confined to his
bed. We wish for him a speedy recov
ery.
Mrs. John M. Kluttz and family
spent Wednesday in Stanfield with her
brother, C. C. Turner.
Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Joyner spent
Friday in Concord visiting relatives.
The people of Georgeville are en
joying real winter time once again.
Miss Mittie Cox has returned to
Charlotte after spending Christmas
with home folks.
Mrs. Pearl MeGrady, of Asheville,
is spending some t ine with her fath
er. Mr. John Teeter.
School will open again Monday af
ter being closed a week for Christmas.
Miss Alma Shinn has been confined
to her room with neuralgia.
The recent rains didn’t seem to
help the water situation very much,
as water is still scarce in this com
munity. FARM GIRL.
EASTERN NO. ELEVEN.
The holidays were spent pleasantly
and enjoyed by all. It was a time
of mingling and entenningling of rel
atives and old friends.
Mrs. G. F. Plott gave a New Year’s
dinner yesterday. Those present were*
Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Plott, of Detroit.
Mrs. S. L. Bost and daughter, Mar
garet. of Concord, and Frank Plott.
of Florida, Mr. George Whitley and
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Plott.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett L. Bost and
Miss Lucile Bost attended the Christ
mas exercises at Mt. Olive Church in
No. 7.
The little son of Mr. T. D. Riggers
has been seriously sick for several
days-
Misses Virginia Cline and Beulah
Biggers, of Mont Amoena Seminary,
Mt. Pleasant, are spending the holi
days at their respective homes.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Wensil and chil
dren. of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. E.
L. Bost. of Concord, spent the week
end at Mr. D. G. Host's.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kluttz
December 13th, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kluttz, of Con
cord. visited relatives Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hartsell. of
Kannapolis, visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Whitley during the
holidays. w
Mr. J. K. Talbirt anti family, of
Concord and Messrs. C. A. Myers,
Baxter Myers, of Raleigh, and David
1)., of near the Training School, vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Bost during
the holidays.
Miss Autie Dorton, of -No. 10, has
been spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. Harry Kluttz.
The little son of Mr. 11. A. Kluttz,
who has been right ick for some time,
is improved. X
ROCKWELL ROUTE TWO.
We are having some cold weather
along now.
Miss Lillie Troutman, of Concord,
is spending the Christmas holidays
with relatives *nd friends In South
Rowan.
Mis Sarah Jackson, of Sloope
school, is spending the holidavs with
her parents in South Carolina.
FIRST QUARTER OF 20TH CENTURY •
WORLD’S GREATEST INVENTIVE AGE
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BY XEA SERVICE
Washington, I>ec. 31.—High on a
frontier hill, a century ago. a thin
spiral of smoke sent its message to a
band of red-painted savages crouched
in a forest.
Around the edge of the forest^slow
ly* laboriously, came an (‘migrant
train, four or five crudely fashioned
bowls of wagons, drawn by sweatingl
oxen.
A few swift arrows whistled through I
the air. The struggle was unequal.
Man in his native element had con-1
quered man. the invader, again.
But man's mind proved swifter than
the swiftest and straightest of the
feathered darts of death of the In
dians. The years passed and the in
vader defeated the natives. Standing
today on the same spot where that
migratory train met its fate, looking
back over the century between, the
mau of today rules as master of all he
surveys. He has been Nature to his
bidding.
Especially during the quarter cen
tury coming to a close with 1925 has
man, the invader, beaten down the el
ements into inventions that would
send man, the native, screaming in
Might. The inventions of the past 25
i years, and their practical development,
overshadows all the inventions of the
entire race for hundreds of years prev
iously.
Before the dawn of the twentieth!
century the knife of medical science. I
efficient though it was. went iu with
only a general knowledge of man's
ailment. But now its path is'defined.
The Christmas exercise at Ebenezer
E. L. Church wa? enjoyed very much
by everybody.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Connell and
family spent Christmas Day with
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Sides and fam
ily.
Miss Hope Ritchie, of East Spencer,
is spending the Christmas holidays
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Ritchie, of Rowan.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Troutman and
family and Miss Lillie Troutman spent
awhile Saturday in Salisbury.
Miss Onie Troutman and Mr. Carl
Yoit were happily married Christmas
day. Their many friend* extend con
gratulations.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Ritchie spent a
few days with the former's father ear
St. John’s,
There will be a business meeting at
Sloope school house Saturday night,
.1 unuary the 2, 1920, at 7 o’clock. The
ohpect is to select a teacher for next
year. They are thinking of Robert
Bitcliie as teacher. BUTTERCUP.
The Story of Mellon’s “Trust/*
New York World.
The story of an astounding situa
tion will begin Sunday in The World.
It will tell how Secretary of the
Treasury Andrew W. Mellon and his
brother. Richard B. Mellon, created
and still control the Aluminum Com
pany of America, accused by the Fed
eral Trade Commission and an at
torney general of being a monopoly
in violation of the law.
It will tell how the Federal Trade
Commission, through action of a Re
publican majority, reversed itself and
became a sanctuary for the company
instead of an iy*cuser. Competitors
of this company were not so sheltered.
It will relate the dilatoriness of
the Department of Justice in this
case; how, in the year that has
elapsed since the department received
the first o cial accusation against
this company, its investigators have
reported no progress.
Finally, it will tell of the congres
sional inquiry which may result from
these revelations, a double-barreled in
vestigation seeking not only the facts
about the Aluminum Company of
America, but also those regarding the
Federal Trade Commission. Has the
Mellon influence created this condi
tion of affairs, and is there no rem
edy?
The series will continue daily.
I A map covering 2,750 feet of
canvas, said to be the largest in the
I world, has been unveiled in Rome.
The X-ray was discovered by William
K. Roentgen in 1895.
In a Paris laboratory, in 1898. two
scientists worked to give the world a
wonderful new chemical element, ra
dium, an element that is still so rare
that it is being passed around the
world from hospital to hospital, where
it is used in the treatment of cancer,
goiter and other diseases. Its value
has befMi put at $3,000,000 an ounce.
The scientists were Prof. Curie and
his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie.
New Smoke Signals.
Where the red man's smoke sent its
signal into the sky now stands a huge
tower, taller than the highest tree of
the old forests. From the tower, man
spuds his messages to his fellows in
invisible smoke that flashes across con
tinents and oceans in the twinkling of
an eye.
Twenty-five years ago the world
laughed at Guglielmo Marson! and a
little group of men who believed in
radio. Now in many farm home along
the route of the old schooner train, a
family sits around the box that brings
stories of the world's work and ongs
of the world at play.
Twenty-five years! The world was
indeed amused when it read about
Darius Green and his flying machine,
but more amused at the Wright broth
ers for following Darius’ example. To
fly was to die. Wings to carry man
through the air? Well, hardly. But
25 years have sped—and man flies.
Man flies, so does time. On the
spot where the first immigrant train
met fate, a red school house was rear
ed. Twenty-five years ago. a bright
What WE mean
by “Gas Service”
OUR idea of gas service is of some?
thing more than furnishing a supply
of gas that shall be at all times depend
able and adequate to the demand—>
though that is an obligation we are
pledged to fulfill.
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To render competent advice and assist
ance in the most economical use of gas
in the home and the factory; to keep our
customers informed on improvements in i
gas equipment; to make our every con
tact with customers a source of benefit
and satisfaction—these are equally im
portant features of our policy of serviced
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CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA
faced boy risked his life to get to
that sclioolhouse. His way led across
a road that was hardly more than a
path, with a narrow footbridge here
and there across some frozen stream.
The boy returns to day to spend
the New Year with the family. He
whizzes in his auotomobile along a
highly polished pavement, roars’
through a culvert where the old bridge
stood and past the barn that Dobbin
long ago gave tip to a new tire-breath
ing beast that rolls.
High above the barn another engine
hums. The boy of 25 years ago would
have run away at the sight of this
'monstrous fly. Now he takes out his
watch, perhaps with the thought that
the air mail right on time again.
Steam and gasoline and electricity
have changed the world. Hero, of
Alexandria, played with a steam toy
in 120 B. t\, but it was 1700, years
before a practicable steam engine was
invented. A little more than 100 years
ago Fulton applied the steam to a boat
and it moved. World old sea tradi
tions were shot to smithereens when
Fulton's crude craft paddled along in
the Hudson.
McCormick's reaper is nearly 100
years old. but it took the genius of the
twentieth century to roll reaper and
thresher into one and hitch a tractor
to it to do in a few hours work that
once took long days.
Gutenberg invented n printing press
in 1450. The twentieth century press
grinds out thousands of newspapers a
minute. The work of a minute in the
twentieth century would have taken
Gutenberg a lifetime.
Monday, January 4, 1926
1 Daguerre, in ik«>, gave the world
the secret of photography, but not tin
til the twentieth century, did man
turn this invention to a common lan
guage of pictures that totiay blooms
on every Main Street in the world,
movies. And it took the twentieth
century to learn how to send pictures
across the land on the wings of light
ning, the telephoto.
Terrible Inventions.
War, with its terrible instruments,
stands as a blot on the lirst twenty
five years of the century, when man
turned his inventions to destruction.
He changed the tractor into a tank,
devised machines that poured bullets
in a swift stream, invented gas and ail
its deadly implements and protective
devices, built flame projectors that
could sear a regiment to cinders and
Big Berthas 1 1 ip t from it distance of
75 miles tore buildings and men to
pieces.
Time flies and the things of the
twentieth century already seem old.
But none who lived twenty-five years
ago knew what a pulmoter was. or a
submarine, or a war tank, a tractor,
an electron tube, a hydroplane, a ma
chine gun. a X.iberty motor, radiotele
phony or an airplane.
The world smirked at men who sat
tinkering with strange new toys back
in 1900.
But the world lias quit laughing at
the inventor, and that has been one of
the first quarter of the century’s dear
est lessons—that invention is our meat
and drink and the inventor is the hero
of this complicated age.