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I - Big Reduction
i In Closed Car Prices !
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 11TH , /
New Prices Old Prices Reduction
I Tudor $520 SSBO S6O
I Coupe SSOO $520 S2O
Fordor $565 $660 $95 ,'!
1 Demand for Ford closed cars since the improved types in
colors were introduced has been constantly increasing. !
With greater output of these types production costs
have been lessened and it is the policy of the company
to give its customers the benefits of all such reductions.
| NEW OPEN CAR PRICES j
Touring $3lO Runabout $290
Starter and Demountable Rims SBS Extra / / ii
Tractor, Car and Truck Chassis Prices Remain
Unchanged ',.*** '
All Prices F. O. B. Detroit * '
Detroit, Michigan t 'B ' - *
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Know the organization
back of your gas service
TO ASSURE you of an unfafling gas supply,
ready to your hand by day and night, requires
the energy and skill of many people.
There are the financial experts, experienced in
the sound financing of such a public utility. There
are the gas engineers, who know just when im
provements and extensions are essential to good
service. There are the men who make and keep
the gas flowing from the plant to the homes and
factories. And there are the people in the office,
every one of whom will greet you cordially and
serve you courteously whenever you have oc
casion to call.
The members of this organization, those with
whom you come m contact and those whom you
never see, are united in a single purpose—to
furnish a gas service that shall be a benefit to
you and every other member of this community.
Concord & Kannapolis Gas Co.
SB9 S. Union Street
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA
Gas Er'Power
Corporation
SIX CHILDREN BURNED TO
f DEATH IN FARM HOUSE;
They Are Trapped by Flames in Two
* Bed Rooms—Ages Range From 4
to 10.
k. Houghton, alien., Feb. 14.—Trapped
in two second story bed rooms in a
log; farm house, six children, aged
from three to 10, were burned to death
and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Uott
fried Rothenberger, and four-mvnths
oid girl, severely burned early today
in a fire at Portage Entry, 10 miles
|«aet of here.
R The children who lost their lives
ft, Freda, 10; Elsie, 0; Martha, 8;
William, 6; Ruth, 4, and Paul, 3.
i<:. The other children, Alfred, 12, and
prving, 11, escaped without injury by
through a window to the
fpMif of a shed.
.Mrs. Rothenberger and the
;are in a critical condition suffering
Bi severe burns. Rothenberger was
gMMlly burned about the hands and
njet when he attempted to rescue the
The fire’ started in the lower part
pi the house and before any member
Os the family awakened the entire
first door was ablaze and the flames |
I had worked their way up an open I
stairway to the second door.
■ The canse of the first has not been
, determined.
Has Florida Twang.
i Shelby Star.
I I A million dollar mortgage was filed
1 at Rutherfordton last week. Now
■ the pessimist will have to admit that
■ western North Carolina has started
talking in Florida terms.
1 The mortgage was recorded by the
Chimney Rock Mountains and covers
i bonds recently sold to develop the gi
gantic Lake Lure. Sixty-tbree pages
i in the record book-Were required to
take the 88 typewritten pages of the
I 'mortgage. It required two days time
’ to record the paper and the fee was
'■ over SIOO.
All of which should prove inter
’ eating to folks who own just plain
1 dirt in western North Carolina, fibre
i long they may find their holdings
I just as valuable as plots in the land
■ of flowers of staked areas in gold
and oil rush states. A sensible mad
: who sells his western Carolina real
r estate these days is jnst selling it so
• that lie might bnpt other nearby prop*
* i
t erty —he's not selling out altogether,
j or he wouldn't be termed sensible.
I Three Thousand Klansmen Vote to
Form New Society.
Nokomo, Iml., Feb. 14 —Three thou
sand Klansmen, meeting here today,
are -understood to have voted to
secede from the Knightu of the
Ku Klux Klan of Georgia. Inc., and
form an independent organization
The meeting was called by “In
susrgents” in protest of the recept
appointment of w. I,ee Smith,
Evansville, act grand dragon in In
diana and because they believed H.
W. Evans, imperial wizard at At
lanta, Ga., had gone too far for the
good of the order in his alleged dicta
tion on the klan’s policies, it was re
ported.
Campaign For Beauty of Catawba
College Campus.
Salisbury, Feb. 12.—Catawba col
lege, this city, has begun a campaign
to make the campus and grounds of
the institution beautiful. This week
a tree-planting day brought to the
college a number of friends and dur
ing the day about 76 trees were
planted.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
“RE AD TO SUCCEED” IS
FAMOUS EDITOR’S RECIPE
Ray Long’s Rise From Cub Reporter to Editorial
Head of Great Publishing House
At thirteen Rny Long wns selling
newspapers in t’iie streets of Indian
apolis. Today he is editor-in-chief
and vice president of the Internation
al Magazine Company. Inc., publish
ers of “Cosmopolitan,” “Good House
keeping.” “Harper's Bnznr." “Motor,”
and “MoToli BoatinG.” one of the
greatest publishing houses in the
world.
And he attributes his success in
large measure to reading—“reading
anything and everything I could lay
hand upon!”
These facts arc disclosed for the
first time in the noted editor's in
troduction to “As I Look at Life,”
a new book of intimate revelations
liy fourteen famous authors, which
has just been issued by Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
“I am certain you may learn from
reading," writes Mr. Long, “because
I learned from reading. In fact, I
gained 90 per cent, of my education
from reading, and from nothing else.
Which leads me to feel £hnt the best
way to preface this composite of auto
biographies is wit'h a bit of my own
biography.
“I was born in Lebanun. Indiana.
My father was an average small-!
town merchant. My mother camel
from pioneering agricultural stock.)
On neither side, so far as the records!
show, had there been a member of]
the family who showed even slight I
interest in literature. He ’had few I
books, and we had no desire for more.
Books simply did not figure in our.
lives. However, my father must have !
had a fine faculty for friendship, for*
when he died a line of buggies, sur-j
reys, and farm wagons more than a
mile long splashed and heaved for fif
teen miles through almost impassably
muddy roads to follow his h*arse to 1
the cemetery. |
Boyhood in Indiana.
My mother was. I think, the most
courageous woman I ever knew. She ?
gathered my widowed grandmother, j
rny two sisters and myself, and ad
ventured to Indianapolis, which to us
seemed a terrifying large city. There!
she established a millinery shop; ami
in some manner s*ae provided fes us. *
Not only provided for us but warmed*
us with ofFeetion and cheered us with *
an optimism which she gained from *
God knows what source.
An optimism which received its
cruel cat strain, I am afraid, when, at
Picture
CHRIST'S CHI UCH.
Christ’s Church, Alexandria. Yir- 1
ginia. where George Washington, first !
president of the 1 nited States, was a j
vestryman while living at Mount Ver- 1
I non. which is not far from the city of j
Alexandria. In the church the pew \
of Wasji ngtou is preserved today ex-!
actly as it was in the days when he |
was a visitor at the church. Here he j
sat with his family and listened to
the lengthy sermons of the pastor and j
a monument in his honor stands on j
one skle of the pulpit, with a tablet \
j She. Socked Him on the Jaw
[' jMiaa Gertruda Hajrnea of young lady, ao ah*
, | darns part of her expenses at Drake University by supervising a Dee
.! Moines playground. A mapher took her by tbs arm as she walked home
. | (fins nlyht—and she bit hint on the jaw. knocked him into the gutter end
.called the oops.. He ran away before tbs polio* .Cam*.
’ i
RAY LONG
Editor of Cosmopolitan
thirteen. I determined to quit school
was in the eighth grade of gram
mar school—and aid her more than
I had been able to do by selling newS-
J papers and deliver ng packages. She
! had the natural feeling that an un
i educated man. such as it seemed in
] evitable I mllst be, would travel under
a heavy handicap.
“And beyond question there wno
ground for her fear. There was noth
ing in me or in my showing in the
j few years I had boon in school to in
dicate that I might develop an nppe
-1 tite f>r education sufficient to goad
j me into teaching myself.
J “I delivered telegrams for the West
-1 ern Union at sls a mouth : I worked
i In n shoe store, rode in professional
i bicycle races, got and held a small
.political job: and then, at eighteen.
I got and held a job on the * India n
| apolis News,’ which, at that time, un
j der the editorship of Charles R. Wil
! Ham.-, was written in the purest* Erig
i lush of any newspaper in the United
States, Not as well written as the
old New York Sun,* but more care
fully written and more gracefully edit-
i ed v
i “Hmv did I do it? By rending,
j By vending anything nnd everything
I I could lay hand upon. Nick Car
ter and Lew Wallace's ‘Ben Hur,’the
Fireside Companion and the Century,
Laura lean Libbey and Edgar Allan
A1 .EX AXI >ROIA. YA.
| to Robert K. Lee. who while living
in Arlington also was a member of
the congregation, stands on the oth
er.
] The Church is : n a perfect state of
preservation and even a chandelier,
the first light in the church, purchas- 1
| ed in England while th“ colonies were
j still young, is hanging in the build
ing. The pews of Washington and I
j h e are reserved for visitors who at-j
i tend the services at the church, which
jls in active use. • 1 |
Poe. Judge. Puck, Loudon Punch;
Richard {larding Davis (I admired
him so much that I tried to make
myself look like him) and his model,
Stevenson; Popys and Franklin.
“Literally, from shortly after the
time I quit school until today, I have
found more joy in reading than in
any other pastime or pursuit. To
day. when I tire of reading manu
scripts, I rest by taking down a book
and reading it^.
Read What He Enjoyed.
“I’ve never laid out fcr myself a
course in reading: I’ve never confined
myself to books that might have been*
called ‘beneficial’: I’ve read what I
have enjoyed rending—and if T
haven’t enjoyed it I’ve thrown it
away, just ns today 1 toss aside a
manuscript if I don’t enjoy reading
it.
“I have never let my reading in
terfere with having a good time in
other directions. I haw played ns
much ns was my share—if not more!
I have seen much of the world, and
I expect to see more. Blit my good
times have never interfered with my
reading. And thanks to it I learned
enough of my fellow man, and of
my language and his art in using it,
to be somewhat of an authority on
writing and the editorial head of
what I consider the greatest publish
ing house in the world.
“That isn’t said boastfully. It fk
said with pride. And also with grati
inle to that something within me
which made me love to rend.”
Referring to the contents of “As
I Look at Life.” Mr. Long says:
“The two most interesting subjects
in the world to you are Yourself and
the Other Fellow. This is a book
about the Other Fellow by Himself
—a book of chapters from the liveß
of fourteen human beings who have
lived, loved, hungered, suffered—and
learned. That’s the important point:
they have learned. Some learned the
recipe for health, some the recipe for
success, some for happiness. And
it is because I belie\V you, too may
learn from reading these experiments
and experiences in life that I take
pleasure as well as pride in presenting
this volume to you.”
This book, issued by Cosmopolitan
Magazine* as a gift to its readers, is
not available except in the compli
mentary edition. *
NOTES OF SPORT.
The State of Ohio has more than
100,000 acres of game preserves.
A new bowling academy just open
ed in New York City has forty-two al
leys.
Harvard has not won the Ynle-llar
vard tarsity eight-oared race since
192f>. !
W. G. George's professional mile
reeor«l of 4 minutes 12 3-4 seconds lias
stood for 40 years.
The right name of Johnny Dundee,
the former junior lightweight cliam
p:ou. is Giuseppe Carrorn.
The Eastern intercollegiate ath
letic chan!])ionships were originally
known ns the Mott Haven games.
Os the fifty meets held by the In
tercollegiate A. A. A. A. Harvard has
won the most victories of any of the
colleges.
Kansas City and Peoria will be
prominent applicants for the 1927
championship tournament of the Am
erican Howling Congress.
The first women's collegiate fenc
ing team in the I’nited States was or
ganized at the University of Pennsyl
vania six years ago. .
Great Britain has not developed a
world’s heavyweight champion since
1 the late Bob Fitzsimmons left tCorn
j wall nearly 35 years ago.
Nearly twelve miles of pipe are
embedded in the arena of Madison
! Square Garden to furnish the ice sur
| face for hockey and skating.
Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Jesse
Burkett, and numerous other base
i ball plnyeres famous for the : r hitting
j broke into the majors at pitchers.
I Jimmy MeLarnin, one of the' most
| prominent of the little fighters per
i forming in the Pacific roast section, is
18 years old and a native of*lreland.
Lafayette, La., has been awarded
the the Southern A. A. IT. track and
field championships Tor this year. The
meet will be held about the middle of
Mny.
Although Leo Flynn has directed
| the affairs of more than four hundred
I boxers during his twenety-five years
as a fight manager, it never has'been
his good fortune to manage a world’s
champion.
Miss Mary K. Browne, the former
California star, one of the few women,
who have reached stellar rank in two
major sports, has accepted invitations
to compete in several gilt and tennis
tournaments to be held at St. Augus
tine and other Florida resorts during
the late winter.
Choice of Terms.
The track Supervisor received the
following note from one of his track
foremen:
1 "I'm sending in the. accident re
port on Casey’s foot when he struck
it with the spike maul. Now, under
'Remarks,’ do you want mine or do
you want Casey’s? *
Jpakb
Will stop tomorrow
WMKHSsa-,
Mat Mi
CASCARA&QUININE
semi
TODAYSB EVENTS |
Monday. February is, 192«.
Two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Abraham Clark, a New Jer
sey signer of the Declaration of In
dependence.
Centenary of the birth of Gen. Wil
liam B. Rochester, civil war soldier
and pa.vmastcre general of the U. 8.
Army.
A tablet will bo ded : cated in Ha
vana today in memory of the 260 Am
ericans who perished in the Maine
disaster, on this date in 1898.
The sixth annual British Industries
Fair, held simultaneously at London
and Birmingham, will be ojienod to
day and continued to February 26. j
The new submarine tender Hoi-1
land, the first vessel of the type to
be built by the U. 8. Navy, will be
launched today at the Puget Sound ,
Navy Yard.
The Federal Trade Commission will
begin taking evidence nt Pittsburgh
• today on a complaint against the
Aluminum Company of America, in
which Secretary Mellon is a stoek
■ holder, f '
Premier AV. L. Mackenzie King,
: who with half his ministry fvas de
feated at the poHs on Oet. 29, will
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Monday, February 15,1926
seek re-election today in the constit
uency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
His only opponent is Captain t). L.
Burgess, runuing as an independent.
The 192(5 meeting of the Southwest
ern Division of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Svi
ence will be opened. at Phoenix, Ari
zona, today with delegates in attend- '
anoe from five of the southwestern
States and two States of Mexico.
A Fish Yarn.
“Fishin' any good?" asked a cur
ious individual looking over the rail
of the bridge.
"Afiy good?” answered the fisher
man below, “why, I caught forty
i bass out o’ here yesterday."
"Say. do you know who t am,”
' asked the man on the bridge.
The fisherman replied that he did
.not.
"Weil, I'm the fish and game war
den. ’’
After a moment’s thought the
fisherman said:
"Say, do you know who I am,”
"No," replied the officer.
"Well. I’m the biggest liar in the
country."
Cato was a prohibitionist. He
drank nothing but water. ,