North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR The Concord Daily Tribune Whm ■»■ J. B. SHERRILL Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor MUiMRWR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ths Associated Press is exclnsively entitled to the nse for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo cal news published herein. All rights of republication es spec ial dispatches herein pre also reserved. Special Representative FROST, LANDIS & KOHN ?25 Fifth Avenue, Nbw fork Peoples’ Gas Building, Chicago 1004 Ccndler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un der the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: One Tear |6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month .50 Outside of the State the Subscription Is the Same as in the City Ont of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail : One Tear $5.00 Si? Months 2.50 TFK\fnnth* 1 Three Months, 50 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect Jan. 30, 1926. Northbound No. 40 To New York 9 :28 P. M. No. 136 To Washington 5 :05 A. M. No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M No. .. 34 To New York 4 :43 P. M. No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7:10 P. M No. 32 T(rNew York 9:08 P. M No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound , No. 45 To Charlotte 3 :45 P. M No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :36 A. M No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M No. 33 To New Orleans 8:15 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8 :00 A. M No. 135 To Atlanta 8 :37 P. M No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash ington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis ehargepassengera coming from be yond Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. I M —FOR TODAY—I {ll Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a |bi |HT Dricelesa heritage in after years jgj THE RICHEST FRUITAGE : The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, . peace , long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temper ance: against such there is no law.— Gal. 5:22,23. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIA TIONS SAFE. A building and loan association. . with headquarters in Raleigh, has gone broke, with the resultant loss of money by its shareholders. Much has been said of this failure and- it is to their credit that many newspa pers in the State have seen tit to car ry editorials about it, in an effort to set the facts straight before this peo ple. This concern was Known as tiie * North Carolina Building and Lean Association but it was not run as oth er associations are run. It tried to do business in all parts of the State and for that reason proved a failure. When the Raleigh association was formed the North Carolina Building and Lotfn League, the State organiza tion of associations throughout North Carolina, refused to admit it to mem bership, because the Raleigh firm’s policies were regarded as extending beyond the limit of safe business. The success of the building and loan associations in Concord has been bast ed on the fact that business has been done in Concord alone. The same is true of associations in other cities and towns in North Carolina. Offi cers of these associations realize that to he safe they must confine their business to the communities in which the oees are located. The value of building and loan as sociations which are operated on ap proved plans, cannot be questioned. They have been of great aid to hun dreds of persons in Concord and have proved successful. Officers of the Building and Loan League are authority for the state ment that no failure of a local asso ciation has occurred in North Caro lina in the past ten-year peril si dur ing which careful rec ords were made. There are 240 as sociations in the State now with ap proximately $90,000,090 invested in them. They are safe and sane, and wari-ant the support that unquestion ably will be given them. | THE JINGOISTS AGAIN. ‘ Recently two American girls, vis iting in Tia Juana. Mexico, were drugged and assaulted. The deed lated led to a suicide pact by every l member of their family, a. Tia Juana is perhaps as low a town as there : s on the face of the earth, with all manner of crime rampant. , Officials there apparently wink at all laws and no real effort is made to g! arrest the criminals or protect visit ors. £ The latest incident in the Mexican : dive town has led to lot of war talk. There are many persons who would * send the American spirit there with the bayonet. We admit that the in ; cidcnt makes the blood boil and that » at first glance brte feels-that the crime I is enough to make us sent American j l troopers to cl run up the town. But j ' there is not provocation for such a step. It been so long ago " that we had cities just as rotten as Tia Juana. Mexico has a stable government • now, but such a government has been in operation only a few years. Give read the very applicable warning that j “it is terrible that such a plague spot should exist at our very door, but it is not an excuse for interven tion or warlike talk.” There is another side to the ques tion—who is doing the talking about war and intervention? There are many Americans with financial inter ests in Mexico. Some of them have been hunting war excuses for years and they will seize any opportunity to get the United States to march in and take charge of things. This government can insist upon prompt trial and punishment for those persons guilty of the crimes against the Americans. That's about all it can properly do. That’s the course usually followed. And besides, there is no law com pelling people to go to Tia Juana. WILL LET DRY LAW ALONE. Senator Edge, of New 'Jersey, has made the latest “wet” move in Con gress. He has introduced a bill le* galizing all non-intoxicating bever ages. That is. the bill will permit the manufacture of any beverage that doesn’t contain enough alcohol to in toxicate the drinker. The drys won in the first skirmish over the bill by adopting a resolution to put off consideration of the bill un til March 15th. They evidently in tend to start work on other measures considered of such importance .that Senator Edge’s bill will not be* taken up at that time. There seems little chance for the wets at the present session of Con gress. The present laws will remain much as they were when Congress ad journs. There are all k ; nds of liquor propaganda but the members of Con gress haven’t been convinced that* the majority of the people want any change in the law. PATRONIZE HOME B. & L. ASSOCIATIONS Statesville Daily. The. North Carolina Mutual Build ing and Loan Association, a concern operating on a state-wide basis, with headquarters in Raleigh, has suspend ed business aftrr a career of a little more than two years. Judge J. S. Manning, late attorney general, was president, and his son. J. H. Man ning. was treasurer. Stockholders are assured that they will get <SO to 00 per cent, of their claims, and if it turns out that well they have cause for thanks. Cause for the trouble is said to be too much overhead—costs of operation too high. Local building and loan associa tions are generally successful—always successful if carefully managed. It is very rare that a local institution fails. One reason is that they are managed by home folks who have local interests and art* usually conducted at a minimum of expense. They are in their very nature the most useful of all co-operative enterprises. They encourage thrift and give a fair re turn on savings accounts, while the savings enable borrowers to buy and build homes on the installment plan at a reasonable rate of interest. But the history of state-wide associations, or associations that take in too mfich territory, is. not so good. Years ago. before the local organizations became so common, organizations of this character operated' in this state — most or all of them organized without the state, if memory serves—and many North Carolina people have un pleasant recollections of experience with them. On the face of the propo sition a state-wide building and loan would seem feasible. Bur the diffi culty would be. as appears in the Ra leigh case, that the expense of opera tion is too great. All of which is further evidence, if further evidence were needed, of the -oft-repented and generally disregard ed injunction, to invest your money at home. If a fraction of the money itiiat has been sent out of Statesville in recent years, for investment in out side enterprises, and much of it ltwty had been invested at home, not only ;the investors but the whole commun ity would have greatly profited as a result of the investments “building up the town.*’ The story is told of a colored man who sojourned in the North for a sea son and not finding things to his lik ing returned South. Asked why he had come back lie said if he had to be lynched lie preferred to be lynched by his home folks. Multitudes of home people proceed on the opposite theory when they get a little money ahead. They won’t trust the home folks, the folks they see every day and in many instances have known all their lives. They prefer to be robbed by strang ers : and often that is just what hap pens to them. Stanly Farmers to Ship Solid Car Load of Poultry. Stanly News-Herald. Stanly County farmers will ship a solid ear load of poultry on Feb ruary 25th. The ear will be loaded in Albemarle on •Wednesday. Feb ruary 24th. It will be located on the Southern side track near tae ware house of Morrow Brothers and Heat Company. Mr. O. H. Phillips, Farm Dem onstration Agent, and Miw Lois Wilson, Home Demonstration Agent, are co-operating with the • poultry producers in their efforts to get up this car load and they wiU.Jm glad to aosist any one lipqding and want ing help. For further details read the signed statement carried e’ne where in this issue or see either Miss Wilson or Mr. -Philips. Mr. Phillips says that this Is just' one ofthe many solid ear loads of poultry that will be sold co-opera tively ami shipped out from Stanly during this year. I Iceland «ns the first country ut terly to abolish the judicial code of duelling. SHARPE'S DRY FORCE IS AGAIN CUT SEVEN BEEN February Ith ft Waa Reduced to 65 Men and Now Another Sevan Must , Be Dropped. I Charlotte. Feb. 21.—For the *ee ond time within 30 days, prohibition forces operating under Ben O. Skwpe, administrator in the eighth district, composed of North and South Caro lina and Georgia, will be reduced by order of General Lincoln C. An drews, according to word from Wash- ( ington to Mr. Sharpe, it was learned here today. T’ae force of agents operating in this division which. - effective Febru ary Ist, was reducted to 65 officers, must be reduced by seven more, the order said. “I have received an order to drop seven agents and I will forward the names of the men to be dropped tS Washington probably on Monday.” Further than that statement Mr. Sharpe refused to be quoted. The latest order directing a re duction in the federal- enforcement staff in this section cuts the strength oftlie organization almost to half of what it was when General Andrews Reorganized the enforcement machin-’ ery last year, the eighth division be ing allowed 106 men when Mr. Sharpe first opened division headquarters here. Officials attached to ’headquarters here for some time have felt that sud den cutting off of (imbibition agents has had a bad effect on the morals of the men left in the service, nolle of these being certain of a job for any length of time. Alabama Negroes Wante Vote. The Pathfinder. The 15th amendment to the con stitution vitas supposed to guarantee negroes the ri|ht to vote. But South ern state get around the law’s iu tent by embodying in their consti tutions certain provisions t’iint make it impossible for the negro to take ndvatttage of the ballot. For ex ample. there is the ‘’grandfather clause" which fnvors descendants of men who voted before the civil war. Alabama practically eliminates the negro voter by requiring him to be able to read nnd write any article of the United States constitution in the English language if called upon to do so: further, he must own at least forty acres of land or pay on land assessment. The “grandfather clause” automatically exempts the whites from suoh restrictions. However, Alabama’s constitution now contains a provision, added after the World War. that an ex-service man nr a descendant of a soldier is entitled to Vote, and this "joker” has been seized by negroes of the state in renewing their agitation for the fran chise. The movement started in Bir mingftnin and has spread to other sections. In many places the “Liz ard state,” as elsewhere in the South, negroes outnumber the whites. The latter are apprehensive lest negroes control the local vote. • As 25.000 Alabama negroes served in the World War, the recently o*. ganized movement centers on tli’eTr rights to vote under the soldier clause. Birmingham recently saw a big pa rade of colored women, headed by the wife of a World War veteran, which marched to the court house and de manded the right to register as vot ers. The registrar* refused, contend ing that the women could not qualify under the eduoational test. Tie dem onstration ended with the arrest of the lender on a charge of disorderly conduct. Alabama Republicans refuse to take up the negroes’ cause because in that state tile negro is no longer a factor in politics and Republicans, like the Democrats, are organized as “Lily Whites.” Keep Judges ab Home and on Bench ltaleigh Times. ■Some concern is being expressed iby the State press lest the resigna -1 Hon of judges from the Superior (Court bench become the rule rather •than the exception. Announcement ’ of the contemplated retirement of Judges Bryson and Lane. uT»<> have stated that they will not be eamii -1 dates for re-election, added to the return of Judges Horton U iiu Dunn of the third distriet lo the practice of law its responsible for this feeWwg. There is, we think, little reason to fear that the bench soon to be dm populated, but it i.- to the public ih • terest to retain , w-ru-noed judges. Portiaps raising the sa’ary paw a judge would help: but the thing that would serve to n.nk- a judgeship and its responsibility more endurable would be the abolition of the rora . tion system whereby the judges are kept away from hem * fur the greater part of the time. . , j When Judge Lane -ays that he ]js leaving tin- each to become ac- 1 quaistiisl with bis family, he V not necessarily jocular. If there ans-any children born since their father don ned the ermine, they have had scant opportunity^ to get n line on the head l of the family. An occasional week-end may be spent by as home ' by 6 judge without sltb It -changing the job; but night travel to reach court by opening time is not calcu lated to increase judicial capacity. J Nearly all hands an agreed that rotation should be stajpped. The judges think so, ami most of the lawyers- The, laity probably doesn’t care especially, but would e willing to take a chance. Moat of the opposition* winch is not bo open as it oacc was. cornea from those in the dominant party who cannot bear to think of the pos sibility >f a Republican becoming a ] part of our boasted "fiox-partienii I judiciary.’ That’s it; might just as , we’l say so and get it over with. The outlook fin- early relief is • rather dark, 'unless Als Watts or some other expert is able to work out a gerrymander to pi-event the I loss of a judgeship by the Democrats. Assuming of course, that the ma ■ jortty "party would not have the gall' to nominate by dis.ricts and the vote of the State as. a • : No pauper’s grave will be the fate of tiny resident of the town of Mil ton, Massachusetts. Tins, town has a ■ beautiful cemetery in which ~uy 'Sf may have a lot for the ask’-' THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE Published by arrangement with First National Plotures, I no. ’£■-• r*r rrrT ' CHAPTER I ’ ' "Be good, little glrla! Dab"jour noses and put on your smiles. Good Morning is coming!” It was a wonderfully sweet voice, and solemn. But there was the Savor of a laugh hidden it) the mock solemnity. That waa a trick of Joanna's. She had adopt ed it from someone. Joanna adopt ed all tricks of manner that prom ised to be successful additions to her own original store of them. Obediently, the young women who flanked Joanna behind the silk counter, a bevy of sheer, sinuous young persona made' In variations Did you ssnd for met I'm from the titles, number tfl" Her very tone teas a challenge. of the Incongruous pattern of the day, dabbed their noses, softened !he craftiness in their too-wise syes, and shaped smiles about their grotesquely scarlet lips. It was each day’s preparation for what was a daily ceremony—the ten o'clock visit to the silk coun ter of “Good Morning.” “Good Morning," it may be ex plained, was. in a mope definite way, Mr. Leroy Harkness, an Im posing gentleman of sleek groom Ing, risen to the dignity of a long called” jeoat. and tremendously im pressed by his responsibilities an arbiter of the world’s events and. hicidentally, the autocratic buyer who rules the destinies of the silk lepartment. Promptly at -ten •’clock each morning the store •pened at nine. Mr. Harkness. freshly magnificent, tapped his fin gers on the spread of the silk sounter, encompassed each of the young women behind It with a friendly condescending glance, and said to them collective!^: “Good Morning!" There was much rivalry among the servitors of satin as to which at them first would see “Good Morning” down the aisle and an Bounce his coming And if. by any shatTce, “Mr. Good Morning’s" eyes rested a little longer on one rouged’ face than on another among his lilk counter nymphs, why. there was a full day's scandal ahead It happened often; too often loanna herself had been bothered l bit of late, because “Good Morn ing” had fallen into the habit of looking at her. tnorjl and more ipeculatively The ipornlng be fore she bad decided sije could not ignore that meaptngful look in the Buyer’s eyes any lodger, and, had tilted her chin at blm She was prepared to do It again. But. strangely. “Good Morning” was not approaching in his usual' languidly majestic manner His ixpression was stern, gs If he car ried new matters of Importance didn't stop at the next counter, but came right along “Good Lord,” exclaimed the young person on Joanna’s right. •He has a grouch Somebody’s in tor Itl” Joanna struck Bar pose. Joanna hadAnany poses, one for every cir cumstance, For “Good Morning” she had rehearsed a way- of elevat ing her chin, putting ber-hand to the back of her head so that her elbow and forearm would show off" veil, and fixing the other on her kip. The effect In her mliror bad been- extremely satisfactory But her hand fell from her hair and the one at her hip flopped down suddenly Mr HarknessAhad no mornings for any of them He walked di rectly to where Joapaa stood and stopped, abruptly facing her There Was neither smirk nor smile In his half closed eyes Once he bad in terrupted as unfortunate shoplift ex*. and had looked at the trembling yonng woman In Just that manner "Miss Joanna,” he said, his words sharp ind evenly cold, *Havs the goodness to go at once • Mr, Graydon’s office You are » be spoken to/ by Mr Graydon himself. At once, if you please .” Pencils dropped to the floor be- Hud the silk counter unnoticed ty— stared. Blank faces turned ipon the wtartled girl. And she stared Into the fatuous face of the man across the counter as If he had woven her in some evil spell; Mr. Harkness was. no longer, Ms. Good Morning.” He was an >gM; the serf of \a tyrant and heprer of a t*nmfs'summons He stood there, the summons was about, nor why, membered at the silk counter, no other girl employe had been sum moned Into the awful presence of the "Old Man.” It augured but one thing. That thing shapedit self In Joanna's mind Almost In stantly. She had offgnded a cus tomer; unconsciously, petjiaps, but offended one; and an Important custofftpr; one who had the ear of the mysterious, unapproachable, thoroughly unknown “Old Man.’’ And that meant, dismissal! The buyer’s fingers began to drum, warnlngly, on the counter. A summons lo the office brooked no delays. He didn't know what nor how the Old Man so much as knew the name of the unimpor tant Joanna who, despite that gold brown hair and the captivating poses, was, after all, only "Number 27 in the silks." Graydon, owner of the city’s largest department store, was not the sort who knew certain ones of his hundreds of young women clerks by name. A few-of the managers were that sort, not Graydon "I believe 1 said, 'at once. Miss Twenty-seven," Mr Wnrknesq re peated. icily ”1 should advise that you interpret thnt as meaning 'now’!’’ And then he added the aftersting that brought quiver to the grotesquely scarlet Ups: the quiver that the girl bit at and re pulsed viciously; "l fancy. Miss, that the other young ladies will conduct the counter satisfactorily until you return from your Inter view!" Joanna could have choked him Tor that. Even In her trouble she remembered the different tone of him and the different light in the eyes of him on the moming of the day before when she flusned under his fawning He knew, she reflect ed, that she was going up to the taunting dignity of being dismissed by the owner. His code demanded that he have no consideration for even such a one as she, if she were to go Into the owner's black book But Joanna was Joanna “So sweet of Mr Graydon to send yon along for me!” she murmured ‘Vie were discussing von just last evening, you know —Mr Grayddn and I 1 was telling him what a nice little boy you are—and shall you run along now, or shall xou show me the way?" if she was going to be dis charged she'd leave behind her something to be remembered by! She'd wanted a long time to shoot something like that at the super cilious “Mr Good Morning” She gloried In the smothered gasp which choked In the throaf of the girl next her •Tm 27 Did the Old—Did Mr. Graydon want to ask mv advice about the business today?" * The secretary ignored the attec tatlon ”Oh. •» you are .loanna!” she said, simply. “1 sent Mr Graydon’s summons to your department chief 1 don’t know what It Is. but I’m sure It’s important* I'll tell him youTe waiting.” Joanna, urged by the -secretary found a chair Somehow the 'atmosphere of the Old Man’s office worried her. it wasn't what she’d expected Not at all in keeping with the most approved disclos ures Os old men's dens on the movie screens*’ It was startling bare, and solid, and sedate And the secretary wasn’t as an owner's office assistant should be Not even pretty That Is. not pretty according to the Bilk counter stand ards She was pale, and needed touching no at the rheek bones. (Joanna could have shown her how to lay on one of red, three of blue, rub It In. and whiten with Flor ette’s pink. And she wore no bracelets or bangles or. even, the dangling jet ear rings which were the mode.* Really, she must he stupid, that secretary o" the Old Man’a. and with her opportunities! Still— kometbing about her fascinated Joanna. Miss 27 caught herself rubbing at her lips and wondering if she'd marked them too red that morning. New doubts, new spectres took their place tn the parade that marched heavily across tip shop girl's brain The creditors, those inexpressibly ltttte peopte wbp fat tea on the meagerpeseof theisbop grease wßlj exhorbitant prills flu d :j«Swftay. T ©#f , the first time—the Bret time,that i she could remember, Joanna, wait - ißj* to be dismissed for some un t known offense against some on ! known customer, thought of tomor ■ row as It loomed within her owt - outlook. Dismissed from one store ■ the others would bei, for a time t barred to her. And she had strut* : gled long to attain the opulencl t of salesgirl of the higher grades , Had she been more accessible mor ' ally she would have been mor# prosperous. i But Joanna stopped short of # . great many things; a stopping I short too many people, classing het ; as one of a genius—the ultra mod J era genus—would not have credit ed her with. • She counted frantically and estl mated herself one week of idlenesi without being too tjeep In trouble Os cburse If the worst came to thj worst .she could pawn the fuj wrap. Cohen wouldn't know But Joanna didn't want'to that coat. At anjt of the danciu* places to which the boys took het it would be missed Immediately Other girls are observant of sucl things, and really a fur wrap is a necessary mark of caste nowadays None of the boys would be comjjm around for her if she showed uj any place with her old and unfurf ed coat. None, that ls,_ except John. > * John! She quarrelled with him only last night—again! She told him / he was entirely too muggy to keet ■ up the pace with her. So’oehow the thought of John, with wnom a quarrel was never worth a second’ , thought, since none lasted from one evening to the next, comforted her. She looked suddenly at tht Old ManV quiet, unimpressive seo retary She smiled a little Inward, ly with the thought that she, th» secretary, would he about the sori of glrl-John pretended to want bei t# be 1 the glorious Joanna with ’ the shimmering gold brown hair 1 and the flash of scarlet across a field of velvet pinks like that! She ’ almost laughed when the other girl in- response to the purr of a buzzei nodded at lie# and said; "That's Mr Graydon. He'll see you now Won't you go 4n?“ The vision of John and the sill? spectacle of herself trying to be like the quiet, softly self effacing 1 secretary just to please him, had cleared Joanna's brain of the Im minence of tragedy; Her head wa# j up and so was her heart when she went through the door and stood In ' “the presence." She expected to face the living Image of sinister cartoons she'd seen When she realized that the elderly, rather portly gray haired man who stood behind a great ma hogany table to receive her was “The Old Man" and that he wat actually smiling, across to her she ; wrinkled her bro'w Then a great light came into her mind 1 So THAT was It! She might ; have known! She was alert, shreujd, cunning, all at once. She braced herself for the fencing. The* fur wrap could go hang There'd be no difference between the own or. who could summon her, and “Mr Good*Morning,” who had to come to her counter with his fawn Ing. \ .‘‘Did you send for me? fm from . the silks—No 27 '* Her tone was a challenge. The Old Man pointed to a chair “Won't you sft down?" he asked pleasantly. “Twenty-seven stands for Joanna, doesa’t it?" She answered shortly. "Joanna Manners." She wondered how ; 16ng it would take him to show his hand Her resentment grew mors bitter each minute More and fffore she tfas convinced that there was only one. and a commonplace motive, for the genial reception of a salesgirl, and « pretty one: sttth as she knew she was, by wealthy, powenfql owner of thg store. The man across the table settled himself In his chair and faced her. A curious expression played aboul tils gray eyes. “Ah, yes,” he murmured, “Joan na Manners I understood that was the name. Would you mind, Joanna, telling me wheri—and how—you live?" Joanna narrowed her Hds. ri live alone, and not In a palace, el fber And the rest of It is. I'm sat- Isfledi" Her employer seemed not to no. tlce the Irrlthtioft. “Then you don't like at home? Not with your family r*\ “I haven't any family " she an swered him, still biting her words As an afterthought she added, “But I can of myself as well as a family could, and * do.” The elderly man smiled at tbfs He began to recognize the symp toms. “J am sure of that, my dear," he said softly “3 0 let's speak, of your friends What kind —1 mean have you many?" She bad caught that “what kind." She stiffened In her chair and lqoked him full In the face She was embittered anew by that curious expression under his gray eyebrows. “I haven't any friends particularly, besides a hunelr of boys who are as light In the head a*, they are on their feet, but If 1 want any more I'll pick them out for myself." Graydon darted a qnlck look at her. He was silent for a minute, toying; with a Jade paperweliht. When be spoke be had resolved evidently to shorten his approach lo whatever It was he hsd lfa sey - to lbe_ salesgirl from the silk coun ter who was not disposed to bde bumble In his presence. ■ I. i T <* ft* ir^ [bell HARRIS FOwSSSI! Good Furniture Is An j Investment ! You cannot put your money into Anything that will \ ! ‘ bring greater returns in happiness to yourself, your fam- j ; ity, your friends. _ i llt will pay, interest far every" day of your life. '| ■ It builds character in children. It strengthens your ; backbone to do. 1 I It is within your'reach—you can afford it—in fact, \ with a stpre like ours—filled with it—you cannot afford to ] | be Without it. If you are planning to buy Furniture, we ' > invite you to see our Wonderful Lines. ■ / * ! | BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. > ooooooooooooooooqoooooocpoooooooooooooooooooooooi. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeoooooooooooeooooo 111 STETSON AND NO NAME HATS j FOR SPRING I ;| We are showing a complete 1 line of Spring Hats, Stetson and No j \ Name Hats'are well known for their j Style and Everlasting quality. \ I* Wi atch our widows and come in § and let us fit you with the HAT you is want J RICHMOND -FLOWE CO. '\ - > "pRIGIDAIRE electric re- " / ffjpHill -*• frigeration keeps your I |i as fresh and wholesome \ -a as the day you bought it. And ' it operates automatically. ’* L , Come in and let us demon -V • • strate Frigidaire. 4 STANDARD BtJICK COMPANY Dispjay Room 4« So. Union St. Phone BTG or 363 x J. B. RAIFORD, Salesman , Sas-^. r / ' * • f BUfI'PENNY M "RLMS GET RtS^TS. Special This Week: STATIONERY I ’• f A-• f9 1 Liberal Discount on all Box Paper 500 Reeves Tour Votes ttaEach Dol lars Worth. V / PEARL DRUG , CO. - . v Phone. 22-722 Monday, February 22,1026 , /WAV FROf\ YOUR DOOR gust what modern f>V-OtAB\NG-'S VOR- . Modern Plumbing is the up to-date enemy of ill health. Di sease gives a well-plumbed” home a wide berth. See that your drainpipe is open and properly constructed, or rath er, let us see to it for you, CONCORD PLUMBING COMPANY X 174 Kerr St ( Phone *576 ' :