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> Friday, June 4, 1926 || HOCTL WALTON Philadelphia *n Broad St. at Locust , Main Highway Sesqui-Centennial Exposition I Best located hotel for autoists 400 Rooms with Baths Newly Furnished HOME COMFORTS WITH MODERN HOTEL SERVICE Excellent Food-Moderate Prices ♦ ’’ T - B. Johnson, Directoio Manager r FEEDS THAT’S OUR BUSINESS— to sell the Best Feeds for the Least Money. If you want to buy the Best for the money try our Spartan line of Starting Mash, Growing Mash, Laying Mash. Scratch Feed and Spartan Dairy Feed. Just Call Us. We Deliver Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co. y j jPHONE 571 Our policy is one of candor and respectful ser vice. Fairness is a requi site where need is to be served with dignity and consideration. And we are properly equipped to conduct a ceremony of perfect appointment. Wilkinson’s Funer - al Home PHONE 9 Open Day and Night ' AMBULANCE SERVICE POURING Os *3 HEALTH FROM V R A BOTTLE 3 ■ Serve Pasteurized * Ej milk f eely. Through 4 S the centuries milk E ■[ has proven itself, to ■ E be the easily digest- 3 ed, economical food. R i| , You should drink V | E more pure milk. d [3 Phone—tell us where B |R to leave it. 3 atrnx caitdf “Jfour IllilKin&n’* B ■ AVACATION OF HARDSHIPS Fighting Bears, shooting Rapids and Losing Indian Guides Is This Sixty-Year-Old New York Insurance Man's Idan of a Summer's recreation. SF you meet him first on one of those days." vnu are apt to suspect that he man. is—well, queer. You enter an ordinary office building In New York City, half a block off Broadway on Twen ty-fourth Street. Ten or twelve stories up, ycu find his name on a door and the word •'lnsurance'' be neath It. You turn the knob and enter. It It is "one of those days.” and it , usually Is, this time of year—you may find yourself backing out with your hair trying to stand on end and a queer sensation coursing up and down ybur spine. Before you, at a desk, sits a big. swarthy man with a far away look In his eyes. That look is enough to maCe you pause. Your second glance detects a wicked looking rifle across the man’s knees. If you aren’t already in full flight down the hall, your third glance alights upon the desk and takes in an elec tric flashlight, a big old "lie" six shooting revolver and a glistening, razor-edged axe that looks as though it were Just aching to cleave your tingling scalp! “Good night! King of the ban dits!" you may mutter. If your \ Adam’s apple Isn't going up and down like an elevator. "Er, ah—l beg—” “That's all right, sir, come right In.” The voice Is deep and booming, but kindly. The man has put aside his rifle, risen from his chair and extended a big but friendly looking hand. His eyes are twinkling now and warm with welcome. You have met Major A. P. Slm monds, fellow of the American Geo graphic Society and of the Royal Geographic Society, explorer, big game hunter, soldier and Insurance man—and he isn’t going to scalp you or riddle your midriff with leaden bullets. He wouldn’t have frightened you purposely, but you caught him as he was beginning to emerge from the winter cocoon of -th business man and the intimate processes of It are rather startling to behold. As yon talk with him learn that he is preparing for a new ex ploration trip into the Far North and that he was just looking over some important Items of his equip ment when you entered his office. Sixty Years “Young” Yon guess hts age as forty-five and he tells you he is sixty. He ’Wewill WIRE YOUR. HOUSE!! WE LL WIRE YOUR HOUSE from the cellar to the attic if you say so. We understand the theory and practice of elec tricity. We consider it the most useful element-agency used by man. We can help you electrically. &t~4Lmn W. J. HETHCOX Pale Children Made over to your liking, with rosy cheeks, hearty appetites, vigorous digestion and robust health. Give them a glass of this delicious digestant with « meals. Shivar Ale Pure Digestive Aromatics With Shivar Mineral Walter A Ginger Nothing like it for building rich blood and solid flesh. At all groee re and druggists— satisfaction or your money bark on first dozen. If your regular dealer can not supply you, telephone F. M. Youngblood A Co., Whole sale distributors. I - *■?. . .WW sge; ,T ' -r ® ■ 'v\ S' Major A. P. Simmonds, fellow oi the American Geographic Society and of the Royal Geographic Society; explorer, hunter, soldier and—in the win ter time —insurance man. doesn’t have to tell you that from the day when the first robin makes its appearance in Central Park, he suffers the same painful restless ness as the small boy in school— and keeps on suffering with grad ually increasing pangs until, in mid-June, he closes his office door with a bang, turns the key in the lock and spends the summer wal lowing in wilds and adventures, hardships and thrills, just as far away from civilization as the all too-brief summer will permit. | Major Simmonds despises most of the things our present state of | civilization has brought us. He in , convinced our methods of living, | herded together in great cities, , sleeping in steam-heated and poor ' ly ventilated quarters, eating high ly seasoned soft foods and wearing clothes designed almost entirely to meet silly and unreasonable styles, ; are all wrong. Such living, he be lieves, is making us poor, flabby creatures, physically and mentally. We are living, he says, in a wholly false atmosphere. We aren’t nat ural. By the time he has spent a win- | COUNTRYJ CORRESPONDENCE WINECOFF. Saturday afternoon the Winecoff baseball team journeyed to Poplar Tent to bring back the little end of a 4-3 count. Winecoff started out like sure winners. “Red" Williams, lead off man, flew out to left. Goodman fol lowed with a single, stole second, and returned home when Burrage sent a scorching double to right field. The next man singled. Stroud was given a free ticket, and with the bags load ed C!orl bit Scott, forcing in Burrage, who had been forced to second. Poplar Tent's first tally came in the fourth frame when Motley singled ami the ball was lost in the meadow that occupies the left field of the All-Star lot. Poplar Tent threatened to ral ly several times but was nipped in the bud when Misenheimer, the ace of aces, tightened up and sent them a few “Mathewson” style slants that they couldn’t see, until they were caught behind them. CASEY. LOCUS*. \ The popular tliree-aet comedy giv en here and at Eudy by the Woman’s club will be presented at the Midland school building next (Saturday night, June sth. A meeting of the patrons and cit izens of l-ocust school district is to be held here next Saturday night, June sth, at the public Hehoolhouse. L. H. Bost and other prominent educators of the county are expected to be present and speak on the com ing school election. The public is cordially invited. Friends of S. ,T. furr regret to know that he is seriously ill follow ing an operation a week ago in a Charlotte hospital. The Hartxell reunion at Big Lick Baptist Church last Sunday, was at tended by a large number of persons from this place. Peaches are ripening but there seems to be almost none except in a narrow streak on the high ridge. The crops of wheat and oats is very good. Oats is being harvested now. Mrs D. W. Turner spent from Wednesday till Sunday with rela tives in Concord. On * her return Sunday she found the house and yard full of 'visitors —her sister, Mrs. Cur- Ike and son, Raimond, from Charlotte, J. A. Little and family and others from Albemarle, were among them. P. ENOCH VILLE. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Upright are all amilea—it’a a boy, R. T. Jr., made his THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE s ter in New -gjgLr/; —— -..avatj tion befcre the York ami snow flies and h-e on 1 y that means before does that The canoe the chief vehicle of travel twharted Ungava, but frequently the end of Sep because be t^,e “vehicle” has to be carried on the hack of its “passenger.” tember. Winter is not a shuts in early and man of Independent means and be must make a living—Major Sim monds Is thoroughly sick of civili zation. Automobile camping trips? “Bah!” says he. “Riding luxuri ously on balloon tires over con crete roads through police patrol led parks! Sleeping on pneumatic mattresses, in make-believe tents that you abandon for the nearest farm-house when the first drops of rain fall! Heating canned food on gasoline stoves! Drinking iced water from thermos bottles! Lit tering the landscapes with tin cans, broken bottles t,ud waste paper! “Call that roughing it? Getting back to Nature?” ‘‘Bah!’’ he exclaims—and you know instantly he means it Then Major Simmonds outlines to you briefly the trip he will make this summer through a great wild and unmapped country—the only visit on May 30th. 11. H. Overcash, C. C. Upright and A. 1). Con-ell made a business trip to Salisbury Monday. Mrs. Geo. Triplett laid new beans out of her garden Tuesday. Little Sydney, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Triplett, very narrowly es caped being run over by a big Stude baker driven by Mr. Lowder, of Kan napolis, last Saturday. Chas. Meadows and family, of near ’ Mooresville, spent Sunday at Cleve Meadows’ . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goodman were visitors Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wright. Mrs. I. E. Smith spent last Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Ramsey Er witt, near Salisbury. H. S. Rumple and family were vis itors Sunday at Mack Upright’s. George Triplett and children spent Sunday and Sunday night in the mountains with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sechler and children, of Kannapolis, spent some time Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Upright. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reece and chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Sechler and Miss Essie Correll, of Kannapolis, spent Sunday at A. D. Correll’s. BUSY BEE. ROCKY RIVER. A. J. Linker has been sick for two weeks with pneumonia. Vance I.inker went to a hospital in Charlotte for an operation Friday. Victor Hagler returned from a hos pital in Charlotte Sunday. Mrs. Mattie Anderson, of Washing ton, Tenn., and daughter, Josephine, are visiting her Bister, Mrs. T. 11. Spence. Rev. T. H. Spence and family now ride in a new Ford sedan. The road working force Has been working in this community for some time, and is headed toward Rocky River Church, via L. M. McCathren’s big field and our baseball park. Very glad to have the good road but it’s too bad to lose our ball park. The Howell boys came up to play : ball Saturday afternoon, but were no match for our boys as they were de feated 16 to 2. Our team has won 3 games, lost 1, percentage .750. A SCRIBBLER. HAHN. The farmers are busy now working their crops and getting ready for harvest. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Dry and fam -1 ily, of Albemarle, Hpent Sunday eve ning at J. O. Shoe’s. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Eagle were Sunday visitors at H. C. Lipe’s. R. W. Hahn and family and Mrs. I J. A. Hahn motored to Spencer last i Sunday. unmapped country, in fact, on the continent of North America. Ungava, the Untamed Ungava is the name of that Far North wilderness. It is the extreme northern section of the Province of Quebec and lies between Hudson’s Bay on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Major Simmonds will leave New York during the early part of June, going alone to Moose Fa .-.torie, a Hudson’s Bay poatat the lower end of James Bay, which is a southern arm of Hud son’s Bay. This portion of the trip will be made by rail, via Toronto and thence over the T. N. and O. Railway. From Moose Factorie he will journey by boat to Fort Rupert House, a distance of 200 miles up the southeastern shore of Hudson’s Bay. At Fort Rupert House, the north ernmost post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Major Simmonds will The surprise birthday party given 1 at J. C. HurloCker’s Saturday night a was enjoyed by a large crowd of young people. Those present were: s Misses Marjorie and Lena Brown •Muoso, Annie Bell and Shirley Row land, Lula Dry, Nora Hurloeker, - Myrtie, Eunice, Ruth, Fay and Au - nie Hahn, Mary and Annie Mae IV - troa; Forrest Moose, Hubert Dry, Charlie Hurloeker, Ray Almond, Tom r Furr, Homer Barrier, Clarence and e Reece Eagle, Frank and Lewis Shoe, Harold Halion, Edd Wilkinson, Floyd l l’etrea, Elmer Yates, Floyd Yost and f Herman Kluttz. All reported a nice tune and left wishing for many hap r py returns of the day. There will be preaching at Mt. Gil lead Church Sunday morning by the ■ pastor, Rev. J. 11. C. Fisher. FARM GIRL. I HARRISBURG ROUTE 3. People of this section are busy 1 chopping cotton. • I Mrs. Nannie Harkey and Mrs. Ed na Stuart spent one evening last week with Miss Lizzie Hunter. , Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vester Mc- Laughlin, a son, May 23. Brady McKay was visiting his grand-parents last. Sunday. John Holdbrooks has purchased a new car. , Rev. and Mrs. William Benfield and children, of Virginia, are visiting I friends and relatives in Mallard Creek and Poplar Tent this week. *, Jfe A small house with a properly arranged floorplan and just y**-, pwcj the right number of rooms is often more desirable than the '- ~ ~ ’~ r - .’Jp larger ones, especially for tl»e young couple just starting out in ‘ l> ' Thatcher has most of the good features and none of the bad ’ *—- yziLzs.■ B r -7 a features of some houses. The design of the exterior is of tM B xsb. vfctW*- - ••' colonial type, the wide siding and shuttered windows, with DH Tk. lJu IffiZOTa b • HjilWj I bU details of this popular type. M S’jpw lillHK; ! |THj| II ~ There are in the plan a living-room, bedroom and kitchen 1 IIIDfIM HMDSW - J’ | | fffll||{| [ [nils I—.- - BLtnkl**"- besides tlie bath and laundry or service porch. The porch. - ■ - * ’j | c BmpT' -J4 which is seldom found in the smaller homes, accommodate the 1 •<* % -ga&r^ v T~-~~ r ~T • A* iiiaL__HUsl -- . - -L | WnlMtMmL laundry -trays and storage space as well provides covered cn -i jr!y- "\ 40 TJ»e side entrance and stoop at the kitchen 1 x '• \ 4*L Cupboard space and room for the sink are provided under ( ’v M } Vs- —sutL ,h * window in the kitchen where there is plenty of light; and r a f . 3 Eg- Wan also is. plenty of room at the front for a small dining ** -•- table. The cedar is Just large enough for fruit and vegetables and a storeroom. . F. C. NIBLOCK t • T r .• L&S , M ] meet three Indian guides wham he has known Tor years. From that point the party will travel east ward a distance of 1,500 miles through the un charted wilder ness of Ungava. The travel will he by canoe and on foot, each man carrying a paek weighing 95 pounds The party must get back to civiliza- with an amazing suddeness in that Far North country and a party such as this, traveling with summer out fits is “out o' luck” in the worst sort of way if it is caught by the first terrific onslaught of winter. An Explorer’s Pack. It Is interesting to note the sim plicity of food and equipment which Major Simmonds carries on his “summer jaunt” into the great out-of-doors. • Most important of all, in his Opinion, is his canoe; it is his chief vehicle of travel. Next in tance is his compass. Third in the scale Is a good, light axe. Then come matches and an electric flash light, with extra bulbs and flash light batteries. It Is interesting to note that this flashlight is the only truly modern item of this explor er’s outfit. Os all the brilliaat array of glistening camping and hunting u Mallard Creek Circle No. 2 had an t all day quilting at the home of Mrs. f Daniel Benfield last Wednesday. n ROUTE SEVEN. j We sure need a rain. If we would '• j get a good rain it would be surprising ' S how the crops would grow. Carolina Kid was a visitor in Sal • isbury last week. While there he wit -11 nesseil four of the Piedmont League [ 1 games. Holshouser is pitching a ’• good brand of ball for the Colonels. 1 The aforesaid pitcher pitched for 1 Kannapolis last year. '' Private Irvin Goristenbilry. of Route 7, who is now in Hawaii, sends reports home about the volcanoes. He - reports that on the night of the erup e tion you could read a newspaper from the glow of the volcano for miles around. Mr. and Mrs. Buford Russell and daughter, of the Hartsell Mil), were y Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Christenbury. I think the picnic question has gone t completely out of the minds of the correspondents. FAITH. s We attended the meeting at Rock well at the Reformed Church Sunday. i After preaching dinner was served in tlie basement of the church. The lad i ies deserve much credit for putting ; out such a fine dinner free for all. t We met Prof. David S. Lippard, from Millingport there. We met a lot of ' ■ equipment now available to the i . modern sportsman, the flashlight Is , the only one that Major Simmonds i has selected as indispensable. All . the other “gewgaws," he says, . would simply load him down and . impede his progress, s Os course, he carries two light 1 but warm blankets, a rifle and a limited supply of ammunition, for the food supply in his pack, con sisting of dehydrated “pemmican," pea-meal, flour, bacon and salt pork, is not sufficient for the entire journey and he Is dependent to some extent upon the game and fish he can take in the country he traverses. Major Simmonds has made six teen such trips into the Far North. On five of his trips of exploration, he went above the Arctic cir cle. On his last trip, which was through this "same Ungava country, two of his Indian guides were drowned and Major Simmonds nar rowly escaped death in the treach erous rapids encountered after crossing Lake Nichigun. On this trip he was unable to reach his objective on the Labrador coast. Tills year he hopes to fight his way through to the coast and back be fore the last week in September. In part, the object of this long journey of terrific hardships and physical dangers, is to make maps and secure important geographical data concerning this little known country for the American Geo graphic Society; Major Simmonds, in such leisure time as he has when not actually exploring, Is a writer pretty girls. Here are their names Misses Ruth Holshouser, Christine. Oauble, Martha Ridenhour, Jane Hall, all of Rockwell. We also met others from other towns, Isabel Caldwell, of Newton. Pauline Heeler, .Salisbury, Blanche Ingram. Jones Johnson, Eva Peeler, Salisbury, Margaret Bnrn liardt, Dora Kluttz, Faye Holshouser, Rockwell, Virginia Ridenhour, Cleo Holshouser, Elizabeth Barrier, all of Rockwell, W. M. Pickens, Salisbury, Ida Henley, Verna Frye, Louise Ramseur, Carrie Lefler, Mabel and Drueilla Beaver, Columbus Holshous er, Harold Nusman. Mrs. 1). M. Pless attended •Chau tauqua all last week and reports that it was fine. Mrs. I). M. Peeler received a letter from her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Bel lois, in which she says a fish floated out of the ocean that weighed 1,000 pounds. Who can beat that? J. T. Carter is a candidate for county commissioner in Litaker town ship and would make a good one. He is one of the big farmeesjof the coun ty. One family at Barber’s, N. C., sent for a jar of Eczema Salve to day. We met IT. I‘. Littleton in Salis bury. He is uow traveling salesman for a tobacco company. He just got in from a trip. VENUS. CONCORD ROUTE 1. D. B. Dees and Miss Eula Dees, of. PAGE THREE '»/ , and a lecturer. In much larger _ measure, however, the trip Is one , of recreation and adventure. His Vacation For this sixty-year-old New York insurance man simply exists through the winter in order that ~ he may live in the summer as, 1 in his opinion, Nature really m- tended man should always live —in A the fresh, open air, on his own re- d sources, facing hardships and dan gers that toughen and preserve him ~ physically and keep his mental out look natural and healthy. Major Simmonds Is a Southerner by birth, a graduate of Yale and a former officer of the American army. He was a member of the personal staff of President Roose velt and during the World War was an aide to Secretary of War Baker. Among accredited explorers he holds an honored place. There is little of the spectacular about Major Simmonds and his ex plorations. Motion pictures and radio don’t blazon his exploits to the world. He just slips off into the wilderness alone and unob served and has a good quiet vaca tion risking his life fighting bears, shooting rapids and losing Indian guides! And after you have talked with him and noted hla ragged health, keen mental outlook and youthful appearance, you know he Isn’t queer, but you begin to suspect that perhaps all the rest of us may be. Rock Hill, S. C., were Sunday visit ors iii our vicinity. . « Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rarbee and chil dren and Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Barbee and children, of Kannapolis, were week-end guests at the home of Me. and Mrs. Harvey Stancill. Mrs. Aud Dover, of Concord spent a few hours at the home of Mr. Mrs. Adam Cranford on last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stancill, Rob ert Stancill and little John Stancill made a business trip to Morganton on Wednesday a week ago. D. B. Stowe and J. F. Smith made a business trip to Barium Springs one day last week. A goodly number attended prayer meeting at the home of Oscar Kiser last Saturday night. Service was conducted by Rev. Mr. failings, pastor of Oak Ridge Baptist Ohurcli. JUNE BUG. Acquired Art. P “Bill: “You seem so bashful.” Edna. “I ought to. It took mo weeks and weeks and weeks.” Tima WiH Tell. “Is Mrs. Gunn, the defendant, a pretty woman?” Itt "I don’t know—the jury is still , out.” For the first time in his life, Bob by saw a flounder. ”■ “Look, mn,” he cried excitedly. "Look at that funny fish! He’s got a/ flat tire!”