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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1921
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OPENS TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 20th AT 9 O'CLOCK
DONT FORGET THE HOUR
REMEMBER THIS SALE LASTS ONLY TEN DAYS
This sale is the first and last sale that will ever be offered the people by me, this sale being for the purpose of making room for the big
which will be in stock soon. Don't fail to take advantage of this money-saving to you. Listen, men, women, and children: Don't foi
biggest shoe sale ever pulled off in this part of the state.
Everybody come and shoe yourself for fall and winter. Don
stock of Gent's Furnishiners
forget that this will be the
$4,000 dollars worth of brand new shoes being thrown out the people at prices never before heard of.
n t let your leet be cold and wet and ireezmg when you can have good
dressy shoes at such low prices.
Big Line of Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Going at an Absolute Sacrifice
$30.00 and $35.00 Ladies' Suits Reduced to 23.98
7.50 Flannel Middies reduced to 4.78
6.00 White Skirts reduced to 3.48
$12.50 Ladies Skirts reduced to 7.98
12.50 all-wool blue serge Middy Suits 9.98
$4.98 Waists reduced to 2.98
1.00 Voile Waists 59 cents
Ladies Coats going at a sacrifice
Men's Suits--Who ever heard of such magnificent quality being offered
at such prices. VERY LATEST STYLES
$28 Suits Reduced to $2 3.98. Every suit has been cut to the bone. Men and boys don't fail to give these suits a look. Only been in the house three weeks
22.50 suits going at 19.78. This is the greatest opportunity you will ever have to dress yourself up at such low prices.
Dry Goods-Just Do listen at Such Prices!
Apron Ginghams, 7 l-2c; Pepperels 9 4 Sheeting 35 cents; 30 cents Khaki going at 23 1-2 c. All of the Dry Gooks cut to the bone. No us to mention the cuts,
everything in this store must move for the big line of gents' furnishings and also a big grocery stock must have a place in this store soon.
Come and see us. We will meet you with a smile and you can go home happy with a load of bargains and your pocket book won't feel like it's been smashed.
YOURS FOR A GOOD TIME,
Don't Forget the Date-Tuesday
Morning 9 O'clock September 20
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BOONE, - NORTH CAROLINA
Opposite Watauga Motor Company
CONDENSED NEWS FHM
THE OLD NIMH STATE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST To
CAROLINIANS.
Oxford. To a void a water fami'
In Oxford a Request has been issued
by Mayor Stern to all citizens to con
serve ttoe supply by ceasing to use
water for unnecessary purposes.
r '
t Hidkory. With prospects for an en
rollment that will tax the capacity of
the Institution, the fall! term, of Lenoir
colhige began matricutetio n requiring
motit of the day. '
Salisbury. The Rowai i county ad
ministrators In special session flxei?
the tax rate at eighty t wo cents on
the huadred. This is 01 1 a valuation
ten per cent less than t it year, when
the thx rate was 52 cea& .
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Concord. The exectedi return to
work of striking textile operatives
failed to materialise. The' strike of
more than 4,000 uajn people is there
by continued and new; dfJflcultVes and
differences are perhaps added, y
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Goldsboro. Practical'. 500,000
pounds of tobacco were hi vndled on
the local market, the avera 8 being
20 to 25 per cent better t tan last
year's opening. v
Some sold as high as 90 cen t.
Albemarle. Colonel R. Q. .1 tabry,
".. OIIA of Alhemnrla'a nln.tl reat-
' - vumuwv? D UIUCDI' -
dents And CnnfaHaratA rt...v wag
. n w iciciaus
found dead In his bed at the Mara lic0
hotel. Colonel Mabry was 79 yean oI
age. '
i Salisbury. Samuel M. Kenerly. n
'aged man, died suddenly soon afU r
returning home from Spencer, wh ert '
he attended the "Cyclone Mack" re
vival. Mr. Generly had also atten del .
we meeting in tne afternoon.
Spencer Following close upon the i
heels of Labor Day it Is stated that j
the working force at the Spencer i
. shops was increased by about fifteen ,
I nor rant it is understood that all !
departments were affected.
I Winston-Salem. . Virgil Aired, a
I young farmer, residing near Mount
I Airv arcidentlv shot and killed him-
1 bpU while out hunting squirrels. He ;
was alone, and just how the accident
occurred will probably never be
known. !
Statesvllle. The directors of the
Davis White Sulphur Springs Hotel
company met at the hotel at Hldde
nlght and voted to sell $15,000 worth
of 7 per cent preferred stock in the
company, the money to be used to im-j
prove the hotel and grounds. i
Statesvllle. Mrs. Charity Hicks, 103
00r. nid nf Winston-Salem. Is spend-,
lng the week with her son, S. B. Hlck,
of Harmnoy. Mrs. Hicks Is a native
of Iredell county, but removed to Winston-Salem
some time ago. I
Sr.
Mount Olive. The first bale of new
cotton, raised by William Leslie, a
nearby farmer, was sold at auction
here and brougt the fancy price of 21
cents.
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Raleigh. William A. King celebrat
ed his 92d birthday In House Creek
township. The event was a real cele- j
bration for hundreds of friends and j
relatives in House Creek townsnip
and from Raleigh.
AihavtiiA Announcement was
made that the French Broad Hospital
association is planning to remodel the
Md Chapman residence at 61 Soutir
Broad Avenue, into a modern hosptta
for the treatment of medical ana sur
gical cases.
Kin8ton. Lovit Hlnes, 72, promin
ent lumber manufacturer, died at his
home here. He had been in failing
health many months. Mr. Hlnes was
a native of this section. He was
known in lumber circles throughout
the east and south.
Treasurer Lacy is Absolved. I
Dr. B. C. Brooks, state superintend
ent of public Instruction, reading edi
torial criticisms of his statement be '
lore the farmers and farm women, ab. t
l rr .....am nAM T now ftnit anv I
dereliction of duty in keeping his ac
counts straight with the several sher
lfi's in the state.
Telegraphic transmission of the
6tory, quoting Dr. Brooks as saying
that one sheriff had not settled wita
the county commissioners for ten
years, was slightly garbled, and it
was not clear whether Dr. Brooks
meant the state or the county. Ho said
the county and ho said a lot of other
things about the lax business methods
of county officials. In brief, he drovo
home the point that Inefficient county
administration ought to be subject to
state ouster.
One sheriff, he states, has not made
a complete settlement with his county
board of commissioners for ten years.
In another instance he knows one
county in the state was recently
"called" for interest on a bond issue,
and there was no record anywhere of
the Indebtedness.
Mr. Lacy, however, gets the money
from the sheriffs. They pay the state,
though they stall the county along.
It Is this social Indifference, Dr.
Brooks points out, that is alarming
the students of government.
revenue department move In on the
third floor later. Definite arrange
ments for a tenant on the third have
not been made, but the revonue de
partment must move out of the senate
chamber before the end of the year,
and the ex-hotel Is being considered
as a place In which to house it.
Postoffices In the State.
Clyde Case has been appointed
postmaster at Ashworth and James T.
Shppard, at Ilollyridge, Onslow coun
ty, succeeding Cleveland C. Hines, re
signed. A postmaster vacancy Is announced
at Elizabethtown.
There are 1.572 postoffices in North
Carolina, including 14 first class, fi4
second class, 219 third class and 1,273
fourth class offices.
a half Inches and added a week to
tho time that must elapse before Ra
leigh suffers absolute water famine,
with conservation measures si ill rig
idly enforced. No hope for general
rain Is yet offered by the weather
bureau.
Hotel turns Over New Leaf.
The Capitol hotel, alias the Bel
mont hotel, sometime the abode of
people who lived not at peace with
the guardians of the law turned over
a new leaf in the thick and checkered
book of Its history when a lease was
signed transferring tenancy to the
Btate of North Carolina to be used by
the State Board of Education, and
perhaps the State Department of Rev
enue as office quarters until such
time as the state may erect a struc
ture adequate to the needs of its mul
tiplying administrative staff.
Several branches of the department
of education will occupy the second
floor of the building as soon as nec
I essary repairs can be made, and the
Kohloss Wants More Men.
Washington, (Special). State Pro
hlbition Director Kohloss who Is here
to confer with Commissioners Blair
and Haynes said that he has asked
for an additional sixty men to help
enforce the prohibition laws in North
Carolina. If this number Is granted it
will bring the force up to 100 men.
Kohloss said that he is making pro
gress in North Carolina but that his
present force of some forty men Is In
adequate and that he needs sixty
more men to carry on the work as It
should' be. More than a dozen moon-
I shine distilleries were captured last
week, he said.
Kohloss is looking for a good field
man to look after the work at Wil
mington.
Senator Simmons Cannot Come.
Washington. Senator Simmons
wrote Secretary J. C. Patton of the
Caroiinas Exposition company, that
he could not v it Charlotte this
month on account of work nprwy
on the legislation revising taxes. He
said:
'i rcarnt exceedingly that It wi',! be
quite impracticable for me to have i
the pleasure of pecepting your invita
tion. I wish very much that I could
accept. The finance oniniitte of the
senate l", however, In constant ses
sion here day by day.
Trading Outfit Is Fined.
Though claiming the common law
absolved thnm from any fealty to tho
written statutes, two members of the
Southern Trading company, Charlotte,
a self-styled "business trw t " U I a
prey to the State Insurance Depart
mp.nt early in the week, and got taxea
with fines and cost aggregating $400.
A. L. Fletcher, who represented the
Insurance Department at the trial in
Charlotte returned after securing the
convM n of two men. B. H. StoTii
and H. M. Jensen, secretary and treas
urer, respectively, of the company.
OTHER ILLS H
, AFTER Bill
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Governor Morrison is Amazed.
At the conclusion of a lengthy con
ference between the governor and a
large delegation of Concord citizens,
Governor Morrison declared that he
was amazed that the citizens of Con
cord had tolerated the situation there
due to the failure of local city and
county police officers to discharge
their duty in maintaining order.
IX CABARRUS CONCERNS ASK
. SAME FAVOR AS GRANTED
TO CANNON SYNDICATE.
NO DECISION IS ARRIVED AT
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prder of Judge Boyd Continuing Hit
' Injunction Against Union Printers
la Most Sweeping Document
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Rain Relieves Raleigh.
Rain on the watershed raised the
water level in Lake Raleigh ten and
Address of Dr. Daniel.
Dr. D. W. Daniel, one of the most
entertaining after-dinner speakers ol
the southeastern states and who has
become widely known during his con
nection with Clemson .College, the
South Carolina agricultural and me
chanieal college, will bo the principal
speaker at the banquet which will be
given to more than 1,000 bankers snd
prominent business men of the two
Carolina? by the American Trust Co.,
of Charlotte, September 22. one or
the most Interesting and important
events of Bankers Day at the Made-
ln-the Carolinas Exposition.
Raleigh.
& The Cannon mill's appeal from the
ADDraisal of the County commission'
ers, evidence a'nd argument In which
caseB were heard two weeks tgo,
brought six other Cabarrus mills here
to jtsk that they be reduced as low
as the Cannon mills, relatively.
The board of eaualUation, which
heard the Cann.n rase first, could not
reach a declskn because no two sets
of Azures aereed. Judae Manning, a
member of the board of which Com
missioner Watts is chairman and rev
enue commioBioner, told the petition
ers that it did not appear to him that
they had mad a much ot a fight before
the Cabarrus commissioners.
1 The six mills, having a valuation ot
about $3,000,000, declared that the
would not ask any reductions if the
Cannot? were required to pay on the
assessments made by tho county au
thorites. Judge W. M. Bon"f order, continu
ing until the final hearing tho injunc
tion obtained against Raleigh print
ing and pressmen's unions and mem
bers, was B'gned here and is one ot
the most sweeping documents la th
annals of the state courts.