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rruiv, l,'ovt:ulcr 8, 1312. Our Business Day in ; " -, and Day Out Is to supply cleanliness and neatness to the peo Ile of Asheville men and womeu who KNOW the necessity for cleanliness and neatness, "which adds to yolr personal appear ance, and by which oth ers judge you. 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Asheville Dry Cleaning ' Company r!i lAIICIAL Stocks, Bonds, Cotton, Grain, Provisions, Money New York, New Or- , leans, Chicago and For eign Market News. By Associated Press. WALL STREET GOSSIP. New York, Nov. 8. Prices tended generally lower at the opening: today. Canadian Pacific yielded a point and aouinern Pacific, SU Paul, Lehigh Valley and other active tesues were down materially in fractions. The few slender gains were limited to the unimportant stocks. Fractional recoveries caused re newed Belling by the professional ele ment and some of the principal Issues went lower than at the outset. Marked weakness was shown by Canadian Pa cific, Louisville & Nashville, steel and beet sugar. The market's reactionary trend yes terday became more pronounced today on mixed selling of long and short stocks. Bearish sentiment was Inten sified by rumors of an extra session of congress and cables from abroad. The heaviest issues here Included LouUvllle & Nashville, Canadian Pa cific, Union Pacific, Reading, Amalga mated and Steel. In fact all stocks of speculative importance were under pressure. Beet sugar held Its place as weakest of the specialties and tobac cos fell abruptly. Bonds were easy. . Irregular advances occurred in the afternoon on reduced dealings, but few stocks got back to yesterday's closing. Closed Irregular. The market made further recovery in the final hour, higher, money being partly offset by the favorable crop report, which was especially beneficial to the grangers. In the morning and fluctuations were somewhat Irregular, but heavy realiz ing. sales were absorbed by ,, broaden ing demand for long accounts and prices at mldflay still ruled about 10 to 12 points net higher, t i Si'ot nominal; j' t i t' ' ', ' The market f showed renewed strength during the early afternoon, making another set of new high re cords for the movement and selling about 28 to 31 points net higher or conUnued covering and further bull support Around 12.25 for March re alizing became still heavier and prices eased off' 7 or 8 points from the best. New Orleans reported spots were not following the advance. Cotton spot closed steady; middling uplands, 12.20; do. gulf 12.45. Sales 150 bales. NEW YORK PROVISIONS. New York, Nov. 8. Butter Arm; receipts 7171 tubs; creamery, held seconds 27 H 28. Cheese quiet, unchanged; recepts 2049 boxes. i Eggs steady unchanged; receipts 9086 cases. ; CHICAGO PROVISIONS. Chicago, Nov. 8. Butter steady; creameries 28 32; dairies 25030; eggs, steady; receipts 2899 cases; at murk, cases Included 2021; ordinary firsts 23; firsts 24; cheese steady; Daisies 17 Hi Twins 1617; Young Americas 1617; Long Horns 16 & 17; potatoes steady; re ceipts 60 cars; Michigan 4853; Minnesota 47060; poultry, live weak; turkeys 15c; chickens 11; springs 12 ; veal steady, 9 14. ilcag'o, Mil.; 4 St. Paul. . .: .'. . . 11K I CS inradn Pual' &'"Tron. : . ."::'- TU 'fl Colorado & Southern. .. ....bid 881 Delaware & udson 168 Denver & Rio Grande bid 22 Erie ... ... 36 G.neral Electric... 18iVfc j Great Northern pfd ; 140j Great Northern Ore ctfs ....... 48 Illinois Central 129 Interborough-Met. ... 20 I Interborough-Met. pfd ......... 66 Hi Ijiter Harvester bid 121 Louisville & Nashville 148 Missouri Pacific ... 46 Missouri, Kansas & Texas. . . ... 29 Lehigh Valley 175 Katonal Lead , 63 New York Central 118 Norfolk & Western 115 Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Poeple's Gas ........ Pullman Palace Car .. Reading ... ..... Rock Island Co.. ... . . . . Rock Island Co. pfd.. Southern Pacific ...... Southern Railway . . . Union Pacific ... U. S. Steel ........... U. S. Steel pfd....... Wabash . . . . ...... . Western Union ...... ...bid 126 123 117 166 172 26 51 112 ? 80 174 76 113 4 79 CHICAGO GRAIN. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. New Orleans, Nov. &. Cotton fu tures opened steady, unchanged to 1 point up compared with the close of j yesterday. Cables were about as due j and the weather map was very favor able. The census report on ginning iup to the close of business on October 1 31, of 8,849,898 boles was slightly, .smaller than expected and was seized upon by the bulls as offering a chance i to put the market up. Buying became heavy after the call and not much cot ton was for sale. The market quickly mounted to a level of 12 to 16 points ever yesterday's close, where it stood at the end of the first half hour of business. if GRAIN OPENS HIGHER. " Chicago, Nov. 8, Fear of Balkan complications lifted wheat. Opened Yi to higher. December started at 89 to y,; a gain of to i and rose to 89. Small receipts firmed corn. Decem ber opened unchanged to a shade off at 60 to 50 and ascended to 50. Oats trailed upward. December started unchanged at 31 and ad vanced to Sl. Provisions hardened on higher fig ures for cereals and hogs. Opening sales varied from 2 lower to 2 ftp 5b higher wth; January at 18.60 for pork, 10.57 to 10.60 for lara ana at 10.05 for ribs. t Cash grain: Wheat No. 2 red 1.04 1.07; No.' 2 hard 8992; No. 1 northern 9091; No. 2 northern 88 89; No. 2 spring 8789; velvet chaff and durum Corn: No. 2, 67S; No. 2 whit 59; NO. 2 yellow 5860. Oats: No. 2, 31; No. 2 white 34 ; standard 3233. Rye: No. 2, 6667. Timothy: 3.003.85. Barley: 4852. Clover: 13.0018.00. WHEAT December . . . May ....... July CORN December . . May July OATS December . . . May . . . July One. 89 94 90 50 ' 49 49 31 32 ,32.. Close. 89 94 90 49 49 49 31 32 32 MESS PORK, per libl. January ... 18.60 18.42 May ....... . . . . . . .. 18.20 18.05 LARD, per 100 lbs. May ... ........... 10.27' 10.20 December -i. :, . 10.72 10.60 January ... ... . . . : ; 1 0.57 10.50 SHORT RIBS, per 100 lbs. November .. 10.60 10.40 January 10 05 9.97 May ... '. 8.85 9.75 LONDON STOCK MARKET. ; London, Nov., 8. American securl ties moved Irregularly during the early trading today. Prices opened around parity and then eased off. Later light covering advanced part of the list. At noon values ranged from 1-4 to 1 1-4 below yesterday's New York closing. Canadian Pad lie Was weak. Selling was renewed in the late trading. The market reacted; closed easy. ... . . ... . . LIVERPOOL COTTON. Liverpool, Nov. , 8. Cotton spot good business ' done, prices steady, American middling fair 7.27; good middling 6.99; middling 6.79; low middling 6.61; good ordinary 6.15; ordinary 5.67. Sales 10,000 bales of which 500 were for speculation and export and In cluded 96000 American. Receipts 25,000 bales, including 15,- 500 American. Futures opened steady and closed steady. November 6.69 ; November- December 6.57; December-January 6.65; January-February, February March 6.64; March-April 6.64 i April-May, May-June, 6.54; June-July ,63; July-August 6.62i; August-Sep tember 8.45. CHICAGO MEAT MARKET. Chicago, Nov. 8. Cattle: Receipts 30000; market slow steady; beeves 8.3010.65; Texas steers 4.3505.65; western steers 5.50 9.20; stockers and feeders 4.157.15; cows and heifers 2.75 fj 7.40; calves 6.50 10. 76: hogs, receipts, 15,000; market slow 6c higher light 7.558.20; mix ei 7.708.30; heavy 7.558.30 rough 5.50(3)7.55; pigs 6 7.10; bulk of sales 7.908.20; sheep, receipts 12,000; market steady; native 3.60 4.60; western. 3.606)4.50; yearling 4.7005.85; lambs, native 6.507.50; western 7.50 8.60. NEW YORK' COTTON. November December January . . March . . . May July .... . Opne , 11.63 ..11.69 j. 11.93 , 12.02 . 12.04 Close 11.60 62 11.82)84 11.93(5)94 12.13(R)15 12.18(fi19 12.21 23 BALKAN WAR LESSONS Analysis of military Organization of Nations Engaged by Brigadier General Allison. ' ;' MONEY. . New York, Nov. 8. Close: Prime mercantile paper six per cent. Sterling exchange steady with ac tual business In bankers' bills at 4 .81 and 4.81 for 60 day bills and at 4.85.50 fnr demand. Commercial bills 4.81. Bar silver 62. Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds steady; railroad bonds easy. Money on call firm 66 per cent; ruling rate 5; closing bid 6; of fered at 6. Time loans steady; 60 days 6 per cent;, 90 days 5; 6 months 6. By Aumetatcd Press. New York, Nov. 8. The forthcom ing issue of the Journal of the mili tary institution of the United States, published on . Governor's Island by officers of the army, will contain an analysis of the military organization of Turkey and the Balkan s.tes by Brigadier-General John-N. Allison. General Allison estimates that the Turkish army. With & "paper strength" of 1,350,000 men, wis able to put not more than 600,000 soldiers in the Held. The war strength of the allies he places at 680,000, of whom Bulgiria furnishes 350,000, Servia 180,000, Greece 100,000 and Montengro 50,000. The Balkan state have given the World a tremendous lesson in r.-pid and complete mobilization, aenernl Allison thinks, while the secrecy v-ith which the movement was accomplish ed Is unprecedented. He fives much space to the work of the artillery and cavalry which he declares havi played a large part In the success of the al lies. COTTON SENSATIONALLY ACTIVE. New York, Nov. 8. After opening steady at unchanged prices to a de cline bf U points, cotton became sen-, sationally active and firm on the gin ning figures which showed only 8,- 849.898 bales ginned to November 1 compared with 9,970,905 last year. December had opened 11 points lower but quickly Bhot up about 82 points during the early trading, while later months sold from 17 to 18 points above yesterday's closing on short cov ering and fresh buying Inspired by a feellnir that the ginning returns fav ored the smaller estimates of the crop. Profit-taking by old' longs was ex tremely heavy above 12 .cents . for March and prices later reacted sev eri.1 points from the best under realiz ing and selling ror a reaction inspiren by less favorable view of European Doll tics. The market continuea active later NEW YORK STOCK LIST. Close. Amalgamated Cqpper ........ 85 Amer. Sugar Beet 58 Amer. Cotton Oil 64 Amer. Smelting & Refining. .. . 83 Amer. Sugar Refining 122 Amer. Tel. & Tel 143 Anaconda Mining Co. 44 Atchison 108 Atlantic Coast Line.. 139 Baltimore . Ohio 107 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 90 Canadian Pacific 264 Chesapeake & Ohio 82 Chicago & North Western., i.. 141 Mandot to Box Klvcis. . By Associated Press. New Orleans, Nov. 8. Joe Mandot, the local lightweight who fought n 10-round no-declsion bout here last Monday night with Ad Wolgast and by a majority of the newspapers was declared the winner, left today for Los Angeles where on Thanksgiving day he will again meet Joe Rivers in a 10-round bout.. Last Labor day he was given the decision over Rivers at Los Angeles In a fight of the same number of rounds. Wolgast left for San Francisco Wednesday. Human Kindness. Many a story that Isn't funny gets laughed at because there's no use of hurting the feelings of a man who doesn't mean any harm. Washington Star. PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK HOUSE Everything Photographic for. the professional and ama teur photographer. . ' Kodaks Loaned Free. Kodak Finishing the best ROBINSON'S KODAK STORE 3 Haywood Street. PeerlessIf ashion Store ' n 2 51 Patton Ave. First door to left, en trance of Langrenj .Phones 835-836, Combined quality style, assortment and reduced prices on our Suits, Coats, Gowns, Dresses, Skirts, "Waits, Under wear, Underskirts, Kimonas, Corsets, etc., ought to bring ev ery lady of Asheville and vicinity to the . I PeerlessFa.shion Store - SATURDAY: Values out of the ordinary will he displayed for Saturday's selling. window displays. They tell part of the story. Profit by These Reductions 85 Children 's Sweaters, ages 2 years to 1 0 years, colors, gray, white and blue. Regular $1.25 value, Saturday ..... . . ............. 25 Black Serge Suit's, all this season's models, sizes for everybody, $12.50 value, in suit section ................... . . .................. Bleached Turkish Bath Towel, a good value at 12 1 -2c. Special for Saturday selling . ... .... ............. .... . . . . ........ ... . . . ..... . . 200 Separate Skirts in black and blue material, also gray whip cord. This season's models ................... 500 yds. Apron Ginghams, regular 7 l-2c value Special for Satur dav selling ........ .... Watch our 89c $9.40 ... 9c .$2.75 5c 200 Winter Long Coats for Women and Misses, $ 1 2.50 and $ 1 5 Values See Windows $9.75 See Displays House Furnishing Goods 25 dozen Pepperell sheets, 81x90 inches, regular price 80c. Spe- iQn cial for Saturday ..... ... ... . . . . . ............. U7t 100 Slightly Spotted Kid Gloves, $1 and $1.50 Values, for Saturday Selling, Extra Special , . .... ...... . '. ...... . 25c 19c Women's Fleeced Pants and Vests, all this season's new under wear, 25c sellers ....... . . ..................... ........... Blankets! Blankets!! Blankets!!! Cold weather calls for warm covering, here are a few timely values in blank ets worth vonr whlie. A 11-4 Wool Blanket, a regular $5.50 value '2 QU Saturday , .., $0.70 Other Blankets ranging in price from $1.98, $3.98 $4.98, all worth a great deal more. Come and judge for yourself. ... 69c BED SPREADS. Here is a good value for Saturday's selling, bed spread . . . . . . ....... ...,.! ..... .... 69c Shoes for the Family One lot of women's button and lace tan shoes for winter wear, QJ jQ regular $3 value. Special Saturday fAttXO One lot of gun metal shoes women, tan and button. This season's nJ JQ styles, $3.00 value, Saturday J?iL.0 Women's black velvet button shoes. This season's style, formerly AC priced $3.00. Special at Saturday's sale P.tO Women's Patent Leather Shoes with White Kid Top : A big shipment of this desirabe fad for fall, a very ' attractive winter shoe. Goes well with tlie new suits and dresses worth' $3.50. Sale 01$ Exclusive Agents for Buster Brown Hose 200 Sample Coat Suits Our buyers are now in the market and here comes the first fruit of their Spe cial Trip. 200 suits from a high class maker of women's and misses' suits came by express. All the smart models and choice materials to choose from. Values ranging from $25 to $32.50 and they show it too Today and Saturday $16.95 See Our Window Display This winter's trimmed hats, in felts, velvets and other of the much wanted shapes. Some trimmed with real willow plumes. $10.00 values. Spe- Of A QC cial for Saturday Ut:.7) A very fine quality plush coat trimmed with pony material shawl, C 7 collar and cuffs, a regular $20 seller. Special at Good quality broadcloth long coat, trimmed throughout with Skin- (IM P AA ner's satin lining. A regular $18 value. Specially priced at jj)l7.Uv 25 Evening Dresses $9.95 A dainty simply tailored chiffon dress in yellow, lavender and light I!Q (jC gray, a regular $15 value, Saturday special JJJ Otlier evening dresses priced specially from $14.80 to $19.75. Worth from $25 to $40. , MOTHERS We have some great vaues in boys' suits and overcoats , for winter, all this season's models to pick from. Every smart and stylish tailored de sign is in this assortment. Norfolk Jackets and Knickerbocker Pants. Suits, n reg ular $8.50 value, Saturday $5.98 The Asheville Dry Goods Co. i 3
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