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TITS ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS !onday, Decent ook Sto Sec 'Santa CI a at He's here and big as life in our big west window, lie lias made our big store liis headquarters and lias provided a mammoth collection of gifts for EVERYONE, big, little, old and voting. Dolls T 1- TWO Rogers us re 1 A wonderful variety, little ones and big ones, dressed and undressed, the go-to-slecp kind and with fixed eyes from '27) cents to $7.50. Toys Wagons with horses Some riding the wagons, others drawing the wagon. Horses with real fur and real skin, r0e to :!.00. Pets' Grocery Stores with real "goods," to sell, a dandy educational toy, 30c and 73 cents and $4.50. Doll Beds, very pretty, in different sizes, a delight to lit tle girls, 7jcK $1.00, $1.50. Piano, upright and baby grand, 25 cts. to $1.73. (lames, every kind in cards and board games from 5 cts. to $4.50. . . Harmless Shooting (labries, a very line toy for boys, $1.23, Tov villages for $1.00. Fountain Pens Several kinds from $1.00 to $5.00. A good pen is always appreciated and a business man's good friend. Bibles, Testaments, Prayerbooks You'll never make a mistake in giving a Bible, Testa ment, or Prayer Book and Hymnal we have them ranging from "20 cents to $fi.50; some small for pocket, some medium size, some large. Extra fine in quality, clear cut type, i Brass Goods Ornamental, decorative, useful, fn Jardinieries, Fern ''Dishes, Calendars, Smoker Sets, Book Cases, Pin Trays, Dust ''" Pan?, etc. ' . v . BOOKS! BOOKS! Here is where we are especially strong all the new and latest fiction by the popular authors, handsomely bound, good paper, clear type, $1.00 to $1.50. 5,000 volumes popular fiction, .recently . copyrighted books that formerly sold for $1.50, Our price now 50 cts. ' Standard and Set Works Just a mention of the names and you'll recognize their value Dickens, Thackery, Scott, Kipling, Hugo, De Man paussant drop in and see them odd a set to your library, or that of your friend. . , Glode-Wernicke Book Cases No gift could suggest a finer compliment to the intelli gence of the recipient than a handsome Globe-Wernicke book case. It can be added to a unit at a time as the library ' grows. Always complete, yet never finished..' See them ' today sure. OPEN NIGHTS TILL CHRISTMAS ROG S BOOK STORE 39 SEiPSk254 .... . . . v.. . . ' ' TELEPHONE RATES CAS E JISJJ EC I D ED Order Issued in People of Hendersonville Vs Ashe ville Telephone Co. Speaal to The Gazette-Heirs. Kaletgh, Dec. 23. The corporation commission has made its order in th. case of the people of Hendersonvii' against the Asheville Teleiihone com pany, which proposed to Increase Us rates nfter improving the service. The company proposed to charge $$.50 for unlimited special line service, I. lit i. ordered to charge J 3; for unlimited duplex business line service it may charge instead of for un limited party line service, with not more than four telephones to a line. 'H.25. This is a flight decrease in the chaises that the company pro posed. Chapter five of Commissioner of Labor and Printing Shlpman's bien nial report to the legislature deals with cotton, woolen and silk mills In the slate, of which there are 294. Of this number 274 show an authorized capital of S52.lns.2ri0 and spindles to the number of 3.221,4211; looms, 58, 961; horsepower, 137,278. Nearly 329 million pounds of raw material was used during the year, the estimated value of the yearly output being $52, S,liS9. The number of employes Is reported a 54,710, of whom 26.020 are males; 17,903 females, and 56S4 ehild'en. Nineteen mills employing 4923 do not classify their employes. The estimated number dependent upon these mills and their employes lor a livelihood is 13S.471. Over 84 ler cent of the operatives read and write. The high average for the male? is I2.K1 a day, for the females $1.02: the low average for the males Is S9 cents and for the females 73 cents. The average number of hours consti tuting a day's work is given as ten hours and eight minutes. Ninety seven of the 294 mills reporting usi ream as motive power; 8S electricity; steam and water: 26 water: 29 steam anil electricity; foul steam, water and electricity; six water and electricity and six do not report. Tin- Stale Ulnars. There are 32,246 volumes In the general library, according to the re port of rapt. Miles o. Sherrill, state librarian, which lias just been pre pared for the general assembly. Of these volumes 240 were added during the pa.st year by purchase, 73 were donaud, 616 were secured otherwise. There were 243 U. 8. government re ports and 290 bound volumes of news papers, a total in additions of 1462. The expenses of the library including salaries amounted to $3120. Wnl:e county will put in a bid for the $1000 offered by the llosenwnld appropriation for uplift work In rural communities, the farmers having de cided to raise an eipial amount and te employ a county commissioner of ag riculture, I'ltucational ICei oinmriiilatlons. The recommendations of Dr. J. V. Joyner, state sniirl-t"Tdcnt of public instruction, to Governor Kitchin for transmission to the general assembly, as ju.it announced. Include longer terms for the country schools, better attendance, more el'lcient teaching and better salaries therefor and more efficient supervision. These !r. Joyner d'n lares to be the most pressing fundaiiif ntal needs of the public schools and are logicully bound together. 'To rt cure Inem the pei pie must provide, by taxation more money. To justify the expenditure of more money taxpayers have a right to demand that all the children for whose education they are taxed shall be brought Into the schools to guar antee the protection against Ignorance for which they pay." . Dr. Joyner recommends a minimum term of six months for pv-erv mihlic.l school In the state, compulsory 'at tendance, more efficient supervision, l.e teaching of agriculture in rural schools, the establishment of farm life schools and so on. Th"se recom mendation" were heartily tiidorsed by both the state teachers' convention und the state farmers' onion, whoso strong resolutions Dr. Joyner has appended to hin report. "The aggregate annual appropria tion from the Flute treasury," Dr. Joy ner ays, "is $ 120,000 for the main tenance of the university, the State Normal and Industrial college, the A. and M. college, three normal schools and 214 rural highschools for the white race, and un agricultural and mochunlcal college ahd three normal Mhools for the colored race. The ag gregate annual appropriation for all tbeoe Institutions In 1911 was $120, 000. If evtr cent, therefore, of the annual appropriation for the mainten ance of all these higher educational institutions were withdrawn and ap propriated to the elemert.iry public schools, It would destroy a most es sential part of our educational system, cripple irretrn vably tho entire system and would not provide sulllclent funds, round by calculation to be necessary, for lengthening the terms of the ele mentary schools would be exceedingly unwise therefore to advocate any pol Icy that would cripple or destroy one Important and necessary part of our educational system oven for so good a purpose, as to strengthen the elemen tary schools, which is but another Im portant part of what ought to be a complete and correlated system." Dr. Joyner urees that the wiser plan Is for the machinery to be employed to increase the revenue enough to in crease the elementary schools to six months. Chances are few and far between to see a play as refreshing as "Finishing Knnny," in which Ida St. I.eon will bo seen at the auditorium tonight. It Big Items of Ship lt p ilr Work. By Assrteiated Premt, Washington, Dee. a:;.' Among the big items of shit) repair Work to he done at the navy yards next year are extensive alternations in the battle ships North Dakota und Minnesota, each of which Is to be overhauled at h cost of $250,000. The big colliers leonidas and Hannibal are to be-turn-ed Into survey ships at an expense ot $1 no, 000 for the former and $75,000 for the latter. One more day for Christmas shop ping, and one more chance to see Ida St, Leon and company In the per formance of "Finishing Fanny" at the Auditorium tonight. It Potted Plants, consisting of Begonias, Orchids, Poin settas, Palms, Ferns, etc. Full line Cut Flowers. Come early. McKay's Pharmacy .... " '..,. Next to Princess Theater. Phone 1947. Kplilcmlc of Spinal Meningitis. By Associated Prat. Midvllle, Ga., Dec. 23. Another death here, yesterduy from cerebro spinal meningitis brought the total number of fatalities during the past two weeks to 12. Two suspected cases develqped today and six serious cases now are under treatment, according to Dr. Theodore O. Kershaw, who hai been placed In charge of the situatlm by Burke county authorities. The Ural Victim. "Is your wife a victim of bargain days?" "No; I'm the victim. She seems to enjoy, them, very much.": J udge. Children's Desks "With ehairs to match Built for service as well as looks, in mission fin ish. $3.50 OPEN EVENINGS TILL CHRISTMAS 1 Card Tables Strongly built of Bird's Eye Maple, Golden Oak, Early English and Ma hogany colapsible .tables $2.75 up Let The Christmas Gift Question t. I li If You Want Useful Gifts This is the Place to Buy Them Five minutes spent in our store will tell you more about our big stock than we could hope to tell you in a full page advertisement, of this paper. So we will only state that we have thousands of things both serviceable find ornamental in un'limted and umatchable va riety that will appeal to you ' and be greatly appreciated by those to whom you give them. New tilings, odd things, hand some things, useful things. Come and see them. .. Ladies' handsome writing desks, dressing tables with chairs to match, side boards, telephone stands, book cases, china closets, magazine stands, music cabinets. Morris chairs, lockers, over five hundred dif ferent styles to select from, children's rockers, high chairs, 'wardrobes, brass beds, go carts, children's beds, parlor and library tables, chifTerobes, costuiuers, smoking stands in brass and mahogany, china ware rets, all kinds of office fur niture, etc. . You can Buy Here Exactly What You Want at. the Price You Wish to Pay J,.L SMATHERS. k SONS MAMMOTH FURNITURE STORE 15-17 NORTH I.IAIN STREET. Doll Carts Pretty little carts, some with folding hood tops. They are not easily broken. Nice assortment here. $1.25 up UNLIMITED VARIETY TO CHOOSE FROM MAHOGANY ROCKERS Genuine solid mahog any rockers . of pleasing designs, large, roomy and comfortable Make an ideal gift.' ' $7X0 up" w
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