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CI A R OTTE tt n n in L ASHEVllitE WRITING OVER $800,000 DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE THANKS To the Citizens of North .Carolina , We Thank You For the Splendid Business Given Us During the Month Just Ended was Place Over $1,500,000 of the Postscript Policy din une This Record Is Unprecedented This Means That Nearly $1,000,000 Will Be Loaned to North Carolinians During the Next Twenty Years as a Result of the Month's Work We Appreciate the Confidence of Our North Carolina Friends. They are Justly Proud of the South's Greatest Financial Institution. EPPERSON STANDARD LI T. S. FRANKLIN, Mgr. AshevilleCharlotte Office, Paragon Bldg. THE Mi COiPAMV i. H. GANTT, Supervisor of Agents SAYS MS J. BRITT Congressman Finds People of Western County are Making Great Improvements. POM HOTEL IN T Says It Is Fine for Nervous Indigestion and Uric Acid. ' Largest Sale of Its Kind Here. Congr wu an James J. Brltt who delivered an address before the Booster's Club Chautauqua" In Frank lln on Saturday, haa returned and In a moat commendatory manner speaks of the rreat Improvements which the people of Franklin and Macon county have inaugurated. Mr. Brltt say that a wonderful progressive spirit has made possible improvements In the way of constructing twenty-flve-foot high ways, raising better cattle and a gen eral progress among the people of that county; that Franklin has paved her streets, laid sidewalks and given the town modern conveniences for which all the people of the county should be congratulated. It la stated that - the Chautauqua week la proving to be successful In every way. Today Congressman Bell of the ninth district of Georgia will peak on "Education." Today's pro gram wfll close the Chautauqua. TROUBLES OF THE HIT IN THE POLICE COURT L. H. CRAWLEY, EXPERT HATTER, LOCATES HERE It. tl. Crawley, aa expert hatter, has recently arrived la Ashevtlle and wtU be associated with 3. C. Wllbar In the Ashevtlle French Dry Clean lag company, Mr. Crawley has had soany years experience in cleaning. Mocking and reshaping ladles' and men's hats. Travelers Trunks to Come Extra. Washington, July II. The travel. Sng man or woman who carries more than 1100 worth of baggage on a railroad Journey will have to pay the freight. This Is required by the Cum mins amendment to the rate act wrhlrH prohibits a railroad from mak.i Ing any limitations on Its liability In either the transportation of baggage or freight. if the bagae Is vahied at more than 1100 the traveler will be requlr I to psy 10 twits for each exeeee ii it of 1100 or fraction thereof. I l rny result In a good many com hut the law will be observ. i y the railways and enforced by n interstate commerce commission. officials believe that a mark (i' line in the weight of baggage l I t wult. r ow law la one of the r. The demand for Tanlac, the new medicine that is doing so much good in Ashevllle and all over N. Caro lina, Is the largest of any that has ever been sold In the state. Repre sentatives of Mr. Payne in all the larger cities report great resulta from the use of Tanlac, and sales the larg est of any proprietary medicine ever sold In the cities In which they are making their Introductory sale. One sensational statement after an other Is being given In Ashevllle as to the wonderful properties of Tan lao In cases of stomach trouble. In digestion, nervousness, kidney, liver and bladder troubles, catarrh and rheumatism. Among the large number to testify to Its merits recently is J. B. Rector, the well known and popular manager of Hotel langnen. He said: "I can recommend Tan lao for nervous indi geatlon and urlo acid In the blood.'" Mr. Payne says: "People In all walks of life are now using Tanlac and they all report good results where the medicine is given a good, fair and Impartial trial. Numbers of the beet cttlsens now have Tanlac In their homes, as they begin to realise that Tanlao, as an appetiser, tonic and In vlgorant. Is the greatest thintf now before the' public" Smith's drug store, on Pack square, has the exclusive sale of Tanlao in Ashevllle. The number of callers In creases dally. They come to make purchases and to learn more of Tan lac. An Interesting paper. Tanlac Times, given to eah caller free. Ten iae can be purchased in Henderaon vllle.from Hunter's Pharmacy which has the exclusive sale In that city. Advt-lt The following cases were called In Police court yesterday: V. S. Putman was lined $5 and the costs on charges of Breeding; Law rence Creasman was fined 2 and the costs on the same charges Vand ca piases were Issued for J. F. Iitf banks and J. E. Barton on similar ftarges, and. a case against O. WJv n was continued. ' Vagrancy charges again. Jeulah Redman and Cora Calloway wet con tinued. Prayer for Judgment was continued in n vagrancy charge against Fred Fore. A r.ol prosse with leave was taken In a case of larceny against Sidney Schuffer, colored. , Ernest Williams, colored, was given four months with appeal bond at $500 and W. C. Ware, colored, given one year on charges of running gambling houses. Ware appealed and bond was fixed at $2,000. At the same time these defendants were arrested 21 other negroes were arrested on charges of gambling. At trials of their coses most of them were fined. Marshall Hill, colored, was found not guilty of resisting an officer; fined $S and the costs on charges of disor derly conduct and a case of retailing against her was continued. Ellen Moore and Louise Redman, colored, were each tlned $5 and the costs on charges of disorderly con duct. Two "drunks" were ip. to a news dispatch has created a committee which will supervise the work of Increasing the supply of war munitions. Taking Precautions. Berlin, July 13. A dispatch to the Tageblatt from its correspondent at Caernowltz, Bukowlna, says: 'The Russians are fortifying the Roumanian frontier. Many thousands of men are Working at the construc tion of trench's and barbed wire en tanglements. The operations are being rushed wtlh all speed." MUCH INTEREST BEING MANIFESTED IN REVIVAL Bass-Stapleton Meeting at the North Ashevllle Church Well Attended. BRIDE OF FORXEY HIM. DENOUNCES notions written Into the sUtutee r t rummtna, author of the "PURPOSE" MEETING FOR BIO CONFERENCE Chicago, July If. The concluding eeslons of the world conference of the Christian Fndeavor were being held today. Tonight at a big "pur. pose" meeting the 11,009 delegates will expreea the purposes they desire to carry out during the two yes en twfore the next convention meets ln-j I .Sew York, INACTIVITY OF THE TEUTONS IN EAST MYSTERY (Continued From Page One). seem to be gaining in Intensity, but the Vienna official statement admits no loss of ground. i The territory along the river Alsne Is the scene of furious mining oper ations, and in the Argonne district the fighting 1ias Included Important artillery and Infantry actlona The Oermans continue to shell French positions at Fontenelle and the French trenches in Alsace, north of Munster. At BoUchei the early part of the battle Went to the Oermans, but heavy French counter attacks result ed In reoecupatlon of a portion of the trenches from Careney to the outskirts of Bouches. Use of asphylat Ing.gas bombs and fierce hand to hand encounters were features of this battle, which still continues. Many thousands have reported for duty as munitions workers In Eng. Isnfl, This result was attained In sbout two weeks, by the minister of munitions, whose' sis hundred ' bu reaus have been In operation for the enrollment of skilled labor. Repara tion will continue. King Victor Emmanuel, according J J ' y '- J Mrs. Geo.W. Vanderbih'is Brother Shoots Himself The revival In North Ashevllle Methodist church is well under way. Large congregations are present at every service. Mr. Bass Is preaching with much power, and making a deep impression. The subject yenferday afternoon waa "Confidence In Prayer." Last night he spoke on "Tho Self deceived Professor of Religion." This afternoon he will apeak on "Love for Souls," and tonight at 8:16 on, "Where Fell the Axe Head." Special services were announced for every day this week and the meeting Is growing In Interest and ' accomplishing much good. It Is believed. The singing Is a very attractive feature of the meeting, Mr. Stapleton, who Is leading the singing, has a voice of rare sweetness and power. He haa organized a large choir of 60 singera The nolo last night on "Christ is Crowded xOut," was very Impressive. A .f.'MC ttISS fLOHENCJt fOKNlTt Washington, July 1$. Mrs. Hor ence Schneider Forney haa renounced the namo of her husband, Thomas O; . Forney, who, It is alleged, plotted to kill her father. She has Issued a statement signed by her as "Florence Schneider"' lit which ahe says that h fs loyal to her father and bitter against her husband, that sh be lieves he entered Into a conspiracy with George McHenry the Washing ton waiter, to kill her father In a Pittsburgh hotel. McHenry , has confessed to ' the Pittsburgh police, btT. says that Jt was Forney who wielded the hammer on Franklin T. Schneider, wealthy candy manufacturer. T IS REPORTED Wholesale Grocer Stated onday That Four was all Out Was Mistaken. Speaking of the suicide of Daniel IeRoy Dresser, brother of Mrs. Ceorge Vanderbllt of Blltmore, the New York Tribune Sunday ' morning says: Daniel LeRoy Dresser, brother - of Mrs. George Vanderbllt and Mrs. Nicholas Brown, the mother of the "richest baby In the world," . shot himsolf In the temple with a revolver last night In tho library of the Delta Pel fraternity house, at 116th street and Riverside drive. He died Instantly. "One of the men that Wall street got" Is the term most often applied to Mr. Dresser in the last few years. He was one of the organisers of the Shipbuilding trust and the president of the Trust Company of the Repub lic as well aa running the firm of Dresser and company, a wholesale dry goods house. Then the collapse of the trust brought on the down fall of the Dresser fortune. He - was practically ruined, and of late years had lived quietly. No one was In the fraternity house when Mr. Dresser took his life. It was his lawyer, C. W. Oould of 114 West Seventy-ninth street, who first learned of his death. Late this after noon Mr. Gould received a registered letter from his client wiilch said: "i am unaer a nervous strain so great that I cannot stand it any long er." Mr. Gouid at once took a cab to the Delta PsI house, where he knen that Mr. Dresser was staying. Thi place was empty, but with William Balnbrldge, the steward, he forced ai entrance. In th middle of the librarj floor, fully dressed, and with, the- re. volver in his hand, lay the body o his client. He had been dead aom hours. The members of the fraternltj had all gone home to spend th summer vacation. Mr. Dresser had been living there several weeks, alont except for a friend or two, who cami to see him In the evenings.-No on had seen him all yesterday. Balnbrldge was the last person U whom Dresser spoke. At t yeeterdaj afternoon, when the steward was gxx Ing out, Dresser followed him to thl door and inquired particularly whel he would return. Balnbrldge says M replied that he would be back ai 5, o'clock, and Dresser stood, at ihi door and watched him for a minuU or so. '.-. i . . .' Coroner Felnberg, . after viewin the body last night, said it had beet lifeless for from , two to three hours He told 'the newspaper men often ' ward that Dresser's lawyer had asi sorted there were no family trouble! which led to the suicide, but' that th dead man had been involved flnan dally. "Any one who haa knows Dresser for the last six months," th coroner says ?if. Gould' remarked; "will understand why he took hl own life. It waa purely a case al money troublea." - Although one of the leading whole sale grocers stated yesterday to The Gazette-News that there was not a barrel of flour for sale by any of the wholesale grocers In the, city, he seems to have been mistaken. L. B. Rogers of the Rogers Grocery com pany stated today that his company has plenty of flour on hand and that they have not been short of flour at any time this summer. Upon Investigation the grocer who gave out the Information yesterday stated that he believed at that time he waa correct for his salesmen had re ported Hhe same to him. City News A small fire In a pile of brush at the corner of Penland and Hlawassee streets last night about I o'clock re sulted In a call for the fire depart ment The fire was extinguished without damage.' - An excursion party of about 100 persons from Cincinnati arrlvA in Ashevllle this morning on the Caro lina opeciai. The tourists will spend several days enjoying the scenery and viimsie oi me capital city of the mountains and will probably visit some some of the near-bv rwrt towns. . Financial NEW TORK COTTON. New York, July 1$. Cotton fi tures opened steady: July .... .v 8. i J Ootober ... I. IS December .. ,, w ....... , January .. .. ,, i,, .1T March .. ... M i,m 1.83 Read Gazette-News Want Ads. COUNSEL FOR BECKER . CONFER ON NEXT STEP New Tork, July 1!. Bourke Cock ran, Martin T. Manton. unit int.,4 ti Johnston, counsel for Chrirlea Becker, conterrea today to decide on the next step to be taken In their fight to savo the life of their client. An announce ment of their plana is expeoted Ui today, -, NEW YORK STOCKS. New York, July 0$. War stocki were again the dominant feature ol the stock market at the opening to day, with new high records recorded by, Bethlehem Steel,, New York Aft Brake and General Motors. Bud speculative favorites as United State) ' Steel, Union Pacifio, and Readtnl were practically unchanged, while St Paul and Canadian Paclflo wen heavy. k t it k it n t it h h n n n t t n n . i t London, July 1$. It la official- I H ly announced, that the subscript I t tlina to the great Brttiah war I H loan reached a total of almost I t three billion dollara I . I ,. n n h m n it n n it i
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