WILL PROHIBIT
BRANCH BANKING
SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT
NATIONAL BANKB PROHIBIT
■ft.-'*' ' ■ ED BY LAW.. *
DECISION WILL HAVE EFFECT
Opinion Reached In Case of First Na
tional Bank of Bt. Louis to Be
Far-Reaching
Washington.—ln a decision which Is
.expected to have far-reacblng effect on
the branch banking by national banks,
the supreme court In a case brought
by the First National Bank in St.
Louis, held that national banks under
the federal banking act are prohibited
from establishing branches unless
they come within the exceptions
pointed out by the court.
Specifically the court held that the
opening of a branch by the St. Louis
bank was in violation of the federal
law, and furthermore/that a Missouri
state law which also forbade H could
be enforced In the state courts.
Whether the decision which was de
livered by Justice Sutherland, would
apply also to existing branches of na
tional banks established under federal
laws passed in 1865 and 1918 will be
determined by Interpretation and study
of the court's decision or by further
cases which may come up for consid
eration.
The law of 1865 permitted state
banks with branches to become na
tional banks retaining their branches;
the law of 1918 permitted other na
tional banks to absorb the former. In
that way hundreds of national bank
branches have become Into being.
It Is understood that the comp
troller of the currencjkwas Inclined
to construe the decision* as not af
fecting the recent rule that national
banks might establish teller's win
dows for conveninece of customers
at outlying points, but lawyers who
studied the decision were doubtful of
the .soundness of the comptroller's
▼lew. » "
However far-sweeping or narrow
the decision ultimately may prove so
far as concerns the rights of national
banks to establish branches under
federal statute*, the court unequivo
cally took the position that states
could enforce In their own courts
their laws prohibiting branch bank
ing, even though the offender was a
national bank.
The decision was by .a divided court
but the division was not over the
question of brancfr banking, bu,t over
the right of states to enforce their
laws in this respect against national
banks, fblef Justice Taft and Jus
tices Van Devanter and Butler, In a
dissenting oplninon delivered by
Justice Van Devanter, took the posi
tion that national banks were Im
mune from the operation of state
laws, and that the question of branch
banking by them could only be
brought under federal statutes.
Ford Company Sets Record.
Detroit, Mich*—The Ford Motor
Company made 1,200,082 automobiles,
trucks and tractors in 1923—776,059
more than in any previous year, ac
cording to production figures for the
year announced. Of the total 1,915,-
486 automobiles and trucks were made
In this country and 175,474 In foreign
plants, Including Canada. To the total
of these are added 101,898 tractors and
7,826 Lincoln cars.
The figures were coupled with an
announcement that the Ford Company
expects to exceed this figure in 1924
production and that it plans to start
early this spring on its program of
10,000 cars dally.
"The production of more than 1,-
200,000 automobiles In one yesr prob
ably Is the greatest feat In manufac
' turing ever accomplished, especially
In view of the fact that the Ford Com
pany controls the complete manufac
ture and raw material supplies for a
large proportion of everything that
goes Into the make up of Its product."
Five Burned to Death.
Farrell, Pa—Five persons were
burned to death and four others ser
iously Injured In a lire which destroy
ed four houses here. * ,
The dead: Wade Poling, Mr. and
Mrs. John Cloco. Mrs. James Mac
«•»'>«« *nd David Ors.
V a series of explosions preceded the
Are aad the police expressed the be
Ifhf that they were caused by a broken
gas main which served the houses de
■troyed. Firemen were seriously ham
! pered by explosions after they reach
ed the scene and It was not until five
hours had passed that they were able
to recover the bodies.
Four Meet Death in Motor Wreok.
Hammond, lad. —Four persons were
frilled, another probably fatally Injur
. ed and two others less seriously Injur
ed when a Nickel Plate passenger
train struck an automobile here.
The dead are: Robert Peterson, A
Hfollne; Mrs. Beatrice Doner. 18
Sarah Doner, three, and John Doner
one, all of Hammond.
Mrs. Nancy Schult. driver of th
ear; was probably fatally Injured an
Luellla Blegel, 18, Roby, Ind.. an-
Irene Doner, four, suffered Interns
Injuries, cats M>d bruises.
FIFTEEN KILLED BY ~
EXPLOSION OF GAS.
Pawtucket, R. I.—Fifteen persons
were• killed when escaping gas
flooded a two-family cottage at
Manvllle and an explosion and fire
which followed wrecked the build
ing. The victims were Michael
Conway, who lived In one side of
the house; Adelard Hamel, his
wife, six sons and five daughters,
and Miss Apolllne Dancour, a
boarder with the Hamel family.
So far as the authorities could
learn, the two Conway boys, after
smelling escaping gas, opened the
cellar door and a light in the hall
way Ignited the gas. The explosion
which followed, is believed to have
detonated some
Hamel, who was a Wood chopper,
had stored In the cellar. Hundreds
of windows within a radius of half
a mile were shattered by the com
bined gas and dynamite explosion,
and the detonation was heard 20
miles away.
OUTLINE STEPS FOR RELIEF
CHIEF EXECUTIVE TXLKS OF
SITUATION IN THE
NORTH WEBT.
Congress Told of Necessity For Action
That Will Prevent Further
Failures.
Washington.—Moved by the increas
ing acuteness of the economic situa
tion In the Northwest, President Cool
idge sent to congress a special mes
sage outlining steps for relief and
quickened efforts of the federal gov
ernment to prevent further bank fail
ures In tliat section.
The chief executive presented five
methods for "organized cooperation of
the present federal government and
the local institutions of that terri
tory.
Congress, he declared, should extend
financial assistance, through a feder
al agency to promote diversification
in farming by the wheat growers and
lengthen from March 31 to December
31, 1924, the period during which the
war finance corporation may make
loans. The diversification proposal,
embodied in the Norbeck-Burtness
bills, is under study by senate and
house agriculture committees and the
president's message is expected by ad
ministration leaders to give It Im
petus. . r " •
The executive branches of the gov
ernment worklqg In cooperation with
private interests, Mr. Coolldge assert
ed, would seek to bring about the
refunding of the pressing past due
Indebtedness of the farmers, to re
store the Impaired capital of btfhks
and confidence In those banks, and to
promote creation by private capital
of new financing agencies, such as
have been organised by live stock in
terests to work In cooperation with
the war finance corporation.
The work of restoring the impaired
capital banks already has been started
with the sending of a federal mission
headed by Comptroller Da./es to the
Northwest. The war finance corpora
tion has been directed to extend afl
aid It legally cAn give and Mr. Cool
ldge haa determined to call bankers
In Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul
to Washington for conferences in
event they hesitate to accord the co
operation asked by the Dgwes mis
sion.
The president told congress ttie wel
fare of large business concerns,. rail
roads, mercantile establishments
agricultural supply houses was Im
mediately connected with the welfare
of the farmer and announced that he
had directed Secretaries Hoovpr and
Wallace and Managing Drlector Mey
er of the war finance corporation to
confer with representatives of these
interests, to bring about refunding of
fanners' Indebtedness.
Plan to W Ships. ~
Washington.—Tension over the Mex
ican situation appeared to have beef!
completely relaxed when the state
department announced that American
war vessels ordered to Vera Crux and
Tamplco were already In pro Ass o
b?lng withdrawn from Mexican waters
since the rebel leaders had abandon
ed their attempted blockade of Tain
plco and had removed
from the harbors under their control. 4
With this compliance with the de
mands of the Washington government,
the De la Huerta leaders have with
drawn all threats agalftut '
tinned movement of peaceful Ameri
can commerce, and the occasion for
sending the ships haa passed.
Unless American lives and property
should again be jeoparlsed. It Is un
likely that the Washington govern
ment will take an further action than
to continue to make aales of war mu
nitions to Obregon.
Gets Dislocated Neck Watching Gams.
Hornell, N. Y.—Bernlce Skinner,
eighteen, Is suffering from a dislocat
ed neck received while watching a
basketball game recently between the
high schools of Corning ahd Hornell.
The crowd was so large that chairs
were plaoed on the floor of the court
and two players running at full speed
crashed Into the chair where the girt
sat Her bead was thrown back with
such violence that the neck was dis
located. The girl la at a hospital and
surgeons said shs might recover.
BELIEVE 40 WERE
KILLED 61 BUST
SEVENTEEN BODIES ARE REMOV
ED FROM THE LANCASHIRE
JOHN RICO SAVES 9 LIVES
Coffee and Sandwiches Served to Rela
tives Throughout the Night; Wo
men Comforted.
Shanktown, a.—Forty men lost their
Uvea In the explosion which wrecked
the Lancashire mine o( the Barnes
and Tucker Coal company here ac
cording to the best estimates obtain
able.
Seventeen bodies have been brought
out, and nine miners, who were saved
by the prompt efforts of another min
er, are In hospitals recovering from
the effects of shock and gas. Exper
ienced rescue crews, led by J. B. Par
ker of the Pittsburgh station of the
bureau of mines, are working In onp
hour relays to penetrate the workings
and reache the entombed men. Ail
hope that any is alive he been aban
doned.
"While no one is quite sure," said
Engineer Parker, "therd is every rea
son to believe there were 40 vlctoms
of the mine disaster. Seventeen
bodies have been located, and there is
hatdly a possibility that the 23 other
escaped. The rescue work is
proceeding favorably. The main head
ing has been explored to the face of
the mine, and the crews are now go
ing Into the side entries. We expect
to have the mine completely explored.
The women and children who stood
in the bitter cold and blinding snow
awaiting vainly for som«vnews from
the workings, were induced to go to
their homes by the Red Cross nurses
and the Salvation Army workers.j
They served sandwiches and coffee to
the emergency men during the night,
and, comforting the stricken women
and ohildren, finally led them home.
The nurses were then sent to the
emergency morgue at Starford, a
neighboring village, where they took
charge of the bodies.
John Rico, a miner, was on his way,
to work in the night shift shortly be
volume of smoke burst from the pit.
Without hesitation, he ran into the
mine and almost Immediately came
upon a broken pick and a smashed
dinner bucket. Tearing all along for 1
almost a mile, -he shouted at' the
mouth of every gallery, but got no |
response, until he was near the sixth i
heading Here a faint cry answered
him, and his search was rewarded by
finding nine men alive, but
them bordering on unconsciousness.
Rico Induced to soak, their
handkerchiefs In water and tie them
about their faces. He quickly found
an air passage, and leading the weak
and staggering men along its entire
length, he finally came to a point
where he knew the earth had fallen in
from above. He then helped them
one by one to climb to the surface
and safety. %
U. 8. Warships Quit Tampleo.
Tamplco.—The United States war
craft, which compelled the rebels to
call off their blockade of Tamplco,
have departed. The destroyers Cory
and Hull sailed for Vera Cruz, and the
i cruiser Richmond for Galveston. The
Rebel gunboats Zaragoza and Tamplco
' remain outside the port But are not
Interfering with the movements of
merchant ships in and out *of the
harbor.
Federal troops under General Cor
doba have defeated the rebels in the
Juan Casiano-Los Naranjos region,
forcing them to fall back upon Lo
tone, half-way. Jo Zasamlxtle, where
they are retrenching.
Federal troops are assembling ma
chine guds an) cavalry equipment re
ceived from the United States.
Admits Murder of Wife and Brother.
Aurora, 111. —Cast In & block of con
crete. the heads of Mrs. Llna Lincoln
and Byron Shoup, her brother, were
ftgind In a dump heap here by the
'authorities working under the direc
tion of Warren J. Lincoln, eceentrte
lawyer and horticulturist, who Is ac
cused of ftelr murder.
his fourteenth statement
sbd n»s . "..J an many
days, Lincoln tpld his questidhers
that he had shot both his wife, and
her brother, hacked their bodies to
bits and burled the pieces, sealed
their heads In a block of concrete
which he -used for a time as a support
under his porch, and then threw in
the city dump.
Washington Fire Causes Big Lose.
> Washington.—Fire completely de
stroyed the Washington and Norfolk
Steamboat company's wharf, office
building, several adjoining structures
and the steamboat Midland, with an
estimated loss of $750,000.
A high wind drove the tames be
yond control o( the Capital's entire
fire department, summoned by five
alarms, for more than an hour. At
one time, be fire threatened destruc
tion to the whole water front
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THE ALAMANCE GLEANEIt, GRAHAM. N. C.
MAN WHOBE STORE FIRE
4 KILLED 7, 18 A SUICIDE.
Lyndonville, Vt. —Albert Stern,
in whose building a fire started a
few nights ago, causing a loss 'of
seven lives and $500,000 property
damage, committed suicide by
slashing his throat.
Stern, who conducted a clothing
store in the building, had been
called as a witness at an Inquest
into the fire set- for Monday. A
preliminary Investigation develop
ed the fact that Stern was in his
store 10 minute* before the flames
were discovered.
TO SEARCH SUSPECTED SHIPS
BECOME EFFECTIVE ON RATIFI
CATION BY ENGLAND AND
AMERICA.
British Vessels Improperly Detained
or Searched. Would Be Compensat
ed For Loss Resulting.
Washington.—The double-barreled
liquor treaty with Great Britain was
signed by Secretary Hughes and Am
bassador Geddes, to become effective
when ratifications are exchanged. By
tactic, agreement, however, the two
governments are expected to give the
pact 'some measure of immediate ap
plication in dealing with rum-smug
giing and ship liquor matters which
may arise before ratification is com-'
pleted.
Under the treaty suspected liquor
smuggling craft under the British flag
would be liable to search and seizure
if intercepted anywhere within an
hour's sailing distance of shore, the
speed of the suspected vessel being
the measure of distance in her case.
In return for this aid in prohibition
enforcement, the United States would
grant to British ships the right to
carry sealed stores of ship liquors
within American waters anywhere on
the same terms that such liquors llow
pass through the Panama canal. It is
to run for one year' at the end of
which period it can be terminted on
three months' notice.
A summary of the treaty made pub
lic at the state department shows a
provision not. previously discolsed
under which British vessels improp
erly detained or searched would be
compensated for any loss or damage
reiultlng. Such cases would be re
ferred to a joint commission for ad
judication and award.
Signing of the treaty, which officials
hope will pave the way for breaking
up the rum fleets off the American
coasts and also eliminate causes of
Irritation between the two countries
with respect to ship-liquor matters and
the seizure of British suspected craft,
was the last official act of Ambassa
dor Geddes. He called afterward at
( the "White House to present his let
ters of recal land with the exception
of one or two addresses he is schedul
ed to make in New York before he
sails for home his service in the Unit
ed States is over.
Four Perish In Fire as Home Bume.
Pottsvflle, Pa.—A mother and her
four daughters, ranging in Age from
one to sixteen, were burned- to death
in a fire at Middleport, five miles
from here, when their home was al
almost destroyed. Andrew Harvllla,
the husband and father, was severely
burned In attempting, to rescue them.
Mrs. Harvllla lost her life in an
heroic effort to save her children.
With part of the house a raging fur
nace, she dashed inside the house to
the second floor, where she seized her
one-year-old baby daughter from her
crib and was making her way, to the
stairway when she was overcome by
smoke.
Lint Figures Reflect Gain. ,
Washington.—Cotton ginned prl&r
to.January 16 amounted to 9,946,468
running bales. Including 235,891 round
bales counted as half bales; 20,151
bales of American-Egyptian, and 781
bales of sea island, the Census Bureau
announced.
To that date last year glnnlpgs
amounted to 9.648,261 ritnnlng 'bales
including 168.428 round bales, acount
ed as half bales; 30,827 bales df Amer
ican-Egyptian and 5,%74 bales of sea
Island.
Ginnlngs to January 1« this yeas by
states follows.. Alabama. 595.9 V:
Arizona. 68.675; Arkansas. 620,136;
Sallfornla. 45.184; Florhla, 13,485;
Georgia;' 608.916; Louisiana, 369,262;
Mississippi. 616,449; Missouri, 109,851;
North Carolina, 1.0 M.998; Oklahoma.
643.871; South Carolina, 784.591; Ten
nessee. 226,581; Texaa, 4,139,952; Vir
glnla, 48,013. All other States. i»t
--711.
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Living Costs Inereaeed.
Washington.—Average living cost
la typical American cities last Decem
ber were 71.2 per cent greater than
they were In the same month of lllS
the department of labor announced.
The coasts were also greater by 1.1
per cent than during jfieptember, 1923,
and 3 7 per cent than daring Decem
ber, 1922. Furniture, clothing, and
ft easing showed the greatest percent
age of Increases. The report was
based upon findings fcs to retail prices
la 32 cttlee.
37 ME KILLED IK
MINE EXPLOSION
MANY OTHERB ARE BADLY IN»
JURED A3 RESULT OF
>4 DIBABTER. ,
MEN NEAR ENTRANCE ESCAPE
Last of Injured Brought to Burfaee
and Given Medical Aid
Hospital.
Johnston City, 111. —Thirty-seven
men are dead, six Injured and badly j
burned, while eight others sufferM
burns about the head and body, in a
mine disaster which occurred here.
, After hours of faithful work on the
part of volunteer rescue teams to aid ,
the organized teams of Williamson |
county, the last of the Injured in the
explosion at the east side mine of the
Crerar Coal company mine here had
been brought to the surface and given
medical aid in hospitals In Herrln.
The men near the entrance escaped
easily but entries Nos. 9, 10, 11 and
12, located in, the depths of the col
lerles where the actual explosion took
place, were farthest from a means of
escape and the men there suffered the j
full terrior of the terrific blast.
Hundreds of men volunteered to go
(down into the mine after four Johnson j
City physicians stepped forward and I
announced their intention of braving
the poisonous gases of the inner re
cesses of the mine where the men
have been trapped.
Waiting in the zero cold outside the
mine shaft relatives and workers were
completely enevloped by clouds of
dense, black smoke coming from the ]
shaft. Ambulances from Herrin and ;
Johnson City were lined up outside ,
and as each body, borne on a stretcher,
was brought up out of the smoky
shaft, the waiting crowd pushed tor
ward fearful that it might be some
relative. • x "
Bootleg King to Penitentiary. «
• Atlanta, Ga. —Marble walls' of the
Atlanta federal penitentiary housed
George Remus, convicted bootleg
king of the middle west, and 11 of his
associates. ' . |
Royalty was recognized by fellow
prisoners, for when Remus entered
the prison, coming direct' here* from
Cincinnati on board a private car, he
was given an ovation to the full ex
tent of prison rules and regulations,
the silent waving of arms through
grated windows.
The Cincinnati millionaire started
service of * two-year sentence for'
having conspired to violate the Vol
stead act. He slbo must pay a fine
of SIO,OOO, and at the termination of
this sentence will serve one year In a
state prison In Ohio.
His associates, Harry Brown, John
Gerhum, Charles Wiseman and George
Dafer, will serve 18 months
fines of $5,000 each; «larence Bell,
Ernest. Brady, George (RUenbfeck and
George King, 15 months' sentence and
fines of SI,OOO each; Harry Gardewlng
and Harry Boyd, one year and one
day and pay fines of SI,OOO eacp; El- ]
mer Roth, 15 months' sentence and* a
fine of SSOO.
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'Three Mummies Are Discovered.
Luxor, Egypt.—Three mlmmies, two
excellently preserved, have been dis
covered by Dr. Robert Mond, the'
English Egyptologist, who during the
past week has been clearing the space
behind the ramlshum, or mortuary
temple, of Rameses 11, in the region
known as Sheik Abd-El-Querna, to
remove the rubble for his intended ex-"
cavatlon of the tomb of Ramose, visler
of the hertic king of Althenatlon. The
third mumniy found, posslbly'the body
of a soldier killed In one of the wars
of ancient Egypt, is in a- bad state.
/ The well-preserved mummies ar those
of a goldsmith and hie wife, a priest
ess of Amouie, of the twenty-fourth
dynasty, 718 B. C. Under the outer
wrappings of the priestess mnmmy,
her clothing of fine linen, now brown
ed by age, was found laid, neatly fold
ed, upon the body. There was a long
robe, piped with green, with a V
shaped front and holes for
the arms, frlnJßl around the hem;
then an outer garment with a hole
for the head and severe! fringed
veils.
Months Before Bhenandoah Can Fly.
. Lakehurst, ;' " Sarjr to expec
tations, It probably will be three
months before the Shenandoah, giant
Navy dirigible which was battered on
her Involuntary flight a week ago, will
be In condition to fly again, it was
said at the naval'air station here. It
had been hoped to place the ship
back on active duty within a month.
Leap to Safety aa Building Burn a.
High Point—One person waa Injur
ed seriously and a fireman waa over
come by fumes in any early morning
fire her*, which destroyed a boarding
house conducted by Mrs. M. L. Swing,
at 318 Broad Street Twenty persona
who occupied rooms in the building
were endangered and several of them
Buffered minor injuriea in Escaping. '
Emmett Ussery, a young man, whose
home ia la Georgia, waa the most
aeriously hurt He Is in a local hl»-
pltal suffbrtug from sever burns.
DOINGS IN THE
TAR HEEL STATE
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
TOLD IN SHORT PARA
GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Washington. Mr. Doughton an
nounces the appointment of John Blay
lock Boyett, of Albemarle, to the Na
val academy; and Ernest Schley Aus
tin, of Taylorsville ,to West Poin#.
Gastonla.—The Oastonla Woolen
mills is the name of the county's
newest textile corporation, chartered
to aplnfend weave woolen fabrics.
The incorporators are John B. White,
K. M. Glass an dothers.
Wilmington.'—A re-survey of the
ocean bottom about Frying Pan Shoals
has Jus't been completed by the Geode
| tic steamer Lydonia, which removed
' her base from Wilmington to Char
leston.
I Hickory.—City council instructed
the city manager to advertise for bids
for a new 750-gallon motor truck
pump and a hook and ladder service
truck to be added to (the present
equipment of two motor trucks of the
Hickory fire department.
Asheboro. Tuesday evening six
negro prisoners overpowered oailer
Lowe and made their escape'from the
Asheboro jail. Large parties of men
1 searched in every direction all night
j and again all day Wednesday, but as
' yet none of the negroes have been
| cap.tured.
I Wadesboro. —Much interest is felt
here in the proposed bridge to be
built over the Pee Dee river, thus coii»
necting jnore closely Anson v and
Richmond counties. • The new bridge
will be one of the longest In the state
I and will serve a highly useful pur
pose.
| Durham. —Appointment of a- board
| of censors for local moving pictures
and theatrical productions here was
authorized at a recent meeting of the
c!ty\councll, by City Manager S. W.
Rigsby. This board will comprise five
persons who are to be named by May
. or J. M. Manning.
Raleigh.—Damages in the sum of
SIOO,OOO are sought by L. S. Smith,
administrator of Andrew L. Smith,'in
a suit agalpst the Carolina Power and
Light Co., in Wake County Superior
Court Monday. Andrew Smith, a 19-
• year-old boy from Vanceboro, was kill
' ed while riding on a street car during
the congested traffic of last
Week.
i Durham. —Plans and the profile for
the spur track to be laid from a
point near Bahama to the site where
the big dam which is a part of the
) water and hydro-electric development
the city has started, have been re
' celved. They will be sent to the
Norfolk and Western railroad for the
consideration of the road's officials
and for a proposal on the laying of
the track.
IJnckory. —Crashing through three
floors, smashing ceilings and largt
timbers as it coursed upward, a small
150-pound boiler used by the City
Pressing Club in the basement in
the Palace Barber Shop on Union
Square, exploded and caused prop
erty damage estimated at near two
thousand dollars.
| Greensboro.—The blggfst suit ever
brought against the Southern Railway
In Guilford Superior Court has been
instituted by Mr. and Mrs. B. COlWell,
Jr., and their daughter, Miss DorotHy
Colwell, of this city, the result of a
train striking an automobile in which
' Mrs. Colwell and her daughter were
riding on September 7,1921, at a street
crossing here. The three suits total
$162,750. 1
Southern Pines.—B. J. Christman,
.aged 49, veteran peachman, died at
hl» home here of double pneumonia:
Mr. Cbristfas was general manager of
the Sandhills Peach Growers Associa
tion and was possibly one of the ableat
sales directors In the country.
Wilmington.—The three-span truss
steel bridge across Brunswick liver,\ t
two miles west of Wilmington,, has
been completed by C. W. Lacy A who
held the contract under the State
Highway Commission. The bridge
cost approximately $75,000 and repTes
ents the last link in the New Hanover-
Brunswick causeway,
j Raleigh.—Vallle Page, 38-yeaf-Wd
driver of 208 Maywood avenue, Cara
lelgh, was instantly killed when the
Hupmoblle automobile which he waa
driving was demolished by Norfolk
and Southern train Number 30 at the
railroad crossing east of the trestle
between the Caralelgh Fertilizer
Works and the Caralelgh Cotton Mills.
Chapel Hill.—A total of 436 adults In
all walks of life studied In their
homes courses given University pro
feasors laat fall, according to a report
made by Prof. George B. Zehmer,
director of Extension Teaching, to
Chester D. Snell, director of the Exten
sion Division. ,
Wilmington.—During 192$ about
$11,000,000 of treasury savings certifi
cates were sold In the fifth federal
, rtserve district, nearly $600,000 more
than In 1922, according to Howard T.
Cree. director of treasury savings or
ganisatlon, In .a statement to Postman
ter Warren G. Elliott
i . Aabevllle. —During the past thre*
; years Ashevllle's population has In
areas ed 49 per cent, or 10,401 persons,
according to figures compiled by the
> local Chamber of Contmerce, 288 per
: sons have moved to AaheVille each
month daring the period, according to
tfce figures.
NERVOUS, RUN
DOWN MOTHERS
Worn Oat Ciriaf for Children oi
Hoatework See how Lrdia
E. PmUum's Vegetable .
Compound Helps - ■
Indianapolis, Indiana.—"l waa fa a
very nervosa and run-down condition,
while musing my
||l|Jj|l|H|||lj|l gome talk of Lydia
Vege-
P : M bottle Inoticedabi^
IMB aqi not a bit nervous
now. and feel like &
iliffl different person. It
a great rotdieino
for any one in a nervous, run-down con- '
dition and I would be glad to give any
one advice about taking ft. I think
there is no better medicine and give
you permission to publish this letter."
—Mrs. Ainu SMITH, Ml W. Norwood
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
The important thing about Lydia E.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound is that
ft does help women suffering from the
ailments common to their sex.
If yon are nervous and run-down and
have pains in your lower parts and in
TOUT back, rememberthat the Vegetable ,
Compound haa relieved other women
having the same symptoms. For salo
by druggists everywhere. -
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p "Here Is another letter that ..makes
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"One that I would rather have than a
thousand dollars.
"Money isn't everything in thla
world. ~There is many a big-hearted,
rich man who would give all he has
on earth to be able to produce a rem
edy with such mighty healing power
as Peterson's Ointment, to sell at all.
druggists for 60 cents a large box."
Dear Sire:— >
i'l was an. untold sufferer from old
running sore and ulcera, I had tried
most everything- without any relief
from pain. A friend told me of your
wonderftU -ointment and the first box
took away the pain that had not left
me before In years, and after uslng-
Juat nine dollars' worth of the salve
lam cured. The ulcer waa # Inches b'y
-614 Inches, Is all healed and I can walk.
Never, never will I be without Peter
son's again.
- "Tou may use this to recommend
your ointment. If you wish. I cannot
say enough to praise It. Tours truly,
Mrs. Albert Southcott. Lyndonvllle, N.
T. Mall orders filled by
Ointment Co., Inc., Buffalo, M T.
Money back without question
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Laying Down the Law
The Ross—Your face looks very un
tidy. You haven't shaved for a week.
The Bill Clerk—l know it. I'm rais
ing a beard. v
The Bo%»—Yon gnn raise all the
beard you want on your own time, but
1 won't have It during office hours.
Nothing Better for Conetlpatlen
than one or two Brandreth Pills at bed
time. They cleanse the system, purity
the blood and keep you well.—Adv.
When some people stand on their dig
nity it wabbles.
Hali'g Catarrh
Medicine
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