Claim Deputy
Killed Sheriff
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Experts Say Ball From
Gun of Kimball's As
sistant Was Fatal One
Uncertainty took a hand in the
state’s preparations for trying
Ralph Davis, Lexington outlaw, for
the slaying of Sheriff G. C. Kimball,
near Statesville, when ballistics ex
perts reported the fatal bullet was
fired from the gun of Deputy R.
L. Gilbert, the sheriff’s companion
on the raid.
Kimball was killed and Gilbert
wounded when they attempted to
trap him at a farm home. Two
witnesses said Davis killed the
sheriff, but Charlotte and New
York ballistic experts both now re
port the bullet came from Gilbert’s
stun.
Solicitor Zeb V. Long said he
would not let the finding interfere
with his plans for prosecuting
Davis. He said he could not ac
cept the theory that Gilbert shot
his chief accidentally during the
gunplay, and would seek some
other explanation.
Gilbert himself, greatly disturb
ed by the report, said:
"I don’t see how it could have
happened.”
He spoke front his hospital bed.
Davis has been held at State’s
prison in Raleigh since his capture
at Concord, which followed a chase
into Virginia, where he abandoned
a stolen car in which he made his
getaway from the shooting scene.
He protested his innocence of the
shooting, but was positively identi
fied by several persons as the gun
man.
Ickes To Conduct
Hearing Sept. 10
On Park Highway
Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes has announced he will go
to Asheville on Monday, September
10, to conduct a hearing on the
route for the parkway between the
Shenandoan National park In Vir
ginia and the Great Smoky Moun
tain National Park lying partly in
North--Carolina and partly in Ten
nessee. !
Secretary Ickes announced that
he would allow North Carolina and
Tennessee each one hour and thirty
minutes to present its case, with
the allocation of that time left en
tirely to Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus of Norh Carolina and Gover
nor Hill McAllister, of Tennessee.
It has been the contention of
North Carolinians all along that if
they could obtain a personal inspec
tion by the secretary they would
have no fear of the result.
War department
Buys 2,000 Autos
Washington.—The War Depart
ment has announced award of con
tracts for 2,000 motor vehicles to
cost more than $1,000,000. The
Chevrolet Motor Company was a
wared contracts for 1,531 trucks
for $910,407.87. Fargo Motor Cor
poration, Detroit, was awarded
contracts for 492 trucks and pas
senger cars for $256,055.94.
The business experts tell us that
the outlook for prosperity is full of
promise, but of there was a little
less promise and a little more pay
up of old bills, the business folks of
Salisbury would be better pleased.
What People Looked Like 5,000
Years Ago. Remarkable Hoard of
Statues Unearthed From Ruins of
the Mysterious Sumerians. Read
About It and See the Photographs
in the American Weekly, Which
Comes With the BALTIMORE
AMERICAN, Issue of September
9. Buy Your Copy From Your
Favorite Newsboy or Newsdealer.
Kept Taking Gardui
Until She Got Rid
of the Severe Pains
When Mrs. Ida Hege, of Edin
burg, Ind., was in a painful, run
down condition, she took Cardui,
with the results ^he describes be
low: ."I had just been what one
might say dragging around, feeling
miserable and all out of sorts. I
remembered how Cardui helped
my aunt. I sent for six bottles of
Cardui and when I had taken them,
X was much better and stronger. X
did not suffer so much pain. X
continued taking Cardui until I had
taken nine bottles. I do not have
the severe paihs." ... Thousands
of women testify Cardui benefited
them. If it does not benefit YOU,
consult a physicta*^
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nnouncementof Reduction in Rates
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Southern Public Utilities Company is pleased to announce to its customers that, ef- J
fective with bills to be rendered for service rendered this month and hereafter,
charges for electric and gas service will be at new rates that have recently been ap
nroved by the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission and the South Carolina
Railroad Commission. *
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Under these new rate schedules there will be a substantial reduction in the charges
for electric and gas service.
In order that our customers may see just how the new electric rate schedules apply
to their respective bills we are presenting herewith the old schedules, together with
the new schedules which apply to the same groups of customers. The following are
the old and new rate schedules that apply to residential and commercial customers:
OLD SCHEDULE NO. 1
Residential Electric Service
This rate was available for lighting, cooking, heating, refrigeration and incidental power
entirely of a residential nature.
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Flat Charge: ,
| Per customer per month. $1.00
, Meter Charge: " ’ • ■
3.75 cents per KWH for the first 150 KWH used per month.
3 cents per KWH for all consumption in excess of l5o KWH per mo.
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OLD SCHEDULE NO. 1-C
Commercial Electric Lighting Service.
This schedule applied to stores, offices and commercial users in general
—Rate—
$1.00 for the first 10 KWH or less used per month. f
6c per KWH for the next 590 KWH used per month.
\ 4c per KWH for the next 400 KWH used per month.
1.9c per KWH for all consumption in excess of 1,000 KWH used per mo.
NEW SCHEDULE NO. 1
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Residential Electric Service
This rate is available for lighting, cooking, heating, refrigeration and incidental power
which is entirely of a residential nature.
—Rate— I
80 cents for the first 10 KWH, or less, used per month.
6y2 cents per KWH for the next 2o KWH' used per month./
3 cents per KWH for the next 100 KWH used per month.
| 2J4 cents per KWH for all over 130 KWH used per month.
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NEW SCHEDULE NO. 1-C
Commercial Electric Lighting Service. !i
I This schedule applies to stores, offices and commercial ^sers in general. 1
—Rate—
80 cents for the first 10 KWH, or less, used per month.
6.5 cents per KWH for the next 20 KWH used per month.
5 cents per KWH for the next 100 KWH used per month. ;
4.9 cents per KWH for the next 870 KWH used per month.
1.9 cents per KWH for all over 1000 KWH used per month. \
! SCHEDULE NO. 1-W J
Water Heating Service.
—Rate—
This rate is available for water heating#.provided the water heaters are of the storage type with at least 10 gallons
1 storage capacity for one kilowatt of heating capacity and further provided the hours of use are under the control >
of the company a d may be limited to fifraen hours out of each twenty-four.
1V2 cents per K$i|tH for the first 200 KWH used each month. !
\ cent per KWH for all over 200 KWH used each month.
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The comparison between the old a&d new optional gas rate schedules
may be seen from a study of these schedules which are shown as fol
lows:
OLD OPTIONAL GAS SCHEDULE NO. 2 NEW OPTIONAL GAS SCHEDULE NO. 2 |
—Rate—
First 300 cu. ft. or less used per month $i.5o. Rate—
cu‘ usec* Per mon^> cents per 100 cu. ft. First 200 cu. ft. or less used per month $1.35.
Next 143,000 cu. ft used per month 10 cents per 100 cu. ft. Next 2,800 cu. ft. used per month 131/2 cents per hundred cu. ft.
All over 150,000 cu. ft. used per month 9 cents per loo cu. ft. • All over 3,000 cu. ft. used per month 9 cents per hundred cu. ft.
The new rate schedules are simple in structure and will be easily understood by any
customer. The new residential and commercial rates for electricity will make it even
more desirable and profitable for our customers to enjoy the widest possible use of
electric service. As a matter of fact the only justification for these new rates is the
confident anticipation that our customers will find it to their advantage to make a
larger use of electric service for all purposes. j;
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Tlie new schedules of rates, to be effective for the service that you are even now re
ceiving, will be markedly lower than the old. And these rates will apply in all com
munities served by the Southern Public Utilities Company, including the smallest
towns and villages and rural communities.
The following tabulation will illustrate to you just how the new rates will affect cus
tomers using electricity for residential service in amounts varying from 0 to 300 KWH
per month:
KUowatt Hour. Old Residential New Residential - Decrease in
Used Per Month Schedule No. 1 Schedule No. 1 Per Cent_
® $ 100 $ .80 20%
I® 138 -80 42%
20 1.75 1.45 17%
IS 213 2.10 — 1%
1° 2.88 2.70 6%
100 4.75 4.20 12%
560 15%
200 8.13 6.85 16%
300 11-13 9.35 16%
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; The new rate schedules are on file and available to customers at all of our branches.
Our customers are invited to inspect and study these schedules.
Southern Public Utilities Co. 1
E. C. MARSHALL, President I
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