Paris Plans Dowries As
An Aid To Dan Cupid
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Paris.—A dowry is' still such an
important item to a young girl in
search of a husband that Paris has
just announced its intention again
this year of coming to the rescue
of girls without funds.
There is no lack of applicants,
and officials will have a hard time
selecting the lucky ones. There
will be a total of eight—all Paris
girls with certain qualifications set
down by the municipality, who
cannot find husbands because they
are unable to produce the necessary
dowry.
Each girl will get 100,000 francs
—approximately $400—which is
considered a respectable dowry for
a working girl.
Eighty thousand francs has been
set aside for dowries by the public
assistance administrators of Paris, I
and the money will be given to
girls in eight of the 20 city dis
tricts.
The girls must be French and
between 21 and JO. They must
have been residing here for at
least three years and in the dis
trict from which they are chosen
for at least one year, and they must
have a regular job.
Cleveland Route 2
Miss Sadie Wilhelm was a sub
stitute teacher for Miss Linda Bailey
who was sick, in the Woodleaf
school Monday.
Cleveland Scotch Irish Grange
met for its regular meeting Tues
day night with a fine attendance.
A good meeting was held and an
interesting lecturer program was
given. Mr. A. P. Sigman handed in
his resignation as business agent and
Mr. O. S. Gray was elected to that
office.
Mrs. Annie Cartner is right much
improved since the last writing.
Miss Caroline Reavis was taken to
the Davis hospital for an appendici
tis operation Monday.
Our community was saddened by
the death of Mrs. Maggie (Miller)
Young of near Statesville last
Thursday at the Long hospital. Mrs.
Young is the daughter of Mr. H.
W. Miller of Cleveland Route 1.
She is survived by her husband, D.
N. Young, two children, Geneva
and Henry Allen, her father, two
step brothers and 3 step sisters, 3
brothers, Fred, Darr and Quintin
Miller, 2 sisters, Mrs. Fred Beam
and Mrs. Howard Setzer.
Those visiting .Mrs. M. E. Mc
Daniel over the week-end were:
Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt Maynard and
children, and Mrs. Ethel McDaniel
of Concord and 'Mr. and Mrs. Joe
McDaniel of near Charles.
Miss Ruby Johnston and Messrs.
Paul Burton and Harry Johnston
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Merrell
of Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Granger of
Mocksville and Mr. and Mrs. Atlas
Smoot of Kappa Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Setzer and
daughter, Jeanette Ailene and Miss
Janie Stewart spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Miller.
Mr. Clyde Burton came home
from the Lowery hospital Tuesday
where he underwent an operation
for appendicitis some time ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Everette Murph
visited their daughter, Margaret, at
the Davis hospital Tuesday. Mar
garet was severely burned last Au
gust and has been in the hospital
since last September.
Mr. J. T. Graham was in Raleigh
Monday and Tuesday.
|deaths|
DAN N. WALSER
Dan N. Walser, 80, died Mon
day morning at his home at Yad
kin. The funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Smith
Grove church.
His widow and the following
children survive: W. R. of David
son, R. W. and Ira of Yadkin,
Mrs. J. A. Roche, of Lexington,
Mrs. Frank Wilson of Spencer, Mrs.
R. T. Winecoff, Misses Laura and
Lessie Walser, all of Yadkin. Two
sisters, Mrs. E. C. Hill of High
Point and Mrs. Ellen Kennerly of
Salisbury, likewise survive.
MRS. W. F. SHAVER
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at the home for
Mrs. W. F. Shaver of Woodleaf
who died Sunday afternoon. She
is survived by her husband and the
following children: Frank, Walter
and Arline, all of Woodleaf; Mrs.
George Allen and Mrs. J. F. Hall of
Salisbury; Margaret, Roy, Curtis
and Everette Shaver, all at home.
A brother, J. K. Holt of the coun
ty, and a sister, Mrs. C. J. Benson
of Woodleaf, also survive.
H. W. SILLMAN
H. W. Sillman, 75, died shortly
before noon Tuesday at his home
near Mill Bridge. The funeral was
held Wednesday morning at 11 o’
clock at the home, with burial in
the Thyatira churchyard. The wid
ow, a son and two daughters sur
vive.
ARTHUR C. IDDINGS
Arthur C. Iddings, 55, well
known employe of the paint de
oartment of the Southern shops at
opencer, died Wednesday in Rowan
general hospital following an opera
tion Saturday for appendicitis. The
funeral was held Thursday at 4 p.
m. at Trading Ford Baptist church,
near Spencer. He is survived by his
ivife, three daughters, Mrs. George
Miler and Mrs. Lacy Barber, of
opencer, Mrs. W. B. Eller, of Duke
ville, one son, Raymond of Spencer,
three sisters, Mrs. G. C. Kesler, Mrs.
Jack Stone, and Mrs. Callie Free
nan, the latter of Durham, and by
one brother, Charles Iddings of East
opencer. Mr. Iddings was a mem
ber of the Junior Order at Spencer,
the P. O. S. of A., and the Painters
Craft.
Loans Shrink;
Deposits Rise
Washington. — Despite adminis
tration pleas, loans by member
banks of the federal reserve system
were shown to have decreased
$800,000,000 during 1934 as com
pared to the previous year.
This report was made by the
federal reserve board in its monthly
bulletin, along with figures that
member bank deposits rose $6,
000,000 in 1934.
Deposits at the year’s end were
$33,848,000,000, while "adjusted
deposits,” which eliminates those
of the government as well as postal
savings and inter-bank balances,
were $24,952,000,000, for an in
crease of slightly more than $4,
000,000 for the 12 months.
Deposits wejre $37,980,683,000
at the end of the peak period on
December 31, 1929.
The "loans and investments” ac
count of the banks showed an in
crease of $2,930,000,000 during
the year, reflecting chiefly a gain
of $2,650,000,000 in investments
in government securities, and an
increase of $900,000,000 in paper
wholly guaranteed by the govern
ment.
TWO KANNAPOLIS MEN
SLAIN
Brady and Babe Medlin, aged 33
and 35, were fatally shot Saturday
night by Louis (Runt) Shinn, in a
store at Kannapolis. Bad feelings
had existed between the Medlin
brothers and Shinn for some time,
and when the quarrel was renewed
Shinn fired the shots that instantly
killed the two men. Shinn is in the
Kannapolis jail, and is quoted as
having confessed to the crime.
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Salisbury Safe
Robbers Wanted
In Statesville
Statesville.—George Collins and
Robert Hares, caught in the act of
boring a safe in a department store
in Salisbury are wanted in States
ville on a number of charges of
safe robbery.
Local policemen, who have been
working on the case during the
past winter, are convinced Collins
and Hares are the yeggs who rob
bed the big safe in Fraley’s grocery
store on the night of October 6,
1934; and then returned to States
ville on the night of October 20
and opened office safes in Ramsey -
Bowles department store and New
berry’s five and ten cent store, get
ting a quantity of cash from each
store. Another attempt was made
to rob Newberry’s on the night of
December 8, 1934.
NEWS
BRIEFS
WOMAN KILLED, 6 CARS
SMASHED IN ACCIDENTS
Laurinburg.—A woman was fat
ally injured and six automobiles
smashed in week-end wrecks
throughout Scotland county.
Martha McLeod, 8 3-year-old ne
gro woman, died soon after her au
tomobile and the automobile of Joe
Deberry, negro of north Scotland
county, were in head-on collision.
GIFTS PRESENTED CHURCH
A beautiful memorial stained
glass window, the central figure be
ing of Christ and depicting Him as
the Good Shepherd, and a pair of
handsome candleabra, the gift of
the family, were dedicated Sunday
at the historic Christ Episcopal
church at Cleveland in memory of
the late Archdeacon William H.
Hardin, rector of the church from]
1926 until his sudden death in
1934.
CABARRUS STORM DAMAGE
ESTIMATED AT $75,000
Concord.—Belated reports reach- :
ing Concord from storm-stricken :
sections of the county indicate that ,
Monday’s tornado did damage of ,
more than $75,000. Five communi
ties were in the storm’s path and ,
property owners checking on their
losses found crops ruined, homes
and farm buildings damaged or de- ,
stroyed, forest almost depleted in
spots, and farm lands corroded and
gullied by the torrential rains.
Kepair worK is unaer way at
the Jackson Training School, the
damage there being estimated at
$2 5,000. Roofs on the 16 cottages
and administration building werej
badly torn, walls and ceilings were
practically ruined by watetj and
hail, the grandstand was partially
demolished and the 2-ton electric
sign over the highway is only a
mass of twisted tin and steel.
CHARLOTTE VOTES SCHOOL
TAX
Charlotte voted two to one in
favor of the supplemented 2 5-cent
school tax Saturday. This tax will
be applied to raising the salary of
teachers and to increase the stan
dard of the city public schools.
RANDOLPH WOMAN KILLED
Mrs. James Venable, 3 5, of route
one, Asheboro, met death in an au
tomobile accident at High Point'
Sunday afternoon, and Mrs. S. E.
Venable of Asheboro was seriously
if not fatally injured, and others of
the party sustained more or less
serious injuries.
The prevailing idea about inter
national peace held in most coun
tries is that such peace is a very
good thing, provided one’s own
country is always allowed to have
its own way about everything.
Denies "Overthrow” Talks
CHICAGO . , . John Strachey,
British author, (above), who faced
deportation charges here of advo
, eating the overthrow of the Ameri
can government in his lecture tour
He denied the charges
Western Girl Sets Great Rifle Shooting Record
— . • ... -- ■«urt88S^%>^ ———
SEATTLE . . . Miss Shirley Frazer (above), co-ed at the University
of Washington, bussed by one shot the all time record in rifle shooting'
to become 1935 champion. She shot six rounds of 100 shots as follows.’
100, 100, 100, 99, 99, 100 .. or, 598 out of a possible 6Q0.
Wallace Roils
Textile Trade
Washington.—Fast moving deve
lopments Wednesday night found
the cotton textile industry more
disturbed than at any time since
the general strike last September.
Within 24 hours after NRA, in a
move calculated to avert wholesale
closing of cotton mills, issued an
crder providing for production
curtailment over a 12 weeks’ period,
Secretary Wallace announced at a
press conference there was probabil
ity the cotton processing tax would
ce increased, rather than lowered as
demanded by textile communities.
Wallace’s statement brought
down the indignation of New Eng
and house members. A move was
aunched for a conference of the
New England delegation to pre
care a censuring resolution to be
;ent to Wallace and to be presented
:o both houses of congress.
Labor already was directing its
ire at the NRA for its order pro
viding for production curtailment
ind announced it would demand
rom the national recovery board
t reopening of the cotton textile j
rode and a new, impartial survey:
>f the entire industry.
wViir.h in-*
:ensed representatives of mill com-1
nunities, asserted that the cotton
:extile . industry periodically be- j
:ame overstocked and declared: |
"At this time they think it is >
sopular to come out with this out
:ry (against the processing tax)
Wallace said imports of Japanese
doth were not as great at the pres
et time as they were 10 or 11 years |
>g°. !
"In view of the present price of'i
:otton,” he said, "it is much more I
arobable that we would have an j
ncrease in the processing tax rath
:r than a reduction.”
Later, the AAA in a statement
:ontended that the manufacturers
margins between the price of cot
:on and selling prices were higher
it the peak point in August than
it any other time since 1925.
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MISSING YOUTH’S (BODY
FOUND IN YADKIN RIVER
Mt. Airy.—The body of Ker
mit Marion, 25, Crutchfield youth
was, found in the Yadkin river a
mile north of Crutchfield Satur
day. The youth had been missing
since Wednesday night. He was
fishing with several companions,
and failed to return with them.
They said they left him sitting on
the bank of the river. After an
autopsy was performed, it was stat
ed no evidence of foul play was
found.
Would Wrestle Boxer
NEW YORK . .. Dan O ’Mahoney
(above), Ireland’s heavyweight mat;
champion, now wrestling here, says j
he will accept the Baltimore offer;
to meet Max Baer in a finish match, j
Baer to box and he to wrestle, if the,
boxing champ is interested. Baer
has been offered :
match.. ' 1
Rushing Waters
Sweep Little Girl
Through Culvert
Frances Louise Morris, seven-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Morris, narrowly escaped death
Monday afternoon when she was
swept through a drain culvert 50
yards long following heavy rains
shortly after noon.
The little girl was returning
home from school and was on East
Innes street extension. Rushing
waters filled the drainage ditch
parallel to the highway, and over
flowed the road. She slipped and
fell into the ditch and the swirling
water swept her into the pipe.
J. E. Minton, who lives nearby,
saw the child fall, raced to the
other end of the pipe and waded
into water nearly waist deep to
grab the girl as she came shooting
out of the culvert.
LEGAL NOTICES
MORTGAGE SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
By virtue of authority contained
in a certain mortgage deed of trust,
dated January 2, 1932, and regist
ered in the Register’s office of Row
an County in Book of Mortgages
118, page 159, from Sarah Cauble
to T. K. Carlton, Trustee, default
having been made in the payment
of the note secured thereby, and re
quest of foreclosure having been
made by the holder of said note,
the undersigned Trustee will sell
at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, at the Court House
door in Salisbury, N. C., on Satur
day, April 20, 1935, at 12 o’clock,
Noon, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Lying and being in the Great
East Ward of Salisbury, N. C., be
ginning at the corner of Council
and Clay Streets, and running
thence Southeast with Council
Street 13 8 ft. more or less, to M.
M. Woodward’s corner; thence
Southwest, with M. M. Woodward’s
line, 18 ft., more or less; thence S.
W. 62 ft., more or less, with M. M.
Woodward’s line to an off-set;
thence S. W. 18 ft., more or less, to
Julian’s line; thence N. W. with
Julian’s line, 71 ft. more or less, to
Clay Street; thence with Clay
Street, N. E. 50 ft., more or less, to
the beginning.
For back title see deed from W.
R. Lefler and wife, Lela Lefler, to
Jacob A. Cauble and wife, Sarah
Cauble, registered in Book of Deeds
for Rowan County No. 110, page
24.
This property is being sold sub
ject to all taxes and other liens
which might be against the same.
Bidder at this sale is required to de
posit 10 per cent of the amount of
his bid.
This 20th day of March, 1935.
T. K. Carlton, Trustee.
March 29—April 19.
NOTICE TO OWNER OF FORD
CAR SEIZED WHILE CONVEY-!
ING INTOXICATING LIQUORS
Notice is hereby given that John
R. Beaver, Deputy Sheriff of Row
an County, seized a Ford Touring
Car, motor No. A 1633271, License
No. 223156, on the 7th day of
March 1935 at or near Saw on the
Mooresville Road, which said car
contained 2 5 gallons of intoxicating
liquors.
Notice is further given, that, un
less the owner claims said car within
ten days after the 12 th day of April
1935, the property will be sold ac
cording to law.
This the 27th day of March, 1935.
J. H. Krider,
Sheriff of P-owan County, North
Carolina. Mar. 29.—April 5
For an absent member of the
Watchman, $1.00 a year.
Red Snow Blankets Turkey;
Populace Thrown Into Panic
Istanbul, Turkey.—Red snow
fell in northeastern Turkey March
22, blanketing an area of approxi
mately 100 square miles one inch
deep in ruddy flakes.
Superstitious residents of the
area were thrown into a panic, say
ing it presaged disaster.
The whole countryside assum
ed a brick-red hue as a result of the
phenomenon, the cause of which
was not determined.
Red snow and red rain are well
established phenomenia, which have
been traced frequently to their
sources. These sources are usually
dust storms, of red earth. More
rarely the red coloring may be due
to vegetation such as pollens or to
swarms of insects’ bodies.
A pecularity of red snow and
red rain is that the dust storm
which causes it does not necessarily
have to be apparent to the person
who is startled by the red downfall.
In Australia rains have been
traced to dust storms a thousand
or more miles from the location of
the rain, and before the precipita
tion revealed its presence the dust
cloud had lost its identity.
AVIATION CLUB FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS
Boys and girls who want to
learn to fly, build model planes
and study all about aviation should
join the JUNIOR BIRDMEN OF
AMERICA. Beautiful pins are
worn by members. Read full de
tails in the BALTIMORE SUN
DAY AMERICAN. Your favorite
newsdealer has your copy.
WHY WOMEN CRY
Prof. Donald A. Laird explains
reason given by science for the
deep-seated organic differences
which make men behave so differ
ently from women. One of many
interesting stories in the American
Weekly, issue of April 7, the big
magazine which comes every Sun
day with the BALTIMORE AMER
ICAN.
The American diet is said to be
faulty, and anyway the American
boy says he does not get enough
pie.
Special Services
A series of special services began
it the Associate Reformed Presby
terian church on Wednesday even
ing. Services are being held each
evening at 7:30 o’clock. There
will be an afternoon service today
at 3:30 o’clock. Dr. Paul Pressly
who is preaching on this occasion is
a college and seminary classmate of
the pastor, Rev. Gilbreth L. Kerr.
He is a brother of J. H. Pressly of
Statesville who was largely instru
mental in organizing the Salisbury
congregation of the denomination.
The public is cordially invited to
worship in these services.
Announcements
FOR CITY COUNCILMAN
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of City Councilman,
subject to the Democratic Primary
to be held on April 29th.
The citizens of Salisbury know
of my interest and pride in its civic
development. If elected, I will
consider it my conscientious duty
to give a fair deal to all, to reduce
taxes and to work for the welfare
and best interest of the entire citi
zenship of Salisbury.
FOR COUNCILMAN
I hereby announce my candidacy
for councilman of the city of Sal
isbury, subject to the Democratic
Primary to be held April 29. If
elected, I pledge to exert every ef
fort possible to effect an econom
ical and efficient operation of all
departments of our city govern
ment.
Your vote and, support will be
appreciated.
U. RAY MILLER,
119 W. Thomas St., Salisbury, N.
C.
The girls are trying for more
glamor, but some of them have so
much of it that any eligible bachelor
(vho comes within speaking distance
>f them, is likely to find himself
married to them before he recovers
:onsciousness.
BELK-HARRY CO.’S
End of Month Sale
of
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ine Tailored Coats
and Suits now on
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Sizes 12 to 44
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‘astels, Polka Dots
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