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In "Mercy Killing" News of the Week | Bridgeport, Conn ‘p'raScig6 physidai^whj' admifiw°” svsftiffsjs.*&^knnrB'y,b;”?“'“f • trial nn a “moMo ljiv ,, •pinKowsKi, 3<s, of Detroit who is facing stTA-B&s's^raf jsj-*. **»»«>*» •» *4 Building Boom Being Forecast Authority Predicts That 1935 Will See Con struction Double New York.—Current statistics and opinion of trade authorities indicate the foundation is in place for the oft-predicted building boom in the United States. For the first 10 months of this year, residential contracts ran some 84 per cent ahead of the same period in 1934. Non-residen tial contract awards for all of 1935 are estimated at 5.7 per cent over 1934. Public works for 10 months this year ran 20 per cent behind the 1934 comparable period but October showed a 43 per cent spurt above the same period last year. Standard Statistics company in a survey said, "It seems certain a building boom is on the way.” "All great recovery cycles in this country have been alike in that the marked expansion of pub lic purchasing power has stimulat ed generous spending to reestablish comfortable living conditions,” it said. Another segment of the build ing trade exhibiting remarkable strides is industrial construction and modernization. Statistics pub lished in the magazine Business ** - Week show the total was 94 per h cent higher in the hrst 10 months this year than for a year ago. Foundaries appear as the leader of the entire group with a' gain of 454 per cent over last year. Pub lic utility and power plants in creased construction and rehabili tation by 283 per cent. "The influence of the govern ment in assisting the building in dustry is beginnig to be felt,” said Standard. It is believed by most observers that the greatest expansion dur ing 1936 is due in residential building because of a growing shortage of suitable houses and apartments and because rents have advanced in many parts of the nation to the point where householders feel they can save money by building. There is a gradual increasing amount of money ready and willing to be in vested in such construction, the survey indicated. "In view of the various forces which are operating for the 'rise in 1936, it would not be surpris ing to see a doubling of the 1935 volume of residential building to fully $900,000,000,” Standard predicted. Route One Items H. Morgan motored to Moores ville the latter part of the week. Hubert Lyerly visited Lloyd Powlas on Monday, the second. C. H. Weiser called on M. L. Jost the first. A majority of the farmers in :his vicinity have killed fine hogs. Mrs. W. D. Myers had as guest aver Thanksgiving her brothers, Messrs. Leggins with wife and chil dren from Virginia. Little Billie Myers of Route 1, spent the past week with his grand mother, Mrs. J. H. Myers, of Sal isbury. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Myers, with their children and grandchil dren, celebrated the Thanksgiving season by enjoying dinner together at their home near Second Creek. The men and boys are taking advantage o fthe hunting privilege and many fine rabbits have been killed and trapped. Many Cars Sold In State During Year Raleigh.—Automobiles sold in North Carolina during the pre sent year, if placed end to end, would be as long as the milage of all hard surfaced highways con structed in the nation during the same year, General Counsel Charles Roos, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, has found. In other words, the high ways constructed in the year gives just space enough for parking in a single line all automobiles sold this year. —READ THE WATCHMAN— *****{.>{.**55..* *' ABLE TO TALK AFTER * * ORDEAL IN WELL * _ » North Wilkesbor'o.—His 10 * days imprisonment without * * food and water in a 2 5-foot * dry.well left life hanging pre- * * ciously for Robert Dyson, 42, * but physicians believed he * * would recover. * * He roused from a coma * * long enough to speak halt- * ingly of, the 10 days of tor- * * ture he suffered. * * "Mostly I prayed,” he said i:' * "I prayed to God to send * * somebody to find me.” * * His nurse held a glass of * * water for him. * * "I’d have given a hundred * * dollars for that,” he said, the * * ghost of a smile on his tortur- * * ed features. * * A sharp-nosed hound led to * * discovery of Dyson in the * * well into which he fell Nov- * * ember 22. A group of boys * * rambling past an old sawmill * * site with their dogs were at- * * tracted to the well <when one * * of the animals showed inter- * * est in it. * * Looking down it, the boys * * saw what they thought was * * the body of some killer’s vie- * * tim and called Sheriff W. B. * * Somers and Coroner I. M. * * Myers. The officers pulled * * the unconscious Dyson from * * the well and found him still * * alive. * ********** 2 FOR 1 OFFER- / s? 2 ROYAL I T « • OOMPLETE ElectricVacuum Cleaners 1 I Both $0050 II jjg: For CPt-T In ACTUAL S51.50 VALUE rkn ■•wTht «m «« 98 H HMI" ku4 fllMMf I ■I lass h £3^3 life p®^ T. M. CASEY 320 N. Main St. Phone 204 * * * * * * » * » 3 CAT STORY, THIS TIME 3 3 Wilson.—A pretty Persian 3 3 cat brought the Wilson depart 3 3 ment out. The cat ran up a 3 3 a tall tree four days ago on 3 3 West Green street here and 3 3 apparently had been too scar- 3 3 ed to come down. Yesterday 3 3 morning a call came to the 3 3 fire department that the cat 3 3 had been up there in the tree 3 3 for three days and had refus- 3 3 ed to come down. Something, 3 3 the phone call said, should be 3 3 done about it. 3 3 The Wilson firemen, always 3 3 ready to comply with requests 3 3 from persons in distress, dis- 3 3 patched a hook and ladder 3 3 truck to the scene and saved 3 3 the cat from starvation in the 3 3 tree. 3 3 The owner of the cat could 3 3 not be found. 3 * * * * * * * -s * * Cress Grange Elects Officers Cress Grange met Friday night, November 29th in regular weekly meeting with an averrage crowd present. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: Master, J. F. Cress, Overseer, E. W. Weaver, Lecturer, Mrs. J. F. Cress, Steward, Baxter Weant, As sistant Steward, John E. Cress, Chaplain, C. R. Menius, Secretary Treasury, Mrs. Cornie Allman, Gate Keeper, Kenneth Cress, Ceres, Mrs. J. B. Speck, Pomona, Mrs. C. R. Menius, Flora, Mrs. I. Ross Cress, Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. E. W. Weaver, Member Executive Com mittee, I. Ross Cress, Business Agent, J. R. Cress, Matron Juvenile Grange, Mrs. J. R. Cress. Juvenile Officers elected as follows: Master, Dward Cress, Overseer, Alice Lewis, Lecturer, Bobby Menius, Steward, Herman Weant, Assistant. .Steward, Billie Allman, Chaplain, David Cress, Secretary-Treasurer, Fay Cress, Gate Keeper, Don Jones, Ceres, Carrie Louise Safriet, Pomona Martha Cress, Flora, Pauline Cress, Lady Assistant Steward, Lucile Jones. Hint F. R. To Go To Convention Washington.—A source close to the White House hinted that Presi dent Roosevelt might attend the 1936 Democratic national conven tion. Asked if the party leaders desired to have the convention held in an eastern city, this spokesman said: "Maybe.The President might want to go, and he would not want to travel too far.” Philadelphia has been under con sideration by Democratic leaders, it ‘ was learned, but the question of money remains a prime consid eration in the choice of the host city. The 1932 convention was held in Chicago, where a citizens commit tee raised '$200,0(10. Other bid ders that year were Kansas City, Mo., Atlantic City, and San Fran cisco. Indications have been received at Democratic headquarters that St. Louis, Mo., would join the 1932 bidders in seeking next year’s con vention. NEWS BRIEFS HI-YAH! Wilson.—What was once the smallest baby ever to be born in Wilson county is now so roly poly and fat that she is called "Mae West” by attendants at a local hospital. Betty Lou Jones, four-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Jones of Bailey, who only weighed two pounds when she was born now tips the scales at nine pounds, and has so many curves that she has earned the nickname of "Mae” at the hospital. She is getting along fine, doctors say, after having been brought up in a homemade incubator, JOBLESS SEEK DIVIDENDS Calgary.—Anxious to register for a dividend of $25 per month if and when it is granted, scores of single jobless men from all parts of Canada are drifting into Calgary and Edmonton daily. OTTAWA, Can. » . . Leo Carroll, 14, (above), member of the Boys’ Calf Club, broke all records in win ning the Grand Championship in the open classes of the Winter Livestock Fair here with his 10-month old shorthorn heifer, Blywood Roan Lady 23. Two first awards and a cup were also won in class competition. C. H. Colbeth Buys Interest In Local Firm Mr. C. H. Colbeth has purchas ed an interest in the Kenerfy^ Parker men’s clothing store at 113 S. Main street, and the business is now known as the Kenerly-Col beth company. Mr. Colbeth is a resident of Salisbury and is experienced in men’s furnishings. He has been employed with the North Caro lina Finishing Company at Yadkin for the past several years. Herman Kenerly, who is well known to the public is remaining with the firm. Enlarged stock is the main improvement being made in the store. _ -■ r Machen Wins Free Trip To New York Cops Grand Prize In Amateur Contest Pur cel 1*8 Offer Award George Machen, competing with eight other weekly winners of "Amateur Hour” at the State Theater, last Monday night, Nov ember 25, won the free trip to New York City, which was offer ed as the grand prize by Purcell’s drug stores, sponsors of the con test. The "Amateur Hour” was held every Monday evening for eight consecutive weeks on the stage of the State. Two Catawba students won first prizes of $5.00 at the weekly competition for their ex cellent talent. George Machen se cured the first award once for his brilliant interpretation at the piano of popular numbers, and Edna Bowman at another time was vic torious when sher executed with finished skill a difficult composi tion for the violin. A committee of four judges a warded George the grand prize for his playing of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” "12th Street Rag,” and "Tiger Rag.” He may take the trip to New York, with all expen ses paid, at =»ny time he chooses. Girls Just Don’t Grow Legs Now Moans Londoner London—The trouble in England today is legs. And with the Christmas pan tomime season coming on, it has set London theatrical managers to brooding darkly. "Girls just don’t grow legs now adays,” said Frank Rubens, who is trying to get together a cast for a “Cinderella” pantomime. "I ask for a girl, and what do I get? Oh, I get legs, all right, 'piano’ legs. All kinds of legs. Millions of them. But—all bad. He shuddefled. He chugged morosely at a black cigar and peer ed through the smoke in Dantesque gloom. "It’s awful,” he said. "A girl maybe has the voice, and may-, be she’s got the figure too, but she falls down on her legs "So the first thing I have to do, I have to ask her if she has any legs. That’s what I want to know Legs! Well, it’s got so I cant even remember when I last saw a girl with a real pair of legs. It was a long time ago, he said sadly, "A long time ago.” Legs, according to Rubens, must be perfectly straight—for panto mime purposes. They mustn’t be v-shaped above the knees, and more important, they definitely must not be k-shaped below. Casting agents are having trouble to spare trying to find the right kinds of legs for 25 panto produc tions of "Cinderella” and ten of "Dick Whittington.” —READ THE WATCHMAN— Drunken Drivers Are Warned To Give Right Name Raleigh.—Capt. Charles Farmer of the State Highway patrol warn ed motorists who have been ar rested for driving cars under in fluence of intoxicants that they will subject themselves to a large fine and possible imprisonment by using false names on court records or police blotters. ; Farmer said several such cases had been called to attention of the patrol officers. A man when ar rested, he said, would give some fictitious name, knowing no such record was on file in Raleigh, and would run the risk of a small fine for not possessing a driver’s li cense rather than take a chance on conviction and having his permit in his real name revoked. “If the courts will co-operate with us we intend to clamp down on this sort of thing and will in sist on stiff penalties as allowed by law,” Farmer said. / Mail Is Heavy At ‘Christmas' Christmas, Fla. — Without a reindeer or a flake of snow this community is claiming fame once more for the only "Christmas” postmark in the world. And from far places cards and packages already are coming here to be stamped and mailed again by "Mrs. Santa Claus.” The Christmas, Fla., postoffice was established June 27, 1892, 57 years taUfer tHe community Was founded. There used to be post offices at Christnjas, Ariz., and Christmas, jKy., but thetfe have been abandoned. Three years ago on Christmas day, comely Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker r%deived her Commission as postmaster, and became head of the office in a country store. At this time of the year she’s known as "Mrs. Santa Claus” and she receives cards, letters and packages from all parts of the world for remailing with her "Christmas” postmark. Last year at this time the mail I began pouring in so rapidly that' Uncle Sam allowed her to employ other women as assistants. They stamped and remailed more than 15,000 pieces of yuletide mail. This year they expect to be busier still. Traveling Around America — ■ ■ - —" —. ——“—— — .. -rnoto urace L,ttte ■■ — PLACE WHERE THE SUN WAS TIED HERE Is the giant sun dial with which the Incas measured5 their seasons -the “lnti-huatana,” or “place where the sun was tied." The shadow cast by the cone on the stone platform beneath formed the basis of the ancient Indian method of reckoning time. The lnti-huatana in varying forms is found in many of the dead cities which have been unearthed in Peru —the one shown above is part of the ruins of Kenco scattered over a high hill east of Cuzco, ancient cap) tal of the Incas. Cuzco is fast com ing to the front as an archeological center and—particularly since it has been made so easily accessible by the weekly 39-day Peru cruises to Cuzco -is becoming a popular meeca not only for scientists but for the globetrotters as well. The outstanding characteristic of Cuzco is its walls made of huge stones cut and fitted togther in some mysterious manner without the use of sharp instruments, mor tar or cement. Other ruins iiihlude stone seats, remnants of baths, archways and staircases, the fa mous Rodadero, a steep naturally grooved rock used by the Incas as a toboggan slide long before the Spaniards arrived; and the “Throne of the Inca,” a rounded-off rock with steps cut into it on either side \ha vantage point from which, it is said, the Inca and his engineers directed the construction of the fortress of Sacsah uama n. N. C. May Get Will Rogers Institution Establishment somewhere in western North Carolina of an in stitution for handicapped children as one of the units of the Will Rogers memorials will be proposed when the national memorial com mittee meets to make plans. Already suggestions that the committee be asked to give ade-i quate consideration to the North Carolina mountain area as the lo cation of an institution for chil dren and it is felt that from vir tually every consideration that sec tion is ideally situated for such a. purpose. There alfc already p^riv^te in stitutions and numerous public hospitals of one sort and another in the mountain region, whose climate is perhaps unequalley in eastern America, and persons who have proposed that this section be chosen feel the committee will be disposed to place such an institu tion somewhere in the southern Appalachian mountains. The mem orial campaign runs through De cember 14 and shortly afterward^ according to previous announce ments, the committee will meet and begin consideration vof plan* for establishing the memorials. —Buy In Salisbury— Yale University, at New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1701. .. 7 ■ ' - NOTICE TO CREDITORS > Having qualified as Administra tor of the estate of Ellen R. Schenck, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the said decedent to file an itemized, veri fied statement of same with the undersigned on or before the 10th day of December, 1936, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Persons indebted to said estate are notified to make prompt settlement. This December 6» 1933. J. D. SCHENCK, Aministrator of the Estate of Ellen R. Schenck Rt. No. 1, Salisbury, N. C. Woodsoni & Woodson, A ttys. i 6—j 10. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor >f the estate of Jane Holmes, this s to notify all persons having :laims against the said decedent to ile an itemized, verified statement jf same with the undersigned on jr before the 10th day of Decem ber, 1936, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Persons indebted to said estate are notified to make prompt (settle ment. This December 4th, 1933. Joseph Clinton Holmes, Executor jf die Estate of Jane Holmes. Louis Clement, Attorney. Dec. 6—Jan. 10. ANNOUNCEMENT \ v, of Interest to Men t \ We wish to inform the public that Mr. C. H. Col beth has purchased the interest of Mr. Charles Parker in the men’s store known as Kenerly-Park er Company, and in the future the firm will be known as Kenerly-Colbeth Co. Our stock has been greatly enlarged and we’re ready to supply your needs when choosing your Ghristmar gifts for “Him.” Kenerly-Colbeth Co. j "THE FRIENDLY CHRISTMAS STORE” "Herm” Kenerly "Clem” Colbeth /
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