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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—
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*' ABLE TO TALK AFTER *
* ORDEAL IN WELL
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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. *
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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