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..THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, MAY 17, 1914. 20tlh May Celebration Visitors ur Stor e w dliir Moon ONE WEEK OF BARGAIN GIVING Specially Purchased. o eek y rnce 4t 4 for 0. DRESSES 500 BEAUTIFUL SUMMER DRES SES Voiles and Crepes values up to $12.50 will be on sale during the week at $6.95 100 SILK COAT SUITS The latest models the kind you usually pay S25.00 and $30.00 our May week price $14.75 500 SHIRT "WAISTS Crepes and Voiles white, pink, blues values up to $1.50 May week price 89c SILK .PETTICOATS wonderful values, beautiful styles $1.98 SILK KIMONAS Special .... $2.9S 200 BEAUTIFUL Lingerie Gowns, fully worth $1.50 will be on sale at 98c v t J Notion Department A big lot of Pearl Buttons in two and four holes, at per dozen . . ... . 5c Try our new Garment Shield and bust supporter, best quality at, aech $1.00 Tango and Justrite Dress Shields at, a pair 50c One lot of Scissors, regular 25c, price for this week, a pair. 19c During May 20th week only, we will sell ladies' , Silk Hose in black and white, $1.00 quality for .... . . 89c Ladies' Long Silk Gloves in black, and white extra value for, a pair $1.00 New Sash Ribbons in fancy and Moirie assorted colors and prices. One lot of ladies' Hand Bags assor ted colors a special number for each .... 98c Ladies' gauze vests extra good quality worth 15c sale price for this week only, each .. " . 9c Baby Dolls, the hard to break kind worth $1.00 and 50c price for this week, each 69c and 29c Persian and fancy ribbons, assorted colors worth 85c to close out the lot this week, your choice a yard, only ...... . . 19c t t 4-4 mmmmmmmrmt 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 t 4 .4- 4 4- - t 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 X 4 4 4- 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4- 4 4 4- 4 4 4 4 4 y 4 " 4 ' 4 , . 4 4 4 4 t MILLINERY Several hundred, beautifully trim med summer Hats t $2.50 to $5.00 Toilet Department A few specials in this department, a large size can of Corylopsis Talcum Powder, worth 25c our special price a can, only . ... . . .. . . . .... 19C A Wash Rag in a pretty case, a spe cial value for . . . .. .... ...... 10c Colgate's and Mennen's Talcum Pow der, all the odors at a box . ... 15c Sub-Floor Specials Wonderful values always to be found on this floor in Rugs, Carpets, Mattings, Linoleums, Curtains, Por tiers, Curtain Poles, etc., etc. By all means visit this department before leaving our st6re we will save you money. 4 f 4 t" 4 4 t - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4: 4 4 . 4 4 '4 4 4 4 4 t 4 I 4 4 .4 4 4 4 66e LItt!e-LoiM Co. H6e L aftlle1 L o. CO-OPERATIVE TELEPHONE SYSTEM, (Cleveland Star.) From the tone of a half page ad rtisement in The Landmark some .5 telephone corporation is trying to -t a hold in Statesville. That town : the distinction of having perhaps !.;ort- telephones per capita than any A:-r city of the fame size in the S i.:tL. in the city alone are 95t i:o:ie.; ard more than COO free ctions ere given in the county .1 Iredell. Bc-in- purely a home com ;any it shows the splendid spirit of j-c:-eration that exists in the com r.unity. The rates of the home com any phones are at out the same as ;:: Shelby, yet the system is more tip-i-.-date and the connections are about i v ice as many. Iredell county with The telephone and Catawba with the vreamery, rural credits and co-opera tive marketing are teaching other counties -of the state the proper spirit of co-operation and the lesson is having more or less effect all over the state. THE BETTER FISHERMAN OF THE TWO. Mr. Arch Prevatt thinks he one of the fishingest men, but his wife put it over on him one day recently. Mr. Prevatt says they were fishing side by side and his wife was pulling them to beat the band, while he was net doing anything but fish. He asked his wife to change sides with him, but after they had changed places she continued to pull them till ehe had landed 10 nice ones, while he had only brought one puny little cat not much longer than a man's finger to the shore. Mr. Pre vatt don't quite understand. 4 I Ofe'ii Wi A Getting Married This June? Let us GROOM THE BRIDE. Ethics on correct dress for all occasions glad ly furnished. At all times, "LET HUMMEL BE YOUR TAILOR." 15 S. Tryon St P. ommencement Flowers Roses, Valley, Sweet Peas, Carnations, Baskets, Bouquets, and many effective floral arrangements for the graduate. Scholtz, jlfTL. Inc f'hans 1443. SCS N." Tryon St. WEEKLY 1 IVEATHER CROP REPORTS TUESDAY ! In addition to the regular work of issuing forecasts of the weather flood and storm warnings, and the collect ing and tabulating of cliniatological data, the United States weather bu reau is soon, to take on an additional feature which will doubtle s prove of great interest to all growers and deal ers in agricultural products. This is the collection of data in regard to growing crops as affected by the weather, and the distribution of the same after it has been properly edited and summarized. The effects of weather on crops is so great that it is impossible to give a full description of the condition of either for a given period without touching on the other. Realizing this close relationship between crops and weather, the weather bureau will initiate during the coming week a plan for gathering and disseminating information in regard to the growing crops, during the crop season. A number of reporters, usually far mers or people interested in agricul tural advancement, will report from each portion c- county of each state to his own st '"on center which is usually located . the state capital, the general result of the week's weather on crop development in his own locality. These reports will be made at each week-end. The data con tained In these reports will be sum marized at the section centers and then telegraphed to the central offlce of the weather bureau at Washing ton. There, a general summary of the information will be compiled and telegraphed to the distributing centers in each state early on Tuesday, where it will be made public at the noon hour, and published on the regular bureau bulletins for public distribu tion. As the local office of the weather bureau publishes daily a cotton region bulletin for the information of those interested in growing conditions over the cotton belt, it is expected that this information will be received regularly for publication with that compendium of weather information which is much valued by cotton growers and dealers. In these weekly reports, "no at tempt will be made to give the so called 'condition' in percentage of the average or of the normal, but rather it is desired to report the present state of the crop and just what the effect of the week's weather has been on its growth, whether satisfactory or un satisfactory and to what extent, and the contributing cause." It is hoped that these reports will be received in time to be given to the readers of The News each Tues day afternoon. city mm MOMENT IS WORLD WIDE (By CHAS. MULFORD ROBINSON) Author or "The Width and Arrange ment of Streets: A. Study in Town Planning." (Exclusive Service The Survey Press Burefau.) A famous Enslish landscaDe archi tect has just been summoned to Greece to make a city plan tor Athens, me ! exnlanation is tliat Athens; has been (' experiencing that growth wrhich in rec ent years nas Deen so marjsea a ieaiure of city life throughout the world. She finds it necessarv to provide ampler facilities for her crowding traffic, new and shortened avenues to suburban residence districts that are growing up around her. more and larger parks for a larger population from whom the growing city ' has been pushing the country further and further away, Athens' Modern Problem. Athens has been brought face to face with the common, world-wide problem. She could be no more exempt from it than is the railroad junction on the prairie, the mining town of Wales, the clean industrial city of Ger many. She has naa to sena ior tne city planner, as Topeka lately did; as Calgary, Canada, as Houston Texas, and as staid New Haven did. Everywhere, the growing city has to meet the problem of readjustment. The boy, putting on long trousers, tases thought as to his future and is better for doing so. It is equally well, and normal for the city to do these things and all kinds of cities all over the world are doing it. So it has come about that what is called city planning has developed into one of those rare and epoch-marking world-movements that are the great milestones of history and that influ ence civilization. For hundreds and hundreds of years cities had been cramped inside of en compassing walls. The people were hud died together for defense, and growth of population meant an ever-closer crowding. There were no cleared spac es then for playgrounds and parks. The very streets were narrowed to the limit, many becoming no more . than mere slits between the walls. This was possible because the towns, being of such restricted area and doing al most no manufacturing, had very little vehicle traffic. If a person rode anywhere, he went on horseback; but it was not too far to walk wherever one wanted to go, and there wTas little freight to be transportfed. City Expansion. Then, very suddenly, there came a series' of events that were dramatic in their cumulative effect upon the city. The engirdling walls were shaken down, and the city could expand. At the same moment there was a develop ment of manufacturing and a building of railroads, that hi-oozM into the a cities a rush of population, that forced expansion and choked their streets with freight. The cities had to expand; and the more area they covered, the greater, of course, became the use of vehicular transportation, necessitating new street adjustments. The city bounda ries were pushed further and further outward and as fast as they went the means of transportation improved. The slow and lumbering old stage, or 'bus. was followed by the horsecar, drawn more swiftly and smoothly upon rails. Then came ' the cable car, and then the trolley. A point four miles from j the center of town became as near by street, car as a point only one mile out had been. As the streets were ex tended mile upon mile, they created a need for parks and open spaces, and these in their turn, absorbing city land, hastened the town's expansion. Nowj the ' telephone and automobile have been developed, and are facilitating the outward march of the town. It hasj been well said that there has been more change in urban condition in the ,last 50 years than in the 2,000 years preceding. What wonder that such new and strange demands have swamped the fa cilities of "cities built on the old plan; what wonder that the new and more seriously studied science of city plan ning is suddenly finding a broad field of usefulness; what wonder that ci ties everywhere are calling for re adjustment, and calling the more loud ly as they are the more progressive? It is a proof of virility, not of weakness when a community takes up town plan ning. In Massachusetts, indeed, the legislature has enacted a law requiring every community of 10,000 or more pop ulation to have a planning board. Today's Pioneers City Planners. To the present generation there has been thus given the working out of a problem that is brand new: The plan ning of towns for demands that were undreamed of 20 years ago, the build ing of cities on a scale that must have seemed impossible a generation since. The pioneers of the last cen tury were the tamers of the wilder ness; the pioneers of the present are the builders of cities. In London, said John Burns, speaking late in 1913, up wards of 300,000 acres had been absorb ed in the urban area in the preceding six years and more than 1,100 streets had been constructed. From 25 to 40 per cent of all the land in the modern cities is account ed for by streets. In New York city., it was stated last summer, there were 2.677 miles of public" streets. The value of the land they occupied was es timated, with its improvements, at $9,469,000,000 "one-fourth as great as the value of all the farm land in the United States." If the city planners should find some way of platting streets that would effect a saving of as little as one per cent in their area, think of the high finance tha.t it would spell. One per cent for New York alone would have meant $94,690,000 and New York is only one city. The wise plan ning of towns is evidently , a big and vital problem, even aside from its effi ciency and social benefits which are the aspects of it of which one hears the most. . "To make cities," said Henry Drum mond "that is what we are here for. For the city is strategic. It makes the towns; the towns make the villages; the viHagp s jm a Kg, t&s eawxtxx. Le sho makes the city makes the world. After all. though men make cities, it is ci ties which make men. Whether our na tional life is great or mean, whether our social virtues are mature or stunt ed, whether our sons are moral or vicious, whether religion is possible or impossible, depends upon the city." That is the justification of city planning. A REAL PRESIDENT. MUCH BUILDING GOING ON. (Henderson Gold Leaf.) There was probably never another time in the history of Henderson when so much building and construe-' tion work was going on in the city I than right at the present, and prac tically all of it is of a highly credit able and substantial character. There are a sufficient number of good brick business houses in the course of con- struction at this time to make up the entire business section of a nice little; town of several hundred inhabitants,! and there are also a good number j of nice residences and dwellings going j up, although it is the constant misfor-j tune of Henderson to be .short in this ' respect. It would be interesting if noti surprising to almost any citizen of the town who does not go about very much to take a drive all over the city and see for himself just what is l now going on in the way of building operations. . 1 j (Greensboro Record.) President Arthur Lyon, of tha North Carolina League, is every inch a man. He has sent out a circular to the newspapers for publication showing just where he stands that he is going to have clean ball or know the reason why. He says the umpires have been instructed just what to do to have clean ball. Ha has told them ti stand no foolish ness; to put a kicker out of the game and to fine him. He advises the crazy fans to abuse him and not the um pires, for these gentlemen . are doing just what he told them they must do if the yexpect to hold their jobs. And in all this Mr. Lyon is to be commended. He knows as we all know that a man sitting even a few feet away from a base or the home plata cannot judge a play or a ball as well as the umpire who is right on the spot. ivien w no nave Deiier sense-win pass judgment on a decision when they are a hundred or two feet away and raise shinny if "they do not have their way. It is difficult, when an umpire, is right on the spot, to make a decision on very close plays. An umpire makes mtetakes; he can not avoid it, but when he is incom petent or crooked Mr. Lyon will see that he is discharged. mm- 1! Mi it Mi May we have the pleasure of show ing you? Our talking machine is out of or der we'll let the colors, patterns and fabrics converse with your eye. Novel ties in silk and linen, crepe, madras and percale. Cross stripes and tucked ef fect, soft or laundered cuffs. Prices $1.00 to $10.00. TheTate-BrownCo. 22 1
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