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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. FEBRUARY 11, 1919. i -- lVEY'S I Fillet Curtains . . . . Bobinet Curtains. . . IVEY'S IVEY'S First Arrivals of NEW SPRING OTWEA Are Very Attractive We show today some early shipments of very good looking Brown Oxfords and Pumps with either high or low heels at the pair $11.00 and $12.00 White Kid Pumps that are very new with medium heels are priced the pair $10.00 A group of new Patent Leather Pumps that are very smart lasts (medium French heels) are here now at the pair. ... $9.00 Help Wanted We would like to secure the services of three or four young women for part time work in our Lunchroom. Columbia Records Grow in Popularity Monthly Here is a mid-month list to be enjoyed while the evenings are long and the weather forces one to stay indoors: A Double-Face Nora Bayes Record 85c. Goodbye, France . . . '. . . . . . .Nora Bayes 2678 My Barney Lies Over the Ocean, Nora Bayes 85c Kiss Me Again Lashanska 7784& $1.00. Mother, Here's Your Boy.. ..Sterling Trio 2677 The Navy Will Bring Them Back Fields and Quartet 85c Kisses , Campbell and Burr 2676 I Found the End of a Rainbow Ash-85c Quad Madeleon. ..... . .French Army Band 2675 Le Tram . . . French Army Band 85c If It's a Record, We Have It. Home Fixings Draperies, Curtains and the like new lines inter estingly priced at Iveys now. . Scotch Madras for over-drapery, green, rose, mul berry, old blue, brown and gold, 36 inches wide -S1-00 yd- 30-inch Mercerized Reps in rose, green and blue, the yard. . .'. -.-$1-50 Fancy Cretonnes Big lot new Spring designs, medium and dark grounds at -45c, 59c and 68c yd Curtain Nets 36-inch and 40-inch widths, big range of patterns, cream and ecru. . . 28c and 50c yd. Plain Fillet Curtain Nets, ivory and ecru 50c and $1 yard. . Curtains (Ready-Made) Kew Spring stock Marquisette Curtains $2.50 and ,$3.00 ..$2.00 and $2.95 . $3.25 and $3.75 J. B. IVEY & CO; S O CIAL MRS. WILLIAMSON RETURNS HOME. . , Mrs. James L. "Williamson and in fant son, James L. 'Jr., have returned to their home, Box Hedge apartments, from the Presbyterian hospital. SOCIAL WORKERS WILL MEET IN RALEIGH THURSDAY. In connection with the meeting of the social service conference to be held in Raleigh this week, there will be several Smaller conferences for the intensive discussion of certain phases of social work which ,are .being in augurated in the state'. One of these will be led by Miss Annie Crutchfield, secretary of the Associated Charities here. Miss Amy Sheldon, secretary of the organized charity association of Goldsboro will speak on the family study committee, and Mrs. Blanche Carr of Greensboro will discuss the relation of the organ ization society to benevolent work. The Travellers' Aid secretaries of the principle cities of the state will get together for their annual meeting with their friends and supporters, and will have a full discussion of their vital problems.. The public health nurses will , meet with Miss Rosa Ehrenfeld and have several short talks from district and community nurses. , Welfare work in villages and mill centers will be the subject of one of the most interesting group confer ences. Among those who will take part are Miss Pearl "Wyche of Greens boro, Miss Elizabeth S. Gordon of Spray, Miss Olive V. Livingston of Fayetteville and .Mrs. "W. V. Shaw of the Durham Hosiery Mills. These conferences-will all be held at 2:30 o'clock on Thursday in the parlors of the First Baptist church. Members of the conference and interested friends are cordially invited to attend the group meeting in which they have the greatest interest. MRS. PARKER HOSTESS FOR PHILATHEAS. The following invitations have been issued: "Mrs. J. L. Parker requests the pres ence of every member of the Philathea class of Ninth Avenue Baptist church at her home, 316 East -Fifth street, Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. MR. STUART GILCHRIST HOME. Mr. Stuart Gilchrist arrived home Sunday from Garden City, N. Y., ac companied by his father, Mr. Peter S. Gilchrist, and his brother, and sister, Mr. Cecil Gilchrist and Miss Edith Gilchrist, who went to New York city to meet him. Mr. Gilchrist was lieutenant in the aviation service and has many excit ing adventures to relate, having spent a number of weeks flying over the lines. RECITAL AT HOLY' COMFORTER PLANNED. Plans are on foot and rehearsals well under way for a recital to take place at the Church of the Holy Com forter that holds great promise of en joyment by the music-loving people of Charlotte. Selections will be rendered by Mr. Guy "Windrom, tenor, and Miss Mary Peasley, soprano, accompanied on the organ by Miss Maria Tucker. Mr. Windrom is from Jackson, Tenn., where, prior, to entering the service, he sang regularly in one of the churches. Since being stationed at Camp Greene he has delighted many "a Charlotte congregation with his voice. Miss Peasley's rich soprano needs no introduction to the Charlotte pub lic. Her repertoire with that of Mr. Windrom's is most happily arranged for Sunday evening. MAJOR DUPONT TO SPEAK AT D. A. R. MEETING. The feature of the afternoon at the meeting of the Battle of Charlotte Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution with Mrs. E. L. Mason at her home on Hawthorne Lane on Thursday will be a talk by Major Du pont. The chapter is studying "What We Should Know About Our Allies" ifith "France" as the day's particular sub ject, so that they feel especially for tunate .in having Major Dupont of the French high commission to address them. , Special guests of the occasion will be Mrs. B. D. Heath, a national D. A. R. officer, Mrs. J. L. Chambers, state registrar for the D. A. R., and Mrs. C. W. Tillett, the newly elected state D. A. R. treasurer 1.IBERTY HALL CHAPTER WITH MRS. NISBET. Mrs. W. O. Nisbet will be hostess for the Liberty Hall Chapter Daugh ters of the American Revolution on Thursday, at 3:30 o'clock at her home on North Tryon street. MECKLENBURG CHAPTER WITH MRS. MILLER. The Mecklenburg Chapter Daugh ters of the American Revolution will meet with Mrs. Robert M. Miller, Jr., at her home on North Tryon street Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the executive committee at 3: 15 .o'clock. LEMON JUICE. WHITENS SKIN Girls! Make beauty lotion at home for few cents pr. pr. pr. Squeeze the juice or iwo lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beau li ner, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the - lemons and any drug store or. toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, sofe and white the skin hacomea. Yes It is harmless. Fresh Fruit Desserts 2c Jiffy-Jell desserts, ricK jand fruity, cost but 2 cents per serving. Each package contains a vial of fruit essence, made from condensed fruit juice. . Add boiling water, then this flavor, and you have a fresh-fruit dainty. Compare Jiffy-Jell with the old-style quick gela tine desserts. You will find it five times better, yet St costs rio more. Millions now enjoy it. 10 Flavors, at Your Grocer's 2 Packages for 25 Cents 411 GOOD BILL ON AT THE KEITH HOUSE The Program Has Five Very Interesting and Amusing Acts Prince ton Girls a Feature. With five splendid acts of Keith vaudeville, preceded by an unusual program of good pictures, the amuse ment bill-of-fare at the Academy of Music the first half of the week is all that the most exacting could ask and three Charlotte audiences yesterday at 3, 7:30 and 9 p. m. gave every evidence that they enjoyed it thor oughly. It is one of those bills of which it can be said there are no in ferior acts on it. There is a specially creditable team called "The Five Princeton Girls" who present a unique program of mu sic, including vocal and instrumental selections. One or two of the voices1 are exceptional and the violinists won unstinted applause at every perform ance. The exceptionally fine vocal work by Roatina & Barrete, combined witn a elver comic interpolation, is deserv ing of warm laudation as is also the comedy acrobatic act of Felix & Fish er. The blackface comedy act of Lloyd & Wells kept the audiences yes terday in continuous ripple of laugh ter and McCormick & Winehall made an immediate hit, the special merit of the act being a Jewish' comedian. The program, in all truth, is one of the most meritorious of recent weeks. A DRASTIC PROPOSAL. Columbia, S. C, Feb. 11 If a bill intrndnnpd in the state senate by Sen ator Padgett of Colleton should be- mmfi a law. insurance and mortgage men sav that it would be impossible tn fiance anv construction work in Smith Carolina in the future. The bill would reauire all persons, firm or corporationos holding mortgages or real estate or chattel mortgages as mortgagee or assignee to return them for taxation at the same time and in the same manner and accord' ing to the same rules as other per Konal -nronertv is reauired to be list ed for taxation. The bill contains oth er very drastic regulations, one being th-it. the mnrteaeer shall only be re quired to return his. property covered by a mortgage, if it be real estate, for the true value thereof as fixed by the county board of assessors, deducting from such valuation the amount aue imnn anv mnrteraere that may be out standing and unpaid upon his proper ty. . MRS. INEZ HATCH. Salisbury, Feb. 11. Mrs. Inez Hatch whn died at her home on West Horah street Sunday afternoon - from pneu monia following influenza, will be bur ied at her old home, Salem, Va., to which place the body was taken Mon day nieht. ' A brief funeral service was held at the residence Monday afternoon. Mrs. Hatch was the wife of J. L. Hatch, assistant general law agent of the Southern ( and had lived in Salisbury fo ra number of years. She wast wice married, her nrst nus hand heme J. K. Link, a wholesale merchant of this city. Besides the husband, Mrs. Hatch is survived by one son, William LinK. t JUDGE HARDING IN ROWAN. Salisbury, Feb. 1. The February term of Rowan superior court is in session with Judge W. F. Harding presiding. Very few cases of genera! interest are to come up for trial. Lew is Poe. a negro convict charged with killing another negro as a result, of a quarrel on account of a crap game was allowed to plead guilty to man slaughter and was given six years. The next time - you buy calomel ask for The purified calomel tab lets that are entirely free of all sickening and sali vating effects. Mei&ual virtues vastly iaproTf Caafacteed hj your druggist. S13 nlj in sealed packages. Pric 2S After-the-War Problems Affect Telephone Service While the nation was under the stress incident to win ning the war, we asked our subscribers and the public to be patient with the telephone service and to limit its use as much as practicable in order that we might handle the urgent busi-. ness of the nation efficiently. Now that the armistice has been signed and hostilities have ceased, we are confronted with problems of the recon struction period, which are equally as serious and which will require time and patience for solution. The policy of frankness which we have practiced prompts us to make it clear that the difficulties under which we are now operating are such that it will be many months before we can bring the service back to the standard of efficiency pre vailing prior to the European war. These difficulties are the same as those confronting other business enterprises. We outline them briefly so that you may understand why your service has not become normal overnight. V More than 850 of 'our most skilled, trained, technical men volunteered for service in the army and a large majority of them are still in Europe. Very few of them returned, and we cannot expect the balance to return soon. Few men of this type have been available and those we are training by no means equal our demand. This' shortage of experienced technical men hampers our plans for extensions to plant and in turn delays installations. Lacking the men we are also lacking the material needed to enlarge and extend our plants. True the government's de mands have practically ceased, but equipment must first be en gineered, then ordered and then manufactured before it can be installed. This involves time and if prompt delivery could be made many months would elapse before, we could receive equipment for imperative needs. This is a situation confront ing all telephone companies and one over which we have ab solutely no control. X The abnormal increase in the volume of telephone calls due to war activities created a need for a greater number of operators and we have been diligently .building up an enlarged operating force. Other industries were seeking girl and wo men workers and the inflated wages offered for emergency work attracted some of our operators and made it increasingly difficult to secure the required number of young'women. When this situation was very well in hand last fall the In fluenza epidemic played havoc with our forces and our losses from illness and death are still alarming. As a result of .this combination of circumstances, the percentage of new and in experienced operators is.large arid there is now a serious short age although our training schools are graduating large classes every month. Although our service has suffered from these causes the pubile has been considerate and we have been able to handle a heavier traffic than seemed humanly possible and have in stalled promptly and operated efficiently the telephone plants required by the government at army camps and other similar institutions. .. The situation confronting our service is more serious than it was when fighting was in progress. The public has relaxed from its tension and is inclined to expect our service to at once assume its pre-war efficiency. We deem it our duty to make this 'frank statement and urge you to continue the con servation of the service which proved so helpful during the time of our nation's greatest need. We are operating the telephone system as agents for the federal government under the supervision of the Postmaster General, and our loyal organization is making a patriotic ef fort to perfect the service. Your continued co-operation and encouragement will be appreciated. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 3.. . .-. v : f A, 7 ' I v . ' r i! i J 5' r; t V
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