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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON', DECEMBER 20, 1921. MILLER IS SEEN NEAR MINT HILL Reported That He was Rid ing Toward Outskirts of County .it the Time. Adam Miller, the negro charged with committing the outrage upon Mrs. D. F. Finder at her home on the Monroo road Saturday night, was lust seen Mon day afternoon a few miles beyond Mint Hill, residents of that community re ported to the. local officers. This re port stated that he was in a buggy with another negro when detected. Chief Orr said Tuesdav morning that iLs force was still undeleting in Us of the affair '.outgoing ainshvcto which has oeen i waicneu aim 01-.- ,"""&,l"' lon nrtniffi ir no nit Liiu luurnui 1 ' V I 1 J him n. w - ' search for the negro continuous ince shortly after the as sault. Motorcycle officers and plain clothes detectives of the city -squad have been uninterrupted in their quest and these have been joined by the en tire output of the office of Sheriff Coch ran. The entire county to the south and east fo the city is still being scoured, but so far without avail. Officers are searching not only during the days, but nights as well. Chief Orr himself having spent the greatest part of the last three nights in the countryside, directing the men. working on the case. The view is generally held by the of ficers that Miller will be approhandert in the county. They arc not of the opinion that he has escaped the drag net thrown about him. Since the de partment was notified Saturday night the negro whose description na-s i-ri forwarded. The policemen hoi 1 to the view that Miller would have been de tected had he-sought to escape on a train. , . , . The officers are being ably assisted in the scouring of the-county for the negro by residents of the Crab Orchard and Clear Creek sections of the county, in one of which he is belived to be in hiding. . . Some officers think that Miller is be ing shielded either by acquaintances or relatives in the Crab Orchard vicinity, where he is well known and where many of his relatives live, but have kv. iinghia to cret a clue as xo lis EIGHTEEN EXTRA SHOPPING HOURS Stores of Merchants Re main Open Until 9 O'clock Until Christmas. Eighteen shopping hours have been added to the just-before-Christmas week for tha benefit of 50,000 living COUNTY DESIRES TO CO-OPERATE With City irTthe Further ance of Health Plans for Entire County. The county desires at Lsast to co operate with the city in its health ac tivities to the extent of sharing with conferred with Dr. Miller, representa tive of the State board of health, and fi lnttn.- st.mncrlv insisted that, in the Uiterest Of economy as well as efficiency, the city and county comume health operations and centralize them under one man. He recommended that Pr McPhaul should take the head of this combined office and that he begiven sufficient nursing equipment as well as an assistant to enable him to handle the larger task effectually. The health board decided that, at any rate, it woum co-rm,....., city in the maintenance ',,'r tt lory and all clinical work ;ini ,'L '"''t Hals. ... y 111 -Hth HARDING TO ISSL K l AUU()Vc Washington, Dec. narrlnns trw ift.e-.t i.-fl iV;. ,. ident Hardinc: will inol nernnna imnrisnrKVl fnr . '"'I 1 - - t- . v ' J ! ; M I ious war laws, it was rt; tivrly today. Ilri r,f .. 1'HhVr. whereabouts from anybody in either of First advantage of the in Charlotte and suburbs and the 500,-1 the municipality in its general offices 000 that live in Charlotte's trading ter- j and laboratory equipment and, "perhaps, rltcu-y of 100 miles ! circumference. . also to the extent of utilizing the pres- e I eit city physician, Dr. W. A., McPhaul CAKUUIUH UL , i Ul. 1. .- 1L. these two neighborhoods. ; " pi-e-Chr stmas shopping hours were ; " ated Tt a meeUng of the It is noteworthy, tney saj. una. uihtt. -uouuy mgnt wnen a miwii fnunt- M,flf Mltll held" Tnesdav Ke ms army oi people who worK during tne " ;. . ' . ; vr ,. , , r. in PurcelFs Women's Garments of Quality PurcelFs ery? Very 555 Xfr VI $1 Japanese 'Kerchiefs Reduced to 75c These are hand-drawn in many exquisite designs and make per fectly beautiful gifts. . Quilted Silk Bathrobes The most luxurious of gifts and just out of their wrappings. Quilted, all over, $25.00. Quilted in border effect, $15.00. New Wool Hose, $3 These are handsomely hand clocked, as are another lot of English Wool Hose at 3.50. '-'Bk More "Doll Babies" More of those so cunning Dollies in the bloomer Gingham Frocks, just like the Frocks in 4 to 6 year sizes for little mamas'. Dressed Doil and child's Dress complete, $3.98. J Shoes are of most importance in women's dress nowadays. There is some uncertainty as to the correct styles, leathers, height of heels, shape of toe, etc. Should you be in doubt as to "what to wear" let us show you styles that are being worn by the best dressed women of New York and other Fashion Centers. soon as Miller put out to maKe his ho Vionrlp.. for the direction which he was largely familiar with the territory, namejy, through the outer fringe of Crab Orchard township. H has been in this section that he has spent his life and he is, therefore, con versant with the by-paths of that neigh borhood. The view is help: Dy ince i-1 ficers that, if "he is not being actually hidden bv some of his many acquaintan ces in that area, he is concealed in the forest or swamps of the creeks and is comir.fr out occasionally to get his mea,s from somebody he knows thereabouts. Officers expresea themselves- lues day as confident that they would even tually catch Miller. They anticipate that he will make a break for his liber ty and then. fce dragnet will have been drawn so tightly around him. that rte will find it impossible to break throutr'i. The condition of Miller's victim was sported from the hospital Tuesday as showing continued improvement. coitTlberon AT THE ACADEMY Former Movie Villain and "That French Girl" Jose phine Feature. Coit Albertson .who used to be a star in the movies and who has starred as Hi, -villain in manv notable fllms. is varying his screen experience with a season before the footlights in vaude ville. With an exceedingly fair young lady as a partner, he is on the bill at the Academy of Music the first half of the week and proved to be one of j the best performers, in the opinion or many wno saw tne .euu Miugmni oi one of three performances Monday. Mr. Albertson anoears in a sketch entitled '"The Talc ofTi Sail" and is depicted on an ocean-going steamer bound for the Bermudas on his honeymoon. He and his newly-won bride are hardly out to sea before they have developed a hectic misunderstanding. The comedy of the sketch lies in their quarreling and their reconciliation. Both Mr. Albertson and his partner show much talent. Stewart & Harris, two young men with an act compounded of skilled jug gling and comedy in about equal pro portions, are very acceptable entertain ers. Mathews Jtnd Ayers, in "Hardboil ed," a sketch intended to be comic, are clever, but being hardboiled is only lack of good breeding and, while the audience admits the cleverness of the act, it al lows the performers to leave the stage with almost no applause. Josephine Amoros," that French girl", and company close the bill after John son & Mack, old-time character actors portraying two bums, recall a type of comedy act that was formerly very pop ular put is not now seen often. Miss Amoros os a chic an dattractive girl that one imagines are found by the thousands on the boulevards of Paris. But she is an acrobat first of all and does one or two stunts of surprising skill. She is accomplished by a young woman of attractive personality who plays the violin and piano and who in troduces Miss Amoros in one or two roles. i.-jr HUU wife . K TTT .,-V,U day and up to 6 oclockthe usual hour "L wuu,,,w" i-ugiiuii for closing all Charlotte stores and ;ln Atne cou.r huse- . went forth to shop leisurely . ? from the board will con- pleasantly after they laid down their ;fer with tne Clt-V authorities with a view own worK tor the day. it was tne . " a., i., first time in a full vear. or since the ?ave tlie liberty to consult with Dr. Mc- week before last Christmas day, that; Phaul Jn reference to terms of employ- Charlotte stores were open at night. They , were a riot of light, and color and tempting arrays of goods- piled ment for the entire county. It was felt that, inasmuch as the city commission ers have employed the city health offi- high on counters laid, alluringly andicer on a whoie-time basis, it would be seductively in show windows and de- pemem 10 unu out oi tne commission ployed in enticing manner at every van- wi11 object to the proposal to put Dr. tage point in show case, show window, McPhaul in charge of the health activ- FARMERS COMPLAIN OF TREE CUTTING The practice of people in the city go ing to the country and cutting down j Christmas trees has come to be exceed ; ingly annoying to the farmers, it was j reported by one of them Tuesday. He (said that his wife observed cars going j by his house the other afternoon late and not a single automobile passed for j a solid " hour headed toward the city j that did not have a fine cedar tree in it. Some of the people of the city make it a rule to ask permission of farmers to cut down a small cedar or remunerate the owner as much as the tree is worth, but a whole host of city folks, he said, neither ask permission to cut down the cedars nor offer compensation. They take their axes or saws with them and simply walk out into the forest and whack the tree down, saying nothing about it to anybody. This rural" resident complained that the forests of the countryside are being depopulated of their cedars by this prac tise. Hundreds and, perhaps, thousands of them are cut down during the holi days every year and at the rate the custom is prevailing and will likely con tinue, he forsees the end of the cedar tree species here as well as elsewhere. demonstration rack and elsewhere. True, the stores were open to 9 o'clock Saturday night, but it took the inno vation of being open on Monday night to attract attention. By agreement among the members of the Charlotte Merchants' Associa tion, all the leading stores of the city, of every kind and. perhaps of every grade of importance, will remain open this week until 9 o'clock each even ing. This will allow the public three hours extra each day in which to do Christmas shopping and will aggre gate IS extra hours for the wholo week. The public has become so accustom ed to the closing of stores sharply at the hour of 6 p. m. that when that j hour approached Monday afternoon shoppers began to drift out to the ; streets either from force of habit or because they had overlooked the new announcement , The extra hours for shopping at the end of the ordinary business day in Charlotte are expected to prove of ex ceptional benefit to the workers in in dustrial plants of all kinds, to em ployes of stores, offices and other places where there are fixed hours of employment and which usually coincide with the opening and closing of Char lotte mercantile places. With the stores open after 6 o'clock the employes of many establishments will have an opportunity to shop at their leisure and to examine the arrays of Christmas goods with more care. SHOPPERS FROM OUTSIDE. More important still, from the standpoint of thousands of patrons of Charlotte stores living 50 miles in any direction from Charlotte, the shopper from (he outside can come to Char lotte oy automobile late in the after noon, spend several hours of the af ternoon shopping and continue shop ping into the night, if necessary, and ride home by moonlight. Proprietors of stores here eay it is extraordinary how people from out-of-town follow just this method of procedure. Thanks to the fact that several of the highways leading into Charlotte have recently been improved and that the exceptionally fine weather of the Autumn months has allowed the other roads to remain in better condition than usual, Charlotte is being made a mecca for shoppers from many out side points, according to heads of de partment and other stores here. As the week advances merchants here ex pect an ever-increasing army of shop pers' from out of the city. A round of Charlotte stores made Monday night reveals that the mer chants here have made more than usual preparations for the Christmas season. Notwithstanding the depres sion that seemed to pervade the busi ness world for a while, the merchants here, now thct the depression is rap idly becoming a thing of the past, an ticipated heavy shopping. Their an ticipations have been realized to some extent already and they expect before the stores close next Saturday night at 9 o'clock that previous records for pre Christmas shopping here will have been equalled, if not surpassed. GOODFELLOWS TO HAVE BIG EVENT ities of the whole county This was recommended at a meeting held lately when the board of health Planning to Take a Shorthand .This Winter? Conn What system will you choose? .W hy spend trom six to eicri.t m... lavish study of Pitman or Gregg? Instead, why not learn asy, fascinating system which can b learned m from tin to foilr legible than cither Pj, mail si time, and which is far more speedv a nd Spencerian writers are always in great demand because tiuy , . .. i, rjom Srwn pcrian the Twentieth tv., ' J superior graaeui wv . TsiM.r,.f; od taught in tms section e.uusivc.i commanding salaries ot ir O " ' "Endorsed by the leading. men of this section rom M).t.Mj t si--. cm 12 South Tryon Street. Christmas Meeting Wednes day Will be Featured by Number of Diversities. I. -. Doublej- Duty Furniture 88 and $100 For Well Fur nished Homes Many a homo has been made the more enticing by the advent of a pretty artistic day bed which while serving as a highly ornate piece of living room furniture by day serves as a comfortable bed by night. We have in for the holidays a particularly pleasing assortment of these day-beds and invite you to come and see them. They are splendidly constructed, built for real service may be obtained in many pleasing designs and are finished, jn the popular mahogany finish, uphols tered in Tapestry or Velour. And the prices are so reaasonable all will be amaaed. Com and be shown. 1 nner Furn ware c o, OtT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT. The most important meeting of the Charlotte Good fellows' Club for the year will be held Wednesday from 1 to 2 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce building when more than 600 members will celebrate the advent of the Christ mas season with a specially appro priate program. One of the features of the occasion will be the musical program, which will be devoted to Christmas ideas. The program will be started with a unique incident. Before sitting down to the table .til present will stand and sing, with Rev. Daniel Iverson, pastor of Tenth Avenue Presbyterian church leading, the famous Christmas hymn, "Joy To The World." After all members and guests have stood and suns this number, the invo- : cation will be made and the Goodfel- lows will then eat a Christmas lunch eon. Following this they will again be led by Mr. Tverson in singing "Adeste Fidelis." the famous Christmas num ber. Following this the three competi tive speakers for charity will be heard. They are to be Dr. W. H. Frazer, prcr'di-nt of Queens Colleke; Frank R. McXinch, former mayor of Charlotte, ' now engaged in community servica work, .md Lewis Burwell, Charlotte jobber. j After some announcements by Pres- ident David Ovens of the club, the Goodfellows octet will sing special Christmas numbers, one entitled . "Christmas Song" and the other to be , Haydn's famous "Silent Night." The ! Goodfellows' orchestra will furntsi special music during the luncheon 1 hour and will play the accompaniment to other numbers. The Goodfellows j will march out of the asembly room, ' led by Mr. Iverson singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." As they go they will not forget to place a few "mites" in Christmas stockings that are to bo hung in the assembly hall. The meeting is expected to be the climatic one for the entire year,, so far as the Goodfellows are concerned. The hall will be appropriately decorated for the occasion in Christmas emblems. Special honor guests of the Good, fellows for the occasion will be a num ber of wounded and disabled veterans 1 of the Great war. A special invitation has been sent to all such veterans in Charlotte to help the Goodfellows cele brate the coming of Christmas by at tending the luncheon. gift that I asts These wonderful Player Pianos offer you the op portunity to make it a Gift that will please not only one person, but a number of persons. A Gift of this character will not only bring- Happi ness and Cheer to your immediate family, but also to your many friends who visit your home. It's the Gift that Lasts! It will last for years. At very modest initial outlay, you can have one of these beautiful and smoothly-toned instruments placed in your home as a Christmas Gift to your Family. Won't you step in and talk it over a little further you are under no obligations to buy. 3 The Ampico (Foot Tower) in the Franklin ?850.0( Charlotte Home of the Victrola The Ampico (Foot Power) in the Haynes Bros. $1100.00 & Story & Clark Player Piano, $625.00 We Have The Favorite Music Rolls Open Evenings AJntil 9 P. M. ANDREWS' Music Store, Inc. The Oldest in the Carolinas 211-213 N. Try Phone 3626 on oi. " sfSfiiaaiwi Hb- -si i 0 OWNERS OF FUR COATS ! AND AUTOSARE NEEDY Newport News, Va., Dec. 20. Owners of hi automobiles, fur coats and the like in this city are without food or money with which to purchase the nec essities of life, according to officials 5f the Associated Charities, who are re ceiving from ten to fifteen calls a day- tcir kid.-: 1922 Christmas Club JOIN TODAY and you will have MO&EY NEXT CHRISTMAS each avmgs Now Open dK.00 CLASS Requires a deposit of $5.00 P 0 week for the next 50 weeks. OnDecember 1922, you will receive a check for $250.00, plus interest C9.00 CLASS Requires a deposit of $2.00 each v for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, you will receive a check for $100.00; plus interest, (jj-l .00 CLASS Requires a deposit of $1.00 each PX.for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, 19-' you will receive a check for $50.00, plus interest. KCr CLASS Requires a deposit of 50 cents eacn OXJV, week for the next 50 weeks. On December 1922, you will receive a check for $25.00, plus interest. OKrt CLASS Requires a deposit of 25 cents eacn UOKs week for the next 50 weeks. On December 1922, you will receive a check for $12.50, plus interest The Commercial National Bank Corner Tryon and Fourth Sts. Capital, Surplus, etc., Over $1 ,100,000.0"
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