THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1921
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For the
Hol
iaay Dtioppers
Note These Specials We Offer
Thursday- Friday- Saturday
Hand Bags
We have at this time one of
the largest and best selection of
bass that is in the city beautiful
baes. Silk. Velvet Bags. Leather
Bar?. Vanity Box. They come
;r. ail the 'eading colors. Prices
9Sc, 81.48, $1.65, 2.65,
$8.95
Linen Handkerchiefs
Men's Pure Linen fine weave
Handkerchiefs for initial em
broidery, a tJOc quality.
THREE FOR
Bath Robes
Bath Robes make useful
Christmas Gifts
S2.9S, $3.98, $4.98
Silk Shirts, $5.95
.Make a useful grift to give to
anyone. We have them in all
colors and stripes. Price
$5.95
Talking Dolls
Buy the baby a doll. We
have them that talk, call mama,
cry, etc.
25c, $1.48, $1.18, $2.98
$3.98, $4.75
Centemeri Gloves
N'ew Shipment $2,000 worth
Cenremeri Kiel Gloves, all gaunt
etc. Black, tan, etc. Priced
to
Bed Room Slippers
For men and women. Good
values for Thursday. Per pair
$1.00
Regular $2.00 and $2.50 values.
Per pair
$1.49
Mary Garden Perfume
Give her a. bottle of Mary
Garden for Christmas. She will
appreciate it. We have them in
all sizes.
$1.25, $1.50, $5.75
Mary Garden Face Pow
der,$1.00 Mary Garden Face Powder al
ways makes a useful gift and is
something that all girls will appreciate.
$1.00
81.98 to $4.50
Crepe de Chine Hand
kerchiefs Values up to 50c each, almost
e-5!T color imaginable. Blocked
PfUerns. hemstitched edges,
J-'-1 edges, solid colors with
.ancy flots, etc., each 15c
i"n s Pure Linen Handkerchiefs
eieh fj.-;c
1'lvreo for $1.00. "'
Uflies Pure Linen Handker-wiefs-.
with neat hemstitched
l'-, ;cood values at, each 18c
ir"o lor 35e.
U5K CrpPe de Chine Handker-
ni;:3 ioc
a'd 15c
solid color, floral patterns, black
, --i. rings, dots, etc., values
;vrn up to 25c each. You
get them at Eflrd's fit,
ice
anJ 15c
M , FurS
Uk I'seful Christmas Gifts
lft kro Canadian Fox Fur.
brown, Taupe, Black, D. K.
SlOHfi'Wn Values worth up to
v,eh Vour choice, this lot,
$27.50
Men's Kid Gloves
All men will appreciate a pair
of nice Kid Gloves for Christmas.
1.18, $1.48, $1.98, $2.98
Boy Gauntlets, 98c
Give the boy a pair of nice
Gauntlets for Christmas.
98c
Ladies' Coats
Shipment of two hundred La
dies' Coats all latest color and
good assortment of sizes. These
coats are very neatly trimmed in
fur collars, others with embroid
ery. Why not give her one of these
coats for Christmas?
$3.98
Shirt Waists
One solid table of fine Geor
gette, Crepe de Chine and Pon
gee Waists in all the wanted
styles and colors. Some are
trimmed with beads and others
are very plain.
$2.35
Ladies' Silk Jersey petti bock
ers in navy, green, henna, pur
ple, make a useful gift.
$2.35
Five Million Dollars In
School Bonds To Be Sold
Men's Knit Ties"
We have a large assortment
men's Knit Ties in Christmas
boxes that would make a .useful
gift.
65c and 85c
Hand-embroidered Philippine
Underwear Teddies and Gowns
for Christmas gifts at spe
cial prices.
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FIRD
BY JULE B. WARREN,
Staff Correspondent of The News.
Raleigh, Dec. 21. Treasurer B. R.
Lacy will open bids for five million
dollars' worth of school bonds, bearing
' 5 per i-ent interest, on December 30 at
noon, and is asking for bidders on this
f lot. If the bid is such that the net
. interest charge to the State is over
j four and a half only half this amount
will be sold.
The proceeds from the sale of these.
priations at the present time will not ;
permit the addition. Consequently ;
the commissioner has called on a cer-j
tain organization to aid him with the
work, and 100 citizens, who are under- j
stood to be members of the organiza- j
tion, have agreed to act as deputies at j
the ' call of the commissioner and chief
of police.
Widows of Confederate veterans en-!
titled to pensions under the amendment
to the pension law aaaed by the special ,
I bonds will make up the State public ! session will have their claims passed on ,
school loan fund for building pur-1 at the mid-summer meeting or me pen
toses. The money will be loaned the ! sion board. The State Auditor is not
j different counties for the sole purpose j empowered to issue the pension checks
i of erecting new school buildings of the 1 until the petitions or applications have
) larger type. That is, no money will '. been passed on by the board, and there
i be loaned out of this fund, under the ! is no other meeting until the middle of
- law, for the construction of a one-room : the Summer.
school. The whole purpose of the es-
j tablishment of the loan fund is to en-
courage the" erection of better and
larger types of school buildings and to
encourage the consolidation of one
teacher schools into larger ones.
Provision for this loan fund was
made at the regular session of the
Legislature early this year. Already
there ore applications from all of the
counties for loans' aggregating the to
tal amount of the proposed fund. The
counties will be allowed to borrow the
money at the same interest rate the
State has to pay, and may be paid
back over a period of 20 years. The
j bonds will be dated January 1, 1922,
i and will be paid back on the serial
j basis. The lirst $100,000 will be due
live years from the date of the issue,
1 that is January 1, 1927. After that
. 100,000 will fall due the first day of
every January for a period of 20 years.
I This plan of a State loan fund for
the erection of public school buildings
will enable many counties which are
unable to finance school buildings at
this time and may not be next year,
to handle their finances through the
; State. It will be a great deal cheaper
this way, for whereas the State is now
j selling bonds at 5 per cent and less
many ot the counties are unable to
sell them unless they bear as much
as 6 ijer cent interest, and even then
I in some instances the counties have to
work ?.he deal so that in fact they sell
j the securities for less than par. The
counties will also save attorneys" fees,
the cost of printing bonds and other
expenses always connected with an is
sue. It is believed that this loan fund
will stimulate school building in North
Carolina so that next year will be the
banner year.
KELLY GIVES BOND.
C. J. Kelly, the Sanford garage man,
convicted ot stealing automobiles and
receiving s4olen automobiles and trans
porting them across State lines, has
given a bond of $15,000 for his appear
ance here on the first of February to
begin his sentence of five years in the
Atlanta penitentiary. He has also
made arrangements to pay the fine of
5$.000. The $15,000 bond for his ap
pearance was signed by the man's
mother.
While the district attorney has not
decided, the probabilities are that the
other cases pending against Kelly will
be dropped, since his decision not to
carry nis appeal up. Kelly, according
to the theory of the prosecution, was
the wnolesale receiving agent for cars
stolen in North Carolina, Virginia,
New Jersey, New York city and other
places. His garage was used to
change the numbers of the motors,
paint the machines and otherwise dis
guise 'them so that detection would be
difficult. .
Carrying Kelly and A. J. Honeycutt,
convicted of receiving stolen goods
knowing to have been stolen from
freight cars in interstate traffic, will
probably be the first work of the new
marshal for this district. . Marshal
Bellamy has sent in his resignation,
and has asked to be relieved of duty
the nrst or January or at longest by
January 20 Marshal
The amendment makes widows cf vet
erans who were married as late as 1880
eligible to pensions. The original pen
sioJi law provided that women who mar
ries Veterans in the year 1868 would
be entitled to pensions. This date was !
later raised to 1870. The regular ses
sion this year increased the marriage
date up to 1875 and tfie special session
ran it up five years more.
The later date got the vote h tcause
of the large number of special pension
bills which were introduced in the Le
gislature this time.
But as stated above the new list of
eligibles will have to prove their claims
before the pension board before checks
can be sent, so that they will get noth
ing until the mid-year distribution of
the pension money.
The six employment bureaus in the
State found jobs for 322 people out of
the 482 who applied for help during
the past week. There were 322 requests
from employers for workers, it happen
ing that exactly the same number of
employers asked for workers as the
bureaus placed.
In the 322 placed there were 137 skill
ed laborers, the number in this class
again leading for the week, 1001 un
skilled. 47 clerical and professional, 33
domestic and 4 industrial workers. The j
placements by the different ottices
follow:
Asheville
Charlotte i . . . .
Greensboro
Raleierh "....
Wilmington 95,
Winston-Salem 4a
30
66
24 :
S4
Total
322
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ADVERTISEMENT
CITY OF CHARLOTTE
To General Contractors
The Board of School Commissioners
of the City of Charlotte invite sealed
Bellamy has m-ODOsals to erect and complete th
about x year longer to serve, but prac- Central High School, on corner of
tically all other Democrats in the de- Cecil Street and Elizabeth Avenue,
partment are getting out and the mar-; Charlotte, N. C, construction bond
snal lias decided to quit along with ; Df a surety company therefor in the
the others
While . no recommendation has been
made for his successor, so far as is
sum of 60 of the entire contract.
Only proposals obtained at the office
,of Lock wood, Greene & Co., signed
Known, me general understandins is i k v,q wo. ,r,ri iaft hofnro 1? nvi.-ink
that K. W Ward, of Raleigh, promi- j lloon Saturday, December 31, 1921, at
nent vn Wake County Republican cir-ithe office Cf the Secretary of the
cles, will be the man named to succeed j Board of School Commissioners, Mr.
r-..P-,ialn3r' H'P 'Hflrdinp tne-pther with a. . .r-
PASSED 510 BILLS.
tified check" for $7,500.00 payable to
The special session of the Legisla- ! T t wi r ri,0,vmon v "trian
ture passed 510 bills. That , number ComiVtee of the Boad of S
"SlJ" Commissioners if the proposal is not
carried out, will then and there be
considered. The bid must be made in
bills which were introduced and not
passed for some reason or another. The
the additional statues put on the law , lu?Llca' f 21,",.-?
books by the special session
Despite the constitutional provision.
i or the interpretation of the Constitu-
Board of School Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any or all proposals.
A deposit of $25.00 will be required
i tion against local legislation the vast ' fo1 . complete set of plans and,
majority of the bills enacted into laws ; specifications, said sum to be refunded
Uurelv local matters. And a. hie- ma- on return of drawings and specifi-
jority of the focal measures were bills -cations. A deposit of $ 15.00 1 . wm oe
for the mtifiontinn nnr? vaiiHptmn i required for a set of heating and
u. MintllHVil J A. , " . . .
local uond issues.
SWEARS IN DEPUTIES
In an effort to prevent further hold
ups and robberies Commissioner of Pub
lie Safety Munyham, of Raleigh, has to
day sworn in 100 citizens, clothed them
with full police powers and asked them j lotte, ' N. C
tu petti ui tne streets ut tne city every t
night until the robberies cease or some !
of the robbers are apprehended. At
the present time the Raleigh police
force is so cut down by small appropri
ations that there ari but five police of
ficers on duty for the whole city dur-.
ing the night. i
Since the robberies there have been !
ventilating or electric plans with epeci
fications.
Mutilation of the plans or specifi
cations will be deemed sufficient cause
for the forfeiture of said deposit.
Address Lockwood, Greene & Co., Engi
neers, 422 Piedmont Building, Char-
Dec-16,18,21 24,25,28,29
i
constantly increasing demands on the , t I
police commissioner to put more offi- i ifl
cers on duty at nisrht. but the appro- "
A Thunderbolt Drama!
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Thursday Friday Saturday
What The People
Know
A Card To The Dear Public
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Today we make a most important theatrical announcement:
We' have just contracted with the A. L. Erlanger Exchange to
bring AMERICA'S FOREMOST MUSICAL SHOW, "THE RIGHT
GIRL" to Charlotte for one night on Wednesday, December 28.
"THE RIGHT GIRL" is without doubt the most brilliant musical
success of this day. It ran six months in New York, at the Times
Square Theatre and was one of the Musical Comedy hits of the
season. In every community where it is presented it invariably re
ceives the enthusiastic indorsement of all classes.
This is the original company and production that made theatrical
history on Broadway. There is no other company.
"THE RIGHT GIRL" is by Raymond W;. Peck and Percy Wen
rich, telling in three acts of hiiarious fun and laughter, the tribula
tions of a poor young rich fellow trying to find the Right Girl, Love
and Happiness. ,
"THE RIGHT GIRL" is properly calle "AMERICA'S FOREMOST
MUSICAL SHOW." W'e know of our own knowledge that this play
has been a sensation elsewhere. We are sure it will arouse enormQus
interest here.
The prices for this engagement will be: 50c to J2.50.
Mail orders are now being received at the office of the Auditorium
theater. Make checks and money orders payable to Geo., E. Swirk,
manager Auditorium, and inclose self -addressed stamped envelope for
return of tickets. .
(Signed) ' GEO. E. - SWINK, Mgr.'
NQTEr -Yur-.Money Refunded If You . Don't LiJte Ily ;
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Overstuffed Sofa, Comfy Chair, End Table,
Bookcase, Console Table, Console .Mirror,
Candlesticks, Book Blocks, Rug, Picture,
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