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1 iTn If! ■ vS V > ,v^/ »SWt SEPTBMlieR 2^ 1011 Mj!H4WliUilJ»iliil 'il/. '.JLlJBB!ll!i!!l!inijliri. I'V ''"'■T and Thursday & PI 1 I ■ ^ j, 1 September 27th and 28th THIS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT DISPLAY of Fashiouable Millinery ever made in our store. It will mark the beginning ot a season that will more than ever impress upon Charlotte people the advantage of buying at the Morrow- Bass store of quality. Every Hat, regardless of cost, and the range will be wide;, will reflect the thought and talent of an artist milliner. Come and see these Hats cn our opening days and you will come back some other day to buy, for there is something compelling about our Hats that nothing but posses sion can satisfy. Morrow-Bass Company 31 and 33 East Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. imOADS MOST Gtl TOEETHER By Associated Press. Kr rity, Mo., Sept. 26.—That t.- urp of the United States as an ‘ u 1 country depends upon a *' ’ rrli tion between the farmer ind liie r'-ilroads was the gist of an . before the National Conser- i-w, n oti'^ass here today by Her- ^ xtUii , of Madison, Iowa, editor « a rn journal. Mr. Quick said, t i- relations between the farm* tfs nd la railroads are not always ^ >ole, it was the fanners who ' It the railroads and were ly beaten out of their in* ^ Q'i' k placed emphasis upon ^ ' s as an Index not only to, '■ ' a profit but to the general ^1- uving. He charged that rail* ^ in tixins rates often connived TT population centers to the ' -f smaller cities and the ^eneral. ■"T. li ck enumerated several In- ’ 0- coKjperation between farm- =n ■ i iiway, of the introduction 1 breeds of live stock i nea of his system by Prea- ‘ '? the Great Northern, of ning of demonstration on I.ong Island by the Penn- 1 of the running of ed- 1 'rains for the purpose of api'lcultural science into I the farmers. Railway aid tu e, be said, has grown to " ^1! these fine things,” he con* "-i»vo been done and are still ' dona with an eye single to " e may trust the enllght- ' : lijness of good bualnesa to sort of activity to the limit ^ But In the great task of do the railways owe any • * the farms beyond what they rform^ng? This phase has to j -vorked out. t - U)!- P- c. I di'^. "The greatest transportation facts faced by the American people is the problem of developing remote parts of the country. If the building of a national system of waterways be resorted to, the aid of the railways must still be demanded If success is to be obtained. “The railways of the United states have enormously retarded agricullui^ a! developments and added to the •*- pense of living, by permitting the lodgment in our transportation sys tem of that industrial parasite, the express company. The express com panies perform practically no func tions which do not belong to the rail ways. Every dollar of the huge prof its which the express companies make is a burden upon industry^ un necessary and unjust. , ‘‘The farmer must be placed in such condition that he can work iip trade in thee ity and ship in small packages to the consumer at just rates.” Mr. Quick then took up the matter of rate making in the Interests of na tional development. As regards na tional questions, he said, the rail ways must be enlisted in such poli cies as may be dictated by patriot ism. “The whole structure of rates,” he declared, “as thdy now exist is devised to favor the long haul to and from market, and make up with reference to the demand of certain trade centers, and certain powerful financial interests, some of which are closely allied to ownership of the railway.” He referred to the history of rates on the border line between the Gulf Trade Basin and the terri tory of the railways running to Chi cago and the Atlantic ports. The farmers of Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne braska, Colorado and much other ter ritory, he said, are entitled to the near outlet by way of the gulf. The I battle, he declared, was fought out not along lines best for the nation ^ut with sole reference to the in terests of railways. “The building of the Gulf Line was robbed of Its benefits to the farmer. Ratea were so adjusted, and still are, as to make the gulf lines as bad for the farmer as the Atlantic lines, instead of making the old lines as good as th« new should b®. The pres ent railway situation is full of such anomalies.” “One can scarcely conceive,” Mr. Qrick said, “of such complete develop ment in Iowa, Nebraska, the Da- kotas or Oklahoma, as has been at tained in some European countricis and yet it is merely a question of transportation. If it can be accom plished by land carriage, he declared, the nation will have to have re course to waterways. Tlie desired end, he said, might be attained through the use of ‘tapering rates — that is, by rates which increase not with the distance, but on some basis which gives the remote point a less tariff than the nearby points. As an instance of • the benefit of tapering rates he referred to the, rates on citrus fruits froiv Pacific coast points east. The rate on oranges and lemons to all points east of Denver, or from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Eastport, Maine, is the same. “The state of Iowa Is Chicago’s back field, and Iowa’s population is shrinking. This fact alone is enough to condemn the rate system which permits it. The Texas system is based on the theory that many me dium sized towns and cities are to be preferred for the agricultural welfare of the state to one or two overgrown municipalities with rates made to stimulate their growths at the ex pense of the rest. This has been ac complished by: the establishment of a minimum freight charge. Thus, while such places as Galveston, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco are among the most prosperous towns of their size in the country, they are constantly meeting the competition of that numerous class of smaller Texas cities the unsuspected presence or which is such a constant surprise to the traveler from the north. The question of what transporta tion hatf to do with the soli fertility and development wat taken up by Mr Quick. Potash, nitrogen, lime and other chemicals, he explained, must be got to the land from whatever source it comes and this in most cases is a railroad problem. I— A® Uneasy Feeling ^gt^"^Br™«estU>ation. jriclds qiUckly ^ SIMMONS RED Z LIVER REGULATOR I (TH* powDut roni) all impurities or fermented food, cleMisw and lones the stomach and bowels and restores that fine f^ing I exnilaration, mental activity and cheerfulness that belongs only to perfect health. . Sold by Dealers. FHc0, LatgtfMtmgtf 41*00. WHO ne with the Red Z o* tb* ItbeL If jro« eauot n*. h to U. ^7*** ***4 I, p?** slmiaoM I jtw aeriilMor b pot v tita IS *o« ter wfc» tnHt Fncell.ooperbonle. Look for tlie Red Z labeL wv%iic. iAMK tor lae km i, laoei. J. U. ZEILIN CO.* Proprfators* St. Concord, N. C., Sept. 2C.—Another opportunity will likely present Itself to Concord within a few days to secure its greatest need--that of a new rail road. Some time ago Mr. ewis Hartsell, the hustling secretary of the Retail Merchants’ Association, wrote Mr. E. C. Duncan, who recently purchased the charter of the Raleigh & Charlotte Railroad Company, requesting him to consider Concord’s claims to the road if it was built as proposed. Yesterday Mr. Hartsell received the following reply: Raleigh, Sept. 11, 1911. Mr. Lew^ Hartsell, Secretary, The Merchants’ Association, Concord, N. C. My Dear Sir:—Your letter of the Drainage Work In Statesville Special to The News. Statesville, Sept. 26.—Within the next few weeks actual drainage work will have been begun on the two prin cipal creeks on Iredell county and Within two years hundreds of acres of the moat fertile bottom lands now almost unfit for anything except to breed fever germs will have been re claimed for cultivation and the coun ty’s corn production will be enor mously increased. Messrs. John M,. Sharpe, R. A. Coopier and H. Burke, commissioners for Fourth Creek Drainage district, have just clo.sed a contract with the American Steel Dredge Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., for the drainage of Fourth creek from the Cornelius place in Concord township to the Rowan county line, a distance of 15 1-2 miles. The contract, which was made through Mr. James P. Kerr, a rei^resentative of the dredge com pany, requires that work begin with in 60 days and the time-limit for its completion Is January 1, 1913. Mr. Kerr says that a force of men to 7th to hand. In reply will state that ^ I hay. made arrangiments with the Incorporators of the Raleigh && Char- it ! The big boat which is to carry tne RClilrOfliU COHXp&Hy to T&kG it « > Vkoo sur* OTer. My arraBgements will not have launched and the dredging been completed with them until thei_„. .i'„ ^ on early part of October, and until then I shall not be in a position to take up and discuss the matter. Yours very truly, E. C. DUNCAN. Searching Foi Thiee Shooters Special to The News. Asheville. Spet. 26.—Additional re port* concerning the killing of a white man in Yancey county a few daF« are to tb« effect that the dead man was Robert McKay, who had gone to Yancey county in the interest of a railroad in Tennessee. The officer* are looking for ‘ three Peter*ott*, . a* stated Saturday, two of them brothers and their nephew. The cause of the *hooting 1* ■•Id to have been on account of »ome trouble the PetersoA* had with a n««ro who had been hired by McKay. Blobbs—“Skinnum boat* that ^ is a* good as M« word.” “That may be. His ^ord iBO’t gwd for any thing.” . machinery is now being installed on the ''boat. Deserted By His Sweetheart Man Dies By Assqciated Press. St. Joseph, Mich., Sept. 26.—The strange story of how a man died of natural causes before he could fasten a noose about his own neck as be had planned has been brought to li^ht by the finding of tlie body of B. H. Powers by the roadside near Stevensville. According to the doc tors who held an autopsy. Powers died of apoplexy. The apparent desertion of Powers by his sweetheart, wno is said to live in Chicago, is held to be indirectly responsible for his death. Plan to Finance Holding Movements • By Associa,ted Press. Sumter, s. C., Sept. 26.—At a joinV^ meeting here the members of th’fr^^ Farmers’ Union and bankers of ' " ' city, the latter offered to urge theiF|^"' directors to raise |500,000 to lend cotton in warehouses, in line with the^% resolutions adopted at the Montgon^!iv ery Cotton Growers’ Conference for the holding of this year’s crop higher prices. A resolution was adopt^^^ ed urging the farmers of this coun^]^^ ty to hold their cotton without a8Big{i^'->> ance If possible or if not, to store in bonded warehouses and borrows?* money on the certificates. T)ie road, as proposed when fir»t incorporated, several years ago, will run on a direct line from Raleigh to CJharlotte. It this course, If adopted, and the maps and surveys showed that it I# by far the most, feasible route, tl.3 road will pass Concord. Beginning at Raleigh and going to Durham it would have a direct line through. Chatham, Orange, Alamance, Randolph, Davidson, Rowan and Ca barrus counties on to Charlotte. The building of this road through this great and populous section of North Carolina would mark the be ginning of an Industrial renaissance in which Concord could bs a potsh- tial factor provided the citizens here will offer inducements commensurate with the material benefits that would be derived and aufficiently attrac tive to induce officials of the road to build it* lin8 here. The Merchants’ Association is man ifesting a great interest in the mat ter and are asking the co-operation and aid of every citizen in the endeavor to get'the road if it should prove an ac tuality.. The oitlMns of Concord are how thorouji^ly *rou*^d in their efforts to get Ho'se faid more ;adequate railroad connections and should the opportun ity preadpt itself, whicji Is very like ly, for them to assist in securing the itMid by« ghrtng both Uieir moral and flcimcfal support they will gladly wel come . It.—Coidisord Tribune. Photographers Meet In Asheville Special to The News. Asheville, Sept. 26—The members of the Virginia-Carolina Photograph ers Association, which is to hold a four ydays’ session at te Swannanoa- Berkeley hotel, beginning Tuesday, have begun .to arrive in the city. Most of the officers canpe Saturday to make preparations for the convention which it is said promises to be the most successful ever held. The attendance is expected to be large and the members will probably arrive during the progress of the de monstrations ' and lectures until they close Friday night. As three states lare included in the association it is customary to alter nate in the places of holding the con ventions and as the IgtSt convention was held in Richmond, it may be ex pected that the next will be held in some city In South Carolina. SOMETHING N5W IN MEDICAL HISTORY. By Associated Press. Muskgeon, Mich., Sept. 26»—Mrs. Grant Devore, of Moorland, a village near here has given birth to twins, the babies being bom three days apatrt. One child is exactly 73 hours older than the other. Physicians say the case is almost without parallel in medical biaioiy. If you need Linoleum for your pantry, kitchen, hall and bath room, we have It for you. Good quality Print Linoleum, V- 65c to 85c Inlaid Linoleum from $1.00 te $1.75 Per Yd. We have also Good Grade Oil Cloth, 40c. to 50c. ^ . Come to U3 for Your Floor Coverlns WE HAVE THE GOODS W. T. McCOY & CO. •i- 1 i '.’1 J fa V
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