2Qa;ily Standard,
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OFFICE IN BRICK ROW.
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The Weekly , Standard isa
four-page,, eigntrcolauan paper. Ji
has a larger circulation in Cabarrus
than any other paper. Price 1.00
per annum, in advance.
advertising rates :
Teroia for regular advertise me nits
mads known on application'. 1
Address all communications to'
THE STANDARD,
" Concord,-N. C.
CONCORDDEU. v 16189 B.'
OUR C1.UBUING LIST.
Our proposition toffuruish the
Home and Farm as a gift, with
The Ptandard, is withdrawn, and
we will furnish Home and Farm,
price 50 cents, t wiih.the Weekly
Standard, for Si 25 Leslie'sJUus
trated Weekly, price $4, with the
Weekly Standard one year or
Dily Standard 3 mgnthsffpr$3
the New York World, thrice-a-week,
and The Standard for $1.65.
' To this we uope to add an ex
tended list soon. : "
FREE DEtITEliir OFiJ!IAIIi.
' The questioa. -of free delivery 4 of
snail haV received such" attention
that the vPoatoffice -Departmentrtfe-
termined to make' someexperimental
tests. Hon. -Kerr Craig, ;being en
lha8iastic for the RVflt.pm vr&ti An
5orded a field of e4 Hment.' He
selected Qhina (ro?e -township i in
Bo wan county . L'here kre t wo ;car-
Tiers at $175 each who consume
about four hours -ach"day-in rde-:
li fering, the j?nail.
A few neighbors generally cluster
together and haye their mailrleft ' at
the house of the one agreed upon!
If there is a cranjc out of cog wittj
iiis neighbors they Jry.to suit 1Mb
whims and leave his mail at his own
house. JNo one's mail is delivered
to him if he does not want the con
Tenence. Post Master' Deacon, who
is--in hearty sympathy with the
movement, has added greatly to
making the ' experiment a Jiatisf ac-
I'll r ;
tory test and is of the opinion tliat
the increase in .the amount nfihusi
ness done throu. i thd mails :will
compensate for the expensesl ' H
This, too, lopks like a long stride
but when we look back a few years
.- nd see how we have come up jrom
ome , half dozen poatoffices in ; the
county with mail cnce a .week to
about three tipes that 'number with
daily, tri-weekly and semiweekly
mails, the afeap: will not look 'so
reat after fall' and'if it should not
pay inljp6.Btage:it niighit andproba
wij wuum pu(y largely jin maJsing
curs a r
undo TriiE CjrbbiNQ '
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The PresssVisitor thinks that the
be wel) en.o?gh .asto, joesjbat
if they are going to do anything for
the schools itissto behcpe& jthey
ill return to tjig gV:.1rf
ixaving the State 'board to eelect the
for f oni moaUs'Boliopr. fikt. wjll
books to be used and have 'some uai
formity. -
in We iciocTpqni in -three rJjionths
tltn propej,gorGbifprmf s books as
cant -begone! nfour thonths wtthoii t!
It was Du small burden for o r acher
to get all the right -kindbf booEi
when (be seledilB . board asVonel
body, bat nowrJthatthetate ha3'96
selecting boards f he already? oyer-
burdened and -"bewildered: teacher
can expect a good deal of worry to
control the matter er grow eupinek
indifferent tcftbe best interest of the
Choql. , - '
The legislature must fall short of
its highest opportunities to benefit
the free?choo!8 of the State if it
does not ? undo ;the undoing ' of the
legislature of5 wih regard to the
selection rf bookp.
100 EXPESIMEXT FARMS.
Te Reaboarrl propor g to buy a
farm eTery ten mile nling its sys"
tpm.and place upon it ?rne suitable
person tc test tjie fjanapity ot our
Southern soil for variaated crops.
This seems to us to be an indea as
?rand 83 it is nniqa, and if sue"
cefsful, wj(iich tHrdly admits of
dqubt ve'lcnow qT .Vbtliing abetter
1.1 1.21. 1J1 J f n V , i .;
toat ltc iuiu uo ior ooutnern uevei
opment. !
A Household Kcccssity.
.Cascarejs-: Candy Cathartic, the
m bi t wotfd erful ed icaf d isco very
of the age, pleaeant and refreshing
to the taste, actfgeEitlvland-besitivei
ly on the ktdneysHiVer andrjowelsi
cleansing tne entire system, dispel
colds, cure headachfi fAver. -ha"h?f nnl
consti patiob5 anorlM liiisn es. Please
bay and try a box of C. C. C. to-day,
tQm, 50 cents! 'TSld an.oV VuaxanJ
ieea to cure oyau drugg Bt3. h
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The Atlanta 'Journal says -the
lpQeeHbwe of tlie lc
I houBe of the legialature'vo ted to
lower
ap-
propiate ; $1,000,000 to the cchool
fund instead of ' 600,000 as before
and that the Senate is apt to concur.
Th8will gjyejeorgia eight or nine
ood teachers,- and will pll Geor
ia zon r.a-JeYel" with the foremost
educational elites andeet an example
worthy of emulation by other South
ern States'; " - '
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
XteAwy.
If yxxu want tor jfmt tobacco us
ing ' easily and ' forever, be made
well, ,8trong, magnetic, full of new
life and vigor; taketNo-Tb-sBac, the
wonder-worker that makes weak
men strong. Many gain ten pounds
in ten-days. iOyer 40Q.000 cured.
Buy XNo-To-Bac - from your own
druggist, who will guarantee a cure.
Bpoklet.and sample -mailed free.
:4re8s StVrlingllemcdy Co,, , Chi
cago: or New; York.
Xotes from tli o Organ, -
Geo. O Kluttz lleft last Monday
fot Greensboro, iwherehe goes to
superintend the; dyeing department
of the cotton ffactoryj at .that .place.
Mr. If luttz has been in 1 the dyeing
department of the Salisburv mills
(for more 1 than a year.! He erient
tseveral months last summer in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
gathering up new ideas in1 dyeing.
H M j fisher has moved, to his
father-Jn-law'sV Mr.1 N Barnhardt, in
No. 5 township. J ,? r : '
Mrs. Crissie ,Bpst is .visiting her
niiece, Mrs. 4Jho. L Jlendierhan, in
Ijitaker tbwriship;
ine missionarv sal a fit. Awan
1 Chdrch'lasl; -Saturday amotrn&d to
m'iThVatfe
threatening in :th6 morning," and
tpply a' few ot the ' members turned
.put:;
1 ; Mr. Jacob Goodman, of ; Nn ' R.
tended, -ther 'missinn!;rv,1,aiV i0t
it o uMDioittuu ojb.is wian.WPrt so
lookout ye widows of Cabarrus.
Whit.
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I HT! A T T f acite and Bhetjmatism rellevefl
1 l4.33y Dr,UlesHei$TO Plasters.
t - Vsi;' ! w". 'v!i
OJdiSarj
That's Ayer Thejsame old
"sarsaparilla as it was made and
&old byDr. J; PAyer W ifecra
ago. Jn the laboratory . it is
""different. " There inbdern appli
ances lend1 speed ' toskill and
.experience, upthe, .sarsapa
illa'is the sake old sarsaparilla
that made" te record-50' years
fcures'WJiy-don'twebett3r
ft? Wellre'niuch 'in the
tWp- 'rTsIio'd and the
I raspbeVry :n f ; " Doubtless, " he
said, " God might liave made a
I better berrv. Eut doubtless,
i -L::-jm Wliv
aiSO, xie j never uiu.
better the sarsaparilla?
We .'can't. 'We' are : using the ; j
same old plant that cured the
Indians and the Spaniards. It
.has xnot. been .bettered1 And
'since xve make sarsaparilla com-,
pound out oi sarsaparilla plant, :
we see no way of improvement.
Of course, if we were making
some secret chemical. compound
we might . . . . But we.'re net.
We're tmaking the same old sar-5
ipaiiUa itdcure Lihe same pldr
diseases. You can tell it's the
same : old) sarsaparilla ; Jbe-
cause it works the
same old
:eterc. 7 It's the. sqyerei
blood
A Sir OB? :HoMe Isstitutiea.
The Southern Stock Mutual F re
Insurance Compaav of JiGreensboro.
N, C, is packed by many of the
wealthiest; and .beat financiers of
North Carolina." It paid last season
a uiviuenu oi per cent to its policy
holders and is in' better shape than
ever before. ..--m , :.
KEEP YOU Y MONEY AT HOME
Concord agency in Lore building
on West Depot street.
G. G. RICHMOND,
THOS. W. SMITH. '
NOTICE, TO CONSIGNEES.
' ! Concord, N. C, Dec. i, 1S96.
: The Southern Express Company will se' , at
public auction, . at D-VP. Dayvault's store for
charges, abou; three hundred freight packages,
being on han;d six months and over, on Saturday,
January 9th, 1897, commencing a to o'clock a. m.
unless called for, charges paid pr otherwise dis
posed of before day of sale, ' '
; li' D. P. DAYVAtfLT, Agent,
i O. M. SADDLER, Superjtendettt. ; - jy8
L. ; Tr iH ARTSE L L
! ATTOKNE Y-AT-IiA.W,
CQNCo'rD, - ;- -N, C.
rwmpt -attention;, given to -all
jbusine83. ItQfficensrris building
opposite court hSuse; "
JNO. p. ERWIN. p..A':MISENHEIMER
ERWIN & M1SENHEIMER
r"""3 ana surgeons
OfflP.A
poslte 'nd TresbyTenan church
Charlottl.f.7(J. rx
r ft .n
I TVi-Trt1 every, ,mgnll"woinari In the United
States 4nterestettin4the,'ChrtTtm-' and Whisky
habits .to Jbave one of my books on these dis
eases j i lAlfiTe&& 1B..M iWftnl1ff At.lAnis' !
ox 2S2, acd ao wiM be sent yon tree. , o I
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Well, the offer of jlO per cent, moved the
Cliina;aiid trlassrre. Tte money we took
in by tHis special order is already invested in
more Christmas goods and on the way. We
expecti$800 or iftl,000 worth of .Christmas
goods n, in time1 for Ciiristmas,7 but will not
have any more China. jCome and: see us; we
can save you money . ' ; ,
Very, Rieisp0tLlly.
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