Price $4.00' Per Tear.
CONCOKD, N. 0., THURSDAY",1 FEB 16, 1399.
Single Copy 6 Cents.
BADLY DAMAGED.
A WET TIME.
CAPT, SECHLER DEAD. '
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The Furniture Stock of Bell, Harris
A Co., Wotted By a Deficient Roof-i
Tli Damage Can Hot Be Estimated.
Without seeing one can hardly
estimate the damage that Messrs
Bell, Harris & Co., furniture deal
ers, have sustained by the rain
and freeze .Wednesday night.
The greater portion of the
upper story of the building is Tret.
The furniture both upstairs and
downstairs is wet from continual
dripping during the night.
The ordinary wood furniture is
of course damaged besides the1
upholstered work. - Several of
their fine couches are saturated
with water.
When Mr. Bell opened the
store several inches of water were
on the floor at the front door, it
haying run out under the door.
The cause is, of course, the
deficient roofing, together with
the rain and lreeze of that night.
Scaicely any snow was found on
the roof, a large amount of it
having melted Wednesday. H
As for the damage done the
stock, this can not'' be told. The
furniture will all have to be rub-f
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bed considerably. As for the
upholstered wort this can not be
remedied. j
One of the firm, when asked
what he thought the loss would
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be, said "that he would not
had it to happen for $1,500 cash
and very probably
Club room is
A Wonderfal Clock.
Prof. r JN Aimer win at an
early day install a clock in Mont
Amooena 8eminary only j a
little less wonderful than
the great clock at Strasburg, but
probably more applicable to mod
ern uses. . I
Besides the ordinary time
keeping this clock will operate a
system of electric call bells by
which, with a system ot ' wires
connecting, he can have the girls
called from any room to fill one
or any number of programs as the
different departments of school
demand. I
Having once determined the
school programs for the depart
ments and set the machinery it
will announce by a rin of the
bell at the same instant lor jail
the rooms in each department arid,
without any contua on," will
announce the program differently
in other rooms as the
ment to which the 'girls
demands. At the closing hour it
ceases to call but takes iip its task
next morning again. So, on Fri
day evening it knocks off till Mon
day morning. Ill
It will thus automatically carry
on the calls for the session or ses
sions till there is a . change
manipulated, with nothing; to dp
but wind the clock once a week.
There is but one thing that it
refuses to do it eeems. It will
not have the time divided into
smaller periode than five minutes.
The minutes of time must be
divisible by five. I ,
This modern wonder is called
Pricks Automatic program! clook.
Dr. Miller is to be congratulated
on being among the first to secure
this very progressive equipment.
nooses Leaking Badly Memo Goods
In Stores Damaged-Tbe ' Sparge
Pipe at Felner's Tank Bursts.:
Thursday morning was a sur
prise morning to, scores of our
people. Many roofs proved insuf
ficient to keep out the fine snow,
and by the rising of of the tem
perature made it a wet time for a
number of business houses, be
sides the leaking of a large num
ber of dwelling houses.
Besides1 Bell, Harris & Cos
damages other buildings come in
for their share of leakage.
Quite an amount of Miss Mary
Brachen spring millinery goods
are badly damaged. When she
opened her store an inch or
two of water stood on part of her
floor, having soaked some of her
goods that were packed away in
pasteboard boxes, i Her loss is at
least $300
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more. ;
The New South
badly damaged. The plastering
overhead is ruined besides the
saturating of the carpet in the
one room! The Phifer hall ad
joining is wet considerably, it
having dripped through into
Dayvaultjs store slightly.
. Cook's photograph gallery is
badly damaged, his negatives and
prints bei ng ruined. The Morris
building leaked considerably in
several peaces: j !
i The Times office oontained an
inch or two of water on its j floor,
damaging things somewhat.
1 1 The rear of Swink & White's
store leaked quite much, danoa
ing tneir stock somewhat, i
Besides all this,' and after the
people had realized the state of
affairs, the large pipe from Mr.
Fetzer's iank on top of the rear
of the drug store burst, flooding
the back lot considerably and
putting several inches of
water in the basement of the
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drug store.
Dr. Marsh,one of our druggists,
Passes Away Suddenly Tuesday A Isn't
of Heart Disease.!
We learn, with sympathetic
emotions, that Capt. Jackson Sech
ler, of China Grove, died suddenly
at 2 o'clock Tuesday night.
He had been afflicted with heart
disease of smothering symptom.
His eon was with him in the
room and seeing unfavorable symp
toms called his mother, but life was
extinct before she arrived.'
The remains were buried at Mt.
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Zion Keformed church today
(Thursday) the 16th.
Mr. Sechler served in the Confed
erate struggle as captain in the
57th regiment. He was esteemed
in military as well as in civil life.
He had attained tq about 68
years of age.
His son, Jackson, is now in Cuba
in Capt. Hill's company.
He leaves a widow and a number
of children in bwreayeme it.
Another Death at China Grove.
While receiving by telephone the
particulars of Mr. Jackson Sechlers
death at China Grove, we wera in
formed alio of the death of Mr.
Aran t, who lives just out of China
Grove at Mr. Will Goodnight's. The
cause of his death was pneumonia.
He bad reached the age of about 50
or 60 years. He died about 8
o'clock Wednesday night.
also has trouble.
A number of
depart-
belons:
bottles of shoe polish foze then
burst,! ruining some of jhis stock:
Seventeen Wre Bnrned.
A breaking out of fire has been
one of thi3 most drea iful conempla
tions daring the cold weather. For
natelynot many fires have occurred,
but at Yanktori, Seath Dakota, a
building in which the ineane were
cared for took ' fire; Sunday and 17
of the unfortunates were lost in tbe
flames. With the thermometer 23
degrees below zero,! the water supply
"was unavailable.
BSo Early .Vegetables this Tear.
The
Florida
is
truck and
said to be
t. Miles' Ailn Bills are guaranteed to sferf
vegetable crop
totally destroyed, j A seyere loss
to the planters is sustained and no
little discouragement seems to be
felt. The express and railroad
companies are moving to hurry a
supply of seeds to be furnished
free of cost to the planters.
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Another Seawall Captured. ,t
I Only a few days after MrJ Mon
roe Ritchie shot a seagull tbe other
week, Mr. Henry Vaoderburg, of
Cannon ville, captured one. Mr.
Yanderburg only . crippled his
enough to catch it, and was, trying
to save is life but it died from its
Souvenirs Asnt From Cuba.
A nice collection of enrioa
is to be seen now at Dr. 'Fetzi
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er's Drng store. Quite a num
ber of photograpba taKen in
and around Havana! are in the
collection, showing the beanti
ful side of Cuba and also the
dark side. In the number is a
photo of the place where the
bones of human bodies are
cast after the flesh has de
composed The fancy work
of the Cubans can also be
seen. A machete, the weapon
of war, is among the exhibit,
also a Spanish sword .
It is a nice collection of
curios and one of which the
owner should be justly proud.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
China
Rev.!
of
J Q Wertz,
Grove, spent yesterday j here
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Miss Lucy Montgomery is ex
nected home from Monroe torn or
row. !
Messrs. G T Crowell, A M
Brown and R A Brown are fit Lex
ington today attending the sale of
Mr. Baxter Shem well's horses,
Mr. T B Rice, who onca was
in the merchandising business here
and who is doing bu sir. ess at
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Greensboro, spent last night here.
wounds,
iame it
He had intended to
Fresh
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EINE CAKES AND
have
Lot
CANDIES
in, so
just come
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now you just come in
.cd see them.
THEY ARE SOMETHING
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Ervin & Morrison
0R0CER5
BEAUTIFUL
Laces and
Embroierdies.
The best Embroidery
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for 10c. ever offered;
One , lotl of Ladies'
Night j Gowns to
close cheap.
Another 3,000 Yds
36 incH Percale for
5c jard, worth
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10 cents.
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WELTS.
Cannon & Fetzer
Company
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Good
Thing.
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It we have a good thing q
the people want it. Their i
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scale of living is many de
grees higher than their forefathers.
They want the comlorts as" well
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as the necessities of lite, andj one
ot these will be found in our $3.00
Shoes for men.
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Our easy fitting, stylish! and
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and Russian Calf, Yici, Enamel
and Pat. Leather are the acine of
beauty and aristocratic style in
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foot wear.
They are made on the
newest lasts.
JJL Drop in and see them.
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SPRING
STYLES
FORiTHE YEAR '90
Just inland more to follow. If we can't please you -in style
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Prices from $3.50 to $30.00.
Furniture and Horse Furnishioffs more than ever. We
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bought before tbe advance. Can save you money every
time. Another car load of g hairs at close-out prices on the
way. We want your trade. It you give us a chance we will
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have it. Call and see us. We are yonrs to serve,
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Bell, Harris & .Company
' t. S. Best tquippod Undertaking Establishment in the State.
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fcan give you anything you want from a Pauper Wood Case to -a
Copper Linedjor Metallic good enough for Jay Gould.
andsomest Funeral Gar
- In the State FREE