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Hie Concord Times
Entered u second glass mall matte*
at the nostofllce at Concord* N. ft* ■*-
der the Act of March 8, 1879.
Published Mondays and Thursday*.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Pnblishet
W. M. SHERRILL* Associate Editor
Special Representative
•FROST, X.AXDI9 * KOHN
283 Fifth Avenne, New York
Peoples Gas Building, Chicago.
1004 Candler Building, Atlanta
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
, In Effect April 20. 1923.
NORTHBOUND,
No. 136 To Washington 5:00 A. M.
No. 36 To Washington 10:25 A. M.
No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M.
No. 12 To Richmond 7:10 P. M.
No 32 To Washington 8:28 P. M.
No. 3S To Washington 9:30 P. M.
SOUTHBOUND .
No, 45 To Charlotte —4:23 P. M.
No* To Atlanta 10.06 P. M.
No.' 29 To Atlanta 2:45 A.. M.
No. *3l To Augusta 6:07 A. M.
No. 33 To New' Orleans 8:27 A. M.
No. 11 To Charlotte 9:05 A. M.
No. 135 To Atlanta 9:15 P. M.
" TIME OF OF MAILS.
The time of the closing of mails at
the Concord postoffice is as follows:
Northbound.
Train No. 44—11 p. m.
Train No. 36—10:30 a. m.
Train No. 12 —6:30 p. m.
Train No. 35—7:30 p. m.
Train No. 30—11 p. m.
Southbound.
Train No. 37—9:30 a. m. _
Train No. 45—3:00 p. m.
Train No. 135—9:00 p. m.
Train No. 29—11:00 p. m.
Bible Thought For The Day
★
TIME NO OBJECT: —But. beloved,
be not ignorant of this one thing, that
one day is with the lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 2 :S.
DEATH IN DRINK.
*:■ •" r —-
1 uifed : States Prohibition Commission
er Roy A. Haynes is now publishing in
the New York Times, a "Series of articles
which present evidence respecting vari
ous aspects of the enforcement of tlie
naitonal. prohibition law. It has been
strongly suspected for a long time that
great quantities of adulterated and pois
onous liquors have reached the illicit 1
market, and this suspicion is. thorough
ly borne out by tlie official information
given out by Mr. Haynes. It is the eas
iest matter in the world for the bootleg'
gers to counterfeit labels of standard
whiskies, to put them on hootch of the *
vilest kind and s#dl to unwary purchas
ers. They, of course, have no scruples 1
whatever about this, and even counter
feit the packages and wrappings faith
fully. The fellow who buys from them
congratulates himself that he is getting
“genuine Scotch'" or /some other favor- '
ite brand of liquor when he is getting a
poisonous concoction which often sends
hkn to his death. 1
*
It seems that the facts so clearly stat
ed by Mr. Haynes are fully borne out by :
the jKilice and hospital records. In the
last number of The New York Medical
Journal. Dr. S. I). Hubbard gives the"'
figures over a period of years of the
numbers of deaths from wood alcoholism
and from acute alcohol poisoning. They
went up by from 400 to 800 per cent. ~
after l!»19. the first year of national
prohibition. The moral does not need
pointing out. Don't buy the stuff.
THE RICHEST MAN.
The filing of the annual - statement of
the Ford Motor Company recently re
vealed another twentieth century won
derful financial achievement. Heflry
Ford and his only son own all the capi
tal stock of the company. Their net
profits last year were sll9,<)oo.o<X), and
the statement showed that the company
had deposited in various banks $159,-
OtMMHWI iu cash. Mr. Ford, it is estab
lished. we believe, without tjuestiou. is
the richest man in the world. Certain
ly he enjoys the largest individual in
come of any capitalist in this or any
other country.
It is amazing to realize that this cp
lossal fortune was accumulated in less
than twenty years, as at that time he
was a book-keeper on a very modest sal
ary. This accumulation seems, too. to
have aroused but little public hostility,
so far as it is concerned and apart from
some other activities of Mr. Ford. Ev
en union labor virtually contemplates
the Ford success quiescently. Mr.' Ford
lias done more than any one else to make
• Detroit a non-union city, but he always
led the way. to the paying of high wag
es. Although he lias refused to recog
nize union labor in his shop, there seems
to have been no union outcry against
him, and his cars are owned by men
who hold union cards just as if these
cars were turned out from union shops.
WATCH YOUR CHILDREN’S LITER
ATURE.
A thoughtful citizen, in a letter pub
lished iu a paper in a Rhode Island city,
brings to the attention of mothers and
fathers the fact that magazines of doubt
ful value are being sold in the city by
news dealers, and that they can be ob
tained by ypuug people into whose hands
they should not fall. He makes the sug
gestion that parents should kno.w the
character of the magazine literature on
sale and be ou guard against its being
purchased and read by their children. Os
N course opiuious differ as to what is or is
not harmful reading matter for chil
dren and young people," but if dealers in
the Rhode Island cityTpr anywhere else,
are handling periodicals which are vic
ious or obscene, even if cleverly disguis
ed, steps should be taken to have the
sale of such stopped. The best remedy
against such, literature is to interest the
children in the clean and wholesome kind.
They will then turn less to that which is
yicioue or salacious.
DECLARES GERMANY CAN PAY
NOTHING.
—j I
The Institute of Economics, of New.
York, is an institution with an endow
ment of $2,000,000 from the Carnegie
Foundation. Part «f its income has been
'devoted to an economic investigation of
the extent to which Germany has paid
reparations and her capacity to make
further payments. Germany at present
can pay" nothing, according to the con
clusions reached by this organization,
which has at its head such men as Dr.
Arthur T. Hadley, ex-president of Yale:
D. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of
Harvard: David S. Houston. ex-Secre
tary of the Treasury: John Barton
Payne, head of the American Red Cross,
and Paul M. Warburg, of New York.
The report -declares it to be’ the con
clusion of the Institute’s investigation
that since the armistice was signed, Ger
many. in fulfillment of reparations obli
gations. has parted with goods, money,
property and securities worth 20.000.-
000.000 gold marks, or about $5,188,000.-
000. This is more than France admits,
and Allies acknowledge the recenpt of
only about $2,000,000,000 from Germany-
On the other hand Germany claims cred
it for payment,* amounting in round
numbers to $11,000,000,000.
' A discrepancy between these is
explained, according 'to the Institute’s
report, by the fact that the allied powers
refused to allow credit for many of the
largest items of German delivery. After
declaring that Germany “at present can
pay nothing.” the Institute asserts that
“whether she will be able to pay in the
near, or even distant, future depends on
circumstances over which she has no di
reet* control.” It declares that most of
the values surrendered by Germany in
fulfillment of reparation obligations have
been from capital and not income, and
that “she has practically nothing left
that Germany has no more capital to
send across the border, no income, except
paper marks, which the Allies will not
accept, and that the Allies cannot collect
anything from Germany so long as they
refuse to permit Germany to earn, by
foreign trade, money acceptable to them.
Whatever may be the truth of the
conclusions reached by the Institute.- it
i* an interesting contribution to the bet
ter understanding of the situation.
STEADY ADVERTISING THE THING
Mr. H. B. Stout, manager of the mer
chandising division of the Goodyear tire
sales department, recently delivered a
message at the annual dealers’ get-to
gether meeting held at Bismarck. North
Dakota which is worth repeating sever
al times.
The substance of Mr. Stout’s message
was that consistent, insistent and con
tinuous advertising pays. He declared
that 94 per cent, of the advertisers of
one large Chicago daily, who placed ad
rerti*emenfwin the paper only spasmod
ically were final failures. It was the
steady pull of regular and all-time ad
vertising that did the job. Mr. Stout
said:
“Gooilyear does not depend upon one.
two or three times copy. We seldom
start a campaign that does not run for
at least 52 insertions in the paper and
more often it is two or three times a
week copy. That is what tells."
"But advertising will not do the work
-alone. There mtfst be service, courtesy
and system—the handmaids of advertis
ing. Too much time is given up to
groaning over mail order competition.
"If you are ui»ou your toes and attend
as muA to your trade as the mail order
houses, they would not have a show be
side you.” declared Mr. Stout. "I have
worked for mail order houses and know
their system. They drop iuto a terri
tory and make a survey. Where they
find merchants not giving adequate ser
vice. failing to push sales by the various
media of advertising, then they start a
bombardment of literature. It usually.,
comprises sending a mail a series of
twenty-four pieces of mail. If they get
even so much reaction as a postcard they
continue that name for another series."
In New Mexico recently a bold and
intrepid editor, conceiving it to be his
duty to the public, criticised the action
of a court. The court hailed him before
it and sentenced him to jail for a long
term ou charges of criminal libel and
contempt of court. The right-thinking
Governor of that commonwealth, prompt
ly issued a complete pardon in both
cases, holding rightfully that the liberty
of free speech and a free press had been
infringed by the court, as the editor was
exercising only his constitutional rights
as a free American citizen in express
ing himself and saying what he thought.
All honor to Governor Hinkle for his
courageous act.
During the past few years women
have been engaged as employees in
banks iu great numbers. Their employ
ment was accentuated by war conditions.
Their services have proven satisfactory,
and recently their organization, number
ing 6,500, asked for equal rights with
men as to the amount of their salaries.
When this demand was discussed by the
American Institute of Banking at a re
cent meeting in Cleveland, a Virginia
banker was bold enough or silly enough
to refer to the women as *merely tem
porary employees.” and said their “ulti
mate goal should be at home.” That’s
stuff is old and out-of-date. But then
be who uttered it was from Virginia.
The time is fast approaching when 'the
period of government provision for the
rehabilitation of the thousands of dis
abled-veterans will be closed. . During
tfajeir ttrailing period these tiugn hpve
■ been receiving the assistance of ‘ the gov
ernment. But when their training tier
i iod ends they will be suddenly thrown
upon their own resources, and steps
! should be taken for their assimilation
into civil life. The problem i» ope for
i the pcpple to take upwhere
j the government leaves off.
The old rebel, Francisco Villa, who
* was assassinated a few days ago, has
been living for the past few years on
his ranch ou the proceeds of the booty
he secured during his active days as a
revolution 'leader and a strife breeder
generally. Now.’it seems, there is to be
a great row over .the succession of his
ranch and his property. He seems to
have left two wives, and each of them
with her friends claims ownership of
the ranch and all that goes with it. One
of the wives is in possession and the
friends of the other threaten to dispos
sess her by force. The possibility est
trouble is so strong that federal troops
have been ordered to the ranch.
Now comes the report that, encourag
ed by the recent result in Minnesota, the
radical elements of the rock-ribbed Re
publican State of Vermont are making
their plans to follow the lead of the
northwestern State. They will make an
effort, it is said, to elect a candidate to
succeed the late Senator Dillingham who
will be similar to Mangus Johnson, the
new Senator from Minnesota. Vermont
is an agricultural State, having no large
city, and it is not at all improbable that
it may break away from its Republi
can moorings.
It has been a long time since New
York has had the national convention of
either party, but it is going to make a
strong bid to secure this year the Demo
cratic convention. Os course Chicago
will also make a strong bid. and Kansas
City and San Francisco are also expect
ed to want the big meeting. From pres
ent indications, the Uepublicatiou con
vention will be but little more than a
ratification meeting, and the Democratic
convention will hofel the center of inter
est.
GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE BY
FIRE IN ASHEVILLE
Loss Estimate*! at $250,000. —It Seemed
at One Time That Several Other Build
ings Would Be Burned.
Asheville, July 25.—The three-story
building and contents of the Emporium
Department Store on South Pack Square,
were completely destroyed by .fire which
developed about II :30 this morning. O.
P. McArthur and Mrs. C. A. Williams,
employes, were severely burned, and the
former suffered « broken leg when lie
jumped from a second story window.
Two clerks reported missing, were later
located.
The loss is "estimated at $250,000 only
partially covered by insurance. So rapid
ly did the tffTines gain headway that for
a time it seemed that several other build
ings in the heart of the business section
would be destroyed. All the, fire appa
ratus of the city was concentrated and
save for minor losses to the city library
the fire was confined to the Department
store. Several clerks escaped from sec
ond and third floors by jumping into life
nets.
NEGRO LABORER SHOT AND '
KILLED BY WHITE “BOSS”
Ed Terry' Givps Himself l’p to Officers
After Killing Lee Gordon. Following
Words.
Gastonia. July 23.—Lee Gordon, a ne
gro laborer of Kings Mountain, was shot
and instantly killed by Ed. Terry, white,
supervising boss on the construction work
:>f the new Kings Mountain 'pumping
station, this afternoon about 3 o'clock,
following an altercation and some words
between the Jwo. Terry immediately
gave himself up to the authorities at
Shelby.
Gordon, who was not working for Ter
ry. was sent to the plant to borrow some
tools. A dispute ensued and words fol
lowed.
It is alleged that two or three rocks
were thrown, thd negro then started
back to his work. Terry went to a near
by house, borrowed a shotgun, and shot
the negro as he passed into a wagon,
emptying both barrels, according to re
ports here. The negro died instantly.
Terry was formerly employed here" with
a construction force.
MUST STOP USE OF
MISLEADING BRAND
Order Issued Against Big Greensboro
Concern by the Trade Commission.
Washington, July 23. —The King-Fer
ree Company. Inc., a cigar manufactur
er of Greensboro, N. C., is ordered by
the Federal Trade Commission to dis
continue the use of misleading legends
in connection with the advertisement
and sale of cigars manufactured by the
concern iu Greensboro.
The commission's order specifies that
and desist from using the word *'Yan
tarapa” alone, or jn combination with
other words, iu brands, labels or legends
on cigars, and the containers thereof,
manufactured by it in Greensboro, N.
C.. or any other place than the city of
Tampa, Florida, or the Tampa district,
so-called, unless if the cigars in fact are
not made in Tampa. Florida, or the
Tampa district, such worn or words are
followed by words *in type or lettering
equally conspicuous with the word “Van
tampa” which state the true place of
manufacture.
Leviathan Completes First American
) Voyage.
Xe/v York, July 23.—-The Leviathan
today completed her maiden voyage un
der the American flag. More than 7,500
persons were at the Hudson river pier
where the giant “Sea Palace” docked.
The running time from Southampton
to New York was five days. 12 hours and
11 minutes, with at ( average speed of
23.09 knots an hour. Her speed from
Nantucket to Ambrose light was 25.07
knots an hour.
The longest dgy’s run was 605 miles.
On another day 601 miles were covered.
Ten stowaways slipped aboard at Cher
bourg aud Southampton. They were
turned over to Ellis island authorities.
Gov. Morrison Cannot Attend the Peach
Siiow.
Asheville. N. C., July 25.—Governor
Cameron Morrison said today he would
not be able to attend the peach show
which will be opened Friday at Hamlet.
N. C.
Hattie Eury, who has been cook at
the boarding house of Mrs. J. S. Lafferty
for the pgfct ,ten years, was taken to the
Concord Hospital this morning for an
, operation- Hattie numerous friends
among the white people. .
r THE CONCORD TIMES
RAT KII4JSRS LOOSE GASES
THAT SEND THREE TO DEATH
Men Trapped in Building Found With
Hands Outstretched Toward Sealed
Doors.
New Y’ork. July 22. —The lifeless
bodietij of three men, -one of them lying
with outstretched hahds 20 feet from
the sealed, locked doors that woul<} have
mocked his efforts even if he had suc
ceeded in reaching them, were > found
this afternoon in the warehouse of the
Hecker-Jones Jewell Mailing company,
at Oorlears and Water streets.
- Shortly before 4 o’clock Saturday
afternoon a crew from the Fumigators
Chemical Company, of Warners, N. J.,
saw to it that all windows and doors
were closed and locked and all crevices
and opening through which air might
pass were stopped up with burlap and
bags of flour.
Then, under the impression tlmt the
building was empty of all hun tan beings,
they! placed in position on tje outside,
large tanks of liquid hydrocyanic acid,
connected them up with pipes leading
to the six floors and cellar of the ware
house. and went away, leaving the dead
ly fumes to find their way into every
crevice and corner and exterminate all
rats and vermin.
At 3 o’clock this afternoon, Henry
Harvey and Chris Paulfraf, employees
of the mill, arrived for the purpose of
opening the warehouse. They donned
their gas masks ami opened one of the
doors. s
The body of a man 20 feet from the
door on the ground floor met their gaze.
A few feet further back on the same
floor were the bodies of two more men.
The fact that the three men were
found within a few feet of the door was
taken to indicate that they had realized
too late they were trapped, and making
a last minute dash for the outer air and
life, had run into the death-dealing
fumes-
DAWSON FOR GOVERNOR
NINE YEARS FROM NOW
Elevation of Y'oung Easterner is Caus
ing the olitical Powers to Get Busy.
Raleigh July 22.—John G. Dawson’s
election a: chairman of the democratic
state execi ive committee has stirred
the politico prophets to activity and
they are now predicting his election as
governor nine years from now.
This talk, quite likely, with furnish
more material for the supporters of the
theory that the “powers that be” pick
the governors for the people of the
state nine years -ahead of time. That
has been the cry since the political
writers first, began prophesying Max
Gardner’s election to the governorship
five years hence, when the easterner who
will succeed Governor Morrison has re
tinal from office.
To be advocated nine years ahead of
time might kill the chance of Chairman
Dawson, who is all the nice things
everybody says about him. nevertheless,
he is being talked by a good many
people wiose interest in polities goes
deep enough to look a long ways ahead.
Mr. Dawson is not more than a year
or two from 40. either ou this side or
the other side, aud in nine years he
would be at a satisfactory "guber
natorial age.” Max Gardner was 39
when lie made his race against Governor
Morrison, and many voters complained
of his youth.
The prophets are looking* to him to
occupy the mansion six years hence and
that would put him in office at 45.
YOUNG MAN FOUND
WANDERING IN WOODS
Ilad Been Sleeping Outdoors and Liv
in on Berries.
Goldsboro, July 24.—Edwin J. Keif
fer. 25-year-old white man. whose mind
is evidently unbalanced was foundwan
dering in the woods near the Wayne
county fair grounds by local police, who
brought him to city jail, where he
is being held for observation.
The young man, neatly dressed and of
excellent appearance, but without funds,
claims San Antonio, Texas, as his home.
He lias been seen loafing around the
city for the past two weeks, obviously
without visible means of support. Lo
cal authorities, becoming suspicious, fol
lowed him yesterday, and found that he
had been sleeping in the woods for some
time. His bed. couch or pallet, which
ever it. may be termed, was composed of
woods rubbish over which he had spread
newspapers, using his suitcase as a pil- i
low. He stated to the officers that lie |
had been living on such eatable berries
as lie could gather in the woods.
Chief of Police Tew lias wired A. G.
Ivieffer. f)f San Antonio, whom the
young man claims is liis brother in the
effort to have him carried to some sana
torium, where he can be properly cared
'for.
L. W. STANCELL DIES
FJiOM HEART TROUBLE
Charlotte Man Was Preparing to Go to
Insurance Meeting When Death Inter
vened.
Charlotte. July 23. —While preparing
to attend an insurance managers’ meet
ing at Whitelake. L. W. Stancell, man
ager of the insurance department of the
Carolina Home Investment corporation,
died suddenly of heart trouble at his
residence this morning.
The annual convention of insurance
agencies of the Philadelphia Life Insur
ance company was to open this after
noon at Whitelake and Mr. Staucell when
he was stricken, was in preparation for
departure for the meeting.
A CITY DETECTIVE
SHOT AND KILLED
Another Was Wounded When They At
tempted to Raid a House at Little
Rock.
Little Rock, July 24.—-Announcement
was made by the police shortly before
noon today that the two men responsi
ble for the killing of George W. Moore,
a city detective, and the wounding of
L. C. Hay. another detective here early
today had been identified as Arthur
Lange, an Oklahoma bandit, and a man
known as "Diadiuou Joe,” said to be a
former Kansas City saloon keeper.
Lange is said to be wanted in Okla
homa, for the? murder: of a policeman,
aiyd in Kansas oil a cliafge of bank rob
bery. |
„ Admiral Sigsbee Buried.
Washington, July 23.—Rear Admiral
Charles D. Sigsbee, retired, famous as
the commander of the ill-fated battleship
Maine, received hit last salute today.
■ With full military honors he went to
: his final rest at Arlington national cem
etery.
MERCHANTS
FOR A GREAT YEAR
The Directors, Meeting in Winston-
Salem. Decide to Launch Aggressive
Campaign to Organize Ail the Mer
chants of the State-
Statesville Daily.
.Back in his office today after having
been out practically all week attending
meetings and conferences with officers
ind leaders of the North Carolina
MeMrchants Association at Winston-
Salem, Durham, Raleigh and else
where, J. Paul Leonard, executive sec
retary of the North Carolina Merchants
Association, is making announcements
with reference to future activities of
the Association which he says will
prove of great interest to merchants and
business men throughout the State. The
most important meeting attended during
the week was that of the new board of
directors of the State Association, held
in followed by con
ferences with Messrs. W. N. Dixon and
J. F. Morris of Winston-Salem, presi
dents of the State Association and the
Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Com
nan.v, respectively. If all the plans
worked out by the directors are carried
out in detail, Mr. Leonard believes this
will prove the greatest year in the
history of the Association. In addition
to the information he is giving to the
public today, he says other important
announcements with reference to his
Association and its activities will be
made probably next week.
Every director and officer attending
the conference pledged personal as
sistance to the executive secretary dur
ing the next several months and a
•ampaign will he inaugurated the latter
part of August iu which each of the
officers and directors scattered over the
State will spend not less than three
days traveling with the secretary from
town to town organizing new local as
sociations in those towns large Piiougli
to support them and soliciting indi
vidual members for the State Associa
tion in the smaller town<f. Eaeh. of the
present locals having been pledged by
the recent convention to organize one
new local, the president and a com
mittee from eaeh local will be called on
to assist the State secretary aud
director visiting their respective locali
ties. Following this campaign, the
president and executive secretary are
empowered by a motion of the directors
to employ a field secretary, if they see
fit, who shall spend his entire time
traveling the State in the interest of the
Association. Officers and directors of the
State Association aud insurance com
pany who arc to devote not less than
three days to the campaign include the
following prominent merchants of the
State: W. N. Dixson and J. Frank Mor
ris. of Winston-Salem. A- W. Bunch
and R. L. Poston of Statesville. U. W.
Miller and J. X. MJeCausland of Char
lotte. S. P. Burton aud A. Nichols of
Asheville, B. T. Bayens- and Clias. H.
McKnight of Greensboro, Wh. Perlstein
of Raleigh, J. C. *JVilliams of Wilming
ton. II- C. Joyner of Rock Mount. Tj.
B. Markham of Durham. Elmer Tt. Oet
tingor of Wilson. These are to be sup
plemented by members of the State
program and extension committee aud
local Association presidents.
President Dixso/i was authorized and
instructed by the board of directors to
call a special meeting of the North
Carolina Merchants Association to be
held at some central point in the State
next February at^,which time a special
effort is to be made to bring into con
ference every member of the “Big
Double-Five Committee”—the official
family of the State Association and in
surance the personnel of
which is the fifty-five men composing the
boards of directors of the State Asso
ciation and the insurance company and
State committees, and with these the
president of eaeh local Association.
Mt\ Leonard was authorized by the
directors to arrange for the reserva
tion of an entire* hotel _at Morehead
City the third week of next June. The
22nd annual convention of the North
Carolina Merchants Association is to
be held at Morehead the third Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday of June, and
there will be meetings of a number of
single-lino organizations of merchants
the day preceding the opening of the
general convention, along with group
meetings of the Merchants Association.
A number of groups plan to have meet
tings following the general convention,
and , it was therefore decided to secure
the hotel for the entire week and limit
guests to delegates to the convention
and their families. :
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AFFLICTED WITH A FIT
WHILE BATHING; DROWNS
Cameron Had Been Subject,to Epilepsy
Since Fall From Horse While in the
Cavalry.
Rock Hill. S. (’., July 23. —Sam M.
Cameron, a well known and highly es
teemed resident of the Industrial village,
met death by drowning in the Catawba
river Thursday, near the Carliartt Mill
No. 2. while in bathing. He was seized
with an epileptic fit and drowned before
his condition was noticed.
Cameron was 28 years of age aud
had been subject to epilepsy since an in
jury sustained by a fall from a horse
while in the cavalry branch of the ser
vice during the war. However, it is un
derstood the spells were very infrequent
aud none of his comrades iu the swim
ming party knew.of his affliction. All
had gotten out after the swim excepting
Cameron, aud lie was taking a Jast plunge
as tlie others dressed. A member of the
party happened to look around while
dressing and saw the body floating a*
couple of feet from the bank. Death
had already occurred, it being apparent
that he was stricken in the water aud
death came instantly.
Cameron is survived by his wife aud
a number of relatiyes.
Slight Drop m Auto Production.
AVasiyington. July 23. —Automobile
production in_ the United States though
still maintaining extraordinarily high
levels, dropped off during June as com
pared with May, according to figures
gathered by the Commerce Department
and the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. The June total of passen
gerH'ars was 336317 /as compared with
350.180 iu May. and 263.027 in June.
1922: Trucks inuring
June numbered 40.565 compared with
43,012 during May aud 25,984 during
June last year.
Big Grain Exports.
Washington. July 23.—Grain exports
from American ports last week amount
ed to 3,715.000 bushels compared with
1,613,000 bushels the week before.
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THE WEEKLY WEATHER
AND CROP REVIEW
North Carolina Crops Made Good Prog
ress:—Cotton in Good Condition.
Washington. July 25.—The weekly
weather and crop review issued today by
the Department of Agriculture contains
the following on the Southern crops: The
temperature was below normal during
most of the week in the cotton belt, and
considerably cloudy rainy weather pre-,
vailed in the central portions. In gener
al the. progress and condition were gopd
to very good in the northern portion, ex
cept in Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas,
and also ir. the more eastern districts
except in Florida.
The weekly weather by cotton ."tales
included:
North Caiolioa crops made good prog
ress iu.most of the state except in some
sections where it was too dry and heavy
damage by hail, wind and rain to a
15-mile strip of Pitt county; also some
local damage west in Wake county. Cot
ton maintaining generally very good
condition : weevil fairly under control as
yet. but some report more trouble from
lice than ever known.
On a Soda Fountain Spree.
Kinston. July 24.—-The record for
eating established here many years ago
stands unchallenged after a generation.
Bill Hlngman’s putting away or 37
cooked eggs at a sitting never lnTving
been duplicated. Yesterday a new soda
fountain record was hung up by an
individual who refused to give his name,
a rural stranger. He sauntered up and
"askisl for a “saucer of ice cream.” He
followed this with two ice cream cones.
He ran a finger down a line of syrup
plugs and stopped at one marked “grape
juice.” "Gosh'. I’m thirsty.” he said.
Then he called for a concoction of
another sort.' The soda jerker said he
believed the stranger “was" thirsty.
‘lSay, make me two milk shakes,” ' the
patron ordered. “That’ll be enough this
time.” The whole thing transpired in
six. minutes, the fountain clerk said.
BaliTLayer Falls Dead Trying to Beat
Out a Bunt.
New York Times.
Edward Lindgren. 25 years old, of
IS Barries Avenue. Port Richmond
Staten Island, dropped dead yesterday
during a baseball game between the
Mugs and the Cardells. two local teams,
while attempting to beat out au infield
hit. He fell deal just baek of first base.
The game was played in a vacant lot
and had aroused much interest, among
local fans, as the Mugs headed by
Alderman Edward Atwell, were com?
posed of business men. who had
challenged the younger men on the
Cardells. The game was called off after
I)r. Callagliam of St Vincent's Hospital
said Lindgren had died from a heart at
tack. _ _ /
Rev. Mr. Hill Resigns New London
Pastoral.
New London. July 25.—Rev. .1. W-
P. Hill, has offered his resignation as
Pastor of the Baptist Church here, to
be effective about the first of September.
After which he will enter Theological
School. Mr. Hill lias lots of good
friends here who are sorry that he is
to deave the charge.
The Star Theatre today and tomorrow
will present "Male and Female.” Cecil
B. DeMille’s great production. The cast
includes Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meigh
and and Behe Daniels. Also a pleasing
comedy “Without a Wife.” Admission,
10 and 25 cents.
WIDENHOUSE REUNION.
The Widenhouse re-union will be held
at Center Grove Church on Thursday,
August the ninth. 1923. liev. •L.
I). Hayman, of Weldon. X. will be
file principal speaker on this occasion.
All connections of the Widenhouse fam
ily are cordially invited and expected to
attend this re-union.
THOS. WIDENHOUSE,
23-2 t-c. Chairman.
AUCTION SALE OF STOCK OF DRY
GOODS AND SHOES, AT MID
* LAND, N. C.
By virtue of the powers conferred on
me by a deed of trust of date of July
2nd. 1923, executed by J. F. Griffin and
duly registered iu the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Cabarrus County. X.
C. in Book 49. p. 17 aud by Chapter
28 of the Consolidated Statutes of North
Carolina, 1 will at the late storehouse
of the said J. F. Griffin in the. towu yf
Midland. N. (’.. at the hour of 2 P. M..
on Monday, August 13th, 1923. expose
to sale at public auction for cash to the
highest bidder the late stock of dry
goods, shoes aud nations of the said J.
F. Griffin.
-The said sale will be of the said
stock, which is all new and clean and not
shopworn, as a whole, and purchased at
less than if bought on today's market,
aud for the purpose of making assets to
pay debts owing by said insolvent.
The inventory value as nearly as
could be ascertained, which does not in*
dude freight aud drayage. is $6011.03
first cost. Stock may be seeu any day in
at Midland.’
■ The present stand, which is an excel
lent one in a prosperous town with a
splendid back country, can be secured by
purchaser at a very reasonable rent.
This July 20tb, 1923.
1 M. W. HARRISS.
• Trustee.
Manesfc. Armfield & Sberrin, Attys.
23-td. -
Thursday, July 26, 1033
Three-Quarters Millbn BiwhT^
1 Rll . . Planted. sMs %11,
Raleigh, .Julv o ;j ,
1 nson has received ’1 ' ,VOl '“"r u
, tain John Nelson ‘ ,J V • fr ° m
siojier, in which th r
, th< L faet that nearly tiirre? M ' K
million bushels of „ (|U:l >'trrs 0 f
! have been planted in "’ t L ail(1 "Mk
' PastGr u North Carolina '? -f
oost of nine and three ‘toi.ti avpr Ht
' bu * h .el. The governor I"il
gratification «t the re,,J ? 11 K
into detail, telling where ' ' vh,rh «'*-
was placed and the ~„s , (lf ' ery b 'id*l
; ment. _ r,t «n<h
According to Captain
there have been planted 4— <r->
of oysters costing s 4;; -i '' b|l " b|r >
860 bushels Os shells -U
- s ■-4.33207
X. Negro Farmers’ ( W PSs
(By the Aaaoelntcd p r< , s .
Greensboro, N. <\. .| u!v *
nual sessions of the Xorti, r.i. ,■ a!l "
gro Farmers’ Congress will V " l"*! V
this city on Thursday and ill
ust 9 and 10. ‘ JMI,!a < v . Au,.
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worth Co. 1 here s none better, for the
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CONCORD PRODUCE .MARKET
(Corrected Weekly by < Hue A M 1
Figures named repre-* iit 1' ! '
for produce on the tuatni .
Eggs
Butter ;,ti
Country Ham
Country Shoulder j-
Country Sides
Y'oung Chickens •»
Hens -t , i' 1
Turkeys ' i-> \:l
Lard " .75
Sweet Potatoes <|
Irish potatoes
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Peas 5
Corn '
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THURSDAY, JH-V -*’■ '"'yj .'J
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EXECI TORS’ NOTH E
Haviug qualified j' '
the estate of Rev. Ja*- ' , a '
ceased, all persons
hereby notified that ,v i„ tir f ‘ - :i '
prompt payment or -ti
Aud all havi -- •
said'estate must pte-en • *•’ ••• ~r :•<*
dersigued. duly autlienti' a ~r :•
fore the 23rd day <'t • ' *
notice will be plead*?! :>
recovery. ~
<* a SLODI •
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M. M. L. b* E>ecU tors.
D M Furr. Attoruc; ■
July 23, 1923.