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Thursday. CLEAN SWEEP SALE Sale Starts Fri day, Morn ing, Aug 10th All Refrigerators, Ice Cream Freezers, Water Coolers, Perch Furniture and Summer Rugs Reduced 25 to 50 Per Cent. AU Furniture, Stoves, Ranges, Gas and Combination Ranges, Bed-Room, Dining r A Living-room Furniture Reduced 20 to 30 Per Cent. Our Goods are marked in Plain Figures (always) and when we put on a Sale, we simply attach another tag in plain figures, showing both original am’* sale price. We guarantee these Reductions to be absolutely on the square, and every piece of goods sold, exactly as represented or your money refunded. Come early Friday morning. Get First Choice. pi ' RKFKK;KK.vr OKS—O\ E-FOl RTH OFF jL .f- ~ it I,ike (’ut for $34.75 I, Top 1-TS us lower ad..... $14.75 * i*. : v,<r;t;,,i'. Baldwin liefi igera j i;. u" in this Sale at one !;■,■,! "‘ T th" regular jn-i e. There is uo • bet tor tin- money than a Baldwin, "mad** " solid oak, with nickeled triui , iited hut’s, give-perfect circulation . ' Jj rv ;i j r . odors will not mix in a bald llul'.'t u' around the doors saves ice. A refrigerator will soon pay for itself in V Lkvi.l t*f f»*o<i that would otherwise be wasted. I ALASKA ICE ( REAM FREEZERS— i T ' f>,ur aml ten quarts, tall going in this t'i*an Sweep Sale at One-Fourth Off. Alas ka Frews an- double motion, and will freeze cream in.live minutes. Made of heavy non rastable material. Cedar buckets with galvan iid horqis. We guarantee the Alaska to be tftf best made. regardless of price. CONCORD FURNITURE COMPANY ROTARY meeting Ferial Service Fur Lite {'resident mniins. Mcmbrr <rf Uotarv. Held! at W«U}- Alerting TU I V g,.. • .'‘'-■nil! nr tiv regular meeting of ‘7'" ' iu!l •" 'teriiay due t<> the Harsl ng. was chang y D'ogr.uii to a memo* ni "’ : " r ,!i ‘‘ inr.* President. who Rotary.. . l, rt ',' r , presided and. during l\ illiaiH It. < Well, a new y . '’' ! 1 trd (-i„h. was in- ST'-. ;|,!!|11 applause. M " ie|M»rts, a mus yK* I'y a 'piano selec-' Zifl' I | ' ,r 't!iy Wolff, was reu i> eal selections, f.I v introduced Kotarian W-r ',-' Vho T"k" 1,11 l1 "" life Os ,7*' : hardni'-. St Ul k .',- ~, a.luress was brief but ‘d'Propri-ite • and his trih • r ' l! > A nencanism. tij ]f, r „- / •'■“patlietie understanding khid . made a pro ew h:; ''‘ i " designed the U. A '; Ull: ' !; ' W;!s til'* guest ti> ' !,i Mr. ii. s. Williams i *• ‘ 1 " " •'•■en away on Iwifs » s _ ‘ ' ai:d resumed his unary. (ah 'n-iu - Hi,, t ‘ • ' lu .‘> Encampment. r,li held • M i ’ eiicaiujunent It i.,Pleasant at the Al. ' - K at- 3 p. 111. fe;V '• All persons at v ~ '' !l, ‘ t' sis'ered and A • "y «'» p. m. sii ' U «"• expected to \V*»V r r l and. bri;.. .- 1 ‘ **ucainp ria'v" SUl,l,li, ' s enough •U lntHp..:.:,, S ; f: • ' : ::i lais .been pre- J 4 urge.; t “ ! '; u!li, ' h th, ‘ and <J ?TaiH is beina-', at, u< l- and a social invit,dT! IVd I,V Jftllich the at 7,. " * ptenie* supper’ y also in r Jt ’ r wiv.s ... , U itary nieinbers fer- •C7r-.it’ l?e ojunting ast year. . > C; '* Cil >« ■#*% r ’ 'si Spin the s,“ ls lss ued a ***** feW, ln;a l <t.jck , ,Th au author ity and k of c am/fc ' ‘ rolImr:lt01- s • 1. Fab,.- ')' l ' rk - t bar- Auf* 11 . Fcr Hour. sets. V;: ; . : ■ trz\ I Si > ? t>it«is', lC( - late psr t o"- ai<i in tMdent Harding. DOMESTIC ELECTRIC IRONS FOR $3.95 Guaranteed by the manufacturers for 6ne year, and backed up by pur personal guarantee. Tjieso irons arc brand new, and in perfect working order. They have long drop cords, set in hard rubber, easily attached. Why waste fuel, burn up your stove, and roast your life out through the hot summer days when you can" buy a good Electric Iron for the small sum of $125.00 COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA, $98.50 Exactly like cut. Full size, large cabinet machine. in mahogany or walnut. Three spring motor. Non-set. automatic stop. $150.00 four motor Cabinet Machine for $119.50 Other full Cabinet Columbia Grafouohis in ma hogany for $85.00. Everything reduced for this Clean Sweep Sale. OFFICERS FOR COLORED FAIR ARE SELECTED M. C. Roger Is President of Organiza tion That Will Sponsor Colored Fair. ’ The following are the officers for the Cabarrus County Colored Fair, which will be held here in November: M. C. Roger, President. Nat Alexander. First Vice President. Silas White, Second Vice President. S. C. Roger, Turn Purer. . ,1.,D. Gordon. Secretary. Directors: AJ. C. Roger. Frank Lytle, 1.. IT. Handy, C, R. Johnson. S. Q. Ro ger. Will Harris. Bill Pharr. John Shun kle. No. 1 township. R. G. Reid, No. 11 township. E. W. La wings,- No. 11 town ship, J. I>. (Jordan, Waller Gilmer and W. D. Connor. The officers and directors of the fair are busy now making plans for the event, which will be held at the grounds of the Cabarrus County Fair Association. Trcxler. Lyerly, Barger and Holshouser Reunion. A reunion of the Trexler. Lyerly, Rar | ger and Holshouser families will be held lat the school building in Rockwell on Thursday. August 10th- The following programme will be rendered. . Devotional Exercises —Conducted by the President. Music, - • Address of Welcome —David Holshous er. K Response—C. A. Holshouser. Music. Election of Officers. Report of Historians. Short talks by Rev. W. C. Lyerly, Prof. Lee Trexler. Dr. H. A. M. Hol sln user -and oGiers. , Music. x jar -Address at 11:30 a. J. Frank | Hudson. J Music. Collection. Dinner 1 p. m. Social hour. Music Committee —Mrs. Walter Peeler, Miss Juanita Hall. Table Committee —J. M. Holshouser, John Albert Trexler. D. Calvin Holslious j «?r.. A hearty welcome to everybody. Come and bring well tilled baskets and enjoy ; the day as one big family. Historians : C. A. Holshouser, Rev. AA . C. Lyerly, Thomas Rarger. Dr. P. M. Trexler. Officeys—A«eV. H. A. Trexler. Pres.; Richfield; H. A. M. Holshouser, Sec., Rockwell. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Dusch, of Norfolk, spent Monday’ anrj Tuesday in i Concord on their way to Blowing Rock. Asheville and Hendersonville, where they | will spend about two weeks. On their I return froiff western North Carolina they will spend a few days here with Mrs. Dutch’s father, Mr. D. B. Co.- j trane. r FLATS 10 CENTS A MONTH. Collapse of Mark Havoc With German Landlords. New York Times. Passengers who arrived yesterday from Bremen on the North German Lloyd liner Muenchen, described the conditions in German as approaching complete chaos. There was a good deal of starva tion, passengers said, especially among those who had invested in domestic securities and were getting their divi dends in paper marks. Gustave A’an der Loo a steel mer chant of 38 Desbrosses Street. Alanhat tan. who lias been traveling in Germhny for three months, said that the price of steel had skyrockeed since the occupa tion of the Ruhr. “I can't tell what is going to happen in Germany.’’ he said, "the people don't know themselves.” The landlords who are forbidden by law to raise rents, he added, were in a tutd way. In some German cities he said, tenants are paying the equivalent of ten cents a month in American money for an apartment. Chicago Library Has 3,500 Books Fcr Blind Readers. Chicago, Aug. 8. —In afi effort to reach every sightless person in this part of the country, the collection of books for the blind in the public library here has be come one of the largest in the United Spates, according to Nathan R. Levin, as sistant librarian of the Chicago Public Library. ~ The blind from nearly every state in the Alississippi valley patronize this col lection. because of its ready accessibility, declares Edward Peterson, in charge of the work. Anybody can apply for a loan, and the government permits the books to be sent out in franked envel opes. The number of available volumes in raised printing is comparatively small, it is said, but the Chicago library, with 3.- *sQf> books, claims to have virtually ev erything ever published fox' the benefit of sightless people. Salisbury Sells Bonds For School Im provement. Salisbury. Aug. 7.— Salisbury tod*y sold one hundred thousand dollars of school bonds to the Alississippi Valley Trust Company, of St. Louis, and the Detroit Trust Company, of Detroit, thestf being joint bidders for the bonds anjl their bid being par plus a bonus of four hundred and fifty-five dollars. The im tprest is to he five and a quartei. Bids were submitted by 10 bond buying firms. The money is to be used partly to build additions to present school propertj aud to pay off debts for property al ready improved. About 30,000.000 wooden boxes are required annually to packj/ the citrus fruit crops in Florida and California. THE CONCORD TIMES * » « __ y * FOCR BURNER GUARANTEED PERFEC TION OIL STOVE FOR $19.75. Slightly used. but in perfect condition.- Loojcs just as well and cooks .just as good as a new stove. 'Guaranteed to be perfect in ev ery way. and to do as good work as a new stove, or your money refunded. Buck's OU Cook Stoves going at Half Brice. These stoves have been worked over, new burn ers and new wicks, and can hardly be fold from a new stove. Chance of a life time to get at good Oil Stove at Half Price. SIO.OO Grass Rugs, size 9x12 for ... . $6.95 $6.00 Grass Rugs, size 6x9 $3.95 .All Bugs reduced for This Clean Sweep Sale Axminister. Taps. Wool and Fibre. Small rugs to match, all reduced. Linoleum, inlaid ilnd printed goods, all reduced One-Fourth. No extra charge for laying linoleum. Place your orders early, while we have good patterns to select from. SAYS DIVORCE HABIT GRAVELY MENACES OUR NATIONAL LIFE Divorces in America Granted at Rate of One Every Four Minutes. Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. B.—Divorces are granted in America at the rate of one every four minutes throughout the year, and are more numerous here au nually in proportion to total population thon in any other country which re cords marriage statistics. The annual total of decrees for the 48 states is in the neighborhood of 160,000 and is in creasing thret' times as fast a's the popu lation. Such are the conclusions of Judge W. H. Thomas, of Santa A ua * California, former associate justice of the California District Court of Ap peals. drawn from a world survey of marriage and divorce figures in prepara tion for an Ameriean campaign for a national code governing marital rela tions. . Judge Thomas’ survey ine’uded 54 countries, and the summary of his study, Ynade public here, reaches back into the domestic relations of ancient Rome, Greece, and Babylon. In his conclusions is the suggestion that our national life is seriously threatened by the present status of our family rela tionships. Much of our trouble, he be lieves, is chargeable to the chaotic state of our manigge laws, and his recom mendation is a uniform Jaw. applicable to all American territory, based on wis dom and experience. ‘’ln contrast with our records, one di vorce for every nine marriages." Judge Thomas said, “those of France and Ger many, i our closest competitors, dwindle into insignificance. We have only one rival, Japan. Until recently that na tion has been grinding out divorces faster than our own. Now, however, the United State Census disc closes a rapidly mounting table of di vorce which far outstrips the ratio of increase iu population. Our rate of in crease in divorces between 1870 aud 1017, was for the entire country, exactly 400 per cent.” In 1870, he'said, we had 28 divorces for every 100,000 of population; in 1910 the figure was 112 j for each 100,000. .“Our country heads the list among . the nations of the world in this down- ■ ward procession, Iu 1800 there were j 33.107 divorces: in 1016 there were 112,000. In Canada in the whole year of 1013 there were 50 divorces.” Judge Thomas came here recently to present his findings to officers of the, National Reform Association at the or- 1 gani?ation's International Conference on Christian Citizenship. Seventeen states in the Union fix no I marriage age, he pointed out in com-! menting on our present varied law. In T nine of these states — Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Alissouri, j Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. Tennes- j see. and Vermont, the common law, - ' r i., 111.. 1 i GOOD, HIGH GRADE PILLOWS New .Material, Good quality tick, pair $1.98 Larger Pillows in better grade. First class in every respect. We sell the Chas. Emmerich line of pillows, and they are every one guar anteed. No second hand material used. No odor. Pillows. Light, -soft and ' comfortable. “Clean Sweep Sale.” , 11 CLEAN SWEEP SALE $18.75. All Floor Lamps Reduced from Twenty-five to Fifty Per Cent. Some of these lamps. Sold for $25.00 and $30.00. All going in this sale for • • $19.75 Bed-room and Library Lamps ...$2.95 to $9.75 Come early, make your selection before the best patterns are sold. All goods marked in plain figures showing original price and sale price. ages of for girls, and 14 for boys have been -formally recognized by the courts? In 1!) states there is no law restraining feeble minded persons from marrying, nd only three states forbid iniscPgei.itic unions, 6r marriages be tween people of different races. There are now* in the United States more than 12.000 married girls uhder 15*years of age. Approximately 100,000 girls 17 years or younger are married. “The need of a uniform divorce law* is apparent.” Judge Thomas declares. “Disregard for the sanctity of marriage, over-emphasis of sex, under-emphasis of domestic responsibilities, lack of uni formity in the law* werp among the chief contributing causes that led to the down fall of Rome, of Greece, of Babylon. We cannot allow* the rate of divorce in the United &fate to continue at three times the rare of ifopulation increase. “No logical and sound-thinking per son any longer denies that, in certain circumstances, men and women who can not live harmoniously together should be allowed to reconstruct then* happi ness 1 . No one now argues against the necessity for marriage laws which w T ill make it impossible for the immature and unfit to marry and reproduce. “Everyone is satisfied that these laws must be uniform. Hence the time for I action has come. And because men have dilly-dallied about it. and because, too. the integrity of the family is wo man's quest, upon the women of the country must .be laid the business of bringing about reform, “But legislation will not usher* in an era -of wisely planned marriages. The ( real hope of the world lies in putting as much painstaking and progressive, thought into the great business of mat- j ting as we do into the other big busi- 1 nesses of our day, and in bringing to I bear upon marriage the ideas j of sciences religion and law, so that we j shall be able to offer to young men i and women, a sensible presentation of the subject that will convince them of i the necessity of permanent family rela tions and assure them of the happiness be found in a wholesome, family life. I “Unification of marriage and divorce law’s is only a partial solution of the, problem. There must be early training for marriage and parenthood, and this cannot be provided for by law.” Mb. and Mrs. M. L. Cannon and daughter. Frances Anne, are spending sevex*al days in western North Carolina. They spent the week-end in Asheville and will visit Blowiug Rock before re turning home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Irvin and son. Prank. Jr., of Salisbury, spent the week end here as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Harris, on East Depot Street. Mrs. Irvin and son wiH remain here for sev eral days. N The Reliable Furniture Store Concord, N. C. BOLL WEEVIL DAMAGE REACHES HUGE TOTAL Costs Southern Cotton Growers $1,500,- 000.000 in Five Years. New Orleans. Aug. 7. —The cotton boll weevil during the last five J*ears, includ ing the shea so a just closed, has cost the South not less than $1,500,000,000, ex clusive of the several hundred millions spent for the seed that went to waste, according to the annual report of Colonel H. G. Hester, secretary of the New* Or leans Cotton Exchange. The estimate is based on a valuation of 15 cents a pound. Colonel Hester placed the commercial crop of the 1022-23 season at 11,282,806 bales, a decrease qf 370.327 bales under that of lU2I-22. and of 5)4,511 under that of 1920-21. /- The average grade of the cotton was middling. The report placed the average price at 24.00 cents a pound, as compared with 17.78 last year. 16.08 the year hefore last, and 38.21 in 15)15)-20, The value, including the seed, was estimated at sl,- 571,299,839, as against $1,173,833,582 last year. Colonel Hester said the actual growth Special Sale White Pumps and Oxfords While they Last $5.00 White Pumps, any size heel, Sale Price $3.50 t $5.00 and $6.50 White Oxfords, and white and black trim Oxfords, Sale Price $3.50 / - . '**» —— —■ —™—— : —: J. C. POUNDS SHOE STORE v " /•>*" X * ■ . I MAHOGAMZEI) LIBRARY T,\BLE $12.75 Exactly like cut. sail Substantial. Made of Good Quality Oak. Drawer in Cen ter. Book Slaves in-tee ends. Ither Library ' Tables. jsa^les^odf^norHi A-u birch, mahoganizcd. jyjbbed* and'polisfied $17.50 to $27.50 Parlor and Center Tables in Oak and Mahog any $1.50 to $7.50 "Clean Sweep Sale Prices.” OAK AND MAW>GANI’ DRESSERS Wash Stands to match. Bed Room Furni ture in complete suites and Odd Pieces, with chairs and rockers to match. Walnut, Ma • hogany and Ivory Suites. Brass and Iron Beds, Mattresses and Springs, all reduced for this Clean Sweep Sale. Be on hand when Sale op ens, make ycur selection before best buys are gone. \ of 1922-23 was 10,424,000 bales, and that the amount of cotton carried on July 81 i was 2.573.000 bales, against 4,879,000 last year, a decrease of 2,300,000 bales. Has Left Beard Grow For Forty Years. Greensboro. Aug. 7v —O. A. Farring ton. shipping clerk of the 'White Oak mills here, wasn’t shaved in 40 years, not since he was 23 years old. And he did not do it to win a bet, nor to join the Zion City colony, whose members are forbidden to shave. He was and is simply obeying doctor’s orders. His physician, 40 years ago, ordered him to let his beard grow. Mr. Farring ton had the measles then, leaviug him with an extreme hoarseness. “Let your beard grow long to protect your throat,” his physician said. ' • His board is all hair and a yard long. Three women are in the field for the office of secretary of state in Kentucky this year. King George of England is a radio fan. PAGE SEVEN Z i* Aug; USt 25th urday Night Sat- Sale Closes