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We will put on sale Friday Morning
300 Dresses Consisting of all Our
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. Spring and Summer Dresses made
of all new materials and good Styles
$2.95
This is a real big rack of
Voile and Organdy in good
range of colors and sizes
Special while they last
$2.95
MATTAMISKET U\ HE
SUCCESSFULLY DRAINED
The Bed Presents Much the Appearance
of a Vast Desert.
Albemarle News-Herald.
Mr. 1\ ill A. Bivins, who was for sev- j
oral years managing editor of this paper !
while it was running under the.name of ;
the Albemarle Enterprise, has been -an |
interesting Albemarle visitor for the past |
several days. Mr. Bivins has been !
teaching at Fairfield, Hyde county, for l
the past year.
He tells us that Lake Mattamuskeet
is not\ almost completely drained and
that the bed presents’ right much the
appearance of a vast desert. Lake j
Mattamuskeet, as all students of North |
Carolina Geography know, covered prac
tically one-fourth of the. entire county
of Hyde. It was about eight miles
wide and approximately thirty miles
long. The draining of this lake releases
for cultivation thousands and thousands
of acres of the most, fertile lauds in
Eastern North Carolina. Mr. Bivins
says that many wonderful Indian relics
Have already been found in the bed of
this lake.
There is an interesting Indian legend
concerning I>ake Mattamuskeet. Stu- j
dents of the old Moore’s North Caro- ]
i lina History will recall that the Indians
i related the story to the early settlers of
! Eastern Carolina that Lake Mattamus
keet was made by the soil having caught
jon tire and burned for many “moons.”
j When the fire went out there was a
| great hole burned in the ground which
j filled up with water. This the Indians
; named Lake Mattamsukeet.
i Those who saw the beautiful lake be
j fore it was drained say that it was one
■ of the most beautiful sheets of water-to
be found anywhere. It was North
Carolina's largest lake.
BUMPER CROP OF HAY
Best Condition Found in Mountain and
Central Coastal Counties.
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 14.—“ Last year
was a bumper crop for hay, especially in
j the coastal belt counties,“ it was declar
ed in a statement issued last night by
the State-Federal Department of Agri
culture Crop Reporting Service. “Many
crops were cut for hay that were intend
ed for other purposes, which in many
cases was made necessary on account of
excessive rains.
“The average condition of hay for
August 1 was 80 per cent., with the best
j condition being found in the mountain
| and central coastal counties. Wild or
FOUR BIG RACKS
$8.50 r
\
Great big rack of Silks, Pais
ley and Voile, big value for
$8.50
meadow hay is found almost exclusively
in the mountain counties where Liv’e
stock is developed to a considerable de
gree.
“It is reported that the hay crop for
the United States averages 81 per cent.,
forecasting a production of 81,335,000
tons which averaged slightly over four
fifths of a ton to the acre. Wild hay
averaged 84 per cent, with a slightly
higher yield than the tame varieties. The
average' price at this season is tame,
812.401 and wild $1)17 per ton. These
prices are about SI,OOO higher than quot
ed a year ago.
“Pastures averaged 83 per cent, in con
dition, which corresponds identically with
the condition of tame hay. The poorest
condition js noticed in the Piedmont belt
where conditions have been quite dry
during July. The soy bean and cow pea
crops show very good growth in the cen
tral coastal and mountain counties, the
condition of so.v beans being the best in
the eastern counties. The national pas
tures condition averages 77.6 per cent, of
normal.
"This state has t>eeu encouraging the
planting of permanent pastures through
its extension agricultural agent's which
has doubtless reacted to a greater inter
est in this type of crop. The eastern ]
counties have been particularly interested*
THE CONCORD TIMES
in these, and the growing of better live
stock. This, is particularly fortunate, in
view of the boll weevil ravages.”
_lf You Drink Bootleg Whiskey.
Ma nufa cturers Record.
If you drink the bootlegger’s Avhis
key:
You are encouraging the anarchist to
destroy , the laws to protect property.
You are doing your best to encourage
law breaking and drunkenness and ev
ery criminality on the part of your em
ployees.
You are sowing in the hearts of your
children the seed of moral rottenness,
which will bring froth a harvest of evil
as sure as night follows day.
You are belying your profession of
patriotism by seeking to destroy all pa
triotism ; for patriotism must be based
upon a recognition of and an obedience
to the Constitution of this country.
If you profess to honor the American
flag you are false to your profession, for
you are dragging that flag in the mud
and tramping it beneath your feet.
If you claim to hate the euld-blooded
murderer who murders in order to rob
the paying clerk or the cashier, you are
really giving your utmost encourage
ment to these murderers who are abroad
in the land if you buy or drink the boot
.m v .
’’ $10.85
You will find in these Can
ton Crepe, Paisley and Wash
Silks, special z
$10.85
logger’s whiskey.
The bootleggef’s criminality spreads
over the land. It seeks to break down
every law of man and God, and every
man who makes possible the bootleggers
j accursed traffic is a co-partner, a co
laborer and a co-worker with the boot
legger. and equally responsible for every
crime committed by the bootlegger.
The observance of law and order is
one of the supreme tests of a nation’s
right to live.
Without obedience to law there can
be no civilization.
Factory-made grass may now be
bought by the yard, and laid down in
full velvety growth on golf courses or
lawns. A British inventor has perfected
a method of sowing grass seed on a
special fabric in a “factory” where the
temperature is always that of spring or
summer. These green carpets are laid
down on flattened surfaces, the fabric
rots away and the roots become in
corporated with the feoil.
New carpets and rugs m Smyrna are
given an appearance of age by the
bleaching process which follows washing
and scrubbing. They are hung in the
sunlight on the roofs of the factories
and homes of the workers.
$16.95
$30.00 Values in all our best
Dresses of silks. These are
offered to you at, and below
cost to us
$16.95
Credit Unions.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Miss Hattie Berry, in her efforts to
organize tha farmers into credit uni'm
will get much comfort from Prof. Bran-
I son’s Sunday’ article- The German
farmers, Dr. Branson finds, nave tiund
these unions- very helpful. Credit is the
first condition of farm prosperity, tee
German farmers say.
It is easy to abuse credit facilities.
But argue as much as will for going c:i
a cash basis (or shall we say in order to
be' in style “accrual basis?”) it is well
known that large numbers of tenant
farmers are going on credit, have been
going on and will continue going on
' credit.
It would be well if it were possible
for these tenants to get on a cash ha-is
and all of them who can do so should
by all means. But if they must con
tinue to buy on credit let them take the
credit that is the cheapest.
And credit union credit is about a
dozen times cheaper than the average
farmer is getting now. Under the credit
union plan the borrower pays six or seven
cent. Clarenee Poe has calculated that
some tenants buying supplies and ferti
lizers on time pay as high as seventy
' per cent. Quite -a difference, if the
- £ CC
Thusraat, Auc - . .
‘6. .223,
farmer must borrow,
union borrowing.
, , It takes thickly
to make credit union
’ best advantage, bn:
! the highest birth
I its many advaniag
. people from other ‘ tir! i
, I Besides, flivvers an:
{an ill i late distance. ( ,|
j It seems strange
jin worse shape pci ■ ’
Country, has any in-l
copied by tl»i<
Prof. Branson say- i: ’
many will be the in. ■ >■
Germany's <*iviliz:n
and cheap credir f-c > jpv
foundations of German
If the site and *\
Hudson Bay ]>° >! fW j t
British Columbia. •
Dominion .Historic
monts Board, that
old fur-trading I 1 "'
museum and preset.' ‘
to the early pi>"v
Columbia. | : • |
The ancient Koinan- ' a
sering in shape, 1 " ‘
cording to their rank.