~. Septemi' er 10, 1923
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Three-quarter length Socks, hea
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THE CONCORD TIMES
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City Tax Rate For Year Has
Not Been Determined So Far
The aldermen held their September
meeting at the city hall Thursday eve
ning. The board gave attention to a va
riety of matters, but transacted business
rapidly and was not in session but two
hours.
The matter that solicited the greatest
attention was an ordinance that would
repeal the present ordinance relative to
closing cases during Church hours on
Sundays. Five members of the board
voted to repeal the law. but as it re
quired a unanimous vote the ordinance
goes over until the next meeting whep it
will be presented again. The member
voting against repeal of the law probab
ly will see the measure enacted at that
time.
The board authorizejKne city to spend
$l5O for decorations during fair week.
It is probable thatv this work .will be
done by an expert.
Several street matters, including street
extensions and the laying of sewer lines,
were brought before the board. The city
engineer was instructed to attend to
CONCORD COMJPANY BUYS
STORE IN GASTONIA!
Julius Fisher & Co. Purchases Kim
brough & Co.—Will Open Store About
15th of Month.
Announcement was made Thursday
that Julius Fisher & Company, the large!
and well-established firm of this jeity and
Kannapolis, has purchased Kimbrough &
Co., of Gastonia. Transfer of the prop- |
erty has already been jnade, but the pur- !
chase price was not announced.
The new owners of the Gastonia store !
are this week taking stock and making !
preparations for a big opening wliich I
will take place about September 15th. !
Mr. Julius Fisher, head of the firm. has.
been spending* several days in Gastonia, 1
amWias given personal supervision to the 1
work being done in the Gastonia store. |
Tlie new firm will confine itself to 1
ladies’ ready-to-wear, corsets and milli- 1
nery. discontinuing a number of lines !
formerly carried by the concern under 1
the old management.
C. A. Kimbrough, senior member of
the fius, will return to his'former home!
in Georgia. It. M. Cochran will remain
with the new firm, which will occupy
the same quarters in the Realty- buifcK
ing. West Main Avenue. x
Julius Fisher & Company lias con- 1
ducted a successful business in Concord '
and Mhnnapolis for a number of years. |
Mr. Fisher is recognized as a leader ih ‘
his line of work and has been very suc
cessful with his two stores in this coun- '
ty. ’x •
TEN-YEAR-OLD NEGRO HOY
KILLED WHEN POLE FELL
Child Dies Beneath Weight of Heavy
Pole in Accident in Charlotte.
Charlotte Observer-
A 10-ear old negro boy, the son of
Cornelius and Hattie Berryhilj. was
killed yesterday morning about 10:30!
o clock when a heavy pole rolled from 1
the top of a pile'of timbers near the
corner of First and Mint streets, catch- I
ing the Child’s bwdy beneath its weight.
The poles, it was stated.'were the pro
perty of the Souther Public Utilities
company, and a group of negro school I
children, on their way to school, had
stopped to play upon the pile, when one !
of the poles became dislodged and rolled
from its place at the top. The boy’s '
body was said to have neon badly crush- ;
ed. death resulting almost instantly.
There were no witnesses to the ac
cident, it was stated, but a fTowd soon
gathered from the nearby commercial
house. A negro said to have been en- |
gaged in trimming the poles had gone,to
a Mint 'strot restaurant, the accident
happening in his absence.
The boy lived with liis parents on
Lomax avenue. Hi>< father is said to be
an employe of the Southern Cotton Oil
company.
To Open Cash Furniture Store in the
Wright Building. j
Salisbury Post.
Mr. Hardy 11. Lentz, of Spencer, will
open a cash furniture store 1 in the first
floor of the Wright building on West
limes Street October 15th. according to
an announcement made this- morning.
The store will be known -Us the Cash
Furniture Store.
Mr. Lentz, who operates the Hardy
11. Lentz Furniture Store. Inc., of Spen
cer, is an experienced man in the busi
ness. He-will operate the two stores.
Hi« new home was formerly occupied
by the Professional Drug Company.
Mr. Lentz has gone to High Point, to
purchase his stock for the new store.
It will be well stocked with the latest
in the furniture line, it is stated.
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Kannapolis Woodmen Dedicate Monu
ment.
The Woodmen of the World of Kan
napolis held on unveiling exercise
Sunday afternoon. September 9th, at
which time a monument was dedicat-’
ed to the memory of the late A. R.
Simpson, who was a member of the
camp of the order at that place.
The exercises, took place at the
frave of the dead sovereign in Greenlawn
cemetery. The address was made by
Mr. Thomas Widenhouse. of Kannapolis,
and music was furnished by a special
ly chosen quartet.
LATE PRESIDENT’S
WILL IS PROBATED
Mr. Harding Left All cf His Property
and Money to His Wife.
I Marion* 0.. Sept. 7 (By the Associ
ated Press).—The will of the late Pres
ident Harding filed for probate here to
day leaves Mrs. Harding a life estate of
.SIOO,OOO, the Harding home on Mt. Ver
non avenue here, and half interest in
the building owned by the Marion Star.
The total of the lgte President’s estate
cannot be determined until the apprais
ers report.
“The United States must stop killing
its Presidents.” said Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, sister of the !ate Theodore ’
Roosevelt, in commenting on the death
of President Harding. “No man who
comes to the Presidency' after the age of
fifty can bc'ar. without serious .cose to ,
> his health, the enormous obligations put
1 upon him by the American peoples.
j »
j Small Edwin —Mamma, what is the
; meaning of hereditary?
j Ma^rna— It is something,, you get
' from your papa or me.
Small Edwin—Oh, you mean a spank
ing?
most of these matters, including a sur
vey of j the property of .T. A. Moore to
determine whether or not the property
has been damage! and to what extent
if any.
The city engineer was also instructed
to make a survey relative to extending
Chestnut' Street from its present
ation. to Tribune street. He is to re
port on the cost of this to the board at
a later meeting.
The tax rate for the city was not de
termined at the meeting. It was point
id out that the budget for next year has
not yet been adopting and for that reas
on the board members did not know just
what amount of money would be needed
for the next year. The tax rate will
probably be determined by the board
either in special or regular session, as
soon gs the budget is adopted;
The tax rate is expected to be raised.
The county rate was raised from K 5
cents to 95 cents and it is probable that
the rate in the city be increased from
10 to 20 cenfs. ■ _j''
MISS DODSON’S DEATH
I
i Had It Not Been For Sickness Her Sis
ter, Miss Mary Dodson, Would Have
j Been With Her.
: Greensboro News.
Miss ElizAeth Dodson, of Kinston,
I who was kilml in the Japanese earth
quake horror,-according to advices' issn-
I ing from tile State Department at Wash
ington. was a cousin of Dr. H. H. Dod
j soil, of Greensboro, and was well known
| l\ere. The news of her death was con
(tained in a report received at Washing
ton from Consul Dickover.
Miss Dodson had been on a tour of the
| world. She was to have sailed last Mon
day frdhi Yokohama. Had it not heeu
for sickness, Miss Mary Dodson, a sis
j ter of the unfortunate victim would al-
I so have been in Yokohama, according to
a letter received by l|r. Dodson. Dr.
| Dodson lasl night said/he had received
jno word directly concerning the death
of his cousin.
Miss Dodson visited in the home of
I Dr. Dodson. Mil- Olive street, in {he
i spring of 1022. Shortly after leaving
here she started on her world tqur. She
was accompanied by her sister, Miss
Mary Dodson, who is now, at Peking with
a third sister. Miss Steva Dodson. Miss
rSteva Dodson has served as a mission-
Jarjf of the Episcopal church in the mis
! sion fields of China for the past ,‘l2 years.
She is now head of St. Mary’s college,
an Episcopal school at Shanghai, China.
Miss Elizabeth Dodson had left her two
sisters at Peking, it is presumed and
had started to YokohamtT From the lat
; ter city she was planning to sail for the
! United States,
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baptist Laymen of n
\ SOUTH WILL MEET
Part Men Play in Religious Work to
Be Considered at Memphis Conference.
I In the hope of more fully informing
and enlisting the Baptist laymen of the
South in all phases of the work of the
j denomination, a Southwide convention
lof men has been arranged to be held in
Memphis, Tenn., February 12. HI and
i 14. it is announced by Dr. .T. T. Hen
derson of IKnoxville. general secretary
of the Laymen's Missionary Movement,
which is sponsor for the meeting,
j Fully 1500 laymen from over the
South, including farmers and business
j and professional men. are expected to
attend tiie meeting.* Dr. Henderson says,
and- while very few preachers will be
accorded a place on the program, it is
expected a number of pastors will at
tend in order to encourage their laymen
1 and see how they perform. It is exffCet
-1 ed that four or live Baptist governors of
Souther states will participate on the
program, which wil be given to a con
sideration of various means whereby the
, laymen can make contribution to pro
! mating the kingdom of God in the
world.
I Memphis Baptists have already be
gun tlwir preparations for the enter
tainment of the convention, the second
of its kitid to be held in, the South, the
tirst one having been held ten years ago
__ It is probable the program commit
tee of the Southern Baptist Convention
will arrange to give the men at least a
lmlf-day for their program at the next
session of that body at Atlanta in May.
CAR MISSES BRIDGE;
TWO PEOPLE INJURED
Man a ltd Woman Lay Under Wreckage
From Midnight Until Help Came in
Morning.
Gastonia. Sept. o.—Carl Hollis. 20. is
in a local hospital with a fractured
thigh, and Mrs. J. W.'Chandler, both of
Great Falls. S. C.. is suffering from
minor bruises. as the result of their cai
missing the bridge in 'south Gaston
county over Crowders creek this morn
ing shortly after 12 'o clock- Ihe j>au»
ties were returning to their South Caro
lina home after having visited relatives
of Mrs. Chandler in Gastonia. A small
child, grandson of the woman, escaped
injury. , ..
The car. going south. missed tue
bridge over the stream near the till and
plunged into* the pasture laud beside
the road. The party lay unaided among
the wreck until 3:30 this morning until
their cries were answered by J. X. Neely
a resident of the vicinity. The latter
hurried the to the Gaston sani
torium. where they are now being treat
ed by Dr, Oscar Miller.
Charlotte Kiwanians Help Jap Suffer
ers.
Charlotte. Sept. o.—Local Kiwanis
club voted at a meeting today that SSOO
to be sent to re’ief of sufferers in Japan.
Gov. Thomas McLeod- of South Caro
lina, addressed the Kiwanians and also
sj)oke before the chamber of commerce
tonight. Geo. Stephens of Asheville,
spoke on Western North Carolina, incor
porated, a new organization chartered,
that proposes to speud SOO,OOO a yeat
for five ‘years, advertising Western
North Carolina.
Improvement Bonds for Salisbury.
Salisbury, X. C.. Sept. 7.—The issu
, anee of $ : 405.000 municipal improvement
bonds is provided in a resolution passed
at a recent meeting of the
commissioners.
“I i« —” began Tommy.
“I am, not I is,” corrected the teach
er promptly. •
“I am the ninth letter of the alpha
bet,” Tommy went on.
MAIN POINTS IN COAL
CONTROVERSY CLEARED UP
Expected That Anthracite Operations
Will Be Resumed Within Ten Day*.
, Harrisburg, Pa.. Sept. 7.—Complete
agreement upon the main points at is
sue between anthracite operators and
miners upon the basis of Governor Pin
chot’s peace proposals was reached here
today.
Joint negotiations to make the agree
ment effective in a new. wage contract
and to clear up outstanding differences
of lesser importance between the two
sides were under way tonight.
All participants in the negotiations be
lieve that a settlement will be effected
and that anthracite, mines, now shut
down by union orders, will be reopened
within ten. days. Governor Pinehot,
discussing the still unsettled points, de
clared there is no point of dispute re
maining between the two sides which is
in any way likely to justify a continua
tion of tiie strike.
Any final agreement, whether reached
tonight or later, by the union representa
tives and the operators' policy commit
tee. will be subject to approval by a con
vention of uniffn delegates from the
three United Mine Workers’, districts of
4he anthracite region. The assembling
of such a convention would require at
least a week, but*John L. Lewis, presi
dent of the miners, and other miners’
union officials, were certain a contract
would be negotiated and their reeorn
i mendations would be accepted by the
tri-district convention.
The miners and operators representa
tives adjourned at 11:04 tonight to meet
again at 11 a. m. tomorrow without hav
ing come to any further agreement.
Governor Pinehot, in a statement, said
excellent progress had been made and
“both sides were showing a strong dispo- j
sition to reach an agreement”’
This discussion has dealt principally
with matters not covered by the four j
points of the settlement terms,” Gover-'
nor Pinehot said.
Cap*. C otton Wires ‘Ail Safe’ in Japan.
Salisbury, Sept. 7.—Miss Mary Hen
derson has received a direct message
from Captain Lyman Cotton saying “All
are safe ” The message came over com
mercial wires reaching Salisbury over
Western Union wires and is taken to
include Captain and . Mrs. Cotton, their
son. John,--and Miss Curtis Henderson.
The message was dated at Nikko which
is in the interior of mountains of Japan.
This was the first direct message re
ceived from any of the Salisbury peop’e |
who are in Japan and dispelVci all
anxiet of relatives and friends as to the
safety of the Cottons,
Mr. Roy Scheyer and family, of Ashe
ville, are spending the week-end here
with Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Green.
EDITOR HARDING’S* CODE OF ETHICS,
'Phe‘following Code of Ethics was by President
Harding, as editor of The Marion Star, and was strictly en
forced by him on the members of his-staff:
‘‘Remember, there are two sides to every question. Get
them both.
‘‘Be truthful. Get the facts. Mistakes are inevitable,
1 but strive for accuracy. I would gather have one story
exactly right then a hundred half wrong.
“Be decent, be fair, be generous.
“Boost, don’t knock.
“There's good in everybody. * Bring out the good and
never needlessly hurt the feelings of anybody. /
“In reporting a political gathering, give the facte. Tell
the story as it is, not as you would like to have it Treat
all parties ajjke. If there is any politics to be played we
will play it in our editorial columns.
“Treat all religious matters reverently.
“If it can possibly be avoided, never bring ignominy to
an innocent man, woman or child in telling of the misdeeds
of misfortunes of a relative. Don’t wait to be asked but
do it without the asking, and above all be clean and never
let a dirty word or suggestive story get into type.
“I want this paper so conducted that it can go into any
home without destroying the'innocence of any child.”
BUDGET
For Financing the City of Concord For Fiscal Year Ending August 31st, 1924.
GENERAL FUND
First:—Appropriations necessary to be made, and for permanent improve
ments for each department and division of the municipal government for the-fis
cal year 1923-1924, and deficit for th£ previous fiscal year, with comparative
statements in parallel columns of expenditures for the two proceeding fiscal years:
1023.-24 1022-23 1021-22
Salaries $19,900.00 $23,634.76 $14,000.00
Streets , - 10.000.00 18,734.74 14.600.00.
City Hall ‘4,000.00 6,080.00 3.100.00
Fire Department 5,000,00 4,450.03 5,009.00
Charity 500.00 . 1.135.62 200.00
Damages 1,000.00 3,408.00 . 1,000.00
Contingent . 500.00 x 500.00 500.00
Deficit 10,000.00 from previous fiscal year
Total $56,000.00 $58,850.25 . $37,800.00
Second—ltemized estimate of taxes required atid of the estimated revenues
of the municipality from all other source*, for. the fiscal year, the -unencumbered
balauces of appropriations and surplus revenues of the*previous fiscal year, with
comparative statements in parallel columns of the taxes and other revenues for
the two proceeding fiscal years.
1023-24 1022-23 1021-22
Property $56,000.00 $00,<*77.35 $28,000.00
Privilege 2.500.00 included in above 2,847.00
City Court, costs and rents .5,000,00 -6.065.50 - ' 8,000.00
A *
Total ‘ $63,500.00 * $75,142.85 $36,847.00
INTEREST FIND.
Third—Estimate for the paymept of the principal and interest of debts with
comparative statements in parallel columns of expenditures for corresponding
items for the two proceeding fiscal years.
> 1023-24 1922-23 1921-22
Property $42,000.00 $47,100.00 $26,000.00
Water & Lights 9.461.75 ' 9.461.75 ~ 2.847.00
Paving Interest 5,000.110 7,200.00 ■ 8,000.00
Total • $56,461.75 $63,761.75 $36,847.00
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Total Bonded Indebtedness ' $1,356,200.00
Amount of interest on bonds paid by City Water and light . .9,461.75
Uncollected social assessments 215,780.90
Assessed valuation of property as last fixed for municipal taxation
*iu 1922 * . $12,854,448.00
Under the authority of the Municipal Finance Act of North Carolina the
foregoing budget was ordered by the Board of Aldprmen of the City of < oncord to
be ‘prepared and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Board fpr public inspec
tion;’a $d notice is hereby given that -a public hearing will be given thereon at
an adjourned meeting of the Board on Tuesday. Septembc* 25th. 1928, at the
City Hall in Concord at 8 P. M. befaro the adoption of the annual appropriation
ordinance for the fiscal year endinqAugust 31st. 1924.
It was also ordered by the Bo»d that a <-oj»y of this* budget and notice of
hearing be published. \ f A
This September 6th, 192?.
GEORGE H. RICHMOND.
Trib.’ 8-It. T. 10-lt. * Clerk.
PAGE FIVE
SENATOR WILLS WILL
SUPPORT MR. COOLJftGE
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Harding: Leader Favors Keeping Succes
sor of His Chief in White House.
Washington, Sept. 7. —The first indi
cation of the probable line-up of the
Harding Republicans of' Ohio in next
I year’s campaign was given today when
j two of the men who were active in the
Harding pre-convention campaign in Ohio
in 1920 issued statements discussing
what may happen in 1i)24.
Senator Frank B. Willis, who, made
the nominating speech for Mr. Harding
at the Chicago convention, declared flat
ly that he favored keeping President
Coolidge in the White House. . ,
Fred Starek, a director of the war
finance corporation, and •an intimate
friend and political advise* of Mr. Hard
ing, said that if Mr.'Coolidge becomes
a candidate next year “it will be -by
reason of his owrf actfc in the interim.”
He added that to denominate, the Presi
dent as a candidate now was unfair to
him. , , ’ ’ » .
The two statements were the first re
garding 1924 to be made since Mr. Hard
ing's death by any of those in the group
that made the successful fight for his
nomination. There were indications,
that other developments may follow
shortly which would determine in large
measuae whether the Harding organiza
tion is to remain ihtaet in the coining
pre-convention campaign, aqd whether
its strength will be thrown to Mr. Cool
idge. f
Senator Wills gave out his statement
at the White House, as he was emerg
ing from a long conference with the
President at which they discussed the
outlook in the middle west. Since Mr.
Coolidge is following out the Harding
policies, the senator said, it would be
difficult for the Republican party to “in
dorse deced and repudiate file doer.”
He advised favorite sons to keep out in
the interest of harmony.
Political questions also were discussed
by Presideut during the day with
Jacob L. Babler, Republican national
committeeman from Missouri.
The President earlier iiUthe week had
talked over the Missouri political situa
tion with Governor .Hyde and State
Chairman Clements and E. Mont Reiley,
of Kansas City, who also was a Hard
ing supporter in the. pre-convention cam
paign in 1920.
Mr. Starek earlier in the week had
spent more than an hour in conference
with Mr. Coolidge and he declared in
his statement tonight that chief ex
ecutive did not appear q>,fce concerning
himself about the ntfftrination.
‘I do nqt mean to imply,” he con
tinuqd..*"tliat lie will not be the Repub
lic^,-nominee, but at present he is nit
to that end. His immediate
interest is the effective conduct of the
affairs of government.”