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PAGE FOURTY-TWO «' ; Before Winter Comes During this rm.ntli and next is the best time to place Monuments, for the ground is thoroughly settled, insur ing a good foundation for the stone. Winnsboro Granite, Georgia and Vermont Marbles The Best That Is Quarried Granite and Marble Monuments lIEAOSTt>XES AXI) TABLETS. ETC. Concord Marble Works A. D. FRIEZE H. T. UTLEY Concord, N, C. \ Carefully V Compounded' - - - * 1 ' ‘ • .1 - '' . ; Ihc careful compounding of prescriptions is just as important as the choice of a doctor when you or your loved ones are sick. I lie best efforts of your doctor will go for naught if what he prescribes is not carefully followed to the last item. f \ e specialize in this* work and are worthy of your trust. Complete Line of ToUet Articles, Candies, Perfumes, Cigars, Cigarettes, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream, Magazines and Novelties Our Service and Quality Best Yet \\ e carry the Very Best Known Lines of everything mentioned above and give noth * * V •. V. i. ing but the most efficient service' ‘ * TELL US YOUR WANTS WE HAVE IT Pearl Drug o. Phone 22 J. W. PIKE, Pres, and Mgr. 2S. Union St. I v ‘ » ' > THE CONCORD TIMES—FAIR AND INDUSTRIAL EDITION J. A. Walker Most Successful Builder j One of the successful contractors of, the Piedmont section is .1. A. Walker, j who specializes in bridge building, pav ing and concrete construction and who j has been engaged in this line of activity j since 1903. He came here from Higlij Point, twenty years ago, and in that time has won the confidence and respect of all with whom he has had business! dealings. lie is *an Elk and V oodmaii of the World, married with four chil dren. one of whom is at college, two at school, and one daughter married. Mr. Walker is kept busy all the time with contract work, and for the last few years has been doing a lot of important work for the county and city, beingohe contractor for the McCill Street bridge now nearing completion near the (Jibson Mill. This handsome structure is ex pected to add greatly to the convenience of traffic in that district. For. the last IN months he lias been laying concrete side walks for the city. The program when completed will add about 10 miles of sidewalks to the city, which is ad mitted to be one of the best paved cities of its size in the south. Blackwelder and Son Can Move Anything It. V. Blackwelder and Son are famil iarly known as It. V. lilackwelder for over 20 years to the people of this district as contractors in the moving of houses and other buildings and fob heavy moving of all descriptions. The business was start ed by A. .1. Blackwelder, father of the present head and grandfather of the pres ent junior member of the firm. Mr. It. V. Blackwelder was born and reared in Cabarrus county as was his son. C. It. Blackwelder. who was admitted into partnership with his father upon leav ing college. C. It. Blackwelder attend ed Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute and the University of North Carolina. Both members of the firm attend St. James Lutheran Church. C. It. Black welder being a teacher in the Sunday school. He is also a member of the Moose and one of the popular young business men of the city. The business is a prosperous one em ploying eight persons, with a fully ade quate equipment to undertake all kinds of heavy work. Friday was the most popular day for weddings among the .Tews in medieval times. i J. B. Sherrill One of Best i ! Known Publisher in State Served His Fellow Publishers For Over Thirty Years As He Has Served His Community Since • 1885. (By JAMES CRFIKSHANK) If John Bascom Sherrill isn’t mighty careful he’s going to be sixty years old in the course of a few months, for it is re corded that he was born February 23rd, 180-4. in Iredell county. North Carolina. However, anyone who thinks that just because he is nearing the sixty mark, puts him in tlie* aged class, has another ‘ guess coining, for the owner of The Trib une and Times is as active today as he ever was. which is saying a lot when it is j remembered that he built up The Trib -1! une and Times from practically nothing, ami swept into his possession most of jthe newspapers which were in existence jin Concord prior to his arrival, and bought most of tjiose which had the temerity to start after ho established himself. His activity finds expression in do ing most everything to be done around a ■ thriving daily and semi-weekly newspa per shop, with a large commercial job ; ptinting business, just for good measure. 1 A publisher’s life is strenuous, enough with only one paper to look after, ami • when a semi-weekly is added, plus job printing, added to representing his coun ty in the legislature. singing in the • choir, * and generally having a hand in 1 most movements for the development of • Concord, it can be readily Understood that ’ Mr. Sherrill doesn’t grow old because 1 iij tw' ■ t John li. Sherrill lie hasn’t time. While he long ago readi ed a financial position where he could sit pretty and collect rents and cut cou pjons. he prefers to work, \ujth the re sult that his son Bill and the other members of The Tribune and Times or ganization: have so depend on alarm clocks to get them to the office before the "Old Man” whose starting hour is about 7 :30 a. m. In addition to his work as a publisher of The Tribune and Times. Mr. Sherrill has two other great interests, one is the Central Methodist Church and the other is the—North Carolina Press Association. Ever since coming to 'Concord Mr. Sher rill has been identified with the religious life of the community, both as regards regular church attendance, liberal con tributions to the advancement of the church, and in the kind of newspapers he has published. They are distinctly home papers of a clean type, free from the sordid sensationalism which has tended to degrade journalism in recent years. Some publishers work on the maxim that everything which is news should be printed. But not so with Mr. Sherrill. It has to be news which is fit to be read in the homes of his subscribers before he will acknowledge that he is under any obligation to print it. As secretary treasurer of the North Carolina Press Association for 32 con secutive years from 1888 to 1020. Mr. Sherrill saw the press of North Carolina and particularly the press of the smaller cities and towns emerge from a state of dependence to a new era where a news paper publisher was a man of standing in his community, respected for the na ture of his work and regarded as a busi ness man as well as a writer. No man did more towards bringing this condition about and improving the standing of the newspaper profession than Mr. Sherrill, who was elected year after year to an office which was a labor of love with him and which he used as an instrument for advancing the interests of every pub lisher in the State of North Carolina. He was elected president of the Associa tion in 11)21 and re-elected in 1922. He was again re-elected in 1923, but declined to serve. Mr. Sherrill was a son of the parson age, his father being the late Rev. M. V. Sherrill, a Methodist minister for thirty years. llis mother was Martha J. Doug las, a daughter of David Douglas, a farmer of Iredell county. He was edu cated under Professor \Y. M. Brooks, of Oliu. N. C., his brother-in-law, until he was IN years Os age. He begau his career as a publisher when he was 10 years of age. editing an amateur paper at Olin in 1880. Later he was on the staff of the Lenoir Topic. In 1883 he removed to Concord and bought out a one-fifth interest in The Concord Times, buying out his brother and the other three part owners a year later. In 1887 he bought the Register of Concord, a weekly newspaper and con solidated it with The Times. In 1910 he acquired The Daily and Semi-weekly Tribune and plant. He continued The Tribune as a daily and consolidated the semi-weekly Tribune with The Times, i Mr. Sherrill who all along had been oon • ducting a job printing office, by his sev eral purchases had'greatly increased the facilities of the plant. When he origi nally started in 1885, all he had in the way of equipment was an old Washington ! hand press, and a few handfuls of type. Today he has three Linotype machines, ! representing the latest equipment in •type setting machinery,, a modern fast press with stereotyping equipment, a very large supply of foundry type and a Ludlow machine, which manufactures display type as it is required, and in addition a large amount of printing offioe equipment of every kind. It is safe to say there is hardly another printing office in North ('arolrna in n city the size of Concord with such a complete equip ment. On Jane .Ith. INS7, Mr. Sherrill mar ried M iss Anna Montgomery, a daugh ter of the late .Judge W. .T. Montgomery, and has four children, three daughters, and one son. Bill, who is associate editor of The Tribune and Times and his fath er's right hand man in the business. There is no danger of the family name dying out as Mr. Sherrill has also eight grand children. It) addition to enjoying the confidence of his fellow citizens. Mr. Sherrill also enjoyed the confidence of I'nele Sam, serving as postmaster of Concord under the Cleveland second administration. He was tV»r eight years on the city school hoard and is a trustee of Trinity College. cr. wt.: ho: .* «. h..-. e was accorded on November 7th. 1!)22, when lie was elected on the democratic ticket as the member from Calbarrus of the North Carolina general assembly. He was away from home at Asheville when he was nominated and knew nothing about the matter until he was notified of what had happened. Odd Kind of Fiati. No fish is stranger than the littl* sea-horse. It has a body encased in rings of bony mail, a horse-shaped head set at right angles and a -pre hensile tuil to grasp seaweed in which It hides. It always llouts with its queer head up and erect. Another pe culiar thing- about the sea-horse is that the mate fish carries the eggs in a pouch situated under his tail until the young are hatched and large enough to look out for themselves. Simple Selling Service Builds . , • / Bigger Better Business You can buy Hardware, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Harness, Saddlery, Paints, Oils, Cement, Etc., the quality kind, from other reputable houses. Should we advertise our ma terial as being better than you could purchase elsewhere, you would not think we had a high regard for your in telligence. 0 * ( Ethics —To admit, without stint, or reservation, that our friends in the same line of business —called competi tors—are equally as reliable and carry equally as good merchandise, and that our business existence is depend ent absolutely upon securing and holding your good will. To secure your business, we must earn it on good, clean-cut merit and by a knowledge of our business gain ed through years of experience; a willingness to give un prejudiced advice —and, most important of all, to gain and hold your good will by selling you the kind of sen ice that satisfies. m Yorke and Wadsworth Co. #4 • * 7-9 S. Union St. M. L. Marsh, Mgr. Concord, X P 1* Start this season right by stepping into Starncs-Mi’ ler-Parker’s Jewelry Store. Here you will find t i’,. unique and distinctive designs of the master cratVniri who create all kinds of high class Jevvelrv. Perhaps a friend is going on a journey or bavin,, birthday. Would he or she not appreciate a real \ piece of Jewelry from our store whose ownership 0 pletes the conviction that there is nothing further to desired. , Our Stock Is Complete WITH ALL NEW AND REACTIITL Jewelry of Every Description It Will Be a Pleasure to Show You Through Our Won derful Stock Bring Your Watches and Jewelry Here For EXPERT REPAIRING 41 SOUTH UNION STREET CONCORD, \\ C Starnes Miller Parker Co., Inc.
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