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... November 26, 192$ nH'S IN n 111E hospital ]] 7 ; r Some Time-. ui i j;*; n » the Immediate i» Troti"' ■■ '• U(h *;• , mer ( ongreai- U .X : .»f North \Vilkes* g. S- „, n at 1 :05 o’clock ' : where he had been J «leath re ycfst ! " ! , , ible and compli- K. from K u ” • (>1 i.;.-- , ,i in a local un fciew ‘' v this afternoon piM ' /'. , \ ti» Wilkesboro to ( . k rr * - -Vi years of age. Dr." 31 ; 1 ; | )V at,* brother. Gordon p■ urV .'v.rt: Wilkesboro, and a , ; > Hackett. He ur - master of Masons rV'V'viHi:, and at the time of p; the North Car ]j, i .- an able lawyer, , r ami was eonsid itf-"'; ,;r ■, : mos the Demo* av■ taken an ac l . , a itni in this state. ... man in Time Will Take All I*' Kura! ( ban relies. •;,i i I’.i Nov. 22. —Women . nil the majority <*'. seetioilis. Rev. I* 3 .. . , un s'louding seere- j FOR SALE The .Iv .uc-ts farm, containing 110 acres, lying on both : A : Risers Street a* Glass. This is one of the most N livable fannsjn the suburbs of Kannapolis. We will sell ; r v eor sub-divide it into small tracts Ao suit the .-.' o ' X'-w is the tiirje to get real bargains on easy' t ' Ti’.c S te’s Mining Property in No. 1 Township, con li-> acres at a real bargain at uick sale. We have other desirable tracts of land for sale at at ;:a: e prices. Also a number otMiouses and lots, and va cant lots. in the City of Concord. John K. Patterson & Co. Real Estate Agents *3s w By special arrangement! Your opportunity to make a personal inspection and have a complete demonstration of each remarkable v feature of the wonderful new Overland Champion—-“ America’s most versatile car.” Sweeping public interest and demand lead us to hold a Champion * Demonstration IVeek Nov. 22 to Nov. 29 inclusive Plan now to come in! Learn all about this first real all-purpose closed car! Get acquainted with its unique benefits for the salesman, the merchant, the farmer and the family! Free demon stration ! No charge! No obligation! Come in! testable forward and back by removing rpar seat and no folding aeata - no seat into comfortable bed full Lr tall and short people. upholstery. climbing. length of car. Qet culree Demonstration of (America s iciest and Qreatest (Automobile Sensation The Overland Ghampion was introduced ' grain upholstery. Trunk at rear at small .. orjjy 3 month and a half ago. It has taken extra price. Triplex springs (' Patentee ) the whole Nation by storm Demand has rides like a big, heavy car! Bigger new ?• nearly swamped the factory! This is the car engine—loads of power! Wonderful economy, v thousands and tens of thousands have been Famous Overland reliability. Come and see waiuriß for how truly this sensational car will fit your Steel oody- Washable hlue Spanish long needsl Don’t miss this opportunity. . 'i * -V X " f*’" CONCORD MOTOR CO tary of the board of home missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, pre dicted at a meeting of the beard here to day. The woman minister in a few ye*uw will be as familiar a figure in the country as the present rural school teach er, he said. "Reports indicate the number of re cruits to the ministry is small,” Dr. hoiijyth declared. “Many ministers find it difficult to continue in the ser vice because of economic conditions. The rural minister has a harder time to support a family—now than at any time during the past two decades.” A woman preached would be as suc cessful in the country as is her sister, the country school teacher, the speaker declared. She could live Snore econom ically than could a minister with a fam ily. According to Dr. Forsyth, more whites, born in the south, have sought homes elsewhere than have negroes born there.' He declared a study of the lf)20 census releaved that 780,000 whites had left the south, whereas 870,000 negroes had migrated to the north. Cabarrus Voted No. Salisbury Post. ( aha rrtts is a progressive county and we do not quite understand why it voted down a proposal to levy a special county wide rural school tax-of 20 cents on the SIOO. We cannot believe that the peo ple of* the county do not want better schools, nor that they are unwilling to pay for them, there must have been some issue wrapped in with' the proposal to carry it into disfavor with the vot ers. If that be true then there should be a straightening out or the issue and the thing settled right and for schools. There is no use to argue this matter of rural schools, they simply must come. The rural schools must keep up with the schools of the cities and towns, and they must keep up in all—counties with ti< high standa' d set by a progressive school policy. We know that Cabarrus like other North Carolina counties,needs better rural schools and we know, too, that they must come and the sooner the better. In every county it is well to take the time to work . out the right policy, one best suited to the local coun t.v conditions and work to the rounding out and completion of a well established system-. M hat they voted ou in Cabarrus we do nor know, little was said of the issue in public print and we are not for crit icising the voters of the-good county of Cabarrus, It is our opinion that there must have been something unsatisfactory °r the issue would nol have been defeat ed. We do not believe the Cabarrus people voted against better schools, they else* 1 haVC ,)<?en voring a g ai “st something * WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS. % ™ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ' ' an . mor * and more see that & Ohiistitfnity is not n dogimi or cr6(?fl, but is a habit of*mind. If your mind is kindly you are a Christian. whatever you call yourself: And if %• it is not. no knowledge of texts or attendance at church will make vou tK a: oue.” ‘ & * ft * ***%%*** * * * fc * ♦ SALE! On November 30 At 1 :00 I*. M, at my home on the Kan napolis Road, two tniles North of Con cord, I will offer for sale at public auc tion, the following articles: Three Good Horses One (rood Mule One (rood Cow. Oue 2-Horse Wagon. One Buggy (Die Surry and Harness. One Disc Harrow. One Riding Cultivator. One John Deer Sulky Plow. One 2-row Stalk Cutter. One (Nile Corn Planter. One Cole Cotton Planter. Several Stacks of Hay. And Many Oher Articles too numerous to mention. - W. A. FINK 2<>-2t-p. 20-lt-p. THE CONCORD TIMES TRINITY WILL PROCURE STRONG STAFF COACHES Trinity College Alumni Council Takes - Important Action on Athletics. Durham. Nov. 25.—The endorsement of the efforts cf the Athletic (Council in procuring strong coaching staffs for the various athletic teams at Trinity was one of a lint of important actions taken by Trinity College Aluinia Council which met at Trinity Saturday jusf preceding th.e Trinit.v-Newberry football game. The council also appointed a commit tee to work with similar committees from the Athletic Council ami adminis trative staff of the college in promoting good athletics at Triuity.- The alumni secretary, R. E. Thigpen, '22. and the graduate manager of athletics, J. H. Ruff, ’l7, were elected ex-officio mejuberu of the Athletic Council. Other matters of importance coming before the coun cil were the authorization of plans for arranging and equipping the alumni of fice, the working out of plans for Home-Coming Day, next fall, and plans looking to tne completion and financing .of the newalumni memorial gymnasium. Holiday Liquor Kills Five—Many Others Sick. Philadelphia, Nov. 25.—Liquor, ‘-im ported” for the holiday season is blamed by the policp for the death today of five men, and the sending of many others to hospitals in critical conditions. The deaths increased the fatalities attributed by the authorities to poison whisky to eight in the last seven days. Central city hospitals today treated scores of persons who had boon (licked up the streets unconscious from whiskey which some of them said .had been sold to them by bootleggers as ‘‘imported.” Many said they had taken only one or two drinks before losing consciousness. Oxygen gas have saved the lives of at least a dozen at one hospital, physicians said. Stood Adamant. The Uplift. Bishop Dennv. in presiding over the North Carolina Methodist Conference at Elziabeth City during the past week, stood immovable for the four year limit for a pastorate. A wonderfully strong man, of great learning and of outstand ing courage is Bishop Denny, but he just couldn't turn a deaf ear to the demand for the return of the little live ecclesias tieal wire that presidos over Forest Hill in Concord, so the Rev. J. Frank Arm strong enjoys the reputation of being the only Methodist preacher that, was ever .permitted to live in Concord for five con secutive years and officiate at the same church. r". ’ * ’ Diving on a wet concrete pavement more than 100 wild ducks broke their nods near Champaign, Illinois. The pavement, wet from a drizzling rain and lighted by the moon, looked like a shim mering body of water. Miss Ifila Marshall, a 20-year-old stenographer, has written a novel which js attracting considerable attention in London. LOCAL MENTION l Born, a spn. to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kesler, of South Spring Street, Satur day, November 24th. ! Mrs. T. T. Smith is again confined to her bed on account of illness. H«r con dition is reported today ns unchanged. All of the public school of the county will observe a holiday on Thanksgiving, Prof. ,7. iB. Robertson, superintendent of the schools stated thus morning. Mr. J. H. Brawn, county welfare offi cer, is spending the day in Virginia, He was accompanied to Virginia by a child he entered in an orphanage there. Mr. ,T. M. Black welder received a mes sage this morning from bin daughter. Miss Ethel Blackwelder. who fb a stu dent at Western Maryland College. West minster. Md., stating that she had en tered a hospital for an operation. _ One hundred white teacheus and thir ty colored teachers of the .county wgre in Concord Saturday to attend meetings called by Prof, J. B. Robertson. The white teachers met in the morning and the colored teachers in the afternoon. Regular programs were carried out at each of the meetings. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following couples by Register of Deeds Elliott: Clarence Lafoy and Miss Auuie Spears, both of Kannapolis; Ervin Miss and Miss Lina Faggart, both of Concord R. F. D. No. 4; and George Easley and Misn Fay Alexander, both of Concord R. F. D. No. G. John Eury, well known negro 7)f this city, died last night about 11 o'clock. Eury had been ill for a number of months and his death was not unexpected. He was one of the oldest and best known negroes in Concord and enjoyed a good reputation among both whites and blacks. Practically every business house in the city will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. The drug stores probably will ob serve Sunday hours and the grocery stores may be open for a short while -in the morning, but otherwise business here will be at a standstill. The banks and the library are included in the establish ments that will be closed. The case of Mr. John Laughlin. near the Southern station, was destroyed by fire last night about 8 o’clock. The blaze had gained much headway when the firemen started their fight, but they saved the outside part of the huildiug, although the interior was gutted. The building was of wood and burned very rapidly. Miss Annie Brice Rail'd, of this'city, ami Rev. J. A. Baird, of Kannapolis, went to York, S. C.. today to attend the funeral of their uncle, Mr. J. Steele Baird, one of York’s most prominent citizens, who died at his home there yesterday. Mrs. Annie Baird, sister of the deceased, 'lias been in York for sev eral days. A Hudson touring ear, said to have been occupied by a crowd of negroes, was wrecked on the Charlotte road some time last night, county officers were no tified. The ear was wrecked at Wolf's Creek, where it turned completely over and where it was still standing this morning. It is understood that the oc <yipants escaped without injury. Thirteen eases were on docket for trial in recorder’s court this morning. In six of the cases the defendants were charged with violatia nos the prohibition laws and in six others • gambling was charged. In the other case , the de fendant was charged with larceny. Court W(w- in session several hours disposing of the cases. Our good friends of city or county will please note that we charge one cent a word cash with order for all notices of entertainments, box suppers, etc., where anything is sold or for which an admission fee is charged. Please do not ask, us to charge such notices. If sent by mail, count the words and send one cent per word for each insertion in cither The Times or The Tribune. The private car to be used by Concord people going to Chapel Hill for the an nual football game has been secured and will leave Concord Thanksgiving* morning on train No. 44. Persons desir ing to make the trip to The Hill on the car should communicate at once with Mr. Bernard Fetzer or Mr. A. R. Hoover. The ear will return to Concord Thanks giving night. Wake Forest won second place in foot ball standing in the State Saturday by defeating,State College 14 to 0. Trin ity defeated Newberry 20 to 14 if! the only other game in the State. In the east the Army and Navy played to a score less tie and Yale defeated Harvard 13 to 0. Georgia was swamped by Alabama 3G to 0. and Washington and Lee lost to Centre. The next big games will be played on Thanksgiving Day. The Gastonia high school football team will be here tomorrow for a game with the local team. The game will be play ed at the Gibson Mill Park and probably will be the last of the season unless a Thanksgiving game is arranged. The local team has been playing the best hall of the year for the pus two weeks and is said to be in fine shape for the game tomorrow. The game will begin at 3 :30 o’clock. Hinton McLeod and Leslie Bell will play this week for the golf title of the Cabarrus Country Club. They wjera their way to the finals Saturday, McLeod defeating E. Q. Earnhardt and Bell win ning frqm Bent. Both matches were well played and were not determined un til the next to the lust, hole.* Iu the woman’s play Mrs. I. I. ’Pivs, Jr., de feated Miss Adele Pembertou. The finals in {he men’s tournament will be played one day this week. Eased His Mind. Husband —Dearest, when I am goue how will you ever pay the doctor’s bills V Wise —Oh. don’t worry about that. If the worst comes to the worst I’ll “marry the doctor- / Dr. Cushing Telman Dea<|, Nashville, Tenn.. Nov. 24.—Dr. Hu* bert Cushing Tolman, dean of the Col lege of Arts and Science at Vapderbilt University, and an authority on ancieqt language, died suddenly at bis home on ; Yaudarbilt campus this moniiug. Death was due to agina pectoris, according to the attending physicians. He was once an instructor at the yuiversity of North Carolina. ’ NORFOLK SOUTHERN IS REINVESTING EARNINGS All Net Profits Being Put Into Im , provemmts, Supt. J. ML Shea Says. New Bern, Nov. 23.—’’All of the net earnings/ of the Norfolk Southern are being turned back into the road in the form of improvements,” J. M- Shea, superintendent of the New Bern division, said today in an interview in which he discussed the* various phases of improvement now iu progress." At this time, in additions to repair ing and replacing sections of track, the road is having its freight cars put in condition, and Superintendent Shea said the four shops, those here, at Bis coe, Raleigh, and Berkeley, Virginia, are 1 turning out repaired cars at the rate of 200 a month. Road crews are at work ballasting some 40 odd miles of track north of j Washington, N. C.. and übout 10 mi’es of this track is being replaced with 85- j pound rails, the superintendent stated- The road between Washington and Berkeley handles the heaviest freight traffic on the entire and for this reason is getting first attention in the improvement program. Some work is being done on the section between here aud Mursden. I While tracks and roadbeds have been getting attention, the rolling stock of the v Norfolk Southern was recently bolstered up with the purchase of six Baldwin. 00-ton type, freight locomo tives at total cost of SIBO,OOO. i While it cannot be said that the Nor folk Southern is getting rich, it is a .fact that it has begun to earn money. J and thp public accepts Superintendent 1 Shea’s statement when it takes stock of i the many improvements that have been | and are being made all along the system. And people in this section are hopeful j in the belief that it is coming into its ]own as a factor in the, development of eastern North Carolina- ADMINISTER SEVERE WHIPPING TO WOMAN Deserted Husband and Ran Off With Another Man. Charge. Chadbourn, -Nov. 25.—A few nights ago about 30 masked and robed men went to the home of Hampton Hill burne, few miles west of town, and is «aid to have adiministered a severe whip ping to a woman named Hodge, the wife of a well known blind beggar of Chadbourn. It is said that the woman *had de serted her husband some time ago and had persuaded Hillbourne to go with her to a point in Robeson county where they are reported as having stayed for some time. to Columbus only a day or so in advance of the flogging. The woman is reported to have been laid down upon a chickey epop aud was given 15 or 18 licks with a whip and 1 advised to return to her husband at jouep, which she did. Hilbourne was not dealt with so severely. He was given a good lecture aud advised to behave and to not allow married women to take up at his home. Hilbourne’s wife died only a few weeks ago. * Steamship Disaster Recalled. Boston. Mass., Nov. 20.—Today is one of sad memories to many New Eng land families who lost relatives or friends in the wreck of the steamship Portland, for this is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the great disaster, The Portland, was lost on the - night of November 26, 1898-, The vessel left Boston at 7 p- m., but no one of the one hundred and eight, passengers or the sixty-eight members of the crew lived to exp’niu just what happened. It is usual ly conceded that she was smashed by the angry seas (there was a northeast snow raging at the time) somewhere between Cape Ann aud Cape Cod. All that was recovered were thirty three bodies, found ou the sands of Provineetown and Chatham, and pieces of shattered timber. j The storm that proved fatal to the Portland was one of the worst that ever visited the North Atlantic const. Railroads were washed out, wires torn down, and travel made impossible for several days. Men acquainted with the const agree that the Portland must been far off her course when she gave up the struggle, and that the captain, funding it impossible to seek refuge in Gloucester liarbon, sought to reach the sheltering lee of Cape Cod- This fheory is supported by the fact ihat most of the bodies recovered were found along the Caift. The hand wheel of the steam er was found near Provineetown. The hull has never been located. Many suits for damages were brought against the steamship company to re cover damage done to plaintiffs by the death of relatives who were on the ship. The court sustained the defense, how ever, whose case rested upon the declaration that the loss of the Port land was “an act of GoeftJ.’ Rradstreetfs Review bf Trade Condi-' tions. New York, Nov. 23. —Bradstreet’s to morrow will say: “Except iu a few centers where indus trial activity is exceptional, or where excellent returns have been received from the cotton crop, jobbiug and retail trade are quieter and industry has as sumed a rather slower pace. For this, warm weather, nffeeting jobbers and manufacturers as well as retaileis, is mainly responsible. Price uncertainties still affect distant buying. On the other hand, collections. which have lagged conspicuously behind trade reports well j throughout the year, show another slight gain, there is more evidence of interest in ho’iday goods and by no , tHofins least, the volume of buying in pig iron has been enough to apparently check the long downward swiug in prices In this line. Weekly bank clear ings $8,011,326,000.” Nickels Will Be Hanged. Tallahassee, Fla., 24.—Aubrey Lee Nickels, of Greenwood, 8. C., will be hanged iu Volusia county on Iriday. December 14th. Governor Hardee Is sued a death warrant today calling ou Sheriff Lee Morris, of Volusia, to execute Nickels on that date, between the hour* of 10 a. m. and 2 p. up Levy Guilty of Second Degree Murder- Fayetteville, N- CL, Nov. 24-—Joel Levy today was found guilty of murder in the second degree in connection with the slaying of W. C. Callahan, a deputy sheriff near here last Spring. Judge Stack sentenced Levy to 30 years ip the State prison. Levy gave notice of ap-, peal and bond was fixed at SIO,OOO, which was amused- PAGE SEVEN WOMAN DESCRIBES MOR Says She and Her Escort Were Beaton * Almost Unconscious. Atlanta, Gu., Nov. 24. —Trial of the men under indictment Tor alleged flog ginf of Mrs. Bertha Holcombe, 22-year old widow and her escort, S. H. Morton, It traveling salesman, is expected to be called next week at Marietta, the boun ty seat of Cobb county* in which the af fair is said to have taken place, it was indicated today by prosecution officials. AVhile Mrs. Holcombe made prepara tions to leave her home at Smyrna, about 12 miles from here, and move to At lanta, Morton is held at police head-- quarters here under SIOO bond on a charge of violating the state prohibition law. Keller Hasty, pitcher for the Phila delphia American fpague baseball club, and his brothers, Frank and Arthur Has ty, three of the men under indictment, asserted that they would be able to prove an alibi which would show conclusively that their jndictment grew out- of miap N taken identity. Tom Black, employe of the Atlanta Gas Works, also under indictment, was quoted as declaring that he could prove an alibi, while the other two accused men, P. C. Cook, an automobile mechanic risidiug iii Smyrna, and Joe Bramlett who lives near Smyrna, both denied any connection with the flogging or any ac quaintance with the woman. “There were more than a dozen men in the group that seized Mr. Morton and myself soon after we stepped off the Marietta car at Smyrna last Friday night about 10:45 o’clock.” declared Mrs. Hol combe. who is an employe of the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., in At alnta. * - “After carrying us out into the couu tryy” she continued, “the men got care less and let their masks slip down. I recognized Tom Black aud Joe Bramlett. Black did all the talking and once when somebody interruped he told him to shut up; that he was ‘doing all the talking.’ That man replied, ‘You have already talked too much.’ “After both Mr. Morton aud myself had been whipped until we were almost unconscious, I was brought back to Smyrna aud placed on the front poridi of the Hasty home. While I was stain ing there—it was about 12:30 o’dobk— Arthur and Frank Hasty came into the front yard carrying a flashlight?.* I went out and spoke to them aikl’they asked, 'Where is he?’ I did not reply and they asked me if I* wanted to go home. They carried me’to my home.” Mrs. Holcotabe asserted that she gave the solicitor “only the names n those I positively identified.” Held at police headquarters here, Mor ton refused to discuss the matter beyond admitting that he was the victim. He said he lmd been warned by Solicitor General Wood, of the cirpuif which Marietta is a part, not to discuss the case. STOCK RULING Corporation Not Required to List Stock in Foreign Corporations for Local Taxation. Raleigh, Nov. 24.—Superseding a for mer informal interpretation which was declared discriminatory between corpor ate aud individual owners of the stock in foreign corporations, n decision wa* readied yesterday by the State Board of Assessments holding that corpora tions are not required to list stock ill foreign corporations for local taxation, but neither stock of this character, nor that in building aud loan associations can be deducted in computing tax due on corporate excess. The effect of the decision is regarded a$ favorable to North Carolina corpora tions in that it will make much stock in coiqiorations of this state more desir able under general circumstances. FORMER GOVERNOR ON STAND IN NEW CASE Former Governor Harvey Called to the Stand in Effort to Get Verdict for Himself. Charleston. S. C., Nov. 24.—Former Governor Wilson G. Harvey, being tried iu the court of general sessions here on charges of violating state banking laws as president and director of the defunct Enterprise Bank of this city, took the stand shortly before noon today in his own defense. State’s testimony was concluded today after several additional witnesses had been heard. The former Governor was the first witness for the defense. FRENCH PARENTS DIE ON GRAVE OF SON ✓ Baron and Baroness De Montigny Com mit Suicide on Grave of Aviator Son. Berry-au Bac, France, Nov. 24.—Ba ron and Baroness Emmanuel de Montigny shot themselves dead yesterday on the grave of their aviator son. Pierre, who was killed here in an air fight in lfllH. Pinned to flic Baron’s hat was a brief letter to the deputy mayor saying lie and his wife had nothing to live for, and had decided to die. High Priced Evangelists. We find the following in the report of the session of the Methodist Confer ence at Elizabeth City in the North Carolina Christian Advoeate: The presiding elders In the reports gave little encouragement to the money grabbing evangelists. One elder report ed that a pastor in this district on a little cotton mill charge received more members into the church than all the in another place received from a $16,000 evangelistic campaign. Like expressions yere rejmrted by others of the presiding elders. According to the presiding elders these high priced cam paigns by professional evangelists have proved collossal failures. Old Mexican Town Burned. San Diego, Calif., Nov. 24.—Buildings covering an entire block about a third of the business section of the “old town” of Tijuana, Mexico, 18 miles from here across the border,* were burned yesterday and last night. The loss was estimated at about $1,000,000. \ Mrs. Caruso to Wed Next Week. London, Nov. 24.—Mrs. Enrico Cam- . so and Captain Ernest Ingram, of Lou don, will be married • next Wednesday morning, it was announced today. A sugar plant fouud iq parts of Sotitk America is said to contain a large pro-, portion of intensely sweet matter that is not fermentable. Get wealth honestly; use wealth generously govern weajtfc dioertetly.