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Bth Tremors Did Damage In
■cur States Over Week End But
■No Deaths Are Reported So Far
I IK HOCKED
M THE QUAKE
I \nseles Tremor Con-
Id For More Than Min
fcu t No One Has Been
Irted Killed So Far.
effect of quake
I Are Also Down In
| Sections of Califor-
Ind Power Houses Re
[Heaviest Damages.
L,;,,* .]mit* 2i» (By the Assooi
sever* 1 ' earthquake shook
| \ng*‘le> at •"> M 3 a. ni. today.
Et, building' swayed consider
■te nioveinetit wa> slow and easy
a was no indn ation of danger.
continued for more
limit''.
p'!n|Ufik'*s ce.jitinued at regular
Ihm all were the slow and
L extremely severe movements.
were felt as far north as
Lome 37 miles from here, ae-
I telephone company reports.
Inn > were couunuing at 0 :o0
lthuu:tkes were felt in an me
L? of severity at Mojave and
I Antelope Valley. ltMl miles
lyre, according to operators of
Ini;. bureau of the power and
Lid. Oxnard and Santa Bar-
Re north of Colton to the east,
lit" the Southern Pacific train
[ here that they felt the tre-
L n'i'orts of damage came into
Ini Pacific offices here.
I r of tie* disturbances seemed
Los Angeles and ot the north,
b.telegraph ami telephone re
puted.
I reported that the movement
I there. Clocks were stopiml
pors in I.os Angeles. El Cen
pi that tin* tremors were not
I Imperior Valley,
pi l iron and Pacific telephone
pi'll wire> wi*st of Veuturo in
pen of Santa'Barbara went dead
rthquake and an hour later the
reported they were not able
p communication with Santa
Rmaye in Several Cities.
raney.-n'. .Tune 211 (By the As
| I?ressi—An earthquake at
k•' cause*! the Southern
hnd house at Santa Barbara.
! 'live in. demolished the rail
lion at Goleta. nine miles north
llarbara. and thrust the rail
flo out of line at Naples, fif
f- north of Santa Barbara, the
Pacific dispatcher’s office in-
here just 'before
iFip!; wires failed. All , wire
ition with Santa Bar bar a ceased
''ck at (i;44 a. in. and efforts
! made to ascertain whether ad
iatnage was done.
'nntiiquake did not reach San
:i,; k collapse*] at Xables, sub- (
Sdufhcin Pacific Company’s
j' rt ‘. die Company was advised.
'-enter at a point
k'lis and Carpenteria.
landslides were nqmrted at Ben
iTtentn.
h >rn Part of'State Rocked.
raneiseo. Juno 2!l (By the As
. I'”'. 1 California, in
1,1 u Santa Barbara, 300 miles
E 'nnoisco, was rocked by
'•' alu ' v.f major proportions at
- '"day, information received
| idon Telegraph Com-
Tne principal lines of
• a ' !!t y 'he area believed the
'• aft, *cted. have been snap
-1 (, aviota indicated that
( ' s'-voivlv rocked is be
.‘ l ‘*. :ll ‘d Santa Barbara. At
mP il! "' v " erp broken by the
’ a la,, K" water tank was
*' <>n the railroad right of
1 over the yards.
, Hotel Destroyed.
' June 20 (By the
i® hi 'T' 1 ' ' übrillo House
Mr,?.'', Si,,lta Barbara
n 111 earthquake, the
1 'o. was advised here,
o.'nyi i j:|;i, ‘ ;ii s s on State Street
k! U I ! ;u " sa 'd by the com
‘ city's water sys
hri if ’T A ''' t * , '\ message said.
til ' t s lJit- in two and
o word was received as
1 "hrin,, ,1" ' fro,, ‘ an - v source,
ta. 1 '' ’■* "h ch was demol
f"f c.,, 1 ' ■ nr( ~t istructed brick
Nit fr,,,'. S ' ZP and located
Jif.in < .street, the main
kt C 7, , ! ! v ' Th “ h< » tel hnd
. 1 11 about 300 guests.
Mu, |, i\
as Santa Barbara
r ‘-'.ayc,i i ' ,l; - Jane 2!). —Infor-
p V.-V. ,lu ‘ Associated Od
h d that vv 'i'«‘s from Santa
Rrti;ir ; , , ll:an * v large buildings in
p>" wliicj 1 S * leveled by th*
Pt? " ' >tru(, k that sectior
Pknajti,
M ' va> received at Sant?
THE CONCORD TIMES
Maria through private lines extending
close to Santa Barbaa.
State Street is the ma‘n thoroughfare
of Santa Barbara. It extended from the
beach for a distance of several miles,
i Business blocks ranging in height from
two stories,to ten. line each side of the
street. These buildings mainly are of
brick and concrete construction. Arling
ton Hotel, one of the famous resorts, is
on upper State Street, about a mile from
the beach.
All Brick Building Demolished.
Santa Barbara. June 211.—A1l the
brick buildings in Santa Barbara were
demolished this morning, including the
Arlington Hotel, by the earthquake which
swept the state. Water mains and river
reservoirs were broken and the city was
partly flooded.
Tel eg rah Office Damaged.
San 1* rancisco, June 2ft. —The main en
trance of the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Company at Santa Barbara was
demolished here by earthquake this morn
ing. information to the company head
quarters at San Francisco over a crippled
said shortly before 9 a. m.
No Ihi mage at Hollywood.
Hollywood. June 29.—Hollywood ex
perieneed a shock early this morning from
earthquake tremors. No damage was re
ported. |
Relief Train Off to Santa Barbara.
San Louis Obispo, Calif.. June 29. —A :
them Pacific relief train is leaving
here at once to assist at Santa Barbara.
Reports received here by the Southern
Pacific officials say the railroad round
house, the city reservoir and the San'
Macus building and the Arlington Hotel
have been destroyed.
It was also reported that State Street
had been torn up by' the shock. Re
ports from Los Oslives. Santa Maria.
Tompoco, Orcutt and Nimopo, south of
here, said that these points had been
shaken up but uot damaged. All tele
graph and telephone wires between here
and Santa Barbara are down. - ,
Red Cross to Give Aid.
San Francisco. Cal., June 29 (By the
Assoc : ated Press). —The American Ited
Cross headquarters here are negotiating
for all available army airplanes here to
rush a fully equipped relief force 1 to San
ta Barbara. One of those who will go
from here is J. W. Richardson, who head
ed the Red Cross relief in the tornado
stricken towns of the Middle West.
— : |
History in Granite.
Brussels, June 29.—Two hundred and
forty granite landmarks stretching from
the Swiss frontier to the sea-coast of Bel
gium indicate the limit of the enemy ad
vance in the great war. Seven of these
are in the Ypres salient, and the Ypres
League, at the invitation of the Belgian
government. has provided the stones.
They are four feet high, and each is
surmounted by a carved representation
of the “tin hat.” On each is inscribed
in English. French, and Flemish the
phrase: “Here the invader was brought
to a standstill.”
The League has also erected forty land
marks on sites which became Jamous dur
ing the fighting in Flanders. Each is
an iron post beai’ing the name by which
the place was known to the troops en
gaged. Some of the names which have
become immortal, like “Sanctuary Wood ’
and “Kitchener Wood,” hnve a curious
origin. The latter has no connection
with the name of the great British sol- I
dier, but is a soldier’s translation of its
real name, Bois to Cuisinier.
The former owes its strange title to
the fact that wlien. in October, 3914,
General Bulfin had collected there a num
ber of small parties and stragglers, he
isssued orders that they “were in sanc
tuary and not to be employed except by
his instructions.” The soldiers came to
the natural conclusion that they were in
Sanctuary Wood.
Oklahoma Woman Insures Her Sense of
Smell For $50,000.
New York. June 27.—A* $50,000 nose
from Oklahoma City is sniffing the airs
of Manhattan preliminary to the en
joyment of the tang of sea breezes.
Mrs. Blanche Cavitt. before leaving
home for a three month’s tour of Europe
had her sense of smell insured for $50.-
000 at a cost of S4OO. She is a specialist,
able to detect the base of complicated
perfumes by the odor.
With her husband. R. C. Cavitt. she
leaves July 4 for a three months tour
of Europe. Among other things she ex
pects to have a sniff in Egypt at per
fume 8.000 years old* and to act as judge (
at an exposition in Paris attended by
perfumers from all over the world.
Frogs Imbedded in Cement For Years
Are Found Alive.
Okanogan, Wash-,^June 29. Several
green frogs, imprisoned in cemented
gravel were set free when a road crew
made a cut in a country road near liere.
Thev were .found firmly imbedded thue
feet' below the surface of the old high
way. The frogs showed considerable
animation on being released, giving no
signs of the inconvenience caused by
several years imprisonment.
Trevor Kincaid, professor of biology
in the University of M ashingtom p
dared the existence of frogs imprisone
in cement over a period of years quite
possible, though he* said no scientific
data ha been gathered on the point.
Americans Win at Golf.
Glen Eagle. Scotland. June 29 (By the
I Associated Press).— MacDonald Smith
and Joe Kirkwood, American profes
sional golfers, deeated the British . pair.
George Duncan and Abe Mitchell, - up
and 1 to play, in a 86-hole match over
the Glenn Eagles Courts today. The
Americans were 2 down at the end of the
first round.
GALLATIN VALLEY
WAS HARDEST HIT
Damage In That Part of
| Montana From Saturday’s
j Quake Is Estimated Now
at More Than $500,000.
i
QUAKE ALSOTELT
1 DURING THE NIGHT
i
No Loss of Life Was Report
! ed Anywhere In the State,
i However.—Large Crevice
Extends Ten Miles.
Helena. Montana. June 29.—Residents
! of the Gallatin Valley, the apparent cen
ter of the earthquake which shocked four
States Saturday night and yesterday, re
mained out in wide open spaces today
| looking back at $500,000 worth of ruins.
. the aggregate cost of the tremors..
1 It was a whimsical earthquake. No
one was killed. .Nearly a score of build
ings cracked and fell. There were a half
dozen landslides.
A crevice extending at irregular inter
vals from Manhattan to Three Forks, a
distance of 10 miles remains as one of
the scars caused by the quake. The
Lombard Tunnel of the Chicago. Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railroad, was caved
in, ami an avalanche at Deer Park, cov
ered S(H) feet of railroad track nearby,
leaving it buried under earth end rocks
lOf * Ti.ct deep. Th : * was caused when a
cliff 800 feet high toppled and fell.
| Felt in Montana.
Butte, Montana, June 29.—Helena peo
ple were awakened at 2 :20 this morning
by an earthquake shock which lasted seven
seconds. No report of damage by the
latest of a series of shocks that started
Saturday evening have been received.
Fourth Quake in 24 Hours.
Great Falls, Mont., Jiine 2th—Great
Falls was visited wish its fourth earth
quake in 24 hours at 2 :80 this morning.
! Houses were shaken by the quake that
lasted several seconds.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Frm at Advance of 12 to 25
Points, and During First Hour Gain
ed More.
New York. June 29.—The cotton mar
ket opened firm today at an advance of
12 to 25 points, and by the end of the
first hour about 19 to' 81 points net
higher, all months making new high
ground for the movement. October sold
up to 24.17 and December to 24.25 on
covering, trade and commission house
buying, which was stimulated by bullish
private crop reports, relativesly firm Liv
verpool cables, and complaints of con
tinued dry weather in the southwest.
Four more private end-June crop re
ports were issued, with conditions rang
ing from 72 to 75.8 per cent, and fig
ures on the indicated yield from about
18,000.000 to 13,<500.000. One of the
I reports did not the indicated crop,
but on the basis of condition and acreage
figures was interpreted as pointing” to a
yield of 13.100,000 bales.
Cotton futures opened firm. July
23 98; Oct. 24.05; Dec. 24.18; Jan.
23.70; March 23.88.
INJURIES PROVE FATAL TO
WILLIAM B. WALTON
Was Hurt Saturday When Auto Collided
With Arain in Wilmington.
Wilmington, June 29. —William B.
Walton. 40. died here today in a hospital
as a result of injuries sustained atur
day when the automobile in which he
was driving at the Bth Street grade cross
ing collided with A. C. L. train No. 54.
J. T. Harris, who was riding with
Walton, escaped serious injury by jump
ing.
Funeral services will be held at Jack
sonville, N. C., on Tuesday for Walton,
a former resident of that city.
E D LATTA REPORTED ILL
AT HIS HOME IN ASHEVILLE
i Said to Have Suffered Paralytic Stroke
1 and to Be In Serious Condition.
I Asheville, June 25.—Although mem
j bers of the household refuse to verify it.
• it is reliably reported that E. D. Latta,
prominent Asheville and Charlotte capi
talist, is seriously ill at his home in
Grove Park. It is understood that be
• suffered a stroke of paralysis about ten
days ago, and his condition is regarded
as critical.
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Goodyear tires at Yorke & Wadsworth
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Col. Putt Covington’s great Quitting
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Scientific settlement of Australia is
provided by a plan which it is believed
will place, within the ensuing ten years,
450.000 assisted emigrants from the Unit
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The State Board of Osteopathic Exam
ination and Registration was created by
'an act of the 1907 General Assembly.
eil More.
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1925
PRESIDENT ASSURED
HIS FATHER ON WAY
TO RAPID RECOVERY
Physicians Are of Opinion
That He Will Be Up In
Several Days If No Com
plications Set In.
PRESIDENT WENT
TO HIS BEDSIDE
Sent His Personal Physician
as Soon as He Was Advised
That His Father Was 111.—
Father Is Hopeful.
Plymouth, Vt., June 29.—Called to his
old home here by the illness of his fath
er. President Coolidge had the assurance
of physicians today that the patient’s con
dition was improving.
Resting easier after the operation was
performed yesterday. Col. John Coolidge,
eighty years old. himself insisted he
would be on bis feet again shortly and
urged the President and Mrs. Coolidge*
not to worry. i
His physicians admitting the possibil
ity of a setback, said if ali went well
the patient would be up and around again
in three days.
Aceompamed by Mrs. Coolidge, the
President hurriedly left his summer home
at Swampseott yesterday. He already
had sent to the bedside his personal phy
sicians.
Before their arrival yesterday, the
two doctors whose help was sought by
the Vermont physicians who had been
attending Colonel Coolidge since he be
came ill Friday, the President was ad
vised by Attorney General Sergeant, who
was here, that his father was in intense
pain. Without waiting for advice frorfi
the physicians the President set out for
his old home.
Consulted Out of Ilanger.
Plymouth. Vt., -Tune 29.—Physicians
attending Colonel Coolidge announced
early this afternoon that the President’s
father was getting along better than they
expected. They were of the opinion that
he is now out of danger.
RALPH HOLLARS WILL
BE HEAKD DURING DAY
Is Said to Have to Robberies
in Fifteen Homes in Charlotte.
Charlotte. June 29.—Waiving prelimi
nary hearing. Ralph Hollars* 17-year-old
youth of Charlotte, who police say has
confessed to entering sixteen houses and
removing property valued at between
$3,000 and $4,000. was bound over to
court here today under SB,OOO. He would
not make bond and was remanded to jail
The youth is being held on fifteen
counts charging house breaking arid lar
ceny.
Bound Over to Superior Court.
Charlotte, N. C.. June 29. —Ralph
Hollars. 37, who police here say has con
fessed to the burglary of 16 homes in
Charlotte during the past few weeks, and
removing jewels and other valuables es
timated at between S3.O(XH) and $4,000
iu value, was among those scheduled to
come up in recorder’s court here today.
He is a son of a barber of this city.
Relatives and others who have known
him for years came to his defense, saying
he had never been a normal boy. His
mother said lie had been subject to ner
vous disorders from an early age. and
had thereby been prevented rom attend
ing school.
MAN KILLED WHEN HIT
BY TRAIN AT CROSSING
His Wife, Son, Daughter and Son-In-Law
Seriously Hurt in Same Accklent.
Mebane, N. C., June 29.—A. W. Sikes
was instantly killed and his wife, their
son Humbert, their daughter Miss Talton
Job. and her husband, were seriously hurt
when westbound Southern passenger train
No. 11l struck the automobile in which
they had started to Norfolk at 2 :05 this
morning. The family were prepared to
take a vacation trip and left early in or
der to reach Norfolk by tonight. Mr.
Sikes stopped the car when he saw the
eastbound train 112 approaching. As be
started to cross the track, however, the
westbound train which he had not ob
served. struck his automobile. Mrs. Sikes,
Hubert Sikes, and Mr. and Mrs. Job are
all in a hospital as a result of the acci
dent.
Mrs. Cochrane Hurt in Accident.
Mrs. T. E. Cochrane, of near Newell,
is in the Presbyterian Hospital .in Char
lotte with a fractured jaw bone as a re
sult of au automobile accident Supday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cochran, in a Dodge
touring car, were driving toward their
home from Charlotte, holding to the ex
treme right of the road in meeting a
procession of cars moving in the opposite
d'rection. Frank Johnson, colored, driv
ing a Hudson touring car, was in the pro
cession.
In trying to reduce his speed Johnson
locked his wheels and skidded across the
road, shooting his car head-on into the
side of the Dodge, throwing Mrs. Coch
ran from her car to the pavement. Both
ears were badly wrecked and so thorough
ly locked together that they had to be
pried apart with levers.
Mrs. Cochran is a sister-in-law of Mrs.
A. IT. Propst, of Concord, who left this
morning to be at her bedside.
The singing school which was sched
uled to have opened tonight at the Meth
-1 odist Protestant Church has been post
poned one week. Mr. Phillips, conduct
or. could not conveniently start the work
i this week, and it was voted to delay the
school one week. The work, therefore,
will start on Monday night. July 6th. It
is hoped that the change of date will not
diminish the interest in the school.
When the Dam Gave Way
The dam that helcFthe water supply for the town of Horton, Km., col
lapsed after a series of heavy rains and every able-bodied citizen worked
for hours to prevent the flooding ot the town and destruction of crops.
The lake that was released by the dam’s collapse was two miles long, half
a mile wide and 35 feet deep.
RADIO EXPERIMENTS TO
BE MADE BY MACMILLAN
Messages and News Are to Be Sent
Every Wednesday Night.
Chicago. June 29.—As broad as the
field for scientific discovery on the
present MacMillan-Navv Artie expedi
tion is the field for radio experiments.
Os outstanding importance to the radio
world will be the results of new low
waves transmitting and receiving.
The latest engineering design in low
wave apparatus is represented in the
radio equipment carried by the Peary,
installed by John L. ReinartZ’, radio
operator, and chief engineer of the
Zenith Radio Corporation. Its work has
been proven in; laboratory and was de
veloped exclusively for Arctic use as
the result of experiences gained on
McMillan’s last trip, when radio was
first introduced in that region.’
The radio lay-out includes four trans
mitters. three of which are set up on the
boat. They are of 20. 40. and 80 and
1,80 metres. Tire ISO metre transmitter
tljras chiefly to prove that will
not operate in daylight, ReinartZ sauT.
although it works successfully by might.
A single transmitter of four k.w.,
capable of sending on 20. 40. 80 and up
to 000 metres, is one of the Peary’s
mouthpieces.
When this country is in darkness the
transmitting will be done on 40 metre's.
While in daylight, 20 meire wave
length will be used. The SO metre trans
mitter has been set up especially for ex
perimental purposes Euggene F. Mc-
Donald. radio chief, felt certain that
communication would be established in
rill zones of the expedition, as his Chi
cago station had been able to hear code
from Glasgow, Scotland,and New’ Zeal
and in the daytime with this epuipment.
Messages and news to and from fam
lies of members of the party will be sent
every Wednesday night from the Zenith
station. Reinartz pointed out that the
public will be unable to hear the mes
sages, however, because no standard in
strument is able to pick up the low
wave length upon which the messages
will be broadcast.
As the expedition proceeds up the
coast, the sending time from the ships
will be as folio w t s :
12 to 3 a. m., E. S. T.
6 to 9 a. m. E. S* T.
12 to 2 p. m. E. S. T.
6 to' 9 p.m., E. S. T.
The schedule \yhioh gives the best re
sponse will then bo used, probably 6
to 9 p- m.
E. E. Gambrill Dead.
Gastonia, June 26.—E. E. Gambrill.
cotton mill executive of Bessemer City,
wiew in a hospital here last night fol
lowing a sudden breakdown which oc
curred while he was at his office Thurs
day. He was sixty years of age, and a
native of Havre de Grace, Md.
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PREHISTORIC’ RACE BUILT
HUGE APARTMENT HOUSES
Largest Prehistoric Apartment House on
American Continent.
Tucson, Ariz., June 29. —The Pueblo
Bonita, in northwestern New Mexico, is
described by Dr. Noil Morton Judd,
curator of Southwestern archaeology
for the National Museum in Washing
ton, as the largest prehistoric apart
ment house on the North American con
tinent. •
The Bonita had 800 rooms and space
enough to house between 1.200 and 1,-
500 persons.
Excavations of the pueblo may lead to
the discovery of a prehisloric race
hitherto unknown. Dr. Judd believes.
Traces in the form of pottery, relics,
skeletons and hieroglyphic inscriptions
are expected to lead to arehaelogieal
revelations of the first magnitude.
The Bonita contains evidences of the
life and pursuits of the race which,
scientist' believe, inhabited it thousands
of years ago. It covers an area of a
.Hide move Abaft, .three acres. Fpur
stories of the puebto are standing, and
Dr. .Tudd thinks there may have been
a fifth.
Further research into the cave dwell
ers of southern New Mexico has estab
lished the possibility that the Carlsbad
cavern, one of the largest crystal forma
tion caves* in the world, once was the
meeting place for cavemen of the vicini
ty. Hierlogyphics, not unlike Chinese
characters, were found on the smooth
surfaces of the bluffs and in the caves.
PRESIDENT FINDING
REST AT SWAMPSCQTT
Residents of Town Realize That He
Wants Relaxation ami Few’ Have Ask
ed to See Him.
Swampseott. Mass.. June 20.—President
Coolrdge is finding the rest here be expect
ed when he left for Washington for a
summer vacation.
Secluded in a pretentious house on the
coast he has learned after two days’ stay
that residents of the North Shore realize
that he came here for relaxation and few
requests have been made to cal lon him.
Mayor Quinn, of Cambridge. Mass., was
accorded the honor today of being the first
to have a conference with the President,
his call being arranged to discus plans
for the reception of Mr. Coolidge when
he goes to Cambridge July 3rd for an ad
dress.
✓
Charles A. Comisky, now and for many
years past the big boss of the Chicago
White Sox, is the only manager who
ever captured a pennant for St. Louis.
It ivas in 1888 that Comiskey piloted the
Browns to the championship.
The Western Association enters upon
the second half of its split season on
June 30.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
NOTHING DEFINITE ’
ABOUT EAST DEPOT
hIDENING
Aldermen of City Met Satur
day Night But Decided to
Wait Until Tuesday Night
For Decision.
BANK OPPOSES
THE PROPOSITION
This Message Carried to the
Meeting Saturday Night by
Mayor Barrier.—Speakers
All Favored the Plan.
- >
Saturday night’s meeting of the board
of aldermen was purely conversational.
Nothing was done in regard to the widen
ing of Depot Street and the only definite
action forthcoming from the meeting was
that it was decided to hold a final session
Tuesday night, at which time all persons
interested in the matter were urged by
the mayor to be present.
During the course of the parley several
items of interest were brought out. In
the first place, there came to light the
fact that a contract had been entered
into between the city and bank officials
in the former administration which bound
the city to a limit of six feet in widen
ing the street at this point. Secondly,
it developed from remarks by the mayor,
who had just previously been in con
ference with the bank officials, that the
bank was opposed to any widening what
soever. A third fact brought out was
that in the representative sprinkling of
interested persons in the audience Sat
urday night. There was not a voice raised
in opposition to the widening, while a
number made talks advocating it.
The meeting was called to order after
about forty minutes wait on the mayor
who had been detained, he said. He
briefly gave a historical sketch of the
movement relative to the matter of Depot
Streep and declared it would be impos
sible to come to any definite agreement
at the meeting Saturday night. The
National Bank had found it impossible
to send representatives to the meeting, he
stated, aud since they w T ere an iuterested
party, he had promised “that he would
do nothing drastic.”
After spveral talks by citizens, among
them G, Ed Kesler tyul J. B. Linker,
the mayor again took the floor arid giver
the reason for the opposition by the Na
tional Bank. It was. according to his
remarks, due to the fact that the Con
cord Telephone switchboard, just in the
rear of the bank property, was only two
feet and six inches from the street line
and that any moving back of the street
line would necessitate that the Telephone
Company change the whole arrangement
of things in the interior of the exchange.
H. S. Williams declared that the aim
of the board should be to represent the
city, looking toward the future. What
was under consideration, he said, would
effect Concord long after all there pres
ent were dead. He further declared that
it ought not to be widened less than ten
feet but that if it were less than ten feet
the property of those people on West
Depot Street which was taken for a teri
foot addition should be given back to
Yhem. ' ’ .
The building line, said F. C. Xiblock,
should be established ten feet from the
present line. He added that he believed
that the Reed heirs would sell more than
five feet if they were asked.
W. M. Linker, owner of Bell and
Harris Furniture store which is at the
other end of the block to be widened,
favored a widened street and suggested
that the city get additional property
from the Reed heirs without regard to
the cost.
A discussion of the contract between
the city and the National Bank calling
for • a six-foot limit was entered into.
There had been an intimation that bank
officials were planning to revoke this
agreement.
It was learned this morning, however,
that such was not the case. It was
said that the bank was entirely willing
to live up to their part of the con
tract. ,
Small Girl Injured by a Car Running
Backwards.
Salisbury, June 28. —Kathleen Kluttz,
ten-year-old daughter of L. I. Kluttz,
is in the Salisbury hospital with a brok
en leg, the result of being run over at
Union Lutheran Church after service to
day.
A lady in attempting to start a car
she was not accustomed to ran it back
wards by mistake over the Kluttz girl.
Son Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Colly.
Born. June 27th. to Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Colly, a sou.
Domestic servants emigrating from
the British Isles to New Zealand are
forbidden to marry until they have been
two years in their new home.
WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS
Thundershowers tonight ibnd Tues*
day; warmer in south coast tonight*
booler in extreme west portion Tues*
day.
NO. 101