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■ft Muslin
B/I'e Isle”
Hft • Savings in
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•‘Belle Isle,”
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■ver before has the American housewife had such splendid offerings in White *
I , 11 , , o notable oilers n a
■ret —the cotton crop broke the records generally — and made the finished cotton f ijf • m •
* m Qfsltnchve values
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ft ary 17
■■jam in Franklin,
human coun
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BRce of monetary
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bank ac-
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BB earning more
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Ijftary 17, the first
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KB, is Franklin’©
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day has a spe-
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Bzard Sheets & Sheeting
Values Only to Be Had Here ,
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seamless sheets are priced, each,
I 89c
81-inch width of bleached sheeting is a
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the yard.
I 33c
||ff !ovv rases, too! They are of good materia!, '
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■ 19c _
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Honor Muslin, bleached 36 inches wide,
• qt unbleached. 39 inches wide, the yard.
Jersey Clofh
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For chemises, bloomerl
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29c
Bath Towels
Supreme Values .
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< Popular in size and
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White or with colot stripe
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10c
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An Excellent Vahf
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Demands Os City And Reply J
Os Southern Are Outlined
*- %*.
Points at Issue in Controversy Between the City and
Railway Company Outlined in Letters and Memo-II
randums Prepared by O fficials Representing Each.." }
***
The following eor.ntitule Em\. de
mands tpade by the CUy of Coneord
in the controversy with the Southern
Railway relative to the maintenance 1
of the overhead bridge, the nearby i
trestle bridge and tbe approach to
the bridge: !
“Railroad Company to do the fol- :
lowing— i
“Pay one half of cost of paving <
Concrete bridge across Sonlhrrn right-!
of*way 200 feet. j i
“To maintain concrete strueture j
w'.iieh is to include wearing surface
across Southern right-of-way 200 feet, j;
“Construct concrete abutments to
; wood trestle across siding and main*
1 tain structure which ie to include
1 wearing surface.
j “EVeet l’age guards or pay cost of
I same on both sidee from corporate
i limits to concrete bridge across main ■
ino. excepting that part which was
j paved by the highway commission,
: and to pay for or construct Page
! guards oil both sides of tips provided
! the city, after negotiation* with the
I hig’l way commission cannot get the
I highway commission to construct this
j portion.
‘The above not to in any way
! effect charges against the railroad
company for paving at other points on
the line.*’ ; .«
In answer tlie Southern officials at
a conference in Washington, adopted
a memorandum, stating what it‘would
| ilo. Attending the conference were:
! Mr. Miller. Vice President; Mr. Prince
General Solicitor; Mr. Hartsell. 1 Spe
cial Counsel, Concord, N. C. ; Mr.
Simpson, General Manager; Mr. Ak
ers, Assistant to Vice President; Mr.
Waesum. General Superintendent; and
Mr. llungerford; Superintendent.
The memorandum reads:
“After a full discussion and exami
nation of the files it was concluded
to make propositions to the City of
Concord, as follows:
“T’.ie Railway to construct and
maintain necessary abutment at the
west end of the trestle over the spur
track to the power plant of the Rrown
Manufacturing Company where tlie
fill has sloughed off and, if necessary,
construct and maintain a concrete
abutment at the east end of same
trestle. * ■ -• .
“The Railway Company to main
tain in the future the sub-structure,
including the floor system, but not in
cluding the surface of the ereosoted
trestle over the aforesaid track to
Pile Brown Manufacturing Company's
plant. m ■< ,
"The Railway Company reim
burse the City for tbe amount ex
pended for temporary repairs made in
December. 102(5, due to tbe sloughing
of the till. The City to maintain in
the future the fil!s and wearing sur
face of the roadway.”
, L. T. Hartsell, senior, of the law
firm of Hartsell and Hartsell, counsel
for the Southern, made public the
above demands of the City and answer
of the Southern— He also made pub
lic a letter from S. R. Prince, Gen
eral Solicitor of the Southern, which
sets forth at greater length, the com
pany’s intentions in the controversy.
In answer to the first paragraph of
the demands Mr. Prince says: “Mr.
Miller is willing to agree to this.”
In answer to paragraph two he
says in part: “Our position with ref
erence' to the wearing surface is this:
There has been a bridge at this point
for mofe than 30 years. As s’hown
by the extract from the minutes of
the town under date of March 4, 1804,
the following was agreed to by the
town : ‘The commission for the Town
of Concord will accept the same as a
public bridge in said town.’ And al
so 'That the commissioners for the
Town of Concord will maintain and
keep in proper repair at all times
after the acceptance thereof the said
bridge and approaches thereto for pub
’ic use, until the bridge shall be de
clared unsafe for use as hereinafter
expressed.’
“In other words, after the bridge
was completed the town agreed to
accept it as a public bridge and main
tain it. If it was a public bridge, the
obligation to maintain it in its en
tirety was upon this town, but we
do not ask that. We are willing to
maintain the structure itself and, as
heretofore stated, are willing to pay
half of the cost of paving the con
crete bridge across the right of way.
“When that is done it seem* to u.*
that the bridge should be treated as
any other paved street. The wear
ing surface of a street is repaired
by the town, and it is only when the
street is repaved entirely, just as it
it were a new proposition, that abut
ting property holders are asked tc
bear ally part of the burden.”
In answty* to paragraph three in the
demands Prince sets forth again
the , company’s willingness to con
struct two abutments to prevent furth
er sloughing of the road at the end?
of the bridge over the trestle, and
to maintain the floor system. Ilf
also declines to maintain the wearing
surface, and says in this connection :
“We are not willing to agree to
maintain the surface of the creoooted
trestle over the track' of the Brown
Manufacturing Company.
“* * * There is no need for us to
discuss the agreement under which
this bridge and approach was built,
insofar as the recollection of the two
parties is concerned, because they are
diametrically opposed, but I think the
city is bound by its own records, and
if you will read the record found in
the minutes of the town Book 7, page
277, dated April 19, 1907, you will
find tbe following: ‘Until the Southern
Railway Company shall execute a con
tract and agreement to keep in re
pair the approach to its cement bridge,
except only the surface macadam and
asphalt outside tlie right of way ol
the North Carolina Railroad Com
pany, which is to Tie kept in repaii
by the City of Concord.’
“If this does not moan that th<
I City of Concord is to keep in repaii
PAGE THREE
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the surface macadam and asphalt out.-
side of the right of way. Ido not know* y
the meaning of the English language. >
This trestle is outside of the limit*
of the right of way and i«s a part of* *•
the approach and the city Is now -
asking that we maintain the surfm-et ~
macadam. * * * This is no more *
nor lcs* than any other street, and the
city should maintain it."
In regard to paragraph four, which
asks for Page guards, the Southern
maintains that the city has no righC • *
to make such a request. The letter *.
says: ,
“The railway cannot agree to the ~
foregoing. We hope and think that
the city could get the highway eom
mlesion to put in tlie necessary guard.
It must be borne hi mind that the
approach to the bridge oil the west
side of the track wan formerly very
steep and what the railroad did was
to have it straightened out and the
grade reduced. If this had not been
done, would the city exjiect us to pay
for guarding th** old approach? If
not, why should, it expect us to pay _
for guarding the new approach?”.
As to the ordinance requiring
trains to slow down to five miles an
hour when crossing Corbin street Mr.
Prince cays:
“So rar as the ordinance requiring
trains to stop is concerned, as you
well appreciate, that would be an in
terference with interstate commerce
and I do not think we could be re
quired to obey if, but we have no
desire to disobey any laws of the town.
We hope, therefore, that the ordinance
will be- repealed.”
This letter was written on January
12th, two days before the ordinance*
went into effect. •>., T * >*•(
The Southern,, its officials .. lierq
maintain, is responsible only for it
right of way which extends, two bun r '
dred feet from the center of the main
line track*. ,<Tbe right of way' the .
company has under the wooden trestle' >
is just {he width of the tracks, the.4e
officials point out. Therefore they-- l
contend that the Southern is not nv
sponsible for the . approach to the
trestle bridge as the right of way docs
not extend to that point.
It is hinted how that tbe only dis- j
ference in the way of an agreement
relates to the demand for the Page
guard from the end of the trestle
bridge to the edge of the bridge over ,
Buffalo creek. , This is not the prop*
erty of the Railway company, its of
ficials maintain, and therefore they
should not be required to furnish the
, guard for the fills on both sides of
. the road.
By erecting tlie! concrete abutments
; at either end of the trestle bridge,
the officials say, tlie sloughing of the
street there would be avoideefj With
the present wooden abutment sand
■ sifts, through and allows the surface
I to drop at either end of the bridge,
, causing the bridge to be higher than
* the remainder of the street. With
. concrete abutments the sand could
through and there would be
, no further sloughing, they contend.
So far as is known there has been
no further conference between official *.l
t of the contending parties and the sit* ***
uation remains unchanged, with the
overhead bridge still closed to traffic
, which is directed over the Corbin
street crossing. (
t LIST OF CONFEDERATE
j VETERANS IN CABARRUS
f Were Entertained at Dinner At ~
’ Hotel Concord by Daughters of tbe
“ Confederacy'.
t Every Confederate Veteran in Ca*
barrus county was invited to attend
* the dinner given Wednesday in the
j private dining room of Hotel Concord.
L. A. Weddington, member of th<£
, pension board of the county and keep-
er of Confederate record* in Cabarrus,—
furnishes the following list of Veter*"*”
_ ana, and add* “if anyone knows of oth*
r er Veterans not in the list please re*
port to me:”
e No. 1 Township—J. P. Culp, J. S.
0 Hudson, Dr. S. A. Grier.
* j No. 2 Township—T. W\ Brumley.
e No. 4 Township—J. S. Harris, T.
S. Shinn. H. J. Blue, R. M. Roberts,
0 A. L. Demarcus. J. It. Ritchie, Jno
!> H. Sizemore.
p No. f> Township—P. J. H. Pless, J.
y Frank Fink, N. A. Barnhardt.
"| No. 6 township—Jno. M. Safrit, G,
Henry Bost, Caleb Cruse, Jacob Car
8 ter.
8 No. 7 Township—H. H. Mooae.
“* No. 8 Township—G. W. Page, W
“ G. H. Barringer, J. T. Hahn, A. A
e Harvell, J. F. Moose, J. C. Sikes.
f No. 9 Township—T. S. Rinehardt,
> A. M. Purr.
0 No. 10 Township—J. 8. Russell, W.
H. Hudson, T. J. Hhinn.
e No. 11 Township—W. J. Black, Cy
n rus Allman. ; .
r No. 12 Township*—Dr. L. A. Bikle,
l * D. B. Coltrane, J. C. Honeycutt, G.
8 M. Lore, A. M. Brown, Frank C00k,.,
J J. A. Propst, It. O. 8. Miller, A. G.
e Bost, G. G. Richmond, A. M. D
g Sternes, W. A. Coleman.
0 Party Saturday Night.
i The girls Guild of Mt. Pleasant, en
u tertained a few of their young friend*
at a candy cooking after which eand
o wiches and coffee were served,
b The basement of the church was
-* beautifully decorated with potbed
o plants and the Guild colors of orange
e and black.
e Those enjoying the evening were:
J Misses Edith and Fay Moose, Roth
ii! and Zula Lowder. Miriam Foil, Eliz
e abeth Nussman, Tena Eudy, Marjorie- •
II Mittenbuhier, Myrtle Blackwelder, *
i Alma Tucker, Mrs. G. L. Herrin, Mr.
i- and Mrs. Wariiek, John Henry Bea
>- nett, Gailor I,awrence. Spencer Agee,
>, Hiring Bean Davis, George Mr Alii ti
ll ter, Guy Lipe, G. L. Herrin, Jr.
f H.
i*
r Mr. arid Mrs. William Corl, Mr. and
Mrs. James Corl and two children, of
e West City, Mo., are guests of Mr. and
r Mrs. M. J. Corl on West Depot street.