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1 RECORD JMJVIS WANTED A LIVE DEALER TO 11 the New Grant 0 Automobile in Catawba, Uurke, Caldwell and Al exander counties. For the right parties we have a very liberal con tract. Our Shelby dealers have already sold iT cars in Cleveland county alone. Write, wire or come to see us at once. Grunt Sales Co., Asheville, N. C FOR SALE K K KOAITKR. three pai-nger. ctw'r'o starter, vacuum t.'!'t, y.'.a bargain. 11. D'Anna. ' - s tf CUPiO l DISGUISE 8MALL GIRL PROVED AN EFFI CIENT MATCHMAKER. WANTED FOrtirioN WANTED as Stenorap:".:r by youn.tr m.ui with ptitfti.MlIy l.a.-e eai ev perioneo in tiio :;'iO lino as hinniiu cie.-K and bi.i.'ug ekv 0. W i i 1 1 : ;i" U . K. advancen end AtH, grapher, care F.ccoid. WANTED TO SELL horse, Moxie, Ikibeee. harness. Also ii:;u: and harness at a L Martin. : , L.t for i K tit ROOM FOR Ki:.,l - .with lignts and i w.k avenue. Airs J. Y. . FA.'iilLV, 'i.,:y a . i :., .U. i'. i U) tf vJll. 11 ot WANTED EXi'EIiiEN t'ED hosiery jnill man to take stuck and manage ;proposed mill in good town. Local capital to the- aa:o..nt of several (thousand dollars has been secured. iFor full particulars address Mer-; chants Association, Mocksville, N.1 C. 1 12 2t iV have a full line of groceries J frnh and salted meats, flour, feed. I We will endeavor to give you good goods at right prices. Prompt de livery. BOST-NEWTON GRO. CO. 1 12 lwk WANTED COMPETENT YOUNG lady with experience as teacher for children in private family. Ad drees "X" Record. 1 3 tf WANTED A FEW GIRLS FOR our sewing rooms, to make over alls. Good pay for good work tors. 'Write, Southern Manufac turing Co., Chester, S. C 1 13 2 wk FOR RENT HOUSE AND LOT on Ninth avenue; former home of late Mrs. James 13. Heard. Large garden and fruit trees. Apply iMrs. A. zen, 1443 Ninth avenue, 1 13 lwk TWO PRISONERS FAIL TO RETURN 'Superintendent Mann of Ihe state prison, has reported to Gov. Craig that he had received reports from all the supervisors of camps and that out of the C7 convicts parolled Christ mas only two had failed to return. These two are white men who were at the state farm in charge of Mr. C. N. Christian. They are Wallace' Bradley from Swain county, receiv-: ed at the prison in 191J and who is' under a lf-yiur sentence for murder' in the second decree;, and Littleton Hright from Warren co::nty, under a; 15-year sentence for murder in the second degree, and who had been in prison since 1013. These men will' be treated a: escaped ton nets and: rewards will be o.'.'ive l for their capture State Journal. ' Not Quite So Tactful as the Little Clod of Love Would Have Been, but Her Methods Were as Effective. Henderson rushed Into the dingy suburban railway station much the same as he rushed about his business affairs. As he closed the door he was greeted by four of his college friends, all returning after a vacation. While engaged In conversation with his friends au elderly man approached, stretched out his hand in greeting and asked if Henderson was returning to the col I ego town. Answered in the af firmative, the man requested a favor of Henderson that he assist his daugh ter, who was a schoolteacher In tlie college town, to her home. With visions of a scrawny, bespec tacled, elderly schoolma'm, Henderson obligingly accepted the duty of escort, agreeing to report soon to meet the teacher. lie put off the meeting until he heard the train whistle for the station. Then he made his way to the women's waiting room, where, to his surprise, lv Ik held a bright and vivacious girl of twenty-three years, with a merry twinkle in her eyes. Henderson's surprise was manifest in his countenance when introduced and his eyes clearly conveyed his ihoughts that the girl was good to look upon. Hoarding the crowded train, It be came convenient for them to sit togeth er and soon they found much to talk about of interest to both. Then "Buss" appeared on the scene. "Buss" was a little girl about four years old. Her real name was Mar garet, but because she kept up a con tinual chatter her mother had called her "Buss." She manifested a keen Interested in Henderson and the teach er. Finally she broke away from her mother and crowded into the seat with them. Turning her large brown orbs upon Henderson, she asked: "Do you like her?" The question proved disconcert ing, to say the least, but finally Hen derson managed to stammer that he did. Then the same brown orbs turned to the teacher with the same inquiry. I Blushing profusely, the teacher stam mered much the same answer as did Henderson. Then "Buss" acted. She took the teacher's hand and placed It Into that I of Henderson with this exclamation, "Now you are married." Then her mother took her away with a severe reprimanding. But the mis chief had been done. After landing his charge safely in her boarding house, Henderson tried to forget It all, but he was not successful. Then came a day when he met the teacher face to face on the street. Both smiled and Henderson accompa nied her to her boarding house. When he left some time later he took with him her promise to attend the theater two nights later. There were other oc casions when they met and frequent j ones, too. They married two years la- i ter and have lived happily ever since. "Buss" was the agent of Cupid. Chicago Tribune. i LIVING COST A CENTUh Sugar Was 27 Cents a Pound and a Coffin Sold for $7.50, According to Old Ledger. Chester Knlpe has compiled some In teresting data, collected In this sec tion, setting forth what It cost our forefathers a century ago to live, writes a North Wales (Pa.) corre spondent of the New York World. At that time potatoes sold at 80 cents a bushel, a coffin was made for 7.50 and 25 cents was charged to mall letters. Some of the data are obtained from an old ledger kept by David C. Kulp, founder of Kulpsville, near North Wales, from 1813 to 1834. Some of the interesting prices shown follow: In 1813 sugar was 20 cents a pound; in 1815 it was 27 cants a pound; coffee was 25 cents a pound and molasses $1.25 a gallon. Calico was 83 cents a yard, cotton flannel, 22 cents and a handkerchief cost 55 cents. Shoes for adults cost $1.20 a pair and for children 50 cents. Trous ers sold at 33 cents, suspenders 43 cents, stockings 61 cents, writing pa per 4 cents a sheet, candles 22 cents a pound, tobacco 12 cents a pound About 1S15 oats sold at 50 cents a bushel, straw 4 cents a bundle, powder 75 cents a pound. Eggs sold from 6 to 12 cents a dozen and butter brought from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Tea at that time sold at $1.02 a pound. Meats were exceedingly cheap. Pork was 4 cents, veal 5 cents, beef 6 cents a pound. Flour was 4 cents a pound. Anent labor, it is shown a farm hand was paid 50 cents a day except ing in the harvest season, when 60 cents was paid a hand. Mr. Kulp charged 6 cents for cutting a pair of trousers. The entries show that he "made a new frock for Polly Rina wait" for 31 cents. Snuff was used extensively then and the price was 12 cents a pound. The village storekeep er paid $1 a week to have his mer chandise hauled from Philadelphia to Kulpsville. The records show Mr. Kulp was a milliner and charged 40 cents for "altering a bonnet," In 1816 Kulp paid David Meschter $7.50 for making a coffin for bis father. Potatoes sold at 30 cents a bushel and bricks cost $5.50 per thousand. He was allowed 5 per cent discount on banknotes, paying 95 cents for a dol lar bllL jWEEK-Eif HOLIDAY YOU NEVER CAN MOVEMENT INAUGURATED BY NEW JERSEY BANKER. A clip has been invented for hold ing a spoon on the edge of a cooking utensil or medicine glass. Improved Camera. The convenience of the camera has been further increased by the addition of a means for accurately judging the actinic value of the light at the time of making a picture, and thereby ar riving at the correct length of expo sure to be given the sensitive film, says the Scientific American. The improve ment relates particularly to : those cameras which carry a roll film. As these films are now made they are backed with a sheet of black or red paper for the purpose of protecting them from the light, and they have imprinted on them numbers which ap pear under a tiny opening in the back of the camera and serve as a guide to the operator in properly spacing the exposures on the film. The new scheme, in addition, contemplates at taching to the backing paper, pieces of sensitized paper at regular inter vals which pass along under another opening, and by observing the change which takes place in the color of these pieces as they are exposed under the opening, the operator Is enabled to ar rive at the length of time the shutter is to be opened in making the exposure for the desired picture. iGerman tests have shown a scar city of. good cattle fodder does not decrease the fat content but only the quantity of milk produced. A bundle of fine glass threads forms a new ink eraser. Inoculation was first tried on crim inals with success in 1724. . ft 1 5 ft ; i pi .') sjk M Wk r By Taking Stock in The First Build ing & Loan Ass n The New Series 191 7 "A" is now open and you are invited to join NOW. G. H. GEITNER, Pre. B. B. BLACKWELDER, Attorney. J. D. ELLIOTT, V-Pres. G. R. WOOTTEN, Sec. & Treas. Saved the Dog. Ponderous governmental machinery at Washington stood stock still recent ly while a thirteen-year-old girl ap- ; peared before a group of dignified gen erals and tearfully pleaded for the life of a little yellow dog. She was Es ther Smiley of Maryland, sister of Pri- , vate Peter Smiley, a recruit in the United States Marine Corps, and the dog she held in her arms had been Peter's playmate since youth. "Rover will surely die of grief unless you send him to my brother," the little girl sobbed. And wonders of wonders, the dignified generals understood the lit- ; tie girl's plea, and acting instanter to preclude the embalming of Rover in the red tape of officialdom, gave the necessary instructions, and within an hour the faithful playmate of Private Peter Smiley was crated up ready for shipment to the marine corps recruit depot, Port Royal, S. C, where Peter is training for the land and sea du ties of marines. Directors: C H. Geitner, W. B. Menzies J. A. Martin, G. H. Geitner, A. A. Shuford, W. H. Nicholson; J. A. Lentz, J. D. Elliott. Organized April 1890. Assets Over Half Million Dollars The Old Way and the New. Old-fashioned people used to snend the long evenings of fall and winter at home, munching popcorn or apples over the Bible, Shakespeare or Dick ens. Moderns go to the movies and let the Charlie Chaplins and Mary Pick. fords Improve their minds. Exposition Building Takes Trip. The Ohio buildine of th Pnnnmn- ! Pacific "exposition was embarked on a t 9QmllA lTAlrn - L 1 1 . aw-uuic vvjragc UVIWVCU'OHU r raOClSCO Day and Its new site, to become the abode of the San Carlos Country club. The building traveled on scows and was towed by ocean-going tugs. PEARL OF THE ARMY" MAKES A BIG HIT IMIore than two thousand nnnl snw the first enisode of "Pearl of t.h Army" at the Pastime theatre yes terday. IManager Miller opened his doors free to everybody and the Movie fans did not let the bitter cold weather keep them away, they fill ed the theatre from 2 p. m. and an nounced it the finest picture ever shown in Kackory That popular star Pearl White never fails to draw big! crowds oujt herfc. One episode of this fine nietnrp will fu shown every Friday at the Pastime. Would Also Have All Days of Celebra tion, Except Christmas and New Year's, Observed on Week's Last Working Day. A holiday that would be celebrated over the entire North American conti nent north of the Rio Grande Is one of the possibilities of the Saturday full holiday national movement that has been started here by Alfred N. Chandler, a banker, says a Montclair (N. J.) dispatch to the New York Sun. The movement is to be of wide scope and headquarters, in charge of Mr. Chandler, are to be opened in Newark. The object of the movement is to have the present "fixed date" holidays, except Christmas and New Year's days, shifted to specified Satur days nearest the dates of their pres ent observance, and as an equivalent offset in annual holiday hours thus gained, the adoption of eight Satur day full holidays in the summer time, Including Independence and Labor days. - Whether Washington was born on the twenty-second calendar day of Feb ruary or on the third Saturday of Feb ruary; whether Lincoln was born on the twelfth calendar day of February or on the second Saturday of Febru ary ; whether the Declaration of In dependence was adopted on the fourth calendar day of July or on the first Saturday of July; whether Columbus discovered the western hemisphere on the twelfth calendar day of October or on the second Saturday of Octo ber none of these precise dates of the calendar Is of paramount import ance when compared with the spirit of the event commemorated in the minds of those who are behind the Sat urday full holiday national movement. "The business and professional man in these days begins the week's work on Monday mornings keyed up in spirit for five or five and a half days of continued and uninterrupted effort," said Mr. Chandler in speaking of the movement, "but on the average in every sixth week there comes with a bang a legal holiday in the middle of the week. At such times It becomes difficult to throw off the pressure, to relax, to get the holiday spirit. We seem rather, once we have started, to prefer the continuous week's work and begrudge the time lost, 'feeling that we are not doing our duty to ourselves, our families or our business. "This Interruption would be mate rially lessened if the different states would adopt the plan of observing their various legal holidays on specified Sat urdays instead of on fixed calendar dates," continued Mr. Chandler. "Do minion day is observed throughout Canada on the first day of July. Should we decide to observe our Inde pendence day annually on the first Sat urday in July it is not unlikely that the Canadians Would conclude to ob serve their Dominion day on the same day. Such harmony would be of senti mental benefit and a gain usually of one business day each year in busi ness Intercourse between the two peoples." As showing the tendency upon the part of mercantile business toward a Saturday full holiday, Mr. Chandler pointed out that a leading department store in New York city has for the last 15 years made every Saturday in July and August a full holiday for its em ployees, and during the last two sum mers the number of stores that have been closed all day Saturday has so rapidly increased that last year there were 14 prominent retail stores in New York city which were closed all day every Saturday In July and Au gust. Mr. Chandler also points out that an average of four and a half days would be added to the school term by having Saturday holidays. DON'T YOU THINK MY NEW HfT IS q DREAM ? AND All I PAID FOR IT WAS $50 IAM SURE U.n TH ONLY ONE. WEARING THIS STYLE 4gitD 1 THIS HflT IS NIGHTMARE JOHNSES COLORED COOK HA GO t CMNE JUST NP 5 h- Matter of Fact. Great is the power of matter-of-fact, greater and made up of richer elements than perhaps we care to remember. It is part of the power the eternal power of the story teller over the mind of man. There Is no great story teller, from Hunter to Scott and Guy de Mau passant, who, whatever else he may have, has not the faculty for matter-of-factness. It is the treasury from which the wit and cynic draw their income, and often the philosopher his capital. Stranger still, it Is the bed rock upon which the poets build their palaces; glorious views from top windows are made possible by the hard substance below the basement, and the men who build without it, trusting wholly to imagination, are not the men who en dure. What reason is to faith, matter-of-fact is to Imagination. Cettin' A ay With It. An amusing incident happened the other day while Decatur county's con tribution to the centennial parade in In dianapolis was on Its way to the capi tal city. Their float was a miniature of the famous courthouse tower at Greensburg, with the maple tree grow ing on it. Roy C. Kanouse, its design er and builder, left Greensburg on. a truck at 3:30 a. m. with the tower. Now Greensburg has been infested with petty burglars and their activities are known even outside the county and just as day was breaking and the men were entering Shelby county they passed two farmers on the road when one was heard to remark "Looka there, by gosh, them fellers hez stole the Greensburg courthouse tower en air gittin' away with it, fbo." Indianapo lis News. j Tattooing was a distinct trade in Caesar's time SEVERE FOiSHMENT Of Mrs. Chappell, of Five Years' Standing, Relieved by Cariai. Sounds Reasonable. Bob Goree, who has recently been in New York, brings back a yarn of a man showing his rich aunt from the country the sights along Broadway. "One night the young man took his aunt to see a musical revue. He was keen on making a good impression, as he had great expectations from the old lady. So he was quite taken back when, as soon as the curtain rose, the good dame grasped him by the arm and hurried him from the theater. "'Disgraceful! Such bad manage ment!' she said, indignantly, when they had reached the lobby. 'Just fancy allowing the curtain to go up before those poor girls were dressed !" Horse Holds His Own Well. "The horse is doomed. If the peo ple keep on buying automobiles, the horse will soon become a rare animal, seen only in zoological gardens and museums." We have heard some such prediction a thousand times. What is the fact? Reports of the department of commerce show that in the last 15 years the number of horses In the United States, far from decreasing, has increased over 50 per cent. In 1915 It was estimated there Were more than 21,000,000 horses in the country, valued at $2,000,000,000. Manifestly, the horse is not so easily crowded out as some of us thought. Notwithstanding the fact that racing is less popular and automobiles multiply beyond all count, the horse more than holds his own. Ml. Airy, N. C Mrs. Sarah M. Ch.?p ccH of this town, says: "I suuerr-d or five years with womanly troul-es, n'so stomach troubles, and my mnl3nn;cni was more than any one could I tried frost every kind of medicine, but none did me any good. I read one day abo::t Cardui, the wo man's tonic, and I decided to try ii. 1 had rot taken but about six bet He I was almost cmd. - It 0','fj n-,V-r'e good than all the other mcdiciaes i :U d tried, put together. My friends began asking me whv I looked so well, and 1 toid iem about Cardui. Several are now taking it." Do you, lady reader, s::ft"?r from - ny Of the ailments due to womanly iro: . such as headache, bickaclie, 'side--. : sleeplessness, and that everlastingly L td feeling? If so, let us urge you to give Card' i a trial. We feel confident it will ht ip just as it has a million other women in the past half century. Begin faking Cardui to-day. Yo won't regret it. Ah druggists. Write te: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. !.a-!'s' Advisory Dept.. Chanauoca. Terr. . for i.ti Instructions on your cfc.e ai.J -p?.fte book, ' hure Treatmatf. far Womr t-:irwrr.r' NC :4 lour 1317 ftrtmg The Clay Printing Company, with new machinery and ma terial, is prepared to undertake all kinds of job and book printing at moderate prices. Let our representative call on you or drop into the office and talk the matter over. 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