f THE TRI-CITY i. ^ Aim vu... __ __ mm 4 1 4 MMi — - ■ - n*CSr'S* VOLUME XIL NO. 197 LEAK51V1LL“, NORTH CAROLINA • Hi R-'1>AY, SEI'fEMBER, 6, 1923 TWO CENTS PER li Of PBESIOEMTS" uooMdge Un ■aid, insisted, saying he would ns1! \ nothing further. Arthur removed one j of the most capable postmasters in the l state of New York, a postmaster of r 1 large city, at Conkling’s request. Thi senate refused to confirm the man whom the president named to succeed the removed postmaster, but later he was given a recess appointment and a long time afterward was confirmed. This Is supposed to be the only case in which President Arthur ran countei to the general Garfield policies, eithei in appointments to office or in any thing else. Itoscoe Conkling had a personal grievance, it Is said, againsi the postmasier who was removed, and allowed liis personal feeling to rule in the matter, but 11: ruled In nothing else. Haphness of criticism of the preei dent seems for the present to havi passed from the field of the country’! activities. It will come back year bj year. e>: nr.TARY of y. m. c. a. MAKES ANNUAL REPORT A nodal meeting of the Directors railed test Friday night to con ' 'or !be election of three new mem nerr of the board to till out the terms of throe members who had re ign;;!, also to consider the program "or the coming year and review the work of the past 12 months. (ieo. VY. Chatham, W. P. Baston, and IV. -T. Baughn were elected to :.he hoard aiTd the following stand-. ,ig eommitties were appointed to push the program for the next year. Membership committee: G. W. Chatham, Chm„ J. W. Kraut z, R. L. Lovell, \V. P. Bar ton, A. E. Fair, Vance Todd, J T. Campbell, Frank Jarrett, J. V. Orrell, M. Toler, J. F. Meis ainer. Billiard and Bowling Com. Howard Sheffield, chm; Cyril • ‘u.lgins, C. W. Mangam, Thom as Smith, John Stovall. Boys Work Com: J. V,\ Last, Chm.; Rev. C. Vt. Rowling, O. L. Slayton, V. L. Marsh, Prof 3. H. Johnson. .71 iigious and Educational: P. H. Cwynn, Chm.; Rev. W. J. Gordon, R. D. Shumate, W. J. Baughn, Leonard Austin. Physical: Luther II. Hodges, Chb.; Thom as Patterson, Thomas Whichard,’ H. I. Slaydon, O. T. Chambers, Dr. J. B. Ray. Social anff Eentertainment: W. U. Weaver, Crm.; Prof. O. A. Kircheis, S. O. Bondurant, J. C. Farrell, W. T. Royster, W. J. Baughn, J. 0. Thomas. House Committee: J. G. Farrell, Chm.; L. S. Neal, M. W. Hayden Finance Com; L W. Clark, Chm.; P. T. Haiz lip, J. E. Holmes. 1 The Secretary’s report for the year was read and we are giving it to the public, as we feel sure you be interested: During tftc-fpSSfr twelve months there were 13 board meetings with 206 attendance; 196 committee meet ings -with 3,032 attendance; .23,980 ■were in attendance and took part in ail physical activities, divided as fol lows: 2G1 gynT classes with 5,286 at tendance; 9 hikes, 135 attendance; 11 basketball games, 2,30U attend ance; 117 volley ball games with 1, 195 attendance; 38 baseball games with 3,400 attendance; 3,100 game bowled; 53 football games and prac tice periods; 11,500 attendance to pla;> ground and out-door meets; 17r 445 baths taken; 6 educ-itiovt :i lit - ■turcs were shown with 2,125 atten dance; 2 educational lectures, 246 at tic; dance; 18 practical talks in schools, 8,900 attendance; 240 libr ary books used; 4 health talks, 4!> attendance; 13 club meetings, 150 atU idance; 00,200 tin cans and 12, 100 pounds of glass were collected in the community by 248 boys and glr. under 14 years of age, which c; paid for by the Y. M. C. A. jn rivilege tickets at 5 cents for ve y 2 dozen cans, and 5 cents for ret / 10 pounds of glass. 1 .124 games of pocket billiards V e5 1 played; 6 lyeeuin entertain » with 990 attendance; 163 mov nc picture shows with 50,003 atten ,'v- e; 9 socials for men and women wit' 1,582 attendance; 10 minisver _il icetings with 80 atendance; 103 Eil s classes taugh by secretaries, .>0 attendance; 10 boys meetings 162 atendance; 18 religious meet ing 4,055 attendance. The year -do -d with 716 members paid up. I, (ring the year, a fall time boys wo; : r"eretary has been added to the force of employed officers. In a two days’ campaign 85,200 was sub scribed for a swimming pool by 400 peo.ie. 1 »re has been • a number of im poi .;nt changes made in the build in anti we are looking forward wi: the hope that the next year wii: show a great improvement. We v. .. v to thank the public for tfc.- fine coo oration they have given the *Y’ the post‘.year and want to promi' yor as secretaries, directors, and cor. nitteement to do our level best J o • it on an all-around progi-am dur ing the next 12 months. In the near fut .re v/e hops to begin p.,:>V. nine c-.v monthly program in advance. •vrT we* invite constructive criticism fro i anyone who has the welfare of - h'e Association and the community at heart. tj'VE gazette in every home Night Plane for Coast-to-Coast Mail I Mechanic* at Curtis- ... 1* X., tuning Up the new “nighthawk” aero murine plain.-, especially n. d by P. (X. Zimmerman for 24-liour flights in the. eoust-to-cnast air n::':! service in which it will soon make its bow. To make emergent y landing safe it has a low speed of only 44 miles per hour and it is equipped with two powerful searchlights, one on either wing, as shown in photograph, it also has small •‘riding” lights to prevent collisions and elec trically illuminated instruments. GATVEHEU F1C73 ! Turk: i \ nre i n; '. UIden to (lance in ; ulilic. AIoiiiU' i ;<;to utlliinry l;eti..\> are j unkno\ i: in < . h'% Ceylon bit- :il'.» sys hi-en the chi; locality i'cr iishShg.' yit. K..iAlaska!, is the larger active v<:-!> . : ihe wDrill. Then e -a ao ir king in north ern Italy. >*.% it is very 'prevalent in Naples. | AMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY HOLDS CONVENTION CUT HAS NO EXHIBITION COULD MAKE FINE DISPLAY Uncle Sam Now Has Started a collec tion in the National Museum Add! tion, but It Doesn’t Convain Many Great Rarities. By EDWARD B. CLARK 'VVashington.--The American Philatel ic -soricty has -just b^SS-twiding ita thirty-eighth annual convention In Washington anu the sessions were at* tended by several hundred stamp col lectors from all sections of the United States and Canada. They brought their wives and children with them afid when not busy with the affairs of tile convention the visitors enjoyed the sights of the national capital and sur rounding country. il was to be regretted that the con vention was not attended by an exhi bit:, a, :'T !..e members would be able j to i; ... soiue of the most- complete < coll actions and the rarest specimens in existence. However, many scarce j stamps were brought bv them for sale | or exchange, and an auction was bold | one evening and a bourse, for swap- | ping, on another evening. Uncle Sam's Collection. Nat many Americans know that in the brick museum addition on South B street Uncle Sam bus started a sta: •» collection, and in addition to his numerous trials and worries he is see' ing diversion as a stamp, collector. The collection is a very creditable one though it does not boast of file great 1 rarities that John Hull's Uritish mu seum contains. Rut John once had a loyal son known as Tapling, who be gan to collect stamps-in the early sixties and got the rare stamps when few were after, them. When lie died he i id the best tiling possible with Ilia celebrated collection and donated it to the public. C ir museum collection is .appropri ate5',’ mounted in vertical frames that, are slid into a cabinet aiid can be easily drawn out for inspection. While man is a hereditary hunter and the collecting instinct comes to us from prehistoric man countless generations ago, hunting and collect ing take many forms in modern life. While picture and curio collecting re quires a full purse, the stamp mania is open to the man Of wealth or the boy who has nothing to spend. The few rarities of the first magnl- » tube are all located and well known and when an addition Is discovered it j is thoroughly investigated as to en-j graving, color, quality of paper, water- j mark, perforation, post-mark, and its complete history is delved Into. Now and then a trunk or package Is brought to light in Philadelphia, St. Louis or some other city where soriie method ic:!! writer has carefully preserved his (Orlt'Nj H Hi lit* 01 tin inti uays »uu some great “find” of early American stamps is produced. They have a ready sale at high figures, ns they were stored away before the days of col lectors away back In the period be tween 1840 nrnd 1800, but their history must be above question. Our Early Local Stamps. Prior to 1847, however, and before Uncle Sam had embarked in the busi ness of stamp seller in 1847, but long after John Bull had proved the yen The state of South Australia Is four times as big as France, Xearly '-’,000 women in the United States are practicing dentistry. Since IsiKS the coal miner in this country has worked on an average of IPO y a • ■ ; ,i . " o «t i,k) js p,,jng o'a . »'.■* y ar in hydro it.iiive actresses in .!;:!•: :a of great abil ity, the tradition that men shall play feminine roles still persists. New Slats Charters. Secretary of State W. N, Everett has granted charters to the following cor porations: Paul T. Oxford, incorporated, with tuthorized capital of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed by Paul P. Oxford, James S. Howell and George S. Reynolds, of Asheville, and Jlliott T. Williams, of Nashville, fenn. Plywood Glue company, Goldsboro, with authorized capital of $100,000, ot which $2,000 has been subscribed by A. II. Edgerton, J. L. Borden, H. Well, of Goldsboro, and N. M. Lawrence, ot Smitlifield. The Ford, Ballentine corporation, Durham, with authorized capital of $50*000, of which $300 has been sub scribed by W. S. Ford. C. M. Ballen tine and A. P. Dol'rr, ot Durham. Plymouth Wholesale company, Ply mouth, with authorized capital. ot $100,000, of which $5,000 has been subscribed by Clyde McCallum, Eliza Winslow, of Hertford, and C. E. Ayres, W. R. Hampton, A. L. Alex ander, W. B. Cox and A. L. Owens, Sr.. rC Plymouth. Concrete Sales Company, incorpar atecl, Asheville, with authorized capi tal stock of $100,000, of which $2,500 has boon subscribed by J. E. Thayer. r\ C. Hank and R. F. Moody, of Ashe Hiio. Jordan Publit.hii'.g company, Bur '."»i:T*cn, with ■'authorized capital of 0.! no. which h s ben subscribed r.vd'a E. Jordan. Irene Pearl Jordan Wiriarn H, Jordan, of Burlington, and Durham Herald company, of Dur ■JfP W T TTI T 1' I <”TT -w m re n success; r«jcr*: i—(WTin.-aa postmasters of this country prepared Mini used at the different offices a stump for general use. The localities wore very limited and those of Balti more, New York City, St. Louis, New Haven and Providence were most com mon. Providence and Baltimore Is sued two denominations, 5 and 10 cents, while St. Louis issued stamps of 5, to and 20 cents’ value. The postmasters of Annapolis. Alex andria, Koscawen, N. H.; Brattleboro, Locdeport. Millhiiry. Mass., and Tus eumhia, Ala., also issued these stamps in values of 5 cents, hut their use was tery limited and the stamps are great rarities. Only one or two of these latter stamps ai'e known to exist, but it i; reasonable to believ^that stamps of Annapolis, Alexandria and Balti more may he tucked away In old cor respondence in this vicinity. Only six of the. Baltlm re 10-cent stamps are known to exist, one having been lately discovered in a collection in Italy, and at the celebrated Ferrari sale in Paris last year one of these stumps sold for $6,000. The Boscawen stamp, of which only, one copy Is known to exist, was bought last year for about $12,000 and the Loekport for $$,500. ! It Is obvious that the New York and St. Louis stamps were used in the greatest quantities and are consequent ly within hailing distance of the pock ets of some of the advanced collectors, the New Yorks selling for about $50 and the 5 and 10 cent St. Louis selling for about $200. Ingenious. Private Blimp was a modest and sensitive man. who dresuled a rebuff. He had fallen desperately In love with the e,rattiest' girl within a mile of the ramp, hut hesitated proposing fi.r fear she would turn him down. M his*, when IjS- could stand the suspense r.o longer. he was struck by an Inspi ration. Hastily seizing a pen, he wrote Iter an anonymous letter asking her to marrv him.—American Legioa Weekly. PROSPECTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL THIS YEAR ARE EXCELLENT The high school football squad is to start practice in the r.ear future. 1 In fact, present pit.r:* me to start ' early training and light practice I next week. Mateiia! a. the High is i abundant, with several letter men back again. Captain Barksdale says that he sees no rason, unless it be lack of experience, “why the local Highs should not mop up in the state this year. The township is exceedingly for tunate in securing as a High school coach Mr. E. W. (Moose) Tenney, who was a varsity man at Carolina in two sports—Baseball and football. He was a part o fthat famous “Fet zer aggregation” that so easily took he South Atlantic football chan, pionship last year. Besides that, he lias had right much experience in basketball. On the whole, he is one of the best coaches in the state, and with him at the helm, Leaksville can be'assured ~of a well-rounded, hard fighting, fast and clean-playing team that any school should be proud to claim. . ■ I Sir. G. L. Renner, “the South’s premier decorater,” and manager of the Realart Decorating Company, is town to decorate the town for the Fair. Mr. Renner is not going to t aint the town red” but he is go ing to decorate it red, white, blue tnd every other collor known. Not only that, but he is going to do some if the snappiest arranging of the aforementioned colors that has ever been seen in "tins community. If the decorations are a forerunner of the Fair, believer us it will be SOME Fair. A big tent meeting is going on in Draper on Lake street, near Mc Neeley’s store. There has been a ’arge atienctSnce each night. Good nusic, good singing. Evereybody is cordially invited. These services are conducted "by Bishop K. D. Parks, and Bishop S. U. Davis, —--o FORD AND GOVERNMENT RE OPEN MUSCLE SHOALS BIDS Washington, Sept. 9 Negotia ions were resumed between the gov ernment and Henry Ford on the lat er’s offer to acquire the Muscle ^hoals power plants And nitrate iropertiesT Ford, his son Edsel, and >ne of his engineers conferred with Secretary Weeks and later with Pre ident Coolidge. •-n HOTEL DESTROYED BUT ALL GUESTS ARE SAVED N arragansette Pier, R. I. OP)—The mperial hotel near here was des royed by fire and forty guests es caped scantil clad. The loss was half a million dollars. -n-—— PEN KILLED, FIFTEEN HURT IN BERLIN TRAIN COLLISSION Berlin, Sept 6. 04>)—Ten person; •cere killed and fifteen injured in collision between the Berlin, Ams •ream, and Dresden, Amsterdam ex re?. 5 trains near Hanover. NEW ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE (By Associated Press) Peking, Sept. 3—About forty for signers were "killed when the earth quake in uap&n destroyed the fam ous Fujiya hotel and wiped out the adjacent village of Miyanoshita, ac coruing to a Reuters dispatch from Osaka. There was a volcanic evnr tion at Kowakidani in the same re gion. Ivvaki, Sept. 3.—(By the Radio Corporation to the Associated Press) —The Japanese home office took its first stdtJff lown'u'aftempffng tc clear up the confusion and specula tion regarding the actual number et dead and the “number in the earth quake and fire in Toldo, when it an nounced that 30,000 were dead; 100, 000 injured and 360,oOO were home less. Poking,—The police of Chiba re .,ori a new island off the Izu pen insi.la, while they the Island ol Oshima is invisible and it is feared to have gone dOturtl'^iLA Its ten thous* and or more inhabitants. There still is no news from the Bonin islands and catastrophic changes there are feared. THE GAZETTE IN EYEBT HOMY THEN they nabbed Bttmonn De Valera, leadet of tb* Irish republicans, making his speech at Ennis In County Clare Just a few minutes before the Free State troop* swooped down and took him prisoner, when he was charged with murder and arson. JBARS RADIO IN SALOONS taw Says Proprietors Can't Sail Soar and Hold Concerts at 8am# Tima. Public houses in England—the nm> ▼lying representatives there of the saloon—hare been forbidden to Install , radio sets and regale their customers with concerts and beer simultaneous ly. The information came to Washing ton for use of American manufac turers of radio apparatus, whose mar ket Is to be thus circumscribed. Radio sets In public bouses, ac cording to the reports, turn them into a different type of entertainment places than the liquor-sailing license allows the owner to maintain. H* must either get a special license, tbs decision ran, ar quit soiling latest cants. Athens, Sept. 6 ). .The Greek leet has received orders to retire to he gulf of volo to avoid contact with he Italian fleet, was learned on *ood authority. Paris, Sept. 6 M>)—Brazil and Ur uguay are said to have instructed heir delegates at Geneva to make common cause with Italy and with draw from the League of Nations if she does, assert* a Milan dispatch to Lrawtls. London—A central news dispatch .'rom Rome says' that reports are •urrent there that Italian forces lave occupied 'the islands of Mer era, Fano and Mathrakki. --O--— Osaka—All the money in the faphk if Japan vaults was saved from des ruction in the fire which followed the earthquake and tidal wave. Re capitulation of the earthquake and ire showed Yokohama at its center, -xtending north and sout about 100 miles, and 140 miles east and west. This area included 33 counties; 8 large cities inhabited by 7,uuu,uuu people who were caught in the dis aster. It is estimated that 70 percent ,{ the cities and towns in the sfcrick n area were destroyed. Yokohama, •wording to reports received here, was totally destroyed and only ab ut one-fourth of Tokio remains. -o Berlin, September, 5 <**)—Ger many has arrive dat the end of the ether so fa ras her futher ability 8 finance the passive resistance is unent impression in banking circles ,vhi h expect Germany in the c -rse of the next few days wil ltahc the niliative in proposing official dis •usions be begun with France and Belgium. Milwaukee, September 6 1 j Turning aside for a moment i.om ) the sun set trail 1,000 Civil War e • 1 erans formed in regular marching }■ if the days of ‘61 and swung into line with feeble stride in annual iarade of the Grand Army of the re- « mbiic. Nine divisions made a col* an four miles long. New York, September 5 0W—Two | official messages received at the f apanese consulate general estima* | ted the casualties in Tokio and * t- J ity at \ 160,000 with 1,000,000 home* 1 ass. . PRINCE AS MOUNTAINEER .. i V illon, Eng., Sept. 6 W>—The ’rince Consort of Holland achie*» ] •d the distinction recently of the first member of a royal fami i -limb Scafell Pike, the higi point in England, 8,120 feet ea level. It is said he in*eM* persuade King George and the if Wales to make the journey.