he Mount 3Ufn Meto&
ESTABLISHED 18 8 0
MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923.
91.0.0 PER YEAR IN ADVANC1
ML Airy Merchants To Stage Big Event
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, WILL BE OBSERVED AS CITY'S FIRST DOLLAR DAY
NORTH CAROLINA SEN
ATE GRINDS AWAY
- Bill Introduced to Delay Eligi
bility of Legislator* For
Office*.
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—A bill introduc
ed in the senate today by Senator
Tapp, would make a member of the
general assembly ineligible, "for any
judicial or other office created by the
general assembly of which he w»i a
member, until after the succeeding
next ireneral election." The senate
debated and then voted to accept an
invitation from Wilmington to send a
delegation to vi*it a "model colony"
in New Hanover county; re-referred
the bill which would prohibit mar
riage* of person* under 10 year* of
are and worked for two hour* today
clearing the calendar of a ma«W of lo
cal bill* which came in a large batch
from committee*, including the mtny
pent-up local *alary and fee mea*ure»
introduced *ince early in the meeting
of the general a**emb)y.
Bill* of *tate-wide application pa*»
•n* the third reading in the senate
wen- the measure appropriating $66,1
000 for the construction of new quar
ter* on the state prison farm near Ra
leisfh and the renovation of the state
' prison; the bill raising the indemnity
paid by the state for tubercular cat
tle and horses and'mule* suffering
from glanders slaughtered; that mea
sure which would give the state board
of agriculture the "use and control"
of the Mvatt lands; and the "tick
eradication" bill, which provide* for
an appropriation of $50,000 a year,
available from the federal treasury,
for the fight asrainst cattle ticks in
19 eastern North Carolina counties, to
which the war has now been reduced,
according to Senator Johnson, of
Beaufort, who introduced the bill.
Among new hill* introduced in the
senate today was one coming fmm
Ponat or Jones, Oi Alle :!iany corr.ty,
■which would prohfbit the marriage of
first cousins North Carolina. A
measure fostered by the insurance
department md introduced by Sena
tor Ray, c* Orange county, would
rt.i*e the minimum face value of in
dustrial insurance policies sold in thi*
state fr-wn J800 to $600. Senator
MenderWnll, of Guilford, introduced a
bill, *t« provide supervision and ex
amina'ion of industrial banks" and
another "to regulate and control bil
liard room*." The creation of a *tate
boa—I of funeral director* i* provided
fo» in one measure introduced today
bj Senator Harris, of Wake, and a
cnr.ipanion measure by the same au
thor would "reirulate the licensing of
undertaker*' and "dealers in casket*.
Among the other bills originating in
the senate today were two introduced
t>y Senator Bennett, one of these be
ing a measure to "make the unsup
ported testimony" of an inmate of Hie
state home for women at Samarcand
sufficient evidence for the conviction
of a defendant charged with immor
ality. The other bill would require
the tags of fertilizer bags to *h°w the
" sources of ingredients."
A Joint resolution, introduced in'
the senate by Senator Mendenhall to- S
day, recites that the attorney general
of the state had expressed the opin
io* that the "dismemberment of the
Atlantic and Yadkin valley Railway1
company, purchaser of the Cape Fear
Railway company" was "contrary to
law" fend woeld direct the governor to
"employ counsel to assist the attor
ney general In the institution and pro
secution of such action or action*" as
mmy be regarded by them aa neces
sary to "dissolve" the "dismember
■sent" and restore the original eon
Hmoss "sast to west lino" from
Xoaat Airy to Wilmington.
TOMB OF EGYPTIAN KING
OPENED
Body in Same Position A* the
Mourner* 3,000 Years
Ago Left It.
Luxor, Egypt. Feb. IB.—Opening of
the mortuary chamber in the tomb of
King Tutankhsmon today showed the
sarcophagus of the Pharaoh to be still
in the name position in which it wan
placed by hi* mourners more than
3,000 yearn ago.
When the exploring scientists, aft
er removing the delicate seals, broke
their way through the masonry of
the inner chamber door, they were
confronted with splendors which, upon
the first cursory examination, appear
to surpass even those of the ante
chamber which have held the inter
cat of the entire world.
The exploring party, headed by
Howard Carter, exclaimed with
amazement at finding the center
chamber, which la about 11 feet square
occupied by an immense gilded can
opy, richly inscribed.
The canopy was cloned, but there
was a door, and the opening of this
revealed inside what is undoubtedly
Tutankhamon's coffin. For the pre
aent, however, these was left undis
turbed.
A large crowd of visitors and news
paper men had as*embled early in
the morning in anticipation of the
unsealing. Before the work was
started, impressions of the seals on
the masonry were taken by the em
inent Egyptologists, James H. Breast
ed and Allen Gardiner.
A canopic jar, which probably eon-'
tains the heart and other internal or
gans of the king, was found inside
the canopy.
One feature of the discovery' in the
inner chamber was a magnificent
statute of a cat, richly painted, which
has stood sentry over the dead Pha
raoh through the centries he has
lain there. The chamber is filled
with splindid furniture, in orderly
array. It also holds several superb
gold chariots, an exquisite ivory and
ebony box and many beautiful ala
baster vaseC
New York, Feb. 18.—The tomb of
Pharaoh Tutankhr.mon, opened by
explorers today in the valley of the
kings, near Luxor, is by far the rich
est treasure trove ever uncovered in
the necropolis of ancient Thebes, and
in all likelihood is the richest that ever
will be discovered. Ambros Lansing,
acting curator of the Egyptian sec
tion of the metropolitan museum of
art, declared today.
Tombs of pratically all the early
rulers of Egypt have been accounted
for, most of them thoroughly looted
by native grave robbers, said Mr.
Lansing.
One of the fasinating theories the
records in the tomb may confirm or
explode that advanced by Arthur
Wiegall, former inspector general of
antiquities to the Egyptian govern
ment, and one of the best known
Egyptologists, that Tutankljamon was
the Pharoah which opporessed the chil
dren of Israel and whose army, pur
suing the Israelites at the tine of
the exodus is declared in Biblical ac-1
counts to have been swallowed up in
the Red sea.
WARNINGl
Throwing rocks at the high tension
transmission wire Ifate on Spring and
Worth streets is vary dangerous to
the public property and service, the
public and the person throwing the
rocks, and will not be tolerated by the
Water and Light Commission. Boys
aid parents of horn are warned that
vigorous steps will be taken to . .ppre
> < nd and prosecute under the law any
boys or persons engaging in this prac
tice. C. U. WHITLOCK
8upt. Water A Light Dept. ,
Merchants of Mount Airy Preparing Stocks for First
Event of the Kind in Their History. Many
Exceptional Bargains Will Be Offered
the Purchasing Public
Next Tuesday, February 27th, promise* to usher into
the pa|ei of history of this section a new feature. The
Merchants of Mount Airy have set aside that date as
"Dollar Day" when they will place on sale^ and at the
mercy of the buying public, their larfce stock of merchan
dise at greatly reduced prices. This effort is one that
will be participated in by practically every merchant in
the city and promises to be a semi-annual event. Where
ever practical everything will be displayed on the coun
ters of the merchants in One Dollar lots, thus gaining for
this occasion the caption, "Dollar Day Sale."
For several days the merchants have been receiving
their shipments of Spring Goods and these also will be
placed at the disposal of the crowds that will come to
Mount Airy next Tuesday. More than SO merchants
have joined in this movement which assures those coming
to this sale a wide field of bargsuns from which to select
their goods. From now until the opening of this sale at
eight o'clock next Tuesday the merchants and their clerks
will be busily engaged from time to time in preparing
their stocks for this event and when their doors are
thrown open to the public on Tuesday morning the values
that will be on display will be the like that has never been
placed before a buying public in this section. The com
bined effort and hearty cooperation of the merchants of
the city makes it possible for the public to secure such an
advantage in their purchases for the Dollar Day—next
Tuesday.
Pract cally all of the merchants have advertisements
n this paper which give to the reader only a small con
ception of the values they will offer and the large assort
ment of stock that will be put on display.
This event promises to draw to Mount Airy people
from all sections of this trade territory and those who fail
to visit our city on the Dollar Day—next Tuesday—will
miss the greatest values ever offered through a combined
and cooperative Reduction Sale of tremenduous propor
tions. Read the advertisements appearing in this issue
and make your plsins to come to Mount Airy next
Tuesday, February 27th.
OLD SLAVE LEAVES ESTATE
TO "MASTER"
Millionaire of New York ia
Willed Property by Humble
Negro.
Fayetteville, Feb. 10.—W. W. Full
er, New York millionaire and former
Keneral counsel of the American To
bacco company, ia the aole heir nam
ed in the will of William. Jamea Mc
Alliater, 94-year-old nerro, and one
time servant of the Fuller family,
who died here today from the effecta
of bums received when 1m fell into a
fireplace at hi* home yeaUrday after
noon. The principal item of the ae
tata ia McAllister's humble cottage
on Franklin (treat.
In the days of alavery, McAllister's
wife belonged to Mr. Fuller*! father,
the lata Judge Thomas C. Fuller, and
he waa alao a servant in the houae
hold for it)any years during and after
the civil war. The attachment form
ed then has exiated ever since, and the
aged parson waa always the first par
son in Fayetteville whom Mr. Fuller
went to aaa when ha visited hia native
city every summer.
The will, which furnishes a strik
ing proof of the bond which linked
the two raoaa of the old south, reeds
aa followa:
"I, William Jamea Mc Alliater do
■take this my teat will and testament.
"I (H device, hsqasath ay entire
estate, ml, ;.ersonal, and mixed to
my friend Willinm W. Fuller, of New
York.
"I do this for the reason that I
have no children and my wife ia
dead, and Willie Fuller has always
helped me when I needed it and has
been my nearest and best friend. My
wife, now deceased, belonged to his
father and rr othor, it was my pleas
ure to be near the family during and
a'ter the war, and the Intimacy that
sprang up then between me and Mr.
Willie, then a small boy, has been
continued through life, when I have
been ha trouble and needed either
help or advice, I knew where to tum,
and Mr. Willie never failed me.
"He may not ever need my little
home, I pray not, but he will know
better what to do with it than I, and
in this I want to show my aifrecia
tion for what he^has done for fie.
"I, nominate and appoint him, the
said W. W.. Fuller, as ereevtor of
this my last vriil and testament."
If George Washington h» d been
born a hundred years bur, the
chances are he'd hare been reading
The Youth's Companion or The Amer
ican Boy in Ma spare time instead of
making misuse of his famooe hatchet.
Give your boy • year's subscription
to one er both of theee ■sgastnsei
Phone your magaaine prion to Mrs.,
Cleve Hah far the Community Build- j
•
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BILL AGAINST KLAN
PASSED
Require* That Names of Mem
ber* Be Made Public
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—Amended to ex
cept frate rnal orders which do not re
quire neewy of its membership arid
to carry the punitive provisions of the
Raggett bill ugainiit the wearing of
maxks the Milikcn anti-Ku Klux bill
panned the House last night by a vote
of TO to 42 on .ta second reading and
was held up in the Moum for it* final
reading today to iron out some lack
of uniformity in the wording of
amendments.
fighting off a motion made by
(looks of Columbus, to take the bill
with all its amendments by a vote of
74 to 35, the proponents of the meas
ure stood by their guns without reply
ing to the verbal attack* of their op
ponents, and at the end of the single
speech made against it Mr. Connor
calU>d the previous question that re
sulted in the final vote of 70 to 42
in favor of the measure.
Defenders of the Ku Klux klan,
fighting in desperation to delay and
defeat the passage of the Milikcn bill
on the third reading in the House to
day wi re forred into the ojien with
the issue squarely drawn on the de
claration that the measure "cut the
heart out of the Ku Klux klan," and
went down to final defeat by n vote
of fi.l to 44, and defeat was sealed by
tabling a motion to reconsider.
No recent executive message, or
any legislation pending before the
House has brought so great a throng
to the galleries, and to the lobbies a*
waited for the fall of the speaker's
gavel last night when the bill was set
for a special order. The throng
•■owded past the- doors down to the
foot of the speaker's stand and wait
ed for the rise of the curtain of what
then promised to be a dramatic ses
sion.
There was nothing dramatic about
it. One promise of sensation died in
the bud when the speaker ruled Eve
rett, of Durham, out of order when
He rose on a point of personal privi
lege to request Wade, of New Han
over, the announced champion of the
opposition, to read certain affidavits
questioning the truthfulness of Mr.)
Everitt's statements made when the
bill was on debate a week ago today.
When the measure was first up for
consideration Mr. Everitt declared
that he had been visited by an emis
sary of the Ku Klox klan in Durham
and warned not to vote for the pend-'
ing Milliken bill. It was understood
that Mr. Wade's affidavits were in
tended to refute that statement. He
sought reeognition after the question
had been called, desiring to read what
he termed had been given to him at
that moment a* the oath of the Ku
Klux klan.
As now written and amended, the
Milliken bill provides that the name*
of all member* of secret organization
which do not allow their member* to
diicloae their membership *! all be
filed with the secretary of state and
with the register of deed* in each
county; that failure to do *o *hall be,
re gar led aa a misdemeanor; that no
member of any such secret organise-,
tion or other person may perform
any illegal acta while maaked, and
that no parades of such organisation*
■hall be allowed.
Constipation of the bowel* la a stop
page of the sewerage system that re
moves waste matter from tLs body.
It is as necessary that year bowels
■ore regularly once each day, to car
ry off tois waste, aa M Is that the
waste pipes at «mt home be kept
open and carry o4' the weete from tits
horcea. V yea weald eajsy goed
taking CismlirtiJa's Tablets whfljl
...fi., ..to .-ii,.
COMMISSIONER WADE
AGAIN WARNS PEOPLE
Beware of Considerate Stock
Salesman—Your Chance* Are
Slim Being a Second John D.
Raleigh, Fee. 13.—You risk noth
ing but a little spot cash and the big
dividend* are nuns to roll in. You get
a beautifully engraved or printed cer
tificate that looks good enough to be
money itself. Sometimes, the man
wiling you the stock will considerate
ly write you another letter after he
has cashed your check or pocketed
your cash. But, alas, your dreams of
looming a second Rockefeller gradu
ally, if not suddenly, fade away Just
as the sun sinks in the west.
"For the ways of the fake stock
salesman are many and hard to un
derstand. He packs his bag, smile*
over his spoils and leaves overnight,
much to the sorrow of those who have
'fallen' for his 'line.' "
This Is what Stacy W. Wade, In
surance commissioner of North Caro
lina. says in commenting on the many
lomplaints received in his office
ngainst th" operation of "oil sharks'*
in this state.
"So sure are some of these pro
moter that they can't lose," said Mr.
Wail?', "according to a recent scheme
exposed to this office that they1' are
attaching to their bonds. 60 coupons,
each calling for a monthly dividend
of 2 per cent. Twenty-four per cent
per year, absolutely guaranteed!
"For the past month our depart
ment mail has been heavy with com
plaints from every' section of the state
concerning the operations of these oil
shacks. The department has warn
ed i. number of investors, by letters,
-if what we might call an epidemic
of fake offerings by promoters.
"Owing to North Carolina's pros
perity these crooks have been flock
ing to the state, while others have
!>een using other methods to swindle
our citizens. Every investor should
thoroughly investigate before invest
ing his money," he said.
Carried to Death Cell
Unconscious on a Cot
Columbia, S C., Feb. 15.- Ira Har
rison, condemned as one of the s'ay
rrs of J. G. Arnette, Columbia gaso
line filling station proprietor, was
tarried to the death cell in the state
prison here today on a cot. Tomor
row morning he probably will be ta>
ken to the elqptric chair in the same
manner.
Harrison has been in an apparently
unconsinus condition since December
J. with the exception of two or three
lays.
Harrison, Frank M. Jeffords and
Slenn Treece were charred with kiU
ing Arnette, who was Jefford's part
ner and employer of the others in or
ier that Jeffords might collect certahs
life insurance. Jeffords was electro
cuted on December 22. and Treece
icrving a life sentence.
Ashe will* Carpenters Wjat
Increase in Pay.
Asherille, Feb. 14.—TVs local car
jenters' anion tonight voted te aek
ui increase of on* dollar par day tor
sight hours' work, the new wage
icak te be effective May 1, and the
painter*' mien |iu*t^ind daemon en
the same rat* of tntrees* natfl the
next week's meeting. What action
the builder* and one tractor* wfl] take