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Kmtfhprn v Daihiav Wpm JUUIIICIII nHnTSj iijulvIR Announces Popular Excursion 4 Wastaagton, D. C, lune 15,1923 Round Trip Far* Ftw MOUNT AIRY $10.00 Tickets Good Tkn* Days Schodulo Spfcial Tr»« and Round Trip Faro* Leave: Schedule. Round Trip Pare. Charlotte „ 7:80 P. M. $10.00 Greensboro 10;35 P. M. tee Rrfular Triia to Greensboro, thence Special Train Arrive Washington 7:50 A. M., June I6tn. I Round trip ticket* on sale «t all stations in North Carolina wea| of Marion and east of Raleigh. Pullman sleeping cars and day coai-hes. Big League Baseball Games Washington Americans vs. Chicago Americans, June 16-17. • Washington Americans vs. Cleveland Americana, June 18. ' See Ray Schalfr, Walter Johnson, Stanley Ooveleskie and other great stars in pction. •rJ-.r; Tickets good if turning on all regular train* (except No. 87) up to and including train No. 33 leaving Washington, B. C., 9:86 P. ML, June 18tii, ii)23. , Make your sleeping car reservations early. « For detailed information apply to ticket agmt or addraaa, R. H. GRAHAM. Division Pasiangor Agant, Charlotte, N. C • • IYt oaa of the old tiaa«r> In mihwadl air. i .(|n ^ju| laau— | gkli>|l j|ig> ^ hM^Y I MeHP Seta o# faithful service. to Cape Pear *nd Yadkin rwed iu built the m, Mi of ■ construction gang, helped grade the road, bridge the streams and lay C. T. and Y. V. «m sold to I tie Coast Line and to the Boutiisrn Mr. Medean* remaned - — ' tion of track of the line bought by the j •Southern—Mount Airy to which is now the Atlantic and a subsidiary of the gouthai In hia Jang nenies with Mr. Xideuii had ridden of miles ap and dawn the aid C. T. and Y. V railroad in hia work of to-| apeeting the traeha. BaaMaa a Ma In rafhuad service ha had| village am »e*hto| _ Ms culiar tan of fortune'* wheel, a < twiat of fate, they aaid, that < before Ma life wan crushed out by the) aaaive engine that feB Mr. Medearia had gone ea* on the 'J* ■ 1 Aa ha train arrived at a * inspector was m* and he decided to a rail of thia aseaaa of coming into Giaeaa boro. He had atortod hack to the ar of the tr^ha, it waa related, to get oa the caboose, when one of hia ftafc* if the,train crew who waa oa the itl-fated engine, shouted: •'Hey, Cap'n! Come oa up here and ride with us. I've got something to tell you." Medearia turaad then, it was aaid, and re-tracing hia stope climbed up into the engine. A few minatoe later he was dead—Storied beneath tone of twisted steel and Ire*. Hani 19 Setoct Hum For Twwrty ChiUtron "They tell me you in the father of 20 children?" "I cant deny It. It in every word true." \ "Could you give me • list of the names of the 20 children?" "I wouldn't undertake that with, out ferring to the family records." " !h this prelude a representative of this paper approached Mr. J. M. P. Morrison at his home near the old Morrison mill on the Wilkeshoro road. Mr. Morrison is almost 75 years old j but could easily qualify as a man off ' only 65 summers. He is naturally am optimist—a man who lives on the sun. ny side of life and takes his day* just as. they come, without undue wor ry for the things of tomorrow. "Being the parent of 20 children, you have found life quite a stoop grade, I suppose?" "No, nothing unusual. I have heon obliged to teach my children to volt and have always had plenty of help. There's O. B. and J. P.. twins. It years old; they're getting big enough to plow as well as a man and I am gat ting to the place where I hop* I can let up a little and not work so hard." Mr. Morrison has been married twice. There were eight children by his first wtfe, four dead and four liv ing, and II by his second wife, eight living and four dead, making in all | It living and eight dead. Bfby number SO, a boy, arrived i May JO. To inquiries about its nam*. Mr. Morrison declared he did not have I the remotest idea what they will sail him. "We are 'plum' out of names, bean out • is fact. Whan the twin* cam* the trouble of naming "em doubled up on ue end we Just started to called 'em O. B. and J. P. and that's all the names they've gat" , We swggeeted that he name Baby No. 10. after the neit President— Henry F<iM—(?) a* h* might go far ther and do wan*. Then agata the idea of the thing might strike a re sponsive chard in Henry Is geoereas heart and h* llkaly as not might Mart *1795 S.C. QoackUt ANDERSON GWYN MOTOR SALES CO. 4EUft1NUM SIX Airy, N. C A VICTORY FOR * - v" ^ AMERICAN MOTORISTS a when it HJM is coaUct witk Tlw »r— at Ika hibOii today *»• of tkm Ammitmm rt*y mt m % %**< Wa uamei • lt% Mtaciloi Hi ttraa aad Mm edectire Juae 1L The lowered cost at a*«d« rubber aad the apnrtal rtreatone maaa laitturiai sad dlatrlbuttoa »<tilli|n aaake an poMikle niMtaH factories are orgaalaad M a baste el tome volume. and fffectlre produottoa Oaata are dowa but qualttr U at Ita peak. ^ Stockholder, workmea are dally bulldtaa many IkouMBd of Outn Dipped Cordis-the be. t flf» •Boa* e»er produced, a ad we hallave. the leader •a the market today. Vtreatone cords took tke trat lour piac« l'*h' of the tea ataeey puattioas ta U« lidiutpoiti nMUltkw. Hay II. v1Us«t • *ta«ie lira failure ~ • PlrMtonr Oum Dipped Cord* have eat MV itaidHi is mileage. traction, neanfort aad lately Car o«lan have eipre**ed Ualr ap proval of tha extra value la Firaatoa* Hum DIpiwO Cord* by taifeMalaic their purrhaaaa 1M* In the past *lx months. We have re placed many expensive brr h * ith warn house* We now, liana IM dltrbutin* polata arhhh are delivering riraaion tires to the coaaumer at the lowenl «et In our fclatory. Follow the tide ut economical Hi* baytn*— eqdt# with Flreetoae Cum Dipped Coid sad l«arn what Moat Mile* par Hollar cu*. Ir Ton today. 0 ■ <M • •+* M'M Cord « /mi City Mo th Motor C •f th* /Mowing dealera %
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