that will rati for
month*.
lengthened the f
Evorjr time a district a
the chances of r
carrying the whole county v
: r
counties the aehool t
If
the orchard. In
Welch, near _yi
•elected for a ci
i
*i
u
k<- Pmnurp »I limHHPI
fell considerably down the line. Ac
«ordlni to tW latest figure* available
*t the depaitBHtnt of public instruc-'
tion, Mecklenburg had for laat year's
tern 2,4111 children in school* that
raa Uaa than el(kt month* while the
ami|r length of the county-wide
feral was 152 day*. Buncombe had S,
trt children in shorter-term schools,
wMl an average term for the whole I
days; Forsyth had S.7S4
| shorter-term schools and
•a averse* of 126 days, while Wake,
with an average term of the county
of 142 days, had ,.4,037 children in ;
I that ran leas than eight
L
Mecklenburg's Poaltioa
I position is notable!
| fact that its county
I is chairmaned by j
| has come i
outspoken oppo
the proposed state-wide
counties
mnd|
hopes to see
appreciably
term becomee
which haven t aa
fevar, many of their |
to t
V
I
wrs a1
wt
II d
halt CImh Dim
jVhil* on the Job
BTon, Mich., Dec. 24.—Santa
ltd.
Hpt night in the excite
tdant upon Chriataum ax
Harbor Beach in the Math
children with bright eyea
lips, that they warn to
die before their ayaa.
The) |ealdnt aaa 'behind hia Mil
flowing white baard and
tat a heart, awrte waah by
labor, waa undergoing a
tin. And ao whan Johnston
♦.hay ahrieked and erlad.
la th^ crowd ware Johnston'a wife
4
a A. f - .t|a|t|
nv 1M iHllTltm
I i
Ha* tM produced. May God rataa
up like him.
Gn4_ trrant to you and
v>ui^Happy Cbriatmas and a Naw
Vr-at^^d with all good things.
1y yours,
"W. P. FEW."
HE*RNS OP FLAPPERS
LOUNGE LIZARDS
Hit^ra Breed tag Hell, De
High Official of
Railway
Dae* 24.—Man who hop#
top in the climb for sac
shun the coatpany of
red flappers aad long
lizzards, for they are
" it waa aaaertad by ft.
of Charlotte, general
I.ines East, of the Southern
making the pcteci
here Tuesday night at the
Ml banquet of the Carolina
and Storage Company at
lM(|of Commerce dining halL
a nothing, however, that
a more to a man's spec aaa
asaociation and companion
good woman, Mr. Simpson
Service wtt the keynote
I manager't speech,
i filled with old-fashioned
I good advice. Among the
for success the speaker
•ted ^vice to employer, te family,
, te church and te self,
taker deplored the attitude
f antjjnism to the public which he
aid Jailed among some of the
in the past, adding that
progress in all lines during
tea, a policy of courteay hat
BAPTIZED WITH WATUt
FROM THE MVKR JOBDAM
IV Epiacnpal
church in town ha vine • ChriataM»|
wrric* st (km o'clock, and
GAMUETTS FAIL TO GET
mf—nwK. v«. Dm. ZZ.—Gownor
Trinhla kd kw so kwjr with other
matters ne«Ujf, ha alatad today,
that ha baa had Mttia Mm far oam
■Itortm at tha application* (or par
don af Robert 0. Gamtt tad LwMa
C. Garratt. brothers, doing fl*a jpaara
and foar years respectively la thf
VkfMi penitentiary far tha murder
of Bar. Edward 8. Plarea, Baptiat
minister, in Cumberland matjr, June
6. 1MI. Ha addad that it will ha aoaw
lima before ha trill ha abla to go over
all tha pa para la tha eaaa tad consider
thaai mora folly.
Thia maana that tha Garratta. who
ara former office holdara of Cumber
land, hava no chance of ftttiac not
of priaon before the Chriataaaa holi
days ara over. It wai atatad at tha
penitentiary today that both arera
hopeful of bainf pardoned before
Chriatma* ao that they might apend
tha Yuletide with their fumiliea at
home. Their victim wa« a native of
Gatoa county. North Carolina, and
held pastorates In West Durham, N.
C. and in several places in Virginia
before going to Cumberland in which
ha had taken sides against the Gar
ratta.
NEW HOSIERY MODES
CHANGE OLD RHYME
at WarM's Pa
Capital
Paris, Dee. 28.—Paris U taking lib-1
"tie* with oar turnery rhyme* and
the little child of today, at
might easily recite:
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How strange to find you where yon!
are.
Once yon shone down over me.
Now yon twinkle en mother's
For tw'inkling knees are a reality
sines an enterprising Parisian stock
ing maker conceived the idea of em
bellishing silk hoee with stars and
comets, embroidered flowers and
birds, landscapes and portraits.
In this knee-length era, the effect
produced Is really remarkable. The
landscapes and portraits are worked
in silk threads of myriad colors, bat
the stars really twinkle for they are
worked hi brilliants or Imitation dia
They are worn at the theatre
Last year saw a successful invasion
of the Park stocking market by the
clans. Bat they
popularity and Pari*
again this year to flesh -olored silk
wtth such deviations as the stars and
landscapes can afford.
There Is hut one color of stockings
to he seen on the boulevards and that
is flesh. Black is worn only wtth a
Mack gown, and gray anJ brown have
about passsd from the color scheme.
French stockings have again attain
ed their pre-war excellence, hot their
cost Is a constant worry to the Paris
ian. The twinkling variety can seat
or two, we hoom m carnage n ■ aay
to fhro or ta«, H to putatad oat. Iiwjr
mow* w carry adds to the nMfjr
that must W wpwfcd and onprvpar
ed-for kmc hikes, wttk tha addition
of camp oqnipwwit, are anjrtkiiif hot
safe and mhw for many parsons, es
pecially for children. OrUinly wo
should never on necessarily take
'rampa, the fatifn* of which cannot
bo slept off hi a night.
AirpUa* m Wwods May IU««al
Dm tli of Aviator is
tn*
PlttifltM, Mm., Dee. 10.—Moaa
grown wreckage of an airplane found
b* a hunter in a thicket in a lonely
region of the town of Tyring ham may
salve a mystery of more than six
years. The unexplained disappear
ance of Cap*. Manshetl R. James, a
Canadian aviator, hi the early sum
mer of iltt. A party will go oat to
morrow to find and examine the plain
and to heat the wooda for the body of
the loot filar.
Members of a party which went In
to the Tyringha* wooda several days
ago to shoot deer reported today that
Warren Campbell, of Brooklyn. N. T,
one of their number, became loot and
wandered upon the wreckage of the
plan* miles from a human habitation.
He paid little attention to it, believing
others had found it before him. It
waa only when the news waa brought
here that the wreck waa linked up
with the koaa of Capt Jamea.
The Canadian'aviator, who had
served in the World War with the
Royal Air Force, won lato in May,
191#, a competitive flight from Atlan
tic City to Boston for a cap offered
by the Boston Globe and a parse of
fl.OOO. He left Boston on June 1 to
return to Atlantic City, followed the
wrong railroad line and Inat his bear
T»|T* in the Western part of Maau
chuactts. He came down at Tyring
hnm and next nomine Mt out in
ideal weather and wind condition* to
resume the flight
Persona at the Tyringhaui Field saw
him fly southward and then tarn sud
denly west as if to return, but ha
passed from view. Hs never was
theory was that the a via tar had falsa
into a lahe or the ocean.
Campbell stumbled on the plans as
he wandered about looking tar his
ceepsekea. It lay hi a thicket hi a
remote section, at least four miles
from a hooes or highway. The tall
and wings appeared to he Intact, but
tushes had grown up about the faeel
age. partly concealing It. A tree
nartly rotted, lay nearby, and there
was erery Indication that years had
MOKE TALK ABOUT
MAO IN K. C.
la ba I
ta Mm
AH th. mwipaper men bare know of
it h* aa far ham bmm told fa •
whisper, Hot fat, not yet," and It'l
going to be a '
actually
handed to the motor king. Ha baa
eoal mines In KantKkjr, thousand! of
acres of them and la lupposad to
want railroad connections tba
Atlantic Seaboard «uia»eh«n alone
tba coast of the Caroltaaa, to trada
with South Aurtia.
The story, however, at tkia and, ap
parently cant ba told. It la on of
infi
to "to rata
would fallow la aot
Ford would ba par
line to tha Pacific a
wMrtW
would ba I
m the tta
>a a bic i
Perhaps it ia as big now aa It ia fa
in* to. Besidaa. waiting for
Ford to gt*e his O. K. an tba story
m Ionic, tiresorte business, especially
when Port ia in Detroit or somewheie
way off hearing Mellie '
he fiddle talk.'
FIND MUCH POISON IN
BOOTLEG WHISKEY
Plain CoacMtralad Lya, Sul
phuric Acid and Fuaal Oil
Found
Charlotte, Dec. 17.—Whiskey con
taining • high percentage ef poison,
nijrmr from plain concentrated
to sulphuric acid, is Kcing consumed
t«y patron* of bootlegger* in North
I'aro'.na, South Carolina ktkI ieoe
r»i.
Thin was disclosed in a report by
Jtr laboratory of division Ko^druar
tm here of the federal prohibition
i-nforcement organisation. lien <1
^harpe, diviiional director. Thurs
lay made public the report, »Wk
«r»p aenaationat fa) it* diecbmins.
The analyaee were made by J. P.'
Albright, Jr., chemist in chart* of the
laboratory, from 100 samples of con
traband secured by federal agents op
erating in South Carolina
The samples included concoctions
labeled "moonshine" and some hear
ing the name* of well known brands
if pre-Volstead day*.
Seventy of the samples examined
acre labeled "moonshine" aad con
tained "fusel ofl in high can tent," ac
cording to the report.
South Bo* ton, V*., Fin bum
$780,000 Damage
South Boston, Va., Dec. tt.—Thir
teen buildmga, cmpriiinf two
blocks of the heart of the buaineaa
section, were destroyed by fir* here
parly Sunday at estimated I oca «f
(750,000.
Starting shortly after 2 o'clock this
morning from an undetermined
••use, the fir* was swept beyond con
trol by a high wind. Fir* fighters
ilso war* handicapped by a tempera
:ur* of II degrees a bo** aero.
The toea was believed to bar* bean
Among tW buildings destroyed
ware the Garland betel and the Pint
National bank, the nrit of wMch
was believed to have withstood the
lame*.
The fire started la Crliek'a dry
rooda atan and. fanned by the wind,
ipread rapidly to adjoining striae
urea. An engine company (Ma
DanvQk, answering an app*ai far
lid, mad* the M mile* trip W* on a j
ipeHal train.
Volunteer fir* fighter* prevented
ng horning hranda aa titer ware A»
K>aited bp the wM within a mBe
ride area e# tit* Warn tag MM.
tt
-TV demise of I
few iani
to the dry*," Mid
This orxsnlutioa saed M tor
tt, aad
of I
will ha
thrown oat of
"Hw and whiskey war* dm) for
a i«air and ih*w age than oara.
Alcohol does not mi * safely
gasoline or high-powered
Other wet organisattoae
well to foBow the exaatp*e of the !
innal Liberty
they will have to, aa why aot a®wT"
Wheeler said the AMI Below
Loagoe has a graveyard Ml of the re
mains at Anti-Prohibttiea orgar »«a
tioaa, awl he wUl add thoae of the
Uberty Alliance to the laag Hat al
ready there.
the recent teat rata hi the law
which showed the Aati-Saloon
still
Mr. Wheeler, and his
day la considered a crow of
tion aa
Boy, 3, Lost IS lie fa Fee*d
By Police Dh
Lewis town, Mr., Dec. IT—Thrse
year-old Kemwth OUara, for whoa
nearly 1,000 persons had searched
the woods fifteen hoars, was found
this morning. A police doc. *nd the
• hiid's cries heard earlier in the
night, guided uerchers to the spot.
The boys was discorerad asleep by
Miles Parker and Janes Porreat, un
ler a tree in the dense thicket where
■he had wandered. Several houn be
fore they had heard faint cries of
"mamma, mamma". A police dag
named by Patrolman Herman then
picked up the trait
Kenneth was rushed to a hospital ta
Lewisten, where physicians found no
ii! effects from exposure.
The child's mother, Mrs. Joha
OUara, who had been prostrated
With grief, waa otcitowe with ema
tion when the news reached her.
The father had lad Marchers con
stantly since Ma sen disappeared.
The child had wandered four milea
from home.
Interest in the search had been so
great in this city that the Lewistoa
Sun issued an extra edition.
Among the hastily urgsntisd
searching parties that sat out ) —Sec
of the Natinal Guard, ws—bsri of the
Fire and Police Departments, stu
dents from Bates College and hun
dreds of private citisens. They
lighted their way in the weods with
lanterns, torches and flashlights.
Charlotte Barton Fight Over
Colors
Charlotte, Dec. 21—Disaffreeatent
over the color of Cfcriatmaa decora
tion* to be uaed in tWr barbershop
in the Hotel Charlotte reeuhed hi ser
ious trouble for H. C. Bradley and
WUI HajrN, well known local barter*,
this afternoon. Aa a result of the
dieagilnnt Hayet la la a local boa
pitsl suffering eerere cuts and
Bradley la at liberty under «KN bend
m a rhtrn of mmK. He also la