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VOL. XXI.
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CONCORD. N. C WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21. 1911
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LONDON AWAITS TES
. . GREAT SPECTACLE.
Oonutfcm of Xing Gorg and Qni
Mary tlM n Topic ef Intrat
Tamtam tit World.
London, "Jon 21. The coronation
of King Gorge and Queen Mary is lbs
on topi uppermost in the minds of
tb people of London today. For
wfcil tb brilliant ceremony will toe
one of world-wide interest, it is in
London diet tbe great and glorious
scenes associated with tbe event will
be carried on.
London tomorrow will be the scene
of saeh magnificent pageantry and
representation of power and might as
well eclipse the glories of the jubilee
celebrations of 1887 and 1897 and the
coronation of Edward VII. in 1902,
. and will provide for all who have the
. privilege of seeing it, a vision of
splendor ttaequaled in recent times.
King courtier, military and civil offi
cials, lord mayor and citiiens. have
all, in their respective spheres, concen
trated their efforts in the welding to
gether of the multifarious parts in a
pageant which will lack nothing in its
wealth of color and brilliancy.
The Coronation Processions.
With that willingness which has
ever characterised the King and Queen
to study, as far as possible, the
wishes of their loyal subjects, ar
rangements have been made for two
morrow's processions. The most of
the great stands that bave been erec
ted bav been placed on the route of
Friday's procession,' which is ex
pected to afford a more elaborate
spectacle than that of tomorrow.
Patient folks, who rise esrly, may se
cure standing room along the street
curbs, tout they will have to stsnd on
tiptoe to see over the bearskin hats
of the Foot Guards, tall fellows, all
of them, even if they endure the hours
of tedious waiting and have the luck
to retain their places.
Many Royal Visitors.
The coronation has attracted io
London more royal visitors than has
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B OOBOKATION.
ever been seen here at one time be
fore. In the State rooms of Si.
James' Palace tonight the Duke of
Cpnnaught gives a dinner in their
honor. One of the most distinguished
of the foreign delegations is that
from Japan, which includes Prince
Fushimi, Admiral Togo and General
Xogi. Prince Henry of Russia and
his wife, who represent the German
Emperor and Empress, are doubly re
lated to the King, through Prince
Henry's mother, Empress, Frederick,
and Princess Henry's mother, Princess
Alice. The Crown Prince and Prin
cess of Roumania are well known in
'England, r ;The Crown Princess is
King George's first cousin and spent
her childhood in England. She will
"OLYMPIC" ARRIVES
AT NEW YORK.
The Creates Steamer of Modern Time
Arrives on Tris Side.
Xew York. June 21. The world's
largest an J linest steamer, the new,
Iriple-sercw S. S. '"Olympic," of the
White 'Slnr Line, steamed proudly up
the Ambrose Channel today, and is
now moored at ihe Chelsea pier to
which a hundred foot extension was
recently made so that this great ves
sel, 882l2 feet Ion-; might be amply
protected.
Throughout the voyage the "Olym
pic's" giant engines, the largest afloat
WAS WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Old Negro In Senate Stationery
Room May Lose Place.
Washington, June 20. Jim Jones,
an aged negro for many years employ
ed in the Senate-stationery room, is
in danger of losipg his place.
Jones was the personal servant of
President Jefferson Davis, of the
Southern Confederacy, and was with
him when the Union soldiers effected
his capture in Georgia after General
Leo's surender.
A year ago. Senator Money, of Miss
issippi, saved . old Jim. Other Demo-
! crats aregojng to , try to save him
THE GAME AT KANNAPOUS
In Which tha Cincos War Walloped
By tha Y. M. C. A. Team.
Mr. Editor: Some one writing in
Saturday's Tribune, giving an account
of the ball game of Friday evening,
between the Cincos of Concord and the
Y. M. C. A. team of Kannapoliti,
gives a very unfeeling account of
same. 1 be writer must be a rooter lor,
a metropolitan league team, possibly ;
of New York, or Chicago or Philadel-
phia, where the players are profes-
TWO WINDOWS AND
ONE TICKET SELLER.
STATE NEWS.
The Arangement at the Passenger
Station Hera Worse Than Before.
Two new igns have been added to
the numerous collection thai adorn
the walls of ilie iiaseenger station,
one biariug the words "For Cash
Kare" and the other "For Mileage."
One irt nlllcpil iYr tlio Klv rinitniv iir .. .
i . .i i .i .Li ' rresbyienan
ai least the w indow that has been m j Due West
use suue I lie Mauo -was Diuit anu
Items of News from all Parte of Um
Oid North Stat.
Dr. R. M. Stevenson, who has baa
living at Hover for tbe last several
years, has resigned m pastor of tb
A. K. P. Churches st Clover, Bethany
and Crowders Creek io accept tbe edi
torship of the Associate Reformed
which is published at
jinl jri iilt ov the aiMiearanee and anti- -,,r- Jonn r. cooo, grandlatner 01
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sionals of the highest tvpe drawing qaiel looks ot things around the lat-: us . , moim -, me worm IS
nrincelv salaries. Therefore he is too ,er il must ''" ''"' he time "" baseball player, died at Morgan-
much of a critic to enjoy amateur
playing, when possibly some of the
players are not yet in practice. It
seems to vour scribe that the criticism
the Cabarrus Blavk Bovs became ! Saturday night at midnight at tha
known to fame) and the other just j State hospital. Mr. Cobb was eighty
above a lit le window about three ! ver8 old and was a ni-tiv of Cbero
inches from the first one. The onlv dif-l ke" county. His remains will be ta-
was unjust, but as for the game being) Ierem tM'twen
"iin;nlrtiiiir" uni.l.t not or -I Proposit loll as
the two window Ken 10 1118 old home for burral.
eondnete,! here and Hampton Moore, a member of tha
pect it to intercut anv one used to . ",e ""e ,s "lal lne , house the Pennsylvania and president
high professionals; and as to its being arPnt st',ls a Ut kel 1" nght j 0f the Atlantic Deeper Waterways'
a "slow" game we do not know what sl,1e nml H,s vt,,lr mileage , assocUtion, will be one of the speak
he would call n fast game, but feel I 011 V,s 1'ft a"'1 doesn't! ers at ihe North Caiolina Press asso
sure that the fines did not find the'"ave !""e 1,11 wrl,' a fheok f"r i ciation convention, which meets at Le
gume Saturday evening so "uninter- vo"r1 baWage, whereas under the onejm.ir June 27, 28 and 2. Mr. Moore
esting" when the Y. M. C. A. bovs w"',low. I'lan ,le ',"1'' se" tlcket9 an(1 , is well known as an orator, and -will
made three doubles and so easilv , ,n'U mllpa' a,11 occasionally have , doubtless say some interesting things.
reversed the score of the dav before.; ""V ! , "aa wiioih uaving
making it 9 to 4. Perhaps the game , ' sl':!',' back and toil h between the
was so "slow" Fridav that the Cin-j 'wo ,llke a JllmPS nck. If the
cos were smoked ra: her short causing s"ll7 Railway could secure some
their tire to die out rather early in ; Jamis-fa.-e.l individual to sell tickets
Saturday's game. Our bovs are 1 nder the present conditions rs.s
smoking ten cent cigars now for thev 8 ,ly ' m-ght "'V,e t,,e rilb,, ?me
ai'commonauons ai icasi, out as long
as the road has only one ticket agent
be perhaps the handsomest of the j President of the International Mer
worked smoothly, and the 800 cabin 'this time, but -may ot succeed,-as
passengers landed well pleased with 'the Republican, steering committee
their crossing. Mr. Bruce Ismay, j has recommended numerous discharges
coaoaanoM chaib, nr wnoat Burma
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loyal processions through tbe streets
of the .metropolis. Tbe first will take
place tomorrow when their Majesties
go from Buckingham Palace to West
minister Abbey to be' crowned, and
tha second on Friday when they pro
ceed from the palace to the city prop,
er, where 'hey will be received by the
lord mayor and corporation in state.
This will mean a drive through the
center of London, and then, in order
that all classes may have an oppor
tunity of taking part in the celebra
tions, their Majes:ies'will cross Lon
don Bridge and return on the south
side of the Thames, passing through
some of the meaner streets of the
metropolis. To nine-tenths of the
people of London, seeing the coro
nation will mean merely seeing the
great procession of Friday.
To The Abbey and Return.
For the coronation ceremony to
morrow the King and Queen will go to
Westminister Abbey by the shortest
route from Buckingham Palace,
through the Mall, the archway and
court-yard of the Horse Guards,
Whitehall, Parliament Street and Par
liament Street and Parliament square,
Returning after the ceremony, which
will last about two hours, a longer
route will be taken, by. way of Char
ing Cross, Cockspur Street, Pall Mall,
foreign Princesses attending the cere
mony.
Duchess of Aosta a Beauty.
The Duchess of Aosta, wife of the
heir presumptive to the throne of
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cantile Marine Company was a pas
senger, anil expressed lumseir as oe-
ing delighted wi:h the latest andgreat
esi steamer to join the White Star
fleet.
The passenger list included many
well-known persons.
The "Olympic," 4")..'?24 tons regis
ter exceeds by IIJ.OOO ton and 120
feet in length any steamer in the
world. A crew of 8G0 men is required
to operate her, and H.OOO passengers
can be carried.
Hello Girls at Statesville Quit Job.
The "hello girls" of the Iredell
Telephone company at Statesville went
on strike Tuesday. All of the sev
en young lady oerators of the com
pany wore in the "walk-out" and
since they quit the job the eompanyn's
electrician, lineman anj others are
operating the switch Board.
The young ladies Monday morning
served notice on W. M. Barringer,
manager of the system, that they must
have $2.50 additional per month and
demanded a definite answer Tuesday.
Mr. Barringer called a meting of the
board of directors and laid the matter
before them. The directors refused
the demand on the ground thai the
present pay $20 a monthis as much
as is paid elsewhere and as much as
t lie company can afford to pay for
eight and a half hours work a day.
The decision of the directors was an
nounced to the operators and they
picked up their "duds" and inarched
out without even saying good-bye.
to cut down the Sennic force of em
ployment.
Jones claims to be the only man liv
ing whoe knows where the great seal
of the Confederacy was secreted.
"I buried it myself, he eaid re
cently, "and gave my word of honor
to Mr. Davis t'hat I would never tell.
I kept my word to him while he lived
anil nm not going to break it now
that he is dead. On the day that
the Jefferson Davis Monument was
ledicated in Richmond two men of
fered me $l"i.000 to tell them where
the great seal could be found, i!
looked at the money mighty hard, for
I'm about the poorest man you know,
but no amount of money would make
me break my word to Mr. Davis.
There ain't money enough in the
world to make me forget that pledge."
Jones was "free born, and says
he is pronnd of ihe fact that he was
never a slave. His mother was two
thirds Cherokee, his father a Creole,
and Jones was hired by Jefferson
Davis in New Orleans.
say Cincos are too cheap.
This game was played on the Y. M
C. A. diamond. Game called at 3:10
Time, 1 hour minutes. Umpire
Boger.
Cincos.
Struck out by Cline, 5.
Base on ball off Cline, 3.
Hits off Overcash. 2.
Hits by pitched ball. Cline. 1.
Patterson, hard run, 1 hard catch.
Y. M. C. A. Team.
Struck out by Overcash, 4.
Base on balls off Overcash, '.I.
Double nlavs. Anderson to Irbv t
liagley.
Hits off Cline, 9.
Hits by pitched ball, Anderson, 1.
Running catch by Childers.
The features of the game, were a
home rjin by Utley, with twojueu ou
bases, and two three baggers, Irby,
with two men on bases, Chil
ders' nice running catch and
Patterson's hard run one-hand catch.
H.
(Tlip editor regrets that he cannot
publish the full score in tody's issue.)
The fourth annual joint normal
school for Sunday school workers to
be held by the North Carolina con
ference of the Evangelical Lutheran
Synods of Tennessee and North Caro
lina will begin at Lenoir Colege,
Hickory, on July 24 and continue
through to and including June 27. On
and require him to sell tickets, pull ' Wednesday evening of the conference
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mileage check baggage and incident
ally do the slide back and forth act
' Ihe amount of travel done here, it
! is no wonder that the traveling pub
, lie has to go to the staiion long before
I tiain time and he forced to stand in
; line on the elegantly polished hard
; wood floor and wait and wait and
wait to gel a ticket, to say nothing
of having tlie liaggage checked. But
j it is not so bad for the ladies as they
can wait, as r.rlitor Harris says, in
the comfortably appointed waiting
room and enjoy the cooling breezes
from ihe numerous electric fans.
Officials of the Southern promised
a number of citizens of Concord sev
eral weeks ago that they would pro
vide a baggage man at the station
within a short time. "
Red Men Meet in Macon.
Macon, Ga.( June 21. Macon is en
tertaining for two days the auual
Slate convention of the Improved
Order of Red Men. Several hundred
delegaies weie on hand this morning
when the gathering was called to or
der by Gyeat Sachem Henry M. Ward
of Savannah. A parade of the dele
gates was held this afternoon.
KB. MS MBS. JORB HATS HAMMOND MB.
AMMOKD IB TBB aPBOIAt, AMBASSADOR
VBOK HB OMITKO ITATB8 TO ATTKND
TBB OOBONATIOB,
Italy, will be the Crown Princess of
Roumania a chief royal rival in the
matter of good looks. She was mar
ried, when Helene d 'Orleans, to the
Duke of Aosta, at Kingston on the
Thames, and she made her social de
but at a Marlborough House garden
party, so a visit to England is rather
likr a home coming to her. Other
interestin foreign visitors here for
the ceremony tomorrow are Prince
Henry of the Netherlands, the Crown
Prince of Servia, Prince Yusur med
Din of Turkey, the Archduke Francis
Ferdinand -of Austria, ihe Crown
Prince of Denmark, the Crown Prince
and Princess of Sweden, and Prince
and Princess of Sweden. -
Baby Eats Strychnine Tablet and Is
Killed.
Wilmington. June 20. Melissa, the
nine-months-old infant of Mr. and
Mexicans Celebrate Diaz Victory.
City of Mexico, June 21. Elaborate
precautions were taken 'by the Provis
ional government to prevent any dis
orderly demonstration today on the
occasion of the anniversary celebra
tions in memory of the taking of the
City of Mexico by the forces of Gen.
Diaz, June 21, 1867. For many years
the anniversary has been observed as
a holiday in the capital. The fall of
the City of Mexico to the liberal
troops under Gen. Diaz marked the
last blow io the Imperialists and
practically ended the long war of the
Napoleonic invasion.
Out of a list of sixty graduates
from Manual Training School in Kan
sas City who were questioned as to
what occupation they intended to
adopt afier completing their educa
tion, ten declared for the farm. That
number exceeded the declaration for
anv other profession, civil engineer
ing coming next with seven, while the
lawyers and bankers numbered only
two each.
President Taft at Yale.
Now Haven. Conn.. June 21. Presi-
Mrs. J. W. Walton, Ai d Sunday af-j ,ient Taft was among the distinguish-
ternoon following the eating or a box e,i guests at the comencement exer
Got. Marshall at U. of P.
Philadelphia, Pa.: June 21.M3oveii-
nor Marshall of Indiana delivered
St. Jamea' Street,' Piccadilly, Hyde the Commencement oration at the
Park Corner., and Constitution Hill,
Bat few persons, in comparison with
the enormous crowds now in London,
vt ba able to get a food view of to-
University of Pennsylvania today.
Mor than 850 students received dip
lomas, tb elasa being the largest that
ever graduated from the university.
of strychnine, quinine and iron tablets.
Tho child was lert alone in tneroom
for a few moments and got the box of
medicine from the lower compartment
of a washstand. One of two of the
tablets would hardly have harmed her
but the infant nte the entire contents
of the box and death resulted in a few
minutes. The death is peculiarly sad
in that her father is critically ill. It j
was to minister to him that the mother
left the infant alone tnly for a few
moments. -
Eagles of Three States.
Charleston, S. C, June 21. A tri
State convention of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles opened in this ciiy
today with large delegations in attend
ant from Jacksonville. Macon, At
lanta. Augusta, Columbia and other
leading cities of Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina. The gai being will
continue over tomorrow. ,
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' Uta our Fanny Column It pay.
eises at Yale today. The guests joined
with the students, and faculty mem
bers in the procession from the college
campus to Woolsey Hall, where the
graduation exercises were held. The
assembly and dinner of the alumni
took place this afternoon and were
folowed by the President's reception
in Memorial Hall.
Kaiser Greets Americana.
Kiel, June 21. The Emperor to
day exchanged visits wirn vAamirai
Badger and the officers df Me Ameri
can battleships which are paying a
week's visit to Kiel. Dr. David Jay-
ne Hill, the American ambassador at
Berlin, officiated at the introductions.
The meeting of the Emperor and the
officers was of a most cordial nature.
Rev. Dr. E. II. Harding and daugh
ter, Mrs. Nan Whitaker, of Davidson,
are visiting at the borne or. juage w,
J. Montgomery.
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Dr. Henrv Louis Smith will deliver a
lecture on "Luther Before the Diet
of Worms."
Pastime and Theatorium Consolidated
The two moving picture shows, The
Pastime and The Theatorium, have
been consolidated and an arrangement
has been made whereby The Pastime
will be open six days in the week and
The Theatorium two, Fridays and
Saiurdays. The managers, Messrs. A.
(1. Odell and C. M. Isenhour will run
special pictures at The Theatorium
on these two days and The Pastime
will be conducted as heretofore.
Miss Mamie Pitcher left this morn
ing for Marshall, Mo,,, to 'visit rela-
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Capital $100,000 Surplus $30 0'
4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Tim
Deposits.
REWARD.
I am authorited to pay a reward of
$25.00 for the arrest or information
which will lead to the arrest of the
party or parlies wbo broke into BaN
rier-Widenhouse Co's. atore Thurs
day night and stole a lot of clothing
or for the recovery of the stolen prop
erty, or ror aiy mwrmauon wuicu
will lead to the recovery I ine same.
J. L. BOGER,
16-6t Chief of Police.
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