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©•©•©9oo © ASSOCIATED © © PRESS © © DISPATCHES ©| ©©©©©©©© VOLUME XXIII Two Idaho Mining Towns Practically Burned Out Mace and Burke Suffer Fire That Destroyed More Than Million Dollars Worth of Property Friday Night. THOUSAND NOW WITHOUT HOMES Mile and a Half of Homes Were Burned, and Several Mining Properties Suffered Damages in the Fire. (By the Associated Pirn.) Wallace. Idaho. July 14.—Misery stalks today in the little towns of Burke and Mace, mining centers, seven miles east of here, after a devastating tire | starting about 1 o'clock yesterday after- 1 noon and sweeping its way through near ly a mile and a half of homes, stores and | mining works. At midnight last night no deaths had been reported, bat the en tire business section of Burke was de stroyed and virtually every home is in bruins. The loss is put at $1,500,000. Mate, adjoining Burke on the west, suffered less seriously, the flames having been fanned by q west wind away from the starting place’of the fire. About 1,000 persons are said to be homeless. They were driven ahead of the fire toward Thomson Falls. Men, women and children last night were fran tically trying to save their belongiugs from the onslaught of the Haines. Many lost all they possessed. It was announced by officials of the Hercules Miuiug Company that the Hec la surface works were destroyed, though the Hercules plant had been saved. The 1,,:* to the Heota Company is estimated bv local mining nton at between $750,000 and $1,000,000. The electric hoist of the llecla, one of the largest in the world, was burned. The fire was checked at the Tiber Hotel and the Hercules works. Fire fighters recruited from the men of the towns supplemented by the apparatus from Wallace, stopped the advance of the flames, although the whole hillside was a mass of fire and smoke. , Red (Voss workers from Wallace have been rushed to Burke with food and clothing for the homeless. It is said that it will take several days to quench the fire, as huge piles of timber cribbing near the Heel# plant, nearly one-fourth tni'.e in length, are a mass of flames. Railroad service to Burke is disrupt ed. the flames shooting over the tracks and burning the erossties. - -cy Thf dtdfiu of the fire ro WntoioWu. though many believe it was started from a spark from a locomotive that passed through Burke shortly before the fire began. Lonnie Honeycutt. Arrested in Union County. j Albemarle News-Herald. Lonnie Honeycutt, of near Oakboro, who forfeited his bond at the present term of Superior Court, was arrested in Union county on a capias Tuesday bv Deputy Marshall W. A. Hall and officers E. D. Culp, and M. A. White. Honeycutt was under indictment for dealing with whiskey. Deputy Marshall Hal! says that the arrest of Honeycutt Tuesday makes a total of forty-niue per sons which he has arrested on similar writs since the May term of Salisbury Federal Court. JOHN ROWLAND. NEGRO. BACK IN CAROLINA Negro is Said to Have Told Michigan People That South Still Practices Shivery. (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, July 14.—John Rowland, ne gro, wanted on a charge of manufactur ing liquor, V N been brought back to Lin coln county from Battle Creek, Mich., according to a letter received today by Governor Morrison from Solicitor R. L. Huffman. The governor of Michigan declined to honor the first requisition made to him for the return of Rowland to North Carolina on another charge. Rowland’s case attracted much atten tion on account of stories published in Michigan several weeks ago quoting the negro as having said slavery is still prac ticed in North Carolina and negroes are bought and sold for a small sum. CHARLOTTE WOMAN IS SENTENCED TO PRISON Margaret Ward, Cotton MU Worker, Sentenced to From 9 to 5 Years. (By the Associated Press.) Charlotte, N. C., July 14.—Margaret Ward, a cotton mill worker, was sen tenced ly Judge W. P. Harding today to serve from 2 to 5 years in the state prison for the slaying of David Wil liams, with whom she -claimed she was infatuated. 9 ' Tbe state first announced its intention to prosecute for first degree’murder, but finally accepted a verdict of manslaugh ter, on the ground that it could not pro duce eye-witnesses to the shooting. Will Abolish 19-Hour Day Soon. New York, July 12.—Elbert H. Gary, bend of the United State* Steel Corpo ration, stated today that abolition of the 12-hour day in the Nteel industry recent ly pledged President Harding, would probably be begun within tbe next six weeks. Southern Will Ron Excursion to Wash ington July 97. J The Southern Railway, on Inly 27, will run its secouftl and last excursion to Washington, D.O. Three days and two nights in the national capital will be al lowed tbe holders of the tickets. Mr. J. A. Kennett has returned from a weed's visit to friends and relatives in Guilford and'Randolph counties. The Concord Daily Tribune / wr ' A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR | SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS I Opens at Lake Junahuska to Remain in Session Until August 23rd. • ITT the Aseooletell Prtu.) | Lnke Junaluska.' N. C., July 14.—With j the termination of the social service con j fcrence of the Methodist Episcopal I Church. South, and the fifth annual fed eration of the Wesley Bible classes of , the Western North’ Carolina conference, the training schools for Sunday school workers has opened here to remain in session until August, 23. Tile training section of the Sundny school board is under the direction of L. F. Sensabaugh. who will have charge of the troiniug schools here. Members >of the staff are M. W. Brabham. Miss Min nie E. Kennedy. W. G. Owen. John (J. . Sehisler, Miss Lucy Foreman, Miss Fran | ces Me I jester and Miss Florence Teague. ' Bishop James Atkins, who makes his I permanent home in Junaluska, is head of | the general Sttuday school board. Other bishops of the hoard are John M. Moore and l\ V. W. Darlington. Wth the opening today, announcement was made of two distinctive features of the 11)23 session. There will be tliree terms of two weeks each, during which period every unit in the standard train ing course will be offered. Students re maining for the full tliree terms may complete one-half the work for the gold seal diplomas. Advance courses, extend ing through six weeks, will also be of fered. NEW INSURANCE CO. OFFERS NOVEL PLAN Will Pay SI,OOO to Each Member Who Carrie* Policy Year Before Getting Married. 4By the Associated Press.* Greensboro. N. C., July 14.—A new kind of insurance company has been formed in Greensboro. It is the South ern Marriage Endowment Association of Greensboro, X. C„ Inc., and it will pay policy holders SI,OOO if they carry their policies a year before getting married. Monthly dues are $2.20 and the plan of assessing members to make up the I endowment m the event the marriage business becomes too brisk among the ' membership, rails for $2.00 additional to bulge the purse going to brides and bridegrooms. The eotnpauy is expected to prove pop uliir among the single folks, as it is considered a good thing for love nests. M. R. Necse, F. J. O'Brien and Dr. C. I. Carlson, all of this city, are incorpora tors of the Association, which has no 1 capital stock. They are honorary tnem bjos without benefit because of their , stiftK i THE COTTON MARKET Yesterday’s Sharp Advance* Followed by Fluctuations in Market Today. (By the Associated Press.) New' York, July 14.—Yesterday’s sharp advances were followed by fluctua tions in the cotton market duriug to day's early trading. There Wits further covering and scattered buying on the drought iu the southwest, hut realizing wits promoted by the talk that mill cur tailment in Fall River was to be put oil an organized basis. The market opened fairly steady at advances _of 5 to 10 points ou near mouths, but 5 to 20 low er ou December and later deliveries, and a at 24.55 on the call, Octo ber soon eased off 4 points net lower. Cotton futures opened fairly steady. July 27.25; Oct. 24.50; Dec. 24.05; Jau. 23:75; March 23.65. Closed Fairly Steady. New Y’ork, July 14.—Cotton futures closed fairly steady. July 27.23 t° 27.25; Oct. 24.17 ; to 24.20; Dec. 23.68 to 23.71; Jan. 23.43 to 23.44; Harch 23.41. JOHN D. SYKES, JR., IS NOW BACK IN STATE Former Banker Is Charged With Embro zb-mcnt of $23J000 Worn Elizabeth City Bank. <By the Associated Press.) Raleigh. July 14—John 1). Sykes, Jr., former teller of the First and Citizens National Bank at Elizabeth City, who was arrested severaf weeks ago near Gieun Falls, Mont., charged with tbe. embezzlement of $25,000 of the bank's funds, reached Raleigh late yesterday in custody of two Montana officers, is now in the Wake county jail. His bond has been fixed at SIO,OOO, nnd it was stated at the district attorney’s office that Sykes' family would probably fur nish the boud, and the former Ranker would be released. Assistant District Attorney Briggs said Sykes would be tried at Elizabeth City at the term of Federal Court which convenes the second Monday in Octo ber. Work on Street Paving Commenced at Norwood. Norwood, July 12.—Norwood’s street paving program is now under way, work! having commenced Wednesday. This comes to the citizens,of the town, after a long period of uncertainty and doubt as to when the work would begin. When the contractors have finished with, their work Norwood will have bith ulithio streets from the railroad stations , up through Main street to the Methodist and Baptist churches. In addition to 1 streets water and sewer lines are being laid. Want No. 49 Hectored. Danville, Va., July 18.—Local tobacco J interests have joined In an appeal to th4 Southern railway asking that train No. I 46 be restored to lt» original schedule , leaving Greensboro at 7:40 and, arriv . ing here at 9:i5. The train recently was advanced and tobacco men who have business in eastern Carolina and i who depend on that train bringing them i back to Danville now mjss connection and do not arrive until midnight. CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1923. — ;—£*— ; —- MARRY YOUNG AND LIVE A ! CENTURY, BOY/ SCOUTS TOLD ( By Albert M. Johnson, President of Nat ional Life Insurance Co. (By the Associated Prau.) Chicago, July 14.—One who desires to live - ’ 100 years should marry early, re frain frrim indoor 'dancing, should not be a College athlete and be Wither rich aor poor, according to an address made here tonight by Albert M. Johnson, pres ident of the National Life Insurance Company, 'before several hundred boy scouts. Mr. Johnson said these maxims were reached by his company following statistical computation of results from a survey on longevity tinder modern con dition*. The long list of "dont's" which Mr. Johnson said the survey suggested in oi ler to attain this age contained a few ’do's”, chief among which was "religion in n true way." Mild exercise daily and a "straight neck” in walking, were oth ers. "Our statistics show, when compiled and averaged, that to reach five score years one should marry early, be neither rich nor poor, should not be a profes sional or college athlete or an actor, thonld refrain from indoor dancing and never drink intoxicating liquors," Mr. iohuson said. ‘'Husbands, we find, live onger than bachelors because of their more regular habits. Stage people are I tandicapped by long aud hard hours. Heart strain is too common in the ath- < lete. j "Persons earning between $2,000 and i *6.000 a year live longer. This probably is due to the fact that modeqite iu- | comes do not give a person enough for . dissipation but are adequate for comfort I ind sensible living. i "Be religious in a true way. Religious icople are happier ns a rule, and going | .o church tends to make them regular iu their hnbits. Do not drink liquor and do 1 not smoke, if you npist, until you are 1 oeyoml 21 years of age. Oue of the | most emphatic results of our survey was the evidence that the practices cannot ae indulged in temperately by enough people to give you much of a chance to win.” SUMMER POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL COURSES One of These to Be HeW In Concord on Thursday, July 18th. (By the Auoelated Press.) Raleigh, July 14.—Word has just been received that Dr. B. T. Terry, instruc tor for the summer postgraduate medical course to begin during the week of July 16 in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury, Concord, and Charlotte, has been awarded the silver medal for his idstfactional demonstration and ex hibit at the meetiug of the American Medical Association recently held in San- Francisoo. C. D. Snell, director of the Univer sity extension division, under whose aus pices flte course is being given received the noWfulatimi of the award at Chapel 1 laTW lawt nuthtr '" He’ sffltec'Tlfitf "'this is the second highest honor given at the annual meeting of the association. Dr. Terry’s exhibit also received the first prize at the meeting of the North Carolina Medical Society in Asheville recently. The time and place of the first meet ings of the course are ns follows: Winston-Salem, Monday, July 16, Curses Home, City Memorial Hospital. 1 1 m. Greensboro, Tuesday, July 17, Room 208 County Court House 3 p. in. High Point, Tuesday, July 17, private diniug room, Sheraton Hotel, 8 p. in. i Salisbury, Wednesday, July 18, coun ty court room, 2 p. in. Concord, Thursday, July 10. Mer chants Club, Caunou building. 2:30 p. in. Charlotte, Friday, July 20, Libraary room, Professional building, 4 p. m. Mr. Snell said that one hundred and twenty hpysicians nnd surgeons in the , Piedmont section of the state had al t ready signed up to take (he eourse. Merchants Establish a Bus Lina Elizabeth City. N. C., July 14. —The merchants of this city have gone into the bus line business. It all happen.! this way: , It is some little distance from the rail way station to the business section of Elizabeth City, and the fares charged by drivers of public cars for transport ing passengers were considered by the merchants to be keeping numerous shop pers away from the city. So. the mer chants got together and formed a corpo ration to operate a bos line here. A j charter was renectly grunted the cor poration by the secretary of state and the first bus Ims arrived. The cars will be operated for the convenience of the public, it is explained, and not for profit. Land Two Horse Mackerel Weighing 1,600 Pounds in All. Freeport, R. I„ July 12.—Two horse mackerel, aggregately weighing 1,600 Were landed at Captain John Carelolfs docks here today by Captain. Bob Dowey of the Bright Eye Fishing Company. The fish, weighing 1)00 and 700 pounds, respectively, are ag lyre as any ever caught in Freeport waters and have been placed on exhibition at the dock. Dosey j said he found them in his seine when he hauled it in last night several miles out in the ocean. Bolk Managers Say Sales Far Exceed Six Months Ag*. Charlotte, July 12.—The Belk asso ciation of department stores in the Caro linas anil.Virginia held a meeting here today, all 87 managers being present. The statement was made that business for the tSft year 1923 exceeded by a large amount for tbe same time for any (previous year. Dr. Henry Belk was ab sent, being in Europe. T. C. (Thompson' and Brothers, of Charlotte,’have been awarded a contract ! to constrtk-t 150 operatives' homes in the new mill village of the Wade Manu facturing. Company at Wadesboro, the | contract- to be about $200,000. i Miss OIHe Teeter la leaving for Ashe i ville this afternoon to spend the sunimer .with her slater, Mrs. W. M. (W#C jPffiOKSiTUP After Beating! Guard Men Climbed Ovefr Wall, Held Up Motor Truck and Made . 'Escape in Thpjt Manner. ESCAPE DARING i IN EFERY WAY Woman LivingfNear Prison Saw the Meiyte They Let Themselves Mver Prison Wall With ©|pes. (By the Anodjtttil Press.) Philadelphia. Pa.., jab 14.—Six eon- I victs imeaped from thej. Easton state ihu itentiary today after [heating a guard. They escaped over a gall, held up a mo tor truck and fled in[ the direction of jFairmount Park. Alj were said to be [armed. The escape was one.jof the most daring in the long history off the institution. A | woman living on Corinthian avenue which ] bounds the eastern siie of the institu tiou, was the first person on the outsidt .to see the men.. They appeared on top of the 40-foot wall anil lowered two thin | ropes. One. it was later found, was t about the thickness of a clothesline, but much stronger, while the other was made 'of a variet of bed sheets, torn shirts and other scrape. The men appeared to la calm. but lowered themselves swiftly. They stopped the truck, held up the driv er/aud piled in and sped away. DECENT DRESS DEMANDED OF GIRL EMPLOYES Sleeveless Dresses ■■L Sheer Material I Barred by J. Crawford Stevens. (By the Associated Press.> White Plains, N. Y... July 14.—An edict against sleeveless dresses, sheer material, and other sorts of gowns, and other evidence of scantiness in apparel of feminine employesrhas been issued by J. Crawford Stevens. IT-esideut of the Westchester Tile A Trust Co. H * revealed here today thnt he had | sent one girl home to "get some clothes ou," when he issued tm ultimatum in the form of n note in <Suh pay envelope. Each of the eighty girls was told to either dress in a manner becoming to a business office or “get but.” The effect was satisfactory. Mr. tjppfayls J)a4. obeyed the order. "Any objections to bobbed hair?” he was asked. "Not the slightest," came his reply. "But the costumes —well,- one had to do something.” Auto Accident* Jumped 42 Per Cent, in Three Years. New Y'ork, July 14.—Lax supervision of motor vehicle drivers and the result ant increase of 42 per cent, in the auto mobile death rate during the past three years, is due to the fact that the ma jority of state legislators are from rural districts "where strict examination and registration of drivers is not a vital mat ter, according to a report submitted by William J; Cox, traffic aoeident research engineer, to the National Bureau of Casualty aud Surety Underwriters. There were 14,000 deaths from motor ac cidents last year, lie said. After a thorough investigation of the problem, nnd a careful examination of the. records of some 300,000 accidents, Mr. Gox hns prepared a table showing that registration and examination of all drivers is the only method of stopping the rising numler of traffic casualties. Iu Maryland, Massachusetts aud Con necticut, where strict - supervision of drivers is maintained, casualties have fallen off 2 per cent., while increasing 42 per cent, over the country. Accord- , ing to Mr. Cox's figures, there would have been 4,300 fewer deaths from au tomobiles iu 1022 had the per ceutage of these three states' been universal. | “Only seven states require the exnmi j nation of alt motor vehicle operators," ’ said the report, “while 35 states require only chauffeurs to be licensed, and many of these are never examined. An auto mobile driver's license must be some thing, to be acquired through merit, and not through the payment of half a dol lar.” Hoblitzell Suspended. Macon. Ga., July 12.—Manager Dick Hoblitzell, of the Charlotte Sally League i Club, has been indefinitely suspended pending an investigation of his conduct k at yesterday's game between Macon and : (’harlot ic which was forfeited to Macon in the eighth inning. y iiliiiiiiiiiiuiunig If you like = GOOD BANKING SERVICE g 53 you’ll like the service rendered by this progres- SS sive bank. Come in and get acquainted. /CITIZENS Bit ■ BANK- Sf TRUST CO.| || W A. CONCORD,N. C. lillH MRS. VANDERBILT SPEAKS ON STATE FAIR FUNCTIONS It is For the Development of Education in Agriculture, Industry and General Knowledge. (By the Associated Press.) Goldsboro, July 14.—" The proper func tion of a State Fair, or any fair, is not the amusement of pleasure Hsekers,” de clared Mrs, Edith Vanderbilt, president of the North Carolina Agricultural So ciety, in nn address here this morning. "It is for the developtiynt along proper lines of education in agriculture, indus try and general knowledge." Mrs. Vanderbilt said the mistakes of the past and hopes for the future should be brought out clearly so that farmers might visualize where they can plant better crops and ‘‘realize bigger returns —where industry may learn lessons of benefit and where the goal of all that is good for everyone may be placed in a way that is easy to understand, that is by the use of ones eyes and ears.” “The other function of a state fair." Mrs. Vanderbilt continued, “is its value to the state as a whole in displaying in attractive fashion so that it will bring not only exhibitors of the country’s best, but people from other states and parts of the country to see what our state has so exhibit. "I will venture to say there is no other state on the Atlantic Senbord that can present so much in the way of nat ural resources as North Carolina. I will also venture to state that today a tate fair on a state-wide basis and fi tancially organized would do more for Vortb Carolina in five years than a mil ion dollars spent in any other way. Even with the limited facilities and neans of last year we are hearing good •omments from as for North as New Hampshire, northwest from Wisconsin, west in Indiana and Missouri. The whole south is waking up to whate a <tate fair will do towards boosting the date ahead. "Our cuttle exhibits were considered very fine and cattle breeders throughout the country have put our fair on their ixt. Our other departments are receiv ing equal attention. "The fair is owned nnd run by the N’ortli Carolina Agricultural Society. This is a membership organization whose ist is in no wise restricted. Any one may join who has the interest and will to do so. It is not in any way a pri vate corporation for making money. Iu fact if we can succeed in demonstrating the value of the fair as a state fair and i state institution the Legislature will S 1 asked to take it over, lock, stock and barrel and run it ns such. That is the ’ogical conclusion of the enterprise. "This section of North Carolina has lot manifested any particular interest in he state fair, and I must confess I am it a loss to understand this attitude. ,1 am sure the matter has not before been presented in the - proper light and that is the purpose of my visit here today. "You have some excellent county ami ‘ommunit* fairs and I suggest that tb£ best "from ’these be sent on to -Hulergfi as an exhibit collectively from such •ounty. The community and courity fair is an important institution and should be the feeder for the state fair. "lit the first place I should like to have, and I hope it can be arranged, nn exhibit from this county and city. This should include everything of which you are proud. “Second. I would like very much to have an exhibit from every concern that is producing anything of which it has the right to be prottd. "Third. I would more than like to see “umlgli interest manifested by the citi zens of this county to secure aformidable list of members in tfte North Carolina Agricultural Society. "Fourth. I would consider it a very fine thing, indeed, if w.e could set aside oue day in the week of the fair for the icople of this section to come en masse. Then we could secure special trains and run excursions. And lastly, please re member that these things which I as asking of you to dt> are not for my bene fit but for your own good and the good and glory of the Old North State.” Mrs. Vanderbilt said her trip through eastern North Carolina was primarily for the purpose of promoting the interest nf the North Carolina slate fair arid to stimulate int rest in if and the county | ind community fairs of the state. Files Suit Against W. E D. Stokes. Chicago, July 14. — »V. E. I>. Stoke.l millionaire New York clubman and hank er, was named as defendant in a $50,000 damage suit tiled in Superior Court here today by Hal. C. Bjllig. Jr,, a Chicago react estate dealer. lulling' was named in the divorce proceedings between the Stokes which are still pending in New York. Railway Agents Visit High Point. High \iint, July 13.—Mora than 1(H) railroad agents attending the animal : convention of the Southern Railvyuy Ag ' ents Association at Greensboro, visited High Point today. They arrived here ou a special train at 11:30 this morning I and following a visit, to the Southern i j Furniture Exiuisition Building were | entertained at luncheon at a local hotel. KIWANIS MEETING Delegates to District Convention Ap pointed.—Fine Musical Program by Miss Cline. The appointment of a District <>*■ vention committee, and several iuesss matters of minor importancc.£,va^ e a musical program arranged by \ Crowell's team were the features of the Kiwanis meeting at the T. M. C. A. Fri day evening. Plans are already being made for a representation of Concord Kiwanians to attend the District Convention which will be held at Wrightsville on August 16 and 17. The local club has named A., C. Cline. B. E. Harris and Gilbert Hendrix as the Wrightsville committee. Albert Palmer called the attention of the club to the fact that on the map in its new time table the Southern railway does not have the city of Concord as it formerly did. James P. Cook, Dr. Mc- Eayden and Lee Crowell were appointed a committee to take up this matter with Superintendent Simpson in Charlotte, and see if the matter cannot be remedied. A letter was read from the Hamlet Kiwanis Club extending an invitation to this club to attend the third annual Caro lines Sandhills Peach Show, to be held in Hamlet on July 27th. A number of local Kiwanians are planning to attend. .Miss Ruby Cline, one of Concord’s sweetest singers, gave the club a treat of several vocal selections, her accom paniments being played by Miss Nell Herring. Both numbers brought hearty applause, and were greatly enjoyed by Miss Cline’s audience. Rotarian Thomas H. Webb, the guest of Dr. Morrison King, was a visitor at the meeting, and made a short talk on North Carolina, Cabarrus county and the city of Concord. He declared that he is strong for this state, and for this par ticular section of the state, since lie, .be lieved that "North Carolina is the'gar den spot, and Concord and Cabarrus county are the asparagus bed in the gar den spot.’’ During his trip to western North Car olina the past week. Mr. Webb said, he had the pleasure of meeting the party of Tennesseeans who were looking over our state, and he told of the surprise and the admiration the whole party expressed at the accomplishments of the Old North State. Tlie attendance prize, given by Lee Crowell and Dr. MacFayden. was drawn by Caleb W. Swink. Team No. 5, Jacob O. Moose, captain. wiH be in charge of the meeting on next Friday evening. 200 MOTOR BOATS ARE SEIZED BY DRY AGENTS Raids Made in Detroit, in the Fare of an Angry and Threatening Mob. 18» the Associated Frees.) Detroit, July 14.—Federal prohibition agents, assisted by representatives of the Treasury Department, last night and early today seized 200 motor boats off Keirvsc. Wyndotte and Trenton, in the ddwnriver"district. The operations wore conducted in the face of an angry mob, which, according to the officers, attempt ed at one time to dynamite" a small bridge giving egress to a boat house. COTTON CONSUMPTION During June 542,166 Bales of Lint and 49.635 of Linters Were Consumed (By the Associated Press.) Washington. July 14.—Cotton con sumed during June totalled 542.166 bales of lint and 411,635 of linters compared with 620,066 of lint and 54,728 of lint ers in May this year, and 500,218 of lint and 57,817 of linters in June last year, the census bureau announced today. People of Nor Hi Carolina and Pennsyl / vania Alike. Blowing Rock, July 14—The people and the mountain scenery of western North Carolina and Pennsylvania are strikingly similar in the opinion of A. Mtchell Palmer,' formerly Attorney Gen eral of the United States, who recently addressed the annual convention of the North Carolina Rar Association here. Mr. Palmer, who is a native of Penn sylvania, commented on this during his visit and said that many of the Morav ians, Quakers and Scotch-Irish who set tled in the Piedmont section of North Carolina came from Pennsylvania and pointed to similar family names abound ing in both states. The State highway system of North Carolina was another thing that came in for comment from the former United States attorney general who expressed himself as deeply impressed bv the good roads he found in the mountains around Blowing, Rock. With Our Advertisers. The Central Filling Station is having a special sale on Columbia dry cell bat i teries. at only 35 cents. No matter what your banking require ments may be. the Citizens Bank and i Trust Company will meet them in a most , satisfactory manner. Thme F. & G. Electric Co. has in i stock and in transit electric fixtures of . every kind, so that you can get just , what, you want right here in Concord. See ad. You ought to see the ten-piece dining room suites H. B. Wilkinson has for you. It’s too hot to bake bread—buy Milk- Maid bread. Let Contract For New School Building. Contract was let no Friday by the county board of education to Brown & Harry, contractors of Gastonia, for the erection of a modern school building at the Hartsell Mill. The school building will cost about $30,000. The building will contain an auditor ium, library, office aud six class rooms. .It will be built of brick, with steam heat, electric lights and sewerage. The contractors plan to start on the work of erecting the building at once. The site for the school was purchased several months ago by the board. Mr. Cook’s Condition Not Improved. The condition of Mr. Herbert Cook, who has been confined to his home on North Spring street since last Monday on account of an injury to his leg which he sustained in loading a truck, is not ‘muohf improved today. • TODAY’S • e today m NO. 166. BHUTY OF HASH AND HRS. HARDING Rail Trip Into the Heart of Alaska Has Made Presi dent Harding Call Alaska “America’s Wonderland.” ENTIRE TRIP IS ONE OF DELIGHT Mountain Lakes, Valley and Glacier Scenes, and Snow capped Mountains Have Enthralled Party. Aboard President Harding's Special ' Train. Alaska Railroad, (By the Associ ated Press). —The language of descrip tion was exhausted by President Harding, Mrs. Harding and members of their par ty today as their special train carried them over' this government built rail road into the heart of Alaska, which the President lias termed "America's wonder land.- ’ The train of nine cars since leaving Seward yesterday afternoon, has passed a succession of beautiful mountain lakes, valley and glacier scenes, with mountains raising their lofty snow-capped peaks above the clouds; lakes set like emeralds among those mountains; valleys green with jnngle-'H'ie vegetation; and blue glaciers creeping down the slopes. The trip on the train has given the travelers a vision of Alaska not obtain ed on their water voyage along the coast of southeast Alaska. At the outset of the trip the party saw the great Chugach National Forest which extends along the coast sixty miles and inland many miles. The whole trip overland is being made by daylight, which lasts almost 24 hours a day at this time here. The President let it be known that he intends to stop at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on the way from Panama to New York. TYPHOID FEVER Six Cases In One Family in Cnion Coun ty—Warning From State Board of Health. Raleigh. July 13. —Six eases of ty phoid fever among the members of one family in Union county and five cases among the children of a Oleve’and county family reported to the State Board of today a \varnWg Awfitr the Board that the typhoid season is just beginning, and that every precaution against this preventable disease should be taken during July, August, and Sep tember when illness from this cause reaches its peak. In both instances of family epidemics the disease has attacked children. The couuty family is one of negroes with the youngest of the sick children a baby of three years, and the eldest a boy of six teen. The Cleveland county family is a white one with the youngest victim six years of age and the eldest seventeen years. Experience of the health officials, it was stated, has demonstrated that an nually the typhoid rate, both case and death, rises with the warm weather and the increase of house flies, considered the greatest factor in the transmission of the germs of typhoid and other intestinal disease. Each year for the past ten years the typhoid rate has been con sistently lowered in North Carolina, it was stated, until last year the total num ber of deaths for the first time since ac curate statistics have been kept dropped under three hundred, being 208. That this total may be decreased this year the State Board of Health is ad vising three things: inoculation against typhoid by taking three doses of anti typhoid vaccine at intervals of one week, the cleaning up of breeding places of flies and the destruction of these dangerous, deadly insects by traps, poison,' and swatting, and the screening of houses to keep them out; sanitary disposal of was-es from the body. \ While the reports of eleven cases of typhoid in two famijies is unusual, it was said, figures for the whole state as gath ered through the one hundred local quar antine officers and reported to the State Board of Health a better condi tion than at this time last year. A total of 404 cases have been reported to date against !)45 cases for the first six months of 1022. The deaths reported for the first five months of 1022 wefe 30 as against 32 for the same period this year. MRS. GRADY TAYLOR IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER Was Wounded by Husband, Who Later Succeeded in Killing Himself. (Br the Ais octet r a PreeeJ High Point. July 14. —The body of Grady Taylor, who committed suicide after shooting and seriously wounding his wife at their home here last night, was being held by a local undertaker to day pending the arrival of relatives from South Carolina. It was announced this morning at a local hospital where Mrs. Taylor was tak ene for medical attention, that she re acted favorably to an operation and is expected to recover. Three Germans Sentenced to Die. Aix Ist Chapelle, July 14 (By the As sociated Press).—A Belgian court mar tial here today imposed' the death penalty upon three Germans and life imprison ment at bard tabor upon a fourth upon conviction of sabotage. The Stonewall Circle of King's Daugh ters request all collectors of envelopes distributed on the various streets of Con cord to turn the same in Monday evening at 7 :30 o’clock, at the Y. M. C. A.