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000000000 0 ASSOCIATED 0 0 PRESS k 0 0 DISPATCHES 0 VOLUME XXV ‘ , XSw NEW CONCORD HOTEL He Will Submit His PlaitSj For the Bulding to Mem ber of the Hotel Commit tee at Early Date. UNDECIDED AS TO WIDENING STREET Waters “Slightly Muddied” by Action of the Board of Aldermen Taken at a Meet ing Recently Held. ' Work on the new hotel is being held up at the present tilde pending action of the Itoard of Aldermen regarding the widening of Depot street, i’ntil some thing definite is done, the dismantling of the old hotel will not be begun, it is stat ed. V The only action df ‘ recent date taken by the hotel corporation is the appoint ment of an architect, D. L. Stoddard, of New York City, having been chosen to draw the plnns for the building: Mr. Stoddard is one of the leading architects of the country, having designed numbers ■ of the outstanding buildings in the coun try. He will submit at an early date, plans frpm the .which the committee in charge of the building will select the one to be erected. f. The recent action of the Board of Al dermen in rescinding their former action in which it was stated that they would not widen Depot street has had* the ef fect of “slightly muddying the waters,” to quote one of the hotel committee. Some years ago, when the matter of a hotel was first talked, the Board of Al- ' dermen were broached and asked as to their intentions with regard to Depot street, much work on widening streets in the city having been in progress at that | time. The Board felt, they said, that the city could not afford to purchase the cost ly property on the Square and gave a decision that they would not be in fav or of widening the street. In the meantime, however, there has been a feeling that the street should be widened and the Board recently brought the matter up, holding several parleys , with regard to the work, but actually do- ; ing nothing definite. . , ’ Members of the hotel committee stated „ u...v oftho ouinion .that iDa - imi b. U is practically the same width between the Hibson Drug Store and the National Bank as it is between Bell A Harris Furs - Store and Howard's .Filling Sta- ' tion at the end of the block where it basil already been widened. - (r At the National Bank Corner (the cor- - ner where the hotel is to be built) the street from curb to curb is 29 feet, 6 inches, according to the hotel committee. At Bell A Harris’ corner it is only 29 I feet, 3 inches, three inches narrower than 1 at the National Bank. The sidewalk at the Bell A Harris corner is wider which 1 gives the street at that corner something like 17 inches extra width. This, the j committee thinks, is not sufficient to ' warrant condemning the National Bank property and they believe that the matter 1 of widening the street will |all through, j THE COTTON MARKET Showed Considerable Firmness During Early Trading.—First Prices Steady at Advance. 1- < By the Associated Press.t New York, .Tan. 13. —The cotton mar ket showed considerable firmness in to day’s early trading. Buying was promot ed by steady Liverpool cables. Absence of rains in the southwest and bullish re ports on yesterday’s British board of trade figures showing increased exports of both yarns and cloth for December. First prices were steady at advances of 2 to 9 points. Active months showed net advances of 12 to 30 points in early tradeing on covering and Wall Street, western and Southern buying. March advanced to 24.23 and July to 24.80 be fore the end of the first hour. Opening prices were: January 23.28 March 24.10; May 24.42; July 24.65: October 24.12. RALEIGH NOW IN GALA ATTIRE FOR INAUGURATION Legislative and Citizens Committee Ar range Final Details for Ceremony To morrow. Illy the Aeeo*»i<‘-.l Raleigh, N. 0., Jan. 13 (By the Asso ciated press).—Raleigh has donned gala attb-e in honor of the incoming Govern or %-lio will be formally inaugurated to morrow at noon in the City Auditorium. Decorations were' in evidence along Fay etteville street between the capital and the auditorium today. As the day ad vanced it began to clear up and there was a crispness in the air that has been ab sent during the past week which has been marked by rain, fog and dampness. LSgislat r ve and citiaens committees met together during the day to arrange final details for the inauguration. Legion to Meet Next In Omaha. (By the Pnwl Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13.—The sev enth annual convention of the American Legion will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, October sth to oth. The national ex ecutive committee selected the date y*e-| , terday. “tumbler” w as a drinking vessel udth a without* setting “he“ muST^ *?*■' -■ k i ,-ih ’ , V The Concord Daily Tribune GogyorKm or CROUSE FOUND : NEUftLONELVROAD .Body Was That of A. L. Mauney, Who Is Believed to Have Been Robbed Af ter He Was Murdered. BODY WASFAUND NEAR CHARLOTTE |. —| i- | '• i ■ Mauney Was In Charlotte Monday and Was Released From Jail > Late Monday Night—aluables Missing. (Or the Associated Press.) Charlotte, Jan. 13.—The body 6f A..L. Mauney, fifty years- old, Crouse, N. C., proiluee merchant, was found today lying on a lonely -road four miles south of Charlotte with a bullet hole'in the back of the head. TJie body had been robbed of all valuables/ A man named Fincher, who lives in the vicinity,? found the body and report ed to the rural police, as he came to work in the city. The'coroner, Frank Hovis, visited the sCene soon afterward. No .clues had been found by the police, it was said. . Mr. Mauney is said to have had about ?70 in cash in his pockets, besides other valuables. He had been in Charlotte yesterday, according to >the rural police, and had been drinking. Late yesterday he was locked up’by the city police, but was released shortly before midnight. The road on which" the' body was found is a lonely one, connecting the Park and Pineville roads. It is now under con struction. and has been finished for about one mile. It was near a bridge at the end of the completed section that the body was founu. Evidence that an automobile had been driven onto the bridge and then backed off was found. Tracks of two persons were found in the mud. Two pairs of horn rimmed glasses and four or five pennies were found. There was 76 cents in change in his pockets. Mrs. Mauney was notified of the death of her tyusband and the body was brought to an undertaking parlor here. REN LACY SERIOUSLY ILL IN NEW YORK CITY .g. syhraaia. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Jan. 13.—Benjamin R. La cy, 70-year old state treasurer of North Carolina, is seriously ill at the Hotel .Pennsylvania with pulmonary congestion, |it became known today. Dr. Jos. D. Nagel, house physician, said Mr. Lacy had “passed a rather poor night” and that although the patient had pulled through similar attacks in the past, he could not say whether Mr. Lacy would recover from his present illness be cause of his age. Mr. Lacy came here from Raleigh with Governor Morrison a week ago to sign a $15,000,000 issue of North Carolina high way bonds, sold to a New York syndi cate. Governor Morrison finished his part of the work and returned to North Carolina last week. Although quite ill since his arrival, Mr. Lacy insisted on completing his task, which required him to affix his siguature to 15,000 certificates. As a result of ov ertaxing his strength ’while in a weakened condition it was said that Mr. Lacy was forced to take to bed two days ago. HERRIOT NOT SO VERY POPULAR IN CHAMBER Applauded Only by HU Followers On First Public Appearance Since Recent Iftnea* Paris, Jan. 13 (By. the Associated Press). —Premier Herriott, making his first public appearance at the opening of the chamber of deputies this afternoon since he was taken ill on December 10th, was applauded' only by the left groups which form this majority. This applause ■lid not exceed twenty seconds, and the (Eonununists did not join in it. There were few members of the right uresent at the opening of the regular ses sion, the opposition deputies apparently having decided not to take their seats until after the premier arrived. Favors Making Fair Grounds a Play ground. Raleigh, Jan. 13.—President O. Max Gardner, of the North Carolina State Fair, has announced i that he favors con verting the present fair grounds "at Ra leigh into a playground for the people of the state. In’ a statement issued here, he said: “I believe there should be erected at the fair grounds a stadium that would accommodate 50,000 people. Within the next few years there should be athletic contents staged here that will draw that many people. Also, polo ground should be laid off, as well as other facilities for sports. While it may not be advisable to go thU far all at once, -I am convinced that a general scheme of this sort would be wise.- The fair grounds should be kept at their present location. They are a wonder ful asset, especially to the people of Ral eigh.” January White and Clearance Sale at the Parka-Belt Oo.’s. The big White and Clearance Sale at the Parks-Belk Company will begin on Thursday morning, ' January 15th, at 9 o’clock. The store will be closed all day Wednesday eo that the prices of goods may be marked down tor the sale. Tbe sale will last through Mondays February i oth. Everything in tbe whole’ store will be reduced except contract goods. Read two pates of ads. in this paper today and be ready for thh feaat of bargains. CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1925 SUBMARINE S-l 9 HI DANGEROUS POSITION - AT ORLEANS HUM Ran Aground on Outer Bar at Entrance of the Harbor During Fog, add Is Now Listing Badly. HUGE WAVES ARE PROVING MENACE Other Vessels Are Standing By In Case of 1 Need—Forty Members of the Crew Are In the Craft (By tiff Associate-! Pkm.) Chatham, Mass., Jan. 13.—Two cqaat guard cutters are standing by the sub marine S-19 which ran aground on a clay bank off Orleans outer harbor early totjay. The cutter Tampa reported at noon that conditions seemed favorable for pulling the vessel offff. Chatham, Mass., Jan. 13.—Submarine S-19, which ran aground early today on the outer bar at the entrance to Orleans harbor in a fog sent out a message short ly after 9 o'clock that her position was dangerous, due to heavy seas. The waves were breaking over the bridge of the sumbarine, which had a list of 20 degrees. , The message was the first received from the S-19 for some time, the inter ference being explained by the sac( that the submarine was submerged to such an extent that part of her antennae were under water. Because of the dense fog of the early morning, the exact position of the ves sel was not known here until 9 o'clock, when she was sighted by the Orleans coast guard. She lies five and .obe-half miles south of Nausett light, and the Nausett coast guard crew as well as the Orleans'" crew is standing by. Word was received from the coast guard cut ter, Acushnet .that she expected to reach the S-19 soon. The S-19, commanded by Lieutenant C. F. Martin, has on board five officers and thirty-five enlisted men. She was bound form repair base at Portsmouth, N. H., for New London, Conn. TRIAL OF B MEANS BEGAN IN NEW YORK TODAY Prosecution and Defense Attorneys Ont (By the Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 18.—Prosecution and defense attorneys, with outlines of the testimony they expect to produce took up the opening session of today’s hear ing of the trial in Federal Court of Gas ton B. Means, former department of jus tice agent, and Thomas B. Felder, his former attorney, charged with having conspired to obstruct justtice. Assistant United States Attorney Todd said he would prove that Means and his former secretary lmd induced defendants in the Altoona Glass Casket Company case charged with using the mails to de fraud, to pay over $65,000 to them on: their representation that they could influ ence Attorney General Daugherty and other goverment officials to dismiss the indictment. Frank P. Walsh, one of Felder’s at torneys, said he would prove that bis client had only the relation of attorney to client to the defendants. JONES SUBSTITUTE ADOPTED Would Refer Whole Muscle Shoals Busi iness to a Commission. (By ue Associated Press.. Washingtno. Jan. 13—The Jones sub stitute to the Underwood bill to refer the whole Muscle Shoals question to a com mission was adopted today by the Sen ate. The vote was 46 to 33. The Secretary of War is authorized to dispose temporarily of the power devel opment at Muscle Shoals while the com mission is making its study. The commission would be composed df the Secretaries of War and Agriculture, and a third person to be named by the President, who would be instructed to report not later than the first Monday in December, 1925. Adopt of the Jones substitute, de cided the death knell of the Undeiswood bill, and means that the Shoals problem will be referred to the commission au thorized to make recommendations to Congress for disposal of the property. SCORE OF LIVES LOST IN TRAIN ACCIDENT Deaths Occurred When Berlin-to-Cologne Express Crashed Into Another Train. Berlin, Jan. 13 (By the Associated Press). —More than a score of lives are known to have been lost when the Ber lin-to-Cologne express crashed into a train standing in (he station at Herne, West phalia, today. , Three cars were demolished, killing or injuring many persons. Dispatches short ly after 10 a. m. today said 2 i bodies had been removed. E. D. Glouser Drops Dead Playing Golf. Pinehurst, Jan. 12. —Edmund D. Glauser, of Chester, Pa., died suddenly on the links wh(le playing golf here this afternoon, Mr. Glauser, president of a Chester i lumber company, came here last Satur day, unaccompanied, for the winter sports ; and was apparently enjoying good health at the time he started off on the after i noon of golf. Death was attributed to heart disease. His age was given at >57. ’ j Twelve Pages Today Two Sections ‘ New Chairman 1 ’* V-'A , Clyde' B. AHchlson of Portland, Ore.. 1a the new chairman of the Inter state Commerce Commission. He , succeeds Henrv C. Hall of tVWfeae IN THE LEGISLATURE TODAY To Investigate the Eligibility of S. J. Turner, of Mitchell County. (By the Associated Press.) Kaleigh, Jan. committee was appointed at tliftHrater.n of the House today to invoigHjSe eligibility of 8. J. Turner, r*MMHb9presentative from Mitchell in that body. Charges against Tur ner on tb# floor session opened this morning. Among those making af fidavits of alleged improper practices on the pact of Turner, wis W. W. Edwards, of Mitchell County. Re charged the rep resentative in 1895 when he (Edwards) was clerk of the House and Turner was representative, that the latter had made a demand upon him for a portion of his snlary for influence used In obtaining Edwards’ appointment. The matter af ter discussion was referred by Speaker Pharr to the committee on privileges and elections. The House recessed shortly before noon and then reassembled with the Senate and ratified the of tbe incoming .sto'e aflks-rs.. . . f .’ i WANTS AUTOS T 0 WEAR TWO PLATES IN STATE Bill Introduced in Senate Would Require License Plate on Rear and Front of Autos. <By the Associated Preaa.) Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 13.—One of two new bills introduced in the Senate today would require that automobiles “wear” license plates both on front and rear. Tbe double license plate bill was intro duced by Senator Sams and was referred to the committee on public roads of which he is chairman. Other new senate bill was introduced by Senator Johnson, of Beaufort. It had to do with the issuance of bonds by the town of Pantego. The measure which passed the house unanimously last night on suspension of tbe rules providing a new wage scale for legislative employees was referred to the committee on salaries and fees when it came up in the Senate. Senator Squires first suggested that it go upon its immediate passage. Howev er, he did not put a, motion to this ef fect because Senator Jurney, of Iredell, objected on the ground that he thought a protest would be made against the mea sure, and in such ease it would be beet that it be examined by a committee. The bill would do away with tbe time honored custom of the legislature voting 'bonuses averaging about fifty per cent, for legislative employees but it would in crease the regular salaries by approxi mately 25 per cent. Good Looks Dictate Woolen Stockings. Paris, Jan. 12.—The fear of a red nose is alleged to have caused silk stockings to practically disappear from Paris streets during the past week. It was not a question of style, but one of com fort, which brought out neat gaiters over well cut shoes and heavy woolen etbek lngs to replace the flimsy, silk creations as ankle protectors. ' The following paragraph, printed in one of the leading styles periodicals at the beginning of the cold wave over the signature of one of the most renowned doctors of Paris is said by the trade to have been responsible for the unprece dested run on. gaiters and woolen .stock ings. It read: “It is really wise to dress warmly, for it keeps the circulation right and helps save one from a red ncse and flhat pinched, blue look about the mouth which is so very unbecoming.” The saying, “Let loose the dogs of war,” had a meaning. In the Middle Ages dogs were sent out toward the cav alry of the enemy with kettles of burn ing resin on their backs, the odor, smoke and flame of which naturally excited the horses. A stout jacket of leather un derneat hthe kettle protected tbe dogs in case the hot resin wad spilled. 1 * PENNY ADS. ARE CASH. * * * (K Please don't ask us to charge Pen- 5K 1 * ny Ads., as terms on these is cqsh. $ ; The amounts are so small that we US cannot charge them. If you tele- $ phone a Penny Ad. to the office you $ * will be told the amasnt of the charge OK IK and will be expected to send it to OK OK to tbe office promptly. OK **************** ALASON B. HOUGHTON WLL BE APPOISTED BRITISHIBISSADOR It Is Said President Coolidge Has Already Definitely De cided to Send Him to the Court of St. James. HIS SUCCESSOR NOT SELECTED Mr. Houghton Is Now Am bassador To Germany.— Has Served in the Lower House of Congress. •ST (he Associated Press.) Washington, IX C., Jan. 13.—Alnson B. Houghton, of New York, now ambassa dor to Germany, has been definitely se lected by President Coolidge to succeed Ambassador Kellogg at London. Mr. Houghton has attended many of the conferences in European capitals, made necessary in the work of rehabilita tion. and has first-hand knowledge of al most every problem in which this coun try has an interest. He is 61 yeats old and was born in Cambridge, Mass. Before entering Congress Mr. Hough ton was engaged in business of glass man ufacture at Corning, N. Y., and was in terested in other industries. He attend ed universities both in Paris nnd Berlin. The selection of a new ambassador to London so soon after the promotion of Mr. Kellogg was announced would be in line with the policy Mr. Coolidge has been following of clearing up such mat ters at the earliest possible moment. MYSTERY GIRL. FINDS HER HOME AND NAME AT LAST Radio and Newspaper Publicity Bring Both to Light. Chicago, Jan. 12.—Radio and newspa per publicity Sunday brought knowledge of her name and home to Charlotte “Nor ris,” the mystery girl in the county hos pital who has been unable to remember anything about herself since she was found in a faint, two months ago, in the I'nion station here. She was identified as Charlotte Ma guire, 20, 5545 Wells Avenue, St. Louis, by Mre. George Griffiths, an aunt, and Miss Genevive Sullivan, a cousin. She left with them for St. Louis at onqe. - •Em morning, tlie girl.’ ’whosedeScTtpnw*lras been widely printed and who appealed for aid in learning her name over the radio through station WEBH of the Edgewater Beach Hotel —Cbicago Eve ning Post, Friday night, looked at them blankely for a moment. “Auntie! Cousin! She cried,” and embraced them. They told Warden Michael Zimmer, of the hospital, that the girl disappeared from St. Louis November ' 19th, after she had left the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Maguire, to attend class at a teachers’ college. How she got here was not explained. “I remember leaving home to go to the university,” Miss Maguire said, as ter her relatives told their story. “I was walking on one of the shaded paths leading to the campus. The next thing I remember is that I was in the hospital here.” She said she could recall nathing else. Through an item in a St. Louis news paper about Chiengo’s “mystery girl” the relatives were led tq come to Chica go, Miss Sullivan said. The descrip tion of the girl seemed td tally with that of her cousin. Because Mrs. Francis Maguire had been very ill since her daughter disap peared and for fear the clue might prove false, she was not informed of their trip here, Mrs. Griffiths said. Charlotte always had been a “home girl,” the aunt said, and there was no reason that she knew of for her to run away from home. Mrs. Griffiths could give no idea of what might have happened to bring her here. Since the girl was found in the .Union station on the evening of November 19, numerous attempts have been made to identify her. Persons from -various parts of the country have come to visit her iand more than 5,000 letters and tele grams have been received at the hospital giving “tips” on who she might be and asking*for additional information. Numerous descriptions have been pub lished and motion pictures of the girl have been shown in various parts of the country. In efforts to stimulate her memory, physicians administered the “truth” se rum, and psychologists tried hypnotism without results. The girl recalled her .first name was Charlotte and she be lieved her last name was Norris, but she had no recollection of her home or par ents. First Anniversary Sale at Robinson’s. The First Anniversary Sale at Robin son’s will begin Wednesday morning, January 14. This sale will be combined with their second January Clearance Sale. The entire stock of silk and flaflnel dresses has been grouped and the prices boiled down. They keep only the best 1 quality of goods, and of recognised , standards. See big ad. in today’s paper : for prices- on hundreds of things this : firm carries. - WiU Resume Work at Tnt’s Tomb. (By (be Assorted Press.) j London, Jan. 18.—Howard Carter, : Egyptologist, has reached an agreement t with the Egyptian government under E which work will be resumed on tbe tomb f of Tut-ankb-amcn, exploration of which E Mr. Carter took over upon the death of ! Lord Oarnavon says an agency dispatch i from Cairo this afternoon. MOTHER OFFICUL OF US UNDER CLOUD NT Pfß> New Sensation Involves Carl J. Peterson, State Bank Ex aminer, Who Is Said to Have Accepted Bribes. JONATHAN DAVIS IS NAMED AGAIN Peterson Will Be Subject of Immediate Ouster Proceed ings Because He Refused to Resign Position. Topeka, Kansas. Jan. 13 (By the Asso ciated Press).—Kansas today had a new sensation involving another state official on charges of soliciting money for par dons. Carl J. Peterson, State bank commis sioner, was the official hit. Jonathan M. Davis, who retired as governor .yesterday shortly after he had been arrested on a warrant charging he had accepted $1,250 for issuing a pardon, was further involved in the new allega j tion. Peterson will be the subject of imme diate ouster_proceedings, Attorney Gen eral C. B. Griffiths said when the bank commissioner refused to resign. Peterson was charged in an affidavit sworn to by A. L. Oswald, young at torney x of Hutchinson, Kansas, with hav ing asked $4,000 for a parole for Walter Grundy, convicted Hutchison banker, and later agreeing to accept $2,500 for a par don. The affidavit brought former Governor Davis into the case as the man who took Oswald to Peterson when Oswald as an attorney was seeking clemency for Grun dy. ECLIPSES HAVE INTERESTED PEOPLE OF ALL AGES Army of Astronomers Cleaning and Ad justing Instruments to View Sun on Bay of Eclipse. Washington, D. C., Jan. 13.—While an army of astronomers are cleaning and ad adjusting their long-named instruments in preparation for taking observations of the solar eclipse later this month, it is interesting to note that the same lively interest in such astronomical phenomena baH been displayed by the human race, in cnee eclipßes of the sun and moon arous ed superstitious alarm and inspired all the primal races, with awe. Among the ignorant an eclipse excited the same ap prehension and dread experienced on the occasion of an earthquake, a volcanic eruption or a thunderstorm or cyclone. In the infancy of the human race the earth was supposed to be at the centre of the universe and that sun, moon and stars resolved.' around our globe at a certain fixed distance. Not even the seers and philosopher* of ancient times under stood the mechanism of the celestial world. The early races of men worshipped the sun and regarded his extinction by an eclipse as the work of a demon or tbe wrath of an unknown and superior god, or of a gigantic monster. Sun worship was prevalent among the ancient Egypt ians, Phoenicians, Assyrians and Hittites. All of these nations used the winged disk as' their emblenl of the sun god. The Egyptians worshipped animals for the most part, but the Semitic' religions were based upon reverence for astronomical Objects. Superstition and ignorance went hand in hand on the occasion of an eclipse nd s created the most appalling apprehenssion. In India the dragons Bahu and Ketu were held responsible for the suffering endured by the sun and moon at the time of an eclipse. An English missino ary in India tells the following inter esting story by which he Hinda masses today explain an eclipse. “Vishnu the Preserver commanded that the ocean be churned, to get (he ambrosia required by the gods to overcome the demons. The churning stick was a mountain, and the churning rope was a serpent. From the sea of milk which re sulted from the churning came butter, but there also came a blue poison. Shiva, the god of Destruction-, swallowed the poison and held it in its throat. The physician of the gods brought a golden cup brimming witli ambrosia, some of which Rahu, a famous demon, managed to get; but before it got past his throat Vishnu threw his discus and cut off Ra liu’s great head. The ambrosia drunk, however, made his head immortal, so it soared to the ■ sky. Since then it has followed the sun and. the moon with open mouth, and when it -swallows either there is an eclipse.” The .most notable eclipse recorded in history and the one most frequently men-1 tioned in literature add among scholars was that of the sun a( the time of the batfle between the Lydians and Medes, May 28, B. C, 585. The battle was sus pended and peace was made through the good offices of Thales. The most important eclipse, however, in the history of mankind occurred in A. D. 840, anjl which caused the death of Emperor Louis. The three sons prompt ly engaged in a war among themselves, which tore the country to pieces. The war lasted three yean and ended in the treaty of Verdun, whereby France, Italy and Germany were carved out of Charle magne's vast empire. This was the be ginning of the three countries named. The fint eclipse observed in England occurred February 15, A. D., 538, and is mentioned in “The Saxon Chronicals.” Columbus made good use at bis knowl edge of eclipses among the savages. USB PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS V-y • NEWS S 4 • TODAY 4 *»*«6«*4>4 no. n MERCHANTS OFCIDE . KILL •"WI RE HEIR HERE At Meeting Monday Night Matter Was Fully Dis cussed and It Was Decided to Abandon Proposed Plan ADVERTISE CITY TO ALL SHOPPERS Decided That An Advertising Campaign, Showing Con cord as a Trade Center, Would Accomplish More. Thtf meeting Monday night held joint ly by the Merchants Association and the Chamber of Commerce to consider the! establishment of trade days for Concord was short and to the point. The mer chants did not want any trade days. The movement which had its incipiency in tlie Chamber of Commerce proposed to have certain days during the year when the merchants of the city should put on sale goods so as to attract the trade in quantities, especially from the outlying sections of the city and even in the more remote parts of the coun ty. A committee appointed to consider the matter, the personnel of the committee being C. H. Ritchie, E. L. Hicks and A. E. Harris, brought forward a proposal asking for the adoption of one day each month a« Trade Day, l at which time ev ery merchant of the city was to give the people some real bargains. The first of these trade days was to be one the last Thursday in February. As soon as the proposal was put for ward, opposition was apparent. Several of the merchants expressed themselves i as being heartily opposed to any such* movement. It seemed to &MV con census of opinion that the -tieoHpwoi|ld wait for the trade days to do theMNbhfffe- . ping with the result that the m(Hants would suffer during the rest of the , month. After completely squelching' tbe trade day movement, its opponents brought for ward a counter proposal ip which a co operative advertising movement of Con cord and Coneofd’s stores was advanced as the logical thing for the merchants of Concord at this time. The entire meet ing seemed in accord with this proposal and after a discussion of it. the meeting refw-Msl. it *-■ nt - for Tfs consideration and adjourned. In commenting on the failure of the meeting to adopt tbe trade day proposal, one merchant noted that the prices in Concord-were cheaper than they were in either Charlotte or Salisbury, the nearest competitors, and all that was needed gras to let the people in the county who had been trading elsewhere know that they could secure better goods cheaper in Concord than they could any other place. Another merchant remarked, half face tiously, that what was needed in Con cord was for the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association to get to gether and find out how the merchants might raise the prices. "What we want,” said he, “is to get more for our goods, not less. We are not in favor of any reduction of prices, else we will all starve.” Hour Sale at Eflrd’s. On Wednesday and Thursday, Janu ary 14 and 15, Efird’s new store will have an Hour Sale which will interest everybody. When the clock strikes the hour of 8 and for one hour there will be placed on sale ginghams, silks, hose, dresses, etc. At 9 o’clock, 10, 11, 12. 1, 2-3. 4, and 5 o’clock there will be of fwed specials on many other things at greatly reduced prices. See page ad. in this paper for details, With Our Advertisers. Buck’s Blue Flame Grant burner, dou ble heat with less fuel, at Concord Fur niture Co. „ Men’s fine shoes at about one-foutth off at Browns-Cannon Co.’s. From one-fourth to one-half off on overcoats. See new ad, .Call C. P. Cline, phone 19, at the Mu tual Oil Co., and tell him to send you some coal. For safe and sane insurance call Jno, K. Patterson & Co. Phone 106. Spencer Man Takes Six Prison Tablets. Spencer, Jan. 12. —Avery Snider, a well known and much liked employe of the air department of the Spencer shops, is in the Salisbury hospital in a pre carious condition as a result of having swallowed a six bichloride of mercury tablets. It id said that he took the dead ly tablets at his home near Spencer and a physician reached his beside in about one hour, resorting to drastic method* to save his life. He was later hurried Ito the hospital, where if is said today | that his condition seems to be improv ing with chances of recovery. Some men are born • great, some ach ieve greatness, and the great majority , do not trouble themselves about it. -■ ' ,-a P WHAT SMITTVB CAT SAYS HP v tJI| \ \ I A y I 'M v M * ‘ (. v . .-'LftJMi
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