PAGE FOUR f - JULY OFFERINGS Starts Saturday July 11 Fop the Entire Month—Watch Our Windows For These and Other Wonderful Values y DRUID LL MAVIS TALCUM POWDER Unbleached Muslin, 36-inch 4-yard weight, Universally Known (Vivatidou) IQ -56x60 count; (10 yards to each 1 A.. * n re< * cans - er 0311 '■ customer) per yard LEATHER PALM GAUNTLET MEN S STRAW HATS GLOVES The season’s newest shapes and styles all For men cauton flannel back> lined palnl sizes to fit you 98c and thumb, stiff gauntlet cuff “LENOX” WATCHES _ ** pair - , ~~ Guaranteed, nickel, open face case, plain PALMOLIVE SOAP back, 14 Size. (Each watch in box) QQ r Banded green wrapper. Special 25c eacb __ . nOb 4 cakes to a customer, for WATE RCOLOR WINDOW SHADES WOMEN’S SILK KNITTED SCARFS Complete with brackets, nails and slats.'- Roman Stripes, wide and long scarfs CQ f Size 3 ft. x 5 ft. 11 in. colors: 49c pretty assorted colors, each white, dark green ecru. 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July l).—Tie eotton mar ket ha* bee* mwww&at wore irw**lnr as a result of more or lew eel]in; f6r both account, reflecting » feeling that unless the crop gets distinctly worse " r l,istin, ' tl >- better it is going to be difficult to bull the market success fully above present levels. The recent aggressive confidence on the part of speculative sellers has been a good deal tempered by the action of the market both before and since the report and local traders, while disposed to put out solqe /•Qfttiaets on any early strength, are nfore inclined to even up before the remain* short**wfer*sg#t ° the ' r Un ” * Bd Hhavcef:?: weather in the east outside the scope of possibility. Okla homa also needs more rain anrf the situation generally in the rfcuthwwit is so without precedent that veteran cot ton people find themselves in a quandary a* to whether to expect a bumper yield or a ‘blow-up later in the season. f"an*ttoS may find things to cor roborate their pre-eoneeived theories but the trade itself requires much more definite evidence as to the probable slxe of the crop before coming to any posi tive conclusions of settling down to any well-defined policy. POST AND FLAGO. Diploma FV High Sdrnoi Work is Goal . BusineM Girl Tempted by Overtime Pay Telt* Why Her Bom A*ked Her to. Work at Night ‘ . _ L. . •* ' the great sky-scraper hives of I New York, the electric lights tvrinkle Wg after s»* o slock. Usually business gees on as , iteadily a b in dayliißß. once in awKile romance turns to its own advantage “overtime wort. story of her overtin* pay. Bun srtfrtatßta true story, *tm* whkb ww take these episodes: ~ “When I had been working at the place for a week, the Boss asked me enr night if I would work over time for, an hoar or ee. I *r r * e ‘J anxious to prove that l could fill the place to perfection. -Five o’clock came, and the other girl got up and hurrifd out. "-Then I took the papers into the . Boos’s office, and waited for him .to tell me wnat to do with ibem. He toM me to pet them on his desk and be itody to take dictation. < -Then he began to dictate, speak ing each unfed in a clear, low, cul tured tom. Wo went through •even letters, all long and ins a« tired,’ he said, ‘butyoa must bo omm more so, my dear! Finish 6to letters in tiie mororng- You can set them off in time to catch tto tost o'clock mau. Am now, won’t you mt i«w twmymyto i shy to say aa. ’ : \ ik ran nuaum i Effim ik >',»i iiwuiit »<«i ■» * »xii«m *»»» m m »*■" [ The Pernj AA*. Get Rew»e-Try Than. “‘Jama’S drawer,’ the child an swered, innocently explaidiftggthat she had been rummaging around ’just for fun.’ “Herman began to read it, then his smile faded from his Ups and his eyes blazed. In a shaky voice, vibrant with anger and emotion ha burst out: “'What does thtr '.teaoT Bight hundred dollars in your naufe at the savings bank? You never.told me! Why not?’ “*You want to run away from me bye and bye when you have more money?’ he said tensely. ‘You’re not satisfied with what I make? You think you’re better than. I am? ITI show ycrut' Then he savagely tore the bank-bedk lb half.” A divorce followed. Perhaps the /wife was in the right, yet her Story in August Smart Set concludes with her saying: “I would gladly turn the Hands of the clock back ten years to the time when we were still struggling to make both ends meet, to pay our biHe. to buy a little cogl to keep out the winter, if Herman would only come back and fondle me; tell me softly that he stilt loves me; play his battered old violin once more, so that I may watch his pale blue eyes and list less smiling features. I still love him. Money or lgck of it, I have 1 found can never change that love.”! really do need a good mippfer. I am quite a respeetoble n*ri, and will not catrry you off to disjMfior* or anything like that us thg}r do us the moving pictures!’ “So I let him take me tocsbpper. “One evening the Boss did most of his dictation walking up m*d down' past my chair. “Suddenly he stopped beside my chair, and I looked up at: Him in sdrprise. Then to stopped, tod before 1 knew what he wto doing, he lifted toe into hie arms. Holding me until my breath was gond, kito ing mo like a mad-man. *‘Oh, don’t!’ I cried. *fleatol Don’t!’ " “He let me go, and his ftite ftoP was strained. His eyes #e#e full of longing, ta they swept Oder tie while I shrank away. “‘Ob, why-.?’ I cried* triUffjt ‘why— Why- - I Why are you si horrid?’ ‘ \ out es his «fto. leaving them tod and wistftth ‘I am sorry! HrtW' can I make yop understtod bow sorry I a»V But I am til alone. On my wfir-1. While my wffei lived, j and until new, 1 have never been . like this, t have rnen friends, (rs ' The girl’s way out of Hitt fftob lem as she telU it m Aogost if SiUnKldlMb ■ w •* k I a aouoie_Mxv. — — —V' v PnHitino p_ii. nlM i TT licit uuuuuqj VUUft|lgv»» J§ I \ m ul ' (ft HE\ > n - .n " ; ‘ - - I */ I*. IMi Mw* EiCnj Thin picture shows the ruins o< the building housing the Bewick Club in' Boston in which more than forty persons lost their lives, on the night before the Fourth of July in Boston. ■■••'. DRY HEADQUARTERS MAY BE .! SET UF A? * fcHARUtTTE Movement on Foot to Have office Moved Therm—Sharp May Be Dlrro. tor. « ’" * Washington; July !).—North Carolina ranks 16th among the states in the pay ment of personal income taxes to the federal government, according to a tentative report made public today bv Secretary of the Trensnry Mellon. This is based on a rejwrt as of June 30 sent to the treasury department by the col lector of internal revenue of the state. North Carolina's citizens paid sls.' 514.552.97 during the fiscal year end ed Juud 30. last, being saved a consid erable sum_ by the tax reductions ef fected the last session of Congress. Dur ing the fiscal year ended June 30. 1924. the income tax payments totalled $lB,- 173.150.85. m In the matter of the miscellaneous taxes, the state with its vast tobacco In teract* finds itself ranking next to- New York and sfcond on the list with a‘total of $150,940,179.99 contiSbuted to the federal rteaanry. Total collections of income taxes tor 1 the year amounted to $1,701,681,641.54 as against $1,841,759,316.80 the pre ceding year, the tax reduction here being $80,077,675.16. The collection* of miscellaneous taxes totalled $822,329,- 205.85. as against $954,419,950.26. a saving to the people of $132,090,734.40 compared with the fiscal year ended June 30.1924. There is a move under way to es tablish the headquarters of the southern prohibition enforcement district in Charlotte, instead of Atlanta- Commis sioner B'air-stated today that he had received a uumber of letters making the claim that the old mint building at Chailotte bad the requisite space and would be otherwise suitable for housing the employes of the prohibition enforce ment service. He said he had not yet investigated the matter sufficiently to make any statement on the subject other than to say that if the mint building proved to be suitable. Charlotte might be selected instead of Atlanta. There was a repoi*l bare today to the effect that Director Ben Sharp and Postmaster Albright, of Charlotte, afe op their way here to urge the prohibi tion officials to' select Charlotte for head quarters, using the mint building tor offices. Postmaster Albright had; id ready recommended that thi* building be used ns a parcel post terminal but is now wilting that it be used for prohi bition offices if it wiH help to secure headquarters at Charlotte. ; In view of the report that Mr. Sharp POPULAR EXCURSION . * TO- :: RICHMOND, Va. , JULY !«H, ’ RbtolQ Trip Fare FfStfi CdtttGtS, H. & R. H. GRAHjA.iI, , r -’ > Biviiion Passenger Agent, ‘ GlffirlotfttN.C. Friday, July 10, 1925 is coming to help Charlotte land head (fuartens- Inquiry, yfaq made . fit the triasgry whether! Or-mpuQ* had, been