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|| -J She Cares a lot Or— A Lot She Cares? t WIVES OP CONCORD: What do people think of your husbands’ appearance? Is it yottr neglect if he does not have a refreshed suit each week? Most men depened upon their vwves to attend to the upkeep of their wardrobe. If your husband was called out of town today, would he have a refreshed suit to put on? Send him away looking his best at aIL times by keeping a refreshed suit always ready. Our weekly service-call is the answer to this home schedule. Phone 787 1® SMSMIMMW • We REDUCED FIRST CLASS POSTAGE RATE SOUGHT Concerted Drive in Congress Looking to Revision of Rates Is Expected. Washington, July 18.—A concerted drive up on Congress for a one cent first class postal rate is expected by Chairman Moses, of the special congres sional joint postal commission, which is to open hearings here Monday looking to a permanent postal rate revision mea sure. Senator Moses said today that a prop aganda campaign for such a rate already is underway and that members d# the commission had received representations on the subject from many quarters. The argument advanced, he said, is that first elgto postage is paying a disproportion ate sliare of the total carrying cost of OUT OUR WAY ~ ' BY WrT VT'A^fe~ pSSp2S?!Si£\' maWa^'^***** 3 - f * HIM *Ki cu* A . . ~MQIfNPOP~ ' - ' —BVTArlon^ '.ic vSf XtoMtob-Am,!- J - ’ fT^rovyj^^T-Te^.v ** i \ AwMiif oiehe. Jn^rM-jtcaM&tSuMaavi f iiift ) \ k^pStfS i Fry# a* .IP ■ h NN '-aprgi. —»£— ' w&AwL•&**, ; vneewn*tvrAo ' iPu wrtaL, cund. -fmtLakt/iowji Mat rinuAuatJL that umtn&tttf* §r ifUL, ouabnriwto mtcnmvuLje*x±vncvkfr<>vtotA: & - ... famj frm.. Awe /iw«* >st^gn^J^a-t the postal service. Postmaster General New. will be heard first by the postal commmission. He is expected to be prepared to furnish in formation regarding the operation last April that will form a working basis for the commission in hearings to be held in various parts of the country. While the new rates, agreed upon ten tatively by Congress in ait effort to meet the cost of wage increases to postal em ployees, have been in operation during that period still is incomplete because all postmasters have not been able to send in their reports for ttie first quar ter. For this reason Vthe 'joint commission will reopen hearings here in October, by which time it is expected the postofßce department will be in a position to fur nish comparisons between the operations of the new and thf ctftj rates tbr a six months’ period. Should there be re quests then for further, hearings in dif ferent sections the oofamuerion may em bark upon a- second read trip. fstrims Snake With Hook. Salisbury, July 2).»Sb, L. Parker, of Morgan townshipj Rowan county, hgs re ported the novel experience of catching a snake with a fishing hook. The ex periment resulted from ‘the loss of eggs. ¥ r ; Pgfker, whose en» snakes had been eating, drilled a o»e*ind fastened a fishing hook iiisidt. The result was the capture o|f a snake. lu 1900 George Gibson, pf the Pitts hiijgk I’itgtes, established n new catch ing record for major tesgues by catch ing 135 games, of which 184 were' cqg secutive. ,V - „ " v - ■ THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNB UVC Will V uSfiSSS«<gcw^ Es CHARLES P. STEWART REA Service Writer it always are to be beard, com ing from tfeig National Gee graphic aoetaty’s headquarters war on Sixteenth etreet, for aev ffttygsyaas JatwTWawing the death of Dr- W. C. fiWabee, u>e famous explorer, whoso wanderings were widely described In the obituary notices as heviag included this particular speck An the map, al nest universally alluded to ss the home of Daniel Defoe's hero dur ing •» the years his literary cre ator kept him east away. e e e v. If ANYBODY who ever read Rob inson Crusoe knows, that De foe speaks of his islaml as right in the tropics— hotter than pepper *65 days in the year, and *65 of thus quadrennially. Defoe goes into considerable detail con cerning the isle's fattoa and Son and the whole thing is tropical parrots, palms and everything •lee that goes with a climate Wight- close to the line. Letters, Telegrams avul Witnesses In Scott’s Behalf Regarded as Fakes Chicago. July 18—More letters, tele graph and witnesses appeurt-d today to save Russell Scott frojn the gallows. All of them were characterized as ‘’fakes” hy the states’s attorney's office while Scott’s, lawyers* continued to investigate the various tip*, mostly anonymous. Scott, sentenced to hang ynsterdny morning for the murder of Joseph Maur er, drug during a holdup two years ago, was given a reprieve of one week, six hours before the time set for hi* execution. A telegram from Detroit, signed “Robert Scotf.’b sßasseH's broth er, and stating that''Robert was the slayer and would surrender, was receiv ed at the office, and led to The, reprieve. Robert was indicted with Russell, former Canadian financier, but was never apprehended. Today another message purporting to be from Robert and addressed to attor neys for Scott, was made public. It wan mailed in Chicago Thu+stlay night and read: “I hereby swear that Russell Scott is innocent of murder, and that I. his brother, apt the guilty party. You want to hang him because you think someone . ill' Disease from Cvmpeosa- A tnic-k driver, while carrying out his /employer’s instructions, to, get a load of materials to be, delivered to an oil field, was caught on the open prairie is a severe rainstorm and thoroughly drenched. A severe cold, which later de vloped into pneumonia.. resulted. HVt petition for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act was held demurrable by the mat court, which judgement was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals. In Texas Employers’ Ins.* Ass'n v. .Taolason. 285 (Southwestern Reporter, 1027. the Commission of Appeals of Tex as again reversed the judgement. Judge Rishop wrote the opinion of the court in the course of which he said: “Here we have an employe in the course of his employment getting wet. As a sutural result of getting wet he contracted cold, nnd pneumonia remitt ed." While file disease w‘as t’ae nhtural result of getting wet, the mere getting wet was not a damage or harm to the physical structure of the body and un less it was it could not be said to be an injury’ or ‘personal injury’ for wiheh compensation is allowed by the statute : EVERETT TRUE ■'. ' ; BY CONDO '■ J D£T. __r , imm/ 4-. NOW take a look at a map of South America, and three or four hundred miles off the Chilean coast you’ll find Juan Fer nandez. in almost exactly the same southern latitude as Buenos Aires, where, according to presa dispatch es, the thermometer stood at 5 below zero a few days ago. •• • ' rAN FERNANDEZ was Alex under Selkirk’s island all right. Capt. Strati ling of the British privateer Cinque Ponte marooned him there in 1704 and he stuck it out, all by himself, for four or five year* before another ship took him off. / They do say Defoe got a good deal of his dope from Selkirk but he certainly didn’t borrow the lat ter’s island to put in his yarn. The Crusoe and Selkirk islands don’t match. .e e « SOME National Geographic So ciety members say Defoe had in mind an island off the south or southern Central American Caribbean coast. Some 'say be hadn’t any ' particular island in mind at all, being more Interested in Robinson’s adventures than in the part of the world he experi enced them in. should pay for the murder, but why hang the-wrong party? As, God is my judge, you will he murderers, hanging an innocent man. if you hang my broth er. May j-otir souls rot in heii.” The note was typewritten and signed “Robert Scott” in ink while beneath the signature was n postscript signed “Mrh. H. C. R..’’ and reading: "The above was dictated to me by Mr. Scott, who is apparently near death- I believe it to be the truth from what I have seen. As soon as he is able he promises to give himself up." If this letter is not a fraud, attorneys said, then the message from Detroit is. for the letter was written ams mailed in Chicago the same night the telegram, al so inirporting to be from Scott, was sent from Detroit. Scott's attorneys were pinning most of their hopes for a commutation on af fidavits they said they hod from two women whose identities were carefully eoupealcd. The women were in the drug store at the time of the slaying and both said Robert and not Russell, -was the killer, and that the killing was the result of a Hquot party and not a hold up.' for; before compensation be had for the disease, it must b? ait Injury - .provided for by the statute, and it. cannot be such ‘injury’ unless it naturally results from ‘damage or harm to the physical struct ure of the body’.” Farmer Is Fatally Trampled by Mules. Mount Airy, July 18.—A tragic acei deut occurred near Francisco, Surry coun ty, Monday, when John Ftippin, a - prom inent young farmer, received injuriek from which he died Tuesday cveuing in a hospital here. His mule team dragged and trampled him when the mules be came frightened as he was hitching them up to carry his wife aud children to 'West field to have them take the typhoid vac cine. The accident occurred in the barn lot. Mr. Flippin was n powerful speci men of manhood nnd weighed 225' pound*. He grabbed the bridles as the animals started to run but was unable to control them aud the frightened*auimais trampled him before anyone could rrach him. He was so badly injured that he did not re gain consciousness. Asheville will' entertain the annual tournament for the Southern lawn teb nij championships the weeks of August CRATER BATTLEFIELD TUNNEL FOUND INTACT Now Being Opened and Is Expected to Rtweal Awful Carnage of July SO, 1864. Richmond. Ya.. July 18.—The famous Crater Battlefield tunnel, at Petersburg, Va„ where Grant ran a gallery 500 feet to plant a huge wine under Confederate earth work, resulting in the death of 5,0000 men in the crater on July 30, 1864, has been found intact and is being opened under supervision of the United States battlefield commission. The tunnel was run by the 48th Penn sylvania volunteers, experienced miners, FRUIT JARS Genuine Mason Fruit Jars Big Shipment Pints . 65c per dozen Quarts 85c per dozen Half Gallons $1.15 per dozen Yorke & Wadsworth Co. The Old Reliable Hardware Store Uliion and Church Streets Phone3B «Phone 30 ■k ™ * fr New Arrivals f —of—- „• rV'*' Men of Taste Appreciate These Perfect Fitting Shoes RICHMOND - FLOWE CO. Beautiful and Useful Cedar Chests They are highly decorative, give that wanted effect of distance or space in a room, and add* a distinctly brighten ing touch. Beautiful ones are here at prices attractively low. Come in and see them. H. B. Wilkinson out of the High rent district v Concord, Kannapolis Mooresvilk, China Grove Texaco Gasoline and Oils, Alemite Greasing, Crank Case Service, Car Washing and Polishing. Tires, Tubes, Quick fire Changing Battpry * t CENTRAL FILLING STATION t _ Phone 700 PAGE SEVEN ' and is reputed to he the greatest battle ground work in history. It is 35 feet - under ground and supported by timbers. It has been closed since the explosion 61 years ago. When opened it is expected to reveal the awful carnage on the day of battle. Visitors in great numbers have visited the famous nlaee. Asheville Banks Bbow Gain. Asheville, July 20.—A gain *4. $4,906,- 815.75 in Afhevate' bank deposits on June 30th, as compared with the corre sponding date a year ago has been re ported. REMEMBER PENNY ADS ARE CASH
