Tues Hay, August ?, 1925
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Two things you should observe in the care Os your niuch-prized dresses and gowns
First—Send Ihem to a reliable cleanser.
Sfecond—Send them regularly—or as ofteri as they show the slightest soil or mussing.
Our reliability as cleaners is known to most people in this community.
To those who do not know it we shall gladly give the names of customers of high stan
ding and rest our case on their tetimony.
i us s^ow >' ou h°w our service adds to the joy you get from your clothes, jis well as
lengthens their period of useful service.
| - Phohe now and our representative will call
SEABOARD PLANS
. TO DOUBLE TRACK
Doable Track Between Hamlet and Nor-
Una Will Cost Around *10,920,000.
Knlei&h News and Observer-
The Seaboard Air Line Railway is
contemplating the double tracking of its
line from Ham’et to Xorlina. a dixtar.ee
of 150 miles, it bus been learned here.
Inclusive of the construction in the bud
get for next year has been discussed,
but C. H. Sauls, the su|>eriuten(lent here,
stilted when asked about the report yes
terday that Jie has not been informed
of any definite action in the matter.
The stretch of track, which it is pro
posed to double track does double service
for the Seaboard as the system divides
at each end of the stretch, the lines sepa
rating at Hamlet for Jacksonville and
Atlanta and Norlina for Richmond and
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For a thief tdo. and told me_about JH are successful there's a ff|§§g
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THAT PUV-LfiD THE Bifl PoSTOFFICC. Jp9- jsf| . FoRNOO'
Norfolk. Greatly increased service is ex
pected to accompany the double tracking
if it goes through.
The double tracking will proably cost
the railroad about $70,000 a mile or
around $10,020,0(10 for the Hamlet to
i Norlina stretch. The Seaboard has for
! some time had the mntter or double
tracking through North Carolina under
contemplation. This year automatic sig
nals are being put in all along the North
Carolina section of the road.
With the double tracking from llam
let to Norlina, the rairoad is also plan
ning to straighten the line between Nor
lina and Richmond, it is' understood.
The don'-le track in North Carolina
1 will make possible greatly improved
train service especially for fast freight
and passenger trains. J
REMEMBER PENNY ADS ARE CASH
Detour Route No. 10.
Salisbury and Spencer—'Eastbound
traffic turn right from Main street into
Henderson street, foilowibg this street
one block to Lee street; thence left on
' Lee street and follow- signs to Seven
' teenth street; (lienee left oh Seventeenth
• street to_ Main street; thence right on
Main street to Spencer.
AYestbound traffic follow reverse of
above.
Served ’Em Right.
More than SSOO in cash and a type
writer were taken from the office of the
Pasadena, Calif., Star-News by two
yeggs who blew open the safe at an early
[ hour in the morning. Served ’em right.
AVhat business had a newspaper with
$500?
: USE PBNNy COLfriitN—lT PAY*
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
Stewart Washington s..letter
Bf CHARLES STEWART
_ NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON— This country
la on the point of a show
down. If will mean one of
two things. ,
father:
I. Wt’ll kettle Mown to funda
mentalist ’rule. With no more yowl
ing about if. Or,
2. ‘We'll be liberalized aplenty—
over-liberalized. the fundamental
iata say
This is the opinion of politicians
—fundamental and liberal alike—
who drift in arid out of Washing
ton. swapping Reports concerning
the conditions they observe in their
various bailiwicks.
• • •
Politically the fundamental
ists control the country—not
effectively, everywhere, but
more or less, generally, nationally
speaking . How they gained con
trol nobody quite knows It’s a
situation which just /'klnda
grywed."
Before anybody reulizt.fi it., here
U wax. The liberals don’t like it.
Thut's to be seep on every hand.
Nor do the fundamentalists like
DINNER STORIES
i
Jack: "I used to pay that woman com
pliments five years ago."
Harry: "What do you pay tier now?”
Jack: "Alimony.”
Tom: ‘There will .he a lot of dis
appointed girls when I marry.”
Ethel: “How many do you expect to
marry ?”
The Hangover.
Johnny had been the guest of honor
gt a party the day before, and his
friend Paul was regarding him envious
ly.
“How was it? Hnve a good time? he
asked.
"Did I?” was the emphatic answer.
“I ain’t hungry yet!”
The teacher was given the class a
lecture on. "gravity.”
"How, children,” she said, "it is the
law of gravity that keep us on this
earth.”
“But, please, teacher,” inquired one
small child, "how did we stick on before
the law was passed?”
Screeching brakes in the dead of
night are giving alleyii cuts some keen
competition in eaterwgpliug.
Called for Sever* Measures.
The neighbors of a man noted for his
extreme thrift saw him going down the
road on ;i week day dressed in iiis Sun-1
day clothes. ‘‘What's up, Jim?" he!
called, cut. “AYby the glad rags/'"
"Haven't you heard tile news?" |
"News! AA’hat news?”
"Triplets!"
"Oh. so that accounts for—" began
the neighbor, when the frugal one in
terrupted him: ,
"A'ep. that account for my wearing
these clothes. AA’hat ill thunders the
use of trying to be economical?'’
t Experienced.
The prospective maid of all work was
asserting her terms c-I'-'i want sls U
week, paid in advance, and I don't wax's,
nor .scrub floors, nor—
" But,” began her would-be employer,
feebly.
"Or work after (j o clock," ..went on
the woman steadily, "and I want every
evening off and a fine reference, and—”
‘•But surely the reference can wait
till you leave use?" broke in the mistress,
enrvously. t ‘ , ■
"No. I want the letter how," returped
tlie domestic, firmly. "I’ve tried get
ting them when I leave and I’ve never
got a good one yet."
it r*n- !-. ..... I
EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO j
f- THEV WOULD REACH FROA\ HERE
To TH£ PL A-NET OF MERCURY AND - -
WALT-WAY BACK AGAIN* AND IF ALL
THE ■ AUTOAVOBI LES AAN U FACTOR ED
SINCE THE. BEGINNING dE THE IN
I>t)STR.Y PLACED END TO BWD
THEY WOULD -form A LINE THAT
WOULD GIRDLE ALL THE
\MR,, what) !
i call this egoless strim& of emd-to-emd
stuff you are Continually \ — ]
REELING-
L ... .
then-ay ,n« uueraii thrash around, 1 i
kicking against the pricks. i i
• • • i
WHO really is in a majority It'S l 1
impossible to tell. Thera ' |
never’s been a conclusive ]i
test of strength.
The liberals have given ground. 1 1
bit 1-y bit. without actually putting j I
up much of a fight. This Is done I
with—they're about to make a ji
stand—more, to put every ounce
into a desperate effort to drive the y
fundamentalists bock. \
So fundamentalist and liberal S
politicians agree in reading the ?
signs They agree, too. that the t
fundamentalists won’t be satisfied i f
with a mere defense—they’ll do jj
their utmost to finish liberalism oft j
for good.
• • »
THE struggle won’t center about §
any single narrow issue—pro- |
hibltion. evolution, some one l
detail of public morals, some par- -
tleular so-called blue law
The campaign will open—has l
opened, in sact —with a little de- jj
tached skirmishing of this sort, but |
these skirmishes will increase in jj
number and spread, and finally |
merge into one big. general en- t
gagtment over the question of the jj
relationship between religion and |
government. i
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* home demonstration $ I
* COLUMN. *
Conducted By SS! s
* MISS MATTIE LEE COOLEY * I
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, (governor A. IV. McLean is adding I
financial. ai-sistance to the plan of the i
Made-in-Carolinas Exposition to interest I
the women and girls of North Carolina |
in making clothes from Carolina-made I
cotton goods, in offering a cash prize of
STfK) in a contest to be held at the expo- S
sition in Charlotte this fall. ii
Expressing hia interest in promoting *
the use of cotton goods in making wear- X
ing apparel. Governor McLean has writ- “■
ten Mrs. Mayme Moore Sifford, director 4,
of the fashion and fabric department of j|
the exposition, offering the prize for the <3
best display of dresses made from pro- j
ducts of the North Carolina cotton mills. |
Governor McLean heartily and entliu- j
siastically approved the movement. His i
letter to Mrs. Sifford follows: *
“Referring to our recent conversation j
in regard to the Made-in-Carolinas Ex- j
position. I am much interested in pro- j
moting the use of cotton goods in the j
making of wearing apparel. i
"I have in mind offering a prize of j
SIOO to be awarded pt your exposition j
this ’ fall for tile best display of ladies'
dresses made’ of products frthn North
Carolina cotton mills. Please look into
1 the mutter and suggest to me if this is
practicable, and if so, what the terms
jof the contest should be so as to bring j
j about the greatest amount of interest.' j
j. “I am tremendously interested in the j
j success of the movement to increase the ]
use of North Carolina cotton-made j
* goods.
"Sincerely yours.
(Signed) ANGUS \V. McLEAN. j
Govern >r.
Two Millicn Word Sent Out From Day
ton on Trial.
An average daily file of 165,000 words §
went out of Dayton, Tenii., during the fl
Scapes evolution trial, according to a re- 9
port of the Western Union.
During the trial a total of I,.">00.000 1
words were filed by wire, exclusive of the |
private wires operated by four press as- jj
sociations.
It is estimated that day and night re- £
porth of the press associations added an- ®
other 500.000 words to the total.
“Doesn't your wife motor with you
any more?”
“No." answered Mr, Chuggins. “She's
: too nervous. Every time a cop shoots at
a bootlegger she think's we've had
I another blowout.”
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DELCO LIGHT
Light Plants and Batteries
Deep and Shallow Well Pumps for Direct ,or Alter- 1
, nating current and Washing Machines for direct or alter- !j!
ij nating current. v jij
R. H. OWEN, Agent ij
j! Phone M» Concord, N. C. ]j[
LADES! SAVE $1.65
Johnson Floor Polishing Outfit
For $5.00
OUTFIT INCLUDES:—
1 Quart Johnson’s Liquid Wax $1.40-, 3
For polishing linoleums, floors and.furniture
1 Johnson’s Wax Mop (Lambs Wool) $1.50
For applying Johnson’s Liquid Wax
1 Johnson Weighted Polishing Brush $3.50
For polishing Wax on Floor and Linoleum > *
1 Johnson Book on Home Beautifying .?J55 !
$0:65
FOR SS.OO—A SAVING OF $L§5 . i
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YOUR HARDWARE STORE
PHONE 117
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U We are showing a full line in all the New Colors and
| latest shapes for Fall.
Come in and look them over, you will be pleased with !
ijjj the Smart Styles and New Colors.
The leading Colors are Willow, Pearl, Cinder and Zinc.
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11 i
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9 Concord, Kannapolis Mooresville, China Grove 8
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