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PAGE FOUR The Concord Daily Tribune W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor The A A SWis exclusively entitled to the use for republication of i an news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo cal news published herein. All rights of republics t ion of spec ial dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Representative € FROST, LANDIS A KOHN 225 Fifth Avenue. New York * People#’ Gas Building, Chicago 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postofflee at Concord, N. C„ un der the Act of March 3, 1879. * SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: One Year |6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1-50 One Month .50 Outside of the State the Subscription Is the Same as in the City I Out of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail: , One Year $5.00 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 ! Less Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect June 28, 1925 Northbound No. 40 To New York 9:28 P. M. No. 136 To Washington 5 :05 A. M. No. 38 To New York 10 :25 A. M. No. 34 To New York 4:43 P. M. No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. M. No. 32 To New York 9:03 P. M. No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound No. 45 To Charlotte 3:55 P. M. ' No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M. No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M. No. 33 To New Orleans 8:25 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8 :05 A. M. No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M. No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M. No. 39 To New Orleans 9:55 A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash ington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis charge passengers coming from be yond Washington. TjC BIBLETHOUGHT! M —FOR TODAY—I lunge TtboqgLta memorize*_ wU preey .1 |K .nneelew heritage m after year* ’ Jgj The Helj)ing Hand:—Rear ye one another's burdens, ami so fulfill the law of Christ.—Galatians 6:2. ORGANIZED CHECK FLASHING. Losses through dishonesty in the "' issuance of checks have risen from $10,000,000 in 1910 to $200,0(lO,(KK) - in 1924—another phase of the increase in crime in the United States. While the passage of mere worthless checks by individuals well known in ■ a community has become a constant . source of annoyance amt loss to mer chants, anil has made much "business' for numerous magistrates' cburts. an other and far more serious phase of : the check flashing industry has come to light, in the organized eounterfeit . ing of checks of well-known firms, and : ’ their circulation quickly in large num bers in a community, the check flash er making his exit from town before his victims discover their losses. I It is reported in the newspapers that many persons in Sopth Carolina have sent worthless checks to the State in payment for their auto license tags and in so many instances have worth less checks been sent to the State to cover worthless checks that the head of the State Highway Department, which has charge of the issuance of the licenses, has ruled that worthless checks can be covered only with cash, money order or cashier's check. The stranger who comes along with a check should not be taken seriously until full investigation has been made. While it is true that organized check flashing is a business now. it is also true that the business men are annoy ed more with the local worthless check writer than they are with the stran ger. It is hard to turn down a man who lives next door or who has been known for years,.yet this same man is asking that worthless checks be cash es! for him. It was only last week that we saw in a State palter where worthless checks amounting to more than sl,- tJ(K» were presetted to banks in a Car . olina town in one day. The number is increasing almost daily. The Greenville, 8. L)., News suggests that fewer bad checks would be writ ten if the courts would strive to pun ish the writer of ths checks rather than to protect the man who cashed the checks. "It is highly probable. - ’ 9 . says The News “that the great in crease in the practice of guiuing mon ey and goods by worthless or eveu forged checks, has been stimulated by our misuse of the criminal courts as mere collection agencies for such ob \ », ligations. We make it a crime to is aut. u worthless check and <}lien com pound with crime, on a wholesale' * scale, by using the threat of a jail sentence merely as a means of making the defaulter pay the cheek. It is eas : ier to get checks cashed and to ex change checks for merchandise than it ever was - , bqpuujse the person who ac jb I Jpffis fact yu , (loqhsedty tends' to entourage the uu * scrupulous Ip issue l>gd checks, since jj he feels sure that wtf.-n the constable ft does catch him* jhe'Jegn*get out of trou- Pf. Me easy-enough/by simply paying up. If emjr\iMjesQn who deliberately is- H fraudulent ebeefc for money «* j?7'. ■ - ■ tence, the number of such cheeks would vastly decrease. And if we did not rely so strongly upon a perverted use of the criminal laws to protect us j from loss in the checks which we han dle and accept so freely, there is doubt I that most of us would be far mote cau tious about accepting checks of all kinds from every Tom, Dick and Har ry that came along.” MUST GUARD WATER SUPPLY. Concord is facing a scarcity of wa ter due to the continued drouth, and it is_the duty of every citizen 4 to guard, what water we have. It has been found necessary to cur tail the water supply of some business concerns in the city and this program may have to be extended unless we arc careful not to waste the water we have. ‘ Ordinarily water comes so easy and so cheap that we are accustomed to waste it but we should be careful to avoid sueh practice now. By economy and care we can possibly avoid more ! stringent curtailment here, but if we i are neglectful and careless it will be I only a question of time until we are faced with a real shortage. I If citizens of the city will Use dis cretion and use water for necessities only, it will not be necessary for the officials of the city to issue more stringent regulations for the conserva tion of the water but if we are care less. using water for things that can do without it and otherwise acting without discretion, drastic regulations may be issued. There seems to be no' question now about a coal strike. The operators and miners are unable even to agree on terms that will lead to another conference to say nothing of agreeing on terms that will lead to a suspen sion of the strike order. The opera tors say they will consider no pro posal that means an increase in the production costs. The miners can’t get around this for they want more wages and that means more produc tion costs. So the two agree not to agree and the strike comes at the ap- IKnnfell tfirfe. - The government intends t<t see that plenty of fuel is available for the public, according to announce ment from the summer white house, and we hope that in this it will be suc cessful and that the fuel can be pur chased at reasonable prices. GIRL BAD HEALTH TAKES HER OWN LIFE Leaves Note in Which She Says She’d Rather Be Dead Than Liv ing. Shelby, Aug. 28.—" I'd rather be dead than living. Be good," was the message Clara McCurry, 17-year-old girl, left her parents just before she stepped out of the back door of her home near Lawndale, this county, yes terday afternoon, and shot a 'hole through her heart with a small .22 calibre rifle. Her body was found a short time later by her brother. The letter left to her parents. Hr. and Mrs. Sid McCurry. explained that she would rather die than live be cause her head and eyes troubled her so much. The girl has been in bad health for some time. The tragedy took place about five o'clock in the afternoon while her parents were in Lawndale and no one was at home with the exception of , a small sister who did not hear the shot. A request made in the fare well note was that she be buried at Balm Tree, and funeral services were held there this afternoon. Rocky Face Company Adjudged In solvent. . Statesville. Aug. 28. —The Rocky . Face Spinning Company, at Stony , Point. Alexander county, has been ad judged insolvent and \Y. I). Turner, of Statesville, has been appointed re | reiver. The report of the auditors 1 show the indebtedness of the com ; pany to be $184,000. The original • cost of the mills was around $400,- 000. Canned Goods Specials 35c Can Sausage ft(* Meat __ uDC ,35c Can Cooked Pink Salmon, i g per can lwC 15c Can Campbell’s Pork and 1 A _ Beans JLUC 1 Lb. Pail Peanut OP Butter mOC 15c Can Van Camp's 1 A _ Milk lUC |3sc Can Cacoa OC. (1 Lb. Size) <SOC You Can’t Beat Our Prices—And We Deliver Cabarrus Cash Grocery Company S, PHONE 571 W ■ South Church Street guarantiee 11 SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES /Jrjr£«p). wi it f § a tht tfettinfQt of Bciwt V > * IA Rta«wt>rm,T«tte»o» other Itch ln« akin dmHv Try Mm treatment at ier dfc ",******[,*)" * PEARL DRUG COMPANY “TH* LIMITED MAIL- wltt Moat* Blue, I. a plet.rl.atlo. ol this stary by Warotr Bros. Flstarea, Inc. SYNOPSIS tot Wiltou and Caroline Dale are on a picnic together whtu they are startled ty ike incessant blasts of a motor car siren. A moment later three policemen appear, searching for an escaped convict. Bot and Caroline, withdrawing, soon meet the convict— Spike—who calls Wilson ty his name and demands protection from him. As a threat he aims the steel spite that serves in lieu of ■a missing hand, at the girl. In a desperate struggle Wil tou bests the culprit, who declares he’ll "get even .** CHAPTER Vll—Continued The policemen glanced at Bob tharply. He faced them unflinch ing and morose, hut remained silent. Then the officers laughed incred ulously, and ope pushed Spike roughly, starting him off toward the road and the patrol wagon. "What are you raving about, in sulting Bob Wilson like this? Why he’s one of Crater City’s leading titizens.” Now Spike and the officers were gone; Caroline and Bob were left alone. A troubled and questioning look pleaded from her eyes; there ivas so much now to explain. But complications had become hopeless ly entangling, and Bob’s mood for confession was gone. He nourished in its place a sullen and ingrowing conviction that it would be futile to combat the ironical tempers of .Fate. 80, while he was solicitious and tindly in his reassurances that re itored the half-hysterical girl to a tertain mood of calm, he maintained lor the most part a rrioody and un tommunicative silence during their •ather nervously hurried walk home. It was twilight when they reach id the O’Leary gate, tired and dust ly hot of body—even wearier and nore fevered of mind, from the picther Bobby, unaware of the peril, sat hughingly in the little wagon. ifternoon-long conflict of taut and festrained nerves. Caroline, looking into his drawn and troubled face, tried to comprehend; Bob, looking Into her eyes so filled with sweet concern, tried to talk. Neither suc ceeded. i He requested her to ask the tYraow to continue in charge of Bob through the night; he wanted to be alone, he said, unbothered by the care of the youngster. “Can’t I help you, Bob, in any way? Do you want to come in a while and rest and talk?” she offer ed hopefully. He hesitated, for he did want to; but he was not this moment the master ot a pliable will. The jolts and the fears of the day, climaxed by the upsetting . encounter with Spike, had set his heels far back in a morass of old inhibitions. He dully said that he must be going, and he went—without a soft word to com pensate her for the clean heart she had opened to him; left her trem bling, tearful, uncomprehending, at the garden gate staring after him. Far down the street, near the center of town, an itinerant minstrel was grinding out of his hand-organ the undesignedly ironical strains of “The End of a Perfect Day.” The floying sentimentality of the music * caused a bitter, choking laugh to rise in Caroline’s throat. She turn ed and ran forlornly into the house —for a tossed and wakeful r and a perplexed morning after. Bob did not call for her, though she waited vainly up to the last pos sible minute and then loitered all _ the way to the depot hopeful that I he might overtake her. Nor did she hear from him or of him up to the time she finished work for the day. r Though it had bgen a compara -5 thrgly easy day, she was tired and Z listless when, in mid-afternoon, she a * —mmw-rnmmummmimmm-mmummummtmmmmmunmmmmmmumem^ FIREK IN WESTERN PART Os THE STATE .fires are si HWjiiirning, todgy t in west ern North Carolina with * considerable daluage totyrijferty intruding Burpee Mile, aeeoriMas* to ' reports'* received hcjre by Tboa." Alexander, state forest sjvffrdejJ. 11 ' Three thoueabd acres already have i bees burned over in the Greit Smoky : >Av—. - - THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE emerged from the rearside door of f the lunchroom into the dinky street f that paralleled the tracks aad start i ed for home. t A rattle and racket on the cobble i stones and excited squeals in a fa , miliar child’s treble attracted her at - tention up the street alon& the un t fenced Yards. She saw scamper < ing across the street and into the t Yards a large, black alley cat and t helter-skelter in full cry jfter -St - Bobby’s dog, harnessed to a little i cart in which Bobby sat holding on for dear life and screaming gleefully, enjoying the thrill of his young life. The cart swayed and pitched diz -1 zily, but Bobby held on; all four ■ wheels left the ground, and Caro • line, watching, caught her breath ■ for fear it would turn turtle when ’ it bounced over the low curbing, ■ but by some miracle of the laws of motion it recovered balance and 1 plunged on, rightside up. The dog, stupid in his mad chase, : never hesitated at the margin of the Yards, but started across the tracks. He came to grief in a hurry, though, on the very first track, where the cart skidded and became securely stuck with a suddenness that jerked the dog back upon his 'haunches and almost catapulted Bobby head first to the ground. The cat, with tail swollen and straight, made good his escape; while Bobby ex citedly encouraged the dog- in its lunging efforts to free the cart and continue the pursuit. # Caroline sighed with relief when she saw that the dangerous eareer of the youthful driver was halted. She hurried up the street, calling to him to desist in his attempts to carry on the race. At the same time, Jim came out of a store on the far side of the street and, locating Bobby after a quick and perturbed visual search, also started toward him. > So far Caroline and Jim had not seen each other; but they did see, simultaneously and with equal hor ror, a new danger that suddenly loomed over Bobby—a puffing switch engine bearing rapidly down upon him. Bobby, unaware of the peril, sat laughingly in the little wagon prompting the attempts of the dog to tug free. The engine, moving fast, was within a few yards of the marooned ypupgster and it seemed futile for either Caroline or Jim to hope to reach Bobby in time to snatch him to safety. But they tried—each screaming to him, each unaware of the other’s approach. The engineer of the switching engine had his back turned, watching the signals of his brakeman on the long line of emp ties he was hunting about. There was no hope of him seeing Bobby, in time, for even now the engine was too close to be stopped. Then, with startling suddenness, the danger was over as quickly as it had arisen—for the engine crossed a switch to the next track, within ten yards of where Bobby sat in his cart. With a momentum that could not be. checked at the last moment and Jim raced to the spot of averted danger, arriving at right angles to each other and in unison reaching down to snatch Bobby out of the cart. At the instant they did so the tugging dog finally succeeded in his efforts to move the cart—and although he progressed no more than a foot or tVo, it was enough to make Caroline and Jim miss their aim and collide plump into each other’s arms. They straightened up in a daze, arms around each other, taking in what had happened with bewildered glances—the switch en gine chugging harmlessly down an other track, the dog with his mind at ease and off the cat now seated on his haunches scraping his tail on the cindered roadbed, and Bobby waggling his finger at them in glee. "Shame—shame—Daddy Jim is hugging the lady!” Caroline and Jim became awk wardly conscious of the truth ol Bobby’s charge, and the more so be cause startled looks around the gen eral vicinity revealed more than one laughing Yardman watching them also. Caroline quickly separated from Jim. laughing to cloak her em barrassment. Jim was flustered, too; and relieved himself in the phy sical work of lifting Bobby, his cart, and his dog off the track onto the safety of the street. Caroline and Jim fell into step be hind Bobby, who drove -his steed now at a sedate pace. Both wejtt breathless, with nerves still quaking from the excitement. (To be continued) r ■ Mountain section of Haywood and Swein counties, Mr. Alexamler nk while reports were-to'the effect tjusjt progress tte’Hp guh' National Forest. •* 'Several'other small fires were ee iwrted' in various wc»itoux. No esti- Uuite of the loaa has yet been made. /Women staff an engineering >#orks Sud direct a steel company in GreaS* London. I ■ •,':.* *. k PIEDMONT FARMERS OFF ON A LONG JAUNT tin is. * Salisbury, Aug. gS.-—A delegation of Rowan farmers leftKej* Tbur*4*y morning on tbe annual farm tour, which is in charge of W, G. Yeager, farm agent, for this eoußty. ’ The< party was joined here by a delegation frops- Cabarrus and 1 . Stanly counties and' another contingent was awaiting at Xexingtbn, these being Davidson county farmers; ? It wsb,- expected there would be 100 or more to make the trip. The automobiles occupied by the members of the party all’bore streamers on the rear telling the couhty the occupant were from’ and designating it as a Farm Tour. The first night stop whs to be .Ox ford and Richmond was to be reached Thursday night. On September 2ntf, the party .will roll into Riverton, Va.; Staunton is to be reached on the 3rd; . ■ l ■ - - - L- ’■ i JJI 1 j XKIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOQPOfV | IMARKSON SHOE STORE || Dependable Shoes Phone 897 A Good Place to Trade K»o«KWK>QQO««op»""nnftftnnot>aaoooQOOoooc<)OOOoooooof j FANCY DRY 0001)3 | Six Whiteman Hits on the New Victor Records Indian Dawn—Fox Trot \lOTia ™ *' A Ogo Pogo-Fa* Trot with roeuf r&oin J 18719 10 Footloo— Fox Trot eagft aataf nfratn \ - I 1 ® 720 10 1 oms loo —rox irot j | *** nfram )i«72i to *'l > ■ Get a Record by the Happiness Boys I Miss My Swins 'from BaiiefT c l w 1 I | fCVaurs Sow is") Piano OCCOrn O' ro i mtmt a* 1 I \A$ a Porcupine Pines tor L Porte j*"" *" \ftaegenpausiir* J igffira KIDD-FRIX Music & Stationery Co. Phone 78 Concord, N. C. What keens shoe modes so interest- A ins is the demand o f fashionable women. Mere are three style “high lights” giving you ’ ”" ' v 1 . a faint idea c>f the \ opportunities > at these rfasonable -1 '53.95 to, $8.95 JS i ~ i a '. -■ V. A. »... A ..t; i«. • - J-'X-d Roanoke on the 4th; Blacksburg on j ’ the sth, where two days will be spent J and Pulaski the 7th. The detega- j • tion will reach hofiie Tuesday, j • tember Btb. | The Arlington stop of four days j ‘ gives the farmers ample tnne to cross the Potomac and visit Washington, ’ where they will be dmwn courtesies ’ by the agricultbral department of the United Staten. In the national cap- I ital they will visit the . great Center Market, White Bouse, treaauryiboild [ ing. bureau of printing ,ai»d engrav ing and other places of interest At , I other points along the route up and ! j back noted farms, cattle ranchers, j , dairies and points of interest in other J ' ways to those men will be taken in, I | anti also numerous historical places. The trip is both a pleasure and bps ■ in ess one as a careful study of mt'th | ods of farming, dairying, stock and i , poultry raising will be made at num- 1 bens of places where stops are sebed- j uled. i BEU-HARRiSFintNirmci New Victor Records I No. Siae *d ' » 18717 Id Dear, Oh Dgar with guitar and harmonica. Vernon Dalbart . ' Who’s It, Who Loves You —Who’s It, Huh?, with guitar t and harmonica ... Vernon Dalhart • 19718 10 I Miss My Swiss (from "Chauve-Souris”) with piano t V ■> ■ The Happiness Boys j J ’ As a Porcupine-Pines For its Porg, with piano "i The Happineas Boys < » 10725 10 Sunshine, with Ukulele Wendell Hgll j i It Struck My Fuiny Bone, witk Ukulele .. Wendell Ha* 4 . j 10731 10 Every Sunday. Afternoon, with piano by Smalle.-Revelera i i Just a Bundle Os Sunshine, with piano by Smalie—Revelers V DANCE RECORDS 10710 10 Indian Dawn, J>hx TSot -.Paul Whiteman and Orchestra v v Ogo Pogo, Fed) Trot, with vocal refrain Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra * 10720 lOFootloose, Fox Trot, vocal refrain by Billy Murray Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra c £ Sing Loo, Fox Trot .... Paul Whiteman and Orchestra > 10721 H? Sonya, Fox Trot, with vocal refrain J v Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra ; Got No Time, Fox Trot .. IJaul Whiteman and Orchestra l 10720 10 Why Is Love? (from "June Days”) 1 ■ 'Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra ! ! You Forgot to Remember, Walts; with vocal rafrain i | Paul Whitanan and His Orchestra j 10710 10 Row! Row’! Rosie, Fox trot, with vocal refrain George Olsen and his Music I bay Arabella, Fox Trot George Olsen and His Mu»’ m" ■ 10711 10 When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You, Fox Trot Howard Lanin-Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra On a Night Like This, Fox Trot * >. * J 'Howard Lanin-Beujamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra | 10713 10 Hawaiian Love, Walts H'Jo Hawaiian Orchestra [ • Beautiful Gown, Fox Trot, with vocal refrain Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra j 19714 10 The Prisoner's Song, Walts, with vocal refrain ] j „ International Novelty Orchestra j After the Ball, Walts, with vocal refrain International Novelty Orchestra • 10715 10 Save Your Sorow For Tomorrow, Fox Trot Georg* Olsen and HU Music The Kiss ICau’t Forget, Walts, with vocal refrain 'IV " International Novelty Orchestra ‘ 10722 10 If I Ever Cry, Fox Trot.. Ted Weems and His Orchestra ; Siberia, Fox Trot Ted Weems’ and His Orchestra J 10727 10 Deem Kim, Fox Trot (A I’uul Whiteman Orchestra) * Busse’s Buzxards I i; i I'p- (lenna QharfCston Back to Charleston, Fox Tiotj with . ' 'vocal Wffain ..Coon-Sanders Original Nigbahawk Orchl | ! 10728 10 Alude at Last, Fox Trot, with vocal refrain Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra ] i Stop Flirtiug—Fox Trot, ..Meyer Davis' Le Paradis Band ' J BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. I >OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOfdQOOOOQQOQQPftQPOQqi>EOQE|g 1 vO If you will tell us nl your plans for effect ing Ep IfJ a change of lighting licM tures in your home we W.W ml will furnish you with u ■■■ J E minimum estiugite of j| ■ |h| what it will cost to d»BI Ej the job right, fpl Vu “Fixtures «( Character” EM km W. J. lIETHCOX U W. Depot Sg. Phone M 0 H .a, MW | Funeral Home |Funeral Directors V and Embabners Phone No. 9 Open Day and night J ' v ' ■. r ’ V \l V,{f' •/ > . ft* V? • \ i ■ Ambulance Service W<unWinawmw>Mi»"p 'M** 'i - , i-un;-3':/ -J’j. Saturday, August 29, 1921 We have the fol lowing used can( [for sale or ex 4 change: j * One Ford Touring ’ One Buick Touring One Buick Roadster One Liberty Touring Chevrolet Sedan Body j STANDARD BUICK CO. Opposite SBy-jPjjJi City Fire Department || '. • i Add the Comfort . of ? PLUMBING toYowH«ne Modern Plumbing will t as much or more than any ot er one makii your hqme » comfort»bld a convenient place in vtbich live. ItTcosts you notWiig a? , . Concord Phimbin Company ‘9l lp<flk*M ft fiwsri
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