Friday, September 4, 1925. H»t the FIRST WIT I H TIME WE HAVE HAD j IftitA of IMS When Great Fire' MSBfc Pl»w Was As Dry As This Knree Journal , | ■People who feel discouraged about K drought will do well to remember! It we hare always ' had long dry j ■Ub and wet spells. Last March | Be Journal published the \ story of I dry winter and the great ■ of that year which swept over ft country. The story was told by ft. R. H. James who remembers it. fts more interesting now than when It published, so it is given again: ■lie winter of 1855 was the dryest ft ever known in this cduntry. .No In fell, little snow, and the ground W the foliakb were dry as in the Burner. Richardson creek was dry ■ a powder house. A great deal of string had been done that winter ■ everybody then took in new ground ftry year. It had been so dry that Bpie dared not burn tjie brush that ft been accumulated for fear of Brting a fire. All this had been ftumulated waiting for a general Bn. But no rain came. Only a Ball per cent of the land of the ftntry was then cleared, and all the Ids and warms were enclosed with ft fences. Tire in the woods meant nothing in those days. B)n the morning of March 9th, there Bne a sprinkle of rain and the clouds Iked as if there was tot be a gen ii rain. This was the kind of day Bple had been waiting for to burn ft their ne wgrounds so they could Bin ■seeding corn in them. Ho every By began to put out fire. Hut in ■ hour or two the whole aspect of ■Bgs changed. The sprinkle stopped. Bison came out, and a March gale BEUrto spring up. In a short while Bna| grown to a fury and fire was (ing every where, before it. So dry s the foliage and so fierce was the lid that tiie fire jumped over roads I cleared tiields as if they had mot m there. The fire was general d it was all that could be done to te the small houses in the dear th. Not a rail fence was left nding and the woods were full so ick. The fire raged for a day and [ht and Mr. James says there was rer one like it in this country and rer can be again unless the whole Doting matcii is burned for there e. no longer for a fire to \ CHILD IN PAIN * " runri to Mother for relief, So do the großn-ups. :OLIC and DIARRHOEA REMEDY i a little sweetened water instantly slieves pain in the stomach end owels, cramp, colic, weakening tarrhoea and those stomach aches nd pains so inseparable from the ears of childhood. Keep it always in your horns. Gibson Drug Store. | Handkerchiefs for School Girls ■' Cotton Handkerchiefs, I 2 for 5 C and 5c H Linen and Lawn H'andk^r ■ chiefs, plain white or with ■ colored |A. ■ borders XVFC. K Bandettes SB For young girls 25c I Corselettes ■ Made of fancy bro- AO . ■ cade material' 1 Children’s Hosiery I For School Wear H Children’s Stock’ngs I _ ■ black and brown; pr. ■ Children’s 'Fine Ribbed Mer- BB cerized Hose, sizetT" 1Q ■ 6to 10.; per pair _ T * *'* ' Misses’ 7-8 I Sport Hose ■ Mercerized ribbed to the toe; ■ colors: Beige, Nude, Gray and H Cordovan. Fancy silk tops. ■ Sizes 6to 10 OQ ■ per pair „ :> OJ/C ■ Children’s and Misses’ Mid ■ dy Blouses, made of white ■ middy twill; sizes QQ/, I 6to 20 ...iJ... J7OC Underwear ■ For School Days ■ Children’s Muslin Gowns, ■ sizes 0 to lfHycars, lace and ■ embroidery trimmed QQ. ■ each I Prince** Slip? if Made of muslin, embroidered B and lace trimmed, sizes 6,t0 If! 49c 98c 1 feed upon. The first job after the] i fire Bubejded was to split rail* to re build the fence* so that the fields 'could be planted and the stock kept off the growing graty. People were | blurrye-eyed for days from the smoke j and fire which they fought so con tinuously. ! Snow Was Fine Bat It Fell a Dong I __ Time - \ j The uera winter, -or the following, Mr. James is not sure which, came the greatest snow ever known in these parts. It fell for forty-eight hours, under a driving wind from the north. The enow was of very fine grain aad the wind drove it fiercely through ev ery crack. -~ Most of the houses were covered. With boards then and the snow drove tlirough the cracks. It was from two to six set deep and remained on the ground a month. Mr. James thinks that there was enough to have cov ered the ground two feet on a level. Only a few houses were built tight enough to resist the driving snow and the people suffered a great deal. The Great Sleet Toll lows. But the hardships from the snow wns nothing compared to that caused by tlie great sleet of the following winter. The sleet fell for two days also. All that time it rained, every drop froae, for it was bitter cold, the wind again cyming from the north. Pretty soon everything _ was loaded with ice, and trees began to crack. There, were no wires in those days and such a sleet now would flatten every telephone and power line in the country. On the north side of the trees the ice was piled a foot thick and completely around tlie tree trunk. , As the load of ice bechme greater the forest began to snap and boom like artillery. If the limbs fell first then the trunk was apt to’stand, but when the brandies held on pnd ac cumulated the(.r loads of ice great pines snapped in the middle and fell like broow straw. Roads were ob literad with fallen ttimber and it was unsafe to move about. The people were penned in. Shade {tees en dangered the houses and many roofs were caved in by falling brandies. Next spring much 'of the ttimber died from the effect of being stripped of branches. Peopie though that all the timber was ruined. For a week or mere the ice clung on, bnt wheri final-, ly the sun came out 1 and burst upon i the world the whole face of the land Sparkled like seas of diamonds. , ’ ‘"And yet," My. Jaints added,, ‘peo ple think they Aave hard'times these days. They ( don't , know anything about hard times. In those days the women did all the spinning and mak ing of garments. Only now and then n could be seen any store elotres. And IpUt t*onV"pr*thp?. j in tltc fields. ThereM*e lio tools and labor saving impliments and the amount of hard and grinding hand labor was immense. A man who had sugar once a month was well-to-do, . ami biscuits more than once a week was a state of happiness. Corn and i hog were our principal support and corn grown hogs at, USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS When the School Bell Calls! • # When the school bells ring the students will come trooping j back to their classrooms daily. Fresh from a summter’s vacation, bright-eyed and full of vigor, they will forge ahead with their studies. Going back to school so happy, they will need neW clothes and other apparel essentials, Which Wise parents will be thought- Children’s School Dresses * Attractive Gingham Dresses in checks and plaids, or Peg gy Cloth in tan or blue ; with neat collars and cuffs and hand stitching; deep hems; will launder QO-, well. Sizes 7 to 14 years * ■ * Children’s Dresses Made of flannels and checkered suitings.. Trimmed with Contrasting qolored rib’bons and braid QO Long sleeves, sizes 7 to' 14 years *P 1*570 Misses’ All Wool Dresses in large plaid and striped materials. New beautiful shades. Long sleeves. Also Velvet Dresses in View, BO QO attractive shades. Sizes 7 to 14 yqjirs w Fall Hitts For Children Beautiful colors and newest styles made of FSlt, Velvet or Pl„,l, - 9gc AND Children’s Cambric Waists Double reinforced Buttons around Waist Line. Sizes 2 to 12 years —. AND 49c Children’s and Misses’ Black Sateen ljlpomers. Sizes 8 to 18 years -25 c AND 39c CHARLES STORES CO., Inc. ! Sc to $2.98 Department Stores 1 CASHIER BELLES , STILL MISSING Disappcanutm of Roekingmun Man Eamalns • Mystery. < Rockingham, Sept. 3. —C. L. Belles, cashier and bookkeeper for the * Yadkin River Power company, at Rockingham since the spring of 1824, disappeared on August 22,, and so fur there sci no trace what ever asto his whereabouts. 'Auditors' ft>r the company are checking np on the accounts, but in quiry of Manager C. E. D. Egerton elicits no information whuiever. every employe of the company who, handles money in any way is bonded,' •nd the company is very strict in re-' fusing to. give out any information as to its affairs. : About two weeks ago young Belles traded in his old Buiek. on which was a note for about S2OO, to the j Hudsen-Essex company here for aji Essex coach, leaving about S7OO due on it. His wife and infant baby, about six weeks o’.d, were visiting her mother in Norfolk, Va., on Sat urday night, August 22, He inform ed Mr. Egerton that he was going to Winston for, the week-end. On Monday morning following Mr. Egerton received a wire from him at Winston stating that he wns sick, but would be back tbht night. Since then not a work has been beard of him. It was though perhaps he had been’ waylaid aad his car stolen, or that he had become ill, but still no sus picion arose as to any wrong doing. The motor company is seeking him for the recovery of the, car. _——j . TODAY’S EVENTS. Frkfay, September 4, 1*35. Seventy-five years ago today Chi cago was first lighted by gas. The French Republic is 55 years old today, having come into existence with the overthrow of the Empire on this date in 1870. The annual convention of the bar 'Association, 'dllieh has held iorflT ’in Detroit this, week, will conclude jts business today, and fdjourn. I taOy today' 'will pay tribut* to County f , Luigi .Cadorna, .the chief ■ Italian ' military (jSrtuinatpler in > the ■ late war, on the oecasiori'of his 75th-' birthdaj- anniversary... , i Highway motocytr&igtortfri&n ■ will ! be the chief subject of consideration at the meeting of tlie SdntWest isfifip t*W*’ AdyisurjL Roai-d, •to die held to ■ daj In Oklahoma 1 , (Jiti 1 . . . ~■* ■ , r i. Getting Back. "Have you heard my last joke?" i said the Post, as he stopped the I Grouch on the street. I "I lope so.” geplied the Grouch, 1 ns he kept on traveling. | Kiud Neighbor :"I hear your hu«- ' band has a new stenographer, and > she’s a ‘peach’.” ■ Wife: "Well, 1 11 see that she gets ‘ ‘canned' at once,” I "I don’t want to keep this school, -'girl complexion,” said the young man as lie brushed the powder from bis i t Coat. THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE BOOTLEGS FEUD BRINGS DEATH TO COURTROOM Tragedy Outgrowth of War Between Rival Clam of Hemrsaee Block aders. Chattanooga, Sept. 3.— J. H. Hen neosee, sheriff of Sequatchie county, was shot twice and killed this after noon In the federal court room by Lige Lane, deputy sheriff of Marlon I coiwvty. Hcnnessee was shot once in the breast and once in the right side and his d.eath was almost instantaneous. The shooting was the result of the "bootleg war” which has existed be tween the Benton Godsey and Claude Thomas clans. Hennessee and Lane with a large number off others from Marion’ and Sequatchie counties were in the court room to attehd the Godsey-Hcnnesesee j trial on th» charge of transporting liquor. United States Commissioner Lusk, before whom the trial was to have been held, was out of the city and had telegraphed that he could not reach the city until late in the afternoon and the attorneys In the case agreed thereupon to postpbne the trial until tqmorrow morning and maty of those who had been at tracted to the court room had left when the shooting began. Paul Fanner and Harmon May 598 Madison Ave. * ITCC New York City | co 1 want to try Dioxol. I Trial I ' i == =:=:=: ‘Dioxol ie especially recommended by I iidfearl Drug Co.” ■ I ~ mi™ J’/YT% mrim-rnof /I m MW „ /NSTfrunoH- I Lpnneytp • DEPARTMENT STORES SO-54 Sooth Union Street, Concord, N. C. Clever New Silk Frocks 1 In Autumn’s Finest Fashions v The time is now! The &OZsT~\ place is this Store! And J you are the girl or wo- '\s / 7 man who will appreciate Jc‘ r our lovely Fall-silk frocks. ts A rg-fflh They. have arrived in ||||k ||l ? '3 l jm All the Smart Mk f jj M Style Features k gjfg r wSKj/, lb Everything that’s new is ljSJ|& included in these dresses— /fTfjjn the flippant flares, the satin /Q r|i ' materials, the Autumn col- j J ors. And the price is a reg- £ja|JMl fj nlar J. C. Penney value-giv- tVT tn.S quality aplaca. Coats arc made in the newest style. Va-: S riety of colors to select Fizes «to 10 years. Cine extra H pair of pants to QO _ H match suit for / *-i I PAGE FIVE | that of a Christian gentleman with, an honorable reeortl in thd World War—heroic it is called. At Maxton; hold on August 25, a subscription was started with he aim of securing a fund to aid in the prosecution of Cole. Hickory Gets Half Inch at Rain.. Hickory, Sept. .‘l.,—The hrit rain that has fallen here since July 12 j was that of yesterday afternoon ! when a storm broke over this see- , j tion shortly after 3 o’clock, preci pitating less than a half inch Os moisture. During Hie entire month of . July tho rainfall amounted >to only 2.0 S inches. Crops are in bad of j rain and from the lack 01 moisture ] > vims Che, ftncsrtr»''aWl*(weigl | land stretches are dying, uirown I leaves being rented in many instances as drives are made over various road in lithe section. Convinced. “Are you getting anything out of that course in salesmanship " ,! 1 “Not much. I’m afraid I’ll never 1 be oiiedenth as good a salesman as ; the man who sold me the course.”