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Korneys argee to
% HURRY UP HEARING
K* 1 Winston Rejoices That Con-
Vvation of Time Has Readied the
Hlstonia, Sept. 22.—Gaston Su-
Kr Court is setting new records
Bine saving.
■ atp delighted to know that the
krvktion of time has reached Gas-
V aht) the bar at least,” declared
P c Francis D. Winston, in the
pt room here today.
Pt remarks came after attorneys
Khe ease of the First Nation?] Rank
lihst W. L. Rudisill, both of Ober-
K)le, had agreed on the admission
■certain evidence to hurry things
I began to pick up at once
K time is actually being saved now.
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The Cherryville bank is suing Mr.
Rndisiil, a farmer, for payment of
a $1,525 note made some time ago
in connection with the sale of stock
of the Old Fisheries Products Com
pany, which caused no less than fifty
oivil actions so be started here.
Rudisill, claiming defraud, swore be
did not endorse the notes the bank
discounted for him. He admits he
signed them tout did not endorse.
The bank put a United States secret
service man from ehariote on the
stand. He testified that the "W. L.
Rudisill” oil the front on the note
and the “W. L. RndisiH” on the back
were written by the same man.
The mean person, who always
saves for a rainy day, seems to ex
j pect a flood.
Heavens, man! exclaimed the crip
ple ih his attorney's office. You nte
taking four-fifths of my damages. Tbit
is extortion.
Well, I furnished tile skill, the elo
quence and necessary legal knowledge*
to win yotir ease.
Yes. bu< I furnished the ease itself.
Bosh! Anybody could fail down a
coal hole.
The closing of the New York-
Pcnnsylvairia league season with the
York anfl Wminirtsport tea Ms tied
for first place is believed to be the
first time such a thing has occurred
ip organized baseball since 18!)(i,
■when the Virginia State League end
ed its season with Norfolk and Ports
mouth evened up for the champion
ship.
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DINNER STORIES
| Judge: “Aren’t you attached to
your husband?” ,
j Lady r “Certainly, I’ve come here
to be detached.
Devoted Wife: “I think the post
office clerks are becoming very care
less.” ,
Friend: “What makes you tbink
that?”
Devoted Wife: “Jimmy went on a
business trip to Philadelphia and sent
me a Card which they stamped At
' lantic City.”
Fanny: “T always send my children
out ih the street when my husband
and I quarrel.”
Sophnie: “The little dears. How
well they look being out in the air
all the time.”
Nervons Husband (whose wife is
ill) : “Doctor, tell me the worst.”
Doctor: “She'll pull through.”
She: “What makes a man give a
wotnan an engagement ring?”
He: “The woman.”
Haughty Daughter: “No, not if he
was ten times as wealthy—l despise
’ the mart.”
Mother: “Dearest, please don't talk
so loud—at least not until after yOu
are married to him.”
‘ “I guess that advertisement they’re
putting out so generally—‘lt Pays to
• Use Face Brick'—will bring in the
business.”
“Y'es, I have seen a lot of girls
who are using it—judging by their
color.”
TODAY’S Events.
Thursday, September 24. 1926.
Centenary of the birth of Edwurd
Hicks Magill, for many years presi
dent Os Hwarthmore College.
The sixty-eighth annual meeting of
the Methodist National Association
of Local Preachers will open today at
Trenton, N. J. v
Albertnk Magnus College, the first
large college for Catholic women fn
tpe the United States, will be opened
today at New Haven, Conn.
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connec
ticut >s t,o deliver thlie principal ad
dress at a Conference of Republican
women of New England *to be held
today at Portland, Me.
The Military Order of the World
War, which Major Gen. GeoYge H.
Harris is the commander-in-chief,
will open its annual national conven
tion -today in New York City.
The plant of the Bath Iron Works,
at Bath, Maine, for many years one
of the leading firms in the constriie
tion of naval craft, is to be put up for
sale at public auction today.
Memorial services commemorating
the 101st anniversary of the landing
, o f the Bchwepitfelderx ih Pennsylvan
ia, otherwise known as Gcdacfhtniss
Tag. wilLfce .observed today irt the
Kehwenkfelidrs churches near Phila
delphia. ,
TREAT goitre
AT HOME
Operation Prevented by Alabama
Lady.
Mrs. C. H. Padgett, 629 Quintard
St.. Aniston, Ala., says: “You have
my permission to use my testimonial.;
I hope every one suffering with Goitre
will see it. My Goitre was of twelve
years growth, and caused terrible dis
tress. I will write to any one about
fny experience with Horbol-Quadruple.
a colorless liniment.” Sold at all
drug stores, or \vrite SorbOl Com
pany. Meehanicsburg, Ohio. Locally
at the GfWn Drug Store.
SALE OF AUTOMOBILE UNDER
Mechanics lien.
__ By virtue of authority vested in
Kannapolis Motor Company by a me
chanic's lien for work done on said
antomobile to the amount of -Forty
nine and 90-100 Dollars, whffh has
not bedu paid in ttie time allowed by
law, the Kaunaisdis Motor Company !
will sell, at public auction, at its i
place of business in Kainiupdlis, N. 1
C., on Saturday, the 10th day of Oc
tober, 1025, at 2 o'clock P. M„ to the
highest bidder, for cash, the following
automobile:
One Ford Touring Car, Motor No.
5368002.
This -the 28rd day of September.
1925.
KAXXArOLIS MOTOR CO.
Sept, 21 & Oct. 1.
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BY CRarLBS P. STEWART
NRA Service Writer v -
WASHINGTON— Domestic and
not foreign competition is
responsible for the slump in
“down east” industries.
More tariff protection won't help
the situation
This win be the argument of
numerous mid-western and south
ern legislators when New England
manufacturers, especially of tex
tiles. make their expected appeal
to Congress next winter for a
higher wall against imports
• • •
PRESS comment from the Mis
•Slesippi valley and south of
the Mason Dixon Une con
cerning the New Englanders'
plaints ts pretty much all to the
•atne effect—that the cast doesn’t
realize to what an extent the rest
of the country Is becoming Indus
trialized
The west says they continue to
assume that their factories are
rivaled only abroad, whereis their
most formidable Competitors now
«Ve right here at home,
a Most of the western and south* I
Seven of 11 Presiding Elders
Due to Move to New Fields
t.
Greensboro Ne\4*.
Seven of the 11 presiding elders in
the ‘Western North Carolina Metho
dist, conference are completing four
cpnHtefcutive years' service on their
rfisffifcts and, according to the law of
the Church, will bo sent so- new
fleld|>of service when the animal
meCpnig of the conference » held in
Statesville October 14-10.
Tub is an nrtnsunl number to be
('badgeti at one time and the matter
shown be of great interest to Metho
(tistg aml others in the entire western
half 4f the state.
Hip Green-boro district is one that
expects a new presiding elder, as
Rev. IV. F. IVomble is rounding out
his qujulreiniiuft The othea? com
pleting' the fouMfetlr term are! Rev.
IV. A. Newell. Winston-Salem dis
trict;' Rev. J. B. Craven. Charlotte
district; Rev. /. Paris, Marion ' dis
trict! Rev. J. 11. IVest, Mount Airy
district; Rev. T. F. Marr, Salisbury
di-4riet ; Rev. D. M. Litaker, States
ville district
On the Asheville district Rev. H .C.
Sprinkle is completing his third con
secutive year. On the Shelby district
Rev. S. Kirkpatrick is completing
hWa fccond .year. On the North
WilkesßSfo 'district Rev. 'Bpynnfar
Taylor is rounding out his first year,
as is Rev. V. IV. Tucker on the IVay
ne-ville district.
The places held by the presiding
elders are regarded as of great im
portance. They are in charge of the
work of the district, with about 20
to 25 pastorates in each district, and
the pastorates have more
than pne church. Iu away, the pre
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This (fraying For Rain Smacks of Sac
• rllcge.
Monroe Enquirer.
Y. M. Boggan, of Wingate, this
week received a let ter from his daugh
ter, Miss Boggan. who lives at
Milan, Term. Miss Boggan stated in
her letter that rain there had been
falling for a week.
The Governor of Tennessee did not
call on the people to pray for rain as
he ,\fas' fearful of floods instead.
Is it possible that Governors of
North and South Carolina. Georgia
and Virginia asked the people to
fast and pray for i>olitioal purposes?
At the same time, had not the
Weather map shown that showers were
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ern lawmakers who already are w
tfte capital speak in much ih«
same way.
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THE mid-westerners land south
erners make out a good case
in favor of their contention
that eastern captains of industry
have overlooked the recent rapid
development of electric and watei
power In theft- respective terri
tories. -the trend of comparatively
cheap colored labor away from ths
farms and Into their factories and
the significant growth In impor
tance of southern ports.
...
11 HtAT the mid-west, fn partlcu-
J| tar. was quicker than the east
to appreciate the value ot
Latin American trade is very
clear
The east had a spasm of sc
tlvlty in that direction immeUi
ately after the war. but it didn't
last.
Managers M most eastern plants
soon lost! interest fn it and re
concentrated on domestic markets
Those in the Mississippi valley
hung on.
Moreover, they began bringing
In increasing quantities of raw
materials from the non-industrthl
Latin American republics, and
shipping them back, and to ths
orient, as finished products.
siding eiders are superintendents of
i the districts—some of the branches of
the Methodist church call the yre
-1 siding eider the superintendent. In
■ addition,they are generally men of
: great force of character and fitted to
lead in spiritual affairs.
1 To speculate on the possible np- .
i pointments to be made by the bishop
at the conference is not only of no
- valhft. but also considered in bud
- taste. Only the bishop could know of
■ appointments and he probably has
i -not this far ahead of the conference
a definite plan for the places to be
filled.
i In some eases it is permissible for
a preacher to be returned for the
fifth;,year of consecutive service, but
, that applfiw-r-and then rarely—to
pastors of churches, for the inert:
- part. Last year at the annual mect
■ iug here of the conference Bishop
Collins Denny, who will preside
again this year at Statesville, did not
seiid any pastor back for the fifth
year.
It is possible, and in fact, often
the case, to move a Methodist preach
er at the end of -his first, second or
; third year of consecutive service in
i one place, and it is mandatory, ex
• cept in the instance mentioned
, above, to move him at the end of
four successive years’ service in one
place.
In Greensboro only two Methodist
ministers, in addition to the presid
ing elder, are rounding out four
years' sucee-wive service. They are
Rev. L- B. Hayes, of Park Place
church, and Rev. AV. A. Barber, pas
tor of Olemvood church.
in prospect, and meteorologists Buy
ing that the long drought would soon
be broken?
AA'hy not have asked for showers
before the crops were ruined?
■Politicians are shrewd, ever desir
ous of laudation and not averse to
panegyrics.
Since rains have fallen in scatter
ed localities some newspapers give
credit to the prayers of the people,
and inferential!}- State officials have!
a pull with divine-power wc did not.
suspect they had.
The whole thing is a travesty,
smacking of rank sacrilege.
USB PENN V COLUMN—IT PATS ,
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What might be termed “Satisfactory Service” varies £is|l
according to different kinds of business. In most cases it
covers only a brief period of time, but in the automobile |."fp
business it is different. Our sales are made to people who
use their cars over a period of years. ■>
Such purchasers, by right, demand a service above the ,',*2
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