North Carolina Newspapers

Thursday, October 1, 1925 f wo Eye Witnesses of Ormond Slaying Testify for the State Jonathan Daniel--, Ralcigii News and Observer. Rockingham, Sept. .TO.—Trial of Cole, rich slayer of \V. W. Ormond, started in earnest here this afternoon when the State began the presentation of evidence on which it will ask Cole's death by electrocution nD v* r° laid the ground work for a ploa of insanity in the cross examination of the two wit ne»«es for the State who took the *•! L Th< ‘ trial started at 4.20 o clock, after the selection, of a jury from a Kpecial venire of 200 citizens of Lnioin county. All Jurors Married Men. The jury which must determine the fate of Cole is composed of: J. M. Koss, farmer; W. I). Clark, farmer; *T<rO. Smith, farmer; M. M- Winches ter, farmer and farmer-merchant; M. A. Griffin, farmer; J. M. Cd- Wards, merchant. Vester Autry, farmer; I. C. Edwards, farmer; C. E- Hushing, farmer; R. W. Kilough, farmer and gin operator; ,T. K. store clerk, and C. O. How ard, cotton farmer. All the jurors are married men with families. A feature in the selection of the jury was the acceptance by the de fence of C. O. Howard, rich cotton farmer, after he had told Solicitor Hon Phillip* on examination that he til formed the opinion that Cole was ilty. The State passed the juror il the defense after a brief eon ference neeeptod him also. The action of the defense caused a loud murmur of wonder to pass through the crowded court room. Following the selection of the jury, the Slate put Frank Steele, first cousin of Cole, and Mrs. W. A. Wentz, wife of the local Western linion manager, on the stand to tell eye-witnetf« stories of the actual Shouting. The defense let Steele oc on cross examination with n single ques tion but undertook to develop the fact that Cole was noting and looking like a maniac on the cross examina tion of Mrs. Wentz. Both Steele and Mrs. Wentz made excellent witntswes but the defense succeeded in securing from Mrs. Wentz an admission that Cole was *so wild and white looking that she did ned recognize him. She denied that her sister-in-law. Mrs. J. 1,. Porter, who was with her at the time declared: "He looks so wild ami crazy he might shoot us.” Steele, who took the stand first, stnted that he saw Ormond twice on the day of the shooting. Once at din ner time and again just before the shooting. He stated that Ormond came to Everybody's Filling Station, two doom from the Manufacturers building, where Cole had his office, at about 5 o'clock. The dead man park ed his onr in front of the Page Motor Company building, which is between the Manufacturers building and the filling station. - Ormond wnlked out of the drive- WUs of the filling station toward his wsr and that he went to a bench along"the wall of the filling station at few f»et from Ormond's car. He picked up a newspaper and be gan reading it when Ormond was about two steps from him on the way to his car, Which was facing away from the Manufacturers build ing. He said that he looked up once and saw Cole coming out of the Manufacturers building. Then he saw j Cole take a pistol from his pocket, j He stated that he saw Cole fire the firut shot as he came up from the I fired three times, he said. Cole turn ed away and Steele said that he ran to the car as Cole walked to his of fice. He called Ormond's name twice, be said, but the ex-serviceman did not answer. Then, the witness said, he went to get a doctor but a doc to came before he could find one. Solicitor Phillips conducted the ex amination. On cross examination J. Chesley Sedberry, for the defense, asked Steele if he did not move Ormond's car after the shooting. He admitted that be did. Mrs. Wentz stood the strain of testifying remarkably well, although The Football Season Opens i she is the mother of a month-old baby, who was born it few day: as ! ter she witnessed the slaying. Ormond Sitting In Car. • She stated that she and her sis • ter-in-law were walking up town : when she saw Cole come down the i steps of the Manufacturer’s building ■ with his arm pointed at the strept. ' She did not recognize him at first. Cole was walking diagonally across ' the sidewalk toward Ormond's car. I She did not know Ormond but saw a man longing in the Foard roadster i by the curb. She stated that when Cole was about four feet from the enr he fired the first shot. The man ' in the car who had his head turned toward the street did “nothing at all.” she said. When the first shot was fired, Cole walked up to the floor of the car, she stated, and fired again. The man in the car reached out his right hand as if to c’ose the door nlthough the door was already closed. Cole put his arm across the door and swung it back and forth. The man fell back after the second shot, she said, and then fell over the steering wheel after Cole fired the third time. On account of her con dition, Mrs. Wentz stated she and her sister-in-law immediately left the scene. J. A. Lockhart, of the defense, conducted the cross examination of Mrs, Wentz. He asked her about a statement made by Mrs. Porter im mediately after the shooting. The! State objected but Judge Finley 1 overruled the objection. "Didn’t Mrs. | Porter say, ‘He looks so wild he might be crazy and shoot us? Lock-! hart asked “ She did not," answered Mrs. Wentz. However she testified that she herself said that Cole looked ex tremely wild. "He looked so wild and white that I didn’t at first recognize him," Mrs. Wentz said, "He had run his hands through his hair and it looked rumpled. I didn't recognize him un til nft«T the first shot.’ She denied that she had stated that Cole looked like a maniac'. ' j She said that Cole had on neither coat npr hilt. . Jury Chosen Quickly. The selection of the jury was completed with much greater dis patch than was anticipated by either the State or defense, only 6f> mem bers of the special Union county venire were called into the box in the selection, but several others were excused because of illness. Union county showed a remark nble sentiment against capital pun ishment in the answers of the pros pective jurors. Sixteen of the (15 men called into the box yesterday de clared that they had conscientious scruples against capital punishment nnd were excused by the State on that ground- Twenty jurors were excused by the defense when they admitted that they had formed the opiuioin that Cole was guj'.ty. One man was excused bn eause he had formed the opinion that Cole was not guilty nnd another be cause he had written a letter of sympathy to Cole after his confine ment for the slaying. Judge Ivinley ordered Darby Cov i ington, who was sworn in as no offi j cer to the jury, not to allow the j jurors to see newspaper reports of ; the trial. Judge Finley declared that I the press is a great institution but jurors ought not to see the papers. The members of both the Cole and Ormond families were present in the courtroom throughout the proceed ings today. Miss Elizabeth Cole, for mer sweetheart of the man slain by her father, sate with her mother in side the bar directly behind Cole and his attorneys. Miss Cole was very simply dressed toil ay in contrast, with the vivid costume she wore to the arraignment of her father on Mon day. Today she had changed n 6oii tare diamond and platinum diamond ring, which she wears from her en gagement ring finger to her right band. Cole to Plead Some Sort of Temporary Insanity, It Is Said E. B. Hunter in Greensboro News. Rockingham, Sept. .10.—Some sort of temporary insanity will be the major defense of William B. Cole, who is fighting for bis life on a charge of killing William W. Ormond bore August 15th. This was apparent late this after noon when the defense in cross exam ining an eye witness to the tragedy asked if Mr. Cole didn't present a maniacal appearance. Frank Steele, a first cousin of Cole, and Mrs. W. A. Wentz, both of this town, eye witnesses, pinned the slaying of young Ormond onto the cotton mill manufacturer. If Mr. Ormi nd made a dash for his gun, which it is said he carried in a pock et in fiis Ford roadster, neither of the witnesses were aware of it. Mrs. Wentz, the wife of the manag er of the Western Union here, demon strated before the jury her recollec tion of Ormond's posture in the car. A member of the prosecution's staff acted as Ormond. Her vivid picture of the dead boy's final moments on earth created a touching scene. Misses Myra and Ophelia Ormond, sisters of tile dead man, dressed in deep mourn ing frocks, cried bitterly, while their father, Rev. A. 1,. Ormond, bowed his head in deep reverence. Miss Elizabeth Annoyed. Miss Elizabeth Coie, who wore a Punishment For Mobs. I Wilmington Star, I A criminal act. whether condoned or censured by public opinion, is a : crime. Since the tendency of North j Carolina law enforcement agencies and courts is to ferret out and punish those responsible for mob violence, it is inevitable that the practice of lynch ing will ultimately be stamped out entirely. As, the law ceases to be veiled in the presence of an evil tra dition that incites men to injure and mutilate their fellows, the evil tradi tion ceases to throw its protecting shadow about those whose strength lies in the collective passion, i A grand jury in Buncombe county has indicted forty-one men for storm- I ing the jail at Asheville last Katur 'day night, in an effort to remove a negro charged with an attack upon a white woman. It has been intimated by the solicitor. Mr. Swain, and mem bers of the grand jury that possibly twelve others, some of them promi nent, will be implicated before the sweeping investigation is over. , Such drastic actions as this takes much of the charm from the bravado inspired romance of the mob spirit.. It requides courage to combat the form of savagery typified by a lynch ing, but it is to be hoped that ex ample of the Buncombe county grand jury in this respect will be followed by similar actions on the part of other grand juries when the occasion arises. There is not n desire on the part of the law to be vindicative toward those whose passions seethe at an outrage toward womanhood, but there i must be some manner of bitter medi-' cine in jested, else the orderly rules of society must crumble.' The first duty of society is to safe guard the rights of ail. Only by this can it merit the support and pro tection of civilization. If society avenges its wrongs outside the pale of the law. and holds such theory par amount. then that theory must he ex ploded. If jail sentences are neces sary to curb lawlessness to uphold te law, then they should be imposed. On leaving work one day not long ago, two miners in England found a newly-born baby lying in a sheltered pit. One of the men took the baby home to his wife. On re moving the child's wrappings the woman bank-notes to the amount of sti.ooo. together with a letter asking that the child be baptized Victor and be well cared for. Nearly $1,500,000,000 is invested ' in the industry. THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE diemond ring on her engagement ring finger Monday, today had it on a righl hand finger. She spent most of the morning trying to shield her face from the glare of the photogra phers. She was visibly annoyed. There was more talk of impropriety today. It was reported that a woman sympathizing with Mr. Cole went to one of the State's witnesses last night and pleaded with the witness, j a woman, to be very careful what she testifies because it might mean life or death for the defendant. Nothing official has been announced. The court room was jammed, every foot of space being utilized by the throng. Cole stood and listened to the solicitor recite the charges against him. The mere mention of young Ormond brought tears to Miss Ophelia Ormond, the youngest of three sisters. Mr. Cole, with the sangfroid that has characterized his appearance in the court room thus far. rocked too and fro for a moment, but he soon steadied himself and listened attentively to the charges. The eyes of the crowd were focused upon the central figure in the tragedy. Cole listened to the evident with unusual interest; at time he lunged forward to hear every syllable. Most of the day he sat with his wife and daughters and son. I, Cheers When Congress reduces federal taxes It should exempt from the incorm tax law all married men making less than SSOOO and all single men whosa incomes do not exceed S4OOO, sayi • Rep. John N. Garner, leading Demo Icrat on the House Ways and Meant "Committee. This would exempt J, 000,000 people now paying Incorm taxes. Matty Baseball “Repeaters” In 1925. New York, Oet. I.—A notable fea ture of the baseball season notv near ing its close has beeni the murder of the clubs in big and little leagues which have repeated as pennant winners. Os the two major leagues, the American League championship has gone for the second consecutive year to the Washington Senators. In twenty-three minor leagues the championship has been won this year by seven clubs which finished first in 1924. The Baltimore Orioles head the list by pulling down their seventh consecutive pennant in the Inter national League, trailed closely by the Fort Worth Panthers, who for the sixth consecutive year have copped the bunting in the Texas League, after being hard pushed by the Dal’as tenm, who tied them for first place in the second half- The other repeaters this year in clude Waterbury in the Easteru Lea gue, Corsicana iu the Texas Asso ciation!, Richmond in the Virginia Lenyue, and Durham in the I’ied mont League. Jim: "My girl only uses one gar ter.” Toto: “How does she keep the other stocking up?” Jim: “She has a wooden leg and uses thumb tacks.” skinnTlen Thin Men Run Down Men Nervous Men I You probably know that Cod Liver | Oil is the greatest flesh producer in j the world. | Btcausc it contains more Vitamines I that any food you can get. I You’ll be glad to know that Cod ! Liver Oil comes in sugar coated tab ■ lets now, so if you really want to put I 10 or 20 pounds of solid healthy fletO |on your bones and feel well and strong ask the Pearl Drug Company or any druggist for a box of McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. Only CO cents for 00 tab'ets and if you don't gain five pounds in 30 days your druggist is authorized to hand you back the money you paid for them. It isn’t anything unusual for a per son to gain 10 pounds in 30 days. “Get McCoy's, the original and gen uine Cod Liver Oil Tablet.” Can a Rich Man Be Sent to the Chair? I * Txv Six weeks have pas«ed si nee Colo shot Ormond to death while .the ex serviee man sat in tiis Ford ear on the main street of Roekingham sixty feet from the office of the mill owner. ‘ For six weeks Cole has remained in jail of Richmond county, and for six weeks Ormond’s young body has lain in the sandy loam of the Roekingham cemetery, writes Jonathan Daniels in i the News and Observer. For six weeks Miss Elizabeth Cole, the sweetheart and the daughter, has lived in silence with the tragedy which grew out of her love affair with the dead man. The trial has raised throughout North Carolina the question whether or not a rich man ran be sent to hirj death in the State’s prison here. Cole is rich and lie will be defended by the ablest lawyers of the state, but wealthy relatives of the dead man and members of the American Legion have provided funds for the employ ment of private prosecution equal in ability to the attorneys who will tight for Cole's life. Death Penalty Involved. The electrocution of Cole would be I a new spectacle in the history of j justice in North Carolina newspaper men who attend the executions at. the State's prison have seen scores of terrified negroes strapped into the gaunt electric chair. White men who have been thrown into eternity by the lethal current have been ordinary men. Harris, of Illack Mountain, who was executed one fair week was ' perhaps the most prominent who has j gone down the bleak row. Yet not i since electrocution at the prison was substituted for jailyard hanging, has as prominent a man ass ('ole token his J final seat in the fatal chair. And (’ole will never go to the chair until after a bitter fight that will end in ultimate proof of his guilt or liis innocence. It is going to be one of the historic legal fights in the an nals of North Carolina justice. Colt's Defense. “Mr. Cole has a perfect defense,” his attorneys have stated. They* in timated that the defense would be solely along the lines of self defense. However, it is believed that they will use every available and legitimate means to secure the acquital of their client. At one time, it was sug gested that the defense would present a variation of the unwritten law aroiihd Ormond's relations with Miss Cole. Then it was stated that the defense attorneys will protect Miss Cole’s reputation with the same ardor with which they will fight for Cole’s acquital. Recently a report that an insanity plea would be made has been partially ! supported by the statement of Dr. J. j T. J. Rattle, medical director for the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, that “I have been spoken to about testifying.” Dr. Rattle stat ed that he knew of at least one other doctor who was being considered by the defense as an expert witness. There has been insanity in Cole’s family. The case has attracted particular I interest, however, not only because | I a rich and prominent man shot down | an incapacitated ex-service man, but j because a distinct love interest is ( added to the tragedy by the one-time | ardor of Ormond and Miss Elizabeth | Colt. There are three principals to j the tragedy—Cole, Ormond and Miss I | Cole. Who Is Cole? , Cole is the son of John W. ('ole, j lawyer, and Mrs. Kate Cole, daughter of Robert Leak Steele. John Cole was comparatively poor and was nev er a man of robust health. Mrs. Cole “WITHOUT MERCY” IS i TYPICAL OF MELFORD Director Handles Delicate Situations Without Detracting From Plot. George Melford, who directs "With out Mercy,” the Metropolitan Pro duction which is to come to the Con cord Theatre today for a two-day run, is credited with having made more “coiner” pictures than any other di rector in the business. “Coiner" pic tures are so termed because of their entertainment and box office value. "Without Mercy” will be followed by four more George Melford pro- j ductions for Metropolitan, all of which I will be released through Producers! Distributing Corporation. His work on "Without Mercy” bears out his reputation as a director with the ability to bring out the ut most of all who come under his guid ance, and to handle them in delicate situations without detracting from either the condition to be presented, or the dramatic effects of the actors’ interpretation. “Without Mercy” abounds in situa tions, piling one upon the other, to the crisis. It is a story presented in detail, and each detail is portrayed in such a manner and with such a clarity, that the whole runs smooth ly and imprints itself on the specta tor's mind without apparent effort. Melford has played Dorothy Phil lips in the leading role and surround ed her with a cast which includes Roekliffe Fellowes, Vera Reynolds, Robert Ames and Lionel Belmore. The picture was released through Producers Distributing Corporation. TODAY’S EVENTS Thursday, October 1, 1925 Today is St. Dunstan’s Day for' the blind. The third annual International Pe troleum Exposition opens at Tulas, Ola. A foreign trade convention has been called to met in Washington today un der the auspices of the Department of oCmmeree. William Wallace Atterubry today | assumes office as president of the | Pennsylvania Railroad, in succession 1 to Samuel Rea, retired. David R. Francis, former governor | of Missouri, member of the Cleveland cabinet, and last United States as- j bassador to Russia, is 75 years old today. t The twenty-third meeting of the In- j Union, which opens j iu Washington today, will be attend- | inherited land and money from liar father. W. I!. (’nlr did not go to college but attended school at the Hor ner Military Academy. Later he went to Rhode Island, where he com pleted a textile course. He worked for two years in Concord Cannon Mills. He returned to Rockingham and became superintendent of Steele's Mill. Later R. S. Steel, of Rocking '.mm, organized the Hannah I‘ickett Mill and Cole became superintendent of it as well as of Steele's Mill. He soon became the real genius of the mill. and. although Mr. Steele is pres ident. Cole is completely in charge. He gradually expanded the Hannah Rickett Mill and two or three years ago practically doubled its capacity giving it 82,000 spindles and 1,800 looms. He i« considered one of the leading textile men of the state. His mill has never had to curtail. The mill is non-union and no attempt has been made to organize the workers. Tliere has never been a strike which affected it. He married Miss Elizabeth Little, daughter of Robert Little, who was | raised in Anson county. Mr. Little 1 had moved to Arkansas shortly after j the Civil War and had become the state’s biggest farmer and a mil lionaire. Mr. Cole often visited his uncle. Thomas Steele, in Arkansas, and Mrs, Cole visited relatives in Rockingham before her marriage. Mr. Little left each of Mrs . Cole's children SIOO,OOO, it is stated. Enemies of Cole and friends of ; Ormond say that Mr. Cole's father ! married Miss Steele for money and that Cole himself married Miss Little for money. This is denied by friends j of the Cole family. A conservative estimate by a Rock ingham banker as to Cole's wealth places its around $200,000 with the other members of Ills immediate fam ily being worth approximately that much again. Cole's property listed for taxes on the books of Richmond county is only about $40,000 but the larger part of his wealth is invested in cotton mill stocks, banks, an ice cream factory and other industries. Miss Elizabeth Cole. Miss Elizabeth Cole is an outdoor girl. She plays tennis well and rides horseback astride. Outdoors she is free and attractive. She dances but little.. And is at her best at the bridge table. She is 24 years old and is pretty but she never has been a belle. She attended college at Converse Collge in South Carolina. Miss Colle had never had many sweethearts but when young Rill Or mond returned from the war covered with glory and incapacitated with wounds on the field of battle an ar dent love developed between them. The two were sweethearts until Oc tober, 1024, at least, but toward the last Cole's objections to the match gradually estranged the young people. Finally he forbade Ormond to come to his house but Miss Cole and Or mond corresponded until the early ) part of this year. I When her father shot down her former sweetheart she was in Hamlet at a party. She was called back to I Rockingham before her father was I carried to jail. Conflicting stories have been told about her meeting with j her father after the shooting. One j was that she cried, "Oh! why did father do it?” Friends of Ormond's in Rocking ham declared that when Cole broke up the love affair Miss Cole went to the home of a girl friend and threw herself upon a bed weeping: “I’ve given up Bill for father's sake," she said between sobs. i ed by parliamentarians from half a hundred countries and gives promise of being the most important gathering of its kind ever held. “Mad Slones.” Winston-Salem Journal. A “mad stone” is the curious prop erty of an Iredell county woman. She does believe it is potent to cure or prevent hydrophobia or ward off any other malady that might beset a hu man. Rut she talks very interest ingly of the wonders of accomplish ment that are laid to the credit of : tlie little stone. Os course, the power j of a “mad stoqle” (has been 'very greatly depreciated by the increase in intelligence and the influence of science, but it is altogether possible that there are many people who would feel quite secure if they had this stone in their own possession. The “mad stone” attained its repu tation in the first place no doubt be cause its application to a “bite” was followed by the recovery of the in jured person. One such coincidence of this kind would be enough to es tablish the curative reputation of the stone. Each succeeding coincidence would hut strengthen the belief of people in its potency and power. In stances when cure did not follow ap plication of the stone would be for gotten. That is a peculiar psycho logical trait that human beings have. The human mind has had a hard time reaching the level of logical, scien tific thinking. This difficulty has had its effect in religion, and so God j has been represented as acting in peculiar ways at times. But the ec- j centricities that have been ascribed to ‘ Him are due to the “mad stone” logic of the human mind and are not valid descriptions of His ways. According to a report made by the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, the total number of manufacturing establishments in the city of Brockton in 1024 was 256, of which 55 were devoted to the manu facture of boots and shoes. In ad dition there were 60 establishments I making boot and shoe stocks and I I findings. | A process by which worn out silk ! can be restored to its original state ( is reported to have been discovered :by a young Japnnese scientist who recently graduated from the Uyeda j Sericulture School. The process still | remains a secret, but it is believed to have great commercial pcssibili-1 I ties. j 1 (3 (NATION WIDE n 1W ■ institution- I I J |enney'Ua DEPARTMENT STORES aO-54 South Union Street. Concord, N. C. 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Should a Girl Kiss a Man Before He Proposes?” is Nove> Theme of Smart Set Magazine’s Voting Contest •/out typical it this scene < ~ TIMID persons who say the Flap per has cast modesty and dis cretion to the winds may take heart. “Smart Set” Magazine, in the October issue, publishes the re sults of an inquiry made by it among its girl readers on the sub ject “Shall I Pet.” Here is the frank, outspoken reply of American youth to the big problem of the girl:— Os 516 letters only 5 of them endorsed promiscuous kissing —a hundred to one majority in favor «f common eeast; %17 letters said “If you love fttaji iiss him good aignt”—or wards ito that effect; 262 letters safljnten’t give a frac tion of an inca until he proposes.” Os course these aren’t the words they used. Bach one said it in a different way. Men wrote 'BB-xif these letters. 44 of them think Nt ljug or a kiss does no hwm now aatfuren4f you care for each other. Single girls stood 128 to 110 against even holding hands?' but 88 married women saw ttwt e little show of affection is necessary now and then, while 78 said, “Stand pat, girl, and your Prince will come.” All in all, the letters uphold all our traditions and help us to be lieve that the "flapper panics" have been largely noise, and that com mon sense still prevails. A Prize Letter Hem is one of a group of letters in October “Smart Set,” written to Betty, who complained in a pre- p •ious issue that she was losing her men friends because she would not “pet.” Dear Betty: Atta girl, Betty! Don’t let men fool you into thinking that they really like the hard-boiled type. Ask any girl you know who ls{ wearing a solitaire and you will hear the same tale. Her sweetie I fell fer her because she was dis j fereni. New Bridges In Carolinas to Be Built by the Southern. Charlotte, October I.—Six heavy bridges are to be erected by the South ern Railway immediately in North and South Carolina to take It]e place of lighter structures now in service. The largest of the projects to be undertaken will be the construction of a new bridge, 625 feet long, across Idols on the line between Winston j Salem and Charlotte. The present j masonry stem walls will be topped j out with concrete and five 125-foot riveted truss spans will be placed. On the line between Columbia and Spartanburg, the Broad River bride near Shelton, 128 feet long, and the > Cedar Creek bridge, near Montgomery, 169 feet long, will be replaced by new revited truss spans of heavier con l struetion. [ The pier on the Salisbury end will PAGE THREE Os course, a little petting befora you get engaged isn’t a crime if you see the man’s intentions an serious. Let him kiss you, if ha insists, but act half-frightened and, if you want to hold him, don’t kiaa him back. Bank up the inner flami that burns within you until Bob talks marriage. Don’t respond to his caresses except shyly until you are sure that you have sold him the husband idea. I never knew a girl who got a diamond that would really cut glass, and a wedding ring, too, by that wildfire line. This necking “tuff is dangerous for a girl. AU the instincts of her saesvibrs warn her that if fire burns, at least the girl gets burned. Better miss a few joy rides and road-house din ners, kid, than find yourself dis carded for a less pretty girl. Every girl wants fu® anil dance dates and theater scats, but the response to j that hungry-eyed passion that you saw in Bob is too big a price to pay. j ‘‘Don’t Look For A Sheik” If a hope chest and vines over a bungalow porch are part of your dreams, girlie, don’t act like your heart’s desire was to kick in the line of a gay revue. Men like the chorus dalles for playmates, but not tot Wives. Crawl into your barrel Hfjc that rough stuff if you want tO?ke the love light in your sweetie eyes. You can’t have everything. Don’t try to get a pthliiling sheik and a lovely hue band with the same bait. No- be yourself, Betty, and don’t let Bob kid you into thinking that be can call the tune unless he tunea tb with a proposal first. Believe lT>e. if I wpre you, I’d tell him where he got off at! Don’t worry I Lots of fellows will fall hard sos your litre, if this one doesn’t, Vein® for true happiness, m. e. r Cleveland, 0. he rebuilt anil a new 131-foot bridge installed at Curtis Creek, near Old Fort, and a new 50-foot plate girder, designed for modern loading, will re place the present bridge across Shut in Creek, between Hot' Springs and I’aint Rock. At Bullocks Sreek. near Sharon, 8. C., on the line between Kingsville and Marion, new concrete piers will be built and a 160-foot deck truss span inistalled. All the new bridges will he fabri cated by the Virginia Bridge & Iron empanq. Mitsonetaoinshr.bpuSewill Comcany. Masonry and other work will be done by Southern Railway forces. This year, for the vrst time, the school population of New York City has passed the million mark.