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Tuesday, December 8, 1925 Parks-Belk Co. The Christmas Store * i l l ||| “Sell It For Less” ! Our Big Christmas Drive is going !;l j|j over in Big Style so far,ancl we are j!> ;jj going to give big Special Bargains |i| l<every day from now on until Christ- i i •5 ■» v ■ . • * J | I mas to make it run over the top. ji[ Save your sugar tickets as we have ji j two car loads of sugar on the way jij and there will be plenty for every- ji body. Don’t forget we have the biggest jij ! | line of Christmas Toys and Gifts ey- j j ! j er shown in Concord and our prices j ;j j are cheaper than any. Our Grocery Dept, is complete in ji [ j every way. This is the place for you |i| : to buy your Christmas groceries if j I you want to save money, as we sell;!; j; them cheaper and deliver. Just callj j j i 138 and ask for the grocery man. “Our Store Has the Christinas Spirit” Iparks-Belk Co. r ■ * rCOUNTRYI :l lOMESPONDENCB ;i FAITH. Mrs. Lawson SiWril died at her 1 home here in Faitli Friday evening. December 4th. 1020. 'fhe funeral ami burial will take place Saturday eve ning from,the Lutheran Church, i 1 Jessie Morgan ami C. F. Lentz were i here with a big truck load of Coca | Cola from Salisbury. Fine hustling i young men. The young man at the Ford Hotel , showed us sonic fine radio machines i that he has there for sale, thevUnesf* ; we ever saw. i Here is a fine letter we just receiv -1 ed: Jacksonville, Fla.. Dec. 3, 1925. j Mr. J. T. Wyatt—Venus: of Faith, t X. C., Dear Venus: I have read | over the Faith items and would like | to tell you how much 1 enjoy reading » the items of Faith. The attached clip [ pings of the Jacksonville Terminal, i cf which I am manager of the restau -1 rant, and from the inclosed dipping! | you can tell that it iB one of the J i largest stations in the south and one | of the finest eating houses in the i country. If you will remember. I 1 got all m.v education, which is indeed | very limited, under Henry Agner. t in the little sehoolhouso over in Gant’s 1 cotton field. I wish to extend an invi ii tation to any of Jlie Faith people who i might be visiting Florida this winter | to be sure to stop in to see me here, i I have lived here for five years and 1 have traveled all over the state by ] auto. With best wishes to you and I the Faith items, 1 am, Yours most I sincerely. E. L. GLOVER. l My father is J. M. Glover; of near I Faith. | Here is a letter we just received : l Kannapolis, X. C., Dec. 3. 102!) I Mr. J. T. Wyatt, Salisbury, X. C„ | Dear Venus: 1 see in ybur items it: l the Concord Times and Salisbury Post i about many old relies. I have some j old relics. I have some old marriage i licenses dating 1 / from 1800 to 1832: | Jonas I.ipe to Esther Life, Aug. 4. i 1800; Daniel Goodman to Margaret i Klutz, Deo. 25. 1821; Charles So frit | to Sophia Klnttz, Oct 24, 1820. Isaac i Earnhardt.'' to Sarah Troutman April 1 0, 1832. These people were married i by Rey. Geo. Roger, who is buried at i Lower Stone church. He was my | great grand-father. These might be of i interest to some of their descendants, i So if any one can beat them for old papers trot them out. Y'ours very i truly, ZEB O. WALTER. Kannapolis, X. C. l Here is a dream that Venus had the t other night: We saw six large fine | snow white horses sailing about in l the air above the tree tops. Did xou i every dream anything like that? | Here is another dream we had the i next night: The lawmakers passed a 1 law that when a man was condemned i to die that he was to be put in a ► large stout canvas bag with a kicking | mule and if that mule kicked him to i death, it was all right, and if that, ► mule did not kick him at all then he j was turned out a free man. A cer i tain length of time was stated for 1 them to be in tbe big canvas bag to-' ] gotlicr. The top of the sack was i tied up high to hold it up straight. Did 1 you ever dieam anything like that? Mrs. Jennie Jones and two chil i dren, Mr. W. S. Barger and family, [ Mr. G. C. Miller and family, of Faith, i Rev. A. O. Leonard and family, of 1 Lexington, all motored to Greensboro . Thanksgiving day and spent the day i with Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Fesperman. | Two rich indies motored up \to i Faith from Charlotte in a fine car i Monday evening to, look over Venus' Old time furniture and .junk. They i bought one candlestick and one pewter l water pitcher. The candlestick was l made of bronze metal or something • like that and was perhaps one of i King Tut's os it looked to be thous- I ands of yeitrs old. There was n man i with a clock on and a sti-ing of beads around his neck and a cross hanging I to that. He had a hat on. It was a l little statue that represented a priest | or something of that kind. She lady l said she had one pretty much like it [ and she wanted this one to match the [ other one. This will be on her mantle I piece, and the pewter pitcher in R«?r, | parlor on the center table. I Two fine looking rich ladies from l Salisbury motored to Faith Tuesday ! evening to look over Venus’ big p ; !e I of old time furniture, etc., which is piled up like a crow’s nest. They nev [er bought anything as it was'so late, i They are coming back again. They | got Venus to go with them in their I big flub car and show them where i the Cruse Bale was going to be next ! day to look over tbe things to be sold. I A large fine looking man with a * colored man driving his large fine ear ] came to see Venus’ old time things i late Tuesday evening. He bought a 1 little double table “twin table’’ and a | little old time glass -that you drink i water out of hundreds of •years old. [ The table was made of Bird's eye ma- I pie and was a fine old time relic. He I took them along in his car. On one of ! tlie back seals and one between the i seats legs up. [ The Ladies of the Reformed Church i here had their annual thank offering | services Sunday night, November 30. i The service was good and they raised i almost one hundred dollars as a thank ! offering. i Mrs. Leo Peeler, who underwent a i serious operation at the Charlotte hos | pital, is getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Burns, of Cal ifornia, are visiting Mrs. J. L Mc- Eachern at Concord, N. C., and they all motored to Faith to see Veuus. The young people of the Reformed | Church will hnve an oyster supper in i the basement of the church Saturday, ' December sth, beginning at ,four o'clock, Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Earn hardt, a son, Nevember/12th, 1925 | Cecil Paul. i Ray McCombs, manager of Peeler [ & Fraley's Store, lih« a large copper i just one hundred years old. Who ' can beat it for a U. 8, coin? | Them pretty girl clerks at Charles Store Co. in Salisbury are always giv ing Venua some items. Here is what they jnst wrote in our book: Misa Ethel Kincaid, of Salisbury, and Mr. THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE DINNER STORIES , Experience a Plenly. j Counsel: "The cross examination I didn't seem to worry you. Have ' you had any experience in that line?" Client: "Married three times." | One Way Service. Telephone Operator: "Ii costs 75 cents *tn talk to Bloomfield." Quisenberry: "Can't you make a special rate for just listening. I want to call up my wife." Bright Pupil. Irate Teacher: "Why, when I was vour age. I could name the Presi dent'-. from memory." Bright Pupil: "—Aw—when you were my age Caere were only n few of them." Beat Her To It. Mary: "1 wouldn't marry the best man living.” j Mny: "Os course you wouldn’t i You couldn't.!’ Mary: "And why couldn't I?" Mny: "Because I'm going to." A Merger. “T see in the paper that widower with nine children, out, in Nebraska, has married a widow with seven children.” "That was no marriage, that was a merger." A Trifling Oversight. “Why so glum?” "Tile doctor has jtist prescribed rest and rfmnge for me." “Well?” | "He advised ine where to get tbe rest, but he didn't tell me where to get the change." Swallowed His Pride- Tiie cannibal chief was weeping pro fusely, whereupon the inquiry was j made. “Why do you weep?" "I am weeping for my dear Gulln hazoo, the pride of my heart," sobbed the chief. | “And why do you weep for her?" “Alas! Poverty compelled me to swallow my pride!." Charles McAllen, of Spencer, were married Hallowe'en night. Miss Mary Jacobs and Mr. Robert Belk, of Sal i-bury, were married Sept. 0, 1925. Today, December 4th. is a clear warm day. Here is a letter we received: Lexington, X. C.. Dec. 1,» 1925. Dear Venus: I have two boys. I wonder if you could find any as smart as they are. One is 4 1-2 years old, now and lie can read, write and spell and count, and has been for several months. The other is 2 1-2 yenrs old. npd he knows the alphabet anyw.herc he sees it. He has been for 'several months, and can spell some words. My aunt has a little under garment of my grandfntlier’s that is one hun dred years old. If you can beat that for smart children and old garments, trot them out. Y’ours respectfully, MYRTLE WEDDINGTON. 240 4tli St St., West Lexington, X. C. If some little girl or boy will write and tell Venus where he can buy a grandfather clock and walnut fall leaf table he will send him 50 cents, if he bffys them. • VENUS. GEOKGEVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. A. Eudy and daugh ter, Elma, spent the week-end in Dav idson county near Newton with Mr. nnd Mrs. Floyd Eudy. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Eudy and daugh ter, Mary Louise, spent Sunday with relatives here. Mr. J. C. Shinn and daughter, Al ma, Rpent awhile in Concord Friday afternoon. Miss Ethel Blackwelder spent the week-end with her parents. 'On last Thursday Miss Annie Kluttz and John Allman accompanied Benja min Sechler nnd Miss Mae Overcash of Kannapolis, to York, S. C„ where Mr. Sechler and Miss OveroasH were married. On Sunday morning the children and grand-cliildren of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Furr gathered at their home to celebrate their birthday anniversary at 12 o’clock at a sumptuous dinner. All departed late in the afternoon fishing Mr. and Mrs. Furr may more happy retains of the day. • FARM GIRL. LOCUST. The' remains of Mrs. Willie Miss- Kirby were brought Friday • from her home in Columbia, S. C., here to the home of her mother, Mrs. Jas. F. Smith. The burial took place Satur day morning at Love’s Grove Church. The death of Mrs. Kirby was not un expected as she was known for some time to be in the last stage of tuber culosis. She leaves a husband and several children. Mr. William Coley and family have moved here from Concord. Rev. I). S. Jones is carrying his right arm in a sling, having received severe injuries at a saw mill. P. WHITE HALL We are sure having some windy weather now. News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Christenbury through the Red Cross of Hawaii that their son, Irvin, has reported for duty in the Hawaiian Island and ia enjoy ing life in the army fine. Stacy Kiser and family have moved intotlieir new home below the Train ing School. J., E. Thompson and family have moved into the house recently vacated by Stacy Kiser. The White. Hall boys and girls went to Roberta to give the girls and boys at Roberta a return game. The girls! lost by the score of 13 and 5, while I Mr. Howell and his boys could not come to a decision after tbe boys from White Hall had got there, Tbe White Hall boys did not play off the tie but because they would not play took the game. The games are now: Roberta 1, White Hall 2. The girls' game will be played off in the near future. Mrs. Bessie Wilson is confined to her bed on account of sickness. ' CAROLINA KID. Otto Wood Is Captured by Mooresville Chief of Police !R. S. Pickens in Greensboro News. Statesville, Dec. 7. Otto Wood. North Carolina - * craftiest convict, ended his amnia I vacation in the face i of n high'powered rifle at Mooresville till)*- afternoon. Wood escaped two weeks ago from the North Carolina state prison and since then has visited hjs family in Winston-Salem and friends in other parts of the state. At noon today he oame into States j viile and rode leisurely through the 1 main streets, stopping once for a traf fle signal. He was observed by per sons who knew him and a wild chase ensued'on the part of Iredell officials. These gentlemen maje the .one mis take of goiug in the wrong direction. One tioiir later Chief Woorlsides, of • the Mooresville police force, says lie I threw a rifle on him and found him • very affable and agreeable. Wood says tile police did not make any show of firearms. • "Why didn't you leave North Caro lina nnd stay gone while you had a chance'.'" Wood was asked in the lre ■ delt county jail this afternoon. I "Oh. I like North Carolina; it’s a good state, besides all my jieople live | '.lere." was the patriotic answer. "The j real reason 1 didn’t light out for West Virginia was on account of my moth er. She asked me to come back nnd give up. and that was what I in tended doing as soon as I had gone to Charlotte to see friends and back to Winston-Salem to see my babies again. j “I listed to leave down at Raleigh. ! They have been good to me there the past six or seven months, but I was worried about my children and want , ed to see t’iiat. they were being well | treated. Since my wife . married again I didn't know what was going . on.” j. "How did 1 get away? That was; easy. I hail clothes under my prison clothes, so when I got a chance to get into the box car where 1 had ! been loading tile I just took off my prison clothes and rode out. "I went down to Raleigh yards, walked down through the main streets of Rateigfi and across where I could get a freight to Seima. From Selma 1 went to Florence and from Florence back to Wadesboro. I rode a freight into Winston, where my babies are.” Wood spent two days with his fam ly in Winston, according to his own statement, and then went to Roanoke. From Uoancke lie went to Bluefield. W. Va., Himtingtpn, W. Vn,, and from there to Bramwell, W. Va., where his mother lives. It was there, he said, lie received the inspiration to come hack to North Carolina where he thought there might be people who would like to see him. Went Riding With Girls. "I oame bnek into North Carolina by the way of Galax. Spent the night and Sunday in North Wilkes boro." “Where did ' I stay? Oh, with friends. 1 , . During the afternoon I was ABOUT GEORGE JONES. Editor W. O. Saunders, of the Eliz abeth City independent, who is well known hwe, has a column on the front page of his paper under the caption. "Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow," in which he writes on all kinds of sub jects in the inimitable Saunders way. In the last issue he had an article in this column on “How George Jones Came to Head Standard Oil.” It is so full of sound .common sense that the Town Topics editor takes the liberty of reproducing it herewith : "George H. Jones, who started with with the Standard Oil Co., as a sten ographer on a salary of sls n week when he was 18 years old was elected chairman of the board of directors of the company the other day. I don’t know George H. Jones, the new chief executive of the Standard Oil Co.; I never heard of him until n week ago; but I bet I can give you the high lights in the history of the man who in thirty-five years rose from the ranks of a humble stenographer to the highest executive position ill the greatest industrial organization in the world. "Beginning on a small salary in an unimportant po-ition George Jones did not befcin at once to make in quiries about the place to find out what other stenographers were being paid. He didn’t pry around to see how little other employes were doing in the w*ay of a day's work and de termine not to ge a “goat” and do any more than any one else was doing. "When some older employe unload ed extra work on him he took the ex tra work upon himself without a whimper or a protest. When he ob served the fact that he was doing as much work in a day as the average employe about the place was doing in two, he didn't beliake and tell every body in the office except the boss that he was entitled to more pay. He just kept right on doing the work of two men, getting down earlier in the morn ing and staying after office hours if necessary to clean up his work. "While doing all this he never pit ied himself or burned the midnight oil searching the want add columns of the daily papers looking for a softer job. "George Jones, fifteen dollar a week stenographer, knew that in any organ ization, be it large or small, there is certain promotion and ample pay ahead of any man who makes himself indispensable to the business. And that's what George Jones did. He made himself indispensable. “It wasn't long before.the heads of the organization began to notice him. ! But human nature is often uncertain | and deceitful. A four-flusher mny make himself conspicuous by an extra spurt of effort sustained over a fairly long period for tbe mere sake of de cc;ving his employers and stepping in to a softer berth with higher pay. "The shrewd men overhead watched that Jones boy until they were *ure| that he was genuine and more inter ested in his job than in his pefaonal advancement. And young Jones re sorted to no tricks or underhand de vices t* make himself conspicuous fn out riding with another fellow an<l a couple of girls. "Mire girl*? Sure, I call 'em niee." I "There is one thing I wish you I would say for me. buddy. Some fel low named Huffman in Haleigh told the tireehshoro News that I was on j my way to Greensboro to get another I .lew, I never said any sueli thing] and I would like for the people to j know I didn't. "Sure I read the papers all the time. Picked up the Greensboro! News at Florence Cite morning after 1 got away. They had a picture of; me on the front page. Didn't think j much of the picture. Ain't near ns j ! andsome ns I am.” The golden front teeth of the cap tured man flashed as he enjoyed his own humor. "Do you expect to have another va cation next year?" “Oil. 1 don't know; I ain't got i sense enough to be scared of anything, j but s' mehow 1 am getting tired of j this sort of lift l . Always running front something. I kinder think I'll go back and settle down and some day the people of the state will realize j 1 didn't kill that man. The doctors operated and he never come out from under the ether. He didn’t have anything but a little scalp wound and I know that didn't kill itim. Four or five years from now people will realize all that." he added with un conscious pathos. , "It's my babies and m.v old mother that gets me worried when j am down there. Mr. Pou and the new warden are good to me and I hate tc be leaving there on account of them but since m.v wife married again 1 can't keep up with m.v mother and my babies. I “Mind my wife marrying again? I No. I told her rnottier that I felt she was doing the right thing. "That fellow she married needn’t ] have left town when 1 left down at | Haleigh. I don't hold any grudge I and wouldn't do him any harm." ] Again the gold teeth flashed. Wood is comfortably housed in the ] Iredell county jail awaiting state t prison officials. He says that he ] won't break out tonight as be likes | the fellows around the place. Nu- < merous people in the city tonight arc locking their cars for the first time. t During the early afternoon the not- I ed convict held open house at the jail ! ] Word that he had been' captured t spread around town and literally ] hundreds crowded through the corri- i dor .of the jail to get a glimpse of i him. From banker to bum they all j passed the cell of the captured con vlct and all pronounced him an affable fellow. The sheriff discovered what J was going on and put a stop to it Haleigh with its- bandit has nothing on Statesville. Wdod was making his tour in a Dodge sedan which he says belongs to a friend in Huntington. He is wearing a brown sweater, riding breeches and puttees. the eyes of his employers or in any way impress them that he thought he was worth more to them than he was He did not pester them by telling them of his troubles with the rest ol the help or make them uncomfortable by complaining of his health and hint ing that he thought he would have tc s()ek a change of environment. "There are lots of men Just like that; just when they arc proving theii worth to a business and their em ployer they get a fool idea in their heads that their employer is not ap preeiative enough or is not advancing them as fast as he should, and thej begin to show their pettiness'and in ward cussedness by trying to mak< their employer uncomfortable and afraid that he will lose them. As at employer of labor myself I have had a lot of men to try to pull that sort of stuff on me and right then and there I determine to get rid of them at the first favorable opportunity. "But there was none of that stuff in George H. Jones. He mastered the details of the business and worked hours overtime every day it seemed neccsskry; never haggled for a ra : se; never bellaiked because other were not everything they should be; never went around saying how he would run the business if it were him. “He just kept on doing his work well and making himself agreeable and obliging to everybody, and because he succeeded in this in a bigger way than any one else in the whole Standard Oil organization it was inevitable that he should be steadily promoted and eventually attain to the head of the organization. “That is the story of George H. Jones, the new head of Standard Oil written by one who never heard of him until his name crept out in the news paper headlines a few days ago. It is the only story that anyone could write about any eminently success ful man, because the story of every big business executive in America today reads just like the story of every oth er big executive. "And I haven’t said a thing about the honesty, sobriety and morals of Mr. Jones. Those are common virtues without which no man can succeed in the employe of others." All die big London hotels where rich visitors from abroad stay have . on their staff one or two women pro ; fessional shoppers whose duty it iR either to assist visitors in their tours round the shops, or buy things for them unaided. The qualities that make a professional shopper include tact, a first class education, and a real eye for bargains. Enteprising American promoters have launched a scheme in Paris for insuring French women against be coming “old maids.” They offer to the fair ones of France an insurance policy which becomes payable if, at the age of forty, the holder is either /a spinster, a widow, or divorced. | The original “Royal” hybrid wal nut tree on Luther Burbank's farm has for fiftten years paid in nuts and ■ grafts an annual interest of six per i cent on SIO,OOO. ▼ /IT* fl (WJOn-WTDF M . INSTITUTION- I J I, renney W %#* wdL DEPARTMENT STORES JO-54 South Union Street. Concord. N. C. Give A Xmas See Car 'Fine Assortment The old reliable, the ■ tlways welcome gift—a Handkerchief! This year the Christmas hankies are JrJOj prettier than ever and S' they will delight the re- j Daintily Made o? ( Sheer Materials . Some are fashioned of l A* s *® silk, others of linen, oth- fy Wnr/,» M / ers from novelty fabrics. .A In white • and colors, r \ 7 l ! There’s lace, embroidery, \ CJ»r* } applique, and every con- Jr ceivable trimming. Priced, 7 jw 5c to 39c 1 _ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I NEW I v Blond Kid Pumps, All Widths $6.95 j ill V Black and Brown Velvet Pumps § 2 $4.95 !i Patent, Satin and Kir Strap Colonial, and Step-in Pumps I l ] $2.95 $3.95 T 0 $6.95 In every detail our shoes are far above those usually I'” lj| found at these prices I MARKSON SHOE STORE 5 PHONE 897 J j y; 'ioooooooooooooooooooooooooobooooooooooooooooooeoo ; THE UNIVERSAL CAR Are you going to buy a car? If so, what are you eon- ' J i sidering as related to the dealer from whopi you intend j! buying? There are many things you should weigh well X j] before making up your mind. ]i | j We are offering a car of known value and undisputed ]' I I leadership. Our organization is reliable and trustworthy > through desire to be so and not by necessity. Our service ' is good because our men know their business and want to '!' j! help our customers in every possible way. ]l] In short, our spirit of helpfulness and friendliness to ']' ji our patrons forms a tie between them and us that is sel- X > dom broken. REID MOTOR CO. CONCORD’S FORD DEALER 5 Corbin and Church Streets Phone 220 ?! a6ooooooooooocx>oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooocx A WAGON FOR XMAS— A “SHERWOOD” is Best. 1 inch rubber tires—steel * disc wheels—roller bearing—all steel frame and strong wooden body. Buy one today. We will, hold it until Christmas for ’ you. Ritchie Hardware Co. YOUR HARDWARE STORE PHONE 117 Our Penny ADS. Get Quick PAGE THREE
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