Monday, Dec. 28, 1925
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1-4 OFF
CLOTHING SALE
Beginning Monday Morning All Men’s Clothing 1-4 Off. All Overcoats Go in this Sale.
1 T* l * B is y° ur opportunity to buy Fashion Park, Kirschbaum and other nationally known clothing
This is a Clean-up Sale of all Men’s and Boys’ Suits. All Overcoats must go. Men’s Trousers
1 4 at Big Reduction. "
RICHMOND FLOWE CO.
i Concord, North Carolina
Stanly to Build Hard Surface
Road to Rowan County
Albemarle Prcas-
Stanly county citizens sat up and
took notice latter part of Inst week
when the news was heralded that
Bowan county would proceed to
build a hard surface road to the
Stanly county line, but that Stanly
had decided to withdraw from her
end of the project.
Brown & Sikes, a local law firm,
ate attorneys to our county board.
They have been in close touch with
the situation at all tines, and when
an alleged quotation from a letter of
Mr. Brown to Hon. W. C. Wilkin
son, members of State Highway
commission, was made our folks got j
busy and wanted to know the whys
and. wherefores of it all. Lawyer
Brown says his phone rang all day
long, nnd calls from al, parts of the
county registered protests.
But some news reporter had not
gone fully into the letter alleged to
have been quoted. In fact, only
those in touch with what had g#n»
before could know just what was
taking place.
.Good Advertising.
Gastonia Gazette.
Mention has been made in this pa
iter more than once about the yellow
nag that Spartanburg uses on the cars
M strangers who come to the city.
| The practice Is gaining a lot of favor
able publicity for the South Caro
lina city. The visiting motorist gets
quite a “kick" out of the tag. In
cidentally, Spartanburg is attracting
the attention of some Florida papers
which commend this practice, noting
the fact that this custom will leave
a favorable impression on the hun
dreds of tourists who pass through
the city. The Sarasota Times re
cently had an editorial commending
Spartanburg hospitality. It is mighty
good advertising, says The Herald,
quoting the Florida article:
“Spartanburg, 8. C., is one city
that ia 'taking full advantage of the
opportunity to capitalize its advant
ages with the thousands of Fiorida-
motorists who pass through its
borders annually.
“One of the things Spartanburg is
doing to make tourists feel at home
there is to tag automobiles. Large
yellow tage are tied on steering wheels
of foreign cars on which is printed
the greeting: ‘Hello, Visitor! Spar
tanburg Welcomes You and Hopes
You Will Return Often. Maps and
Information at Chamber of Com
. merer.’ Also this information: "This
card entitles you to park your car as
long as you please is Spartanburg.
Never mind the time limit.’ They
are made to feel that Spartanburg is
glad to have them, hopes they .will
come agajn, and that they are not to
tyrannized by police or fee-grab
•wMng deputies and constables if they
\ exceed by a few minutes tbs parking
time limit
“Such a spirit will leave a favor
t able impression of Spartanburg with
In a nutshell, the local attorneys
were familiar with previous demands
and plans to the effect that $400,000
was required. These attorneys in
vestigated the laws and outstanding
obligations. It was found that, to go
farther than a loan of $390,000 was
impossible, since the county could
not increase its existing obligations
to a point of that dimension.
The letter of Brown & Sikes re
lated at this point, and was not in
tended as a withdrawal of Stanly
from the project, since the county
has nt all times been ready and will
ing to reach its legal limit.
At any rate, by wire message, the
local attorneys mnde the point
plain. The county will loan to the
state 'the sum of $3904)00, and it is
believed thpt ways nn4 means will be
provided for finishing the road to the
Rowan line.
The step is one which meets wide
approval, and there i« general good
feelings that the matter has been dis
posed of so that the contract will be
in the January lettings.
tourists wbol, -all other things being
equal, will make it a point to make
their return trip that way. *
“It is an example many other cities
could follow with profit. How much
better than to hoot and jeer cars that
display a Florida pennant! It will
give Spartanburg valuable advertis
ing which could not be purchased.”
The January number of Movie
Mggazine, a Macfadden publication,
contains the latest ,new of moviedom.
“Camera Scoops of Motion Picture
I’people Which A're the Last Word
Ii the News” include such celebrities
as Norma Shearer and lew Cody, who
appear in “Free Lips”; Marion Davies
as she appears in “Lights of Old
Broadway”, a group picture of the
Noah Beery’s luncheon taken in a
Spanish patio set at the Lasky ranch
which had Tito Ships, the famous
toner, as guest of honor. There is
a very interesting article by Helen
Carlisle, “Do Men* Notice What a
Woman Wears?” which disproves the
old story that me ndon’t pya much
attention to women’s clothes. Read
the opinions of such screen stars as
Roman Novarro, Rod Laßoque, Ru
dolph Valentino and others. “What
American Has ’Done to Fela” as told
by her director, Paul Bern( the fair
est and frankest story of Pola Negri
ever written.
“No,” remarked the determined lady
to the indignant taxi-cab driver, af
ter giving him his exact far?, “you
can’t cheat me. I haven’t ridden in
cabs these ten years for nothing 1”
“Haven’t you?” he returned, fcitter
ly. “Well, you’re done your best.”
The first', winter lawn bowling
tournament ever held in the United
States will be put on at St. Peters
burg, Fla., he week of January 29.
Tell Which Is Prettiest
When the students’ year book at the Oklahoma State Agricultural v
pictures of forty-three co eds to Cecil De Mllle, movie director askln£°h?m beauty contest 11 “nt
£ted all but these two. saying he couldn’t deMde ttween them a! thty■ e
left, Mlaa Mary, Janet Turnbull, Woodward. Okie., £££% cioZ £°M
MT. MITCHELL QOLDEST
SPOT IN THE STATE
Zero .Tempeature Recorded There One
Day in November.
Raleigh, Dec. 28.—04>)—The only
zero temperature recorded in North
Carolina during November was on
top of Mount: ..Mitchell. Ther range
in temperature for the state during
the month was 'BO degrees, Mount
Mitchell’s zero temperature having
been recorded on' November 24th,
while'the maximum for the month
was reached when the thermometer
ran up so 80 degrees at Rockingham
on November 7th.
The figures are recorded id the
North Carolina section of cliinatical
data, a publication of the United
States weather bureau.
But (he weather on Mount Mitchell
was not excessively cold throughout
the month. A maximum of 54 de
grees was reached on other days dur
ing (he month. And Mitchell's min
imum was almost equalled by anoth
er point, Parkar, in Ashe county, al
titude 4,075' feet. Where a tempera
ture of one degree abpve zero was
recorded on the same day as Mitch
ell's minimum. ,
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THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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Other low temperatures recorded
during the month were those at Alta-
W«s«, 13 degrees: Banners Elk and
Brevard, 10 degrees at each point;
Brewers, in JVilkes county, 13; Cul
lowhee, 11; Highlands, 12; Jefferson,
14; Monk rent, 12: Mount Airy, 14;
and Waynesville, 12. All These point*
lie in the western section of . the
state, anfi all, with the exception of
Mount Airy and Brewers, have alti
tudes of more than 2,000 feety
The largest amount of rainfall was
recorded at Rock House, in Macon
-county, with a precipitation of 7.81
inches, as compared with 1.37 inches
at Durham, the smallest amount of
rainfall at any one point in the state
during the month. The
3.27 inches. The precipitation on
Mount highest point in the
State, was 5.39 inches, vvhere nearly
two inches—l .08-LfelF in the course
of a single 24-hour period. Seven
tenths of an inch of snow was'also
recorded on the peak of Mitchell.
A, Greenland conjurer against evil
spirits once advised Kaj Birket Smith,
a Danish explorer, to sew his boots
to the back of his mother’s dress to
be worn there the rest of her life.
SKINNY MEN
Thin Men
Run Down Men
Nervous Men
You probably know that Cod Liver
Oil is the greatest flesh producer ifk
the world. *
Because it contains more Vitamines
than any food you can get. '
You’ll be glad to know that Cod
Liver Oil comes in sugar coated.tab
lets now, so if yon really want to put
10 or 30 pounds of solid healthy flesh
on your bones and feel well and
strong ask the I’enrl Drug Company
or any druggist for a box of McCoy’s
Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets.
Only 60 cents for 00 tablets and if
you don’t gain five pounds in 30 days
your druggist is authorized tp 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
genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablets.”
WAS 105 YEARS OLD
An Old-Time Faithful Negro.—Was
Married Five Times.
Henderson, Dee. 28.—C4 3 )—“Uncle”
Tom Cheatham, old negro, much loved
in this community, is dead. He would
have been "105 years old this coming
Easter, an hour to sun,” he said.
With his death, there ended the
picturesque career of a clique char
acter.
While the exact date of the old
negro’s birth is not known, it is
placed by the Cheatham family at
1820 or 1821. He belonged to Isham j
Cheatham, and is said to have driven;
his master’s twin daughters to school [
each day. They would have been
101 years old next February, the fam
ily say, so the old negro’s estimate of,
his age must be amout correct.
“Uncle” Tom. ( out of .100 slaves,
was chosen by his master as carriage
driver. The old negro lived through
four wars. He helped build the rail
road from Raleigh to Henderson, from
Durham to Roxboro. from Durham to
Keyesville, from Dickerson to Ox
ford, and from Oxford to Henderson.
He had worked for the past 23 years
for R. J. Corbitt, where it is re
ported he rendered faithful, loving, j
efficient service. It has been said
of him thaf he "was honorable and
had a faithful heart.”
The first war through which he
lived was the war with Mexico. When
war was declared against Mexuto, he
was called to bring his master into
Henderson to muster troops to go to
war. And when Governor Vance j
was Governor of North Carolina, and
the war between the states began, he
left his wife and four children at
home with his “mistress,” and fol
lowed his young master through the
four years of the war. He helped
build the (breastworks of Fort Fisher.
Tom prided himself on his strength.
Colonel Ellis young used to keep two
bushels of copper in his Btore. The
young bucks of the community used
this is a test of strength, to the
amusement of their fellows, who eat
abound the store, where they whittled,
chewed tobacco and spun yarns. |
“Uncle” Tom Is reported to have
shouldered the two bushels of copper,!
carried it across the street, and back
again, thus proving, it is said, that
he was the strongest young negro
in the entire community. At anoth-1
er time, it is said that he wae given j
the opportunity to drink all the li-1
qupr he wanted, if he would lift the'
barrel and drink from the bung hole.;
He not only did as he was told, ac-1
cording to apparently reliable report,
but drank entirely more than was
good for him.
On another occasion he won a SSOO
bet for his master. Fdr going into
the forest, felling the trees, and maul
ing and splitting rails in the
course of a day, he is reported to
have won for himself a new pair of
boots—and the S6OO bet for his mas
ter. |
One year, since he was freed, the
old negro made an extraordinarily
good crop of tobacco. After celling
it at a high priqe, be took the green-'
backs out of his pocket, laid a walk-
way on the street, and proudly walked
up and down across his “gilded” walk
way.
The old negro was never in court
but once. That was due to trouble
with one of his five wives, and cur
rent local opinion of the time took
the attitude in even that that the old
negro was not at fault.
The old man was laid to rest near
the old Cheatham plantation where
he was born a ceutury ago, and
around which lingered many pictur
esque and loving memories in the old
man's mind.
FLAPPER FACES MENACED
English Beauty Being Lost Through
Too Great Indulgence in Sports.
London, England, Dec. 28. —Eng-
land is threatened by a now menace.
While the underground railways have
not yet evolved in English maidens the
equivalent of what in New York is
termed the “subway mouth,” the Eng
lish flapper is endangered from an
other source.
She is, say her critics, in danger of
becoming too masculine through over
indulgence—not in snthetie gin or the
Charleston—but in “manly” sports.
The latest prophet of despair is no
less an authority on feminine charms
divine than Alfred Praga, R. B. A.,
the portrait painter and president of
the Society of Miniatures. He looks
into the future and sees nothing but
great big beefy beldames all over
Britain if the girls hereabouts con
tinue in the manly sports.
“The effect of this over-indulgence
in sports creates a' hard type of face
that no amount of use of the lipstick
or other aids to complexion will ov
ercome," said Praga. “Girls of today
are in fact developing the motoring
face, the dancing face and the sports
face.”
Praga is not alone in his apprehen
sion concerning the “sports face.” His
worst fears are confirmed by Miss
Charlotte Cowdroy, head mistress of
Courch End High School and College
and a member of the joint committee
on the physical education of girls.
| Miss Cowdroy not only sees a race
of amazons overrunning England, but
! predicts that with all their physical
prowess they are more likely than not
to become the mothers of male weak
, lings.
i _£
STINGIEST PERSON.
New York Mirror.
| The stingiest person I know is a
man who has a pin attached to the
end of his walking stick to pick up
, cigarettes with.
The stingiest person I know is my
boss. Every pay day he is a cent or
two short for my envelope.
The stingiest person I know is a
fellow who buys me a book and reads
it himself before he gives it to me.
The stingiest person I know is a
i lady who has a telephone pay station'
in her store and when sne wants to
call anyone she walks three blocks to
a friend’s house.
USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PATS
PAGE THREE
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Chapman bas records of 4:28 for
mile and 9:40 for the two-mlle and it
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