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'Quick Clothing Sale
r This Stock of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing and Overcoats Must Be Moved In a Week
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MEN’S SUITS MEN’S OVERCOATS BQYS’SUITS
145.00 Suits .$30.00 $35.00 Coats .....$26.25 $20.00 Suite ’ SISOO
$40.00 Suits $30.00 S3OOO Coats $22.50 $18.50 Suite sl3 88
$35.00 Suits $26.25 $25.00 Coats $18.75 $15.00 Suite . $11*75
$25.00 Suits . .$18.75 $20.00 Coats $15.00 ’ $12.50 Suite .. s9*3B
$20.00 Suits $15.00 $17.50 Coats $13.13 SIO.OO Suite '. .!. $7.50
One lot of Men’s Suits, fine quality, mostly small sizes, a few 38’s and 40’s. These Suits sold as high as $45.00. The entire lot on floor.
Will go for SIO.OO per suit. Come and get your share of these Real Bargains. ' . , i
RICHMOND FLOWE CO.
j Concord, North Carolina
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I Today s events.
■St Tuesday. December 29. 1925.
of the birth of William
H|&teqsrr. noted Maryland jurist.
BjSeventy-five yearn ago today saw
I « beginning of the second Kaffir
Etr in Kouth Africa.
B pne hundred years ago today died
■ cquesv Louis David, celebrated
B fench -painter and a favorite of
B tpolcon. .
■ Thirty years ago today the world
■g stiri-ed by news of the Jamesson
Bid infjj th<> Transvaal.
Appending representatives of a num-
B of -Protestant denominations in
Bmeriea will be speakers at the In-
Braehomirmtionnl Student Confer-
Bfe which opens today at Evanston.
scientists throughout the
Hiked States. Canada and Mexico
Ell attend the formal opening of the
Blabody Museum of Natural History
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at Yale University today.
Kappa Alpha, the only general
college fraternity with a membership
confined exclusively to Southern col
leges, opens its biennials convention
today at Richmond, Va.
May Solve Cyclops Mystery.
The accident to the naval collier
Orion may explain the fate which
overtook hey sister ship, the Cyclops.
A disaster was narrowly averted
when the plates on the Orion were
sprung during a severe storm off Vir
ginia. Her keel was twisted under
the strain of straddling choppy waves.
The Orion was heavily loaded at the
time but managed to make port though
leaking.
The disappearance in 1918 of the
Cyclops, with a full cargo and 290
persons on board, is one of the many
mysteries of the sea. This huge ves
sel, almost similar to the Orion, was
never heard from after leaving the
Barbados though equipped with radio
and lifeboats. Germany has no rec
ord of any of her submarines torpe
doing the Cyclops.
It is possible that she met the fate
which so nearly befelll her sister ship.
This conjecture has been left with
the naval court appointed to deter
mine if the Orion's construction was
faulty.
Has Cat 19 Years Old.
Anna Norman, of St. Paris. Ohio,
who is only 14 years old, has a cat
which is five years older than she is.
“He is pure white,” Anna says,
"weighs 12 pounds and is 1!) years
old. and is just a common cat—not
any one breed that we know of.” Do
any of our readers have a cat which
they know to be older than Annas'
cat?
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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MEMPHIS READY FOR
YOI'NG METHODISTS
Plans Rapidly Maturing For Enter
tainment ofthe 5.0(H) Delegates.
Memphis, Tenn.,
the date for the Methodist young
people's convention close at hand,
plans are rapidly maturing for the
entertainment of the 5,0(50 delegates
expected to arrive in Memphis with
in the next ten days, it is reported
by *he Rev. R. E. Nollner. executive
secretary of the convention move
ment.
Mr. Nollner has moved the con
vention headquarters from Nashville
to Memphis and is now working out
the last details with the steering
committee and other local organiza
tions. Mr. Nollner reports that he is
delighted with the response and in
terest manifested not only by local
Methodist but the city at large. The
success of the conventioili is assured,
be declares. Convention dates are
December 31, 1925, to Jauuarv 3.
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Three thousand delegates have al
ready enrolled and applications are
pouring in at the rate of from 200
to 300 a day. according to reports
from the convention headquarters.
On account of the mounting interest,
the dead line for registration has
been fixed for December 25. By
Christmas day it is expected that
every place will be taken.
At a recent dinner meeting in
Memphis, at which were present the
steering committee and other con
vention workers. Mayor Payne an
nounced that the city was in read
iness for the visitors, and no pains
would be spared fortheir pleasure
nnd comfort.
Arrangements have been made for
special trains over practically all
roads running into Memphis. Plans
are also being made whereby the dif
ferent state and conference delega
tion will be, as far as practicable,
entertained together.
Plans for the approaching conven
tion have been in the making for the
pa t two years, says Mr. Nollner.
While the idea originated sh the
Epworth League organization, seven
agencies of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, are sponsoring /he
convention, namely, the Board of
Missions, Board of Education. Lay
Activities, Sunday School Board,
Methodist publishing interests. Wo
man's Minsionary Council and the
Epworth League Board.
It is expected that the Methodist
young people’s contention in Mem
phis, December 31, 1925, to January
3, 1926. will be epoch-making, not
only in the Methodist Episcopal,
South, but in the annals of young
people of America.
Funikp Mitani, of Kyoto, Japan,
has been awarded the cup annual
bestowed upon the “perfect girl” in
the senior class- at- Mount Holyoke
College. It is the first time that any
foreign student has received this
highly prised reward. The cup ia
given to the member of the graduat
ing class on postore, proportions,
weight and general fitness.
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Shining Examples.
The rathfimler.
There died recently in separated
cities two men whose lives should be
examples to others.
After a remarkable useful career of
82 years, the Rev. Dr, Russell Con
well. lecturer and educator, passed
away in Philadelphia. Unnumbered
people, old and young, have cause to
remember him. He was often re
ferred to as the "penniless million
aire" because the large fortune earned
from his speeches and writings was
used to educate needy and ambitious
young men.
Even on bis deathbed Dr. Conwell
found time to pen the following lines
of inspiration which he called “My
Prayer”:
“I ask not for a larger garden,
But for finer seed.
I ask not for a more distant view.
But for a clearer vision of the hills
between.
I ask not to do more deeds.
But more effective ones.
I nsk not for a longer life,
But a more efficient one.”
Heavy Lansburgh, of Washington,
was prominent in fraternal and other
circles. His will stipulated that the
mausoleum containing his body should
bear the simple inscription, “Call Me
Henry,” as he was known to a host
of friends and admirers.
But this was not the thing that
wins mention of Mr. Lansbnrgh's
name in these columns.
Rather, it was his broad sympa
thies, civic pride and generosity.
Though a Jew, he gnve freely to in
stitutions of many faiths. In re
membering Protestant and Catholic
clergymen alike, he called them his
“very dear friends.” Negro and white
orphans, without distinction, and the
aged, the sick and the infirm have
reason to honor him.
If there were more Dr. Conwelte
nnd Henry Lansburghs in the world
the path to peace would not be so
hard.
“Say It With Flowers.”
The Pathfinder.
A peculiar custom has grown up in
the underworld of Chicago.
Whenever a gangster, gunman,
root logger, cut-throat or thief passes
in his cheeks his pals buy thousands
of dollars worth of flowers for his
funeral. At a recent burial the
flowerß coat $30,000,
It is hard to unndenitand such an
esthetic, not to say feminine, taste
among /uch rough-bark men. Pos
sibly they think that flowers enough
will offset the bad odor of a criminal,
misspent life. It is apparent that
a sort of rivalry in the matter has
sprung up.
If things go on in the same direc
tion and at the preeent rate, there
will be 0m much money in the flower
business at Chicago as-'in bootleg
liquor.
Kentucky now has three women
county Sheriffs and a fourth will I
take office anuary 1.
Two Richest Men in the World Never Went to College
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) CHICAGO—The two richest men
in the world, Henry Ford and John
D. Rockefeller, never went to col
lege, it was pointed out by Presi
dent Jesse Grant Chapline of La
Halle Extension University, in an
address here at an educational con
ference.
“When men can succeed In the
world of business as well or bet
ter without a college education, it
indicates something wrong with
education,” said President Chap
line. “Os twenty-three industrial
companies listed on the New York
Stock Exchange, fourteen are oper
ated by men who never went to
eelleae.
Letter to Pape Draws Fire.
The Pathfinder.
The action of Clinton N. Howard,
chairman of the united committee on
prohibition enforcement, in asking the
pope to use his influence to make
Catholics in this country obey the
dry law has led to these develop
ments :
Several Protestant bodies represent
ed on the committee have disclaimed
both responsibility nnd knowledge of
the letter. A few have severed their
connections with the group.
A large number Os Catholic organi
sations stamp the move aq “impu
dent.” They especially protest that
part of Howard's letter to the Vati
can which read aa follows:
“As a Mend of Catholics, as well
as spokesman of many patriotic citi-
“Julius Rosenwatd, head of
Sears, Roebuck .and Company,
started in business when ho was
sixteen years old. Lord Lever
hulme, the soap king of Great
Britain, Charles M. Schwab, and
James A. Farrell, steel magnates,
and John Wanamaker, Philadel
phia merchant and former Post
master General of the United
States, began business at the same
age.
“James B. Duke, the tobacco
manufacturer who recently be
queathed nearly $100,000,000 to
found a university, A. W. Douglas,
shoe manufacturer. John D. Archi-
»nB, I am filled with deep regret in
bringing to the attention of yonr holi
ness the fact that the Deeming indif
ference, if not opposition, on the part
of so many Catholics to the enforce
ment of our prohibition law bus creat
ed a great deal of opposition to the
Catholic Church and did much to call
into existence the Ku Klux Klan.’’
“I«ove of America and its funda
mental institutions did not direct the
hand that wrote this letter,” declares
the Rev. John Burke, general secre
tary of tfte National Catholic welfare
conferenced
Howard is held responsible for the
letter sent the president attacking his
stand on the dry law and since repu
diated by various member organisa
tion* despite tht chairman’s claim that
it waa “authorised and approved” by
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Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1925
bold of the Standard Oil Company, *
and John N. Willys, the automo
bile manufacturer, are among men
who started in business life as
boys of thirteen yean.
“If we could get college educa
tion that would produce results like
that there would be no complaints
Os it. The education of which then
is never any criticism is that which
puts knowledge in a man’s mind;'
by which he can make his way to
success. The fault with higher’
education in America is that it has'
tended to become a social asset,
rather than the kind of training
that enables a man to win in the '
struggle of Ufa.* t
the committee. Subsequently How
ard was not invited to a banquet at
which all important prohibition bodies
gathered. Mr. Ooolidge refused his
request for an audience. It is said
that Howard is seeking Bryan’s toga.
He is somewhat simijar in appearance
to the Commoner, having a bald head
and fringe of bnshy hair. ,
Fifteen hundred dollars a year is
an average income for a stewardess
on a big frans-atlantic liner, and
when she gets well known and is
given regular employment she may
earn as much as threp thousand a '
year. y-t>-
There are still in existence in
New England old blue laws whieh
forbid women to smoke in public.