PAGE SIX i n i * 'll y* A > | p ft ■HRi ,'S, ill*' H w t,. jf-M '/ ■ £ \*3S®!B(f£' ’" % .>4* *U'>..v..«'4«* i t.. ... i*-i. .• 16th BIRTHDAY 16th Opens Thursday Morning July 15th, at 9 O’clock BVi\ tl WV* lii Mini 'mi i i |M| 111 - , ■ PARKS - BELK CO. CLOTHING DEPT. CONC :ord, N. c LADIES’ WEAR PHONE 908 PHONE 188 THE CONCORD jjjfcy TRIBUNE A Wonderful Story of Progress What 16 Years Have Wrought in Our Midst.—The Peo- Ple the Beneficiaries of Genuine and Modern Meth ods in Business. The Concord Daily Tribune. (Written by one not interested at all in this Business, But as a Lover of the Truth). It is indeed an interesting story—a truthful story, and truth is stranger than fiction—that we tell today to the good people of Cabarrus County. A city and a county are judged to a great extent by their business houses and by the men and women who are back of them. Stores are an index to the community. As they progress or re trogress so does the city. If they progress, if they are attractive, if they serve the interests of the people then all things do likewise. The first real big store in Concord was founded by this firm. Sixteen years ago, 1911, Mr. John G. Parks, for merly a farmer boy, reared near the spot where President Andy Jackson was born, came to Concord. He had a vis ion of a great city here. He had faith in our people and he risked his all to establish a> big business here. He started in a modest way and won success by merit and , hard work and business genius. He and his faithful as sistants have built up a gigantic business here that would do credit to larger cities. Today they have here 36,000 feet of floor space all loaded with the best that the market affords. Year by year this business increases. His faith in the people has been returned by their faith in his firm. His motto: “We Sell It For Cash For Less” has been proven true in thousands of ways. In these 16 years he has sold millions of dollars of merchandise to satisfied cus tomers. Their satisfaction is proven by their continual buying of more goods each year. The people now know that every dollar back of this business is there to protect every purchase you make. Their success is made by ser vice to you._ A humbug cannot live 16 years. In Con cord is the mother store under Mr. Parks’ management and the children—there are seven of them—and some of the children are almost as large as their parents—are the lead ing stores in Kannapolis, Newton , Albemarle, Hickory, Spartanburg, North Wilkesboro and Mt. Airy. Mr. Parks works hard. All this energy, his brains, his 40 odd years of business experience and his efforts and the efforts of his hundreds of employees are put forth to buy better goods cheaper and to sell them to you cheaper. This is the high ideal, the love-dream of his life and his dream comes true to benefit his customers. The great Belk chain of stores is also back of these seven stores. Their trained buyers are in all the world’s markets, all the time working for you—getting the best there is fqr you for the least money. -- We have talked to big business men who know who is who and what is what and they all say that John Parks gets more value for his dollars when he buys goods than any other southern buyer. And this trading gift, this val uable asset to Parks’ stores, is brought direct to all who trade there. The people are the beneficiaries of his successful methods. This fact has saved our county alone millions of dollars during the 16 years of business.- They are today prepared to serve you better than ever in the past— Immense stocks of the best goods have recently been bought at less than the manufacturers’ cost, in many cases. These are offer ed to you in this big sale with only a small profit added. They would rather sell SIOO,OOO of goods in a given *im> and make SIO,OOO than sell SIO,OOO worth and make $2,500 or even $5,000. It is the volume that counts. That is why they can sell it for less and still grow bigger and bigger. BY A SATISFIED CUSTOMER. We are proud of tile above article and you are cordially welcomed at all times to all our stores. Make each store your home when near us. We thank you for your magnanimous support in the 16 years now gone. We promise you that we will try to honestly serve you as best we can. Come in our stores without knocking and go out the same way, is your hope. PARKS-BELK CO. This b Going to Be The BIGGEST SALE EVER In North Carolina BE ON TIME !■■ iI( M Less Pine Tar 14 _ Soap, special m&G i 25c Size Black and White Colgate’s Cashmere Roquefort f Soap, Birthday 19c Toilet. Soap, 10c size 8c . Coco Roma, White Lilac j and Carnation Soap • ** J AH San Remo Baby Castile Q-, I M Soap, .Birthday Sale - OC I W] Jergen’s Castolay lO- J Baby‘Soap iefe J 25c and 50c Size “Mum”. Spec iaii 19c and 39c price wvv 25c Woodbury s Facial “I 50c Size Pepsodent OC- Soap 10C .Toothpaste Sayhian’s Vegetable 1 A- Soap, special PEBECO TOOTH PASTE Guest Ivory Soap A- 2 9c Birthday Sale “V 50c Size Pebeco Tooth Paste, ®a special lot opening morning and evening, also Friday and Saturday . A Big Birth- 4Q day Special AS7C M , Kolynos Tooth Paste during sZ Bir,hda) ' ' 19c “c ROUGES, lf)c to 80c Florence Castile Soap A _ Complete line Rouges, all Special shades and qualities 23c to Colgates All round Soap 769 c. Special During Birthday J Clearance Sale Sale 19c SQc J /Si Compacts njul iJD Special Lot of Compacts in nickel.and gilt, also hand paint er ed single and double. We are [lffr* CIKaHj ' j going to clean up all odds and ends during our Birthday Sale. Kesinol, Cutucura and Pack- Values up to SI.OO. Close Out er s Tar Soap, 25c size JQ_ Price OC- and CA Birthday Sale [ s __ ZSC * d 50c Dry Goods and No- ML tions Phone 608 m. Hi m Tuesday, July 13, 1926 jj^ m I V