I Friday , September 3, 1926 f-~ >f 1: JIMUty /m /.n,* liiiiif* inner Letter Gossip o£ Staff CenespanSab at ff/rid tenters d ' Population j BV h: r. kinckerbocker i ' International News'Service Staff I Correspondent. I Moseow, i Sept. 3.—Beards are* ■recious articles in Russia still. The ■tint of the thousands of bushy 1 weed martyrs who allowed tliem wlvcs to be burned at stake by t’eter j jrhe Great rather than give up their ■ [whiskers has not yet died eodipleteiy ! lout . I IMi in the city of Erivau >n | Armenia excitement has I ■tot Vet subsided over the outrage (Which the recently deposed mayor of ■he city jbommitted ui>ou the newly fclected town council. I Irritated at his defeat in the last fcity election, Mayor Gainst Tzatzl ■yan determined to get even with the ■rictors. Before the irew council was ■rducted into office, the Mayor Call- Bit them to him and declared he had Bust received orders from the district ■authorities that all municipal officers prom the date of the last election on inust be dean shaved. , 1 Saddened, but loyal to their new fcdices, the neophyte councillors sub mitted to the barber and appeared ■>r the inauguration with faces as ■arc as baby’s arm. S Mayor Tzatzikyan made the mis- Hkc of laughing ns he handed over Hie keys of office. The new couu- H.-lors looked up the records, dis ®vered the deception, and hulled the H-nmyor before their own court -3 "Can't you take a joke?” asked ■« cx-piayor of his barefaced judge. |9 "lies,” said his Honor, "but this «e is on you. Two months for ina ■cious mischief.” ■ line ex-mayor stroked hi; whis- Jers defiantly as the bailiff led jiijn fnt. 2 Beards form a major point of dis sension. between the two largest •pets in the Russian Orthodox jphurch. In the ranks of the so- Snllcil Tikhonites, or adherents of the old church, beards and long hair •re obligatory for the priests. The Hieory is that (Sod made man in his jltfn image, and to alter of God is Sacrilege. ■ The members of the priesthood Bi the new churches, such as the so- Synodical or "Renewed ■.’hunch," on the. other hand, dis lniws this creed as nonsense. They hcjMtheirjllair in n "boyish bob” and. do with jar without boards as suits Ltlieir style of beauty.‘‘For this horsey ■the T|!*honitex authorities have Bniurif'd the new priests as sinners knd declared they will suffer in Barnes hereafter- I Russians are nothing if not good ■ctors. The theatres of Moseow .ire ■he one feature of the city* which, by Summon consent, outrank their Counterparts in Western# Europe. SCioholas Ribakoff, assistant superin tendent of the Commercial Trust of Jl’yer, has acquired this, coimnon- Wilaee bit of information at the cost sf wounds which almost proved fatal. § Nicholas, like many Russian busi- Biess men, was a bit short in his ac itounts. He fell back on the tiiift-' ■corn dodge of sumitting to a fake Bobbery. I He hired two men to set upon him •s he came from work, infifct a few light injuries and steal his portfolio, In which were ostensibly 450 rubles.; pie enutioined liis accomplices to peat him up good, so they won’t TILLIE THft TOILER UPON SECONI)‘ THOUGHT piiopiKl ill mol ibON'T BE. SLV.V, BUBBLES • I VMEAJ2. IT OVEO. ON I CHAKietD My" MIND, ] 1 must give e-uy J ; If \ *>V Fi■ wSM'T . \ BUBBLES - I think EvOjeiC My EMGAeEM&MT S&TT&R. TAItE the ♦ jcSOI-l-V, J mSindn II pd IT TO guv J J c.iMS- - croiMcr B«:k] (sack to eroy- tha-t-j-l I XtHXRe ■' I V>l ONOER.FUL y „ _ —lj— » ■ . *'**'/ , %Hu“ wa -Ts«s'wi) ofeß/ )i ar«J \\ % i **r**«Wi* rry ~ ,3V*' ,'p yvr'-r’ v. 'jS suspect, me.” I Policemen found Ribakqff two j ouis after the attack* lying uneon scious, with a fractured skull. a|*d bruised from head to foof. He re- , mained ujiconWious twenty-four j hours, thefi woke up in-‘ a detiginm | and gave ttfc whble story away. He I faces trial when he is released frohf!' the hospital- < A GREAT EPIDEMIC OP cholera in mianghal'l Hundreds of Cases apd Many Deaths, Missionary TVMttofc MadisOnville, Tenn., Sept. 2. "Shanghai is having the worst epidem ic of cholera in of cases and many deaths and if you could only see Shanghai as well as any other place in Chinn, with ail the -dirt and flies, you would not' wonder.” T’iius._ in- part, reads a letter re-, reived fiere from Miss Maggie Dixon, a nurse at the Kiangyin Christian Hospital in China, telling of the ter- I rible cholera epidemic., Tlie letter was written to her aunt, Miss Vira Everett, of Madisonville. | “You can’t get it into their heads 1 that the disease is carried by flies. A \ Chinaman will buy a slice of water j melon which f .ias been carried up and I down the street for hours black with | flies, and eat it. An hour later he |is dying wijh cholera. But if he should get well, he would do the same thing tomorrow. So there yon are.” , Miss Dixon's letter went on to de scribe the unusually hot weather China is having. The nights are too hot to sleip and the days are worse, she says. Miss Dixon has a large oifcle of friends in this section. -She has been in China for six years. Miss Dixon will get a furlough the first of next year and will Sail for America, she said in the letter. Local church workers will enter tain her while she is here. Trained psychologists will here after examine undergraduates at Brown University as to their wor- [ ries, doubtß, despairs, love, and hates. | ■mmim fetfTLE JULIUS SyEEZXH ■ me iia&m I ;tw> VOC mm I |(wellTT I |™E poor felloWl | 1 uiwFNT AffouHn I - WHERE X p SHOOLO OF L WHAT WAS THE THIMK. SsH— ' MUST OF DIED BV /' , 1 ”E WENT AKOCWU I wldwaj beensom/eril witter with I sesmtioiwa —| inches ! —3 to the back, of MWEJI-J-rp 1 A TAPE r“- ,‘* V J Nol Fp l- ! the house and L--,,,. r- 1 ~T "*™* ■ ■■■ ii .. i Umi n ’ imh "]j ifgl luj i illbi iiiiMoiiiieißMMiiWiijiw. 11 mi I, ■Tuiiiiii .rai" T'•••- Mr. 1. 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Filled with pity, they seized him by the arms. “Come along, old chap. I,et'us take you home to your wife.” He groaned piteously. “Don’t, you understand?” he murmured, feebly, “that’s where I got it.” Two Scotchmen visited a town dur ing-a big cattle sale, and as the hotel where they stayed over night was crowded, they were pat in the samg room. They tossed and turned for some time, but at-last both begah to , doze. “Are yon sleepin’, Jack?” he asked “Nap,” replied Jaek. “Will you lend me $lO to buy 1 a • cow?” coaxed Sandy. ('■ "I’m sleepin’ now,” said Jaek. The widow of a farmer hnd some difficulty with her hens, and wrote the following letter to the board of agriculture: "Something is wrong with my chickens. Every morning I find two or three lying-on the ground cold and stiff, with their feet in the air. Can you tell me what is the matter?” ‘ After a little while she received the 1 following reply : "Dear Madam—Your I chickens nre dead.” trtfi CONCORD DAItV 'TRIBUNE BIG FOX HUNT About 150 .MW and 800 Dogs Wltf Participate October .4-7, (By International News Service) Mobile, • Ala., Sbpt; 2.—Approxi mately 150 men and at least 200 dogs - wlil participate in what is planned to be the largest ami most -successful fox hunt ever staged in the South, to be held under the auspices of the Ala bama fox hunters’ ssociation October ■ 4,5, 6 ma) 7. Grand Bay has been selected as the eamj) site for the big hunt for the third consecutive year. The camp site committee investi gated several sections and reported Grand Bay to have more foxes tn the vicinity than any other place- in the state. Barbecue arrangements are under way and two cottages are being con structed to house the hunters. Par ticipants will bring their dogs from a number of southern states, among them Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida and North Carolina. Judges for the event have been named and a purse of S3OO decided upon, to be posted by the association. Rules and regulations of the national fox hunters’ association are to be strictly adhered to. under which there is no limit to the number of dogs each may bring. Other arrangements for the hunt are being eompleted by 1,. G. Adams, president of the state association. » PETTING PARTIES ARE BEING BROKEN UPj By White-Robed Bands That Are Pa trolling the Highways. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. ”,—"Pet ting parties” on the highway around Riripingham are being broken up by white-robed bands of men in automo biles, who are patrolling the highways, it became known here the first of the week. The unofficial “petting party offi cers” have been patrolling highways for some time. They stopped beside a parked auto 1 i I I I 111 « umm 1 «»n.jH occupied, by four socially .prominent c young people the ottjer night. “We had been parked only a few ,0 minutes." explained the driver of the t car later." when four men in bed-’i sheets came up and demanded to |' know what we were doing;” r ~ 1 ® “I feared trouble so I disconnected ! 8 an ignition wire on my car and told ' them we couldn’t start the auto. On*,, of them tried to start -it himself and 1 failed.’ “What would you girls’ parents say . if they knew you were out here?” | ‘ asked one of the Wn. The girls • j ignofed the question. “You are getting insulting,” the - boy in the rear seat informed the ‘•night rider", "this is a perfectly re- 1 speetab'e party and if you didn’t have a gun under that bedsheet, I would Iriake .von apologize.” The “night rider” continued the lecture after he had been kept from 1 attacking the youth by other members of the band. They then boarded their anto and drove away. Tennessee Leads in Number of Tele phones. (By International News Service) Nashville. Tenn , Sept. 2.—Tennes see lends the nine southern states served by the Southern Bell Tele-| phone Company in the number of tele- 1 phones in use. Although having the largest number of telephones of any of -the states, Tennessee ranks fifth in population. Statistics released by the company ['September Ist: • # j State Population Phones Tennessee 2,4(17,679 133.689 Kentucky 2,524,421 105.883 North Carolina .. 2.857.846 86.180 Booth Carolina . . 1.826,021 39.925 Louisiana 1.918,591 118,793! Mississippi 1,790,618 56,9561 Alabama 2.526,001 81,314 Georgia 3,138,962 122,200; Florida 1,317.160 86,824 j Judge Doesn’t Permit Drinking in 1 Court. Goldsboro, Sept. 3.—Don’t try to drink a dope in Judge Cranmers’s 1 II I I' court. Harold Grady, charged with sec ond degree murder in connection with the death of Dossie P. Traylor in an automobile accident several weeks ago, left the court room yester day afternoon soon after the case against him was called. When he came back he had several Coca-Colas for his friends and marched de bonairely into the court room. Judge Cranmer —who when court adjourned Saturday afternoon had’ given prison sentence's totaling 29 yeats and three months to ltj de fedauts —shot the young man a smoking glance, and these devastating words followed: "Take that stuff out of here, and don’t you leave the court room any more without special permission,” was in effect wha't he told young Grady. R. P. Harris Returns to Duke Uni versity: Durham. Sept. 3.-—R, P. Harris, of Fayetteville, a membbr of the Class of' 1926 at Duke University, und formerly connected with the Duke University News Service, will retHrn to Duke University this week to take over the publicity end of the University's affairs. Harries will succeed A. A. WU- I kindbn, of Asheville, who also has been in the Duke News Service for over two years. Wilkinson will join the editorial staff of the Duke Uni versity Alumni Register. For the past several months Har j riss has been on the reporlorial staff !of The Virginian-Pilot, in Norfolk, Vn. WiH Begin Revival. Thomasville, Sept. 3.—Dr. Luther Bridges, of Gainesville, Ga., a regu lar evangelist of the Southern Meth -1 odist church, will begin revival meet ing with the pastor, . Rev. W. L. ; Hutchins, of Main Street Methodist ! church, next’ Sunday morning at’ 11 ! o'clock. It'is/expected the meetings ! will continue for several weeks. The j hours of service will be at 7 :30 in the evening and at some hour in the I morning to be decided "bn later. TODAY'S EVENTS Friday, September 3, 1926 One hundred years a/o today saw the coronation of Czar Nicholas I at Moscow. One year ago today the big news was the wreck of the United States navy airship Shenandoah, with the loss of fo.urteen of her crew. Sir George E. Foster, veteran Can . ailian statesman and one-time actiug premier of l'ae Dominion, today enters upon his' 80th year. / As a feature of a big regatta in , Toronto today a monument will be unveiled to Edward Ilnnlan. the Can- I —— I I .1— On Sale Saturday GOLF SCHOOL SOX i f Values 98c XjL SALE PRICE ir ° t f r You s* not m ’ ss lcse - They are Beauti- ,>»-i V ; ful Patterns in Dark and* J \ >TjT U Light Colors. Sizes 6to 10 A- \ P ffl| 25 Dozen on, Sale as long CONCORD’S p ISHER’S BEST IN FASHION AND REAL ECONOMY . ' i ■ , . ) aiwi^’TnßlfcrgaaEgggaaaßate^^ f 1 Si) Just In 1 SOLID CAR OF | 28 GAUGE >r 1 GALVANIZED ROOFING j $4.75 PHT SQUARE 1 Yorke & Wadsworth Co. ! We Sell Good Hardware Cheaper 1 _ i - r * n ✓ 1 000000CX)000000CXX>00’ri00GOGG00000OKririo«m000w0000000 I Sleep That Knows No Dreaming | { Sleep—that brings forgetfulness from cares anjd anxie-, ' 1 ties, that refreshes and calms—that gives peace of mind to *’ all mankind. 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Y., today will be*- gin its own sesquicentennial celebM 1 ** tion, culminating a week hence in JT, ; pageant depicting the historic rmin ference tield there September 11, 17TftJ * between the British officers and rap* . , resentatives of the thirteen colonies« , to discuss the possibilities of peace. ' ■ ***"