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KANNAPOLIS DEPARTMENT •
(By JAMRB L. MGORE) '!
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REHEARSALS FOR ELABORTE
MUSICAL. EXTRAVAGANZA
GET UNDERWAY
Sponsored Wjr Parent-Teacher Associa
tion and Directed by the' Artful
John Britton.—"Springtime" is the
Title and March 20-30 Are Dates
of Presentation.—Cast of 150, In
eluding Teachers, Students and
Townspeople.—Other Brevities.—
“The Wren” to Be Offered at Mt.
Pleasant Tonight.—High Baseball.
Kannapolis. March 18.—Rehearsals
have commenced at Kannapolis high
school for the elaborate musical ex
travaganxa. “Springtime'' which will
be produced on March 20th-30th un
der the auspices of the Parent-Teacher
Association. Juke “The Wren” and
‘‘Bits O'Blarney,” “Springtime” will
embrace a number of high school stu
dents hi its ensemble. But presto
chango-a fioek of teachers will have
a part, and the east will be stuffed
with 130 persons.
j 1 Thr play, which is of three acts,
wifi be lavishly mounted, containing
n triq of opulent scenes. It deals
with a'blighted romance of a scion <rf
1808 aristocracy and daughter of the
founder of Brewster's Pills, which is
finally realised in die union of the
grandchildren of 1920. The time re
volved covere a period of more than
fifty years. *
Eight choruses are required for the
production with four to twenty per
sons to each chorus. Among the most
prominent members appearing in these
hollies ure‘ Elizabeth Tiernau, of Sal- j
PLYLER.
Mies I-ottic Mae Hatley, pf Kan
napolis, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and MrS. C. R. Hatley.
Misses Eula Mae Risk and Hazel
Harris, of the Millingport-I’lyler school
fculty, spent the week-end with their
parents in Norwood. r
Little Miss Sarah Frances Sides
spent the week-eud in Midland.
D. W. Sides is having his home
painted. lie is also doing some ex
terior improvement on it
- a week
r J visitor in Oakboro.
Mrs. W. F. Hatley is stili a pa
tient in the HanUet hospital.
Plciisc remember the old-time ser
vice at Friendship Church next Sun
day, March 20tli. All-day service with
dinner on the 'grounds. The public
is invited.
The "tacky party” given by the
ladies of Salem was a decided success.
Mrs. David Spears was the winner of
the prize for the oddest dressed per
son, while Berry Sides and Miss Mat
tie Hatley won for being the funniest
couple. A sum of SBO was realized.
X.
ROUTE FIVE.
Sir. and Mrs,. Howard Al'inou, of
Concord, spent Saturday night wl¥fi |c
his father, C. S. Allmon.
Miss Amanda Barnhardt has been
on the sick list for the past week.
Sir. and Mrs. Lynn Lefler, of No.
10 township, spent Saturday night
with B. L. liinchunjt.
Miss Bertha Allmon, of Kannapolis,'
spent the week-end with home folks.
This writer wishes the newly mar
ried couple, Harvey ltinclmrdt and
Sliss Esther S\ T alter, much joy and
happiness.
School is progressing nicely at High
Point with Miss l’earic Ross and Miss
Zula Stooney as teachers.
Worth Vanderburg spent Sunday
afternoon in Concord.
v quite u number of young people
gathered at the home of Raymond j
Allmon Saturday night and guve a
birthday liarty in honor of Mr. All
inou ami Sliss Anne Relic Scott, it
being their 19tli and 17th birthday an
niversaries. respectively. After sever
al hours of games and amusement, the
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Kinley, Shirley TurbeyfiU, Della Peel
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The direction will be handled by •
I the artful John Borton of one of
I Ghio’e greatest producing companies.
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; CLOSE-UPS OF KANNAPOLIS .
NEWS.
’ “The Wren,” the junior high school ,
■ play, will be presented tonight at Mt. j
Pleasant. It will be giveu in the
i Foil auditorium, beginning at 8 o’clock. ]
The local high school baseball clnb
will play its second game of the «e*-
i son this aftermxm at Mt. Pleasant <\
when the nifty collegiate nine will be
taken on. A goodly number of fans ,
is expected to accompany the Toweler
team. • ,
The Kannapolis “Y” Gluee Club 1
will render a musical program at the ■
Sunday evening services at the Re
formed Church. The singers have ap- 1 <
peared in several church numbers of i
late and everywhere they are w<H J •
received.
Guerrant Gray, local athlete who i
has spent two years in-Virginia,' has j
returner! to Kannapolis and will like- ■
ly get lined up with one of the Twi- 1
light chibs this summer. Grey is
a pitcher of the old school and-will do
great stuff here, in the opinion pf
smart fans. k
Jock Corrrfrcr. of Salisbury, was i
in Kannapolis Thursday afternoon on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. .T. Bruce Fisher mo
tored to Charlotte Wednesday for the
| the movie feature, "Altars of Desire."
guests were shown into the dining')
room where candies, pickles and cake
were served. Those present were.:
Misses Ada Ferris, Ethel Pctrea, Ruth
Petrca, Bertha Scott, Anne Belle Scott,
Nellie Blaokweldcr, Wilma Shoe,
Gladys Furr, Anne Furr,' Essie
Moonie, Ora Ross, Bertha Allmon,
Carrie Allmon, and Frank Scott,
Homer Garmon, Herman Kluttz, Fred
Furr, James Blnckwelder, Hugh Alex
ander, H. B. Shoe, Willie Talley, Fred '
Allmon, Homer Green, Wilbur Green,
Earl Skeens, Wright Bost, Walter
Browloy, Albert Tnlley, Clyde Tal
ley, George Ross, Buford ltiiichardt.
Ben Barrier, Zeb Barrier, John All
mtm, Raymond Allmon, Luther All
mon, Mr. und Mrs. Howard Allmon
uud sou,. Norman. X.
GEORGEVILLE.
Everybody seems to be enjoying this
tine spring weather after being shut
in for the rough winter days. -
The gypsies are getting to be very
bold in this section. I think the
officers ought to get busy and catch
the x-ogucs.
Mrs. C. .V. Cotton and son, of
Badin, spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cox.
Miss Ruby Furr und Fetzer Cox,
of Badin, were the guests of Misses
Lizzie and Annie Kluttz Sunday.
Miss Mittie Cox and Clarence
Tickle, of Charlotte; spent Sunday
"■flYth relatives here.
Miss Alma Shinn is spending the
week in Concord with her sister, Mrs.
Dayvault.
Mr. and Mrs. Bost, of Kannapolis,
spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs,
Root's grandmother, Mrs. SI. F. Bar
rier.
Miss Vera Faggart is spending the ;
week with her oistcr, Mrs. Frank
Furr„
Baxter Joyner had the misfortune
of huving his car wrecked Monday
afternoon near Midland. The bread
truck of Churlottc ran in to Mr.
Joyner's car, None of the oceupants
of either car was hurt.
Sliss Elina Eudy entertained a
number of friends.at a quilting jiarty :
j -Monday evening. After the quilting,
Silos Eudy served candy to her guests.
Gus Joyner is confiued to hit> room
with mumps.
John Widenhouse had the inisfor- '
tune of losing four fine shoats on ac
count of feeding them gold dust water.
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Misses Liszie ,and Annie Kluttz
»ud John Allmon spent • whits Sun
day afternoon in Brief visiting reli
tliv«B.
“Uncle” Tommie Faggart, of Con
cord, is spending sometime with his
niece, Mrs. Furr. ,
Mr. and Mis. B. A, Joyner and chil
dren, spent Sunday in Concord with
Mrs. Joyner's parents.
FARSI GIRL.
CONCORD ROUTE BIX.
We have been having some very
fine groundhog weather.
Mica Arleigh Lentz was a Sunday
visitor at the home of Miss Lola Mot
ley,
Mrs. W. O. Riven bark Is on the sick
list of West Concord Baptist Church.
Misses Elsie Dover and Pauline
Whitley was * Sunday visitor at the
fcpme of Miss Mary Lue Cranford.
Miss Margaret Gray spent the af
ternoon with her aunt in Charlotte.
Miss Minnie Stowe spent Sunday
with her parents.
Mrs. Ruth •Thomas spent Sunday
with her people in Spencer.
Miss WiHie Shaw spent Sunday
with her aont.
j Mr. Aud Dover spent the evening
with Mr. Frank Smith.
| Mrs.. Handy Miller spent the eve
ning with her daughter,
j Mr. W. O. Rivenbark preached a
very fine sermon Sunday at the West
Concord Baptist Church. “Welcome.”
“HAMBONE.”
OAK RIDGE SCHOOL.
We are having fine weather here
now.
The school is getting along nicely
with Earl add Florence Clay as
teachers.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Bost,
February 7th, a daughter with smiles.
There is Sunday School every Sun
day at onr church at ten o'clock. Ev
erybody is cordially invited to come
and be with us.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Green,'
a daughter, Feb. 13th.
Born to Mr. atid M rs - Brady Meed-'
lin, February 15th, a daughter.
We were very sorry to hoar of the
death of Rev. J. W. Snyder, of Con
cord. He did a great deal of good
work around Oak Ridge for many
years. He will be sadly missed in
our community with relatives and
friends.
, Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Rinc-
Iwxrdt February 25th, a daughter.
Spring time is coming again.
Mr. and Mrs. George Dry have had
qiumps in their family.
Venus, I know a man that has a
speech that was printed by hand and
a pencil twenty-three years ago. If
you can beat that trot them out.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rinchardt and
have ftinchardt and wife, of No. 9,
were visitors at Mr. and Mrs. C. V
Rinehardt’e Sunday, of near Oak
Ridge.
. Mrs. Vick Dry and four children
took the vaccine for ehiekenpox.
Mr. D. B. Bownuin motored to Hun
tersville last Week to sec his brother,
Frank Downum, who was critically
ill.
Miss Gracy Dry, of Concord, visit
ed at tier home Saturday night. Mr.
aud Mrs. Fred Daniels visited at her
parents Saturday night.
SPRINGTIME.-” -
SUN NT SIDE.
Mr. nnd Mi's. Guy Butler moved
to the home of A. F. Overcash last
Friday,
Mr. and Mrs. Otho Westmoreland
and two children spent ...Sunday at
H. V. Karriker’s, of Unity.
Mrs. Samuel ltiley is still improv
ing at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Overeash and
little son, of Kannapolis, and Mrs.
W. L. Flowe were visitors Holiday at
H. L. Karriker’s, of Sunnysido.
H. V. Karriker, of Unity, has to
mato buds in his hotbed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Brown visited
relatives Sunday evening.
H. L. Karriker and family visited
Mrs. C. A. Wcddington last Tuesday
night.
H. V. Karriker and family were
visitors Sunday night at H. L. Kar
riker's.
Mrs. E. V. Karriker sold fourteen
me CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
evening with Mrs. Glenn Rammers.
This scribe knows of n darkey in
this neighborhood who hns turkeys
which have started laying. .
The congregation of sti Enoch*
Church in' beautifying ■ the ehurefa
yard, taking out the old teem aid
plan Bug new ones.
Mock Freeze Is able to be out again
after a brtif Illness. TULIP;
' GEORGEVILLE.
Everybody welcomes this beautiful
weather after the deep snow whieh
fell two weeks ago.
The Community Club will-meet at
the school house on Friday night,
March 18th, at 7:30. Special attrac
tion on the program will be a debate
on the query: Resolved, that Wash
ington deserves more honor for de
fending the country than Columbus
does for discovering it. The question
will be debated by thirties from Pine
Bluff and Georgeville. All are invit
ed.
The teachers and pupils of George
ville are now at work on their com
mencement exercises, ail operetta, set- 1
eral short plays, and a play by the
high school pupils assisted by some <
others is under preparation.
Miss Cornelius, the county nurse,
was a visitor at school Tuesday morn
ning.
Mr. aud Mrs. L. T. Shinn. and
daughter, Margaret, were guests of
Mrs. Shinn's mother, Mrs. M. M. Farr,
of No. 10, on last Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Shinn and
children, of Concord, spent Sunday
afternoon here with Mrs. Shinto's par?
cuts, Mr. and Mrs. A. Eudy.
Gus Joyner is confined to liis room
on account of sickness.
Bands of gypsies seem to be par
tial to this village. Last Friday
lTiorning Adam Furr, a resident near
here, was accosted by a gypsie who
wanted to shake bauds with him, and
while in the act of so doing Mr. Furr
was relieved of his poekettoook which
contained about nine dollars. Sever
al other persons report gypsie callers,
bait «o far Mr. Furr is the only one
Saving been robbed.
Mr. and Mrs. John Eudy were called
to. Stanly couuty lust Thursday ou ac
count of the death of Mrs.- Eudy’s
uncle, Caleb Dry, who died at hie
home near Albemarle. Mrs. Eudy
spent the wce.k-cud with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs! Jacob Dry, of lieur
Norwood.
Miss Laura Mae Shinn, in
Midland school, spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Shinn.
Mrs. Clarence Cotton and child, of
"Badin, spent the week-end with her
parents here, Mr'.‘ aud Mrs. A. Ml
Cox. . TULIP.
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congratulations on the birth of a
’son March 14th.
We are glad to know that Mrs. T.
M. Yost is improving after being ill
with “flu” and high blood pressure.
Mrs. W. F. McCulloch, of Raleigh,
is with Mrs. T. M. Yost. Alto Mil
dred Yost, of Greeneboro, is visiting
her grandmother.
Mrs. John Trexler, who ha* been
with her sister, Mr*. T. M. Yoet, hat
returned to Salisbury.
Thelma Harrison, little granddaugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Carter, has
returned to her home in Hickory.
Y.
LOCUST.
The Week of Prayer waa observed
by women of the Baptist Church.
Walter Whitley and family have
moved to Stanly Hall.
Mr. and Mw. W. J. Hartsell, of
Kamiapolis, spent Sunday here with
relatives.
D. D. Teeter, who holds a posi
tion in West Virginia, has been vis
iting his parents, Rev. aud Mrs. E.
D. Teeter.
Mrs. E. H. Hartsell, of Elizabeth
( City, is spending some time here with
relatives.
I Mrs. Mamie Bnrrier and daughter.
I.aura Gladys of Concord, spent the
week-eud here with Mrs. Barrier’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Tur
ner.
Mrs. H. D, Hartsell and children,
of Kannapolis, are spending a while
lipre with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Hart
sell.
An immense crowd attended the |
fiddlers’ convention at Stanfield last !
Saturday night. Wonderful talent 1
was evidenced and each number of
•be lengthy program was greatly en
joyed.
Villages were awakened from their
iwaeeful slumbers last Tuesday night
by a terrific yelling, dangling and
banging, seemiugly every vessel that
could be made to rattle was in nse.
We wondered if a whole dishpan
would be available following the ca
tastrophe? It proved to be a sere
uadeefor Mr. and Mrs. Grady Tucker,
wlm had just been united in mar
riage. The bride, who was Miss 11a
Hinson, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Hinson. The groom is a sou of
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Tucker, of this
place. This popular young couple
has the good wishes of many frien'ds.
P.
The New Yorker who dines out has
gotten past wincing at the high cost
of living, but one Greenwich Village
restaurant lias a reminder in a check
labeled “The Bud News.” and udorned
with a cartoon of a swooning man.
French family kitchens have no ice
box but a ventilated cabinet outside
the window or in the wall.
Nearly 57,000 persons are employed
in the printing industry in New York.
New York—There’* usually a catch
in an offer of something ior nothing
and soldiers stationed for Governor's
Island suspect there may be one even
in the government's free ferry service
between Manhattan Island and the
army post.
The last boat at night leaves Man
hattan at I a. in., frequently just
a moment too soon for a junior of
ficer or enlisted man who has attend
ed a danee or other later entertairi
ment nptown. Failure to make a reA
ord dash from subway to gangplank
often means punishment for absence
without leave, or at best a choice be
tweu a high priced hotel and a bench.
One young bachelor captain saved
his purge* and reputation by arranging
with the sergeant of the-guard to keep
an extra cot bandy and others have
been known to induce a police launch
to ferry them to Fort Jay before re
vielle.
There are stories in New York of
restaurant owners and waiters who
go to other eating places than their
own for food, but a vendor of roasted
| chestnuts on Forty Second street eats
hish own wares at lunch time. There
are no statistics on where the hot dog
. sellers eat.
| Even inocuous electric grills, “ boot
| legged" into apartments licensed as
nou-housekepping, offer the New
Yorker possibilities of trouble.
The building code restricts cooking
to apartments under the supervision of
the tenement house department, but |
it is estimated that violations in apart- :
meut hotels and rooming houses num
ber 10,000.
Most of the violations are said to
be in the butler's pantries of fashion
able midtown apartment hotels and in
the combination bath room-kitchen- ]
cttes of the supposedly more artistic »
Greenwich Village.
Belgium lias an. officially recognized *
“School for Taxpayers” to teach con- ~
tributors the law’s intricacies.
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TfiDAPS EVENTS. , '
Friday, March 18, IM7.
Centenary of the birth of George
Jbnkin, eminent Pennsylvania jurist
and an internationally known lead
er in the Presbyterian church.
Princess Louise, Duchess of
Argyll, who ntarly fifty rates ago
was Vica-Queen of Canada, today
enters upon her eightieth year.
Seventy-five years old today is
Haley Fiske of INew York, who is
president of one of the largest life
insurance companies in the world.
Alumni of the University of Mich
igan in many cities throughout the
land will gather at banquets this
evening In celebration of the nine
tieth anniversary of thir alma milter.
The meu who -draw the political
cartoons and create the comic strips
will gather tonight at the Hotel As
tor. New York city, for' the first an
nual dinner of the Cartoonists of
America. ,
It will come as a shock to some
middle-aged persons who rengember
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very well when Grover Os vail
was first elected President to
toM that he wet born just aiat
years ego today.
dent Coolldge was required to «M
bandagee today to a Bum right wri
and hand, the cauae of which i
meins somewhat of a mystery
the White House’
Everett Bandera, his accrete!
said the wrist and hand had' )>e
bothering the President for 'sevel
days and when it became swollen I
day Mr. Coolidge was advised hy i
physician. Dr. James F. Goupal,
apply bandages.
The President was able to tne 1
hand, however, to sign the numero
papers which came to his at tents
and appeared not to be suffering «
pain.
Aistotle was called the Pope 1
Philosophy.