W Monday, May 16, 1927
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A SALE OF DRESSES
VOILE DRESSES
FOR STOUT WOMEN $ # 9 5
SIVES 4214 TO 52% ”
A fortunate purchase of 20 Voile Dresses for Stout Women worth from
$lO to sls will be on sale Monday and Tuesday. Stout Women will rejoice
at this Good News and be here early Monday. The colors are both dark and
light shades in a.Wonderful Assortment of Prints.
Special Two-Day
EVENT
Saturday and Mon
day ONLY
NEW * 1 A
DRESSES )1U
The women of this community have learned
to watch our special*. 180 New Smart
summery dresses worth up to $16.00 are
included. Now is the time to select your
New Summer Wardrobe. Come early.
Store Open at 8 O'clock For This Sale
22 South Union Street Concord, N. C.
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George Boyette b Caught With
Liquor in Hie Home.
Charlotte, May 4 —George Boyette,
prominent young man of this city,
Hfcg arrested early this morning at
Bus home on North Church etreet on
a charge of violating the prohibition
law. A mating officers said they
found 28 gallon* of liquor in- hi*
MILLINERY
SPECIAL
SATURDAY and
MONDAY ONLY
100 New Summer Hats
WORTH $5 AND $6
SPECIAL AT J 2 gj
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home. He was released under S6OO
bond for appearance Monday morn
ing in city court.
Officers said they received a tip
that Boyette would bring a ldad of
whisky into the city early today.
Searching hie home they said tnay
found the liquor in the attic of‘the
home.
“My girl is furious with me.”
“ ’SmatterT’
“I was an hour late last night and
ehe had been ready for at'least 16
minutes.”
The Taiping rebellion in China
lasted ten yearn and coet 20,000,000
live*.
.. »* JL. a nh.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
Kannapolis Social
Items
JBy Lois Winecoff Earnhardt)
Kannapolis, May 14. —On Wednes
day of last week Mrs. John H. Rut
ledge was hostess to the Social Hour
Club. Progressive rook was played
at six tables. The rooms used for
eards were filled with old-fashioned
flowers from Mrs. Rutledge's garden,
here being the oldest in the city, and
is always from early spring to late
autumn aglow with bloom.
Refreshments consisted of salads
with accessories and was followed by
an ice course
Guests at this delightful affair were
club members and Mrs. S. C. Sim
mons, of Opelika, Ala.; Mrs. M. L.
Ridenhour, Mrs. R. M. Hansel, of Con
cord, and Mrs. W. S. Kelly, of States
ville.
...
Mrs. Sam Kelly entertained at three
tables of rook on Friday afternoon in
compliment to her guest, Mrs. W. S.
Kelly, of Statesville. Roses, iris,
daisies and pinks formed the attractive
floral decorations in the living room.
An elaborate salad course constitut
ed refreshments.
Invited to meet Mrs. Kelley were:
Mrs. H. A. Scott, Leon Smith, M. L.
Troutman, f>. A. Jolly, C. M. Powell,
W. L. *Yost, John H Rutledge. N. S.
Stirewalt H. B. Robertson, Mrs. H.
L. Lipe, Mrs. M. F. Crooks, of Con
cord, and Mrs. S. C. Simmons, of
Opelika, Ala., guest of Mrs. H. L.
Lipe.
The Social Hour Club and a few
especially invited guests were enter
tained by Mrs. Edward J. Sharpe at
her attractive home on South Main
street on Wednesday afternoon. Old
fashioned flowers were tastefully ar
ranged In the rooms used for cards.
During the progressions at rook
orange ice was served. For the re
freshment course after the game fruit
salad with accessories, followed by an
ice course was enjoyed.
Those partaking of Mrs. Sharpe's
hospitality included club members and
Mrs. S. C. Simmons,, of Opelika, Ala.;
Mrs. Charles Ewan, Mrs. James Wal
ton, Mrs. James Sappenfield. Mrs.
Charles Graeber, Mrs. W. H. Walters,
and Mrs. R. T. Frye.
At a lovely party on Wednesday
evening at the Blue Tea Pot, Misses
Hilda Swindell and Ora Martin were
hostesses.
The rooms were beautifully deco
rated with sweet peas and roses. Three
tables were arranged for rook and
bridge. Throughout the eveniug mu
sic was rendered.
Daintily shaped ices were served
late in the evening.
Enjoying this delightful affair were:
'Misses Gladys Wagoner, Idelle Kirk
sey, Marjorie Upshaw, Gertrude
Prince/and Mark'Sloope, Boyd Day
vault, Roy Fhbdiiburke, S. F. Srayre,
Walter Martin, Haywood Bayses and
Dr. ft. C. Bernaid. '
Mrs. J. G. Lowe presented her piano
pupils in a most interesting recital on
Friday evening at 7:30:
My Pony—Alice Petrea.
Pierrott —Elnah Taylor.
Sing-Tra-La—Faye Taylor.
Songs of the Pine—Helen Whitley.
Cradle Song—Hazel Fisher.
Little Robin Redbreast —Jane Lam
beth. I
Rrseihary— Marie Fisher.
Song of the Paper-Dolls—Pauline
Shepherd.
Playing in the Sunshine—Nellie
Brown.
The Comical Clown—Edith Cline.
Dobbin Jogs Along—Sue Mauldin.
Whirlagig—Mary Emma Cline.
In Patrol —Irene Cook.
Playing Soldiers —M. P. Dunn.
Bird’s Bouquet—Mary Ellen Petrea.
Memoris—lris Harmon.
Clpwn Caper—Willene Yost.
Electric Flash Gallop—Marie and
Clara Efird.
Fireflies —Sedalia Hinson.
Blue Be’.lß—Gladys Hill.
Sparkling Fire Flies—Mary Vir
ginia Leazer. I
Catch Me—Mary' Campbell.
Danse Hungranaise—Margie Efird.
Danse Capriccioeo—Louise Lipe.
Captivation Waltz —Clara Efird.
Good Night—Carolyn Craven. .
The parents of the pupils were in
vited to the recital which was especial
ly good. Mrs. Lowe’s class has been
large daring the past winter and her
recitals are eagerly looked forward to.
After the recital Mrs. Lowe served
neapolitan cream and cake.
Tuesday evening was observed as
Husband's Night by the Woman's
Club and a most intereating program
was rendered. Mfs. 8. C. Simmons,
a former resident of the city but-who
now lives at Opelika, Ala., and is now
the guest of Mrs. H. L. Lipe, was
heard with great pleasure in two vocal
numbers. Mrs. J. F. Keuthan gave
a violin solo. Mrs. J. G. Lowe played
the piano accompanists for both. E.
J. Sharpe told of his recent trip to
western Europe. The Rev. Mr. Kel
ler, of China Grove, was then intro
duced by Mrs. L. A. Peeler. Mr.
Keller's address proved very instruc
tive. He has a rich sparkle of humor
which provided a happy asset to his
discourse. Mrs. James Brown, who
has served for two years as chairman
of the program committee of the Wom
an’s Club, arranged the entertainment
for Tuesday evening. An ice course
was served just after the close of the
program.
Mrs. John M. Rutledge attended
the reception given by Mrs. W, J’.
Swink and Mrs. William Hardin at
the home of Mrs. Swink at China
Grove in compliment to Mrs. Hearne
Swing on Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Vivian Walter was the guest
»f friends at Hendersonville over last
week-end.
Mrs. T. T. Thomason ha* returned
to the city after spending sometime at
Randlemau at the bedaide of her sis
ter Mrs. Jacob Schaeffer. Early irf
the week Mrs. Schaeffer was taken to
Southern Pines for treatment under
her cousin. Dr. Paul Yoder. Until
her recovery her. little sons, Jacob
and Tommy, will be with their aunts,
Mm. M. L. Ridenhour and A. W.
Fisher.
Mrs. IV. L. Quinn is recovering nice
ly 8t her home on Chestnut street,
aftfr an illness of two weeks.
j no. H. Rutledge has returned from
Greensboro, where he spent several
days With Ed Lucas.
R. 11. Housel attended the Shrin
cr’s convention at Greensboro this
week.
Mrs. W. L. Yost and M. L. Trout
man spent Tuesday in Statesville.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bost and little
son, Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. W L. Yost
and Miss Willene Torn were guests
jf reatives at Hickory last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs H. A. Scott and chil
dren, Mrs. Lois Earnhardt and little,
•sons apent Sunday at Statesvile with
Mr*. Scott's mother, Mrs. T. L. Steele.
OPPOSITION TO
N. C. CRANFORD
Newly-Appointed Albemarle Police
Chief Cause of Great Dissension..
Charlotte Observer.
Murmurs of dissension, threaten
ing to become an outburst, were
heard yesterday in Albemarle over
the appointment by city councilmen
Friday night of Nevin C. Cranford,
forfber Stanly county chaingaug
boss acquitted of murder, as chief of
po" ice.
This tvas the report brought to
Charlotte last night by persons who
spent Sunday in Albemarle.
Cranford's appointment came un
expectedly, even to many persons in
close touch with municipal affaire,
it was said. He was selected at a
council meeting over the candidacies
of several others seeking the police
post. , ■
Dissension over his appointment
wai said to be based on the murder
charge of which he was acquitted
last July. At that time he was ar
raigned in court after an investiga
tion by state welfare authorities. The
inquiry followed a long series of
rumors that convicts, in his custoday
an county chningang boss, were «üb
ieeted to brutality that had resulted
in the death of at least two negroen.
The investigation resulted in for
mat charges of murder being drawn
against Cranford. The trial con
tinued for three weeks, terminating
in acquittal after scores of witness es
including many ex-prisoners, testified
to a fluttering from brutality practic
ed by the gang boss.
In the meanwhile the Stanly
chaingang was abandoned and Cran
ford had been without a yob until
appointed police chief.
Reports from Albemarle indicated
that the city was split into two fac
tions over the appointment. Cran
ford was described as having his
following chiefly among some city
authorities and their political sup
porters.
NEAR DEATH FROM
BLOW ON THE HEAD
Woman Carried- to Hospital and
Believed to Be Dying; Three Ar
rested.
Asheville, May ,15. —Brought to n
local hospital shortly before 3 o'clock
this morning with blood pouring
from her ears ns a result of a blow
on the head, Mrs. Sue E. Clay, 30, is
believed to be dying tonight while W.
N. Muir, 30, elevator man of Greens
boro, Mildred Mitchell, 35, nurse of
Asheville and Bryant English, also
of Asheville, are being held in the
county jail without bond in con
nection with the case.
The prisoners were taken shortly
before 10 'dock tonight when the
automobile in which they were rid
ing ran »over an embankment on a
vacant lot facing Park Square, and
wrecked within shouting distance of
both the police station and the sner
iff’s office.
: Woman Unconscious.
The injured woman has been un
conscious since she was brought to
the hospital Rud has been unable to
give any information that would
tend to clear up the mystery which
surrounds the case. In the event
tliat she dies a charge of murder
will be lodged against the group,
Sheriff Laurence Brown said.
Declaring that he had picked her
up on the Hendersonville highway
near Skyland, Murr turned the in
jured woman over to the hospital
authorities professing ignorance ot
her identity. Later he returned with
a woman, identified as the one now
in custody and they asked how
“Sue” was getting along and pro
duced her shoes which she had not
been wearing when she first reached
the ihstitution.
English w-as taken into custody
late this afternoon and blood stains
were found on his coat. Blood was
also found tonight on Muir’s clothes
and on bis handkerchief which ap
parently been saturated.
Conflicting Stories Told.
Conflicting stories are told by
those under arrest and members of
thi police department are convinced
that it is only a question of time un
til tM mystery that surrounds the
attack on the woman, which is ex
pected to cost her life, is cleared up.
Little credence is placed in the
story that they picked her up in the
qoad and Sheriff Brown expects to
fix responsibility for the crime on
the group now in jnil.
POLICE FORCE
MURDER LINKS
Solicitor Reports Strong Case
Against Woman in Cooper Case.
Asheville, May 16- —Tedious work
of checking up endless details in an
effort to complete the chain of olr
cumfltantial evidence with which they
expert to link Mrs. Anna K. Mon
tague with the murder of Mrs. Mary
R. Oooper, occupied the attention of
police today.
Mhi. Montague, sitting quietly in
n narrow steel-studded cell in the
Buncombe county jail, passed the
Sabbath day quietly.
Much of the fire and bitterness
that market her first outburst
against the Ku Klux Klan which
she charged was reeonsible for break
ing up her family five years ago and
for further persecutions which re
sulted in her arrest in the Oooper
case, had disappeared and she calm
ly awaited for the machinery of the
law to grind around to a hearing
either before the grand jury or a
coroner’s jury.
“W* could place the ease before
the grand jury tomorrow if it were
neceMl'ry and secure an indictment.”
Solicitor Robert M. Well* predicted
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confidently tonight.
He declared that the matter would
in all probability be brought to the
attention of the grand jury during
the present week and the body will
be in session during the entire week.
No effort will be made to place the
case on the docket for this term in
the event an indictment is secured,
it was said. There is, however, a
special term of criminal court which
convenes May 23 and there is a pos
sibility that if the case continues to
develop it may come up at that time.
Captain Fred Jones, chief of the
city detectives, who is in charge of
the investigation and is preparing
the evidence for presentation at the
proper time, also stated that the
case has progressed so far that it
I could be presented tomorrow if it be
came necessary.
However, it was intimated that
several, more days might be required
lin putting the finishing touches on
the case of the state, as there are a
I number of minor points to be clear
ed up before the chain of circum
stantial evidence would be complete.
| “It is almost uerfeet now,” Solici
tor' We’ls declared tonight. “I do
not know just when Captain Jones
and his men will be ready to present
the facts they have, but I am con
fident that we will be able to make
out a strong case-”
I Icelanders make their-bread from
fried fish meal.
APRIL HARO MONTH
ON SANDHILL PEACHES
Frank Parker, Crop Statistician,
Places the Yield at Only 38 Per
Cent.
Raleigh, May I{J.—Fruits, apples
and peaches, had a very hard month
in April, Frank Parker, crop statis
tician, tells the world tomorrow
morning, leaving only 38 per cent of
a peach crop in the sandhills and
39 per cent for the state at Jarge.
The department a month ago was
looking for a bumper yield. It had
not seen the equal in many years.
But April brought a blizzard and it
caught everything in sight, hortieul
turally. The strawberry yield has
been immense and 2,500 cars will
have been shipped before the end of
marketing has come. Huckleberries
in Sampson were hurt badly, but the
dewberry has heads up with a few
days of maturity,
Mrs. H. P. Gussy is Leaving Oxford
Oxford, May 15.—Mrs. H. P. Gus
sy, who has been the health nurse of
Granville county for the past two
years, is leaving Oxford. She has ac
cepted work with the state board of
health and will have headquarters
for several week at Winston, North
Carolina.
Mrs. Gussy has accomplished a
wonderful work in Granville and it
is quite a loss to Oxford and the
county to have here leave. She has
PAGE THREE
taken an active part in all health
work of the community and has
made a number of friends. She nolds
an office in the local Business and
Professional Women's club. Misses
Edith and Lois Gussy, her two
daughters, will complete their courses
at college before joining their moth
er, who will spend the summer
months in eastern Carolina towns
engaged in health work for the mate
department.
Lawyers, B 5 and 81, at Bar For M?
Years.
Bedford, lowa, M«y 14—Two aged
lawyers here, one 95 and the other '
81, count a combined record of 127
years of legal practice and challenge
any community to produce a pair "to
equal them.
iL. T. McCoun, the elder of thus :
pair, is in his seventy-first year of
continuous practice. Born in Keb- I v 3
tucky in 1832, he was admitted to
the bar in Indiana after he hgjT.*
fought in the Mexican War. He came '&
here in 1857.
J. P. Flick, the younger of the
two, has practiced law since 18TO, ’ I
He is a Civil War veteran, and has v :
served two terms in Congress, owe <M
term in the lowa Legislature, arid
as Federal attorney under President as
Harrison.
McOoun has lessened his activity 1
in recent years, but sti’l counts laMM
clients by the score. He speeiallihPMii
in criminal law.
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