Vomits On Honor Kail Nat Fed. Of Postal Clerks WASHINGTON, July 14.—Postmas ter Paul K. Y'unts of Charlotte has been listed by the “Union Postal Clerk,” official organ of the National Federation of Post Office Cleiks on the seniority roll of honor. This means that Postmaster Yount* is re garded by post office employes in Charlotte as observing the rules and regulations of the postal service in promoting employe* according to sen iority and to the satisfaction of the Post Office department, as well as postal employes. iwe*se*""ee*e***~,,'**"e*' Pause... at the familiar red cooler At DeWITTS ‘M Plymouth 4-Door Touring Sedan, d» r* *7 C Radio ...«pO / O Dodge tdOC Coupe _ 37 Chevrolet 4-Door Touring Sedan .... 37 Foid 2-Door ^ aoj* Touring Sedan_ FIVE MODEL “A” FORDS MANY OTHERS DeWitt Motor Co. DeSoto — Plymouth 428 W. Trade Dial 5111 DeVOiNDE Synthetic CLEANERS — DYFRS HATTERS — FURRIERS SEVEN POINTS WHY WE ARK ONE OF THE SOUTH'S I F\|> ING SYNTHETIC Cf PA NEBS 1 Rertores original freshness and sparkle 2 Removes carefulh *11 dirt dust and grease S Harmless to tin m»*f defies!' of fabrics. 4 Odorless, thorough rlesnins 5 Garments stay rl'.n looser I Press retained longer 7 Reduces wardrobe upkeep CALL 3-5125 304 N. Try on St. QUALITY DRY CLEANING Called for and Delivered F. C. Campbell (Member Teamsters mad Chauffeurs Local) 719 Louise Ave. Phone 2-1 OSS Village Owe* Existence To a Strange Mietake BEULAH, MICH-—Thia town of ISO population to built on a “mis take.” It was hare in 1873 that Archi bald Jones, an Illinois business man, discovered he should not have tampered with nature. He had planned a canal connecting Crystal lake with Betsie river to open new territory for the Michigan lumber ing industry; but instead he created a flood that killed one man, swept away live stock and lowered the Crystal lake level to 15 feet. He had neglected to learn that the lake elevation was higher than the river’s. The roar of a torrent let loose when the last of the canal was cut through was heard five miles away. For two weeks the lake water surged through swamps over an area nine miles long and three miles wide, and when the flood subsided Crystal lake had no timber along its shore but a vast expanse of sand and dried mud. Settlers, however, dammed the canal cut 30 years later, built a road and railway along the sandy beach gnd founded Beulah in a valley once submerged in water. Twins Develop Parallel Views in School Essays SEATTLE.—Two 17-year-old high school twins furnished Seattle edu cators with an intriguing example of parallel mentalities. Frank Kerr, high school senior, wrote on the topic “What Democ racy Means to Me” and won $500 and a trip to New York in a nation wide contest. Nancy, his sister, learned of his success. Without telling Frank, she wrote on “Advantage of Democ racy” and was Seattle’s first-prize winner in another national essay competition. Without comparing notes, their compositions showed similar trends in thought and conclusions. Through out school they have been in the same classes and their school grades have been virtually identi cal. The boy plans to enter art school when he is graduated, while Nancy wants to study for a stage career. Scientists Dig Up Bones Of Mastodon of Legend TUCSON, ARIZ.—Scientists of the University of Arizona are uncover ing bones of a giant mastodon dis covered by the Papago Indians in southern Arizona. Dr. Emil S. Hau*y, head of the anthropological department of the university, said the exact site of the discovery was being kept secret un til the skeleton could be removed. The bones were partly exposed by erosion. The Indians believe that long ago the mastodon threatened to eat alive the entire tribe of Papagos but was killed by a tribal god, Etoi. According to the Indians, Etoi al lowed himself to be swallowed by the monster and then cut its heart out. Blackboard Maps Used To Meet Quick Changes LORAIN, OHIO.—Lorain public school authorities believe they have found the answer to the puzzling program of what to do about class room maps of Europe when national boundaries change or disappear al most weekly. Sets of "white blackboard” maps have been installed. Boundaries are colored in washable crayon and then the maps covered with a glassy transparent mate*-*l to prevent smudging. So no matter what happens in Europe overnight, the Lorain ge ography class r aps will be up-to date, teachers ay. Subscribe For the Journal WHEN YOU NEED MONEY See IT* CITIZENS SAVINGS AND LOAN CO. ! 114 E. 4th St E"w FOREMOST MILK 9i'A. XnalthfuL FOREMOST DAIRIES. INC. Phone* 711<L—7117 JACOB RUPPERT and BOAR’S ALE AND BEER NOW TEN CENTS KRUEGER BEER AND ALE Distributed hy ORANGE CRUSH BOTTLING CO. GASTONIA, N. C. By L. L. STEVENSON Sagar Story: Several months ego, a middle-aged woman of ample means who makes her home in a mid-town hotel, began having her breakfasts served in her room. As she is on a diet, the menu is un varied and the cost low. The other morning instead of paying the waiter as usual, she handed him a big bag of sugar. “This is for my breakfast,” she declared. “Five full pounds. I had the drugstore down stairs weigh it.” After some pro test, the waiter took the bag and the check to the cashier. Opening it, the cashier found each lump in an intact wrapper which was stamped with the name of the hotel. It was finally decided to let the matter pass. The next morning, however, there was no sugar on the woman’s tray. Rising in wrath, she demanded her just due. “Don't think,” she stormed, “just because my fool doctor won’t let me have sugar you can cheat me.” As the guest is always right each morning now she has sugar. • • • Street Scene: Bronx housewives on camp chairs outside apartment buildings ... Mothers giving a rocking effect to perambulators by means of a foot . . . Youngsters now and then coming up for mater nal attention . . . Such as having a nose blown . . . Knitting needles clicking steadily . . . Gossip being exchanged about happenings in the block ... A scissors grinder going along with his little bell tinkling merrily ... A milkman making collections, the change in his pock ets jingling • .. A vacant lot turned into a diamond . . . With a hot ball game at a tense moment . . . Root ers cheering wildly for their favor ites ... . Surrounding buildings throwing back the din . . . The smack of a bat followed by a glass crash . . . and players and root ers vanishing seemingly in the twin kling of an eye. • • • Language: Magda Tagliafero, red headed, whirlwind French concert pianist, who shortly after her arriv al in America last December an nounced that she thought Gotham’s taxi drivers the most charming in the world, has been spending the months learning their lingo. After a sight-seeing trip with a party of friends through Harlem the other evening, she stepped into a cab and in her saucy accent said to the driver, “Hotel St. Moritz—and cut through the orchard, please.” Her companions, knowing full well that Manhattan has no orchards, looked at her as if she had actually gone wacky. But Magda sat impassive until the cab roiled into Central park. Then she proclaimed: “My friends, this is the orchard.” Sympathy: New York has become tree conscious within the last year. It all started with the planting of elms in front of Rockefeller Center followed by a tree gift to St. Pat rick’s cathedral, just across Fifth avenue, by Major Bowes. Recently I noted that trees have been planted on two sides of block long London Terrace while trees line both sides of 106th street from river to river. There are also trees on Sixth ave nue. Trees, of course, add to the beauty of the city. Kit to me, a tree springing up from a sidewalk in the midst of steel and concrete is like an animal in a zoo or a wild, bird in a cage. * * * Honesty: The taxi driver who took me home last night announced his belief in Santa Claus during a traffic light stop. It seems that earlier in the evening, a fare whom he had left at an uptown apartment house, had given him a tan in mi«tak+ for a one dollar bill. He needed the money because of family illness, but when he discovered the error, his conscience got busy. So he went back and tried to straighten it out. And the fare, evidently thinking be was attempting some kind of a game had bawled him out for dis turbing him and ordered him to be on his way. • • • Inns: Hotels entertain about 10, 000,000 guests at conventions each year . . . Most hotel rooms have about 50 articles for the use and comfort of the guest. . . A medium sized hotel has a switchboard cap able of serving a town of 5,000 . . . Hotels buy 17,000,000 towels and napkins, 5,760,000 sheets and 800,000 blankets annually. • • • End Piece: Bill Hargreave told me of the struggling comedian who hit his sponsor for a raise. “I really deserve a boost," com plained the comic. "What you’re < paying me is only chicken feed." "I know," responded the sponsor. “But that’s because of the eggs you’ve laid." (Ball Syndicate—WKU Service.) Poet Prints Own Verso CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-Lloyd Ha ber ly, a poet now a guest at Har vard university, has used a 150-year old hand printing press at the Wide ner library to turn out his annual volume of lyric poetry. Subscribe For the Journal McCrorie Receives Commission As An A. F. L. Organizer H. L. McCrorie has received his general organizer’s commission (No. 13264) from the American Federation jf Labor, dated June 10, 1940. He is now organizing the local upholstery workers, and expects a charter in the near future. He who states that the new local at Monck’s Corner, S. C. (Teamsters) have asked for a sample contract for guidance. He reports that there is an organization project on foot for organizing the A. & P. Warehouse workers into a Teamsters local. A roaring epic of the West ... with the kick of 20 tnules! Romance and adventure in w i 1 d Death Valley’s most col orful days! Rousing Action Adventure! 20 MULE TEAM WALLACE BEERY Lee CARRILLO- M«|Ofie RAMBEAU Ann BAXTER NOTICE or ADMINISTRATION Having qualified aa administrator of th» Estate of Cary C. Link, deceased, late of Meck lenburg County. North Carolina thia is to notify all persona having claims against said estate to present them, duly verified. t» the undersigned at the Bryant Building. Charlotte. North Carolina on or before the 5th day of July, 1S41, or this Notice will be pleaded in the bar of their recovery. AH persona indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement with the undereign ed. This the 5th day of July. 1MO. D. W. HOLBROOKS. Administrator of Estate of Cary C. Link. July 11-18-25-Aug. I. Tangled Family Ties No# Tangled Further WHITEHALL, WIS.—The rela tionships of the Holmen family are now slightly confused. Harry M. Holmen, S5 years old, married his widowed stepmother, Mrs. Agnes E. Holmen, 58. They were attended by the son and daughter-in-law of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Kerwin Holmen, who were the half-brother and sister in-law of the groom. It is reliably reported that this makes the groom’s half-brother his stepson and his sister-in-law His daugh ter-in-law. Fullerton 111 In Detroit Hospital With Pneumonia J. H. Fullerton, governor of Char* I me lodge No. 1113, Loyal Order of Moose, who recently attended the in ternational conference of Moose at Des Moines, Iowa, was taken ill by a heart attack while on his way home. Pneumonia has developed, and he is a patient in a Detroit, Mich., hospital. Mis. Fullerton is at his bedside. A report received Monday was to the effect that Mr. Fullerton's con dition was serious. He is prominent in labor ciicles in Charlotte, being a P'iine mover in the Teamsters and Chauffeurs local. PATRONIZE JOURNAL ADVERTISERS It Pays to Trade With Doggett Lumber Co. Ill E. Park A»e. 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