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PKEXK * rKKI.K, l-ubll?bera m?i?T win Member of The A**ftriut?il J* ^T?M l? ttclmi.ti) ?atitl*4 to . ? ' *f of 11,*, (liMkku ?? *** l* tM, p.Mf .|M w lK%l rTrnT^. .. n . ? "? In,?^ ?' ?*? P. .turtle U k 1 . N" C" " ??? ?ItlH. ?uoacrlpclou ltuf?? ||> Carrier. d Z! * ? ?? c#m ^ ilititeti . 4 1 r , ? | J*1* (la tinaci) , ?*?!*? (In adraxt*) . TUESDAY, DEC. I <124. I ? f*?fc Bml iin* HIm wlfi* Imvc fin Ktnto iNirk t'RftlM'r ?????. rwnrrtn' om? <la> a \v<s-k fif liMlofV'Ttdciii notion. If > (hi hain't "?*ii your ?lft< smile hi a until* cop you hain't si *4*11 h? i* sniilt h?*r prcCttnrt. ? Needs of Kli/^Iictli City and the Alhemurle ' 1. A hard surfaced road from Elizabeth Clly by South Mills and also through Cur " " iituck to Norfolk. J. A hard surfaced highway not Ions than 16 feet wide connecting Elizabeth Clly with fevtry county seat oast of the Chowan I {Ivor. S. A bridge across the Chowan River, connecting Ilertle and Chowan countics and mak ing pORulbh' a rial roust a 1 highway through this fic tion. 4. A direct rond from IVlcrom to Colnjock bringing all Currituck below Colnjock 10 tnlies n oar or Elizabeth City and thus addlnt; to tin? attractions of I'olnt Harbor as a rammer n wort 5. Conversion of the Old Fair ground Just beyond the Ellzaboth City hospital Into ' a public park. 6. Ferry service between Point Harbor and Naps Head, con 1 ncctlng at 1'olnt Harbor with bus service to Eliza beth City. t . A broader knowledge of public health among the people of this section. ? |01d Winter fteema t? bo run Jln? on Hcheduh- time thin >??;? r. W W' M .We prenume thai tl?<> old adage Jhkt there's always room for one *taore applies in tlio matter of the Relegation Icivlnt; hero for New ??rn tonight. At any rate, if you <lnd at the laHt minute that you *an get ofT wr ?ui;K?*st that you ?all Secretary Job forthwith. -(Georgia ha>: Sia,?32 farms. nom^ Tif which arc not ni??i ai all. , Yflluwuiiiiic I\irk has about lt?ao kinds of lard*. hut New York Oily hut* around wvi-n mill. on. . \Vc didn't (Veil knew a friend of .??Ul w Wan married ?t;;!j| Il;.? Oth?T ?nv we niw him carrying an uin* fcMia. i An elcphnnt consumes nl?nit 200 ?jjtUfida ?if hay a day. which Is why tiiM wntat line is {hKiiraeeful. , Fiasco. In six letters, means a fall We. iirtd coni< h (root an Italian word meaning a fla-h, which in a colncl 4cta?. In the oul colonial days sugar cost ft wnis a |H?ufi<l hut pleaw don't lot your grocer **c- thla. H The first monarch to own a pri vate airplane wan the king of Spain, others going up in the air Without fl>?m an- r?i KtiilMi'.'H on the sni> |wi, Iwi itmi'.riiwlwti tiove mort ?ease that. t? Kern-tally sunpectcd. OPTICAL SERVICE DR. J. W. SELIC OWOMKTRIRT II Mull at.-Cllubr.Ml CUT HE ASKED FOR BREAD AND THEY GAVE HIM A STONE Lawson Started Career As Bey On "Black F riday" l.alcr Trio! In Make Kvrry Day a Black Our on Wall Slreci and in tin- Kml Suffered Blackest Days of All. Now Paying I'rici- of Burkiiif! Syiildii II jr ItOllKKT T. KM AM. Most on. Deo. 2. ? ? Thomas W. I.uv.scin. of Itoston. whose "fren *led finance" in fiction ami laler In fact KiM the whole world by i hi* ears, wax led l?y destiny Into i n taiwr of which he never I li jvainril. He i(4i t n job hi a brok er's office on "Mack Friday." It | was the day In 1869 that Jay | (ii.uld and his follow conspirators finally were thwarted In their at t? mpt to comer the gold of the world. Later in h Ih life Lawaon I attempted lo make every clay a black fine in Wall Street, little t enlizing that in the end he was i.i auff>-r the blackout days of all. Ill in the liar llnrbor hospital friend 1?'?h and all but penniless, La w son is paying the price of hav ing bucked "the uyatem" and lost. A la.l of twelve, strolling thru t lie si red h of iioston In search of a Job. "Tommy l-awsnn saw a sign I in a broker's window. it read "boy wanted." That wuh fate. By the time ho was sixteen young Lawson hnd organized all of the other klda In the office Into a "pool " buyiiiK some railroad stock on margin at $3 a share and soiling It for $22. The legend ha.* it tlint in his first five years of fllllnii tho job of "boy wanted" Lnwtuin had accumulated $40,000. 'I hen one day ho lost It all but With this sum ho Invited ! his "pool" associate* to a dinner i at Young's Hotel. When the check was pnld remained. Lawson tossed' It to llornce, the I head waller. In twenty years Lawson Is sup-1 posed to have made and lost $40.-1 000,000. He claims once to have I made $6,000,000 between two aet-j tings of the sun. He never be lieved in banks; Dover had a bal ance of more than $2.00U.U00. He | lias carried as high an $2,000,000 in his pocket In certified checks. I Othei checks and securities h< \ placed In safe deposit vaults. Jlo carried emeralds and diamonds worth from $100,000 to $200,000, lo In h?s pockets. la tho market Iai wson was a hunch player. He bad accumulat ed a fair fortune when he went to II. II. Rogers and William Rock leller of the Standard oil "crowd" 1 and proposed to them a merger of copper companies, afterwards known as Amalgamated Copper. Rogers and Itockfoller listened. The merger w?n consummated, but when the $40,000,000 "mel-j ?en" far the organisers was cut. LuWNon'ffot some pocket money nod that was all. Ho vowed von-' gea-nce. Wherefore emerged hla! famous frenzied finance ? tho story of "Amalgamated." President Roosevelt hu.l been hmnmerinK the corporations about this time. The public wan ripe for an expose. Ijawson gave them a lurid tale In Inrgo doses. He hi" Standard Oil and the cop per king, blows from which It look years and years t;> recover.. Lawnon was oat to slay "the sys tem." H<- told the p<M>ple how th? m i was "figged. If n conld only hare stopped his Qambllnu when he had flnhlitd the story 01 Amalgnmnt ed. hi would have been one of the world's greatest heron*. But he cot l.l not keep away. Pinaily the m ike! was "rigged" on him and he lost h ?avlly. lie recovered W'liUoa - by pv iniotlng various^ coppi companies. fits nrtertixi- 1 m? ft-, wrro exceedingly cl^rer. f !?? | I" ?" ' d many mysterlona onea 1 abcut a C'-italn copper stock. He carefully rfrannd It. hook, line and 9'nker. Then one morning Law a>n r ?m*? out in an advertise ?tent raying the stock waa a "lem I? rh? A#*?nr?l I on." The crash was hennl thru all Now Kngland. I.awson cleaned tip several millions in the <l<?u 1 and with H?ln new stake he t?nc?, more buckcr] Wall Street. Hut li in cun ning was gone. Ho became the biggest lamb of them all. lie wus sheared to the skin. No erapshooter from South of the Mason and Dixon Line over i had more. nupcrtitllion* than Law ; son. He thought, elephants were lucky. When he built his #2.U0O. 00 ii home down toward Plymouth he filled one room with Ivory and wooden and stuffed elephants froin all over the world. Con trary to most superstitious per sons. however, ho regarded three as his lucky number. He be lieved anything happening on the third .lay of tho weak, or month or year was lucky. He would not open an office until he could op en three. He called one of his most profitable copper companies Trinity. If he saw two men light ing cigars from a match he would hastily Mte off the end of his own smoke and run across the room to be the third. During the World War that was thought to bo a fa tal omen. Several times In recent years Lawson has tried to come hack Ho claimed to ho on the <nsidc of the famous Wilson leak. Ills prestige ns n financier went Into final eclipse when he testified that on thi? knowledge he had made only I.T8.000. Wnll Street was Joined by the public then In ex clatfning: "Throw the piker out." WANT ADS Too Late to Classify W.WTKIt, SKVKIt U, HKlll-POU er aaleamen (o noil cold patchea Sample* fine. Write J. T. Bl?tr Co., N'aahvllle. Tt-nn. De2,3.4.np SKK I'M I'OH IHIOIiVMH Mir loons. Hiding comfort. Auto Supply & Vulcnnlzing Company. Phono 497. <lec2tfnp W)H HUNT ? TIIHKK IVKlIt mailed rooma with light* and w?. tar. Also garngn. Dan Morgan. Phone T80-J. dec2-Snt> VICTIM'S SONS f ' Thrao arc (ho sons of Mrs. Ad Hit* Shoatrtley whose body was found In the furnace of h< r home In llexlt-). Ohio, n suburb of ('n lumhua. They are Milton (above) and Clnrenee (below). . HOLLYWOOD GUI) ITS ALL OVER I - Relieved Thai ( Iharlie Chaplin Wed l.ita and Hopes Troubles Will All l?e 1 it lie Ones. H> KKX liAMt'M.W (C#s?rl??it. 1924. By Tt?* Ad?anc?> I. oh Angeles, De?. ?>. ? Holly wooTT is frankly glad It* all over Hollywood loves Charles Spencer ? list pi in. and wishes him and his bride all happiness. hut Holly wood Is relieved an it ha* not been , | since Fola ^>'e(ri sent -hack Char-. Il?-"s ring. Noboiv saw a wraith pM-f a chance for wedded felicity in ;innt protective union, and for all Molly wood's ample tolerance, Po . :a was not realjy the woman Hol lywood would have picked for its i it-Mj tie hero. lint Lita Grey ? at least she's: ! young. and she learned to act In Hollywood, and she is not a so phisticated veteran of the Rome i of hearts. The sttriio Mit Iter's ' Association, which exists in fact, even if it does not hire it hall ami have regular iiicftitiits, give Its nia ; ronly ok to Lita Grey as the wife ? of Clnrlio Chaplin. Somebody's daughter had to have him. didn't she? That is. unless some unchap?-roned free lance like Pola. some vampire who carries professional wiles out oi' the studio to employ ad lib on desirable millionaire male stats. should have made him cap tive of her bob ani lipstick. Hut as it is ? well, it's over. Charlie i* out of the picture, and mein ? eta of the studio Mother's Asso ! f lat ion may uow revise their strat I i-ity to conform to new conditions | en the field of battle. Among a number of statements ? concerning the happy event that ' have not ?icen given to the press i Is on Pola Negri. She is too busy, or something, to comment. , Madame. Pola's nmid. Is seeing : no one. Indeed. Hollywood has a slight ijeevi against Pola, con sidering her in pan to blame for th?- surreptlcious manner of the I Chaplin-Grey nuptials. Why, asks Hollywood, with ai J dominant dowager note in I hi? I ehorus, was it necessary for Cliar I lia fliaplin to go to Mexico to lie j Quarried T i He was free, and Miss Grey was j free ? no interlocutory decrees hanging over their heads ? the us ual reason for American weddings . in* Mexico. Why couldn't the happy event ; have been staged in Hollywood. wiib all Hollywood's naive ponip j and elctimstance, cameras click j-ing, close lips of bride and bride groom. press agents beatning-from \ the side lines, chamiier of com merce committee, city officials, and all? Yes. why? Hollywood I feels cheated. ' And' here's where Pola Ib to blame. A year ago last January she and Charlie Spencer were hc ! t raying pronounced turtle don Flower* 1*>K AM. <H VASlO.VH Hyatt Floral Co ., Inc. I'lionv 812. Itnail st. IP SHE'S WORTH WHILE, SHE'S WORTH WHITMAN'! The Good Candy at THE AI-OTHEOAltY SHOP DOROTHY DARNIT By Charles McMan& \'i AUSC. i 0<\ HOT A.H j \ I A^vfVl- ^PANKIM IF i I ? V L ( WAS PI^CWNO ?.0 V m ! symptoms up at Delinonte. at an inn called Samarkand, which the | reporters discovered from It* ! stationery meant "heart's desire." ! Such an epochal deluge of publl | eltv defended upon tlu* week end ii:i;v:r that *hey wen- literally compelled blushingly to admit their fond intentions. Sure, they said. we're engaged. if you Insist. Subsequent events . tended to prow that the lotus-hlncgom of Charlie and Cola's love might in deed have been blighted by pre mature forcing of its bud by cal lous scribes at Samarkand. And if they had been more tactful Co in -ind Charlie, each and iioih. in Just happening to be at things might have. gone differently with their romance. There, that's why Cola i* to take the blame for Hollywood's not having been let in on Char lie's gr? :?t secret of h?s approach* ing marrlag? to I?ita .Grey, *\'ot thaf anybody wan.vd him. to mar ry Colrt. says Hollywood, but the Cola publicity is what made Char lie gun shy. got him engagr 1 thai time before he intended. perl)jM>?. land Just spoiled everything, lie had to go to Mexico, he-aud l.lta.i to make sure they would get mar ried at all. Who knows ft.-mt love-.il fair. however rosy with promises, could wi<tHl.tn<i the fierce white light that Im-.iIs up'Oi the throne <7T the king of coittedy. In the debacle of Charlie'* well laid plans for secrecy, due to the Mexican laws insistence on pub lication of the halms, or thirty da.vs notice of ?inf-nt i >n to marry. Hollywood sees clearly another in stance of the hard luck that pur I sues its Jonglenr-hero . from the j screen to the street and through I all the affairs of his I ii ?? except those relating to finance King of romery. yes. bur prince ol futility, t not lie ran't even get married without everything MOVING I'lm ilK I'l'XMES I V- : Cut out l :ir |ifc lure on u.i t?n:i aides. Then carefully f ?>!<! dot:e.1 Hue 1 If ?* entire 1< ngtli. Thou dotted lino 2, and so on. Fold each section undernoath accurate ly. When completed turn over line 1 its entire length. Then fold ??wr and you will Un.i a sur prising result. (Citrmhl, Nitlwial Nrmfirr Str.icr.l Ruing against tb? script of hi? , most carefully prepared scenaro. Well, anyway Its all over now ? j long Fifth ? ami Hollywood in old ; '?.*Honed and Lromidic ??nouph to ' hope that if Charlie an J Lita ev er have any troubles they will all . be litlle one*. FEDERATION HOLDS ITS FIRST MEETING The Woman's Federation held its. first general meeting since the Hant-flumsay revival Monday niKht at itlackwd Memorial Church. Mri. S. E. Leigh led the devo tional sot vice. whieh was followed by n business meeting in which inw members were enrolled and arranged in the various groups for holdii'K nrayer meetings and doing other Christian work. l'Jaces fi?r holding prayer meetings wen designated and the work of the toleration outlined as far as pos sible for the month. It was decided that instead of holding the federation meeting* each month in a different church, these meetings would be held tn the Chamber of Commerce roonl* ind the second Monday in eaA month was designated as the time. Accordingly, the next .-????*? I meeting will he held on the night ?f the necond Monday in Tintiar} MILITANT- MARY I'd-rothflr-toi# k to worh too-boTO. 1 1honno+-worH, I wouldot'YOU? ? For- Satan STILL- MAS LOTS OF JOBS FOR IDLE HANDS -TODO! By DWIG WOO Cob's kmochco t<w riKHCB-jJ 0Ff Trie Taolb andS EATIH IT ftV-V 'JP; K 1 CPinT 5c Tb SCHOCI. k vmTvwtjr >mV Dinner. g *n\ iT5 "**> L,<Te ?w* foR. voo To Por OP \ (VmY mor&! <3?g? N*7 W ) i\ s awns'? I' 6rat Trtar . P&svci cur! vou ve S,V*>1N GoT T& Lose 1WI C?3 . NOV. V en evea. U^TlM GOOO OKO T\R?t> A-OF pi>c?eo WfH* NOISAMCS AROUMD VCKWfl
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