RF.XALL COMPANY
HAS PIGEON RACE
Birds to Fly 500 Miles
to Their Home
Lofts
One of the most spectacular sport
ing events ever arranged in this coun
try will be contested on September
2.i next, when thousands of Retail
Homing Plegona, racing in pairs, will
fly front points within a radlua of
5410 miles of St Louis back to the
homo lofts in that city.
In order to make possible this race,
which will be officially observed by a
detail of Army Officer* sent by the
Pigeon Section of the Signal Corps,
thr biggest Pigeon Lofts in the world
wore constructed by tho United Drug
Company. Tho best breading pig
i ons purchasable wore procured #00
I" all. and placed in the breeding
•°ria From this nucleus upwards of
fl.000 of the speediest beet trained
thoroughbred homers have boon rear
ed Each is trained te the hour and
many are expected to set a new speed
mark and .unash old records.
Srorc* of married men who havo
visited the great pigeon loft in St.
Louis, where mors than 5,000 birds
arc in training for the big Retail,
Derby, have had revealed to them by
I his feathered clan tome beautiful ex
ample* of domesticity.
The most predominant trait .in the
character of the homing pigeon, of
course, is his love of home. His birth
place. the loft in which he ia brad,
reined and trained, ia home and no
other spot on earth, no matter how
nlliiring, has any Interest for him.
He may he carried off, miles from
home, and tossed off into specs. Ev
entually hr will return. It may take
dayi, or it may be only s matter of
hours, hut no anxiety la felt on the
part or his mate, for aho knows that
he will be bark, sooner or later. De
votion to mate and their young, and
love of home ia to dominant In their
natures that they arc oblivious to all
else.
Thefe arc no slarkere la these fam
Both male and female da their
part towards making a hoses. The
male finds the materials of tobacco
l'ivcs and stems, and the female seta
h< rself to the task of aetnal neat
building. One* mated, pigeons re
main mated for life. They never wa
ver in Iheir constancy and loyalty to
and love nf mate. V the age af three
months thr young pigeon looks about
for his wife and once ha wins her,
and this only after the most ardent
wooing, he Is hers till death and he
slaves for her and Iheir progeny from
diwn till dark.
Every day circling over the great
loft in flt louia, training far the
rare, hundreds of pigeons may ba
'fen, familiarising themselves with
thr home surrounding*, and always
with the idea uppermost, of returning
to home and family ones the night it
Aoishsd.
The ears and training of these pdg
eons has been under tha direction of
an expert who was la.charge of ths
pigeons used an tha American hauls
front during the world war. Many of
'hesc war pigeons won distinction and
were hailed as heroes because of their
intivpid and unerring flights through
Jf fflfTti
suited In saving tha liven of hundreds
of American boyt in the battle line.
Some of these hero birds sre to
bv sent to 8t- Iouis by the U. 8. A.,
and trill be exhibited in tha Raxall
l-ofts for thr benefit of the thousands
of Rexall Delegates to the Conven
tion.
Pigeons arp ssisf to be sent to
oruggirts Within five hundred'
miles of flt Louis. At a specified hour!
a pair of theaa birds will be released[
by thr mayor, some other high oScial
or a girl delegated by the mayor, and
srnt on its way to the 8t Louia loft
Rach bird will carry a bird massage'
beneath its wing addressed to the'
Coventor of Missouri who personally
will be at the RcxaU loft to receive
it. Handicaps as to time and dis
tance have bean worked out and the
Aral bird trapping in at the Rexall;
Loft will win the golden prtsa.
Tbe race is to be the crowning fea_
ture of the anneal convention of the
United Drug Company at which up
wards of 8,000 Rexall druggists from
a'l parts of ths country will mast. At
the same time the new (4,000,000
factory erretail by the United Drug
Company for the manufacture of all
Rexall products win be inspected for
tho first time by the Rexall delegatee,
oil of whom are stockholders in the
United Drug Compeny.
Prank P. Lucke, president of the
International Federation of American
Homing piegon Fane,ere. la tojudg*
the race and he is keeping close watch
on all details leading up to tha actual
contest.
Godwin Newa
Mr. and Mr* C. P. Ward nail
Monday In Fayetteville shopping.
Mr. and Mr* C. W. Spell speat
Sunday la Red Springe with Mr.
8pell » brother, Mr. A. P. April.
Mra. Laura McNeill ha* returned
I'vm a several days viait ta Jackson
Springs.
Mines Ladle McIntyre and Raby
Turner spent Monday in Duos ahum
ping.
Paul Starling af Beaton spent Wed
nesday In Godwin with hi* parents,
Mr. and Mr*. Geo. Starting
Kierman Godwin of Toledo, Ohio,
I* spending a f«w day* with Mr. and
Mrs. H. McIntyre.
* **!!!:.w- ^ ,p0I~ '• **
h . pltal receiving treatment.
Albert Lucas who ha* bean quite
alck formvav.l week, with fever tea
tlnofi HU frlindi Wopc f#r
a upoady rteovary. i
Mr. and Mra. 0. W. Rhodes of High
Point, *P*Pt Wednesday with Mr
and Hn. C. F. /ahas.
. "'i E J >• ^turned
from -Belabors, where aha spent are
ata) day* with har daughter, Mrs
Harwood Howard.
Mr. and Mr* Robt. Burrow^ af
Florence, 8. C., ar* spending several
day* with Mr. and Mr* ». T. Mark
ham.
Mr*. Harper Jonc* spent Taaaday
In Dann shopping.
J. W Driver, af Doan. was a basi
nets visitor In Godwin Wadneaday.
By removing apparatus la liftt
hegasa, the Rina Pels bare endanger
ed navigation aff the coat* of Ire
land
A Chicago society girl baa pwrehea
rd an airplane besaoaa autaaaaWtaa
ar* too slew for bar. She la an MR
rtent fltac.
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Last Thursday’s Audience
Mystified by Phonograph
Hears famous contralto
compare voice with RE-CREATION by Edison’* new phonograph
could not tell the two apart.
MISS HELEN CLARK, the popular contralto, gave an
extraordinary recital Thursday night'at the Metropolitan
Theatre.
• ^^ed on to the stage and stood beside a
rtately cabinet. She began to sing ‘Alice Blue Gown.”
1 he audience immediately yielded to the spell of her beau
tiful voice. Then suddenly there was a stir—a subdued
murmur of surprise—and a perplexed rubbing of eyes.
I he voice continued to fill the auditorium with undimin
lshed sweetness—your ears were proof of that—but her
lips had become absolutely silent-your eyes told you that.
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What wizardry was this? It was the test of direct com
parison with the living artist, which Thomas A. Edison
has developed to demonstrate that the Official Laboratory
Model of his new phonograph will sing any song exactly I
as it was sung by die artist, and that his Re-Creation of a
singer s voice, as it comes from this wonderful new phono
graph, positively cannot be distinguished from the singers
actual voice, when both are heard in direct comparison
Miss Clark and Mr. Phillips, made repeatedcomparis
El?8 always with the same result. It was truly wonderful.
I nis master .achievement of the great wizard, Edison,
marks a new epoch in music.
The NEW EDISON
The Phonograph With A Soul”
.Yo|U“" hav<r.a duphcate of the wonderful instrument
used at Metropolitan Theatre and, if you act quickly, we
can famish you with an engraved certificate (signed by
both artists) certifying that it is an exact duplicate in to
nal quality of the instrument they used in their amazing
comparison; also that it will sustain precisely the same
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We have ten of the famous Official Laboratory Mod
els and the artists have certified every one of them. Come
to our store at once and ask to sea and hear the Official
Laboratory Models on which these great artists have issu
ed their Certificates of Authenticity.
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The BARNES & HOLLIDAY
Dunn, North Carolina
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