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TOO MUCH
BIG REDUCTION SALE—20 to 50
Commences Friday, July 10th, and
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Our annual stock taking commences July 20, and to reduce our stock as much as possl*
ble we have put on this big reduction sale for 10 days before we commence to take lnven*
tory. This will be the most interesting sale of the season, for we are going to let things!
loose regardless of price. Anyone can afford to buy at the prices, and no one can afford!
to miss the bargains we offer. Sale commences Friday morning at 8 o’clock. Don’t
“run,” but hurry, if you want to get some of the best plums. AAA''
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THOMSON COMRA
Thr People’s Store.
NO CONFLICT WITH STATE LAW
The Mini Ooverameat Dim
Nat Interfere With Stale'*
Lfeaor (nutations.
WuMactea teccial 2md, to Charlotte Ob
MW.
A good deal has been said re
cently about the attitude of the
Internal Revenue Department
.with reference to the operation
of the Watts law, and the im
pression has obtained in some
instances that conflict might re
sult between tbe State and Fed
eral authorities os a result of the
operation of the new law. The
Federal government has no de
sire or disposition to interfere
with the operation of the Watts
law. The man who violates it*
provisions will receive no com
fort from that source. K was
explained to-day that the Feder
al government does not license
saloons and distilleries. The
State exercises that function and
authorises them to do business.
The Federal government goes
no further tban to levy a tax on
such institutions. The State
does the licensing in the literal
sense of the word. Speaking of
the subject to-day Commissioner
Yerfces, of tbe Internal Revenue
Department, said:
"If a man should apply for li
cense to engage in any form of
the whiskey bteainess his appli
cation would probably be grant
ed, but he would know that he
would have to suffer consequen
ces of violation of the State
taw."
The Federal authorities sre
not looking for any violations of
State laws. As one official, ex*
pressing the feeling entertained
here, said, "What we desire to
know is the extent of the rap
Port North Carolina will give
W ioc*J Pederal authoritiea In
A high official in the Depart
nwnt of Juatioe expreaaea the
opinion that most of the viola
tions of the internal laws will be
tried in the State courts nndar
the provisions of the Watts act.
It is his opinion that where there
is a cogrtetion In the State
courts tbs Federal anthoritias
will not take action. There stay
ha exceptional cases, hot gener
ally spunking, he. said this policy
would probably be pur in ed
Bobby Walt hour broke the
world’s record in a motor-paced
bicycle race at Boston Taeaday
night. He ran IS mOes in 17*
minnr»«
Aa Up-to-date Paper.
Cbulutte Chronicle, ilk.
^We thought Thk Gastonia
Gaiettr had been addressing
The Chronicle's copy with a
typewriter but The Gazette
explains that it is using an up
to-date machine called the ad
dressograph, of which it prints
a cut. The Gazette thinks it
is prohably the first Southern
newspaper to utilise this device.
The Gazette is an up-to-date
paper and has to have up-to
aate machinery._
The Virginia Bnaiaesa Didn’t
• Paa Oat.
c«u»hi CoTTOpooSeooe Ncwtoa Nun.
About two weeks ago thirteen
or fourteen boys and men from
here and surrounding country
were persuaded to leave their
farming and go to Virgina, where
they were offered great induce
ments to work for a certain com
pany. But it seems everything
did not pun out according to
expectations, as the boys have
been coming home just like
homing pigeons -one oc two at
a time, and they bad only their
feet to help them along.
One el the Shew Place*.
New T«f% fun.
Tbc office of a great life Insnr
ance company is one of the show
places of New York which every
visitor should aee. Here ia an
institution (to avoid invidlous
neaa I ah all apt mention names)
with over $330,000,000 of aesets.
11 j*y* ?£*,*““**. y 1“ mortuary
and expired policies $50,000,006
in round nnmbe«-a* much as
the entire business of the com
mercial houae of Cltflin amonnta
to in a twelvemonth, it has
8,000 soliciting agents through
out the world, ft employs in
its home office more then 600
clerks and heads of departments
to keep track -of its enormous
business. It has a safe, the
door of which weight ten tons,
yet which can be opened and
shut as easily (when not time
locked) as the case of a watch.
This safe is built of crucible
■ted. Its foundation is three
“tori** beneath the sidewalk,
■■d is altogether distinct and
the foundation of
n."£ Whi£h b<2£etjlt
Hcoutafn# more than $300 000 .
OOOof marketable sacuritiealand
carries a balance of 150,000 s day
*be ordinary wants of
a
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EDISON'S FUST INVENTION.
It Worked Whila Ba Slept TUI
He Leaf ■ Job by It.
PliiU4«lDkla Udctr.
A statement that has been go
ing the rounds of the press of
late relative to the great number
of inventions patented by Thom
as A. Edison makes no mention
of his first labor-saving device,
which, though it coat him dear
b'.wu never sent to the Patent
Office or placed upon the mar
ket, though it did the work per
fectly for which it was designed.
This invention, forgottten by
all save a few ola telegraph op
erators and the WUard himself,
waa thought out in the days
when Mr. Edison earned his
daily bread operating the Bos
ton-New York night wire of
what is now the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The pay
was not particularly large, but
the work waa light, so light that
New York, in order to make
aura that the man on the Hub
end of the wire was attending
to business, arranged for him to
call op every hour after mid
night, give his official call and
sign it being argued that thia
would keep film awake. It did
keep Edison awake for a few
week a. Then he set about util
ising his spare time on a device
which would beat the "smart
ones" who ruled the New York
office.
ine remit was ail that coaid
be expected from Mr. Edison’*
incceMea la later life. It was
aa arrangement of a battery
with a clock and a circuit
breaking instrument which at
the proper time would give New
York the looked-for signal*.
Pot weak* it waa tbe marvel of
Mr. Edison a friend* that he got
aloo* with so littla sleep. Then
the denouement came in the
5rm ®* * call for Boston from
New York with a very irapor
!*■? Though Boston
bad signalled but a few minute.
°,*?re « w“ MJ»nd impossible
to "raise" that dty when it was
necesstry to send the message
Nearly an hoar later tbe New
York operator was pounding
away when the circuit was
opened and the sounder gave off
"fin. Bd. O. K." Immediately
the call for Boatoa was renewed,
hot no answer came for an boar,
when the asaglc signal was
sgain repeated. All night long
tbe wire was watched, rod when
morning came the manager at
Boston was asked to explain
the mystery.
The manager, s canny Scot,
knew a thing or two, or at least
he thought he did, and without
saying a word to anybody, ex*
amined the clock and Edison’s
locker, finding there the tell
tale wines and mechanism. That
night, when the future "Wizard"
showed up for work, he found
that the manager had decided to
give him "30"—which in tele
arspber’s talk spells discharged.
Edison knew well enough
what be was discharged for, and
so left the next dey for New
York and the career which baa
finer made hit name a house
hold word the world over.
23 M mmi U Injured
CtailonfOtwivrt.
Charlottesville, Va., July 7.—
Southern Railway passenger train
No. 35, southbound, ran into an
open switch at Rockfisb depot,
twenty miles south of this city
at 3 o’clock this afternoon,smash
ing into a local freight on a sid
ing. The passenger engine and
express coaches were demolished
and the baggage coach telescoped
through the second class passen
ger car in the rear. In the lat
w« a party of immigrants,
all of whom were killed or In
jured. The dead number 23
aud the injured number 13.
Traffic was suspended for eight
hours.
Dag-Crewthar Cerparallan Par*
latte Charier.
Mm Astoale. Tm>. DtawMi. M
The King-Crowtber Corpora
tion and the Klog-Crowther
Pipe Line Company, in the ault
of the State of Texas on the re
lation of the Attorney General
of the State for forfeitare of
charter end for a receiver, failed
to apjyar when the caae waa
called for trial to-day, although
their attorneys were In the court
room. Judgment aa prayed for
waa rendered. The charters of
both companies were forfeited
and C. Pancost, of this city, waa
appointed receiver.
Samuel Crowther, financial
manager of the companies and
o«a of the Individual defendants
}a the caae, was preaeat and
iotned with the State in thf ap
plication for forfeiture of char
ter.
WhIU a You* Lady Saar Bar
Mather Buried • Bay# Alight*
ad oa H a r Umbralla.
CW»« Ckr JVM Iratnu
Rev. W. G. King reports a
strange incident that happened
*t Liberty church a few days a
gp. The occasion was the funer
al of a well known lady of
lection ind a large concourse
of mends and relatives surround*
ed the grave. Among the num
ber was the daughter of the de
cemed lady and tome aympa
th^ic friend was bolding an
umbrella over the young lady to
shield her from &e sin Just
as the first shovelful of earth was
thrown into the grave, a dove
“*7 .the ead ot the chufcb
and alighted upon the atal of
the umbrella oyer the young
ladT * head and remained there
until the grave was filled when
it flew a war in precisely the
, ***** way It had come.
ii I?'*™- c*U«d the
)*£? • attention to the presence
, of the dove and naked her if she
wWl*d it to ba driven awav, to
which she replied that she did
not, as aha believed it tv be a
b**wuly messenger.
This is a remarkable occur
fence and can be vouched for
by all who wcie present. '
C lay's Fhmt Child wm
May latent to Ba.
laalattaa. Xr. Dliuatcfc.
General Caasioa Clay and
tormerohild wife DoraRichard'
yn, will be reunited, living un
der the tame roof at least. If not
married. When the girl, then
in her 14th year, married Cen
tral Clay, the bad been courted
by Riley Brock, a barefooted
min boy.
It will be remembered rite loft
her aged hatband and after a
divorce waa married to yoang
Brock, the general giving them
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Brock turned out bad, aoid all
the furnishings, got loto trouble
and was compelled to go West.
Sunday night Brock wm killed
by a train Tn Illinois. Nov the
widow MVS ska will go back and
pve with her divorced and aged
be?b“thJ«*« h2X*3PBlJek?
death. She has one child which
she named after Clay.
Subscribe foe Tub Gastonia
OAsrrra.
VACATION
Moms more, If you take a KODAK
with you, whether to the —Tirntelea or
to the seashore. Yoa will have set
only ell the |oya that tthscs have, bat
picture* besides—pictures of cherished
hobbles and oil the —tars that stoat
appealtoone t t i r «
Our line of Kodaks sod -nypflLl baa
never been more ces^ldte. « « ,
TORRENCE, The Jeweler.
Expert Weteh Repairing Artistic "Tailed
CiAI6<WRS0H.