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THE GAsTOXU GAZETTES. - - k- .. si.. 'snafii w i mi as sn snv --.. aBMMBBwaBasssaeannnnnaS w a - g to Gastonia Gazette Issued every Monday, Wednesday and Friday fey The Gazette Publish ing Company.: V -' -.- :- f 8. O. ATKINS. J. W. ATKINS.. rEdltonandMr - v Admitted into the mails at the toti Office at Gastonia N. C at tne pound , rate or Postage, April 28, 110. ( ;.. ; . :- ,. . 4 , SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: One year ...... ...... ....fS.OO "Six months ........ 1.00 Three months ...... . .50- One month ...... . .... .29 , All subscriptions payable la ad vance and dlscontuxued promptly pen expiration. ESTABLISHED 1880. , ' NO. 234 Uewt Mats Aveaae. PHONE NO. 60. Mr. M. Luther Bmim, of lit. Holly. Is regularly employed by The Gazette ud Is Mthorixed . to coll oct for subscriptions, take : 'orders for advertising and job printing and to- transact other Items of business for this paper. Sir.- Barnes Is now making - canTass of the county. Give him yoar subscription and begin,. keeping np with Gaston by read- big the county's leading newspa per three times a week. Only (2 a year, $ 1 for six months. ICAflRSTl FRHXAT, JUNE 20, 1017. Those greedy coal barons are go ing -to have to come down. Oh. how f-yre wish Uncle am would say to the paper octopus, "You next." Irish' potatoes dropped yesterday to four dollars bushel In New York as the result of immense quantities of spuds being thrown on the mar ket. This is quite a tumble from the top price of 112 per bushel. It I would tickle us awfully to see a few other tilings in the food line fall a little, bit. ; Onr friends down Filbertway al ways secure some star attractions for their big August picnic but this year they have gone themselves one bet- ter. Congresswoman Jeanette Ran kin, of .Montana, is to be the star at traction with a few Congressmen, Governors and ex-Governors as side issues If the committee in charge carries out the, program as outlined elsewhere In today's Gazette we feel safe In guaranteeing them a record breaking attendance from Gastonia. The biggest piece of news so far this week-at least the news that was most eagerly read and comment ed on by the general public was the dispatch on Wednesday chronic ling the safe arrival in France of tbe first contingents of regular United States Army troops. From now on Americans will read with even keener Interest than ever before the war news irom prance, soonwe expect to be hearing of some splendid fight ing done by Uncle Sam's soldiers on the Western front. Some deft pen artist recently made a cartoon, which was widely used, entitled "The Blow That Al most Killed Father" and depicting Kaiser Bill In a most dejected atti tude when the news was conveyed to him that the American people had oversubscribed by 50 per cent the Liberty Loan of two billion dollars. Now that the American people, have in a week's, time, contributed more than $100,000.000-asked for tne support of the American Red Cross, Kaiser Bill is due another attack or rertlgo or something of. the kind. u there was doubt in the minds of any Gastonians that canning and drying were going to be vocations of small Import in this neck oX- the . a . f I woous mis summer the announce ment in today's Gazette that the) Chamber of Commerce has found it i necessary to employ an additional demonstration agent for the town alone will dispel any such notion. Hundreds' of housewives are eager to learn how to can and dry vegeta bles and flruts and already. It ' is siaiea, more tnan thirty clubs for this purpose have been organized In side the city. Let the good work go on. All of. this canned stuff will come In splendidly next winter. i i .. . six suffragettes who served a three- day jail sentence ending today rn Washington for displaying .treason able banners, is a North Carolina woman, the daughter of I Rev. J. D. Arnold, -a retired Methodist minister -Ting at WaynesTine. ZIT.T'Z'' 11 1 -ZzZs&rzi Inside the Lines Bj EARL DEER BIOGERS AND KOBCT WELLS RITCHIE Oopjilfht, ttO. ty Ih. BoH.Hr rill Co. CHAPTER VII. The Hotel 8p'endide, R JOSErn ALMER. proprietor . of tbe Hotel Splendlde. on 1 Gibraltar's Waterport street, was alone In his office, busy over bis books. The day was Aug. 6. The night before tbe cable had flashed word to General Sir George .CrandalL, governor general of tbe Rock, that Eng land bad burled herself Into the great ' war. 'But that was no concern of Mr. Joseph Aimer except as It affected tbe hotel business. Admittedly It did bring complications there. A sleek, well fed Swiss be was, one whose neutrality was publicly as lnv. pervious as tbe rocky barriers .of his home land. A bland eye and a suave professional smile were the ever pres ent advertisements of urbanity on Jo seph Aimer's chubby countenance. He spoke, with an accent that might have got him Id to trouble with tbe English masters of the Rock bad they not known that certain cantons In Switzer land are very close to tbe frontier of Germany, and Aimer therefore was hardly to be blamed for an accident of birth. It was 4 in the afternoon. Tbe street outside steamed with heat, and the odors that make Gibraltar a lasting memory were at their prime of distil lation. Tbe proprietor of the Splen dlde was nodding over his books. A light footfall on the boards beyond the desk roused him. A girl with two ci gar boxes under her arm slipped, like a shadow, up to tbe desk. She was dressed In the bright colors of Spain, claret colored skirt under a broad "Haven't I been Josephs, girlf the cigar Romany Bash, and with thin white waist, open at rounded throat A cheap tortoise shell comb held her colls of chestnut hair high on ber bead Louisa of the Wilhelmstrasse, but not the same Louisa, the sophisticated Louisa of tbe Cafe Rlche and tbe Winter Gar den. A timid little clgarmaker she was here In Gibraltar. jouisa: Aimer s neaa bobbed up on a suddenly stiffened neck as he whispered her name. She set her boxes of cigars on, tbe desk, opened them, and as she made gestures to point the worthiness of her wares she spoke swiftly and In a half whisper. "All is as we hoped, Aimer. He comes on the Princess Mary a cable gram from. Koch just got through to day. I wanted" "You mean" Aimer thrust his head forward In bis eagerness, and his eyes were bright beads. "Captain Woodhouse our Captain Woodhouse! The girl's voice trem bled in exultation. "And bis number- bis Wilhelmstrasse number ls-Histen carefully-1032." "-Nineteen thirty-two." Aimer repeat ed under his breath; then aloud. "On the Princess Mary, you say?" "Yes; she is already anchored In the strait The tenders are coming ashore. He wlllconie here, for such were his directioiis In Alexandria. Louisa, started to more toward the street door. "But your' Aimer stopped her. "The English are making a roundup of sus pects on the Rock. - They will ask questions perhaps arrest "Me 7 No, I think not Just because I was away from Gibraltar for six weeks and have returned so recently is not enough to rouse suspicion. Haven't I been Josephs tbe cigar girl. to every Tommy in the garrison for nearly a year? No no, senor; you are wrong These are the purest cigars- made south of Madrid. Indeed, senor. The girl bad suddenly changed her tone to one of professional wheedling, for she saw three entering the door. Aimer lifted bis voice angrily: "Josephs., your mother Is substitut ing with these cigars. Take tbem back and tell ber If 1 catch her doing this again it means tbe cells for ber." The cigar girl bowed her bead In simulated fright sped past tbe Incom ing tourists and -lost herself In the smiung crowd on the street Aimer J ! penxfittea nunseft-(o mutter angrily as be turned back to bis books. - V "You see. mother? See that hotel keeper lose his temper, and tongue lash that poor girl? Just what I tell you these foreigners don't know bow to be polite to ladles." Henry J. Sherman "yes, sir, of Ke wanee, Hlynoy"-mopped his bald pink dome and glared truculently at the Insulting back of Joseph Aimer. Mrs. Sherman, tbe lady of direct Impulses who .had contrived to stare Captain Woodhouse out of countenance In the Winter Garden not long back, cast herself despondently on the decrepit lounge and appeared to need little In vitation to be precipitated Into a cry ing spell. Her daughter, Kitty, a win some little slip, stood behind her, arms about tbe mother's neck and ber bands stroking tbe maternal cheeks. "Cheer up. mother. Even If this first trip . of ours this 'grand tower, as tbe guidebooks call It has been aorta tough we bad one compensation any way," said tbe magnate of Kewanee "we saw tbe Palace of Peace at Tbe Hague before tbe war broke out Guess they're leasing It for a skating rink now, though." "How can you joke when we're In such a flxT He-Henry, you ne-never do take things seriously H "Why not yoke, mother? Only one thing you can do over here you don't have to' pay for. Cheer op! There's the Saxonla due here from Naples some time soon. Maybe we can horn a way up ber gangplank. Consul says" Mrs. Sherman looked up from her handkerchief with withering scorn. "Tell me a way we can get aboard any ship without having tbe money to pay eur passage. Tell me that Henry Sherman!" "Well, we've been broke before, mother," ber spouse anssvered cheerily, rocking himself on heels and toes. "Remember when we were first mar ried and bad that little bouse on Lib erty street tbe newest bouse in Ke wanee it was, and we didn't have a hired girl then, mother. But we come out all right, didn't we?" He patted his daughter's shoulder and winked ponderously. "Come on, girls and boys, we'll gov look over those Rock chambers the English hollowed out We can't sit In our room and mope all day."- " The gentleman who knew Kewanee was making for. the door when Aimer, the-suave, came out from behind his desk and stopped blm with a warning hand. "I am afraid tbe gentleman cannot see the famous Rock chambers," he purred. "This is wartime since yes terday, you know. Tourists are not allowed In the fortifications." Like to see who'd stop me!" Henry J. Sherman drew himself up to bis full five feet seven and frowned at tbe Swiss. Aimer rubbed his bands. "A soldier with a gun. most prob ably, sir." . Mrs. Sherman rose and hurried to her husband's side In alarm. "Henry Henry! Don't go and get arrested again! Remember that last time the Frenchman at that Bordeaux town." Sherman allowed discretion to soften bis valor. "Well, anywayf' he turned again to the proprietor "they'll let us see that famous signal tower up on top of tbe Rock. Motber, they say from that tower up there they can keep tabs on a ship sixty miles away. Fellow down at tbe consulate was telling me Just this morning that's tbe king pin of the whole works. Harbor's full of mines and things; electric switch in tbe sig nal tower. Press a switch up there and everything in the harbor blam!" He shot bis hands above his bead to denote the cataclysm. Aimer smiled sardonically and drew the Illinois citi zen to one side. "I would give yon a piece of advice," he said In a low voice. "It is" "Say, proprietor, you don't charge for advice, do you?" Sherman regard ed bis quizzically. "It Is this." Aimer went on, unper turbed. "If I were you I would not talk much about the fortifications of the Rock. Even talk is ah danger ous if too mucb Indulged." ."Hub! I guess you're right" said Sherman thoughtfully. "You see, we don't know mucb about diplomacy out where I come from." Interruption came startingly. A ser geant and three soldiers with guns swung through the open doors from Waterport street Gun butts struck tbe floor with a heavy thud. Tbe ser geant stepped forward and sainted Ai mer with a businesslike sweep of band to visor. "See here, landlord!" tbe sergeant spoke up briskly. "Fritz, tbe barber, lives here, does he not?" Aimer nod ded. "We want him. Find blm In the barber shop, eh?" Tbe sergeant turned and gave direc tions to the guard. Tbey tramped through a swinging door by the side of tbe desk while tbe Shermans, par ents and daughter alike, looked on. with round eyes. In less than a min ute the men In khaki returned, escort ing a quaking man In white jacket Tbe barber, greatly flustered, protested In English strongly reminiscent of bis Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With LOCAL. APPLICATIONS, m tbey cannot rracti the eat of tb dtsoaso. Catarrh Is a local disease, greatly In fluenced by constitutional condition, and In order to cure it you must take an internal remedy. Hall's Ca tarrh Cur la taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous sur faces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure was prescribed by one of the heat fibyalcians in this country for years. It composed of some of the best tonics known, combined with some of the best blcod purifiers. The perfect com bination of the inrredinta in Hall's Catarrh Cure la what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal condi tions. Bend for testimonials, free. ' F. 3. CHENEY CO., Props., Toledo, O. All Drursista. 75e. - - Ball Family puis xor coastiyativa. -Orders to take you. Frits," the ser geant explained not unkindly. ; "But I haf done nothing.": the bar ber cried. "For ten years I baf shav ed; you. You; know 1 am a harmless eld German." Tbe sergeant shrugged. I fancy tbey tbink you are working for the Wilhelmstrasse. Frits, and "But I haf done nothing. they want to have you where tbey can keep their eyes on you. Sorry, you know." , "Close in! March!" commanded the sergeant Tbe guard surrounded tbe hapless barber and wheeled through the door, their guns hedging bis white jacket about inexorably. Sherman's hands spread bis coattails wide apart, and be rocked back fortb on beels and toes, bis eyes smoldering. "Come on. father" Kitty bad slip ped ber band through her dad's arm and was imparting direct strategy In a low voice "we'll take motber down the street to look at the shops and make her forget our troubles. They've got some wonderful Moroccan bazaars In town. Baedeker says so." "Shops, did you say?" Mrs. Sherman perked up at once, forgetting her grief under the superior lure. "Yes. mother. Come on. let's go down, and look 'em over." Sherman's good humor was quite restored. He pinched Kitty's arm In compliment for her guile. "Maybe they'll let us look at their stuff without charging any thing. But we couldn't buy a postage stamp, remember." They sailed out into the crowded street and lost themselves amid the Bcourings of Africa and south Europe. Aimer was alone in tbe office. The proprietor fidgeted. He walked to the door and looked down the street in the direction of the quays.' He pull ed his watch from bis pocket and com pared it with the blue face of the Dutch clock on the wall. His pudgy hands clasped and unclasped them selves behind his back nervously. An Arab hotel porter and ruuner at tbe docks came swinging through the front door with a small steamer trunk on his shoulders, and Aimer started for ward expectantly. Behind the porter came a tall well knit man dressed In quiet traveling suit the Captain Wood bouse who bad sailed from Alexan dria as a passenger aboard the Prin cess Mary. He iwused for an Instant as bis eyes met those of the proprietor. Aimer bowed and hastened behind the desk. Woodhouse stepped up to the register and scanned it casually. "A room, slr?" Aimer held out a pen invitingly. "For the night, yes," Woodhouse an swered shortly, and he signed the reg ister. Aimer's eyes followed the strokes of the ien eagerly. "Ah, from Egypt, captain? ou were aboard the Princess Mary, then?" "From Alexandria, yes. Show me my room, please. Beastly tired." The Arab porter darted forward, and Woodhouse was turning to follow him iiii' "Out you gol" when be nearly collided with a man Just entering the street door. It was Mr. Billy Capper. Both recoiled as their eyes met. Just tbe faintest flicker of surprise. Instant ly suppressed, tightened the muscles of the captain's Jaws. He murmured a "Beg pardon" and started to pass. Capper deliberately set himself in the other's path and, with a wry smile, held out his hand. "Captain Woodhouse, I believe." Cap per put a tang of sarcasm, corroding as acid, into tbe words. He was still smiling. -The other man drew back and eyed him coldly. "I do not know you. Some mistake." Woodhouse said. Aimer was moving around from be hind the desk with the soft tread of a cat, his eyes fixed on the hard bitten face of Capper. "Hah! Don't recognize the second cabin passengers aboard the Princess Mary, ehr Capper sneered. "Little bit discriminating that way, eh? WelL my name's Capper Mr. William Cap per. Never heard tbe name in Alex andria what? . ' "Ton are drunk. Stand aside H Woodhouse spoke quietly. His face was very white end strained. Aimer, launched himself suddenly between the two and laid his bands roughly on Capper's thin shoulders. "Out yon go!" he choked In a thick Xo-4j,7r -' pwrict xo. . - ! J, REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE " FIRST NATIONAL BANK Jnnez7tnS!?ft7h" SUt ofortn CarollM' ' closest business on RESOURCES. Loans and discounts (excent those shown on b and c) Total loans Notes and bills redlscounted (other than bank acceptances sold) (seo Item 55a) Foreign Bills of Exchange or Drafts sold w.ith Indorsement of thin bank, not shown under Item d above (see Item 55c) U. 8. bonds (other than Liberty Bonds of 1017): U. S. bonds deposited to secure circu lation (par value) Total U. S. bonds (other than Liberty Bonds) and certiflcktes of indebtedness Payment on account subscription for Liberty Loan Bonds Bonds, securities, etc.: Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) Value of banking house Equity In banking house '. Net amount due from approved re serve agents In New York. Chi cago, and t. Louis Net amount due from approved re serve agents in other reserve x. cl"e , .Net amount due from banks and bankers (other than Included in 13 or 21) Other checks on banks In the same City or town as reDortlnei hanir Outside checks and other cash Items fractional currency, nickels, and cents Notes of other national banks Federal Reserve notes Lawful reserve in vault and net a- mount due from Federal Re serve Bank Redemption fund with U. S. Treas urer and due from U. S. Treas urer Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid Amount reserved for all interest accrued circulating notes outstanding Net amount, due to approved reserve agents In other reserve cities. . Net amount due to banks and bankers ii! ou ui oi ; . Demand deposits subject to Reserve: Individual deposits subject to check Certified checks Cashier's checks outstanding Total demand deposits subject to Reserve, Items 34, 35. 26, 37, 38. 39. and 40 Tinio deposit subject to Reserve dj-3, or subject to 30 days or Total of time deposits subject to Keserve, Items 41, 42, and 43 588,107.43 United States deposits, not subject to Reserve: Bills payable, other than with Federal Reserve Banlv, includ ing all obligations representing money borrowed, other than rediscounts Total Liabilities for rediscounts, including serve bank (see Item Id) . 162,1 64.40 State of Xnrth Carolina, County of Gaston, ss: , . v" X' 3oyce- c"ahier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belier S. X. BOYCE. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to beiore me this 27th day of June 1917 l. M. Robinson, Notary Public. CORRECT Attest: THOS. U CRAIG, S. A. ROBINSON, J. H. SEPARK, Directors. THIS VICTROLA $15.00 Just the thing to take with you on a camping trip. OTHER MODELS $25, $40, $50, $75, $100 and up. H. M. VAN SLEEN, JEWELER guttural. i"ii twtb no icarer insurant guests In my bouse." . "Oh, you won't, won't you? But sup posing I want to take a room here pay you good English gold "for it You'll sing a different tune, then." "Before I throw yon out, kindly leave my place." By a quick turn Ai mer had Capper facing the door; his grip was Iron. The smaller man tried to walk to the .door with dignity. There he paused and looked back over his shoulder. "Remember, Captain Woodhouse," he called ,back, "remember the name against the time well meet again. Capper Mr. William Capper." , Capper disappeared. -Aimer came back to begin profuse apologies to his guest Woodhouse Vas coolly lighting a cigarette. Their eyes met (To Be Continued.) " Next Wednesday is tbe Glorious Fourth. $1,629,855.11 1.629,855.11 162,164.40 162,164.40 11,467,690.71 100,000.00 100,000.00 2.750.0O 9,000.00 165,827.01 165,827.01 18,352.88 52,712.89 71,065.77 20,467.86 6,332.25 28,581.40 390.24 28,971.64 7,665.50 4,830.00 118,192.96 5,000.00 . $2,007,703.20 , 150,000.00 150,000.00 f 65,523 22 9a iqi co 36,028.64 25,000.00 100,000.00 4,793.04 195,230.74 4,793.04 (other than included , 658.633.35 (payable after 30 more notice): 645,705.27 107.00 12,821.05 588,107.43 100,000.00 . $2,007,703.20 those with"Fdrai "Re McNeely Company is today giv ing to- the Gaston County Chapter of the American! Red Cross 10 per cent of all cash sales made and they sell only for cash. This is quite a unique idea and has appealed fa vorably to many people. A half-page advertisement in Wednesday's Ga zette set forth the firm's plans to do this and told also of many bargains that are being offered .for the day. Mrs. J. D. Moore and Mrs. J. C. McNeely spent Wednesday In Char lotte with Mrs. T. B. McNeely. CAVALRY RECRUITS WANTED. I have been authorized to accept ' recruits for a machine gun troop for ' the 1st X. C. Cavalry 7 73 MEN ARK WANTED 73L . , All un-married men between the ages of 18 and 45 art eligible. Apply to " ' : r : R. GREGG CHERRY,- ' 103-4 Realty Building Jt- Gastonla, N. C. . ' ::
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