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What Good Roads . Bring To Town One of the marvels of the times is the rapid transit from one place to another throughout North Carolina, and the good roads are responsible for.the quick and safe transportation of people and traffic-. On last Wed nesday Messrs. Frank B. Freeze and Ernest Mills at 9:40 o’clock decided to go down to the sandhill country «nd get a few peaches. At 10:10 o’clock the Oakland car was in front of the Enterprise office and the men went forth. They journeyed to Albe marle, 50 miles, where they stopped for dinner, and going thence through Troy to Samarcand, a distance of 48 miles. There they secured 10 crates of peaches, loaded them in the car and started back home. At 6 o’clock the men had deposited on the front porch of the editor’s home on Eastern Heights a crate of the finest peaches we have . ever seen. The trip was made in eight hours, covering a dis tance of 196 with a stop for dinner, loading the fruit and getting gas. Ten years ago this feat could not have been accomplished in less than two days. Leaving Wilmington at 6:40 o’clock on last Thursday morning Messrs. John Carson and Fred Turner drove through in a Ford car by the way of the Wilmington-Charlotte highway, peaching - Mooresville at 5 o’clock that afternoon. The young men stop ped at Rockingham for dinner, and made two other stops en route. This is a record time, and it shows what good roads and an automobile can do with careful drivers. One day this week a truck load of canteloupes from Scotland county were sold on our streets. The gentleman in charge of the load stated the roads are in excellent con dition and that it was an easy mat ter to sell the melons if they could be gotten to the people, consequently he started out. They are “sun-bak ed” and as sweet as sugar itself— the finest on the market this year. They were sold at $?-00 per crate of 46 and 54. This Is Rich. Salisbury Post. . The smallest store in the world is t • closed for alterations because »ts jpro * prietor has gained five"’ pounds in weight, which makes it virtually im posible for him to turn around with out exhaling his breath. This small est store is Milton Lubin’s jewelry shop, just off Times Square, New York City. On the inside it is tri angle with a frontage of five feet, and three and a half feet deep. Milt says the only place he can hang his coat is on the ceiling. “I have to be in constant training to be slim enough to work here,” says Milt. “It is very uncomfortable af ter a full meal. I take constant exer cise and diet carefully.” Later, however, Milt’s weight has soared to nearly 100 pounds. Carpen ters had to be called in with thinner boards. It amazes you to learn that the wordl’s smallest store does a business of $250,000 a year— thin watches diamonds and other precious stones. Milt has an assistant. But thej have to work in relays, for if the twc of them are on the job at the same time there is no room for a customer Only one customer can get into the store at a time. Fat men have triec to enter, then decided to do business from the sidewalk. For the rent for this cubby-hole is $6,600 a year! It is said to be the highest rent in the world, in propor tion to space occupied. Also, it is a monumental illustra tion of the price men pay for swarm ing together in cities. Maybe Milton Lubin is making a lot of money out of his store. We don’t know. But we do know that, to any one loving the natural life of the great outdoors, it woud take a good many millions to compensate for the' physical discomforts of working in such a small cage. Still, with city congestion steadily becoming worse, it is entirely plausi ble that this smallest store in the world is a prophetic example of what metropolitan life will be for most people in a few more generations. Woman Releases Lover. With her features concealed be neath a black hood and flowing cape a young woman engineered single handled a daring jail delivery at War ren, Pa., which freed Patrick Pon soll believed by authorities to be the woman’s fiancee. The woman forced an entrance to the sheriff’s home while that official was absent and stole a pistol and the keys to the county jaiL Then she went to the jail, herded more than a score of prisoners into a sin gle tier and released Ponsoll from a cell where he was held in solitary confinement. With a sharp command to the re maining prisoners , to keep still, the masked woman fled with her “hos tage.", n . ,* Ponsoll had been held in $7,500 ,JMl on a six-count charge. Newton D. Baker Pleads For League Europe is now more nearly ready for world war than it was in 1914, Newton D. Baker told an audience of women gathered at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, to hear the former secre tary of war and others outline the purposes of the League of Nations non-Partisan association. It was the first gun fired there in an attempt to secure signers to a petition that the United States enter a league of na “When we present to the president and Senate 10,000 names, or 10,000,000 names of those who want America to join a league of nations, they will listen,” declared Mr. Baker. “Europe is now more nearly ready for world war than it was in 1914, so far as underlying causes are concern ed, Mr. Baker added, “I cannot see how it can be prevented unless some substitute is found.” “If the devil has it in his heart to let forth upon the human race more deadly instruments of destruction than were used in the last terrible war it means international suicide so far as the civilized nations are con cerned. “America must do her part in a big way in concert with tne other nations of the world to prevent an internation al war. I believe that way will be the League of Nations with reservations to protect the liberty of the United States.” Mr. Baker explained that there is no opposition between the league and the world court. He referred to the latter as “something we ought to go into,” adding that the court does not keep us out.” COAL FIELDS IN CHATHAM A Danville, Va., special to the Greensboro News says: Considerable interest was manifest here in reports from Chatham county, N. C., to the effect that the United States geological survey has confirm ed the discovery of coal there, which recently has been investigated by C. H. Gunter, of Danville, representing Danville interests. It is reported that 7,000 acres of coal land has been effectually “tied up” by Danville in terests and that railways run through practically the entire area. The coal is described as being bituminous and semi-anthracite, useful for both in dustrial and domestic purposes. As part of the coal field is about one hundred miles from Danville, it is re ported that the discovery of the pro duct in large quantities will mean the securing of coal in Danville at a rate far lower than that which now prevails. The names of the Danville interests have not yet been given out but it is understood that they are well known bugines men. Mr. Gunter, who is an expert miner, has been working quietly on the development for some time. He found surface coal on the field some months ago and was convinced that seams could be revealed if tunnels were dug. One such tunnel has already been dug and a large forty-foot vein of coal has been revealed and was recently visit ed by Danville busines smen. The name of the coal field is, ac cording to information received here, the Cumnock coal field. Railways running through it are the Norfolk Southern, the Atlantis and Yadkin, and the Seaboard Air Line. No Marriage Ceremony Among The Eskimos. Morals there are none. They are unmoral, like animals. One way ol putting it is they are perfectly nat ural. - To most people it is difficult to com prehend their mental attitude. To them, clothing is merely for protect ion. With us, clothing is also, and mainly used for cover. They have no marriage rite, yet they are not promiscuous and are mono gamous naturally. The younger men and women do try various “wives” or “husbands” as the case may be, but when finding a mate who is congenial they generally stick to that one until death. . They do not think it matters if they expose any part or all of the body, any more than if they expose the face, hands or feet. Who shall say they are wrong? For century upon cen tury we, civilized, so-called, have been forced to wear cover for protection of the community and for race. It would seem that the Eskimko is more moral than we; he needs protection merely from the elements. In a word, the Eskimo’s life is an unending struggle against the primi tive forces of death; he works con tinually merely to provide food, cloth ing and shelter; he has no diversions as we know them, his pleasures being a full stomach and a warm-body. Yet there are no more cheerful, joyous people than these. Their nat ural expression is a smile, and, in spite of the assertion • that a meat eating race is a warlike race, there are no le gends of wars or fighting.—-Adventure Magazine. Do you take your home paper or dc you borrow your neighbor’s ? Dreaded Octapus Harmless Fish Devilfish, beter known as “polypus octupu. kongkongensis,” are being caught at Santa Cruz, Calif., like flies in a trap, and the tentacles are being shipped to fish markets in San Fran cisco, New York and other cities where they are sliced and sold at from 50 to 60 cents per pound, accord ing to C. 3. Florence, secretary of California fish exchange. "Mr. Florence says the sliced oc topus tentacles make a succulent table delicacy when properly sliced. While fishermen emulate Victor Hugo and other writers of fiction by telling of terrific battles with giant devilfish, usually ending in explain ing how the fish reached one of its eight arms above the water and Wrapped it around the boat, break ing the craft in two, Mr. Florence and Professor Harold Heath, de partment of zoology, Stanford uni versity, California, state that this is physically imfpiossible. Professor Heath desribes the octopus as being “of a shy and retiring disposition.” “The devilfish has no bones or no structure of any kind,” says Mr. Florence. “It cannot swim, but can only float on the water, or propel itself on the floor of the ocean by means of fastening its suckers on a rock and pulling itself along. Each of the eight tentacles is covered with cup-shaped suckers, and these form a vacuum when fastened on an object. Fishermen haul them out of the traps with their bare hands and throw them in boxes in a manner that is extremely undignified to a fish that has an age-old fictional reputation of being a man-killer and boat-smasher.” In the picturesque food shops that line the narrow streets of* San Fran cisco’s colorful Chinatown, the ten tacles of the devilfish may be seen hanging from hooks alongside many other edibles that are strange to the native American. OiT the floors of the wholesale fish houses here the devilfish may be seen stacked in jelly-like heaps, with tentacles, in some cases, extending ten feet across, five feet from each side of the small egg-shaped head. The traps at Santa Cruz, where the majority of thg devilfish are caugh,t On the Pacific coast, are built like fiy traps, only much larger. The traps are made of wire, with a cone shaped entrance for the octopus to squeeze through in. order to reach the bait fixed for him. He has no trouble in entering that ever nar rowing funnel, but finds it impossible to leave. Usually, fishermen state, two or more are caught in the same Instead of being a fighter, the devilfish protects itself from at tack by changing its color and hid ing from its enemy, according to Pro fessor Heath. He says: “To agility and naturally acute senses should be added their sur prising ability to change their color to harmonize with that of their sur roundings, so that pray and enemies alike, are usually unaware of their proximity The color change is based upon minute elastic sacs filled With pigment supplied with mus cles for causing their expansion. “As a devilfish crawls about on the sea bottom its color can be seen to change in a twinkling from deep chocolate through dull red on to gray. If sand or rock is encoun tered on the journey the skin is usually thrown into lumps and ridges, so that under all conditions the body is practically invisible.” However, if Professor Heath’s opin ion of the devilfish as a food is heed ed, the fish will continue to be eaten by its celestial admirers and by a limited few who crave the unusual. Properly to place before the Amer ican epecurean a dish of tender octopus, Professor Heath says, some thing must be done “to destroy its rubber-like consistency.” Seeks To Upset Canadian System. Sydney, N. S., July 19.—A declara tion that he intended to overthrow the present system of government, was made tonight by Daniel Living stone, deposed president of district No. 26 United Mine Workers of Amer ica. Mr. Livingstone made his state ment at a mass meeting of 3,000 striking coal miners at Glace Bay. He declared there was no man “more loyal to the institutions of his coun try than I am.” , Flower Wisdom. A garden cannot live entirely to it self. Even the finest stock needs fresh blood from the garden of another. A few little purple petunias can spoil a whole bed of mammoth beau ties. Some flowers must not be massed; they are so depressing when past their prime. Before your rosea blossom, sow their beds with for-get-me-nots. All pansies are gadabouts, and take fresh life from change of scene. ■ It takes chrysanthemums two years to recover from one move. Country Churches Need* Support Holding this conception of agricul tural progress as we do, it is natural that we give high place to the coun try preacher of the South. In our whole rural civilization there is no more important man than he. And much as he has been able to do in the past, he ought to be able to do more in the future. There is an old story that when John Wesley was preaching once, he thundered to his hearers: “I say, make all you can.” “Amen!” responded a thrifty and pious church leader. “And I say, save all you can,” Wesley went on; and again the old man roared ‘Amen!” But Wesley continued, “And then I say, give all you can”—where upon the old man muttered under his breath, “Thar now, he’s gone and ruint it all!” At the risk of having somebody to say we have “ruint” it all, we wish to say in the outset that if the country church and the country preacher are to contribute what they should to the civilization of the south, they must be better supported. We ought to be as generous in improving church condi tions as we are in improving school conditions. The one-teacher school is no more out of hate than the once-a month preaching. In the matter of physical equipment and financial support, the country preacher of the past has too often had to make bricks without stfaw. This should now be the case no longer. As we have increased the teachers sal aries, so should we increase preach er’s salaries. As we have built larger and better and more beautiful school buildings, so should we build larger, better and more beautiful' church buildings. inow taxing it lor granted that we have given proper support to the coun try preacher, what then |ftoulif we expect of him as a factor in rural pro gress? We do not wish to discuss this sub ject at length, but there qre just two or three ideas which we wish to pre sent very respectfully bat also very earnestly. First of all, I believe the country preacher should be a con structive rather than a destructive, and a positive rather than a negative f9rce. i^is, motto, should ,|^‘"pversi come evil with good. He should know that morally as well as agri culturally, the best way to keep down bad and useles plants in a field is to keep that field busy growing good and useful plants. Take the case of the young people— for they are the strategic forces in every coniunity. If the church gets hold of them, its future and their fu ture is safe. The test of success for preacher or church is to hold on to the young. Well, if we want to discourage vul gar, vicious, and unwholesome recre ation for the young, is not the surest way to do it is to see that clean and worthy recreation is provided? Base ball, basketball, tennis, picnic parties, “get-to-gether” social meetings— all these when encouraged by Sunday school1 and church leaders have kept the boys and girls in many a com munity from seeking change and va riety in less wholesome ways. If a preacher will help to get up a Sun day school library filled with great, clean* wholesome books, old and new, he need not preach so much against reading vulgar and trashy stuff. If he brings his young people together for occasional lectures, musicales, singings, radio concerts, etc., as well as picnics and excursions, he need not thunder so much against dangerous tendencies in the social life of the young. And if he will encourage the com clubs, canning clubs, pig clubs, and the other organized activities of the younger boys and girls, he will find himself increasing that personal and social leadership which is almost indispensible to his moral and spirit ual leadership. In the Catholic countries of Eu rope that I have visited—most nota bly .Ireland and Belgium—the Catho lic preist is the community leader as well as the spiritual leader of the peo ple. Like the preacher in Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village" who— “Ne’er had changed nor wished to change his place,” the preist stays with his people, in terests himself in all phases of their life and work—their farming, their schools, their co-operative movements, their social activities, their financial activities, etc., and the predominance of the Catholic church is largely due to this situation. It will greatly strengthen our Protestant churches here in the South when we are like wise able to have a full-time pastor for each rural church, a man who will not only meet his people on Sunday, but stay with them the whole week through—a leader for better farm ing, better business, better living, a man as active as any other citizen in promoting farm demonstration and home demonstration work, good schools, club work, co-operative mar keting, community fairs, etc., as well as a leader in promoting the finest sort of social and community life.—Pro gressive Farmer. Iredell Picnic Notable Event The Iredell county farmers’ annual picnic, which was held at the Pied mont experiment station near States ville last Thursday was attended foy from ten to twelve thousand people. By noon 2,100 cars were counted coming into the grounds, and dur ing the afternoon there was a stream of people coming and going all the time. A large per cent of the, coun ties in Piedmont Carolina were repre sented. Only three counties entered the contest for the prize offered for the largest attendance. Mecklengurg Catawba and Wilkes being the con testants. The prize, a kodak, waa presented to Catawba county, Mr. Hendrix, reporting 99 present. Meck lenburg was second, reporting 45. Wilkes’ delegation numbered nine. Many counties that were well repre sented made no report. A pleasing feature of the day’s program was the music furnished by the band from the Jackson Training School. The principle addresses on the morning program were made by Dr. B. W. Kilgore, director of agricul tural extension; Mr. Blalock, mana ger of the co-operative cotton mark eting association, and Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of the A. and E. College, the speeches of each being exceedingly practical and helpful. Dr. Brook’s address was on the value of co-operative organization, and he made a wonderfully effective appeal.' After dinner, which was served in families and groups, Franklin Sher man, state entomologist, spoke on the boll weevil in Piedmont Carolina. He said the cotton pest would not become a serious menace to the farmers in this section as in the east because the farmers here diversified their crops more. He warned his hearers of the seriousness of the menace, and told of practical ways of combatting it. r. U Latham, member of the State board of agriculture from the first district, made a brief talk, telling of his trip across the State to attend this picnic. R. W. Scott, a successful farmer and also, a member of the State borad of agriculture, made a helpful talk on pastures for Piedmont North Carolina, telling of his own experi ences in this matter. The dairy exhibit contained a gold medal Jersey cow, owned by H. P. Lutz, of Newton. This cow produced I, 460 gallons during the past year, or four gallons per day for the en tire year, and 900 pounds of butter. J. A. Arey, State dairyman, was in charge of the exhibits, and a common cow was exhibited to show by com trast that she was unprofitable. The oldest man at the picnic was J. L. McHargue, ageJ 93. The old est woman was Mrs. Wade, aged 65. Horace Shoe, of the Presbyterian orphanage, won the prize for having the most freckles of any boy on the grounds. Miss Lorena Nolin, also of the orphanage, was selected as the prettiest girl. Mr. and Mrs- J. H. McElwee, of Statesville, who were married 50 years ago, won distinction in that regard. The weather was ideal and the peo ple gathered for the occasion all had a god time. MORRISON SAVES THE LIFE OF CAMPBELL Governor Morrison has commuted the sentence of W. W. Campbell, of Buncombe, from death to life impris onment following receipt of a joint report made by Doctors Albert An derson, John R. Campbell and W. W. Faison, superintendents of the State hospitals at Raleigh, Morganton and Goldsboro; respectively, to the effect that Campbell is insane and was in sane at the time he is allaged to have killed Mrs. Anna Smathers, telephone operator at Oteen hospital, near Ashe ville, where he was a patient. Campbell was tried and convicted at the July, 1922 term of Buncombe county superior court and when he lost, the date of his execution was Axed for July 12 this year. In ordei that he might examine further Campbell’s case the governor granted a respite and Axed the date of execu tion for October 12. Campbell is allaged to have killed Mrs. Smathers on May 1, 1922. A Toothpick Race. Draw on a level piece of ground oi on an even Aoor two parrallel lines ten feet apart, one for the starting and the other for the Anishing line Furnish each contestant with a bundle of toothpicks. The idea of the game is to se< which of the contestants can Arsl construct an unbroken line of tooth picks from the starting to the Anishini line. There is no set rule how the tooth picks should be placed, except tha any given toothpick may be touches by only two others. There must moreover, be no breaks in the line. Auditors Report A Deficit of $85,463.13 Raleigh dispatch, July 19: Differ ing with the auditors employed by the State in their interpretation of the result of the audit the joint house and senate committee by the last leg islature to conduct an audit of the State’s finance made its report here this afternoon, to the council of State, headed by Governor Morrison, and in the presence of the full committee, the counsel of state and representa tives of the press. The report of the auditor’s commit tee found that there is an accumulated deficit in the general fund of June 30, 1923 of $85,468.13 which “deficit” will in our opinion be more than taken up by the revenues applicable to the period prior to December 31, 1922 which has been since collected but not taken into account by the auditors for the reason that the auditors took into account only such revenues as were collected up to and including May 18, 1923.” The committee’s conclusion on the fi nancial condition of the state as of June 1923 were predicted on the elim ination of the account on liabilities of current revenues of a note for $710,000 outstanding for a deficit in the special school fund. In eliminat ing this note from the outstanding current expenditures the examining committee found that the special ses sion of 1921 had passed an act author izing the borrowing of an amount of $710,000 to provide for funds to take care of this deficit in che special school fund. This amount did not represent excessive expenditures of revenues for the current year of 1921, and the special session recognizing the fact, did not privide for it, but directed that it be funded by the current bor rowings to be renewed from time to time and eventually liquidated by any surplus revenues that might arise in the future. This was made necessary in order to privide for the six months school term which was made manda tory by law. The auditors employed to make the examination as to the state’s finances on the other hand concluded that on December 31, 1922, the date on which Corporation Counsel Maxwell said that there was a $5,000,000 deficit in the state finances, which charge caus ed the present audit to be made, there existed $477,194.75. Abruptness. Abruptness of speech is a characj teristic of a low order of civilization. The savage is seldom fluent; he makes known his desires and communicates his thoughts with ungracious brev ity. Persons of little education usu ally share to some degree this trait of the savage—not always because they are limited to the command of language and have not been accus tomed to the exchange of verbal cour tesies and amends. When we encounter a person who has had the advantage of education and of association with cultured peo ple, and who is nevertheless abrupt in speech and manner, we usually think him “grouchy”’ and rude. Oft^i we are justified in our interpetation of his behavior; but sometimes a per son who is abrupt in manner and curt in speech is the victim of excessive diffidence instead of being deliberate ly forbidding. A fear of saying too much, of not find ing the right and ap propriate words, a misgiving about the value of the thought that is seeking utterance, sometimes causes people to say less than they should and produce an effect of abrui tness, of lack of geniality, when such an impression is the last that the speaker wished to make. So, in judging persons who seem at times unpleasantly abrupt, let us not hastily convict them of rudeness; give them at least the ben efit of the doubt until they definitely show that they are not entitled to re ceive it. Those who are misjudged because excessive diffidence makes them appear churlish and on their guard should re member that such diffidence is a form of egotism. They think too much about themselves and the impression that they make on others.—Youth’s Companion. Rev. Mr. Maurice Rosecrantz, rabbi of the congregation Novah Zedek Tal mud Torah, of Portland, Oregon, was fined 44,44 for selling intoxicating liquor to Walter Smith, a state pro hibition officer. It was on recommen dation of the district attorney’s office and passive acquiescence of S. L Cleaver, state prohibition chief, thai a nominal fine without jail sentence was agreed upon. There was no for mal trial, admission being made thai had been a tenative agreement out o; the court as to procedure. Attorney: for Rabbi Rosencrantz said that h< pleaded not guilty to the charge evei ’ though he admitted that he had sole the sacremental wine to a person no ' belonging to his congregation. Over 6,000 young farm boys are en : rolled in the agricultural club worl 1 of the North Carolina State Collegi , and Department of Agriculture thii Mooresville Winners League is Proposed Stanley News-Herald. A surprise was handed the Albe marle baseball team Tuesday after noon when the fast team of Moores ville got away with a game from the local aggregation by the shut out route. Incidentally it was the first time this season that Albemarle has been handed a bunch of nine goose eggs, and the third loss suffered by them this season. But, a ball team cannot win all of its games—John J. McGraw is having to hustle every day to win his. Good, hard hitting and classy de fensive play won the game for the visitors behind the nice pitching of Ferguson. He had the situation well in hand at all stages of the game, and tightened up whent hits meant runs, while his mates were pounding the offerings of the Albemarle heav ers at opportune moments. It was a good game all through out, and the crowd enjoyed every thing but the score, and this wasn’t so bad, as they have seen games won until a loss is a rarity to them. Much interest is being aroused here over the projecting of a new league, comprising the towns of Albemarle, Kannapolis, Mooresville, Statesville, and other towns. Mr. D. L. Crow ell, secretary of the local club, says that prospectst are bright for the formation of such a league, and ex presed his belief that such would be a good move on the part of all con cerned. All of the aforementioned towns have good ball clubs, too good for the ordinary teams to cope with, and practically all of them are play ing at least three or four games a week. This would cut down the ex penses for hiring new clubs outright, as the teams are about evenly matched at present, and since all of them are playing regularly now, the cost of transportation, expenses, etc., would be but very little more than at pres There is no question but that t]^e formation of a league would add in terest to local games. Fans have a habit of picking out some certain team they like to see play, and they will turn out every time that team comes to town. Witness the games that were played, here with Monroe last year. The crowds always taxed the capacity of the park at the play ing field. The spirit of rivalry that will exist is also good for baseball, as well as the ticket office. People who woultt not turn out for an ordinary game on account of press of business will drop the whole works and amble parkward when their team is playing some contender in the league. They get familiar with the different players and their records, and a discussion of these always serv es to fan baseball fever to a white heat, for your regular dyed-in-the wool baseball fan is foolish about his own statistics first hand. He likes to see his favorites in action. It is hoped that everything can be arranged as to the formation of this league at an early date. If these towns mentioned cannot all come in, possibly some other towns could be interested once the project is start ed. Giant Waterspout Blows Scores of Fish Ashore. St. Petersburg, Fla., July 18.—Hun dreds of fish, ranging in size from four to six inches long, fell on the golf links of St. Petersburg Contry club at Pasadena this afternoon, when a big waterspout estimated to have been more than a mile high, broke on the eastern shore of Boca Ceiga bay. Two local fish companies sent out trucks, to bring in the fish but it was found they were too small. The ma jority were mullet, although a few small trout and blue fish were picked up. During a period of 20 minutes by a hard electrical storm four big water spouts were seen, three in Boca Ceiga bay and one in the gulf. Man of His Word. Sunday about one o’clock while two H3gro youths, Norman Harris and Mat thew Jefferson, were seated in an au tomobile talking, another youth, Geo. Lassiter, walked up saying, “Norman, I’m going to shoot you.” Suiting the action to the word he pulled a pistol from his pocket and fired, the ball taking effect in the abdomen. The victim was hurried to a Suffolk hos pital where he was operated on. The Lassiter youth has not been appre hended yet.—Roanoke Chowan Times. Curtis Optimistic. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, brought home an optimistic i picture of European trends when he 1 arrived on the steamship Olympic i after a two months visit to France and 1 England. Economically, he said, Eu - rope shows signs of an earlv recov ery. The scarlet runner is worth while: : it grows well, looks well, and eats s well. i Foxgloves are all on the aurface; they are a Joy if constantly renewed*
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