Two Carolina* Lead . i In Hydro-EIeotric North and Sooth Carolina have far outstripped all the other states of the southeastern group in the develop ment of hydro-electric power, accord in" to 11*23 figures compiled for in dustry. ,Ia these two states the total devel opment is 911400 horsepower—North Carolina 450,400 and South Carolina 468,000. The total for the remaining eight states, including Georgia, Ala-! , bitna, Tennessee, Virginia, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Florida and Missis-1 sippi is 1,007,900. Thus it is shown that the electric developed by water power in the Carolinas almost equals the combined output of the other eight states. Conservative estimates give the potential horsepower of the two Car olinas as 1,562,000—North Carolina 876,000 and South Carolina 677,000. Of the States east of the Mississip pi North Carolina is led*by only New South Carolina public utility informa tion b.ureau. Expansion of industry has reached such proportions as to attract comment from authoritative sources throughout the United States. In its latest issue the’ Textile World says: "The- first impression the visitor gets enroute from Danville, Va., to Atlanta, Ga., is that the south is on a constructive spree. Particularly in North Carolina is this evident. Ev ery hundred yards or.so one sees a new mill or a new school or a new bridge.” Mr. Thorndike Saville, of the Uni versity of North Carolina add hy draulic engineer of the North Caro lina geological and economic survey, in this review of the water power sit uation in the state says: “A sudden metamorphosis has oc curred in North Carolina within the H„U D S O N * >7 Offers a Finer Coach on a New Super-Six Chassis The Coach *1415 New Models Speedster .... flJJO 7-Passeuger Phaeton - H25 Coach ... - 147$ Sedan .... m§ FrrigtH tmJ Tax Extra At almost open car cost the new Hudson Coach gives nil the utility you can get in any closed car, enhanced by an even more attractive and comfortable Coach body. , Yob will ncie at once its greater beauty, more spacious seating, wider doors and longer body. The lines are new, to*. With this finer body you also get the advancements of a new Super-Six chassis. It has the reliability and econ omy of maintenance and operation for which everyone knows Hudson. To these it adds a new degree of smooth ness in performance that wtll surprise and delight even Atosc who best know the past Hudsons. HOEY MOTOR CO. s MR. FARMER The most important question with you at this season is the Fertiliz There are lots of good mixed Fertilizers.sold and some not so er. good. If there were several stores in your town that sold mixed feeds, and across the street was a mill that used their own raw pro ducts and manufactured a feed, don’t you believe you would come nearer getting what you bought at the mill? Swift & Company hat thousands of tons of blood and tankage that they turn into fertilizer with other balanced mixture that starts the plant and stays with it until matured. What what your experiment station says about a balanc ed mixture,, that starts'off the plant and retains enough to become available to make the cotton and com,—the things that county, i iHWIHilW If your dealer can’t explaind the ad vantage of Red Steer Fertilizer over other mixed brands of Fertilizer. Write or call E. C. Sullivan, Crouse, N. C.. Sales Manager for this territory and he will be glad to call on yqu’or write you in full on this. I will also be glad to price you in car lots on any of our goods. Yours to serve, * _ , FERTILIZERS itpaystousethem £. C. SULLIVAN, Sales Manager Swift's Fertilizers. Crouse, N. C. msm past decade by which the state has moved from 23rd to 15th place in York in hydro-electric development. Unprecedented industrial growth it largely responsible for this remark able development and use of electric value of its industries and from 19th to amout fourth in value of crops, as a statement today by the North and well as becoming the greatest indus trial state in the south. Accompany ing this has come a tremendous de mand fo^ power to meet the needs of our growing industries. This has beer met in large part by"the creation of a giant water-power business—Even so there is a dearth of power in the state today and the’hydro-electric in dustry is bound to be greatly extend ed within the next dacade. Mr. Savifle estimates that power demands for teh year 1930 wilkbe approximately 1,000,000 horsepower in North Carolina alone. Evidence of the vast growth of the electrical industry in the United States is contained in figures just issued by the national Electric light association which show that in 1923 more than 1,150,000. new customers were added to the electric light and power companies’ Itat. These compan ies dpring.thfi year spent $702,143, 000 for additions to plants and lines, bringing t)»e total’investments up to $5,800,000,0001'for the whole country. The total grossi income for the coun try in 1923 was. $1,300,000,000. The companies in that year paid into the federal state and municipal treasuries aproximotely $130,000,000 in taxes. According to the report there was an increase in consumption of electricity in 1923 over 1022 of nearly 10,000, >00,000 kilowatt hours. Tom McArthur Dies As He Nears 102 Years Mr. Tom McArthur died Sunday at the home of a relative Mr. Jim Green near Hollis. Mr. McArthur lived for many years in lower Cleveland county and was one of the oldest men in Ruth erford or Clev^and county, being within 12 days of his 102 milepost. He was twice married and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J. M. Hopper of Smyrna, Ga. He was a brother of the late David McArthur of Shelby. The funeral was conducted Monday by Revs. Good and Harrill and the in terment was at Forest City Baptist church. Can you smile through it all? See "Smilin' Through” at the Central school Wednesday nfjht. Adv (NOTE: Or. Piarce h president of tU inmiids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., to rkkk lsr S# years past chronic suf ferers hare been coming for spocial iaed treatment from all over the U. S. A., Canada and foreign lands.) Will Undo MNich Evil By Dr. V. M. Pierce Knowing the vast amount of ham wrought by diabases of the kidneys, and'having hid opportun ity to observe the analyses and the successful methods of treatment in thousands of cases of kidney trouble at the Invalids’ Hotel, I have re cently given to the public the latest and perhaps most important of the Dr. Pierce home remedies, "An uric” (anti - uric - acid) Tablets, which I now recommend to those who suffer with kidney backache, irregularity of urination apd the pains and disturbances that come from excess of uric acid Id the blood. “An-uric”, can be bad now at all the drug stores. The mere drinking of a cup of hot water each morning and a little “An-uric" before every meal should bring remarkably quick improvement. You may have kidney trouble and net know it. The danger signals to be watched for and quickly heeded are back ache, depression, aches, pains, heaviness, drowsiness, dixzinass. Irritability, headaches, chilliness, rheumatic twinges, swollen Joints, gout v ■ ’ LAND SALE As agent of C. A. Beam, B. J. Hoyle, Georgia Hord L. S. Beam, F. S. Beam, and Joeie Hall, I will offer for sale at public auction to the high est bidder at Fallston, N. C„ near the store of The Siamey Company, at 2 p. m. on the 1st day of March, 1924, the following described real estate: Lying near Fallston, Oieveinnd County. N. C. and being bounded by metes ’and bounds as follows:—Be ginning at an iron state at the North edge of the old Lincoln Road, David Beam’s comer, and runs with the old line south 71 1-4 east 33 4-5 poles to a state in said line, corner of lot No. 1. owned by Mdrtha Beam and others; thence with the line of said lot North 3 1-2 East 96 poles to a state in the old l*1**: corner of said lot; thence with the old Hbe South 67 West 41 poles to a bunch of white oaks,'the old doWsr comer; thence with the old line Sooth 2 West 68 poles to the be giniffttg, containing 18 1-8 acres, more or less. Terms of sale: one-half cash; the remainder within twelv# months af ter date of sale; or all cash. This the 13th day of February, 1924. T. B. HORD, Agent. D. Z. NEWTON, Atty. Patients At Shelby Public Hospital Quite a number of new patient* have entered the Shelby public hos pital during the week and quite a number have been able to return to their homes after undergoing; treat ment there. A list of patients and their condition follows: Miss Margrtret Bost, daughter of Mr and Mrs. L, C. Bost, is doing well following an opratlon for appendfei tis a week ago. William Blanton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ceph Blanton, is much better. William, was operated upon several days ago and has been very sick. Mrs. Rebecca Bridges of Boilitfg Springs is gradually growing weak , er Mrs.' Perry Sellers, of Shelby, is undergoing treatment at the hospital. She is doing well. Mrs. J. S. Walker, from Moorea boro, was operated upon the last of the week and is doing well. Kffie Wright, daughter of R. H. Wright, was well enough to leave the hospital Tuesday. Mr. L. H. Patterson, pf Patterson Springs, was able to go home the first of the w'eek. Clarence Fisher, son of Mr. E. A. Fisher of Hollis, accidentally got his hand cut in a saw mill, he Is getting on very nicely. ^ Mr." S. C. Dalton of Mattoon,'111., is undergoing treatment, Mr. Dalton was taken sick while visiting in Shel by. ( olored Patients. Eliza PeMtr is more comfortable. There is very little real change in her condition. * Sue Ross was able to go home Mon day. Kizzie Rumseur was operated upon a few days ago and is doing well. 09 1-2 ACRES ON SHELBY AND Morganton highway, 20 ^cres Reared 100,000 fe*t saw timber, near Shelby, the J. S. Cline property, land lies well and has every advantage. We wilf not hold the present low-price, but reserve the right to advance it any time. J. B. Nolan Lawndale. N. €. l-22c NOTICE OF TAKING DEPOSITION North Carolina, Cleveland County, In Superior Court. * To Margaret Mae Roberts: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff in the action now pending in the Superior court of the above named county aiui state entitled “C. C. Rob erts vs. Margaret Mae Roberts," the same being an action for divorce, trill take the deposition of T. J. Jeffries and others before •(’. H- Townsend, a Notary Public, at his office ift Chico ta, Texas, at 10 o’dock a. m., or\ March 15th, 1924, said deposition to be used as evidence on behalf of the plaintiff in the aforesaid action, and you are hereby furt-her given notice that said deposition will be opened by the Clerk of, the Superior Court of Cleveland'erfunty. M. C* on Saturday, March 22nd, 1924 at 3 o’clock p. m. This February 20th, 1924. RYBURN & HOEY, Attys. for the Plaintiff. 3-22e Keep Well Avoid Sickness TAKE QRANDRETH ■I Go. m2 PILLS QOR OO at Bad Tina wiQ cleanse the system, partly the blood and keep yon well. For Constipation Indigestion, Biliousness, «c. Emtirmly VmgmtmUm. » *(»,<% ©(% 0 ;» .* .* C* (»•'» Jno. M. Pest Furniture Co. Undertaking Licensed Embalmers Funeral Directors Day Phone 866 Night Phones: 864—37&-J I WILL SAVE YOO MONEY ON r Seed Oats Com Hay . . , Feed Oats Straw Nitrate of Soda Or a new Wagon. See D. A. BEAM, Office D. A. Beam Motor Co., Automotive Building Income Taxes MAy Be Cut By Democrats Democrat* Sueced in Amending the Mellon Rill to Cut Small Income!!. Aided by a group of Republicans most of them insurgents, house dem ocrats this week eliminated from the Revenue bHI the Mellon income tax rates. By a vote of 222 to 196 a sched ule advanced by Representative Gar ber, democrat, Texas, was substituted The bill ps, amended fixes the sur tax maximum at 44 per cent on in comes in excess of *92,000 us against SO per cant on Incomes exceeding $200,000 ufcder existing law, and 25 per cent on incomes of more than $100,000 as recommended by the trees ury. It also reduces normal income rates to a greater extent than Mr. Mellon recommended and in creases personal tax exemptions, a feature not in the treasury draft. The substitute wohld cut normal tax rates to 2 per cent on incomes un der $5,000; to 4 per cent on incomes under $6,00(1; to 4 per cent on incomes between $5,000 and $8,006, and to 6 I>*r cent on incomes above $8,000. The present rate is 4 per cent on incomes under $4,000 and 8 per cent ’ on incomes above that amount. Tax exemptions, under the substi tute approved, would be increased from 81,000 to $2,000 for single per sons and from $2,500 to $3,000 fos heads of families. The Mellon bill pro posed' no such increase. Shipment* of Spring goods are ar riving: daily at Campbells two stores. See them lief ore you buy. Adv. Need a new’ Sewing: Machine? Then see Campbell’s, Lawndale and-Shelby. One trouble wjth this country is that administration can’t catch up with legislation. AUL WOMEN WHO WORK Shoald Know how this Worker was Made Strong and Well by Lydia E. Piakhan’t Vegetable Cemponad Z&hl.N. Dakota.—“I was nervous and weak and was not regular. 1 also bad pains frequently., l was sickly for seven E and finally had rvona break following an operation. I am a tnasmskar and mil finer, and a lady I work for told me of Lydia E. Pinkham’a vegetable Com pound. I am taking it and it has made ..— -.—I— ihiik weu anu nine u> do my work again. I have even helped take care of a sick neighbor recently, so yon era see how fit I am. 1 highly praise your medicine and you may use ray let ter a* you see fit 1 heme it will help Bome.other woman.”—Mrs-Ous Nom> LKIN, Box 23, Z&hl, North Dakota. Over 121,000 women have so far re plied to our question, “Have you re ceived benefit from taking Lydia & Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound T" $8 per cent of these replies answer “Ye*” Thw means that 98 out of every 100 women taking this medicine for ail ments for which it is recoin mended are benefited by it. 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SHELBY SHOE SHO y Next door to Kendall Medicine Co., West Warren Street. 3 Confesses Slaying His ^ Parents and Sisters billed Four Member* Of Family Be cause He Relieved They Were Fol lower* of “Anti-Christ.*’ Charged with wiping out the four members of his fnmily, two by two, an dates exactly one year apart, Fra^k McDowell, 19 years old, Wednesday •* night was confined the Pinellas'1 county jail at Clearwater, Fla., to await trial in one of the moat air.at Ing murder cases in southern criminal records The youth signed a confession lat-’ Wednesday adimuir.": trat lie shot mid killed Mr. and Mr* J. M. McDowell, / hie parents Tuesday r ight and that ho ” \ caused the fire in v/hiyh Marion, 18, nod Willemagee 16, his two sisters lerished it Deca< ar, (la , February 19, t923., , J in the story which he repeated three times to Chief of Police George M. Ccdic'- and Chief of Detectives 'John , Trotter, Frank said his in kid became . ‘ haxy ’ at time and that during these spells he was ohsoissd with the hal lucination that thi members of his ’ 1 family were followers of the' aiUi* ’ •-ti-rt. | Traces “flszy SpeHs.” i me origin oi mes.» ”nazy" spells, Frank said that when he was 12 years old he blasphemed the “Holy 1 Ghost” and that since that time he I has been trying to expiate his sin, but he did pot explain of wnat tHJs “blaaphcmy” consisted. This ‘bias- 1 phemy” occurred on a February 10, i lie said. Every year since when the an- j niversary of this “blasphemy” ap- ^ broached, Frank said, his mind be came erratic and he believed his fain- t tty to be allied with the AftiQhriat. Tbe.se delusions continued annually / until one year ago he feR that he must | kill hio sisters in order to atone for his “blasphemous” sin.. After he had started the fire in wh|ch his sisters perishe.l. Frank said his mind returned to rationality •>nd he was appalled at the crime he had committed, but did not reveal it ‘ to anyone When February" 19 of thfe' • '' year came near, he felt that the death of,his parents was a sacrifice demand ed as penance for the killing of his sisters, be said. ' „ , . Burned Sisters To Death. t ■ . , . Explaining the Decatur,-Ca., fii», Frank rand ‘hat he crep’-, into tfie , room occupied by his sisterr, saturat ed the bn! clothing with gasoline, fir ed the inlTa nable mass’wRh coals car ried from the family hearth, and fl|d from the house when the blase flared up, locking all exits behind him. * Although the house did not bum to the ground, the room in which tfco two girls slept was destroyed. Frank said he went to sleep on bio 1 couch in a room adjoining that of hpi parents Tuesday night without anjr definite thought of violence jto Mr. and * Mrs. McDowell. He dreamed he said, that he was commanded to accom plish the destruction of his father aid > mother. He saM the dream was So compelling that when he awoke he arose from his bed, went into the next room and fired five shots at Mr. and Mrs. McDowell. me turn snct struck Mr. McDowell. The bullet penetrated the left temple and p-issed out on the right side of the head. Mrs. McDowell also ,was shot through the left temple and the bullet emerged in the same manner, imbed-" ' ding itself in the pillow where It was found later. Apparently neither Hod been aroused. Between the bodies of his parents Frank said he laid a note, typewritten on paper which had been cut out 4p heart form. The note contained tite Lord’s prayer and a garbled yrordiag of family Bible phrases, written.in lower case letters without spacing be tween the words. Tried To Carer Crime. , *< Frank said he wrote the note Mon day on a typewriter in hia father** office. It was intended, he said, to gt fer to his three sins. "8in shall be washed away in the blood of the as it gusheth frons the body of thine slain enemy” and “I offer up this nrayer to the spirit, written upoh the likeness of mine hear,* were typifegi phrases. Horrified by his crime, Frank ne attempted to make it appear as a murder by someone else by hiding hie .32 calibre revolver m the bottom of a trunk, slashing the screen door en trance to the home and bumping his head against a door tq support hfcs first story that he had heard a com- „ motion in his parents’ room, had open ed the door leading into it and had been knocked senseless for 45 minutes by an unknown assailant. While under police guard, Frank appeared highly ' ' intelligent for a youth of his age. ffo said he had left high school in hia junior year and passed college exam inations. Police found in the hadsa many books on religious topics on the fly leafs of which was written Franks name. The McDowell family was known to be deeply religious. Rev. T. E. Foulsen, pastor of the First Baptist church, which the elder McDowell attended, said Frank in the past few months had scoffed at the. Christian religion and refused to, ac cede to his parents recta—t that he join and attend1 their church. Frank confirmed this, adding that he had been torn between conflicting ideas on religion at ope time believing in