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m 1 Mrsi r«! i m •in /•i •*/ Gossard Corset Demonstration ¥<■ Pi THIS WEEK AT McNEELY’S w I I C _ H m I M i A Corset for Average to Stout Figures We are pleased to announce that Miss Bertha B. Eison, expert corset demonstra tor {or the H. W. Gossard Company of New York will be with us the week begin riin,nr. July- 14th to demonstrate the famous GOSSARD LINE which we are proud to ay is our line of corsets. . She comes from the .Gossard Factory and will be pleased to demonstrate any corset made by Gossard and give informa tion any one may desire. We will be pleased to have you call. J. C. McNeely Company Royster Bldg. Shelby, N. C. rTT* A damp health habit Check up on your health habits. Daily bathing is both delightful and beneficial; The bath beats “tonics” and stimulants in preparing 011,1 f°r n hard day’s work. A hot bath on retiring is won derfully rsetful and induces sound sleeping. A modern hath room (‘quipp'd with dean, white fix tures, is constantly inviting. The pleasure is enough witli »iit thought of the benefits derived from bathing. Install a modern bathroom and begin the healthful daily bath habit. Ask us about bathroom installations. J. G. DUDLEY, Plumbing-Heating —— Tinning— Phone No. 561.' Shelby, N.C. standard Hearer of Democratic Party f'lunj; Closely to Practice of Law Pet w een 1 S'.lt) and 1910—Was Delegate to Conventions of 1901. and 1908. •Ti.hu William Davis, the democratic nominee for Pi< -ident, was horn in ( l;uK ville, W. Va.,‘in 187.8, the only ■on in a family of six children. His | fin her John J. Davis, also n native I "I (. lark<hurj.>7 \vu; an attorney and j v'*‘ constantly aelive in civil rntrr | prises. He served m the legislature j' f the stale and vva twice elected to ' nnre> !,. Mrs. Anna Kennedy Davis, the mother of John W. Davie, was a of Raltimoro. i Jhivis was an alert student, | Mnir graduated from Washington jam! Leo university at the aye of HI. Alter receiving his bachelor of arts degree, he spent three years 3tud.v j ing law and won tiie law degree at i'll age of 2-i in 1895. He was ad. "titted to the har the same year. Tnughl at Washington and Leo '1 he followin'- year lie returned to ::!ie university to become professor | "f law. He taught one year, then I began (he practice of law in Charier hur- in partnership with his father. | When in 1908 the democrats of his | I'e.vn nought to send him to The dis trict that had been republican for | hou e of delegates, the lower house :"f the legislature, he was reluctant i interrupt his professional practice I :,”d refused the nomination. He finally acceded, however, and was jOle-ted easily. He was made ehair j man of the judiciary committee of I he house and later floor leader of ids narly. After one term in the ; legislature he returned to his law e ft ice and clurtg to his determination to eschew politics. Between 1899 and 1910 the only political offices he had H're those of the county chairman, member of the state legislature com mittee of his party in 1908, and dele gate to the national conventions of 1904 and 1908. Won Reptihiifan District \\ lir>n in 1910 the democrats of his di trict chose him for representative to f ongre:•, he was again reluctant to accept. A unanimous vote of the convention won him over, however, and He conducted a vigorous campaign and was elected. fn the national house, as in the legislature, Mr. Davis was made chairman of the judiciary oommittpe. lie took an active part in the im peachment and trinl of Robert W. Archibald. As a result of his service on this committee President Wilson selected him as solicitor-general in 1923, and Mr. Davis resigned from the house to accept that office. In the summer of 1918, Mr. Davis went to Europe as a member of the comnti:' ion of three Americans to treat with Germany as the exchange "f prisoners of war. He whs in Berne on this mission, when, upon the resignation of Walter Hines Pape, Mr. Wilson made Mr. Davis the American ambassador to Great Brit, ain. Mr. Davis returned to this coun try for a conference with the Presi dent and took up his work in Novem ber, just as the war came to an end. In Ids capacity of ambassador he was present in Versailles during the peace conference. Join's Cleveland’s I.aw Firm Mr. Davis, on ret urnintr to the United States in April, 1921, joined the law font of Stetson, Jennings, Russel and Davis, flic same firm in which Grover Cleveland had bppn a member when he was nominated as the democratic candidate for the pres idency In 1892. Because of Ins JegnI ability he soon bwnmr one of the leaders of the New York bar and as such was re tained ns counsel bv many large bur, iness concerns, These legal connec tions were pointed to often by some of 1 hose who opposed Mr. Davis in the democratic convention, notably by William Jennings Bryan. Taking the cognizance of the objec tions that wore being raised in some quarters, Mr. Davis in a letter to a ftind, made public about a month ago, voiced his theory of the pro priety of such connections as related to public service. “I conceive it,” he said, “to be the duty of the lawyer, just as it is the dilty of the priest nr surgeon, to serve those who call on him, unless in deed, there is some insuperable obstacle in the way. No one in all this list of clients has ever controlled or fancied tie could control my personal or po litical conscience. “I am vain enough to imagine that no one ever will. The only limita tion upon a right thinking lawyer's independence is that duty he owes to liis clients, once selected, to serve them without the slightest thought of the effect upon his own personal popularity or political fortunes. Mr, Davis’ name as a candidate for President was placed before the democratic national convention in San Francisco by Governor John J. Cornwell, of West Virginia. He re ceived a vote reaching a maximum of 7d on the J9th ballot. Mr. Davis at that time was busy as ambassador in London. Mr. Davis was married in 1S99 to Miss Julia T. McDonald, of Jeffer son county. West Virginia. After her death he married Miss Ellen G. Bassel. daughter of John Basse!, a West Virginia attorney. He has one child Mrs. William MacMillan Adams, who lives in Copenhagen. Three years ago Mr. Davis bought from A. Bedford, chairman of the hoard of the Standard Oi! Company of Ww York, a country home near Locust Valley, but Mr. Davis still ra t- his ballots in Clarksburg. The democratic nominee is a mem ber and vestryman of the Kpiscopal church of St. John in Lattingtown. He is a 22nd decree Mason and a member of the Metropolitan and Un iversity elubs as well as the Chevy Chase, Lawyers and National Pres* | clubs, Washington. lie was president |of the West Virginia liar association i in 190(5 and of the American Bar asso ciation in 1922, Mr. Davis was not ;an active candidate for the democratic | nomination for President, either in 11920 or this venr. llis attitude was lexpressed on June 19 in a letter which the wrote to the Davis for President lelnh of Chicago. In it he said: I “I ant not a candidate for the jnomination and any decision to the ] contrary must come from the party and not from myself.” §ly only desire,” lie added, “is the party shall choose the man calculated to lend it to success, agree with you in thinking that I the nat ional situation imperat ively M»mand", the return of the democratic party to power. With the record of jthe last three yearn before them, it ; is conceivable that the people should | voice their approval of those now in . power.” lias Made No Plans Any lawyor who surrenders this indepomb nee or shades his duty l>y : trimming his professional course to fit the trusts of popular opinion, in my judgment, not only dishonors himself, but disparages and degrades the great profession to which he should lie proud to belong. 1 must stand behind my philosophy. What is life worth, nfter nil, if one has no philosophy of his own to live it by? If one surrenders this to win an of., fire. what will he live by after the office is won? Tell me that?” (;OI D C OINS OF LITTLE VALLE DIJRING DAYS OF CIVIL WAR Macon, Gn., July 5.—While “It pays to advertise”, is an axiom of the pres ent era, that knowledge must have been more or less common even in the days of the civil war. according to an advertisement of that period reprinted in a recent issue of the Macon Telegraph. t Here is the specimen, which, while it is not recorded whether the ad vertisements brought results, would indicate that even grandfather knew of the advantages of telling the world: “The concern of Roberts, Dunlap and Co., being somewhat demoral ized, our Senior ami Co., being in the hands of the doctors, anil our middle man in the army, umbos it absolutely necessary that thcsn .who owe us should «-ettle without delay. We have some half-bushel, more or less, of due-hills given for cash and goods, payable in bacon, pork, corn, wheat, etc. We have no time, talent or shoe leather to waste in running after these claims. We want money (not gold or silver) hut Confederate money and we want it at once. Our store i is full of goods and we are anxious to sell for something to eat.” AT I.AST—THE ONE PER FECT NEWS STORY For years young and verdant news paper men have been instructed, “if a dog hitrs a man it’s not news—if a man bites a dog—that’s news. Thomas Lynch, nineteen years old, 841 Ilarvey Avenue bit a dog ac cording to the Chicago Tribune of June 0. He admitted to the police that be had been drinking moonshine and later fell in with a large mon grel which lie tried to bite. The dog ami the youth rolled on the street, both trying to get a hold. Lynch bit the animal so severely that it had to he shot. During the scuffle Lynch kicked a passing woman but she re. fused to prefer charges against him but he did have to answer the judge concerning disorderly conduct while intoxicated. “USE OF THE AIR” FOR 20 MINUTES DAILY Daily broadcasting of short educa tional talks and features from New i York city public schools through an arrangement with one of the great | radio corporations is considered by Superintendent Ettinger “a wonder ful opportunity to bring the actual work of thp school within closer re lation with the home.” At 2 o’clock every day the schools have “exclu sive use of the air” 20 minutes. En tertainment offered by the schools in cludes talks on special aspects of ed ucation. music lessons, glees and oth er songs, music appreciation, orches tral music, recitations in reading, spelling, English, history, civics, geo graphy, arithmetic, nature studv, science, nnd exercises for special hoi idays. Each principal will submit a tentative program representative of his school. The best laws are those that are I never enacted.—Columbia Record. I The North Carolina cotton crop ha* improved two per cent during the past month. The .luitc 25th condi tion Ttf id per cent indicates a yield of -M'.t pounds of lint per acre for this state. The planted acreage is estimated at 1,8*24,000 acres, result ing from on eight per cent increase in the acreage over that standing a [year ago. The present crop condition is seven per cent less than last year's [dune 25th condition. The ten year I average is 18 per rent. According to I these figures, the prospective produc tion is indicated at about 030,000 hales. It will be remembered that the 1923 [cotton crop gave North Carolina a 1 rank of e/ond in the cotton produc tion of the I'nited States with 1,020, "00 bales produced at an average of 1290 pounds of lint per acre. It is i well-known that the cotton growing ! conditions luring the past season were almost ideal. July resulted in a record setting of bolls, which, by vir j tue of later conditions, were enabled j to develop abend of the disastrous boll weevil damages during late Aug ust and September. Under boll wee I vil conditions, it is the early crop that j is n good one. The conditions this year show the crop to be 11 to 12 days late, plants small, tendency to grassiness and with the frequent rains washing out fertilizers. The best cotton conditions are found in the inner central Coastal Belt, extending through the main part [of the Piedmont counties. The north ern part of the belt and the coastal counties have experienced unfavor able cotton conditions, due to the con* tinued rainfall and late, cool wentli. er. The soils are, therefore, cool and I plants small and the fields grassy in I these areas. The stands are gener | oily irregular which will probably jresult in one of the largest abandon. | ment years the state has known if | the wet weather continues. The boll weevil is later than usual, but may be in keeping with the crop The general feeling is that we will experience heavy boll weevil dam eyes this year. Certainly, it will bo impossible to make nearly ns good a crop as was made last year. | The United States cotton has im proved 5.(1 per cent during the past month. The acreage is 4.4 per cent more :han a year ago. A crop of 12, ,144,000 bales Is forecasted, based on la June 25th condition of 71.1 ner cent of a full crop. The acreage this year is estimated at 40,403,000 acres [North Carolina’s acreage is seventh among the states. The changes in cotton acreages by states are as fojlows. being' compar ed with last year: Virginia, 125 per rent;- North Carolina 108; South Car olina 109; Georgia 98; Florida <55; Alahama 100; Mississippi 95; Louis iana 105; Texas 10.8; Arkansas 98; Tennessee 97; Missouri 115; Okla* homa 108; California 113; Arizona 138; New Mexico 200; all other states 257 and the United States 104,-f per cent. The condition of the prop on June 25th was as follows: Virginia 61 i.per cent; North Carolina 73; South j Carolina 69; Georgia 75; Florida 79; | Alabama 70; Mississippi 74; Louis iana 78; Texas 70; Arkansas 68; Ten nessee 67; Missouri 60; Oklahoma 72; j California 90; Arizona 92; New Mer I iro 80; all others 72 and the United I States 71.2 per cent. LINCOLNTON BOYS DID NOT WANT ANY BOOZE Lincoln County News. Throe Lincolnton boys in their teens, took a 4th of July trip to Lake wood in a car. Returning home late in the evening their flivver pot stuck in the newly graded highway just off the paved road this side of High Shoals. Along came two or three men who very urgently requested that the boys take them in the car and go with' them to get some liquor. Not wanting the liquor and telling the men so, the hoys shot on the gas and I left that vicinity. These boys were better judges of the manner of cele brating the Fourth than were those grown men. TO DEVELOP RESPECT FOR MANUAL PROFESSIONS In France, as in many other coun tries, the existence of a certain prej udice against manual labor has led many young men to seek clerical sit uations which, owing to the large number of candidates, are underpaid. Under these circumstances it is evi dent that any action tending to a more economilac distribution of labor is beneficial not only to the ind!vi4 ! ual but also to the community, i With this object in view the muni jcipal authorities of Troy os and com mercial and trade organizations es tablished a Chamber of Trades. The activity of the chamber was first di rected toward n reform in appren ticeship. Under a special form of contract the employer must deposit with the chamber a sum equal to one fifth of the wages of the apprentice. I This sum, together with interest , thereon is paid to the apprentice when he has completed his contract. It has been arranged that teachers in the public schools keep records showing aptitudes of pupils, and sev eral hundred pupils have been thus aided in the choice of a manual pro fession. An analysis of provisional vital j statistics for I 1120 in the July Health: llulletin, published by the State I Hoard of Health, shows that last year North Carolina had the enviable dis- ' tinction of having: only a very slight decrease in its birth rate, which re maiaed the highest in the United States, and of maintaining the same low death rate as for the preceding 1 year. la the registration area of j tin1 United States there was a gon i era 1 decrease in the hirth rate anil i an increase in the death rate. I The birth rate for North Carolina was ,'JO.O prr thousand of population | as compared with 22.2 for the rogis. II rat ion area. The death rate for the , State was 11.tit! as against 12..'I for i the registration. j In the same issue there is a season I al discussion of “Clothing from the j Pediatric Standpoint" in which Ur. , U. \\ . Klias, of Asheville, pleads for I more sensible clothing for babies, especially in summer. “Less cloth ing and more sunshine” is the con eluding statement of Dr. Elias. Other articles of timely interest include: “Mosquitos Are Unneces sary"; "Living Habits and Height's Disease”; "Home Phases of Preven tive Dentistry". “Use of Whole Lactic Acid Milk”; “Infant Feeding During the First Year"; “Coltis”; “Mid i wives"; "Municipal Mosquito Con ! trol.” The Health Bulletin is published I monthly and may lie obtained with | out charge by requesting it front the State Board of Health, Raleigh, North Carolina. MOSqriTOES ARE UNNECESSARY In nearly every city or town of the state a little later in the summer the people will be worried by mos quitoes. A still greater number in I their country homes will be afflicted with the insect pests. And as in town and country they begin slapping, and sometimes “cussing,’’ the wail will go up, “where do they come from?” The answer is simple. Most house. ; holds raise their own mosquitoes : right at home. Sometimes, of course, the careful householder is made the victim of a neighbor’s carelessness or ignorance, llut mostly the mos. iquUoes are raised right at home un I der conditions nicely arranged for them by the folks who later are to be most punished. The first thing to do in the con. trol of mosquitocjt is to prevent them. That means getting busy early in the summer. This can be done by destroying their breeding places. To those living in the cities and towns there are two places which of fer the greatest possibilities for the propagation of mosquitoes. First, there are the eaves, flutters get stopped up with leaves or bird's nests.\ Then after a rain there is standing water for days, and the female mos quito utilizes it for the hatching of her young. Second, clean up the yard, front and back. Tin cans, old buckets, broken crockery, an uncov ered garbage can—anything that will collect and hold water for a few days affords a possible breeding place. Tall weeds and grasses that keep the earth moist furnish excel lent places for the mosquitoes to hide and live. Enough of mosquitoes to annoy an entire neighborhood can be hatched in one old tin can, or the corner of a defective gutter. To those living in the country the searcli for breeding places should in i elude not only the hoiis^j, yard, stab j les, pigsty, and orchard, hut any nearby pond or ditch that may eon. : tain stagnant water. Mosquitoes rarely fly farther than one-half mil* fro mtheir breeding places, it is even more true of rural householders that . they raise their own crop of mos | quitoes. Ditch banks and the edges of ponds should ho kept free of woods and heavy grass. Where proper drain age is impracticable the breeding of I mosquitoes may be stopped by keep ! ing a thin film of kerosene oil on | the standing water. As to the danger of contracting malaria, it is fortunate that in North Carolina the malaria transmittina type, the anopheles, is not nearly so prevalent as the eulex, which is prae ticuly harmless. The latter is ths species which usually keei>s folks awake at night and leaves the face, hands and arms marked with its hites. Aside from the strain on wenr , ied nerves, and the local irritation of i the skin, the eulex is harmless. It is the anopheles which, having fed upon the blood of a person infected with malaria, transmits the causative parasite to others. To prevent malaria, and the bodily discomforts caused by mosquitoes, clean thoroughly your premises now, , and urge your neighbor to do like | wise. TWO CHILDREN KILLED BY A FIREWORKS BOMB New York, July 10.—While his mother watched him, George Speckt, nine years old, today took a silver colored hall, about six inches in dia meter, placed it on a chopping block and hit it with an axe. The hall, a fireworks bomb, exploded and George was intantly killed. His chum, Wal ter Rokieski, also nine, who was standing by his side, died 10 minutes later. TRY STAR WANT ADS. CONTESTS IN SCHOOL SITR JECTS FEATURE STATE FAIR Believing that the educational value of school exhibits is in the attendance of the children, contests with children from other schools, and new friend ships formed, rather than in the us ual exhibit work for display, the Nevada State Board of education featured contests in school subjects at the educational exhibit of the Las Vegas Southern Nevada State Fair. In the sewing contest dresses for little girl models were made by high school girls. At the close of the cog-; the audience in their new dresses. Winners in the shorthand and typing contests were two girls who had come miles across the desert to take part in the event. An unuual opportunity for soclnl contact was afforded by the tented community on the fair grounds, which provided living quarters for the vis itors and brought together children from widely separated and isolated regions. REWARDS OF LIFE ARE FOR THOSE WHO SERVE About twenty years ago the late Elbert Hubbard, arriving in Phila delphia on a late train, applied for bulging for the night at a little an tiquated inn near Broad Street Sta tion. A little gray man behind the desk assigned him to u room and tapped a bell. No hell hoy appeared. The little gray man took Hubbard's bag and showed his guest to a room. The little gray man then trot.tpd back again with a pitcher of ice water. Ryerson W. Jennings was the whole east in this play. He is today pro. prietor of one of Philadelphia’s big modern fireproof hotels. Uo back in the life of any man who succeeds and you will find that he was one who never dodged the little things, one to whom no human service ever was too small to be in teresting. The fact is so well es tablished as to he no longer ignored; the rewards of this life are for those who serve.—Collier's. That “music hath charms to soothe the savage beast” is distinctly a fire jazz Utterance.—-Little Rock Arkan sas Gazette. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of M. II. Green, de ceased, late of Cleveland county. North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the es« ’ tale of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before July . IRth, 1926, or this notice will be * pleaded in bar of their recovery. AU persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the Hi day of July. 1924. E. M. HAMRICK, Admr. Bynum E. Weathers, Atty. QUALITY CLOTHING OXFORDS SHIRTS And STRAW HATS At This Store. ALL Summer Goods Are Being Sold At Reduced Prices EVANS E. McBRAYER Opposite BAPTIST CHURCH
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