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Those who have seen my new store, filled with Fall
millinery, ladies dresses and coats, hosiery, etc., are sur
prised to find such large and pretty lines and priced so
reasonably.
Being out of the high rent district and having had
14 season’s experience in this business, 1 am confident I
can save you money on your purchases and at the same
time furnish you with something suitable.
It is a pleasure t > show you whether you buy or not.
—LADY BARBER —
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South Shelby, N. C.
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Crippled Father Is
Killed by Automobile
New York, Sept. 8 —A pine box la
beled “No 42-1" in the Bellevue hos
pital morgue tonight held the slayer
of 18-year-old Margaret Guica and her
; husband, Carmello, whose bullet-rid
| died bodies were found at dawn in
: their dingy little home in the East
| Side says an Associated Press dis
j pa'rh.
In the pine box was the deformed
; and steel-corseted body of Giusieppe
i Gandolfo, the bride’s father, who had
been killed by an automobile several
!hour.; before detectives, learning of
the double murder, had scattered in
I search of him. Gandolfo, the police
said, apparently fled from the scene
of the crime diroc'ly into the path of
an automobile on the Bowery. Last
| night and today, while the hunt for
him was on. his body lay in the mor
gue unidentified.
Thomas Gandolfo visited the mor
gue this afternoon to arrange for the
burial of his .sister and her husband.
As he passed box 244 his eyes rested
casually upon the features of its oc
cupant.
“It’s my father,” he cried.
Circumstances of the tragedy re
j main undisclosed. Paternal jealousy is
l believed to have driven Gandolfo to
shoot his daughter and her husband,
after they returned to live with him,
following their marriage, contrary to
his wishes.
Police who picker! up his body on
the Bowery last night found a pass
port and a- steamship titkot in his
'othing. The conviction that he fired
I .he fatal shots was borne out by bis
(supposed contemplated-flight,'said the
I authorities.
Until recently Margaret kept house
for her father in their Mott street
: tenement (homes Each mornr'ig she ad
to the fnmily quarrels came whcti Car
mello forbade his wife to lace Candol
fo’g s'eel jacket each day.
Planning Celebration
At Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain, Sept. 10.—Plans
nre maturing very rapidly for the
biggest celebration that has ever been
held commemora'ing the anniversary
of the battle of Kings Mountain. It
will be held Tuesday, October 7.
Governor Morrison will be one of
‘ the chief speakers. He will greet the
governors of the various states who
will attend. John W. Davis has been
invited.
The program commit'ee has been
very busy shaping tho details for the
entertainment of the crowd that will
attend. Invitations have been forward
ed to all congressmmen and the sena
tors, as well as more than a score of
national figures.
T
It is the desire of the chairman, C.
■ R. Cornwell to impress those states
men who attended with importance of
the national government maintaining
a national park at the battle ground.
The grand parade of floats and
honored guests, led by marital music
and soldiers, will open the day, which
will be followed by speaking. There
will be plenty of amusements by avia
tors, acrobats, football, a pageant
portraying the battle and the days
which preceded it. There will be ath
letic contests in the evening followed
by fireworks.
Poignant Russian
Tragedy Recalled
An old man died recently in a small
village of eastern Siberia whose name
evokes among Russians memories of
a tragedy, the poignancy of which is
unsurpassed in (he annals of that wild
and gloomy land, says the Associated
Press.
St. Petersburg was the scene and
the time the late eighties. The prin
cipal actor was a young officer of one
of the most brilliant regiments of the
czar's guard. He was accomplished
and highly connected and a general
favorite, hut the life led by him and a
majority of his comrades proved too
fast for the resources of a diminished
and badly managed estate. The young
officer turned to the money lenders
who preyed upon men of his kind. One
was found who wa.s willing to advance
money against his promisory notes,
and who never failed to respond until
the total <lel>t had reached many thou
I sannfc of ruble*.
j Finally the c fiance of a wealthy
j marVinge'gaV# promise of release for
j the young man from his financial
i troubles. He informed the money lend
Ueg ef his good^uck and obtained more
bnfnopy. ■ l • "
i i The money lender told the young
| off'cer that he planned a fine wedding
| present for the occasion of his mnr
I riage. Misinterpreting the man’s mean
i ing and taking it to be a threat that
the note ; would be presented for pay
ment or protes’, the young officcer
foresaw himself ruined and resolved
upon desperate measures. The money
lender was found dead in his own
house v. few days later, and the" crime
was traced to the borrower. The po
lice discovered among the old man’s
| effects a package neatly tied with rib
bon containing all of the other notes,
i An inscription showed that this was
! to have been the wedding gift.
Evidence of the young officer’s
; guilt was clear and he was exiled to
Siberia. Old residents of Siberia tell
many stories of his remorse-stricken
life, which has just ended in penury
and misery.
i The person who steals your time is
1 worse than a ‘■■burglar. A
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September 12th To September 20th
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Trace Of An Ancient
Civilization Is Found
Archaeologists, of the University of
California are to be invited by W. H.
Hart, a pioneer resident of Woodlake,
Tulare county, to go with him back
into the Eshorn valley country in the
high Sierras, to inspect a recent dis
covery which the mountaineer believes
indicates that some unknown race pre
ceded even the Indians in that coun
try. Pending the visit of scientists.
Hart is guarding his secret and has
told few people of the location of his
find.
In the heavily wooded and rocky
section within walking distance of
General Grant national park, Hart
says he uncovered a considerable de
posit of flint entirely unknown to Tu
lare county mountains. Flint cut into
shapes and sizes somewhat resembling
broken weapons of warfare and possi
ble bits of some ancient pottery like
wise different from that known to have
been made by the Indians, caused the
finder to look further and he now be
lieves his discoveries were merely sur
face indications of what may be found
beneath the layer of six feet of soil
which covers the small area. He made
no attempt to dig, confining his search
to what might be seen upon the sur
face.
Five small stones resembling dia
monds were picked up. Two of these
Hart had tested by a San Francisco
jewel expert who, he says, pronounc
ed them real diamonds of rare excel
lence. If they are real diamonds, Hart
declares, they are the only ones ever
found far back in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, and he believes they must
have been brought into this section
by some age-old civilization which
frequented the region.
Hart has lived for 55 years in these
mountains, has made a study of the
Indians who used to live there, their
habits and customs. He is convinced
they cannot he responsible for the ar
ticles he discovered.
Bobbie Franks Was
Not For Hanging
Commenting on the sentence of Ni
I fh;»n Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeh,
| Mrs. Jacob Franks, mother of 14-year
j °ld Robert Franks who was murder
I ed by the two youths, said the sen
tence was just what she expected and
just what she wanted.
“They did such earnest work,” she
said “and all did their duty, but Bob
by didn t believe in capital punish
ment. He .wrote about it and read his
article in school, and he told me it was
wrong, and somehow, after that, how
could I ask it? I didn't want to do or
say anything to interfere with the
prosecution, of course, but I didn’t
want them to hang. I have felt for the
last throe weeks that they wouldn t
hang.”
Mr. Franks, who had been called
away from his hotel apartment by
the sickness of a friend, did not seel
Mrs. Franks until Thursday evening, j
He had not attempted to communi
cate with her, he said, because -they
both felt that the sentence would be
'life”.
"I am clad it is over because thi
means the end,” he declared "There j
can be no hearing in regard to the r ^
sanity, there can be no appeal, there j
can be no more torture by seeing this |
thing spread over the front pages of
the newspapers. It will be easier f< r.
Mrs. Franks and for me to be relb.w
ed of the terrible strain of all t'
publicity. It has kppt the picture be
fore us constantly.”
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IN A CHI! DREWS HOSTTI'AI..
Beginning in 1910 a"d up to th
first of August, 1924, the s'ate hoar!
of health had set up emergeney or
temporary hospitals in air ut eighty
six .counties of North Carolina, nper
atine successfully for the removal f
tonsils and adenoids on n ■ !y t' .
thousand seho< 1 children.
One of the cardinal rules wt forth j
in tins great educational undertaking!
for the relief of suffering among the ;
children is nearly every community
ir North Carolina has h en the re -
start expression of sincere sympathy
toward the children and their" parent .•
fl”d /datives on the part of every em
ploye engaged in this enterprise, Ten
wrnft"* and sympathy hr, 1 .• m de
manded <>n the part of the sw-ge n.
who operates, tlm an rsthetist who ml
minis'ers the ether., th? irr v; v>h •
extend the little ones, and the orderly
who -assists all of them.
Thi= feature of clinic work for
school children .in this state ha- re
sulted in th? disfipat'on <»f many of;
the fears ard objections on the part
of parents to hospitals of anv kir.d
and lip-- made for a finer snhit of
co-operation on the part of all the p *
pie with nurses, dorters. surge ms. and
nubile health officials. In this c.mnert-1
tion th" following fxn.u'«i.te 1'tt'e
poem, hearine the fi !e. of "In a Ch i
dren’s Hospital;"’ written hr -Zne Tiff-1
any and published recently in the New
York Tim' . will he nojnfe. iat d hy th
parents nf these ten thousand childrw- \
and all the officials an demrdoye cie -
riected with the clinic work in N rth
j Carolina:- I
“It’s but a blood t t that we make.
They sav and w nder that I start
. At linen gowns and instruments—
But "lie blood is from my heart!
“They tab three marks on a small
arm,
‘V in Pirquet’s test,’ wisely aver
The linen-clad ones. I)o they know
It is my soul they scar?
“Tome this way, now,’ they gently
call,
And wai*. (They can so lightly run
'Through these strange ways!) My
feet are lead.
“Bare walls, white walls,
Ceiling.' stark and high,
Rows and rows of slim, straight beds,
On wi i h small folk lie;
fume who’re coming back to health,
And some who wait to die.
“Slim beds, straight beds,
And toys piled high
Small hands a-weaving dreams,
While others idle lie:
Their owners waiting, fearless-eyed
The Mystery.
“Xurs's here, nurses there,
Soft fa ed and wise.
1 :• curved to laughter.
Hut understanding eyes
(They have learned so much who deal
With .-mail ones’ agonies).
“T in* scents strange scents,
.Corridors fill, ~
Outside closed doors,
.-V mother crouching, still.
While a surgeon, with the hands of
Go 1,
Works his miracle!”
M \N nr VS \ TOWN;
HOUSE RENT IS 1’UKE
Tlbw arc you ami the landlord get
■ ng alb’g? I' ho tells you he is co
in" to raise the rent, just give him
the “! aT y ■ Sen” and move to Lin
!O..Ifo-.ise r :it is cheaper than
\yt at the North Pole—in fact,
i t is five, for a period of one year.
C. A. Kilp. wealthy Canton real
-stat" man, bought the forty-three
..''.veilings that comprise the town at
pt '■ ,i ■ auction and he is offering the
pi;. i rent free for a year to any or
ganisation of responsible people who
will . ;ny them for that length of
t me.
New residents won’t he bothered
Ky elections. The mayor and town
marshal have been duly installed. In
a t. they and mother and daugh
ter are the.only folks left in the vil
lage.
Kolb has nut men to work repaint
'ntr the house;-., trimming the lawns
and < fuinping the houses with run
■ ..o water and other conveniences.
He ;> dragging the destitute village
out of the grave—and making -nd
estate history.
Ov rhead expense is easy to put
of. hut hard to take off.
DUE TO A DELAY IN OPENING OUR
NEW STORE WE HAVE GIVEN OVER A
SECTION OF OUR READY-TO-WEAR
DEPARTMENT AND HAVE ON DISPLAY
A WONDERFUL SHOWING OF
NEW FALL MILLINERY
WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO CALL
IN AND SEE THE NEW HATS. WHETHER
YOU BUY OR MERELY COME THROUGH
CURIOSITY YOU ARE ALWAYS WEL
COME.
Mrs. Bessie J. Gray
Associated With
W. L FANNING & COMPANY