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AVERAGE PRICE LEVEL or GASOLINE and otter staple commodities I9P to 1923 inclusive .-.r’Vflqr Using 190 prices as index figuv <f /00 Fk*x« f ^ U S fcrww of Labor and D9V*tmei+ of CofTvmero* Vetoes //•m Oil ar.d L» Journal'* HAPPY HOME EVENTS Music in the Home is Magnetic. It holds the family together, and brings Friends, young and old to the Home, MUSIC is a builder of Character. MUSIC revives the weary stimulates the despondent: promotes friendship. THE PLAYER PIANO, VICTROLA AND EDISON DIAMOND DISC PHONOGRAPHS places the MUSIC of the WORLD at your command, to listen to, to sing to, to dance to. _ _ A. Don’t be deceived and think every Player piano you see is a registering piano, or every phonograph a VIC TROLA. LOOK under the lid of your phonograph if you don’t find the VICTOR trade mark ‘'HIS MASTERS VOICE” with the picture of the VICTOR Dog, you are not getting a genuine VICTROLA. Remember our store is the only one in Shelby, that handle the Gulbransen Registering player Piano, and the genuine Victor Vietro la and Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs. \ Prepare now' for the Long Winter Evenings., We cordially invite you to our store. W. A. PENDLETON “THE MUSIC SHOP” SHELBY, N. C. ADVERTISING GETS VISIBLE RESULTS Lenoir Negro Will Not Die In Chair News and Observer: The sentence of Albert Byrd, ne srro of Lenoir county, sentenced to death by electrocution for criminal assault upon a negro girl, was com- j muted to life imprisonment Tues- | day by Governor Cameron Morrison. Byrd had been respited several I times. Mommutation was strongly j recommended by -lodge J. Loyd Hor ton, who heard the case, and by So licitor J. A. Powers, who prosecuted Byrd. A number of Lenoir county doctors also recommended commuta tion on the grounds that the men tality of the prisoner was of a very low order. Sentence of Milton Potter was commuted by the governor to 18 } months. He was sentenced to two (years in May, 1923, by Judge Henry ! Grady from Greene county for an assault with a brick. Zeb Armstrong’s eight months’ jser,‘ence for violating the prohibi-; • tion laws in Montgomery county was 1 ('commuted by the governor to a fine of $100. School Boy Killed ; And Several Injured Spartanburg, S. C., Nov. 19—A ten j year-old school boy was killed and five other children seriously injured when a bus in which 25 school chil I dren were rid ng over-turned near I Saluda. N. late Tuesday afternoon ] according to reports received here last nig',:. ;—w;—•——— Howard Thompson. 10, was killed ! instantly when caught in the wreck 1 age of the heavy machine. Those ; injured seriously are: Grady, Glenn i and Rodgers Foster. Jennie Bishop and George Smith, all under 12 years of age. A number of other suffered painful iniuries. Ralph Tallent, 1G, son of United ; States Commissioner Leo Tallent, of j Columbus, N. C., who was driving the bus. disappeared after the acci dent and searchers had fuond no ! trace of him late tonight, it was re i ported. i All of the children attended the Tryon mountain school. DR. E. M. YOUNT DIES IN CHARLOTTE HOSPITAL Statesville, Nov. 19.—Dr. E. M. Yount, one of the leading physicians ! of Statesville, died in a Charlotte hos. ! pital this afternoon at two o’clock. Un i expected complications developed yes ] ter day following an operation in the | Matheson clinic Monday and the an ! nouncer.ient of his passing lias been | a distinct shock to the people of this ; community. The remains were brought I here tonight and will be prepared for burial in a local undertaking estab lishment. Funeral arrangements are not announced awaiting arrival of relatives. ! STRUCK BY CAR AND DIES OF HIS INJURIES Winston-Salem, Nov. 19.— Frank Von Borries, aged 77 years, died at a local hospital this afternoon from injuries sustained when struck by an automobile earlier in the day driven by Miss Dorothy'Frazier. She was at tempting to turn the machine around and witnesses state that Mr. Borries walked behind the car as it was roll ing backward. He was knocked down, but the machine did not pass over him. Shock caused his death, it is thought. The outcome of a business always depends upon the income of the busi ness. If you are worried, just think of the mnnev you will be saving on the ice bill all winter. 1 Still, They Have Great Reverence For The Reptiles, I)r. Osborne Says In Speech, j t » ”” , • 11 Lenksville, Nov. 19.—Dr. Albert,, Osborne, of India, pictured in vivdi 11 colors the queer customs in far-off j, India, where missionaries and west- j | educators are striving to snatch a race from barbarism and age-old tra-j, ditions, at the Leaksville schools to-1, day. The speaker is hte son of Ameri-j ] can missionaries and was born in the , Bnvstard jungles, widely known a,- , “Kiplin’s Jungles,” where his parents! ] were pioneer missionaries. Among the many interesting thing* he re- , luted was their reverence for snakes.' Twenty thousand were killed in a year by snakes, said the speaker. “One day I was asked to cal! at the home of one of my students who bad been de- > turned from school because of sick-j ness. When I arrived at the door 1 was asked to go in. I did so. and - at on ] the floor to win the confidence of my Hindu friends. Wrhile I sat there talk ing I chanced to notice a hole where I saw something moving. Believing it to be a rat hole. I asked a trifle nervously, “Is that u rate hole?” ‘No,’! came the reply. It i-. a snake' hole. : Immediately I arose and never sat down again, and gradually moved ; away as I talked to the boy’s father. “Finally a snake emerged out of Hie hole. It was one--of India’s dead- ’ best snakes, the Cobra. When I was I about to kill it, the old man begged of me to spare its life, as it was his god. Later 1 hoard that he had wdr shipped that reptile for many years. At first it killed two of his children.! Today it is domestic, and receives its! food at the hand of the old man at regular hours. “The further you go in the inter ior,” said the speaker, “The more superstition you will find, and great er reverence for beasts and reptiles,” I Dr. Os bo :.ie had some idols of wood | with him, and appeared in native costume. 1 TALK OF 40 FOOT ROAD CHARLOTTE TO GASTONIA A paved boulevard, 40 feet wide, from Charlotte to Gastonia, is a pro ject that may shortly receive the at tention of the State Highway Com mission. J. B. Pridgon. engineer of the sixth district. State Highway Commission, told The Charlotte News Wednesday morning that the project, while not officially considered, has been talked within recent months. At present, said Mr. Prodgen. the commission is not in a position to think of improving the Gastonia Ch-rlotte highway because of the | 'ack of funds and the atitude that highway board may take toward the proposal will be deoendent up on the action of the General As j sembly in authorizing additional I bonds for highway construction. ! THOMAS INCK. MOTION PICTURE MAN DEAD Hollywood, Calif.. Nov. 19.—Thom rs H. Ince, well known motion pic ture producer, died suddenly here to day following a short illness. Funeral arrangements were not announced. The city that once prided itself on the large number of its water troughs for horses now brags about its gasoline filling stations. Mirrors are great things. They show you someone you can trust. Bricklayer shot a man in Birming ham, Ala. Man may have asked if he was a layman. Convicted Banker Ends His Own Life i c I !. F. MoKeller, Hr., Charged With Violating Banking Laws, Shoots Self Through Head Greenwood, S. C., Nov. 19.— B. F. IcKetiar, Sr., president of the Peo Je hank, who was convicted in eoun- ! V court here today on a charge of j iolatinn of the the state hanking law, j nmmitted suicide in the hack yard | f his home here tonight by shooting 1 limself through the head. McKellar was to have been xentenc d by Judge Henry ('. Tillniant to morrow morning, along with O. D. Wkctt, cashier of the People bank, i rhich was closed some time ago. Both vere convicted today on a charge of laving made excessive ionns to the h*c.ple Trust company in violation of ho state law. The jury deliberated on he case two hours. •BISHOP OF CHINATOWN" sws PROHIBITION NOT HELPING New York. No" 19.—Thoms I. Moonan. nv-cnovlct. affectionate!" mown ns “th° B shon of Chinatown," todrv rounded out 20 years of mis iio-ory work. The “Bishon" conducts services at , Lhe Rcscuo Mission in Dove-s str««‘ j i>"otv night. “Lust year.” he said, ‘102.000 persons attended our mid- | might services Of these more than 1 ?0i000 requested prayers and 1,500 j professed conversion. Thousands re- | ceived food. lodging and clothes.” He^said the quarter was not the “cesspool” that 't ohe« wws hu' that h's work wns hindered bv drmking. ‘ Prohibition may huve had its ef fect somewhere, but not here.” he *»:d "Men and women are not only drinking, hut drinking themselves to death.” Tlu> man who used to wait a week or the next stajfe coach has a son who omplnins if he misses one section of revolving door. ^ ■ „ Men don’t work so hard these days, t took six of them to roh just one tore in PittsburKh. rUY QTAIt I1IANT ids Uy Jt.xu |f.\NT RdS If everybody would keep ax busy as (he overage dollar bill, we wouldn’t have anything to worry about in this country. It look* like a hard winter for peo ple who ar enot fat enoug to just nat i urally stay warm. TRY QTARU/ANT IDS I ry Otars* ant fin;; DESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE I OFFER FOR SALE: The Best Fancy Grocery Store, in the County, sit uated on Corner of Warren and LaFayette Streets. 5 Vacant Lots on East Graham Street. These lots front on Pavement and have large fresh spring branch running across the rear of them. Making a very desir able site for a Still House or Dog Kennel. A 12 Room House on Lot 100 feet by 200; adjoin ing Presbyterian Church Property. This is a good House, Beautiful Lot, Centrally Located and is the most desirable Residential property for sale in town (for any one not wishing to keep any dogs.) ^ .. CEPH BLANTON $400,000.00 For Christmas at Ivey’s WE’VE SET THIS Tremendous Sum as our Christmas Goal—We've got to make it—We’re Going to make it—by daily offerings of the MOST SENSATIONAL VALUES the shoppers of the two Carolinas have seen. BEGINNING SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22nd and continuing through the entire mo: December, this great store will be the cem Christmas activities hereabouts. Watch Charlotte's Daily Papers for the Bargain Bulletins J. B. Ivey & Company Charlotte, N. C. OF OUR STORE NO. 2 GOES ON IN FULL SWING FRIDAY MORNING AT 8 O’CLOCK. POSITIVELY EVERYTHING MUST BE SOLD QUICK. BUILDING MUST BE VACATED BY JANUARY 1ST. TIME FORCES US TO SACRIFICE THIS STOCK OF RELIABLE MERCHANDISE. THE PRICES WE ARE MAKING WILL CAUSE THEM TO GO QUICKLY. THEREFORE COME EARLY AND GET YOUR CHOICE OF MOST SEA SONABLE MERCHANDISE AT YOUR OWN PRICE. " '<« mna 400 PAIRS LADIES SILK HOSE 10c. —SPECIAL WHILE STOCK LASTS— ALL COLORS. SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT. LIMIT 2 PAIRS TO A CUSTOMER. WRAY-HUDSON COMPANY STORE NO. 2— (OLD JARVIS STAND) SHELBY, N. C.
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