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ONLY THREE MORE DAYS
FANNING’S
Of Our
FANNING’S
CASH CONVERTER SALE
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
We have got to work fast. There are lots of goods left for us to clear away before
Saturday night when this sale closes. Bear in mind please, that we are not a habitual sale
store, that if you want to share in these price concessions, you will have to come between
now and Saturday night. And you will come, because good judgment tells you— NOW
IS THE TIME TO SAVE! , : V, .Wfl
—LADIES SHOES—
You will find these on the rack in the
basement. Shoes or Slippers, odd lots,
good sizes, every pair solid leather, Shoes
we sold at $5.00, $8.00 and $7.00, now be
ing sold for less than the cost
of half soles and heels __
$1.00
—MEN’S DRESS SHOES—
On this table you will find many good
styles in Oxfords, dark browns and also
the light tan calf, natural lasts wanted
by the younger d» ,4 Q R
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-.MEN’S SUIT
Suits fpr imm and young men in worsteds,
eas$iip.ercs ar.d serges, all good models
and patterns, suit we sold d»l n *7 C
up to $35.00 to go at _: X 0» t O
—MEN’S SUITS—
Suits in the newest materials, splendidly
tailored and finished, snappy patterns 'for
the young men as well as conservative pat
terns for older men. QC
Valitov to $42.50 to go at
—BOY’S SUITS—
Suits of splendid cassimerea and tweeds,
tailored up to the minute, all good models,
2 pairs of knickers to every suit. We sold
them at $10.00 and yfl Q C
$12.5) _..r___t.
—BOY’S OVERALL
These are good heavy weight blue denim,
mad ' just like Dad’s, sizes to 16, full,
roomy cut, during this /’A _
Sale —-.--- 0*7C
—CHILDREN’S SWEATERS—
A good assortment of Misses and Child
ren’s sweaters, all kinds, most anything
you might want, heavy d* *| Q A
weight for school, $2.50 value X «Ot/
—SHEETING—
9-4, 81 inches wide, unbleached Sheeting.
A good quality. We have just a few pieces,
so get yours QQ.
early_—-_ OVC
—NOVELTY SUITING—
We chopped the price on these* square in
two—You will find pretty checks, also
y some good serges in the darker y| g
shades. 36-in. width, $1.00 value
—DRESS GOODS—
A splendid lot of French Serges and other
good dress materials which we formerly
sold up to $1.50, during QO
this "sale-— —.—-. vOC
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THREE DAYS
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FOR
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LESS
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PRICE!
MANY
BOYS
GOOD
SUITS
—SUEDE SUPPERS—
The best styles in E. P. Reeds and Irving
Drews famous Suede Straps and Oxfords,
not an off style in the lot, all sizes and
widths, slippers we bought to sell at
$10.00 and $11.00
now at _____
$1,95
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—LADIES’ SHOES—
A large generous rack full, splendid high
shoes in calf or kid, brown or black, for
school or out door wear and many broken
lots in good styles in slippers at this
ridiculous ”|
price .... . _
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—( H11 DREN’S SHOES—
C hiidren's shoes, sizes up to 8. An endless
variety of styles, button or lace, kid or
patent, every pair solid
leather at ___
95c
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MEN’S OVERCOATS—
a limited number of .splendid
We. have
Overcoats in good.■ model's and rriaterials
which wc are willing to
let go at -_ __.
$13.95
—BOY’S SUITS—
One lot. of suits, 2 pairs of knieker pants,
the finest woolens, the best of patterns
and models, sizes un to 16. Suits worth
$16.00 in the lot. We are d*/* Q C
closing them out at ________
—BOY’S SWEATERS—
A fine lot of school Sweaters for boys
extra good quality. While
they last, buy them at__
$2.95
—CHILDREN’S UNIONS—
Ribbed union suits for boys and girls, one
lot of these to close. Come in both
white and Ecru,
Sizes to 14 __
59c
—MEN’S WOOL SHIRTS—
This is a heavy quality, the kind we al
ways sold at $3.50 in plain Khaki and
in colors, buy them
now
$2.39
—GIRL’S SHOES—
Shoes for growing girls, low, flat heels in
the larger sizes, all good leathers, abso
utely solid, nothing better for school
wear, values to $5.00,
now _____v,_
$1.95
—CHILDREN'S SHOES—
Children’s Buster Brown and Billiken
shoes. You know the high quality. Dur
ing this sale you can buy
them at ___________
$2.45
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BOY’§ SCHOOL SHOES
You will find an assort
ment on the racks, brok
en sixes, all good shoes,
many soft E:k Skin shoes
in the lot at —$1.95
i Fanning’s Department Store
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) stork. Shoes trade for real
1 service, our Homo Guard
! and National Guard shoos
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style; they go $
toes, #
2.95 ^
Young Man Shuns
Advice, Yes, But
Thomaft A. Edison is quoted by a
recent interviewer as remarking,
when asked for a word of advice to
young men:
“Young men do not take advice."
No, they don’t—not very much,
ni least. It is one of the divine pre
rogatives of young men to exult in
their untested strength, to trust a
l.ove all in the kneeness of their
own eyes, to plunge into the musty
i Id world with courage and faith
and light-hearted airiness that all
the advice from all the graybeards
on earth cannot dim.
And that fact is the greatest mea
of hope that we have or have
ever had. The day that all young
men agree to sit quietly and follow
the advice of their elders hope will
have fled from the earth.
Young men do not take advice. No
They do not listen to us when we
warn them to go slowly take things
easy and be humble cogs in a ma
chine they cannot unrerstand. They
only laugh when we hint that cau
tion, prudence and the safer course
are preferable to the fire and enthu
siasm of youth, that scorns to count
costs or reckon risks.
For this world, to a young man. is
a different place than it is to us old
er ones. It isn’t such a big world, to i
him, or such a hard world; it's a
world that has a few defects of course
but they are defects that any deter
mined young chap who doesn’t mind
getting bumped a little can iron out
in no time.
As he grows older, of course, he
learns better. He gets too careful of
himself to risk any more bruises by
butting his head against the ram
parts that surround the citadels of
injustice and wrong. He is too can
ny to let himself be carried ov his;
feet by any appeal to his emotions,!
be they ever so noble. You must;
touch the chord of self-interest if you
would move him.
No, young men do not take ad
vice. They see—ah, never delude
yourself, they see clearly—that we
oldcrs ones have made more or les3
of a mess of this world; but when
the mess grows a little too unbear
able, as it did not so long ago, they
step forward cheerfully and'without
complaint to die by thousands in or
der to set the mistakes—-our mis
takes—rglit. It was so 1776; it was
I so in 1861; it was so in 1917; it will
he so the next time we older ones get
involved in the consequences of our
mass ignorance and folly.
We prate a lot about the value of
experience and caution, but deep in
our hearts we know right well that
[ one heart blazing with youthful en
jthu. iasm and recklessness is worth
more to the world than all the pru
i dc.it heads on earth.
I It’s always the way. Generations
'after generation passes on the long
; road to history; and, as they pass,
i their way is occasionnl'y lighted for
a moment by the red fire that rises
| over newly destroyed fortresses
j oppression. And always, asvtho black
StsfOtw t* *■-1«*
of reedom—the glorious headstrong
young men who w.ll not take ad
vice are in the van, leading the at
tack.—Charlotte News.
“INITIATIVE”
“'The world bestows," wrote the
late Elbert Hubbard, “its big prizes,
both in money and honors, for but
one tiling,—
“And that is Initiative,
“What is Initiative?
“I’ll tell you: It is doing the right
thing without being told.
“But next to doing the thing with
out being told is to do it when you
are told once. That is to say carry the
Message to Garcia; those who can
carry a message get high honors, but
their pay is not always in proportion.
Next, there are those who never do
a thing until they are told twice;
such get no honors and small pay.
"Next there are those who do the
right thing only when necessity
kicks them from behind, and these get
indifference instead of honors, and a
pittance for pay. This kind spends
most of its time polishing a bench
with a hard luck story.
“Then, still lower down in the scale
than this, we have the fellow who
will not do the right thing even
when someone goes along to show
him how and stays to see that he
does it; he is always out of a job,
and relieves the contempt he deser
ves, unless he happens to have a ricn
Pa, in which case Destiny patiently
awaits around the corner with a
stuffed club.
“To which class do you belong
It's a Great Country
Merle Thrope, in Nation’s Business
Magazine, writes:
“A boy on a war-wrecked farm in
a broken-down community and pov
erty stricken Southern State in 1865.
That was J. B. Duke’s lot in what
are called the formative years. Those
hopeless surroundings evidently did
not keep Duke from using his brains.
With flails he granulated the tobac
co he and his brothers grow on their
farm and then peddled it through
the country from a wagon.
“Fifty years, and North Carolina's
is a leader among the progressive
wide-awake states of the Union, and
in every movement for its advance
ment that farm boy’s brains and mo
ney had a part. His native State was
good enough for him when it was
“down and out,” and he was good
enough for his State when it reached
the first ranks.
“Eighty mill'on dollars to educa
tion and benevolence—a magnificent
gift in these days of benefactions.
Vet it is a question whether the mil
lions he "put behind the development
of the State’s water powers will not
hring even greater good to the peo
ple. Who can gauge the effect of this
one American business man’s achieve
ments? His accumulation and dispo
sition of the millions is only the first
chapter in that story.
“And does not his life express the
spirit and genius of America, where
SEEK! RELEASEE
Raleigh, Jan. 1(>.—Salvation Army
people in New York have interested
themselves in the release of Mrs.
Ida Ball Warren, only woman who
has been sentenced to the electric
chair, and Friday of this week made
their move before Pardon Commis
sioner Hoyle Sink.
The commissioner has done noth
ing yet to encourage anybody to
hope for clemency in the Warren
case. In many respects it is the
most famous of all at the prison its
repute being more of notoriety than
of real fame. Mrs. Warren the big
Forsyt li ( ounty person, of Amazon
an type, and Samuel P. Christy put
away Mrs. Warren’s husband. They
killed him hid him in a trunk and
buried him in a creek. Christy was
captured in Texas and gave his
story which fixed him and Mrs War
ren. They were tried before Judge
Edward Best Cline and convicted.
They appealed and Governor Bickett
then Attorney-General, asked for
the affirmation of the judgement. In
all the utterances of Bickett this
was perhaps his most classic. The day
was set for their execution and
Cameron Morrison and Erasmus B.
Jones presented the petition for
clemency before Governor Craig..
Governor Morrison never quite ex
celled that speech for pity towar 1
a woman.
Governor < raig was driven almost
frantic. There was nothing in the
evidence or the law that called for
any mercy. Never had his excellency
reviewed a case of less merit. But
the Germans had just a few days be
fore executed Edith Cavell, the fam
ous British nurse, and the world re
volted at the shocking brutality of it.
It was on more or less recent record
that a mob which took out three
negro men and one woman to lynch
them, turned back the woman—it was
too chivalrous to kill a woman. Craig
seized upon that circumstance and
swung his whole State paper on the
fact that the principal in this tra
gedy was a woman.
Ti o public thought was less dis
posed to accept the reasoning then
than it. ever had been, because the
Warren murder was of peculiar atro
city, but leaving off a few editorial
attacks. Gov. Craig got away with
out abuse of him for bis employment
•of ti e clemency power.
One of the few things about 1926 is
v ‘ juries ..will be flayed by dry
judges.
Concrete on the farm means build
tig for permanence and freedom
from fires.
a farm boy can reach the top round
of industrial success—together with
its corollary that a busirees man
can learn the Gospel of Goods and
retu'-n his tokens to the people whom
he thus twice serves?’*
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WHERE
SAVINGS
ARE
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THRUOUT
the year
Turkish Bath Towels
Substantial
Savings!
Our contract for thou
sands and thousands of tow- (
els for our hundreds of
stores accounts for the fol
lowing masterful values!
White, bleached single Terry Towels,
ftll white or with colored stripe, each
10c
These Towels of Terry are of excellent
weight. In cither all white or with col
ored stripe.
Large sized, bleached Bath Towels.
Serviceable and certainly priced lowl
15c
The King of Towels is this double
thread, bleached Terry Towel, extra
large and heavy, at
?5C 39c
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