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An Announcement of Sensational Import to Every
READ
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Prospective Purchaser of a Piano or Organ
AND THINK!
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$81.50 Lopped Off The
Price of a Piano by
Our New Way
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IHE factory cost of good pianos and organs has adyanc
ed by leaps and bounds during the past two years and tne end is
not in sight. In seeking some way to protect our customers we
have jumped over all precedents and eliminated our overhead X q
pxnenses of salesmen and motor trucks. It has cost us $81.50 V
to sell vou a niano the old way. By cutting out the sales-
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mercKandise come to the store make your selection and save tne
extra middleman's expense. You save 75 to 100 percent.
Can you afford not to adjust yourself to new conditions tor
such a saving? Get away f rom the old way or doing
things. . .... .
These figures tell tHe story plainer
than words. Giving you the cost of sejling
Pianos the Old Way and the New Way.
THE
Average
Piano Sales
man Sells One
Piano a Week in
a Year. Cutting Out
Salesmen Cuts Out Half
Our Operating Expense.
OLD WAY NEW WAY
One salesman and one Ford truck
per week:
Salary for salesman (around) $35.00 -
Hotel for salesman at $2.50 ff '
per day . . 17.50 J'
Gasoline, 10 gals., 7 days,
70 gals, at 25c 17.50
Cylinder Oil, 2 gals, at 75c 1.50 Q
Repairs' and wear on truck. . . 10.00 " '
Total $81.50 V
This does not include any incidentals.
DUFF P
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FAMY
Pianos, Player-Pianos, Organs, Talking Machines, Etc. Write For Catalog and Information
HINTON 3UILDING laeast1r ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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Sale of Valuable
Farm Machinery
I HAVE FOR SALE FOR
CASH THE FOLLOWING
FARM MACHINERY, To
wit: one 10-20 Titan Trac
tor. One Osborne Solid Disc
Harrow and Tandem.
Little Genius Gang Plow
for Tractor.
One 30-37 Sterling Grain
Thresher.
One Smalley Feed Cutter
AH of these articles of
machinery in first class or
der. They have been in use
only a part of one year, and
can be bought very re.
ably.
Said machinery all be
longs to the estate of
Fr?.nk Cartwright, deceas
N. C. STATE NEWS!
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!A Digest of Everything Worth'
Knowing About Old North I
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State Folks and Things
Administrator.
Elizabeth City, N. C.
The Salvation Army plans to erect
a building at Kinston, to be used as a
zone headquarters, at a cost of $25,000
Construction will probably begin be
'fore the close of the year.
ton is located, are threatening to go
on strike unless their wages are in
creased to $8 per day. They are now
getting $6. The commissioners are
flatly declining the increase declined by
the listers.
William Jennings Bryan is on a
speech making tour thru central and
western North Carolina, in the Inter
est of worldwide prohibition. Mean
while the moonshiners are just as ac
tive as ever.
John Robert Hatcher, negro soldier
of Goldsboro, has received a citation
from General Pershing for "disinguish
ed bravery under fire on Sept. 8, 1918.'
when with eight comrades he held back
a large German force until American
reinforcements could arrive.
Charles A. Hines of Greensboro if
slated to succeed Thomas D. "Warren
: of New Bern as chairman of the Dem
! ocratic Executive Committee of North
' Carolina, according to dispatches from
Washington, D. C. Hines is a lawyer
with progressive tendencies, and an
advocate of Woman Suffrage.
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Twelve prisoners under the sentence
of death are now confined at the State
Prison, seven of whom are white, and
five are negroes. This is the largest
number ever held under the death sen
tence in the history of the State.
Since April 1 the State Highway
Commission has approved 1,629 miles
of State and Federal aid highways
The commission intends to hare all
these highways done this year.
Anti-union men recently attempted
without success to break up a meet
ing at Albemarle for the purpose of
organizing the mill workers of that
city into a union. These men inter
rupted a speech being made by M. O
Ledford, professional organizer of the
United Textile Workers of America
and otherwise disturbed the meeting o'
the mill men. Their identity is un
known. -
A recent medical examination of
Wake county school children revealed
the fact that 73 per cent of those ex
amined had defective teeth, 26 per cent
had bad tonsils, 31 per cent were under
weight, 27 per Gent had weak eyes, 7
per cent had defective hearing and 4
per cent had. adenoids. Plans for
health improvement are being formu
lated and wijl be carried out during the
next term of school.
One million dollars inheritance tax
will be collected from the estate of
R. J. Reynols, late tobacco manufac
turer of Winston-Salem, if a planned
re-assessment of the property is car
ried out by the State Tax Commission.
The present valuation of JLhe estate is
$15,000,000 upon which basis the Com
mission is assured of at least $750.
000 inheritance tax.
Monnie Stall ings, canning clvb girl
CONGRATULATIONS FROM
A KIND CONTEMPORARY
Grand Pr7pW?&i
firearms cr Ammunition
Write for Catalogue '
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NOTICE! NOTICE!
Entry No. 155
Notice is hereby given that E. G.
of - UI Avn, .Dare county, state
" claim tUl Carolina enters and lays
or iT the following described piece
shin rel of land in Kennekeet Town-dJlr-e
County, State aforesaid,
nbed and defined as follows, viz:
ni?Innmg at the shore side run
Pa7?, aJl easterly course with the
a n' House Creek ten yards, thence
northerly course to within two thou
Kvt s of A-skins Creek, joining C.
cour?er's line thence a westerly
erlvA shore side, thence a south -Contn1
to Place of beginning.
morr1I?g by estimation three acres
gf0r less.
teretf this June 10th. 1919.
DJm, GEO. T. BAILEY.
Virgil A. Lawrence, 23 years old, o
soldier returning from France, com
mitted suicide on a troop train near
Lexington recently, by slashing his
throat from ear to ear with a razor
No reason for the act is given.
The tax listers of New Hanover
county, in which the city of Wilming-
Charged with the forgery of checks
totaling nearly $200, William Hobson
discharged soldier has been bound over
to the Superior Court by Judge Bunn
in the Raleigh city court. Four checks,
all drawn on the Commercial National
Bank of Raleigh, wrere produced at the
trial as evidence.
of Franklin county, has dressed her
self, paid foot- music lessons, " bought
Dooks and thrift stamps, helped her
mother financially, and saved enough
to pay her expenses in college next
year, all out of what she has maae in
her canning club work. She has won
several prizes in the Franklin county
fairs.
That he had traded wives with
another man, and had given a pint of
whiskpv and 25 cents to boot, was aa-
mitt hv Tredell Wheeler in Superior
Court at Smithfield, in connection with
his testimony in the. case of four ai
wort hnntleeeers who were recently
tried there on a charge of conspiracy
whh resulted in the fatal shooting oi
Deputy Sheriff Alf Wall two months
ago.
Insurance Commissioner James R.
Young is confronted with the puzzling
problem of how to deal with a twelve-year-old
pyromaniac, who is believed to
have started three or possibly four
fires in Raleigh. It is probable that
the boy, whose name is not given, will
be eriven special treatment either at
the Caswell Training School or the
Jackson Reformatory, though no action
on his case has yet been taken.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
Convention, which met at Asheville
this month, has had the most success
ful session in its history, and will meet
at Durham next year, on July 13, 14
and 15, At the recent convention, the
Mars Hill union was awarded the ban
ner for the best work done during the
past year, the four sections having
made a record of. 96 per cent. The
banner for the best junior work went
to Wilson for the third consecutive
year.
(Editorial from The Hertford Herald
. . issue of Friday June 13, 1919.) . .
Our contemporary, THE INDEPEN
DENT, of Elizabeth City, has safely
passed its eleventh milestone, and is
one of the most prosperous weeklies
in the United States. Under the own
ership, menagement and editorial con
trol of Mr. W. O. Saunders that news
paper has earned celebrity beyond the
limits usually accorded local newspap
ers. It is an nuique publication, and
while there has been determined 'and
constant opposition to the editor since
the start of THE INDEPENDENT, it
has been demonstrated that there is
room and demand, even in a rural
community, for a publication on
iconoclastic lines.
- THE INDEPENDENT is unique in
that in the main during its existence
it has not been a newspaper in the
sense of covering the news of its field
For most of the period the aim of THE
INDEPENDENT has seemed not to be
to record the history of its field but to
tear down the accepted idols of its
-readers. It was a course filled witn
excitement and thrills, no doubt, and
that it was a precarious existence with
a monetary return inadequate to the
needs of luxurious living is one of the
conditions of which Editor Saunders
makes no concealment. But it has
been the old story of the blessings of
adversity. The financial needs of a
family made a business man of the
newspaper's editor, and the business
education made a more competent
editor, and a more cautious, competent
editor made a more successful news
paper, with the resultant improvement
in income.
Editor Saunders says, he received his
inspiration while a boy living in Hert
ford, and that youthful inspiration has
been the guiding star of a lifetime
After eleven years of the usual ex
periences any man gets in developing
a new and revolutionary idea, if ,he
still lives and is able to continue the
exponent of "his early purpose, he may
be said to have safely passed through
his apprenticeship, and joined the
ranks of master mechanics In his line
He has learned to avoid the more seri
ous mistakes of his earlier efforts and
profit by his experiences. That is Edi
tor Saunders' situation as he begins
on his twelfth year as editor or THE
INDEPENDENT. His friends expect
rapid development in him from this on
and ' they will observe his' future with
a deep and sympathetic interest. And
of this number none will be found more
ardent than The Herald.
Famous Martinique Women.
Josephine, ill-starred wife of Napo
leon, was bom in Martinique, and her
statue, splendid ' and melancholy,
dominates the public plaza, or Sa
vanne, near the center of Fort de
France. Here, too, was born Mme.
de Maintenon, the beautiful courtesan,
whose influence on Louis XTV was re
sponsible for one of the religious mas
sacres during his reign.
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Because they're good tires. Because we KNOW they're good
tires. Because our experience has taught us that they will satisfy
and gratify our customers.
There are United States Tires for every need of price or use.
We can provide exactly the ones for your car.
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