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The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 24

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Raleigh, North Carolina
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24
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1- 1 NEWS AND OBSERVER RWLEIGH SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 28 1923 24 Virginia General Assembly a year ago at the invitation of the Governor and appeared before its Road Committee but action was advert STATE COLLEGE TEAM IS WINNER PACE WILL OPEN ROAD CAMPAIGN SHORT SHIFT FOR WHISKEY BOTTLER BLANCHE WADE GETS SIX MONTHS 'EX-SERVICE MAN IN HEROIC ROLE resulted but a atate-wide improvement is nowhere in evidence Compared with North Carolina's VOn00000 investment in roads Tit' ginia's program is very small The proposed bond IMO is for C2000 000 which will be supplemented by Federal Aid funds to about the same amount as is received by North Carolina Mr Page addressed the 1 It is eald that 250 years ago di! dren in England carried pipes la their school bags and at cartel periods of the day lessons were suspended while every one Jesse Ray On Way To Roads Less Than Six Hours After Arrest Will Be Chief Speaker at Roanoke Va In Opening of Road Drive Takes Appeal From Latest Sentence In City Court Saves '250 Pound Negress From Drowning In Pee Dee River Jones and Cross all of Sanford Leak Manufacturing Company of Rockingham with $1000000 authorized capital and $211000 subscribed by James A Leak Parsons and Burns all of Rockingham Moale go Meriwether of Aaheville with $30000 authorized capital and $1200 subscribed by It Moue f) Meriwether and Roger Sleriwether all of Asheville Black Mountain Chamber of Commerce of Black Mountain without capital stock incorporated by Archer Beat' and Trelyon Brown all of Black Mountain White Pump and Well Co of Nor-Ilea with $20000 authorized capital and $8100 subscribed by White White and White all of Nor lina Amendment was filed to the charter of the Williams Belk Co of Sanford increasing the capital stork of the concern from $30000 to $100000 ds Poultry Judges Compete Against Teams From 22 Colleges The State College poultry judging team competing againmt teams from collegea in the United States In the poultry judging contest held in New York in connection with the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show won the silver loving cup offered for the highest score in judging Rhode Island Red cockerels according to information received at the college Saturday afternoon The team ranked fifth out of a field of 22 in placing the four classes of utility fowls The Tech team was composed of Sykes Ilarrelville 'Tar linuisbutg and Ruth Randlenta It wns coached and rzrootned for the contest by Dr Knapp who accompanied the team to New York and other members of the teaching staff of the poultry Imported Zephyr 1 GinghaMS Absolutely Fast Colors Special for 39c Yard Kline Lazarus "Where Thousand!) Save Money" State Highway Commissioner Frank Page left yesterday for Roanoke Va where be will speak before a mass meeting of road people on Tueaday at the opening of the Virginia campaign for a State bond issue for road construction The invitation wits presented by George NV Coleman who resigned his place as Highway Commissioner of Virginia in order to be able to take part in the campaign The Governor of Virginia has called a special session of the General Assembly of his ate to pass on the proposed bond issue to eon vene in the latter part of February Sentiment in Virginia is sharply divided and opposition to the bond issue ars claiming that a majority of both branches of the assembly will be against any step to build roads Virginia has been on the verge of action for two years but thus far nothing has been done The Federal road maps leave the state entirely blank insofar as recognized highways are concerned local efforts have been made for road improvement and conaltlerable mileage has TAKES FIRST DAY OFF IN TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS Asheville Jan first sick leave in 23 years of continuous service is now being taken by Neil Lee 6S Hillside a carrier for the postoffice For 28 years in fair weather and foul Mr Lee hns been carrying mail over the city which developed in a knee required him to "knock off" work temporarily Mr Lee first began carrying mails in Asheville over :12 years ago but sometime later left the position because of a political change However his continuous service him linted 1-ark to 1895 Less than six hours after he hail been caught at his home in the act of bottliing cornwhiskey for the purpose of sale Jeseie Bay white was on his way to Perve a term of four menthe on the county roads thereby establishing a record for the rapid operation of the municipal mill of inatieeStnging a whiskey raiding jaunt in the northern extremity of the city curly yesterdny morning Pergeant Bailey with Offieere Honeycutt Griesom Crutchfield and Muddily swooped down on piny's residence near the County Home road and caught him WI he was about to make eonneetion between a ten gallon jug and a host of pint bottles by means of a funnel and a seetion of rubber tubing Jo the ten gallon jug wee peacefully reposing three gallons of corn whiskey sOlile near at hand the officers twelve but pint of the fluid eneh in en indi eidual container Hay eihnitted his guilt and when tried in Cily Court yesterday MOM lug entered a plea of guilty and accepted his bitter medi eine of four 11100 his no 41 a married nina end has three children On the same raid the dimeovered a two gallon jug which eontiinel about three pints nfill four empty pint bottles concealed in some cotton in the rear of a little store at the end of the asphalt on tho Wake Forest Hood They or-reefed Benny O'Neil on the charge of having this NI hiskey in his pesses sloe for the purpose of sale O'Neil mainatined yesterday in court that he was but fifteen years old and his ease lens continued until the matter could be inveetigated NEW CORPORATIONS The Secretory of Hints yesterday odiartered the following corporations to oho business in North Carolina: Leo County Chamber of Como oneree of Santoro! without eapital stock organized by Williams Not content with "eussing" the Governor and divers of the lawmaking body of the great State of North Carolina net content with being drunk an i disorderly on the street in front of the Yarborough lintel not enntent with resisting Officer Arnold who dragged her to the elation-house and not content with flooding her cell so that valuable papers in the niunieipal ofilees below wero ruined Marlette MeCade the terrible notorious three-hundred pounds of disavgard for established equity took an appeal yesterday morning from a sentenee of six months in the County Jail of Wake (-aunty Bond was fixed nt $200 She was Unable to give bond an vas put back in jail The offouse of the Montan woman who ban been for year a notorious charaeter of the Raleigh underworld was made particularly heinous on aecount of the public disrespeel shown for thn very man who had set her free as she languished in the toile of the Wake county jail merv ing a long menienee for a merles of crimes nmong which was her pet hobby of resisting an officer Gmernor Morrison when he granted a parole to Blanche McCade expressed some double am to her genuine reformation By aecepting the mentenee given her by the City Court the woman would have guyed two months over the period of her unserved term to which she will have to return should the solicitor see fit to ask the Governor to revoke her parole Because he stole an automobile tire in OTIPt to enter a gambling contest Sem Wilder a negro will In his bit at the county reads for the next four menths J011111110 Church a Ineal pool-room character who can do nothing more strenuous htan wield a cut on account of plidnionary tubereulosis will enjoy thirty days in the County Jail following his convietion yesterday on a charge of vegraney "Sport" Weaver was fined $10 and cost Fl for speeding and John NVashington paid the costs for tic same of fnme EMni I 1 1 ItM II a il Movable Headlights dp :) a a' 7 I 1 1Pp i 1iI T' 'I rwArootna! k'''' 1 I 1 i II II III Brightest Invention of the Age! that Follow the Road i 11 t' 0 't i I 11 li i i 4' 11 1 I 1 i I 1 'I 1 I I 1 i 1 1 1 1 i- i 4 i I -t 11 i 1 I 1i i i tr i i I i 1 i I 1 1 i Goodwin to TAM Bow many nien on their way to be married have by midden and untoward twitch of fate found themselves shoved up into the very front ranks of those most deserving of a Carnegie Medal? Dow many men would after barely saving their OW11 lives plunge back into icy river water rescue a huge floundering liegress and then go on through with the business of marriage es though nothing out of the ordinary had liteliponed That is just what ex-Doughboy Eduard Ashby Pipkin dist An from the Southern edge of Anima county comes this chroniele Pipkin a World War veteran member of Compney misers and a resident of the town ot Mc set out alone hi nu automobile the other morning in the direction of 'troy It woe hie wedding day enI le the hientgnmezy tiletropolle his bride nunitell Na other tholeat was in hie mind frit that of a quint wedding nnd happi- ness ever afterward No doubt the war veteran Ilionght that his striae of the world's excite ent had already clime to him Per- haps also be was bet a bit nau- seated with tide stuff of heroes But though he reaehed the Ifindenbure line with ng out figuri in the die patches he wasn't to be so favored in erosing the Pee Dee A broken chain has been known to scatter death awl deetruetion But it made a hero of Edward Ashby Pipkin Across the Pee Pee nt Lea leo Ferry they have yet to build bridge and passage is effected by means of the primitive and now nearly extinct epecies of barge moored to a chain that stretches Revise the rieer and which is propelled back and forth by an attendant According to the 'tory Pipkin's ear became mired in thn MIDI on the Anson county aide of the river and the negro ferryman and nnother neizro wha had driven up in a buggy with his wife and eltilI came to hie assistance and aided him in ettrieating his ear Then the negro who had come no in the buggy requeeted that his wife und child he allowed to ride across the river to a neighbor's house with Pipkin Thin the exilonglihny enn stinted to and the colored man drove ri All went well until the flat reached the Richmond county bank when suddenly the chain broke the flat kicked over and the ear with ite (imprints was precipitated into the river Pipkin "warn to the bank but per-relying the negro woman anti child floundering in feet of water lie plunged back and eneeeeded in drawing the woman to the bank and in recovering the body of the child The ingress weighed about trio pounds her hnlf-drowneil condition made a perilous attempt Pip kin himeelf doesn't exactly know how lie did it but he does remember that the negro ferryman made no attempt to save the woman and 'lid nothing except to build a lire foe them upon the bank after tho rescue After accomplishing this diftieult feat the former member of the engineers made his way to a nearby house borrowed a ear and proceeded to Troy where he wigs as though nothing hind tinppeneil Perbsipe lin 00101 have eeen stuspected that he was hero had flOt the NVadesboro enurePondent of the 011 Iteliable ferrettett out the story and given the tale of the linppening on the Pee Pee to the State Interest In Tourney Auburn Ma Jan already ltiVe been received from four qtatcs and teams representing others aro expected to enter tho seeond an nual inter-eollegiate basketball tournament to bo held hero February 15 anti 17 Tventy-nine teams participated last season Inquiries and entries have been reeeivett from Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Florida Night Driving Made Safe and Pleasant By New Discovery THE NEW "What is this?" sialybd Santa Clans Inking a little recreation utter his "A torleaque show How de you like lin glad they don't hang op that soot or hosiery to be The Alternative (From the Detroit Free Press) 'Pm the minister is coming to supper tonight I want you to he nice to "All right Perhaps I can get him to talk golf instead of religion" Goodwin 75c 75c YOUR LIFE AND THOSE IN THE CAR YOU DRIVE DEPENDING UPON YOU FOR SAFE JOURNEYS -HOW MUCH ARE SUCH HUMAN LIVES WORTH? Sunday Dinner Today See Around The Corners At night those dark curves to the right and on the left of heavy traffic of the city the mountain roads the ditches and black gullies of the country roads that lie do they mean to you using the ahead lights on your automobile? A single wrong turn of your steering wheel may mean a crash and that sickening sensation of "I'm responsible for this accident maybe deaths" Candied Yams Stewed Corn 1 Home Made Chicken Soup Oyster Cocktail Roast Chicken with Rice Garden Peas in Cream Asparagus with Butter Apple Rolls Coffee Tea ilk rry our special Sunday Dinner and tell your friends That Day Has Passed Forever Newly perfected the Goodwin-Auto-Turn-A-Lite has been brought as near cornpleteness as human ingenuity and engineering skill can make it Over thousands of miles of roads and city streets this life-saving device has proved its great value to unfailingly light the THREE ways an automobile the right and to the left 1 -110116C UgirliN 1s 1 Charles' Cafe 1 1'1 1 1 I 0 1 6 WEST MARTIN STREET Ordtnary Ahead 2 et-----T- at 41: -Atdr3 DEMONSTRATION Every Day and Evening This Week BEGINNING MONDAY 9:30 A 0 itiTi How It Operates A Bulletin for The Thrifty Shopper il f- 0 I 1 -t i rs741N 7 1 1 ---4-: aN 4 (It' s' v7f i I A1r 'Is I 1 Il '10 You are driving straight ahead Your headlights equipped with Goodwin-Auto-Turn-ALite shine straight ahead A corner or curve on city street or country road must be turned Automatically with the turning of your steering wheel to the right your right headlight turns to the right completely lighting up the turn you must make The left headlight however shines straight ahead Now suppose you wish to drive to the left then with the turning of your steering wheel in that direction your left headlight turns to the left while your right headlight gleams straight ahead In making turns the headlight turning changes its position in advance of your steering wheel This lights the way before you actually make the turn 1 trI I 11 4 Goodwin Aoto-TornA-111e--Torning to Right 0 Be Sure and See This Wonderful Use Your Same Lights IF YOU DESIRE A STYLISH COAT OR DRESS THAT HAS A LENGTH OF SERVICE AHEAD OF IT MUCH OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE PRICE-THEN BE SURE TO ATTEND OUR LAST CLEARANCE SALE OF THE SEASON '4 Convenient "Trouble Light" With your hand you simply turn the headlight around nearest the tire or engine trouble and you have ample light where you want it In case you wish stationary lights for day driving you can quickly have them There are only eleven (I I parts in the marvelously simple yet sure acting Goodwin-Auto-Turn-A-Lite for the Ford model Using a special wrench (which we give you) your screwdriver and your pliers you can attach the Goodwin-Auto-Turn-A-Lite to your headlights on your car within a couple of hours Uses Your Headlights You use the same headlights you now have This saves you the cost of another set of headlights end is the reason for the low ptice of this device Aqonee-Anilon RAWLS MOTOR CO0 Second Dobbin Co V44 A- Bowden Factory Representative will be in charge twAi MY "Jr ZK ci if OnEnfinMENIMS.

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