Cotton on the local market today is quoted at 27 ½ cents per pound; cotton seed at 66 cents per bushel.
Master Rogers Barnhardt, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Barnhardt, is confined to his home on account of measles and pneumonia.
Twelve new cases of measles and five of whooping cough were reported Friday to the office of the County Health Officer.
Dr. T.F. Marr of Salisbury will preach at Forest Hill Methodist Church Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Marr is an unusually strong preacher and should be heard by a large congregation.
The many friends of Mr. John A. Barnhardt, a lifelong resident of the county and city, will regret to learn that his condition is not so favorable. He regrets that he is not able to see and enjoy his friends as of yore.
Good progress is being made with the addition which is being built to the Norcott Mill. Much of the brick work has already been completed. Work on the eight houses which the mill will erect for its employues also continues satisfactory.
Mr. Harry Caldwell will leave tonight for New Orleans on the first lap of a journey that will take him to Honduras, where he will make his home in the future. Mr. Caldwell will be associated with a fruit company while in Honduras.
The Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute team defeated the Ellerbe team at Mt. Pleasant Friday by a score of 8 to 3. It was the best game played so far. The features of the game were the hitting of Smithdeal, Watts and Roberts of the winning team.
With the exception of two walls all of the structures on the property on which the Cabarrus Savings Bank is to erect its new home have been torn down. Workmen are now engaged in cleaning the brick and removing some of the debris which was made with the destruction of the buildings.
With the addition of the train service of the Southern Postmaster states that mail received by 4 p.m. each day at the Concord Post Office can be delivered by 9:15 the next morning in New York City. If mailed later than 4 p.m., it will be dispatched on train No. 38, which is five hours later, and will be delayed at least 10 hours.
Plans have been completed for the recital which will be given on Tuesday evening at the First Presbyterian Church, when Mr. Chas. G. Vardell Jr., dean of the Music Department, and Mrs. W.B. Robeson, head of the Violin Department of Flora Macdonald College, will be in Concord. No admission fee will be charged, but a silver offering will be taken.
A number of baseball fans of this city went to Davidson this afternoon to witness the Trinity-Davidson baseball game. This is the first time this year the two colleges have met in baseball and much interest centers in the game. A number of Concord fans also went to Greensboro today to see Carolina and Virginia play their first baseball game of the season.
Work is progressing rapidly on the widening of a portion of South Church street. The west side of the street is being widened from the Reformed Parsonage to the Covington Candy Works, and on the east side is being widened for about the same distance. The street will eventually be widened from the intersection of East Corbin to the intersection of East Depot streets.
Mr. E.G. Cook was host to the Men’s class of Trinity Reformed Church last night. Of chief interest was the election of officers for the year. Mr. James Cline was elected president, Mr. Charles F. Barrier vice president, and Mr. M.B. Fuller was elected secretary-treasurer. The class is in a healthy and progressive condition. The enrollment is 45 and the attendance more than 65 per cent.
Building activity is very much in evidence now in the business section of Concord. Workmen are continuing to push the construction of the new front in the Cannon & Fetzer building recently vacated by the Parks-Belk Company; in the new building being erected next to W.A. Overcash’s store; on the new Cabarrus Savings Bank building and on the new King building adjoining it; and on the Morris buildings on Barbrick street.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 28, 1923
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