Page Twelve BADIN BULLETIN
^ DEPARTMENTAL NEWS ^
Electrical Sparks
Yadkin Falls Power House
The Falls was not represented at the
class in Industrial Motors and Control
the other night. We were more inter
ested in heat, etc. That sleet drove all
thoughts of motors away. Besides, it
would have taken some controller to have
gotten our hack through to the class
that night.
The roads are bad in good weather;
and there was absolutely nothing doing
that night. Where does all the money
that is collected in this county go io?
Look how much they stick you for auto
mobile license. There is something wrong
somewhere. Someone should have shown
the Hon. Max Gardner our road, and
the ferry that people have to risk their
lives on when traveling to Troy and
points across the river. Thrift would
make a very appropriate motto for our
county or highway officials.
Well, these are certainly dry times, in
more than one sense of the word. Again
these are great times. Some of the ex-
service men will remember a little song
that was a favorite of the A. E. F.
The song was about the celebrated pay
roll. We still sing something down here
that is very much like that song. It
goes something like this—“All we do is
sign the pay-checks, and we never save
a gosh-darn cent.” We made all kinds
of good resolutions Thrift Week, but
folks, “It can't be did.”
Why don't we hear something about
,the profiteers? Have they bought every
one out with the excess profits? The
writer is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
My, excuse is^ I, was born in South Caro
lina. I’ll never be a Republican. That
party is too "deep"' for me. Besides,
Sherman was a G. 0. P. man. But if
some progressive men like William Jen
nings Bryan, “Shake” Williford, “Pussy
foot” Johnson, and Howard Taft, etc.,
will start an Anti-Profiteering Party,
count me in. “Shake” says that he de
tests profiteers, but you never can tell
what these progressive men will do.
Some of you folks ask Mr. Williford
about the pair of shoes he tried to sell
to a poor fellow the other day.
The American Tobacco Company is
working overtime now to supply the
demand for a brand of their famous
tobacco to Mr. 0. C. Barnette. Mr.
Barnette has a large pipe that was once
the property of a captain in one of
Kaiser Bill's U-Boat Navy. Some pipe;
some smoke; some yarn.
We are glad to welcome among us a
new family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wil
liams. Mr. Williams, like most of the
excellent operators of the two generating
stations, operated for the Southern
Power Company “once upon a time.”
We are running only one generator
now. No. 3 sprung a leak in the main
bearing, and we understand that the
Company is expecting a representative
of the Morgan Smith Company here to
inspect the unit.
Mrs. Alice Cole was called to attend i
the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Harroll Beckham, of Kershaw, S. C. We
extend to Mrs. Cole and the bereaved
‘family our deepest sympathy. I
Mrs. Perry Beckham has returned j
from a visit to her parents, at Heath !
Springs, S. C.
Narrows Power House
Well, the construction men are about i
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up with their work here, and the station ^
is beginning to look neat and clean. A
great deal of the odds and ends have I
been moved out. The floor has been
washed several times, and the places ]
whei'e the paint has been rubbed off \
have been painted. The A. C. Units are i
being given a general going over with
an oily rag, which adds much to their ]
looks. ;
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We are no more dependent on the *
Rotary Station for auxiliary power. In |
case of trouble on the auxiliary 2300- v
volt line, we can switch on our new |
D. C. generator and run indefinitely. |
Some day later we hope to have some |
transformers to step down the voltage ,Vi
from 13,000 volts to any ratio that we
might need, and to have 36-cycle motors
installed.
We have two new men with us now
from Fort Mill, S. C.—Mr. Burgess Lee
and Mr. Clarence Hogland. This is
their first experience. We wish the two
new-comers well, and extend them a
helping hand.