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CLASS HISTORY (Prepared by Miss Ursiie Williams v ami read at the class day exercises of the Asheboro graded school last month.) Ah! it seems like a dream that have had to write the history of our illustrcus class of 1915. I cannot do the class full justice, but you must understand that we are the most in telligcnt class that has ever received diplomas from this school. As I have looked back over the past ten years school day pleasures and troubles have passed through my mind, and gladly would each member of our class go back to the iirst year, if it could be possible to do so, and begin anew the formation of our character and edu cation. But alas! That cannot be, for tonight we stand on the summit of our first ambition. Now, we ascend higher or descend lower from our ele vated position. Pom our first day in school won't you go with me up to our present goal ? It was a lovely September morning when Ruth McFherson and I, for out of our first years' class, we alone remain, first felt our pulses quicken with a fear we could control when we first entered school room. Here we were met by a lady who was to be our teacher. We had thought that a teacher was a dreadful being, who looked cross if you smiled or spoke; but not so in our case, for she proved to be kind, patient and companionable. In this grade we learned the phonetical sound of the alphabet, the numeral figures, and how to write, draw and read little. The school months passed away quickly and we received our cards of promotion and left school for a happy vacation. The following year found us again in the school room. A new teacher and many new pupils greeted us and a year of study and play passed away. Advancement in our work started in the first grade was about all we took up in this grade. Our third year was indeed a delight ful year for us. The new school building had been completed and this inspired us to take more interest in our school. This was the firstyear we really studied books and we were very much interested in our lessons. Arithmetic was our hardest study and the multiplication table proved to be a difficult task. In this grade Nancy White, who has been the coquette of our class joined us. She has been a great aid to us, and her faithfulness in attendance is especially commenda ble. For the past five years she has neither been absent nor tardy from school. New studies were taken up in our fourth grade work. However, we mas tered them and managed to pass cred itable examinations. Our rapks were enlarged by the addition of three new pupils, who were: Fleta Lewallen, Kate, Brittain and Lena Williams. C In the fifth grade we continued in advanced studies. Our work was be ginning to grow harder as each year came and consequently, we had to study more than previously. We also found that time seemed to pass away faster than before and very soon our examinations were over and a vaca tion was before us. But as the earth revolves and causes day and night, months and years; so did our vacation pass and then of our work we realized that we had to study bard to pass on with the year, and we studied hard. Mary Wade Bulla joined us in that grade and has since then been the star of our history cias, and can if she wishes get the most difficult lesson in the book. In the seventh grade Ethel Birk head was enrolled among us. Ethel is a very quiet girl in school and won our admiration by her modesty and frankness. When this years' work was completed, we were prepared to enter into high school work. Here we first studied mysterious Latin, and algebra. They were new and unfamiliar subjects and were rath er hard for such as we, and their in terest did not appeal to us as it should. NEW CANCER BULLETIN COTTON AND ITS USES State Board of Health Tells People Written bv Banks Richardson and What They Should Know About jrcaa at the Class bay Exercises of Cancer.. the Asheboro Graded School last Cancer is on the' increase. TheJmonth.) State Board of Health realizing thej At the dawn of history, we find timely importance of checking this in- j that cotton was cultivated to some ex creasing disease among our people i tent in India, and after beinjr sume- irepared and issued 50,000 1 what refined w; has just prepared copies of a special leaflet on the sub ject of "Cancer and What You Should Know About it." Largely because of public ignorance and neglect cancer now proves fatal in over SO per' cent: of the attack; whereas 90 per cent, cduld be cured through early recognition and prompt rcmov Herein lies hope for the control of cancer, it is at this point tne people must be informed and made to know the nature and facts concerning the disease. They must know that it is largely preventable. Cancer is believed to be caused most generally by the constant irri tation of some local tissue. It is known to be more prevalent in over- nourished people. It is evident that these predisposing causes can be con- not j trolled, therefore, it is safe to say the i that cancer is preventable. Ey avoid ing continued irritation as the pres sure of a pipe stem on the tongue or the lips or a corset stay on the breast and by avoiding over nutritition, pre disposition to cancer can be greatly diminished. The Board issues the pamphlet as a message of hope to inform the peo ple that if taken in time the majority of the cases of cancer are curable, I that in early operation lies the only- hope of cure. For this free leaflet on Cancer, write to the State Board of Health, Raleigh, N. C. Throughout the entire war the American Press has stood nobly and wisely by the President and our Gov ernment. Some weeks ago at the As sociated Press luncheon in New York City, President Wilson made a plea for "the splendid courage of reserve moral force in dealing with the grave questions that confront the country." This was quite unnecessary for the American Press as a whole has been quite conservative in their comments. In all the tense period which the country has been, and is, passing through, there has been no restraint upon the American newspapers, ex cept that restraint which their own comon sense imposes. White, Lena Williams, Fleta Lewallen, Clara Pugh, Clarice Presnell, who came into our class for the first year, Ethel Birkhead, Mary Wade Bulla, Ursiie Williams, Lula Foster, Maude Paisley and Nannie Plummer, who was taken from our midst, February 28th. She had toiled hard to attain this goal and had been a member of our class four years. Before her one aim of life was accomplished. God in his wisdom called her to himself. The class attended her funeral in a body. Clifton Whitaker deserted us about a month ago, and accepted a position as clerk at the Ashiyn Hotel. Lula Foster and Maude Paisley de cided that marriage was more desira ble than a diploma, and so they left us. But since Edna Caveness joined our class as a member, we have a total of only twelve, a very small number, indeed, but you, instead of regarding our number must please consider our quality. For we are proud to stand here before vou and know that we can be called the "faith ful twelve." We organized our class with Banks Kicharilson as president; Clarice Presnell, vice president; and Ethel Birkhead, secretary and treasurer. We selected for our class flower the cream rose and for our motto :"Crape Diem." Our class cannot be called perfect, no; for if it was it would be almost a singular phenotnen. It has not been honored by having done some great thing; but we have lived in a decade vas woven into cloth by the inhabitants. In the days of Neb uchadnezzar it was brought by trad era into Babylon and sold. The goods were particularly fine and this caused their ready sale to the people. Trad ers and explorers who went into the East to open up trade routes reported that the cotton grew on trees, calling it "tree wool'', and that the natives wove it into cloth by hand. Trade routes now opened up, and we see in ancient history how the Italian cities, Venice and Genoa, sprang up from this trade of spices and cotton goods. These overland trade routes soon be came bad and sailors began to hunt for a water-way by which they could carry on this trade. Columbus in hunting for this passage, ' discovered America, but died thinking he had gone to India, for he found cotton growing here and the natives skilled in weaving it. J About two centuries .passed without anything interesting happening to cotton until it was introduced int the American colones. The cotton growv here was found to be very different from that grown in the tropical cli mate, for instead of growing wild ev ery year on trees, it has to be planted each year. The plant too, grows much smaller and the lint adheres very closely to the seeds. It was not grown much by the colonists on acount of the difficulty of removing the lint from the seeds, but nevertheless, England encouraged its growth, for she wished to have a source from which to get her cotton. After the Revolutionary War, cot ton growing was to be made extensive by means of three inventions. Before this time cotton weaving was doi i by hand with very simple machines, which made it toilsome and slow, but Arkwright and Hargreaves removed this trouble by improving on the spin ning jenny and frame, leaking it pos sible to spin more cotton than they could get. But these great machir.es had to have some power to run them j and James Watt removed the second obstacle by inventing the steam en- j ELON COLLEGE NOTES The past year, the 25th, was one of the most successful years in the his tory of Elon College, there having been over 400 students registered. During the year just pased there were the following Randolph county young men in the College: Messrs. J. C. Auman, of Seagrovc; W. C. King of the same place; W. E. Marley, of Ramseur; J. T. Moffitt, of Asheboro; P V. Tarks, of Ramseur; W. C. Poe, of Ramseur; and H. M. Redding, of Asheboro. Also we had with us Miss Lela Hayworth, of Asheboro, and Miss f,i- MnfRtt of Ramseur. There were perhaps others from Randolph county in college here, but the writer has not the records at nana anu writes only from memory. These whose names have been mentioned have all made good and have shown that they are capable of the greatest success. Present indications at the office are that the coming year will be still bet ter than past years. Not in numbers so much, for the board of trustees have limited the number to 400, and every person who wishes to be among the select number of matriculates in this great school should matriculate earlv, During the summer the members of the faculty will be widely scattered for the Durnoses of thoroughly equip ping themselves for the work before them. Prpsident Haroer sneaks at the Ministers' Conference of the Metho dist Proetstant Church that convenes at High Point this week. He has quite a broad itineracy during the summer as his addresses are in de mand by so' many of the church and educational gatherings of the coun try. His book, "The Making of Men", is attracting quite a great deal of at tention and is worthy of the perusal of every young man and woman in the country. HENS PLEAD GUILTY A dispatch from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, says': F, M. Sackett and H. K. West are neighbors. Sackett made a garden this spring and West's hens well anyhow West was unable to believe that his hens, which are well bred, would go foraging where they were not invited. C Qolrnt arntttTC &bout his Car- gine. Now, it was Possible to do thej of each of which spinning with ease but etiH a tku-d. attached a ttmaA and from obstacle was in the way before I thread a 8mall placar0. They bore cotton wanted could be secured, oi.d . M t have the world began to rely on ,t for its 6cratching. j Mr. Sackett's clothing This was a way to separate . M oW)er feed the lint from the seeds, and this last and j haye neigh. When West saw these cards dang- Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. fro., o tl : l at. - ... J , y ""'"7. ",c , ,lin from the bills of his hens he ad and England prospered in manufac-l ... . Sa.Vptt,a nroof waB convinc- tunng it. Since all of the United States could i not grow cotton successfully, the marketed all by machinery in the North, the region in which it was less most progressive cotton sections. The profitable, wished to manufacture it. . farmers instead of planting so many England's machines had been improv- acres as they did before the Civil ed on by Arkwright and Hargreaves ; War, plant less and make greater but they were kept at home, for the yields per acre. English people thought if the Ameri- J Not only are they using better cans should learn their art of spinning methods of growing it but the crop it would ruin them. Thus the spin- is also greatly increasing. The United ning carried on here at this time was States produced a century ago (1814) done by the most simple means, a crop of 363,636 bales, a quarter of Years passed and mpr.y unsuccessful a century ago (1890) a crop of 8,652,- attempts were made until 1790, when 597 bales, and last year a crop of Samuel Slater was able to reproduce about 16,500,000 bales. This makes these Arkwright machines here. From ' about forty times as much grown last this time on we see the start of cot- year as a century ago, and about twice ton manufacturing in America, which as much as was grown a quarter of a was destined to equal that of England. century ago. So we see from these figures how rapidly our country has Nevertheless we passed favorable ex- m "nRn Sreal ,nSs nave een ac aminations. In this perplexing and'.comP!lslled- We have seen this mag critical neriori of our school davs ' n,flcent building take place of the old Clara Pugh came into our midst. gjjp'one. we nave seen our Horary m- is pretty and knows it, she is always humming or singing some popular! air, and she is therefore called "our nightingale." j'l the ninth grade, Caesar was tak en up, and Miss Lamb, our Latin teacher, did her best to knock, cram and lam it into our heads, and she succeeded so well that we can read more Latin than any other class that has graduated from this hall. Banks Richardson, our very brightest star, entered our class in this grade. Banks is studious and can solve the hardest problem put before him. He is quiet and has never been known to be re proved by his teachers. Now you see I have brought you through our, school days up to the tenth grade. Let's go back to the morning of September '16th, and peep into that grade. You see fifteen pu pils where twenty-five or thirty ought . to be, ' These pupils were: Banks Richardson, Clifton Whitaker, Ruth McPherson, Kate Brittain, Nancy crease in size until now, it is as good as any in the State, and what two things so much toward advancement as a modern equipped building and a large library? This year work has been begun on the school campus, which will when completed, add to the beauty of tftie building; and with blooming flowers and vine-clad building, it will repre sent a scene of noticeable beauty. Well, if I were to tell you all the incidents of importance which have occurred' in oar school days, I would have to write a large book, but I don't feel competent to undertake such a task at the present. Tonight we as a class, will be dis solved forever, never again will we be assembled together in a school room as one body; . but out in the wprld there is a place for each of us and we hope to hold our place faith' fully, honorably, and honestly, in or der that our names may be above re p roach. While the North was working so progressed in growing cotton in the hard to get cotton manufacturing es- past few years. tablished, the South was working J The progress in manufacturing ' i equally as hard increasing its produc-1 as great as that in growing and all of tfon of cotton to meet the new de- these extensive crops of lint, with all mands. The Southern farmers were the by-products of the cotton plant importing the slave and building up are carefully manufactured into goods the cotton plantations. These planta- j These goods are greatly used for the tions became independent of the rest cotton lint may be woven into cloth of the world, for they grew their food- J so coarse that it, may be sold for a stuff's, manufactured their clothes, and few cents a yard, so fine that it oan made all their building and machinery, scarcely be distinguished from silk, In addition to making all Kierr sup- and so heavy that experts can hardly plies they grew a large crop of cot-I distinguish it from wool. Thus we see ton which they sold, and from which the poorest home may have it in plen- the South was becoming rich. But ty and the humblest person may wear there was one weakness in this planta- j it and truly call it his friend, while tion system, which was finally toire- the well-to-do are glad to take it in suit in its downfall, and this was that and decorate their homes. It will it was based on unskilled labor. We clothe and keep warm the northern see this downfall just after the Civil traveler, while it will be a cool pleas War when the negro was freed. ant garment for the tropical dweller. During the Civil War cotton pro-; Ropes and cords are made of it almost duction almost ceased in the South. I as strong as those made of flax or The price of cotton now rose and oth- hemp, and it is said that it can be er nawons wno nad heretofore paid woven into thread so hne that a pound little or no attention at all turned , will reach more than a hundred miles. their attention to its growth. Egypt, It is woven into almost nurtberiesn Brazil, India and many more less im- k'inds of cloth mainly used as tents portant countries begaa to send ia their supplies of cotton. Thus cotton production was spread which other wise would not have happened. After the Civil War, the land of the South changed hands. Another class took hold of the cotton farming, which take the place of houses, fur nishings for the homes, clothes to wear, and belts and ropes used in run ning machinery. The seeds are an important factor of the cotton plant Only a few years ago they were thought to be worth and this time being based on skilled , less but they are found to be of great lohn 7a i than ever before. grow greater I value now. The seeds are ground I and the oil pressed out of them, which With the lapse of a few years in its crude state is used for illurai- farming, we find that the ground is natingr purposes. It is .still further now prepared, the seeds planted, the ' refined until it becomes ' very much plants tended, the crop harvested and 'like olive oil and ic substituted in the Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SHIP MENT OF THIS FAMOUS MEDICINE FROM THE UNITED DRUG CO., OF BOSTON, MASS. The Price is $1.00 per Bottle. The same old price prevails and the WAR HAS NOT EFFECTED IT. Formula: PURE OLIVE OIL, Calcium, Hypophosphite, Potassium Hypophosphite, Sodi um Hypophosphite, Syrup of Glycerine and. flavor ed with Wintergreen. Ask your Doctor about this medicine and see if he tells you it is not good. IT IS ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED. REXALL OLIVE OIL EMULSION CANNOT BE BOUGHT AT ANY STORE IN ASHE BORO EXCEPT THE STANDARD DRUG STORE AND THE REXALL STORE Have your prescriptions filled at the Standard Drug Company by a Registered Licensed Drug gist of years of experience. No substitution and no inferior drugs fit this store. Your prescription is carefully filled by a careful Druggist and carefully filed away in a Filing Cabinet and when your Doctor wants it re filled it is easy to find. We invite you to call to see us. , Standard Drug Store Thirst Quenching PARFAY is cooling, refreshing, altogether thirst-quenching. So when you're hot, and tired, and thirsty, when nothing seems to sat isfyjust step around the corner, or across the street, and get a bot tle, or glass of. PARFAY. For it will slake your thirst as nothing else can. Try it today. .CROWN BOTTLING WORKS . Asheboro, N. C. Here. There. Everywhere AtlbunlsQporBotUed Binders, Mowers, Binder Twine JUST RECF.Ivr.riA carload of MeCormick Binders and Mowers. Also. McCormick Binder Twine. If interested, 'Phone, Write or Call to see us. MCCRARY-REDDING HARDWARE CO. 7 GUILFORD COLLEGE 1915 OT.DF.ST COEDUCATIONAL COLLEGE IN THE STATE .,' THOROUGH TRAINING HIGH MORAL TONE IDEAL LOCATION Courses in Arts, Sciences, and Music , Ten Buildings viith all Modern Conveniences Ample Athletic Facilities -;- PRICES UNUSUALLY LOW SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR WORTHY STUDENTS For Catalog and farther information address THE PRESIDENT, Guilford College, place of olive oil in cooking. This oil may be run through other proc esses and butter and lard are made. The meal, the soft part of the seed, which is left after the oil is pressed out is found .to make bread for man; it is a fine food for cattle, and l splendid fertilizer. The hulls that were taken off the Seed when grouna are fed to cattle in the place of hay. The seeds are a very valuable part of cotton, for those taken from every bale, after being manufactured, are valued at about fifteen dollars.. Another by-product of the cotton plant is the peth of the stalks. It is used in making bagging for the bales and also paper is made in great quan tities from it. In short, we have seen how largely cotton is used, that though it has been grown extensively for n'y the past few year's, it is usedae most widely of any crop at present time. That it may be aujntuted the place of any other fiT-chiefly it has the beauty 01 suk, r and warmth of wool, th"" ot flax, and a cheap but g" h"j its own that no other f Possesses. That it is clothing f.mn re garding his class of hlR country, from the rij6 to th P00" est and from the fa to th test. That it is ?d' clothing, and theA18 ' h home for man. h frd his thoughts on Mnd not only for man it is a fined but ri80 tot botb beast and plan7
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