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the crown of the aforesaid hat, and in
that good natured manner that be
longed only to him, he went out, soon
returning with a new hat to adorn
the head of his bereft friend.
Chicago is to pull off a prepared
ness parade with two hundred thous
and marchers in line. We're with
'em in spirit, but durned if we want to
get in that jam.
REGIMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD ON THE MARCH
Some men are about as useful as a
canary bird. On second thought,
however, we'd prefer the canary.
LAURINBURG GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING.
SCOTLAND'S SsCHOOL PROGRESS
It begins to look as though the
crowned heads of Europe had grabbed
a great big bear by the tail and don't
know how to let go.
A Comparative Statement of the Schools of Scotland County Ten Years
Ajro and Now. Growth Unbroken and Steady. More Daily Papers
Come Into Scotland Than Any County in State.
By L. M. Peele, Superintendent of Public Schools.
The growth of Scotland schools fort No. Male Teachers 1905, 3; 1916, 11.
the past ten years, while not spec
tacular, has been unbroken and steady
Every year has witnessed some pro
gressive step. The efficiency of teach
ers, average salary of teachers, aver
age attendance, number of special
school tax districts, number of librar
ies and home interest have been
greatly increased. Good roads, which
have made possible inter-school rela
tior.s, have been no small factor in
arousing school enthusiasm and com
munity pride. The influence of the
school room is being felt in most of
That the people are waking up to
their responsibilities is shown by the
fact that they are making provision
for better teachers and more com
fortable buildings by means of spec
ial taxes. A glance at the following
will indicate what effort the people
j are making for themselves.
No. Schools having more than one
teacher 1905, 3; 1916, 14. .
No. Teachers in Special Tax Dis
tricts 1905, 0; 1916, 26.
Special Tax Districts 1905, 0; 1916,
the homes of the county, in that each 11-
year sees an increase in the number
of periodicals and newspapers that
come into the country homes. It is
a fact that more daily papers come
into Scotland County per capita than
into any other county in the State.
The type of school entertainment as
well as the demands of the patrons
has undergone a change during these
years. The negro dialogue, so pop
ular a few years ago, is the excep
tion in the county now, thus showing
more cultivated tastes on the part of
the people. Five of the County
Schools this year closed with big com
munity gatherings and listened to
elevating addresses of noted men.
These are some of the signs that our
county is being permeated with the
zeal for a higher life, attributable
directly to the schools.
While human worth can not be read
on a page of statistics, still I feel that
the recorded difference between the
average teacher of ten years ago and
that of today, properly symbolizes the
difference in the grade of work then
and now. So I submit the following
comparisons.
No. Teachers having Normal Train
ing 1905, 18; 1916, 42.
No. Teachers having had 4 years
experience 1905, 16; 1916, 42.
No. Teachers having College Di
ploma 1905, 16; 1916, 23.
Rural Libraries 1905, 7; 1916, 18.
Value of School Property 1905,
$5,300; 1916, $37,900.
Bal. on hand unused 1905, $2,515.94;
1916, $35.45.
Total Expenditure for the year
1905, $6,533.76; 1916, $26,254.92.
From the above it is readily seen
that our people are interested in their
schools. But many of us have not
ceased to think of the school as an
isolated institution composed of teach
ers and pupils the expense of which
is paid for by the patrons,, Until we
make the actual school work a part
of our lives, until we begin to read
its library books, until we get down
with the children at night and work
through fractions again, until the
parents begin to feel the invigorating
blood of youth coursing again
through their veins, the school shall
not have begun to serve its proper
purpose. Our county schools should
serve to perpetuate childhood, and
transform life's duties into games to
be played. Then the child will begin
to realize the bigness of the work he
is doing, for father is vitally inter
ested in it, and the school spirit will
be infused into all vocations of. our
country life, fighting old age and its
encumbent grouches, and making of
our county a veritable fountain of
youth.
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MAIN STREET SCENE, LAURINBURG.
A WORD FROM MR. PHILLIPS
FORMER OWNER OF THE EXCHANGE TELLS. HOW IT WAS IN HIS
DAY AND TIME.
By R. D. Phillips.
Just a few lines to tell you of my j Those were hustling days in our lit
brief connection with the Laurinburg j tie town, and looking backward to
Exchange, in the capacity of proprie
tor and chaser aicer ye locals.
My good friend Archibald Johnson,
sat on the editorial tripod most nobly,
though it was his first venture into
the field of journalism, in which he
has proven himself so eminently suc
cessful. Time shows me in the light
of a true prophet in that now the
name of Archibald Johnson is the
synonym of all-that is good, true,
fearless and farseeing in newspaper
dom of the day.
Under the enthusiastic, optimistic
guidance of the fledging quill driver
the Exchange continued to thrive and
widen its circulation not only in its
own county, but tbro'cgnotit many
'others .Ji
them, comes to my mind ye many
faces I shall see no more. Among
those true citizens none more vividly
than Prof. W. G. Quakenbush, loyal,
true hearted, clear-seeing, patriotic,
religious man that he was. Long
may he live in our hearts and lives.
His genial face was often seen in our
sanctum and on these occasions many
words of wise counsel and jovial good
cheer fell from his lips.
After frequent admonishing to his
young editor friend to look well to his
personal appearance, none of which
had proved effective in persuading
him to discard a much loved, black
derby hat whose days of becomingness"
had long since passed, the beloved
professor one day used a more drastic
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THE GOOD OLD DAYS
By Archibald Johnson.
It is meet and proper that the Ex
change should celebrate its birthday
for it is one of the oldest newspapers
in the State. During the lifetime of
the paper Laurinburg has grown from
a straggling country village with
streets ankle deep in sand, to the fine
modern town it is today.
It happened that the writer was a
resident of Laurinburg when the Ex
change was bom. Jesse Bundy and
Tom Covington were in charge. I al
ways wondered what the boys were
thinking about when they gave the
paper such a name; I wonder still.
But there is not so much in a name
after all, for a bright and winsome
lassie can make a name like Peggy
look tolerably well.
Tom, it will be remembered, after
enduring for a season, dropped out,
and Jesse took command alone. Many
a time have I dropped into the little
office to pass the time o'day with the
Editor and incidentally to air opinions
on many subjects, social, political and
religious; for Jesse was a fine talker
and full of it. Few of the old Lau
rinburg boys can hold a candle to
Jesse as a conversationalist.
The editor has grown into a big
preacher now, and when I meet him
I do not feel quite so free and easy
as in the days when he exchanged
space for coffee and sugar. His steady
and widening influence is a matter of
pride and joy to his friends. He has
made good very good indeed and
has written his name a little higher
than his boon companions have been
able to do.
My connection with the Exchange
began when Jesse heard and decided
to heed the call to a higher realm of
service. Seven years the paper had
breasted the billows on the sea of
journalism, and it was handed over
to the new crew in fine shape. I had
as my mate Bob Phillips; whose ex
perience in the newspaper business
was about as extensive as my own.
We held the craft together as well as
I remember for the space of three
years, and then, without having added
very considerably to our wealth, but
with abounding sympathy for those
who try to make their living by run
ning a newspaper, we gracefully re
tired from the field.
Bob looked after the local end of
the situation, and being of a social
turn of mind made the local column
shine. I think I may say with due
modesty and with all propriety, the
Exchange has never been brighter in
its local department than when Bob
Phillips on Wednesday mornings came
into the office with his pockets stuffed
with the gossip of the town, and made
Allen mad as a wet hen for postpon
ing that part of the work until the !
last moment.
Other changes occurred in the man
agement of the paper, but no matter
what the change, the paper went forth 1
on its weekly mission telling the story J
of progress and shouting the praises j
of Laurinburg. Never in all this third '
of a century has the Exchange sound-!
ed a false note or failed to champion
the glory and growth of the town.
Of course it has had its ups and
downs. Of course now and then some
citizen who imagined he or his family
had been mistreated would write the
editor to "stop my paper", and swear
it was about as interesting as a last
year's almanac, but not enough of
these to seriously injure the paper or
utterly discourage those who were
doing their very best to make it a
proper exponent of the life of the
community.
It now appears to be solidly estab
lished and is an honor to the town of
Laurinburg and the county of Scot
land. Rivals have sprung up and
tried to capture the field the Ex-1
change had cultivated and developed,
but the good sense of the citizens of
Scotland county held them loyal to the
paper that grew with the town, and
it stands today the acknowledged or
gan and mouthpiece of that glorious
little county.
As I think of the halcyon days of
the past what tender memories surge
over my soul! In the days of small
things for the paper and for the town
I recall the tremendous influence of
menv;.now jge to the Better Land,
vriwWi'dT n establish both on a
solid foundation. First and foremost
then is Quakenbush, a very Hurcules
in his moral power, and the foremost
citizen of Scotland county. And Col.
Roper, Capt. Billy McLaurin, Rod
McCaskill, Peter McRae, John A. Mc
Bryde, Lawrence Everett, Washing
ton Gill, Frank Bizzell, Robert Clark,
Rod and Jim McRae, and many, many
others whose names come trooping in
to my mind but which there is neither
time nor space to mention. Men like
these were the makers of Laurinburg
and we would be ingrates to forget
them.
As we celebrate the anniversary of
the beginning of the Exchange and of
the county, let us hold in grateful re
membrance the fathers who made so
heroic a struggle for the fine develop
ment that has come, and who wrought
so well with painful limitations to
bring in the brighter day that has
dawned for Laurinburg and Scotland
county.
tions afford the privilege of choice to
the business interest of the town.
Then Laurinburg was a small town
with no very bright prospects, easily
thrown into a panic by any rumor of
the shops being moved. Now it is
the Court House town of the State's
best county with its face to a glorious
future growing and spreading to
greater areas. Then the Exchange
was a four-page, poorly printed paper
making a weekly visit to not more
than five hundred homes. Now I sup
pose it goes to at least fifteen hun
dred. With its eight pages of inter
esting contents, well printed, it should
go into at least three thousand homes
every week. What a change! What
a change! But I hope it a prophecy
of still greater progress.
Now, Mr. Editor, in your way to
success in giving your readers the
worthy paper you do, I suppose you
have encountered the scores who could
run a better paper than you do, also
the dead beat who reads but won't
pay for your sweat of brow, also the
self-constituted correspondent who is
mad because you couldn't decipher his
hieroglyphics with a great family of
other trials and ordeals, but keep
your powder dry, stay in the middle
of the road, keep your ears to the
ground, your eyes to the best things
of life and your heart humble, and
you need have no fears about the fu
ture. Weldon, N. C.
SI
Cotton Seed Wanted
Planters who have Cot
ton Seed left over from
their planting can get
the top of the market
for them at
PLANTERS TRADING
COMPANY
LAURINBURG THEN AND NOW
By J. D. Bundy.
was
The Laurinburg Exchange
founded in 1882 by T. T. Covington,
of your town and myself. It suc
ceeded the Laurinburg Enterprise, the
publication of which had been sus
pended a year or more. This change
of the name of Laurinburg's paper
was caused by the fact that the pro
prietors of the plant wished to avoid
being hampered by a prejudice creat
ed by the Enterprise having been last
published as a Liberal paper in at
tacking the policies and administra
tion of the Democratic party. At the
close of the first year I purchased
Mr. Covington's interest in the Ex
change and continued the publication
of it to the close of 1891, during which
period I did not grow financially fat,
and am thankful to say, did not make
an "assignment."
Of the changes which have come
since 1883 for the better there is
abundant evidence of many. Then
the town unwisely relied alone on the
railroad shops along with the sur
rounding farming comnVinity for
revenue and growth; and thereby
heeded not the knocks of opportunity
for greater growth by the creation of
any manufacturing plant. Now the
town, deprived of the railroad shops
long ago, has revenue from six or
more manufacturing plants, whose
permanence depend not upon the
spirit of combination for ttie sake of
THE HAMLET HOSPITAL
DR. W. D. JAMES. Surgeon in charge
Hamlet, N. C.
. A thoroughly equipped institution for the
scientific treatment of X-Ray, Medical and Surgi
cal Cases. Trained Nurses furnished.
Special attention given to the Surgical Condition of the
Ear, Nose and Throat.
business of any corporation.
Then the residences were of the
cottage class simply. Mow many im
posing, well-planned ones grace many
principal streets of the town. Then
the streets were clothed in darkness
after nightfall, except occasionally a
dimly burning oil lamp on some lone
some corner. Now the brilliantly
shining electric light guides the way
of the traveller through its limits.
Then the fires, once started, simply
burned their way to the great loss of
property almost totally unchecked as
long as they found anything to burn.
Now just a signal of distress is given,
and soon a stream of quenching water
is pouring from hydrants on the
flames. Then in raging, bad weather,
it was slush and mud to get anywhere.
Now the dweller therein can step from
his front gate upon a concrete side
walk and reach his store, office or
church with almost mudless shoes.
Then there were no banks to facili
tate the transaction of business. Now
there are three of the best managed
and most reliable banks in the State.
Then the school facilities were uncer
tain and subject to constant change.
Now the town boasts of a stable, well
equipped graded school, the pride of
the citizenship. Then the town had
the burden of no competition in rail
road convenience and accomodation.
Now two competing railroad corpora-
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY
THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH
Schedule Effective May 28th, 1916
v Trains Leaving Laurinburg
xTo. 198:25 A. M. Local for Hamlet, Charlotte and all in
termediate points Through Sleeper Wilmington to
Charlotte. Open for passengers at Wilmington at 10 P. M.
No. 137:27 P. M. Local for Hamlet, Charlotte, and all in
termediate points, Connecting at Hamlet for all points
North, South and South West. Pullman Parlor Car Wil
mington to Charlotte.
Through Daily Pullman Service Wilmington to Atlanta.
All Steel Cars. On Friday Through Sleeper.
No. 20 8:35 P. M. Local for Wilmington and all intermediate
points, Through Sleeper Charlotte to Wilmington.
Passengers may remain in Sleeper until 7 A. M.
No. 14 9:07 A. M Local for Wilmington and all intermediate
points, Pullman Parlor Car Charlotte to Wilmington.
Through Daily Pullman Service Atlanta to Wilmington.
All Steel Cars. Through Sleeper from Birmingham Sat
urday; For additional information, as to rates, schedules, or re
servations, call on local agent or write the undersigned.
J. Watson, Agent H. E. Pleasants, T. P. A.
Laurinburg, N. C.
Wilmington, N. C.
John T. West, D. P. A.
Raleigh, N. C.
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