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0 llunn^ Papist Bi UBRARY OF OAVIOSON COUEGE BEASLEY’S FARM and HOIVIE WEEKLY 'Volume 11. Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, August 14,1941. Number 33. STOCKING FACTORYl TURNS TO making' GOVT PARACHUTES In Indiana Plant Girls Sew Silk Strands on Which the Safety of Flying Men Depends irS CAREFUL BUSINESS This is the ’story of how the gos samer from a caterpillar is made to float booted men to safety as they dangle in azure skies, writes Richard L. Strout in the Christian Science Monitor. It is the story of how beady-eyed grasshoppers in America hayfields have a baneful effect upon the handi work of the self-same caterpillar, who meditatively munches his mulberry leaf in far-off Nippon. It tells, too, why American house wives can’t get cheap “help” in the defense crisis. And finally, it is the story of how thrice! (four-score Indiana misses, in summer dresses or slacks, use their shears and sewing machines to help s^ave the lives of eager young men who leap out of flying machines. . . Yes—you’ve guessed it, of course, it’s the story of a parachute factory. You are standing in the airy, well- lighted capacious upper story of the Reliance Manufacturing Company, makers of women’s dresses and gar ments, in Washington, Indiana. As a sideline to women’s wear the com pany has added a million-dollar parachut^V contract from the United State? Government, which is located in this plant. There is something a good deal like wearing apparel in a parachute, and then again, there is a lot that is unlike. It has to be cut out after specified patterns. It has to be sewn. But on the other hand, take the mat ter of size. Checked and Rechecked There are about 65 yards of silk in a parachute. In a man’s shirt there are two yards. That’s one difference. Another difference is that few gar ments have ever been made with quite such meticulous checking and cross-checkinp. o-xamination and re examination, as these silk gossamers that float through the skies with the greatest of ease, dangling men below. As you watch the busy loft, filled with girls sewing pure white pieces of finest quality silk together at electric sewing machines some of which drive four needles at a tinle, you notice how many other girls and men are scrupulously examining their handiwork. Time after time the threads and stitches are checked. No wonder: a mortal’s life hangs on these stitches, a life hangs on these infinitely fine filament spun' by the Japanese silk-worm. “A man’s life hangs by a thread.” This is, in some ways, the strang est of "all forms which modern war fare has taken. I have seen in the big aviation schools which I have visited the young soldiers boling out of their planes. They drop like a plummet a second or two and then suddenly, the parachute opens out like a blossom and they descend slow ly through the sky, wafted down like an ant swinging to a blown dandelion puff. Where do these parachutes come from; who makes them? Well here they are being made right before your very eyes, by this prosiac and very workmanlike small-town factory which yet, somehow, has about it some of the same element of fantasy and romance that I found in a roar ing airplane-motor factory. It is a combination of clothing loft and Walt Disney. i ^ . Parachutes Preferred The million-dollar Government con tract is real enough. The Reliance Company is real enough, too. It em ploys about '300 men and women al together, at nresent, working two shifts, and its pay roll is very much appreciated addition to the pay roll of Washington, Indiana, a community of about 10,000 where you can hear a rooster crowing not far from Main Street. The average of wages is well above the 35-cents-an-hour minimum prescribed by law, it is said, and there is a 40-hour week, with time and a half for overtime. The girls are young. I asked one of them if she would rather sew parachutes than turn the hem of her younger sister’s dresses and she replied, “You betcha. Mister!” She preferred Parachutes. So I knew why my friend in Chi cago was having such a difficult time getting her housekeeping done in the defense emergency. Parachutes have an eight-hour day. Parachutes (and defertse jobs) have a fixed income at the end of the week' that' you can count on. Parachutes are a good deal better than going out to wash dishes, or mixing sodas behind a fountain, or depending on problematical tips from waiting on table. Yes sirree, for the girls the defense emergency, and the web spun by a Japanese silk worm have put a sound economic platform under their sandalled feet. A parachute and its harness weigh only 22 pounds. The ’chute is made up of 24 panels’ which are shaped something after the fashion of the pieces of clotb between the ribs of an umbrella. Each panel, in turn, is composed of four smaller sections. That makes 96, all told. The big job, accordingly, is cutting out the pieces and sewing them up. When the four littlei pieces are sewn a machine is used with two needles that leaves a double row of stitching. When the 24 composite panels are stitched a four needle machine is used that' simul taneously sends four rows whirring down the seam. When the big canopy is partlv finished the “lines” are in- MORE ON PAGE TWO NO THIEF E’ER FELT THE HALTER DRAW WITH GOOD OPINION OF THE LAW Labor Leaders Are Not Alone In Complaint Against Press (AN EDITORIAL) Human Interest The labor leaders who com plained of the treatment of their organization by the press at the “Labor Institute” in Char lotte Saturday and Sunday are in no way unique in their belief that the press, usually the daily news papers, is not fair to them. Ev erybody has that complaint. It is like the old saw that “No thief e’er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law.” This is not to say that labor leaders and others who express com plaint against the press are thieves or in any way unworthy. It is to say only that we are all so wrapped up in our own causes and purposes that we are our selves unfair judges. No socie ty dame ever felt that her occa sion was properly written up. No politician ever felt that he was adequately reported by the press. Some religious leaders complain that the press is gross ly unfair to them and unduly in terested in other denominational branclies. No prohibitionist ever feJt that a press that did not repeat his argument by rote on every occasion and suppress the anti’s remarks, was not wring ing wet. The daily press is a huge and complex thing, but it lives by printing every scrap of news tjiat it can find or imagine, and not by advocating a cause or making an argument. When a prohibition ist or a wet complains at the press it is. not because whatever news therie was h,ad not been printed, nc^t because the paper did not adopt the complainer’s argument, hook, line and sinker. When labor leaders complain at the press it is for the same rea son. Of course the press is not infallible. It must judge news in many ways, especially in timeliness. A church meeting today or a labor meeting might have seven to 10 columns where as tomorrow it could have only one. But complainers usually want the first page at all times, regardless. Another thing that complain ers overlook is that a paper may treat them “fair” six days in the week and be accounted an enemy for lack of appreciation on the seventh day. And “unfairness” generally consists in giving the othei" side. Monday morning the Charlotte Ol^server had an en-j lightened and broadgauged edi-^ torial in appreciation of thei meeting here of the American Federation. But on the same page the cartoon, which was not prepared in the Observer office, depicted strikers as termites bor ing holes in the national defense program. That point of view expressed the- idea of millions of Americans, just as the editorial, in no way in conflict, expressed the views of millions of others. What would be the feeling of the average labor leader in looking at that page? Nine times out of ten he would overlook the favor able editorial and get mad at the cartoon. That’s why the press never pleases anybody. Most of us want a “favorable” press and and can’t always get it. That is the safety of the press. It is what no longer exists in dictator countries and it is what some people in this country would abol ish, Theoretically everybody fa vors the liberty of the press, practically, there are a plenty who would abolish it. Complaint was made in the Labor Institute here Sunday about the right of newspapers to turn down the prepared handouts of the labor press agents, and somebody had to defend the “blue pencil” right of newspapers, that is, their right to judge what sews should be printed. And it is notewor thy that the right of newspapers to print according to their judg ment and not that of the press agent, as well as the right of the MORE ON PAGE TWO NEW CITY MANAG’ER The city council on W'ednesday ap pointed L. L. Ledbetter city manager in addition to his present duties as treasurer, to succeed J. W. Arm strong at once. Harry M. Joyner was reappointed chief of police, W. H. Palmer, fire chief, and Mrs; Alice Mc Connell, city clerk. The matter of a city manager has been in the air for some time, and the council divided six to four in the ac tion taken Wednesday. It is reported that it is the intention of the board to use Mr. Ledbetter as city man ager only for a time, and then to appoint someone else. The pressing idea seemed to be to terminate the service of City Manager Armstrong. Councilmen Baker, Beasley, Paint er, Price, Daughtry and Ross voted for the resolution dismissing Arm strong and appointing Ledbetter, and Councilmen Ward, Hovis, Little and Albea voted against it. Councilmen Ward, Hovis, Little and Albea voted against it. In the controversy Councilman Ward said that if ever the city of Charlotte has had an invisible gov ernment run by a political ring, it is now. The great enthusiasm of the ladies and others who in the last campaign expressed the high ideals of patriot ism in local government, in which the public welfare should be the first, final and only consideration, begins to dissolve into the usual rivalry of groups and factions. No eleven coun cilmen ever agreed on what the pub lic welfare is and never will. You can’t pick eleven that will so agree, no matter how honorable and honest they are as individuals and as pri vate citizens. be involved. The labor leaders pro pose to prevent any contractor having a job unless he employs the closed shop. This is one of the processes by which men are forced to join up whether they want to or not. Men who live on farms and run in for a few weeks of work on government projects will no longer be able to get employment unless they join a union. DROWNED IN CATAWBA Nick Sloan, 17-year-old Charlotte boy, was drowned in the Catawba river near the Buster Boyd bridge late Friday afternoon, while swim ming with some companions. The body was recovered some hours later. Saturday afternoon in the same lo cality, Stewart M. Kiser, a labor or ganizer living in Washington City, was drowned. Mr. Kiser, in a sport ing mood, rocked the boat, and paid for it with his life. A boat, belonging to W. W. Miller of Charlotte, and op erated by him, was giving a ride to Mr. Kizer, Charles W. Hallenback, and a Mr. Smith. Kiser, as a joke, grabbed the tiller and turned it and at the same time pressed the accelera tor. This caused the boat to jump and swerve. All were thrown out and the boat went loose. Miller aided Hal lenback to swim out. Smith was picked up by another boat, and Kiser was drowned. His body was found on the river bottom about noon Sunday. AIN’T SCIENCE WONDERFUL? There isn’t much that surgeons can’t do.nowadays, and from Daytona Beach, Flo/ida, comes the news that surgeons .j'eported the rare operation of taking what appeared to be two vermiform appeadjw^s from a patient. The operatioJi""was performed Wed nesday by Dr. Joseph H. Rutter at Halifax hospital. The patient was Oliver T. Ray of Atlanta, former Georgia census director. Dr. Rutter said that he and other doctors felt almost certain the tv/o-finger like pro tuberances were appendices. They have been sent to Tulane university in New Orleans for examination by Dr. W. H. Harris, professor x)f path ology. Dr. Rutter said that occasion ally a growth called a diverticulum often found on the small intestine appears near the ve'rniform appendix and sometimes looks like another ap pendix. But in this case, Dr. Rutter said all the doctors who saw the ob jects agreed they apparently were real appendices. The patient is get ting along all right. MAYBE THEY’RE SWELLING Soldiers’ feet are larger than government buyers estimated at the start of the defense program, and as a result the average cost of each pair of shoes has increas ed 2 cents. Defense purchase of ficials said that the demand for larger shoe sizes in the army had been heavier than expected and, accordingly, the latest ac quisition’ of 1,000,008 pairs of • shoes averaged a full size larger than previous purchases. The me dian size was 10,’.compared with the previous median of size 9. The officials saicf^that 75 per 'cent of the purchase was composed of shoes with composi tion soles and 25 per cent of shoes with leather soles. The price was about $3.40 a pair, compared with $3.38 on the last previous pur chase. Somewhere on Broad Waters ! CAPTAIN ARDREY Two Gallant Sailors Meet SL’EEP IS PRETTY VALUABLE Loss of sleep is worth about $2 a night for a wife and $1.17 for a hus band, according to a Superior Court auditor’s report on file at Rockpoi't, Mass. Lawrence A. Beverly, tihe auditor,, awardedyMr. and Mrs. Charles N. Nelson Pigeon Cove $542.20 compensation ,in their bill in equity against the Cape Ann Tool company. The plaintiffs contended their slumber was disturbed during a five-month period by noises incident to night-shift operations at the com pany’s plant, which has national de fense orders. To Mrs. Nelson was awarded $300 and to her husband $175, while $67.20 additional was al lowed to cover depreciation of rental value of their home because of noises from the near-by factory. Lawyers for the Nelsons s^id that if the aud itor’s report were CQnfirmed^ by the court, they would seek to have the company continue payment of dam ages at the established rate as long as the factory operated at night. LIQUID AIR DANGEROUS A terrific explosion of a truck loaded with liquid air killed one man and damaged two farm homes within a third of a mile radius of the blast near Cadiz, Ohio. The driver, Bernard D. Smith, and the truck were blown to bits, the patrol said. The blast tore a hole five feet deep into the ground, as Smith turned into a lane leading to a farm house to pick up a fellow employe, William Nelson. Patrolmen said the ex plosion shajttered windows in the farm house and a part, of the truck landed on the roof of an other house a third of a mile away. Leaves were blown off nearby trees, and the blast was heard in Steubenville, 20 miles away, patrolmen said. BUILD HOMES FOR AIRPORT Fourteen acres of land near the Charlotte air base has been acquired by the government on which homes for noncommissioned officers at the air base will be erected. The tract of fourteen acres cost the government $5,608 and was acquired from Mrs Louise Dunavant and R. S. Bigham. The property is located at the inter section of the new Dixie road and the belt road. Eighty-six houses for homes with a recreation center will be constructed. LABOR CONVENTION As a result of the North Carolina convention of the American Federa tion of Labor held here this week, it was announced that all men employed ‘ in government projects in North Car olina hereafter will have to be mem bers of the Federation. It was stated that thirty to forty thousand men will COUNTY COMMISSIONERS At their meeting Monday the coun ty commissioners arranged for Com missioners A. D. Cashion and J. Cald well McDonald to investigate the Mul- tilith printing device with the view of deciding whether it might be used by the county government in printing various types of forms used by the local government activities. The board also received the month ly report from the county welfare department as presented by Nrs. Louise 0. Neikirk. The report showed that general relief costs in the county were less by $181.20 in July than they Were in June. The general relief is that type which is financed by Mecklenburg county alone without any help from the State and Federal governments. The total for the month was $3,770.23. The whole relief load, with Federal and State governments participating in the payments, was $33,325.16 for 2,281 cases. This was slightly less than the load in June. The report showed that 29 persons were referred to WPA, 775 already are working for WPA, 187 are await ing placement on WPA. The welfare department certified 2,811 cases as — MORE ON PAGE FOUR AIDING IN DEFENSE Mrs. William Bacon of Dallas, chairman of the state industrial com mittee of the Federated Women’s clubs, is planning a State-wide col lection of old stockings to be turned over to the government. Such hosiery, she said, silk processors had assured her, could be used to make gunpow der bags. If enough stockings are gathered, she believes, the govern ment might release part of silk im ports to hosiery weavers. “Of course, I think it’s silly,” she said. “I think gathering old aluminum teapots and things is silly. But, then, I think war is silly, too, so I’m going to start the campaign.” COFFIN AUCTIONEERS Parties wishing to prepare for the hereafter may, possibly, be able to obtain some supplies by attending an auction sale sche duled to be held at the courthouse at Southport at noon on August 28th. At that hour Attorney S. B. Frink, acting for parties who held a chattel mortgage, will sell five adult size coffins, and five child size coffins to the highest bidder. There are various acces sories to match, including every thing from cooling tables to grave digging implements and a hearse for the last ride. From the White House Thurs day morning came the news that the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of England had inet and counsled together for two days. Long ago the minds of Franklin D.' Roose velt and Winston Churchill had met and understood each other. Being sailors both, tTiey know that tlie destiny of the world, now in the balance, is to be determin ed by the combined power of the, English-speaking nations upon the seas. Both know full well that this war is unfinished business. As First Lord of the Admirality and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the other war, they live to see themselves as the two most important men on earth in the struggle to sa^e the world from a new deluge of savagery. They plan accordingly and their planning will not only bring them and their two nations closer to gether, but will be a beacon of hope to all the world which looks to them and their countries for rescue and salvation. They made the following agreement which is to be the fire by night and the pillow of cloud by day which must lead the world out of bond age: • “First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or otherwise; “Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; “Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self govern ment restored to, those who have been forcibly deprived of them; “Fourth, they will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the en joyment by all states, great or small, victor or vanquished, of ac cess, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity; '“Fifth, they desire to bring the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing for all im proved labor standards, economic advancement and social security; “Sixth, after the final destruc tion of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see establsihed a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that ail the men in the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; “Seventh, such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance; “Eighth, they believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual rea sons must come to the abandon ment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea or air armaments con tinue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their fron tiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and per manent system of general secur ity, that the disarmament of such nations, is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighteij for peace-loving peo ples the crushing burden of arm aments.” SENATOR BAILEY SIZES TfflNGS UP So Far There Is No Inflation Bui Prices Will Rise Through So Much Spending Senator Bailey in The S'tate I. There is much talk of price in flation. What are the facts? Fact No. 1 is that the purchasing power of your dollar is still 20' per cent above that of the Coolidge Era. So there is as yet no currency infla tion. In 1926 it required $1.23 to buy what $1.03 now buys. Fact No. 2 is that the prices are not high. Let us take some examples, as follows: I. COTTON 1913 1920 1926 1941 12.50 41.50 12.16 16.00 II. WHEAT .89 2.75 1.47 1.54 III. CORN .50 1.49 .80 .73 IV. HOGS 7.40 14.70 11.53 11.00 V. ALUMINUM ^In 1917 it sold for 38 cents per DEATH OF CATES RECALLS A STORV He Employed Red Buck To Investigate the Iniquitit^s of 5Wicked New York ^ THE BOSWELL OF THE COMMUNITY Diary Tells cf the Neighbors, Preachers, Sermons, Deaths, Births and Marriages OLD BECK A RARE MULE A hardware merchant of Maxton in vented this valve, which kept a pump primed. Then he invented the seive poin,t to keep back mud, so the two things, which he had patented, which he had a big pump manufacturing company make and sell, paying him a royalty on each pump, so he soon accumulated wealth—about $5,000 from that a ymr. The United States has approximate ly 21,000 pi’inting and publishing es tablishments. You see for yourself how little farm prices have risen. And see what has happened to aluminum. Nothwithstanding all you hear, i aluminum is selling at the lowest price in its history. It sold at first for $535.00 per pound. Now it sells for 17 cents per pound. The Aluninum Company of America has made it abundant and reduced its price. There is no shortage of aluminum for de fense—the shortage ii with respect to civil uses. Look over these prices. Wages are at the highest levels in history. But prices have not reached an alarming point. It is the steady rise that is giv ing concern. But not until the farm ers have caught up with the wage- earners can a government that de mands “parity” interfere with farm prices. We ought to be glad that prices to the faraaer are rising. There is so far no inflation. Dangerous inflation does not derive from supply and demand, but from irredeemable paper money and deficit financing. And there is where the remedy is. Defense Industries II. You. hear much about bottle necks. But the I’eport of the National Association of Manufacturers shows that defense industries as a whole are on schedule or ahead of schedule. Eighty-one per cent of industries ex pect to deliver in time — the others not far behind. It took time ot get the 47 billion dollar program going. But it is going. We spent only $1,889,000,000 last year. This year we are spending $17,000,- 000,000. Next year we will spend $23,000,000,000. Pretty fast! Figure how long it will take to pay it back! Figure how long it would take to throw it away, throwing 100 dollars per minute. Figure how long it would take you to earn it—earning $100,- 000.00 a ye^r net. Of course prices will rise after such extraordinary spending of irredeem able paper money. The question is what will money be worth unless it is made worth something. Airplane Industry III. You-, hear a good deal about aii'plane accidents. .What are the f&cts ? 1940: Miles flown 108,800,436. pas sengers carried 2,959,408; total pas senger accidents 3; unmber of pas- — MORE ON PAGE TWO By H. E. C. (RED BUCK) BRYANT The death of Banks Cates in Char lotte, at the age of 58, makes me sad. He was a fine fellow, and he worked up from the bottom, a good citizen, and a helpful one. I had an experi-/ ence with him that I think I should write about. Twenty odd years ago the old New i York World gave me th^ strangest j assignment I ever had. I was asked to go to New York City, as a business man from the South, and go through some gambling dens for a series of stories to show that such outfits were flourishing there. City authorities had denied the existence of big-shot gam blers, and gambling houses. I was to devote a month to the enterprise, and spend all the money necessary to ach ieve desired results. Two assistants were to be provided, one of whom was to see that I got. in places suspected of being betting establishments, and the other was to stick by me. In ad dition I had to get some one in North Carolina to employ me. Banks Cates cooperated with me, and did it beauti fully. He was a friend in need. In the Dens of Iniquity What liappened is another story, and some day I may tell it, but the time is not ripe. I stoped at the old Knicker bocker hotel and worked out from there. Another man who helped me on that job was the late Eli B. Springs, one time mayor of Charlotte. He vouched for me, and Banks Cates sent wires in structing me to see this and that per son. I literally lost money in one of the “gilded dens of iniquity.” - The turning of a roulette wheel had never interested me, and I soon found that I was not born or bred to make nioney by means of it or like para phernalia. Banks Cates never came to New York while I was there but he printed and sent to me calling cards, and wrote letters and sent telegrams tell ing me that my orders were just what he Wanted. Got Enough of New York That month was as much of New York life as I needed to keep me. away from the big city the rest of my days. In asking me to take the task my boss, a real friend of mine for many years, wrote me: “I warn you in ad vance that this is going to be a funny letter, but it is really a very import ant one. “Several big gambling houses are running in New York City. Now I am very anxious to show up these fel lows. I am working with a man who is confident that he can get a man in several of these places but he lays great stress on the fact that the man for whom he can secure entrance must not be a r{ian who is known in the city. He says it must be a stranger from outside. Now, you have occured to me as being about the ideal candidate, but let me say at the beginning that it will not affect your standing with the paper or with me at all if you do not wish to undertake the assignment. I believe thoroughly you will be success ful, and if successful, I am sure the paper will show appreciation." Learned About Roulette “What I want is four or five articles pointing out the fact that the World! (By H. E. C. (RED BUCK) BRYANT Horse swapping was a favorite pas time or business of Providence town ship farmers sixty odd years ago. Captain Ardrey frequently referred to trades. I was interested in a note that said “Sold Beck mule to Mr. Bry ant (my father) for $100.” Now if that was the Beck I knew slie had aged a good bit before I had any thing to do with her. The purchase was made in July, 1872, and I was not born until January 3 of the following year. A Beck taught me to plow, and and 1 really suspect it was the one that came from the Ardrey place. At the tender age of ten I was given a mule and a plow, and told to break some land in the orchard field. Father sat on the front porch and watched me as long as he could stand it, and then he came out to tell me that Beck knew more about plowing than I did. I told him she wanted to go on the wrong side of every tree or stump, and he retorted that she was right and I was wrong, and added that he would be satisfied if I would just follow her about the trees, and from that time on I did. The Beck I have in mind was blind in one eye, had queer notions about her ears, but could pull a two-horse plow hour after hour, and was mighty at the wheel of a wagon. Father had a bridle made to order for her, and she wore it day and night, month after month, minus the bits. She did not allow anyone to touch her ears. Once when my brother Victor was har vesting wheat for Mr. J. P. Doster, he forgot to tell Will Ross, the Negro who gave Beck her lunch, that he should leave her headstall on. Will stripped it off, and complained that she was right foolish about her head. The last time she had been bridled it required the services of five men for the job. “You will have to catch her,” Victor told Will, a powerful fellow. Prof. Shropshire on Hand W^'ill entered the stall, and shut the door behind him. Soon a noise like thunder came through the cracks. Soon Will led Beck out, properly bri dled,. and no questions were asked but his knuckles were sore for days. March 1873, no day given. Captain Ardrey said:. “Very cold. Teaching school. Great excitement over Prof. Shropshire’s writing ahd arithmetic school; short system of arithmetic and thorough penmanship in ten days. He taught a school at Providence, an other at Harrison’s and one at Parks’ School House.” I have tried to get information about a school house site, just north of our old home place, owned for years by my mother’s father, Moses Allen Parks, but no one now living seems able to throw light on it. I think Captain Ardrey’s reference to Parks’ School House is to the phe at that place. My mother told me that the ances tors of the Kuykendalls of Providence came there as teachers. My recollec tion is that the grandfather of Mr. Banks Kuykendall taught the school I refer to. Providence township, now almost Unanimously Democratic, went Radi cal by five votes in 1872. Was Not Hide-Bound In writing his daily items Captain Ardrey neglected no one, and nothing of interest, and he had much comp any. His opportunities for gathering news were excellent. May 8, 1873, he said: “Mr. Tommie Ross very sick with fever,” and May 30, “Aunt Jane Houston with us.” June 12: “Crops very grassy; impos sible to hire hands.” “Some crops run off with grass.” “Harvesting my wheat, not good; running three cradles, George, Lee and Horace.” August 1st; “Rev. J. P. Simpson and myself went down to the district conference at Monroe, and by the request of the family, I was assigned j to Cousin Hugh Houston’s; my new [ relations very kind. ' . “Rev. W. S. Black, presiding elder, presided over the conference, the de liberations very instructive and inter esting, and characterized by Chris tian harmony. I met many old friends and formed many new and pleasant friendships. ' “Preaching Wednesday night, open ing sermon by Rev. J. S. Nelson, from Mount Pleasant church, subject from Matthew 20th chapter and 6th verse, ‘Why Stand Ye Here Idle All the Day?’ “Thursday, 11 a. m., sermon by Rev. J. P. Simpson, of the Pineville circuit, subject from the 51st Psalm. That night, Rev. W. V. Sherrill, Wadesboro, John 6th chapter and 12th verse, ‘I Would See Jesus’; Friday, Rev. Mr. Sanford, Romans 8th chap ter and 28th verse, ‘To Them Who Are Called According to His Pur pose,’ that night, Rev. L. S. Burhead, Charlotte, ‘Temperance’; Saturday, addresses by the Revs. B. B. Cul- breth, agent for Trinity College; Rev. Mr. Davenport, a deep 'thinker and ab^e speaker, Rev, J. B. Babbitt, edi tor of the C^hristian Advocate, Rev. Mr. Robey, presiding. “Sunday morning. Rev. B. B. Cul- breth, and Sunday night. Rev. Mr. Robey.” Captain Ardrey seldom missed a man has gone into these places, and! conference or other important church MORE ON rOGE THREE J MORE ON PAGE FOUR
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