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Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, October 9, 1941.
Number 41.
JUDGE SHOULD BE
OUT OF POLITICS
SAYS ASSOCIATION
American Bar Discusses Ways
and Means For Freeing Bench
From Harmful Influences
THE DUTY OF PRESIDENT
State legislature enactments to
free the judiciary of blighting in
fluences of politics is an objective
the American Bar Association hopes
to see fulfilled quickly, it developed
. in convention proceedings in India
napolis.
Early judicial reform will aid na
tional (defense efforts since it vvill
strengthen the United States in
ternally, convention speakers held.
National subjects, including debate
as to whether the organization bar
should ask Congress to repeal the
Neutrality Act, dominated the second-
day convention proceedings.
Jacob M. Lashley tof St. Louis,
President of the Bar Association, led
in asking the 3200 convention dele
gates to work in their respective
states for legislation freeing the bar
from politics. He said;
“An improved and simplified prac
tice act, with provision for its per
petual care, that would remove
judges from the political arena would
be a contribution of great value to
any state, and to the country at large
in the case of national defense. Law
yers and judges, working together,
can bring about legislation that will
protect the judiciary from politics.”
Racial Bias Held Down
Attorney General Francis Biddle
told the lawyers in a prepared ad
dress that “antialien baiting” still
continues in some parts of the United
States, but that thus far in the de
fense program efforts of authorities
had been successful in “holding
down” racial discrimination.
The Attorney General said only a
few jstates have passed laws dis
criminatory to foreigners while oth
ers had taken specific steps to forbid
class or race discrimination. He re
ferred to recent public expressions of
anti Semitism and commented:
“That this attack should have been ‘
everywhere resented throughout the
country shows that such Nazi
methods do not find response in
America, or outside of particular
groups.”
The legal preparation of the Unit
ed States in the present emergency,
Mr. Biddle said, is “far more effec
tive” than during the period just be
fore the World War.
Debate on Neutrality
In the opening debate on the pro
posed resolution that the Neutrality
Act be repealed, James W. Ryan of
New York City declared to the In-
rnational and Comparative Law
St "^n:
“Tue' war is here, whether Con
gress recognizes it or not. Germany
has started it. If we don’t use force
to resist the attacks, our vital com
merce on the high seas will be de
stroyed.” .
Mr. Ryan asserted that when a
foreign power has started war against
the United States, it was the Com
mander in Chief’s constitutional duty
“to use immediately” the entire Army
and Navy.
“In granting to Congress a power
to declare war,” he said, “the fram
ers of, our Constitution undoubtedly
had in mind a situation in which a
war was to be begun or declared, and
Mot a situation in which a foreign
country had already established a
state of war against us.”
“There is nothing for a delibera
tive or I’ule-making body like Con
gress to do when war or hostilities
have already been started against
us.”
Selection of Judges
The contention of Mr. Lashly that
the judiciary must be made safe from
political influences was supported by
a committee of which Judge John
Perry Wood of Los Angeles is chair
man. He said:
“In the smaller communities where
the membership of the Bar Associa
tion is known to the people, direct
election of judges works with fair
satisfaction. In the more populous
areas, however, with numerous
judicial offices to be filled and usual
ly a flock of candidates for each of
fice, it has been practically impossi
ble for the electorate to secure in
formation adequate to intelligent
voting.
“With increasing frequency the
judicial office goes to the man who
is the most persistent handshaker,
who is willing to toot his own horn
the loudest and longest, and whose
chief qualification is a flair for pub
licity and politics.
“Even those judges who have sei'-
ved the people ably and fearlessly
are compelled to waste their time
and strength and to spend large
sums in competition with untried but
ambitious politically minded candi
dates.”
Program of Reforms
The study committees plan for
judicial reform presented for con
sideration of the Association, calls for
a nominating commission composed
of outstanding citizens, none of whim
is an officeholder. This commission
would, when a vacancy in the judici
ary occurs, name a group of candi
dates from which the Governor would
make a selection. The judge named
would subsequently be required to
run on his pecord.
His name would appear alone on
the ballot and the voters would be
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Memories oj former Wars Lap
Over Scenes in Maneuver Area
A drive through the maneuver
area will evoke in the mind of
one familiar with the history of
our wars a flood of interesting
thoughts. A week-end drive from
this section through South Caro
lina and into Georgia caused the
editor of this paper the liveliest
pleasure when historic localities
brought up mental pictures of the
Revolutionary War, the Civil
War, and to some exten the first
World War. Behind the present
soldiers of Unile Sam, with their
modern equipment and means of
operation, stretched the long vis
ta of the. years gone by when
artual wars dragged their way
over the section now the tempo
rary camping ground of soldiers
who are preparing for the even
tualities of future war.
The maneuver area of North
and South Carolina was the lo-
ration of a part of the struggle
between the British and Ameri
cans which eventuated in the
freedom of the counrty. It was
here that the Southern invasion
of the British armies had its first
successes and where the indom
itable bravery of the American
forces, largely local, first began
their crippling actions against the
invaders.
The history books are studded
with the names of places and lo
calities on both sides of the Pee
Dee and Catawla rivers where
the Revolutionary struggle waxed
and waned and through a part of
the section marched the army of
Sherman and of Johnson and
Wheeler. The British subjugated
Georgia and South Carolina be
cause their operations could be
supported by access to the ports.
But when they came to North
Carolina a different tale began to
unfold. The British held Savan
nah, Augusta, Charleston,
Georgetown, and Wilmington.
And the farther they got from
these ports the more their trou
bles multiplied. The first strong
setbacks were at Cowpens, Kings
Mountain and Charlotte, and
from then on, the fortunes of
Cornwallis, the ablest general the
British had in America, began to
wane.
How these wars run together
in your mind as you go through
the historic section. Every stream
has a meaning. The Catawba,
Lynch’s, the Broad, the Saluda,
the Enoree, the Tyger, the Sa
vannah rivers. Camden, center of
British activities in this section;
Winnsboro, to which Cornwallis
retreated from Charlotte; Ninety-
Six, the British post communicat
ing between Augusta and Cam
den. The disaster of Gates of
Buford, the marches of Green, of
Rawdon, of Morgan, of F*ergu-
don, of Tarleton, of Davie, of
Sumter, and other American
leaders all criss cross that terri
tory.
At Andersonville, Ga., the edi
tor visited the Confederate pris
on site where 50,000 federal sol
diers were confined and a fourth
of whom lie buried in the national
cemetery there. At Americus, Ga.,
below the line of Sherman’s
march, was seen a statue of the
World War soldier, so difl^erent
from the many statues of Con
federate soldiers. In Savannah is
the most interesting statue of the
Confederate soldier the editor
ever saw. The World War soldier
at Americus is a doughboy with
tin helmet and musket, with his
feet entangled in barb wii;e. Yes,
a trip over this area will run your
memories of our wars together in
a fascinating way.
Human Interest
STILL PERCHING
Snow, wind, and i-ain conspired
with Devil’s Tower Sunday to keep a
daring parachutist trapped on its
barren turret, says a story out of
Sundace, Wyoming. Just as it has de
fied eroding elements for countless
centuries, so the 1,280-foot volcanic
spire, with the aid of snow and ice,
impeded the gruelling job of climb
ers trying to scale its sheer sides to
rescue 30-year-old George Hopkins.
Last Wednesday moVning Hopkins, to
win a $50 bet and to draw attention
to another planned aerial feat, drop
ped to the forbidding tower from an
airplane. Ever since, a corps of climb
ers, National Park Service officials
and airplane pilots have labored to
get him down safely—a detail which
Hopkins overlooked before he leaped.
“This started out as a publicity
stunt, but it backfired, then wild-fir
ed,” said Earl Brockelsby of Rapid
City, S. D-, who ma;ie-fctie wager with
Hopkins. “I’m worried about George.”
Not realiy enjoying his enforced stay,
the well-supplied San Antonio, Texas,
daredevil, nevertheless remained in
fine spirits. Late Sunday, as rain
turned to snow, he hedged to the tow
er’s rim and waved at the thousands
of spectators. He 'donned a fur-lined
aviator’s suit as protection from the
cold and snow Sunday night—his fifth
overnight stay atop the tower. Veter
ans of dangerous mountain scaling
feats, drove more iron pitons into the
solid rock wall of the tower, inching
a ladder of iron rings and ropes to
ward the top, and it appeared that
this hard work of scaling the tower
wquld finally free the daredevil.
(Late yesterday seven climbers suc
cessfully Towered Hopkins from his
high perch.)
REPUBIJCANS SHOULDN’T CRAWFISH ON RECORD—
Wilkie Occupies the Position
on Foreign Policy of Leaders
(AN EDITORIAL)
YOU MAY PAY TAX
ON THE HIRED GIRL
President Said to Demand
Pension System For Domestic
and Farm Help and Owners
EXPLAINS HOW THE
MANEUVERS WORK
Information Is Given About
the Mock \Var Which Start
ed Yesterday
If what President Roosevelt is now
proposing goes through people who
hire help in the home, on the farm
and everywhere else, will have to pay
taxes for old age pensions. It will
bring 2,7,000,000 more people on the
old age pension list to add to the 40,-
000,000 already there. Everybody who
pays a cent out in wages will have
to pay the government a tax on it.
The plan is explained by the United
States News.
The proposal is to blanket these
persons under the Government’s old
age pension plan. This would entail
levying a tax on their wages, and,
when they are working for others, on
their employers’ pay rolls. Their bene
fits would be monthly old-age pension
when they reached 65 years of age,
compensation for their families and
lump-sum death benefits.
In undertaking to include these
people in the old-age plan, the Presi
dent is tacklingoneof the biggest
problems he has ever faced. The knot
tiest question is how to see that the
tax is collected, and how to keep
track of millions of persons who
manage their own affairs, often with
impei’fect records, and other millions
who migrate fro*n place to place,
working irregularly.
Difficulty in keeping tab on these
groups was the underlying reason
for excluding them from the Social
S'ecutrity system in the first place.
At present, the system is limited to
those who are, more or less, regularly
employed. The plan extends to ap
proximately 40,000,000 persons.
Congress is expected to sift care
fully the proposal to extend the plan.
If tiie President’s suggestions are fol
lowed, millions of additional employ
ers will have to leam something of
pay-roll taxes. Among them will be
about 2,100,00 housholders who em
ploy maids and casual yard workers.
Social Security officials have been
attempting for some time to work out
practical methods of extending the
old-age plan to more persons. This is
what they are proposing:
For the self-employed, including
about 1,000,000 grocers and other
small business-nien, physicians, den
tists, lawyers and other professional
workers, a Social Security levy would
be made on incomes.
Present levies for old-age pensions
are 2 per cent—1 per cent on the em
ployer and 1 per cent on the employe.
Presumably the self-employed must
pay 2 per cent at present rates. Presi
dent Roosevelt, however, wants cur
rent taxes doubled, or trebled, which
would mean a levy of perhaps 4 or 6
per cent.
Before this group can be included
in the system, however, several puz
zling* problems must^e solved.
One pi'oblem is how to prevent self-
I employed persons from reporting and
paying a tax on more income than
they actually receive, in order to ob
tain maximum benefits. Benefits run
from $10 to $85 a month, according
to earnings and family status. Taxes
apply on incomes up to $250 a month.
One suggestion is that these persons
should be forced to pay income taxes
on income reported for Social Security
tax purposes. Such a provision would
be expected to prevent persons from
padding old-age tax returns.
Another problem is to detei,-mine
MORE ON ?AGE FOUR
The public relations office of the
Ninth Infantry division at Fort
Bragg has listed below a number of
questions and answers regarding the
gigantic army maneuvers of the Car-
olinas:
Q. Are the Carolina maneuvers
one continuous “war”?
A. No. They are a series of
short “battles” or problems with a
rest period between each phase.
Q. Why are maneuvers held?
A. Maneuvers are the closest ap
proach to the “real thing” in peace
time and give the men the feeling of
simulated war conditions. Every one
is given an opportunity to gain tac
tical experience.
Q. Why is blank ammunition
used?
A. To make the maneuvers more
life-like, to accustom the soldiers to j
noises of war and to aid in umpiring. '
Q. What are the Red and the Blue
armies ?
A. The units participating are di
vided into Red and Blue fores. Mem
bers of the Red forces can be iden
tified b.y red arm bands, the Blue
forces by blue arm bands.
Q. Is any live ammunition used?
A. No. Before the first problem a
rigorous inspection was made of all
units participating- to insure that no
thing but blank ammunition will be
carried.
Q. Do the Reds actually fight hand
to hand with the Blues?
A. No. The umpire stops the ac
tion before the troops meet.
Q. How are maneuvers controll
ed?
A. By officers acting as umpires.
Q. What is the function of an um
pire?
A. His function is similar to that
of a baseball umpire—he calls the
hits, strikes and errors.
Q. How can an umpire be identi
fied?
A. By a white arm band. His car
will be flying a white flag.
Q. Who are the men with green
arm bands?
Al Newspaper correspondents
“covering the war” or observers.
Q. How do umpires control the op
posing forces ?
A. By means of flags.
Q.' Does the white flag mean that
one of the units has surrendered?
A. No. The white flag is the signal
for all troops to halt and is used when
the umpires from both sides confer
in order to make a decision.
Q. What does the blue flag indi
cate?
A. Opposing infantry may advance
against the unit where the flag is dis
played because they have fire super
iority. If they do so the weaker troops
must withdraw correspondingly.
Q. What do you mean by fire sup
eriority ?
A. The forces having the most fire
power have fire superiority.
Q. What is fire power?
A. Firepower of a unit is rated ac
cording to the following scale: Rifle,
1; automatic rifle, 3; light machine
gun, 10; 60 mm. mortar, 6; 81 mm,
mortar, 15.
0. Are all the weapons of a unit
included in computing firepower?
A. Only those located so that
they will be able to deliver effective
fire.
Q. Whv is it necessary for an at-
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WANT OTHER FIGHTERS
The Nazis are luring bull fight
ers into occupied countries with
fat fees in order to give German
troops “battle-to-death” recrea
tion, a ranking Mexican matador
said upon his return from Eur
ope. Ricardo Torres, veteran of
SOO battles, declared the drive to
popularize the fights was espe
cially intense in France where
several elaborate programs have
been staged. While Torres himself
did not i»ppear in^gecupied coun
tries, he said man'^ of iiis fellow-
matadors had. “The Germans
know little about bull fights,” he
said. “But they are given signals
when to applaud. At other times
with a command they leap to
their feet like robots nd shout
‘heil.’ Some of thein k»iK little
bored by the activity, but their
officers seem convinced the show
of blood is good for their spirit.”
TAKES APPETITE
Ten-year-old Louis Young of Dal
las, Texas, takes hard luck in stride.
He didn’t whimper at staying in a
cast after a bone infection four
years ago. He went to school in a
wheeled frame -for a year without a
murmur. He didn’t even complain
about a recurrence of the old trouble
after being able to walk for a while.
But he alm'ost gave up yesterday.
Mickey, his black and tan Toy Man
chester, his companion through it all,
vanished. Louis had to pass up his
food. “Things just don’t taste right,”
he sobbed to his mother.
NOT DISTURBED
Reading rooms of libraries are
filled and movies are packed every
day in Leningrad, despite the war
raging on its approaches, an ar
ticle on life in that city in a Mos
cow publication says. The reading
room of Saltykov-Shchedrin pub
lic library is full of students, en
gineers, doctors and Red army
commanders who spend many
many hours there,” said the ar
ticle. “The mail regularly delivers
books to the library by scores,
and magazines and newspapers
published in other cities of the
Soviet union. Fresh issues of
technical and medical journals re
cently arrived from Britain and
America.” A celebrated composer
has just completed two parts of
his seventh symphony devoted to
the war, the article continued, and
placed it before a group of Len
ingrad composers. More than 200
Leningrad actors regularly give
concerts and performances at the
front lines.
ENTERTAINING SOLDIERS
The President is today asking
congress to amend the neutral
ity act. It is understood that he
would ask for its entire repeal
except for the possibility of a
filibuster and a long drawn out
wrangle in congress that would
do great harm to the govern
ment’s foreign policy. The op
position to the President’s poli
cy, which is now the fixed policy
of this government both by rea
son of the constitutional acts of
the chief executive and by acts
of congress itself, is treading
upon dangerous ground. And
that part of the opposition, by
far the strongest, is Republican.
And that Republican opposition
is directly contrary to Republi
can policy as fixed by the great
leaders of that party when the
responsibility was theirs.
In supporting the govern
ment’s position on foreign affairs
Wendell L. Wilkie is the true
exponent of the long line of
principle set by Republicans ia
the days when they claimed, and
when the country thought, that
that party was the only one of
sufficient vision and experience
to be trusted with the govern
ment. The foreign policy of
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the
real foreign policy of this gove-
ernment for decades past. Thats
policy was made by the McKin
leys, the Hays, the Roots, the
Tafts, the Roosevelts, the Kel-
logs and the Stimsons in their
official capacity.
It was Secretary of State John
Hay who formulated the open
door policy in China, from which
we have never departed, and
which the aid to China now by
President Roosevelt is uphold
ing. It was Secretary of State
Kellogg who initiated the Brian-
Kellogg treaties which President
Roosevelt is now upholding and
which inferentially pledge us to
resist aggression of any signa
tory nations who violate it. It
was Elihu Root who moved in
the matter of an earlier day to
establish a world court which
operated successfully until Ger
many began violating all the
laws of nations. It was Presi
dent McKinley who first spoke
out for a reciprocity tariff rates
in order that we might more ef
fectively co-operate with other
nations economically, and under
the same president we''acquired
our first foreign possessions.
The first great betrayal by the
Republican leadership tof this
foreign policy was a result of
spite and provincialism in the
slump after the World War
which resulted in the defeat of
international co-operation as
mapped out by Woodrow Wilson.
Now the same peanut Republi
can politicians, forgetting the
long established policy of their
: MORE ON PAGE TWO
COMPLETES FOUR
YEAE’S SERVICE IN
CHARLOTTE MINT
Then Capt. Ardrey Returns to
His Country Home and Writes
More In His Diary
CHRISTMAS DINNER, 1894
By H.
GARAGE AND BUSES BURNED
The Greyhound bus company’s ga-
ragOs was destroyed by fire early
Monday morning, along with seven
buses. One of the buses, a company
official said, was worth $20,000. The
building will be rebuilt.
BARBECUE 40 HOGS
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the barbecue at the
Mallard Creek community house Oct.
23 has concluded preliminary plans
for obtaining 40 hogs which will be
needed to feed the 3,000 persons who
annually attend the event.
The afi'air this year will be the 12th
sponsored by Mallard Creek Presby
terian church. The serving begins at
noon and continues until 10 o’clock
at night. .
The master cook who has charge
of the barbecue pits is J. Will Oeh-
ler, chairman of the directors of the
barbecue. Other directors are Rev. C.
N. Morrison, secretary. Wood Chris-
tenbury, treasurer, John Kirk, Boyd
Alexander, Vester McLaughlin, and
Walter Benfield.
The barbecue is recognized as one
of the outstanding events of its kind
in this part of the country. The fame
of Will Oehler’s product has spread
'—mostly by word of mouth—until the
unusually large crowd of 3,000 an
nually make their way out into the
fastnesses of Mallard Creek township
to partake of the true southern dish
which is becoming harder and harder
to get as the years go by.
Determined to be prepared for at
least 15,000 soldiers from the man
euvers area this week end, the Meck
lenburg Civilian Defense council has
launched extensive plans to take care
of the new influx of visitors.
J. E. Burnside, Jr., chairman of the
council, said no detail was being over
looked to see that every soldier finds
food, lodging and entertainment in
Charlotte,
The problem of finding sleeping fa
cilities for the soldiers, many of whom
failed to locate a bed last week end,
was attacked yesterday on several
fronts. City Manager L. L. Ledbetter
prepared a resolution requesting the
city school board to permit the use of
gymnasiums in the city schools as
sleeping quarters for soldiers.. The
council is expected to pass the reso
lution.
It is expected that the Armory-
Auditorium w’ill again be available?
and that sleeping space can also be
found in several other buildings. Mr.
Ledbetter expressed the hope the city
will be able to borrow 2,000 army
cots now in the Monroe-Wadesboro
maneuvers area. Other buildings in
addition to the Armory where the cots
might be used are the old Sterchi
building on South Tryon street, and
several ;buildings on the Southern
States Fair Grounds.
STUDENT DROWNED
William Sloan, 20 years old,, was
drowned in the Catawba River Sun
day night. Sloan, a junior at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, drowned
when the motor boat he was in caught
fire and he tried to swim ashore.
Two companions, M. S. Frank and
W. J. Whitaker, also students at the
university, who were with him in the
boat, clung to a guy rope of the flam
ing boat and were rescued by J. E.
Allen.
Sloan and three fellow-students Had
attended the Carolma-Davidson foot
ball game at Davidson Saturday, night
and were spending the week-end at a
cabin on the river. The accident oc
curred about two miles below the Wil
kinson boulevard bridge.
THE NEW PIPE LINE
The oil and gas pipe line being con
structed from Louisiana 'to Greens
boro, N. C., will have stations at var
ious cities. It is announced that Stan
dard and Shell will build large sta
tions at Thrift, from which gas will
b«'. distributed thi’ough this sect^^-S".
for a radius of 100 to 150 miles by
these companies, by tanks. The term
inals are to be constructed the first
of the year.
PARKWOOD BRIEFS
DAIRIES COMBINE
Announcement is made that the
Harvey Morris dairy and the Fore+
most Dairies have combined. Morris
produced raw milk and Foremost pro
cessed and distributed milk. The two
lines of work will be combined under
the new organization.
HUNTERS HONORED
Ceremony today crowns the fam
ily of Mr. Harvey B. Hunter as the
“Master Farm Family” of this sec
tion. This award is made for some
twenty counties comprising the south
western district of the North Carolina
extension service and the ceremony
was participated in by a number of
state and national officials of the ex
tension service which heads up at
State College.
NEW CTY MANAGER
On Wednesday R. W. Flack was
elected city manager to take charge
next Wednesday at a salary of $9,-
600.
He comes from Springfield, Ohio,
1 and wa? manager,there and later at
Durham and at San Diego, Cal.
Mouseface’s hair cut. -While in town
Mr. Dorgan made a few business
calls and met some of his former
horse deal clients, each of whom wel
comed him with open arms. Mouse-
face slept in the back seat all the way
home.
Editor Seth Cobb of the Echo with
the Missus and the seven little Cobbs,
spent Saturday in Pratt’s Woods,
away from the telephone and from
the readers who call every Monday
and tell about errors in the paper.
Min Holmes and Lafe Humbertson
will be married as soon as Min’s fath
er decides that he can take Lafe in
for the winter. Lafe will agree to
Work four hoiirs a day, but positive
ly will not be disturbed before H
o’clock in the morning, and no milk
ing or wood cutting. He will, how
ever, keep the family supplied with
fish and game.
Cad Carberry may decide againsjt
the widow Joy’s proposal that she
will wed him if he gets some teeth.
The dentist wanted four dollars to
make over the: set that the widow’s
deceased husband used, and Cad won
ders if it is worth it.
Milt Dawson fell ofl^ the truck com
ing home from the Whittlers club
clam bake last Saturday and broke
a case of left over refreshments, be
sides raising hob with his father-in-
law’s pants.
Mr. Otis Brewer spent a few days
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Brewer at Greensboro.
Miss Senith Johnson spent the week
end at her home near Sophia.
^ Mr. Willard Freeman left last week
for Fort Bragg.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson were
the dinner guests of .Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Monroe last Sunday.,.,
Mrs; S. J. Hancock is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Hancock at Tryon.
Rev. J. D.‘ Robinson will hold a ser-
E. C. (REB BUCK) BRYANT
Twelfth Installment
May 4, 1894, Captain William E.
Ardrey wrote in his diary: “I went
down home (from Charlotte).
“At Harrison church Johnnie Wil
liams told me that Mr. James Davis
had just died, at the age of 77. He
was a faithful Christian and a g )od
peaceable citizen.”
Several years ago a nephew of
mine, returning to Washington after
a visit to his home in Providence
township, had tied to his car a set of
bureau drawers made by Mr. Davis,
who was an expert worker in wood.
He was very proud of his find, having
purchased it from a negro. He pol
ished up the rare piece of furniture,
and prized it highly.
July 4, Captain Ardrey noted: “Na
tional Independence day; the city full
of colored people.’”
July 8: “Prof. George B. Hanna left
on a visit to his mother in Massachu
setts; will be gone two weeks.”
Prof. Hanna was a very clean-cut,
well-educated man of the school-teach
er type, who knew much about gold.
August>26: “Brother Robert C. Bell
(he married a sister of Captain Ard
rey) died. A better and truer man
never lived. He was a devout Chris
tian, honest and upright in all his
dealings, and loved by all who knew
him.”
General Ransom Speaks
October 22: “General Ransom spoke
in Charlotte.
“The political situation is dark and
gloomy for Democracy. More apathy
than ever befoi’e.”
December 27: “Had Christmas tur
key dinner. By invitation we all took
dinner at the Buford Hotel. Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Miller, Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Ardrey, Misses Addie and Susie
Williams, Miss Ada Potts, and Miss
Twelvetrees.”
December 29: “Etta Watson, John
Ardrey and Miss Pearl Hudson with
us.”
The weather was very cold then.
The 28th, Captain Ardrey said “Was
the coldest for many years, with the
thermometer down to 4 degrees.” He
added: “Everything frozen; the' ice
is thick. The Florida orange crop re
ported to be ruined, resulting in two
million dollar loss to the growers.
^V’ater pipes here are bursting, doing
great damage.”
' Samuel Davis Ardrey of Kentucky,
visited Captain Ardrey and family at
the United States Mint in Charlotte
in the closing days of 1894.
A note in the diary says: “John
Ardrey came from Ireland in 1785 or
1790 and settled in Kentucky. He
had 5 sons—John, Alexander, James,
William and Thomas—all had families
except William; he did at the age
of 7; five daughters — Jane married
Mr. Purdy, in Kentucky; Elizabeth,
Mr. Griffith, in Kentucky; Catherine
married a Mr. Connell of the Ken
tucky and Missouri McConnell’s;
Mary married Mr. Purwy of Missouri,
Margaret, Mr. Watts of Ohio.
“Alexander Audrey had six sons
and four daughters — John, James,
Harvey, Abram, and Samuel Davis
Ardrey. S. D. Ardrey is the only
one living and resides in Bourbon
county, "at Millersburg, Ky.”
S'ome of the descendants of the or-
Marmaduke Angell was badly
slQshed when he was hit in the neck
by an aged muskmelon at the band
concert last Friday night. The melon
was intended for the tuba player.
Constable Barney Hicks has pur
chased a red motorcycle from Phil
Nolan and when he gets to riding it
he promises that speeding in this
town will stop. So far Mr. Hicks has
gone into the ditch 13 times, has hit
four dogs, nine ash cans and three
trucks.
Eph Henki)n arrived at St. Louis
last week after falling asleep in a
cattle car on the siding one Saturday
night recently. A collect telephone
call to his wife reports that he is in
fine spirits and is starting back im
mediately. He asked something about
a fatted calf but Mrs. Kenyon didn’t
know what he was talking about.
The Gorman twins’have been named
Samson and Delilah because one of
them is a girl.
“Mouseface” and Mrs. Dorgan went
to the city Saturday afternoon to get^ ^ iginal settlers are still in Kentucky,
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and
Kansas.
January 13, 1895: “Dr. John C. Kil-
go, president of Trinity College,
preached a fine sermon at the Tdyon
Street Methodist Episcopal church.”
January 16: “Left Charlotte at
8:30 a. m., for Augusta, Ga., on gov
ernment business. Met Mr. Johnston,
Mr. Walsh, Dr. Massey and Captain
Basin on the train. Passed Pineville
and Fort Mill. Rock Hill is a thriv
ing^ little town; Chester, old looking;
Columbia, a beautiful city. Passed
Graniteville, S. C,. and saw two of the
best cotton factories I have ever seen.
Augusta is an old-looking city, with
large and compact buildings.”
Captain Ardrey visited many mines,
was away ten days. He found At
lanta a beautiful business city. ;
February 3: “General Rufus Bar
ringer died. I was detailed from the
Mecklenburg camp of Confederate
Veterans to set up with the body but
Miss Sallie Williams relieved me and
I went home. February 4: General
Barringer’s funeral. All the old sol
diers out and a large crowd. A good
and brave man gone to his eternal re
ward..”
February 5: “My good friend John
W. Wadsworth died in the hospital.
He was one of the best friends I ever
had. Everybody liked him. Febru
ary 6:^ Mr. Wadsworth’s funer.ii
preached by Bishop Duncan; the lar
gest funeral ever seen in Charlotte.
He was universally popular and will
be greatly missed.”
Captain Ardrey and family, happi
ly situated in Charlotte, liked the
town and the people. At the close of
1895 he wrote: ‘This year has been
one qf, the most important in our
lives. \Ve are all enjoying the.
blessings of a kind providence. We
vice at Bascom’s Methodist church i have been'the entire year in Char-
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