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WELCOME TO THE FAIR The Cabarrus Savings Bank RESOURCES OVER $3,000,000.00 r OUR NEW HOME The Speed Craze • ( = i|f §:| h. as k een sa *d that the American people are speed crazy. The g CABARRUS i i ra growth of a city is the best expression of that craze. The § COUNTY FAIR ? \® = Si S II | crazier Concord gets in that respect, the better everyone will be I CONCORD \ JIB=HuWH :! :§ | 11 ll pleased. The worst form of speed craze is the desire to get rich I OCTOBER s I 11 | |P| Q u ' c k* Put your money in the bank and you have certainty. 3 16 TO 20 Jt Ml Uli iBB 4ii I| | J consult your banker before you any other kind of in- yestment, no matter how glittering it may appear on the surface. conservation I iff ProteCtiQn S we P rotect y°ur money, from crazy speed 4 Progressive Bank In 4 Thriving City H. I. WOODHOUSE, President M. L. CANNON, Vice President C. W. SWINK, Cashier W. G. CASWELL, Ass’t Cashier THE STORY OF COTTON ... importance of cotton in the civ ilized life of today is probably but va guely realized by the majority of peo ple. In this country we consume raw cptton at the rate of about twentv-six pounds per capita each year, which if transferred to yards of cloth and other fabrics, would make a strip longer than *“® distance from the earth to the moon, and a yard wide all the way. Perhaps the best illustration-of the im portance of this fibre can be found in the plight of Germany during the recent war. In spite of her accumulated stores of cotton and her domestic production of wool, hemp and flax, in spite of the fact that considerable cotton filtered through in the early months of the block ade, her population at the end of four years was wearing clothes made of pa per, tablecloths, napkins, towels, sheets, underwear, hosiery, not to mention dra peries, were practically unobtainable. Bandages and surgical dressings were made of paper; guncotton had to be displaced with/ “Ersatz,” as did sail cloth, tire duck, and numberless other commodities.” “The word Cotton,” is said to be de rived from an Arabic word. “Qutun” originally meaning flax; and the botani cal name of the plant Gossypiuin, sig nifying the fleece worn, was first found in the writings of Pliney, and is derived from the Sankrist. fhus. in the mere origins of the colloqual and scientific des ignations of the plant we have ample proof of its antiquity. Is a Sun Plant. The cotton plant belongs to the mallow family and is n native of the tropics. It is a sun plant and never grows at night bnt closes up at sundown. The genus has a great many botanical varieties, all of] which, in the wild state, are perennial, but under cnltivation tend to become an nual. One variety, Gossypium Arboreum. which is : found chiefly in Mexico and Brazil, attains a height of over fifteen feet. This tree cotton, however, has not been extensively cultivated because of the obviouH expense of picking. Os the : herbaceous varieties thp most commonly ] known are the American and the long j staple Egyptian, G. Rarbadense, known 1 •s Sea Island cotton, is another long sta- | pie variety which is grown only in cer- ■ tain counties of Georgia, South Carolinn and Florida. Characteristics Vary. Jn all the rultivated species the plant attains a height of two to four feet. The leaves vary but all have characteris tic lobes. The blossoms also vary a good deni in color, bus have this In common that the seeds are contained in a pod or boll which is filled with a floss not un like that of the common milk-weed. In due course the boll bursts, exposing its elasticity. From the point of mass fluffs - fibre from which the plant derives its extraordinary value. The superiority of cotton over other vegetable fibres, such as hemp, or flax, ta in the natural twißt, which makes Its inherently adaptable to spinning. The aingle fibre conslats of a hollow tube *„T jtisksi Jkioftn'tei WELCOME TO THE FAIR WELCOME TO THE FAIR By GEORGE CLAIBORNE S having transverse joints at irregular in teiValt,, and this tube, when.drv. has a tendency to flutter out and curl. The more of this natural elasticity is found in the fibre the better it is for spinning purposes, and an immature fibre is for this reason unsatisfactory. Very Susceptible to Moisture. Cotton is exceedingly susceptible to moisture, and a succession of violent at mospheric changes will cause such a rap id contraction ami expansion in its fibre as to destroy its spinning qualities. In the view of the manufacturer there is very little difference between immature cotton and that which has suffered lmjs of vitality. Besides yielding a natural wool from which a tremendous number of products are derived, the seed of the plant gives forth a highly useful vegetable oil. History and Distribution. “The origin of the cultivation anil commercial use of cotton is shrouded in the dim veils of antiquity. The records of India show that the plant was grown, and its fibre utilized, from the earlier times. The Phoeuecians, and the He brews are known to have ifiade cotton clothing, and later the art was transmit ted by them to the Greeks and Romans. The vague annals of China indicate a familiarity with this plant and its value extending hack to the remote past and the same is true of Japan. American Aztecs Worked Textiles. Cortez found a flourishing textile in dustry among the Azt«cs in 1519. ana in Peru Pixnrro found cotton garments said to antedate the civilization of the Incas. Again early Portuguese chroni cles relate the discovery of native cotton in Brazil. The Ei.'st Virginia Cotton. The Arabs and Saracens were largely responsible for the introduction of the textile industry to Western Europe in the ninth century, but it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth cen tury that any great progress was made. During this time the British began to attempt the cultivation of, cotton in their colonies and it was about 1600 when the first Virginia plantations were be gun. Since that time the United Slates has forged ahead until at present it grows over three-fifths of the world’s crop. > The cnltivation of cotton in Egypt was begun about 1821, American Sen Island seeds being imported at that time. The fertive alluvial soil of the Nile delta was found particularly adapted to this use. and extensive irrigation later expanded ( the area. The construction of the Great Assouan Dam late in the nine ' teenth century gave a tremendous im petus to the industry. Egyptian, cotton |is mostly of the long staple variety, the best known as Sakellarides, averaging an inch and three quarters. The 1919 , crop consisted sixty per cent, of this variety, the remainder being composed of Ashmouni, Mltafi, Abassi. and other kind*, roughly classed as Upper Egypt ian* ) . < , , cotton culture in India, is perhaps THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE—FAIR AND INDUSTRIAL EDITION IMMS the oldest of all. bnt Indian cotton is of the short staple variety, and can only be used by certain manufacturers most of which are located in Japan and Ger many. About twenty-five million acres are said to be under cultivation, but sia tisties are very meagre. t’liinese Cotton Is Harsh. China has long been a large grower of cotton, but the native species are of a harsh, short fibre. Korea and the Yank tze and Wei basins are the chief sources, and American cotton has recently been introduced in the southern provinces. , Russia began to raise American cot ton on a large scale in Turkestan, only some fifteen years ago. and bids fair to become a large producer. The plant is indigenous (o almost nil the Central and South American countries, and particu larly in Mexico, Brazil and Peru, it has great potentialities, Peru lias two kinds of native cotton, known as the rough and tlie smooth varieties. The former is of a very long and tough fibre and is valuable because it can be blended with wool. The greatest part of-the crop consists of the Upland variety, although as we have noted, there is a small but import ant crop of Sea Island in the Southern [Atlantic States. Another has recently been introduced in Arizona, and the al luvial soil of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana lias produced still other desir able species locally known as "Rivers.” and “Benders.” . History of Cotton Manufacture in the United States. “Mitch lias been written on the -sub ject of the textile industry and perhaps even more still remains to be said. It is not tile object of this brief survey to pre sent a complete picture of all the stages of manufacture, but rather to place brief ly before the render of necessarily kal eidoscopic view of the various processes. In a pamphlet,; ‘Woo! and Wool Manu facture.’ published in June. 1920, by the First National Bank of Boston, spinning and weaving were discussed at somewhat greater length than will be possible in these pages, where we shall concern our selves more with those features of cot ton manufacture which arc unlike its sister industry. America’s First Cotton Mill. Although the first cotton mill in the United States was founded in Rhode Is land by Samuel Slater in 1790. Whit ney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793 marked the real beginning of the cotton growing and manufacturing industries in this country, because it solved the hither to vexatious problem of separating the fibre from the seed. Nevertheless, until the war of 1812, this country exported almost all of it* cotton to Great Britain, and imported from there its cotton goods. The war stimulated the textile industry for two reasohs: first because no Brit ish goods were’ available; and second, be cause it brought about the transference of New England capital from ships and commerce to home manufacturing indus tries. The census figure* for 1805 show 4.500 spindles in the country; in 1825 there were 800,000. Progress by Inventions. Various inventions, notably Lowell’s power look in 1814, and .Tenck’s ring spindle in 1830, made it possible for the New England manufacturer to compete with the skilled labor of England ami up io the time of the Civil War the in dustry made rapid strides. In 1821 795 establishments with 1,201.000 spindles used 77.800.000 pounds of cotton and manufactured .$32,000,000 worth of goods. Thirty years later there were 1091 mills with 5.200,000 spindles us ing ■ 422.700,000 pounds of cotton ami making a product worth $115,700,000. At this time 570 of the mills were in New England, 340 in the middle Atlan tic States and 159 ill the South, and 22 in Western states. The New England mills, however, averaged twice as many spindles as the. others, and Massachu setts and Rhode Island alone contained 48 per cent, of the total. j- Home industries at this time supplied most of the coarse drills and sheetings, while tlie tine goods were imported from England. There was a small export trade of coarse goods to Asia. The civil war cut off the industrial centers from their raw material so that for five years no progress was made, and when normal life was resumed, a new tendency toward concentration became manifest. From then on the number of plants decreased ad the individual establishment \grew larger, so that in 1880 there were fpwer mills and four and one-half times as many spindles ns twenty years before. Yankees Forsake New England. While we shall discuss the geographi cal distribution of the industry but briefly, it is worthy of note here that the feature of the period beginning about 1880 and extending to the present time was tlie gradual growth of the spinning and weaving industry in the South. The social and economic system in the South ern states before the abolition of slav ery made those states entirely agrarian, but as soon us a recovery from the war was, accomplished, manufacturing, and particularly cotton manufacturing, grew lip surprisingly fast. The Y’ankees of New England foresaw the need to build mills in the South where cotton grows and get away from long, costly freight hauls’. Sixty per cent, of the increase from 1880 to 1910 was in the South. Figure* Which Tell a Story’ of Progress. From other sourees the information is gained that the South now has about fif teen hundred mills with half ir billion of investment. 20,000,000 spindles and 400,000 looms in operation. It is com ing into, its own. John F. Street & Company. Providence R. 1., have been appointed selling agents for the Roxboro Cotton mills, Roxboro, N. C., which manufacture 8s nnd 30s carded cotton yarns. It is understood that the Roxboro management is plan ning to install 5,600 new spindles with complete preparatory aud finishing ma chinery, replacing considerable old equip ment by improved types of machines. The Williamston, S. C.. Mills have awarded a contract for the construction of a new one-story school buildiing and auditorium for mill operatives, estimated to coat about 922,000. National Lumber Co. Largest in County The National Lumber Company is the largest building material supply house in the county, with trade connections extending away north into tlie New Eng land states and doing a large business throughout the Carolines. Organized in 1910 by G. S. Kluttz and J. A. Can non, they were joined a few years later by W, H. Gibson, the three owning all of ■the stock. Mr. Kluttz is president; Mr. Gibson vice president and Mr. Cannon secretary-treasurer and general manager. Tlie company has furnished the material for 'practically all the important build ings which have been erected since its organization 13 years ago and are known far and Wide in building trade circles. A complete line of building material, in cluding anything from roof to cellar, shingles, laths, floorings, ceiling, siding, mouldings, plaster, lime, cement, etc., is carried, and the company ships many thousands of dollars worth of material to the New England States. Sheet rock, said to be cheaper than ceiling or plas ter and better than either is another line the company distributes. King Tut Service Depot Tapks Up The King Tut Service Station, Inc., is a new enterprise composed of Con cord folks who felt the need of service vice stations that give service. At pres ent they have one station completed on the National Highway around the bend below the Southern station, which is equipped with the very best service equipment possible to buy. They have a fine brick building with all conveniences for tourists such as ladies’ rest room, shower bath, comfortable rocking chairs nnd music. They carry a complete line of tires, accessories and refreshments. They give night hawk service, keeping open till everybody is home. Two more stations are under construction and promise to give just as good service. They have an 18.000 gallon gas storage tank and buy gasoline in <;ar lots arid owif their own service truck. The slo gan of King Tut Service Station is "Drop in nnd get tanked up” and as an auxiliary slogan “Stick to the Standard” as they sell Standard Oil products. Concord Bakery Has Record of Advance Starting with a capital of SSO, 23 years ago, G. T. Barnhardt, owner of the Con cord Steam Bakery, is able to look back to the first few weeks of his business life when 95 loaves of bread retailing for $4.75, was a big week's turnover, and compare that result with his present bus iness which produced over 15,000 loaves of bread weekly, not to mention many pies, cakes and pastries. Born in Stanly county he came to Con cord as a boy in 1895 and worked at odd jobs, finally starting in the bakery | business in 1910. With his capital of SSO he bought flour, etc., and rented ev erything else. It was a hard road for everyone did their own baking in those days, but gradually the public came to appreciate the convenience of having its baking done, and the”fngh quality of Mr. Biirnhardt's bread and the business pros pered. At that! time it was known as the City Bakery. Gradually business expanded and machinery was added, un til in 1910 the present home of tlie bus iness at 80 W. Corbin street was built —a two-story brick structure with base ment and concrete floor equipped with three ovens and nine bread making ma chines. The building and plant is worth about $25,000. In addition Mr. Barn hardt owns his own home anil eight pieces of real estate in Concord. He is a dea con in the Missionary Baptist Church, a Knight of Pythias, a Woodman of the World anil a member of the Merchants Association. John R. Query Has Many Big Contracts Within a few months from the time lie finished his apprenticeship with the late D. A. Caldwell, contractor, John R. Query was contracting for himself. His first contract was to build the Meth odist Church parsonage at West Depot street in 1808. That gave him his start,- and he has been pushing forward ever since with the ups and downs incidental to the risks of contracting business, but even so generally ending up at the end of the year on top of the heap. A reputa tion for knowing his business and being reliable brought Mr. Query contract af ter contract and his business gradually expanded until today he is one of the best known contractors in this part of the state and has to his credit much im portant work of which the following are some examples: $-10,000 school building for the Jackson Training school; 9 cot tages costing SIB,OOO each for the Jack , son Training School and the following buildings for the same state institution: dairy barn. $10,000; grainery, $8,000; bakery and laundry, $10,000; storage room, $6,000; stone memorial bridge, $3,- 1500: stone pavilion, $3,750; Cannon me morial building $42,000; C. E. Boger ; residence $7,000; W, W. Johnson resi jdence $3,500. Other contracts were the Methodist Church at Rocky Ridge, sll,- 1000; warehouse for the Kerr Bleaching | Mill, 60x120 with wing 60x60, of four | stories of brick, $60,000; addition to two schools last year .costing $30,000, and the Forest Hill Methodist Church cost ing $20,000, on which he superintended the work. Contracts underway at pres ent include the city high school; the new colored school and the business building for Dr. King to cost $25,000. Mr. Query is a staunch member of the Methodist Church and in a recent ; building campaign is«believed to have contributed the sum of $1325 towards the fund. He is a Mason, a mighty hard worker, is married and has four children —all boys. I : Coley Shoe Shop Is j Giving Good Service The Coley Shoe Shop at 206 W. Depot street, is an example of convenient ser vice as given by J. M. Coley, the owner. The business was established three years ago and now has a plant and stock val ued at about $2,500. For six years prior to starting in business for hlmnelf he was a machinist. He was born in Ca tawba county; attends tbs Baptist PAGE TWENTY-THREE WELCOME TO THE FAIR Church; is a member of the American Legion. He is married with one child. Jones and Crooks Sell General Oerchandise Jones and Crooks, general merchants at 156-8 McGill street. Concord, estab lished their business in October, 191!), when they bought the business of'the C. A._Dry Company. Premises of brick. 46 x 75 feet, house the business which spe cializes in groceries, but carries a well assorted stock of general merchandise and has a large circle of patrons. J. Luther Jones was a salesman in the former C. A. Dry Company for 25 years and with L. R. Crooks, who was an overseer at the Roberta Mills for two years, bought she business in October, 1919. Mr. Jones was born in Iredell county. He is a member of the Baptist church; is married with 4 children. He is * a member of the Merchants Association. 1., R. Crooks attends the Presbyterian Church. He is married with two chil dren. Niblock Tinsmith Shop Busy Place When F. C. Niblock four years ago de cided to start a tinsmith shop he resolv ed to secure the best man to take charge of it be could find, who was also a prac tical tinsmith, and accordingly engag ed M. L. Eudy, who had the reputation of being one of the most efficient tin smiths in the state. The dependable work of Mr. Eudy backed by the high quality of materials used and the repu tation of F. C. Niblnck as an honorable business men, has caused the tinshop to prosper and grow, until today five men are being worked and are kept busy the year round on new installations and repairs. The shop does all sorts of metal work including roofing and skylights, installs and deals in the well known Caloric fur naces, and does a general tinsmith shop business, making a point of giving prompt service. Corl Motor Co. Selling Nash Cars George F. Corl is president nnd man ager of the Corl Motor Company which he founded four years ago, and is ex clusive agent in Cabarrus county for the distribution of Nash fours and sixes. In addition he handles accessories and Fisk and Pennsylvania tires, carrying a stock of about $15,000 in u two-story brick building 50x180 feet. Mr. Corl was in the livestock business with M. J. Corl & Son for many years. He attends the First Presbyterian Church. M. C. Corl is also an active member of the firm. The Carlton Tarn Mills, Inc., of Cher ryville, N. 0., are completing the in stallation of additional cards, spinning and spooling frames. This new fine yarn mill is also beautifying its- surroundings by . grading embankments and planting flowers and shrubs. The mill, which was completed in the spring after being erected in. record time, has been operat led steadily at capacity.
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