PAGE SIX
B Historical Sketch of the
Hr Foundation of Concord
Wl»r Host. April 23, 1908.
thrf" year 1792, by act of the
■mural Assembly of North Carolina,
Uf!flHr N>lM> ** county was divided and
uHhe northeastern section named Ca
p. Barms, iff honor of Stephen Cabarrus,
>'|jdKtoative.of France, but who lived in
IliflP State and represented the conn-
PUP" of Chowan for several terms in the
The first county court
t the house of Robert Rus
4*B on the third Monday in January,
f h e following .iustices: Rob
j|Swt Harms, senior, Robert Harris,
|Hte, William Scott, John Allison, Ed-
Giles, Daniel Jarratt and Jos
;Kili Shinn.
| , EjThe county government was then
there organized with Archibald
| Bjiouston, Jr., sheriff; John Simianer
| Benjamin Shinn, straymaster;
[■Hugti Rodgers, entry taker; Zachcus
purveyor: William Alcxand-
Htr,. attonaey : Nathaniel Giles, regis-
John Plyler, county trustee.
same act of the assembly which
the county appointed Paul
S HpW John Lippard, Joseph
IBHEbinn. [Daniel Jarratt. Alexander
James Bradshaw, James
Znchaus Wilson, Archibald
Benjamin Patton and Rob-
Smith commissioners “to fix on
most central place in the county
the purpose of erecting a court
ppson and stocks.”
RBytrchibald Houston, Martin Phifer.
Hh Sftans, Daniel Jarratt and
Musters were authorized to
fifty-acres of land and contract
workmen for the ereeuon of
necessary buildings “as soon as |
commissioners shall fix on the*
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THE educational opportunities for the boys and girls of
the South are keeping pace with the leadership of the
I South in the economic progress of the Nation. This is seen
in the following facts:
■ In the last twelve years more attended school, while the average
than $125,000,000 has been spent for the nation as a whole was
for the construction of new school 72.4 per cent But in 1922, the
■ buildings in the states of the South latest year for which complete
I served by the Southern. figures are available, 81.4 per cent
H 1 „ In 1900 there were less than «* the cMdren “ the statea <*
Wm - 73,000 school teachers in the the the South '
Wm, 1 states of the South served by the attended school, while the
I 1 Southern, and the appropriation avera * e for thfe Mtk)n 33 a wbole
I p for education amounted to only ip was 81,2 cent ‘
I | _ cents per person living in these v The to the educational
■ states. In 1922 the appropriation facilitiea of the South, as well as
I was $6-85 P«- person, and the the number of children that can
I number of trained teachers had adv antage of them, is one of
■ increased to 139,309. the fortunate and direct results of
1 Inl9ooonly 64.8 per cent of the chiL the prosperity that has come to
■ dren of school age in these states the South.
K B ... The Southern Railway System has contributed to the
■ prosperity of the South, as a tax-payer, as a large on- m
E player of men and women—and as die transportation
K agency which carries Southern commerce to and from
; HB||| world markets, regularly, dependably mod economically.
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I %e Southern saveF&niothe South
. center.”
i But in what particular locality in
s the center of the county were the
, fifty acres to be bought on which to
I build the town?
There was a disagreement oxi this
1 point. It is not known whether it
1 was among the commissioners only or
whether the people of the county took
sides in the matter, but disagreement
; there was. One party desired to lo
cate the town on what is familiarly
known as the Pemberton White place
or Cook's Crossing; the other party
was equally desirous of buying the
land from Billy White, which after
ward wae owned by the late Jacob
Dove.
There was mutual concession, mid
way ground was selected, and in rec
ognition of this amicable agreement
the town was called Concord. This
location of the seat of county govern- (
ment has never been a cause of dis
satisfaction except in the survey of
the' North Carolina railroad. The
citizens of the town and the railroad
authorities had & Sharp contention
about the line running so far from
the center of business.
The first court house was a wood
en building of ona story and was
erected on the spot where Corbin
Street , crosses Union Street. People
moved in from the county, built homes
«nd began business in the town of
Concord, The town was not iifcor
yorated and no town officers were
elected until 1851—58 years later,
and the citizens of the little village
lived, as once in ages gone by in the
land of Israel, ‘‘every man did that
| which was right in his own eyes.”
' Paul Barringer opened a mercan-
tile eatabliahment on Hudgin’a ' cor
ner, Joseph Young, another store,
[ with R. W. Allison as clerk, on the
Allison corner, and where the Luth
eran Church stands, Jack Phifer kept
a store. Where did these merchants
| buy their stocks of merchandise, and
5 how did they get them to Concord?
* For there was not a railroad in ths
county. They bought their goods in
) Philadelphia, shipped them to
: Charleston and Cheraw, sometime; to
• Fayetteville, and brought them up
: from these towns in wagons. These
: merchants, however, often bought,
■ their goods directly from firms in
Charleston. The post office was kept
where John Patterson lives nearly op-1
posite Corbin School. Tom Hen- 1
derson was postmaster and you |
paid 10 and 25 cents on yonr letter, j
according to the distance it had toj
go, and you had no envelope either.
The postmaster lived in the house so I
long occupied by Mrs. Mary Cross,
and between the two, lived Alfred!
Area, who kept a hatmaking estab-1
I lishment in the rear of his home.'
On the present court house lot, George I
Kluttz kept a hotel and where the!
city hall stands another public house!
was kept by the Mahan.family. Long!
after the father and mother had
passed from earth, the two Mahan 1
sisters with a brother-in-law, Daniel j
Coleman, lived in the old home and 1
conducted a boarding house. And
hero was the finest garden in town,
the earliest lettuce, pens and beans
grew in the beds of rich mold, bor
dered by boxwood' bashes, big as flour
barrels, which overhung the walks.,
At a later date, Dr. K. P, Harris and I
Majaj- Robert Foard opened hotels
which for many years were the only j
stopping places in Concord forth
traveling public.
The first jail was built on the old :
K. P. Harris lot, now site of Pearl!
THE CON CORD |)AILY TRIBUNE
■ Drug Company, and when it was
> torn 'down, Dr. Harris bought the
* brick wails and erected the “brick,
■ row, now site of Concord Furniture
: Co. and Cabarrus Savings Bank.
1 The street leading north out of
I town turned a sharp curve nt Caleb
1 Phifer’s honse, ran through the Ek F.
i Cannon lot, on behind the Alexander
Rjissell house (W. J. Hill’s home)
1 and up by the cotton factory. The
Russell family had a large tract of
1 land in that part of town; their
ownership is marked yet by their pri
i vate burying ground, and their house
was the last one on that end of the
i street. Between it and the factory
I was an old field of broomsedge and
| scrubby pines, fenced in and used as
I a muster ground for the annual gath
i ering of the State militia,
j In 1830, out on the Beattie's Ford
j road, near town, brick were made to
J build the first “cotton factory.” The
i building was completed in the next
j year, 1840, and officers elected to con
! duct the business as follows ; ' Paul
! Barringer, president; K. P. Harris,
1 secretary and treasurer; George
j Barnhardt, Christopher Melchor, John
;B. Moss and John F. Phifer, direc
; tors. Mr. Jenks, superintendent for
, a short time, was succeeded by John
McDonald, who continued in that of-
I fiee until he bought the factory in
1867. The machinery in this mill
was an object of curiosity and peo
ple came from a distance of 75 miles
in all the country around just to see
the wonderful inventions in opera
tion.
| Dr. Houston's house is one of the
' first buildings in Concord. A grand
ball was given there in January 1827,
j In celebration of the battle of New
| Orleans. Jan. 8, 1815—and in 1865
j Jefferson Day's, retreating south from
I Richmond, was entertained one night
in April by Mr. and Mrs. Victor C.
Barringer, whose home it then was.
What a grand supper Mrs. Barringer
did have for the Seeing President and
his staff!
Concord also has the honor of hav
ing one of her citizens, Hon Daniel
I M. Barringer, elected to Congress, as
a member of the House of Represen
i tatives for the five sessions, from 1825
jto 1835. In 1804, the Presbyterians
built a log house church on the
j grounds where the second, a brick
building, is still standing, now occu
pied by the Observer Printing Co.
Late in the history or the town,
the Methodist congregation built a
church and parsonage on Church
Street: the Lutheran congregation
erected a large church in a fine grove
on Corbin St. None of these churches I
had a bell, until 1854, when Major
Yorke was commissioned to buy one
for each congregation.
The session house of the Presby-'
terian Church was the village school
house until another was built on the
lot where Mr. Sandy Smith lived.
Now Y. XI. C. A.
Dr. Charles Fox. later of Charlotte,
was one of the first physicians of
Concord and lived where Mr. Zeb
Morris has built his home. It is
probable that Dr. Charles Harris, the
celebrated doctor of the Poplar Tent!
neighborhood* wan often called to!
Concord, as his ‘reputation gave him i
an extensive practice.
In 1851, the town woke up and -
had itself incorporated by net of Gen- j
eral Assembly. This same act de- )
creed that the board of commissioners (
for the town of Concord should be t
composed of intendant of police and t
four commissioners, and the officers ,
appointed by this last were: Josiah j
L. Bundy, Alfred Brown, William ]
Frew, Daniel M. Wagoner and Ran- j
som Winecoff. ,
Josiah L. Bundy, as the first named
in the act. was intendant of po’ice. •
and vested with the same authority,
duties and emoluments as is given to
the same official under the title of ■
mayor.
The official head of the board of
commissioners held office under the
name of intendant of police until
1873. when it was changed, by act of .
Legislature, to mayor.
The corporation line ran one-fourth
of a mile south from the crossing of !
Corbin and Union streets, and north ■
to the sac tory line; one fourth of a '
mile east and west from Union Street,
making the ton’ll one mile and one
eighth long and one-half mile wide, i
These limits were extended by the
Legislature of 1887. and again in j !
1889 to its present boundaries. How j 1
old is the town? One hundred and,’
fifteen years old. Think back a ceti- 1
tury on the little cluster of houses,!
scattered nlong two streets! How
silent and oppressively quiet the vil- j
lage must have been—no roar of rail
road or whistle of cotton mill; how
dark at night when light was furnished
by candles only, and not a match in
North America. In this same year
of 1793. Eli Withney invented the
cotton gin. Richard Dobbs Spaight
was governor cf North Carolina. The
cornerstone for the first building for I
the University nt Chapel Hill was \
laid and in the next year, 1794. the j
Legislature convened in Raleigh tor ]
the first time, and, in the newly com
pleted State House. George Wash
ington was President of the United [
States and Philadelphia was the cap-;
ital.
George the Third was King of Eng-'
lapd; Napoleon Boanaparte was a
young man. 24 years old. and just
beginning his military career as an
officer of artillery in the French
army.
The horrors of the French Revolu
tion were alarming the nations of
Europe; King Louie XVI had been
dethroned, tried and condemned, and
in January beheaded at the guillotine
—his beautiful Queen imprisoned Ojj
ly to meet the same fate in the fol-!
lowing October.
The Rastile had been torn down,
but other prisons were crowded, with
the best and noblest of the land and
thousands were guillotined until Paris j
ran red with Mood.
But the broad Atlantic rolled be
tween the Old and New Worlds, and'
no epoch of those horrors disturbed the
village of Concord, that walked by
day and slept by night in peaceful
security.
“Time, like an ever-rolling fide,” I
has borne away the generation of a
century, and each generation in pass
ing has added improvement and im
portance to the town of Concord.'
The county seat now stands a bustl-
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handsome homes, large mercantile es
tablishments, fine churches and school
buildings adorn the streets, evidencing
the wealth, the culture, and the high
character of its citizens; and where
invested capital flourishes in every
manner of business and trade from
the peanut parcher to the cotton
mill.
THAT FUNDAMENTALIST
POWWOW
Much Intereset Being Shown in It
Throughout the State.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel
Raleigh. May 7.—Much unofficial
interest i« being shown in Raleigh
over the somewhat stormy and acri
monious Fundamentalist pow wow
held in Charlotte Tuesday and fol
lowing which two leading figures in
the “committee of 100” withdrew
from that organization.
Though none of the stttfc officials
would discuss the meeting in an of
ficial capacity and declined to be
quoted for publication, one or two
smiled broadly when the meeting was
mentioned and admitted that they had
read accounts of the session with in
terest, if not with amusement.
Almost without exception, they
agreed that several more meetings
such as the one held in Charlotte
would make the whole matter so ri
diculous that the likelihood of the
subject of evolution coming before
the next session of the General As
sembly for legislative action would
be highly improbable.
“The meeting in Charlotte is a
forceful illustration of what happens
j when an attempt is made to inoculate
| n religious issue into governmental
[affairs,” said one informally diseuss
| ing the session of the “committee of
1 100.” “The trouble seems to be that
| the Fundamentalists themselves are
I not agreed jpn just what they mean
by Fundamentalism and that there is
a wida difference of opinion among
themselves. It seems to me that there
should be a clearer deliniation of their
own staud on what Fundamentalism
consists of before an attempt should
be made to legislate it for the entl%
state. Certainly, there are now suG
fieient regulatory channels in the de
partment of education to make aura
that no orthodox ideas are taught in
the public schools of the state, so that
it is mot necessary to enact special
legislation along this line.”
j The majority of those questioned,
! however, realized the seriousness of
' the situation and the sincerity of pur-
I pose of those fostering the movement.
With one accord, they deplored any
tendency from any source to under
mine any of the fundamental teach
ings of the Bible, but at the same
time, saw danger in any too radical
move to put a muzzle on any man’s
I mind through legislation.
I Opinion on the matter was more
freely given by those in no way con
nected with the State government and
, while many of thea* were not evolu
’ tionists in any seme of the word,
most of them deplored the trend mat
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tors had taken at the Charlotte meet
ing and t*ae lack of unanimity shown
among the so-called Fundamental
ist* there. Most of them applauded
the action of Dr. A. A. McGeachy,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Charlotte, and of W. E.
Price, secretary of the committee of
100, a Presbyterian elder, also of
Charlotte, in withdrawing from the
committee, and their scoring of the
"lack of tolerance" In the meeting.
Their withdrawal was interpreted
here not so much as meaning that
they were out of sympathy with the
aims of the Fundamentalists as that
they disagreed with the methods be
ing used and advocated. In fact,
that seems to be the nub of the whole
situation, according to those most in
terested in the matter. One “wing"
of fundamentalism seems to favor let
ting the matted adjust itself through
channels already created and at hand,
while the more extreme "wing’’ de
sire to invoke legislative aid to cor
rect the condition,
A large number of people, howev
er. who are not directly aligned with
either side in the eontroversay and
who are familiar with the situation
created in Tennessee by its so-called
“Anti-ev«tntititi law" are inclined to
believe that an ant hill is being mag
nified into-a mountain and that the!
question is not so important After
The Fundamental Importance of j
Home Owners|iip.
Editor’ Clarence Poe, in The Progrcs-1
sive Fanner.
I believe that our county agents !
and everybody else ought to carry on j
a campaign for home ownership in
the South because it is the basis of
any worthy rural civilization. j>jext
to war, pestilence and famine, as
Dr, Thomas X. Carver has aaid, the
worst thing that can happen to a
rural community is absentee land
lordism. A really strong and happy
rural community muni be one where
the land is farmed by men who own
and love it and who think of farming
it not only through their own life
times but of bonding it down to
sons and their sons’ sons,
I growing in fertility and beauty by
the labors of each year and each
generation, and hallowed byall the
sentiments pf family affection and
pride. The time has now come when
we must get past the roving, pvoneer
stage of American life when the
farmer could clear one farm, im
poverish it, and move on to another;
there are no more new lands to con
quer and the farmer of today should
say at his farm not merely that “It
is my home,” but also that “It is
our family home,” something to ha
kept by the family through the years
and the generations.
Judge—So yon claim you robbed
th « restaurant because you were
| starving. Why didn’t yon take some
■ thing to eat instead of looting the cash
I register?
Prisoner—l’m a proud man, yeri
, honor, an’ I makes it a rule to pay
for what I eat.’’ j
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OUR LONDON STYLE LETTER
Popularity of checked ma- 1
teriaU shown by the I
men who frequent
exclusive clubs
Bx Our London Style
Observer
T ONDON—Two or three nights
\-j ago, in the Ambassador
Club, London, a new supper
elub frequented by the jennesse
doree, I was chatting to a bach
elor party consisting of six men,
three Americans, two English
and one French. The English
men suggested that the present
day young man waa lacking in
the good manners, and consid
eration for women and their
elders, that marked the Victo
rian and Edwardian period.
! Clothes and food were also
| discussed. The unusual waist
coat the Prince of Wales was
! wearing that night at the Club
! groused comment. It had a
[ V-opening, and the lapel was
[finished with “V M points up
side down.
I recently noticed His Boyal
Highness drinking old brandy
out of sne of those large balloon
glasses. My American friend
wondered why these glasses,
large enough to hold a pint,
contained only abont half an
Inch of the liqueur. The reason
Is that, to get thefeal aroma
of a good brandy, yOu must
have a very large glass.
Boutonnieres were seen in
profusion, the red carnation
predominating. I wondered how
many men know the origin of
the buttonhole in the lapel. At
H state gathering, Queen Vic
toria, then quite a girl, plucked
a flower from her bouquet, and
presented it to Prince Albert,
who afterwards became her
husband. The prince, seeing a
highlander standing by, in fuH
kit, borrowed his dagger and
slit a small hole id the lapel of
his jacket The London tailors
took Ut> tk» fcW urith
our ram nos. « get results
Tuesday, May 11, 1926
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that our jackets have earned
the buttonhole ever since.
During the past few weeks
at many outdoor functions I
have noted the popularity of
checked materials. Glenurqu
hart, hound’a tooth, sheperd’a
and ia fact "any old kind of
check," to use a common ex
pression, are in vogue. At three
race meetings, I saw Lord
’ Londesborough wearing a rough
; tweed suit, the cheok formed
from a two and three weave.
Checked overcoats are also
coming forward; the Prince of
Wales has given ns a lead by
’ wearing brown and white, black
, and white, and cedartood and
; white, checks. They are just
. Raglan slip-on coats, three but
' tons on the front, that come
i through, and a double-breasted
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