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■pXJLEQE CLASS
R J TRAPPED IN' MINE!
Hpmnorlir Mine llr’d Student Cap- j
I P titej For Four Hours.
KtCaleigh JjS'ews & Observer.
the Carolina |
■Soal Mi »e yrhere tile disaster occur- j
Kjx-d last »ycar that caused the deaths
Kofi over *t>o persons, William Battle j
RC’obb. ] pfossor of geology at State.
BSgoiflege. accompanied by <-rx students,}
RVas sue jenly entimbed when a car
Eeouplinf * broke and a loaded ear
graced b Jrk. shattered a p:wi that
f held uj: .a part ofthe ceiling and
Rocked! the passage a distance of 20
t- The 1 Jude who accompanied Pro
fessor 1 obb and his entombed party
i was ablft 50 eotablisu telephone com
i municattoas with the outside, and
'was informed that it might be an
. hour. sC day or a week before they
could bfc! rescued. After four hours;
of hard work, however, n passage j
Enlarge epnugh to crawl through was
[ finisheijj'and the badly seared party
! was reigned from their prison over
500 below the surface.
R'The nnsnection of the Carolina}
t'Jnine by Professor Cobb and 'he stu-,
g-denis \ffts a part of a field inspecting
f trip. Tpe party had visited the Cmn
| nock Minhef re moving on to
their exciting experience in tiie Caro
f lina m Je. at Coal (Hen.
• It Is Not the Cost.
| Xew.spaiiers favorable to the admin- i
Plistratiog are complaining about the i
| cost oCf«investigat ions into political 1
| wrong-doing. Putting aside the fact 1
S. that itfcs not an attitude which the
; ndminiw'ation ran its,-If gracefully 1
take, tCere is something to be said,
i about |hr otlier fact that investiga
t tioiis tiake little or no difference. If J
c all theSploseal wrong-doing of Ameri-
F can ofljrials during the last war and
: duringcyhe Harding administration
l Was tofjjbe examined and exposed, it
fi wotthl !fcc the Work of one or two
generations : both prosecutors and cttl-
I'prits wfhild be moldering in the grave
1 before the job was fairly begun. And
[ as to pie public, it would he weary
[ long wore any question had been 1
[ finally •determined. That is Pile dis
?eonragiyg thing about investigations, j
They be worth ail they cost if
; they 14d to such a wall of public
sentimgut that repetition of the crime ;
would roe imp ssible in future. But
apparently that desirable end is to be
: attained another way.
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I THE OLDEST INDIAN
I CONFEDERATION
E mat now remains of the once
pShatons Iroquois Confederacy, com
posed of six tribes—the Mohawks,
Senecas, Cayugas, Oneidas, Tuscara
was and Onadagas, are living on Reser
vations in the State of New York.
Their “medicine men” made a crude
1 tonic of the native roots and herba,
and fifty years ago Dr. R. V., Pierce,
discovered a scientific way of com
bining these herbs into a most pala
table tonic and blood purifier, which
[ ba& become famous as Dr. Pierce’s
| jSoldea Medical Discovery.
■ You can’t
■ \ feel so good
I **■ but what
KL Vtl will make you I
y feel better. 1
Gibson Drug Store.
j Bubbling Over—a Favorite
BUBBLING OVEKo Jf » ’ jf
i i ■———
Louisville. May 6.—Bubbling Over, by virtue of a sensational victory j
in the Preparation Purse at Lexington the other day. is considered just as
good a bet. if not more so, than the widely heralded Pompey. The stellar
showing boosted Bubbling Oven's stock considerably as a Derby favorite.
Bubbling Over is from the celebrated Bradley Stables. And that in itself
means quite a bir. This son of North Star 111 and Beaming Beauty won
several important starts in 1925, among them tin* Champagne Stakes at ■
Belmont and the Nursery Handicap. Bubbling Over is sure to be well |
backed when the contenders go to the post.
Remarried After 32 Years
fhirty-two years ago Charles and Stella Zeuch of St Louts were divorced.
Cach married and a few years ago the second mate of each one died Now. J
onely in their old age. they have remarried and are going on their aeo
bqmwaoaa He w
Crowning the Blossom Queen
% * *
AT - X) 7> .. , NLA. Washington Bureau
. ‘ , l >r:(J ses was chosen queen < f the annual apple blossom festi
(, >nc ipqi*r a. This picture '■•hows her receiving her crown from
Governor Harry Byrd of Virginia.
Many Pick Pompey to Win
fli III!
By NEA Service
Louisville, May B.— With the with drawal of the crack Calaris, Pompey
has leaped to the front as a favorite in many racing quarters. Pompey,
owned by W. R. Coe, was one of the big winners on the tracks in 1925.
He won the East View Stakes at Em pire City, the Belmont Futurity, Sara
| toga Hopeful and United States Hotel stakes, among others. Pompey is
certain to command much respect. -
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
The Early History of Cabarrus County
By Miss Mary King. April 9, 1908
Two hundred years ago all the
country from the Dan to the Catawba
was wild, fertile prairie land. Where
now there are great forests, then not
a shrub was to be seen.
History does not tell us exactly
when the cabins of the white men
■ first began to supplant the wigwams
Jof the Indians. Neither do the dates 1
of the land patents mark the time of
I emigration, as in some cases, the
; lands were occupied a long period
before grants were made and in oth
ers. patents were granted before emi- j
gration.
But we know that before 1740 there
| were cabins scattered along the Ca-1
I tawba, the Hyco, Eno and Haw riv-1
I ers.
| The inviting nature of the climate. |
the soil, the abundance of game, the
I good pasture, and the comparative!
quietness of the Catawba Indians; in
comparison with Virginia’s severe
religious laws, induced many pioneers
to seek homes in the Carolinas.
; The first settlers here were Scotch
■ Irish Presbyterians. Most of them
j came from Pennsylvania, some emi-
I grated from Charleston and Mary
land where they had first landed.
The two streams of emigration met
and formed colonies in the Carolina®.
A brief review of the settling of
the counties will give a definite idea
, of the increase of emigration.
Bladen county was taken from
New Hanover in 17113; in 1749 An
son was set off from Bladen. The
two counties. Anson and Granville,
embraced all the western part of the
, state in 1749. Mecklenburg was set
off from Anson in 17t»2: Rowan from
Anson in 1753; Cabarrus from Meck
lenburg in 1792.
By 1745 the settlements in what
are now Mecklenburg and Cabarrus
were numerous and by 1750, the set
tlements grew dense for a frontier,
arid formed themselves iuto congre
gations.
| Reeky River was probably the first)
one f. l ined, with Sugar Creek close- [
ily following. Sugar Creek was first I
• called by the Indian name “Sugaw.” j
| Poplar Tent was another Scotch-j
Irish settlement on the outskirts of i
j Rocky River. However. Poplar Tent
j had a separate congregation. They
called their settlement Poplar Tent
! because a tent was used for a church
, for a long time.
About five years later a colony of
Germans came from Pennsylvania
and settled near their Scotdi-Irish
* friend®. They had heard good re-
I ports from the Scitch-Irish of this
i new wilderness and they journeyed
southward in companies. They
settled on what is now known as
Dutch Buffalo Creek in the eastern
part of Cabarrus county. They built
cabins and then a church and a
schoolhouse.
The Germans, like the Scotch Trish.
came in a company, with leaded
wagons, driving their cattle, sheep
and hogs before them. They formed
a colony, and they were industrious
farmers and soon had an abundance
of everything.
Some of the names of the first
settlers in Cabarrus have been pre
served and their descendants are
among u® today. Among the Scotdi-
Irish we find that Col. Bob Harris,
his brother, Sam Harris, William
White and brothers. James and Ar
chibald ; David Caldwell and Adam
Alexander. Others, came but their
names are not mentioned with the
exception of the Morrison brothers,
who came direct from Scotland, after
a brief sojourn in Pennsylvania.
Among the Germans the name Barring
er was prominent. Blaekwelder,
Cline. Kluttz and many others are
mentioned.
During the Revolutionary War a
number of Hessian soldiers deserted
at the siege of Savannah, and came
north to this German settlement.
Here they intermarried and settled.
So we see that the western part of
what is now Cabarrus county was en
tirely Scotch-Irish and the eastern
part German.
The early colonial and Revolution
r.y history of Cabarrus is the history
of Mecklenburg, as Cabarrus was then [
a part of Mecklenburg.
Those were days of log cabins and
plain fare. But the people were a
dress-loving people and one young
man. a tailor from Pennsylvania.
John McKnitt Alexander, plied his
trade so well that he became one of the
richest men in the country around.
The trading was done mostly in
skins. Few of the people had much
money, and many had none. Skins
of deer and Buffalo were taken on
pack horses to Charleston and Phila- j
delphia
There were no places of amuse-'
ment and nearly all came to church, j
Some of the farmers came as far ns I
fifteen miles to services. In those ■
day® they had long sermons, usually !
two hours long; and there were al-!
ways two sermons, with an intermis- j
sion for lunch.
The first preacher at Rocky River
Mr. Alexander Craighead and he i
is said to have been the solitary min
ister between the Yadkin and Ca
tawba.
Foote says: “Craighead formed the
principles both civic and religious in
no measure of degree of a race of men
that feared God. feared not labor
and hardship, or the face of man, a
race that sought for freedom and
property in the wilderness; having
found them, rejoiced: race capable
of great excellence, mental and phys
ical, whose minds could conceive th<*
glorious idea of independence, and
whose convention announced to the
world in 1775, and whose hands sus
tained it in the trying scenes of the
Revolution.”
Charlotte was made the county
seat of Mecklenburg in 1762, and of
course our county seat until 1792.
History says that no part of North
Carolina was more forward in the
cause of liberty, than this immediate
section, now known as Cabarrus. At
the convention in Charlotte in May,
1775, when the Mecklenburg Declara
tion was declared and drawn up this
section of'the county was well repre
sented and joined heartily in the Dec
laration of Independence.
The Scotch-Irish were most loyal,
for in 1771, the Black Boys destroyed
Governor Tryoii’s ammunition. Phi-,
fer’s Hill, three miles west of Con
cord was the scene of the explosion,
Major .lames White, William and John
White, brothers, William White, a
cousin, lt"b Caruthers, Bob Davis,
| Ben Cochran and Jas. Ashmore and
Joshua Hadley were the nine Black
Boys.
i The ammunition was bound from
Charleston to Hillsboro, the capitol
of the State at that time. There
were three or four wagon loads of it.
IThe boys blackened themselves, took
Mr. White's horses, stove in the kegs,
made a train of powder, fired a pistol
I in it nnJ an explosion followed.
Governor Tryon offered rewards
for the capture of any of the Black
I Boys, and two members broke their
! solemn oath and confessed.
During the Revolutionary War, St.
Johns, as the Germans called their
colony, and Rocky Itiver contributed
many soldiers to the cause of liberty.
Although the settlements were not
attacked by the British they were an
nojfeil by the Tories. John Paul Bar
ringer trek the lend against the To
ries and one night he was dragged
from his bed and sent a prisoner to
Camden.
The Phifers, Whites, Harrises,
Alexanders, Morrisons and many
others fought for their country. Some
rose high in leadership and became
noted for bravery and daring.
After the Revolution the country
began to look ahead into tile future.
They wanted their children educated.
The attempts to found Queens Col
lege at Charlotte before the Revolu
tion had failed. History says that
the Scotch-Irish were largely instru
mental in founding the University
Davidson College was also founded
by the Scotch-Irish some 45 years
later. The Germans wanted their
children to be educated, too, and in
1773 they sent to Germany for a min
ister ami teacher. Both came.
The settlements grew more dense
and in 1792. Cabarrus was set off
from Mecklenburg. It was named
i in honor of Stephen Cabarrus, the
| speaker of the House of Commons,
i from Chowan county. There is framed
j in the court house here in Concord
i now, a letter from Cabarrus express
ing his gratitude for the honor con
ferred on him in the naming of the
new county Cabarrus. In 1793 Con
cord was laid off as the county seat.
The Germans wanted the county
seat at or near St. Johns, and the
Scotch-Irish at Rocky River. A com
mittee of prominent men. mostly jus
tices of the peace, chose the present
site and called it Concord. (Agree
ment).
It is said there were a shoe shop,
a blacksmith shop and a grog 6hop
to begin the town.
We must not fail to mention that
the discovery of Reed's gold mine in
1799 was ihe first gold discovered in
the Cnited States.
The first nugget was used for many
years to keep the door open. It was
picked up by a child in a creek. It
w4k finally sold for a “big price’* ae
the owner said, $3.50. It was the
of a small smoothing iron.
The mine yielded a large quantity
of gold. The largest nugget found
wai 28 pounds.
Another interesting fact is that
the first medical school in this pnrt
of the country was taught by Dr.
Chaa, Harris at his country place
about seven miles from Concord on
the Davidson road.
Dr. Harris was for a time the first
tutor at the University. He after
wards retired to his home and prac
ticed and taught medicine. He in
structed ninety-three young men.
The settlements in Cabarrus beeom- I
ing thicker, many of the settlers
emigrated to the west'. Some sought
the wilderness in Tennessee and Ken
tucky, and many went to Mississippi.
One company of fifteen families left
Bethel about 1849 for Mississippi.
It was a six weeks’ trip. Half of
the company decided to rest on Sun
day and the other half to keep trav
eling. The half that rested arrived
first and secured the first choice of
lands.
Cabarrus sent more than her share
i"f men to the War Between the
States. There were six companies
as follows:
Company H. Bth regiment, R. A.
Barringer, captain; Jonas Cook, first
lieutenant; H. C. McAllister, second
lieutenant: M. L. Earnhardt, third
leutenant.
Company F. 9th regiment, Rufus
Barringer captain; Jacob A. Suther,
first lieutenant; Milas Johnston, sec
ond lieutenant; Wiley A. Barringer, 1
. third lieutenant.
I Company A, ,20tli regiment. Nel
' son Slough, captain; C. F. Harris,
• first lieutenant; John C. Young, sec
! ond lieutenant: Lucius C. Bingham,
! third lieutenant.
| Company B, 20th regiment; James
!B. Atwell, captain: Caleb M. White,
j first lieutenant : Henry C. Harris,
| second lieutenant; Rieard R. Harris,
! third lieutenant.
! Company C. 33rd regiment, Jere-'
minh M. Kestler, captain; John A.
Gibson, first lieutenant, William A.
Patterson, second lieutenant; D, M.
Corzine, third lieutenant.
Company A. 02nd regiment, George
A. Propst, captain; John M. Alex
• finder, first lieutenant; Alexander F.
Hurley, second lieutenant; James M.
I Cook, third lieutenant.
; Fortunately Cabarrus was not in
• Sherman’s path and escaped the dev
astation of his army.
Many stragglers came through as
1 the Yankees were at Salisbury and
i also in Charlotte.
After Lee’s surrender the soldiers
• hurried home and began to work
anew the neglected farms. The same;
r work was going on all over the South. ;
! The reconstruction period was not
so horrible here in Cabarrus as in
i "tlier places. There were some few
> bands of the Ku Klux Klan, howev
> er, and things were usually kept
t quiet.
, Cabarrus is an agricultural county
- and today many of our most progper
i ous men are farmers. ' Some few
. live on their ancestral acres. Most
- do not
Cabarrus is prosperous. She raises
. cotton, corn, wheat and food supplies.
I She is full of good, solid, honest bus
-1 <• l.
Convicts Kill Guard, Escape Illinois Prison
mum mmm mm w^mrnmm HMI*»•*•*
f|gl|&&,- vlmre: '' ;
Thrso six convicts at the Illinois state prison. Joliet overpowered and killed „ „,^f K , A , Cl,; ? R<> K ' lreiul
to call a prison auto and open the Rates, and psed to freedom inter u - r * Kuard. forced another guard
chased them. They are. top row. left toright sever., members of a posse that
row, left to right: George Hizomex. Bernardo Bon and Charles Duchowski 8 " 0 " ‘ ' am ptahurski: bottom
burglary and murder. “ W DuChoyyski. All were sentenced from Chicago for
iness men.
There are good schoo!s in the coun
ty ams Concord has a large public
school system.
Concord is prosperous, too, and
with her mills she sends out to the
markets a large quantity of cotton
cloth.
Long may both Concord and Ca
barrus prosper.
Feed For the Working Mule.
Tait Butler, in The Progressive Far
mer.
A reader says he contemplates
feeding S pounds dampened cotton
seed hulls. Impound cottouseed meal, j
and 3 gallons of oats (12 pounds) a!
<lay to working mulen.aml wants our |
opinion of the feed. He quotes price ;
of feed as follows :
Corn. .$1.25 per husel. onts. 701
cents per bushel, cotton seed meal. 1
$35 per ton. cottonseed hulls. sls
per ton. timothy hay, S3O per ton,
alfalfa hay. $45 per ton.
It is a pity that a good worker I
ike a mule must be fed cottonseed
hulls when working, but with timothy I
hay at S3O per ton and alfalfa at
$45 per ton, we are inclined to use
the hulls and not feed more than G
or'B pounds a day. With this *mnll
anJbunt of low-graoe roughage, the
mules may not keep up on 1 pound
of cottonseed meal and 12 pounds of
oats.
Corn at $1.25 per bushel is cheap
er than oats at 70 cents. In fact,
one bushel of corn its equal to two
bushels of oats, hence corn at $125
is as cheap as oats at (>2 1-2 cents.
Therefore. vve advise feeding 0
l>ounds corn, 7 pounds oats, and I
pound of cottonseed meal a day.
The musk ox of Canada, upon
! scenting danger, form into line fac
ing their foe as quickly as would a
regiment of soldiers,nnd stand ready
for an attack.
I
Concerning Complaints
THERE are many more pleasant topics
to discuss with our customers —but we
. believe an occasional straightforward talk
on this one will do us all good.
We would rather have a complaint than a
customer who feels he has a grievance—
because in knowing about it lies our only
opportunity to set it straight.
If we make a mistake, we’ll admit and
rectify it. And if the trouble lies with some
unavoidable circumstance, we’ll give you
the “why” of it.
We modestly admit that our complaint
desk is not very busy. But we’re out to
) give unqualified satisfaction, so we want
you to understand our viewpoint on com
plaints.
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Concord. N. C.
Gas S'Power
Corporation
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Blind Tar Heel Girl Brings Tears to
Eyes of Hard New York Business Men
New York. May 5.—A little blind
girl from North Carolina brought her
music to New York today and made j
200 practical business men cry like
babie.
| She is Ruth O'Shaughnossy, 10. the
j pride of Asheville. The Kiwanis Club
of that city is sponsoring her musical
career and it arranged her Metropoli
tan debut today before the local Ki
wanians at their weekly luucheon in
| the Hotel McAlpin.
I The men who conduct the affairs of
' business ami commerce for the city
j of New York luul sat silently through
j the first part of the # musical program,
j unaware of the sensation that was to
come. On the program the little
blind girl was listed merely as “Miss
Ruth O’Shnughnessy. pianiste.”
! I>r. Sigmund Spaeth, directing the
; concert, beckoned his finger toward |
( n woman and a girl tfho had been
sitting, unnoticed, at a table near the
platform. A tgll, blonde girl arose
and walked rather haltingly toward
the platform- Dr. Spaeth reached
this hand and took thr lum4 of the
girl. He guided her to the piano.
First she played Hondo Capriccoso,
of Mendelssohn, and the businessmen
censed whispering among themselves
and listened. A moment's rest, while
the business men applauded, and (fee
girl's fingers moved lazily over the
keys playing (’adman’s “Legend of
the Plains.” It was then that hand
kerchiefs appeared and noses were
blown and the business men glanced
at each other queerly. Then, almost
before the applause died down, the
Penny Advertisements Get the Results
Wednesday, May 12, 1926
Rirl launched into I.istz's “Sixth Hun-
Rarian Rhapsody,” and as she played
I T handkerchiefs remained in pork
-1 cts. far nVarly every business man in
j the pjaee was weeping unashamed.
None of them eould tell afterwards
just what it was that made them cry
except that the Rirl was youtiß and
blind and could play disturbinßly.
I)r. Spaeth last night said he had
cried because the "hard boiled busi
ness men had.”
Mrs. I’. J. O'Shauglmessy, mother
of the girld, told a reporter today that
Both, born totally blind, had felt her
way to the piano nt the age of three
and picked up a tune. “I didn't
know music then.’’ Mrs.
O'Shaughnossy, a kind faced, plain
little woman whose husband is fore
man in a railroad shop. “But I de
cided that music was what Ruth ought
to have. I don't know music yet.
but I know enough of it to play the
pieces for Ruth—just mechanically,
you know—while she translates the
the braille Dystem—the
lanfetiflge of the blind, you know. As
soon as she has a piece written out
, with these little raised dots she uses,
i then I leave her alone. She prac
. tices hours every daV.”
• Miss O'Shaughnossy played for sta
■ tion AVYNC tonight, ending her
E Metropolitan program. She and her
■ mother expect to return south Friday.
■ The Kiwanis Club of Asheville, which
I j sponsors all her concerts, expects to
: send her on a tour of the country
i some day, her mother says. v