THURSDAY JULY 22, 192ft
[ SPEEDING WORK ON
I DAM CONSTRUCTION
New Spillway Foundation, Retaining
Wa I and Base ready for
Pouring Concrete
P.- DOUBLE SHIFT ON DIRT FILL
Working night and day on the
new portion of the Lake Lanier
dam the contractors who are restoring
the structure that confines the
waters of the three basins are confident
that completion of the dam
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auj the return or tne water iu no
normal level will be contemporaneous
about September 1.
Construction of the massive rock
and concrete foundation at the west
end of the Jam, which will do
double' duty as an abutment for the
great concrete structure that forms
the core for the eighty thousand cubic
feet of earth enclosing it, and
as a base for the splil-way, Is practically
comp'eted. Dirt taken from
the heights above the western end of
he dam is being deposited in front and
behiud the original concrete arch
at the rate of more than a thousand
j cubic yards a day. As it Is shot
down by gravity the dirt is distributed
and watered. This mjetfiod of
sluicing packs the clay soil into a
permanent mass.
An interesting feature of this
work is the method employed in
getting out the earth that goes into
the fi'l. The great steam shovel
that digs the dirt from its original
resting place, where it has lain for
millions of years, labors untiringly
with a'most human intelligence. Under
the expert manipulation of Its
engineer the big shovel with Its
four steel teeth bites into the bank
of red earth,t taking nearly a cubic
yard at a mouthful, and then swings
around to deposit its load in the
waiting dump cars, three times every
t. sixty seconds.
As the cars are loaded they are
run down to the fill by gravity and
dumped from the end of the tracked
trestle, thus building the ''hill that
will surround the original dam and
extend seventy-five feet back of it
and one hundred and seventy-two
feet in front of it.
There will be a thirty-foot roadway
across the top of the dam which
will connect the east and wes^ sides
or tne iaae, giving quic* nuu cmj
access to the .new Tryon-Shelton
Hotel that wil lcrown the heights
overlooking the lake and which will
- afford a view of thirty miles of the
Blue Ridge range.
G. S. Brown, engineer in charge
of the dam construction for. thaf contraetors,
Berry & Fortune^T Hickory,
N. C. Is working ^^ader the
direct supervision of ^Jlees & Mees,
nationally famous engineers, of
Charlotte, N. C. John Frank Stevens,
who has a world-wide reputation as
an engineer and who wa^ associated
with Col. Goethals in the building of
the Panama Canal, is oonsultant.
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SCOUTS THANK
PREST. F. L. SMYRE
Troops attending the Piedmont
Council Camp have drawn up letters
of appreciation and resolutions of
thanks to President F. L. Smyre for
his leadership in the development of
the camp. President Smyre's patronage
ind hard work has won him
the love of hundreds of boys all
over the Piedmont Council territory.
LEGAL.
State of North Carolina, County of
Polk.
Having qualified as Executor undef
the will of T. G. Randolph, deceased,
late of Polk County, North Carolina,
this in t n nntifv oil nnronno howtnir
claims against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
at his residence, Fingerville,
8. C.. Route No. 1, on or before the
15th day of June, 1827, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make Immediate payment.
This 8th day of June, 1928.
N. W. WEBB, Executor.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Unded and by virtue of the power
of the sale contained In that certain
mortgage deed executed by Phoebia
Sul'ivan to R. D. Dobson of date 8th
aay or August 1324, and of record
in Mortgage Deed Book No. 21 at
page 314 of the record of mortgages
for Polk County, North Carolina to
secure an indebtedness in the sum
of five hundred and twenty five dollars,
default having been made in
the payment of the same, the undersigned
wil 1st 12 o'clock M. on Monday
the 2nd. day of August 1926 at
the courthouse door in Polk County,
North Carolina, to satisfy said indebtedness,
interest and cost offer
for sale to the highest bidder for
cash the following described lot of
land lying and being in Saluda township,.
Polk County, North Carolina
as conveyed by said mortgage.
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w/uvHiuuig ai/uui uijc aurc, auu
being the same lot of lend situate
at Sal-ida in the State and County
aforesaid conveyed to the aaid PhoeIda
Sullivan in the year 1924 by Jes?!
Catinaday.
This 1st. July 1926.
R. D. DOBSON,
Mortgagee.
J. R. BURGES8, Atty.
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BUILDING BEGINS
ON LAKE PROPERTY
Twenty-three Houses to be Erected
by Spartanburg Contr'actor?
30 More Planned
SPAN iSH VILLA IS COMPLETED
Building operations at Lake Lanier
have taken 011 added activity with
ihe construction of two more attrac-j
five homes in one of the most deslr- j
able sections of the property. This 1
brings the number of homes to be ,
built before next fa'1 to a total of'
twenty-five. j
J These latest additions to the lake J
home colony are being built at the
intersection of Lake Shore Drive!
and Clarke Road by C. E. Band and j
H. L. White of the Baud & White j
J Printing Co.. Spartanburg. S. -C. |
The houses are of the ldg cijbin type j
; with native stone foundations and;
| are to cost about fi.SOO each
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Up to IMS llilie mv ?
live borne erected at Lake Lanier is I
hat Just completed by T. E. Kell,:
.f Union, S. 0.. on the heights on '
the east side of the first basin and
commanding a fine water view and
thirty utiles of the magnificient Blue
Ridge range. The architecture of
j the house is of the modified Spanish
typ.' with dark cream, stuccoed walls
and red tiled roof.
More than thirty property owners
li-.vo atreaify notified the Tryon De
velopment fCo. of th,Jr intention to i
build homes at Lake Lanier during I
'he coming year.
FIRST SCOUT
CAMPERS HAPPY
Cliffside, Spindale and Cherryville
Boys to Retur'n Next Year
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The first groups of Scouts to at- i
'end the Piedmont Scout Camp at ,
Lake Lanier have had a wonderful \
;ime and indicate that next year
they will want to spend at least two
weeks at camp
Troop One of Cliffside under the j
leadership of Scoutmaster B. E.
Roach was the first Troop in Camp.
Following the? came Troop One, of .
Spindale, under the leadership of !
Rev. O. L. Simpson, and Troop One,!
of Cherryville, under the leadership j
f Scoutmaster Hunter Huss. Troop j
Ten of Gastonia is now at Camp under
the leadership of Assistant (
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X Special music evenir
| Sabbath School 10 s
Public cordially invi'
X THOMAS L. JUST
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| St. John's Church, c<
* avenue and Laniei
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| REV. J. A- MANL
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CAMPERS TO FEAST
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| Spartanburg Sunday School
Will Spend Three Days
at the Lak^
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1 As this edition of the News goes
to press preparations are being
' made for the annual encampment
of the Sunday School Society of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg,
S. C. The campers will arrive
Tuesday, July 20 and frill
occupy the Tryon Development Companys'
property office at the head
of Lake Lanier's third basin.
hlonlrofo and other
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. omforts were furnished yesterday,
.jnough to accommodate seventy-five
campers, separate quarters will be
provided for the girls and women
while the men and boys will be
housed near by.
The campers will spend three days
at the lake and it is said that the
commissary department has many
surprises in ,the way of special
dishes that will appeal to the palates
of yo ;ng and old. Pine bark stew,
a favorite of former President William
H. Taft, will be one of the
dishes served during the stay of the
Sunday school campers.
ROTARIANS VISIT
BOY SCOUT CAMP
Sixty Members of Spartanburg's
CliiK Maun Fine Dav
Sixty Rotarians from Spartanburg
enjoyed a day at the lake on Tuesday.
They camped at Camp Rotary,
located at the head of the third
basin and along the east bank of
Vaughan's Creek.
The Rotarians were the guests
of the Roy Scouts at supper and afterwards
made an Inspection of the ,
Piedmont Council Camp."' They wandered
over the fifteen acres that the
Tryon Development Company has
given to the Scouts and expressed
themselves as greatly pleased with
the arrangement of the camp which
has all been under the direction of
Scout Executive Scheile.
The party returned by bus to Spartanburg
voting the trip a" big success.
Other civic organizations from five |
counties will visit the Scout camp!
Cows will pay a good price for all j
ahv raised on the farm, find those !
men who grow their own feedstuffs. I
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soon be here. It comes every
lildhood.
ill ring, the organ will make mi
ions. Thus it will be in Tryon, \
hristendom?not merely this wee
and of your life.
:orce that persists?that surrey
s here, present, living,
possibly ignore it.
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When? Next Sunday. Where
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THE POLK COUNTY NEWS
NORTH CAROLINA'S
! ECONOMIC BROmH
j Sec'y. Hoover Believes Population
Trend wi.l Continue Because of
its Industriai Developments
Discussing population movements
in the United states, Secretary
Hoover said that North Carolina has
hud the greatest economic developI
incut of any State in the last fifteen
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years, and that migrations .
months had b?en the most, rapid in J
th? history of the country.
Si crotary Hoover expressed the I
belief that population increases in
the So Mil would continue because
of its industrial development, such
as vat i-power, iron and steel and
cctton spinning.
lie v...s asked if this development
wou.'d convert some of the Southern
States to the protective tariff. He
said it might happen and that already
there appeared to be some
tariff sentiment there. ^
Regardless of the growth of the
South, Secretary Hoover expressed
the belief that population of the
North . i, States would continue to
increase. This has been the situation.
he said, during the recent
niovuncnt of large numbers of people
to the South.
The water in the lake is rising
at tin- rate of nearly six inches a
day. t ven in these dry times. A Tew
At-I
days of rain would increase mm i
rate materially. J
Halifax farmers have found that
it costs aoout six cents per pound
to raise peanuts.
LEGAL NOTICE
H tvir.t qualifield as administrator
of the estate of Mrs. Sallie Pit- '
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man. deceased, late of Palk Coun-i
ty. North Carolina, this is to notify I
all persons having c'aims against the'
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned on or before
July 26. 1!?27, o- this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will I'leape make immediate payment.
This is 22nd day of July. 1926.
C. A. JOLLY,
Administrator of
SALLIE PITMAN,
deceased. 1
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NEWS FROM
BRANCH OFFICES
Activities of Field Representatives
In Various Sections
Reports from the Greensboro of
fice indicate that there, will be mucli
activity in that district during the
present week. Messrs. Humphries
an<f Pfaff, managers of that office
' L tn bring three bus
nave au??o?
loads of prospective purchasers from
Greensboro and one each from Mt
Airy, High Point and Burlington
The managers report that the
Greensboro territory, which In
eludes Winston-Salem and surround
Ing communities, will furnish a high
type of Interested visitors.
Robert McKlernan and Clarence
Peters, both of whom have Intimate
knowledge of the Lake Lanier prop
erty, will go to Charleston, W. Va
to develope that territory. Offices
will be established on one of the
main thoroughfares and a staff ol
field representatives will be organiz
ed under the direction of Messrs. Mc
Klernan and Peters.
D. P. Weeks, Chief Field *Repre
sentative, who Is making a tour ol
the branch offices, wires that four
teen bus loads of interested visitors
may be expected on the property
during the coming week. This means
that more than 150 qualified pros
tive purchasers will certainly view
beautiful Lake Lanier within the
next few days.
The hardest job for most of us
is to do without eomething we don't
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X Shoe Polish
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I :: Toilet Articles
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I Carter Construction Co. of New!
York and Spartanburg, have erected
buildings necessary to house the en
gineering staff and for the use of!
i the .draughtsmen. Besides this, ex>
cavations have been made for the
i kitchens and laundry and the eleva.
or pit.
Foundation walls have been staked
i out and material is coming in dally
for starting the actual erection of
the hotel, whJch is to be a four-story
I structure of the stone and half-tim bered,
old English type of archltec
ture. The architect's drawing shows
1 it to be one of the most attractive
buildings of its kind in the Carolinas.
B. C. Fiske, president of the con,
struction company is authority for
. the statement that the hotel will be
| ready for ^the reception of winter
i season patrons by December 1. Its
, ! cost will be around $400,000 and if
; will be furnished and conducted in
. j the style of this country's best host|
lories.
Tt is cxtiected that the Tryon
! Shelton Hotel Company, builders of
the hotel, will use every possible ef>
j fort to popularize It among^ the
. wealthy tourists from both North
! I and South who have been making
, j Tryon and Its environs both a win,
i ter and summer home for many
. j years.
, Gcttng even Is a viture if It's with
your bank account.
Nights at the lake are delight,
fully cool despite the hot days.
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Men's Work Shoes
Childrens and Infants
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Hardware
Gun Shells
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Singletrees
Horse Collars
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Mule Bits ;
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chow, China, v.b<, has 8tu4j^ ^B
Bilkworm industry of thal u^B
believes that the culture tin^B
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the date assign- d to us ueg^^.B
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kept secret more th a vg,J(J ^B
with tlie aid of a death penalty B
posed on any one aim r B
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I secret of the industrious i*erm8 ^B
j^ken first to Rome, l'rofwa?- - B
logg says^_ '**
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rled to the Western world by ^ I
vans across Asia Minor, or u, jw I
and then by boat a . th? jjs, " I
ranean. Justinian, tln; Pv.aaa^B
peror living In < ' s-'.aiitinoplt I
his supply of silk . ut off by ;h/p. I
sian wars, and o minis-ionrt jog, I
monks who had formerly b^ . I
China to get th- silkworm lor ^ I
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to China and t*t.r?.:il wrh ^ H
seeds of (he mulberry tree secret I
in a hollow bamboo cane. I
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they returned to China and brojje I
back with them the eggs of the sj I
worm. These eggs supplied Euro*
with all its silk v. rms from th; I
time until a new supply was brosfr,
Into France to c-mbat th- ditt* I
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