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No: 23
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PROMINENCE
Is Given Kings Mountain
Below is on excerpt from "The
Southern Banker," which recon-
izes something of the speed at
whith Kings Mountain progress
is moving.
"Kings Mountain lias been
placed 'more prominently and
irmly on the map by the recent
action of the Southern railway
in naming the observation car
of the "'Atlanta Special" in hon
- or of tins famous peak. Bankers
nn'd other citizens issued an elab
orate book descriptive of the
town and presented it to the rai
road for .library of the "Kings
Mountain, " a car of modern con
struction and one of the road's
latest designs. Kings Mountain
Is the home of several of the
J i vest bankers in tne Tar Heel
State. W. S. Dilling. cashier of
the Rings Mountain Bank, and
M. E. Herndou, cashier of the
People's Loan & Trust Co., at-
tended the North Carolina Bank
ers' Convention at Raleign and
in addition , to making miinj
f riSads they inade a number of
." people better acquainted with
their home town. Kings Moun
tain dates ba-;k from 1780." On
October 7, of that year one of
the greatest battles" in the his-
Tory of America was' fought
urojnd the town. . ' ,
LEGDiE BILL
Reduces C
The IjegNI
sessicn inl,
a dessentil
as THE I
I A
bill authoifjll 1
Board of Ai
8 Year Old flobo Has Enough.
A lad giving .his name , as
, George Halcomb.his home as
Greenville, S. C. and his age as
oight years was put aboard train
No 33 by the chief of police At
Belmont S.u'nday; night. His
story was rather an interesting
- one und was' about as follows:
A fourteen year-oid boy per
suaded George to crawl into a
box car with him in Greenville
Friday afternoon for a hoboing
expedition. They crawled the;
Car and made their way as far
as Harrisburg, ; N. ; C. ; -befort
they ware apprehended and put
off. They walked bacjj, to within
. ten miles of Charlie where
they'suceeedc&in swinging on
the rear of a pVsenger train on
' which they enVVed Charlotte'.
They 'slept in Te ''- Charlotte
depot Saturday nifAt. Sunday
.they walked as far Belmont
where tne chief of p5ice took
charge of them. The bvjfjs were
iriven something to eatVl a
- ticket was bought by publVub
; scription for tho smaller boy
to his home at Greenville, The
boysTiad-Jiad nothing to .eat
from Fridayuatil Sunday even
ing.
. Geo. said. "Thai other boy
. persuaded me off buiStae'U-never
lo it again, this is his fretti trip.
It is my first and my last.
. George wore a hickory smrt
and pants and cap und '- wai
barefooted, He saidii is, father
- was a traveling man and sold
drugs. The boy didn't look to
, be over ight, but wss exceed
- nglvbnllianti. His advice, to
the boys ntvllstiy at homo - and
behave tneflBM&y. '' " '
v ' . .Good Roads Association.
' The Annual eoavention of the
Norh'Carolina Good Roads As
. uociatlon will be held at Durham
. July - 9 and. 10, 1914. A very
elaborate program has been, ar
ranged and a splendid session is
expected. - Addresses - witj be
made by such . men' s Goyi
' locke Craig, of North Carolina;
Gov. H. Cv Stuart, of .Virginia;
and Pres. 'Fairfax Harnsou, of
:be Southern . Railway, . And
uiimber of others. :. ... -.,
leguminoi
bute this
ers of N. ifei
productioi
In Junom
Agricultu
directing
Agrieultui'
j)ly with tl
above Act
resolution
equipped
B.,tany a ri
a small h
facture.o;
rial for
legumes i
such as al
bur clow
clover,
soy bi
and soiii
Thud
material vi
tember fir:
price will
art. acre, as
now charge
companies-.
The StaW
cnltiire har
comendedj,
for the difj
inous croc
passage of
ULATION'
sequent fav
State Boan
prices char;
were so hid
farmer con
chase it in
do him muc
ever, thank!
ive legrslal
this State i
this niateri
they could
for $2.00.
i We hope
these cultu
mands but
necessary
cations at
fore the mi
Wo will
vigorous ci
have to be
the )rder. .
can be ke
great lengt
. It has
about 20,00
material wd
year At
material
farmers $-l(
Departmen
th
e
las'
Of Inoculation.
ture. at its special
, passed, without
tewhatis known
tOWN LEGUMii
N' BILL. Thi.s
tho N. C. State
iiilturo to Manu-
Iting material fo''
bps iind to distri
rial to the farm-
at actual cost of
I, the Board of
isseil a resolution
Commissioner of
arrange to com
quiremcnts of the
obedience to this
ore is now being
the Dividson of
Agronomy of the
lentof Agriculture,
ory for the manu
k inoculating mate.
different kinds of
n in the State,
crimson clover.
red clover, alsilre
vetch, cow peas,
stock peas, peanuts
button Of this
bgin about Sep
... rhe actUKl cost
.about Hty oents
;ainst SO0 an acre
by the comtneraial
department of Agri-
Vtfays strongly re
use of inoculation
it kinds of legmn-
but -prior . to the
HE BROWN INOC
ilLL and the bus-
able action of the
M Agriculture, .-the
ffl for the. material
phat the average
not afford to pur
flicient quantty to
"good. Now, .how
to really progress-
in, the farmers of
n get as much of
j for fifty cents ps
t six months ago
North Carolina Sloppy
With Opportunity
'Nnrih Carolina Sloppy With Opportunities What can the Press do in
Developing Them?" The Subject of Illuminating Address by Bioa II.
Butler, of the Kaeford Journal, on The State's Possibilities and the Vari
ous Ways the Press May Aid in the Development That must come, Deliv ered
at the Opening Session of Press Convention at Wrightsville Beach
Last Week.
Iii?3tntly. I said one day in tho
News and Observer that North
Carolina is sloppy witli oppor
tunity.. That, expression has"been
brought back to me to set the
pleasant task of pointing oat
some of the those opportunities
and telling how the newspaper
men may help in the develope
ment of them. 1
Thirttwo years ago this sum
mer I caught my rirst glimpse
of North Carolina. At that time
I had seen enough of the indus
trial developexent and progress
of the United States from Texas
Kansas and Minnesota east to
to New . England to appreciate
what developementmeans and
to recognize the opoortunity
rfor developement where ;it ap-
psupplyv
thRs hav
$30,009
Adde88
cations to, if (I
lAgriouiuu1,' i
Laboratonj j
Name anQ 4 Si
.... iii
oiusn oe v
App,ov(flJ
, Corny
aim m
Mi
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r
R 1
o nave enough of
s to sup'ply all de-
will be absolutely
send in all appli
ast one month be
rial is to be to used.
nd out only live,
f nres and they may
ade after receiving
pne of this material
on hand for any
of time. .
:en estimated that
acre bottles of this
e used in N. C. last
rJ.OO an acre this
lould have cost tho
000. Had the -State
been in position to
demand, it would
saved' the farmers
easoitr-
l orders.'and appli-
e po.rimiBsioner of
care .".puce seed
Raleigh,. N.,0.
di'ess Of applicant
ittea very plainly.
L,-Burgess, ,
onomisfA Botanist. .
Sraham.r .
'iissioneof Agr.
Thii-ty
Baptist.
tbajn.$10(i
missfonsj
have-
ars ago the Southern
nvention .rail
00 a yettrfar
i; jf tho state
1 1
brtioned , : thi
$100,080 fj V this cause 'una year.
ed less
foreign
Texas
msclves
newspaper work was passed as
a writer of the progress of the
biy industrial expansion in.. the
Pittsburg territory where hig
things are done. That gave
me a further insight into what
opportunity is. and what it is
wortHi -It is more than twant.
years ago .that I commenced to
write in tho -Pittisbnrg Times
stories of opportunity in North
Carolina. In that twenty years I
have been showing people what
I see hero, and in going out to
show them. I. continually ; ; fall
over more things to show. I did
not discover North Carolina all
of a sudden. It has been i
gradual finding of new possibili
ties until it is easy to see that
no state in the union today can
present so much of the oppor
tunity as North Carolina, Tnis
is said in all deliberation, for
unsutjoor.ted claims are of : no
use to anybody. It is folly to de
ceive ourselves. I make thia
claim after an acquaintance
wilh almost every community of
consequence in theUnited Slates.
The chief factors that are put
ting North Carolina in the front
are clinrate, rainfall, waterpower
transportation, convenience to
the markets of th Unitea States
and of all the world the per
manent supoly of raw material
for factory use, and a population
of intelligence and upright char
acter. I do . .no ; include those
temporary resorces like timber.
minerpl deposits, etc. - which
valuable in themselves, and of
of great , importance, arh still
temporary, and not in the same
class ' with those permanent
things that are ot everlasting
worth.".. . - ! .... ... "
In hunting a place for a : per
manent home for!' myself and my
family I picked North Carolina
deliberately from all the rest of
of the country because it offered
a bigger inducement in .natural
advantages. . It has the best
climate and', the best, rainfall.
Climate makes a state fit to- live
in; Rainfall 'and mild climate
makes it an agricultural possir
ability. Soil is a factor, but ier
tility can be made. Kansas and
California and other1 states of
thetWest are not so fertile, now
as when' I first knew them. North
Carolina is more fertile. Fertility
is under the control of man.
Climate and. rainfall re upf.' , ,
Therefore wo must regard
North Carolina ns om- of the
foremost agricural possibilities
on earth: The story of tho last
fifteen years bears this out. In
tho last census period the State
mora than -doubled its farm
proaucts. in tne last live years
it has almost douoled t again
This surprising record if kept
Jip another ten years will put
North Carolina among the first
three or four states of the tlnion
juui aeveiopement is limy as
rapid. Fourteen years ago the
state factories produced about
60 milLpn dollars worth of goods.
Now they make three imes that
value. Factories are springing
up to, build the widest variety
pf products.-. The-factories are
N. C. EDIT
Meet In Annual Convention.
AVOID FEVER
On Your Vacation.
peared. Fifteen yeaK of; myffliversified to scores of different
lines. They will deversify more
because they have the power. In
a dozen years the developetnent
of waterpower in North Caro
lina has been marvels of the in
dustrial world. What is ahead
npbody can guess, but almost
Any gug "seems snfo enonffh.
The State is gridironed with
power wires how and in that
respect has no peer on tlie globe.
Ours is the one state that is
self contained and self providing.
It has the farms on which to
feed the people the factories in
which to emoloy them, the pow
to run the mills, the yearly crop
of raw moterial for the factory,
the river and sea to carry the
freight to market, the railroads
in all directions, besides the
surplus of product eagerly
sought oy other stat s.
Rising the highest monneains
eact of the Rockias, North Caro
Una rivers Have more fall to the
sea, a greater annual rainfall to
arry down, and agreater area
to drain wrter from tlian any
otterstateof-tlre East.- How
mueh. power that means is pure
guess. It is a limit we cannot
overtake for years. We have no
idea of the, limit of our ability
to produce cotton lor the ever
growing needs'of the wrrld, or
or of fruit and vegtables for the
rapidly growing North, or of
anything. We have . so idea
where we are going but we are
beaded 'i aome-' ere, and are
rsnning away on half a dozen
roads at one time. i
It is no use for me to point
out. to you the opportunities
of North Cah-olina. Five thou
sand people could find oppor
tunity in jonns county to go
to raising cotton. As many more
could go to the mountains to
raise cattle. As many more could
go to Guilford to raise .corn to
Moor to raise soppernongs for
the grape iuice plant starting
there,- - to Henderson to raise
apples: to Robeson to raise canta
loupes to Cumberland to raise
tobacco, peanuts for oil, -sweet
potatoes to muke-starch for the
cotton mills and alcohol for the
arts . and forthe automobiles j
when" gesolene is scarcer s V
y Every , county in the ' state
could ylace ten thousand people
as fait as then eoald' come, and
opportunity?. would await them.
One of the greatest, of ad van -
Continued on Editorial Page- -
The convention of t!it; North
Carolina Press Association which
met at the Oceanic Hotel, Wright
sville lii-ach last Wed. till I'll.
was accounted by the older mem
bers of tho organization as best
in its history. It would bo use
less to undertake to go into tho
details of the several sessions
but suffice it to say that more
than a hundred of tin? state's
leading uill .drivers met there
and labored earnestly fur the
common good of Tar Heel .loiinn
alism and its constituents. The
addresses were all on" a high
piano as will be seen from time
to time as we shall publish some
of them in the Herald.
Sun bathing, trolley riding,
and fishing were enjoyed fully
and the river trip Friday to
South port and Fort Caswell was
a splendid feature.
Crops Poor.
The editor having traveled
over the Seaboard from Char
lotte to Wilmington and over the
A. C. L. and Southern from Wil
mington by way of Fayettevilie
and Greensboro back to Kings
Mountain and having talked
witn- editors from all parts of
the state within the past ten
days is pretty well posted on
the farms of the. state. As a
whoje the crops are poor. Corn
is better than cotton but in muuy
places the corn rrop is way be
low an average crop The drought
has been general all over the
state with; few exceptions, and
in some places hasn't beoubrok
en . yet. I he section sintering
worst are on the A. V. L. in the
vicinity of Manchester "- where
a large portion of the oukHrees
have died for lack of moisture.
Some places through there look
as if fire hhd swepfc through th0
forest. Another section , nearer
Greensboro shows a like appear
ance but not nearly so bad.
, Both those setcions, however,
have had rain recently, V j
As a rule where corn Was put
in ahead of the dry weather 'it j
is looking fine, although, wej
heard of at least One instance!
whereJiarlyxorii is Jailing .down
,Vacati.)n. ;s t,h; talk of thfe
season. Every nine out of ten
peoplo are planning to- take a
vacation trip, sometime, some
where during the summer.
Where to. go is the question.
He this, understood: The-most
picturesque and otherwise at-
tractive resorts are not always -the
safest. Your first consider
ation should be:' Where can I ,
find rest and recreation without ;
jeopardizing my health? un. ,
making your choice look well to :
these fac ts: 1st, That the sup
ply of drinking water, comes not ,
from snallow Wells or- from -other
sources likely to be pol-
Inf..,! Tl... 1
mn:vi. ..mi, i mil. nice, ,uju U1US-. f
(illifofiA- nrp u-nll fif.roonail arrninof .
.;.Pr1 Tllllt. tllflfU Bra Cnnitnlo awt .
rangements for the disposal of i'
sewage. Know these things and -
your cnances lor navingtyphola ;,:
malaria an I many other diseases -
will be greatly diminished. ,
Tlie vacationist by .all means '
should he varVMiintari ntrnnt
typhoid. Tliis ,' preventative ;
measure .is so , simple and .
yet so effective that no man' or "
woman should consider himself (
ready till he has taken this
treatment. You can get the ty- .
phoid vaccine either by jwriting ;
to the State Laboratory of Hy-.
giene, Raleigh, N. C. or by ap- '
plying to your own physician. -In
ejtlier ..case allow yourself .
plenty of ti 'no. Four weeks at
least are necessary in which to .,
get the vaccine and take the
treatment. If further infonna- ;
tion regarding tins treatment is r'
desired, write tlie State Board
of nealth, Raleigh, N. C. But .'
wherever you jsppruLyour . vaca-., ;
tion be sure to have the Herald
sent to you each week. .
The Butcher's Lament.
The meat inspector is mine
enemy, I shall not like him. .
He maketh me shoo out
and no rain yet. Late corn didn't
come up mucli and Vhere it did
it has grown very slowly,
The prospects for cotton are
poor with the exception of Hoke
County where the seasons have
been fairly regular and the crop
shows from 95 to 100 per cent.
Lots of the cotton fields pre
sent the spectacular appearance
of a few scattering stalks in
'bloom; while major part of the
crop Ts about" half as large or
just coming up.
- Another very serious phase of
the finning situation is the fact
that so many acres are lying idle.
There are all over the state large
fields that have not been broken
and it is now too late to put in
corn or cotton. Most stubble land
is lying idle. This same condi
tion exists in portions of Virginia,
remarkably so about Lynchburg.
Mrs. B. M. Ormand delight
fully entertained a number of
her friends on Thursday last at
a dorcb party.. Tne cool, vine
shaded -porches were uery at
tractrive'with flowers and potted
olants atone side-Miss Allien
Ormand the pretty young daugh
ter of the hostess served refresh
ing lemonade from an attractive
ly decorated punch bowl, while
Little - Sara - Kate ' served - ice
water throsgbout the afternoon.
An elegent ice course with
wafers added to the party, mak
ing a whole afternoon of "much
pleasure 'to a'll present.', ' ... .
all
the flies and cover the sausage
mill,;.'. . ;
He showeth in e the meat I
shall se'l and that I shall not.
Yea verily, tho' I scrub the
ice box twice yearly, he sayeth
it is not clean. ' . ,
' HeTkTcYeth MI lteep "hogs "in
tlie backyard and sayeth . it is
unsanitary. . v .
' He smelleth of my sausage and
heaveth' it in the slop barrel,
een tho' it be but slightly, sour.
He deniandeth that I use not
the larnyx snd mammae for sau
sage. ;. '. .. . . .. ,: .
And he speaks in harsh tones
if I disobey him.
I. bring my meat to his office
for inspection, wrapped in tree
tot's, ...,,'tl, , ,
;. He turaeth it down and insists
that I wrap it in clean, white,
cloths. , ,; (
' Yea, i verily, tho' mine hog ,
grew up in ' mine own orchard,
hevcondemneth it for cholera ,
and fly-blows, and I lose twelve
dollars arid a half,
He- hurls threats at me' if I
bring not the livers and lights,
and if I am slow about paying ;
my'bllls at the months end, be
maketh me bring the money at
the time of inspection. (
' He anndiriteth my livers witl
kerosene, and insistetn on seeing
the hides . and ear marks even
tho' I. tell him there are; inone.
1 Surely, the words "clean , up ;
and stay clean" . will be burled '
tu0 all "the' day$of myijife.
and I shall live in fear of the in- v,
specter forever and ever. Amen,,
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