lil!V«ney. W. A- Vol. 11 Kin^s Mountain, N. C., Thursday, Jul}^9, 1914.' ■No. 24 . -At.' $7,000. $8,000. A YEAR EXCESSIVE FREIGHT Is wiiat Kings Hcantain is calkd cphon to pay. The recent freight rate Coajproniise has left Kings Mountain in worse fix than before-Pro- gressive Association takes action. Kings Mountain is soeely dis- crirtdnaced against in the recent freight rn.te coinjjrotnise. She is left a Mra,y out in the coid. Points ail around us were recog nized ill the deal bat Kings Mountain is in a sight worse plight titan befoi'o. While our neighboring town.s hav'e receiv ed a liberal and equitable dis count in freight rates Kings Mountain has been granted a minimum or none at all. At a meeting of the Kiilgs- Mountain Progressive Associa tion in the .Kings Mountain Banir last Thursday, Secretary Leslie McGinnis laid bare the whole situation and exhibited data which he had gathered re garding the freight rates in dif ferent points around u.s. It was alarming to see how we had been discriminated against and the secretary was instructed to take up the matter with the freight department of tlie South ern Railwa.v and prosecute the cause vigorously. J. M. Patter son was appointed to attend the meeting of the North Carolina Just Freight Rato Association which is in session at Asheville today, i-epre.senting. the merch- u :u't(Lcsl.'.e McGriiaids is’*^to a-«present the Progressive As.so- eiation. It was shown that a car of wheat can l>e shipped through Kings Mountain to Charlottte for $30 less than it can be stop ped in Kings Mountaiu. This! will enable Charlotte roller raill*^ to ]Mit the finished flour in Kings Mountain for less money than our roller mills can get the w'heat delivered. The present fixed rate would mean anywhere Irom $10(X) to $2000 more freight per year to the Kings Mountain roller mills than to a mill in Shelby, Lincolnton, or Char lotte. • The freight on a car of nails is $32 more than it ought to be. Everything else is in about the same proportion. Our freight will cost us $7,000 to $8000 per year more than the sacae amonnt wmuldcostto Sbel by or any other neighboring point. Besides the flou» bought from the local roller mill. Kings Mountainhnerchants are called upon to pay $500 a year more freight on flour alone than they should. These rates are from Western points. They are out rageous, unjust, and' intolerable and our people will not stand for such a deal. It is high time that our people cease to sleep on their rights and keep their eyes wide open to wliat is going o.j. If we care not for ourselves certainly no body else will take care - of us. If wc. ./jud as ^we might have been this trouble could have been averted. A revision of rates from Eastern points will be made some time in the near future. Let’s see if we can’t look after our interest and not wait until it is all over to raise a howl. MAUNEY TOURING PARTY^ HAVE GRAND TRIP The Maaneys Relarned Last Saturday Night. {By Miss Bonnie Manner) The trip of ail triii«—to my mind—is a tour through our country in an automobile. No •one who has never taken such a trip can imagine the experiences to be eneountei'ed. It seems too absurd for one so limited in descriptive and narrative power to attempt to write an account of our tour to Gettysburg and Philadelphia and return.. Then, too, there were so m.any wonder ful things and ifiteresting places to be visited and, as we had to make our visits rather short for lack of time, it was hard to grasp the iwints of most impor tance. It was on the seventeenth of J line that our journey was begun. There were ten in our party. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mauaey, Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Cooper, and W. K. Maiiney in one car, and Mr. and Mrs. W., A. Mauney, Virginia Maniiey, Eugene Neis- ler, and nayself in another car. , About ten o’clock we bade good-bye to dear old Kings Mountain and with light hearts ‘ were off. There was no thought of punctures or bad luck for all were too elated over the sights we were to see. From Kings Mountain we went to Charlotte •where we stopped for an hour. We then -went on to Lexington where we had planned to wait for the other car which was not ready to leave Charlotte. Our road from Charlotte was via Conco¥d and • Salisbury and about 4;30 o’clock we were in Lexington, N. C. Here we en joyed a wait of three hours. Enjoyed, I say, for truly it was enjoyed. Papa met some old gentlemen at the court house and soon they were conversing just as if they had known each othet- for years. The rest of us ■‘took ill” the town. At 7.30 P. M. we saw the remainder of the party in the distance and we realized we were about to con tinae our course. The Stude- baker had had trouble with its baiteeries and therefore it had no lights, so we led the way to Winston Salem- At 8:30 we rolled up to the Zenzendorf and unloaded our baggage for the first night. After supper we strolled around town for a short while and then decided to retire early so we could start early in the morning. Morning came and breakfast over we thought everything was ready to start for Roanoke, Va.. but no such luck for a few hours. The batteries were being charg ed and we must be patient, so we decided to see the sights. Rev. Schenk, a friend of Rev. Cooper consented to be our guide. Winston Salem is some times called the Hilly City and this name is a good one. Only Continued,on Editorial Page, Pastor C. L. Bragaw, of the Kings Mountain Presbyterian Church Mr.C.D. Falls Talks Interestingly of Life in U. S .toy,, A History of experiences senc£ the day he enlisted two years ago - A member of the Mediterranean Crew for Seven Months - Visits many Cities of the East - Goes to Mexico Daring the Maderio Trouble - Has a Ta-ste of War.j , I k t ,f > - -A-?} ; > / . t I Mr. C. D. Palls, son of our townsman A. K. Palls, who is at home on a furlough from the United States Navy dropped in the Herald office a few days ago and gave us a very interesting history of his experience since enlisting two ye'ars ago, which w'e give out for the benifit of the readers of the Herald. As a lad of 17 he enlisted at Charlotte two years ago but his two years of culture and develop ment together with the exper ience of war have rounded him oat into .a strapping young man both in body and m mind. After enlistment he was sent to Atlanta for a week then to Norfork and on to the training camp at New port, R. I. where the real fun began. The initation was of the sort to ' leave an impression. After three months ti-aming he was assigned to the Mediterra nean Crew and sailed from Phil adelphia aboard the U. S. S. Montana to the Strait of Gibral- ter. MEDITEBRANEAN CITIES For seven Inonths he saw life on the Mediterranean Sea and visited many of the cities of the coast. The first city which the crew visited was Algeria, the ‘ ‘Great White Ciiy” which belongs to the French and is inhabited by white people onli% however it is in Africa. It is really a ‘‘White” city for the houses are of white rock and brick, all dark brick being white-washed. ' Tripoli, was the next city visited, a city of the 12th, century. The build ings are ancient and the habits of the people far from modern. Joppa comes next. This is the city of Jonah and the w'hale, noweyer,, Mr‘ Palls failed to meet anybody who remembered either Jonah or the Whale. Most of the structures in Joppa are new but are built on the ancient styles. Some of the ancient walls are yet standing. Hifa in Pales tinfj was nejt visited. It was near this city whei’e Christ fed the five thousand and just out- .side the city on Mt. Carmel is one of the graveyards where Napolean buried his- soldiers. Ancient arcoitecture prevails. Next in order was Alexandria, Egypt. It is very quaint. Five of the pyramids could be seen some forty miles in the distance. Not very much could be learned about any of the cities from the people as it was only occasion ally that a person could lie found who could speak or understand English. Sometimes a mission ary would be found who would discuss matters for the sailor boys. Off to MEXICO ■ At the* expiration of seven months' on the Mediterranean the, Montana sailed for Phila delphia and after five months was called to Mexico. The Mon tana was ordered to Mexico when the trouble arose about the Maderio brothers. The Amer ican ship went there for the pro tection of Americans in Mexico but the Americans were Slow to avail themselves of the offered a^Lstance. They preferred stay ing with their business and taking the risk. The Montana sailed for Mexico November 8th 1913 and remained there until a defective engine made it neces sary for her seek a repair shop baqk In the states on June 11th, 1914. Mr. Falls’s account of the treatment which the Mexicans delt . Americaias is something awful. He says that when he and his comrades, were riddling the naval aeaderay in Vera Cru* that be saw a Mexican cut ihe throafe of an American lady. He saw the bid. Greaser walk in front of the woman an i as be parsed away he' saw her falling back throat cut from ear to ear ‘‘but we got the-old guy all right,” It is sup-posed the woman was forced into the academy by the Mexicans in the hope that- Continued oh Last Page. BETHLEHEM SOHDAY SCHOOL The ft':embers cf Bethlehem Baptist Sanday School together with a few invited Geests enjoy a'day' of oatiiig in the splendid Park at B! G! Logan's Spring. The Bethlehem Suncj,ay School held a picnic at Logan Park last Saturday, the 4th. It was ;all picnic too. It was a .day, of rest,^ and recreation .together :wilh feasting and rejoicing. It ■was a . very informal .aff.air. Everybody did as they'‘''pieased without being hampered! by a iset program. There W',a,s no speaking, no singjng, no .pro gram at, all. Everybody. ,exer., cised themselves . just as Jhey Oho.se. At noon tigie a bounte- pus spread ,wa.s made on the lon^ table .which had b.oen prp- y'de 1 for the occasion in one side of th.e bep,ufiful park. ...Thfit' table .was .laden . with choice dishes,; laden almost to the groaning point. It wasa^spinp- tious repast which, w.as partici pated in by all present. It was ihe qnly^ exercise ,pf the da,y, that everybody was expected to, taJre part in ap4 . all joined .heartily alTd persevered until the physi cal man was sa,tisfied, ,. Refreshments were serv e, free to.eyerybody. Bananas and lemonade were enjoyed by alii especially, by. tha children...Good water flowed freely from the spacious .spring, in the midst .of, the park,^ Gourds^^.and dlpo'rrs weVe provided ■^sufficient glato; the occasion. What., is. better than to dip .dow.n into a, .cool bubbling spring 'with .an old time gourd, raise the.pure spark ling, crystal,fluid tq a., parcliing lip, and sup until you want no more? , . , , , , ■ : The Logan Park,, or “Sen Logan's Spring’!, is. an ideal place for a picnic. It is .situat ed in ,a hollow near Air. Logan’,, housq. The.entire grounds cover^ spmettiing like., an .acre. .. It i§ covered witil a. growth.pf beau-, tjful, slendpr,. umbrella top pop-., lar.. The sha,dc.ishahnost .per-., feet. The tops of the L ees.. are, so high that .tire .heat of the, sun, has, but. little,...effect., The. un-. derbrnsli.has, been taken away; leaving ^..splendid .surface. And, 'tji.e.n ,in, the midst, of the garden - is.situated.the spi’ing, a ..most, valuable asset-. The water is. cool,,, refreshing, invigorating and as clear as crystal. , ■ .Not. onl.y is this spring the., center of attraction in the park but it is utilized by Mr.. Logan, as a w.ater,supp.ly .for his, home The arrangement is unique. , The distance from the house to the spring is 600 feet. A wire. No. l.,.is, .stretched tight from the.house to the,spring at. a dis- . tance of, from five to ten feet. above the ground.. On the wire , is .fixed a couple of trolley wheels to which a .buekgt is sus-- , RCnded. A cor4 ..is .fastened to the,bucket at one end and to a windlass, a.t-^^he other. The in- , c.line carries the“ucket to the . springwheriYit i.s. au^omaricailyi ■fi.l.led, Then the oof.d is woufid up , by, the wind.lass until the.^bucket. of,fresh water is on the shelf in , the house. Thus’thej'- get the , the.fresh spring w.^ter, with no ■ more trouble, than it is to draw ■, from an ordinary well. , Such 'is i the pJaoe where the Bethlehem folks held their picnic and sure-, ly no better place could have been found. $5 FINE TO PLAY BALL ON STREETS AFTER NEXT f UE. Order Passed by The City Council Monday Night. At the - city , council Mon day night the ordinance .relating to olayingball or throwing- balls on the streets,of Kipg^ Mount-, ain was so amend.ed as tO: rpakp it a.v-iolatipri of the.law for ,, any person to play ball, ..or throw, and catch balls on .the streets or bitching lots inside the incorpor ate limits of .the town. This act ion, was taken after it -was point- led put that such practice, was becoming a nuisance, and that it is becpifiing dfipgerous tp life,, limb and property,. It was th.e opinion of the. bo^rd that tqo many people are daily in town to -warrant the eontinuaijce of the promiscuos, bal.1 throwing that has heretofore .been per mitted. The ordinance goes into effect next Tuesday, July 14th. The session Mqnd.ay night -^as by , no means one of easy sailing. The -weather conditions weye not conducive to calm deliberations' very terrific fhundef cloud came up about the time thp meeting was ca,lled to order and let . up only at short, interval.^ during the session. MueJ) heavy thunder and sharp lightning. to gether.with pccasipnal showers of hail accompanied the torrents of rain that beat uphon the metal roof of the city hs.ll. But that was not all. The lights were off a good portion of the time and |Jie discussians. bad to be mad!e in.the dark until .Chief. Lindsay , came,to the rescue with his flash . light which, afforded, just about . enough light to.guess by. Owing • to the abqve conditions some of , the b’Jsir)es.s had,to,,bp .deferred . until a subsequent meeting which ■was.ordere.d Monday night. One . of the. most important items for the^n^eeting, next jldpnday night is the sewerage bond proposition. ,, Baraca-Philathea Kcnjc. 'fhe Baraca and . Phil^hea -cl.asses, oi the Baptist ,Sunday Schppl here will ha-ye their an- nuakpignic .at Cleveland Springs a week from tomorrow, July 17. . It is hoped that every member , of these., classes , will join the jolly bunch. Those whp join next Sunday .willl be-, entitled to , the,trip also. The Baracas , and . Philathea.s ,pf EUzabefh ^unday School are invited to .join us. Forraer Km,gs Mountaiu Folice- man Killed in .South .Carolina. .Tim Saunders., aforip,er police- , m.a.n ,of Kings !^ountain,, was . shot.nnd MMed in..a druken row .. at Camppbelja, S, C..,last.Satur day afternoon at..4.p’clcick, • Mr. Saundpps wns-an.uncie of Me.ssrs.^C.; W..n,ad .Hullen-. der, of Kings'. Mountain, , Mr. Ivey Hullender went down Sun, day to attend the burial. Mrs. Saunders lives here
