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Kings Mountain, N, C, Thursday, August 13, 11)14.
No. 291
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FLYLESSTOWfl
GREENSBORO THE FLYLESS.
Th: Gate City Sets The Pace and
Chillanges (he State Board of
Health to Male a Fly
Inspection. 1
1 lire (ji'oensbo'o is to "lie sn
absolutely flyless town by the
cad of this week is the
determined aim of that town'i
: progressive and wide awakeciti
zeus. Not one thing is left un
none iq that town this week ot
r drive out and destroy those pes
ky filth and disease carriers
flies and to better the health
conditions of all its people.
, The State Board of Health is
Invited to inspect the work of
the anti-fly crusade, and to make
such suggestions as will render
this town absolutely flyless.
therefore safe and healthful if
any fly breeding material can be
found by the Board inspectors,
Their standard is a flyless town.
What Greensboro has done
and is doing, othe'" towns can do.
As citizens make a town not flies,
it is in the hands of the citizens
to have, a flyless town. If Vou
.want a flyless1 town, Greensboro
proves to you you can have one
Its up to you. ; v - V
Wondef if somebody couldn't
start such' a crusade in Kings
Mountain? But we must have
sewerage before we can wholly
ehrninatatilies.
Better Take Te Paper.
- An Illinois exchange gives the
following account of what hap
pened to a family too' stingy to
take their home paper. He says;
'We once knew a tnan who
was too stingy to take the news
paper in his home town and al-
went over to borrow his heigh
oor's paper. , '
"One evening ho sent his on
over to borrow the paper, and
while the son was on his way he
rv into a large stand of bees,
.i.id in a minute his face looked
lko a Hummer squash.
"Hearing the agonized cries
of thd son, the father rat to his
assistance and in doing so ran
into a barbed wire-fence, cutttng
a handful of flesh from his
ana-
tomy and ruining a pair
trousers.' : ,. ' .
of
s ' "The. old cow took advantage
, of the hole in the fence, got in
." i to the corn field and, killed her
self eating green cqrn. Hearing
the racket the stingy man's wife
-, ran out of the house, upsetting
.. a four gallon churn fall of cream
into a basket ot kittens, ;drown-
Ing the whole flock. She slipped,
- on the cream and fell do wn stairs,
breaking her leg vaud a- $19 set
ofiseteeth.'T1he baby, eft a
"'- lone,' crawled thrpugh the spilled
cr nm into the parlor and ruined
rJfcafefc During the exciter
'ji)eniq. daughter ;;- eloped with
'.4he hired man, taking the family
-,.. safings with them,
f , Mrs. Utea Improves
Mrs J. W. ,Uren . wrjtes from
' Portsmouth.ya. that her health
;, Is improving and that Bhe is. en
joying life on the seashore.
;'. vShe is very ' much; struck s with
.the ' contrast between the
poor, gardens of .Kings . Moun-
-' tajn . and the " splendid truck
farms ' around"y'Norfork - and
Portsmouth. Mrs; ;Uren states'
' that Mr.-" Perry Green' Potman
is married "again. - Mrs,, tJren
v"ild like to hear often frolu
' . friends i'iiingsrpAijituin.
Local Items
Mr. Troy Carpenter who has
been .with the United Statei
Drainage force in Orangeburg
County S. C. is at home again
Lust week we unwittingly re-
referred to Mr- Leslie McGinnis
as assistant cashier of the Kings
Mountain Bank. Tue fact is he
is associated with Mr. W S. Dill
ing in a . brokerage business
with the office in the bank.
We are giving the war news
in the most accurate, form avail
able and Herald readers may
rely upon its messages.
Mrs. Sallie Harwell of Stanly
visited her sister Mrs. K. K.
Howser, last week-
Miss AlphrHowser left Mon
day for Greenville, S. C. where
she is.visiting her, brother, Mr.
warn uowser. ...
Mrs." R. R. . Howser rethrned
lsst week from Greenville, S. C.
where she visited her son, Mr.
R. W. Howser. .
The Snowflake Steam Laund
ry of Gastonia-is doing arousing
businss in Kings ; Mountain.
There is a reason. , . i , ' ;.V '. .
Rev. IG. L. Kerr returned Fri
day from. Alabama where he had
been for three weeks encaged in
protracted meetings. He was with
Rev.,W.: M. Willis qna week and
Rev. J. L.1 Preesly two weeks.
Prof. Edgar Long of Due
West, S. C. was here Monday;
He left in thA afte'rnoon'for Gas-
tonia and went- from there to
Huntersville Tuesday where he
addressed a Sabbath' school con
vention..
Messrs. R, R. Howser, Pink
Herndon,-" Wheeler Ware, I no.
Etters. and Mr. Brown went to
Norfolk, Virginia last week' oh
thef excursion.
Rev. G. L. Kerr made a Sun
day, school address before the
convention at Huntersville Tues
day.; ' ' '.."-.;. i ;
Mrs. Gray Tolar of Stanley
returned Saturday after visiting
her aunt, Mrs. H. R. Howser. '
Mr. Carl Putnam of Blacks
burg.S. C. spent Sunday here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harmon
and Miss Lucy returned Sunday
from a several days visit to rela
tives near Patterson . Springs,
Shelby and Waco.. Miss Kate
Harmon remained with her grand
mother, Mrs.i Hoag, near Patter
son Springs, where she will visit
for sometime. . .
The Baraca Class of the Bap
tist Sunday School helcl, a -business
nreejiing after 'th,e i adjourn
meut of Sunday School and elect
ed officers and a teacher for the
ensuing six months. N. P.McM"il
ln; was reelected president;
Doris Littlejohn : was elected
Vice president; Frank Weir was
made secretary-rtreasurer and
G. G. Page was reelected teach
er with Benton Putnam as newly
elected assistant. The class in-'
vites every man within reach to
join it. '
A big delegation of Kings
Mountain folk attended the big
Cherry ville picnic Saturday. Of
course the . Cherry vllle people
will pay us back on October
seventh. .'' ., ; -
Mrs. M.-L. ' Plonk who has
been on a visit to her old home
in the rnral districts relumed
with Mr Plonk to Cherokee
Falls Sunday afternoon. !-
-Do you keep, up ' with , the
"Home Town Helps" 'Inter-,
natifl if nl. Sunday School Lesson'
aTii '"Toraperance Not"f Well
.y.m try , them, todaxv-; j
The Importance Of The Town
and some of the things it
Must Have And Do .
Everywhere nowadays farmers
together in preserving ana devolODing tneir communities, Tins is
a logical resu It of modern conditions, for there has hardly been a
time in the history of the United
ation has been more needed than
the town was little more than a
sible for that purpose alone. The
trading center of the community
center as well.
Some citizens have sometimes
importance of the sociai advantages afforded by the small country
town that would be wholly unsupplied if not provided by the town.
Local trade and commerce produce and retain wealth and prosper
ity where that trade is carried
wealth accumulates in a community every citizen in the community
but especially tlie-property owner
circulated money may be acquired, wealth may be accumulated,
The only way in this world to
perous is to promote trade in it,
The nearer the consumer is to the
and this takes conguizance of the
some of his aspects a producer
Town and community are not
that is sent away, but by the money that is sijent at home. The
best possible way, in fact the only practicable way to make this
community more prosperous is to
have more people rightliere to
So far as the wealth and prosperity of the community are concern
ed, they will be promoted as directlv by the purchase and con
sumption of what is sold as by the consumption of what is prod uc.
ed'here.'.Inpther words thingsmust.be bought here and the money
produced in the community must
community is to prosper as it should. '
. Town and community are lot
landscape;' tbey are indispensable factors in producing not only
th highest but the only known civilization. The human race can
as conveniently dispense with houses as with communities. Man
is a social animal and the community is but a development of
man's social instincts. Of course-
the rural town can be wiped otf
ous loss to civilization. The fact that some .persons- are so short
sighted as toignore the necessity of the community organization
does not make that necessity any the less urgent. Nor does it
make injuries to the community any the less vital because the per
sons Inflicting the injuries are ignorant of the harm they are doing.
A community gives to each of iw citizens a great many things
that they would-sorelv miss if deprived of them, Iu return and for
its own preservation the local town the nucleus of the community
without which it would cot exist idemands something from the
citizen his trade.
We sometimes wonder how many citizens use this town to the
greatest possible advantage to
looked uoon this town as an organization designed especially to
contribute to his comfort, his progress and fiis happiness. What
has it to offer that he must have
tented and that he can not secure
citizen farmer or townsman as
check or to the post office to mail
would be without bank or post office.' On he imagine bank and
nost office without a town? Canlhe imagine a town without stores
and other places of business? Can
without natronager Let him for a
relations and connections that exist between local population and
Datronace' of local marchants, the supporting and maintaning of
schools, churches and" places of amusemnnt, he performing of
governmental functions, and indeed the maintenance of civiliza
tion. Though h,e may shut ms
itrnore his duty.iti the premises,
exist and the duty is none the less
s y BrokeUp Baptizing.
The colored people 'were-- bay
ing a baptising in a pond- near
Grover Sunday when a very' ri
diculous thing occurred Some
scoundrel of a white complexion
had gone , to a nearby spot on:
the pond and had thrown ' in. a
bunch of cats to drown. One of
the fenine creatures fhat wJs not
quite dead came near where the
colored parson was administering
the ordinance. The, parson pro
ceeded to remonstrate with wbo-
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over did such a low down- trick.
The offender who was pretend
ing to Attend the baptizing beard
tho remarks of the- colored di
vine, went home and procured a
gun ana proceeded to shoot the
oreacber. He shot five -times but
only one bullet took .effect and
that was in the. knee. . It goes
without saying that the darkies
scattered without orders and the
baptismal oxercisea were, imme
diately suspended,. .
and townsiieoplu are wonun
States when this kind of cooper
at present. In the pioneer days
placo to trade, but it wasindispon
modern town is not oply t'e
but it is its social and educaitonal
overlooked or underestimated the
on in the rural cummunity. As
is benelited. Where money is
make a community rich and pros
both producing and consuming,
producer the better both are olf
fact that every living man is in
and in others a cousumer.
made prosperous by tne money
make it more populous; wemiust
consume' what we produce and sell
be spent and used ticre if the
mere , accidental features of the
the community can be destroyed,
the map; but not without a seri
'
themselves. , Suppose everybody
in order to be happy and con
elsewhere? How often does the
he goes to the bank to cash a
a letter, think of what conditions
he imagine the existence of stores
moment consider the intimate
eyes to these connections and
the connections none the less
obvious, ; '-... ,. .
Mies Watson Here
: Miss Sarah Watson of Char
lotte, who will have' charge of
Mrs. Hislop's Millinery business
hero for the coming season, was
here Saturday looking over the
store and remnant of stock and
making out a list of her wants
in the Northern markets. '
Shw leJt Charlotte Tuesday for
New York where she is buying
the season's stock. She expects
to return and open up business
September, firsi Misa Watson is
a milliner' of-great reputation,
ftavir.g held positions in some of
the best shops-in the country.
Owing to'a long-life of seryice
and the infirmities-of old age,
Mrs. Hislop will n&tf- be -with the
business regular-this season but
will live .quietly with -het sister,
MrsvMcKJ -riley, ; in Charlotte On
very . busy occasions she wilt
come over and- assist Miss ' Wat'
'boo, "r, .
Gets Hurt
Mr. M. L. Plonk brought homn
a bad looking face Saturday af
ternoon. He had been at Chero
kee Falls, S. C. doing some blast
ing. While at his work Saturday
morning ho became in some vay
entangled and fell. His face
sirucK something winch made a
very ugly wound just outside
the cavity of the right eye and
several smaller wounds nearby
He says the eye is all right.
Mr. Plonk stated to the Herald
man that ho didn't know just
how the accident occurred. He
had' placed four sticks of dyna
mite and was getting out of t
way of the explosion.
Tho explosion occurred
before he had reached a sa
distance away. He sajs that he
either fell or was knocked about
ten feet over a ditch and fell on
his face and head. For the mom
en he was so dazed lie doesn
know just what occurred except
that he remembers that some
body took hold of him and led
him out of danger. The fall on
his head caused a severe joit of
the neck joint. He began norl:
again Monday.
A Frightful Varment
The discovery and capture of
the merino sheep didn't settle
the troubled seas in the coinmun
ity about are school house
There is really some tort of t
tnghttul varment at large in
the community acuording to
current reports. He has been
sighted and shot a .number ot
times but nobody has had good
enough vlow'of hiih to learn just
what he looks like. A number
the Kings Mountain gunmen
have macte frequent trips to
the community and have seen
the tracks aud lain in the -am
bush for the animal. Dr. J, S
Hood, with others measured the
track and found its exact ditnen
sions to be from heel to toe five
and a quarter inches and from
side to side four incl es. They
say that the track has somewhat
of the appearance of a cat's
track. At a stride in walking ho
goes fully three feet and when
running covers- eleven feet
These are actual measurements,
His coat is brown and measures
about four inches and is bristl e
ike. Dr. Hood secured a ; bunc h
of the coat from a barbed wire
where the animal had passed.
He seemes to travul invariably
at night and often visits farm
yards. The animal-wakes a noise
similar to the bull. He went in-
to Mr. Josh Gamble's yard- the
other night and roared out. Mr.
Gamble opened the door and let
fierce bull dog into the yard. In
a very f jw seconds the dog came
bounding back aiul.coold not be
Induced to come from under the
bed. A -'. ,':.';. ,
The peoplo are very 'iiuch
disturbed in the community and
much search is being made for
the beast. It is said that many
of our bravest gunmen have sat
in waiting in. the gullies and
forests about Buffalo to get a
crack- at him but were- at the
same time mightily afraid they
would see him. ;
News in tho Herald isalways
classified. Pages one, four, live
and eight carry local- news and
pages two, three. 6 and 7 general
news. We consider this class
lficationpreferrable to throwing
it all in together1' rough and
tumble- ) S. - -
. Rev. B. A. Culp is at Hickory
this week-in protracted mect-
.
THE SPRINGS'
.ARE AGAIN ON THE MAKKET
Owner, Mr. John A, Darwin, Abandons'
61 00,000 Club plans and the
ptoperty rocs on the
market again
Cleveland Springs in once'
more in the air. Owing to'tho ill-
news of the owner, Mr. John A'
Darwin, who hns been some time
and is now at Clifton Springs
N. Y., for his health, tho $1()0,.
KX club plans have been aban
doned, '"his leaves the
great Springs property open
for devlopement by wliotneso
ever may have the nuance to"
build or the ability to promote
a great hotel, such as the pro
perty deserves. It is believed
that had Mr. Darwin's health
not failed him, he would have
realized his cherished plan:; of
one of the South's greatest clubs
to be located at that place Mr.
Darwin has authorized the First
National Bank to pay back the
money that was paid in by tho
original members of the club.
This paper hopes;' along with'
every uubhc spirited citizen ot
Shelby that tho' Springs will
some dny be develped as they
should. This will do much to at
tract the Interurban. In fact, if .
the Springs could bo sold to tho
Interurban, it would certainly
bring the road to Shelby . Holl
ander. .
MRS. WILSON DEAD
Passing of a landmark and Saintly
Woman who livefl Exem
plar Life '
(Cleveland Star last week)
Short before the hour of 12
o'clock on Wednesday night tho
spirit of Mrs. V. S. Wilson,
passed to the great beyond at
the homo of her daughter, Mrs.
A. P. Spake, just east of Shelby.
Mrs. Wilson was near her Hist1
birthday and had lived a conse
crated life, close to the master
and her host of friends. She '
had lived a widow 5a years,
having married Mr. Samuel 0.
Wilson. She was a member of
Zoar Baptist church for 07 years '
and tho funeral was conducted
there yesterday afternoon at 8
o'clock by Rev. A. C. Irvin, a
life long family friend. Three'
children survive, Messrs. Mon
roe and W. P. Wilson and Mrs.
A. P. Spake. Only one brother-
survives, Mr. Albert i'utnam. la '
the passing pf'"Aunt Lena" a; ,
landmark has gone and her life'
was such that those who knew '
:r were made better by her ac- .
quaintance and exemplary life. '
Mark Twain On Advertising.
When Mark Twain, in Ins ear-'
id days, was editor oi a Miss-
oun paper, a subscriber wrote .'
niui that he, had found a spider'
n his paper and asked him who-1
ther it was a sign of good or bad ,
luck. Trie humorist wrote him '
this answer:
Old Subscriber; : Finding a
spider in your paper -was neither '
good luck nor bad luck; The
spider was merely looking over '
pur paper to see' which merchant
is not advertising, so that he can r;
go to that store; spin his -web a-
cross the door and lead a life of ,
undisturbed peace forever - af-' '
ter. ; Sanitary Pottery. ,
Mf.T Leo Woodall. local agent '
for the Southern,' made a trip, to '
Greens-bow Saturday- afternoon-'
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