Z,6erty, TnM, Justice, Equality
i Vol. 15, No. 31.
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, December 6, 1917.
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WESLEYAN CONFERENCE
HAS II GREAT SESSION
The thlitys-elghth annual sea
ton of the North Carol in Con
ference of the Wesleyan Metho
dist Connection adjournedSunday
niirht. The session wag held
with the Wesleysn Methodist
church here, and the pastoi
Informs us that this was the lar
gest and most successful session
jn the history of the conference.
Many noted visitors were in
atletdarce, and the meetings
were characterized by the great
est harmony and unity among
those present.
The night services were largely
evangelical, and many profess
ions of faith resulted. All the
irvlces were well attended. A
special feature of the preaching
services was the music led by
Rev. T. C. Harvey, of. Gastonia,
who also arianged for male quar
tettes, mixed quartettes, duet
and solos. ,
Dr. E. Teter, of Sheridan, lnd.,
president of the General Confer
ence, wa here and presided over
the del thermions of the confer
once. Sunday morning, Dr. Te'oi
preached the ordination sermon,
after which k class of three were
ordained the office and wjrk to
of eideis.
Tne appointments of ministera
to the various charges were
road Saturday night Those of
local interest being:
Kinns Mountain Rev. M. C.
Connor.
Charlotte -Rev. Edw. M.
Graham.
GistouU. Fir.t Caur.-.h -R?v.
C.A.Curtis.
Gastonia, Loray Rev. T. C.
Harvey.
Bessemer City Rev. J L.
Bolin.
Sholby Rev. John Walker.
The election of conference of
ficers resulted in the reten'ion
of Rev. J. A. Clement as Presi
dent, and Edw. M, Graham as
Secretary.
A resolution of thanks to the
good people of Kings Mountain,
thanking them for their generous
hospitality and enteitainment,
was unanimously adopted.
The conference voted that the
next session be held at Colfax.
KENDO! -BUNDLE
i. SWARRIFBEN HERE
Rev. R, A. Swarlngao, the
new pastor of King Mountain
nd Elbethel Methodist churches
arrived Friday night to take
charge of his new work. He
preached a most foiceful sermon
at Kl jetliol Sunday morning
making a' profound impression
on his congregation A t
tho Kins Mountain church
SuuJay atyUt be was greeted
by a splendid congregation to
whom h 6 preached another
strong sermon. Rev. Mr. Swar
ingen comes to Kiugs Mountain
from Brinkleyville, Halifax
county. North Carolina, where
be has served cnurches for the
past three years. ever since he
has been in the ministry. While
Mr. Swariugen is only three
years old in the ministry and a
comparatively yorng man, he
his a family of a wife and six
boys. He was transferred to the
Southern Methodist church from
the Protestant Muthcdist at the
last conference of the Southern
cbutch at Asbeville an 1 this is
his first ministry in the South
ern church. Mr. Swariugen was
rained iu Mecklenburg county
this state as n Southern Meth
odist but affiliated wifh the
Protestant church when no
church wh.n no c'luroh of his
his faith was accessible. He
says that all the time ho idtend
ed to "come back". Mr. Swaring
en took his A. U degree at
Lenoir College, Hickory. N. C.
and his B. D.. degree . at West
minster Theological Seminary,
Maryland. His fara'ly are coming
through the cojntry b automo
bile and are visiting relatives
enioute. They are expected to
arrive here in a fw days.
HEARS SONDY
Rev. B. A. Culp accompanied
by Dr. A. S. Beaman and wife
of Newton, and Rev. S. W. John
son of Gastonia, cpent part of
last week in Atlanta attending
Billy Sunday's meeting, they re
turned running-over with enthu
siasm for the famous evangelist.
Mr. Culp says nobody says too
much in praise of the work being
done by Rev. Mr. Sunday in At
lanta. Atone service which Mr.
Calp attended there were two
thousand professions of faith.
this. Mr. Sunday announced was
tli a recoriservico of his evange
listic career.
Mr. Culp says Mr. Sunday uses
language in the pulpit that he
wouldn't use and say lots of
things that he wouldn't say. 1but
but taking him all and in all, Mr.
Culp says that the Lord U cer
tainly with Mr. Sunday and that
he is bv all odds the most po'wer
ul preacher tint u knows any
thing about.
CRUSEi HIRE FURNITURE SURE
Miss Lizz'e Lee Hemdon, dau
ghter of Watt Herndon of Beth
leham section, was married last
Wednesday to Mr. Clyde Randle
of Grover.
MABXET LICENSE IEK1LEI
'The city ouncil hs repelled
the special license tax on ooe:
. atlng a meat market in Kirg
Mountain and farmers are bring
ing in their fatted calves and
dealing them out to the const
nysrsat a much lower figure than
they have been required to pay.
The cost of living was soaring so
high that the city father ftit
that they were due the people
the consideration.
'Mr G. J. Allen and eons, WUl
. and Ed spent Friday nigbt with
r' ilryln Allen, here-
Mr. J L. Parker, ou tdoor sales
nan tor Liwing -Robbins Fur
niture Compiny for the past sev
eral tnoutlr, hts resignel bis
position and goue back to Char
lotte to take a similar position
with a film there. Mr. Parker is
succeeded Mr. E. W. Ill an ton of
Charlotte who arrived Friday
11 take up his duties of wailing
upon the Kings Mountain trade.
In this connection we might say
that the nanagetn snt of the
Lawing Robbins Company is
much grati. ed at the splendid
patronage bung given them by
the K'ngs Mouutain people.
Miss Eihol Lawin of Char
lotte spent a few days last week
as the house guest of Miss Helen
Smith on King Street She is a
daughter of Mr. J. T. A. Lawing
the principal owner of La win?
Robbins Co. and while here assis
ted in keeping the books of the
company during the transfer of
Mr. Parker aLd Mr.Blanton, out
door salesman for the company.
FHRlS-CUfl
Miss Lizzie Farrla, daughter of
A. W. Farrla of Kings Mountain
was married Wednesdav of last
weelrto Mr. Logan Craft of Cher
rvvllle. Mias Farris bad made
ker residence In Uterryvwe lor
the put several years and they
were married there
ONLY FIFTEEN SHOPPING DAYS
Before Christmas
ONLY TWO ISSUES OF THE HERALD
In which to advertise your
Christmas Goods
FUEL SUPPLY
The government finds it no
small job to furnish the camps
with fuel. Mr. Gee. S. Gruvi s f
Alexandria, Va. came here sev
eral weeks ago an office and is
buying and furnising wood for
three of these camps. Mr. Gravis
is paying farmers and anybody
else fancy pi ices for any kind of
wood. He recently bougnt an
immense amount of saw mill slabs
around Kingj Mountain which
were three, fohr five miles from
the railroad. Helo to put the wo ad
to the road was uot available
among civilians, so he to Cirap
Wadnworth at Spart.nburg fjr a
detail of soldleis and trucks tj
haul and load the wood. In re-
spouse to this request the gov
ernment sent about fifty soldiers
and some trucks to do the work.
They are in Camp at Grover and
will be for a few weeks yet. It
was these soldiers who were en
tertained in Kings Mountain
Tbnksgiving.
AI
I NOTE IF IrTRECUTIM
To the good people of Kinps
Mountain Here's thanks to you
for your generous hospitality
towards the Wesleyan Methodist
Conference in general, and to me
in particular. May the Lord bless
you dear good people with an
abundance of the pood this life
and in the life to come. I extend
these thanks in the name of
Jesus, Amen!
W. W. Kimball
Lay member.
West Durham N. C.
PHINTINE OFFICER INDICTFI
Dr. B. H. Palmer, of Shelby.
county quarantine officer of Cleva;
land, was indicted Thursday for
failure to discharge his duties in
his own county with regard to
the rules and regulation Gover
ning the Control of infections
Diseases in North Carolina. In
dictment was brought against Dr
Palmer by Dr. A. McR. Crouch,
State Epidemiologist, who was in
the County to Investigate the ef
ficency with which the State
Quarantine Law was working in
the county. Dr. Palmqr submitted
to the charges and paid the fine
and cost of the action.
Eleventh Public Debato Of
The Athenian Literary Soeiet.v
Assisted By Tho Rhamsaeur
Literary Society will be held In
the Auditorium Boiling Springs
High School December 8, 11117
7:80 P. M.
OFFICERS
C. M. Ewing, President,
Lincoln County, Lera Harrill,
Secretary, Cl t land County
PROGRAM
Addiess bv President C. M.
Ewiug.
Piano So'o "March of The
Flo er Girls" MifsLucilo Wall.
Declaration "The Great Repu
blic A Christian State" Robt.
A Gardner.
Oration "Carolina. The Cradle
of Freed nn" E. C. Lee.
Trio "Believe Me All Those
Endearing Young Charms"
Misses Greene, Wall, and Parker
DEBATE
Query: Resolve, That this is an
opportuno time to establish
world wide democracy
Affirmative. B. H, Bridges, Xi
Green.
Negative, C. E. Dedmon, Virgil
Gardner.
MARSHALS
James Lovelace, Chief Victor
Gillisuio, O. P.. Davis.
FOR THE SOLDIERS
eUHU SUCCEEDED BY CONNOR
WBSEt-WUE
Miss Lillle Ware, daughter of
George Waro, and Mr. Dixie
Ware, ell of Elbethel section,
were married Wednesday ot last
week. V ' '
THREE SOWERS IILLEI
Private Marshall Goll of the
fifth company, 102nd. supplv
train, 27th. division, United
States Army, was killed at Gro
ver, four miles south of here
Saturday afternoon when train
NO 87 struck the truck he was
driving.
Goll was a member of a detail
sent from Camp Wadsworth, to
Grover to haul and load wood for
camp use. it was wntie in me
discharge of this duty that the
iccident occuried. He and a corn
rade wete in the act of passing
over the track of the Southern
on their truck when the train
struck the truck. Tne view of the
track is said to have been ob
structed by box cars so that the
soUiers conld not see the approa
ching train in time to clear the
track. Goll was driving the tiuck
an? would have been badly ham
pered in trying to jump sbuld he
jiave undertaken it. His comrade
Jumped and escaped uninjured.
Goll's home was in Nashville.
Tenn. The body was Uken to
Spartanburg and, we presume
sent on to bis people, -
Two soldiers also were killed
and four injured, three seriously,
when a northbouad train on the
Charleston and Western Carolina
railway struck' a' heavy army
ttuck near Woodruff, about 25
miles from Spartanburg, shortly
after 10 o'clock Sat. morning.
Kev, Edw. M. Graham, for the
past three years pastor of the
Wesleyan Methodist church here
and family are this week mov
ing to Charlotte where they will
make their home in the future.
The annual conference which
closed here Sunday with the
appointments for the ensuing
year assigned Rev Mr. Graham
to a church in Sevursville,
Charlotte. Mr. Graham is a man
whom the town regrets to give
up. Besides being a most ac
ceptable pastor and religious
worker he is a man of broad ex
perience and abundant common
sense. He Is a good mixer and
contributes to the ' welfare of
any community where he lives.
The Herald feels his departure
with unusal keenness. Mr. Gra
ham is a practical printer and
newspaper man who has given
us ma ay a good suggestion and
at times when he chanced to
drop in and find us "in a hole"
he didn't hesitate to lay off his
coat and fetch the ox out of the
ditch. He is an all round good
fellow and the best wishes of
town follow him and family to
their new field ot labor.
Mr. Graham is to be succeed
ed here as pastor of the Wesley
an Methodist church by Rev.
About fifty soldiers from Camp
Wadsworth, Spsrtanburg, who
no on detail at Grover hauling
and loading A-ood for the camp,
were invited to dinner at Kinf:
Mountain Thanksgiving day.
Tli''! boys arrived by truck at
eleven thirty and assigned to
to the vanouj homes to which
Invitations had been secured by
Mr. J. E. McLauglien who was
in charge of ihe a-rangements.
Policeman I!. F. Lindsay had
the list ol invitations ard in front
of tho Pastime Theatre gave
the boys then- us-sigmncnts.
Some took their guests to their
homes and others to the King
Cafe where a special dinner had
jbeen prepared fo them. It wis
j a good day for the soldier bo.vs
and for the town. It was quite
a diversion from camp life much
appreciated by the boys in
uniform. While on the other
band it was refreshing to have
the boys in the various home
and hear them talk of camp
life and their determination to
"do their bit"' towards winning
the war. These boys were from
New York state, many of them
the city. If anybody doubts for
a moment that a Yankee will
show full appreciation for South
ern hospitality let him do one
of these khaki clad boys a good
turn. Some of the soldiers
returned to Grover at five o'clock
bnt many of them remained
over tn Kings Mountain lor
supper leaving just in time to
answer taps at ten o'clock. The
soldier were loud in their praise
of the day '8 entertainment and
those who paitcipated in the
good work all seem to be happy
that they took them in. Many of
them made such pleasant guests
that they were invited to come
often.
: Mrs. J. G. Hord nd children
apent Thaoksgivlrg lo Osstonla
M meat of ber sister, Mr) Elmer
Spencer. . .- "vv.
LIEUT. CIWLEY APPRECIATIVE
May I express to you, and thru
you to the ladies and gentlemen
of King's Mountain, the thank
and appreciation of the men of
my detail and of myself, for the
splendid courtesy, kindness and
consideration shown them in
your city yesterday. Southern
Hospitality has long been a
by-word to wa northerners, and
I doubt if any of us have ever
experienced its delights before.
Happiness, contentment, and
comfort make toward efficiency
in a soldier, and the enjoyments
of Thanksgiving Day will long
be remembered by them end
M. C. Connor who for the past myself.
two years haa been the pastor of
a church at Guide, N. C. Word
comes that he is a successful
pastor and already durinR his
stay ' here at conference has
gained much favorwith his con
gregation. We welcome Mr.
Connor and trust that he may
be as successful a hi
predecessor.
BRICE CAWLEY
2nd Lieut. Cav. N. A.
Commanding Detail.
Grover N. C, Nov. 30, 1917.
To W. H. McGinnnls, Mayor of
town ot Kings Monntnin. N. C.
Mr. H. N. Mom and daughters
Misses Kathryn and Elolse, re
turned Friday' -from r Atlanta
wbare they Vieited relative.
Mr, and Mrs. J. D. Fulton ar
rived last week from Akron, Ohio
end will make home here. Mr.
Fulton ha a position with Mr,
M. L. Harmon in hi store near
Billing mill .