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History Of Kings Mountain Interesting ((Xmi'r from page one <1?ls sectlcia ctKhracten'-Bilc of all mining commui ll-hw a cai'ofm atmosphere ct pic.: uro prevKiilU-id. Wages and capital'u like wore lavishly spent for amuse intents at: 1 the grti'afisatlen of <H elitw. A livery stable with five sad die l-o;umt a bar-room and sup . plj store .'were profitable to thos' who" (operated them nearby. At tin peak of an f'lA.'iy more than '400 per pie, ) minting the families, were d! roctly eonnoctwl with the mining. Mi. Coeldgo of Philadelphia Beomi - t.j have boon one of the most succesi fill operators. lie litillt (lie firs stamp mill. During: h'.s regime thi story is tohl of John Lynch, an oh LngUshman employed ns watchman Ill* W'15 GRli.I HfU U JiiTiiffiuii nun the Hr!tlsh. government and he tnadi a t:rij> to the Mother country to se euro It. Disappointed he returned' ti the mine. Cine day he took his gut nn.1 dog. telling his wife he was go Ing to shoot a hawk and went Ir.ti the- woods, loafer she heard the n> port of his gun and saw smoke Go ing to the spirt she found hi* deal fom the gun 'wound end his cloth Ing on fire He whs burned under si I I til l mil inn rnrv nwir Tl'ir nrriirflf paved highway. Hr. 11 or ton was pm-haps the great Ml visionary of all. He had dretuui of untold wealth hldiden In the goh veina beneath -the earth. 'In an&Vipntlon of what he expect id to receive, he spent front $30,001 td $40,000 In building another large stamp ntlll in constructing a mil road in carry ore from the shafts t< the mills and various other improv merits, Consequently, when he fount alerts and excavations (hiidequat be had no more funds to carry on. Tiu was first (discovered In th Town of Kings Mountain. A studen t?l the Kings Mountain Mllltar School boarding at the home of Cap I Moll, at the corner of Gaston am hlotuitnui streets (lot new owned b; l>r. J. M. Gatrrlson) found at rock coi taming tin ore In the yat'a. A 'Mi Ledoux opened tire first prospects 4 the Southwest section of the tow hi 1888 1889. Some ' years latter snappy old Englishman ? Prof. FH11 inuin, hi Piinice Albeit coat and big . ?>>IK liat, came with his family t I nocyicct and promote tin mining. I 1S07, came the Blue Ridge Tin Got ponation ?- owned by the Posters c West Virginia, They opened the Pa ker mine located west of SouiheT Itsiiway at Piedmont street crosslni The shaft which they sunk has not crumbled tin an)4 tlie ki.rge woode ii-I'il lta? decayed, so now all tha toniaiiiB Is a sunken hole of rubbis and rock. Them ajte still accaslons efforts at ti\n ntintng around th town (S. S. Weir, Plonk and Crelg lor. property south of Town) but tl liaR never proven profitable. The Go-operative Colonization ,; & olely Teuton la Incorporated in N. ( (with' 100 shares capital) July 1 *88r>. Bernhardt (Hang. Presides Chas. IUeneck, Treasurer. Tittle was a colony of German' pet ' pk> formed in Philadelphia for tt pat-pose of settling on new lands 1 the South to farm and establish ii (fatly. A ?Mr. Braivtly, a Sirt rcbool tdadher. came South to fin a location and he selected the mow tain land from the Mtoun'sln Vie MB1 over Crowxtera Mountain to Ye low Ridge In the direct too of Kfnt Moo&tci'n. This (tract convprtotn MIM 4000 aorea was acquired fix* vnc uarrou, natter ana amiing uue though to about dour years rerouted to ithe onlglnal owners b etna of the failure of the colony. Fditure was due to the fact tht the country was not thickly popul tea lenougjh to support Industries an nlno that the colonists were n< tfrootfiaal farmers. They hid wll schemes for the development < their oolony ? for tnstance a cs line from Crowders Mountain t KVitsi MOimtMn town. Tthev plarvne to level .the mountains to facllitat farrsfag. One reporter from th north said the mountains would fa restore land all wtoter ? mlatskln vthe green p'nes for Kress. vWhffle some of these Germans h came discjwirasped and returned1 t he North, ether aVatiled themselve of better lairwl and settled here pe insntemtly. the descendants being i rum (he most substantial farmed ' In mtr mVVst. The best known Germians wh came were (1) Mr. Hockley ?a sfaon cutter ? at one time president c the coiooy. Kings Mounts! he went to Atlanta where he took Job on taMdtog the Atlanta Const* %lna Bulktfng. (2) Mr. Brantley the Swims School ttuher worked i (he geM mine end Inter wis super! b?dnt Mrr farms hi Cheater, 8. ( Mai Chart***, N. C. (81 Mr. Mttsc wasrwoolen weaver who had bee wortSng In mill tn Camden, N. J. H brought his family first to the tow of Kings Mountain to 1182?lhrtn tor two months near where the Pm Oil FUltns StAton now attands. H then moved near All Heeling Spring (Umsood) eg foot of Crowdei mountain. The BiUsers bed origin ly belonged' to the Amona derma PoMety In lowto but tearing tn 181 fwr^ --.v v?w^aig -~-f - - j** v "** \ '**x". ^ v > . '* . .* -J.. TJiB K1N08 MOU1 tor CuMlto they became members of the I'hlladelhia colony going to SVC. Fond cf Iv's vineyard and often Incoming intoxicated by the wine, Mr. lltUzer was urged' by the Plf ih minister to destroy the vtnejr>rd. However, ho did not comply. Mr. Wni. Hirn, step-son, a respected and well to do fanner lives a<t the home . plane !n a modern brick home. (4) The KlcluUes and Pflutns i- were si lk weavers. They brought , i- fhc-i-r i uullit'V Willi them. Iticha'dbl, i- first lived oil Colony- land, but later! i bought the Lynn place from W. A. Mauney ?, east of the well known' I- Dary Fill on Klugs Mountaln-Besse( mor Roa.4. (5) The. Pflums settled ' on Kings Mountain ne.w Sparrow a SphYgs. .The descendants now live ' in tl#? ssine section. (6) Mr. Meier i-jwns a shoemaker. He first lived on J colony land and then moved to town ?, where he operated a shoe shop (los ested at .site where Is now Sealey t Motor Co.) Latter he bought a form 5' t.Piir Kings' Mountain (mtn.).. His 11 descent! r(i??s now live near and in i-j Belmont, N. C. t! (O*her. Germans were the Kulins. ? Kramers. Jacobsens, .VhnCs. (Aime -1 v-t. s a dwarf and a chicken farmer. >!lle was rather slmple-inbidttd and t the block-sheep and lauglflng stock * , of the crowd.) >| Mr. .faoobson' opened a. carpet faclioiy 4n HSi All Helping. N. C. j The Kramers were assodi&ted wltn iililm. Their products were rag car- | -1 pent* woven In many shapes and i! j *t? rns. The looms (were operated , ' r hninl Tffin rmimff rf ttnfi nlnnt mn sold In Charlotte. Th?^e last named families return, ed to Philadelphia. ..... | H wing the name or tne famous | r<i\)>luHonarv Battle hns brought . (listlru'Mcn and recount*'on to KI nits 0 Mountain that otherwise It would ' r not have enjoyed. Patriotic from the I. torMeet days its citizens have engag 3 t d In many celebrations of the battle. , ? beginning wfftli the Centennial In ' ) 1"80, and continuing till the Seequl- ' . Centennial. 1930. . . Several elaborate celebrations i have been sitageidi on the battlefield ' t (1880-1909-1930) but it has proven '< none convenient and satisfactory to i hold the festivities In town so miauy anniversaries of the battle have been observed with . , parades pagaerotry iitid public spepktng here. These h.ive drawn many thousand people " arid such well known speakers as 11 Fen. Copeland of N. Y. (1923), Sen. n Folk of Missouri (1911.) Wm. Jena r>-c Bryan (1412), Sen.. George of ? Georgia (1925): and President Hoo ver (1930) and others. 0 n The most unique of ihese celebrate tk>ns was in the 80's when a huge if fV>!g was ralieed on the pinnaole of lOngs Mountain. The speaking and n festivities were held about one mdie this side icif Lake Mdmtorfa on the tr Gold mne tuaet?<Sn a clearing facing n the -pinnacle. .A " Tlii? various activities described aj bove bave been, compeilfng forcea in tbs development of the business ;? and social life of our community. In " the "gocd: old days" of the 80'a and. n 103 the town wrm a bustling center during week-enitls when fiolke from > the ccuntry-sidet came to lay in sup2 plies for the days ahead. Jostling el g bows with the Scotch Irish and ^ Perm. Dutch settlers were the newcomers ? some adventurous Kng0. l'jth miners, aomte plain bomely Doric I t ? i: CONGRATULATION! ;.i| On Fifty Sj| Achiet rit:; ' *:: * ii % < > ,* < > ?t ?> ? M >f I* O v id i * l| Qua it f Hard * ;; ' O ' ' * o ;; n , > , ... __ n < > A ! a J. ;; >r i; Bridges & J:: " :; Kings Mountain, N. C. H i > 11;; 18 ( / MTAIN HERALD. KINGS MDOUNTAll n ana mnbo still ipok? Dutch, som? dignified eduostors frotn the North, In ttanee of celebration added to this concourse of people were visitors of every rank end iile of f-actety from far and near and all of whom b.iVe left some imprint upon the life in.J manners of the town. 80. we see as we turn the pages of history, many faoea have come anil (.one. many Interesting events have taken place, in connection vtfh .the development of Kings Mtountaln. All jt us can turn our thoughts backivard in rerr/iruesconce, some seeing >nt?h further .than nthor* hut hit aavi ook tar cr.'crush to reu.Hze litvr ;hrn he years we have, had a steady substantial growth ? industrially, M <-lully. i ultcnvliy ?,\l ri'ualy. While we gaze in retrospect upon lte tollers and builders of the Past, nay re realize that the Present is or us ? to make as we shall choose. A'hot WE make of the Present will loterntfne what the Future is to .be. day we prove worthy" of the headtige into which we have come both n o<ur ideals arid our service to '.his rom inanity ? l.et me bdt live my life from "year to year > With forward tree and uureluotant souls Sot hurrying to. nor turning room the goal: ... . Not mourning for the things that disappear in the dim past, nor holding back in fear F*rom what the future veils ? but 1 \t?d happy heart, that pays Its toll to Youth aud Age \nd travels on with cheer." Brief History Of Kings Mountain MJfg. Co.. (By 8. A. Mluney, Sec'y-Treas.) Fifty one years ago or early In the >ear 1888 a goodly number of the j.tlzens of Kings Mountain and the ilcWitty met in a called, meeting at rite depot building which was at that time located ha the business center of the Town and W. A. Mauney was i-nosen an enairman ana i. in uarrett as Secretary of the meeting. At tfcTe meeting It was reported that $16,000.09 had been subscribed for building a cotton mill, but ft was not until 1889 that the OrtigUwal Capital S'ock of $39,750.00 was made up aril the mill begun the manufacture cf cotton yarns. Fnrly in 1889 J. M. Rhodes was eketed Secretary and' Treasurer of the mill Instead of I. W. Garrett and r-erved for about twio years or until K. iCTlllng wjBa elected! In 1891 who alto served In this capacity for a 1mrut two years or until relieved by J. S. Mattney 1? 1898. * _ At a Miiv meeting fa 1896 J. S. MatiMiety was elected os General Manager of the mill and the present Sefre'iarv and Treasurer. S. A Mauney, was elected, and is now 8or ting In this'Capacity. After tflM ntfll had operated for c e'lort time as a yarn mill It mt thought advtstnble to put In weaving but It was found dotfng the yeai 1906 theit H wa* very (difficult t< make the mill pay on cloth, ao ? change back to yarn waa made, anc the mill since that time operated ai a yam until and very few changes at to number of yarn has been made. W. A. Mauney served as PreaMeftt s Years Of < rement " 1 xm i w 4 s.m i s lity ware j * 4 I T1 4 : *38 4 < I " ' 1 ; ' | : Hamrick < Bessemer City, N. C. . . / (. N- c.. nrri? th amnivbrbary i i i/t the mill for forty yean and J. 8. , Mauney ansa active aa Secretary and i Treasurer and Gen oral .Manager (or sirnlVr period. The mill hue had aa Supenlntenid, en's lor the entire time of operation five men, vis: J. M. Williams, C. E. Xc.: sler, P. A Carpenter, J. P. Long, f iid C. Q. Rhyne. Up until the year 1927 there had rot been but two yep.rs that tlie mill showed an aotnal la?s In operation, and these wore the years directly attor the world war when almost evf.y tYKtele that tlhemlll had to deal t with allowed a very great shrinkage In value, and practically every on* w Lo was at all optimistic took more or less loss for the years 1921 ana 1922. i Ijhefe doesn't seem to be on. record any financial statements showing dfoe operation during Mr. Rhodes management, aptl only one on file for the two years that Capt. IMlling bad charge. Ste-'emeftits are on file allowing the operation of the mliil for each of the r i*' 45 yeo.ra. Since the slump in 1921 and 1922 when most mills had a very heavy shrinkage In their inventories the textile business has been anything 1 ut wtsfaetory, nrrt the stock-holdrrs haven't rwceflwd but one cash dividend tn this period, hut for the past' flf'y years the mill has pa'd to She original sh.i.reholidlw an average of more than 6 percent per year aa <e*h dividends and ko amage of 3 percent per year In stock <Evimm w m ivmi ma w The mill has replaced moat of the old spinning and the phyrfeal condition of the plnnt both In point of production and upkeep (a fairly good. Forly-nhie of the 58 corn club members of Green oounty ccnxplet ed tholr projects and records for I the 1938 crop and produced 2,500 bushel* on 49 acres or an average of 51 buaheto to the acre. The corn root an average at 35 cents a budhel to produce and to valued at 60 cents a bushel. From the standpoint of nutrition, 40 to 60 per cent of family dTets ol white employed city workers appear to be in need of Improvement and tlie same Is true for about 60 per cent of the d/ets of Negro families, the Federal Bureau of Home Econo mles foun In a recent study. Egypt, facing difficulties similar to those of .American cotton growers, has established a Cotton Adrsory Council composed of Cabinet members, growers, merchants, and splnhers. - ' I We Congri I H ZQ Its 50th A .; ' .. Fift; Thirtt ' We Oi F In a much smaller store 1 carefully and by correct grown. It has Always been the | ise at reasonable prices every business transact!* i *. ' V We have proof that oui creasing list of satisfied ebhtfid in the gro* tions, churches, that makes for t We invite you to i tore vmm > YOU CAN BUY 1 EDITION THE PRESENT ?V=~g?g4f 1 Thai Utts A y??r I A SUBSCRIPTION TO /~Hg) c The Home Newspaptr j _ ? - . C :? TL^ r ocrvmg i nc vuuuuuuujr i Faithfully Since 1904 . WITH ICE & COAL WE'RE BOOSTERS FOR KINGS MOUNTAIN ' . 1 AND CLEVELAND COUNTY / i V.\ -V ^; : XT 1 / * -: * . 4 Kings Mountain Ice and Coal Co. IfifiBHifiHHIHnfifiHHifiBiHHi itulate The Kings Mountain Herald On ? AAA nniversary And Kings Mountain On 1 5f*$3F y Years of Growth and Progress ^ sen Years Ago pened Our Store ror Business * > ' . ;v # ..-v / J. * ... ' . ! ' -jr.' . . _ | but in the sane location. We started- small, bought ' iu__ a__ a . . - uy simying !M needs or our customers wo hove ' . ' ' policy of our firm to handle only quality- merchandand to extend easy terms. We are determined that >n with us must be satisfactory. . - *- I ideals have been correct because of the ever in- ; customers. A HOME-OWNED STORE ? INTER/TH OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, IT3 INSTTTUSCHOOLS, PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING HE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY. PAY US A CALL BEFORE YOU BUY FURNIi J \ ' 1 a. rd Furniture Go. HERE WITH THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE iu-* . J 't? :'r- i " " ;': w&/'- ' - tt
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