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THE MIDGET
May, 1922
ROBERT WOLF’S STORE
Always showing latest styles in Ready-
to-Wear, Millinery, Shoes and Clothing for
the whole family.
ROBERT WOLFS STORE
Near Maralise Hotel : Albemarle, N. C.
ALBEMARLE NOVELTY STORE
Novelties, Celebration Goods, Toys, Gifts,
Domestic and Imported China, Cut Glass,
Guaranteed Jewelry, Sporting Goods, etc.
5-10-25C. to $5.00
McEwen & Pence, Owners
Members Albemarle Merchants’ Ass’n.
On Monday evening', May 29, the
Senior class Wiill present “Aaron
Boggs, Freshman”, featuring J. Win
fred Gaddy as Aaron Boggs.
A debate on the immigration ques
tion is scheduled for Tuesday evening
with Martha Austin and Ray Lowder
upholding the affirmative side of the
question in opposition to their op
ponents, Charles McSwain and Rob
ert Cranford. After this debate the
various medals, pins, ribbons, prizes,
certificates of scholarship, deport
ment and attendance will be awarded.
If time permits, it is possible that the
diplomas will be presented to the
members of the Senior class, but of
course, they don’t care whether they
receive them or not, for they have
only labored for their sheepskins
through a period of 11 or 12 years.
ALBEMARLE—YESTERDAY, .TO
DAY, AND TOMORROW.
(By George Harris.)
On a bright day in the summer of
1907, Mr. C. C. Gregg, a prosperous
young manufacturei of Pittsburgh,
Pa., got on the slow dinky train that
was to bring him to the little village
of Albemarle. When he saw the
dusty little town, with a few buildings
scattered here and there, no lights
or water works, no sidewalks or pav
ed streets, a poor residential section,
and the merchants sitting out in front
of their stores, whittling, he thought
that he was coming to the end of
civilization. Indeed, lie thought that
there was no hope of Albemarle’s
ever becoming 'an industrial center.
Obeying the instruction from head
quarters, however, he inspected the
mills in which he had already invested
several thousand dollars. He then
returned to his home, thinking his
mill stock worthless. From year to
year he received the reports from the
mill, and from the dividends he be
gan to receive, he realized that some
thing must have happened around
that deserted village.
In the spring of 1922, while at
Pinehurst, N. C., he decided to come
over to Albemarle and see the lay
of the land again. He found that
the highways leading to Albemarle
compared with the best, and that his
C'.idillac rode as if there were a floor
under it. This time he found a five
story hotel, many new residences, sev
eral buisness buildings in the process
of construction, well equipped schools,
growing residental sections, a live
board of aldermen, thriving mills,
clean, well-stocked stores, two news
papers that were always boosting the
town, plenty of “pep” and everybody
busy. When Mr. Gregg got back to
the Carolina hotel that night, he
said:
“Fellows, I subscribed to the Al
bemarle Press while in Albemarle
today, and by reading this paper I
am going to keep up with what is
going on in that thriving town and in
Stanly County as a whole. I think
that place has a great future in
store.”
As time passed on, Mr. Gregg be
came more and more enthusiastic ov
er the reports coming from Albe
marle. He got several manufactur
ers interested in the county, it’s water
power, and prospects for development.
These capitalists sent down engineers'
end invested large sums of money in
manufacturing establishments.
One nice spring day in 1937, Mr.
Giegg said, “Claude, go roll the Curtis
ALBEMARLE CANDY
KITCHEN
Confectionery and ice Cream Parlor
HOME MADE CANDIES
Albemarle, N. C.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
Given Children’s Hair Cutting
Except Saturday
Central Hotel Barber Shop
FOR SERVICE