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The Foothills View
Friday, November 5, 1983
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Circus
Scenes
Boiling Springs town residents
will go to the polls Tuesday to
choose three town councilmen
from a field of four.
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Incumbents Albert Glenn,
John Washburn and Jerry
Bryson will be joined in the race
by challenger Barry Hartis.
Glenn, who is in the lumber
business, has served over 16
years on the council. Crawley
Memorial Hospital ad
ministrator Washburn has serv
ed 13 and a half years, and
Bryson, who teaches school in
Rutherford County, is finishing
his first four-year term.
Hartis, who ran for council
once previously, is the business
administrator at Gardner-Webb
College.
The polls will open at the
Town Hall polling place at 6:30
a.m. Tuesday and will remain
open until 7:30 p.m. There is no
provision for absentee ballots.
Due to staggered four-year
terms. Mayor James Greene and
councilmen Max Hamrick and
Graham C. Hamrick are mid
way in their terms and are not
up for re-election.
Golden Day For Couple
How Leaves And Trees
Part Ways In Autumn
“Why do leaves fall from trees?”
Leaf loss is a complex process
which has developed over
millions of years of plant evolu
tion. In the fall, the days are
shorter, the hours of sunshine
are fewer, and cooler temper-
taures prevail. As a result, less of
the green chlorophyll, responsi
ble for food production, is made
by the tree, and less water is
needed for photosynthesis.
Since, however, most of the
tree’s water is lost through the
leaves, the tree can conserve the
water needed for its health by
eliminating its leaves. Reduca-
tion of the flow of water through
the trees to the leaves also
decreases the possibility of
premature freezing of those
leaves still functioning.
The mechanism by which
trees shed their leaves is com
plicated. The cells at the base of
the leaf stalk become thinner,
forming what is called an abcis-
sion layer, and the cells over
time gradually disintegrate and
separated; at this stage, the leaf
barely holds on to the stem by
means of the vascular bundles,
the tiny plumbing tubes used
earlier to carry water to the leaf.
Ultimately, the drying autumn
winds and frost action complete
the process, and the leaf
separates and falls.
Summy MeSwain: A
“Tenderhearted Man”
Boiling Springs Baptist
Church Fellowship Hall was the
setting on Sunda^ afternoon for
a reception honoring Mr. and
Mrs. James MeSwain of Boiling
Springs, who celebrated their
50th Golden Wedding Anniver
sary on October 30th.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy McKin
ney, the couple’s daughter and
son-in-law, were host for this oc
casion.
Mrs. Gene Parris of Burl
ington, greeted their 153 guests
who called between the hours of
2 and 4 p.m. The couple’s grand
children, Susan and Gregg
McKinney of Boiling Springs,
along with nieces Jane Childers
of Gaffney, S.C., Nicole Parris
of Spartanburg, S.C., and Shan
non Beason of Fort Mill, S.C.,
assisted with opening and
displaying gifts.
Mrs. Gayle Costner of Boiling
Springs, Mrs. Patsy Beason of
Fort Mill, S.C., and Mrs. Mar
shall Beason of Gaffney, S.C.,
Mrs. Betty Edwards of
Charlotte, and Mrs. Russell
Davis of Shelby assisted with ser
ving of refreshments. Anniver
sary cake, along with mints,
cheese pennies, vegetable and
ham sandwiches, sausage balls,
nuts and punch was served.
Mrs. Petty Parris of Cliffside
and Mrs. Bud MeSwain of Boil
ing Springs said goodbyes to
guests.
Summy MeSwain, 97, was
buried Tuesday at Boiling Spr
ings Cemetery. Born in
Cleveland County in May of
1886, he was five years old when
his mother died and he went to
live with his grandparents. In the
early 1890s, they moved from
Mooresboro to Henrietta, and
Summy went to work in the cot
ton mill there when he was
about eight.
“We used to play together,”
says his first cousin Mrs. Etta
MeSwain, who turned 98 last
month. He was always a good
boy. He didn’t get into mischief,
and he didn’t mind work.”
When the United States got
involved in World War 1, Mrs.
MeSwain remembers, Summy
was already too old for the draft.
So he went to work in a defense
plant. But his aunt El Kistler’s
only son was taken, and she
prevailed upon her nephew to
come and stay with her. Her son
returned only to die very shortly
of lung damage suffered from
poison gas, in the war, and Sum
my remained with her, for more
than 40 more years, until her
death in the 1960s.
He never went back to the
cotton mill; “he bought him a big
old truck, and did public
hauling,” Mrs. MeSwain recalls.
He never married. As he got
older, a cousin and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. David Weese, of
Henrietta, looked out for him.
When Mrs. Weese died, her hus
band continued to befriend him.
After Mr. MeSwain died Sun
day, at Rutherford County
Hospital, the family, many from
the Boiling Springs area,
gathered at the home of David
Weese in Henrietta. Survivors
included nieces, nephews and
cousins.
Mrs. Etta MeSwain
remembers her cousin as a kind
and gentle man. “He was awful
accommodating,” she says, “and
awful tender-hearted.” After
funeral services Tuesday morn
ing at Harrelson Funeral Home,
conducted by Rev. James Yelton
and Rev. Billy Holland, Mr.
MeSwain was laid to rest in Boil
ing Springs among his people.
A.f. Fletcher
The Royal Hanneiord Cir
cus came to Gardner-Webb
College Tuesday, delighting
those who got to ride the
elephant as well as those
who watched from a safe
distance. The tamer and her
lions. - Photos by Dwight
Reid.
Auditions Open For
Music Scholarships
Gardner-Webb College has
received a $7500 grant from the
A.J. Fletcher Educational and
Opera Foundation for the
establishment of a music
scholars program.
The grant, which will be
renewed annually by the founda
tion, will provide scholarships
yearly to seven entering full-time
G-W students based on their
demonstrated knowledge of
music and their performance
ability as displayed during audi
tions.
‘This is a very prestigious
scholarship that will attract to
Gardner-Webb a highly talented
group of students,” noted Dr.
George Cribb, chairman of
Gardner-Webb’s department of
fine arts. “The scholarship will
be adequate to compete with any
music scholarship offered by col
leges throughout the country.”
Auditions for the first A.J.
Fletcher Scholarships, which
will be awarded to new students
enrolling in the spring of 1984,
will be held on Saturday,
December 10. Each year
thereafter, auditions will be held
in the spring for new students
who enroll the following fall.
Persons intersted in applying
for the scholarships may obtain
the repertoire requirerpents by
contacing Dr. Crigg at Gardner-
Webb’s fine arts department.
Accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Music,
Gardner-Webb offers through its
music degree program concen
trations in music education,
sacred music, sacred
music/feligion, performance,
composition and research.
Students majoring in music
also have the opportunity to par
ticipate in a number of perform
ing organizations sponsored by
the music department including
three choral groups, a band and
an orchestra.
In addition to the college’s per
forming groups, Gardner -
Webb’s music program also br
ings guest performers to the
cmapus through its Distinguish
ed Artist Series. These perfor
mances are open to the general
public as well as to students at
no charge.
Anthony Town Jeweler
Austin Anthony
Services Held
Boiling Springs jeweler Austin
Odell Anthony died Friday at his
home, after a long period of
declining health. He was 78.
Born in Cooter Back com
munity, in Lincoln County, he
was one of the 12 children of the
late Joseph Robert and Maggie
Black Anthony. In infancy he
was brought to Cleveland Coun
ty, and the family settled on a
tract south of Boliling Springs, in
an area that became known as
Anthony town, where his
parents ran a store for many
years.
Austin Anthony dropped out
of Sharon School in the fifth
grade, when he was nine years
old, to go to work and help make
the living. He married Lucille
Blanton on July 27, 1929, and
they had six children, all of
whom survive him.
His advent into the jewelry
business, which eventually
brought him customers from
many other towns, was gradual.
Ill health plagued him for about
30 years, and he first enjoyed
trading watches as a hobby and a
small source of income.
“It used to be he would follow
the trade days,” his widow
remembers. “He’d sell a few wat
ches. Then he got to repairing
watches. Here in our bedroom
we had a watch desk. He started
out carrying his watches in a
cigar box. And then he went to a
suitcase. Then he started his
shop.”
The first shop, on Highway
150 south of town, was
destroyed in the tornado of
1973. Temporarily he moved in
to the Cleveland Sandwich Com
pany building, and kept up his
growing business while he
rebuilt a home for Anthony’s
Jewelry and Sporting Goods. His
sons Joe and Donald had joined
him in the business.
Austin Anthony
“Daddy loved people. He lov
ed to sit in that shop and talk
and joke with people,” says his
daughter Nancy Poston. He had
been to the shop for a couple of
hours on Friday, Mrs. Poston
says, and came home took a nap
after lunch. He died in his sleep.
Funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. Ed Sessom, Dr.
Eugene Poston and Rev. Ed
Brown at Flint Hill Baptist
Church, where Mr. Anthony
was a former deacon. Burial was
in Cleveland Memorial Park.
Surviving are his wife; two
sons, R. Donald Anthony and
Joe Herbert Anthony of Boiling
Springs; four daughters, Mrs. E.
Eugene Poston of Kings Moun
tain; Mrs. Bobby Penson of Boil
ing Springs; Mrs. Robert Ran
dolph of Gaffney and Mrs. Ran
dolph A. Raynor of Shelby; four
brothers, Frank D. Anthony,
Marvin L. Anthony, Solomon
H. Anthony and Hazel “Bill”
Anthony of Rt. 2, Shelby; two
sisters, Mrs. Blando Clary and
Mrs. J.T. Martin of Rt. 2,
Shelby, and 17 grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren.
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