OLD FORT NEWS
VOLUME 111 OLD FORT, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930 NUMBER 41
THE OLD FORT NEWS
The Old Fort News is pub-!
jished each week in connection
with the Marion Progress.
MISS GERTRUDE DULA,
Editor and Business Manager.
DISCOURAGEMENT
i
It was once announced that the j
Devil was going out of business and
would offer his tools for sale to any
one who would pay the price. On the
night of the sale they were all at-;
tractively displayed, and a bad look- j
ing lot they were. Malice, envy, hat
red, jealousy, sensuality and deceit,
and all other implements of evil
were spread out each marked with!
its price.
Apart from the rest lay a harm
less-looking and wedge-shaped tool,!
much worn and priced higher than
any of them.
Someone asked the Devil what it
:
was.
"That's Discouragement," was the
reply.
"Why have you priced it so high?"j
"'Because," replied the Devil, "it!
is more useful to me than any of the
others. I can pry open and get inside ;
a man's consciousness with that, i
when I could not get near him with j
any of the others, and when once in-!
side, I can use him in whatever way!
suits me best. It is much worn be
cause I use it with nearly everybody,:
and very few yet know it belongs
to me." |
It hardly need be added that the
Devil's price for Discouragement
was so high that it was never sold.
He still owns it and is still using it!
—Anon.
ARROWHEAD MONUMENT
TO BE UNVEILED JULY 27
The unveiling of the arrowhead
monument at Old Fort will take
place on Sunday July 27 at 2:00 o'
clock. i
The people from the adjoining
counties are expected to meet at Old
Fort on that date to help celebrate
the unveiling of this monument;
which was erected to the memory of
the early pioneer history of this
community and to the old Indian
fort which stood near Davidson's
mill creek, from which the town de
rived its name.
This fort was a protection in times
of danger to the early pioneers, and
a direct descendant of one of the
early settlers, little Miss Martha
Nesbitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j
Johnson Nesbitt, has been appointed
to unveil the monument.
That the Rev. Clarence Stuart
McClellan of Asheville will make an
address on this occasion is of much
interest to the people of Old Fort,
who hope to make this day one
which will stand out prominently in
the history of the town.
This event will be of particular in
terest to the many people of West-|
ern North Carolina who are descen
ded from the early pioneers who
settled in this section, and whose
work and bravery will be commemo
rated on this day, and the people of
Old Fort cordially invite them to j
come and participate in the unveil
ing of this marker.
Many prominent people have been
invited to attend this unveiling, am
ong whom are Will Rogers, Vice-;
President Charles Curtis, Ex-Gover
nor Cameron Morrison, Ex-Congress !
man Zeb Weaver, Col. Fred Olds,
State historian; F. A. Sondley, R. E.
Simpson, W. F. Cooper, Robert ,
Quillen. Horace Kephart, J. Hamp
ton Rich, and Mrs. E. L. McKee.
Another interesting feature of
this program will be the presence of;
a few Indians from the Cherokee i
and Catawba tribes, who have also!
been asked to take part in this cele- '
bration. ;
The marker is in the form of a
huge arrow head, carved from pink
granite, being 14ty feet high and;
stands on a rock and concrete base
of slightly more than 15 feet, and:
no doubt is the largest arrowhead in ,
the world.
NEWS FROM CAMP ELLIOTT
The group of boys sponsored by
Mr. Whiddet of the Episcopal church
of Charlotte left on Monday, except
for several of the boys who have had
their time extended for a while lon
ger, to enjoy the camp.
Among the new arrivals are boys
from Washington, N. C., and Mari
on, N.C. A group of sixty boys spent
the Fourth at Chimney Rock and re
ported a delightful trip. The atten
dance has been showing a satisfac
tory increase.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Mrs. Nannie Justice was in Mari
on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams
have returned home after spending
a weewk in Charlotte.
Miss Nannie Nichols spent Mon
day in Asheville.
Miss Frances Fortune has return
ed home after spending a week with
Mrs. D. S. Tucker in Winston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Nichols
spent Wednesday in Asheville.
Miss Roe Nichols of Shelby spent
Friday with Miss Nannie Justice.
T. L. Nichols was in Asheville on
Wednesday.
Mrs. W. A. Hoard and son of
Shelby spent Thursday with Mrs. T.
L. Nichols.
Carye Hedgepeth of Lumberton
was a guest at the Mauney House
the past week-end.
Patrick Sweeney and Robert Wil
kinson of Johnson City, Tenn.,
spent the week-end in town with
homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bueck of Selma
visited Miss Gertrude Dula Satur
day. Mrs. Bueck will be remembered
as Miss Clell Branham, a former
teacher in Old Fort.
Miss Delia Robinson of Roberson
ville, Miss Irene Thomas of Rocky
Mount, Miss Pauline Kitchin of
Scotland Neck, and Miss Mabel Bag
by of Wilson were guests of Miss E.
R. Grady on Wednesday.
Miss Margaret Lytle was a visitor
in Old Fort Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Tate and chil
dren, of Atlanta, Ga., are visiting
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Tate, of Old Fort.
Mr. and Mrs. Hem-y W estermann,
Miss Lenore Keatley and Miss Ger
trude Dula were visitors in Marion
on Friday.
Reverend Mr. Ingle and family of
Asheville are now making their
home in Old Fort, Mr. Ingle having
accepted the pastorate of the Bap
tist church at this place.
Cletus Tate of Hartford, Conn.,
and Bernard Tate of Johnstown,
Pa., are spending some time in Old
Fort with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swann of Ashe
ville were the week-end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. D. Haynes.
Geo. Lindley was in Waynesville
last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Stump and
daughter Gladys spent Saturday in
Asheville.
Miss Addie Thompson and Miss
Harris of Marion spent the week-end
in Old Fort with relatives.
Mrs. William Allison and Mrs.
Delia Edney spent Saturday after
noon in Marion.
Misses Viola Grant and Alma
Greene were visitors in Black Moun
tain Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Long were
visitors in Asheville Sunday.
Miss Laura Curtis of East Flat
Rock spent the week-end in Old
Fort.
Mrs. Don Grant spent last week
end in Gastonia with relatives.
Miss Gladys Stump was in Marion
on Monday.
Miss Finley of Marion spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lackey.
Mrs. W. C. Morrison of Dixon,
Tenn., is visiting relatives in Old
Fort this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Reid of Black
Mountain were visitors in Old Fort
Sunday.
A. W. Padgett is ill at his home
east of Old Fort.
Alio Bates, who has been in Dix
on, Tenn., for several months, re
turned to his home here Sunday.
Miss Farnces McCurry, of Ashe
ville spent last week-end in Old Fort
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crawford of
Spartanburg, S. C., are visiting Mrs.
J. R. Crawford this week.
Misses Elizabeth Lipe, Gladys
Stump, Marie Sabom, and Margaret
Weaver, Austin Harris and David
Taylor were visitors in Marion on
Monday evening.
A. L. Hicks is visiting his son in
Canton this week.
Miss trances Urant, who nas been
visiting her grandmother in Gaston
ia, returned to her home Sunday.
Mrs. Viola Elliott of Winston-Sa
lem is visiting her brother, Garland
Bryson, vTho is seriously ill.
Members of the Junionr Lodge
decorated the graves of their dead
Sunday afternoon at Cherry Springs
and Old Fort cemeteries.
Little Harriet Long, who under
went an operation at the Mission
Hospital last week, returned home
Wednesday.
Mrs. Nannie Justice and two chil
dren Left. Monday for Norfolk, Va.,
where they will be the guests of Mr,
and Mrs. 0. E. Pierce.
Miss Hazel Erown of Black Moun
tain spent the week with Miss Fran
ces Fortune.
Mrs. Nannie Justice had as her
guest last week Misses Annie Jus
tice, Lillian Nanney and Hazel Tate,
of Rutherfordton.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Westermann
spent the week-end in Asheville, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Good
son.
A miniature golf course is being
constructed on the lawn at S. F.
Mauney's.
Prof. S. B. Smithey spent the
week-end with homefolks.
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Dula and
daughters, Misses Elizabeth and
Sarah Joe, and son Edward, of Le
noir, spent a short time in Old Fort
Sunday en route to Brevard. They
were accompanied o nthe trip by
Miss Gertrude Dula.
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Cowan and
daughters, Misses Bessie Mae and
Elizabeth Cowan, of Statesville,
were the week-end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Graybeal.
The members of the younger set
who enjoyed the swimming and boat
races at Lake Lure on the Fourth
were Misses Carolyn Mcintosh, Jan
ie McSwain, Eunice Wilkinson, of
Old Fort; Jennie Lee Wilborne of
High Point; Messrs. Jack Armstrong
Carl Smith, Homer Bivers and Banks
Pasturn.
Mrs. F. P. Sweeney and sister,
I Miss Eunice Wilkinson, and Miss
Nancy Miller motored to Johnson
City on Saturday.
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR GARLAND BRYSON
The funeral services for Garland
F. Bryson, "who died Monday after
noon at four o'clock, were held at
the Baptist church at 2:30 Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr. Bryson was an employee of
the Union Tanning Company, a
J member of the Junior Order of the
| United American Mechanics, and a
member cf the Old Fort Volunteer
; Fire Department. He is survived by
a wife and three children, Ina May,
| Violet and Garland Bryson, Jr.;
i five sisters, Mrs. M. E. Head, Mrs.
I Robert L. Danner, and Miss Selma
Bryson, all of Old Fort; Mirs. Viola
, Elliott of Winston-Salem, and Mrs.
Grover C. Cooper, of Sylva; one
brother, Geo. R. Bryson of Old Fort.
The services were conducted by
Rev. L. J. Ingle, Rev. M. E. Hansel,
( and Rev. 1. A. Rhinehardt. Members
l of the Old Fort Fire Department
,and Junior Order were present and
; assisted ir. the services. Interment
|was made in the Old Fort cemetery.
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
OLD FORT GROUP OF
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
M. E. Hansel, Minister
Old Fort
! Sabbath School 10 a.m.
• Junior Christian Endeavor 6:30 p.m.
'Young People of the Church 7:15pm
Public worship 8 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday 8 p. m.
Siloam
Sabbath School 10 a. m.
Public Worship with Commu
nion of Lord's Supper 11 a. m.
Oakdale
Sabbath School 10 a. m.
A REQUEST
Old Fort people are reques
ted to send news items for the
Old Fort News page, in the
Marion Progress, to Miss Ger
trude Dula, editor of this page,
and not direct to the Progr«--s«:
office. This is to avoid the same
news item being printed twice
on the page. Mailing boxes for
Old Fort News items will be
found at the Old Fort Drug
Store and the Bradley Drug
Store. Postofftce Box 191, Old
Fort, N. C.
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'CAT EYE' ANNIE SAWS
WAY OUT OF PRISON
Notorious Burglar Escapes
From Auburn.
Auburn, N. Y.—Cat Eye Annie Lil
lian McDowell—forty-eight—notorious
burglar and one of tlie most elusive
characters of the underworld when
outside prison walls, escaped from
the Auburn women's prison, but pris
on authorities are doing their best to
lock her up again. Just three weeks
after declining to try for freedom
with two other inmates who were cap
tured, Annie sawed her way out of
her cell and escaped.
Cat Eye, who got her nickname
from a peculiar cast to one eye,
sawed through the wood around the
lock in her cell door and got over
the walls in a manner which left pris
on officials puzzled several hours aft
terward.
Every Nook Searched.
Only a few days ago she told
Warden Frank L. Heacox that Sally
Joyce Richards, blond bandit of Buf
falo, and Amelia Bascom, badger girl
of Brooklyn, approached her to get
her to join them in their contemplated
escape of April 28. Mystified at the
time by this revelation, and puzzled
that Cat Eye had turned down the
opportunity, prison officials now see
her refusal to escifpe at that time
based on a desire to play her old lone
wolf part.
At first it was believed that she
must still be within the walls, but
an extended search of every nook and
corner failed to reveal her. Immedi
ately the hunt was started outside the
walls by troopers and police through
out the vicinity. Cities throughout the
state were asked to be on the lookout
for her.
On a previous escape, after 26 hours
of freedom, she was found rain-soaked
and exhausted, hidden under a pile of
straw a mile and a half east of Weeds'
port, eight miles north of Auburn.
Nearly Died of Pneumonia.
A clew to her whereabouts was pro
vided on that occasion by word of
residents in that vicinity who said
they had seen a woman near there
acting strangely. She had gone with
j out food for 24 hours.
Due to exposure she contracted
I pneumonia and nearly died. After her
| recovery she was taken to Matteawan
state hospital in the belief that she
was becoming insane. Subsequently
she was returned here.
The description to the police said
i she probably wore a blue striped skirt,
; a blue sweater, black shoes and stock
ings, and a light top coat and brown
fedora. She was described as 5 feet 4
i inches tall, weighing 120 pounds, with
; medium chestnut hair and light com
I plexion.
! Working in the dead of night on
her previous escape here, with no
tools but a short iron window prop
and a spoon, Cat Eye Annie, virtually
under the eyes of guards and prison
matrons, dug a hole through the brick
wall of the cell and, with the aid of
a plank taken from the greenhouse,
scaled a low wall and slid down an
improvised blanket rope to freedom.
Packages of mortar and bits of
broken brick were found stuffed in a
mattress upon which she had pretend
ed to sleep at night.
Her escape was made in the early
morning on that occasion.
j Style for English Girls
Set by Baby Princess
j London.—Little Princess Elizabeth,
four-year-old daughter of the duke and
' duchess of York, still rules the fash
i ions of England's nurseries.
Her mother has chosen a particular
ly pretty wardrobe for tlie fourth lady
in the land, this spring. Once again
many of lier frocks will be of a soft
butter yellow color, which through its
| association with her has achieved the
name, "Princess Betty Yellow." It
is infinitely becoming to her bright
j golden hair and blue eyes.
There are also to be some printer
I crepe de chine dresses with flowei
| posies. These are short and full, ."ill
tiny puffed sleeves, and they are ex
pected to create a fashion for othei
very small young ladies.
For very special occasions, such as
parties, the little princess is to be ar
rayed in a frock that consists entirely
of frills—a style which is said to fim
great favor with her royal highness
i Sailor, in 20 Foot Boat,
Will Try to Cross Ocear
Lisbon.—A Portuguese sailor uamei
Macedo left Casa Blanca in a 20-foo
cutter to cross the Atlantic to Nev
York, where he expects to arrive ii
40 days. He will follow a route whicl
touches the Canary islands, the Ber
mudas and Cape Hatteras, North Caro
lina. The cutter is equipped witl
three sails, a radio outfit, and dis
places five tons.
Cow Bite* 40 Persons
Belgrade, Jugoslavia.—A cow bittei
by a mad dog ran amuck near the vil
lage of Essogg, biting everyone withli
reach. Forty victims were taken to i
hospital, some with hydrophobia.
For Sunday ch^cke'n'dinner 50c
Why Cook This hot Weather?
Delicious home cooked meals are served at the
B. AND J. CAFE
Good Coffee, that will satisfy you, and
bring you back.
Old Fort, N. C.
Next to Post Office
Keep Your Money
in the Bank
Are you troubled by having your money "burn a
hole" in your pocket? That is a common fault of mon
ey. If you have your money in the bank, whether it be
much or little, it will not burn any holes and it will be
there when you need it.
Money carried on the person is a temptation to
spending. Money in the bank does not offer this temp
tation. You may hesitate before writing a check where
you would not hesitate to spend it if you had the mon
ey with you.
We offer you the advantage of our banking facili
ties and invite you to open a checking account with us.
THE BANK OF OLD FORT
OLD FORT, N. C.
J. S. BRADLEY, Pres. F. M. BRADLEY, Cashier
P. H. MASHBURN, Vice-Pres.
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Beautiful Hair Braids in Black and Col
ors at Reduced Prices.
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OLD FORT, N. C.
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