OLD FORT NEWS
VOLUME III OLD FORT, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930 NUMBER 42
THE OLD FORT NEWS
The Old Fort News is pub
lished each week in connection
with the Marion Progress.
MISS GERTRUDE DULA,
Editor and Business Manager.
WORK
God give to me the sight to see,
Give wisdom clear that under- \
stands
The fine, high-hearted dignity
Of work I do with my two hands
No matter what the task may be,
I'll not complain or ever shirk,
But strive in all sincerity
To love my helpful work.
While I am young, help me to know i
That work is good and effort fine.
They make my soul and body grow,
So I will take true pi-ide in mine.
Teach me to love my work today,
And even look for things to do
That shall help others on their way.
Thus working, Lord, I work with
You.
— Selected.
J. A. DALTON AND T. Y. LYTLE j
TALK OF P1NONEER DAYS;
The unveiling of the Indian ar- j
rowhead marker at Old Fort on July|
27th recalls to the mind of many of
the older generation of Old Fort;
citizens, tiaditions which are very
interesting at this particular time. I
Mr. James A. Dalton, who is Old |
Fort's oldest citizen, in speaking of
the old Indian fort, said: "It has
been a long time since the Indians
were here, but the large rocks that
were used in the stockade which
surrounded the fort were not re
moved until after Captain George
Thomasson, who purchased the land
from Colonel Davidson, cleared 'the
land for planting."
Mr. Dalton, who has always lived
in and near Old Fort, celebrated his
90th birthday April 24. The small
house which stands near the bank of
the creek, on the site where it is be
lieved the old Fort stood, was built,
Mr. Dalton said, by him when he
moved to Old Fort from Crooked
Creek, and the lumber from the old
Davidson barn which stood near this
site, was used in building this house.
.Mr. Dalton said he could remember
when the white settlers decided to
move the Indians farther west and
the men who were to be sent on
this mission were selected by lining
up all the men of draft age in a row
and counting four, the fourth man
to stay at home to protect the fami
lies, while the other three went to
help drive the Indians farther west.
Although a small boy at this time,
Mr. Dalton said he could remember
waiting anxiously while the men
were selected in this way. As it hap
pened his father was one of the
fourth men, so did not have to go.
Mr. Dalton said that he had never
heard of a battle being fought
around this fort, which was built for
the protection of the white settlers
in case of a raid by Indians from
across the Blue Ridge, that being
the boundary between the white and
red men.. General Rutherford, who
was in command of the guard that
protected this western frontier,
camped in this fort when patroling
this part of the border. In his re
ports to the Committee of Safety at
Salisbury he describes some of his
activities.
Mr. Tom Young Lytle, a well
known Confederate soldier, tells an
interesting story of the experiences
of an early pioneer, Jack Lytle, who
lived in the Fort and helped protect
the settlers in this ocmmunity. This
story also describes the strategy of
the Indians.
As the story goes, the Indians had
been stealing across the top of the
Blue Ridge and hiding behind a log
or tree; would imitate the call of a
wild turkey gobbler, and in that way
decoy the white men near enough to
kill them. Suspecting that it was an
indian on this day, Jack Lytle made
his way up the side of a nearby hill
and hid behind a large rock, placing
his hat on the barrel of his gun. He
raised it into view. The hat was
pierced with an arrow by the Indian,
who thinking he had killed the white
man stepped out from behind the
tree and was shot by Jack Lytle.
While tradition is a more or less
uncertain record handed down from
one generation to another by word
of mouth, and sometimes difficult to
verify, it is sometimes a large part
of the history of a people who were
busy clearing dense forests for
homes and farming lands.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Turner of
Ridgecrest spent Sunday in Old
Port.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Padgett are
quite ill at their home east of Old
Fort.
Miss Lucy Finch, daughter of Mr.
Lonnie Finch, is attending the Kins
ton training school at Kinston, N. C.
Hubert Kanipe of Duke Universir
ty, Durham, has returned to his
home here to spend the summer va
cation.
Luther Grant of Marion visited
relatives in Old Fort Sunday.
Miss Brady Silver spent Monday
in Asheville.
Mrs. Maggie Long and little son,
Gene, of Marion, were the guests of
Mrs. W. C. Early on Sunday.
Mrs. Max Lail of Asheville was in
Old Fort Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bright of
Swannanoa was in Old Fort Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Reid of Black
Mountain were visitors in Old Fort
during the week.
Otis Grant spent Fi'iday in Ashe
ville.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allison and
family spent Sunday in Connelly
Springs.
C. P. Kerlee of Black Mountain
was in Old Fort last week.
Miss Davie Mae Arney was a visi
tor in Asheville Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jordan of Ashe
ville visited relatives in Old Fort
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid McCurry of
Marion were visitors in Old Fort on
Sunday.
E. W. Grant of Spruce Pine spent
the week-end in Old Fort.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Burgin were
visitors in Asheville last Thursday.
Mrs. Whitmire and Miss Olive
Whitmire of Biltmore spent July 4th
with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Epply.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Padgett of Mar
ion spent Sunday in Old Fort.
Miss Hilda Berry of Atlanta, Ga.,
is visiting her cousin, Lucy Allison.
Mrs. T. M. Chaney and two daugh
ters, Mary Morris and Virginia, of
Baltimore, Md., are the guests of
Mrs. Sue Sandlin this week.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Stump and
family spent Friday in Waynesville.
Mrs. Delia Grant of Canton spent
Sunday in Old Fort with relatives.
Mrs. Dock Greene left Wednes
day for several days visit to friends
in Bakersville.
Mrs. Jane tsaker ot tsakersvnie is
visiting Mrs. D. Greene this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Poteat of Ba
kersville spent Sunday in Old Fort.
Mrs. R. B. Butt of Marion was ir
Old Fort Tuesday.
! Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Noblitt anc
family visited relatives in Gastonu
i last Friday.
Miss Ethel Butt of Bakersvilh
was in Old Fort Tuesday.
Mrs. Earle Wrenn of Charlotte i:
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C
H. Burgin.
Mrs. E. J. Burgin, Pauline Gosorr
and Alice Laughridge spent las
Tuesday in Asheville.
Mrs. Geo. Moore is spending sev
! eral days in Johnson City with hei
parents.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Umberger ant
family motored to Marion Friday.
Mrs. Marion Nesbitt and famil;
i of Gastonia are the guests of th<
Noblitt family this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Rockett o
! Narrows, Va., are visiting relative;
and friends in Old Fort this week.
I
Mrs. W. PI. Hawkins and Rober
Hawkins of Marion were visitors ii
Old Fort Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Glass and family o
Gastonia spent the week-end wit!
their cousin, Mrs. S. F. Mauney.
Col. D. W. Adams and daughter
Mary Virginia, entertained a few o
their friends with a house party a
their camp, "Mile Hi." the pas
week-end.
Miss Evelyn Branhan of Raleigl
and Miss Aleane Alston of Durhan
j were visitors in Old Fort Sunday.
I Miss Marie Sabom is spendinj
I several days in Erwin, Tenn., as th
' guest of Mrs. Elizabeth Earley an<
i the Misses Alfords.
Miss Emma Allison, who has beei
visiting friends in Knoxville, Tenn.
and Narrows, Va., accompanied Mi
and Mrs. Johnny Rockett to Oli
: Fort on Saturday.
Rev. J. C. Umberger, Misses Eu
nice Wilkinson, Katherine Finch
Margaret Weaver, Arwyn Stepp
and Elva Noblitt attended one da;
i session of the Epworth League con
ference at Lake Junaluska last wee'
D. T. Roughton and John Turne
Roughton have returned to Colum
bia, S. C., after spending a few day
in Old Fort. Mrs. Roughton an
daughtei', Frances, are spending th
j summer in Old Fort.
| NAME WANTED FOR
MINIATURE GOLF COURSE
The Miniature Golf Course at
tracted a large crowd on Saturday
night. Six large arc lights gave the
golf course an attractive and festive
appearance. The owners of this
new attraction announced the open
ing of the course on Monday after
j noon, and Master Marley, and Ike
Caplan, Jr., gave away coupons
which entitled the holders to a free
game on Monday or Tuesday after
noon. Names for this golf course are
being submitted, and the winner will
be announced in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Westermann
and Miss Gertrude Dula had as their
guests on Sunday and Monday their
aunt, Mrs. Hattie Cline, who was
formerly Miss Hattie McKee, and
their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Cline, of Dublin, Texas. Mr. and
Mrs. Cline returned to their home in
Texas on Tuesday. Mrs. Hattie Cline
will remain in North Carolina for
several weeks to attend the Dula
family reunion which will be held
during August, and will visit her
sister, Mrs. Tom Gash, who lives
near Hendersonville.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to extend our sincere
thanks to friends and neighbors fori
their sympathy and kindness shown
us during the illness and death of
our husband and father.
Mrs. Garland Bryson and family.
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.
Hints For Homemakers
By Jane Rogers
INDISPENSABLE furnishings in
a well-regulated kitchen are ac
curate scales and measuring uten
sils; a pair of shears to be used only
in the preparation of foods; and,
[ since the success of so many dishes
depends upon correct timing, a re
liable clock such as one of the new
r electric kind that plug into the wall
and can't go a second off without
showing a warning signal.
? The use of a small amount of
sugar, much as we use salt and
pepper, mitigates the harsh taste
of many foods without sweetening
; them. Used in the preparation of
l meat sauces and gravies, it accen
tuates the various flavors, binds
thsm into a harmonious whole, and
: improves the color.
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SALE OF LAND UNDER
; MORTGAGE
By virtue of the power and au
J thority contained in a cretain mort
; gage deed, executed on the 20th day
of December 1929, by C. A. Medford
and wife, Sadie Medford, which said
1 mortgage deed is duly recorded in
i the office of the Register of Deeds
of McDowell County, in Mortgage
Book No. 41 on page 144, to secure
' the payment of a certain sum of
i money therein named, and defauli
i having been made in the payment oi
the said sum of money at the time
specified therein for its payment, tc
1 satisfy the same, the undersigned
, Mortgagee will expose to public sale
for cash at the court house door ir
* Marion, North Carolina, on Monday,
the fourth day of August, 1930, a1
12 o'clock M., all that certain trad
of land situate in North Cove town
ship, McDowell County, North Caro
' lina,
3 Beginning on a white oak in the
j Martin line and runs north 60 deg
. west 40 poles to a pine; thence wes1
56 poles to a hickory; thence south
c 50 poles to a stake; thence east 11S
r poles to a stake in Martin's line
. thence north with Martin's line, 21
„ poles to the beginning; containing
, 25 acres be the same more or less.
* This 1st day of July, 1930.
3 LONON BROTHERS,
Mortgagees.
THE INDIVIDUAL YET
NEEDED BY BUSINESS
By JOHN G. LONSDALE
President American Bankers
Association
SOME seem to think that the day of
the individual in business has
passed. But they are wrong. While
une lttinviu uai
may not attract
such outstanding
attention as he
did in the (lays of
old when institu
tions were con
ducted on a smal
ler scale, he
nevertheless is to
be found in any
large corporation,
dominating the
situation, giving
John G. Lonsdale oraers nere, co
operating there
and shouldering the responsibility of
keeping a large group of lieutenants,
captains and privates working in uni
son and moving forward under the
banner of progress. And all of these
are held accountable to the public be
cause the public has entered into a
partnership agreement with the cor
poration through purchase of stock.
Welfare of Workers
Even in the gigantic mergers that
have taken place within the last two
years there remains more than ever
the necessity for a leader, an aggres
sive personality, whose duty it is to
see that basic principles are not for
gotten, that the rights and privileges
of the individual workers and the cus
tomers they serve are as well pro
vided for as in the smaller business
units.
It is gratifying to note that our cor
porations are giving more and more
concern to the welfare of their work
ers. Numerous benefit organizations
have been formed, opportunities of
fered for advancement of education
and position, hospital service estab
lished and insurance and retirement
pensions provided.
This general humanitarian move
ment in reality is the outgrowth of
analysis, which has disclosed the need
of improving the well-being of our in
dividual workers, realizing at the
same time that our institutions will
benefit.
PREPAREDNESS
IN BUSINESS
By R. S. HECHT,
American Bankers Association.
My observations for many years,
both as an employee and as an execu
tive, have convinced me that the rea
son some men and women go ahead
and others do not is that some keep
themselves constantly prepared to ac
cept and fulfil larger duties and re
sponsibilities as they offer, and some
I do not.
Grant, as we must, that there is a
; certain element of luck in the condi
tions under which opportunity for
promotion comes to different men and
women, we nevertheless must also see
that it is each individual's own state
of preparedness which determines his
ability to seize opportunity if and
when it comes, and having seized it,
to succeed in meeting the greater de
mands which it inevitably places upon
him.
Real advancement never means go
ing ahead to easier tasks, hut always
to harder ones. Opportunity for ad
vancement is worthless unless in ac
cepting it you are able to carry with
you the abilities and qualifications that
prepare you to meet the heavier exac
tions that are an inhereiTE part of op
portunity.
It is far better to go into action ic
the field of enlarged responsibilitj
prepared and qualified, rather thac
that you and the institution you worh
for shall be exposed to the hazard ol
your having to build up to new re
sponsibilities after having assumet
them.
The new spirit of all business seeks
to prepare its people in advance
through education for the iiighei
duties it holds in store for them.
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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 Progress
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. Postoffice Box 191, Old
Fort, N. C.
You Can Win a Prize
Name The
New Golf Course
A delightful recreational attrac
tion for the people located near
th£ center of the town, on the
banks of a cool mountain stream.
Mail the name that you con
sider appropriate to
L. M. Mauney,
OLD FORT, N. C.
For Sunday cmcke'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
COAL
Last chance to get Coal at Summer prices (unload
ing this week and next.)
Creach Egg Coal at $5.85 per ton r\ i- , 1
Jellico Egg Coal at $5.75 per ton
We Sell for Cash Only.
OLD FORT COAL CO.
Henry C. Fisher W. W. LeFevre
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.
NEW SUMMER HATS
Latest Styles in Summer Hats.
Beautiful Hair Braids in Black and Col
ors at Reduced Prices.
Dula Hat Shop
OLD FORT, N. C.