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PAGE EIGHT MftOW VJSFOftH BfTOIfUTKNtMl Sunday School T Lesson* (Br KEV. P if. F1T/.W4TEH. IX IX. 'foacher <rf Er^ilib Bible 1st the Moo-Jy Bibi* Iciftltut* of Chicago.) it?. mil. '.tMtcru Newi;ip?r Otioa.) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 30 REVIEW: GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DBVOTIONAI. RKAOINO ? Uek 39. ?o QOIJXKN TEXT?"Wherefore ere *i?o are ovrapanMd ecvout with ?o jr-reet t\ cloud of wltneaeee. .?t -xs lap euelde evecv and the elo which doth ?c easily b-*et u?. anfl let ua rue ??- - w. tK?t la ??Wu.. for* u."- Hab. li-L PRIM ART TOPIC?to ?Jtorf at tK? Juartfr. JUNIOR TOPIC? r*vortte Iloroee Heroin** nf '.hi Quarter IKTKRMKDl.% TK AJTD 3SNIOII TOPIC?-flom* >r*ut Char%et?-ra of Uio >i?? Vwtamat TOT.'NO PSOPLK AJCT> ADLTT TOPtC ?cr? Leiionn From This Quarter. With the senior and adult da.sifc* three met hex la of rwlew rauy he proAtebly employed. 1. The descriptive veord method a* presented in Peloubefs Select Nctee. L Brave John the Buptist. ft. The Faith-Filled virgin Mary, ft. Impulsive EVtcr. i. Loving John the Apoetle. 6. Thoughtful Matthew. A. Ardent Mary Magdalene. T. Busy Martha and Open HeiutaA Mary. 8L Faithful 8te;?hen. ?. Cleneroufc Iijina!?i 10. The Many-sided Paul. 11. Timid Mark. 12. Helpful Luke. 12. Consecrated Timothy. 2.. Presenting Life Leeeone as glvee in Crannel't Pocket Lessors: 1. Woman I^nsons. 1. Mary : Gloriiied Motherhood. Leeuitn ' 2. Mi-dilene: Adoring Gratitude. Lesson ?i. .'t. Martha-Mary: Rounded Womanhood I<e?M?n 7 II. Lender Lessons. 1. Peter. Compacted Zeal. Lesson 'X 1 John: Ripened Love. Lesson 4. :t Paul: Passionate Devotion. Lesson is. III Helper Lessons. 1. John- Faithful Pioneering. Le* son 1. 2. Matthew. Divine Transformations. ie'.ssan 5. 3. Stephen: Heroic Witness. I>eason H. Barnabas: Oreatenlng Greatness. Lesson 9. Mark: Return of the Quitter. Lesson 11. H. I.ulte: Double Healer. Lesson 12. 7. Timothy: The Glorious Ministry. Lesson 13. 3. The Summarizing of Contents The following *s suggestive . Lesson I John the Baptist was a humble and courageous man. He 'lid not take honor to himself nor trim his message to salt the crowd. Lesson II. Mary should not be worshiped. but she Is worthy of great honor. Her faith made her to ncauiesce In the L.nl s will In sivt*? of the 'act that she knew that her *har^ 1 actor wouid l?e suspected. Treason III. Peter, while being fickle j and cowardly, is a fine example erf the transforming power of God's grace. Lesson IV. lohn the apostle was a. reticent man. He did not say much j about himself. hut wjus passionately1 In love with Iiis l^>**d. Lesson V. Matthew, though humble, was a man of force of character j and decision. He left all and followed J Jesus. Lesson VI. Maty Magdalene, be-' cause she was saved, was steadfast In her devotion to the Lord. Because of this, she was able to reil the good j news of the resurrection to the dis- j cour&ged disciples. Lesson V7I. Mary and Martha both I loved the Lord. Martha was mistaken ' ti* to the best way to please Him. Mary chose the good part In fellowship with her Lord which has made bet nana' immortal Lesson VIII. Stephen was so com- j pleteiy 3lied with Christ that his face j ahone as the face of an angel. Lesson IX. Barnabas was a good 1 man and til led with the Holy Ghost, j Therefore, lie was qualified as a leader of men. Lesson X. Paul's knowledge of Jesus was so real that he had as his I supreme aim to magnify Htm. Lesson XI. Mark, though having turned back fr<>m the work, was roitored and tucame a great and honored minister of Christ. Lesson XII. Luke, the skilled and popular physician, gave himself up to be the attendant of th# missionary of the cross. Lesson XIII. Because of Timothy# religious training, he became a worthy minister of the gospel. ^*>:^oen?r" Stone of Society. The sanctity of marriage ami the family relation make the corner atone at our American society and ctvttlamtloo.?Garfield. Our Enemy. A mare.y fallen enemy may rtan again, but the reconciled one la truly vanquished.?Bob lilac. ^ Hatred. -When our hatred la violent, It sinks us even beneath rhooe we haf?.?La BochsfoueauM. THE MINING OF HIGH GRADE COAL IN NORTH CAROLINA the Charlotte Observer ; , A lump of the "Pocahontas qual- , ity" of bituminous coal row being mined in the LVep Liver Basin of %, North Carolina placed eT; the ground.) aiul ignited wiil burn like a p:r.e knot This .indicates the uncovering in the coal fields of this state of "he finest commercial coal ! the world The, 'leologieal experts a'. Washing: n say that the grade now being r.: : : is, merior to many grades of Peahen-, las. it is the discovery of this line grade of bituminous that gives prom-, ise to the development of the coal] mining industry in an area covering' "he larger portion of the two c ? unties; of Chatham and Lee ana parts of' ?? i * - . , . . . t\:_ I mo -re arm narnf.i * uiarr.ond drills >unk in different parts of that territory by State and govrnment geologists have brought up cores indicating an almost unlimited spread of four foot coal 'shoe"-, and * > in this belt that coal mining operations have been instituted on a scientific scale. preliminary to larger] development. It is theoid field that! a as worked before the war, to a lim-j ted extent after the war and up to. about 15 years ago. The technical j know ledge of the geologist, the skill f the mining engineer and the adent of electrical appliances have established facilities in miring that a ere unknown the pioneer operators. The o i Cumnock Mine in which the major part of the work in past a-a- done is n >w being opera* d un: -r these improved methods by the Rrskine-Ramsey Company. The newmine two miles distant - being worked by the Carolina Coal Com. any, of whicli J. R. McQueen is the :>r siden.t; IJion H. Butler. \ Pres .e: : C. M. Reeves Secretary and . ?a. manager, and Rom . N. butler. Superintendent. Bio:: Hurler a Pennsylvania coal miner Ii<- came to Xoith Carolina 20 years ago and became interested in the cruiit co&lj mining operations of that du\ in the] vicinity ot Cumnock. Being a wellj r?r- he wis <o:at. e.l to! ;a?g. possibilitit*s is <ie-j ;?mv . nh<- bitumi.ou- i -posits r .1, thai n gion. II naturally wed I :b.at liatk" became an active factor! i. promoting th. Deep Riv.-r Basin I ?ai progp?*<.ts. The people he brought, t h* i .-aw : ji? sinii- po-.-ibilities thai i duller >aw, and they prospected for } ' higher quality suspected existed ! one of I he other of the various oai strains underlying the tield. They it and money is being: invested .a properly equipping the North Carolina coal mine> for production < fj coal on a commercial scale. The principal points in the con j id.x are Cumnock. Egypt, Gulf and j Colon. These points are connected up! a itth< Norfolk Southern and tin Seaboard Air Line the branch roadsj >eing ballasted with the black slate brought up from the mines and all! about tne country are little biach heaps of refuse coal, which indicate the visitor he is in the vicinity of the mine.-. Furthermore state highay number 00 runs through the district. Sanford is the objective point from which to ivach the mines, bull is better to be guided by the smoke columns which rise iruni behind th hills thai. to make reliance upon io-| cat instructions. They tor their right' -k::t: .?it turns somewhat mixed and; i ii.an is .k?.- y to his trail hall j a u<>zen times before he reaches trie ; mine he headed for. f he surface of the country in the, coal mining region :s pitted with! notes a.- it is in Union. Mecklenburg*. Caoarrus. Anson and Montgomery, ir: | -he golti mining section indicating. where hopefoi prospectors have dug , dev.-n. The ('ardnia people followed '? e of these leads to development of the fine present prospect. The slope goe- down a 6? per cent grade for a distance of 1 d'00 feet, where iev-j cis shoot out :n different directions. The coal Is brought up by a coupled! train of six or eight or jx-rhaps a dozen dump cars, each carry ing a ton i ; a half. It is drawn up over the tippie by wire cable and dropped nto the waiting coal cars below. During the day th?? Observer saw ca-r from the Clinchtield, Norfolk and j Western, ar.d the Chesapeake and Ohio, loaded under the tipple and -cut on the way ?not to the market | .'UL to tne purcnaser wmcn is trie i | Norfolk Southern, which takes aii the coai the mines in this section can | produce at present capacity. The Nor | foik Southern had found before the geologists, that the product of these mines is desirable for its excellent steaming qualities. Just to get at the coal the Carolina company has spent $300,000. After this the money that goes into the mine will be money going after the coai. The greatest difficulty in getting the coal mine started has- been met. Very few people in this part of the country have any sort of an intelligent idea of the conditions and processes of coal mining. It is different from gold mining in that the coal mi ner does not follow a vein as i:i the case of the gc'd cur.* He fol.o. Jhe j^d> The gea.ogca: format;i U ?U.-- U v.y'ji 21Uch 4.i.fe v??? THE WATA'JG of a layer cake. There are ft rat as { of granite and slate i tcrrtated with stratas of coal, the one laid upon the , other like the leave* ir. a book. A trip down into the mine will give one a fairly accurate idea of this geological' construction and bring a revised notion of what a coal vein of four feet , means. The vein is four feet thick, bu: it spreads under the surface in undetermined directions and extent. A four foot vein means that a slab , of coal four feet thick, half a mile wide and a mile long could be taken out if mechanical appliances were equal to the task. The Carolina Company . wtis l2o, acres of surface land Underneath, it has coal leases in all directions, and it may mine coal out of a . the territory covered by its leases. In that wa y it may be in the course of time mining under the farms miles away from the locality of the slope. With the Cumnock and adjacent mine^ the same principal of leases exists and some day all of these mines may have galieried connection with each other. \lso t is lirTerent down in a coali mine from the generally conceived no | tion. No Otis or other kind of passenger elevator is at the service of j the curious investigator, nor is there | any question going down or coming up about taking off the hat to the j ladle.-. Howard Butler's guest for the trip is invited to shuck hi.- coat and i leave ali matches behind. He is then -i. ?p. a suit of overalls and fittoo v itr. a cap to which an electric headi ght t> attached and a storage battery w. ighing a pound or two is buckled to his back or stuck in his pocket Then he gets into one of the str::.g ->f empty dump cars, feet braced against the front for the sharp <ie -cent and he may lay face up with his head pillowed on a chunk of Wood If he should att"ir.pt to raise 'ip one of the o%< rhead beams of the shoring might carry hi cap away so close i> th t*r in the hole. Daylight follows r feet down into the slope and thi novice feels that it* ever his fate was in the hands ?>f God that time! ha^ conn Every few feet as the cars rum .low i. a stream of water dashes :?> one's face or down h:.- neck, a : the outlines? of the heavy tim hers forming the roof and sides art*; -ct-iliiblf, for Lbt1 lamps glow iiig : ? i ' the caps are not much above ..shining; bug power. Of course the j sounds are strange. You hear voices . uienlix at yntir side, but it is the miners ordering each other about far down at the end of the shaft. When, the cars strike the first lo\el at the | ;-attorn of the slope the scene is 0| i'tie more cheerful. 1'herc are more, miners and consequently more light. Then framed in a hole in the coal os the telephone box. One can open the door, pull down the lever and hav* a long distance conversation with Charlotte, :f he is so minded. There is telephone connection with all galleries and with all parts of the mine Vn.?v^ greur.d. Ar,d h?>e i? where another idea of preconceived j conditions under ground is shattered i "BUILDING f We are headquarter: ished building materia ing, Siding, Flooring, Lime, Brick, Plaster, Metal Shingles, Wall I Doors, Windows, Wir dings. . . We have Ceiling fro | Flooring from $3.0C Weatherboarding fr Windows from $2.2 See our material, gc money by trading witl We invite you to cor Watauga Furi Com] : i ; * % t? takrr^rxa^k A DEMOCRAT Ore cannot stand up iti slope^u^ev-^ el. It the course of economy to dig' I out the coal from between its upper{? a!-.I (v'wer sheeting of slate or rock J < with the least disturbance to these i layers. Below the vein just enoughi i of the foreign strata is cut out toj: giv-. a shoulder: above the slate and i i rock is removed for the width of aj. foot, For this reason tbe distance ji be*-v n roof and floor i* restricted, i Ore may stretch out across the tun-, 1 n?ut he caunot unbend longditud'-' i ??a . For the upper trip the miners, ha i o catch hold of Kuester and the < Observer to pull out the bend which ha. become temporarily permanent, 1 so 'hat they might be laid fiat, in the l dump car. Nor is the interior of a coal mine' lik a series of long dark tunnels.; It - rather a combination of chanibt d rooms. As the miners go along they leave at stated intervals a solid column of coal about four feet square I This column serves as a support fo the roof and saves the expense of! sh : t.g with timber. The thought might arise that a great aeai 01 per-; fe.-tly good coal is thus loft in the r? hut this coal is ultimately recover i. All coal mines are worked out in the course of time by expiration o'." lease or exhaustion of the bed. \\ - never that should happen in the; ca . of the North Carolina mines! those columns will be salvaged the J m ers beginning at the remotest sec ti and working back to daylight. Tb' columned construction in a coal m represents about forty per cent ot he coal it contained. heretofore the miners working the N -th Carolina coal fields were restricted to a grade fo inferior quality The coai mined was used mainly f<- ocomotive use and for years the Seaboard .supplied its engines from th Cumnock. The brighter and more ei "iraging prospect as indicated is d? lopment of the tiner grade which) tit.- domestic purposes as well as being suitable for steaming purposes. Hi: there is the added advantage of1 lie", oloped by-products. Coal has al-1 m< -t a- many of these as cotton and j al'rreiy this advantage is being avail ed f by pioneer enterprise, the Sand H Power Company which is buildin a plant central to the mining district t'.?r development of power Iron*, low graue coai ana ioi uiuuation of the by-pro duels. This plant wili make 12000 horsepower available for industry in that part of the state. Chief among its by products will be coke for domestic uses and ! gas for all uses to which gas may be put. This plant is located on the banks of a small stream tributary to the Deep River which flows by within a distance of 300 yards and is now well advanced to completion. Construction of this power plant and by product factory has an important bearing on the further development of the coal mining industry ?.'h:ch. may bv .-aid to be fairly well on its feet. Coai mining and utilization of by products bids MATERIAL" s for everything in fin I r*Aorana nmo CotL 8 -J ^ 'V* pULV Sheeting, Framing, Cedar, Asphalt and loard, Sheet Rock, idow Casings, Moulin $2.00 and up I and up om $2.50 and up 5 and up st our prices and skve i home folks, ne and see us. /* X: w n. & Lumber . pany j iwwiiiiirrsriirtMiraiwiisi wni m hi?u>wiii iii'iiw i in fair to operate as a new and resource ful factor in advancing the commercial and industrial interests not only [>f that immediate section, but of the State as well- Coal mining operated in haphazard fashion before and shortly after the war is now apparent ly placed on a practical business basis: the geological experts have estimated the productive held of vast area ar?d the coal beds of a nature which will insure active mining for many years t?? come. In short the North .Carolina coa! beds are as inexhaustible as the coal beds of Pennsylvania. or West Virginia, or any other coai-bearing region in the country STRING BAND WILL NOT BE ON HAND TODAY BUT WILL BE TO-! MORROW (FRIDAY) COME AND i HEAR IT. T. Hill Farth.ng We wish to thank the people for; their patronage during the first three | days of our sale, which was far beyond our expectations. We wish to invite your continued patronage during the remainder of our sale. We wi! have hundreds of unheard of bargains, T. HILL FARTHING PUBLIC AUCTION On October 2, 1923 at 10 a. m. I will offer for sale at public auc- ( tion the following items to wit: One International kerosene engine, one grain drill, one one-half ton Ford truck, one set of blacksmith tools, one corn drill, one cart, one buggy, also other items too tedious to mention. Terms: Five dollars or under cash in hand, over five dollars twelve mttu-ifh :?nnrnV(>/l (into Yours respectfully. A M. BANNER Vilas. N. C.. R. F. D. FOR SALE ONE 1921 Model? FORD touf'ng car with starter. In Good Condition. C. C. Lowrance, Valle Crucis, N. C. SRidL'cjubuca Ifertii =p N&'e are now receivii g| standard fertilizers, A d=j Goods. | ACID LESS THAN T 1 Another shipment c ^ of Flour just in the he jj|= your supplies before I jjp which is sure to come. iHrii Feeds of all kinds f< ^ and the best line of gr< the county. Remember we are gnj erything named abov Ig save you money on yc We will pa}r the hig buckwheat and rye. .Ms Farmer's salt in baj m ? |S. C. EG *-in1 I COM! THE TEAGUE ft! We do all Kinds of ing, Machine Work, f work. No job too small to Satisfaction Guarar Prices Reasonable. 1*1 ________ ~ TEAGUE MAC Elizabeth) 1 t SERTEM8KR 27, 1923 ^ FEW LINGERING STARS (By Dr W R. Bailer) Onh a small number This Reunion Day The letters on their badges Were C. S. A. Only a small number Our eyes beheld or. lawn Of Watauga's noble sons Who enlisted in the cause of the south in J 861. Only a small number But jolly and cay. The song of Dixie thrills the soul and Body when the fife begins to play Only a small number Dressed in civilian clothes Telling the battle to each other when they donned Gray uniform clothes. Only a small number May they live to meet again The remnants of as Grand Army As ever followed the Bugle Call in battle array. BEAUTY (.'From the Land of the Clouds.) ? By James Monroe Downum. Beauty, beauty ever/where Like an Eden Garden fair. On the lands both far and nigh. In the depths of spacious sky. Everywhere are hill and dale. Mountain high and beauteous vale. Clouds ot varied color rar? Would with all their beauty share. Lo, the flowers blooming sweet Everywhere your vision greet. And the sparkling of the rids Adds new lustre to the Im.a Scenes of beauty from God's hand j Highest reverence dt maiid. And would urge our hearts to prayer That we may this b *: u< v share. HKBflflRMBMBWMMtflBBflBHKBMC IZERS 1 ng a large shipment of r ^ cids and higher grade WO DOLLARS PER 1 Oi 1 >f our standard brands grt >use. Be sure to lay in jyg the advances in price, ye >r both fowl and beast ^ iss seed to be found in ES headquarters for ev- g=j e and can and WILL ip ur purchases, hest market prices for 2;s, barrels and bricks. ?? GERS & I 'ANY I , IACHINE WORKS Oxy-Acetylene weldioiler and Blacksmith be appreciated, iteed. i1 i :htne works oi . 7 CI' n. "'jj
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