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'THE BOBESONIAN, INC.
ft A. Sharp
Pmideot
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mue juara-owjoy. .vnere ,rcimu
'welcome mnd reception were given by
EjJItor R. E. Price of the Rutherford
toa Sun and the officials and- cftlzeas
of the town. Refreshments were jieft-
ed on the court house lawn and sever
al short speeches were made, no'biore
delishtf nl and 1 informal affair could
be imagined. Eutherfordton quite won
the hearts or ail visitors on that day.
Rutherfordton lies' in the foothUIs
of the Blue Ridge- mountains, heinr
SUBSCRIPTION RATS:
Da Year $2.00
tlx IXontha ..........4. .1.00
lire Months .... Vi. ...... .owr.nrrounded bv monn tains on three
ueuverea oy earner liumoenon i . ., ai. -. i
v yai 1 . t2.40j wtuwi ,,ia eleven n un
fix months r HT.! T -1 1 .tl T-TI ; ! 1 1 1 Sl-20 1 re feet and the climate is bracing
tre months ................. . .60jn4 equable. On a commanding, ridge
lacove we town is located tne Kutner
I ford hospital, through which the' edi-
this hospital has the largest quantity
OSea 107 West Feorth Street
Telephone Wo.
'ghestrcliff. ast ..t-.tJiocLic..-' i
MAppian iVVay", is a narrow ben
on the face of the precipice 3-4 mi. 2
long leads from barse , of -i Chimr.
.Rock 'to ItoporUieWy Nttt'faUsV H
Hickory Nut: falls': are" 400 fi t
hisrh. At Inspiration Point . 'whf
falls are first seen) is skid b-
eriminating - critics to be. the fin, t
single view in ine soutnern Appaiac:.
ian mountains. : 1.' '.
"' Moonahmera 'Cave ii i; treit
vice in. the . cliff made accessible If
stairways and lighted by electricity"
' The 'Thermal Belt" is a feature cf
rt! a . m a .
nicKory ui 'gap uews ana xroeps
are practically unknown, f , ,
' There is a greater variety of vegev
tatlon hi. this section of the count
probably' more than in any place in
America. Prof. "Asa Gray. Harvard
Reforestation (tree growth) is more
rapid in the-. Southern Appalachian;
than anywhere, .in the United States.
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The Hickory ' Nut Gap (valley
VHONDAY, AUGUST 7,1922
j if A ttmttf rrttfnrtrrk
W FOR TODAY
Bibte Thnlit MMriai -ri
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- smtm as secooa eiass mau maner o .w9 .wonaer-wor-ingtrsaium w Der-xhe v Hickory Nut Gap - (valley)
MTtha postrfflce at Lumberton, N. C found anywhere' south of Baltimore. originally in early geologic times was
i ' : . " It is precious and Powerful etuff- The'on-tant and has all been cut out
i-nnnt f thm in.nfi in.f ; w,by erosion. State Geologist Holmes
, . . - I V All fjtiulr imMaf.na as ta
a lourth oi an oramary teaspoonfui
and it cost $90,000, the r additional
cost of the equipment to use it sun
ning the investment 'well over $100.
ww. ine newspaper folk were permits
ted to visit the room where this pre
cious stuff is kept in a vault, to see
the machinery, to the Uflitiatea most
the gas. from the radium Ja.colLected
W All vr6c formations are ' Irneous:
granite prevailing no sedimentary
rock, or lossil zormation exists, and
the. oldest . rocks in North America
save tne urentians ox uanaaa.
SAFETY WWTT.R ASLKEP wI will
for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell for use in curing stubborn r disease
MUCI( 1 OMJJ1 V.CH
as pot holes ,but of ,-great slze f
Chimney Rock is lighted ' by elec
tricity developed Jrom a water, power
plant on the Rocky -Broad river. At
night' the effect can only be imagin
ednot described. "
The "Pavilion" at Chimney " Rock
u .a commodious restaurant built on
the-edge of a cliff where every crea
ture comiort is prgyiaed.
- A parking place for 100 cars has
literally been blasted out V of : the
mountain' side. "r, .;
Hotels in the vicinltv are" tht Cliff
Dwellers, a cottage colony among the
cluis, up at cninmey iCock. Mountain
View inn. a eommodionii YitAeX at tha
entrance of the Chimney' Rock high
way, Logan Place, , Esmaralda . Inn.
Rockwood - and , several ? Jboarding
houses r . I
Chimney Rock camn for bovs . and
Camp Suwali for girls are far the
vicinity. "
No?s is. there ..lacking a r historic
background, Dr. Sandjey, v in -rbia
"Hickory Nut Gorge", '.states that ,' it
is likely that DeSoto foucht W wkv
through this same pass of the Blue
Ridge. With certainty v did some , of
the English explorers wend their way
westward. Later, in the settlement of
our country, the & North. Carolinian
Water at Chimnev Rock is also ahl I traversed thia same gortre by covered
solutely Dure same analysis as the 'wagon frequently taking his f stock
Poland spring water. ;j with him. In 1842 the Cherokees were
Heavy winds are very, very rar$ Ituten tnrougn tnis vauey -on to tne
leVto the protection afforded 'by IndUn ternt0,T. "
and in relieving pain. A physician et
plained something of the process: to
groups of the newspaper folk. r No
body in the party got a glimpse of
the radium. It is hidden from sight in
a ; Vault built esnecialhr for it. This 1
were
some
NOTES ON PRBSS CONVENTION
'CLEVELAND SPRINGS, SHELBY,
r RUTHERFORDTON, CHIMNEY
. Newspaper -folk, who attended the rad!iunj gives off a jsmaU amount of
fiftieth annual convention Gordeh gas, each day; The amount cannot bf
Jubilee of the North Carolina Press increased or diminished. After going
' ' it V-A "l M i. IV-...L i2 i ...
NQciauon, aua i vieveuraa springs I h-ijtuuku ma invricio Byaiein.oi pipes
July zs ana Z6( will never xorget the I " coiiectea in a tiny glass tube,
exquisite hospiUlity of Shelby, hichThis is placed npon a cancer for a few
good town was nost to tne convention, I hours, the patient goes home, and
Cleveland Springs being a beautiful then in two or three weeks the healing
aU-tbe-year-round resort Just . two I process is seen. In cases too advanced
miies irom town, ine .iwams ciubllor pure patients have been relieved
of Shelby and Lee B. Weathers, the of pain and their lives" prolonged.
genial and modest editor of the Cleve. I Radium,, one is told by the patient
land Star; and. host extraodinary, I physician in t charge, is so powerful
were x on the job of entertainmg the J that after 1,700 years its strength has
newspaper women and men every been diminished by only a small per
.minute. .Almost . every- automobile cent
one saw carried a placard - larger . .The expensive bit of radium. at this
enough for those who ran to read, of- j hospital is the gift of Dr. J. W.
fering itself for service to any mem-1 Plonk, a South Carolinian who lived
ber of the association. An elegant re-j for many years at Hickory and gave
eeption was given Wednesday night this substance with the , wonderful
at the Cleveland Springs Park hotel, healing power to the Rutherford
where the sessions were held, and to J hospital in honor of his wife; who was
mate ther measure, gospel m its ,f ul- treated at this hbapital for caneer. -He
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Mens uw Ajwanu ciuo r naay xur-iaiso gave to this institution an x-ray
" Jiished automobile1h--Cadillac8, pack-j outfit, said to be , one 'of the finest
ards, Hudsons, and the'liie-to trans- in the world. The workings of this al
port the editors to Chimnev Rock.1 80 Wer demonsfrto(i tn tha nnm
some' 50 odd miles away,' and at that J paper folk, one of them being placed
far-famed marvel of nature, in a pa-1 under the ray and his inside workings
viiion nearly at the very top, served being exposed to view.
an elegant lunch that beggars j Rutherford hospital was started in
. description just as does the glories remodelled buildings of the Ruther
,.to oe seen irom that Wonderful spot, ford military institute. The present
It used to be considered that towns building is finished in dull red brick
- "down east" were the sincerest play- with Indiana limestone facings. 'Jt
ers in-the world and, that towns in is-127 feet long, with two wings oach
tne western part of. the State. did not 104 feet deep, enclosing a "court 50
know how to play. It cannot be said! feet square. y
now, certainly not of Shelby. ; Shelby I Leaving the hospital and Ruther
has a splendid baseball team this fordton, " the newspaper folk '
year and the entire town closes up I transported to-Chimney Rock
ijr tne aay at noon each Wednesday 20 miles away.
aunng tne summer. They don't be- Chimney Rock is a wonderful
neve in half-way measures. They go place that must be seen to be appro
the "whole hog" 'end ' enjoy them-1 dated, and
selves. And that sort of play is worth portunity to visit it. You may read
wane, it neips to cultivate the graces of course, how one is fascinated by
that make Shelby such a delightful the beauties of Rocky Broad river, be-
P tfJfr . side which the road winds; about the
tZ J? rVTt M Which doubleck highway leading to the
ft side iZ e? n Vefy base of theROck; about !moon-
ie side lmes All the prepared pa- shlner8, c rf ht
pers were on the progress made in v, a t .
the State darin. Z !., ItZ 1 the. raside of the mountain,
along WAilff,!" MV
convention was an address, by Gover-J f Z .W' "?d f eedle .
nor Morrison, who spoke TursdaU!. ft IT f - '
i... , . . ' , . 'rrock; but these are unsatisfyinsr as
njg?- m thv fithe 8me of-dehcious viand' to i
TiZ ilV ihe 8CV?e Cntl: One must see it all and let it sink in-
I" aume quarjers anqu0 one goul
ic veneration witn which some of his
critics now seem to regard the "great
white father" at Washington, the Gov
ernor dramatically exclaimed that he
wished to heaven they had had some
of that veneration when they were
, hounding to death the greatest states
man of modern times, Woodrow Wil
son.. That was where he brouerht down
the house. The applause was loud and
long continued. it was several min
Utes before the Governor co'uM pro
i nai - aemonstrauon . left no
doubt aboute love and esteem
vhich ; former President Wilson is
hM by the large crowd of newspaper
folk who heard the 'Governor on that
occasion. E , ,
I The convention proper closed Thurs
day nightv and the trip to Chimney
Rock Friday . was so . much extra.
Many took advantage 'jof this "op
. r portunity "to' visit one .'of the show
places of . Western North Carolina,
, most of them for the first time.
Those who had been there before en
Joyed It just as much as those who
t were seeing it for the first time.
for there are new sights to see there
at. every visit. - :
' A stop of thirty or forty minutes
was made at Rutherfordton, thirty
diiA
the' bi fi-k urr6uhdinr ' mountains.
The headwaters of Broad rivet' are
in the Chimney , Rock country, where
the v; stream is frequently called
"Rocky Broad" The river- is' here a
turbulent stream with many cascades
and shoals-." :.'..'.
, There la a trreat onnortunitv here
for hydro-electric ' development with
and! A uia AMrv4 kilaa .. ' '
The "Bottomless Pools"; are only
one mile ' distance 3 pools' of ' tin
known depths, and about 25 feet' in
diameter. Geologially they are known
Many thousands ' of people visit
Chimney Rock each year. No remote
section is quite in its class in at
tracting motorists.' - ' - T" I
An unparrelled opportunity is here'
fot-a crrfeaC ftrh Ha-a Wlntpia W11
as summer resort of first .magnitude.
Nature nas . Deen wondrous kind to
Chimney Rock; has bestowed her
blessincrs'with a lavish hand. It onlV
remains for men of vision and capi
tal to bring Into 'existence a resort
the 'like of which the world has not
yet 'seen.
ToHacco
Checks to Us
We handle the checks of any responsible warehouse as
' well as checks of the Tobacco -Co-operative Association.
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National Bank of Lumberton
UNDER U. 8. GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION
A. W. McLEAN. President . I : M. P. COBB, CasWer
'"J"fff" 'It'll ll !" HTTIi" 11 "i 'in i w " I iii 'pu'i Smmmmmpifljimmimmmmmmmmmm
It is understood that Chimney Rock;
years ago for $4,500 by" Dr. L. B.!
Mrose and brother The Messrs.
Morse and brother. The Messrs.
Morse are said to have spent some
derful places " on and around . the
mountain, and now it is one of the
most" easily reached and well.worth
visiting places in the mountains ' -. of
Western North Carolina, ; where one
may see scenery not surpassed- on
the'-'Stkbe.' v :,.;" t ji
Dr. Morse threw the .Rockland its
sights open to the editors -freeof
charge, and the; following notes Were
Location of Chimn R1r An TI7n
niington-Charlotte-Asheville highway,
m tiicicory Nut gap; distance i Char
lotte 100 miles, Asheville 28 miles.. .
., Chimney Rock hiirhwav S la mite
long, double- track, sand clay surface,
winding-up to the base of the-4 Chim
ney.". , x -.v..-..-Chimney
Rock is 225 feet high, and
50 feet -across at top, scaled by
stairways. Flag! 0n summit 16 by
20 ieet
"Needles-eye" a great
crevice m
a stairway
the rock through 'which
ascends 149 stens.
' Main nrecinfoa in n-.rl-ir 9 nnn
above floor of valley probably the
The First National Bank
OP FAIRMONT, N. O.
WITH A CAPITAL STOCK OF $40,000.00, opened its doors
for business On Tuesday, August 23, 1921. So popular has this
institution been in South Robeson and adjoining territory its
resources have grown to the enormous sum of one quarter o'f a
.million dollars.- : '. . : . y
Aside from the fact that this jjank has the advantage of be
ing operated under the rigid supervision of the Federal Sov-
ernment, we invite your attention to the names of ihe officers
;,wdDttech ' .'
FIiferc . . . . 'j
-V D-J??S !&tton uyirnd Uxhant- -
,;f:t7,:BURJffS, .Farmer.' ? . t , . . ; - :V
A. R BUIJ(Tarnietand Btudnesi tuk
BXTWxaercW and 'Farmer. '
:P J .OLTVE3i Panoeri ' ' -
rix4j, uerchant and Farmer.
T. L. JOHNSON, Lawyer. U .
;(We reeifjU of firms, corporations
nd individual and promise in'retnrn everr Rccomodation anl
service consistent with I'cbnservatrve banldng.' -
' 5 J 5I5rt' Cashier:
7 w mSotL1 MRS- BAKER, Asst. Cashier:
J. W. BURNS, V. Pres. MISS HELEN H. WEST, Asst.Cashier
f t T. L. JOHNSON,' Attorney.
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Mr. H. B.'Shirtevarit representing Strouse
& Company will be at my store (
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Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesdav
AtJGUST 14; 15 aid 16r
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to take your measure for jrour fall and winter
suit ot clothes. JJon't fail to see him. '
He will have a large and attractive line of
samples. - ,--7..,:' ' ... -?: "
John Thbma
Lumberton, N.;G.
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A BIG SHIPMEOT
FALL HATS AND CAPS
FOR MEN AND BOYS-
ry ArnucnvE pai
PRICES RIGHT
TK-.Mo BIGGS
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Long Term Government Farm Loans' nego
ated without delay at reasonable expense. '
No Commissions charged: 6 per cent. Inter-
esi. maaumum Loan $37,500.00. Minimum
Loan, $1,000.00. "
IF YOU CAN'T PAY IT BACK IN YOUR
LIFE TIME, THE PAYMENTS ARE
5U SMALL YOUR CHILDREN
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bank wrrn a ixission':
Talk it over with either of thefoUowmff :
berton.v N G.:i First NaHr.nil t RnV, fl-tt
Eertdn, NI C:, Carolina Bank &artik& Rer
Rowland, N, CXv Bank , of Pembroke, : Pem
broke, N; C'Bankbf Rbbesbn, MaxtohNi G.
ijv uww jwmi ovuva uuiu DLIUi aOlng DUS1
? ness m ixorth Carolina.
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Virginia-Carolina Joint
Stock Land Banl.
Elizabeth City, N. C.
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