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VOLUME LIX
ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11,1935.
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NUMBER 15
Chamber Of Commerce
To Be Motorcade Hosts
Invitation Issued To All Former
Citizens And Friends of Ran
dolph County.
Drive Over Dogwood
Section Of County
Everybody Invited To Join Mo
torcade Sunday Afternoon
At 3:00 O’clock.
The Asheboro Chamber of Com
merce plans to play hosts to people
from neighboring counties on Sunday
when a motor trip will be -made
through sections of the Randolph
county now in full bloom with dog
wood and with Judas tree. The for
mal invitation which is intended for
every citizen of aRndolph and their
friends follows:
“The Asheboro Chamber of Com
merce
Invites You
To join a Motorcade leaving Randolph
County Court House
Sunday Afternoon, April 14th,
at 3:00 O’clock
On a Drive Through the Dogwood
Blossom Section of the Uwharrie
Mountains in Randolph.”
Randolph citizens, naturally mod
est—perhaps from a potent influ
ence of Quaker ancestry, have decid
ed to lay aside this modesty and tell
former Randolph citizens who have
strayed to nearby counties and set
tled how very lovely their native
county is in springtime. Friends of
Randolph are also included and will
receive a cordial welcome on Sunday
afternoon if they will join with their
friends and neighbors in a drive
over a section of the county where
the scenery rivals any offered by
Mother Nature.
The citizens of Asheboro and from
all sections are invited to meet at the
court house a little before the ap
pointed hour of 3:00 and greet the
visitors who assemble from adjoin
ing counties for this drive. It, is the
idea of the Chamber of Commerce
to take the lead in planning this
motorcade, only, but Hie organization
is relying largely upon the citizens
of Asheboro and Randolph county to
carry out the plans and make the
event a success by joining in the
drive and greeting the visitors be
fore-hand. .
Two State •Patrolmen will lead the
party with W. A. Bunch, mayor of
— Asheboro, and Francis’ HWte. .prosK
dent of the ASheboro Chamber of
Commerce, riding in the first car.
With the officers to direct the route,
which will partially be determined by
the weather, it is the expectation that
those who participate in this drive
will enjoy the versatile scenery of
Randolph county at this season suf
ficiently to make this an annual cus
tom that will grow into a fete of
wide repute. There is no need to sing
further of the praises of the beauty
of Randolph to those of us who know
and appreciate her charms, but many
of our native-born citizens have stray
ed to other counties while others dis
regard the beauty while we are “so
close to the forest we can’t see the
trees.” Nor is there need to reiter
ate here the many and varied indus
trial plants of the county. They, too,
are obvious. But, such an event as
is planned for Sunday afternoon will
make us all the more conscious that
Randolph has everything and is the
best place in the world in which to
live!
Seagrove Juniors Are
Hosts To Senior Class
On Trip To Raleigh
Womanless Wedding Will Be
Presented By P-T.-A. On
On Saturday Evening. ■
Seagrove, April 9—The Junior
class of the local high school enter
tained the seniors by carrying them
to Raleigh where they spent the day
visiting points of interest in the
Capitol city. There were 34 in the
party. They were chaperoned by Miss
Lena Russell and J. H. Lineberry, of
the high school faculty.
Miss Mabel Auman of W. C. U. N.
C., spent the spring vacation at her
home here.
W E. Graves and family attended
the birthday dinner held for Mrs.
Graves’ father, L. D. Payhe, at his
home in High Point on Sunday. .Thi3
was Mr. Graves’ Wth birthday.
“A Womanless Wedding” will be
presented at the Seagrove school, au
ditorium next Saturday night, April
13, at 8:00 p. m., sponsored by the
Parent-Teacher Association. A small
admission fee will be charged.
Mrs. Maie Lemonds Blythe, of High
Point, visited her sister, Mrs. Roy
Cole, on Saturday.
Prof. J. M. Green has purchased
‘ the home of Rev. Alfred Nance near
the school building and expects to
move in the near future.
Misses Doris and Della Maie Payne
of High Point, spent a few days re
cently with their sister, Mrs. W. E.
Graves. '
Mrs. G. A. York is supplying as
teacher of the fourth grade for
Miss Majds Lawrence who is confin
ed to her home with measles.
Mrs. J. M. Farjow, of High Point,
is spending several days with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Law
Easter Surprise
Comes In Advance
To County Woman
Mrs. W. F. Moffitt, of Asheboro,
route one, had an Easter egg sur
prise in advance of Easter by two
weeks. On Monday of this week,
Mrs.Moffitt went to her hen’s nests
collecting eggs, as is her custom,
and found three very unusual eggs
in the lot. One was a very small
egg, about the size of a large bird
egg.. The next nest contained an
egg at least twice the size of the
usual egg. Both the large and
small eggs were left by white leg
horn chickens. .These" are not the
first that have been found by Mrs.
Moffitt recently. ...
Another unusual egg, found on
the same day, but several of these
have appeared also recently in
Mrs. Moffitt’s chitken lot, was a
“crepe” egg. This egg, of normal
size, very much resembled the
rough crepe materials used in the
spring materials for smart dress
es. This smartly-shelled egg is the
property of a black minorca hen
who sings blithely about the chick
en lot, the biirden of her song be
ing about smart, new styles in
Easter eggs.
Asheboro Women’s
Club Hears Reports
Of Year’s Activity
Reports Of Departmental Chair
men Reveal Enviable Work
During Gub Year.
President Speaks
Peace And Citizenship Are Top
ics Of Mrs. Latham’s Talk
To Asheboro Women.
In completing IKe club year prior
to the spring report which is requir
ed before the State Federation meet
ing in May, the Asheboro Woman’s
Gub has just cause for pride in the
aehiSVMMnU of that period. At, the
meeting held ow Thursday, depart
mental chairmen gave brief summar
ies of the activities of their depart
ments and interesting facts were re
vealed. Among the achievements were
reported: $46.00 paid to keep the
school library open last summer for
twenty-five days; placed the new En
cycloperia of Britumnica in the school
library at a cost of $150.00; paid
$30.00 toward feeding undernourished
children in the school; offered $5.00
achievement prizes in the school;
placed books in the school library
through Cetwick Memorial Fund —
which fund, with Educational depart
men of club, totals $300 during the
year; $72.00 for glasses for needy
children; $30.00 for Florence Whit
comb sanitorium fund; $67.54 for
planting shrubbery at school, ceme
tery and mowing school lawn.
In addition to the financial report,
there is a credit for the club of 315
splits for donations of clothing, food
and money to school and community;
also for supplementary books placed
in the grammar grades through the
grade parents organization.
For the past two seasons the Jun
ior Woman’s Gub of Asheboro has
centered upon Qiristmas cheer in the
form of community trees. Their work
the first year amounted to 180 units
credit for food, toys and clothing do
nated to needy on the community
tree; the second year the number
increased to 225 units.
After this splendid report of work
accomplished, Mrs. J. L. Latham,
club president for the State Federa
tion, gave an inspirational talk. Es
pecially did the speaker stress the
question of peace, begging coopera
tion of every member to work for the
prevention of another war. Good Citi
zenship was also stressed by Mrs.
Latham.
Legion Auxiliary
Asks Cooperation
In Local Activity
The Auxiliary of the Dixon Post
No. 45 American Legion has been
devoting a great deal of effort and
expense'in Carrying on Child Wel
fare work here in Randolph county.
At this time they are carrying on
a campaign to assist in this work.
Representatives of the Auxiliary will
call upon the townspeople within
the next few days and explain how
this plan will be carried out. Any
courtesy extended these representa
tives will be appreciated.
Mrs. George Burkhead, Pres.
Mrs. R. L. Bunch, Sec.-Treas.
J. O. V. A. M. Notice
Asheboro Council Jr. O. U. A M.
will have some special entertainment
and business of interest to all mem
bers Tuesday night, April 16th.
Colon Cox, Asst. Rec. Sec.
Mayor Of Asheboro
W. A. Bunch, who will ride with
president of the Chamber of Com
merce in the leading car of the Dog
wood motorcade on Sunday.
Routh Speaks At
Kiwanis Meeting
Concerning Wills
Kiwanis And Rotary Clubs To
Entertain The Senior Class
Friday Evening.
Administering estates and probat
ing wills, was the topic taken up at
the Kiwanif. meeting Tuesday eve
ning. Rufus Routh was in charge and
made a talk stressing certain details
that everyone should know in con
nection with these transactions. He
explained the two types of wills and
their differences. Careful mention
was made of the importance of hav
ing a will drawn correctly, adding
that the small fee charged by law
yers more than ofset the delay and
expense of a dispute.
The committee, selected to work
with a similar committee from the
Rotary Club to arrange a joint meet
ing to entertain the Senior class, re
ported that details have been com
pleted and that this meeting is to be
held Friday evening, April 19. at the
Baptist church. Members of both
clubs will please take notice of this
change in meeting for the next week.
Frances Baldwin is
Winner la Musical
Contest At Rftmieiir
Dr. Truesdale Speaks At Mason
ic Meeting Saturday; Wide
ly Popular Response.
Ramseur, April 8—At the home of
Mrs. N. F. Phillips, director in
music, Dew, Hattie Mae and
Ruth Barber grave a recital in
scales and piano selections last Fri
day evening:.
A number of guests, friends of the
family, and several members of the
music department enjoyed the pro
gram. The numbers played by those
on the program were well rendered,
showing progress in their 'musical
training. Two contestants also played
off an elimination test for the State
contest soon to be held at High Point.
Miss Frances Baldwin won over Miss
Nancy Stroup in this event. Assisted
by Miss Blanche Marsh and A. W.
Craven, Jr., Mrs. Phillips served light
refreshments.
Dr. R. S. Truesdale, pastor of First
Methodist church of Asheboro, was
the speaker at the Masonic meeting
Saturday night at Ramseur. Dr.
Truesdale brought some very fine
lessons to his hearers, couched in
eloquent language, prose and poetry,
keeping the boys thrilled throughout
the evening. We hope we may have
him with us again soon.
Miss Mildred Tippett, of Winston
Salem, was the week-end guest of
Miss Catherine Riehm.
1 Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Barber and
Mrs. H. M. Kivett left Tuesday for
Copcord where they attended the
Missionary conference of the Wes
tern North Carolina Conference They
represented the Missionary Society of
Ramseur Methodist church.
A number of our folks attended
the Asheboro Rotarians’ show at
the Capitol theatre Monday and
Tuesday nights.
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Satisfactory .Reports From A Recent
State Achievement Test At School
Pleasing' reports come from the
Aaheboro school office concerning the
recent state achievement tests taken
by the pupils of the seventh grades.
A total of ninety-seven children par
ticipated in the Stanford test, which
is the state approved test. Of this
number sixty-eight, or 70.1 percent
made a passing mark, or above; twen
ty-nine, or 29.9 percent made below
the passing score of 86.
While the standard score of pass
ing is set at 86, other items are con
sidered for promotion to the eighth
grade. These include, general devel
opment of the child; effort put on
work; scholastic record for entire
school year and the teachers judg
ment.
A comparison of . the grades this
year with those achieved last year are
■
President C. Of C.
J. F. White, Jr,‘pi(iiient of the
Asheboro Chamber of Commerce, who
has been active in planning for the
Dogwood motorcade aet for Sunday
afternoon, April 14th.
Quattlebaum Named
Manager Asheboro
Automobile Agency
Invitations have been issued to the
public to attend the opening Friday,
of Horace G. Ilderton Inc., new
Dodge and Plymouth distributors for
Asheboro and vicinity. J. W. Quat
tlebaum, of High Point, who has
been in the car sales business for
fourteen years, will be the manager
of the local agency. They are located
in the Ross building, on Sunset Ave
nue, adjoining the Coca-Cola Bottling
Company.
| This place of business is one of the
many that have come to Asheboro to
locate in recent months. Especially
since the first of the new year has
the town welcomed a number of new
comers in the business section.
Capt. Woodward Here
Headquarters Company, 3rd Bat
talion, 120 ‘infantry, held its annual
Federal inspection, Tuesday night, at
the armory. Capt. Woodward of Dur
ham, was the inspecting officer. He
complimented the boy* on their -im
provement and excellent
This is the fourth ye*r that
inspected the local boys.
has
FrankfcwiUel
Hold Primary, 19;
Name Candidates
Registration Books Open; Will
Close April 27th; Election
May 7th.
Birth Announced
W. M. U. Meets In.. Regular
Monthly Session With Mrs.
E. A. Routh On Friday.
Franklinville, April 10—A primary
will be held at the school auditorium
April 19, at 7:30 o’clock for the pur
pose of nominating a candidate for
mayor and five commissioners for
the Town of Franklinville. All voters
are requested to be present. Regis
tration books are open at the Frank
linville-store and will close at sun
set April 27. Town election, Tuesday,
May 7.
Mrs. C. L. Williams entertained
the Susanna Wesley Bible class at
her home Monday evening, April 1,
with an April Fool party. Misses
Margaret Wilson, Frances Parks and
Myrtle Hudson were winners in the
contests. After a very enjoyable
evening, the hostess, assisted by
Miss Lucy Buie, served sandwiches,
cake and tea.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rodgers spent
the week-end with Mrs. Rodgers’
parents at Red Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Allred, of
near Asheboro, were visitors here
Saturday evening and Sunday.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wil
son, April 5, a son, Kenneth Eugene.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Vance Sykes,
March 7, a son, Donald Jones.
Miss Mary Gilbert spent the week
end with her parents at Bonlee.
scored below
95 to 99; twenty from 90 to 94; twen
ty-five from 85 to 89; twenty-one,
from 80 to 84; four, from 75 to 79;
two, from 65 to 69.
In last year’s class of 112, sixty
eight, or 60.7 percent, made a general
average of 86 or above
four, or 39.3 percent,
86.
Average scores and ranungs
the various subjects were as follows:
history and Civics, 98, normal score
for ninth grade at end of three
months; arithmetic fundamentals, 97,
normal score for ninth gradt
of taco months; language, 95,
score for eighth grade at
nine months; outlines, 92,
score for eighth grade ah. tw
physical education and
Randolph County A-Bloom With Many
Beauties Of Nature In The Fullest Glory;
History Lies Buried In Her Foothills
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Randolph Invites Her Friends
To Make Motor Trip On Sunday
Randolph county is lovely in spring
time! For this reason, Sunday April
14th is set aside as a sort of home
coming day for Randolph sons and
daughters who have been away. And,
those of us who live here with our
eyes closed to the beauties of our
home county, will do well to wake;
up and take a good-will tour of the
county now that the dogwood is a
bloom.
The Chamber of Commerce is tak
ing the lead in a motor trip for Sun
| day afternoon to which Randolph
I citizens and other friends who wou'd
jlike to join us, will make. This trip,
lied by Mayor A. W. Bunch and Fran
I cis White, Jr., president of the Cham
i
Greensboro Selected
For Next Meeting Of
8th District Doctors
More Than A Hundred In Atten
dance Representing Ten
Counties In District.
Dr. W. L. Lambert, Dr. J. T.
Barnes and Dr. J. H. Soady, all of
Asheboro, turned over the offices of
president, vice president and secre
tary treasurer of the eighth district
medical society at the one-day meet
ing held in Asheboro Tuesday, to a
new group of officers. The newly
elected medicos were Dr. J. Walter
Holt, Dr. Fred Patterson and Dr.
Casper Jennings, all of Greensboro,
where the next district meeting will
be held six months from now.
More than a hundred visitors at
tending the meeting held in the Capi
tol theatre Tuesday afternoon and
the dinner meeting held in the din
ing room of the First Methodist
church. Dr. James K. Hall, of West
brook’s .Sanatorium, Richmond, Va..
was the dinner speaker, using for
his topic “The Abdication of the Indi
vidual.” This was a rare treat for the
doctors assembled as were several of
the talks during the afternoon ses
sion. The entire program was de
of unusual excellence. Dr. Bayard
Carter, gynecologist of Duke Hospi
tal, Dr. Frederick Taylor, 'of High
Point, and other outstanding medi
cal men, were speakers during the
meeting.
Social features were provided dur
ing the afternoon for the ladies at
tending the Asheboro meeting. Mo
tor trips, bridge, etc., and other
forms of entertainment were provid
ed by the doctors’ wives of Ashe
boro. The ladies were also guests at
the dinner meeting held Tuesday eve
ning.
Greensboro was the city selected
for the next meeting of the eighth
district and will be held about six
months from this time, the exact date
to be announced later. The counties
represented at the meeting were.
Ashe, Alleghany, Forsyth, Guilford,
Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Sur
ry, Wilkes and Yadkin.
Seward Manager of Market
H. E. Seward, of High Point, has
recently come to Asheboro and as
sumed management of the M Sys
tem store market. Mr. Seward has
had ten years experience in the mar
ket business and is well fitted, there
fore, to give first class service to the
people of Asheboro. He expects to
move his family to Asheboro as soon
as a house can be secured. A. E.
Greeson, former manager of the
market, has gone to Burlington
where he has gone into the whole
sale meat business.
Seagrove Grange To Meet
Seagrove Grange number 816 will
meet Tuesday evening, April 16th at
the Seagprove school building. The
Trinity Grange will be present at
this meeting and assist with the pro
grarii to which all members are urg
ed to attend.
enth grade at end of fifth month;
spelling, 86, normal score for seventh
grade at end of fourth month; geo
graphy, 84, normal score for seventh
grade at end of two months; and
word meaning, 81, normal score for
sixth grade at end of eighth month.
Girls To .Exhibit Dresses
The home economics classes of the
city schools, taught by Miss Mabel
Robertson, from time to time exhibit
their handiwork in the windows of
various Asheboro stores. An intere
esting exhibit of their work will be
seen in the windows of Hudson-Belk
Belk’s department store Thursday,
April 18th.
The second-year class is now com
pleting a project In the making of
ber of Commerce, will begin at 3:00
o’clock on Sunday afternoon. People
are asked to meet in front of the!
county court house and from there
will be conducted on a sight-seeing
trip of rural Randolph, now a riot
of natural beauty in her spring dress
of dogwood and Judas tree.
Enjoy this trip, then write an ar
ticle telling something of Randolph
county’s sources of pride. The Cour
ier will give a crisp five-dollar bill
to the one who sends in the best arti
cle by Easter Sunday. The rules of
this contest are more fully set forth
on page seven of this issue of The
Courier. So, here’s a toast to Randolph
county in Springtime!
Winners Announced
For Name Contest Of
Buttercup Ice Cream
Sometime ago the Buttercup Ice
Cream company gave samples of a
delicious new ice cream that has re
cently been made by their company.
The winner to be announced by
The Courier is Bud Hedrick, who wins
with the Finesse Pie.
The other of the two winners, ai
nounced in last week’s Tribune, was
J. C. Senter, whose name, Buttercup
Fruit Roll won one of the bridge ta
bles offered by the Buttercup Ice
Cream company. If Bud Hedrick will
call at The Courier office, his table
is waiting for him.
Senate’s Time Is
Consumed Chiefly
By Tax Discussion
Senator Newman Champions
Sales Tax Plan But Admits
It A Ltesser Evil.
Senator Hill Scores
Erifliii Says That if Present
Food Tax Continues, Rebel
lion Will Follow.
Following the argument of Sena
tor Burrus on Tuesday morning, in
the senate, who classed the sales tax
as “Unfair, unjust iniquitous,” came
Senator Griffin’s broadside against
the most “cussed” and discussed tax
before the Senate. “The sales tax is
not a safe set-up for revenue when
it weighs so heavily on the poor. My
people sent me here to vote against
the sales tax and thats what I’ll be
doing as long as I have breath in
my body. If we keep this sales tax
without exemption on meat and bread
we will have a rebellion among the
poor working people of North Caro
| lina.”
“It is not the best tax I can think
of,” replied Senator Newman, who
pointed to his record of having con
sistantly fought against it at two
previous sessions of the legislature,
“but over and above all of my ob
jections to this sales tax, is my be
i lief that it is my duty to provide
| enough revenue to balance the bud
get of the state and to preserve
| North Carolina’s credit.” I believe it
i is the duty of this general assembly
to provide enough revenue to balance
decent appropriations. If you gentle
men who so opposed to the sales tax
will go into the appropriations and
cut off a million dollars there I am
willing that you shall reduce the
yield of the sales or other taxes by
that amount.”
Other significant developments of
Tuesday was the statement by Sena
tor Hill, who is opposed to the ex
tension of the sales levy to anything
other than merchandise, that he had
an amendment signed by 34 mem
bers of the senate, a majority, which
would -write back into the sales tax
section the conditional food exemp
tions, flour, meal, meat, lard, milk,
molasses, sugar and coffee . . If these
signed senators should stick, it would
guarantee that these essential food
items would be removed from the bill
which will be sent back to the house
for concurrence.
After the Burrus and Griffin tirade
against the sales tax came Senator
Johnston and Ramsey, both from the
western part of the state, who ar
gued that the sales taxes application
to hotel room rents was ruinous to
the tourist trade of North Carolina.
To this, Senatr Hill replied that we
might have to apply the tax to many
things that we did not want to, even
to the liquor that we consume in
North Carolina.
All non-controversal sections of
schedule B income and franchise tax
sections of the bill have been ac
cepted.
Rummage Sale April 13th
The Rummage sale that was to
have been held Saturday of the past
week on the vacant lot in front of
the railway station by the Fhilathea
class of the First Methodist Episco
pal church, was put off on account
of the rain and will be held Satur
day, April 13th, at the same place at
M l aflf fl anop»
Many Legends Cling
To Western Section
Of Days Long Past
Young Musician Of the ’60’s
Writes Ballad Inspired By
Randolph Mountain
Home.
“Thars Gold In Them
Hills” Is Still Believed
Ancestors Of Former President
Sleep ’Neath Quiet Beauty
Of Western Hills.
A square county in the exact cente
of N. C. with Asheboro the geogra
phic center of the county and of the
state, immediate gives a picture of
placid, flat—perhaps slightly rolling
—Piedmont Carolina. Not so, for only
a mile or so west of Asheboro lie
lovely foothills called the Uwharrie
mountains. Not a large group of
foothills, or mountains, but quite love
ly and never lovelier than in April
with the myriad white dogwood trees
mingling with the cerise of the Judas
tree—also in bloom in April.
Many legends cling around these
foothills and of varied types they are.
The hills obtained their names from
the Uwharrie Indians who camped
among them in former days when
game was plentiful and the vast herds
of buffalo passed along on their way
to the coast. Indian relics are still
found in various sections of Randolph,
especially on one of the lesser hills.
Many of the present generation re
call long Sunday afternoons passed in
digging into the “mounds” with the
reward of arrow-heads, beads, “mon
ey”—very square brown polished
roots.
Caraway and Back Creek are the
favorites for Easter picnics while
Shepherd, Indian Grave Hill, Long
Arm and Sunset all have their charm.
Inspire Song
A pretty legend clings around Back
Creek mountain where the Moss and
Glenn families were among the early
| settlers. Robert A. Glenn, a young
man well iwwfc u . singer who
(thrilled the earlier citizens of Ran
dolph with his mellow voice as be
rode over the red hills in his buggy
and joined with the Moss family in
furnishing music for many a neigh
borhood meeting and social event,
composed a song “My Old Cottage?*
Home.’’ This song, composed after the
young man had enlisted in Company
I, organized by Dr. Shubal Worth
and fought in the War Between the
States—when he was homesick for
the hills of Randolph. The cottage in
the Uwharries held his heart as re
called memories of happy days and
nights around the fireside with fami
ly and friends. Ex-Sheriff and Post
master R. R. Ross, recalls hearing
this lyric voice singing “Dixie” in
soul-stirring rythm.
“Thar’s Gold In Them Hills”
Through the generations of Ran
dolph folk has come the legend,
“thar’s gold in them hills’” and pros
pectors still dig free lance while oth
er mines yield nuggets of the preci
ous metal in varied supplies. These
hills touch Davidson, Stanley, ami
Montgomery counties and are easily
seen from the western section of
Moore and southern portion of Guil
ford counties. Between 1800 and 1840
gold mining was at its height in Ran
dolph and only lessened in 1848 when
the “gold rush” took the seekers for
this precious metal west to Califor
nia to search for the elusive metal
in larger quantities. Even so, every
now and then there have been sud
den spurts of search for gold and
even for a legendary pot of silver on
“Horse mountain,” which is another
story.
Perhaps on of the best known,
certainly one of the oldest, and re
putedly one of the richest and widest
veined, is the Hoover Hill mine, lo
cated on Shepherd mountain—or at
the foot of this mountain. Records
of the mine disclose that work has
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RANDOLPH IN DOGWOOD TIM®
(By D. C. Smith)
Come back to Randolph when the
Dogwoods are in bloom.
Then you’ll see her beauty like a bride
Decked for her groom.
Matters not which way you go.
The highways lined in white
The beauty of a fairy land,
Mid flowers white as snow.
Over the hillside and the valley
Where flows the placid stream.
You travel on in rapture
And ask, is this a dream?
Down by the Uwharrie, Caraway and
Deep,
The dogwoods make a garland
To their flowing sleep.
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Memory turns us backward,
When Randolph
Thats a lasting