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PAGE FOURTY-FOUR 4 ->v f J WE GIVE YOUR SHOE A A ' FINISH — * which is second to none, not even to that of the original shoe factory where they were made. Our Shoe Repairing embraces reshaping and refinishing on our latest model ma chines. Our Work Guaranteed First Class Coley’s Shoe Shop >■ • 206 West Depot Street Southern Cotton Oil Company Manufacturers of '• - / COTTON SEED MEAL COTTON SEED HULLS ' 1 Dairy Foods made by Nature and when fed in their natural state are better than any combi nation Goods that chemists can mix. We do not \ make a “Mixed Feed” for we know that Cotton . Seed Meal and Hulls is already a perfect food for I ' Milk or Beef Producer. i ’ . • ' / We Also Manufacture • t High Grade Fertilizer .i # Our Mixtures are figured out for local soil condi . * y ' I ' tions and are largely used over Cabarrus County >. J. B. WOMBLE, Manager Concord Mill * '• i THE CONCORD TIMES—FAIR AND INDUSTRIAL EDITION Cabarrus County Formed From Mecklenburg Has an Interesting Early History The following paper. ‘‘A Historical Sketch of the Foundation of Concord." was read before the Study Club here by M r u, D. Luther Bost some years ago: lu the year 17112. bv act of the Gen eral Asseinb’y of North Carolina. Meck lenburg county was divided and the northeastern section named Cabarrus, in honor of Stephen Cabarrus, a native of France, but who lived in this. State and represented the 'county of Chowan for several terms in the legislature. The first county court was held at the house of Robert Russell on the third Monday in January. 1793, by the following jus tices: Hubert Harris, senior. Robert Har ris. Jr.. William Scott, John Allison, Edward Giles, Dauie Jarratt and Poseph Shinn. The county government was then and there organized with Archibald Hous ton. Jr., sheriff: John Simiana, clerk: Benjamin Shinn, strayma.ster; Hugh Rodgers, entry taker: Zdcheus Wilson, surveyor: William Alexander, attorney; Nathaniel Giles, register: John Plyler. county trustee., , The same act of the Assembly which created the county appointed Paul Bar ringer. John Lepard. Joseph Shinn. Daniel Jarrett, Alexander Ferguson. Janies Bradshaw. Janies Harris. Za cheus Wilson. Archibald Houston, Ben jamin Patton and Robert Smith com missioners "to fix on the mist central place in the county for the purpose of erecting a court house. prison and stocks." Archibald Houston. Martin Phifer. John Means. Daniel Jarrett. and George Masters were authorized to buy 50 acres, of land and contract with workmen for the erection of these necessary building “a« soon as the commissioners shall fix on the center.” But in what particular locality in the center of flic county were the 50 acres to be bought on which to build the town? There was a disagreement on this point. It is not known whether it was among the commissioners only or whe ther the people of the county took sides in the matter, but disagreement thero was. One party desired to locate the town on what is familiarly known as the Pem berton White place or Cook’s Crossing: the other party was equally desirous of ■■■■ buying the land from Billy White, which afterward was owned by the late Jacob Dove. "’here was mutual concession, midway ground was selected, and in recognition of this amicable agreement the town was called Concord. This location of the seat of county government has never been a cause of dissatisfaction except in the survey of the North Carolina Rail road. The citizens of the town and the railroad authorities had a sharp con tention about the line running so far fro i the center of business. The first court house was a wooden buihluig on the spot where Corbin Street crosses T’nion Street. People moved in from the county, built homes and be pnn business ip the town '■of Concord. The town was not incorporated and no town officers were elected until 1851 — 58 years latter, and the citizens of the little village lived, as once in ages gone bv in the land of Israel, "every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Paul Barringer opened a mercantile establishment on HudginV corner. Joseph Young, another store, with R. W. Alli son ns clerk, on the Allison corner, anfl ,wh«>re the Lutheran Church stands. Jack Phifer kept a store. Where did these merchants buy their stocks of merchan dise and how did they get them to Con cord? For there was not a railroad in the county. They bought thefr goods in Philadelnhia, shipped them to Charles ton and Cheraw. sometimes to Fayette ville. and brought them up from these ♦owns in wagons. These merchants, however, soften bought their goods di rectly from firms in Charleston* The postoffice was, kept where John Patter son lives. Tom Henderson was postmas ter and you paid 10 and 25 cents on your letter, according to the distance it had to go, you had no envelope either. The postmaster lived in the house so long occupied by Mrs. Mitry Cross, and be tween the two, lived Abram Avery, who kept a hatmaking establishment in the rear of his home. On the present court j house lot, George Kluttz kept a hotel and where the city hall stands another Public house was kept by the Malian family. Long after the_ father and mother had passed from earth, the two Mahan sisters with a brother-in-law, Daniel Coleman, lived in tbe old home and conducted a boarding house. And here was the finest garden in town, the earliest lettuce, peas and beans grew in the beds of rich mold, bordered by box wood boxes, big as ffower barrels, which overhung the walks. At a later date. Dr. K. I\ Harris and Major Robert Foard opened hotels which for many, many years were the only stopping places in Concord for the traveling public. ’1 he first jail was built on the old I\. »P. Harris lot and when jt was torn down. Dr. Harris b night the brick walls and erected the "brick row” (Isenhour's restaurant.) The street leading north out of town turned in a sharp curve at Caleb Phi fer’s house, ran through the D. F. Can yon lot. on behind the Alexander Rus sell house (Mr. Hill's home! and up by the cotton factory. The Russell family had a large tract of land in that part of town: their ownership is market yet by their private burying ground, and their house was the last one on tlrat end of the street. Betweeu it aud the factory was an old field of broolnsedge and scrub by pines, fenced in and used as a mus ter ground for the annual gathering of the State malitia. In 3839, out bn the Beattie's Ford road, near town, brick were made to build the first “cotton factory.” The building was completed in the next year; 18-10, and officers elected to conduct the business as follows: Paul Barringer, president; K. P. Harris, secretary and \ treasurer; George Barnhardt, Christo- : pher Melohor, John B. Moss and John ; F. Phifer, directors. Mr. Jenks, su- ; perintendent for a short time. wa§ sue- ! ceeded by John McDonald, who contin- i ued in that office until lie bought the ; factory in 1867. The machinery in this j mill was an object of curiosity and peo- i pie came from a distance of 75 miles in ; all the country around just to see tbe ; wonderful inventions in operation. Dr. Houston’s house is one of the first i buildings in Concord. A grand ball ; was given there in January, 1827, in ! celebration of the battle of New Or- ; leans, January 8, 1815 —and in 1865, j Jefferson, retreating south from Rich- 1 inond. was entertained one night in April i by Mr. and Mrs. Victor C. Barringer. ; whose home it then was. What a grand j supper Mrs. Barringer did have for the j fleeing President and his staff! Concord also has the honor of having ; one of her citizens. Hon. Daniel M. Bar- j ringer, elected to Congress, as a member : of the House of Representatives for the ; five sessions, from 1625 to 1835. In ; 1804. the Presbyterians built a log house j church on the ground where the second, i a brick building, is still standing. Late in the history of the town, the \ Methodist congregation built a churc and : a parsonage on Church Street; the Luth- ; erau congregation erected a large church ■ in a fine grove on Corbin Street. None ! of these churches had a bell, until 1854, i when Major Yorke was commissioned to | buv one for eaali congregation. The session house of the Presbyteriah i Church wa.s the village schoolhouse until ; another was built on the lot where Mr. | Sandy Smith lived. Dr. Charlie Fox, later of Charlotte, j was one of the first physicians of Concord j and lived where Mr. Zeb Morris has built ! bis home. It is probable that Dr. ■ Charles Harris, the celebrated doctor of j the Poplar Tent neighborhood, was often i ca led to Concord, as his reputation gave ! him an extensive-practice. In 1851, the town woke up and had ’ itself incorporated .by act of General : Assembly. This same act decreed that j the board of commissioners for the town J of Concord should be composed of in- : tendant of police and four commission- ■ ers, and the officers appointed by th : « • last were: Jowaph L. Bundy. Alfred.: Brown, William Drew, Daniel JI, Wag- • oner and Ransom Winecoff. Josia’h L. Bundy, a$ the first named inli the act. was intendant of police, and vest- : en with the’ same authority, duties and « emoluments as i« given to the same of- 1 fieial under the title of mayor. The official heard of the board of com- ■ missioners held office under the name of i intendant of police until 1873. when it : was changed, by act*of Legislature, to : mayor. i The rorporation line run one-fourth of a mile south from the crossing of t*or bin and Union streets, and north to the .-factory line; one-fourth of a mile east and wejst from Union Street, making the town one mile and one-eighth long and i one-half mile wide. These limits were * extended by the Legislature Os 1887, and I again in 18$H to its present boundaries, j How old is the town? One hundred l and 'fifteen years old. Think back a j * ll tury to the little duster of houses. | scattered along two .streets! How silent and appressively tpiiet the village I must have been—no roar of goad or whistle of cotton mill; how dark at night when light was furnished by can dles only, and not a match in North America. In this same year of 1703. ! KH Whitney invented the cotton gin. Richard Dobbs Spaight was Governor of North Carolina. The corncrstopc for the first building for the University at C i a pel Hill, was laid and in the next, year, 17! 14 the Legislature convened in Raleigh for the first time. and. in the newly completed State House. George Washington was President of the United States and Philade.phia was the capital. George the Third was King of Eng lang; Napoleon Ilouapnrte was a young man, 24 years old, and just beginning his military career as an officer of ar tillery in tiie'French army. The horrors of the French Revolution were alarming the nations of Europe; King Louis XI l had been .dethroned, tried and condemned, and in January beheaded at the guillotine—his b«iutiful Queen imprisoned only to meet the same fate in the following October. lhe I'astile had been torh down, but 1 j other prisons were Crowded, with the besi and noblest of the land and thous and were guillotined until Paris ran red with blood. Lot the broad Atlantic rolled between the Old and New Worlds, and no echo of those horrors disturbed the village of ( oncord. that walked by day and slept by night in peaceful security. ‘‘Time, like an ever-rolling tide.” has borne away the generations of a cen turv. and each generation in passing has added . improvement and importance to th<* town of Concord. The county seat now stands a bustling center of busy humanity, where handsojng ,homes, large mercantile establishments, fine churches and school buildings adorn the streets r evidencing the wealth, the culture, and tlu? high character of its citizens; and where invested capital flourishes in ev ery manner of business and trade from the peanut pareher to the cotton mill. uutmbm js; COOKS tviik the GAS TURNED OFF! the gas Iralßr^n • - ' turned off jy-V y - BETTER FOOD Food is better* cooked in the seal ed oven or hood of a Chambers FIRELESS range. All the flavors and rich Gas Range 1 juices are kept in. The food can not steam away, and fill the house The resourceful housewife will not Iterate with cooking odors. You put in . about deciding for a Chambers Range, jt i- a a five-pound roast and take out practically five pounds of juicy real time-saver and will give you more tii t i roast —cooked just the way your sand new hours in a year’s time. \\ lieu ; ■' ■ husband likes it. You never to this the fact that it soon pays for itself serve burnt or dried-up food, he- v ting the gas bill in half, and then continue" cause you are cooking with re- ' tained heat which slowly dimin- yOU di ' idends. you simply cannot afford t ishes. ; out a Chambers Fireless Gas Range. CONVENIENT TERMS WHEN DESIRED ■ r Concord & Kannapolis Gas Company While Attending the Fair; or \ n [ ' Other Time. For ■ | GOOD EATS ; Visit the Ideal Lunch Room Where You Get That Good . HOME COOKING Special Rates Given Reiuilar Boarders Located on Barbrick Street Opp 0 . site Water and Light Offi ce —See Ls For— GROCERIES, FLOUR and FEEDS * of All Kinds Distributors of SPARTAN DAIRY FEED Best Feed on the Market Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co Phone 571 W
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