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With the shortage of power the city can nffcr no iiMtaeMamt for manufac t urine mUmjrlmm ta laaate bar* and it is a'foregone fact that until ws mi Airy i« at a stand still. Realizing these facta Um water and H|kt com miiaion ham bam negotiating for months in an effort ta maw eat side power. Sacantly the Surry Pew 9t Co., t loot for(hffttkm rnmpoiiq ef W. E. Herri tt and C. R. Marritt, of this ^ity, acquired a valuable power site an the lower extremity of the Ararat river, which ia said ta has* an ootpot of about 4,004 horse power with • normal head of water. While aa work has been done toward veioftag Mi yawsr ita owners have made the city a proposition to at owee begin put tine >n the plant and let the city have its output. The contract offered the city au thorities by the power company wae taken under advisement several weeks ago and they in torn submitted • counter contract. The matter of making the contract with the Sorry Power Company ia now in the hands ef a joint committee ef the city coat light • view to IririHg oat the diffmiKM that nM sea the two contracts that aKk party kl sshiaj far. Tbeee conracte are now m (lb h the of flea of the societalj af the wa ter and light twieifcn. hi etew ot tka graat interest that has srieen daring the part few weeks over the power question we are herewith pvb llihinc tlte two contract*, which ap # Power Compaay Ca*tract The following ia a copy of the con tract that wa> submitted to the city by the Sorry Power Co.! , North Carolina. Sorry County. This contract made and entered in to thii the day of May, 1026, by and between the Town of Mount Airy, hereinafter called the Town, and Surry Power Coicptiny, hereinafter called Power Company, Wltneawth: First, That Power Coas pany will furnish to the Town, be ginning not later than twenty < 20) month* from this date, electric cur rent a* needed by the Town on the fol lowing term*: For five year* at following ratea: 90.0176 per kilowatt hour for the first 100,000 KWH per month; JO I1W per kilowatt hour for the next 400.000 KWH per month; |0.015 per kilowatt hour for the next 100,000 KWH per month; <0.014 per kilo watt hour for the next 100,000 KWH per month; 10.0136 per kilowatt hour for all over 400.000 KWH per month. And the Town agrees to purchase from Pbwer Company such power as It may need at the rates hereinbefore set forth for five years, guaranteeing to purchase at said rates power to the amount of Fifteen Thousand Dol lars ($16,000.00) per annum for the flee year period, settlement for Bower to be made monthly; provided the Town may take only such power as it actually needs in any year of the five year period in which the power company has a market at satisfactory price for all power above the Town's That after the expiration of five drears, at the contract price ■foresaid, the Power Company agrees to furnish and the Town agrees to us* and pay tnerefor. such power as the Taw* may need for thirty (SO) rears additional at sach rates as shall be approved by the State Corporation Commission of North Carolina, in the event within the said thirty years the control of rates shall be trsae ferred ft-om the Corporation Com mission to any other state authority rates will he paid and charged as sp ' by each state authority. The £«rwn^shall notiflr Power Company at tka beginning of each year of its re ' assents for that year and Power thaa furnish the Town rnated amount of power, not to s«eeed Ha capacity: Third. Power Coaipaay shall serrs direct all east ewers within the ci»y limits who may have a load over lidl at the option of hM i to be metually » to ha Uy Town wKk all tit* pmwtr TiWfB y ff^r U49 piiUmi. In th* Company to not able Town with ail dnM other mm to i Sixth, Pomt C th* uewei to the and the Town nhall then ■■■■■■■Mar *• ha i •d Town. Ci by the Town shall be altered at point of^daHvery ofjOTHrtN low in Kilowatt hour* arnmttni I., »<»,,«! — „# ft — -t-l,, - I inn mnnUlinn 01 r<im TrH u I Seventh, The Town agree* to Klghth. Neither party shad ha lia r for haiard*. death or 4 Injury to peraona, or injury U> piupei ty aria ln»_ on the line of tile other party. Ninth, In the event Power Cow pain shall not begin to deliver power within twenty (20) month* from thto data, thia contract >hall and void, hat without right of action of inability to deliver Signed in duplicate thi* the day of May, I9"£t< North Carolina, Sorry County. I Thia contract, mad* and entered into thia the !. day of May, IKS, by and between tho Town of Moant Airy, hereinafter railed tho Town, and, Surry Power Company, here inafter railed Power company. ■ Witnesseth: Pint, that" Power Company will furniah to tho Town, mntha from thia date, electric *»» • rent aa needed by the Town, on the following Rate fn for two year*; 90.0176 par kilowatt hoar for the firat 100,000 kilowatt hoara per mo.; $0.0196 per kilowatt boor for the next 140,000 kilowatt hour* per mo.; 90.9156 per kilowatt for the nest 100,000 kilowatt hoars per month; 90.0140 per kilowatt hoar for the next 100,000 kilowatt hours par month; 90.0136 per kilowatt boor far all over 400,000 kilowatt hoars per month. Rate far third year; 90.196 per how tar the first 109,000 kilowatt hoars per month; 90.0166 for the nest 100400 per kilowatt hoars per aMmth; 99.190 per kilowatt hour the next 199,090 kilowatt hoars nor month; 99.0149 per kilowatt hoar for the next 109.9M kilowatt hoars per month; 90.0196 per kilowatt hour for all over 100,009 kilowatt hours per month. Rate for fourth and fifth years: 90.0166 per kilowatt hoar for the Iihi.000 kilowatt hoars per | month; 90.0160 per kilowatt hours for the next 100,000 kilowatt hoars | ner month; 90.0146 per kilowatt hour | for the next lOO.tMHi kilowatt bourn per month; 9*4140 ner kilowatt hour for the next 100.0(A) kilowatt hours per month; 90.0196 per kilowatt for ad over 400.000 kilowatt h per month. And the Town agrees to purchase from the Pover Company such pow | er as M may need for its own use and redistribution, at the rates hereinbe fore set forth, for five years, fUarsn tr.nri* to wrchase at said rates pow T to the amount of Seventy-five I Hundred <S7,50Q,00) Dollars for the first year; Ten Thousand (110,000 00) dollar* for the second year; 912.600.00 for the third year and 11.1,000,00 dol lars for the forth and fifth years. .Second, That after the expiration | of fire yea's, the Power Company ngrees to furnish, and the Town "(frees to use and pay therefor, such power a* the Town may need for its own use and for n-distribution for twenty-fire years additional at *nch | rates a* shall be approved by the Town and by the Power Company. Third Power is to be brought to Mount Airy for use and redistribu tion within twenty months from the date of this contract, and in the event that the Power Company fails to Hrin* the power for the use of the Town and redistribution within 20 months, then the Power Comnany shall pay to the Town, ai liquidated damages, three hundred dollars for the first two month* after the ex piration of the twenty month*, and nix hundred dollars per month for each month thereafter until the power is furnished a* a creed Fourth, the Town durine the con tinuance of this contract a (free* to purchase power as it may need such power for the Town's u*e and for rediatri)>ution from the Power Com pany only during the *aid term of thirty years. Provided, the said Power Company's rapacity is suffi cient to furnish the Town with all of the power the said Town may need for its uee and redistribution. In the event the Power Company's capa city is not sufficient to furnish the Town with all needed power at any time, then the Town may purr hate from other source* other power to complete its needs. Plfth. the Power Company shall deliver the power to the South border of tfee corporate limits of Mount Airy at a place and *tation airreeable to both, and the Town shall then rsdi» wires poaaessed w ta be by the Town. Current , the Town shall be me tered at point of dellreiy of cun ei< on law tension side of rower Com pany's transformer*; entreat to be In Kilowatt boors areerd te AmmJfcaa laetitute of cmoe FAILURE AT MOUN TAW PAJUL bt J. M. Pslghaw, pried pel of t undUtaa sf the crops la hi a section In hla neighbor hood Ikqr k*n not been blsasad with Um local showers that a few sections of the county have received and he states that un laaa then la a liberal amount of rala thia weak that cropa to his section will be an almost total failure, gtaee fning to Mountain Park Mr. Pal ffhum has adopted a polity of grow in g muck at Ma vegetables on the lands owned by the school. In the spring be pot into cultivation about # acres of land. Using several hun dred dollars worth of fertiliser. SI* seres of this was in Irisk potatoes, sad three seres in vegetables that were to be canned for the uss ef the school during the winter, bat he states that the dry. weather ruined the satire crap of potatoes and veg etables and be was not able to even secure enough from the planting for one faarity's aas. The sckool planted 15 acres in corn but it is drying op, UmDng low, •nd forataf no nn. With this con. dition ka ta thia week cutting tke wmm* In a silo for fan! )inn. Aa a aavn at faad for tke nrtth aad etkar steak ka W am* in »» tke ad t ka says ia aJaa trna ta a large i aO tka farms in tkat n Tka sckool la now hailjiag a dairy barn with a tapaelty of M of raw*. Tkia structure la kailt of native rock (atktrfd on tka farm •nd tka work on K I* largely done by volunteers. " Mr. Pulgkum state* that ha is daily iwinnf application* lor admission to tka sckool and tkat ka wiD soon ! hava a* many aa the sckool can ac comm- data. Recently Mountain Park wu placed on tka 'accred'ted' list making it •• A-l claw kigk school which entitles tha graduates from it admission to any collaga withovt re-1 examination. A commercial -ocrsc; will be ».dd«l to tha school tae nn- 1 inr M'Ssbm and two new inc'^urtors hava been i •'•dad to th<- faculty. Thi* school is now receiving m< nth ly payments from the executor* of tha estate of tka late' Hon. R. L. Haymore. who establisked Mountain Park School and wko left a bequest of one hundred thousand dollar* to it at the time of ki* deatk. The will provided that the executor* *hould pay to the ackool the income from the above amount, and this they hava been doing, making the payments monthly. Prom tkis the school is now being paid $37F> per month, or an income of 4 1-1 per rent on the prin cipal bequeathed to It, the remain ing 1 1-2 per cent of tke six par cent that aoase would suppose the school would get being necesaary to take rare of taxes and upkeep of the prop erty from which this income is rived. ( Mr. Pulgkum has watched his ex penses very cloaaly in an effort to weep down tka coat to tke pupil to tke very lowest figure. For tke comli .term tka tuition will ka $4.00 par month and $10.00 par month for board and room. Tke sckool will run eight months tkia year bat by taking longer hour* tke pupils will be able ta do tha work tkat ia dona in other, M-kolt in the fall nine month* by Singing Class Aug. §4 A clam from tke Oxford Orphan-1 age will give a concert at tka North Main Sckool on Saturday Aog itk. at eight o'rlafk. A large attendance for tkis wortky cauae la solicited by tk to prntoat of J. H. torney for the fa The t*m now being k*M at (par U m called • par tally to try the eaaaa againat tkn tobacco farmera irf thia rountjr and about 100 paepla from all parta of the county ara in attea anta. The move cm the part of tha aaaoeiatton to hava tka eaaaa triad ta Alleghany county waa counted bp all aa a maatar atroha la their favor, aa tka people of that (action 4o not at (aft to tha growing of tobacco but devote their time to frain crop*, pa quently thair mtoda have not baan <iiaturbed bp tha "pro and com" of tha cooperative problam. Another •traif aon on tha part of tha aaao ciation waa when they employed Gov. R. A. Doughton to aaaiat their attor ney! ia tha peuaetution of tha eaaaa i gain at tha alleged contract heaahara. Gov. Dngfkton ia a man who wtolda a irreat pa war bi Ma county aa wall aa war tha entire atato and when tha aa •ociatioN eacnred hia aarrkaa they "onnected theme»l»aa with one of tha •triafot legal talenta ia tha atato. Other attunwy appearing for the amioriation an R. A. Freeman of Dobaon and Kenneth Royal of Goida horo. J. H. Folger, of thia city, and A. D. Folger. of Dobaoa. together with mm of the Sparta attoraeya are appearing for tha defendaota. Poor of the eaaaa were dtapnaad at on tha ffarat dap of tha mailt. All hard fought and required (ha of • Jury i. B. JilMMim uf u« h4 had • eaaa of cwli»y> of court again* Him. Tha Jury •d • verdict in hi thr trial of tMa that tha withheld paymenta Am him on tobacco to tha amount of *900.00 Jim Atkhta, of Dobaon waa aurraaaful in tha defanae ha |nt up and tha jury rendered a verdict in favor whara ha wna beinc uH for damafea for alleged breaking of L,. || ,.fr nil Cuftviici. Tha flrat day of tha special court for tha trial of tha cooperative eaaaa resulted in ana verdict in favor of tha uMoriatiotv —that of J. H. Wood, of (.aural Bluff. Wood wna not praaant whan hta eaaa waa called and neither waa ba rapraaantad by an attorney tnd a Judgment waa rendered »g*m«t Neither waa Baba Marnh, of Pin* Bidge, prieent but ba waa rapraaantad by Mr. Folger and after hearing tha (vidfncv tha Jury rendered a verdict in favor of Marah. Tha above cases represent 'ha work of tha firat day of tha aaurt. and in this county by the mi riUlw »U their tria^pre: Howry Drwbar, M» White, Kf> Mapion, Doc ImmK, Flitch Simpeon, Boy Arrtnfftou, M Cook, Jim Hammings. J. f. CWMm nnd WiU H ram toff*. There >rt eMb Mn who hove Ml Ha that ara to bo triad bat their names could tot ha aa rured. On tha convening; at court tm Tuesday morning Judge E. H. Craa nar. who is tha praaidiiiff judge, or dered the verdict set aside in the case of J. B. Johnson who was as Monday given a favorable »»rdi<-t by tha jury. Tha court Ad M totok tha verdict was rendered according to tha evidence and therefore revsnsd tha action of tha jury and tha earn will have to ba triad • second time. In tha caae of John White Hia Honor toatrurted (ht jury to betag In a verdict to favor of tha saeeafe tion stating that ha would havs to sat saide any othar verdict to tftto rasa. Another caaa triad Tuesday wm that af Wallace Cook, H batoff »Ile#od that ha had failad to carry out tha terms af tha contract ha hud siffwad with tha aaaoctotion. A wHht w rendered agstoat Cook and to fOTOT of tha aaaoetottoo. < good^Pkar , . 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