Ordinance Passed Outlawing
Dynamite Within City Limits
Ma Folger Leads
Fight For Schools
S. P. U. To Close
Financing Plan
Free-For-All Fight End* Life
Of a Carroll County Citizen
Hunt tt, they do Mt wut any
tac the itanc* of any quantity of
dynamite within the city UmKa (or
tha purpose of It waa ftrat sag
geetad that tha dealara ha pmM
to haap a Halted fMiHty an hand
hat thia suggeetion wma diacarded far
4mm even tha «aat law abiding eitl
♦vet stopping tha legal supply, and it
■.-waa finally decided to outlaw tha dna
«mh stuff entirely aa U now doae
hi all tha larger citiee.
Far aavoral waaka bow tha aMa
tton when tha ftra and oaploeiea oe
earriil in Deceaiher. Tha walla of
tha Mtdinp ware declared unsafe by
tha etote fire mapector and tha prop
erty owner* wore ordered to mora
them. Tha walla of tha Bannar
pioporty have been taken down, bat
tha 8chafer wall rwahn standing
aad H for this reason that tha public
ia barred from using tha sidewalk la
front of tha walla. Mr. Sehafer haa
bean served with legal warning o<
their condemnation, and since ha haa
failed to taha any etepe to nam
them the commiaaionan ia their
■Mating Tueaday night ordered tha
police to iaaue wariaata against him
aa provided for in the atotutea for
hia failure to remove them. The
atata law make* It a fine of not leea
thaa $10 and not more than MO for
each day that tha' walla remain after
they (hall have boon condemned by
tha flit inspector.
The fir* limits of tha city were ex
tended by the board to include all
that territory on Willow Street be
tween Virginia Street aad Pta» Street.
Thia waa made necaaaary on account
of tha many buildings that have been
erected along Willow Street during
the paat two or three year*.
inc commissioners passed a resolu
tion eondemnlng certain lands of W.
O. Jackson, W«»h Cox and the Mil
tax Woolen Mill* over which to build
a water pipe line tram Lovills Craak
to the pumping ntation. Under the
prtwimofin of the amended charter of
the city the right of way can he con
demned and the damages to the own
en are submitted to arbitrators
selected, one for each party to the
suit. In case tile award is not satis
factory either party can appeal to
the Superior Court. There are other
lands alone Lovills Creek which are
-being token over by the city for Ha
pipe line right of way and the dam
ages are being aaaaaaed by agree
ment. In these aaaeeaments the city
is represented by W. I. Monday and
the property owners by Geo. M.
Sparger At ft ret the etty offered
the property ownars Are cento per
lineal foot for a 25 foot right of way
through the lands. Some of the land
•is highly improved and we under
stood that in some eases the arbitra
tors have allowed Ike owners 10 cento
par foot where the land was in a high
•tote at cultivation.
The commissioner* discussed the
question of the white way for the
city. Mayor Sydnor advises against
the increased expense the city would
he pat to in paying for the electric
current. He believe* the money used
to pay for it should be used to pay
hi tot sal en the bonds at the city.
This week, he reminded the commla
siooers, the town sold I1M.000. H will
take in the neighborhoad of 175,000 to
With
I
Local lodge No. IMS Loyal Order:
ceesfully applying (or membership!
ami taking the initiation which w
.4 -» - -- it. JI-- . > I „ - .. M w
put oft under tw airMtkon of Wo
MoreUnd, of Asheville, district sup*
on tho dtfno
r. a
More land, Asherille, C. A. and
Heilig, Winston-8aleni, Mr. Taylor,
of Philadelphia, Pa. Robe L. Colo
man, superintendent of tho Texas OB
Co. aad Murray Brown, local
>aer, who made hi* farewoll
stating that he andd visit tho 1
isatkm within a year. G. C. Mo
land. oT Asheville, will spend sixty]
day* hoi* aa local organiser and will
assist the local man in totting the]
lodge in first class working trim.
City Bond. Brag High
This city sold tlUvOM worth e(|
bonds Tosslay to pay for tho
paving program that was
the past year. The bonds are serial I
and will he retired aa tho street!
assessments are paid off by tho |
erty owners. They bear an
rate of t 1-1 per oeat aad brought 1
premium of IMN, the hood buyers
stating that this brought this intar
sst rate os the money down to U
per cent Bidding on the bee*>W
spirited, more than a dot
thro purchasers being hare. Urn bond
buyers did not hesitate to say that
the Town of Mount Airy stood high
in the financial circles of the nation.
This la nothing more than our dU
xtn* would expect, however, for in
all his year* as trsaaurer of the dtp
Mr. F. M. Poor* haa been prompt
and careful to see that the city's
credit remained at its peak among
that of the beet cities of tho nation
by giving the bond business of the
city his most careful attentk J
Rum Off Dry Bride* <» ftUi»
W
Fred Bin(h>m left hi* home Sun
day morning in his Ford ear intend
in* to Co to Sunday School, bat
later woke op and found himself w>
be lying on a stretcher in Dr.
Martin'* hospital. As Fred m driv
ing down Main Street ha thought ha
hoard his Tear wheel bumping along
on the pavement, and Just before b*
reached the dry bridge he leaned
over the aide of the ear to try to see
if he had a flat tire. His tire waa
all right but when he leaned over ha
unintentionally pulled the steering
wheel around which caused the car
to leave the street and go dashing
over the embankment down toward
the railroad. A heavy fence project
ed from each isd sf the bridge and
struck the fence its
hindered hut h did net
stop until it had tarn down the fits ,
and started down the deep cut, the
rev wheals of the car lodging against
The driver was thrown against the
frsNt of tits ear and
by the
cuts oa his
aid Mm of the mt
w*r» .pun*. Toung »iagham spent
tV *»»• par* rf 'So weak in 0m hat
MM at the
ta the North
3K S2.*t"*StJf tS
light for • laiger equalisation fund
atfyrs »?7^eUteBMn
eoUafm MM) other state inxtitutiuns
mM for 1» million
lk> hum timr were wining to give
•no a
half million Mian for their aquali
had, wlwi a mmMoi ag
by the iwnnw to stady
subject had netMnM a faad of
four million. And now the
from the small
4l ... BMMM
„Jpr «r
John Kol*Pr la
and threw a shall
when ha
tha big fund far
sqnareiy la half,
mra by only ftra
trad tha collage f*l
orurad an adjourn
mant without taking further votes.
All during this waak the legislator*
has been locked war the school ques
tion, but it is f)i«in that Mr. Folger
has the whip hand and before the col
that they
without ta
state institutions raa gat
their Millions they are going to have
to com to Mr. Fotgaria terms.
Sunday's papers gave a vivid de
script ien of the light being lead by
Mr. Folger, one of thaw having tha
following account:
John Foiger, of Hurry, with two
cyltndarsd plNriqr and lying in bad
wfll crawl to the capttol tomorrow
ami renew Ma ftght for the HMOJMO
equalising fund.
Mr. Folftr ia not going to bo
euchred into a warf ara against tha
North Carolina College for Woman,
the Univeraity, State college, East
Carolina Teacher* college ia Qraea
villf or My other state institution. If
his Arht for the M ,000.000 equnllslnff
fund reauha in that, tbaae other in
nocent bystander* may get hut.
Bat ha ia (hooting at the "four mil
Hon" and ho will not krww hia eighta
or train hia gun in anotlMr direction
until that four million mark baa been
ton tared with a aha*.
Tha Sorry statssman made much
the moat furious onalaught againat
tha highway eammiaaion that It ra
cohred at thia soasion, but rren than,
he waa hanging away in the interaat
of some loaa fortunate county than
hia own. "We have a TO eant achool
Us in Surry," ho aaid tonight, "but
that is not inequitable enough to
make me ftght .the preaent plan. Sur
ry can get along somehow, though 70
cents is itigh. But there are many
counties which are paying a much
more burdenaome tax. I think the
State of North Carolina can remedy
that inequity. I think it can do ao by
cutting preaent appropriation on]y
16 per cent. I think it can provide all
that the budget calla for and the 94.
000,000 for the equalising fund with
out taxing anybody unjuatly. And I
regarded tt an everlasting impeach
ment of our stateamanahip and our
aenae of justice that wo ha rent at
tended to the primary neede first.
*"If it hicamaa noceaaary to art
other appropriation for the equalis
ing fund, I think the eat must bo
made. What I am after ia making
the state see that we hare net won
started right until wo have provided
for the leaa fortunate countiea In the
state. Why, people who have been
eiamoring for an eight mowtha achool
term are strangely indifferent to tha
fact that ia order to get six months
Happenings Twenty-one Yean Ago
: .
Interesting Items Gleaned From the Piles of The
Mount Airy .Yew* tl Years Ago This Week
Congremnan K. gpmcr BUck,
barn «u indicted is Federal court
at Greenmboro teat weak for netting
poaitton In tbo poet offlee ud rtvffmt
«»i ii»— to hi* friars.
M. D. Hoar* ie on the northani
markrta baying gooda
Victor Allan, • munkmmt of Cans,
Va.. «h in tka eity thla week buy
ing good* for Hie (tore.
C. C. Hutobeaa and Jeaee K dd.
both of White PUina. da day laat
goada were ■! Nt h tk| yard and
part of ikM M ban ImM away to
W aew hiai
Kditor Howlet of tka Mot Moim
tain Coorier, konored tkia o«ce with
a tUH taat week. .
Mr. *. H Wrann kaa rad a aew
alavator pot la Ma atore fcaOdiac aa
Mkia atraet
apace la Tha New» aad la tha fatar*
wi!1 kaop yam lafomed aa ta HM
...
Slat By tfcto ylu, vklcfc lk«
MM hai hi fare* for
naming oat in almost mry direction
from thia city, the Itnaa btiaf MM
ed to the quarry, Bannertowa, op the
Fancy Gap road. North Mont Airy,1
out tha Man road, and to Lurai
now connections to it* «y»tam and haa
doubled tho uaa of current o*er that
which wma Mac produead by tha
local power planta whan thoy took
over tha lyitm laat July.
about half tha countiea at tha atato
art hemming paupariaad. Tha vary
first atato net nhould Kara baan th*
guaranty that tho equalising fund ba
made HfttOflOO. And hero wa an
making it tha vary last, ladnd, if
wa bad not protoated tha >»maga of
tha appropriation* bill until thia act
of ahnpla justice to tha school chil
dren ba dona, that MO would have
gone tbroogh and that would have
been the laat «f the aebool fund.
"I want it made perfectly plain
that I am fighting against nobody,
bat I am potting every ounce of my
strength into the demand that tha
atato provide before it spend any
other money, 94,000,000 for thia
equalising fund. All other leglslatlra
iaaoea appear trifling to me now and
appear eo because wa have been
dodging thia duty SO yeara and T
think it it time to meat it.
"I would have thought that every
leading educator in the land would
have been here making the fight tor
the elementary sehoala. I do not
know what need we are going to
have for all theee great buildings at
the Institutions at higher learning if
we do not provide batter for tha chfl
am not-aaaaittng the ooOegea. They
are looking oat for their institution
and ( do not criticise than. Bat
somebody baa nagUetort tha MO^OC
children of the atato. I do net mean
to go back to Sorry withe at having
done what I could to malm (he atato:
Move at Auction
by thb
and it win be *old at
by The Land Co., af thla dty. «
11. Tba
■Mm of Rockford Slmt and alao baa
ini aitaa on
koekford. A total at M lata suitable
for residential purpoeae baa baas
provided and tba anticipated aAa of
thU pioperty ia creating much faror
proapective homo oamera and alao
selecting lota that they expect to bid
Vary liberal tornu km boon se
f or tba pnrdmaavs of tfcia
property —only 10 par east cash will
be required and tha umalmW ia
payable la Monthly instalbnenta of
1 1-1 par cent of tba wotnt of tba
Uk* A limm Tfcia Tim*.
Tba power that rsgalataa tha
on aa "like a lion", tor tha Am day
brought tha only raal aaow of tba sea
aan far this aaction. AU day Tuaa
day mow fall, bat tha ground being
warn, it woold Melt. Aa nightfall
came tha wind became colder and the
mow stuck. When the world awoke
Wedaeaday month* it bafcetd a mow
10 inchae deep not aattmated bat a
10-inch mew aa recorded by the
keeper of the U. « weather bureau.
C. W. Abeher, at the city pampin*
Tba mail track from Winston
Salem waa unable to meb bare Wed
naaday morning and the noon train
waa four boor, late on account of tha
the eonut^Tbelow bellTta H^tad
the aaow fall amounted to M inches.
A
the Meant Airy Wo
organised in Um War Men»orial Com- >
munity BaUini last Thursday even
ing with eighte
ganizatioa *ai completed at their
Drat hosinm meeting held Tuesday
evening of this waek. Ik* parent
club offered an excellent prufraa
Thursday night which was tarnished
by the ■HMieel talent of the town and
Mr*. Bala, dab presideat. madt a
short addrm telling of the work be
ing dene by «tate and national feder
to tell something of the work which
this preaentatfoa of the aims and ac
complishments of the club before
them the girls and womin were en
thusiast for organisation. Miss Edna
Hornet waa made chainAan. Miss
Mary Holllngsamth
Miss Martha
Mrs Ralph Mo.roe. Miss NeO Wright
berahip committee to soiiait new mam
r. l.
W. U 8 yd nor has soM his tatorMtl
la the Piedmont Furaitar. Co. of this
city, to C. K. Welch, the bwintm
now beiag owaad by Mr. Wetefc and
W. F. Carter, Jr., Mr. Welch having
management of It This
a Mm of
ad la
mi,...!..*.
• flcfct In
«N oaod with telling
My that each would twist the k
it wickedly for • Um ttaao wh
would ho»o to girc up to Um
of tfca otbor. For
A yen want on this way
men were flirty cut all to
the disirinc mt the
bodies. but
did not
in their ruahaa. Finally
ofahot^JT
Meredith, aftor beiny •hot with tha
■hot ran, nude his way out of tha
barked forth
ha Ml
Ayers. The
breast about ft
for a fow
hour. aa« M shoot daylifht Mas.
the time aad relating to hia friends
tha details of tha trouble that liningM
hia life ta aa and. #
Clyde Meiadith, g yaar aid mi at
Jaaae Meredith, was painfully
ed in the toot fiuaa I loti d
that waa Meant for his father.
Bill Junto, a deaf and
man, had hia face badly
with shot tram the lead that ton
away the dead mi'i
Hf |
fanner of hia
ty and waa weB situated
Hobert and Clim Ayors an
men around » years of aye
ried and lire on the toy of the Fi
Gay.
J.