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DEVOTED TO THP SOCIAL, MORA L AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF THE CITIZENS OF ALEXANDER COUNTY AND WESTERN CAROLINA. VOL. XV NO. 745, Taylorsville, N. G. Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1916. $1.00 PER ANNUM jo o t o Tmrmr mnrmr TYTYTOTTTTinn local and personal Our Store is the place to buy The Best Goods In the Latest Styles At the Lowest Prices Here you can find The Goods You Want and always get A Fair, Square Deal. We buy all kinds of Country Produce and Cross Ties for which we pay Highest Prices See us before buying or selling. THE BEEHIVE UUUUULOJUUUl SULSUULSULSLSUULSLSL A T C o s T Ladies' Hats Men's Sunday Straw Hats Men's, Ladies' and Children's Oxfords. - CLOTHING going at SPECIAL BARGAINS SEE our goods and buy before the war puts them UP: THE WATTS COMPANY l Attorney V. G. Beckham of Hiddenite was in town on busi ness last week. ' Mr. L. S. Sloop and children of Charlotte, have been visitingi "8 " uc ucv""lcY 1111 at the home of Mr. J. L. Sloop. tir.e? and hungry Charlotteans Mr. J. A. Brady of Statesville was in town on business last Wednesday and gave us a pleas ant call. Mr. Chas. P. Matheson is hav ing a six-room bungalow erected on his lot adjoining Mr. A. H Matheson. Don t forget our otter to send the Scout till January 1st, 1918, for one dollar. Let us have your renewal this week. The Democratic County Con vention will meet in Taylorsville on Monday, September 11th. See notice elsewhere in this paper, Mr. B. L. Lawrence and Miss Ida Bell Howell were married at the residence of the officiating justice, W. F. Patterson, on last Thursday, August 24th. Mrs. Chas. Goodwin and children, who have been visiting Mrs. C. H. Goodwin, have re turned to their home in Com merce, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Kelly and children and Miss Laura Hedrick visited Mrs Kelly's mother, Mrs, W. T. Woodruff, in Mocksville last week. Mr. Eugene Cross, for seyeral years superintendent of the Taylorsville, Cotton Mill, has been busy organizing a new cotton mill at Marion, where he will move his family this week, Dr. R. Z. Linney and family, who have been visiting his brother, Hon. F. A. Linney, at Boone, returned last Thursday to spend a while with his sister, Mrs. W. D. Deal, before going to Charlotte where he has located A MOUNTAIN TRIP. Editor Mountain Scout: If space is plentiful I wish to give a short sketch of my visit through the Brushy Mountains. I left my home in Charlotte Tuesday morning, August 15th, accompanied by Messrs. J. N. Williams and A. M. Bumgarner, commonly known as Uncle Andy. We arrived in Taylorsville a little late, but none too late to get a square meal at Chapman's Cafe. There we met ray uncle, Mr. G. Z. Bumgarner, and Mr. Paul StClair, with their wagons and teams and we didn't have to ask them to take us up the road; they said, "Come ride with us if you are going our way. " Uncle Andy rode with his brother in the bug gy until they started through a mudhole near Averv Barnes', when something broke and they both went coflop in the mudhole. Believe me, Uncle Andy held tight to his little satchel which he said contained one collar and a forty-nine cent shirt He de cided to walk awhile, and did walk as far as Avery Ellis' spring where we stopped and got our first drink of good spring water Then he hopped back in the bug gy and they hadn't drove more than a rod when out they fell again. Uucle Andy took his grip and footed it the rest of his jour ney. ;v We arrived at Uncle Geo. Bum garner's about 4.45; after resting a few minutes we started up the mountain to see a landslide, which was a small one to the size of some others. This one was only about , 100 feet wide and reached About 400 ft down the tttorotata fcjaklnV k it&a tefi causing the big stream of water to back up and seep out gradually causing no destruction to the land below. We then returned to Uncle George's where a well prepared supper was ready and waiting to be devoured by three our car was being repaired. There were about two thousand people there waiting for our ar rival at the church. BIBLE READING. We spent the night there and arose early next morning to con tinue our journey while it was cool; we arrived at Uncle Jeff Bumgarner's in time to get our name in the pot and they didn't fail to put it in. After dinner we started up the road where other relatives and friends joined us to go see the big landslides, and I will not attempt to describe it, as I am a poor writer and my knowledge concerning the laws of nature is limited. All I ask is to go and see for yourselves, you can get a better understanding and full particulars of the whole destruction that moved rocks as large as a street car and lifted trees up by the roots measuring two, three and four feet in di ameter and washing them down the valley for two and three miles. I noticed in some places the water had been about forty feet deep on the banks, about a quarter of a mile above where Mr. Russell's house stood, which was swept away and completely destroyed, losing three of his children, of which one has never been found. After looking over this de stroyed valley we proceeded toward what is known as the Rene flat where there is another big landslide which took logs, rocks, lumber and everything else as it went. The one men tioned above was about 400 feet wide and from 5 to 20 feet deep and reached several miles down the creek destroying crops and bottom land all along the way, and above the one on the Rene flat there appeared to be a big slide that happened perhaps one hundred years or more ago. Well, to make my story short, I won t attempt to describe the horrible scenes. We then went across the mountain back to Uucle Jeff's and we were so tired we could hardly walk. we arose early next morning and started for the big Onion Knob and night came on us be fore reaching the knob. We ar rived at Aunt Sallie Watts' in time for supper, and finding she had company, Nathan Williams and myself went down and spent the night with cousin Mon Fort ner, Alter sleeping about six hours we arose ate breakfast and continued on our way to the knob. Uncle Andy, Mr. Milt Davis and Charlie Kerley of Charlotte joined us at Aunt Sal lies. We reached the knob about 0:30 Friday morning; the height of this mountain is 2700 feet aboye the sea level. Nathan was very much interested in the grand scenery and is talking of trying to buy a few acres on top of the mountain and move to it a while for a change. We returned to Mr. Davis' in time for dinner, then went down to Aunt Sallies, spent the night, separating from Uncle Andy and his little grip Friday evening. We arose about 4 o'clock to get an early start for Taylorsville to catch the morning train and got there in due time. e spent uie nigm at our nomes in inariotte, arose early Sunday morning to start to tVadesboro, N. C, by way of automobile through the country to unveil a monument of a de ceased Sovereign of the Wood man of the World. Just as we were nearing Monroe our car got out of commission and we wSte MtfZl fat 3 hour wiijs through ,the ceremony hurridly and started on our way back to Charlotte; left there about five and arrived in Charlotte about 10:45 Sunday night stopping in Monroe a few minutes for lunch. This is one trip I shall never forget; hope to make another one sometime in the future to the mountains but not so anxious to make any more to Wadesboro, although this is a friendly coun try and the free will spirit is pre valent among all we met as a- mong those in the mountains. Well, I suppose I had better close for this will not get any further than the waste basket, dui ii u is so mcKy to escape this time, I may give something more interesting sometime in the future. Wishing the many read ers of this paper and the families effected by the flood a success during the coming year, Yours truly, W. L. BUMGARNER Charlotte, N, C, Cure for Cholera Morbu. . .irri , . t i wnen our uuie Doy, now seven years old, was a baby he was cured of cholera morbus by Chamberlain's Colic, Lhoiera and Uiarrhoea Remedy," writes Mrs. Sidney Simmons, Fair Haven, N. Y. "Since then other members of my C :i 1 liL: i i , . . - laiiiny nave usuu mis vaiuaoie medicine for colic and bowel troubles with e-ood satisfaction and I gladly endorse it as a remeay 01 exceptional merit." Ob, tamable everywhere.-Advt. In these davs of rush and We went strain the reading of the Bible is ' LAND LOAN ASSOCIATED Very LltUe Chug la Required Adapt Building and Lean AatoeJa tlftna t Suit the Farmer. Vary Mttle change la required to adapt building and loam association aa operated In this country to the of the farmer. When organised and worked in the cities and towns th payments are weekly or monthly, gen erally 25 cents each week on each share of stock. Worked in this way they provide a mode of systematlo saving tor the shareholder, and usual ly mature the shares, when of the par value of $100 la a little lees than six and a halt years. The par value of stock can be put at 9200, 1300 or even more, and thus extend the time and make the time of maturing about eleven years, fifteen yars, and a on. The association is made up of and owned by its shareholders, who receive all of the profits thereof. These asso ciations are run at the lowest cost of any business In the country; and in this State, where the legal rate of in terest is 6 per cent, generally make a profit of 6 per cent, and In some oases over 7 per cent. The change necessary to be made to adopt these associations and their working to the use of the farmer Is the mode of payment for snares. The farmers cannot afford to agree to pay for their shares weekly, except In cases where they have a variety ef crops, such aa give returns practical ly every month in the year, as dairy ing, trucking, etc., but the payments on shares must be called for and made during the time in which the farmers harvest . and market their money crops. An example of this is shown In the statement of conditions where- the money crop Is tobacco or cotton, aa tt la In a large portion of this State. In sections like tats it la probably better tor the payments to be made during that month of November, Deoembar, and January, or possibly beejinninc a month earlier. The payments would be 14.50 for each of the three months, or S1S.S0 a year on each share. This would give the money ready for loan ing by the first of IbraaryeoeraBy the time when loans are dented by farmers. A thousand shares tf any aseooUUon would give $12,100 each year. The association can be ran for not more than $600, which would leave a net amount for loaning of SU.0M. This money would be loaned upon real it mortgages, and tiua amount tor lurpoaea could he tnnrnii! by nsln the notes so eecsred lor get tlng aa additional wmu K th addfc ttanal amonat obtained eaoaJd ba u mnon u $7400, then th aaaooiattoa would have) tor loaning each year U0.000, or, in five year. tiOOvOOO. Of eourew, on vhuuOiA pratlan la the proposed Tmrtiaas la haw Oa adattoaV at amonmt mar ba obtained ear two? Ing purposes, and at anon a rate of iatareat an wW be satfcfeotary to th fanner and possible ta C work of aha aasociatfcm.-flUDOst d had the the too much neglected and 'society is the loser in moral standards by it. Capt. W. T. Rowland, superintendent of our Taylors ville Sunday school, has intro duced a custom in his school which he thinks will do great good in promoting a taste for the Bible. Some weeks ago he asked every member of the school (about 75) how many chapters had been read the previous week. He added all the answers to gether and found the total to be about 125 chapters. On the next Sunday the ques tion was asked again and the number of chapters read doubled. In a few weeks number of chapters read previous week had grown to more than fifteen hundred. When he related that experience to the writer it seemed the very thing to publish it with an appeal to every superintendent and teacher in the Conference to introduce the custom of taking a weekly Bible reading census in the school in order to stimulate the Bible reading habit. For the fact is, the more we look into the Bible . the more we want to seek for the hidden truth which is found only in the revealed word of God, and if this custom followed gen erally in our Sunday school should turn the youth of the church to Bible reading, we can not calculate the good that will follow. N. C. Christian Advo cate. -.. EVERYBODY NEEDS A VACATION. We have not had a vacation this summer, and therefore we know what we are talking about when we say everybody needs a vacation. Some time each year, preferably the summer time, every person should take two weeks and rest, and go away, whether to the country, to the city, to the mountains or to the seashore, does not matter ma terially, but you should go away, leaying behind all thought of the matters that occupy your mind throughout the other fifty weeks of the year. There should be time for read ing the books you have been wanting to read, but did not have time; for taking the day time naps you have wanted to take during long busy afternoons at the office; to think the quiet thoughts and dream the happy day dreams that you havg . not had time to indulge in before. For two weeks every year and August is a fine time to take the two weeks you should take a vacation and let the world rush on its busy way without you in the midst of the whirl. Exchange. 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