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THE ENTERPRISE ..-*- " f ' * VOL XVII. NO. 5 TRIP ACROSS THE CONTINENT Very Interests! Sketch 01 a Trip To The Panama-Pacific Expo sition And Western \ ' * RV HAIIT A. BIGGS * After leaving the Yellowstone Park, that plaoe of wonderful mystery, which so charmed and awed us, the next day and night were spent in traveling over the "Old Mormon Trail" through Utah and Nevada. I certainly know of no more desolate section in the whole country than this arid, treeless county of Nevada, unless it be in our own State down about Nag's Head, that mecca towards which the minds of so many of the people of thif eastern section turn when the summer's sun becomes too op away from home to have a good time For many hundred miles . the train goes through this weary sun baked and scorched country, at times the dust is very annoy ing, and one feels that he can scarcely get his breath, this vast section being in that j art of the country where they have wet anrj Hrr ..and vl^r- 1 ir [ rig:tu m tuis Dot u-jiia put if>to it practahl from the parched \\ appearance of the land, and the 'f few, insignificant soanmens of vegetation, it seems that many a hot, dreary day had passed since a drop of rain had fallen to refresh the scorched land I am told that the State of Ne vada grants a certain number iL number of acres to any one who WL will go to this desolate section to Imlive, and, in the distance, far off m from the railroad, small huts W seemingly representing the J greatest poverty, could be sew, around some of these housts • there appeared to be sma'l crops v of hav, and upon inquiry I was \ informed that in the sections where some irrigation had been hay could be grown. In the distance could be seen the desolate, dreary and lone ' mountain peaks, upon which was the sign neither of vegetation or human habitation, With ail this waste land of dreary desert tm the east and the ten thousand miles of ocean which rolls between her western boundary and the conti rent, r.alure haw certainly splen duiiy guarded Southern Califor nia, and has made it a veritable Girdent>£ Eien, &nd a spot in • wnich it is a delight to live. How Arer, one must not be diseppoint- V • ed when he reaches California wh- ; n he does not see the orange trees growing all around, or the J mground covered with the the bril liant hues of many flowers, for many milea must be traversed before he is indeed in what is known as The Garden of South ern California; this section is reached when one has arrived at Ban Bernadina at which place we \ar.ived at 7:30 on Friday morn ing, the 6th of August. I was - hippy, for at least I had reached that land of sunshine and flow ers, whose fame has been given to the world in song and story since the days of *49 when so manv of eastern people turned \ thfcir faces towards the setting f, son, towards Californ a that land of romance and mystery in search of that which brought them, fortune and/what they con sidered happiness k , , It is around San Bernadina 1 the entire country anun^ . r ..X ; r ML broken paradise of orange and roses; however, this is j not the case, for San Bernadino coun ty alone is twice the the stee of Massachusetts, and the county of Los Aqigelesis nearly the size of the state of Connecticut, therefore it is not difficult to un derstand why a continued ex pense of verdueis not seen, when lone remembers that this eounty, too, was one day as dry and des olate as the barren waste to the east of it until man appeared with his irrigation and made some parts "triossom like a rose" However, with the least encouragsnoejgj|lp''coiin try burst forth un crowned its with fertility, and smiles with bloom" From san Bernadino ire visited Redlands, a smalLtovn, remind ing me somethifiMpf Washing ton, N. C., the beau ty of its vegetation, and the man nificeoce of some of its resident* **f>. It was at this place that we went through the famous Smilev Heights, a garden in which seem to have been placed all the many fruits, flowers, vegetation 1 and beauty for which California is so famous. This garden is pri vate property, its owner having taken the greatest pride in its construction, and while he lived spent every morning within the inclosure to give a welcome and hearty greeting to the visitor .who onm" from every secMf n r *' the country to see what he, wiu the assistance of nature had ac complished This gentleman is now among those of the dead, I but his beautiful garden still ex ists, the blooming flowers, sweet odors, rich verdure and luscious fruit showing to the world what sort of man he was. Mr. Whita ker, who was with us, pays he thinks Redlands, with this beiu tiful garden is the ideal spot in California, and he thinks some day he will po there to live, but I suspect the fascination of Cali fornia for Mr. Whitaker would pass away, and he would be glao to come back to his home in Wil liamßton, in this good old coun try, where he is Vvell known and I highly respected. Another charm of Southern !California is tho delightfqllness of its balmy climate; at a lime when many cities of the Kant, and N -rth are he!d in the tena cious grip of winter, their skies of dull gray, and their pavement djep in snow or mud. the people of Southern California are bask ing in the most delightful sun shine, their vegetable and flower gardens in lull bloom, and the air is laden with the perTume of a million roses and violets. This i« a dream lanr\ of bpauty and charm, a place of the Span ish Mission and a rtgion rescued from the aridity and made the home of delight for the invalid and tourist. Los Anjreiesis real ly the metropolis, but San*a Bar bara, ban Diego and Pasadena are flourishing towns of ninety to a hundred thousand people and are cities in which anyone would d- lif ht t y live. . The first tiling an eastern visi tor has to do upm arriving at Los Angeles is to learn to pro nounce it propei ly; the so. t sound of "g" is taken out, and the Spaniard* aid Mexicans pro nounce "e" tike the English "a" in fate; this is not absolutely necessary, but one would be m >re cordially received in polite society, and the pronunciation of "Angeelees," is tabooed. The first Anglo Saxon to ar rive at Los Angeles was brought by the Mexicans in 1822, as a prisoner, soon after many Amer icans appeared, and on August 18th, 1846 Maj. Frsemont raised Ji j 1 WILLIAMSTON, N. C.. FRIDAY, DEC to. tgi s the Stars and Stripes, and .the house which he occupied may still be seen. * The city is one of the most beautiful in the United States, and is dedicated to the "Queen of the Angels," and now has nearly four hundred thous and inhabitants, it calls itself the Queen of the State, and several with whom I talked told me it was larger than San Francisco, its rival'in the North, but statis tics show differently. It certain ly is one of the ntost delightful residential cities in California, and owing to its charm of- cl m ate it has attracted a large num ber of persons of wealth and cul ture making it a pi ice of fascina tion and delight It is clean and beautiful, and here and in Passa dena, which is but a suburb, one sees some of the most beautiful residences and flower gardens in th'e world; flowers grow in the most wonderful profusion and of the most brilliant colors. One of the streets in Passadena is lin ed for a mile with specimens of the pan palm, 15 feet in height, and the driver pointed out to me a heliotrope 16 feet high, covering the whole porch of a house, and one sees in every dir&tion ger aniums rif the brightest colors growing 16 to 18 feet high And one sees around Pas«adena the most beautiful specimen of tne date palms, lemons, pomegranate fig and walnut, tree*. "" The most famous aim w o. the city of Pas?adena is the Sun ken Gardens of Busch, the mil lionire brewer of St. Louis who lirfd ft winter there, and tliQ gardens, of many Hun dred acres are the most beautiful in the world. The most artistic and charming effects are arrang ed by the skilled hand of an Ital ian artist, and his genius has inade the Ihisch Sunken Gardens the admiration of lovers of the 1 beautiful in horticulture shall continue to write of the charm of Southern California, telling of the Mission Play whi hiR presented at The Mission of San (j.-briel, near Los Angeles, and teii of the ef fect the Missions of the Catholic church had in thecivilization and Christianization of the people of California. Keep The Dollar Here A dollar sent away frorn home —it Christmas time or -any-'other tune—never comes back. Had you thought of it that way? If KO, we feel sure that do your Christmas shopping at home. The local merchants are the one* who support Iccal iustitutipns. If you need help for any worthy loral cannot get it from the mail order hou-e«, can you? Had you thought of it that way? You can gp.r.n more for yuur money from your home merchants than you can from the mail order.—Ex. Mrs. Mary Cook Dead. t As we go to press we are pained to learn of the death of Mrs. Mary Cook, at the residence of her son, Mr. John S. Cook, on Main Street.*" Mrs. Cook had been confined to her bed for sev eral weeks. A sketch of her life will ap pear next week. Good Pictures On next Tuesday night, Dec. 14th, the Gaiety Theatre will pat oat on the screen "Hapoleab and France,*' an educational ptetore in six reels Don't fail to see this ptetare. Twentieth Century Club. »■ ' Yk* % Mrs. Percy B. Cone was hos tess to the Twentieth Century Club at her home on Haughton Street, Wednesday afternoon, November 4ih. The subject of the day was Hawthorne, and Mrs. W. H Har rell, in the selection of the data concerning the author, read a most interesting sketch. The other numbers on the program were given in a pleas ing manner and were as follows: S*lection—Mosses from an Old Manse-Mrj. Martin. Selection —Snowbound, (Whit tier), MK* Smith. Current Events-Mrs. Martin, Jr. Roll Call—Qaotations from Hiwthor ie. Tn« gu Mta of Mrs. Cone were served refreshments, which the> enjoyed and could thoroughly ap predate, expressing as they did, the careful thought of the hos tess for her guests. The next meeting of the Club was helti with Mrs. llurrell on Dec. Bth Fireworks Again. The m irness of the Christina* season, - tills the. boys with a strong desire to shoot crackers, send Up rockets and other wis; J uUC L.iO iiOlaC Alii liil ita dear to the heart of the boy arm not alon- to them, but to the old er is i" years airiauT Tuesafy night meteor cracker?, dynamite crackirs, etc, were bursted on Main Street, and tin police got busy. As it is always fun to fool the police, there \»a something doing in that line- Ii is very often unsafe to bur&t tl e crackers on the main thor ough fares, and the boys Hhould be very careful with their fun. One cracker could cause a de structive lire, or produce an in jury witch wntiT 1 ruin a person's future hftpinews. ".Safety first" should be the mott.) in the heart of the young American who gets enjoyment in tins or any other way. Tobacco Market to Close. The Williamu »n Tobacco Mark et /viil close on the 18 in for the Christmas holidays. There is nt ll home g >ad. leaf coming in, an ; most all of the crop will he sold by enl of the year. Those farmers who have not sold i heir, entire crop, should take i.otic* of the close of the mirk t for the holidays unless they desire to sell after Chrisi mas. Courl fyext Week 'W=-r- - The December Term of Mar ti i County Superior Court qon vt-nes next week with Judne George Rountree presiding. The t;rm will be for only one week, and will be given to the hearing of criminal cases alone. The nearness of the term to the Cnristmas holidays, makes the C-iurt anxious to dispatch busi n»s quickly a? possible, and to hear only those cases which de mand early action. Tnid is the second term of Judge Rountree in the county, and will be his last as he has re signed, and W. P. Stacy, of Wilmington, has been appointed to succeed him. The members of the bar here decided that they would not make any Civil Calendar, and so have Informed attorneys oat of the county who may have bad basi nets at this term. PREPAREDNESS IS THE WORD This Great Question Will be the Most Important to Come Up Before the Present Con gress-Theres Argu ment on Bjth Sides. On the lips of even children, the word "Preparednss" hangs just now, when the whole people are waiting and watching for the meaning of the word to be put into practice, or eliminated from the vocabulary of National af fairs. But it is not to that mean ing that we call^attention, for it has varied applications, and its effectiveness is ween in a larg er sense when incorporated into the life of the individual. Just now with the dying of the old year, with the coming again of the Chrtat Child into the heart of the world, prenaredrvffsgßhould oe the keynote for every human soul, who thinks. The cireless and free know not its meaning, l ife to them is only for the ITU met t; no thought of years to come when a.;e will creep upon them; no de sire for better and higher things, the acquisition of which demam s renewed activity with:;; nn d without. The soil of the he. .t nj'Uu a preparation for the har vest of dfleds, will swe ten the life of the individual and all with whom*he com -j in contact "Preparedness'Ms fraught with meaning whether applied to af fairs of the Nation, the Church or the home. The complete life in man or woman is an applica tion of its truest and best mean ing. The groat majority are at tending only to the material pre paredness, and it is the duty of each to look after the material, hut not, alone to this, or else life is a failure and Heaven far re moved. The many ills of life are multiplied h cause of this very fact —the rush for •• ma terial only. Then there are num bers of the foolish, who make preparation only for the pleasures of life. All other thoughts are banished from their mind : Christmas to them spells "satur nalia" and the hidden mysteries of the Gos|el of Jesus Christ re main to them a myth to be talk ed abcwt by a few whose busi ness it seem-;. Hut eftch life and the world, too, are fast approaching n day when preparedness will be the m >at stupen loj* word kn >wn. for then it will be most ned ed. There is no better tima than tie approaching Christmas sea son 10 take stoc' of our hearts aid live-', and prepare them for thelfievitiable end of ulL.tliin^ Married in Norfolk Friends here will be interested to learn of the marriage of Mr. James Harry Kirby to Miss De Loatche at Norfolk last week. Mr. Kirby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kirby, and went to Norfolk with his mother when a boy. He is making good, as are his brothers, in the home of his adoption. While on their bridal trip, the father of Mrs. Kirby, Mr. K. B- DeLoatche was run over by a jitney bus dri ver, and died from his injuries at the Protestant Hospital. Mr. and Mre. Kirby were in Wash ington City at the time of acci dent, and returned fiftmediately to' Norfolk. Meet me at Gaiety to-night. si.oo a Year in Advance WILL TAKE ACTION IN - THIS WORK The Board o! County Commission ers Will Act on This Matter As Soon As Data Has Been Furnished At the meeting of the Board of County Commifsioners Mon day, Mrs. J. G. Staton asked that the Board consider an ap propriation for a county Canning Club, which will be under some woman trained in this branch of the work. A part of the sum necessary is to be supplied by the State appropriation, but at present there is no fund availa ble. The Board expressed itself as in accord with the movement, and will take action in the mat ter as soon as sufficient, date has been furnished them. A number of crunttes have these Clubs and the work has been highly satisfactory, and Martin County cannot afford be behind in lhose things which A'ill help largely, especially in the rural districts. An acre of land in tomatoes will prove profitable, and the Clubs will promote a closer co-operation among thr. women aid girls of a neigh gup 'to,)d. County Demonstrator Hollv day is interested in the move ment, and will assist in promoting it. SOMK LOCAL GEOGRAP'Y Name the most important town in this section? Ana. Williamston. Where is it situated? Ans. On the right bank of the Roanoke River, io Martin County, North Carolina. How mmy inhabitants ha* it.T Ans. 2,000. ' What are itb shipping facil ities? Ans. Freight steamers and the Atlantic Coa->t Line Railroad How many banks? Ans. Two, the strongest in this section. Name some of the important industries. Ans. Cotton Ginning Company, Cooperage Mill, Pants Factory; Peanut Factory, Baggy Factory, Iron &. Motor Co. Enterprire Publishing Co. Whfft is the nature of thn sur roundintr country 7 A us. The best agricultural sec tion in the State. What farm products art- sold hero? Ans. Cotton, peanuts, tobacro, potatoes, corn, etc. For what is the town especial ly noted? Ans. First: For the largest market in the world for the Vir i?tryia peanut direct from the" farm. Second: For the highest prices for tobacco. Third: For strong cotton and peanut Brok ers, who know grades and val ues. Fourth: For best prices for hams, chicken*, beef, pigs and all country produce. What should every producer do in this section? Ans. Come to Williamston when he has anything to sell, unless he does not want his money's worth. W'llilliamston, like Jones of Binghampton, "pays the freight." What are the educational an A religious advantages? Ans. There are four church** with active congregations, and Skewarkee Church is situated just out of town.- The High School is the head of the educa tional system of the county, and its graduates are fitted to enter the University of North OaroHna.