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TH - - ■ - -u ~ss— i w~r - ' || _ _ ^ _ VOLUME X. j GREENWOOD WAS FIRST SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY On* Room Building Of Crude Structure Stood In Old Field Now Cemetery HANNIBAL L. GODWIN WAS TAUGHT THERE Former Representative In Con gress Becomes Reminesoenti And Tells Something Of Life In This Section Before Dunn| Was Founded — Country i Boys Had Few Advantages. - 'e * I II wiun't much of s school—Just1 a one room shark of unpalnted boanls| t.irown together t»y amateur carpen*' tats and lighted by I wo windows iu one i-nd and a door al tha other; and It* term waa two months—really jert forty school days Still, that eehooi waa the fountain to which th* early-dey youth of the eettlrmcnt which waa to become Dunn went for knowledge. It was Gsernwrood aehypl, standing in an old field winch since bat become Groan wood Cemetery, Dunn’s "Silent City 1 of th* Dead." j Hannibal L. Godwin, who waa t4i 1 become Dunn's leading lawyer and' - a representative in thl National Con-' ' grras for seven successive terms, and Frank, hit older brother, bad thair . flrn testa of education there. So had - C'uudc Pope, son of Henry, who now , is one of the leading cigseni of * Taylorville, Illinois; so had the sons 4 and daughter* o( the eld families that I In thu p*rt_»f_U*o ,co-an|LO • the railroad came in the gnc f *#S w\(' Jfarly F*jaUiaa Faw ~ Families living bar* Uion vara the J "Godwins, Wades, Suites. Popes, Tay tors—Isaac nud Jtach, Hodges and ' 'Rbillip*. Tb* only school th* t -Mfarad them at that time waa Omen* ■* .’^CS*S Ah it* larm ftf f OTtr'Ittib * 1 J HvitdUl L. " <WupH* IM* V*o^ Troy Adiai> ,' pgatipr at. Dlvme Street Mpthpdjal I CJiut<4) jvse.VHaafbar. Ur. (jodwio hard*hip* ha' f modeling MM, ' * ‘riling end 1 Godwin; “wh* __ tng ^hlch "groy) pine. w * Jeavtug track* 1 Vtdd' ^deikr • 1 K Jiineh 1, id ♦d-.-rr-- , ■ . *• thtla 1 wWU therf , with ‘ 0 abnoat neared to *u opnouneod that > writ*. h bed • twenty-minute at sawn w-.—ng letoons right a'ftej ' lice**. A abeK, nbow eighteen in*fc#*“ arid*, bed* been constructed around the walla ol the room. This waa’ knows , a* the writing toetf and it waa the* or*mt thing to a do* that wa bad. » Pan Staff* of Jaolpor “Pen ataffa tot-the pn*U» ir*re juniper limb* gatbaiod from tho swamp. Tho »®pil* tod to ga\h«T, theae aa ther war* a**d*d.“ Mia* MoJUa-Lang. now Mn. J. C. Goodwin. w«fff.k*toh#r In thda achool after Mr. Adanu time- She waa. Mr.I Godwin think*, th# Mat teaaher at Greenwood. I, Greenwood acbooi alao aerred to*, comma.lt, to * the Baptltt »ad, congregation*. *be BtotoffM Wto iam Harria,' of th* ?rii?WW Baptlat church. **»• »V Mhtol »* •***■ «• uajaI to pr*Ach Uicr« on# »«r.dmy in ohrh month awl waa mach fptMtotad In the commanitr.Xhoogh" at tidj** h« despaired «P tM IW to anything spiritually. j: Ont*," Mr. Godwin aaMA.^to stated that be thought it tiaeleto |er /him to continue earning; that the pad ' pin (lid not art.pi to bond Ml preach ing ar.il that Unlew they did »bew by their behavior that they wanted him. bo aroald ***** hla rtslto." The, mult here behaved bettor from that limn on, becaaaa Mr. Harria eentina t,l bit work for sene* ttan* aftpf that. A Be*. Mr. Joknteo, of Oedar \ Crook, Coaibeiiaad County, premhed (or th* Baptist*. H*. too, earn* onoc a month and a ragalar congregation waa ovganlaad tl^ar*. TM* congragn Uoa eventually waa merged Mo th* / . • DUNN -HAS Artnten Water Piped to Even Horn#. A Complete Sanitary Sewerage System. Storm Sewerage. Unlimited Hydro-Electric Pew «r. a»*.^^** Asphalt Paving. All Streets Graded and Im proved. Seven White Churches. Sia Negro Churches. Three Fire-Proof Public School Buildings. A Modern Hospital. A Motion Picture Show. A Modem Theatre. A Public Library. Children's Play Ground. T wo Public Park Sites. Two Bathing Pavilions. Throe Strong Banks. A Building and Loan Associa tion. A Modem Chamber of Cetn A $90,000 Agricultural Fair Plant. 12 Passenger Trains Daily. Two Railroads. ’octal and Western Union Tel sgraph. KM Telephone System. A 30-Piece Concert Band. The Best Orchestra in North Carolina. i -AND-! rHE FOREST AND STREAMS SURROUNDING D U N Ni ABOUND IN WILD CAME AND FISH I tine the settlement had-* fwrujtfc* which waa torts aa gbpe*a. Mm J^Cado Wui the post fastis and Wts through ‘ftelde and woods yton thjt town now '.stands. We aovur dreamed that each a town would be hose, frapottohjjlc wpe our closest town and it wuo soldoan that wa ware allowed to ga there—It wui aa far imr< - i. v. • cr ‘ An frrtet the Wilp Salt • “Wa a die if a far earner, aa eat 1 oMhc-way.fpot, and aa' Children we ; were content to <Wb and hunt and | work. We know little of the outaide woitd except the tkinfu wa read to books> and the outside word knew little of iw. Churches ware few and far away—schools ware fewer. Those ! of as whose parents could afford te I send their sons and danfhtarn sent; ! ta private schools banked heavily oa [that and looked feawerd ta the day wkaa wa waald fa out Into the World I nd make our way. Bat name bad not .. . . -A waa daluf practically ( nbthihg In aa adaaatianal way, WHERE THE PRtTTY HOME DISTRICT BEGINS Hroud Street looking wesL from the D H HnnH tv "« home, First Baptist Church the front of N A R®“,d*"e*- The picture shows the Hood T. Young's yard. ’ ln* tnn 01 N A Townsend*, home and the trees, in Mr" M. •od th* nriou Sutc agendo through which we arc being taught how 10 {ana; through which wc arc' retting good roadi; through tghich! tho health of ooraelro* and our farm' *t*ek ia being aafaguarrted—ali of thaaa thing* through which the State! touche* onr ■Hvi* in nearly every phaae of our being—the** bad not' been dreamed of. • • "Pwple of the rural auction* in any part of the Mute had few op portonitic* in that day that they <U<I not make themaeleea Th* Slat*—the government merely vu aa agency whoae role object waa to protect man: in hi* honorable port alt of a livliheod and in hla life and property right* Gradually, daring the laat twenty* raara »ho 8tau haa roafhodl out aa.j! ~£tilabl» on.y^.o aui of urge ( n*» In-; crop •«•$«%>] 1 ete farm abroh^W farm ifab Jdi good raid* Sfil Mia uainati raeke* the coastry BienW* able and more profitable to the ^pmi try dweller. 1 . ,—«> A a. a-ltestsrfijrf "We of AaWn^oso township I ■ad forty had aooe e(j •draalagaa t^*Sutr now/ ayenv1M. wnyvtty citterns v’|fil plenty «f fend and plenty* odN thing* tbht trnr upon the tend, little else. We I reed to eursloOee were loft alone by those who M*ad, ftberwhare. [p«*WWi the coming .of tfi# Atlantic <W Bailway which built IU Wilson abort Cat e—tbwmrd from Oootcntnes Junction In the 80s, new settlers came la with new Ideas. Un til then oar largest Income was from the tarpentine indostry. Between 1840, when John Williams, who was employed by Blackman Lae, came to this part of the country. \o prodace tarpentine from the pine forest*, anil ISOO, the production of tST, pitch and tarpentine, was the principal It doatry ef what is now the Dnnn Die trie*. "John W Aliens was the oldett brother of Marti* B. WUUaiaT Ma her. Ho came ta this sectieh she at ! 1840 ami built the first dwelling •« | whet ■eh—mientip was tohiesme the I rite of Duhii. Tnie dweAlay stood ia a (yore about where the Beseem I- Heme now stands. |t la \ " \\T the alder Henry H wee until Duaa 'When the raOtoad opoatii an tfc< country, Donn waif laid off a* a town II was aam.d for* chrll enrnoer w£c .srveycd th, mat) of the rami. Joke Robert Cmiwia ms asked to name [be wear town. He did, bat the name "• «*"“-* no»*lete. 'Squire John R°bm ^JlMt raadin* in lary erf the Indies mutiny at Lock now. India. He *»» increased by rhat he '«d of |to way the Bntiah Had. la reyrieaj (or tho Brilitoi .as iacred, ttoel tr* #avn^, u ^ mouths ef cannon tod shot them into i.triuity. NaMm d» ■ , "For some hMfrto todayM Lack „ow an appraprtaB name for the '** lT"’h' tmemumarUd j** A*L J*t j- taat... af Mf « of ns ndwe,.ime - bra^HtV i. Gradually lm efi i at not because- mm. •< been mad* t/WM a lane* aeala-niar* "o market «xc4pt for Hop* that f*4p* A* •«J Mfl> be«an to Wy- D»nn for a rartoty of nr faitfrr* wore prod Med rotton abundaar* aad the local aaarkot *n wth of tbooo crop* farmer* proaprrtit ■nr It no thn* rasp <p In town. By toer or fhro ehorA prfvato school*. OFFERS ACTURES Ws--~4 THESE SAentWRydr* EU»t>ic Pow Fir* Protection. Haw materials for> Coiti^t Cotton of other Fee EXPERIENCED LABOR FOR I (4o*l HmMM' Host of Uj i. IN AjjfgDERM COMMUNITY WHOM MORAL TONE U HIGH AND WHOM PEOPU * fUfcR AMERICAN ;* ^4 Jf. ' • . ' ! "Th,r*' —•** rtorrhe. »nj aehoala Iwcn, mod-, affim. throiftl . I wr Old Greenwood. I ‘. r- *’w*Trr' Mwl the way fori the iwpoo ntr Hifieo* and the magai-1 <W wheel huiidi^ ^ •lot the city. . . “BoU her* I am taihi^ tike am tottnnnc olil man; and I am yet a yoangater. To review the achieve-1 meat of the community, one would, be led to behove th.t ^ ^ fceec I reqab-ed to accumpUafc eo nuieh Really, thoagh, thU .ward of-m-'| plkhment rover* Ice* the a three d* radee- the great** pan* «f I' ha b> two. '1 “• P™*! t* a* a eltiera of! wa. I ha*. ' font, I krt *cee it grow to tir' -ueat v *ot ' ate K1 have known I every man w!i» '.tad a part in it* bailutng and have wate4i*d tea pro cr«m with pride; many Umu 1 have. (MB lH kadM. alwvweUlaa placed in Us pathway by the disci plining hand of fats, Ha “head bloody hat unbowed." nest 1 am proud to hare hccn aa ' a mac late of men whose courage has piloted It through! them adversities. “Dunn has achieved largo—but her beat days have not been seen ” WHAT DOES YOUR COMMUNITY SCORE? In The Progressive Farmer recent ly we emphasised lei, important ways of enriching life in pour community- ’ lloar many of these ten progressive, Unas is your neighborhood following? Suppose you credit your neighbor hood with tea points for each of thse* lea questions that yen can an swer affirmatively and then see bow it sod res. Sec whether you are living in a somnwnity that is SO per cent progressive, 7g per cent, er 1»0 par cent, la modi school examinations, we bvlifvo, 70 per cent is regarded as necessary to “pass,” Of la good, and M excellent. Sac whether your coat mntdly “posses” if judged by this iptoMdien score sard, dr mahas a itlO better grade. ! li will he interesting to dlscum this I matter with your family and neigh boraVad see whether you agree on ' yvor imvin to these tea qo ratio as DUNN Om Farm Imp Om Furnitare Factary. Tw° Trcmaadsas UaWr MU Oac Haley MUL I Oac Cetioa Seta Oil mu 1 °"* i*'T'UU C°tUm War ) IfeSfa. Shop. i Oac Cornice Factory!*** Two Metal Working Pleats. 'Oac Ice tmetorT^ One Bakery. ! Two ke Cream Factorise • Oaa News Oeakrs. —aad hare yea a gaad mpmnm >< fans wsmrn? • 3. Da you two* aa aadtol M ouaitf tairT 4. Ham you a road hag people? Da the farm home* ham goad lidi aad popart, the at ha el a library, aad at* r«l aaing tha treading library ter rlaa moat ttataa are now offering? '». Da you her* a pabiie tta luoarrtntnt to mark the clow of tha ytar'a work by yoer aohod boy* aad tchool gMo—the chief tree to re of roar atewaeeHyf l Da yaer node lor* baaety? In yeer homes aad pabtte MUbft bring mad* baautifal aa that at ihadi ta axpeeted by Pdnt on the tatddr, worthy ptaterta ea the laddt, aad Itowem ahd throb* and tree* far the 1. b there a prepar appreciation af muaie by the eemmaaity aad by individad home* la >. Deee yeer caaegh thought to beU, basketball, annual piealce, fam ily reanlotu, agricultural txceidato. aad raid apart* each ** Pahing, ban ting atat ». Here yaer paepb aegeirrd “the grace af giving" far ceamienlty pur gmn—to help |My eehaei their chore*** and commanlty life, aad pragmas? Deee anybody "ramatahtr the eemmaaity in Mi wIV” when he makes one? IB. Are yea doing anything to «* eoeriga a etady and kaowUdge of local MderyT—The Ftograoeive Far mer, MSS. 1 OVEYOO COMFORT H l“W FT HpTOWUFf « IS IT LI .jP I i Haw afWn during Mm gaaaaat ■» Mrr ud rvrry otWr- km X»o PrMartd r«tr Mm* with amh *» ''«*flai»r? and haw ottea km m • WMoatad ta tha lea hag «r «a «ha m Sr -^gr— *—.»?» a auHcriag humanity «# tto’ShUfa^ * V baManaf far yerr- -■* aatd «wrf far yaarT” “- - toataaafl tha i m m sags ill W' J&rf > ' fe iuSsSj £>M SsSB *8x2 % H |J| P ;i«r ||| If ftas • •• n m p m,r far_-' * ! "atMnr ta rritart Ik* haat. m i & t,' m ! Htaad Clawnaahad to jrM the pUt Karavt far Um*atd |hw by Mr. fmitb, Mr. Nari Jgga kft to paddto l ay • ***•%• *!»<» wfcato carraat to •. ►wlft- to na malt Jab, aa aay aaa wha baa triad It will admit. Oaaaga T. had hto handa fall, bad hto craft kaga ga , hit to <traa*a all the thaa. aarmtba i TVi bac-atm piagiwl U gba at , all tba hta.1lraga It bad to aaaaaaan. . Ta Wsia with Mm maihat waa amah ami the aapaam af aga ■bat Mr. Mari ) rao» a thaa ■ 3«*| . im • •» *| From Municipal Baildinf laokin# north, ahowin# Chamber of Commaree rooma, Paarca'a Bakarr and Ftrat National Bank, with Butlnr Brothan atara in dlatanoa. t ' , 1 - " . I jpwpn—a f. ■■i — ■B—MaifcJ I The oldest block of business houses, showing fir* brick ■ buildings erected in Dunn. The building In the foreground wee erected by E. t. Young¥ the Ifn.
The Dunn Dispatch (Dunn, N.C.)
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