the Gastonia Gazette]
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Dec Uratiw h o"f° An* rfcan °I n de
pendence, has and gone,
aad with It the greatest gala-day
Gaston county ever saw.
It wm Gaston county day in
Gastonia and her people were
hero horn Tuckascege to Pan
handle to celebrate It. Not only
were oar own people here in
great fort*, hot they came in
droves and companies from ad
joining counties and from afar to
scejhe sights, and they ns
acsscd here Friday wMeverbefore
seen in Gaston coanty. Possibly
Gaston is the only county In the
Sooth that could have construc
ted a pageant just like it: at a*y
nte Gaston lays undisputed jo
Claim to having more oqfttdo
min* than any other county 4a
the Sooth. / *
We axe glad oar neighbors
came and we thank .them for,
their helpful and inspiring pret
ence. Kings Mountain, Berne
mer, Cherryville, Crowders
Mountain, Tuelrescrgc, Moun
tain bland. MeAdenville, Lowell
end Dallas did a great and hon
orable part to make the occasion
a gfocioos one for their county.
Gastonia's share was to give oar
neighbors room that day sad we
gave them eO we had. Wish we
kadfcad more room, and had faeea
old enough and big enough and
experienced enough to have
done twice on well by oar visi
tors as we did. Come again.
The latch string has been jerked
oil, the latch wedged up, am) the
doors thrown wide open.
Statesville is to be congratu
lated upon the free delivery of
city OHtfls to which she has
proven herself entitled. The
past-oflke receipts ft that point
far 12 months ending June 30
wen $10,572.80. Statesville is
already known as one of (he
■mat solid aad progressive towns
ia 'the entire state, end to this
knowledge is to be added the
Landmark's declaration that
there fa more basineee done in
. Statesville according to popula
tion than in any other town of
storilar else In the Sooth.
FOURTH OF JULY.
«*at iAY or rEsnvm.
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Nothing could have been better
conducted than vras the manage
ment by Chief-Marshal K. Btyau
Jones and Ha assistants of the
great parade of last Friday. By
toe time appointed they had
everything and everybody is
place and the parade in motion.
Too much praise cannot be given
them for their part in the day’s
success.
Moving from the Os ark and
Modena in the eastern part of
town, the parade followed Air
line street to York, then with
Yotk to Ftacklin Avenue, then
with Franklin Avenue to the
Narrow Gauge, thence back
Main, and along Main to York.
Here it iwang to the right and
took Airline Street again to
the tony mill. There the pro
cession turned back through
Corny to the Loruy grove uear
the Trenton.
The parade was led by Mr.
W. T. Jordan, of Mountain
Island, and his party ia an auto*
mobile. Following hhn come
the two carriages bearing the
speakers, and then the Mt. Hol
ly band. The historical floats,
the cotton mill floats, the mer
cantile floats, the Cherryville
band, and the private carnages
allowed in the order named,
rug HISTORICAL FLOATS.
The Original Thirteen—
Represented by Mrs. J. H. Cor
;man as Liberty and 13 young
Indies representing the different
2. Other States East of the
•Mississippi—Twelve young la
dies.
3. Florida Purchase—Florida;
Miss Saline Latham.
4. Lotiisana Purchase (and
Territory Northwest) — Fifteen
young ladies.
5. _ Territory ceded by Mexico
—Eight young ladies.
6. Alaska — Miss Rosebud
Adams.
7. Cuba—Miss Clara Holland.
8. Uncle Sam, R. C. Adams;
Porto Rico, C. H. Cavis; Guam,
D. M. Jones; Philippines. C. A.
Johnson. Hawaii, B. H. Parker.
COTTOW MILL FLOATS.
Mountain Inland Mills.
Dallas Cotton Mills.
Avon Cotton Mills, Gastonia.
Gastonia Manufacturing Co.
Arlington Mills, Gastonia.
The Trenton, Gastonia.
The Oxark, Gastonia.
The Modena, Gastonia.
The Dilling, Enterprise, and
Cora, of Slugs Mountain.
The Southern, of Bessemer.
Me Aden Mills, McAdenvitle.
Tuckaseege (Mt. Holly.)
Lowell Cotton Mills.
Spencer Mountain Milk.
Gaston Manufacturing Co.,
Cbcrtyville.
Crowder’s Mountain and Lula,
of Kings Mountain.
The Lomy, Gastonia.
These floats were magnificent
—worthy of Solomon and Oueeu
of Sheba, and were peopled by
prettily dressed girls. They were
canopied creations of artistic
taste. Bach possessed saficient
individuality and merit to make
a separate description desirable,
bat want of space and time for
bids such elaboration.
The Dilling Mill, the Southern,
the Gaston Manufacturing Co.,
of Cberryvtlle. The Modena, of
Gastonia, and the Mountain
Island floats showed products of
the mills, either in construction
of the floats or attire of the
young ladies, and .were objects
of great admiration and much
flattering commeta.
MUCASTIU FLOATS.
The Page Company, Craig &
Wilson, Coffin Factory, F. Tor
mice & Co., Gaston Iron Works,
J. Q. Holland* Co., long Bros.,
Gastonia Hardwate Co., J. K.
Cnrry * Co.. K. Y. life Ins.
&4LVasr^sst
Furniture Company. Tha Bee
Hfee, Baltimore Racket. Gasto
aia Bottling Works, Gastonia
Oil Mill, Williams Furniture Co.,
Heath's One.Price Ifepertment
Store; Thomson Co., W. T.
Love Co., Hayaes'and Cannon,
Green * Wilson, Gastonia
Graded Schools.
Tha Junior Order of American
- .— ...— - in the
i m sen a to g ntti tortus.
LKMmnjr of mention alone
with (ho floats arc the tecta that
JMtty residences were decorated
te honor of the occasion, and
that nanny show window and
hnainaea fronts ware adorned
with a mjummmtm hitherto
iBipprotcbed.
In the Loray Park a stand had
hsna erected for the
J™*Jf~** "MJfr
Uoon .. 9y. *v* * *****
tmm distilleries ta Gaston and
Ml a wheel hones worth over
Thaw there wore only two
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cotton mills. To-day there arc
30-odd mills and the county is
dotted over with these mills,
good schools, academies, and
graded schools, with the distil
leries in diminishing small num
bers. Ninety yean ago the first
spindle for the first cotton mill
in this section o{ country was
hammered out on an anvil up
here in, Lincoln County.* The
products of these mills thirty
years ago were kept in the stores
and sold to the nouse-wives as
*»pnn truck” to be used in weav
ing or knitting at home. The
South is deatiued to become the
manufacturing centre of the
Union. We have the climate, the
labor, the intelligence. Fort)
years ago we were puncturing
the folds of "Old Glory’’ with
bullets; to-day wc salute its
brilliant colors In oar enthusias
tic loyalty, resolving to be
surpassed by none in our Amer
icanism. I take pleasure in in
troducing to yon one who hai
done ana is doing much to mske
i this section what it is to-day,
formerly a cititen of Charlotte,
but now our own county-inau,
Mr. D. A. Tompkins.
The speaker was greeted by
applause. The Fourth of July
is pre-eminently a Southern
holiday. Southern statesmen
and Southern soldiers in the
Revolution were foremost in giv
ing the day and its meaning to
this nation. For reasons which
have now passed away, its ob
servance in the South long
waned, but at last the happy
day has come when we are re
instating a great historic day
that belongs to ns in a peculiar
sense.
Taking up conditions a cen
tury or a century and a half ago,
Mr. Tompkins showed that the
South led the states in manufact
uring. Right here in this section
iron was mined and rolled,
cotton and woolen mills were
operating, farming utensils
wagons, tools, machinery, and
arms, arete manufactured.
Rifles were made in Greensboro
from iron rolled at High Shoals
I have seen myself, said the
speaker, a contract signed by
Lincoln machinists agreeing to
make all the machinery neces
sary to equip a cotton mill. Our
people arete skilled in the nse
of tools and excelled in manu
factures.
Then came the blight of
slavery. Laws- were made
favoring the agriculturist and
slave-holders. As slavery
flourished manufactures waned.
Onr mechanics had to go west or
go to fanning in competition
with slave labor. Many went
West. In the great wagon
works in South Bend, Indiana,
are workmen whose ancestors
made wagons in North Carolina.
.Now that slavery and the con
ditions qf anarchy entailed by
its destruction have passed away
the Sooth is reasserting its man
ufacturing skill. Look at the
revelations of this dayl We
have destroyed more dry goods
here in one day celebrating than
we used to boy for wearing in
six months—and we don't care
if we do!
The benefits conferred by
manufactures, the conditions
favoring tbnn, and community
of interest between the farm and
factory, and other points were
discussed in an effective and in
teresting manner. Mr. Tompkins
concluded his speech with an
exhortation to greater indepen
dence of thought and political
action.
Appropriately introduced by
Supt. P. B. Rankin, Dr. Geo. T.
Winston, President of the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College
at Raleigh, made a happy ad
dress all the way through.
When, said he, I noted in toe
census reports that yon had
about doubled your population
in fifteen years, I thought your
increase was due to immigration,
but when I saw your streets
Hoed this morning with pretty
women and thronged with bright
faced boys and girla I concluded
I was mistaken—that the natural
products of Gaston county had
something to do with the in
crease. There are parents sit
ting before me who nave more
children than the entire congres
sional delegation of Massachu
setts. So my subject is, What
should be Done With our Boys
and Girls. The answer to that
question is clear: we should pre
pare them for the conditions
they will meet ia practical life,
for the work they trill have to do
when they become men sad wo
The speaker argued for educa
tion in the buxineaa of doing
thing*. Tlie children ahould be
trained to nee tools, to malta ma
chinery. The North whipped
as before tha war ever atarted.
The Southern man moved weak
carrying a negro ©a hi* beck, the
Yankee went west riding xtrad
dle of a atesm engine.
With orach wit and engagingly
VYittSTOn Kept
terested through
neb hreciineM of
. «• ^ . Mdlangnageae
to make Us andlftMelorgetfol
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bnaebsll, and at night the fire
wejlw Md tha german at the
Falls Honse.
It wee a great Fourth. It waa
n pretty worm day, but tha folk*
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cauic prepared for h and lot) ml
Gastonia prepared for it. There
was fun for everybody, there was
next to no disorder at til, the po
lice had almost as much holiday
as the rest of us, the shoppers
were delighted with their pur
chases aud the polite service!
given them, and we feel sure
that whenever Gastonia say*
"The Fourth0 again, the people
will say "We’re going."
FUUt CttACKKXfi.
About 10,000 yards of bunting
on display.
There were over 4,000 yards
of paper festoon, red, while, aud
blue in the parade aud in the
decorations.
Did yon see the float girls with
the red and blue trimmings on
their white dresses? Tbt^ were
very jaunty and pretty uniforms.
"Ncvct saw so many girls be
fore in my life.”
The Zobo band was a bulc, and
a jarrer in symphonic noises.
Holland Morrow, the cowboy,
was a honey; conld have caleu a
tenderfoot alive.
Xo horseman attracted more
admiring comment than the Lo
ray's cotton buyer. In a Prince
Albert of white duck with pants
to match, with cotton cpanlettes
and a Panama hat, and with
flowing white beard, he sat his
horse with a dignity which, ac
cording to an old soldier, conld
not have been surpassed by Gen
eral Lee on old Traveller.
"Gaston county is the concen
trated essence of North Caro
lina,” said Dr. Winston. That's
it I One might work a year on
that sentence and not express it
any better.
EDUCATIONAL DALLY.
Every Committeeman in the
Coaaty Expect ad in Dallas Sat*
•Hay.
To Ihi Editor of (b* OaMtu:
Indications point to one of the
largest school meetings ever held
in old Gaston taking place at
Dallas next Saturday, July 12th.
Through the co-operation of
the campaign committee of the
General Educational confereuce
we have secured the services of
Dr. Jno. n. Carlyle, of Wake For
est.
Dr. Carlyle is a polished ora
tor aud has education ou the
brain aud heart, too.
You went to the Fourth of July
iu Gastonia for your own sake.
Come to the twelfth for your
children’s sake. Every commit
teeman is requested to report at
the Superintendent's office in the
court house and register.
Come and bring the children
and your dinner basket.
Respectfully,
F. B. Rankin,
Superintendent of Schools.
McAdenville items.
rumapoudcno* of the OinUi.
McAdenville, July 7.—About
300 of ns In holiday attire en
joyed 4tli in Gastonia. Talking
about it yet.
Our ball boy* beat Bessemer
but are not so jubilant over their
defeat the next day by the Mo
dena boys.
The fats beat the leans Satur
day morning 15 to 8.
Robert Nutall ia disconsolate
—wife visiting near Shelby.
Prof. Furr and wife, of Con
cord. are visiting at Mr. D. W.
Padgett's.
Mr. J. B. Rush returned to
Converse yesterday. His wife
will remain several days.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Stowe, of
Kings Mountain, are guests of
Mrs. M. R. Wright and other
relatives.
Mrs. Sarah Scott and daugh
ter, Mrs. Osmond, of Tampa,
Florida, are visiting relatives
here.
Mrs. Harriet Funderburk, of
Mountain Island, and Miss Hat*
tie Colon, of Charlotte, are visi
ting Mrs. T. M. Stafford.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jenkins,
of Crowdeta Mountain are visit
tBf Mrs. W. P. McAtcer.
Mr. 1. A. Stafford went to
Mountain Island Thursday and
returned home with Mrs. Staff
ord who had been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Chas. Hope for
several days.
Mr. Wul Grigg and wife are
visiting relatives at Mountain
Island.
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Turner, of
Danville. Va., who have been
visiting here for the past week
am sorely bereaved In the death
o< their 14-months old babe,
ItUh Flossie, their only child.
The cause of death was whoop,
ing cough. The little one died
jjd, ui**t and was burled ia
Ooshen this afternoon. We
sympathise with the sorrowing
patents in their sad loss.
M Tnshaga at laasanast.
8totMet compiled at Beau
mont »bow that tnc Iron tankage
far ©0 there U5.K13.500 barreU.
earthen tankage 4,225,000
kwnk and wooden tankage
oil is atorage la 5,430.000 bnrrela.
CONSOLIDATION Or SCHOOLS.
The Advantages of Fawer l)ls*
trlcto and Hotter behoofs.
The following has been sent
to us from the office of the State
Superintendent of Public (11
Ntructiou for publication:
A campaign for education is
nn in earnest. This is to b«
fought for better schools nndbcl
.ter school facilities. To accom
plish this, an educational cam
paign will be made in ivery
conuty where there seems to be
an opportunity to-improve the
present conditions. Walter H.
Page says truly that there is
enough native intelligence going
to waste iu Xorth Carolina for
lack of Iroiuiug to govern the
entire world. There must be a
cause for this. If a person’s snr
roundings and associates deter
mine his character and intelli
gence. then the individual’s
surroundings should be studied
and improved. It is a recognised
fact that a child’s associates
must be elevated if that child's
traiuing is to remain permanent.
This is the work the Central
Campaign Committee for the
Purpose of Improving the Public
Schools has undertaken to ac
complish.
TUB EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM.
The following resolution was
unanimously adopted by this
committee ill Raleigh, February
13; it was reaffirmed at llrccns
boro, April 3, also at Charlotte,
May 2, and at Morchead City by
the Teachers’ Assembly, June 13:
Be it therefore resolved, That
it is the sense of this conference
that an active and vigorous
campaign should be at ouce in
augurated in every county for
the accomplishment of the
following ends, to-wit:
"1. The consolidation of
small districts wherever possible.
"2. The erection of adequate
and comfortable school houses.
"3. The lengthening of the
public school term by local tax
ation."
A FOURTH OF THE SCHOOLS ARE
RUN CONTRARY TO LAW.
The reports from the different
County Superintendents show
that about one-fourth ol the
school districts contain less than
sixty-five children of school age.
In other words, about twelve
districts for every county (when
a general average is made! are
illegal. The schools run about
three months in the year, and
the State Superintendent is
called upon for funds to increase
them to a four months’ school.
W1IAT CAN BK DONE BY CONSOL
IDATING.
Take three districts that con
tain just sixty-five children each.
The appropriation would be
abont $90 for each; just abont
enough to run three mouths with
one good teacher. This teacher
would have an attendance of
about thirty-five children, and
she would have to teach every
subject, from the alphabet to the
higher English branches. Now
take these three districts and
coinbins them into one and
employ, two teachers, one for
the primary grades and the
other for the higher grades.
There would be money enough
to run a consolidated school
four and a half months, and the
work could be done infiuitely
better.
THU DIimXKT COUNTIES AUK
RECOGNIZING THIS FACT.
This consolidation of small
districts is such a great economy
in school management that
county after county is readily
combining their schools. In
every instance it is done by the
people and not by educational
boards. The Rockingham Board
of Education has Invited the
patrons of the school all over the
connty to be present and con
sider this one question at the
next general meeting. Two
schools have already been con
solidated recently by the vote
of the people. At Providence.
Randolph County, men left their
ripe wheat vneut to attend the
educational rally and hear this
subject discussed. One farmer
expressed the situation when be
said: “Nearly every man here
represents an uncut wheatfield.
but we value good educational
advantages at this' time more
than the saving of wheat. We
are deeply in earnest on the
question.” Over 100 school
committeemen alone in Wilson
Connty, attenned the educa
tional conference June 27, to
consider this question. The
women at Hickory have taken
np this matter and are arousing
deep and lasting interest in this
question.
TITO RTS BCTO/ COMeoUDATtOK.
Our County Superintendent
••vs: "The resident* of the
school districts which have been
consolidated would raise a strong
protest if an attempt were made
to go bach to the old small
school system. Papil* from
every part of the district enjoyed
a long school term. The mingl
ing of the pupils has had a
deepening and broadening influ
ence noon their minds, and
there have come into these
districts highly educated (each
era, whose inAnence has been
far greater than ever tuu from
as
the short term of service.*
THOMSON
COMPANY,
...The People’s Store...
Everything
That’s
Nice
to
Wear
Everything
That’s
Good
to
Eat
THOMSON
COMPANY,
GASTONIA, N. C.
THE ART OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT
* *CO^#»»0KT
and the jeweler's art are closely inter
mingled, inasmuch as the latter otfere
special facilities for the indulging of
refined taste. This is particularly true
of Torrence, whose line of pins, brooch
es. rings, bracelets, chains, etc., is
especially attractive. Exquisite novel
lie* in unique designs and beautiful
workmanship. Also leading makes of
gold aud silver watches at surprisingly
: low prices. Splendid jewelry values.
Everything fully warranted.
TORRENCE,
JKVCUt aad tmCUK.
Little and Often
Fills the Purse.
The Gastonia
Banking Comp’y.
GASTONIA, N. C.
• will furnish every one who
will become a depositor to
the amount of one dollar or
more, a handsome
Private Home Safe
like the one shown here to keep at home. You are invited
to call and ask for one of these Safes.
This Private Home Safe is issued to yon locked. It esn
only be opened by ns. Yon are expected to accumulate
your smal) coins in it and return it to ns at least once in
sixty days, when your money is removed, entered to your
credit on your pass .book and draws interest.
Remember the dollar remains youn, the bank remains ours.
The Gastonia Banking Company*
Tfc$ GASTONIA GAZETTE,
♦ * Mne Dollar a Year. * ft *
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