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THE GASTOXIA GAZETTE. tttsday, july :-, i.3. :e Gastonia Gazette J'vued every Tuesday and Friday . , ; La uaiette ru&usning company " ti Trrrv ' Cijy Smi-Weekly aewspaper j . llied la Gaston County, Admitted Into the 'malls at the Test Office at Gastonia. N. C at tie r rued rata or Postage, April - zs SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: C-e year ....fl.50 c ;x monthi V. . , . . . . . . . . "-.75 rear months .............. .50 Cze month ........ ......... .IB All subscriptions payable In id met and djscpnttaned promptly . jca wplratton, v1 . rVv- v ; . . ESTABLISHED 1880. ' " - KO. 236 West Mala Avenue. TTJESDAY, JULY 23, 110. ; TO REBUILD AT OXCE. j . Gaston '.county does not hesitate. Che does not wait to see what other counties-and section do. Her peo ple are people ot action. This has been shown time and again in the past. It .was demonstrated ,- again yesterday when, without dlllydalling, the' board of county commissioners decided to rebuild all of the county bridges and,' before night, bad bor rowed' $100,000 for this ' purpose. Contracts had already been made for the salvage of the steel work of the several bridges and forces of hands will be at work within a few days getting this out of the rivers and creeks and patting it in shape to be re-used; that Is, all of It that Is found to bo usable.' . ' T When it la remembered that the flood which carried ' all of these bridges away was just a week ago and. when the further fact is con sidered that the blow to both public and private Interests was a stagger ing one. this is regarded aa strong evidence of the spirit of our people. Gaston is the first county in the flopd-Btrickea district,; so far aa we have noted, to' come to a definite de cision regarding the restoration .-of bridges' and to make immediate pro vision to finance their . rebuilding. . Gaston county has asked for no help from, anybody and is going ahead. with a determination that does, her credit, to put herself back In the same position she occupied ' before the flood, " There is .an old saying that you can't keep a working man down and the-name applies to an ag gregation of people. Gaston is I working county, her people " are working people,, and they do things. not dream , them 11. day long. This is the secret of her past success and furnishes' the explanation of the mag nificent record the county has made as the leading textile manufacturing county In the Southern States.. IX you want to learn how to do things, watch Gaston. ) PASSING OP THE II0O8IER POET. There Will be 'much sorrow over the country because of the passing of the Hoosler poet, James Whitcomb Riley, an account of whose death will be found elsewhere in today's Gajsette. . 'Hia, homely rhymes have brought pleasure to millions of peo ple wno wm instinctively snea a tear over his bier; ;' Millions of men and women recall with keenest delight bis poems of childhood . which de lighted, them years . ago. "Who Is there that has not read and enjoyed such poems as "Little Orphant An ale." "The Raggedy Man" and scores of others .written by the Hoosler poett A little later In life bow those same children, advanced into their teens, have derived the keenest pleas ure from reading "An Old Sweet heart of Mine and numerous others cf that character by. the same author. "Riley's contribution to American verse, while not of the classic order, will abide because It presents In a most realistic manner phase of hu man life that appeal to every one, old and young alike. His language Is of the kind that Is easily under stood. -Though never married and hence denied the . pleasure of com pany of children of his own, Riley was a great lover J of children , and lnew child language as few men did. la tils respect he and Eugene Field ;led a position in American lit er tare almost by themselves. They :re great personal friends and one :J3 easily believe that "Little Boy : :u3" and "The Raggedy Man" ye re from the same pen. 5 ; ' "i rractically an invalid, , being "y rira!yed, and had written . a verse, lie lived c.siet!y ia Indianapolis where he was a favorite among both young and old. He had been frequently honored by the peo ple of his native 6tate and town and In death ' bis body lay In state and was viewed by many thousands who had . "mown and loved him in life! His life was a lenediction and bis name will 'live for generations to come. -Truly cur country has lost one who wrought well. ; . ..UWMWWfc ... . : The Gazette believe? that Jt voices the sentiment of the entire' cemmunl ty when It says that Gastonia deeply appreciates the enterprise exhibited by Postmaster Rankin in bringing in the mails. We haven't heard of an other postmaster in the State ' that baa gone .down In his pocket to take car of the people's Interests as he has 'done. He deserves 'something more than mere lip-thank for his serviced -. ',. ' . ' . '. Grover Page's cartoon on the front page of today's Gazette is a striking warning' to every community, in the flooded districts to take all possible precautions against the spread of disease. : Warnings have, been sent out by the State Board of Health ad vising all the people to boil their drinking water and to keep their premises clean. A liberal use of lime around' the private homes where there Is much dampness be cause of the incessant rains will do much to keep eondltlons healthful, Read the lesson of The Gazette's cartoon and then act. V With Chamber of Commerce. Mr. R. E. Lee, formerly with the Standard Oil Company at Charlotte, has accepted a position as stenogra pher with the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce." Mr. Lee has arrived in the city and has alerady begun his work with the local organization Mr.-A. J. Rankin, of Belmont, is a Gastonia visitor today.. . Miss Edna Bradford, of Hicko ry, was the guest Sunday or Miss Bess Thomasson, stopping over on her way to Rock Hill. 8. C. V-Mr. 6. 43. Ghuford, of the Point section or zora county, 8. k.-. arnvea in the city this morning to be at the bedside of his father, Mr. M. H. Shu ford . , ' V Messrs. Kenneth Todd and Fred Berkley returned to the city last week from Buffalo, N. Y., where they went as members of the Shrlners Band of Oasis Temple at Charlotte. - Mr. Fred Pearson, who has been working for. the Stonewall Cafe in Charlotte, is quite ill with typhoid fever at the home of his parents on West Airline avenue. Vy-Messrs. Charles and Earl Thorn asson, who have been in Florida for the past ten months., are expected home today to spend the summer with their mother, Mrs. J. B. Thorn asson. - v . ' Rev. H."H. Jordan, ' pastor of Main 6treet Methodist church, 'Rev. H. M. Wellman, pastor of West End and . Franklin Avenue Methodist churches, and Mr. Chas, D. Gray left this morning In Mr. Gray's car for St. Paul's church, near Waco, to attend the Shelby 1 District Conference, which is in session there this week ? Capt E. Lee Hanks, engineer on the local freight yarda of the South' era Railway, sustained a very seri ons injury to his left eye yesterday when a lubricator cap on his engine exploded, striking him in the eye. He was given prompt surgical attention and is expected to be able to return to his duties in a few days. Trade With Gazette Advertisers. An Eye Test. - . Most people believe that they see tbe same with both eyes. That this is not tbe case one can easily convince him' self by the following simple experi ment: Cover one of tbe eyes with a band or bandage and let tbe experi menter attempt to snuff out a candle suddenly placed within a few feet of him. He will almost Invariably. miss tbe flame, either overreaching, under reaching or putting tbe fingers too far to tbe right or left of tbe flame. With both eyes normal and open tbe accom modation for distance anT direction Is Instantaneous. . Both Satisfied. . "The best thing that ever happened to me," sneered tbe young man to his former emnjoyer. "was when you fired me. I went out and got a regular Jod. "That's all right." replied the old boss. "I'm glad you're satisfied. Fir ing yon didn't hurt our firm a particle." Detroit Free Press. " ' Mtrey Is Net 8traind. - He (brutally) Women have so sense of bumor. anyhow. -She (pointedly) Oh, yes, they have! The reason they don't laugh at, the funny things they see Is because they don't want to hurt tbe poor things' feelings. Richmond Times-Dispatch. v i r Might Work. . "Wife, why don't yon hire a better cookr -r. i:" ;;; '-': ' y "We can't offer enough salary to en tice one away : from oar rich neigh bors." : " - .-v. "Well, can't you draft one from the minors?" Exchange. , .-..-v; " Gsnuin Faith Cur. . Towne Do I understand yon to aay that Spencer' case was really a faith cure 7 Browne Yes. Yon see, -the doctor and the druggist both trusted him Exchange. v -": - . : No story Is tbe same to ns after the lapse of-time. or. rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. , Spend Your Mosey With Home Merchant. , . , ... ... ... . -t..- HOME ;M5HpRIES. MEAN MUCH , ft ' - v r - - - Duty ef Parents to ', Civ Children Something Which They May Re- . call With Pleasure. Happy borne memories to look back upon is a gift which every mother should plan as definitely to give to her, child as she plana definitely to give, him aa education., sound health and good Judgment , ... ,. First of all. then, tt seems to me w owe our children memories of a beautiful home; a horn of simple com mon sense; a well-ordered home. This would seem to me a child's very first And next, it seems to me, he has the right to memories of .beauty in the home. Children are fair more suscep tible to beauty than many of us real ize, and certainly the effect of beauty on she child's life can hardly b over estimated. ' Further, borne to be a delightful memory must have the beauty of so ciability. It must be a place where people come to share Its benefits, and it ideals. That home can hardly be called a home which does not open its doors often. . Besides being a healthful place, a beautiful place, a sociable home, U It Is to afford us enriching memo-' ries, must be an intimate and sympa thetic place, possessing that nner in; tlmat sociability which grows up be tween the true home and its Inmates.: In aH right living and thinking w are partakers of a kind of immortality, for death does not touch these things. Laura Spencer Porter in Mother's Magazine. PLAN VACATION FOR HEALTH Period of Release Front Toll should Be Wisely Spent, or It Is Worse Than Useless. Ostensibly you so on a vacation to find or to improve your health, re mark the Philadelphia Evening Ledg er. But how many achieve it? To most of us a vacation is a respite from toll, with a license to overeat. oversleep and overdo everything that we take In normal doses during tne neriod of hard labor. Who is there who hasn't returned from a vacation spoiled by Indigestion, excessive play or a lazy indulgence in doing notntng. with the conviction that the pleasures and Increased health be expected to find were a delusion? The best vacation is not so much freedom from the necessity of work tn aa it is a chance, new scenes, new people, new .Ideas, all taken In mod eration. Aa such they are a tonic. When von start forth, lust to avoid the necessity of calling in a physician n itimnM Tonr ailment, take the advice of Jonathan Swift and "consult tha three best doctors In the world --Doctor Diet Doctor Quiet and Doc tor Merry man." They will tell you to eat moderately of digestible looas, to let alcoholic liquors alone and then ta remember, as Solomon said, that "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine. While your sins must be atoned for In the next world, you have to pay .for your follies also In this one. Australian Afforestation. AfrnrMtAtinn waa the subject of an address by Sir Ronald Monro Fergus-' on at Adelaide, South , Australia, re cently. In the course of hi speech he uiiir -I have been much impressed with the variety of tbe, hardwoods rrown In Australia. I believe that m Australia von have a larger variety of the best hardwoods than exists in any other country In the world, but mucn of It has been wasted. In many in stances these hardwoods havf been used when cheaper and sorter timoer would answer the same purpose. Aus tralia has an-advantage in timber- rrowlna a forest matures in thirty veara. whereas it takes sixty years to reach the same stag of maturity In Europe. The Calif ornlan pine grows anlendldlv here, while it will not grow at all in the north of the British isles. The total area reserved for lores ts-ln South Australia is 154.232 acres and. besides gradually - adding to the re serves, the government have estab lished a school of forestry at th Ade laide university for the sicentlfic train ing of foresters." , . . Get Information Asked For. John Muir. California's naturalist and explorer, related the following story of CoL D. C. Collier: While ridinc along San Diego, CaX, Mr. Collier came upon a dilapidated corral fence which hung a sign bear ing the following announcement: For Sail." A bright-looking small boy sat on the fence beside the sign and Mr. Collier asked him: ."When does this ranch sail?' The small boy glanced np quickly at Mr. Collier, ' smiled and said: "When some sucker comes along who can raise th wind." Mr. Collier doffed his sombrero, thanked the lad for his Information and rode on his way feel ing greatly enlightened. r f . ' ' Kill Crow; $1 In Its Basic - ' The crow has long been notorious for its kleptomaniac tendencies and known .to steal anything, without re gard to its value, but from the con struction camp of the Chico Construc tion company, near Shippee, south of this city, comes a story of a crow that was . discriminating enough to steal something of value. ' : John Schonlow, foreman tor - th company, went hunting. He fired into a flock of crows, killing on a" When Schonlow picked up th bird he found tightly clasped In Its beak a one dollar hill. Chico Dispatch Sacramento Bee. ' RESUMING SERVICE. : v Southern power Company Now Has Practically All Its Bervices'Reetot--e Was Severely Hit by . Recent Flood Conditions. ,t : . , ; '- Elsewhere In our colnmss today the Southern Power Company has a quarter-page notice td the public In regard to the restoration of It serv ice. This company probably suffered greater property, loss and damage from last week's floods than any oth er corporation la the two Carolines and the energy Its cficeia have show intheir strenuous efforts to restdre service to - their; customers 49$ the public is especially commend able. :Vv v'v: v In the announcement mentioned the company expresses grateful ap preciation to the public for the pa tient manner In which' it has borne the inconveniences occasioned by the catastrophe of last week. The District SchooL ' Under the auspices of the William Gaston Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, "The District School'' will be presented here ,'oy local talent the last week In August. Details with reference to this enter tainment will be published later. The ladles desire tbe co-operation of tire entire town in making this a success. Real Estate Deals. S Mr. and Mrs. George B. Mason have sold a house and lot in Chester place to Mr. and Mrs. Giles Ratch ford. The purchasers will occupy this residence. Mr. Mason baa pur chased two vacant lota in Chester place from the Gastonia Insurance ft Realty Co. This company has al so sold to Mr. George A. Jenkins a lot in Chesterplace. Mr. Jenkins ex pects to begin the construction of a handsome modern residence for his own occupancy in the immediate fu ture. Mr. B. H. Parker and family re turned home Sunday from a week's visit to relatives at Apex. Mr. R. W. White and family have moved into their new brick res idence on Morris street, corner of Rankin avenue. -A called meeting of Piedmont Encampment No. 5, I. O. O. F., will be held on Friday night of this week, July 28th. All members are request ed to be present. . Mr. Oscar Shuford, of Lincoln ion, spent Sunday In the city with his father, Mr. M. H. Shuford, who is quite ill at his home on West Franklin avenue. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gilliam, Mrs. S. A. Robinson, Miss Johnsle Adams and Mrs. G. W. Ragan. who have been at Montreat for some time, left Ashevllle this morning for Gas tonia by way of Murphy and Atlanta, They expect to arrive here Thurs day night They communicated this news to relatives here by telephone last night TO THE PUBLIC: The Southern Power Company wishes to avail itself of this opportunity to express its grateful appreciation to the public for the patient manner in which it has borne the -inconvenience occasioned by the catastrophe during the past week. We also desire to express our heartfelt thanks to each employe for his loyalty, devotion to duty and heroic effort in (he restoration of service. While it is true that our losses have been nothing less than enormous, in fact have not yet nor can they be determined for weeks, we are nevertheless Jndeed gratified to . announce that beginning Monday, July 24th, we will be able to restore' service toaH points on our lines, with only four exceptions'. As to these exceptions, every effort is being expended, and every resource is being exhausted to hurry the work, and we hope to resume service at these points before the end of the week. . What effort this has entailed can be slightly appreciated when one recalls that in addition to the injury to our plants we have had ' destroyed ' across the Catawba River seven electric circuits out of a total of nine, every bridge has been swept away, railroad transportation has beery absolutely suspended and all communication by wire has either been seriously deranged or absolutely destroyed. Added to all this have been the severe weather conditions which have ': prevailed A y. every day since the waters began to recede, making the work of restoration of "service more difficult and in some instances destroying it almost as soon as it was installed. When we look back upon what we have passed through we feel some degree tof pride, not only in resuming service, but in the minimum of inconvenience which has been occasioned through our disaster. . V -. - r , r , .-..;; Again let us express our gratitude to you for your patience, and in the event of anyf slight interruptions during the next few days, which may come on account , of temporary work to resume prompt service, rest assured that all our forces are at work using their besiefforts to remedy them and that anything which distracts their attention only serves to delay the work of restoration. ' July 22," 1916. FIRST . NATIONAL ;BANK GASTONIA, N. C. .. Capital- - -Surplus and Profits , We are in a position to grant loans on collateral or other approved security and will be pleased 'to con- V fer with those needing accomodation. ' FIRST NATIONAL BANK GASTONIA, N. C Wesleyan. Camp Meeting. The annual camp' meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist church begins tomorrow night at the camp ground onJast Franklin avenue. Rev. A. D. Fero, a well-known New York evangelist, will be the leading preacher, and the public is cordialry invited to attend all the. services, which will be held at 10 a. m., 1 and 7:30 p. m. every day through Aug. 6. A Big Job. A little slum child was enjoying bis first glimpse of country life. He sat by the farmer's wife, just as the sun was setting, watching her pluck a chicken. He was gravely silent for a long time, v then asked: "vDo you take eff their clothes every night, lady?" Country Gentle man. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY. Beginning at 10 A, M. tomorrow July 26th, 1916, I will sell at public" auction all the household goods and personal property of H. M. Lineber ger, late of Gaston county. PLACE OF SALE: At residence of the said H. M. Llneberger on West Airline Ave. in Gastonia. TERMS OF SALE : Cash. R. G. CHERRY, Admr. FOR SALE: Fresh milch cow. D. W. Padgett, city. - 26cl SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY $100,000 ; $135,000 : Webster A La Cockney. - Two English costermongers were" pushing their carts along, .when one of them picked up a torn-sheet of a newspaper. As he stopped and vauueu uio ie me viner I enow called out impatiently! - "Aw, come on! Wot ye tryln' to do . Ye cawn't read the payper,", I can' so' read the payper! If ye don't believe me, I'll show ye." And ' he read off a few simple words. - The skeptic pointed to " a word and demanded: "Now, wot's thoc word can ye tell me?" s "An I can so," replied the reader,, "thofs 'category.' " "Category, is it?" sniffed the other; "an' 'ow do ye tell wot such a long word may mean?" ; His friend puffed with importance. "Well, I'll tell ye. Ye takes hit apart, an' ye finds tbe meanin ot heach part an' then ye puts hit to gether hagain." With a dirty index finger he opint ed out the syllables of the word. "Now, 'cat. Ye kriows wot a cat his?" The open-mouthed . listener nodded. 'Well, then, next comes 'e. Now thot won't be be no she cat; hit's a 'e cat see?" Another nod was tbe reply. "Well, next his 'g-o-r-y.' Thot spells gory, thot means bloody. So there ye 'ave hit hit's a bloody torn cat, ye fool." London Standard. Warraaty Deeds for typewriter,, supply just arrived. Gazette office. .
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