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1..G .r;:::-.VY, asgiving Proclairiatioii GASTON IN THE EIGHTIES - t . VV BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UXITBD STATBS OP AMERICA. . ' A Proclamation. r , IT HAS long been the honored custom of our people to turn In tDe frmltul autumn of too year in praise and thanksgiving to Al - V mighty God for His many blessing and mercies to us at a nation. That custom we can follow now even in tne miaai 01 me irageay of world shaken by war and immeasurable disaster, in the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst the darkness that ? has gathered about us we can see the great oiesHings uoa nas o : ; gtowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere peace of ..' mind and prosperity of enterprise. e have been given the opportunity to sene mankind as we ! V onre served oorselves in the great day of our Declaration of In dependence, by taking up arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men everywhere and joining with other free peoples In demanding for all the nations of the world what we " then demanded and obtainea for ourselves. In this day of the " revelation of our duty not only to defend our own rights as a na-:7-v'tlon l to defend also the rlghta of free men throughout the world, there has been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring meas 'V mmm. h vmolution and spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and purpose. A new vigor of common coun sel and common action has been revealed in us. We should es pecially th"k CSod that in such circumstances, in the midst of the greatest enterprise live spirits or men nave ever eniereo. up on, we have. If we but observe a reasonable and practicable econ "' omy, abundance with -which to supply the needs of those associa- ' ted with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us. The great duties of a new day awaken a new and great nation ' al spirit in us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what : Stuff we are made or. l V And while we render thanks for these things let us pray AI ' mighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always 'to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His grace our minds may be dl rected wnd our hands strengthened; and that in His good time ' liberty and security and peace and the comradeship of a common Justice may be -vouchsafed all the nations of the earth. WHEREFORE, I, Wood row Wilson, President of the United States of 'America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty r ninth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day - from their ordinary occupations and in their several homes and , places of worship to render thanks to God, the great ruler of na- tlons, . IX WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this seventh day of Novem ber In the year of our Lord one thosand nine hundred and seven ' teen aad'of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-second. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State. The Gastonia Gazette FRIDAY, NOVEMBER i, 117. " V AS IXTREPID AIRMAN. Iieut. Kirby of the Royal Air Service Wins Distinction for uravery ins - Aunt Writes Friends Here of Some of His Deeds of Daring. Congratulated by the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty and tec- oinmended . for the Distinguished Service Order is the honor which has recently come to Lieutenant Spencer Kirby of the Roys! Air Service, ac cording to reports which have reach d Ills relatives and friends In Cana 4a, Tata Will of Interest to Gas- Ionian because of the fact that Lieu tenant 'Kirby is a nephew of Miss Sara Spencer, formerly teacher of ex pression at Winthrop College, Rock f UIL 8. C and who has been the guest here of Prof, and Mrs. 3. P. Held. " Miss Spencer is a very talent ed and attractive woman and those who know her here will be interested to know that she has recently given up teaching and Is now studying Iip readlng with a Tiew to teaching the men who come back from France -with their hearing gone, having been rendered deaf by the shell-shock in the trenches. Her home is in Cana- . da. Lieutenant Kirby displayed great courage and initiative when engaged recently in repelling an air raid on the southeastern coast of England. He engaged eight of the raiding planes and brought one down into the sea. Flying low Lieut Kirby then .threw bis life preserver to the oc cupants of the plane he had brought trAvA. tn rnma and nick tttnm DD. One ot the English papers, com ' in en ting on this incident, says: "While the gentlemen (?) who had ' been killing women and children at Southend were flying seaward, one of our airmen brought one of their planes down into the sea. Thereup on he threw down his llie-beit. T&ere 7on have the difference between a .gentleman and a German." Another English paper deals with it In this manner: Chivalry: The British naVal air man who downed one of the Gothas which had made a raid on Southend saw the occupants clinging to their machine and he threw his life-belt to . them. 1 - YTTl. . I. - r1 t TOI uunci t lieu IU D6UU1 I D crew were on the deck of the U-boat their life-belts were taken away and an officer flung them into the sea. La ter the U-boat -dived, leaving the men to drown." . In a letter to a friend Miss Spen cer states that Iieut. Kirby, after recuperating from wounds in Cana- . da, has returned to France and is a-. ' gain In active service. He told her among other things, while at home on f urtongh, that tne airmen in France and England rarely ever made a trip that they did not feel the effects ot the enemy's bullets. To Be Sure. '., ToimKy- "Pad what. Is a; willowy -Rl'.euT- '. -:" , 3 "A skinny girl r who has a ? father, any sou." Judge.- , WOODROW WILSON. CREDIT UXIOXS BECOMIXG MORE POPULAR AS SAVIXG BANKS. Special to The Gazette. RALEIGH, Nor. 16. "Be good to yourself; put your money in a cred It union" Is a slogan which has been adopted by the Valdese Credit Union in Burke county which began bust ness last spring and which has al ready taken second place among these associations In North Carolina. These Waldensians did not require Governor Slckett'a Thrift Month proclamation to direct their atten tion to the matter of saving, for they had. already formed the habit of put ting aside liberally from their earn ings. They made an extra effort in October however, and Increased the resources of their credit union by more than one-third In a single month, according to the regular monthly report made to the Super intendent of Credit Unions at West Raleigh. This western colony has followed the outline of Governor Bickett s proclamation in which he has em phasized the Importance of thrift by setting aside the month of November as a time when the people of North Carolina shall make an extra effort to save money, especially to get ac counts started In banks and credit unions or to increase that which they already have; but, they have gone him one better by making every month thrift month as far as the matter of beginning a credit union account la concerned. Practically ever reader of newspa pers Is acquainted with the banking business through the advertising by the banks in the city papers, but credit unions are comparatively new and practically unknown. Designed primarily for the rural sections, they are not competitors of commercial banks, but rather supplement the efforts of these by providing banking facilities in the country. They are mutual savings and loan societies for the people In communities in which they are established, according to the construction put on the operation by Mr. W. R. Camp who has the work in charge for the State Experiment Station. While loaning money only to members, sajlngs are accepted from anyone, and a special effort has been made this year to get the school children of each community to start saving accounts. Their convenience and accessibili ty Is strikingly demonstrated by the Valdese union, which is rapidly forg ing to the front and which is so ad mirably carrying out the spirit of the Governor's" thrift proclamation. This union is located nine miles a way from the nearest bank. Its funds are collected weekly and monthly from the members and de positors,, interest being paid at four per cent, while practically all the funds are loaned for productive pur poses. Thrift has been greatly encourag ed among the members of each one of the score of credit unions in North Carolina, according to Prof. , Camp and he is gratified to learn of the cordial response that is being made by the societies of the . Governors call . Phew! .. Grouchy Customer "Give me 10 cent's worth of dog meat" : , , Batcher "All right sir. - Shall I wrap it np or will you eat it here?" f Judge, ': !.'t.. ;.; r-. -Mi :x Interesting, Events tn the .County Thirty-Odd Tears Ago as - - Recorded In the Gazette To Which Is Added State and General News Notes and Some General Reading Mattel That, Proved of Interest a Third of a Century Ago. 161ST IXSTALLMEXT. Local News. (From The Gazette of April 23, '86.) Mr. J. J. C. Anders has been on the sick list but Is about . well again. The Presbytery of Mecklenburg will meet in Shelby on the 28th of this month. Mr. Henry McLean, of Iredell county, is visiting his son, Rev. J. M. McLean, at this place. We are informed that Hon. R. Y. McAden made a rousing prohibition speech in Charlotte on last Tuesday night. Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, secretary of the Interior, passed through Gasto nia on last Monday, en-route for Washington City. We regret to learn that Mj. Sam uel Torrence, living on Long Creek, is in very feeble health. He is about 7 7 years of age. The town authorities have pur chased a new pair of Fairbanks Drop Lever scales drawing 2000 pounds for use of the cotton weigher. Dr. E. E. Boyce, of this place, will deliver an address on Friday, May 7, at the closing exercise of Maj. X. P. Rankin's school near Begonia. The limits on 'our cotton quota tions are placed at 8 and 7-8. It must be understood that it requires the very best of fancy cotton to bring this price. A hawk measuring four feet and six inches from tip to tip was killed on Mr. Chalmers Arrowood'a place recently. - This is supposed to be a case of fowl play. We are informed that petitions for an election on prohibition in Soutn Point township will be presented at the next meeting of the county com missioners. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Pegram have gone to Yorkville to attend the mar riage of Mr. J. B. Pegram to Miss Fannie, the daughter of Mr. J. W. P. Hope, of that place. Official orders have been issued to the section bosses of the Air Line to have everything in readiness 10 change the guage on the first day' or June. Section Master Robinson will want about 25 hands on that day and will pay 1.50 for a day's work. At a convention of the citizens of McAdenville, held in the Town Hall last Wednesday night, Captain Ed ward M. Young was unanimously nominated for mayor on the second ballot, Mr. George S. McAden de clining a unanimous nomination ten dered him by the convention. The convention also nominated seven al dermen as followss R. R. Ray, B. T. McAden, C. C. Cormoelie, W. E. Whitesell, J. H. Crowley, Charles Stowe and James W. Holt. The trial of tne Thornburg boys, before Commissioner Puett on last Wednesday, charged with hauling blockade whiskey and taking unlaw ful possession of a lot of whiskey that had been seized by General Storekeeper Stowe by means of a forged order, was postponed until to day. Favorable reports as to the pros pects of a good wheat crop continue to reach us. The young girl who Is looking forward to an early marriage can now sing "In the Sweet By and By," to which the lusty grasshopper in a deep bass answers, "In this I wheat by and by." The Charlotte Home Democrat pays the following neat compliment to Mr. J. Riser In regard to the In formation received by us from him and published in last week's Gazette in reference to the Blair bill: Sqnire KIser is one of oar old and Intelli gent subscribers and his head Is very level on the burdens which the BTalr bill will impose on connty tax-papers. It is wrong for any Deomcrat from the South, in Congress, to vote We Pay the War Taxes IT costs .us the profit to continue to sell at the old price, but we count this an investment in public confidence, and the price of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin 'Tht Ptrftct Laxatht will not be advanced 'AtYmrDruggufs 50ctS. Two'atns $100 to Impose such burdens on the white tax-payers of the South. Sudden Death. (From The Gazette of April 23, '86.) Mrs. Eliza Bradley, about 73 years of age, relict of Mr. A. S. Bradley, died suddenly at her residence on last Monday, April 19, 1886. She had been complaining some for sev eral weeks, but was able to keep up and attend to her domestic duties. She was in town one day last week, and prepared dinner on the day of her death. After dinner she walked up stairs, and on her return while sitting on a chair, she suddenly ex claimed: "Oh, what is the matter," and almost immediately thereafter expired. She was buried in Shiloh graveyard on- Tuesday afternoon. Her husband, Mr. A. S. Bradley, died last December. They had lived to gether for over half a century, and are now lying side by side In the si lent city of the dead. Let us hope that at that last day they may eacn hear the welcome words, "Come, thou blessed of my father." To the bereaved family and friends we ten der sincere sympathies. (To Be Continued.) AX APPEAL. To the Women of North Carolina: In so great an undertaking as our Food Pledge Campaign it is unavoid able that many housewives and otn er women should be overlooked by the committees having charge of this work in the various communities or the State. In order that our State may' show clearly where it stands in this war emergency 1 appeal to every house wife and every woman in North Car olina who has not signed the food pledge card, and who has anything. even remotely, to do with the hand ling of foodstuffs write directly to my office at Raleigh, requesting that a rood pledge be sent her. The home instruction card, which contains the suggestions and advice of the Food Administration, with re gard to the saving and substitution of foodstuffs and tells the reason why such a course is necessary, will De sent with each food pledge card. Housewives having neighbors who have not signed the pledge card should request a sufficient number of pledge cards for all such in their communities. Every woman who signs the food pledge card and follows the sugges tions contained io.lt will render a patriotic service that is second only to the service that will be rendered by their sons and brothers In the trenches In France. This service is so easy and so vital that no patriotic woman in North Carolina can refuse to give it. HENRY A. PAGE, Food Administrator. Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 14, 1917. THE OLD MOUXTIXG POST. The old mounting-poBt still stands, Which marks the beginning of the town Tis kind of the ones who have it in charge Not to have taken It down. There 'were three stones, in stair step fashion. For the ladies to mount their steed ; When they went horse-back riding, For church-going, pleasure and need. Close In the rear of the mounting post, And oaks which bear It company, Stood the first residence of the town, The home of Joseph Bradley. In some ways Gastonia leads, Manufacturing is one; And one would think by the way it grows That our town had scrfrce begun. "Gastonia is a busy town," Many people work every working day; Of another thing we are Justly proud The ones who work receive their pay. Gastonia has honesty, industry and thrift, And more things of which we can boast; Could you find a better place to live Should you go from coast to coast? Come and make this city your home, Gastonia will welcome you; And looking back to the eighties. We find this has always been true. When yon have lived here for awhile, I think you will agree with me, That It would be hard to find a more "hustling" town Anywhere in "Dixie." But "Where the town began," Is not the "marker" I prize most; My grandfather was a good man. Character was his mounting-post, LESSrE A. BRADLEY. Gastonia, N. C, Nov, 10, 1917. Five hundred Y. M. C. A. centers have been established in France since the beginning ot the war. . Certain Ours for Croup. . - Mrs. Rose Mlddleton, of Green ville, 111., has had experience In. the treatment of this disease. She says, "When my children were small my son had - cronp ' frequently. . Cham berlain's Cough ' Remedy always broke up these attacks immediately, and I was never without it .in , tne house. 1 hare taken it myself tor .coughs jlnd cojds with good results. In all the toorU no other, hose like Holeproof Years of stud v have made Holeproof Hose silky, soft ind light in weight. And you may enjoy all these features with economy. Six pairs of cotton Hole- proof are guaranteed to , wear six months without' tfoles, three pairs of silk are holeproof , with all their advantages, cost the same as cosjr mon kinds. Whatever you pay yoo can't buy better than Holeproof. Try a bos today. We have a complete line. Howell-Armstrong Shoe Co. Is the Ideal Place for Your New Home All Modern Conveniences Close In For Prices and Terms See GASTONIA INSURANCE & REALTY CO. Telephone 89 Office Realty Building Every Home in Gaston County Should Have a WAR MAP With its aid you can keep track of the movements of the armies in Europe. We have the Rand-McNally war map the best made. Only IS Cents. By Mail 16 Cents. GET ONE TODAY GAZETTE PUBLISHING CO. GASTONIA, N. C NOTICE. The health department of the Gas tonia 'Woman's Betterment Associa tion will distribute gifts to the needy this Christmas as formerly. Please save all clothing, shoes or anything that will contribute to the comfort hsi.a' in wa.nL The time " and place for assembling these articles will be designated later. Watch the papers and In the meantime get to gether ail amcies you can. ; we wm need them.- MRS. J. H. SEPARK, Chairman. Piles Cored In 6 to 14 Days ' ttmr drtirrtot wflt refaad sour tt 9AZO OINTMENT n to cm tTM Ot Itchiaff, SUad. BlcediBC orProtradios Piles ia 6 toUilay. Xbt first applicaUos givct fiMa4 Rert. SV '(I I vV guaranteed three months. If any (ail within that time we replace them free. Yet in out years of experi ence over 80 ft KU1B IIDVBI .1 I . 1 guarantee.. PLANNING FOR BAZAAR. . ' The Ladies Aid-Society of . Mam Street Methodist church will meet tn the league room next Monday; the 19 th, at 3 o'clock. The ladles who have made pieces for the bazaar are ' requested to bring them. All mem bers are urged to be present as at this meeting final, plans, for the ba taar will he made. . What is LAX-FOS - IAX-F0S IS AX KPSOVQ CASCARA ' A Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic . and Liver Tonic Contains Cascara Bark, ' Blue Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black Root, May Apple Root, SenaaLeaves and r Perxun. , Combines strength with f'ala- , wU;aar..i.'.;c tiii JPoes ot gripj. SOo? -4 - ' V;; , v ... i'.
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