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Reminiscences Of Cherryville David P. Dellinger, A. M. “MAIN STREET” Main Street is nothing like it was at first. We can remember when the space in the main bus iness section was nothing but va cant land. No houses in the im mediate section. There was a long store building running east and west down about two-thirds of the way to the railroad. Mr. John C. Dellinger and others op erated a grocery store there for some years. A little later Messrs. M. E. Rudisill and D. W. Ader holdt bought the building, tore it down and rebuilt it north and south at the spot where Harrel son Cmpany have their store. The space west or across Moun tain Street was a wheat field or open field. Messrs. Rudisill & Ad erholdt and Kendrick Brothers got interested doing something to make the place look like a town. Thus these people made arrange ments to open up a street now known as main street. This was done by about three rounds with ;a big turning plow running from I about the old depot to what is now North Elm Street. The shap ing of the street amounted to but little more than ploughing out a shallow ditch on each side of the street. Main part of the street was no more than the; level land it was before the street work was done. Then the space was but i a little more than half the present iwidth. It was a number of years I before any real street shaping-up I was done. In the years to follow ! the town board bought a street 1 plow and'Mr. N. B. Kendrick op | crated it and shaped up a number of streets. From that time on the town began to take on the ap Ipearance of a town with streets, i Prior to the time this work was | done there was a road running | from the whiskey store on the old ! road from the mountain to Kings 'Mountain via the John Dellinger jstore (as mentioned) to the S. S. I Mauney block where Mr. Mauney lhad a store wh>h was burned I during the SO’s. This road served ‘the people south of the railroad. I Then in much more recent ytars i the town people dug down nto 'the deep railroad cut just n irth | of the Mauney store and Moun tain Street was opened up from a point at or near Walter Hou ser’s store to a point about Until Dr. A. W. Howell built his store and moved oVer from Walter Houser corner no one had ever thought of a name for any street. We can well recall that Dr. Howell bought a medicine deal and the shipper made up and l shipped him a lot of medical al | manacs. They bore the name of i “Dr. A. W. Howell, East Main Street, Cherryville, X. C.” From .that day until this time this has been known as Main Street and i about the same time the street north and south took the name of Mountain Street. Xo other streets bore a name. In 1891 Captain John W. Rhodes from Kings Mountain with his associates built the old Cherryville Manufactur ing Co... mill and the railroad put in a coal chute for the benefit of the mill and the town opened up a little street from the chute to I the mill and it was named Mill Street, our third street. The first building on Main Street, up town, was that of Ku disiil & Aderholdt. The next was a brick building built by Messrs. Melville I- Rudisill and son Da vid A., and son in law of John H. Rudisill, on the corner of Main and Mountain Streets. Xow Houser Drug Company location. The first brick building in town was by Mr. S. S. Mauney just north of Main street on the west side of North Mountain street The brick building at the Dora Yarn Mills was built as a com pany store building when the old Gaston Mill was built in 1896, and is an old building. Main Street has not always >>een so very attractive. For many vears it was much of a mud street. Here on the square it was very muddy in winter for many years. Sometimes it was so bad it was hard to drive a wagon team across the square. We have seeen town commissioners haul in loads and loads of rock to pile in the deep and mud so that the street could be used. When it was determined to pate Main Street it was found that considerable grading had to be done. A glance at some of the business houses will show much dirt was dug up and hauled a wav leaving the stores rather high and dry. Also in the paying part of the sidewalk space was used to help widen Main Street. On the south side of the street the property owners agreed to give ■ six and a half feet of the lots to widen the street. The ^iS^cs From the bottom of our hearts we warmly extend our best wishes for a Joyous Christmas and a New Year of unbounded happiness. BLACKWELDER'S MACHINE SHOP ;>sJa>>S*Ssa5^£&asS&S5 &t. DR. JOE PHARR I Rudisili building on the corner and 1 the Allen Drug Store building were cut off in front to get in the new line and then all other build ings were built in the new line. The line-up of buildings had an odd appearance for some years. Now buildings were built in the new line some years before the aforesaid buildings were cut back | in line. Visitors got a kick out of | talking about the ziz-zag appear ! anee of the street. I In spite of the long slow pro cessing and work and worry in ' getting the street made and im ! proved Main Street now compares favorably with the streets in I other small towns—and we all like it as it is. Watch How You Drive; Be Alive In ’55 ('HI* 'A<;0, December—Watch how you drive—if you want to he alive in ’55! That’s the advice of the Nation al Safety Council. which points ■- : that it’s !>n 1 \ l more day until !• e”'her I’ll - the most danger ous day of the year in traffic. "Christmas is a very special day of joy,” said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Council, “but be ' cause of accidents - and especially ! trallic accidents - it becomes a day of tragedy in entirely too j many American homes. The great est tragedy of all is that so many of these accidents could be pre vented ! -It’s time for Americans to realize that these traffic accident victims die in vain. They die be cause the victim, or some one, was careless. “If everyone would assume pei sonal responsibility for himself and others, whether walking or driving, many of these accidents could be prevented and Christmas could be a happy holiday for many more people.” As the ii.’l i.iys grew nearer, the Council i< stepping up it* an nual Christmas surety cum; num. Mr. Dearborn said. Ooopoiating ; with the Council in this effort, to 1 hold yuletide accidents to a mini | num are 163 other national or • gan’zalions, city and state offici • als, civic leaders and local safety ' councils. Heavier travel and the festive .spirit of the holiday sea on pre sent special Christmas hazards, the Council said. These, plus the normal winter hazards of bad S/M.I caroler* give voice to the Chrutmaa Spirit widt hymn* end beautiful belled* to do we humbly give voice to our appreciation of your year ’round friendship end loyalty. A Joyout Yuletide Sca*on to on* and alL j CRAIG CLEANERS I South Mountain Street BURLIN CRAIG weather, slippery roads ar.d more hours of darkness often add up 10 tragedy. To compare for the ex era haz ards. the council suggests: 1. Start automobile trips early and take it easy. Be extremely cautious in bad weather and darK 2. Don’t compote in traffic. Let the other driver have the right-of way and you take the right way. :(. Don't pass without a sure margin of safety. And don’t change lanes unless you are sure no one is coming up behind you. ■ 4. Stay alert. Don’t let distrac tion take your mind off the road even for an instant. 5. Don’t drive if you have been drinking - and refuse to ride with drinking drivers. If you don’t |''"ink. wa'cb out for the fellow 'who does. Remember that tipsy ' pedestrians and drinking drivers are most common during the Christmas-New Year holidays. The most common home injury is cuts. When you're doing that last minute shopping, give a knife rack or a knife sharpener, The rack keeps knives where they can be reached without cutting one self, and a sharp knife is safer than a dull one. Christmas Seal Sale Progressing Nicely According to C. D. Gray, dtnt of the Gaston County Tuber cnlosis Association. “The tireless work of so many volunteers and the enthusiastic cooperation ef | our newspapers, radio stations, schools, churches, business firms and merchants have given us all a true insight into real community teamwork". , \ I •. Gray stated "encouraging reports arc coming in trom all o-'er the county, indicating good ;»onse to our Christmas Seal i Sale campaign". "However,” be ■ stated, "Some of our people and ! firms have not yet sent in their usual tine contributions, and I ! urge them not to forget to help j us control and eradicate tnbereu ! losis from our community”, j County Health Department, with I An interesting note: the Gaston I the County Schools, is conducting a county-wide mass x-ray of all I ninth graders - using the x-ray machine donated to the eounby by the Tuberculosis Aeaoaiatio*. Rabbit hunting i« probably the most popular shooting spirt in - North Carolina (Day your joy this • Christmas Season be u continuous u die wreath of holly. v ■» (Day your happiness sad good heath dur ing the coming New Year be without end. E. V. MOSS AARON MOSS INSURANCE FIRk - AUTO - WINDSTORM P€$€?€^€ $&\ & n <5? 'i <¥>? -v} {P-iffM. ■Ma'^s^ai' An >'‘'";v^v3^’^/!v'.;.;Tfr;?T^r'-■;*?' mg (EtjriatmaB Our Wish For You IS THAT YOU ENJOY A MERRY CHRISTMAS And that the coming Year brings ’the answer to your dreams of peace, happiness and prosperity. >7/•NEW v> GOLDINEB'S I Sing out with all good wishes of the season, With songs of faith and carols of good cheer: For Yuletide’s here and Christmas is the reason That bells ring out for all the world to hear. And at this time, to all our friends and neighbors We give our thanks for kindness in the past; We take a thoughtful pause from worldly labors To wish you Christmas joys that last and last. ALLEN DRUG COMPANY s Reliable Druggists J Phone 9281 Cherryville,N.C. j i s i HOMEFOLK S CAFE [WE WILL BE CLOSED TWO DAYS FOR CHRISTMAS,J 'SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25th and 26th. BUCK CARPENTER SHIRLEY LANKFORD JOHN HOVIS BOOTIE HUDSON GERALDINE BROOKS
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