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POLK CQUNTY?The Gateway of Western North Carolina
Five Cents Per Copy
Tryon, N. C., September 3, 1925
$1.50 a Year
m Orchards Produce Apples
u cole: and Flavor Which Find
Ready Market At Quality Prices
nisa. Saliey, Glendale, and Other Commercial
Si? packing Apples at Early Date. Sept. 5th.
, pie Dav in Saluda. Everybody Invited
r > . > made by the Federal Qovernment shows a
productivity of Polk County's orchards, and
has not increased to an appreciable extent
has more than tripled. Peaches have
lurries, and other small fruits are being grown
? ty. Niagara and Delaware grapes of -the fin
^rown on Pol^ County hillsides.
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wherever
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irknonstration of pick
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Tryon Publicity Man
Praised by Newspaper
Associate of Home Town
Noah Hollowell, of Hendersonville News
Throws Bouquets at Map Who Helped
Put Lake Lanier Publicity Campaign
Across Big
Noah Hollowell, directing genius of
the Hendersonville News throws bo
quets at the diminitive Lake Lanier
publicity shark ? L. J. P. on the
theory that flowers on ones grave
don't do much good. Anyhow Friend
Noah says ?
"L. J. Penney, former associate edi
tor of The News, but more recently
publicity director for the Tryon De
velopment Company^ developers of
Lake Lanier of which P. L. Wright,
of Hendersonville is one of the own
ers, was in the city Wednesday ac
companied by Mrs. Penny.
Mr ??nney says the Eisele Broth
ers 1 made an enviable record
for themselves as sales directors in
disposing of $1,600,000 worth of Lake
Lanier property since the second
week in April. This record has es
tablished them as successful sales
men of unuual ability and has result
ed in the receipt of S5 offers from all
kinds of promotors who want to en
list their4organietS?^nd gelling ahU-..
ity.
Mr. Penney has had his hands full
of publicity in making known the
beauties and home sites values of
Lake Lanier. His advertising bill in
July was $11,000, the largest single
advertising account in the Carolinas.
Several sales offices have been open
ed and in all these towns and many
others, advertisements have been run
as high as 52 papers running one sin
gle advertisement
Mr. Penney says that the major
selling will be concluded during the
early part of October but that a vig
orous resale department will carry on
the work in the interest of pur
chasers of property.
''Inspection Week" will be observed
beginning next Monday. During this
period investors will be urged to vis
it the property and note the improve
ments, which include 14 miles of
graded roads, a contract for the pav
ing of which will be let at an early
date."
L. J. P's. photograph accompanied
the article and while his wife won't
admit the likeness, his friends might
identify the devil? may? care slant
of his bonnet.
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Bryan Won Place In
Councils of Nation
Through Sheer Ability
Commoner's Detractors not Large Enough
in Caliber to Cast Aspersions on Late
? NebrasJum and Get by With It
If it were not sad it would be hu
morous ? some writers trying to ele
vate themselves by trying to chaXr
aeterize the mentality of the late
William Jennings Bryan. Some of
themf otherwise having a fair repu
tation for fine thoughts, endeavor
to oint out how sincere Mr. Bryan
wag and /then spoil it all by trying
to show their readers how wrong or
how mistaken he was. There is only
about one thing to be said oq the
nubject, and this is that one thingj
we may assume that Mr. Bryan was
wrong on many political questions,
?or that he was mistaken on some
religious propositions, or that he was
honestly befuddled in his 4rama^c
career, and we still would have left
'he indestructible truth that William
Jennings Bryan had more brains
than all those piut together who
would cast aspersions against him.
In other words^ it takes a pretty big
man to belittle another man who is
ko much bigger and get away with
it. And they haven't gotten away
with it in the minds of millions of
Americans who knew from intimate
personal and press contact the real
man that was Bryan.
'"APROPOS OF LABOR DAY
By A. B. CHAP1N
IjlOMEN ? ARISE ?
WE DEM AMD OME
Cook less DAY
PER. WEEK ?
l?E MEN WNE THEIR UMiOMS ?
VIMY CANT WE ?
"THEY HAVE T^Elfc EK?HT ^0U& PAY
AMD TIME AND A HALF OVEQ. TIME ? f
we mame Sixteen hou rs a day, and
A TERRIBLE TIME And A half to
9et any pay ? !!
UP, feliovn housekeepers s+and T5G?Tueo
LET'S ORGANISE* ? !
0TRIKE, LADIES, STPiKtf
NO MORE EVENING
Dl?H WASHING- WHILE
9a PERUSE? the wea
(JjoTHERS
WHY NOT FORM AN
Amalgamated federation
OF S+OCklN(r STITCHERS 9
(ABnv Only friend ?U68y^
And make darling
daughter, darm her. own!
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we Gotta Boycott twe
NICKEL- NURSIMt SoFA SHIEK
WE DEMAND more movies
AMD LESS PftPLOG- D4TES* "r"
*ki/T* CASTS 11 ?
Judge D.. F. Morrow Pioneer
Resident of Polk ami Rutherford
Unreels First of Thrilling Romance
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A Story Rivaling "The Birth of a Nation" Written by Prominent Attorney and Educator
Who Spent Boyhood Days in Polk County During the Period Which tried Men and
Their Souls. "Then and Now" Praised by Critics the Country Over '
SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW AND DON'T MISS A CHAPTER
No announcement ever made by
the NEWS has attracted as much
reader interest as the statement that
we were to print a romantic histdri- 1
cal novel of Western North Carolina ;
with the scenes laid in Polk and
Rutherford Counties during the Civ- 1
il War and Reconstruction period of
its history. The writer, Judge Deca- !
tur F. Morrow, a pioneer educator,
journalist and lawyer with a keen
unsight and remarkable facility for
expersing his views as the author.
Subscriptions are flowing in as
those who know the Judge, know i
that anything he writies will be well
worth reading.
The opening chapter is given below
and one will follow weekly.
If you should miss a copy write or
phone immediately and we will see
that you get it.
CHAPTER ONE
When I Was a Boy ? 1856 lo '65
I was born October 14, 1856, about I
one mile from where the Alexander j
Mill is now located, and about two j
miles from Forest City, N. C. At
that time most of this territory was
in woods. The Island Ford Road
leading from Rutherfordton to Spar
tanburg, and the Shelby road con
nected at a point near where the pub- 1
lie square of Forest City now is lo- 1
cated. At this point, then, there was
an old field. And it was known as
the "Burnt Chimneys," for there
were two chimneys which had been
part of an old homestead and as I
now recall it belonged or had been
the home of the Arthur family and
was burned down in or about the
year 1860 and left the chimneys
standing.
Just before the war, during and
for sometime after the war closed,
this place wa8 known and used
as Burnt Chimney Muster Ground.
Here it was some of the first volun
teers for the war between the states
enlisted. This* was in 1861. I was
about five years old, but remember
well going with my father to the
muster ground at Burnt Chimneys
and somebody got on a stump or a
box and made a speech; and then
some one blew som^e kind of a horn,
1 1 believe they called it a fife and
somebody beat a drum. This, of
course was interesting to me, and as
soon as the drum and the fife stopped
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the man who had made the speech
hopped upon the stump or box again
and cried out, "fall in! fall in!" This
I did not understand and began to
look for a hole in the ground think
ing in my childish way that he want
ed them to fall into some place. The
men began to line up and the women
and children began to cry and some
to scream at the top of their voices
and 1 now understand that it was
'because fathers, brothers, sweet
hearts, or some other kindsmen were
joining the ranks to go to the war
from whence but few returned. The
mothers, sisters and sweethearts felt
then that such would be the oase^
and alas! how true.
But these things did not worry me
much then, for I was attracted by a
big covered wagon with a long scoop
ing body after the fashion of a canoe
the ends of which ran high up into
the air, but at this time the hind
gate was dropped down to the level
of the bottom of the body and made
a kind of a table at the back end of
the wagon. Just back of this sat an
old lady in the wagon sheltered by
the bow frame and cloth covering
which protected her from the sun.
She wore a home-spun and home
made dress and had on what was
then called a sun bonnet made of the
same kind of material. The thing
extended out some ten inches over
her forehead and came down below
the ears and was tied under the chin
which was the fashion in those good
old days. She had in her mouth a
long reed stem with a clay pipe on
the end and the smoke wae issuing
from it like that of a& exhaust pipe
of a Ford automobile of the present
'day. In front of her and on the ta
ble made out of the part of the wag
on body; stood a keg of apple cider
a demijohn holding about five gal
lons of apple brandy, and by these
set several glass tumblers, some
small, some large, the small ones for
brandy and the larger ones for the
cider. 'Besides these things there
was a pile of oldtime gingerbread
which she had baked and brought
from home to sell along with the
cider and brandy. Around this board
stood lots of people eating and drink
ing and kept me crowded out but I
managed to get close enough to see
the gingerbread and cried out ''give
me a piece of that bread.'' Well do
I remember the big smile which I
came over her face when she looked :
at me and said, "Why sonny I'm sell
ing this bread and cider," but contin
ued to smile and look at me and I
knew I was going to get a piece of
this bread, and I did. Thanks to the
old lady now, for 1 did not thank her
then. I shall never forget the taste
of that old gingerbread, nor the big
smile on that old lady's face so long
as I live .
Long before the war it had been
a custom a^ muster grounds, elec
tions and court-week gatherings for
the venders of cider and liquor, pies
and gingerbread, to occupy some
prominent place and sell such things
For whiskey and brandy wag then
sold as freely and without any com
punction of conscience or restriction
of law as apples," peaches, cider or
watermelons are sold on our streets
today.
Holy Moses! What a time there
would be in Burnt Chimneys (now
Forest City) if that old woman
should drive her big wagon out on
the square smoking that long-stem
med pipe and yell out "cider, brandy
and cakes for sale." I take it the
rhurch bell8 would toll, the factory
whistles roar, the automobiles honk,
the stores close and the streets
throng with the people; some buying
cakes, some cider, but a lot would
lmbibk of the brandy, and it would
toot last long if she had ever so much
for the cops and revenues would
swoop down on that scene and stop ,
that brandy selling and smoking pipe
forever. For such has been the
change since the good old days back
Jn the sixties, be the same for better
or worse, time will tell. For strange
to say these muster grounds when
there was all kinds of intoxicating
drinks sold there but few who evef
got drunk, an^if he did he was os
tracised and called a drunkard.
While everybody drank more or less
and thought no harm, and did none.
Even good preachers would take
their toddy but not to excess. In
short, the people were temperate in
all their habits in those days. We
have, however, come upon the time
In the history of our civilization
when our temperaments are such
that restraint of the law is necessary
to keep us in line.
' (To Be Continued Next Week.)
A. Link Hill Long Prominent In County
Civic And Politicial Life Will Reside lo
Burlington Where He Has New Business
it
Known ti Every Man Woman and Child, Popular Ex-Sheriff of
Polk County, isrorcedto Leave Tryon because of Pressure
of Business Affairs In Burlington
Polk County has produced 8om e famous men, many successful men,
and a few popular men. Perhaps the best known man in the entire sec
tion^ the man with the most intimate personal knowledge of the folks qf
the County, those who till the acres which lie in cultivation from Coopers
Gap to the. South Carolina line ? those ?armers and their wives and chil
dren who in the last analysis are the '.backbone of the section's develop
ment ? was Link Hill.
Big
Intensive Advertising Effort Will Erade
cate Seasonal Buying if Consistently
Followed Says Merchandising Ex
perts
A national periodical devoted to
business has completed a census of
2000 businesses on the question of
"the summer slump". Seventy-six
per cent of the business men inter
viewed knew of no hot weather slump
in their business. Ten per cent re
ported fair summer business and 14
percent are experiencing business de
pressions every summer.
Until quite recent years all busi
ness was seasonal{ One business
was active in winter but inactive in
summer. Others by the nature of
their trade were prosperous in sum
mer but had to struggle through the
winter. Some time or other in every
year every business had no busi
ness.
What do these 2000 modern busi
ness men give as the miraculous
cure for the "summer slump?" They
jPgree on twelve remedies and the 1
first of these is increased newspaper
advertising. They work on the
known fact that the business is to
be had if they go after it.
Some of the summer advertising
suggestions offered by the 2000 bus
iness men for retail merchants are
increased regular advertising space
in the newspapers, well advertised
special sales, feature advertisements,
and advertising of summer bargains
and seasonal merchandise. They all
aid in eliminating the summer slump,
but none is effective without insis
tent and large newspaper . advertis
ing.
The retail merchants in Polk
County who know no business "sum
mer complaint" are those who have
learned the value of newspaper ad
vertising and knowing the means ob
tain the desired results. The buying <
public appreciates the merchants
who bave something to offer them
and who tell them of /their offers !
through the medium of newspaper
advertising. There is no end to the j
public's needs so it follows that a
summer slump in business denies the
public a continuous gratification oi
Aa needs and desires.
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Spartanburg's New
Theatre One of Finest in
South Will Open Soon
Seating Capacity of 1400 With Every Con
venience Makes New Playhouse
Attractive
The new theater in the Montgom- 1
ery building, Spartanburg, S. C. has
been leased by an experienced amuse
ment operator frpm Frankfort, Ky.,
William R. Pattie, and it will open
for business during the latter part of
the current month.
With a seating capacity pf 1400 the
new amusement center presents
every modern convenience and has a
stage large enough for any metropol- j
itan company to do Its stuff in proper i
style. Pictures, vaudeville and trav
eling theatrical companies will be
featured during the season and Mr.
Pattie states that among the attrac
tions already booked is Al O. Fields'
Ministrel Troupe whLii .vill appear i
early in October.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Pattie are very
much Impressed with Spartanburg
and the surrounding country and
their experience in the amusement
.field assures Spartanburg having
first class attractions during the com
ing winter months.
Mrs. Pattie while passing through
Tryon enroute to Spartanburg, visit
ed Lake Lanier and is quite enthusi
astic over its possibilities.
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In a tour or tne county last rail
just prior to the election we "were
deeply Impressed with tfce remark
able memory of the man. Dropping
in casually on some out of the way
farm he was immediately at home.
Every member of the family was
there to extend the glad hand. They
all knew and liked, Link Hill.
Link Hill's name was a familiar
household word in home of affluence
and in cabins of the humble, and his
face was familiar for its pleasant
smile and kindly eye. It has often
been told that there is not a family
in Polk County but "Old Link" knew
the name of every chick and child ?
the name of every hound dog, horse
and cow on the premises^ as well as
that animal's standing in the duties
of the farm.
As a friend and neighbor in the
highest sense of the word Link funo
tioned far above the ordinary.
Politics in Polk County for years
had been his "middle name." As
sheriff, he gave as good and con
scientious service as was ever ? ren
dered. As Chairman of the Town
ship School Board, he bent every ef
fort, and succeeded, in raising the
?educational standards of Tryon town
ship schools to their present high
rating. For years he has taken ac
tive interest and participated in
every matter of civic importance,
and h*J* at all times shown a friendly
co-operative .^spirit in all thistfs for
the public good. In a business way,
Mr. Hill was connected with the Try
on Chemical Company.
It has been said that to test the
true worth of a grown man, ask the
boy's around town what they think
of such a one. To the (boys of Tryon
Link Htll was a Big Brother. As
Scout Master he attained that degree
of popularity which endeared him to
everv youth in town. He had his
troup working as on-e machine for
everything that the Boy Scout move
ment stands for. So great was the
esteem in which he was r held, that
when he was forced to resign from.,
business pressure, the local scouts
disbanded, and have never since
found a leader to fill hig place. Mr.
Hill's class of boyjs in the Baptist
Sunday School was notable for its be
ing the largest class of any in any
Sunday School in Tryon.
The foregoing is not Link Hill's
obituary. It is almost as great a
blow to Polk County as if it were.
For Link, after practically a lifetime
of service here; is leaving 1 ryon
and the scenes of many victorious
political battles for Burlington, N. C.
where he recently launched The Ex
celsior Yarn Company, an enterprise
that at the very first began to pros
per.
Just as surely in their ' respective
circles will Mrs. Hill, Miss Josephine
and Mr. LeCompte be missed. The
former in club, social, and civic work
in which she was always an unselfish
and enthusiastic participant, and the
children by their school friends and
childhood associates.
In bidding the splendid family God
speed in their new home and envir- .
onments, the NEWS takes liberty
in acting as spokesman for Tryon
and Polk County by repeating that
time honored phrase, ? "What is our
loss, is their gain.''
FOREST RANGERS FIGHT
FIRtS BY RADIO
Most of the twenty-six supervisors
and two hundred forest rtngers in
the Denver national forest district
are equipped with radio sets, and
daily get latest fire advice from
the Denvi. ^.adquErters. Hundreds
of cooperative forest stations in the
same district also receive headquar
ter advice. Despite the exceptional
dryness of this season, extraordin
ary efficiency of the forest fire ser
vice has been maintained, largely
through the radio assistance.
In the campaign for fire protect n
for forests and reforestation this . .?>
tem should be extended to all parts
of the country as rapidly as possible
It means life for the trees.