Bankers Meet At
Rutherford! ton
Ninety Plates Served At Bonriict—
Shelby Men Are Elected T»i
Offices. ‘ ‘
Rutherford Sun.
The ennual spring meeting of
Group Nine of the North Carolina
Bankers Association hi4(i at tin* Isi
Thermal Hotel Saturday eveningj was
n great success. Ninety (Ni teg ■were
served. The feed was a itiu^ lxAinti
ful one. Music by the Henr.etta' Or
rhestra was a feature of the evening.
The local banks were host to the
sooting.
Editor R. E. Price delivered a .short
rddress of we'come. Mr. C. F. ('line
of (illkey pronounced the invocation.
One tonstmart »r, Mr. Miller of Char
lotte, called on I)r. .1. I>. Riggs, presi
dent of the North Carolina Banker:
Association and President of (Jv
farmers and Merchants Bank at Wil.
Damston, N. C., who spoke briefly on
"The Spirit of Brotherhood and Ser
vice ”
!>•. L. B. Morse, President of
Chitiney Rock Mountains,: lac., w;g;
I present anti spoke briefly of the big
i development fit Chimney Rock. He
i stated that over S.OjjO acres or aoout
t3 square .miles of land had been pur
i chased and that the big development
was now a certainty.
Mr. Paul P. Brown, of Raleigh,
> 'Cretery of the Xorth Carolina Bank
er! Association spoke briefly and urg
j ed that all banks be well represented
it the1 state meeting in Asheville,
lune 4-Cth,
, Forres; Eskridge, cashier of the
First National Bank of
elected vice chairman and William
Linebenof, president of the Clove
i land Bank and Trust Company was
| elected a member of the advisory
committee.
CONGRESSMAN SINGS PRAISE
OF THE OU) NORTH STATE
Washington, May 1.—Praises of the
“grand old State of North Carolina”
were sung in the house Wednesday hy
one of its representatives—Abernethy
a Democrat from the third district.
"If all the cigarettes made in
•North Carolina were rolled into one,”
he said, “A young man could lean
against the south pole, light his cig
arette from the fire of Halley’s .com
et and blow smoke around the seven
seas. *
“If all the tables made in the state
were stretched into one festive board,
they would seat all the banquet guests
from the days of King Arthur to the
recent fiasco of the arms conference.
“And if all the stockings were made
into- one hftge sock, it would hold all
the toys of Santa Claus.”
A dumb-bell is a fellow who thinks
a counter-charge is the slip the clerk
fills out when he finds out his credit I
is good at the store.
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—CORRECT STORY OF NOTABLE.LOCAL BATTLE—
(Flora The Gaffney Ledger.)
(The following story from The
Gaffney Ledger will bo of great in
terest to the peep!'.' < f Sh-lby, Cleve
land county and surrounding section
because of the m-avness of Kmgs
Mountain battleground and ’by hun
dreds of families in i hi.- section who
had ancestors in tin- bat-!' twas
the turning point of t!io war. Shelby
and Cleveland were named from two
heroes or the fight.)
William Camp was a "rent in le
to Mrs. W. H. Smith, of CcfTney;
David Quinn di d M . David Q min
were Mr -. Smith's 'Teat un'-l • end
aunt; Anthony Morgan . w: Mrs.
Smith’s great grandfather; and Silas
Randall was ti e great grandfather
of Lucius Randall.
A few years ago the Daniel Mor
gan chapter." Daughter ■ of tho Am-'
erican Revolution, moved the romai-nr
of Col. James Williams from the
Mintz plft *o in the Buffalo section of
the county to the Cm negie Free Li
brary here, the bones Iv-mg interred
in a vault in the library yard.
With the foregoing explanatory
paragraphs, the following concerning
the death of Col. Williams, who Was
mortally wounded at the hm le of
Kings Mountain, is reprinted from an
old issue of the York.bile .Enquirer,
of York:
Grave CM Ira. Williams.
Thursday, November. 10. 1857.—
It’s well known that Col. Williams—?
the hero of Kinf's Mountain -fell
mortally wounded in th moment of
victory. With the vow that he would
silence the whistle of Ferguson,
whose shrill clarion notes ran? out
above the din of battle, and brought
attain the wavering red coats to the
charge, he.rushed upon the foe and
fell just as the on* m; wa - giving
away- just as th»> whi tie ceased to
ring—just as the '•.hones of .the vic
tors were going up from the “Grand
Old Mountain.” It was a lit requiem
for the gallant soldier the music
which sounded so sweetly In the ear
of Wolfe on the plains of Abraham.
Dut it is .not generally known that
Ihe spot of earth where sleeps the
hero can be distinctly identified. The
tread of pilgrim feet have echoed
through the ravines of the mountain,
baptized in the blood *Sf.heroes; but
patriotism hrs never nought out, nor
love and veneration conA-eratedi that
'little Biounclt—ithc .“narrow house” of
the big-hearted William; [Vo rude
stones mark that sacred spot and
oral and traditionary evidence have
alone given it a “local habitation and
a name.”
But the chain of testimony by
which it is identified -•; . recently
been traced out, link by link, by W:n.
G. Black, Esq. From him we gather
the following evidence, which he has
taken the trouble to collect- William
Gamp, Esq., a highly respectable citi
zen of this district, now upwards of
70 years of age, who has resided in
the immediate neighborhood for tin
last 58 years, ‘.ays-that tradition and
the oldest citizens, contemnorari.'s of
the brittle of King’s Mountain, have
uniformly designated a grave on the
plantation of Mr. John B. Mi itz, as
the final resting place of Col. Wil
liams. The plantation of Mr. Mint::
lies between Buffalo and Broad River,
was pointed out to him forty*odd
years ago by Mrs*. David Quinn, the
daughter of Anthony Morgan, who
resided,wthin forty rods of the grave,
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when Col. Williams was buried. She
w:- a full wn lady at the time.
The American army on the night aft
er the battle camped near her fath
er’^ spring, and early next morning
their dead commander was* interred.
This evidence accords with the well
known facts, that the army retreated
immediately after the battle for fear
of Cornwallis'; that Col. Williams died
under a chestnut tree, which we have
often seen, which until recently stood
near the residence of A. Hardin, Esq.,
and that the army, then in fu'l re
treat, did not stop to bury him, but
carried him along with them.
The statement of Mrs. Quinn was
confirmed by Peter Morgan. her
brother. Mr. Collins who lived in a
mile of th- encampment, at the time,
l*k' attested the same. A Quix
otic adventure brought him to the
American camp. He was a quiet,
harmles- person, whose sole ambition
.was to live and ltft live; and a few
day.; uroviou to the battle, a neigh
bor, n violent Tory, told him that the
British'had possession of the entire
country, and that, he would be “hung,
drawn and quartered,’’ if he did not
parry immediately to their camp a
supply of provisions. He was credu
lous enough—litre the witless Corn
wallis—To believe that the country
was conquered, and so lie posted off
with' a b ig of meal for the British.
This was the very day of the battle.
In the meantime the mountaineers,
like e.i les from their aeries, had
swooped down upon the confident Fer
guson. Before the meal intended for
the Tories could reach them, many
.of them had lost their appetites for
ever. The likable Collins was not
by a- neighbqy, who discovering his
intention, told him the result of the
brittle in the following unique 'an
guage: “Ferguson has been in hell
I three hours, and the Whigs will send
i you after him if you don’t change
i your course immediately.” He took
the hint from the gentle Mercury and
returned home.-—That night he car
ried hi; meal to the American camp.
KanmiJ. who recently died at
the age of lift, gave Mr. Camp the
following information: He was with
Col. Williams at A. Hardin’s; raised
his head and gave him a drink, when
he immediately went to sleep—his
soul passed quietly away- so that it
scarcely seemed like death. Mr. R.t
also asserted that he, Col. W , was
carried on to the < amp, and buried
as above toted. No man Over pos
sessed it fairer character than the
last', witness, and therefore his. evi
dence is conclusive.
The frravo itself appears to he a
fit! mg pbodc for the hero of King’s
Mountain, it i« situated on the .ode
of a hijl—in full view of the blue
mountain top, so that at the rerur
r lion 'morn his eye will rest first
on the scene of his glory and earthly
immortality. Was it the native taste
of the rude mountaineers or the di
recting j hand of that Providence
" which 1 shapes our ends”-—which we
cell chance—Ahat selected this site
and this position, ere in the haste of
p»drent,! they left the hero “p.lone in
his K'lofy? ” We hope that private
munificence or public patriotism will
P|ace an appropriate monument above
h ■ remains, or di: inter and remove
hem to King's Mountain and place
by the side cf the brave Chronicle.
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