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January 1, 1905, at the postolficc at
Shelby, North Carolina, undar the
Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1921.
Bare fads shock some folks and
jail others.
Where there is a will there is a
way, even ever the veto of the Presi
dent.
Phonographs nre now being sent
over long distance telephone, which
will tend to speed up the business car
ried on by a marriage bureau.
Who wants to be king? The King;
i y of Denmark refused to see Douglas
* Fairbanks nnd Mary Pickford because
he never heard of them.
Immigrants dream of American
,, streets paved with gold, and Wall
* ' street with its money is usually the
/. alarm clock to the$dream.
**<£ ---—.
Wonder who Mr. Bailey wants to
pay for the North Carolina road sys
tem? The automobile owners who are
using them are now doing the paying,
hut we suppose Josiah wants tha
Southern rail wav to tnke on the task
as good roads lessen railway travel.
The idea of holding community
w fairs prior to the county fair and then
- entering community exhibits at the
* ' county fair is a good one nnd should
be adopted by every community in
the county. The fair will be wha^ the
~ , various section* of the county make
, 3 it.
VOTE FOR CARPENTER.
Cleveland county should vote aolid
t lv for Oscar Carpenter of Kings
v,,.1 Mountain, a cmdidate for Judge Pell's
position on the Corporation Com
\ \ mission. It would be a matter of pride
for us to have a member of this
great body and Ur. Carpenter is well
f‘ Qualified for the position. Although
he was not born in Cleveland, he is
an adopted son, won over when he
set un hia residence at Kings Moun
tain. He is just such a fine personal
ty- ity as his brother, R. E. Carpenter,
* ^ jonr distinguished townsman knd his
*•■>* service as clerk of the court Of Qas
* ton for a number of years and as sec
friary-treasurer of a cotton mill at
Rings Mountain, have given him val
ff: unble experience. He is yophg in body
<#.4 but mature in his judgment and we
hope Cleveland county will give him
X solid vote in the Democratic pri
mary on Jiaie ftfi.
SOME BLUNDER,
North Carolina today is the most
talked about state in the union. The
majority of this talk centers abou:
the state road system. Other features
that have brought and are bringing
state publicity are a result of and
depend largely on the state road sys
tem. The method of raising the mon
ey to pay for these roads is the most
equitable and just revenue plan the
state has ever known. Other states
have listened in on the broadcasting
Of Carolina's progress and said: "Let
us also build good roads,"and in doing
so these other states bring into
use the North Carolina plan of pay
ing for them. It has been acclaimed by.
experts as the fairest plan ever de
vised for paying for road building,
acclaimed'fair by men who have no
more interest in North Carolina than
North Carolinians have in South Da
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*>« Aot®* iet, in his desire to be governor
of North Carolina. Josiah Bailey has
^ attacked the North Carolina plan of
building and maintaining roads. The
^ ; Raleigh man may devise better meth.
pds of manipulating some of the state
Jj.; government machinery, but he has a
" task in convincing anyone he has
a better plan for constructing and
maintaining the good road system,
that has made the state famous.
»‘In our opinion Josiah loses two
- ''t votes for ever one he corrals when he
\ » includes the road system in the range
; J covered by his barrage.
* i IODINE SALT.
It has been discovered that the ab.
sence of iodine in water is the cause
V of goitre and as a result the whole
salers will scon have common table
salt on the market which contains suf.
-4 ficient iodine to prevent this disease.
The New York Commercial recently
carried the following story which is
‘ hot only interesting to the medical
profession but to the sufferers of goi
; tre as well:
Statistics show that more than
*'1 half, or to be exact 55 per cent, of
i ; all the people in the state of Mi'cht.
*v- Pan, have gaitre. So prevalent did the
•*. * disease become that the state board
‘ of health of Michigan was alarmed
* over the situation and began making
^ experiment- and doing a great re.
nearch work. After all was done the
board decided that as the water in the
, state of Michigan contained no iodine
--- Mid that as iodine was necessary to
furnish or supply the thyroid gland,
or the glands of the neck that it was
this shortage of iodine which caused
goitre. The board then began an in
vestigation as to the easiest and
best way to carry the article to the
most people and it was decided that it
could be best accomplished through
table salt. The salt is now being dis
tributed over the VtlKfivftf Michigan,
and as goitre is in/a small degree all
over America, the people generally
are calling for the salt which con.
tains iodine. It is said that the user
will not detect the presence of the
chemical contained therein. Wholesale
grocers everywhere will be making de
liveries of this salt with iodine with'n
a very short period.
Every year the United Slates postal
service handles 23,000,000,000 articles
Every year the increase in number of
articles in the mails is more than a
billion. Of the total mail submitted,
12.000. 000.000 pieces are letters.
Every year the postal service, on
an average, delivers 112 letters to ev
ery man, woman and child in the
United States.
Atlas would have had a lough time
lifting the nnnual load of letters alone
that the postal service moves. It is es,
timated to total 133,350 tons.
Every second of the twenty-four
hours, of every day there are 380 let
ters dropped into letter boxes; every
minute, 23,334, and every hour 1,
400.000.
Nerving Every Mnn and Kvery
Business.
Nearly 44,000 postmen, members of
the greatest single business, daily de
liver mail to millions of homes and
buaines houses in American cities.
The farmer is not neglected by tin
postal service. Today 44.552 rural
routes supply mail to 6 504.592 fami
lies, or 29,921,123 individuals.
Out west the postal service has
established a veritable automobile
railroad 125 miles only to the fruitful
Uintah (Utah) Valley to which no
nrivate rail line has penetrated.
Who Does the Work and Where is it
Done?
On February 25, 1924, the postoffice
department had more than 331,00$ in
its employ. Besides the 43,67? letter
carriers, there are 62,400 clerks, 44,
417 rural carriers, 51,393 postmasters,
and 21,316 railway postal clerks.
The 61,393 postmasters run as
many officers. There is one post office
Tor evary 58 square miles of territory.
The 351,000 full and part time pos.
tal employes are paid approximately
9441,622,517 annually for their serv
ices.
The Mails Must Move.
Almost every conceivable type of
transportation is used to move the
mails— railroads, steamboats, auto
mobiles, airplanes, motor boats, wn
srons, horses, pneumatic tubes, belt
conveyors, motor cycles, bicycles, the
eled of the Arctic, and even the “dog
car.”
The “dog car" is an Alaskan inven
tion. An abandoned railroad runs out
of Nome to a mining camp. The en.
Wnrising Arctic Circle mailman
hitches his dog team to a hand car and
scoots up the mountain side with the
post.
Last year the air mail planes, flew
2,000*000 miles, carrying 65,295,920
letters.
Although interstellar service has
not yet been etsablishod by the post
office department, it is a fact the
routes covered by the railway mail
cars last year reached the planetary
proportions of 219,171.224 miles. This
transportation cost $85.194.239. The
postar service now used 5,096 postal
cars.
Automobiles are rutmi.nrr a race for
numerical supremacy with the rail
way postal cars. There are now 4,930
in oneration carrying the mails.
And Resides Handling the Mails—
The biggest single business operates
through postal savings, the biggest
l savings bank in the world. Its total
deposits in 1923 were 3134,458,105.29.
The United States government stand
back of this bank.
The American people make good
use of the money-order system, too.
In 1923t the amount of money sent by
money orders was $1,376,000,000.
There were more than 172,000,000 or
ders issued.
These figures do not include the
funds sent abroad by international
money orders, which totaled $34,118,
000. At the same time $10,255,000 in
money orders issued abroad were paid
in the United States.
Then there is registered, insured,
and C, O. D. mail. People are anxious
that certain mail be given every pro*
tection.. There were 88,741,000 arti
cles registered last year.
Insurance against loss was given to
140.546,000 pieces of mail last year,
while 40,427,000 were sent with the
well-known mark, C. O. D.
Facts and Figures.
The biggest single business in the
world uses annually—
More than 300 tons of stationery
and typewriting paper.
Nearly 1,000,000 sheets of carbon
paper.
Also 175,000.000 envelopes and mil
lions and millions of blank forms of
one kind and another.
To write on this vast amount of
stationery and to fill the thirstv ink
bottles from New York to San Fran
cisco requires 70,000 quarts of ink.
This vast ink reservoir is supple
mented by hundreds of thousands of
rubber stamps, while
The niU3cilage requirements are
36,000 quarts.
In addition to all this it takes 1,62U,
000 lead pencils, nearly 6,000,000 steel
pens, 100,000,000 paper clips, rubber
bands by the ton, and 2,331,446 pounds
of twine.
Nearly 12,000,000 manl sacks are
used, and it requires annually 6,000,
000 yards of canvass to make new
ones.- -.. --
Other interesting figures show that
the army of rural letter carriers
travel daily 1,173,473 miles, and an
nually, 360,256,364 miles.
Fifteen and a half billion stamps
and one and a quarter billion postal
cards are sold yearly by the post of
fice department to the American pub
lic.
mnmf the
EDENTl PRESS
Interesting Data About the First
Newspapers In North Carolina
(liven in Following Article.
(Richard Dillard in Edenton News.)
Sir William Berkley, one of the
proprietors of North Carolina, gave
thanks “thnt there was not a printing
office in any of the Southern provin
ces.”
Printing was Introduced into North
Carolina as early ns 1740 by James
Davis, who published “The North
Carolina Gazette,” at New Born.
The first newspaper published at
Edenton was in 1703, “The Post An
gel and Universal Entertainment,”
printed by Joseph Beasley for Robert
Archibald, and passed through several
editions.
then came The Sta'e Gazette of
North Carolina,” printed by Henry
Wills, joint printer to tha state with
A Hodge. This man printed exactly
130 years ago.
I have in my p'> session on" copy
of this paper, dated Fr’day, October
tlrd, 1794, volume IX, No. 455. This
is one of the oldest copies of any
newspaper published in North Caro
lina. __
Henry Wills and his son, James,
published papers here for a number
of years. Their printing office was
located at the corner of Main and
King streets, where Mr. Cozzens now
does business.
After his father’s death, James
Wills published the “Edenton Gazette
and North Carolina General Advertis
'■r.” I have complete files of this from
1818 to |8i2t containing many inter
esting; ittfins regarding the life here
then. , -
About 1835 a man named Carew,
masquerading under the n*me ot
Spencer, edited a paper here. He had
! h«fS ‘r was noted for its w ttTclsms.
: Upon one occasion a Miss Lily White
married a man named Constant Green
j With characteristic humor the editor
'composed thg following account of
the marriage.
“In one night M ss Lily White Bo
ante a Constant Green."
| The Biblical Recorder was found
ed here by Thomas Meredith in 1830
and was printed hv J. C. Fleetwood
j at the corner of K;ng street and
] Court Mouse Green whoe Mr. W. T).
j Pruden’s office now stands.
It is also interesting to note that
| Meredith college was named for this
man.
About 1851 Thomas C. Manning,
i one of Edenton’s most gifted sons,
edited the Albemarle Sentinel here.
I He subsequently moved to Louisiana
; and became Chief Justice of that
! state, and was afterwards ministei
to Mexico.
Just before the Civil war the cele
brated Dr. Edward Warren Bey
founded the North Carolina Medical
| Journal here and was its first edi
tor.
His title of Bey is Egyptian, and
conferred upon him by the Khedive.
We used to have music with opr
meals. Now we have meals with our
radio.
A cabinet is no stronger than its
; weakest gink.
All virtues depend upon ttoe
strength we have to resist teniptn
j tion.
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OPINIONS
— OF OTHERS
Just Josh-ing.
(From Asheville Citizen.)
It develops that Josian Bailee'- tax
record isn’t aa consistent as his at
tacks record.
One Impossib’
(From hCarlottf News.)
The political forecasters tell us
that Governor A1 ftmith, of New York
and Mr. MeAdoo will enter the Bern
aeratic convention with about « > even
number of votes, but neither with any
thing like a two thirds majority.
It is quite evident that the so-call
ed masters of the Democratic party
are determined to s^o if they can
not get Smith nominated, white Mr.
MeAdoo has found his sup-port from
the ranks and file of the voters.
Mr. MeAdoo may hot be ih > man
the Democrats ought to select at a
time like this to champion their cause
in the national election this fall, but
is between h in and the governor of
New York, there is no choice at all.
The latter is unthinkable as a can
didate.
Sr---arl:. •» A ’<l “r
(From Charlotte News.)
. Winston-Salem is now cl,-amino n
•'op’tfation of '250,000 p onio. Th's is
level oped by « unique system of “ex
tension uf t.be limits,” an art in which
he Twin City is an expe-t. It is
Highway Cotntni sioner Hanes who
has developrtj this whopper popnla
fTon for the town, anti lie has done it
through application of an idea that
s ample in it,s o-iginulity, He cotints
he hart!-surfaced highways as merely
•'ftonsioos of the streets of Wfoston
enlem, so that ll>gh Point, M jcks
ville, YadkinviPo, Walnut Cove and
other towns b you! the hoi-lgon arc
aken into the C rritorv o ' mat place
Extending the Charlotte limit; on the
•ante plan, we would r-k-gata VViu
iton-Salem to the backwoods, The
copulation of .Charlotte would be 1,
'<53,184. And that ought to hold Win
ston-Salem for ti day or two at best.
He’ll Come Hack. '
(From The Uplift.)
Last week Editor Zeb Greene an
nounced in a'Vei*y entertaining state
ment that he had retired from the
editorship of the Marshville Horne.
He is too unanimously smeared over
with printers’ink to stay out. He’ll
come bark; maybe not to the helm of
tli? MashVUle§i.iIome, but he’ll " come
back. What in the world will we farm
ers do without Brother Greene’.- edi
fying accounts of tha stunts that
Lespodeza (he always spells it with
$ &JHI section.
Mr. Greene, besides being personally
n most dcTigKffur genofk-rnan, has
been a virile writer and sterns not to
know how alcollar feels -hen Ids own
pilot.
Succeeding Mr, Greene is Mr L E.
Huggins, who4by his act proves that
’here is no earthly way in which to
succeed permanently in nuitbaj; the.
game. He too has come hack alter
years out of the harness. Mr. Huggins
has returned home to The li- rm —it
's familiar ground to him.
Proper Punishment.
(From Uobersonville Herald. 1
Judge Webb has the right idea
about breaking up the boo > -ggimr
business. As humane as the jurist iS
by nature and as considerate of the
weakness of sinful flesh, h,- is met
ing out such punishment to those
guilty of this offense as will .r ail m
markedly curbing the evil. When he
sends men convicted of this offense
to Atlanta for a year or longer, he is
following a line of procedure tl at is
bound to have its restraining effect.
Undoubtedly much of the impetus
for engaging in this nefarious prac
tice comes about from the belief a
niong certain interests who are thus
tempted that they will be able to get
out., if caught and convicted, with aj
i fine, and beiqg engaged in a lucra
tive enterprise, they are not balked
by the looming up of a fine of con
siderable magnitude.
Wuuld Cripple Many.
(From Statesville Daily.)
Judge Grady threatens to send to
j« l newspaner reporters who write
matter displeasing .to his honor. Why
not set the klansmen on the offending
scribes? If his honor should under
take to send to jail for contempt all
the newspaper folks who fee! that
way about him, he would doubtless;
seriously cripple the operations of
some of the papers.
Bailey And The G. O. P.
(From The Dunn Dispatch.)
“From the interest which, the Re
publican papers are taking in the
candidacy of Josiah William Bailey
and the amount of Bailey ‘plate mat
ter’ which they are running, one
would judge that he was a Republi
can candidate. It is not often that
these papers take a greater interest
in a nominee of the Republican party
than they are taking in Mr. Bailey.
‘There’s a reason’ That reason, so we
are informed by a leading Republican,
is that if Mr. Bailey could succeed
in breaking the Democratic organiza
tion (‘machine’) then .the Republicans
would have a better chince to win
in the State. There are other reasons,
of course, one of which is, his cam
paign is being conducted in Republi
can style. After running all that
‘plate matter' we are moved to won
der how these same papers would
have the heart to play Mr. Meekins
up as a greater ‘deliverer’ than Mr.
Bailey, in case he received the nomi
nation. It would be ‘saint’ against
‘saint,’ so to speak.
“If one is to-judge from the senti
ment displayed at the Democratic
State Convention Thursday, if Mr.
Bailey has a great number of sup
porters in the State they must belong
to the Republican party. To say the
least they were not in attendance at
the convention. It seems that Angus
Wilton McLean is the candidate.
Simple Service For
Chief Justice Clark
Raleigh, May 20.—Uncle George
Alston, 90-year-old attendant of Chief
Justice Walter Clark, followed clos
est the dead chief today when the fu
neral party headed into Central Meth
odist Church.
All his years fio th" supreme Ker’h
0 hiof Justice Clark had received the
ministry of th:s wonderful black man
who bears yet tlm battle marks of fed
‘■ml bullets shot into him when he was
scrying the armies that fought
ao-a'P-st his freedom. The old man
marching In front of Justices Stacy
•>’ I H ike took h's seat in the from
of J.jf'go C'ark’s church and there
wasn’t a mourner who wept with a
greater grief.
Services Are Simple.
1 lie services were simple as hr
f'ted nee vh> lived that way. The
Waks bar followed the court friem
bers and the Masons coniine behind
with a lareo dnlejtatinn of lawyers
'rum outside the city soon overran I
*l e church from wlv'eh Pastor Henry
Gbes and Presiding Elder Plvler cnn
ducted the rites of the Methodist
church.
Before leav'ng the rotunda of the
-apitol a death mask was made. Doubt!
less somewhere in the state house val.
balla the Clark rfTip-v will look down.
Today there was a fitness of the fact]
that the chef justice’s father-in-law,
Governor W. A. Graham, had place in
the quarter of Graham, Itanson, More
. I
head and Johnston. It is the first time
in history that one ofthe four has had
so distinguished a relative tt> take
this place in state.
His Favorite Hymn.
At the church the choir sang “In
the Sweet Bye and Bye,’’ and Miss
Ellen Durham, choir director gave j
the judge’s favorite ‘I Saw a Way
Worn Traveler.” Mr. Plyler offered ;
the prayer and read the tribute to the '•
dead chief. Prominent in the estimate !
was the man’s service (which began ■
with the preservation of the valiant
records made by the North Carolina j
soldiers. The state cannot measure its
debt for this work, he felt, and all
through his life had been volumes
and contributions which gave life to ]
the great deeds of a people in whom j
he believed. And the minister declar- '
ed that in it all the judge never for
got his Maker. He did his duty in the
fear of Gc,:t
When congress amends the consti
tution end makes dealing in scandal |
a felony, then v.e will feel the1 th •
document is all sufficient.
Negro Boy Burned
To Death In Barn
A negro boy, Richard Bristol, son
of Lonzo Bristol, was burned to death
Monday near Morganton in a fire
which practically destroyed the barn
of County Superintendent T. L. Sig
mon. and his .younger brother was
painfully burned. The two boys were
working in the Sigmon garden and
for some reason Richard wrcnt into the
barn. In a few minutes, as the young
boy tells it, there was the sound of
an explosion and the barn was quick
ly in flames.
It is supposed that there was
enough gasoline in an old tank that
was stored there as an empty, to have
caused the explosion, this resulting
presumably from a match or cigarette
in the hands of the victim of the fire.
His clothes were burned <'iT but fire
men who responded promptly brought
the body out before it wms cremated.
lfot air and cold feet make a poor
combination!
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