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NKW LIGHT ON THK LAND New York World. Along 885 miles of the air route crossing the Great Valley from ( hi cage to Cheyenne new lights are flashing. At tl>e end of every league the airplane mail-carriers traverse hv night an earth-mark'star winks and grows dark and winks again from dusk to dawn. At Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte and Cheyenne great midnight-sun searchlights make day out of night. As the summer days grow shorter the lighted way will he extended east ami west. Midwinter will find it reaching from Cleveland to Rock Springs 1,400 miles, so that on the darkest and longest night mail men headed east or west can pick up their guiding lights as sailor- do at sea. In the illumination of this single Great White Way enough candle power is used to light every house hold in the land as illumination went in the days of tallow dips. It i,; hut the beginning. Other route-* will he laid down, charted and lighted, cross ing and criss-crossing each other, distinguished by color of light, and length of flash, so that the winged messengers may not collide or tray as they thread the night at four times railroad speed. So iu this wonderful new way of living that rushes upon us with suc-h swift and momentous changes there I is never again to be any unbroken bar ! of darkness between sea and sea. The -un may set upon our dominions, but there is a new light in the land, flout ing time, mocking distance, uniting the people. UNIVERSITY COURSES PRO VIDED FOR AMERICANS AM) SCANDINAS IANS The University of Lille will offer courses at Calais during the summer of 1924 for the benefit of American and- Scandinavian students. This pro. ject is an extension of the policy here tofore devt loped in the summer courses at Baufogne-sur-Mer for Brit -h subjects The courses at Calais will be under the- direction of Prof. Charles Gue'rlin do Guer, and the in -trie-;ion is expected to he of high order. Pud Chapin Squire,, Ameri can counsel at Lille, states that the vacation courses of the Lille Univer ity present ho commercial aspects whatever. The fee for the course is 140 francs, and hoard and lodging may be had for nbout 25 francs a day. At the present rate of exchange a franc is equivalent to about 5 cents of American money.—School Life. After seeing a man wearing a pair of those wide-bottomed pants, we apologize to the girls for anything aid about their apparel.—New Or leans States. ?r»:r» mmM i ».‘M *u;is.tiii'i • .:■ -**>t PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL. Asks your patronage on the merit of its accomplish ments for the last twenty-eight years arid on what, it is now doing to advance the interest of boys and girls in col lege, in university and in life. The school is highly recom mended by Wake Forest College, Trinity College, Mere dith College and the University of North Carolina. One of the finest location.- in the Carolina*. Six Building:' in cluding the Waters' Library. Another building soon to be construct ed, Steam Heat in Girls dormitory, electric lights, water-works, Sulphur-lithia water. Departments; Classical, Music, Domestic Science, Bible. Board on co-operative plan. Tuition in Literary Department $5.00 per month. I'lectrie lights 15 cents per month. Steam heat $2.50 per month. Boom rent $1.00 pi r month. Tuition in literary de partment of High School and Domestic department free to those in < leveland county for Six Months of the session and free for all liv ing in the consolidated district for the entire session. Kail Term Opens August 12, 1021. For announcement write to, W. D. BURNS, Principal, l.AWNDALK, NORTH CAROLINA I W? I 3 3 lit,; AUDITOR'S REPORT FOR SECOND QUARTER, 1924 Salary Fund—Receipts Register of Deeds Clerk of Court Sheriff Recorder (including fines) _ Total April 1st balance April receipts May receipts June receipts County Fund—Receipts. Total Disbursements. Paid for bonds and coupons Expense County Home Expense outside poor Court jurors Court witnesses Roads and bridges Clerk county commissioners (credit) County commissioners Jail expenses Salary Register of Deeds Salary Clerk of Court Salary Sheriff _ _ Salary Treasurer Salary Recorder and Auditor Salary County Physician (Services) Salary Farm Demonstrator Printing and advertising Repairs public buildings Stationery ink and postage Lights, fuel and water Expense deputy sheriffs Office Records Tax Rebates_ New jail_■___ ___ Elections_ Unclassified disbursements Balance Julv 1st April 1st balance - Receipts for quarter $2,700.00 4.220.00 516.7!) 168.76 553.03 8,645.24 106.20 240.95 945.65 774,99 600.00 1.125.00 575.00 575.00 74.00 525.00 106.87 42.00 75.14 .<>■1 669.05 177.00 20.94 2,656.95 655.58 2,166.18 $ 1,540.50 1.264.50 . 592.00 2.480.50 $ 5,477.50 School Fund. 27.195.25 49065.76 $45,959.67 586.54 35,559.60 972.61 $80,858.42 $28,555.71 $52,322.71 $76,561.01 Disbursements Salary County Superintendent Salary white teachers Salary colored teachers Superintendent Public, welfare Houses and repairs Furniture _____ _ Fuel and janitor _ Supplies ____ Insurance _ Jut. on bonds and for borrowed money . City schools ___ Clerical work_._ Miscellaneous expenses Transportation ___ Treasurer’s commissions _____ County hoard___ ___ _;_ Home demonstration work __ Total__ Respectfully. $ 750.00 20,978.C>1 2,530.25 250.00 12.233.20 308.22 1,050.01 92.84 190.00 24.758.00 6,000.00 838.17 29.25 840.37 750.00 529.90 191.67 $73,320.52 | ------ $ 3,240.49 B. T. FALLS, County Auditor. i ANTE-BELLUM NEGRO TELLS STORY OF 1 Loyal to hi* "obi marker" #* in life; honest, gentler-; a death v and respectful—a tottering rti"numcnt to the ante-bellum negro — in George Foster, 77-year-old former slave of Laurens County, who in rec<-r.t year* ha* become a familiar figure about the Salvation Army citadel in Spar tanburg. "Uncle George,” as he was best known, was a blacksmith in Hen dersonville, N. C. for many years, and more recently lived in Greenville, writes W. L. Hick'in. The old darky is one of the chief mourner* in the departure of Cap tain J. M. Satterfield, --commanding the Salvation Army post, who was recently transferredwith rank of Ad jutant to Charlotte, N\ C. Uncle George loved ih" officer with the same loyalty as that with which h< dines to the menri'orv of his “oil, marst°r.” Captain Satterfield wa- : greatly attached to the aged negro,! and gave him such work to do as he was aide in order that he might. T el he was paying for his meals and then added $2 a week so he would not want for necessities. Unde George j was one of those who stood aside and j wept as friends bid the officer God speed. Now, out of work, too edd and weak to seek regular employment the aged negro has drifted out upon his own resources. On his seventy-sev enth birthday he appeared at a church street home and asked for work There was no work. He turned to go, but almost collapsed before In reached the bottom step. “Missis, I’m hungry,” he said. He was taken to the kitchen and a hearty meal spread before him. Every day he re turns for breakfast and dinner. 11 - fore he begins his meals, he alway j insists: “Missus, you’ll have to, find some work for me to do. I can’t eat: your vittles unless I pay for them.” He is urged always to return with j the promise that some work will be I found him. I he old dark^v is as st.au'nrh a de fender of the Confederacy as wa: any who carried a musket Ln the six-! ties. Me lives in the past happier days for him when he worked for “old marster.” His tears are not for himself, hut for “his white folks gone on before.’’ Me was born in Laurens County July 3, 1847, on th<> plantation of George Armstrong, his master. Hi mother was married in lH3.r>, the year' of the outbreak of the Indian war. He was less than 14 years old when the first gun was fired at Fort Sum ter, hut he dearly recalls that day. In the days which followed the war, he refused to accept freedom and re mained with his .master through the reconstruction period, faithful until the death of the latter, mere than fifty' years iigo. On the night of July 3, when hun dreds of Ku Klux klansmcn marched through the streets of the city, Uncle George was perhaps the only negro who wildly cheered from the curb. It stirred memories buried beneath the weight of half a century. It was in 1801 that Unde George performed his service to the Confed eracy. The story, as nearly as pos sible in his own words, was some thing like this: “Marster Billy Armstrong and me went to Richmond to fight the Yan kees up round Petersburg. The very night us got there, Marse Billy took sick. I done everything I knowed, hut twarit no use. In four days he was dead. With these same hands I digged his grave out under a big white oak. Den I put him in a dry goods box and buried him. He was just a boy, not quite eighteen. “A Confed'rate officer give me a piece of paper telling folks to feed me, and I left Richmond walkin’ Times was hard, but the white folk-; always give me plenty to eat when I axed for it. When I come t" Ca tawba river, just this side" of Char lotte, it was swole up nios’ outen its hanks. I shucked off ray cotton over hauls what my mammy -had made for me and swam across wid 'em tied o’, my head by suspenders." “I got home and Marse George was waitin’ on the porch like he was ‘specting me. “George, whar’s Billy?” he says. I didn’t know how to tel! I him and I hated awful bad to, so 1 * justed busted out cryin’. He knowed I what had happened then. He waited | a long time afore he went hack in the [ big house and told the Missis. He came back out lookin’ like a gluts’. “George, can you find his grave?’* he says, and I savs, “Yessir." i s nrnuicm mm nnme aim ourrieu him again. It almost killed the Mis j tis. Marso George was kinda killed out too. Nuther one of 'em lasted j very loin: after that. Misti's went | first and twan’t long ‘til Marso George followed her. “I sho did love Marse George and Marse Billy. They was always good I to me. I uster go back to Laurens | county when I was able to see if their j graves was kep’ right.. I’d pull out j the grass and put some flowers there. | It seem like a long time since the last of those graves was made.” The old darkey wept unreservedly during his narration. The tragedy had lost none of poignancy for him in the three score years which have elapsed. lrncle George may often ho seen seated at the foot of the Confeder ate monument. It is symbolic to him of friends who have gone and days long parsed. "I always goes here v. hoi I go's lonesome for thr mar tor. It makes rue "ad and ■■mo tim pI cry. Rut when I’m "here, ,t don’t spoi':! Like they're so far away.” A few years ng. . C mfi derate vet ra! ' here present 'd Uncle George »'• *b a ti.-ket to Ni:Ie, Tenn., he attended the Confederate reunion-. His eye £?i w bright as i<* recounts tho reception tendered uni by the aged rrn in gray. They ire comrades, to h - mind. In ’s'dh I.’ncle George enlisted in i North Carolina ’ -to regiment to fight in the Spar >h-American war, but he was no1 polled fo? a-tive sw. 1 ice. “P. M-yvelt’- niggers didn’t leave enough of ’em for us to fight,” he i rplains. Unfit George liv - with a paraly tic b; other His j> t’f: -ted brother re ■ivo. a pittance fruit children in the ro-th. Cut -Uncle George is left to hift for himself. His wife is lead and he has no .’children-. He re rei'es no pension from the state owing i , the fact 'bat . he was novel actively in service. He has pinned hi- hopes upon the promise of Captain Satterfield and as si nri a he become! settled he will send for him. “There may he other men in the wofld just as good as Gap’n Satterfield, but I ain’t nevet found, one since the Lord taken my marster,” he declares. Ten Million Fords Would Circle Globe They're off! Ten million Ford ars in one parade. 5\ nh Ford No. 10,000,000 sche duled-to’’er-ws—the- United States or, - the Lincoln highway, a iremiM for figures has worked out the matter ! of staging a parade of the entire 10, OOO.COO M aid T Fords. Here's the way he figure's it. The road se’ected is 24,810 miles long, circlin r the world at the equn tor. He parks the Fords in one place at the side of the cad, sets a place of twenty miles an hour for the pa (Tilde and starts the cars at intervals . of thirty seconds. Drivers are to have an eight-hour day the ame as enjoyed by all the Ford employees and are, of course, to have Sundays. Christmas, New Year's and Fourth of July off. If you are inclined to watch sued a parade and would remain until the last car passed, you’d have to stick at your place along the lone for thirtv-tvvo and a half years. With alt the Fords remaining in line, it wouldn’t be long before you would find yourself in the center of a whirling corkscrew of cars, and as the genius has already figured out, if von remained to the finish and were ■ obs* ryant, you probably would have noticed that the first car passed you sixty-seven times before the last or ten-millionth car had left the parking ground. Furthermore, figuring Ford pro duction on the time 'basis of the last million, 05 million more cars would have been built while you were watch ing the parade. 5 ELLOW IS CLASHING COLOR OF THE SK \SON Old 1 Lui rygraph. Yelrow is a raging color this sea son, and it docs look like dame fasb io nis deliberately bent upon the problem'.of choosing the most glar ing, nerve-racking, blantant color imaginable. It does make some of the dear women look like a flock of Canaries. There are some colors that are an assault upon the sense of sight. Violent colors to some people are just as repulsive as violent dis cords. I was in a town some time ago and the street cars were of the most flaming yellow color. Some quiet, cool color, such as olive or sub dued green, would he ideal. Further more, it would probably have a good psychological effect upon the passen gers. If a person has waited for « I car for some 15 or 20 minutes and I finds a flaming yellow monstrosity hearing down on him he is very likely to complain of the service. But green, or olive, is soothing, and though it might not wear quite as well as yellow, it would certainly rec 1 oncile many patrons who are inflamed at the sight of a yellow car. EDITOR (JETS ENOUGH MONK5 TO GO TO EUROPE I.i'" >ir News Topic. Th<> newspaper business in North ! ; Carolina is evidently picking up sharply. It is not often that a North Carolina editor makes enough tiionev to indulge in a trip to Europe. But it has be»-n accomplished, and by a wo mail. Miss Beatrice Cobb, the ne ! sonipli'hcd editor of the Morganton j News-Moral 1 and the efficient secre- j ; tary-treasurer of the North Carolina ! - l*rt's ■ Association, and mir highly es- j . teemed neighbor of sixteen miles dis- | tant, sailed from New York Thurs- j I'lay for Southampton, England, from ■ i which place she will go to London ! -to attend a convention of the World Advertising Club. After the conven tion she will tour France and Italy before returning home. The good wishes of the whole state press go j with her on this journey, and the ' hope that she may have a safe trip throughout, full to the brim with all ! the pleasures and delights of her tour. Clarendon, June •">. —Frank Edge, a white farmer about 60 years of age, who lives twn miles from Clarendon, was married for the third time last' May, hi- last wife being Miss Alice Williams. Edge's s'r .r.d w ife was an invalid i for about five years, and two years ! ago she became insane and was com- ! milted to the State Hospital at Ral eigh where -he died some time ago. A short while before his wife was taken to the asylum, Edge claims, he was visited by spirits, which came 1 up near the house, and one was seen by himself, his daughter and a young , man who was visiting him. After i his wife was carried away, a heaven ly visitor paid him a visit every week, . he says, until the death of bis wife. After a number of visit < front the angel, w! ich came in his sleeping j room every .Saturday morning about 1 o’clock, h" spoke t > it and inquired its mi. sion. He says that since that time up to the death of . his wife he has held weekly conversations with the spirit, which he says was the most beautiful | form he has ever seen. Dressed in pure white, with features so bright : that it could be plainly seen in the [dark, the heavenly visitor sat down I upon the edge of his bed the first night that lie spoke to it and after (conversing for some time asked Mr. j Edge to accompany it out on his porch, which he did, and after a few i minutes conversation here it ascend l.ed to the skies, telling hint before it I left that would continue its visits until the death of his wife. This j promise w as kept and it paid him one visit after the death of his wife , and told him it would c me no more, but another would come instead. Since then he has been visited by another spirit equally as beautiful, he says, and both have told him things which he prizes very highly, the greater part of which the spirit asked him pot to tell, at the present time at least. He says that many things will be revealed when he is given permission to do so. Instead of being frightened at the appearance of his visitors, he expresses hints* 1? as delighted to see them, and he was now fully aware of their mission. While in Clarendon with a load of strawberries he was seen by your reporter, and stated that his last angelic visit' r had paid him nightly visits for the past three weeks, ex cept Monday night, but called on him again Tuesday night. His new wife was asleep and he did not wake her ■up to see his visitor, hut promised to do so when it came again. He said it promised to pay him two more visits. Mr. Edge told several weeks ago of the visits he had been receiving from angels and the story was pub lished in Urn local paper at the time. This has attracted a great deal of attention and many inquiries have been received, and some have come from a distance to see him person ally. Others have expressed their de sire of spending the night with him in order that they might see his vis itor. None, however, that we have heard of, have mustered up suffi cient nerve to do so. except his last | wife, and she slept while the angel [paid its first visit after her marriage. •Since he has been entertaining an gels he has changed his place of resi dence and has also spent the night at the home of frinds, hut he re [ reives the visit- wherever he may be. [Besides the two visitors in the form I of women, he lias also been visited | by two or three angels in the form i of little girls, and it was one of those 'that was. seen by bis daughter and the young man. It seems that no one except himself has seen the two 'spirits that appeared to him in the form of women and with whom he lias conversed so many times. Mr. Edge is of sound mind and is looked upon as a man of truthfulness in his community. He has told this i story repeatedly to different people ! and always tells the same story to ' all, as it develops from time to time. I --- Ml ST HAVE FOI NTAIN OF YOl I II CLOSE BY MANILA ! Manila, July 0.—The town of T&y tay, situated only a few miles from Manila in the province of Rizal, claims the record of longevity in the Phi'ippine Islands. From October H429 to the end of April. 1924, six persons who had passed the century | mark died there, according to the | record kc pt by Father Dunmandan. O"o woman, Renita Gonzaga, ac cording to the record was 140 years ob| when she died Others who had ; lived far beyond the century mark w-ro Tomasa Vivencio, 12.3 years and Maria Roxas, 129 years. Father Punmandan savs he believes that the simple diet of fish, vege tables and fruit which compose the chief foods of these people, adds greatly to their long lives. New York was founded just 300 years ago. I’m afraid it’s too late to do anything about it now.—The Passing Show (London). P. Cleveland Gardner ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Royster Buildinm Shelby, North Carolina v-.—. > t TWENTY-TWO Spartanburg, July 5.-— Fifty-one years of age. married 33 years, moth er of 2d children, 11 of whom are still living, and the oldest of whom is 32 years of age. never a sick day in her life, and still as young in body and spirit as a girl of sixteen sum mers, is Mrs. Iloxie Kimball, wife of II. C. Kimball, Route No. 3. Inman, who spent Saturday in Spartanburg. For 33 years Mrs. Kimball has roused at daylight to milk the cows, prepare breakfast, attend her stead ily expanding family and perform the duties of a farmer's wife. On a few occasions during her 51 years of liv ing she has taken medicine. Other wise, doctor’s accounts, as far as she is concerned have not been an item with the family. Mrs. Kimball was horn in 1873 ihe Mountain View section about nine miles front Spartanburg. She is the oldest of fourteen children born to Webb Horton and Mahala Horton'; She lived in that section practical'y all her life, only recently moving to her present home near Inman. Join ing the Mountain View Baptist chur h at the age of 17, she has i egular.ly worshipped there, Three Sons in War During the late war she boasted three sons in the armed forces of this country. One was severely wounded in action overseas. One is now enlisted in , the United Stab's navy. She weighs 191 1-2 pounds, is jov ial and motherly. Her husband is one year her junior. Iler living children from the old est to the youngest are Landiirm, Clara, -Toe. Ernest, .Eliza; Lore tin. Nellie, Minnie. Claude, Webb, Lila, M. ,1a. Otha and Ezell. Practically all live in Spartanburg county, and other, in counties immediately ad% joining. Two sons and three daughters are now married, arid Mrs. Kimball is thf proud possessor of twelve grand children. Four other sons and three daughters live with their parents. The youngest , is a son seven years of age. Not one instance of twins is to be found in her family, her babies having been born an average of about fourteen months apart. Is Remarkable Woman Mrs. Kimball is a remarkable wom an. .She has never ridden on a rail way train but once in her life. That v, a to Columbia. She has been to Atlanta twice by automobile, the greatest distance she has ever been from home. But that is not the most remark able part of it. The unusual lies in •'ii- fact that she is as active as a -,-hnol girl, continues to do her house work, milk the cows, churn the milk, cook for her family, and perform •every other nature of work to which -iw has been accustomed. Plm is happy as can he and infin itely proud of her family and of her faithful motherhood. True she has lived r>1 years, but she declares that life holds as much for her as ever be fore. Her perscription for happiness is to be found in the motto: “Work like Helen B. Happy.” It is also to be found in her statement that her ehil idrei) and her; home are her source of grew, t pleasure, and that she wishes she could live her life ovr just as it has been. Waurika. Okla.—Several hundre 1 Indian maidens of means were made i in thr'se nations reached their ma pority, by virtue of tin act .of Con gress, on March 4, 1924. Generally ; the fact had been overlooked in this territory hut tin oil man revealed his : recollection of it when he began 1 searching for some of these maidens that h° might obtain oil leases on their lands. The number of ruch maidens ap j pears not to be known outside the agency office at Muskogee. Nor is . ! the residence of many of them teen- > orally known. Some are fullbloods and live among their kind in the re- ' t-cess of Pusmmataha and McCurtain Counties. A few live with parents or guardians, on, or near, their al lotments. Rut wherever they he, they are now competent to get married and make disposition of their lands, some ! of them subject of course to provis ions of laws governing fullbloods and mixed bloods. The lands of many are | in Jefferson, Carter and Stephens Counties where oil fields exist and wild Caters are seeking to identify \ new lands. Some of them have been rich from oil incomes for several 1 years. The making of a Common birthday for several hundred Indian children . was one of mam- curious provisions | of law governing these Indians. They were babes when allotments were made, hot lands were set aside for them. Congress said the female bab i ies should have their eighteenth hirth dav on March 4, 1 ‘.(24, and the male babies their common majority birth day, on March 4, 1927. An illustration of the forgetfulness of fortune-seeking and adventurous I young men of the county is revealed 1 by the fact that the number of June weddings in the Indian country was ; only normal for the season. Attend Gastonia Meeting P. O. S. A. Twenty four members of the local | ramp of the Patriotic Sons of Ameri ca attended the third quarterly dis riet convention in Gastonia Saurday riipht, July 5. The meeting was held in the K of P hall there and was at i tended bv about 2?.4 members of the 1 order. The principal speakers of the j evening included: R. G. Cherry. I mayor of Gastonia; I.. T. Speaks, of i Statesville, state president; R. I,. Bustle, state organizer; W. H. Ret j zer. state M of F; \V. A. Daniel, of Salisbury, state secretary, and Major A. r,. Rulwinkle. During the business meeting a new I district was organized composed of the following camps; Shelby. Gaston ia, Kings Mountain, and Mt. Holly, The next district meeting will he held : at Mooresville, according to E. M. I Auton, secretary of the local camp. “Is there a photographer in this [town?” asked a traveling salesman | who had taken as many orders as he : felt that he was entitled to. ! “Yes, sir-reef” responded the land lord of the tavern. "Professor Dadd’s studio is upstairs over the post office, 1‘iggering on getting your picture taken?” “No. T merely want to ask him | if anybody in this dod-molestcd ham i let ever looks pleasant.” AlTOMOHII.ES SEEM ( HEAP \\ IIEN HOI OUT THIS WAY Winston-Salem, July 7 Aut"mo are being t<- by the pound. An enterpi 1 t?*fer who handles a low ;-i • • •! r« ->w adver tises Ivis ware* -at • » 1-7 .rent> a pound. His advert!* erne;, ts set forth the well-' t of the car-, together with the total ■price at much a pound and corn pare - the price with that per pound of every-day necessities of life. It is said the unique method, of advertising has proved unusually successful. An ice-skating rink is to he con structed in London. Doubtless for the benefit of those who prefer a sedentary pasttinve. — The Passing Show. Would You Buy a BRAND NEW FINE QUALIT Y STRAW HAT Worth $5.00 For 75 HATS Will Be Sold This Week At That Price. EVANS E. McBRAYER Opposite BAPTIST CHURCH
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