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Phenomenon of Blowing Rock Excites Imagi nation of National Park Committee on Visit. Beauty of Entire Mountain Section Casts Charm on Party. BulwinkJe’s Horses Loses Shoe. (Henry R'-lk in New York Times.) Como other year-* not «o for awn. end citizens of New York will have to trek 2.000 miles across the c.ntinert to reach a national park with its fro., camp sites, mountain scenery, natural phenomena, glortouf sunsets water fails, and climate to match. (’ n .- • *. ,» time and an easy three-day automobdo ride from the city will bring one in Southern Appalachian National park. To the ie«* romantic who prefer the pullman car. a tweatv-htair j'.isrtify will bring the same destination. Cong-re.-ts has approved a ! !i pro viding for n national park in the Southern Appalachians, and in the pa t few weeks the committee ap pointed to decide upon a ■ it«- -headed hy Congressman H. VV. Temple, of Pennsylvania- made a tour of the mountain region of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and other Southern state,; that they might find the best location for the p-oposed playground. Members of this committee assert that there am' natural phenomena in the region inspected which will rival in their way, if not surpass, the phe nomena of Yellow tone o>- Yonemite Pnrks. A hall of fire that appear:-, from nowhere to cross a mountain face and disappear into nothingness. Peaks piled chaotically as if by giants in a frenzy. A towering mountain that re sembles a huge and benign grand father reflecting on the way of the world beneath him. A rock from which it is impossible to throw-one's hat. A river that shouts with a camion voice as it drops 1700 feet in five miles, fn nut -Is waterfall,, that tumble in a fashion that walls New York--- own N’iugara These are some of the sights •vh.c . the committee experienced a? it ’■"■'■(‘I -xh.tr N< rth f.arolina had to <ftTer >0 the way of a ,it». Tlreir cx r ■ in \ci h Carolina was re peated in"other states visited, hut r.ot t-> the tam( decree «.f effect. X-'* the- dead of the nigh members the oi.-nrartee -tnod • nellboind on Jonas Ridge as a r-rir- 'light appeared ‘ R •’tie n he K ■ vn of Brown mountain arid moved unwaveringly across .the mountain to disappear on the other ; >de, Tims the light hr.s been ■hawing it---Jf uncannily for years east. Of t n - thou -and.- of people who i ve m-r:..:ied at th* tiffi;, some <dr.Tm ‘ha* j. it ,t'ball of fire that M.ii •> before the fa-e of the mountain, other.- that i* is a co)d arid transpar s:J light. Many have attempted to splve -.it* riddle, seieoti.sts of note amor tl-eni, hut all have failed. year brings a new o-ralled ' hit ion tot ho fight. Tht it is a reflec tion from the locomotive headlights ■ 4i the Southern railway miles away was. a theory given credence until it was demonstrate d that a locomotive was not passing each time the light appeared. Others have held that the light is the reflection from moon hin r, . till - hidden in the mountain cove. All explanations, have yet proved un tenable in the end. But * he light con tinues its hair-rising visits. blowing Ilock i a phenomenon of a diflej-ent k:ttd Standing on the brink of the Rot !< which dominates the vnl lev hundreds of feet below, 'umbers of the a mniittee-— individually arid collectively attempted to throw newspapers over th- brim. The papers SPECIFY HOP4E PRODUCTS Ask j'onr groceryni;m for Boat’s Brood and Cakes, liny are sold on a money-back guarantee if not satis factory. _ Our products are delivered to the grocers twice daily Demand them fresh. Rolls Made Morning and Evening' Bet them at the Bakery. BOST BAKERY Phone 158. Shelby, N. C. CONCRETE SPECIALISTS Not only de we do general concrete work but manufacture and sell building blocks, voofing tile, concrete drain pipe, window and door sills, etc. We handle at all times complete line of lime, plaster, cement, structural steel. Located corner of N. Washington and Hudson streets. Z. B. WEATHERS & SONS Phone 192. Box 538. ON THE SIDE OF THE HOAD WHERE THE ENTIRE WORLD MAY SEE. Is the place to Advertise... Why not buy a sign on the fence around the County Fair Grounds? Highway tourists can’t help but see it every day, and thousands will read it during the fair this fall. H ’If the cost for the sign will go to the frair association. Select your space and have your sign painted today. Buying a space helps the Fair and your business. I. F. SAMPSON 506 W. Warren St. County Fair Grounds. ; came fulUering back. “Bir that is paper, heavier things would .to. tumbling down,” -aid a • .'-n'h'r f the party, starting his pan ama i.at in the direction of the green . valley far below.. For the space of ten feet the hat wa pulled downward by Mr. Newton’s 1 w. Thmi the spirit of the Rock man f -ted its power. Slowly and more ■lowly the hat fell, then wavered, stop i>cd, and < ante hack to its owner above. F a m .ment the entire party were , finding boyish pleasure in bobbing their hats over the cliff. From the Rock they gained a view i of the country for miles around. Peaks poked their heads from 3,000 to 5,000 fe<’ into the skv, all enshrouded in a dark, misty blue; luring in it* appeal. The mo-t conspicuous figures on the horizon !-• (irc.ndfather mountain, so > named because its outline presents the • hkene x of a dignified old v■ ' «t—warn am! all. Grandfather is 5,060 feet high and its top is often shrouded in cool, ma icstic moving cl >uds while the sun bines brightly a few hunldred feet ah., e. When the park committee vis ited the top a .forty-mile stale was -weeping the surface. The stiff wind however, did no' stop them from catch ' h-.-ir i to a',h in ecstacv at the mile on-mile mountain scenery spread out he fore them. “Bears are plentiful on the moun tain, acordintr to Roderick McRae, a tenant who guided the party to the top of * he peak. He told how his brot her had recently captured three cubs and | was domesticating them. Wildcats, wild turkeys, pheasants and squirrels | make the mountain their home. Moun tain trout—which have never known ! the sportsman’s fly—abound in the streams. Near Grandfather the party visited i Linville Fa!!: where a mountain • tream plunges several hundred feet in • a beauty tiurt'recalls Niagara. Nature plays one of her most astounding feats here the Linville River falling 1700 tcet in live miles, innumerable catar acts leap from level to level—gay and sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow on a sunny day—-somber misty, and thoughtful on a cloudy day. ; A magnificent gorge follows the route of ihe precipitous falling off of the | river. Through this forge the water rushes and boils until it finally Teach ins the Catawba Valley and wanders I to the Atlantic, a placid, slow-moving j stream. Here the committee beheld the wat ershed of Eastern America. A rivulet welling, from one side high on Grand father meanders to join the Ohio and then th'' Mississippi, to end finally in the Gulf of Mexico. A rivulet welling from the other side starts a journey which ends in the Atlantic near Wil mington. North Carolina. To William C. Gregg, of Hacken ek, N. J., a member of the site com. mi’tee, is due credit for discovering a new marvel of nature in the Linville c entry. Several weeks before the com mit toe was scheduled to make its tour Gregg made a personal inspection in order to advise with the four other members a* to the best route to take. Alone,-and thrilling to the beauty around hint, the Hackensack man rode rl< ng a high ridge in the direction of Lake Pinnacle and Marion, North Carolina. Hawks Bill mountain, blue [ capped and misty, loomed before him, and as his eye took in the outline, of a particular cliff to the mountain, ho was startled with its likeness to the profile of a woman with a wreath on ; her brow. Bold and distinct, every fea ture perfect, the mountain goddess was lined against the blue sky. Inquiry among the older inhabitants of the section failed to reveal that the outline of the woman had been pre viously noted. As a result of his dis covery Mr. Gregg had the privilege of naming if and decided upon “Linville j Goddess." -^r o-cnor wemwrs, grotfig by j horseback <n .the ridge which Rives a clear view of hnurcssive Ijnville voree wore load in their exclamation of wonder at the iff attires of the ‘‘God-, doss”. Vl ■•'* ' -V t The ascent of Roan Mountain in the I town of BakersviUe was perhaps the hardest job which the committee did on its tour. BakersviUe itself would make ideal color for a Western thril ler of the cowboy, firearm, and fight ing type. A dejected rutted street sprawls for a quarter of a mile be-! tween a row of wooden buildings, creaky and dilapidated in the main.! Two miles away is a station -of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway —which is elimbng over the Blue Ridge in a county of scenic beauty em ploys more than a dozen tunnels in less than as many miles. The climate is ideal and the country does not know that golf links, tennis, and tourists exist except in story-books and mag-! azinea. Eleven miles from this picturesque little town is the top of Roan Moun tain, among the highest in Eastern America. This mountain heads heav enward C»,‘M3 feet. The party left Bakersville in Fords, and for five miles traveled over one nr the roughest mountain roads—or better, trails- imaginable. Huge gul lies out hv swift-rushing mountain; streams; bowlders half as large as the little ears; the sinuous curves of Rock creek -all these had to be negotiated. The fords jolted their occupants as they had never jolted before. Up and up toiled the sputtering ears, past un rolling panoramas of mountain and valley, past Bound Ball, Little Ball and Grassy ridge. At the end of the fifth mile the road gave out in a de spairing gasp and the party was forc ed to take to the hacks of horses and mules. Here is here the scramble really be gan. 1 he six miles to the top were cov r— cred in three hours—two miles an hour—through a forest of balsam, spruce, and tamarack. The boulders winch had been bis:, increased to dou ble proportion and the animals at times floundered perilously for foot ini'. Where the rises at times were steep so ns to make it impo ible for a horse or mule to carry them up, the rider dismounted, tied a short rope to the saddle, and allowed himself liter ally to be towed. The top of the moun tain gives a broad plateau covered with acres and acres of rhododendron dr mountain laurel. To see a moun tain of this plant in bloom with its color that defies description is a nev er-to-be-forgotten sight. The view afforded from this point sweeps for miles in unexcelled splen dor. Inhabitants say that parts of five states can be seen from lure. North Carolina, in which the mountain is located). South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Hr: .- the natives "had prepared a square''' meal for the pa'rty. Raven ous is about the only word that will describe the way a fellow feels after a mountain climb, lutsing for hours, as huge piles of fried chicken, honey, chee.se, sandwiches and apples proved in diminishing ratio. Hot coffee was • rvad as drink. Every item on the menu—-excepting the coffee—was a product of the homes and farms of the country. On the way down, the mule hearing Congressman Bulwinkle; of Gastonia, North Carolina, cast a shoe. “Mar, sur, 1'me git holt of him,” drawled a native who accompanied the p:\rty, coming forward to assist the confused congressman, from one pock et this man pulled a hammer, from another, nails, and started a black smith shop right there on the moun lain Meantime Congressman Buhvinkle had mounted another mule only to nave the saddle girth break. A har row leather band was substituted. This however, did not work satisfactorily, for the saddle was eternally slipping down in the direction of tiie mule’s head, forcing the congressman to adopt the ludricrous attitude of em bracing the creature. The trip up the mountain had been begun early Saturday morning. It was late Sunday afternoon when the party returned to Bakersville. But the road up Roan mountain is not representative or characteristic of the system that connects points of interest, in North Carolina at least. A system of hardsurfaced, graded roads winds in and out of the moun tains. They present curves which will test the nerve, but they are wide and safe, if taken at a sane speed. On one side, time and time again, the motor ist can enjoy the novelty of a sheer mountain wall and. on the other a drop of several hundred feet. Hard surface roads penetrate the North Carolina mountains in numerous places. ALL ABOARD FOR EVANS E. McBRAYER’S CLOTHING EMPORIUM | '■ ’ ' ■ • H c Where Quality Folks Buy Quality Clothes, Hats, Shoes Shirts, and A11 that’s new and stylish marked at ♦ • prices that make sales quickly. 20 years in the Clothing game. ^ bile the national park of the far West have attracted their thousands over a period of years now. the site which the committee will select as a result of their tour, will mark the first undertaking of its nature in the east. It will mean the opening of an entirely new playground for the east ern seaboard. Many Large Concerns Do Business In N. C Approximately 7,500 domestic and 500 foreign corporations are doing Inline? ; in North ;;ro’i> a, ae■ ■Tfi ing to the latest list gathered by Sec retary of State \\. N. Kverett from the records of his office. Ane hundred and eighty-nine do mestic corporations have an author ized capitalization of 551,000,000 or more. The Hanes Knitting company of Winston-Saloni. with SI2,000.000 cap italization, the Cannon Manufacturing company of Kannapolis. §12,000,000 capitalization; the Cabarrus Cotton mills, $7,000,000 and the Durhai« Hos iery mills, $10,000,000 are among the large, t local corporations. Chimney Koek Mountain. Inc., although hav ing paid in capital of only $5,000 has an au horlzed capitalisation of $12, 500,000, The larger tobacco companies op erating plants in North Carolina are incorporated tinder the laws of other states, so that they arc listed as for eign corporations. The Brown-Wil liamson Tobacco company of Winston Salem, with a $5,0)0,000 capitaliza tion, is among the largest of the North Carolina incorporated tobacco tnanu facturcrr. The Sandwich Industry. The making of sandwiches to fe<ul the myriads of hungry New Yorkers at the noon-day lunch has become a thoroughly standardized a3 one of Henry Fold's flivver factories. In one sandwich factory where 12,-' 000 artocities are wrapped in oil pa- j per each night, 10 p.-opl:, many of them girls, turn out the noon-time specialties on a production basis. One cuts broad, another butters it, another slips a bit of meat, cheese, or both on the bread, another builds a top on the sandwich with a second piece of bread and the last wrap- it. Several crews work feverishly through the long hours of the night and early in the morning, delivery wagons take the food to the service stations through out the city. Saw it for the First Time. Strolling along the quay* of Now York harbor an Irishman came across the wooden barricade placed around the enclosure where emigrants sus pected of suffering from contagiou. diseases are isolated. Phwnt’s this boarding for?” ho in quired of a bystander. "O” was the reply, “that’s to keep out fever and- things like that, you know.” Tndade.” said Pat. “Give often heard of the board of health:, but, be jabbers, it';; the first time O’ve seen it.” yjiStKSSSZ ■ - YOUR WINTER GARMENTS DRY CLEANED W ill Add Much To Yorr . >.';:;carance This Fall. I.adits Suits. Dros.as i. ri weatcrs, Etc. Men’s Suits. i)vc*rca..ts. Fancy Vests. Etc. WHITEWAY DRY CLEANING CO. •CLEANERS — DYE I IS PHONE 105. HOTEL ST. JAMES TIMUS St;r\liF. M'.W YORK ‘M Y Jus! off Hroadway ;it 10-113 V ost -frith St. Much favored hv women Irnvplifts without c eort. 4Sii;t‘li»no in evorv room. An hotel of quiet di/rni'y ha.!n"_ the atmosphere and appoint.nont.-l of a well conditioned homo. 40 Theatres, all principal :hoji ar.d churches, 3 to 5 'mlntr* -s wall: ^ 2 minutes of all subways i-I % roads, surface cars, bua lines * ^Within 3 minute.: Grand C a fra!, H minutes Pennsylvania 'lV-r- -;, -i for fjatos ana Boo klet minals. 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Over 100,000 motorists are today using and enjoying the satisfaction of genuine, full-size Balloon Gum-Dipped Cords. In fact, in three months the sales of Firestone Balloon Gum-Dipped Cords increased 590%. Have your car equipped now—for comfort and for the e y o driving this Tall and Winter. Be prepared for mud noles, frozen ruts, dangerous snow and ice. We can equip your car immediately at the new low prices now in effect. MOST MILES PER DOLLAR J-orin fc.. Hoyle Boyles & Sons •J. E. Champion Co. Lawndale. N, O iv\ c.irv onuuLU PRODUCE ITS OWN RU i\ HER... al5^Xw
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