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HENDERSON GILMER CO. WHOLESALE PAPER Charlotte, N. C. SPECIALIZING TOTAL ACCOUNT SYSTEMS AND SALE8BOOKS, Paper Of AU Kinds For Merchants Only. aWBKKiS** SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY Arrival and Departure of Passenger Tiains at Shelby, N. C. Lv. No. Between No. Ar. 4:50p 12:27 16 15 Monroe Rutherfordton Ruth erfordtonJdonroc 16 12.27 1! 12:27 Schedules published as information and are not guaranteed. E. W. LONG, D. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. or G. SMART, Local Ticket Agent NEW SOUTHERN SCHEDULE CHARLESTON DIVISION No. 113 No. 36 No. 114 Marion to Rock Hill Rock Hill to Marion Marion to Rook Kill Rock Hill to Marion 7:16 a. m. 9:57 a. m. 6:36 p. m. 8:08 p. *n. L. E. LIGON, Agent, SHELBY, N. C. No. 35 makes connection at Blacksburg with No. 38 for north. THAT WILL *4 MAKE YOUR DIMES AND DOLLARS MARCH BACK TO THE BAM AMD AS ‘YOU SAVE YOO SET THE BEST C.'ADE OF fiftOCERIFS THAT MONEY CAN BUY SUGAR lb. BUTTER Best Creamery, lb. LARD lb__ CHEESE ib.... COMPOUND LARD lb. _... POTATOES lb. 7c 53c 20c 33c 18c 3c SOAP, Palmolive, 4 cakes for_ 25c COFFEE 3 O’CLOCK lb. ____ RED CIRCLE ib. ______ Bokar Coffee Supreme lb. package__ 43c 47c 53c <X«ATLANTIC & PACIFIC co ,5,: kUUST AROUND THE CORNER f ROM EVERYBODY Blanton & Greene’s | REAL ESTATE BULLETIN Here is the best proposition we have ever been able to get hold of in the way of a farm and business proposition. Here is thirty acres with a young fortune besides the farm. On account of this party being old he has decided lo let some younger person have the thing he has worked years to mature. Here is one of the best corn mills in the state with a new fifteen hundred dollar steel over shot water wheel. And there is one of the best flour mills here ir. the county in perfect condition. It also has a fine house and extra good out-build ings that would cost twentyfive hundred dollars at this time to build. ■ There is about twelve or fifteen acres in culti vation that will make a bale of cotton any year per acre. There is plenty of timber and a very good pasture I on this farm. The mill house is of a two story structure and is located in a handy place for the customers to reach. This property is in one of the best sections of ( ieveland county and is just about three miles to four of the best cotton mills in the state. The right person can take this proposition and keep it going day and night without one cent of cost to operate it so you see there is a fortune in this tor some one. Remember this proposition is in three miles of ten to fifteen thousand working people that are depending on something like this to furnish them bread. The flour mill, corn mill, buildings, water wheel, dam and farm take it as a Whole is worth from Ujrelve to fifteen thousand dollars but we are in a position to offer this valuable property to a quick buyer for less than seven thousand and five hundred dollars. (BLANTON & GREENE garage building mooresboro, n. c. New York Writer Tell* How “Tobacco King” Built Up Colossal Business From War-Rav aged Carolina Farm—-Man Who Made Gifts of Millions to Education Never Enjoyed Any Real Schooling Himself (By Geo. Buchaanan Fife in the New York Evening: World.) Two blind mules, 50 rents in Yan kee silver, and a lean and ravaged farm. These were the foundation of the fortune from which J unes Duke has in .! given a part—a matter of $40, 000,000—to the uses of charity and education of his native southland, the Carolina*. As a matter of fact, James B. Duke started out with less than that, be cause not even the 50 cents belonged to him, but to his father, rugged old Washington Duke who fought that barren farm and conquered it and set the feet of his sons upon the path that led to Monte Chisto millions. Any chronicle, however brief, of the career of James B. Duke must be gin with that doughty old father of his. because his son bears so deeply the impress of his father’s character. Also the turning back to that leaf makes the clearer what the son had to do to lift himself out of the heat and burden of thja reluctant farm on the outskirts of Durham, N. C., where he was born G7 years ago. It means going back to civil war days, when Washington Duke, vigor ously opposed to secession, had to cast his lot with North Carolina and enlist ed in the Confederate navy. At that time he owned 300 ungenerous acres, bought with savings hard put by. So, when he went to war he sold the farm and its slender appurtnances, payment to be made to him after the termina tion of hostilities. At that time James B. Duke w>as a red-haired youngster of four, and he and the rest of the family were sent to the grandparents for care while the head of the family went unwillingly to sea. Found Farm Devastated. On the retreat from Richmond Duke was 'captured by the enemy, hekl prisoner a while, and then re leased. He was 135 miles from home and all ho had was a $5 Confederate bill. But he walked every foot of those weary miles. It was on the way that managed to trade that Confederate bill for 50 cents in Yankee money. Reaching home, footsore, every thing hut discouraged, he came upon utter desolation. The farm which had been his had lain in the path of the armies of Sherman and Johnston, they had wintered near by, and taken de vastating toll. Fences had gone for firewood, even a little stock of tobac co he had stored in a ramshackle barn had disappeared. But there was a heart in that man. At once, undaunted, he began the task of setting his house in order— without a house. The farm was no longer his. so there was nothing for il but that he must go to work for its owner, and they struck it off at a one-third share basis. So hard was the struggle to wrest anything out of that hard land that for two years Washington Duke was unable to have his children with him. The man who had “bought” the Duke farm was unable to pay for it when the time came, so Washington Duke took it back again, those 300 half-reclaimed acres. He bought two blind mules on credit from his broth er and started in growing tobacco in little patches of ground near the rude living house. “There wasn’t another thing be could have grown there,” James B. Duke said year later of this exneriment. The tobacco was cured in a log barn under which a fire was built to give the leaves the necessary color, and it was looked upon as providential that the ancient, driedout building never caught fire. After the coloring. “Buck’ Duke and the rest of the family gran ulated the tobacco bv beating it with the ordinary flail, then sifted it and put it into bags. Each bag, fashioned out of a square yard of muslin by the women of the Duke household, held 33 pounds of tobacco. And when there was a sufficient number of these bags in readiness “Buck’ Duke set out through the countryside in rattletrap of a wagon to sell them to the bar gain-driving shopkeepers of the region When he wasn’t helping to make to bacco be was “drumming” it. No Visions of Lamin’. Uy the tiir.e young Duke was 18 and had accumulated an extensive knowl edge of tobacco raising and curing and neddlir.g, prosperity had come to the doughty family, and Washington Duke regretting his own lack of learning, suggested t# “Buck” that college was a good thing for a youth. ‘Buck” had no such vision. Instead, he said to his father that he preferred, if he might havea choice, to be taken into, the family tobacco business as a part ner. The answer of Washington Duke to this was to give “Buck” and his broth er, Basil N. Duke, each a sixth inter est in the business. A factory 70 feet long , 40 feet wide and three stories high, had been built in Durham, N. C., and 15 men were employed there. This was in 1875. So whole-heartedly did every mem ber of the Duke family engage in that uphill fight that by 1883 the capital of the undertaking had reached $700, 000 and the business of Washington Duke and Sons had grown to $200,000 a year. “Buck’ ’Duke was now chief salesman for the concern and in 1884 he ventured to New York to look into the mechanical manufacture of cigar ettes. Manufacturers predicted that he'd soon find himself in bankruptcy ex perimenting with crude machinery. But he kept at it and at last succeed ed in borrowing $40,000 from an ec centric leaf tobacco broker in New York when, as lie once remarked, he did not believe there was another per son in the world who would have lent him that many pennies. During all this time “Buck’’ Duke managed the business both in New York and Durham. He lived for a time in a room lor which he paid $3 a week Year by year the business grew “Buck” Duke never relaxing, giving ten to 12 hours a day to bis tasks and building up such a monumental in dustry that in 1889 it was taken into the consolidation which is the Amer ican Tobacco company, the so-called “Tobacco Trust.” It was made up of five concerns and capitalized at $25, 000,000. Of this amount the Duke firm received $7,500,000. And James B. Duke became its president. — R. D. — Pasted on the door at Ebeltoft’s is a little verse of advice to motorists. It tells a story and preaches a ser mon of the highway. Try reading it. Here in No’th Calinn we believe that everything is the best; that the air is more bracing, the women more beautiful, the men huskier, the peo ple better and the spirit not to be ex celled. Berton Braley agreed with us in his ditty on “The Old North State” | following a visit some time back; As soon as you get to No’th Galina The roads and the towns get newah. finah, The people walk with a brisker step And even your motor has more pep, The hookworm’s banished, the country has A lot more energy, pep and jazz, The Liveliest Northern couldn’t de sign a Livlier state than No’th Ca’lina. The farms look fatter, the Hamlets ain’t Quite ignorant of the sight of paint. They’re building roads, and they’re not content With sand and clay, bat they use ce ment. And the schools look good, and the mills are busy, And each inhabitant owns a Lizzie Or a big twin six or something finah, As soon as you get to No’th Ca'lina, This state’s not dreaming of days gone by, There’s a modern glint in each mor tal’s eye, And the village belles and the village beaux Are as smartly dressed as the crowd which flows On Gotham’s streets. You must give ’em credit, These folks are fully awake, you said it. You meet the “Boostah”; you lose the “Whinah,” As soon hs you get to N’th Ca’lina. Sheriff Logan is cramped for space at the county jail. He has more pris oners than he can handily accommo date. If the prisoners are fed corn bred and given coffee with sugar in it we might be able to explain the crowd ed condition by a press dispatch com ing out of Knoxville, Tonn. A Knox ville prisoner was placed in jail and a short time later he was brought back before the judge drunk. “How come,’’ quired the judge. “You were sober when you went to jail weren’t you?’’ Tile prisoner admitted it and the judge asked for an expalnation. The prisoner admitted it and the judge asked for an explanation. “It's like this,” said Williams “you know they feed us corn bread down there. I don’t liek corn bread—as is. But I found out what it was good for. “All the prisoners saved their bread and sugar that came wtth the coffee. There is always plenty of wa ter in the jail. “When we had accumulated enough to amount to anything we put the cornbread, and the sugar together, left it alone until it fermented, then strained it and rank it.” “Did it have a kick?” saked the judge. “I’ll leave that to your observation,” Williams taid. “Sovcn-fiftv,” said the judge. Judge Stack, who comes here to hold court this mouth, is the same jur ist who called Charlotte and Meck benburg “bad” and almost had a scene with those folks who believe in dear old “Char-lotto” accent on the last syllable, and "MecklenBUG.” And if he notes the crowded jail we have and then visits one of our so-called big: Bible clases maybe he’ll ask “why’ again. Maybe now that we’ve got to be a "inirty” good sir.od town one of the theatres might try bringing Keith’s vaudeville here once a week or more Yes, it sounds a bit citified, hut re called some of the large crowds that have attended vaudeville shows— some good, some bad—here in the past, and see if you will agree that a large house would greet a good vaudeville per formance at least once a week in Shel by. Last year one of the heter Keith circuits had one open night in the week and could have played Shelby No doubt Keith’s or any other good vau deville coming regular might cost n pretty little sum, but a house packed with people who like good vaudeville will pay to see good vaudeville—or they would not drive to Charlotte for their shows. Vaudeville every night or even three or four nights a week would not pay in Shelby, but one or two nights it would". At least we think so, since “A. O..T." (Around Our Town) does not own a theatre. If we did we would book two picture!;, “America" and the “Shooting of Dan McGrew,” and the two theatres here “have done nothing else hut." On an occasion recently when the flags were flying along the Shelby streets we heard one of these wou'd be one-tenth of one per cent of the “Four Hundred” remark: “That’s a ‘tacky’ looking thing for a town to do. Looks like we’re living in a hick burg.” Now, the biggest town that fellow likely has ever visited is Charlotte and no later than Washington’s birthday he made a trip down and right on the streets the flags were flying the self same way. Wonder what he’ll say the nest time they’re put out. WILL TREAT GIRL FOR DOPE HABIT IN RALEIGH Gastonia, March 3.—Another chap ter in the fight to exterminate the lo cal dope ring was written today when Deputy Sheriff Stephen Sir nip left ror Raleigh, taking with him Miss Oran Hicks, the young girl who has been in jail for n week following a raid made on her home. A large quantity of dope was found in her home, and it is understood that, af ter her arrest, she made a sworn statement containing exhaustive evi j dence against others connected with i the dope ring in this section. Site I is being taken to Dix Hill hospital at Raleigh, where she will be given ! treatment for the dope habit. THE WHITEWAY DRY CLEANING COMPANY IS SELECTED !*rof. Ramsey, Dry Cleaning Magnate, has just concluded a contract with The WHITEWAY DRY CLEANING CO., which he selected as the most capable of operating the methods of the internationally known Ramsey’s friendolonc process. The Whiteway Dry Cleaning Co. has the exclusive use of this method for Shelby, and will be thus enabled to place at the disposal of the people of this community, a higher standard of perfection in Dry Cleaning Work manship. The many advantages that the Ramsey’s Friend nlene process has over other methods of dry cleaning, will be enumerated in ah announcement which The WHITEWAY will make in this newspaper in the very lear future. THE NEW! FLORSHEIMS AND CLAPPS ARE HERE. i .In all desirable leathers and appealing styles for men and young men. We cordially invite yoik to look them over. Let us fit you early while our sizes are ■ complete. W. L. FANNING & COMPANY m Why Gasoline Prices Go Up Nothing mysterious or crooked. If you had six gallons of milk and only a five-gallon can to put it in, you would sell the extra gallon for most any old price rather than let it run on the ground. When the oil industry has an enormous amount of over production, it sells at the best price it will bring, regardless of cost, what it is not financially nor physically able to store. The minute the last drop of milk which you could not store in your five-gallon can has been disposed of, you immedi ately quit selling at a loss and go back to cost, plus a fair profit. Why blame the oil industry for doing the same thing? And why is the sudden advance i n price to he considered either mysterious or crooked? Gasoline is advancing in price because the oversupply of crude oil has come to an end. The last drop of spilled milk has been disposed of. Remember, there are freight costs and state tax of 4c on gasoline. Gas and oil that lasts longest burns best. Why? It does not go out in smoke and collect in carbon. The best way to reduce your fuel costs is to use TEXACO Volatile Gasoline and Texaco Clean, Clear Full Bodied Mo^or and Tractor Oils. Arey Brothers
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