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Editor, Riding On The Rails Over Georgia^ Makes Report Cleveland Farms«W'lor T» Ceorrfa. Columbus The Gem UI int Mate. Fort Kenning And Her . „ ... 15,000 Soldiers. (By Lee B. Weathers.) livery citizen in Cleveland county ha a right to be proud of our ag.i cultural supremacy when once tfe, fcc the backward condition of f.irti, jug in South Carolina and Georgia. I ..pent a couple of days last wjek on a jaunt to Columbus, Ga., down the Tuscaloosa river, on ihe west lank ol' which rise the Alabama hills and in making this hurried visit, I had an opportunity to compare the; section with ours. The devastation jf the boll weevil for the past few years has dispirited the farmers and thfc jarnis are greatly neglected. I had ex pected to see broad acres in cotton, which with the season more advance, in that-section, 400 miles South of r. “banner agricultural county in North Carolina” should be up to a finger length in height. But cold weather has prevailed further South as well a, in this section, arid ju.-w now ami and then was the cotton plant visibi from the train. The best looking farm i no better than the worst in Cleve t-n.rl county and how the people* in the rural section live is a mystery to me. Most of the rural people are blacks and thmey do not live in olenty as tin rural people of Cleveland county. This h due to the shiftlessness of the people and to the devastation by the ball weevil. South Carolina a -d Georgia are trying ..o stage a come laek in agriculture, but from the ap pearance of crops, they are making little way. Our people of Cleveland have a right to be proud of the fertile land the energy and thrift whicn characterize the farmers of Pied mont Carolina. Brains and energy, coupled with a fertile soil make this noeof most prosperous section; of the two Carolinas and Gergia, and it any man thinks of leaving this section for another to better his :on dition, he should first make an ex cursion through South Carolina tn d Gergia. Land is of course cheep there and high in Cleveland but it is cheaper in Cleveland because it is so much more productive. Columbus a Gem Columbus is a ('em in Southwest Georgia. It is a beautiful city with beautiful shade streets. The tre^s give that city more advertising than all the industrial plums and tall buildings'.* Most of the streets have a wide park in the center. The paved drive-ways are on bath tides of lit!.: center park. Then from the s-dt v alks to these drive-waks arc tv i more wide park-ways as smooth 83 a floor and as green as a carpet. Six nws of shade trees like these ave nues and the ciiv realizes its func tion and responsibility in keeping up these park-ways. -There are some 10,000 people in Columbus. There are many ultra-rieh, thousands •'f good livers, hut the bulk of the inhabitants arc colored people, driven in from the farms because of <he weevil deva.-ta tion. Motor busses arc replacing street tars in Columbus as i.» many other cities. Those* busses make schedule trips over the cit*\ covering streets that were never before served by tin. trolley. Electric car tracks have been taken up and the city rides on rubber, Whether they qwn the whe-is oi not. Through the edge of the city move.; the Tuscaloosa river. A half dozen dam 11s up and down the river banns from Columbus, furnish power to light the city and drive the industrial wheels. In that immediate section the hydro-electric power is as abundant as it is in Piedmont Carolinas and as a consequence, Columbus has many industrial plants and a large pay-roll. Some of die largest textile mills in the South arc in Columbus and they are having prosperous times, de«;vte the general depression. The hug' mill has a long contract to fuin'-h fabric for a large automobile tire manufacturer. Columbus is the homo' ef Chero-Cola and the center of man- j tfacture for cotton gins that are used throughout the South. Interest In Athletics Keen interest is manifest in atme t'<■ sports. Columbus belongs to a baseball league composed of Geourmj Alabama and Florida cities and she ; has just completed a model ball park, surrounded by a high fence, bleachers j and grand-stand. The fans had not ] had a team for several years and they I "ere baseball hungry, so the atter.o-: unco is good and Columbus tops o r j dst in standing with St. Augustin.-, tunning a close second. Betting is! Popular and there is little respect for Iho Volstead ac,t. Rum runners and j distillers draw small punishment, for i the courts do not seem to be wholly >n sympathy with a bone dry country tine noted rum dealer was recently arrested. He had operated long j enough to make a small fortune in profit on good imported brand that j lend in ship sides along the Flo-idn | (oast. The judge before whom he "as tried looked sternly down uron | the defendant and asked him if be; could pay a fine of $100. Of course h( said such a heavy (?) imposition v as cruel and beyond his human, Power to stand. “Well, sir,” said: the judge, assuming an air of iron-1 like cruelty. “I’ll fine you $25; can Jou pay that?” “Perhaps I can; at ( least I’ll try,” said the profiteering j bootlegger who could have bought the j county court house had it been on the Market. Columbus boasts of 9 stadium (that, Is second to few in the South. *■ It "as built by the city at a cost of thousands of dollar v yet it is used only once a year io. a groat football classic between popular college teams et Alabama and Georgia. The at tendance each year exceeds 15.000 1-eople from the two. states. 1'.very town has its first paints 0| excellence—outstanding things vrhit'll bring the town to the loretrom. ( olumbus has many brags, but there are three in which everybody is interested, there the last battle in the war between the states was ■ cught. There .he first plant to manufacture ice was manufactured and the old plant still puts out ma chines. 1 here, or 15 miles out. is 1'ort Henning, the- largest military camp in the world. A Military Camp roiv Henning was a war tamp dur ing the World War. While others have been abandoned. Fort Henning has grown into permanency. Fifteen thousand soldiers are stationed there and many of them are officers sent from schools to complete their train ing. Over the army reservation em bracing fi.OOO acres, thousands of soldiers are engaged, every ’ day m mimic warfare. These battles rage day in and day out and leaders count the number of would-be dead at the end of the engagement. The Reds end the Blues are scored in a mathemati cal way bv men experienced in war fare. who determine victory and de feat. Hundreds of army tanks stood last Sunday in great sheds, awaiting their call to action. Thousands of horses stood ready for their mounts t< take them to the fron. where the battle raged. Airplanes soared over head, spying down on the enemy camp and signalling back to the men behind the guns, telling them how near they were tiring and how ef fective were che results of such file. Thousands of permanent and tei,. porary houses and dog tents com posed the huge camp which the s. i diers call home. One of the most in teresting sites about Columbus is Fort Henning which is never quiet, hut al ways as active as if the nation were actually preparing for immediate conflict with another nation, Out In I he Sticks Another jaunt U> the country from Columbus carried us across the river into Alabama with Mr. Dixon Smith, former Shelby boy who is engaged in the lumber business in Alabama. M'\ Smith has been down eight years, lie now has under his direction lit saw mills dotted here and there in the Ala bama swamps. Thousands of negroes are in his employ and he seems to have made friends with them. Twice a year he gives them a “big day,” with barbecue and “treats” and 'he “boss” is looked upon as "king”. The negro preachers take their texts from the Bible but devote much of their si Tiltons to Mr. Smith who has been such a friend to the black man. m more ways than one. The Smith-Thomas Lumber Co. of which he i. head has a large plant r mill out on the edge of a railroad that runs through a forest and front that mill two car loads of lumber are leaded daily. Millions of feet are cut end shipped every year. Its a long process front the time the tree is tut it; the forest to the time it goes into railroad cars, dressed and ‘ rabb t ted” ready for the market, for in this process it must cure three months and be hauled scverafTimes—from the ft ), tst to the saw mill, thence to nut planer. Atlanta Light' Returning home 1 stopped for a few hours in Atlanta. Ga.. and met for the first time in 25 years, a former Shelby boy and play-mate, Armond Carroll, whom 1 had not seen for a quarter of a century. Mr. Carroll is at imr specialty advertising and each January when you read in the mal'ers of the building records of the past jear, you arc reading a compilation i>t facts which he has gathered aft' r i a year’s effort. Mr. Carroll has a beautiful home: near the Governor’s mansion and a most attractive wife whose presence is deughtful. She ir, i lender in the social and musical 'lift1 of Atlanta; being a finished musician. Atlanta has become famed as a musi cal center, largely because of Mrs. Carroll’s talent and efforts in behalf j if the an. One lieui- at night, uriving throug.i the business section, would not per mit much of a survey of Atlanta, the New York of the South, but the ligh .% high in the sky proves that, it is truly a metropolis. Dozens of fine hotels are over-run with guests every night. Building continues at a rapid pace and daylight is not long enough to get some jobs done on time. Sears Roe buck. that mammoth mail order house is building a six or eight story dis tributing building and retail store combined. It must be completed ^' a limited time so the contractor had two or three shifts of hands engaged. At night the large building is lighted front top to bottom and work proceeds without interruption. I forgot to ask if work stopped for Sunday. The South is forgetting its God to which u has clung with such faith and fid elity these many years. Sunday pic ture show; houses and Sunday base* Itall games are well patronized, even in Columbus and the larger a city gets, the more it forgets, so Atlanta must be worse in this respect! All Steel Body Logical Step In Car Of Future The Dodge Brothers are known the world over for one contribution of immeasurable importance to the auto mobile industry—successful produc tion of the first passenger automobiles ' fitted with all steel open bodies an,! the first with all steel closed bodies, j The importance of this achievement ; will, in the future regarded just as much an epoch in the automobile in dustry as the successful building of the first steel passenger coaches is 1o railway transportation and all-steel 1 steamships u> navigation. The Dodge Brothers, according to George A. Stone, saw clearly ‘he need for the all steel motor car. “And now the whole automobile industry,” says | Mr, Stone "has begun to recognise I tV>at the all steel body is the automo bile body of the future. "It is entirely logical to look to '■ Dodge Brothers motor car—on which \ have been devoted over eleven yc:u s | of constant effort toward improvc ■ ment of the art of building all steel ! bodies. The low graceful all steel ! closed bodies now displayed stand out as the crowning achievement. The ; slender steel pillars afford bread*h of vision heretofore unapproached in closed car bodies, yet the ttrentfthl and safety for which D'ige Brother1*' motor cars have become so well kno vu are unimpaired. The method of weld ing and riveting the pressed steel body frame members and panels v'o one well-braced assembly insures ab solute freedom from loose joints and | squeaks throughout the long life of | the sturdy body."—adv. Mr*. Caldwell On Shelby And Thackers (O. M, Page of Observer.) “Fi will interest Charlotte people to ; know that Dr. Truest Thacker, noted! evangelist of ^*.e Southern P res by- I terian church, spent last Sunday in J Shelby, joining Mrs. Thacker w.oo has been there for several weeks ' on-1 ducting a series of talks to women, ’ said a prominent woman of Shelby. j “I)r. Thacker in one of his last si r n ons said that Shelby folk-, ai d others will not soon forget, lie sa d: ‘As for me I would rather live for a i little time with a few hypocrites in r. I church down here, than five for e'er; in a miserable eternity with all the! hypocrites.’ The idea took possession of Shelby. The Star said of it: ‘A . we see it the statement leaves nothing to be.said awl is eharaetfk isi ir of li e mental ability of the man who recent ly closed a very beneficial series of services in Shelby.’ *'l>r. Thacker is widely known in Charlotte. He is one of the ablest, most original and prominent men of the l .luthern church, and his wife— a Dixon of Shelby—is one of the abl est women (f her day. The two are well yoked together. They pull to gether menially, and in every way, hence their great success—Two bril liant stars in conjunction.” FOR HKNDERSON VILLI’. STARTS Hendersonville New* Announcement of the beginning <-f j an eighteen apartment building which ' w ill he completed at a cost of $S0,- ! 1*00 and on which work began, to be! erected by R. L. Bibee, lumber dealer j of Hendersonville and Sheville, will be one of unusual interest here. Anoth er big development which will he not ed with interest is the erection of a bulk station by the Gulf Refining company, on property bought yester-! day from J. Logan llaee on Church street at the intersection with the Transylvania railroad. This purchase was concluded yesterday and will re present an investment of around $bt). 000 upon its oompleu >n. Mr. Bibee's apartment; are on Fifth j Avcmie West. This n the se.au.-l j large Fifth avenue \V. .*t building pro- j . jict in recent weeks. It is anticipat ed that the apartments, furnished, will represent un outlay of around $100. 000. The Poor Shoemaker Did you ever hear of a poor shoe maker who wished very much that the Christ would visit him? He made his little shop neat and clean, nnd waited day after day for the wonder tul visitor. A tiny little girl, cold and hungry, stopped, and the cobbler gave her a glass of warm milk and some food. Another time an old, old wo man stopped to rest as she was carry ing a great bundle of WQod to her home, and the old cobbler took the wood from her, and after giving her food, carried it the rest of the way. A beggar was passing in the driving lain and the old cobbler called him ia and gave him shoes for his bruised teet. At night as the cobbler was going to bed he was sad, for the Guest he so longed for had not come. Anil then he heard a voice which said, “Three times I came to your friendly door, Three times my sTiaUow was on your floor; I was the beggar with bruised fret, I was the woman you gave to eat I was the child on the friendless street.” si— coo v ucs otvt^e d co« \V<*3 j vVll>1 ..ere deV>^,nced ***» 5uor an^ e 7_-«notn"'-T oo: ^vere -««cc« *-« a c°°n ^VkC iest the that «*« -ca\, cc«nc ^\a tc«l VJh<“ *&*«**“ ot ^oti niea"_5 „nU co°u ,,,in. Th'5 '“...lection* meftVcr^cWon-, usc a *■ * --nod ^97 — fi00 ^ unr VOU ' rtfli»- 1 , «erlec cook \ ;«<> e*V>cr. ® cooV.^^cotid-uo08. Step into any dealer’s store and sec the Per fection stove endorsed by six famous cooks. All sizes, from one-burner models at $6.75 to live-burner ranges at *120.00. You, too, will be pleased ~ with the 1926 Perfection. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Distributors ■* 26 Broadway ■» New York PERFECTION Oil Cook Stoves and Ovens Manufactured by PERFECTION STOVE COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio Warning: Use only genuine Perfection wicks on Perfection Stoves. They are marked with red triangle. Others will cause trouble. FOR BEST RESULTS We Handle Perfections And Repairs PARAGON FURNITURE COMPANY “On The Square” Shelby, N, C. USE “STAN DARD KEROSENE v PERFECTIONS Sold In Shelby By ftILMERte 'V/ r.'.-TTrv .-.TXTMrrrm PERFECTIONS Can Always Be Had At SHELBY HARDWARE COMPANY Phone 330. In the Kitchen ^6 Famous Cooks NOVEL MEXICAN DISHES Pacific Coast Expert Tells How to Prepare Them (Editor'* Note: This U on* of an unusual rooking serin contributed to this paper bp sis famous rooks. Cut It out and pasta in pour cook book.) Enchiladas, picadillo, Span ish rice, beans a la Ayre, and refritos! Those words conjure up pic tures of most palatable and spicy dishes to the Spaniard. And many an American has fallen for their tempting tooth someness. Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn, Mrs. kate home e c o - brew vaugmn nomica direc tor, Los Angeles, and author of several cook books, was taught how to make these dishes by a Mexican lady. Fragrant and Delicious Mrs. Vaughn gives the following directions for making enchiladas. The gravy may be mane the day be fore. Its Ingredients are: 4 ounces chill peppers. 1 Vi pounds tomatoss, Z slices hard toast. 1 small onion, 1 pinch each of clove, thyme, pepper, sugar, and salt. Open pepper*, and If It Is not de sired very hot. remove veins and seeds. Soak In boiling water about 10 minutes. Skin tomatoes by hold ing over flame, Put toast and onion through food chopper and then strain all the Ingredients in order to make a smooth gravy. Melt two tablespoons shortening In frying pan. add gravy, and simmer slowly until smooth and thick. I Filling for Enchiladas (Picadillo) I 1 pound pork 1 tablespoon shortening 1 teaspoon chopped onion ' Clove of garlic (chopped) H cup chill sauce 1 tablespoon chopped green olives 1 tablespoon chopped, blanched ad monds 1 tablespoon raisins (chopped) 1 teaspoon vinegar 1 pinch salt 1 pinch sugar 1 teaspoon olive oil Roll pork until tender, then chop fine. Melt shortening and fry pork until brown. Add onion, garlic, and chill sauce, and fry for three min utes. Add olives, almonds, and raisins, and cook two or mors min utes. Just before removing add vinegar, salt, sugar and otlvs OIL Malta Tortillas, Too 1 quart white flour 1 cup lard 2 teaspoons salt Enough water or milk to make dough sufficiently thick to roll out like biscuit. Divide Into balls size of turkey egg end pat between the hands until thin and round and cook on top of the stove without grease. After frying, dip In hot gravy, place on plate, and place 1 Vi tablespoons of Ailing In center. Roll tortilla loosely and garnish with gravy, grated cheese, sliced opion that has been soaked In salt water a few minutes, a green olive, blanched almond, radish, and a sprig of parsley. Spanish Rico 1 cup rice 1 tablespoon shortening 1 tablespoon chopped onloa 1 clove of garlic b» cup tomato sauce 1 quart boiling water Pepper and salt to taste Melt the shortening, add the onion, and partially cook, not al lowing to brown. Add to rice and fry until brown. Add the tomato sauce a little at a time, allowing each portion to almost cook dry be fore adding more. Add the boiling water. Do not stir, and allow to simmer slowly until done. If It Is necessary to add more water, be sure It Is boiling. Do mat stir. Re quires about 1H hours of cooking. Delicious String Beans Here's a new way to prepare string beans—a la Ayre. IJse m pounds string beans or green beans. 3 eggs, and 2 teaspoons cornstarch. took string beans until tender. Separate into bundles of eight or ten. Make batter by beating whites Of eggs until stiff. Add slightly beaten yolks. Continue to beat adding cornstarch. Place a bundle £i.!?»“niB orL a tablespoon and place In batter, working batter around the beans with the spoon. Fry in hot fat until brown on all sauce ■ 3erV® with th# foll<>«ln» 1 teaspoon shortening 1 teaspoon garlic 1 teaspoon chopped onion 1 small tomato 1 teaspoon cornstarch. . "alt. pepper, and sugar «^i5U#Bhort^n,ni in fr3r*»>* pnn and cook for a few minutes. Add the tomato chopped fine, and cook until almost dry. Add cornstarch and enough water to make a smooth sauce. Add salt and pepper. “Fink Beam," Too th.» 5rt«*japo^iwufi3S^ stikLsrs&sg—*Md r,S3! •«"ri8i!1 *,etni well, and cook with •n°uyh water to cover well Boil yysa m tx-t J§ :s ■*'«* temporarily. In th« im. fc-TS pan pour Um and f^for&X minutes. Huh, add the cheese and tho?ou£hlyU,C* ,r0m *>*■«»■• *"<» mli *p(55in “">d infntim'/ZjU& %&£?* *"
Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, N.C.)
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