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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928.
TWINKLES
—
Sh'elby still spreads.
The Florida state chamber of commerce in classing the
recent storm there as a mere zephyr and a breeze should be
ranked in the making of statements with North Carolina's
proxy at Houston—the Hon. Frank Hampton who declared
“Smith will be stopped.”
•• Dr. W. L. Poteat has always held the respect and admir
ation* Of this paper, but we cannot understand, considering
the “going-on” now, how he can see his way clear to predict
that “universal brotherhood is not far distant.” Still we
have heard that a calm usually follows a storm.
“Anyway,” says The Charlotte Observer, “we count the
church, the party and the country fortunate if the debate is
definitely off.” The debate referred to is the Straton-Smith
affair, and the Observer makes a wise observation yet it will
be mkny years before the people will quit debating who would
have been the biggest loser had the debate been staged—
Hmith, Straton, the church, the party, or the country.
It is nothing new for Shelby, or any other town we pre
sume, to have a shortage of city water due to the lack of
rain, but the fact that city water is scarce now due to too
much rain flooding the pump station is a novelty. Perhaps
if our latest edition of the chamber of commerce had not
ceased to function months back we would be in a fair way of
claiming a world record of some sort or another.
Chairman Odus Mull says that the executive committee
meeting in Raleigh next week has only one important prob
lem to attend to—the naming of a new national committee
man. But in tbe light of recent events we would advise our
fellow townsman that there should be some importance in
seeing that the new committeeman is suitably fitted up with
a proxy-bearer well versed in politics and availability.
HEALTH ANI) LIVING
STATISTICS ISSUED by the United States Public Health
P Service show that women, more ailing than men, live
longer than men on the average. In this instance the actual
statistics may be seen in life. In our observation women who
are sick more than men not only live longer than men but
pien, who are sick usually live longer than men who are not.
Such a statement perhaps sounds foolish, but look about' you.
Ifthe man who was afflicted with tuberculosis, while in
1 i early stages, or some other disease or ailment, and if
it man has been taking care of his health, as he should it
Mil be seen that in advanced life he has more years before him
flan the'apparently healthy man. The latter, feeling good
Ed seldom ill, does not bother to follow rigid rules in pro
:t
ting himself. Meantime he never learns to combat disease.
When he becomes sick the illness is more liable to prove fatal
|fan it would to the man who has built up his constitution to
Jgmbat disease.
w Many men, and women, expected to die early in life have
Jiftlived those who wore in the “pink of health” when the
ffrmer first became ill. Merely because they took care of
ffemselves—a minor matter that the person in good health
llnnot be bothered with.
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A NEW REASONING
.ANY' NUMBER OF REASONS and chain of facts have
been advanced to show why A1 Smith will be defeated in
November but Spencer Murphy, writing in his column "Cross
A-oatfe,” advances a new one. According to Murphy the old
est basis of human estimate may prove the undoing of the
•New York governor—that being the law of averages.
By the law of averages the same thing cannot keep up
forever and no man can win every battle. As Murphy sees
££ Smith is winning too consistently now to keep it up and
defeat must be somewhere ahead. Since becoming a pfesi
Jc&ntial candidate Smith has won one victory after another;
"everything he turns his hand to seems to turn out well for
turn. ^Uncanny,” says Murphy as he refers to the Straton
J^fnith clash in which the governor bested, as far as the pub
lic is concerned, the Calvary paster.
“Victory after victory is pushing A1 Smith on and on;
♦tint at the same time the law of averages may be storing up
Jyiergy for a fatal victory,” writes Murphy. ____ __ . __
f - “I always like to see Smith come out on top in any dis
unite; but all of these preliminary triumphs are not going to
Irt; good for him in November unless a few defeats come along
^between now and then to satisfy that rule of humanity which
Screes that every man has to lose sometime.”
HOW SMITH STANDS
INURING THE PRESENT campaign A1 Smith's stand on
prohibition has been painted in numerous ways. One
#rj,‘port will have it that the Democratic candidate favors the
return of saloons, another that he wants beer and light wines,
*i£nd still another that he wants neither but believes the pro
hibition laws as they are now have proven a failure.
' ; With all the wet and dry controversy it: is odd that
Smith’s own statement when he repealed the Mullan-Gage
".art has been presented to the public very little although it
is the best of evidence as to how he stands on the liquor ques
tion. So comments the Richmond News-Leader in quoting
jSmith as follows concerning the act:
“With all the earnestness that I am able to bring to m\
command, let me assure the thousands of people who wrote
to me on this subject . . . that the repeal of the Mullan-Gage
law \vill not and cannot by any possible stretch of the imag
ination bring back into existence the saloon, which is and
ought to be a defunct institution in this country, and any
attempt at its re-establishment by a misconception of the
executive attitude on this bill will be forcefully and vigorous
ly suppressed.”
“I yield to no man in my reverence and respect for the
Constitution of the United States, and I advocate nothing
which will infringe upon the provisions of the eighteenth
amendment. It is, nevertheless, a fact that the definition
"cf an intoxicating beverage contained in the Volstead act is
ot an honest or c commonsense one.’
, T"T"ontmuing the News-Leader says:
“That language is explicit enough to admit of no cavil:
_
‘The saloon ... is and ought to he a defunct institution; I !
advocate nothing which will infringe upon the provisions of
the eighteenth amendment.That was said on June 1. 1923, j
and it stands today, hut it will he news to many people. It is
not the kind of quotation that the enemies of Governor Smith
care to circulate.”
Business In Asheville Is Near
Standstill Due To Heavy Rain
Asheville'.—Counting its damage
in the hundreds of thousands, the
Asheyille district Thursday was
struggling to restore normal condi
tions as the flood waters that prac
tically have paralysed communica
tion. traffic and business in general
began to recede.
Industries and public utilities
companies suffered most heavily
from flood while the corn and small
grain crop of the region was esti
mated to have been cut front a
fourth to a half by the wind and
rainstorms and swollen rivers.
The entire valleys of the Swan
nanoa and French Broad rivers
were under water Thursday rhorn-!
ing. No trains were running, street
car services were at a standstill, in
certain sections there were no lights,
the principal highways were blocked,
half the long distance telephone!
lines were cut. and 900 Asheville [
telephone stations were reported in ■
trouble Thursday morning. The;
city department of public works
was swamped bv. calls from every
section of the city where,basements
and first floors of homes have,
been swept by the excess surface
waters which the inadequate storm
sewer system failed to carry off.
Old Baptist Church Did Not
Allow Members Much Gayety
Three-Forks Oldest C hurch West
Of Blue Ridge. Started In
Last Century.
The. homecoming meeting recent -
ly of the Three Forks Baptist
church, oldest church nest of the
Blue Ridge, brought together some
of Watauga's oldest citizens and re
called to mind that at a time when
there were no courts and no officers
of the law in this section, a little log
church on the banks of New River
was the one great moral force that
stood as an outpost of civilization
on a mountain frontier." Rupert
Gillett writes in The Charlotte Ob
server.
Discussion by the older members
brought forlh reminiscences of the
early times, when almost the only
time the people of the mountains
got together was at the Saturday
meetings of the church.
They told of the famous revival
meeting held by Larkin Hodges, a
meeting that drew people from far
and near. They came from Cove
Creek, Shulls Mills, the Globe, Old
Fields, and many another isolated
community hidden in the inaccessi
ble hollows of the mountains.
There were no roads, only trails,
and the people came mostly on
i horseback. though many walked
and some came in ox carts.
A Great Revival.
Never before or since has a reviv
. al meeting awakened such enthus
1 iasm in the mountains. for fifty
| additions were made to a -church
: whose total membership did not
reach that figure before the revival.
Some of the old people at the
meeting could remember Reuben
; Farthing, one of the greatest
j preachers this county ever had. He
j was ordained by the Three Forks
Baptists church about 1333, and for
many years he rode the circuit,
preaching at Cov? Creek. the
Globe, Beaver Dam and other com
munities that could be reached only
{on horseback
i nurt n wiinoui iieui.
In the rigorous winter weather of
Watauga .county, the congregations
could hot keep warm in such a
building, and so they built a great
log fire outside. They warmed them
selves by this fire and then went
inside and listened to the sermon
as long as they could, endure the
cold, and then came out and warm
ed by the fire again. How the
preacher kept warm is not record-'
. ed. but those who remember the old
style of preaching aver that the de
livery of a sermon in those days in
volved enough exercise to keep any
! one warm.
After the lengthy sermon was
finished, the preacher had to b"
paid his fee. As there « as no money
j in the community, he was given ten
dollars worth of rye and went back
1 to his own country.
Slow But Powerful.
The growth of the church was
very slow in the early days, but
during the first quarter of the
' nineteenth century, according to ,
! the ancient minutes of the church, j
delegations from this church were1
j sent to help organize churches at i
; Cove Creek, Beaver Dam, the Globe, J
r and Old Fields. These churches
' were then formed into the Three
i Forks association, which comprised
all of Ashe county (then including
Watauga i a part of Caldwell and
i a large section of Tennessee.
1 The church realized its power and
exercised it. if the old minutes can
be taken as an indication. Sister
Eggers and. Sister Miller got into
some kind of neighborly altercation
j late in 1796. and the church decided
1 that quarreling among members
could not be tolerated and appoint
j ed a committee to call on the two1
! ladies and try to patch up their dif-!
| ficulty. But the two quarrelsome sis- J
j tors refused to be reconciled, and '
i both were excommunicated.
One sister Comfort is said to have
called a certain piece of cloth |
!- erossbarred." Various good mem
i bers of the church knew for a fact
| that the cloth was "tow lumen"
and not cross-barred goods Where- j
fore, Sister Comfort was called be
fore the church tribunal on a charge j
of lying, and. being convicted, was'
excommunicated. J
The Boone Family.
A certain Brother Parr was ac
cused before the church meeting in
December. 1801. of letting his chil
dren go naked and was called upon
to "show us a cause" why such in
decency was permitted. Apparently j
at the next meeting the cause was i
shown, for the minutes read ' The
matter being considered and he ac
quitted."
The longest quarrel between the
church and any member seems to
have been the one with Jesse
Boone, nephew of Daniel, who lived
on Boone's Fork, six miles from
Blowing Rock. The quarrel began
when Bocne demanded that Jerc- j
miah Greene removed a landmark. [.
Greene refused, and for a long time
the controversy ran on. Finally, a :
committee from the church and |
one from the Globe church met at j
Greene's home at Blowing Rock,
just under the mountain that still!
bears Greene'S name.
Jesse Boone refused to have any- I
thing to do with the two commit
tees and declared that the church j
was out of order, which, presumably j
means that it had no jurisdiction in
the case. The church suspended
Jesse until he could give satisfac
tion for being so disrespectful.
An Intractable Woman.
It seems that Mrs. Greene went to j
Mrs. Boone to try to get their hus-:
bands together. but Sister Boone
was no more tractable than her
husband. She asserted, according to
Mrs. Greene's report to the church,
that she joined the church merely
because her husband did. but there
were "members in it she could not j
fellowship with." Sister Boone was [
declared a disorderly member and t
excommunicated.
The Boones remained unrepent
ant as long as they stayed in Wa
tauga county. A later entry savsj
that the matter of Jesse Boone be
ing considered, he is considered "no
longer a munks us." After they had
gone to McMinn county, Tenn.,
they seem to have tried to join a
church there, for Mrs. Boone wrote
back to the Three Forks church
asking for a letter. The request w as
held over four months and then de
clined, unless Sister Boone "gave j
satisfaction.”
Apparently she failed to do this j
for the letter is not mentioned in ‘
any subsequent minutes. Jesse;
Boon-', however, tried also to get his |
letter, but he waited five years aft- j
er his wife's attempt. In 1828, the
church received a communication j
from McMinn county asking a let
ter for Jesse Boone. Very curtly the
church declined to grant this let-,
ter, and that is the last of the!
Boones' connection with this
church.
These are only a few examples of i
the many and varied offenses of
which the church took cognizance ! i
If a miller gave short measure, he i
was before the church tribunal to j
answer for it. If two young lovers j
spent the church hour walking
along a shady lane instead of lis- |1
tening to the sermon, they had to’
explain at the next meeting of the I
church. Such activit.ls' ol the
church may not agree with our
present-day notions of religious
freedom, but they certainly exerted \ i
a strong influence for good.
N. C. HANKS HIGH IN
CIVILIAN-OWNED AIRPLANES
Raleigh.—North Carolina must
give attention in the near future to j
state regulation of airplane traffic.
Thorndyke Saville, chief engineer 01
the state department of conserva- |
tion and development, said today in
announcing figures showing that the j
state ranks 21st in the country in
the number of civilian owned planes, j
There are 38 planes owned by
civilians, of whom 20 have been j
licensed by the United States de- [
partment of commerce, he said.
Ownership of airplanes by civilians
in other southeastern states shows
Virginia with 47. Georgia 44 and
Tennessee 41. California has the
greatest number of planes of all!
states with 639. Texas leads the I
south with 269.
Pull That Jaw In
Chicago.—Another pet belief has
been exploded by science. It is
the theory that a protruding jaw
indicates pugnacity. "The fact that
a man has a jaw like a mastodon,"
said Dr. Fred Fletcher, addressing
the National Conference of Dental
Technicians, “by no means implies
that he is fearless or aggressive.
The man with a squirrel-like jaw
may be a stick of dynamite in.com
parison.” {
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SUNDAY AUG. 19th
DINNER NO 1—$1.25
Cantaloupe nr Chicken Soup
Broiled Steak or Roast Beef or
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Apple Wheels
Choice of Three Vegetables
Stewed Corn Creamed Potatoes Peas
Asparagus on Toast
— SALADS —
Fruit Vegetable Head Lettuce
— DESSERTS —
Chocolate Layer Cake
Tutti Frutti Ice Cream With Cake
Raisin Pie
Rolls Biscuit Salt Rising Bread Corn Bread
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DINNER NO 2—$1.00
Cantaloupe or Chicken Soup
Fried Chicken with rice and gravy, or Roast Beef,
or Baked Ham
Apple Wheels
Choice of 2 Vegetables, Salad, Dessert, and
Beverage on Dinner Above.
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Roast Beef or Fried Chicken with rice and gravy
Choice of 2 vegetables, salad, dessert and beverage
on dinner No. 1 above.
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Dairy Cow
There’s no longer any guess work
about it—dairying does pay when the
farmer who tries it has a steady mar
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can produce. We offer that market to
the farmers of this section.
Chickens and pigs to turn the skim
milk into dollars and a year by year in
creasing fertility of the soil add to the
real prof its ^which dairying will bring.
For 18 years this creamery has serv
ed the people of Cleveland county and
surrounding counties, paying the high
est prices, giving every patron a square
deal, small or large. Send your cream
to us and you will be satisfied in every
respect.
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Creamery Co.
Makers of the Famous Shelby Giltedge
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