Story Of How Battleground At
Kings Mountain Missed Being
In North Carolina Is Related
Interesting History In Story In
View Of Approaching Meet
There.
The publicity committee for the
Sesqul-Oentennial celebration of the
battleground has this week sent out
the following story to more than 250
newspapers scattered over the Unit
ed States.
By A. M GRIST.
Located In York County.
When the subject of the approach
Jng sesqui-centennlal celebration to
be held at historic Kings Mountain
battleground comes up for discuss
ion, there is invariably a good bit
of difficulty experienced in con
vincing those from distBit points
that Kings Mountain battleground is
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In reality in York county, South
I Carolina, and not in North Caro
[ lina; in fact, while it should be a
matter of more shame to them, yet
! there are some South Carolinians
ignorant enough to be unaware of
the fact that the great struggle
termed by many historians as the
turning point of the Revolutionary
was, was fought on South Carolina
soil.
It may be true that if the South
Carolina state line, separating it
from the sister state of North Car
olina, were absolutely straight, the
battle of Kings Mountain would
have been left in North Carolina;
but that matter would, of course,
depend entirely upon where the
straight line began.
Old And Familiar Legend
One favorite story told by North
Curolinjans, and generaly accepted
in South Carolina as a fact, is that
the people living in the two pro
vinces vitally effected were so in
tensely Jealous o£j each other that
when the time came for a state line
to be run between the two states,
neither section was willing to abide
by the findings of any surveyors
chosen by the other section, and it
became necessary to Import some
more or less learned surveyors from
the state of Virginia. The Cavaliers -
arrived in due* time and began tlreir
work, proceeding famously until
they reached Just about what is now
York county and found themselves
it. the hilly country making up the
range known as Kings Mountain.
Here, it is alleged, they stumbled
upon some particularly fine apple
brandy, and as the source and sup
ply In those days was plentiful, the
surveyors made headquarters in this
section for a week or more running
lines in every conceivable direction
alter the potent beverage began to
take effect. A fine start would be
made in the morning, but after the
surveyors hact Imbibed a few ‘ shots"
of the apple brandy, they Invariably
found it necessary to retrace their
steps and begin anew. They some
! times traveled in a circle, sometim
es at a tangent, and sometimes they
did not travel at all. The final re
sult was that the North and South
Carolina line bounding York and
Cherokee counties Is as crooked as
the proverbial “dog’s hind leg" and
North Carolina has always main- j
talned that quite, a bit of valuable |
territory, particularly York county", i
Including the famous battleground,1
would have been locateci in North |
Carolina, had net those surveyors j
feund that delectable apple brandy, j
Seeking Speed Record
For Transatlantic Flight
A closc up of Eiroll Boyd, iormci
captain in the Koyal Air Force <>)
Canada, who hopes to break tin
speed record for a crossing of tin
Atlantic Ocean in a (light he wil
attempt in June. Boyd plans tc
leave Montreal soon after June 1
stop for refuelling at Harbor
Orr.ce, Newfoundland, and then
on to Europe.
South Carolina Is inclined to take
that story with a sniff.
Fquality Established In 1710
Historical records show that not
until 1710 was equality established
between the two states as to gov
ernors. The instructions to Governor
Hyde were the first to distinguish
between North and South Carolina.
In l715 Colonel Monroe Moore led
his forces past the old Clarendon
settlement on his way to aid South
Carolina during the Yemassee war,
and the fertility of (he region so
won his favor that upon his return j
hr established himself on the banks
of the Cape Fear and other settlers
were attracted, the result being that
both South Carolina and Virginia
laid claim to the attractive lands.
State Line ltun In 17.78.
Not until 1738 wal the line be
tween North and South Carolina ac
tually run. The King had fixed its
beginning at the nothewest of Long
Eay to run thence northwest to 35
degrees north latitude, thence west
to the south seas. The commission
began at a cedar stake on the sea
shore by the mouth of Litti* river
and having run a northwest line un
til they arrived at what they con
ceived to be the 35th degree, they
altered their course by mutual con
sent and ran west to the Pee Dee
river. Afterwards, it was extended 2Q
miles by private persons, and was
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Kings Mtn. Event
To Be Big Affair
Gastonia Gazette.
By actual count some 8f>6 people
visited the site of the Kings Motin- }
tain battleground Sunday and there |
were cars noted from 11 different:
states.
This item of news will give an 1
idea of the popular appeal the forth
coming celebration is exerting. The j
October event will probably be the
biggest thing of its sort ever held ;
1 ereubouts. No crowds ever assem-.
bled around here, either in North
ot South Carolina, will approach j
the number that will be present. j
This is an opportunity that this
section of Piedmont Carolina should j
not overlook. Nortli and South Car
olina are coming In for some mighty
fine publicity on account of this big
event. If President Hoover finds it
possible to conic, the affair Will take
cn even greater magnitude. High
dignitaries from every section of the
United States will come. The event
v ill be broadcast over the country
through the radio and moving pic- j
tore.
To this end it behooves every one
who has anything to contribute to!
Ire celebration to do hts part to
ward making it a success.
Residents of this section of North
and South Carolina ought to be
making plans to invite friends and
relatives from other sections of the
country. It ought to be made a big
homecoming event for North and
South Carolina folks who have left
this community for other states.
Invite them back for this week in
October. Let them bring others from
their adopted sections. Let every
bi cly hereabouts keep open house
t lie first week or ten days in Oct
ober.
The government Is taking a cen
sus and The Literary Digest a con
census.—Arkansas Gazette.
continued In 1764.
, This was taken for the true line
recording to Governor Tryon's proc
lamation in May, 1765, and Governor
Martin in 1771 informed the assem
bly that he was instructed to con
tinue the line as far as the Salis
bury road, thence until it strikes the
land of the Catawba Indians, thence
South to the Catawba river, thence
due west.
Be that as it may. a mixture of
folk-lore and historical truth the
fact remains that Kings Mountain
battleground does lie In York coun
ty, South Carolina, and all discus
sions dealing with the mammoth
celebration on next October 7th
should understand that while the
town of Kings Mountain Is situated
In Tarheelia, the great struggle
staged by the colonists on October
7, 1780, did take place on South
Carolina soil
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Hubby’s Pipe Gets
A Divorce For Her
Detroit.—Back in lb87, when
William and Sarah When were
married, friends wondered how
it would turn out. For Sarah,
who didn't like tobacco smok
ers and often said so, was mar
ried to William, who, next to his
wife, loved best a good strong
pipe.
Even in those days William's pipe
could be recognized by its odor as
far away as 50 paces.
For 43 years William and Sarah
shared fortune and misfortune; sev
en children came, grew up, and were
married. William stiil smoked and
Sarah still objected.
Came 1930, and William, now 73.
bought a clay pipe. It soon became
a good, strong clay pipe, and Will
iam liked it so well he often sat up
until 4 a. m. puffing, the aroma fill
ing the bedroom in which he and
Sarah, now 73, slept.
It was too much for Sarah.
"I've stood this for 43 years,” she
told Judge Adolph Marschncr. "Now
he's got to choose between us.
Either the pipe goes or I go.”
Today William When sits alone
in his room, an old man smoking an
old clay pipe, and Sarah lives with
a married daughter, whose husband,
out of consideration, refrains from
smoking around the house.
A man has been fined *for using
bad language over the telephone.
We understand that his excuse was
| that he was using the telephone.—
Punch.
If Will Hays makes the movies as
pure as he says he is, he’s going to
make us audiences feel awfully
ashamed of ourselves.—San Diego
Union.
What's all this fuss and expense
over the census when the whole job
could have been turned over to The
Literary Digest?—Watsonville Reg
ister.
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EXECUTRIX'S NO 1 ICE.
Notice ;s Hereby given that i nave tin
day qualified as executrix i X the wll* t»
Richard L. Thomson, deceased, late
Cleveland County, N C.. and all part-*
indebted to said estate will make ir.,
mediate payment to the undersigned. /.
persons having claims against said csten
will present them to me properly orove'
lor payment on or before February
1931. or this notice will oe pleaded In 03
of their recovery. This February 16. 1930
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of the Will of Richard L. Thomson
deceased.
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