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Days Of Colorful Pony Express Are Traced By Last Of Survivors William Campbell Recall* Relay He Had Alone Platte River. Car. rted Lincoln Message. N. Y. Times. Completion of the first trans continental telegraph line through the wild* of the Midwest and West seventy-one year# ago, on October 24, 1861, put an end to the famous pony express which for sixteen months had covered the 1 400 miles between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sac ramento, Cal. After echoes of their pounding horses' hoofs died away, the fearless riders. who "go: j through" In spite of hostile Indians, wolves, buffaloes, snow-storms and other frontier occupations. Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill lllckok, Ponv Bob Haslam, Jim Moore and all the rest of the transcontinental pony express riders have passed away now save one. The lone survivor is William Campbell of Stockton. Cal., the. only living man who can tell from personal experience of the glamor ous pony express days. His story Is presented in Dots and Dashes. Western Union Telegraph company publication, as follows: "1 was a bullwhacker, hauling provisions and military supplies bv wagon train to forts In the west In the spring of 1860, when Russell. Majors and Weddell decided to es tablish the pony express. Then I was sent north to the Oregon Trail io freight supplies to the pony ex press stations. “Tt was Deeember. I860, before 1 had my chance to rid®. I was 6 feet tall, weighed 140 pounds and was loo large, but many riders could not land the grind and .more were needed. My relay was between Val ley Station, eleven miles east of Port Kearny, and Box Elder Sta non, three miles west of Fort Mc - Pherson. This was 95 to 100 mile; along the Platte River, nnd my first ride was in a heavy snow storm •'I made a nara riae o\rr my carrying President Lincoln’s first message to congress. The pony ex press was put to tire test of carry ing this message. We got it through from 81. Joseph to San Francisco in 7 days and IB hour.'. Wr made another fast run with the news that Fort Sumter had been fired on “One night I came to a pack of large buffalo wolves finishing the carcass of some animal. They re fused to move when I rode at them, and my horse shied at the • metl of blood and the animals. I blew my horn, but it had no effect. There was nothing to do but try to flank and outrun them. I gave my scared horse his head, and the wolves finally fell back when the lights of the next station showed in a distance. The next day I poisoned a carcass, and twelve dead wolves were around It when f came back. I got squws from nar-by Slonx tepees to make the pelts into fine robe* “My first contact with the tele graph company was at For, Kear ny, at the western end of the tele graph line, where I stopped to pick up telegrams that travelled the re t ot the way to the west by potty ex press. I shall always remember the -mdness of Mr. Ellsworth, operator <>f the Western Union office at Fort Kearny. He was always ready 10 do a favor for the riders and u»-1 ually had coffee on hand It was lust prior to the Civil war. and Mr Ellsworth furnished us with news of. ;he impending struggle. I would *tt' and cat cookies and hear the news until the last minute, then go and maintain my schedule "Once I spent twenty-four hours ip the saddle carrying the mail to Fairfield, with snow two or three feet deep and the mercury around rero. I could tell where the trail lay only by watching the tall weeds on cither side, and often had to get off and lead my horse. There war no rider to go on at Fort Kerny, so t went on to Fairfield, twe.nty miles away. "Once my horse. Ragged Jim, stepped in a buffalo wallow in the dark, and I went over his head, dragging the mail bag with me, l could not find the horse, so set pff with the mail on, foot for the next station. Buffaloes were in thousand along the frail. If a rider ran into a herd of them he was lost .” 47 Children Are Reared By A Man Never Married 76-Year-Old Ohio Bachelor Always Too Busy To Get Married. Cincinnati, O. — A 76-year-oto bachelor who has reared 47 child-' ran sighed meditatively this week as he recalled, "they nearly all Minted out fine." Toe busy, yaara ago, paying off the mortgage on hi* farm, to mar ry, Everett Reese, never had any children “of his own.” but always found there were plenty of others in need of capable care ha wak,able to provide They oame to Raeee s farm near Abandon, o.. ttsm many places, some from the country childrens home, several from the juvenile court, and even a few from £he county Jail. For 29 year* there *B hardly a time that one or more children was not railing tiiin "Dad.’ Some of them were cherubs, some were imps. Some were boys, and some girls, borne would work oh the farm, and some would not. borne of them stole rims and tires from his trucks: others helped find the parts and put them back again. But "T never turned down any the of ficials wanted me to take," Reese said. "X took them all and did the best I could." His best was a home, food, and clothing: pay for those who would work so they could start bank ac counts of their own; and high school education for nil who wanted it. It all started when he, delivering milk to the children’s home, be came interested In some of the youngsters their. Years before. Reese had thought of marriage, But *'T was too busy paying off the mortgage and the lady wouldn't wait.” he explained. Bad Movies And. Booze Not Lure In America Now bdltor Holds Mingling Of Latin And Anglo-Saxoi.' Ideals Is Uniting Americas. Rio De Janeiro.— Renato de Al meida, staff editor of the Diarlo de Noticlas and an Under-Secretary of State, believes that the fascination the United States holds for Bra zilians does not necessarily origi nate In poor moving pictures, de tective romances or bad alcohol. Brazilians, he says, while gazing ad miringly at the American skyscrap ers. must also pass In review the writers and poets, the artistic cen tres, the culture and universities of their neighbor to the north. "American liberalism has served as a model for Brazilian institutions and some of the heroes of the United States, such as Washington, are honored by Brazil as though they were her own,” he writes. "The dynamic speed of the Americans grips the Brazilian’s mind, while the development of that country's moral qualities contributes to the enrich ment of humanity. The Rockefeller Foundation fighting yellow fever In Brazil and helping Europe In va rious ways, and the rebuilding of the Louvain Library by Americans, are expressions of humanitarian in stincts of a high moral value "The grandeur attained by the United States in one century and a I half and the development of that healthy energy which Is typically theirs are sufficient reason for us to forgive the deficiencies and im perfections of their moving pic tures. though theirs are the best; tlie detective romances, which Eu rope has passionately adopted, and the dangerous alcohol, the result of the Volstead act, which failed, but which, after all, was one of the greatest experiments of human good-will." The dissertation of Or. de Almei da Is the outcome of an Interview (riven to the Diario de Notlclas by Professor Charles Piccard of rrnnce. who believes that the Med iterranean culture is better suited to the Brazilian environment than the American. Dr. Piccard wishes to es tablish a profound difference be tween the Brazilian spirit derived from Iberian Catholics and the Am-! erlcan derived from "Protestant Quakers'* ; Dr. de Almeida, referring to Am erican influences on this, continent, believes that the European point of view and even that of certain Bra zilian snobs Is narrow and distort ed, "We feel," he continues, "that we ave the children of a continent en tirely different from the children of Pur ope, or. In the words of the late Brazilian statesman Joaquim Na buco, 'ours Is an irrefutable Ameri can entity,’ and if there are points |of divergency there are also point* iof contact which Brazil wishes to (develop and accentuate "The European opinion of the United States seems to be extreme ly biased, even if from their point of view it may seem Justified. But that point of view, so far as we Bra - zallans are concerned, is faulty. There ts not only a political Pari Americanism but also a sentimental Pan-Amerlcanlsm over and above the three spoken lauguages of jSeuth America. Even among those countries which are extremety an tagonistic to the United States that influence persists and must form a part of our destiny. "J-atln culture, Latin blood and] the Latin tongue thrown in the melting pot with Anglo-Saxon cul-' ture. blood and tongue is resulting' in an American meridian for the entire continent.” Qermarv a high i-ouri decided that President von Binder burg had the right to appoint Chancellor von Papen to the dictatorship of Prus sta. Nothing like making sure. World’s Fair Is Land Of Mystery Visitors, When It Opens Next Sum mer, Will See I,and Of Mystery. ' Chicago. Towers of scarlet flame shoot 500 feet into the sir. Rockets carrying passengers hiss green va por from their wakes as they dart 200 feet above the earth. Phosphorescent water cascades down sliver terraces. Vast walls glow under a bath of invisible ultra violet light. Smoke rises blur, turns yellow,. green, red, and vanishes In a glow of pale lavender. Foliage shimmers veflow under a coating of radium. Whole buildings are sheathed in dancing color. It is an enchanted city - the Chicago World’s Fair as it will look next summer and as it is beginning to look now. Imagine that you are In another world, or think of yourself ns wak ing from the wildest dream you ever had—and follow us on n. sum mery night through the main en trance. You step into a white ana blue bus such as you never have seen. It ] looks like a bullet on wheels. On the left is the amazing ad ministration building made princi pally of corncobs, colored a bril liant blue, and faced with towers of fife, which are cold to the touch. Across a lagoon, dotted with pink and yellow geysers, is a man-made island upon which rises the great semi-circular electric building. Shrieking up from earth every split second go flashes of lightning — the flaming ladder arcs which turn 33,000 volts of electricity into blinding light as they climb twin electrodes 300 feet high. The bus purrs to a halt under the mainland tower of the million dol lar sky ride. Another tower is on | the island. The towers are 600 feet high and half a mile apart. High speed elevators carry passengers to the top platform, moving in trans parents, golden-llghted shafts. At the 200-foot level, four cable tracks connect the towers. On these, eight rocket cars are running. The cars are 33 feet long, of glass and alumi num. Colored steam sprays from their wake To the right Is the ball of science, mysterious wlndowbss building, long, low and pigmented with lights which scintillate and change color like a doen rainbows reflected on the ripples of an inky lake Ir.sid sere things to make your hair stand on end, to make you gape in astonishment, but our bus rolls on. On both slaps of tbs roadway are monumental structures, all in this same weird arohlt-eetu'-al style and all illuminated as no building has been lighted bet ore. Ahead stands the unique travel and transport building, like a red and gold octa gon IK stories f'igh. It is capped with a famous b-Mthing come— like i.o other roof In the world. The dome Is 310 feet across, with out a dingle support below It. Steel cables from above hold up this mighty roof, so that It may “breathe" a foot or two as the heat of the day turns to the cool of the night, A replica Of an ancient Mayan temple Is bathed In the moonlight, lust ais Its original was In the jungier of Yucatan 1,000 years ago. A model Hollywood, with real movie stars, Is turning out celluloid epics nearby. The bus finally ends its journey tlvrough the crowded two-mile strip on the shore of Lake Mlchtgan. Convict Builds A l Prison Business Canon City, Col,—When Lemme Gross, the merchant prince of pri soners, wrnt “over the hill" from the Colorado State Penitentiary, he took big business with him. In 1929 Gross set up a radio bus iness within the prison. He bought, sold and repaired radios—for a sum. The radio business was the fore runner of a chain of "stores” with in the prison walls. Gross was the owner and pro prietor of the inmate canteen and the prison curio shop. He also had the concessions at the Soda Springs, a tourist stopping place. In all his ventures Gross took in an average of $2,000 a month. He had credit of $10,000 and at one time used it to the extent of $6,000. He had but little overhead, sold on a volume basis, and when ha es caped from a guard, who had taken him to Pueblo on a "business trip," it is believed Gross had at least $4. 000 In cash on his person. During the three years Gross conducted his ventures at the pri son he made thousands of dollars for himself and thousands for the prisoner' fund. During the last two years he put more than $3,000 in the prisoners’ fund. ■the shops all will be opened la ter. but will be eondttrfed under the supervision of guard* fatirwha rnunH farmer* are Tmd mg that they can get one-third more for their turkeys this season by killing and ploiwkmg the birds before sale, 'How Mill Hand Won Out At Farm Work [Greenville Man Csed Head And Muscle To Attain Comfort • "And Fbod. A year and a half ago a Green t vllle textile tvorker was walking the streets looking for a job to support i his wife and two children. The Red Cross was furnishing food for the family. Then came the ‘ back to the farm" unemployment relief project of the local Red Cross chapter, su pervised by Mrs. B. S. Hill. The textile worker and his fam lly, along with 41 other families, were placed on farms In order that they might make their own food instead of receiving it from charity. To finance the former textile em ploye in growing a crop $70 was raised independently of the Red Cross. His first crop, grown last sum mer, furnished food for the family through last winter, and here is what lie has in prospect for this fall: Twenty-five acres of Corn, which will produce at least 300 bushels; 25 acres of cotton, which will yield at least 32 bales; two acres of late corn; a half acre of peanuts nnd a fine garden of late vegetables. Saloons Gain In France, Decrease In Great Britain New York.—While looking for new' tax sources, France recently be came RW'arr that she had a sur prisingly large number of licensed saloons—480.000. as compared with only 395.000 before he war. Is the number of saloons In other coup tries Increasing? In England, for one. It Is not. There the figures show a drop each year. In the United States, of course, the 177,000 saloons of pre-prohibition days have all been forced out of busi ness. Figures on French saloons are not strictly comparable with those on America. In France the average shop performs the function of the American soda fountain. In England stores selling alcoholic drinks are placed in two categories on the basis of whether the liquor is consumed on the premises or not. “Off-licenses’’ are given to delica tessens and other stores which sell drinks to be taken home, while •’on licenses'’ must be obtained by ’pubs," restaurants and similar es tablishments where liquor is served. BcCi the United Kingdom and the United States have had smaller numbers of saloons in proportion to population than France. Artist Panhandler Aids His Buddiesj "They Lack Flnesae" He Tells Judge Who Discharges Him And Keeps Odd Nickel. San Francisco.—P»t McNamara. 83 years, old, a panhandler and a philosopher with whiskers, i s ar raigned before Judge Lasarus in the Municipal Court charged with beg ging. Pat admitted the charge, but said It was his only means of live lihood. He averred, more over, that he is an artist at his profession and besides is a philanthropist who di vides his earnings with the less fortunate. To prove his assertions he dis played a handful of silver and nick els which inventoried at $10.10, and he waved to the cage which held the previous night’s human flotsam. “These men are here,’’ he said, “because they have no finesse. They are not artists. They are not students of human nature. They are in a sense my charges. I will divide with them. I always give half my earnings to the down-and outers who cannot help themselves.” With that Pat counted out $5.05 which he gave to Judge Lazarus with instructions to dtstrltt’e it among the occupants of the cage The judge discharged the aged philanthropist, distributed $5 and kept the odd nickel. “For luck.'1 he said. Horse Sells For 35 Cents There Quebec.—One horse was sold for 35 cents, another was traded for a pair of mittens and a third was exchanged for a watch at the an na! horse fair here. Twenty dollars was the average price asked, with but $3 being of fered. and as the result of bar gain ing most of the horses changed hands for about $10. Thf* horse that Delamarrr. strong man, is supposed to have ptiHed to the top of a pole when performing his feats of strength draw only a $3 bid and failed to change hands. Only One Bank In State Closes In Oct. Raleigh. Nov. 8.—Only one small state benk closed in North Caro lina during tire month of October, Commissioner of Banks Gurney P Hood reports. Th*s was thr Bank of Marshville hi Union county, which had previously been closed and had been reopened. It was closed Octo ber 12. i Where Nineteen Met Death Trapped in Bus Returning from a church conference at Meadvilie, Miss., 19 persons loBt their lives when this bus plunged through a guard rail of a floating dock into the Mis i sissippi Kivcr at Natchez, recently. Photo above was j made as the grim task of salvaging the bus and its I load of victims progressed. Advertise in The Cleveland Star Catawba Farmers Visit Ellenboro Balls < reek Group Inspect Vgrioul tural Progress In Section'. (Special to The Star! Ellenboro, Nov. 9.—Thirty Ca tawba county farmers headed by D, W. Easom, agricultural teacher in the Balls Creek high school. Vis ited Ellenboro last Saturday to study tarming witnin the com m unity. They came, especially, to study sweet potato culture, storage and marketing. First, they were as sembled in the agricultural room oi the Ellenboro school where the local agricultural teacher was asked to talk to them. Then, they went to the sweet potato curing house where they saw around 18.000 bush els of sweet potatoes in storage and being cured. Here many question about storage were asked. Before leaving for home they visited the plant of the Ellenboro Poultry Exchange where fattenin i and dressing of poultry was discuss ed. At the sweet potato plant they had a picnic dinner which included four gallons of Catawba ice errain purchased from r local drug store Along about this time of the year we cold sufferers commence to wish some brilliant scientist would dis covcr the influenza germ—and kceo it! We’d Like You To Meet Some “NATIONAL CELEBRITIES” Hart, Schaffner & Marx New Fall Clothes $24.50 to $34.50 MANHATTAN SHIRTS AND PAJAMAS New Fall Patterns $1.55 to $2.50 SCHOBLE HATS New Fall Shades and Styles $5.00 OUR SPECIAL S. & J. HATS $2.95 Englishtown Clothes New Fall Styles $14.95 to $19.75 PHOENIX HOSIERY New Fall Patterns 25c and 35c HICKOK BELTS SUSPENDERS, GARTERS 50c and $1.50 Expert Tailoring Service We have equipped our store with an personal direction of Mr. Geo. Jacobs up-to-date Tailoring Department who has many years of experience and will be able to make any alter- and js a graduate of the American ation no matter how large or small. Fashion School of Cutting and De This department will be under the signing. You Know What You’re Buying When You Buy At “THE STORE OF STARS” SHAW & JACOBS .NOWN FOR GOOD CLOTHES” SHELBY. N. C.
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