■ V Ol 11 Kings Mountain, JS'. 0., Thursday, July 30, 1914. Ko. 27. ONE.Y.lEfiBl A.C.JONES Is now chariman of the ladidary Ighetby Congressman has made good Delivered Annual Oration at Old Fur nace Picnic last Saturday. All (Of his constituency will be '■lad to hear that Hon. E. Y. fvebb has been appointed Chair: Inan of the .Judiciary Committee. Ivot only do his home lolk^ feel j-lated over the honor that has [;oine~to our home man but Wash Ington and Congress 'itself has I u'ea.thed a note of satisfaction liiat such an able man was avail- Jible for such an important posi- l.ion. Mr. Webb is easily one of Ithe ablest and most popular Jwhile among the youngest men lin Congress and we are proud of linin'; Ormand—Summers. On Wednesday night of last Lveek at the home of the bride s [brother, Mr. Prank Roberts in [East Kings Mountain, Dr. O. G. I Falls pronounced the words [which made Mr, Walter Ormand land Miss Georgia Summers man and wife. MADNEY One Of Gaston’s Seers Dead. The following from the Char j lolte Observer of Sunday wdll I carry sadness to many a heart for deceased was truly one of Gaston county's seers, J. T. Dameron. v BcSoGiv.. Toly 25^-^pen ial News was received here last night that Mr. J. T. Dameron had passed away at his home in Moore County whither he had rcceiitl.y moved his famil.v. Mi. Dameron was born in Gaston County and prior to the early Spring of this year lived all his life near Bessemer Citv and on Long Creek where he was a pro gressive farmer and hospitable and congenial neighbor, and was one who faced shot and shell during the 60’s came forth from the-field of courage and surviv ed a half a century afterward. Mr. Dameron, better known as “Squire Dameron,” was a Christ ian gentleman, being an elder in the local Presbyterian Church. The funeral, service will be held tomorrow, July 26, at Long Creek, conducted by his pastor Rev. Mr. Bragaw. The Old Furnace picnic last Saturday was one of the best every held at the historic old spot Early in the morning the vehicles began to roll in and harbor on the grand old hillside and the whole landscape was covered with Dicnie folks t arly in the day. The weather was ideal for out door sport and the people made the best of it. It was no experi ment. For twenty years this old spot, famous for its part in the Revolution, has been the meeting place for the people of a big ter ritory, where they meet annually The old folks relate the exper iences of the past year and the young folks make friendship and some plan for the future. Good speeches, good dinner and good music help to make the people better. It was even so last Saturday. The'IJes.semer City, band was lo cated in center field and rendered excellent music throughout' the day. The Bessemer boys are simul.y hard to beat when it comes-to jerking off swell music. They know how and then do ail they know. At eleven o’clock Mr. Arthur Dixion of Gastonia mounted the stand to introduce the speaker of the day. Mr. Dix ion is one of Gaston county’.s most promising young men and The Concluding Installment cf this our most Valuable Serial Story %ch Travel and final Arrival at home, the best place yet. Continued Pom Last Week. (By Miss Bonnie Mauney) s*'', the noixVLiiec.- -Lr ■ihe Sta Senate. In a few and well-chosen words he presented Judge A. C. Jones of the Gastonia Recorder’s court who delivered the princi pal address. Mr. Jones made a speech, a speech much better than is wont to be made on such occasions. 'W(», would that we had sp.ace to reproduce it here, but we hope to publish a full extract of the address next week. W Dinner came on.and the glory of the occasion reached As zenith Individual spreads , yvere made all about on the hillside and hard b.y the running water of the old canal. This was really a season of I’ejoicing. Not only was the good I'ations enjoyed but it was a season introductions and re newals of old acquaintances. At four o’clock a game of ball was called between the Kings Mount ain and Old Furnace teams which Alter leaving Shepherdstown we soon came to Charlestown, W. Va. where we stopped to find an old confederate vetei an Major Murray. This gentleman is a true “Johnny Rebel” and has written several boons to commemorate the valor of the Southern heroes. Here to we made our last visit to a confed erate cemetery- Papa was in hopes ef finding the resting place of his brother who was killed at the battle of Sharps- burg but all attempts were futile. Further down the valley we passed thru White Post, Va. so called from the- white post which Lord Pairfiax had placed here when he first came to Virginia. All the surrounding countr.y was given to him by tne King of England and this post was a guide to those who wished to purchase land from him. The next town of importance on our route was Front Royal— an educational and commercial center, when we reached here we were warned not to attempt the road on to Lura.y— at least not that afternoon. Coming into Front Royal, we had traevled ov^er, what seemed to us a poor . (L)iiit we,_w.re,..assqi;ed tliat^ one was excellent in comparison with the one to Luray. Not to be daunted— nevertheless with a slight uneasiness, we left for Bentonsville, a little Mountain town twelve miles distant and half way to Luray. It is useless to sa.v tha-t we were surprised at our I’oad, for we were expecting it to be impai-sable; but wfith the exception of the hills it was fairly good and we soon i-ealized that the “bad roads” was only a scheme of a hotel man and a Gterage owner to keep us in Front Royal till morning. The night in Bentonsville was a quiet and pleasant one, altho our rout Via- the Pafe Valley. The latter would have appeared much prettier to us had we passed that 'way before seeing the Shanondoah. The land is indeed fertile, 'out it lacks that atmosphere ®f prosperity so cliaracteristic of its neighbors. Big Wheat and Oat Crops dov;n Grover Way- 1.000 bushels oats on oneFar.m 'Fourteen miles west of Luray across the Massanutten Moun- ain we cameto the pike at New Market, and really, it did seem good to be back to a place w e had seek before. "With very few delays during the remander of the da.v, at 8:30 p. m. we stopped at the Natural Bridge Hotel. Already there were numbers of visitors here and after supper enjoyed the music and danc ing at the pavillion. Shortly after sunrise the fol lowing morning we wer^^ ready the Natural Bridge, - “God’s greatest miriacle in stone.” This wonderful structure connects two of the five round-top Moun tains that rise in this part of James River A^alley. Its dimen sions are, bight, 215 feet; width, 100 feet; span, 00. Under it men look like boys and trees ae bushes Instead of returning by Roa noke and recovering the “six mile”.mount:hu we determined - TIC-- • - ’’’ to tr.y^oui -M... but we certainly made bad matters worse,” for twenty-five miles we traveled a one track road which runs right along the edge of the mountain. On one sid”e of us we could look un and see high mountains and on the other a hundred feet directly below runs the James rivei. Winding in and out among the mountains and crossing narrow bridges makes it a difficult tract to drive a car safely on this road and we were relieved to reach the Hill City of Lynchburg where we visited sevral old acquaiutences. It was shoitiy Oats And Wheat Galore Mr. J. BeatHambright was in town Monda,y and brought good new's. He states that he has just harvested over 1,000 bush els of oats and 221 bushels of wheal and that his neighbor, W. Ross Hambright, to ' his credit, yea even in his barn, 700 bush els of wheat and 200 bushels of oats. If we run out of biscuit timber we’ll know -ndiich way to start. York Special. The York News (Yorkville, S G.)came out last week with a special “Booster” edition. It is well gotten up — well written — well illustrated. It sets our sis ter count;.' ill our sister state in an enviable light before the world. If our York contemuorary would devise some plan to keep an editor it would be one of the best papers going, but just as soon as an editor gets his hand in he goes and another takes up the quill. We don’t know where the trouble is but there may be a golden wedge or a Babylonish garment in Achan’s tent. Fams Nail In Arm. Mr. M. J.’ Neely suffered a pretty bad wound from a nail prick Saturday. He was helping to do, some earoeijter w.ork jii Ilmfierald office' Vvheii 'd' 's'toeV case gave way and fell. He was standing near the end of the case and i-ivoluntlrily grabbed at it when a protruding n:u 1 pierced, his arm. It made a wound about an inch long and probably equally as deep but the nail was new apd bright he wound will likely heal up without much trouble. Kings Mountain is now offered a substantial reduction in freight rate The recent investigation of freight rates by the Progressive Assoc.’ation and business men has proved very .successful anci substantial reduction^ have been offered by the railroad company. Under the recent compromise' arrangement Kings Mountain was allotted to pa.y an average of five cents per hundred more' for freight) than was our neigh boring towns of Shelby and Gas tonia. The secretary of the Prog: ressive Association has just rec- evied a letter and scale of reduc tion from the general freight agent which will reduce the five' cent overcharge to one and one' half cent, being a gain of 3/4 cte on five. This scale if accepted, would mean a saving to Kings- Mountain merchants and shipper of about S5.000 per year. Another cent off the excess ive 1/4 cent would put us on a' competitive and satisfactory foot ing with our neighbors as it is- conc-eded that these other points are entitled to a half cent less rate being that Charlotte is a basic shipping point. It has not been determined yet whether wo will accept the proffered schO- dule or ask for tlie further re-- duction to which we are entitled. a quieu auu > twelve o-clock when we our crowd was scattered Ranville, and it was the little village, there being i-eached no hotel accomeodations. I huns-1 only stop having been day morning we went to Lmaj jth - Va. From tor breakfast e^nS'l^iUe we went on to Reids Off To Camp. Messrs. Eugene Neisler, Paul Neisler, Joe Neisler, and Fred Baker, compose a camping party which departed our coasts yes terday for Chimney Rock where they will enjoy life in a tent for ten days or two - weeks. They covered the 35 or 40 miles dis tance on a wagon. to 2 in favor of Graveyard (leaning Saturday Tlie annual graveyard cleaning wih be held at Patterson Grove Saturday of this week. Every person interested is requested to be present with a tool suitable for the work. The people have always resoondod to this call and it is hoped that the usual largo number will be present to show their respects to the de parted dead. oanned out 9 Old Furnac e. ‘Old Furnace” itself is a very interesting relic.: of the War of Revolution. It is only about three miles from Kings Mountain and almost in the shadow of the his toric mountain where Ferguson and his gallant gaey fell. The furnace was made for the pur pose of moulding balls for use in the famous battle that turned the tide of freedom our way After the war the furnace war- worked considerably in the man ufacture of iron found ourselves the caverns of Lura.y. The first sight of the grandeur of the cave together with the weird enlluence of the subterranean realm gives one a feeling of mute wonder. Queer shapes stand out at ever'v turn rese.ubling vegetable formation or form of ville, N. C. and there, spent the night. The next day was Satur day and ihe Fourth of July so we expected to come in contact with several big celebrations Wm. J. Bryan was to speak in either some Reidsville and also m Jonesboio but not even such an attraction vegetame loimauuu ' could induce us to prolon animal life, or even , c^ld mciuce s Graveyard Cleaning And Protracted Meeting At Antioch. The annual cemetery day will be observed at Antioch church next Friday (Tomorrow) and the protracted meeting will be . gin on Satai'day with Pastor J. D. Bailey in charge. Revival At Patterson Springs Closes Evangelist Black and Pastor D. E. Nipperman cioased a serirs of meetings at Patterson Springs last Thursday. It was a goodlmeeting and six aeditions were madb to the church, The the days previous to thebegining os the I'ueeting at Patterson Springs tjiey conducted a similar meeting at Patterson Grove with six additions. Rev. Mr. Black is now assisting. Pastor J. C. Gillespie in a meeting, at I^pular Springs, being. These objects are all stalactitic and stalagmitic form ation. ' The various apartments have been named in hornor or dictin- guished,;personage or after some thing to which They bear a strik ing resemblance. Some of the most noted of These places are: Elfin ramble; Pliitos Coasm; Hoveys Hall; immense 'giants Hall; the - Cathedral with its grand pipe-organ and chimes; HadeSf a bewildring region peo pled with goblins; and' the Ball Room, it is a task of recognized difficulty to describe the iiidi- scrbable and such would be the ca.se if an attempt to describe Luray Caverns were made. The discovery of this “wonder of the world” was made on August, 13 1878. Our course North had been thru the Shenandoah Valley but coming South we selected stay, so anxious were we to get home. When we reacbc>d Salis bury we did stop for an hour or so with some distant Mauney relatives and here 'we had a lively time. Just before reaching Gastonia something unusaual as well as exciting happened. The celluloid in the curtains caught fire from the exhaust pipe, and not know ing from where the cloud of smoke beneatii was coming, and thinking only of an explosion, I imagined myself possessed -with the power of flight and took my departure from the car in a means that I shall not describe. Fortunately no serious trouble resulted either to-thc car or my- selt, and continuing'our way we reached home at 8:03 p. m. ■w'ear.y and worn, having traveled about forteeu hundred miles, with the remarkable record of (Cohtinued on back page Some Improvements Kings Mountain can boast of a fe-w nice looking stores. Mr. R. R. Howser has painted his cafe building front and inside and it looks nice and new. Mr. Wm. Putnam’s-new brick building which joins the cate is a credit to ''the town and tlicn joining the Putnam building is the handsome new cafe building of J. R. Reynoldp. The Herald man anticipates no danger of perishing with so much good eating right in f»ont of the sauctum. Other improvements are being made also. Lots of painting is being done in various parts ' of town and other new buildings are to go up and re pairs to be made on old buildings. The large store of Mauney Bro thers will soon have a nice new glass front. W’d’k will beg’n at an early date on the rebuilding of the Mauney building that was burned early in the spring- Mr. W. A. Mauney is erecting two new brick residences. The interior of the Herald office is undergoing a change and w'ill soon look much better. The Mauney Drug stor9 has been provided with metal ceiling and other tnarks of improvement are in evidence. The Barnes- Finger drug store has had its interior renovated and painted. The folks are wide awake and moving things along. Let’er roll. Miss Fannie Hord is very sick with typhoid fever at her iionie in Waco. She contracted the di. sease' while nursing it in the family of her s jster at Bessemer City. How they Got Rich A London baronet who manu factures pills has sold a part of of $30,000,000. He made it out of the profits of his business, and he built that business up by ad- vertising, often s'i>endin-g as high as half a million dollars a year in printers ink. John Wanamaker, the best- known and most successful mer'' chant in this country, made-.’his. millions by • advertising, and said so. The great department stores , of the country are kept alive by advertising, and are coining money by more advertising. You never hear of a lareg-' mercantile house in this country . - that does not advertise, and a'd- ' vertise heavily. ^ ' ' ■ If a politician wants to make ■ himself known to the dear, people' - ho uses the most affective means —newspaper publicity. That is advertising. If a new son arrives at your house you are keen to have it ‘jmt in the paper,” where your fr ends will see it, thereby ad vertising t’ne fact that you are walking on eggs. If the editor called you a thief in a two line item and stuck it away in the .most obscure Crner of the paper, would you pass it by in the belief "that it. “woiild never be no teed?’’ Never! You would consider your- ■ self defamed befoi’e the entire community,..-and would paw up the &rth 'in your bellowings. You would, bo only too quick to conesde that every line in the paper is read. Yes, advertising certainly pays. q'here is no man so small, or insignificant, but what'some one is waiting for it, There, are plgnty of people who want what-j&u have to sell, bui they are wep>^w|>f looking througli a haystack'jfqr a needle. They prefer to find it in an advertisement. ' And they will look in the local paper for the ad. They will find someones—but will it be your,s? Try an ad in the Herald,
