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Vol 12 .". ": i Kinss Mountain, N. C -Thursday, August 20. 1915. No. 29
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G G PAGE. Editor and Owner ... . . PRINCIPLE FIRST . SI. A YEAR in ADVANCC
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tion Day $i$atter
son Grove
NINE CHOIRS
Sunday is Convention Jay at
Patterson Grove. Nina classes
areexpnt'id to sing and Kev.
Vance Heavner. the famous boy
pracher, will preach. Tins ses
sion of tho Union Sunday School
Hinging Convention will mirk
the first anniversary , of the or
ganization. It is Indeed gratifv.
inir lo see the marvellous grcath
of the organization during it
initial year. The convention was
organized at Patterson Grove
last September and it goes back
there for its first anniversary.
The officers were elected there
and the officers for the ensuing
year willbe elected there Sun
day. '.:
v,Since the Corvention was or
ganized it has met with Bethle
hem. Oak Grove and Kings
Mountain Baptist churches. The
convontion is open to all denom
ination and we are glad to know;
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HOME-COMING AT TUB BAPTIST
V CHURCH -SUNDAY'' rVv-
Suuday is "Home-Criming" at
the First Baptist church. The
auditorium of tho new building
is practically finished and formal
ccupancy will be made Sunday
when the present pastor, Rev.
J. R.. Miller and four f;rm?r
pastors will ' hold tho Initial
service in the splendid new ed
ifice. ;.; v.
At ten o'clock lift v. B. L. Bloke
wi'l spoak on "The Baptist Cause
in Kings Mountain As I Knew
it
Mr. Hope was never pastor
of the church here but was rais
ed here and is familiar with the
Baptist cause here from its early
history . He is now pastor aV
EAST KINGS MOUNTAIN MAT
TERS OF INTEREST
Correspondence of The HeralU. :
East KingsMountain is coming
along fine. '. ;'
The town is impioving its
roads and sidewalks.
, The Phenix Mill Company js
re covering their houses. ,
Rev. B. A, Culp and family
went to Gold Hill last week where
he assisted ic a meeting,
Mr, Thomas Hull hd a bad
acoldeht ' between Shelby and
' Lattimore Saturday August 15th
when he turned his automobile
- too quickly around a curve dam
J aging one wheel and the top.,
Clifford Badger and family of
' Liberty, S. C. visited his sister,
Mrs. Elmer Wilson, last week
, at the Phenix. -.
Mrs. T. A. Wilson returasd to
her home in Piedmou:, S. C.
aftor a weeks., visit to her eon,
Either Wilson, i1 '
Mr. and Mrs. L. U. Walfaeo offl
tHe Cora Mill have returned from
' a visit to relatives in Burlto coun,-
; ' V-H; Smith and Children
havf"1torried from a visit to ter
p ire J!! Mr, and Mr. C. Y. Ham
AHE EXPECTED
that others are co.ning in.
For fiome reason w have net
received the list of songs select
ed by the Various Choirs for the
occasion and are therefore ui
able to ijublioh it. The program
wi'.l be no state 1 address, and
will be aj follows; Decational
exercises at 10 a. m. Then con
greation singing and music by
the various choirs until 12 a. m,
At 1 p. m, the Convention will
reassemble and hold th business
session after which routine
singing will be the order. The
houi for the sermon by Rev. Mr.
Heavner has not been determin
ed and will be announced from
the choir of the Convention.
The choirs expected are, Pat
terson Grove, Oak Grove, Beth
lehem, East King Mountain
(Cora), Caldwell's, , Mary's
Grove, Elbothel, Bessemer City,
and Antiock.
G. G. P,(. Pres.
, rmrrm
Blr.cksburg, S. C.
At 10:30 Rev, J. A. Hoyle, a
former pastor, now of Maiden,
N. C, will snea't on "My Past
orate in Kings Mountain."
At 11 o'clock Rav. J. 1. Ham
rick of Lixington, N.C. a former
pastor, will vreack. All other
former pastars were invited but
couldn't come. '
All our friends are cordially
invited to be present with us,
and participate in the services
on this occasions. , ' "
, J. R. Miller, Pastor.
rick, of Shelby.
Mr. Kelly Ford and family of
Cherry villa visited his son, Kelly
Ford of this place.
: Miss Mane Ford of Cherry
villa is visitingtier brother Kel
lv Fprd.
C. B. Moss is improving And
fainting his residence.
K. K. Chatman has returned
to his home in East Kings Moun
tain after a visit to relatives in
Lattimore, Moorsboro and Gaf-fn-jy.
. : ;;; :'
Thomas Howe'l .who has been
very sick is again able to resume
his work at tbe Pheuix Mill, .
(The Herald I is exceedingly
glad to get this communication
from East Kings Mountain and
we trust that the same'' writer
and others will send us 'items
from time to time. But be. sure
to sign your name, Wa dont
want' to publish the name but
want it for our osw'n information
and protection Editor.) ,v---:r
Mayor A, E, CUne was a bue.
ines vUitor in Charlotte Satnr
4 17.
THE PANAMA-PACIFIC
NATIONAL EXPOSITION AT
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF , THE
PANAMA-CALIFORNIA EXPO
SITION AT SAN
AND THE GREAT GOLDEN
WEST.
as seen by
Mr. E.b. McSwain and wife Mrs.
Ava Herndon McSwain and their
little daughter velda Irene, of
Mon tgomery, Ala., on their recent
ten thousand miles tour.
BY C S
( Cont'd from last week )
In order to descend this pass,
the railroad has been tunneled
ojt ir.to the heart of these two
mountains, under which thev
make a circle, decending all the
while, and come out several hun
dred feet below where you went
in. Then tho rumbling waters of
the river are crosued cv-r tres
tles to allow your train to enter
th j mountain on the other side,
to emerge saveral hundred feet
lower after having visited the
very heart of it almost a mile
back into solid rock. In this iray
the track can be seen above or
below you at four different plac
es, almoxtover each other aa voji
have made a complete figure
eight or a double bow knot, To
build tbib littln eleven miles re
quired the expenditure of $150,
030.00: it furnished employment
for 1,000 men for twenty months
and over 75 car loads ol dyna
mite were used in blasting,
which cost $230,000 alone. This
was certainly a place that a
"new comer" would not go to
sleep: first yen would be looking
down into a gorge hundreds of
feet below with it restless wat
ers hurrying to the Pacific, then
yon would twist a ' crick',' into
your neck as you gazed upwards
at the towering peaKS several
thousand feet above you, whose
melting snows help to feed the
glistening water .of the 'rivers
below. " -J
Passing on we reach Field
which is Division Headquarters,
at which point' we turn our
watches back anothir hour, The
train stops sometime and we
straighten out our "much twis
ted" limbs. The soenery at this
point is very muoh varied, be
ing located down the valley sur.
rounded by numerous (waks;
Mount Stephen, Dennis, Deville.
King, Burgess, Van Horne range
and others. All are covered on
tsp with snow and ice, which
melting starts here and there
small streams which tumbling
down the rocky sides from num
erous waterfalls. Farther down
can be seen the forests of Dug
lass Fir,'' Sprnc.e and Poplar. In
place these had been visited by
forest fires, some recent.,' while
others sometime' before, . wliich
accounted for the varigated col
oring spre'id out before you of
red, black and green.
Soon we start on our crooked
winding way down tho Kicking
Horse Uiver which is crossed
and recrossed uamerous times,
first the railroad is clinging to
one cliff and then back to : the
other side, here a tunnel, and
thefe a trestle,- with tho io . so
INTER
DIEGO. CALIF.,
h. - iJWAIN
crooked that it reminds you of
pla.i ing hide and seek witu the
engine as he dodges around the
virions rocks and mountains.
Often as you look ahead you
think that surely there is no wax
of getting through that buncn of
mountains p.nd then you look
back and nre ns inuc'l lost to
know where you came from as
where yon are going; appar
ar.tiy you are down in the gore
with water bi-lo v and the skv
above with no way out, and yoq
recall the slang expression 'Ho
ly smoke what a hole". The tow
ering bronze wa'.ls above you
reach several thousand feet al
most straight .up as the tram
Liiiys.. toai ,,P!!e cliff to th'i
other, whosw only foot holds are
cut out of solid rock, witlT here
and th;re a tunnel as the only
means to paiis a projecting rock
The rushing water thundering
along at a mad rate which with
the no';e of your train, all inten
sified many times by the echo
ing walls of rock on every side
vrill leave a-spot in your mem
ory that does uot rub off soon.
Soon we pass outcf this gorge
into the upoer Columbia River
Valrev, which is- reached at a
little town of Golden. At this
and other places are; stationed
experienced Swiss c Alpine
guides, whose business it is to
pilot those who haye a desire to
climbing to equal any of tne
climb to be found in the Alps
of Europe. As ' we reach the
Columbia River Valley we feel
that we are back to "Oivlizaticn"
again as we see here and there
a farm all of which have been
barreJ from all the way thus far
to day. which is reached be
tween two and three in the af
ternoon- Another thing I might
mention here is that lunfi is not
measured in Canada a in the
U, S.V for instead of starting
over again as we do when we
get to twelve, they run the time
on to twenty-four o clock or at
least that is the way it appears
in the time tables- :
Farther down the valley as we
cling to the mounts on the side
we pass througn a tunnel more
than five miles long- whjch is
more in the nature of a snow
shed the railroad heing covered
witu timbers, after having been
dug out in the mountain side, as
a protection against snow slides
a nnmberof which occur there
Later we do ''the figure eight
a unt . again as , describee far-
therup which is very much the
same with the exception of this
one is done out in the open be
tween the mountains, all the
track beinif in sight instead of
-. copt'd on back page
Governor Stuart
Of Virginia Has
Been Invited-
TO DELIVER ADDRESS OCT. 7tli
j Governor Sti.art of Vir:;ini;i
!hns biwn formully invited to ikv
i liver tho principal addresM at
j the celebration hero October 7th
and .Mi answer is rx;:tt.'l dai 'y.
j Tim invitation uiis m'i;i ihronl,
1 Governor Locke Crui;,' if r 1 1
Carolina and would naturally ru
quire more liino than ii.' it had
gone diiuct.
GEO. M. PHIFEROF GAFFNEY
DIED FRIDAY.
George M. Phifer, a prominent
business man of Giffney and a
native of Cleveland county, El
fidthel section, died Friday night
at 7:S0 in the bathroom at his
home. He ivas as weM as usual
and had oaUm a good supper.
Soon after supper he went into
tho bathroom and dropped dead
from ai aplexy.
The funeral was preached at
his home in Gaffney Saturday
morning, by his pastor, Dr. Deal,
pastor of the Fi-st Baptist
ch'jrch, and the reuiaiiis were
brought h ire and laid to rest be
side his four children in Elbethol
cemetery Saturday afternoon.
Mr, Phifar was one of Gaff
niy's leading merchants, being
MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS FOR CLE
VELAND COUNTY
HO of Cleveland Countys
teacherj pledged themselves at
the institute recently hold in
Shelby to do what they can lo
further the moonlight school
movement and there aid in
stamping out illiteracy among
the adult population of the coun
ty. This movement is gaining
great-impetus through the State
and we are glad exceedingly to
see so many of our teachers tak
ing hold of the work. Nobody
knows better than this writer
how hard it is to teach all. day
and then again at night. It's a
sacrifice On the 1. art of ti tse
noble souls who are giving their
lives for their fellowmen. It
might be well to bear in mind
that the moonlight school work
is done without pay. too, If every
citizen of good old Cleveland
doesn't lend his hearty support
and encouragement to this work
then ho i a mighty poor apol
ogy for e, citizen- And too l"t the
illiterate fall in lino and disnel
the cloud which hangs so heavi
ly over them, y ' '!
Regarding tho literature to be
used we reproduce the following
editorial from Saturday's Ohar
lott Observer;
"The moonlight school Idea
is forging to the front ar rl the
book publishers are now getting
out readers especially ; adapted
to the needs of the new country
life institution, specialized liter
ature will greatly advance the
sncess of the cause. The Obser
ver is willing to give its approv
&i to the plan after rjadmg the
()iosect3 of one of the publish-
President .). H. Thoinasson of
the Kings Mountain Baltic Me
morial Association recently re
signed his position arid W. A
Kidenliour wis elected by tho
executive committee as his sue.
cessor. Mr. Kidennour aiv his
committee are steadily but r(iliot
iy ut work ami hope to arrantro
a good prouT.m.
engaged in the music business
and was a prominent citizen and
,1 useful Lricmlier of the Fiist
liautist church. He will be sorely
missed in the business, civic and
religious life of his adopted town.
Deceased was 59 years of age
He was married some thirty
years a(ro to Miss Mary Burnett
of Greenwood, S. C. To the union
were hor:j five children four of
whom preceded him to the grave,
He is survived by the widow,
Mrs. Mary Jiurrtett Phifer, and
one daughter, Miss Winona Phif
er; and the following brothers
and sisters: J L, Phiferof Bess
emer City, W. B., J. D. and Ben
D. Misses Ann, Laura and Lula
Phife.' and Mia. Sarah Black,
all of near Kings Mountain,
ing houses for it indicates a prac
tical course of study short and
effective. The first Country Life
Reader, like tin fiist reader in
the public schools starts off in
tho simplest way, treating of
subjects that are of interest to
men and women. It begins we
are told with sentences about
reading and writing, and .then
tells about voi roads and bad
roads; raising good cattle and
feedine them from a silo. There
are lessons about taxes and
about banks the writing of a
check i- simply explained the
advantages of spraying fruit
trees is emphasized; lessons on
corn clubs and tomato clubs are
given; the "alue of testing seed
of plowing the land well, and of .
rotating crops is brought out;
different wholesome ways of
cooking bread, meat, and veget
ables are described; forest values
and the great loss occasioned by
forest fires are explained Near
the close of the book there are
seven lessons taken from the
Uible, each of which relates to
farming or farm life. These Bib
lical extracts correlate in an ex
cellent way with .the various
subjects Previously treated."
Mrs. Fleming Eamsaur a.id
children returned Friday irom
an extended vitit to relatives in
Robeson County.
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Rev. J, . K- Miller - returned
Friday from Big Lick where he
had been engaged in revival
work. " v- -v'
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