UVol 13
Kings Mountain, N.GV Thursday, February 24. 1916.
No. 3
' O. O PAGE, Editor and Owner
PRINCIPLE FIRST
SI. A YEAR In ADVANCE
$ei IQngs Moun
thin Fcrge Mead.
Her railroad facilities and oth
er natural advantages togeth
er with her recent improv
ments makes our town attract
ive to Capital,
Need organized effort in order to
attract new industi ies - Knit
ting Mills, Glove factories,
Overall factories, etc. might be
had.
(By J. Roau Dayis)
In order to keep my promise
with ths editor, I am writing a
few woids in regard to the
economic and industrial advant
ages the progressive town of
K'nga Moun ain offers to the
outtsida world compared with the
- other towns ot the state.
I lika to seo the many towns
in the state ot North Carolina
taking on ,new, lifo and a new
spirit. Many of them are over
flowing Mth joy over their new
growth arid their prrwnor'tv
Monv of their- have drafted along
for years in the same old rut
ard rtith tne same old spirit, but
Tor the bwtyear or sr a new
wave Iiub been sweeping over
the state, and we can hear sev
eral' of our towns exclaiming
' progress.". Hickory. Ganlnnia,
Murion and many ot lh towrs
along the main line of the South
em are dovelooing viry rapidly.
This growth and this wave
should cause us to stop and ak
the question "what i our town
doing?" Is the town 'of Kings
Mountain beeping pace with the
other town in the state? If she
is not then why not? ' Mauy of
tho towns woi Id grow if they
could." Many ot them want to
become largo cities, but they
lack therailroad ' facilities, the
' healthful climate,' or the men
with bustnesa ability, etc :
Is there any facility at all that,
our town is in tietd of, 'or is re
ally necessary before wet '; can
build a town? The fact of the
matter is, we have all the facil
ities and advantages necessary
to builc a city. We have , as
good railroad facilities as we
1 should care for. We are siloat-
od on the main line of the South
ern where we have sevei at. pass-
' eager trains and freight trains
every day. ' We are where we
can have quick and easy access
; 'to the Noithern or Southern
markets. Freight or express
can be qutcklvand directly ship-,
ped to us without the handling
and expense of ; transfering ot
- the goods t hat must be done be--'
fore reaching many of the towns
"' that are not situated as we are.
: Then, too, within only a short
, time the Southern will be doub
led tracked which will acid still
more' to our conveniences. Wh it
'n more can we ask in the way of
;"rlilroad facilities?. ."
If-we have the abflva adyantr
."ages and tlie m,on wb. a keen
' business ability , together with
plenty of money,, what else do
-we need? Wji'only need, tqpush
-.VpfC. -We are standing; 6n th,e
4 brlofe qf beginng t9bniacity.
We qnly need, to, ktyjteft Wfl, fir
; flnauclal means, create; ,ft$tft
within only a few short years we
can have a town that would rival
many on the main line. W
have already laid the foundation
for this growth and develop
ment. We aave established an
excellent scnool system, hand
some chnrches, put in water
(Con'td on fourth page.)
Further . changes
at 'the Dilling
Mill.
J. M. Wil'iaras has been sue
ceeded as superintendent of the
Dilling Cotton Mills here bi
John McFalls of Thomasville. N.
C. Mr. Williams is the second
largest stockholder in the mill
and has b jen Superintendent ev
er since K was built in 1894 The
Dilling Mill has biien one-ming
underteceivershlp Hie lawt fall
and many change ha vu been
made,
. Mr W. D. McDndiel nas been
succeeded as wave room over
seer by J. P. Eller, formerly sec
ond hand at the Louise Mili ia
Charlotte. .
Mr. McDaniel has taken a pos
ition as loom fixer in the Pau
line. ' .; ';:
The transference took place
Monday .
W. T. Farris Of
Bessemer City
Dead.
Bessemer City, Feb. 16. Mr
Wiley T. Farris wt ts found dead
in his bed early Satuiday morn
ing the 12th, at his home near
Bessemer City. Mr Fairis was
a well to do farmer and was lov
ed by many. He served iu the
civil war as a 17 vear old boy
and had he lived until the 20th.
of May be would have bein 70
years o,d. At the close of the war
he married Mrs. Margaret Fron
cberger,' whose husband had
been killed during the war, Mr.
Farris alwa.v a attended the Old
Soldiers' Reunion. His death was
not expected and came as a shock
to his children and many fri
ends. '- . - ' '- .'
The following children survi re
Mr. J. L. Farris and Mrs. Will
Douglas, ot Bessemer City; Mrs
Aloe-t Hoinslv, of Cherryville,
also one daqgbter dead, His wife
died December i. 191 5. He was
laid to. rest bosido tils wife at
Bethel tMheran church at 9 oV
clock Sunday, A. laige crowd
was present to, pay their last tri
bute to the deceased- The fane"
al was conducted by Revs, Mark
Carpenter and Wray Aderrqlt ot
Cr oose i r-i :. ''
FIELD PARTY
INVENTORY CP R. R-
Oac oat of the slitr to U, S. Uk
intlnytntory of R. R. property
A field party of the Board of
Assessor r.f Railway Property
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission of the Southern District
arrived here last.Fiiday in a pri
vate car attached to which was
another private car in which an
official of the Southern Railway
travels and serves as pilot to
the field party of the Board
of
Assessors The party expected
to leave yesterday (Wednesday).
Their business is to take a com
plete inventory of the property
of the Southern Railway which
data is forwarded to Chattanoo
ga. Tenn. where thp home office
of the Southern District is lo
cated. Ills in turn sent from
there to the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Washing ton
where the property is all ap
praised and baic facts arrived
at upon which to base freight
rate adjustments. This work is
being done in accordance with
t'ae L.a Folettc bill which was
put through Congress some tliree
or four years ago.
The work started two years
ago aid will continue until the
250,000 miles of railrond in che
United States have all been vis
ited and listed.
The United States has been
divided into five Uistrcls, the
Eastern, Southern, Middle,
Western and Pacific 'istricts.
Each district has twelve field
parties similar to the one here,
making a total of sixty tie'd par
ties in the Country The party
here consists of nine civil serv
ice men chief of whom ,s Mr.
Edfar Bridge. 1 he arior.s rail
road. iamnai ies sei.d a pilot
witn each paitv who acquaints
the assessors with the holdings
of their respective roads. Mr,
F. C. Harrington is the railway
oUcial with the party here.
The members ol the various
boards are appointed under the
civil service except a few of the
higher officers whose appoint
ment comes direct.
While the Southern District is
working this territory North
North Carolina ranks sixteenth in
HOW NORTH CAROLINA PANES
(North Carolina Publicity)
land area, thirteenth in agriculture and fifth in value of
crops.
Ore of gold, copper, mica, corundum, manganese, kaolin, graph
ite, clay, granite, marble, tolc, barytas, asbestos, pyrites,
limestone, shales.
Real value of property in 1912. $1,807,573,870; land aroa, 31,193,
!29; land area o.' 'arms, 22.439,129; a erage acres per farm
". 88.4. ,:
Timbers pine, cypress, gum, juniper, spruce, oaks, hemlock,
beech, popular, chestnut, ash, maple, cherry, hickory,
' ' walnut, and other hardwood.
Hog and hominy, eggs' butter, cheese, honey, macaroni, spag
hetti, vermicelli, sy -up, sorghum.
Corn, cotton, tobbaco, oates. sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes cot
' , ton seed oil aid cake, peanuts, soy bean, alfalfa, bay and
- grasses.
Apple?, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, quinces, strawberries,
dewberries, blackberries, grapes, figs, lettuoe and ool
ery.
Rye, wheiat, barley, huokwiieat. rioe, peas, beans, vetoh, wild
or pararie grasses,
Oysters, shrimp, crab, lebstor, fish, fish sorap and oih
Lime, ferti'.iaer, njaW, turpentine, rosin, oils, leather goods, taiy
. furniture. : ; '
Improved farm land, 8,013,056
' land per farm, Ul. 7; -average vaiue oi larm.iana. ior state
$15.29 per acre;, in 1900, $6.24. ' ' -
Hewopapers' and peiodicals "of state. 326, wlth,a total, cirqulat-.
. ionof over 1,562,559.. , ; : '.. ' .
Agate, diamond, beryl, gariiet, saDphire, hjddenite, amethyst,'
- rnby, emcraW, quartz, rhodo.ljte, cyarjjte.' .. V V .'V
HONOR ROLL
GRADED SCHOOL
list of those who attained requir
ed standard, Riven by grades.
FIRST Willie Ho.-d, Hubert
McGinnis Eugene Lrtughliu,
Parks Fisher, Roy Hord, Boyce
King, Elizabeth Peterson, Eliz
abeth Logan, Merlo Houser,
Madge Patterson.
SECOND Earnest Aderholdt,
lOrangel Barrett, Loreno Cora
I woll, William Jackson, Ethel
' uacKey. K.aiucrine MCAinsier,
Margaret McGinnis, Frances
Mauney, Bright Richardson,
Br wn Ware, Jack Rarasavr,
Gladys Wright.
THIRD Margaret Barnes. Re
becca Kerr, Margaret Osment.
FOURTH - Margaret . Lackey,
Julia Catherine Mauney.
FIFTU Bessio Ramsaur Era-
elyn Dilling.
SIXTH1 Winnie Vera Mauney,
Gertrude King, Nel' Cansler,
Gutisie Hufhtctlr, Miriam Go-
forth, Loxter Wart.
SEVENTH Jaunita Maurcy,
Ruth Hurter. Charles King.
FIGHTH Lena Rudisill, Aub
rey Mauney, Bryan Hord.
NINTH fame Hambright,
Lillhn UiDisaur.
TENTH "Mary Fulton, Kath
leen Hord, Nija Hunter, Oliver
Ramsaur.
Caroliua is properly in the East
ern District. But all the lineR
of the Southern Railway were
assigned to the Southern Dis
trict making the lap necessary.
The car in which the party
travels 's specially rebuilt for
the purpose, It is a converted
Pullman. Mr. Bridge, Ihe chief
kindly took the Hertld man
through. First wo" entered a
well equipped office. Next was
the toilet inclndidg shower bath.
Then a series of regular Pu'lmau
berths where the employes sleep
Then comes the dining room
which was attractively arranged.
Then the sleeping department
of the cook and servant and fin.
alh the kitchen fitted up well
witu a big range, refrigerator
and other things necessary. .
The car serves as complete
office and hotel facilities.
population, twenty-eighth in
acres; average acres improved
The New AgricuU
tura South,
Old Idensof the Farm and Farm
Life are passing - The new
Era of Farm homes and at
tractive farm life has dawn
ed. The bock farmer with his scien
tific education h?.s marched
forth into the field - Mucn in
formation to be had from the
use of government farm bulle
tins.
(Written for The
Ware of Clevelend Co, Now a student
at the A. ZX M. College.)
There is not anything that is to a position that they of riht
so encouraging and inspiring to! ought to hnve, Theao people
tli9 student of agricultora. prob
lems as ti" way country life is
being transformed. Old ideas oi
the farm ate passing and a new
day is dawning radii- nt with poi
sibilitios for the boys and girls
who choose the country as their
place of habitation and farming
and country homepuiidnig as
their calling. The born and
bred view of farming isboing re
moved from our very beings and
we ate as&uminjr a ainerert al
titude toward the man. who digu
anil deUes his livelihood out of
the soil.
It has been vcrv unfortunate
to the South that the farm nas
been looked upon as it has. The
agriculture of the South was
built upon the system pi slavery
which produced class distinction.
A class of aristocrats arose who
dominated the government, dict
ated society, and furnished the
learned profess'ons with men.
The fields were cultivated by the
negroes aud the less fortunate
whites Most of the farms were
even superntended by thrifty
men from the common class who
had the ability t oversee but
usually had not had the advant
ages of education and culture,
and had not bioken icto society.
The whole system of agiicultore
wis carried on by a class who
were looked upon as a little low
er than the owners of the estate:'.
and the men of the so called pro
fessions. Tha very extstance of
such things 'ong held the farm
ing class in a position of peasant
ry, to a task of long hours f ji
little pay, and prevented them
drinking at the fountain of learn
ing, culture, and refinement. '
But this old system was over
thrown through hor or, b'ood
shed, and misery. We are all
regretful that it took such crisis
to recast our pwn beloved South
land and when we fittingly meet
to celebrate the-deeds of glory
our Confederate, lathers sinoore-
ly performed ' we speak words
praise worthy uf our prosepV
Southern Democracy ihat. ajrese
like a Pheamxffom he ashes of
a burufsd,up Kystem, The. season,
we are so proud, of our present
sv stem, of government and, soci
ety is that men an-i, women are
regarded more and moe because
ot the ir, merit aud not because of
blood. Aristocracy is no longer
being unduly nourished bet a
benoyeleDt band is lifting up the
mart that follows the plow and
the wonen that milk the cow
Herald by Jacob O.
are not being eievHted Troni tlilr
occupations but the occupation
itself is being exalte J to profess
ion. Both the farmer and his
calling is rising.
The Government and ,rura!
betterment enthusiasts ore doing
more for the country people than
has ever been before. The Nat
ional and Siate government are
spending millions of the revenue
through the agricultural coll
eges, the schools of .domestic
science,-the experiment stations,
aud the extension work. Then
the akrieultural napers'and va
rious organizations are , doing
their partio the great movement.
The ngiicultural colleges are
turning ont women trained in
scientific faru:, rural co-opera
tion, and country life better-menu.;-
The domestic scifica
schools are turning out women
trained in hccjohold nco:.i,miCH'
and the art of rei;rir.i cW e.
healthful, and ambitious sons
and daughters.
Many of tho governments bei.
taletted and trained men are
working for the nplift of tii
furming class, Sanitation and
convenient contrivances are b.
ing advocated. The best tyons
of plants end animuls are being
selected and further improved,
tho soils are being analyzed, test
ed out and the best adapted
plints for these particular Holla
determined. The best remedies
for the wore out and aiclt soils,
are prescribed. All this valuable
information is being x-rit.tcn in
books, pamphlets and bulletins,
for free distribution right to the
farmers' doors by 'iiral free de
livery. Not only i.s the Gov. rr
meqt tailing ns h"r to irarovo,
thg farm and rural, conditions
but it is actually showing the,
farmer what can be done through,
the County Demonstrator, the
Bois' Corn Clubs,' ?J"ls"
Canning CUbs, viie. Pig. ClapH,
tjtc. There is. a. County Agent
in t,he majprjiy oi. the qountica
oXthetsputa whose business it
is. ta.actually help the farmer to
put new. agricultural discoveries
into practice. No one thji'g has
more certainly shown that the
South is really a corn belt ihw
tl-e. Boys.; Corn. Clubs, Thae
little boys, betvoen, the ago of
ten and eighten years huvj ic-
toallv donbled trebled nd even
quadrupled the corn yield of
thelr fathers by simply putti'i- .
a few of the modarn methods of -farming
into practice jsp-ri'-d .
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