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VOL. 33 NO. 52.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
THURSOAY, DEC. 26, 1925
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—State News
i~jifT POINT, Dec. 24,—Thu Pit
huii V oiloii Mills, for a num
ber of weeks, has announced It will
resume ooera.TCua here about Jan
uary 1st employing approximately
200 persons, The mill nianufacuu .
carded and combed yarn.
Asheville, Dee. 24.—Police today
continued an investigation in the
death of Kov Rogers, 45, farmer
found shot to death in the Craggy
section Friday.
BEAUFORT, Dee. 24. Jimmy Gos
sard, 16, and his brother, Billy, play
ed that an envelope opener they wore
using while wrapping Christmas pre
sents was a dagger, Jimmy pretended
to stab himself, threw the dagger
on the bed and then fell as though
wounded.
Unnoticed, the opener stood up
right between the pillows—pierced
Jimmy’s chest. He died several
hours later.
HAMUET, Dee 24. —- A hotwater
heater exploded at Carl Hilton's
home here today, injuring Mrs. Hil
ton and their small daughter. Caro
nline. and wreaking a corner of the
house.
Mrs. .Hilton was severely bruised
and cut innternalll. Her condition
was described as critical by pli'si
ons Caroline's injuries were less
severe.. Both are in a hospital here.
HICKORY. Dee. 24. For 20 veavs
Guv Hawn has been riding a bicycle
without an accident.
Then, gonin" licnie from work, his
hike ern-b-'d *'e: d on with one ped
aled by Harry SteeTfiian.
Tile front wheels locked. Booth
men fell into each arms, swung
tight and neither fell.
ROCKINGHAM. Dec. 24 Thieves
here drained the gas form a whole
block of parked automobiles. Seekin
to pick up tthe chase, Roy Allen
found he couldn't. His automobile
had been include.d
Hand Severely Injured
By Fire Cracker
DrevA/ Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rufus Jackson of the Waco Roaod
Seettoe injured his hand with
a fire J^^^L','nday about noon.
The " trying to ligb (
a big fire^^^^^B^^^ vn as
bomb with a ;n it ex,i
ploded ini his hand. The hand was se
verely and painfully injured. The ac
cident happened in front of the Old
Mill on North Piedmont avenue.
This is the first fire cracker accn
dent that has been reported this sea
son. This should be a warning to oth
er firecracker shooters to be careful..
287 Children To Be Made
Happy By Firemen
287 children will be made happy on
Christmas by the local Fire Depart
ment. The members of the local
volunteer tire department have been
busy for the past several days re
piaring and repainting toys that have
been donated by the people of Kings
Mountain. —•
The toys that have been renewed
will be distributed by the firemen
on Christmas Eve night and Christ,
mas morning. The toys will be de
livered on the big lire truck, which
will provide an additional thrill for
the needy children.
Fire Chief Grady King, asks the
Herald to thank the many people ol
Knigs Mountain for their gracious
response in giving these toys. The
Boy Scouts assisted in collecting the
toys for the Firemen to repair.
THREE MORE FIRES
The old rule that fire conns "litre-’
in a row" for the local lire tighte ..
held true again. The first of the
three fires was at the home of Char
lie Uttlojohu, and the second at a
house opposite front the First Bap
tist church on Piedmont avenue, and
tl* third at the home ot Mis. Will
Everheart on West Mountain stive;.
All three fires was caused 1>.
sparks falling on the roofs. V cry
little damage was done.
EVERYTHING CLOSES
FOR CHRISTMAS
All stores, City Hall, the Post Offi
ce, The .Bank, Railroad Office, in fact
just abut everything will be (loosed
in King? Mountain tomorrow foi
Christmas.. The Police and Fire Be
partment will be on duty as well a>
the Telephone office. The Herald wil
he closed.
—National News—
CAPE MAY N. J., Dec., 24.—Une
Unitea Fruit lined Iriona, aground,
on Brandywine shoals near the
mouth of the Delaware bay, was re
floated today and headed iter own
pocer for Philadelphia.
Washington, Dec 24. NKA, once
keystone of the new deal, was termi
nated today by executive oredr of
President Roosevelt. Pare of the
functions of the recovery administra
tion were transferred by the Presi
dent to the commerce department
while others were turied over tto
the labor department.
NEW YORK, Dec.. 24—The Char
les A. Lindberghs, weary of kid
napers threats against their second
son and displeased by activities to
ward clemency for the convicted
slayer of their first born, have lefft
America to establish a home in Eng
land.
COLUMBIA, Dec. 24. Release of
severaly hundred, thousand dollar,
in federal road funds nwo it ! ’ Re
state treasury was tuthorizert today
by the state supreme court today as
a temporary highway board took
charge of raod affairs and prepared
to push construction
GREENVILLE. S C„ Dec. 24 Judge
H 11. Watkins of the United States
district court, in his opionion filed
here today, reaffirmed his former de
csirns in the Buzzards Rost case,
denying the right of the public works
administration too operate a power
plant in Greenwood county.
Newark, N. J„ Dec 24 —Two men
surprised in the act of kidnaping an
elderly retired Newa'ik diamond mer
chant today opened fire ati three de
fectives and escaped . Their car was
•found half an hour later, the kidnap
l id ini bound and gagged and lying
'in the rear of the machine
Washington. Dec., 24. The passing
of Senator Thomas David S; hall,
blind 5$ year old republican from
Minnesota who died yesterday front
injuries suffere when he was mit by
a motor car appeared certain today
to spur efforts to curb the automob
ile accident menace.
Alemeda, Calif., Dec. 24—The Phil
ippine clipper homeward bound from
Manilla arrived at Wake Island to*
day while her sister ship the west
uound China clipper was bucking
heavy winds on her flist to Honolulu.
Dos Angeles, Dec. 24.—The Dos
Angeles county grand jurq looked
for murder today in the private life
and strange death of Telma Todd,
smiling film funmaker.
The grand jury will look for mu*>
der said George Johnson, deputy dis
trict attorney.
Hopewell, Va., Dec. 23.—Nine ot
fourteen victims of the plunge of a
greyhound bus into the icy waters
of the Appomattox had been identi
fi.ed today while separate investiga
tions were being conducted or sched
uled by city, state and bus company
officials.
An autopsy was underway at Rich
mond this afternoon to determine if
bus company officials were correct in
their belief that D. G. Alford, driver
of the bus, was dead when the big
vehicle crashed through te guard
rail of an open draw span and drop
ped 20 feet into te stream.
CHICKEN AND
ibKivLi STOLEN
Somebody evidently isplauning or.
aving n big Christmas dinner, --3
di. M. B. Black who liven a fev.
.riles from town on the Shelby road
rfjiortt'rt to the police that someone
■ londay morning early stole 20 of
,.s Plymouth Hock chickens and
one turkey. The police are investi
gating the case.
Midnight Service At
Boyce Memorial
Caere will be a worship service at
Boyce Memorial church Tuesday
night at 11:00 o’clock closing prayer
.\. h ire incoming of the New Year
."'rictu s in the town tire cordially in
vited. Watch in Worship.
Think Drunk Man
Dead Man
Early Sunday morning after the
freezing night before, a man was
seen hanging in a limp form over the
overhead bridge on llailroad avenue
The police were immediately notifi
ed that a man had frozen to death,
hut upon investigation by the police
department it was found that a col
ored man with too much so called
“liquid Christmas Spirits' had be
come sick. Before the police arrived
he had vanished for parts unknown/'
_ J
Snows Here Sunday
The children's prayer for a “white
Christmas was answered here Sun
day when snow began to fall abottfl
noon. This was the first snow ot
any size since December 1922.
The snow packed hard by the
passing cars made the streets V 1
Kings Mountain very slippery Mon
day. The police department directed
traffic around the slick liill on East
King street via the water station.
Many fenders were bumped and sev
e.al pedestrints v.ore seen sliding on
ihe caked sidewalks.
With the cold weather that ac
companied the snow automobiles
were hard to start, and local garage
men were kept busy pulling off cars
to start them.
Even with tile snowy and cold
weather local merchants report that
'heir business has been unusually
good. Their stores were crowded
with last minute Christmas shoppers
the streets were alive with people
their arms loaded with all sorts of
bundles, everyone smiling and happy
as they bumped into each other.
THE HERALD STAFF
WISHES FOR ALL
A VERY MERRY
CHRISTMAS
AND A PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR
Congressman Bulwinkle
Addresses Men’s Club
I Congressman A. h. Hulwinkle of
Gastonia addressed the members of
the Men's ('lull at their supper here
: last Thursday evening.
Messrs Joe Noisier and Grady
King had charge of the program,
ilayne Blackmer, newly elected pres
idcnt presided at the meeting.
I Mr. Wiley H. McGinnis introduced
I ihe speaker of the evening. In in
I trodneing Congressman Bulw inkle,
I Mr. McGinnis said that he had
1 known the speaker since he was a
“pup" and that they had raised
“tain' together, but that all this was
in the past and what he was inter-*
ested in was the future, and that'
Congressman Hulwinkle was a man
that would do things for tthe people
in the future.
Major Hulwinkle started his ad
dress by saying that when a lawyer
defended a man at the criminal bar
Ue was always slat! to visit that
man later and see how he was get
ting along, and t'aat he had helped
Jifr. *\V. K. Mauney who was driving
his ear a little too fast through
Maryland, and that he was mighty
glad to visit Kings Mountain to see
how his man was getting along.
He said that lots of people were
worried about his health, and that
he was going to die. The Congress
man said that he always like to ac
commodate his friends but that he
could not die for them.
Major Rttlwinkle said that most of
the people that criticised the New
Deal had not offered anything bet
ter to take its place. The Major de
fended the New Deal, and said that
most men under the same circum
stance would have done exactly"
what members of Congress had done.
J. S. Mauney Honored
By Local Cotton Mills
S. MAUNEY SOLE SLR VIVING FOUNDER OF
KINGS MOUNTAIN
The oldest pioneer cLizeii of Kings
Mountain now living is the esteemed
Jacob S. Mauney who lives in his
home on N. Piedmont avenue. April
Oth, 1936, Mr. Mauney will celebrac
Providence willing, his 90tli birthday
His daughter, Mrs. E. (’ Coop*
and family, make their horns wi h
him and there he spends pleasant
days of reverie. He enjoys good
health and Sunday morning services
at the Lutheran Church of which he
is a devoted member generally finds
him in his regular pew.
WAR EXPERIENCES
Mr. Mauney was born near Cherry
ville in 1846. When the War broke
out he was fifteen years old. He
joined the Junior Reserves the next
wear and when he was seventeen
was called into service in the 72nd
Regiment. He first engaged in de
tachment service, being sent to Wil
mington to guard the bridge and fer
ry over the Cape Fear River. While
thehe he anticipated the “Channel
Services" of today by swimming the
Cape Fear at its widest point.
His first battle was experienced
at Kinston, it was there that he per
formed a feat, that, might have de
prived Kings Mountain of his long
and useful life and robbed her, of
some of her most valued citizens.
His story of what happened it that
one of the packets was shot down on
the bank of the rifle pit. Some of
the litter-bearers refused to mount
the breat works in face of the ene
my fire and bring the wounded man
in. Volunteers were called for. Mr.
Mauney responded. He. with three
others went out. Just as they reach
ed the man the enemy opened lire?
Shots rained on all sides, lhtt they
reached safety. Bowen, r, they had
no more than tumbled over the
breat works when a large shell prae
tRally demolished it.
Mr. Mauney is a little shy on
speaking of the hardships of the
war but it was during the last two
years of the war that army rations
were scarce. He said that after go
ing Tor two or more days without
food, corn meal dought, when they
had no opportunity to bake it, tasted
better than pound cake today.
He was in a number of minor en
gagements but the hardest fought
battle was at Bentonville. Here h°
saw more dead and wounded than on
any other occasion.
News of Lee's surrender is very
vivid with Mr. Mauney. There was a
wTu scramble to get home. They had
little to eat and they saw no use or
lingering. Their only care was to a
void the enemy enroute. Orders
came for the men to await their pa
role but the order was disregarded
and many set out for home. Mr.
Mauney among them. At the time
lie was about twelve miles east of
Greensboro. He walked home circl
ing Salisbury which was said to have
been full of Yankees. He reached
Lincolnton where also there were
many northern soldiers but lie was
unmolested and the citizens prepar
ed fine meals for the returning sol
itiers His parole reach**! him later.
The first few years after the war,
Mr. Mauney spoilt on t a• ■ farm a iul
in going to school.. li ■ at ton-led Ca
tawba College at Newton. He clerk
ed in a store at Cherr.. v:lle.
OPENS STORE HERE
In April 1873, Mr. M-.ancy tame
to Kings Mountain with ins brother
the late Hon. W. A. Man , They
opened up a small stoi ■-■ in a frame
building. They kent baHi dor’s halt
and did their own cooktag. The first
sale made was a dollar'; worth of
brown sugar bought by Mr. Wi lliam
Ware. At that time the only train
ran a few miles south of King
Mountain. This was a work train
as the road was in process of con
struction at the time.
FIRST HOME
September 11. is73, Mr. Maun- >
was married to Julia Iimlis.il! o: neat
Lincoluton and he brotiT.it his bridt
to the home of Captain lTvno Hill
ing who was operating a saw mill at
ihe junction at that time and who
lived *n a large grove practically on
the site of the present Idling home
stead. Their first home in Kings
Muntain was a two-room frame build
tng which they called the “C.ranary’
In the meantime there was being e
rected a large building in which
when it was completed was opened
by them the first "Hotel in the town.
It stood on the spot where today is
located Crawford’s Meat Market. Af
ter many years it was rolled back to
the Bonnie Mill where it now stand
Kings Mountain soon developed in ■
to a trading center. The railroad was
completed in the fall of 78<3. This
brought many people and male tie
hotel business profitable One one oc
casion there was a slide on the rail
road and three passenger trains
were compelled to be delayed here, j
Mr. Mauney says that while there
was some jam at the Hotel, he and !
Mrs. Mauney witTt the help they had
were able to take care of the crowds.
He said that they fed people all
night long at twentv five cents a
meal and when his guests cleared
out he found that he had cleared ov
er the night Sit’S. The present home
was Built sixty years ago
THE COMMUNTY GROWS
Since the settlement Mr Mauno..
has witnessed a great change from
fields and woodlands to the present
beautiful town. He has been part and
parcel of the development that has
taken place. The Lutheran Church
was the first church to be built and
no small part of its present prosper
our condition is due to his support
and that of his brother and their
families.
The community is proud to recog
nize the. part of its eldest citizen.
Mr. Mauney was identified with the
construction of many of the business
enterprises of (Tie town, the first cot
ton mill, the Kings Mountain Manu
facturing Co. built in lsSS, and la
ter the Bonnie Cotton Mill, the Bilk
ing Mills and the Cora Mills, the Rn
terprise, now the Mauney Miss, the
Sadia Cotton MU* and other textile
mills in other communities Me had
part in the banking and mercantile
growth of the town.
Directors and Overseers,
Superintendents and Invit
ed (iuests Also Feted.
lion. Clyde* H. Hoey of Shelby,
candidate for Governor of North Car
olina, was the principal speaker at a
dinner in the Woman's Club building
Saturday evening given by the Kings
-mountain Mig Co., the Bonnie Cot
ton Mills, the Sadie Cotton Mills Co.
and tile Mauney Mills, inc., in honor
ol J S. Mauney, retired business
man of Kings Mountain, and of the
mill directors, managers and over
seers.
The address of Mr. Hoey was inti*
mate and personal and not political.
His manner was directly one of rent
inistvuce and of praise of the Mann
er family aifd Jacob S. Mauney in
particular, lie spoke words of praise
of hint as a soldier in the Army of
the Confederacy. He spoke of the
progress of the nation and of this
community since the youth of Air.
Mauney who is nearing his ninetieth
birthday
The eloquence of tile South's great
orator lifted above the material
things of life. He said that In the
midst of the change that has taken
Place one tiling lias not changed
character, courage and faith—and
that these people have held these
tilings above the material things.
They have built on tile everlasting
foundations of a faith in God.
Mr. Hoey compared Mr. Mauney
with Daniel Boone ns a pioneer blitz
tug a trail that other men may fol
low. And with the North Star, guid
ing its through it Vs journey to the!
bigger and higher things of life. The
speaker said that the honored guest
had seen many changes in his long
lifetime and that lie wished that he
could live to r.-e the glorious ex
pansion of tue i'ui ure.
The speaker wag presented on this
occasion by Mr. Kay Dixon, banker
and textile executive of Gastonia,
who is a native ot this community.
Mr Dixon said that he felt a little,
out of place being a Gaston County
man introducing a distinguished sou
of Cleveland county to a Cleveland
county audience He presented Mr.
Hoey as a man who could mingle
with equal ease at a convention of
the clergy or of the* bar.
W . K. Mauney. Secretary-Treasur
er ot the M a tine ■ and Bonnie Mills
presided as toastmaster, in present
ing Judge .K Y V.N bb of U. S. Fed
eral Court hi said that if you had
b“en a good or a bad man you al
ready were acquainted with the
next speaker.
Judge Webb brought words of
greeting to thosi at the dinner, and
culoigzi-1 the guest of .honor; his
father, David .Manney; his brother S
S. Mautiey, tiov. living in Cherry
ville and present at thi dinner; and
the late Hon. W. A. Mauney.
He told of his own lather's ae
quaintnncC with David Mauney and
of his gratitude to him tor his help
fulness in the troubles in his fath
ers life as an underpaid traveling
minister of the Gospel in a pioneer
country. He told of his own ac
quaintance with Mr. Mauney and his
brothers. He raid these three were
noble men and to J. S. Mauney tv
referred as a great man. He spoke
oi his intimate connection with the
growth of the community. He said
that he had not heard, one word of
criticism of him as a good and up
tight man. (The full text of Judge
Webb's address will be found else
where in this paper.) .
During the dinner music was turn
ished by an orchestra ol mill em
ployees. As a part of- the program
piano solos alii duets ' were played
by the Mauney twins. Miles and Ki
lled, who are accomplished musici
ans at eleven years of age. Miss
Margaret Cooper delightfully enter
tained with a reading from the
‘ Bird's Christmas Carol.'
More than a hundred guests were
present at the diftiver. The four
course turkey dinner' was prepared
by the ladies of the Woman's Club
and served by Madtuns K. C Cooper,
a. A Mauney, K l" Mauney, W Kf
Mauney. B X Barnes,^Aubrey Maun
ey. Carl Mauney Joe Mauney, II. B.
Wolf, Arnold Kiser, J. K. Herndon. J
A Isenhower, and Miss Ozell Kiser
The dinner was. given by the, fi.Mr
mills and planned-.by the executives
and Aubrey Mauney; grandson of the
honored guest and: cotton yarn sales
representative for the mills and for
Mauney-Steel Company of Philadel
] phia. i ,
The directors of the four mill*
honored along with Mr. J. S. Mauney
were: S. A. Mauney, p. H Mauney,
r K Mauney. P. C Mauney, W. 1C
Mauney, Mrs. D. "C. ’ Mauney. Arnold
Kiser. A K. Cline T M Plonk and W
A Kidenhour. The Superintendent
of the Kings Mountain Mfg. Co., the
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