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PAGE EIGHi IREDELL MORNING NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1955 E AGENTS KIN ILL Mrs. Charles Chuber of Long Island, N. Y. mother of Bill Chu ber of Statesville, is recovering from a major operation that she underwent recently. She has left the hospital and is at her home in Long Island. Her son expects to go up sometime in July and bring her back with him for a visit. Carolina, Land of Beginnings, Starts Precedent With Art Museum "Alone as a historic precedent, the North Carolina State Art Mu seum readily earned its right to a particualr fame . . . for not only does it represent the first of the 48 states to vote ana expend public 1 uses no L floor space! NEW G-E PACKAGED AIR CONDITIONER FASTENS TO CEILING Space at a premium in your establishment? Then it's the new G-E Packaged Air Conditioner for you! Fast ens to the ceiling or can be shelf-mounted. Yet gives you the same dependable performance of a G-E floor mounted model. Your choice of air-cooled or water cooled models. Both can be equipped with coils for winter heating. And, to protect you against service bills, both are self-contained units with all vital cooling parts sealed by flame. That's why G.E. gives you an unsurpassed 5-year warranty. Call us today for free survey of your air-conditioning needs. GENERAL ELECTRIC PHONE 3229 WATTS Plumbing & Heating Co. 130 CourtSt. Statesville funds to acquire a public art col lection, it also becomes the South's first museum of extent, and conse quence in possessions, below Rich mond and east of the Pacific." Thus wrote Editor Alfred Frank furter in the April issue of Art News Magazine, announcing the opening of the Museum at Raleigh, housing more than 200 paintings and objects of art, valued already at $2,000,000 with an additional million dollars worth of art to come as the donation of the Kress Foundation. LAND OF BEGINNINGS It is not surprising that North Carolina should be the home of the first major museum of art, which wts dedicated April 6, as a state institution. North Carolina is a Land of Beginnings. It has been so since the First English man came ashore on Roanoke Is land to begin colonization of the Western World. Tourists travel easily to Roanoke Island today, and to nearby Kitty Hawk where modern flight Began, because of another North Carolina Beginning the first state administered high way system. Over these same highways they journey from the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Smoky Mountains. In between, they may visit Chapel Hill, where the University of North Carolina was the First state university to open its doors, and the industry of the Piedmont, which is symbolic of North Caro lina's leadership in the New South, because this was the First South ern state to strike off the fetters of agriculture undiversified. North Carolina, Land of Beginnings, ac claims this new First in the field bf culture, embracing as It does the opportunity of sharing an out standing art collection with, the people of all the world. (Special tribute to North Carolina in April issue of ART NEWS.) By June 1, the new. museum, which opened on April 6, had al ready counted 21,402 visitors. In celebration of the opening in Raleigh, 30 North Carolina paint ers held an exhibition in New York, May 16-30. The painters were presented by Ruth Faison Shaw in the Coach House, 422Vi West 46th Street. YOU ARE ONLY 5 MINUTES FROM ANY PART OF TOWN TO YOUR FAVORITE FRALEY'S FOOD 211 West Front Street it STORE HOURS 7 A. M. TO 7 P. M. SIX DAYS A WEEK Salisbury Road In Country Club We give complete friendly service right up 'till closing time every day. Early or late shoppers get the same courteous attention. DIXIE CRYSTAL Fresh From the Farm Doz. SUGAR LARGE EGGS ------ 49c " lb. bag 97c CLAPP'S Maxwell House 1 Lb. 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"S&H" Green Stamps Have Been Serving the Public Since 1896 THIS IS NOT A TEMPORARY SAVINGS PLAN 1 BAD ROADS Continued From Page'l across the mountains often induc ed others to follow the pioneers. n example of such a letter is one written in 1817 from Chris tian County, Kentucky by Moses Stevenson to William McClelland in Iredell in which the writer said "You ought to come to this or some other new country where you could live more easy and more plentiful" and again, "as you complain of grain being very scarce with you at present but sir let me inform you that we have plenty of everything in this country. Among descendents of Moses Stevenson and Ann Ewing, his wife, are Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson, vice president of the United States, 1893-1897, and Governor Adlai Ewing Steven son of Illinois, 1949-1953, and Al ben W. Barkley, vice president, 1949-1953. Other families moved into Tip ton County, Tennessee, Bellevue. Missouri, and to Bloomington, Ill inois. Agitation for better roads re sulted in a growine demand by the peode of the Piedmont for a rail road. By 1857 this dream was realiz ed when the tracks were laid through Iredell on the spur line to Asheville from the North Caro lina Railroad with connections at Salisbury. A business boom developed as a result and prosperity came at last to Iredell. A direct result of this was seen in the promotion of a grand scheme to make Eagle City a Hunting Creek metropolis. For almost ten years proir to 1857 Andrew Beggerly had pro moted bis pet project in selling lots in the ficticious town various ly called "Eagle City", Eagle Mills and South Troy" through adver tisements in state papers. His pleas met with marked success and with the money that poured in a cotton mill was act ually built. However, a depression that beean in 1857 fell athwart Beggerly's plan which thereafter vanished into thin air. About 1950 some of Iredell's citizens throueh the country too large and petitioned the legisla ture to divide it. However, James Harbin, a public spirited man who had moved to Statesville as owner and keeper of the old Saint Charles Hotel, and others signed a counter petition to the legislature protesting any division. He and his friends claimed that Statesville and Iredell were just beginning to realize a growth un enualed by any situation in the piedmont with new plank roads and railroads coming through the county. "Any division," thev said, would injure materially such growth, and inconvenience hundreds of our fellow country men." Through Harbin's work the di vision never materialized and Ire dell continued on its way to be coming one of the leading coun ties in the west. Further evidence of Iredell's progressive march can be observ ed in a report by Dorothy Dix on the county poor house in the 1850s. At a time when the insane and poor were practically ignored in the state. Miss Dix found that Ierdell's poor house was "a model of neatness, comfort and good order having a most efficient mas ter and mistress." and "all in all it was in much the best condition of any poor house I have been in North Carolina," she wrote, "and would do credit to any state." (To Be Continued) 5 Consolidate Your Old Bills Pay Back your Loan On Easy Terms AUTO. FURNITURE PERSONAL STATESVILLE FINANCE J CORP. Jj 228 W. Broad 4$J ELMWOOD Mrs. W. R. Byford is going to be a "news gatherer" for this paper in the area about Cleveland. Oh, there wont be much, she said, and just on the heels of that she called in about a fire down there. Here is her report: It is very dry. Grain fields are like tinder and a fire that started in an oats field belonging to Mr. Clarence Reitzel might very well have proved disastrous except for the quick thought and action of three boys, "Spray boys" with the Iredell Health Department. The boys are Jack Cobb Jr., Pete Eis ele and Ronald Harmon. They were passing by on their job with the department when they noticed fire in the field. They accepted it as someone's responsibility at first but, having gone a little dis tance they decided to check, again and going back they realized the danger. A wind was whipping the flames, there was a house, the Turner home, very near and a field of ripe wheat within a few hundred feet. The boys fought the fire, saw it gaining and put out for help. They called the Statesville fire department, rounded up local help and everybody went to firefighting. Mr. Jim Benfield took his tractor and ploughed about the fire cen ter, making a fire brake to protect adjoining areas and neighbors fought with wet sacks and buckets of water. The fire truck arrived in time to take over and save spreading damage. A large area of oats was damaged. The jeep the boys were using suffered some fire damages also. The News Although all the Piedmont is sadly deficient in normal rainfall, Mecklenburg county seemg hardest hit; corn and cotton loss is put at 20 percent. Mountain tobacco seems okay. DO YOUR SHOPPING AT HOME DIAL 9756 ?immG & HEATING CO. m t. front street Juteyill. N. APPLIANCES GAS & OIL BURNERS PUMPS R O W FRANKLIN IS WINDOW 2 4" x 3' 2" 4 horz. Its. $14.45 2 8" x 4 6" 4 horz. Its $16.98 1" 8" x 4' 0" x 1 8" x 4 6" 4 horz. Its . . . $41.39 INSULATING WOOL BATTS $3.00 Per Bag FULL FRAME ALUMINUM WINDOW SCREENS No. 2846 . No. 3046 . COMPLETE WITH H ARDWARE No. 2432 ... $3 each $3.85 ea. $4.05 ea. Statesville Mfg. Co. Cor. 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