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VIEWS" AND INTERVIEWS
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Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED IIP BY ENfJUlKER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don'ti'Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"Its almost impossible to get over '
the roads now that the bad weather
has set in," said Frank Simrill, manager
for the Marshall Oil company, (
. Yorkville. "I sent one of my trucks j
over to Hickory Grove last week. It .
I
managed to get back to headquarters j
this week. Another of the trucks was 1
driven to'Guthriesville a few days ago.
It was still there Wednesday."
Not Paid by the State. t
"While I would not be understood as
criticising the action of the recent tax- i
payers' convention held in yorkville," I
said Superintendent of Education John i
E. Carroll, Wednesday, "it is a fact t
that the salaries of several school of- t
ficials whom the convention recom- z
mended be dismissed, are not paid by
the state of South Carolina: but by the sc
General Education Board of New York r
instead. Salaries of the following are I
contributed by the General Education j
. board: I). L. Lewis, acting rural school c
supervisor; J. B. Felton, supervisor of r
colored schools; B. L. Parkinson, high o
school inspector; Mrs. A. R. Brady, t
stenographer; Mrs. S. Jackson, ste- r
nographer." t
New One on the Chief. t
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"Heard a new phrase of colored vernacular
that I never heard before a day or
two ago," said Chief of Police J. Cal 1-1
Steele. e
"We arrested three colored men last c
Tuesday on a charge of vagrancy. I 11
questioned the men. trying to get a iinc a
on their permament place of residence. 1
une ot i tie negroes una me mar nc nao
formerly worked in Gastonia for a col- 1
ored woman named Lilly Moore. I ask- 1
ed him what the Moore woman did.
" "She runs a long table,' he replied. 1
" 'A long table,' said I, 'whaf is a 8
long table?' 0
" 'Boss.' returned the negro, 'don't J
yo' all know whut cr long table' is? fl
Why dat's a bo'adin' house fo' nig- 1
gahs.'" n
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Every Salesday.
. W. A. Sherer, who lives on York No. e
4. was in Yorkville Monday as usual. ]|
Mr. Slicrer is a Confederate veteran
who went into the service at the beginning
of the war, and who was a prisoner
for several inonths afterward, having
been eapttirod on the day of the -j
surrender. He was a good soldier. But
what this paragraph is about is this:
"You never fail to get to Yorkville on
? sulcsday, do you?" asked Views and
Interviews.
"Not if I can help it," he replied. "1 ^
count of being sick: but 1 can't say for 1 ^
certain. I have been coming to York- '
viilc each salcsday ever since I can re- p
member, and that is a long time in the .
estimate of some of you middle-aged
men who have been born since I went
to the war."
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Recalls Old Days. ;i
"I read the story in The Enquirer ^
about the experiences of the late Dr. j
Bralton and the Ku Klux Klaus with a ]
whole lot of interest," remarked Mr. \V. j j
G. Turner of Bullock's Creek township, u
who 'was in Yorkville recently. "It
brought back vividly to my mind those c
stirring (lays. In fact I couldn't sleep ?
much the night I read the story for e
thinking of the old days.
"I was a Ku Klux myself," Mr. Turner
went on to say, "but fortunately
for me I was never arrested. I was in
grave danger of it several times: but
somehow or other I always got away.
I arn reminded right now of an incident
that occurred near Yorkville during
those days. I was lying out for several p
nights with Mr. William Dobson, now c
!
of Gaffnoy. We had been lying out for j t
several nights in order to avoid arrest | y
at the hands of Federal soldiers. I re- ! t
member the particular night that I! r
i
have ill mind 1 carried an old gun j l,
along with me. Along about the nvd-jt
die of the night an old owl got to hoot- ; j
ing. I was young and that was inoic
most mournful doleful sound imugina-Ja
bio. I got up and started to shoot the i
owl, which I could see by the moon- j
light.
"About that time Dobson woke up.
" 'Whabare \'oii about to do?' he ask- i1
ed me. '1
"'Shoot the.owl,' 1 replied. jr
"'Why man you'll have the Yankees 1
on us in no time.' he said. j1
"I hadn't thought of that;-but I re-'-v
member 1 didn't shoot the owl."
Price of Cotton.
There were quite a number of people
in the office of the editor during Monday
on various errands, some on ac- ]'
count of business, some to ask for in- J1
formation on different subjects and 1
some for purely social considerations. '
<?ne visitor, a farmer, after having paid 1
his subscription over in the business :
ofliee came back into the editorial i'
sanctum and remained until all the 1
others had gone. The office of Views
and Interviews is separated only by a j
partition, and although Views and Interviews
denies any implication ofj
eavesdropping he could not help hearing
what was said, and he is giving it
for what if is worth, which, the editor j
says, is Very 'little. The gentleman who j
remained behind'the olliers \vas a far-j
m'T who (s in good eircumslancrs; but
who, like most other folks just now, is
puzzled as to what to do.
"I wanted to see you," said the farmer,
"to ask you what you think about
cotton, whether if you were me you
would sell?"
Now this is a proposition on which
the editor is always slow to take responsibility.
Mis notion, as Views and
Interviews has heard him express it
more than once is that, "Cotton 'is a
fool ana noooay can ten wnai it is going
to do," but also the editor likes to
be as helpful to his friends as possible
and never tries to get out of giving a
fair answer to a fair question, so he
:ame brick with this:
"I do not feel at all encouraged over
the cotton outlook; but as to whether
[ would sell or not would depend upon
:ircumstances, how much I owed, what
[ had in mind to do, and how much it
ivould. take to do it. ,
"How much cotton have you and how
nuch do you owe?" continued the cdi;or.
"I have twenty-six bales," replied the
isitor, "and I do not owe anything,
jut it would take about six bales at the
irescnt prices to buy some things 1
hink I need very badly and Ihc quesion
is whether I shall sell the cotton
ind pay my way 01* borrow the money."
"Well," replied the editor, "under clrjumstances
like that I would not renain
in doubt as to what I would do.
would simply sell the five or six bales.
>ay cash, get what I want and take a
ihance on holding the balance. I do
lot sec anything that promises much
ncouragement for.an upward market;
>ut still I know that it can go up alnost
as easily as it can go down ana
here you are. If you had asked me
hat same question last fall I would
lave told you not to sell unless you
re re obliged to. I believed then as l
to now that the world is hungry for
very bale of cotton there is in cxistnce,
and I hoped, then that long before
tow trade channels would be open
gain and prices would be good. 1 still
hink that the world is hungry for-all
he cotton there is; but from the way
hingx arc going commercially, indusrially,
economically," politically and fiancially.
there is no telling when
hings arc going to get better. If you
ell all your cotton now you may have
r>rasinn to roerct it later on, and if
ou don't sell it all now you might have
ccasion to wish you had sold. But, as
have said, with the eotton mine, and
lot needing the money with which to
ay debts, I would hold." , ?
"I was thinking that I would "sell
nough cotton toj;ct what I want ann
old this ba'anco," said the fainter,
and that is what 1 will do."
VALENTINE DAY NtAR.
"he Lorn Youth Hunts Up "Poetry"
and Tokens for His Sweetheart.
Bright red silk stockings, cloaked on
he side'with hearts of the same shade,
rill be the votive offering at lhe feet of
ne Baltimore maiden on S*t. Vulenine's
day, says the Baltimore Sun. The
lockings were purchased yesterday at
Charles street shop by a youth who
aid ?10 for them without blinking an
ye and who strutted out feeling sure
hat he had in his brief possession the
lost up-to-date valentine to be had in
he city. Just what the maiden who
.ill receive them will do with them
Iter she gets them was a detail which
?#i r.,,< a.-.rm tn disturb the youthful)
urchascr or the shopkeeper.
For the most part, however, valenines
have reverted to normalcy. The
biquitous post card is more ubiquitus
than ever with impossible cupids,
osturned in anything' but a "moral
own," delivering themselves of sugurd
words to this effect:
1 love you true, sweetheart of mone;
Oh, come and be my valentine."
Or this:
You're sweeter by far than honey
sweet clover:
You are my valentine. I am your
lover." v
Looks for Big Demand.
To the shopkeeper all the world is a
dlypnp and the valentine is its propht.
This man lias laid in a. supply of
hem so large that it was calculated
esterday that if all were placed end
o end in a single row, an able bodied
nan, walking 15 milts a day, could folaw
a trail of Hum that would lead to
he land \\Jierc palm trees wave and
irohibition holds no terrors. Each saccharine
lump is disguised as a child,
nd one with a face of lime-green hue
lad these lines underneath:
"If you b>ve me like I love you.
"1 will lie your hdlypop true."
For the rare lover who "hones." as
hey put it down in Dixie, to take his
air lady to a cottage entirely surounded
by a lot 50 by 150 feet, there is
lie seed valentine, which lias at least
lie virtue of being practical. On one
cirie there is a sentiment to this effect:
'For two who love each other true,
Too long we both have tarried.
S.> lettuce us jump hum wre cm l
And k" uut to bo married."
The thirists ami the candy shops will,
if course, do the usual valentine I nisiless.
A basket ol' spring (lowers, one
if the most potent of valentines, willj
rust ?'j or ?S, but corsage boui'jucts of;
i'io!ets and sweet pons m.iy be had furl
is little at ?l.r.'?. The candy box, of |
course. is a red heart or a golden ar- ,
row and camly will cost from $1 to $- !
i pound.
? The Seattle chamber of commerce
is in receipt of a letter from an enterprisin.tr
.lapanpse who wishes to purchase
brewing machinery of American
brewery owners. lie states thai
'breweries of this conn try .must lu<
totally wounded by the law of temperance,"
THE CATAWBA INDIANS
Special Committee Files its Report
With Governor Cooper.
WOULD GIVE THEM FULL CITIZENSHIP
Old System of Single Chief Now Done
Away With?Catawbas Governed by
Committee of Three?The Committee
Would Give Them Additional Land?
About 135 on the Reservation.
Recommendation that the full rights
of citizenship be given the Catawba Indians
is embodied in the report of the
special committee on Indian affairs, recently
appointed by Governor Cooper.
The committee has completed its report
and filed the same with the governor.
The commission in its report
points out that the Catawba Indian is a
ward of the state and therefore must
be properly cared for. The commission
recommends that the state purchase
additional lands, giving a tract to each '
family, provide adequate houses,
churches and. schools, furnish equipment,
employ an efficient agriculturist
to teach them to properly farm and ,
furnish funds for putting them on their (
feet. For the aged and infirm members
of the tribe, who cannot work and have ,
no younger members of the tribe to ^
whom they can look for support, it is
recommended that adequate provision ,
be made for. their care during life. :
Bus/ Several Weeks.
The commission, composed of W. M/ .
Dunlap and \V. H. Hope, of Rock Hill, |
and R. S. Stewart of Lancaster, has
been engaged in their investigation for
some weeks. During tha ttime members
have taken testimony of scores of
persons who are familiar with conditions
existing at the reservation and ^
the information thus obtained aided
materially in arriving at a recommen- 1
dation. Members of the Indian tribe j
were also interviewed and the entire (
membership held a meeting at the reservation,
at the request of the commls- ,
sion, and formulated a request for a ,
settlement. All of this data was taken ,
and given -close suiuy oy me commas- ,
sion before arriving at a decision. In (
their recommendation to the legislature (
the commission in part follows the desires
of the members of the tribe, but
the settlement desired was as a whole, (
regarded as unreasonable. Those who j
arq fWiiliar with the situation are of (
the opinion that the recommendations j
furnished about the best solution of the j
problem. The consensus of. opinion is
that It would be useless to continue to
furnish an annual appropriation as in
the past and that if land was given in
fee simple it would be traded. As one *
man expressed it, the Catawbas are ^
simply children of the state and must
be dealt with as children; th'e governing
body controlling affairs until the ,
members of the tribe have been educated
in habits of thrift and self support.
The annual appropriation by the
state has served to make many of the j
members more shiftless than before, as
members who have left the reservation
and embarked upon their own initiative
have made good. All of the testimony
taken by the commission has been submitted
to the legislature, with the request
that the members acquaint themselves
with the facts in the case, thereby
enabling them to more intelligently
act upon the recommendations for a
settlement.
Favor Full Citizenship.
The report recommends that the Indians
bo given lull citizenship and the
privileges of voting, a right that lias
heretofore been denied them; that the
present reservation be maintained and
that the stale provide a building for a
school, maintain and pay a white teacher
with a first grade certificate, to give
instruction to the children for nine
months in the year; also that a building
for religious worship be maintained:
that at least 500 acres of land adjoining
the reservation be purchased
and that the entire tract be divided into
75 acre tracts, on each of which
there would be a suitable dwelling,
barns, etc., farming implements, horse
or mule and cow and a tract allotted to J
the head of each family; that a trained
and competent fanner be secured for a
period of throe years to instruct the Indians
in modern farming1 methods; if
at the end of five years the family
proves itself capable of sustenance that
a deed in fee simple be given to the
tract, otherwise the family is given the
option of returning to the reservation
without future aid from the state; that
after the period of five years the state
will appropriate only such funds as
needed for the care and support of the
aged and infirm members of the tribe,
so as to make them comfortable for the
rest of their lives. It is also recommended
thai a commission of three ho
appointed to have entire charge, control
mid management of the reservation
and lands hereafter purchased.: also
all appropriations hereafter made,
schools and all buildings and not hampered
in any way in the use of the I
funds or the management of Indian af- j
lairs by legislative authority.
The commission also recommends j
..tat tlie appropriation this year lie $7,- j
300. the same as last year; decreasing
i it to $7,000 next year anil thereafter onj
iy such sum tis needed for the support
; .if the aged a nd infirm members of the t
.tribe.
In Nature of Experiment.
This will be more or less in the nn- !
tare of tin experiment, says the commission,
and if adopted, the state must
select thrro gnod men in whom it has
implicit confidence, as the affairs must
be administered in a practical way and
common sense must be the guidjh'g
spirit in the adjustment of each difficulty
that may arise.
It is believed that the recommendations
will meet with the approval of
the more intelligent members of the
tribe, as it will them an opportunity
to uplift themselves, which has
heretofore been lacking. It will also
provide an incentive to development
into useful citizens, especially the com-r
ing generation.
There are now about 135/members on
the reservation and they are governed
by a committee of three, the old system
of "chief" having been abolished
several years ago:^They are at present
not amenable to state' law, except in
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Hie CUlIJiJUSaiV/ll VI wuva.us.
reservation and felonious offenses on
the reservation, all difficulties being
carried before the committee whicn
metes judgment to offending members
of the tribe.
CONVICT WOMAN MOONSHINER.
Scowls at Accusers and Says They
Didn't Tell the Truth.
Mrs. Sarah Glass, aged 50 years, an
alleged pioneer moonshiner of Pickens
county, who several months ago is alleged
to have killed the man who reported
her to the Federal -a-uthorities,
was convicted of violating dry laws in
United States court Monday after a
sensational trial in which she cast
meaning glances at her accusers and
remarked that "they'd, better be careful
what they swear: about me," relates
the Atlanta Journal.
Judge W. B. Sheppard, of the northern
district of Florida, presiding for |
Judge Samuel H. Sible "in the criminal
iivision, imposed a fine of $50.
"I coul^l give you six years in the
penitentiary for what you have done,'
jaid the court, "but you seem to have
irouble enough on your'hands now, so
['m going to let you go back to the
nountains."
A smile swept over Mrs. Glass's face
ivhen the jury's verdict' was read.
Then she turned in her seat and looked
it the "revenooers" who had testified
igainst her. "They didn't tell the
:ruth," she said tersely, as her counicnance
darkened.
Prohibition Officers "William Mclvinmy
and A. C. Sewell described the raid
>n the home of the woman and told
low she drew a shotgun on them and
leclarcd she would "die and go to hell
pefore she would allow - her homo to
5c searched."
Charoe.
Tearing their way into her mountain
uibin, the officers feaid they found a
imnll distilling outfit in the kitchen
md a supply of apple pomace con:ealcd
in her barn, together with other
nash, made ready for distilling.
"I ain't made no whisky," asserted
VIrs. Glass. "I was getting ready to
nake vinegar when the revenooers
:ame. I have to run the farm to support
my children and I don't have time
:o make whisky."
The evidence against the woman was
:ircumstantial. and her attorney, Turner
State Senator Roscoe Pickett, of
fasper, Ga., argued to the jury that
'her statement was' sincere and was
'rce of any attempt to conceal anyhing."
The attorney said he had dis:ussed
the case with Mrs. Glass many
limes, and that she had clung stead'astly
to her story that she intended to
Ijstill nothing but apple vinegar.
"You know how these mountain folk
ire," he argued, "and if she were guilty
)f moonshining, she would have conidod
in me and told me all about it.
tier statement is worthy of your careful
consideration.",
Mrs. (ilass declined to discuss with
lewspapcr men the details of the
tragedy which followed her arrest, in
ivhich she is charged with killing J.
H\ Holcombe, of Pickens county. Attorney
Pickett said he understood she
crushed Holcombo's brain with a
heavy pole when he went to her home
in a drunken condition and sought to
create disorder.
Revenue agents said,she killed IIolcombe
because he reported to the prohibition
department that she was mak- |
lug liiiuor. An indictment recently was
Found by a Pickens county grand jury,
charging murder, and Mrs. Glass is to
face trial in Jasper, (la., early in
March.
CALF WAS DROWNED
Fell Into Hole In the Road and Loct
Its Life.
John D. Cade, one of the leading
citizens of Jit. Cnrmel, was in the
oily today, and while passing the Anderson
Daily Mail office*stopped iii to
pass the time of the day. Conversation
got. to had roads, and Jlr. Cade
told this story:
"I have never told a lie in business
or otherwise with intention to deceive.
When I do tell one I make it so big
that no one could possibly believe it,
but this is what happened on Thursday:
On the road leading from Jit.
Cnrmel to Abbeville, near the Abbeville-JlcCormick.
county line, a calf
was meandering down the road and
stepped into the hole in the middle of
the road and was drowned. A number
of passers-by. who had to .detour
to Ret by. can vouch for the story."
The section referred to is in the
nutwoods belt, which crosses tlie two
counties in this section, and it is a
well known fact that this is the slick- j
i"st kind of mud known, besides when
a big hole appears in the roml it I
seems lo have no bottom.
, THE NEWS OF SHARON
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Yearling Was Killed When Struck by
: a Bolt of LighWiifp.; ^
NEGRO ARRESTED ON LHjU^R pRGE
Roads are in Terrible Condition1?Applicants
for Postmasters hip- Still on
Waiting List?News. and*. Notes of
Metropolis of Western Yb'rk County.
(By a Staff Correspondent).
Sharon, Feb. 10?A bolt of lightning
T* n if e CfettnnnM of nn/1 Jrtfifhilf
J. UUOUttJf ULlClllUUll oil UL1\ auu UiOU1IXL"
ly killed a yearling, the property of
Mr. Sidney Gourley who lives near
Blairsville school house. The yearling
was out in the open at the time it
met its death. A heavy electrical display
followed.
Walter Wilson Arrested
"Walter Wilson, colored, was arrested
Tuesday by Constable Moffatt McKnight
of Broad River township-on a
warrant charging him with .manufacturing
liquor and having an ownership
in a distillery. Wilson gave bond
in the. sum of ?500, the bond being furnished
by Capt. J. M. Sims. Wilson
is charged with being associated in
the moonshine business with John
Crosby, a colored farmer arrested at
his home on the R. H. G. Caldwell
place near here last Saturday when
officers found parts of the necessary
Daranhernalia for making moonshine.
Wilson could not be located" at that
time. Consequently his arrest did not
follow until Tuesday.
Roads in Bad Condition.
Not in years have the roads of Bullock's
Cheek and Broad River townships
been In worse condition than they
are at the present time. All automobile
traffic has been, virtually suspended
for the past few days and people
who have been traveling in buggies
claim that better time could be
made by walking. The roa'd between
Sharon dnd Hickory Grove is one vast
bog. According to Arthur Whitesides,
an automobile belonging to Rev. Carl
McCully, pastor of Woodlawn Presbyterian
church got stuck while coming
down the hill at the home of R. "W.
Hope a few days ago. It was necessary
to have four mules to puli the
machine down hill, according to Mr.
Whitesides.
The main street of Sharon and all
the' other streets of the town are a
series of mudholes. ..It has been impossible
for several days past to- oross
the street without getting- niuddyr It
is the stickiest kind of sticky mud
everywhere. A Sharon lady told the
correspondent Tuesday evening a
story of two young men of Sharon
who recently started to call on two |
young- Indies in Bullock's Creek township.
Upon reaching tho door of their
destination one of the y<\ung men undertook
to pull off hisSivershoes. To
his surprise he had none, having lost
them in the mud while approaching
the house. A Sharon man suggested
Tuesday the probability that a bond
issue for cement sidewalks and paved
streets if put before J.he voters of tho
town right now, might pass.
No Word About Postmastership
There is yet no word in regard to
the appointment of a new postmaster
of Sharon, according to Postmaster
William G. Caldwell who was asked
about the matter. All of the applicants
who took the examination for
the place arc still on the anxious list.
'I hardly expect there will be any appointment
here until President Harding
takes office," Mr. Caldwell told the
correspondent.
Still Ginning Cotton.
Seed cotton to be ginned still comes
to Bhnmn Thorp n i-o senrps nf hales
in the fields in the community that
will not be picked. "I am expecting
to gin about 150 more bales of cotton,"
John S. Rainey, proprietor of a
ginnery here said the other day.
Few Fertilizer Inquiries
Still there are practically no inquiries
from farmers about fertilizers according
to Sharon merchants interviewed
on the subject. A little cotton
seed meal and acid has been sold
but very little. "The farmers are just
not interested on the subject of fer^
tilizer and we just don't care either,'
remarked one merchant.
Residence Sold
Mr. Kirby Bankhead of Sharon has
sold his residence here to Mr. Clyde
Potts. Mr. Bankhead, however still
occupies the property.
Mr. O. M. Spurlin has about completed
the work of remodeling his
dwelling.
Municipal Election.
With the election of town officers
loss than a month away, .there is stil!
no candidate' in the field for the of
tice of mayor of Sharon. "I guess we
will do again like we have been doing,"
said Mr. R. R. I'lexico, clerk of
the council who was discussing the
matter. "Really no body wants the
job of mayor here. The place carries
no salary and is a lot of trouble.
Heretofore it has been the custom to
nominate some good man at the last
moment and elect him and then trust
that he will consent to serve. I guess
we will do that again."
Of Personal Interest
Miss Sarah Russell, a student at
Rock Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. V. Russell of Bullock's Creek recently
underwent an operation for append
icil is at the Fennell Infirmary,
Rock Mill. She is reported as getting
along nicely.
Information from Mr. John T. Wylie.
formerly assistant cashier of the
First National Rank of Sharon is that
he la getting along nicely. Mr. Wyllc
is at Lake Saranac, N. Y., undergoing
treatment for a lung; affection.
Mrs. G. W. Whitesides who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
McGill at King's Mountain, N. C.
has returned to her home here.
The little son of MY. and Mrs. L.. C.
Street, is critically ill with pneumonia.
Misses Margaret and June Turner,
oty Winthrop College were recent visitors
here the guests of Miss Pauline
Turner at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Hayes.
Misses Rebecca Saye and Pennlnah
Cain recently visited Mrs. Edward
Byerg at Blacksburg.
Messrs. J. L. Rainey and P. B. Ken
nedy left Tuesday night for Columbia
to attend a state taxpayer':-", convention
In that city on Wednesday.
GOING UP.
Noted Financial Writer Read the Business
Barometer.
Going up!*
The Saturday Evening Post of the
issue-of January 29 was of 112 pages,
exclusive of covers.
The issue of- next Saturday, February
5; is of 148 pages, exclusive of covers.
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If anything is barometric of business
in general it would seem to be the advertising
volume in a publication of
national circulation, writes Richard
Spillane. This is particularly true of
the Saturday Evening Post, for the
bulk of its advertising is of needful
thlnn>e> fnnilo rrtOrl mn t Oftfl 1 CI Ql"lQ T1Q
WSIIIgO, IUVUC| 1 VMU ?MU.bv? V^W|#W,
oils, machinery, lamps, automobiles and
automobile accessories, clothing, house
furnishings, shoes, .farm materials, toilet
articles, construction materials, insurance
companies, musical goods,
watches, belting, hardware, electrical
utilities, etc.
In general, it can be said the articles
are those of wide use; articles that are
needful, articles that, broadly speaking,
are not in the luxury list.
If that statement is correct, it would
seem to follow that the supplies of
those goods see today such proof of a
better demand for their products, as |
warrants them in going after business,
in the way that business, men have
learned to' know brings- results. Thai
is by advertising. ;
Dn't get the idea that the situatipn
is altogether satisfactory. In fact, condition^
are what some persons describe
as "tj^otty." Many factors enter into
consideration. Many manufacturers
andrdistrib.utdes-aPC... djoubtfuly?-irrejjoj- <
iute. Some, are inclii^ii to cancel' con-;,
tract. Some are quite hopeful. The
pronounced increase in the advertising
between the two issues of January 29
and February 5' would indicate the
nnmhor of the doubtful is lessening
and that of the hopeful or confident increasing.
That is a cheering sign.
Apparently we are Going Up. v
You may see some recession from
the size of this we,ek's issue of the Saturday
evening Post. One swallow does
not nrnke a summer. There are "hangovers''
from the late unpleasantness. A
nation, like a human, does not at all
times makes a quick and complete recovery
from a serious illness. Occasionally,
in the period of convalescence, a
person feels stronger than he is. Not
Infrequently it takes months to get the
poison out of the system. The present
upward trend may be only a temporary
manifestation of improvement, but
there can be no question that the general
attitude of the public is reflected
as accurately by advertising as by any
other method.
Business as a whole has been at a
low level. In this country of remarkable
consumptive power it would be surprising
if it remained at a low level
over an extended, period.
We are not out of the woods, but we
are getting in the open.
Confidence is returning. There ma>
w- enthanirs. Rut. in eeneral,
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there^ is no doubt that definitely and
positively the business skies are clearing.
Look forward. Don't bother about
any slight reactions, if any occur.
The turn has come. No better proof
could be presented than furnished In
the pages of the Saturday Evening
Post.
More men give service to their fellow
men and go through life without the
recognition their good work deserves
than ever will be known.
An instance of this is furnished in
the case of Henry Peterson, of Boston.
He is 78, and now he has quit his job
because of his age and physical disabilities.
He has been one of the staff of the
Industrial Aid Society and for 40 years
lias given all of his time to helping men
to obtuin work. Never in all that period
has he accepted pay. Never in
the 40 years has he taken a vacation.
When he began to hunt for jobs for
others lie was the only person in Boston
giving such service without compensation.
He found Jobs for 113,698
men and women, and in this service he
has walked thousands of miles and
brought hope and cheer into the lives
of numberless persons.
He needs no monument. He has
builded olTfe by his acts.
? To save several trains of cars
from destruction from fire at the winter
quarters of a circus in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, recently, three elephants
were pressed into service. The animals
quietly pushed the trains out of
danger and then returned to their
quarters,
THAT PROVIDENCE PAJM
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Gastonla Han BeUernj^n^ ^
mint is an leaped; Coyofii.;'p
wulf is propi KnToTcRoirv wif.sejH
t; !, L; $
Habits and Description Tally Exactor - r.
With Description of . Cotfcte?wp^ '0}
Sent to Gaston from Texas-^traiigsh
Animal Is Still a 8ubjeci of'Interest.
That the "Providence panther,'%0Vt ' f-Vj
whatever the varmint is tlmt'hiE^^W(ei^f
causing so much taik ih- CB^riotte \:r?t
Mecklenburg county for past
weeks, is a *pa?tial prodtj^"'pt 0,4sWhv
county is the theory late(y^Vanced??iiy; :'}?$
Gastonia, says the Gastbnih-^zett'ei^bfv'.
Tuesday. It is beliey^/^e^J.'that tfiie v?j|
strange animal :Sff>. , .
much commotion ac^oj?{;j^Ktt?lverV' If*'
nothing else than tl&i^eraapj coyot^J }.
shipped to Gastonia' sotn'sjltyo ' . "?/$,
ago or more to Mr. CilpwOWl&nj fofij; ;_!
merely manager of
here. The animal esdcpeS; ifroA', cap&v**-. .??>
lty here and, was last' s^njor,Gaston
county down Jjh/tii& ''BowHfafr;- - 7^
Green section more thana "ye?&- ago;'.it- .g
will be recalled too, thai ^here-werjfc^e?, r&||
series of stories in The Yorkville Ba^i Mm
quirer of a strange anlmai haying
atrcii m mc JJCVU04Ij < qQwv?viv QVMIV*. '"l*F-l>V?
months ago. It is ri^Wie'vied !vpf?
the Mecklenburg varmint ' aiid -ESp r~t:04i
Crown Wilson's coyote,are one
same. It is said'by those familiar with,;.
the animal's habits that it has prbba- i
bly ranged up and down Crowder'a" '
creek in Gaston and York counties'up-' til
it came to the point "at Wright's fei^' ';hj~0A
ry where Crowder's creek empties' ift(oj
the Catawba river, and that .it mm
the Catawba river and took up its hkbLtat
in Fort Milt and Providence tois^i.'
Ships. ~ v: '?,?*$!. 'r-0
The coyote was sent to Mr. Wilson by.;',
friends in Texas and was kept, by
for sometime in the rear, of the' AfTO*. J 53
ingtbn hotel. - It was th'e ohject pf mtnyjr
cudiosity to natives of ^his" w^ion.^li^;
description of the anipu(f J
the Charlotte papers .taU&tL
that of the beast sept' tqV4^^h?h,
Wilson said that the cbyptp^d^l^'d;^^,."about
the size of a dpg^-g^V
and had sharp-pointed earyl(ke %\yrofpC . !
It fed on raw
He estimates ttet it;
Something, like 25.'o^'3Q^jpj^a^^^o<^ ';:Vy^
confined in .the ba-ck '
H* described it: L ;'23?i
r.ln'g and ,SAgaCl^>Wa^/-h,4?ThUtf"
was chained- to1 a. wWJ?1JI8R?W^
across the yard. A 'rfWiV^|trtfie fcbj&frif( .a?
and collar permitted the^RInhLl a..cdt& v:
tain amount of freedb^LY^rv;\^fla<^-* 'if '!;-$
said that the animal
the length of the chqin'^d&ow V i
would permit him
en it would be lying ' ~'Si
and' apparently . asleep! .* vbift.*.^reaJ^y^
watching the unwary c kicki*.-, -'4
as the bird came within'rdrij^e, the agiji- .. ^
mal with a flying leap /vyhUldi. 'QQpfijjfr'. '4^
upon the chicken and eat it: .. yJQtyS-f /vyj
The animal escaped froth 'ita; p/idoar .. ^
and made its way into:'the EH)Uthfi*ji'' .'l. '/si
part of the county where it ^^repo^,'. '
ed to have devoured chtykeJi^jtodVpiiifij.
Hunting parties werfe fbrt$ed? aid;'\jfr~- .
was chased several tlthfesi.'mit ni^ dogf.!;
were ever found who would giy^' It'
fight. Hunters knew by sbuhd^&?{<
the hounds when a tot waa'being <?Ha4:J
ed and when the coyote the. quar- ^ '
ry, said Mr. Wilson. f. ' .. '-ii,
"When an old fox hound ,Htri4ea?!thW" . ^3
trail of a fox, he settles ''flown. 'for W
long chase. He stretched himself .-m
almost flat on the ground.ahd,prepares
for an all-night run. His baying, is.iott^' ; V?||
drawn out and has a self-Stttisfled'toHo. 4H
in it. You have heard the characterls-''' ;M
,?,? t.? -'3
HC UctyillJj Ul lUA JLi'J LillVJD. iJUbf tt , 7r-^
they struck the trail of this , coyote/ 'dj
their tone changed instantly. The
dogs sounded as if they tV6rfc mad.
stead of the long dVawn olit musid^
baying there was a sharp, staccatofct* \ ij
barking and yelping and they went^t;
the job as if they wanted to finish itiiir
a hurry. ,, ;
"I believe that the. coyote, I had has'
made its way down the creeK past Riddie's
and Davis's, mills th'rbugh the} .'~0.
Point section of Gaston and IOrk coring
ties and gotten over into Mecklenburg.
county. From what I hhve.-.fead aboifr ' >
their 'panther,' I believe that they aro
after the same animal/'
Mr. Wilson also said that the move?*:
ments of the "panther" lh crossing^ ' "'i
fields in long graceful jiimph were alsocharacteristic
of the coyote'as he hadt' '
seem them on the prairies of Texas. . "
DIAMOND WORKERS1 IDLE ")? ;;
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Many Thousands Out of EmploymentsBecause
of Slump In- the Market. '> - ''j*.
Nearly 8,000 of the 10,800 member^ '
of the Diamond Workers union at" .
Amsterdam Holland are Idle and the. . -U
bottom seems to have fallen out of . ,7 "?
the world's diamond market Experts; .
in precious stones in this city and; in
Antwerp say an era of financial string?.
ency has supplanted the epoch of free
spending to such an extent that pc#*
clous stones have become a drug, on
the market, although prices are being!
maintained. >"
The industry received a seripus blow
through the Russian revolution as that
country was the greatest buyer 7 of ; $
gems. Austria and Germany then f^tl jj
out. and now the depression, in Amey.iL , :
ca has cut off the last great mayjfjpt
for diamonds. In addition, a
number of gems formerly owned ;|jj; .
Russia have been placed on the. . , -,V
et by the Bolshevik! and the output .* ;r,
of new stones has been Curtailed-,
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