The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 8, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 23 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
■ i'lp*
THE CASS COUNTY SUN
Spring Tests of Our Big Coast Defense Guns Begin
%
mmrn
>?«&■■• t
■'mis*''/'''
messm
Uqrf#rwo«(J &
New
Steadily Shifting From Cot-
ton Fields to Mill
Centers.
9 fa
■
m
■N
11
)
i -
m
Washington.—"North Carolina is
passing through a renaissance. Due
to her steadily intensifying shift from
cotton fields to mill centers, and from
once-idle streams to throbbing dyna-
mos, she has suddenly rediscovered
herself on the threshold of industrial
power."
With this Introduction Melville Chn-
ter tells what he saw on a motor tour
of North Carolina's industry, develop-
ment, historic scenes and interesting
people, in a communication.to the Na-
tional Geographic society# from which
the following Is extracted:
"For"centuries wild horses have been
roaming on the Cape llatteras banks,
and current tradition has it that they
are descended from Barbary ponies
which were brought over by Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh's colonists.
"Our guest landed us on a naked,
sun-baked spit where men were driv-
ing the so-called 'banker pontes' along
the beach and into a «corral made of
timbers from old wrecks. Perched on
tho pen's top rail, with the beach-
pounding surf along one edge of the
jiarrow spit and the sound, with Its
rough sailboats, on the other, we took
lens shots at the inclosed Jam of 200
horses, as they reared and kicked each
other Into a state of bloodied noses
and wildly rolling eyes.
"Some of the herders lassoed and
cut out colts for branding or sale.
Others yelled out their branding
marks, recognized on mares, and
claimed the accompanying foals.
"A few years ago these putative de-
scendants of Raleigh's 'little Barbary
ponies' were bringing $50 to $125. Tho
auctioneer, In explanation, complained,
•Tew much gasoline abaout naywa-
days!' •
"The legendary North Carolinian
who In the '00s called his three daugh-
ters Rosin, Tar, and Turpentine would
today be naming them after cigarette
brands, furniture trade marks, and cot-
ton goods patterns.
Charlotte Spindle Center.
"Charlotte, situated between the big
hydroelectric developments along the
Catawba and Yadkin rivers, Is a plexus
of this new industrialism. In the last
25 years the number of textile mills
operating within a 100-mlle radius of
that city has increased fivefold, with a
present splndleage of 10.0<)0,(KK).
"An hour's ride beyond Charlotte we
entered Oastonla, one of the largest
textile centers In the United States.
Of its 20,000 people, about three-
fourths are workers In the 42 mills
whose tall stacl^j cut the sky. Yet.,
In the town's broad, tree-shaded
streets, lined with neat cottages on
well-kept, flower-fringed plots, one felt
no oppressive sense of concentrated
industry, but rather the restfulness of
some model suburb, wlde-spreud to
sun, air, and surt-oundlng countryside.
"With mill morkers* cottages rent-
able at $8 a month, with water and
electric light free, and a mild climate,
necessitating little fuel, which Is ob-
tainable at tost, It Is not uncommon
for mountain families to work at Oas-
tonla long enough to pay off their farm
mortguge and then return to the Blue
Ridge.
"Oaston county contains H textile
mills, wtilch represent one-sixth of the
state's total sphidleage and consume
almost one-third of her cotton crop.
"A few hours' driv* from Chimney
Rock further Into the mountains
brought us to Ashevllle, the gateway to
what North Carolinians have well
named the Land of the Sky. Never
was an altitude of half a mile above
sea level so uriobvious, Iti all the tonic
gtmoDphere. Set In a vast bowl, Ashe-
Industries
vllle Is encircled by mountains whose
20 highest peuks top all altitudes in
the Eastern states. Could the Titans
return, they might appropriately seat
themselves as spectators of one of
Asheville's big golf or tennis meets.
"It was on the Biltmore estate,
near Ashevllle, that, with the found-
ing of a forestry school, the first steps
In American forest conservation were
taken.
Turning Back Time.
"Surrounded by the modlshness of
Ashevllle, one scarcely realizes that
only 50 miles away mountaineers are
living a ruggedly simple existence be-
hind hand-hewn timbers and on small
•switchback' farms, with Revolutionary
looms and spinning wheels alongside
their chimney pieces of native rock.
"It was a 'farseelng woman from
among the 'bolled-shlrt' life of Ashe-
vllle who persuaded these remote, al-
most forgotten, mountain folk to set
their long-idle looms going again. Th-
day there are half a dozen handicraft
centers scattered through western
North Carolina.
"Back in 1012, when only one North
Carolinian In 380 owned a motor ve-
hicle, the then-existing roads an-
swered the needs - of the day—an-
swered that Is, In the sense that the
single log across a North Carolina
mountain stream then answered as a
footbridge. They got you somewhere,
no matter how.
"In 1021 the state legislature au-
thorized $50,000,000 worth of road
bonds. Today the bond issues total
$85,000,000.
"Carmen, with a hand on her hip
and a rose between her lips Is u world
away from Winston-Salem's methods
of cigarette manufacture. One ma-
chine shreds and feeds out the 'mak-
ings.' Another rolls them Into a
never-ending length of cigarette,
which, as It oozes forth, Is slipped Into
multiples as rapidly as a machine gun
sprays bullets.
"Other machines make cot)taln rs.
aflix revenue stamps. Imprint and
record serialized uumbers—In fact, do
everything for the smoker except to
The giant coast defense guns at
Fort Hancock, near Sandy Hook,
otherwise kuown as the 12-Inch bar-
bettes, were fired the other day for
the first time this year. The huge
shells whizzed far out to sea. The
picture shows one of the guns Just
after firing.
hand him a match. It Is the machine
that plays the title role of Carmen,
while the girl Inspectors ure merely
understudies.
"Winston-Salem's stamps ticking ma-
chines consume annually the most ex-
pensive meal in the* world—a matter
of $100,000,000 worth of Uncle Sam's
familiar blue imprints. That Is the
sum of her federal taxes, which repre-
sent one-half of those paid by Nortl?
Carolina."
SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN" and INSIST!
Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe •
by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years.
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART
Accept only "Bayer" package
which contains proven directions.
Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Aspirin U the trade mark of Barer Manufacture of UoooacuUcacldaater of Sallcjllcacld
Wage Earning and Divorce
A Cleveland Judge declares that 75
per cent of the divorces granted by
him were in cases where the wives
worked outside the home.
High Living Kills Deer
After Month's Fartcy Diet
Huncock, N. Y.—High living and
lack of exercise resulted in the untime-
ly death of a buck deer on the Baxter
farm at Horton, N. Y> a few miles
from here.
Four weeks ago, during a snowfall,
a deer stalled in a snow bank on the
Baxter farm and when rescued was
exhausted. Taken to the barn, he
seemed too weak to eat until Mrs.
Baxter tried some hot Jmckwheat
cakes with butter and sugar on them,
and for these he "fell," and sooa be-
came himself again.
Ills presence and odd diet attracted
visitors, who tried all sorts of dainties
on him, Improving his spirits and en-
larging his girth. After four weeks of
high living In the Baxter barn he was
about the handsomest buck ever seen
In these parts. After a four-course
dinner, with, fudge and bonbons for
dessert, he spent a restless night, and
died ut daybreak.
Freshen a Heavy Skin
With the antiseptic, fascinating Cutl-
oira Talcum Powder, an exquisitely
i: scented, economical face, skin, baby
and dusting powder and perfume.
Renders other perfumes superfluous.
One of the Cutlcura Toilet Trio (Soap,
Ointment, Talcum).—Advertisement.
New British motor ships are
equipped with refrigerating machinery
so that they can be used by the meat-
carrying trades.
Cold Cannibal!
The Cannibal King (his teeth chat-
tering)—What was It you served with
the lust meal? I've had a prolonged
chill ever since.
Royal Cook—That, sire, was a mis-
sionary from Boston. — Pittsburgh
Panther.
!
The housewife smiles with satisfac-
tion as she looks at the basket of
clear, white clothes and thanks Red
Cross Ball Blue. At all grocers.—A tie
vertlsement.
Rising Generation
"Are you working now?"
"No, I'm helping dad at the oflice."—
Exchange.
Baby Baroness Proves
Surprise to U. S. Agents
New York.—Usually when a baron-
ess crosses the Atlantic to New York,
her customs declaration looks like an
Inventory for a department store.
So when the name of Baroness
Mudeline Vun Boetzluer appeared on
the passenger list of the liner Veen-
dam, arriving from Rotterdam, the
customs Inspectors took notice. The
baroness could not be found, neither
was her manifesto filed. The Inspec-
tors told the purser, William Barron,
to find the baroness,
A chubby little girl of two years
played about him, first on a chair,
then on the floor, then fooling with
pencils on the table.
"Look after that youngster afid find
the baroiiess," he said sharply to a
ship steward nearby.
"There she is playing with your
pencils," the steward said.
Historic -Table Highly Prized
I*
Chil
°ren
For
£
MOTHER:- Fletcher'sCas-
toria is a pleasant, harmless
Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-
goric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared
for Infants in arms and ChildrjCtt all ages.
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of
Proven directions on each package, i Physicians everywhere recommend it
British Take to Bananas
More bananus are being enten by'
British people than ever before. No
fewer than twelve million bunches of
ten dozen bananas each were import-
ed dur-iug the year.
A Reason
Friend (to business mart engaging
typist)—Why are fcou so particular
about her having red lmlr?
Business Man—It's the «olor of my
wife's!
DR. W. B. CALDWELL.
AT THE AGE OF 03
Women Need
a Mild Laxative
"Not a' Physic"
Countless girls und women now know
how foolish and needless it Is to
"purge" and "physic" themselves to
avoid sick headaches, dizziness, bilious-
ness, sallow Bkin, colds, or sour, gassy
stomach.
They have found that Dr. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin helps to establish nat-
ural bowel "regularity" even for
those heretofore .chronically consti-
pated. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin not
only causes a gentle, ensy bowel move-
ment hut, best of all, It never gripes,
sickens or upsets the most delicate girl
or woman. Besides, It Is absoiutcly
harmless and so pleasant that even s
cross, feverish, bilious, sick child
gladly takes It.
Buy a large 60-cent bottle at nnjr
store that sells medicine und Just seq
for yourself.
Dr. Caldwell's
SYRUP
PEPSIN
iyyPM'PnttSOtEARs-C-
This table was built from 12 kinds of wood owned by Oeorge Washington.
It Is now in the D. A. R. hall In Washington. From under the tj£'' hangs
an exactly proportioned Liberty beLL
'3 ■££*
Prevent® and Relieves
Malaria-Chills and Fever-DenGue
tbfJSI,
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 8, 1926, newspaper, June 8, 1926; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340772/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.