The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-10

an up-to-date foundry and iron works,
land is fully prepared to supply your wants
lin his line. No better iron and brass
castings or machine work is turned out
than at this establishment. Mr.. Babbing-
ton has been connected with the leading
Iron industries in Kentucky. Tennessee.
Virginia and Alabama. He located here
lin 1871 He made the first stove ever
made in South Carolina or Western North
Carolina. and the first sewing machine in
the South He is a Pennsylvania by
birth but North Carolnian by adop-
ton. He is generally regarded now a
gretty good Tar Heel, thoroughly indus
trous and enterprisng
TONSORIAL ARTISTS.
In this day of push and get-there, the
barber is a necessity. Shelby has a nicely
kept tonsorial parlor, and artist in the per-
son of Mr.. J. P. Anstel, young man who
has identified himself with Shelby by
purchasing home there
NEWSPAPERS.
The press makes men, builds up indus
tries, ank towns and educates the masses.
The newspaper is beacon-hght guiding
the ship of state and of nations, appre-
ciated, It's true, but not held in so great
esteem as is their due. OF the professions
the quilIdriver and the pencilshover is
the least appreciated and the poorest paid,
but reader, he'll write your obituary. yet,
and when you pass over the river and
rest under the shade of the tree" keep
an eye open, for the reporter will help
you if he can. He has ever been and will
ever be a public benefactor l have
great regard for the town and county
paper I love to clasp the hand of its edi-
tor for I know in doing so / touch the
pulse of the county Shelby has two pa
Ipers The Cleveland Star, edited by c. r.
Hoey, and The Shelby Aurora, edited by
Mr.. Stock Company, I'm told. The Cleve-
land Star is shining in the interest of
Democracy and of Cleveland county. The
Aurora, sad to relate, has gone into for
hidden paths, and after strange gods, Civ
! ing forth a sort of Aurora borealis light
/ lurid and weird.
! FAMOUS CLEVELAND SPRINGS
Just two miles distant these springs
burst the rocks asunder and run forth to
/ give a new lease on life. The waters are
sulphur, iron and lithia. The location is
an attractive one, 1000 feet above sea-
level The grounds are unimproved. Ma
/ ture has done much there. The landscape
gardener himself, the offspring of Ma
lures God, has touched and beautified the
| hill Nature formed at the base of which
/ Hickory Greek and two branches form
Ipeninsular, whose trickling waters seem
to Hnger as in play, attracted by the
/ beauty of the spot. The hotel, four
story brick structure, occupying the crest
/ of the hill and overlooking a verdant
lawn of ten acres, is equipped with sani-
tary plumbing and electric lights, offers
a pleasant home for 175 guests.
THE COUNTY.
Cleveland county has an area of 42O
square miles with cultivated fields of
275, 900 acres This titled soil represents
1000 farms, especially adapted to the
growth of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, fruits
vegetables and tobacco The lands are
very productive, and yield bountiful
harvests The uncultivated acreage is
composed largely of hills and valleys
which are dotted with heavily timbered
forests of pine oak, hickory, ash and
poplar. Leading out from Shelby is a
dummy road, some II miles in length, to
Lawndale. 1t is proposed to extend this
line a few miles into the thick of the hard
wood country at no distant day, when the
timber interests Of the county will be
more fully developed.
Some $4,000 bales of cotton is the an
nual crop for the county
In the county are: Il cotton factories:
"A flour mills so cotton gins; 80 lumber
plants and a host of smaller industries
The county was formed in 1871 from
Rutherford and Lincoln counties, and was
named in honor of Colonel Benjamin
Cleveland. of Wilkes, who played an i'm
portant part in the Battle of Kings Noun
tain, October Z, 1880.
Shelby, it's capital, was incorporated in
1843, and was named in honor of Col.
Isaac Shelby, another one of King
Mountain heroes, who, in years, became
Governor Of Tennessee.
Here resides Thomas Dixon, the elder.
talked with this aged tree in the forest
Of the Lord today, and found him bright,
cheerful, hopeful He has passed the S2nd
mile post on LIES way, but is yet actively
engaged in the ministry and serves three
churches. OF course he shows the weight
Of years. His hair and beard are snow
white, but his eye is bright and snappy
and his form erect He is fond of his BOYS.
Clarence Tom and Frank He saws
Clarence will not marry a divorced per
son, nor receive such an one into his
church That Tom has booked Frank for
a lecturng tour of two years for the con-
sideration of $4,000, and that Tom has
clared thus far $4,000 on his book.
| Leopard Spots" and refused $4,000 for
his next book, which is quite ready to
come from the press. The elder himself
an interesting character, is the father of
those three bright, interesting boys, Clar-
ence, Tom and Frank.
G. J. RIVENBARK.