The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-28

lines and are glad that the saloons
were closed. AS matter of fact, the
best friends the bar-keepers in the
State have are the men who favor
| shutting up the saIoons-that is the
| truest friends in the long-run, for 1t
| sends them into a better business
where they become useful citizens and
help to make wealth that stays. Did
| you ever think about how money made
by whiskey has habit of taking
wings and flying away? Do you know
a man who has made money at the
business whose family has kept it? If
| so, he is the exception. In ninety-nine
cases out of one hundred the money is
| lost, either by the man who makes 1t
or by his children, and it is a greater
curse to them than a blessing.
The best institution in Maxton is its
graded school The school commit
site almost in the centre of the resi-
dence portion of the town and to build
a handsome and modern building with
four recitation rooms and a large
chapel. Large play grounds adjoin
the building-ample for the time when
the population of Maxton will be five
times as large as now. The school
trustees were fortunate in securing as
superintendent Prof Joseph e. Avent,
| of Wake county, who graduated at the
University with honor and who has
| made teaching his profession. He has
made the school popular and efficient,
winning the regard of his pupils, as
we'll as the confidence and esteem of
all the people in the town
"a regard in which his wife CORNER
ly Miss Rosa Utley, Of
Wake). fully shares. The exercises of
the school children and the reports of
the teachers show how we'll the train
ing of the session has been accom-
plished. Mr. Avent has taken high
stand among the younger men In the
teaching profession and has recently
been offered two positions as Superin-
tendent of graded schools at larger
salary than he is receiving here. His
heart is in his work and he is as en-
thusiastic as he is capable.
For long time, Maxton. like other
good towns. thought it could do it's
duty by it's children without voting a
special local tax for a graded school
But, like all other prosperous and pro-
gressive communities, it saw that the
only way to measure up to it's duty was
to establish public schools and put the
advantages of education within the
reach of every boy and girl, rich and
poor alike. In doing this there is more
than in giving education. You are
teaching democracy in its best sense
And Maxton is doing that wisely and
well.
Naturally. in community largely
settled by Scotchmen, the people build
good churches, as well as schools
There are four churches here-the
Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Epis-
copalian and the Baptist. The last
two have now no resident pastor. The
Presbyterian church has as it's pastor
Rev. H. G. Hill one of the old-fash-
toned great men, who have honored
the ministry in every decade of the
States history He has been pastor
here without interruption for eighteen
years and is universally esteemed as
man and as a preacher. He ranks
among the strongest men, not only in
the Synod of North Carolina but also
i'm the Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly.
The Methodists have here a strong
man as pastor and he is Rev. Euclid
McWharter, land he is Mac, too)
who was in his short pas
torate grown into the confidence of the
community. Broad-guaged and pub
lic-spirited, he is popular in and out
of the pulpit.
At present there is no resident Bap-
fist pastor or Episcopal rector.
This town has large and successful
business houses that are conducted
by men Of business sense. 1t has a
large planning, sash, door and blind
factory, a large single factory and
other enterprises, a solid bank with a
comfortable surplus and the full con-
| fdence of the business world, and a
large number of substantial and ele-
CANT houses (some as elegant as you
find in Raleigh, a splendid hotel, and
all the good things that go to make
a good town.
One of the biggest industries in
Maxton is the Southern Exchange
| Company, of which Mr.. A. j. McKin-
non is president. 1t has offices in New
York and in Maxton and does a large
business in telephone, telegraph and
trolley material. This concern was or
ganized a little over a year ago and the
business has increased rapidly. Their
speciality is juniper and octagonal
| poles