Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-07-24
GOLD KNOB.
July 22nd

few seconds, and listen.
IT has been sometime since We
have been with the P. P. A.'s SO
our news ripened and fell off, but
We have the pleasure of reporting
crops in a very good condition.
Corn is looking fine since our good
rain, cotton lisa little short, but
will pull through if you give it
a little chance, peas have been
sowed and are coming up nicely.
Most people have layed by some.
and a few are through.
The Barger-T rexler, threshing
machine company, began thresh-
ing Thursday, July 18th.
Capt. J. M, Proctor, superin-
tendent Of the Southern Mining
Co., at Gold Hill, is having his
stamp mill moved from the Gold
Knob property down to the Gold
Hill Mine and will have it crush
ing ore in several weeks. This
ore is proving to be very rich and
We congratulate the company in
securing tho services of Capt.
Proctor.
Clarence E. and Bob L. Phillips
have returned home from the
Trinity Park School at Durham.
Misses Lucy Barrier, Clara and
Jessie Proctor attended the teach
ers institute last week in Sails.
bury.
There will be an election by the
congregation at St, Peters church,
on Sunday, July 21st, for the pur-
pose of calling a pastor. The
congregation had only hired Rev.
j. A. Linn as a supply, but since
the congregation of St. James, at
Rockwell, has been organized and
both st Peters and St. James
has become a charge, it becomes
necessary to call Bro. Linn as a
regular pastor.
Harvey Park, who is engaged at
work in Burlington, spent a~few
days at home last week.
The fourth of July cotton
blooms were as scarce as hen teeth
in this section.
Geo. W. Holshouser is confined
to his bed with fever. DR.. G. M.
Poole is his attending physician.
A few issues back Bro. Bsrtlette,
denounced the farmers as a class
of people who would not stick to.
gether, speaking of All organiza.
ton. If the readers of this pa.
per will remember Bro. Bartlette
some time ago tried to organize a
threshing machine union, or some.
thing to that effect, and but few
responded. Later Bro. Bart.
wrote an item in which he said
that the farmers would not stick
together. If they would hey
would be the backbone of the
world. Now we feel that our Bro.
did the farmers a great injustice
by expressing himself thus. The
farmer is. without a single organi-
cation, the backbone of the coun-
try. When the farm stops, the
world stops. Think about making
what and corn with machinery,
Think of raising wheat and corn
without farming. The farmers
we'll admit are looked down on as
a weak. ignorant, degraded class
by some people. There are peo-
pie in this world who would rather
wear the felons stripes than to
stoop SO low as to even speak to a
farmer But you ask those peo-
pie where they get their daily
bread. Ask them if it was made
by machinery or grown on the
farm. The farmers, as a whole,
are a little behind the society
world, he cannot live in a man.
sion, he cannot wear a Prince AL
bert suit; but he can wear his
overalls and enjoy the rain and
the blessed sunshine more than
any man ON the face of Gods
green earth. So there now, my
dear Bro. The farmer lives all
honest, honorable life, he lives by
fulfilling the scriptures and earns
his living by the sweat of his
brow. By this living we are not.
ashamed to kneei down and ask
the creator of al. things to bless
the soils and thereby prosper the