Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-10-15

clare Q0r independence Ol Tie DI1IIoH
Crown in Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., !
N. c., May 20, 1775, more than a year
before it was declared in Philadel- t
phia, Pa. But the grandest of all, and
we love to hear it repeated, North
Carolina was first at Bethel, farthest
at Chicamauga and Gettysburg and
last at Appomattox." Look what our
State did during the war. Out of
voting population of $4,000 we sent
125,O00 men to the battlefield; more
than one-fifth (1-5th) of the men fur
nished by the Southern States 1t
was in the hour of the last march of
our troops Gen. Lee said, God bless
North Carolina" In the late Cuban
War, the first man killed in the army
was Lieut.. w. Shipp, of Charlotte, N.
c., in the navy the first man killed
was Worth Bagley, of Raleigh, n. 9.
And North Carolina troops placed the
first American flag on Moro Castle,
Cuba. 1t is stated that the first inter
ment in Arlington Cemetery, as we
| now know it, was that Of George l..
Rhinehart, Confederate soldier of
the 26th and 23rd n. G. Infantry.
! North Carolina has attained great
things along educational and indus
trial lines; her rank as a manufacture
| ing state is next to Massachusetts in
cotton and second to none in the man
ufacture of furniture. She has a
greater variety of woods and minerals
than any other State in the Union.
Tobacco was first found in North Caro-
lima and Sir Walter Raleigh took it
to England North Carolina held the
first Peace Conference, in Raleigh,
N. c., in 1920. Joseph Muntford, of
Halifax, N. c., (born in England 1924,
died 1776) was the first Mason in
America. He was appointed Master
of the Royal White Hart Lodge"
Halifax, N. c., March 21, 1857. His
Lodge erected the first Masonic Tenn
pie in the world. 1t was built 1869,
and is standing now and still in use
by the Royal White Hart Lodge. The
first Summer Normal School ever held
lege was in Chapel Hill, University,
N. c., in the summer of 1877 to 1888
; inclusive.
Mrs Cornelia Phillips Spencer, of
Chapel Hill, was a potent factor in
these schools. She attended and re-
ported all lectures. This monument
led to the Graded Schools of North
Carolina. Out of six Universities es-
tablished before 1880, five were in the
South. North Carolina had the first
University in the United States.
, Others had gotten charters but she
began work first. In 1866 Capt. John
Wilkes, of Charlotte, N. c., secured
a charter for the first National
Bank Of Charlotte, the first National
: bank chartered south of the Po
| tomac. Capt. James Iredell Wad
: del, one of North Carolina S noted sons
r had the unique distinction of being
| the only man who. bore the Confed
: crate flag around the world, being il
t command of the Shenandoah aid
: kept the flag floating for three months
l after the surrender at Appomattox.
We are proud of the noble heritage
3 of the Confederacy bequeathed to us
: by our Fathers and our Mothers as
j well: for the women of the Confed
5 eracy, though not on the battlefields
r bore their part no less heroically thar
i did the men. 1t has always been saiC
| CAoC W1ChOuC CAC WOI1SiI VI Il1C OOil
e federacy there never would have beer
e achieved the glories won by it AM
r hostilities would have ceased long be
J fore they did. We should be proul
J. to be an American and prouder ST.
l. to be North Carolinian.
n Again [ thank you for your cordia
d welcome and assure you your hospi
: tality will be thoroughly enjoyed
e At the conclusion of this superl
n address, that was punctuated with fre
S quent bursts of rapturous applaus
It during it's delivery the Convention
e speedily got down to business.
d In their regular order, after -rol
C call Of delegates, the reports of tn
S several officials were, beginning wit
that of the President, showing tn
e years work, and much lnterestin
g discussion was INDUCED in, and wit
e such parliamentary decorum as t
II make the men folk who were intel
n ested onlookers sit up and take notice
1, At 1 o'clock the business sessiO
n adjourned for luncheon, and thi
r was served in the bui1ding-on tn
second floor, and most elegant r.
t, past it was, too, furnished by the cit
'r of Goldsboro, under unanimous vot
a. of the board of alderman, complimel
n tary to the u. D. c., and served
Ie the members of Thomas Ruffin Cha]
e, ter, and during the service, the 1ta
Is ian Orchestral Band rendered th
sweetest of music.
Is As we go to press the convention
.. holding it's afternoon session whic
L will be embraced in tomorrow r
is port.
st This evening from $3.50 to II o'cloc