The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-20

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Charlotte"
A long silence, a. musical gurgle-I
gurgle, and the glass is held towards
a pretty girl, who Immediately refills
it with buttermilk and a smile re-
,yealing two matched strings of pearls
The Editorial Writer, the Public
Official and the Editor of-the-Best-Pa-
per-in-North Carolina faces the one
h~undred-foot dinner table underneath
the trees at Boone, in Watauga .Ceun-
ty. They, with others of the North
Carolina Press Association there as
sembled, are making quite vain eff
forts to diminish ~noticeably the more
than abundant spread of fried chicken
and honey, light bread and cakes of
every conceivable kinds, biscuit, sand
witches, ice cream and preserves of
many hues-all Watauga county pro-
ducts, prepared by Watauga county
housewives and served by the prettiest
girls, almost in Western North Caro-
lima.
The Editorial Writer is now drink
ing his seventh glass of real butter
milk. while his companions watch in
admiring silence. They hesitate
not to express their frank adj
miration, for they are congenial
spirits who had met at Hickory,
where newspaper men from the East
and the West foregathered prelimin-
airy to their joint ascent to Lenoir-
there to hold the t~hirty-eight annual
convention Of the North Carolina
Press Association, and were there
fore friends of ancient line age.
They had partaken of the imprompt
little feast given by the Hickory Board
of Trade, had~steed next each other,
while the photographer earnestly
asked them to look pleasant and after
EaIghting from the special train fuFT
nished b. the Carolina and North
western Railroad, had been all three
chartered at the same hotel in Lencir.
Therefore, they were now as broth
ers, and If one of them wished to drink
seven glasses of Watauga county but
termilk, the others maintained a dis
Greet silence or expressed open ad-
miration, as they wished.
At Lenoir they attended the meet
ings of the Association heard the fine
talks there made and smoked many
cigars. They commented apprecla-
lively on the more than generous hos
DitaIity of that fast growing town-a
town whose sentiments were express
ed we'll by Lieutentant-Governor New
land, when he quoted South Carolina
Governors remark to the newspaper
man of the Palmetto State: Boys,
dern me if / amt glad to see We!
And he was, you could just see 1t, and
so was everyone else there. Every
attention was paid the newspaper
~men-a-kindly, personal attention OLA
neople who understood how to speH
correctly the phrase Southern nos
eitality." .
The long ride from Lenoir to Hibri-
ten Park owe that remarkably we'll
Graded mountain road, the building
&c which received its decisive Impetus
/ from the fact that the editors were tc
t-avel over it, wil%not o o be for
~-tte7 hv the Editor and his two
/ friends. Neither will the splencFd
panorama of vast distances, and j.
fuite expanse of broken country, gil
gantic mountains spread before them
when they reached it's summit, 2250
feet above the sea level. A complete
circle of stupendous heights enclos-
ing valleys of fertile farms. a vista so
vast that the trailing smoke of some
locomotive is seen for hours, winding
ere anu IDSsO o1AAOAS0N IN
sneeing towards the tow nof Lenoir-
''The Beautiful Maiden" A near
by ridge shuts off the view of
Happy Valley with the broad
Yadkin making fertile it's broad
fields. Far off may be seen the Cone
estate, and beyond it Grandfather
mountain, Table Rock, Mitchell and
/ scores of peaks whose outlines are
blended with the sky and lost finally
in a glamour of enchantment.
A marvellous picture which abstracts
FROM the attenrc2 g developed an
~c+ite world otherwise nay to the
emnIe luncheon spread in the tower
m the top of the mountain. The Pub
/ lie official, glass in one hand, a huge
sandwich in the other, is pointing
towards Happy Valley, trying to. ex-
~Iain to his friend that there must be
their future home. The Editor mods
he cannot talk, and agrees with him.
But the journey to town, although
down the mountainside, is long and
soon the drivers are disentagling Their
teams from the apparently hopeless
confusion of horses, automobiles and
mules which crowd the pointed peak
of the mountain, and with much 0r1n9-
ipg Of barkes and nerscnal h1irra-
tiops to the horses. the long line OF
vehicles began the descent One car
~iage is overturned hut fortunately
no one is injured and all get back
safely in time for the Tuesday after
noon SESSION.
THE Editorial Writer, the Public
Official and the Editor of the Best
Newspaper in North Carolina com
mentc on the number of Ienoir citi-
e n who attend the meeting of the
Association. and fnd no difficulty ir
tracing it's cause to a desire on thai
part to act the courteous hosts. In
cidentally they hear such men as DR.
Few, president of Trinity, DR.. Poteat
President of Wake Forest and Con
gresham Small. who explains WHY
Western North Carolina is vitality in
tterested~ in the Intra Coastal Water
way. There are many really inter
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