The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-21
NORTH CAROLINA Il
DOESl0Ok coon
Here's a View of Part of It
Taken on a Trip to the y
Mountains "a
(By Old Hurrygraph.)

seashore to the mountains. to view the
most beautiful and inspiring PIANO.
ramic scene-compareo with which
there cannot be placed on the screen
a more interesting picture.
North Carolina looks good TO me
I have been from the eastern shores
of his grand old commonwealth
terra firma. fringed with sand
slides into the billowy deep with all
the smoothness Of a ball going down
a ten-pin alley. to where the noun
tain peaks appear to punch holes in
the sky, and a more promising out
look has never greeted the eye of the
beholder and the passing traveller.
Luxuriant crops. Fruit ripening in
luscious beauty. A rich f~ruition is
promised the tiller of the soil that will
fill the tills. All of the towns hang
out the signs of and i'm
provement; the rural districts show
ing evidences Of enterprise and earn.
est endeavor.
This quaint and StaId old town has
long been regarded as being asleep
asleep since the days of Corvallis
resting quietly and unconcerned in
the march of modern progress, in
peaceful valley" But Hillsboro has
walked up; made her toilet, in a frock
of the latest fashion is the envy OF her
oACl1A SkS idiiN
Orange county heretofore has been
slow to in good roads, blu She
has acted determinedly, and has shot
far ahead of other counties in good
sand-clay roads, and now possesses an
object lesson to counties that have
moved more rapidly, and spent
greater amounts Of money.
When the train stopped at Hills
boro, a passenger, not familiar with
the route, inquired: What do you
call this placer" A very bright mill
operative, who had just boarded the
car at this place and taken a seat
near the inquirer, replied: you don't
call this place. It's here all the time.
Lord CORVALLIS put it here to stay
and it has been here ever since"
Hillsboro is taking on new life.
Greensboro, Salisbury, StatesVills
and other towns along the Southern
Railway are not aSleep-not even
nodding. They are going right ahead
and leaving a train Of substantial i'm
provements in the wake Of their on
ward progress.
Material growth is witnessed from
n n Of the State to the other
but there is no end to the improve
ments. OF course there are to bs
seen some spots that show bad farm
ing; bad ~cultivatiOn; Door soil that
needs intelligent attention.: weak and
oiShlS dil Ihdl SINCS pun IL Ao'
labor expended. There are also some
towns that look like a poor old man
"by the roadside resting. This is
the exception; not the rule. 1t is
perfectly natural. too. as in all other
things on this mundan sphere. In
the aggregate the good n the pro-
greSslVe predOminates.
This progressive town. in the good
county Of CataWba-one of the most
progressive, if not the most SO. in
rural advancement and industrial
progress-is not making a display, or
big show, but it is going forward with
a firm step surprising, and a stability
of building that is remarkable. The
number Of handsome structures thai
have recently been erected, and are
now in course Of building, is a source
or much favorable comment by visi-
TORS. Inc new pOStOffice building is a
beauty, and will adorn most hand
somely n of the most progressive
towns in Western North Carolina
n gateway on the Southern Railway
TO the beautiful and ever charming
Slowing Rock country. ] was taken
IN charge bodily by Mr.. e. V. Morton
the new proprietor Of the Hickory
Democrat, n given one Of the most
delghtful afternoons I ever spent in
HICKORY; and | have been there quite
frequently. Mr.. Morton. with Mr.. "
49, ~ dO City edltOI, are HldhlE-
q splendid paper out of the Democrat
Hickory Mad o c~natauuua on and
the Hlckoryites were pleased with il
from the way they attended. | heard
~. Miles in his delightful lecture
-Iallow Dips" It was fine. The
Hlckory people could have gone mile:
and miles, but not heard a better lee.
ture than that by DR.. Miles.
ms town looks bright, cheerful anC
happy Its growth is SLOW, out it is o.
= strong and substantial nature
some day Lenoir is going to be {
great big place. It's natural advan
lagos lndlcate this and when it come:
INTO It's own, by the keen eye OF thos.
Who know q good thing when the,
see II. Lenoir will come mighty nigh
pushlng off the front seat some Of OF
bigger towns, ii they do not watch out
malaria begins with a chill and end,
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