The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14
Forget 1t Not, SiIer City Sells
More Than Rabbit Hams
and Lucky Feet
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to work out his ideas. That Is the |
Yankee of it. Connecticut is made of |
shops started out just like this one |
started on a striking originality. |
carried to a success. This shop has
a long way to go yet, for it is Strik |
ing new ideas and meeting new re-
quirements constantly. It is q mighty |
good example and suggestion OF
pioneer work in this State.
'oOL 'spLeoquSeM SoHeIx
Not far from the bent wood factory |
is another one that is not far behind
it in original novelty. This is the
Washboard factory. Here IS another
thing that exampEties the North
Carolina Yankee. This shop makes
washboards that are built of bent
wood frames, and one piece rubbing
surface enclosed in the one-plece
frame. Simplicity carried tc the
| limit You would think to look
around the factory that they have on
hand enough WashbOards TO set the
| whole world to work Monday morn
ing. But they are shipping them
| out by the thousands and never catch
ing up with the washerwoman This
| shop has grown up like the bent wood
| factory, and keeps growing every
| day 1t has been obliged to build its
| own machinery for the manufacture
of it's products and it Will have to
| grow to keep up with its steadily
growing trade.
Perhaps you do not know it, but
| there are fashions in washboards as
| well as in everything. This factory
| started to make on kind of wash
boards. That looks all right, but It
no more serves the purpose than one
kind Of anything. The bent wood,
| galvanized Washboard goes in many
places, but some places you can't sell
anything but brass washboard.
| Then other places want a brass wash
| board that can be used only one
side, the other side being covered with
a lot Of thin wood Stats. Other sec
tions demand a board that has pc
culiar shape at the top. There are
as many fashions in washbOards as
there are in womens hats, and
funny thing is that these fashions are
| sectional. IT a particular pattern
strikes one woman it seems that all
the women of the part Of the country
want that same sort of an instrument.
: Fashion is a funny autocrat, isn't it :?
| 1t seems to overlook no more than
German efficiency and system does
SO in the big warehouse you see
piled up in one place thousands of
Washboards for Texas, thousands of
another sort for Tennessee, another
sort in big piles for the far West, and
so on all through the warehouse.
Something Else Noticeable.
Another thing is noticeable about
this lively town Of Siler City. 1t is
full Of lot of live young fellows who
y are doing things To start with it
has live chap at the head of the
| village newspaper, and it is not neceS-
sary to say that if North Carolina is
to be much of a State it is because
| the local papers are pushing on the
lines. We jest about the community
X | gossip, but that maliSned Individual
9 is a mighty important factor in the
farmers and the town folks both, tt
: have good roads, and bonds have
S worlds work, 1t is the village GOSSIP
= that carries the big end of the big anc
IS little news. And it is the village
n newspaper, the little local publicatio,
e that really represents the people
e The village that has an intelligent
e husthng, uneasy, progressive paper
n has fortune in it's paper, although
n it is only the occasionally communit,
n ment
IF The Sler City Grit has an elasti
l. horn, and it keeps that town heart
from. The noise keeps the tOWl
g watching itself, and awake 1t keep
/ the town comparing itself with othe
/, towns, and the town is restless IN
"a less 1t stays in its proper place.
IN Young Men Are Active.
"a Along with the young newspape
" men are a lot of other youngish fel
>. >. lows who are full of ginger and the
~ are trying to secure for their com
- munity the advantages that bigge
III places have. They are stuck on goo
- roads ideas, and they believe i
~ schools, and the modern conven
a. fences. They have a novelty in thei
-: electric light plant, which has evolve
~ like some of the other things from
y modest institution that did not aspir
sc to any great things, until it has bui
ol up in itself to be a plant Of ampl
" " magnitude, and home grown like tn
e / other institutions.
ell The townships around Siler Cit
oli have been trying to get on the goo
Il roads map, and have had some wor
US in arriving, but the recent election
lo have registered the desires OF tn
l- been voted, and work is beginnin;