The Robesonian., 1918-09-09
CANTON; MILL CITY

CANTON; MILL CITY t
Labor Day Celebration With En- t
ployes of Great Paper Mill
Over the Hills and Through the ,
Valleys.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
| Waynesville, Sept 3.-Dear Friends:
Did you know I am getting "fame"
for my writing? A Waynesville
young lady nursing patient in Johns
Hopkins, met Mrs. R. D. Caldwell of
Lumberton, who was at the bedside
of her husband, than whom Robeson
holds no finer. Mrs. Caldwell loaned
her The Robesonian and she read "The
Passing Show" and she tells me my
little window rose before her eyes
and made her so home-sick, she could
hardly wait for her vacation.
The tourists are leaving fast now.
School began yesterday with the larg-
est attendance ever.
DR.. j. F. Abel is at home from Fort
4 Oglethorpe for furlough, as are
also his two lovely daughters, who
are skilled workers in the busy world,
: so we are having the pleasant picture
: of a family reunion.
Our son was called too early by mis-
= take and is back in Fairmont and the
a doctor is down there too, SO I decided
a to attend the Labor day exercises at
a Canton. At 9:15 a. m. yesterday the
q chauffeur, the new puppy, three ell
4 derly lady friends and myself took
to the open road in the Buick six, and
what a day it was to voyage! Sun
and breeze, road and engine, all per-
feet, and it was only few moments
before we could see the smoke of the
mill. The Canton pulp mill, one Of the
largest in the world, is owned by a
company of Canton, Ohio, and this
mill was named in honor Of the older
one end to the other of the buildings
even, so I have never been inside. The
yard looks like a great railway termi-
nal and they have unknown miles OF
spur tracks up on the Balsam noun
tains. They utilize every particle
of the wood in making tamic acid and
paper. They make here only the
cheaper grades, the finest is finished
. at the other Canton. The town has
grown to be almost city but still
-, The mill is it's greatest industry
There is hardly straight street II
the place, so as we wound around tn'
| curves. we had to sound the horn al
most necessarily, for everybody
grown and small, babies and dogs
was on the streets. Labor day i
their greatest holiday and the union
and band had just paraded and nov
everybody was for Champion park t
see the contests. We soon found tn
home of our friend and the car wa
loaded with babies, chairs, and Dime
box. 1t took two loads to get
there.
A bend of beautiful Pigeon rive
makes a perfect half-circle OF tn
lovliest picnic ground l ever saw,
wide flat where cars can be pafAe
in safety, and then mighty NH,
some places so steep one Would nav
to pull up by the bushes, shaded o
tremendous oak and chestnut trees
too shaded to get picture-Was nj
only complaint.
f belongs to the company and
for the sole pleasure Of the employee
and their friends. There were at lea:
fifteen hundred there but the place
90 large I couldn't realize it: Ihe1
is 2 band stand, swings, and thr
fountains, and other attractions
view.
sat in the car and looked on,
usual. until time for dinner, SO VIZ
not very close to the games: but 1ro
the cheering and laughter they we
all to the good. The tug-of-war, u q
greasy pole. the sack races. plpe-1l
Ting contest hurdle and high Jun
were all there, and n the afternoon
hall game and an address by the Ho
Cameron Morrison, whom "ou
have liked to hear, as l haven't Sc
him since he was bare-footed pe
was asked to be judge OF the ga
show. but was too tired after +
s,1mptuous dinner, so came PACK II
Our friends husband was head
the committee Of arrangements a
a. = prominent employee Of the co
pany. It is good to hear nm a
others speaking so well OF the Kll X,
. ness and Justice of the company. Ii
are running full time and on COVE
---@e ment contracts, but everything 81
down for this holiday until the II
%. m. shift came on.
AS we left the home Of our trle
the winding street, cut from the
Of a rock hill, carried us almost O
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