Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-07-08
OF WINSTON-SALEM; ENJOYABLE TRIP

thursday morning, July lSt, SIX
truck loads of Watauga public school
graduates left for Salem
This trip had been promised those
completing and passing the public
school course this year. About 175
passed
When we reached the Wilkes Coun-
ty line we found that we had 119 of
these on board. On account of car
trouble we did not reach Winston
Salem until about 7 o'clock p. m
The General Motors Company, learn
ing of our expected arrival, had sent
two of their genial statesmen to pilot
us to Forsyth County fair grounds
in North Winston where we camped
for the night The fair grounds
management Immediately sent out
great quantities of ice, sugar, lemons,
ETC., for our comfort. At II p. m
we each rolled ourselves in blanket
and lay down on the grass to sleep.
In order to be sure that they did
not Oversleep many of the boys rose
and packed their beds at 23O a. m.
After breakfast our caravan moved
downtown. We had not gone far be-
fore we were met by our former pill
OTIS, Forsyth County's genial, big
hearted school superintendent, Mr..
Cash, accompanied by newspaper re-
port'ers.
Under the direction of Mr.. Cash
we drove our trucks into the city
and parked. Here we were met by
Charles E. Alder, circulation manager
of The Winston-Salem Journal, and
others who took charge of our COM
pany.
Here we formed in double file and
marched through many of Winston
Salem's beautiful streets. Supc.in-
tendent Cash and Mr.. Adler led the
procession. They took us first to the
cid Moravian Cemetery where the
Moravians bury their dead according
to the customs of their church. All
children are buried together, without
regard to family; all married men in
one group, all married women in an
other and likewise with the unmar-
ried. Each grave is marked by a
tablet about fifteen inches square
on which is engraved the name and
the date. The tablet lies flat on the
grave. Many of the tablets bear
dates of the 1700's. There is abso-
lutely no difference between the
great or SMALL rich or poor in the
city of the dead.
We next visited the old Salem Col
lege, old church and many other an
cient buildings of this old Moravian
settlement. From here we went to
the great factories of the R. J. Rey-
maids Tobacco Company. Through
the kindness of Mr.. Beach of our
town and Mr.. Martin, editor of The
journal, we were granted permits TO
go through these factories, which had
been wired us before leaving Boone.
The company placed at our service
three men who showed US through
the factories We were all much in
rerested in seeing the great factory
where cigarettes are made. Every
thing is done by machinery from
rolling, counting, wrapping, affixing
the government stamp, placing in car
tons and in large boxes and sealing.
1t IS wonderful to see these hundreds
of machines doing all this work more
dexteriously than human hands could
ever do it.
The factory turns out hundreds of
thousands of these cigarettes each
day-enough to make a whole train
load.
After seeing many other sights in
this city we returned tC our trucks
where Winston Journal photograph
er was waiting for a picture of the
company. In few moments, at the
instance of Mr.. Alder, Superintendent
Cash and others, great quantity of
brick ice cream was distributed to the
children. After this was eaten Mr..
F. j. Lipford, president of the Win
ston-Salem Power Company furnished
an abundance of ice water, and to
cap the climax ordered whole truck
load of the biggest and finest water
melons you ever saw-31. fully
thousand pounds-these he ordered
placed in l>e different trucks which
kept the children eating all the way
home, with a number left over.
We all came away feeling we had
had a great time in Winston Salem,
everybody est. mlng, "M2rsn. the
Winston : II folks nice to u.s." We
arrived Bt cn" at : o'clock. We arc
sure that II. : Mas not only tri,
of great e ~ - the children
but one # mach value.
SMITH HAGAMAN,