The Firing Line Os The American Leeionl
"] January Meeting Held By LEGION WILL MB I ” H
Believe It Ur not Legion Auxiliary Friday THURSDAY EVENING Build Now I
A horse has a SHELL and all WOLVER- _ While Materials and Labor are cheap ' I
K . . . 7"® American Legion Auxiliary held, Klfta had been sent to the eight vet- _ * _ . .
| INK Shoes are made of shell horsehide. have been aaßigned to lhe Rc * uUr Monthly Session of Pamt up and save what you already have.
Vnr nroof come to SPP nc Nn nhlltrafinn D w Dlckle Mrs " re R c thanked the mem- Pa4t Deferred From .
10. proof come see us. No obligation. M ”*’ Ni «* See New Values For 1932 At • I
Athene Wiggins and Misa Veroellc duties as president. ... ' <<rra. ni exr 1 ~ ,
mm _ Friuler as Joint hostesses. After the business session, two violin 4 A n “embers of Henderson post of Ihe FlaCe Os Values
■ ■■ The Auxiliary has been very active solos were rendered by Archibald American T<egion are asked to I
lal g|fa|C th * ne€dy ex_Bervi c« men Yow. accompanied at the piano by l° te 4u V ut ‘ the l dat * so, ' T thc r ®^ u,ar * _ .
WAJUJUBiIJW BP and their families. Mrs. Newell re- Victor Percy. Mm. J. C. Cooper gave “ onth,y ®«*ing for January was A 1 C?
ported that 20 families had been help- some very interesting facts on the life cha «* ed fram Monday evening /\ IpV IA/ Otl7lMO ■*
LJ J W r> „ of Woodrow Wilson. mil.Uomrrow night when the meet- rtICA |J« W dIKIIIS ■
Henderson, N. C. “5 s - ° W. Furqiieron. chairman The hostesses then served delirious '?* "W, 1 * * ]■*> »'<*** *»> ■
- ’ , P° sandwiches and tea. by officers of the post. urged I “Building Supplies and Paints”
I We Offer A Complete Evolution Os State Prison ’rj'rnm .X
1 Building Service S , y , B ,? m Is G,ven In ArtlC,e t™lT:™; INSURANCE I
w |l7 V ml| i ' Am D _ 1 p _ 1 /\1 J lature passed a law permitting the
Vs **Vvd* DV a. .11l - f* B Ilnfi commutation of sentences of prison- T O *x XT' kt i
,| .. U au.l construction oT llie best quality and tvpe " * era for good behavior and until that To Suit Your Needs
i j ■ - time all women prisoners were kept
FULL LINE OF PAINTS ln Dectlnbet . 1870 01 . m J££ £±*2 Life—Health—Accident
T , . . , nv j C. BAUKKHmL though the question of a State Prison nervine outside the crowded cells
...10 yon (.till*l or bnv l-Utldmg material, pet Our Raleigh. Jan. «.-The housing and had been agitated by various cover- R was not untU 1878 that the P** o " 1 W,H b< * to consult with you regarding vour
quot; tions. treatment of prisoners has always . . ' , . . authorities permitted the use of pii
been a problem in North Carolina, but din vari ® u * legislaturesi since soners on other than prison projects. insurance needs.
_ especially in the earlier days of the acc ° rdln « to Colonel Olds. In t’rat year gang: »♦. prisoners vr-.-e
a a m T State's history so that the question of house passed a bill authoriz- sent to Morganton to make brick for
W B A|*Aam I m a State Prison as agitated and dis- n * a to Ixoujbo 75 prisoners and the buildings for the State Hospital ,
1 J dUva uOll" uaT m gill*. cussed for 54 years before the con a PP ro P r ' a, j n £ $20,000 for its construe- for the Insane there, as well as for f
■ f strucUonof s P ltal in Rale '^ h That K 11 I ifAAn
■ , finallv started in 1870 according to nn 1888 tbe Mtiestion again came up and year 52 prisoners were leased to help wk# 4*^9
[ 952 S William St. Phone 574 Henderson, N. C. article recently prepared bv Colonel Rt *“i a sectlon was wrl ffen into the build the Western North Carolina „
Fred A SL y of P the sfate 5 Constitution adopted that Railroad from Old Fort to Asheville. Phone 581-J Henderson, N.C.
■ Commission giving a detailed histnrv! year r *duirlng a State prison. Politics This is said to be the first use of con
■ ofThe development of tS e Prf P ' ayed on the StAte Prlaon < » ueß - victs in railroad construction In the ■
■ son in North Carolina Uon unUl 1869 when the general as- United States. The same year 200 con
sembly passed a new act requiring the victs were leased for a period of two I
The plan for utilizing prison new prison to be built “at or near years to the Spartanburg and Ashe- *
<W y _ for the construction and maintenance Raleigh with cells for 500 convicts, to villev railway, the railroad agreed to
\y TTI ■ of highways is by no means new. since be incloeed by a granite wall." In 1870 feed/ clothe, guard and house the pri- WTT .
9T ■lll I m ?, re tha , n °"f-thlrdl of all the railroad the city of Raleigh gave, the site for soners and to pay the State $31.20 a T
4m, I A mileage in North Carolina from the the prison and SIO,OOO towards the cost year for each prisoner. By 1877 the I II I W"* ■ ■ I
• • * mountains to thc sea, was built with of its constructs nand work was Western North Carolina Railroad was B Jk. M I
convict lab<ir, Colonel Olds points out. sturted on what is now*known using 558 State prisoners and many ™
Some of this railroad mileage was Central Prison plant, which is now other roads were using them,
built l»y the State, but a large portion soon to be abandoned for a larger and Between 1877 and 1879, ns- a result
of it was built by private companies more modern plant to be built about of its leasing of convicts the .State
_ __ ,eased ‘he convicts from the five miles out from< Raleigh. Prison earned $648 more than all its
Bl __ J _ j; J_ State. In 1884 a total of 1,566 convicts The first buildings were of logs, expenses, although It had 1,102 pri- lAT 1 \7
IHPIiQ ■ lllllr from the State prison were employed containing 12 cells each 18 feet square soners. most of them employed on |\| A A/f A Y AVIV* \llt\nAUr ■
1’ V vWu A BfBBA k/U|J|#vi in Lhc building of nine different rail- in which 268 prisoners were confined, railroad building. In 1881 the prison AY VvU«l M bJUJT 111 II If ill
• a roads and 241 were employed In build- The log cell houses were surrounded leased Its first prison farm, to utilize g g
. ln £ turnpikes and canals. For' rail- by a stockade built of pine logs, set prisoners that were not able to do
roads and canals were to the State in on end. These prisoners then start- the heavy railroad building.
1884 what its highways are today. ed work building the present build- The peak of the new railway build-
The fin* State Prison, built of logs ings and the granite wall that sur- ing in North Carolina was reached
Pn v Yotfr Due* Promntlv « . - Wi^ h no provision for heat in cold rounds them. The prisoners also made between 1877 and 1895 ,at least as far
wither otffer than the heat supplied several million brick used In the Con- as the use of prison labor was con- P&V Your Due* PrnmntSv
by the bodies of the prisoners, was 1 struction of the prison buildings, the cerned. .. •
I FORMER KAISER FIGHTS ILLNESS AT DOORN ESTATE
WV arc always willing to answer any questions about our : , 'lk WBjSIIMiLJIte . % , . , .
our ruei-cluiiidifte ami our charges. Any member * * Oders And impurities In The Air Are
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■ all ami consult us. Our vide experience qualifies us to *£ (!***'* given off by foods, i liese impuriiics nr* carried I
exjtert advice, and such eommilnications are held in A '* M '* - / f ,JK/0 down tr.e Train. Thus is the air in the refrigerator con
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ntMueMzv JN, (is. U..J OaUjY UISCATCU. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6,1932
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