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Its neighborhood full of thrifty. energy tic, healthy ar 1 honest people, and t Stallings he btalt a school. He called Clayton Acadeui \ The school fi-jurishei the town prospered, the old name of Sta lings passed away, and the town wn called Clayton. 1 has been Clayton ere since. It has goa? into the arg*j-ic hr of the land by an act of ineorp ratio under the name given it by the Ah ham teacher, and it is wed. For it is ar£oodi name for a goodly totyn, ana it is goodly town mnae «p of live, thrlvin people. Bradstreet so. Dun say 3 slt; the .Drummer said, so, and I say Qt anA HOBNjl, ESQ., Merchant, Planter and Cotton litoi Clayton, F. C.so that makes it so. If ‘here be one o the incredulous left, let kiu cast his ey out of the train window tlr? next time h passes through Clayton. Z^et him loo almost in any direction, and if he don see enough bales of cotton to convinc him of Clayton's solidity as.d businea prosperity, he will be hard to conrinci He needD’t tr,y to count the bales; h would have to stop over a day or two t do that. Besides, these Clayton cotto men have a sort way of estimatin the extent of their holdings, other tha by counting. •“How much cotton have you on ban now?” I asked one gentleman.“Oh. about an acre and a half or *.w •ere*,” he replied.“What? Not yet picked.”“Oh, yes; already picked and ginnec and packed in bales ready for the mai
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The News And Observer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sun, Dec 27, 1896
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