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rSAND SMITHS.anlly Rs-UalUd-Flr* for i Ou Parjrt Herald.ten two forks of the ins is the quaint lit-ipack, where three era of the Smith ' reunion yesterday, the meeting was an de which stood the the president It is eather beaten. Big des have been sent ts as glacier tracks, of the Smith family re the footprints of Smith.of the fat, yellow ns between Sum-eapack cracked all ay with the heavy compelled to bear, ■ed into the old or-ooints of the com-AD FRESCO, feyance arrived the cd to a tree by the woods. Over five were gathered be-e were black bug-ugg*es, wide farm :arts and rumbling ast century. Even ned to feel that it ly affair, and they s sociably as they til fences.tgs were hung bend two small part in the middle of e pavilion was a ade the air shiver music the Smith le three thousand n squatted around rhey were mostly Every man, wo-id a lunch basket, le was erected for iach one gave up Dution, which was able. At the givenmaking Matches.A Columbua Son Carreapoedaat VUtft* tba OiW nils Match PaotMT. ’Gainesville has an industrial enterprise, which, 1 believe, is altogether a novelty at the south, and of which I must tell you before I close my letter. I allude to the large match factory which is now in full and successful operation here. I paid it a visit the other day, and under the guidance of the polite superintendent, Mr. C. J. Lee, was shown entirely through it. As I believe many of your readers would be interested in knowing exactly how machines are made, I will give briefly the whole modus operandi.Oblong blocks of white pine, two by five inches square and ten inches long are placed in a complicated machine through which they quickly pass and come out split up into little sticks of the size but just twice the length of a match. These sticks are packed in cases and carried to the “drying room,” where, under a high degree of heat, created by steam pipes, they remain several days in order that they may become thoroughly dried,They are then carried to a room where they are arranged in a most ingenious way for having their ends dipped into the chemical composition of which the heads are made. They are thrown loosely into a “hopper,” exactly like tne hopper of an ordinary grist mill, only not so large. From this hopper they are fed into a machine that binds them up with strips of cloth into largecircular bundles, composed of concentric rings, the whole forming a disc or solid wheel a foot and a half in diameter. The sticks are so arranged in this bundle that they do not quite touch each other, each one standing separately, so that when the eHds are dipped in the phosphorous the heads will not run together. In each bundle there are four thousand sticks, and as each stick represents twe matches, there are eight thousand matches in a bundle. These bundles are takenLETTER FROM TH-IWttkFranklin, N. There is nothing t •the sultry days-c railroad trip froc falls. Each revolt) wheel brings a c atmosphere, and w reached the beauti cool air, the coo pleasant shades tz most as if he 1 new continent It for me to attempt the charms of Talhit is unnecessary, a your readers have ■ delightful resort.On Tuesday * la for Clayton, havi sage on the hac Dockins, who now from Tallulah to Cl is always ready to * gers to that place t veyance, and to p all the interesting features in the seer Rabun possesses g as a summer resort future become one ■ ular sections in county has very gi in many respects years, and its peopl ing evident signs ol Judge Bleckley home, at the top mountain, can be miles, and a new re been erected near tl on the mountain juj town. The atmosc is cool and delightt ter is almost as cold I spent the night at the Blue Ridg kept by Mr. D. T. the morning startec Franklin, N. C. Clayton is the Rabi within a few feet of the headwaters o
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Athens Banner Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Sep 09, 1884
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