From Editorial Page of Hickory Daily Record, Sept. 29, 1919

From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday, Sept. 29, 1919

What is the status of the library now? A sum has been appropriated by the Carnegie commission, a special tax has been voted to maintain the library and the contract would be awarded but for the fact that the cost of the building is nearly twice what it was when the appropriation was made. The lot has been given by Mrs. Worth Elliott.

Under any circumstances that can be conceived, the library should be built.

We may be required to meet the extra cost by public subscription. Let’s have the library in any event before the close of 1920.

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It remained for an Omaha mob to carry violence to the fartherest extreme in the annals of crime-avengers in this country. The mob lynched a negro, who was taken from a sheriff’s armed guard, set fire to the court house, strung up the mayor of the town. He was rescued by the police. What is the country coming to, anyway?

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The Albemarle mill strike has been settled and the employes were to return to work this morning. Mr. Ritch is said to have brought on the strike, and Mr. Barrett of Asheville, an older hand in the union game, is believed to have been instrumental in stopping the affair.

Solicitor Brock will determine whether the mill interests at Albemarle sought to prevent this organization of the workers, a charge that was made Saturday. The owners had no more right to stop the union from organizing than the union had in trying to stop non-union workers from entering the mills.