Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Wiswall of Reading, Mass., who had been spending the winter in Florida, were Lincolnton visitors this week, stopping over enroute home. Mr. Wiswall is a son of A.C. Wiswall, who operated the paper mill on the South Fork River at Southside during the Civil War, in partnership with Wm. Tiddy, the firm name being Wiswall & Tiddy from 1860 to 1965 when Mr. Wiswall sold out to Mr. Tiddy.
Mr. Wiswall found on his visit here that the business section of Lincolnton was almost entirely new to him, and that this was a new and modern little city. He was 16 years old when he left here; his home was one East Main where Dr. Geo. Costner now lives. His memory, that wonderful power of the brain, carried him back to the old days, his boyhood days; he could see the old school at the Memorial Hall, with Rev. Wetmore as principal, in session; he played a game of ‘Shiney’—town ball, cat—over again and collided with Gov. Hoke Smith on the Lincolnton diamond, the Governor weighing 200 and Mr. Wiswall 90 pounds, after 48 years absence. While visiting here he found not all of his friends had gone, but found a few schoolmates in the persons of E.C. Childs, John Motz, Chas. Sumner, Ed and Wm. James, John Cobb and S. Alexander, and others perhaps, and had an enjoyable time with them going over old familiar spots and discussing bygone days. Mr. Wiswall is a prominent manufacturer in his Massachusetts home town.
From the front page of The Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., Thursday, afternoon, April 5, 1923
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