Electricity Coming to Mocksville, Aug. 9, 1923

Of course, everybody is perfectly happy over the good news that Mocksville is at last to have electric lights. We think we are conservative when we say that nothing that has come our way in the history of this town has, or will, be of greater advantage than the coming of electric lights for our streets and homes. The Enterprise has been advocating this step on the part of our city fathers for the past two years. We have felt that it was the thing to do, and we are going to make this prediction that six months after the installation of electricity in Mocksville for street lights, homes and business houses, the people of the town, would give up almost anything else with less regrets, and we shall not be able to find half a dozen people in town who would consider going back to kerosene lamps, under any circumstances. There will be many advantages in other ways for power to run machinery can be secured, and this is a decided advantage to any town. Manufacturers do not want to go into a town where electric power is not available.

From the editorial page of The Mocksville Enterprise, Thursday, Aug. 9, 1923, A.C. Huneycutt, publisher