Out of Our Past; Spainhour’s reopens after remodeling program in 1949 (2024)

Ten years ago:

Oct. 8-14, 2014

Record & Landmark

The work of Statesville father-and-son photographers Jasper and Benjamin A. Stimson spanned nearly eight decades, from the late 1890s to 1969. Photographs from their work are now on display at the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville. The Stimson Photograph Collection consists of more than 40,000 photographs and negatives, taken between 1891 and 1969, said Iredell County Local History Librarian Joel Reese. (10/8)

Photo: ATHLETES LEND HELPING HAND — Instead of a typical Tuesday evening practice, the Power Cross football team chose to pitch in and help patch up the home of Velva Green, a 109-year-old woman who is currently living in a nursing facility because her Brevard Street residence is uninhabitable, Green’s plight was detailed in Sunday’s R&L. Under adult supervision, the team helped pull down a sheet of plywood on Green’s porch. Power Cross is a Christian sports ministry that mentors young men through athletes, academics and community service work. (10/9)

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A photo of a Statesville woman taken on her 106th birthday has been shared more than 108,000 times on Facebook. The picture — which has been viewed, liked and commented on by people around the world since being posted by Ann Daley — shows Nettie Campbell smiling and holding a sign introducing herself and asking for a relatively modest amount of clicks on the social media site. (10/10)

STATESVILLE — Lightning and rain tried to halt Statesville from picking up its first win in the North Piedmont Conference, but the Greyhounds would not be denied as they took down NPC foe West Iredell 48-12 on Friday. The Greyhounds rushed for 339 yards and four touchdowns. Statesville quarterback Travis Ramseur led the rushing attack with 125 yards on 14 carries with a touchdown while also adding 117 yards through the air on 5 of 11 passing. (10/11)

When Alexander Curry got home from basic training, he knew exactly where he was headed first — his daughter Aneerah’s elementary school lunchroom. It had been six weeks since they had seen each other, practically a lifetime for a first-grader and he couldn’t wait to lock eyes with his little girl. And so, at noon sharp Friday, he burst through the cafeteria doors at Cloverleaf Elementary in his United States Air Force uniform, drawing cheers from a couple hundred students and sending his daughter into a state of excitement that the special request she’d made of her dad had actually come true. (10/12)

Sarah Stikeleather sat back in stylist Roger Rumple’s chair at Legaci Hair Salon and admired her new pixie cut for a moment before hopping up and passing out hugs and fist-bumps. Before Rumple worked his magic in giving her a chic look, Sarah’s mother, Tammy Cromie-Wilkens, had lopped a 10-inch pony tail off Sarah’s mane. The hair will be donated to Locks of Love, a group that makes wigs for cancer patients. (10/13)

Harmony UMC recently received a food grant of more than $1,100 from the Food Lion Charitable Foundation and the Food Lion store at 608 Turnersburg Highway, Statesville. The church will use this food to support the Backpack Food Program for Harmony Elementary School. The goal of this program is to eliminate hunger on weekends for students in the school who may not have access to healthy meals at home. (10/14)

Twenty-five years ago:

Oct. 8-14, 1999

Record & Landmark

Every time West Iredell defends its undefeated record, there’s a lot a stake. The pride associated with the feat. The bragging rights. The recognition. And then there’s the stake itself. Adopted in the preseason as a motivational tool, The Warriors have rallied around a green-and-white pole that accompanies them to every game. Following their 44-8 victory over Bunker Hill last Friday, the team’s first win in the Southern District 7 in 13 tries, players lugged it to midfield as they formed their routine circle. (10/8)

The first “Fatherhood Walk” sponsored by the Iredell County Partnership for Young Children will be held Saturday, Oct. 16 from 10 am to 2 pm. All fathers and children and other family members are invited to walk to demonstrate the importance of fathers in the development of healthy families. Walkers will register for tee-shirts and begin the event at Mitchell College, then proceed with a police escort to Lakewood Park where a variety of activities for adults and children will take place until 2 p.m. (10/9)

Doc Watson, recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished flat top guitar pickers, will appear in concert at Mac Gray Auditorium in Statesville on Oct. 16. Watson will be accompanied by his grandson, Richard Watson. The concert is being held on behalf of the Statesville Shrine Club and proceeds will benefit the Shrine Club’s efforts to help crippled children. (10/10)

Photo: Super Seniors — The members of the Statesville-Iredell Senior Games team came home from the North Carolina Senior Games with 15 medals. Pictured are members of that team (from left) Taft “Smokey” Dantzler, silver medalist, Clay Walker, silver medalist; Audrey Thomas, two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal; Roany Thomas, one silver medal and one bronze medal; and Fred Wieland, five gold medals. (10/11)

The second annual Pandora’s Box competition was recently held, and while the competition is officially over, the exhibit is still on display. The show is funded, in part, by the Iredell Arts Council through the North Carolina Arts Council. The show will be on exhibit at the Signal Gallery in the Signal Hill Mall through the month of October. (10/12)

By an overwhelming consensus of future students, Lake Norman High School will be the name of the new $24 million high school in the southern end of the county. Students who will go to Lakeshore Middle School, those already at Brawley Middle school and 9th-graders at South Iredell High School voted on the name. Not all those students will go to the new high school, but “more will go than won’t,” says Catharine Davidson, public information officer for the Iredell-Statesville school system. (10/13)

Service Is Our Only Product. For fifty years Rental Uniform Service has lived by that motto. And although the slogan has been expanded upon over the years and incorporated into a company mission statement, it underscores a key element why Rental Uniform Service is ready to bound into the next century. Everyday tens of thousands of workers in this section of North Carolina alone dress into uniforms, use cleaning products, and stand upon matts and fatigue floorings provided by Rental Uniform Service. (10/14)

Fifty years ago:

Oct.8-14, 1974

Record & Landmark

Phyllis Tilley has been named Miss DECA by the North Iredell High School Distributive Education Club of American for 1974-75. Miss Tilley is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Tilley, route 2, Statesville, and is the DECA club secretary. Miss Tilley will represent North Iredell High School in the district Miss DECA contest on Nov. 5 at Mooresville High School. First runner-up in the contest was Anita Pope and the second runner-up was Sherry McClelland. (10/8)

Sears Catalog Sales Office will move tomorrow into a new building located on Signal Hill Drive, next to the Pizza Hut. A three-day grand opening celebration will begin with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Thursday and continue through Saturday. Sears opened in Statesville in 1942 in a small building on East Broad Street near the square. Mrs. J. T. Adams served as the manager of the local Sears store for more than 25 years and was replaced by M. A .Moore, the present manager. (10/9)

The public will get its first look this Sunday at the new Nursecare Nursing Center of Statesville when open house will be inaugurated with a 1 o’clock ribbon-cutting ceremony at the facility on Davie Ave. at Valley St. The 120-bed nursing-convalescent center was built by Nursecare Development Corp. and was purchased from Nursecare International, Inc, of Atlanta, ga., and will be operated by Unifour Health Industries, Inc. of Hickory. (10/10)

After three weeks of play in the city recreation midget football league, Kenneth Darty of the N. B. Mills Rams is the leading scorer. Darty has 38 points in the first three games. Kenneth Wilkens of Northview is currently second with 36 points and Scott Conger of Pressley is in third with 30 points. Terry Turner of Pressley is in fourth with 14 points and George Redmond of Northview and Ike Sloan of Pressley share fifth place with 13 points each. (10/11)

Photo: FOOD DONATED — The Iredell County Rescue Squad delivered 200 pounds of canned goods and other food to the National Guard Armory in Charlotte Friday to be sent to victims of Hurricane Fifi in Honduras. The food was donated by churches, school groups and individuals in Iredell County. Here Garland Cloer loads the squad truck with the help of David Haynes (background). (10/12)

Several hundred Iredell County families joined balloonists from around the world for a picnic and balloon rally at the Balloon Works on Mountain View Road Saturday. The rally was hosted by two Iredell firms — Balloon Ascensions, Ltd., a balloon training and repair facility, and The Balloon Works, a balloon manufacturing company. The event was held over the past two weekends and drew 36 balloonists from throughout the country and from as far away as Nicaragua, Ireland and France. (10/14)

Seventy-five years ago:

Oct.8-14, 1949

Daily Record

Down In Iredell — ANOTHER CASE — Last night’s turnout for the Statesville-Mooresville football game is just another demonstration of the need of an adequate football stadium in Statesville. There must have been 3,000 to 3,500 spectators crowded into the bleachers and along the sidelines for the game, more than half of which was played the full length of the field away from the crowd. The Lions Club has provided a suitable site for the stadium. Now all we need is for somebody to start digging. Once that is begun, the project will go forward almost on its own momentum. (10/8)

A fire which threatened to destroy the Charm Center beauty shop acted indirectly to extinguish itself last night. Here’s the account firemen gave of the fire: Sgts. Tom Kyles and Charlie Owens and Patrolman W. F. McCoy, cruising on West Front street, saw water oozing from under the door at the shop. They found the door open, discovered the fire about 11:17 p.m. and immediately called the fire department. Firemen finished up the job of extinguishing the blaze which had become so hot it melted a water plug and released a stream of water which almost completely extinguished the fire. (10/10)

Statesville’s new dial telephone system will go into operation Saturday, October 22, at midnight, Manager Dan Rigby of the local Southern Bell office announced today. Final tests are now being conducted on phones throughout the city and on the central office equipment. The cutover will require only about one minute. D. D. Washam, plant superintendent, explained that all calls now being made in the city would come in not only to the old exchange on North Center street but to the new building, too, were it not for the resistors which block their entrance into the dial system. (10/11)

Spainhour’s of Statesville reopens its store tomorrow following an enlargement and remodeling program, Manager S. A. Black said today. An addition has been built to the rear of the structure, located on South Center street and owned by J. B. Cooper. This additional space has been used to enlarge the Spainhour shoe department, furnish larger offices and alteration rooms, and also to house the new air-conditioning and heating plant which has been installed. The addition gives over one-third more space to the sales floor. (10/12)

After touring the great farming areas of America, Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Hostettler, immigrants from Switzerland, have chosen Iredell county as the site for their “New World” home. Mr. Hostettler, a retired Swiss air force captain, wants to start a dairy farm and is here today looking over sites with County Agent Roger Murdoch. With him is his wife, Agnes. Their three children, girls 6, 4 and 2, are staying with relatives in New Jersey until their parents find a place to live. (10/13)

Biltmore Dairies has leased the Wheel building on the Charlotte road and will move its local operations there about the first of the year, Manager Carl Buchanan said today. The plant will serve as a collection and distribution point for Biltmore milk, a milk bar will be opened and a pine paneled café in the basement will be converted into a meeting place for organizations such as P-TA’s, church clubs and civic groups, who will be able to use it without charge. (10/14)

One hundred years ago:

Oct. 9-13, 1924

The Landmark

The people of Harmony and north Iredell in general will have the Radcliffe Chautauqua to come back again in 1925, after already having it for the past three years. The Chautauqua traveled a stormy sea at first, but it now has hundreds of boosters in the north Iredell section and more than seventy-five Iredell county people have signed the contract to bring the institution back to Harmony again. The Chautauqua closed Monday night, after a four-day stay in our beautiful north Iredell town. (10/9)

Local football fans will be interested to know that Rockingham and Charlotte will play in Charlotte Saturday afternoon. Bard Lawrence, of Statesville, is the coach of the Rockingham team and has gained a reputation as a successful coach. Dick Kirkpatrick, who was a member of the same team at State College with Lawrence, is coaching the Charlotte team. (10/9)

Approximately 50 lots of 50-foot frontage had been sold at 2 o’clock this afternoon of the J. W. Sherrill property, on the Taylorsville road, offered at auction today by the Watson Land Company, of Raleigh. Those fronting the Taylorsville road brought the best prices, averaging $275 per fifty feet. There were 38 of these lots. Lots inside the trace brought from $40 to $60. Two five-acre tracts were bid off at around $130 per acre, one at $138 per acre. (10/9)

New porch floors of concrete are being laid at the Mulberry street school, the work, which is now practically complete, being done under the general supervision of the city schools board, Mr. F. A. Sherrill, chairman. The new floors add greatly to the improved appearance of the school building, which during recent weeks has undergone a systematic cleaning and renovation. (10/13)

Mr. T. J. Allison died Friday morning, at 2 o’clock at Long’s Sanatorium, where he had been a patient for some time. He was 78 years old and death resulted from a stroke of paralysis which he suffered more than three years ago. In 1884 he was elected sheriff of Iredell county and served at this until 1893, where he was appointed United States marshal for the Western District of North Carolina by President Cleveland, holding this office for four years, with residence and headquarters in Statesville. He was a magistrate in the township for years and was a member of the board of county commissioners. (10/13)

The board of county commissioners in adjourned session this morning, voted to construct 23 additional miles of hard-surface roads in the county, contracts to be let as soon as surveys are completed, probably within 90 days. Hard-surface roads in the county will be laid from Turnersburg to the Yadkin county line, 10 1-2 miles; from the terminus of the hard-surface on the Wilkesboro road to the Henry King farm, five to six miles; and from Mooresville to the Catawba river, seven miles. (10/13)

One hundred twenty-five years ago:

Oct. 10-13, 1899

The Landmark

There will be a jolly time in the armory Friday evening when the ladies of the Presbyterian church open the “Fair of the Seasons.” Watch Friday’s LANDMARK for particulars. The ladies who were to send in contributions on Thursday morning will please note the change in date and send in their donations Friday morning. The “Fair” was postponed to Friday on account of the Pythians meeting Thursday evening. (10/10)

Master Joseph Poston, son of Mr. W. J. Poston, is Statesville’s youngest ‘possum hunter. Saturday afternoon he was in the flat back of his father’s house, near the graded school building, when his dog treed an opossum. Joseph has that ‘possum in a box now and there will be visions of ‘possum and taters’ in his mind. (10/10)

A call has been circulated within the past week for a meeting of businessmen to organize a chamber of commerce, board of trade or some similar organization. The call has been signed by nearly every business man to whom it has been presented. Those who have not yet been waited upon will be given an opportunity to sign it and the names of all the signers will be published in the next issue of THE LANDMARK. (10/10)

The corner stone of the Billingsley Hospital was put in position Saturday afternoon by Rev. W. R. McLelland. The stone is in the north east corner of the building and bears the inscription “The A. S. Billingsley Hospital, 1899.” Under the stone ere placed the following articles: Bible; Life of Whitfield by Rev. A. A. Billingsley; sketch of the building, showing origin, architect, contractor, etc.; town directory; copy of Rev. A. S. Billingsley’s will; list of city physicians, some magazines, list of laborers employed on the building and a copy of Shop Talk. (10/10)

Superintendent Butler has a large class of would-be teachers standing examinations to-day. The examinations commenced yesterday, and 45 white and 10 colored applicants were enrolled. The examinations are being held at the graded school building and will continue until to-morrow. (10/13)

Messrs. Walton & Gage are ready to show you the new styles in dress goods, wraps, etc. They have a handsome line. Subscriptions taken for a fashion magazine and fashion sheets for November are now ready. (10/13)

Messrs. Joseph, Ludwig, Samuel and Nathan Ash have been notified that some 2,200 marks, about $520, awaits them in Breslan, Germany. The money is from the estate of their maternal grandfather, Mr. H. Ash, who died some years ago. The Messrs. Ash have employed Mr. R. B. McLaughlin to make the collection for them. It is supposed that the money accrued from some property that was considered valueless at the time of their grandfather’s death. (10/13)

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