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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Modem smokers demand quality and put Camel first General view of historic Christ church in Alexandria, Va., and the churchyard where many notable figures of Revolutionary times lie buried. On the left is the rectory which through the years has been occupied by many famous Episcopal clergymen. The church was completed In 1773. Washington and Robert E. Lee were among Its worshipers, and Washington's funeral services were held here In 1799. In the churchyard are buried contemporaries and friends of Washington, including several who acted as pallbearers at his funeral. The church has a number sf relics of Washingtons time. tlon of the people. They transformed themselves from time to time" Into one and then the other, so Governor Martin, who was a soldier, said, and thus, as Doctor Morrison sees It, strained the British constitution to the utmost or, in other words, the breaking point. At the same time, a certain Col. Richard Henderson and his associates, all North Carolinians, had formed a company, with Daniel Boone for field leader, and set up a government in a tract of land which they had bought from the Cherokees without royal warrant That land, which they named Transylvania and which Included a great part of Tennessee and Kentucky, they had practically proclaimed to be independent not only of Great Britain but of North Carolina, and Virginia as well. They asked. Indeed, to have It acknowledged by ..congress as the fourteenth province of the Confederation. Denounced King Georg Obviously, the North Carolinians were not In submissive mood when the' news of the first blood shed In the North arrived. What happened at Anson county courthouse when the messenger rode Into that place Is recorded In a certain family Bible to which Doctor Henderson has had access. The writer Is a young man named Morgan Brown, an eyewitness. He says that the messenger found the county court In session and the magistrates, some of whom were torles, on CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA FIRST TO DEFY KING GEORGE THIS experienced age knows the good tobaccos it demands in a cigarette. And it has made Camel the greatest leader; any age has ever known. Camels choice tobaccos and its blending for smoothness and mellowness have made it supreme with modern smok ers. Camel today is world favorite, because of quality. Camel was made to succeed in an age that knows merit. Just try Camels and youll know why no other cigarette can compare with them. Let the choice of the modern world show you what smoking enjoyment can really be. the bench. The people forced the court to adjourn without the form of doing It In the kings name. Then they rushed out bearing the sheriff with them, leaving the tory magistrates still sitting on the bench. Afterward: The people consented for them to meet and close some unfinished business upon condition that it should not Proclamation of- - Freedom be called In the king's name or that Made Mecklenburg the words God save the king should be added by the crier, for, said they, 152 More Than we will have nothing done In the Years Ago. name of a king who has his troops slaughter our citizens. And thus ended the royal authority. For the court, In spite of doubting Thomas Jefferafter closing their record, never sat son and the reluctance of certain leas Interested Virginians to admit that again." anything good ever came out of North Gathering of the Citizens. Carolina, no sufficient reason now . At Charlotte, some fifty miles away, exists for questioning the proud boaet the messenger appears to have found that the citizens of Mecklenburg an assembly of the leading citizens county, in the latter state, did fling of Mecklenburg summoned from the defiance In the face of Great Britain various throughout the companies In the form of a declaration of Indethe colonel commandant, county by pendence just thirteen months and Thomas Polk. According to the refifteen days before the Continental ceived chronology, the messenger arcongress in Philadelphia saw fit to rived May 19 and threw the gathering make the same decisive move. The tt Into a fever. The secretary, John date was May 20, 1775, the place was Alexander, says they sat in Charlotte, N. C., and the immediate the courthouse all night, neither provocation of precipitate action was sleepy nor hungry nor fatigued," and the arrival of the express with the In the morning passed a set of resolunews of the shooting down of Capt. tions prepared by Ephraim Brevard. John Parkers Minute men by British In the resolutions occurred the folregulars under Major Pitcairn on Lexlowing declarations: ington common. Resolved That we disIt was in 1819 that a newspaper resolve us with the mother country and print of what was said to be the absolve ourselves from allegiance to declaration Itself a document conthe British crown; and taining several of the phrases of his ADDITIONAL "Resolved, That we do hereby deown famous paper was called to the ourselves a free and Independclare LOCALS attention of Thomas Jefferson by John ent people; that we are and of right Adams. Writing to Adams from ought to be a sovereign and Jefferson said he believed It Wednesreturned Noel people under the power of God DeLange spurious, because up to that moment the and general congress. he visited where from Provo, he had never heard of It, though he day It should be noted that the text Is with relatives. Virlived in the adjoining state of taken from Judge Francois X. Martins ginia. He called attention also to the History of North Carolina," which Mrs. Elizabeth Newby of Cardston, text Is supposed to be the same that circumstance that the witnesses appealed to were, most of them, dead. Canada, and who has been visiting was printed In the lost Cape Fear Jefferson's Mind Open. with Mrs. Martha Herbert, left SatMercury, for even the more ardent However, Jefferson was careful to urday for a brief visit at Elsinore, North Carolinians do not deny that add that he based his opinion on neg- at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. the original document was destroyed In 1800 when Alexanders house wa ative evidence which positive evidence Christensen. burned. was perfectly competent to overthrow. One of the most valiant collectors of Sought Only Their Rights. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Scorup, Dee this evidence has been Archibald Henagain to the story: These Returning to Sat derson, who Is otherwise known as the and Jean Scorup, motored resolutions ' were read to the people American familiar of Bernard Shaw. Lake Monday and combined business outside the courthouse by Colonel Another furiously assailed when he and pleasure in the city until WedPolk and received with shouts and first collected the data was Dr. nesday,- when they returned to their huzzas. In accordance with a provl George Washington Graham, who has home. slon In the resolutions themselves, written a whole book on the subject. they were transmitted to the ContiThe controversy was' heated and acriMr. and Mrs. James Kane are the nental congress, where the persons ' monious. of a baby boy born approached said that the subject of On the affirmative side It extended proud parents was premature to be j 23. This boy has a the resolutions June to the Insinuation that one of the Vir- Thursday, laid' before the congress. ginia champions of Jeffersons priority fine start in life as he weighed nine At that time the cooler heads still pounds at birth. hoped to compose matters with the had used his position as minister from and three-fourtthis country to the Court of St. James All concerned are doing fine at the mother country without an actual to abstract from the British colonial Kane home. breach. The strongest statements of archives a copy of the Cape Pear the Colonists determination not to Mercury, which was material evidence The officers and class teachers of submit to coercion or to what they because It contained the text of the jthe Relief society of the second ward regarded as the abridgment of their Mecklenburg declaration printed with- entertained in honor of the field liberties as subjects of the British in the month after It was Issued. It crown were coupled with expressions was known that such a copy had. In teacher of the ward at Social hall on of loyalty to the crown Itself. Indeed, fact, been sent to Lord. Dartmouth by Tuesday afternoon. A brief program, among Americans who were far from , Joslah Martin, the royal governor of a social hour followed by a dainty being torles there were many who North Carolina at the time. Martin funch weie the entertaining features were proud of their own connection described it as the late most treason- of the afternoon. with Britain and reluctant to sever It. able publication of a committee In the George Washington himself about that county of Mecklenburg explicitly reHon. S. M. Jorgensen went to Salt perjod, as Archibald Henderson renouncing obedience to his majestys Lake minds us, abhorred Independence" Tuesday and was accompanied and added that It "surgovernment which meant that he desired to be a who with visited Mrs. by Jorgensen, ( passed all horrid and treasonable pub- Mrs. and still remain a good Parley Probst and Mrs. Clar good Virginian lications that the Inflammatory spirit Englishman. of the country has produced. On the ence Probst at Midale. Mr. and Mrs. Independence Not Sought. Wednesof were to Salina returned side there charges negative Jorgensen menuAs a matter of fact, even Jefferson forgery and mendacity the jgy evening, cloth. whole of out at of this date was not an open advofacture history of independence, nor did Patrick cate enEvents Leading to Action. Mrs. Max Cohen delightfully Henry In his ringing resolutions (as Assuming the evidence as sufficient, tertained some twenty little folks at Jefferson called them), adopted In Virthe story of what happened become a birthday anniversary party in ginia after the Lexington bloodshed, series of honor of little Joans sixth a part of a year, on take so rash a stand. events In the province whose posltlei Thursday afternoon of last week. The sum of the matter Is that the between two ostentatiously arista-cratl-c The afternoon was of Independence which In declaration spent playing 1 neighbors has sometimes, It N. C., Issued one' year refreshwhich Mecklenburg. after dainty said, deprived her of due considera- games, and the revolution which of time ahead served. were ments tion. In March, 1774, Governor Martla Virginia started a century ahead of had dissolved an unruly assembly. had each to wait till the country The Japanese government seems to time August of that year a convention had at large was ready for the real thing. met under the governors nose In New be in some financial difficulties. Why were dramatic gestures, not They ConBerne and sent delegates to the doesnt it rend for Andy Mellon? Nevertheless, the accomplished. things tinental congress. For the rest f cost many lives of affaip Virginia that year the separate counties had One drawback about being a multi- patriots and some of those who were keen busy with meetings and prepara- millionaire is that you dont dare not so counted, and tons of Ink have tions, and in April, 1775, the assembly make a Carolina good looking girl any kind been spilled over the North which met by the authority of the outbreak. New York Times Magazine. of a promise. crown the last one was also aconjrsa- at Mon-ticell- mm "Have a Camel!" O 1X7, (on" R. J. Ryoo!di Tofaceo T?intonS4lem N. C o O Mc-Knl- Celeb d. re 1C il OF TO o, ( I Something Doing Every Miriute From - b O' e |