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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932
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MITH READY TO “STOP” ROOSEVELT
NewWNe^ifASHlNGION
Rosman Filledu^y
DRAW MANY
.EOSMAN, Feb. 24. — Frozen
Lake, a beautiful lake in the heart
of the Blue Ridge mountains, is
finished and completely filled to
overflowing. It readied the top |
Monday. ■ ,
Thi.s lake has been under con-
struetion since November 1, hav-
in'’' a concrete dam. It covers !>
or 12 acres of the property and
is 20 feet deep. The land former
ly wa.s owned by Roe Rice, and n
liow owned by D. II. Winchester With every seat in the court
of Rosman. It is_ .situated in the voom occupied and standing- room
Old Toxaway section, about seven a premium, the George
miles from Rosman. A .tjoed i i
- ... 'Washington bicentennial pro.gram
presented in the courthouse Iilon-
NEW PROCESS FOR MAKING
COLORED BRICK AT PLANT
AT ETOWAH IS DISCOVERED
Tree Dedicated as Living
Monument to First
President
Seeq Fxnan^ion llA"il««ncement by Moland-
as Important
1 road leails to the lake
will l,e I Pi'Q^t-'Titefl in the courthouse itlon-
•vilhin a;4^y afternoon .proved a decided
I 'ycars will!success in every respect. The cele
monnla--
The owner states
heavily stocked with fish
short time, and in two jvc.i-, ,
be opened fov f.-^hing. In the | bvat.on was .sponsored by
mea.ntimc a number of cottages Wm.ghtstill Avery chapter ol the
will he erected to accommodate I Daughters ot the American Revo-1
tourist and week-end parties. Ijution, and vvas presided over by |
'the regent, Mrs. .J. S. Silversteen.
Assisting the local chapter D. A.
R. in observance of the Wasliing-
ton celebration were the Roy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, pupils of Bre
vard Institute, and of the seventh
grade of the Brevard elementary
school, and others.
Principal speakers on the pro.
gram were Supt. J. B. Jones, of
the city and county schools, and
Hon. Ralph R. Ramsey, mayor of
Brevard, both of whom vve’'«
ipients of many favorable
iW MEREST
SEENif.RC.
GOLD DEPOSITS
Completion of Leases in
This Section Recalls
Report of 1896
COWARTS, Feb. 24.—Comple
tion of recent mineral leases ii
Jackson and .Transylvania coun
■■l|ie.s has revived interest i
fTpovt, which was a part
North Carolina Geological
jin J89(), concerning gold deposits ui wasnin
and mining operations in the caused his fame
counties. i hero to remain endur
the
merits for their splendid address
es so ably presented on this occa-
Mr. Jones spoke of George
Washington as a teacher, stressing
the various ways in which his ex
ample can be emulated today, .such
as the value of physical exercise,
accuracy,. -altruism, courtesy, re
spect for parents and control of
temper.
Mr. Ramsey dealt mainly with
the' facts of Washington’s life
>rld
unties. cu remain enduring after a
The report concerns itself most-200 year.s, mentioning
I'ly with gold mining in the Sap- such reasons as his’ being the
'' '■ " - - - founder and first president of
I'phive section of .Taekson county
i I during the latter part of the 19th
*jcentury, and is as follows:
■‘The gold of Jackson county
nation; his ability as a great lead
er distinguishing him as the great
est character in American history;
itie goKi Ol JacKson county uimrauLui- in American lust
has been obtained almost entirely,unselfish devotion to the
Wren-, placers or detrital beds.r.orii->tr. vu,-.
.. are situated chiefly along
I the southern slopes of the Blue
;Ridge, near Hogback and Chim
ney Top mountains.
“The most important locality is
Fairfield valley, where George
terests of the people, his honesty,
bravery and self control, and oth
er attribute.s.
Other features of the after
noon’s program included the pro
cessional by Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, and puj^ils of the seventh
Bruce Drysdale, of Moland-Drys-
dale Co., brick manufacturers, at
whose plant at Etowah experi
ments have been completed for a
process to manufacture face brick
-of any -desirable color. The
achievement will result in a great
exnansion of the brick making in-
dus'!:ry in this section, it is be- I
lieved.
iLLER IADS
VICTORY FUND
Democrats Will Meet Fri
day to Organize
County Club
..'iiuifc: Uieorg'e- tiiin jjujjna uj. uiiu bevuiitn
town Creek, one of the heaclifl'’'^be of the Brevard olementar.v
streams of the Toxaway, is said i^‘^bool and of Brevard .Institute;
to have yielded between two and ’ ' '
three liundred thousand dollars “
The deposits extend for several
miles along these elevated basins,
and have been by no means ex
hausted. The origin of the gold
here is doubtless to be sought in
the quartz veins of the Blue Eidge
vduch rises on the north and east
. a precipitous wall of gray gneiss
--to a height of 700 or 800 feet
above the valley. It is along the
base of this wall, where George
town creek has cut a deep chan-
ne], that the gold has been nrin-
"ipally obtained.
The deposits in Transylvania
county, near the Henderson-Tran-
sylyania county line and the head-
, waters of the French Broad will
probably be found to have a sim-
>lar ortgin, and are evidently a
continuation of the same belt of
deposits
said that Lake Fairfield
covers a big gold deposit. In this
same section is located the fa
mous Gold Spring, which made
heavy yields of the precious metal
■ urv %he ' last cen-
p 'a located in the
ranou®*' T”"" .Laurel section of
Canada township in Jackson
.'cler by the local chapter
D. A. R. regent, Mrs. J. ,S. Silver
steen; invocation by Rev. R. L.
Alexander, pastor of the Rrevard-
Davidson River Pre-sbytevian
church; salute to the flag, Jane
Pearce of troop II Girl Scouts;
song, Star Spangled Banner, as
sembly singing in charge of Miss
Eva Call and Miss Julia Merritt;
America’s Creed, by Mark Taylor
Orr, of troop I Boy vSeouts; song
'Father of the Land We Love, by
Brevard elementary and Brevard
Institute pupils; orchestra selec
tions by Dorothy Everett, Jerry
Payne, Mack Allison, Elizabeth
Allison, Richard Grimshaw, L. E.
Brown, Pio Sanchez, John Cariyal,
under the direction of Miss Par
ker and Mrs. J. M. Allison, accom
panist; as.sembly singing, Amer'
ica; retiring of the flag-.
Following the program in the
court room, the large audience re
assembled on the courthouse lawn,
where dedicatory exercises were
presented by members of the D.
A. R., dedicating a hemlock tree
which this organization planted on
' the lawn some time ago as a living
monument to George Washington.
Erected beside the tree to bo
county. It is situated almost at f^edicated was a large United
. of the Blue Ridge fJag, and the court room
i n y two miles from Lake Fair-appropriately and tastily
new and highway No. 28. The gold W^^^orated m flags and bunting.
^Pi’ing were stop-! Sitting in the front of the room
F _ Ol many years because of it'ii (Continued on page six)
being- blasted. The, blasting was'
|dono for the same reason thaJ
- '-'-o.ALiii tiiat
" golden
killed. The scheme fail..
Gold ‘Le waters cl'
began depositing the
pie ions metal again about three
Some i-eports,. which
vevov experienced sur-
^eyoi and a native of the Fair
Md section, seem to he well
giounded At present there is a
J’^tween members of the
andTb ™ countv
leyivanta a.s to who legally owns
Fecter?"*''?- mutter is ex!
La '’"bin -the
ROSMAN TAX
RATE IS CUT
Demoerat-S of Transylvania
county will meet at the courthouse
Friday night of this week at 7:30
o’clock when it is anticipated that
formal organization of the Dem
ocratic club for the county will
be perfected.
The first meeting of Democrats
in the interest of the forthcoming-
primaries and campaign was held
on last Friday night. J. Y. Jor
dan, Jr., son of the clerk of the
federal court in Asheville was a
visiting speaker and drew a good
crowd. Pat Kinizey and W. E.
Breese were among the speakers,
and the latter gave an echo of the
recent action of the county com
missioners who, by action at their
la.st monthly meeting, called for a
special audit of the county’s
books by A. H. Kizer, to learn if
any former county officials had
overdrawn their salary accounts, i
while in office. Mr. Breese did
not elaborate on this, but gave it
passing consideration in the course
of his remarks.
In connection with the political
situation, N. A. Miller, it is an
nounced, has been appointed
chairman of the "Victory campaign
fund, and is going to appoint a
committee at an early date which
will seek to secure a small dona
tion from every Democrat. No do
nation, it is stated, will exceed
;e dollar.
However, the matter of the
Victory fund campaign will not be
injected into the organization
meeting which is set for Friday
night.
Officials of the Moland-Drys-
dale Brick company, brick manu
facturers of Etowah, announced
Friday the perfection of a secret
chemical process for the commer
cial manufacture of a type of
brick not produced at any other
brick manufacturing plant in this
country.
The announcement was made
by Bruce Drysdale, an official of
the company, who is well known
in Brevard, following a trip to
eastern cities, at 'which * time
prominent architects and builders
were aeqainted with the discovery
and shown samples of the finished
^ product.
j According to I^Ir. Drysd&le, ar-
i chitects, builders, and ceramic ex
perts who saw the product were
; unanimous in'proclaimin-g it an
entirely new discovery in the field
of ceramics, and were of the opin
ion that it opened up an entirely
new field of expression for archi
tects.
_ During his trip, Mr. Drysdale
visited prominejit architects in
Richmond, Norfolk, Newport
News. Washington, Philadelphia,
and New York, ami all expressed
the opinion that they had never
seen anything like the brick be
fore. Architects, Mr. Drysdale
said, declared that the new brick
offered possibilities in brick here
tofore impossible, especially in the
present architectural trend toward
modernistic designs in building
construction.
The field for this type of brick is
hmJimitedj, as such a product is not
^tiemg put out in any other brick
maniHacturing plant in this coun
try. The perfecting of the process
"equired years of e.xperimenting
n this and foreign countries.
So impressed were official
the commercial department vi
the Southern Railway in Washing-
'ton with the new product that the
company is giving a permanent
hibit to the product in the com-
-•cial departnient in Washing-
ROSMAN HONOR STUDENTS
WILL GO TO
CONVENTION
AT CHICAGO
Former Standard Bearer
Will Take Personal
Charge of Fight
MAY BACiTgARNER
OR BAKER IN END
MISS IRENE PHARR -
—Courtesy Asheville Citizen
■ MISS LAVERNE WHITMIRE
LUMIR FIRM
REEMPLOYS ISO
Firmer Condition Indicat
ed in Local Industrial
Activities
ton.
The process is a secret foreign
chemical process. It is scientific
throughout, it was explained and
IS not a hit or miss proposition.
The process v/as discovered in a
laboratoi'y and then bricks were
produced commercially. Architects
may now design building struc
tures, sketching the colors desir
ed in the building, and the Mo-
land-Drysdale company takes this
sketch and produces the brick in
exactly the color desired.
Prior to this discovery, it was
explained, brick could be produc
ed in colors only in a glazed brick,
which resembles a tile product,
but face brick have never before
been produced in any desired col-
Mayor and Aldermen Vote
Salary Reductions
of $576
rosman, Feb. 24.—The alder-
len and mayor of Rosman held
meeting recently for the pur-
1 pose of reducing taxes, and as
Dear future M- • wiiftm I,ho
prxi,] ct operations at'* ’'i,.” ----•'--.5 «.
Gold Spring are in the futiiix enough has been saved to
olainii
NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY
ius't°®ce1vM a®*!'
to read aTe
'ery interesting. We ^ f
pay the policemas’s salary, with
the exception of $24. The tax
rate _was reduced from 40 cents
to 25 cents on each $100 valua
tion. The aldermen and mayor
each were reduced from $30 per
year to $12, and tlie policeman’s
salary from $90 to $50 per
month.
This is a saving of $576 per
year, and the mayor commends
the aldermen very highly for talc--
ing^ this step_ in saving expenses.
'' White is mayor
'«'>oocSrd'’and
riazel Moore, Gth ; '
Sisk are aldermen, and W. M.
otroup is policeman.
SEVENTH GRADE HAS
CHARGE OF PROGRAM
ROSMAN, Feb. 24. — The
seventh grade had charge of
chapel last Friday. The name of
the play given was “Aunt Moria’s
Visit.” The cast was as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Long, a young mar
ried couple, G. Ci. McClure, Jr.,
and Margaret Gllazener; Mrs.
Barry, their housekeeper, Millie
Allison; Mr.s. Maria Lemp, Mrs.
Long’s aunt, Mary Morgan; Kate,
Mrs, I,emp’s Maid, Pauline Sit-
ton; Alonzo Hale, Mr. Long’
or.
field opened up by this
process, Mr. Drysdale stated, is in
interior work. Heretofore it has
been necessary to use plaster and
paint in getting desired colors in
interiors, but with the new brick
any color or combination of col
ors may be produced in the brick
itself. Colors produced in a glazed
brick are hard, but the colors in
the new unglazed brick are soft
and may be produced in any de
sired shade or combination of
shades.
The ceramic department at
State college, Raleigh, was much
impres.sed with the new product,
and admitted that such bricks had
(Continued on page six)
Although the industrial situa
tion in the county has been im
proved directly by a single devel
opment of the past week, the ten
dency is to look for better condi
tions here in that line, and all in-
-dustries seem to be in for an
early “lift,” though the indica
tions are not strong enough to tell
just when the further uptrend W'ill
coine about.
The ?»foItz Lumber company in
the Toxaway section resumed op
erations this week with a -full
quota of 150 men. Not far across
the county line in Jackson county,
at East LaPorte, the mill of thfe
Blackwood Lumber Co., which has
a force of 175 men has resumed
work, giving the entire quota of
men there employment.
J. S. Silversteen, manager for
the tannery and extract plants in
this county stated yesterday that
all of the plants continue in op
eration on part time, in order to
give employment to each man on
the payroll, and-although he is not
over-optimistic he says he feels
that business has “absolutely
struck bottom,” which means that
there must be a return from the
point which has now been
reached.
The Pisgah cotton mills con
tinue in operation with the entire
day force employed, and although
no statement was given out with
regard to the condition of the
yarn business, it was known that
the cotton market reached a new
high for the past two years this
week, which is a definite promise
of improvement of business in th-3
textile line.
ROSMAN, Feb. 24.—Miss Irene
Pharr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Pharr, and Miss LaVerne
Whitmire, daughter of Mr. and
Mr.s. Jordan Whitmire, both mem
bers of the class of 1932 at the
Rosman high school, have made
excellent i-ecords during their high
school careers. •
Miss Pharr has been chosen as
valedictorian of her class, and has
an average of 98.7 for the first
three years and six months of her
high school career. Miss Whitmire
is the second honor student, and
has an average of 97.9 while in
high school.
Miss Whitmire has been absent
only three days while a high .school
student, two of which were caused
by an automobile accident, and
Miss Pharr has been absent only
four days since entering high
school. Miss Whitmire has never,
been tardy during her high school 1
days. '
In 1930, Miss Pharr took
NEW YORK, Fob. 24. —
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith
revealed in conversations with the
United Press today that he in
tends to go to the Democratic na
tional convention at Chicago in
June, There he will be in posi
tion to take personal leadership
of the forces now organizing to
prevent the nomination of Frank
lin D._ Roosevelt of New York.
Smith refused to discuss Roose
velt but close friends indicated
that Smith has no personal feeling
against him but opposes him be
cause he feels he is not the par
ty’s strongest man, and may even
tually throw his support to either
Newton D. Baker or John H. Gar
ner.
Smith’s decision to go to Chi-
cago fo}-ecasts a finish fight be
tween these two popular sons of
New York state. They have been
political friends and allies for
years, but now they face each
other in a struggle that may be
come historic.
Smith is putting on again his
ar paint.
He is about to make an im
portant political utterance about
prohibition the first since he re
cently announced he was “will
ing to make the fight” if Demo
cratic convention so desired. He
•reparing to speak for the
. -—.ob home-rule jilan to return
bus-iJ?Q«oi* control to the states be-
— -w..-, L.v/v/,v « A/ua-i -- •'ue s>i.a.Les oe-
iness course and was valedictorian "Lhe National Democratic
Funeral of Buddy
Nicholson, 10, Is
Set for Thursday
Funeral services for Buddy
Nicholson, 10-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Nicholson, who died
Tuesday morning at the home of
his parents in Savannah, Ga., will
be held Thursday afternoon at 3
of her class in typewriting, mak-
; average of 50.8 words per
minute. She has been active in the
social life of the school and is one
of the most popular members of
her class.
Miss Whitmire has also taken
i active part in school and social
activities. She won a D. A. R. med
... - history W’hile in the seventh
grade. She has also studied music
(piano) in grade and high school,
and was president of the junior
class last year.
Each girl is finishing high school
with four years - of foreign lan
guage when only two are required,
and three years of mathematics
when only two are required. Supt.
Bush says these girls have the
highest averages in the history of
the school.
Miss Pharr will deliver the vale
dictory address to her fifteen class
mates on April 22 in connection
with the annual graduation exer
cises. The class is one of the
largest in the history of the
school.
Hamlin Speaks at
Asheville Meeting
Lewis
, . . Hamlin was one of
the speakers at the patriotic meet
ing _ of district councils of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics held at the Plaza the
ater in Asheville Monday night.
Hamlin, who is state vice
councilor of the Junior Order,
spoke on the subject, “The Patri
otic Spirit of the Junior Order of
the United American Mechanics.'’
The exercises were presented in
observance of the bicentennial
HEADS V. F. W.
G. F. Woodfin and Others
Elected Temporary
Officers
tun; Atonzo maie, ivir. j_ong:
uncle, Plverette Whitmire; Sam-1
bo, Mr. Hale’s servant,’ Billie
Dockins.
The class sang a song, “Just
Singing Along.” Many visitors
were- present.
Millie • Allison, 7th grade.
WESLEYAN REVIVAL ENDS
Rev. G. W. Curtis of Old Fort,
assisted by Rev. G. E. Kellar of
Rosman, closed a successful re
vival meeting at the Wesleyan
M. PI. church in Brevard Sunday
night. A number of conversions
wei’e reported.
MAGICIAN AT ROSMAN
ROSMAN, Feb. 24.—Wallace,
a magician of Durham, will gi\'o
a program at the Rosman high
school auditorium Wednesday
evening’. A small admission fee
will be charged.
A post of Veterans of I'’oreign
, ars was organized in Brevard
Thursday night, when ex-soldiers
and others interested in the move
ment met at the courthouse for
the purpose of effecting an organ
ization.
Temporary .officers were elect
ed, with G. Frank Woodfin, of
Penrose, chosen as post cbmman-
der, and Noah C. Miller, of Bre
vard, as adjutant.
Application for charter mem
bership was signed by 15 ex-sol
diers who .served overseas in for
eign wars.
H. H. Morris, section comman
der of the state department, and
B. F. Hall, district commander,
both of Asheville, were present' at
Thursday night’s meeting-, and
spoke to the veterans and others
present re'garding organization
matters.
o clock at the home oE his aunt, celebration of the birthday of
Miss Willie Mae Neely, on French! George Washington, and were at-
Broad street. Rev. Paul liartsel), . -tended by various patriotic organ-
pastor of_ the Brevard Baptist 1 izations, lodges and orders of
church, will officiate. Interment j Western North Carolina,
will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
club here Saturday.
Smith in 1928 stayed in Albany
instead of attending the Houston
convention where he -was nominat
ed on the first ballot. His deci
sion to attend the Chicago con
vention was taken as indicating
foresees a hard fight over the
candidate and over prohibition
and he wishes to be on hand to
lead his forces personally.
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT
POPULAR IN ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 24.
—D e s p 1 t e rumors of a “Stop
Roosevelt Movement in Alabama”
the New York governor remains
^6 most popular candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomina-
As the May primary draws near
the records show 45 announce
ments for delegates to the nation
al convention in Chicago this
summer. Over half of these pros
pective delegates have openly de
clared they would support Frank
lin D. Roosevelt if elected and no
one is running on an anti-Roose
velt ticket. Entry lists for the
primary close March 1.
Alabama will send 28 delegates
to the convention to poll her 24
votes: two from each of the ten
congressional districts with a vote
apiece, and eight from the stats
at large.
Mrs, J. A. Yates
Buried Thursday
Little Buddy had been
health for the past several weeks,
the final cause of his death being
attributed to heart trouble. He
and his parents formerly mado
their home in Brevard, but have
been residents of the Georgia city
for the past several years. They
were frequent visitors in Brevard
with the little fellow’s aunt. Miss
Willie Mae Neely and Miss Mattie
Neely and other relatives here.
The body arrived in Brevard at
1 o’clock on Wednesday, accom
panied by Miss Willie Mae Neely.
The parents arrived by motor
early Wednesday morning.
Surviving are the parents and
one sister, Sarah Mae Nicholson.
MISS HINKLE IMPROVED
Miss Mamie Hinkle, who -was
injured last week a,t Rosman high
school building by accidentally
falling through a trap door that
had been removed only a few
Kiwanis Chief to
Visit Local Club
H. L. Millner of Hickory, lieu
tenant governor of the first Ki
wanis • district, will pay the Bre
vard Kiwanis club his first offi
cial visit Thursday. He will speak
at the noon luncheon, outlining
some of the mdjor work being-
undertaken by Kiwanis clubs of
the Carolina district this year.
The Brevard club, under the
leadership of the Rev. R. L. Alex
ander as president, is very active
- civic affairs of the community,
having as its major project for
the year under-privileged child
work.
CLASS PLAY SELECTED
The seniors of Rosman high
u itiiiiL/veu wiJiy a j.ew .school have selected as their class
_ nutes previously to repair some play, “Mammy’s Lil’ Wild Rose ”
pipes in the basement, was suf- Work will begin this week umler
ficently recovered to resume her the direction of Superintendent
school duties. G. C, Bush.
ROSMAN. Feb. 24.—Mrs. J. A.
Yates, age about 83 years, died
at her home at Cool Spring, in
Iredell county, Wednesday, Feb.
17, at 3:25 p. m., following a
stroke of paralysis suffered the
previous day.
Funeral services were held the
following day at Society Baptist
church, conducted by her pastor.
Rev. 0. A. Oakley, assisted by Rev-
J. E. MeSwain and Rev. Swain,
pastor of Society Baptist church.
Interment was in the cemetery
nearby.
Mrs. Yates had been a devoted
member of the Methodist church
for 45 years. She was preceded
in death by her husband three
years ago.
Surviving are the following
children: Mrs. J. A. Stroud
Turnesburg; W. F. Yates, Elm
wood; Rev. E. E. Yates, Rosman;
and 'T. C. Yates, Cleveland; Fif
teen grandchildren also survive.
Pallbearers were grandchildren.
HOME ECONOMICS CL^ASSES
OF ROSMAN SCHOOL ACTIVE
ROSMAN, Feb. 24.—The Ros-
man second year home economics
girls; under the direction of their
teacher, Miss Olga Fortenberry,
served a regular dinner in the
home economics department
Tuesday noon. Guests were the
first gi-ade children of the ele
mentary school, about 34 of the
children being present. There
were about 16 members of the
second year class sponsoring the
event,