BROWN CHILD HURT IN TRUCK ACCIDENT Resina:* School Pupil Struck By Truck Driven By Joe Johnson Nellie Biown, ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sum Brown of the Cherry field section, is reported to be resting fairly well at Lyday Memorial hospital, where she was earned last Friday after noon after being struck by a truck driven by Joe Johnson, of Brevard. According to information g;von by Aston Heath of Brevard, driver of a Rc«man school bus on which the child was riding just pri r to the accident, the truck driv ;* by Mr. Johnson struck the child just after she had alighted from th • school bus, breaking one arm at the shoulder, and otherwise bruising and cutting her about the face and body. Mr. Heath stated that his bus was in full view of the oncoming Hack and that as an added precau tion he had put up his “stop1 board. Mr. Heath said that the truck stop ped within thirty to forty yards of the school bu! after it had struck the Id and passed. Wat rant was sworn out for arrest of the truck driver by Professor G. C. Bu-h. he stating that he felt it his dutv to tak“ this step. Johnson was charged with reckless driving and violation of the school bus law. Preliminary hearing will be held on February 12 before Henry Erwin, Justice of the peace. Professor Bush called attention, when seen by a representative of The Times, to‘the fact that the state law specifically sets out that any auto or truck must stop at a minimum of fifty feet cf any school bus leading or unloading school chil dren, and that a minimum fine of $50 is called for in the law for vio lations. All school buses of the lc<cal coun ty system are painted an orange color in order to more easily identi fy them. EIGHTEEN SUBSCRIBERS RENEW IN PAST WEEK L. R. McCall, Currie, N. C.; Sam Orr, R-2; Jackson Holden, R-2; Er nest Tilson, Brevard; Mrs. T. B. Crary. Brevard; J. W. Nicholson, Pisgah Keren; Pat Allison, Bre vard; Ernest fcydav. Pisgah Forest; D. L. English. Bn aid; .)• £. Bim. field, Brevard; J. H. Rax tv, it 1; k I.. B. Scruggs, Brevard H. . ’■ -n K^hester. Rosman. '‘’'■"S. R. Morgan, Etowah; Mi ' M. Cooke, Florence, S. C.; A. M. Ca-e, Brevard; W. A. Lyday, Pisgah For est; Mrs. Perry Hinkle, Oakland. HIGHWAYGROUP TO MEET IN BALTIMORE Much local interest is manifest in the scenic highway group meetings to be held in Raleigh and Baltimore, Md. within the next few days at which times plans for routing of the park-to-park -route wlil be discussed and probably decided. Tennessee favors the roadway en-; tering the Smoky Mountains park, at Gatlinburg, which would leave this section practically out of bene-; fits. A group of South Carolina. | Georgia and Hendersonvillle men are! seeking to have the route located; by way of Caesar’s Head and High land, while majority of the Western1 North Carolina people are workingi for the route to come by way of I Biltmore and through Pisgah Na tional Forest. This la«t named route would bring- the scenic highway with in twelve miles of Brevard. I Resman Program on V/WN'C Next Wednesday Afternoon ROSMAN, Jan, 30—Miss Leota Randolph and the Fisher String band will be heard over radio sta tion WWNC next Wednesday aft ernoon, according to announce ment received here today. Exact time of the broadcast oy the talented young Rosman lady and the outstanding Fisher band ! has not been set, but will be be- j tween the hours of three and five i o’clock in the afternoon. Miss | ! Randolph will give several vocal | : selections, the Fisher band ac companying her. This will be the first vocal broadcast by a Rosman girl over the Asheville station. COLLEGE FACULlT TO BE NAMED SOON Rev. J. H. West Is Chairman Of Group To Select Presi dent and Teachers The Brevard College Faculty Com mittee, appointed by the chairman of the board of trustees to aid the board in the selection of its president and teachers for the coming year, will have its first meeting cn Thurs day morning, February 8 at eleven o’clock in Judge Guy Weaver’s of fice, Asheville. The following are members of the committee: Rev. J. H. West, chair man, Brevard; Rev. C. M. Pickens, Winston-Salem; Rev. Paul Harden, Waynesvilie; Judge Guy Weaver, Asheville; Mrs. E. L. McKee, Sylva. The Rev. Mr. West would not veri fy reports that there are several outstanding men .being considered for the head or the Brevard College. All applications, written cr other wise, may be sent to any member of the committee for consideration. ALL-TRANSYLVANIA CO AT IS SEEN HERE George Simpson is the justly proud owner of a real Transylvania county coat, the material and work that has gone to make up the fine piece pf wearing appai+1 being “All Transylvania.” TK at is made of buckskin, i ‘in deer having given up each , i of their covering each of which were killed i: thi county. The skins were beau \ i mned at the Transylvania i aiming company, and the cutting and sewing done by Mr. Simpson’s mother. While the idea could not b? car ried out on an extensive basis, due to shortage of like material in the county, the coat is a really worth while article. French Cabinet Quits Paris — The French Cabinet quit Saturday as Paris went into wild turmoil. Thousands of infuriated royalists clashed with massed police men . LOCUST POSTS WANTED BY LOCAL CWA OFFICE Bids are being asked for by the local SWA office for one thousand locust posts to he used in the high way beautification program, and W. A. Wilson, director, requests that any citizen having locust posts sub mit their bids at once. The posts are to be seven and one half feet in length with diameter of eight inches at the small end after being peeled, being the minimum. The posts are to be peeled and placed on the highway. Supreme Court Declares Bank Offset | Bill Unconstitutional; Is Disappointing! t - ' - The bank offset bill was declared' unconstitutional in a decree handed! down by the state Supreme court] last week, thus ending all probabili- j ty of depositors in the closed Bre vard bank Irom selling their de posits to people who owe the bank. The law was sponsored in the last session of the General Assembly by Representative W. A. Sullivan of Asheville, being copied after a simi lar bill introduced some weeks prior by Representative Wallace Galloway of Transylvania and provided that a depositor in closed banks in certain counties if North Carolina could sell their deposits to people who owed the bank money, the last part to be given credit in full on his obligations. The bill was fought by the state banking commissioner from its start, and was only passed after a hard fight, in the assembly. There i.- -erne talk here and in Asheville of taking the matter to the United St.it. Supreme court, but it is not known at this time whether —this can be done. Following is copy of the till in troduced by Representative Gallo way. which, in effect, is the same es that inticdnced by Sullivan, and which was declared unconstitutional last week: WHEREAS, there are many i thou-and" of citizens of North Curo who had deposits in the sev jjp banks . f North Car ’inn, that now dosed, and, ^^^W11 UREAS, many of those banks, - I now in process of liquidation, have paid no dividends whatever to the depositors or other creditors, while many others have paid only small and insignificant dividends, and in many cases there seems no prospect of any immediate further payment to depositors, and other creditors, now therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That any person, firm or corporation, society or or ganization, by whatsoever names designated, having any mcneys or funds on deposit in any bank of North Carolina, that is new dosed and which has not paid its depositors and cthoi creditors in full shall, from and after the ratification of this act, have authority to sell and convey such accounts or deposits to any person, firm or corporation that may desire to purchase same and who owe such closed banks any money, and such person, firm or corporation, purchasing such ac count cir deposit, shall be entitled to apply such account or deposit to the discharge of any debts owing by thorn to such dosed banks "at the fbll face value of such account or deposit. SECTION 2. That all laws and clauses of law in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby re uealed. ' SECTTON 3. That this act shall b? in full force and effect from and aft:r its ratification. Many People In Transylvania County Are On Federal Government Payroll Nearly 275 people are employed by the CWA, TVa, FERA and other federal agencies in Transylvania county, according to W. A. Wilson, supervisor for this county. Working in the office of the super ! visor are Fred Miller, as disbursing ! officer for the CWA, Miss Dorothy Smith, certifying officer; Mins Cor nelia Ratchford and Miss Dorothy Souther3 as office assistants; Mrs. C. Y. Patton and Mrs. Florence Ryan are investigators. On the advisory board, (.serving without compensa tion) are Mrs. S. P. Verner,, chair man, W. L. Aiken, Mrs. J. S. Silver stecn, Mrs. Oliver H. On- and Jerry Jerome. R. P. Kilpatrick i« project j supervisor, writh Henry E. Erwin | and Grady C. Kilpatrick as time j keepers. • Dewey Gravely is manager oi 1 Re-Employment office, with Frank C. King and Miss Margaret Bosae as office assistants. In this office all registrations for work on government, projects are taken and quotas for jobs are filled upon requisition from the Civil Works Administration and from other sources where men and | women are wanted for any type of ! government or private work. Serving : with Manager Gravely in an advis ory capacity without pay, arc Jerry Terome,.Miss Julia Deaver and Mrs. >e F. Norton. Miss Olga Fortenberry of Rosnwn is supervisor of the four sowing rooms’ in the county. Mrs. S. McIn tosh is in charge of the sewing room at Brevard, having ten workers un der her; Miss Beatrice Sisk is in charge of the Rosman project with ten workers; Mrs. G. W. Corn is in charge at Pisgah Forest with ten workers, while six workers at the Quebec sewing room are under su pervision of the general supervisor at present. Otho Scott is general repairman for the sewing rooms. Plans now call for starting a sew ing room for colored women in Bre vard at an early date. One hundred two men arc employ ed on the various road building and repair projects in the county. Carl Glazener is .foreman on the Bo hansy road with 11 men under him; Webb Hollingsworth is working 20 men < n the Quebec road: J. F. Green has 15 men at work on the Davidson River road; C. C. Yongue has * force of 24 on the Seiica-Dunn» Rock road; Eck Sims is in charge jamj—' RMsr.novnat .rfcfW-ft. jeet with 36 men in hi3 employ; L p. Wilson is in charge of the Gleu ccstei -Tennessee Gap road, working 7 men; Carl Owen has nine men working on the Old Toxaway road. Ernest Miller is in charge <f aj crew of nine men, engaged in build ing the municipal swimming pooka! Brevard, this number being consid erably less than the original number, and will probably be increased upon receipt of materials for building of the pool and bath houses. Walter Reece is in charge of work on the Town of Brevard watershed, ten men being under his supervision. Charles Ashworth has charge cl I' he sanitation program, working un der the State Board of Health. Thir ty men are -working in groups under Mr. Ashworth. Walter B. Smith has ten mot; en gaged in building stream guaging units for the 'Tennessee Valley Au thority. Twelve men are working directlj under the state highway department though paid from CWA funds or beautifying highway 28 through th< county. Eleven colored men are working on an improvement program at fh< Rosenwald colored school in Brevard R. L. Gash, with Mrs. Ruth Whit mire as assistant is engaged ir checking tax delinquencies and farm land values. „ P. McCoy is making a busines; census in the county, he having n< assistant. H. R. Wells, of Asheville and Ec Loftis of Brevard, are engaged ir agricultural and industrial survey work. Ralph Lyday and Miss Opal Ash worth are re-indexing county re cords, working in the clerk of court’f office. Twelve men are employed in th< community wood yard project ,wiil Jimmy Cobb and F. H. Holden as supervisors. Mi’s. Mary H. Mills has charge oi the store room for the relief admin istiation in Brevard. Miss Ethel McMinn is assistanl librarian at Brevard high school with Miss Pauline Leathers doing similar work at Rosman. Miss Nan Kilpatrick is working as office assistarit to Professor J B. Jones at. Brevard high chool, with Miss Ann Singleterry engaged ii similar work for Professor R. T Kimzey at. Rosman high school. Six teachers are unployed by tlu CWA—Mrs. Pendleton Banks anc Mrs. John McLi.au teaching kinder garten at Brevard; Miss Louise Kimzey, teaching at- Pisgah Forest; Miss Janie Gillespie teaching adull classes at Brevard: Rev. E. R. Pendleton and Lloyd Allison teach ing classes at John’s Rook camp and Mrs. Nettie Benedict teaching beauty culture at Brevard. In addition to these workers, nearly one hundred per cent of whom arj mwp»iir rtiii Lifi tir^nr-TTi and FERA office, 2G young men of the county have been placed in CCC camps, with nearly sixty men alar having places as straw bosses and workmen in the two camps in this county and several in the ex-sorvicc camps. Payroll through the Brevard of fice last week was over $2,200 for the week, this not counting the CCC workers. All places are now tilled in the quota assigned to this county replacements only being allowed. These replacements are taken from the rolls of the Re-employment office. BABB’S FATHER DIES AT HOME IN ATLANTA Word was received in Brevard Monday of the death of E. H. Babb, 77, who passed away at his home in Atlanta, Ga., Monday afternoon af ter an extended illness. Funeral ser vices were held Wednesday morning in Atlanta. Surviving are the widow and three sons, W W. Babb, of Brevard, C. S. and Clyde Babb, of Atlanta. Mr. Babb was widely known in the contracting field in Atlanta < where he was in business, for many i years until ill health forced him to j retire from active business several years ago. Through his work as a contractor he has left • as a monu ment several public buildings which are outstanding examples of his work. Ihe Babb home on Gordon street in Atlanta was erected by Mr.i Babb on the same spot where ^ his father lived, and the couple have lived there far nearly forty years. Socialist Candidate Caught Winsloev. Ariz. — Pillworth E. Sumpter, socialist candidate for a congressional scat last fall, was ar rested here Mondy as he attempted to tunnel his way under the First National Bank. ‘‘I was .hungry, despondent and had no money,” police reported hs said NOTE OFFER WILL BE CLOSED ON FEB. 17TB i With data cf closing the fifty-ccnt offer on collateral note' set for February 17, very few people have taken advantage, of the offer, ac cording to county officials. The 50-eent settlement offer wa? i ordered by the county commissioners [ ome time ago in an effort to assist citizens to clear off the obligations, | but few people have taken advantage of the offer. The notes in question were placed with the county as collateral for de posits prior to closing of the bank in December of 1930, and thereby became property of the county. BAILEY NEGRO PUTIN JAIL ON WEDNESDAY Harry Bailey, young negro charg ed with entering the home of Mr, and Mrs. R. F. Tharp several weeks ago, was removed from Lyday Mem orial hospital Wednesday afternoon to the county jail. The negro is heing held to April term superior court on a first de gree burglary count, and has been undergoing treatment at the hospital for pistol wounds inflicted by Mr. Tharp when the negro entered his home. TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON Announcement is made by Rtv. and Mrs. Paul HartseU that they will observe open house at the Bap tist pastorium Friday afternoon February'2, from three to five o’clock, and in the evening from seven to nine o’clock. Ail members of the Baptist church and friends of the pastor’s family are cordially invited to come and go at their convenience. Bishop To Taki Up Duties _ Asheville — The Rt. Rev. Robert Emmet Gribbin, who was consecrat ed bishop of the diocese of West ern North Carolina in Winston Salem Saturday, will take up his official duties here next Monday. TELEPHONE LINES TO EE BUILT IN FOREST Work on a forestry telephoneliw from Sassafras mountain to^a pcinl rear Quebec, to be join'd with the Pi-.eah Natural Forest service is ex pected to start in the near future the work to be done under the jCWA. Official o. k was received last weel on this project by W. A. Wi'son CWA supervisor. Several thousand dollars in labor arc to be expended n the project. The line will conned with the lookout tower fit the N C.-S. 0. line south of East Fork. The plar.s klso call for building -five trails from the Quebec sectior to Whitewater. *"* ” <•* . “ . — Mounted Heads of Wild Animals Given Bailey WASHINGTON, Jan, 27—Sen ator/Josiah W. Bailey today was presented with a collection of mounted heads of wild animals by R. W. Everett of Brevard, through i R. D. Hildebrand of the Vender* j fcilt Estates near Asheville. They consisted of heads of two sheep, ! eight moose, eight elk, two moun- j tain goats artd seven deer, all be- 1 ing perfect works of taxidermy. : The collection was valued at $1, 000. Senator Bailey immediately ; presented the collection to the j senate commission on wild life | conservation of which he is a member. The collection will bedeck ! the wails of the commission’s i meeting room. ED PATTON ASSURED OF PROHIBITION JOB « | Differences Seem Ironed Out Between Senators of Two States Announcement of the appointment of T. E. Patton Jr. to the post of prohibition supervisor of the two Carolinas is expected to be made within a few days, according to ad-j vices from Washington. Slated for the job for several weeks, the appointment was tem porarily held up on account of pres sure being brought by South. Caro lina senators to have a man from that state appointed. However, these differences seem to have be:-n! ironed out and the Brevard man’s ^ appointment is now assured. Mr. Patton will have a large num-j ber of men working under him in I the matter of enforcing federal prohibition regulations in this state and South Carolina. T. A. JMSONDIES AT HENDERSONYILLE HENDERSONVILLE, Jan. 31 Funeral services for Thos. A. Jack son, life-long resident of Henderson* ville, an outstanding citizen of this community, were held last Thursday afternoon at the First Baptist church mark ~^^*u*l* ; Mr. Jackson is survived by his! widow, formerly Miss Rose Orr; three sons, Garland, Rupert S. and Leon Jackson; a daughter, Mrs. M. B. McDaniel; two grandchildren; a brother, West Jackson, and a sister, Miss Sue Jackson. Mr. Jackson was a contractor, and was always active in the business,, civic and political life of the com munity. Fire At. Wrighttville Beach Wilmington—A third of Wrights villc Beach lay in ashes Monday, de stroyed by a fire which roared through the island summer ’ resort. A total of 103 buildings were de stroyed valued at approximately $1,000,000. ROSMAN-BREVARD WILL PLAY HERE ON FRIDAY Brevard and Rosman high school j basketball teams will play t heir I first game this season Friday night j of this week on the local court, the| games to start at 7:30 o’clock. i The double header game will bring j both the boys and girls teams of the two county high schools together,! this being the first engagement ofj the Brevard girls, second for the ■ boys, while both the Rosman teams, have been playing for several weeks. STOLEN AUTO, GOOD® WIND UP IN LOCKUP! _, Stolen Good* Dumped Into | Horsepasture River By South Carolinian* -]T m Wade Hopkins and Claude Finley; two young men from Greenville, were remanded to jail Wednesday morning in lieu of a five hundred dollar bond on a charge of breaking and entering the store of Hosea Lee at Lake Toxaway. The men confessed to their crime to Sheriff Wood and plead guilty at the hearing before Magistrate Erwin. They were arrested Tuesday night in Greenville by Sheriff Wood, Deputy Tommy Wood and Police man Bill Stroup of Rosrnan. According to the story as pieced together by the sheriff, the two men had stolen an automobile in Green ville last week and proceeded to drive to t,he store of Mr. Lee at Lake Toxaway on Saturday night and there loaded up with groceries and merchandise to the value of SS<>. or more. Becoming frightened after the goods had been loaded into the stolen car. the men dumped the load in Horse Pasture river, where some of the loot was recovered Monday. No reason for the theft and de struction of the good- were given by the men. MEASLES REPORTED IN SEVERAL COMMUNITIES Several cases of measles ary re ported over the county, with scat tered cants among scho l children. However, there does not seem to he an epidemic. Gloucester CCC camp ha- most numerous canes, several of the boys and men being carried to the Army hospital at Atlanta, Ga. POWELL CHILD DIES OF PNEUMONIA AT ROSMAN ROSMAN, Jan. hi — Virginia Lcui-e, two months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Powell, tlied at the home of her parents here Satur day following a brief illness with pneumonia. Funeral services were he.ld the following day at the resi dence, conducted by the Rev, Nathan OJtjmEjg". Interment was made in - — family ill with flu. Survlvmg are the par ents. three sisters. Mrs. Lorfean Crow, Vera Mae and Edith, and four brothers, Roman, Glenn, Clifford and Coolidge. ZERO WEATHER FELT HERE LAST MONDAY From warm spring weather of around seventy above on Sunday, the nation-wide cold wave put th< rtiereury mark at one belo.v Imre Monday night, making a new ' record for the year. Water pipes in Brevard were frozen and in many instances burn ed on Monday and Tuesday morn ing*, automobiles were “stuck” and business in general relaxed for th two day period. No fires were re ported . ,dT LYDAY HOSPITAL Patients at Lyday Memorial h pita] were reported at the hospii I on Wedesday to be doing nicely Following were these confined in the hospital: Mrs. H. F. Morrison, Nell Brown, Rex Warren ; Dunn’s Rock Church Had Fine Growth {Since Organization Fourteen Years Ago Members of Dunn’s Rock Baptist] church are looking forward to ob-| servance of the fourteenth anniver-1 sary of the organization of their, place of worship, during this year,, and look, with pride upon the] growth of the institution. Organized in 1921 with 21 mem-, bers, the church now has a member-j ship of 61, an increase of 200 per cent during the fourteen year period, | with a live Sunday school organiza tion, regular pastor and weekly 'prayer services. .Land for the church 2.1 acres was donated by W. H. Hogsed, with the following people donating money or I labor toward building the eommuni-] ty worship center: C. H. Holden, L. H. Raines, C. A. Rair.ef, Nathan Raines, D. L. Thrift, Mrs. D L. Thrift, Elzie Thrift, W. H. Hogsed, II. P. Hogsed, W. Mr Hcg.-tii Tom Bagwell, Gus Bagwell. Wade Bagweil, W. R. Kimzcy, M D., Holden,. Will Warren, I- S. Raines,] E. F. Holden, F. Henderson. G. W. Whitmire, P. M. Galloway, Mrs. W. H. Hogsed R. W. Raxter, W. II. Gro gan, Roland Owen, L. R. Scruggs, P. E. Raxter, F. P. Tinsley, W. F<. Shipman. G. W. McCall, W. H. Har ris, S. P. Collins, Mrs. R. E. Payne,. W. M. Maxwell, J. H. Raxter. D. F. Moore, J. W. Hamet, H. -C. Fisher, John Gravely, Eli Simpson, Ed Hamilton, T. J. Wilsm, Reba Raxter,‘Mrs. Walter Raxter, J. F. 1 Masters, E. S. Hamilton, L. H. Mull, 1 Kile Whitmire, Lila Fisher, Carrie 1 Duckworth, Mrs. M. B. Bagwell, Coy Compton, Mrs. S. P. Verner, S. P. Verner, Mrs. J. L. Gravely, L. K Bagwell, R. L. Gash, Lewis Hamlin, Thos. H. Shipman, T. T. Patton. Beverly Trantham, W. M. Henry, P. X. Carrier, W. H. Duckworth. W. G. Pearson, W. L. Mull, C. C. Kilpat rick, B. J. Sitton, W. J. Puette, I'. D. Carland, Davis Glazener, C. < Reece. S. B. McCall, Mrs. Clevelan Recce, John McKelvey, Perry Ful - bright, Mrs. H. N. Carrier, Mrs. L. Gravely, Robert McKinney, Mi W. 1.. Mull. The Rev. A. J. Manley was fir past r of the church, with, 'W. H. Hogsed as chairman cf the first board of deacons. The Rev. C. C. Reece is present pastor, and J. W. Baker chairman of the board. Other board members are F. P. Tinsley. Ed Tinsley, Gus Morgar and W. H Hcgwd. Glad W. Whitmire is Sunday school superintendent with Miss Cora Holden Miss Ada Gravely and Miss Berths. Masters as teachers. Sunday school is held each Sunday movnin;, at ten o’clock with an enrollment of thirty. Prayer services are held each Tuesday night. Regular preaching servicer are held twice monthly. A DAUGHTER Mr and Mrs. Reid Stanley of Pisgsl Forest announce the birtfi of a daughter, Nellie Addie, on .Tarroary 28tb.

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