NEWS, BKEVAKD, NORTH CASOUNA
CLADE CREEK NEWS
Mite Etta McCall of Pisgab Forest
Attended the entertainment at Pen
rose.
Miss Mary Bell Orr spent the
week end with Miss Etta McCall.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shuford of
Brevard visited Mrs. Raleigh Capps
Sanday.
Flora and Mamie Lyday have been
spending a few days with their
cousiDH, Mury and Willie Muy
Lyday, of Penrose.
James Cox is remodeling Haskell
Lyday’s house.
Perry Orr has swapped horses
again, this time for a pair of tnnles.
Joe Lyday won the scholarship
from Penrose high school to David
son College again this year.
Miss Sarah Scrnggs of Boilston is
staying with Mrs. Mary Glazoner.
Rev. M. L. Jones has been very
sick. He is with his daughter, Mrs.
Henry Surrette.
A number of Glade creek folks
attended the show at Brevard last
week.
Mbs. J. F. Lyday-
**Seek and ye shall find**
throuf^h the Diversified column.
It
Asheville Made For Carolina Trade
USE AMERICAN STOCK FEEDS!
If you use ‘‘Big Chief'' for Horses and Mules and ^'Champion Dairy" for Cows, you
know you are getting 100 per cent feeding results by the improved condition of your
stock. Cows and working stock thrive on American feeds because the ingredients
are superior-quality food elements, mixed in just the right proportion.
If you have not tried them
You Nay Try These Guaranteed Feeds
WITHOUT RISK
Trial Plan: Purchase a sack of cither or
both brands of American Feeds from
your dealer. Feed the entire contents of
the sack. If this test fails to absolutely
satisfy you return the empty sack and
the dealer has our authority to refund
ALL your money.
Nearly all of the feed and general mer
chants in Western North Carolina keep
American Feeds. If your dealer doesn't
carry them ask him to get them. If he
fails to supply you, write us. Dealers
write. Manufactured by American
Feed Milling Co., Asheville, N. C.
Transylvania County History
From Earliest Settlement To
Present "Date; Weekly Serials
Graphic History of County Published for First Time; Covers
Movements ot People From Date of Earliest White Set
tlements in Uppff French Broad Section;
Published Weekly in Serial Form.
BY ORA L. JONES
Sold m Brevard by
AIKEN & SCRUGGS
Preparedness For The Busy Times Ahead
That 1917 will be the Western North Carolina's busiest year seems assured. Farm
produce is at the highest level on record. National prosperity will send us thousands
of tourists. Arc you ready to take advantage of the wonderful opportunities of 1917?
WHat will You Recftiire in Farm Tools and Hardware?
FARM NEEDS. The farmers best friend is
a tool that saves time and does his work
well. Our farm tools and implements were
made for sturdy, helpful service. Farmers
should inspcct our stock before buying—high
quality of siock is the reason.
HOME NEEDS. If your home requirements
run all the way from a pair of scissors to a
heavy range or lawn mower—from a safety
razor to a complete set of tools or a gasoline
engine—the largest stock in Western Carolina
is at your service.
Send us your inquiries or orders by mail. They
will receive prompt and careful attention.
Ottis Greeri Hardware Co.
NortK PacR Sc^uare
Wliolesale and
Retail
AsHeville, NortK Carolina
Call
At Our
Expense
Needn’t Stop to Write
By Long
For Building
Distance
Material
Announcing a New Service for Out of Town Patrons
When you want $10.00 or more worth
of high grade Lumber or Building Ma
terials have a 'phone call ^‘reversed"
(charged to us) and ask for Sales Man
ager Roberts—he knows our stock and
can quote prices without delay. No
obligation to buy—we will be glad you
called anyway.
Shipments on 'phone orders sent C. O.
D. unless parties known to us prefer to
remit direct. All prices net cash.
Most lines of building materials are high
now, but they will likely go much higher
when the building season opens in the
Northern cities. Best place your order
soon, if you intend to build before fall.
Our large stock contains the kind of
materials that give a home the modern
and comfortable appearance that you
want your home to have. Shipments
can usually be made same day order is
received.
Don’t Unsatisfactory Shipment*
Of Goods From Us
We want pleased customers—friendly customers, whose satisfaction will bring us
more business. K any shipment from us fails to meet your requirements, send it'
back^ and we will pay transportation both ways.
Citizens Lumber Company
Asheville* North Carolina
III
A little more than on« hiindrs^tl
years ago the states of North
linu »ml Georgia tonfrht with euuii
other over the location of the boun
dary line betwtifn the two stites.
Althoa^h the whf, which is known
as the Walton war, was fou«ht on
Transylvania connty Hoil, there arci
probably less than a dozen ruen now i
living in the county who know any
thing abont that conflict. Them
wero two battles fouj'ht, onu at'
McGaha branch, just below Wilson’s
bridge, and one near Selica, just
where the Roher school house now '
stands. A number of men were!
killed at both places. j
Just at the close of the Revo j
lutionary war a nnmber of the!
newly formed states ceded lar^e i
tracts of land to the national gov |
ernment for its use in ])avin^ off
the soldiers who had fonsht for ■
independence. North Carolma, for
! her part, pave up all the territory |
j now embraced by the state of Ten-
I nesaee. South Carolina also ceded a
j larne boundary, “subject to the
Indian right of occupancy,” in-
cludeil in which was a part of the
present connty of Transylvania,
which was supposed at that time to
belong to South Carolina. The
national government accepted the
cession in good faith, and North
Carolina, not knowing where the
lM)un(lary line was located, did not
protest.
After the establishment of the
“M' igs and Freeman line” a large
triangular piece of Transylvania
I county was supposed to becoiiif*
j domain, and the fifty faiui
lies living thereon were snbjt^ct
(siij)po>edly) to the laws of none of
the states. In a petition dated at
“French Broad, Jun. 8. ISOO,” sign
ed by Mattlu‘w Patterson and
others, these settlers, most of whom
had no c*>lor of title to the land on
wliich they lived, netitiont'd con
gross to be retroceded to tlie state
of South Carolina. The committee
to v. hoin this ])fjtition was referred
ri'comn'ended that the request be
granted, but owing to the state of
outlawry and the roign of terror
then i‘xisting in tli(; French Firond
valley the state of South (’arolina,
through its representatives ]>ro
tested against the annexation of
the' “orphan strip” to that state,
fearing they would be unable to
organize and maintain a stable
gov»*rnment over the strip.
On April 2l>, 1802, President
Thomas Jefferson communicated to
contiress an agreement between the
state of Georgia and the United
States, in which it was asrreed that
Georijia was to receive S»1.250,000
for a certain large boundary of
land lying to the west of that state
if she would also take the trouble
some “orphan strip” off the hands
of congress, to w-hom it had become
a “white ele])hant.” Georgia took
I possession of the French Broad
j valley in the same year, and in the
i following year established the ter
ritory into a county, calling it
Walton county. Walton county
was bounded on the north by a line
running due east and west passing
at the mouth of Little river, this
line at that time being supposed to
be the o5 deg. of north iatitiide,
and the sotith-west by the “Meigs
and Freeman line,” and on the
east by the crest of the Blue Ridge.
Walton county was governed by
the state of Georgia from 180Ji, un
til about 1810. John Nicholson was
the first representative from the
county to the Georgia legislature,
then meeting in the state capital at
Louisville, Ga. Nicholson was de
feated for re-election by Sam Allen,
who did not get to finish out his
term before North Carolina took
charge.
About the year 1805, North Caro
lina seems to have reached the con
clusion that the 35 deg. of north
latitude, which was to bo the divid
ing line between the two states,
had never been properly located,
but that it should pass many miles
south of Little river, where it had
been located. According to this
contention. North Carolina claimed
that the French Broad valley had
never belonged to South Carolinb,
and therefore the cession of it by
that state to the United States was
null and void, and that Georgia
therefore had no claim to it. North
Carolina made claim for Walton
county as a part of Bnncombe
V .unty.
On January 13, 1806, Georgia had
’ memorial introduced into congress
in which it was set out that North
Carolina was claiming lands lying
in Georgia, and asked that a com
mission be appointed to locate the
line. This committee gave Georgia
a title to the land, citing that it had
been ceded to that st«te by the
national government, but did not
pass upon the contention of North
Carolina that the United States
had never held a title to the land.
Neither was any effort made by
this (ronimittee to see if the 35 deg.
of north latitude was properly lo
(!ated North ('arolina, therefore,
paid no attenti(m to the report bnt
continued claiming the strip, and
proceded to wxercise certain fnnc
tions of Kovernmerit. This led to
‘ trreat dissensions * * * the said
disst nsiona having produce! many
riots, Hffraya. assaults, batteries,
wounuings and imprisonments.”
Matters became .so turbulent that
on l>ecember 10. 1806, the governor
of Georgia, .Jared Irwin, proposed
to (Tovernor Nathaniel Alexander,
of North Carolina, that a commis
sion be appointed by the two states
to locate the boundary line. Thi'!
proposition was jiromptlv acceded
to. North Carolina’s commissioners
were John Steele, John Moore and
James Welbourne. Georgia sent
Thomas P. Carnes, Thomas Flour
noy and William Barnett. Rev
Joseph Caldwell, president of the
university, represented North
Carolina as scientist, and J. Meigs
re])resented Georgia.
These commissioners and scien-
tit^ts met in Asheville on June 18,
1807, and agreed that they wouhl
first locate the ;}5 deg. and that it
should be the state line. After
making many observations they
finally determined that the line
jmssed just to the south of Ciesar’s
Head, much to the surprise of the
Georgians. On June 27, 1807, these
commissioners signed an agreement
at Douthet’s (iaj), near (Jicsar's
Head, in which the Georgia com
missioners agreed thatiGeorgia had
r.o claim to the territorv embraced
in Walton county, and that they
would recommend to their leirisla-
ture the rei)eal of the act establish
ing a Georgia county on North
(.’arolina soil. This they did, but
the Georgia legislature refused
to relinquish its claim to the county,
but again took the matter to con
gress, which refused to again take
up the matter.
On Decnnber 28, J8G8, (lovernor
Irwin pri)]>oscd to Governor David
stone that a new commission be
aj)pointed, bPit Governor Stone re
plied that “it does not readily (jccur
to us on what basis the adjustment
is to re.st, if not upon that where it
now stands—the plighted faith of
two states to ubide by the deterjui-
nation of commissioners i^uitnally
chos» n for th«> purpijse of making
the adjU'tment these commissioners
actualiv made.”
In tlie meantime both Georgia
and North (..’arolina were endeavor
ing to muintain a government here,
and due to the unsettled condition
the murderer.s and outlaws from
far and near were gathered here to
secure the immunity insured by
such conditions North ('arolina
made many requests to Georgia to
move on, but to no avail.
About 1810, after trying lenient
measures North Carolina decided
to put down the Georgia govern
ment, and sent state militia to the
French Broad valley for that pur
pose. The Georgians, mostly office
holders, made a stand at McGaha
branch, two miles from Brevard,
just below Wilson’s bridge, but
were defeated by the Carolinians.
Reports differ as to the number
killed, the number being placed at
from five to fourteen. About twen
ty-five prisimers were taken and
carried to Morganto: , the nearest
jail. Another engagement was
fought near Selica, just where the
school bouse now stands. Three
or four men were killed there, being
buried near that place.
HER TO TtUUF IWEMl
Exposition and Conference to Be Held
In Wilmington Is Attracting Much
Attention in State.
Wilmington.—The live stock exposi
tion and conference to be held here
March 28-29, promises to be of equal
interest and importance to farmer* In
eastern South Carolina by reason of
the fact that the object of this mat
ter is to stimulate the deevlopment of
the live stock industry In th§ coastal
plain section. The sessions will be
devoted to practical discussions and
there will be an exhibit of pure bred
cattle, hogs and sheep.
The United States department of
agriculture appreciating the signifi
cance of this meeting to the people of
the two Carolinas, has designated the
following officials of the bureau of
animal husbandr-y to attend and ad
dress the conference; Dr. W. K.
Lewis, inspector in charge of tick
eradication for South Carolina; Geor?e
E. Rommel, chief, animal husbandry
division, beef cattle; Fred R. Marshall,
senior animal husbandman, sheep; A.
J. Reed, dairying; Dr. F. D. Owen,
hog cholera, and Dr. E. P. Yager, in
spector in charge of tick eradication
for North Carolina. The experiment
station and extension service will be
represented by Prof. B. W. Kilgore,
Dan T. Gray and R. S. Curtis.
A large attendance is expected. The
meeting is being extensively adver
tised and 6,000 invitations have been
sent out to farmers, bankers, land
owners and business men in the two»
Carolinas. In addition to this, the
railroads have made special rates for
' the occasion in North Carolina as well
as eastern South Carolina.
North Carolina Statistics.
Washington.—North Carolina’s pop
ulation was 2,339,000, and the value of
products of her industries $289,411,987
in 1914, according to the census of
manufactures made in that year by
the United States Bureau of Census
and just made public here in pamph
let form. The value of her products
increased 33.6 per cent in the fi^-
year period. Persons engaged in in
dustry in the state numbered 151,335,
an increase of 13.4 per cent, and wage.s
End salaries amounted to $56,282,679,
an increase of 36.4 per cent. Capital
invested was $253,841,808 in 5,507
establishments of all kinds. Capital
increased 16.9 per cent and the num
ber of establishments 11.7 per cent.
Materials used in manufactures
amounted to $169,941,971, an increase
of 39.5 per cent, and value added by
manufacture v/as $119,470,016, an in
crease of 26 per cent over 1909.
There were 10 cities each having a
population in 1914 of more than 10,-
000 inhobitants. They were: Ashe
ville, Charlotte. Durham, Greensboro,
High Point. New Bern. Raleigh, Rocky
Mount, Wilmington and Winston-
Salem. These cities, whose aggregate
population in that year formed 8.9 per
cont of the estimated total population
of North Carolina, reported 34.9 per
cent of the state’s manufactured pro
ducts.
“I:i total population,” says the re
port, “North Carolina ranked six
teenth among the states in 1910; and
in density of population it ranked
twentieth, with 45.3 inhabitants per
PQuars mille, the corresponding figure
for 1900 being 38.9.”
Hardware Men Meet in June.
Wilmington.—The hardware men
of the Carolinas will be in session at
Wrightsville Beach June 19-21 inclu
sive, it was announced at a luncheon
of the Roiary Club, this making no
less than 10 conventions that are al
ready booked for the beach this Sum
mer. There were other cities and
other resorts in the race for the honor
of entertaining the hammer and saw
dealers but none had anything quite
so attractive to offer as this city,
hence the decision to come here. Over
300 men from the two states, members
of the Hardware Association, will be
in attendance on the meeting.
CALOMEL DYNAMITES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes Into Sour Bile, Making
You Sick and You Lose a
Day’s Work.
Choose Dates For Catawba Fair.
Hickory.—September 25, 26, 27, and
28 have been chosen as the days on
which the Catav,'ba Fair will be held
at Hickory this year. County Agent
Mask is going to organize a number
of community fairs in different sec
tions of the county to be held just
prior to the fair at Hickory and these
are calculated to arouse more than
ordinary interest in the big event.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
Calomel salivates! It’s mercury. Calo
mel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver.
When calomel comes into contact with
sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramp
ing and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, con.sti-
pated and all knocked out, just go to your
druggist and get a 50 cent bettle of Dod
son's Liver Tone, which is a harmless
vegetable substitute for dangerous calo
mel. Take a spoonful and if it
doesn’t start your liver and straighten you
up better and quicker than nasty calomel
and without making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you’ll be sick
and nauseated tomorrow; besides, it may
salivate you, while if you take Dodson’s
Liver Tone you will wake up feeling great,
full of ambition and ready for work or
play. It’s harmless, pleasant and safe to
give to children; they like it.—Adrertise-
ment
A branch society of the Am«tcan
Red Cross has been organized at Hick
ory.
Aldermen of Gastonia voted an ap
propriation of $600 for up-keep of the
library.
Twenty elk. the forerunners of the
immense herds that are to graze in
the Pisgah National Forest in the
natural course of events, arrived in
Asheville and were unloaded and trans
ferred to their new home in the Pis
gah Forest.
Three cars of sweet potatoes were
shipped from Hickory to Cincinnati
and one car to Chattanooga. The
tubers will bring from $3 to $3.76 a
crate of three bushels.
The heirs of Qeorge Richardson, a
native Union county man, are bein^
sought to obtain |35 and Interest from
the 31st day of March. 1861, irum the
United States government. Tuls ta
an amount due said Richardson for
services as a mail carrier rendered
for tl»e quarter ending on the date
named above and provision has been
made for its payment.