Hear Gov. Bickett at Court House THursday, 1:30 P. M
Brevard New
VOU XXIII
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918.
Number 38
TKANSYIVAMU
COIOTYFAIR
Preparations for the Fair Club
Members Urged to Exhibit
Thgr Products—Beef Cattle
Contest.
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Transylvania County will
hold her second Annual Fair in
Brevard, October 1st and 2nd.
The arrangements for the exhi
bits are fast nearing completion
and the prospects for the best
fair ever held in Western North
Carolina are looking good. The
people in the county should
consider the fact that a fair is
the cheapest and best and most
efficient medium for advertis
ing any farm product they have
ducts. Besides it is an honor
for sale and exhibit their pro
to have the satisfaction of
knowing that you have the best
of anything in the county. |
The fair is strictly an a^ri-1
cultural fair, and no admision |
fee will be charged. The eim-1
mittees have tried to make it j
as educational as possible alonir |
all lines. An interesting feat-!
ure for the boys under ninetee n I
is the cattle judging contest |
which is to be held October 1st
at 2 o’clock.
All bovs that contemplate
DEPUTY SHERIFF
B.E. PAXTON DEAD
Grief filled the town last
Sunday morning as the news
that Branch Paxton had an
swered the final summons pass
ed among his friends and neigh
bors. His end came suddenly.
The death occured at the resi
dence of the deceased on Sun
day morning.
Mr. Paxton was a Transyl
vanian, having been reared at
the Paxton homestead near Cal
vert.. For a number of years
and at the time of his death he
served as deputy-sheriff... As
a public official he made a re
cord for absolute fearlessness
and unfailing loyalty.
The funeral services were
conducted at the late residence
of the deceased on Tuesday
afternoon. The exercises were
in charge of the Dunns Rock
Lodge of Masons. Rev. Mr.
Davis and Rev. J. C. Seagle
were the officiating ministers.
Interment \vas made with Mas
onic honors in the Gillespie
cemetcry, where scores of citi
zens of the town and county
and friends from far and near
j^athered to pay their last tri-
I bute of respect.
Mr. Paxton is survived by his
wife and four children, two
entering the contest should jii\ e I brothers all of
whom w’ere present at the fun
eral.
their names to Mr. Fred Shuf-
ford before one o’clock Tues
day, so that instructions can be |
given in regard to the contest. r|i j| p 77AT T C
Committees of one person j £/|i5Lili filLLu
have been appointed to have
charge of each department. All
5crsons entering agricultural
products, canned goods and
fancy work should bring ex
hibits Monday and put them up
if possible. Of course exhibits
THROUGH ROOK
At an early hour Tuesday
morning fire was discovered in
an unoccupied room on the
first floor of J. A. Hampton’s
for prizes can be entered up till | residence. The flames were
ten o’clock Tuesday. All club | put out in a short time by the
members are especially urjred j chief of our fire department, J.
to bring their exhibits to the p. Bromfield and others,
fair as a special place will bo The blaze w^as started by an
reserved for them. electric iron. Som.eone in the
COMMITTEES; house had been ironing on
Mr. T. S. Wood will have f
charge of the sheep. Mrs, C. <>"• The able eought fire
M. Cooke, Mrs. Macfie and | f "‘I was burned m
Mrs. G. C. Whitmer have boon
. ^ - , , , ^ table dropped. There was
appointed to have charge of the I i
? , J f -4- 1 very little damage,
ladies’ canned fruits and
vegetables. Mrs. R. H. Zach-
ery, Mrs. Welch Gallow’ay and |
Mrs. T. D. England will have
charge of the pantry supplies.
Mrs. C. M. Doyle, Mrs. O. L.
Erwin, and Mrs. Dave Ward
will have charge of the Fancy
W^rk department.
' "^jloepartment of historic re
lics lias been added to the fair
this year. No prizes will be
given to this department, but
any one having any historic re
lics that would be of interest to
the public will be appreciated.
Miss Annie Gash, Mrs. E
Patton and Mrs. A. E. Hamp
ton will have charge of this
department.
Take a day off and come to
the fair. Four thousand school
children are expected in Bre
vard Wednesday.
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ODDFELLOWS GIVE
$75,OOOWAR-WORK
(From the Asheville Citizen)
Guy Wea^^er returned last
night from St. Louis where he
with Calvin Woodard, of Wil
son, represented the Odd Fel
lows grand lodge of North Car
olina at the meeting of the Sov
ereign grand lodge which con
vened in St. Louis last Monday
for the annual meeting. J. E.
Bessent, of Winston-Salem, rep
resented the grand encamp
ment of this state. About 2.-
500 people, delegates and mem
bers of their families, went to
St. Louis for the gathering
which was one of the most suc
cessful in the history of the or
der.
The committee reports show
ed that much war work is be
ing done by the Odd Fellows
and during the week’s sessions
$75,000 w^as appropriated from
the treasury for war relief
fund. A commission was nam
ed to have charge of this mon
ey, but it will be expended larg-
ly through the Red Cross. It is
expected that voluntary sub
scriptions from the lodges
throughout the country
sw’ell this fund to $1,000,000.
Twenty-seven years ago when
the sovereign lodge met in St.
Louis, the subordinate lodge
membership w^as 649,702; it
was reported at this meeting
that the membership of the su
bordinate lodges now' numbers
1,649,000; then the member
ship of the Rebekah lodges was
60,711; now^ the Rebekahs
number 536,141. All the ac
tivities of the order have been
more than doubled.
f.W.C.A.HelpsFniicli
Hunilioi! Workeni
Twelve social centers, or foyers, as
they are called by the French, are run
by the American Y. W. C. A. for girl?
and women who are working in the
great munition factories of France
Two of these are in St. Etienne and
three in Lyon. All have cafeterias
connected with them.
Girls and women who work in these
factories are of all classes and ages,
but all are French. The men em
ployees are of every nation—Chinese,
Cingalese, Algerian, Moroccan and
Portuguese. Many of the women are
refugees. Multitudes have lost every
relative and friend. There are daugh
ters, mothers and grandmothers among
them.
REMEMBER!
Do not bring your lunch with
you to thee County Fair.
Save qourself trouble and
help the Red Cross.
Buy sand witches and hot
coffee at the RED CROSS
LUNCH COUNTER.
October 1st and 2nd.
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AT METHODIST CHURCH.
A sermon to elderly people
at 11 o’clock on “The Autumn
of Life.”
At 8:00 p. m. the sixth ser
mon of the **Gospel of the Law”
series based on the sixth com
mandment.
Subscribe for rather than bor
row the News.
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Weeks ago news flashed over
the wires that the American
soldiers at the bend of the
Marne fought and died where
they stood and not a German
passed. The valor there dis
played has resulted glorious
ly for the allied cause. Recent
victories over the enemy are
little short of miraculous and
exceedingly heartening to those
who desire a military decision
before cold weather checks the
advance of the forces under
General Foch.
Choke the Hun with Bonds?
NOTICE TO SCHOOL FOLKS
Remember that Wednesday
October 2nd, is to be schoolday
of the County Fair, therefore,
I call upon all teachers, stud
ents, parents, and school com
mitteemen to help contribute
the schools part. We have
planned the grand parade to
begin at 10 A. M., at the Bre
vard High School building,
thence over town and ending
at the beginning point. Im
mediately after the march the
school athletic contests will
take place. Be sure that every
school in the county takes part
in the athletics. Wednesday,
October 2nd, is to be a holiday
for all schools taking part
the educational day. Please
come everybody in full force.
Most cordially yours,
A. F. MITCHELL,
County Supt.
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TO HELP MAKE
WAR MASKS
The Food Administration is
calling on Transylvania people
to save all fruit pitts, from
peaches, prunes, etc. An acid
is extracted from these which
is used in making gas masks.
Receptacles for these seeds will
be placed in convenient places.
FROM A BREVARD
BOY OVER THERE
(Quotations from a letter
written by David Hunt to Dr.
and Mrs. C. W. Hunt.)
“* * ♦ I received your
newspaper clippings and en
joyed them very much. We
have no news from U. S. except
through an occasional English
paper.
* * * We can’t tell, of
course, which one of us will be
next. All of the Germans that
I have seen are nothing but lit
tle boys or very old men.
I am in charge of a machine
gun and squad. I am in the
trenches at Ypres (in Belgium)
shallow trenches and breast
works. If the trenches are
deep the water rises. The
Huns are scared to death of the
French-Americans.
Gerry (Germans) is still
combing hospitals. That is due
to the fact that Gerry and the
allies began painting large red
crosses on some of their am
munition dumps and it was dis
couraged eventually.
When coming over w'e all
w'ore life preservers all of the
time. We get plenty of ciga
rettes. They are British made
and no good. I received some
magazines from Rev. C. D.
Chapman and enjoyed them
very much. Please thank him
for them.
Yes, I can carry on incorrect
ly a simple conversation in
French. I do not find it hard
to learn, having studied latin.
The last time that I w^as up
the line I had orders to move
my machine gun and squad to
a certain place and fire on a
certain crossing of railroad and
a trail where Gerry usually
crosses in bringing up his re
serves. We got our elevation
and direction from a map. Ac
cording to orders w’e used three
hours to fire 2,000 shots, firing
bursts of irregular sizes and at
irregular intervals. Monroe
Wilson, the gunner of my squad
did most of the firing and I did
some of it to keep in practice.
It is also fun to fire. Monroe is
one of the best gunners and sol
diers in the company and abso
lutely fearless. That night we
might haye killed a pile of Ger
mans or w’^e might not have kill
ed any. Gerry was circulating
around that section that night.
We concealed the flash of our
gun with a wet fire screen. We
had to keep our heads low on
account of snipers. We would
fire awhile, five or six seconds,
then a German sniper with a
machine gun w^ould answer us,
firing obout a foot over our
heads. We were in a hole and
behind a bank. We would sim
ply laugh at him, because he
couldn’t hit us. He w^ould skin
over the edge of the bank
though. It is very easy to tell
where a machine gun is and in
what direction it is firing.
On the front that we are on
we are almost surrounded by
Gerry, just as Rheims used to
be. I received the Brevard pa
pers and was mighty glad to
get them.
You are right there is noth
ing that looks natural over here
except the stars. Some of the
boys the other night comment
ed upon that very fact. The
poem you sent me is right, give
me “America.” These people
over here are so far behind time
that they don’t know they are
living. They have two-wheel-
BREVARD IS TO BECOME RAHROAD CENTER
At Last the Long Dreamed of Possibilities of
Brevard as a Railroad Center are About to be
Realized—Our Town Will Soon be Trans
formed from a Village to One of the Thriving
Commercial Centers of the State—Brevard’s
One Chance is At Hand.
In an article recently ap
pearing in the Manufacturers
Record this line of railroad is
declared to be an essential war
enterprise, particularly in re
lation to the port of Charleston.
The G. & W. will give a direct
route from forests of white oak,
poplar, hickory and other val
uable hardwoods, as well as
rich stores of granite, building
sand, lime and clay.
To connect this road with the
Knoxville, Sevierville & East
ern Railway will require an
extension of only about 70 or
80 miles, part of which has al
ready been constructed. The
connection of these tvvo roads
v/iii open a new route to the
coal fields of Tennessee and
Kentucky. That this is almost
a surety and not a figment of
imagination is shown by a re
cent statement made by Mr.
J. Norwood Cleveland, one of
South Carolina’s leading busi
ness men. Mr. Cleveland sug
gests that the road come by
way of Brevard instead of the
by Hendersonville as was for
merly discussed.
Following is the statement by
Mr. Cleveland:
“I w'ould suggest that the
route via Brevard, N. C., in
stead of the Hendersonville
route be used. The route via
Brevard would open up virgin
forests, and would also give
railroad advantages to a sec
tion of country now far distant
from them. Also in advocat
ing this route, it would open
new territory containing hard
wood suitable to railroad use.
It is no secret that the prob
lem of keeping up the railroads
is becoming acute. The rail
roads are in fine shape, and
should be kept so, and with the
completion of the G. & W. mil
lions of crossties would be
made easily acessible for ship
ment and would be easily ex
ported to the allies. Not a week
ago appeared an article stat
ing that Mr. Starr of New' York
was organizing about fifty saw'-
mills to be put in operation
vdth main shipping point Bre
vard, N. C. Mr. Starr will de
vote his sawing to government
railroad needs. Practically all
this could be handled over the
G. & W., especially that por
tion coming to Charleston or
w^est of Greenville, S. C. And
the really large portions of tim
ber are absolutely unaccessible
without the extension of the G.
& W.
“Each year hundreds of cars
of fuel wood are shipped t^
Greenville alone, over the short
line of the G. & W., now built.
With the completion of this
railroad, Greenville would not
only look to it for wood, but it
would be Greenville’s direct
route to the coal fields of Ten
nessee and Kentucky.”
The people of Brevard
should all get together now and
pull for this railroad. It would,
without doubt, be the making
of Brevard. Brevard needs a
direct line, and before we can
ever hope to grow much we
must have it.
MAKERS OF SURGICAL
DRESSINGS BUSY
Mrs. H. N. Carrier, director
of woman’s work of the Tran
sylvania Red Cross has receiv
ed an order for 840 cotton pads
to be shipped to Atlanta by the
twentieth of October. The
work rooms are open every
morning and afternoon in the
week and every woman in the
town is urged to lend a hand
toward getting this order off
on schedule time.
COMMUNITY FAIR.
ed dump carts for buggies.
There are one or tw^o decent
looking vehicles in Paris, but
they are very few.
All of our work is done at
night. When we get through
we sleep and eat and smoke
and tell big lies and do all we
can to make each other wish
that he was at home, all for
mental occupation.
We sit around and watch air
battles, watch Gerry shoot
“whizz bangs” at our planes
and watch ours shoot at his.
We see them brought down in
flames sometimes. It is very
hard to hit them. Gerry is
deathly afraid of our air craft
and anti-air craft guns.
If you hang around the tren
ches for awhile you become
very indifferent and fearless of
shells and bullets and don’t
pay any attention to them, but
of course it will not do to allow
yourself to be careless.”
Lake Toxaway will have the
first Community Fair in the his
tory of the County at Lake Tox-
aw'ay School House, Saturday,
Sept. 28th. Much interest is
being taken in the fair by the
people and the exhibits pro
mise to be many. Competent
judges have secured to judge
the different exhibits. All ex
hibits to compete for prizes
must be entered by ten o’clock
Saturday.
A lesson on beef cattle will
be given to the boys at the
fair w'ho expect to enter the
beef cattle judging contest at
the County Fair.
J. B. NEAL,
Sec. and Treas.
RED CROSS WORK
UNDER GOVERNMENT
On account of the increasing
scarcity of Red Cross supplies
the local chapter has been in
structed by Headquarters to
use only material absolutely
necessary for filling official Red
Cross orders. In compliance
with these instructions the lo
cal Red Cross will hold the un
finished w'ool garments recent
ly brought to the work rooms
until an order for wool gar
ments is received from head
quarters.