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4*- 4 ■f TRANSYLVANIA €0 OVER top; SURE ,r- ^ ' f M gon« over tiie top in every drive for wtur fand^ put on in the county'and theiw it no doubt^ in the miitds of those who kno^w Transylvania's way of doing tilings that this counts; is going .to fail to make the most of her last opportunity to have a share in making the world ^ fit habitation for free people. The quota for this county in Vie- / tory Liberty Loansds |68,000. About $50,000 of this amount has been sub scribed. The work in this campaign has been slower than that of the Fourtii Liberty Loan because sub scribers are as much sought now as subscriptions. The slogan in the Fourth Campaign was ‘‘borrow and buy”. Now the watchword is “in vest” The Ffth Loan is a real gilt edge investment in which nothing worse can happen to the investor than to receive more than savings bank interest and the repayments of the principal in full when it is due. Of coure Transylvania is going over the top. NEW CITY OFHCIALS ELECTED TUESDAY Brevard’s municipal election day was characterized by little excite ment. This was perhaps due to the fact that only one regularly nomin ated ticket was placed before the people. * The retiring city board held a meet ing on Wednesday evening at which the new town officials, were sworn in to office. T. H. Galloway is mayor and F. D. Clement, R. P. Kilpatrick, R. H. Zachary, G. W. Marshall and T. D. Endland compose the Board of Aldermen. These gentlemen, some of whom have already held public offices, are too well known to need any words of introduction or commendation from the NEWS. They have already assumed the responsibilities incident to the government of the town and begin their administration supported by practically the unanimous vote of the citizenship. With such a begin ning they are entering a field of matchless opportunity for writing a bright page in the records of Bi^evard. COMPLIMENTS FROM OLD NEWSPAPER MAN F. S. Wetmur and C. N. Wrenshall, representatives of Rhodes Auto Co., distributors for Henderson and Tran sylvania counties, were in Brevard on Monday for the purpose of dem onstrating their Four Wheel Drive ^TVuck, but were called back to Hen- Aersonville before they were ready the demonstration. . I Mr. Wrenshall being an old news paper man, naturally hunted up the Nws -office. He said Brevard was N ^ to be congratulated on having such a well equipped newspaper and job office. “It is one of the best equip ped country shops in the state,” he said, “and it makes one feel good to see things kept so neatly.” While in this, office Mr. Wrens! happened to look at some three- job work being done by the Printery for the Transylvanii njng Co., and was very much ed to find work of this kind being turned out. in a shape pares favorably with the larger city printeries. A1 simply goes to back up said before—that if you Ij qrlvania county you can printing right here at hi Rom| Ov«r Ccnmtjr Wm 3wyiy>d Tim A|^ BeauUf^ Greenville. ~ If a plan now in the process of formation by J. W. Norwood and others materializes, Greenville county will secure Federal aid in the sum of $16,000 to be used in improving, the Jones Gap road connecting with North Carolina at Cedar Mountain and opening l3ie beautiful Brevard country to Greenville. Rich in truck gardening and fruit as well as in scenic beauty, connection of this beautiful section with Granville it is believed, will prove of the utmost value to the city and section, since by the building of this road farmers of that region would come to Greenville with their produce. Without Cost to Coantjr It was learned Monday morning that Mr. Norwood proposes to raise the sum of $15,000 if so much be nec- cessary by subscription of his own and among his friends and vdthout any cost to the county of Greenville. The road, it is understood has some time since been surveyed by Federal engineers and Federal aid in an amount similar to that raised from othet sources may be secured with out trouble for the building of the road. The sum of $30,000, it is be lieved would be sufficient to build a highway to^ Cedar Mountain connect ing with the North Carolina end which has been completed. Such a highway would open all the beautiful Brevard country to Greenville and the Green ville market is sufficiently attractive as to cause scores of truck and fruit growers of that section to bring their produce here. Williinon Endorses It “I know of no highway that would prove of greater value to Greenville than this proposed Jones Gap Road which would open the Brevard coun>- try,” said Supervisor W. H. Willimon when asked about the matter Monday. “As you know there are scores of the ' finest truck and fruit growers in the I south residing in the Brevard country. \ / ! The building of a good road thru Greenville county to Cedar Mountain, there connecting with the North Car olina line, which has been completed would in my opinion induce these North Carolinians to make Greenville their ‘ chief market.” Mr. Willimon is worked out.—Greenville Piedmont. It certainly is right up to our South Carolina neighbors to get the Jones Gap road built from Cedar Mountain to Greenville. As we stated in these columns a short time ago, Transylvania has just about fulfilled the agreement made |>etween Green ville and Transylvania counties about the construction.of the Brevard-Green ville road. Transylvania agreed to build the road to Cedar Mountain if Greenville would build the connecting link between Cedar Mountain and Greenville. Transylvania has had a convict force work on this highway and the road, which is now completed, is equal to any ^ech of roadway in the south. AjgO as yet Greenville County haj^»in^de no tangible begin- d carrying out her part of >eem0nt. The peoplfe on this tb« mountain, are very to go to see the good folk of arolina and have them come often and see what a really Brevard the Beautiful is. fixed our road and we hope not wait much longer to fix WiiihiailoiH .May. two-thiNlii wnkf for : !•' it liiait the hei^’ .ind. .imMiI tlke^ fichi lor frei^|i|ip^ 'ni^'tliiii;hfaB'df %BG«g«7/ai^ Our split faV% 111^ i^eir heallli, of their^ll^iMjl^ and of their lives that freedom might not are l,500»d00 American boys in Fr^ahce Now . that the war is ended, it wOidd for them to dishonor-the Nation by .4^seri^^|||^he as for the Natim to dwh«mor itsplf by deser^|; tlw^ Is it a large Uiingi^that we are now asked-to lend our m<mey to pay the cost of victor]f? b mbiiey less willing than American imuiho^ v f Let every one of the millions who have bought Lib erty hmvls buy Victory notes and success is sure« YorkWorld. CARTER GLASS, Secretary of the Treasury. ^pnumiooL wDisniffiDrtMi The merabcoES of onrfBoard of Road Conxn^ioife^ haie^^^ three con ferences in ^ last two weeks at H^n- dersonviUe with the Board of Road Comci^nionen of Henderson County 'and Mr. J. G. Stikeleather, who is a ^^mber of the State Highway Com- m^on.. The Henderson County Coiotai^ioners teve made application for ^te and Federal funds to build isad surface road .from Hendersonville to Trfuwyli^ia Cormty line near ^^Transylvania Com- 1^ State and to i^de and build a county line. Un- der^f^^j^e^ law wluitever amount to grade and sur^ ROADTOPISGAH BEING SURVEYED Work which will open to easy travel one of the most beautiful scenic high ways in the south is now being carried on in, this county by the government. This road, which is now being survey ed by government engineers, leads from Pisgah Forest to Bennetts Gap where it intersects with the Vander bilt road to the top of Pisgah Moun tain. The new road will follow with a few exceptions the route of the road now known as the Biennects Gap Road over which a journey to the Pink Beds has always left a very last ing impression upon the many travel ers who have feasted their eyes on the beauties of nature while riding over a corduroy road which, is proba bly unequaled anywhere else in the United States. However before an other summer comes around a stretch of Macadam highway will make this region easily accessible, i It is esti mated that the work of building the road will take at least twelve months after the survey is completed. It is stated that very little grading will have to be done however as the grade of the present road averages less than two per cent and this of course will shorten to a great extent the time required for completion of the .road, which when finished will doubtless become one of the most famous scenic highways in the country. MRS. GALLOWAY BEXtER. lenn made a bpiness trip '/OTii S. C.I this week. Friends of Mrs. Welch Galloway, who is seriously ill in Asheville, will be glad to learn that latest reports given out by her physician are fav orable. MEMBER OF W. N. C. CONFER ENCE Rev. W. E. Poovey has been ap pointed a member of the Western North Carolina Conference Sunday School Board. This board will have charge of a number of institutes for Sunday School teachers which will be held in this section of the state thte summer. The first of these institutes % will open at Hendersonville on May the 15th. AT THE METHODIST CHURCH 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a. m.—Sermon; subject: “The Unfaithful Steward.** 8 :15 p. m.—A sermon on “The ^ects of Sin Upoh a Life.** UTTIE RIVER TAIES A FORWARD STEP The Agricultural Club of lattle River held its regular meeting last Friday night and the largre attendance was one of the several indications of vitalized interest. The main topic for consideration was expanding the present club into a more comprehensive organization, which shall deal with every phase of community development. The Farm and Home Demonstration Agents, Mr. Lawrence and Miss Cassidy, presented the plan of a community league for ■discussion. It is the idea of these two agents to completely organise the life around some one community cen ter as a demonstration of what may be accomplished in community build ing through co-operative effort. The plan of the league contemplates the usual officers and active- committees doing intensive work along the six lines of community development, viz : 1, Agricultural or industrial; 2, Edu cational; 3, Moral and religious; 4, Domestic or home making; 5, Health; 6, Recreational and social. It did not require any great length of time to enable this wide-awake community to grasp the idea and to see what such an organization would mean in quickening the life and de veloping the' latent possibilities of their neighborhood, and *‘they all decided of one accord” to lead out along this line and set a new pace for rural progress. This will be the first organized rural community in Transylvania and one of the first in Western North Carolina. The formal organization of the league is to be effected at an early *■ 4 date, perhaps within the next twfo or three weeks, and the program of the occasion promises to be an eventful one. Elaborate plans and prepara tions are being considered by the committee on plans, and a full an nouncement will be made later. Little River is to be heartily con gratulated on this forwardlooking move, for a people who has'a vision and forges forward to a realization of its ideal serves not only its own interest but their county and state as well. Our hats are off to Little River.. AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School. ^ Preaching at 41:00 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. by the pastor. -All strangers among us cordially invited. A. K. Orr of Asheville is visiting his broths, C> E. Orr. . the Federal Govem- nten^ and State Crovemment pays 75 perXeent of samie. Our county has Slre4dy been promised ' State Aid, which is to maintain the present road from the Henderson county line to the JfMlbon^eounty Bnei which means that alf read-machine work and drf^- £ing - iSv^ ;be donc^to the n^n l&e road, , that one h&lf of, the money they spmd on such work .¥dll be paid back ^ Transylvania county.'- - BUY VICTORY BONDS Blow the bugle, beat the driim; Victory to our arms has come! Unfurl the banner, all respond, Fairittjline buy a VictoiT Bond. They are saving, put awa^; Tou will n^d them quick some day. Protect your loved one while you can^ Buy Victory Bonds from Uncle Sam. Misfortune will come your way, .-►So prepare for a rainy day. You will possess a magic wand If you own a Victory Bond. Stop! reflect! then think again; Remember that it is your gain. Every qerve within you strain; Buy Victory Bonds—show you are sane. DOUGLAS WEIR, Arlington Greenmount Ave. Baltimore, Md. ACCIDENT NEAR PISGAH FOREST The young people of .St. Phillips Sunday School are fe^ ia numbers' but tiiey don*t let tliis enter their ebn- sideiatiqns in . planning . work to lie done, and this ^ear tiiey almost^cap- tured the banner pronlised to the Sunday School in ^e Asheville Dis- teict which should report the largest Lenten offering when aU the Sunday Schools o^/the'distridt m<^ at Silt-' more in May. Tl^ meeting took place last Saturday in All Souls Church, Biltmore. ‘ Every Sundsj School in the district was irepreswnt- flidi However St. I^illips Simdi^ School was the only one except Abbe ville to have fifty i>er cent of its mem bers present. The assembled Sunday Schools* 'wete addressed by Bishop Horace, ^who preMnted the banner to thft Sun- - day School'of St. James Hendersonville.. The members of this school had raised an amount equal to five doffais per capita for their Len ten differing. The Sunday ^hool of Gflsj^<«ia ■ came second and -.Brevard '^nie /third ^^th; thirty members alid a sum . over sixt^-dollars. • ’ ■ The banner of red satm bore tiie following words in gold letters ^Largest Lenten Offering 1919** and the Sunday School which wins it fat threie successive years will become the permanent possessor of the '^ze. The money for the Lenten offering' is made by the children thru some •personal effort of their own and is devoted to the use of the Board of Missions to be used inreferably for work among cUldren" ■ f After the service in the church the children enjoyed a picnic dinner on the Biltmore green. Mrs. J. C. Seagle and Miss Eliza Wallis chaperoned tiie children of St. Philips. WORKTOBERESDNED ON SCHOOL BDIUHNG Two persons had a narrow escape from injury last Sunday morning when a horse and buggy collided with an automobile on the Davidson River road. The accident occxired about two o’clock in the morning. The car was driven by a colored boy. When he had reached a point a sjiort distance beyond Pisgah Forest the lights on the machine went out. The chauffeur started to walk back made, to Pisgah Forest to procure some lights. When he had gone a very short distance the thought occured to him that he had left the car too near the middle of the road for safe ty. Accordingly he retraced his steps with the intention of getting the machine out of danger. Just, as he took Ua seat in the car a buggy' dashed down the road and crashed into the automobile. The bug^ was driven by a ^on of Mr. W. L. Car michael of Davidson River. The young man wi» uninjured, but the horse was cut in iseveral places about the head. The chauffeur returned to town and gave himself up to the authorities. The car is the property of W. E. Bishop and was only slight ly damaged. Br. Bishop offered to pay for the damiige but his overtures were not accepted by Mr. Carmichael who .It is stated will resort to legal procedure to secure damage. \ The woric* on the Brevard High School building which has been sus pended for some* time will be resumed next week, and it is hoped that the construction of the building can be pushed to completion withopt any further loss Of time. . This recent delay was caused by de fault of T. J. Boyles the contractor. Mr. Boyles it is stated has misappro* priated between four and five 4iiou- sand dollars of the school fund and otherwise conducted the business con nected with the work in such a man ner as to' forjteit his contract. His bondsmen, the U . S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co, of Baltimore, have a represeptative here now who will take personal charge of the work until a satisfactory adjustment can be and as stated above the structure is to be completed as rapid ly as possible. ( GOV. BICKETT WILL BE IN BRE- ' YARD. SUNDAY Gov. T. W. Bickett, whojs making a trip throu|^ Western Nortli Caro lina in the interest of the good roads movement, wili^ispent a few here next Sunday en route* from AshevlUe to Toxaway. While ' Mero Gov. Bickett the guest of ifr. and Mrs., T. H. ^pman. ‘ ANNUAL CLEAN-UP DAY May the tenth will be oba^nrel as Clean-Up Day st ,Osk Grove.^ Afl pa^es interested m to" be; presjent with ssiutaMe ting the grounds in
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