THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N.'C.
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FRIpAY, MAY SO, l91«
GOOD ROADS BEIPED
nWINNINGTHEWAR
St. Mihiel, (Meuse) France 5-11-19
Dear Editor:—
l|oday I received your paper of
pril 18, 1919, and I am positive it
is the best edition that has reached
me while overseas, although it carries
the news of the death of the saddest
kind to the soldiers that are over
here, that being the death of Miss
Daisy Nicholson, who was a most not
ed nurse in our grand old county.
She was known for miles around, and
was a noble character, for when a
nurse dies it is worse than losing
many soldiers, so says the King of
England in a noble mention he made
of the recent death of Miss Edith
Cavell, one of the most noted nurses
in the English army. Although Miss.
Attfholson never had the pleasure to
,qK;i the wounded on the battle fields
fo France, it may have been for the
good of all that she was with the aged
and infirm..it the time of the epidemic
of influenza last winter. Miss Nich
olson will be missed by all her many
friends for years to come. Also we
road of the death of McDonald Sin-
iard. He was a personal friend of
mine, bein”: in the same class with me
id the ravidson River Presbytc-nr.n
1.unday school several times it gave
me the opportunity to be well .ac
quainted with him, and I a!wa.yS
foand him to be a straiRht-forward
mid very bri.trht boy, and he will be
mist^ed by the boys vvho kne.v liim,
whi-n thoy return froia overseas v^ork.
Onothcr article in your paper of
tluit tlato is the one by Dr. Wjiilis on
Ijii' subfoct of “The Do??.” which is
ons,‘ of the most dreaded ‘‘pet posts”
\
in the ^\orld, and as far as I am con-
otrntd I wish all the dogs in Tran
sylvania county were exported to
Fnince or some other foreign country,
would suggest Germany instead
of trance. Ed.) so our beautiful
land of sunshine, flowers, health and
hnppiiiess would be free from such
pe.sts for years to come. I take the
liberty to commend Dr. Wallis on the
.slt'ps he is taking to keep our good
]'»eople free, as near as possible, from
all such diseases that spread in our
county.
1 am indeed glad to see that the
county has been so lucky as to obtain
the yervicos of -Miss Cassidy as Coun
ty Demonstrator, for that is one of
tlio most useful services that can be
rendered to a county which has so
many progressive women and girls
as our county has, and I wish Miss
Cassidy all kinds of success, and will
ai'Sure
So Prof., keep it up and let’s have
grood roads too, for the good road is
the making of any county. Farms
sell for more, and bring more profit
for the farmer, where he is making
his own produce, so everybody pull
together, and see what we can do.
I see that you are planning a Wel
come for the Soldiers and Sailors
when they return, and I, being one
of the soldiers, wish to say that it
will be appreciated by all who have
seen service with the colors, so for
my part, I thank you one and all for
any kindness shown to fe^urning
soldiers, sailors and marines.
There has been a great change in
the weather in the last week in this
part of France, I returned from Fur
lough to Menton, on April 30, and
after spending one week of perfect
leisure, I have never seen any prettier
weather, then dropped back to St.
Mihiel and had plenty of rain and
cold weather for three or four days,
but now it is simply wonderful to
sit out and enjoy the sunshine after
so much rain for the last nine months.
Our Co. is now split up in small
detachments and are working German
prisoners on the roads between Ver
dun and Void. The prisoners are |
expecting to be released soon if the j
Germans sign the treaty, which I
think they will. We will then go
for the old U. S. A. for we have
already been notified that we will be
relieved of duty in France on or be
fore May 30. The prisoners thmk
that President Wilson is the greatest
man that ever" lived and the P. W.
mark on their clothes stands for
“Papa Wilson,” and not “Prisoner of
War”. It is fine to sit and listen to
them praise the Americans, especially
Pres. Wilson, they say that he has
been the whole making of the Peace
treaty.
Well this letter is geting rather
lengthy and as there is nothing in
it either I will close and give some
one else a chance at the type. Hop
ing to see all my friends soon and
that thej’ will have the best of health
and best of success in all their un
dertakings, and the greatest success
to the NEWS or the “Soldier’s
Friend” as it should be for the boys
over here, I am
Respectfully,
GEO. F. WOODFIN,
Co. F. 20th Engrs. (Quarry) Amer.
E. F. France, St. Mihiel.
EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE
If you have anything to sell, ad
vertise it in the News.
i
TO THE HOME DEM. CLUB
MEMBERS
One of the duties and privileges
, 0.1 1 11 £ j I. i. I of the County Home Demonstration
her that she will find hearty ;
I Agent is to aid the women and girls
co-operation m the whole county, for
,, , , .1. j. • Vi. of the countv in finding sale for their
the ladies know that is what we have .
I farm products, and in grading and
bet^n needing for some time, someone
to teach the young and inexperienced
. , , , , . to command the best possible prices,
.trirls of our county how to can and !
prest'rve vegetables for future use
(or like the last war),, where all a
. , - . . .1. pav for it, as it is a part of her pro-
.soldier thinks of is to get home and '
. 1- XU i. 4- - i fessional duty, for which she is em-
c'at some of the goodies that are stor- |
standardizing these products, so as
to command the best possible prices.
Of course, it is understood that the
! agent does this service without any
cmI away in the different cellars and
pantries. So Miss Cassidey, get busy
this summer, for we can never tell
when another war is going to call
the proud American soldiers to the
rolors again.
In Prof. Henderson’s article we find
lhat he is in favor of good roads and
so am I, and all the rest of the Tran-
s\ jvaniB soldiers who have seen how
the FJremh road has stood up and
held the great amount of traffic that
it had been required to, during the
Tof-ent war, and I would like to ask
a question of any one who knows
anything of the French roads, and
that is: “Where in Transylvania coun
ty or any other county that joins
Transylvania, is there a road that will | ton sectio
haul as much heavy traffic as the ; afteriL^<JnTWi was buried Sunday af-
roads have in France?” I must say , tei^L-n in the Boyleston Cemetery,
that it is wohderful. During the
ployed. Already a few of the club
girls have placed on the market thru
this office lettuce, spring onions, eggs,
chickens, etc.
If you have any high class pro
ducts which you wish to market, if
you will write to me or come to see
me, I shall be glad to give you any
assistance I can.
Sincerely,
Lula M. Passidey, Co. Home DEM.-
Agent, Brevard, N. C.
GET SOME OF THAT SPRING
LAMB AT SLEDGE’S.
DEATH OF MRS. SHIPMAN
Mrs. Jac^ Sl^ipman of the Boyles-
dl^d suddenly Saturday
Argonrre drive the main road from
Clermont—en—Argonne to Cheppy,
.and Eantheville, v;as the only means
NOTICE OF DESOLU iION
ty.
North Carolina, Transylvania Coun
In Siberian Prison Camps Each Un>
fortunat* Exile FoKowed Hit
Vocation.
Far more popular than the church
were the library and the school, a
regular organized high school-college.
where law, mathematics, chemistry,
ten languages and wauy other sub-
Jecti^ were taught. Again, this part
of our work rose out of a very humble
beginning. The first school was held,
almost secretly, in an old washroom,
and * ami)iti«)us Uussian guards con
fiscated logaritlim tables and Frencli
dictionaries because they looked so
suspicious. Aud the teacher of ge
ometry, who made those peculiar
drawings, was arrested and taken for
a spy, who taujilit liow to escape witii
a plan of tlie camp. The library was
born when the flnst Y. M. C. A. sec
retary arrived and gave six or eight
books which he found ia his trunk
to members of tiie head committee
to read, Joliaii W. Prinz writes in
Asia magazine. The sport commit
tee was in charge of. the socker field
and tennis courts and in some camps
there was even a gynmaisium, A
small bank was established for the
convenience of those who wanted to
borrow a few rubli^s on tlieir olllcial
announcements from banks in Pe-
trograd tliat money had boon received
from relatives in the central countries
(by way of Sweden) and was on the
way. Work shoi>s were or.sianized so
that the iradcsiiK'n, the carpenter, the
shoemaker, the bart>er, might turn to
Ills trade and work for the benefit
of his comrades. Hut the pride of
the Y. M. C. A. was the American
kitchen. This welfare Icitchen was nec
essary l)ecaiise the Russians never
fjave the men enough to eat. Here
they had a eliance, once in a while,
to ;i('t a hearty meal for a few ko-
pek.s; here a certain number of sick
and poor could eat every day without
cost. How many favorable comments
have I lu'ard upon those kitchens,
which really became a blessing for
the prisoners!
mu OF IMAGINATIVE MIND
Among Many Uceful Inventions of
Seth Boyden Was That of Pop
ular Patent Leather.
The “p!it«*nt” leather was the
Invention of S»*th P.oyden, who was
born In Foxboro, Mass., one hundred
and thirty years a'jo. Ho was brought
up on a farm and educated in a dis
trict school ;in<l in the village black
smith shop, wUere he spent all his
leisure time ‘‘tinkenn;;” and experi-
mentlnff. His lu’st invention was a
machine for making nails and files.
Later he inventi'd a machine for split-
tln;j h'atl'.er, and in 1815 he engaged
in the leather business in Newark, N.
•T. In ISilO he invented an appliance
for cutting brads and in the following
year he i>erfected his “patent” leath
er. The h'ather prepared by this
process Rradually became popular, and
until ISol lioyden was principally en-
Ragod in its manufacture. He then
turned his attention to steam engines,
and made several improvements in lo
comotives. He took part in the Cali
fornia gold rush of ’40, l)ut soon re
turned to New .Tersey, where he en
gaged ii: farming and produced a vari
ety of strawberries vastly superior to
any then known in l)Oth size aivd qual
ity. He died in 1870, and his memory
is perpetuated by a statue at Newark.
Birds That Are Useful.
It Is in their relation to in.sects and
other enemies of crops that birds are
most (iirectly associated with the wel
fare of man. It is not possible to give
a liard-and-last rule, applicable to the
whole country, as to whether any cer
tain bird is beneficial or injurious to
farmers, but in the United States de
partment of agriculture’s farmers’
bulletin G30, “Some Qommon Birds
Useful to the Fanner,” more than fifty
species of birds common to farming
sections are discu.ssed. The birds treat
ed in the bulletin are: Bluebird, robin,
titmouse, wren, brown thrasher, catbird,
swallow, towhee, sparrow, hou.se finch,
grackle, brewer blackbird, Baltimore
oriole, Bullock’s oriole, meadowlark,
redwing, blackbird, bobolink, crow,
bluejay. Pacific coast jay, phoebe, king
bird, nighthawk, woodpecker, cuckoo
and bobwhite.
of travel the hundreds of heavy, tq v.'HOM IT MAY CONCERN:
trucks loaded with supnlies that had i All persons are hereby i^tified th^t
, , * . , : the partnership of J. W. Duckworth,
to be kept, to the front in order to p; g English and T. J. Summey,
keep the good work of driving thp I »^no\vn as, and trading under the firm
- , I ! name of Duckworth Drug Company,
Huns back, and the way it held qut, desolved, and hereby register and
and was so easy to keep in i500d ccin- 1 publish notice P*'
, , , [ ouired by section 2539. of the Revisal
dition is simply wonderful, but olily 1905.
poc;, to show that the French have "This the 14th day of May 1919.
' Duckwojth Drug Company,
the r:giit method of read bu'-dsn.:'. j DUCII^hVORTH, Manager.
" Tot ' two generatloiis th»
Buffering women of Ameri
ca. particularly of the South
—have found relief from
“woman's ill*" through the
famous prescription of a
famous old Southern doctor
—^“STEL.L.A VIT^E."
Women know when they
need a remedy for weakness
and misery In body and
mind. Mothers know that
their younfc daughters, at
the critical a?e, need a
harmless re,?u!ator and a
wholesome tonic.
STELLA VITAE supplies
this need. Sold by your
druggist. ♦
"I can cheerfully fecoinniCTid
yoiir STKU..V V1T.\E. Before I
«»ed it 1 luffered with painful
severe backache and
rains across my abdomen. 1 de
cided to try your STELLA
VITAE, and row all the pains and
aches iiave disappeared, and _ I no
lonKPf fear m.r mnnthl.y perioda.'*
—Mn Dora Eidson, Ark.
Th ACKER Medicine Co.
Clwttanooca. T«aa.« U. S. A*
Your Drugs
ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN
YOUR FOOD. WE USE THE BEST
DRUGS OBTAINABLE IN FILLING
YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS, AND THEY
ARE ALWAYS FILLED BY A COM
PETENT pharmacist.
MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF
DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES, IN FACT
EVERYTHING KEPT IN A FIRST-
CLASS DRUG STORE.
DAVIS-WALKER DRUG GO.
Successors to DUCKWORTH DRUG CO.
Main St. BREVARD, N. C. Phone 85
For Sale Hy Maciie-Brodie Drug
Co., Brevard, N. C.
Radial Tether for Animals.
To tether liis cow so as to admit
of its having a large feeding range,
and yet so as to be perfectly secure
and require no attention, a Pennsyl
vania man adopts the following
method: He took a pole, 20 or 30 ft.
in length, pivoted at one end and fit
ted with an iron ring large enough
to slip along from end to end. The
small end of the pole was supported
by a light metal wheel from some
old farm implement, or a wooden one
cut from a piece of plank. The ani
mal was fastened with a halter chain,
too short to get tangled up with
the animal’s legs.
The Blacker They Turn.
A letter received in this city from
Koy hichultz, a D;inville colored man,
now in militjipy service in France, tells
of a good joke the colored l»oys had
at the expense of the Huns. A colored
divisi<m had relieved a white division
during the.* nipht. when the Oermans
were sendius ‘>'or a ri'gular shower of
gas shells. The heavy fighting con
tinued tlie next day, and a German
prisoner taken by the colored boys was
heard to remark: “VVe can’t whip
these Yanks, and there is no use try
ing. Tlia more gas we send over on
them the blacker they turn and the
harder they fight.”—Indianapolis Newa
PRIH’ INK
Has been respoiv
sible for thousands
of business successes
throughout the country.
Everybody in town
may know you but
they don't know what
you have to selL
Ad?ertbing Will Help Yoo
“Never Saw
A Bug”
The potatoes that I sprayed with Pyrox kept green
until the frost killed them, without a sign of blight* I
never saw a bug on them after u.'in" Tyrox. It is easier
to apply than any mixture I hav~ evirr used, and will not
wash off in the heaviest showers.”—L. A. Littlefield,
winner cf the f.zzt pzlzc cf .f)2C0 ia a potato grow
ing contest.
«‘The Spray
that Adds to
Your Profit**
kills the bugs as fast as they appear, and pre
vents blight and rot. Use it on the young
plants before bugs or blights get their start.
JFhy not fry it? Yoa might like it!
Get this Pyrox Crop Book. It tells how to pro*
tect your crops against bugs, womis and disease. Ask
for a copy.
Brevard Hardware Company
QUEEN
QUAUTY
We have the exclusive agency for the Queen Quality
Shoes in Transylvania county and carry in stock a very
complete line of Women's and Misses' Shoes, Oxfords
and Pumps—Black, White and Tan.
SCHLOSS BROS. CLOTHING—We have a com
plete line of the famous Schloss Bros. Clothing—none
better made. In fact we have anything in the line of
Men’s Furnishings; Shoes, Hats, Shirts, Ties, Under
wear, Hosiery, Etc., at reduced prices.
GRICERIES—It will pay you to come to Pisgah For
est for your Groceries as well as other supplies. We
have anything wou want and our prices are just a little
lower—^because we have no rent to pay.
If you are in need of Hardware, we have it—All kinds
of Farming tools, Garden Tools, Carpenter's Tools, etc.
We also carry a nice line of Automobile Supplies.
Stop in and let us show you our store. We have any
thing you may want.
“Travel a Mile or Two and Save a Dollar or Two.”
Brown Patton Co.
PISGAH FOREST, N. 0.
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