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VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 18th, 1919.
NUMBER 28.
WEDNESDAY WAS TROlY
TRANSYLVANIA’S BIG DAY
transylvama wecomes her heroes
wnu GREATEST CELEBRATION IN lOSTORY
Welcome home was the dominating features
in Transylvania County's celebration of the re
turn of her sons who went to the world war. The
celebration which was held here last Wednesday
stands without precedent in the annals of this
county. Everybody came to town early in the
day. Everybody stayed late, and everybody was
happy and determined to show the Transylvania
soldier boys how glad their neighbors, kinfolk,
and friends were to have them home again. While
the boys have been returning for several months
past, this was the first opportunity the people have
had to give them a real welcome home, and Tran
sylvania, from the youngest to the oldest, took
advantage of the occasion. The day was obser
ved as a holiday throughout the county. Business
was virtually suspended by all the business
houses of Brevard and other towns in the county.
In the early part of the morning people began
to arrive from all sections of Transylvania. Those
who had for several days been eagerly consulting
local weather prophets were happy on Wednes
day morning to find the sky clear and all signs in
dicating that the weather was the regular Bre-
v^ard brand. The morning was ideal.. It was just
the kind to make people feel like celebrating if
they had th^ chance. Transylvania had the oc
casion and the day so they proceeded to make
good at celebrating.
Interest centered first on the parade which
took place at eleven o'clock.
BOHANOISON
THE JOB AGAIN
Every military, patriotic, and fra
ternal orfjanization in the county was
represented in the line of march.
There were in the parade depictinj?
Transylvania’s service in the war a
numbel* of floats. Among the first
of tlioso v.as the memorial to the
Transylvania boys who died while in
the service of their country. Three
of these, Boyd Ross, Fair Turner, and
B. L. Glazener (fied in camp and
^lonroe Wilson died of wounds re
ceived in battle.
It is estimated that more than fif
teen hundred people were in the par
ade which led by the Ba/i:dad
Teiiiplc brass band marched thru the
principal streets of the town last
Wcdnesiiay morninp: in honor of the
Transylvania ^oidier boys home from
th( v.orld v.ar. The parade was form
ed in front of the Franklin Hotel
a:vl passed thru Main St. Oakdale
-Avenue, Probarte Avenue, and Rail
road .‘‘''t. to the Station. From the
Sir.tion the line of march led by way
of Depot St., Caldwell St. and *dain
£t. to the Court House.
The lloats and the long column of
inarelicrj made a fine shovnn.q; to the
the hundreds of people who filled the
sidewalk.^ r.nd every available view
point on r.Iain St. Transylvania’s
h^*ts of the world v;ar who marchvd
inmMniform were p:i'oeted by i^torir.s
oJ^n;;plau5:e from the spectivtoro at
ev^-y turn. The parade was inter
rupted by a shower of rain which
di(hi’t last lor.jr however and al
though the marching throng did
i.'Oi return to the square in military
formation, the crov.'d was there by
one o’cjock v.ith keen appetites and
enthusiasm undarnpened. The house
wives oi the county had been called
upon to make the Transylvania sol
dier bovs forget the days of hard
tack and bully beef and right nobly
did they respond io the cll. There
v.'as a multitude to be fed and there
was enoug fried chicken and plenty
of ham s-andwiches lo.feed the popn
lation of half a dozen counties ih *
size of Transylvania.
The ufLcrncon was p;Iven ov?r t-.i
,fi,'t’..;.es r.i'.'v' \vhic<^ i
been by cummitx'; . i
charge of the welcome home ceiebr;;-
ticn. Every feature of the day’s ex
ercises was carried thru without a
hitch, aad expressions of satisfaction
and pleasure Avere heard on every
hand as the crowds on the streets be-
Igan to disperse at the close of the
I day’s celebration. And it was a cele-
I bration that will linger a life-time in
: the memories of those who had the
good fortune to take part welcoming
home Transylvania’s soldier bovs.
OPENING DANCE AT FRANKLIN
! The management of the Franklin
j Hotel gave a dance last Friday even-
; ing which is the first of a series of
i informal dancing parties io be given
weekly this summer. The entertain
ment last Friday proved to be one of
the most delightful social affairs of
the season. The ballroom was es-
pecialiy decorated for the occasion
with rhododendron and a program of
I excellent dance music was rendered
by the hotel orchestra. Refreshments
were served during the evening. Be
sides the guests of the Franklin a
number of visitors from Brevard and
other nearby resort towns were pre
sent.
CHILDREN SING TO LARGE
AUDIENCE
On Saturday night the singin>g class
of the I. O. O. F. Orphanage at Golds-
: boro sang in Court House. The pro-
! gram was made up of songs and re-
i citations which were well selected and
i well rendered The director of the
class gave an account of the v/ork of
the orphanage, its history and its
ai’r.s. He referred to the Oddfellovrs
of Ccnnestee Lodge No. 237 as one
of the most loyal branches of the or-
; gar.izatiofi-in thrj .-.tate.
I AT THE MtTHODIST CHURCH
, .) - Sunday School.
: , : -n I M.—A sermon to boys
;! .T.'s on. “FLIES”. (Literature
'f tre subject v/ill be distributed af-
. r the sormon.)
S :30 P. M.—An open-air Thanks-
'iiv-rg Strvice for our Soldier Boys’
'• <• fe Vi lurn. Followed by Reminis-
< ’ c .'. v/:ll bo arranged on
■ S. S. lawn.
c ri’ic.l v.elcomo to nil.
Preaching at Oak Grove.
At 4:00 P. M. the pastor will
reach at the Oak Grove Slethodist
urch.
iStewardo will hold meeting after-
wa^s.)
\
Editor Brevard News:
Poor old Bohancus, He *has been
smote “hip and thigh” back and front
until he looks like an old rooster that
has gone off and gotten his head peck
ed and his tail feathers all pulled oat.
) As might be said, he has been hon
pecked.
The “woman with a club” A. E. R.
and a “Visitor” has picked my arti
cle to pieces and I will say in the
language of Festus, “Thou art beside
thyself. Much learning doth make
thee mad.” I feel my inability to an
swer an article that would do credit
to Susan B. Anthony, or Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, and I shiver to think
of the consequences that are to come
hereafter.
The woman with the club says,
“Now I would ask Bohancus. (such a
penful, that name)”. I want to first
assure her that I have a legal right
to that name, if I want it, as I know
of no one who is the posessor of it,
and the name is not copyrighted.
I certainly do admit that the way
any good woman’s husband or son
votes is of vital interest to her and
her children and country and the ma
jority of women are as interested as
men. But give them the ballot and
men lose respect for them, and a ma
jority of the men do not have much re
spect for a suffragette anyway, if you
will remember the way they have
been treated in Washington, London
and elsewhere. Their own mannikins
must not respect them very much, or
they wouldn’t let them lie in jail and
go on hunger strikes and be beat up
by burly policemen, and have the hose
turned on them. If I were the proud
posessor of a suffergette for a wife
and she were treated that way, I sure
would get my gun and go gunning
after the fellow who misstreated her.
The cooking question, pot hcoks.
and pans, the preparation of food and
raising children, along with corner
influences was not named in my ar
ticle, and therefore is out of place
in the reply of the woman with a
club. I know nothing about raising
children, but I have wielded a fi*ying
pan some little.
She asked the question: “Why
would not men respect women who
vote?” I will answer, for the same
reason that a rooster flogs an old
hen for crowing. I don’t know about
the drunken galoots being opposed
to equal suffrage to the man. I have
not consulted any of them about it.
I will make it stronger than I did
before. You will have some drunken
women there also. For as long as
water rises on the mountain sides
and runs down into the valleys be
low, that long we will have to con
tend with blind tiger liquor. That
is one thing that can’t be voted out.
And I v.’ill admit that the women
of the slums have been driven out
of our North Carolina Cities to the
third rate hotels for now habitations.
I have not gone to the trouble to
take a straw vote on Equal Suffrage
but I do know that ?omo of the
strongest women of the State and
Nation are against it.
The last shot I ha^’o at the woman
v/ith the club is-to displace n.ijn who
don’t do their duty in office. I would
like to see the man who couid hold
office longer than one term who has
not done his duty.
Now comes little “A. E. R.” with
h;.-r smiling countenance and words of
cheer to the down trodden creatures,
and with the cries of the oppressed
sounding in her ears as the “vyoices
of many Vv’aters.”. As to her seven
questions.
1st. As to “Why Bohancus?” That
is out of place, irrevelent and dosn’t
concern the question of Equal Suf
frage.
2nd. Yes drunken galoots are
brought to the polls and voted, and
when women get tho vote, drunken
wenches will be brought up and voted
like little women.
3rd. The volume where you will
find that Sampson’s several locks were
v.'oven in the web is in the Book of
Judges, and you will find it by dust
ing off your family Bible and looki;ig
for it. And you vviP. also find thnt
the woman Delilah v,a3 core on h;ni
and ho told her to have his agvsral
locki shaved off, and then they were
severed.
4th. Thru v/oman’s influnce, good
men and bad men want to do some
thing, for the sartie reason that the
boy wantes to do something to make
BREVARD WILL HAVE
EMERGENCY eOSPITl
For the convenience of the child
ren who arc to be operated on for
tonsils and adenoids, a wing of the
Brevard Institute will be converted
into a temporary hospital.
Dr. Briggs will operate tv/o days
i'lcxt vv’eek and probably two or three
days the week folloviring. So many
parents are taking advantage of this
splendid opportunity that the clinic
will have to run four or five days.
Sonic of the children will have to v;ait
for the second week’s clinis. Dr.
Briggs cannot be out of his office
several conseutive days.
He will bring his anesthetics and
nurse. Two nurses from the State
Board of Health and several practical
nurses in Brevard will assist. Parents
are asked to bring their children on
the dates indicated in notices.
BIRDIE DUNN—R. N., School In
spector from State Board of Health.
Brevard, N. C.
N. B. For the benefits of any
children who have not been inspected
and who desire it, Miss Dunn will bo
in Dr. Wallis’ Office Saturday from
3 to 5 n. m.
BREVARD TO HAVE FLY CAM
PAIGN
While the city authorities are hav
ing a clean-up campaign, we want
the children of the town to help us
got rid of the fiies. Every child in
Brevard under 15 years of age may
enter this contest. Both moving
picture houses of the town have of
fered ticlcets as prizes in this con
test. The child who kills 300 flies
and brings them to the Home Dem
onstration Office in the U. D. Library
before July the twenty-sev’enth will
receive a ticket to one of the local
moving picture shows. The child
who wins the largest number of
tiekpts v;ill also get a cash prize.
Any method may be used in catching
the flies; but they must be caught
by the person who competes for the
prize without help.
The contest will open next ?,Ion{!ay
morning follov/ing a special sermon to
children which will be preached on
“Flies” in the Brevard Methodist
(huvch by Rev. W. E. Poovey on Sun
day morning.
This*contest will last one week and
will close Saturday, July the 2Gth at
G p. m.
Each child who takes part will be
helping to make Brevard a more
beautiful and more healthful town
to live in.
LULA M. CASSIDY, Co. Home
Demonstrator.
himself look big in the eyes of some
g'-rl.
5th. No the style of dress dosn’t
make any difference in the physical
effort of the hands in placing into a
box any slip of paper or ballot. And
some men would be better suited
with their mannikin’s breeches on
than wearing the old style out of
place dress they have to wear for the
sake of conventionality.
Cth. The poodle dog does not have
any “logical connection with women
voting’’. Eut in times pass I have
seen poodle doge associated with the
higher class of women, women v/ho
want to vote and don’t have any thing
much to do but keep the tovv^n straight
and lead a poodle dog away from
temptations. Therefore I connect
them v;ith wearing brecches, voting,
etc. I wiil join you in your prayer
to the Lord “the pov/er to protect
your child”.
7i.h. The officers of Transylvania
: tv- h: VO irostiy all been reelect
ed to office. They have undoubtedly
done their duty or fooled a lot of
people. But tha tis not for one to
say. The people are the judges.
As to brother Morgan, I will not
pass him by because of his being a
she man, I am glad to see that he up
holds the right and will try to make
this world better than it was whc^n
he came into it. and found it such a
deplorable place. I can’t refrain
from quoting a little piece of Burns,
fcr ~h:z ovn and rnv bonel't.
“I v.aJ ,‘:ome pcv,\. i’ a gli’ty gie us.
That wo could see ourselves as
itliers see us.
Tvv’a fra many a blunder free us.
And foolish notions.”
With my kindest regards and
malice towards none. I am the only
and original BOHANCUS.
MISTREIS MADE
HIT Wrra PEOPLE
The auditorium was crov/ed to the
doors Wednesday evening when a min
strel shovz was presented by boys of
the Old Hickory Division. This show
is made up of men who served
France with the 30th or Old Hickory
Division. The company has toured
North and South Carolina and Ten
nessee, the states which furnished
the troops for the 30th Division.
Everywhere they have played to
crov/ded houses and made big hits
with their audiences. The people of
this place expected a good show when
they went to see the soldiers play
and they were not disappointed in
the least particular. The soldier-
minstrols kept the comedy spark ac
celerated throughout the evening.
There was nothing out of date and
slov/ about the performance. All the
jokes and stunts were new. A num
ber of special acts were original with
members of the troupe which played
here Wednesday night. The orches
tra which is composed of soldiers al
so was a special feature of the en
tertainment, and assisted in a number
of scenes throughout the show. It
rendered some excellent jazz music
that was much enjoyed by the local
jazz fans.
The singing by the quartette, James
Howci!, Henry Xovick, Sig Blonberg
and Jrmes Cunningham was special
feature of the entertainment.
Joe Stanford and Ray Powell, the
com.edians, did not permit fun to lag
for an instant.
The show reached its climax in the
final act when a realistic trench scene
was put on to the accompaniment of
big guns and shells bursting right be
fore the audience.
The proceeds from the sale of the
tickets to the minstrel will be used in
buying equipment for the Soldiers’
and Sailors’ Club which is to be es
tablished here.
TRANSYLVANIA TO
HAVI WELFARE BRD.
FIRST COMMUNin
CANNERY IN COUNTY
On last Friday night a meeting of
the Quebec Home Demonstration Club
took place at Quebec. The meeting
was conducted by Mr. Lawrence and
IMiss Cassidy for the purpose of es
tablishing a com.munity cannery un
der the auspices of the club. The
enterprise is to be started at once.
The present scheme contemplates
only local canning this year with a
daily capacity of about one thousand
cans, but it is being planned with a
view^ to expanding in the near future
into a complete commercial cannery
with a daily capacity of not less than
five thousand, the plans and specifi
cations for which have been prepared
by Miss Lula Cassidey, County Home
Demonstration Agent, assisted by
Mr. C. D. Matthews of the State De
partment of agriculture.
The last legislature having created
the officcs of County Board of Public
Welfare and Supt. of Public Welfare
to bo filled by County Board of Edu
cation and Commissioners in joint
session, the aforesaid board entered
into the election of a county Super
intendent on July 7 and as provided
for a small county, the board elect
ed A. F. Mitchell, Superintendent of
Public Instruction and agreed to pro
vide an assistant when necessary in
order to carry cut the provisions of
the lav/. The County Superintendent
of Public Welfare is to serve with
out pay, cave that the aforesaid
boards are to pay his assistant for
the necessary time, presumeably for
only the period of the compulsory
school lav/ v/hich covers the length
of the entire session.
The County Board of Public Wel
fare, which is to advise with the Supt.
of Public Welfar, is composed of the
following:—Rev. J. C. Seagle, Chair
man ; Miss Annie Gash, Secretary and
Rev. J. R. Hay. The new officers are
a part of the machinery of the juve
nile court of this county of which Mr.
N. A. Miller is judge. The juvenile
couri; has the enforcement of the com
pulsory school law or in its jurisdic
tion among other very important: mat
ters. The attention of the reader is
called to the act of the ia:3t leg sla-
ture creating the aforesaid offices.
Th eenforcement of the cumpulsory
law is a sure thing now under the
juvenile court and Supt. of Public
Welfare.
NEV/ AUTOMOBILE SALESROOM
HERE
A progressive tov,*n always attracts
now business enterprises. Brevard
is becoming more and more attractive
to alert business men who are look
ing for a satisfactory location. Mard-
ly a week passes but that new inter
est is not developed in Brevard as
a business centre. This week sees
tha opening here of new automobile
sales-rooms under the management
of C. H. Klueppelberg.. Mr. Kluep-
pelberg is from Charlotte. He has
been in charge of the Ford Auto Com
pany interests in that city for the
past four years. He states that he
Vvill have Ford cars of all styles for
immediate delivery to the Brevard
trade. He will have his cars on ex
hibition at Dan Merrill’s Garage. He
is stopping at the Aethehvold and
seems to be well pleased with our
town, and the opening here for an
expert auto salesman.
THE REASON WHY
Those who fail to receive the Nev.’s
on tl'.'.z v cok 1 :ov h'^'v it
happened if they attcnuod tho cele
bration cn Wednesday.
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Preaching at 11.00 A. M. by Rev.
Middleton of Fruitland, N. C.
W. K. FETZER GOES TO STATE
COLLEGE
Wm. McK Fetzer, director of Camp
Sapphire, has just accepted an ap
pointment as all-year athletic director
at the State College at Raleigh. The
many friends that Mr. Fetzer has
made during his summer sojoum.s
here feel that the Raleigh institution
is to be congratulated upon the good
fortune of securing Mr. Fetzer as a
permanent member of its staff. He
has been director of athletics at
Davidson College for a number of
years. The Davidson Colle,ge maga
zine paid the following tribute to Mr.
Fetzer’s work in a recent issue:
“Various and sundry reasons have
been given for Davidson’s successes—
to save time and trouble—the real
reason for our winning is named
Coach Bill Fetzer. Georgia Tech
claims the best team in the U. S.—
Davidson claims the best coach—and
is prepared to back her claim. W’e
firmly believe that if our ‘Coach Bill’
had the material, coupled with the
financial backing necessary, he covild
turn out a machine that would almost
tear up the Hindenburg line, and
make end runs to Berlm. We give
due credit to our Red and Black
fighters—but we give more credit to
our Red and Black thinker— Coach
Fetzer, Here’s to You!”
A clipping of the Atlanta Journal
says of a Fetzer team: “The team
often loses but is never defeated.’-’
“ ‘Tis the fighting team that v;hen
downed, won’t stay down.” Morgan
Blake, of Atlanta, said, “We desire
here and now to claim the lightwei,ght
championship of the world for the
Davidson Wild Cats. No team ever
put to gether in these United States of
the same weight could ever get the
verdict over that flock of wild men
from North Carolina.”—and we be
lieve Mr. Blake.
Coach Fetzer graduated from Dav
idson in 1906, after having made a
reputation as a crack athlete oa the
“Wild Cat” teams. He then vcent
to Fishburne Military Academy as
athletic director where he remained
for six years. Staunton Military
Academy then secured his services
for one year, at the end of which
time he returned to Fishburne for
another year. In Jan. 1915, David
son College, having seen the growing
succcss of Fetzer as a coach, made
clainis on him, and there he has re-
maine;! until the present time, filling
in his summers at Camp Sapphire,
which he has been succes-'Iully oper-
atin" fcr boys at Brevard, N. C.
i Year after yer.r v/ith very limited
material Fetzer has produced teams
with spirit and fight which have won.
He is expected to have more and bet
ter material to work with this fall
than in his previous experience. The
result will be watched with the great
est interest and expectation.