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VOLUME XXV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1920.
NUMBER 13.
TREilSURER LANCE
PitSSES AWA'
REMARKABLE OPER-
YAnONONSMAUGIRL
Mr. S. M. Lance, Treasurer of
Transylvania County, honorably ful
filled his allotted term of 80 years
in this world of toil and trouble and
peacefully passed away at the open
ing of spring at his home near Cedar
Mountain on Monday Morning. His
daughter. Miss Ida, found him lying
unconscious on the floor when she
returned from the sale on Saturday
evening, but did not think it was
anything aerious^till death came to
the household ysn Monday.
Mr. Lanfte/was a veteran of the
Civil War,, W members of the Durd-
ing Ridge IVTSthodist Church and had
lived at his home for over fifty years.
He was much honored and respected
by all who knew him, and leaves six
children to mourn his loss.
The funeral services were perform
ed by Rev. H. L. Powell and the in
terment at the Gillespie Cemetery
on Tuesday at' 3:00 P. M.
THE PRAYER CORNER
I ask permission to introduce into
the Prayt'r Covnor this week, a quo
tation from niy readin.tr. There is a
prayer in it. Pray that prayer my
friend and then live it. So will the
world be better for your living, be
you old or yountr. C. D. C.
ONE EVIDENCE
“There is one evidence evei'y man
recoLrnizes when he sees it, and that
is the silent beauty of a consistent
Christian character.
“ ‘If Sha!;espear should enter this
room’ said Charles Lamb, ‘I w'ould
stand up before him to do him honor
but if Jesus Christ should enter I
would kneel.’ Every man and
woman in this world looks towards
the li^ht. ‘Let your light shine’.
This world is hungering for conse
crated men and women. The chief
want of life in each of us is for
somebody to help us do the best we
can. You know it, so do I. ”
“And this is my v.ord to you; you
can be that somebody, if you chose;
to somebody e’se. George Adam
Smith tells us of a single line graven
on a hf'adstonc in Scotland. ‘He made
it easier to bo }>ood.”
You need not be a genius to do
that. You need not be one of the
great ones of the earth. Only two
thinfjs aie necessai’y; that you should
know the source of light, and then
that you should let your light
shine. You don’t need to make it
shine. You can’t help it, and you
know the source. Jesus said, “I am
the lifrht of the world; he that fol-
loweth me shall not walk in dark
ness.”
Yours may be only a faltering,
t
stammering tongue, but you can'
shine . You may be rich, but you
can shine. You may be poor, but
you can shine. Yes, you may even
go, stumbling on your way, making
as many blunders as Peter did, but
know, that the man who gets up
every time he falls will sometime
get up to stay. If you know how to
pray; if God’s Spirit is in you, you
can shine.
Some of you who shall read this
are just starting in life. Start right,
and then, when all is over and your
work is done, you shall go down
peacefully and quietly, as you have
sometimes seen the sun go down
leaving bi^ind you a trail of glory,
and at evening time it shall be light.
If you have caused one tear less—
Down any cheek to flow;
If you have caused one smile more
On any face to glow,
Then friend yoU have not lived in
▼ain.
George Thomas Dowling, D. D;
The News has had the promise of
this story for some time but it seems
the Raleigh News and Observer
beat our reporter to it. We will,
however, tell the story as told by
Miss Lula Cassidy to our city editor.
In her daily work as home demon
strator Miss Cassidy nbticed a little
girl who was lame, through one limb
being shorter than the other and
causing her to walk on the side of
her foot to make the length of her
limbs in walking more even.
On making inquiry it was learned
that this little 14 year old girl was
named Virginia Whitmire, the daugh
ter of a tenant farmer and that she
walked three miles daily to school
in spite of her deformity.
Miss Cassidy interested influential
Transylvania citizens in t’be caale,
took the child to Raleigh to Rex
Hospital. Dr. Hugh M. Thompson,
well known surgeon of Raleigh,
was interviewed by Miss Cassidy on
behalf of her little protege and of
fered to perform the operation free
of charg'e. It d<^veloped that this
state of d^or^ity v;as caused by
an attack 0“^^ infantile paralysis suf
fered by the child when three years
of age.
The appeal of Dr. Cooper, in
charge of the State Medical School,
which was published in the Raleigh
News and Observer, aroused a great
deal of interest throughout the State
and funds w^ere raised to support
the little girl while in the hospital.
Enthusiastic Raleigh citizens offered
to foot the whole bill. Three differ
ent operations were successfully per
formed by Di\ Thompson, the shrunk
en muscles realigned, the crooked
short limb straightened out, and now
the little patient has the joy of
knowing that she will soon walk
aprain.
The photograph of Miss Virginia
Whitmire and her nurse, Miss Sue
Grumpier was published in the Ral
eigh paper showing the little maid
before she was able to lay away her
crutches; but she knov/s that day
will come and is anxious to come
back to Transylvania and tell the
home folks. While her crippled
limb is restored to the same length
as the well one, it is still very weak
and several weeks must elapse be
fore she can leave Rex Hospital She
will go with the good wishes of many
whose generosity, coupled with that
of our home people, have made this
remarkable cure possible.
UP-TO-DATE X-RAY OUTFIT IN
STALLED IN BREVARD
Dr. E. S. English has recently in
stalled in his commodious offices on
the second floor of the Pickelsimer
Building an up-to-date X-Ray m^
chine manufactured by thfe Thomp
son Plaster Co. of Leesburg, Va.
This machine is fitted with the new
Cooledge tube so there is no danger
of burning. With this machine a
photograph may be taken of the in
side of the body showing the position
of the bones and or^ns. Especially
good is this machirv& for taking pho
tographs of
formed on
unknowingly
The late Pre
life thru di&
cause was tri
eth showing pus
[ed roots which is
loning the system,
fnt Roosevelt lost his
led organs; and the
d to the abscessed
roots of crowned and filled teeth.
Dr. English received with the
above shipment an Electrical Cabi
net; generating high frequency cor-
rent for the treatment of sprains and
bruises of the muscles and skin dis
eases which can be successfully cur
ed by no other method. This cabi
net also provides an auto-condensa
tion current for reducing blood pres-
DISAPPOINTIIIENT AT
DECISION OF JURY
Upon their report that they were
unable to agree after two days’ de
liberation on a virdict. Judge E. Y.
Webb, in the U. S. District court dis
charged the jury which had been
hearing tor a week the case of Cook
against E. K. Jennings, the suit be
ing brought by the plaintiff to recov
er damages from the owner of Tox-
away lake dam which was swept away
in 1916, so that the lake waters rush
ed downstream with resulting dam
age to property.
The result of the trail was a dis
appointment not only to all the par
ties directly interested in the case but
to many others. The suit was one
of a number brought against Mr.
Jennings, the owner of the Toxaway
property, for damages resulting from
the rush of the water downstream.
The case was in the nature of a test
case to determine whether the owner
of the dam was liable for the injuries
to property following its breaking,
and it was thought that the final de
cision in it would decide all the other
suits.
It was the expectation, whether
the verdict was for the plaintiff or
"jhe defendant, that the case would
go to the higher court which would
finally determine the question involv
ed. Mr. Jennings wished to learn
if the owner of a dam is liable .even
though it be constructed by the best
engineers and made as safe as is
humanly possible, w'hen the dam
breaks as the result of cloudbursts
or an earthquake or other unnatural
cause.
And others who had brought sim
ilar damage suits were anxious to
learn from the Cook case w^hether or
not they stood to gain anything when
their cases came to trial, the same
principles being involved in all the
suits.
Now the final decision will be much
delayed. The test case must be re
tried in the Federal court, all the"
efforts of both parties in the recent
trial having gone to naught. The
Jennings plans for rebuilding the
dam and thereby re-creating Lake
Toxaway have been held up waiting
the outcome of the test suit, and now
they will still longer be held up since
the owner, it is understood, scracely
dares build a dam if he is liable for
the results of causes beyond his con
trol.
People of Brevard and Toxaway
are very much concerned at the sit
uation.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
BURNS PROVE FATAL
TO HERBERT HEDDON
Injured in both hips, scalded on
his legs, his arm, back and about
his face, Herbert Heddon, 30, son
of B. C. Heddon of Pisgah Forest,
died Sunday in the Meriwether hos
pital of Asheville, after he had re
ceived fearful injuries at the plant
of the Carr Lumber Company, Sat
urday afternoon, when a steam load
er on which he was riding turned
over, immersing him in the boiling
water, and causing burns which la
ter accounted for his death.
Heddon had been employed for
some months at the big lumber plant
and Saturday he was making his
usual round of the work. No one
knows the cause or the reason, but
suddenly the great loader turned
over and with it went Heddon, who
was thrust into the boiling fluid.
The steam escaping from the water
caused acute congestion of both
lungs, and this fact more than the
burns themselves accounted for his
sudden death.
He was rushed immediately to
A.«5heville and was g’iven prompt at
tention by local physicians but his
breathing was so erratic that no hope
was held out for his recovery, and
he died about six o’clock Sunday
night.
All the lower part of his body to
gether with his back, his arms and
his face was a mass of burns. It
was probably among the worst cases
of such a character ever coming to
the attention ,of local doctors,
Heddon was unmarried, and is sur
vived by hi.s father. Burial took
place at Pisgar Forest Monday.
SPRAY YOUR
FBUrr TREES
The Truman Crary cottage on W.
Main Street was bought by Mr. C.
H. Kluppelberg, who in turn sold it |
to Mr. J. P. Deaver; while the lot on
the opposite corner was sold to C. C.
Duckworth. .
The old Jenkins farm^was sold re
cently to Messrs. Or^rand Sitton.
Mr. Tom \Englis^ merchant of
Spruce Pinel N. and brother to
Len and Drl Ey S. English bought
the Joe Patt»^farm at Davidson
River and wi|f move his family. We
welcome him to our community.
Messrs. T. H. Shipman, C. C.
Young, Len English and Bill Duck
worth bought 60 acres of the Tom
Patton farm for subdivision into
smaller farms or garden tracts.
sure; a diathermic current for inter
ior treatment, a vacuum cup for
drawing pus from % wound; an elec
trical dilator for /iseases of the rec
tum, etc.
There is i» /urther need of Tran
sylvania peoj^ going to Asheville,
when they can save money by being
treated at home. All of the above
treatments are absolutely painless.
. This is the year to spray your
fruit trees as all indications point
towards a large fruit crop. The
spring is unusually late and we
have had two off seasons for fruit.
It pays to spray fruit trees. The
best argument in favor of spraying
is that large commercial orchardist
f-pray their trees. Sprayed fruit
trees will grow larger, keep longer
and is better flavored. The cost of
spraying is small compared with the
improvement it makes on fruit.
The two most ^impoi’tant sprays
are the dormant spray which is given
before the leaves put out, and the
spray when the seven eights of the
petals or blooms have fallen.
The first spray acts as a tonic for
the tree ,and kills the San Jose and
other scaK. The material for this is
one gallon of commercialy ^ime sul-
INTERESTING MEET
ING OF TEACHERS
The county school teachers and
members of the school committees
met at the auditorium of the Bre
vard High School on Saturday, Mar.
20th. The meeting was both inter
esting and profitable. Mr. Victor
Garven of Flat Rock gave a talk on
vocational agriculture, Messrs. W.
R, Kimsey and Jno, Boggs, commit
teemen of Turkey Creek, also gave
interesting addresses. Mr. Boggs’
subject was “Cats.” He went on to
show that mankind owed a great
deal to the cat. If it had not been
for the cat, said Mr. Boggs, we would
not have electric lights and many
other useful inventions.
Truant Officer Wilson/spoke about
the benefit ofj compul^ry attendance.
Some sevent^ chUiwen were put in
school by thiaWw and the operations
of the Juvenile Court.
A number of teachers joined in
the discussion of various potent
school problems. Prof. Mitchell
spoke on the possibilities of having
a secretary of education at Wash
ington and what such a bureau would
mean to the schools of the United
States if Congress passed the im
pending measure,
Calvert had the honor of being
the only school with a full comple
ment of committeemen. Teachers
and committeemen were present ev
en from the large number of schools
which are now closed.
LYCEUM TO GIVE TV/O MORE
ENTERTAINMENTS
The next Lyceum number will be
given at the Auditorium on Monday,
April 12 at 8:30 P. M., and will con
sist of readings, impersonations and
music by the Freeman Hammond
Company. The last number of this
scries will be given by the E*^dericks
Concert Comp|;ny on M^^ay, April
19 at 8:30 P. il.
The second I en^mainment of the
series not considered up to
the standard by the Brevard com
mittee, Mr. Solon H. Bryan came
over from Asheville recently and ar
ranged to give t\vo extra numbers.
These two extra numbers will be at
the reduced price of 50c per ticket
to any pai't of the house. Holders
of season tickets will keep the same |
reservations noted on their cards.
EASTER SALE OF GOODIES
The ladies of the Baptist church
will conduct a sale of fancy aprons
and eatables of all kinds Saturday |
before Easter, the proceeds of which!
will go to the Flow^er Fund. I
phur to eitht gallons of^water, or
Sealecidp laay be use^r The mater- i It v.ill br^ng returns to you;
ial for thej second staying is one | But don’t spray them any way,
and one fobrth ga]/ns of lime sul- Spray them right; Fm sure twill pay.
gal
of water, and
W’’hei\ you find your apples bad,
dered arsenate of j Full of worms, and you get mad,
nds of arsenate of And the loaves are curled by lice
When they should be poking nice.
Use lime-sulphur—p^son, too—
phur to fifj
one pound
lead or tw^
lead paste. I 'Ais spray is for the
codling mo^ which causes wormy
apples and is the most important of i And some nicotinaMwill do;
all. But don’t, spray mem any way,
Extension circular No. 101 will Spray th^m ri|^; I’m sure twill pay.
tell you how to spray and gives the
best time for each spraying.
When bfe p^ches grow, then rot
About tjieynme it’s getting hot,
And th^^ub you find inside
Ev’ry peach cut open wide.
Use lime-sulphur, self-boiled, too.
An etomological poet is some
thing new under the sun, but the
E<t.n.ion F.,I» New. has uncovered j added—do!
one in the person of R. W. Leiby,
Assistant State Entomologist, who,
perhaps, inspired by the Rural Rhy
mer of Rutherfordton
this one:
,send along
When your “spuds” are looking sick
And the bugs are on them thick.
And the vines show signs of blight,
Which may kill them over-night.
Use Bordellos—and poison, too.
Spray them right; I’m sure twill pay.
Never wait until the blight.
Bugs and rot work alK their might,
But begin to spray the tree,
Vine or plant—^whate’er it be—
Well before the rot or worm
Gets a start from any germ;
Then you’ll find the spray will pay,
“Spuds” and fruit w^ll be O. K.
N. C. PUBLISHERS
MET LAST WEEK
Following a protracted session.
Friday night in the Board of Trade
rooms in Asheville at which time
some of the vital questions facing
small weekly newspapers were dis
cussed, the Western North Caroliiia
Association adjourned to meet in
Charlotte on May 14.
R. E. Price of Rutherfordton, was
elected president of^the association
at the annual election of officers.
Other officers elected were: Vice-
President, C. B. Osborne of Brevard;
J. E. Whitten of Marion secretary
and treasurer; Miss Beatrice Cobb
of Morganton, historian and J. D.
Boone, of Waynesville, poet.
• A vote of thanks was tendered to
the Asheville Board of Trade for the
use of their assembly room in which
the afternoon and evening sessions
of the association were held, and
the thanks of the organization were
also tendered to Messrs Cady and
Dillard for courtesies extended.
The banquet which had been ar
ranged for the members of the Press
association by the directors of the
Board of Trade was called off on ac
count of the limited time at the dis
posal of the members of the organi
zation.
In the afternoon session following
the reading of the annual poem by
Mr. Boone on “Fourth Estate,” the
report of the historian v/as given.
Then followed an open discussion of
such important matters as the ad
vantages of a standard rate card, the
nature and quanity or editorials
weekly, the advantages and disad-
vantaeos of a flat rate and sliding
scale for advertising, and the good
features of a weekly.
In the evening session other topics
were discussed by the members: such
ones as the modernizing of the office
and the shop work of a weekly, how
to make fhe association more useful
to the members, how^ the papers may
hold their own against the invasion
of dailies, cheap weeklies, semi
weeklies, and triweeklies, the merits
of the ready-print advertising com
pensation plan, how advertising and
reading matter should be proportion
ed in order to do justice to both the
advertisers and subscribers and how .
the classified columns may be boost
ed, These topics were assigned to
individuals but each member was
called upon to express himself OA
each subject on tho program.
Among those present at the ses
sions Friday were: R, E. Price, of
Rutherfordton, J. D. Boone of Way
nesville, J. 0. Mercer of Murphy, J.
E. Whitten of Marion, Mr. and Mrs.
C, Bush of Tryon, C. B. Osborne of
Brevard, Noah Hollowell of Hender
sonville, Beatrice Cobb of Morgan
ton, N. C. Cody and A. T. Dillard of
Charlotte.
COS PAXTON WITHDRAWS
FROM RACE FOR SHERIFF
Editor Brevard News:
I want to take this privilege to
thank my friends for announcing my
candidacy for sheriff in your paper,
and assure them they have my last
ing appreciation for their effort.
But owing to circumstances I beg to
decline the honor they wish to be
stow upon me.
I heartily thank every democrat
and republican who Iflts voted for
me in the past, and hope they have
no regrets.
I will endeavor to do all I can for
the party in the future as in tlie
past that is honest and honorable.
With kindest regards to all, I am.
Very truly,
COS PAXTON.