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VOL. XXXIV.
COMING HOME NEXT
WEEK TO BE WITH
LOVED ONES AGAIf
Hundreds of Handclasps Wil
the Mark Meeting and
Greeting of Friends
REV. J. C. OWEN EXPECTEI
TO VISIT OLD SCENES HERI
Others Cannot Come, But Ar<
Writing of Their Interest
In the Home Town
Word is coming from every sec
tions that people are coming bacl
home next week, to see the sectior
and visit the folks which they left
in years gone by. Many families are
expecting relatives and friends, anc
making preparations for their recep
tion. There will be reunions of fam
ilies separated for many, many years
There are outstanding men and wo
men in other sections, men and wo
men who. as boys and girls roame<
the hills and traipsed the valleys ol
Transylvania county.
Mr. Luther Aiken, prominent citi
zen of Brevard, is making every prep
aration to entertain those who
are coming to visit him. One
man in particular that Mr. Aiken
hopes to see is the Rev. J.
C. Owen, now living at Easley,
S. C. In speaking of this noted m,-n
ister ,Mi. Aiken sa'd:
"He >s one of the biggest men that
this county ever produced. I admire
him because he was the first native
son to graduate at a standard college,
the first to go to a foreign mission
field, the first to have an honorary
degree conferred by a college. Mr.
Owen, I believe, holds a higher schol
astic decree than any other native
son of Transylvania county. He is
recognizod*as cn3 of the county's
greatest evangelists, and has carried
the banner of Transylvania county
aloft in many fields of achievement.
There are many other fine men and
women who will be here, but some
how 1 admire Mr. Owen most of all,
because of the great success that has
come to him. He has reached his
pinnacle because he is a fine, clean,
Christian man."
It would make interesting read
ing, should this paper be able to pay
tribute to all the men and women
who were reared here and who have
made their marks in other fields. Per
haps other citizens will furnish such
sketches about men they know and
(Continued on back page)
HOWELL BOYS TO BE
TRIED THURSDAY
Assailants of George Shuford
on Trial In Jackson
County Court
Trial of the Howell brothers for
murderous attacks made on George
Shuford and his truck driver, W. M.
Pearce, recently, is to begin in Sylva
this Thursday, and several friends of
the Brevard men are attending the
trial.
The Howells are charged with hav
ing assaulted Mr. Pearce first, and
then dangerously wounding Mr. Shu
ford when he went to the rescue of
his driver. The Brevard men were
driving along Highway 28, and had
crossed into Jackson county, when
the Howells, it is charged, passed
them and the trouble ensued. Mr.
Pearce was driving a truck, and Mr.
and Mrs. Shuford were following in
Mr. Shuford's car. The men stop
ped Pearce, it is said, and were
beating him up. Mr. Shuford made
effort to help his driver, and was
knocked in the head with an iron,
and then slashed in both sides with
a knife. He wa3 in the Transyl
vania hospital for several days, at
first his family and friends having
but little hope of his recovery.
The Howells were captured three
days after the brutal attack at the
home of their father in Haywood
county, Sheriff T. E. Patton, Deputy
Sheriff Tom Wood, Yancey McCrary.
Crocket Hendrix and other Brevard
men kept the hunt going until the
men were located, identified by the
Shufords, and lodged in jail.
The men who are charged with
the crime are said to bear bad repu
tations, being known as dangerous
fellows in their fighting moods.
After the trial Mr. Shuford will
return to work with the Whitmire
Motor company, where he was con
nected for many years as salesman
of the Chevrolet cars. He is one of
the most popular men in the county,
and numbers his friends by the hun
dreds.
SOME ONE SPOILING THE
PLEASURE OF ALL FANS
Some one in Brevard it making
it utterly imponible for fans to
(at th^ results of the World Series
ball game* being played between
the Athletics and the Cubs. An
old set is being used by some one
in town that simply knocks other
radios into a /-ockad hr.t , and
spoils the pleasure "f all the peo
ple of the town who are trying to
"listen in" on the big game*.
It is believed that whoever it is
causing this disturbance will glad
ly stop it when it 11 'Icnovm they
are spoiling the pleasure of their
friend* all over town.
"Editor
"Will you allow me space in your
paper for a few words in reply to
an article which appeared in your
paper of last week in regard to the
Purity Products company charging
the tax payers so much for the coal
furnished the schools. Will say to
start with that the tax payers got
full value for every cent they paid
the Purity Products company. And
if they will search the records in
Mr. McNeely's office they will see.
We do not ask them to take any
body's word, for the records are
there to speak for themselbes. And
then ask some coal dealer in Hen
dersonville or Asheville what they
think about the price they paid.
Also see if you can find out what
you have been paying for the coal
that was bought for the schools for
the last two or three years. What
I found in the office never said how
much you paid for, nor what you
paid per ton for it. It just said so
many hundred dollars for coal for
schools. Now, is the cheapest the
best? We could have sold the
county cheaper coal. I certainly do
not think it would have been a good
buy to have bought it. Mr. Mc
Neely used good judgment in buying
dealers, and I suppose he bought
from the man making the lowest
price. I ? certainly think Mr. Mc
Neely used god judgment in buying
the quality he bought. He had the
opportunity to buy the same kind of
coal from the other dealer. The
reason he didn't is because he
bought where he got the best buy.
"Now, if the tax payers had got
ten for the paxt six or eight years
as square deals on everything as
they did on this coal, they surely
would be far better off than they
are, and you wouldn't see so much
land sold for taxes every year.
(Signed)
"W. L. MULL, President,
"Purity Products Co."
SOUTHERN PUBLIC
OFFICIAL NOW HERE
Mr. J. M. Gaines, of Charlotte,
manager of the Brevard Branch of
the Southern Public Utilities com
pany, has arrived in town and as
sumed charge of the affairs of the
new concern here. Mrs. Gaines, a
bride of but a few weelcs, is with
her husband, and they are living at
the Waltermire hotel.
Offices are being opened in the
Waltermire Building, alterations be
ing made to accommodate the re
tail part of their business as well as
general offices for the concern.
Elecrical devices of all kinds will be
carried in stock and sold to the pa
trons of the utilities -company.
Mr. Gaines expressed pleasure in
being selected for the post in Bre
vard, being especially impressed
with the beauty of the place and the
fine spirit of the people. The
young people will be great additions,
also, to the social life of the com
munity.
HOLDING REVIVAL
AT THE INSTITUTE
Rev. E. L. Kirk of the Acton
Methodist church, Asheville District,
is here assisting the faculty at the
Brevard Institute in the conduct of
a special series of meetings which
will continue throughout the week.
Mr. Kirk is a young man, but with
a wide experience in working with
young people. His messages are
forceful and convincing, and it is
expected that the efforts of the week
will be productive of marked re
suits in the lives of the student
group.
INDIAN FAIR IN PROGRESS
Many people ara attending- the
Cherokee Indian F&ir, now in prog
ress in Cherokee. This annual went
is one of the most interesting af
fairs staged ir. Wetsem North Car
olina, and always draws a big
crowd.
The fail will last through iVJday.
^(mW^?r^9z^DistnctMeeting Mra. Julian P. Kitchen |
Seretary of First District
Singing America
Greetings from the Hostess Chapter Mrs. Joseph S. Silversteen
Acting Regent Waightstill Avery Chapter
Greetings Mr. W. E. Breese|
Member of Society of the Cincinnati
Response Mrs. Ralph M. Pfaff |
Regent Edward Buncombe Chapter
Address Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker|
State Regent
Vocal Solo Mrs. Hugh Walker I
Address Mrs. Ralph VanLandingham
Vice-President General
Greetings Mrs. R. Duke Hay i
State Historian
Greetings Mrs. T. Lenoir Gwyn|
State Librarian
Vocal Solo Mr. Alvin Moore |
Greetings from Distinguished Guests
Adjournment for Lunch.
2:30 P.M.
Reports of Chapter Regents:
Mrs. Ralph N. Pfaff Edward Buncombe Chapter
Mrs. Frank A. Ewbank Joseph MacDowell Chapter
Mrs. Charles E. Quinlan Dorcas Bell Love Chapter
Mrs. E. W. Blythe Waightstill Avery Chapter
Reports of Committees
Round Table Discussion and General Business
Adjournment.
BOARD RECEIVES
PATTON'S REPORT
Gets New Tax Bills ? $201,
984.81 Amount To Be Col
lected for 1929 Taxes
Sheriff-Tax Collector T. E. Pat-(
ton, Jr., made settlement with th? :
county commissioners at the regu
lar meeting Monday, turning over
the last of the collections made on
the 1928 taxes, and received from
the board the 1929 accounts. This
year's taxes, to be collected for|
1929, amount to $201,984.81, not!
counting the corporation taxes.
Report was made that there is an '
amount of nearly eight thousand ?
dollars uncollected or unsettled on
the 1928 taxes. Much of this, it is
said, is in bad checks, checks being
held for collection, and personal
taxes. The personal taxes uncol
lected are in small amounts, and
owed by citizens throughout the
county. The tax collector was in
structed to clear up these items at
once, and it is probable that actions
will be started against several citi
zens who have failed to pay their
last year's taxes.
The commissioners transacted much
other business of a routine nature.
MR. LOUIS CARR ON
VISIT IN BREVARD
Mr. Louis Carr, head of the big
Carr Lumber company, with still
larger operations in New Mexico, is
spending the week here, planning to
leave Saturday night on his return
trip to the west.
Mr. Carr's New Mexico mills cut
nearly three million feet of lumber
in August, which is a fair average of
the output. When asked how long
the operations in the west would
continue, Mr. Carr said: "There ifl
[timber enough in our boundary to
keep me going at full speed as long
as I live, and then keep my children
busy as long as they live, and then
keep my grandchildren busy as long
as they live."
New Mexico is a great country in
every respect, Mr. Carr says. Fruit
grows fine, vegetables are grown
there and shipped all over the west
ern half of the nation, while agricul
ture is conducted as a real business
basis. Mr. Carr reports business
good in the southwest, and money
plentiful.
But, Mr. Carr says, he is always
glad to get back home, and see his
many friends here. It was here in
these mountains .that the genial
giant first seeled the heights of suc
cess, and became an outstanding fig
ure nmonfr the really big business
men of the country.
COUNTY COURT IN
WHIRLWIND SET-TO
Eighty-odd Cases Disposed of <
? Tightening up on the
Bondsmen
Cases were disposed of in County ]
Court Monday and Tuesday in great
rapidity, some eighty-odd cases be- '
ing disposed of in the two-day ses- [
sion. None were of general inter- ?
est, however. One case in which ?
probable cause was found resulted in 1
binding two young men of the Cher
ryfield section over on the charge of
second degree burglary.
Action of the court is tightening
up on bondsmen where the defend
ants were not in court gave rise to
the assertion that hereafter a man
must be of pretty substantial sort
in order to induce any one to go
bail for him. Friends do not mind
standing good for a fellow's appear
ance in court on a given day, provid
ing the fellow is to be there. But
when large numbers fail to attend,
and their bondsmen are called upon
to "cough up" the amount of the
bail, then it is that men swear off.
Chances are that many who persist
in violating the law in the future
will have to spend the time in jail
until their cases are called on ac
count of the treatment some defend
ants have handed out to their
friends who went bail for them.
TO ENTERTAIN THE
FIREMEN AT LUNCH
As this is Fire Prevention Week,
the meeting of the Kiwanis club is
to be devoted to a study of this im
portant question, and James S.
Bromfield, chief of the Brevard Fire
Department, is in charge of the
program. Civic clubs, schools, wo
men's organizations, "and many other
agencies are stressing the importance
of fire prevention measures through
out the nation, and statistics show
that much has bene done in the past
in reducing loss by fire because of the
observance of this week.
Chief Bromfield is expected to give
information as to the best methods
of fire pretention and make sagges
tions as to how the public can assist
the fire fighting forces in saving
property from destruction.
As a mark of appreciation of the
services of the Brevard Fire De
partment, all members of that im
portant group have been irvited to
be guests at the club meeting today.
The meeting will be held at The
Central Cafe, Gus Roman's place,
at noon.
Wednesday. The children are as
follows:
Walter Merrell, Miss Mary Mer
rill, John Merrill and Virgil Merrill,
all of this county; and Tom Merrill
of Biltmore; Leon Merrill, of Uma
tilla. Fla., and Vernon Merrill 01
West Palm Beach. In addition to
these there are three grand children
who were reared in the home of the
deceased, L V. Merrill of ttest
Palm Beach, and Harold and Paul,
bright young boy3 at the Merrill
h?Periy Merrill, a brother of "Uncle
Baxter," lives nearby, and he is now ,
the onlv living child in what was a):
family of |iirteen children. The {.
deceased joined the Baptist chuicn
when he was but a little boy, anil
had lived a most useful and beauti
ful life. Always a good neighbor,
Mr. Merrill was noted for his gen- ;
erous hearted treatment of all about
him, and in the days before the un-j'
dertaking business reached its pres-l
ent perfected state, Mr. Merrill was <
called upon to make many coffin* in
which to lay away members of the 1
families in his neighborhood. Reins ?
.in expert in woodworking, the task :
of making coffins for his neighbors
when death visited their famines
seemed to fall to him, and it is said of .
him that none of his work was ever <
permitted to keep him :rom going
to the aid of his neighbors in i
trouble.
The Merrills in this county were
among the first settlers here. _ ami
descended from tht old benjamin
Merrill who took scch an important
part in the fighting waged by }
company of men known as Ttie K g
ulators, early settlers who objected
to English rule and taxation evsn .
before the Revolutionary War was
waged, and showed their objection
bv defying Governor Try on.
Rev. J. P. Scott conducted the fun
eral services at Little River Baptist
cnurch, and the body was then law ;
to rest in the cemetery nearby in ,
the beautiful Little River valley,
where he was born and reared, an ^
had spent his life.
MMLEOASS i
TO HAVE BANQUET ;
i
All in in readiness for the dnitier ;
and business meeting of tn$ Mtens
Bible class of the Brevw-d M^^t
church. The meeting wll he ndd at
Mr. Breese s camp, Maiden hair
Mills, this Thursday evening Tn
dinner is being P^pare, by Mr.
Sam Allison, noted for . his ability at
making barbecuf and aicbhkc. I - ?
said that many squirrels will be in
the not Dr. Zaehaty, Beverly Tran
tham and other -ne huurred per cent
marksmen having been she, lint. t..ftj
woods during the wee i. Y
All members of the cmns art ex
pected to be on 'wed. Thoae who
have not been attending clsaa k
cently are giver, a special invitation
and many men in the commnrntj wiio
would Stte to becow a member -
the clsfis are urged to a"*1"*- th
Everybody is to meet at the
church in time to leave there
promptly at 7 o'clock Thursday eve- .
ningMl who have cars are expect,
ed to bring them so there wiU l*;
ample room for taose not having
cars.
newspaper life
TO BE SHO WN HERE
Lombard, will be shown at "enwon ?
Theatre next Monday 3,)d "uesday.
This ft"" an amazing picture story
of newspaper life, of a reporter who
was accused o? a murder ol wnivh
he was innocent and of ms wife who
citing to him through thick and thin.
It is a story o:? the inside workings
of a big city newspaper office,
where speeding typists, tclephonef.
and telegraph cring the news of tne
world tti every fireside in the land.
It vivfdlv pictures a tragedy
with all its drama and thnlls, which
tried the souls of a faithful wife
and her innocent husband.
this proposed plan during the com
ing year. It was suggested that the
city officials might render some fi
nancial assistance to the Bureau to
ward the erection of a pool, and
that other organizations of the town
could be induccd to lend th?i>- *up
pon and cooperation \i> the under
taking.
A committee, with Mis.; [Catherine
Griffin as chairman, was appointed
to investigate and agitato the matter,
with the end in view of (petting the
people at the community ami else
where sufficiently interested to make
of this project a surety. Th^ other
members of this committee include
Mrs. L. B. Haynes and Mrs. Beulah
Zachary,
Other matter* of importance to
the Bureau and to th? community
were transacted, and plans dis
cussed leading toward the ueneral
welfare and beautifi cation of Sre
rard.
An interesting program was in
:harge of Mrs. C. C. Vor.gui1, which
was presented at the conclusion of
tha business session. Mrs! W. E.
Breese read an article on South Af
rican flowers and on "The Home
Its Needs," followed by reading- by
Mrs. Frank Jenkins :relatine to mod
ern tendencies in education with ref
erence to crime. Light refreshments
were served by the committee follow
ing the program.
MRS. JOHNSON"
INSTITUTE,
Her Coming Is Saiid To^Add
Strength to th? Depart
sneat oi Music
Mra. Julian Johnson of Rock Hill,
S. C., has arrived in Brevard to
take a place on the faculty of the
K'hoo! of music at Brevard Institute.
Mrs. Johnson, an honor graduate
i)t the New .England Conservatory of
Music in Boston, has been prorain
s.it ill both musical and church cir
clej in South Carolina for a number
vl year!. She was for several years,
a teacher in Winthrop college, and
been for fiftsen years organist in.
Saint Joba'a Methodist Episcopal
Cbarck, South, at Rock Hill. In ad
dition t<> these duties she has found
time to serve as president of the
Woman's Missionary society of the
upper South Carolina Conference,
;vnich position r.he still holds.
Brevard Institute is very fortun
ate in being able to secure the ser
vicer of Mrs. Jchnsor, whose addi
tion to tilt, department already sc.
ably headed by Miss Merritt, g.i<re?
the school era of the strongest de?
ptrtmeats oi music to be found in
this section fii! North Carolina. The
iteody growth of the department ini
the latt two y'Mrt indicates the inter
est taken by the pupils in the"
fine arfc?.
The "institute faculty now com
prises a jirowp including four Master.
of Arts degrees, and rax Bachelors.
For a school of this type, this is an
extraordinarily well-prepared fac
ulty, and the results of this selection
are apparent in the character of the
work that is being accomplished by
the students.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN TO MEET ON FRipAV
A jail meeting of the Bisifl
Professional Women's club
held at the Chamber of Com*
room Friday night of this wecl
o'clock, according to announffl
made by the president, M.itss 1
nette Talley. This is an impor
meeting and all members are urge<3
to be present Friday night.
MASONS EXPECTED TO
BE AT HAL!- FRIDAY NIGHT
Full etcodfmce is expected lit
the regaliu- communication tku
Fridif night of Dunn'* Rode Ma
sonic Lodge, when final plans will
ie Budit for t$e yreat neeti&f to
be heW eaa ? Weik later, when a
foil program wilt be given in ?b*
servance of Home-Coming W:A.
It i* highly important that many
msinber* be prelect at the meeting
vhi? Friday cresiag.