Pleasant Grove New#
Mrs. R. M. BIythe of Etowah,
spent a few days last week with her
daughter, Mrs. Carl Banks of Pleas
ant Grove.
Jack Drake of Hendersonvjlle, vis
ited his brother, J. H. Drake, at
Pleasant Grove last week.
Mrs. H. A. Grey, who has been in J
the Hendersonville hospital, is out
now and reported to be improving
rapidly.
The Pleasant Grove Sunday
School enjoyed a pienie Sunday. The
school met early Sunday morning,
had services and then w?nt to Look
ing Glass Fjdls and had dinner. The
children all reported a wonderful
time.
Rev. C. E. BIythe and \V. W. Orr j
are visiting the former's brother in
South Carolina.
- H. W. Grey of Hendersonville,
S was a Pleasant Grove visitor Friday
of last week.
-Tom Couch of Little River was in 1
? Pleasant Grove Sunday.
D. P. Kilpatriek o| Brevard was 1
in Pleasant Grove Sunday, looking 1
over his old playgrounds and ex- 1
changing words with friends and 1
relatives. '
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Grey visited ?
the former's sister. Mrs. M. P. '
Johnson of Balfour. Saturday. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Fletcher of 1
Beulah, visited the latter's parents, *
Mr. and Mrs. D. R .Justus, Sunday. 1
Paul Kilpatrick of Flat Rock, is s
visiting relatives in this section.
Earl and Hall and W. H. Grey *?
went to Hendersonville Saturday *
with a small truck load of Irish po? t
tatoes. Business must be picking <?'
up some, for they did no:, have to P
bring the tatoes back. .1
Mr. and A!rs. 0. S. Grey and t
son Hall. Mr. and Mrs. W. YV. Orr P
attended the association at Mace- t
- donia church last week. ,t
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Sentelle n
- visited Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Grey of tl
Hendersonville, Sunday. b
Mrs. Rena Aiken of Cherryfield, d
?' has returned home after visiting ?
friends and relatives at this place tl
for the past two weeks. n
D. C. Orr, who has been working a
in Hendersonville. has returned si
home and has entered school. Let tl
us give three cheers for D. C. h
Phydell Orr has done the same e
thing, so give three cheers for him b
also. C
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"CURIOUS CHRISTIAN DOOTY" d
o
James Russell Lowell has this to
sav of war:
f.
"Ez for war, I call it murder ? jtl
There you have it plain and flat; "
I don't want to go no furder ,ti
Than my Tostyment for that. ri
> ? s<
"'Taint .your eppyletts and feathers h
- Make the'r thing a grain more -p
right:! !0
'Taint a-fo!iering your bell-weathers tl
Will excuse ye in his sight. 'C(
"Ef you take the sword and dror it "?
? ^id '.stick a feller thru;
Guv-runt aint to answer fer it, j
God'Il send the bill to you.
n
"Wut's the use of meetin'-goin' ! n
Every Sabbath, wet or dry, |\\
Ef it's right to go a-mowin' t<
Feller-men like oats and rye? jw
"1 dunno but wKat it's pooty
Trailin' round in bobtail coats;
But it's cuiius Christian dooty, j."
This 'ere cuttin' folk's throats."
g
y
1 n
Proper care and attention to the j{
poultry flock during the summer s]
months wil play handsome dividends tl
in increased mucns this fall. 1^,
Two thousand Rowan County far- "]
mers took a day off last week and c,
attended an ali-day picnic, accord- u
ing to reports from County Agent n
W. G. Teager. Ip
SPECIAL it
EXCURSION iur
via It
Sou. Railway System jd
to
Savannah, Brunswick,
All Important Florida
Points, Havana, Cuba
August 23rd
Tickets sold at less than
one-way fare for round
trip.
ASK TICKET AGENTS
J. H. WOOD
Div. Passenger Agent
Asheville, N. C.
NEW YORK'S "
HOMELIKE HOSTELRY
IHfa =
SHERMAN
? SQUARE ?
BROADWAY ot70!h STREET
V Wher# You Will Find
LARGE ROOMS
CHARMINGLY FURNISHED
AMPLE PARKING SPACE
and BEST GARAGES
y Flneit Food at
MODERAn PRICES
A *
RATE*;; SINGLE fnm &50
G?org? J. Mayp Manager
SAYS COMMISSIONERS SHOULD \
NOT BE HAMPERED WITH STATE
NAMED BOARDS AND BUREAUS
i
(Continued from page one)
view of the whole public. Some
times there has been lack of foresight
and wisdom, but the county authori
ties, burdened beyond endurance,
have to say to critical legislators and
executives, paraphrasing the Scrip
ture, "First pluck the beam out oi
your own eye that you may see the
more clearly to remove the mote
from my eye."
On every hand we arc told that
county administrations have added
new and costly and unnecessary
agencies of government, which are
responsible for the increased taxes
on land. Too often this has been
true, and the criticism in deserved
?nd county authorities have no an
swer to the just criticism except w
reform themselves. But when it is
-effected that these county officials
lave been given little voice in uie
;xpenditures for which they must
nake provision by direct taction
ithev have no other source to draw
iponl , criticism should be modified
o be both intelligent and fair. Most
>f the money raised by the cou"ty
authorities by taxation is expended
or schools and roads. As to the first,
Commissioners must levy enough tax
o carry out the six months consti
utional" requirement, and in most
ounties for an eight months term
Toperlv demanded by the Par?"ts"
'hev have little voice in the amount
o be raised and no voice in the exp
enditures. As to all roads excep.
he State highways, they must levy
axes on land to provide sufficient
loney. and then must m
he demand of every citizen to
uild a pood road in front oi his
oor. If they see public **i?ney
rasted in the dilatory Passes of
tie courts, they may neither protest ,
or reduce the heavy expenses The .
re the State's only almoners of th .
tck. the poor, the halt, the infirm,',
to down and out, the outcasts, the \
uman debris. No complete enum- ,
r ition of their duties and responsi- (
Hies is possible. Chambers of,
ommerce. welfare worKers an ,
lervbody else desiring somethmp be
one. except in incorporated tov/ns ,
nd ciiies, leave their problems on ,
le doorsteps of the County Comm.s- |(
oners. If they deny the Petl1j'?"*;<
>r relief and reform, woe be unto ,
em for they are sharply caller
back numbers and faithless .*??? ?
?ators." If they comply with aiune ,
.quests, even all the good ones the
iarne tax race brings upon their
eads the wrath of the . tax-payew.
hev must be numane in the care
f the poor and those in prison and
ley must keep down the per -capita
->?t of their maintenance. They are
ften called upon to do the impos
ble and blamed because they are
ot supermen. .
And vou County Commissioners.
iust "be all and do all' on the ^mag
ificent compensation of $4 a day,
-ith a limit on the number of ^day.
, be devoted to the task. In other
?ordff these officials levy taxes ag
regating millions of dollars in on
ear and largely direct ^ disburse
ment, and are given the Er<1"Jif^Ilv
ompensation of ?4 a day. Is .
?onder when consideration is g^?-n
T how' these Commissioners are se
ated the responsibilities laid upon
nnnliiers often without adequate
raining, that in some counties coun
, government breaks \ ; ^
ot surprising how etticieniy
ie conditions imposed so man.
ounties function, thus paying - ^
te to patriotic men who from
otive except the compulsion ^
ublic service consecrate their time
nd service to the common weal.
The first people in North Carolina
3 see the evils of a system, laek'"?
niformity and counsel, the
'hey' recognized Sth'e mistakes and
"'E' tV" a? wwS' &
odv in 1925 you passed a res0^10"
sasssrrii="s
thp County Govern ijient Ad
??, SLSS ?.s e.ftb'ish.'i
nd a County Finance Control Ac
ras passed. These acts have brought
mjch J?t
ialnS to in securing the capable
nd tactful Charles M. Johnson as
Ixecutive Secretary of the Commis
Tt- has brought about better
onditions in every c?unthya^h"iSely
'ountv Commissioners have wise y
ErkesrtLsfuws
etroactive, and could not remedy
h9e20eXre;aSg1o!ihds]vaswthe^ac
eftharw^proSe^oftoo rapiaiy. in
rndtsuinV The burden , o paying
t SV^ra^eriJd'of crop
ind land and industry deflation
e2"&S ofone unB syst m
if county administration, new bodies
n expense. In all counties .there ?e,
"omSTonerl thfcounty Board ^
as ft"
associations \ more>
?oh forking along lines of their
added the various .officials paid by |
the State going from county to
1 county looking after tax collection,
schools, insurance, health, forests,
farm and home demonstration, and
'other activities, mostly wholly inde
pendent of each other and spending
more than the best business adminis
i tration would sanction. For ex
ample, in one day at a county seat
jin Western North Carolina five State
inspectors or collectors or agents
drove into the county seat on State
owned automobiles. Each official had
a small job to look after requiring
only a few hours. "Why," asked
the hotel keeper who was glad to
have their patronage, "could there 1
not have been some co-ordination at
Raleigh whereby part of this ex- ;
pense could have been saved without :
loss of good administration?" Echo;
answers, "Why?" The answer is be- <
cause North Carolina administration (
continues to function upon the basis i
of pouring new wine into old bottles. '
Hasn't the time come to give each i
county a unified county administra- 1 '
tion, with one body of County Com-1,
missioners, or Board, which will di- ?
rect all the affairs of the county, se- ,
lect all its agents and secure bette- 1 .
administration? We may despair of j S
the best county government, as weil j
as the best government in other I
units, so long as there is lack of a
central unified administration fixed . a
with power and charged with respon- . s
sibility. Each county should have a :
County Government,* in which the!?1
best paid official would be the chair- 11
man of the County Board (call him is
ivhat you will) and the County Board , *
should direct by agents of its own a
selection the execution of al! gov-;E
ernmental functions in the county.
'But," you say, "it would require a
Constitutional Amendment to end the 0
election of the clerk of the court,
sheriff, register of deeds and other . <?
constitutional officials and let them d
be selected and their compensation ,t<
fixed by the County Board." Cer- a
:ainly it would, and the thing most ?
needed in North Carolina is a Con- !
stitutional Convention to give a mod- n
;rn system of government and taxa
:ion, State and county and city. Ex- y
serience has shown that a paid it
bounty Treasurer is an unnecessary c<
ifficial. Other official positions w
should be consolidated or abolished e<
Mr. Leverett did some good work
on our roads recently.
Mrs. S. V. Brown spent Tuesday
afternon of last week with her sis
ter, Mrs. James Lyday, of Pisgah
Forest.
A number of our folks have been
attending the revival at Blantyre.
Misses Blanche Brown and Lois
Burgess motored to Hendersonville
one day last week.
Donald Drake, of Hendersonville,
was in this sectiou recently.
Carl Talley of Penrose, was a bus
iness caller here Thursday.
Little Ada Orr is visiting her
brother, Jerry Orr. at Bradley Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Orr and !
son, Ralph, were visitors of Mrs. '
Orr's mother, Mrs. S: V. Brown, on |
Wednesday night of last week.
Arnold Brown entertained with a
community singing at his home Sun
day night
A number of young folks enjoyed
a picnic supper at John's Rock last
Sunday evening. |
Clyde Brown left Sunday for
Btatesville, where he will spend a
few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Brown and
children attended the Drake reunion
it Pleasant Hill on Sunday.
Mrs. Eva Raines visited relatives
lere last week.
Mrs. S. V. Brown and daughter,
diss Blanche, Misses Nora Alexan
ler and Lois Burgess were Mills
liver visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Orr, Mr. and
Irs. Clarence Orr and son, Ralph,
ttended the Orr reunion at Hender
onville Sunday.
[i the counties when expedient. &.ndj3<
n all such matters the County Board >d<
hould be given absolute authority, j
t; is an archaic situation by which
sheriff, answerable to the County
!oard., is elected, and it necessary
o go to the State General Assembly
o obtain authority to fix the salaries
f county officials and to increase
he number of deputies and fix their
ompensation. This is sometimes
one by members of the Legislature
3 favor partisans without so much
s asking the advice of the County,
loard, which must foot the bill.
Up to date, by some very excellent
lethods and agents and some not so
pod, we have been doing in recent
ears a good job of patch work, but '
has not brought about a unified j
aunty administration without which
?e shall fail to secure the utmost j
:onomy and efficiency.
Her Children a Joy
"When I was not more than 13
years old mother taught me never
to take spells of biliousness, indi
gestion and sour stomach lightly,*
cays Mrs. C E. Hauck, whose horns
is at 1310 Boyle St, in Houston.
"She started me Ulrinp Herbine then,
and what a blessing it has been foe
me! My four children are always
well, with good appetites and a big ;
store of energy. Any time one 01
them gets a little sluggish, breath ia
bad or I see the tongue becoming
coated, I give him a teaspoonful of
Herbine."
Herbine is a vegetable liquid sol
concentrated you only have to take
a teaspoonful to get results. Her
bine does nothing more than keep the
stomach and bowels active so gas
can not constipate you, make you I
bilious, dyspeptic or suffer from soar J
itow.ck. sick headache tni indigo*
baa.
Sold by D*Tt?-Lcng Drug Cu.
elieve* a at NtU7?!(i< ic
1 minute*, raacJca i, Cold ifee first
?y, and dictki Maltri* in 3 dr.ys.
666 also in Tablet*.
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Brevard Office in P. 0. ButkHnf
OlKn EY*ry TUESDAY Aff.ert.ooa
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We have Light Bulbs for |
Farm Lighting Plants and
for City Current. Also,
other Electrical Equip
ment
Electric Service by
Guy Dean
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