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THE BREVARD NEWS Pubished Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at tbe Poatoffice in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year : $2.00 Six Mentha LOO Three Months A 0 Thurday, July 2, 1931 GREAT IMPROVEMENT BEING MA OK IN BUSINESS NOW From every direction there come reports of improving business condi tions, and the large number of men -and women being called back into in dustry give indication of an early re turn to normal conditions. Mr. l.amar Lewis, who has been with the Roberts, John & Rand Shoe company for the past 11 years, is just feavk from St. Louis, attending the .annual convention of the salesmen of that great concern. Mr. Lewis re volts full time work in all the fac to. js owned and operated by his com pany, with low stocks in warehouses anil in stores, which means that many millions of pairs of shoes must be made by the Star Brand people with in the coming twelve months. Shoe factories running full time .means activity in the tanneries, and activity in the tanneries means activ ity in the acid woods and allied in ?dnstries. And on and on the wheels ?of progress turn, with industry added to industry, until, in time, full pro duction in all lines will again make for good times everywhere. .Mr. Lewis drove through to St. Ixxiis, covering 1,423 miles on the round crip, and encountered some hot ?weather that makes it easily under stood why so many thousands of peo ple hurry to these hills when Old Sol :begins to scorch things in those sec tions traversed by the Brevard man. GOVERNOR GARDNER ASKS SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC fS OPERATION OF ROADS Governor 0. Max Gardner is Call ing attention of the people of the state to the fact that every citizen may tielp in making the new highway law more effective for all the citizens, simply by lending sympathetic sup port to the movement. The new ad ministration went into effect yester day, and a full statement of the plan is published on the front page of The Brevard News. Thi> Governor, in sending out the statement, addressed a letter to the editors of newspapers in which he stressed the fact that, in his belief, greater efficiency of highway work, at less cost, may be had under the new law than was possible under the old regime. Continuing, the Governor says: I myself bulieve that the new road law marks the embarkation upon another stale policy that will maintain North Carolina's estab lished position as '"the good roads <tate" in the eyes of the nation. I also believe that our own citizens will soon come to appreciate at its full worth both the niprovements : hat we shall be able ? > make in the maintenance of local i *ads and the substantial decrease that we shall effectuate in our prop: ty tax bur den. May I express my whole-hearted appreciation of the abb assistance that the daily and weekly news papers ic North Carolina rendered the administration in the effort to work out this major program. No other body of our citizenship any where contributed more to inform the public of the issues in this ques tion and of the desirability of fixing responsibility for the maintenance of all roads in one organization so as to be able to apply the most ef ficient and economical administra tion possible in the maintenance of all roads, state and county. THE GOLDEN HARVEST BEING GARNERED IN COUNTY NOW It is an inspiration to any one who is interested in Transylvania county to pass along the highways and view the abundant harvest of the wheat crop, now being cradled and shocked, and then to look upon wheat's com panion crop, the corn, and see the waving stalks of sturdy black grow ing so rapidly as to suggest a race in every field to see which stalk will be first to tassel and silk. On another side will be seen great fields of Irish potatoes, and a fine diversification, then, of other crops, all looking their best and most promising. Older citi zens say that the crops this year in Transylvania county have the appear ance of the days of old, when agri culture 'and stock raising were the leading industries here, and when wealth abounded on every hand and poverty was almost unknown. The county's finest citizens may be seen everywhere in these fields of growing grain and flourishing vege tables. Out there in the heat, wet with perspiration, toiling long hours in bringing forth the food without which the human family would per ish, those men have a dignity that is not seen in face, form or bearing of any other group of men on earth. There is a consciousness with them of the great work which they ar? doi^.g, a work that is high' and holy, for it i3 life they are making and giving. Transylvania county is headed back to agriculture, its most promising state, as the basic industry and en terprise. All glory to the farmer, and gratitude for the fruits of the farm! | LIKES THE BREVARD NEWS DISLIKES SOME OF THE NEWS ? Editor The Brevard News: ' Find enelosed money order for $2 'as renewal on my paper for another | year. I would be completely lost I without The Brevard News, coming from my old home where I was rais ed. It is true that I want all the news, I yet it is also true that there are some (things appearing in the paper recent ly that I cannot say I enjoy reading. I know such things as malice and ! hatred in politics are bound to creep I up and show up in the actions of men (in a community, but friends ought to ? work together without such things j showing up. 1 I am a Democrat, and if I did not know that the editor of The Brevard News is a Republican, I could never tell it from the paper, nor could any one else tell what party you belong to by reading the paper, for it is abso lutely fair, taking no sides with either party. j Say "Howdy" to all my old friends. R. K. BALLARD. ' Summerfield, Fla., Route 1. CATCHING THE PUBLIC EYE | Advertising slogans are furnishing 1 material for many editorials in the country's newspapers, it is indicated j f rom a check-up of the advertising of one of the manufacturers making the ' largest investment in newspaper j space. Lucky Strike's current series has ' elicited comment from newspapers all over the country. "Speaking of ad j vertisements,'' Louis Sobel says in the i New York Evening Graphic, "those | Lucky Strike blurbs are fascinating, but some one ought to tell the iad 1 writing the copy that normal women 1 have no Adam's apples. The catch iline line reads: 'Consider Your Ad am's Apple,' and below is a picture I of a pulchritudinous lass with an ar ; row and her fingers pointing to the spot where the anatomical fruit is jsuallv located. Now, if they had Jim i my Durante's interesting pan and I throat there, we'd have no paragraph. i"Rian James in the Brooklyn Eagle observes, "That ciggie ad which warns you to 'Consider Your Adam's ' Apple' displays a lovely blonde femme , pointing to hers, albeit femmes haven't got any." The Flemington, N. J., Democrat in commenting on cigarette advertising says: " 'Consider Your Adam's Ap | p]e' says a cigarette advertisement which prominently displays a pretty 'girl. How things are changing. Votes I for women and cigarettes for women i have been accepted for some time. I But now we have Adam's apples for i women." i The Oceanside, Calif., Tribune says: ' "The Lucky advertisements, which al i ways sparkle with new advertising ? ideas, sound a new note to smokers" I in telling them of "the consideration | they should have for their Adam's ap i ple> i Walter Winchell, one of the coun try's leading columnists, in the New . York Daily Mirror, comments as fol lows: "There appears to be a great i to-do over the newest Lucky Strike ad j because it states that women have i Adam's apples in their throats, etc. ' . . . . Newspaper readers have bom barded the ciggie firm with letters {kidding them for their so-called bon er. . . . . Well, you might include in Things You Never K. T. (Knew Till) I Now that women do have them.... I got that from a medical authority." | The Kansas City Times reprints a lit tle paragraph from the King City, Mo., News to the effect that "Lucky j Strikes have come out in behalf of an unrasped Adam's apple and young i Bill Harrison of Wabash Crossing thinks the cigarette ads have gone necky." Sam Gay in the Dayton, 0., Review gives as his viewpoint that j "we personally, intend to be sociable ; and let the old Adam's apple look out | for itself." The successful advertising today is jthat which so captures public atten tion that is slogans become national | by-words. And this is certainly true I with cigarette advertising. A LEXANDER REUNION I A number of relatives gathered at the home of J. W. Alexander . Sunday. Picnic dinner was served at 1 o'clock and in the afternoon addresses were made by D. H. Orr, I. N. Kuykendall and .1. W. Alexander. Those present on this happy occasion were: J. W. Alexander, Nona Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Alexander and children, Mary and Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Alexander, Warren and Maude Alex ander, Mr. and Mrs. Fate Mahaffey and children, Aline, Lyday and Len dre, Mr. and Mrs. John Parker, Mrs. Guy Newton and son Junior, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Newton and daughter Inez, Mrs. Lena Newton, Mr. and I Mrs. Clarence Orr and son Ralph, I Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Orr and children, ; Howard, D. S., and Frances, Mrs. | Wade Galloway and children, Paul, Terry, Lo.jaun, Fay and Wade, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Galloway and son Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Holden, Marshall Holden, Walter Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rhodes and children, Nora Lee, Wil le Mae and Claude Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Otho Scott and children, Clara Jane and Betty Sue, Mr. and Mrs. I James Lyday, Mr. and Mrs. S. V. j Brown and children, Arnold, Clyde "]| Along the Concrete ||~] THE LEGEND OF CONNESTEE FALLS 4 By MISS SUE LANKF ORD, Dec. 15, 1881 | The Brevard News is indebted to Miss Louise Merrill 6f Greenville, for 'one of the most interesting articles it, is possible to publish in this paper. It 1 is a clipping from a newspaper pub- . lished in 1881, entitled, "The Legend of Connestee Falls," written by Miss Sue Langford, now Mrs. Clingen of Springfield, Mo. The News is publishing both the letter from Miss Merrill and the clip I ping from the old paper. The letter i explains the clipping most thorough ly. \ ______ i Editor The News: ! In turning through an old scrap jbook my mother made when she was !a young girl, I ran across the enclos ed clipping, "The Legend of Connes tee," by Miss Sue Lankford. The date on the reverse side is December 15, 1881. I thought it might interest present day readers who may have forgotten, or perhaps never heard the legend of the falls. I In the last paragraph Miss Sue tells of a romance between a belle of Tran sylvania and a gentleman from Tex as. It is interesting to note that Miss Sue herself had a similar romance with a gentleman from Ohio. And it is said that the gentleman from Ohio was quite as "delighted with his wife" as the gentleman from Texas was with his. Miss Sue, who is Mrs. Sue Clingen, is living today in Springfield, Mo., but the gentleman from Ohio died several years ago. Mrs. Clingen had one son killed in the World war. She makes her home with her daughter in Springfield. She has many relatives in that section of the state. Mrs. Clingen is a first cousin of the writer's mother, who was Miss Leoti Lankford, herself a belle of Transylvania of the eighties, i I would like very much to have a copy of your paper should this article appear in it. And please return to me the clipping. I enclose also a verse by the writer about Connestee, writ ten about five years ago when the drought had robbed Connestee of most of its crystal flow. You may use it if you wish, also the parts of my letter you think necessary to explain the clipping. Very truly yours, LOUISE MERRILL. 207 Memminger Street, Greenville, S. C., June 21, 1931. Following was published in "The Farming World," issue of December 15. 1881: The Legend of Connestee Falls To the Editor of Farming World: I am a farmer's daughter and live in the suburbs of Brevard, the county seat of Transylvania. This town is one mile from the French Broad river, nestled among the mountains of West ern North Carolina and surrounded by one of the most beautiful and pro lific valleys imaginable. From the southern piazza of our cottage the scene is pronounced enchanting by many summer tourists who flock to our salubrious climate in the sum mer. There are many points of inter est in this valley each within half a day's drive of Brevard, upon which I wish the readers of the Farming j World could feast their eyes. Glenn Cannon Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Min nehaha Falls, Dunn's Rock, Rich j Mountain, Caesar's Head and Connes tee Falls, over which hangs the myth of an Indian legend. Some of your readers have heard it, but I will give it for the benefit of those who have not. The Cherokees who occupied this j region a hundred years ago and more, in an expedition to Charleston, j wounded and captured a young Eng- t lishman who was faithfully nursed by ! Connestee, the daughter of the chief, j His life was spared at her entreaty on condition that he assume the In- 1 dian life and wed her. He did so, and became the chief at the death of the i old warrior. But on another trading and Blanche, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brown ? and children, Lucile and Freeman, . Glynn Newton, B. J. Brown, Mrs. A. t W. Davis and children, Leroy, Irene and Clyde, Miss Kate Gillespie, Ray- j mon Reed, Edward Ownsby, Rev. C. ! E. Blythe and Rev. and Mrs. I. N. Kuykendall, Glynn Hughes, Mrs. Sa rah Orr, Mrs. J. C. McCall and chil dren, Pearl, Charles, Lois and Newell, and Wade Lyday. 1 Accustomed to tea since his child- j hood, John Rodgers of Los Angeles said in a divorce suit that his wifo insisted on giving him coffee and thereby spoiled his pleasure in life. tour to the coast he fell in with old companions who induced him to de sert the tribe. Poor Conneatee was heart-broken. She was dragged away as far as the falls which was the boundary of the tribe, over which she knew she would never pass again. She stole from the wigwam at mid night and threw herself over the falls. The tragedy is perpetuated and gave origin to the name. The French Broad river is said to be the highest navigable stream in the world, being 2,000 feet above the sea. A beautiful little steamboat has re cently been put on it called the Moun tain Lily. Our people are very much interested in the Atlantic and French Broad railroad which will pass thru this county giving us an outlet and developing our mineral resources. The severe drouth has not mater ially injured us. Crops are not an , average but there will be an adequate ! supply for home consumption. I Last summer a gentleman in Texas j courted a young lady here that he had |.never seeij, sent her money to defray 'her expense to Texas, met her at the depot, and took her to a hotel where they were married in a few hours af ter she arrived. I hear he is quite de lighted with his wife. I venture to say Texas Bachelor would not have the courage to do likewise. We will give the Parkersburg correspondent a cor dial welcome if she will come to this part of the Old North State. SUE LANKFORD. Transylvania county, N. C. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Under the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust execut ed by James Bostice and wife Sallie Bostic, to Lewis P. Hamlin, Trustee, dated the 30th day of August, 1929, and recorded in the office of the Reg ister of Deeds for Transylvania Coun ty, North Carolina, in Book 24, at page 255, et seq., and default having been made in the payment of the in debtedness thereby secured, and de mand having been made for sale, the undersigned Trustee, will sell at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash, at 12 o'clock M. on the 27th day of July, 1931, at the Court House door in the town of Brevard, N. C.. the following described piece or parcel of land, lying and being in Boyd Township and more particularly de scribed as follows: FIRST TRACT : Containing one acre more or less and fully described in a deed from C. W. Hemphill and wife to James Bostic, bearing date of April 16, 1904, and registered in Book No. 43 at page 308 of the Deed Records of Transylvania Countv, N. C. SECOND TRACT: Containing one hundred and fifty poles and fully de scribed in a deed from D. A. Surrett and wife to James Bostic by Deed [dated Jan. 15, 1897, and registered in j Book No. 43 at page 309 of the deed [records of Transylvania County, North Carolina. ; THIRD TRACT: Containing 8 3-4 acres more or less and fully described in a deed from J. P. Whitmire and wife to James Bostic dated June 25, 1906, and registered in Book 45 at page 17 of the deed records of Tran sylvania County, N. C. FOURTH TRACT: Containing 3 1-3 acres more or less and being the same land described in a deed from R. Mackey and wife to James Bostic by deed dated Jan. 25, 1907, and reg istered in Deed Book No. 45 at page 19 of the deed records of Transylvania County, North Carolina, with the ex ception of one acre sold off of this tract. Reference is hereby made to said deeds of record for a description of the four tracts of land by metes and bounds, said deeds and records being hereby referred to and made a part hereof for the purpose of a descrip tion of said lands. Also including in this deed in trust another tract bought from P. C. Townsend and wife, Ethel Townsend, by deed dated the 13th day of Feb. 1913, and recorded in Book 41, at page 461, being more fully described by metes and bounds as follows: Be ginning on a Post oak corner of church lot and runs North 11 degrees West 18 poles to a stone in Charlie Smith line, thence South 65 degrees East 4 poles to a stake: thenc? South 29 1-2 degrees East 22 poles to a stake in Hattie Kempt's line thence South 4 poles to a stake corner of church lot; thence West with said line to the beginning, containing 7-8 acre, more or less. Said sale being made for the pur pose of satisfying said debt, interest, costs and expenses of said sale. This 26th day of June, 1931. LEWIS P. HAMLIN, Trustee. July 3-10-17-24.' ??? I ??>??????? >??>?? ****** De Kalb ? ? ~ ? Volunteer Who Gave His Life for American Freedom. The brilliant Ideology of the Ameri can Revolutionists and their military Inexperience attracted gallant or needy soldiers whose hands were free and whose courage was bright, or whose necessities were great and whose prospects were dismal. Great Rritaln drew upon the German reser voir and the French helped America. Johann de Kalb was born at Hut tendorf, Bavaria, July 29, J 721. He had military experience In Europe, chiefly with the French army, which he entered In 17*3. He served through the seven years' war and came out of it with the rant of major general. In 1708 he was sent to America as a secret agent of the French govern ment, and that visit accounts for his subsequent service In the Revolu tionary army. Like John Paul Jones it was his acquaintance with the Col onies and with the American people and their Ideas that made him sympa thetic and eager to be of service when military service was needed. De Kalb Joined Gates, the general In command of the surviving American army In the South, at Camden, S. C., In August, 1780, Just in time to be In volved in the final collapse of that general's reputation and pretensions. In the defeat the Deluware troops were almost annihilated and the Mary land regiments lost half their number. The desperateness of the resistance offered by De Kalb In this shocking disaster to the American army In the South Is shown not only by the cas ualties in his ranks hut by the fact that he was wounded eleven times and when taken was dying. A monument to his memory was placed at Camden in 1825. Lafayette laid the corner stone of this memorial to his old comrade in arms. >. ,t, .?. -t. ?. ?. .? t. -? .? ?- .t >- t. rrvTT ttv ttttt tttttttttt Kosciuszko i * i . Patriot of Poland Who J * Fought for Liberty | of America. t ? V * More than a century has passed siiice he died In exile, an impover ished nnd broken-hearted failure, yet the world still thrills to the name of Thnddeus Kosciuszko, the beloved Polish patriot, who, incidentally, was one of the most useful nnd popular officers In the American army during the Revolution. He was less than thirty when in the autumn of 1773 he left Poland for France, where the conversation was nil of the struggle between Rrit aln and her North American colonies. So enthusiastic did he become ov?r the prospects of lighting on foreign soil for a freedom denied his own country, that in the spring of 1776 he sailed for Philadelphia, where he vol unteered his services nnd was accept ed by the American forces, which he faithfully served during the six years that followed. His first Job was the fortification el Philadelphia against possible attack by the British lleet. So well did lie do his work that congress gave him the rank of colonel in the engineering corps. A second achievement of his was the fortification of Wrtu Point on the Hudson, the site of uydch be Is said to have chosen, lie thfcow up the fortifications which saved I Saratoga and fought brilliantly there ;ilid at l'el lowsprlngs. Later, In the Sioth, hr succeeded Laurens in eharuJ of mill tary Intelligence. 1 CLASSIFIED ADS TYPING and general Stenographic Work. Rates reasonable. Phone 43. Miss Catherine Moffitt, Broad St. CANOES WANTED ? Need several good second-hand canoes. Write J. D. Metz, Cashiers, N. C. ltp FOR SALE ? Poland China pies. See George Morgan, at Cherryiield. 2p WANTED ? Small farm within 5 miles of Brevard, accessible to high way, 15 to 20 acres tillable land. 4 or 6 room house, Must be cheap. Box 487, Brevard, N. C. ltp ? ? ^ WANTED ? Adding Machine for" two months. Box 534. ltp FOR SALE ? 4 or 5 thousand Gold en Flume Celery plants. The finest you "ever saw. P. A. Morgan, Bre vard, Rte 3. ltp WANTED ? Antique bed, dresser, table and hanging lamp; saddle horse; English saddle. Must be reas- * onable. Address 1-2-3, Brevard News ALL who are interested in good meals com0 to Hinton Lodge where you will have fried chicken and ice cream besides all other kind of good eats. Mrs. Hinton. Jtil8 4tc A Two or Three room, furnished up stairs apartment for rent. All mod ern conveniences. Rent reasonable for season or year round. Hinton Lodge. Jn 18 4tc FOR SALE ? Aster plants, assorted ' colors, 10c per doz. Mrs. Luther Wilson, near Wilson Bridge, jn 18 3p WANTED to Buy ? Good used oil stove. Must be reasonably priced. Address, C. A., care Brevard News. ENGLISH BROTHERS, Shoe Re Builders?Anything in Shoe repair tag ? We satisfy. Rose Building, Fourth ave., Hendersonville, N. C. i We pay postage, so mail your shoes 'to us. Junll 4t FOR RENT ? to Reliable Party , 3 room apartment with bath, hot and cold water, Furnished or unfur nished, including electric range. Ap ply C. W. Pickelsimer, 336 W. Main Street. A23 tf VICTOR RADIOS . . Vio?or Phono graphs . . Victor Records . . II it's a Victor, it's good. For sale Houston's Furniture Store. M12tf NEWEST MAJESTIC RADIOS at 1 Houston Furniture Company. Bra vard. Guaranteed no "A-C hum." A high class Radio at a reasonable price. ______ 3ly 31t? FIRE WOOD, Stove Wood, Kindling, Sand and Gravel. Trunks and Baggage and general haaling. Rates reasonable. Siniard Transfer Co. Phone 118. Aug 13 4tc WANTED? Every one interested in Radios to call and see the wonder ful Atwater-Kent Radio. Hear it and see it at the Houston Furniture com pany's store. J15tfc PASTURE FOR REST? See me for pasture. Any number of cattle tak en. Rates reasonable. 3est of care given to stock. Thousands of acres of best pasture land. See Paul F. Rob erts, Cedar Mountain. A15 tf FOR SALE Like Rent, furnished six room Bungalow, hardwood floors, in Franklin Park or will rent for the summer season for one hundred dol lars. G. N. Ennett. Black Mountain, N. C. Jn5t GLASS TUMBLERS FREE July Specials ? Free on Each Satur day in July with each purchase of 50c or more, on glass tumbler. Bre vard Pharmacv, Jt^se B. Pickelsimer, Ph.G., Prop. thr Jy IF Interested in I I I' RABBIT S, my stock will please you. All pedigreed from America s fi< strains. Some household and kitchen furniture. Col. H. E. Boucher, Brevard Institute FRYERS WASTED? Can use ail you have and will pay as much as anyone else. W. L. Mull's Stores, Brevard. ltc SILVER LEE QUARTET TO SING AT COLORED SCHOOL With a promise of all the favorite Negro Spirituals, announcement is made that a singing contest between^ the Dixie Jubilee Singers of Forestjf" City and the Silver Lee Quartet, lo-^ cal colored singers of note, will he staged at the colored school Monday eveninir at 8:15. The double quar tet will open the program, it is an mutnred "Swirp I Sw"">t Chariot,' 'and close with "Carry Me Back to Old Virgin 'a. Kequns* r-m bers will be sung by the contesting quartets and and a special section will reserved for white people. WWWWi^.VVVWVWWVVVVW' We Pay Cash for Chickens and Eggs Heavy Hens 14c Light Hens 12c Nice Fryers 25c Roosters 7c Eggs, fresh country . . . 20c . yard 22c Cora ? Cash 85c B. & B. Feed & Seed Company BREVARD, N. C. I Prices subject to change any time ^ vwwwvwwwwwwww
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