NAMES IS NAMES i
INCOME TAX GROUP
SAY THE OFFICIAL
{Contin u'd from page on?)
Dumbell; also words denoting acti
vities of people: Merchant, Outlaw,
Spooner, Leatherman, Householder,
Papa and Papageorge, Stonecipher
and Stonestreet, Shipwash, Gamble,
Iceman, Swindler.
In these depressed times, names
that cheer and Gladden are Wages,
Money, Coin, Cash, Ovetcash, Cash
well, Millions; several nationalities
are represented in the taxpayers:
English, French, German, Spain, Ire
land, England; and a few articles of
clothing: Shoe, Sox, Overall; and
household articles and requirements:
Plan, Paper, Twine, Bath, Roof, Seat,
Woodroot". Wood house, Greathouse..
Starch, Wallwork.
Natural phenomena "pay taxes too:
Storm, Blew, Blizzard, Showers, Dry,
Freeze, Rainwater, Drinkwater,
Bridge water and Outterbridge.
Miscellaneous names in the list fol
low: Steamer, Newcomer, Trueblocd,
Youngblood, B?x, Rock Ore, Good
friend, Hulfacre, Reap, Quackenbush,
Schoolbred, Fretwell, Goforth, Spell,
Gift.. Neighbor, Macklefresh, Leap
tiv". Unthsgrade, Wrench, Click,
Be1..'', Spital, Stillwell, Gradeless,
W.' "~ve, Else, Wagon, Six, Under
dcw. Chew, Overend, Threewitts,
Trr -blefield, the list ending with
Goc inight, Sorrow and Death.
Arid the officials maintain some of
the names eould not be included in
such a list.
NORTH CAROLINA IS
AT HEAD OF THE LIST
Transport* More Pupils to
School By Bus Than Any
Other State.
Raleigh. July 27. ? North Carolina
transports more pupils to school and
at a lower per pupil cost and serves
more schools than any State in the
Union, the current issue of State
School Facts, issued by Supt. A. T.
Allen, shows.
Busses transport 200,416 pupils,
the next highest being Indiana with
155,20:5 and Ohio with 150,600, to
1,700 schools in this State, only three
other states having above 900 schools
Served by busses, all less than 1,000.
The State operates 4,240 busses,
headed only by Indiana with 6,372
and Ohio with 5,020; this State op
erates over 53,870 miles of routes,
headed only by Indiana with 90,000
miles, Ohio being third with 40,160;
for bus transportation, exceeded only
this State spends 2,174,133 annually
by Indiana's $4. 592, 622 and Ohio's
$4,200,000; yet this State hauls its
pupils at a cost of only $10.85 each
per year, while the average for the
nation is $24.96, the cost running as
high as $96.62 in the District of
Columbia. These figures are as of
January I. 1932.
This i.s a farcry from the six ve
hicle hauling 247 pupils in 1914-15,
the advent of the first motor bus in
1917, and the 150 motor veh:eles haul
ing 8.000 pupils in 1919-20. The
more than 220.000 now hauled is
about one-fourth of the total school
enrollment in thj State. Street car
transportation used in charter schools
is not included. Some form of trans
portation is provided for colored
schools in 33 of the counties. The
annual cost per pupil transported
ranges from $5.2 1 in Yadkin county
to $35.84 in Transylvania, kinds of
roads, types and ages o~ trucks, pay
of drivers, etc., being factors in the
cost.
Johnston hauled more p'sils, 5,869,
Davidson hauled 5,347, Y/ake 5,134,
Mecklenburg 4,795, Forsyth 4,606,
and Union 4,304.
WATCH THE PUNT
AND TREE TRADERS
Many nurseries these days are us
ing the press, the radio, and travel
ing canvassers to sell their products.
Many of these nurseries are honest
and will live up to their agreement
with their customers. There are those,
however, who are selling products
that are worthless, and strange to
say, some of these are making the
greatest fuss about their products.
When a radio announcer, a glib
salesman, or a glaring magazine ad
vertisement tells of wonderful offers
of wonderful plans that may be had
for paying the cost of packing and
postage it should be a suggestion to
the prospective buyer to investigate
the concern making the offer.
Wonderful sounding offers are
made every day of combinations of
flowers, berries, etc., and many in
stance of unknown berries and
plants are offered with suggestions
of values that beggar description.
Tree strawberries, climbing melons,
everblooming flowers galore are
among the offerings.
Extra premiums in the form of a
pretty posy of some sort or other or
of some wonder berry are offered for
prompt remittance of the $1.00 or
whatever the unheard of price may
happen to be.
Some of these offers may be gen
uine and doubtless are, but there is
so much chance to lose that it behoov
es every person to whom such an of
fer is made to look carefully into any
proposition of this sort. If the of
fice of the County Agent can be of
assistance in selecting fruit trees,
vegetable or berry plants that service
will be gladly rendered.
HUNDREDS OF OLD
FIDDLERS TO PLAY
Cymantbia Bumgarner and
Jesee Rogers Are Head
liners In Event.
Asheville, July 27. ? When the
hundreds of mountain dancers, fid
dlers, guitar and banjo players as
semble from the mountain coves and
creek valleys in Western North
i Carolina, to take part in the annua)
j Mountain Folk Dances at Asheville
I on August 4 and 6, a number of the
I old-timers among the fiddlers and
I banjo players wil! be on hand to show
the young folks how it was done back
in the old days. Grey-headed moun
taineers, survivors of the days when
the mountains were pioneer country,
will render the old tunes in as lively
a manner as the best of the- younger
musicians.
The true patriarch among the old
timers will be Jesse Rogers of Hen
dersonville, N. C., 84 years of age,
who will tuck his ancient fiddle under
his grey-bearded chin and scrape out
the time-honored airs of the mountain
ballads. Mr. Rogers is a noted musi
cian among the mountain folk and
",he Rogers String band composed of
'lis descendants will appear on the
irogram of the Dances also.
Cymanthia Bumgarner noted
vvoman singer of ballads who ac
?ompanies herself on the guitar, ban
io or fiddle, and others of the older
?nusicians will be on hand for the
annual celebration. On the program
will be only the dances and the music
which have been preserved by the
nountaineers, without appreciable
?hange, as folk customs, since the
veavs when the mountain country
vas originally settled by the pioneers.
Tho Mountain Folk Dances are be
:ng presented this year, on the fifth
annual occasion. The crowds which
attend the event have been growing
?ach year, with the spreading fame
of the unique events. The dances and
the music differ from customs exist
ing in other parts of the country, due
to their ancient origin. The younger
generation of moui>tain people enter
as enthusiastically into into the an
nua! celebration of the Dances as do
the older folk.
! The events are sponsored by the
I Asheville Chamber of Commerce with
i view to preserving these colorful
I "ustoms for posterity. The Dances
! >his year are expected to draw the
1 'argest throng of spectators in the
j history of the event and those in at
? 'endance will include not only the
| usual crowd of mountain folk but
: also many visitors attracted hero
I from many states, to view the events.
i WANT ADS
I
| /ICTOR RADIOS . . Victor Phono
graphs . . Victor Records . . II
| L's a Victor, it's" good. For sale at
' louston's Furniture Store. M12tf
!
j IV ANTED ? Your Shoe Repairing.
We are equipped to do first class
hoe repair work. We invite you to
?isit our shop and give us a trial.
Prices reasonable. Brevard Shoe
! ^hop, T. E. Waters, Owner. News
i Acrade. May 5 tfc
I FOR RENT ? Well located business
property, splendid locations for
? nerchandise establishments. See Jud
! on McCrary, Tinsley Building, Tele
I ,)hono 172. 029tf
MRE WOOD. Stove Wood. Kindlijig,
Sand and Gravel. Trunks and
baggage and general hauling. Rate?
reasonable. Siniard Transfer Co.
"'hone 118. Aug 13 4tc
1ADIO REPAIRING by an experts
John Reese Sledge, recognized in
3revard as an authority on Radios
ind Television is now with Houston
Furniture Co. Aug 27 tf
NEWEST MAJESTIC RADIOS at
Houston Furniture Company, Bre
/ard. Guaranteed no "A-C hum."
A high dais Radio at a reasonable
Jiy Sltf
FOR RENT ? Furnished flat or
apartment with garage. Reasonable
rates. See MRS. A. N. HINTON.
FOR SALE ? 50 lb. all-metal refrig
erator. Excellent mode!. For furth
er information call Brevard News.
WANTED To exchange a good small
mountain farm, free and clear, for
a farm in the French Broad Valley
and pay all cash difference. Orr and
Hamlin, Brevard, N. C. ltc
WANTED ? Every one Interested in
Radios to call and see the wonder
ful Atwater-Kent Radio. Hear it and
iee it at the Houston Furniture com
pany's store. J15t?c
LOST ? On Main street in Brevard,
?6.00 in Cash. Reward if returned to
THE BREVARD NEWS. ltp J 27,
FOR SALE? pne Poland-China
brood sow with nine pigs; pigs six
weeks old. See or write ANDREW
?J. BOGGS, Brevard, Rte. 2, Turkey
Creek Section.
FOR SALE ? A splendid home lying
on the waters of Crab Creek ir
Transylvania County, adjoining As.
Orr's Farm. Has house, barn, crib
and 35 to 40 young apple trees, cold
spi-ing near house. 50 acres. No en
-umbrances, all taxes paid. $800.00
cash. See C. M. Siniard, North Bre-f
vard.
I WANT to exchange forty gal
ons of good Syrup for 40 busKels of
orn. V. H. Galloway, Penrose, N. C.
WANTED ? Fresh country eggs,
utter and country ham. See Mrs, J.
L. SaJtz at the Waltertnire Grill,
EXTENDED SCHOOL i
TERM FUND IS OFF j
OVER HALF MILLION
(Continued from rage One)
districts was fixed at $2,669,846,612
and the cost of all two months ex
tended terms is $4,221,776.73, a re
duction of 1 165,867.38 from last year,
due to reductions made by the board
in the six months standard and
through failure of districts to operate
extended terms last year.
The allotments are made upon need
and ability basis. The need is shown
by the cost calculated for two months
on the six months State standard, and
the ability of the district to meet this
cost is the amount produced by the
levy of the uniform rate upon a de
termined value.
Every county in the State, except j
Guilford and New Hanover, both with
county-wide districts, participate in
the fund. The larger amounts go, not
to the wealthy and more populous, nor 1
o the poorer and less densely poplat- i
ed counties, but to the overage or
?lightly above average counties.
Union leads with $25,856.17, David- .
son gets $24,727.34. Johnson $24,842.
95, Columbus $23,716, Robeson and
HIGHWAY WORK TO !
START AT ONCE I
ALL PARTS OF STATE
(Continued, from page o?te}
lief and is expected to give work on
the job to 5,000 or more North Caro- j
Unions, in addition to that many
more in providing supplies and equip- i
ment for the work. Convict labor is
prohibited on the job, but may be
used in quarrie3 ; no laborer may ?
work more than 30 hours a week, thus I
requiring two shifts and giving work
to as many as possible; the State
Highway Commission is required to
fix a minimum rate for skilled and
unskilled labor, arid will probably fix
20 cents an hour for unskilled; the
work must be finished by July 1, 1933, j
about 11 months from now.
Contractors must agree to the !
above regulations and for that reason
it is not expected that the drop in
prices of materials in the last year
or two will show in the finished work, '
Surry above $22,000, Sampson $21,
000.
Transylvania county will get $3,
455.97 next year for the extended
term.
RATE REDUCTION IN
ELECTRIC SERVICE,
OS AND TELEPHONE
( Continued from page one)
tional "teeth" in a law enacted by
the 1931 General Assembly to investi
gate public utilities companies, their
condition, management, appraisal of
as labor will probably cost a little
more.
The commission can finish up num
bers of highways over the State, its
purpose being to take those moBt
needed first and go as far as possible
with the money.
In connection with the construction
program,* Chairman Jeffress has in
sued a bulletin calling upon engineers
to save all roadside trees necessary
for an avenue on each side of the
road, directs that one day, August 1,
be used by all employees in removing
unsightly objects and covering un
sightly places, and announces that
Arbor Day in 1933 will be one of the
greatest tret- and shrubbery planting
days in the history of the State. In
other words highway beautification
wiil be a part of the highway activity
from now on, and in a big way.
properties, investigation of cor, tracts
with hoidicg companies or Saaacs
agencies; prevent construction or op
eration of plants in ccmpetition with
tnhar companies witliout a certificate
of convenience and necessity from tha
commission; and require submission
of contracts made with holding,
managing or operating companies or
selling services of any kind, the com
miaaiog having the right to disap
prove any such contract. Expenses of
appraisals, audits and investigations
kia-y be paid from the contingency
and emergency fund when so ordered
by the Governor and Council of
State.
The utilities companies have suf
fered, along with individuals, and
their profits are limited by the com- ,1
mission, the commission points out,
stating that profits made by them in
the pa3t decade are from expansion
into new territory and building by
industry and not from ir-crease in
rates, W
Ten gas companies are ofwrating in
the State, 63 electric companies, of
which 13 are large producers, and
109 telephone companies, only 12 of
which are classed as major utilities.
Boss ? How do you manage lately
to crci to work on time in the morning.
Young Clerk ? My parents always
wake me up now when they return
from their all-night bridge parties.
Want \it Are Good Sallin* Agtnl*
Mpmpro CI AOUrnr 20 per cent ALLOWANCE
rnlULO oLAonLU. for your old tires
We over bought on TAX FREE Firestone High Speed Tires and Tubes. I
We must move them at once and are putting on the greatest I
SALE IN OUR HISTORY
THURSDAY-FRIDAY-SATURDAY
JULY, 28th -- 29th -? 30th
THIS IS POSITIVELY THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE EVER HAD TO
EQUIP YOUR CAR WITH THE TIRES THAT HOLD ALL WORLD RECORDS FOR
SAFETY, MILEAGE, SPEED AND ENDURANCE. ONLY FIRESTONE TIRES HAVE
THE PATENTED CONSTRUCTION FEATURES OF GUM DIPPING AND TWO EX- I
TRA CORD PLIES UNDER THE TREAD. I
Sale Ends Saturday Night I
YOU MAY NEVER AGAIN BUY TIRES AT SUCH UNBELIEVABLY LOW PRICES. I
DON'T DELAY! DRIVE IN TODAY AND EQUIP YOUR CAR WITH THESE CHAM- |
PION TIRES AT THESE SACRIFICE PRICES . . . WHILE THEY LAST. I
ALL KIND OF GENERATOR
AND IGNITION WORK
By Experienced Men who know how.
Bring us your repair problems ? We
have a large and complete stock of parts.
And are ready to give you the very best
of service.
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Day and Night
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