Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
•T. J. MINER, Manii.uei-.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. 0f'T01?ER K. 1905.
VOL. X-NO. 41
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Ketrular convention ev
ery Tuesday ni»rht in Ma
sonic Half. Visitiiifr
Knij^hts are cordially in
vited to attend. HILARY B. BRUHOT, C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
iiouHs:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. ni.
Sunday—S to 10 a. m., 4 to (> p. ra.
(.'entral Office—McMinn lilock.
Professional Cards.
The Editor's Outing.
What One Sees, Learns and Enjoys by Getting
Away from Home.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
liooms 1 and 2, I’ickelsimei" Building.
ZACHARY &. BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, H. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Practices in all the coui-ts
Rooms 9 and 10. McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Kooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BliEVAliD. X. C.
Miscellaneous.
The Mthelwold
Brevard's New Hotel—Modern Ai)-
pointments—()]ien all the year.
The jiatrouayre of the travelinjr public
as well as suniraei’toui*ists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevai’d, N.C.
r
I fvimr own select Kill) to every sub-
■ scriluT. (')iily 5it tents .t ve;ir.
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Siyli^li, Keliable, Siiiinle, TIp-to«
dale, Kcononiical anti Absolutely
Perfecl-r'itiiit^ Taper Patterns.
MCCALL
fATT
Ail Scams Aliowed anrt Perforations show
the Basting and Sewing Lines.
Only lo and 15 crnts each—none higher
A*k for them. Sold in nearly every city
and town, or by mai'l from
THE McCALL CO..
II3-I15-II7 West 31st St^ NEW YORK.
SQQQTELEGRAPHERS
\NEEBETi
Annually, to lill the new positions cre
ated V)y railroad and telejiruj)]! compa
nies. "We want youn^- men and ladies
of jrood habits, to LearnTelegraphy
and Railroad Jtccounting. \Vc
furni'^h TT) j)er cent, of the ()]>erators
and Station Ajrents in America. Oui-
six schools are the largest exclusive
Tele^raf)h schools in the World. Es-
taV)lished 2(> years and endorsjed by all
leading railway otticials.
We a 5^50 bond to every stmlcnt to
furni«li lii'ii oi Ikt a jxisiiioii payiiiif from ?10 to
per month In States cast of the Rocky Mouti-
V lias, or from f75 to $IdO per moiitli in Sta'es
westof tl'e Koclcius,immedirtti'ly on ^’^radnation.
f'tcrat any lime—no vacations.
I*ir full pitrticulars roirardnif' J>ny of our scIkh)1s
writi' dirt'ct to nur exci iitive oHicc at Cincinnati,
(>. Catalo^'uc free.
THE MORSE SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY.
('incinnati. Ohio. Hiiiialo, X Y.
Atlanta, Gu. La('rosM\ Wis.
Texarcauu. Tex. San Francihco, Cal.
The illness of C. A. Miner ;it
Petersburg made it necessary to
either curtail our visit with
Brother I. D. Miner or continue
it at the home of another son, E.
L. Miner, wlio was living in
Washin.ofton, so we decided to
spend a few dollars more than ex
pected and visit another nephew.
We found him and his wife occu
pying apartments in the DeSoto,
corner of Massachusetts ave.
and 13th st.—a “swell’’ ]iart of
the city—per month rent for
T) rooms. But before we reached
his home we concluded to visit
his work.
Loujj: bridge is one of the his-
tori(.*al landmarks of Washin^'ton,
but a lar<re portion of it is about
to disappear. A new iron draw
bridge is now in ])lace and is be
ing cotTipleted as rapidly as work
men with electric riviting ma
chines can do the work. E. L
Miner and partner have the con
tract to make the Virginia ap
proach to the bridge, and the
earth with which the road is con
structed is hauled two miles
Two “dinky” engines hauling
eight loaded cars each are em
ployed and a tram railroad to the
dirt quarry has been built. At
the ])it a steam dipper dredge
does the loading. This tilling in
has been in progress since May
and it will take two months more
of good weather to complete the
approacli.
Talking about big jobs, we could
not resist the temptation to go
and inspect the great cement
bridge which Washington City is
building over Rock creek, and its
i-avitie, for the crossing of Con
necticut avenue on the city grade.
Rock creek divides Washington
from Georgetow’n and is a smaller
stream than Cathey’s creek, but
it wouldn’t do in this age of auto
mobiles and bicj^cles, to ride up
and dovv’n hill to get to a bridge,
soagood, substantial iron bridge.
40 feet wide and two hundred
long, has been destroyed to make
room for this magnitlcent stiict-
ure. The bridge will consist of
live aclies—3 of 150 feet span and
two of 83 feet. The foundations
for this bridge were laid three
years ago and it will require an
other year to finish the job—and
the cost will be a million dollars.
We hadn't time to consult the ar
chitect and obtain exact data, but
from the best estimate we could
make the three center spans will
be 150 feet above the creek, and
when completed this will be the
greatest ])iece of cement work on
earth.
Another stupenduous enter
prise that is just now in full
swing is the building of a union
depot. This includes a tunnel
under the Capitol grounds so that
all railroads which enter the city
will be able to run trains through
without the trouble and expense
of transfering freight and pas
sengers from one part of the city
to another through the streets.
office—w’anted to see a self feed
ing i)ress. and w’e saw it—not a
press that prints from a contin
uous web and cuts off the tinisVed
product, but one that prints
from a pile of cut paper to tit any
size form. This machine is one
more triumph of inventive geni
us, and amply paid us for our
visit.
PERSON A T.S.
We called on ,7. N. Steed who
will be remembered by many in
Brevard as having, accompanied
by his wife, spent a whole wintei
at the ]\IcMinn house here onlv
three j^ears ago. Mrs. Steed
was in Atlantic City taking
summer outing and we missed
convenience resulting will more
than repay present disorder.
This enterprise will do as much
to beautify the city as any one
thing, as it will remove the Oth
street depot, tracks, and all rail
road paraphernalia from the mall,
and leave it as first designed—an
open park from the Capitol to the
Washington Monument — more
tiian a mile. At }>resent the dirt:
from this tunnel is blockading!
many of tho streets between Cap- i e.yiuisite pleasure of a chat
itol Hill and the government i\ ' ‘ *' 'i''
• .• ft. 4.1 ^ i *tat as our people knew him
printing ofhce on the north, as; , .
n 1 4. 4. substantial enouerh to cast
w’ell as several streets south of 1 ,
1 . 1 rr^i ^ ,.j a shadow,
the Capitol. That section ot ■ ,
-ITT 1 , • . I vv e uro])ped in the pension de-
Washington is lust now’ in a torn- i , , ,
T^. L.' 4. I 4. 1 ip^i’tment and had a chat with D
up condition, but the beauty and ‘ mi
1 tlarrison Graves, a son of old
Rev. Graves of Alills Rivar. Hf
got an appointment in the Interi
rON. 'q,. Department through Hon.
This is not the time of year to Kob't Vance in the winter of
visit our capital city—wait till 1H74 5 and has been in Washing
congress is in session and things ton ever sinco. Ho has raised
are in order. There is an air of his family in the shadow’ of the
neglect manifest everywhere, capitol, and when he returns to
Tn the botanical garden worms his old home iit Mills River, hr
have built nests in many of the' will be almost a stranger.
trees and shrubs, and spiders Washington city, as w’e see it,
have spun their webs about tlu* is the most desirable spot on
cacti and other rare plants. The earth for the man of leisure—and
music of the falling water in the that means money—to make
Grotto on the Capitol grounds' a home, and if. by some hocus
has ceased; the Fish Commission | pocus of fortune we should ever
is out of commission and much of become a millionaire and find it
the builduig is closed for repairs, out, we shall take the train next
Xot a live fish, nor an aquatic an- morning to buy a home in that
imal, nor even water are to be I beautiful city.
found about tlie building, and our j
visit to this depart ment was a dis- j Editorial Briefs.
ap]iointment. Most of its speci-
mens have been sent to Vermont ^ proposition
while the needed repairs are in f,„,„ Kentucky distillery
pro£rress.
We visited the Naval Observa-
tor3" in Georgetown and found
it no exception to other depart
ments—part of it closed for re
pairs, so there was little to at
tract the visitor. We set our
watch bv the Observatory clock,
which furnishes the standard
time for the United States and all
of its insular possessions. Oth
ers have doubtless done the same,
and then return home and regu
late their actions by the local
time.
No visit to Washington W’oulb
be complete unless the new Con
gressional Library—the finest
and most complete structure for
library purposes in the world—
was included, and no visit to this
building would be complete un
less it includes a call after night.
The lighting of the reading room,
rotunda, corridors, etc., is simply
wonderful. We tried in vain to
get in the shadow of a column, or
to 'find a place where “coming
events” or things material would
“cast their shadows before, ” or
behind. It is as light as daj"—
lighted by electricity—yet no
where could a light be seen or a
shadow be found. It keeps one
wondering who conceived the
idea of invisible lighting, and
who worked out the idea in the
construction of this beautiful
building.
We had a little personal inter
est in the government printing
proi)osing to make the News ed
itor sole agent for the sale of its
output in Transylvania conuty.
Considering that we know noth
ing good of the whisky business,
that we paid a snug sum to get
rid of its evil effects, and that we
have fought and are still fighting
its introduction into this county
in any and every form, this prop
osition is “cheeky,” to say the
least.
Business men who question the
fact that advertiuiug pays might
learn a lesson by })icking up any
daily paper and noting hou’^ prom
inently the saloons and whisky
manufacturers keep themselves
before the public. Even country
papers are Hooded with proposi
lions to advertise the whisky traf
fic, but we are glad to note that
very few accept the glittering
propositi(jns that are Oifered. It
shows conclusively that country
papers are not in business sim
ply and entirely for the dollars
they can get out of it, but still re*
tain some feeling of sympathy
and respect for the welfare of
their readers. The country news
paper is the salt of the earth.
ance. Its editorial announce
ment on that occasion contains
the following;
Having started out with a pres^
that was little removed from the tra
ditional Washington iiand prpss, wo
are today printitii:: this paj>er upon a
Cox Pupiex Web ])erfpcting ])ress,
about which we will toll sotnetltino-a
little later on. This iTi;iciini«My hav
ing been installed, we will at on(*e be-
srin the pul>lication of a fn.-iil oditioa
of the paper, nnd will h'MKiofortli
^Mve all towns in conti<,nioi;s territory
“today’s news today.’'
In Its Own Biillijino!.
The Waynesviilo (’oiiri^'r annonn
cos that last w('<‘k it niovcd into a
home of it.^^ own. W(* an* jtlv'usod to
note this (nid('no<' of its ]n ns’;crty.
In its future (‘tforts for tlu* 'iM'tb'r
ment of humanity it shop.ld liave
tlie support of ov<'ry good citi/'eii
Hero is wliat it says editorially :
Now that it has c<\iso(l its wun-
dorinirs and «*an sit down undi'v its
own vim* and fig tree, a?: 1 «'ni<>ys
the sensation, V(‘t it is Ti<it <-oiit{'nt.
The Couri('r vrants to irrow l>(‘tt(‘r
and stronirtM* and do nior.‘ for
\Vavn('svil‘l(* and Hayw’o;)d connty ;
inf>r(‘ for the niaintonaiK (* of law
and order ; more for th(‘ (mconairc-
nient and sni)]>ort of a fair and just
administrati(m of niunicinal and
county affairs ; more for civic virtue
and clean i)olitic.s, i‘von iiitlv'
'•cratie party; for tlie ad-
vanc(Mn('nt of civiliz;iti(m aTid flit'
<'l('vati(m of liunianity in morals,
in iut(*llio'(*7u*»*. and. in r('1i'jrio7i as
W('ll as in tlu' inotc-rial things
this life. This is tlic ainbiti>:<n, aim
and ]mr])Ose of the (‘ouri«'r.
to F(*ar.
The (pipstion of injurous snbstati-
ces in medicines which has hot'U a<ri-
tating the minds t)f manv ]H'OT)h>
does not concern those wl.o u.~e
'hamberlain’s Cougf; Remedy.
Mothers need have no hesitancy in
continuing to give it to their little
)Jies as it contains absolutely nothing
injurous. This remedy is not only
V)erlectly safe to give small c^-ildren,
hut is a medicine of great U'orth and
merit. It ha.-; a world wide reput.i-
tion t'or its cures of C(»u2hs. co^ds -aup
croup and can alw.-iys he relied upon.
For sale by Z. W. Xicholj, Tirevard
and O. L. Ki*win. Calvert.
While each democratic policy
holder in the Equitable w:is vot
ing his own little ballot for his
principles, his insurance com
pany was casting “.srjO.OOO woi-th”
)f them for the Republican candi
date.
Tiie wa;- Depai’t rr.ent has issu
ed an oi'der against onlistment oi‘
vny more negroes in the army,
ind the Washington Post tiuis
comments on the order. “This
s just another step tovrard init-
ting the army on a peace basis.
Beat the long roll fc r the Crum-
'jacker.
A Nsw P3il88fing Press.
With its first issue in October
the Gazette-News of Asheville
came out in a new dress—at least
with a new
heading-
enlarged
and greatly improved in appear-
S[(dc (tf Ohio. ('It II of Tub tin. )
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Frank ,T. Cheney aiake.=i h <h.it
he is senior partner i>f t ;io of I'- .1.
Cheney A: Co.. doins: bnsiiie^' in the
city ofToledo, county and stateafore-
s.iid and that said firm will pay the
sum of One Hundred Dollar^ for
each and evt ry case <>f catarrah thnt
cannot be cured by the u.se of Hall’-:
Catarrah ("ure. Fuaxk -I. Tukxev.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this orii day of De
cember, A. 1). lbS(‘). A. W. Gkason,
Notary Public.
Hall’s ('atarrah Cur(‘ is tak{>n in
ternally and acts directly on the b’ood
and mucous surfaces nf the sy.'cm.
Send for testimonials free. F. J.
Cheney & Co., To^.edo, O. ri.ild by
all Druggists, Toe. Take Hall’.^
Family Pills for constipation.