Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MIXEIa, Mannu’cr.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24 1905,
VOL. I-NO. 47
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Ilciiular convention ev
ery Tuesday niyrht in Ma
son ic Hall. V i s i t i n
Knifjhts are cordially in
vited to attend. HILARY B. BRUNOT. C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours;
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—S to 10 a. m.. 4 to r> p. m.
Centi‘ai Otiice—McMinn J>lock.
Professioi\ol Cords.
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.
Kooras 1 and 2. Pickelsimor Build in;
ZACHARY &. BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block. Brevaril, K. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Practices in all the courts
Jvooms 9 and 10, McMinn Ulock.
Looking Southward!
^ 'Railroad Outlet to the South May
not Be as Far Off as Some
Have Supposed.
The Rebuilding of the **Swamp Rabbit** to Marietta
and on to Riverview Seems Jilmost .Assured.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
J’ooms 11 and 12 McMinn Jllock,
BRKVAI’vD, N. C.
A rcceiit issue of the Green
ville Daily News contains the fol
lowing^ {irticle which will interest
everybody in this county. Riv
erview is 7 miles nearer Brevard
than Marietta, the terminus of
the old railroad, and as will be
seen, a continuation of the road
acioss Blue Kidjy^e is contem-
plat<Ml. The movers in this en
tei-{)rise own a lar^e tract of tim
ber land on the south side of the
ori('s of the contrul west.
When Capt. Howell r(‘tnrned
to the city from his trip to Rivc‘r-
viow ho docliTK'd to have anything
to .'^ay f(n* pu'[)lication. It is nndc'v-
stood, however, that not only is lie
favoruldy iniprossod witli tlie en
terprise', hut Mr, Bowie, after see-
inj^ the old roadbed of the “Swam])
Rabbit” and the resom'ces of tlio
u])por part of the county with th(‘
rich timlx'r of th(> mountains, is
dispos(‘d to r(‘fz:ard the i)laii for re-
Rid^e, and their lirst aim in ibuildinj^ the lines as a first rate
vvuilding the road is to ^^et their i business inv<‘stment. He would
timber to market. But the fac- expn^ss himself at this tini(',
MLinlclpal Ownership.
WhaL the Recent* Elections
Show as
Public Opinion.
country which is manifesting'it
self in the form of Socialistic
remedies for political and eco
nomic ev’^ils. The great corpora-
the Trend of lai gely respimsible for
'the radicalism that is rampant
everywhere.
The real leaders in this move
ment are not the I^ryans and the
Hearsts and the Dunnes and
(From the New York World.)
When Judge Dunne was elect
ed Mayor of Chicago last A|)ril | u,e .Toiinsons and the Sc.hmitzos
oil the issue of municipal Social ; but the Rockerfellei-s, tlie Ar-
tnours, the Morgans, the Svv ifis.
but this is und(‘rstood from a relia-
bl(‘ source to b(‘ his views.
It is pointed out also, that b(‘foro
anything dc'finite toward beginning
work can be ex])ect('d, Captain How-
(‘11 must ]n'('pare and submit a re-
tei pi ise evei y encouragement, ])ossibiliti(‘s of sucli a
lin<‘ as a jKiying investm('nt. and
tories in ths south are using coal
and the necessity of a road to the
coal tields of Tenn(.'"'<see is the
moving factor in its extension.
Our people should give this en
Mlscellai\eous.
The Mthelwold
Brevard's New Plotel—Modern Ad-
pointments—Open all the year.
The patronage of the traveling j>ublic
as well as summer toin-ists i.-< solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, X.C.
R-I-P-A-X-S Tabulos
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The ."i-oent packet is onouRh for usual occasions.
The lumiiy bottle ((iO oeiits) contains a supply
fora year.' All druKSists.sell them.
bi'ttcr advprtit^e the .South’s T.eHcliii^
But^liioss OoHejfo, just a few scholarshipa arc
jffe -I* i 111 cacii section .'it Ip.-js thnii t'osi.
DON'T DKLAV. WKITK TODAY
GMLA, BUSINESS COLLESE,MacOfl,lia
■SQQQTELEGRAPHERS
and when the time comes, our
financial aid should not be want
ing. There is no telling what a
boom a road to the south would
give Brevard. Here is what the
until he has had time to do this in
{•onnoction Avitli what Mr. Bowio
will hav(‘ to say, no inoveniont is to
be (‘xpt'cted in the d(‘velo])ni('nt of
News says: | the lu-oiM'rty.
* ^ ♦ I Tho rebuilding of the ‘*8wnni])
After visiting tho rtmte of the i Rabbit” is loolo'd u])(m as on(M)f
propos(‘d railway from this city to | the most importai^t ent('ri)rises in
Riv('rvi(‘v,’, to be kno\\-n as tlic | (*onn(>ction with the futun* growth
Gnvnville & Knoxville, Ca])tain G. | and developnumt of this city. To
D. Howell and J. R. Bowit*, of })hil- ■ Riverview it w'ould mean a great
adelpliia, who spent the gn^ater ‘ d(‘al, but tliat is (mly a f('ature in
part of last wo('k bore, liavo re-1 tho projiM*t. Tlu' line must evt'ntu-
turned to the Quaker C'ity. Cai)tain ! ally extend across the mountains to
Howt‘ll is a w(‘ll known contractor [ Tenness<‘e. That will give' Gre»‘n-
and promotor whiL' his associate is j ville a railway to th(‘ west and
a ca])italist interested in the d(‘V(‘l-j make it a junctional point for tlu*
o])m(>nt of th(‘ new railway, which main lino of the Stmthern and a
road C(mmvting th(‘ central west
with the Atlantic coast.
its proj('c*tors intend shall ultimate
ly taj) lhi‘ rich coal fit'ldsand grain-
Editorial Briefs.
! the United States until this trial
I
I for defrauding the government
I came up and got into the news-
It has finally been decided by ; papers. And yet he is called on
the Panama Canal Com mission to; evidence in the case and
ArPFTkPri
Annually, to fill the new positions cre
ated by »*ailroad and telegi-apli compa-
fiies. We want young men and ladie?;
of good habits, to hearnTelegraphy
and Railroad Jiccounting. We
furni'^h 75 per cent, of the Operators
and Station Agents in America. Our
six schools are the largest exclusive
Teletrrai>h schof)ls in the V\"orld. Es
tablished 20 years and endorsed by all
leading railway otticials.
\Vc pxcf’utt* a f'JCO to every student to
tirr.isli him oi lu-r a position nayinu from ?40 to
<iO per month in Stati>« east of the Rocky Moun-
. ins, or from f7.5 to $100 per month in States
^‘e«iof tl'c Rockies, immefiiatcly on >;raduation.
Students can entt'rat any lime—no vacations.
For full particulars re^ranliriK ?»ny of our .schools
Avritc dir.'f't to nur executive oniceat Cincinnati,
O. Catalogue free.
THE MORSE SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY.
Cincinnati, OhioJ
Atlanta, Ga.
TexftTcana, Tex.
Buffalo, N. Y.
LaCrosse, Wis.
San Francisco, Cal.
dig a tide-water canal without
locks. The width is to be lo(J
feet at the bottom. It is intend
ed to leave no possibility’- for
amendment, and to do the work
in the interests of posterity.
The decision was reached by vote
ifter canvassing every i trust"^
tion of the surveyors, and now
why not begin digging?
The Sylvan Valley News is of
fering some very tempting prop
ositions in reading matter with
the hope of increasing its circula
tion. The magazine offer adver
tised on 8th page is extraordina
ry for a country paper to make.
The Southern Agriculturist is
free to new subscribers, and
there are other propositions in
our columns that should secure
us a large list, but so far only one
new name has been added to oui’
list. The lirst of December all
these offers will be withdi-awn—
what are our people waiting for?
[f they expect us to give them
the News they will wait a long
time. tld
has gone to Greensboro this week
for that purpose. It is hnited
that the whisky trust is instiga
ting this suit to drive Williams
out of business just because he
is running an independent dis
tillery—doesn’t belong to the
It doesn’t matter what
the motive may he it is evident
that the suit will cost the govern
ment a great deal more than it
can get out of Nick Williams.
Shriff Kilpatrick says he never
knew that there was such a thing
as the Nick Williams distillery in
It seems that this year the cot
ton farmers of the south have,
for the tirst time learned their
power to control prices. By
holding their crop they have al
ready raised the price of cotton
from to 11 cts. and they now
seem determined to have 15 cts
per pound before they turn it
loose. It would be strange in
deed if the common people did
not learn some lessons in com
bining from the many trusts that
have been bleeding them. A
farmer’s trust could break the
millionaires in short order if the
plebian population would stick
together as closely as do the
wealthy corporations—and it
seems as if they were trynng it.
ism, who would have believed
that seven months later William
K. Hearst could couje within
^>.500 votes of being elected May
or of New York on the same is
sue?
But it is not merely in New
York and Chicago that the spirit
of radicalism is rampant.
Tom L. .Johnson is re elected
Ma yor of Cleveland by an in
creased majority. Johnson’s
platform called for three-cent
fares and a state law permitting
Cleveland to own and operate
street lailways.
Brand Whitlock, the portege
of “Golden Rule” .lones, the for
mer Socialistic Mayor of Toledo,
caj-ried all but two of the wards
in the city and was elected Mayor
by a majority of nearly G,000 over
the conservative candidate.
Schmitz, the labor Mayor of
San Francisco, was re-elected in
spite of the fusion of the Demo
cratic and Republican organiza
tions against him.
John B. Moi’gan. a Boston law
yer-agitator. was elected District
Attorney of Sutfolk county, al
though both organizations and all
the newspa[)ers were against
him.
The overthrow of Boss Cox in
Cincinnatli was the result largely
of public indignation over the re
lations between thepublic-service
corporations and the Cox ma
chine.
Weaver’s victory in Pjiladel-
phia would not have been jjossi
ble without suj)port from the
same radical elements that voted
for Hearst in New York and elect
ed Dunne in Chicago.
Two of the most active o])po-
nents in the Senate of President
Roosevelt's sclieme of govern
ment rate-making are badly dis
credited by the election. Fora
ker was whipped in Ohio and
Gorman was beaten in Maryland.
Mayor Dunncj of Chicago says
the result here “is a wonderful
proof of the widespread senti
ment that municipal ownershi[)
of public utilities must soon be
adopted. ”
Gov. Hoch of Kansas, at a din
ner to Senator Warner of Mis
souri Wednesday night, lifted
his voice in solemn warning to j the sens*-
the whole country: smell and conipletoly derange ihe
the Ryans, the Yerkes(\s, the xMc-
Cui’dys, tlie McCalls, tlie Hyd»^s,
the Perkinses and tli<» Harri-
mans, with their Murphys, Mc-
Carrens. Coxes, Durhams and
Penroses.
Ten years ago Pingju^e was de
nounced a? an Anarchist Today
Pingree's progranime woultl ije
regarded as mild and fnnst
tive. Where is the thug - jjng
to end?
Quay is dead. May ; action
of the people of Philadel.>hia and
Pennsylvania be the ^icath to
Quayism.
Boss Mur})hy would j jst aix»;jt
as soon have seen th^* --d.-vir’
elected District Attorney of Nt^w
York as tierome.
Election disclosures in N.-w
York indi_ate tiiat Tam;iiany iti
addition to not being good was
not even careful.
Germany is said to practically
make tlu^ taritf laws [<;!• every
country in Europe except Fi ance.
She ha.s been so busy m:iking
trouble for France in tlie .^ist
thirty years that she poh iblhas
not gotten around to taritf legis
lation yet.
Consular appointees must now
kn*>w' at lea.st tw’o langiiuges and
have a good head for l)usiness.
Ihis is a .sad decline from the
good old days when one language
l)ersisrtently used would i,jt, a
man almost any sort of an old dip
lomatic job.
Many children inherit coiistitut/ons
weak and feeble, others due to child
hood troubles. Molli.ster's Rocky
Mountain Tea will positively cure
cliildreii and make thei i strong.
cents, Tea or Tablets. —Z. W. Nichols.
In the light of the latest elec
tion returns Mr Herrick probab
ly thinh.s that somebody in Ohio
discriminated against him.
Til seven states of the Union,
one [;arty or the other is busily
engaged in explaining that its de
teat was due entirely to local
causes.
lieware of Oieitinonts
for Catarrh that contain mercurv, as
“I want to say to you, not as an
alarmist but as a slight contribu
tor to the American awakening,
that unless wetind some eirectual
remedy for the control of the
great trusts and corporations in
the interests of all the people, a
tidal wave of socialism will sweep
over the countiy one of these
days that will do incalcuable
damage.”
Gov. Hoch is not exaggerating
the facts. They are so plain that
wfiole .system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. 8iich
aticies should never be used except
on piv.scriptions from re})utab!e
physicians, as the damage they do
is t(*n Ibid to the good you can po.ssi-
bly deriv.^ from them. Hall’s Catarrh
('ure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
& Co, Toledo, O., contains no mercury
and is taken internally, actingdirect-
ly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the .system. In buying Hall’s
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. It is taken internally, and
no human being of ordinary in- P.J. cheuey
•y iV Co. Testimonials free Sold by all
Druggists. Price 7.3c. per bottle.
telligence should mistake their
meaning. A great wave of dis
content is sweeping over the
Take Hall’s Family Pills for con
stipation.