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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the Erst Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. Manager.
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BREVAED, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 4.1907
VOL. XII-NO. I
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Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Xinights Of Pythias
illefiruiar Convention ev-
eiy Taesdaly night in Ma-
fnic Hall. Visiting
lights ai'e cordially in-
T.W.WHITHlREte.
Brevai:^ Telephone Exchange.
I hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. nj., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMion Block.
Profe^onal Cards.
W. BJ DUCKWORTH,
attorn'ey-at-law.
Investigation of Land Titlis a Specialty.
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Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
ZACHARY & BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in MeMiRn Blocii, Brevard, N. C.
CASH a GALLOWAY.
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, MjMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYRR
Rooms 11 3-nd 12 MoMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
N. C.
For the month of November and
I>ec*eniber only I will make a first
cla!-:s set of teeth (beat rubber)
FOR $?.00
^ruarauteed to fit or no pay. All
Dental woirk reduced in proportipD
for that time only.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
TheJEthelwold
Brevard’s /New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of tho traveling public
as well as summer tourists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
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GOOD ROADS MEETING.
Bond Issue the Best Plan—Expe
rience of Other Counties.
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Editor Sylvan Valley News:
As the time is fast approaching
for the mass meeting of the citi
zens of the county to consider
bow we shall improve our roads,
I thought 1 would give a few im
pressions of what I had learned
from the experiences of other
counties. As I understand the
proposition now before the people
of this county something is going
to be done to make our roads
more passable than they are at
present and that a mass meeting
has been called for the purpose
of deciding how said improve
ments shall be made. As I have
read in your valued paper there
are several ways atid methods
proposed, each and every one of
which has its good and weak
points, and also its advocates.
And I also understand that the
reason for this mass meeting is
to get the general sense of the
tax-payers of the county as to
their wishes in the matter and
what plan they think best suited
to the county, and to have a free
and open discussion of all the
plans.
As the question of good roads
is a very live one in this state
and as many of the more pro
gressive counties have already
experimented as to the best
methods of having the work done
—by taxation alone, by work and
taxation jointly, and by issuing
bonds, as well as the physical
method of building the roads—I
would consider it most foolish
for us to now experiment. We
should be able to profit by the
costly experience of others and
now adopt that plan which has
proved the best in other counties
under similar conditions.
After a careful study of the
methods of several of the other
counties in the slate—both in the
level eastern portions, in the
hilly piedmont region and in our
glorious mountains of the west—
T will say candidly that if possi
ble I am in favor of a bond issue
for the purpose of building and
maintaining the roads of the
county and paying the interest of
the bonds by taxation, and build
ing good macadam roads.
Our sister county of Haywood
has tried all the known methods
of working the roads and after
having given all plans a fair trial
has decided that a bond issue is
the best—in fact the only way to
permanently improve the roads
during the lifetime of the present
generation, and tha t macadam is
the most satisfactory way of
building the roads.
It is impossible to formulate
any plan that will work: absolute
ly the same on all men—no sys
tem of taxation does that—so we
have to adopt in all tax levies as
well as in other forms of govern
ment, that method which gives
the greatest benefit to the great
est number and is most econom
ical.
Severalobjections have been
made to a bond issue, as it will
open up a large cb for steal
ing, and that the laen who han
dle the proceeds of the bond sale
may steal or graft some of it.
Such an imputation on the people
of Transylvania county is most
unjust. We can readily find
many men here who would han
dle many tinies the amount of
any bond issue and acount for
every cent of it. The officers of
our banks, our county treasurer
and sheriff handle during their
terms of ofiice many times the
amount of any bond issue we
may raise. I do uot think that
any argument relying solely on
the charges that we could not get
honest men in the county to han
dle the money rais.ed by a bond
issue will be openly made by any
citizen of the county, for any man
who actually believes that such
a condition exists ought to move
to some other county where he
can find honest men. We have
plenty of good men who would
handle any amount we could
raise most judiciously. The
county has already issued
worth of railroad ^ bonds and I
have never heard any charges
that any one stole any of the pro
ceeds. There was just as much
opportunity to steal in that in
stance as there will be if bonds
are voted for improving thecoun-
try roads.
If bonds are issued and it is
decided to macadamize the prin
cipal roads of the county—for it
would be impossible to make
every road in the county per
fect—we would have to grade
and macadamize about 60 miles,
which would give us a good road
from Lake Toxaway to the Hen
derson county line on Boilston,
passing through Brevard; one
from Isjland Ford bridge to Bre
vard; from the Henderson county
line beyond Grange to Bre
vard; from the foot of Mill
Hill mountain to Brevard and
then to Penrose and also to Da
vidson river mills, making in all
about 60 miles of first class mac
adam road. In time the other
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and more unimportant roads
could be also improved.
It would cost about $2,000 per
mile to build these roads in a
first class manner, so we would
have to sell $120,000 worth of
bonds, and the interest and cost
of collecting the same would
amount to about $7,200 per year.
This seems a large sum, but if
the roads were worked under
the present system according to
law, and allowing the men only
the small wages of $1 per day,
the value of the time of those
liable to road working in the
county figures up to more than
$10,000 per year, as we had last
year nearly 1,000 polls in the
county who were each liable to
10 days work on the roads.
Of course these macadam
roads could not go by every
man’s bouse in the county, but
every man in the county would
be benefited. The railroad did
not go by every man’s property
here, but every man in Transyl
vania has been benefited greatly
by the building of the road, and
the same would apply to. the
building of good roads.
Nothing would be a greater
attraction to investors—and the
very class of investors that we
want, namely, those who want
to buy farms and cultivate them—
than to be able to point with
pride to our good roads,, and in a
few years the increased valua
tion of the property would more
than pay the increased tax, and
the good roads would be a clear
profit.
iThe maintenance of the roads
could be provided for by a spe
cial tax or law requiring those
who lived contiguous to them to
either pay a certain amount or do
a certain amount of work, which
would also equalize to a certain
extent the taxation. A small
property tax added to an addi
tional tax on the poll would pay
the interest on the bonds and
provide a fund for paying the
bonds at their maturity.
It is very hard to make the
people living in those sections
not immediately on the proposed
macadam road to see the great
benefit of the building of said
road, and it may be that'voting
bonds in each township would be
the best—the only difference be
ing that by the township method
it would take longer to get a good
system of roads. I do not be
lieve there is a township in the
county that would not vote for
bonds after seeing the benefits
of good roads in one township in
the county, r And as Brevard is
the center of the county it may
not be a bad idea for. Brevard
township to start the ball to roll
ing and to vote enough bonds to
macadamize the principal roads
in said township to the borders
thereof and thereby set an exam
ple to the other townships of the
county.
If there is any other or better
method of securing good roads I
hope that the exponent of it will
be at the mass meeting and let
his plan be known. What we
want is belter roads, and there is
no need of caviling over the
method so that we get the roads.
Hoping to see a large and rep
resentative gathering of Tran
sylvania’s progressive and rep
resentative citizens on the first
Monday in January. 1907, and
that some satisfactory method
will then and there be proposed
and adopted, I remain.
Yours truly,
Bona Via.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollar’s
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
Ft J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and belivo him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any obli
gations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75e
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take HalPs Family Pilis for con
stipation.
How to Decorate tMe Tarlcey’*
The Christmas turkey is dressed
with as much care as the Christmas
hostess and in more colors. If it
be a family turkey a wealth of paper
ribbons adorns it, and a grouping of
parsley rosettes trims its sides, says
the Boston Traveler. Half a lemon
makes a head for his turkeyship, and
of course it rests in a bed of green
flUify edible. The turkey Is brow^ied
before his exterior treatment begins
and in this matter there is only one
rule, which is that he shall be browned
all over. He must be done “just to a
turn,” and the turn is a de«p rich
brown, almost as dark as seal brown,
but very shiny, with the shine caused
by the richness of his cookery. Now
the turkey is taken out, and a platter
specially prepared for him is brought
forth. This is heated and is covered
with green, and for this the pretty wa
ter cress plant is as decorativc as any
thing. Take his birdship and while he
is still sizzling tie around him a paper
chain. Let it be made in a sort of
effect which is so becoming to the
American king of table birds. Carry
this ruching of ribbon around his no
ble breast and fasten it in the back,
so that as he lies upon his back his
breast will rise in a handsome, grace
ful arch, adorned by the ribbon trim
ming. The turkey - will want a few
rosettes upon skewers of wood, or
metal will answer the purpose. Do
not let the' turkey go to the table
minus a head or minus a tail. A
lemon cut in half, with a few notches
for balancing purposes, will answer
for both places. Take the half of a
lemon that is to make a head and let
it rest in a bed of parsley. The turkey
must have his wristlets, for no turkey
looks well without them. For wristlets
or paper cuffs you can buy the cuffs
that come for this purpose, or if
you cannot buy them handily you can
make them. Take of firm white pa
per enough to go around the turkey’s
leg. Fold the paper, and when it is
folded slash it. Cut it as though you
wera making a fringe. Now glue tha
cuff into shape. Let it dry and you
have an ornament for the turkey’s leg.
This will protect your fingers from
grease when j^ou nibble the drumstick.
How to Make Chestnut Dressing:.
In preparing a chestnut dressing
for the Christmas bird, use French
chestnuts. Cook one and a half
pints in boiling water until tender.
Shell and press through a vegetable
ricer. Season with two rounding table-
spoonfuls of butter, a saltspoonful of
pepper, a level teaspoonful of salt and
four tablespoonfuls of cream. Now
add a cupful of fine cracker crumbs
and a, quarter of a cupful of melted
butter. Never put poultry seasoning
nr sweet herbs into a chestnut dress
ing.
Food don’t digest? Because the
stomach lacks some one of the essen
tial digestants or the digestive juices
are not properly balanced. Then,
too, it is this undigested food that
causes sourness and painful indiges
tion. Kodol For Indigestion whonld
be used for relief. Kodol is a solu
tion of vegetable acids. It digests
what you eat, and corrects the defi
ciencies of the digestion. Kodol
conforms to the National Pure Food
and Drug Law. Sold here by Bre
vard Drug Co.
Mr. Rockefeller advises young
men to spend their youth in study.
Probably he would have them
burn the midnight oil
The Kiglit Xaine.
Mr. August Sharpe, the popular
overseer of the poor, at Fort Madi
son, la., says; “Dr. King’s New Life
Piilir are rightly named; thej’ act
more agreeably, do more good and
make one feel better than any other
laxative.” 'Guaranteed to cure bil
iousness and constipation. 25c at Z.
W. Nichols’ drug store.
“What is viller than the smell
of liquor” asks an Indiana Lec
turer. Well, we should say a
cheap cigar.
That’s the house the Doctor built.
The biggest house you see;
Thank goodness hedon-t get our money,
For we take Hollister’s Rocky Moun
tain Tea.
—Brevard Drug Co. & Z. W. Nichols.
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