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J. J. MIJTEK, Manager.
BREVAED, TEANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FEIDAY. JANUAEY 111907
YOL. III-NO. 2
Transylvania Lodge No* 143,
KnisMsofPvttiias
Resfular convention ev
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knipjhts are cordially in-
■'^’ited to attend. T..W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
HOURS:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. ni., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Professioiiol Cards.
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V/. B. DUCKWOR.TH,
ATTO RN E Y-AT-L A W.
investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsiiner Building.
ZACHARY & BR.EESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
PASH eft GALLOWAY.
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10,' McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
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Miscellaneous.
THOMAS L ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
N. C.
For the month of November and
l>eceinbeB* only I will make a first
class set of teeth (best rubber)
FOR $7.00
guaranteed to fit or no pay.. All
Dental work reduced in proportion
for that time only.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
The Mthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the traveling public
as well as sun^mer tourists id solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard,.N.C.
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabiiles
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough lor usual occavsions.
The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year.' All druggists sell them.
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BANK 5Af=tLY
north Carolina’5 oldest trust Pj
COAAPAMY STFtOAGEST S.<\,HKING /QI
|^l/^T!TUTIOM wiTM CAPITAL-
SURPLUS o>^.OVtlR ^>7£5.OOP.CO r1
Hl[ GOOD ms MEEriNG.
A Genuine Rally—All Sections of the County
Represented.
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VARIOL'S METHODS OF SECURING BETTER ROADS UP FOR ARGUMENT.
A ROAD LAW RECOMMENDED WHICH INCLUDES A ROAD
TAX FOR THE COUNTY WITH PERMISSION FOR
THE TOWNSHIPS TO ISSUE BONDS.
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I SE.n:> F0« !T today 4% P-Air* GM CEF<Tir!CATif_ !
I and 4% in SAVfNG^s r!
Chamberlain’s Diarrhoea Remedy.
Never fails. Buy it uow. It may save life.
There was a large crowd of
representative citizens frdm all
parts of the county out to the
Good Roads meeting at the court
house Monday, and every sec-
tion of the county was repre:
sented. As usual in such gath
erings there was a refreshing
diversity of opinion which had
to" be aired, and in consequence
t>.
there w’as more talk than busi
ness. > ^
, The meeting was organised .by
electing J. M. Hamlin of ^Brevard,
chairman, and Leo, Hogsed of
Rosman and T. T. Loftis secre
taries.
About the only real business
transacted was the selection of a
comiiiittee, one from each town
ship, to draft resolutions and to
recommend a general outline for
a good roads act to be submitted
to the next genenu assembly.
The committee made the fol
lowing report, and after being
amended in several particulars
by the meeting reads as follows:
Your corftmittee recommends
for the consideration of the meet
ing that your honorable body re
quest the next general assembly
to pass for Transylvania county
a general road law embodying
the, following fundamental fea
tures, viz.; \ \
1. That each male person now
subject to road duty under the
present law be liable for six days'
work on the road each year, or
pay in lieu thereof the sum of
three dollars.
2. That the labor system as
above set out be supplemented
by a tax not to exceed twenty
cents on the one hundred dollars
worth of property or sixty cents
on the poll.
3. That the said tax to be lev
ied by the commissioners of the
county as a township fund, and
that each township have a right
to elect a bonded officer to collect
and distribute the funds raised
in his township.
4. That each township have the
right to hold an election on the
question of voting bonds for the
purpose of constructing, grading
or keeping in repair the public
roads in the respective township,
but no election to be called unless
at least one-fiifth of the qualified
voters of the said township sign
a petition requesting the calling
of such an election.
5. That each township have a
road supervisor or overseer
w'hose duty it shall be to take
charge of, keep in repair all
roads in his township and to con
struct all new roads laid off there
in, his salary not to exceed two
dollars per day.
6. The county commissioners
have a general supervision of all
public roads in the count3^ and it
shall be their duty to order the
laying out of all new roads and
thie construction of new bridges.
. 7. That .the road overseers of
the various tow’nships shall have
the right, ,and it shall loe their
duty to meet together and make
purchase of all road tools and im
plements for the w4iole county.
The justice of the peace of* each
township'shall have a general
oversight of the work of the over-
seet^ in their respective town
ships, and it shall also be their
duty to classify the roads of their
respective townships, their com
pensation not to exceed one dol
lar per day for the time actually
engaged in such work.
In Memoriam.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Editor vSylvan Vallt-V ^ews:
The following resolution in sub
stance was adopted by the Good
Roads Meeting held in Brevard on
the 7th inst.:
Resolved, That the chairman of
this meeting be authorized to a.p-
l)oint a committee of three whose
duty it shall be to draft a hill incor
porating the features passed ui)on
in this meeting with such details as
\vill make the bill operative and
and forward the same to our repre-
ssntative in the general assembly
of North Carolina, assuring him
that the said bill contains the
wishes of the people of Transylva
nia county as exi)ressed in a large
representative meeting and urge
upon him in the name of the iieople
that it be enacted into law.
The undersigned, by virtue of the
above resolution, takes this method
of announcing the names of the fol
lowing gentlemen as constituting
such committee—Hon. W W. Zach
ary, Hon. G. W. Wilson, D. L. Eng
lish, Esq. Respectfully,
J. M. Hamlin, Chairman.
Senator Tillman has called
forth considerable comment by
keeping quiet during the first
month of the session, but no one
seems to notice that the pile of
sawdust around the desk of Sen
ator Spooner has also been get
ting pretty high.
How’s TUis?
We offer One Hundred Dolla^^s
Reward for any ease of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by HalPs Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. 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.
Ifairs Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists. -
Take Hall’s Family Pilis for con
stipation.
WALTER ALEXANDER WOOD.
A^ the evening shadows were
preparing to usher in the gloam
ing of the last day of the dying
year, 1906, a choice spirit passd
out of the smoke and clouds, the
pains and trials of earth to the
clear, shining and blessed peace
of God’s presence “where there
is fullness of joy.’' After ming
ling with the scenes and children
of earth for twenty-six years,
five months and two days, with
out a groan or gasp he “laid
aside his mortal coil” and his un
fettered spirit, lingering not for
the incoming ot the new year,
sought a land where days and
years are unknown but eternity
holds sway.
One year ago he was bounding
in the energy and buoyancy of
vigorous youth, the idol of his
family, popular w^th the young
people and a favorite with the
older ones, but the miasma and
debilitating influence of the low
country where he w^as loboring
undermined his constitution and
laid him open to the attack of fa
tal disease and month after
month, amid much suffering, his
strength gave way and disease
gained deeper and deeper hold
upon him and yet through it all
he seemed to be unmindful of
his own suffering and w^as
thoughtful 01 the comfort of those
around him.
His generous, unselfish dispo
sition blazed out beautifully to
the very last, for when a friend
came in to see him and remarked
that the evening was quite chilly
he said, “I have a right new
overcoat and you must wear it
home.” And then turning to his
mother, in v/hispered, broken ac
cents, almost choked by ap
proaching death he said, “Don’t
let him go without that over
coat.” As this beautiful mani
festation of the sweet spirit of
Jesus bu,rst out almost with his
last accents on earth, the w^ords
that many of us love so w’ell
came into my mind: “The souls
of believers are at their death
made perfect in holiness and do
immediately pass unto glory.”
On the morning of the 2nd of
January after funeral services
under the paternal roof, parents,
brothers, sisters, ministers of
the gospel, his friends of the
fraternal order of Knights of
Pythias and loving neighbors
sadly bore him away to the spot
where mother earth has heaved
up her bosom between the valley
of the glade and the valley of the
river as if to form a resting place
for her sons stricken and fallen
in life’s battle, and there with the
impressive committal service of
the order of, K. P’s, and the sol
emn ritual of God’s church, we
laid him to rest.
every eyidenc.e of unfailing faith
and cheerful acquiescence in
God's will and he departed leaving
us all in cheerful hope as to his
future.
We loved him. We mingle our
tears with those of his stricken
family and ask you, Mr. Editor,
to print this and send it forth as
our heartfelt tribute to his mem
ory. A Friend
The following resolutions of
Transylvania Lodge No. 143 K. of
P. on the death of Knight Walter
A. Wood w^ere adopted:
Whereas, it haw pleased the Benevo
lent Father, the Supreme Ruler of
the Universe to take from our Or
der, our friend and brother, Wal
ter A. Wood; and ^
Whereas, in his death we have lost
a member whose life was an exera-
piitieation of those great cardinal
principles of our Order, Friend
ship, Charity and Benevolence;
and
Whereas, our ranks have not been
invaded by the Angel of Death un
til this sad hour, for which grateful
favor our Lodge is supremely
thankful; Be it therefore
Rosolved: 1. That we bow in
humble submission to the will of an
All-wise and Supreme Ruler.
2. That in the death of our de
parted bi other, our’Lodge has lost a
faithful, conscientious member, de
voted to its great principles which
look toward the betterment of man
kind.
3. That in his death the bereaved
family has lost a splendid specimen
of Christian manhood, whose pres
ence was ever laden with joy, whose
kindly acts ever made glad the
hearts of father and mother, broth
ers and sisters, and whose life, just
verging on the frontier of useful
manhood gave forth promise of a
full snn-crowned man.
4. That while we deplore his loss,
let us hope that his passing from ^his
sphere of toil, care and disappoint
ment to a land beyond the shadows
will be the means of ^strengthening
the . liope and rejuvinating the faith
of those he left behind, and that Ce
lestial, realm will be dearer to his
friends because of his habitation
there.
5. That a copy of these resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of our
Order^ a copy be sent to the imme
diate family of our deceased brother
and a copy be printed in the Sylvan
Valley News. Respectfully,
W. H. Duckworth,
Welch Galloway,
W. P. Whitmire.
‘ 'Though a brightness has passed from the earth,
Yet a star is new born in the sky ^
And a soul has gone home to the land of its birth.
Where are pleasures aijd fullness of joy.
And a new harp is strung and a new song is given
To the breezes that blow o’er the gardens of
Heaven.’ ’
Food don’t digest? Because the
stomach lacks some one of the essen
tial digestants or the digestiv^e juices
are not properly balanced. Then,
too, it is this undigested food that
causes sourness and painful indiges
tion. Kodol For Indigestion Hhould
be used for relief. Kodol is a solu
tion of vegetable acids. It digests
what you eat, and corrects the defi-
cieucies of the digestion. Kodol
conforms to the National Pure Food
and Drug Law'. Sold here by Bre
vard Drug Co.
,Now that railroad passes are
abolished, a new leather trust is
being formed, and it will cost
even more to walk,
Tbe Right Name.
Mr. August Sharpe, the popular
overseer of the poor, at Fort Madi
son, la., says: “Dr. King’s New Life
Pills are rightly named; they act
more agreeably, do more good and
or crooked and delighting in what i ^^0 ^001 better than any other
was kind, true and good. To j Jgx^^y0 n Guaranteed to cure bil-
ministers and relatives who . jousness and constipation! 2Cc at Z.
talked freely with him he gave w. Nichols^ drug store.
Walter was a good boy, a big
hearted, generous young man, |
scorning what was little, sordid j