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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the Erst Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MINER, Manager.
BREVAED, TEAl^SYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 25.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 4
Transylvania Lodse No. 143,
Knishts of Pythias
Regular convention ev
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knights are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Professional Cards.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTO RN EY-AT-L AW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
ZACHARY Sc BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. G.
GASH a 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.
Miscellaneous.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
N. C.
For the month of November aiKl
December ciuly I will make a first
class set of teeth (best rubber)
FOR $7.00
guaranteed to fit or no pay. AH
Dental work reduced in proportion
for that time only.
Teeth Extracted Without Pcin.
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the 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
For mankind
The 5-centpacket.is enough ior usual occasions.
The family bottle f60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
ONE COPY OF A SONG BOOK
We will mail free one copv of
REVIVAL ECHOES No. 3 -a book
of 80 pages of the best music for
Sabbath Schools and Revivals. A
book of which we have sold nearly
100.000 copies in the past year. Ii
is free to any reader of this paper
who will send ue' the name and ad
dress of three (3) or more leaders
of music. Just send us the names
today and we will mail you the
Song Book at once. We will also
mail you, free of charge, copies of The
^lusical Million, the most popular
music journa^l of the south, and sam-
]>le pages of our leading musical pub
lications. xVddress
The Ruebush-Kleffer Co.,
Dayton, Virg5rJa.
iChaniberlain’s Cough Heniedy
Cures Colds, Cr''up acd Whooping Cough.
Asheville Letter
NEWS NOTES FROM THE MOUNTAIN
METROPOLIS OF INTEREST TO
NEWS READERS.
From Our Regnlar Correspondent.
The Southern railway will short
ly build a new steel a’ .d concrete
double track bridge to span the
French Br6ad river just west of
the city where now" stands an old
wooden single track structure. .The
new bridge it is understood w’^ill
cost about $100,000. The Sonthern
is spending considerable money in
improvements in and around the
city, and these expenditures are
justified only by the rapid growth
of this section of the state. New
business enterprises iire being
started daily, and the Southern
railway, being quick to see the ad
vantage of improving the present
shipping facilities are doing every
thing in their power to improve
same. The double tracking of the
road from Asheville to Knoxville,
Tenn., is progressing rapidly and
the blasting.along the banks of the
French Broad river is h'eard at all
hours of the day and night. The
contract for the new bridge has
been let to Yandle Bros., sub-con
tractor for W. J. Oliver, who is do
ing a large part of the "work all
over the entire southern system.
The present bridge near the Mur
phy junction is rather a crude
structure which permits trains to
run only at a snail-like pace over
it, is curved and only single tracked.
The new bridge will be straight, so
it is said, and will be made in the
latest improved manner of rein
forced concrete surrounding steel
rods.
Mrs. W. H. Wilcox, a pretty
young widow and a visitor from
Alanta, .who w^as’ arrested in this
city on the charge of numerous
thefts from boarding houses and
hotels in and around the city, and
who was bound over for heai^ing at
the next term of superior court
under a bond of fifty dollars, is re
ported to have left the city. There
is considerable doubt expressed
privately w'hether she w’ill return
to Asheville to face the charges
now hanging over her head. Mrs.
Wilcox when arrested at first
claimed she was innocent of the
charges, but during the hearing
when some of the stolen articles
were offered in evidence, the same
having been taken from the jDrison-
er’s trunk, she is said to have
broken down and practically ad
mitted her guilt, attributing her
action to her present x:>bysical con
dition, she stating that she had
come to the city for treatment and
had just left a local sanitarium.
As stated in this correspondence
last week, Captain Taylor, of the
local police force and ex-Police
Judge W. P. Brown, had a fight in
front of the Bekley Hotel; that the
latter was arrested by Patrolman
J. M. Taylor, a brother of the Cap
tain’s, and that they were both de
fendants in a case in court the fol
lowing morning, with the result
that the Captain was fined by Police
Judge Jones. It developed later
that Patrolman Taylor and ,the
Judge were crossing the square,
the latter being under arrest, and
the officer and Judge had some
words; the former is claimed to
have kicked at the Ju4g®i ^.Iso
made an attempt to hit him with
with his club. Since the assault
the Judge had Patrolman Taylor
arrested, and like his brother
Captain Taylor was tried and found
guilty of simple assault, Juuge
Jones imposing a fine of ten dollars.
It* is stated that friends of Judge
Brown propose to p ash both cases
further and bring the matter up
before the board of aldermen for
their consideration cioncerning the
two officers.
The proposed plan of Alderman
Allen to have the city buy the
Asheville auditorium met with
rather a decided check at the last
meeting of the city fathers. Mayor
Barnard asked Alderman Allen if
the Auditorium company had sug
gested that the city buy out the
company and save the auditorium.
Alderman Allen then stated that
he had simj)ly conceived the idea
and suggested same: as a public
spirited move on the part of the
city to help out the Auditorium
company, who were in a bad fix,
due to the fact that the house could
not secure bookings of any first
class attraction because they had
been blacklisted by the theatrical
trusts for playing the Bernhardt
attraction. The mayor then ruled
that as long as the Auditorium
company had not asked the board
to save them from their present
position ke did not see that it was
the place of the city of Asheville to
comc to the rescue. He thought
that if the Auditorium company
wanted assistance or wanted to sell
out to the city it was' their place to
make the first move and he would
not' even allow a committee to be
api)ointed to look into the natter.
H. W. Fry and Andrew Buchanan,
of the lumber fix of the Fxy-
Buchanan Lumber Company, have
been arrested on the charge of
swindling, the charges being i^re-
ferred by Dr. J. E. Haw’thorne.
The doctor claims that he is out
about $2,100 through business
transactions with the firm, and that
the swindle was made possible by
false statements and misrepresen
tations of the firm. The case is
rather complicated and will be
brought to trial at the next term of
court. In the meantime the de
fendants in the case are at large
under a bond of $700 each.
In checking over the tax accounts
f
of Buncombe county Auditor
Stokley finds that George Vander
bilt, the owner of Biltmore village
and the the beautiful Biltmore es
tate, situated close to this city, has
not paid taxes on his personal in
come, in fact same having been
sworn off by him some time ago.
Mr. Vanderbilt pays this county a
goodly’sum on realty holdings, but
nothing on his cash income, includ
ing all monies, bonds, etc. Com
munications received by the local
authorities from New York city-
state that Mr. Vanderbilt claims
Asheville as his home, and that he
does not pay taxes on his income at
that place. So it is up to Mr. Van
derbilt to state where he does pay
said taxes, if he pays them at all
It is said that the taxes yearly
would amount to one dollar on each
hundred, or according to his re
puted wealth about $50,000 per year
to our local Tar Heel government.
L. R. D.
‘ The Ris‘ht 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
make one feel better than any other
laxative.” Guaranteed to cure bil
iousness and constipation. 25c at Z.
W. Nichols’ drug store.
The Shah of Persia leaves eigh t
.hundred widows. ' Think of one
having as many as eight hundred
mothers-ia law at once.
Tlie Land of Flowers.
HOW A TRANSYLVANIA GIRL IS
SPENDING THE WINTER—OR
ANGES, GRAPE FRUIT, BATHING,
FISHING, GATHERING SHELLS ETC.
St. Petersburg, Fla., Jan. 12.
Editor Sylvan Valley News:
I have just read a copy of the
Sylvan Valley News and the
thought occurred to me that pos
sibly a letter from the “Land of
Flowers” might not be objection
able to the editor and the read
ers'of the News.
We were very much grieved to
learn of the death of Walter
Wood. I’ve wished so often
since coming here that Walter
could stand the trip here and be
benefitted by this delight.ulcli-
mate. My sister, Mrs. Haddon’s,
health is greatly improved since
coming here. St. Petersburg
boasts of the dryest salt air re
corded, except that of Italy.
Damaging frosts are unknown;
surf bathing every day in the
year; fishing unexcelled. This
is the home of the kingly tarpon.
Sailing, rowing, shell gathering,
miles and miles of beach strolls
give one plenty of out door exer
cise.
This is the finest orange and
grape-fruit belt in America.
Just.’cross the street from us
there’s a lar^e orange grove, and
just two blocks from us there’s a
large packing house where from
eighteen to eighteen hundred
boxes of oranges and grape-fruit
are packed per day. Boys make
from $2.25 to $4.50 per day pack
ing—depends on the rapidity
with which they pack. We buy
our oranges right from the grove
and I’ve gotten sev,eral times as
many as 25 or 30 for 5 cents.
Once in my life I’ve gotten all
the oranges and gr^-pe fruit I
really want.
This certainly is the land of
sunshineandthecountry of splen
did realities. It is called the
•‘Tourist’s Paradise,’’and judging
from the number that come here
for the w^inter it certainly must be
appropriately so called. The
greatest number come here from
the north and a greit jnany stay
when they come. The climate is
'SO fine and the people so kind.
It hasn’t rained here since I
came the 12th of November and
they tell me it hasn’t rained
enough to wet the sand since
September. Children go bare
footed the year round, ladies
wear white lawn dresses the year
’round too. 1 can look out and
see thro’ one window cabbage,
beans, beets, etc., growing, and
out thro’ the other window and
see a big green orange grove, the
trees laden with large, yellow
oranges, and look down in the
yard and see violets blooming
and roses in full bloom. It’s
hard to realize that it’s mid
winter.
1 spent Christmas day with
friends on Passagrille Island and
took Christmas dinner at the
Bonhomie Hotel. Passagrille is
an island about eight miles long
on the Great Gulf. Bathing is
fine over there. Christmas
morning as we neared the island
we could see men, \vomen and
children oat on the docks fishing
and they had great strings of
fish—mulleU trout, red fish,
groopers, tarpons, etc. We land
ed and took a stroll up the beach
to gather shells. Soon we were
summonsed to dinner by a big
horn, and it was a regular fish
dinner—clam chowder, stone
crabs, fried groopers, angel
wings, oysters, lobsters, turkey
with all the trimmings, dressing*,
cranberry sauce, celery, pickles,
olives, etc., etc. Vegetables just
out of the garden, corn, beans,
okra, tomatoes, eggplant, pota- ^
toes, etc. Then came mince pie,
plum pudding pumpkin pie, fruit
cake, orange cake, candy, nuts,
fruits, etc. My! but it was a lay
out.
Christmas evening we attend
ed a musical concert given by
the sailors. For a month or two
several large torpedo giin boats
have anchored here and the pave
ment IS lined evenings by the
sailors—poor lonely looking fel
lows, some of them. 1 had the
pleasure of examining one of Un
cle Sam's gun boats here and the
massive guns they carry are
surprising.
Next month the orange trees
will be-in full blossom and I shall
endeavor to place a boquet on
lie editor's desk. Some time
I’m going to write you a real
“fish story,” i. e. if this “epistle”
finds favor with the editor.
Best wishes tb the News and
all my "friends''" 5j. L. MJ"-
• -w-
Clear up the complexion, cleftnse the
liver and tone the system. You can
best do this by a dose or two of De
Witt’s Little Early Risefs. Safe, re
liable little pills with a reputation.
The pills that everyone knows. Kec-
mmended by Brevard Drug Co.
“Mr. Harriman’s appetite is
improving,” so a Philadelphia
contemporary states. Last w^eek
Mr. Harriman was only able to
assimilate a few side tracks and
short lines; now he can dispose
of an entire trunk line before
breakfast, with ease and dis
patch.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred DolUir’.-^
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
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.
Hall’s 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.
“Opportunity is again knock
ing at the door of the democratic
party’' says the Indianapolis
Star. As usual, however, tne
family is raising such a rough-
house that Opportunity will prob
ably not get in.
It is not even probable that
Mr. Tillman would consent to a
truce with a Teddy bear.
That’s the house the Doctor built.
The biggest house you see;
Thank goodness he don’t get our money,
For we take Hollister’s Rocky Moun
tain Tea.
—Brevard Drug Co. & Z. W. Nichols.