■asgr Our Comtjf—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., PRIPAY. FEBJ^UARY 22.1907 Asheville Letter Dori’t You Like This Town? You live here. Your business interests are here. Your home is here. You are reading a Mail Order Catalogue. That indicates that you are not spending your money in this town. You are spending it with strangers in a big city. That city has no use for this town except to get your money. This town has use for your money. If spent here, yA-N-S Tabules Doctors find A good prescription For mankind The 5-cent packet is enough lor usual occasions. The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply tor a year. All druggists sell them. ONE COPY OF A SONG BOOK FWe will mail free one copy of REVIVAL ECHOES No. 3-a book of 80 pages of the best music for R Sabbath Schools and Revivals. A book of which we have sold nearly 100,000 copies in the past year. It Eis free to any reader of this paper who will send us the name and ad dress of three (3) or more leaders Eof 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 Musical Million, the most popular music journal of the south, and sam ple pages of our leading musical pub lications. Address The Ruebush-Kieffer Co., Dayton, Virginia. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cures Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. NEWS NOTES FROM THE MOUNTAIN METROPOLIS OF INTEREST TO NEWS READERS. From Our Regnl€ur Correspondent. With several capital cases oH the' docket at this term of Snperior conrt and with a fight in progress concerning the approaching elec tion for or against a two thousand dollar bond issue for good roads. Asheville people have a variety of subjects to discuss but in addition to these things of local interest the eyes of the whole country are turned toward this city due to the fact that a millionaire and his wife are sueing one-another for divorce and the stage settings are in this city although both parties are non residents here The case in ques tion is that of the well known mil lionaire Commodore Merrill Beech er Mills and his wife Mrs. Lila Mills and the case is being tried out west but most of the star witnesses are Asheville people of social stand ing. The divorce proceedings are the culmination of alleged miscon duct of Mrs. Mills while on a visit to Asheville last summer and also I the claim of the husband to the ef fect that a certain Asheville gentle man, whose name has not been dis close! alienated his wife’s affec tions during her stay in this city. When the announcement was made that the trouble was aH due to Mrs. Mills visit to this city and that a prominent Asheville man was at the bottom of all the trou ble between the millionaire and his wife considerable interest was man ifested in the case. Since it be came known that an Asheville man was the correspondent in the case the Asheville j)eople have been speculating who the :^oung “Sport” could be but the conamissioners in the case who are taking down the testimony of the various witnesses have so far held the hearings be hind closed doors and only people who are directly interested in the case as witnesses are allowed in the court chamber. Commodore Mills secured the foundation for his di vorce proceedings here in Ashe ville by employing detectives and sending them to this city and as soon as this was discovered by Mrs. Mills she is said to have imported detectives from New York and had them shadow the other men em ployed by her husband. With all of these efforts on the part of the principals in the case to bring out charges and counter charges and with the setting of the case in our usually quiet city the Asheville gossips are bubbling over with the knowledge of who is the man in the case. Up to the present writ ing about twenty-five young men of good families are talked of as the right man] by some of those busy bodies, but it is hard to tell who’s who and what’s what. As stated in this correspondence the city boardchave decided to in crease the liquor license from one thousand dollars per year *to two thousand but the matter has been changed so tbat there is only an increase of tw^o hundred dollars in the licence tax and the sum of twelve htindred dollars has been decided u’pon. Od6 6t tlie largest real estate deals closed in this city for some time is 1?he sale of the Golf Club Grounds at the terminus of the Charlotte street car line. The property was purchased from the Pack estate for the sum of twenty- six thousand dollars by Dr. C. V. Reynolds, D. C. WMdell and C. C. Millard. The property purchased amounted to' about 120 acres and it ^is said that the plat will be cut into building lots and converted in to a residential park. Work on the new street railway whose charter was recently grant ed will shortly begin. The line will start at the corner of North Maine and College streets and run to the top of Sunset Mountain open ing up a new territory and also the old Overlook park which for a number of years was classed among one of the chief attractions of this city for the visitors who come here in the summer months. The new company has made a statement that they will reduce the usual five cent rate in the following manner : They will sell six full fares for 25 cents and then in addition to that will give a coupon with each 25 cents worth of tickets. When five of these coupons are^held by a per son the company will issue one round trip ticket from the city ter minus to the top of the motmtain and return. Up to the present writing Judge Boyd has not handed down his de cision in the Toxaway' Hotel Com pany’s proceedings in which the oompany contends that it can not be adjudged bankrupted. It is un derstood that although the compa ny is having trouble with its cred itors and that the company’s man agement are making preparations to open up their hotels in the Toxa way Country and it is stated that the business Will be conducted un der the same management. Presi dent Burrowes who is in the north at the present writing announces that the Toxaway Inn will be open ed the first of April and booklets to that effect are now being distribut ed. It is also said that the other hotels of the company will be opened later in the season. L. R. D. Rising From the Grave. A prominent manufacturer, Win. A. Fertwell, of Lucama, N. C., re lates a most remarkable experience. He says: “Aft«r taking less than three bottles of Electric BUte»^, I feel like one rising from the grave. My trouble is Bnght’s disease, in the Diabetes stage. I fully believe Electric Bitters will cure me perma nently, tor it has already stopped the liver and bladder complications which have troubled me for years.’’ Guardnteei at Z. W. Nichols, drug gist. Frice only to *. VOL. XII-NO. 8 Dream Happenings, “We haven’t that article in stock,” said the druggist “Can’t you give me something equal ly as good?’ “No, sir. There isn’t anything equal ly as good.” “Why do you cease talking?** inquir ed the visitor to the opera box. “Do I Interrupt a tete-a-tete?” “Oh, no!” replied the charming host ess. “But the curtain is^up. Conversa tion now might disturb the audience or perhaps those on the stage.’* “Missus,” began the cook, “I have been with youse now a year. I hopes my services pleases.” “They do, Marie Antoinette. You may consider your position quite se cure.” “Thank , yez, mum.” — Washington Herald*. A Sorry Prospect For the Future. Dupre had l)een rather a naughty boy on the street car, and after they reach ed home his mother corrected him in the good old fashioned way, though not anything like so severely as he imag ined. “Now, Dupre,” she said, “I hope you will remember what happens when boys do not obey their mothers and next time we are on the cars that you will sit quietly, as mother tells you.” “Yes, m-m-mother,” he sobbed. “I w-will if I am e-e-ever able to s-s-sit down anywhere a-a-again.”—Woman’s Home Companion. False Alarm. Fraulein Laura had put a stopper on the poet's protestations and refused h5« suit, and the poet, in a great state, drew his knife out of his pocket. “For heaS en’s sake,” shrieked Laura, “don’t kill yourself! I will listen to you!” “Good!’" said the poet, returning hU knife to his pocket. “But I was only going to sharpen my pencil to write you a^farew^m.”—IiJstige. Blat- ■*ter. ” ‘ ' V ^ - :'.:f ^ ^ " -1C With 228 newspaper men reporting . the Thaw trial, the public can rest as sured of getting the whole truth and then some more. Neighbors Got Fooled. “I was literally coughing myself to death, and had become too weak to leave my bed, and neighbors pre dicted that I would never leave it alive; but they got fooled, for thanks be to God, I was induced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It took just four one dollar bottles to completely cure the cough and restore me to good sound health,” writes Mrs, Eva Uncapher, of Grovertown, Stark Co., Ind. This king of cough and cold cures, and healer of throat and lungs, is guaranteed by Z. W. Nichols, druggist. oOcand$l. Trial bottle free. The resolution of the Tenn. legislature regarding Senator Carmack, indicated that the peo ple are already sorry they didn’t reelect him. Carmack is the most brilliant man in the U. S. Senate. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to karn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. HalPs Catarrh Cure is the only positive < ure now known to the medical fraternity^ Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treat ment. HalPs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foun dation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer one hundried dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney