Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
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J. J. MHjfER, Manager.
BREVAED, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 8.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 10
Transylvania Lodge No. 143*
Knights of Pytiiias
Regular convention ev
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting-
Knights are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevarii Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. ni.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Profesdonol Cards.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Booms 1 and 2, Piokelsimer Building.
ZACHARY & BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Blocic. Brevard. N. G.
gash « CAIXOWAY.
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.
MiscdUoneons.
THOMAS A. ALIEN, Jr
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE.
N. C.
For the month of November and
December only I will make a first
class set of teeth (best rubber)
FOR $7.00
ffuarauteed to fit or no pay. All
Dental work reduced in proportion
for that time only.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the traveling public
as well as summer tourists id solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enoufjfh tor usual occasions.
The fainiiy bottle (60 rents) contains a supply
lor a year. All druggists sell them.
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The Yonng People’s Society of
Christian Endeavor meets in Bre
vard Presbyterian Chnreh Tuesday
ovenings. Song service 7.45 to8.00,
Prayer meeting 8.00 to 8.30. All
are inivted. tf
Aslieville Letter
NEWS NOTES FROM THE MOUNTAIN
METROPOLIS OF INTEREST TO
NEWS READERS.
From Our Begiilar CJorrespondent.
G. C. Beal, a carpenter who
was injured at Canton last week
and later brought to this city and
placed in the Mission Hospital, is
reported to be on the road to re
covery. The injured man was
employed on a building being
erected by the Champion pulp
mill at Canton and in some man
ner fell a distance of about thirty
feet alighting on his face on a
hard cement floor. Nearly all
the bones of his face were crush
ed, the bones of his nose and up
per jaw being completely dislo
cated, the lower jaw bones were
broken in the middle and in addi
tion to the Injuries of his face the
man sustained a compound frac
ture of the left thigh. Another
distressing accident befell two
carpenters at the Canton works
last week. The men, Terrell
Flynn and Frank Chestman are
both expected to die. It is stated
that a brick wall which was
erected temporarily fell without
warning and they were caught
and crushed beneath tons of
brick and.morter. It; is under
stood that both men had their
skulls fractured and were hurt
otherwise internally. Flynn’s
home is said to be in Old Fort
but the-home address of Chest
man is not known at the present
writing.
As stated in this correspond
ence the Asheville police force
have been w^orking up the case'
of the ‘‘Pressing Club Flim Flam
Game.” Here a small n^gro
calls at a house and states that
he is sent for clothing from one
of the city pressing clubs and
when he gets the clothes he and
the clothes both disappear.” The
police through their untiring ef^
forts think they have landed
one of the suit stealing gang who
is a small negro boy, namely,
Sid Corpening who has been
bound over by Police Judge
Jones under a bond of $100 for
larceny and will be tried at the
next term of Superior court. The
police say that the clothes steal
ing scheme has flourished in
Asheville and that there is evi
dently an organized gang of
young negroes who are profiting
through the loss of clothing of
some of the best citizens in Ashe
ville. They hope that the arrest
of Corpening will result in the
capture and breaking up of the
whole gang.
The case of Alvin Owens and
Wise Williams, two Asheville
youths, will be called for trial at
th,is term of Henderson county
court. The boys will be tried
for burglarizing a dwelling house
belonging to a man named Shep
herd in Hendersonville some
months ago. These are the same
two boys who are said to have
put up such a stiff tight when
the officers tried to arrest them,
and who afterward made an ef
fort to break jail. The reading
of “dime novels” and trashy lit-
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A New Aid Fable.
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This is not a George Adc fable, though it may sling some
slang. It is a Home Aid fable.
Once there was a Geezer, who sat around and cut Kindling ^
too small for Cook Stove purposes. He Whittled against Time @
and Flabbergasted against his Tx>wn.' The town was No Good,^ ^
he said—strictly on the Blink. Yes, it was N. G. Why, ^
hadn’t he lived Here since ’84 and found that the Place was
Punky? Sure, Mike!
Look at that town over in the next County. Grown like
Jonah's Gourd. Must be a Jonah here. We’ve grown some,
but I don’t see that .we’re knocking any particularly Big Per
simmons. That’s the way this Gazaboo knocked his town.
One day Sarcastic Strangrer floated into the Town that
was Knocked from the burg that had Blossomed like Jonah’s
Gourd. He Heard some
of the Flabbergrastlng
and Dropped to the sit
uation.
“Look here, you.” he
remarked to the citizen
who was Handing: Out
the Knocks. “What do
you do for this town?
Are you doing: your part
to put this Burff on the
Upgrrade? What’s that
hefty Bunch of litera
ture sticking: out of
your Cl<^hes?"
“That’s a Mail Order
Catalogue from Chl>
cago—a town that Is a
town," replied the Gce-
*er.
“So I thought,” said
the Ipipertinent Arriv
al. “Kow let me hand
you out a nice little
Wad of common sense. .
For the past ten years
you have been sending
your money to the Chi- "
cago Mail Order houses
instead of spending it
among your home mer
chants. What would
have happened to Chi
cago fifty years ago if
all the Flr^ Settlers .
had shipped their Loose
‘Coio to, Ne^v^ on
catkloiSle inducem^tsft
Why; youfd have to use
a sand dredger now to
And the Original Site
of Chicago. Now, In the
Burg from which I
have Just Blown in we
got over all this Bum Business years ago. We passed Resolutions
that we would trade at home and help our own town to Spread
out so that you could Sight it on the map without using Opera
Glasses, But you and a Bunch of other folks in this town have
wasted your Substance In Riotous Expenditures in Chicago by
mail and let the sheriff hang out the ‘Nothing Doing:* sign in
front of some of your own town’s mercantile Emporiums. Look
at our Town and then look at yours. What makes the Differ
ence ?”
Whereupon the Whittling Gaaaboo threw a few well cho
sen Thoughts into his mental makeup and went down to the
village store to Annex a linen collar in place of the Paper
Circles which he had bought from Chicago at Two Bits a Box.
MORAL: If you want your town to
grow, patronize home enterprises.
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erature it is said was the cause
of the boys going astray. R. S.
McCall of this city wall look after
the interests of the defendants
when the case comes to trial.
Frank Carter has been elected
Substitute Judge of Police Court
by the board of Aldermen and it
is stated that Mr. Carter will ac
cept the place. He was elected
by a unanimous vote of the board.
Since the defeat of the Bun
combe county Good Roads bond
issue by the “stay-at-homes” in
the rural districts, the “anti-
ites” are now talking about in
creasing the direct taxation for
the improvement of the roads.
The bond issue was defeated be
cause every one of the registered
voters who did not vote was
counted against ttie issue, and
the result was greatly due to the
fact that a good per cent of those
who did hot take the trouble to
vote were in favor of the bonds,
but their failure to vote resulted
in casting their strength to the
“anti-bondites. ”
The, Asheville police force are
again on a campaign of extermi
nation against the notorious
houses of ill fame in the “Red
Light” district of this city and e
number of drag net raids have
been made recently with the re
suit that the inmates of these
“unsavory joints” and the pa
trons thereof have been tried in
open court for their numerous
unprintable offenses. All of those
given a hearing before Police
Judge Jones are out on ^bond
ranging from $25 to $100 and
their trial will come up at the
next term of Superior court.
The police raid these places from
month to month and year to year
but the fines usually imposed are
paid with good grace and the in
mates return to these houses and
continue their nefarious traffic
unmolested until the next raid,
when they again appear befora
the bar and pay their fines. The
result is that these places con
tinue to exist and thrive right
under the eyes of the law and
leave open an inducement for the
youths of this city to frequent
houses of shame and degradation,
where mingle together in drunk
en carousal those who can not
resist the~ temptation to tread
the wide but crooked path that
leads to broken lives, broken
health, broken homes, broken
hearts and mote often broken
pocket-books and broken heads.
A raid every night or two, jail
sentences and heavy tines could
be resorted to with good results,
for there are more ways to keep
a city clean than to flush the
streets"in the day time when the
traffic is the heaviest.
A record run was made
through the Asheville railway
yards one day last week by a
light engine with the result that
said engine is now out of com
mission in the repair shop and
Willie Brown, Frank McGhee
and “Judge*' McMahan, three
small negro boys are under ar
rest on the charge of trespassing
on the Southern's property.
These three little imps of dark
ness visited the yards on a tour
of .investigation and seeing an
engine standing on the track un
attended, with steam up and ev
erything in readiness for atrip,
they clambered aboard, threw
open the throttle and away they
rushed, faster and faster, past
strings of freii^ht (a;’s and puf-
ting engines. Everything was
running smoothly and the little
darkies were in high spirits but
they, had not calculated that oth
er engines ran sometimes on the
same track and a very sudden
stop was tnade when their speed
ing engine collided with, another
light ^hgibe. Tfie boys , were
thrown from t:he open cab to the
ground, the engine was smashed
and the estimated damage to it is
^ibout one thousand dollars.
There is at present three badly
frightened little negroes in the
city lock-up awaiting trial for
trespassing. L. R. D
ss.
State OF Ohio, City of Toledo, |
Lucas County f
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
hels senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doinj? business in the
city of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use ot Hall’s
Catrfirh Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of De
cember, A. D. 1886.
(Seal.) A. W. GleasoNi
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally,! and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of (he system^
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take
Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
“Building materials are still ^oing
up”, says the trade ^ournM. Well,
there’s one consolation. So are the
buildings.
Faster and faster the pace is set,
Bj" people of action, vim and get.
So if at the finish you would be.
Take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.
Brevard Drug Co., Z. W. Nichols.
The horses at the New Orleans race
track still continue to live up to their
names. Whisk-Broom won four out
five events almost making a clean
sweep.
Found at L<ast.
J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West
Va., says: ‘-At last I have found thp
petfect pill that never disappoints
me; and for the benefit of others af
flicted with torpid liver and chronic
constipation, will say: take Dr.
King’s New Life PiJIs.y Guaran
teed satisfactory. 25c at Z. W.
Nichols, druggist.