Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
j. J. MII^ER, Manager.
BREYAED, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. JULY 5,1907
VOL. XII-NO. 27.
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
UnightsofPjthias
Regular ,c onvention ev-
ery Tuesday night in Ma-
sonic Hall. Visiting
Kniglits are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WlllTMlKE 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 Cords.
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ATTO RN EY-AT-L A W.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
GASH <fl GALLOWAY.
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
N. C.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
THOMAS Ai ALLEHj Jfi?
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE*
A \ieAutiful gold crown for $4.00
aiul up. ,
Plates of all kind at reasonable
^ All work guaranteed; satisfaction
or no pav.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be glad to «have you call and
inspect my offices, work and puces.
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.
Cor. Main and. Caldwell Sts.
BREVAKD, N* C.
Tlemodeled and newly Surnished.
Under maoagement of oxperienced
hotel caterer. Cehtrallocation,
verandas, livery connected. the
Best at reasonable rates. Write tor
particulars.
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Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough lor
The family bottle (60 cents) contams a buppl>
for a year. All druggists sell them.
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CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only the finest adjnsted instrn-
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men Desert.
For five weeks last winter the city of Butte, Mont., was
a barren desert. It was the driest place on earth. The
water supply was all right, but owing to a strike all the
newspapers were suspended. - -
Butters experience proved that in this day and age the
local newspaper is a public necessity. ^N'obody knew what
happening. False
was
rumors
spread like bad
butter. Fake stories
about citizens circulated
by word of month until
several duels almost re
sulted. There were no
newspapers to tell the
truth about things.
Business suffered worst
of all. Merchants tried
handbills, which didn’t
fill the bill. They work
ed the billboard over-
tinie, but only bored the
public. The people cried
for newspapers as babies
cry for— (See ad.)
For once in the his-,
tory of the world it^ was
demonstrated beyond
peradventure that a town
without a live newspaper
dead one. Stores
IS a
could not do business without properly advertising their
wares, and they could not advertise properly without news
paper space.
Butte merchants are now advertising to make up for lost
time. Business men who didn’t think much of advertising
before have learned its value and are using newspaper
space.
The experience of Butte carries a lesson for every other
to’wn—this one, for instance:
I ADVERTISING PAYS ITS OWN WAY. I
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street Car Line, Free Bridge and
Fine Amusement Park.
LIGHT AND WATER PLANTS TOO
Small City of Monroe, La., Has Suc
cessfully Carried Out a Remarkable
Programme In Municipal Ownership.
Property Values Increased.
'Municipal awnership of public utili
ties is noTV an established fact in at
least one town in America. It Is not a
large tovrn, but it has done more to
ward putting the theory of municipal
ownership to a practical test than has
been accomplished at any place this
side of Glasgow on the east or New
Zealand on th« west.
It has not alone entered the ordinary
fields of supiplyliig light and "water, nor
has It even stopped at street railway
operation and ownership. In addition
to all these, it has a municipally owned
bridge—;a “free bridge;” It owns its
schoolii and supports them independent
of state or county, and it owns a sum
mer garden and a municipal race track.
Monroe is the name of this American,
experimantcr In New Zealand ways.
tt is a Louisiana town whk?h had lest
than GjObO inhabitants according to tb©
census of 1900; still It has not hesitat
ed to try the most extraordinary theo-
ri^ ©f munloipal goTernnaent. Furtlyr
j than that, It has successfully carried
I out or' is now carrying out the most
radical of these attempts and has pass
ed the stage of experimentation.
Conservative property owners when
the plan of municipalizing the public
utilities first became apparent to them
threw up their hands and protested
that they -would be ruined. They even
offered to sell out their holdings in
Monroe and gave out that they w^ould
leave the town and never come back.
Not that these “conservatives” recog
nized the full import of the municipal
ownership campaign from the first, for
had they done so it is not unlikely that
they would have carried their threats
into execution. As it Is, they hav«
lived to see utopian dreams become
material facts.
Property has advanced In value all
about the town of Monroe, and since
those who were obstructionists at th#
beginning were, with hardly an excep
tion, heavy property owners the up
ward tendency of values has been to
their principal benefit. Some of them.
In fact, have become converted through
this means to the municipal ownership
theory.
/With sueh pronounced opposition as
was at first encountered it naturally
follows that the municipal ownership
itdvocateB at Monroe had a strong lead
er, else defeat would have been cer
tain. That leader was A. A. Forsythe,
mayor of the town.
Mayor Forsythe was elected on a
platform calling for public imj^rove-
ments and “the modernizing of Mon
roe.”
A new state constitution adopted by
Louisiana the same year Forsythe was
first ■ elected inco^orateu a provis.ion
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authorizing i-uui.l
bonds for public iinpiovomeirt^. Marov
Forsythe took the initiative in havin',
Monroe take advantage of tliis now
laTV, and that tovrn was the first in th?
state to issue such bonds: Nor wns
the issue small, $155,000 being voted
at the first election.
This sum v;as to be divided as fol
lows: For street paving, .‘^40,000; for
a high school building, ^^20,GC.O; fc
sew’erage, $30,000; for a charit.v liG’pI
tal, $5,000; for vrater and lig’j.
$GO,000.
No provision was made, you will cb
sen’c, for such a theoretical improve
ment as a street railway or a munici
pal bridge. As to race track and
summer garden—in those untried
times of his first campaign such :
suggestion would certainly have
brought defeat to the free public utili
ties champion of Monroe.
Water and lights v/ere the only pub
lic utilities or conveniences Monroe
enjoyed previous to 18p8, and these
under private ow’nership. With the
granting of the w^ater and light fran
chise Monroe had voted a tax of
syj mills for ten years, the income
from that source going to paj^ for
street lighting and water for fight
ing fires. The service w^as indifferent,
although the pay was very good.
Mayor Forsythe argued that if the
franchise was profitable to the private
company it would be more profitable
to the municipality, and the plant v/as
purchased. This absorbed the $60,000
of the bond issue that had been voted
for tliat purpose.
The move caused the three and one-
fialf mill tax to be discontinued, but
the newly purchased light and water
plants were in such indifferent condi
tion that they practically had to be
built over. The rate to private users
was continued as it had been pre
vious to the purchase by the city and
the profits devoted steadily to better
ments.
In this manner the city was saved
the tax it had previously paid, but
the people could not see the direct
saving because their private bills were
as large as ever. Some of them v,’ho
had expected a miracle to follow on
the heels of the acquisition of the
water and light plants grumbled a lit
tle, but as a rule they waited patiently
for results. The bond issue had been
carricd with onlj' eight dissenting
votes, so pretty much all the popula
tion of Monroe was committed to the
movement.
Finally tbe Improvements on the old
plant have been finished at a cost
equaling the original purchase price,
and the city plant is “as good as new.”
Hereafter when the current expenses
and repairs have been taken care of
and a proper sum charged off for In
terest and depreciation the patrons of
the Monroe light and water plants will
be given the benefit in reduced rates,
that biJJitg the announced policy of the
municipal ownership mayor.
In the matter of a school building
$20,000 was voted by the city, but Vv’as
found bj" the mayor to be far too small.
By borrowing from the general fund
and executing various financial turns
the present school building was erected
at a cost of $85,000. It is maintained
at an expenditure of $20,000 j’early,
and any child in Monroe or Ouachita
county or the state of Louisiana can
attend free.
These departures from the accepted
way of doing things at Monroe caused
much comment and some opposition,
but that was as nothing compared to
the storm aroused when, in 1903, May
or Forsythe announced his scheme for
a municipal railway. There was no
provision in the city’s charter which
would permit such a move, but this did
not daunt the mayor and his followers.
They took the matter up at the ses
sion of the Louisiana legislature for
1904 and had their charter 4jmended.
Private corporate interests which had
an eye on the street railw^ay franchise
now" awoke to the knowledge that For
sythe’s talk of a municipal railway
W'as something more than bluff, and
they began to fight him. Their chief
objection to the movement was the
alleged fear of a corrupt “ring,” which
they professed to believe would domi
nate politics once the city became en
gaged In the operation of the various
utilities.
But the munlcipalj0,ownershlp cham
pions won out. In addition to the orig
inal bond issue, a special tax of 5
mills for ten years was levied for
public improvements. This income was
to be devoted to building a city hall, a
city prison, a city market and a street
railway.
In order to realize upon the tax thus
voted. Mayor Forsythe conceived the
idea of issuing what he has called “cer-
ti^cates ^ payment”—bonds in everj*
thii2g except mime—predicated upon the
tea year tax and other funds. He
met Vt’Ith fierce opposition in this
move, for the local “system” carried on
a campaign against the legality of the
“certificates of payment” and came
near frightening the money markets
into turning tliem down.
Finally, after the construction of the
street railway had been delayed more
than a year, the city’s paper was ne
gotiated, and work on what was des
tined to be the first municipal raihvay
in America was taken up.
In connection with the municipal
street raihvay Ihe city has expended
over $40,000 in the acquisition of a
park, fair and amusement grounds two
miles above the city on the Ouachita
river, to v/hich the car line extends.
It is known as Forsythe park. There,^
are over 130 acres in the tract. v j
It is an ideally beautiful site, but
what uature has denied is being sup
plied by art. Over 1,000 trees of many
varieties have been planted. The park
fronts on an artificial lake.
On an island in tlie lake a pavilion or
summer theater has been built, a bridge
leading to it from the mainland. It is
octagonal in shape and a very pretty
structure, with a seating capacity of
1,500. The stage settings are hand
some. The drop curtain is a painting
from a local scene—a lane about a mile
long just below Monroe, the posts of
the fence on either side being growing
catalpa trees.
On the fair grounds, which have been
inclosed, a standard half mile, eighty
foot v/ide race track, a grand stand
with a seating capacity of 2,00,0, mod
ern stables and other conveniences are
constructed. The track has perfect
drainage, and races can be run in two
or three hours after a hard rain. A
municipal baseball park is a feature.
Property values have increased three
fold since this modernizing process be
gan. Assessed valuation ISDS, $1,700,-
000; in 190G, $3,700,000.
Chance for SylAan Valley News Readers.
In order to test the Sylvan Valley
News gre^t circulation and its supe
rior advestlsing value, we have made
arrangements with Brevard Drug
Co., the popular druggist, to offer
one of his best selling medicines at
half-price to anyone w’ho will cut out
the following coupon and present it
at his store:
COUPON.
This coupon entitles the holder to one .50 ?
pa( kage of Dr. Howard’s specific for the
cure of constipation and dyspeps-ia at half-
price, 25c. I will refund the money to any
dissatisfied custoTner.
BREVARD DRUG CO.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Dr. Howard’s specific for the cure
of constipation and dyspepsia is not
an unknown remedy. It has made
many remarkable cures right here in
Brevard and so positive is Brevard
Drug Co, of its great superiority in
curing dyspepsia, constipation, sick
headache and liver troubles that it
will, in addition to selling it at half-
price, refus'd the money to anj^one
whom it does not cure.
If you cannot call at his store, cut
out the coupon and mail it with 25
cents, and a 50 cent box of the spe
cific will be sent you by mail, charges
paid. Do not put it off. “One to
day is worth two tomorrow.’’ jy 2-4
The suspicion is abroad that
Col. Watterson*s tied-out candi
date has slipped the bridle and
scampered.
Wonder what the feelings of
the President were, when he no
ticed that as soon as he departed
for Oyster Bay, the Teddy bears
ia Washington were marked
down to 79 cents.
Nearly all old-fashioned Cough Syr
ups are constipating, especially those
that contain opiates. They don’t act
just right. Kennedy^fl Laxative
Cough Syrup contains no opiates. It
drives the cold out of the system by
gently moving the bowels. Contains
Honey and Tar and tastes nearly as
good as maple syrup, ("hildren like
it. Sold by Brevard Drug Co.