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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
j, J. MINER, Manager.
BREVABD, TEANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JULY 19.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 29
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Regular conventionev-
ery Tuesday night in Ma-
^ sonic Hall. ‘Visiting
Knights are cordiaUy 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 Cords.
W. B. DUCKWOR.TH,
ATTO RN EY-AT-L AW.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
GASH GALLOWAY.
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
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Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bai}ey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
N. C.
A beautiful gold crown for $4.00
and up.
Plates of all kind at reasonable
prices.
All work guaranteed; satisfaction
or no pay.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be glad to have you call and
inspect my offices, work and prices.
The Mthelwold
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.
DR. R. 6. BUCKNER
Rooms 7 and 8 Medical Building.
Phone 1270.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Diseases of the
EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT.
K-I-P-A-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
for a year. All drug^rists sell tbem.
H. G. BAILEY, G. E.
CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only the finest adjusted instru
ments used. Absolute accuracy.
P. O. Brevard, W. C.
RICHMOND
VIRGINIA
STUART MCGUIRE, M. D . PwOibtwT.
This Coltes[9 conform* to the Standards
fixed by law for Medical Eiducation. Send lor
Bulletin No. 11, which tells about it.
Three free caUdogaes^Spe^ty Department
WEDICIHE - DENTISTRY - PHARWACy
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JURY LIST.
At the meeting of the Board of
Commissioners on Monday, July
8th, 1907, the following persons
were drawn to serve as jurors at
the next term of Superior Court of
Transylvania county which con
venes on Monday, August 26, 1907,
Judge O. H. Guyon, of New B<^rne,
presiding:
FIRST WEEK.
Lee Moody
James Bracken
G E Me G ah a
Jos P Whitmire
B P Scruggs
Jos S Silverstein
A C Lyday
A D Lyday
M Morgan
T P McCall
Robt Orr
C L Morris
E P Kennemur
R E McCall
M Powell
Youiiq Hoptiful (in a stas© whisper)i **Wh8n this is over, were goin to play trains.
LEUER FROM WEST VIRCiNIA.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE |
OF MEDICINE y
Petersburg, W. Va., July 2 ’07.
Editor Sylvan Valiev iS'ews.
Although I have been away from
my native state for seven long; years
yet I have never lost interest in my
native hills nor forgotten the friends
of my youth, many of whom still
live in Transylvania county. I still
remember them with gratitude, for
after all, it’s our earliest friends that
we remember the longest, think of
the most often and feel the kindest
towards.
In the first place I will try to tell
you where all I have been and what
I have been doing since I left North
Carolina. After leaving my home I
spent four yeags in school in east
Tennessee, then I came to West Vir
ginia and went into the ministry.
I am now and have been for the past
three years pastor of the Petersburg
M. E. Church Sonth,. of the Balti
more Conference. My home is at
Riverton, about twenty miles from
here where my wife’s people live. I
married a Pendleton county, W. Va.
lady, and have one daughter one
year old.
On account of its fine scenery
Mark Twain called Western North
Carolina the “Switzerland of Amer
ica,” but had he traveled throug^h
this beautiful South Branch valley
he would have probablj^ given it
some name also as we have here
some of the most picturesque and
romantic scenery in the world. The
soil in the valley is very fertile and
land sells, when it sells at all, for
over a hundred dollars an acre.
Cattle raising is the principal in
dustry, and here are raised the finest
beef cattle, which sell for as high as
six cents a pound. Thse are what
are khown as export cattle. We
are forty miles from the railroad,
but by having good roads and thor
oughbred horses and automobiles,
we don’t mind the distance to drive.
Besides we are having a great deal
of railroad talk just now and the
prospects for getting a railroad thro’
this country in the near future seems
to be good.
Petersburg is the county seat of
Grant county. It contains about
500 people, two churches, the Pres
byterian and M. E. South, one bank,
five general stores, four doctors, four
lawyers, one dentist and two preach
ers. The people are honest, kind and
hospitable, and everything consid
ered, it is a most desirable place to
live. A good many people from the
city come here to spend their sum
mer vacation. Board is very low.
Bass fishing in the South Branch is
the fiuest anywhere in the United
States.
Being situated right at the foot
hills of the Allegheny mountains,
we have a most delightful and heal
thy climate. The mortality rate here
must be very low, as seldom anyone
dies except from age. The peo
ple are good church goers, and I
think their morals are perhaps bet
ter than most people’s. J attribute
this largely to the fact that there is
not a license saloon in Grant county.
A few years ago a great deal of
moonshining was carred on back in
our mountains, but of recent years
the revenue laws have been strictly
enrorced and more rigid ones enacted
until now we can safely say illicit
whiskey making and selling is a thing
of the past.
To verify what I say about the
healthfulness of our climate; not
long ago a gentleman related that he
bad stopped at a farmer’s spring by
the roadside to get a drink of water.
After drinking he remarked to the old
man that he didn’t believe that wa
ter was healthy. “Don’t believe it,”
said the old man, “for I’ve been
drinking that water for over a huu"
dred years and it’s never hurt me
yet.” As a matter of fact the old
gentleman was 114 years old and
had lived on the premises all his life.
In conclusion let me say, I wel
come and relish the Sylvan Valley
News and wish it and its readers
much success. Very Respectfully,
J. W. Holliday.
The rural routes were estab
lished for the benefit of rural
homes, or in other words the
farmers. They have proven a
greater benefit and blessing to
the farmers than was anticipated
by the most sanguine. A farmer
w^ho has once enjoyed the advan
tages of the rural mail service
would hardly know how' to live
without it. It did not come to
the farmer, however, until he had
many times earned it. The farm
ers are our heaviest taxpayers.
What property they have is in
plain sight and is taxed, while
the city gent, at least many of
them, who deals in notes and
bonds is enabled to hide his
wealth from the assessor. For a
quarter of a century the mail has
been carried to the city home,
^ not once, but many times each
day. Finally the big heart of
Uncle Sam has reached out to
the men who feed the world.
The Atlanta Constitution says
there are more Bryan Democrats
than any other kind. If they
outnumber the kind that have
contracted the habit of voting
the Republican ticket, they might
be quite numerous.
After looking our battleships
over, if the Japanese desire any
further information as to what
they are good for, they can easily
obtain it from the Spanish gov
ernment.
When there is the ^slightest indica
tion ot indigestion, heart-burn, flatu
lence or any form of stomach trou
ble take a little Kodol occasionally
and you will be afforded prompt re
lief. Kodol is a compound of vege
table acids and contains the juices
found in a healthy stomach. Kodol
digests what you eat, makes your
food do you good. Sold by Brevard
Drug Co.
A COOP RESULT.
Under the operation of the new
Pure Food Laws, baking pow'ders
now generally bear on the labels
statement of the ingredients. This
is of utmost importance because of
the harmful ingredients used in
many cases.
Royal Baking Powder is known
to be the only baking powder made
of Royal Grape Cream of Tartar,
and no doubt explains its greatly
increased sale here.
Careful Jiousekeepers are taking
advantage of the protection which
the Laws afford, and are examin
ing all the reading matter on the
back of the label before adopting
any brand for use in the home.
When in place of the words
Cream of Tartar the words “alum,”
^^alumintun” or “phosphate of
lime” appear among the ingredi
ents, they heed the warning and
avoid baking powders that contain
these substitutes.
The Phila. Press remarks that
the stock markets are depressed
because investors are putting
their money into automobiles.
But what are automobile dealers
putting their money into?
Bad saek headaches, biliiousness or
constipation are quickly relieved by
DeWitt’s Mttle Early Risers. Small
pill, sure pill, safe pill—proinpt and
pleasant in aetk>n« Sold by Brevard
Drug Co,
A P Powell
J A Galloway
A M Verdery, jr
J M Kilpatrick
R E Patton
Jas M McCall
Henry Chapman
A L Ledbetter
W H McKelvey
John C Maxwell
W W Galloway
J Gaston Neill
J P Lowery
P R Hogsed
A R Gillespie
T J Hollinofsworth G.W Nelson
P J Ashworth
E C Neill
J F Lyday
J R Glazener
James Jones
J S Patton
E H Kitchen
J A Miller
C L Galloway
J M Bryson
, SECOND WEEK.
H House E A Allison
F V Batson
T L Surrett
Napoleon Miller
W K Osborne
W J Reese
J McD Cantrell
Judson Meece
W C Hamilton
Flem Galloway
A H King
G F Chapel
J Herscliel Garren
S F Allison
L E Powell
D N Holden
J H Currie
W L Aiken
J F Hays
S M Orr
J W Chapman
Ben P Thomas
G T Lyday
A Cleveland woman kissed a
burglar in the dark, thinking he
was her husband, and discovered
her mistake because he had no
mustache. In other words, she
wasn’t tickled as much as she
expected to be.
The jurors in the recent Loving
case were not a type of citizens
to whom one can point with pride.
Acquittinga murderer on exparte
testimony is demoralizing.
There is more Catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in
curable. For a great many years
doctors pronounced it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and
by continually failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure^
manufactured bj’ F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. It is tak
en internally in doses from 10 drops
to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any ca‘*e it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. Cheney & Co., To
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take HalPs Family Pills for con
stipation.
There is good reason to fear
that when Mr. Rockefeller be
gins again to tell all he knowsf'
about the oil business, no kind
voice will hoarsely whisper “Cut
it out”
Nearly all old-fashioned Cough Syr
ups are constipating, especially those
that contain opiates. They don’t act
just right. Kennedy’s 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. (Children like
it. Sold by Brevard Drug Co.