Sylvan News Our County^Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper. j. J, MIKER, Manager. BREYARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST'28.1907 VOL. XII-NO. 34 TRANSYLVANIA LODGE No. 143, K. of P. Meets Tuesday evenings 8.30., Castle Hall, Fra ternity building. A hearty welcome for visitors at all times. R. L. GASH, 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. Profesaonol Cards. W. B. DUCKWORTH, atto rn ey-at-l a w. Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building. GASH et GALLOWAY, LAWYERS. Will practice in all the courts. Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block. D. L. ENGLISH LAwnrER Rooms 11 and 12 M(^Minn Block, BREVARD. N. C THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr., DENTIST. N. C. (Bail6y Block.) HENDERSONVILLE, A beautiful gold crown for $4.00 and up. ,- Plates of all kiad 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 a3 well as summer tourists is solicited. Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C. R-I-P-A-N-S Tabiiles Doctors find A good prescription For mankind The 'i-cent packet is enough tor usual occasions. The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply for ft year* All druggists seli tnein. H. 6. BAILEY, C. E. CORRECT SURVEYS MADE Maps, Plots and Profiles Plotted. Only the finest adjusted instru ments used. Absolute accuracy. P. O. Brevard,IN. C. THE WAR ON SIGNS. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE STUART MCGUIRE, M. P.. PRESIDENT. This College conform* to the Standards fixed by law for Medical Education. Send for Bulletin No. 11, which tells about it. Three free catalogues—Specify Departmeat, MEDICINE-DENTISTRY - PH ARWACY In “The Land ot the Sky.” Itt the Stftte, Bnsl- ness. Shorthand, Typ®’^ tlng.Fenmanship.a^ EnRllsh courses, low graduates In posltloi^ Saif or more of your rail road fare P»^d. ^ good boaixi at $8.50 to tS.ov TOr week. No va<»tlo^ ^ter any time. SpecW course by nuiu yon »*k for it. principal. ^SSVXLLBt V. 0* Massachusetts Minister Who Is Kept Buiy Chopping Them Down. A placid town of high altitudes and summer sojourners resounds with the din of war. In which the Congregation al minister of the town, the Rev. S. G. Wood, is the liveliest and fiercest combatant, says a Blandford (Mass.) special to,the New York Tribune. The Rev. Mr. Wood says that advertising signs and billboards must go from Blandford, and billposters are begin ning to avoid the town as though it was full of mad dogs. The minister is known as “the minister militant” and “caretaker of the charm of the earth” by his enemies, but neither names nor threats daunt him In the slightest. Every morning while the fight was at its height the reverend gentleman, accompanied by his stalwart, college graduate son and armed with an ax, started out in a wagon to hew down the billboards. He scoured the coun try all around, and whettier the adver tising sign was on private*property or not made no difference to him. He knew it was not legal to touch boards on private property, but he depended on public sentii\ient to prevent the property owners making a row. ^ The advertising agents expostulated with him, argued with him, tried to compromise with him, held out induce ments to him and threatened him, but he neither looked nor listened and hastened on to the next billboard. In order to get the best of him his ene mies placed high in the trees along the countrj' roads little wooden signs an nouncing the value of a certain shoe polish. When the minister learned of this lie hitched up. called to his son and made for those trees. The minis ter is fifty-two j’ears old and too old to climb trees, but his son was eager and willing to use his college athletics In some practical way, and the signs came doAvn. All the small boys of the place aid him by reporting to him the minute an advertising sign Is put up, and an improveinent league is beiug formed to assist him. But so far he has done most of the strenuous work himself, and it is said that every time his horse sees an advertising sign he stops and refuses to go on until it has been torn dowm. PETITION TO SPARE A TREE. Why Independence (Mo.) Aldermen Heeded an Appeal From Citizens. How trees endear themselves to mankind and prove an attraction to any town is described in the following article: The council of Independence, Mo., was in session the other night trans acting routine business. When the time came for “petitions and commu- nicatioais” the clerk reported a petition from citizens of West Walnut street asking that a large walnut tree in front of lot 24, Sawyer place, be al lowed to stand, notwithstanding the fact that stops w^ere being taken to im prove the street, says the Kansas City Star. The petition was signed by twenty-nine people living in the neigh borhood. In the early days of Independence fine groves of walnut trees were to be found in various parts of town, but most of these have disappeared. This tree in question stands in front of a new house built by R. B. Trowbridge, a business man, and he entered the council chamber to add his prayers to those of the twenty-nine signers of the petition. “If that tree is dug up,” said Mr. Trowbridge to the members of the council, “it will cause deep sorrow, not only to my two boys, but to fifty-seven others in the neighborhood that make it a meeting place. In behalf of them, as well as myself, I ask you to spare that tree.” Councilman William Pitt lives in the neighborhood of the tree. “Yon see,” said Mr. Pitt, smilingly, “that Mr. Trowbridge is a lover of the children. It isn’t every man who would encour age the gathering of half a hundred boys that near his home.” The council spared the tree on con dition that Mr. Trowbridge build a re taining wall around it. Since he came within 755 votes of the Senatorship, Vardaman thinks they ought to give him the job anyhow. Suppose Greece should threat en war against the U. S. on ac count of that flight in a Greek resturant at Roanoke. COMING A Singing Class from the Oxford Orphanage vsrill give a Concert at the Court House in Brevard on Tuesday, Sq>t. 3, '07. This is an eminently worthy Charity—Help to support the Or- i phans by filling the house. i( Calvert Breezes. Editor Sylvan Valiev.News: Come again, Robert, we will come to the wedding. Porter Morf2:an is visiting F. Jus tus at Island Ford. There was a deer seen at the Dou ble Springs last week. Which place will get the factory, Selica or Cheeryalvert? Milford Moore and family have returned from Jackson. J. P. Whitmire of JaCkson county is visiting at Uncle John’s. Jordan Whitmire has the finest timber limits in the county. Chestnut wood has gone down in price. Will it ever raise again? Where can you find a more indus trious worcver than Judge Lanning? Philetus Moore’s son from Bre vard was at his hou'*e the past week. Mr. Whitmire and family from Middletown, Texas, are visiting with John Whitmire’s. Wash Galloway was on the wreck but says he was iwt hurt, only the largest lady on the train fell in his lap. After leaving Brevard the new railroad will leave Cherry field and Calvert to the east. So don’t worry boys, all can have statioub. Mrs. Dorcas Marr and Ardelle B. Gleason went fishing the past week and caught 5 pounds of fish, one turtle, a snake and fell in—all good luck. Uncle John and Southern came to town to see our democrat rooster, af ter Nicholson’s republican donkey had brayed and eaten democrat grass. The largest oxen in this section is owned by Lon Paxton. He is haul ing wood to Calvert as the road is so bad and a poor place to load at (Cher ry field. Say, friends; Jack Stephens of Clo- tho Chat is not saying much you no tice, but look at the holy faces he-be- makin’. His friends can elaborate my criticism of that phrase.^ Porter Morgan the other day killed 31 small snakes and 4 old ones in the old log ditch near his home. When 1 saw him he looked and acted as if he had been—? Yes, Porter Uas a fine corn crop. Why not call the attention of the North Carolina R. R. Commission to the condition of the Southern R. R. Co’s roadbed, ties and rails between Asheville and Lake Toxaway. You can pick one-fifth of the ties to pieces with your fingers, and portions of the roadbed is giving away and the rails are worn out. Or will you wait for a few hundred to be killed first?f Little Pee wee, you are mistaken. I did not ‘tell you Sunflower was asleep and snoring. Will it not look fine to see us three pebbles on the seashore. Your nomdeplume. Little Peewee, causes me to think of Sweet Marie, The largest and neatest church and Sunday school that we have had the pleasure to call on is at Cathey’s Creek. The Rev. F. M. Jordan, D. D., has been the minister in charge for years. All of his churches are the same. ^ The finest Otaloo^ue work I have ever examined is the Brevard Insti tute Catalogue of 1907-1908, entirelv got up and published by the Sylvan Valley News print. The same has been recommended by the Printery at Washington, D. C. The true inwardness of the scheme to hold a convention at Syracuse, N. Y., to discuss agricultural conditions in that state has been exposed by the New York Times, which finds it all a plot to colonize that state with re publican voters by inducing immij grants to locate there and training them to vote the republican ticket. It is, in fact, part of a plan, national in scope, to steal the next election. The national administration is back of it and the nefarious details, as laid bare by the Times, display a devilish ingenuity that will shock the country. Time Exposure. ‘‘W^e never repent of eating too lit tle,” was one of the ten rules of life of Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States, and the rule applies to every one without exception during this hot weather, because it is hard for food even in small quantities, to be digested when the blood is at high temperature. At this season we should eat sparingly and proper ly. We should also help the stom ach as much as possible by the use of a little Kodol For Indigestion and Dyspepsia, which will rest the stom ach bv digesting the food itself. Sold by Brevard Drug Co. T. B. Allison’s Success. T. B. Allison, the enterprising druggist, rather than await the ordi nary methods of introduction, urged the Dr. Howard Co. to secure a quick sale for their celebrated specific for the cure of constipation and dyspep* sia by offering the regular 50c bottle at half