Sylvan Valley News
Our County—Its^ Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
j. J. Manager.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 39
TRANSYLVANIA LODGE
,, No. 143, K. of p.
Meets Tuesday evenings
8.30., Castle Hall, Fra-
ternity builalng.
J.'A hearty welcome for
visitors at all times.
R. L. GASH, C. O.
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 Cards.
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ATTO R N E Y-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
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C
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DENTIST.
, (Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE.
N. C.
A beautiful ^old 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 mj oflQces, work and prices.
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.
H-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough ior usual occasions.
The famiiy bottle (60 certs) con tains a supply
for a year.* All druggists sell them.
K. G. BAILEY, C. E.
CORHF.QT SURVEYS KADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
' Plotted.
Only the finest adjusted instrn-
ments used. Absolute aconracy.
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OF
STUART McGUIRS, M. P . PRESir.r:KT. j
This CoJless conforms to the Standards j
nxed by law for Medicc.1 Education. Send for ]
No. 11, which tells about it.
j Three free catalosues—Specify Depsrtmentf
siViEtilCINE - DENT.'STRY - PHARMACYl
Oldest in the State. Busi
ness, Sliorthand.Tyixjwri-
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f?raduates la position.^.
. .. „ . - Half or more of your rail-
road fare paid. PleuTv Cj!
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^ iiutor anytime. QoeciP.l
douTFc by mail i£ ywu
for it.
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RAILROAD ! !
From Greenville, S. G., to
Knoxville, Tenn., via the
Old C., K. &; W. Route.
Transylvania County Asked to Vote
Bonds $3,000 per Mile to Help
Build It.
Interest in the old C.', K & W.
railroad is again revived by a
proposition recently submitted
to our county commissioners.
The money to build the road has
been secured, and the contract
for construction only lacks the
endorsement of our people in
order to ^o into operation imme
diately.
The order for an election has
been issued by the commission
ers, but as there was objection
to the wording, as noted in these
columns last week, the commis
sioners will meet today to amend
the order. There is no opposi
tion to the amendment, locating
the road at ‘*a point within one
mile of the court house in Bre
vard,'’ instead of “a point at or
near Brevard,” which seems to
be the objectionable feature. The
county commissioners favor the
change and the contracting com
pany have authorized them to
make it. The amended order
will be published thirty days
comm.encing with next issue of
the News. This removes the
only objection w^e have heard
mentioned.
The same proposition which
has been made to this county
was submitted to the Board of
Trade in Greenville kist Friday,
and the following is clipped from
the Greenville News of last Sat
urday. It gives the proposition
in as few" words as it can be sta
ted, and we ask our readers to.
study it for themselves. If
Transylvania county w'ants a
competing line—a direct line to
the cotton mills of the south—
there will never be offered a bet
ter proposition than this to se
cure a roaci.
From Greenville News, Saturday, Sept. 21.
PLANS FOR A NEW RAILROAD.
CoJ. S. A. Jones of Waynesville,
N. C., president of the South At
lantic Trans-Continental Railway
Company, spent yesterday in
Greenville and, according to ap
pointment, appeared before a
thoroughly representative gath
ering of Greenville business men
in the Board of Trade rooms yes
terday morning.
The company of which Col.
Jones is the principal organizer
as w’ell as the president, intends
to build a railroad connecting
Knoxville, Tenn., and Greenville.
This is^^not the only line in con-
ttmplation, how^ever, for the com
pany to secure an outlet to the
sea through some North Carolina
port.
In a brief discussion Col. Jones
gave a clear and concise idea^ of
the plans of his company, and at
his suggestion a committee was
appointed to confer Vv’ith him and
examine the plans, contracts and
general feasibility of the enter
prise. President Capers of tiie
Board of Trade appointed on the
committee: Messrs. B. A. Mor
gan, W. J. Thackston, D. W.
Ebaugh, H. J. Haynsworth, John
B. Marshall, Thos. F. Parker and
I Capt. O. P. Mills.
As soon as the general meeting
adjourned the committee went
into private conference with Col.
Jones ar.d his'associate.
Col Jones made a very favor-
|able impression, and a prominent
member of the Board of Trade in
discussing his plan» said that he
had never heard of more liberal
and altogether f:iv.,ia,b39 railroad
I building proposition. The plan
I is novel in a great many re
spects but the new" features are
just W’hat are calculated to win
the confidence and support of the
people the line is likely to serve.
The State of North Carolina
has taken financial interest in the
Trans Continental railroad. The
state has agreed to furnish con
victs whose labor is to be paid
for in stock issued by the com
pany. In addition the counties
through which the road is going
to pass have been asked to vote
bonds in aid of the enterprise to
the extent of 83,000 per mile.
These bonds are to be paid for in
stock.
The bonds are not to become
negotiable until the road is actu
ally built and in operation, nor
are tie right of way grants to be
effective until this condition has
been fulfilled.
In designing the charter fpr
the company, the North Carolina
legislature took particular pains
to safeguard the interests of the
people voting bonds as well as
the interests of the state. The
governor of North Carolina and
certain other state officials are
members of the board of direc
tors and as such have the povv^er
to prosecute any steps being
taken by the corporation likely to
do financial injury to those inter
ested in the enterprise. The
same safeguards are thrown
about the line projected into this
state end into Tennessee. These
are the features which are unu
sual in such enterprises and
which make it all the more attrac
tive to the investor.
Col. Jones to cite an example
as to the advantage such a road
would be to Greenville, said that
the new line w’ould place this city
so much nearer the coal fields
that a reduction of at least 50
cents a ton on coal could be guar
anteed. This would be an enor
mous saving, estimated at from
$300,000 to $400,000 annually to
Greenville alone, based on the
present consumption in this city.
The distance from Greenville
to the North Carolina State line
is about 30 miles, and all Col.
Jones and his ' associates ask
from the people of Greenville
county is the guarantee of §3,000
per mile for that section of the
road- lying within this county.
This money, it is believed, could
be raised by means of bonds,
and would be safeguarded just the
same as similar bond issues in
North Carolina.
A construction company has
been chartered to build the road,
and the head of thiS collateral
concern accompanied Col. Jones
to Greenville yesterday. He has
bad wide experience in railroad
building and in the course of the
discussion at the meeting demon
strated his familiarity with the
subject in hand.
A number of questions relating
to'the enterprise were asked the
promoters by Mr. W. J. Thack
ston, Mr. W. G. Sirrine and oth
ers. Col. Jones and his associ
ates were ready with their an
swers and showed an earnest de
sire to make the proposition as
lucid as possible.
At the conclusion of this gen
era! discussion, the meeting ad
journed and the conference fcc-
tween the special committee and
the promoters began immedi
ately.
The special committee remain
ed closeted with Col. Jones and
his associate for nearly five
hours, and at the conclusion of
the conference the following of
ficial announcement was given
out:
“The committee recommends
that this committee after having
heard the proposition of the
South Atlantic Trans Continental
Railway, desire to express them
selves, as being heartily in favor
of accepting the proposition and
recommends to the Board of
Trade su%h acceptance and the
raising by publjc or private sub
scription in bonds or mone}^ of
$3,000 per mile in this county
not to exceed §100,000, said sub
scription to be paid only on the
completion of a competing line of
railv/ay between Greenville, S. j
C., and Knoxville, Tenn., with
competing rates.”
While nothing that too^ place
at the private conference was
given out there cannot be any
doubt about the thoroughness
with which the members of the
Greenville committee examined
into the details of Col. ^Jones’
proposition, and the fact that the
resolution favoring the enter
prise w'as adopted means a great
deal more than mere words.
The only question now is, how to
raise the money. A bond issue
may be possible under the ex
ception made in the prohibitory
clause in the constitution relat
ing to Greenville county. If this
cannot be done the only alterna
tive will be popular subscri[)tion.
“This is the biggest proposi-j
tion and the most potential that |
has come up in Greenville since j
I'have any recollection,” said a |
prominent business man ard a^
member of the special c-ommittee
last night. “I understand Col.
Jones has been working on this
proposition for ten years and
from the correspondence and
contracts I saw, I am convinced
that be has the thing in promis
ing shape. ”
It Saves You Money.
The special half price sale of Dr.
Howard’s specific for the cure of con
stipation and dyspepsia by T. B. Al
lison means the saving of a few dol
lars on every family^s yearly bill for
medicines.
Each 50 cent bottle (Mr. Allison
sells it for 25c) contains sixty doses
of a medicine that is pleasant to take
and which can be depended upon to
cure the worst case of constipation,
dyspepsia or liver trouble. Mr. Al
lison has so much faith in the supe
rior merit of this medicine that he
says: “If Dr. Howards specific does
not cure you come back to my store
and I will return your money.
If you are troubled with constipa
tion, headache or dizziness, or if your
food does not digest naturally and
easily, you cannot afford to let pass
the special price that Mr, Allison is
making this week on Dr. Howard’s
specific.
Mr. Allison is giving his customers
a chance to try Dr. Howard’s specific
for the cure of constipation and dys
pepsia at just half the regular price,
25c. And every pa.ckage is sold un
der his personal j^uarantee to^refund
the money if it is not satistactory.
A Georgia man complains to
the police of Chattanooga that
someone robbed him of a case of
beer. Any outsider w’ho would
steal beer from a Georgian these
sad distressing days, v/ould
cheerfully^ rob a baby of its last
stick of candy.
Kbw’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollap^-8
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersignod, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and belive him perfectly honorable
in all business transaction^^, and
financially lible to carry out any obli
gations made by his firm.
Walding, Kin nan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surlaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free?. Price, 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Hall’s Family Pilis lor con
stipation.
If Mr. Roosevelt should be
come an editor after his retire
ment from the Presidency, it is
safe to assume that fresh and con-
scienceles contemporaries would
think twice before stealing his
editorials.
It will be a bitter blow to Capt.
Hobson if Japan desired to lick
England instead of tjjje United
States.
Cures Blood, Skin Diseases, Ccncer.
If your blood is impure, thin, dis
eased, hot or full of humors, if you
have blood poison, cancer, carbun
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itching, risings and bumps, scabby,
pimply skin, bone pjins, catarrh,
rhematism, or any blood or skin dis
ease, take Botanic Blood Balm (3. B.
B. ) Soon ail sores heal, aches and
pains stop and the blood is made-
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press $1 per large bottle. Sample
free by WTiting Blood Balm Co., H-
lanta, Ga. B, B. B. is especially ad
vised for chronic, deep-seated cases,
as it cures after all elbe fails. ti*