Sylvan
News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MINER, Manager.
BREVAED, TBANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 42
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.
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Brenrd 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.
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Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD. N. C
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(Bailey Block.)
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Plates of all kind at reasonable
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Will be glad to have you call and
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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.
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The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
If Henderson county votes the bonds (and there is scarcely a
chance for the *‘if*’—she will vote them) where does it place this
county? Should our election fail to carry it leaves us in a hole—
simply a small town iu the mountains on a branch road where a
man’s life isn’t safe if he tries to visit us—at least this is the argu
ment that has been used against us this summer. 'We will get
some visitors, but it will be after other towns are filled—the over
flow may reach us. Knoxville and Greenville must be connected
b^^ a great through line, and if we fail to vote the bonds, tbe road
will be built from Hendersonville to Greenville—making it the
junction city instead of Waynesville, and leaving Brevard out in
the cold—a dead town with no future prospects.
Our county has long wanted a direct road to the south and this
proposition from the Trans-continental is better for our people than
any contract we could have made for ourselves. The rights of the
people of this county are safeguarded in a more substantial man
ner than any lawyer in the county could have safeguarded them,in
a contract. If we vote the bonds the only cost to the county, until
the road is built and operated, is the cost of this election. Not
another cent of expense until at least $300,000 in property is added
to the tax list. No wonder we hear lawyers and busing &en re
marking “It is almost too good to be true.*’
Do you belive that the Governor, the State Auditor and the
Attorney General, elected by the whole state and on the permanent
board of directors of this road, with full veto power to protect the
counties, would loan themselves and their influence to a fraud? It
can never be! We have too much confidence in the integrity of the
men who fill these honorable and responsible positions to believe it.
The proposition is as safe as human foresight can make it. All
that is asked of us is to vote the bonds.
Railroad Election Order.
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, N. 0.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
OF MEDICINE
STUART McGUIRE, M. D., PnESIorNT.
This College conforms to the Standards
fixed by law for Medicnl Education. Send for |
Bulletin No. 11, which tells about it.
Three free catalojptes—Specify Department,
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HELP IS OFFERED
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how limited their means or education, who wish to
obtain a thorousrh business training and srood posi>
tion, to write by first mail for our great half-rate
offer. Success, independence and probable fortune
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The Ga.*Ala. Bosj^ess Colles'e, tfacon» C«u
TWO SEPARATE ROADS.
It seems difficult for our peo
ple to understand that the Appa
lachian Interurban and Bat Cave
Railroad from Turnpike, on the
county line between Buncombe
and Haywood counties, via Ashe
ville and Hendersonville to Ruth-
erfordton, is not the^ same road
that the people of Transylvania
are asked to vote for. Ours is
the South Atlantic Trans conti-
nental Railway, and is to be “The
shortest line that can be built
between Knoxville, Tenn., and
Greenville, S. C., with IJ per
cent grade.” This is to be a great
short line between the coal and
\vheat of the west and northwest
and the South Atlantic seaboard.
While the branch through
Asheville is to be built under
the protection of the Trans-con-
tinental charter, with an objec
tive terminus at Wilmington or
Southport, the main line of the
Trans-continental must be built
through Transylvania county if
we vote the bonds—the money to
build with cannot be secured on
any other terms. If we fail to
vote the $3,000 per mile we get
no road and other mountain re
sorts will benefit by our failure.
With the reputation our people
have always made for this coun
ty—a reputation for progress and
enterprise—it seems impossible
that any consideration can pre
vent the proposition from win
ning by a large majority. Yet
there is danger of failure. Bre
vard township has 30 of its most
energetic and enterprising young
business men now out in the far
south collecting, and they all
count against the proposition.
Had there been a new registra
tion ordered it would have been
easy, but as it is now every man
who favors the proposition must
work early and late.
Preparations must be made to
get every voter out to the polls
on election day. Don’t wait until
the polls open—get to ‘work now.
A committee at each precinct has
Commis-
County^
been selected by the central com
mittee and it is the duty of these
precinct committees to ascertain
how every voter stands. If there
are any who do not thoroughly
understand the proposition, re
port all such to the central com
mittee so that information can be
forwarded to them. We are cer
tain that no m?n in the county
who thoroughly understands the
proposition can possibly vote
against it.
* * *
By voting for bonds Transyl
vania county will have made an
investment for all time. By the
conditions of the charter the first
money earned by the road is to
be used in payment of its first
mortgage bonds. The counties
which accept these bonds will be
bought out and all interest in
future earnings of the road will
cease. The eounties which ac
cept capital stock in the road will
have an investment that will con
tinue permanently after the road
is out of debt. It was originally
intended to pay the state of North
Carolina for its convicts in first
mortgage bonds, but we under
stand that the state elected to
take stock in place of the bonds,
so that its control in the manage
ment would be perpetual. Sure
ly securities that are safe for the
state should be satisfactory to
Transylvania county.
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The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the
prosperous Kansas of to-day; al
though a citizen of Codell, Earl
Shamhurg, has not yet forgotten a
hard time he encountered. He says:
“I was \vorn out and discouraged by
coughing niffht. and day, and could
find no relief till I tried Dr. King’s
New Discovery. It took less than
one bottle to completely cure me.”
The safest and most reliable cough
and cold cure and lung and throat
healer ever discovered. Guaranteed
by T. B. Allison’s Drug store 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
O^ce of the Board of County
sioners of Transylvania
North Carolina:
At a meeting duly, legally and regu
larly called and held by the Board of
Commissioners of Transylvania coun
ty, in the court house in said county,
on the 9th day of September, 1907, it
being made to appear to said Board
that a large number of the citizens of
said county have subscribed to the
capital stock of the South Atlantic
Trans-Continental Railroad Company,
and have been engaged in an effort to
build a railroad through Transylva
nia county in a way by which said
railroad will be independent in its
operations, thereby securing the best
rates that competition will make for
Qur people.
' And whereas a petition signed by
fifty citizens of the county has been
duly presented to this Board in ac
cordance with the charter of said
South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company.
And whereas the best interest and
prosperity of Transylvania county
depends greatly upon the construction
of said railroad.
And whereas, the construction of
said railroad will bring directly into
the county taxable property of several
millioa dollars, to say nothing of
taxable property that will flow into
said county by reason of said rail
road.
And whereas, the wisest financial
policy for the county will be subserved
by extending to the construction of
said railroad material aid by said
county.
And whereas, the subscription here-
inbelow mentioned is necessary to aid
in the construction of said railroad,
in whicn the citizens of the county
have an interest. .. ,
Therefore it is ordered by the Board
that the question of subscription to
the capital stock of said company in
the sum of THREE THOUSAND DOL
LARS per mile of railroad for each
mile constructed within the county,
which amount this board proposes to
sub&cribe to be paid in county bonds
to mature in not less than thirty years
with 4 per cent, interest coupons at
tached, payable semi-annually at the
place provided for in said bonds, the
interest on said bonds and the bonds
themselves at maturity to be paid by
taxation as provided by law, shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of
said county, as provided by charter of
said company and Chapter 61, Vol. 1,
of the Revisal of 1905 of North Caro
lina, on the 31st day of October, 1907,
which election is hereby ordered for
the purpose of voting for or against
the proposition to subscribe the said
amount of stock agreed on by the
Board of County Commissioners, at
which election the said voters shall
vote a ticket as follows: Those favor
ing the subscription shall vote a tick
et upon which shall be written or
printed “For Subscription,” and
those opposed shall yote a ticket upon
which shall be written or printed
“Against Subscriptioti, ” and if the
majority of the voters of said county
shall vote for subscription, then the
Board of County Commissioners,
through their chairman, shall sub
scribe to the capital stock of said
company the sum of THREE THOU
SAND DOLLARS per mile of railroad
to be constructed within the county,
to be paid in bonds as specified above,
which said bonds shall only be issued
upon the conditions following, viz.:
The said bonds shall not be issued
and delivered to the said company or
any one else until after said company
or its assigns shall have completed
and equipped for operation a stan
dard gauge railroad, in compliance
with construction contract submitted
for inspection of the board at this
date, from the northerly or easterly
boundary of the county, the southerly
boundary of the county, or from a
point at or near Brevard, following
the routes provided by the'charter, in
sections of ten miles each, until the
entire railroad shall have t)een com
pleted, it being understood that ten
miles of railroad shall be completed
in accordance with the construction
contract and certificate of the chief
engineer as to such completion tiled in
the office of the Board of County Com
missioners before any payment shall
be made upon this subscription, and
thereafter in the'same manner for each
succeeding ten miles; and provided
further, that when Raid conditions
have been complied with, then the said
Board of Commissioners shall issue
and pay to said railroad company the
said county bonds in exchange for the
same amount of the capital stock of
said South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company, at par.
Provided further, that under no cir
cumstances shall the bonds be issued
except upon the conditions set forth
above.
Be wi$e--Vote for Bonils.
ty, in the court house in said county,
on the 27th day of September, 1907, it
appearing to the board that the regis
tration l^oks for election to be held
on October 17th, 1907, as ordered on
September 9, 1907, upon questions of
subscription to the capital stock of
South Atlantic Trans-Continental
Railroad Company, were not issued
to the regi<3trars in time to comply
with the law as to said election.
It is ordered by the board that the
date of said election be postponed to
Thursday, October 31, 1907, and that
said election be held under the same
terms and conditions, and that said
order be amended by striking out
October 17th, 1907, as the day of elec
tion, and inserting October 31st, 1907,
as the day of election.
Said order in all other respects be
ing affirmed and approved.
By order of the board.
L. W. Brooks, Ch’n. B. C. C.
M. W. GalXiOWay, Cl’k B. C. C.
The railroad has approved an
amendment to the foregoing call of
election requiring construction of its
road to or within one mile of the court
house at Brevard, and said amend
ment will be duly published as a part
of the contract prior to date of elec
tion. M. W. Galloway.
Clerk B. C C.
Office of the Board of Commissioners of
Transylvania County^ NoHh Carolina:
At a meeting duly, legally and regu
larly vailed and held by the Board of
Comnfifesioners of Transylvania coun
To the Shereff of Transylvania County:
You are hereby notified that the
County Board of Elections have ap
pointed for the bond election for the
South / Atlantic Trans-continental
Railroad Company, which election
to be held on October the 31st, 1907,
the following persons as registrars
and judges for holding said election,
and you will so notify them accordinof
to law:
Brevard Township—E. T. Henning,
registrar; J. M. Kilpatrick and W. H.
Grogan, judges.
Boyd Township—E. B. Clayton,
registrar; T. R. Duncan, and A. .T.
Beck, judges.'
Catheys Creek Township—J. M.
Southern, registrar; Jos. A. Bryson
and R. L. Hogsed, judges.
Cedar Mountain Precinct—J. R.
Bishop, registrar; E. A. Heath and
Geo. Bishop, judges.
Duns Rock Township—Wm. Max
well, registrar; Walter Hogsed and A.
C. Landreth, judges.
Eastatoe Precinet—E. M. Whitmire,
registrar; W. E. Galloway and L. M.
Glazener, judges.
East Fork Precinct—Milus Garren,
registrar; J. F. Hays and John Gar
ren, judges.
Gloucester Township—James W.
Owen, registrar: W. M. Bird and W.
E. Hall, judges.
Hogback Township—Flem Gallo
way, registrar; I. S. Fisher and Al
fred Collins, judges.
Little River Precinct—Lad Hart,
registrar; P. S. Shuford and H. P.
Nicholson, judges.
This 27th day of September, 1907.
Frank L. DeVane,
Temporary Chairman.
D. L. English, Secretary.
That the said registrars at said
voting precincts shall revise and cor
rect the registration books so that
they will show a truthful and accurate
list of the qualified voters in his pre
cinct, and register all such as may
apply under the law to be registered
who have not heretofore registered.
That the said election be advertised
for thirty days by publication in Syl-
yan Valley News at Brevard, N. C.,
and by posting a notice at said voting
precincts, and that said election in all
particulars shall be held by said
judges and registrars as provided by
law.
L. W. BROOKS, Chairman.
M. W. GALLOWAY, Clerk Board of
Commissioners for Transylvania Co
T. T. Patton, Frank L.* DeVane,
Board of Elections for Transylvania
county.
I>eafiiess Cannot be Cured
by local applications) as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitution
al remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflamation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
HalPs Cattarh Cure. Send for circu
lars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Tol^o, O, Sold by Druggists, 75c»
Take HalPs Family Pills for con
stipation.