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Sylvan —— fs: IT ■ —— — Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper. J. J. MINEE, Manager. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 31.1908. VOL. XIII-NO. 5 TBANSYLVA!4IA LODGE No. 143,K.ofP. Meets Tuesday evenings 8.30., Castle Hall, Fra ternity building. A hearty welcome for visitors at all times. U. L. GASH, C. O. Brevard Telepiione 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 Girds. m. m m m mm « m mm m m m m. m « m m I W. B. DUCKWORTH. ATT O R N E Y-AT-L A W. 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 THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr., DENTIST. N. C. (Bailey Block.) HENDERSONVILLE, A beautif ul gold crown for $4.00 anci up. Plates of all kind at reasonable prices. All work guaranteed; satisfaction or ao pay. Teeth extracted without pain. Will be jjlad to have you call and inspect my offices, work and prices. The JEtkelwold 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. anT. C. ^ R-I-P-A-X-S Tabules Doctors find A good prescription For mankind The 5-cent packet is enon^h tor uRiial occasiocs. The family battle (60 cents^ contains a supply for a year. All druggists sell them. H. G. BAILEY, G. E. CORRECT SURVEYS MADE Maps, Plots and Profiles Plotted. Only the finest adjnstecl instrn- monts used. Absolute acouracy. P. O. Brevard, N. C. Don’t Fail to Read The By Stew^ Edward White I and Samuel Hopkins Adams Illustrated by Parker % The Mystery will hold you spellbound.—Augusta Herald. The Mystery is a story to make you sit up.—AW York Sun. The Mystery is the most wonderful of amazing novels.—Boston Times. The Mystery has mystery stamped on every page.—Philadelphia Record. The Mystery is as fascinating as the girl you love.—Cleveland Leader. The Mystery is one of the most astonishing talcs of its kind.—Oiiilook. The Mystery; is one of the very best stories of incident aincv :venson.—New Yori: Mail. The Mystery will have, and deserves to have, a wide popularity.—Springfield Republican. The Mystery will take a place side by side with “Treasure Island.”—Louis ville Covrier-Joiirnal. The Mystery is told with inimitable skill—breathlessly interesting, extraordi narily good.—New York Times, The Mystery is a splendid story for the lover of pure excitement, or the jaded brain.—Chicago Rceord-Hurald. The Mystery has a f^ripping, attention-arresting charm which holds true from cover to covcr.—Boston Globe. The Mystery is a story to be read rather than criticised because the thrill is not to be analyzed.—Philadelphia Press. The Mystery is one of the bc*;t .■^ea stories that has been offered to a greedy reading public in years.—Philadelphia North American. The Mystery is fine^n its literar^/” quality, well nigh perfect in characterization and fascinating as entertainment.—Syracuse Herald. The Mystery is cleverly constructed, moves with extraordinary rapidity, and is exceedingly interesting and entertaining.—Indianapolis News, m/ For the Above Reasons We Will Print This Story PROJEC™ PMS, Make Your Town the Heart of the Community. CO-OPERATION A BIG FACTOR . ... In “The Le.n(’ or the o.<t • , Koor th? & , Ccuatrji How a Town and the Surrounding Country Are Dependent on Each Other—Value of Loyaity to Horne Institutions. Does the average individual owe al legiance to anybody or anything? Is he afways sufficient unto himself, or Is he dependent upon and does he like wise contribute to other effort? These are questious w’hich can best be discussed by considering the con ditions as they are found in any pros perous community, and one v.ill an swer for all, says Guy T. Mitchell in Maxwell’s Talisman. We will assume that the native resources of this par ticular locality are ample. The soil is fertile and mellow, the methods of farming are good, the crops are uni formly heavy, and the farmers are prosperous. Under normal conditions the towns of such a rural district should share this prosperity. Here we find one which partakes of this condition. The visitor observes that the houses are well built, the grounds well kept and the homes attractive and artistic. He is impressed at once with the fact that the value of the beaiitifiil is appreciated by the citizens and that the spirit of co-operation is abroad. Blit why should perhaps the very next town or village, not ten miles distant, surrounded by the same good farm ing land, support conditions the exact reverse? Why should its houses and stores be so pooriyi built, inartistic, gauche and with no 4-ttempt at beaut^’, with no idea that the mellowing influ ence of time shall enhance rather than diminish their attractiveness-? Why are there so few yards v^’eil kept, with shade trees and green lavrns and or namental shrubs and flow’er beds, and why, in every way, should there be such a general appearance of noglect and unthrift? What is the reason for the differ ence? Because it will be found that in ev ery progressive community a small coterie of energetic, public spirited men and vromen have systematically gone about the improvement of their homes. They have set examples: they have devoted themselves to fostering the spirit of local pride, of home town w’ork; they have determined to make their town a place most satisfactory to live in, a place of beauty, convenience and health; they have directed their energies towartj making their town the real heart of 'the surrounding commu nity. Every town, every village, is the center, the heart, of its surroundin':’ country. It may be a weak, inactive heart, scarcely carrying its feeble im pulse into the arteries which ramify the countryside, or it may be a strong, enthusiastic, pulsating heart, carrying the current of its influence vigorously into the remotest corner of the terri tory it dominates. Just as we are confifiered as a na tion practically sufficient unto our selves, so as citizens of dilTerent stnter- w^e are loyal to home institutions— state pride is a most healthy attribi^te —and to carry the idea still further vri' may with profit support the in.^tltu tions of oi:r individual communities. But as individual citizens vre are in complete. Fora full measi?re of pros perity^ we must depend upon our B^igh- bors and cur neighbors* upon us. every dollar that is sent out of th<^' United States to Europe or elsewhere for the purchase of things v/hich Vv'e have at hotne is a distinct loss to the country, so money sent out of our par ticular state into another state enriches that state at the expense of our own. while It is equally true that our in dividual community suffers to the same extent through the purchase of goods in distant places which we might buy at home. The heart of the community Is w orth j stimulating, worth nourishing, both from within and without, for it Is the OG^itral force which makes of the com munity a virile, active and aggressive placg,^ As an instance of the value to community of the activity take the case of an up to ctilte Iowa town of some 18,000 or 20,- 000 population. A few years ago the place supported two miserable little hotels. On the road, among the trav eling men, that great moving army throughout the west, this town was known as “rotten.” The drummers skipped the town when possible, |»r if they had to make it they came in on one train and went out on the next. They got through their business as expeditiously as possible, even slight- Ing it to get to next place on their route, where good meals and a good nig^^ Jodging could be had. Then the" ttyijy concluded that its business reqq^l^K® hotel, and w’hlle the peopf^S^re about it they put up a “swQfl^^one. Now every traveling long as he can and canvasses every store for the salie of his goods. \Yhat Is the result of simply having this fine hotel? The stores have a full line of goods of all descriptions, the people of the coiiimimity come to tow^u to buy, for they can’get w’hat they want, and the merchants do a big business. A good farming community buys much. The people live w^ell and raise a wholesome variety of products, but they buy through the year many things. According to census statistics, the average of the farmers of the United States spends $627 a year for supplies — clothing for the family, household utensils, food that is not raised at home, farm implements, etc. This is the average. Some buy more, some >QUch less. Now, this means a large circulation of money. perhn:>s $300,000 or $400,000 expended annually by the farmers within five or six miles of any small town. Hovi' and v\’here do they spend it? Is the town itself such as to impress them with the feeling that It is the real heart of their com munity? Is it a pretty tov\’n. a beauti ful town, in which they cannot but feel a just pride? Has It wide, well kept streets and good roads leading into it over w'hich It Is a delight to drive either with a light buggy or a heavily laden wagon carrying a load of produce to market? Has it long row’^s of shade trees and some pubiic parking to make it attractive? Aiie it? citizens taking a pride In making their own groujids and yards beautiful and their houses vine covered and not com monplace? In short, is it such a place as a man may be glad to visit, to pat ronize and to call “his town” and where as he retires In his later years from the active Vv^ork of farm life he may move or look foi*ward to moving Into and becoming himself a resident? The poorer classes of Italian' and Chinese laborers earn their wages in our country and send It av»"aj'—to their homc'. For that reason they are not desirable ciLlzens, The member of the comnninity Vvho sends his money out of the community either for Inve.-t- ment or to purchase the necessities and luxuries of life is pursuing a course as detrimental to the community as does the foreigner who sends his mon ey away. And he is acting against his own best Interests. Talce the outlying farms of any small town." They v. Ill not have to be exceptionally rich to produce half a million dollar.?’ value from the soil in a year over and above the home consumption. Can any one doubt that with that sum flowing through the heart of the community year after year the heart will not strengthen and grow'—double—and be able to send, back throiigh its channels a stream of prosperity and increased value to the farms out of which it is the growth, that the entire coaimunity will not be the stronger? The commu nity wdll become a better place to live, in both the town and country section. The town will afford a better market for the sale of the products of agricul ture, and it will be a better place in which to buy things. It will have l)etter schools, more churches, and if the spirit of local civic iii5piH)vement Is fostered it will become constantly more beautiful, more. attractive, more influential. With the spirit of co-operative effort stimulated in a comm unit.v, gre.it things have been accomplished. Through persiotence In pulling to gether communities have grown and thrived where the natural advantaged have been poor. They have forgM ahead and passed other communities w’ith far greater natural advantages w’here the spirit of co-operation has been dormant. The man who lias pride In his home town and who, if it does not meet his ideal, w’orks and strives to aroii.'ie en thusiasm in others to make it such is the best of citizens. He is worth dol lars to the community. He may l>e advancing his own Interests, but he is likewise increas^ing the market value of the community. He^is helping his town, the heart of the..'«i5^ti3ynlty, and tlierefore the community. He is en titled to the support of its citizens, their enthusiastic sup,»^± and co-op eration. CLEANUP ORDINANCE. Schemo Adopwcd by a Park Connmis- sicn In Los Angsles. Many of our California cities and tow’ns are adopting ordinances requir ing vaccint lots and untidy promises to be cleaned up, says the Los Angeles Times. In Riverside the notification of passage of such legislation is placed in the hands ^f the park commission, man likes to m^e He StaxsJjsAtelUjs^seiit out,the following uo;^ over Sunday there. Se^ays there as [ tice to property owners: property “A provision in the new^ cleaning up ordinance makes it the duty, of the park commissioners to Inspect the streets and report all such instances of untidy frontages, dirty vacant lots and other premises as v/ould come under the provisions of the ordinance (a copy of which is herewith inclosed) to the superintendent of streets, vrhose duty would be to serve legal notice to prop- erlT holders. “It is the opinion of this board that a simple reminder in the large majority of cases vrill be all that is iiccessary to se'Cure the desired results; hence we take the liberty of calling your atten tion to the neglected condition of the frontage (description), respectfully re questing that prompt attention be given It that formil legal notices to the superintendent of streets may not be necessary.” Village Improvor-'ient. The state grange of Massachusetts, comprising over 200 individual granges Vvith a total membership of about 3,000, has decidcd to make village im provement a regular part of its work In the future, says Maxwell’s Talis man. The grange thus admits the value of Improvement work and gives to It a broad Interpretation, including among the proper fields for develop ment the general environment, the home, the Individual, the farm, the neighborhood and the town. The de- slre^'to co-operate with all other forces for the improTement of civic condi-‘ tions is also expressed. The end in view% “an Increase in the beauty and attractiveness” of the towns of the state, is commendable. By this alone may the town compete with the city and cease to be decadent. The grange has already done good work in this field in individual cases, and his broad er movement promises much. If there were more kissing done at home and less at the railroad depot, life in the married state would have more halos.—Palmyra Items. Lame Shoulder Cured. Lame slLonlder is tisnally cartsed by rbenmatism of the mtiscles and qnickly yields to a fev7 applic'dtions of Cliamberlain’s Pain Balnx. Mrs. F. H. McElwee, of Boistown, New Brnnswick, writes: ‘"Having been ironbled for scrae time •with a pain in my right shoulder, I decided to give Chamberlain’s Pain Balm a trial, with the result that I got prompt relief.” For sale by O. L. Erwin, Rosman, is. C.
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