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BREYAllD. NOKTH CpO^; AUGUSf 6' 1909
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Wl^ Pay Rent When You Can Own Your Own Home on Rent Money?
Names of Those Who Have-Helped to make the
Brevard Buildiqg & Loan Association a Success
T. B. Allison
Leona Allen (Miss)
W. T. Bosse
Z. V. Burrell
W. M. Bradley
W. E. Bishop
E. R. Black
R K^Ballard
J. E. Cox
Goode Cheatharn
C. M. Cooke, Jr.
E. W. Carter
H. P. Clarke
T. B. Crary ^
W. H. Duckworth
C. M. Doyle ,
W. D. Glazener
Welch Galloway
E. F. Oillespie
R. L. Gash
J. R. Hare
J. R. Hamlin
E. C. Henderson
F. E. B. Jenkins
H. M. King
Z. V. Kilpatrick
R. E. Kilpatrick
C. C. Kilpatrick
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Names of Those Wh»^ Have Helped to make tiKe
Brevard Bidldins^ &, Loan Assodation a Success
D. P. Kilpatrick
G. C. Kilpatrick
J. M. Kilpatrick
C. M. Kilpatrick
T. M. Mitchell
S. M. Macfie
J. J. Miner
J. A. Miller, Jr.
E. F. Moffett
J. W. McMinn
C. B. McFee
Z. W. Nichols^
R. L. Nicholson
Radford Nicholson
E. C. NeiU
C. E. Orr
W. S. Price, Jr.
Fleming Ramsauer
T. H. Shipman
A. L. Shipman (Miss)
O. V. Summey
R. G; Tuttle
A. M. Verdery, Jr.
OFFICERS
T. H. Shipman, Pres. ^ Goode Cheatham, Vice-Pres.
A. M. Verdery, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer
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First House BuUt by Brevard Building and Loan Association ^ ^
^ j ^HE city of Charlotte, N. C., twenty-five years ago was a village v#ry little larger than Brevard. A Building and Loan Association was organ-
^ ized by Mr. Samuel Wittkowsky and its inhabitants subscribed to a movemerit that, today, places Clmrlotte, the ^‘Queen City,^’ in the forefront
as a city of homes. .Fully seventy-five per cent of the homes in Charlotte are owned- by persons who built them on this })lan, and it is now a
growing city of over forty thousand souls. . • _
The Brevard Building and Loan Association
modeled on Mr. Wittkowsky’s plan, which has been tried for over twenty-five years and has a record of having never lost a single dollar in all this
time, now offers to the people of Brevard and Transylvania County an opportunity to participate in this plan that will enable' them to build and
own their homes and pay for them in ^asy weekly instalments. * ^
T ¥heM itfScarcely a ^^-eatneTr in'Trarisylvatiia County that is not able to subscribe for and carry at least five shares of stock, value $100.00
per share, in a Building and Loan Association. It only costs 25c per share membership fee and 25c per share per week until maturity, which is about
six and one-third years. It has been demonstrated time and again thiat there is no plan equal to this for saving your money, and no other way by
which a wage-earner can own his owrrhome, and on money otherwise spent for rent and forever lost. Then why not take advantage ot this oppor
tunity, and do it now? I^on't wait, but see Verdery at once and subscribe for as many shares as you can carry.
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A CRISIMN SPAIN
Boarbon Dynasty Seems to be
Tottering.
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i^TTLES in" streets
Revolution Within Her Borders and
Battles With Outside POes Strike at
I the Very Vitals of the Spanish
i ^Regime.
Madrid—Attacked by foes and de
feated wfthout, with revolution strik
ing at its Titals within, the kingdom
of Spain is facias a crisis in its his
tory and the Bourbon dynasty is on
the verge of falling.
KING ALFQNSO.
Because of the almbk unprecedent
ed strictness of tiie censorship and
the diflaculty of transn^tting disx>atch-
‘'s, details are lacking. The news
T'^hich has worked out however indi
cates the gravity of the situation.
Army Mobilized.
The government has commenced a
complete organization of the army,
ali. officers upon leave Eave' bsen re
called. Martial law has been pro-
slaimed all over the kingdom and
newspapers have been ordered—to
print only official reports under pain
oi suppression.
In Barceloila, Catalona and a dozen
::ither garrison towns, mobs have
seized the streets and are being
fought by the military with artillery.
The rusjiing of troops to Africa has
been so rapid and heavy thai the
soldiers left have been unable to cope
with the frenzied workmen who are
rioting because of sending , of soldiers
to Africa.
Battles in Street.
These workmen have buUt barri
cades in the streets and in many
places pitched' battles have filled the
gutters with blood. The government
is determined to adopt no half-way
measures and has given the army or
ders to put down the revolution re
gardless of-'the means necessary or
the consequent loss of life.
Guaids have been thrown around
the fronffer and no one is permittee
to leave or enter the kingdom except
under the closest scrutiny.
Moors are Victorious. ,
To add to the gravity of the situa
tion a great battle has ^een fough
between the Spanish troops and the
Moors. This Is now officially admitted
from Madrid for the first time. The
extent of the ^gagement was at first
minimized in 8pain, in an effort to
pacify the public and dlspaches con
cerning the battle were vigorously
censored. ,
The casualties have been far great*
CT than in any engagement during
the Spaniah-American war, and ex
ceeding some of the most stubtorn
flehfHif Ot tbe Bns^apaaese war.
Famrs' lisM) lu|. 10.
PROSPERS TIMES
Era of Plenty Faces the West
and South.
OPTIMISM PREVALENT
Farmers, Bankers,^ Railroad Men artd
All Others Regard Conditions as
Extremely Bright—Largest Crops
In History, ^
New York—Walter Scott, vice pres
ident of one of the largest general
merchandise concerns In the country,
has returned here with glowing re
ports of the prosperity of the west,
through which he makes a yearly trip
of inspection.
“Never in my life did I see such
optimism as now prevails everywhere
among- farmers, bankers, railroad
men and all others. The .crops are
booming, corn and wheat notably. I
think both of" them will have the
largest crops in history.’* ^
“But as to prosperity, I can speak
of it beyond the northweut, ^.hough
not so personally.
“We sent .out 100 men all over the
south to look over the field, and re
port dn general business and indus
trial conditions. Those reports have
Just come in. I never have met any
thing like -this set. On every hand
they report prosperity.”
While Thons was in Hanover, Ger
many, he met the young lady, and
proposed marriage. He was accepted
and when it was found that legal for
malities would require several weeks
before they could be imarried, they
sailed for this country, intending to
be married here. But the immigra
tion authorities do not approve of the
landing of unmarried women here,
and as they have recently become
very strict, they would not even per
mit Thons to marry her here, so that
she could enter this country. Thons
therefore, purchased transportation
on the ship on which she is being de
ported, and when they arrive in Ger
many they will be married, and then
come to this country to live on Thons’
Texas farm.
HEAD-ON COLLISION.
COURSE OF*TRUE LOVE,^
Texas Farmer .Does Not ^Flnd It
'Smooth.
New York—Because the board of
immigration refused to' aJlow his
sweetheart, Matilda Kuehttiann, to
land in the United States, Henry
ThonSi a prosperous farmer,of San
AntonioT Texas, has- sailed with her
for Bremen on the vess^ on which
she l8 being "deported. -
Ten Persona Killed and Sixty Injured
V In Washington.
Spokane, Wash.—Ten persons were
killed and at least sixty iiyured in a
head-on" collision of two electric
tiains on the Spokane and 'Inland
railroad.
The wreck occurred at Coldwell,
Wash., a sation between Couer
d’Alene, Idaho, and Spokane. A west
bound train had left Couer d’Alene
i?t 4:30 p. m. and just reached Cold-
well when it crashed into an east-
bound train. Both were going at the
vuXe of 15 miles an hour.
^They collided without warning to
the crew or passengers, and the
coaches were crushed. Men and wo
men . vere thrown from their seats,
some being hurled to the top of the
coaches, while others were sent fly
ing through the windows. Several
coaches left the track, and passen
gers were caught under the pile of
broken timber's.
JOHN WISDOM IS DEAD.
Landlady—What’s the matter with
that pie?
Boarder—’Tain’t fit for a pig, and I
ain^t goin' to eat it.—Jtidge.
Made Famous Ride During the Clvtt
War.
Gadsden, Ala.—John H. W^isdom,
one of the most distinguished citizens^
of Etowah county,' whose famous rider
from Gadsden to Rome, Ga., during:
the civil war saved the latter city
from destruction by federal raiders
under General Straight, is dead at
Hoke’s Bluff, aged 87. Citizens of
Rome presentej, him with a silver
service for saving the city.
Bark Lost at Sea Had Crew of Ten
Men.
Seattle, Wash.—A special to the
Post-Intelligencer from Port Town
send says that it is believed that the
American barkentine J. M. Griffith,
under command of Capt. F. T. Sand
ers, and carrying a crew of ten men,
has been lost at sea. The barkentine,
which is an old wooden vessel, put
out .from Carmen island,- Mexico, far
Puget Sound,, an^ i* more than a,
month overdue.
Killed TryTrig to Save Child.
Champaign, 111.—Mrs. Richard Alex^
ander and her two-year^ld «on. Em
met, were killed by a Big Four train.
Seeing her two^ boys, aged five and
two years, upon the tracks, the moth
er rushed ta their rescue. She suc
ceeded In saving the elder child, but
lost her own life in an unsuccessful
attempt to save the younger boy*
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“How would you ilhistra'te the snpe-
riorlty of mind over fnatter?**
“By personal ex|)eriehce,’’ answered-
the stndent. “I set my alarm clock for
half past 6 o’clock in the morning, but
t do not allow It to :exert any tofiiL-
ence over my breakfast hoar.”—Wash
ington Star.* . ' ^
^^The plumber who was here to
day acted doi>eyr '
He—Probably he had been hitting
the pipe. .....