q^LY newspaper in TRANSYLVANIA COUKTY
J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER
A HOME PAPER FOR HOME I»EOPLE-At.ri HOME PRINT
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. JULY 22.1910.
NUMBER»3()
Greenville ayd Knoxville Railroad
All Sections of the South Are Watching Transyl
vania County and Its Vote on the Bond Issue
The Progress and Prosperity of Our Beautiful Southland Is
Dependant on How We Vote August 2
We Must> Carry the Bond Issue!
Greenville News July 16.
The plans that are now matur
ing looking to the completion of
the Greenville & Knoxville rail
road from its present terminus
at Cleveland, S. C., twenty-five
miles from Greenville to Knox
ville through the North Carolina
mountains, is attracting atten
tion in many quarters.
Mr. W. H. Patterson, president
of the road, was in Greenville
yesterday, in conference with
several of the business men of
the city, and while nothing defi-
mte can be liearned at present
regarding the purpose of the of
ficials of the road concerning the
entrance into the city, it is
thoiight that within the near fu
ture, they will take steps to se
cure the necessary rights of way
for the constrnction of the line
and the erection of a-handsome
terminal .station near the busi
ness portion of the city.
It is stated that the company
about two years ago, purchased
a lot for this depot in the neigh
borhood of River street. The
road is at present operating with
the Southern railway station as
a depot, but it appears that the
ofiicials intend to open up a road
through that portion of the city
known almost historically, as the
“meadow.” To do this, there
must ffrst be secured the neces
sary right of ways, and it is un
derstood that the Board of Trade
of this city, at a recent meeting,
in endorsing the road, took some
action in the way of appointing
committees, to aid the officials in
getting these rights of way.
This matter, however, is not be
ing pushed at this time, and it
may be that the company is
waiting to see the result of the
action of the Transylvania coun
ty people in regard to the bond
issue. If this goes through it is
thought by some, that in addi
tion to the beginning of the con
struction of the road through the
mountain portions, it will also
take steps looking toward the
getting of the rights of way in
the city of Greenville, and the
construction of the track to the
station of Monaghan, and the
erection of the new terminal sta
tion here.
Great interest centers around
the road in this city, as well as in
the county of Transylvania, and
every movement of the officials
regard to the construction of
the line is being watched with
something akin to eagerness,
gs appear to be in a some-
Thirigs
what
uncertain state, however,
^^til the election of the bond is-
^^e has been held at Brevard, on
f second of August. When
is over, it is probable, that
the further steps of the company
will be more definite, and more
swift.
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This comment is from the Char
lotte Observer, which is evincing
considerable interest in the
building of the road.
“The management of the pro
posed Greenville & Knoxville
Railroad, to which we have more
than once referred, is by no
means slumbering through the
present heated season. It will
be recalled that a few miles of
railroad are already in operation
at eaclj end of the line and the
progress in bridging the gap be
tween is very gratifyinir. L-JSt
week some three thousiind citi
zens of Transylvania county held
an enthusiastic meeting at Bre
vard, the purpose of which was
to diffuse information and arouse
interest in connection with a pro
posed $100,000 bond issue. The
question will be submitted to the
voters of the county on August 2,
and according to those in touch
with the situation, the bonds will
be voted by a comfortable ma
jority.
“This issue of bonds is im
portant to the railroad, not so
much from a financial standpoint
as from the fact that its adoption
will ensure the hearty co-opera-
tion of the people of Transylva
nia county. As evidence that
this is really the railroad’s idea
about the matter, one has only to
consider the terms of the issue,
which provide that the proceeds
will not be available until the
road is actually in .operation
through the county. Plans are
also on foot to erect in the near
future a modern terminal station
near the business portion of
Greenville, and it may be pre
sumed that the facilities at the
Knoxville end will be rapidly and
substantially developed so as to
be convenient.
“The irregular triangle of ter
ritory whose vertices are Ashe
ville, Greenville and Knoxville
will furnish abundant support
for such a railroad and will be
rapidly and substantially devel
oped by it. The branches of the
Southern Railway already in op
eration will gtve the new line
close and adequate connections
with Asheville and through it
with the whole of the central and
eastern portions of this state.
With unsurpassed scenery to at
tract via(itors, and with ever-in
creasing railroad facilities to
keep such visitor in touch with
the world, the mountain counties
are on the eve of a development
to equal which the rest of the
State will have to exert every
energy.”
NOTI^S FROM The house ship subsl-
NATIONAL dy lobby investigaticrti
CAPITAL has practically closed
and the committee will meet in New
York in Norember to examine steam
ship representatives and others and
will rep^t to congress next winter.
The committee already has concluded
that the charges that a lobby was
maintained in W^aahington have not
been sustained.
Justice J. W. Gerard, of the supreme
court of New York, has been selected
by President Taft as one of the civil
delegates of the Uiiited States to the
centennial independence celebration
of Mexico, to be held in the City of
Mexico. Two other civil members
will be selected.
The appropriations made by the ses
sion of congress Just closed, amounted
to $1,027,133,446, according to an offi
cial announcement made by the house
appropriations committee.
Postmasters appointed for Georgia:
BlitdJi, Bullock county, W. O. Lane,
vice J. C. Lane, resigned; Rover,
Spalding county, Wilmer C. Glacier,
vice S. F. Glazier, removed. Robert
B. Bembry was appointed rural car
rier, Route 5, at Hawkinsville.
The resignation of Collector of In
ternal Revenue H-. A. Rucker, of Geor
gia, has been received by the presi
dent. It is generally understood that
Collector Rucker will at a very early
date be appointed to some position in
Washington.
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AFFAIRS IN Jockey Eddie Du-
World gan’s career as a rider
OF SPORTS, has received a check
at the hands of the stewards of the
Sheepshead Bay race track. Charged
with flagrant rough riding on August
Belmont’s Poort Print Tn the turf
stakes, the stewards have ordered his
suspension for the* .balance of ,the
Bheepshead Bay'lneeting and have re
ferred his case to the Jockey club
stewards for further consideration.
The Maori football team again de
feated the all-American team at Sid
ney, New South Wales, the score be
ing 21 to 3. Tbe all-American team
Is coiLposed of students from the Uni
versity of California, Leland Standard,
Jr., university and University of Ne
vada.
George Wiley, of SyracliSe, N. Y.,
will this week file claim to a new
world's bicycle reccrrd for one hour
paced by motor cycle. In a race at
Passaic, N. J., with Elmer Collins,
the American pace-following cham
pion, he rode 41 miles and 3 laps in
60 m’nutes, breaking the record.
J. L. Griffin, right-hander, has been
called from San Antonio by the At
lanta team to take the place of Rog
ers, whose health would not admit of
his staying in the Southern league.
Griffin has reporrted for work.
A. F. Wilding, the New Zealander,
won the championship of Great Brit
ain from A. W. Gore, the English title
holder, at Wimbeldon, England, in the
all-England tennis championship tour
nament Score: 6*4^ i:§i ^"2^
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A giant oak tree which he watched
grow to its present size since he came
to Munice, Ind., 70 years ago. on the
farm where he died, encased the bod>'
of Cary Fenwick, aged 77. His sons
cut down the tree with £&eir own
hands. A special hearse was required
to ^convey the coffin to the Oemetery.
City Detective W. M. Collins was
fatally injured in a runaway in Au
gusta, Ga. Collins was in a buggy
with Policeman A. J. Matthews and
another man. The horse bolted, the
buggy was overturned, and Cofllns
was thrown violently against a tree.
His companions escaped with a few
slight bruises. ^
Tom Desmuke, it is reported, a
white farmer, cut his wife's throat al
most from ear to ear, at their home
on the Savannah road, three miles
from Augusta, Ga. The tragedy was
witnessed by a 9-year-old Adopted
daughter. Desmuke surrendered _tc
Detective _Gay.
Inadvertently touching air-arc light
circuit, B. C. Graves, a telepbpne line
man, was Instantly electrocuted at
Columbia, S. C. His body hung across
the wires for 15 minutes before the
current oould be shut off and was
badly burned.
The Evolution of
Booster Bill
VIL*-* Improves His House and
<irounds
When Bill Blue had the grouch disease
It struck his houso and premises.
The UGLY MICROBE hit his yard*
His home and phiz, and hit them hard.
But when Bill Blue was sane once more
His frouzy outlook made him sore.
His home he started in to groom
And took some sunshine for his gloom.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Transylvania Division.
Effective 12:01 a. m. Sunday, June 19, *10,
N. B—Schedules figures given as Information
only, and not guaranteed.
Ne>A( paint upon his house was seen.
He trimmed his lawn and kept it clean.
He said: 'MMI brighten up this place,
i’ll comb its hair and wash its face.
“There's nothing puts a town ahead
Like pretty hemes and lawrLs/' he said.
“THE VILLAGE BEAUTIFUL FOR
MINE!”
Cried “Bill the Booster/’ “Make It
shine!’*
Eastern Standard Time
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CRIMES Two people, mother
AND and son, were instantly
CASUALTIES killed, and three others
injured, two fatally, when an extra
freight train on the Macon and Ath
ens division of the Central of Geor
gia struck a touring car belonging to
A. C. Freeman, of Arcadia, Fla., at
Kelly’s crossing, 48 miles north of
Macon, Monday afternoon. Engineer
Dunbar, of Macon, was in charge of
the extra freight and was 40 feet away
when he discovered the car on the
crossing. He had Just rounded a
sharp curve and the view of the car
was obstructed by an embankment.
The blast of the whistle and the emer
gency brakes did little good.
The four negroes convicted at De
catur, Ga., in the DeKalb county
court, of. murdering Motorman S. T.
Brown on April 23, will be hanged
at Decatur on July 29. Judge L. S.
Roan, before whom they were tried,
passed sentence on them shortly after
8:30 o’clock Thursday morning.^ He
directed that they shall be hanged be
tween 11 and 1 o’clock. The negroes
are; Charles Julian, Jim Black, Ed
Weaver and Charley Walker. It has
been eleven years since a man has
been hanged in DeKalb county. Nev
er before have four been hanged at
once.
During a thunder storm at Foster’s
mill, 12 miles from Rome. Ga., Mrs.
Thomas Middleton, aged 60 years,
was struck and instantly killed by a
bolt of lightning. While the.terrific
display was in progress, Mrs. Middle
ton ventured out and went to the
barn to get some eggs. While stand
ing in the door of the barn a
came and knocked her to the ground.
Her face was badly mangled.
At Savannah, Ga., fire destroyed the
Cosy theatre, the magazine and cigar
store of J. S. Oppenheimer Cigar com
pany, the large candy factory and
store of Paul Conida, the ticket office
of the ^outhern Railway, with the
commercial freight office, and the flo
rist shop of John Wolf. Poor water
pressure gave the flames a big start,
and the buildings were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $50,000.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, for five
years director of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, at New York, has
tendered his resignation and it was
accepted by the trustees. He resi^3
because his health is poor and his
physician's have advised him not to
spend another winter in New York
city. At present he is abroad. .
Nos. 7 and 8—Through trains between Waynes-
ville and Lake Toxaway carrying chair cars and
coaches.
Nos. 5 and 6—Through coaches between
Asheville and Lake Toxaway.
For tickets and full information apply to
E. W. CARTER, Ag’t.
J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N- C.
County Government*.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.
Clerk Superior Court—^T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat
rick.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nicholls. »
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.
Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch’n; G.
T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney'—R. L. Gash.
Town Government..
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.
Board of Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J.
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo*
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Attorney—W. W. Zachary.
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
Boarding Houses.
McMINN HOUSE
BREVARD, N. C.
This old and well known hotel has
been leased for the summer season of
1910, and solicits the patronage of the
traveling public and home people who
want a square meal.
For rates, etc., address
MRS. M. B. WATERS.
WHITMIRE COTTAGE
CHERRYFIELD, N. C.
Summer touristy will find this an
ideal home for rest and recreation—
near the depot. For information ad
dress as above.
J. C. WHITMIRE.
Professional Cards.
R. li. GASH.
lAwyer.
11 and 12 McMhm Building,
Notary Public.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building:
H. G. BAILEY
Civ3 and Consnlting Engineer
and Surveyor
CITY EN8IREER HENDERSONRILLE, N. C,
Southern Railway.
For best schedules, fewest
changes of cars and lowest rates to
all points, call on or write to
J. H. Wood,
District Passenger Agent,
Asl^^ciUe, N. C.