yOLUME-Xyi
BREVARD, NORTH CAROMNAr FRIDAY. AUGUST 11. 1911.
NUMBER-32
COMMISSIONERS IN
MONTHLY
tax rate for county is
lower this year. ,
Taxable Property in County
Will Airi6unt to About
Three Million Dollars.
The most important bnsiness be
fore the board of connty commis
sioners at the regular monthly
meeting on Monday was the estab
lishing of the tax rate for the com
ing year. The figures so far com
plied by the tax assesbrs show that
the amount of taxable property in
the connty is this year greatly in
creased, and after careful consider
ation the commissioners decided
that the tax rate could be reduced
and at the same time a slightly in
creased amount of reven'ijie for the
connt be raised. The decrease for
the connty as decided upon by the
commissioners amounts to a total
of 5% cents on the hundred dollars
of valuation. The last session of
the state legislature, however,
raised the rate for the public
schools from 18 to 20 cehts, an in
crease of 2 cents on the hundred.
The net decrease in the tax rate for
Transylvania is therefore 3% cents
on the hundred.
One of the items in the several
making up the tax list appears this
year for the last time. This is the
levy of five cents for the .payment
of the the fire proof bonds for the
coTiit house issued about six years
ago. The bonds were of a value of
$700&ndi were five in number. Four
0/these bave already been raised
and the last one •will be paid off this
year.
The folIowiDg is the rate for the
different purposes as decided by the
commissioners:
State purposes 21 on hundred
Pensions 04 “ “
Public schools 20 “ “
Excess school fund 05 “ “
Pauper tax 05 “ *“
Bridge tax 02% “ “
Contingent fund 14 “ “
Railroad tax 16% “ “
Special tax fire proof
bonds ..03 “ “
Special tax county
indebtedness 05 “ “
Total 96% “ “
The poll tax will be $2.15 to be
distributed as follows: $1.65 t<>
public school fund, 12c to pension
fund, and 38c to pauper fund.
The road tax for the county was
fixed at fif ten cents in all townships
except Boyd which is ten.
Special stock law tax for ^jittle
River township is twenty-five
cents.
The following are the special
school tax districts in the county
^ith the rate in each:
Boyd No. 2—90 on poll 30 on
property.
Boyd No. 3—60 on poll, 20 on
property.
Brevard No. 1—90 on poll 30 on
property.
Brevard No. 2—75 on poll 35 on
property.
Cathey’s Creek No. 1—75 on poll
on property.
Cathey’s Creek No. 2—90 on- poll
30 on property.
t>unn’s Rock No. l-*-90 on poll 30
property.
Eastatoe No. 2—75 on poll 25 on
property.
Eastatoe No. 3—90 on poll 30 on
property.
Gloucester—90 on poll 30 on prop
erty.
Hogback No. 1—30 on poll 20 on
Pi'operty.
Hogback No. 4—90 on poll 30 on
property.
Little River No. 1—90 on poll 30
property.
Crab Creek—60 on poll 20 on
P**operty.
"fhe total valuation of taxable
^^operty in Transylvania this year
he about $3,000,000. The re-
JURYMEN AIIE DRAWN
FOR SUPERIOR COURT
TWO Wl£EKS’ TERM BEGINS
MONDAY, AVGUST 28.
Judge Lane Will Preside^.J^ver
. Term for Trial of Civil
and Criminal Cases.
Superior Court for the trial of
criminal and civil cases in Transyl
vania county will Convene in Bre-
vard'for a term of two weeks be-
ginniiig Monday, August 28. , Judge
Lane will preside and Solicitor
Robert R. Reynolds will represent
the state in the criminal cases.
The county commissioners at
their regular monthly session on
Monday drew the following jury
men for the two weeks of court:
First Week—E. S. McCall, F. O.
Thoma^ William Maxwell, Joseph
McCrary, D. tH. England, Fred
Fisher, I. C. Tinsley, R, R. Deaver,
John H. Hinkle, Avery Neill, W.
S. Ashworth, D. M. McCall, L. H.
Allison, J. R. England, S. S. Bar
nett, J. T. Gillespie* J. B. StoneJ
G. H. Tinsley, Ervin McCall, W. A.
McCaU, G. M. Anders, M. N. Moore,
Fedilla Henderson, Fielding Pax
ton, J. Anderson Galloway, C. S.
Osborne, Perr.y Moore, J. A. Breed
love, J. L. Reid, G. M. Justice, A.
N. Pool, L. D. Gillespie, Alex Gro
gan, F. N. Nicholson, G. W. Smith,
D. H. Fowler, M. C. Whitmire, W.
E. Shipman, Alfred Miller, G. F.
McCall, J.^C. Wike, 3^’ilmore Mc
Call.
Second Week—Lee R. Fisher, J.
R. Bishop, G. J. Whitmire, T. C.
Galloway, S. M. Orr, J. L. Garren,
J. M. Neely, G. W. Banther, Jesse
M. McCall, B. P. Scruggs, J. M.
Blythe. T. L. Garren, J. L. Morris,
Johu C. Deaver, I. B. Ledbetter, M.
J. Glazener, C. M. Doyle, J. A.
Bryson, W. R. Rhodes, R. A. Ja
cobs, Joe H. Garren, A. L. Led
better.
EIGHT NEW PENSIONERS ^
The pension board of Transylva
nia county, composed of Dr. Whit
field Brooks, Cos Paxton, C. L.
Osborne and G. F. Justice, met
Monday at the court house to con
sider applications for new pensions
and increases in pensions already
granted. After careful considera
tion the board decided to r^om-
mend pensions to eight. This
brings the total number of pen
sioners in Transylvania county up
to seventy-four. Of this number
an even fifty rfe veterans of the
great civil war and twenty-four
are needy widows of-veterans. The
pension checks this year will be a
little larger than usual, the last
legislature having slightly in
creased the appropriation. The
ch^ks come from the state treas
urer to the clerk of the ^perior
court for distribution about, the
middle of December making very
welcome Christmas presents.
The following are the eight new
additions to the roll for this county:
Whitfield Broo’ks, H. P. Morgan,
R. J. Kilpatrick, G. C. Galloway,
John Fulbright, J. W. Morris, J.
W. Alexander and E. M. Allison.
RECEPTION MONDAY
FORMR& jA^SON
WroOW OF CONFEDERATE
LEAD.t&R yGlJ^ST HERE.
Veteraas, Sons of,Veterans, and
Daug^ers of Cbnfederacy
Uni%e to Hon^ Her. ^
-■
Transylvania camp No. 953,
United Confederate Veterans, will
on next Monday afternoon tender'a
reception to Mrs. StonewaU^’^ack-
son,, the ■\iddoW' o|- the great Con
federate general, w^xo is spending
several weeks in Brevard a guest
at the Hunt cottages. The recep
tion will be given between the
hours of three and fi.ve Monday
afternoon at^ the house of Mrs. M.
A. E. Woodbpidge on Main street,
the Daughters of the Confederacy
assisting the veterans.
Of the sixty ddd veterans living
in this county :^ere are yet sur
viving a number wlio served in the
famous “StonewuU” brigade per
sonally commanded by General
Jacksor^ and still others who l>*ter
served in the corps under his com
mand in thQ battles around Rich
mond In‘the annals of the world
today this leader of the Confeder
acy, who received a mortal wound
on the field of Chancellorsville at
the end of a day upon which he
had directed the movement flanking
and routing the great army of
Hooker, is ranked among the great
est of the military genr.ises of all
the ages, and the people of Bre
vard and Transylvania will take a
peculiar pleasiare' iiif paying honor
to his wife. - •
It will be of particular inte^'est to
our people to khow that Mrs. Jack
son is a native North Carolinian.
She was born in Charlotte, the
daughter of Dr. R. H. Morrison,
one of the most prominent Presby
terian ministers of the state, the
founder ^ and first president of
Davidson college. For many years
now Mrs. Jackson has made her
home in Charlotte. With her in
Brevard is her grand daughter and
the little daughter of the latter.
The following official order is
isued by the local camp of Confed
erate Veterans, and the attention
of the public is called particularly
to it.
ports from the state auditor giving
the values of the railroads, corpor
ations and so forth have not yfet
been received. Last year this item
was something in excess of $315,000
and will probably be increased this
year. The increase in the taxable
property in the county exclusive
of these above items amounts in
round numbers to $700,000. The
increase in each township is shown
by the following figures furnished
by Tax Assessor Bell. No township
in the county showed a decrease.
Brevard township $144,461
Boyd township 82,626
Catheys (^reek township 136,077
Dunns Rock township 35,423
Eastatoe township. 47,830
Gloucester township 93,910
Hogback township .97,671
Little River township. .64,112
“Headquarters, Transylvania Camp
CJnited Confederate Veterans No.
953.—Brevard, N. C., August 8,
1911.
“Our Camp having tendered a re
ception to Mrs. “Stonewall” Jack
son, and she, having honored us by
graciously accenting, we do our
selves honor in cordially inviting
all Confederate Veterans, all sons
of veterans and all Daughters- of
the Confederacy, with their re
spective immediate families, to
unite with us in honoring this
charmiilg ty^ of the women of the
confeder^y, at the home of Mrs.
M^ K Woodbridge, Main street,
on the afternoon of next Monday,
the 14th, between the hours of 3
and 5 o’clock.
“We will also be glad to receive
and present to her, any of our adult
Confederate summer visitors, com
prehended within the three orders
of our- Cause, as mentioned, and
who if strangers are asked to pre-
seiit their cards on entrance so that
they may be properly presented.
^ J. M. Hamlim,
Jos. M. Keen, Commandant.
Adjutant.” ,
/ -Th« Black Dortfu
Periodically toj^ many centuries Eu
rope iiiMl ihe east have been vfeited
by plagocB. There have been plagues
of typhus fever, of cholera, ot small
pox, of'y^ow' fever. It Is estimated
that 25,000.000 peopJQ have died at one
time or another ftoin these scou^^
In 1570 200,000 perlons died In Mos*
cow, and ii^ 1572 50,000 died in Lyons.
The plague carried off SOOJPOO in
Naples in 165& In 1666 68,596 died in
Loudon ojDt of a popttlation of 460,000,
two-thirds of whom had fled (he dty
to escape. This is actually QB,5Q6 out
of 153,800—nearly one in two.
CLEAN UP POUCY
DETERMINED UPON
/
TOWN MUST BE CLEANED
^ UP AND KEPT SO
Board of Aldermen in Regular
Session Reduces Tax Rftte
in the Town.
The board of aldermen of Brevard
in regular monthly ^ssioQ Monday
night determined upon a clean-up
policy for the town, adopted a set
of special privilege taxes for the
ensuing ^ear, fixed the tax rate of
the town at a ..considerable reduc
tion over the rate of last year, and
transacted^ considerable routine bus
iness.
All the members of the board
were present. Mayor Pro Tem W.
M. Henry presiding in the absence
of Mayor W. E. Breese, Jr., who
has been in Charleston this week.
The question of cleaning up Bre
vard and keeping it clean occupied
considerable time. There was no
division of opinion as to the neces
sity of action being taken, the
members of the board being unan
imously agreed that for the good of
the town as a whole trash and refuse
of all sorts should not be allowed to
accumulate and remain around the
business houses and residences of
the town thereby creating not only
a nuisance but also a constant men
ace to the public health. The only
phase of the question that caused
discussion was the manner in which
the town authorities should go
about getting the town cleaned up
and keeping it that way.
The final action of the board was
the decision to notify all property
owners or occupants of property
which is in an unsanitary condition
to immediately provide themselves
'vtith garbage barrels or boxes into
which shall be gathered all trash
and refuse of all kinds now litter
ing the premises, these barrels or
boxes to be placed in the street in
front of the different houses by
Friday morning of this week. At
that time a wagon employed by the
town will go the rounds and haul
away the accumulated trash.
Thereafter it will be required
that all garbage * and trash be
dumped into receptacles and placed
in the street for collection by the
wagon each Wednesday and Satur
day morning*. Tne wagon will not
be able to cover the entire residen
tial section of the town on each of
these days and so the board re
quests that all private houses hav
ing trash to be hauled will notify
the officers on the days proceeding
the days for the wagon to make its
rounds and such notffication will
have prompt attention.
It was found iihat the taxable,
property within tl^e incorporation
limits will this year be approxi
mately $500,000, an increa-e of
about $65,000. In view of this the
board decided to fix the tax rate for
this year at eighty cents on the
hundred and the poll tax at $1.75.
This is a reduction of ten cents bn
the hundred and twenty-five cents
on the poll. This news will doubts
less prove most welcome to the cit
izens of the town.
Automobiles in Brevard will here
after be required to reduce their
speeds to a poinl) conducive to the
safety of the pedestrians. The
board passed an ordinance decree
ing that no nyichine within the
town shall exceed ten miles an
hour, the penalty for the violation
being fixed at not less than $25 nor
more than $100.
Anoth^ ordinance was passed
forbidding any raffling schemes, the
penalty for violation being fixed at
$to.
The questions of placing lights
on French Broad avenue and -the
transferance of a dray license were
referred respectively to the light
committee and the finance commit
tee with power to act in each cape.
The schedule of special privilege
PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR THE TEACHERS
CONCERT WUjL BE FEA
TURE FRIDAY EVENING.
County Teachers Association
has Interesting Program for
Meeting in September.
V
The county teachers’ associatioit
will meet on Friday September X
and be in session two days. An ex
tended program has been prepared-
covering several phases of school
work. On Friday evening there-
will be a mijgacal concert and an.
address by Welch Galloway. '
The following program will be
barried out: ^
10:30—Opening exercise, J. R^
Owen.
10:45—How to study. Chapters S
and 4, J. P-. Bennett.
11 ;30—Phonics, Mrs. G. G. Reece^
12:00—Community work in rural
schools, Miss Julia Owen.
12:45—^Noon recess.
. 2:00—Relation of the library to
schoolroom work, M. D. Hardin.
2:30 — Drawings Miss Hattie
Aiken.
3:00—Teachers part in securing
compulsory education. Miles Reece^
8:00—^Musical concert.
8 :30—^Education for living, WelcBt
Galloway.
SATURDAY
10:00—Opening exercise, C.
Kirkpatrick. •
10:15—^Correlation in primary
grades. Miss Maud Jacobs. "
11:00—Tests of hearing and vis
ion, T. C. Henderson.
11:45—Meeting of County Better
ment Association.
12 :30—^Noon recess.
* 2:45—How to tell stories to child-
ren. Miss Cora Wilson.
2 :15—Mistakes in teaching, A.
Riley.’
2:45—(Jeneral.
taxes in the town for this year was
made practically the same as last
year with a few exceptions.
The tax of one per cent on the
gross business of express, telegrapli
and telephone companies is not al
lowed this year under the general
state machinery act, so a privilege
tax of $lu per year was fixed upon.
these businesses.
The same tax on electric light
and electric power companies was
changed to a privilege tax on eacli
of $25.
On real estate agencies the priv
ilege tax was fixed at $5 for the-
head of the firm and *2 upon eaclt
additional member of the firm, or
in case of an individual dealer $5.
A tax of $5 on street merchants
was added to the schedule, and the
old privilege taxes fixed upon build
ing contractors and fertilizer deal
ers 'were repealed.
With the exceptions mentioned
the list in force last year stands for
this year.
The water coihmittee reported anr
abundance of water and the system
in good condition. The light com
mittee^ reported trouble with sev
eral of the street arcs, some of
these having failed to bum several
nights. This will be investigated^
The finance committee reported a-
balance of cash bn hand of about
one hundred dollars.
The board completed its work and
adjourned about one o’clock.
' Th* Adder’s Poison.
One of the most wonderful things li»
nature is the arrangement of the teetliK
in the mouth of the common adder o^
viper. The creature does, not use itB
puison fangs when it bites the animal*
on wiiich it feeds, and so bj a ver^
curious sArangement these fangs are
laid back flat in the roof of the moutl»
out of the way of the ordinary teetl^
which are used tor feedings. By this-
means the bidder can use whichever
set of teeth it pleases; one set will p<^
son its enemy Ad the other is mof^
suitable for eating its fclod. i