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is. irt house. I ' ind others Railroad operation s begin at 150 feet fry iggjp ONLY NEWSPAPER ^IWTY '4» P-y lA: HQJ4E FAI»ERjB’DR HO u~ ■ 1^ AIX. HOME r*RlNT VOLUIE—XYI many convictions IN SOPERIOR COURT COUNTY CHAIN GANG WILL have good start. , Criminal Docket Cleared Tues day and Trial of Civil Cases Taken Up. \ The criminal docket in the Suije- rior court was completed ^ Tuesday morning, and the trial of civil cases t)6gnn Tuesday afternoon. There are at the present time eighty-nine cases on the civil docket, and it will naturally be impossible to try more than a very small nnniber of these. In addition there are already ten new cases filed with the clerk making nearly one hundred cases. A special term of court seems »in evitable. . 1 Oh the criminal docket th4re were a number of cases continued for a variety . of reasons, and in some of the cases the defendants haa not been taken. The following cases were disposed of and senten ces passed by Judge Lane; Gus Robinson and Tom Robinson, charged with 'the larceny of a hog, the property of J. B. Neill, the jury found Gus Robinson guilty and Tom Robinson not guilty. Sen tenced was not passed. Eole Robinson,. charged with changing the marking on a hog be longing to J. B. Neill, was found guilty and sentence reserved. Boyd Barton entered a plea of nolo contendere to the charrge of destroying property and judgment rd, N. C.. , costa. A nol prosse was taken by the state in the case of Lewis Fisher and James Owens, charged with disturbing religious worshin. Will Swearengin and Lee Owens were found guilty of assault and judgment was suspended on pay ment of costs. John Andrews and Mac Perry were found guilty of destroying crops and Andrews was fined 150 and Perry $25, the costs being di vided. Leonard Owens, charged with al lowing stock to run at large, was continued. Bill Whitmire was convicted of illicit distilling and given eighteen, months on the roads. John Anderson was found guilty of an assault and sentenced -to six months on the roads. Leighton Bagwell, charged with larceny, judgment of ni si, sci fa, and capias. L. E. Mull and Bill Erwin, charged with an assault, Mull was found not guilty and Erwin guilty, the the latter receiving a fine of $10 and the costs. A nol prosse was taken by- the state in the case of Pete Price and Mose Bailey, charged with an as sault, while on the same charge in another case th.e same defendants Were fotind not guilty. Bill Johnson, charged with a simple assault on a woman, was found guilty and given four months on the roadsi John Blythe was convicted of the larceny of shoes and was sentenced to four months on the roads. Tom Kimsey was found not guilty of carrying a concealed .weapon. Judgment was suspended in the case of John Prince, found guilty an assault, the defendant to i>ay costs, Synum McCall was found not guilty of an assault. In the case of Posey Owens and • ohn Anders charred with an af- Anders was fc’Tnd not guilty Owens guilty, tiie latter being ^20 and the coses. ^osey Lee, convicted of malicious ^ischief in breaking car windows 0 the Southern railroad, was fined and the costs. Will Gaston and Jack Fisher were lound gtulty of an aff; NOITI CAfiOLlN^ mWAY, SEFFEMBER 8, 1911. u 1 n \ -ir .1- I .Ml- NnHBEE-36 COUNTY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION MEETS INTERESTING PROGRAl^ IS CARRIED OIJT. Mr. Gudger of State Normal Col lege Delivers Special Ad- , dress to Meeting. The public school teachers* asso ciation of the county met last Fri day at the graded school building, and were in session two days. In all, there were about forty teachers in attendance. All who had com menced the year’s work in August were permitted by the county board of education to suspend duty for Friday without loss of pay. Some of the teachers present had not be gun the year’s session. The exercises were opened Fri day'morning by Rev. J. R. Owen, who read a passage of ' Scripture and led in prayer. N, After this the program for the day was taken up. The program as published could not be taken up in detail on account of t&e absence of some of the mem bers appointed to lead in the dis- cossions. 'The first' subject taken up was “The relation of the library to schoolroom work,” on which Mr. M. D. Hardin of Quebec , ad dressed the association, giving son^e practical suggestions as to ways in which the books of the library could be used in the school in con nection with the regular lessons and otherwise. Miss Hattie Aiken next led' on “Drawing,” in wWch she made use was suspended on pa^^eu^ s^J *Wt'th^ blackboard for illustrating (Continued on page 6) K^yand judg- the ideas she wished to emphasize. This was quite a practical lesson, in which the teachers were given work to do. During sthe first day’s session the county betterment association was re-organized with Miss Hattie Aiken as president, Miss Georgia Bell vice president, Miss Florida Cantrell secretary and Miss Julia Deaver treasurer. A committee was ap pointed to draw up a constitution and report next day. The constitution as adopted makes all persons eligible to active membership who pay an annual fee of ten cents, and to honorary membership on payment of fifty cents. The main purpose of the organization ^ is the improvement of school houses, grounds, and gen eral conditions, and the securing of regular attendance by pupils. On Friday evening the teachers had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Eugene Gudger, professor of geol ogy and botany in the State Nor mal at Greensboro. Dr. Gudger indulged in a few reminiscences, going back twenty-two years and recalling the time when he taught in this county, first at Enon, next at Middle Hill and then at Brevard. He said that the Brevard school building was one of the best of kind in the state, and spoke highly of the conveniences inaugurated by its first principal, Mr. Estes. Dr. Gudger’s talk throughout was forci ble and practical and' held the un divided attention of his hearers. Saturday’s program was opened by Rev/ C. S. Kirkpatrick, who led in^evo'^ons and deduced some les sons from the'scripture text appli cable to teachers. It was necessary to revise the program on account of the absence of some ’of the teach ers. The first subject presented was “How to Study,” given by Mr. J. P. Bennett. It was practically a lesson from the book of that name, which is one of the books prescribed for the raiding course. The main idea brought out by • Mr. Bennett was the importance of having spe cific aimSas" a motive power in study. Superintendent Henderson made a practical talk on “Tests of hear- ing a^d vision.” He showed - that amo&g dnll pupils a large per cent, had defects in sight or hearing, (Cvntinued on p«ge WILL HAVE A CHAIN GAN6 $30UNTY COSlmsSIONERS 90 I^CIPE TtoS WEEK. L^ge Amoihs^vof Business Keeps the Board iii ^^S^sion For Two 'ibitys. The Sept^ber/meeting of the board of county-tsommissioners will probably prove one Qf the most im portant held in a long time. ad dition to an ttousually large amount of routiile busine^ such as the grantihg of of relief to various par ties, and the ordering of many ac- couxl|s paid, the question of closing the road through tne Vanderbilt estate and of creating a county con vict force catae<before the commis sioners. The road question in the natural order wen^^‘ over until the ^e^t meeting for action while the convict fliatter ^s acted upon. ^ By the order of the board, made after the ^presentation of exten sively signed petitions, the convicts of Transylvania county will in the future be worked upon the roads of this county in$Jead of being hired out to Buncom^ and Henderson counties. ^ Arrangements were made for t^e ^working of the con victs upon the roads in Brevard township for the present, the men to be boarded at the jail and to be under the direction of the road authorities of the township. The following rules were adopted for the governing of the convict force. ‘ ‘T^e covicts worked on the public l?oad& of Trags^variia county shall be in charge of a guard or guards and shall be worked accord ing to the directions of the over seer of the township in which the work is being done. “In case any convict fails or re fuses to work as directed by the overseer, the overseer and guards shall have the authority to and are directed to apply such methods of correction, whipping or otherwise as the circumstances of the^ case may require.” Attorneys for George W. Vander- Jbi^t filed a petition before the board a^ing that the road through the Vanderbilt estate be closed, it being set forth that Mr. Vanderbilt has for the past fifteen years main tained the road, together with a large number of bridges upon it, entirely at his expense, and that he is unwilling to longer do so. The petition says that in case the county surrenders the road, then its free use will be allowed to the owners of the Picklesimer and Johnson cabin tracts of land, to Federal, state and county officers when up on public business, and to the min ister and congregation of English’s chapeli Notices of this petition were ordered posted’^at the court house for thirty days, the matter to* be taken np at the next meeting of the board. No action was taken upon the recommendations of the grand jury with reference to the conditions existing at the county home, or with regard td the recommended improvements at the court house. The amount of routine business before the commissioners was .very heavy and necessitated the holding of sessions for two days, the work being completed late Tuesday after- noou4 " It wiU be pleasant news to his great number of friends through out the county that' .Mr. L. Brooks, the chairman of the bo^rd» was able to be in attendance having almost entirely recover^ after a long sickness. ^ In the office^ of the regisier of deeds this week filed ^ deed from the Colonial Trust Company of Pittsburglu trus^, to E. Hi Jien- nmgs, conveying the property of the ToxaWay Company, the consid eration being $100,000. Mr. Jen nings recently purchased the prop erty at a foreclosure sale. TRANSCONTINENTAL IS NE60TIATWG FOR PURCHASE OF K. S. & E. AND 6, & K. m Conference Held in GreenvUle Between Representatives of the ^ Three Roads Looking Toward the Consolidation . of the Roa^s Through Brevard. ^ l^e most interesting news which can be^ven to the people of Bre? vard and Transylvania county at the present time is in connection with the coming of a new railroad through^ this section, Last week thifi paper gave to its readers the facts in connection with.^ the straightening of the financial affairs of the Knoxville, SevieTville & Eastern road, which extends from Knoxville to Sevierville, and which is to be one of the links connecting through Brevard with Greenville. This weel# there are apparently still more interesting developments about to take, place, namely the purchase of the above named road together with the Greenville & Knoxville by the Transcontinental. The following is a special dispatch to the Charlotte Observer from Greenville and will prove most in teresting reading: ' v “Ttat the South Atlantic Trans continental Railway, the proposed line which is to connect the Ten nessee coial fields with the Atlantic Seaboard at Southport, N. C., and upon which work has already be gun near the North Carolina-Ten- nessee state line, is about to enter into negotiations looking toward the purchase of the Greenville & Knoxville Railway between Green ville and River View, 'and the Railway, connecting Knoxville and the town of Sevierville, 'vnth the view of getting into possession of a route from the Tennessee coal fields to either the South Carolina or Georgia coast, via the city of Greenville, is the startling rumor which gained currency yesterday among possible half-dozen business men of this city. The rumor was taken up by a representative of the Observer and traced to a cer tain source and there the rumor was confirmed The source from which t^is information was secu’*ed catinot be divulged, but the-con firmation of the report is thor oughly reliable and little short of authoritative. “For some time past reports have reached Greenville ever and anon that the South Atlantic Transcon tinental Railway, whose main line is to be from the Tennessee coal fields near Knoxville, to Southport, N. C., was desirous of getting into possession of a route by which a branch of the same road could be built from Waynesville, N. C., to Charleston, Port Royal, Savannah or Brunswick, via Greenville. The rumor floated about Greenville for ^me time, and finally died the death of most rumors. Not long since, however, there turned up in GireenviUe sometliing which resur rected old rumors. The mayor of Brevard si>ent several * days in Greenville examining old records in the office of the register of mesne conveyian6e. Mr. Breese, Brevard’s mayor, stated that he was repre senting the South Atlantic.. Trans continental Railway, but that he had nothing to give out for publi cation. While in the city, how ever, he purchas^ from the re ceiver of the old C., K. & W. Rail way the rigtts-of-way and other holdings of the system, which was tp have been built to Hamburg, which is ah old town near Augusta. Mayor Breese^ did not state what he wanted with the old right-of- way, but »noe he stated that he was representing the South Atlan tic Transcontinental Railway, and it had been rumored that that rail way company w^ seeking a route via Greenville to some XK>int on the South Carolina or Georgia coast, people drew their own conolosion. “Last Wednesday Mr. W. H. Pat terson^ president of the Greenville & KnoxvUIe railway, made a trip to this city. Wednesday night two gentlemen from New York, repre senting the South Atlantic Trans- confineutal Railway, came to the city. Since''Mr. Patterson made reservations for these gentlemen, it was supposed that he had busi ness with them. Upon being inter viewed at his hotel Wednesday night, however, Mr. Patterson sta^d that he had no business with the ^ two representatives of tne Transcontinental tlailwav. He did state, however, that the gentlemen were friends;of his and that they had come to Greenville for the pur pose of conferring ne^ day with certain attorneys of this city. The attorneys with wh6m th^ Trans continental representatives con ferred next day could not be dis covered'Thursday, and here the newspaper man quit the trail tem porarily. “The repof^t bobbed up yesterday that negotiations were about to be entered int.o between the Transcon tinental Railway for the purchase of the Greenville & Knoxville Rail way and the Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern Railway, and the trail was again taken up.., The newspa per man secured a statement from a most reliable source that there was an abundance of truth in the report concerning these negotia- KnoxvUle^xSeyierville ;^. Eftate'r^ tioMn^x^: that within a^few days the publw ^ould, fn all pr^ •hear rather startling news in this connection. “As is well known, Mr. W. H. Patterson is ‘ president of the Greenville & Knoxville Railway Compf^ny, Mr. Asa Candler, the ^Atlanta ‘Coca Cola King,’ Mr. J. S. Owens a^d other Atlanta capital ists are deeply interested financially in the company. It was stated yes terday that' President Patterson has already been approached by representatives of the South Atlan tic Transcontinental Railway. The attitude of Mr. Patterson toward the proposition of the Transconti nental people, it was said yester day, is considered favorable. “The Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern Railway, connecting Knox ville with the county seat of Sevier county, 30 miles away, is now owned by William J. Oliver, the Elnoxyile financier and ‘railroad wizard.’ People throughout this section are familiar with the steps which have been taken to have Mr. Oliver build his road ^eastward and Mr. Patterson extend his ^oad west ward, until a connection was made and Greenville was given a short- haul competitive line to the coal fields pf Tennessee and the great great trading centers of the middle western states, and the great mid dle western states connected with the coast of the Carolinas. / “Should the South AUantic Transcontinental Railway Com pany get into possession of the Ghreenville & Knoxville Railway and th§ Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern i^ilway, the desire of the promoters of that road to get a line from the Tennessee coal fields via Greenville to some city on the South Carolina or Georgia coast would be realised. “That Mr. William J. Oliver knows of the desires of the Trana- continental Railway, is said to be a fact. Whether or not he would sell ont the Knoxville, Sevierville ' & Eastern Railway to the Trans continental people, is not a ques tion for discussion here. “Above aB, however, this much is known, aiid the source of the statement is authoritative; the South Atlantic Transcontinental Railway Company has to its cr^t in the banks of l^ew Yoric money enough to purchase the Knoxville, Sevierville & Sastem and the Greenville and Knoxville Railways and have some left over.”
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