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VOLUME—XVI
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1911.
NUMBER-46
grand capital prize in contest of the
NEWS, MILTON PIANO, WON BY* MISS AIKEN
Took Over Miilion Votes To Win First Prize-Second Prize
Goes to Mrs. W. H. Brogan, Jr.-Tiiird to Mrs. C. R.
Sliarp-Foartii to Mr. J.'W. Smitii-Fittli to Miss ~
BerniGe Bridges-Six Townsiiip Prizes
Prize Winners
Miss Hattie Aiken, Brevard 1,085,250
Mrs. W. H. &ogan, Jr., Brevard 323,100
Mrs. C. R. Shiarp, SeUca... 111,950
Mr. J. W. Smitli, Brevard 100,100
Miss Bernice Bridges, Quebec
50,800
Township Prizes
G. T. Frady, Brevard....: 18,000
Miss Vera House, Gloucester.. 9,300
T. B. Reid, Hogbfick 8,700
Mrs. A. D. Miller-McLean, Boyd 6,100
Mrs. J. C. Whitmire, Catheys Greek
Mrs. L. M. Hart, Little River
2,400
2,000
Statement of j^tid^es
We, the undersigned Judges in the News contest, hereby
declare the above to be winners of the various prizes offered
by the News, the total vote of each contestants b^ing as
stated according to our careful count. We believe that this
contest has been conducted in every respect in the most care
ful and fair manner and that the winners have won the sev
eral prizes in a fair and open race.
THOS. H. SHIPMAN,
CHAS. E. ORR,
welch GALLOWAY. ^
The contest is over. The race is
run, the final story told.
The winners in the great contest,
one of the most exciting events ever
pulled off in Transylvania county
are announced above.
Promptly at eight o’clock Wed
nesday as previously announced the
vote box was sealed and turned over
to the judges of the contest for a.
final count and for the determina
tion of who were the winners.-
To the candidates in the races for
the many prizes* offered the man
agement of the News desires to of
fer sincerest thanks for the good
work done. There have been some
mighty live people working for the
prizes and not for a minute since
the contest was launched just eight
weeks ago has interest lagged. The
various candidates have been work
ing day in and day out and they
have one and all wrought well.
Each should be proud of the show-
iiigmade.
From the very beginning the
counting of the votes has been in
the hands of a committee composed
of Messrs. T. H. Shipman, cashier
of the Brevard Banking Co., Chas.
Orr, postmaster of Brevard, and
Welch Galloway, a prominent at-
torney. These men have had en
tire charge of making the count and
determining therefrom the winners.
^Iso, they have had general over
sight of the contest, keeping in
touch with what was doing. Every
point in connection with the con-
t'jst over which there might be any
difference of opinion has bOen sub
mitted to them, and their decision
followed.
Galloway was unable to be
Pi’esent at the final count of the
judges. Mr. D, G. Ward kindly
^nsented to take his place.
during the contest the manage-
^ent of the News has endeavored
0 be strictly impartial to all con-
stants alike. No information as
the standing of any candidate
been divulged aside from the
andiag of the contjestants as print-
j, paper each week. The
contest as announced
® ^®Siiining have been abso-
ca and the winning
idates have won in a dontest
as was possible to conduct.
IS with peculiar pleasure that
the News maks the final - award.
The prizes have gone to those who
hrve worked the hardest, and in
each case*have been fairly earned.
Every one of the prizes as announ
ced are in our possession, and will
be turned over )jO the winners as
soon as called for; with the excep
tion of the fifth prize, of course,
which will haye to be made up,
this being a tailor-made suit of
clothes.
Now in conclusion, we are glad
we have had the contest. We are
glad to give these prizes away to
those who have deserved them. As
a result of the contest the subscrip
tion of the News has been more
than doubled, and to our many new
subscribers, and to the old ones too,
we want to say that we try to give
a paper that will be worth the
money, one which will bo look
ed forward to each week with in
terest by every one who takes it.
PROGRAM FOR MISSIONARY JUBILEE
11 :00 A. M.
1. Devotinal exercises. Some
Famous Women of the Bible.
Leader;—Mfs. C. H. Trowbridge;
discussed by Mrs. Harris, Miss
Aiken and Miss North.
2. After tbe Jubilee, What? Mrs.
J. P. Bennett.
3. A Leaflet—Our Debt to Rio,
Miss Jacobs.
4. To Whom Shall We Go?—An
impersonation dealing with the
status of woman according to the
great world religious. Characters:
Inquirer, Hindu widow; Moslem
La^Vf Chinese mother.
Music by choir and orchestra.
7:30 p. M.
1. Exercise—Christian girls give
crosses to heathen girls.
2. Devotional exercises by Revs.
J. R. Owen and P. F. Brown. i
3. The Story of the Jubilee—
Mrs. C. D. Chapman.
4. Papers from each denomina
tion telling briefly what each board
of missions is doing—Methodist,
Miss dopper; Episcopal, Mrs. W.
E. Breese; Baptist, Mrs. J. R.
Owen; Presbyterian, Mrs. Goode
Cheatham.
5. Fifty Years of Woman’s Work
in Missions-^Mrs. C. H. Trow
bridge. . , . _
Music by a nmon choir ana or
chestra. / - . . ^ -u
Offerings will be designated oy
each denomination.
PMiR GO.
LOSES WHltMlRE SUIT
REPORT OF ROB,
. ERTS HLED m COURT
W. P. Whitmii:e 44judged Own
er of Third in
Power Company. *
In the case of W. P. Whitmire
against the decade Power Co., in
which Mr. Whitmire is suing for a
pertain amount of capital stock of
the corporation alleged to be due
for services rendered and for other
causes, a report has been flled in
the office of the Clerk of the Court
Paxtou by the referee in the mat
ter. Galla^n Roberts of Asheville,
in #hioh all the contentions of the
plaintiff are upheld. The report of
the referee‘ will,’later go before
Judge Lane for his approval or dis
approval, his ju^ment, based on
the report hf referee, being
final unless the parties t6 the suit
take an appeal t^jl^e state Supreme
court.
The report of Referee Roberts is
a lei^thy one. In it he finds that
W. P. Wliitmire, the plaintiff, was
the controlling factor in the organ
ization of the Cascade Power Co.
The company was organized for the
purpose of developing the water
power at Hamilton Shoals, the
proj)erty at the time having been
previously conveyed to W^ Whit-
mire, J. A. Galloway and J. C.
Hollis. The property contained
about sixty-seven acres and was
worth about the
three parties mmed WWi^ a third
interest in the property.
According to the report Mr.
Whitmire was the controlling fac
tor in the organization, interesting
J. A. Galloway, R. J. Pickelsimer,
and the two sons of the latter, J.
H. and C. W. Pickelsimer, in the
developing of the same, and that
he was the controlling factor in
preventing the foreclosure of a
deed of trust executed to D. C.
Waddell, Jr., of Asheville, to pro
tect a mortgage to the estato of
Frank Coxe, and that he negotiated
loans and obtrtined the money to
pay off said mortgage.
In the organization of the com
pany seventy-five shares of the
capital stock was subscribed caoh
by W. P. Whitmire, J. A. Gallo
way and J. C. Hollis, and twenty-
five shares each by R. 'J. Pickel
simer, J. H. Pickelsimer and C. W.
Pickelsimer. W. P. Whitmire was
elected a director of the company
and president and chairman of the
board of directors, and authorjzed
and empowered to proceed with the
development of the property,
which he did, buying machinery,
erecting dam and power house, and
pbtaining ’•ights of way for trans
mission lines to Brevard.. And ac
cording to the report he so re
mained for a period of about two
years, For the services so ren
dered the referee finds that a con
tract was entered into by the com
pany to pay him one-third of the
capital stock of the company, said
contract being made in Sept., 1910.
It was estimated that $30,000
would be needed for the develop
ment of the company’s property,
and the plan agreed upon was for
J. A. Galloway and the three Pick-
elsimers to take $17,000' in pre
ferred stock of the company, the
same to pay eight per <ient, annu
ally, this amount to be used in the
development and the remainder
needed to be obtained on the credit
of the company, and the preferred
stock to the amount named was so
issued.
On authority of the company W.
P. Whitmire was later allowed to
purchase the original interest of
J. C. Hollis, paying therefor the
sum of $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in
common stock, and . this was done,
the agreement being that the origi-
‘‘IDEALS", AN ADDREiS
FULL OF INSPIRATION
DELIVERED BEFORE COUN
TY TEACHERS
Rector of Episcopal Church
Makes an Inspiring Address
Before ^e Teachers.
An address delivered before the Transyl-,
vania County Teachers* Associatioii at the
Graded School, Brevard, N. C., Oct 28,1911
I am sure you agree with me,
teachers, that teaching is a great
art, which ought to be carried on
upon scientific principles, and is so
carried on to a great extent, 'espec
ially in our large cities.
Yon are not of the number of
those, I hope, who are content with
merely holding an important office,
or filling a responsible position.
You regard it to be no less import
ant to have some idea of how to
fulfill the duties of that position.
But alas! there are many parents
and teachers who are quite content
with the mere pesition and do not
study how to do justice to the op
portunities whir'h that jjosition en
tails. A knowledge of the subjects
to be taught, and knowledge and'
experience of the art of imparting
information, these are not appar
ently regarded as important.
You, however, who strive to do
your Master’s work (and all that
you do is “your Master’s work” if
you are His disciple) you remember
that He spent thirty years in pre
paring for three and a half years
teaphxng. You do-not wish to give
to God that which costs you noth
ing. Rather you are willing to
spend and be spent for the souls
which Jesus Christ came to save.
When* I speak of souls here I speak
comprehensively. You know the
mind is that which thinks, the heart
that which feels, and the will that
which acts. The soul includes all
these, and is that which thinks,
feels,, acts, and is accountable. Keep
this in mind. It may be that you
have yet much to learn, both of
your message, and also of how to
deliver it. But at least you can say
that “whatsoever your hands find
to do, you do it with your might.”
Yon have learned or are learning,
in expensive school of experience,
that your work is worth as much
as it costs in thought and prayer
and no more. It is very true of
teaching that what costs nothing is
worth nothing.
Moreover it is thoroughness which
makes your work so fascinating.
You feel that here you have ample
scope for all the powers which God
bas given you. And you are find
ing out what a joy it is to serve
GtDd and humanity. Here is an ob
ject in life which has nothing imiI-
try or selfish about it. Here is a
labor of love which is worth living
I for. You can sympathise with him
who wrote “Blessed is he who ha^
found his work. Let him ask no
other blessing.”
Teachers, you have joined the
great brotherhood of artists—men
and women who live grandly for an
ideal. It is because you are never
satisfied with your a'chievements,
or rather, because you realize that
teaching has infinite possibilities,
that you are so fascinated by it.
There is nothing paltry about the
material upon which you work—
the human soul—and the finished
article is nothing less than >‘the
measure of the stature of the ful
ness of Christ,” so far as secular
teaching can go. The sculptor/ the
painter, the builder, the poet—these
all work for time—^you for eternity.
Your instructions are “Be ye per
fect, as your Father which is in
Heaven is perfect.” This is the
ideal at which yon aim, and yet
never reach. But, at least, you
aim high. > Like St. Paul yon have
to confess “Not that I have already
attained, or am already perfect,”
Continued on page 5.
TRANSYLVANIA MIU
SOON RESUMES WORK
WILL START OPERATION
WlTfflN TEN DAYS
Starting: Up of Mill Means Em
ployment Again For Sev-
•enty-Five People.'
Continued on page 8.
The people of Brevard, and the
county generally will be interested
in learning t^at the cotton mill will
be put in operation at an early date
perhaps mthin the next ten days.
A shipment of 100 bales of 1% Delta
cotton is on the way.
For several months' the spindles
have been idle, the mill closing
dpwn last winter on account of the
high price of cotton and the low
price of the manufactured article.
This disparity no longer exists, or
rather the relation has been re
versed, as the price of cotton has fal
len without a proportionate de
crease in the price of the mill prod
ucts. The natural inference is that
the mill can be operated at a profit.
The mill will furnish employment
to about 75 hands, men and women*
It is needless to mention how much
this means to the business life of
the town. It means still more to
the many families living in the mill
town. Some of the girls have been
able to get employment at the
laundry, but not in sufficient num
bers to relieve the distress occa-,
sioned by the shutting down of the
large nnmber of spindles in the
mill.
- ^e mill .are
Cleveland & Williams^of;Greenvine
who bought the stock of the Tran
sylvania cotton mill last summer.
C. M. Cooke Jr., who was connected
with the mill from the very first,
w^ll be superintendent.
It has been rumored that Cleve
land & Williams will maintain their
central office at Greenville, and op
erate the mill from a distance. We
hope that this report is a mistake,
or that such a decision, if made,
will be changed. Brevard needs
the managing offices as much as it
needs the mill. In spite of the fact
that the first venture was not a fi
nancial success, the people here are
very much interested in the mill,
and concerned in its prosperity.
They are distinctly the friends of
the enterprise. The Brevard Bank
ing Co. is amply able to handle all
the business that would come its
way. No enterprise ever was
thoroughly successful where the
managing department was not a
part of the community in- which
its business was carried on.
The prospect of increased busi
ness, heavier freight shipments,
employment to many people, and
tho general quickening of the in
dustrial spirit, should have a good
effect on the town and county.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETS
The Board of Aldermen held the
regular November meeting in the
mayor’s office last Monday night.
Only a few matters of business were
transacted.
It was decided that water lines
constructed at the expense of those
who live outside the town should
become city property inside the city
limits by the refunding of cost of
such sections of the lines, the
amounts to be deducted from water
rents.
' An order was made for the con
struction of a brick pavement in
front of W. S. Ashworth’s house pn
Whitmire street, the material being
purchased by Mr. Ashworth.
W. E. Bishop agreed to repair
certain parts of water lines between
Major W. E. Breese’s and North
Brevard, where ^pes have been
left bare from washouts. >