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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANS¥&VANIA COUNTY
A HOME PAPER FOR Home"people—ALL HOME FRINT
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VOLUIE-XVI
' - BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, PRIDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1911.
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NUMBER-50
OEATH OF MRS. G. E.
RAYNAL IN STATESVILLE
ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING
WAS A SISTER OF MRS. R.
B. WILSON
Funeral Services Were Held Mon
day Afternoon at the First
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wilson were
called to Statesville last Monday
morning to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Wilson’s, sister, Mrs. C. E.
Raynal, of that place. The news
of Mrs. Raynal’s death came as a
great surprise to her sister here, as
the last raport of her condition re
ceived was that she was improving.
The following account of Mrs.
Raynal’s death is taken from the
Charlotte Observer:
“A gloom was cast over States
ville generally today when the
news of the death of Mrs. C. E.
Raynal was made known. Friends
had known for several days that
there was little hope of her recov
ery, and she gradually grew worse
until death came at 12:30 p. m.
She was at Long’s sanatorium.
“Previous to her marriage to
Rev. C. E. Raynal, two years ago
in October, she was Miss Mary
Morrison, a daughter of Mrs. J. G.
Morrison of Charlotte. She had
visited in Statesville, where she
had made many friends, and added
scores to her list when she came as
a resident of the town. The sweet
Christian character was evidenced
by her daily life in the home and
among her friends. She^ will he
greatly missed.
‘•The sympathy of the commu
nity goes out to the young husband
in his deep bereavement. This is
especially sad for him, as in the
past week he has buried a little son
also.
“The funeral services will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 3
o’clock at the First Presbyterian
church, of which her husband is
pastor, and the ’ interment will be
in Oakwooi cemetery.
“The death of Mrs. Raynal leaves
an infant which can never know
the pleasure of a mother’s love.
She is also survived by her hus
band, a mother, three brothers,
Messrs. Austin D. Morrison of At
lanta, Graham Morrison of Shelby,
Hall Morrison of Charlotte, and a
sister, Mrs. Ronald Wilson of
Brevard, all of whom will be here
for the funeral. Among others
who will be present are Mesdames
Stonewall Jackson and Laura B.
Brown, aunts of the deceased, and
J. H. McAden of Charlotte. A
brother-in-law, Mr. Frank Lloyd of
Salisbury, is also here.”
TEACHERS’ RECITAL
While out hunting hdgs last Sat
urday ‘Vernon Owen of Balsam
Grove was accidentally shot and
killed by his cousin, Conley Owen.
It seiems that Vernon Owen and his
cousin with another young man
were together, and in seme un
known manner Conley Owen’s gun
was accidentally discharpred, the
lo^ entering the body of Vernon
Owen. He lived only about an
hour and a half.
The young man was about seve-
teen years old and the son of Mr.,
Rufus Owen.
The unfortunate affair cast a
gloom over the entire community.
Mr. Rufus Owen, the father, is a
highly respected citizen of the
county. The sympathy of his many
friends goes out to him^ in his dis
tress.
The shooting was entirely acci
dental and no blame attaches to
young Conley Owen.
AN IDEA
SOME POINTERS FOR
POULTRY RAISERS
ITS POSSIBILITIES AND IM-
POSSIBILITIES
Crowded out last week.
The teachers’ recital at the Insti
tute Wednesday evening, Novem
ber 29, was much enjoyed by the
very select audience present. Miss
Ivey’s playing showed greater
power than it did last year. Her
notes were clear and her technique
good. She is especially apt at ac
companying, a very rare art today.
Miss Parkins in her two readings
showed talent and good training as
an elocutionist. Her first number,
illustrating the triumph of the
(’hristian religion over paganism
^vas difficult and well rendered.
Miss Covill was heard for the first
time by a Brevard audience and
i^mde a very favorable impression.
Her playing was forceful, her notes
clear and firm, and her touch sym
pathetic. Her voice is a very flexi
ble dramatic soprano which prom
ises, when matured, to be unusually
good. The music department is
evidently in the hands of well-
trained, conscientious teachers
■whose work will be appreciated by
the students and the community,
and the societies will both be great
ly benefitted by the presence with
them of a trained speaker.
j An Interestinsr Arti^ By Former
Brevard Boy Givm^ Pointers
to Poultry
My Dear Miss Cantrell:
' Inasmuch as you have asked for
publication local dots in the prac
tical workings of the various Sun
day Schools, I offer the following
item from tl^e Brevard Baptist
Church Sunday School
Last Sunday being Thanksgiving
Sunday and the Sunday School be
ing prominent in the support of the
Thomasrille Orphanage, the right-
of-way was given to the school.
The published program was render
ed beginning at 10 a. m. and ending
at 12:30, holding the children in
close confinement two and a half
hours, and the surprise is, without
fagging interest. The talks given
by prof. Bennett and Messrs. Galla-
more and Whitmire were interest-
ingv instructive and inspiring. So
were the readings by Misses Stepp
and Holcom, the recitations by^
Misses Irene puckjvorth, Annie
Snelson and Peftpl Faulkner, quar
tette by members of the choir, and
the Junior and Primary singing.
These were all intermingled so as
to give ‘spice and stamina to the
whole. All this would have been
commonplace had it not been an
occasion of unselfish effort—the
strong living for the weak.
One of the lamentable defects of
our Sunday School work is not be
ing able to hold the children for
public worship.* They seem to have
the notion that their duties and
work end with the school; that
public worship is a thing belonging
exclusively to older people. Their
minds should be disabused and this
habit of breaking away at the be
ginning of public worship correct
ed. How? These children were in
terested and attentive last Sunday
for more than two hours. Why?
They were a part of it. Here is
where I got my idea.^ Blend the
teaching and preaching services of
the church. Let one glide into the
other. Let the children have a
part in both. Sometimes we have
an adult solo or duet. Why not,
when fairly well trained have an
intermediate voice or voices, in
stead of the last song, to have the
juniors and primaries assemble on
the rostrum and sing a hymn fa
miliar to them. Other exercises
might be suggested. At any rate,
the performers will remain to per
form their duties, and their fellows
will wish to see how they demean
themselves.
It is true a procedure of this kind
might make inroads upon our cher
ished formalism, but I was speak
ing about how to prevent our chil
dren turning away from their Fath
er’s sanctuary. This is but an idea.
I got it from the children them
selves. The falling apple suggest
ed a very small idea, but it had a
Newton to develop it. There is no
Newton behind mine.
* J. M. Hamlin.
The raising of blooded chickens
is now attracting about as much in
terest among farmers as cattle and
hogs.
The following interesting article
on the poultry business was writ
ten bj Mr. S. fi. King o4 Summer
ville, S. C., who is the son of our
townsman, Mr. P. S. King. Mr. S.
B. King is in the poultry business
on a large scale and is recognized
as an authority on any branch of
the business. Below we give the
article:
“During the long winter even
ings and stormy days at *hand
much will be read about poultry
keeping, its profits and possibilities,
by the agricultural^ population and
many of the villager and city chaps,
too. . .
“As we have stated, the profits
and possibilities will be dwelt upon
eagerly, almost exclusively, by the
great majority of the newly-inter
ested. Little or no thought will be
given to the care and labor con
nected with the business.* They
will figure that if it costs $1.25 to
keep a hen a year, and she lays
$3.00 worth of eggs, there is $1.75
to the good, and if by starting with
100 hens and multiplying the flock
by ten every year, which could be
done, in five years tliey could be
making $1,750,000 a year. Here is
one case where figui^ will lie even
in the hands of a truthful person.
Only the rosy side will be pictured
as a rule, and we will say that we
know of no proposition that will
figure out so beautifully, so mag
nificently on paper as th^ poultry
business. It turns one’s head and
fairly makes one dizzy with its
glittering possibilities. But possi
bilities in theory are seldom proba
bilities in plractice. And there
fore, if we dwell on the dark side
first, if we seem to be pessimistic
or skeptical at the outset, it is by
way of injecting an element of cau
tion into the calculations and esti-
matf^s of . thousands who'are this
day thinking of going into the un
known sea of poultrydom..
“The most essential things to
consider before going into the busi
ness are: Do you like the feath
ered beauties? Do you love the
feathered pets? Do you enjoy the
handling and caring for them? If
you can truthfully answer these
questions in the affirmative; then
you may be admitted to the ranks.
If you cannot, then /vye say
“DON’T.” Don’t waste your time
thinking any more about poultry
keeping. Stop right here and take
up your time with the latest novel,
or listen to the mocking bird sing.
“If yoij ate not discouraged by
what we have said, and there is no
reason why you should be, then go
into the chicken business. Many
writers, especially in the incuba
tor catalogues, make the business
appear too easy. We do not in
tend to make it appear too difficult
on the other hand, but it is right
that they should know what they
are “up against” and it is well to
reduce the temperature of those
who have a bad case of “chicken
fever” by mentioning a few facts
on the dark side. By many of the
unthinking it is considered a busi
ness fit only for invalids, women
and children. ll is a live subject,
and needs a good live man to cope
with it on a large scale. Butiiny
person with average intelligence,
with a liking for the business -and
a willingness to work, can master
it. Thousands of men and women,
too, are making big successes.
“It is a well known fact that our.
climate is ideal for poultry raising.
It does not require as exi>ensive
housing here as in some of otir
Continued on page 6.
BARAGA CLASS ORGANIZED
Last Sunday, morning at the Bap
tist church about fifteen young
men met together and ,organized a
Baracca cl^s to work in connec
tion with the Baptist Sunday
school. Much enthusiasm was
manifested at the meeting, and the
cla,ss started out with bright pros
pects.
The following officers were elec
ted for the ensuing six months:
Miss Daisy Holcom, Teacher.
Ora L. Jones, President.
, O. W. Clayton,. Vice-President.
Chas. Jollay, Secretary.
Julian Moffett, Treasurer.
The following committees "^ere
appointed:
Hustling Committee-—J. R. Ham
lin, chairman, O. W. Clayton, Chas.
Ashworth, Julian Moffett and T.
B. Summey, Jr.
LookoulK Committee—Chas. Ash
worth, chaitman, Jesse Smith and
T. B. Summey, Jr.
Relief CommitteiB—T. B. Sum*
mey, Jr., chairman, Julian Moffett
and Chas. Jollay.
The entertainment committee is
composed of the teacher as chair
man, who may call upon any mem
ber of the class to help out op. this
committee. |
The duties of the Hustling com
mittee are to hunt up new mem
bers and go after them, and to
keep up interest in the class.
The Lookout committee must
keep a lookout for strangers in the
church and Sunday school and in»
vite them to come to the class.
The Relief committee looks after
the sick members.
The Entertainment committee
plans and executes all entertain
ments ordered by the class.
The word Baraca is a Greek
word meaning blessing. The
Baraca organization was started by
Mr. Marshall A. Hudson, a retired
business man of Syracuse, Y.,
about twenty-five years ago, and
since that time it has spread to
every state in the Union and to
many foreign countries. Its prime
object is to interest young men in
Sunday school work.
All young men of the town not
members of some other Sunday
schoQl are invited to join this class,
which meets each Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock at the Baptist Sunday
school.
SINGING CONVENTION
The delegates and singing choirs
of the different churches and Sun
day schools of Transylvania county
are requested to meet* at Glady
Branch church on Saturday, De
cember 30, 1911, at 10:30 a. m.
The following program will be
considered:
10:30 a. rcK—Singing by all pres
ent. -
11:00 a. m.—Sermon by Rev. J.
R. Owen.
12:00 p. m.—Dinner on the ground
1:00 p. m.—The object of the
meeting, W. C. McCall.
Election of chairman and secre-|
tary pro tem.
Enrollment of choirs and dele
gates of choirs who want to be
come members of the convention.
Appointment of a committee to
draw up a constitution.
Singing.
Report of the committee.
Election of officers to serve dur
ing the next year.
Appointment of any other com
mittees that may seem necessary to
do business for the contention
when not in session.
Other suggestions or remarks for
the good of the convention.
Adjournment and song.
~ SUNDAY.
10:00 a. m.—Singing ^to be ar
ranged by the program committee.
11:00 a. m!—Address, “Mission
of the Gospel Singer,” Rev. A. J.
Manly.
Any other exercises that may be
suggested by the program commit
tee or by the convention.
Come prepared to stay two days
and Glady Branch people ^11 see
that you have homes. >
W. C. MoCall,
In behalf of the church.
WINTER COVER CROP
PREVENTS WASHING
STATE DEPARTMENT OF-
FICIAL WRITES LETTER
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Shows Importance of Cover Crop
in. Winter for Good Results
On l^ext Year's Crop.
Every farmer owes it to himself,
to his family and to posterity, to
take the best care of his land that
he possibly can; to maintain its
fertility and to keep it from wash
ing away.
Investigators, whether scientists
or practical farmers, have found
thfit winter cover crops of any
kind prevent land, iij a large meas
ure from washing, and when turned
under the following spring make it
more productive than if no crop
had grown on it.
An e:^periment covering a number
of years, in one of the North West
ern states, showed that more plant
food was lost from the land during
the months when no crops were
grown on it than was taken off in
regular summer crops. If this was
true in that state where they have
long and cold winters when leaLch-
ing is impossible for weeks at a
time, how much mor^ would it be
true in North Carolina with her
open winters when plant food can
be leached from our soils almost
any week during our winter
months.
A ton of green rye contains, ac
cording to good authorities, about
6.6 pounds nitrogen, 3 pounds phos
phoric a:cid,“ aiid 14:6 pounds potash.
A ton of green wheat contains 10.8
pounds nitrogen, 3 pounds phos
phoric acid, and 14 pounds potash.
Green oats contain just a little lesiv
plant food than does ^green wheat.
A ton of green crimson clover con
tains 8.6 pounds nitrogen, 2.6 phos
phoric acid, and 9.8 pounds potash.
Red clover. Bur clover and tL ^
vetches contatn more plant food i i
their green state than crimson cl -
ver does. The wheat and rye mei*-
tioned above was probably grov n
on fertile land which explains the: >•
high percentage of nitrogen, for i r
is an established fact that croj •>
grown on rich land contain me <•
nitrogen than when grown on pt' •
land. For that reason grain gro \
on rich land has a higher feedi - :
value than that grown on p<. r
land. It may be well for us to •-
member this whisn growing gi a. i
for our own feeding purposes.
Rye, wheat and oats take ni'’ o-
gen from the soil and store it in ‘. 5
plant, thus saving much of tim
costly element of plant food"<i«f-
would otherwise be leached i
the land by our wintor rains. '! i.*?
stools or bunches and their r or -
and leaves retard the fiow of v, » j* •
and act as brakes which wil -
vent to^ large degree the wa> )i» :
oi our rolling lands. The ch v-i s
save the Jand from washing i ■ u..)
same way and in addition t • >1 is
are beneficial by being able to t;.*
nitrogen from the air throujr . tri 5
agency of bacteria which a:! > > j
the fertility of the soil., Bnf r >
grow these latter crops succ( » l-
ly the soil must contain the t*.:
ria peculiar to the particular < . > j
grown.
It has been the experie^^ “ •'
many of our farmers that ar < r >
grown lifter a wmter-covo '
when turned under at thr* . i*
time in the spring, and disl i i - i
before and after turning, > .n i>5 -
duce a great deal more, < < ; s
much as 50% more, than if
ter-cover crqp had been ’dvm,'
The seed for a cover crop ' . ! • * • t,
from one to five dollars ar « i *
cording to kind and qu. i * 'i:
seed used. This should s.. ii
soil and add to the n< k . .it 's
crop more than twice ii. i* t
the cover crop.
Sow at the rate of 15 t<> o uri 1-4
crimson clover seed pf • • J* i
Continued on pa;: 6