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YOLUME-XYII ■ BBEYARD. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1912. NUMBER-34
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BREAKING IT OPEN AGAIN
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EXPflESSMtN TEUS;
WILD WEST STORY
and is then arrested
FOR THEFT
Claims to Have Been Held Up
By Lone Bamlit to Tune
of $3,000.
Since the following story was
■written E. F. Carr has been arrested
for the robbery of his car. The
officers claim to have a Strong case
against the expressman:
Rivaling in its execution the
chances taken by J(?sse James and
his band in frontier days and com
paring favorably in desperateness
with the actions of “Old Bill”
Minor, was in the robbery of Ex
press Messenger E. F. Carr on
Southern passenger train No. 13
last Thursday night at 10:30 o’clock
between Biltmore and Asheville,
when a masked bandit, with a pistol
in his hand, climbed, into the ex
press car, placed the barrel of his
gun in the messenger’s face and
commanded with an oath that he
“shell out.” He followed the in
structions and gave up approxi
mately $3,000, after which he was
commanded to get into a chest in
the car. in w-hich he was locked,
and where he was tound w’hen the
train pulled into the local yards
and members of the Southern Ex
press company’s force at the South
ern station reported at the car to
to check up with the messenger.
Carr upon being let out of the
chest told the story of the robbery
to the expressmen at the station,
and within a short time afterward
members of the detective force of
the Southern railway and the
Asheville police force were making
an effort to locate the bandit.
However, at 2:30 o’clock Friday
morning no trace whatever had
been found of him and no idea is
entertained as to his whereabouts
or his identity. The messenger
was unable to give a description of
the express robber, as he stated
that the man was wearing a mask
and it was impossible for him to
ascertain whether or not he is
•white or colored. His presence in
the car was discovered within a few
seconds after the train left Bilt
more, where it had stopped for a
few minutes, and it is presumed
that the man who secured the
money climbed into the car at that
place. Before the train "was mak
ing good speed from the stop, ac
cording to the messenger, the
bandit was in front of him holding
the point of a pistol beneath his
nose, and commanding that all of
the valuables in his possession be
surrendered.
Carr, it is stated, promptty gave
up the money and was commanded
to get into the chest, being told
that there was no time for delay
and that he would do well to follow
. instructions. He did so, and after
stepping into the chest he was
commanded to lie down, the robber
closing the door over his head,
latching the chest and presumably
swinging from the train as it'pulled
into the Asheville yards.
When the train arrived and Carr
failed to report at the express office
a search of his car was made and
he was discovered in the chest.
Upon being let out he told the story
as outlined above and officers were
dispatched on the case immediately.
Carr has been in the employ of
the express company for several
years, holding a position in the
office at Marion. On July 21 he
was transiferred to & run between
Asheville and Columbia, and it was
in the performance of his duties on
the run that he was robbed. He
has a good record to his credit as a
member of the Southern’s force of
employes and has a thorough
knowledge of the workings of the
express company. When* he was
removed from the chest into which |
he had been locked he was suffer
ing slightly from being cramped
and from lack of air. However, he
was refreshed when he had taken
advantage of the cool breeze of the
mountains, and told his story with
in a few minutes after the train
had come to a stop.
EDUCATION DAY
The second annual fair of the
Western North Carolina Fair Asso
ciation will be held in Asheville on
October 8th, 9th and 10th. Tues
day, the 8th, has been designated
as Education Day.
The fair association proposes to
make this the greatest day in the
educational history of Western
North Carolina. All school chil
dren will be admitted to the fair
free of charge on Educational Day.
Some of the features of the day
will be a mammoth parade of school
children, an educational address
by P. P. Claxton, and an educa
tional exhibit showing the progress
of t school work in this section of
the state.
TOMATO BLIGHT AND ROT
The following communication
from the North Carolina Agricul
tural Experiment Station, depart
ment of plant disease, will be of
interest to many of our our read
ers :
The tomato crop in Western
North Carolina has been greatly
injured by an epidemic of blight
and rot that was favored by the
very rainy weather of July.
The tomato leaves turn brown
and wilt rapidly, finally looking as
though scalded. In wet weather,
or when diseased leaves are kept
moist in a covered dish over night,
a white downy fungous growth
may be seen on the surface. The
fruit may show anywhere, fre
quently at the stem end, large
areas that are watery and turn
brown. This rot is different from
the common point rot of tomatoes
brought on by dry conditions.
The fungus causing this disease
is known as phytophthora infer-
tans, and apparently is the same as
the one causing late blight of pota
toes. It seems, however, that po
tatoes have been affected only
slightly in this epidemic.
This disease can be prevented by
spraying with Bordeaux mixture,
if the applications are begun in
time. In an average season there
will be enough at intervals of two
weeks, the first one being made be
fore the disease appears, which
would probably be during the first
half of July. When weather con
ditions are unusually favorable for
an epidemic, as this years, five or
six sprayings will be needed at in
tervals of a week.
To make the Bordeaux mixture,
dissolve four pounds of bluestone
in twenty-five gallons of water;
slake five pounds of best quality
stone lime and dilute to twenty-five
gallons; pour these two solutions
together, stirring meanwhile. Use
within a few hours after mixing.
Apply so as to reach all leaves
thoroughly. Lime-sulphur prepa
rations are not as effective as Bor-
daux mixture for this disease.
This spray treatment will con
trol two other leaf diseases of to
matoes, and usually will more than
pay for itself even though blight
does not appear. Spraying will
not control point rot or either of
the two root diseases Causing wilt
of tomato plants. This depart
ment will gladly identify speci
mens of tomato diseases.
H. R. Fulton.
PENROSE POINTERS
We have been having a great
deal of rain lately.
There are several hoarders at
Penrose this week. '
Ben Allison died at his home Sat-
day, the 10th, and was buried at
Piney Grove the 11th.
Carson Woodfin is going to erect
a dwelling on 'his place very soon.
Robin Hood.
MANY ADVANTAGES
OF THE COUNTY FAIR
PRESIDENT FINLEY WRITES
INTERESTING ARTICLE
County Fair Can Be Made Effici
ent Agency in Solution
of Problems.
The president of a fair associa
tion in one of the progressive coun
ties traversed by the lines of the
Southern railway company has sug
gested that I write an article for
newspaper publication on “The
Advantages and Benefits of the
County Fair.”
It gives me great pleasure to
comply with this suggestion for the
reason that, in my opinion, the
county fair can be made a most
important factor in the progress
and development of the locality in
which it is held.
At the county fair the visitor
sees what his own neighbors are
doing where the conditions of cli
mate and soils are similar to those
on his own farm. The men who
have attained the best results and
carried off the premiums are known
to him. He can talk with them.
Visit their farms, and lea^’U just
how they have succeeded. A
county fair thus becomes a most
efficient educational institution.
This is especially true where, as at
some of the fairs in the southeast
ern states, lectures are delivered
by exports in different branches of
agriculture, horticulture, live stock
raising and dairying. While
amusement features in connection
with a fair aid in increasing the
attendance, I believe that they
should be subordinated and that
the primary aim of the managers
of ‘Bounty fairs should be to make
them o£ educational value to the
farmer in aiding him to solve his
practical problems.
As a result j»f the study which I
have given to agricultural condi-
.tions on the southeastern states in
connection with the work for farm
improvement being carried on by
the Southern railway company, I
have become convinced that the
most inportant problem confront
ing the farmers of our section at
this time is that of increasing their
average yields per acre. This may
be said to be an all inclusive
problem for it * involves not only
cultural methods hut questions as
to the rotation of crops 'so as to f^et
the best results as to raising live
stock for manure as well as for di
rect profit, and as to the proper use
of the right kind of fertilissers and
the application of lime to soil need
ing a lime treatment.
We have just reached the time
in the United States when this
problem of increasing average
yields per acre is becoming acute.
With the growth of population,
demand for farm products of all
kinds is increasing and there are
no longer vast areas of productive
lands in the west open to farm set
tlement. The growing demand must
be met in larger measure than
heretofore by the farmers of the
older states, and there is no section
which, by its geographical relation
to the consaming centers and cli
matic and soil conditions, is better
situated to x>rotit by this condition
than the southeastern states.
The county fair can be made a
most efficient agency in the solu
tion of the problem of increasing
the yields of our southeastern soils.
As a means to this end I would
suggest to the managers of these
fairs that they requii'e exhibitors
to attach to their exhibits or post
up with them placards giving the
most complete information practi
cable as to the conditions under
which they were produced. For
example, the educational value of a
corn exhibit would be much in
creased if it should be accompanied
by a placard stating the rotation of
crops in which the corn had been
grown, describing concisely the
character of soil and the methods
by which it had been i)repared, the
date and method of planting, the
date and methods of cultivation,
the amount of barn yard manure
used per acre with the time and
method of its application, the char
acter and amount of commercial
fertilizers used with the time and
method of their application, the
yield per acre obtained, and any
other facts of an instructive nature
relative to the production of corn.
Similar placards with such changes
as might be necessary to adapt
them to the different exhibits
w'ould add greatly to the practical
educational value of the fair.
In a brief article of this kind it is
not practicable to discuss all of the
ways in which a county fair can be
helpful to a community, but I think
there can be no question as to its
great value and I should be glad to
see an annual fair in every county
in the southeastern states.
SCHOOL BEGINS SEPT. 2
The fall term of the Brevard
graded school will open Monday
morning, Sept. 2, at 9 o’clock.
There will be special exercises for
the opening and a full attendance
of parents and friends is especially
desired. It is very important that
all pupils expecting to attend are
present, if possible, on the first
day. We earnestly request that
parents keep this in mind.
We want to know that all chil
dren of school age in this district
are in school, and the faculty of
this school will make special effort
this year to get them to come.
J. P. Bennett, Principal.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
IN H0ME-M«KIII6
SPECIAL EDUCATION IS
NECESSARY
No Education for Girls Is Ade
quate Which Neglects Re
sponsibilities of Home
The public schools are established
and maintained for the harmonious
development of all the people, and
and whatever these schools can do
to aid in rightly developing the
boys and girls in the homes, in
making the homes more attractive
and bringing them nearer a state
of perfection, should be considered
a part of their legitimate work.
The public schools should not only
train the pupils in reading, writ
ing, arithmetic, and other subjects
commonly taught in the elemen
tary schools, but should also train
the boys in agriculture and the
manual arts and the girls in domes
tic science and domestic economy.
“Girls of the intermediate and
grammar grades have strong do
mestic proclivities, and they are
easily interested in whatever per
tains to the welfare of the home.
Lessons in domestic science which
are within their mental grasp ena
ble them to make such a connec
tion between the school and the
home as will increase their inter
est in both their school work and
their home duties,” and help them
to be more proficient in both. But
we realize that all educational
progress is and has always been
characterized by a constant strug
gle between those who believe that
the present order should exist for
ever without change, and those
who believe that the educational
institution should be so developed
as to adequately meet the ever-
changing life conditions.
As the various schools in our
educational system have been or
ganized, the results obtained have
been too meager, too inadequate.
But, as in all other kinds of work,
before we can intelligently pass
judgment on the work of the
schools, we must have a standard
of measurement. I know of no
better test of the inefficiency of
schools than what they do for liJe
in all its phases; therefore real
schooling is preparation for real
living. Have our schools of the
past had that influence for better
Jiving that they ought to have‘r
What effect have they had on the
home—the fundamental institution
of society? Have our homes been
made comfortable, convenient and
beautiful ? Have we had th 0 proper
regard for art, literature and all
those other refining infinences that
make for the cultivation of the
esthetic natures of the children?
Yet these homes have been built
and are being maintained by the
products of. the public schools.
The introduction of domestic sci
ence into the public schools of va
rious sections of the country is an
important move in the right direc
tion.
The home, the problems of which
coihmand the interests of the larger
per cent of women, is a great edu
cational institution. Within it
most of our ideals and tendencies
toward right living culture are
either fostered or smothered. A
course in domestic science, or
“home*science,” such as we should
have given in our public schools,
would be not merely a course in
cookery or sewing, but would also
embrace all the practical things o£
every day life that effect the indi
vidual, the home or the communi
ty ; would improve sanitation and
help stamp out disease; would, by
enriching the course of study, make
the school a brighter, more attrac
tive, more interesting place; would
reach out and help the homes and
the community at large; and
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