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^OLTJME-XVn
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1912.
1
NUMBER-47
NOT CIRCULATE LEHER
A i|iirca1ar letter was issued and
pnt ip circalation by the Kitchin
o%m^aiga committee containing an
edito-rial from Bryan’s Commoner,
and uilso a letter from Mr. Craw-
fo^,! endorsing Governor Kitchin
for the senate. The letter is in
such form as to convince the nn-
snspcicting that it was issued and
circulated by Mr. Crawford in the
interest of the governor, when in
fact lie had nothing whatever to do
with it, as will appear from the fol
lowing statement taken from the
Asheville Citizen of the 3rd Inst.:
“Ex-Conpressman W. T. Craw
ford arrived in Asheville last night
from a speaking tour through Hen
derson, Polk and Transylvania
counties, under the auspices of the
congressional committee. Mr.
Crawford speaks hopefully of the
outlook for democracy in the dis
trict, state and nation, and says he
feels confident of sweeping demo
cratic victories next Tuesday.
“Upon being- informed by some
friends that they had received from
him typewritten circulars, with
tielaets'enclosed for one of the sena
torial candidates, the ex-congress
man said that he had nothing what
ever to do with the circulation of
the letter or tickets; that he had
written the letter in question to
the Reidsville Review soon after
Governor Aycock’s death. In re
ply to an inquiry as to his position
in the senatorial contest, Mr. Craw
ford made it plain that he had been
giving his time strictly to the gen
eral interests of the democratic
party and hnd not mixed up in the
senatorial contest by distributing
tickets, campaign literature or
otherwise ; that he does not believe
in a speech-making campaign for a
nomination during an election, or
at any other time ; that the policy
is a dangerous one and if not aban
doned it is only a question of time
till the party will be disrupted.”
THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE
Three of the county’s convicts,
all negroes, succeeded in escaping
from jail some time Sunday night.
The three who escaped were Bob
Hutchinson, Elliott Simmons and
John Blythe. Hutchinson was serv
ing a four year sentence for forg
ery, Simmons was serving twenty
months for perjury, and Blythe
was in jail awaiting the next term
of court.
The three men in some way
burned a hole up through the top
of their cell and cut out through
the tin roof of the jail, and escaped
by tieing their chains and bed
clothing together and making a
rope and in this way reached the
ground. Another negro who was
in the same cell refused, or was
afraid to make such a perilous des
cent to the g.round and consequent
ly remained in the jail.
It will be recalled that Bob
Hutchinson escaped from the jail
once before by burning the wooden
door of his cell—burning the door
completely in two with a wire nail.
A reward of ten dollars is oifered
for each of the ese-i ped men, and
although the officers have made
diligent search for them no trace
has been found.
The escape of these men leaves
the ranks of the convict force
rather depleted, and for the sake
of the roads it is to be hoped that
they will be speedily recaptured
and returned to the work.
ROID FROM BREVARD
TO UKE IS NEEDED
EVEN NEEDEDWORSETHAN
A NEW ROAD LAW
Present Method of Working the
Roads is Not Very Popular
in Some Sections.
Only a woman can understand
the prostrating effect of disorders
in the female organism; the misery
of it and its depressing influence
on the mind. Many women who
formeriy aviiiorovi uum Uis-
orders owe their present health to
dr. SIM-MON’S SQUAW VINE
COMPOUND. It exercises a power
ful restorative influence on the fe
male generatiye system, builds up
a stroiJg body, restores healthy
regularity and promotes cheerful
ness and a clear, rosy complexion.
Price *1.00 per bottle. Sold by S.
M. Macfie*
Editor Sylvan Valley Newa:
In passing from my home to Bre
vard a day or so ago, I noticed from
the car window the wonderful im
provement the county convicts are
making to the public road along
the top of Rocky Hill, and I want
to give my endorsement to the act
of the county commissioners in es
tablishing a county chaingang for
our county. And while I am doing
this, I want to offer a few sugges
tions in regard to our roads in gen
eral, and what I believe would lie
the best policy for the county to
pursue.
Western North Carolina is going
to be the play-ground of America,
and Lake Toxaway is going to be
the center of attraction for this
whole territory.
Now, what 1 want to know is
whether it is good policy for Bre
vard and Transylvania county to
put the convict labor on the roads
near Brevard where they are al
ready in fairly good shai)e, and
leave the road from Rosman to
Lake Toxaway practically impass
able. In my judgment it would be
far better for the whole county to
put the labor on the worst parts of
the road between Brevard and Lake
Toxaway (which is from Rosman
toward the lake) and put them in
good condition first, tbns insuring
a splendid summer travel between
these two resorts, and then amend
the rest of the road as fast as it can
be done.
Some one might say that because
I live in this part of the county
that it is a selfish motive that
causes me to look at the matter in
this way. But such is not the case,
for I believe Brevard would be as
much benefited, or perhaps more,
than would this section of the
county, as many of the tourists
would prefer to stay in Brevard,
motoring to the lake and back to
Brevard whenever they wished
to go.
There is a good bridge over Cath
eys creeK now, and Hogback town
ship is building an amendment to
the public road at Quebec that will
cut out the ford of Flat creek. So,
if this amendment were done and
we had the road from Rosman to
the lake widened and in some places
a small amount of grading done, I
believe the investment would be
worth more to the whole county
than any other like amount that
might be spent on our roads in any
other part of the county
I aim told that we get seven or
eight hundred dollars road tax in
Hogback township each year, and
it is counting for naught with us,
as it is used to pay for throwing
mud into the gullies in our roads
which is washed away by the first
rain that falls. This process goes
on from time to time and is rob
bing us of our money an^giving us
no roads. It would pp ' ’ own-
ship much better to us
to pay the expenses
convicts and have
our roa^ under th
an experienced road
it would pay the count,
ate with the townshr'
ter until we get a
roads over tV
Anothei
this conn
sentatives
road law
Raleigh, ana i
ley
'• the
x*k out
3ns of
and
■*er-
-.t-
if
n
re-
. . new
-^y go to
* wrong. My
idea is, and I thi^ I am correct, to
not try to make a new law every
two years, bat hnnt ont the weak
sections in the law we have and
amend them. Do this for a few
years and in the by-and-by we will
have the law strengthened until
we can praise our law as one that
might be modeled after.
There is no one, I care not how
smart or how intelligent he may be,
that can give us a perfect law if he
tries to create something entirely
new. But by getting counsel from
those who have charge of the pub
lic road work in the different parts
of the county, it is an easy matter
to find out what sections of the law
work well and what ones need
amending.
I wrote our representative two
years ago in regard to what I be
lieved needed to be done to the
road law to make it a good law,
but he saw fit to repeal the law and
to give us the one that had been,
repealed two years before that. So
this process has been going on for
a number of years, and we have no
better law than we had when we
changed to the tax system.
No doubt there will be a petition
sent our representative when he
goes down to Raleigh asking that
the road law be repealed and some
thing given in its stead. The peo
ple are honest in wanting some
thing better than we have ; they
know we are paying out our money
and getting nothing in return. But
the wise thing for our representa
tive to do is to ameufl such sections
of the law as will not work well,
thereby strengthening them so as
to give us what we need instead of
sailing out upon unknown seas ev
ery time the legislatnre meets.
If we cannot get a better working
law than we now have, it will be'
very much better to vote county
bonds and amend our roads at once,
and then spend what we are now
spending in paying the interest on
the bonds. What tax we now pay
—from which we derive nothing—
will pay the interest on $100,0(X)
bonds.
I do not want it understood that
I am advocating the voting of
bonds. I am opposed to the meth
od we seem to have adopted in this
county with reference to bond is
sues. It is as much out of place
for a county to issue bonds and
make no provisions to pay them as
it is for an individual to borrow
money and make no provision to
pay the principal. I know some of
our best men in the county will
take me to “taw” about what I am
saying, for they told me when our
railroad bonds were issued that our
childen would be better able to pay
them than we would, owing to the
increased value of property in the
county. I acknowledge that this
is true, but as the county gets
richer we need more improvements,
and the credit of the county is im
paired by our having no provision
made for canceling the old debts of
the county.
If we had had a sinking fund of
$2,000 a year created when the first
railroad bonds were" issued, this
would have cancelled the debt in
thirty years, without any interest.
The $2,000 a year might have been
put out on interest and the amount
would have very materially less
ened the amount we are Having to
pay on the bonds.
It would have made our taxes a
little more to have done this, but
at the end of thirty years our debt
would have been paid, and we
could afford to issue bonds for our
public roads. When, as it is, we
will still owe the $60,000, and also
dared to shoulder another heavy
issue of bonds for our public roads,
thereby hindering the progress of
our county. For no one doubts
that a fine road from Brevard to
Lake Toxaway would do more to
build up the whole county than
almost everything else combined.
But I started out to write about
our public roads, and got to the
forks of*the road and “there spread
out.” So I will add that I hope
some plan will be devised to help
us get as good a road through the
county as I saw on Rocky fiill, and
we will quit grumbling so much.
Yonrs respectfully,
W. B. Henderson.
Quebec, N. 0.
VOTE EARLY AND
OFTEN IN CONTEST
EXTRA BIG BONUS FOR THE
NEXT FEW DAYS
Help the Young Lady of Your
Choice By Saving Merchants*
Coupons For Her.
Mrs. C. R. Sharp i,050
Miss Adeline Patton 1,025
Miss Dora Nicholson 1,025
Miss Rena Hamood 1,025
Miss Florence Aiken 1,000
Miss Beulah Whitmire 1,000
Brevard.
Margaret W. Breese Daisy Holcom
The News great piano voting con
test is reaching normal proportions
now. It has come to where you
can’t tell who is leading. So many
have brought in subscriptions and
received their votes, and some have
so many that no one can even guess
which one has the n4ost. There is
quite a demand for merchants’ cou
pons, too. These are the little
jokers that will probably teH the
story in the end. And this is the
way our readers can help. It does
not cost you a cent when you buy
groceries, dry goods, hardware,
clothing, furniture, harness, or
whatever the advertisers in the
contest have to offer, and then as
the contestant comes to you, you
will have a pleasant little surprise
for her ; that will prove you a per
son who thinks of others,' and it
will make her i)leased with you.
Every one of the ladies who is
out for that ])iano wants it, and
they are honehtly trying in every
honorable way to come in posses
sion of it. It is simply a question
of which one you like best. Of
course you like them all, and Bre
vard and vicinity have nothing
nicer than these contestants, and
what is nicer for a lady, whether
old or young, and her family and
circle of friends, than a nice piano
—and such a one for instance, a*
the News is going to give to th»
lady that the people of Brevard
and vicinity like the best.
Bt*ar in mind that the ballot box
is closed for the second count at
6 :0(^) p. m. on Tuesday, December
3. B3 sure and have your votes
all in by that time so that you will
have a fair chance to show what
your standing is.
For every seven new subscribers
we will give 10,000 extra votes,
making a total of 18,200.
For every seven renewal sub
scriptions we will give 8,000 extra
votes, making a total of 11,500.
For every seven back subscrip
tions we will give 6,000 extra votes,
making a total of 8,800.
For every 40 merchants’ coupons
brought to this office and counted
by the pnblishbr or his assistants,
a bonus of 500 extra votes will be
given, a total of 1,500 in all.
Those coupons may be collected
from any and all merchants who
are in the contest.
Remember and have your friends
trade with the merchants who are
giving the coupons. They are re
liable tradesple.
The following are the enterpris
ing merchants who give coupons:
Miller Supply Co.
Stone Hardware Co.
O. L. Erwin’s Store.
Duckworth Drug Co.
Weilt’s Cash Store,
Macfie’s Drug Store.
C. C. Yongue.
England’s Store.
T. M. Mitchell.
The follovnng young ladies have
been nominated in the contest.
They are authorized to accept
money for subscriptions to the
News and give a receipt therefor:
Miss Gertrude Wilson, Rosman 21,650
Mrs. Charles Jollay, Brevard - 11,725
Miss Agnes Kilpatrick 4,250
Miss Emma Osteen 2,100
Miss Mariah Inez Loftis 2,000
Miss Daisy Holcom 1,950
Miss Florence Hawkins 1,675
Miss Helen Hamilton 1|375
Miss Lelia Brooks 1»225
Miss Maggie Deaver 1,200
Miss Nolia Bryson 1,150
Miss Margaret Breese 1,100
Miss Grace Calhoun 1|075
Miss Ollie Perry - 1.075
Miss Vera House It050
Agnes Kilpatrick
Florence Aiken
Flora Duckworth
Mrs. Charles Jollay
Dora Nicholson
Mariah Inez Loftis
Allie Belle Cloud
Daisy Orr
Grace Whitmire
Grace Calhoun
Olivia Hancock
Frankie Kilpatrick
Hattie Aiken
Ava Ashworth
Routes 1 and 2.
Irene Ashworth
Maud Case
Sallie Osborne
Nancy Clark
Florence Hawkins
Bessie Lyda ■
Jim Neil
Maggie Deaver
Cleo Morris
Brevard
Bessie Hayes
Annie Allison
Bertha McCall
Geneva Orr
Flora Tinsley
Lelia Surrett
Annie Davenport
Julia Deaver
Cora England
Ethel Boggs
Horse Shoe.
Dovie Shipman Alice Banks
Emma Reece Lou Byrd
Etowah.
Effie Shipman, R. 1 Annie B1 /the
Annie Lance Bessie Orr
Nannie Lou Moffitt Annie Duncan
Minnie Sitton Neta Allen
Selica.
Emma Osteen
Esther Grey
Pearl Alexander
May Bryson
Nolia Bryson
Rosman.
Clessie Whitmire Annie Patton
Georgia Burrell Lenora Lanning
Mamie Justus Beulah Whitmire
Gertrude Wilson Mabel Carpenter
Penrose.
Maud Shuford Ina Talley
Lena Harwood
Blantyre.
Beulah Shipman Emma Justus
Dovie Banning
\
Davidson River.
Bertha Hudson Adeline Patton
Cherryfield.
”ertha Batson Ida McCall
Pisgah Forest.
Mrs. Thomas Wilson Lula McCall
Mary Maxwell Anna Gash
Addie Wilson Pearlie Baynard
Jeva Pickelsimer
Balsam Grove.
Vera House
Lake Toxaway.
Leila Brooks Mrs. J. C. W'ike
Calvert.
Mrs. C. R. Sharp Ollie Perry
Mrs. Wade Garren Anna Jordan
Ten dollars in gold to be given to
the lady who makes the largest
gain in votes between the first and
second counts.
THREE NEW OFFICES
The Southern Railway Company
on November 15 enlarged the work
of its Land and Industrial Depart
ment in the South by opening three
new offices to be located at Bir
mingham, Ala., and Knoxville and
Chattanooga, Tenn. These new
offices are established in harmony
with the policy of the Southern
Railway to cover just as folly as
possible the development of the
agricultural and manufacturing
and other interests in its territory.
With the opening of these new
offices the kind and industrial de
partment of the Southern Railway
will have offices and agents in the
South at Atlanta and Macon, Ga,.;
Mobile and- Birmingham, Ala.*
Chattanooga, Knoxville and Bris
tol, Tenn.; Columbus, Miss., Colum
bia, S. C,; Asheville and Brevard,
N. C.; and Danville, Va.
BIG MEm SHINGLE BUSINESS
The Cortright Metal Roofing
Company, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
whose advertisements of Cortright
metal shingles have been running
in the News for nearly a year past,
advise us that 191S will show an
immense volume of business in
their line. It is gratifying to carry
the advertising of so prosperous
and successful a concern and to
feel that the News has had part in
creating such success. Any of our
readers interested in roofing should
call upon the company’s local rep
resentatives, the Miller Supply Co.
#-Adv.