V A HOMB i»Ai»B5R FOR HOME ^014^ PHINT " * "'y^' Votia^ivin • B8EVABD.,N0ETtt CAROLINA.* FBIDAT. MABCF 28. im NCMBBB-13 % PAVING mvm AW^D Poe Construction Co., Gets Con- * tract and Work . Begins in About Ten Days. — At a meeting of the board of al- dermt.li IMeaday night the oontraot was let to tlie Poe ^Construction Co.. of Charlotte, N. C., for the paving of the principal streets of the town, including parts of Main, Broad, Caldwell and Depot streets, with Bermudez natural lake asphalt on a four inch concrete foundation, the>workto be ^inmenoed imme diately, or just as soon as the nec essary machinery can bo brought here from Charlotte. Bids had been advertised for on this work and were received up until four o’clock Tuesday after noon, the time being . postponed from ten o'clock, as origiiially ad vertised, to allow time for the ar rival of any prospective bidders who might come on the morning train. When the bids were opened they read as follows-: Atlantic Bitulithic Co., of Rich mond, Va.: Bitulithic paving with concrete foundation $2.15 per square yard ; granite curb 57c per lineal foot; storm sewer 86c per foot. F. J. McGuire, of Norfolk, Va.: Tarvia X, rolled stone, penetration method, $1.39 per square yard ; Tar via X, four inch concrete base, $1.49 per yard; Tarvia X, mixed method, $1.54; Dolarway $l.t9 per yard. No guarantee on any of the abo«ve. R. A. Poe Construction Co., of Charlotte, N. C.,. the successful bidders, as follows: Asphalt mac adam (oil product) on rolled stone base, penetration, $1.14X per square yard; with concrete base, using either Texico, Standard Binder C or Tarvia X, $1.34% ; with concrete foundation'" Using Bermu dez natural lake asphalt $1.39% per square yard. This last named was adopted by the .board, and will be guaranteed five years by the build ers. Concrete curb and gutter 75c per foot; resetting old graLite curb 10c per foot; storm sewer 78c per foot. Nolle Construction Co.. of Chat-, tanooga, Tenn.: Asphalt macadam, rolled stone base, v$1.30 per yard, no guarantee; asphalt macadam. Standard Binder C or Texico con crete base $1.43, guaranteed for five years; granite curb 75c per foot; resetting old curb 20c per foot; storm sewer 86c per foot. Star Dray Co.*,'of Hendersonville: Asphalt macadam. Standard Binder C, rolled stone base, $1.27 per yard; concrete base $1.43 (not to include the grading). Granite curb 45c>per foot; resetting old curb 10c per foot; storm sewer 65c per foot. No guarantee on any of this work. After the bide were read the rep resentatives of the various compa nies were asked to come before the board, one at a time, to explain any question arising in regard to the bids. Each one made good ar guments, showing just why their product was away ahead of any thing else under consideration and why the board should adopt their bid and let them go to work. This all consumed a great doal of time and after all had been heard the board took a recess nntil after sup- I>er, when they again took under consideration all the bids, with no interference from any of the bid ders. The first definite action taken was tiie adoption of a concrete foun dation for all the work to be done, it being the sense of the board that a rolled stone base would not be satisfactory. After this it was decid^ that a combinanopnlation, bringing mer chants more business—in fact this association cannot thrive and grow without acting as an all-round bene factor for everything and everjy- body in Brevard. As to our financial condition, ,I will simply call your attention to the following figures taken from the records, which tell better than mere words, no matter how well chosen, the strength and growth of this modest institution towards big ger and better things. One ago we had 740 shares in force. Today after paying off in withdrawals 105 shares, we have 811 shares in force. Our undivided profits. March 22, 1912, were fl, 178.29 ; today we have $2,198.00, an increase of over 90%. Our net profit for the past twelve months is $1,019.71. ^ The business for the fiscal year shows for receipts $11,187.21, and disbursements $11,159.51, leaving ca^ and in bank $27.70. Our total assets one year ago were $18,810.54, while today they are $28,3t7.50, an increase of $9,516.96.. We are glad to say that ira the four years that we have been doing business we have not had toaell Any security to protect ourselves trom loss, nor have we lost one penny on aecomit of had leans or for any otiier reaaon.. The entire hoard of directors ha^ve worked with mein order totiia^^ tiie present snooesi, and I want jfco take advantage of this oocaiion^ ttiaak them for their co-opemtlOn and help in our paat aaeoesa. BeepeotfiJly rabnitted, A. M. / Sea and Tieai. Eiltor Sylvan Valiev News: 1 should like to call the attention of the people of' the county to the wretched condition of the roads in Hogback towship, and to implore the board of county commissioners to help ns get some relief by ap pointing a good supervisor, or over seer, for the township, since it now dtfvolves upon the board to do this work for the townships, according to Mr. Deaver’s letter in last week’s issue of the News. We do not for one moment pre tend to say or imply that Mr. T. E. Reid, the present overseer, has misappropriated the funds of the township, for v© believe he can ac count for every dollar that has been collected, showing where |nd for what purpose it has been spent. But we do say he has either used very poor jud^ent in his work on the public roads, or has been di rected by a board of sai)ervisors to use it in a way that has benefited the township very little, if any at all, during the last two years. And, to call the attention of the people to^ the method which has been used and is still going on in the township, I wish to quot’' from the language of a {irominent citizen of Jackson county some words that he used in my presence last week. These are his WDrds: “Tbeire are five amendments to the roads in Hogback township which have been or are being built, and you can’t ride a mule over either one of them.” Now, that quotation is about the correct language to use to show the way things are gaing^on in this township, in regard to the roads. Now, 'I know personally about what is called 'tlie Quebro aiiiend- ment, and can verify what the gen tleman said in reference to the amenUments of the township. There hfis been $122 of the town ship roatl funds used on this amend ment, and it was spent a year ago, and it would be impossible to ride a mule over they road. And, what is worse than this, I am told that township supe>visors have received the road as a public road. What is true of this amendment is true of the other amfendments of the township, if some of the best citizens of this township and of Jackson county are to be believed. The amendment on Puncheon Camp mountain—one of the best and most needed in the tpwnship— is done, with the exception of a bridge sixty or more feet in length, which I understand the township authprities are wanting the county to build; and I am reliably informed that a fifteen or eighteen foot bridge is needed, if the proper fills are made at each end. I am not opposed to the county building bridges in our township, and I believe they ought to build us more and better bridges, but they should be built across our large water-courses, and not across branches or mudholes. And while these amendments are being botched as above stated, the roads of the township have gone do|wn till one can hardly drive an ox team over them, much leas drive over them with any kind of team, with any comfort or ease. The roads are just simply **horrid.” And why I am calling the atten tion of the county, and e^ieeially the county commissioners, to the conditions of the roads in this town ship, is because it is to t^ vital in terest of the wh<^ county that we haTe good roi^ in this township. Everybody in tiie eoimty knows that Lake ^oxaway, the moat noted sammer reaort in the motm- tains of Western Korth OsaK^ina, oralmoatof tlie UnilBd Sia|Ba,ia sttnated in tixki township. And ijf wp don*t provide good roads Ite the gtieala who visit IMs reaort the whote eowitj will snlfer i|i that the faople will go to the eonntiea liiajt ar^ provMUng good hlghipayi fov ttptrti* pleanre and oenifiBct. 'Sev it cannot tw said -that this is a only % township alfair, but itiia question that affects th& whole^ Trani^lvania county. There is going to be one draw back about getting any one tb serve as an overseer, if I understand what the road law is.at the present time. , This law, as I understand, pro vides that the overseer shall re ceive only one dollar per 4»y^r his services, and if the act does not allow better coinpensation to the overseer,"it will be aliard niatter to get any one who is competent to do the work in a satisfactory manner for the townships. I hope these fbw suggestions ^11 cause the people to begin to agitate the road question, and that if we have such a law that we can get no relief for the next two years, maybe we will have' devised some better plan for road construction and maintenance while we wait. If so, this will be some compensa tion for the abuse I expect to get for this article. But whatever may be said against me or for me in reference to what I have said in regard to the roads of our township, it has all been written with a view to benefitting the people of Transylvania county, and not that I have any ill will toward any one. If we are not, as Archibald John- son said with reference to the mem bers of the last legislflture, •'‘afraid of our shadows,” then let us agitate this question nntil we get better roads. Then we will have our re ward. Yours truly, W. B. Henderson. Quebec, N. C. THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW ^itor Sylvan Valley News: Raleigh, N. C., March 10. Here comes my good ChristiKn friend, Mr. C. W. Henderson, and jumps on me with all the vigor and vengeance of a Puritanical zealot for endeavoring to have “private residences” in our county exempted from search under the search and seizure law recently passed. -About forty of us tried to do this but without avail. And if my friend had kept in touch with current events as closely as he evidently did with certain eagerly diffused gossip about my action in this mat ter, he would have known that the application ot* the law is statewide; and he would also not have had the serene eqnanimity of Ms “mental emporium” so rudely disturbed. Now I do not wish at all to deal harshly with my friend because I am over-anxious to retain, or re gain if I ever had it, his friendship so as to insure a continuation of his prayers for my ultimate salva- taon which he so graciously prom ises in his article. But I must con fess my faith in this regard is just a little skeplical, because if his prayers for my salvation should have the same effect that his pray ers for my defeat had,' I fear I should appear rather worse for his prayers. Then again my friend declares that petitions went up from every county of the state praying for the passage of this act. Now I wish to inform him that I have never heard of any from Transylvania, and only one letter reached me asking me to vote for the bill. Dozens of letters and scores of pe titions reached me asking me to have oxir oounty exempted. So the qnestio^ arises, where was my aeal- opa prohibitionist during the time these petitions were being drcn- latdL and forwarded to the general asaemhly? Did he ever oircnlata aneh petition? If so, where are hit aigaers and what did he do wi^ his petition? A man so devonfly ^ineameat about raialngthe morpl alandaxd of his nnfortanals l»otlier ahovMI have baen at wonrfhg a BBonamr patiHon lavnerlag the hin. It applies to t^aa^yliaiila oetmlsr invading hotslii aa weH I did my baat to ex- amg* leaiiannea frooi asaroh, jn«l '«a I woald do a0sl9 nnder the alir- omn^aimt aad for wl^h I ha've i^o apolqi^iip make. So now my friend hits the *'^at law of one state” that he says was all that^a necisAry to make prohibition ab solute. Let him show his sincerity by helping enforce it. I look for the Qommnnity about which he complains to be speedily cured un- dfir his leadership. And he also declares I have al lied myself with the whiskey inter ests. Terrible thought-^bringins into the imagination more' fright ful scenes than Dante ever dreamed about purgatory! And yet this caustic and learned critic knows that I am next to a total abstainer from alcoholic drinks. I believe in temperance—in words as well as in whiskey; in the sensible apT)lica- tion of sensible laws. I believe in justice, but I also beHieve in tem pering justice with mercy. I an^ no advocate of the old Spanish and Puritanical laws that cdhdemned and damned a man because he did not believe as others wished him to believe. One erected a crack ling pyre of human flesh; the other filled the jaiis and burdened the gallows with innocent men and women. Behold how anx;ious we are for the salvation of our neigh bor ! Temperance for one’s fellow man is a laudable desire, but is a work of education, not of force and violence. For “a soft answer turn- eth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.” Fanaticism is the parent of crankiness, and crankiness never enlarged a single soul. Crankiness degenerates into narrow-mindedness, and narrowr- mindedness into idiocy. But my dear friend declares wiLh all the patriotism that characterized a knight of the round table that I have laid unholy hands upon some; covenant and “disgraced our coun ty” by my legislative acts. Let’s see, old friend. First—Did I “disgrace our coun ty” when I votea for a six months school term? Second—Did I “disgrace our county” when I voted against an iniquitous primary law that would have destroyed in a large measure' the independence and liberty of men? Third—^Did I “disgrace our coun ty” when I voted for a corrupt practice act for the purifying of politics, which forbids the use of whiskey and money in elections? Fourth—Did 1 “disgrace our county” when I voted against tak ing money out of the state treasury to pay petty officials'scattered ovor this state? You will hear of this. Fifth—Did I “disgrace our coun ty” when I had the nerve to vote almost alone (only one other) against the most drastic revenue bill that has possibly ever been con sidered in this state and which laid increased taxes upon the avocution of our people? Sixth—Did I “disgrace our coun ty” when I voted against the re assessment of property this year providing for an increase in taxes? Seventh—^Did I “disgrace our county” when I voted to increbse the allowance to Confederate sol diers and to provide for the erection of a monument to them in every county of the state and to provide for the erection of a home for the widows of CJonfederate soldiers? Eighth—Did I “disgrace our county” when 1 killed a bond bill for onr county, the appreciation of which would have placed tiiousanda of dollars of additional taxes npon our peoide and their children? Bci why continue to reiterate. It*a uselMS. Come out unto the bright sunlight of openmindedness and fair dealini^ my friend, luid don't cringe in the murky atoo^here of littlMMSs. Ton\wiU feel hett«r.. For I fear the troiOde with my friend is jnst a litHe faeUng ot chagrin over the dM$t.%hatIha^ heea able with the aUtsinana of ttie people, to < aoQosnp^ilf aoaa»^ things whtoh It had him de^^ I would not he allowed to iu3ooia<- pliah. So , ^ *9ue thift weH. tfil if foma’, * 9131 fmvm flea .tlse. wclL ShiQor^, w 'Cbab.'B'. 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