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PAVING mvm AW^D
Poe Construction Co., Gets Con-
* tract and Work . Begins
in About Ten Days.
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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
combinan<jn cuncrete curb and gut
ter he ad« pted for Main and Broad
streets and one side of Caldwell.
This will be a nine inch curb with
a two foot extension on each dde
of the street to take oareol all
water.
The, next iMstton taken was- the
adoptton^f a li^tor for tiie work.
After timideribW toHwiiOn Al
dermen i^worth, Cos, Ihiokworth
and Snelson voted for B«rmudez;
Alderman Cook expressing a pref
erence for Tarvia.
The contract was then awarded
to the Poe Constmbtion Co.. as they
MTere the only bidder who ha4 speci
fied Bermudez asphalt.
A representative of this company
informed the News that the ma
chinery wonl^ be shipped next
Monday and that work would pos
sibly begin in about ten days.
On Wednesday, after the con
tract had been awarded, a repre
sentative of the Texas Co., of Nor
folk, arrived but was too late to
make a bid. He wanted Texico
adopted as a binder.
AN APflAL FOiTH|E ROADS
Hogback Tdwnaidp Roads Are
in a Ve^ Bad Condition.
—Wanted.
BUILDING & LOAN ^ASSOCIATION
To the shareholders of the Brevard
Building and Loan Association:
Gentlemen: In submitting my
r^)ort of the affairs of our associa
tion at the close cf the fourth year,
it affords me much pleasure in say
ing* that its condition ^as never
better, its popularity never greater
or its usefulness never more real
ized by the people of Brevard and
Transylvania county than at this
time.
We can say with all modesty that
we believe the Brevard Building &
Loan Association represents a big
uplift in the life and activities of
Brevard and its citizens.
We do not believe we are saying
too much when we claim to be ma
terially helping this town and
everybody in it. We ask no espe
cial credit for it, for we are mak
ing a reasonable profit, and are ex
tending to all good, serious minded,
saving citizens an opportunity to
improve their condition in life.
In improving property we are
enhancing the value of real estate,
we are making payrolls, we are
helping merchants; we are encour
aging thrift general]^ instead of
extravagance and wastefulness.
Every officer and member of this
association takes a pride in the idea
of civic helpfulness as well as the
mere profit involved. Every loyal
citizen of this town wants it to
prosper and above all, every citi
zen wants to prosper himself.
Therefore every citizen of Brevard
should be head, heart and hand
with the Brevard Building & Loan
'Association. •
It is a home institution, with its
shoulder to the wheel, interested
in the welfare of every thrifty citi-
■sen ; interested in encouraging sav
ing, selfhelp, independence; inter
ested in improving the town as a
whole—^increasing paj rolls, attract
ing new x>opnlation, 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 , ^
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