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BRmRD-^NOBTH CAROLINA, FBIDAY. AUGUST 29. 1913-
NUMBER-35
TO LOCATE SUMMER CAMP
VETERAN REONtCN
Two or three officers of‘ the Cita
del, the well known military"*chool
at Charleston, 8. C., have decided
to locate a camp somewhere in the
mountains of Western North Caro
lina for the training of boys and
yonng men tfcrongh the summer
months. The plans of tha- pro
moters of this camp proposition
call for the best thing in that line
in the Sonth, and accommodations
will bfe furnished for four or five
hundred boys.
Capt. H. E. Raines, one of the
promoters of the camp, spent last
Friday in and around Brevard in
looking over various sites for the
location of the camp, and after see
ing a number of siteis the captain
expressed himself as being very
much pleased with what we had to
offer, saying that what he had seen
here-was far ahead of anything
tfiat had been shown to him at the
other places he had visitejd. and
that he would return here before
making a final decision on any lo
cation. Since he had been in at
least five counties before he came
here this stntement is rather sig
nificant, and the business men of
Brevard are very hopeful of land
ing this enterprise for Transylva
nia county.
Capt. Baines was sent to Brevard
by Mr. S. H. Cohen, the manager
of the Greater Western North
Carolina Association, with a letter
of introduction to the editor. He
was met at the train Friday morn
ing by Messrs. T. H. Shipman, H.
N. Carrier, Harry Clarke and Ora
L. Jones, and was taken to Mr. J.
F. Hays’ oflree where he met
Messrs. Hays, J. W. M'^Minn, Welch
Galloway, J. A..Miller, Jr., and
T. H. Galloway.
After Captain Baines had told
these gentlemen just what he
wanted, and what he did not want,
he was taken in an automobile out
in the French Broad valley toward
Connest«6 Falls. The Siniard place,
JxMt to the left at Wilson’s bridge,
was the first place shown him, and
this, it seems, appealed to him more
than any other, with the possible
exception of the Willis Galloway
place.
He was shown the various sites
idong th9 xiiev Rll the way out t6
th6 “old btirned hotel” site beyond
“Eockbrook.” The party then re-
tmmed to the Franklin > Hotel for
]«ncheon, which was served in a
first class manner, after which a
trip was made to sites up the river.
Capt. Baines was also shown the
plant at Camp Sapphire where
Profs. Sandifer and Fetzer have
started a summer camp, and he ex
pressed himself as being very
much pleased with the work being
done there. Incidentally, the cap
tain met a number of former Cita
del boys at Camp Sapphire, every
one of whom urged him to locate
his camp near Brevard.
Although it was understood from
the first that no decision in regard^
to a camp site would be reached for
some time yet. the captain told the
local committee a number of times
that he was charmed with the
nlaces visited, and expressed in the
warmest manner his appreciation
for the courtesies shown him while
here.
The Transylvania Camp of Con
federate veterans held their annual
rennion at the-^ Davidson River
church grounds last Thursday. The
day started out wltli rain, and early
it} the morning there was not much
prospect of a picnic, but later the
clouds broke, and people began to
assethble on the grounds.
No ela.borate program had been
prepared. Those in charge had ex*
pected to have Attorney-General
Bickett, who had been visiting in
Brevard, as the chief speaker of
the day; but state affairs called the
general to Raleigh jxiSt before th^
time set for the reunion. The vet
erans and visitors were fortunate,
however, in having with them
Judge C. M. Cooke of Louisburg
and Mr. H. K. Osborne .of Spartan
burg, also visitors. Both these
gentlemen made good speeches in
the morning.
The noon hour is always a highly
entertaining part of a reunion at
Davidson River. Then dinner was
served in the grove between the
church and the school house. As a
picnic place no more beautiful spot
could be selected, and the dinners
on such occasions are always more
than can be consumed and better
than the hungry can dream of.
After this feast, flavored with a
bountiful supply of watermelons in
good old Dixie style, the crowd got
together again to listen to after
noon speeches. Mr. J. J. Mackey
of Asheville, register of deeds of
Buncombe county, was one of the
visitors and favored the audience
with a talk, as did also.Captain T.
C. Galloway, a Transylvanian who
moved to Alabama, and recently
built for himself a summer home
in Brevard.
- Several of the veterans were ab
sent, no doubt on account of the
threatening weathef in the early
part of the day. In spite of this
regrettable fact it was a pleasant
occasion. Two crosses of honor
were to be bestowed, one on T. K.
Gash of Missouri and another on
William Vaughn of this county.
Mr. Gash, however, was visiting
elsewhere, and was not there to re-
■ceive his cross.
THE RECORDER’S COURT
A number of oases came before
Reorder Forsythe last Monday,
one of which proved to be out of
his jurisdiction. The following
cases were disposed of:
State V. Carmel Pickelsimer,
drunk, $10 and costs. In this case
the defe^d^nt plead guilty, and
threw himdelf on the mercy of the
court.
State and Taylor Banther v Cole
man Owen, Carl Breedlove, W. W-
Juhnson and Dave White, charged
with creating a disturbance and
nuisance, not guilty. In this case
Taylor Banther and Nellie Banther,
two state’s witnesses, wer** called
out for their non appearance in
court and a fine of twenty-five dol
lars was entered against each. The
prosecuting witness was ordered
to pay the costs in this case.
State v. Owen Orr, assault, con
tinued! until next Saturday.
State V. Owen Orr, trespass, con
tinued until next Saturday.
Staite V. Bunyan Mills, seduction
under promise of. marriage. Only
a superficial examination was made
by the recorder in this case, Loretta
Aiken, the prosecnting witness,
being the only witness examined.
The defendant was bound to Supe
rior court under a $400 bond.
On account of the convening of
Suj^rior jcourt there will be no ses
sions of the recorder’sjcourt for the
next two Mondays unless Siomething
of a very ursrent nature
a very
needing the
corder.
arises
CR/UJED SCHOOL
Early in the summer an an
nouncement of the faculty of the
graded school for the coming ses
sion was made'in this paper. Sev
eral weeks later Mr. .Winkler, the
elected principal; and three other
teachers assqciated with -him, sent
in their resignation. Then the
committee and county superinten
dent got busy trying to fill the va
cancies, and they havcK |)een busy
ever since till this week, ^hen the
last teacher’s acceptance .was re
ceived. We are now able to give
the list of teachers in full.
Principal and teacher of ninth
and ^tenth grades, Mr. Arthur
Banes of Baligh; seventh and
eighth grade teacher, Miss Ve*n&
Goode of Shelby; fifth and sixth
grade teacher. Miss Doris Edwards
of Surry, ‘V'a.; third and fourth
grade teacher. Miss Ada Ward of
of Greenville, N. C.; second grade
teacher. Miss Daisy. Holcom of
Mars Hill; first grade teacher, Miss
Hattie Aiken of Brevard.
School will open next Monday,
September 1.
HELD FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
attention of
B. Y. P. U. ORGANIZED AT ENON
TEACHERS’ READIM CIRCLE
HORSE SHOE NOTES
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Banks of Eto
wah visited Mrs. Alice Reece last
Sunday.
Miss Mary Banning is attending
school at Blantyre.
Lee Scruggs, who has been work
ing at the saw mill at Pisgah For
est, got his hand badly injured last
week.
Mrs. J. H. Caerle of Rutherford-
ton, is visiting relatives on Boil-
Stdlk
Miss Marie AJlison of ColQinbia,
S. C., and Mi^. Lenoir Morris Pis
gah Forest spent Monday night
with, their uncle and annt, Mr. and
.Mrs. Weldon English.
Mr. Charles Beece hanled a load
of fine aisles to HendersonyiHb'the
first of this week. •
Gypst.
For the past four years tn this
county a snmber of teachers have
been taking advantage of the op
portunity to win certificates
granted by the state in what is
known as the “Reading Circle.”
Every year a certain number of
books are prescribed by those hav
ing charge of this course to be read
during the year. Examinations
are given based on these books.
Those teachers who complete the
four-ye»*r course are entitled to
state certificates. Below we pub
lish the names of those who have
taken the course during the four
years, as obtained from the cor.nty
superintendent:
1909-1910: Mr. Z. A. Nicholson,
Misses Hattie Aiken, Cora WillsoiH
Sue Glazener, Mary Rankin, Nan
nie Jordan.
1910-1911: Mr. Z. A. Nicholson,
Misses Sue Glazener, Cora Willson,
Hattie Aiken, Mary Rankin, Nan
nie C. Jordan.
1911-1912: Mr. Z. A. Nicholson,
Misses Sue F. Glazener, Mary Ran
kin. Nannie Q. Jordan, Hattie Ai
ken, Cora Willson.
1912-1913; Mr. Z. A. Nicholson,
Misses Sue F. Glazener. Cora Will
son, Nannie Jordan, Hattie Aiken,
Mary Rankin.
On Wednesday, August 20, the
people of Enon church,, with the
assistance of Miss Caroline Getty,
a teacher in Charleston, S, C., met
and organized a B. Y. P. V. The
organization included some thirty-
five members, which gave prom
ise of great success. The officers
of the union are as follows: Presi
dent, Ca#l Talley; vioe-ifiresident,
Miss Ina Talley; secretary, Miss
Ha Lee Lyday; treasurer, Virgil
Lyday.
The first meeting was held on
Sunday last at 4 p. m. with a large
atten^nce. Subject for the fol
lowing Sunday will be “Influence,”
lead by Mr. J. F. Cheek.
Practically every member is sup
posed to take an active part in
Ihesa meetings. No obligations
imposed except as each desires to
serve the Master, thereby benefit
ing one^s self and others.
Bessie L. Lyday,
Chairman Membership Committee.
Last week C. A. Stacy was ar
rested here on a wiir.rant sworn
out on information received by let
ter from G. W. Kimberlin, deputy
sergeant, at Clifton Forge, Va. The
authorities at Clifton Forge were
the re- j promptly notified of the arrest, and
they applied for requisition pawrs.
The arrest was made on the
charge that Stacey had embezzled
more than a hundred dollars from
the funds of the Clifton Forge Ma-
sonfc lodge, of which he'was secre
tary and treasurer. Leaving a
wife and child in that place last
February, he wei^ to Baltimore,
from which city he again suddenly
disappeared. The suddenness of
his disappearance gave rise to the
rumor of foul play, but Stacey^s
version is that he got drunk wjiile
in Baltimore, lost track of himself,
and woke up in Canada.
Pending the action of the state
authorities in regard to his re
moval, he is lodged in the jail at
this place.
CEDRQE NAMUN KlUlED
On Friday of last week Me.
Lewis Hamlin received intelligence
■through a telegram to his father,
Mr. P. C. Jiamlin of Selica, that his
brother, George Hamlin, had been
killed. The telegram was sent
from Elbe, Washington, where the .
the young man was living, aii^ It “
stated that the killing was acci- .
dental, but no particulars* were
given. A later telegram from the
lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Mr.
George Hamlin was a ,member, said
that the lodge would \take charge
of the body and send 4t home for
interment. It was expected that
the remains would arrive here on
We«^besday or Thursday, but Mr.
Lewis Hamlin received another
telegram Thur^kiay morning to the
effect that the body was ship^d
VV’^ednesday afternoon. The Arrival
is now not expected before the
middle of next week.
DEPOT STREET FINISHED
The fair weather for several days
has been favorable for the paving
on Depot street, and it has been
going forward steadily. Like hay
making, it must be done while the
sun shines, and so when conditions
are favorable the crew is-kept busy
to the limit. - The - big^ ^colling ma
chine seems to have caught the in
fection of hustle and steams back
ward and forward over the gray
stones at an incredible speed.
Even the colored boys, always
noted for the art of conserving en
ergy, move about their work as if
they had an object in view. By
the time this news comes from the
press it is safe to say that Depot
street will also have been pressed,
smoothed out, and ready for the
wheels of traffic. Then we may
look for the same work on Cald
well, where the first layer of stones
has already been put down.
DEATH OF MRS. BELLE HOWARD
CAMPING AT CAESAR’S HEAD
A party of boys from the Metho
dist Sunday school left town last
Tuesday morning nnder charge of
Rev. lioy D. Thompson for a three
days camping trip to Cresar’s Head.
The boys were: Verne and Theo
dore clement. Charles Nichols,
Boland atad Bosh Whitmire, Hil-
dred mieridan, J.
MiUer WjUiams.
Aiken
WILL GET $ I,MO,000
One million five hundred thou
sand dollars is to be deposited in
North Carolina blinks by the treas
ury department to help move the
cotton crop.
Charlotte will get $400,000 of this
money, Raleigh $400,000, Wilming
ton $500,000, and Greensboro $200,-
000, according to H. C. McQueen,
president of the Murchison Na
tional Bank of Wilmington, who
talked with Secretary McAdoo to
day.
Mr. McQueen announced that
the first deposit of $300,000 in his
bank would be made next week.
He was here to arrange for the
deposit of government and local
bonds required by the treasury as
security for the deposits.
iisked how the money would be
circulated Mr. McQueen said: “ We
loan it to our correspondents, en
joining npon them the same prom
ise we were required to give the
govempient, that these funds shall
be used to move the crop and not
for speculation or any other pnr-
poses.**
*'Wlll yon charge these banks an
advance in interest rates?” he was
asked.
“Of course. We cannot pat np
the amoTOt of onr own secnritiea
that will^be reqoired and Tolan-
tarily give all the benefit to onr
otiirtoiiieni”
The fall term of Superior court
convenes here next Monday, Judge
M. H. Justice presiding. As Tran
sylvania is now in a new district, a
new solicitor, A. H. Johnson of
Marion, will be in attendance and
discharge the duties of prosecuting
attorney. The criminal docket con
tains over thirty cases, presumably
enough to keep the court busy for
at least a week.
SOPERIOR COURT
Mrs. D. Kilpatrick, Mrs. W. M.
Aiken and Miss Annie Henry left
on Thursday morning’s train to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Belle
Howard at Piney Grove Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Howard was a
cousin of Mrs. Kilpatrick and
Mrs. Aiken, dnd an aunt of Miss
; 3enry. She was a daughter of Mr*
Frank Shipman of Blantyre, and a
sister of J^r. M. L. Shipman, com
missioner of Tabor and printing.
Mrs. How-ard’s death took place in
a hospital at Spartanburg, and was'
the result of pellagra. Mrs. M. L.
Shipman, who is staying at her
father’s, Mr. W. K. Osborne, also
attended the funeral.
NEGRO LYNCHED
Joe McNeeley, the negro who
shot Policeman L. L. Wilson, of
the Charlotte force, last Friday and
who was himself badly wounded,
was taken from the local hospital
where he was under guard of ^ po
licemen and shot early Tuesday
morning The negro died at police
headquarters shortly after five
o’clock the same morning.
Superior court Is In session and
Judge T. J. Shaw charged the
gra^d jury to use every effort to
bring the mob to justice. The so
licitor at once began an Investiga
tion of the affair. The board of
aldermen met In special session and
offered a reward of $1,000 for the
apprehension of any or all of the
mob. Hardware dealers and pawn
shops were ordered not to sell am
munition or firearms until further
notice.
A local hardware store was burg
larized dnring the night and it is
the expressed o^nion of the police
that the store was entered by ne
groes who have been making
threats to avenge the death of the
negro. Nnmerons spe<^ pcdice
officers weire fwom in and preoan
tions were ta^^ against race troa
SILVER TEA AND APRON SHOWER
The silver tea and apron shower
at the rectory on Thursday, the
21st, was an unqualified success,
thanks to the help of kind friends
and the generous gifts from those
who were present, a very good and
kindly company. The apron shower
was soon over, but It was very re
freshing. The^ silves-'Oeine of the
silver tea -were many, and glad*
dened the hearts of St. Philips
Guild with their generous fiow.
Ice cream and cake were served.
We thank all the dear friends who
helped by their presence, their help
and other gifts to make the occa
sion so enjoyable. • Fifty dollars
was realized.
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CAMP SAPPHIOE CLOSED
Camp Sapphire closed its first
session on Wednesday of this week,
and the boyS|pent to their homes
or wherever they w^re to be, for
the winter. These p^iittswere in
many different dinec^ons, as the
boys represented homes from sev-
-eval-statea^ There were two ses^
sions, each of four weeks, this •
summer, and fifty>>tiiree boys in aU
were enrolled. Ifo. Sandifer e^
■pressed himself as mnoh ptoMe^
with the eiqperimMil^ Juad hopes
6TOT tetter tiaiM in tho fixim,