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VOLTTME-XVIII
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1913.
NUMBER-38
THE RECORDER'S COURT
The recordor had the bipgest
docket before him at Monday’s ses
sion of the court that he has ever
faced since the establishment of
the court, bat going throngh the
evidence was like looking for a
grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff.
In the majority of the cases the
evidence was missing, and the re
corder not having the power to
have it called out and fined, had to
dismiss the plaintiffs in many
cases.
Several oases came before the
recorder on presentments made by
the grand jury at the last session
of the Sui>erior court, and these al
most without exception were dis
missed* As the recorder has a
habit of taxing costs to prosecut
ing witnesses when a case fails,
and as there was nobody to tax the
costs to in these cases, he had a
very bad day of it.
The following averages were
made Monday:
State and J. W. Robinson vs.
Chas. McFalls, beating board bill,
continued one week.
State V. Son Gaston, retailing,
eight months on the roads. Notice
of appeal given ; bond fixed at S200.
In this case it appears that the de
fendant had been receiving numer
ous packages of one thing and an
other, all marked whiskey, and he
was tried on the law of 19i;J which
makes it prima facie evidence that
a man is retailing when he receives
two gallows or more of whiskey in
thirty days.
State V. John Morgan, assault on
a female. This was a presentment
by the grand jury and charged the
defendant with assaulting his wife,
breaking her rib, etc., but neither
the defendant or his wife knew
anything about the matter until
summoned to court.
State V. Fred Gash, escaping
chain gang, two months. Gash
was recently put on the gang for
forgery to serve twelve months.
He will now serve the county four
teen months, having become a good
roads enthusiast.
State v. O. W. Clayton, selling
real estate without a license, not
guilty.
State V. Welch Galloway, selling
real estate without a license, not
guilty.
State V. W. P. Whitmire and A.
;M. Verdery, handling real estate
without a licence, not guilty.
State V. W. L. Wiley, handling
real estat« without a license, not
Ruilty.
State V. Streeter Fisher, larceny,
not guilty. Costs taxed to prose
cuting witness.
State V. F. Henderson, assault
with a deadly weapon, continued
until first Monday in November.
State V. Will Blythe, retailing,
continued.
State V. Bessie Clark, keeping
disorderly house, not guilty.
Stutev. Adam Hutchinson, pol
luting stream, not guilty.
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FAIR
BOYLSTON NEWS
In the preparation for an unu
sually large and attractive display
of exhibits and the assembling of a
variety of amusements for the en
tertainment ot the seyeral thou
sand visitors who will attend the
third annual Western North Caro
lina Fair at Asheville from the 7th
to the 10th of October, the manage
ment of the fjijr association is pre
paring for pleasing and inspiring
educational features, wholesale
amusement and events that will bo
appreciated by those in attendance.
The moral standard set for the
fair has not been overlooked, and
as a result the Asheville Ministers’
Association has endorsed the fair
work and will on the Sundays
marking the opening and clos
ing of “Open House Week”
to be observed in Asheville from
October 5 to 12, emphasize the im
portance of this period and the
work undertaken by the fair asso
ciation.
The prominent speakers for the
different days of the fair are men
of the highest character and in
tegrity, and everything possible
will be done to uphold the moral
standard.
The educational feature of the
fair will be especially emphasized
on the opening of Educational
Day, when approximately 10.000
school children from various parts
of Western North Carolina will be
in parade. The educational idea
will prevail throughout the fair in
the various features, among which|
are the demonstrations of sanita-
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tion and health, domestic science,
dairying and fruit culture, the bet
ter babies contest. Brotherhood
Day exercises, Military Day ma
neuvers, West-ern North Carolina
Day and events occurring thereon,
among them being the singing con
tests by choirs of Western North
Carolina, athletic contests and.
other incentives to local advance
ment. j
The fair association is deter
mined to permit nothing of a ques
tionable nature on the grounds,
and while only clean and whole
some features will be permitted,
fair week will not be dry and unin
teresting as the thrilling, spectacu
lar and entertaining will be com-
bined with the elevating.
The farmers are all very busy in
their fodder.
Miss Myrtle English, who has
been staying at her grandfather’s,
Mr. R. O. English on Davidson
River, has returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Baynard
took a trip ' to Hendersonville
Thursday to visit their son Carl,
who is in the hospital there.
Several of our people went to
Turkey Creek Sunday to the bap
tising.
Mrs. Weldon English spent Sat
urday night and Sunday with her
aunt. Mrs. P. P. Orr.
Qaite a number of the Boylston
people have been attending the
meeting at Blantyre the past week.
ROSEBUP.
Prepare to display yonr best pro
ducts of farm, forest; factory and
honsehold at the Western N. C.
Fair, Asheville, October 7-10, and
win some of the 2,500 cash premi
ums. No entry fee except on live
sto6k. It
RIGHT OF SELF-PROTECTION
New Law Proposed by The Pro
gressive Farmer Exciting Wide
spread Interest.
AUCTION BRIDGE
Mrs. J. S. Silverstein entertained
about twenty guests at her home
Tuesday afternoon with an auction
bridge party, given in honor of
Mrs. Edmond Woodbriige, recently
of Costa Rica, who is to make her
home in Brevard in the future.
The color scheme was red, white
and blue,the Costa Rican colors, and
each guest was given a small Costa
Rican flag as a souvenir. After a
number of games had been played
the guests were served with deli
cious refeshments, in courses.
QUEBEC NEWS
We are glad to know that Mrs.
Lula Owen, who has been very ill.
is recovering.
Mrs. Putman from Greenville,
who has bee^ visiting her sister,
has a very sick daughter, caused
from eating grapes.
Rev. H. H. Honeycutt started a
revival at Oak Grove chnrch Mon
day night, September 15.
Mr. J. L. Thomas, who has been
very ill for a few weeks, died at
his home Snnda^r morning, Septem
ber 14. He is survived by a wife,
two sons and two daughters and a
host of friends to mourn their loss.
He always lead a Christian life.
He was a devoted husband and
father. His enemies are unknown.
He was a great worker in Sun
day school and school work. The
burial took place Monday evening,
September 15, at the Oak Grove
cemetery. Rev. J. R. Owen con
ducting the services at the home.
He was t!ie son of M. C. and Mar
tha Thomafs.
Mrs. l^omas has been very low,
but we hope to see her well again.
Littlk Quebecian.
Editor Sylvan Valley News:
Will you be kind enough to give
me space—since the idea is so new,
since it has excited so much inter
est, and since so many people are
ignorant of my exact purpose—to
explain to your readers just what
I propose by the policy of race
segregation I have been advocating
for the rural South?
Kut to begin with, let me say a
word as to the imperative need for
some such remedy as I have been
urging. I knew when I began this
agitation that thousands and thou-
^nds of white farmers in all parts
of the South were being forced
from their homes for social rea
sons by the growing number of
negroes around them (as my own
father was), but I did not then
know how widespread are the evils
resulting from our present indis
criminate sandwiching of white and
negro farmers.
The hundreds of earnest mes
sages from farmers, and eve:^ iBore
earnest messages from farmers’
wives and daughters, have opened
my eyes. A white farmer may
have bought land in what he ex
pected to remain forever a white
community, may have built a good
home with this expectation, order
ing his whole life accordingly. And
yet some non-resident owning land
adjoining him may put any kind of
negroes on it, terrorizing the farm
er’s wife and daughters, destroy
ing the social life of the commu
nity, depreciating the value of the
farmer’s land, and finally forcing
him to move for social reasons—
leaving the negroes to gobble up
the farm for h»-Jf its real worth.
This is ft iancy picture but a
happening all over the cotton belt.
Almost every section of the South
feels the blighting effect of such
conditions. Worthy settlers re
fuse to come, and farmers already
in a community hesi-tate to build
worthy country homes, because
they have no assurance that they
or their children will not be forced
to leave th0 place in order to find
plenty of white neighbors.
If we are to save the rural South
to the white' race, we must find
some remedy, and I have become
convinced that an aroused public
sentiment is not enough. We must
have a statute which will enable
any white community that wishes
to do so to take steps to insure its
remaining white—a statute framed
not in a spirit of injustice and per
secution to the negro, but in a
spirit of justice and protection to
the white man.
Briefly, I propose a simple law
which will say that wherever the
greater part of the land acreage in
any given district that may be laid
off is owned by one race, a major
ity of the voters in such a district
may say (if they wish) that in
future no land shall be sold to a
person of a different race. Pro
vided such action is approved or
allowed (as beiag justified by con
sideration of the peace, protection,
and social life of the community),
by a reviewing judge or board of
county commissioners.
It may be argued, I know, that
such a law is unjust because with
the government of the South as it
is, it could be utilized by white
people to keep their communities
white, bn* the negroes would
rarely or never be able to use it to
make a community wholly negro.
All of which I admit, and yet I be
lieve it is just.
I believe it is just because the
white man needs the social protec
tion of such a law and the negro
doesn’t. If a majority of his
neighbors are white, the negro
doesn’t care. His land is made
more valuable by the predomi
nance of neighbors of a different
race; the chances of selling it for
its worth are better; his family are
not uneasy or unsafe ; they don’t
mind ronning off day or night to
S3e neighbors- or kinsfolk iniles
away; and his money-making fa
cilities are better. ' But with the
white man surrounded by negro
neighbors exactly the contiajy con
ditions exist. So I am confident
such a law as I propose would be
just, and eminent lawyers have'as-
sured me it would be constitu
tional. <
As for its practicability, that is
apparent on its face. It is not a
radical measure. It would not be
forced on any community tHStt
doesn’t want it. But wherever
any white community does wish to
keep itself white and does want the
protection of such a law as I pro
pose, I believe it should have that
privilege,
I shall be glad to send further in
formation to any interested reader
who agrees with me.
Sincerely yours,
Clarence Poe.
Raleigh, N. C.
U.S. s. NORTH CAROLINA
ROSMAN ITEMS
Preparations for the building of
what is officially designated as
“Battleship No. 39,” are actively
under way in the navy depart
ment at Washington and at the
New York navy yard, where the
vessel (the largest laid down for
any of the great navies of the
world) will be constructed.
Battleship No. 39, which was au
thorized by congress at the last
session, has remained without a
name fur a longer i^eriod than is
cnstomary, with a battleship that
has been appropriated for. It is
exjiected that the naval monster
will be cnristened the “North Caro
lina,” nfrer the state of wliioh .\ir.
Daniels, the secretary of the navy,
is a citizen.
In the meantime “Battleship No.
39*' is referred to by nav^ officeis
or <-»r,-«Wb'W jTtr tub WtfliaTtiiLrtWii; iiv, it
Carolina quite as often as by the
numerical designation.
In the event she receives the
name of North Carolina it will be
necessary to change the name of
the present North Carolina to that
of some town in that state, possi
bly Asheville.
Battleship No. 39 is similar in
essential particulars to the Penn
sylvania. The dimensions are
about the same for both vessels:
Length over all 600 feet; beam, 97
feet, half inch; draught, 28 feet 10
inches; displacement, 31,400 tons;
speed, 21 knots. The battery will
consist of twelve 14-inch guns, four
submerged torpedo tubes and
twenty-two 5-inch rapid fire guns.
This type of warship is known as
the “all big gun” battleship. The
complement will be 1,002 officers
and men. The machinery on both
will consist of high powered tur
bines, with smaller cruising tur
bines geared to the propellers.
The Pennsylvania will have tur
bines of. the Curtis type, while No
39 will have the Parson’s type. A
contract amounting to $1,087,455
for structural steel for battleship
No. 39 has been awarded.
The farmers at Rosman are very
busy picking* beans and pulling
fodder, but the rain the first of the
week was sure bad on them.
Last Sunday was *a very un
favorable day, but the people of
Zion church were kept very busy,
having Snnday school at 10 a. m.,
baptizing at 1 p. ni., and graduat
ing exercises of the cla.ss that has
been taking the normal course for
Sunday school workers at 8 p. m.
Prof. T. C. Henderson and Rev. J.
N. Lee of Asheville delivered the
addresses. Both made short Wt
excellentspeeches. Rev. Lee de
livered a very interesting sermon
to a good sized audience, consider
ing the weatiier, on the subject
“Go6*s‘'Love For Us.” We hope
to get Brother Lee a field of labor
in this section and have him move
in with us.
Rosman is still growing. Messrs.
M. J. Glazener and W. E. Shipman
are starting them a nice house
apiece on Main street.
The new lodge room has recently
been completed and is being occu
pied by the W. O. W. and Jr. O.
U. A. M.
Last Saturday Messrs. J. M. Wil
helm, A. M. Paxton and Wm. A.
Jenkins went to Hendersonville to
take the civil service examination,
all trying for the post ortice at Ros
man.
The Rosman school is {getting
along nicely. .Miss Verona Neal,
who has charge of the first and
second grades, has eighty-four en
rolled, while the other rooms are
not Iso badly crowded.
There will be a business session
of the Zion church held next Sun
day at 11a. m. with the view to
electing a pastor for the ensuing
year. All the members are ur
gently requested to be present.
We are sorry to give Bro. Mark
li.. Osborn up» but as he is going to
enter school to better prepare him
self for the work of God we more
gladly give him up than otherwise,
and pray God’s richest blessings on
him.
As this is my first letter to your
valued paper I fear it will miss the
press and find the waste basket.
However, if it gets in print and
doesn’t look too bad I may write
again. With best wishes to the
News and all its readers, I am
yours truly, . Little Boy.
THREAnNS TO READ NAMES
In a sermon last Sunday night
Rev. Geo. D. Herman, pastor of the
Methodist church of Wadesbro.
talked about the evil of liquor
drinking, and especially drinking
in secret, and in the course of his
remarks Mr. Herman, according to
the Wadesboro Messenger, made
the following statement:
‘‘If .80 much of this drinking is
not stopped I am going to go to the
express office and get a list of those
who are receiving whiskey and
read their names out from the pul
pit and the amount received ^by
them. If they are not ashamed to
have whiskey come to their address
I am not ashamed to read their
names to the public. Secret drink
ing is ten times worse than that o1:
public drinking, tor it ma.kes both
a coward and a sneak of the man
who is ashamed for his shortcom
ings to become known.”
Hello ! correspondents, let’s hear
from you all.
We were sorry to hear of the
death of Mrs. Wilson, grandmother
of Mrs. D. R. Pressley and Miss
Ball. ^ Our sympathy is extended
to the bereaved relatives.
Mrs. Smith gave a card party last
Tuesday night. Dr. C. E. Lyday
being guest of honor.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Glazener are
the happy parents of a baby girl,
born on Friday morning.
On Friday night Mrs. Gaboon
delightfully entertained some
friends with a card party. Dr.
Lyday being the honored guest.
A large crowd attended the show
last Monday night.
Rosman High school is progress-^
ing nicely.
Mr. W. G. Glazener went to BoiK
ston Saturday on business.
Mr. D. P. Pressley contemplates
building a residence in the near
future. Our little town will be
something yet.
Dr. Lyday, Mrs. Kanipe, Mrs.
Cook and friend went to Lake Tox-
away last Wednesday..
Rosman Cracker.
(Always give ‘initials of people
you write about when possible.—
Ed.)
Caught a Bad Cold.
"Last winter V my son caught Ok
very bad cold; and,,the way he
coughed was something diieadfnl,**
writes Mrs. Sarah Duncan of
Tipton, Iowa. “We thought sure
he-Hmia into consumption..
We bought just one bottle of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy and that
one bottle stopped his cough and.;
cured his cold completely.” For
sale by S. M. Macfle. ad'V