ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THAHSVLVANIA COUNTY
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VOLUME-XVIII
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1913.
1
NUMBER-39
AN IMPORTANT DEAL
According to a story carried by
the Asheville Citizen last Monday
morning, Mr. Donald Campbell of
Rosman, formerly of Williamsport.
Pa., has leased the railroad, saw
mill and othi^r equipment of the
Qloncester Lnmber Co. for a nnm-
ber of years. The following was
the story in full as jirinted by the
Citizen:
“Louis Carr and W. F. Decker of
Pisgah Forest and Donald Camp
bell of Rosman were Asheville vis
itors yesterday,^ gnerts at the Lan-
gren.
“Mr. Campbell has lately taken
over the Gloucester Lumber Co.’b
operations by contract. They com
prise about twenty thousand acres
of the valuable timber lands of
George W. Vanderbilt, and adjoin
the land which is being cut over by
Mr. Carr. The Gloucester Lumber
Co.’s band saw mill, sixteen miles
of railroad and all equipment were
leased to Mr. Campbell for the term
of f* contract which will require in
the neighborhood of twelve or fif
teen years to complete.
“Mr. Campbell is a native of
Williamsport, Pa., a famous lum
ber center, and was employed by
the Pennsytvania railroad at Pitts
burg several years previous to his
venture in the South.”
TRANSYLVANIA REPRESENTED
MRS. R. 0. ENGLISH
Dn the 5th of September death
entered the home of R. O. English
and called his faithful companion
home. Sister English and her be
reaved husband had been together
in life about sixty years. Grand
ma was born in the year 1824. She
was joyful and made home pleas
ant. At her death she was eighty-
nine years old. Grandma leaves
an aged husband and four children
to mourn her loss.
Sister English was a faithful
church member and was a devoted
Christian for about sixty-four
years. She has joined ner two
children who years ago passed be
fore. The sixty years she jour
neyed along life’s rugged ways
hand in hand with her now be
reaved husband, her’s was a beau-
Biful life, a beautiful life, a beauti
ful character and a beautiful end
ing of life’s career. In the passing
away of Sister English from the
home circle in which she was the
chief charm and joy no tongue can
express the feeling of loss and lone
liness which oppress those that are
left in the world. But the memo
ries of many happy years and the
assurance of an early reunion with
the loved ones gone on before must
be a comfort and an inspiration,
and would shine through the dark
ness like the bow of hope in the
bosom of the cloud.
The funeral services were con
ducted by the pastor and W. R.
West in the M. E. church on Da
vidson River and the interment
was at Davidson River cemetery.
W. R. West.
ETOWAH NOTES
The recent rains have put the
farmers behind with their work.
^ Miss Lena Lockett of Henderson
ville spent last week with relatives
at this place. /
Miss Minnie Lance has returned
to Morganton after visiting home-
folks for a week or two.
Miss Christine Jnstns of Hender
sonville visited Miss Annie Blythe
last week.
V. McClain has returned from a
business trip to Spartanburg, S. C.
Miss Emma Lance of Wavcross,
Ga., visiied relatives at this place
recently.
Rob Merrell has built a nice cot
tage on his farm near Etowah.
Misses M} rtle Crawford and
Miriam Orr visited Miss Mary Lon
McClain Sanday.
Sdiool at this place has stopped
for “fodder pulling.”
Littls Ben.
Transylvanw county is to be well
represented at the coming Western
North Carolina fair, not only in the
matter of exhibits but in represen
tation in a number of important
events us well.
Prof. C. H. Trowbridge, of Bre
vard Institute, has been selected aa
one of the directors of the educa
tional department. This dei>art-
ment is being made one of the
leading features at the fair this
year, and the management is to be
congratulated on securing the ser
vices of such a capable man for this
important position.
Mr. W. E. Breese, Jr., has been
invited to introduce Mr. M. V.
Richards, the land and industrial
agent of the Southern railway, of
Washington, D. C., who will make
a speech on the closing night of the
fair, the last day being Western
North Carolina day. Mr. Breese’s
friends all know that he is compe
tent to perform the duty imnosed
on him and Mr. Richards will be
well introduced.
Mr. R, L. Gash has been chosen
as one of the judges of the parade
on Brothei:hood day. All the fra
ternities in this district have been
asked to imrticipate in this parade
and there will be prizes for the best
showing, and Mr. Gash, with oth
ers, will decide where the prizes
shall go.
From pre.«ient indicdtioiis it ap
pears that the fair this year will be
much better than ever before. An
enormous amount of work has been
done by the management in i)repa-
ration for the event, and it will
doubtless prove a big drawing card.
ROSMAN NOTES
Jack Frost made his first appear
ance in our section la:>t • Monday
morning.
Mr. J. M. Kilpatrick of Brevard
with a crowd of men is busy mak
ing an addition to the tannery.
They will add thirty new vats.
The Rosman high school commit
teemen met last Friday and decided
to complete the upstairs room of
the new building and add another
teacher. This will make five teach
ers. They also* decided to add the
tenth grade.
Misses Clessie Whitmire and Vic
toria Gillespie returned to Rosman
Saturday night from Mars Hill
where they have been in school.
They say they can go to school at
home much cheaper since the tenth
grade has been added to our school,
they having completed the ninth
grade last term.
If there’s a place in the county
that can beat Rosman on the sub
ject of cattle raising let’s hear
from it. Within the last five
months there have been three sets
of twin calves born in our neigh
borhood.
Mr. Thos. Whitmire has been
very sick, but is improving.
A number of our young people
had a jolly time Sunday afternoon
picking chinquepins.
Little Boy.
TO BUILD CHAIR FACTORY
RECEPTION TO TEACHERS
An addition to the diversified in
terests of North Carolina is to be a
chair factory located at Brevard,
on thtj Southern railway. Louis
Carr, of, the Carr Lumber Com
pany, recently announced that the
company intended building the fac
tory near its mills. The company
recently purchased 70,000 acras of
land at Pisgah Forest and work
will be started at once on cutting
the timber. The company intends
to go into the manufacture of
chairs to utilize the odds and ends
from the mill, which otherwise
would go to waste. All the small
lengths and the curly lumber will
be used in this way. As the capac
ity o^ the new plant has not been
determined upon the nmilber of
employes cannot'be stipulated. It
means, however, another industry
in Western Carolina.—Southern
Field.
SHOCKING Corn
“Here in this mountain country
of Western North Carolina it is the
custom to top the corn and pull
blades. I have opposed this and
cut and shock my corn. The best
farmers here contend that this is a
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mistake here owing to the frequent
rains making it hard to gather the
corn, and the shock not drying
well. What is best?”
Keep on shocking your corn.
They say in the ooHst conntry that
the humidity of the climate is
against it, and there may be some
rpason there for their objection,
but in your mountain conntry,
though you have much rain, the
climate is very different. The
farmers around you have probably
never tried shocking.—Progressive
Farmer.
SCHOOL CENSUS
The act passed by the last legis
lature requiring the attendance
oflScer for each township to take
the school census for ^he whole
township seems to be unsuccesssul
in this county. It would be better,
I feel sure, to have a census taker
for each school district. In a num
ber of schools of the county there
are pupils enrolled who are not on
the school census taken by the at
tendance ofllcers. Some of the
officers left copies of the census
With me for the teachers and I
mailed them to those for whom
they were intended. In acknowl
edgment of which one teacher
wrote me as foltows: “I received
the census report (?). It is not
correct. A Mr. came to
school one day and wanted me to
get the census by the next Satur
day. I told him I could not, but
could give him all except those
upon and . What he
gave in are the ones I had taken.”
Then she stated that all the post-
offices were giyen wrong, and that
the number listed “who cannot
read >and write” was an error.
She closed her letter by saying,
•The first day I can I shall go and
take the correct census and send
you a copy. There are several who
are not on the copy you have.”
The law requires the census
taker to furnish the teacher with a
correct copy of the school census,
for which he rt*i*eives three cents a
name for each ptipil listed. In the
above instance it seems as if the
teacher was to take the census and
furnish the census taker with a
copy. In that instance the teacher
should receive the pay
SOME cuniNG-up
If Chief Galloway is permitted to
carry on his operations in this
county in the high handed manner
he is using at present it will not be
long before there will be “no ba’m
in Gilead”, when a fellow gets
snakebitten. And they do say that
snakes are very plentiful this year,
too. Almost every week Chief
Galloway can be seen talking to
his first lieutenant, F. V. Whit-
mire’)^>n a knowing way when all
of a sudden both these men will be
missing for awhile, and then they
come back with the news that they
have just cut up one. two, three,
and sometimes five manufacturing
plaiits belonging usually to parties
unknown—at least they are not
telling who tli^y belonged to.
Early last week Mr. Gallow^,
accompanied by Me.«srs. Van Whit
mire and Reuben McBrayer of
Asheville, went over into Jackson
county and cut up five stills which
were located on B;ick, Sol’s and
Scott’s creeks. One of these was a
brand new sixty-five gallon copper
still too.
Last week these satne men went
on a pleasure trip to Gloucester
and while there got peeved with
somebody about something and de
liberately cut up another boozo
plant.
But to bring the matter closer
home they went over on Seeoff
mountain and found'*^another plant
and destroyed that also. The end
is not yet. Only this week these
three destroyers were seen on the
streets of Brevard and later taking
a train in the direction of Ashe
ville, possibly with a view to visit-
The Brevard Betterment Associa
tion will give the teachers of the
county a reception after the liter
ary program of the teachers’ asso
ciation Friday evening. All mem
bers of the betterment, patrons of
the school and teachers of the
cotmty are invited to be present at
the school house at eight o’clock
for the evening with James Whit
comb Riley and the reception.
WORK IS PROGRESSING
The street paving work has been
making great progress this week.
On Monday afternoon the finish^
work was up to a point just above
Mitchells, but as we go to press it
is np to the square, with most of
the square finished, and the men
are now at work on Broad street.
If the weather continaes -good for
the rest of this week it is believed
that Broad street c^n be finished
this week.
BARACAS AND PHILATHEAS
The twenty-third anniversary of
tne organization of the first Baraca
class by Marshall A. Hudson of
Syracuse, N. Y., will be celebrated
In an appropriate manner by the
Baracas and Philatheas of Ashe
ville on October 18, 19 and 20.
Mr. Hudson, the founder of the
Baraca and Philathep, movement,
will be in Asheville for the exer
cises and will make a number of
addresses to the delegat^8 present.
Every Baraca and Philathea class
in Western North Carolina is urged
to send one or more delegates to
this meeting, and pastors and Sun
day school superintendents are es
pecially invited.
The meeting promises to be an
enjoyable one, and will no doubt
serve to arouse increased interest
in the work in this section. Homes
will be provided for all who send
in their names to N. Bnckner be
fore October 15th. It is to be
hoped that the local classes will be
represented at this meeting.
QUEBEC NEWS
Jack Frost has been visiting onr
community.
Rev. H. H. Honeycutt closed a
meeting at Oak Grove Monday
day night, September 22. His ser
mons were interesting. The first
week ot the meeting it was rain
ing ; the last it was too clear. It
seems as though the hearts of the
people were as rocks. What excuse
will they make when the Lord
calls?
Walter Reece of Lake Toxaway
visited, his parents last Sanday.
Quite a lot of chinqaepins this
year. The squirrels will have a
happy winter.
The Quebec school will give an
entertainmefSit and box sapper Sat
urday night, October 4. AU are
cordially invited. Come and see
for yourself. Don’t fprget your
pocketbook.
Little Quebecian.
Mr. J. F. Jones of Savannah, Ga.,
has accepted a position as sten
ographer in Mr. J. F. Hays’ office,
succeeding Miss Davis.
From one township in the oor.r ty j connties on the some kind
we have receiw^d no school censutsj*^^
at all. We do not know what has j Mr. Galloway is certainly mak-
prevented the census taker from | good in his new position, and
getting np and sending in the Ct n
sus. We have written him twice
concen*nmg the matter but so far
he hus made no reply.
The last legislature changed ths
law:- that from now on the
amount we receive from the $250,-
0(j0 state funds will be based on
our school census; therefore it is
important that* all the children be
remembered on the census, not
only for the informotion of the
teachers, but also that our county
may receive from the state the
amount of school funds to which it
is entitled.
T. C. llENDERSON,
County Supt. of Schools.
^we will not be surprised if at the
end of the year ho has more suc
cessful raids to his credit than any
other man on the revenue force.
INSTRUCTIONS TO STATE OFFICERS
Transylvania officers have re
ceived copies of the following or
ders issued by Secretary of State J.
Bryan Grimes regarding the viola
tion of traffic laws:
“To the SheriflPs, Deputy Sheriffs,
Policemen, Marshals, Watchmen
and Constables of North Caro
lina ;
“Do not permit any automobile
or motorcycle to run anywhere or
at any time unless proper display
number for 1913-14 appears on rear.
“Do not permit any person to
operate a motor vehicle of any kind
unless such person shall, upon de
mand, show a license for the car-
rent year.
“Do not permit any person to at-
temp to transfer license to another
person. Licenses are void in the
hands of any person other than the
one to whom issued. They are also
void for any machine except the
one described therein.
“Do not permit si)eed exceeding
ten miles per hour in the business
portion and fifteen miles in the
residential section of any city or
town, and twenty-five miles on
public highways.
“Persons violating the aatomo-
bile law are subject to a fine of |50
or imprisonment for thirty days
upon conviction before a justice of
the {)eace or any other officer hav
ing jurisdiction.
“Each of tbe officers named here
in is liable on his official bond for
failure or neglect in carrying out
the duties above imposed.”
FRUITLAND INSTITUTE
We are glad to see fhe sun shin
ing again after reveral days of rain.
Jack Frost was on hand early
Monday morning and it was like
winter indeed.
The school work is improving all
the time and new students are be
ing enrolled almost every week.
Erwin Galloway, Monroe Tinsley
and Davis Barton of Transylvania
were added recently.
D. P. McCann, N. A. Randall,
Neil Hamilton and Price Drake,
former students, were welcome
visitors hero last Sunday.
Rev. N. A. Melton and wife spent
several days with us last week.
They left Friday for Chicago,
where Mr. Melton is to enter the
Moody Bible Institute. We wish
him success and hope to have him
with ris again next year.
Rev. J. C. Owen will begin a
series of revival meetings on Fri
day of this week.’
The entire school went on a
mountain trip the I3th, which was
enjoyed by all. Lunch was served
on this summit of High' 'Top. — ' ^
Prof. Woodward filled his regu
lar appointment at Saluda Stmday.
Bill Wray.
SELICA SCHOOL OPENING
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of
The formal opening of Selica
graded school will be obsetrv^ed at
the school building on Friday, Oc
tober 3, at 2:00 p. m. This is the
Patron’s Day. An occasion of this
kind was observed last year which
tended to give dignity of character
to the work lasting throng^ the
entire term. Something like the
following is suggested:
Speech of welcome, committee
men.
Talk by Prof. C. fi. Tfowbridge.
Formal presentation of the keys
of the institution to teachers, Supt.
T. C, Henderson.
Informal reception.