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Sylvan Valley News
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ORA L. JONES. PubHsher
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FORMS CLOSE—Thursday Noon
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 16,1914
All chanpres for advertisements
must be in this office before
Wednesday noon in order to ap
pear. Positively no changes will
J>e accepted later than this time.
BREVARD IS FIRST
Col. S. H. Cohen, who is an au
thority on the snbject, has said
that there is not a town in the
United States with a population of
less than ten thousand that had as
nice club rooms as those noy being
used by the Brevard Club. The
ccflonel might just as well have
said that there is not a town in the
class mentioned that had anything
as nice as Brevard. We have al
ways been used to the best here,
and wo find the habit growing on
us.
There is not a town in the United
States, regardless of population,
that enjoys such climate as found
in Brevard. While Asheville, Hen
dersonville, Waynesville and other
mountain towns were complaining
of the slu.sh just after the recent
snow, Brevard iieople tvere walk
ing on perfectly dry streets, the
snow all gone. And in summer
oar temiierature is always just a
few degrees below any other place.
There are few towns the sixe of
Brevard that can boast of having
one and one-half miles of the very
finest kind of asphalt paving; or
that can show as much paved side
walks as we have here. And we
are adding more all the time.
There is not a town or city in the
world that has better water than
that furnished to tlie water users
of Brevard. There is none better ;
we have absolutely pure water at
all times, according to the monthly
analysis by the state chemist. And
we have plenty of it, always on
tap, and always just cold enough to
drink without the addition of ice.
In this resiject w'e are greatly
blessed.
There are fewer towns that have
better sanitary arrangements than
Brevard. Oar sewerage system
forms a complete net-work through
out the town, and the health offi
cers are always alive to the best
Interests of the community. Every
citizen of the town is required to
observe all sanitary laws.
The spirit of co-operation shown
in Brevard is not surpassed any
where. The epirit of the day is
every man for everybody else. We
hear no knocking except that
'^used by the erection of some
struot({ire that will be a BTessing to
our town. Underhanded methods,
while not unknown here, are things
of the past. Everybody is striving
to deal with his neighbor as he
would have his neighbnr deal with
him. This spirit is going to make
a city out of Brevard within the
next few years.
In discussing the location of the
French Broad Summer Camp at
Brevard recently Capt. John W.
Moore paid a rare tribute to the
spirit of fellowship shown by Bre
vard people in declaring* that the
promoters of the school had been
shown sites better suited to their
needs than that finally selected,
but the reason they were not ac
cepted was because they were not
in Brevard ; that the spirit of co
operation displayed here was the
most sincere of any they had met
with.
There are just about one million
things that could be mentioned in
which Brevard excels, and we could
go on and never get through. We
believe we have the best there is in
the small town line, and if we find
we are behind in anything we will
try to change it.
We are not reciting our advan
tages in a boastful spirit but we
wanted to call the attention of our
readers to a few things we possess.
In the words of the poem we
“Needn’t flatter; never bluff;
Tell the truth, for that’s enough.”
Church Sunday.’* On this day
strenuous efforts are made to
hav/e every citizen of the town or
oity attend some church, at both
the morning and evening services,
and in at least one place' they sue
ceeded in getting every soul in the
place, big, little, old and young, out
to church. Conveyances are fur
nished free for old people and those
not able to walk to the church.
Naturally on this day the choirs
of the different churches render
special music, and the pastors dis
course on appropriate theAies.
Wherever this movement has been
tried it has proven a great success,
and has tended to increase the
church attendance by bringing back
into touch with church life those
who have drifted away.
The Nows is of the opinion that
this plan should be given a trial
here in Brevard. We believe it
would be a good idea to select a
certain Snnday far enough in ad
vance to give it time enough to
properly advertise the matter. Or
better still, select several Sundays
through which to run the church
going campaign, as has been done
some places.
W*hile wo do not generally be
lieve in adding innovations to
church work, wo do believe that
the “Everybody at Church Sun
day” would result in some good.
While it is true that most iieople
who would be attracted from the
non-church going class to the
church on this day would not go
again soon, it may also be true that
some one will get a message on this
day that would change his life for
the better. Any njovement having
for its object the increase in church
attendance with no more objec
tionable features than this should
be given a trial in Brevard. We
trust the churches of Brevard will
inaugurate this movement,
Betterment Association
If Diogenes should return to
earth again we believe we could
point out to him what he so long
sought while on this terrestrial
ball. One of our subscribers called
on us this week and, contrary to
the general rule, told us we had
him credited with a year's sub
scription that he had not paid, in
sisting that we take the money for
it. We took the money but we
haven’t fully recovered from the
shock yet.
Evidently the Gazette-News does
not believe in the effectiveness of
whitewash, for it is still insisting
that Jupe Adams has. outlived his
usefulness on the police court
bench. And that in view of the
fact that the board of aldermen
have placed their O. K. on all his
actions. Reading between the lines,
we strongly suspect that the Ga-
zette-News believes the entire
board needs revising “outward. ”
If you like the news service we
commenced giving you last week,
please tell us so. If you don’t like
it, let the fact be known. It’s an
experiment and we want to know
how it “takes.”
$5.00 REWARD
I will pay $5.00 reward for in
formation that will lead to the ar
rest and conviction of the party
or parties who have been pilfering
things at the Boardman Place.
l-16-4t J, S. SiLVERSTEIN.
FEEL RIGHT ALL THE TIME
Don’t Let Periodical Spells of
Lazy Liver Ruin Your Temper
and Spoil Your Work.
EVERYBODY AT CHURCH
Many towns and cities in different
parts of the United States have
been observing^ “Everybody at
If your liver doesn’t behave right
all the time—if it sometimes stops
working and you become bilious
and “headachy”—-don’t take calo
mel, but try Dodson’s Liver Tone.
You are safe in taking Dodson’s
Liver Tone. It’s a harmless, pleas
ant vegetable remedy that starts
the liver without stirring up your
whole system as calomel often does.
It is especially good for children
who need a liver tonic once in a
while, but who should not be dosed
vvith strong drugs.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is sold by S.
M. Macfie. This store guarantees
it with a clean open and shut guar
antee—your money back with a
smile if it fails to satisfy you.
Price, 50 oents a bottle, and your
money is as safe as is you kad it in
your pocket. If yon need the medi
cine yon need it badly—if it doesn’t
satisfy you, yonr money back. Bny
a bottle from 8. M. Macfie today
under this guarantee.
S. M. Macfie rocommends and
guarantees. adv
Brevard Banking Co.
THE SCHOOL AND THE CITIZEN
What is the purpose of the
American public school for which
the people are paying over $400.-
000,000 annually? There are two
answers:
1. The answer of tradition based
upon the theory that^ knowledge
itself IS sufficiently desirable to
justify this expense, and that the
tundamental puri>ose of the school
is the increase in the sum total of
knowledge.
2. The answer based upon the
modern social conscience which
emphasized the necessity of educa
tion aimed to secure the most in
telligent, conscientious, patriotic,
and efficient citizenship possible.
If we agree with the second an
swer we shall recognize first that
every citizen must become a wage-
earner. and that with the mere
tools of learning acquired perhaps
in the first six grades of the ele
mentary school, it is the function
of the school to prepare him to con
tribute something valuable to so
ciety in return for his support.
Second, this view of education
will insist that the girls who a^c
being educated in the public school
shall be trained to take their natu
ral and inevitable place in the com
munity as home makers. Accord
ing to the last census 86.7 per cent,
of American women twenty-five
years old and over are married. If
the public high school is to'fulfill
its community obligation to the
future wives and mothers of the
nation it must give them some
basis for etiiciency in this—wo
man’s most important work in the
world.
Third, if the school is to render
its young citizens more efficient
because of the expensive training
the public is furnishing, its whole
curriculum must be so planned and
so administered as to function in
the improvement of civic thought.
This will mean a revolution in the
course of study.
■ Fourth, the administration and
discipline of the school must be
shaped to further the end of train
ing habits of thought and action so
that they shall conserve commu
nity interests. We have been aX
along running our schools as if our
children were to livCs, under a
despotism where the highest virtue
is unthinking obedience. This
habit of unthinking obedience is
precisely the one most favorable to
the government of the people by a
Barnes or a Murphy in obedience
to the corrupt interests that they
serve. The people should through
their discipline and administration
become laboratories of community
thought which shall always place
the welfare of the school commu
nity as the criterion of individual
and community action with the
school.
The school should offer the
widest opportunities of culture to
its pupils, but it should remember
that many pupils have no distinc
tively intellectual interests and
that those who lack these interests
are of as much concern to the com
munity as are those who have
them. Education differs for differ
ent individuals, and it should be
the aim of the American high
school to iurnish to every Ameri
can child the opportunity for the
education that the child needs, and
it should be the duty of the school
to study the child and adapt the
education to his individual needs.
—William D. Lewis.
BREVARD. N. C.
Resources $290,000
J. F. Hays, President
^ Officers.
R. R. Deaver, Vice-President Thos. H. Shipman, Cashier
J. W. McMinn, Vice-President
REQUESTED TO REPORT
In response to an urgent appeal
from Dr. W. S. Rankin of Raleigh
our county superintendent of health
earnestly requests the people and
physicians of Transylvania county
to report promptly all births and
deaths occuring in the county to
the registers, who are as follows:
Boyd—Dr. A. E. Lyday.
Brevard—G. C. Kilpatrick.
Cathey’s Creek—C. R. Sharp.
Dunns Rock—A. C. Landreth.
Eastatoe—A. M. Paxton.
Gloucester—Vance Galloway.
Hogback—Waddie Breedlove.
Little River—W. R. Kilfwitrick.
Our county superintendent of
health also hopes that the sanitary
conditions throughout the county
win bear a rigid inspection, which
will soon be made according to or
ders of the county board'of health,
and that it will not be necessary to
make any unfavorable reports.
J. F. Hays
Jno. C. Deaver
W. S. Ashworth
Directors
R. R. Deaver
Jos. S. SiLVERSTEIN
Thos. H. Shipman
E. B. Alsop
J. W. McMinn
Wm. p. Weilt
REMEMBER
Her Birthday Will
Soon Be Here.
These birthdays have
a persistent c,nd reg
ular habit of rolling
rapidly around as we
approach the meridian
of life* Remember her
now as you did in her youthful days* We can
help you. A jeweler's stock is always one of
the most suggestive for those who refuse to let
the real pleasure of life slip away.
We'e birthday presents for your wife, mother,
sweetheart or friend; come in and look.
FrartK D. Clement
The Jeweler of Transylvania County.
K^ng Livery Company
Agents for
Ford Automobiles
Supplies and Parts
When in need of anything in this line call on us. We can
supply your wants on short notice.
Quick Repairs at Moderate Prices.
Two Passenger Car $547. tO Five Passenger $597.10
Phone 99.
See F. G. NORTON
At Snelson’s Blacksmith Shop
For all kinds of Cabinet Making, Trunk Repair*
ing. Wagon and Carriage Work a Specialty.
Terms cash unless special arrangements are
made, Jill work guaranteed. Rates reasonable.
A car load of Cement just arrived. Get prices on ail
kinds of building material from|us.
Sec Frank Jenkins.
Brevard Lumber Co.
See FRANK JENKINS
Builders’ Material
Phone 120
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DucKworth Drug^ Co.
Annual Ainiotincement
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We have just finished taking stock and find that our busi
ness has increased one-third over that of the previous, year
which goes to prove that business is coming our way. We
are very grateful to our friends for their increase of business
and hope by their aid to make stiU greater gains during the
coming year. If you are not numbered among our patrons •
we would be glad, to have you open an account with us by
sending your prescriptions to our store, or by having your
physician leave them at our place of business andf we will
guarantee satisfaction in every way. Respectfully,
. Duceworth Dru{( Co.
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