VOLUME-XIX
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. 1914.
NUMBER- 5
SI,500,000 ORCANIZATION
Developments of far-reaching Im
portance to Western North Caro
lina are presaged by the reorgani
zation, yesterday morning, of'the
Toxaway Power Company, a cor
poration chartered about a year
ago with an anthorized capital
stock of 1^1,500,000. The reorgani
zation of the company took place
at the law offices of Martin, Rol
lins and Wright, in the Legal build
ing.
When the Toxaway Power Com-
pany was chartered the incorpora-
torvS were H. S. Mitchell and W. E.
Moore of Pittsburg, Pa., and George
H. Wright of Asheville. At that
time the company intended doing
extensive electrical development
along the various rivers in Western
Nortl* Carolina, but the i)rojects
hung lire for a time, and were
tinally apparently abandoned.
Koeently the corporation was se
cured b;v New York and Southern
capitalists, who decided to reor-
j»Mni/.e in order to take full control
of all the assets of the former cot-
]»oration. This reorganization was
eftVeted yesterday morning, but
until more details are arranged the
directors of the comi)any refuse to
lunke ])ublie the names of otlicers,
DR. WHITFIELD BROOKS
Another veteran has answered
the last roll call.
On Saturday night, January 17th,
at 7 o’clock, Dr. Whitfield Brooks
quietly breathed his last, and from
frequent conversations with him
during his last sickness and the fact
that the last word spoken shortly
before his death was “Heaven,” I
feel that there is no doubt but
what he was thoroughly prepared
to die. For about one year I had
lived next room to him, and both
being old men, we had much in
common, and came to know him
intimately. He was very fond of
reading, his Bible esj)ecially, but
his eyesight failing him, it was my
pleasure to read te him. He was
very very intent, always wanted to
read a Psalni, and would ask me to
read slowly, and he would repeat
after me, taking much comfort
from onr lessons. Ho realized six
months ago that he had only a
short time to live, and talked freely
to me on the subject, and said that
he had no fears whatever, and
locked forward to the summons
and that he would soon join the
loved companions who had gone on
before.
Dr. lirooks \<’as born August 17th,
propo.M'd developments and other ; I11. was graduated from the South
matters which might defeat the j Carolina Medical College and also
])ur]>oses of the new organization. | from the Columbia Medical C'ollege,
MiMubers of the now eompany !•'’i-
Betterment Association
ADDRESS BY MISS HAMILTON)
Continued from last week.
‘‘Our people need a strong raind
in a strong body ; a well trained
soul and mind. Distractions and
dissipations are diseases. The
newspaper—that miracle of mod
ern times—is more often a mere
dissipation. People will read it
from cover to cover, including ad
vertisements. 1 have seen a man
read half a dozen papers on Sunday.
What a waste of that great clay.
It is a dissipation, a cruel injustice
to human lite. Read the headlines
in a few minutes and you will soon
see what you want to read. Keep
informed of the leading to])ics of
the day, but don’t feed your soul
on trash.
“The poet Edmund Vance Cooke
tells the story of a child asking:
‘Nurse, is this the holy Sabbath
dayV’ ‘No, my child, not yet.’
Next day : -Nurse, is this the holy
Sabbath dayV’ Ni.rse: ‘D(>ar me,
he'll not be long for this world.
No. my child, not yet.’ Next day :
‘Nurse, is this the holy Sabbath
dayV’ ‘Yes, my dear.’ ‘Well,
nurse, hunt me nj) the comic sup
plement.’ How slmll I describe the
comic supplement with its liideous
colors and combinations ; itsutroci-
own or control extensive water |
listed iu the ('onfederatearmy Sfune [ i)ractical jokes ;
,1 A. ■ n- A I vear wiis i)1h(*i*(1 in liO‘'i)itiil wtwk i its lierocs Mutt- iind •len“”Hn over-
nght.s iind property in W estern I puitioin iu»spuai
North i'arolina, and they ])ro])ose ^oon went to tin? front,
to tlevelop water power projects i "
alon;: the Toxaway river in Tran- i «« regimental physician ;
sylvania county, and along thei"*‘^ captnn>d at the battle of
(irecTi river and other streains on ' Tenn., and taken to a
a plao.‘ for rag time. I thought on
the deck of a steamer on the Okla-
waha in sunny Florida a b't of rag
time music was not out of place,
but I don’t want the young people
of mv home traint^d in their taste
for music by the un moral Ameri
can neero. I recently read where
seventy-two dancing masters agreed
to bar rag-time. And if Si"> barrf'd
in dance halls what right has it in
Christian homes? The words and
suggestions of this class of music
are degrading. ‘As a man thinketh
in his' heart- so is he.’ Is it any
wonder our young people rush into
marriage and the divorce court mill
is kept grinding? The modern
dances that the secular and sacred
press are arraigning didn’t have its
origin in decent society. You
must create environment. We have
rag-tnne courtships, rag-time mar
riages, etc. Our mothers sung us
to sleep with Watts’ ‘Oh Hush Me
My Baby,’ but now a days wo hear
of ragging the baby to sleep.
“What can we do in our thought
life to promote the good and the
true? We can grow i)ersonality.
If this be a fact it is our duty to do
it. What is the cure for the pres
ent ccnditions? The creating an
environment from the higher and
better things. To do this Brevard
should have a chataucjna. This
course of study elevates its pupils
along all the lines which lead to im
provement of environment, which
is the key to the situatiim,”
PLANS FOR A NEW DPPOT
The plans for the new Southern
dej)ot have been approved bv the
board of aldermen, Hnd although
there is no official confirmation of
the fact, it is generallv nndersto.»d
that work on the new building will
commence at an early date.
The new plana are somewhat like
the old depot, which was destroy»*a
by fire last fall. They call for a
much larger ware hons»\ and lartr*»r ,
waiting rooms. The business
offices will be about the same size
as the old. There will be retiring
rooms for ladies, equipped with
lavatory, etc. The entrance to the
colored waiting room will be* the
same as the old, but the entrance
to the wbitp waiting rooms will be
next to the tracks.
A five hundred foot ])latform will
be built to extend up to the street
crossing above the depot, and a
side track will be run in behind
this down to the depot.
The local officials of the company
are trying to get the men in charge
to award the contract for the
building to local contractors, and
it is to be hoi)ed that they will suc
ceed in this.
FIRE IN NEWS OFFICE
the- south side of the Blue Ridge.
All riL'lits, pro])erties, options and
atrreenients held by the former in-
eoi ixirators have bet^n transft‘rrcd
to t ill- m‘\v eoinpaiiy.
Western North Carolina is one of
the greatest lU-lds in the country
for the deveIo|)!nent of water
])0\V(*r. Nearly all of tlie streams
have swift current and great vol-
uiin' of water, containing thou
sands and thousands of undevel-
opt‘(i hors(‘power. 3’any of these
strt'ains fiow through pro]>erty
ov. iK d or controlled by the mem
bers of tht* new coni])any v.iiicii
will ixive tlie orgHni/ation a ready
iield on which to begin w(n-k.
The ideas of the Toxaway Pov.er
Cimipaiiy do not stop at the har-
nessiiii: of water power, it is inti-
T'.iated. With all the surplus elec
trical t'ner!.ry now going to waste
down the various streams, ])ro]KU'ly
hainessi'd and ready to b ' put to
work, tlicre v;ill be an abundance
of t'hetip ])o\ver, winch will ten<l to
induce inunufaeturers in search of
j northern ])rison, wherc^ he rt*-
j mained until June, l He was
I married to Miss Sue Ella Wert/., to
* 0
I which union wen; s('vente<'n cliil-
lirei!. ail living one.
I H»> h)cated in Transylvania
, county, N. C., soon after the close
i of the war, and became identified
with its peo]>le and its interests,
engaging in the ]>ractic(; of medi
cine and larniing. He rei)resi‘nted
the county in the lower •house one
term. During tlu* vi'ar on
the recoaimendation of Hon. M. W.
Ransom, lie was ajipointed as ]>hy-
sician to the ('hevene Rivi'r Indian
grovvu buily making -a small bt>y
set! .‘^tars. Remember, as a man
thinketh in his heart, so is lu;. Th(‘
comic su])pl(!ment should be legis
lated out of existence.
“How to read? There are ])ilcs
UTion ])iles of magazines, many of
them without art and full of
nmmbj'-pamby characters and
them«\s and suggestions of the
under-world. Many think it an
intellectual virtue to read tliese
magazine.'^. , One or two of the lu'st
should be sullicient. So with
books. What should we read?
How dare I waste my time on the
latest novel? Wi; read tlu'.se books
bt'cause they an; givc'U to us at
t-iiristmas time or because onr
friends have read them. It is ri'ad-
ing and forgetting—a sin of the
>rk
! agency, Dakota, returning to North ’ brain. This sort of mental wo
('arolina, afterwards taking U]> his will eventually destroy our ])ov,er
])ractiee again, and which he fol-1 larmoiy. Haven't you hi*ard
lowed until his last sickness. Hi'' T'eople say, -I'd forget my head if
was a tyi)ical “country doctor." it were iH)t fastened on.’ If we
j No night was too dark n.“>r too Cold, j ••'hould treat our 1)odies as we do
i no mountain trail too rongli nor too ■ *>ur mituls we wauld soon bt> com-
‘long to di'ti'r him wlien called. He ' pletely hel])less.
j would mount liis laitliful horse, • ‘‘liut to return to tlie home Jiiid j (*(4ved would most assuredly ])ut to
j with tlie “old time saddle ])oekets | niunici])ality. Our ]K‘ople must: shame the s])irit of nari'owiK'Ss and
well stocked with }»ills, j!Owd(*rs havt; amusements. Suppose a pvtnljudiee shown by the writ(*i‘ of
and ])laslers, and if need be travi*l ^ thi'atrieal company comes to your j such an article,
a ni'w location to consider Western I'Jng, to the cabin of tla; town and ])res<mts a Shakes]>earean ' As befbre stated, the writer was
Niirth (’arolina in a favorable liulit. i humble meuntaineer. often ' masterpiece ]>roving that the wages j born and lived many years among
~ knowing that thev could not
“HOW LONG, 0 LGRD”
Tlu; above appeared as the title
of an article in this week's issue of
the News, taken from the Charlotte
Obs(‘rver.
We were born in the South and
we love it, but the gross injustice
of the article refi'rred to, com*ing
from a source from wliich we woud
naturally expect better things,
made; us hang our lu'ads in shame.
Only a few days ago an appeal
came to the jiresident of the Wo
man's Home Missionary So(*iety of
the Methodist church in this city
a family living n(>ar Trap Hill, N.
C., asking aid. The re(iuest did
not come through “a Northern
school teachiM',” but direct from
the family. The re.s])onse was im-
J mediate and whole hearted, ]denty
I of warm clothing for «‘very niein-
I bi'r of the family, good reading
j matter and many other things nec-
jessaryiu tlu‘honu*. “How’ Long,
() Lord" was nvul tliis body of
! women who had rcs])ond»'d st> loy-
j ally and lovingly to this c-all for
I assistance. u!id th(* wav it was re-
Sbortly afeer seven o’clock last
Saturday evening a small blaze
broke out in the n ar room of the
News office, causing some damage
to the pH])er stock stored tlu're.
The tiro was caused by tlie cHreless
drop])ing of an unextinguished
match into > n envelope box con
taining some i)apcr trimmings
by the office “devil,” but was dis
covered by ('hief of Police Single
ton b(‘fore it had gained very mi;ch
headway. Th(? lire was extin
guished b('fon' the tire department
arrived, liowever.
Had the blaze not been discov
ered when it was it is very proba
ble that tlie News office would have
be(;n desti*oyed with all its con
tents, and there would have been
no hope of saving the postoilice and
Fraternity building, and possil)ly
would have wiped cut the entire
block.
Tlie editor had only 1)cen out of
the oHice for about ten minutes
when the lire was discovered, and
but for the timely ])assiu'^ of Chief
Singleton we would ]>robably bo
standinir in some “bread line” now.
The coni])any will control a num-•
her of ^]'leiulid manufaetuiing
sites, an-! may build some large
m-uiufacturing plants to take care i
of the surplus power.
T!n‘ ncv,- Toxaway Pow(*r C«)m- i
]mny starts with ani])le cajdtal to '
handle almost any sized deal. The |
Nev.- York I'li-ment in tlie comi):;ny
has lieavy I'lnancial backing I'roin i
sev«M-n] Nt“\v York banks, while j
the Soutliorn men in tli<> cofiipany,
in atldilion to possessing much
valual)li* ])roperty and water rights
in this section, also have amjile
financial backing from Southern
banlcs
Within a very short time details
will b.‘ completed, options on other
pro})crty secured, and the company
will make a definite announcement
of its ])lans.—Asheville Citi/.en,
January
We are expecting .')(») people to
meet us at Ladsonville Monday at
2:00]). m.—Carolina Special Auc
tion Co.
I'ay
, him anything. But lie lias bet'ii
anipiy nnvardi d by the satisfaction
' of knov.-ing tliat lu‘had faithfully
, administen'd to tlir wants of the
ne(‘dy and hel])less.
of sin must ln> death, tlu' ii‘W would | the poor whites, and has seen with-
bc lliei*e; but the gn*at majority | in ten mib's of a ri'sort as ]iopular
would go to the “Nicolodeon." J as Mount Arie, just such conditions
They crave the exeitenienr t'f juv«;-
nile crime, singers of chea]) enter
tainment, a few minutes of varie ty,
as this “Northern teach(‘r” de
scribes, and more than that they
are t‘xistin<jr todav. The Northern
Don't fail to attend the Lad:son-
ville land sali5 Monday, - ;0o p.v.m.
—C’jirolina Snecial Auction Co.
Report of the Condition of -
The Brevard Banking: Co.
at BrevarJ. in the state of North Carolina,
at the close of business, Jan. 13, 1914.
KKSOL'KCKS
Loans and Discounts
Overdafts
North Carolina state bonds 4 ,
Furniture and Fixtures
All other ivul estate owned...
At the time of d'.'ath he was a > uiaking a crazy ]>atchwork of the j p{'0])le do not ascri'je these condi-! Due from Hanks and Bankers
member of the Confederate pension
ho-.ird of this county.
His remains v.-cre laid to rest
Sunday afternoon bc'side his be
loved wife in the
mind. Tin* .spendthrift habit of , tions to a lack of ambition or shift-j Cash Hems.,
nickels. What is our taste? Do lesr css. Irat to lack of oportunity ' coin....
$256,1’S.67
2,456.47
‘ 1,000.(10
4.000.00
6.430..58
23,510.06
6,308.53
612..-',)
and the way for the South to “stop
this sog^y minded variety of senti-
' mentalisn^" is for the jieople of the
\w enjoy a socallcd a pojiulur lec
turer, one who will give you a
cemetery ,it ^
Mount Moriah church, of which he jpi'ople Imve no ai)])etite for j South, wlio liave been blessed with j
v.!iS n member in full fi'lbuvsl'in i sermons? As Sam Jones used to oiiertunitys and advantages which
a,.,l « eviclenoc of ,he of 1 -y -ho loft .ho chnuoh in
the ])eop1e, among whom he ^{,<1 [ sermon, ‘When
Silver Coin, including ail
minor coin currency
National bank notes and other
other r. S. Notes
education and a knowledge of the
outside world bring, to see to it
672.89
3,789.00
Total $306,918.72
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
This remedy has no sui)erior for
coughs and colds. It is jdeasant to
take. It contains noopimn or other
narcotic. It always cures. For
sale by S. M. Mactie. adv
If you miss the Ladsonville sale
Monday yon will always regret it,
by goliy.—Carolina Special Auction
Co.
lived and practiced, the ehnrch i > rack out.’
would not accommodate more than j civic club ha\e doubt-
one half the iieople who attended j Ameiican taste for
and Tuiid their last tribute of
1 dining-room ; hideous combination ; We are glad Mr. Ochs, having
are j been raised in the South and know
LIABlUTIES
Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00
that the boys and girls <m “the ! Suq)lus fund 25,000.00
ridges” and in the ••hollows” have j Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes paid 311.90
Dividends unpaid 3,(W2.00
Bills payable 30,000 00
Time certificates of deposit... 50,601.95
these same advantaj’os placed at
lad
, art—chromos. I saw seven in one : their doors.
! dining-room ; hideous combination ;
1 • '
1 -1, , , . XV of colors. How often v
.e c 11 t rcn ia\e os an a tc- ^jyg^isted with pictures j ing the conditions, was broad l>t*posits subject to check...... 138,599.00
tionate father, the state has lost a
wise, patriotic citizen, the medical
profession a successful practitioner,
but wo trust that our loss is his
etei-^^ial gain.—R. A. J. in Gazette-
News.
Another obituary by “A Be
reaved Comrade” will be iirinted
next week.
on the wall. Good pictures are as [enough to lay aside all narrowness
essential as good food. Bad art is | and predjudice and jirint this ap-
so inexcusable. You may purchase { peal, and we hope this appeal, as
BIDS WANTED
The county board of education desires
bids on the building of a new one-room
school house in District No. 2, Hogback
Township. For specifications see T. H.
Galloway, chairman of board of education,
or T. C. Henderson, secretary of board,
i-:3 'It,
a beautiful symphony in grey for
twenty-five cents. Let us choose
the best pictures to confront the
eye of childhood. In my home
tov^-n each class graduating to a
higher room left a memorial in the
shape of a good picture. They
purchased them with money saved
from chewing gam, coc»-cola, etc.
Pictures like Sir Galahad npon the
walls will have their inflnence iji
your homos.
“What is the taete of Americans
in music? Rag-time—a contribn-
hr.Mon or the negro race. There is
well as the one in the Toledo Blade
from a mother in North Carolina
saying her little ones would know
no Christmas unless remembered in
this way, met with just as bounti
ful M response as the one sent to us.
How long, O Lord, will thef peo
ple of the South by their love of
petty class distinction, their nar
rowness and predjudice, keep back
the day of universal brotherhood
between the North and South, a
day when there will be no North,
no South, excepting geographically.
Ex.-Tak Hkkl.
Cashier’s Checks outstandin*
Certified Checks.
3,356.47
7.40
Total $306,918.72
ss:
State of North Carolina,
County of Transylvania,
I, Thos. H. Shipman, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
THOS. H. SHIPMAN, Cashier.
Correct—.\ttest:
R. R. Deaver,
J. W. McMinn,
. W.P.Weilt, '
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
23rd day of January, 1914.
Cos Paxtgn, C. S. C.