VOLUME-XIX ■
BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 17. 1914.
NUMBER-29
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS
The county board of education
met in the superintendent’s olBce
Monday, July 6, and disposed of a
large volume of business.
A school house site of five acres
was purchased from E. T. Raines
for the location of a new school
house at Lake Toxaway. A two-
room building will be erected.
• A school house site containing
one acre at Cedar Mountain ad
joining the present lot was bought
from W. S. Hooker. On it a new
building, to replace the one de
stroyed by fire, will bo erected.
A contract for building a school
house at Montvale, Hogback No. 3,
was lei to L. VV. Duncan and James
Bell.
The board d«^cided to add another
room to the Davidson River school
in view of increase in population of
the district, and made appropria
tion for three teachers.
The time of office of several com
mitteemen having expired, a good
many new appointments were
made. These appointments were
us follows:
Bievard No. 1, F. E. Shuford to
sacceed J. M. Kilpatrick ; Davidson
River, T. L. Gash to succeed E. A.
Allison; Calvert, Peter Morgan to
succeed G. G. Bullard ; Rosman, A.
M. White to succeed Flem Glaze-
ner ; Round Top, A. C. Landreth to
succeed H. L. Allison; East Fork,
Joe Gilli*s]>ie to succeed Erni«t Gil
lespie ; O.ik Foro.-^t, R. A. Garron
t.o succeed P. T. ^rust;?rs; Ro])in-
son, Calloway McCall
Lewis Owen ; Oakland, Lowe
to succeed W. W. Reid; Montvale,
Wults^r iliiivkle lo snect-t-d W. E.
Head ; vJodar .Niourtuin, J. fcj. Heath
to r-ricceod A. B. Hookor; LHurol
\V. M. Ball to succeed Tim
Harton; Little Rivor, L-ic Kilpat
rick to snccooJ R. L. Capps
The board also insporrioiiod th<-
school funds to the verious dis
tricts according to law, and fixed
the SiiUries of tciichcr^^.
The lirst in August was
set as the date for the opt^ning of
RECORDER'S COURT
The recorder has been unusually
busy for the last two weeks. A
session of court was held last Fri
day, and the nsnal Monday’s ses
sion was held this week, in which
a number of ca?es ware disi>o8edof.
On Friday were the following
cases: State vs. Elbert Venson,
carrying concealed weapons, not
guilty.
State vs. Elbert Venson, assault,
not guilty.
State vs. Eli and Jule Bryson,
colored, carrying concealed weap
ons ; two indictments, guilty in
both, eight months on public
roads.
State vs. .Jule Bryson, carrying
concealed weapons, guilty, four
months on public roads.
Monday’s docket was as follows :
State vs. Bill Jones, carrying
concealed weapons, guilty; to be
hired out by commissioners for
state vs. G. E. Pence, selling pis
tol to minor, guilty; one jienny
and costs.
Against Phili]) White, colored,
there were six ’ndictmonts for car
rying concealed weapons. In three
of these he was fovind not guilty,
prosecuting witness to pay costs.
In three others ho was found
guilty. In one the sentence was to
be hired out by county conwnis-
sioners for SIOO. Appeal given and
waived in open court. In the other
two casi)s jndgineiit vas suspended
on p-iymentof co.sts. Appeals given
to succeed waived in both.
HEAR THE ORPHANS
People of Brevard will have the
opportunity next Tuesday night,
July 21, of Clearing the singing
cliss of the Oxford orphanage as it
stops here on its tour of this sec
tion of the state. The class has
been here regularly for a number
of years every summer, and it has
never failed to give a good concert.
From their reputation as enter
tainers and for the cause they rep
resent the children desire a full
house.
Tickets are now on sale, the
prices of admission being 15 cents
for children, 25 cents for adults,
and ;i5 cents for reserved seats.
JURY LIST
A BiT OF HISTORY
Mr. Brovard Nixon retnrned ves-
terdftv from Brevard, N. C., where
he had been called on uecount of
the illness of his little daughter,
f/onielia. He l»*ft her na'ioli i:n-
proved. Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. M. C.
Sims and little Miss Cornelia Nixon
are s-pcndiiu^ the suniir.(a-witli Mrs.
\V. W. Zncharv at Brevard. 'J'iiis
The following jurors have been
drawn for the term of Superior
court, beginning first Monday in
September:
First Week—W. H. Hogsed, W.
P. Clark, William J. Fisher, D. P.
Kilpatrick, J. M. Orr, C. M. Doyle,
W. R. Rhodes,. C. C. Case, C. C.
Morris, E. C. Aiken, G. W. Ban-
ther. A. J. Beck, W. E. Bird, J. W.
Duckworth, (’. W. Owen, C. I.
Nicholson, C. \Y. Pickelsimer, Ro-
lanu Hendricks, G. W. Wilson, M.
E. Shipman, \V. E. Bishop, L. F.
Lyday, Rufus Galloway, R. O.
Thomas, T. H. Grogan, J. L. Led
better, T. J. Wilson, B. A. Frady,
Ed Hendricks, J. K. Barclay, W.
S. Ashworth, J. C. Miles, John
liird, Jr., Luther Wilson, Miles
IJryant, H. D. Orr, L. Simpson,
H. E. Shipman, J. P. Deaver, W.
L. Aiken, E. A. Glazener, V. B.
McGaha.
Second Week—Ed Gillespie, G.
A. Clayton, W. H. Olney, T. T.
Corn, E. A. Batson, J. C. Bagwell,
T. B. Crary, W. M. Bradley, S. R.
Keid, C. L. Bryson, E. H. Kitchen,
Will Davis, B. J. Glazener, G. P.
Frady, T. E. Patton. Sr., V. M,
Owenby, S. A. England, J. AV. K.
Lanning, Louis Gillespie, J. A.
Mutl, J. A. YoiJng, W. A. Jenkins,
John G. Neill, A. D. Lyday.
REV. J. A. BRYAN
A FINE RECITAL
The evangelietic meetings at the
Presbyterian church will be opened
next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
with a Bible talk by Major Joseph
Hardee.
The evening service will be
conducted by the pastor. The Mon
day morning service at 11 o’clock
by Rev. E. H. Norwood. The even
ing service by Rev. W. M. Robbins.
Rev. J. A. Bryan will arrive from
Birmingham, Ala,, in time for
Tuesday morning’s service and
preach again at night that day and
on through the week, including the
following Sunday.
We clip the following notice
from the Birmingham^ Ledger:
“Twenty-five years is a long time
as we measure human life, and
twenty-five years of hard work is
unusual. Last Sunday and Aton-
day, Rev. J. A. Bryan celebrated
his twenty-five years of life in Bir
mingham. It has been a mission
ary career, for Mr. Bryan is by na
ture and choice a missionary. He
has been offered easier work and
better pay in other i)laces, but he
Ins devoted his life to this work
and he has built up a large church
which believes in him and loves
him.
“Presbyterians do not like to
chaiige their ministers, and the
Third church will hold Mr, Bryan
as long as he will stiiy with it. He
loves it as he loves his eliildren.
“Ir is not often in Protc-stant
churches that a scholar becon)es a
missionary, yet ]\rr. Bryan ha.«
done that. He was an honor man
at college, won prices for oratory,
yet he comes as near being a real
missionary today as any minister
in Ala’oama, Self-sacrificing, ear
nest, tireless and devoted, he has
done work CTiougli to deserve a
monument, and he is only well into
middle life. Birmingham feels
honored by his presence and con
gratulates him and his corgrega
NORTH CAROLINA SLOPPY
WITH OPPORTKWITIES
tion.’
h one cf tl'.e favorite points of in-
Kcho^'ls, with the ]>rovision that a i terest to iLe people of ibi.^ sceticr,
later dute ni:;y be allowed on appli-: Mr. Nixon, in speaking of 3re-
cation of tJic comnnrtce ot any | vard, said ;‘‘Brcvi.rd is al;ont 2‘.' 0 L -
school «o desiring to the chairman | feet high ; is snrronrded by monu- j Ojig {\\q surest testa of oratori-
of the board of i ducation. No i tains, is cold enough every j urt'is found in the
schools may begin, however, latt'r to sleej) nndwr a blanket and is an j {ittempt to hold interest for a con-
than the first Monday in October, i ideal ])lace for rest. | siderable time in productions that
All .schools, according to law, must I “Brevard was named lor »'r. j are unrelieved by flashes of wit or
be continuous after o])ening, cxcept ^Ephrinm Brcviird (the avithor and | pji^jsuges of humor. This dillicult
for the Christmas holidays. | one of the signers of the Mer »ilen-1 was fully accomplished last
No date was s<?t by the board for ; burg Dcclaiation of Iude])i3ndenct!). | night at the Auditorium by
the beginning of the four months j Davidson River, one of the beauti-1 jirs May Putnam Clayton in Ihu
NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY
The following books have re
cently been shelved at the Tran
sylvania Confederate Memorial Li
brary : Martha by the Day, Sun
shine Jane, Little Citizens, Told by
Uncle Remus, Col. Carter of Car-
tcrsviUe, Doctor Lav. nder's Pc«-
Address of Biori H. Butler before the
North Carolina Press Association at
Wrightsville Beach. *
Continued from last week.
The newspaper must be a clear
ing house for information concern
ing the state, the county and the
town. Every new farm, every
new factory; every new thing that
tells of development and expansion
should get a place on the first page
with a two-stack head. I figure in
our paper that building a dozen
new tobacco barns on Pinebluflf
farm is of more consequence than
the vote for the candidate for con
gress or governor.
An example of this helpful en
thusiasm is the Southern Pines
Tourist, one of the most aggressive
development factors in the state,
as w’cll as a model village news
paper.
I don’t mind telling you a trade
secret if you will go home and
profit by it: Every time we start
something new over in Hoke coun
ty we try to tell it to The Observer,
the News and Observer, the Star
and all the other papers that want
to know what is going on in the
state. They can’t keep a secret
and they tell it to their readers
ind every few days you notice thtit
something new is breaking looso
in the sandhills I don’t know
whetlier our section is bettor than
yours, bat we go on the theory
that our si-etiiin is the best on
earth, and onr favored bird is not
the American eagle, but the wise
old hen who makes a note of the
occurrence every time she lays an
egg and alludes to it several times
during the day before and after
laying it. We believe in advertis
ing.
It is useless to enumerate the op
portunities in North Carolina. We
could acconimodate in this state
many millions of people People
are v>hat we lack. We lack people
because the rest of this country,
v.'hich is supplying settlers for all
the United states and Canada, does
not know North Carolina. Within
the next year and nearly cx^ry
year, a million or more Americans
will hunt new homes. They will
not find i»ny thing better than
North Carolina but they vrill go
elsewhere for want of knov,’ledge
of North Carolina. You who print
kli
compulsory term.
BOYLSTON NEWS
I ful streams flowing from its moun- j reading of Enoch Arden. The
; tain spring into the French l^'oad, i jj^oj.y, familiar to many, perhaps
I was named for Major John Dnvid I ^11 of the audience, was retold in
I son of Revolutionary fame. ! such a way as to illumine all the
We had a very severe hail storm
in this section last week.
! “Brevard IS tlie capit al of Tian-
j .svlvania county, which was at one
' time a p«rt of Mecklenbur^r, when _ _ _
Weldon English umdo a harness | this county oxtendea (rou. its enst- renunciation,“ crving,' -Hell,
trip to Hendersonville Saturday, j^irn b<iuriday to the Missi.<sii>pi
Several of our people attended' river, and the people of thi* t wo
the Union meeting at Holly Springs I counties are mostly th<i same in
Saturday. j traditions and genealogy.
Carl Orr and Mr. and Mrs. Fred I ‘ Brevard is in close touch wuh
spent Sunday afternoon at Weldoa ’ tlu5 manv ihHs, iiiouMtaiu pt-.iks.
English's.
Miss Alice Banks of Horse Shoe,
spent Saturday night and Simday
with Mrs. Emma Reetje.
Mr. Lightfoot iireached a very
interesting sermon at Boylston
church Saturday and Sunday night
and will also lecture three nights
this week.
James and Henair Morris and
Bert Cagle visited friends and rel
atives in this section last Saturday
and Sunday.
Bobolink .
THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE
and places- of nntuval iitt*;!v>-t
beautiiully and entertainingly de
scribed by ChristiaG Reid nearly
half a century ago in her little
mountain romance, -“Land of the
Sky,” which first brought to notice
of the world the beauty and grand
eur of the mountains of western
North Carolina. ^
“The names in the county make
one think of tlie old records of
Mecklenburg. For instance, Duck
worth, Bell, McMahan, Zachary and
many otlierg remind you of the
revolutionary records of this coan-
ty. A Mockleiabsrger just feels at
home whila visiting this grand-
daugnter of our own great county”
A number of voters in Catheys
Creek township take this method
of endorsing all that was said last
■vveek in reference to the claims of
W. L. Aiken as an uvallable candi
date for sheriff by a Hogback dem
ocrat and A'onld add that \n oar
belief the placing of bis name on
the county ticket would give tone
and strength. He is well known,
his antecedents irreproachable, his
competency undoubted ahd, best
of all, no old scores to settle.
We are profoundly gratefnl to
Hogback for the suggestion.
Catheys Creek.
W. L AIKEN FOR SHERIFF
For the due consideration of the
democratic voters of Transylvania
county we would respectfully sub
mit the name of W. L. Aiken for
sheriff of said conntF- He is com
petent, sober and honest, and
would makp^a good officer,
A Citizen.
old beauties and give them the fas
cination of novelty. In the garden
scene, where Enoch inade his great
me
not to tell her !'’ Mrs. Clayton ren
dered this passage of love, passion
sacrifice v^ith true insight and sym
pathy.
The piano part, rendered by Mi«s
Blair, added much to the intjerpre-
tation of the poem. Every char
ter had its motif, and ev^ry scene
was made more elYective by the
quality of the music that prccded
or followed it. The part was well
performed, with the skill and un-
derstanding of a real musician.
The applause was generous and
the audience gave evidence of much
appreciation thoughout the enter-
taiomeiBt.
AUCim HORSE SALE
get some of your ptiper.s into tho
hands of peoplt? in the tobacco so*? -
ticns of Pennsylvania, Ohio, VViis-
consin and elsewhere. \ou i^ tLe*
'^orn counties should be in ix)uch>
of.
Li-htof the W^estern Stars, They i uuu cUmate
Who Knock at Our Gates, The \ the north and vrCBt is fierce and
Story of Ah, Dark Hollow, Unto people are running away from it
^ TT- , 1 . , . Our cliinate IS one Ov
X)le, Old Chester Tales,
Over Martha, Ohancc» Penrod,
Flying U. Ranch, The Fortunate
Youth, The Elusive Pimpernel,
Miss Billy—Married. The Carolina ^
Mountains, The Tinder Box, The the coin coanuy
! Wnstorn S'tnrs. ThP.v i the north and west. Ike clim
At the auction sale here last Sat
urday the following boaght horses:
J. S. Shook, two horses, $172.60;
J. L. Aiken, two, $155; J. M. Kil-
jmtrick, two, J|120; E. F. MoflBltt,
one, $61; J. H. McLean, one, 152;
John Cantrell, one, $55; Mrs. C. M.
Oooke, one, 1100; A. H. King, one,
1125; J. F. Lance, one, $45; I-C.
Tinsley, one, $40.
J. M. Kirby of Knoxville, Tenn.,
was manager, and Victor McLean,
a, nephew of Dr. J. H. McLean,
also of Knoxville, was aactioneer.
B. E. Paxton was bookkeeper.
Mr. George Maxwell renutned
home recently from work of sever
al months in south Georgia and Al-
abama. *
Mr. B. T- Ontland and grand
daughter, Miss Edith Ontland, of
Statesboro, Ga. are at the Aethel-
wold.
Oi>?ar, Onr Southern Highhuiders,
Miss Billy’s Decision, Mlsailianc-e,
East of the Shadows, Us (ttn old-
fashioned story). The House That
Grew, Before Adam, The Prin')ipal
Girl, The Blossom Shop, When
Ghost Meets Ghost, Tho Wood Fire
in No. By Pike sand Dj'ke, Five
Little Peppers, Quo Vadis.
Library hours are from 11 ::;0 a.
m. to 12 :30 p. m,, and from 4 :30 to
6 p. m.
TEACHE3S’ CERTIFICATES
The examination of white teach
ers for certificates necessary for
teaching in the public schools of
this county took place at the Bre
vard graded school building on
Thursday and Friday of last w'eek,
under direction of Superintendent
Henderson. As a result of this ex
amination the following were
granted certificates:
Misses Sue Heath, Victoria Gilles
pie, Lona McKinna, Clessie Whit
mire, Della Gillespie, Grace Gilles
pie, Maxie Reece, Etta McCall,
Docia Case, Messrs. Oscar Parker,
Spurgeon Ledbetter, George Reece,
Misses Verona'Neal and May Burns.
Reading Circle Course—Miss Nan
nie Jordan.
The superintendent was assisted
in the grading of papers by Mrs.
Brooks, instructor in pedagogics
at the summer school of Brevard
Institute.
constantly. Onr climate
onr greatest airscts and when it is
known what n climate we have and
what other advantages, we will g^^t
people.
Wo should have afl aggressivtf
publicity bureau in the association.
The western states spend hundreds
of thousands of dollara to settle’
their country which i» not so'
attractive as otjrs, but they settitf
it, and get their money back in the
increased business. They get mar
velous and rapid results. If Cali
fornia, with tho hustle those folks
have, should unite tho rainfall of
North Carolina and the climate to
their hustle they would make five
million bales of cotton a year and
spin it. On the sandy lands of this
state could be made cotton to clotho
millions of the people of Europe if
farmers were here to use the avail
able cheap land. The United
States makes fifteen million balo^
of cotton a year. The cotton states
of the south constitute the only
part of the globe that makes
enough cotton to satisfy its needs..
In the United States we, each of bs>
use an average of about thirty
pounds of cotton a year. In mos«
of the world the average aoKmnt
for each individual is not above
three pounds. To provide the
world liberally with cotton would
take a crop of a hundred and fifty
million bales a year. North Caro
lina is the safest cotton state on
earth, and raises more to the a«re
Continued on page four.