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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931
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cross roll call is started here
-A-Meal Plan Has Been Adopted For Needy Of County
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BREVARD
BREVITIES
Ma
Me-Not
first tw
ck ‘blue” Sat-
with Forget-
Incidenlally, th
,f these symbolic Mile
ere sold to members
Jve''ryb’'idy is overjoy-
‘ea aVtbe return of JANE «ho
I h k/^rielf and then was found
. JANE is MISS DORO
THY SILVERSTEEN’S pet Col-
i:.. After an absenos trom
Brevard, REV. R. L, ALEXAN-
nFR returned to be‘honored by
^e ekcliln as president of the
Kiwanis Club ... His pulpit was
fil'.id durinil his absence by
REV. S. B. CHAPIN, who, dur-
i„„ a facetious moment, asked;
“Ho vou know why the chicken
is the most religion, of^birds?”
. . . Why? . . . Because so many
of them enter the ministry . . .
,B0B GASH could write some
real readable stuff for this pub
lication every week if he would,
dag nab him . . • What local reg
ister of deeds is always courte
ous and ready io oblige anyone
in any way possible? . . •
VERNE CLEMENT is building
himself a hunting lodge .. . .
PAT KIMZEY’S name had a ty
pographical collision last week,
so it’s herewith presented all
straightened out and everything
PAUL Ps SMATHERS has
just rounded out a very busy
week . . . Greetings to F. E. B.
JENKINS . . . SUPT. JONES is
one of the busiest men in town
the-e days . . . POSTMASTER
R. L. NICHOLSON is shouting
‘‘Shop and Mail Early’ from one
to all and sundry , . . J. M.
GAINES is back on the job af
ter a slight illness . . . Wonder
if S. P. VERNER ever longs to
do a little globe trotting any
more . . . JERRY JEROME, T.
E. PATTON, JR., ED. McCOY,
CAPT. T. T. PATTON, PERRY
ORR and CHARLIE ORR com-
ised membe
trip the pa.st week . . . They
shot a deer . . . And the veni-
•zon surely was fine, they say
. . . MR. and MRS. CARL Mc-
CRARY are the proud parents
of a daughter . . . And DR. and
MRS. Chas. L. NEWLAND are
the proud parents of a daugh
ter . . . The Times offers con
gratulations . . . S. B. HOW
ARD reports plenty of improve
ments to the highways , . . Re
member, now folks, there’s not
so very many more shopping
days until Christmas, you know
“BILL” BREESE has got about
BANK RUMOR
CIRCULATED
IN BREVARD:
Reports Fly Thick and Fast ^
That Institution
Will Begin
REPORT CHARTER IS
FILED AND APPROVED^
The oft rumored proposal to 1
establish a new banking- institu- j
tion in Brevard was againsrt circu- >
lated this week with such serious- ;
ness as to command more than
passing attention in local business
circles.
Reports were that a charter, re- i
cently filed, had been approved by !
the state banking commission and ^
the proposed bank would estab-1
lish quarters on the ^me site for- j
merly occupied by the now de- j
funct Brevard Banking company. [
The name of the institution, so j
rumors had it, would either be
State Trust company or Transyl
vania Trust compa-ny, to be incor-,
porated at approximately $25,000. j
Of this amount, $15,000 was to >
be subscribed in Brevard and the i
remaining $10,000 underwritten'
by Hendersonville, banking offi-1
cials. Advices from Hendei'son-;
ville, however, said the Hender-"
sonville bank, insofar as current |
negotiations are concerned,
reverberated throughout town and
county early this week, reaching
their intensity Tuesday, and link
ed the names of the following as
being among the incorporators:
J. H. Pickelsimer. Charles W. Pic-
kelsimer, S. R. Joines, Judson Mc
Crary and J. S. Silversteen, of
Brevard, and Mr. Kelly of the
State Trust Co., of Henderson
ville.
While numerous reports in the
past have been circulated through
out Brevard and TransylvanH
county to the effect new banking
institutions would be started here,
especial significance was attached
to"^ this week’s report because it
said charter for the nronosed bank
'had already been filed and ap
proved.
Governor Roosevelt’s Son to Wed
NO MAIL DELIVERY 1
THANKSGIVING DAY
There will be no city or rural
delivery of mail in Brevard and
Tran.sylvania county on Thursday,
November 2G, Thanksgiving day,
according to Roscoe Nicholson,
j postmaster. Postal service pro-
Heads Hoover’s
Credit Body
iceeded uninterrupted
as observed oye
i-mistice day.
vhich •
yestenla
the cour
New Y'ork dc-buantes erased another name from their “eligible” lis.
when the engagement of Elliott Roosevelt, son of Governor h ranklii*
D. Roosevelt of New York, to Miss Elizabeth B. Donner, daughter ot
William H. Donner of Philadelphia, Pa., was announced. Ihe newiv
engaged couple are shown above.
REV. CHALMERS D. CHAPMAN
DIES EARLY WEDNESDAY AND
BELOVED CHARACTER PASSES
MAGNATE HOME;
the
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thii
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Rev.
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Meth-
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formal
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with
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Sunday
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irht wil
appoint
ordina
his office look on his desk and
you’ll se.3 it . . . Pretty clever
On the part of the donors . . .
MAYOR RAMSEY has had
plenty occasion to dra-vv up
proclamations lately . . .RALPH
OSBORNE called around and
said hello Saturday . . . Call
again MR. OSBORNE ... Al
ways glad to have our good
friends drop in and pay their
A visiting divine related this
one over a sumptuous plate of^
chicken at a Brevard table the
other day:
It seems that a colored broth-,
er had attended church in a ru
ral community and returned to
his humble cabin where an old
colored mammy was busy with
her domestic duties. The church
worker cleared his throat and
remarked:
“Liza, did you all know dat
all of the apostles were ne-
Liza paused over her broom,
showed the whites of her eyes
and brought her Andy Brown
into focus.
No, he answered at length,
surveying Andy Brown appre
hensively.
“Well, sir,” he went on, “dey
sho was all negroes.”
“Was the apostle Peter a ne
gro, loo?” Liza questioned.
Yas M.am, he sho wuz.’’
Liza was silent for a moment.
She shook her head in puzzling
ashion and, as she resumed her
sweeoing, soliloquized:
“Wall, maybe he and
tnay be w’one, but if the Apos
tle was a cullud person be was
ll-s fust nigger 1 ever heard tell
ot who heard a cock crow
twice.”
Someone was reading about
e announcement of the secret
marriage on August 16 of Glo-
ria hwanson, the cinema celab-
f'ty, to Michael Farmer
wealthy Irish sportsman, the
.a having been perform-
oJ by Mayor John E. Murray at
bo Kome of Dudley Field Ma-
/ '■? Who-
r ii was reading the account
(Continued on page .^even)
MAKES FINE CORN
CROP NEAR HEIrE
Willie Allison, of near Brevard
on the Greenville road, know.s
how to make corn — the kind in
shucks,
Mr. Allison devoted little move
than two acres to corn this sea
son. Growing it was sort of a
hobby with him. Day after day
it was given closest attention, in
fact, Mr. Allison just “petted” it
along.
As a reward for this novel
farmer’s efforts that two and a
quarter acres yielded: 275 bush
els of the finest corn you ever
laid eyes on; 1,600 bundles of
fodder and tops, and when the
corn was assorted for his crib,
Mr. Allison found but three bush
els of short corn.
Incidentally, Mr. Allison’s farm
has been pronounced one of tlie
best in the entire county.
The death Wednesday morning
of Rev. Chalmers D. Chapman,
ST. LOUIS, November 12.— j for many yeras rector of St.
Alexander Berg, wealthy presi- ( Phillip’s Episcopal church here,
dent of Hill Brothers Pur com- 1 removed from this community^ a
pany, kidnaped in his limousine | colorful and beloved character^
last Friday night was returned to
his home early yesterday through 1
COLLECTION IS
GIVEN MUSEUM
Valuable Mounted Big
Game Heads Are Do
nated North Carolina
Plans are being made for the
removal to Raleigh ai an • early
date of the large and valuable
collection of mounted heads be
longing to R. W. Everett, which
has donated to the slate mu
seum. Plans for this exchange
from Brevard to the Raleigh mu
seum have been under considera
tion for some time, and it i.s un
derstood that the transfer will be
made as sOon as arrangements
can be completed for their place
ment in the state capital.
The collection, which consists
of 31 mounted heads, has beauti
fied the walls of the Brevard
Banking company building for the
past number of years, and has
been the subject ‘of wide-spread
comment as to the unusuallv fine
and rare specimens. Included in
the collection are found elk, bear,
(leer, mountain lion and goat.s,
moose, coyote, mountain sheep,
all being results of Mr. Everett’s
hunting trips over-a long period
of years in various sections of
this'country in the Rocky moun
tain region, in British Columbia,
Alaska and ther noted hunting
grounds.
In addition to this .valuable
collection of heads donated by
j Mr. Everett, are included also'
Isome valuable skins of animals
Dynamic despite his 85 useful | killed in the Rockies and else-
years, Rev. Mr. Chapman “car- where.
■ ■ '■ until the time of Ws' Many of the mounted heads
Mortimer N. Buckner, above, New
Yoi'k banker, has been elected
president of President Hoover’s
$500,000,000 National Credit As
sociation to thaw frozen assets.
Fifty eight years of age, Bucknei*
has lieen chairman of the board
of the New York Trust companv
and president of the New York
Clearing House.
|JI|HTLed Useful Life in Com-
FGI»| munity for Many Years;
Widely Known
efforts of John T.-Rogers, report-; passing.. He had retired long,of rare and prize specimens, and
of the Post-Dispatch years ago from the rectorship of j were obtained under the most ad-
Berg was driven to the gar-age | the local church but had contip-i verse _an^
hotel, where he lived.
active life devoted
taxicab of which he was the only .to the upbuilding of the commun-
passenger. . Morris Levinson, at- !ity and the_ extension of a helping
torney, announced no ransom was !
paid.
es, causing Mr. Everett to
LUNSFORD TO GIVE
ENTERTAINMENT AT
ROSMAN FRIDAY EVE
ROSMAN, Nov. 11.—Oi
day, November 13 at 7:30 o’clock I ligious and! othei- affairs and, in
at Rosman high school, Bascom ! later life, derived untold pleasure
Lamar Lunsford, nationally known ! among the books in his magnifi-
entertainer and interpreter of { cent library that included volumes
folk songs and folk tales, will give j on many subjects. Here was a
many _ of his popular selections | man who had unusual command of
with violin, banjo and guitar ac-1 English.
companiment. j Rev. Chalmers D. Chapman lov-
Mr. Lunsford is a radio artist, ; ed childi-en and they, in turn,
often featured by WWNC of'idolized him. He was never too
Asheville. j busy to stop, bestow an affec-
He is shortly to publish a book [ tionate pat on some little towseled
of Southern melodies and it is I head and
hoped that Rosman will find
.ounter numerous experiences of |
narrow escape from death or seri- j
ous injury. _ j
First he thought he wanted ^o Mr. Everett is an expert hunts-
pursue tlie profession of a barris- man. widely known m this coun-l
ier and studied law in New York.'try and foreign hunting grounds
I.ater he entered the Episcopal | auccess.^^n^^^^^
ministry. He came to Bievaid 35 j
years ago and immediately expertness, had'
deared himself j failed after numerous attempts. )
he came in contah:.. j Much interest has been express--
For fully quarter of a century | people in the town and
he conducted a newspaper column. 1 (,^uuty, since announcement of
He was himself well read on re- Mr. Everett’s donation, over his
generous gift and spirit of loyalty
ARMISTICE DAY
IS OBSERVED
Interesting Program Is
Presented In High
School Auditorium
Brevard and Transylvania coun-
t.v observed Armistice Day on
Wednesday with fitting exercises
in the autiitorium of the Brevai'd
high school.
Rev. Harry Perry, as chaplain
of the local Monroe Wilson post
of the American- Legion and chair
man of the American Red Cross
roll call, was to have been the
principal speaker on the program.
He was unable to fill his appoint
ment owing to the death of the
Rev. Chapman.
School children joined in the
program by singin.g patriotic songs
in keeping with the day.
The (lay had a dual significance
to the people of Brevard and
Transylvania county. They paused
in memory of those brave lads
who returned from across the
seas years ago after a world con
flict, and in memory of those
brave lads who are sleeping in
Flanders Field. Then, too, _ it
marked the inauguration of t’he
annual Red Cross roll call.
to North Carolma in offering his
exceptionally fine collection for^
permanent exhibit in the state in- i
stitution. {
MRS.
P. OWEN IS
GIVEN RECOGNITION!
ROSMAN, Nov. 11.-—Friends |
and relatives in Rosman will be .
interested to l-earn that Mrs. L. P.
Owen, a former resident, is mak-
...quire of this thing and j ing good in her work at Shelby.
that. He used to take great plea- Mrs. Owen is employed by Mont-
place in this collection. It is re-j sure in addressing pupils at the gomery-Ward and is head of the
quested that copies of old ballads 1 high school and grammar school, ladies’ ready-to-wear department,
still sung in Transylvania be j His thoughtfulness and consid- On Friday, Oct. 30, the Cleveland
brought. A small admission fee 1 eration of others placed Rev. Mr. | Star carried a picture of Mrs.
will be charged. (Continued on page sevenj Owen.
BREVARD MERCHANTS ARE FORGETTING ANY SUCH THING AS
9
DEPRESSION AS TRADING RECORDS ENCOURAGING INCREASE
Within the next week or so,
from the way things are going-
now, if you should ask a Bre
vard business man; “How is this
depression serving you?” the
chances are he’ll arch his eye
brows, survey you over his spec
tacles and remark innocently
enough: “What depression are
you referring to, brother?”*
And he will mean it, too.
There’s no denying the fact,
business conditions in Brevaril
and Transylvania county are
much improved over a month
ago. It is noticeable enough.
Cash registers have been click
ing merrily. Clerks and sales
girls in stores in the business
section are tired when night
comes now because they have
been kept stirring all day long.
Just why things have taken a
sudden turn for the better is
not easily explained but it is
known,that the more than 300
employees of the Carr Lumber
company and the Pisgah Mills
who are now back on the pay
rolls are putting better than
$9,000 into circulation that was
missing until these industries
resumed operation s e v e r al
weeks ago.
Then, too, plenty of business
men with level heads on their
shoulders have come to the con
clusion this thing of continual
ly talking about hard times, de
pression and this thing and that
thing about “the country going
to the bow wows,” is not get
ting their community and coun
try anywhere except a rut from
which it is exceedingly hard to
pull free.
“It has always been my idea,”
one Main street business man
declared, “that there has been
entirely too much talk devoted
to the slack in business. If wc;
could all make it a point to quit
discussing the thing and talk
good tim‘s and optimism in
stead then, in my opinion,
would be found a formula . for
at least .seventy-five cent of
the business woes that have
been apparent all along.”
Another Brevard merchant
talkred along the same line.
“I may be wrong,” he assert
ed, “but it is my candid opin
ion that a lot of these so-called
hard times have been imagin
ary. Of course I know there
have been many people without
employment, but what started
it all? Of course there were
underlying causes for it but af
ter the idea got circulated
around generally that a depre.s-
sion was in force, all of the
tongue wagging about hard
times did not help to improve
the situation at all.”
Brevard business men have
every reason in the world to
face the futui'e with confidence.
A revival in trade is reported all
over the country. Thousands of
men have taken up their work
tools in every section of .the
United States in the last sev
eral weeks. Construction pro
grams that have been hanging
fire for months and, in some in
stances, years, are now being
started and pushed to comple
tion.
But, regardless of what i.s
happening in the wheat belts
where wheat growers’ eyes are
bulging with the grain selling in
excess of a dollar per bushel,
and regardless of what is occur
ring in the cotton growing
states where they have been
wrangling over the cotton holi
day idea; business in Brevard
has picked up. Some merchants
have admitted it. Others are
hesitant. Meanwhile, those who
have not been seen to smile in a
long time are now prepared to
smile an expansive smile what
with cash registers chiming that
delightful do, re. me tune so
popular the world ovei-.
H’VILLE KEEPS
ARMISTICE DAY
Many Join in Celebration
Staged There Wed
nesday
HENDERSONVILLE, Nov. 12.
—Speaking on the sub.iect, “The
j Meaning of Armistice Day.” the
Rev. Clarence Stuart McClellan,
Jr., this morning told a large audi
ence at the high school autiitorium
that Armistice day did not mean
war, but that it means peace,
j Dr. McClellan’s message came
at,the conclusion of Armistice day
parade, when a formal program
was held’ as, undei- the auspices
of the American Legion, people
of tlie city and county joined with
the nation in the celebration, ot
the thirteenth anniversary of the
cessation of the World, war.
“Peace,” he declared, “can be
achieved only by education, by lis
tening to the voices of the lonely
intellectuaks; and the' niessage
whicli comes t'o us today from
Flanders fields, and from the cots
of nuitilatc-'d vete)-ans in hospitals
is that they who are still carrying
on the fight, cannot rest unless we
strive for that ideal.
“.Our men died to free the
world from war.” Rev. McClellan
said in his opening remarks, “and
their cry on that Armistice day
13 years ago was that w'e are go
ing back,, going’ back home.
“What kind of a world have
they come back to?” he asked.
“After 13 years what kind
world do they live in? Wher'
asked, “are those preacher
COUNTY QUOTA
IS SET AT $351;
MANY IN FIELD
Town and County Are Di
vided Into Zones To Be
Well Canvassed
HALF AMOUNT WILL
GO TO LOCAL NEED
Annual Red Cross roll call for
Brevard and Transylvania county
was inaugurated Wednesday, to
continue not later than Nov. 26,
when it is believed a thorough
canvass nf the entire county will
have been made. Transylvania
county’s quota for membership
this year is $350, based on three
per cent of the county’s popula-
lioii, and this amount is expected
to be raised in full. Fifty cents of
each dollar so raised will be ap
plied to local needs while the re
maining fifty cents will be for
warded to national headquarters.
Territory to include all of
Ti-ansylvania county has been -di
vided into zones with roll call
workers assigned to canvass each
of the designated sections. Rev.
Harry Perry, chairman of the roll
call for the Transylvania chapter
of the American Red Cross, has
appointed the following commit
tees to-' represent the different sec
tions of Brevard and Transyl
vania county in the every-meiu-
ber canvass:
Kiwanis Club, canvass the busi
ness di.strict; Mrs, 0. L. E.rwin.
Woman’s Bureau; Mrs.- Harold
Noi'wood, Mathatasian club; Mrs.
J. S. Nicholson, Foi'tnightly club;
Mrs.' A. H. Harris, Wednesd^ay
club, all canvassing the residoh-
tial section; Mrs. .Iordan Whitmiro
and Mrs. C. J. Eldridge, Rosman;
Mrs. Walter McNeely and Mrs.
DeWitt Gillespie. Lake Toxaway;
Frank Woodfin, Penrose; Mrs! E.'
H. Mackey, Little River; Miss An
nie Gash and Mr. E. P. McCoy,
Pisgah Forset; S. P. 'V'erner, Coti-
nestee; T. P. Watson, Cedar
Mountain; Misses Annie Yongue
and Mollie McCall, poster distri
bution.
Officers of the Transylvania
chapter Red Cross are as follows:
General chairman, J. S. Silvor-
steen; roll call chairman, Rov.
Harry Perry; secretary, Miss Mar
tha Boswell; treasurer, A. H. K;-
zer; home service secretary, Mrs.
J. W. Smith; publicity, Miss Alma
Trowbridge, James F. Barmett.
Records at national headquar
ters of the American Red Cro.ss
show that, although 13 years have
elapsed since the signing- of the
Armistice, there are 35,055 Worlr!
war veterans still in hospitals of
this' country. A total' of 227,742
death cp_mpensation 'claims have
been filed. A study of those fij);-
uf^s ■ is sufficient proof that the
existence of the Red Cross war
sGi'-^jce is justified. Aside ffnnr
giving aid to depende'nts of tho’se?
whose Heaths resulted from war
I service, many thousands of dol-
I lars have been recovered for vet-
I erans themselves.
‘ By the Armistice actual fight
ing was halted, but veterans suf
fering from diseases contracted
dpring the war or wounds which
have left them maimed, realize
that their need for a helping hand
today is fully as great as during
Ihe most' hectic days of the con
flict.
New Roof for
Rosman Office
ROSMAN, Nov. 11.—The 'Kos-
man post office building, owned
by B. B. White, is being re-cov-
e)’(^d this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Sisk are
building an addition to their home
on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Pick Whitmi^'e
are finishing -up a lovely 9-room
residence on their farm near Kos-
man.
DISTRICT SINGING AT
ZION NEXT SUNDAY
ROSMAN, Nov. 11.--The Ills-
trict Singing convention will 7nee‘
at Zion Baptist church next Sun
day aftei'noon at 2 o’clock. ’I'he
Hipps quartet of Inman, S. i.r
, expected to be present, as well as
he j Ih'of. W. L. Harmon of Soutli
Jio! Georgia. .
said 13 years ago that the “wdrld j W. R. Lewis is president of this
.'on the vei’g'e of a great spirit-1 convention and extends a welt'olne
(Continued on page seven) ito all.