The Transylvania Times How About It? Are you a friend of The Show it by supporting this paper in every pos sible way. Subscribe to FASTEST GROWING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR M).G’VILLE ROAD OPENS FRIDAY ss Men of Town^ County View ^32 With Optimism BREVARD brevities Goodbye 1931! Hell The old year will, go 1932! nto his- dnight, a new life. A be.-«rd- ed old and whalnol th; Ills should. rith sted upo durl tlu ed the plun ill have reach- ■„'f his trail. A min- lidnlght and he will • Time’s precipice ana ...^torical oblivion But say v/hat you may, many things came to pass in 1931 that will linger Ions in people’s memories after 1932 gets going down Ihc stretch. Many things 3G5 days. winy things were entered into Life’s ledger that will be refer red to in years to come. The Democratic parly, for one thing, pained power. Max Schmehng also successfully defended his world’s heavyweight toga against Billy Stribling, Macon mauler to the satisfaction of Jack fistk rd. ey started on the long. uggec back itables passed on to their reward. Heirs were born to other notables. Business was buffeted about. Some said it im proved over the previous year. Others shook their heads dubi ously. China and Japan locked MAN IS JAILED AFTER ROW AT lAKETOXAWAY Neal Burgess Arrested as Suspect in Assault on Frank Wilbanks INJURED MAN TAKEN ASHEVILLE HOSPITAL uodl of their scraps. Anothe ■Id's ided. Lindy and Ann almost plunged to their doom in a far away clime. Tu- lane commanded nation-wide at tention by sweeping their south ern gridiron opponents out of the way and tomorrow they will be in the spotlight again at Rose Bowl against a worthy Pacific coast foe. Notre Dame slipped a notcli or so under the guidance of a new mentor, their old de pendable Rockne having died in a plane crash. Glorious golf bat tles were waged. Wets and Drys slugged it out toe to toe. Gov.- Senator-elect Huey P. Long 'brayed for a cotton holiday and also refused to take his seat in ' the senate until his gubernator ial he de ed to let the old Pelit for just ute. : tha saw fits then sold for a dollar. Mayor Jimmy Walker revived interest in the famous Mooney case out in California. The poor legitimate theater profession struggled bravely in new York to get a foothold but without a great deal of success. Political campaigns waxed warm and then some. This happened. That happened. All to make the year 1931 a year to be remem bered for sometime. Some folks say that whatever you may be doing tomorrow, the the first day of the new year— whatever your condition or cir- Neal Burgess, of Lake Toxa- vvay, is being held in Transylvania county jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in connec tion with a fighting affray with Frank Wilbanks, also of Lake Toxaway, which occurred lat*^ Tuesday afternoon in that section of the county. As a result of injuries received in the affray, Wilbanks is now in Norborn hospital, Asheville, and his condition is reported to be quite serious. Burgess is held in jail without bond pending the outcome of Wil banks’ condition. Hearing in the case has not yet been set. Wilbanks was found in an un conscious condition, badly beaten up, by his son, who later came to Brevard, it is said, and reported the matter to Sheriff T. E. Pat ton, Jr., who went to the scene of the fight, arresting’ Brugess as a suspect in the case. The cause of the affray has not yet been determined by the sher iff’s department. FIRST CHILD BORN IN ’ll TO BE LUCKY Kansas Senator Weds Musician Novel Program Sponsored by Transylvania Times Holds Interest Senator George McGill of Kan- has, and his bride, the former Mrs. Virginia Parker of Okla homa City, a musician, shown here, ave spending a quiet honey moon in Washington, D. C. The couple were married in Wichita, Kan. MANY GIFTS AWAIT FIRST BOY OR GIRL A famous model bef'Ore her mar riage, Princess Buganza, above, has resumed modeling for weil- know'n artists of Southern Italy. She left her profession when she married a wealthy Sicilian land owner, but could not resist the urge to return. BIG RESPONSE TO AID NEEDY FARM LUCHEOM WILL BE GIVEN Gratifying Results Are Be ing Reported by Miss Florence Kern Lucky indeed w’ill be the first white baby born to parents resid ing in Brevard or Transylvania county in 1932. The Transylvania Times has ar ranged to give Young'Mr. 1932 or Young Miss 1932 a rousing wel come and gifts galore will be showered by generous - hearted \ merchants of the town. The first white child born in this county after tonight at midnight will win. A few simple rules must be ob served as follows: ' (1) Mother and father must be residents of Brevard or Transyl vania county and (2) Dad must bring a I’Opy of baby’s birth cer tificate to The Times office no la ter than the morning of January 6 and (3) Baby’s exact hour, min ute, and date of birth must be authorized by the attending phy sician’s signature. The name of the winning baby will be pub lished in The Times of January 7, 1932. Here are a few of the surprises in store for mother and baby: The Nobby Shop will give mother a wool Challis Coolie coat Devoted to the W. N. C. “5-10 Year Organized Farm Movement” nsta ,vill continue to do, and so will your condition or circumstances con tinue in effect for the whole year. That’s as may be. Unem ployed men will hope that is ju,st another crazy notion of some long-haired fanatic. But it is always interesting to catch a few “firsts” and record them in a news story nevertheless. Wonder who’ll be first to make a nice deposit in the Transyl vania Trust company Friday? What brave couple will be first to apply for a marriage license? Who’ll be the first luckless guy to get in the hoosegow? Who’ll be the first enterprising gentle- In furtherance of the Western North Carolina organized farm movement, which was launched recently in Asheville, a dinner is being given at the George Vim derbilt hotel in Asheville day evening, January. 8. Promotional plans for the 5-lU year organized farm program will be discussed at this dinner meet ing, and suggestions made for tlio further development of this move ment in Western North Carolina. The farm movement is sponsored by the Asheville Citizen and tluj Asheville Times. A contest has been announced for the most suitable slogan to be used in the Western North Carolina “5-10 Year Organized Farm Movement.’’ The contest is open to any boy or girl who is a member of a 4-H club or voca tional agriculture class. The con test will close February 1, 1932, and valuable- prizes of cattle and poultry will be awarded for the best slogans. Response to the call for sup plies in connection with the coun ty welfare work is reported to be very gratifying, according to ' a statement by Miss Florence Kern, who is employed by the board to be in active charge of the supply work and investigation of appli cants for assistance. Produce and clothing are being donated for use of the needy ones, all of which are assembled in the headquarters room on Main si.reet and given out as needed to those in want. The cases are all thor- F'ri- oughly investigated before help of any kind is administered. The employment bureau operat ed by Miss Kern in connection with the welfare work is progress ing in a splendid spirit. Many worthy and willing ones in need of work are given employment through this bureau, and others wanting work to be done are able to find satisfactory help by apply ing to Miss Kern at the headquar ters room. busi open a new concern in Brevard? What firm will be first to change their location? What generous man, woman or child will be first to make a substantial do nation of books to the local li- brary? And so forth and so on. Some of those asking for as sistance in clothing’, fuel or food are reported to be cooperating in a fine spirit by offering- to ex change something they have in their possession, such as canneil fruit or give of their time in work, for something on han din the sup ply room. free Phillips’ Bakery will bake a cake for the young man or young lady, put its name and date of birth on top in a flowery, attrac tive design. Sunny Side Dairy will give five quarts of their famous Grade “A” sweet milk to the first arrival in 1932 CAESAR’S HEAD HOTEL IS SITE FOR ROAD FETE Number Prominent Speak ers Will Appear on Splendid Program GARDNER, DANIELS UNABLE TO ATTEND CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE WILL MAKE POSSIBLE SERVING OF LUNCH TO UNDERNOURISHED Brevard Awaits Arrival Of ’32 With Much Joy In observance of New Year’s day, the post office will be closed, with no city or rural deliveries on Austin’s Studio will make a pic- that day, and the Transylvania ture of the first 1932 baby and its mother. B and B Feed and Seed com pany will present the mother of the first 1932 baby with a '12-11^ sack of White Lily flour that bakes such wonderful cakes. White Way Dry (heaners will dry clean one of mother’s dresses without charge. The Araericai. Sales co™pa..v ^ will donate a th.'ee-piece all wool j reunions will be Purity' Products will offer the | parents of the first 1932 l:aby an “d^X/e'rns of the town attractive price on their best} giade of coal. _ -ii ing of the New Year with much The Transylvania Times wH -o® high expectations of send Jhe young man businesl outlook for the Trust company will also be closed all day Friday. Announcement is made by Postmaster Roscoe Nich olson that the office will be open from 8 to 9 o’clock- Friday morn ing and from 2 to 2:30 Friday af- ternoon^ for the convenience of the patrons. In further observance of the day, a number of social activities lady The times for 12 months. All of these things will be free. But if the first 1932 baby should happen to be twins—well, that brings on more talk. THIRD FAUCET FOR WHISKY HIGH POINT, N. C.—Police discovered a third faucet in De- Witt Byles’ bathroom. They traced the pipe to a copper tank containing three and a half gal lons of whisky. A warrant was issues for Byles’ arrest. year 1982. No announcement has been made regarding the closing of the stores on New Year’s day. ;8-FOOT SORGHUM STALK CLARKSDALE, Miss, Williams, farmer living Parent - Teacher Associa tion Decides to Resume Work in January An all weather highway con necting Brevard and Greenville and reducing the driving to a lit tle, more than an hour between the points, will be officially opened with a program at Caesar’s Head tomorrow noon amid auspicious circumstances. A turkey dinner will be served at the Caesar’s Head hotel and it is expected there will be approx imately 200 persons in attenl- ance. Fifty tickets to the affair were allotted to Brevard and tho remaining 150 to Greenville. Jer ry Jerome, president, and Duncan MacDougald, chairman of tho highway committee of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, were thi.s week engaged in disposing of this town’s apportioned block of tick ets. Mayor Ralph Ram.sey, J. M; Gaines and James P. Barrett have been instrumental in the arrange ment of Brevard’s portion of tlie program and a number of inter esting features are understood to have been obtained for the occa- Plans have been completed for the serving of free lunches to undernourished school children, under sponsorship of the Parent- Teacher association. This worthy work which will begin the first week in January, is* made possible by proceeds of the Christmas seal sale and other funds in the P.- T. A. treasury. At a meeting of the executive board of the association Tuesday evening it was decided "to con tinue tne lunches served to un derweight children in the elemen tary school, adopting very much the same plan pursued last yeai*. A small equipment, consisting of soup plates, spoons, wash pans, etc., has been offered the asso ciation by Mrs. Avery Galloway, Dr. Newland and others. Anyone wishing fo aid in this work in any way by adding neces sary articles to the equipment, by donations of money or supplies, Or in serving lunches are asked to telephone Mrs, Henry Erwin, chairman of the social committee. The members of the executive board will themselves undertake to serve the lunches for the first eight days, and Mrs. Erwin will ‘ here' take the chairmanship for the I week beginning January 17, • 1. i They will -serve as foiiuws; feet tall and three inches thiek ,^^^^^^ ^ It the largest diS;! Thursday, Mrs. Roy Long; Fri- this district, county, , Aver,, riallnwnv Mon- at its base, covered agricultural authorities said. ;re in- : Western Union Offices Moved Offices of the Western Union are being moved this week from the former location on Jordan street to the Southern railway de pot, where the business wiil be main^tained during the winter months. ^ T. G. Miller, depot m'l" of the "ork while at this location. the up-town office room will remain 'through the winter with ns present equipment, and will u i" OP summer 101 lull-time operation, it is an- Barnes, local Western Union operator for the pas , year or more, js leaving thih in Rutherford- week for his home ton. MAKING RESOLUTIONS IS GREAT FUN EACH YEAR BECAUSE YOU CAN BREAK ’EM TWO WEEKS LATER Tomorrow will be a great day for making things. Yes sir, more things will be made tomorrow than any other day in all the 365 days that will constitute the good year 1932. Tomorrow, in case you are not aware, is New Year’s Day or the first day in the good year 1932 which comes into being one sec ond after tonight midnight. ■ ^ Tomorrow, from early morn until the still hours of rnidnight, folks will be makin’ resolutions. Funny Jiow they do it year after year on the same day. But they do and ’.vill probably ever con tinue to do so. For some unex plainable reason they become panicky and conscientious- stricken. They feel they must “turn over a new leaf” and “got to doing a little better than I did last year.” And so they congregate around the soda fountain, around the heater in the merchandise store or at the lodge hall. Never mind the place, or the time, the inten tion is the same. Y’oung hus bands not long’ tied by the holy bonds of matrimony, look wall eyed and gurgle something like; “Right, havn’t been doing Bes- .ght here lately . . . stayin’ money back in his pocket, smiles sickly and remarks to the puzzled clerk: “Sorry, son, but I guess 1 out late nights - . • tellin’ her I won’t take ’em this time. Got to was detained at the office on business . . . telling her - . . this . - . and that . . . shore ain’t been doin’ Bessie right . . . goin’ to do better as you’re born . . . goin’ to do better, so help me.” The man with the crimson nose eyes himself while shaving and a guilty feeling comes over him. He strokes the stubble on his chin reflectively and muses: “Great scott, but that last jag was a jag what was a jag. Everything was going just great at the restaurant when all of a sudden I passed out . . . didn’t slow down on this business of keeping a weed between my teeth all of the time. Know what it does for you, son, it stains your teeth, makes you nervous and takes all of your loose change. No need _ of so much smoking. Wait till tho women find out what I’ve found out about the amount it takes to smoke in the course of a year and the women’ll think twice be fore sending to the corner fo7’ that pack of coffin’ nails, I’ll betcher they will.” great li'fe, really great remember nother thing . . . tried i life, if you don’t weaken. But to dance with the waiter . . . at- the great thing about it that you te'mpted to climb aloft the table i do weaken. and address the audience • • • Two weeks from the time tho never again . . . never again . . . f young married man has walled I’m on the wagon.” j his eyes and solemly sworn not And the nervous, fussy genth^- tq mistreat Bessie by staying out man with the nose glasses reach- nights, he feels a change com.c os for his coin to pay for a cigar, over him. hesitates, drops the piece of i “Shucks,” “whatsa night goin' day, Mrs. Avery Galloway; Mon^ day, Mrs. Verner; Tuesday, Mrs. Sledge; Wednesday, Mrs. Grem- shaw; Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Rufty; Friday, Mrs. H. L. Wil son; Monday, Mrs. Erwin. This work is being undertaken after consultation with Dr. New land, the health officer, and the superintendent and principals of the schools. It is the object of the tuberculosis, association to prevent that disease arid other5i NOTABLES INVITED Invitations were tendered a number of notables in both North and South Carolina, including the governors of each state, but Gov ernor 0. Max Gardner has advised of his inability to attend and ap pointed W. E. Breese, county at torney of Transylvania county, to represent the state instead. An other celebrity in the personage of Josephus Daniels, Raleigh news paper publisher, Democratic chief tain and man whose name is be ginning to be mentioned promi nently as a candidate for governor of North Carolina, will also bo missing. He has advised that a conflicting engagement in Wash ington, D. C., will prevent hia presence. Dr. Frank Poole, of Furman university, has consented to deliv er the principal address for the occasion, and Major G. Heyward Mahon, Jr., will serve as toastmas ter. Other talks will be made by i’.idividuals from the two states. Chairman E. ,B. Jeffress of tho highway commission, will be pres ent, as will L. R. Ames, state high way engineer, and J. C. Walker, division engineer. Mayor Otis Green, of Asheville, F. L. Weede, secretary of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, Louis Lipinsky, president of the Asheville ' Chamber of Commerce, and Wm. Smathers, former presi dent, will be guests of the Bre vard Chamber of Commerce at the meeting. James G. Stikeleather, the man responsible for the work that has been done on highwa.v 284, will also be Brevard’s guesL Charles A. Jonas, United States {Continued on page three) home ever ii.&ui. lAi Have hard i by building up the general health enough time at the office all day I o^ the citizenship, especially of without Bessie growlin’ at | children. Between $50 and $60 me until late hours . . . besides, was realized on the sale of no harm shootin’ Albert a little' Christmas seals, and this money, game of billiards or so tonight! tog’ether with the amount in the no harm - . • j P-T. A. treasury accruing from And the man with the crimson 1 the Home Journal subscriptions nose reflects: “Hub. been two | and Forget-Me-Not sale, will be weeks now since I’ve kept ajused^as a nucleus of a fund to siesta with John Barleycorn . . • 1 furnish riiilk to be served with sorta lonesome since I cut him] either soup or sandwiches, as the^ dead too . . . sure hate to miss: convenience of the hostess of the: ’ i-i. ...jjj dictate. j that party tonight . . . lots of j day pep . . .'lots of bnll.v beverage, i The next meeting of the F.-T.; A. will be held on Monday, Jan.' 17. It is hoped that there will be a full attendance at that meeting not only of the members t hurt nothin’ just this once - • . nothin at all . . . And the nervous fussy gentle man: “Great Gee, what’s a man going to do with his idle time if he don’t never take a smoke? . . . Been two weeks since I puf fed my favorite cigar . . . might stain the teeth, make me a little nervous, not much though of the association but of all citi zens who are interested in this work. ! The board wishes to thank all, those who so generously gave shucks . . . say son, you know ■ their time and interest to the the kind I prefer ... six of ’em j Christmas seal sale, especially to this time, son. six of ’em • . • jthe Girl Scouts, who under the So it’s’ really a great life, this leadership of Miss Aiken and thing of' making resolutions. It’s' Miss Ethel McMinn, worked so great to make ’em so you can; faithfully each day during the sililoquizea,! break ’em two weeks later. isale. Start 1932 Right by Subscribing to The Transylvania Times $1.00 per year 50c six months Read The Transylvania Times “Fastest Growing Weekly North Carolina”

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