'“HE"j THE TRANSYLVANIA T1
wspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
VOL 38—No. 44 ~ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 ^ jil.OO PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COtWTY
BOTH SIDES CLAIM
VICTORY IN VOTING
WET-DRY TUESDAY
Drys Busy—Wets Taking It
For Granted N. C. Is
Following Parade
Both the wets and the drys nr«
winding up their campaign in th.'
county with victory being claimed by
each in the vote count next * ues
day when Transylvania count;, peo
ple will have a chance to v» ■ their
opinion on retention or u peal of
the 18th amendment. I
A militant campaign has been mi
progress for a number of weeks by i
the drys, meetings being held in1
practically every community in the1
county, and short addresses on the (
matter of retention having been made]
in most of the churches.
The wets have failed to carry
their fight to the people in I'kc ronn-'
ner of the drys, they seemingly
resting on the assurance that North,
Carolina will follow the lead of:
thirty three other states who have!
all vcted to repeal th” eighteenth!
amendment. !
Bek I. Sims, candidate for re- j
peal asserts that he will carry the;
county by better than u three out
of five count, while Rev. .T. K. Hen
derson. waging a militant attack on1
repeaUsts, asserts equally forceful I
that Transylvania County people wi.l,
vote dry. (
Polls will open at 7:00 o clock
Tuesday morning and close a* 5:30'
Tuesday night regular polling places,
to ho used. With only two ballots to •
he counted, against repeal and t'otj
repeal, ro convention and for cop.
volition, it is expected that returns,
will be in early Tuesday night and'
word from the entire state will be
received here by not later than ■ "n
oi eleven o’clovk Tuesday night.
Yeung men in the two CCO camps!
that, arc located in this county and
who have registered in Gloueesteij
and Pi-gah Forest will be challenged,
according to Mr. Henderson, grounds
for challenge being based on a tele-)
gram from Attorney General Brum-j
mitt c Mrs. Jean Adam; Haynes, as;
follow 3:
“This office has heretofore ex-1
pressed official opinion that mem-,
hers of CCC camps retain legal resi-j
deuce at their homes. Employment,
in such camps being for temporary j
purpose. |
“Dennis G. Brummitt.
Attorney General.” ,
Raleigh. Oct. 31. _
ADULT SCHOOLS FOR
THIS COUNTY IS PLAN
Plans are being made by the
Emergency Relief Council for es
tablishment of one or more schools
for adults, to be held either in the
aftern-ons or evening, whichever is
m,.st suitable to the pupils who at-j
tend.
This plan has the sanction of the;
state school commission and the fed-j
oral goverr.mnt teachers for the(
schools to be paid from federal,
funds allotted to North Carolina.
The idea is to furnish teachers to j
assist older people, those from six
teen and up, who wish to learn to 1
read and write, or who can now
read and write to some extent but(
who wish to continue their studies.
No charges will be made for tui
tion. and all who wish to attend will j
be invited. However, no high giadeSj
will be taught at this time.
Anv community leaders who wish
t„ establish such a school in their
section are asked to get in touch with
Mr* S P. Vcrner. Mrs. .1. S. Silver
st.cn or W. A. Wilson who will
have oversight of the schools lor the
It is expected that at least one
school will he established for colored
people. ___
BOYS SELECTED TO
ATTEND CCC CAMPS
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Nine young men from Transyl
vania county left here early Monday
! morning, went to Asheville, where
they underwent preliminary exami
nation and then left for Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga., where they will go
thr. ugh training fitting them for
work in the CCC tamps.
Those going from this county in
cluded: Kay Orr, Tisgah Forest.;
Clarence Galloway, Balsam Grove;
Walter Holden, and Harvey Daves.
Bnvard; Ray Sanders, Lake Toxa-j
way; Wallis Gillespie, R-l; Paul.
Jarrett, Rosman; Harold Kilpatrick.!
Penrose; Grady Bell. R-2.
FINE RECORD MADE
BY ROSMAN PUPILS
Many Get on Honor Roll For
October—Large Number
Perfect Attendance
An outstanding record was made
by Rostnsn school during October, in
number of pupils attaining the co
veted honor roil and the large num
ber having pet feet attendance rec
ords List made up for the morth
follows
Eleventh Grade
Honor Roil—Earl White, E. J.
Whitmire, I.ila Gillespie, Fannie j
Morgan.
Perfect attendance—Allen white,
Ear! White, E. J. Whitmire, Bruce
Reid, Buvon Huggirs, Clinton Green,
Douglas Eldridge, Edith Clarke, 1-*",.'
la Gillespie Mildred Henderson, Ann
Moore Fannie Morgan, Lela Bess
Owen, Bernice Reid,, Ophelia White.
T'-nth Grade
Honor Roll—Altha McCall. Thelma
Galloway, Ray Hinkle.
Perfect attendance— Martin Ar
ts wood, Them Cassell, Fred Harbin,
Clicer Morgan, Augustus Norris, j
Hal! Owen, Lewis Summry, Odell j
Aiken, Mae Cash. Ella Mac Collins.
Thelma Galloway, Mildred Gallo
way. Mary Gillespie, Ophelia Green,
Ruth Green, Ella Mao Masters, Pau
line Moore. Altha McCall. Eva Pharr,
Mary Waldrop, Beatrice Woodard.
Sixth Grade
Honor Roll—Charles McCall. Julius'.
Tinsley, Everett Whitmire, Leo Ban
thcr, Gertrude Breedlove.
Perfect attendance—Russell Dun
can. Eugene Hinkle, Harold Jones,
(Continued On Pago Four)
SEWING ROOM TO BE |
ESTABLISHED HERE
A sewing room is being establish
ed in Brevard under supervision of
the Entergcrcy Relief Council, where
garments for needy children will be
mail-, the clothing to be distributed
through the Red Cross and the Relie:
council.
Room for the project is being dom. j
ated the council by Dr. Jesse B.[
Pickelsimer, and several people of.
the county have already given use ol
sowing machines and equipment to
be placed in the building. Several
more machines are needed, Mrs.
Mary Jane McCrary who has over
sight of the project said here yestcr
wdav, and she is asking that any pri
son who has a sewing machine that
can he lent to the projet to get m
touch with her immediately. Com
petent supervisors will be in charge
of the sewing room and the machine
will be well cared for.
It is the plan of the Relief Coun
cil, who will have supervision of the;
project, to make such clothing that;
materials can be provided for, either |
by private donations, through thej
Red Cross and the Relief Council.!
Women of the county who need
employment will do the work, and
will be paid for their time at the.
regular wage scale. J
Henderson Urges All Citizens To Vote|
For Retention Eighteenth Amendment!
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Editor The Times: }
I wish to second with emphasis the
fine argument for a dry town and!
countv which Mr. T. W• Whitmire i
brought to the attention of the voU
ci-s of Brevard and Transylvania
county in last week’s Times.
It is not often that such an honot-.
able distinction comes to a town I
overnight as that which came to Bre-;
vard in the establishment of Brevard
College in our midst. And it behooves
the entire citizenship of Brevard to
show that they appreciate the re
sponsibility that comes to them in
becoming a college town.
The very best way to show tnai
conditions are favorable; and begin
to adjust our social and civic lite
to meet the requirements for th*
surroundings of a Christian college.
In their choice of a college the
parents of these young men and wo
men wilt no d'ubt be governed, laige*
ly by the attitude of the surrounding
community toward the great moral
and social questions with which col
lege students are confronted. The in
fluences of the community life of a
college enter into the education of
the college student about as much as
do the activities of the class room.
So the college town becomes practi-j
tally an established part of the col
lege and must coordinate its activl-j
ties with that of the college in the in
tercst cf healthful and wholesome
surroundings for the student life.
However much, therefore, a cm
zen of Brevard may be inclined to
the idea of legalizing the sale of in
toxicating beverages, his sense of
propriety in providing the surround
irgs of a Christian college ought to
be sufficient tc enable him to forego
his personal bent in order to make
the community of Brevard College
ideal for those who turn their
thoughts this way next fall.
All together, fellow citizens, for a'
unanimous vote the seventh of No
vember for a dry town and county in
behalf of Brevard College.
J. K. HENDERSON
October 30, 1933. Brevard. N. C.
{Schools Cooperating In Putting On
Diphtheria Clinics Thursday-Friday
Five hundred or more children arc
expected to take first diphtheria
treatment at four clinics to be held
in the county on Thursday and Fri
day afternoons of this week, when
all indigent children between the
ages of six months and twelve years
| are offered immunization in clinics
i sponsored by the Brevard Kiwanis
I club.
' Clinics will be held at Brevard
elementary school and Little River
school Thursday afternoon, both
clinics beginning at two o'clock. All;
children in the lower end of the
j county who have not taken the treat
ment are urged to attend one of
these clinics Thursday afternoon. ,
On Friday afternoon at two ooock
clinics will be held at Rosman aiu1 ^
Lake Toxaway schools to which ehil-j
dren of the upper end of the county j
are urged to attend. I
Those who took the treatment,
given under sponsorship of the Ki-|
Wanis Club last fall or from their i
physician do not need to take another)
treatment at this time. Second treat
ment will be given at the above men-!
>on»'d schools two weeks later, two;
shots being necessary for permanent J
immunization against diphtheria. .
There will be no charges for the,
treatment, the State Board of Health!
furnishing the medicine, and doctors.
who are members of the Kiwanis
club giving the treatments. Assist
ants are being furnished by Parent
Teachers associations and other inter
ested clubs.
Over nine hundred children were
given the treatments last year at
clinics put on at Brevard and Ros-(
man, and it is the opinion of Dr.
C. L. Newland, chairman of the un
derprivileged child committee of the
Kiwanis club that there are at
ieast five hundred more children in
the county between the ages of six
months and twelve years who should
have the treatment at this time.
It is necessary that four clinics
he held at this time, in order that
children will not have to be brought
any great distance, school busses
not being available for transporta
tion as they w^’e last year. Children
in the lower end of the county may
receive the treatment Thursday af
ternoon of this week either at Bre
vard elementary school or the Little
River school, whichever is nearest or
most convenient, both clinics starting
at two o’clock i
Likewise, children in ‘the upper
end of the county may go to either
Lake Toxaway or Rosmar. on Friday
afternoon, clinics at both these
schools starting al two o’clock.
DEER HUNT PROVES ;
COSTLY TO 3 MEN.
Young Man Mistake* Two^
Companions for Deer—
Both Badly Injured
Turner Allison and Robert Nichcl-,
son of Brevard were both injured j
Wednesday night of last week when)
they were fired upon by mistake t>y i
Henry Holiiday who mistook the two •
men for deer.
Story told bv the three young men,
was to the effect that they had been(
hunting in the Boylston section late,
Wednesday afternoon, had stopped at
a friend’s home for supper and were
returning to Brevard iato Wednes-.
day night in a ear when two deer]
were seen to cross the road ju*ti
below the Memorial arch on >hcj
Boylston road, on highway 2H0. The!
car was stopped and Allison and*
Nicholson went after the deer, Hoi j
liday remained at the car.
After u short while, Holliday]
heard two shots in the direction.!
taken by his companions, and im-|
mediately heard a noise as if the;
♦wo deer were coming toward him.
At about 50 yards range, with vis!-1
bility poor on account of the dark-;
ness, Holiday fired both barrels or,
his gun at the two bulks which he.
mistoik for deer, and heard his com-,
p.mions cry out.
The wounded men were nrougiu.
to the home of Hr. C. L Ncwland
and given first aid treatment they
refusing to go to the hospital Wed-;
ncsday night. They were carried to,
the 'hospital Thursday morning
where their condition was considered
grave Thursday afternoon, Allison [
being reported in serious condition
one of the buckshot entering his,
throat, ranging down through the)
lung breaking a rib in back atm,
lodging against the backbone. He
also had two shots through the left;
arm below the elbow.
Nicholson had one buckshot in;
the left groin, ranging by the hip
joint and lodging near the verte
brae. He had one shot through each
thigh and a flesh wound in the low
er jaw.
Young Holliday, a quiet unassum
ing fellow, was in a highly nervous
state for several days following the
shooting, and had to be under care
of a physician. No charges have been!
preferred against him, the men be-!
ing warmest of friends and all re-1
garding the affair as something re - i
gretable, but not a direct tault o j
'^Allison is employed by the Purity,
Products company, Nicholson operate?
the Nicholson Shoe Repair shop;!
Holliday is a son of M. H. Holliday,;
section foreman for the Southern j
Railway. ‘
Nicholson was discharged from the
hospital Tuesday morning though |
he is still suffering from'the gun-|
shot wounds, while Allison remains
in rather serious condition.
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MRS. F. WOLFE DIES ;
FROM PNEUMONIA;
_
Funeral services were held Wed-'
nesday morning at the residence on
West Whitmire street for Mrs. Pearl
Corn Wolfe, 24, who died Tuesday
morning following an illness of sev
eral weeks. Interment was made in
Pleasant Hill cemetery Wednesday
at noon.
Surviving are tne nusoauu auu
four children Earl, aged 9; Ervin,
7; Faye, 4; and an infant of two
week'--. Three sisters, Mrs. Wesley
Middleton of Little River, Mrs. Jod
Huggins and Mrs. Geo. Hudgins of
Tr.man, S. C.; four brothers, Mack
ind Frank Corn, of Brevard, Allic
Corn of Jackson, S. C,, and Kiah
Corn of Sinter, S. C.
NO MORE FOOTBALLS
AT BREVARD SCHOOLS
Coaches Say Boys Failing To
Support The Team As
They Promised
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No more Football at Brevard high
this year.
This decision was made by man
agement of the local gridders Tues
day afternoon reason given being
that the boys, a big part of them
at least, were "laying down on the
job” end were not giving the team
the cooperation necessary, and as
per their promise several, weeks ago
when the team was re-organized.
Coach Tilson, Assistant Coach
Harry Clayton and Manager Edwin
English issued an edict to the boys
last week, netting forth that to con
tinue the team would have to have
the support of the boys, that regular!
attendance at practice was an ab
solute requirement, and that unless
the boys wanted to come out as they
should the team would b? disbanded.
With over half the team failing lo
show up on Monday and Tuesday
afternoon, all uniforms were called
for and games cancelled.
Coach Tilson stated Wednesday,
that those boys who made the re-;
(|Uired grades as set out by the
school board at the opening of the
season, who still wished to train,
could count on him, but that on ac
count of their small size he could
not afford to let them go up against
the heavy teams with whom Man
ager English had scheduled games
Considerable furore was created
at the beginning of the season on
aeccunt of scholastic requirements
to make the football squad. The hap
py medium of allowing all boys who
attended school last year or this to
play on a Brevard team was reach- ■
ed, and things seemed to be rock
ing along well, two games having
been won against one lost, nnd fans
turning out with admission that put
the team on a good financial basis.
The management asserts that only
lack of interest by the boys causes
play to stop.
No more football this yeaar.
JEFF OWEN FINDS HUGE
BUGS IN ROTTEN WOOD
Jeff Owen, while not claiming tjj
be a naturalist, found what is be-|
lieved to be one of the biggest bugs
ever seen in Transylvania Bug-dom
last week while cutting wood. The:
creatures found by Mr. Owen and
brought to The Times office are
about two inches in length, over an
inch wide and are about the most
ferocious looking things one could
imagine would be found in a dead
chestnut tree. They were labled type
lice" in The Times office for want
of a better name.
HALLOWE’EN NIGHT
PASSED OFF QUIETLY
i With depression, NRA. war with
Germany, price of gold, and other
disconcerting matters entirely in the
background, Brevard’s younger pop
ulation turned out tnmasse Tuesday
J night for a hilarious celebration or
I Halloween. ...
Weird laces. DiaeK jacea,
'faces, distorted in every imaginable
j form were atop twisting, squirming
shoulders as the little fellows pushed
and shoved, writhed and wriggled
about the uptown section, laughing,
capering, and having the kind of a
real good time that only youngsters
can have. Altogether, it was an en
jryable evening ,and many of the
older folk seemed happy watching the
youngsters and recalling the day?
when they too, forgot the cares of
life for an evening of fun.
BAPTIST CHURCH TO
HOLD TWO SERVICES
Annua! enrollment services will
l be held at Brevard Baptist church
on Thursday and Friday evenings of
this week, according to announce
ment by the Rev. Paul Hartsell,
pastor, ar.d moderator of the Tran
sylvania Baptist association.
Dr. James A. Ivey, of Asheville,
and other prominent Baptist leaders
will be here for the twc meetings
which will be held each day at 7:30
o’clock, and ♦« which all churches
and pastors in the Transylvania
Baptist association are invited.
HONOR ROLL PLACE
WON BY MANY HERE
Large Group Neither Absent
Nor Tardy During Sec
ond School Month
Brevard teachers are proud of the
many children who made the honor
roll during the month of October,
and point with pride to fhe large
number of perfect attendances. The
list follows:
Seventh Grade
Honor Roll—Emma Lou Loftis
Martha Kate Moore, Annie Morris
lames Bridges, Vance Jackson, Oliv
er Orr Jr., James Simpson, Mary
Alice FV.adter, Juanita Freeman,
’ wile Gravely, Freda Henry, Flora
M e Pittman, Gerald Wilson.
i'.rfect Attendance—Lucile Grave
!>. Eddie Mae Mason, Christine Mil
Icr, Mabel Mills, Viola Nelson, Mar
tha Bryson, Etta Mae McGaha, St.
< lair Austin, Jack Gravely, Raymond
I iayes, Harry Lee Hogsed. Dillard
Ti rt, Gerald Wilson, Roy Johnson,
Henry Garland, R. D. Justus, Evans
Owens, Vance Jackson, Bobbie
Tharp, Lawrence IV>lt Jr., Oliver
Orr Jr., Martha Kate Moore, Pau
line Mull, Bruce Petit, Violet
Sprouse, Harleston McIntosh, Annie
Neill, Janr.ett Jenkins, Helen Mary
Galloway, Ruth Case, James Curry,
Agnes Campbell, Richard Norton,
Avris Morris, Annid Morris, Billie
Beasley, Emma Leu Loftis, Juanita
Freeman, James Simpson, James
Bridges, Leroy Gray, Edgar Loftis,
Marshall Loftis.
Sixth Grade
Honor Roll—Jeanette Austin, Ed
na Fulton, Pendleton Banks, A. B.
(Contimed on page four)
LEGION IS STAGING
6-DAY EXPOSITION
A week’s gala event, i? being staged
by the American Legion in Hender
sonville next week with a big in.
door circus and merchant’s exposi
tion combining to make the affaii
one of interest and profit.
A regular circus is being charter
ed for the indoor event which will
bp staged in the high school gym,
the outfit said to have everything
but a street parade. Change of acts
will be made during the four after
noon and six evening performances,
with animals, clowns, comedy acro
bats, Iliggin’s famous band, Miss
Frieda, the aerial butterfly, trapeze
artists, and other features.
Merchants of Hendersonville are
cooperating with the Legion in stag
ing the exposition, they donating
merchandise and cash to be distribut
ed as free prizes during the week.
Funds derived from the exposi
tion are to be used by the Legion in
carrying on it3 work in Henderson,
ville and Henderson county-. Fur
ther information can bo found on the
back page of this paper.
HALL TO PREACH
ROSMAN, Nov. 1—The Rev. J. N.1
Hall will fill his regular appoint
ment at East Fork Methodist church
at It o’clock Sunday morning.
MUCH CANNED FOOD
IS STORED BY RELIEF
FORCES IN COUNTY
Report To Government Shows
Community Gardens Are
Made To Pay
(By W. A. Wiiscn)
In the spring of this year, the
Federal government gave permission
ior the planting of community gar
dens and individual gardens for re
lief cases. They furnished garden
seed and gave permission for the
buying of fertilizers to bo used by
relief cases. Cases in Transylvania
County numbered approximately five
hundred at the time permission was
given for the planting of gardens,
and we were able to get four hun
dred fifty families to agree to the
planting and supervision.
We also had three community gar
dens in the county one at R- smart,
one at. the Cour.ty Home, and one
at Pisgah Forest. The-c community
gardens were worked by relief labor.
Of the four hundred fifty that
agreed to the planting and super
vision, there are now only two hun
dred families on relief arid their
needs are for flour, meat and cloth
ing mostly, whereas last fall tner«
were approximately five hundred
families that needed canned goods,
vegetables, flour, meat and seasoning.
This ha? more than cut our relief
cases in half.
It is true that living conditions
this year are much highu than they
were last year, but with the can
ned goods and other produce stored
for the winter, it will take but very
little more for our ctu- to live
this winter than it did last winter.
We have canned and caused to be
canned for the Relief case- in Tran
sylvania county about fifty-four
thousand seven hundred forty cans.
We have put up from the products
grown in the community gardens
four hundred gallons of kraut, three
hundred gallons of. pickled beans,
three hundred twenty-five gallons if
syrup, four hundred bushels of sweet
; potatoes, thj-ee hundred bu-hels of
j Irish potatoes, one hundred bushel:
|of corn, fifty-five buyhe!- of onion*,
land three hundred bushel? of tur
nips.
We do not claim that the canned
goods 3nd the ocher produce saved
have been the one great thing done
bv the individual and community
garden?. We believe that the great
est thing done for Transylvania coun
(Continued on Bc-ek Pagf)
;S. C. MAN FATALLY
! HURT IN ACCIDENT
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Fred T. Whitmire, 14 year old res
ident nf Jocassee, S. C.. died at Ly
day Memorial hospital. Tuesday
morning from injuries received in an
automobile accident near Caesrr
[ Head last Thursday night, when t,.=
iiight roadster he was driving turn
led completely over, smashing in the
i front of the man's head and fractur
| ing the base of his skull.
Brought to the h spital here., he
never fully regained consciousness.
1 little hope being held cut for his
I recovery from the time he wa:
brought in. The body was carried 1
i Walhalla Tuesday, and funeral *<
vices were held at Mt. Carmel Bap
i tist church near Jocassee Wednesd:
| afternoon.
Surviving are his wife and two
i children, Louise aged 17. and Wade.
115. The father, A. L. Whitmire of
Jocassee, and the following brothers
'and sisters also survive; J- A. Whit
mire, Muskegon, Mich.; HomerWh.it
i mire, Jocassee: Mrs. O. K. Schweir.
and Mrs. M. U. Phillips. Gr-enville-.
Mrs. S. D. Hinkle, Pickens; Mrs. I.
T. Hinkle and Miss Lucy Whitmire.
Jocassee. A number of relatives also
reside in Transylvania county.
Eck Sims Says Transylvania County To
Vote Wet In Election To Be Held Here!
Editor Transylvania Times:
Please allow me this further word
to the voters of the county through
the columns of The Times to say that
I fully believe, from the information
gleaned from every part of thel
county, that the voters will over-,
whelmingly endorse repeal of the
eighteenth amendment in next Tues.
1 day’s election. Many hundreds of our
citizens express confidence in the
effectiveness of the “Turlington
Act” which has been North Caro
lina’s air-tight prohibition law since
years before the advent of the
eighteenth amendment.
It is obvious tnai me people Bf
erally share with me the opinion
that no greater calamity could befall
North Carolina than that she should
vote to retain the eighteenth amend
ment while all of cur neighboring
states vote to repeal it. We should
hen become national headquarters
for that type of boot-legger and
racketeer hitherto unknown in our
midst. Our fair county would no
doubt at once become the habitat of
!a cf the cut-throat criminal clan
that has made millions of dollars from
the sale of liquors and from uk
almost wholesale murder of the mem
bers of opposing elans under the •
called semi-sacred eighteenth amen<
rnent and the present national pr<
hibition law. ► ...
The personal criticism leveled »•••
me by several correspondents in last
week’s Times will be effectively
answered in Tuesday’s election and
I therefore offer nothing in rebut
tal. My observations and attacks of
methods employed by some is in
nowise a personal attack on any but
these weird pictures of the days of
“Gus Aiken, the ‘hoodlums’ and the
■ barroom” are poor arguments in
deed with which to convince a school
led and educated people cf what the
results of repeal would be. Ex
i periencc has long since taught m<
that to influence the actions of an
intelligent people, such as we have
in Transylvania county—we mu*
address ourselves to their intelligence
and any appeal intended to reach
them through the channels of su
perstition or ignorance meets ana
(Continued op Risk Pot)0)