CLEARING OF RIVER
SUGGESTED THROUGH
CIVIL WORKS FUNDS
Would Furnieh Employment
For People and Enhance
Value of Property
Suggestlon is being mude by
several people that this is an ap
propriaic time to have some badly
needed work done on the French
Broad river, giving employ r. nt to
men in Transylvania and F nJenon
counties, and showing r :.o lasting
good for money expended.
It has been pointed < ut. by several
P ' pie 0f the county within the past
week (hat clearing the French Broad
river of debris and man-made ob
structions would enhance property
along the valley, by reason of the
fact that a better run-off would be
afforded and at the same time
drainage of countless acres that arc
now lying idle cn account of their
boggy condition would be effected.
With blasting of a couple la’gei
shoals and clcaiai.ce of a number of
other small obstructions, the bed of
the river could be lowered several
feet, proponents i f the idea assort.
These people aver that tardiness of
the stier.m in time of high water is
chief factor in its overflow, and
that with removal of obstructions
this w uld bo remedied. Lowering of
the river bed. in addition to giving
space for greater varriaga of water
during flood periods, would, within
a year’s time, drain the low mea
dowlands that are now fit only for
frogs and bullrushcs, giving far
mers along the valley a bigger farm
ing area of high class land.
It is expected that concerted ef
fort will be made along this line in
the near future, regardless of the
fact that efforts heretofore have
availed nothing. Seeking an appro
priation from Congress for such
work and getting it through the
CWA is an altogether different pro
position, it is pointed out.
FOOTBALL FANS GLAD j
OF COLUMBIA'S WIN
Practically all . h Brevard
"•ST. tunad ir
football' came
listening * to** —_
West g;<me at whic< i dumbia Uni
versity, regarded >t I under dog by
fnra two to six toAehdowns, defeat
ed the highly .t Stanford Uni
versity elevel by th< - ore of 7-0.
Sports writers rn practically all
sections of the count >y had given the
game to Stanford be are Monday aft
ernoon. With few Exceptions, Bre
vard fans were pulluig fer Columbia,
but held out little hope until after
the second half. ^
B. Y. REORGANIZES
AT PENROSE CHURCH
PENROSE, Jan. 2—F.rtm B. Y. P.
U. reorganized Sunday tight with
the fallowing officers 'elected for
the first quarter of 1934:^
President, Billie McGftire; vice
president, Bell Townsend; itecretary
treasurw, Holland Talley1; Bible
readers" leader, Alma Talley; chor
ister, Ernest Brown; pianist,\ Leslie
McGuire; group captains, Bill/ Mid-J
dleton ard David Surrette. ,
The intermediate B. Y Y. U
will organize next Su> da This j
group it a promotion of the .uniors.:
A new junior group is expected to j
be formed later. )
The intermediate B. Y. L U. |
from Little River under managcvient |
of Miss Hybernia Shipman pressed ,
an interesting program at Bnon j
church Sunday night. The progktm ■
in general was pronounced excelled. j
Mrs. Walter Holtzclaw has been tys
leader of tho intermediate B. Y. f. I
U. at Little River.
SUBSCRIBED GIVE NEW
YEAR CHEER TO TIMES
1 Happy New Yen;’ ban been <w
I pressed to Tbe Times, by the follow
ing subscribers since Monday morn
ing of this week by the following
subscribers who have paid up for
another year to the home paper:
1 J. M. Allison, Gainesville, Ala.; K.
,V. Merrill. Riverir, Fia.j fl. E. Wil
I liams, San Francisco; E. G. Mer
(iill, Sebastapol, Calif.; E. H. Webb,
| Bvevaid; Mrs. Florence Orr, Bra
Ivartl; Mrs. George Simpson, Bre
■ vard. ..J9
T V A CONSTRUCTING
RIVER GUAG1NG UNIT
i ■_
Several To Be Placed Upon
l«arger Stream* Flowing
Through County
Workmen assigned through the lo
ca! reemployment office, according
to Dewey Gravely, have completed
the renovation of a gauging unit lo
cated at Blant.yre bridge over the
French Bread river and since Dec.
20 have been erecting a similar unit
at Calvert. This work which is ex
pected to take five weeks, employs
two carpenters and four laborers
i for the time needed.
The project urtder the direction
of Walter Smith, civil engineer is
one of 22 similar jobs in Western
North Carolina which will furnish
employment for nine engineers, and
approximately 130 laborers. The
concrete steam gauging stations are
being constructed from CWA funds
totaling $20,000 in co-operation with
the Tennessee Valley Authoriyt.
After the completion of the sta
tion at Calvert a station will be built
rn Davidson river near Brevard and
later another cn Mills River near
Mills River of Henderson county.
The guaging stations are built for
the purpose of recording the flow of
Western North Carolina tributary
; streams which empty into the Ten
nessee river. jm
TOXAWAY SCHOOL’S.
H(pR ROLj- GIVEN
Toxav^
jIs as follows;
Fivst grade—Donald Fisher, Hei
bert Hall. Jr., Lawrence Partoi
Louise Fisher, Freda Jean Hal
Mary Lee Johnson, Wanda Le
Tompkins.
Second—Vaughn Fisher.
Third—Blanche Owen, Freda Tai
ley.
Fourth—Annie Banther, Marthi
Lee McCall, Bonnie Fisher.
Fifth—Lucy Hall, Velma Wilson
Sixth — Ruby Banther, Count
Chappell, Verona Fisher.
Perfect Attendance
First Grade—Jimmie Holbert, Tet
j McNeely, Harold Owen,Leila Mai
I Breedlove, Louise Fisher, Frcdi
•Jean Hall, Mary Lee Johnson, Jessii
Reid, Betty Rogers, Fannie Wi)
son.
Second—Charles Arrowood, Ber
Fisher, Kyle Galloway, Leroy Les
Ruth Fisher.
Third — Ben Breedlove, Violel
Jones, Blanche Owen, Frances Pab
terson, Clara Rigsby.
Fourth—Bruce Johnson, Roy Lee
Ray Fisher, Roy McNeely, Annie
Banther, Rhoda Clark, Lucy Fisher
Martha Lee McCall, Artense Chap
pell.
Fifth—Julia Breedlove, Lucy Halt,
Lura Johnson, Geneva Jones, Mary
Lee, Cecil Fisher, A. L. Owen, Ray
Rigdon, Robert Rogers, Lane San
ders.
Sixth—Ruby Banther, Gloria
Fisher, Verona Fisher, Willabeth
Held, Mary Lou Bryson, Jack Clark,
John Hall, Donald Miller, Arnold
Mi ter.
Seventh—Willie Mae Teague, Her
be • Fisher.
Two McCall Boys Charged With Firing
Upon Gloucester Residents Last Sunday
Austin McCall, eighteen year old!
resident of the Gloucester section,
and his brother, Hayden McCall, gix-|
teen years old, are being held in the,
countv jail charged with attempting
to kill Mr. and Mrs. Melvin McCall,
also of the Gloucester section.
The men. the elder of whom is
said to be of rather reckless nature,
admitted to Sheriff Tom Wood that
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin McCall
fired upon by cne of themJJ
day night, a lead of "
barely missing tne c«
together ir. their j»
According toAdJE
Wood. Mr. :iv^M
i sitting in fi
their hctijM
o’clock
a wind H
load gv'jB
where i flj
ir.g- togJa
was eofl r
faliicg «J
How■we Sm
them. IH
dfifl
ItVi expected that full details of
the shying will be brought out at a
prelimivey hearing to be held on
Thursday for the two young fellows'.
GenebT^epinion is to th«,J effect
that thft'* ™ * * *
against '
feeling 1
the
f ' ' ]
Professor Jukaifl
the past nine yea*
eafionel agricultur*
High school, and is
farming methods I
during that time, 1
-with completion ufl
i room work to take I
WayneiviHe High 1
jwood county.
Professor tilazcneiM
conversation with Tra
Times Wednesday a 36
that he had already®
ment with the Hayw®
ficials to take over tH
Monday morning, fillSI
made vacant- recent®
fessor W. D. Smith®
teacher o f agricultu®
county agent in Haywl
Mr. Gla/.ener would I
ment over the tekphol
ether than to say thal
very much to leave j
county, but that he belie
find the general situa
new place more aatisfai
It is known, howeve
FINE COPPEEB
CAPTURED IN 1
First Complete7 j
Kind Seen dn Tht 0,|
In Many Y 9 J
One of 1 ho most completl
to-date copper stills to be|
in this county in a number!
was found Tuesday afternt<Y^ron3
of tliq jfrench Broad river, in *h'JH
hiT (• mVV
I Arch Rogers and Policeman BiJ
Stroup of Rosman. The still had not
’ been in operation for the pa3t several
l' days, but necessary pre-requisitei
for getting off a run iri the near fu
i ture were on the grounds waiting
only for the ’'master touch" to turn
out a brand that has made an envi
• able reputation among those who
have a taste for moonshine made on
i an up-tq-the-minute outfit.
josepiThaIFFon
CALLED IN DEATH
Joseph E. Hamilton died at his
heme on Crab Creek in Henderson
county Sunday December 24th after
a long struggle for life, in which the
very best medical skill, tender and
(watchful nursing had been done
possible to aid the beloved man in
his battle against death.
"Uncle Joe” was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Hamilton
and was most eighty years of age.'
He was married to Miss Jane Hug-j
gins about 50 years ago and to this
union was born eight children, six'
of whom are living, They are as fol
lows: Mrs. Jud Patterson of Crab
Creek, Mrs. A. B. McCall of Little
River, Mrs. Edwin Wright of Flat
Rock, D. D. Hamilton of Little
River, Pelzie and Sophie Hamilton
of Crab Creek. He is also survived
’by three brothers and two sisters,
Frank Hamilton of Darlington, 8.
C.. Pierce Hamilton of Greenville,!
S. C., Manson Hamilton of Little
River, Mrs. Fanning Steppe of Hen
dersonville, Mrs. J. A. McCall of
Little River. He'is also survived by
17 grand children and 8 great grand
children.
Funeral services were held Mon- (
day morning fit Crab Creek church
with the Rev. Jess Osteen and Rev.
Edney in charge. As evidence of the
high esteem in which he was held,
an overflow crowd packed the church j
for the last rites. The body was laidd
to rest in the nearbv^jemetcrvl^-f
I TO J|
i WASHING*
;dent Roosevelt ■
} joint session oB
: refrained fronB
I cmmendations
'dealt in geiMjfl
program andffi|
; last six monilvB
Highlights' ini
snge to enngrejj
[ Urges cor tin*
campaign or. ttiM
rdd methods.”
Demands ‘‘<str;B
regulatory measuffl
evaders, negligenffifll
speculators.” / J
Says internatioaB
lization cannot H
this time.
Concedes
from time- $*9®
permanent.
Declares farm 1
plan in success. H
Reiterates Ame®
ticipate in Europe®
fers cooperation iH
common good.
Hints at new p®
will discuss them
message. fl
Asks
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