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AGIO BOYS HOSTS TO
LARGE GROUP FOLK
Interesting Program Given At
Annual Father-Son Ban
quet Friday Night
Nearlv one hundred fifty p«>ple
gathered about the festive board at
Brevard high school last Friday
night when boys of the Vocational
Agriculture class entertained their
dads at a dinner banquet and Y. T.
II. F. program.
David Norton, president of the
chapter, presided, and with Pro.es
sor Julian A. Glazener, teachei. had
charge of the evening’s program.
Twenty members of the F.eshman
class were given the “gveon hand”
initiation, the following officers as
sisting President Norton: Melvin
McGaha, acting vice president; Ed
Conley, secretary; Clyde McCrary,
treasiier; Lewis Meee, reporter; Pro
fessor Glazener, advisor.
The stage was appropriately dec
orated in keeping with the George
Washington birthday anniversary
scheme, and further carried out in
the costumes worn by the Home
Economics girls who assisted in
serving the meal and in the hatchet
favor.'. The Rev. Paul Hartsell,
pastor of Brevard Baptist churcn
gave the invocation, the address of
welcome being given by Chavles
Merrill. A sumptuous repast of
barbecued pig and “fixings” was
thoroughly enjoyed, followed by_ a
dessert course of cherry pie a’ia’
rnede. Music was rendered through
out the evening by the Baptist;
church orchestra. [
During the meal several of the.
boys discussed phases of the work!
being done by the class. Ed Conley|
read a paper r» “George Washing-,
ton the Farmer;” project develop-!
ment by Foy Ilolden; community ac-{
tivities by George Leverett; class
room studio- by Charles Dickson;
social activities by Earl Ashworth.
Paul Glazener, a member of the first
vocational age'-ulture class, was
present and gave an able discourse
on the value of the work as seen by
a fanner and dairyman.
Profe-.-or Glazener introduced the
following invit i guest-- Professor
Fri-Nv c? tN Edncyvi’le big'
school; Professor Randall Lyday of j
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RALPH RAMSEY OUT !
FOR STATE SENATOR
Prominent Brevard Lawyer Is
Seeking Nomination By
Democratic Party
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., prominent.
Brevard attorney, makes announce
ment through The Times this week
of his candidacy for nomination in
the Democratic primary for the
state senatorship from this dis
t rict.
Mr. Ramsey, a native of South
Carolina, came here eight years ago
and entered the practice of law with
Welch Galloway, and has since
maintained offices here. He is at
present attorney for the town of
Brevard.
Active :n church and civic affairs
since his coming to Brevard, Mr.
Ramsey served two terms as presi
dent of the Brevard Kiwanis club,
was elected mayor of Brevard in
1931 bj a two-to-one majority, and
at the expriation of his term was
chosen as the town’s attorney.
He is leader of the young peo
ple’s division of the Brevard Bap
tist church and has served as presi
dent of Transylvania B. Y. P. U. |
association. Prior to entering the
practice of law Mr. Ramsey was a|
public school teacher and farmer. |
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! HONOR ROLL
The following people have sub
scribed to The Transylvania Times
during the week ending Wednesday
night:
Mrs. J. M. Meeee, R-2
J. Alfred Owen, L. Toxaway
W. S. Lankford, R-2
J. W. Smith, Brevard
J. H. Parker, R-2
J. V. Gillespie, R-3
R. G. Siniard, Florida
Mrs. C. E. Neal, Texas
G. M. Mitchell, Rosman
Miss Florence Kern, Brevard
T. T. Miller, L. Toxaway
G. E. Kellar, Brevard
Freeman Hayes, Brevard
Miss Beulah Reid, L. Toxaway
Fred Mills, Brevard
Mrs. Frank Jenkins, Brevard
Mrs. F. P. Sledge, Brevard
Dr. J. H. McLean, Brevard
C. L. Osborne, Brevard
Alex Kizer, Brevard
C. K. Osborne, Brevard
A. B Galloway, Brevard
D. F. Barnett, Brevard
T. E. Waters, Brevard
f R. F. Glazener, Rosman
G. M. Israel, Rosman
Jess McCall, R-2
J. A. Owen, Lake Toxaway
S. B. McCall, Lenoir
Mrs. W. H. Allison, Alabama
Mrs. C. L. Garren, S. C.
DeWitt McCall* Bnfea|rt GiVve
Mrs. Grace E. Jordan, R-3
Geo. B. Wallace, Florida
• A. B. McCall, Pcnrosw
D. P. Kilpatrick, Brevard
Mrs. Julia Wingfield, Florida
Tim Cowan, Pisgah Forest
COUNTY CLASSES WIN
PLACES IN CONTEST
Transylvania county’s t'.vo agricul
ture classes placed third and fourth
in the Western North Carolina seed
judging contest held in Asheville
last Saturday, with the Rosrnan class
winning third place and Brevard
fourth.
Twelve schools were represented
in the contest, Bryson City winning
first place.
LOCAL MAN PUT ON
STATE COMMITTEE
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Lewis P. Hamlin Chosen To
Help Draft Republican
State Platform
Lewis P. Hamlin of Brevard has
been named as a member of state
Republican Platform committee, and
will assist in writing the platform
for presentation to the Republican
state convention which meets in
Charlotte on April 4.
Jake F Newell, nominee for the
United States senate in 1932, has
been selected as chairman of the
platform committee, and made pub
lic a statement on Sunday in which
he said that a dry piank would be
inserted in the platform which is to
be drafted a couple of weeks prior
to the Charlotte convention.
In speaking of some of the import-]
ant planks he hopes to have in the i
platform, Mr. Newell said. "I cer
tainly shall fight for a dry plank.
Not only do I want this dry plank
the platform as regards to state
prohibition, I want in addition to
have the Republican party of North j
Carolina fight for federal enforce-1
ment as promised, not only in the
wording of the twenty-first amend
ment but also as promised in the
national platform of the Democrats.
We were promised that the dry
states would be protected from im
portation of whiskey from wet
states.
ROSMAN ROYS MAKE'
GOOD SPORT RECORD!
ROSMAN, Feb. 28 — Fourteen,
wins out of seventeen games gives
Rosman high school basketball team
a record that is outstanding in
Western North Carolina circles.
A total of 522 points have been;
scored by the local quint in these!
17 games while their opponents:
were scoring 285. E. J. Whitmire'
led in individual scoring with 2001
points, followed by A. White with
123, ana Eldridge with 109.
Games played and score are Ros
man 12, Glenville 14; Rosman 20,
Highland 36; Rosman 29, Glenville
12; Rosman 25, Fletcher 21; Ros
man 37, Culowhee 8; Rosman 20.
Culiowhee 16; Rosman 18, Bvevard
17; Rosman 63, Brevard 7; Rosman
41. Waynesville 30; Rosman 30, Six
Mile 13; Rosman 35. Mars Hill 15;
Rosman 26, Marion 29; Rosman 29.
Six Mile 25; Rosman 38, East Flat
Rock 10; Rosman 33, Salem 2; Ros
man 35, Highland 16; Rosman 30,
East Flat Rock 12.
CEDAR MTN. MAN IS
VICTIM OF FLAMES
Columbus McCrary Dies When
Home Bums Near Mari
etta, South Carolina
Funeral services for Columbus Mc
Crary, 41, who was burned to
death at his home near Marietta,
S C.. late last Thursday, were held
at eleven o’clock Saturday morning
from the Rocky Hill Baptist
church at Cedar Mountain. The ser
vices were conduted by the Rev. C.
W. Hdemon, pastor, and interment
was made in the church cemetery.
Mr.McCrary is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mi's. A. L. Mc
Crarv, Cedar Mountain; three
-istei-s Mrs. William Fisher, Hen
dersonville; Misses Mary and Nan
nie Sue McCrary, Cedar Mountain,
3rd three brothers, Sanford. Francis
md Manning McCrary, of Cedar
Mountain.
The deceased was burned to death
vhen his three-room house two miles
northwest of Marietta went up in
flames. Coroner George,W. McCoy
who investigated, said he did not
think an inquest would be necessary.
Edward Turner, who lives near the
McCrary house, said he visited Mc
Crary during the afternoon and
when he left, the man was building
a fire in the fireplace of the house.
Soon he saw heavy smoke coming
from the house, ran over and found
McCrary lying on a bed and the
flames spreading rapidly over one
side of the room.
Turner told the coroner he got
McCrary to the door and there the
man, who weighed ahout 180 pounds,
ierked loose from his rescuer and
-an back into the blazing room.
Turner said the flames had spread
jo far he could not make his way
back into the room. After the build
:ng burned, Mr. McCrary’s charred
body, burned beyond recognition, was
'ound in the heap of ashes.
Relatives and friends from this
•ounty who visited the scene Fri
day were, at » loss to understand
ust how the man could have been
burned in the manner described.
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County Schools Closed Indefinitely To
Combat Threatened Measles Epidemic
All school children and teachers
in Transylvania county were noti
fied Wednesday afternoon that the
schools would be closed for an in-;
definite period, according to G. C.
Bush, county superintendent. (
Mr. Bush said that the schools
would be re-opened after the threat
ened epidemic of measles was m|
check. He said that the county sup
erintendent, county chairman of the |
school board and the health officer,
would decide as to opening date. _
Over half thp grammar anti pn-(
mary pupils of Brevard schools,
were absent the first of the week,!
said to be attributed to measles,,
while reports from some other sec-(
tions of the Brevard district intimat-,
cd that attendance was being cutj
down.
The County Board of Health in a I
meeting Monday made an order to (
the effect that the schools would |
not operate later than Wednesday ;
morning, this order being redrawn
on Tuesday afternoon to close Wed
nesday and not re-open for a period
of two weeks.
The order also specified that all
rhurches, Sunday Schools, theatres
and other public places were to re
main closed during this period in
order to thwart if possible, a county
wide epidemic.
It is expected that adult Sunday
school classes throughout the county
and church services for adults will
be conducted during the period as
prior, children not being allowed to
attend. Management of the Clemson
Theatre at Brevard announced Tues
day that the theatre would have its
regular scheduled pictures, Monday
Tucsday and Friday-Saturday, but
that children would not be admitted.
frofessor U. C. Bush, county su
perintendent of schools, stated Tues
day afternoon that there were no
measles reported in the upper or
Rosman district, and that majority
of the people of the county wanted
the schools to continue. In regard to
the order passed by the County
Board of Health on Monday to have
the schools closed Wednesday mom-j
ing, he stated that after conferring'
witli the chairman of the board, VI.;
M. Galloway of Rosman on Tuesday,;
that the board was ready to close the
schools as directed after it had been
given orders from the properly
veated authorities to do so. Some
confusion was caused on Tuesday
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SCOUTS TO CANVASS
TOWN FOR CLOTHING
Project Is Being Carried Outj
By Boys Throughout
The Nation
111 keeping with a nation-wide
drive by Boy Scouts acting at the (
request of President Roosevelt, mem
bers of the Brevard Boys Scout;
troop will canvass the town Satur
day morning to collect such useful
wearing apparel and household
goods as will be donated to needy
families in the county.
Clothing, bedding, furniture, dish
es, pots and pans that are discarded
hut still serviceable will he collected
by the boys who will start in groups,
to canvass the town at D:80 Satur-j
day morning, and will probably be
through by twelve noon.
People of the community are nak
ed to cooperate in the move and
have such.articles bjl they care
give” ready for tKeboys when They I
call.
The articles so collected will fce!
turned over to the county releif of-.
1'ices and distributed to the most
needy families. In case the Boy
Scouts miss any person who wishes
to donate, they are requested to
call Scoutmaster Fred Miller at|
Phone No. 20, or Assistant Scout-;
master C. M. Douglas, at. Phone
No. 7, and the articles will be called;
for by the boys.
WELDON GALLOWAY
BURIED ON TUESDAY
Funeral services for Weldon Gallo
way, 26, were held Wednesday af
ternoon from Old Toxaway Baptist
chuvch, conducted by the Rev. J. E.
Burt, pastor Rosman, Baptist church,
jlnterment was made in.the cemetery
[ nearby.
i Young Mr. Galloway died at
Oteen Hospital near Asheville on
Monday afternoon where he had
been seriously ill for six or seven
weeks. A member of the John’s
Rock CCC camp, he was given sick
leave just after Christmas, and was
carried to Mission hospital, later be
ing transferred by the John's Rock
j officials to the government hospital
I at Oteen where a large staff of doc
[ tors was consulted, but who were
unable to give him relief.
Members of the CCC camp were
pallbearers at the funeral Wednes
day, several members of the camp,
where Mr. Galloway had worked
1 and was well liked, attending.
Surviving are the partnts, Mr.
land Mrs. W. E. Galloway, of the
• Old Toxaway section; four sisters
! Mrs. Claude Hutchison, of Green
i ville, Mrs. A. K. Moore, of Lenoir,
Mrs. Edwin Staton, of Rosman, and
Miss Daisy Lee Galloway of Old
Toxaway. One brother, Cecil Gal
loway, also survives.
WAVER IS BELIEVED
TO BE IN COMMUNITY
Mr. George W. Hayes of Brevard
has found what is believed to be first
evidence of beaver ever known in
this section.
While getting out some lumber on
the J. F. Hayes farm, located lust
across the river from Cherryfield,
Mr. Hayes and a friend found quite
a number of small aspen poplars
‘hat had been cut and on further in
stigation found several pieces cut
in lengths ranging about twenty -
four inches that had not been drag
ged away. They also found one pop
lar at least five inches thick that
had been cut nearly through.
Mr. Hayes stated that so far as
he could remember this is the first
evidence ever found of beaver in the
Trench Broad river valley above
Asheville.
LOANS TO ASSIST IN)
PAYING HOME DEBTS I
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Representative of Corporation
To Be In Brevard
Next Week
I). M. Buck of Bald Mountain, N.
0., representing the Home Owners
Loan Corporation,, a department of
the federal government, spent several
days here the first of the week in
terviewing people whose homes were
in jeopardy from foreclosure pro
ceedings.
Mr. Buck will be here again on
Tuesday and Wednesday of next
we. k, and will be glad to interview
any home owner whether in the town!
or county property of small acreage!
that des not , ..r.;c nmi •- the '' trm
loan provisions, it such ho.;.c u»o >
ers are liable to lose their property
by foreclosure. He will be in Pal
Kirnzey’s office at the Transylvania
([Vust company bniidinp
Mr. Buck is especially Interested inj
assisting people who are subject to:
foreclosure from closed banks and
like institutions. Loans are made
Mr. Buck said, by the department lie
represents on fifteen year terms
with interest at five per cent.
About twenty people called on Mr.
Buck here this week and made ap
plication for loans. Effort is being
made, the representative said to get
all accredited loans through as rap
idly as possible.
MRS. T, A. ENGLISH
IS CALLED IN DEATH
Funeral services for Mrs. T. A.
English were held at the Brevard
Baptist church Friday afternoon. In
terment was in the Gillespie ceme
tery.
Mrs. English, who was Miss
Varina Fowler, of Cashiers Valley,
before her marriage, died Wednes
day night after an illness of several
years.
The services were in charge of the
Rev. Paul Hartsell, pastor, with Ot
to Alexander, Jess A. Galloway, C.
Y. Patton, 0. L. Erwin, J. M. Alli
son, and W. E. Breese acting as I
pallbearers. Dr. E. S English, Dr
C. L. Ncwland, D. L. English, 0?-,
[borne Bradley, H. S. Townsend, Wilt
Cagle. Dr. S. M. Macfie, and Sherfif
I Tom Wood were honorary pallbear
ers. Moore & Osborne had charge of
arrangements.
Surviving are her husband, om
daughter, Mrs. Earl Twigg, of New
York; two sonrf-Daniel English, Bre
I vard, and Lucien English, New
[York; and two brothers, E. V. Fowl
i or, of Horse Shoe, and W. M. Fowl
|er, of Glenville.
Park Again In Disorder
l Paris—Fighting again broke out
here Tuesday as Reds attack Na
tionalists. One communist was slain
land three were injured.
IRS. NirHOlSON TO
BE BURIED TODAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy
; Lou Nicholson will be held at Cash
[ iers Valley at eleven o’clock Thurs
day morning, and burial will b<?
'mnde in the historic Cashiers Valley
cemetery.
Mrs. Nicholson died early Tues
day night at Lyday Memorial hos
pital where she had been carried for
treatment. She had been in near
serious condition for several months.
Surviving are two sons, Fred
Nichloson of Mills River, and Frank
Nicholson of near Asheville. The
husband, Milas. Nicholson, diW 2(5
or more years ago. Three brothers,
Chris Dillard of Mills River, Tom
Dillard of Cashiers Valley, and Will
Dillard of Six Mile, S. C., also sur
vive.
REDUCTION ORDERED IN
CWA EMPLOYMENT HERE
Word has been received by tha
local CWA office to further reduce
the number of men working in this
county to 226, according to W. A.
Wilson, administrator.
Ninety-nine workers were cut from
the county rolls last week on order
of the state office, cutting the num
ber to 226, and the order this week
brings it to 190.
COLLEGE TRUSTEES
TO MEET MONDAY
President of Brevard Institu
tion Will Be Selected— j
To Open In Fall
Much interest is being shown J
throughout the state in the Brevard
College trustee meeting to be held
in Hickory on Monday morning of
next week for the purpose of select-,
ing a president of the school.
Several outstanding school execu-j
tives have applied for the position,
and from this group will be selected
the president, after which the fac
ulty elections will be held according
to plans discussed at a meeting held
in Brevard laRt week.
The college will open in Septem-l
bor of this year, it was decided at i
the meeting here, with probable en-j
-ollment of around three hundred
students. All buildings of the Bre-;
vard Institute, donated to the Metho
dist conference by the Women’s Mis-'
sionary Council of the church, will,
be utilized by the new institution,
with others to be erected a- the need I
arises.
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, head of I
the Methodist church in the South. I
is. authority for the statement that!
the Brevnrd College will eventually)
be the outstanding school of its type:
in eastern America.
GREAT WORK DONE j
BY SANITARY CREW
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Charles Ashworth, wu'kirjr under
the state board of health eon be
justly proud of the work he is doing
!.> the erection of sanitary privies in
this county, with teller I u the r>ro*
jw»« hein-r furnished by « \V •’»
s. .'t r..i hundred sanitary . .privies
have alive dv b •n cm.stm-wd. .V
^^TCT>?ar~r-r»^K
in two crews being employed. Elfort •
arc now bring centered on erecti■ n
of the sanitary privies at homes
near the public highways, one crew
working nenr Rosman and one in
the lower end of the county.
Material for construction of the
houses is furnished by the resident
or landlords with all labor being
done by the force of men under the
CWA. A survey of the work along
the Roylstcn highway is proof con
clusive of the worthwhileness of the
work.
Sims Still In Race
Eck 1.. Sims states very emphatic
ally that he lias not .withdrawn from
the race for nomination on the Dem
ocratic ticket for register of deeds,
and says that ho is in the- race to
stay.
HABEAS CORPUS SET
FOR MONDAY MORN
Decision Will Be Made At 10
O’Clock at Hendersonville
Court House
Judge T. B. Finley will announce
’his decision Monday morning at ten
[o’clock in Henderson county Super
ior court in the habeas corpus pro
ceedings instituted by four Tiansyl-i
I vania men.
I At a hearing before him in Marion
'last Thursday the judge announced
that he would give his decision at
I Hendersonville on Monday, and per
I milted the men to remain at liberty
under the same $10,000 b>nds which
I they posted when temporary writs of
habeas corpus were granted at North
1 Wilkesboro on February 14.
The men, J. H. Pickelsimer, T. H.
Shipman, C. R. McNeely and Ralph
Ir Fisher, set out in their petition
before Judge Finley that the court
which tried them was improperly
organized, the grand jury which in
| dieted them was illegal, and the jury
'which convicted them was improper
ly drawn. The judge dumped
issues except one: whether or not
the special term of Transylvania
county Superior cjourt which tried
and convicted the men on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the county tor
the aid of the Brevard Banking com
pany, was properly, constituted.
Around forty people from Brevsro
attended the herring at Marion last
Thursday, with Lewis F. Hamlin, u.
Lyle Jones, ,T. E. Shipman, Monroe
Redden and I. C. Arledge.
Touhy Gang Gets Heavy Sentence
Chicago — Roger Touhy, ruthless
leader of the “terrible Touhys of the
north-west side”, and two of kis des
peradoes, Gus Schaeffer and Albert
Kator, were found guilty Friday by
a jury in criminal court of kidnap
ing John Factor, wealthy speculator.
The jury fixed the sentence at 99
years in the state penitentiary at
! punishment of the gangsters.
SIDEWALKS SHOULD
GET SOME ATTENTION
Another Letter About Federal
Aid, Road* and Things
of General Interest
(By Mrs. W. C. Gravely)
We intimated last week,that the
bad read situation wasn’t all we had
it in for for the CWA bosses in out
county.
There never was a crowd of folks
worked more for anything than the
East Fork folks worked for * sew
ing room project. Some days the
head knockers would tell us tht
project had been sent away for ap
proval. Other days it would be a
different tale. Let me tell you a
funny incident in connection with
the above mentioned work, while in
town one day. I decided to talk with
different ones whose hands this pro
ject would have to go through, as
well as some of the committee win
passed oft such tilings. I talked to
five different ones and had five en
tirely different lines ha Piled me.
Oh, well, we’ve lived without any
CWA assistance and now we aren’t
feeling shaky because our jobs are
to go soon, and because we fear
we’ll be the next one laid off. We
just don’t-like to think we are so
little that we enjoy being the onI>
community in the whelo county to be
ignored 'while other rural settle
ments have more than one project.
Every other one a road project, and
by the way our roads aren’t getting
anv milder tempered about it either.
W e hope somebody lhat has u iu
their power to do will have our
roads looked after and let us have
an equal chance with other sections,
but we’ve got to the point where
we’d be whiling for hands to b •
brought from other sections, as i1-'
usually the ease when any work i
to be done on .East rk roads, and
fill up some of our mud holes.
Once this section belonged to South
Carolina, and we wonder semetim •
if we wouldn't have laved better t >
have belonged to South Carolina yet
Sure enough thi- is election year
_y,c have begun to hope that a,:
our old officers would have as long
a stay in office as the president an •
wait for another election till In -
countv could finance an election.
Honest, wouldn’t it be better U elec
tions didn’t come so often" " hy, v;e
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SEEK RE-NOMINATION
Clerk of Court To Again Be
Candidate For Post—
One More Term
Otto Alexander, now rounding cut
diis first term as clerk of Superior
court is announcing through this
week’s issue of The Times for re
nomination and election on the
Democratic ticket to the office which
he now holds.
He is a native Transylvanian. - n
of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Alexandc of
the Oakland section. He received
his education in the public schools
of the county, later taking training
at Western Carolina Teachers col
lega at Culiowhee and Appalachian
Training school at Boone, after
which ho resumed his vocation oi
teaching and farming.
Mr. Alexander was elected in r «
first race by a large majority, :>> '
is making the promise to not seek
third term if nominated and elect' d
for this his second term.
DEPARTMENT STORE TO
OPEN IN BREVARD SOON
Arrangements are being made by
Edward J. Bogen of Denmark, P.
C., to oocn a department store n
the Pickelsimer building on Main
street formerly occupied by The
Fashion.
Mr. Bogen, an experienced de
partment store owner and opera
tor, states that the new' concern
will handle a complete line of wear
ing apparel, shoe.0, notions n.nd
piece goods. It is expected that the
store will be open to the public
within a short while, date to b/> an
nounced through next wo k s Tran
sylvania Times.
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