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VOL. 39, NO 26
FRENCH BROADDAM
WILL BE DISCUSSED
Meeting To Be Held At Bre
vard High School On
Friday Evening
With interest in the proposed
water storage project on the French
Broad river high and the project be
ing discussed on every hand announ
cement is made by Professor S. P.
Verner, who has been deeply interest-*
ed in the matter since its inception,
and who has made a study of the pro
position from all angles, that a wcet
ing will be held at Brevard nigh
school auditorium on Friday evening
of this week at eight o’clock at which
time a thorough discus-ion of the
TVA program will be held.
Professor Verner, who lecently had
a conference with Dr. A. E. Morgan,
head of the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, as well as several other people of
Western Carolina who are interested
in the French Broad valley end of
the program, will be on hand to go
into the matter.
Engineers of the TVA have an
nounced that a minute survey of those
portions of Buncombe, Henderson
and Transylvania counties which will
be Hooded if the project is carried
out, will be started within a week.
Tentative inspection of highway
systems in Transylvania and Hen
derson counties made by TVA engi
neers in the district highway office
at Asheville last week showed that
considerable highway relocation
would be necessary in Henderson and
Transylvania counties if the dam is
built. The state highway department
is expected to assist the T\ A engi
neers in their survey of the proposed j
lake site.
Horace Jeffress of the Mills River
section and Professor Verner met
with a number of people at Connes
tee school house last Friday night. !
BODY OF BURRELL IS
FOUND BY BROTHER
Brevard Physicians Say Man '■
Was Dead Before He Fell
Into Water Pool
The body of Lonnie Burrell, re
ported to have been been drowned in
* the Tuekaseegee river last Sunday
’ • hud no life in it when it went into the
water, according to opinion o£ Dr.
G. B. Lynch and Dr. E. S. English,
who examined the body at the Moore
& Osborne funeral home here Mon
day night.
The body was found Sunday after-1
noon in to feet of water by a brother ;
of the deceased, with the dead man’s!
walking stick lying near the edge of J
the water. A coroner’s jury attri- j
. billed the man’s drath to accidentally -
falling into the water.
Burrell was employed bv the E. H.
Jennings estate as a patrolman, and j
the body was brought to Brevard for j
burial preparation before being car-1
rial to Burrell’s home in South Car
olina At the request of Mr. Jennings j
W. E. Breese had the body examined, j
with risuit that doctors Lynch and
English pronounced the man dean be- :
tore he henched the deep pool of water I
in which he was found.
Bruises of severe nature were
found on the man’s forehead and j
upon the nose and one upon the1
hand. It is not known what steps, it |
any, the Jackson county officials will
take, inasmuch as the coroner’s jury
hat: already declared the man mot his
death by accidentally falling into the
water.
REVIVAL CONDUCTED AT
QUEBEC BAPTIST CHURCH
ROSMAN, June 27—Revival ser
vices began at Oak Grove Baptist
church near Quebec last Monday
night, with the Rev. J. E. Burt, pas
tor, being assisted by the Rev. Na
than Chapman.
RECREATION CENTER TO
BE BUILT BY KIWANIS
Plans were announced at the Bre
vard Kiwanis club meeting Wednes
day to put checker tables and horse
shoe pitching boxes on the Mrs. Beu
lah Zachary lot on Broad street for
the benefit cf summer people, and to
1 possibly provide other means of recre
' ation in the town.
The Rev. John Simmons, pastor of
the Brevard Presbyterian church, was
guest speaker at the club, talking
from the topic of a clean town.
V.'ayne Fulibright entertained the
club with two saxaphone soles.
COUNTY PEOPLE ON
STATE COMMITTEES
Four Transylvania county citiiens
were named to state committees at
the Democratic convention held in
Raleigh last Thursday.
Mrs. Jos. S. Silversteen was named
as member for Transylvania county
on the eleventh district executive
committee: W. E. Breese was named
as a member of the state credentials
committee: Professor John E. Rufty
was named as a member of the dis
trict congressional committee, and
Clerk of Court Otto Alexander as a
member of the judicial committee for
this district.
A large delegation of Transylvania
Democrats was in attendance at
the state convention, and was
well pleased with the convention, and
the fact that Transylvania county
was so well represented in appoint
ment of committees.
GILLESPIE REUNION
TO BE HELD SUNDAY
Annual Gillespie reunion will be
held at the home of B. A. Gillespie
in the East Fork section Sunday, an
all-day program being arranged, in
cluding vocal and string music and
other features. A picnic dinner will
be served at the noon hour.
It is expected that members of the
Gillespie family and friends from I
various sections of North and South 1
Carolina will be in attendance.
Fruit Stand Opens
Lloyd Hilemon has opened a fruit
stand on East Mein street, just op
posite the court house, in which he
announces that he wiil carry a full
line of fruits, vegetables and melons.
TINSLEY SHOP MOVES TO
MAIN STREET LOCATION
Tinsley Barber shop, located next
door to The Transylvania Times for
the past while, announces their re
moval to the building two doors above
the Transylvania Trust company, th<>
move being made Wednesday.
Associated with I.oalia Tinsley in
the shop will be M. E. Head.
WILSWlS CHAIRMAN
BOARD OF ELECTION;
L. P. Wilson, long prominent in i
Democratic circles, has been appoint
ed chairman of the board of elections
for Transylvania county, succeeding
P.alph W. Lyday, resigned. Mr. Wil
son assumed duties of the office last
Saturday.
Mr. Lyday, who conducted a very
economical primary from every stand
point, stated to The Times that he
resigned from the place as chairman
on account of other duties that pre
cluded his giving his time to the
election board position. Miss Eliza
beth Case, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison Case, is also working in the
office of the board of elections, tak
ing the place of Miss Nan Kilpat
rick.
Cedar Mountain'Section Is! Becoming j
Recreational Center For S. C. Folk
CEDAR MOUNTAIN, June 27—
As Greenville, S. C., makes the elaim
of being the textile center of the
south ,so our county, especially the
Cedar Mountain district, can truth
fully say that the textile center
moves to the mountains during the
summer months.
Upon the advent of summer, from
the president to the doffer lays by ac
cording to the extent of his ability
the amount needed for his expenses
during his er her stay in the moun
tains.
The popularity of this section
among the textile people can be
traced back for a period of nearly
50 years.
Y~ 0. P. Mills, deceased president of
the Mills mills, Greenville S. C.,
iL visited here, fell in love with the cli
^ mate, water and beauties of nature,
built a home ar.d bought nearly 2,000
acres of land lying along the border
of the South and North Carolina line.
His widow and son, O. P Mills, still
\ make their home here during the
summer months.
Pfe In the years of 1024 and ’25,
through the influence of Ted Snyder,
V who was at that time an executive
of the Piedmont Manufacturing com
pany, Piedmont, S. C., siree retired
from business, there was built the
Piedmont camp for the employes or
the Piedmont Mills, the Monoghan
camp for the Monoghan mills. These
camp? are similar to a great extent,
the description of one applying to
the other. Both camps open during
the month of June and stay open the
entire summer. They were built for
the mills. The many families that
take advantage of these camps are
allowed to stay one week.
The Piedmont camp has 200 acres
ef land fenced in with 10 houses that
hold two families comfortably, also
a large community house well fur
nished, tennis courts, a lake that
covers 15 acres of land fed by springs
that are enclosed by the fence, elec
tric lights and running water in each
house. The houses are completely fur
nished, all the families being re
quired to bring are bed linen and
food.
A caretaker is in charge of the
camp the entire year, with the help
of a special representative of the
mill during the summer months.
P. M. Beattie of Greenville is presi
dent of the Piedmont Manufacturing
company chain of mills. Tom M?
Marchant is president of the Mono
ghan chain of mills. Both men have
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Camps Opening In Transylvania
During Week; Big Enrollments
Approximately 1,000 boys and girls
from many sections of the country
■will arrive in Brevard this week and
the early part of next week to at
tend the ten summer camps in operas
ation in Tansylvania county for a
period of eight weeks.
Brevard has become widely known
as the center of organized summer
camps in the South. The first camp in
this immediate section was establish
ed nearly 25 years ago and nearly
every year since that time the num
ber of camps and campers has in
creased.
The camps are all splendidly
equipped and and well organized. The
Tamp sites vary in size from 40 acres
to 400 acres of mountain and valley
land, all in ideal settings of natural
beauty.
A staff of trained and experienceo
directors and councilors supervise
the various camp activities, which in
clude aquatic sports, athletics, ans
and crafts, archery, riflery, pagean
try, music and dancing and ocher
features of a recreational or educa
tional nature._
Six of the 10 3unftncr camps
operated in this county are for girls
and four are for boys, ranging in
ages from 6 to 20 years. The camps
are equipped to accommodate from 50
to 250 boys and girls, each.
Following is a list of the camps
opening in Transylvania county
within the week: Camp Sapphire for
boys, Wm. McK. Fetzer, Brevard,
director; French Broad camp for
boys, Major H. E. Raines, Charles
ton, S. C., director; Camp Transyl
vania for boys, R. M'qC. Perrin, New
Orleans, John W. Moore, Florence,
S. C., and J. A. Miller, Brevard, dir
ectors; Camp Carolina for boys, D.
Meade Bernard, Jacksonville, Fla.,
director.
Keystone Camp for girls, Miss
Fannie Holt, Jacksonville, Fla., dir
ector; Camp Illahee for girls, Mr. and
Mrs. Hinton McLeod, Brevard, dir
ectors; Rockbrook Camp for girls,
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Carrier, Brevard,
directors; Eagles Nest camo for
girls, Miss Carol P. Oppenheimer,
Savannah, Ga., director; and Camp
Merrie-Wood for girls, Mrs. Jonathan
C. Day, Richmond, Va., director.
Second Democratic Primary Will Be j
Held lnrTransylvania Next Saturday!
Political interest is centered around
the second Democratic primary which
is to be held in the county Saturday,
between Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr. and
Cos Paxton for state senator. Jess A.
Calloway and Eck L. Sim3 for regis
ter cf deeds and Red Smith and W.
L. Wood for constable of Brevard
township. .
Mr. Ramsey was hign man .n the
first primary held on June 2, with
a vote count of 1061, while Mr. Pax
ton was second with a vote of <■»1»
with M. W. Galloway polling 687.
In the race for register of deeds,
Mr. Galloway was high with 735
votes, Mr. Sims second with 632,
Glenn Burrell 432, Edwin A. Morgan
428 and Noah C. Miller 201.
Mr. Smith let! Mr. Wood in the
Brevard township constable race with
a count of 383 to 345, with Jude L.
Albert being third mar>with 285.
Much interest is being taken in
the primary to be held SaturJay, |
with friends of the men covering all
the territory possible.
NEW BOYS’ CAMP ON
OLD PERRY-ANN SITE
Camp St. Ann opened Tuesday
morning with an enrollment of around
one hundred fifty boys and leaders,
this new camp being located on the
T. J. Wilson property near the
Greenville highway. The camp was
formerly known as Camp Perry-Ann.
Sponsored by the Catholic church
and Bishop Emmett Walsh of Char
leston, S. C., Camp St. Ann is under
directorship of Rev. Father Sydney
F. Dean of Greenville who is assisted
bv six sisters of mercy and a staff
of counselors from South Carolina.
The camp will be open for three
weeks, voung boys from all fections
of South Carolina being enrolled.
REGULAR SERVICES AT
ST. PHILIPS SUNDAY
Announcement is made that the
usual services will be held at ^ St.
Philips Episcopal church next Sun
day.
The rector, Rev. Harry Perry, and
his family are expected to return
Friday from vacationing at their
summer homo at Myrtle Beach, S. -
PROMINENT FARMER
IS CALLED IN DEATH
T. A. English, prominent business
man and farmer of the Davidson
Ri.-er section, died Saturday mgnt
at eleven o’clock following an illness
of -'everal months. He was 64 years
old. and while he had been in poor
health for some time, was not in ser
ious condition until a short while be
iora his death.
A son of the late Isaac English,
pioneer settler of Mitchell county
arid by whom the town of Spruce
pine was named, Mr. English eyas
active in mercantile and mining
circles in Mitchell county for a num
ber of yeai-3 before coming to Tran
sylvania county in 1920 for his
health.
Mr. English was voted the “Master
Farmer of Transylvania County by
the Progressive Farmer, which farm
ing periodical conducted a state-wide
contest in 1928.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
Earl Twiggs of New York and Bre
vard, and two sons, Daniel L., °*
Brevard and Lucien. of Kansas city.
The wife has been dead for about
four months.
Funeral services were conducted at
Brevard Presbyterian church Tues
day afternoon with Rev. John P. Sim
mons, pastor, and the Rev. C. W.
H demon, personal friend of the de
ceased, in charge. Interment was
made in the Gillespie cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Sheriff T. S.
Wood, Register of Deeds Jess A. Gal
loway, Clerk of the Court Otto Alex
ander, J. M. Allison, R. L. Gash and
S. M. Macfie. Serving as honorary
nallbearers were Dr. E. S. English,
D. T,. English, T. E. Patton, Osborne
Bradley, Dr. C. T„ Newland, S. F.
Allison. W. L. Mull, R. L. Nicholson,
T. C. Galloway, W. M. Galloway,
T. W. Whitmire, J. B. Pickelsimer,
C. W. Pickelsimer, Harrison Case and
W. 12. Breese. Funeral arrangements
were in charge of Moore & Osborne.
CCC BOYS TO LEAVE i
HERE LAST OF WEEK
Near 125 members of the two CCC ;
outfits in Transylvania will leave for ,
their homes in various parts of North
Carolina the last of this week, these j
boys having been here for thirteen !
months.
It i3 expected that new recruits
will be received at John’s Rock and
Gloucester within the week to take
places of the boys being discharged.
Several of the boys are planning
to stay in the vicinity for a few days
before going to their home, a num
ber of them having made many warm j
friends among the local people.
—
BREESE MADE MEMBER
W. C. T. C. DIRECTORS
W. E. breesc was notified on Sat
urday of his appointment by Gov
ernor Ehringhaus as a trustee of
Western Carolina Teachers’ college
at Cullowhee. Other members of the
board are: Mrs. Giles Cover, of
Andrews; J. E. Coburn, of Bryson
City; S. W. Enloe, of Dillsboro; Har
ry E. Buchanan, of Hendersonville;
Thomas L. Johnson, of Asheville;
Clyde Erwin of Rutherfordron and
Miss Olive Patton of Franklin.
To Preach At Toxaway
Announcement is made by the Rev.
J. N. Kail that regular preaching
services will be held at Lake Toxa
way Methodist church Sunday even
ing at eight o’clock.
H. A. BlANT MES
OF HEART ATTACK
Funeral service? were held for
H. A. Durant Saturday afternoon
from the residence of Mrs. Cordia
King on Probart street, with inter
ment being made in the Gillespie
cemetery.
Mr. Durant was found dead in his
room Thursday morning by K. P.
Kilpatrick, local contractor, who went
to his room at the home of Miss Sadie
North shortly after eight o’clock
Thursday morning, thinking Mr. Du
rant had possibly overslept, and fail
ed to arrive at his place of work.
Upon entering the bedroom Mr. Kil
patrick found the deceased partly
undressed as if he was preparing to
retire at the time of his death. Dr.
C. E. Cunningham pronounced his
death due to heart failure. Sheriff
Wood, who investigated the matter,
found that an inquest was unneces
sary.
Mr. Durant was well liked in Bre
vard where he has lived for many
years .having been employed as an
accountant in the Brevard bank and
other business concerns, more lately
having been in carpentry work. He
served one term as city clerk of Bre
vard.
The widow, who has been ill at
Mullins, S. C., for some time, was
able to attend the last rites. One son.
Clifton, Lynchburg, Va. also survives
A number of friends of the deceased
attended the funeral services Satur
day afternoon, which were conducted
by the deceased’s pastor, the Rev.
J. H. West. Kilpatrick Funeral Home
had charge of arrangements.
BISHOP FINDS ALL FINE
FOLK IN TRANSYLVANIA
N. R. Bishop, working for The
Times in the circulation department,
declares1 that in all his years'work
ing for newspapers in various parts
of North Carolina that he has never
found people more courteous and
congenial than the people he has met
in Transylvania during the part week.
Mr. Bishop has been in Penrose,
Pisgah Forest, route one and parts
of routes two and three, and expects,
to go into other sections cf the
county within a few days.
AUTO TAG PRICE CUT
IN HALF ON MONDAY
—
Announcement is made by the Mc
Crary Auto Service that, effective
Monday morning, auto license tags
will be on sale at their place at one
half the regular yearly rate, the
licenses to rur. from July first to
January first.
Designated as an official AAA
license station early last winter, the
McCrary company has sold several
hundred tags during the first haif
of the year, thus saving motorists
of Transylvania and adjoining sec
tions of Jackson county from making
a trip to another town or ordering
the tags from Raleigh by mail.
At Lyday Hospital
The following patients at Lyday
Memorial hospital were reported on
Wednesday to be improving nicely:
Mrs. Houston. Williamson of Charles
ton S. C., Mrs. C. B. Allison and Mrs.
Burns Alexander.
REPUBLKANSWILL
MEET ON SATURDAY
Republicans of the tenth and
eleventh congressional districts will
meet in Hendersonville Friday for an
all-day meeting, with sessions being
held in the morning at 11 o’clock and
in the afternoon et 2:30.
Halsey B. Leavitt, of Asheville,1
Republican nominee for congress in j
the eleventh district, Calvin R. Ed-1
ney, party nominee in the tenth dis-1
trict, and several other prominent
party leaders are scheduled to be
present at the meeting and help plan
the campaign to be waged before
November.
Opens Watch Repair
Announcement is made in this is
sue of The Times of the opening of
the C. B. McFee watchmaking and
jewelry repair shop in the Macfie
Drug store building.
Mr. McFee states that he has been
in watchmaking and jewelry repair
business for 38 years.
to enlist Fourteen
BOYS FOR CCC HERE
The local emergency relief adminis
tration is enrolling white boys be
tween 18 and 25 years of age to
enter the camp of Civilian Conserva
tion Corps on July 5.
An allotment of 14 boys has been
assigned to Transylvania county.
These will be taken from families now
on relief.
The relief office stated that there
was e. heavy demand by those off
relief foi an opportunity to go to
camp for a fix-month peried. Offi
cials said it would be useless for
those other than on relief to make ap
plication because this rule would be
rigidly followed in this enlistment.
Those who go to camp are paid
?30 a month the major portion of
which is sent to the parents for their
uokeep. Food, clothing, shelter, medi
cal attention and other necessities
ju-e provided the boys without cost
while they are in camp.
BREVARD COLLEGE
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
President Coltrane Report*
Two More Faculty Mem
ber* Engaged
_1
Present indications point to * good
opening in. Brevard College. President
£. J. Coltrane reports that he is re
ceiving daiiy from twelve to fifteen
inquiries about the college. Applica
tions from students are being received
on almost every mail. If applications
continue at the same rate the col- #
lege will be filled to capacity before
the opening date.
The new catalogue has just tome
from the press, president Coltrane
and his office force are busy mailing
copies to about six hundred prospec
tive students who have made inquiry
about the college. Catalogues are
being sent to all ministers in the
Western North Carolina conference
and to numerous school superintend
ents and principals! who ^tave re
quested copies. Requests for cata
logues have come from Maryland,
Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina and other states.
Each week president Coltrane „ '
iqpkes a trip away from Brevard in
the interest of the college. I-ast Sun
day ho addressed audiences in Bry
son City, Whittier end Waynesville.
Next Sunday he will be in Murphy
and other points in the western part
of the state.
The college faculty is now almost
complete. Recent additions include
Miss Duleie Hayes, formerly a
teacher in Weaver college and Miss
Merlie Sizemore, who will teach
home economics and act as dietitian
for the college. For the past three
years Miss Sizemore has been teach
ing honje economics in the Yadkin
ville high school in Yadkin county.
SWIMMING POOL TO
BE OPEN THURSDAY
Coach Ernest Tilaon In Charge
—Fees Set at Ten and
Twenty Cents
Brevard swimming pool wiil open
to the public Thursday morning, the
pool only being ready for use,' with
the bath house expected to be com
pleted within a few days.
Coach Ernest Tilson wiil be iti
charge of the pool for the town of
Brevard, with adequate number of
life guards to take care of 'he swim
mers at all times.
Water has been circulating in the
pool for nearly three weeks, and is
continually draining from the pool by
the latest approved method".
Charge? for as: of the poo! will be
ten cents for children ard M cents
for adults, these prices to ■ ■ in ef
fect at least temporarily, n nor for
the season. Rules and regulations
governing the pool have r.-1 been I
worked out fully as yet.
MANY OPERATIONS AT
LYDAY HOSPITAL CLINIC
Lyday Memorial lyoSpital reports
twenty-three tor.sil operations the
first two days of the chrije being
conducted there, with a full « hedub
for the remainder of the week.
The tensii clinic is being not on for
benefit of children of tin * paren'
who are unable 10 pay ' ail / -ice f
the operation. No report hr
turned in by other doctor?- of tv
county who are also conducting diid
this week.
SERVICES CALLED OFF
Services at East Fork Mdhodist
church have been jellied off ftr Sun
day on account of the Oil'e-nic re
union.
LOST—Transylvania Times iece:p
book, lost on route three Tuesday.
Please return to Times office.
Government Will Pay Farmers Here
For Boarding Cattle of Drouth Area
Farmers and landowners of Tran
sylvania county who have pasturage
they are not utilizing may turn these
areas into cash profit by “boarding”
government cattle from now until
December first. Two thousand head
will be shipped into the county dur
ing the next month from the drouth
areas of western states.
Persons who wish to make their
grasslands pay from 60 cents tc $1
per head per month should see W. A.
Wilson, F. H. Holden, both at Bre
vard, or communicate direct with
T. Lenoir Gwynn at AsheviRe.
The first shipment for Transyl
vania, around 760 head, is being in
spected and tested in St. Louis the
first of the week, according to Mr.
Wilson, and will arrive in the county
some time during the latter part of
next week. The cattle will be unloaded
from the cars at Davidson River and
taken to the Everett farm where
they will be kept for a few days, or
until they are distributed to pastur
age. A later shipment will be un
loaded at Rosman or Lake Toxaway
and distributed in that section.
The government will 'pay SI per
head per month for good pasturage
that is fenced. For good range pas
ture lands, where rangers must be
employed by the government 50 cents
per head per month will be paid the
land owners.
North Carolina, which is more than
160.000 head of cattle below its pea!
which was in lOR), has been allott* !
75.000 head of these cattle. The fe
eral government, instead of shippir.
feed into the drouth at ear. as it h.
done on previous occasions of this
nature, purchased 2,000,000 head of
cattle and is shipping them to sec
tions of the country that have been
blessed with sufficient rainfaj! to
keep pastures in good contrition.
The cattle will be shipped prepaid
to distribution points. Pasture own
ers should tell Mr. Wilson or Mr.
Holden how many head of i aUie they
want or can properly cart- for.
The drouth areas of IfaoNe
braska, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona
and Nevada will not produce suffi
cient range feed for the cattle and
many have suffered. The cattle to be
shipped, however, are in good condi
tion and have been tested and passed
by government vegetarians. Tt has
been estimate that farmer* of Tran
sylvania county have ar, opportunity
to earn approximately $8.0(i0 on their
nssture during the next five*months
by boarding cattle for the govern
1 men!..