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."""’,y_ A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County_1
VOL. 39. 1HO. 33 BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY. AUGUST 23, 1934_$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUKlTf
HARTSELL SELECTED
ASSOCIATION HEAD
Baptist Church Group Will
Meet Next, Year At
Macedonia
Re-election of practically all offi
cers of the Transylvania Baptist
association and decision to hold the
next meeting at the Macedonia Bap
tist church or Wednesday and Thurs
day after the second Sunday it: Aug
ust, 1935, were highlights of the
two-day session of this organization
held Wednesday and Thursday of
last week at the Pisgah Forest 15 ip
tist church.
Following are the officers .e-cicci
ed to serve the ensuing ye.-r; lr.ou
erator, Rev. Paul. Hartsell; vice
moderator, J. K. Henderson; c.crfc,
Mrs. (!. F. Gallamore; historian,
T. C. Henderson; and treasurer
elected. VV. S. Price Jr. Rev. Havvey
Souther was named to preach the
sermon at next year’s meeting, with
Rev. A. J. Manley a- alternate.
The meeting was pronounced one
of the most spiritual and successful
meetings of the associational evei
held. Among the outstanding features
was the appointment of in exefut'vo
committee from each of the churches
in the association, these committees to
be called at a later date at a meeting
to be held in Brevard. One minute re
ports were made by representatives
of 20 churches out of the 2*3 making
up the group. Appointments of com
mittees were also made and talks
were heard on various phases of the
work by local and outside men and
women. Rev. C. W. Hilenton, pastor
of the Pisgah Forest church, preach
ed the introductory sermon. T he
young people presented an interesting
and helpful program Wedesday night.
Visiting speakers were two state of
ficials, M. A. Huggins, and Rev. J. M.
Page, both of Raleigh. The sessions
were presided over by the Rev. Paul
Hartsell. moderator, and pastor of the
Brevard Baptist church.
LIFE SAVINGTAUGHT
AT SWIMMING POOL
A five-day Red Cross Life Saving
institute is now in progress at the
Brevard swimming pool, having been
started Tuesday morning and con
tinuing through Saturday, with two
ymur classes each morning at 9:30.
| Glenn Miller, Red Cross examiner
"in charge of the institute, assisted by
i Miss Mary Sue Jennings, Coach Til
Noil and Lewis Hamlin, the last
named being life savers, all having
acquired their certificates at the Red
Cross institute at Camp Carolina dur
ing the past few years.
N'o charge is made for instruction,
and the use of the pool is given by
the town. Red Cross certificates will
be awarded by Examiner Miller on
Saturday to those who successfully
pass the tests.
Dorris Mitchell
ROSMAN, Aug. 22—Dorris, age
two months, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Mitchell, died at the home
of her parents Sunday night follow
ing an illness of whooping cough and
complications Funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon at the Whit
mire cemotery near Rosman.
The parents and a large number
of brothers and sisters survive.
1 FINE ELBERTA PEACHES
GROWN BY LOCAL FOLK
Two fine Elbcrta peaches were
brought to The Times office this
week, both grown in Brevard.
Haie Siniard, Jr., brought a large
beauty, perfectly formed, that weigh
1 ed eleven and one half ounces and
measured ten three-quarter inches
I by ten five-eighths.
I H. P, Jewel, who resides near Pis
! ”;ah Otton Mill, brought in a peach
; not quite as large is the one young
i Mr. Siniard brought, in, but perfect'y
j formed. This peach weighed ten one
I half ounces and measured ten one
: half inches each way.
All members of the American
Legion are urged to attend a meet
ing of the organization to be held in
the county court house Thursday
evening of‘this week at eight o’clock..
Special business before the meet
ing will be election of a post com
mander to take the place of Evne-t
Miller who died several weeks ago.
TEACHERS BE GIVEN
POSITIONS BYE. RE.
Work for 300 unemployed Western
Carolina teachers will be provided
this fall and winter, according to ad
vices received here by W. A. Wilson,
relief administrator. The teachers will
be given work with adult, classes, Ml •
Wilson said, the program to start in
September.
The first step in the program will
be the conducting of a one-week in
stitute for the teachers whose appli
cations are approved by the superin
tendent of education, the local relief
director and the state department of
iduration. Teachers who do not have
these credentials need not apply at
the institute, itw as pointed out.
The institute will he held at West
ern Carolina Teachers College at
Cullowhee soon. The date wiil be an
nonunced within a few days. Teachers
in the following counties will be train
o,i in this institute: Cherokee, Gra
y, Swain, Macon, Jackson,
Transylvania, Henderson,
tsuncomoe, Madison, and Rutherford.
The teachers receive salary ot
$12.50 a week while in training and
during their work. .
Following successful completion ot
the institute teachers will be required
to organize their classes in their own
or assigned communities. They will
be required to give 20 hours a week
actual teaching, 10 hours prepara
tion and work on a teaching schedule
for four hours a day five days a week
1 with an average daily attendance of
10 adults.
All applications are to he iiled
with the county superintendent of
education for his approval as well as
that of the relief director and state
ERE director.
MASONS TO MEET FRIDAY
Regular communicaiton will be held
by Dunn’s Rork Masonic Lodge Fri
: day night at eight o’clock.
Three and One-Half Children and One
Drunk* Sleeping In Bootlegger’s Bed
One man and three and one half ,
children were found on a tumble- J
down single bed early Sunday morn-1
ing by Sheriff Tom Wood when he |
made a professional call on one of!
the reputed bootleggers who reside
just outside the city limits of Bre
vard.
The man, no relation of the three
and one-half children, was of course,
drunk, sotty, while the children, more
ore lest accustomed to such “carry
ings-on" slept as peacefully as
children could under such circum
stances.
The three children on the bed,
ranging in age from six to fourteen
years, were of course crowded unmer
cifully, even if there had not been the
extra drunken lout encumbering the
dilapidated piece of furniture. Depths
to which these people had fallen,
however, was shown by an eight year
old youngtter who was half kneeling
by the side of the bed with only room
for his head and shoulders on the
dirty bed.
Not a case of public drunkenness,
no whiskey found on the man him
self and none in the house, so the only
thing the sheriff could do under the
circumstances was to kick the sot
out of the house and give the small
^ bed to the four children.
Going back during the day Sunday,
Sheriff Wood found the same drunk
and his same “buddy” of th^pnight
before again at the ramshackle
place, and this time he brought the
two men to jail, insuring at- least one
night’s sleep for the kids on t'npir
* tumble-down bed without being
molested by a drunk.
Check up on the premises dis
closed two other beds, they too being
filthy beyond description; all three
being located in the “front room, bed
room, living room, library, nursery,
bathroom, reception hall, tap room,
and bottle store room,” to say nothing
of the big black spider that had taken
one corner of the room for his abode.
This member of the abode, if such it
could be called, and the only neat
place in the house, his web being ap
proximately one foot in. diameter,
graced by the spider himself, which
was about the size of a silver dollar.
Other furnishings of the three
room shack, one of which is only used
as a store room, consisted of two
shackled chairs, a stand of drawers
and a wash stand of ancient vintage
In the lean-to store room was found
a fine oaken keg of ten gallon capac
ity that smelled strongly of whiskey;
a piece of fabric coveted hose that
had seen duty or. a gas tank; bottles
of various sizes, iron piping and cot
ton bags.
In the combined kitchen and dining
room was found—a myriad of flies,
sitting around on dirty dishes, walk
ing over the dirt encrusted table that
evidently served as cook table and
dining table; scraps of bread and
other foods, some of which was long
past the stale age; jugs and jars, one
of which contained several table
spoonfulls of that (delicious??) home
brew that lots of people in Brevard
seem to go crazy over; a handful of
dirty dishes left as they were
when the last meal was eaten; fifty
pounds of sugar in two bags that
were the only clean items in the
house; bushel or so of meal, a little
piece of meat, and more flies.
The father, unlearned, naturally
averse to work, ekes out an exist
ence for the brood of six in an un
known manner — presumption being
from evidence at hand thaif those
who indulge in whiskey drinking con
tribute a major part of his income.
Schools To Start Work Monday ; All
Brevard Teacher Positions Not Filled
All Transylvania county schools
will open for the 1934*35 term on
Monday morning, August 27th, ac
cording to Professor G. C. Busb,
county superintendent, with J. B.
Jones as head of the Brevard unit
and Robert T. Kimr.ey as. head of the
Rosinan unit.
All teachers of the Rosman dis
trict have been elected by the local
committee, approved by the county
superintendent of education and
their election given official o. k, of
the county board of education.
[ A meeting of the board of educa
tion is to be held either Thursday or
Friday of this week, Mr. Galloway
told The Times in a telephone conver
sation Wednesday morning, at which
time matter of approval of teachers
selected by the Brevard local commit
tee and given o. k. by the county
superintendent will he taken up.
Mr. Galloway was asked specm-,
rally about the re-election of Pro
fessor Julian Glazener as agriculture
instructor at Brevard high school,
and replied that he could not speak
for the board, and that the mat'.ei
would be given consideration at the |
meeting of Ihe board of education to l
be held within the next few days.
The position of teacher of voca
tional ugvieulture is one of the few
that is filled exclusively by the board
of education, it being that board s
duty to fill the vocational position.
Much speculation has been rife
for the past several months in regard
to teachers for the Brevard district,
the local committee and the superin
tendent of education failing to agree
upon several teachers in the Brevard
schools, especially. However, these
differences apparently have been
ironed out.
Fol1 wing is list of teachers that
have been given o. k. of the local com
mittee and superintendent of educa
tion:
Brevard high school—J. B. Jones,
principal, Mrs. Mary F. DeLong, Miss
Luciile Varner, J. A. Glazener, Hin
ton McLeod, Miss Ju&nita P. Puett,
A. MeDormeii, Mrs. Sarah Keels Til
son. Ernest P. Tilson, Edwin Wike,
Miss Laura Slagle, Alvin Moore.
Brevard elementary — John E.
Rufty, Miss Viola Willie Aiken, Miss
Eva Call, Miss Agnes Clayton, Miss
Josephine Clayton, Miss Julia Dea
ver, Mrs. Annie W. Reid, Mrs. Max
ine Rufty, Mis. F. P. Sledge, Miss
Lena Allison, Mrs. Hattie Bradshaw
Verr.cr Miss Beulah Mae Zachary.
(One to be elected).
Cedar Mountain—Rev. C. W. Hile
mon.
Connestee—Samuel Philip Verner.
Little River—Miss Julia Wood,
principal; Miss Myrtle Whitmire.
Penrose—N. L. Ponder, principal;'
Mias Margaret Gash.
Pisgah Forest—Miss Annie May
Patton, principal; Miss Flora Lyday,
Miss Mamie Ophelia Lyday. , Mrs.
Roxie Neely, Miss Laura Mildred
Williams.
Selica—Chas. Ruffin Wilkins, prin
cipal; Miss Marian Henderson.
Turkey Creek --- (Disbanded, chil
dren to attend Pisgah Forest).
itofmau mgn scnooi—xwue&i j -,
Kimzey, principal; Randall Lyday.j
Leonard Thomas, Miss Gladys Louise
Williams, 11. P. Fleming, Miss Mag-;
gie Belle Green. i&i ;
Rosman elementary—Glenn Gallo
vav, Miss Mamie Elizabeth Hayes,
Miss Helen Sue Henderson, Miss
Ri'sii McLean, Miss Annie Davies,
Miss Frankie Geneva Paxton, Miss
Ruth Whitmire, Mrs. Florence Win
chester.
Balsam Grove—Noah C. Miller,
principal; Miss Ruth Sue Morgan.
Lake Toxaway—L. C.. Case, Jr.,
principal; Miss Helen Allison,
Ruby Whitmire.
Montvaie—James T. Harrison.
Oh! Toxaway—Mrs. W. E. Gallo
way.
Quebec—Clyde McCall, principal;
Mm. Kate Gillespie Brown.
Silversteer,—Miss Flora Allison.
Colored schools: Brevard, M. C.
Dawkins, principal; Ethel Mae Cole
man, Svnetha Florie Slenn, Mrs.
.). IL Johnstine, Mrs. Ethalyn Kenne
dy Mills. Glade Creek—Mrs. Gertie
Mance Miles.
Frank Galloway will again be jan
itor of the Rosman schools; Hobart
Allison janitor at the Brevard high
school, and Arthur Hefner janitor
at the elementary schools.
Brevard College Making Ready For
Opening Second Monday In September
The Brevard College campus is
astir with the activities that always
precede the opening of a new college.
For the past three weeks workmen
have been engaged in making the
necessary repairs and improvements
to buildings and equipment. Wprk on
the old Taylor Hall is being rushed
to completion. The local committee
expects to have this building recondi
tioned and ready for occupancy
within the next few days.
Members of the new faculty have
been arriving for the past several
days. Or. Monday of this week Mr.
and Mrs. S. G. Pangle of Emory, Va.,
arrived. Mr. Pangle will be head of
the department of business adminis
tration and Mrs. Pangle will be head
of the mathematics department, Miss
Merlie Sizemore, the- college dietitian,
and Miss Della Shore, the librarian,
arrived Tuesday. Mr. C. O. Cathey,
professor of history, has just return
ed from Chicago where he explored
the exhibits at the World's Fair. Pro
fessor C. H. Trowbridge, former
president of Weaver College, and his
family arrived Monday. They arc
living in the Kern house on King
street. Mr. Trowbridge will be dean
of Brevard College. The friends of
the family welcome their return to
Brevard. Other members of the fac
ulty will arrive next week. The first
faculty meeting has been scheduled
for Saturday, September 1.
President Coltrane has announced
that Brevard college will be a
standard junior college from the be
ginning. Several weeks ago the
board of trustees authorized the
president to take the necessary steps
to make the college a standard insti
tution. This ideal has been adhered
to in all plans that have been made.
Students who complete courses in
Brevard will be able to transfer their
credits to other institutions without
difficulty. The North Carolina Col
lege Conference will give official
recognition to the new institution at
its annual meeting in October. Presi
dent Coltrane is busy now providing
the necessary library and science
laboratory equipment which arc re
quired for a standard junior college.
Immediately after the close of the
summer school held in Weaver Col
lege last week, trucks began moving
the equipment of the institution to
Brevard. Beds, dressers, chairs,
tables, dining room and kitchen
equipment, libraries, pianos and ether
types of furniture, are arriving daily.
Some new furniture has been pur
chased, and within a few days the
college buildings will take on an ap
pearance of readiness for the more
than three hundred students who are
expected for the opening.
President Coltrane is eager to have
the admission certificates of ail pros
pective students who live in Brevard
and other nearby communities. Blank
certificates may be secured from the
college office or from the principals
of the different high schools. No
student will be admitted until his
high school credits are on file.
Students expecting to enter Brevard
! College should attend to this matter
- at once.
HOMEC KG TO BE
HELD T SUNDAY
Home Coming Day will be held at
Little River Baptist church on Sun
day, Aug. 26th, when all residents,
former residents and people who have
relatives buried in the Little River
cemetery are invited to be present
for the day.
An interesting program is being ar
ranged, with J. L. Osteen of Greens
boro, former teacher in the Littie
River school, in charge. Singing, in
strumental music and short talks will
be features of the day.
All who attend are urged to bring
well filled dinner baskets, luncheon to
be spread picnic style at the noon
hour.
COLORED SINCERS AT
COURT HOUSE TONIGHT
The Gulf Coast Quartet, negro
singers from Chicago, will give a
benefit performance at the court
house Thursday night of this week,
beginning at 7:45 o'clock.
The quartet is said to be of some
repute, and has been heard in sev
eral towns in Western North Caro
lina recently. The affair is given for
benefit of St. Philips Guild. A small
admission will be charged.
ZACHARY REUNION IS
SET FOR SATURDAY
Annual Zachary reunion will be
held at the Zachary burying ground
in Cashiers Valley on Saturday of
this week with a program of interest
being arranged by T. A. Dillard,
chairman.
This will be the twenty-sixth year
that descendants of Col. J. A. Zachary
have gathered in commemoration of
the coming to Western North Caro
lina of the Zachary family one hun
dred and two years ago, when the
patriarch and thirteen of his fourteen
children wended their way from
Eastern North Carolina and literally
hewed out an abiding place in the
mountains.
On the program Saturday will be
short speeches, vocal and string
music and a picnic dinner.
TRANSYLVANIA SALES TAX
Transylvania county sale? tax col
lections for the year July i, 1933
through June 30, 1834, amounted to
$11,512.21, according to statement
released by A. J. Maxwell, commis
sioner of revenue. Of this amount $9,
797.21 was remitted by merchants of
the state. $1,645.32 from out of state
offices, and $69.68 from registration
fees.
SCOUT JAMBOREE TO BE
HELD HERE SEPT. 14TH
—
Patrol jamboree of the Brevard
Scout troop will be held on the second
Friday afternoon in September, with
an overnight hike to be held a few
weeks later.
Around thirty members of the!
trocp were present at the meeting
Friday night, presided over by the
new scoutmaster, John E. Rufty. At
the request- of the boys. Scoutmaster
Rufty plans to give the boys trnining
in army maneuvering as a part of
their physical training. On. the pre
vious Friday night the boys were
guests of Miss Violet Henry and her
mother at a watermelon feast.
Dr. Frederick Flinn, head of the
department of Industrial Hygiene at
Columbia University, New York City,
will be guest speaker at the Brevard
Kiwanis club Thursday at noon.
Dr. Flinn and bis family are spend
ing the summer with Dr. and Mrs.
C, E. Cunningham in Brevard. Sev
eral other visitors are expected to be
present at the Thursday meeting.
swimming!” ro
BE HELD FRI EVE
An interesting event of Friday
night will be the water meet to be
staged at the Brevard swimming
pool when seniors, juniors and mid
gets will compete for cash prizes.
The Brevard band will play for the
entertainment, a stand being erected
inside the wire enclosure. Admission
of ten cents will be charged specta
tors, the gate receipts to be used tor
prize money.
New flood lights have been erected
at the pool, making it well lighted in
every respect.
In the senior or aduit. class will
be 100 yard free style; 50 yard back
stroke,; diving contest consisting of
front dive, back dive, front jack
dive, back jack dive and four optional
dives, prizes to be awarded for win
ner of the eight dives. All events will
be in two classes, one for boys and
one for girls.
In the junior class will be the fol
lowing contests: 50 yard free style,
25 yard breast stroke; diving, consist
ing of front dive, back dive, front
jack knife and three optional dives.
Boys and girls will enter these con
tests, winner in each event to be
awarded a prize.
In the midget class will be 25 yard
swim, and diving contest, with three
optional dives allowed each contest
ant.
Prizes will be awarded to one boy
and one girl in each contest in the
three classes. Coach F.rnest Tilson
will be in charge, the event to start
at 8 o’clock.
Cathey’s Creek Services
Announcement is made that Rev.
Cecil Green, of Englewood, Tenn..
will preach at Cathey’s Creek Baptist
church next, Sunday morning at 11
o'clock and also in the evening at *
o’clock. _
LAST BAND CONCERT
ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Hu Be«n An Entertaining
Feature Here During
Summer Season
The Brevard Municipal Band will
present it* final summer concert Sat
urday night according to Donald Lee
Moore, director of the musical unit.
The band has been a distinct asset
to Brevard, drawing large ciowda to
its weekly Saturday evening concert*
and praise of its music has been
heard from many source*.
Mr. Moore, director of the band,
wishes to extend to 0. L. Erwin the
appreciation of the group for a prac
tice room and to S. M. Mac fie and!
Roy Long for their consideration'
Guests of the Franklin Hotel h ar t
the band in concert Tuc«Uv evenin-r
at the hotel.
McCRARY REUNION WILL
BE HELD AT CEDAR MTN,
Children and grandchildren <>f Wm.
McCrary are invited to attend s re
union of the family at the home of
Solomon Jones at Cedar Mountain ha
Sunday, August 26th.
Definite program for the day has
not been announced, but there will
be music and possibly -lout
with a dinner at the noon hour for
the McCrary generation.
BOYS WARNED NOT TO
SWING SOUTHERN TRAINS
_
Southern Railway employes rep n
that “hoboing’’ trains is becoming
fad with young men of Brevard, am!
other sectionsof the county, and that
unless the practice is stopped, arrest. -
will be made for trespassing.
Danger of swinging on ard
moving trains is pointed out by th»
Southern employes, and in order
keep youngsters from endangering
their limbs and lives, drastic st*l>
will be taken if warning will ni« sut
fice.
BISHOP GRIBBIN WAS
HEARD HERE SUNDAY
Bishop R. E. Gribbin, of the EpD
conal diocese of Western North Caro
lina, delivered the sermon at St.
Philips Episcopal church here Sun
day morning.
A large audience of church mem
bers and visitors was present to hear
the distinguished bishop’s excellent
sermon or. this occasion. A confirma
tion class was also a part of thf
morning’s service.
BENEFIT BRIDGE WILL
BE GIVEN THURSDAY
_
Elaborate plans have been made for
the benefit bridge party to be hdn
tonight (Thursday) at Joine.- Motor
company building at 8 o'clock. The
•arty is sponsored by the local chap
ft>r D. A. R.
Refreshments ami many vab.iV.de
prizes will be included in the ad mis
sion price. Those attending arc re
quested to bring any game they de
sire to play.
To Clean Cemetery
All who have friends and relaiiv
buried at Cathey’s Creek ceaetc
are requested to meet there next w »
nesday. August 29. for the purpose
cleaning off the graves._
Negro Check Flasher Runs Afoul of Law
When He Tries Little Town of Brevard
Sheriff Tom Wood now has two
check flashers resting in jail, a negro
having been arrested Monday and
placed in the county hastile, along
with W. A. Powell, white man who
was arrested a week ago.
The new jail addition is one “Pro
fessor” George McDowell of Ashe- f
ville, who posed as Frank Austin,
chauffeur for the mythical “Mrs. i
Catherine Rhymer,” who the negro \
said was a “summer folks” stopping i
in the Enon section, gave two $12.00 j
checks here Saturday afternoon, each !
being drawn on the Transylvania
Trust company and each carrying the
notation “for week ending Aug.
13th."
One check was casnea at tne r ar
mers’ Supply company where a bucket
of paint was purchased, and the
other at the Fashion Department
store where the negro evidently want
ed to take advantage of that store’s
summer clearance sale prices and buy
a pair of shoes for his mother.
Of course the checks were turned
down Monday when they were car
ried to the Transylvania Trust com
par.y for deposit, and Chief of Police
Freeman and Sheriff Tom Wood noti
fied.
Cheeking up on the negroes acti
vities here Saturday afternoon, they
traced him to Asheville where he was
soon ferreted out of the thickly
populated Asheville negro.residential
section, and returned to jail here
where he admitted that he had forged
the checks While in Asheville Mon
day afternoon the local officers as
ssited the Asheville police to clear
up the matter of several “Frank
Austin” checks that have been given
there recently, drawn on Asheville
banks.
Brevard seems to be a hard lurk
place for people who would write
bogus checks and it is believed that by
having both a white man and a negro
as tenants in the lccal jail, that the
popular notion among those l'«hu toil,
not, neither do they spin,” to the ef
fect that Brevard is “easy” will soot
be ended.
Sheriffs from Polk county. Hay
wood and Henderson have called
Sheriff Wood about the negro, in
each county one or more checks hav
ing been forged against "Mrs. Oath
erine Rhymer” and cashed by i
negro. One lady from Polk count
was here Wednesday morning ar
positively identified the negto as t1
person for whom she cashed a che<
HOMEMAKERS WILL GIVE
PAGEANT SUNDAY NIGHT
Due to many requests, the pagean'
“Road to a Safe Tomorrow," given
some time ago by the Homemakers
class of the Baptist church, will be
repeated Sunday night at. the Baptist
church, beginning at 8 o’clock.
Young people, children and adults
will take part in the pagtar.t which
is a sacred entertainment well worth
the hearing. An invitation is extended
the public to attend.
PRISONCAMP WORK IS
UNDER WAY AT CALVERT
Work was resumed on the prison
camp at Calvert Tuesday morning,
with a small crew of workmen. Other,
are expected to be added during th«
week.