! °HT I THE TRANSYLVANIA 1 “ST County * Morifc _ A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of .the People of Transylvania County 1 ----J ___._;_ VOL. 39. NO. 46 IJREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY AIKEN RE-ELECTED BOARD CHAIRMAN Oath Of Office Administered To Officials Monday At Court House W. L. Aiken was again made chairman of the board of county commissioners in the first meeting of the recently elected group held in the court house Monday. W. L. Mull was mimed secretary. Mr. Aiken has served the past tv.-a years as chairman of the board, r.nd has been in charge of the county home and farm for the board . con junction with the caretal. Mr. Mull, named secretary, V- elected to his first term on the 1 rd in the November election by a large major ity. W. B. Henderson, now beginning his third term is other number of the board. All three men are well known to people of this county, and all have been actively identified in different phases of the business Ife of the county for years. Mr. Aiken/a beef cattle enthusiast, has been in the cattle business here for years and has probably shipped more cattle from this section than any other man. Mr. Mull has been connected with various business in terests in the county for more than •10 years .and is now in business in Brevard as groceryman and miller. ( Mr. Henderson has served in public, office as tax collector, member of the ! board of education and board of commissioners, and has taught school for several years. Oath of office was administered to the commissioners by Attorney R.L. Gash, who is also a notary public', while oath of office wa- administered to other officers by Attorney \V m. E. Breese. „ ,, Edwin Morgan of the Cherryfield section was sworn in as clerk in the office of Tax Collector Lem Brooks, who assumed his new duties Monday. , Sheriff Tom,Wood was given oath of office as sheriff, beginning his second term, while Otto Alexander, was reinstated in the oft ice of clerk I of superior court for his second term. | .less A. Galloway is starting his third term as register of deeds and, in addition is also, under an act passed* by the 1933 legislature, countv accountant. Under the new law, as passed by | the last session of the legislature j under the sponsorship of Represent (Continued on Bask Page) _— NEGRO PAYS FINE IN PENNIES AND NICKLES, J* - “Yassuh, I’se got this much,” answered Ed Young, colored Bre vard man who had been in the toils of the law and had failed to pay ail his fine. When hi' name was called and he was asked by Solicitor Rid-, ings in court Mondry morning about! taking care of the costs balance | against him. he pulled out a handker- | chief and poured the contents—pen nies and nickels mostly—on the desk , in front of Court Clerk Alexander.1 Judge Warlick ordered him to go i outside with his attorney and count j the money before presenting it—| amount $6.82. CARETAKER NAMED | FOR COUNTY HOME Janitor For Court House Is Named; Instructions To Caretaker Given _ Noah C. Miller was appointed as caretaker at the county home and farm by the newly organized board of commissioners Monday. Mr. Miller will take charge of the home imme diately. moving his family there this week from the Shoal Creek section, where Mr. Miller has been teaching school. Norman Whitmire, who has been in charge of the farm and home for the past four years .resigned on December 3, and ha- moved with his family to his home on the Country Club road. Salary of the county home and farm superintendent was set by the commissioners at fifty dollars per month, with the understanding that all such supplies as are raised on the county farm can be used by the superintendent for his family. All livestock and poultry on the farm in the future will be owned by the county, and specific order was made that no tools or supplies are to be loaned from the farm or home under any circumstances. Chairman W. L. Aiken was ap pointed a committee of ene to have oversight of the farm and home for the board of commissioners. In selecting Mr. Miller from the list of several applicants for the job, the commissioners took into consider ation that Mr. Miller, who has been teaching school in the county for a number of years ,is a graduate of an agricultural college, and has also seen two years’ duty in the United States navy on board a hospital ship. Raney Hale was re-appointed jan itor of the court house by the com missioners', he having held this place for the past four years. Salary re mains at $37.50 per month. Matter of electing a county attor ney will be taken up at a meeting of ••he b'iArd to be held on Monday, December 10. —( New Kiwanis President JERRY JEROME KIWANIS OFFICERS NAMED FOR YEAR Directorate Named At Meet ing Last Week; Jerome New President ' Jerry Jerome, for years active ill civic affairs, and secretary of the Brevard Building and Loan associa tion, was unanimously elected 'presi dent of Brevard Kiwanis club at its meeting last Wednesday. Mr. Jerome served the past year as vice president and was a charter mem ber of the club when organized ten years ago. W. Pat Kimzey, attorney and liquidating agent at the Bre vard bank, will retire from the presidency of the club on January first. Dr. C. L. Newland, Brevard sur geon and physician, was named as vice president of the club. Dr. New land has served for several years as a member of the board of directors of the club, ar.d has been very active as chairman of the underprivileged child committee. Directors elected to serve during 1934 include: F. Brown Carr, Pis gah Forest merchant; E. J. Coltrane, president of Brevard College; W. D. Gash, retired manufacturer and busi ness man; the Rev. Paul Hartsell, pastor Brevard Baptist church; and Ralph H. Ramsey, state senator froim the 32nd district, present city attor ney and former mayor of Brevard. Secretary and treasurer and com mittee heads will be named by the newly elected board of directors at ?n early date. . . - - -- * ** is. Red Cross Roll Call Is Meeting Success Two hundred memberships, goal set for the Transylvania Red Cross roll call, has already been reached, according to Jerry Jerome, roll cal! chairman, and there are still several canvassers t?» report. It. is expected that the roll call will reach the high mark of two hundred , twenty-five memberships. Transylvania Welfare Office To Be Moved Plans announced from Raleigh headquarters of the Federal Emer gency Relief Administration last week call for removal of the local relief office to Hendersonville, where the counties of Henderson, Polk and Transylvania will all be served from one central office. The move is being made as part of a state-wide setup, in which 104 offices will be consolidated into 33. Under the new organization the director of relief will be located in Hendersonville, with a project super visor and case workers here.v COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME CANCELLED Definite announcement was made Tuesday to the effect that the Bre rvrd College-Mars Hill football game would not be played, as was an nounced following meeting of the North Carolina Junior conference in Charlotte1 last Sunday. Brevard and Mars Hill tied in the final game of the season at Mars Hill on Thanksgiving day, leaving the conference champinnsihip on a fifty-fifty basis between the two teams that had won all their previous conference games this season. Coach Ralph James announced Sunday, following request from the inference and Mars Ilill, that ht would play the game, but after con ference with Coach Roberts on Mon lay night, decision was. made by the two coaches that the gi.-me wouli not be played. Members of the Brevard College '.quad and a number of fans here were eagerly looking forward •.n the game which would have been nlayed in Asheville, ®nd have ex pressed regret that the Mars Hill oach did not wish to go on with the game. Christmas Seal Sale Going On He*e N6w ' The anndaH Tuberculosis Christ mas Seal sale for Brevard and Tran sylvania county began here Tuesday and will eantinue ijntil December 21. The sale is sponsored by the local Parent-Teacher association. Assisting the P. T. A. in the cam paign are the various clubs and church organizations of the town. »A booth for sales of the little seals is in the post office and another in the bank, members of the different or ganizations being responsible for one clay’s sales at the bocjths. It is confidently expected by offi cials in charge of the drive that the $100 goal for Brevard and Transyl vania county will be reached by the end of the campaign. Of this amount fifty dollars is allotted in the town and' fifty in the county work of fighting tuberculosis and for the underprivileged. The proceeds will also be used to ward the main proejet of the P. T. A. this year, the school lunch room in ! the elementary school building where 70 schorl children are fed each day. I This is a FERA project under spon Isor'hip ef the local P. T. A., of : which Mrs. J, B. Piekelsimcr is pres j ident. Brevard Girl Honored Miss Willie Kate Waters has been ; appointed by Mayor J. C. Wike to •’ represent Brevard at the Annual ! Athletic Ball to be given in Canton ■ on Thursday evening of this week. MANY DEER HUNTERS ARE STOPPING HERE I Sportsmen from many sections are 1 in Brevard this week, taking part in the deer hunt in Pisgah National Forest which started Monday, with fifty men starting, twdnty-nine of [ whom made kills. Twenty-two new hunters' entered the forest Tuesday morning, Ranger J Duncan reported, with twenty deer I being taken. Another group of ' twenty-eight was allowed to start Wednesday morning, with other groups to start from day ta day until four hundred deer have been taken or »at least until four hundred men have had three days trial at getting their buck (or doe if they prefer there being no closed season on the female in the forest at this time.) Ten states are represented in the i enrollment for the hunt which will> close after 22 days'. Most of -the hunters are making Brevard their headquarters while in this section. A county-wide teachers1 meeting ' i will be held in the court house Sat* ! urday morning at 10 o’clock, ac- , cording to announcement of County j Superintendent C,. C. Bush, i The main feature of the meeting,. i of particular interest to the teach-! ers of the county, that will be taken j i!i> will he discussion of the state-1 wide platform and its adoption. Out ! standing features of this platform I include. The state support of a mini-] mum school of eight months; an ap j nropriation from the general assem- [ ! bly to priwide proper transportation ] fecllitic": to set up suitable curricu-1 i Inm and to secure and retain an ef ■ ficient teaching personnel, am) other j : suggested procedures relative to the I state educational activities. Invitations have been extended tel Senator Ralph Ramsey and Repre I sentotive W. M. Henry to attend the j meeting and make talks. j WELFARE "OFFICE ASKS BILLS BE PRESENTED Request is made by the local relief j office that all bills outstanding I against the office of any nature be ] presented at once. Under the new I setup which is expected to take place j within the next few days the office ; ! will he moved to Hendersonville, and | [ it will facilitate payment if bills are j presented at once. Director W. A. j Wilson states. NEW ARRIVAL Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plummer an nounce the birth of a daughter, Lois Elizabeth, o<n Monday, December 3, at Lyday Memorial hospital. V. O. Orr Dead Of Pneumonia Attack Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon at the Brevard Baptist church for V. 0. Orr, 27, who died at Lyday Memorial hospital Tuesday afternoon, following about a week’s illness of double pneumonia. The service wal; conducted by the pastor, Rev. Paul Hartsell, Rev. C. E. Blythe and Rev. J. P. Sim mons. Interment was in Gillespie cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Essie Norton, a baby son, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Orr, three sisters, Mrs. Dewitt McCall of Balsam Grove, Mrs. Rube Morgan of Pisgah Forest, Zella Mae Orr, Pis gah Forest, and one brother, L. C. Orr of Pisgah Forest. Pallbearers were Rufus Joines, T. T. Loftis Jr., Carl Kilpatrick. Albert Kilpatrick, A. E. York and Harry Johnson. Kilpatrick & Sons had charge .cif funeral arrangements. • AT LYDAY HOSPITAL Patients reported at Lyday Memor ial hospital the past week include: Mrs. Robert Plummer and infant daughter, Lois Elizabeth, born Mon day night, Mrs. Nathan Blythe, Mrs. W. M. Jordan, Mrs. Frank Raines, Mrs. Reuben Smith, Mrs. W. H. Cox, and V. 0. Orr, who died Tuesday af ternoon. Morris On Duty Policeman Church C. Morris is back on night duty after a vacation of several weeks, during which time Lem Brooks, now' county tax collec-! tor, served. WHISKEYCAUSE OF | HEAVY DOCKET, Check-up of criminal cases being tried in the Superior court here] this week reveals that nearly two thirds are traceable to whiskey— j cither from over-imbibing or illegal j possession and transportation. Included in the list of cases trace able to whiskey drinking are twoi murder case5, and one wherein a man shot his wife. The latter case resuit- • cd in Raymond F ishm being given a . sentence of two years, while the two j capital cases chargeable to whiskey1 are: Roy Whitesides charged with the death of Conrad Killian, and1 Elija Mooney charged with the death i f William Ledbetter, all partici-j pants being negroes. Worst feature of most of the whis-1 key cases tried is the fact that there I is generally "a wife and small! children,” or the “poor man is out j of a job," sometimes bath. WAR VETERAN DIES j IN GREENVILLE, S.C. | Funeral services were held in! Trinity Lutheran church, Greenville, i last Sunday afternoon for Frank Cur'a Galloway, 36-year-old Wo-ld war veteran and former Transyl vania county resident who died Fri day night. The Rev. J. E Stockton had charge \v, the rites, r Interment was made in the Spring wood cemetery nearby with the. American Legion post of Greenville] and Veterans of Foreign Wars as: honorary escort. The Greenville drum! nnd bugle corps of which Mr. fial-j loway was a member, attended in a body. A number of Transylvania friends and relatives added to the Greenville man’s friends filled the church to overflowing at the hour ot the service. Mr. Gnliuway had been ill for three weeks, his if,ness being attributed to exposures and poison gas from service in the World war. A native cf Rosman, he volunteered at the age of seventeen) having served with the: Thirtieth division f tj r thirteen! months overseas. Since the war he, had made his home in Greenville, where he was engaged in the dental mechanic business. Mrs. Ina Weils Galloway, his widow, survives him, with one son, Frank Curva Galloway Jr. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. James Galloway of Rosman, and five brothers—J. C. and Jess A. Gallo way, both of Brevard; Grady, Welch and Carl Galloway, all of Rosman. Try BREVARD First Retiring Kiwania Preaident PAT KIMZEY HENDERSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL FOE Postponed Encounter Set For Friday; Locals Priming For Hot Battle Brevard high school will play its last game at Hendersonville Friday afternoon at 3:15, the game being scheduled for Wednesday of last week having been rained out. Coach Tilson i«’ putting his team through heavy drill work this week in anticipation of the Henderson ville fracas, with all boys showing up well in practice. Power line plays and forward passing are expected to play an im portant part in Brevard’s offensive game. Reports from Hendersonville are to the effect that a hard fought game is to be expected, A number of Brevard fans are expected to wit ness the game in Hendersonville Fri day’ Wm' , Brevard s best team in several years has won six games out of eight, and lost two, while the Henderson ville eleven has won four out of nine, lost four and t'ed t Legion Meet Held Thur Regular monthly - .. American Legion will be held iu the court house on Thursday night ol this week at 7:30 o’clock. Judge Wil son Warlick and Solicitor. Clavene.’ Ridings, who are holding court jot Brevard and both of vdir.rta arc legionnaires, will attend the meeting Fur Display At Simpfon'* An in foresting d isplay of taxi dermy is being shown at Simpson s Barber Shop or. Bread street, the display being f-iinisVd by the Miles Studies of Denver, for which concern Leonard Simpson is local agent. --- Patton’s Store Opens! Thursday at FM* orest — Transylvania countiy»Jnewp»it oun ness enterprise is the Fatten Store al Pisgah Foire't, which will handle i. line of groceries, general 0101 chan disc, hardware and notion:;. In announcing the opening >t the new store the management states that it will endeavor to make of the business a “country" store th:>t will serve the people of both town and county, with a varied line of mer chandise at fair prices. Dewey Edwards, postmaster at Pisgah Forest, and Flunk Patton, also of Pisgah Forest, and who has been connected with Mr. Edwards in the postoffice, will have charge of the new business which will be located in the postoffice building at the intersection of highway 28 and the read leading to the Pisgah National Forest. MRS. O.H. ORRIS CIVIC CLUB HEAD — Annual election of officers featur ed the December meeting of the W(/men’s Civic club held Monday afternoon at the U. D. C. library. Following were the officers elected for the ensuing year: President. Mrs. 0. H. Orr; vice president, Mrs. Frank Jenkins; secretary, Miss Alma Trowbridge, and treasurer, Mrs. C. L. Newland. / Routine business was presided over by the president, Miss Florence Kern. Report was made by Mrs. A. R. Gillespie that the committee had taken Thanksgiving baskets to the ten inmates of the county home^ which is an annual custom sponsored by the civic club. Other members of this ciimmittce are Mrs. Ralph Zach ary and Mrs. W. H. Duckworth. A round table discussion concluded the meeting, during .which many helpful suggestions were given and plans outlined looking toward the welfare of the town and a broader cooperative spirit among the ctizen? for a more progressive and beautiful nlaco in which to live. PENSION MEETING DRAWS THRONG i Speakers Explain Plan And Many Names Are Added To Petitions Several hundred people attended a meeting held in the ccunty court house last Saturday afternoon in interest of the Townsend Old Age | Pension plan, and after hearing sev eral speakers discuss the plan prac tically all who had not already done so, signed the petitions to be pre sented to next United States Con gress, asking that the plan be made law. T. C. Henderson piesided at the meeting, and introduced J. M. Clarke of Penrose, who has been adtive in furthering the plan in thi- county. Mr. Clarke spoke interestingly of the benefit to be derived if the plan is > put into practice, and stated that it would bring to the old people of Transylvania aounty approximately $143,400 monthly. He explained that there are now twelve pairs of peti tions being circulated in the county and that around 1,500 names have already been secured. W. B. Henderson, W. E. Breese, W. M. Henry, S. W. Radford, Mrs. A. R. Gillespie and others spoke briefly commending the plan. The following statement hss been prepared by Mr. Clarke, which goes into detail about the plan: Let us look more carefully, for a moment, at the tremendous benefits to be derived from the enactment into law of this plan. First—The direct benefits to the pensioners themselves, of plenty of food, clothing and all the real neces sities of life, and, we hope, a few luxuries, of which many have been deprived all their lives and most of them for several years past. Second— The indirect benefits to the men and women they would pm (Continued on Back Page) H. P. WHITMIRE FOREMAN M GRAND JURY FOR TE!Up|,Sj H. P. Whitmire was selected a - foreman of the grand ' jury ganich began its work here Mnndtv m»rn injj, with M. B. beg#!l as spseto: lu T officer. The jury v.aa drawn by little Nancy Jane Lcftin. daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Gt ,>de Loftfo, from thft lif t of 42 aatncs. Members of the grand jury, aside from Mr. Whitmire, are: John R. Robinson, C. F. Wood! in, Gaston Morgan. G. H. Lyday, W. G. Kilpatrick, A. W. Co.*per, D. P. Kil patrick. S. G. Fisher, J. J. Jackson, A. E. Tinsley, W. L. Morris, H. L. Allifon, Freeman Hayes, L. F. Lyday. Briscoe Whi-iwire, P. J Ashworth, W. W. Reid. Court House Is To Be Closed Every Night The county court house wijfe bo closed each c-tnirg not later than eleven o’clock, according lo an order mode bv the board of commissioners in meeting Monday. All officers in the court hous.fi will be given keys to the front door, as well as keys to their individual offices. Sheriff Tom Wood wu-: placed in charge of the court how and ground', and fiven instruct lot 1 v the hoard to ser that the entrar doors, to the building were each evening. . The move was made in truer > stop depredation of the property, a congregation of loiifen und_ o.lw in and about the budding m tie evening. -—-_ CRIMINAL COURT TO ! GO INTO NEXT WEEK _ Largest Docket of Cases In Many Years—Grand Jury Work Not Completed With Judge Wilson Warlick of Newton presiding nnd Solicitor Clar ence 0. Ridings of Forest City rep resenting the state, criminal term ot I superior court was making g progress here Wednesday. | One of the largest criminal dockets in many years, aroundZOJ cases, faced the court at the begi.i ning of the term Monday morning with majority of these having bee*, cleared Wednesday night at adjout.i ment. . ,, It is expected that the three oases involving the taking of life will be heard during the last of this week, with possibility of the criminal term extending into next week. Tom Masters of East Fork is charged with the death of _ DeWitt Roper; and two cases involving negroes —Roy Whitesides charged with the death of Conrad Killian, and Elija Mooney charged with the death of William Ledbetter. One of these cases will very probably be gone into Thursday. The grand jury had not finished its work late Wednesday, with a few more bills of indictment to be passed upon Thursday, plus checking of the county court house, jail, county home and other county affairs. Large crowds have' been attending court here this week, the court room being filled most of the time to over flowing. _ v *

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