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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
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NEGRO PAYS FINE IN
PENNIES AND NICKLES,
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“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
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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.
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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. . .
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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.
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Patton’s Store Opens!
Thursday at FM* orest
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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
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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
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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.
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CRIMINAL COURT TO
! GO INTO NEXT WEEK
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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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