BILL NAMES LYDAY AS CO. ACCOUNTANT Measure Introduced In HouW Wednesday B y Henry —Salary la $1600 Under provisions of a bill intro duced in the House of Representa tives at Raleigh on Wednesday, Ralph Lyday of Brevard will be ap pointed county accountant for Tran- j eylvania at a salary of $1,600 per year. Representative W. M. Henry who introduced the bill in the lower house has the concurrence of Senator Ralph H. Ramsev, and it is exported that the bill will become law within a few days. The bill provides that Mr. Lyday shall be county accountant until the first of' December, 1936. at which time the office will l>e filled by ap pointment of the board of commis sioners. This act will reneal the law passed by tbo 1933 legislature which : abolished the office df county a/’-, countant. Mr. Lyday will take office March 16. under provisions of the bill now before the assembly. In addition to duties of the ac countant's office, the bill provides ihat Mr. Lyday shall also - be tax supervisor for the county and shall have supervision of the listing and iisaessme"t <;f taxes. Mr. Lydny is well and favorably { known throughout this countv. He is a son of Mi. and Mrs. A. C. Lyday of the Penrose section, and is ' at present bookkeener ar.d teller at the Transylvania Trust company. Mr, Lydiy attended the public school <f Transylvania, later com pleting his education at Berea Col lege, Berea, Kentucky, where he spec ialized in commercial accounting and banking. Upon graduation, he ac cepted a position as bookkeeper and (Continued on bock page) Flu Fatal To Resident | Of East Fork Section ROSMAN. Feb. 27—E. A. Han son. 41, died ut his home in the East Fork section Monday following an illness of flu and complications. Mr. Hanson had only been ill a week and his death was a shock to the com- j munity. Funeral service' were held Tues-! day at the Gillespie cemetery, con ducted by the Rev. A. J. Manly. ! Mr. Hanson was a native of Un j Asheville section; He married Mis* Beulah Gillespie, daughter of the Rev. W. N. Gillespie, who with two small children survive. . Farms Wanted By F.E.R.A. Director I F. H. Holden, farm worker for the local relief office, is seeking to rent several small farms, of from seven j to twenty acres. It is necessary that there be a house of tenable or near- ■ tenable condition or. the properties needed by Mr. Holden in his work. | Rental on the places will be paid by the FERA, and will be used by : families who are under care of the j local relief administration, with the county farm supervisor having over-' sight of the farms. MANFSSNAll) AS ASSISTANT AGENT Land Use and Conservation Program Will Get Under Way Very Soon W. G. Maness of Moore county has accepted the position of assistant county agent for Transylvania coun ty, and expects to assume his duties the Inst of this week. Mr. Maness is a graduate of State College, where he majored in Animal Husbandry, which especially quali fies him for his work here. Mr.1 Maness has been connected with the | cotton reduction program in Polk county since July of last year. Mr. Maness will assist County Agent Julian Glazener in his work in the county,-and will also assist the vocational agricultural class room work at Brevard high school until the end of the school year, making it possible for Mr. Glazener to start on his program of work in the county witnaut disrupting his class room work here. The assistant agent’s sal ary and traveling expenses will be paid by the Tennessee Valley Author ity. Mr. Glazener plans to start organi zation of the farm communities with in the next two weeks, after which the community groups, will select the demonstration farms .in each of the sections to be used as test farms under the Land Use and Conserva tion Plan which is being sponsored by the TVA. Organization will be started following the visit here on March 8, of W. N. Landis. Vpresent ative of the Tennessee Valley Au thority. The county will have up to ten demon'tration farms provided the various remnmunities are willing to set up groups in conformity with plans of the TVA. >_ Civic Meeting Friday Night Time—Friday night 7 o’clock. Place—Upstairs dining hall of Waltermire hotel. Purpose—Looking at Brevard from the inside by homefolk. Sponsors—Women’s Civic Club of Brevard. _ . . i Around one hundred people whoj are interested in Brevard and the ^ community are expected to attend the | dinner to be given by the Women’s ^ Civic club at the Waltermire hotel | Friday night of this week. The meeting will begin promptly at seven o’clock, the upstairs dining, hsli of the Wultermire hotel having ■ been donated by the management for' the meeting. Admittance will be by ticket, which can be secured at either the Long or Macfie drug sL<re or from the ticket sales committee of the civic/club. Following serving of the dinner, program of the evening will be given, with Mrs. Oliver H. Orr,/president of the ladies’ organization, presiding. ! The meeting is being called by the civic club for purpose of "looking at Brevard from the inside,” and par ticular stress is laidi by official* of the cluh on the fact that there will be no solicitation for memberships of any sort or pledges for money to be paid n «v or in the future. The entire program is expected to last les-' than two hours, with the foil:wing outline to be followed: Purpose of the Meeting. Mrs. O. L. Erwin; Civic Pride, Rev. Paul Hart sell; Cooperation between Citiaens and the town, Harry H. Psttcm; Bcuutification, Mrs. A. H. Harris; Brevard’s Greatest Needs.I Organized Camping, Mrs. Hinton McLeod; Agricultural Assets, Julian A. Gl87.ener; Educational Assets, E. J. Ccltrane; How To Take Advan tage of our Assets, Ralph H. Ramsey. Clemson Theatre Has Fine Week’s Program | - j Shirley Temple And Lionel Harry more in "The Little Colonel” will ap pear at Clenron Theatre Monday and Tuesday of next week. Movie doni’s five-year-old bn^y queen, co starring with Lionel Barrymore in this pictnre, further endears herself to her millions of admirers. Her danc ing feet, smiling eyes and lovely curls are her ammunition in he” cam paign to soften the heart of an old rebel colonel, who forgot the Civil War was over, and nursed his preju dices. Harold Bell Wright's story, “When A Man’s A Man,” will be the screen film for Friday and Saturday of this week. The setting of the story is an , Arizona ranch, showing the conflicts and romance in far Western life. | On Wednesday and Thursday,, March 6 and 7, “Shadow of Doubt, i with Ricardo Cortes and Virigiiua Bruce, will bo shown. From a tragic, murder suspect to a glamorous torch j singer is depicted in the dramatic leap taken in this detective mystery j story. CORN-HOG MEETS CALLED BY AGENT __ By J. A. GLAZENER 1 Monday evening, March 4, at 7:30; in the agricultural class room of the Brevard high school will be held a community meeting for the inter-; ested- farmers of Brevard and Con- j n°stce townships. It is very im- j portant that all those who have sign ed applications be present as well as | others interested in signing who live., in either of the above named town ships. At this meeting a committee is to be elected and a community organ ization set up. Tuesday evening, Mnrcn B, at 7:30 in the agricultural class room of the Rosman high school building a meet ing will be held for all townships in the upper end of the county, in cluding Catheys Creek, except those nearest to Brevard. Thursday evening. March 7, at 7:30 a meeting will be held in the Enon school house for Boyd and | Little River townships. As stated abave all those who have I already signed applications and others' interested in signing should attend the community meetings for their respective townships. If wc ail j work together and cooperate, which, I feel positive we shall do, I see no reason why we should not- he able to | have just as an efficient and eco- ( nomical Corn-Hog Association as j any other association of its kind in j the s tate. ' Remember the date, remember the place, and try not to be late. Whitmire Baby Buried At Brevard Cemetery Funeral services were held last Thursday afternoon for little John Stephen Whitmire, son of Mr. .and Mrs. Robert Whitmire, at the home of the parents, with the Rev. J. H. Brcndall, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Interment was made in Gillespie cemetery. The four weeks old baby died after a very brief illness, death be ing due to a blood clot in the heart muscle, according to Dr. E. S. Eng lish, attending physician. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rcibcrt Whitmire and other relatives. AT LYDAY HOSPITAL Patients reported at I.yday Me morial hospital on Wednesday were: Miss Betty McLeod, Mrs. L. F. Fan ning. Miss Clara Jones and Mrs. J. H. Connor. Bees Relief Bill Passage Washington—Prepared for a long siege,‘labor Tuesday expressed con fience that the administratirtt would he forced to surrender on the Mc Carran amendment to the relipf bill. Wildey Chosen Head College Student Body Jack Wildey. son of Mrs. M. L. Wildey, of Asheville, -w#'1 chosen president of the student council of Brevard College Thursday of last week. The president was chosen on the first vote, with Wildey being de clared winner after a check-up re vealed he had polled 11 votes over 60 per cent of the ballots cast. The new head of the student body i a graduate of the Brevard Insti tute, which school was abandoned two years ago after having been in operation for nearly 60 years. While a student at Brevard Institute Wild ey played an important part in stu dent life, holding numerous student elective posts. He was a member of the debating team that went from Western North Carolina to the finals at Chapel Hill in 1032. He played or. the institute football team two years arid was assistant dean of boys for two years. Wildey attended Weaver college the year previous, and was organizer there of the Political Science club, was a member of the debate council, and was elected to the Weaver Sen ate. He was a member of the staff of the college paper published at Wea ver and heln office in the Clio liter ary society'. .... At Brevard Collego Wiloey con-, tinuos to hold an outstanding posi tion in college life. He has been critic and censor of the Clio Literary society and active in day debating. He is business mnnager of the col lege annual which is practically ready for the press. He also acted as a member of the committee which drew up plans for student govern ment at Brevard College. His term of office will end April 1, this year, when new officials of the council will bo selected from the freshman class to servo the 1035-3G term. Wildey plans to attend Duke uni versity next year. R Y. P. U. Meeting At Cherryfield Church Announcement is made of Upper District B. Y. P. U. meeting to. be held at Cherryfield Sunday, March 3, at 2:30 o’clock. The following program has been announced: ... ,, Theme1*—His Chutlch the Home Ba«e of World Evangelization. Devotional, by Quebec union. Reports and announcements. Talk, “Growing a Missionary ; Church," Calvert union. Talk, “The Greatest Crusade, Rosman union. SPECIAL SERVICES ROSMAN. Feb. 27—The Rev. A. J. Manly and the Rev. H. Broom will conduct special services Sunday af ternoon at one of the homes near the extract plsnt. EAST FORK SERVICES The Rev. G. A. Hovis amounces that services will be held at the East Fork Methodist church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at Lake Toxaway in the afternoon at three. Last Basketball Games Be Played This Week Brevard high school basketball teams will wind up their season at home during the coming week, with the last two games to be played here. On Thursday night this week the high school teams will play a double header with the “Brevard Bachelors and Old Maids” furnishing the oppo sition. . On Tuesday night of next week the county chamoionships will be decided between the Brevard and Rosman teams. The girls ana the boys of the high schools will play, followed by the midget boys from each of the two schools. It is expected that these last two games will draw good crowds, as i both teams have been playing a very i <rond brand of bsll» (ASSEMBLY RATIFIES OFFICE SALARY BILL i Clerk Court, Register Deeds, , Sheriff and Tax Collector Draw Straight Pay Transylvania county officials are now on salary instead of fee basis, a bill having been passed and ratified on Thursday of last week, setting the yearly salary of the sheriff at $8760, clerk of court $1900, register of deeds and tax collector each $1776. ■ The bill was jointly drawn by Rep resentative W. M. Henry and Sen ator Ralph H. Ramsey and intro duced by Representative Henry sev eral weeks ago in the lower heuse. After remaining in committee for some time the bill was passed by the senate and ratified Thursday. The bill repeal- the act passed by Representative Wallace Galloway in the 1933 session of the legislature which placed the offices on fee basis, the Galloway act becoming effect ive Dec. 3, 1934. Following is the b$l now in effect: (Section 1. That from and after the first day of January, 1935, the register of deeds, clerk of the super ior court, tax collector and sheriff of Transylvania county shall receive in' lien of the fees heretofore allowed saSd officers the following salaries, pdr year, the same to be paid in 1 errual monthly installments: Register of: deed", $1,776; clerk of the super ior court $1,900; tax collector $1,775 and sheriff, $2,750. Section 2. That from and after the first day of January, 1935, the said | county officers shall render a full account cf all fees received by them as provided by law. Section 3. That the register of; deeds shall receive the sum of $200 in full payment for his additional ( services as county accountant for the month of December. 1934, and the months of January and February, of, 1986. Section 5. That the said officers shall give bond, to be unproved by the commissioners, in some bonding company licensed to do business in , North Carolina, the premium on said: bond to be paid by the county. Section 5. That all laws and claures of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby re pealed. Sot tion 6. That this act shall he in full force and effect from and after j its Ratification. Niltrsery School Wins j Praise of Mrs. Day An interesting account of the local ERE nursery schoc! is given in ti recent issue of the North Car olina Nursery School News, of the state department of public mstruc-j tion. Mrs. J. M. Day, supervisor of the ERE program writes the following in the state publication: “I know vou will be dc-ligbted when you come and see the Brevard nursery school in their new quarters. I visited them yesterday and they have an almost I ideal setup. It is thrilling to see the large number of beds, blankets, | sheets and the private sleeping I rcorns. Ir. fact, it is just about ideal. An urgent plea is mace by teacn iers of the local nursery, school lor cn=h donations with which to buy ■ coal to heat the building. Any dona tion. large or small, will be gioatly | appreciated for this urgent need, it j is stated. FIRE DAMAGES HOME OF MRS LOTTIE DUCKWORTH The home of Mrs. Lottie Duck worth corner of Jordan street and Oakland avenue, was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars by a fire last Saturday afternoon which caught in the attic of the two-story frame dwelling. Alarm was turned in by a passerby and the fire was under control withm a few minutes after the alarm was 1 sounded, but not until the blaze had j eaten its way through the roof and down into the second floor The blaze is believed to have started ..om a defective flue or defective wiring in the attic. The loss was covered by insurance. TV A Representative To Be Here March 8 By J. A. GLAZENER Mr. W. N. Landis, agricultural specialist for the TVA, has agreed to meet the farmers and business men of Transylvania County, Friday, ; morning, March 8. at 10 o’clock in the court house. Mr. Landis will not onlv give a general background oi the intere't of the TVA in reference ! to the agricultural program, but will ! explain the value of the demonstra ! tion farms and how to go about se I lccting them. . , „ I am extremely interested that we give Mr. Landis n good showing of our interest in a real farm program I by filling the court house. The more of these men we can interest m visit ing our county the more I ^ully be lieve it is going to mean for the i county’s development. Two Free Tickets To The Cl«imw Theatre Two people, one from Bre vard and one from Brevard College, will each be given a free ticket to the Clem eon Theatre if they will call at The Times office before Saturday night of this week. Names of those two people will be found in the advertising columns of the paper, maybe in the Want Ads, probabjy in B H. Plummer’s space, or in the BUB weekly message—likely in the SPU space, or under the Firestone heading ii'ed by Mc Crary Auto service — two names, one from the college r.tudent body and the other from among the townspeople, are in the ads . . . and the two tickets are awaiting the owners at The Times office. Kiwarns Club To Hear Report on Hatcheries W. E. Breesc, who was in Wash- ’ ington last week in interest, of es tablishment of a fish hatchery in Pisgah National Forest, will make report of the matter at the meeting of Brevard Kiwanis club Thursday at noon. Tho Kiwanis dub has been inter ested in this project for several years, and succeeded in having an engineer of the Bureau of Fisheries. come to this section some time ago for investigation of possibilities in Pisgah National Forest. Working through Congressman Zeb Weaver, the Kiwanis club and others interested in the project have1 kept constantly after the bureau of fisheries in effort to have the hatch ery built in 1985, and Mt. Breese was sent to Washington last week, repre senting the club, the town and eoun-, ty. He was accompanied by Jess A. Galloway, register of deeds, cn the trip, br.th Brevard men being im pressed with the chance of a federal establishment being located near here. WILLIAMS’ELECTED TO \ CAMP DIRECTORS' BODY John P. Williams, of the Camp Carolina rtaff, was re-elected vice, president of the Southern section of tho Camp Director* Association of America, at a meeting of the group held at Montreat last week. , Miss Carol p. Oppenbeimer. owner of Eagle's Nest camp, afraa elected secretary-treasurer. Both the new officials are well and favorably known in this section. Mr. William: is located at Davidson College where he is a member of the faculty, while Miss Oppenheirr.er is at present in Savannah. Game Warden A*k» For Support Of Law February 20 was the close of the hunting season. Now that the season is- dosed. I am apnealing to all hunt ers to clean up their guns and put them away until the season opens in the fall, and during the closed sea son I especially request land owners to cooperate with me in any illegn shooting. There is a good carry-over of all kinds of game, if the closed season is observed, giving the wild life a chance to raise a new crop, we will have good hunting next season. The department Is preparing a bul letin that will attempt to point out to farmers and land owners the benefit of their game as a revenue producing crop and how to provide and maintain necessary cover and food for the game. Fishing season opens April 15. E. R. GALLOWAY, Co. Forest Warden. J. W. Owen Buried At Macedonia Cemetery ROSMAN, Feb. 27—J. W. Owen. 75, died at hie home here early last Friday morning following a brief illness. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock from the Macedonia Baptist church in Gloucester with the Rev. H. Broom, the Rev. H. E. Keliar and the Rev. Judson Corn officiating. Interment was made in the cemetery nearby, i Mr. Owen was a' prominent farm er of this section, and had been ! twice married. His first wife was a Miss Galloway of Jackson county, and his second wife was Miss Clar ice Slatton of Jackson county. Sur viving are hi3 second wife and the following children: Mrs. Kermit. Hall and Mrs. Mick ler Lusk of Rosman; Mrs. Bryan Gresham. Lincolnton: Mrs. Allen Eden, Mrs. Garland Duncan, of Pickens'; Mrs. Garf Williamon, Six Mile; Mrs. Hilliard Hall and Mrs. J. Colie Owen of Gloucester, the latter two children of the first wife Pnllbearers were Virgil Owen, Haskell Hall. J. B. Kali, Walter G» zener, L. C. Hall and Taft Owen. Flowers were in charge of Misses Gladys Owen, Helen Owen, Lula Manly. Ella Mae Hall and Mrs. Har I ian McCall. BOARD EDUCATION NAMED FOR TERM M** Holliday, Dr. N«wiaadL Edgar Reid Named Through Legislative Measure 11 Authoritative information from 1 Raleigh ia to the effect that the board of education which will bo officially named in the omnibus bill I this w eek for Transylvania county , will be composed of Dr. C. L. New ! land of Brevard, Mrs. M. H. Holli : day oi' Brevard, and Edgar Reid of Oakland. Mrs Holliday is a member of the* present nchcol- board, which is com ! poaed of J. M. Galloway of Rostum? as chnirman, L. E. Powell of >hr Connestee section, and Mrs. Holli day. Dr. Newland is a physician of Bre vard and is also a member of the* ' surgical staff of Lyday Mcmormf hospital. He has served m the countv board of health and was for one terrr county physician. Mr. Reid is a farmer and lumber man of the upper end of the e Minty, a ren of T. B. Reid. The statement from Raleigh is to the effect that both Representative* W. M. Henry and Senator Ralph H Ramsey agreed on the beard and had given the name?1 to the education anb-commitiee for inclusion in the bill which will be passed during this week. Robert E- Patton Died Last Saturday Morit Robert K. Patton. 77 rears old, re tired farmer of th; Pisgah Forest section, died early last Saturday morning at his home after-an illne*o of several years. Funeral services were held nt Davidson River Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at three o'cfbr't; with the Rev. John P. Simmons, pas tor, and the Rev. W. S. Hutchinson, pastor of the Mills River Presbyter - ian church and former pastor at Davidson River, in charge. Interment was made in the family plot in the cemetery nearby. The deceased, while not an activ man in public affairs, was regarded as an outstanding man and farmer of his dav. and was a son of the late Elizur afd Anns Patt-n. pioneer settlers of the Davidson River val ley. Mr. Patton was twice married. his; first wife being Miss Miiude Fit* geralil. To this union was bom ore son, V. E. Patton, who is now cour.ty agent of Rutherford countv. The sec ond wife, Mrs. Emma Deaver, sur vives, together with one for. born to this unir<n, Frank J. Patton, mer chant of Pisgah Forest. One sister,. Mias Anna Patton, of Pisgah Forest.. also survives. Pallbearers were J. A. Miller,. T. E. Patton Sr., W. D. Deader. Robert Neil, C. Y. Patton and V. P. Rair.03 Arrangements w e r e m charge of Kilpatrick funeral home. Bam Destroyed By Fire ROSMAN, Feb. 27—Fire com pletely destroyed the barn belonging to Hill Paxton early Monday morn ing. A quantity of feed, corn ancf farm machinery was lost by Mr. Pax ton in the blaze. No livestock was burned. ira TEAM UPSETS BOPF 1 Locals Win Second Rating 1» Junior College Cham j pionship Meet Brevard College Tornado basket I eers lost the final game of the season to Belmont Abbev 31 to 17 but in that game won the second place rat ing for North Carolina junior col leges for the 1936 season. To reach the final round the Tor nadoes defeated Lees-McRae in the first round game. Rutherford col lege, rated second by the toarna ment officials in pre-contest dope, fell before the all around game of 1 the Jamesmen with Patton sinking ! eleven points to lead the Tornado attack. J Brevard’s whole team took part m the scoring in this game with the ex ' ception of one man. The final contest was featured by the sharpshooting of Woltz, Belmont guard, who sank five field goals to pace the field. Santo with six and Den gate with five followed Mauro’s eight points for the most of the Ab bey scores. Proffitt and Wright net ted four each for Brevard. Brevard was seeded fourth by the tournament officials and Belmont Abbey third. Jackson Injured a — ROSMAN, Feb. 27—Bill Jackson, who was injured several days ago in an auto accident, still remains in a j serious condition. Mr. Jackson had' i his hip fractured and other injuries. Civic Booster Meeting Will Be

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