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[W1 THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES j a? ] : . . .... j A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County AUGUST 29~1935 -=BREVARDrNORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, VOL. 40. NO. 34 $1.00 PERJfEARJ_N TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY WPA AUTHORITIES SET DEADLINE FOR FILING PROJECTS Federal Funds Be Granted Only To Those Who Apply At Once Only fourteen move days remain in which Works Progress Adminis tration project applications may be filed, according to bulletin issued from the office of W. E. Breese, dis trict administrator. Deadline ‘or applications has boon set by the president at Sept. 12. Governing bodies of all municipal ities and governmental setups in the county have been notified that o receive assistance in needed projects of community benefit and to provide work for the unemployed, applica tions must be filed in district otticca on or before Sept. 12. All labor costs and up to thirty per cent of labor costs in materials will be furnished by the federal gov ernment on town, county and school projects, this amount reaching up to eighty per rent of the total cost on some projects. Three secondary road projects have been approved by the district office for Transylvania county and__ four ethers have been submitted by Ernes H Webb, district engineer, who will have charge of the road projects for the state highway commission. Applications for completing the sidewalk on North Broad street, building of a bridge on Kings Creek, and construction of a road to the town watershed have been submitted j by the town of Brevard. Figures are, now being made up for a sewer j main project. Application for repairs on school buildings, and rebuilding of the Bre-1 vard elementary unit have been sub-, mitt.d by the board of education. A community athletic field is be ing worked out for application by Brevard College, with the completed , data expected to be in the Asheville office by the last of this week. Repairs on the court house and, jail are under contemplation by the board of commissioners, but esti mates have not been submitted. It is not known whether there are to be any projects from the town of Rosman or for any other sections o. the county. Community leaders are; reminded of the fact that to avail: themselves of the federal fund grants for any projects of a needed or worthwhile nature that the applica-; tions must be sent in immediately cr > thev will be too late. _ ,. j The following “must time table, has been issued from Washington: j Sept. 12. All applications for fed cral project aid must me filed. Sept. 17. All projects must be on, Mr. Roosevelt’s desk for final appro- J val. Sept. 24. Funds to pay for the ap-1 proved projects must bo available. ; Oct. 22. All force account projects must be under way. Dec. 15. All contract work must be awarded and ready for construction. Zachary Reunion To Be Held at Cashiers Annual Zachary reunion will be] held at the Zachary burying ground I in Cashiers Valley on Saturday of. this week with a program of interest' being arranged by T. A. Dillard, j chairman. 1 i This will be the twenty-seventh year that descendants of Col. J. A i Zachary have gathered in eommemo-1 ration of the coming to Western I North Carolina of the Zachary fam ily one hundred and three years ago, I when the patriarch and thirteen of j his fourteen children wended their way from Eastern North Carolina! and hewed out homes and farms in i the mountains. On the pregram Saturday will be | short speeches, vocal and string j music and a picnic dinner. i -- - Home Coming Day At Methodist Church! i Home coming and rally day will be held at. Brevard Methodist church next Sunday, August 1st, with all members, former members, former pastors and friends of the church in vited to attend. Services will be held at ten and eleven o’clock in the morning, with Sunday school at ten and services with the pastor, the Rev. J. H. Bren dal!, in charge at eleven. At the noon hour a picnic lunch will be spread on the church grounds, i and all who attend are requested to bring a basket to add to this part of the day’s enjoyment. Ir. case <>f bad weather the lunch will be spread in the large downstairs part of the church. Coffee and tea will be served by ladies of the church. Following the noon hour repast, a charted display of progress made by the church during the present year will be displayed. Officers and pas ter of the church are especially proud of accomplishments in a finan cial wav this year, and feci sure that with proper spirit shown on pvit of the members that the year will be one of the most successful for Brevard Methodist church m some time. Cast quarterly conference will be held at eight o’clock Sunday evening with the Rev. W. A. Rollir.s, presid ing elder, in charge. m0mm-m*mmmm^^m***"^** World War Veterans Meet Here In 1936 Annual reunion of Battery F 113tli Field Artillery will be held in Bre vard on August 22, 1936, it was de cided at the convention held in Mooresville last Thursday. Twenty-three Transylvania county men saw service in this batter dur ing the World War, the group being made up principally of North Car olina boys. Over a hundred of the “buddies’ attended the reunion at Mooresville last week. Eugene Allison, of For ' est Citv, a former Brevard man who | helped organize the battery, and Mr. land Mrs. Eck Sims, of Brevard, at j tended the meeting. j P. C. Hamlin Funeral To Be Held Thursday I _____ , Perry Columbus llamlin, prom: | Rer.t 83 year old farmer, died at bis | home near Selica Wednesday morn ing at ten o’clock following an ill ness of over a month. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at ten o’clock from Oathev’s Creek Baptist church of which’ Mr. Hamlin has long been a I member. The Rev. Walter Holtz ' claw, pastor, will be in charge. In 1 terment will be made in the cemetery ! nearby. , Mr. Hamlin was a son of the late • Eli and Julia Barton Hamlin, am! I had made his homo in the Selica scc : Con of Transylvania county during ■ his lifetime. 1 He was twice married, first to j Miss Rachel 'Dunn, who died forty i years ago. His second wife, who sur vives him. was Miss Mary Dunn. Four children survive. They are: Mrs. J. M. Bryson, Selica; Lewis Hamlin, Brevard; Walter Hamlin, Brevard R-3; L. B. Hamlin, Can , ton. Two brothers, Smith Hamlin of Easley, S. C., and Ed Hamlin of Burbon, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. J. M.! Orr of Pisgah Forest and Mrs. James ; Heath of Greenville, S. C., also sur-, vive. -—-- l WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TO CLOSE DOORS SATURDAY Announcement has been made that the Woman's Exchange in the' post office building will close for the . season on Saturday. All those who. have articles placed there for sale' are requested to come in some time , Saturday and get the articles and get; their pay for the commissions due j them. ! ___ I C. O. Robinson Buried In Hendersonville j Funeral services for C. 0. Robin son. 51, who died at his home here | Friday afternoon, were held Sunday, afternoon at the Brevard Methodist! church. The pastor, the Rev. J. H. | Brendall, officiated, assisted by the other local pastors and retired pas tors, the Rev. Paul Hartsell, the Rev. J. P. Simmons, the Rev, Harry Perry, the Rev. G. C. Brinkman and the Rev. T. F. Marr. Interment was in Oakdale cemetery, Henderson ville, with Masonic rites. Mr. Robinson, who had been in ill health for nearly a year, was a | native of Catawba county, but had! made his home in Brevard for 301 years or more. He had been a mem ber of the Brevard Methodist church since coming here to live, and for the past 15 years had been a member of the board of stewards. He was 8: loyal Mason, a member of the local Dunn’s Rock lodge. The large num- ■ her of persons attending the funeral | and the numerous floral offerings j attested to the high esteem in which Mr. Robinson was held by his many friends. Surviving are the widow, who wasj formerly Miss Callis Johnson, one! daughter, Yvonne, and one son, Jack. | Active pallbearc-rs were: J. E.i Walters, Leonl English Jr., A. N. \ Jenkins, C. K. Osborne, C. C. Yon-; gue and S. E. Varner. Honorary pallbearers included:; ! G. C. Bush, Rev. Paul Hartsell, i Mitchell Fortune, Perry Galloway, I Flem Glazener, Henry Henderson,; ; C. R. McNeely, Rosooe Nicholson, j Glit Paxton, Fred Shuford and George Shuford. In charge of the flowers were ; members the Eastern Star. Moore Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. --- Fisher Reunion Will Be Held September 7 The Fisher reunion will meet at .Lake Toxaway Baptist church Sat urday morning, September 7th, at 10 o’clock. Frograni for the day has been announced as follows: Singing by congregation; devotion al led bv Rev. Clyde McCall; song. "Jesus Hold My Hand,” by Riverside quartet; welcome address by L. C. Case Jr.; scng by congregation; re port of last reunion, followed by •ontribution; music by Fisher string band; address by Professor W. M. Hunt, '‘subject, "The Value of a friend;” report of historian, T. B. Reid; adjourn for dinner. Afternoon session: Singing by quartet: music by string band; short lalka by anyone: song by congrega tion, “God Be With Vou Til We Meet Again;” dismissed by prayer. Everyone is invited to attend and nil are urged to bring a well filled basket. 30YLS' )N MINING PROP RTY STUDIED Group of Financier* Inter ested—Would Mean Much Here “Keep your eye on the Boylston gold mining property," is advice of Isaac Van Horn, editor of The Southeastern Miner, published at Asheville. The August edition of the official southeast mining authority has the following to say in regard to the Boylston gold mine proposition: For more than a week during the past month mining engineers have been at work on the examination of the Boylston gold mining property on Forge Mountain in the Asheville, Hendersonville Brevard district. Samples of ore from the various veins on the property have been secured; some from old workings others from new and these samples have been sent to the assay office for j listing. Upon receipt of the report front, engineers and the result of the. assays determined, if satisfactory,; there is every reason to believe that; this property is going to receive :t the hands of not only competent min-j ing people but people financially able, real development that shall stimulate development in the whole of Western North Carolina. The gentleman representing those interested is here on the ground at Hendersonville and this publication, although just in the infancy of its work, is proud of the fact that it is the medium through which this move was made, and if this one effort alone should prove of outstanding importance, fully justifies the co-' operation asked of business interests; in its publication, as a non-profit, fact finding mining publication. PRIZE WINNERS FOR DAHLIA SHOW GIVEN - j Estimated Thousand People, View Beautiful Array Here Saturday _ An estimated >1,000 persons repre-| senting many states were in attend-! ance at Brevard’s third annual dan lia show held Saturday afternoon and [evening in the Harris building. show, sponsored by the Transylvania , | Dahila club, was pronounced highly ■ i successful, though, according t o many expressions heard, not quite up to the standard of last year’s ex-: hibit on account of the recent heavy i I rains. _ , Mr .and Mrs. L. Clements, dahlia . experts from Asheville, served ns ] judges. A varied assortment of dah-1 lias was on display, ranging from, the tiniest button size to that of the j most goregous in size and color. Classes were arranged for both ama teur and professional dahlia grow ers to exhibit. In addition to the many varieties of magnificent dah lias 'on display and calling forth much praise, were two exhibits at- j trading wide attention—a large shadow box of zinnias in blending shades and a homemade baby bed [covered with a patchwork quilt of dahlia blossoms, and the pillows in large white dahlias. Forty-eight first and second prizes j were awarded in the various elassifi- j cations. Following were the prize winners' in first and second classes: Section A —Class 1—J. Z. Cleve-j land, of Zireonia, largest and most j perfect dahlia; class Miss Julia, Peaver and Mrs. Marcus Williams,; smallest dahlia; class 3, Mrs.: F. Brdwn Carr and Mrs. Thomas Podsworth, best cactus dahlia; class 4, Miss Mary Maxwell | [ and Mr. Cleveland, best red, maroon, j [violet or flame; class 5, Mr. Clove- j 1 land and Miss Mary Maxwell, best, | yellow, buff or orange: ciass 6, Mi»s ; Julia Peaver and Mr. Cleveland, best: I lavender, pink or orchid; class 7, Mr. j i - (Continued on back page) _ NYA SCHOOL OPENS WITH 98 ENROLLED Four - Week Training Course Being Given Young N. C. Women At Brevard By CHARLOTTE YOUNG On last Monday morning, August 26, the National Youth Administra-1 tion camp opened at Brevard Col-! lege. There are 98 girls and a staff j of 11 instructors. The camp is an I activity of the National Youth Ad- j ministration. C. E. McIntosh is the director of this work in Ndrth Caro lina, and Miss Mary Dirnberger is the state organizer of the NYA camps. The purpose of these camps is to j give four weeks of instruction and I recreation to unemployed young | women between the ages of 16 and j 25 which will aid them in adjust-1 ment to swiftly changing conditions | in our economic life. The activities of the camp include ! home making, health, singing, indus trial education, creative writing, j drama, arts and crafts, swimming, hiking, folk games and other forms of recreation. Miss Wilfred Smith, of Asheville, j is director of the camp. Other in- i structors are Miss Nell Gray, of i Asheville, house director; Missj Charlotte Young, of Asheville, voca tional counselor and teacher of Eng-' lish; Miss Barbara La Joie. of Char-, lotte, athletic director; Mrs. Cliva Gilbert, of Greensboro, nurse and instructor in health; Miss Elizabeth Query, of Charlotte, assistant in athletics; Miss Evelyn Rickman, of Asheville, arts and crafts; Miss Mary Straughn, of Mebane, dramat-j its; Miss Ruth Culbertson, of Dur- j ham, industrial education; Miss Ruth Vaughn, of Brevard, music and recreation; Miss Stella Barton, of Andrews, assistant house director, j Teachers Will Meet Here September 10th! — All teachers of the county are ex pected to attend a meeting at Bre-1 yard high school on Tuesday after noon, Sept. 10, the program to begin at two o’clock. Discussion of pians for handling the school book rental system will be principal topic of the meeting to be held in the auditorium. Dr. G. B. Lynch, county physician, has been invited to attend the meeting and dirouss practical school health prob lems. Following th? main convention, group meetings will be held by the several schools, with the principals, presiding. KELLY HEADS BANKERS ! OF N. C. GROUP TEN; H. B. Kelly, president of the! Transylvania Trust company, wasl elected chairman of Group 10 of the, North Carolina Bankers’ association; at the organization’s annual meeting in Asheville Saturday. Other officers elected were: Mr. Woollcott, president of the Morris Flan bank of Asheville, vice chair man; Hugh M. Felder, assistant, trust officer of the First National t Bank and Trust company, of Ashe-; viile. secretary-treasurer; and C. E.| Rector, cashier of the Bank of French Broad, of Marshall, on ex-, ecutive committee of North Carolina j Bankers’ association. Ball Game Here Saturday Last ball game of the Industrial J League schedule to be played here, will be between Tryon and the Tan-1 ners on the Brevard high school field Saturday afternoon at 3:30. Hoey Visits In Brevard Clyde Hoey, candidate for gov ernor of North Carolina, was in Brevard last week for a brief stop, | and while here conferred with sev-1 eral people. Mr. Hcey is looked upon I as the dry Democratic candidate and j has a wide following throughout this i section of the state. ^ _ Don Wheeler Will Be State Highway Patrol Transylvania county will have an all-time state highway patrolman stationed here beginning next week, j according to advices received from ■ Raleigh. One or more patrolmen will j be stationed in each county in the state. W. K. Piercy, of Newland, will be assigned to Transylvania county, it was learned, while Don Wheeler of | Brevard will be stationed at Shelby , for duties in Cleveland countv. j Mr. Wheeler, along with other men | i who are to form the stste-wide ! patrol, have been in training at ! Raleigh for several weeks, and have ' been especially trained for patrol j ! work. Barton Child Injured In Accident on Sunday Clara Barton, five year old daug’n- • ter cf Mr. and Mrs. Ulys Barton of 1 Route Three, was severely injured last Sunday afternoon when she ran in front of a moving automobile on highway 28 near the Barton home. , The car was driven by Van Holt j Hall, of Georgia, who was visiting In; Brevard. Mr. Hall brought the child t.o Lyday Memorial hospital fo’ treatment. Both leg*! were broken above the knees. Reports from the I hospital Wednesday were to the ef fect that the child would recover ami that her condition was very satisfac tory. No blame was attached to Mr. Hall for the accident, eye witnesses stating that he was driving at a very moderate rate of speed and that the child ran in front of the car j; quickly that he had no chance to' stop or avoid hitting her. blackIdoTon DISPLAY AT TIMES Venomous Insect Said To Be Native To Western I Carolina Section First reported Black Widow spider in this county was sent to The Times J office last Saturday morning by Mrs.. Dorothy E. Williams, manager of j the CoHnestee Coffee House, and is ( now on display in The Times office, i The widow spent the first two days ] of captivity crouched in the bottom • of the small jar in which it was brought to the office, seemingly pay-1 ing no attention to those who viewed her from a distance. Tuesday morning, however, there , was a web woven across the jar near, the bottom and in the center there sat the spider and a nest of eggs the white silky ball container being j about the size of a bird egg. Th<- ■ spider is very careful about her nest j of eggs, and 'watches over it care fully, seldom releasing its hold on the snowy ball even for food that is j offered it. i The spider was found by Mrs. C. i W. Estes of Greenville, S. C., and i captured by Mrs. Williams and Miss, Helen Evans Lewis of Georgetown. S. C. The Black Widow, which is claim-’ ed to be the most poisonous spide , in the country, is a native to th> , state and has always been, accord-1 ing to Dr. B. H. WilforJ, entomolo- ] gist with the Appalachian Foresi ; Exueriment Station at Asheville. I1 j occurs almost throughout the nation j but is more prevalent in southern i than in northern states. The Black Widow, Dr. Wilford, continued, is not of an offensive] nature ard has to be disturbed be- i fore it will bite. It doer, not lie in ; wait for persons, he added. Frw Fatalities Recorded A sharp sting is felt when the j Black Widow bites. Later—varying] from a few minutes to an hour or; more—a more severe pain is felt. If the bite is in the finger, for instance, the pain gradually works up the arm, to the shoulder, and into the (Continued on back page) TOXAWAY PEOPLE SEEK CONNECTING LINK OF HIGHWAY Highway Commission Meeting Held at High Hampton Last Week : Importance of a road from Ten j nessee Bald to the South Carolina line was stressed by a large group of i people from the upper end of the I county before the state highway com mission at High Hampton Inn last Friday. The delegation composed of twenty or more people from the upper cm! of the county and several from Bre vard pointed out to the commission the feasibility of a connecting road with the scenic highway where it will make a loop at Tennessee Bald, the proposed road going from there to Owens Gap six miles, then to Lake Toxaway seven miles, follow ing U. S. 05 to Oakland and connect ing with the South Carolina mad by way of Whitewater. This road would. it was point** 1 out to the commission, give a short direct route from Georgia and South Carolina to the scenic parkway, and w'ould open up a section that is famed for its scenic beauty. With building of this link, proba bilities of rebuilding Lake Toxaway and re-opening the famous resort hotel were stressed. The commission was very favorably impressed w;lh the proposition and promised that due consideration would be given the proposal. A party of the commission went over sections of the desired route the next day. HASKELL ALLISON IS NOW MAJOR IN ARMY The many friends here of Haskell Allison, son of Mrs. W. H. Allison, will be interested to know that he has been promoted from the rank of captain to major in the U. S. Army. Major Allison is stationed ?t Fori Monmouth. N. J. Major Allison and his family have spent many summer vacations in Brevard with his mother at Deer Park Home. AT LYDAY HOSPITAL Patients reported at Lyday Me morial hospital on Wednesday were: Chester Farmer, Baby Corbin. Clara Barton, Mrs, Julian Glaz'ner, Max ine Moore, J. J. McCall. Mrs. Pearl McCall, Mrs. \V. M. Eubanks, Roy Nelson, Howard Rector, Ralph Phil lips. Mrs. Reid To Teach Mrs. Theodore Reid of Brevard will again teach in the Brevard Ele mentary schools during the term be ginning Sept. 12. In anr; uncing the list of teachers last wee! the name, of Mrs. Reid was inadvertently left out. Commissioners Meet Tuesday Transylvania county board of com missioners will hold their regular monthly meeting on TueMiay of next week instead of the first Monday, r.s per usual schedule, on account o, Monday being a legal ho.iday. Hunt To Speak Here _ Professor W. M. Hirf, principal of Rosman schools, will address ihv Brevard Kiwanis dub r.f its n<x‘ regular meeting, Thursday, Sep: 5th. Professor Hunt has recently moved to Rosman from Boone when* he was a member of the faculty Appalachian Teacher Training school. Trench Silo* Built On Whitmire Farm (J. A. Glazer.er. Co. Agt.) To Arthur Whitmire of the Cherryfield section goes the honor of being the first farmer in Transyl vania county to dig a trench silo. Mr. Whitmire is completing two this week that will hold fifty tons each of silage. He 13 making plans to feed several head of beef caitle this win ter According to state feeding authori ties, silage is fine for oeef cattle. Not only being good f«- cattle, hut it enables the farmer tc get more feed per acre than most any other feed he could produce. The trench silo program for this county this year calls for ten siios. which will be a fine start for the first year. If this county should take to the trench silo idea as Jackson, Haywood and many other neighbor ing' counties are taking to it, next year there will he at least fifty uU# in the county. The increase in improved pastures, more hay produced and the silos that are being started, shoo’d begin to make the most 3keptie minded sec and know that a big portion of the farmers are beginning to lay the foundation for a higher type of farming in this county. It shall be the one united aim of both the county agents and the voca tional teachers, along with the as sistance of the able agricultural teacher at Brevard College to help the farmers plan and build a bigger and stronger agriculture for Tran sylvania county. Here is hoping tha. the interest may spread until » reaches every nook and corner of the county. Brevard College Schedule 1935 Date|Tearr, Sept. 28 ' Biltmore Jr. College Oct. 4 | Wofford Fresh. Oct. 12 I Erskine Fresh. Oct. 19 | Rutherford Oct. 26 Wingate___ Nov. 2 | Belmont _____ Nov. 9_1 Boiling Springs_ Nov. 16 | Lees McRae__ Nov."23 1 Pres. Jr. College Nov. 2tf l_ Mars Hill_ SCORE Place B. C. Opp Away |j Away |_|_ Home i_I_ Horae |I _Honie_|j Away j| Home !| Away i! Away I! Home 1_1_ Brevard! College 1934 Games SCORE Date |Tea.-n Sept, 29 j WCTC Jr. Varsity_ Oct. 13 | Appalachian Fresh. Oct^OlFurman^resh^ Oct. 27_| Wingate _ Nov. 3 I Boiling Springs Nov. 10 | Tenn. Wesleyan_ Nov, 17 1 Pres. Jr. Col. _ Nov. 12 1 Smokemont CCC_ Nov. 24 | Lees-McRae _ Nov. 29 i Mars Hill Place. B. C. Opp. _ Home | 62 j 0 Home |_6J_C_ Away 1_OJ_2t_ Away | 19 1_0_ Home ! 14 I_0_ Away_0 I 20 Home 26 [_0_ Home j_60J_ Home J_T3J_5. Away I 0 1 0 ~ Coach Ralph James has invited 48 beys to turn out on September 16 for football practice at Brevard College, some of last year’s squad and a number of new materia) that will enter college here at opening of five term on September 23. While Coach James is not certain of his first stringers, probably five of the squad who started in the Mars Hill fray last Thanksgiving w;hen e tie was chalked for the conference championship will be on hand. Twenty-five or more boys who were on the squad last year have already signified their intentions o. returning, and Coach James says that out of some of the second and third stringers of 1934 he will very probably select some backfield men, while Coach Wesley Williams is en thusiastic about some of the bench warmers of the past season to bolster up the line, which is his special pet job with the college. Several likely players have beer; contacted during the closed season who completed high school work last spring ami will report to Brevard College this fall. Out of this greuu some hefty linesmen as well as fleet backfield bullies are numbered. Inquiries sent out by Coach Jam-’ - during the month, answers to whir , are being received daily, are basis for belief that a very good looking bunch of youngsters will be present when the first game opeas at Bilr mere Junior College on September 28. Eleven letter men, eleven B-team men and 26 new men will make up the pre-college squad, in addition to the local day students who expect ‘o go out for football. Coach Jamas re quests that all day students who plan to go out for the team, including those here who were on the squad last year, get in touch with hkn be fore the iGth of September. Brevard College had an exception ally good year for a first year col lege in 1934. tying with Mars Hit' college for the conference champion ship.